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Our three bedroom, 3 1/2 bath home is almost new and located on the beach in the beautiful town of Dominical, Costa Rica. Eco tourism abounds, with plenty of animals and birds on the property, and with fantastic day trips to Corcovado, river rafting, and horseback riding. The home has a full kitchen, dining room, three lovely bedrooms with air conditioning, and a tile pool. Two additional homes are on the same property if you've got multiple families or you want to have a yoga retreat in the jungle.
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Located in one of the best surfing areas of Costa Rica, Dominical is about 3 hours from the airport in San Jose, Costa Rica. Paved, well-maintained roads take you past Santa Ana, Jaco, Quepos, to Dominical. Our home is about 1 km south of town, and 100m south of Roca Verde, a great restaurant (and on Saturday nights, a disco). Turn off the highway at the red, white, and blue utility pole, down the driveway, and through the gate. Our caretaker Jennifer or a nice night watchman will greet you. Each home has a one-car garage and a parking spot.
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Taco John'sSeptember 29, 2014Mexican • Minneapolis, United States
Ask for Tim! Very friendly and makes u feel welcome. 😃👍
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From busy lanes along the feet of skyscrapers and a throng of commuters armed with cutting edge technology, to shamanistic shrines and grand palaces, Seoul - a city of ten million - is an amalgamation of a modern high-tech metropolis retaining the legacy of age old traditions.
Reuters correspondents with local knowledge help visitors get the most out of a short stay in Seoul.
6 p.m. - Start your trip by looking out on the entire city from the top of Naksan Park, at the summit of a mountain called Naksan. On the outer side of the park are stone walls with battlements over ten meters tall, part of a much larger structure connecting major and minor gates that once served as the perimeter of Seoul.
Enjoy the panorama of a brightly lit-up modern city with the remaining castle wall in front of it, an amazing contrast of old and new Seoul.
8 p.m. - Walk to Deahangno, Seoul's colourful theatre district, which is full of young people. Try dinner at Sao Paolo (02-764-6079), a Brazilian restaurant that serves savoury Picanha, a cut of meat sliced from a skewer.
Have drinks at Jazz Story (www.jazzstory.co.kr), which hosts house bands playing laid-back music every night. The live music venue looks like a junkyard complete with smashed bicycles and recycled treasures. To truly appreciate it, you have to go there at night when the vintage mood and soft music creates its own unconventional end to another strenuous working week for Koreans, who work the longest hours in the OECD.
9 a.m. - Start the day at the Changdeokgung Palace, which served as a royal villa in the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) and reflects ancient Korea's mindset that nature is beautiful in itself. Only one acre out of 74 acres of gardens at Changdeok consist of man-made buildings and ponds. Take a stroll and take in not only walls and pavilions, but also the sky and clouds mirrored on the water, the murmuring of a stream along the valleys, and the breeze that touches leaves and flowers, tranquil joys of nature once experienced by kings and queens.
12 p.m. - Have a lunch at Sanneri (www.sanneri.com) near Changdeokgung Palace, which offers meals centred on Bulgogi, a national dish made with marinated, thinly sliced beef.
2 p.m. - Head for the Leeum Gallery near the Hyatt hotel in Itaewon, an art gallery owned by the Lee family that owns the Samsung conglomerate, Korea's richest family. Made up of radically different architectural styles, it has an extensive collection of traditional ceramics and Buddhist art as well as contemporary Korean paintings and sculptures. The gallery offers English language service for exhibitions on weekends.
5 p.m. - Browse the artsy alleyway named Comme des Garçons Street, an emerging new hot district which features a flagship store of the luxury brand. High-end shops, trendy bakeries and contemporary bars have opened recently, becoming a fresh destination for high-brow culture.
6 p.m. - Dine at fusion restaurant The Spice (02-749-2596) operated by Edward Kwon, the former senior executive chef at the seven-star Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai. The restaurant offers full course meals with each plate providing a combination of spices and textures in a unique European style.
8 p.m. - Dive into Itaewon, Seoul's truly expat-friendly district and a magnet for shoppers looking for good bargains.
You can try a multitude of restaurants including French, Italian, Thai and Japanese. Try Club Rococo (02-790-2260), which hosts DJs from all over the world.
10 a.m. - Ignore the side effects of Saturday night, and join locals heading to Inwangsan Mountain. The mountain is a popular destination for hiking, a national pasttime. Some hikers, covered from head to toe, resemble something out of a Monty Python vision of the Middle Ages.
But the most intriguing part is at the end, at Seon-bawi, sacred rocks in a shamanist site, which are said to resemble a robed monk. Expectant mothers crowd in front of them, praying for the birth of a son. The scent of wax and incense mingles with the aroma of sacrificial alcohol, while dishes of raw pork and fish are set outside temples for the spirits.
With a bit of luck, you may see "mudang", Korean shaman, perform ceremonies while beating a steel drum, chanting, dancing, and waving different colored flags to attract and evoke communication with the spirits.
1 p.m. - On your way back to earth, find your way to Sanulim (02-379-7084 ) at the foot of the mountain, where fellow hikers gorge on traditional pancakes and tofu with kimchi, washed down with dongdong-ju, a fermented milky rice wine that goes straight to your head.
3 p.m. - Take a stroll through Bukchon Hanok Village, a traditional village where aristocrats once resided. The picturesque alleys of brick walls and beautiful curves of the roof tiles help you catch a glimpse into the history of Seoul.
Here are a few Hanok-style gatehouses for those seeking a quiet, traditional setting in which to rest and relax.
4 p.m. - Wind down in Samcheong-dong, a quaint neighbourhood immediately to the east of the presidential Blue House. Browse the shops or have a cup of coffee in one of the many chic cafes, a perfect place to watch stylish couples sauntering along. - Reuters
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Megabus to offer Nashville-to-Chicago route
Megabus announced via its website Tuesday it will offer service connecting Nashville to Chicago via Indianapolis starting March 14.
The expanded service will begin almost three months to the day Megabus, which is owned by Coach USA, began operations in Nashville, connecting the city to Atlanta via Chattanooga.
Dale Moser, Coach USA chief operating officer, said the company conducted Internet research and solicited customer feedback before it decided to add the Megabus route to Chicago.
"We heard from our Nashville riders that Chicago would be a good market," Moser said.
Moser said it is too early to provide Megabus statistics regarding the two-month-old Nashville-Atlanta service. He did say that compared to other startup cities (Coach USA calls Nashville a "route to hub city"), Nashville has fared favorably.
Founded in 2006, Megabus is able to offer low fares — often no more than $10 per ticket and sometimes only $1 — because it does not have the high-cost infrastructure and expenses associated with conventional bus line companies. For example, there are no Megabus terminals (Coach USA leases space), and the buses are serviced at existing Coach USA maintenance facilities. In another cost-saving move, Megabus does not offer cross-country trips. Ticket prices are based on availability, with the cost increasing as buses fill to capacity.
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When the NCAA leveled devastating penalties on the Penn State football program in 2012, the NCAA also declared Penn State football players would be permitted to transfer without the NCAA's standard transfer restrictions. Onlookers expected a massive exodus of players, but that exodus never happened. Some players left, but the Penn State coaching staff was able to retain most.
The same cannot be said for the UNC women's basketball staff, and they haven't even received NCAA penalties yet.
Head Coach Sylvia Hatchell's contract extends three more years, to 2018. Three other UNC coaches, including women's lacrosse coach Jenny Levy, received contract extensions earlier this summer, but Hatchell did not. Her supporters and other commentators have subsequently claimed UNC is denying her an extension because they are scapegoating her for the paper-class scandal.
Yet those supporters and commentators overlook the fact that women's basketball appears to be losing the entirety of its heralded 2013 recruiting class.
Of the four players from that class, we only know second-hand that one of them chose to leave for reasons related to the scandal. However, having worked with women's basketball players while I was a learning specialist at UNC, I know that some of them were never quite content at UNC since the assistant coach who recruited them decided to leave before their first year. A number of players never felt as connected to the remaining coaches.
No one from UNC Athletics has blamed Hatchell and her staff for the paper-class scandal, and no one should. Neither Hatchell nor any coach at UNC was involved in creating or perpetuating the paper classes. The argument that UNC is scapegoating Hatchell is both a misguided attempt by her supporters to shame Athletics Director Bubba Cunningham into granting her an extension, and an intellectually dishonest ploy by anti-athletics crusaders who want to see men's basketball and football take all the blame.
Hatchell deservedly has had former players publicly support her. From what I know of her, she has been an honorable and successful coach for many years. However, the players whose support matters most are those who will be playing for other schools next year.http://chapelboro.com/columns/the-commentators/no-one-scapegoating-hatchell/
Hiring Sylvia Crawley as an assistant coach is the right play for Sylvia Hatchell. Getting her friends and colleagues in the university to lobby for an extension to her contract is the wrong play.
Crawley, a star player and captain of the 1994 Tar Heels, will be seen by many people as Hatchell's successor after she resigns following the 2016 season or is fired. Hatchell cannot survive as the Carolina coach for reasons that go beyond her program's complicity in the NCAA allegations.
That first. Her support group calling women's basketball a "sacrificial lamb" is ill-advised, some would say stupid. Anyone who reads the Notice of Allegations can see where Hatchell's program is cited through the actions of former academic advisor Jan Boxill, the long-respected faculty member who was fired for her role in the AFAM scandal. Beyond the substantial fine the university will receive for a "lack of institutional control," women's basketball is the sport most likely to be penalized. One of the five allegations is entirely devoted to emails between Boxill and the AFAM department. If so, Hatchell will be held accountable as the CEO of the program.
Just as Butch Davis was fired for, among other things, violating his contract by hiring a coach (John Blake) who broke NCAA rules. UNC firing Davis "without cause" and paying him the balance of his contract worth between $11 and 12 million seemed foolish, but the university did not want to invest the time and legal fees to defend a prolonged lawsuit that Davis surely would have filed. Any Carolina coach whose program breaks NCAA rules, including Roy Williams, should be and would be fired.
Second, the collateral damage from the NCAA probe that has injured almost every Tar Heel sports team in recruiting has just about killed women's hoops. Hatchell has lost the No. 1 recruiting class of 2013 — from Diamond DeShields transferring to Tennessee after her All-ACC freshman season to Jessica Washington, Allisha Gray and Stephanie Mavunga leaving this summer. Only Gray acknowledged that the stigma of the NCAA investigation caused her departure, but surely Washington and Mavunga feel the same way. These women worry that their association with a tainted team will hurt their professional careers, in and out of basketball, moving forward.
Clearly, Hatchell's program has become fatally flawed and a change must be made to start over. Hatchell is a Hall of Fame coach who has won a national championship (1994) and more than 900 games. She also won her courageous battle against Leukemia that kept her off the bench during the 2014 season. She has been a great representative of the university until the NCAA revelations that have divided the campus and caused fractures in the athletic department itself.
Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham must negotiate an athletic program, 98 percent of which still operates and succeeds at the highest level, through the awful hand he was dealt when he took over for Dick Baddour in November of 2011. Aware he was inheriting the three-year probation in football for impermissible benefits during the Davis era, Cunningham said recently that he had not heard the acronym "AFAM" until a few months into his job.
The Rams Club continues to raise money at record levels, proving an angry alumni and fan base has not deserted the program, but by charter can only pay for scholarships and capital improvements. Cunningham is stuck with about an $80 million operating budget with most of its revenue streams maxed out. Sure, UNC gets an occasional windfall from additional post-season payouts from the ACC, but not enough to increase salaries and recruiting budgets for all but two of UNC's 28 sports that do not make money.
When revenues are flat, expenses need to be cut. Cunningham and UNC are committed, for now, to a broad-based program driven by participation for as many varsity athletes as possible. But that will have to change one day. Current Title IX guidelines dictate any sport cut will be on the men's side, and Cunningham has an opportunity to start by dropping the struggling wrestling program after he recently fired veteran coach and former Tar Heel All-American C.D. Mock. Wrestling gives out all 9.9 scholarships allowed by the NCAA, so that could save some money for the Rams Club. Also, coaches' salaries and recruiting and travel costs would be eliminated from Bubba's budget. Wrestling could still be offered as a club sport, where UNC's program is among the biggest and most successful in the country.
Women's basketball loses more money than any sport at Carolina. Hatchell earns about a million dollars from her state salary, stipends and her successful summer camp. The team draws sparse crowds to revamped Carmichael Arena, employs eight assistant coaches or support personnel and has significant recruiting and travel budgets. UNC has a "cost per athlete" metric computed by revenues versus expenses divided by the number of players on a team. While losing about $2.5 million a year, Hatchell's program has the highest cost-per-athlete of all women sports and one of the highest of all 28 teams.
Surely, UNC can play competitive women's basketball for half the cost. The money saved could be spread across all other women's sports, increasing subpar coaching salaries and recruiting budgets in most of them. It is truly amazing that Carolina athletics continues to finish high in the Learfield Director's Cup (fifth in 2014-15) with an operating budget far behind schools like Stanford, Ohio State and Texas.
Changes are on the way. They need to include women's basketball where, after one season as Hatchell's well-traveled and accomplished assistant, Crawley becomes the new face of the program. She has already held three head-coaching positions and is respected in the profession. Her charge would be to rebuild the Lady Tar Heels for less than what it has cost UNC, monetarily and otherwise, under Hatchell.http://chapelboro.com/columns/sports-notebook/arts-angle-hatchell-should-go-gracefully/
Sylvia Crawley will return to her alma mater to serve as an assistant coach for the UNC Women's Basketball team.
During her years as a player at UNC, Crawley competed in 124 games, making 101 starts. She compiled 1,158 points, 582 rebounds, 123 blocks and 90 steals. She ranks ninth on the UNC career charts in both blocks and field goal percentage.
Crawley was the captain and coaches finals MVP of the NCAA Championship team back in 1994.
She spent more than a decade playing professionally before becoming head coach, first at Ohio University, then at Boston College. She owns a 105-88 career record spanning six seasons.
Most recently, Crawley was an assistant coach with the Indiana Fever of the WNBA in 2014.
In a press release, Head Coach Sylvia Hatchell says Crawley's return is a "tremendous hire" for the women's basketball program.
"Sylvia is a former ACC head coach and a true Tar Heel," says Hatchell. "She will be a wonderful addition to our staff and will assist us tremendously with recruiting and all facets of our program. A wonderful person, coach and one of my girls. We're excited to welcome her back!"http://chapelboro.com/sports/unc-sports/unc-hires-crawley-as-assistant-coach-for-womens-basketball/
After two years with the Tar Heel women's basketball team, Jessica Washington is reportedly transferring to another school.
UNC made that announcement Friday afternoon. Washington is a 5'8″ guard from Tulsa, Oklahoma; she averaged 7.3 points per game off the bench in her sophomore campaign of 2014-15.
Although she won't be eligible to join the Tar Heels next season, UNC has already scored a commitment from rising sophomore Paris Kea (a Greensboro native) to transfer from Vanderbilt. Kea too is a guard who averaged 6.3 points per game as a freshman; she'll sit out next season and be eligible to play for the Heels in 2016-17.
The full statement from UNC Athletics on Washington is below:
CHAPEL HILL – North Carolina women's basketball head coach Sylvia Hatchell announced Friday that Jessica Washington and the University have mutually agreed to part ways. Washington played two seasons with the Tar Heels.
"Jessica is a very talented player and we wish her a successful next chapter in both her basketball career and in life," said Hatchell. "We appreciate the hard work she has put into our program over the last two seasons."
Washington, a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, came off the bench in all 35 games as a sophomore in 2014-15, averaging 7.3 points and 2.4 rebounds per game.
"It has truly been an honor representing the University of North Carolina these last two years and I want to personally thank Coach Hatchell for giving me the chance to play for the Tar Heels," Washington said. "I've enjoyed my time at UNC and I wish my teammates success in their future, but right now I'm looking forward to a new opportunity to play for another quality institution and have the chance for more playing time."
North Carolina reached the NCAA Sweet 16 this past season, posted a 26-9 record and received a No. 9 ranking in the final USA TODAY Sports Coaches' poll.http://chapelboro.com/sports/unc-sports/uncs-washington-to-transfer/
Hall of Fame head coach Sylvia Hatchell's first season post-cancer recovery has come to an end. In the final battle of the 2014-2015 campaign, North Carolina women's basketball finished the season with a heartbreaking 67-65 loss to South Carolina. The Tar Heels have finished this season in the NCAA tournament round of 16 with an impressive 26-9 record.
Greensboro Coliseum was a sea of maroon and Carolina blue on Friday night as fans from both sides of the border gathered to watch the Battle of the Carolinas.
For the majority of the first half, UNC managed to dominate inside, despite South Carolina's clear height advantage. That's nothing Carolina big man Stephanie Mavunga hasn't dealt with before. Until she was triple teamed by the USC front court; she went on a 6-0 run by herself. Mavunga finished the year with 15 double-doubles and the night with 10 points and 13 rebounds.
"I think we've played so much more physical teams," Mavunga said. "I think the refs kind of let us play a lot and we both played hard but I wouldn't say it's the most physical (this year). We had some battles with Duke, Louisville, Notre Dame, Miami – a bunch of people that I think are tougher than they are. But I think we did a good job of handling it."
The chance to advance made for an all-out war. Neither team held a lead for longer than a few seconds, and just when North Carolina thought they could pull away after the final media timeout, the Gamecocks kept fighting.
UNC was up 63-60 at the one-minute mark. A lucky three-pointer from the corner by senior Olivia Gaines tied the game and cost Mavunga her final foul. After sending South Carolina to the free throw line for two, sophomore Jessica Washington tied the game at 65 with a lay-up. That would be UNC's final bucket.
SEC Player of the Year Tiffany Mitchell drove down the baseline for a wide open lay-up to put USC on top. Coach Hatchell tried to substitute in Jamie Cherry with 3.5 seconds left for her famous last second attempt at a buzzer beater, but for the first – and last time this season – it missed its mark.
"The competition we had in our conference this year, prepared us so well for this game. Because almost every game in our conference is like this," Coach Hatchell said. "Hopefully the ACC will earn some respect. To me, we didn't play that much better, we've been playing like this all year. We've got some doggone good teams in our league."
On her final night in a North Carolina uniform, Latifah Coleman made her presence known. The senior guard posted 15 points for UNC to reach double figures for the 11th time this season and the 20th time in her career. Right behind her on the scoreboard for North Carolina was Allisha Gray with 12.
Danielle Butts finished her collegiate career with 8 points and Brittany Rountree ended her senior campaign with 3 points.
Gamecocks Mitchell and sophomore Alaina Coates were both the scoring leaders with 18 apiece and junior Tina Roy with 12 on 4-8 three-point shooting.
South Carolina advances to play Florida State Sunday in Greensboro for the chance to claim the regional title.
Exactly three weeks after coming up short in the ACC quarterfinals, North Carolina women's basketball is taking the trip back to the Greensboro Coliseum, in a much tougher match.
Carolina has risen to the Sweet 16 after two home wins over Liberty and Ohio State. The match against the Buckeyes was no easy feat.
Much like when she sent UNC's last game of the ACC Tournament into overtime, freshman Jamie Cherry came through in the waning seconds of the match to net a big shot – this time for the 86-84 victory.
"It's the second time this year she's made a shot like that," Head coach Sylvia Hatchell boasted. "She can shoot, the kid can really light it up so in there at the end, it was sort of divine intervention and I just thought, 'put Jamie in.'"
Friday's match proves as another flashback moment for the Tar Heels. Last season, Carolina upset opponent and women's basketball powerhouse, South Carolina in the round of 16.
"(South Carolina Head coach Dawn Staley) has done a fabulous job down there rebuilding that program," Hatchell said. "We beat them last year so I'm sure they'll be really fired up for us. They've got size, they've got shooters, and they're just a really good team. So we're going to have to play well but hey, anything can happen – as we know."
In that game last March, UNC came out on top of the Gamecocks in Stanford, California 65-58. Since then, USC has only lost twice – falling to top-seeded Connecticut and conference foe Kentucky.
With the Battle of the Carolinas meeting in a conveniently close arena, the atmosphere in the Coliseum should be nothing less than electrifying.http://chapelboro.com/sports/unc-sports/battle-of-the-carolinas-unc-and-usc-meet-in-sweet-16/
At times, it was a master class of inside-outside offense at its best. Down the stretch, it looked more like a nervy collapse. But above all, for the Tar Heels, it was a win.
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The fourth-seeded North Carolina women's basketball team used sophomore forward Stephanie Mavunga's 27 points and freshman Jamie Cherry's patented last-second 'Cherry Bomb' to get past Ohio State, 86-84, Monday night at Carmichael Arena and in turn, advance to the NCAA Tournament's Sweet Sixteen.
With the victory, the Tar Heels improved to 26-8 overall while the Buckeyes finished their 2014-15 campaign with a 24-11 record.
After surrendering an 18-point halftime lead, Cherry came up big in the clutch, finding the net with .4 ticks left on the clock.
UNC head coach Sylvia Hatchell says she looked to the heavens for some guidance on the final possession.
"She can shoot and light it up. There at the end, it was sort of divine intervention. I just thought, 'put Jamie in.' I knew she could make it," Coach Hatchell says.
Playing at a staggering pace that had Mavunga herself gasping for air on the sidelines, the Tar Heels used their patented up-tempo, 'track meet' offense to motor out to a commanding 50-32 halftime lead. The 50-point output tied Carolina's season-high for a half of basketball.
In an even bigger first-half surprise, the nation's leading scorer, Ohio State's Kelsey Mitchell, was held down to a mere four points on 2-11 shooting.
In her place, OSU junior guard Ameryst Alston tallied 30 points to lead all scorers. Mitchell eventually found her game as well, finishing with 25 points.
Carolina continued to dominate out of the halftime locker room, inching closer to the finish line with a steady offense and determined defensive effort.
But the Buckeyes continued to fight, hitting key shots and taking full advantage of Tar Heel miscues to eventually tie the game at 84-all with 5.1 seconds remaining.
And that's when Cherry checked in, knocking down an aggressive runner to ignite the Carmichael crowd and save the day. The buzzer beater sent the UNC players into a frenzy. Coach Hatchell beamed, clenched fists held high in the air.
"Taking the big shot, it's a big shot and everybody dreams of hitting the shot," Cherry says. "I just wanted us to move on to the Sweet 16, especially for our seniors. … I didn't want it to end here for them."
Survive and advance they say. Well, survive, Carolina did.
Mavunga credited her little brother for inspiring her standout performance. The secret? A simple slogan.
"I'm a matchup they don't want to see. He told me that's what he said all day before his high school game last week. He went off in that game. I'm like, man, spitting some knowledge. I'm a matchup they don't want to see," Mavunga says.
The Tar Heels won't need to travel far for the next round – just down the road to the Greensboro Coliseum. But the opponent may in fact be a 'matchup they don't want to see.'
UNC will take on revenge-minded and top-seeded South Carolina Friday in a rematch of last year's Sweet Sixteen encounter in which the Tar Heels toppled the Gamecocks on their way to the Elite Eight.
The Tar Heels were able to hold Liberty off in the second half despite the Flames attempt to come back from a 14-point deficit. With a final score of 71-65, North Carolina lives to play another game in the NCAA Tournament.
"I knew it was going to be a tough game because Liberty's tough and it's just typical of these first round games that we've been seeing in both the men's and women's tournaments. So we're happy for the win and we're looking forward to playing on Monday night."
The fourth-seeded Tar Heels shot 49 percent and Allisha Gray led the way with 17 points. Stephanie Mavunga put up 12 points and credits the guards for pressuring the offense at the top.
"We fronted the post a lot. That was really a big thing," Mavunga said. "Also, the on-the-ball defense from the top and the wings… the guards did a really good job mirroring the ball that way they didn't have a good look so they couldn't pass it into the post as easily."
Liberty made a run in the second half and cut Carolina's 14 point lead to 65-59. Coach Sylvia Hatchell says poor rebounding gave the Flames an opportunity to come back.
"Our rebounding was…. I don't know what words you could use to describe it… but it was pretty bad. So we have to do a lot better job with that," Coach Sylvia Hatchell said.
Senior Latifah Coleman scored 15 points—the most she has scored in 2015. Coleman says having Coach Hatchell back this season is emotional for the team.
"Every time we think about the tournament and last year we get filled with emotion. I mean, having Coach Hatchell back is great it's just more fuel to the fire and there's more purpose to what we do and why we do it," Coleman said.
North Carolina plays Ohio State Monday night at Carmichael Arena in the 2nd round of the tournament.
Selection Sunday provides a lot of attention on men's college basketball, and had Carolina fans holding their breath to see how the Tar Heels would be seeded. But of course, it's not only the UNC men's team that will be trying to make a run in the NCAA tournament. Hall of Fame coach Sylvia Hatchell's team received an at-large bid and was placed as a No. 4 seed in the Greensboro region after the tournament bracket was announced Monday afternoon.
Carolina will continue its postseason with a match against 13th-seeded Liberty on Saturday at 11 a.m. in Chapel Hill. That's right. The Tar Heels will play the first two games of the tournament at home in historic Carmichael Arena.
A home-game hosting position is huge for Coach Hatchell's team, who finished at 24-8 and spent its entire regular season ranked among the top-20 nationally. And she says this is the perfect scenario for the Heels to gain momentum and advance through the Big Dance.
"It was our goal to be one of the top-16 teams, to host the first two rounds, then to go to Greensboro. We can stay at home and we love Greensboro. We've played there a lot – then on to Tampa."
Tampa, Florida is the host of this year's Final Four, the last three games before an NCAA women's basketball champion is announced. But before UNC reaches that mark, Carolina may have some challenges even in front of familiar crowds.
"There's some added pressure with playing at home, too. People expect you to win," Coach Hatchell said. "But the biggest thing is we're here for our fans and now we need our fans to fill the place up. What else are you going to do at 11 o' clock on Saturday morning? You're too old to watch cartoons – well, I think. What else are you going to do? Come out and cheer us on to victory. "
Within Coach Hatchell's 950-plus winning career, she and UNC are no strangers to big NCAA tournament games. Her team has made three appearances in the Final Four and won the 1994 national title. Also, Carolina has advanced to at least the regional semifinal game in 14 of its last 19 NCAA Tournament appearances, most recently last season when the Tar Heels reached the Elite Eight as a No. 4 seed.
Their opponent, Liberty, was crowned the Big South Tournament Champions for the 16th time in 19 years. Their longest stay in the NCAA women's tournament came in 2005 when the Flames advanced to the Sweet 16.
On Saturday morning, it will be two weeks exactly since UNC has played a game after a heart-breaking overtime loss to Louisville in the ACC Tournament semifinals. Coach Hatchell says she has been keeping her players fresh throughout the break with constant scrimmaging and up-tempo practices.
"We took off four days last week after we came back from the ACC Tournament and they went home and had Wednesday through Saturday off. But we practiced last night and today and it gives them a good break. They come back more fresh and excited after breaking up the season. It's like that regular season, then the ACC's are over and now it's the NCAA Tournament. It's a six game season and every game is so big and important."
The winner of the Saturday showdown will advance to face the winner of the first-round game between No. 5 seed Ohio State and No. 12 seed James Madison Monday.
Click here to view the entire NCAA Women's Tournament bracket.http://chapelboro.com/unc-womens-basketball/unc-womens-basketball-to-host-opening-rounds-of-ncaa/
No. 15 North Carolina was knocked out of the ACC Women's Tournament Saturday night by No. 10 Louisville in a 77-75 overtime loss. The Tar Heels had made it to the quarterfinals and looked to knock out at least one of the top-seeded teams from reaching the semifinals.
UNC freshman Jamie Cherry threw up a 40-foot nail-biter with less than two seconds left on clock to tie the game at 66 and send the game into overtime.
In Louisville's first ever ACC Tournament game, the Cardinals quickly trimmed a 10-point lead UNC held over them with fewer than 10 minutes to play.
With 40 points scored in the paint compared to UNC's 28, U of L knew just where to attack.
"We were letting Carolina do what they wanted to do, and we just talked about getting back to the basics," Louisville Head Coach Jeff Walz said. "We tried to make sure we played scouting report defense and on the offensive end, we actually finally started to execute. We pushed the ball in transition and got some layups and also ran through some things."
Louisville senior Sara Hammond led the Cardinals with 20 points as she scored eight times on nine shots at the free throw line – a key statistic for her team at the end of the game.
UNC's Jessica Washington scored a team high 16 points and netted three 3-pointers. Junior N'Dea Bryant also played big for Carolina as she scored 13 points and snatched three steals.
Allisha Gray was evidently off beat on the court. She only scored seven points and grabbed five rebounds in 30 minutes on the floor.
Her time was cut short when she committed her fifth foul with 2 minutes left in regulation. Coach Sylvia Hatchell said losing her at the end of the game was reminiscent to the February 15th matchup between UNC and Louisville.
"The first time, she played really well, and this is probably the worst I've seen Allisha play," Coach Hatchell said. "I kept thinking she was going to get going but she didn't and they were targeting her a lot."
Even amid her slump, Gray still made history that night as the 35th player in program history to obtain 1,000 points. With Gray only in her second year at Carolina, that mark shows very promising for the Heels.
And Carolina's season is not over yet. The NCAA will determine the bracketology of the big dance in the coming weeks as the Tar Heels take on March Madness.


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Bruce Pearl's weekly news conference (1-05-09)
Updated: 01/05/2009 - Click on the video link inside the story to watch the coach's presser.
Updated: 01/05/2009 - Click on the video link inside the story to watch the coach's presser.
Updated: 01/05/2009 - Bus tour trips to the Georgia & Auburn Games being offered
Updated: 01/05/2009 - Lady Vols movin' on up...
Updated: 01/05/2009 - Against Rutgers, Stricklen notched her first career double-double with team-highs of 16 points and 11 rebounds and was named the CBS Chevrolet Player of the Game
Posted: 01/04/2009 - Sophomore forward suffered lateral knee sprain in practice Thursday
Updated: 01/03/2009 - Bruce Pearl's team trails for entire game in loss vs. Jayhawks
Updated: 01/03/2009 - Lady Vols recover from awful first half, beat rival Rutgers
Posted: 01/01/2009 - GoVolsXtra: Baugh suffers knee injury in practice; X-rays negative
Posted: 12/30/2008 - While the sold-out crowd was obviously rooting for Gonzaga, hometown girl Angie Bjorklund received plenty of cheers during introductions. Bjorklund scored 14 points to lead No. 8 Tennessee
Updated: 12/30/2008 - His status is day to day
Updated: 12/30/2008 - KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- UT basketball player Wayne Chism is out of the hospital following Monday night's 89-62 win over Louisiana-Lafayette.
Posted: 12/29/2008 - Bruce Pearl's basketball Vols move up to 14th in the land, while Pat Summitt's Lady Vols remain 8th in the newly released Associated Press college basketball rankings.
Updated: 12/24/2008 - Vote for your favorite 2008 sports moment on the Sports Overtime home page; talk about it inside the article
Posted: 12/23/2008 - Former Lady Vol earned WNBA MVP, Rookie of the Year honors
Posted: 12/22/2008 - Vols remain #16; Lady Vols are back in the top 10.
Updated: 12/22/2008 - Shekinna Stricklen leads the way with 25 points
Updated: 12/20/2008 - Tyler Smith scores 23 points as Tennessee edges Belmont, 79-77
Posted: 12/18/2008 - Former Tennessee basketball great Allan Houston (1989-93) will be among an elite list of award recipients at the 29th Annual Thurman Munson Awards Dinner set for Feb. 3 at the Grand Hyatt in New York City.
Posted: 12/18/2008 - Tennessee junior Tyler Smith has been named to the preseason watch list for the 2008-09 Naismith Trophy, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced Thursday.
Posted: 12/18/2008 - Angie Bjorklund matched her career high with 29 points and hit two huge 3-pointers Thursday night as No. 11 Tennessee got back to its winning ways by prevailing in a back-and-forth battle with longtime rival Old Dominion, 81-76.
Updated: 12/14/2008 - Tennessee drops to 7-2 overall on the season; Summitt remains 10 games away from a 1,000 wins.
Posted: 12/13/2008 - Owls' Dionte Christmas buries Vols with 35-point performance
Posted: 12/11/2008 - Pat Summitt earns win No. 990 in 81-52 conquest of Blue Raiders
Updated: 12/08/2008 - Tennessee hasn't been able turn teams over with its full-court press like in year's past.
Posted: 12/08/2008 - Vols move up two spots to #8; Lady Vols remain seventh


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Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica, 11(1), 2009
Ana Morariu1
Neluta Mitea2
Flavia Stoian3
Cornel Crecana4
ABSTRACT: The audit service is setting itself the purpose of an historical preview in the area of the
internal audit and the Corporate Governance, having the goal of evaluating the past, present and
the future of an entity in achieving the target-objectives so vital today for the public and economic
entities in Romania. Through its objectives, the internal audit helps the management through the
internal audit planning to discover the risk of business, the lacks of the internal control and the
shortage of an inefficient management of the material, financial and human resources.
Keywords: internal audit, Corporate Governance, internal audit standards
JEL Codes: M 42
Internal audit concept has recently emerged in the accounting profession in Romania and
it elbows its way, systematically, according to the way in which modern management practices are
implemented in the companies whose goal is to become more performing and competitive on the
actual market. Effectively, there is not a lot of time for waiting that the modern management
principles become predominant in Romanian entities. Since the moment of our entrance in the
European Union, our companies are being in a direct competition with the first class European
companies and the quality of management has become the determinative element on the integrated
Otherwise, the Romanian entities which has just started to operate on an European or
international market, organized an adequate management and an audit function thinking that this is
an important solution to survive in a world in which, above all performance would be in case, the
most important is the competitiveness.
Public institutions are permanently confronted to theirs performances improvement. The
function of the Internal audit offers, from this point of view, the reasonable security that the
operations developed and the decisions taken are under control and that, in such a way, it
contributes to the achievement of the entity's target-objectives.
It is very important to know the internal audit history and that of the corporate governance in
order to evaluate the past, the present and their importance for the future of Romanian entities.
The name of internal audit that is used actually represents a recent concept and it was used
first in the United States of America when the entities were affected by the economic recession and
when they had to pay important amount of money for external auditors that had to certificate the
accounts of the stock exchange listed companies.
1 The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, firstname.lastname@example.com
2 The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
3 The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
4 The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
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These companies began to organize their own audit departments in order to reduce their
costs by assuming the realization of the preliminary work within the entity and, in order to achieve
the process of certification, they appealed to external audit offices, which were entitled to supervise
the company's activity. The offices' employees were called external auditors and the companies'
employees were called internal auditors in order to make a distinction between these two auditors'
During the evolution of internal audit we can remark the following important stages:
The Audit of the accounts was attested for the first time as a current practice on the European
continent in ancient Greece and after that in the Roman Empire. The Athenian public finances
System predicted even government auditors who examinated the rapports of everyone who was
responsible for the managing of public money especially at the moment of their mandate
After the fall of the Roman Empire, barbarian invasions caused a decrease in the level of the
economy and the social life in Europe. Italian towns were the first to recover from that economic
situation and they assumed audit as a current practice. Audit objective remains unchanged in order
to look after the prevention of the frauds.
Until the sixteenth century, the principal goal of audit practices was the control of the
managers integrity and not the registration quality. At the beginning, audit wasn't based on the
internal control and it had not a goal, even a secondary one, like the accounting supervising as a
registration of the transactions. Audit techniques consisted in the verification of all the transactions
that had taken place.
After the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the attitude facing the accounting system changed
radicaly, because of the business developement including the industrial one and because of
additional capital requirements. Accounting began to be standardized in a way and the results of
the internal control began to be used during the audit procedures, but audit continued to be based
on an exhaustive examination of the transactions in order to detect the frauds.
After the middle of the nineteenth century, the owners tried to verify themselves the
accuracy of the managers, but they realized that the checking of the accounts required a qualified
labour force who needed to be independent to the management of the supervised company. From
this moment, audit profession started to get an important enthusiasm because of the increasing
demand for specialists with an independent statute.
Audit objectives began to get new values. If by that moment, the accent was on checking
the financial situations, supervising that all the company's transaction had been registered and
reflected correctly in the books and in the balance of the accounts, since 1904 it was decided that
the auditor verify even the physical existence of the company's assets.
Audit development in Great Britain through the nineteenth century, as a result of the
Industrial Revolution and of capital growth, has deeply influenced the evolution of the auditor
profession in the United States. Even if, by the year 1932, the US audit practice had known a
strong British influence, during the first decade of the twentieth century, this profession took an
important impetus in America, developing itself as an independent profession.
American audit developed very rapidly towards the use of "audit tests" as some procedures
adapted to the rhytm of business expansion for the U.S. market. In parallels with the investigation,
it is also used the technique of transactions verification by the middle of third parties
confirmation. The Americans were the first who started uniformization and standardization of
audit practices since 1917.
Actually, internal audit is a very well organized profession, which could be found in more
than 80 national institutes that are inscribed in the Institute of Internal Auditors (I.I.A.) whose head-
office is in Orlando, in the United States. Also, I.F.A.C.I. (The French Institute of the Audit and
Internal Control) is one of the most important and dynamic national organisms.
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After the year 1950, audit knew a great period of important progress, the first and the most
important objective continuing to be the determination of the financial statements fidelity
The internal audit function was established in England and France in the early 60s, being deeply
marked by its origins as financial and accounting control. Only after the 80s – 90s, the internal audit
function began to appear in the business activity and, since that moment up to the present, it has
been developing continuously.
In June 1999, The Board of Directors of I.I.A. gave the definition of internal audit:
"internal audit is an independent and objective activity, meant to assure and to assist the entity in
order to furnish an added value and to improve its operations. Internal audit helps the entity to
achieve its objectives, assessing the company's process of risk management, control and
organization governance by the means of a systemic and methodic approach in order to make
proposals to enhance their efficiency".
Internal audit objectives are very different and depend on the entity's size and structure
and on the management and its stuff requirements.
Internal audit activity presents the following objectives:
• Review the accounting system and the internal control system: the leaders'
responsibility in setting an appropriate accounting system and an internal control one, in
order to grant a major importance to the principle of business continuity.
• Consideration of financial and operational information: the review of the methods used
to identify, to count, to classify and to report the information and the specific
examinations of some entity's activity distinguished aspects, including a detailed
verification of transaction, account balances or of the procedures used for setting them.
• review the economic system functionality, the efficiency and the effectiveness of all
activities and operations categories;
• Review the conformity with legal settlements in force and with that issued by internal
decision of company's leadership;
• Special investigations in particular domains, for example, fraud suspicion and any kind
of losses prevention;
According to these realities, internal audit definition performed in many aspects connected
to the evolution of this profession. The official definition that appears in all the rules and in the
specialized literature is criticized by someone, others are considering it more restrictive or being
explained insufficiently by professionals who are interested in researching or in positioning
accurately the internal audit concept.
By simplifying and summarizing these concepts, we can say that the most appropriate
internal audit definition would be: " internal audit is an independent and objective activity that
gives insurance to the entity regarding the degree of operations control, guiding it in order to
improve its operations and that contributes to the creation of added value."
Romanian entities are expecting from intern auditor advantages issued by cost-benefit ratio.
But how could we get these advantages? Or why the entity's management doesn't succeed always in
realizing objectively the criteria attended at a moment when intern auditor is really in the
possession of all professional knowledge in that field?
Where are the weaknesses? We read carefully the first part of the internal audit definition:
"it is an independent and objective activity…"
How could a manager understand the auditor independence as far as the company pays him for
an undetermined period and the company finds when he makes a recommendation concerning the
activity's deficiencies, uncomfortable? But there is a simple way to follow:
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Internal auditor should not be subordinated in the theory and in facts to any functional
structure of the entity; he must act directly, in terms of independence and objectiveness in
order to support the suitable company's function ability.
In such a context, it is understandable that the internal auditor independence attributes do not
represent an impediment for the manager. The last is required to see the truth that internal auditor
represents a specialist who develops an activity for the simple interest of the management, an
activity that should not be managed towards "convenient' areas but towards a real and necessary
support, sometimes inconvenient.
Practically, we cannot involve and make interfering management in internal audit, but he is
fully interested to take in consideration, to appreciate and to develop efficiently the conclusions
learned from this activity. It is entirely wrong to consider any tendency to lead the internal auditor
towards an insignificant control, which would not be able to create something else, but a great
confusion between management responsibility for internal control and the responsibility of system
functionality as a whole.
In this respect, it is important to point the independence double character, emphasized by the
service independence within the entity and also by the independence of internal auditor who
practices the objectiveness. This does not mean that the financial auditor represents a second
manager. On the contrary, we must consider his function subjectively, in the context and for
business support.
The manager, at his turn, has the duty to ensure even since the early phase of internal auditor
engagement, the professional ability of that person, his authority, but also his psychological
constitution, according to the requirements of the future activity, respecting the objectives and
entity's specific in discussion.
In other words, there is some "market" like an offer from internal auditors, and those who
wish to qualify for winning internal audit contracts have the entire interest to achieve certain
standards, which could situate them in the bottom of the retraining pyramid.
Otherwise, this is what the Chamber of Financial Auditors in Romania propose, in order to
support the members who are developing such activities. Therefore, the Chamber made available to
professionals the following things: the international standards of internal audit; professional rules;
the code of ethic etc and the Chamber plans to develop a set of minimum specific rules.
Concretely, internal audit helps the entity to achieve its objectives, evaluating by the means
of a systemic and methodic approach, its process of risk management, of control and entity's
governance in order to make proposals to enhance their efficiency in a total independence and not
dependent to the management.
We consider appropriate to clarify the following terms:
- Control degree: the efficiency of internal control system functionality;
-added value in internal audit: the insurance of some advantages regarding rational management
of entity's resources:
-Evaluation: a group of methods for the appreciation of process functionality;
-systemic and methodic approach: the using of some techniques and procedures, based on the
Practical Rules of the Internal Audit Standards Application.
In this context, it is obviously that we must accept a clear distinction between internal
control and internal audit: internal control is a system designed to offer a reasonable insurance
regarding the achievement of management objectives and, internal audit, as well as its definition
attests, evaluates its functionality.
Corporate Governance represents a set of principles, standards and best governance
practices, settled by an institution whose apllication does not have an obligatory character, but one
optional. The adoption of corporate governance principles was materialized in the principles of
Cooperation and Economical Developement Corporate Governance Organization (OECD).
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In the European Union, the corporate governance concept began to take shape after the year
1977, when the most part of the countries adopted corporate governance codes. The impulse of
these codes' adoption were financial scandals connected to the bankrupcy of some British
companies listed on the capital market. On the other hand, the Asian economic crisis as well as the
investors' withdrawls from Asia and Russia determined great problems for the international
business community, problems connected to the consequences of the investors mistrust in
companies management. Thus, Cadbury Code from 1992 was established in order to prevent some
similar financial scandals and to regain the public and investors confidence in companies
governance practice. United Kingdom has the largest number of corporate governance codes,
almost the third part of all codes issued by European Union member countries. Corporate
governance includes the relation between the Board of Directors and interested parties such as the
shareholders, the employees, the clients, the suppliers, the government and also the great public.
The main goal? The efficient management of material, human and financial resources,
the fraud prevention and the minimization of risks regarding the events and the transactions
that take place in an entity.
Besides the classic insurance mission, internal auditors assume an advising role in order to
improve the entity fundamental process. Audit missions make evident the anomalies and the
significant weaknesses in the processes that are developed at the institutional level in order to
remedy or to attenuate its consequences.
Internal audit must propose audit planning based on risks analyze in order to establish
the audit activity priorities. Audit based on risk analyze, modifies the way in which auditors
perceive the control and the risk. Internal audit must help the public entities management to
maintain an appropriate internal control, evaluating its efficiency and its effectiveness and
encouraging the continuous improvement.
Risks evaluation should consider the management of change: people are changing, methods
are also changing, and risks are changing too. Risks evaluation means their identification and their
analyze evidenced in the achievement of the objectives in order to know how they should be
We consider that the expectation of a public internal audit, which consists in
managerial support, is meant to help the leaders to organize and improve internal control. By
sharing knowledge, public internal audit allows the designation of the prospects and
contributes to progress.
It is very important for internal audit to participate to the debate at the highest decisional
level within the entity, the debate of the major problems that have important system implications to
the activity of the entity as a whole, creating by this way, the possibility of targeting this activity of
internal audit to the issue faced by the management.
Internal auditors must show brightness, consistency, professionalism, amiability,
competence, communication etc and must aware the entities audited of their support, for their
interests and, what is the most significant, for the goal of creating an added value. This added
value resulted from internal audit is the effect of the contribution in competence caused by the
use of a rational internal control. We have to approach internal audit in a constructive manner,
which would be based on a future oriented partnership between the manager and the auditor. This
partnership would be based too on the auditors' professionalism and objectivity, as well as on the
responsibility of the audited entities concerning internal audit role. Public internal audit was
established in Romania by Law no. 672/2002, which determined also the beginning of internal audit
structures and activities within public institutions. According to internal regulations, the General
Rules for the exercise of internal audit were developed, and from these rules, public entities
established their specific rules in order to practice internal audit.
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Audit has developed itself from an exhaustive verification of the transactions in order to
detect frauds, to an investigation in order to detect the main entities risks and to evaluate internal
control which is organized and exercised at this level
Corporate Governance is practically an attempt to define a good management practice and
an introduction of some mechanismes for verifying their implementation and their functionality
according to the existant requirements. The fact that Romania joined the European economic
espace, forces the professionals to establish a Corporate Governance Code as well as European
countries had settled, accepted and applied before.
Internal audit helps the institution to achieve its objectives by assessing its process of risk
management, of control and of leadership. By the means of permanent advices, internal auditors
could help the institution to identify, to evaluate and to implement a risks management and control
device in order to be able to manage these risks.
1. Arens, Loebbeke, Audit, o abordare integrata, Ed.ARC, 2003
2. Ana Morariu, Gh. Suciu, Flavia Stoian, Audit intern şi Guvernanţă Corporativă, Ed.
Universitară, 2008
3. J.Renard, Auditul intern, de la teorie la practica, Ed. MFP, traducere, 2004
4. Camera Auditorilor Financiari din România – Norme de Audit intern, www.cafr.ro


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