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Mar14

Obama picks UNC to beat Kentucky in his bracket→

Go Heels!

That’s choice that Tar Heels fans might like. The last time Obama picked the Tar Heels, they won it all. (He chose Kansas the last two seasons.) It’d also provide a nice measure of revenge for Roy Williams’ team, which lost to Kentucky earlier this season.

“I am just a sucker for the Tar Heels,” Obama said. “I love the way [Kendall] Marshall handles the ball, the way he distributes. They just have a balanced team. I am worried about [John] Henson [who is battling a wrist injury]. This is all a premise that Henson is going to be able to play.”

(via CollegeBasketballTalk)

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Timelapse of UNC’s victory over Duke in men’s basketball at the Dean E. Smith Center.

A few things I liked or noticed:

- The abrupt couple of seconds where everyone stands for the national anthem.

- When people stand for an exciting play it happens almost in unison, but the point when everyone starts to sit back down seems to begin with the people in the front rows and work its way back.

- It’s pretty amazing how quickly the Smith Center can go from full to empty considering it seats 22,000 people or so.

(UNC vs Duke - 05 March 2011 via gotohelldook)

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Candidate supports troops, but flier shows Germans A North Carolina legislator has apologized after a campaign flier that was meant to cast him as military-friendly featured a photo portraying advancing German World War II soldiers. The direct-mail political consulting firm that produced the promotional piece designed to boost N.C. Rep. Tim Spear, D-Washington, said it was solely responsible for the mistake. He is running against Republican Bob Steinberg. The flier destined for about 10,000 homes in Spear’s district was headlined: “In North Carolina, One Legislator is Covering Our Soldiers’ Backs.” It described Spear’s support for military-friendly legislation, including bills that made it harder to foreclose the homes of active-duty service members. The art department at Washington, D.C.-based MSHC Partners found a photo that visually captured the Spear’s message, but no one noticed that it showed the backs of four advancing World War II re-enactors dressed in German army uniforms, senior account executive Mike Brown said Wednesday. (via The Rocky Mount Telegram)

Candidate supports troops, but flier shows Germans

A North Carolina legislator has apologized after a campaign flier that was meant to cast him as military-friendly featured a photo portraying advancing German World War II soldiers.

The direct-mail political consulting firm that produced the promotional piece designed to boost N.C. Rep. Tim Spear, D-Washington, said it was solely responsible for the mistake. He is running against Republican Bob Steinberg.

The flier destined for about 10,000 homes in Spear’s district was headlined: “In North Carolina, One Legislator is Covering Our Soldiers’ Backs.” It described Spear’s support for military-friendly legislation, including bills that made it harder to foreclose the homes of active-duty service members.

The art department at Washington, D.C.-based MSHC Partners found a photo that visually captured the Spear’s message, but no one noticed that it showed the backs of four advancing World War II re-enactors dressed in German army uniforms, senior account executive Mike Brown said Wednesday.

(via The Rocky Mount Telegram)

#politics #military #north carolina #government #advertising #oops

Sep24

Castrodale: Fear & loathing in the form of a question ... my brief reign as Jeopardy! champion→

NBC Sports writer Jelisa Castrodale describes her experience on Jeopardy.

That’s just about the last thing I remember. I know I gave a wide-eyed, rabid-looking smile into the camera as Johnny Gilbert mentioned my hyphenated hometown. I did write my own name at the podium, double-checking the shaky white letters to make sure I hadn’t left a crucial vowel backstage. But after that? The game is a blur of blended sounds and bright colors, kind of like a Grateful Dead show without the awkwardly swaying white people.

(via Out of Bounds - NBC Sports)

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Sep15

Sea burial botched as man's body resurfaces - U.S. news - Weird news - msnbc.com→

Authorities suspected foul play when the body of a North Carolina man surfaced near a South Florida beach — until they found his obituary.

Daniel Scott Lasky, 48, had died from A.L.S., or Lou Gehrig’s Disease, on Sept. 8. Authorities said his family placed his body on dry ice, loaded him in a van and drove from Hickory, N.C., to Florida to honor his dying wish to be entombed in the depths of the sea.

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