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Tar Heels could use a Duke win
Yes, Tar Heels fans, you probably should do it. Take a deep breath. Hold your nose, if need be. And cheer for Duke on Thursday night. Seventh-ranked North Carolina took a half-game lead in the ACC standings with its victory over NC State on Tuesday night. If it wins its last three games, it will earn at least a share of the regular-season league title. But if UNC wants the top seed in the ACC tournament, it needs to finish at least one win ahead of the Blue Devils and Seminoles in the final conference standings (because it has already lost to both teams once this season, limiting its tiebreaker opportunities).
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P.J. Hairston's misses key to his make?
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Watching P.J. Hairston hit shot after shot during Tuesday’s pregame warm-ups, it looked like the North Carolina freshman guard might finally be primed to end his shooting slump. But the key to making his first 3-pointer this month, the reserve said after the Tar Heels’ 86-74 win over N.C. State, was actually his warm-up misses. “It’s a little weird thing with me: I feel like if I miss my first two during the pregame, I feel like I’m going to have a good shooting game,’’ he said, smiling.
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Tar Heels earn first-day ACC tourney bye
ACC Standings One more note after seventh-ranked North Carolina’s win at NC State on Tuesday: the victory means the Tar Heels have earned a top-four seed in the ACC tournament, and first-day league tourney bye. At 11-2 in the conference, the worst UNC now can finish is 11-5. The current fifth-place team in the league, NC State, already has six losses. The top four seeds in the tournament, which begins March 8 in Atlanta, don’t have to play until Friday, March 9.
Ocracoke Island Journal
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Ocracoke Newsletter
On January 28 I mentioned Josephus Daniels, Jr., Secretary of the Navy during WWI, and his connection to Ocracoke. This month's Ocracoke Newsletter is a brief account of the Civil War on the Outer Banks, the Josephus Daniels, Sr. family connection to Ocracoke during that period, and Josephus Jr.'s subsequent life and career as a newspaper publisher, Secretary of the Navy, and Ambassador to Mexico. You can read this latest Ocracoke Newsletter here: http://www.villagecraftsmen.com/news022112.htm.
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Cannibalism
On this date in 1854 the sailing vessel Orline St. John encountered a severe gale and heavy seas in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship was dismasted and sank off the coast of Hatteras Island. The captain's wife and several crew members drowned or died of exposure as the derelict vessel wallowed in the surf for a week and a half. According to David Stick in The Graveyard of the Atlantic (1952), the remaining crew members who "suffered constantly from cold and exposure" survived only by eating the body of a sailor named Douglass who had died in the rigging, and whose body was left hanging there. Stick says this is the only case of cannibalism on the North Carolina coast that had come to his attention.Our latest Ocracoke Newsletter is the story of the "Joe Bell" flower. You can read it here: http://www.villagecraftsmen.com/news012112.htm.
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Sick in Bed
The shifting winds have brought many islanders down with cold symptoms. Allergy symptoms are on the rise too as the cedars are full of pollen. I won't be posting anything else today or possibly the next couple of days depending on how my cold symptoms progress. Right now, I'm happy to stay in bed to rest and recover. Our latest Ocracoke Newsletter is the story of the "Joe Bell" flower. You can read it here: http://www.villagecraftsmen.com/news012112.htm.
Paul Krugman
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Iceland's Saga
Still looking OK, at least compared with the others.
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WWS 594E, Economics of the Welfare State: Class # 3
Teaching is work.
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Austerity Europe
Austerity hurts.