Help Kick Path's Butt (And Support Teach For America)

Some of us in tech are self-taught geniuses who never needed school -- but that's mostly not the case, and you know it. Great teachers in math, science, reading and other core areas have helped this generation of tech leaders get the skills they needed to succeed, and those teachers are busy training the next generation right now. Now, help them. Here, we'll make it easy for you: We've put together a meetup in San Francisco?this coming Tuesday, April 16th at the Temple night club on Howard Street. Come hang out with us -- and support teachers -- by purchasing these $15 tickets. ?All the proceeds will go to?Team TechCrunch's fund?on Causes. We're right behind Path on the leaderboard at the moment, and quite honestly we think we can take them.

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The Day I Forgot How to Use a Book

I was shocked at what I had just done, so I laughed out loud. I was there, in a house in the Swiss mountains, lying comfortably on a sofa. I was reading Canetti's Crowds and Power, a solid 400-page book. And then, as my eyes were approaching the end of yet another page, I swiped upwards. More »

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4-year-old boy recovers from new bird flu in China

BEIJING (AP) ? A 4-year-old boy has recovered from a new strain of bird flu that has killed nine people in China, a doctor said Wednesday, as the country's premier said the outbreak was under control.

The child from Shanghai is among 33 people confirmed to have been infected with the H7N9 virus. The official Xinhua News Agency said he was the first to completely recover and be discharged from a hospital.

A doctor at the Infectious Disease Department of the Pediatric Hospital affiliated with Shanghai's Fudan University confirmed the boy had recovered and left the hospital, but said she didn't know if it was the first recovery from H7N9. She refused to give her name, as Chinese officials often do.

Five new cases of H7N9 infection were reported on Wednesday. Two of those were in Shanghai, two in Jiangsu province, and one in Zhejiang province, according to the websites of the provincial and city health authorities. Both Zhejiang and Jiangsu border Shanghai.

Premier Li Keqiang told Cabinet members that efforts to prevent and contain the virus were proceeding in an orderly manner and would be extended into areas including standardization of treatment and international cooperation.

"Overall, the outbreak is at a stage where it can be prevented and contained," Li was quoted as saying by state broadcaster CCTV.

China announced the first known cases on March 31, sparking concern among experts worldwide because it was the first time the strain of bird flu has been known to infect humans. They fear the virus could mutate in a way that allows it to spread easily among people, but so far there has been no sign of human-to-human transmission.

Chinese health officials believe people may be getting sick from direct contact with infected fowl, but the virus is hard to track because it appears to be spreading in birds without making them ill. The World Health Organization says at least two family clusters are being investigated, but that there is no evidence of infections among other contacts or health workers who cared for them. There have been no reported cases outside of eastern China.

Xinhua also said Wednesday that police in southwest China detained three people for up to 10 days for spreading false rumors online that the H7N9 virus had been detected in a live poultry market in Guizhou province. It said the report was reposted many times, causing fear among local people.

Meanwhile, Indonesia announced it is suspending the import of poultry products from China.

Vice Agriculture Minister Rusman Heriawan said the ban was signed Wednesday and would be lifted after the Chinese government confirms the country is free of the virus.

Indonesia currently only imports duck feathers from China, used to make shuttlecocks in the badminton-obsessed country. Some have expressed fears that the ban may lead to a shuttlecock shortage.

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Texas college attack: 'Seek shelter now'

A stabbing victim is loaded into a helicopter on the Lone Star College Cy-Fair campus. (Reuters)

At least 14 people were wounded in an apparent mass stabbing at Lone Star College's CyFair campus in Cypress, Texas, on Tuesday. The suspect, armed with what one witness described as an X-Acto knife, was detained.

The school was placed on lockdown.

"Seek shelter now," Lone Star's Twitter feed warned Tuesday afternoon. "If away, stay away."

The incident occurred near and around the school's Health Science Center and remains an active crime scene, police said.

Four victims were transported by helicopter with serious injuries "consistent with laceration," a spokesman for the Harris County Sheriff's Office said. Two others were taken by ambulance to a local trauma center. The rest were treated for minor injuries.

A public information officer with the Another witness told CNN that the suspect in custody was hearing impaired.

An announcement was made over loud speakers warning students to seek shelter. "This is an emergency," the announcement said, according to KHOU-TV. "Everybody stay inside of your rooms. Do not leave your rooms."

An alert issued on the school's website indicated that "another suspect may possibly be at large." But the spokesman for Harris County Sheriff's Office said there was no evidence of other suspects.

In January, three people were wounded in a shooting at Lone Star College's North Harris campus near Houston. More than 90,000 students attend classes across the Lone Star College system's six campuses.

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Survivor of '63 Ala. church bombing seeks funds

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) ? The lone survivor of a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four black girls said Wednesday she wants millions in compensation for her injuries and won't accept a top congressional award proposed to honor the victims.

Sarah Collins Rudolph, in an interview with The Associated Press, said she feels forgotten 50 years after the blast shocked the nation. Rudolph lost an eye in the Sept. 16, 1963 bombing at Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and says she never got restitution.

"We haven't received anything, and I lost an eye," said Rudolph, who lives north of Birmingham. "They just want to throw a medal at us."

Congress is considering whether to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the four girls who died: 14-year-olds Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, and 11-year-old Denise McNair. Addie Mae was the sister of Rudolph, who was 12 at the time and among the many who were injured.

The brother of Wesley said he isn't interested in the award either and wants compensation, partly because history didn't even record his sister's name correctly.

U.S. Reps. Terri Sewell, a Democrat, and Spencer Bachus, a Republican, announced a bipartisan effort in January to award the medal to the church bombing victims. The medal represents the highest civilian honor that Congress can bestow. Recipients have ranged from George Washington to civil rights figure Rosa Parks, Pope John Paul II and "Peanuts' creator Charles M. Schulz.

The church bombing shocked the nation and was a galvanizing moment in the civil rights movement.

The five girls were preparing for Sunday services and in a downstairs washroom near the wall where the bomb was planted outside.

Juries convicted three Ku Klux Klansmen in the bombing starting more than a decade later, but Rudolph said she still hasn't gotten justice like other crime victims who receive restitution payments.

"My sister was killed and I lost my eye. Why should I be any different?" she said.

Rudolph said she wants compensation "in the millions" for her injuries and the death of Addie Mae, but she hasn't settled on an exact amount.

Fate Morris said he also will refuse the medal and wants compensation like Rudolph for the death of his sister, typically referred to as Cynthia Wesley. Morris said her real name was Cynthia Morris, and no medal will replace the mistake.

"It's a smoke screen to shut us up and make us go away so we'll never be heard from again," Morris told AP.

Morris said his sister was staying with a family named "Wesley" at the time of the bombing to get into a good school, but she still came back to the Morris household on weekends. Authorities mistakenly recorded her last name as "Wesley" and never fixed the error, he said, until the family sought an amended death certificate decades later.

Morris said he vividly recalls hearing the blast that morning and running to the church with friends to help dig through the rubble. He remembers people calling out about finding bodies amid broken bricks but said he left in fear before his sister's remains were found.

Morris, sobbing during an interview, said a friend told him moments later that Cynthia's decapitated remains had been found. He said he's never shaken the pain.

"I left her buried in a pile of bricks. That's all I could think of," he said through tears.

Stephanie Engle, an activist who is publicizing the families' push for compensation, said victims of the bombing deserve reparation just like Japanese Americans who received payments through a $1.6 billion program decades after being held in internment camps during World War II.

Birmingham's entire Jim Crow structure of racial segregation created a climate of fear and hate that resulted in the girls' deaths, she said. Engle said "medals, statues, and 'pomp-and-circumstance ceremonies' are not a substitution for justice, moral, and historical accountability."

Press aides to Sewell and Bachus did not return messages seeking comment on the status of the legislation for medals.

The viciousness of the bombing drew national attention to Birmingham, where authorities used fire hoses and police dogs to turn back black marchers months earlier the same year. Congress passed the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act within a year of the bombing, which came to symbolize the depth of racial hatred in the South.

Rudolph's comments come a week after Alabama lawmakers address another major episode in civil rights history. Legislators voted to allow posthumous pardons for the "Scottsboro Boys," nine black teens who were wrongly convicted of raping two white women more than 80 years ago.

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NREL employees lauded by industry peers

Public release date: 9-Apr-2013
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Employees of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE)'s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) were recently recognized by industry peers for their work in grid integration, industry advancement and electrochemistry. NREL was also named an Outstanding Large Company by IEEE.

Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group Recognizes Five NREL Employees

The Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group (UVIG) announced that NREL's Debbie Lew, Greg Brinkman, Maureen Hand, and Trieu Mai are recipients of its 2013 Annual Achievement Award.

The award for Lew and Brinkman recognizes their outstanding contributions to determining the impact of cycling operation due to wind and solar generation on operations and maintenance cost and emissions of coal and natural gas plants in the Western Wind and Solar Integration Study (WWSIS)PDF. The award citation for Hand and Mai notes their groundbreaking contributions in the examination of electric power system operation with very high shares of wind, solar and other renewable power options through the Renewable Electricity Futures (REF) study.

UVIG is also honoring NREL's Brian Parsons for his steadfast vision and strong leadership in managing the NREL wind integration activities and in promoting effective collaboration among the DOE, NREL and UVIG renewables integration programs.

The Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group, previously known as the Utility Wind Integration Group (UWIG), was established in 1989 to provide a forum for the critical analysis of wind and solar technology for utility applications and to serve as a source of credible information on the status of wind and solar technology and deployment.

SAE Names Rugh as a 2013 Forest R. McFarland Award Recipient

NREL's John Rugh has been named a 2013 Forest R. McFarland Award Recipient by SAE International. The award recognizes individuals for their outstanding contributions toward the work of the SAE Engineering Meetings Board (EMB) in the planning, development, and dissemination of technical information through technical meetings, conferences, and professional development programs. The award honors the late Forest R. McFarland who was himself an outstanding session organizer, a chairman of the Passenger Car Activity and a member of the EMB.

Nozik Received ECS Heinz Gerischer Award

NREL Research Fellow (Emeritus) Arthur J. Nozik has been award the Heinz Gerischer Award from the Europe Section of The Electrochemical Society (ECS). The award recognizes an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the science of semiconductor electrochemistry and photoelectrochemistry including the underlying areas of physical and materials chemistry of significance to this field. The award is named after the late Prof. Gerischer to honor his immense contributions to the science of semiconductor electrochemistry and photoelectrochemistry, and to that of physical and materials chemistry in general. In addition, this award is intended to recognize the scientific leadership of Prof. Gerischer and his tireless efforts to promote scientific collaboration in post-WWII Europe.

IEEE Names NREL Outstanding Large Company

The regional chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has named NREL an Outstanding Large Company. NREL has been recognized for its continued support for IEEE members as well as the objectives of IEEE. NREL Chief Engineer Dick DeBlasio accepted the award on behalf of NREL at the April 6 ceremony in Denver. IEEE is the world's largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members work with a global community through IEEE's highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities. Region 5 has about 25,500 members of all levels and comprises 26 local sections, 186 technical society chapters, and 102 University/College student branches.

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NREL is the U.S. Department of Energy's primary national laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development. NREL is operated for DOE by The Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC.

Visit NREL online at http://www.nrel.gov

For further information contact NREL Public Relations at 303-275-4090.

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Contact: David Glickson
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DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Employees of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE)'s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) were recently recognized by industry peers for their work in grid integration, industry advancement and electrochemistry. NREL was also named an Outstanding Large Company by IEEE.

Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group Recognizes Five NREL Employees

The Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group (UVIG) announced that NREL's Debbie Lew, Greg Brinkman, Maureen Hand, and Trieu Mai are recipients of its 2013 Annual Achievement Award.

The award for Lew and Brinkman recognizes their outstanding contributions to determining the impact of cycling operation due to wind and solar generation on operations and maintenance cost and emissions of coal and natural gas plants in the Western Wind and Solar Integration Study (WWSIS)PDF. The award citation for Hand and Mai notes their groundbreaking contributions in the examination of electric power system operation with very high shares of wind, solar and other renewable power options through the Renewable Electricity Futures (REF) study.

UVIG is also honoring NREL's Brian Parsons for his steadfast vision and strong leadership in managing the NREL wind integration activities and in promoting effective collaboration among the DOE, NREL and UVIG renewables integration programs.

The Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group, previously known as the Utility Wind Integration Group (UWIG), was established in 1989 to provide a forum for the critical analysis of wind and solar technology for utility applications and to serve as a source of credible information on the status of wind and solar technology and deployment.

SAE Names Rugh as a 2013 Forest R. McFarland Award Recipient

NREL's John Rugh has been named a 2013 Forest R. McFarland Award Recipient by SAE International. The award recognizes individuals for their outstanding contributions toward the work of the SAE Engineering Meetings Board (EMB) in the planning, development, and dissemination of technical information through technical meetings, conferences, and professional development programs. The award honors the late Forest R. McFarland who was himself an outstanding session organizer, a chairman of the Passenger Car Activity and a member of the EMB.

Nozik Received ECS Heinz Gerischer Award

NREL Research Fellow (Emeritus) Arthur J. Nozik has been award the Heinz Gerischer Award from the Europe Section of The Electrochemical Society (ECS). The award recognizes an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the science of semiconductor electrochemistry and photoelectrochemistry including the underlying areas of physical and materials chemistry of significance to this field. The award is named after the late Prof. Gerischer to honor his immense contributions to the science of semiconductor electrochemistry and photoelectrochemistry, and to that of physical and materials chemistry in general. In addition, this award is intended to recognize the scientific leadership of Prof. Gerischer and his tireless efforts to promote scientific collaboration in post-WWII Europe.

IEEE Names NREL Outstanding Large Company

The regional chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has named NREL an Outstanding Large Company. NREL has been recognized for its continued support for IEEE members as well as the objectives of IEEE. NREL Chief Engineer Dick DeBlasio accepted the award on behalf of NREL at the April 6 ceremony in Denver. IEEE is the world's largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members work with a global community through IEEE's highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities. Region 5 has about 25,500 members of all levels and comprises 26 local sections, 186 technical society chapters, and 102 University/College student branches.

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NREL is the U.S. Department of Energy's primary national laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development. NREL is operated for DOE by The Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC.

Visit NREL online at http://www.nrel.gov

For further information contact NREL Public Relations at 303-275-4090.

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Samsung's operating profit up 53 percent in 1Q

In this Jan. 8, 2013 file photo, Samsung Electronics Co. logo is seen at a showroom of its headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. The firm said Friday, April 5, 2013 its operating profit last quarter rose 53 percent over a year earlier, outpacing expectations for what's normally a slow time for consumer electronics sales. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

In this Jan. 8, 2013 file photo, Samsung Electronics Co. logo is seen at a showroom of its headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. The firm said Friday, April 5, 2013 its operating profit last quarter rose 53 percent over a year earlier, outpacing expectations for what's normally a slow time for consumer electronics sales. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? Samsung Electronics Co. said its operating profit last quarter rose 53 percent over a year earlier, outpacing expectations for what's normally a slow time for consumer electronics sales.

The South Korean firm on Friday estimated its first quarter operating income at 8.7 trillion won ($7.7 billion). The preliminary result is a 2 percent decline from the previous quarter when the operating income stood at a record high.

Samsung said its first quarter revenue grew 15 percent from a year earlier to 52 trillion won.

Its first-quarter profit was higher than market expectations, and analysts said Samsung benefited from smartphone sales and shortages in memory chips for personal computers.

Counterpoint Technology Market Research said last month that it expected Samsung's smartphone sales to top 70 million during the first three months of this year, further expanding its share in the global smartphone market. The market research firm estimated Apple's iPhone sales to reach 35 million during the same period.

Samsung's semiconductor business likely benefited from the shortages in memory chips used in personal computers, which spiked prices of Samsung's key products. Global chip makers have reduced production of PC memory chips to increase chip supplies for mobile devices.

Samsung is the world's largest maker of smartphones, memory chips, televisions and flat screen panels.

Samsung's full results including net profit and breakdown figures for each division will be released later this month.

Associated Press

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Chuck Hagel Calls For Ending Military Law Option To Overturn Court Martial

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called Monday for reform of the military justice system, stating in an internal memo that changes are necessary to ensure the system "remains fair and credible."

In particular, Hagel recommended that the centuries-old power of a commander to overturn a court-martial conviction be eliminated. The military has recently completed a comprehensive review of its justice system sparked by a controversial case in which a three-star general overturned a court-martial conviction for sexual assault.

"We must ensure that our military justice system is fair, provides justice, and enhances good order and discipline," Hagel wrote in the Monday memo to the secretaries of the military services, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the leadership of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. "The actions directed by this memorandum seek to improve military justice and our ability to accomplish our mission."

The memo was passed along to The Huffington Post by a Senate aide.

Under Article 60 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), a convening authority -- that is, a commanding officer considering a case -- has "absolute power to disapprove the findings [of a?military judicial proceeding] and sentence, or any part thereof, for any or no reason, legal or otherwise." Hagel is recommending two reforms: First, he would eliminate this convening-authority power to overturn court-martial findings outright, except in the case of certain minor offenses that typically don't proceed to a court-martial trial. Second, a convening authority would be required to explain in writing any adjustments to sentences or findings for both court-martial and minor offenses.

"While convening authorities would no longer have the ability to dismiss charges for serious offenses like sexual assault, defendants would continue to have access to a robust system of appeal rights," Hagel said in a Defense Department statement released Monday afternoon. "The intent is to ensure that convening authorities are required to justify -- in an open, transparent, and recorded manner -- any decision to modify a court martial sentence."

Article 60 came under fire in recent months after Air Force Lt. Gen. Craig Franklin overturned the conviction of Lt. Col. James Wilkerson, an F-16 pilot, in February. In November, Wilkerson, also a former inspector general, had been convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a civilian contractor at Aviano Air Force Base in Italy.

Outcry over Franklin's decision prompted Hagel to call for a review of Article 60 and the UCMJ in March. An Air Force report was due March 20, while the report of the Defense Department's acting general counsel was due March 27. The reports have been completed, according to Defense and the Air Force, but have not yet been shared with members of Congress or the public.

As Hagel explained in his response to Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who called for him to act specifically on Franklin's decision, neither he nor anyone else has the power currently to alter such a decision under the UCMJ.

"The decision of the convening authority cannot be changed," Hagel wrote.

Moreover, only Congress has the power to amend the UCMJ. Hagel has directed the Defense Department and the service secretaries to write up draft legislation, which Congress could consider along with other legislative initiatives underway on Capitol Hill.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and chairwoman of the subcommittee that held a heated March hearing on military sexual assault, called on her colleagues to act.

"When I met with Secretary Hagel before his confirmation hearing he pledged his commitment to taking this issue head on," she said in a statement to The Huffington Post. "Now Congress must act on legislation I am drafting with several of my colleagues that will remove authority over these cases outside the chain of command to increase reporting and strengthen accountability in the military justice system."

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) indicated Monday that she would be on board with such legislation.

"A commander who has not listened to the testimony should not be able to unilaterally overturn a jury verdict or change an offender's sentence without explanation -- and it's great news that Secretary Hagel agrees," McCaskill said in a statement. "I look forward to working with the Secretary and others to pass this crucial legislation that prevents this kind of abuse of authority.?

Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-Mass.) also weighed in.

"The recent decision by a military convening authority to disapprove and dismiss a verdict in a sexual assault case was certainly a step backward for military justice, and flew in the face of the notable progress we had seen in the military's approach to and implementation of policies addressing these crimes," Tsongas told The Huffington Post in a statement. "I will be paying close attention to how the DOD spells out their proposed changes, and as we draft the FY2014 NDAA [National Defense Authorization Act], we will be working to directly address the failures of the system as we saw in the Wilkerson case."

Yet as Anu Bhagwati, executive director of the advocacy group Service Women's Action Network, pointed out, the convening authority also makes the initial decision of whether a case moves forward to court-martial proceedings -- a much-criticized element of the UCMJ not addressed by Hagel's decision Monday.

"Post-trial review is only one component," Bhagwati said. "Unless pre-trial decision-making around investigation and prosecution of offenses is also removed from the hands of commanders, military criminal justice will remain a lesser form of justice, both for victims and defendants."

Hagel noted in his memo that the credibility of the military justice system is critical to addressing the epidemic of military sexual assault.

"Offenders must be held appropriately accountable for these crimes," he wrote.

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Calif. hiker: 4 days missing felt like a dream

Joshua Sudock / Orange County Register via AP

Kyndall Jack, one of the two hikers who became lost for nearly a week in the Cleveland National Forest last week, reveals some of her wounds during a news conference outside UCI Medical Center in Orange, Calif., Monday, April 8, 2013.

By Gillian Flaccus, The Associated Press

ORANGE, Calif. ? One of two hikers who got lost in the Southern California wilderness last week said Monday she remembers little about her four-day ordeal because she began hallucinating on the first night after the pair finished the three bottles of water they had and darkness fell.

Kyndall Jack, 18, and her friend, Nicolas Cendoya, went missing on March 31 in Cleveland National Forest after wandering off a trail during what they thought would be a short day hike.

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The pair had picked the hike on the popular Holy Jim Trail almost at random after deciding they wanted to climb to a mountaintop to "touch the clouds," Jack said at a brief news conference.

She said the last thing she remembers is fighting off an animal with Cendoya after darkness fell, but she does not recall how the two got separated or what she did between then and her rescue. She hallucinated she was being eaten by a python, she tried to eat rocks and dirt, and thought that tree twigs were straws from which she could suck water.

"I honestly didn't even know I was missing, I didn't know I was gone, I didn't know anything was going on," she said. "I just thought I was in a big dream."

Jack was plucked by helicopter from a tiny rocky outcropping on a near-vertical cliff Thursday, after searchers followed her cries for help across a canyon and up several dried-up waterfalls. She was severely dehydrated, could not move one arm and complained of shortness of breath and pain in her chest and legs, rescuers said at the time.

Her mouth was so full of dirt the first man to reach her was afraid she would choke if he gave her water.

Cendoya, 19, had been rescued the night before after a volunteer searcher heard him call out from chest-high brush not far from where Jack was found. He was released from the hospital Sunday and the two have since seen each other and tried to make sense of their hallucinations with little luck.

Jack, who was expected to be released late Monday, has frostbite in her left hand and swelling, cuts and bruises on her legs that still make walking difficult.

She sat in a wheelchair and appeared weak during a brief news conference outside the University of Irvine, California Medical Center. The ends of her fingernails were ragged and still coated with dirt and she wore a bandage on one arm, moccasins on her swollen feet and a neon yellow hospital bracelet that said "Fall Risk."

The hike started out well but things quickly went wrong when they left the trail, she recalled.

"We just saw a good place and we were like, 'Oh, we're just going to scale the mountain here," she said.

They realized as darkness fell that they were lost and nowhere near the mountaintop and Cendoya called 911 twice on his dying cellphone.

In the second call, he and Jack can be heard having a tense conversation as the operator tries to determine where exactly they are in the 720-square-mile national forest ? a vast wilderness that runs smack up against the suburban comforts of southeastern Orange County.

"Yeah, we wandered off the trail. We wandered off the trail," Cendoya told the operator. "I don't even know if we'll make it to the morning because we have no water."

At one point, Jack can be heard in the background telling Cendoya there is something moving in the wilderness and at another point, she cries out for help as the operator tells the pair deputies are on foot searching for them.

"We don't hear them, but we screamed and my echo went out for miles," Cendoya says during the nine-minute call.

Jack said Monday that she panicked as the darkness closed in around them. She tried to climb a tree and use her lighter to provide a signal for rescuers, but she dropped it. She thinks she remembers fighting off some type of animal with Cendoya before the two began to slip in and out of consciousness ? but that, too, could have been a dream.

"I started to get like an anxiety attack and I started throwing up and I just lost it. I just went in and out of consciousness after the 911 call," she said.

"We just kept telling each other, 'Don't close your eyes. Don't fall asleep,'" she said.

Jack vaguely remembers "scooting" down a steep embankment ? likely the cliff where she was found ? but she isn't sure when she did that and how she managed to cling to the rocks for so long.

The teen warned other hikers to pack more water and supplies and not stray off the trail.

She also said she'd like to thank two of her rescuers in person: The first reserve sheriff's deputy who reached her and the paramedic who airlifted her to safety in a harness.

Another Orange County reserve sheriff's deputy who participated in the rescue slipped and fell 10 feet, hitting his chest on a rock before falling another 50 feet and hitting his head. He suffered cuts to his head, a punctured lung, broken ribs and other injuries. He was released from intensive care over the weekend and upgraded to fair condition.

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Eddie Huang And Andrew Zimmern Get Nominated For Webbys!

Today, the?International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS)?announced their nominees for the 2013 Webby Awards, honoring the greatest of The Internet, and check it: some of your favorite food personalities made it in there with Lena Dunham and the Guggenheim!

Andrew Zimmern and his team at Food Works (including pal Molly Mogren) were nominated in the Food and Drink category for AndrewZimmern.com, competing against Real Publications like?Cond? Nast?s Epicurious.com?and ABC?s?The Chew.?

But America?s favorite human panda?Eddie Huang got nominated?for Best Web Personality/Host for his work on?VICE?s?Fresh Off The Boat?series, as?a judges? choice AND over on the populist end of the Webbys (a.k.a. the equally important People?s Choice Awards).?Fans can vote for Huang to beat the snot out of Chris Hardwick?s All Star Celebrity Bowling, or Mike Rugnetta?s PBS Ideas Channel,?if they?re so inclined, by signing up here. (Huang?s Instagram reveals that he?s currently got 60% of the vote, but that might change if the PBS Army begins rallying.)

The winners will be announced in a live-stream broadcast (duh) on May 22nd, with details to follow. In the meantime, a Webbys tradition stipulates that any winners must give only five-word speeches. We welcome any suggestions for our chef-nominees.

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Wall Street set for bounce after last week's sell-off

By Leah Schnurr

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street was set to open modestly higher on Monday, bouncing back from the worst weekly decline this year even as investors face the prospect of a lackluster corporate earnings season.

Earnings forecasts have been scaled back heading into first-quarter reports. S&P 500 earnings are expected to have risen just 1.6 percent from a year ago, according to Thomson Reuters data, down from a 4.3 percent forecast in January.

Worries on Friday about the pace of earnings growth was a factor in Wall Street racking up its worst week this year so far, while a weaker-than-expected jobs report prompted concern the U.S. economy is in a slow patch.

Despite those headwinds, the loose monetary policy from central banks around the world continues to attract investors to equities, said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital in New York.

"It's all about easy money and it's lifting equities around the globe at this time," said Cardillo.

The Bank of Japan started its bond purchases after it announced last week it will inject about $1.4 trillion into the economy in less than two years.

In the United States, the Federal Reserve's bond buying program has been a significant catalyst of the recent rally that has sent major indexes to record levels.

Still, U.S. markets could see a technical correction of about 6 percent to 8 percent in the latter part of the month as the focus turns to corporate results, said Cardillo.

JPMorgan Chase and Bed Bath and Beyond are among the major companies set to announce results later in the week, while Alcoa's earnings will be the first from a Dow component after Monday's closing bell.

The S&P 500 is up nearly 9 percent for the year so far, while the Dow has gained more than 11 percent.

S&P 500 futures rose 4.9 points and were above fair value, a formula that evaluates pricing by taking into account interest rates, dividends and time to expiration on the contract. Dow Jones industrial average futures gained 18 points, and Nasdaq 100 futures added 9.5 points.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will give a speech later on Monday after markets are closed. Investors have been watching for any insight into the Fed's thinking on how long the central bank will keep its asset purchase program in place as it tries to boost the economic recovery.

General Electric Co said it will buy oilfield services provider Lufkin Industries Inc for about $3.3 billion, sending Lufkin shares up 37.5 percent to $87.95 in premarket trade. GE edged up 0.3 percent at $23.00.

Investors will be keeping an eye on the latest developments out of the euro zone after a constitutional court in Portugal overturned key austerity measures in the government's latest budget. Portugal's prime minister said the government will cut spending to meet targets agreed with its lenders.

(Editing by Kenneth Barry)

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The Hangover Part III TV Spot and Poster Drop

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Harry Styles: Pantsed by Liam Payne on Stage!

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Fox threatens to become a pay-TV channel if courts greenlight Aereo, probably doesn't mean it

Quick: what's the difference between a broadcast TV network (Fox, CBS, ABC and NBC) and a cable channel (TBS, TNT, ESPN, etc.)? Oh, only millions and millions of viewers. Nevertheless, Fox's COO Chase Carey is perturbed enough by the mere thought of Aereo getting its way, that he's already claiming that the network will go dark in favor of becoming a cable channel -- if and when OTA network streaming over the internet is completely legalized, that is. Causticism aside, Carey's remarks are certainly indicative of how the networks feel about the potential disruption of their revenue stream, and moreover, showcases just how far we are from living in a world that isn't dominated by the same old processes when it comes to entertainment.

Carey stated: "We need to be able to be fairly compensated for our content. This is not an ideal path we look to pursue, but we can't sit idly by and let an entity steal our signal. We will move to a subscription model if that's our only recourse."

Is it possible that Fox would suddenly vanish from over-the-air antennas everywhere, screwing up countless programming agreements with a near-endless amount of partners? Sure... but it's also possible that the ninth circle of Hades will be converted into an NHL arena. We're calling your bluff, Carey.

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Distorted thinking in gambling addiction: What are the cognitive and neural mechanisms?

Apr. 8, 2013 ? Fascinating new studies into brain activity and behavioural responses have highlighted the overlap between pathological gambling and drug addiction. The research, which is presented at the British Neuroscience Association Festival of Neuroscience (BNA2013)? has implications for both the treatment and prevention of problem gambling.

Dr Luke Clark, a senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge (UK), told the meeting that neurocognitive tests of impulsivity and compulsivity, and also positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of the brain have started to show how gambling becomes addictive in pathological gamblers -- people whose gambling habit has spiralled out of control and become a problem.

"Around 70% of the British population will gamble occasionally, but for some of these people, it will become a problem," he said. "Our work has been seeking to understand the changes in decision-making that happen in people with gambling problems. It represents the first large scale study of individuals seeking treatment for gambling problems in the UK, at a time when this disorder is being re-classified alongside drug addiction as the first 'behavioural addiction'. Given the unique legislation around gambling from country to country, it is vital that we understand gambling at a national level. For example, 40% of the problem gamblers at the National Problem Gambling Clinic report that the game they have a problem with is roulette on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals; this kind of gambling machine is peculiar to the British gambling landscape."

In collaboration between the University of Cambridge and Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones, director of the UK's only specialist gambling clinic in the Central and North West London NHS Trust, Dr Clark and his colleagues compared the brains and behaviours of 86 male, pathological gamblers with those of 45 healthy men without a gambling problem.

"We approach gambling within the framework of addiction, where we think that problematic gambling arises from a combination of individual risk factors, such as genetics, and features of the games themselves. To study individual factors, we have been testing gamblers at the National Problem Gambling Clinic on neurocognitive tests of impulsivity and compulsivity, and we have also measured their dopamine levels using PET imaging," said Dr Clark.

The tests showed that problem gamblers had increased impulsivity, similar to people with alcohol and drug addictions, but there was less evidence of compulsivity. Levels of dopamine -- a neurotransmitter involved in signalling between nerve cells and which is implicated in drug addiction -- showed differences in the more impulsive gamblers.

"Previous PET research has shown that people with drug addiction have reduced dopamine receptors. We predicted the same effect in pathological gamblers, but we did not see any group differences between the pathological gamblers and healthy men. Nevertheless, the problem gamblers do show some individual differences in their dopamine function, related to their levels of impulsivity: more impulsive gamblers showed fewer dopamine receptors," said Dr Clark. "These studies highlight the overlap between pathological gambling and drug addiction.

"To study the properties of the games themselves and how they relate to problem gambling, we have focussed on two psychological distortions that occur across many forms of gambling: 'near-miss' outcomes (where a loss looks similar or 'close' to a jackpot win) and the 'gambler's fallacy' (for example, believing that a run of heads means that a tail is 'due', in a game of chance). In one important discovery, we were the first lab to show that gambling 'near-misses' recruit brain regions that overlap with those recruited in gambling 'wins'. These responses may cause 'near-misses' to maintain gambling play despite their objective status as losses."

Dr Clark said that these findings had implications for both prevention and treatment. "Gambling distortions like the 'near-miss' effect may be amenable to both psychological therapies for problem gambling, and also by drug treatments that may act on the underlying brain systems. By understanding the styles of thinking that characterise the problem gambler, we may also be able to improve education about gambling in teenagers and young adults, to reduce the number of people developing a gambling problem."

The researchers also found a striking demonstration of the underlying brain regions that are involved in gambling when they studied the gambling behaviour of patients who had experienced brain injury due to a tumour or stroke.

"We have seen that two gambling distortions -- the 'gambler's fallacy' and the 'near-miss' effect -- that are evident in the general population, and which appear to be increased in problem gamblers, are actually abolished in patients with damage to the insula region of the brain," he said. "This suggests that in the healthy brain, the insula may be a critical area in generating these distorted expectancies during gambling play, and that interventions to reduce insula activity may have treatment potential.

"The insula is quite a mysterious part of the brain, tucked deep inside the lateral fissure. It is important in processing pain and, more broadly, in representing the state of the body in the brain, and it is striking that gambling is a very visceral, exciting activity. Our ongoing neuroimaging work will look at the relationship between responses in the insula and the body during our gambling tests."

Future work will investigate the styles of thinking that are in evidence when the problem gamblers at the National Problem Gambling Clinic play the simplified games the researchers have developed. "This is the first study to directly look at whether these biases are more pronounced in problem gamblers. We are also starting to recruit the siblings of problem gamblers (those who do not have a gambling problem themselves) in order to look at underlying vulnerability factors," concluded Dr Clark.

This research is funded by grants from the UK's Medical Research Council, and involves further collaboration with researchers at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford.

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Church: Pastor Rick Warren's son commits suicide

This undated photo provided by the Saddleback Valley Community Church shows Matthew Warren, the son of Pastor Rick Warren. Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Forest, Calif., said in a statement Saturday, April 6, 2013, that Warren's 27-year-old son, Matthew Warren, has committed suicide after struggling with mental illness and deep depression. (AP Photo/Saddleback Valley Community Church)

This undated photo provided by the Saddleback Valley Community Church shows Matthew Warren, the son of Pastor Rick Warren. Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Forest, Calif., said in a statement Saturday, April 6, 2013, that Warren's 27-year-old son, Matthew Warren, has committed suicide after struggling with mental illness and deep depression. (AP Photo/Saddleback Valley Community Church)

FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2010, file photo, Pastor Rick Warren acknowledges audience members during the Saddleback Civil Forum on Leadership and Service in Lake Forest, Calif. Saddleback Valley Community Church said in a statement Saturday, April 6, 2013, that Warren's 27-year-old son, Matthew Warren, has committed suicide after struggling with mental illness and deep depression. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

LAKE FOREST, Calif. (AP) ? The 27-year-old son of popular evangelical Pastor Rick Warren has committed suicide at his Southern California home, Warren's church and authorities said on Saturday.

Matthew Warren struggled with mental illness, deep depression and suicidal thoughts throughout his life, Saddleback Valley Community Church said in a statement. His body was found in his Mission Viejo home Friday night, said Allison O'Neal, a supervising deputy coroner for Orange County. She declined to release the cause and manner of death pending an autopsy of the young man.

"Despite the best health care available, this was an illness that was never fully controlled and the emotional pain resulted in his decision to take his life," the church statement said.

Rick Warren, the author of the multimillion-selling book "The Purpose Driven Life," said in an email to church staff that he and his wife had enjoyed a fun Friday evening with their son. But their son then returned home to take his life in "a momentary wave of despair."

Over the years, Matthew Warren had been treated by America's best doctors, had received counseling and medication and been the recipient of numerous prayers from others, his father said.

"I'll never forget how, many years ago, after another approach had failed to give relief, Matthew said 'Dad, I know I'm going to heaven. Why can't I just die and end this pain?'" Warren recalled.

Despite that, he said, his son lived for another decade, during which he often reached out to help others.

"You who watched Matthew grow up knew he was an incredibly kind, gentle, and compassionate man," Warren wrote. "He had a brilliant intellect and a gift for sensing who was most in pain or most uncomfortable in a room. He'd then make a bee-line to that person to engage and encourage them."

The elder Warren founded Saddleback Church in 1980, according to his biography on the church website, and over the years watched it grow to 20,000 members. He and his wife, Kay, began by holding Bible studies for people who weren't regular churchgoers.

Matthew Warren was the youngest of their three children.

As Saddleback grew over the years, it spread out from its Lake Forest headquarters, 65 miles southeast of Los Angeles, adding several other campuses and ministries around Southern California.

The church says it now offers more than 200 community ministries and support groups for parents, families, children, couples, prisoners, addicts, and people living with HIV, depression and other illnesses.

In 2008, the church sponsored a presidential forum with Barack Obama and John McCain. Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney were invited to a similar forum last fall, but Warren canceled it several days beforehand, saying the campaign had become too uncivil.

Warren was named the top newsmaker of the year for 2009 by the Religion Newswriters Association. He gained attention that year with his invocation at Obama's inauguration, as well as with comments he made in the aftermath of California's Proposition 8, which overturned gay marriage.

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FINALS WATCH: 'Russdiculous,' Beilein followers

Louisville's Russ Smith laughs during a news conference for their NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball game Sunday, April 7, 2013, in Atlanta. Louisville plays Michigan in the championship game on Monday. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Louisville's Russ Smith laughs during a news conference for their NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball game Sunday, April 7, 2013, in Atlanta. Louisville plays Michigan in the championship game on Monday. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Michigan's Spike Albrecht (2) reacts to play against Syracuse during the first half of the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball semifinal game Saturday, April 6, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Michigan head coach John Beilein speaks during a news conference for their NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball game Sunday, April 7, 2013, in Atlanta. Michigan plays Louisville in the championship game on Monday. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Louisville's Gorgui Dieng shoots over Wichita State's Fred Van Vleet during the second half of the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball semifinal game Saturday, April 6, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Louisville head coach Rick Pitino and Michigan head coach John Beilein, left, participate in a television interview for their NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball game Sunday, April 7, 2013, in Atlanta. Louisville plays Michigan in the championship game on Monday. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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'RUSSDICULOUS'

Russ Smith has a reputation for being a little, shall we say, out there. This, after all, is the player whose nickname is "Russdiculous." He's never met a shot he didn't like, and his antics drove coach Rick Pitino to distraction his first year at Louisville.

And that exuberance isn't limited to the court.

Pitino was talking Sunday about the passion his players have for the other sports at Louisville. After mentioning that Gorgui Dieng goes to every women's game, Pitino said Smith had been something of a super fan for a women's soccer game.

"Russ Smith took off all his clothes ? except his underpants, of course ? and painted his body red for a women's soccer game in the cold," Pitino said.

Smith was quite proud to confirm Pitino's story, nodding his head and giving a big thumbs up.

"Now you know what I'm coaching," Pitino said, smiling.

? Nancy Armour ? http://twitter.com/@nrarmour

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CALL ME SPIKE

Spike Albrecht has an actual first name. Outside of his mother, no one uses it.

Heck, there are plenty of people who don't even know his given name is Michael.

"I write Spike on my papers, my tests," Michigan's freshman guard said Sunday. "My teachers call me Spike."

The nickname came from the first pair of baseball spikes that Albrecht got when he was about 5 years old.

"I was a big baseball fan," he says. "I started wearing them everywhere. I was wearing them out to eat, to go to church and stuff like that. It's kind of embarrassing. So people started calling me Spike. And here I am, a freshman in college, and it still sticks."

During the Final Four, his actual name is used in the program and on the box scores given out to the media. Albrecht figures there's at least one person who is pleased with that development.

"My mom still calls me Michael," he says. "She's got to. She's my mom."

? Paul Newberry ? http://twitter.com/@pnewberry1963

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BEILEIN FOLLOWERS

John Beilein will have plenty of fans in the crowd Monday night when his Michigan team takes on Louisville for the national title.

And some of them don't even have much of a connection to Michigan.

"We have several players here. Two LeMoyne players are here. I've heard from Erie Community College players, Canisius players," Beilein said, rattling off a few of his previous seven coaching stops. He has also coached at Nazareth, Richmond, West Virginia, and of course, Michigan.

Beilein's best NCAA tournament run before this season was a quarterfinal appearance with West Virginia in 2005. The Mountaineers finally lost to ... Rick Pitino's Louisville team. Now it's Beilein vs. Pitino again for even bigger stakes.

? Noah Trister ? http://twitter.com/@noahtrister

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APPRECIATIVE COACH

Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall said 'thank you' to Shockers fans on Sunday by taking out a full-page advertisement in the hometown newspaper, The Wichita Eagle.

The Shockers were eliminated by Louisville in the Final Four on Saturday night.

The advertisement is almost entirely black ? the school colors are black and yellow ? with the Shockers' logo above the words in white that say, "Thank you, Shocker faithful."

There is a reproduction of Marshall's signature, and at the bottom of the page, the school's Twitter and Facebook handles accompany the words, "We keep marching."

This was Wichita State's first trip to the Final Four since 1965.

? Dave Skretta ? http://twitter.com/@APdaveskretta

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DIVISION II CHAMPS

Drury is the Division II national champion.

Alex Hall made two free throws with 22 seconds left to complete a long, methodical rally from a 17-point hole and help Drury beat Metro State 74-73 on Sunday in the NCAA tournament final.

Metro State had a chance to win the game, but Mitch McCarron and Brandon Jefferson both missed shots underneath the rim in the closing seconds, and the buzzer sounded and confetti started to fly as Drury ran to center court and began to celebrate its national title.

The Panthers overcame 19 turnovers to win the championship.

"What an unbelievable championship game," said NCAA President Mark Emmert, who awarded the trophy to the school from Springfield, Mo.

? Dave Skretta

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DIVISION III CHAMPS

The Amherst Lord Jeffs have won their second Division III men's basketball national championship, defeating Mary Hardin-Baylor 87-70 at Phillips Arena.

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LORD JEFFS

Wolverines? Cardinals?

Boooring.

There's no better nickname in Atlanta than the one sported by Amherst, which is playing in the Division III championship game at Philips Arena. Ladies and gentlemen, the Lord Jeffs.

The school and its namesake town in Massachusetts were named after Lord Jeffery Amherst, a famed officer in the British Army during the 1700s. Hence, the unique moniker for the college's athletic teams.

? Paul Newberry

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SUPER BOWL, REDUX

It was somewhat of a Super Bowl redux at the Division III championship game.

Amherst and Mary Hardin-Baylor were just starting the second half Sunday when a bank of lights inside Philips Arena went dark. There were enough lights still on that officials didn't immediately halt the game, but they huddled at the scorer's table during the first dead ball.

The officials met with coaches from both teams and decided to play on, even though the lights hadn't come back on. It was still bright enough to continue with the game.

Amherst led 46-39 when the lights went out.

? Dave Skretta

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SORRY GUYS

Future Louisville players aren't going to be too happy with Peyton Siva.

Cardinals coach Rick Pitino likes his players to limit their outside distractions, which is why he highly "encourages" them not to use social media sites like Twitter. But Instagram isn't really on Pitino's radar ? at least, it wasn't before Sunday.

"I'm going to mess it up for the guys who are coming in," Siva said. "He doesn't really know anything about Instagram yet. That's why we get away with that."

Sure enough, if you check the Twitter feeds of the Louisville players, there's not much there. (Except for Kevin Ware, but he's a national celebrity now.) Instagram, however, is a different story, with many of the Cardinals posting dozens of pictures of themselves and their teammates.

"He can't tell me not to do it because I'm leaving tomorrow," said Siva, a senior. "So I'm good."

? Nancy Armour

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NOT SINCE MICHAEL JORDAN

It has been 31 years since we've seen a national semifinals like we witnessed Saturday night.

The last time all three Final Four games were decided by five points or fewer was 1982. On Saturday, Louisville rallied to beat Wichita State 72-68 and Michigan held on to beat Syracuse 61-56.

It was a welcome change for anyone bored by those three regional finals last weekend that ended in blowouts.

The last time both games where that close North Carolina beat Houston 68-63 in one semifinal, and Georgetown edged Louisville 50-46 in the other. Then the Tar Heels won the title 63-62 on Michael Jordan's jumper.

? Noah Trister

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LOUISVILLE HOOPS

The Louisville women's team will be getting plenty of cheers in Atlanta.

Turns out, the men are big fans.

Both Louisville teams made it to the Final Four. The men already advanced to the championship game in Atlanta with a semifinal victory over Wichita State; the women are facing California in a semifinal at New Orleans on Sunday night.

The men were on a bus leaving Indianapolis when the women pulled off one of the biggest upsets in the history of their NCAA tournament, beating Brittney Griner and defending national champion Baylor 82-81 in the regional semifinals.

"We were yelling at the little TVs," guard Petyon Siva said. "We were on the bus jumping up and down."

Siva and several of his teammates attended every women's game they could when both teams were in Louisville.

"I think they're exciting to watch," he said. "A lot of people say they don't like girls basketball. I love watching them play, just their heart and hustle. They're basically a carbon copy of us. They go out there and play with a lot of energy. They go out and play without a lot of flash. They just get the job done."

? Paul Newberry

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O'CONNELL: 35 YEARS

Covering his 35th Final Four, AP Basketball Writer Jim O'Connell was honored by the NCAA and the Final Four coaches Saturday in Atlanta.

Louisville coach Rick Pitino presented the man many call "Oc" with a basketball signed by the Final Four coaching brethren: Pitino, Jim Boeheim, John Beilein and Gregg Marshall.

"Jimmy. The Best," was the message Boeheim wrote.

Reporters gave O'Connell a standing ovation at the ceremony, held during Sunday's interview sessions to preview the national title game.

A pretty cool moment for our veteran, who began his run at the 1979 Final Four. You may remember 1979 as the year Larry Bird faced off with Magic Johnson.

On Monday, the 35th anniversary of that classic game, Louisville plays Michigan and O'Connell will be at his normal station, on press row, breaking it down the way only he can.

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UNBEATEN LOUSIVILLE

Louisville will be playing for its third national championship on Monday night.

The Cardinals are 2-0 in championship games, beating UCLA in 1980 and Duke in 1996. Coach Rick Pitino's team will take a 15-game winning streak into the final. It is Louisville's longest streak since the 2003-04 season.

The last team to beat the Cardinals was Notre Dame, in overtime, on Feb. 9.

But Cardinals center Gorgui Dieng said Sunday that going 3-0 will depend on how effective Louisville's press is against Michigan.

"We could not win without our pressure," Dieng said.

Louisville's come-from-behind 72-68 semifinal victory was its 34th of the season, a school record for wins.

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CHAMPIONSHIP TICKETS

Drury and Metro State fans received a little extra motivation to pump up the volume at their Division II national championship game Sunday at Philips Arena.

In addition to free admission to the game, it was announced during the contest that two tickets to Monday night's Louisville-Michigan matchup would be awarded to the loudest fans. That news brought a few extra cheers.

It could mean an extra day in Atlanta for a couple of lucky fans instead of heading back to Drury in Springfield, Mo., or Metro State in Denver on Monday.

Drury had the definite advantage in the stands, with several sections of fans wearing the Panthers' red.

? Charles Odum

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KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR

Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed will lead up to 3,000 kids who will dribble basketballs on a one-mile trek through downtown Atlanta on Sunday.

Those taking part in the Final Four Dribble will make their down Andrew Young International Boulevard through the heart of events that are part of the national semifinals.

They picked a great day ? it's sunny, 70-degrees in Atlanta once again.

? Charles Odum

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BASKETBALL BROTHERS

Wichita State guard Nick Wiggins' season ended Saturday night. The recruiting of his talented younger brother is ongoing.

He hears the question two or three times a day ? "Where's your brother going to school?" ? and Nick said it's usually from someone with a rooting interest in Kentucky, Florida State or Kansas.

Nick's brother, 6-foot-7 swingman Andrew Wiggins, a senior at West Virginia's Huntington Prep, happens to be one of the top-ranked players in the class of 2013.

There's also another Wiggins hooping it up: Mitchell, the oldest brother, plays for Southeastern University, an NAIA school in Lakeland, Fla.

It appears that Andrew is the best of the basketball-playing bunch, though.

"He deserves all the attention," said Nick, who thinks his brother will announce his college choice in the next couple weeks. "We've still been talking about it, rapping about it, and we're just going to try to help him make the best decision."

? Dave Skretta

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