Tuesday, April 2, 2013

McDermott repeats on AP All-America hoops team

These 2012 photos provided by their respective schools show the 2012-13 AP All-America men's college basketball team. From left: Trey Burke, Michigan; Doug McDermott, Creighton; Victor Oladipo, Indiana, Kelly Olynyk, Gonzaga and Otto Porter Jr., Georgetown. (AP Photo)

These 2012 photos provided by their respective schools show the 2012-13 AP All-America men's college basketball team. From left: Trey Burke, Michigan; Doug McDermott, Creighton; Victor Oladipo, Indiana, Kelly Olynyk, Gonzaga and Otto Porter Jr., Georgetown. (AP Photo)

FILE - In this March 2, 2013 file photo, Creighton's Doug McDermott (3) goes for a basket with teammate Gregory Echenique, right, in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Wichita State in Omaha, Neb. McDermott was selected to the AP All-America team Monday, April 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, FIle)

Creighton's Doug McDermott reacts after learning his team's NCAA college basketball tournament assignment during a Selection Sunday viewing party in Omaha, Neb., Sunday, March 17, 2013. Creighton is scheduled to face Cincinnati in the second-round on Friday in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Creighton's Doug McDermott (3) drives around Wichita State's Carl Hall (22) in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in the championship of the Missouri Valley Conference tournament on Sunday, March 10, 2013, in St. Louis. McDermott, who was named tournament Most Valuable Player, scored 14 points as Creighton won 68-65.(AP Photo/Tom Gannam)

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2012 file photo,?Michigan guard Trey Burke (3) drives around Cleveland State guard Sebastian Douglas (1) during the first half of their NCAA college basketball game in the second-round of the NIT Season Tip-Off tournament at Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Mich. Burke was selected to the AP All-America team Monday, April 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Doug McDermott made Creighton history last season when he was selected as the school's first player on the AP All-America team. Now he's done it again.

The 6-foot-8 junior forward, the second-leading scorer in Division I, was a repeat selection Monday, the 51st player to earn the honor in consecutive seasons.

"It's pretty crazy. I couldn't expect to have as good a year as I did," said McDermott, who averaged 23.1 points and 7.5 rebounds while shooting 56.1 percent from the field and 49.7 percent from 3-point range.

Trey Burke of Michigan and Otto Porter Jr. of Georgetown tied as the leading vote-getters for first team, while Victor Oladipo of Indiana and Kelly Olynyk of Gonzaga were the other players selected.

McDermott, who led the Bluejays to the Missouri Valley Conference championship with a title-game win over Wichita State, wasn't shocked that he was the second repeat selection in as many years, following Jared Sullinger of Ohio State. But the honor was satisfying.

"It's not too surprising because I approach the game the same every time," he said. "I knew I could kick it into gear and have a special season. It's tough to do what I did with the defenses I faced. I got a lot more attention. I found ways to expand my game. I was really pleased."

So was his coach, and father.

"I'm just really proud of the season that he was able to put together," Greg McDermott said. "On one hand he was able to consistently put up incredible numbers on a team that won a lot of games. At the end of the day I know that was most important to Doug."

Burke and Porter both received 62 first-team votes and 319 points from the same 65-member national media panel that selects the weekly Top 25. Voting was on a 5-3-1 basis and was completed before the NCAA tournament.

Oladipo got 58 first-team votes and 306 points. McDermott had 44 first-team votes and 279 points, one more than Olynyk's total points. The Gonzaga junior got 47 first-team votes.

Burke, a 6-0 sophomore point guard, had an impressive individual season while running a team that at times had four freshmen on the court with him.

"That's like a quarterback that's got his offensive tackle's a freshman, his wide receiver is a freshman, and his running back is a freshman, and he still leads them to wins," said Wolverines coach John Beilein, using an analogy from the sport his school loves. "So he's taken a lot on as far as leadership. Quiet leadership now, but it's been huge for us."

Burke averaged 19.2 points, 3.1 rebounds and 6.7 assists and shot 40.1 percent on 3-point attempts. He is Michigan's fifth All-America and first since Chris Webber in 1993.

"Every now and then you think about individual accolades, and that was definitely a goal of mine coming into my freshman year," Burke said. "I didn't know it would be this quick, but it happens."

Porter, a 6-8 sophomore, is a smooth, solid forward whose coach describes his efforts this way: "Otto was Otto."

"I've defined it all year ? probably without saying it ? in that he is a selfless player, in that all of his actions, all of his thoughts are on how can he help our team win," Hoyas coach John Thompson III said. "And because he's so talented, with such God-given ability, because he is the worker that he is, because he is as coachable as he is, he has been able to succeed on many different fronts. Not just scoring. I don't want to say he's a complete basketball player ? he's not finished ? but he excels at many different aspects of the game, many of which show up in the stat sheet, many of which don't."

What does show up on Porter's stat line is 16.3 points and 7.4 rebounds per game while shooting 42.7 percent from behind the 3-point line. He is Georgetown's sixth All-America and first since Allen Iverson in 1996.

Oladipo is Indiana's first All-America since A.J. Guyton in 2000 and the eighth overall. He was impressed to be joining the likes of Scott May, Kent Benson, Isiah Thomas, Steve Alford and Calbert Cheaney.

"I'm kind of speechless to be with the great names in college basketball, the NBA, in basketball history," Oladipo, a 6-5 junior swingman, said. "To be put in a sentence with them only makes me want to work harder."

That is one of the traits Hoosiers coach Tom Crean loves about Oladipo, who averaged 13.6 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.2 steals while shooting 59.9 percent from the field and 44.3 percent on 3s.

"I see somebody who continues to get better every step of the way at Indiana," Crean said. "I think when you have a young man who puts in that kind of time and that kind of work and cares about his teammates, all the outside stuff doesn't matter. It's on the court that does."

Olynyk, a native of Canada, became an All-America with a junior season that saw the Bulldogs reach No. 1 for the first time in school history. The 7-footer averaged 17.5 points and 7.2 rebounds while shooting 65.2 percent from the field. He was recognized as much this for his long hair as his inside game.

"Obviously you believe in yourself, but I didn't expect it to explode on the scene with this much attention," said Olynyk, who redshirted last season. "My teammates and coaches believed in me and put me in a position to succeed."

Olynyk joins Dan Dickau and Adam Morrison as Gonzaga All-Americas.

Freshman guard Marcus Smart of Oklahoma State got 11 first-team votes and 190 points and was joined on the second team by senior Mason Plumlee of Duke, sophomores Cody Zeller of Indiana and Shane Larkin of Miami and freshman Ben McLemore of Kansas.

The third team was seniors Jeff Withey of Kansas, Erick Green of Virginia Tech and Nate Wolters of South Dakota State and juniors DeShaun Thomas of Ohio State and Russ Smith of Louisville.

McDermott, Burke, Zeller and Thomas were on the six-man preseason All-America team along with Isaiah Canaan of Murray State and C.J. McCollum of Lehigh.

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AP sports writers Stephen Hawkins in Dallas, Nick Geranios in Spokane, Wash., Joseph White in Washington and Eric Olson in Omaha, Neb. contributed to this report.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/347875155d53465d95cec892aeb06419/Article_2013-04-01-AP%20All-America%20Team/id-90f4b00200264fa4aff30ad19a5787f4

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HyperSwitch Makes Task-Switching Faster, Brings Windows-Like App Previews to the Mac

HyperSwitch Makes Task-Switching Faster, Brings Windows-Like App Previews to the Mac OS X: When you press Cmd+Tab on your Mac, by default you see large icons for each running application, and you can tab over to select one and switch to that app. It's fast, but in Windows you can see actual previews of each window, so you can go right to the window you want. HyperSwitch brings that same functionality to OS X.

HyperSwitch is in beta, but it does something that a lot of people have wished OS X did by default for years. If I have three or four browser windows open and I switch to another app, when I Cmd+Tab back, I can just choose to bring the browser back to the front?I can't choose which window I want to work in. HyperSwitch fixes all of that, and it's free. You can choose to see app icons, and the window previews only show when you highlight one of the apps (and you can arrow-down to select the window you want) or you can tell it to show you individual windows all the time.

The app is a little familiar to previously mentioned HyperDock, but it's a little more keyboard-friendly (and it's by the same developer). While it's in beta, HyperSwitch is free. You can grab it at the link below.

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Marketing studies help craft health overhaul pitch

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Obama administration is tapping the secrets of mass marketing to help sell the health care law to millions of uninsured Americans.

It's a big challenge:

How do you convince folks that one of the most complex and controversial programs devised by government may actually be a good for them?

The federal Health and Human Services Department has posted marketing research online that provides insight into more than 48 million uninsured.

Three groups are critical to so-called "Obamacare's" success or failure:

They're the "Healthy & Young," about 48 percent of the uninsured, the "Sick, Active & Worried," 29 percent, and the "Passive & Unengaged," 15 percent.

The challenge for the administration: sign up lots of the Healthy & Young to offset the higher costs of covering the sick and worried.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/marketing-studies-help-craft-health-overhaul-pitch-132308584--finance.html

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Malibu homeowners struggle with beach-saving plan

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) ? Malibu's celebrity haven of Broad Beach is struggling to survive as nature chews away at the shoreline and a $20 million effort to replace sand appears to be stuck in the mud.

Homeowners have run up against opposition and complicated approval processes as they pursue a plan to dredge sand from elsewhere and dump it to restore the 1.1-mile beachfront, the Los Angeles Times reported (http://lat.ms/122IzCh).

In recent years, winter storms and rising high tides have reduced the formerly broad beach, where Steven Spielberg, Dustin Hoffman and others have their beach houses.

Waves sometimes lap up to an 8-foot-high 4,100-foot-long emergency rock wall that state regulators allowed homeowners to build about three years ago to protect dozens of multimillion-dollar homes.

"The (wall) is perilously close to certain homes," said Kenneth A. Ehrlich, an attorney for the homeowners. "The homes are certainly in danger. ...There's no beach right now that anyone can enjoy."

Steve Levitan, co-creator of the TV series "Modern Family," recalled taking family strolls on the beach but said he now plans walks to avoid high tide.

With the reduced footage, "surfers can't get out to the good surf spots, and the homeowners can't get there, either," he said. Residents are proposing a $20 million project to dredge tons of sand and transplant it to restore the dunes and shoreline, both public and private.

Manhattan Beach blocked plans to use its sand, and residents now are considering using sea-bottom sand from Dockweiler Beach in Los Angeles.

However, the Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors has objected, saying the sand might be needed to restore other public beaches as sea levels rise.

For years, Broad Beach was the subject of feuding between homeowners and the public over access. At one point, security guards were hired to patrol the beach, and sunbathers contended they were harassed.

In 2005, 108 property owners took tons of sand from the public beach and packed it up into a berm on their property. The work was ordered halted by the California Coastal Commission.

When the commission permitted residents to build the $4 million wall, it ordered residents to come up with a stabilization plan that must take effect by 2015.

Homeowners said they have spent about $5 million so far for scientific studies and regulatory approvals but they have not yet completed a formal proposal for the coastal and state lands commissions.

"We have faced a bureaucratic nightmare in attempting to accomplish this project," said Marshall Grossman, a lawyer with a retreat on Broad Beach. "One would think we were attempting to build high-rise condos on a public beach."

Even if Broad Beach residents get their sand, such erosion-fighting measures are going to remain an issue in the future.

"As sea level rises, it's only going to get more challenging to figure how to deal with that," said Charles Lester, the coastal commission's executive director.

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Information from: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/malibu-homeowners-struggle-beach-saving-plan-190646959.html

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Monday, April 1, 2013

Wishing Away Bigots (talking-points-memo)

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Here's the Internet/cable TV ad they ought to run (video)

If only this wasn?t so true. The Internet and cable TV game is rigged in the US, and it?s consumers who lose.

The political class makes out okay because of the big dollars handed out every campaign season. As for the rest of us, we pay far more for cable TV, Internet, phone and cell service in the US than they pay in Europe, for example. Here in France, the phone, TV and Internet package starts at around 30 euros, or $36 ? and the speeds are generally faster than you?ll get as a standard package in most US cities (though, admittedly, customer service tends to be non-existent over here).

John was just telling me that in Washington, DC, he pays $180/month for basic Internet and basic cable TV, has to pay extra for HD (which is hardly some new-fangled technology at this point), and his package doesn?t include any premium movie channels at all. $180, that?s insane.

Thanks, Congress!

FYI ? there?s small amount of language in the video.

Source: http://americablog.com/2013/03/heres-the-internetcable-tv-ad-they-ought-to-run-video.html

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