Women's college basketball roundup: Georgia loses to Tennessee; Auburn beats Alabama

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Glory Johnson had 22 points and 13 rebounds as No. 6 Tennessee pulled away from No. 16 Georgia 80-51 on Thursday night.

Ariel Massengale scored 15 of her 19 points before halftime, while Johnson did most of her work after the break. Johnson now has 1,331 career points and is four rebounds shy of 1,000.

Johnson hit the first basket of the second half to give Tennessee a 38-27 lead, but Lady Bulldogs scored the next five points to cut the margin to six points. The Lady Vols (10-3, 2-0 SEC) answered with a 14-4 run to pull away.

Meredith Mitchell led the Lady Bulldogs (12-3, 1-1) with 14 points.

The Lady Vols held advantages of 52-32 rebounding and 42-12 in the paint and finished 20 of 28 at the line.

Tennessee hasn?t dropped an SEC game since a 53-50 loss at Georgia on Jan. 21, 2010.

@BR Scoreline:Auburn 65, Alabama 55

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Auburn beat Alabama at Foster Auditorium as sophomore forward Tyrese Tanner scored a game-high 20 points for the Tigers.

Freshman guard Hasina Muhammad added 12 points, and junior forward Blanche Alverson chipped in 11 points for Auburn.

Sophomore guard Shafontaye Myers led the Tide with 13 points, while senior guard Ericka Russell added 12 points for Alabama. Junior forward Erin Hogue grabbed nine boards to lead the Tide in rebounding. Auburn was Alverson and senior center Chantel Hilliard were the leading rebounders for the Tigers, each grabbing seven boards.

With the loss, Alabama falls to 10-6 on the season, 0-2 in Southeastern Conference play. Auburn improves to 9-6 overall and 1-1 in the league. Alabama returns to action Sunday, January 8, when it faces LSU in Baton Rouge. Tipoff is scheduled for 2p.m., and the game will be televised regionally by the SEC Network.

@BR Scoreline:Kentucky 84, Arkansas 72

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A?dia Mathies scored 21 points and had six assists as No. 11 Kentucky used a late surge to beat Arkansas.

Mathies started the game strong, scoring 14 points in the first eight minutes for the Wildcats (13-2, 2-0). Arkansas then found a way to shut her down, forcing her to miss her next eight shots over a 20-minute span.

The Razorbacks (11-3, 0-2) trailed by as many as 15 in the first half but used strong shooting to take their first lead, 46-44, with 16:18 left in the game on Dominique Robinson?s 3-pointer.

The Wildcats regained the lead and created space once Mathies got going again.

The junior finished 8 for 18 from the field and 5 for 9 on 3-pointers.

@BR Scoreline:South Carolina 65, Vanderbilt 55

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Aleighsa Welch had a career high 19 points and South Carolina won its seventh straight game with a victory over No. 24 Vanderbilt.

The Gamecocks (13-2) opened 2-0 in the Southeastern Conference for the first time in 10 years, disrupting the Commodores (12-2, 0-1) with their pressure defense. Vanderbilt was held to its fewest points of the season and committed 26 turnovers.

South Carolina broke open a tie game with a 10-0 run to close the first half. Vanderbilt did not get closer than six points as it lost its league opener for the first time in six years.

Tiffany Clarke led Vanderbilt with 13 points. Christina Foggie, the team?s top scorer at 17 points a game, was held to nine.

@BR Scoreline:ACC Miami 78, N.C. State 68

CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Riquna Williams scored 22 points to lead No. 12 Miami to a victory over North Carolina State.

Williams hit consecutive 3-pointers late in the second half as the Hurricanes (12-3, 1-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) withstood a rally by the Wolfpack and expanded a 66-61 lead with a 12-0 run. Maria Brown?s layup with 1:45 remaining ended the surge and gave Miami a 78-61 lead.

The Wolfpack (10-5, 0-2) rallied from a 49-29 deficit early in the second half with 13 straight points. Krystal Barrett scored 10 points during the run and her two free throws with 13:27 remaining cut Miami?s lead to 49-42.

Williams? putback with 10:01 left increased Miami?s lead to 55-46. North Carolina State got within 55-52 with 8:16 left.

Barrett scored 14 points to lead the Wolfpack.

Source: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2012/01/06/1882476/womens-college-basketball-roundup.html

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EnGenius ESR300H High Power 300Mbps Wireless N Router

Sometimes you just don't need a dual-band, high-end and expensive router. For those with light wireless needs or light budgets; a cheaper, single-band router is fine for web surfing and sharing Internet access and resources across a small wireless network. EnGenius' ESR300H High Power 300 Mbps Wireless N Router is a small, simple single-band router that sells for about $45. It's cheap, it has a surprising number of features, and it's fairly easy to set up. Unfortunately, abysmal throughput in 802.11b/g/n Mixed Mode and some buggy behavior with the software leads me to rate it well below other single-band routers I've tested.

Specs

The ESR300H is a tiny router, much smaller than competing single-band routers on the market (besides most travel routers, that is). It weighs about a pound and measures 9 by 7.8 by 3 inches (HWD). The diminutive device has a WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) button on top, along with seven tiny LED lights with labels that those with less-than-perfect eyesight may need a magnifying glass to read.

The LEDs represent power, wireless and WAN status. There's also a corresponding LED for each of the LAN ports. The four LAN ports on the back panel are only Fast Ethernet 10/100?no Gigabit support. The router also has dual external 2DBi antennas. ?The vendor reports maximum throughput at 300 Mbps.

The most interesting physical characteristic of this router is how small it is. Overall, it's an innocuous-looking little plastic black box with two antennas sticking out. Since current routers tend to have internal antennas, the EHR300H looks dated.

Setup

The router ships with a CD, although you can set up the device manually without the disc. Setup is not wireless; a computer hard-wired to the router is required. The EnGenius Smart Wizard interface launches from the CD. The interface is sharp and helpful enough to walk a user through the preliminary setup steps: connecting cables, powering up the router, and getting to the configuration page.

The problem is that once you first get to the router's configuration page it is not clear in the interface what you should do next. At this point of setup, the router was connected to the Internet and up and running but I still had not configured an SSID, security or any other wireless settings. The interface gives several options: "Home," "Wizard," "Network Settings," and "Logout." I selected "Wizard" because the router still needed to be configured, but I can imagine this confusing users who already launched the EnGenius Smart Wizard.

Selecting "Wizard" within the interface did take me to the wireless configuration screen. A feature I found bothersome was security setup. Instead of displaying the usual security choices like WEP, WPA, WPA2 , the ESR300H's interface allows users to set security levels as "None," "Medium," or "High." It is not clear which level of encryption you are selecting until after you make the choice. For instance, in the interface I selected "High." Once I clicked "Next" to apply the setting, I then saw in the status screen area of the interface that my security was set to "WPA2-PSK." I want to know exactly what security level I am applying before I apply it.

Features, Performance and Some Testing Road Bumps

EnGenius certainly packs a lot of functionality into the device, but not all of the features work well. Setting parental controls, which really is just an Access Control List, proved to be messy. Even worse, once I defined a URL or keyword to block for a specific machine connected to the routers, that machine was not blocked from accessing the URL or keyword from a browser. Parental controls did not work even after a browser cache flush.

I ran into another issue attempting to login to the interface from the computer I used to set up the router. The computer was now connected wirelessly to the router rather than wired, so it had a new IP address. When I attempted to get into the administrator interface the system flashed the message, "Duplicate administrator. If you want to login from this PC, please logout or wait for timeout." I waited about ten minutes and still got the message. Reopening my browser session enabled me to login. I suppose this is a security measure, but it seems flaky in operation.

The router can run in AP or WDS (repeater) mode. It supports up to 4 SSIDs, firewall mapping, DMZ and VPN Pass-through. QoS, NAT, Wake Up on LAN and UPnP are some additional features. The QoS is actually one of the more straight-forward and easy to configure modules within the interface.

The router delivered terrible performance in Mixed Mode, among the worst we've seen for single-band routers in the last two years:

As you can see, Engenius' own ESR9855G Multimedia Enhanced Wireless 300N Gaming Router router had far superior throughput results.

Here are the throughput results in 802.11N-only mode:

The results in 802.11n-only mode are much better. However, most users of single-band routers often have legacy devices that do not connect at the 802.11n standard. Preferable, a single-band router will have its best results in Mixed Mode.

The ESR300H Verdict: Skip It

Engenius' ESR300H is a router at a great price. Yet that low price point comes with other costs: abysmal performance in Mixed Mode and wonky software. A better choice for an affordable, single-band router is Engenius' ESR9855G or our Editors' Choice, the Cisco Linksys E1200 Wireless-N Router.

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Pasco sports briefs

By From staff reports
Published: January 05, 2012
Updated: January 05, 2012 - 11:48 AM

Saddlebrook Resort and the K.J. Choi Foundation have signed an agreement that will have Saddlebrook host junior golfers from Korea at the newly expanded, 20-acre Saddlebrook Golf Training Facility and play on the resort's two Arnold Palmer-signature championship courses.

The junior golfers will reside at the resort for six weeks during December and January, others may visit periodically, and some students may join the Saddlebrook Preparatory School.

Choi, a South Korean PGA golfer who visited Saddlebrook two times in December to train and play, signed the agreement with Tom Dempsey, chairman and CEO of Saddlebrook Resort. Choi brought several juniors from his foundation with him to Saddlebrook to coach.

The resort is home to Saddlebrook Golf Academy, featuring BannLynch coaching, led by Steve Bann and Dale Lynch. Bann has coached Choi since 2006 and currently coaches him on the PGA Tour.

Sweeties added to West Pasco softball

The West Pasco Girls Fast-Pitch Softball Association has been serving the young girls of west Pasco for more than 40 years. This year the league is expanding to include a Sweeties Division which is for boys and girls ages 4 to 6 years old.

There are five days of registration. They are: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Jan. 14; 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 10, 12 and 18.

Registration is open to those ages 4 to 18 and is held at Oakridge Park, 2141 Seven Springs Blvd., New Port Richey. Cost is $135, which includes uniform and Pasco County usage fee. Family discounts are offered. For info: (727) 372-1076 or go to www.WPGFSA.com.

Volleyball, basketball leagues offered

Pasco County Parks and Recreation Department is presenting a girls youth basketball league and a youth volleyball league at the J. Ben Harrill Recreation Complex, 230 Gulf Trace Blvd., Holiday.

The volleyball league is for children ages 10 to 15 and cost is $25 per participant. An evaluation day will be held Jan. 14 and games start Jan. 21.

The girls basketball league, for ages 10 to 14, begins play on Feb. 18 and cost is $35 per participant. Space is limited and proof of age is required. For information, call (727) 934-4198.

Junior tennis tournament scheduled

Lake Jovita Golf & Country Club is attempting to crown the best junior tennis players in the area. There are two open tournaments, one for high school team players and one for rookie players.

High school players will compete for the Chris Gupta Trophy on Jan. 15. Rookie players will compete on Jan. 16.

Entry fee is $25 and includes plenty of match play, light refreshments and trophies. To enter or for information contact Bobby Gillespie, Tennis Director, Lake Jovita Golf & Country Club at (813) 476-5787 or lakejovitatennis@yahoo.com. Deadline for entries is Jan. 12.

Source: http://www2.tbo.com/news/pasco-news/2012/jan/05/pasprto1-pasco-sports-briefs-ar-343764/

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Bammer: Under a banyan tree, with Edison and Ford

Before I flew to southwest Florida for a brief Christmas vacation, I asked my brother-in-law, Jonathan Darby, to set aside some time to visit the Edison & Ford Winter Estates, essentially museums that are a short walk from the core downtown area of Fort Myers.

I was interested in learning more about the man who invented the phonograph, the lightbulb, the movie camera, the person who singlehandedly, or with a team of workers, laid the foundation for the technological revolution of the modern electric world. The holder of a world-record 1,093 patents, nearly 400 of them for electric light and power, he was more than the Steve Jobs or Bill Gates of his time.

As for Ford, as much as I admire the brightness of his inventive mind -- the A and T model cars -- and his development of new, mass production methods, I cannot say I was eager to know more. While generous to his workers, Ford was, after all, a noted union hater whose writings about race and anti-Semitism, "The International Jew," became a basis for Hitler's autobiography, "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle), which, unfortunately, still wields great influence among racists around the world.

So, no, I was not eager to learn more about Ford, and, as it turned out, there was little Ford history on display at the museum and his winter home.

True, Edison and Ford were friends, maintained homes just yards apart, and they and their families enjoyed exploring southwest Florida during trips to Fort Myers.

But, from

what I gathered during a two-hour visit to the estates on Christmas Eve, the two men -- driven by a fierce determination to invent or solve manufacturing problems -- may actually have been philosophically far apart in their personal lives and beliefs.

Consider the entrance to the Estates Museum's newest exhibit, "Movies, Music and Dance," which welcomed visitors with photos of and single quotations by the two men.

Ascribed to Edison: "Music, next to religion, is the mind's greatest solace and also its greatest inspiration. The history of the world shows that lofty aspirations find vent in music, and that music, in turn, helps to inspire such aspiration in others."

Ascribed to Ford, who, by the way, loved to dance and play the fiddle: "I am not thinking so much of teaching children to dance, but of teaching children courtesy and conduct that goes with dancing."

I think I understood Ford's point and I have no real fault with it, but, still, I couldn't help but notice the men's different approaches to the fine and lively arts, and Ford struck me as a little stiff.

Entering the museum, the front of which is graced with the largest banyan tree in North America, shoots from its branches hanging down and rooted, I learned that Edison was nearly stone deaf. In early moving images, it was plain to see that the aging, white-haired super inventor leaned forward to hear what others were saying. There was an early phonograph, framed by small pieces of wood, a corner of which indented with bite marks, a way for Edison to feel the vibrations and, thus, "hear" the music through his jawbone.

His chrome kitchen sandwich grill, marketed in 1927 but discontinued in 1934, during the height of the Great Depression, looked like a forerunner to the George Foreman Grill. Edison considered the Embossing Translating Telegraph to be "the father of the phonograph," the latter, understandably, his favorite invention. I saw a photo of him with an early electric car, a 1913 model. His first patent? The vote recorder, about 1870.

He is considered "the father of organized research," a leader of groups working together doing different tasks to produce a product. He envisioned the value of solar energy, saying, in 1931, the year he died, "I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy."

Edison: a tireless tinkerer and thinker, for sure.

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E-mail Reporter staff writer Richard Bammer at RBammer@TheReporter.com.

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Official: Jamaica's opposition easily wins vote

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) ? Jamaica's first female prime minister has officially led her party to a landslide victory in general elections with final results announced Tuesday giving it a two-to-one margin in Parliament.

Portia Simpson Miller's People's National Party captured 42 seats in the country's 63-seat Parliament and the incumbent Jamaica Labor Party just 21, according to official results from Thursday's elections.

The count includes one more seat for the 66-year-old Simpson Miller's party than was first announced in the preliminary results.

After a days-long recount, outgoing Commerce Minister Christopher Tufton was found to have lost his seat by just 13 votes, according to Elections Director Orrette Fisher. Officials had initially credited Tufton with a narrow win.

Walloped by the lopsided loss, dazed Jamaica Labor Party leaders are trying to figure out what went wrong. They have been in control of the government since 2007, when they ended a nearly two-decade run of electoral wins by the People's National Party.

"We're going to consult and assess the situation in each and every constituency to determine what was the cause of the defeat," Labor campaign director Karl Samuda said Tuesday.

Samuda has said the party was partly hobbled by lingering questions about ex-Prime Minister Bruce Golding's handling of a 2009 U.S. extradition request for Jamaican drug kingpin Christopher "Dudus" Coke, the island's most notorious extralegal figure.

Many Jamaicans were upset that Golding authorized a U.S. firm to lobby Washington to drop the request, only reversing course after nine months. He ordered an offensive to find Coke in his West Kingston stronghold that led to one of the bloodiest episodes in Jamaica's recent history.

Andrew Holness, who became prime minister two months ago after Golding abruptly stepped down amid anemic public backing, became the new face of the party. The 39-year-old did little to inspire Labor tribalists or swing voters, but there has been no public hand-wringing by party officials over Holness' leadership after the election loss.

On Tuesday, Samuda said that Labor will now focus on being an effective opposition.

Political analysts say the winning side has no reason to gloat, since only a little more than half of the eligible 1.6 million voters cast ballots.

"Based on the low voter turnout the new government has to get civil society engaged to get more people involved in the process," said Trevor Munroe, a lecturer in government at the University of the West Indies.

Last week's electoral win marks a remarkable political comeback for Simpson Miller, who was Jamaica's first female leader during her year-and-a-half-long first stint in office that ended in 2007. She will be sworn in on Thursday.

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