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With just two games left in the regular season including their final home game of the year on Thursday, the Cincinnati Bearcats will attempt to get back on track hosting the Memphis Tigers.
Cincinnati was a 4-point NBA betting odds favorite at home, according to Bovada.
Cincinnati found its stride in the middle of December, putting together a stretch of 15 straight wins that included impressive road upsets over Memphis and Louisville. But over the last five games, the Bearcats have struggled against quality opponents with losses to SMU, Louisville and Connecticut.
[ Cincinnati vs Memphis betting odds matchup report ]
Cincinnati owns the third stingiest scoring defense in the nation allowing only 57.2 points per game and has an explosive offensive superstar in senior guard Sean Kilpatrick, who averages 20.3 points per game. But without much secondary support on offense, Cincinnati has a very slim margin for error
Memphis picked up a strong win last Saturday at home, topping Louisville 72-66 as a 5-point home underdog. The win improved Memphis' home record to 8-0 SU and 5-2 ATS over its last eight games, but road play has been another story for the Tigers. Over their last four games away from home, Memphis is 1-3 SU and 0-3-1 ATS.
The Tigers have a balanced offense that averages 78.6 points per game but usually ends up playing in shootouts with a defense that allows 69.9 points per game.
This matchup looks on paper to be a pretty classic offense vs. defense showdown. Cincinnati went into Memphis as a 5.5-point underdog back at the beginning of January and won the game easily by a final score of 69-53.
Memphis will need to do a much better job of establishing its offense Thursday to earn a better result, but that is easier said than done on the road.
The 69-53 final went UNDER the total as just about all of the games Memphis and Cincinnati have played this year have done. Cincinnati is 18-5 on the UNDER this year while Memphis is 16-9.
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WILLIAMSBURG, Iowa -- With a game of "Cyclone Survivor," a team of Iowa County 4-H'ers has been named one of two runners-up in the FIRST LEGO League Global Innovation Award competition.
The Robotic Raiders from Williamsburg, Iowa, received their award June 3 in Alexandria, Va. Each member received a new EV3 LEGO robot, and the team received $5,000 to further develop their invention. Their project has a provisional patent in place and was among 547 applications from across the world. Not bad for group of sixth and seventh graders in only their second year as a FIRST LEGO League team.
After visiting with their local county sheriff and researching online resources, the Robotic Raiders decided to focus on helping elementary students learn how to be prepared for tornadoes. They developed Cyclone Survivor, an educational board game that uses federal and local information to educate players on how to prepare for, survive and recover from a tornado. The game includes challenge cards with multiple choice questions to answer and chance cards that send players forward or backward on the board. The object of the game is to collect miniature emergency gear to place in the player's emergency kit. The player with the most gear at the end of the game wins. The Robotic Raiders note that Cyclone Survivor would be a great interactive tool that could be added to any school's curriculum. It also can be customized to help students learn about other natural disasters such as ice storms, earthquakes or hurricanes.
"We are so proud of these young men and their coaches for all of their efforts. They have worked hard and learned so much as a team," said Tricia Stouder, regional youth program specialist with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.
Education in science, technology, engineering and math -- known as STEM -- is part of the Iowa 4-H Youth Development program, Stouder explained.
"STEM education like FIRST LEGO League is a natural fit for 4-H. Hands-on education is how youth learn best, and it is how youth determine their interests for the future," Stouder said.
The Robotic Raiders are Eli and Tanner Berger, sons of Shelley and Craig Berger; Clint Jones, son of Kathy and Eric Jones; Nick Marovets son of Alison and Brian Marovets; Mitchell Miner, son of Laura and Jeremy Miner; Jacob Mohr, son of Marci and John Mohr; Nick Rotter, son of Kim and Corey Roberts and Robert Rotter; and Kaiden Royster, son of Jess and David Griggs and Matt Royster.
Team coaches are parents Laura Miner and Shelley Berger and Iowa County 4-H Youth Coordinator Mary Veatch.
Watch the video of the Robotic Raiders learning that they had made the top three in the FIRST LEGO League Global Innovation Award competition: http://youtu.be/RxHM5lE2j3s.
[PHOTO] Robotic Raiders
Left to right, front row -- Kaiden Royster, Clint Jones, Mitchell Miner, Eli Berger, Jacob Mohr; back row – coach Mary Veatch, Nick Rotter, Tanner Berger, Nick Marovets, coach Laura Miner

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Maggie writes eclectically about pretty much anything to do with the arts because she has a big gap in her knowledge of science. She co-authors a blog on screen culture at www.pictureskew.net.
I haven't really thought about dinosaurs since Grade 5, so I was hoping that the wonderfully impassioned Sir David Attenborough narrating Flying Monsters 3D would rejuvenate my fleeting childish interest in all things 'flying saurus'. I also looked forward to trying out Rear Window captioning (RWC) designed by Rufus Butler Seder, the new closed caption technology introduced to IMAX Melbourne Museum (currently the only cinema in Australia to use it).
A fearsome pterosaur from Flying Monsters 3D.Source: National Geographic
'Closed captioning' usually refers to devices for personal use that display captions for deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals. I am a regular purveyor of open captions at home (captions contained within the screen) and I always enjoy a foreign film at the movies because of their compulsory captions. But recently I have been trying out closed captions for English-speaking films at the cinema. At the Forest Hill Chase Hoyts, I tested CaptiView closed caption technology. It started out well, but broke down in the third act of the film. How would RWC compare?
IMAX Melbourne Museum staffer Jeremy handing over the Rear Window captioning device at the Box Office.Source: Museum Victoria
I presented myself at the box office to collect the RWC gear, and was given a long, flexible black stem that had a white sock pulled over the end of it. Thankfully, they kept the sock, which protected a plastic reflective screen. Inside the cinema, I gulped bravely as I suddenly realised it was school holidays. Picking my way through the fidgety crowd, I found a seat about six or seven rows from the centre front and unsuccessfully tried to squeeze the contraption into the cup holder.
Within seconds, a cinema attendant bounced heroically over the seats, gave the thing a firm tap, and in it went. As the film rolled, I was still adjusting the flexible arm so that the small plastic screen would catch the mirrored captions reflected from an LED screen on the back wall of the cinema. The arm's design is not unlike the exoskeleton of a pterosaur, which is what I hoped the people around me would think it was as I fussed over the angles like I was adjusting a car's rear view mirror.
Throughout the film, distracted little legs kicked the back of my chair and I made a sorry attempt to move a few times. I couldn't yank the contraption out of the cup holder, and what with my giant 3D glasses, and my own personal collection of bulky bags, I was rendered immobile. Halfway through, I just gave up and settled in to enjoy the beautiful, immersive CG scenery which, at one point, depicts Sir David flying in a small glider, narrating like a champion as a giant Quetzalcoatlus flaps lazily behind him.
A scene from Flying Monsters 3D with David Attenborough in a glider, enjoying a close-up view of Quetzalcoatlus.Source: National Geographic
I turned off my hearing aids to test the captions to their full capacity, and found that they kept up admirably, which is important for such a heavily narrated, information rich film. They are clear, consistent, descriptive and unfailing. This is what sets this technology apart from CaptiView, which relies on the full functionality of the device in your cup holder to work properly – one glitch and the movie is ruined.
Overall, RWC seems reliable if a little fussy to adjust within one's personal space. I will try it again with a feature fiction film to see how it holds up in a different genre, and to see whether the device better fits in other cup holders within the cinema.
It's fantastic that IMAX Melbourne Museum care so much about accessibility that they have integrated this technology into their cinemas, and it is doubly excellent to note that the allocated RWC seats are the best in the house! IMAX claims they will try to get most of their films with captions (look out for the CC symbol in the program). However, their selection of films is specialised and limited, so it would be even better if all the other cinemas out there could catch up because audiences who rely on this kind of technology really should have wider access to the huge variety of amazing films out there.
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Chloe Moretz is back from Cannes and now is on a world wide press trip for her latest movie.
Charlize Theron made her way out of her hotel before
meeting up with Amanda Seyfried to promote their new movie in Paris.
Carrie Underwood got the motorcycle from Miranda Lambert. Probably for not sleeping with her husband.
Evan Rachel Wood plays with a pig.
Speaking of pigs, Gerard Butler is filming his new movie.
Gisele Bundchen and Neymar in Vogue Brazil.
Freida Pinto continues to get some work. here she is in Harper's Bazaar.
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Yep, just laying it on top of the frames is fine. Add a shim if you have to. 6x10 should be fine. I decided to use some honey balls for emergency feeding in my little mating nucs.
If gets these through the winter it will make me feel better about my five frame deep nucs in KY lol.
Never overlook Mountain Camp method of feeding. Dry sugar is easier to make than candy. And in the spring, I just mix the leftover with water to feed swarms. 1 sheet of newspaper over the top of the cluster and pour away with dry sugar right out of the box. You can spray the top down a little if you want. I am getting lazy the past few years and have not. The sugar soaks up moisture out of the hive. Works just fine for lightweight hives during the winter.
Blue, I think we need the recipe for your honey hail stone-balls, so give it up! :th_thumbsupup:


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I want to share the life of deeogie, we took deeogie in as a reserve rescue, she was under weight and in a lot of pain. Her first trip to the vet lead them to believe she had an unhealed wound ontop of his eye, it was retaining fluid. They did surgery, drained the cut and check for injection- seemed fine and sent her home on anti-biotics. A few short weeks later her bump returned, her energy level was low and she was timid, back to the vet we went (this was march of 2012), they ended up keeping deeogie 4 1/2 weeks... After weeks of diagnosing they could not find the issue, a specialist was finally brought in and a CT scan done, it was confirmed that our 6 month old puppy had a collapsed sinus passage caused likely from trauma or abuse. The surgery to repair was $4000.00 and never done before by our local vet office. We pondered how to approach this as there was concern for cancers and further injury, after talking about it we decided this was our family and the surgery must be done. Deeogie pulled through like a champ and is now a beautiful healthy little lady. It was a rough first 9 months for this little lady but she has become a family member. We then adapted astro as a reserve rescue as well and boy I couldn't ask for more. Attachment 23041Attachment 23044Attachment 23045Attachment 23046Attachment 23047Attachment 23049
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The Network Exchange Presents....Strictly Business!
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Thursday, October 17, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (CDT)
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Are you a business professional looking to build relationships with like minded individuals? Well you have come to right place! The Network Exchange looks forward to providing you and your staff with high quality events that meet and exceed your expectations. Tired of networking events where you are just another person with a nametag? Our events cater to your every need in your quest to obtain new business. This is a great opportunity for you to finish off 2013 with new contacts and new connections!
At The Network Exchange, you will meet CEO's, Business Leaders, and Decision Maker's, from a variety of industries within the Tri-State area which will give you the opportunity to grow your business from many of the area's top business professionals. Events take place every month which allow guests a chance to foster new professional connections in a relaxed atmosphere conducive to business and social networking. Upon, entering, guests will receive a name tag color-coded by industry which allows for easy navigation. Guests will also have access to several ambassadors who play key components towards the success of our events. The primary function of these individuals at our event is to help you meet people that will assist you in achieving your own success. Each of our ambassadors has achieved success in their own field, are respected by their peers and have built their own network by touching the lives of many.
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text: Come on man...you can just hate the dude and I'm fine with that (cause I hate Stuckey), but you can't really think you should be getting all-star play from a career 12ppg/5rpg player. Out of his entire career, he's had only ONE season where he's avg'd considerably more than 12ppg....ONE. So you wan to take that one season and extrapolate that out to him underachieving? No, sir. The only time his numbers have dipped below what he's averaged in his entire career is A) last season when he only played 13 GAMES ...and B) THIS season when his minutes have been noticeably reduced. When his minutes are consistent (22 to 25mins), he's routinely at around 12ppg/5rpg. He's been that way all but ONE year ('08-'09) when he avg' 16ppg. The facts support my position. He's been consistently the same with the exception of one up year and one injury filled year. His 3pt % is on par with all his other years in the NBA save the injury season (last year). So, I understand you guys hating the guy, but just like Blazer fans and Raymond Felton, he's come here and been the same guy he's always been. He was on par for his career numbers his first year here then got injured last year and then had his minutes reduced this year and still shot on par for 3. He is who we thought he was. Charlie Villanueva Career Stats Page | NBA.com Joe Dumars is to blame for throwing over $8M per at 12ppg/5rpg. It's not on 12ppg/5rpg to instantly become 18ppg/9rpg because Joe Dumars decided to throw $8M in that direction. ...and last time I checked, Drummond isn't heading head first into the rookie delinquent rabbit hole and having his career destroyed as we speak. As a matter of fact, he's exceeded EVERYONE's expectations ...and that after playing a season WITH CV. So, well done on that fantasy. I love how just being in the room with CV has become tantamount to being led to your doom by the pied piper.


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hello all, new to forum, 29g planted!
hello all,
just here to introduce myself. about 7 months ago i decided to get my first tank and see what it was all about. i wanted to do it right so i talked with my LFS before doing pretty much anything and asked them what i needed to do to have healthy fish that werent going to die.
so after much talk i went to my LFS and purchased an aqueon 29g starter kit and a bunch of rad plastic plants. the tank came with everything i needed minus the gravel and fish. got it cycling for a few weeks. once the water was testing right i added 3 phantom tetras and 2 gold rams. i slowly added a bristle nose pleco and a couple amano shrimp. but the shrimp where gobbled up by one of my rams almost immediately.
then i got a little encouraging from the LFS staff and decided to throw a couple live plants in along with a few more fish. im not too good with the names of the plants so bare with me :hihi: i pretty much asked one of the planted tank gurus at the store what were some hardy easy to grow plants. at this time i also upgraded the light bulb from the stock one to a life glo 6700k 20w bulb.
but now here i am a few months later with a pretty good looking tank IMO. i have all the fake plants out and have gone fully planted! just this week i got a fluval co2 kit and have been trying it out. i was talking with the fish store guy and telling him i was having lots of algae with the new light setup. he suggested a co2 setup to help the plants and hopefully starve the algae. we will see how it goes! right now the bright green soft looking algae has been stopped but i have this black hair like algae that is holding on strong. need some tips for that if you guys have any. it seems to need high light as it only grows on the taller leaves and stems.
anyway heres a couple pictures of the tank. the second one is the front and the first is the back. the tank is on my bar in between the kitchen and dining room so you can walk and see all the way around it. i kept this in mind when arranging the scape. sorry for iphone pics lol.
heres a current run down of everything thats in it.
1 Gold Ram
2 Blue Rams
3 Phantom Tetras
2 Madagascar Rainbows
2 Dwarf Loaches
4 Panda Corys
2 Albino Corys
1 Bristle Nose Pleco
and for the plants i know of:
java fern
a couple types of anubis
the others i forgot or didnt ask when i purchased them feel free to help me out :)
let me know what you guys think. im open to suggestions and any tips you can give me.
Welcome and nice tank ;)
Welcome to the forum. You have a good looking tank.
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More Than a Festive Open House Sets Gosiger Apart
Machine tool and accessories distributor Gosiger distinguishes itself from the competition through three main problem-solving outlets.
As a visitor to Gosigerfest 2013, which was held in Dayton, Ohio, I had the opportunity to meet with a wide variety of vendors and have a little fun along the way. One of the main draws of the two-day event, aside from the German food and festivities, was the opportunity to meet with more than 50 vendors to discuss their expertise in bar feeders, CAD/CAM, coolant and high-pressure systems, inspection and tool monitoring, tooling, workholding, and finance. Entire exhibits halls were dedicated to Okuma and Hardinge demos.
As a machine tool and accessories distributor, Gosiger works to distinguish itself from its competition through three main problem-solving outlets.
- Engineered Systems: This division is responsible for providing shops with turnkey solutions—from machines to tools, including processes and documentation on how to run this process.
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- High Volume: Gosiger's high-volume team researches strategies used worldwide to bring speed, accuracy and reliability to a shop's unique situation.
Gosiger's Dayton facility (top left and bottom right) was originally used by the Stoddard Motor Kit Company, which manufactured Maxwell automobiles (top right). A tribute to the facility's original use was demonstrated with a historic car show.


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AFL Match Review Panel – Round 17, 2012 UPDATES No Match day reports Suspensions are in. Matty Scarlett got 1 week and Jeremy Howe of the Demons has been sent directly to the tribunal for wiping blood on his opponent. There is also a large number of fines coming from the Tigers/Roos melee. Added The […]
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torti gallas and partners, silver spring, md.
when Torti Gallas and Partners took on a HOPE VI affordable housing redevelopment project in Cincinnati's West End, it didn't have to look far for a design muse. "Dayton Street, the street where all the bankers traditionally lived, is five blocks north of City West," says architect Lawrence Antoine, AIA. "The idea was to associate this project with something everyone in the city thinks of as a 'good neighborhood.'" So he and colleague Jeff Beam, Associate AIA, developed a palette of details and materials reminiscent of the houses on Dayton Street. Pricier items, such as brick, appear sparingly, mixing with cost-effective elements such as vinyl siding and urethane millwork. Firm president John Torti, FAIA, also credits the local government and City West's residents' council leader, Shirley Colbert, for the project's success. "The city did a really good thing by taking a chance on the West End," he says. The judges agreed: "Somebody worked hard at this," said one. "I like the way it makes a neighborhood."
principal in charge / project architect / urban designer: Lawrence Antoine, AIA, Torti Gallas and Partners
developer: Tom Smith, The Community Builders, Cincinnati
general contractor: Irving Brown, DAG-RCI, Cincinnati
civil engineer: Rick Horn, Woolpert, Cincinnati
architect of record: glaserworks, Cincinnati
project size: 704 to 1,580 square feet per unit
site size: 34 acres
construction cost: $69 per square foot
sales price: $160,000 to $205,000
rental price: One-third of family income
units in project: 601 (103 for sale and 498 rental)
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I hope this isn't an "old and busted" question, if so, please forgive, but I'm very curious as to the approximate cost that a person might consider saving up to put a Top Notch Boba Fett costume together? Not counting for your own labor, how much do you think that your complete costume cost? Please include anything that you purchased from someone already complete. Thank You so much.


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UNC-East Tennessee State Postgame Notes
Postgame Notes
North Carolina 78, East Tennessee State 55
- Tar Heels are now 7-2 overall, 4-0 at home.
- UNC allowed just 12 first-half points, the fewest allowed in a half since Roy Williams became Carolina head coach in 2003-04.
- The Tar Heels had 30 assists on 31 field goals. Dexter Strickland and Marcus Paige led the way with seven apiece and Luke Davis added five with no turnovers. The seven assists for Paige are a season high. Strickland has 16 assists in his last two games.
- Leslie McDonald led Carolina with 14 points. It was the third game this season and fifth time in his career that he led UNC in scoring. It marks the first time in his career that he led UNC in scoring in consecutive games.
- McDonald has made nine threes in the last two games and is 21 for 42 (50 percent) from beyond the arc this year.
- Strickland had seven assists and two turnovers tonight and has 40 assists and 13 miscues for the season.
- Strickland hit 2 of 4 three-point tries, marking the fourth time in his career he has hit two three-pointers.
- James Michael McAdoo finished with nine points and two rebounds. This was the first time this season he did not score in double figures. He was the last Tar Heel not to accomplish that this year. He did have no turnovers for the first time this year.
- Carolina led 42-12 at the half, the second time this year UNC led by as many as 30 at the break (32 vs. Mississippi State).
- ETSU shot 19.2 percent from the floor in the first half, the lowest by an opponent in a half since NC Central shot 18.8 percent in the second half on Nov. 11, 2009.


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Which wave sail fits me best, my sailing style and my board? The latest (board-) developments make it necessary to offer more than one radical wave sail. To understand the differences, the fundamental aspects below:
+ Earliest planing wave sail in the NorthSails range
+ Most draft back wave sail in the range > pull on both
hands gives you extra balance/stability
+ Most draft back wave sail in the range > works best on
multi-fin wave boards and/or single-fin boards on flat
+ 4-batten design > most elastic and easiest to pump wave
sail in the range
- Least draft stable wave sail in the range
- Too much backhand pressure for single-fin down the line
"carving" style
+ Best of both worlds: up to 5.0 based on the ICE design,
larger sizes based on the DUKE
+ Use of ODL (high-tech Yachting laminate) makes the ID by
far our lightest wave sail (up to 700g lighter than ICE and
+ Use of ODL makes the ID more elastic (better to pump)
than ICE and DUKE
- Due to the fact that the ODL laminate is less than half
as thick as regular XPly the UV-resistance is limited >
warranty limited to 2 years
+ Most draft stable wave sail in the range, makes it
unbeatable in nuking gusty conditions
+ Most draft forward wave sail in the range > ideal on
single-fin down the line wave boards
+ Most draft forward wave sail in the range > best on-off
- Least powerful wave sail in the range
- Not enough backhand power for typical multi-fin wave style
+ Most versatile wave sail in the range bridging from flat
water freestyle (or even freeride) up to power wave sailing
+ Biggest wind range of all wave sails in the range
- Too grunty/direct for light-weight guys in the waves


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bead blast guns and nozzles
Does anyone have information relating to the size and placement relationship of the air jet to the suction tube to the media nozzle in a bead blast gun. Is there a difference in nozzle size for different size or type of media. Also wondering about the air requirements for the different size nozzles. My compressor size isn't an issue, I just would like the info. I recently aquired a big blast cabinet (it needs some pieces to make it work) and I found some industrial blast nozzles that need rebuilding. I tried contacting the manufacturer of this unit but it is a high end industrial unit and they want a fortune for replacement parts. Thanks for reading this.
Ok I feel like some kind of troll replying to my own thread, but I have found out a couple of things and thought I would add to it. The air jet is usually 1/2 the size of the media nozzle. If you have a gun with a .094" air jet it will take a .188" media nozzle. The air jet in a cheap gun is located behind the suction port. I have a gun that has a tapered tube that puts the air jet opening forward of the suction port. That one has a .200" air jet so I would surmise that it should have a .400" media nozzle. The solid carbide nozzle that was in it was worn out to over 1/2 ". I wonder what you should be blasting with that one. I still would like to know what are the proper air pressures and which type of media works best with the various size orifices. Thanks for reading this.
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In August, 1492 as Columbus got ready to sail the ocean blue, the last ship carrying Jews into exile from Spain preceded his departure. After 500 years, the Spanish government decided it was time to acknowledge the crime committed against Jews in their nation. The civil code has been amended to grant citizenship to members of Turkey's Sephardi Jewish community whose ancestors left their Spanish homeland in search of security within the Ottoman empire. According to the new code, Jews of Spanish origin are considered a "special case." They will be granted Spanish citizenship without having to endure a two year residency requirement. Sephardi Jews living in Turkey simply have to produce a document issued by the Chief Rabbinate which attests to their Spanish origin five hundred years ago.
It is estimated over 100,000 Spanish Jews opted to enter the Ottoman empire where they were granted citizenship by the government. Many Turkish Jews will undoubtedly obtain Spanish citizenship because it grants them the rights of a citizen in the European Union.
A bit late, but certainly a humane approach to dealing with an ancient crime.


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RALEIGH, N.C. - Eighth-ranked North Carolina scored four second-half goals, including three in the last 12 minutes of play, to rally past NC State 4-1 in women's soccer action Thursday night before 1,413 fans at Dail Soccer Field. Kealia Ohai sparked the Tar Heels' torrid second half comeback with two goals and an assist while Amber Brooks added a goal and an assist and Ranee Premji had two assists.
With the win, North Carolina finishes the regular season with a 10-4-2 record and a 6-3-1 mark in the ACC. NC State closes its season at 5-14 and 0-10 in the ACC.
With the victory, the Tar Heels earned the No. 4 seed in the 2012 ACC Tournament and will play host to fifth-seeded Virginia Sunday at 1 p.m. in the quarterfinal round at Fetzer Field. The two teams played to a 2-2 tie during the regular season meeting on September 16 at Klockner Stadium in Charlottesville, Va.
Carolina outshot the Wolfpack 28-7 and had a 12-2 advantage in corner kicks but that almost wasn't enough to pull out the win until the UNC attacking pressure finally wore down the Wolfpack in the final 30 minutes of the match.
Playing its final regular season home game of the season, NC State came out of the gates on fire and scored on a counterattack in the sixth minute of play. The goal came off the foot of Caroline Gentry who got behind the Tar Heel defense on the right side of the pitch and deposited a first touch blast from 15 yards out into the lower left side netting. It was her second goal of the season and it came off an assist by Cheyenne Spade.
Following the NC State goal, the Tar Heels had the better of the run of play over the next 15 minutes, earning six corner kicks and taking eight shots, but they were unable to grab the equalizer. NC State goalkeeper Victoria Hopkins came up with three saves in that span. She smothered a 30-yard free kick off the foot of Amber Brooks less than two minutes after Gentry's goal and in the 21st minute Summer Green had a great chance as she got behind the NC State defense but Hopkins knocked Green's shot away at the last second for a corner kick.
NC State had a couple of chances to go up 2-0 later in the first half. A foul on Carolina on the left side of the field set up a dangerous free kick for State but Gentry's header went wide right on the redirection. Forty-one seconds later, Gentry had another good chance to score as she got free on the right side of the penalty area but Carolina goalkeeper Adelaide Gay hugged her left post and cut off Gentry's shooting angle, making the a save from close range.
Carolina had two great chances to tie the game in the final minutes of the half but Hopkins stopped a shot by Ohai from the eight-yard line in the 36th minute and Crystal Dunn's shot with eight seconds remaining in the half missed the right post by less than a yard.
Trailing at halftime 1-0, the Tar Heels faced the task of doing something they had not done to date in the 2012 regular season. UNC entered the game with and 0-4 record in games in which its opponent scored first and 0-3 in games in which it trailed at halftime. In fact, UNC had not won a game in which it had fallen behind since September 16, 2011 when Carolina rallied past this same NC State team 5-1.
In the first 20 minutes of the second half, the Tar Heels controlled possession but were settling for shots from distance. But in the 66th minute, the Tar Heels broke through for a beautiful goal by Kealia Ohai, her fifth tally of the season. Senior Alyssa Rich played a ball forward to Crystal Dunn, who had moved up to a midfield role from the defense in the 60th minute. Dunn's service to Ohai was precise and Ohai took the ball in stride and she struck a cross cage shot from the right side of the penalty area just inside the left goal post at the 65:08 mark.
With the game tied at 1-1, the game was just started to get interesting. On a flurry in the box in the 67th minute, Hopkins made a stop on a close range shot by Dunn and on the rebound Rich seemed to have a sure goal tucking inside the right post but Hopkins slid and kick saved it over the end line. On the ensuing corner kick, UNC's Kelly McFarlane was pulled down in the penalty box and the Tar Heels were rewarded with a penalty kick. Rich stepped to the spot but her shot was high and the game remained tied at 1-1 at the 67:34 mark.
Just over a minute later, NC State's Cheyenne Spade got behind the Tar Heel defense after a misplayed ball in the midfield. Satara Murray made up distance on a dead sprint to catch the Wolfpack forward was whistled for taking down Spade just a yard outside the penalty area. Murray was issued a yellow card and the Wolfpack had a great chance to take the lead but Sharon Wojcik's free kick sailed high.
With action going end to end at a furious pace, Crystal Dunn had her shot in the 71st minute smothered by Hopkins at the final second. The ball was close to going over the goal line but remained in play, denying the Tar Heels the lead. Just a few minutes later, State appeared that it was going to grab the lead back. After a corner kick by Meagan Proper, Sydney Sawaya had a shot in the box that was heading inside the left post but was cleared off the line at the last second by a UNC defender. Seconds later, Sharon Wojcik had a shot from 20 yards out that Adelaide Gay had to knock down. She scrambled to regain the ball before a Wolfpack player could pounce on the rebound.
From that point on it was all Carolina. In the 79th minute, Ranee Premji forced a turnover and served a long ball ahead to Kealia Ohai. The speedy striker from Draper, Utah got behind the entire NC State defense and beat Hopkins to the ball at the 25-yard line. She dribbled to her left and then finished into the open net at 78:32 for her sixth goal of the year.
It took four more minutes for the Tar Heels to extend their lead. Kealia Ohai pushed a short corner to Ranee Premji whose service to the box was headed into the back of the net by Brooks at point blank range. The goal came at 82:34 and was her sixth goal of the campaign.
At 86:53, Carolina appeared to boost its lead to 4-1 but Maria Lubrano was called for being offside, negating her fine finish. It was less than a minute later, however, that UNC took a three-goal lead as Summer Green tallied her team-leading seventh goal of the season. Amber Brooks served the ball ahead from inside the midfield line to Green, who stayed onside and beat the defense to the ball. Green handled the ball in stride and beat Hopkins from the top of the box at the 87:47 mark.
The Tar Heels finished in a tie for second place in the ACC standings with Maryland, Wake Forest and Virginia behind top seed Florida State. The Seminoles had 24 points in the standings while Maryland (No. 2 seed), Wake Forest (No. 3 seed), North Carolina (No. 4 seed) and Virginia (No. 5 seed) all finished with 19 points.
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Students wanting to learn about careers in media received some tough love at Career Services' Careers in Film and Television event. The panel featured three Princeton alumni, who spoke about the trajectory of their careers and then took the time to answer questions and offer advice to the students gathered.
Katherine Carpenter '79 was the first to address the group. A documentary filmmaker, Carpenter showed a clip of "Bones of Turkana," the National Geographic special she co-produced. She then spoke about her work with the Discovery Channel, which she joined in its early days. "It was just really fun to work in the early days of cable where everyone was just making it up as they [went] along," Carpenter said. Fun seemed to be the driving force of Carpenter's career; she had gotten involved in media after noticing that press teams on the campaign trail always had a good time, and from those beginnings she became an award-winning producer with an Emmy to her credit. (Not bad for a comparative literature major who didn't give television a second thought in college!) Though she always followed what she thought would be enjoyable, Carpenter had some words of wisdom for the crowd: "Write the scripts, change the toilet paper, you need to be willing to do everything." Her experience had been that skills in writing and Excel were especially useful in the field.
In contrast to Carpenter, Sandy Kenyon '78 started looking at media careers when he was sixteen years old. While at Princeton, he joined a fellow student's radio program, "Focus on You," and became so involved that schoolwork was an extracurricular in comparison. Kenyon said the industry prizes endurance and offered his personal opinion and this analogy: a finance firm, Kenyon said, will put you through four days of excruciating interviews before giving you a hefty paycheck, but the film industry will put you through five to seven years of 80-hour weeks before paying you a pittance. A career in film and television, said Kenyon, is for people who "love it deep enough and wide enough and long enough." Kenyon also warned about the possibility of burning out or becoming unmarketable after ten years, though he said he's been lucky. Early experience doing film reviews in his career led him to his current job, doing concise movie reviews for ABC that air in New York City's taxicabs.
A more recent graduate, Josephine Decker '03 was able to talk about film and television as it relates to her job as an independent film producer. Like Carpenter and Kenyon, Decker said that hard work and initiative was key. After working as a production assistant, she has moved onto other projects where she has more creative control. However, these projects require a wider knowledge of filmmaking and handling items such as publicity. When asked if she would recommend film school, Decker responded that what's important is choosing a path that will address a filmmaker's specific strengths and weaknesses.
In all, the panelists agreed that following one's passions would yield a difficult but rewarding path. Film and television careers may not be for everyone, but for those that don't mind hard work, they are attainable.
For more information about careers in the arts, visit Abbey Racelis, career counselor for arts, nonprofit and public sector (and moderator for this panel). And if you want to improve your social media literacy (a valuable skill according to the panel), make sure to RSVP to "Do You Pass the Social Media Recruitment Test?" on April 16.


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After venturing to a new country, a new school, a new soccer team, and a new University of St. Thomas bioinformatics academic program, Lukas Simon is not afraid to take on yet another challenge.
Simon will begin work on his doctorate at the Baylor College of Medicine Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics graduate research program in fall 2011. He is among the 328 undergraduate and 350 graduate students participating in the commencement ceremony on May 14 at Reliant Arena.
Simon came to the University of St. Thomas from Germany in 2007 to play for the inaugural men's soccer team and to study bioinformatics, a newly emerged life science field composed of courses in biology, math and management information systems.
Introduced in 2004, UST was among the first to offer bioinformatics at an undergraduate level. The major utilizes math and computer science to analyze and store information produced from genome and proteome projects.
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During his time at UST, Simon excelled both academically and athletically. As an original member of the men's soccer team, he served as the team captain for all four of his undergraduate years. He was a member of the Tri Beta Biological Honor Society, receiving their Outstanding Member award last year, and is one of the founding members of the UST Bioinformatics club.
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I was at a trappers meeting today where I, along with a number of other registerd trappers, became aware of a push to end or severly restrict trapping in Nova Scotia. This has come about due to a dog roaming at large in wildlife habitat becoming caught in a legally set trap. You might ask what this has to do with bird hunting and why would I put it in here. It is for the simple reason that if trapping is abolished then the next target that can and will be singled out for a similar fate is the use of dogs for hunting. Why? Because we as hunters are not only ( in the opinions of the anti hunting and animal rights groups ) causing harm and suffering to the wildlife but are being cruel to mans best friend and companion whom in their eyes is not an animal but a being with all of our feelings and traits, by making them go out in the cold and swim in icey waters. How dare we!! It is time to take a stand and show the antis that all hunters, trappers and anglers are united and we are the true conservationists and perveyers of nature. Write to the Honourable Richard Hurlbburt, Department of Natural Resources, 3rd Floor, Founders Square, 1701 Hollis St., P.O. Box 698, Halifax, N.S. B3J 2T9 Phone:(902) 424-4037 Fax (902) 424-0594 E-mail : email@example.com and suport your fellow hunters and your own sport. Why is it allowable for pet owners to break the law but when in doing so their pet gets killed or hurt in legally set traps or snares is the fault of the trapper. I personally know the risks and have hunted and trapped in the same areas which are used by other hunters and trappers and have never had my dogs or any other dogs caught in mine or others traps. I ask for your support in this fight, it is for your rights as well.
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Re: Nouveau Jour des Morts
I love the look of this shirt. How do I buy it?
cherylfrancis wrote:This is wonderful! This site gives me fits. If people seriously vote on the shirts they would wear, I would never speak to anybody wearing the shirts that win. This has character. THIS is the type of shirt I like. Rock on!
Aw shucks! Thanks for the nice words!
Truly a lovely design, kudos.
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U serious bro?
Cheryl sent me! I'm trying to vote for the really cool shirt!
so mad.
Wow, what an exquisite drawing! Artists here have such a handle on this style, I'm amazed. I love how carefree she is, great stuff.
Beautiful. I think this is my favorite in the derby. I'm still getting a grip on this style, and with this design I can really see the appeal. Great composition.
Holy awesome. I absolutely love how well it is integrated into the shirt; it's hard to do that sometimes with Woot's small print area. Great job making the bird so lifeless yet so... alive haha. Very cool, I wish it was doing better. Hopefully an honorable mention (:
Re: In Darkness
Awesome design. Goes well with the Tyger shirt too.
Re: Nouveau Hater
This is great! I love the style you've developed.
Re: Be unique
Thanks Rad! And everyone for the really nice comments.
Re: Dogwood Nouveau
This is beautiful and I'd like to wear it to yoga.
Re: The Samurai's Soul Burns Brightly
Poor little Samurai. I still love you.
Re: Twilight Dream
I like how the cat looks like it's just about ready to spring forward. Not sure if it wants to grab that flower or the moon. Very nice.
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Re: Perils of Space
I do keep coming back to this one for capturing the spirit of the theme without resorting to the standard girl+sigil trope.
Re: Velociraptor with a Ray Gun
I hope this wins. I'll be a little more broke come the weekend.
Re: Spring Window
dfunk29 wrote:Very cool interpretation of a Tiffany style stained glass window, I hope it prints. I love the choice of shirt color too, really brings out the "stained glass". GMV
lonelypond wrote:pretty, excellent colors
Thanks very much dfunk and lonelypond! Glad the colors are liked - I myself was surprised to use royal blue as the shirt color, but it seemed unexpectedly to work the best.
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Sorry for the late submission I was pretty busy this past week doing things like going to Vegas, getting married, and whatever the opposite of winning money is. Hope you guys enjoy the late submission!
I don't know why, but I really like this shirt, and I don't like wrestling at all...
Spiritgreen wrote:Thank you both. :^)
I get the feeling this entry will have a limited appeal, but I sure did enjoy designing it.
Boo this should be in fog. It is my absolute favorite and I would definitely buy.
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I love the subtle background gears. But I would not wear a shirt with an eye there. >.< I already have a cat shirt with two eyes that I can't wear because it looks ...odd... on a girl ha ha.
eta: what's going on with that bit of flesh on the left? Is that Blue's leg or ??
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Re: Coffee Love
pretty, esp. the colours. GMV
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pretty! GMV
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nice! i like the colours. GMV
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Gustav? Is that you?
Re: Fleur
pretty. GMV
Re: Afternoon Tea Break
i don't usually like off center designs, but this one, i do. GMV
love it. hope it prints!
I like it alot, but I agree, Blue's right knee looks like it is way too high, it doesn't look right at all.
pretty, funny, one of your better designs IMHO
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i wonder how you do it. you clearly don't need anthropomorphic whatevers to achieve that fresh cheerful charm.
(also, as usual, a design that will be very pretty on a shirt, i presume)
love the colours and textures.
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|Kona has such a sweet face. She's seems the petite and rewarding member of your gsd family. Have fun with the pup.
|What a cutie!
|Too cute, love your story, glad she is doing better! She is so unique!!! Enjoy! Bob
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She is precious! Great story
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My Tiny GSD
Kona was born on May 25, 2014. I came home to her as a surprise from my husband for out first wedding anniversary on August 14th. She was 11 weeks old and very small. She was out first GSD puppy so we didn't really realize she was abnormal. She was eating, very active, and very vocal. Looking at her pictures now it amazes me that we didn't know. Kona was very sick when we brought her home. Her symptoms showed up 2 days later.
I came home from work on the 16th and she barely even reacted to me- I mean barely even lifted her head. It was then I notices she was also coughing a lot. She actually even coughed up mucous a couple times over the next hour. She had not exhibited any signs the night before so as fast as she went downhill, I still know she had to have been sick for her to have gotten so severe.
I took her to the petsmart vet (because it was after hours for our vet) and as we waited to he seen, she continued to be unresponsive to any person or other dog. The Banfield vet sent us straight to the Emergency Animial Hospital.
The vet at the EAH offered little in the way of hope. Once her parvo test came back negative, she seemed only slightly more optimistic. Kona stayed the night there in breathing treatments an got chest X-rays. She almost died that night. She had a severe case if pneumonia, and spent the entire next week at our vet getting round the clock care.
When she finally came home she was a happy and seemingly healthy bundle of energy. At her first well visit she weighed it at only 11 pounds at 13 weeks. Our vet wasn't sure how much of that was just her and how much was due to the sickness. We didn't care. Our main focus was just getting her healthy.
Don't get me wrong, there was a hint of disappointment when the vet estimated she would only be about 40 pounds full grown. But more importantly we wanted a happy, healthy dog.
Kona developed digestive issues over the next several months. It was basically just a sensitivity to every food we tried. We even tried a strictly chicken and rice diet for a while. She also became a picky eater. Who can blame the girl, every food made her sick.
Eventually we got her on a prescription food, and then transitioned her to Royal Canin German shepherd formula. She is doing great on that.
Kona is almost 2 years old now, and weighed 43 pounds at her last check up. She isn't all that tall either and looks to be a good weight for her height. She is purebred, so she's just a very a typical GSD. We will never know how much if that is a result of her illness, genetics, or maybe she's the runt, or any combination of reasons. That said, we got a dog with a wonderful temperament and we trained her right and we have a great dog.
2 weeks ago we added Kooper, a male GSD puppy to the family. Looking at him, and looking at her baby pictures it's just amazing what a difference there is. Kooper is just under average at 20 pounds at 11 weeks. He is gaining almost a pound a day right now though, so he may catch up quickly. He is currently barking in his sleep in his crate next to me. I wonder what he is dreaming about tonight?
Kona was a frustrating and challenging but wonderful experience. I wouldn't have traded any of the struggle we had for a "normal" GSD. She's a great dog.
Below are pictures of her as a pup before and after he hospital stay. You can see the difference in health clearly. Also there is a more recent photo of her. We call her "permapup" as a private joke because she still looks like a 5 month old. We love her
"Attachment 194010Attachment 194018Attachment 194026normal" GSD. She's such a great dog.
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According to the Buffalo Bills' official injury report, wide receiver Stevie Johnson is questionable with groin and hip injuries and WR Robert Woods is doubtful with an ankle injury. Neither player was able to practice Wednesday. Buffalo has their bye week in Week 12 so a week off now would give them two full weeks to rest. If both players are unable to go, look for T.J. Graham and Marquise Goodwin to step up into larger roles.
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Buffalo is well out of reach of a postseason berth so it doesn't hurt to get backups and rookies more playing time in order to better evaluate what they're capable of. At least looking at this from a glass half full point of view. The Bills only have one more game before December so it would make sense to not rush anybody back unnecessarily, Woods in particular. Graham might be a sneaky waiver wire add since he has big play potential and the same could be said about Goodwin in deeper formats.


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My buddy was lookin to buy this Boba armor & modify it...he was looking on the official starwars costume site @ the delux boba fett costume.
It looked pretty decent, but it wold need to be moded out alot to look better....what do guy's think about it?
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TSA Searches 3-year-old in Wheelchair, Video Shot in 2010
The Transportation Security Administration said a viral video that shows a three-year-old child in a wheelchair subjected to a thorough examination occurred almost two years ago — prior to the agency's modified screening measures for passengers under the age of 12.
The incident occurred in the spring of 2010 at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. It was filmed by Matt Dubiel, the child's father. He told Fox News that his family was on their way to Disney World when they were stopped at a security checkpoint. He posted on YouTube over the weekend and has since gone viral.
"I didn't think I had the footage," Dubiel told Fox News. "They didn't want me to record it with our regular camera. They made me put the cameras away but they allowed me to maintain with my iPhone."
Dubiel said he decided to post the video after he rediscovered the footage over the weekend.
"I watched the video with my 10-year-old and my heart starting beating real fast, I started getting angry – a rash of emotions and then I had to explain to my 10-year-old what was happening and why I allowed it to happen."
A TSA spokesman released a statement saying incident occurred prior to their modified screening procedures for passengers under the age of 12. The alternative screening measures include allowing children to leave their shoes on, permitting multiple passes through the walk through metal detetor, greater use of explosives trace detection, as well as multiple attempts to capture a clear image during advanced imaging technology screening.
The new measures have "greatly reduced, though not eliminated, pat-downs of children," TSA said.
"While recognizing that terrorists are willing to manipulate societal norms to evade detection, our officers continue to work with parents to ensure a respectful screening process for the entire family at the checkpoint," TSA said in a prepared statement.
The video footage shows the little boy sitting in a wheelchair with a cast on his leg. Dubiel said he was not allowed to touch or come near his son during the search. However, he did videotape most of the search.
"My little boy wanted me to come over to hold his hand and give him a hug," Dubiel wrote in commentary embedded in the video. "He was trembling with fear."
"Instead, we had to pretend this was 'ok' so he didn't panic," he wrote.
He can be heard reassuring his son through the ordeal – which lasted for more than three minutes. At one point, the agent swabbed the wheelchair, the child's cast, the child's hands and even made the boy lift up his shirt.
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FREDERICK, MD - Frederick County voters will have some big decisions to make in just a few weeks, such as who should run their government.
Voters will decide whether the to change from the current commissioner form of government, with five members, to a charter form of government, with a county executive and a seven-member county council. The county council would be made up of two at-large members and five from different districts.
"The top benefit is local decisions by local people and a reduced dependence on the delegation to carry legislation to Annapolis. It's independence," said Del. Galen Clagett, (D) - Frederick County.
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State law granted home rule, or the charter form of government, to Maryland municipalities in 1954. Charter government was proposed on the ballot in Frederick County two decades ago, but it failed.
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Sandra McPherson weaves vivid images culled from nature into what Contemporary Women Poets contributor David Young characterizes as "rich, complex, and deeply satisfying poems." In collections that include the National Book Award-nominated The Year of Our Birth, 1988's At the Grave of Hazel Hall, and 1996's Edge Effect: Trails and Portrayals, McPherson has increasingly honed her unsentimental, insightful verse, imbuing it with images reflective of diverse folk arts and refining her expressions of a cultural perspective that is uniquely American.
Reviewing 1970's Elegies for the Hot Season, McPherson's first published collection of verse, Jonathan Galassi of Poetry notes a similarity to the late poet Sylvia Plath in the "stark, basic pictures that give shape to this poet's deepest insights." Valerie Trueblood, commenting on the work in American Poetry Review, believes "this is the world at its plainest and most sign-giving. . . . McPherson has a gift . . . for bringing the physical world close without blinking at it."
McPherson's characteristic unadorned presentation is continued in 1973's Radiations, a collection that "seemed to clear a space for itself among the books of the year," according to Trueblood, "and to sit in its own ring of light." There are two distinct kinds of poems in this collection, David Cavitch maintains in his review for the New York Times Book Review. The first, according to the critic, are poems that "express a sensitive young woman's decorous thoughts around the house," while in the others "McPherson connects her personal existence to large, contemporary metaphors, and her simple, homebody language acquires the overtones of fierce truth, coolly delivered." Throughout each of McPherson's subsequent collections, readers follow "details of the poet's life," according to Young: "marriage, motherhood, eventual divorce, mental illness in a daughter, remarriage, relations with adoptive parents, and a midlife reunion with birth parents" each figure within the poet's "visionary outlook that never loses its rooting in ordinary experience."
The "poles" of the poet's imaginary world are "absence and presence," according to Margaret Gibson in Library Journal in a review of McPherson's The Year of Our Birth, "as she traces the process of consciousness in fragments of childhood and in moments which touch adult lives." Joyce Carol Oates, reviewing McPherson's 1978 collection for the New Republic, finds that despite "too many poems that read like facile exercises," The Year of Our Birth contains "beautifully rendered poems with the lucidity of parables." Noteworthy within the collection is the ten-part "Studies in the Imaginary," which Young praises for its "light touch and elusive control of statement," as well for as the poet's "expert handling of submerged drama and marshalled associations."
1996's The Spaces between Birds: Mother/Daughter Poems, 1967-1995 encompasses the relationship between the poet and her daughter, Phoebe, who was born with a form of autism. The collection juxtaposes poems by McPherson with those of her daughter, creating an effect that Poetry reviewer Leslie Ullman notes creates "an implicit and thoroughly winning intimacy, a kind of duet," showing "the sympathetic connections between mother and daughter . . . [that] grounds itself in an energy that is powerfully feminine," and also expressing the poet's reaction to her daughter's erratic behavior: the "raw despair, the sense of entrapment, the shadow-side of intimacy made darkest in its moments of helplessness," in the words of Ullman. A Publishers Weekly critic, calling The Spaces between Birds "a flock of hard truths, joyfully told," praises McPherson as "a distinctive stylist and a compassionate voice whose work continues to enrich and reward readers."
The first of the two parts of Edge Effect, published the same year as The Spaces between Birds, returns the poet to the examinations of folk art forms that served as her focus in such volumes as The God of Indeterminacy. Here McPherson writes of the creative vision of those she dubs "outsider" artists, particularly the work of the impoverished and the dispossessed, as well as returning to her examination of quilt work. The poet's perspective, according to Ullman, is "not merely a celebration of the marginal, but the definition of a new aesthetic behind works done by those to whom the word 'aesthetic' would have little meaning." The second half of Edge Effect finds McPherson celebrating the landscape of the Pacific Northwest, relating to the natural beauty of the region's trails and shoreline using the same aesthetic criteria with which she observed the folk art of "outsider" artists. "In this context," Ullman explains in another Poetry review, "nature is re-seen in its small eccentricities and larger harmonies, like a homemade object . . . given presence by being placed in good light." With both The Spaces between Birds and Edge Effect, concludes Young, McPherson's "sympathy with the unsung creators of her own culture has proved to be profound and revelatory . . . Her creative energies seem undiminished."
- Elegies for the Hot Season, Indiana University Press (Bloomington), 1970.
- Radiation, Ecco Press (New York City), 1973.
- The Year of Our Birth, Ecco Press, 1978.
- Sensing, Meadow Press (San Francisco), 1980.
- Patron Happiness, Ecco Press, 1983.
- Pheasant Flower, Owl Creek Press (Missoula, MT), 1985.
- Floralia, illustrations by Claire Van Vliet, Janus Press (Portland, OR), 1985.
- Responsibility for Blue, Trilobite Press (Denton, TX), 1985.
- At the Grave of Hazel Hall, Ives Street Press (Sweden, ME), 1988.
- Streamers, Ecco Press, 1988.
- Designating Duet, Janus Press (West Burke, VT), 1989.
- The God of Indeterminacy, University of Illinois Press, 1993.
- Edge Effect: Trails and Portrayals, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH), 1996.
- The Spaces between Birds: Mother/Daughter Poems, 1967-1995, University Press of New England, 1996.
- Beauty in Use, Janus Press, 1997.
- A Visit to Civilization, Wesleyan/University Press of New England, 2002
- Expectation Days, Illinois, 2006
- Certain Uncollected Poems, Ostrakon, 2012
- Outline Scribe, Ostrakon, 2015
Contributor to anthologies, including Best Poems of 1968, Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards, 1969; American Literary Anthology III, Viking, 1970; Rising Tides: Twentieth-Century American Women Poets, Washington Square Press, 1973; No More Masks! No More Mythologies!, Doubleday, 1973; Modern Poetry of Western America, Brigham Young University Press, 1975; and The American Poetry Anthology: Poets under Forty, Avon, 1975. Contributor of poetry to various periodicals, including Nation, New Yorker, Poetry, New Republic, Field, Iowa Review, Harper's, Ironwood, Poetry Northwest, and Antaeus.
- (Editor) Journey from Essex: Poems for John Clare, Graywolf Press (Port Townsend, WA), 1981.
- (Editor with Bill Henderson and Laura Jensen), The Pushcart Prize XIV: Best of the Small Presses, 1989-90, Pushcart Press (Wainscott, NY), 1989.
Further Readings
- Contemporary Women Poets, St. James Press (Detroit), 1997.
- American Poetry Review, July, 1978; August, 1994, pp. 26-27.
- Booklist, March 15, 1996, p. 1236.
- Library Journal, February 15, 1978; March 1, 1996, p. 81.
- New Republic, December 9, 1978.
- New York Times Book Review, November 17, 1974.
- Parnassus, February, 1994, p. 174.
- Poetry, August, 1971; May, 1975; March, 1997, pp. 341-44.
- Publishers Weekly, February 26, 1996, p. 102.
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Sandra McPherson
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Poems By Sandra McPherson
- Affirmation against Critics
- Autumnal
- Black Soap
- The Clown
- A Community
- Corresponding
- Debut
- The Delicacy
- DiaryMay 15, 1980Twin Cities
- Edge Effect
- The Empty House
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- For Elizabeth Bishop
- For Neruda: Political Landscape
- Formulary
- Fresh Flowers
- Genius of Fog at Ecola Creek Mouth
- Grouse
- Haze
- He, like Everyone
- The Heredity of Systems
- Holding Pattern
- In a Garden
- Investigation in Gray and Gaudy
- The Jet Engine
- Las Hormigas
- Letter after the Poems of a Friend
- Letter by Air
- Lions
- A Little Fire
- Living Glass
- Lowell Fulson, Age 66, Eli's Mile High Club, Oakland, California
- Lullaby
- Metaphors
- Mixing the Patches
- My Theory of Mockingbirds
- New Friend
- On Being Transparent
- On Suicide Watch
- Page
- Peddler
- Poem ("The name of his boat...")
- Poem Whose First Stanza Is Martin Heidegger on Georg Trakl
- Postcard to the Musician
- Preparing the Will, Three Generations
- Presbyterian, 1983
- A Pumpkin at New Year's
- Research Trail, Cold Canyon, November
- Resigning from a Job in a Defense Industry
- Said the Parakeet
- Salamanders
- Seaweeds
- Seeing Dr. H, Teacher of Villanelles, 10 Years Later
- Sentience
- Siberia
- Singing Teakettle
- Smoking: Notes
- Some Engravings of Pierré Joseph Redoute
- Studies in the Imaginary
- The Study of Genius
- Triolet
- Triolets
- Umbra
- Veteran
- Virtue Study
- The War Surplus Store
- Writing to a Prisoner
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Sandra McPherson weaves vivid images culled from nature into what Contemporary Women Poets contributor David Young characterizes as "rich, complex, and deeply satisfying poems." In collections that include the National Book Award-nominated The Year of Our Birth, 1988's At the Grave of Hazel Hall, and 1996's Edge Effect: Trails and Portrayals, McPherson has increasingly honed her unsentimental, insightful verse, imbuing it with images reflective of diverse folk arts and refining her expressions of a cultural perspective that is uniquely American.
Reviewing 1970's Elegies for the Hot Season, McPherson's first published collection of verse, Jonathan Galassi of Poetry notes a similarity to the late poet Sylvia Plath in the "stark, basic pictures that give shape to this poet's deepest insights." Valerie Trueblood, commenting on the work in American Poetry Review, believes "this is the world at its plainest and most sign-giving. . . . McPherson has a gift . . ....


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