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Pretty vicious-looking for Filmation, LOL!
Pretty vicious-looking for Filmation, LOL!
That giant watermark on all the images is a real downer for me. I mean, I hate them in general, but the one used here (there?) is really distracting... for me, at least.
That aside, love what you're doing & wish you the best!
The giant He-Man was indeed made in Venezuela, but not by Rotoplast. Its brand still remains unknown. There are three different colour variants: red, blue and silver. The similar size Rambo was made by another different company named Sportoys. I don't have a clue about the Ninja Turtles
BTW, I enjoyed reading your novel.
Please, can you post something specific about She-Ra?
Do you have other pre-production of Horders members like Catra, Leech, Mantenna or Scorpia?
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The Power and The Honor Foundation is pleased to announce the first step in our mission to archive, preserve, and share the history of the Masters of the Universe.The Power and The Honor Foundation Catalog Volume One: The Art of Masters of the Universe Toy Design is a hardcover, full-color, 160-page catalog that features over 250 never-before-seen images along with an informative narrative. It is our hope that this fundraiser will not only allow the Foundation to continue to advance its mission but also provide a detailed review of the pieces available for public display by galleries, fundraisers, and any interested organizations.
The Foundation is giving donors The Power and The Honor Foundation Catalog Volume One: The Art of Masters of the Universe Toy Design as a gift for their generous support. For a limited time, your $55 donation will entitle you to one catalog. The catalog will first be available in person at Power-Con in September. Catalogs will then be mailed out to donors shortly afterward. Your donation covers the shipping cost worldwide.
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The link to reserve a copy isn't really doing much of anything except bringing me to PayPal... I log in... and it just goes to my account overview... what to do next? I want this
PS. I think I figured it out... I sent PayPal payment via the donation link and included all my info. Hope this was right!
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It's working as it should now, but your donation is good enough
Thanks for the support!
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Cool, thank you. I'll PayPal soon. So looking forward to this book.
It's all about money... yaaaay...
Brings doom to MOTUC with cel accuracy.
So when I go to Power-Con can I just donate there and get the book? Or do I have to donate before and pick it up at the con?
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Just remember, there is a limited supply. We hope to have plenty on hand for donations at Power-Con but we won't know exactly how many will be left until we get there.
I am definitely in for one and just sent my donation.
One question - does this volume focus entirely on never-before-seen images or are there going to be some high quality pictures of box art paintings or cardback paintings similar to the book Mattel released at SDCC a couple years ago? Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself and those are reserved for future volumes. Either way I'm very excited for this to come out.
How many volumes do you plan on releasing? I noticed this was marked as volume 1.
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Bedford man has the tickets coveted by all of Red Sox Nation, and he's not sellingBy DOUG ALDEN
New Hampshire Union Leader
October 29. 2013 8:29PM
Dennis Purnell was holding one of New England's hottest commodities Tuesday and not taking offers.
For Purnell there is no "best offer" worthy of the pair of tickets he has for Game 6 of the World Series tonight in Boston, with the Red Sox one win away from clinching the series at home against the St. Louis Cardinals.
"I did consider it when I got a text from someone saying they would give me $3,000 for the pair. Then I said, 'I just can't do it,'" the Bedford resident said. "I've never been to a World Series game when they could clinch."
The 1918 Red Sox team remains the last to win a title in Boston.
Boston's 2004 and 2007 World Series titles were sweeps and won on the road.
The Red Sox haven't had a chance to clinch a series at Fenway Park since 1975, when Carlton Fisk's 12th-inning home run in Game 6 forced a winner-take-all game the next night against Cincinnati. The Reds took Game 7 and the title, extending the heartbreak Boston fans had known since the last Sox championship in 1918.
Only the most optimistic ventured online Tuesday in search of finding a bargain or even a reasonable price for tonight's game. Others didn't bother.
"No, because I know you can't," said Craig Wilcox of Chester. "They're gold."
As of 5 p.m. Tuesday, tickets on StubHub started at $953 for left-field standing room and ran all the way to $11,552 each for a block of four seats in Dugout Box 49. At Ace Tickets, the range was from $949 for right-field standing room to $6,750 each for a pair of seats behind the dugout boxes.
Wilcox, wearing a Sox hat, was checking out baseball cards at Collector's Heaven in Manchester Tuesday. Demand for World Series paraphernalia at the downtown fixture has kept owners Mike and Caren Grady busy keeping the store stocked as old friends and Red Sox fans stop by to pick up memorabilia or just talk about the series.
"This is the most unexpected season I've seen in my lifetime," Mike Grady said. "People still can't believe it."
Purnell, a sales manager for a data networking company, has had season tickets for a few years now, taking them over from his father-in-law.
Purnell will be attending with brother-in-law Mike Parker, a Manchester native who is flying from Charlotte, N.C., just for the game.
Purnell had promised Parker months ago that if there was a possible clinching game, the ticket was Parker's. Even as he saw prices skyrocket Tuesday, Purnell knew he couldn't pass up the possibility of witnessing history.
"It would be more special to spend with a die-hard Sox fan than take the money," he said.
Dan Vitale of Rollinsford was taking a good-will approach in his search for tickets, hoping to find someone who couldn't go. It cost Vitale nothing to put an ad on Craigslist seeking four tickets at face value.
Considering Boston's leap from last place a year ago to winning the American League pennant, he said, stranger things have happened.
"It probably won't happen, but it's worth a shot," said Vitale, whose ad remained unanswered Tuesday afternoon. "I figured I'd just post it on there and see what happens."
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If you are unable to attend Treva's benefit, but would like to send a donation, mail it to:
Susie Carlson
925 9th St. S.
St. James, MN 56081
A benefit for Treva Besel, the daughter of Ken and Wendy Besel, will be held on Feb. 10 from 10:30 am. to 1:30 pm at the America Legion in St. James.
Treva has been diagnosed with Idiopathic Subglottic Stenosis, which is a narrowing of the upper airway caused by inflammation and scar tissue, due to an unknown cause.
On May 14th, Treva had surgery to laser more than half of her inflamed, swollen vocal chords away. Each month Treva takes costly medication and her visits to Rochester are ongoing. The benefit is a baked potato bar, with cake and ice cream.
If you are unable to attend Treva's benefit, but would like to send a donation, mail it to:
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925 9th St. S.
St. James, MN 56081
Treva's medical journey began the fall of 2007 when she was a junior at St. James High School. She experienced breathing difficulties while participating in physical activity. After being referred to several specialists throughout the next four years, a diagnosis could not be reached.
In November 2011, Treva awoke in the middle of the night unable to breath. She was rushed to Immanuel St. Joseph's Hospital in Mankato. An epi-pen treatment was used so she could regain her breath. It was finally after this episode that she received a referral to specialists in Rochester, and testing began in January 2012.
After months of testing, doctors discovered her vocal chords were swollen so badly that she had only a straw size hole to breathe through. The vocal chords appeared to be frozen and barely functioning. They called this condition Idiopathic Subglottic Stenosis.
Mayo advised surgery as the only option to restore her breathing. At this point, walking to classes on campus at MSU and climbing a flight of stairs was becoming almost impossible. They told Treva that a tracheotomy would likely be done. There was no guarantee she would have a voice after surgery. Both of these would not be known until she awoke from surgery. On May 14th they operated on Treva's vocal chords using a laser to remove over half of her chords. No trach was needed and she had a normal voice again. Things were looking up!
In October 2012, she had a viral infection that started in her eyes. It then progressed to her mouth, throat and down her esophagus warranting a three day stay in Rochester. Due to the medication she is on to keep her throat from swelling shut again, her immune system is being weakened.
With the weakened immune system she is vulnerable to viral and bacterial infections. Therefore, she is on a regiment of medications to fight these infections.
Treva is hoping some day doctors can figure out why all of this is happening to her medically. She continues to go to college at MSU and work in the retail business.
Treva says, "Staying busy is a good thing for me, it keeps my mind off of all the "what if's".
She expresses her gratitude to the St. James community for their support and prayers. "Without all those prayers, the last year would have been impossible to get through."
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NORFOLK, Va. – The Old Dominion University athletics department announced the addition of three new staff members to the newly designated Sports Performance department on Tuesday.
Director of Sports Performance Ryan Martin rounded out his staff with the addition of Alex Parr from the University of Miami (Fla.) and the internal promotion of Eric Potter. "We are fortunate to have attracted two quality people in Alex and Eric to Old Dominion University," said Martin. "Their experience will greatly enhance our Sports Performance department and in turn benefit our student-athletes".
Parr spent the last two years as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at the University of Miami, working primarily with the women's basketball and swimming & diving programs.
The Canes' women's basketball team advanced to the second round of the NCAA Championship for the second straight season in 2011-12 and achieved their highest national ranking ever at No. 5 as Parr helped in training and developing a pair of All-Americans and WNBA draft picks along with four All-ACC selections.
A 2006 graduate of the University of Maryland, Parr is a certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association, a level one Sports Performance Coach through United States Weightlifting, a Performance Enhancement Specialist through the National Academy of Sports Medicine and a certified Golf Fitness Instructor through the Titleist Performance Institute.
Prior to Miami, Parr served as a strength and conditioning coach at George Washington University from 2008-11, working with the baseball, softball, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's soccer, lacrosse, golf and swimming teams. He also assisted with the strength programs for both the men's and women's basketball teams. From 2006-08, he was a graduate assistant at GW in health and wellness, facilities and strength and conditioning.
Potter served as the ODU strength and conditioning intern from January until July when he became an interim strength and conditioning coach. He's worked with the football, field hockey, men's soccer, women's soccer, men's basketball, wrestling, baseball and women's basketball programs at Old Dominion.
Prior to ODU, Potter was a strength and conditioning coach at both Greenbrier Christian Academy and the Mid-Atlantic Sports Academy in Maryland. He is certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association, a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (C.S.C.S.) and is a Level 1 Certified Functional Movement Specialist.
A 2011 graduate of the University of Maryland, Potter was a four-year starter on the mound for the Terps' baseball team where he finished 10th in career strikeouts and 11th in career innings pitched at Maryland. Potter was drafted in the 19th round of the 2011 MLB Draft by the Oakland Athletics and pitched for the A's minor league organizations in Arizona and Vermont.
Adding a position to his staff, Martin also hired former Old Dominion football player Mario Crawford as the Football Sports Performance Coach. "We are excited to hire Mario to this position," added Martin. "His experiences as a former ODU student-athlete will translate well into his transition to coaching".
Crawford was a running back for the Monarchs from 2009-11 before becoming a student assistant on head coach Bobby Wilder's staff.
Prior to injury sidelining Crawford, he led the Monarchs in rushing with 505 yards and averaging 45.9 yards per game as a sophomore in 2010. He posted six touchdowns including a pair against VMI and ran for a season-high 91 yards against Georgia State that season and also making 24 receptions for 216 yards. Crawford was also a member of the Phil Steele Preseason All-Independent Team and FCS College Football Performance Award Watch List.
In his first season with ODU in 2009, Crawford was the second leading Monarch rusher averaging 60 yards per game and 6.1 yards per carry. He recorded six rushing touchdowns including a pair against Virginia Union and at Jacksonville in the Monarchs' FCS debut. He also captured the longest run of the year in a 52-yard carry at Fordham and tore downfield for a season-high 102 yards at Savannah State.
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When 12-year-old Lauren Arrington heard about her sixth-grade science project, she knew she wanted to study lionfish. Growing up in Jupiter, Fla., she saw them in the ocean while snorkeling and fishing with her dad.
Her project showed that the lionfish can survive in nearly fresh water. The results blew away professional ecologists. The invasive species has no predators on the Florida coast, so if they were to migrate upstream in rivers, they could pose a threat to the ecosystem.
"Scientists were doing plenty of tests on them, but they just always assumed they were in the ocean," Lauren, now 13, tells NPR's Kelly McEvers. "So I was like, 'Well, hey guys, what about the river?' "
In the beginning, she wanted to conduct her test by placing the lionfish in cages at different points in the river, but she had to simplify the project.
"It was just a small, sixth-grade project, and I really didn't have all the tools necessary," she says. Her dad, who has a Ph.D. in fish ecology, suggested that she put the fish in tanks instead.
Lauren then put six different lionfish in six different tanks where she could watch her subjects closely. Lauren was given a strict set of rules by the science fair organizers. The most important one: Her fish could not die.
Lionfish had been found to live in water with salt levels of 20 parts per thousand.
One of the six lionfish was her control fish, and the rest were the experimental fish. Every night for eight days, she would lower the salinity 5 parts per thousand in the experimental tanks. On the eighth day of her experiment, she found her experimental fish were living at 6 parts per thousand. She was amazed.
Her research did not stop there. Craig Layman, an ecology professor at North Carolina State University, confirmed Lauren's results. "He credited a sixth-grader for coming up with his idea," Lauren says ecstatically. Layman's findings were published this year in the science journal Environmental Biology of Fishes. Lauren is mentioned in the acknowledgments.
Lauren's father says he talks about science with her a lot. "We're a science bunch of dorks in our family," he tells McEvers.
Editor's note on July 24: The original headline on this page was "Sixth-Grader's Science Fair Finding Shocks Ecologists." We've changed the headline to better reflect the effect Lauren's project has had on the scientific community. We've also removed one sentence — "But no one knew that they could live in water salinity below that" — because marine biologist Zachary Jud and others had previously done work on the lionfish's ability to survive in estuaries.
For a timeline on the work that's been done by scientists, see this blog post written by professor Craig Layman of North Carolina State University. He concludes that "Lauren had made a contribution to science. One can argue the magnitude of this finding, but a contribution regardless."
Is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR West. I'm Kelly McEvers. In South Florida, an invasive fish is freaking some people out. It's called a lionfish. And it's this weird-looking, stripy thing with poisonous spines. Ecologists think they could threaten shrimp and small fish in the Atlantic. Until recently, ecologists also thought lionfish could only live in the ocean. But then a 12-year-old proved them wrong.
LAUREN ARRINGTON: I mean scientists were doing plenty of tests on them. But they just always assumed they were in the ocean. So I was like, well, hey guys, what about the river?
MCEVERS: Lauren Arrington's sixth-grade project showed that lionfish can survive in fresh water, too. Her dad's a fish ecologist, so Lauren knew some stuff about fish.
LAUREN ARRINGTON: Sometimes, we would even catch them when me and my dad were fishing. So we dissected plenty of them when we caught them.
MCEVERS: Lauren is really into lionfish. So as soon as she heard about the science fair, she knew what she wanted to do.
L. ARRINGTON: I wanted to see how far up the river lionfish could survive. So first off, I thought of putting lionfish in different cages at different river miles. You know, if the further up the river - if they could still live. But it was just a small sixth-grade project and I really didn't have all the tools necessary for that. So then, my dad was like, well, you could put them in tanks. So I was like, oh, OK. So then, I decided to put them in tanks in the river center. And then, there I could just watch them and make sure none of them died, 'cause when - we heard that the science fair would disqualify you if any of your project died.
MCEVERS: So you're working on a - under a pretty strict set of rules there. The subject of your experiment cannot die.
L. ARRINGTON: Yeah.
MCEVERS: OK. So you put some fish in different tanks and then what did you do?
L. ARRINGTON: So six lionfish, six different tanks, every night for eight days on the five experimental fish, I would lower the salinity five parts per thousand. So parts per thousand is how you measure salt in the water. Zero parts per thousand is freshwater and then 35 parts per thousand is ocean salinity. So we found the lionfish that we captured in about 25 parts per thousand. So when all of the experimental fish were still alive at six parts per thousand, I was like - pretty amazing.
MCEVERS: And then - I mean, it didn't stop there, right? I mean, there was some research published - a research paper published by North Carolina State and they mentioned you.
L. ARRINGTON: Yeah, yeah, 'cause he confirmed my results. And so, you know, he credited a sixth-grader for coming up with his idea.
MCEVERS: That's Dr. Craig Layman of North Carolina State. So it was because of you that he went on and did further research on this. How did that feel?
L. ARRINGTON: I was like, oh. And then friends at school were like, hey, congrats on being published in the science journal, you know. And I was like, yeah, yeah, that's me right there.
MCEVERS: (Laughing) Lauren, could you put your dad on line for a second?
L. ARRINGTON: Yes ma'am - Dad?
ALBREY ARRINGTON: Hello, this is Albrey.
MCEVERS: Yeah, hi. So I guess you talk science with your daughter a lot.
A. ARRINGTON: Yeah, that's kind of how we are. We're a science bunch of dorks in our family.
MCEVERS: (Laughing) I have to ask. I mean, it sounds like Lauren has some pretty good ideas about this experiment. How much of this was you and how much of this was her?
A. ARRINGTON: I'm the dad, so participating, but I'm very proud to say this is her - her ideas. It certainly was her work - sitting, measuring salinity, you know.
MCEVERS: Well, you must be very, very proud.
A. ARRINGTON: Very much so, very pleased.
MCEVERS: That is Albrey Arrington and his daughter Lauren joining us from Jupiter, Florida. Thanks so much you guys.
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The Maryland women's soccer team begins its final regular-season road trip this week with a pair of games in the Sunshine State, beginning with a match at Miami on Thursday, Oct. 17. The Terps and Hurricanes are scheduled for a 6 p.m. start at Cobb Stadium.
Did you know ... this will be the first time Maryland will play at Miami in the first game of a two-game swing through Florida? The previous four times the Terps have played Florida State and Miami consecutively on the road (2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011), the Terps have opened the road trip in Tallahassee vs. the Seminoles.
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• A live stream will be available via hurricanesports.com. Fans can also follow all of the action from LiveStats (link will be live at game time).
• Updates will also be posted to the Maryland Women's Soccer Facebook page and Twitter feed, so "Like" and "Follow" to get updates sent straight to you.
|Maryland's Probable Starters
|Sarah Fichtner
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|Aubrey Baker
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|Ashley Spivey
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|Riley Barger
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|Lauren Berman
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|Erika Nelson
|Albuquerque, N.M.
|Megan Gibbons
|Ellicott City, Md.
|Shade Pratt
|Germantown, Md.
|Hayley Brock
|Acton, Mass.
|Shannon Collins
|La Plata, Md.
|Rachelle Beanlands
|Ottawa, Ontario
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• Maryland is 7-7-0 after dropping a 2-1 decision to Duke at Ludwig Field last Sunday.
|2013 Maryland Terrapins: 7-7-0, 3-5-0 ACC
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• The Terps opened the season with a 9-0 shutout of The Citadel (recap | stats) on Aug 23. Sophomore Ashley Spivey set career highs with her first career hat trick and seven total points. Freshman Lauren Berman made her collegiate deubt a memorable one with a goal and two assists. Senior Hayley Brock had a goal and an assist, while sophmore Shannon Collins had two assists in the victory, which was Maryland's highest-scoring win since Aug. 22, 2011 when the Terps topped Loyola, 9-0.
• Maryland fell behind 2-0 early in the first half against Villanova on Aug. 26, but a late hat trick from senior Hayley Brock lifted the Terps to a 4-2 win over the Wildcats (recap | stats). Junior Cory Ryan scored before halftime to cut Nova's lead to one goal heading into the second half. The Wildcats went down a player when Kathryn Rayner was sent off with a red card in the 52nd minute. But Maryland couldn't capitalize until Brock scored three times from the 83rd to the 87th minutes to give the Terps the win.
• The Terrapins jumped out early and never looked back in their 3-0 shutout of George Mason (recap | stats) on Aug. 30. Sophomore Riley Barger scored her first career goal in just the second minute of the match to spot the Terps a 1-0 lead. Senior Hayley Brock continued her torrid scoring pace by netting the second goal of the game in the seventh minute. Freshman Lauren Berman added her second goal of the season in the 80th minute to close the scoring. Berman and Brock also added assists in the match and sophomore Shannon Collins picked up a pair of assists vs. the Patriots.
• The Terps earned their third shutout victory of the season with a 2-0 win over Navy (recap | stats) on Sept. 1. The match was scoreless until the 71st minute when sophomore Gabby Galanti scored her first goal of the season off of assists from junior Cory Ryan and sophomore Riley Barger. Senior Hayley Brock netted the insurance goal in the 82nd minute off of a feed from senior Megan Gibbons. Sophomore goalkeeper Rachelle Beanlands made a season-high four saves.
• Maryland had its chances, but in the end couldn't convert in suffering its first loss of the 2013 season, a 1-0 decision at No. 22 Santa Clara (recap | stats).
• The Terrapins wrapped up its non-conference slate and its two-game west coast road trip at No. 4 Stanford. The Cardinal took advantage of the limited opportunities the Terps gave them en route to a 3-0 victory (recap | stats). Sophomore Riley Barger led the Maryland attack with three shots and sophomore Rachelle Beanlands made a season-high six saves.
• Maryland opened its 2013 ACC slate with a 2-1 overtime win (recap | stats) at Clemson on Sept. 12 with sophomore Ashley Spivey netting the game winner early in the 96th minute. Senior Hayley Brock scored first on a breakaway following a steal in the 35th minute to put the Terps up 1-0. The Tigers tied the match on a penalty kick in the 51st minute. Brock and junior Cory Ryan earned assists on Spivey's game-winning goal.
• The Terps threatened early, but Virginia Tech scored off of a corner kick in the 38th minute and tacked on a late insurance goal in the 88th to defeat Maryland 2-0 (recap | stats) at Ludwig Field on Sept. 19. The Terrapins had a chance to tie the match at 1-1 early in the second half when a hand ball in the box gave Maryland a penalty kick, but Hokie keeper Dayle Colpitts guessed correctly on Ashley Spivey's attempt and was just able to deflect the ball outside of the left post.
• Maryland picked up its first major result of the 2013 season with its 1-0 shutout of No. 3 Wake Forest (recap | stats) on Sept. 22 at Ludwig Field. Senior Hayley Brock scored the game's lone goal in the fourth minute off of assists by senior Megan Gibbons and freshman Lauren Berman. Sophomore keeper Rachelle Beanlands made six stops as the Terrapins limited the dangerous Demon Deacon attack to just a couple of quality opportunities, which both came on set pieces.
• A hat trick by Cari Rocarro led the No. 3 Notre Dame Fighting Irish to a 5-0 home win over the Terps (recap | stats) on Sept. 26. Freshman Lauren Berman had two shots to lead the Terrapin offense, while sophomore keeper Rachelle Beanlands made three stops.
• Maryland battled No. 1 Virginia, but the Cavaliers took advantage of a defensive turnover to net the game's lone goal just prior to the first half ending to take a 1-0 decision (recap | stats). The match was scoreless and evenly contested right up until the 45th minute when a defensive turnover in Maryland's back third gave the ball to Brittany Ratcliff and she chipped the ball over sophomore keeper Rachelle Beanlands, who finished with five saves, to put the Cavaliers ahead with 22 seconds left on the clock.
• Freshman Natasha Ntone-Kouo scored her first collegiate goal and that proved to be the game winner as the Terps shutout NC State, 3-0, (recap | stats) on Oct. 3. Ntone-Kouo gave the Terps a 1-0 lead in the 37th minute poking in a loose ball following a header by Lauren Berman that came off of a Megan Gibbons corner kick. Senior Hayley Brock scored the insurance goal in the first minute of the second half, while sophomore Aubrey Baker tacked on the third goal in the 52nd minute.
• Freshman Lauren Berman scored just 17 seconds into the game to put the Terps on top, but ultimately No. 6 North Carolina proved too much on this day, earning a 3-1 victory (recap | stats) on Oct. 6 at Fetzer Field. Senior Hayley Brock earned the assist on Berman's goal, which was the second-fastest goal ever scored on a Tar Heel team.
• The Terps controlled the match from start to finish, but couldn't find any luck finishing and ended up on the losing end of a 2-1 decision (recap | stats) to Duke on Oct. 13. Junior Cory Ryan scored Maryland's lone goal, knocking in a rebound off of a shot from sophomore Aubrey Baker, but the Terrapins couldn't complete the comeback despite holding a 16-9 advantage in shots.
Scouting The Hurricanes
• Miami is 8-5-0 on the season and 3-5-0 in ACC play. The Hurricanes are coming off of a 3-0 road loss at Syracuse on Sunday.
|2013 Miami Hurricanes: 8-5-0, 3-5-0 ACC
|(Soccer America NR, NSCAA NR, TopDrawerSoccer.com NR)
|2013 Statistics
• The Hurricanes opened the season with a perfect 5-0-0 mark in their non-conference play. Since entering ACC action, Miami is 3-5-0 with all three victories, including a 2-0 upset of then-No. 3 Notre Dame, have come at Cobb Stadium.
• Junior forward Ashley Finn leads the Miami offense with 18 points on nine. Senior defenders Tara Schwitter and Blake Stockton share the team lead with three assists. Junior keeper Emily Lillard has played in all 13 matches and has a 1.98 goals-against average.
Series History vs. Miami
• This will be just the 11th all-time meeting between Maryland and Miami and the Hurricanes hold a 6-3-1 lead in the series.
• The last time these two teams met was the 2012 ACC quarterfinals in College Park. Maryland advanced to the semifinals on Danielle Hubka's game-winning goal in the fifth minute of the first overtime to top No. 7 seed Miami, 2-1. Junior Alex Reed gave the Terps a 1-0 lead before halftime, converting on a feed from freshman Gabby Galanti. The Hurricanes tied the match on a penalty kick by Tara Schwitter in the 73rd minute. That setup up Hubka's game-winner, which was made possible by sophomore Cory Ryan stealing the ball from a Miami defender inside the Hurricane defensive third. Ryan then played a perfect centering pass to Hubka inside the 18 for the easy finish.
Head Coach Jonathan Morgan• Jonathan Morgan is in his second season at the helm of the Maryland women's soccer program after spending the previous five seasons on the Terrapin sideline as an assistant coach. He is 21-14-2 (.595) overall as the Terps' head coach and is 9-8-1 (.528) in ACC play.
Terps Toppling Top 10 Teams
• Maryland has defeated a Top 10 ranked team 22 times in its history.
• The latest Top 10 win for the Terps came on Sept. 22, 2013 when the Terps shutout No. 3 Wake Forest at Ludwig Field. It was the second-straight match the Terps toppled a Top-10-ranked Demon Deacon squad via shutout. On Nov. 2, 2012 in the ACC semifianls at the WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, N.C., when Maryland defeated No. 6 Wake Forest, 2-0. That win marked the Terps' first shutout of a top 10 team since their 1-0 win at No. 10 Tennessee in the 2006 season opener.
• The Terps' most memorable Top 10 victory, 2-1 at No. 2 North Carolina on Oct. 24, 2010 tied for he highest ranked opponent ever defeated by Maryland. The Terrapins defeated No. 2 Boston College on Oct. 7, 2010 in Chestnut Hill, Mass. Those two victories marked the first time in program history that Maryland has defeated two Top 10 teams in a single month.
• The Terps then added to that with another 2-1 win over No. 8 Florida State on Oct. 28, 2010.
• The Terps' 2-1 win over No. 6 North Carolina on Sept. 13, 2012 gave Maryland the distinction of becoming the first team in history to defeat the Tar Heels three straight times in three consecutive seasons.
Here's a list of all of the Terps' Top 10 wins:
|Sept. 22, 2013
|#3 Wake Forest
|Nov. 2, 2012
|vs. #6 Wake Forest
|Sept. 27, 2012
|#3 Virginia
|Sept. 13, 2012
|#6 North Carolina
|Oct. 27, 2011
|#8 North Carolina
|Oct. 28, 2010
|#8 Florida State
|Oct. 24, 2010
|at #2 North Carolina
|Oct. 7, 2010
|at #2 Boston College
|Oct. 8, 2009
|#6 Virginia Tech
|Aug. 25, 2006
|at #10 Tennessee
|Nov. 14, 2004
|at #5 Penn State
|Oct. 23, 2004
|#10 Duke
|Sept. 12, 2004
|vs. #3 UCLA
|Oct. 13, 2001
|#8 Clemson
|Aug. 29, 2000
|#4 Penn State
|Oct. 17, 1999
|#9 Clemson
|Sept. 19, 1999
|at #9 Duke
|Sept. 18, 1998
|#9 Duke
|Nov. 7, 1997
|vs. #8 Duke
|Oct. 12, 1997
|#9 Clemson
|Oct. 1, 1995
|#7 Duke
|Oct. 8, 1993
|#8 William & Mary
128 And Counting At Ludwig Field• The Terps won their 100th match at Ludwig Field with a 6-0 victory over Iona on Aug. 20, 2010. Since its opening in 1995, Ludwig Field has proved to be a tremendous home-field advantage for the Terps women's soccer team. All-time Maryland is 128-52-21 (.694) at Ludwig Field.
• Through the seasons, the Terps have had a knack for shutting teams out at Ludwig Field. Maryland has won 81 of its 128 victories (63.3%) at Ludwig Field via shutout. Add in the 12 0-0 ties the Terps have had at Ludwig Field and it totals 93 times that Maryland has shutout its opponent in 201 games (46.3%).
Scoring Streaks
• Hayley Brock scored at least one goal six straight games from the Terps' 2012 NCAA tournament first round match vs. Stony Brook through the first four games in 2013. Since 1994 there have been just 20 scoring streaks of at least three games for the Terps and Brock owns three of those. Her current streak of six matches is second only to Emmy Harbo's streak of seven games with a goal in 1996.
|Player (Dates - Opponents)
|Emmy Harbo (9/4/96-9/24/96 – George Washington, New Hampshire, at Hartford, at James Madison, vs. Davidson, Texas, George Mason)
|Hayley Brock (11/10/12-9/1/13 - Stony Brook, vs. Denver, The Citadel, Villanova, George Mason, Navy)
|Hayley Brock (9/13/12-9/23/12 – North Carolina, Clemson, at Duke, at Wake Forest)
|Keri Sarver (9/20/98-9/27/98 – NC State, George Mason, vs. Texas, at Colorado)
|Keri Sarver (11/3/96-11/24/96 – at Georgia, at Clemson, George Washington, San Diego)
|Keri Sarver (9/24/96-10/1/96 – George Mason, Brown, at Wake Forest, UMBC)
|Hayley Brock (10/3/12-10/11/12 – Francis Marion, at NC State, at Boston College)
|Becky Kaplan (8/31/12-9/6/12 – at George Mason, Towson, at Alabama)
|Sade Ayinde (9/5/10-9/12/10 – Stony Brook, at Seton Hall, Delaware)
|Ashley Grove (8/20/10-8/27/10 – Iona, Missouri, at Tennessee)
|Ashley Grove (10/18/09-10/29/09 – NC State, at Clemson, Wake Forest)
|Simone Dekker (11/17/02-8/31/03 – Penn State, at Washington, vs. Washington State)
|Audra Poulin (10/11/02-10/20/02 – Virginia, George Mason, at Clemson)
|Jackie Mynarski (10/6/99-10/10/99 – at George Mason, Rutgers, Navy)
|Keri Sarver (11/5/98-11/15/98 – vs. Wake Forest, Fairfield, vs. William & Mary)
|Jackie Mynarski (9/18/98-9/23/98 – Duke, NC State, George Mason)
|Robin McCullough (9/19/97-9/26/97 – at Florida, at Florida State, at George Washington)
|Keri Sarver (9/7/97-9/12/97 – at William & Mary, at George Mason, Wake Forest)
|Emmy Harbo (9/3/95-9/10/95 – Virginia Tech, George Mason, Florida State)
|Randi Goldblatt (9/11/94-9/18/94 – Texas A&M, at Princeton, NC State)
2013 Honors
|TopDrawerSoccer.com Team of the Week
|Hayley Brock (Sept. 3)
|ACC Player of the Week
|Hayley Brock (Sept. 3)
Hat Trick History
• Sophomore Ashley Spivey opened the 2013 season with a hat trick in the Terps' 9-0 win over The Citadel. Senior Hayley Brock followed that performance with a natural hat trick in Maryland's 4-2 come-from-behind win over Villanova on Aug. 26. Those two performances mark the first time in the Maryland women's soccer program's 27-year history that back-to-back hat tricks have been posted.
|Hat Tricks In The Past 20 Seasons (Since '94)
|3, Hayley Brock vs. Villanova (8/26/13)
|3, Ashley Spivey vs. The Citadel (8/23/13)
|3, Becky Kaplan at Loyola (8/22/11)
|4, Sara Gustafson vs. Howard (10/11/00)
|3, Keri Sarver vs. Fairfield (11/11/98)
|4, Emmy Harbo at LSU (10/31/98)
|3, Keri Sarver at Colorado (9/27/98)
|3, Keri Sarver vs. NC State (9/20/98)
|3, Robin McCullough at NC State (11/4/97)
|3, Keri Sarver vs. Wright State (9/1/97)
|3, Emmy Harbo vs. Navy (10/22/96)
|3, Keri Sarver vs. George Washington (9/4/96)
Terps In Overtime
• Maryland has played in 98 overtime games in its 27-year history. The Terps' all-time record in those overtime games is 30-25-43 (.526).
• The Terrapins have played in eight overtime games in the ACC tournament and have a 3-1-4 mark in those games. Maryland won the shootout in three of the four games it tied in the ACC tournament.
Non-Conference Success• Dating back to its 10-0 win over Mount St. Mary's in 2008, Maryland has lost only six times in its last 46 matches vs. non-ACC opponents. The Terps have outscored its non-conference opposition 130-27 in those 46 matches.
• The Terps recorded 20 straight wins over non-ACC foes before tying Georgetown, 1-1, in second round of the NCAA tournament in 2010. Maryland is now 36-4-4 in its last 44 non-conference games. The Terps had been unbeaten in 31-straight non-conference games prior to losing, 1-0, at Oklahoma State in the Sweet 16 of the 2011 NCAA tournament. So far this season Maryland topped The Citadel, 9-0, in the season opener, beat Villanova, 4-2 and shutout George Mason, 3-0, and Navy, 2-0. The Terps dropped matches at Santa Clara, 0-1, and at No. 4 Stanford, 0-3, to close out their 2013 non-conference slate. Those two defeats marked the first time since 2008 that the Terps lost back-to-back non-conference matches.
The Last Time ...
|Totaled 20 or more points in game
|28 vs. The Citadel (9-0, 8/23/13)
|Totaled 15-19 points in a game
|28 vs. The Citadel (9-0, 8/23/13)
|Totaled 10-14 points in a game
|11 vs. George Mason (3-0, 8/30/13)
|Scored 10 or more goals in a game
|10 vs. Mount St. Mary's (10-0, 9/21/08)
|Scored seven, eight or nine goals in a game
|9 vs. The Citadel (9-0, 8/23/13)
|Scored six goals in a game
|9 vs. The Citadel (9-0, 8/23/13)
|Scored five goals in a game
|9 vs. The Citadel (9-0, 8/23/13)
|Scored four goals in a game
|4 vs. Villanova (4-2, 8/26/13)
|Scored three goals in a game
|3 vs. NC State (3-0, 10/3/13)
|Scored in the first minute of a game
|0:17 at North Carolina (1-3, 10/6/13)
|Had six or more assists in a game
|10 vs. The Citadel (9-0, 8/23/13)
|Had five assists in a game
|5 vs. George Mason (3-0, 8/30/13)
|Took 30 or more shots in a game
|34 vs. The Citadel (9-0, 8/23/13)
|Took 20-29 shots in a game
|27 vs. NC State (3-0, 10/3/13)
|Had 10 or more fouls in a game
|11 vs. Duke (1-2, 10/13/13)
|Won an overtime game
|2-1 at Clemson (2-1, 9/13/13)
|A Maryland player totaled seven or more points
|7, Ashley Spivey vs. The Citadel (9-0, 8/23/13)
|A Maryland player totaled six points
|6 Hayley Brock vs. Villanova (4-2, 8/26/13)
|A Maryland player totaled five points
|5, Olivia Wagner vs. Towson (5-0, 9/2/12)
|A Maryland player totaled four points
|4 Lauren Berman vs. The Citadel (9-0, 8/23/13)
|A Maryland player totaled three points
|3, Hayley Brock at Clemson (2-1, 9/12/13)
|A Maryland player scored four goals
|4, Sara Gustafson vs. Howard (9-0, 10/11/00)
|A Maryland player scored three goals
|3, Hayley Brock vs. Villanova (4-2, 8/26/13)
|A Maryland player scored two goals
|3, Hayley Brock vs. Villanova (4-2, 8/26/13)
|A Maryland player scored a goal in six straight games
|Hayley Brock (11/10/12-9/1/13 - Stony Brook, Denver, The Citadel, Villanova, George Mason, Navy)
|A Maryland player scored a goal in five straight games
|Hayley Brock (11/10/12-9/1/13 - Stony Brook, Denver, The Citadel, Villanova, George Mason, Navy)
|A Maryland player scored a goal in four straight games
|Hayley Brock (11/10/12-9/1/13 - Stony Brook, Denver, The Citadel, Villanova, George Mason, Navy)
|A Maryland player scored a goal in three straight games
|Hayley Brock (11/10/12-9/1/13 - Stony Brook, Denver, The Citadel, Villanova, George Mason, Navy)
|A Maryland player scored the game-winning goal in three straight games
|Hayley Brock (10/3/12-10/12/12 - Francis Marion, at NC State, at Boston College)
|A Maryland player had assists in three straight games
|Shannon Collins (8/23/13-8/30/13 - vs. The Citadel, Villanova, George Mason)
|A Maryland player had three assists
|3, Ashley Grove at Loyola (9-0, 8/22/11)
|A Maryland player had two assists
|2, Megan Gibbons vs. NC State (3-0, 10/3/13)
|A Maryland player had 10 or more shots
|10, Jasmyne Spencer vs. Missouri (3-2, 8/22/10)
|A Maryland player had 5-9 shots
|5, Hayley Brock vs. NC State (3-0, 10/3/13)
|5, Ashley Spivey vs. NC State (3-0, 10/3/13)
|A Maryland GK made 10 or more saves
|11, Yewande Balogun vs. Stanford (0-0, 8/26/11)
|Totaled 15-19 points in a game
|16, at North Carolina (0-5, 9/28/08)
|Totaled 10-14 points in a game
|13, at Notre Dame (0-5, 9/26/13)
|Scored seven or more goals in a game
|7, vs. Florida State (2-7, 11/8/01)
|Scored six goals in a game
|6, at Notre Dame (0-6, 9/4/05)
|Scored five goals in a game
|5, at Notre Dame (0-5, 9/26/13)
|Scored four goals in a game
|5, at Notre Dame (0-5, 9/26/13)
|Scored three goals in a game
|5, at Notre Dame (0-5, 9/26/13)
|Had six or more assists in a game
|6, at North Carolina (0-5, 9/28/08)
|Had five assists in a game
|5, at Duke (10/23/11)
|Took 30 or more shots in a game
|37, vs. Duke (0-0, 10/14/06)
|Took 20-29 shots in a game
|21, at Virginia (0-1, 9/29/13)
|Had 10 or more fouls in a game
|15 vs. Virginia Tech (0-2, 9/19/13)
|An opposing player totaled six or more points
|6, Cari Roccaro at Notre Dame (0-5, 9/26/13)
|An opposing player totaled five points
|An opposing player totaled four points
|4, Taylor Uhl, Stanford (0-3, 9/8/13)
|An opposing player totaled three points
|4, Taylor Uhl, Stanford (0-3, 9/8/13)
|An opposing player scored four goals
|An opposing player scored three goals
|3, Cari Roccaro at Notre Dame (0-5, 9/26/13)
|An opposing player scored two goals
|3, Cari Roccaro at Notre Dame (0-5, 9/26/13)
|An opposing player had three assists
|3, Kacey White, North Carolina (1-3, 11/2/05)
|An opposing player had two assists
|3, Kacey White, North Carolina (1-3, 11/2/05)
|An opposing player had 10 or more shots
|9, Kristen Mewis, at Boston College (3-2, 10/11/12)
|An opposing player had 5-9 shots
|6, Kealia Ohai, North Carolina (1-3, 10/6/13)
|An opposing GK made 15 or more saves
|17, Madison Shaw, NC State (3-0, 10/7/12)
|An opposing GK made 10 or more saves
|10, Karly Gustafson, NC State (3-0, 10/3/13)


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Now that Stanford and California are out of the way, the Pac-12 schedule gets easy for the Colorado women's basketball team.
Not quite. But, the Buffaloes know they need to start piling up some wins, and they figure Tuesday night is a good place to start.
No. 23 Colorado (11-2, 0-2 Pac-12) will host Utah (9-4, 0-2) on Tuesday at Coors Events Center. It's the first of two games against the Utes this week, as the Buffs will play in Salt Lake City on Sunday.
"We definitely have to take advantage of (playing) this team, because they'll be in the top half, too," CU junior guard Brittany Wilson said. "These are two wins we need to draw even in conference and continue to play well. I think we just have to take care of business and do what we've been doing -- come out to play and play hard."
CU dropped to No. 23 in the Associated Press rankings Monday after losing to No. 4 Stanford and No. 7 Cal. But, they gained a measure of confidence by playing right with two of the top teams in the country. Moral victories only go so far, though.
"This is where we need to step up," head coach Linda Lappe said. "We just played the No. 4 and the No. 7 team in the nation. We have to take that in stride and know that we competed with both of those teams for the majority of both games and get some confidence from that, but understand the opportunities that are ahead if we get down to playing better basketball."
Defensively, the Buffs could not have been much better over the weekend. They held Stanford to 57 points, 14.1 below its season average, and Cal to 53, which is 21.3 below its average.
CU, however, needs to see its offense step up. The Buffs averaged 74.3 points per game in non-conference play, and then scored just 89 in its two losses. They had their two worst shooting nights of the season, hitting just 32.1 percent (34 of 106) of their shots over the weekend.
Missing shots was not the only issue, however.
"We were just tentative, passing up shots we usually take, not knocking down open shots, not being scorers necessarily," Wilson said.
Lappe agreed, saying the Buffs need to be more ready to score.
"We're passing up many, many opportunities every possession to score the basketball, whether it's on a drive, whether it's a shot off some screens," Lappe said. "It needs to be every player that's on the floor. We can't just look to Arielle (Roberson) and Chucky (Jeffery). Arielle has probably been the most aggressive of anybody on our team, and now we need some other players to step up and do the same."
Jeffery is one of those players. She averaged 15 points and made 48 percent of her shots (13 of 27) over the weekend, but did not display the aggressiveness Lappe wants to see. Jeffery didn't attempt any free throws against Cal on Sunday.
"She passed up a lot of shots, was really tentative," Lappe said. "She's got to get back in a scorer's mentality and a mentality where she's going to create for everybody else around her, too. She's stopping herself a lot of times."
With two losses in the books, the Buffs know they can't afford to be tentative anymore.
Like CU, Utah is coming off a weekend where it lost two games, but played relatively well against Cal and Stanford. So, the Utes are sure to bring the same mindset into Tuesday's game as the Buffs will bring.
"I think we're both in the same scenario," Lappe said. "We probably both have confidence and that's a good thing; both teams should have confidence because we played (Cal and Stanford) fairly well, lost both and now we're both looking to get back on the winning track."
Wilson looking to rebound
For much of this season, Wilson has been one of the Buffs' top scorers. Yet, over the weekend, she scored just two points -- on a late layup against Cal -- and missed eight of her nine shots.
"I was frustrated, but then again I missed four practices before the Stanford game (because of a head injury against New Mexico on Dec. 29)," she said. "I'm just trying to get back into the flow of everything."
While Wilson struggled offensively, she had an exceptional game on defense against Cal.
With the Buffs needing more offense, though, Wilson could be a spark plug.
"We have so many weapons, it might not be me; it might be someone else opening up for another eight or 10, but yeah, I do need to be a little bit more aggressive on the offensive end," she said.
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TUESDAY: The No. 23 Colorado Buffaloes (11-2, 0-2 Pac-12) host the Utah Utes (9-4, 0-2) at 6 p.m. at Coors Events Center in Boulder.
BROADCAST: TV -- Pac-12 Network, with Ann Schatz on play-by-play and Rosalyn Gold-Owunde with color commentary. Radio -- KKZN AM-760, with Mike Rice on play-by-play and Carol Callan providing color commentary.
STORYLINES: Both teams are still seeking their first conference win after being swept by Stanford and California last weekend. ... CU held Stanford and Cal, two of the top seven teams in the country, to a combined 110 points (55 per game). The Buffs, however, scored just 89 and were held below 50 in back-to-back home games for the first time since 1975 -- the program's first season. ... Utah has lost three in a row and four of its last six after a 7-0 start. ... The Utes lead the Pac-12 in 3-point field goal percentage (.361). ... Utah is second in the conference in scoring defense (allowing 54.1 points per game), while CU is third (54.7). ... CU's Chucky Jeffery averaged 16.0 points and Brittany Wilson averaged 13.3 points in three meetings against the Utes last season.
KEY STAT: CU is 10-0 this season when leading at halftime, which is a good sign that the Buffs have learned to close out games. The Buffs are 1-2 when tied or trailing at the half.
COACHES: Linda Lappe is 50-32 in her third season at CU and 100-68 overall. Anthony Levrets is 43-37 in his third season at Utah and for his career.
PROBABLE STARTERS: Colorado -- G Chucky Jeffery, 5-10, Sr. (12.7 ppg, 8.0 rpg, 4.4 apg, 2.4 spg); G Brittany Wilson, 5-7, Jr. (8.2 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 2.4 apg); G Lexy Kresl, 5-11, So. (5.8 ppg, 2.0 rpg); F Arielle Roberson, 6-1, Fr. (14.9 ppg, 5.8 rpg, 1.5 spg); C Rachel Hargis, 6-4, Jr. (5.9 ppg, 3.2 rpg). Utah -- G Iwalani Rodrigues, 5-9, Sr. (12.2 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 2.5 apg); G Rachel Messer, 5-9, Sr. (4.8 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 1.6 apg); G Danielle Rodriguez, 5-10, Fr. (4.0 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 3.0 apg); F Taryn Wicijowski, 6-3, Jr. (15.8 ppg, 7.5 rpg); F Michelle Plouffe, 6-4, Jr. (15.8 ppg, 7.5 rpg).
SERIES: Utah leads the overall series 11-9, but CU was 2-1 against the Utes last season. Utah did get a win in Boulder last year, however.


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A Boulder County jury will resume deliberations Friday morning after spending nearly four hours Thursday weighing the fate of George Ruibal, who is on trial for the 2007 death of his girlfriend Dana Pechin in Longmont.
Ruibal, 58, is charged with second-degree murder, although the jury has been given the option of convicting him on lesser counts of manslaughter or criminal negligence.
As evidence and testimony wrapped up Thursday morning, attorneys made their closing arguments to the jury. Prosecutors argued the beating and strangulation of Pechin was the culmination of a violent and unstable relationship, while Ruibal's attorneys said there was no evidence Ruibal had done anything but try to care for Pechin when she came back to their apartment after being assaulted by a stranger.
Prosecutors say Ruibal badly beat Pechin in the small Longmont apartment that the couple had just rented in December 2007 and then took care of her until she succumbed to her injuries. Deputy District Attorney Tim Johnson described a roller-coaster relationship between the two that finally boiled over in December 2007.
"When she came home he was upset, he was angry and he assaulted her and continued to assault and savagely beat and kick her until she did not move again," Johnson said.
Johnson said there were inconsistencies in Ruibal's statements and that Pechin would not have been able to get back to the apartment on a cold, snowy night after being assaulted by a stranger, as Ruibal told police.
"She didn't wake up from this, she didn't come walking back from this," Johnson said.
But Ruibal's attorney, Eric Klein, said there simply was no evidence Ruibal was the one who assaulted Pechin. He pointed out that the prosecution kept bringing up the violence of the attack, but argued no neighbors heard a disturbance and the small apartment showed no signs of a fight. Ruibal also did not have offensive wounds on his hands and no signs of a struggle aside from some scratches on his face.
"The prosecution's case rests on inference, conjecture, speculation, but not evidence," Klein said. "The evidence and the lack of evidence in this case shows Mr. Ruibal is not guilty."
Klein again brought up Joel Dorn, who previously had been arrested on domestic violence incidents that the defense claimed were similar to what happened to Pechin. Dorn was contacted by police sometime the night the beating occurred in the area where Ruibal said Pechin had walked to.
"You are staring reasonable doubt in the face," Klein said as he displayed a mugshot of Dorn to the jury.
Klein also said Ruibal's behavior was not that of a guilty man. Ruibal cooperated with police from the time he was identified as a person of interest in 2007 until his arrest in 2011 following a grand jury indictment.
"He cooperated with police, assisted police, over and over and over again," Klein said. "He helped because he wants to find out what had happened."
But Deputy District Attorney Chris Estoll said for all his cooperation, Ruibal never called police when he saw Pechin injured in his apartment and never called during the investigation for updates on the case.
"Ask yourself, why didn't he call?" Estoll said. "He didn't call because he was the one that caused the injuries. He didn't call because he was concerned they knew what he had done.
"He said, 'All he had to do was change one fact. Change it from: it was me to it was someone else. All I have to do I cooperate and I can get away with it,'" Estoll said. "And for five years he did."
The jurors adjourned for the night at 4:30 p.m. They will continue deliberations Friday at 9 a.m.
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Investors buying foreclosures in bulk flocked back into Southwest Florida's housing market in 2012, paying on average 45 percent more for their homes than the properties were valued.
The new influx was propelled by local investors and Wall Street hedge funds -- each buying up single-family homes by the scores. But unlike the boom-time trend of flipping properties for a quick profit, most of these investors now are using the defaults to feed a thriving rental market, where they can muster better returns.
Most market observers expect the trend to continue well into 2013 and beyond, with more foreclosures likely to enter the market. They also predict the amount by which these investors are overpaying to increase further as competition grows stronger -- fueling online bidding wars over bank repossessions.
"The market is ripe for this," said Daren Blomquist, vice president of the real estate data provider RealtyTrac Inc. "With home prices still low and strong rental rates, investors are taking advantage of it."
Bulk-buying investors in Sarasota County accounted for 148 foreclosure sales last year. They paid an average of $127,146 for homes that were valued at only $93,479, according to data from RealtyTrac.
In Manatee County, many of the same active buyers purchased 132 foreclosures, similarly shelling out an average of $136,624 for properties with an estimated worth of $94,208, the research shows.
The most prolific foreclosure buyers in the region last year included individual investor Karl B. Helbig; the local investment group Sp1 Inc.; Portfolio Trust LLC; Northern Trust Co.; and THR Florida LLC, a subsidiary of the Blackstone Group.
Most of these investors are willing to outbid other traditional buyers for properties that fit their criteria -- even if it means paying tens of thousands of dollars more than the asking price.
The trend was consistent across Florida, where bulk-foreclosure buyers snapped up 5,289 properties that were seized by banks. More than half of those transactions stemmed from four counties -- Hillsborough, Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.
As foreclosure inventories in those cities tighten, most expect the investors to move more heavily into smaller markets, like Sarasota.
"They're not getting the best of the best in our area, and they're paying way over market for these properties," said Marcus Vanzant, broker and owner of Marcus & Co. Realty in Bradenton. "They're speculating the market has hit bottom and will come back up in five years."
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Investors buying foreclosures in bulk flocked back into Southwest Florida's housing market in 2012, paying on average 45 percent more for their homes than the properties were valued.


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different language versions are not identical. Why is this the case
and which is the original?
The basis for the daily horoscope is Robert Hand's book 'Planets in Transit', which exists also in German, Dutch and Italian book editions.
Astrodienst holds the world-wide exclusive rights to use Robert Hand's text for computer horoscopes. In the early 1990s, we created the Personal Horoscope Calendar, a printed calendar with one column of transit readings for each day. To fit into the available space of the text column, the original text was shortened by astrological editors in each language. Different languages have different space requirements, German for example runs about 15% longer than English for the same text - this means more sentences need to be cut in the German version than in the English. Different editors also made different decisions how to shorten the text. The text from this printed edition is now used online for the Daily Horoscope.
The various language editions have come into existence in complicated ways. This explains the differences in wording. There are many ways to illuminate a particular transit - it is not that one way of describing it is fundamentally more valid than another. This is not how astrology works. Therefore all the different versions are valid in their own way.
Chiron was not yet discovered when Robert Hand wrote 'Planets in Transit'. The Chiron readings for the daily horoscope have been added by Astrodienst staff writers.
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tone of the interpretations is sometimes quite negative. Can't you
write more cheerful things?
We do not sugarcoat everything. In most cases only part of the text describes the challenging aspects. If you read all paragraphs, you will often find that it is not at all that negative, even when it indeed starts off that way.
There might be a few texts which do not have a brighter tone at all. These are either aspects which are challenging by nature, or - if not - they will be revised by and by.
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interpretation of the transit should take signs and houses into
There is a limit to what a human author can possibly produce. Robert Hand wrote already more than 600 pages, just to cover the aspects of the planetary pairs in transit. To extend that material by taking into account the natal house position and/or the transiting planet's house position, could have easily multiplied the text amount by a factor of 5 - 10, i.e. gone to 3000 - 6000 pages. No astrological author can possibly cover that amount of material without running dry and stale, and no publisher could afford to translate such a volume of text into another language - or find buyers for a boring 6000 page 'cookbook'.
These are some of the limitations of our trade. The synthesis must often happen in the heads of the readers - learn something about houses, and combine that knowledge with the transit readings you find here.
Please run a natal chart separately, if you are not already aware in which houses the transits happen. There is plenty to choose from in our 'Extended Chart Selection'.
The Daily Horoscope often refers to work and career. But I am a
pensioner and these references don't apply to me. Can't you offer
versions for different age groups?
Such a request is rather difficult, because people can be professionally active or interested in their work to a high age. We don't know which type our customers belong to.
Nevertheless, we have edited the references to career issues, so that from the age of 60 an adjusted text appears. Hopefully, this will satisfy those who have stopped working at that age.
Have the texts of the Daily Love Horoscope also been written by Robert
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Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder shook off the pesky Houston Rockets and took Game 2 of their Western Conference quarterfinal series, 105-102, despite blowing a 15-point lead in the fourth quarter.
James Harden and Carlos Delfino spearheaded a 21-2 flurry down the stretch to give the upset-minded Rockets a four-point lead with just over three minutes remaining.
But the Thunder's subsequent 10-2 run, highlighted by Durant hitting a go- ahead 3-pointer and assisting on Thabo Sefolosha's open three, has the series headed to Houston with Oklahoma City holding a 2-0 lead.
"We stayed composed," Thunder head coach Scott Brooks said. "You have to give the guys credit for sticking together."
Durant scored 21 of his 29 points in the first half, Russell Westbrook also added 29 points and Serge Ibaka totaled 12 points, 11 rebounds and six blocks in the hard-fought win.
Harden finished with 36 points and 11 boards for the eighth-seeded Rockets, who lost Jeremy Lin to a muscle contusion in his right chest but received an unlikely double-double from rookie Patrick Beverley and 17 points from Chandler Parsons.
Beverley logged 16 points, 12 rebounds and six assists after earning a start for the first time all season.
Houston was looking for a spark after losing Game 1 by 29 points, and the small lineup kept the game close before two 3-pointers by Kevin Martin and another by Westbrook in the first three minutes of the fourth quarter gave the Thunder an 89-74 cushion.
That's when the Rockets, who never led on Sunday, surprised practically everyone in attendance at Chesapeake Energy Arena with a 21-2 surge. Delfino's second 3-pointer in the six-minute stretch provided the visitors with a 95-91 lead that wound up being short-lived.
Ibaka scored inside and Westbrook followed with two free throws to tie it, and after Harden got a runner to fall, Durant hit from 25 feet for his only field goal of the fourth quarter.
Misses by Omer Asik and Parsons on consecutive possessions led to Durant swinging to an open Sefolosha for a 3-pointer on the right wing. Sefolosha's try went through with 1:01 to play, and the hosts held on from there as Delfino's heave from well beyond midcourt fell short at the buzzer.
"We had a few opportunities to capitalize on a couple buckets late in the game and we didn't," a disappointed Harden said.
Game 3 is scheduled for Saturday night in Houston, where the Rockets went 29-12 in the regular season and split two games with the Thunder in the regular season.
There were 18 lead changes and nine ties in a chippy first half that saw neither team lead by more than five points. Beverley sent Westbrook to the floor on two separate occasions, and Westbrook returned the favor with a glancing elbow to Beverley's face on a drive to the basket.
Reggie Jackson's last-second 3-pointer gave the Thunder a 29-28 lead heading into the second, while Delfino's late layup pulled the Rockets within 57-55 at halftime.
Harden had 17 points in the first half and continued attacking in the third quarter, most notably when he drove the lane and threw down a rim-rattling dunk for a 63-61 lead near the midway point.
Brooks took a timeout after the slam, and the momentum swung immediately with Oklahoma City scoring the next 13 points. Westbrook netted seven on the surge, including a layup while being fouled for a 74-63 cushion with under four minutes on the clock.
The Rockets scored seven of the last nine points of the quarter to pull within 78-72 entering the final stanza.
Game Notes
In the Oklahoma City era, the Thunder have taken a 2-0 series lead three times and advanced in no more than five games in each ... Teams with a 2-0 lead in a best-of-seven NBA playoff series have gone on to win the series 94 percent of the time (233-of-248) ... Durant has scored 20-plus points in 28 straight playoff games ... Lin did not play in the second half and finished with seven points and three assists ... The Rockets shot 33 percent after halftime following a 45 percent clip in the first two quarters ... Asik pulled down nine of his 14 rebounds in the fourth quarter, helping the Rockets to a commanding 57-40 edge on the glass.