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Jack Horner relaxes in Snap Creek camp, the makeshift summer home of paleontologists, students and visitors trying to reconstruct the Hell Creek Formation. The camp is located northeast of Jordan, Mont., between a corral and bunkhouse owned by Jay and Judd Twitchell.
Jack Horner could have gone anywhere to find the perfect spot for reconstructing the world as it looked 65 million years ago. The paradise he was looking for, however, was a patch of Montana Badlands called Hell Creek.
"I literally traveled all over the world looking for the ideal place to do this project. I had funding to go anywhere," said the Montana State University paleontologist who is known for his ground-breaking discoveries about dinosaurs, as well as his books and work as a consultant on Jurassic Park movies.
Horner is about three-quarters through an 11-year quest to learn everything about an ecosystem that was dominated by dinosaurs. He spends his summers living out of a Starcraft camper and moving between Bozeman and the project's field camps in Eastern Montana. Despite the conditions that make its name fitting, the Hell Creek Formation was the paradise he was seeking. The 300-foot-thick formation is a layer of rock deposited at the end of the Cretaceous Period. It extends into the Dakotas and Wyoming, but Horner is focusing on the formation exposed between Jordan and the Fort Peck Reservoir.
"It's the youngest dinosaur-dominant ecosystem we can get our hands on," Horner explained. "It's right before the extinction, and the strata is all lying flat. It hasn't been deformed by mountain building. The Missouri River flows through it so there are lots of places for badlands to form.
"It's the ideal location to do a project like this," Horner continued. "We chose here because of accessibility and because of how much stuff has already been collected there. It has been collected since the early 1900s."
Man shares a mission
Horner's goal is to study all the dinosaurs, rocks, sediments, plants, invertebrates, reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals that existed at the same time in the Hell Creek Formation. Because it is an ambitious project, too large a job for one person or institution, he reached out to 12 other senior scientists and recruited graduate students and undergraduate students. The senior scientists come from all over the country, specializing in different aspects of the ancient ecosystem. Mary Higby Schweitzer, a Helena native, comes from North Carolina State University, for example, and focuses on biomolecules. Mark Goodwin comes from the University of California, Berkeley, and studies dinosaurs. The students attend MSU and elsewhere.
"I love it out here," Becky Schaff, an MSU senior and assistant crew chief, said last summer at the Snap Creek camp. "I live for this. All the rest of the year when I'm sitting in my classes, I think about being out here."
Alessandro Carpana, an Italian, said he wrote an admiring e-mail to Horner a few years ago and it led to him joining Horner's field crew. Last summer was his second season in Eastern Montana. He normally studies geology at the Universta di Parma.
"It's very cool," added Sonya Scarff, a 2006 MSU graduate from Bozeman who scored the big find of last summer. Walking through the badlands, she looked up and saw bone fragments scattered on a hill. Climbing closer, she saw an orbital horn, which led to the discovery of a partial skull and frill of a baby triceratops. The discovery was so significant that it sent Horner back to Bozeman to hold a press conference at MSU's Museum of the Rockies.
"It's one of the four or five baby triceratops that have ever been found in the world." Horner announced. "We are very excited about this. This is probably one of the best baby triceratop skulls ever found."
It's common to find adult triceratops in the Hell Creek formation, but this was a baby that looked like it died before it was one year old, Horner added. That's significant, he said, because it fills a gap in a collection showing how triceratops grew and developed.
Goodwin, from UC, Berkeley, said, "It fits nicely into our growth series. It's sort of like finding another piece to a puzzle."
Not everyone's paradise
John Scannella, left, and Sonya Scarff endure long days and sweltering heat as they painstakingly remove dinosaur fossils from the Hell Creek Formation between Jordan and the Fort Peck Reservoir.
"This is like hell, really," an MSU student said last summer during a six-hour drive from Bozeman to join Horner and his crew at their makeshift camp northeast of Jordan. Curious about Horner's work and wanting to see a dig for herself, she watched as wildfires darkened the sky and the road's pavement turned into scoria, then dirt as it passed through the badlands. She finally arrived at the Snap Creek camp, located between a corral and bunkhouse on the Judd and Jay Twitchell ranch. Leathery campers reported killing a rattlesnake near the outhouse. Temperatures hit at least 106 degrees the day before, they said. Heat exhaustion sidelined a crew chief.
The student had thought about staying a month, but she changed her mind after helping whisk away dirt and rocks from the newly found baby triceratops. After spending a day searching for shade, avoiding snakes and watching her drinking water dwindle, she was ready to return to Bozeman.
"Talk about torture," she said. "They are all cheerful about it, but geez, this is a freaking nightmare for me."
Starting at the bottom
The work at the site is as rich as the setting is stark.
The project to reconstruct the Hell Creek Formation began with funding from Nathan Myrhvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft, founder of Intellectual Ventures and affiliate research associate of paleontology with the MSU Museum of the Rockies. Although "lots and lots" of museums had "lots and lots" of fossils from the formation, Horner said he discovered that many of the early collectors were more interested in trophies than research. They took the impressive fossils that would attract visitors and left the fragments and smaller specimens.
To get a scientifically reliable picture, Horner said, "We had to go back and really concentrate on those areas in certain geological layers to get a really good handle on the whole unit."
He told his crews to start at the bottom of the formation and work their way up, Horner said. They were to record or pick up every specimen along the way, even if it looked like junk.
The outcome was so many fossils, so many findings, that a five-year study turned into an 11-year project, Horner said. Besides the baby triceratops, the paleontologists discovered 31 dinosaurs in four years alone. Ten of them were triceratops, eight were Tyrannosaur rex and five were duck-billed dinosaurs. One of the T. rexes turned out to be a female who died during an egg-laying cycle. She also had soft tissue and hollow blood vessels preserved in her bones.
The entire Hell Creek Formation represents somewhere between 2 and 3 million years, Horner said. If it turns out to be 3 million, he expects to see some evolutionary change throughout the formation. "If it's less than that, we probably wouldn't see very much."
Beyond those things, Horner said he's not ready to reveal more details about the Hell Creek findings. Although the senior scientists park their RVs next to each other in camp, ride together to dig sites and chat during supper, even they are keeping their professional thoughts to themselves.
"It really is the only way to do this kind of research," Horner said. "It's the only way to get a big picture of things -- working in concert, but still working blindly so you are not affecting one another."
The scientists will finish excavations in 2009 and finally gather to compare results and synthesize their findings when the project wraps up in 2010, Horner said. People will learn more about the paradise named Hell Creek when the experts explain their results in scientific journals and at conferences, public forums and museum displays.


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fake books - 03/11/05 05:15 PM
I just bought my first fake books and am not 100% sure how to read them. I know you play the melody with your right hand and you voice the melody with your left. But exactly how do you read the chord symbols at the top? For example I have a book that says C/B at the top. Can anyone tell me how to interpret that? Any help would be much obliged.


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One of the winners of my special edition Pocket Pacys decided that she needed some friends and made some of her own:
Aren't they cute? Can't wait to see where they all go!
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Pocket Pacy's Pals
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- Jennifer Morian Frye said...
Those are great! I love the creativity!
- January 24, 2013 at 3:46 PM
- Grace Lin said...
I know! And it's so cute that now Pocket Pacy has friends!
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Hi...I am using OGG streaming and OpenAL. However, I have a problem. I want to play OGG streams in loop, but when I try to set loop to a source, I find errors. I'm doing like this: when the file finishes, I load and play the file again, but sometimes a lag occurs. My question is: Is there a way to play OGG stream files in loop without this lag?? thanks
i guess the same way it works for other types of streams, too, but i'm unsure.
then again, waiting for the OGG_EXT would be the most simple solution, hehe.
sorry, i'm not much help, as i don't have much Real Expirience with OpenAL.
How are you loading your ogg files? Are they from disk or from memory? Im guessing your developing for Win32?
What u need to do (if you are using the ogg vorbis SDK) is to seek back to the begginning of the sample using (if loading the sample form disk) ov_time_seek(oggFileStream, 0) (or which ever seek function you are comfortable using). If loading from memory, then you will need to use your own seek function.
Though what davepermen said is more than true. This will probably be much easier to wait for native ogg vorbis support in the libs, but who knows when thats going to happen for the windows version!
Hope that helps Spree
you are aware that when dealing with graphics, you usually use 2 buffers
for my ogg streamer, i too use 2 buffers, and the way it works: [opening] 1)open ogg 2)load ogg info 3)calculate buffersize a)get ogg length b)calculate how many flips are required for a buffersize of 1 meg (u can change it) c)round up the flipscount and recalculate buffersize d){gave me headaches} if you are using 2 channel audio, the buffersize should always be even 4) allocate 2 sound buffers and 1 temprary memory buffer 5) decompress
[part 2, playing] 1) play first buffer 2) when playing buffer is finished, play secondary buffer, then load next portion into the previously playing buffer for looping
a) when having reached end of file your next portion is the beginning of file
When using ogg files, it isn't required to calculate how many buffer re-fills are required. You can easily detect when you have reached the end of the file and (if you have a smallish buffer file about 4096 - 8192 bytes) it takes no time at all to decompress the file and load it so you only need the two buffers, so the memory buffer isnt really needed
i know that calculating the flipcount isnt necessary but it helps alot
as for the third, memory, buffer i took it out and am using the buffer provided by dsound->Lock now my streaming code runs even faster than fmod


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I remember that book- very good. It always stayed with me, even though was quite young when I read it.I hate most autobiographies but I read one in 7th grade called Chinese Cinderella - it was fascinating and really sad. Still remember it!
A boy called It is good- but very upsetting. The following books aren't worth a read however.


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Friday Feb. 11, 2011
3rd Steep of the Day.
Tryed this in Mid Evening 9:00 PM
Great Smelling Dry Tea Bags Great Citrus fragrance.
Adding 205' Water and the Smell of Citrus is Magnified and released.
The Liquor is Herbal Light Pink.
Letting it Steep Long 8 Min.
And Enjoying the Reward for Waiting.
This is going to Be a New Found Favorite. So I'll
Keep On Steepin
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Impact of Big Three Automakers on U.S. Job Market Is Grossly Overstated, Says Boston College Researcher
Dec 11, 2008, 11:29 ET from Boston College
Frequently-cited figures imply that about 1 in 10 jobs -- or 10 percent of the full-time civilian labor force -- will be lost if the big three go into bankruptcy. This indeed would be a sobering statistic: at the end of
This implication is inappropriate, says
In fact, the maximum impact if the entire automobile industry in the US were to shut down completely and permanently would be 190,000 jobs in auto manufacturing and 540,000 other jobs throughout the economy. "And only about 60 percent of this number would be affected were the big three to shut down," he said.
"When jobs are calculated in terms of the number of hours tied to automobile manufacturing," said Havens, "and the hours are expressed in terms of 'full-time jobs,' less than 0.8 percent of the labor force will be affected -- substantially less, because competitors or new startups would pick up many jobs if the big three went out of business."
Citing figures from the Center for Automotive Research, Havens notes that only 190,000 jobs (not full-time equivalents, as used in the other calculations) are located in the entire U.S. automobile manufacturing industry. Suppliers entail another 777,000 jobs, he said, but what is frequently overlooked is that they supply other industries as well.
Auto dealerships constitute the greatest number of jobs within this industry, he said; some 1.235 million total, with about a million jobs in sales alone, most of which are part-time, each amounting to an average of less than 15 hours per week.
"For many sales people, these are weekend, part-time jobs to supplement full-time employment," added Havens. "Moreover, many dealerships have diversified their product line beyond the big three models, meaning they have other products to fall back on."
Data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, he said, tells us that the employment multiplier for the automobile industry varies depending on the type of job. The multiplier indicates how many total jobs in the economy would be lost due to a job lost in any given industry.
"On average, the multiplier for any given job in the automobile industry rarely rises above 3. But for the sake of this argument, let us assume it is 4," he said. "Even if all 190,000 jobs in the automobile industry were lost, the overall economy would see a decrease of 760,000 jobs with approximately 540,000 of those outside the industry.
"This maximum estimate amounts to 0.5 percent of the labor force," he said, "not the 10 percent some are claiming. But even this smaller number involves hundreds of thousands of jobs and hundreds of thousands of households.
"The loss of U.S. jobs especially in this quantity is cause for concern," said Havens, who stresses that the analysis is not intended to minimize the gravity of the economic situation facing the nation or that of individuals facing unemployment.
"It is always important to take a hard look at numbers being reported," he said, "if only to serve as a benchmark for assessing the effectiveness of public policy."


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Cliff Kerr has gardening in his blood. After being raised on a dairy in Riverbank, he learned from his parents how to raise chicken and pigs and how to live off the land. He came to Lodi 34 years ago to practice dentistry, and he said he was pleased because the soil is so good in this area.
"I wish more people would realize this soil can grow anything," he said.


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Country: USA
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- The gluten-free, casein-free diet in autism: an overview with clinical implicationsJennifer Harrison Elder
University of Florida, College of Nursing, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
Nutr Clin Pract 23:583-8. 2008....
- The gluten-free, casein-free diet in autism: results of a preliminary double blind clinical trialJennifer Harrison Elder
College of Nursing, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32610, USA
J Autism Dev Disord 36:413-20. 2006..Although preliminary, this study demonstrates how a controlled clinical trial of the GFCF diet can be conducted, and suggests directions for future research...
- Supporting families of children with autism spectrum disorders: questions parents ask and what nurses need to knowJennifer Harrison Elder
Department of Health Care Environment and Systems College of Nursing, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Pediatr Nurs 35:240-5, 253. 2009..Additionally, nurses can support families in the critical areas of managing family life, addressing sibling needs, and planning for the future. Parent-to-parent advice from the mother of a child with autism supplements this article...
- Caring for children with autism spectrum disorder. Part I: prevalence, etiology, and core featuresMelissa Dodd Inglese
University of Florida, College of Nursing, Psychiatry, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
J Pediatr Nurs 24:41-8. 2009..A basic understanding of the current issues regarding prevalence and etiology, coupled with knowledge of the core features of ASD, will help pediatric nurses in all settings and at various practice levels better care for these children...


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The quarter ended June 30, 2010 is the third consecutive quarter during which total nonperforming assets declined. Nonperforming assets which consist of non-accrual loans and other real estate owned ("OREO") were $110.6 million at June 30, 2010 as compared to $145.6 million at September 30, 2009; this represents an improvement of $35.0 million or 24% over the nine month period. This decrease supports Management's opinion, stated in the 2009 earnings release, that nonperforming assets peaked during the third quarter of 2009. The $110.6 million of nonperforming assets is comprised of $6.7 million of OREO properties and $103.9 million of non-accrual loans. Of the $103.9 million in non-accrual loans, $31.3 million or 30% of non-accrual loans consisting of 25 notes are under 30 days past due as to payments. The $6.7 million in OREO consists of three properties none of which have been in OREO greater than one year. During the six month period ended June 30, 2010, OREO declined by $12.3 million or 65% reflecting the disposition of six properties on which the Company recorded net losses of $173,000 or approximately 1% at the time of sale.The quarter ended June 30, 2010 is also the fifth consecutive quarter during which the level of loans placed on nonaccrual declined demonstrating a consistent improvement in the risk profile of the portfolio. Additions to nonaccrual loans during each of the previous five quarters were: June 30, 2010 - $3.3 million, March 31, 2010 - $4.0 million, December 31, 2009 - $9.3 million, September 30, 2009 - $26.2 million and June 30, 2009 - $54.8 million. Mr. Charles F. Howell, President and Chief Executive Officer of Patriot National Bank stated that he is encouraged by the improvements described above, as well as by continuing increases in the median sales prices and the volume of single family residences sold in Fairfield County, Connecticut and Westchester County, New York, two of the primary lending areas of the Bank. He further stated that these are hopeful signs that confirm management's belief that negative conditions "bottomed out" in mid-2009 and there are indications that prospects for a recovery remain favorable.
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Asher Roth – Morning Do Lyrics
[Asher Roth]
Thats what my body's telling me
In the morning
My hormones are just everywhere
In the a.m.
I like to call it morning do
Its morning do
[Don Cannon]
Lets go
[Asher Roth – Verse 1]
In the a.m? girl I'd be getting
No shit my dick be hard as a brick
Girl I ain't kiddin' ill really be feelin' it
Might just stick it between your legs
I like my ass sunny side up
I like my ass sun is risin'
On top real fast she'd be ridin'
Burnin' house down like im andre rison
Hell yeah, ill suck on titties
Wrap my arms round her cuz she's skinny
Come on baby, lets get busy
You know how many want to hit me?
There's so many, good and plenty
Chew them up and eat them every morning
It's my favorite to have sex morning do
I like to walk around naked (naked)
While my girl cook breakfast (breakfast)
She's making eggs and bacon (bacon)
I got the recipe, did you want me and me on you
Its 8 a.m. with no phones on, your so damn cute (your so damn cute)
I kiss your neck you rub your thighs
I'll feed you through (i'll feed you through)
We sexin' in the morning
Its the morning do (morning do)
Its morning
[Verse 2]
I'm playin' in bed
And dreaming about boxin'
That's when I start to feel a hand on my cock
She whispers in my ear "ash I feel hot, I know it's kinda early can I climb on top?"
Hell yeah, I would like that a lot
Let's try a new position, let's hit the g spot,
She groanin' and she moanin' and screamin' dont stop!
She leans and tries to kiss me I'll say "shit your breathes hot."
So kissin's out the question, but you know that hands hot
I'll sunk your tires stammin' I'm overhand now
I overhand slap that booty
Watch you wiggle watch it jiggle,
Watch she stop what she doin' just to giggle
Blow the whistle, (whistle blows) and the regulation
Overtime starts, after eggs and bacon
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[Asher Roth – Morning Do Lyrics]
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5/2/13 Update: Bill Moyers has picked up the story of the Home Defender's heroic actions and included as part of his 3-part series about people across the country are fighting back against the big banks entitled "Banks on the Run." Check out the coverage and learn more about the action by clicking the link below!
"You can't talk about poverty without talking about the practices of the big banks"
WELLS FARGO CAN RUN BUT THEY CAN'T HIDE: Home Defenders follow bankers to their annual meeting.
This past week, Home Defenders League members from ACCE (Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment) traveled to Salt Lake City, Utah to confront Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf as he presided over his company's shareholder meeting.
The action was a part of an ongoing campaign targeting Wells Fargo for their reluctance to commit to widespread principal reduction that would help keep families in their homes and restart the economy.
Inside of the meeting, Stumpf explained how, in his eyes, he and the bank were doing a fine job in helping homeowners. Not surprisingly, the experience of homeowners throughout the county differs greatly from the picture that Stumpf painted. Earlier this year, ACCE released a report on the damage that Wells Fargo is causing communities in California. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE REPORT.
As Stumpf tried to move the meeting forward, he was confronted by angry homeowners and activists. "John Stumpf, you are a liar and a crook, and are stealing homes in my neighborhood", shouted Makayla Major, and ACCE member from East Oakland. When she was surrounded by security, Manuela Alvarez stood and shouted "John Stumpf, you are stealing my home, and the homes of thousands of other hard working families. It's time for you to be held accountable!"
One after another, more people rose to confront Stumpf, who was eventually read a citizens arrest warrant by Melvin Willis, an ACCE member from Richmond. Eventually, all HDL members and allies were removed from the meeting by security.
After being removed from the meeting, HDL members, accompanied by students and local allies, took their message to several local Wells Fargo branches, then reconvened in front of the site of the shareholder meeting for a rally and press conference.
One message was sent very clearly to John Stumpf – you can run, but you can't hide! Home Defenders are committed to keep the pressure on Wells Fargo until their major campaign demands are met:
- Offer principal reduction with all modifications where they have the legal authority to do so.
- Report all foreclosure and relief data by race, income and zip code
- Halt all foreclosures and evictions until demands #1 and #2 are in place.
After taking the fight to Wells Fargo in Salt Lake City, Home Defenders are gearing up to confront Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama Adminitration over their failure to hold Wall Street accountable through their policy of Too Big to Jail. We'll be going to DC from May 18-23, along with over 200 other embattled homeowners, to hold a week of dramatic non-violent actions aimed at reminding President Obama that, while many homeowners are still reeling from the financial crisis, he has yet to prosecute a single Wall Street banker.
You can read more about our Week of Action (and even sign up to go!) HERE.


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MacDONALD, Martin Lindsay
Martin Lindsay MacDonald, 86, Riverton, formerly of Linacy, died Wednesday, February 21 *1990*, in Aberdeen Hospital, New Glasgow. Born in Quebec, he was a son of the late George and Odille MacDonald. He was a retired employee of Eastern Woodworkers and he was a member of First Presbyterian Church, New Glasgow. He is survived by his wife, the former Annie MacDonald; a daughter, Doreen (Mrs Gary Campbell), Glengarry; two grandchildren. Funeral was held Friday, February 23 *1990* from R.H. Porter Funeral Home, New Glasgow. Burial in Glenbard Cemetery.
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We demonstrated a fully fiber-integrated widely tunable picosecond optical parametric oscillator based on highly nonlinear fiber. The ring cavity with a highly nonlinear fiber was synchronously pumped with a picosecond mode-locked fiber laser. The tuning range was from and from , which was as wide as . A high-quality pulse was generated with a pulse width narrower than that of the pump.
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The Santa Clarita Branch of the American Association of University Women recently celebrated its 40th Anniversary with a member brunch at the home of Louise Schultz. Ed Masterson, SCV Field Representative for state Assemblyman Cameron Smyth, recognized the group with a special certificate while Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich and the Santa Clarita City Council conveyed congratulatory messages.
Six charter members attended the brunch and spoke on changes within the Santa Clarita Valley and the evolving role of women.
AAUW is a national organization and California's most active and diverse organization for women, with a mission statement to "advance equity for women and girls through advocacy, education and research."
For more information on Santa Clarita Valley AAUW visit www.aauw-scv.org or contact Rose Drye at (661) 296-9622.


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BEIJING (TheStreet) -- A strict interpretation of China's much-feared law against "spreading rumors" could theoretically land a few stock analysts in the slammer for comments about the latest news from Sinopec (SHI).
But law enforcers who play fair could also point an accusing finger at Sinopec, a state-run petrochemical conglomerate whose Tuesday announcement of "progress on the sale of businesses and restructuring" sparked wild market chatter.
Sinopec's statement released in Beijing added few new details and did little to flesh out previous announcements about its plans to spin off certain non-core assets such as gas stations this year. The latest statement neither set a timetable nor hinted at any potential buyers.
Priceline Seeks to Drive Growth With New Luxury Car-Rental Service
10 Cars That Retain Their Resale Value After 5 Years
Goldman Women Say They Make Less Than Men Who Frequent Strip Clubs, Call Them 'Bimbos'
Some stock analysts in China reacted by speculating that potential investors might include Internet giant Tencent (TCTZF) and the Hong Kong-listed conglomerate Fosun, whose businesses range from property development to steelmaking. Several insurance companies were also said to be eyeing Sinopec's assets.
The spinoff plan has been brewing since last fall as part of a government "state-owned enterprise reform" project. Sinopec and other state-owned champions have been told to seek private investors for minority stakes or to buy certain non-strategic assets. Up to 80% of the assets in some state companies could be sold to private investors over the next few years.


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Hail to the Vikings of Northeast High.
With freshman Mary Freeman in the captain's chair, the school edged five other remaining teams to become the 2009 Battle of the Books High School champs. The competition was held inside the Pinellas County School Board's auditorium Friday in downtown Largo.
After the teenagers' showdown, the elementary and middle school districts were held with the Bookaneers of Lakeview Fundamental Elementary and the Excaliburs of Tarpon Springs Middle taking the trophies.
Started 11 years ago (except the high school division, which started in 2006), the Battle of the Books district round has students sitting in clusters of three with hands poised on a buzzer. They answer questions in quiz game format, pouncing on the buzzer as quickly as they can.
What makes Northeast's victory all the sweeter is the fact that the Vikings knocked out the previously undefeated Countryside Cougars from a three-year reign.
"Up until now, Countryside High School is the only name that's been on that trophy,'' said Bonnie Kelley, supervisor of Library Media/Technology for Pinellas County Schools and coordinator of the event.
The Vikings did not expect to win.
"This is a great surprise,'' said Freeman, as she clutched the championship trophy with teammates Shakira Jinks-Smith and Julie Solomon by her side. Freeman offered advice to future warriors in such a battle. "Read the books and then read them again and again.''
The Battle of the Books for the lower grades consists of three rounds of questions about 15 books taken from the Sunshine State Young Readers list. The high school competition is styled the same way with the books coming from the Florida Teens Read list.
Information on both programs can be found on the Web site for the Florida Association of Media in Education, www.floridamedia.org.
After suffering defeat in the districts last year, the team from Lakeview Fundamental was determined to win, according to Diane Kort, the school's library information specialist.
"Our strategy was to listen for key words,'' Kort said. ''If they'd hear a word unique to a certain book, they'd hit the buzzer as fast as they could.''
After their victory in the middle school division, the Tarpon Springs team agreed to be quizzed on one more question.
What book should be on every middle-schooler's summer reading list?
"The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Rich Yancey is just too good,'' said team members in unison as they carted their trophy away from the stage area.


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Organic market removes products with cartoons on packaging
CEO cites danger of marketing to children
MOM's Organic Market, a Maryland- and Virginia-based organic grocer, will remove products featuring characters from children's cartoon shows on their packaging, citing concerns over the ethicality of marketing to children. "Marketing to children is wrong and should be illegal," says Scott Nash, founder and CEO of MOM's. "Advertising is a shady game. It focuses on creating a shallow emotional attachment instead of pointing out the merits of a product. Unfortunately it works—and young children are particularly susceptible." An FTC report showed that major food and beverage manufacturers spent $1.79 billion marketing to children in 2009. More than $80 million of that went to licensing fees for cartoons and other popular characters.
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David Broder, the Pulitzer prize winning Washington Post reporter and columnist died today, due to complications from diabetes, the Post reports.
Broder was a fixture on NBC's "Meet the Press" where he appeared 401 times, according to EP Betsy Fischer. Fischer tweeted this photo of Broder when he celebrated 30 years of appearing on the show — "and that was 18 yrs ago!" she writes.
David Broder was 81.
A statement from Fischer, after the jump…
"'Meet the Press' mourns the loss of a true giant in journalism. David Broder was part of our 'Meet the Press' family since 1963, when he was just 33 years old. He appeared as a panelist and later a roundtable member a record 401 times during his remarkable career — and he was a true gentleman and first rate journalist every single time. David was beloved by the staff and crew of 'Meet the Press' throughout the years. We feel so incredibly honored and grateful to have worked with him. We offer our heartfelt sympathies to his family, friends and his colleagues at the Washington Post."


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Police have released images of a man they would like to speak to in connection with arson at a community centre.
Fire broke out at Ashford Place, in Ashford Road, Cricklewood, after a break in on Tuesday, February 11 at around 4am.
CCTV images of a man who police would like to trace to help with their inquiries has been released.
Detective Constable Carly Anthony, of Brent CID, said: "The fire caused considerable damage within the building. We are determined to trace the person responsible for this despicable crime so I urge people to get in touch if they have information."


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Disclaimer: You flash the below files at your own risk.
I take absolutely no responsibility for what you do with your own device!
Please backup first!
Welcome to Project Infinity!
This rom is the start of a port of my highly popular Tmobile ROM to all Galaxy S5 devices! This ROM is meant to be a "community rom". Its purpose is to showcase and include many different apps and functions that where created from the community. Thus I am always looking for contributions and will highly consider adding or integrated whatever is contributed.
As of right now, it is exactly the same as the latest version that is released on my T-mobile Thread . If proven to be wanted, I will begin to fork off this version and modify it to better suit specific devices. Please let me know of any changes that you would like to see or bugs that need to be addressed. It does include all the T-mobile features however wifi calling will still not function unless you are on a T-mobile network.
Please Note: This ROM is and independent project of one person, not a team of people. This rom is worked on in my free time and (as like all devs) I do not get any compensation. All requests will be considered and most fullfilled but may take a while to implement. Please make sure that you hit like below and rate this thread 5 stars. Please treat everyone with respect in the thread.
If you would like to contribute, I will implement most mods or tweaks that are offered and proper gratitude will be posted in the op.If you have knowledge of app or theme development and would like to assist in side projects for this rom please send me a pm.
-Used The Great Rom from BeansTown106 As A Base
-G900TUVU1ANE5 Base
-Partially Odex and Deodex hybrid
-Knox-Free - Carrier-IQ Free
-All Tethering restrictions removed
-External Storage Bug Fixed
-Includes WIFI Calling and all T-mobile proprietary features
-Extremely fast init.d and build.prop mods and tweaks
-Data, Hotspot and many more toggles added (30 total)
-Many unlocked features and tweaks across the entire system (to many to list)
-3min Battery mod with over 1000 battery icons and growing
-Customizable battery bar
-Dev Settings - Added CPU Control & Stats, Flash Settings and Entropy Seeder
-Removed many annoying and useless popup notifications
-Disabled ASEC and Signature checks
-Many system mods and built in features uncovered throughout the whole system
-Call/Message Block
-Permissions Manager (app ops)
-Call Recording
-Lockcreen Widgets
-And Much, Much, Much more!!!
Aroma Installer Features
-3 sound increase level mods
-Choice of boot sounds
-Full stock app chooser
-Choice of 4 boot custom boot screens (Project Infinity, stock, S4, Android L)
-Choice to add custom bootanimation.zip support
-Choice of stock, Faux, Blaze or Ktoonz kernels
-File Managers - Es File Explorer, CM Fill Manager or stock My Files
-Launchers - Touchwiz, Apex, Sony, Nova and Google Now,
-Music Players - Stock, Play Music, MIUI Music, Apollo and Sony Walkman
-Other Cameras - Focal, Google, and MotoX
-Option to remap recent apps key
-Inludes Xposed, ad away, Viper audio and many other essential apps
-Modded SMS with unlimted sending, different message view and more
-Choice of keyboards (stock, black themed, Google or Xperia)
-Option to add navigation bar
-Choose different carrier statusbars (Tmobile, ATT, Verizon, Sprint or International)
-Choose to swap your storage space
-Many different Samsung apps and Google apps included
-Many more that I probably forgot!
How To Install:1) Reboot your phone into your choice of custom recoveries (twrp or CWM)
2) Perform a factory reset of your device and insure that it erases your data, cache and dalvik caches at minimum
3) Install the rom and let it guide you through the easy to follow Aroma installer to customize your installation.
4) Reboot and enjoy!
Known Issues:
You tell me
- BeansTown106 for the base rom
- Google for the system
- Samsung for the phone
- XDA Developers
- All the users and developers throughout XDA who create, modify
and hack to improve the phones and better technology.
- Sling for his excellent mods
- ZhuHang and the Viper team for the great Viper Audio Mod
- ChainFire for the excellent SuperSU and rooting methods
- BSDgeek_Jake for the ad-blocking hosts file (his thread)
- gharrington for the 3min battery mod and quick launch mods (his thread)
- ™LEO for providing some great mirrors
- BLuFeNiX For his great boot animations
- SICKMADE for the great wallpapers and Chrome dialer theme(will be in next release)
- PatF for his camera quality mod
- mattiadj for his storage space script (His Thread)
*If I forgot anybody please send me a pm and it will be added immediately
Project Infinity Supporters:
I would like to send a sincere thank you to the below individuals who donated or support the development
of Project Infinity. If I forgot your name it is not intentional, just please send me a pm immediately and I will add you.
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XDA:DevDB Information
Project Infinity, ROM for the Samsung Galaxy S 5
ROM OS Version: 4.4.x KitKat
Based On: Touchwiz
Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: Version 8
Stable Release Date: 2014-09-10
Created 2014-09-10
Last Updated 2014-09-10


text: Reed To Form His Own Team Shan Moore | November 8, 2010Ending weeks of speculation, Chad Reed is believed to be announcing the formation of his own team for an assault on the 2011 AMA Supercross series.It was reported in an Australian newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, that he has decided to ride a Honda during the upcoming season, armed with aftermarket parts of his choosing and bankrolled by Reed himself."I'm over dealing with all the teams and the rules and I want to do it my way," Reed said in the article. "I want to do it the Aussie way. This will be my team 100 percent, but a lot of my friends and teams I worked with back in Australia in my younger days will be involved in this race team. So it will be Australian products and companies."The story implies that Reed is upset by the fact that some manufacturers have written him off after he was forced to quit season 2010 when he was diagnosed with the debilitating Epstein-Barr virus."The way the economy is going the manufacturers aren't selling the bikes they used to and to end up on these teams they are paying you less and less," Reed said. Shan Moore | Contributing EditorMoore covers all facets of off-road racing for Cycle News – from AMA Supercross and Motocross to GNCC and National Hare Scrambles events. Comments


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My bike has developed the dreaded suspension clunk, now noticeable when I pick it up. Further investigation leads me to believe that I need new bushings for the rear shock. Does anyone know the part number(s) or specs for a 2012 Satori?
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10,000 soccer fans have snapped up tickets to watch the Black Stars train on Friday Allsports.com.gh can reveal exclusively.
In an interview with an official of the Alagoas state government,he revealed that the tickets had been bought up almost immediately after they were released for sale.
"People here feel close to Ghana because we share a lot in common.Ghana is in our hearts and people want to support them to go all the way in this toournament"he told Allsports.com.gh.
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When tryng to adjust privileges on my system, pgAdmin seems to be unable to populate the drop-down combo box with the list of users/roles - this is on the "Privileges" tab both in the Grant Wizard and in the Properties for any particular table, function or other object. All that is listed is the generic "Public" group. Despite this, however, all users are correctly listed under the "Login roles" node of the treeview on the left. I've running pgAdmin III 1.4.2 on Windows XP SP2, talking to PostgreSQL 8.1.3 on the same machine. --Ray O'Donnell ------------------------------------------------------------- Raymond O'Donnell http://www.galwaycathedral.org/recitals rod(at)iol(dot)ie Galway Cathedral Recitals -------------------------------------------------------------
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Great entry level pellet smoker
Pros: Ease of use/plug and play style/good smoke/versitile
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This is a good smoker for the beginner who does not want to get to involved with staying up all night monitoring temp/coals. Just fill the hopper and set the temp, when it is warmed up toss in your meat and set your timer. This unit comes with a meat probe that makes it easy to see temp without opening the lid so you wont lose any heat. If compared to a Treager that is about the same size this unit is by far a better value at 200 dollars cheaper and comes standard with the upper rack the Treager does not. Both are Manufactured in China so the material and internal components are most likely the same and both have about the same functionality but I would say the Camp Chef is better. Cost...(read more)


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The Silicone Fun Vibes Wavy-G is a G-spot vibrator with body safe material, a stimulating shape, and adjustable speeds for your pleasure.
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A new public opinion poll suggests some significant shifts in how Oregonians are thinking about the slate of presidential candidates.
Mike Riley, of Riley Research, questioned likely voters throughout the state. He says the most dramatic shift concerned Rudy Giuliani's support among Oregon Republicans. The candidate went from 33% down to 16% in the last 3 months.
Riley, who spoke with Allison Frost, says other Republicans made up the ground he lost.
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Bill Rockwell of Athens, left, Dennis Cook of Athens, Wallace Phillips of Watkinsville and Mike Goldwire of Elberton, members of T.R.R. Cobb Camp 97 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, march toward Cobb's grave during a Thursday observance of Confederate Memorial Day at Oconee Hill Cemetery in Athens. Cobb was a Confederate general. Rebecca Breyer/Staff
Nedra Johnson, left, of Bishop, her granddaughter, 8-year-old Jennifer Fleming of Winterville, and her daughter, Linda Fleming, watch the proceedings.Rebecca Breyer/Staff
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THREE of Scotland's leading universities have resigned their membership of the CBI, arguing its decision to become a registered campaigner on the No side in the referendum fight is at odds with their political neutrality.
Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh universities felt it inappropriate to belong to, and help fund, an organisation that will be allowed to spend up to £150,000 in the 16-week "regulated period" before polling day on communicating its view that remaining in the UK is in the best interests of the Scottish economy.
Another university, Glasgow Caledonian, will take a decision on its continued membership today. A fifth, Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University, has expressed its disapproval of CBI Scotland's move but chosen not to resign, saying its membership was about developing business links and not the issue of independence.
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CBI Scotland's decision has placed the country's universities in a difficult position. They are right to consider their political impartiality and guard it jealously. It may be they are also conscious of the degree to which they rely on funding from the Scottish Government. It came as no surprise when government agencies VisitScotland and Scottish Enterprise quit the CBI - ministers made it plain membership was "inappropriate" for them - and the wider Yes campaign yesterday went further, claiming no body in receipt of public funds should remain part of the organisation. The pressure is clearly on.
For its part, the CBI has expressed regret at the universities' departure and sought to reassure other members that it will not become engaged in a door-knocking, leaflet-posting, election-style campaign in the run-up to the referendum. Rather, argued director general John Cridland, the organisation needs to ensure it complies with Electoral Commission rules when it presents its very clear opposition to independence to businesses and in press releases.
The key test for CBI Scotland will be how its majority of private-sector members react. So far three companies are known to have resigned over the issue. STV is bound by strict broadcasting rules. The second, Balhousie Care Group, is chaired by a prominent figure in the Yes campaign while the other, pioneering wave energy firm Aquamarine Power, happens to be the recipient of substantial support from Scottish Enterprise. Other members are supportive, CBI Scotland officials insist privately. They received a large number of emails from chief executives backing their decision over the weekend, they claim, though they are frustrated no-one has made their backing public.
If firms do agree, it's perhaps time they came out and said so. The desire of a commercial enterprise not to alienate customers is understandable, especially in the light of the recent social media campaign to boycott a travel firm whose founder warned against independence. However, if bosses are genuinely concerned about impact of a Yes vote on their business, silence may be a luxury they cannot afford as the race becomes ever tighter.


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Just as people try to squeeze that last little bit of toothpaste out of the tube, save the last drop of milk or collect their pennies in a jar, scrap processors are trying to get every last drop of value out of their materials. They view selling or disposing of auto shredder fluff without advanced downstream processing as throwing away money.
As margins get tighter, volumes decline and competition grows, one way auto shredding operations have made up the difference is by extracting more value from the material that enters their facilities. In the past, auto shedders would have eddy current separators to sort out nonferrous metals after the shredding process, but now more elaborate downstream systems are much more prevalent.
Just ask Chris Melenick of U.S. Shredder and Castings Group, Trussville, Ala. He says that while U.S. Shredder continues to sell auto shredders, there is more interest among processors in upgrading their nonferrous processing lines at existing shredding plants. He thinks this trend will continue. "It seems like everybody has some interest in doing an upgrade," he says. "From the small guy to the big processor, everybody is trying to squeeze the last bit out of their fluff."
Seeing Results
Melenick says a large percentage of auto shredding operations have some sort of downstream system that may include one or two eddy current separators to make zorba. In that scenario, the remaining insulated wire or stainless steel in the fluff goes either to a secondary processor or to a landfill.
Three nonferrous fractions are produced with downstream equipment from U.S. Shredder and Castings Group.
"Now what guys are realizing is that if they put more sizing in and break [the material] out into three different fractions, they can increase their recovery by 20 percent," Melenick says.
A typical nonferrous processing system begins with sizing equipment. Without sizing, Melenick says, "you cannot make a quality product."
In typical setups, a trommel makes three cuts: 1.5 inch-minus; 1.5 inch to 5 inch; and 5 inch and overs. The overs are hand picked or reshredded. The 1.5-inch-minus fraction passes over a screener with five-eighths-inch holes, producing the five-eighths-inch-minus fraction.
Wendt Corp., Tonawanda, N.Y., uses a similar configuration in the downstream systems it installs. Wendt Sales Manager Bill Close suggests following a few basic principles in a nonferrous system: "Feed it, screen it, mag it and separate it."
He says a well-laid-out plant includes a batch feeder that delivers a uniform, consistent flow, screening that produces three sizes of materials plus overs and a magnetic prep step that removes ferrous solids and ferritic dirt. With this preliminary processing, Close says eddy current separators and sensor-based sorting can be highly efficient as the next step.
"Downstream plants can now be laid out very efficiently with a few machines that are both cost-effective and versatile," says Close. "Fines processes have evolved with these same core machines and processes, and a surprising amount of value is available for recovery. Small, bare copper and precious metals reside in these streams and offer significant opportunities." He does not recommend screening out what he refers to as the "bottom cut."
Close says Wendt is introducing systems that are equipped with air classification to remove the light materials fraction. The air classifiers are operating at the Wendt Test Center and will be incorporated into several systems the company is building this summer, he adds. "This is making cleaner products and a cleaner work environment for people," Close says.
Sorting With Care
Shredding and nonferrous separation involve very different approaches in Close's estimation. Where shredding is all about tons on the ground at the end of the day, he says nonferrous plants need an operator willing to watch the process and to make changes as necessary. "If you are running an extra-rich batch of materials, you need to recognize the opportunity and slow the plant down to maximize the revenue," Close says.
Plant performance should be monitored at all times, he advises. When recoveries are dropping off, then it is time to perform maintenance. If nozzles get plugged, Close advises operators to clean them before they continue processing.
Close says the proper performance of magnetic-inductive separation is tied directly to a uniform, thin flow of properly sized materials. "If materials span too wide a size, significant amounts of cast aluminum will not be recovered in the zorba fraction, thereby putting pressure on sensor machines to perform following them and resulting in misplacements into other recovered streams," he says.
Melenick has similar advice, saying, "The sensor is great technology, but if you are not sizing properly, it can be a nightmare." For instance, he says, if five-eighths-inch minus material is getting into the five-eighths-to-1.5-inch material, it will create a dirty product because the sensor will hit smaller pieces of copper and ferritic dirt.
Air classifiers are running at the Wendt Test Center and are being incorporated into several systems being installed this summer.
Not a Lot of Fluff
Most auto shredder fluff contains between 12 and 15 percent nonferrous metals, according to Melenick, so it is easy to see how further processing can equal added value. What may not immediately be apparent is how quickly a downstream upgrade can pay off.
Both Melenick and Close agree that a typical ROI for downstream systems is two years or less. Melenick admits that it may take a little longer for smaller processor to receive payback on a system. However, companies that are investing in downstream technologies have more control over their products and higher recovery rates, both of which can give them a competitive advantage.
Melenick admits many auto shredders still have old nonferrous processing systems, but he says that will change. "I think the more educated people become, the downstream systems are going to evolve," he says.
Melenick predicts the next development in auto shredder downstream processes will be with plastics, saying there is enough volume to support systems development in this area.
What is certain is that scrap processors are looking for ways to divert more material and to make more products, and installing or upgrading a nonferrous separation system downstream of an auto shredder can make those goals attainable.
Close concludes, "Operators must find new ways to be competitive, and nonferrous systems that are simple and well designed can deliver on this."
Triple M Metal Comissions Shredder
Triple M, founded more than 40 years ago by Mike Giampaolo, is a ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal recycler with 16 facilities in North America.
Wendt says the recent installation of the M6090 will provide Triple M with the opportunity to sell the majority of its scrap metal locally while growing its customer base in and near Sault Ste. Marie.
Triple M says the transportation savings gained from having a shredder on site justifies its investment in the equipment.
"We were looking at pricey shipping costs if we didn't invest in a shredding facility for this yard," says Tom Anderson, Triple M vice president of engineering. "We would have had to ship shreddable materials to one of our southern Ontario shredders and then transport the finished goods back up to our local steel mill customer in Sault Ste. Marie."
In determining which shredder to purchase, Triple M says it found the M6090 to be the appropriate fit. "The Model M6090 was the right size for this yard," says Anderson. "Our material flow was not sufficient enough to support anything larger, and the decision supports regional shredding as opposed to centralized shredding."
Anderson says Triple M's existing relationship with Wendt also was helpful in getting the project completed. "We're running a Wendt 130-inch shredder successfully in Hamilton (Ontario) and currently installing a large Wendt nonferrous processing plant," Anderson adds. "We deem our relationship with Wendt as a strategic partnership."
The M6090 shredder features a 2,500-horsepower DC motor and a disc rotor made by Bowe Knives, Bettendorf, Iowa. It also is equipped with an infeed conveyor, auto-driver controls, a prefabricated motor enclosure and remote prewired E-house and a ferrous downstream system with dual electro-drum magnets and a picking house.
The author is a managing editor for the Recycling Today Media Group and can be reached at email@example.com.


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Meet the Yellow Jackets: Muriel Wacker
Learn about senior Muriel Wacker
Sep 9, 2013
THE FLATS - This fall, the Georgia Tech women's tennis team will feature a student-athlete every week in attempt to "Meet the Yellow Jackets". This week, Muriel Wacker (Zurich, Switzerland) sat down with RamblinWreck.com to answer some questions on her favorite tennis memory and where she has traveled to. In 2012-13, Wacker recorded an overall singles record of 15-8 and went 13-13 overall in doubles play.
The Yellow Jackets open up tournament play on Sept. 27 at the Georgia State Invitational which will be played at the Sharon Lester Tennis Center in Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Ga.
Name: Muriel Wacker
Nicknames: Mu, Mumu
Year in School: Senior
Hometown: Zurich, Switzerland
Major: Industrial engineering
Best thing about being at Georgia Tech: Surrounded by smart, multicultural people
Favorite tennis memory: Winning my first Swiss Championship (Girls under 12)
Favorite food: Chocolate
Siblings: A brother, Andrin
Most exotic place you have traveled to: Bangkok, Thailand
Favorite TV show: Homeland
If you could play a tennis match against anyone, who would it be and why: Roger Federer because he is my favorite player
Favorite thing to do besides play tennis: Read, ski, hang out with friends and travel!
If you were not playing tennis, what other sport would you be involved with: Volleyball
Favorite spot on campus: CULC - Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons
Pre-game ritual: Relax
Fans are encouraged to follow Georgia Tech women's tennis on Twitter, @GT_WTEN, and like the Yellow Jackets on Facebook, GTWomensTennis, for an inside look at the program.


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When: 7 p.m. today
Where: Tad Smith Coliseum, Oxford, Miss.
TV: Fox Sports Net
Tickets: Available at the box office
South Carolina's probable starters: G Bruce Ellington 5-9 So. (11.0 ppg, 1.8 rpg); G Damien Leonard 6-4 Fr. (6.5 ppg, 1.4 rpg); F Anthony Gill 6-8 Fr. (8.2 ppg, 5.1 rpg); F Malik Cooke 6-6 Sr. (12.5 ppg, 4.9 rpg); C Damontre Harris 6-9 So. (6.7 ppg, 5.2 rpg)
Ole Miss' probable starters: G Nick Williams 6-4 Jr. (9.9 ppg, 3.8 rpg); G Jarvis Summers 6-4 Fr. (10.4 ppg, 2.3 rpg); F Murphy Holloway 6-7 Jr. (10.2 ppg, 9.3 rpg); F Reginald Buckner 6-8 Jr. (6.6 ppg, 8.7 rpg); F Terrence Henry 6-9 Sr. (12.0 ppg, 4.9 rpg)
Notes: South Carolina is on its first SEC win streak of the season. … Ole Miss saw a two-game winning streak snapped when Florida rallied from 16 points down to win on Thursday. … Henry is the reigning SEC Player of the Week. … The all-time series is tied at 14, but Ole Miss leads 9-1 in Oxford. The series was split last year, with USC beating the Rebels in Columbia but Ole Miss winning in the SEC tournament. … Gill matched his season-high with 33 minutes against Alabama, and didn't record a foul. … Cooke ranks fourth in the SEC with 1.9 steals per game, and his swipe against the Crimson Tide wiped out their last possession and became Ellington's buzzer-beating game-winning layup.
Next game: South Carolina tips off at No. 14 Florida at 9 p.m. on Thursday.
It was the white elephant in the room, so Darrin Horn discussed it right away.
"Obviously, I know one of the storylines is Murphy is playing for them," South Carolina's coach said on Friday, when he previewed the Gamecocks' game today at Ole Miss. "We've got nothing but good things to say about Murphy Holloway. We wish him the best."
The game has been circled - by some fans, anyway - since March. March was when, in the span of a week, Horn lost three players from his team, and then Bruce Ellington for part of the 2011-12 season due to him wanting to play football.
The one loss that would have made the others tolerable was Holloway. When he abruptly decided to leave USC after spending a year practicing with the Gamecocks, and transfer back to the place where had transferred from, it triggered alarm bells as to just what was going on in Horn's program.
Neither Holloway nor Horn ever gave a concrete reason as to why Holloway decided to go back to Ole Miss, where he had spent the first two years of his collegiate career after becoming an all-star at Irmo's Dutch Fork High School. At first glance, it seemed stunning just in itself - Holloway had expressed a desire to leave Ole Miss and come back to Columbia, where his mother was sickly and the mother of his newborn child lived. The Rebels blocked the transfer, meaning Holloway could still come to USC, but he would not be able to play (due to the NCAA's transfer rule) and he would not be able to be put on scholarship until the year was up.
Holloway paid his own way for school and practiced with the team, the Gamecocks counting on him being around for 2011-12 to replace the void from graduating senior Sam Muldrow. At 6-foot-7 and a stocked 240 pounds, Holloway was what USC had long desired - a center who could bruise in the paint, as opposed to the Gamecocks' usual collection of tall-and-lanky centers who were great defensively but not to be trusted offensively.
Then Holloway decided to go back to Ole Miss, Horn saying at the time that he didn't understand the transfer rule other than to say that it was very unlikely that Holloway would be eligible to play in 2011-12. Holloway filed a medical waiver with the NCAA, though, saying that he had come home to take care of his ill mother and that she was recovered, and the organization agreed and reinstated him.
Holloway said that he never had any problems with Horn, and Horn said that he still likes Holloway today. Each seems to be fine with the decision.
Holloway picked up where he left off, becoming a solid force on each end of the floor as Ole Miss (13-7, 3-3 SEC) attempted to use an experienced, bulky lineup to reach the NCAA tournament. The Rebels hit a setback when leading scorer Dundrecous Nelson was kicked off the team after a drug-related arrest, but had won two straight games before squandering a 16-point second-half lead and losing to Florida on Thursday.
USC, meanwhile, has struggled to do anything consistent on offense as Ellington has been streaky, freshman Anthony Gill has run hot and cold and center Damontre Harris has been a defensive whiz, but isn't quite at the point where he can be trusted for 10 points per game. Holloway would have been a focal point of the Gamecocks' offense, yet isn't.
But there are no bad feelings, Horn says.
Asked how he would tell his players to treat Holloway before and after the game, Horn jokingly chided, "What are we, in kindergarten?"
"I'm actually looking forward to seeing him again," he continued. "He's a good kid. We're not going to set guidelines about talking to the other players."
Holloway or no, USC (9-10, 1-4) is looking to build on the win it gained against Alabama on Wednesday. The Gamecocks again shot miserably, but their intensity was ratcheted to a previously untouched point - every loose ball was theirs, and that tenacity enabled them to get to the 5:00 mark with a tie game.
Ellington hit the game-winning layup with 1.3 seconds to play but Malik Cooke had a steal just before, and Gill had tipped in a miss for his only points of the game in the final two minutes. Everybody did their part, and USC finally broke through the SEC win column.
Now the Gamecocks want to do it one more time. Ole Miss may be the best chance to win another game in the first eight games of the SEC schedule - at No. 14 Florida and No. 1 Kentucky are next on the slate.
"Obviously our win the other night was something that was much needed," Horn said. "The next step to that is to do it on the road. This has been a pretty remarkable group. That continued yesterday."
USC kept its chin up through a four-game losing streak, and with a win in its pocket, that shouldn't change. There will be no over-confidence with a 1-4 league record, but perhaps a quiet calm that the Gamecocks can force an opponent into their game - tight defense, back-and-forth, the first team to 50 points will win.
Holloway can disrupt that, but he can also be taken out of the game. USC was able to neutralize Alabama's JaMychal Green, much of the same player as Holloway, and win.
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A request by the Egyptian owner of Premier League team Hull City to change its name to Hull Tigers is set to be turned down by the English Football Association.
The FA said Monday that its membership committee has recommended that the request be rejected following "consultation with stakeholders within and outside of the game." The recommendation has been passed to the FA council, which will vote on it at a meeting on April 9.
Hull owner Assem Allam believes a name change will attract investors and boost the club's marketing appeal abroad. In January, he threatened to quit if the FA turned down his request, saying: "No one on earth is allowed to question my business decisions. I won't allow it."
Many Hull fans have reacted angrily to Allam's controversial move, unhappy that it removes 109 years of tradition, and have made their feelings known in protests and chants during matches.
Allam has injected about 75 million pounds ($125 million) into the club since 2010, when Hull was in the second-tier League Championship and on the brink of financial ruin.
The team secured a surprise return to the Premier League last season but Allam's desire for a name change has provoked fury among many fans as well as traditionalists in English football.
The backlash intensified when Allam responded to supporters' chants and banners of "City Till We Die" by telling a Sunday newspaper: "They can die as soon as they want, as long as they leave the club for the majority who just want to watch good football."
Allam has said the word "City" in the name is "redundant" and "irrelevant," and that he would prove to be a trailblazer for clubs changing their names "to something more interesting."
"City, Town, County: these are meaningless," he told The Guardian newspaper in September. "In marketing, the shorter the name, the more powerful — think of Coca-Cola, Twitter, Apple."
There was no immediate response from Hull or Allam to the decision of the FA's membership committee.


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The Cumberland County Department of Public Safety is advising parents with students in the Cumberland Valley, West Shore Area, East Pennsboro, and Mechanicsburg school districts to expect delays in bus arrival times.
The delays are due to the closure of Interstate 81 near Harrisburg, which is expected to last through the afternoon and evening commute and is likely to cause traffic backlog and congestion.
The Department of Public Safety said it anticipates heavy traffic throughout the West Shore area well into the evening hours.


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Police Blotter: Arrests; Attack on horses and sheep near Riverton under investigation; car theft solved in Lander; $2k log splitter stolen
(Lander, Wyo.) – Monday's law enforcement recap from across Fremont County.
Fremont County Sheriff's Office
Ronald Abernathy, 51, Lander, Bond Violation.
Stephen Headley, 19, Riverton, Driving Under the Influence with a Child Passenger. James Blackburn, 30, Riverton, Child Endangering. Carmella Driftwood, 25, Riverton, Child Endangering. Fremont County Undersheriff Ryan Lee said deputies were called to south Riverton on Saturday night for a drunken driver report. The vehicle was contacted, and Lee reports that all three adult occupants were intoxicated. "There were two children in the vehicle, an 8-month-old infant and a 3-year-old child," Lee said. He added that Blackburn and Driftwood were the children's parents and were subsequently arrested. "The children were released to Tribal Social Services," he said.
Crystal Knigge, 31, Bonneville, Bond Revocation Warrant.
Tiffany Latray, 24, Riverton, Fremont County Failure to Appear Warrant.
Miles Mcneil, 63, Lander, Domestic Violence Battery and Aggravated Assault & Battery. Lee reports that Mcneil was arrested following a report of a family fight on Appaloosa Lane near Lander on Friday evening. "Mcneil is alleged to have intentionally caused serious bodily injury to another," Lee said. "The female victim was hospitalized due to injuries allegedly received during the incident." Lee said early Monday afternoon that it was his understanding the alleged victim was still in the hospital. The investigation is on-going and no further details were available.
At 11:17 a.m. on Friday, deputies were called to the northbound lanes of Highway 789 near Riverton for a report of propane leaking from tanks being hauled by a truck and trailer.
A Casper woman reported to deputies that while she was at a location near Riverton her 2013 Chrysler was struck by an unknown vehicle. It could have occurred over the course of two days.
A possible case of fraud and identity theft was reported by a woman on Baldwin Creek Road near Lander on Friday afternoon.
At 7:46 p.m. on Friday, a woman on the 900 block of East Monroe Avenue reported a young child in diapers in her yard. The caller did not know who the child belonged to. The woman called back to advise that the mom arrived and picked up the child.
At 9:30 p.m., deputies were called by a person in Shoshoni who said a woman was headed to the B and K Bar with a gun after she found our her boyfriend had been hit by someone. Lee said the fight was determined to be unfounded, and the woman was located having a drink at the bar and was unarmed.
A man on the 1400 block of West Ramshorn Street in Dubois reported a license plate stolen from his white Ford F150 on Saturday morning.
At 10:15 a.m. on Saturday police were called by a person on the 10900 block of Highway 789 near Riverton for a report of a fight. The caller stated that one man held another down while dogs bit him. Deputies were unable to locate anyone involved.
At 3:29 a.m. on Sunday, deputies were called to the KOA Campground in Dubois for a report of a fight between a man and a woman. Lee said the intoxicated subject was removed by family members before law enforcement arrived.
Deputies were called to Paradise Valley Road near Riverton for a report of horses and sheep that were attacked by some sort of animal. The report was turned over to the Wyoming Game & Fish Department. G&F Lander Wildlife Supervisor said an investigation into the attacks, which are believed to have occurred more than a week ago, has not revealed anything definitive. Dog tracks were spotted in the area. (Updated at 3:12 p.m.)
At 2:52 p.m. on Sunday, deputies were called to the 100 block of West Coal Street in Hudson for a report of a person threatening to shoot another. The dispute was determined to be verbal only and no firearms were involved.
Deputies were called to Bruce's parking lot in Sinks Canyon for a report of a big dog in a white Nissan Pathfinder at 4:33 p.m. The caller said the windows were barely cracked and the dog appeared hot. Deputies were unable to locate the vehicle.
At 7:04 p.m., deputies were called to the 1500 block of East Monroe Avenue for a report of a woman staying at the caller's home who was now refusing to leave.
Lander Police Department
Kristen Behan, 27, Riverton, Failure to Appear Warrant.
Dylan Crosley, 20, Lander, Converse County Warrant. A 17-year-old Lander boy cited for Minor in Possession. The pair were contacted on the 100 block of North Third Street at 2:37 a.m. on Saturday, Lander Police Chief Jim Carey said. He said the juvenile had a .13 BAC.
Jody VanFleet, 30, Riverton, cited for Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle. At 11:59 a.m. on Saturday, police took a report of a stolen 1990 Buick from the 100 block of Custer Street. The keys had been left in the car. Police located the vehicle unattended a short time later. VanFleet was suspected with taking the vehicle and the Riverton Police Department found her to be in possession of the keys. She was subsequently cited.
Michael Cousineau, 34, Riverton, Public Intoxication. At 5:16 p.m. on Saturday, police were called to the 400 block of Cascade Street for a report of a man lying next to the road with his legs sticking out into the street. Police made contact with Cousineau, who told them he was trying to get to Riverton. After police were unable to find him a ride, he was taken into custody with a .23 BAC, Carey said.
Dutch Haberman, 31, Lander, Public Intoxication, Resisting and Open Container. Haberman was located by police, Carey said, in the alley of the 800 block of Lincoln Street at 2:48 a.m. on Sunday. He was arrested and reportedly had a .18 BAC.
At 4:13 p.m. on Friday, police were notified of an oil spill on the intersection of Fifth and Main streets and the intersection of Second and Main streets. Carey did not know if a cause of the oil spills had been determined.
At 7:05 p.m., police were called to the 600 block of Main Street for a report of a car that was sideways in the road. Upon arrival, Carey said officers made contact with the driver who said they had engaged the parking brake and did not know how it rolled into Main. There was no damage caused by the hazard.
Police were notified at 9:59 a.m. on Saturday of a 6-year-old girl who was bitten by a dog on the 900 block of Cliff Street. The dog was reportedly being walked on a leash when the bite occurred. The dog's owner is cooperating, Carey said, and the animal is up to date on its vaccinations.
At 6:14 a.m. on Sunday, police were called to the Maverik convenience store for a report of a disoriented male. Officers determined the man to not be under the influence of alcohol or narcotics and was transported to the hospital by EMS.
At 1:48 p.m. on Sunday, police were called to the 200 block of Wood Street by a man who said there were children in his yard and he didn't want them there. Police asked the children to stay off the caller's property. The caller said the children did not break or disturb anything.
At 6:14 p.m., police responded to the area near Ninth and Main streets for a report of a vehicle hit by a rock thrown by juveniles. The juveniles were found to be playing rock stick ball and were asked to not play near vehicles, Carey said.
At 7:50 p.m., police received a call to Gabel Street for a report of a man laying in a yard. Police observed the subject staggering and unable to walk straight. Family eventually came and picked up the intoxicated man.
Police were called to the 700 block of Washakie Streeet at 7:26 a.m. on Monday by a man who wanted to report a break-in. The man reportedly told police sometime in the night he saw the doorknob to his residence turning. Police were unable to find any evidence of a break-in, and they advised the man to report such things when they happen and not hours later.
Riverton Police Department
Elisteanna Catha, 26, Arapahoe, Driving While Under the Influence of Alcohol. She was arrested in the 600 block of South Federal with a .32 Blood Alcohol Content percentage.
Jody VanFleet, 30, Arapahoe, Domestic Abuse Assault. Police were called after a resident reported a crying woman running down East Sunset street with a torn blouse. The caller also said a man was seen leaving the same area. When officers made contact with the 19-year-old female, she said she had just been beaten up "by a guy." She had swelling on the left side of her face and her blouse was torn. She said he also kicked her in the stomach once and kicked her in the face twice. The woman was transported to Riverton Memorial Hospital for treatment and examination. Police later located VanFleet at a sporting goods store as he was trying to purchase a weapon. The clerk reported he was bleeding from an injury to his hand. VanFleet was arrested and taken to jail in Lander.
Brent Gould, 22, Arapahoe, on a Contempt of Court warrant. Gould was arrested during a traffic stop when officers discovered he had a warrant.
Vincent Yellowbear, 52, Arapahoe, Public Intoxication. According to a police report, Yellowbear was inside the RiverCity bar trying to pick a fight with anyone he could. An officer on traffic control at the fairgrounds noticed a group of people trying to restrain Yellowbear outside of the establishment.
Marcus Friday, 36, Riverton, on a Failure to Appear warrant.
Jennifer Teran, 28, Riverton, Domestic Violence Assault. Police were called to the 1200 block of East Main after a 911 hang-up. A sheriff's deputy who also responded to the call said he could hear arguing from inside the residence. When officers made contact with the occupants, Teran said her 32-year-old husband had been drinking and she wanted to sleep and that was the cause of the argument. The male allegedly was upset about text messages his wife had been receiving on her phone. The husband had evidence of scratches on his neck, and two lacerations on his abdomen. He said he slipped in the kitchen and fell on a screwdriver. Teran, in a separate interview, said in the course of the argument, she thought he was coming at her in an aggressive manner, so she grabbed a kitchen fork and "accidentally" stabbed him in the stomach. She was arrested for assault.
A 19-year-old female from Ethete was cited for Minor Under the Influence of Alcohol with a BAC of .20 percent
A 15-year-old male from Arapahoe was cited for Battery and Possession of a Controlled Substance on Saturday after he tried to sneak in to the Demolition Derby at the Fairgrounds. He was caught and in an effort to get away, he began swinging his arms and and struck a fairgrounds employee. Another witness reported the youth smoking marijuana, and then concealing the evidence in a stocking cap and putting into the back of a car. Police contacted two individuals in the car who turned out to be the youth's parents. They gave police permission to search and they found the hat, miscellaneous items and a pipe containing marijuana. After being cited for the offenses, the youth was released to his parents.
Police cited an 18-year-old female from Shoshoni for underage drinking at the Fairgrounds Saturday night. Officers on foot patrol were contacted by an employee at the Beer Garden who said there was an underage person drinking in the grandstand. Police contacted the woman after observing her drinking from a silver can. She had a BAC level under the legal limit, but just barely, at .07 percent. She was cited for Minor In Possession of Alcohol and released to her adult sister. The female was also found to be on probation, and a copy of the report will be forwarded to her probation officer.
A 58-year-old Riverton man was cited for littering after an officer on patrol noticed a man exhibiting unusual behavior inside a vehicle in the 100 block of North Major Avenue. The officer said the man, who was sitting low on the drivers side, was flailing his arms about with his head bobbing up and down and that he appeared to be talking with someone. When officers contacted the man, he said he was trying to repair a plug-in telephone charger, which police said he was doing. But there was also a quantity of papers outside of the car on the ground. The man denied knowledge of them and then said his step-son threw them out, but there was no one else in the car. The officer noted the man's name was on all the papers. He eventually picked up the litter after he was cited for littering.
A 21-year-old male was cited for furnishing liquor to minors and three 20 year-olds, one male from Pavillion, one male from Riverton and a Riverton female, were cited for Minor Under the Influence. Police were called to the address in the 1200 block of East Park on a noise complaint.
Police said an attempted burglary at the Hilltop Liquors in Riverton was discovered Friday morning by employees, who arrived to find the power and telephone lines cut and two bullet holes in the building. Upon investigation, police determined one bullet was responsible for both holes, one in a window and the other through a wall. Earlier, police had received a report of seven gunshots around 3:45 a.m. in the area of Pinnacle Drive. Police officers canvassing the immediate neighborhood also received a report from a resident who said he though he heard multiple gunshots around 4 a.m. Police are awaiting surveillance video and are continuing their investigation. A damage report was not immediately available.
A 16-year-old girl pushed her 40-year-old father after he became upset about her working at their without wearing a proper uniform. Police were called to a residence in the 1400 block of East Fremont at 10:52 Friday morning on the report of a fight. The girl reported she had not worn what he father wanted her to, and he had gotten in her face, and she pushed him away. Police determined the shove was not to the standard of an assault. The two were separated, no charges were filed.
Employees at the Holiday Inn on East Sunset reported there was a badger in the field behind the hotel. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department was called to move the animal.
A man in the 300 block of East Madison had to spend some time in jail and he asked an acquaintance to watch his things while he was gone. Upon being released, the man came home to find that his 50-inch television set and a Play Station game system was gone. Police are looking for the friend who was supposed to look after the man's property to ask questions about the missing items.
A minor traffic crash was reported at the Walmart parking lot at 2:21 p.m. on Friday. A blue 2006 Chevrolet backed into a 2005 Dodge Durango. Damage was minor.
Police were called to Walmart at 3:02 p.m. on the report of a drunk driver. The driver was not intoxicated, but he was issued a warning for failure to maintain a single lane of travel. A second REDDI report tot the same location some 10 minutes later turned out to be a man sitting in a vehicle waiting for someone. He had not been drinking.
A REDDI report was called in at 6 p.m. on a silver SAAB in the 300 block of Country Club Drive, but police were unable to locate such a vehicle in that area.
An 18-year-old man and his 22-year-old girlfriend engaged in an argument inside the Kmart store at 7:02 p.m. Friday that moved out into a pickup truck in the parking lot. The male was upset because he said his girlfriend was "flirting" with other men inside the store, so he ripped a necklace off of her neck. The woman was not injured, as he did not strike her. Police suggested the two work out their relationship and avoid getting in fights.
Meanwhile, across the street, a couple who began arguing inside Walmart at 7:19 p.m. Friday were contacted by police out in the parking lot. The female said the male had been harassing her for the last month and had threatened her father. When confronted in the store, the woman said she was at the end of her rope and she slapped the man. Police explained how the woman could obtain a protection order against the man. Police are waiting on surveillance video before deciding if any charges are warranted.
Police were called at 7:26 p.m. about a sack containing some shoes that was left on the steps of the post office in downtown Riverton. The shoes were discarded.
Individuals who were cleaning an apartment so the previous renter could get their deposit back didn't go in through the front door, which apparently was locked, Instead, they crawled in through an open window. Police investigating the call didn't find anyone inside the apartment, and they closed and locked the window.
Police were called to sort out claims that a 17-year-old boy was struck a 15 year-old girl. Apparently the two had been dating, but had since split up. The girl had complained to other boys that her ex had struck her in the relationship, and a another 17-year-old rounded up friends and pushed the other boy (the ex) during a confrontation. When police questioned the girl about when or where she was struck by her ex, the girl could not remember any details about the alleged incident. Police gave the the girl, and the two boys some advice on how to avoid conflict and left. There were no citations issued.
A man who was dancing with another man at Ralff's Bar around midnight Friday called police because he said the other man had left to go get friends to beat him up. The suspect was located at another establishment in the neighborhood and he told a different version. According to the police report, the suspect said the man was "attempting to dance with him in a sexual way, and he didn't like it," so he left. He said there was no threat made. The victim, was was waiting to be beaten up, was asked to move along.
A call about dogs who were in danger brought police to the area of Eastview and East Sunset. The Animal Control officer found two dogs who had shade and two gallons of fresh water from an automatic watering device. Apparently a neighbor was taking care of the dogs while the owners were away, letting them inside at night and outside during the day. There was no problem with the dogs.
A woman called police at 12:37 p.m. Saturday to report that another vehicle had crashed into her 2002 Nissan Maxima on the left hand side and now she could not open the drivers side door due to the damage. Police discovered black transfer paint on the Nissan. There are no suspects. Damage was over $1,000.
A woman parked adjacent to City Park and eating her lunch at 12:54 p.m. Saturday was approached by a male subject in an older Chevrolet pickup truck who asked her if she was looking for a date. The woman was not and called police.
Police were called to the Fairgrounds on the report of a dog confined in the back of a pickup truck. An officer found the dog was indeed in the back of a pickup truck, but the truck had a camper shell with ventilation and the dog was found with both plenty of food and water. There was no follow-up.
A man who was being disorderly Saturday evening after 6 p.m. at Riverton Memorial Hospital was given a ride home.
A fight was reported at the Time Out Lounge at 6:53 p.m. but when officers responded, there was no fight and no one in the bar said there had been a problem. Eventually, one person indicated a subject who had been quarreling with others was hiding in the bar's bathroom. Because there was no indication of any fight, and no one was injured, police left.
A woman who left her purse at Taco Johns on West Main after dining there Saturday night, returned a short time later to find the purse was gone. The purse was identified as a white buckle shoulder purse with a gold chain strap. The purse contained $40 in cash, plus various credit and other cards. Police are waiting on the stores surveillance video to be provided.
Residents in the 400 block of Spire reported what they thought were gunshots, or popping noises, at 7:30 p.m. Upon investigating, police discovered a father was bribing his son by shooting off fireworks instead of letting the child go to the county fair. The man was advised that fireworks are not allowed in the city. He was not cited.
A man was taken to the Fremont County Alcohol Crisis Center after he complained to police that he had been assaulted, but he wouldn't say by whom or when. Other people in the area of Navaho Drive confirmed the man had been assaulted, but they to would not say by whom or when.
A fight between a married couple resulted in a call to police when neighbors heard screaming from a residence in the 300 block of North Sixth East. Police determined the pair were having marital problems, but that there was no physical altercation. They were separated for the night.
The 911 center in Riverton received a report of a red Ford Truck leaving the Fairgrounds shortly after midnight Saturday with a woman inside bleeding from the face. Officers were unable to locate a vehicle of that description.
A REDDI report was called in at 3:09 a.m. in the 600 block of South Federal, but when police arrived, the found two passengers sitting in the vehicle with no driver. The passengers said the driver took the keys and walked off. Police called a taxi for the two passengers so they could get home.
A 16-year-old juvenile will find himself in a pickle the next time he returns to town. The kids grandparents discovered that the teen had slipped out of their home against their wishes earlier in the night and they were up waiting for him to get home. Instead, at 5:18 p.m., the youth parked his heavily damaged Ford Mustang near the grandparents home in the 400 block of North First, but did not come inside. So, they called police. The car was badly damaged on the front passenger side, the hood was bowed up with pieces of another vehicle's tail lights on the hood and parts of the fender were missing. An officer said it was obvious that the teen had rear-ended another vehicle. Both airbags inside the Mustang were also deployed. About the same time, the dispatch center received a call about a parked and unattended vehicle that had been struck by a hit and run driver in the 800 block of North Broadway. Police put two and two together after pieces of the Mustang were found at the other location and the tail light pieces found on the Mustang matched the Black Chevrolet Monte Carlo that had been struck. Police determined that the 16-year-old fled to Casper and said he was not returning to Riverton.
The owner of a $2,000 value log splitter said he returned home after spending the weekend away to find that the wood splitter had been taken from a locked and fenced in storage area. Upon returning, he found the gate open and the lock and the log splitter gone. The felony larceny is under investigation by detectives. The theft was reported on Temple Peak Drive.
Police received a call of a a dog tangled up in a tent awning and hanging by its head in the 600 block of Freedom Drive at 9:28 a.m. Sunday. Police rescued the dog from the awning, which had fallen down. Unable to contact the occupants of the residence, police took the dog to the PAWS shelter.
A female reported to police that someone had taken an iPod Nano and her wallet from her silver 2011 Hundai Sonata. She told police that she didn't think the vehicle was unlocked, but there was no sign of forced entry. She had already called her bank to cancel the credit cards that were inside the wallet.
A woman reported that her wallet was stolen on sometime July 28th at Walmart. She didn't report the crime, however, until the next day to her bank and to police on Sunday. The bank indicated her debit card had been used and that she only had $2 left in her account. She said the wallet was a "fuzzy monkey" wallet.
Fremont County Coroner
Chief Deputy Coroner Mark Stratmoen said the coroner's office received two calls, both of which were reported simultaneously on Sunday around 5 p.m. The calls were for a 31-year-old woman found dead in her home in Riverton and for a 65-year-old Casper man who collapsed and was pronounced dead at Riverton Memorial Hospital. Both subjects will be autopsied on Tuesday in Loveland, Colorado.


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For years, there has been a debate in automotive circles about Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) parts versus non-OEM or imitation replacement parts.
OEM parts are those installed on an automobile at the factory, which carry the manufacturer?s warranty. They meet all factory specifications with regard to fit, finish, safety and crash worthiness and are sold over the counter at new car dealerships.
Non-OEM parts, on the other hand, are not produced by the vehicle?s original manufacturer and are not subject to the same testing procedures. Hence, automotive technicians and collision specialists contend that non-OEM (or aftermarket) parts are not of the same standard in quality to OEM parts and demonstrate decreased tolerances for corrosion resistance and lower crash resistance than factory-approved parts.
In my opinion, that?s an unfair exaggeration. I know of countless examples where non-OEM parts (i.e., Brembo brakes, Munroe shocks) are just as reliable (if not superior to) OEM parts.
Some insurance companies claim that no appreciable difference exists between OEM and non-OEM parts. That argument may hold sway with specific mechanical and electronic components, but not for sheet metal parts.
Non-OEM body panels and fenders are often made from inferior materials and don?t line up correctly when installed, and can be more costly to install. Again, collision repair experts generally agree with these assessments.
When it comes to mechanical or collision repairs, some insurance providers will write a stipulation into a policy, insisting that non-OEM parts be used, particularly once a vehicle has reached a certain age, or mileage.
In such cases, if a car owner insists on using OEM replacement parts, he or she may be required to pay the difference in price, which can be substantial. Always read the fine print on your insurance policy to understand what type of replacements parts are covered under your policy.
Since OEM parts typically cost more than non-OEM parts, it?s reasonable to understand why some insurance companies insist that policyholders choose the less pricey option. Insurance companies argue that paying less for replacement parts helps to keep insurance costs down.
So, should car owners always insist on using OEM replacement parts in order to ensure the safest possible performance of their automobile, and to maintain its value? That?s a difficult question. For sheet metal parts, I?d say yes, but for mechanical and electronic components, it depends on the age of the vehicle, the OEM manufacturer and, of course, price.
For replacement items that fall under warranty protection, new car dealers are obligated by the manufacturer to use OEM parts. Installing non-OEM parts could jeopardize a vehicle?s warranty in some cases.
Another important distinction between OEM vs. non-OEM parts concerns leased vehicles. If you drive a leased vehicle, check your lease agreement before agreeing to any mechanical or collision repairs.
Some lease agreements stipulate that lessees must use only genuine OEM parts; doing otherwise could result in financial penalties at the end of the lease agreement.
When warranty coverage has expired, car owners who need replacement parts have the option of choosing a new car dealer or an independent shop. One reason why consumers occasionally choose an independent shop is price.
There is a common perception that all OEM parts are more expensive at a dealership than at an independent shop. That?s not true.
Customers are often surprised to learn that the majority of OEM parts available at a dealership are competitively priced, compared to non-OEM parts available elsewhere. Plus, independent shops often contact new car dealers for specialized knowledge in diagnosing and installing replacement parts.
The debate over OEM and non-OEM parts is far from over. Consumers should be aware of the two distinctions in case they ever need to make decisions about replacement parts.