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A method is provided for increasing the rate of injection of flooding fluids into injection wells. A slug of polar solvent or a mixture of polar solvent and non-aqueous flooding fluid is injected into the injection well to displace aqueous and hydrocarbon liquids in the rock surrounding the injection well. Thereafter, the solvent is removed from the vicinity of the injection well by flooding fluid. The process may be repeated following each time water is injected into the injection well.
1. A method for increasing the sweep efficiency and decreasing the time to complete a petroleum recovery process, comprising the steps of:
injecting a selected amount of a polar solvent into an injection well;
injecting a non-aqueous flooding fluid;
injecting water or brine into the injection well;
injecting a selected amount of a polar solvent into the injection well; and
thereafter injecting the non-aqueous flooding fluid into the injection well to recover petroleum from the formation.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the polar solvent is methanol.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the non-aqueous flooding fluid is carbon dioxide above its critical pressure and temperature.
4. The method of claim 1, comprising the additional step, before injection of the polar liquid, of injecting an aqueous liquid having lower salinity than the water present in the formation.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the polar solvent is injected as a mixture with the non-aqueous flooding fluid.
6. A method for increasing the injectivity of a non-aqueous flooding fluid into a well drilled through a subterranean formation containing petroleum, comprising:
injecting through the well an amount of polar liquid miscible with water under conditions in the formation, the polar liquid selected from the group consisting of acetone, ketone, and glycol, the amount being selected to provide a selected radius of treatment around the well; and
thereafter injecting a non-aqueous flooding fluid to recover petroleum from the formation.
7. A method for increasing the injectivity of a non-aqueous flooding fluid into a well drilled through a subterranean formation containing petroleum, comprising:
injecting an aqueous fluid having a lower salinity than the water present in the formation;
thereafter injecting through the well an amount of polar liquid miscible with water under conditions in the formation, the polar liquid having less than about 9 carbon atoms, the amount being selected to provide a selected radius of treatment around the well; and
thereafter injecting a non-aqueous flooding fluid to recover petroleum from the formation.
This invention relates to improved recovery of petroleum from underground reservoirs. More particularly, injectivity of fluids used for enhanced recovery is increased by polar solvents injected ahead of or along with a non-aqueous enhanced recovery fluid.
A variety of processes have been used for displacing petroleum that is not recovered by natural depletion or by water flooding from a subterranean reservoir. The enhanced recovery fluids used for displacing the petroleum may be classified as aqueous and non-aqueous. In general, these processes involve injecting an aqueous solution of a chemical or a non-aqueous fluid into the reservoir through injection wells, driving the fluid from one well to the other, and recovering oil ahead of the fluid through production wells. The processes are often applied after the production wells are producing only water. There can be a significant time lapse from the time the enhanced recovery fluid is injected into injection wells and the time the additional oil to be recovered by the process is fully recovered from production wells. This delay in time causes extra operating expense for the recovery process and extra investment cost, since the injection fluid must be purchased at the beginning of the enhanced recovery process. It is generally desirable to complete the recovery process in as short time as feasible.
The rate at which fluids can be injected into wells normally limits the rate at which recovery processes can be operated. The rate of fluid injection is determined by the reservoir permeability around the well to the fluid being injected, the viscosity of the fluid, the well spacing and the pressure of injection. Injection pressure is often limited by fracturing pressure of the formation where the fluid is being injected. If injection pressure is so high as to create hydraulic fractures, the flow pattern during the displacement of the petroleum is drastically affected and sweep efficiency of the enhanced recovery fluid may be greatly reduced. Also, the expensive recovery fluid may be lost to surrounding formations through a fracture.
Since the flow velocity of fluid near an injection well is much higher than at a remote location from the well, the permeability to the enhanced recovery fluid very near the well has a much greater effect in determining injection rate of the fluid. The permeability to flow of a fluid is dependent on the saturation or amount of other fluids present in the pore spaces near the injection well. The term "relative permeability" is used to describe the ratio of the permeability to a particular fluid in the presence of other fluids within the pore space to the absolute permeability of a rock. The relative permeability of each fluid increases as the saturation of that fluid increases within the pore space. Therefore, if the saturation of a fluid being used to flood a reservoir can be increased in the near-wellbore region, the permeability to that fluid can be increased. If the permeability is increased in the near-well region, where velocities are highest, the enhanced recovery fluid can then be injected at a higher rate.
Relative permeability data are obtained for reservoir rock in laboratory experiments using core samples cut from the reservoir of interest. The data for a particular fluid depend on the geometry of the pore spaces of a particular type of rock, the wetting conditions of the surface of the rock, and the properties of other fluids present. The effect of a change in saturation of a particular fluid on the permeability of another fluid can be measured directly by measuring changes in the permeability to the second fluid. The effect in different rock samples will vary considerably, depending on the properties of that particular rock.
In displacing one fluid by another in rock, there are immiscible and miscible displacements or floods. The miscible displacements replace one fluid with another with which it is miscible, the displacement being subject to mixing and dispersion processes in the rock matrix. The fluid with which the displacement fluid is not miscible may not be displaced below a certain saturation in the pore spaces, but will be displaced to lower saturations if co-solubility exists between the immiscible fluids. Since the volume near an injection well that must be affected to alter saturations of the fluids and relative permeability to a fluid is such a small fraction of the total volume of a reservoir to be flooded for enhanced oil recovery, processes can be considered for altering the near-well permeability to a fluid that are not suitable, because of mixing and dispersion, lack of miscibility, cost of the fluid or other reasons, for flooding a reservoir for enhanced oil recovery.
The most widely used flooding process for increased oil recovery has been carbon dioxide flooding. Carbon dioxide has a critical pressure and temperature lower than the pressure and temperature of most oil reservoirs, so it is injected as a super-critical fluid. Under most reservoir conditions, it is not miscible with the reservoir water, and it may or may not be miscible with the reservoir oil. However, even if the carbon dioxide is not completely miscible with the reservoir oil, it can be highly soluble in the oil and can cause the oil phase to swell in volume and decrease in viscosity. It may cause heavier hydrocarbons in some crude oils to separate and form a material that can block pore spaces of the rock.
Carbon dioxide injection is often followed by water injection. Commonly, alternate slugs or banks of water and carbon dioxide are injected, to prevent the low-viscosity carbon dioxide from rapidly fingering through a reservoir and to increase the conformance or sweep efficiency of the carbon dioxide flood. The relative permeability to carbon dioxide is determined by the saturation of both the water and oil in the pore spaces of the rock. The very reason the water banks are injected, however, to decrease mobility of carbon dioxide in the rock, is counter-productive when injectivity of carbon dioxide is considered. The injection rate of carbon dioxide becomes limited by the high saturation of water around injection wells. The same effects occur when the enhanced recovery fluid is another non-aqueous fluid, such as nitrogen gas or hydrocarbon gases, such as methane and mixtures of methane and heavier hydrocarbons, instead of carbon dioxide.
There is a need for a method to increase the permeability of carbon dioxide or other non-aqueous enhanced recovery fluid in the rock near injection wells, so as to increase the injection rate of this fluid into a reservoir at the same injection pressure and, thereby, allow more rapid recovery of the petroleum displaced by the enhanced recovery fluid.
A method of removing fluids from the near-well region to increase permeability of a non-aqueous enhanced recovery flooding fluid is provided. Aqueous liquids or petroleum are removed by a solvent which may be injected simultaneously with the enhanced recovery flooding fluid or in a slug ahead of the flooding fluid. Solvents are selected from alcohols, ketones or glycols having less than about 9 carbon atoms.
In one embodiment a mixture of carbon dioxide and methanol is injected to remove water or brine and residual crude oil ahead of a carbon dioxide flood. The method is repeated after subsequent injections of water or brine during the flooding process. In yet another embodiment, a slug of methanol is injected ahead of carbon dioxide. In all instances, the carbon dioxide is at conditions above critical pressure and temperature.
FIG. 1, curves 1 and 3 show the results of pressure drop measurements as a function of pore volumes of carbon dioxide injected through a brine-saturated core in the cases of pre-methanol and post-methanol injection, respectively, whereas curve 2 shows the pressure drop while injecting carbon dioxide immediately after methanol had been injected into the brine-saturated core.
FIG. 2, curve 1, shows the results of pressure drop measurements across the core sample for an 18 pore volume injection of carbon dioxide and methanol followed by carbon dioxide, as compared with the injection of carbon dioxide into deionized water, shown in curve 2.
FIG. 3 depicts curves representing Normalized Injectivity Improvement for different radii of treatment zones around a well for Local Improvement Ratios of 2, 4, 6 and 8, respectively.
Experiments in core samples were performed to determine the benefits of solvent injection in increasing the injectivity of a flooding fluid. A core sample taken from a West Texas field and still containing crude oil was placed under representative reservoir conditions. The core sample was 1.5 inches in diameter and 3 inches long. The pressure in the core was controlled by a back-pressure regulator to values between about 1600 and 1800 psi, while carbon dioxide was used as the flooding fluid. The core was from a field where the salinity of the water was 3.7% total dissolved solids. In a first step, brine having this composition was flowed through the core. Thereafter, carbon dioxide was flowed through the core at a rate of 150 ml/hr. Results of pressure drop measurements across the core are shown in FIG. 1. Curve 1 shows the pressure drop while injecting carbon dioxide at a temperature of 105� F. Pressure drop is shown as a function of pore volumes of carbon dioxide injected. After about 5 pore volumes of carbon dioxide was injected, brine was then flooded into the core again to obtain a high brine saturation. Thereafter, about 4 pore volumes of methanol was injected. Curve 2 shows the pressure drop while injecting carbon dioxide at the same rate of 150 ml/hr after methanol had been injected into the core. Pressure drop after methanol had been injected, as displayed in curve 2, was only about 10% of that before methanol injection. This ratio of pressure drop before solvent injection to pressure drop after solvent injection is defined as the "Local Improvement Ratio," which for this core was about 10.
The next step in the procedure was to inject brine again. This caused water saturation to increase to a high value, and simulated conditions around injection wells in carbon dioxide floods when there is alternate injection of carbon dioxide and water or brine. Following brine injection, carbon dioxide was injected again at the same rate of injection. Curve 3 shows the pressure drop of carbon dioxide. The pressure drop returned to near the original level, but somewhat less than before the first methanol injection. This demonstrates that the effect of the methanol is not to produce a permanent improvement in injectivity, but water injection following the methanol again requires a methanol or solvent injection to obtain high injectivity. Methanol, thus, must be used after every brine cycle to maintain the increased carbon dioxide injectivity. The somewhat lower injection pressure in curve 3 compared with curve 1 is likely caused by the fact that the methanol and carbon dioxide also removed some of the crude oil present in the core, thereby further increasing the relative permeability to carbon dioxide.
If salinity of the reservoir water is high, precipitation of salt can occur when the water-miscible solvent is injected and this can cause blockage of the pores of a rock. Therefore, in high salinity reservoirs, it is necessary to inject a low salinity or fresh water slug ahead of the water-miscible solvent to avoid precipitation of salt. A core from a second West Texas reservoir, in which brine salinity was about 10% total dissolved solids, was used in a separate experiment. De-ionized water (DIW) was used ahead of the solvent to avoid core plugging. In this experiment carbon dioxide and methanol were injected simultaneously, the carbon dioxide being injected at a rate of 9 ml/hr and the methanol at a rate of 1 ml/hr. This process also worked well to increase carbon dioxide injectivity. Several lengths of time for simultaneous injection were investigated. In FIG. 2, curve 1, results of pressure drop measurements across the core sample are shown for 18 pore volume injection of carbon dioxide and methanol, followed by carbon dioxide. This is an equivalent pore volume of 1.8 of methanol injection. Notice that the pressure drop at the same rate of injection was reduced over a factor of 4 after the methanol and carbon dioxide injection, compared with carbon dioxide into de-ionized water, shown in curve 2. Therefore, the Local Improvement Ratio value for this core was about 4.
Tests in this same core showed that when 10% brine was injected into a methanol-filled core, pressure drop increased rapidly to very high values of about 450 psi. This plugging of the core was caused by precipitation of salt from the brine. If instead of the 10% brine, a 2% potassium chloride solution was injected into the same core following methanol injection, the pressure remained at a low value of about 30 psi. These tests demonstrate that interaction of high salinity reservoir brine and methanol can cause plugging of cores.
Measurements of the Local Improvement Ratio after injection of methanol for carbon dioxide injection in different cores from different fields in West Texas resulted in values from about 2.5 to about 10.
Results of Local Improvement Ratio measurements in cores can be used to predict effects of injectivity into wells in the reservoirs from which the core samples are obtained. A flow model assuming radial flow in a reservoir was used for this prediction. The following parameters were assumed: wellbore radius 0.33 ft, outer reservoir radius 660 ft, porosity of the reservoir rock 10% and thickness of the reservoir 70 ft. These calculations were performed for different radii of the zone around a well in which relative permeability to the flooding fluid is increased by different Local Improvement Ratios. Results of the calculations are shown in FIG. 3 for Local Improvement Ratios of 2, 4, 6 and 8. These Ratios span those observed in most of the laboratory core floods. Normalized Injectivity Improvement, shown in the figure, is defined as injectivity with the treatment of this invention divided by injectivity with no treatment. Similar curves may be prepared for other values of the parameters from equations for injectivity of wells or computer simulations of flow in reservoirs, using techniques well-known in the industry.
The optimum amount of polar solvent to be injected into an injection well will depend, among other factors, on the Local Improvement Ratio for the near-well region around the injection well. Referring to FIG. 3, it is apparent that if the Ratio is only 2, a radius of treatment of about 15 ft provides most of the benefits that can be attained by the method of this invention. If, however, the Local Improvement Ratio is 8, incremental benefits are still realized to greater radii of the zone of treatment. A radius of treatment greater than about 50 ft would not be anticipated in any injection well, however. An optimum amount of polar fluid may be selected for an injection well by core tests and calculations such as shown in FIG. 3, by calculating the costs of different amounts of polar liquid and the reduced time required to operate the recovery process. Results from applications in wells will then be used to further optimize the amount of polar liquid which produces the best overall economic benefits.
Although the previous disclosure is limited to the use of methanol, other polar solvents can be used which have similar properties to methanol in that they are water miscible, such that they displace the reservoir water away from an injection well, and they are vaporized or go into solution in the flooding fluid which follows. They may also mix with the flooding medium, in the case of carbon dioxide, to increase the solubility of crude oil or heavy fractions of crude oil in the mixture, thereby improving removal of crude oil from the near-well region, also. Polar solvents which are alcohols and which are suitable include methanol, ethanol, propanol and higher carbon-number alcohols up to about 9 carbon atoms. Polar solvents which are ketones and which are suitable include acetone and higher carbon-number ketones up to about 9 carbon atoms. Polar solvents which are glycols and which are suitable include mono-, di-, and tri-ethylene glycol. These polar solvents preferably have high miscibility with water or brine which is present in the reservoir when they are injected and high solubility or volatility in the subsequent enhanced recovery flooding fluid. The flooding fluid may be carbon dioxide, nitrogen or a hydrocarbon gas such as methane or mixtures of methane and heavier hydrocarbons. The polar solvent may be injected as a slug or bank of material or may be injected in a mixture with the flooding fluid. Mixtures of the polar solvents may be used, such as a mixture of an alcohol and ketone or alcohols with different carbon numbers.
A reservoir in West Texas is flooded by carbon dioxide. In order to improve the sweep efficiency of the carbon dioxide, a bank of reservoir brine is injected after each slug of carbon dioxide. The reservoir has 70 feet of net pay, has a porosity of 10%, and the wells are on 40-acre spacing in a 5-spot pattern. The improvement in injectivity of the injection well in the center of the 5-spot can be approximated by the curves of FIG. 3.
Tests show that about 0.5 pore volume slug of methanol is effective for treating one pore volume of pore space. It is assumed that 0.5 pore volume slug of methanol is injected in the zone to be treated. A 15-foot radial treatment therefore requires about 20,000 gallons of methanol. At a cost of 50� per gallon for methanol, the cost of each treatment is about $10,000. Core tests using techniques described above and core samples from this reservoir show that methanol injection ahead of carbon dioxide results in a Local Improvement Ratio of about 4. Referring to FIG. 3, for a 15-foot radius treatment, the Normalized Injectivity Improvement is about 60%. Each time water is injected followed by carbon dioxide during the flood, a $10,000 slug of methanol is injected ahead of the carbon dioxide. This increases injectivity during the subsequent carbon dioxide treatment by 60% and decreases the time of the flood from an estimated 10 years, based on a total of 5 years of water injection in 4 slugs, to about 8 years with the improved water injectivity method of this invention. Although there may not be a significant increase in the amount of crude oil which is recovered with the treatment of this invention, the elimination of operating expenses of the wells in the flood by 2 years and the more rapid recovery of the investment in carbon dioxide pays for the $40,000 cost of methanol and produces a substantial profit.
It will be appreciated that while the present invention has been primarily described with regard to the foregoing embodiments, it should be understood that variations and modifications may be made in the embodiments described herein without departing from the broad inventive concept disclosed above or claimed hereafter.
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PHOENIX — Gay Arizonans who legally wed to foreigners in other states will be able to use their status to gain a visa and a path to citizenship for their spouses living here even though Arizona won't recognize their union.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Friday it will determine someone's marital status by the place they were wed, not where they are now living. That means the agency will consider the partner a spouse despite Arizona law.
The action appears to be the first crack in the 2008 voter-approved state constitutional amendment which spells out that marriage in Arizona is valid only between one man and one woman. That same amendment also was designed to ensure that Arizona does not have to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere.
It follows the U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this year which overturned a key provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
The justices said the federal government and all its agencies have to honor decisions by individual states to allow gays to wed. More to the point, it cannot deny benefits to gays who are legally married that it provides to other couples.
Nothing in the federal policy will force Arizona to consider these couples married. And that Supreme Court decision did not address another provision of DOMA which says Arizona and other states need not recognize gay nuptials performed elsewhere.
But it does mean that there will be gay couples in Arizona whose relationship is legally acknowledged by the federal government, even if Arizona will not.
The issue of marriage is significant because federal law gives U.S. citizens and permanent lawful residents the ability to sponsor a spouse for an immigrant visa.
"A lot of immigration law is based on benefits to family members," said Shiu-Ming Cheer, an attorney with the National Immigration Law Center.
In its new guidelines for applicants, the agency said that it will now review such applications based on immigration law "and will not be automatically denied as a result of the same-sex nature of your marriage."
Similarly, the agency said someone engaged to a foreign national of the same sex can also file paperwork.
Most significant for Arizona, the agency says that those living here who were legally wed elsewhere can apply for immigrant visas for the spouse.
"In evaluating the petition, as a general matter, USCIS looks to the law of the place where the marriage took place when determining whether it is valid for immigration law purposes," the guidelines state.
The agency also said that it will reopen petitions that were denied prior to the Supreme Court decision because of the Defense of Marriage Act.
Cheer said the process can involve not only U.S. citizens who have married foreigners but also those who legally wed someone who already is in this country illegally.
More than the immigration status of spouses can be affected.
For example, the agency noted there are situations where someone is seeking admission to the United States under a program which requires that person to be a child, parent or sibling of a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident. The guidelines say that the marital status of the parent can affect whether the applicant qualifies.
"In these cases, same-sex marriages will be treated exactly the same as opposite-sex marriages," the agency said.
The change can also shorten the time period for citizenship.
According to the agency, naturalization generally requires five years of residence in the United States following admission as a lawful permanent resident. But it also noted that federal law makes naturalization possible to someone who has been married to a U.S. citizen for three years.
Here, too, the agency said it will recognize same-sex unions.
Cheer said there are situations where legal recognition of a marriage can be used defensively.
"If somebody is not able to come to the U.S. because they have a criminal conviction, they can seek and receive a waiver based on hardship to their U.S.-citizen spouse," she said. And now, with the new policy, that spouse can be someone of the same gender if the marriage was performed where recognized.
Similarly, someone who is facing deportation can also seek to have that delayed or rescinded, again based on the hardship to the spouse.

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Recovering from a low of only 21 birds in the wild in the 1940s to around 599 birds today, the Whooping Crane's recovery is one of conservation's most inspiring success stories.
Scientific Name: Grus americana Height: 5 ft; Wingspan: 7-8 ft Field Marks: Adults - red patch on forehead, black mustache and legs, black wing tips visible in flight; juveniles - cinnamon-brown feathers Population: ~ 599 (captive and wild)
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Vocalizations: Loud, rattling kar-r-r-o-o-o. Listen to Whooping Crane calls:
Threats: Loss or deterioration of critical wetland habitat (including reduced fresh water at wintering grounds in Texas), low genetic diversity, power line collisions, predation, disturbance at nest sites and illegal shooting.
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Direct Autumn ReleaseSince 2005 ICF has co-led the Direct Autumn Release (DAR) program in central Wisconsin. DAR Whooping Crane chicks are costume-reared at ICF to ensure that they imprint properly. In the fall, the young Whooping Cranes are released in small groups near adult cranes. The young cranes learn their migration route by following these older cranes south in the fall. Learn more about reintroducing Whooping Cranes into the wild.
Guadalupe River BasinICF works with diverse partners in the Guadalupe River basin in Texas, wintering area for the western Whooping Crane population, to protect the fragile gulf ecosystem, its precious wildlife, and the vital coastal economy. Our research includes new studies of Whooping Cranes and the ecology of blue crabs to improve our management of cranes and their habitats during droughts and other crisis periods, while outreach focuses on water users throughout the Guadalupe basin. We are also involved in a new health study of Whooping Cranes in Texas, as well as chicks captured and banded on the population's breeding grounds in western Canada. Learn more about ICF's work in the Guadalupe River basin.
Learn more about Whooping Cranes:
Johnsgard PA. 1983. Cranes of the world. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Meine CD, Archibald GW. 1996. The cranes: status survey and conservation action plan. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.


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Cold Pressed Rice Bran Oil Helps You Lose Weight
Rice bran oil is a food that has been used in Asia for centuries. It is loaded with mono and polyunsaturated fats (the good fats) and is very easy to use. It has been hailed by some as the healthiest oil in the world and Dr Oz says it's a miracle fat that can actually help you lose weight. But how does it taste? Doctor Oz put rice bran oil to the test by asking 3 Dr Oz Fans to swap out their other ingredients for rice bran oil. Is this the new secret weapon to shrink body fat? Doctor Oz covered Diet Myths on this show, but does Rice Bran Oil really work? See the results below and decide for yourself. You should also checkout the segments Dr Oz did on other weight loss supplements like Raspberry Ketone, Saffron Extract and Coconut Palm Sugar.
Dr Oz: Rice Bran Oil
Kimberly, one audience member who used rice bran, told Doctor Oz that it was easy to swap out her regular oil for rice bran oil.
She also stated it was delicious tasting and was lighter than the olive oil she normally used.
Nicole, another audience member who did the swap, told Dr Oz that she replaced butter with rice bran oil and it was so much better. It was so good, her son didn't even notice the change. She even made cakes with it.
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Rice bran oil contains Gamma Oryzanol
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Kimberly tried using rice bran oil for her citrus chicken dish. She sauteed the chicken in a pan using the oil. Dr Oz tried it and said it was good.
Another audience member prepared veggie chicken stir-fry with rice bran oil. Normally she used soybean oil for her Asian inspired dishes. Doctor Oz tried the chicken and stated the taste was spot on!
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Nicole said using rice bran oil was easy for her chocolate cake recipe. (Chocolate cake? Now here's the real test!) Nicole cut Dr Oz a huge piece of her cake. He tried a small bite and told her it was heavenly. Nicole said she was surprised that the cake didn't taste like rice. (HA!)
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Pop stars from around the region will team up with the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra for a rousing finale to the Hong Kong 2009 East Asian Games (EAG) during the closing ceremony on Sunday night (December 13).
People should not miss this chance to say farewell to the athletes of the 5th EAG and join the party at the Hong Kong Coliseum as Hong Kong brings the curtain down on the largest East Asian Games.
Chae Yeon from Korea, Japan's Kousuke Atari, Richie Jen from Chinese Taipei, China's Dadawa and Hong Kong's own Eason Chan will give solo performances during the two-hour show.
In a fitting climax to the EAG - the biggest international multi-sports event held in Hong Kong - the five pop stars will join with the Chinese Orchestra for a unique international rendition of the Hong Kong EAG theme song "You Are The Legend".
Also during the closing ceremony, there will be some moving and inspirational stories about what motivated the dedicated sportsmen and women to strive to be the legend in their chosen sports at the EAG.
In keeping with closing ceremony tradition, Hong Kong will pass the EAG baton to the Mainland city of Tianjin which will host the next Games in 2013.
As well as receiving the EAG flag, Tianjin will put on a display to highlight the characteristics of the city and give the audience a tantalising taste of what to expect at the Games in four years' time.
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IBM welcomes its nearly 400,000 employees to bring their own devices to work -- as long as Siri, Apple's voice-activated assistant for the iPhone 4S, doesn't come along for the ride.
In a recent interview with MIT's Technology Review, IBM's Chief Information Officer Jeanette Horan spoke of the inherent security risks that come with the adoption of the "bring-your-own-device" (BYOD) trend in the enterprise. She said that an IBM-conducted survey found that hundreds of its employees were "blissfully unaware" of which well-known apps pose security threats.
Apple's Siri, apparently, was one of them. Horan explained that the app sparked concern because users' spoken queries are potentially stored on Apple's servers, where they're susceptible to falling into the hands of unauthorised listeners.
Apple's iPhone Software License Agreement allegedly confirms Big Blue's belief, in which it states the following: "When you use Siri or Dictation, the things you say will be recorded and sent to Apple in order to convert what you say into text."
IBM employees can still use iPhones in its offices, but they have been asked to turn the Siri functionality off.
"We're just extraordinarily conservative," Horan told MIT. "It's the nature of our business."
Apple's Siri isn't the only app employees are urged not to use. Horan and her team have banned a series of other applications, including the file-transfer service Dropbox, which IBM believes poses a similar risk of corporate data being compromised.
Horan is instituting a number of other security measures to ensure IBM's BYOD environment is risk-free. Before a device is even granted access to the company's network, for instance, IT configures it so that its memory can be remotely erased if lost or stolen.
"We found a tremendous lack of awareness as to what constitutes a risk," Horan said. "We're trying to make people aware."
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We all laughed when we first saw her in Season 1 and she not only brought the housemates tons of food (and underwear and shirts for Vinny), but started dusting off his shorts as he chilled on a bean bag in the living room!
And even though Vinny is a few years older, he's still living with his mom — and they're closer than ever! He recently Instagrammed a pic showing her fixing his tie while he shoots the camera an adorable, incredulous look. However, this was a special occasion, and she was helping him prepare for something more exciting than usual. "Getting ready for my next celebrity guest," Vinny captioned the pic, including the hashtags "#MommasBoyProblems" and "#grateful." Aww!
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To facilitate human-machine communication, there is an increasing need for computers to adapt to human users. This means of interaction should be pleasant, easy to learn, and reliable. Since some computer users cannot type or read, the fact that speech is universal in all cultures and is the common basis for linguistic expression means that it is especially well suited as the fabric for communication between humans and computer-based applications. Moreover, in an increasingly computerized society, speech provides a welcome humanizing influence. Dialogues between humans and computers require both the ability to recognize and understand utterances and the means to generate synthetic speech that is intelligible and natural to human listeners. In this paper the process of converting text to speech is considered as the means for converting text-based messages in computer-readable form to synthetic speech. Both text and speech are physically observable surface realizations of language, and many attempts have been made to perform text-to-speech conversion by simply recognizing letter strings that could then be mapped onto intervals of speech. Unfortunately, due to the distributed way in which linguistic information is encoded in speech, it has not been possible to establish a comprehensive system utilizing these correspondences. Instead, it has been necessary to first analyze the text into an underlying abstract linguistic structure that is common to both text and speech surface realizations. Once this structure is obtained, it can be used to drive the speech synthesis process in order to produce the desired output acoustic signal. Thus, text-to-speech conversion is an analysis-synthesis system. The analysis phase must detect and describe language patterns that are implicit in the input text and that are built from a set of abstract linguistic objects and a relational system among them. It is inherently linguistic in nature and provides the abstract basis for computing a speech waveform consistent with the constraints of the human vocal apparatus. The nature of this linguistic processing is the focus of this paper, together with its interface to the signal processing composition process that produces the desired speech waveform.
As in many systems, the complexity of the relationship between the text input and the speech output forces levels of intermediate representation. Thus, the overall conversion process is broken up through the utilization of two distinct hierarchies. One of these is structural in nature and is concerned with the means to compose bigger constructs from smaller ones (e.g., sentences are composed of words). The second hierarchy is an arrangement of different abstractions that pro-


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Issues about political advertising on the internet are being raised after a complaint was made to the Florida Election Commission about Scott Wagmanâs ads on Google and Facebook.
The St. Petersburg Mayoral candidate has been accused of violating state campaign laws because of links on those sites that don't indicate who is paying for them.
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Dan Smith is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Interim Director of the Political Campaigning Program at the University of Florida. He says there is definitely ambiguity in the state law, and believes the state legislature will need to address such link-through ads, which will probably only increase in the future.
The Florida Election Commissionâs request for Wagman to pull down his web ads have already had a chilling effect. A candidate for the state legislature in District 47 named Christopher Mitchell began running search ads on Google last Friday, but pulled them down late Monday, after reading about Wagman in the Wall Street Journal.
University of Florida Political Science Professor Dan Smith said he thinks Wagman could have left his ads up.
The complaint was filed against Wagman by Peter Schorch, the somewhat notorious St. Petersburg-based political consultant, who was fired from Mayoral candidate Jamie Bennettâs campaign back in May. Schorch allegedly distributed baseball tickets along with a request for campaign contributions. Schorch had previously been convicted of grand theft.
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Fri, 2 October 2009
The third edition of Ambient Music Blog Podcast is Ambient Music for Hwy. 63.
1. adrastea by ambienteer, from movement (00:18)
2. Lobby by Deaf Center, from Pale Ravine (03:53)
3. To Shine On Him One Last Time by If Thousands, from Lullaby (06:31)
4. He Had The Smell Of Wyoming Sagebrush by If Thousands, from Lullaby (12:00)
5. Paper Windmill by Mountains, from Mountains (21:31)
6. A Bus-Ride With A Red-Haired Girl by Tomasz Bednarczyk, from Painting Sky Together (34:19)
7. 1 by Asher, from Landscape Studies (35:54)
8. 1.1 by Asher, from Landscape Studies (41:32)
9. the stillness by ambienteer, from movement (47:01)
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Tipping the scales
N.Y.'s McTernan gets kids back on track, helps them pursue educations
In the native tongue of his Nigerian father, Olabode Olukanni's given name symbolizes wealth.
Yet the 19-year-old shares the sanguine hallways and fickle elevators of Coney Island's Gravesend Houses housing project --14 buildings multiplied by seven floors -- with the pallid faces of the catatonic addicts of crack cocaine.
Once blown clear off his double bed in reaction to the menacing sound of a shotgun blast below, he shares his nightly slumber with the sounds of gunshots that pop through his bedroom window. He shares daybreak with the basketball court across the street because the noontime sun transforms the playground into gang territory for the young, male inhabitants of Gravesend to guard from semi-automatic toting raiders of rival projects.
Still, there is one thing in his life that makes him feel positively rich.
It comes shortly after Olukanni spends $3 and 30 minutes commuting via the $1 Coney Island taxi, bus, train and foot to one of New York City's most historic residential districts. He treads the trip's final leg past several of the brownstones that are Bedford-Stuyvesant's hallmark, passing even more of the 2,264 vacant lots in the Brooklyn neighborhood's 3.25 square miles. It is the latter statistic that earns the area the unflattering moniker "the Stuy."
"Bed-Stuy is a whole bunch of abandoned buildings," said Olukanni, "but once you hit the corner, the YMCA just shines right in your face. It's real neat. It's real clean. It's real good."
Standing grand on Bedford Avenue like the proud elderly lady that watches over the neighborhood from a third-story window, the Bedford-Stuyvesant YMCA is the brick depot at which more than a third of the 30 New York City natives on California Community College men's basketball rosters earn their westward ticket.
Of the 1,292 players on the rosters of the 92 California programs, 260 come from outside the state's borders -- from 37 states, 18 countries and Puerto Rico. Out of all those locales, more come from New York City, 30, than any other metropolitan area.
Thomas McTernan is responsible for about half that number. "What we do here," he said, "is to help the local kids get back on track."
McTernan is the co-founder of Big Apple Sports, the 6-year-old program that takes in former New York AAU and streetball prodigies who have fallen off society's accepted path into any combination of the ills to which urban youth are especially vulnerable -- like truancy, drugs, and gangs -- and steers them back into school, their best window into mainstream society.
The Bedford Y, as the regulars call it, is to local youth as the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation is to the area's Bloomsbury-inspired architecture. Both serve restorative roles. It is here, in the same building that nurtured Lenny Wilkens and Connie Hawkins, that Olukanni is earning his second opportunity for education through basketball. Once one of the country's top guards in his age group, he joined more than 32 percent of the Coney Island population as a high school dropout when an injury took him out of the basketball gym after his freshman year at Lincoln High.
Olukanni -- now a 19-year-old, 6-foot-2, 205-pound guard -- has put himself into the sure hands of McTernan, New York City basketball's Bob Vila.
What McTernan does, for a period up to 12 months before the coming school year, is test these basketball fixer-uppers -- pushing them in the Bedford Y's weight room and on its courts every afternoon, slowly attempting to instill the discipline and attitude needed to push these former dropouts through the system of higher education.
It is a not-so-subtle ruse. McTernan uses the area's deep love of basketball, and even the NBA dreams every wayward Brooklynite harbors, to get his kids a college degree. It is the one thing they need to avoid joining the 36 percent of their neighbors on some type of government aid, or worse, the life behind bars many of their peers already live.
The Track
At about 3:30 p.m., Olukanni walks through the YMCA's main entrance and signs in at the front desk. He works out on free weights, a StairMaster and a treadmill for an hour. He moves on to shoot jump shots in a downstairs court before an aerobics class makes him join McTernan in the upstairs gym -- a vintage, circular structure that hearkens back to the era when a gym was a cage. The facility is complete with the overhanging running track popular with turn-of-the-century facilities.
"The track keeps the ball out of the corner, which means our kids can't shoot from either of the corners of the gym," said McTernan. "I can't tell you how many times I've had a kid go to the Five-Star camp and (compete in a 3-point shootout). Invariably, the kid from Bedford makes every shot from the wings and the center, but is 0-for-5 from each corner. It's really amazing."
Training with McTernan might be the only aspect of their life that teaches them to stay out of society's corners.
"Coach Tippy," as his players call him, is a 45-year-old, Irish-Catholic native of Brooklyn's historically Jewish neighborhood of Flatbush. IBM brought him back to Brooklyn from Poughkeepise, where he went to college, and he stayed, even when IBM pulled out, by becoming part of a group of former IBM employees who took over the Bed-Stuy operation and transformed it into a small personal business.
He got into city basketball circles with Brooklyn USA, the AAU program that produced Stephon Marbury, Ed Cota and Jamaal Tinsley. When Tinsley needed to go the junior college route to continue to play, McTernan studied the level and created Big Apple Sports, which both places New Yorkers with JUCO programs, publicizes the JUCO game via the Internet and sponsors an annual summer exposure game that links the best JUCO talent with hundreds of college coaches.
"Growing up in New York, you don't trust too many people," said Tinsley, now an Indiana Pacer after spending two years at Mount San Jacinto College in California and then Iowa State. "You can read people that are trying to get over on you. When he asks me how I'm doing, I can tell he's just caring about me as a person, not just a basketball player. That's saying a lot coming from the the neighborhood I was living."
In a day where the names of AAU coaches have been sullied by reports of delivering players to prep schools, sneaker companies and Division I programs in exchange for money, McTernan is a volunteer.
"He makes a lot happen with basketball there," said Brooklyn's Muhammad Wilson, a freshman at Mount San Jacinto. "He'll be there every day for the love of the game and for the love of kids."
He does not receive a dime for his time. Not from the YMCA. Not from the poverty-stricken families of players. Not from the JUCO coaches who have neither the big contracts nor shoe endorsements with which to curry his favor.
"His heart is in the right place," said San Bernardino Valley head coach John Smith, who has two of McTernan's players on his current roster and for whom Olukanni will play next season. "I can't say that for a lot of the AAU coaches I deal with."
"I just get the satisfaction of seeing these kids get a college education and succeed in life," said McTernan, whose distinctive, Brooklyn squawk is muddled by effects of a hearing impairment.
The Fuel
At 5, McTernan suffered through what seemed like a common cold. It was three years before it was determined that the sickness was really a bacterial form of spinal meningitis, which invaded his brain and destroyed the hearing in one ear and left the other at half capacity.
He started school the next year and had a regular seat in the back of his classroom at St. Rose of Lima School in Brooklyn. He can remember spending hours with his mother studying in futility for daily spelling quizzes that were administered in class orally.
"I'd come home at the end of the school day with them all wrong," said McTernan. "They couldn't figure it out. Nobody knew I had a hearing problem.
"I don't know how I got through the first two grades. I'd have looked pretty dumb if you looked at my report cards."
He is eternally grateful for his third grade teacher, Mrs. Lore, who discovered his hearing impairment and immediately moved him to the first row.
"Every step along the way, I found one person who seemed to take a little interest with me that helped me along to that next level," said McTernan. "Be it grade school, high school, college or even the job at IBM. I always wanted to give something back to the people by helping someone myself.
"I just didn't expect to give back to so many. But once you start doing it and you get the satisfaction of seeing these kids go on, you're not really counting numbers."
McTernan got off the AAU circuit because he felt he could make a bigger difference with the junior college athlete. Having helped a middle-class teenager from Park Slope find a scholarship, he was on a yacht moored in Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay when the realization came to him.
"The parents told me, 'Coach, I just wanted you to know that we have this boat because of you,' " said McTernan. "They had spent the money that they had saved for his college tuition on the boat.
"It got me thinking, 'Did this kid need my help that much?' "
The party eventually circumnavigated Manhattan.
"Those kids in Bed-Stuy don't have those luxuries," said McTernan. "I can't tell you what its was like to go to Jamaal's home on the morning of a tournament and you're stepping over bodies of the living room just to find him. It's one thing to help kids. It's another entirely to help the kids who really need help."
The Depot
Olukanni joins a group of about 25 young men performing drills designed to temper just enough of their playground instincts to make them attractive to college coaches. They run the three-man weave. They play 3-on-3, but limit themselves to two dribbles. They perform the transition drill almost every high school player, regardless of socioeconomic background, in America knows by heart.
They train daily, sometimes until 10 p.m. Many leave one night and don't return, falling back into the abyss of the streets. Those who show daily dedication for at least three months and maybe enroll in a General Equivalency Diploma class can use Big Apple Sports' coaching contacts in California and National JUCO circles to find a program that suits their needs.
"I let them know that certain things are going to have to change drastically if they want this opportunity," said McTernan. "For every Jamaal Tinsley, I've had another 10 or 15 that didn't stick to the program. They have to either express some desire or display some type of plan by the time they're 21 or 22, or I basically tell them to go out and get a job."
If they've earned a GED, they can join a National Junior College Athletic Association program. California Community Colleges do not have any sort of educational prerequisites, so Olukanni joined Smith in San Bernardino following the winter semester break to prepare for next season.
"It's a great opportunity for me," said Olukanni. "It's sunny out out there and you don't need a high school diploma. It gives you another chance to play basketball somewhere else. I want to go to UCLA or USC after I finish."
Olukanni might have Smith excited for next season already with his fabulous practice play, but his optimism is symbolic of the mysterious power California holds on urban youth like him.
"For these kids," said McTernan, "going out to California seems like a dreamland. Although it's a great opportunity, it also comes with a challenge.
"The reality is that it's not easy, because they don't have scholarships or anything. Sometimes, they're living six kids to a small apartment. Every kid we've had out there has had some sort of difficulty. It's up to them to stick through it."
California's coaches have come to trust McTernan as much as his players do.
"When I first talked to him," said Smith, "it was my first year here and he told me every positive, every negative about each kid that he was trying to find a school for. Not once did he lie to me. He just wants to help kids get out of their poverty-stricken neighborhood."
The Destination
Just before Christmas, McTernan took a weekend off from the YMCA. He flew JetBlue 3,000 miles to take in a Riverside holiday tournament that featured 16 of California's best teams -- and 11 of his New Yorkers.
After his team had been eliminated and returned home to Hemet, Wilson remained in Riverside to sit and visit with McTernan as the group cheered both L.A. City and Ventura College, who squared off in a semifinal that featured two Brooklyn-born and Big Apple Sports-bred point guards --Jerel Blassingame and Rashien Little.
"I'm not going home for Christmas," said Wilson. "I can't go home and see my blood relations. So today, I'm here with my second family, with father Tippy and brother Jerel and brother Rashien."
For four days, Riverside was the westernmost borough of New York City. Wearing an "EBC at Rucker Park" brand sweatsuit and a busy cell phone, he took time watching each player meticulously, commenting on improvements in both basketball and maturation.
"If Tippy was coaching, I'll tell you what we'd do," said San Bernardino guard Roberto Stukes. "Full court press the whole game."
Stukes, who grew up next door to Bed-Stuy in Crown Heights, never completed the program at the YMCA. He disappeared shortly after joining the local chapter of the Bloods. He said that he had joined the gang for protection, hoping the members would no longer hassle him if he was associated with them. Instead, he was continually asked to prove himself with petty theft and acts of violence.
He was arrested three times in less than a year, all in connection with a robberies when the victims picked his face out of a gang book.
"He figured that once he joined the gang, they'd leave him alone," said McTernan, who had coached Stukes since he was an 8th-grader. "But once he joined, he couldn't get out."
Stukes spent a week at Riker's Island Prison -- "As soon as I touched there, my life turned around," said Stukes -- before McTernan used his position within the community to convince authorities that he could get him out of New York and into a college.
"I coached the son of the Brooklyn district attorney," said McTernan.
Two years later, Stukes' hulking shoulders support a head with a 3.1 grade point average. He's finished his English and math requirements and is one of the top guards in California.
"He's just one of those success stories that I'll be talking about years from now," said Smith. "He had a rough beginning in New York, but he's out here and really appreciates what we're trying to do for him."
Instead of spending more than a decade in jail, Stukes is now on track to earn a four-year degree, find solid employment and support a family.
"Tippy's not famous out here like he's famous in New York," said Stukes. "Everyone should know coach Tippy. I consider him the father I never had."
Stukes punctuates the point by jerking his eyes from the floor and staring the observer in the eye. Five feet behind him, on the front row of the bleachers, McTernan's cell phone rings again. It is another of his Brooklyn brood, wondering when he will be back to supervise a workout.
"The kids have been calling me all week," he says, glancing at the caller ID before answering the call. "That's how bad they want to play."
That's how badly they need Tippy.
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A body pulled from a canal south of Boise, Idaho, has been tentatively identified as little Robert Manwill, the 8-year-old boy with an impish grin who disappeared July 24, police said.
Ada County coroner Erwin Sonnenberg released a statement today saying his office was still trying to determine the cause of death. Dental records will be checked to confirm the identification, he said.
"Finding Robert will not be the end, but just the beginning of an entirely new investigation," Boise Police Department Deputy Chief Jim Kerns said. "Our priority remains finding answers for Robert's family and this community."
No Amber Alert was ever issued for Robert, because police initially said they did not have evidence of foul play in his disappearance. But Friday they said their investigation had led them to fear that Robert may have been the "victim of a tragic event."
Kerns asked today for patience as police continue to investigate what happened to the boy.
"We caution those who would speculate, who spread rumors or second-guess what's happening behind the scenes," he said. "Our system of justice demands that we focus on evidence. Our investigative experience tells us that we cannot jump to conclusions. The police investigation into Robert's disappearance continues and is very active."
Someone walking by the New York Canal in Kuna, in Ada County, saw the body of a boy floating in the water and called police, Kerns said Monday after the discovery. One of the first officers on the scene jumped into the water and pulled out the body, he said.
The discovery of the body came after days of intense searching for the boy. Several police agencies spent the weekend digging up the backyard of a home in Ada County that police told ABC News affiliate KIVI-TV in Boise is rented by people who know the boyfriend of Robert's mother.
Police declined to say what was found to lead them to the backyard, saying only that they were following multiple leads and searching multiple locations looking for the boy.
On Friday, Kerns said that with the help of the FBI they had found evidence they hoped would bring them closer to finding out what happened to the boy.
Kerns said that evidence was discovered in a search Thursday night of the home of the boy's mother, Melissa Scott Jenkins.
KIVI-TV reported that Boise police spent hours at Jenkins' home, towing the family's car and leaving with bags of evidence.
"The evidence we've uncovered shows there are suspicious circumstances regarding Robert's disappearance," Kerns said.
Jenkins is divorced from Robert's father, Charles Manwill. The father has custody of the boy, who was on an overnight visit to his mother when he disappeared.
His parents haven't said much of anything publicly since Robert disappeared. Jenkins has two other children and lives with a boyfriend.
Court documents show that Jenkins and her boyfriend Daniel Ehrlick were taken to court by the state for child support relating to an unnamed child in foster care.
Jenkins is on probation after being charged with felony injury to a child, a charge the Idaho Statesman reported came after she fractured the skull of Robert's infant half-brother, who was removed by the state.


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Based on full-time status for Fall and Spring Semesters. Room for residents is based on double occupancy. Board is the standard unlimited meals + $100 flex plan.
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Bam Margera Didn't Overdose
'Nitro Circus' star just dehydrated...
Bam Margera seems to be reliving his wild 'Jackass' days with some indulgent bad behaviour.
Yesterday, the internet was alight with reports that the 'Viva La Bam' star was taken to hospital suffering from drug overdose.
But for the first time ever in celebrity history, Bam's suspected 'overdose' was a legitimate case of dehydration.
His mother April put in a call to a local radio station to set the record straight, citing lack of fluids as the reason for the 911 call and subsequent ambulance ride.
According to Perezhilton.com, Margera was on the tail end of a four day boozy bender when things started going pear-shaped. His wife put a call into emergency services fearing he'd taken a sedative, but it turns out the star's kidneys and muscles were damaged from being under nourished and dehydrated. Bam evidently isn't familiar with the 2am kebab smash..
Bam's mumma also said that he had sustained a few minor injuries while filming his new show, 'Nitro Circus', and that sometimes he just 'forgets to take care of himself'.
The ambulance took him from his home in West Chester, Pennsylvania at about 1:30pm yesterday. Bam has since returned home after getting the green light from a psychiatrist and claims he's in "good health."
Lay off the booze Bam!
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Dutch winger Etienne Esajas has secured a permanent switch to Swindon after impressing on trial - but he is poised to miss the start of the new season.
Esajas, who made 65 appearances for Sheffield Wednesday during his previous stint in English football, has penned a two-year deal at the County Ground after leaving Helmond Sport.
The 26-year-old scored in the friendlies against a Marche XI and Swindon Supermarine but injured a shoulder in Monday's clash at Cirencester and could now be sidelined for the big kick-off.
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Phillipsburg High School seniors Dan Brockerhoff and Matt Lane posted pins to lead the New Jersey All-Stars to a 34-12 defeat of the Pennsylvania All-Stars in the 31st annual Easton Lions Club All-Star wrestling classic Tuesday night at Easton Area High School's 25th St. Gym.
It was the second straight win for New Jersey and third in the last four.
Lane pinned Bethlehem Catholic's Jaydon Rice in 4:46 at 130 while Brockerhoff decked Parkland's Justin Heller in 3:26 at 152.
Brockerhoff was named the meet's Outstanding Wrestler.
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