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Major improvements to Smart Matches™
We're pleased to introduce a significant update of our Smart Matching technology. The new enhancements, unveiled on the website this week, include an overhaul of all Smart Matching pages, new collaboration features and easier management of Smart Matches, making this technology even more powerful and easy to use.
Smart Matching was originally acquired by MyHeritage.com from Pearl Street Software. We first released this innovative technology on MyHeritage.com in 2007, and have been improving it ever since. The technology matches between the people in your family tree and more than 680 million people in 17 million other family trees on MyHeritage.com. This can help you discover ancestors and relatives, by harnessing the vast collective knowledge of the 54 million registered users on MyHeritage.com. Smart Matches automatically find people from your tree in other trees, so that you and the other tree owners can learn from each other and also get in touch. The matching technology is sophisticated and bridges differences in spelling, phonetics and relationships that may exist between the trees, to locate as many matches as possible without sacrificing accuracy. Why is this so important? Because it can take just one Smart Match to bring a breakthrough in one's research and even change the life of a family, as you can see from many heartwarming user success stories that are posted here on the blog.
If you, dear reader, are not already signed up on MyHeritage.com, you can receive Smart Matches on your family tree for free. Go to http://www.myheritage.com and start a new family tree, or import an existing tree by uploading a GEDCOM file, and you will receive a notification on the discovered Smart Matches by email. We're sure you'll be intrigued by the results!
Let's dive in and look at the new improvements added this week in more detail.
Getting your Smart Matches
Smart Matches work in real time as you enter information into your family tree. MyHeritage.com instantly compares the new information to all the other trees and will alert you with a green icon if a match is found. Smart Matches are also calculated offline for deeper and more accurate comparisons. You will be notified by email, and no more than once a week, about all new matches discovered for you, and you can then visit the site to view them.
On your family site, the Smart Matches are displayed on 'Family Tree > Smart Matches'. You can view them by family tree or by individual.
You can drill down to see the matches with any particular tree that overlaps yours, or the matches for any individual in your tree.
The suggested matches are sorted by quality score, so the matches most likely to be correct are listed at the top. Hover the mouse on the question mark next to each quality score for an explanation on how your match was rated. New matches are now highlighted so you can easily tell them apart from older ones. This is a new enhancement.
Confirming and rejecting matches
One of the first new features you'll notice is the ability to confirm or reject matches. Confirming a match is your way to indicate that a match is correct, and rejecting a wrong match gets it out of the way. Before confirming a good match, or right afterward, you should review the match in detail to see what you can learn from the other tree. The confirmed and rejected matches will move away into separate tabs so you could look at them later. This allows you to systematically work your way through your unconfirmed matches without missing any bit of valuable information. If you make a mistake, you can easily undo any confirmation or rejection you had made previously.
All the work screens related to Smart Matches clearly indicate for each match whether it was confirmed or rejected, by you or by the other tree owner. Mutually confirmed matches are shown with two check marks. When you confirm a match, you can choose whether to notify the other tree owner about your confirmation (recommended) to draw their attention to the match between your trees, and ask them to confirm it too. You can optionally invite the other tree owner to be a member in your family site. Don't worry about notifying people too often: MyHeritage.com automatically collects multiple confirmations and delivers them to other people in a single convenient email, so you won't be bothering other folks by being active with confirmations. And people will not be notified when you reject wrong matches.
It is common for some people in your tree to be found in many other family trees. Until today, you had to review those matches one by one, and see whether each match could contribute new information for you, on the same person. This was tedious and didn't show the big picture. That's why our new and unique Consensus Page is a lifesaver. It conveniently displays a summary of the different name spellings, birth and death dates and places, marriage info, etc., for any person, indicating the number of times each piece of information has been used in other family trees. You can then copy the data as you see fit directly into your own family tree, and even copy photos of your choice. Think of the Consensus as an aggregation of data from all Smart Matches™, presenting the big picture for each person. It will help you fill in missing information about relatives more quickly and with more confidence.
To view the Consensus Page, simply click on a person's name while viewing matches in the 'By people' section.
If you have lots of Smart Matches you will love the ability to confirm a whole set of matches (from a site or on a person) at once. Or reject a set of matches at once if they are wrong.
Work queues, links, discussions and other new features
Rather quickly you will find that you have confirmed many matches but are waiting for other people to provide a mutual confirmation on them. So we added a work queue that lists the matches that you are waiting for other people to mutually confirm (and you can send them a reminder). Another work queue conveniently lists all matches that others have confirmed, that are awaiting your kind attention.
Mutually confirming a match creates a virtual link between the corresponding profiles across family trees. In the future we plan to show these links in the trees and allow you to jump conveniently from a profile in your tree to another tree with which you have mutually confirmed matches, and we'll add other visual enhancements to allow navigation in a mega-tree of confirmed matches. Judging from the amazing pace of new confirmations that we are seeing (approx. half a million confirmations in the first 2 days since we introduced this), the users of MyHeritage.com are now building what could arguably be the world's largest family tree very quickly, by forming confirmed connections between the 680 million profiles in their 17 million family trees. We'll keep you posted on our blog as to the pace of growth of this gigantic mega-tree.
Each match can now be a center of discussion: tree owners can add comments when they confirm or reject a match, or just correspond about it and exchange interesting information. The comments are conveniently displayed below each match.
It is now very convenient to edit your family tree inline when you are reviewing a match, and decide what information to copy from the other tree (if at all), including photos. Each piece of information can be copied in one click. To keep track of the source of your data, or to show other members of your site where you found this information, you can add a source citation to the copied data, linking back to the original family tree.
For each match you can view your tree and the matching tree side by side, in a convenient display that shows the full context of the match and the relatives around it. This is not new, but we've added the new means to drill down on any person in this display who is also Smart-Matched, and focus the comparison on that person.
Note to Family Tree Builder users
You can use the enhanced Smart Matching features on your online family site. Some of the new features, such as the Consensus Page, are not available yet in the Family Tree Builder software, and will be added in one of the next updates. Even if you are using Family Tree Builder, you are encouraged to use the new enhanced Smart Matching on your family site, and enter new information you learn into Family Tree Builder. Any Smart Matches that you reject on the site will be automatically removed from Family Tree Builder. Confirmations made on the family site are not yet synchronized with Family Tree Builder (and vice versa) and we will address this limitation in the near future. Family Tree Builder also has a wizard available to premium users, for copying data from other matches, and this is not yet available on the family site.
What's free and what isn't
Receiving Smart Matches, viewing them and comparing trees side by side are free for all users. The following features are available to Premium and PremiumPlus sites only: Expedited matching, Consensus Page, confirming and rejecting matches, initiating contact with another tree owner, copying photos and editing trees inline. If you already have a Premium or PremiumPlus membership you will get those new benefits at no extra cost. If you are on a Basic plan, this could be your opportunity to upgrade.
Smart Matches are a very good solution for peoples' need to protect the privacy of their family tree, while allowing them to be discovered by relatives. If other users have a match with your tree, they will be able to see only the overlapping areas in your tree, plus adjacent deceased people, but not adjacent living people who were not matched. If you wish to turn off Smart Matching for a tree, you can visit the Smart Matching pages, enter the settings from there and turn matching off. This will remove your tree from the matching system so you will not be able to receive Smart Matches yourself. You can also control whether tree owners who matched your tree can or cannot copy photos from Smart Matches with your tree.
What's great about Smart Matches
Some people might say "hey, what's special about Smart Matches? I can also discover new information about my family in the website of Ellis Island, a cemetery, the public library or other places". Well, it's often fascinating to make a new discovery about one's family. But compared to finding information in a document or archive, Smart Matches are often more exciting as they not only deliver new information but also connect you to a living person on MyHeritage.com who uploaded that info, and that person is very likely related to you! Both of you are given the means to get in touch and learn new information from each other. So Smart Matches not only provide new information, but often help you make a new friend, or find new family members.
To Merge or not to Merge (hint: not)
Confirming Smart Matches creates a virtual link between the trees. It does NOT merge profiles, and it does NOT cause two family trees to become fused into one. We are against that. We believe that users on MyHeritage.com should remain the owners of their tree, in full control of their own tree, always able to export or delete it, and without anyone else coming unexpectedly to modify its data. MyHeritage.com has another competitor that is building a big tree by luring users into merging their profiles with other people. This is unfortunate because those users, after merging their profiles over there, lose control of their tree: they are no longer considered its sole owner, they cannot delete data they have entered themselves, and if they are inactive for a few months, the competitor confiscates their data irreversibly and makes it public domain. Other people can mess with their tree and create a chaos. Other people can export portions of their tree and post them elsewhere on the Internet. Living people in their family are exposed publicly including their relatives and any minor children. All of these horrors do not happen on MyHeritage.com: each tree remains separate, managed by its owner, and kept private, and even if there are duplications between trees, this is not necessarily a bad thing. There is no "single truth" and trees must not be forced to merge if there are differences of opinion, every user should be at liberty to pick what data they want to add to their tree, from the research of others. Wikipedia is a great concept for a public domain encyclopedia, but not for family trees, where the data is PERSONAL and PRIVATE, and owned by the user who contributed it, and not by a commercial entity. So before you upload your family tree anywhere, or enter it online, make sure that you will always be its sole owner, and will always be able to delete it in a click, like on MyHeritage.com, or export it with your photos as GEDCOM in a click and for free, like on MyHeritage.com. These actions sound natural and trivial and MyHeritage.com provides them, but other sites do not.
Wrapping up
There are a lot of smaller improvements added. For example, you can now manage large amounts of matches as they are split to smaller pages. You can search for any person to see if there are matches for him or her. You can ignore all matches from particular family trees or for a particular person, if you are familiar with those matches and they do not add value, and you will not be notified about new matches from those sources. Sometimes matches for people with very common names might be wrong: in this case just click the link to ignore all matches on that person and those wrong matches will be instantly removed. Much of these improvements were based on feedback from our users, so thank you for sharing your thoughts and suggestions with our team, and please continue to do so by writing to us.
A personal note: as the founder and manager of MyHeritage.com, I have my own family tree posted on the site, now with 2916 people and 2181 photos. It is actually the first tree ever posted on MyHeritage.com. So far, the site has found 2089 Smart Matches for me with 163 other family trees, and I was able to meet a large number of relatives and learn new information. I'm sure you will also experience similar success.
I sincerely hope you'll enjoy using the new Smart Matches – and that they will be of valuable help to you in your quest to trace your family tree and the history of your family.
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- Awesome update and I'm anxious for more but I hate to contradict you; there is only a single truth when it comes to genealogy. The lack of a single truth is what creates problems in tracing one's roots; when people disagree about ancestors. While there may be disagreement about trivial facts, name, dates, etc. or untruths in families because of divorce, family planning, or past strife, you are a descendant of exactly the same people as your relatives. Your trees are one in the same. Your position seems to encourage and perpetuate disagreement and variation rather than validation of history.
I really hope you reconsider your stance on merging trees. I for one am not a fan of having a bunch of trees out there of which I'm a part and have to contribute separately; data becomes disparate and I can't encourage others to ensure the accuracy of my own work when they are off on their own path.
Again, thanks for the great progress. I recognize and appreciate that your approach encourages people to pursue the investigation and management of their trees more than the automated building that can come merging but I'd really love to see you offer the option rather than preventing the connections. I hate to say it but I'm curious, who is the competitor that more effectively connects family?
- Brilliant response Gilad and thank you. I do hope my public criticism was not unwelcome; it's certainly intended with praise. I've tried other online family tree services and found none as exceptional as MyHeritage.
I think we're uncovering the same truths from different perspective. I'm suggesting their is one truth, the biological truth; though there are other possibilities. Your point that the other truths stem from adoption are perfectly valid BUT from a genealogical standpoint, they aren't THE truth.
What I'm trying to help budding genealogists avoid is the much more frustrating experience I've, personally, had trying to navigate that truth when there are different records. I've experienced the challenges of dealing with adoption and while there is therein truth, preference, and privacy to consider, it prevents people from tracing their true history.
So what you are pointing out is the need for records, options, and preferences.
I'd argue that solving for the challenges created with merges and the need for control for the sake of something like privacy are two different issues. I can see the mess that merging creates and don't welcome that, I think you've made the right decision. Then again, in defending the right to control you've sacrificed the potential to collaborate.
I have 5 relatives I've never met, each working on their family history. Our trees match on two or three individuals and what I fear is that as some time in the future, and perhaps even now, they uncover an ancestor from hundreds of years ago to whom I'm related; but because our trees only match on a few more recent relatives, I'll never really know of their discovery and be able to help connect the dots between my life and their past.
That's what I'd love to see solved.
- Love the new smart matches but what happened to the Australia day special that was supposed to end at *midnight tonight!!! At 11pm I found that I could not upgrade at the advertised special price of 35%off. It means that the upgrade is once again out of my budget
- Jeanette Cameron
January 29th, 2011-2:12pm
With the new smart matches i've now found where my half brother that was killed during WW2 is burried also lots of other relos from my step-father's side which has opened up yet another link for me to further research. Since joining MyHeritage i've found many family members that was lost & unknown to me, therefore i'm looking forward to continnuing my journey, who knows just where & when it will end. To all of the MyHeritage staff & researchers, well done & keep up the excellent work in helping many people to find their beginnings & at times a sense of belonging to a family.
- Hi Margaret - not sure why this happened, but we've tried to rectify the situation and ensure you the discount you should have got. You should have received an email.
- @Jeanette Thanks - glad we've been able to help you in your family history research!
- Looking forward to having the new features in FTB. Good job on the online version.
- Is there italian people?
- If you buy the premium for one year and use it to find and add the front to help smart, and after you cancel the premium version of what will happen?
- Mir gefalt das sehr.ich gruse Dir herzliche!
- Why does the site keep sending me requests to "Please be kind to the other users and provide your confirmation on those matches (or reject them). " but won't let me confirm them unless I upgrade to premium ??? Why doesn't MyHeritage "be kind" to other users by actually letting me confirm them for those users ??


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Great session! Recommended even if you haven't done any DirectX programming.
wow, that graphics-debuger looks awesome, might be good for learning purposes aswell.
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Ocean Poems
Oceans cover more than two thirds of the earths surface and contain more than 95% of the earths water, and yet their vastness is their least impressive feature. Life on earth began in the ocean, and there it continues to thrive. Conservatively, there are hundreds of thousands of species living in our oceans, and we continue to find more every day. The oceans also play a vital role in regulating the temperature of the earth, absorbing solar heat and redistributing it around the world. As much as they give life, oceans are also a source of fear for many, and are frequently used to depict isolation.
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Ahhhhhhhhh, the breeze was so gentle and the sun so warm
Yet, there was a roar from the ocean filling the air
Waves lapping at the shore one by one
Each one rising and rising with such a ..........
Ocean fresh clear and blue,
Crystal sand so pure.
Dolphins play here and there,
Jumping round through the air.
Turtles swim day and night,
Get stuck in bottle rings, what a ..........
The Haunted Sea
Two days of stark
on a wide, wide sea,
into bleak horizons
the ship sailed free.
Through day filled nights
and ..........
Today I set sail to the open sea
Beyond the horizon I planned to be
Where sun rays could warm me
And darkness not find me
That is where I planned to be.
But like my heart the sky ..........
The sea, the sea, the glorious, emerald sea,
Stretches as far as my sight carries me.
What tranquility, what treasures, what beauties dwell
In her fathomless depth, only God can tell. ..........
Their souls were in captivity.
So then I wondered, 'Why, oh why,
Does God not hear their desperate cry?'
Voices wane into the night,
Ne'er heard in the morning's ..........
Its face is a painting, a sculpture, a sketch.
Its face has no ending, no beginning, no stretch.
Its face is a mirror, a diamond, a gleam.
Its face is a smile, laughter, a dream.
The ..........
Skin tight warmth.
You sprinkle butterfly kisses on my lips.
I giggle and push you away.
You sink down and calm.
Then you rise back up and grab my hips.
So strong, you bring me down ..........
How quickly, quietly the waves form
And then proceed to create a storm
They dance up high, and fall down low
And ripple.
Someday we'll find that everyone's gone
The tsunami ..........
The Ocean, the ocean is simply a wonder
With all the mysteries beneath it
Animals, plants, and others are just under
In the depths of the ocean that are not lit
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Weare police were investigating an ATV collision that left a man with serious injuries.
The crash happened off Tiffany Hill Road just before 9 p.m. Saturday.
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The Randy Moss show has been nothing short of entertaining, although most will call his antics selfish and childish. Moss is now a part of waivers for the first time in his long career and many will have the opportunity to bring in and potentially tame the unhappy athlete. Realistically though, these ten teams make the best sense for Moss and don't be shocked when if his reunion with a certain blue and red team isn't far off.
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This is most certainly a long shot, which is why they are number ten on the list. But don't be shocked if Moss gets the call, if the injury replacements the Colts have don't get the job done against the Texans. Moss would help the Colts just as much as he would hurt them and I am sure that the last thing Colts' fans wanna see is Moss in their uniform. But with Addai, Collie, and Clark down, their only true elite option is Reggie Wayne and he is hobbled slightly as well.
The Manning-Moss combination would be interesting to see, but could the Colts settle the massive ego of the man named Randy?
The Cleveland Browns are one of the worst offenses in the league, but recently, Colt McCoy, has swooped in to save the day. McCoy led the Browns to a victory over the current Super Bowl champions, the Saints, at home pretty convincingly by a score of 30-17. Despite this recent spike in production, the Browns lack a true number one receiver for their up and coming quarterback.
Tight End Benjamin Watson currently leads the team in receiving, but if they were to add Moss the offense could click on all cylinders. With Moss, teams would be forced to shy away from Massaquoi and Cribbs and give them more space to get open. Unfortunately though, if you factor in Moss' ego, there is a chance that he doesn't want to play for the Browns and gives zero effort if he is claimed, but it is an interesting prospect to look at nonetheless.
This isn't as much of a longshot as you may think because the Dolphins realize how much the Patriots would love to bring the star receiver back to the team. Not to mention that the Dolphins are in the playoff hunt and Moss and Marshall would be one of the best receiving cores in the game. Marshall would lose double coverages and force teams to single cover both talented receivers, which could make Chad Henne one happy camper.
The boost in the arm that Moss gives the Dolphins is the same reason why Moss worked so well in New England. Moss plus single coverage equals easy pickings and the Dolphins block move could turn itself into a division championship.
With the recent injuries to their receiving core and the effectiveness of Vincent Jackson when he returns still looming, the Chargers are the next logical choice for Moss to land. The Vincent Jackson debacle has been awful for the Chargers and their team has fallen to a 2-5 record partly because of it. Even though VJax has come back and will play at least the last five games of the season, no one really knows how well he will play because he is still disgruntled and upset. One person who can definitely relate though is, Randy Moss, for obvious reasons.
Why bring Moss onto this under-achieving team? The answer is simple, the Chargers are in the AFC West and are technically never fully out of the divisional race. Yes, they are 3 games back to the Chiefs, but Moss' presence on the team could breath life back into them in enough time to make that postseason push. Not to mention, there is no way Jackson will be a Charger next year; and if they can sign Moss to an extension, he can fill the void left by VJax.
Another team in dire straits looking for a way out, the San Fransisco 49ers, are next on the list to bring Moss in. Under a new, replacement leader, Troy Smith, the Niners worked their way to a victory of the pass happy Denver Broncos. The Niners are still 2-6 though and with the way things are going, it looks as if Mike Singletary is on his way out if something doesn't change fast. Maybe that big change could be Moss, who would fall into an offense that is one step away from being strong.
Troy Smith has two, young and elite options in Crabtree and Davis, but with the edition of Moss, he adds a deep threat and adds a new facet to the offense in the process. Not to mention, with Moss there, teams would be forced to choose between him and Gore to cover on a regular basis which isn't a choice anyone wants to make. The only thing is, this may only be a rental, because if things don't work out and Singletary is fired, Moss would just leave the sinking ship before he was drowned too.
The potential problems arising between Shanahan and McNabb could be all but destroyed, with the addition of Moss and the the best option given to McNabb since Desean Jackson. Though some could look at this as a potential McNabb-Owens situation, others could see its potential if the two could mesh well together.
McNabb's new trio of receivers could be dominant with Moss, Moss, and Cooley and gives the NFC a whole new threat. Unfortunately though with the Giants easily sitting in first, the Redskins are gunning for a wild card spot and Randy could drop one right into their laps. Not to mention, there is a big chance that Moss won't return after this season.
A reunion with the Raiders may be the last thing that Randy Moss wants to happen because he can't help remember what a black spot his time there put on his career. However, the Raiders are a different team and are in search of their first divisional title and playoff berth since 2002 and he could be pivotal in getting them there.
The recent resurgance of the Raiders offense has come in chunks and with a combined total of 92 points over the last two games, fans have been giving what seems like a glimpse of how dominant the old Raiders were. Adding Moss, gives Jason Campbell a real target to throw to for the first time in his career, McFadden and Bush would have more running room, and would add veteran presence to this young and exciting team all at the same time. Could it be time to dust off the old #18 jerseys?
The Seahawks have had their talons in every big name receiver to hit the market and have been unable to come up with anything. They were even mentioned as one of the teams interested in Randy before he was dealt to the Vikings. The Hawks are in first place thanks to their division being so lackluster and could actually pose competition in the playoffs if they add Moss to their mix.
Mike Williams has blown up in recent weeks and putting a combination of Golden Tate and Deon Butler in the slot is nothing short of impressive. Moss though would likely be used as a distraction and his numbers would take a large hit, which probably won't fare well into his TO-like ego and he could have another outburst if he isn't thrown to enough.
The Titans have been a run-first team for the most part, but the addition of Moss would fill in the blank left by the injury suffered by Kenny Britt. Moss is the perfect deep threat and is an older, more experienced version of what the Titans had in Britt. Jeff Fisher is also a good enough head coach to where he could probably settle down Moss' antics.
Vince Young needs his deep player and without the production of Britt, this team could actually falter and begin to lose games. The team has so much potential to be dominant and with the defense playing as well as it is, the Titans could be headed to the AFC Championship.
Moss back to the Patriots looks like as much of a done deal as possible, if he can pass through all 31 teams and land back in the place where his career was revived. Brady, Belicheck, and the Patriots would all be happy to have him back and Moss apparently wants to be there. He wanted to be there so bad, he practically gave an entire press conference on how much he admires them.
Bringing back Moss with the addition of Branch looks like a win-win for the Patriots and if they could just sign him to a deal, maybe he would be as happy as he was in 2007 and just go off again. The Patriots dominance will continue if he rejoins them and they would have a team that could rival that of the undefeated one once again.


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Dogs who can't find homes in our county, will find a home in another state. 38 dogs from the Sebastian County Humane Society will transported by the PetSmart Charities Rescue Wagon to Minnesota.
WATCH: Rescue Wagon transports dogs for adoption
This will be the largest number of dogs transported from the shelter
According to executive director Joanne Barton, there is a large number of dogs looking for kennels and treatment. Within Sebastian County there are more dogs than homes for adoption.
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Sallie V. Kigos, 86, widow of Victor Kigos, of Summerville, died Wed., January 2, 2013.
Funeral services were held at on Saturday, January 5 at 11 am. Burial followed in Summerville Cemetery.
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Cori Jo Simpson and Joshua Todd Long, both of Lubbock, were married Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, at First Christian Church with Bowe Butler officiating.
Parents of the bride are Patsy and Mike Simpson of Canyon. Grandparents are Wanda Turvey of Wichita, Kan., and Vel Simpson of Hereford.
Parents of the groom are Linda and Ricky Long of Fort Worth. His grandmother is Marie Long of Midland.
Kayla Simpson, sister of the bride, of Lubbock is maid of honor. Attendants are Alex Wieck of Canyon, Megan Garcia of Lubbock, Hayley Huyser of Elwood, Neb., and Shannan Pfeifer of San Antonio. Flower girls were Kyley Gill of New Home and Kate King of Lubbock.
Tye Keith of Happy is best man. Attendants are Chris Olsen of Big Spring, Joey Couch of Fort Worth and cousins of the groom Martin Gill of New Home and David Vinson of Flower Mound. Bryce Gill of New Home is ring bearer.
Vienna Conspiracy and soloist Brett Spalding provided music for the occasion. Catherine Baker read selected scripture passages. Colors were navy, raspberry and gold.
The bride wore a satin Priscilla of Boston gown with a plunging sweetheart neckline, hand-pleated skirt and a bodice encrusted with pearls, rhinestones and crystals. She wore a chapel-length veil embellished with crystals and carried a bouquet of ivory calla lilies, hydrangeas and roses wrapped in an ivory velvet ribbon.
The reception was held at Amarillo Country Club. Attendants were Chandler and Reggie Storer.
The bride graduated from Canyon High School in Canyon. She earned a bachelor's degree at Baylor University in Waco and a juris doctorate degree at Texas Tech University School of Law in Lubbock. She is a loan review analyst with Plains Capital Bank.
The groom graduated from Big Spring High School in Big Spring. he earned a bachelor's degree at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He is a rig manager with Westex Well Services.
After a honeymoon trip to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, the couple will reside in Lubbock.
Amarillo Globe-News, Dec. 4, 2011


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Monday, February 17, 2003
Columbia Gorge Community College will ask Hood River and Wasco County voters to approve a bond measure in the November 2003 general election, directors decided Thursday night.
The measure will allow the college to purchase property in Hood River for a permanent classroom building and replace the college Skill Center on The Dalles campus. The skill center closed permanently at the start of the winter term, when officials discovered extensive deterioration and mold throughout the structure. Skill Center functions have since been distributed through the already-crowded buildings on The Dalles campus, a short-term solution which college directors consider untenable for an extended period of time. A bond measure would also allow the college to fix several ongoing building problems on The Dalles campus, including leaky roofs in the main classroom and administrative buildings.
The bond amount has not yet been determined, although the board reviewed three preliminary options at Wednesday's meeting, which was held in Hood River Valley High School. This ranged from $9 million — the minimum to replace the Skill Center, purchase Hood River property and conduct essential repairs — to $25 million, which would allow construction of additional new buildings on The Dalles campus and develop a college center in Hood River. The college board considered but rejected a proposal to place the bond measure on the May 2003 ballot, with a majority deciding this wouldn't allow sufficient time to conduct a successful bond campaign.
Meanwhile, the college is negotiating with a potential developer for a Hood River building, and purchase of property in Hood River is a necessary first step toward that construction project.
Hood River voters approved annexation into the college district in 2001, but state legislators failed to fulfill their commitment of annexation funding as one result of Oregon's fiscal crisis. The same statewide revenue crisis has driven a series of college funding cuts, and these continued this week with projected loss of another $105,000. (There was some good news, though: the state community college board successfully shepherded a one-time payment of $276,000 to offset Hood River operational costs, an amount essentially donated to Columbia Gorge Community College with the approval of all the other 16 community colleges in Oregon.)
"This is our opportunity to take charge of our own destiny," said college director Dave Fenwick of Hood River, who argued for the earlier election date. "We're cutting the strings from Salem," he added, noting voters' rejection of Measure 28 because of concerns it would route money to the state bureaucracy. "We're spending money on our own institutions, our own kids, our own adults," Fenwick added. Several other directors from both The Dalles and Hood River agreed. But others from both communities questioned the chances of passage in only a few months' time.
Meredith VanValkenburgh, a college director from The Dalles, argued for a later election date, saying the poor economy and threat of war in Iraq made earlier passage unlikely. "When we do it, we should do it right," he said.
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The origin of a border conflict
By S Viswanathan
Published: 15th September 2013 12:00 AM
Last Updated: 13th September 2013 10:45 AM
Sir Henry McMahon, then the foreign secretary of the British-run Government of India, was responsible for drawing up the official border between British India and China. This denied China the right of ruling Tibet. McMahon was a treacherous negotiator: he presented a different map than the one in the Simla Agreement of 1914 to the Chinese, thus washing British hands of the negotiated border. He was sent back to London in disgrace, but 30 years later, the McMahon Line became the cartographic border between British India and China.
After Independence, India inherited all British territorial agreements, including the McMahon Line. In 1954, during border talks with India's northern neighbour, Jawaharlal Nehru refused to yield to the Chinese over Tibet saying "the McMahon line marked their border with China, where was the need?" China was not in agreement over the negotiations between Tibet and Britain. Nehru couldn't come to an agreement with the Chinese on negotiating a border acceptable to both parties. The Indo-China border became the LAC (line of actual control); the point up to which each nation was capable of administering their territory. After the Chinese occupied Tibet in 1950, India was initially supportive, even recognising Tibet as part of China.
The Indian Army, meanwhile, took control of Tawang in NEFA, driving out Tibetans. In 1954, India acknowledged Chinese sovereignty in Tibet after the Panchsheel Accord with China. But by 1951, China had already constructed numerous army posts in Aksai Chin. China became wary that India had allowed the CIA to set up training camps for Tibetans fighting the Chinese. In 1958, India protested to China that it had built a road between Xinjiang and Tibet through Indian territory in Aksai Chin, Ladakh. Nehru refused to accept Chinese claims over Aksai Chin, in return for China giving up claims on Indian territory in NEFA.
Chinese premier Zhou en Lai visited India four times to convince Nehru, but did not succeed. The Chinese were furious at India giving the Dalai Lama asylum in 1959. In 1961, Chinese soldiers started patrolling the McMahon Line, crossing over to Indian areas, which angered India. Sardar Patel, then the Home Minister, declared on February 4, 1962 that "if the Chinese will not vacate the areas occupied by her, India will have to repeat what she did in Goa. She will certainly drive out the Chinese forces."
India constructed 60 Army forward outposts, including 43 north of the McMahon Line. This was called the 'Forward Policy', which strategically flanked Chinese military positions to assert Indian territorial claims in Ladakh. Both countries questioned each other's territorial claim, and India opposed Chinese claims over Tibet. A free Tibet was essential for maintaining India's security. On October 20, 1962, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China crossed into Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, capturing Rezang la and Tawang before declaring a ceasefire on November 20, 1962.
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My mother has it. Has for YEARS.
It's when the pockets in the intestines get food stuck in them and get infected. You'll usually have abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhea and a fever. Most times you need antibiotics to clear it up and to avoid your trigger foods....nuts, seedy fruits and veggies, corn, strawberries, etc.....everyone is different and triggers and symptoms vary.
She gets it several times a year because she's VERY non compliant with her diet. And she has scarring in the bowel that with the next bout or 2 they may have to remove the damaged part and leave her with a temporary colostomy. I've been b!tching for years at her to try to get her to change her ways.


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The coin flip theory.
Have you ever hit that point of desperation (a la John Anthony in the movie
Two For the Money) where you make a wagering decision based on a coin flip? Where your own research, statistical
breakdowns, expert advice, etc., etc., all equated to a loss at the end of the
game? Many of us have latched on to the
hottest prognosticator on this or other websites to ride their coattails to
victory. However I've read that even a
great handicapper will only win about 55-60% of their total picks over the
course of a season. I predict a coin
flip can do better.
Pschaw you say?? Let's
see how you do against the coin.
Here's my experiment.
Just for the sake of science, I will flip the same coin for
every game of the season and post the results here before the Thursday night
game. I will post the lines I am picking
against and we will see how the coin flip does over the course of each week and
season. To keep things consistent, the
home team will always be heads as will the over (thus visitors will be tails as
will the under). Keep in mind, I will be choosing lines based
their postings Thursday….so if there are last minute changes to the lines prior
to game time, those will not be reflected.
Also, if a game is off the board pending an injury update, that will not
be accounted for either unless I feel like doing it Sunday morning (d... [More]
While I'm new to posting on here, I'm certainly not new to taking advantage of the great info from the site and you bloggers. So I'm giving back what I can.
Hopefully this is obvious or common sense to most of you, but I'm certain we all fall victim to this from time to time. It's what I refer to as "sh*tfinger". This affliction can affect each of us at one time or other and it's the exact opposite of the Midas touch. Where every pick you make turns to sh*t and you're suddenly in the driver's seat of an awful losing streak. You went from 11-5 on the season to 1-6 last week and 0-5 this week. You get in your head and start doing the opposite of what you THINK you should bet. If you like the over, you take the under. You like the dog, so you bet the favorite. Still you find a way to lose.
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If you think that snowing a goalie is equivalent to breaking a player's face by way of an absolutely reckless hit, then I seriously question your moral system
I never said or implied it was equivalent! I was using that fight as an example of how people are being hypocrites on here. Both where reckless and crossed the line. But since Draper was injured it was accepted that after Mac sucker punched him, dazed him, fell on the ice and kept raining blows and some knees to the face. No One is calling for McCarty to serve jail time, knees to the face aren't part of the game. Please tell me other than a broken nose & concussion the damage that was done to young man? O btw he's 17 almost an adult.
Like someone else said you don't do that and expect nothing will happen to you. Yes it crossed the line but charges wow.
The linesmen are partly to blame for watching and not stopping that young man from raining blows down on the other as he was stunned from a crosscheck to the head. You could say his teammates could have helped him but no #3 and #5 didn't stop it.
How about what Bert did that crossed the line. Why wasn't he charged? What Bert did was far worse than this! I could go on and on about incidents that happened and not charged with a crime.
The real issue is how does one combat this so its not an issue?


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By Duane Pemberton
Winery website: jordanwinery.com
Jordan winery has been a California favorite for decades. It offers wines of varying price points, made with the most popular varietals that California offers: Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay.
Technical Data:
- Varietal:100% Chardonnay
- Appellation: 100% Russian River Valley
- Alcohol: 13.79%
- T.A.: 0.74g/100mL
- pH: 3.31
- Bottling Dates: July 15–August 3, 2011 Fined and filtered before bottling
- Release Date: May 1, 2012
- Price: $29
Nose: Pineapple, pear, vanilla, green apples, melon and a slight hint of butterscotch.
Taste: Apples, pineapple, kiwi, vanilla and a splash of fresh melon really do a good job of rounding out the fruit on this wine, however, I do wish it had a more well-rounded smoothness and finish to it. The finish is bright but a bit too short for me.


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December 7, 2012
'Climate Cliff' Needs Urgent Action
Ray Offenheiser & Tim Wirth, Politico
After another year of extreme weather in the U.S. — the searing drought in the Midwest that depleted the region's water supplies and withered its crops and superstorm Sandy's devastating floods from both sea and sky — the American public has reawakened to the real and present danger of climate change. Science and the reality of what we see out our windows are spurring broad concern and polls are showing a readiness — and indeed, a demand — for action on climate change that may be unprecedented.
But this is not a threat we face alone — the consequences of a changing climate tie our fate to those of millions and indeed billions of others around the world. While our farmers were dealing with the costly effects of this past summer's drought, farmers in the...
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Memorials to four Borders soldiers killed 69 years ago - the day after World War Two ended - have been unveiled in Sweden.
L/Sgt John Mulholland, 32, Cpl James McAra Davidson, 32, Cpl John Pearl, 31 and Pte Duncan Anthony Connolly, 19 were members of the 7th Battalion of the King's Own Scottish Borderers.
They were part of Operation Doomsday, the British 1st Airborne Division mission to ensure that the German surrender in Norway took place successfully.
They were on board a Short Stirling bomber which suffered engine failure and crash landed on Lake Rojden, on the Swedish and Norwegian border.
After a valiant attempt to control the plane, it touched down on the lake and almost on arrival at the shore, a wingtip caught a pine tree on the shore, spinning the aircraft through 90 degrees and into the shore. This caused the structure of the fuselage to fracture, resulting in 4 KOSB men drowning in the rear section of the aircraft. The remainder survived.
The four bodies were taken to nearby Torsby in Sweden and buried with full military honours, half of the local population attending with a piper and honour guard from 7th KOSB. They remained in Torsby until 1961 when they were reinterred in the Commonwealth War Grave cemetary in Gothenburg.
Lt Colonel Bengt Fransson, Commanding the Varmlands Brigade and a regular attendee at Berwick Minden parade, along with Gunnar Foseid from Norway organised for a memorial to be placed at the crash site and also in the cemetary in Torsby.
They co-ordinated all research and tracing of relatives, assisted by Ian Martin at the KOSB Archives in the KOSB Museum, and some 20 of them attended the memorial unveiling last weekend. Among them was the daughter of one of those lost and never met her father. Another travelled from Canada.
They were joined by four former King's Own Scottish Borderers (Ed Swales from Berwick, Alistair Busby-Rutherford from Kelso, Andrew Herberts from St Boswells and Andrew Raiment from Sanquhar who is currently a piper with 1 Scots in Edinburgh.
Mr Swales said: "The fact that Operation Doomsday took place the day after war ended makes the tragedy that much more poignant."


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So Zogenix might have been a bit surprised by the overwhelming lack of confidence the FDA panel exhibited for Zohydro ER, which uses a drug delivery technology from Alkermes (NASDAQ: ALKS ) for extending the pain release qualities of the underlying hydrocodone. Pfizer used a similar technology to get a new morphine product approved, as did Jazz Pharmaceutical's (NASDAQ: JAZZ ) in its OCD drug Luvox and Novartis (NYSE: NVS ) for its ADD treatment Ritalin.The sticking point seems to be that the pill itself wasn't crush-resistant. That suggests to me that despite the outsized vote against it, the full body may yet approve it. That gives the drugmaker some large upside potential.
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The New York Rangers (43-31-5) lost to the Ottawa Senators (33-31-14) by the score of 3-2, last night. For a box score go to Yahoo! Sports.
…the first game home after a long road trip is always tough, so I wasn't surprised to see the Rangers not have their "A" game, especially defensively. Someone needs to look up the record for worst shooting percentage in a season by an NHL team, because the Rangers have to be nearing historic lows. If they're able to bury a few of their early opportunities that's likely a different game.
…and that's what happens when your team has the perception of being soft. Neil saw an opportunity to run Staal and knew either there wasn't going to be a retaliation or he'd only have to worry about a guy like Zuccarello biting at his ankle. While it was nice to see the Hobbit and Pouliot finally coming to their teammate's aid, it also presents the Rangers biggest problem. Without physically imposing players in the lineup, guys like Neil will never be deterred from attempting to the rough up the Rangers. Toughness doesn't score goals, but it keeps the opposition from taking liberties with those players who do.
…and how disgraceful is Neil? Not only coming in high and hard on a guy with a history of concussions, but then waling on him in the head while the two or on the ice. I guess the code is lost on him. He's exactly the kind of guy the Rangers are missing.
…got to the love when the smallest guy on the Rangers is the only one who realizes that it pays off to be around the net in the offensive zone. Also, Zuccarello's playmaking ability is as good if not better than anyone's in the league. Almost makes me want to forgive him for being on the ice for all three of Ottawa's goals.
…so moving Boyle up to the third line not only didn't magically get St. Louis to rediscover his scoring touch, it took away a lot of what made the fourth line so effective. To the point AV didn't feel comfortable playing one of his biggest puck possession lines in the fourth period.
…AV's next move to get St. Louis going has to be to get Richards as far away from him as possible.
…i'm not sure why every shot from the opposition isn't glove side high on Lundqvist. While he's gotten better, it's truly his only weakness. You know, except for his stickhandling.
…since coming back from the concussion Moore has been very aggressive with his shot.
…listen, the Rangers are going to make the playoffs and likely avoid the dreaded Wild Card spot and a first round date with the Bruins, but they're really missing the services of McDonagh and Kreider. The forward lines, which have been in flux since the St. Louis trade, have become even less stable since Kreider went down and without their number one defenseman the big defensive stands aren't being made.
…off until Tuesday when the Rangers might have already backed into the playoffs and the Hurricanes are in town.
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For years my father has claimed that the league "hates the Wings" or "wants Detroit to lose" or whatever. I constantly have to remind him that we are the most successful organization of the last two decades. If there is a conspiracy against the Wings, it's the least successful conspiracy ever. Why would anybody give a rat's ass about an ineffective conspiracy?
the league doesn't fix games so to speak but they can nudge/push games in a certain direction with schedule (remember round 2 against Pens when the series started on a weekend which hadn't happened in something like 30 years and the Wings got LESS rest for winning that series in 6 vs. 7 games, lidstrom's family jewels being out of commission and all etc)
and with ref assignments, which they refuse to spell out any length of time in advance, and yes, the league, all leagues, keep stats on their officials, some more prone to call sticks, obstruction, more majors, etc,
Dan O'Halloran, who literally has been quoted as saying he "hates the city of Detroit" reffred games 1, 5 and 7 of the Pens series for instance.
Guess who was reffing game 6 two days ago when the league needed a Chicago win for a lucrative O6 game 7?
and then you have the NHL higher up who , again, literally admitted in the press that it's good for the league when the series go long, are extended to 7 games for revenue purposes. Sorry I don't have a link right now but all this has been discussed and documented here and other places.
and finally, although I haven't checked this year or lately, I know that for many years in a row how do you explain the Red Wings being, over an 82 game schedule, one of the LEAST penalized teams league wide but during the PO's they suddenly are one of the most penalized? How do you explain an Anaheim team that's one of the most penalized during the season and all of a sudden Detroit is penalized more than Anaheim. Has happened more than once as well. And this from a skilled 'soft', euro team as well???
go ahead and respond with snark and derision but the FACTS are on my side, again, it's all been hashed out and DOCUMENTED.
My beef is that we get penalized more even when we have the better team.
see my post above, amazing how they have been in the past one of the least penalized teams over 82 games and then end up getting called for more penalties than even clutch and grab opponents like Anaheim et all. Has happened multiple times. Once is one thing.
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Although not life-threatening, alopecia areata (AA) is associated with increased rates of depressive symptoms and anxiety in children.1 This study investigates how schoolchildren, from kindergarten (K) through grade 8, perceive those with AA and the associated social ramifications.
After receiving institutional review board approval, we developed a study participant group of 123 school children, grades K through 8, separated by grade. Half the subjects were interviewed as individuals and half as pairs, and all were shown a photograph of a child with AA (Figure). The investigators observed and recorded the initial subjects' reactions. Responses to a series of questions regarding their attitudes toward the photograph were analyzed to assess differences in children's attitudes toward those with AA across grade level, sex, and interview format (individual vs pair). Statistical significance was assessed using the Pearson χ2 test and Fisher exact test, with a type 1 error rate of 0.05.
When initially viewing the photograph of a child with AA, children in grades K through 3 were more likely to show discomfort; 20% were visibly uncomfortable (n = 19), often looking away from the photograph. Another 27% displayed expressions of surprise and shock (n = 26). None of the children in grades 5 through 8 revealed any apparent discomfort. Those interviewed in pairs were 3 times more likely to express discomfort. When asked how they would feel if one of their classmates lost their hair, all subjects across all grade levels responded with the majority answer of "sad." Children interviewed in pairs were 3 times more likely to admit they would be "scared" or "shocked."
When the children were asked if they thought the child with AA was sick or dying, 42% of those in grades K through 3 (n = 41) and 54% in grades 5 through 8 (n = 14) thought the child was sick, and 21% in grades K through 3 (n = 20) thought they were dying. Those in grades K through 3 were 6 times more likely than older children to think that the child was dying. A common theme in all age groups was that the children were curious and wanted to know "what happened?"
When the children were asked if they would be afraid to get close to someone with AA, children in grades K through 3 were 5 times more likely than older children to state that they would be afraid (37%; n = 36). A total of 88% of the older children (grades 5-8; n = 23) stated that they would not be afraid. Boys were more likely than girls to admit being afraid of getting close to someone with AA.
The most significant differences in survey responses were seen across grade levels, implying that children's developmental age has a strong impact on their view of others with AA. This was demonstrated by a consistent natural transition in responses at around the third grade, artificially dividing these children's opinions into younger (grades K-3) and older (grades 5-8) opinions of AA.
Younger children were much more likely to display apparent discomfort when viewing the photograph and believe the child to be dying or contagious. This demonstrates an evolving concept of illness with age, with younger children more likely to view hair loss as deadly and transmittable, leading to isolation of younger children with AA.
There were few differences in perception based on sex. Students were assessed in pairs to discover potential components of peer influence on the negative views of others. One notable difference in pair responses was increased expression of surprise and shock at seeing a photograph of someone with AA. For most questions, individuals within a pair tended to agree, suggesting that children are likely to influence each other when in groups, implying an element of peer pressure in singling out someone who is perceived as different.
Our findings emphasize the importance of recognizing how the change in appearance associated with AA can affect how a child is viewed by peers. Previous studies have shown that appearances can be the greatest factor in social isolation of school-age children, especially girls.2 Negative peer views of appearance have been associated with decreased rates of peer acceptance and popularity and increased disruptive behavior.2
By understanding how children perceive and react to hair loss, health care professionals will be better equipped to counsel children, families, and teachers about AA. The following key educational points from our study that should be shared with the patient, family, and school to help avoid isolation caused by AA:
AA is not life-threatening; the child is healthy;
AA is not contagious; and
Children at all grade levels are curious; we should educate them about AA.
Corresponding Author: Andrew Hankinson, MD, Penn State College of Medicine, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, 107 Townhouse Rd, Hershey, PA 17033 (email@example.com).
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LAKE ODESSA, MI – A rainout Friday night bought a bit of time for Brady Bacon to relax.
That night would have marked the beginning of a stretch that had Bacon racing 15 times in 17 days, all on different tracks.
The rainout only reduced his workload by one day before he got off to a successful start. Bacon, who lives just outside of Indianapolis, charged ahead on two late restarts to win the 30-lap United States Auto Club Amsoil Sprint Cars race Saturday, June 22, at I-96 Speedway.
It is Bacon's fourth win of his career on the USAC circuit and the first in 2013. Saturday's race was the first time in 18 years that the Sprint Car series made an appearance at the Lake Odessa track.
Bacon took the lead on lap 15 of the feature and held off defending circuit champion Bryan Clauson. Twice, he had huge leads on restarts, but the second time almost wasn't the charm.
"It seemed like we ran a lot of laps when I took over," Bacon said. "I definitely didn't want to see those last two cautions. We weren't having much of a problem with lap traffic, but you don't want to see those cautions come out when you're in the lead like that. With those two restarts in a row, the tire pressure got a little low and I slowed it down a bit, but once I got some air built up I was fine."
Bacon, a native of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, returned to Indianapolis early Sunday morning to grab his wing sprint car and embark on a journey that will take him to other tracks in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
"It was supposed to start Friday at Terre Haute, but we got rained out there," Bacon said. "Now I get to go home and grab my own wing car and I'm going to race the remainder of Ohio Speed Week. Then I'll drive to Pennsylvania and race their Speed Week, all with the wing car."
Bacon's trip also includes a visit to a speedway in Hagerstown, Maryland. It may be exhausting to the average race car fan, but to Bacon it is all about building visibility.
"I'm really trying to get better at my wing 410 program, and this is the only way to do it," Bacon said. "I might take a few licks in the next couple weeks, but it's all about getting the experience."
Three other feature races were held at the track, with action in the Modified, Street Stock and Sport Compact divisions.
In the 20-lap Modified event, Spring Lake driver Jacob Poel won for the third time this season as he beat out Dona Marcoullier for the checkered flag. Aaron Morey finished third, and former track champions Rich Robinson Jr. and Todd Feutz rounded out the top five.
Coopersville driver Josh Frye and Twin Lake veteran Dan Dykman staged a spirited battle during the Street Stock event, with each driver taking and retaking the lead until Frye grabbed it on the white-flag lap and held on for victory. This is Frye's fourth win of the year at I-96.
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What a wealth of knowledge ... now, if they can just turn it into money.
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