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L.A. Noire, R* Games
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Feb 7 2010, 07:43 PM
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Just found something new on LA Noire.
Game Informer:
Rockstar Games is known for its ambitious projects, and L.A. Noire proves that the companys reputation is safe. While the rumblings about the game have been heard for years, our world exclusive cover story is the only place youll be able to get concrete information on the gritty crime epic. Over the course of our 10-page feature we look at the games astonishing reconstruction of 1947 Los Angeles and learn how the team took on such a massive undertaking. We also talk to the team to see L.A. Noires groundbreaking facial-animation system in action, and learn how it might change the way we look at games from now on.
At long last, the never-ending mystery of whether Rockstar's "gritty detective tale," L.A. Noire, will be a multiplatform release has ... well, ended. And in a pretty unspectacular way, to boot -- in the comments section of a Game Informer post teasing the magazine's in-depth print preview of L.A. Noire, editor Matthew Kato explained, "It's not a PS3-exclusive," later adding, "it was at one point, but it's coming out for the PS3 and 360." (We've contacted Rockstar to verify this apparent reveal.)
Now, we won't know whether this news is worth getting excited about until Game Informer's preview hits newsstands. We're getting tentatively pumped, though -- but that's only because of our pure, unswerving love of fedoras. Seriously, we can't get enough of 'em.
So, sounds like another PS3 exclusive just got un-exclusive'D. But that's good news for 360 owners i guess. I'm interested to read more about this game. I like the detective/mafia gang narrative in games. Hopefully this will be a great game!
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Feb 7 2010, 09:04 PM
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Although multi-platforming has its benefits, a console exclusive game can be honed and focused, taking advantage of that console's strong points. But meh, whatever, probably won't be getting it because I don't tend to buy games that are new and unknown to me. Same with Agent, same with RDR.
Feb 7 2010, 09:48 PM
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A screenshot, finally! Shame it's not exclusive though. The PS3 has so much more of an advantage when games are tailor made for it, and it's not size restricted by the FagBox.. (Yes, I own a 360 too, fuck off fanboys, before you even start.)
Feb 7 2010, 10:03 PM
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Yeah first screeny lol. I expect thisgame to do well, it being a R* game and all. I feel R* have really stepped up the game in this generation and have been announcing loads of top titles.
Feb 7 2010, 10:13 PM
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Shit yeah... and this has pretty much been in production since before me or you were even born. So it HAS to be good.
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Bit moar info.
L.A. Noire Revealed
Rockstar looks to raise the bar and change the way we view open-world games.
by Hilary Goldstein
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February 6, 2010 - In the March 2010 issue of Game Informer (on stands this month), the first real details of L.A. Noire are revealed. Developed by Team Bondi (The Getaway), L.A. Noire is an open-world action-adventure game set in the City of Angels in 1947. Unlike previous Rockstar efforts, L.A. Noire exists in a real city, painstakingly recreated for historical accuracy. Don't expect the "shoot everyone" mentality of a Grand Theft Auto title -- this is something completely different.
You play as Cole Phelps, a beat cop looking to clean up the streets of L.A. It won't be easy, seeing as how the L.A. police force is mired in corruption from top to bottom. Phelps has his own issues to deal with, including some very bad things he did in World War II. Though he starts low on the totem pole, over the course of L.A. Noire Phelps progresses through a series of "desks" in the department, including traffic, vice and, ultimately, homicide.
As a detective, you have to solve cases through a mixture of investigations, interviews and interrogations. According to the article in GI, when you come across a scene, you won't find highlighted items sitting in obvious places. Crime scenes are said to look natural and require a deft eye to spot important clues. See a pair of glasses on the ground of a supposed murder scene and you can pick them up, noting details such as the brand etched on the inside of the frame. These little bits of information are jotted down on your notepad, which can be brought up at any time.
Things get a little more interesting in regards to the interview system. Team Bondi is using revolutionary technology that could change the way games are made. The new facial motion capturing system sets actors alone in a giant room with cameras all around. In full make-up, the actor delivers their dialogue. Every facial moment is recorded, from the most exaggerate of motions to the slightest twitch of an eye. The dialogue is recorded at this time as well, creating a seamless scene. All of this is then translated into a 3D game landscape with no animators needed. The result? According to GI, it's a picture-perfect rendering of the actor's scene. That's important to the gameplay.
When you interview someone, you'll need to watch their face and determine if they're lying. Like Mass Effect, your dialogue choices come from a handful of general options: coax, accuse or force. The way you handle an interview or interrogation is greatly determined by the reactions you get from the suspect. You can also refute testimony by selecting clues from your notebook.
Unfortunately, GI wasn't shown any of the gunplay, so the set-up for the action sequences is still a mystery.
You can read more details on the demo in the latest issue of Game Informer.
The face shit kinda sounds like what they did for heavenly sword.
Feb 8 2010, 08:00 AM
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Since the game takes place in LA in 1947 I wonder if the Black Dahlia murder will play a role in the story...
If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
Feb 8 2010, 08:48 PM
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Since the game takes place in LA in 1947 I wonder if the Black Dahlia murder will play a role in the story...
I actually tried to "like" that comment... too much fucking time on Facebook.
Feb 8 2010, 10:05 PM
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I'm glad this wasn't a PS3 exclusive. Sony can suck my 1947 sack. Also, I heard that "Noire" is a typo that Rockstar just decided to run with.
I am excited about this game, even though we probably won't see it until March/April of next year.
Feb 8 2010, 10:18 PM
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Oh, good one. The "you're on the internet so you must have no life" insult isn't moronic or unoriginal at all. You must, without a doubt, be a very important member of society, not at all a waste of the already barely valuable gift of life.
As is the case for everyone who takes issue with people who make them sad on the internet, you are one of two kinds of people:
You are exactly what you claim I am, and that is a lonely, pathetic basement dweller. You life is spent eating eight pounds of junk food per day, masturbating to anything you find online that's even remotely feminine, and wishing you had good looks and social skills. You continue to live with your mother until she dies of a combination of lung cancer and liver failure brought on by the chain-smoking and heavy drinking she used to cope with what a failure you are. Your mother mercifully dead and free of the living embodiment of failure she regretfully thrust from her loins, the bills start to pile up and you, unemployed and unable to pay these bills (of course), lose the house and everything in it. Somehow even more of a failure than you already were, you wander from place to place eating out of dumpsters and sleeping in your own filth until you finally die of AIDS, which you contracted from a diseased whore you scrounged up enough money to pay for, so you could finally lose your virginity while at the same time pretending that your mother was back in your life.
You are the type who was an athlete in high school, who was genetically doomed to be an idiot but managed to finish school and even get a college scholarship because you were so good at a worthless children's game. You went off to college with a suitcase full of polo shirts and condoms, the polo shirts, because you're a douche, and the condoms to prevent you from impregnating the dim-witted young college girls whom you could never touch without the aid of Rohypnol, a drug you refer to as "roofies" because you can neither spell or pronounce Rohypnol. You scrape by with borderline D's for the next four years, and leave the campus to go out into the real world where your realize you're not intelligent or talented enough to do anything of value with your life. Misery and minimum wage ensues for thirty years, then you blow your brains out, and your corpse, alone and forgotten, is not discovered until the smell of rotting flesh seeps under your door and your bodily fluids finally soak through the floor of your studio apartment and into the room below you. Your body is cremated, the ashes scraped into a garbage bin because there was no one in your life who valued you enough to pay for a casket, funeral, or burial plot.
You're undoubtedly one of the two, otherwise you would have better things to do than complain about the theme of a forum that doesn't care about anything you have to say.
Feb 9 2010, 03:34 PM
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rockstar seems to take too many ideas from other devs.
i was impressed by the hype over the drug minigame in chinatown wars until i discovered it in scarface. now this dialogue thing in la noire, wich i've seen anyway in dreamfall: the longest journey and perfected/expanded in mass effect.
what rockstar brought into gaming is guts, otherwise they don't put the player to too much thinking...
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I fucked bitches... killed bitches... robbed bitches...
Maybe here... things won't be different :)
Apr 5 2010, 08:15 PM
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@Stoic (and others about the Black Dahlia murder)
I don't know about the typo-thing, but as you might know, Noire is the feminine form of black in french. (Although, since L.A is masculine form, it should be L.A Noir).
Connection to the Black Dahlia murder perhaps?
Although as it says in bold text, "The Dark Heart of Los Angeles".
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Apr 5 2010, 08:18 PM
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Who knows? I'm hoping it has a Black Dahlia feel to it. Anyway, I read an article somewhere that said Noire was supposed to be spelled Noir, but when it was released to the press, the typo included the "e" on the end. So wah-lah.
This game is totally off the radar for me. Especially with RDR coming out next month.
Apr 5 2010, 08:21 PM
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I edited my first post, so you might have missed it, but Noire is the feminine form, and Los Angeles, in spanish at least, is the masculine form. Don't know how you treat the language barriers, but it seems as if though L.A Noir without the E would be the correct form.
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Apr 5 2010, 08:27 PM
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I am very much looking forward to this game
Apr 5 2010, 08:30 PM
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This game is totally off the radar for me. Especially with RDR coming out next month.
Same. I don't think i'll get this. Although I originally wasn't going to get RDR... Heh. Time will tell.
Info on this and Agent seems to be very scarce at the moment, I don't know which one I would prefer out of the two. Secretive espionage vs. hands-on detective work. Hmm... tough one.
Apr 5 2010, 09:13 PM
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Love the look of this but I don't think I'll be able to press the eject button when RDR is in there. I'll still get it though.
Apr 6 2010, 09:56 AM
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New details guys!
The Dutch all-round gaming magazine named 'Chief' had the chance to check out L.A. Noire.
We've gathered all the interesting new details and you can check them out below.
The scans are included as well for all you visual people.
* L.A. Noire is not a "Gta1947, Mafia II" game. There isn't a game like this released yet, thus you can't compare it.
* The game does include a lot of actions, car chases and shoot outs.
* Instead of taking out your gun, you will take out your notepad.
* In a conversation with another person you have to see trough them to check out if they are telling the truth. Thanks to the 'revolutionary' facial animation system this is one of the biggest things in the game.
* You can inspect houses of suspects and check everything out, from mirrors to steel pipes, all kinds of objects.
* The crime scenes are based of real Los Angeles crime scenes back in '47.
* You'll have to work your way up in a world full of lies, corruption and hidden agenda's.
* The world is a authentic 40's Los Angeles and everything in the world seems 'right'. Nothing will hold you back to experience Los Angeles in 1947 to the fullest.
* Core of the game: "Lone guy against the world fighting the good fight"
* Rockstar ends with: "There is a enough mediocre crap in the industry, we want to try something different.".
Team Bondi on their Facial Animation system;
Standard motion capture just wasn't going to cut it according to Team Bondi boss: McNamara.
Using a complex technology with 32 camera's we were enable to transfer the actor's animation directly into the game.
During our presentation to Rockstar Games we had to move with the camera's real-time to show them that everything they were watching was actually in game and not pre-rendered.
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Team Bondi. Not too keen on that, as typically Aussie movie/games offerings (apart from BioShock) have been mediocre at best. Just don't have the money nor the experience...though I'm sure R* chose them for a reason.
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Apr 6 2010, 07:28 PM
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Seems like it's going to be a cross of Grim Fandango and GTA. I might get it, i'll have to wait and see.
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The first awards of the night went to Christoph Waltz, Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Drama for Django Unchained; Maggie Smith, Best Supporting Actress – TV for Downton Abbey; and Julianne Moore, Best Actress – Miniseries/TV Movie for Game Change, which also was awarded Best Miniseries/TV Movie. Now, I think we can all lay to rest the Sarah Palin impersonation. May we never seek its comedic relief again.
Keeping everyone on their toes, T&A randomly planted themselves, in disguises, in the audience as the camera panned to nominees:
Next up, Homeland started to sweep the evening, nabbing Best TV Series – Drama, Best Actor (Damian Lewis) and Best Actress (Claire Danes) in the category. Danes thanked her recently born son, with whom she was pregnant while filming some of this season's craziest scenes. Cute, but she really should have named that kid Saul, right?
As Michael Bloomberg said, white people love them some Homeland.
Mychael Danna was awarded with Best Original Score for Life of Pi and Adele, finally out of maternal hiding, won a much-deserved Globe for Best Original Score for the eponymous hit from Skyfall.


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I actually feel a lot of compassion for the transgendered. I don't think that doctors should perform sex change surgeries. I have no problem with those who cross dress, though. Ru Paul is beautiful as a woman, and kind of plain and ordinary as a man, but he's never had the surgery, so he can go back and forth as he pleases. He probably takes the hormones to grow breasts, though.
Once a person has the surgery, he can't go back. He also faces a lifetime of plastic surgery procedures to maintain the female look (not sure how it works with females to males, but not sure I want to know). In this case, medical technology has created a situation that hurts instead of heals, even if the intention is the latter.
I had a friend at my former church who was a male to female TG. I really liked him, but he never looked very much like a woman. He also still had sex with women-like John Lithgow's character in "The World According to Garp". He had plastic surgery every other year, it seemed, to try to look more female. He was tall and very masculine, with a pronounced adam's apple, it just wasn't going to work no matter what he did. I would never treat someone badly who was TG or TS, but I still feel badly for them.
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Ru Paul is beautiful as a womanRu Paul is a womanwoman
Dressing up in a skirt and wearing make-up doesn't make you a woman anymore than putting a police uniform on for halloween makes one an actual police officer. Face it, the man is in denial about being a man, he believes that since he couldn't choose to be a male or female, then it must be all socially constructed and therefore inhibiting freedom of autonomy; what he fails to understand is that female and male are complementary roles, females raise the children with a sense of compassion for family, while the father disciplines the children instilling the sense of honor, loyalty, tradition, and independence and provides for the family.
ozconservative.com explains how liberalism, feminism, and autonomy go hand-in-hand, and how it's inevitable goal of the family unit is the same thing as the marxist goal of class warfare. One example was the family unit is like a bundle of sticks, you can't break them in that bundle, only by untying the bundle can you break them one by one, and bam you have a marxist dictatorship.
1) prior to women's lib and the rise of the faggot brigade America was a strong, capatalist republic
2) following 30 years of women's lib and gay pride we have a marxist wannabe dictator occupying the Oval Office
Conclusion: you don't have to be a paranoid individual to recognize the obvious.
What happend to American's morality? Abortion and so called gay rights
What happend to the American family? Women in the workplace.
What happened to America's work ethic? Libtard policies.
What happened to public education? Libtard policies/political correctness/revisionist history
What is responsible for the downfall of America? Liberalism!"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that you won't need it until they try to take it away."---Thomas Jefferson
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09-27-2012, 05:54 PM"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that you won't need it until they try to take it away."---Thomas Jefferson
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Like you have XXYs where the Y never gets expressed, or only partially expressed. http://www.empowher.com/media/refere...elter-syndrome
You have men who have abnormalities where they overproduce estrogen, despite being XY.
I think it's clear that sometimes nature goes wrong, and in these cases yeah sure pick whichever gender you feel closest to, and I'm sorry for your condition.
In other cases... when it's purely psychological... I dunno, I think it's a mistake to enable their self-identity disease.
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I don't see why it matters. Some folks think that adults messing with gender expression will confuse children. I suspect that people who feel that way haven't taken a really good look at the range of gender expression already out there which is sex specific and "unblurred" if you will.
We're selective about this. Women can go without make up, wear men's clothing, cut their hair off, and butch it up and no one would dream of denying them the right to look and dress as they please. But when men wander into femininity, it's an attack on civilization itself.
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Continuing my coverage of the 30th annual [Data Center Conference]. here is a recap of Wednesday breakout sessions.
- Private Cloud Computing at Bank of America – One Year Later
Prentice Dees, Senior VP for Systems Automation Engineering at Bank of America, did the happy dance celebrating their success implementing a private cloud. Bank of America merged with Merrill Lynch, has 29 million users residing in over 100 countries, and 5900 retail offices in 40 countries. They manage $1 billion US dollars in deposits, and $2.2 trillion in assets.
Rather than IaaS or PaaS, his team focused on Application-as-a-Service (AaaS). Their goal is to transform and move IT out of the way of the business. In his view, if a human has to touch a keyboard, then his team has failed.
He divides the work up into three layers:
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- Muscle: This is the translation layer, providing actions and reporting.
- Brains: This is the layer for intelligent automation
Provisioning new servers with storage involves three sets of steps. The first set of steps involves requesting approval. The second set of steps deploys the server. The third involves installing the application, loading the data and using it until End-of-Life. The second set of steps took 14 to 60 days before, and has been automated down to one to three hours.
The results is that he has improved server utilization 10x, and storage is over-provisioned 4x, and are now hosting over 11,000 server images, saving $20 million US dollars. Not only is this lower cost per application deployed, but the process allows for lower-skilled personnel. He has over 500TB of virtual storage deployed, using thin provisioning, with only 128TB of physical disk. But they have only scratched the surface. Only 15 to 20 percent are virtualized in this manner, and they want to get to 80 percent within the next three years.
What makes an application not "Cloud-ready"? Prentice is a big fan of Linux and Open Source solutions. Some applications consume the entire server. In other cases, code changes are required. If possible, try to split up large applications into smaller Cloud-ready chunks?
How many people on his team? There are currently 16 to 20 people on the team, but at its peak there were 30 people.
Rather than wasting time on capacity planning, his team focuses on a cost recovery model instead. Seed capital in combination with rock-solid recovery is the way to go. "All models are wrong," the saying goes, "but some are useful!"
A nice side benefit to this new approach is maintenance is greatly improved. Rather than rushing to fix problems, you roll the application over to another host machine, and then take your time fixing the failed hardware.
How does the team deal with requests for dedicated resources? Give them the keys to their own miniature private cloud. Let them provision from their dedicated resources using the same methods you use to provision everyone else. This allows them to get comfortable with the process, and eventually join the rest of the shared pool. Analytics can be used to find "rogue VMs" that don't play well with others.
Their automation is a mix of commercial and open source software, with home-grown scripts. They have one "Orchestration Management Data Base" (OMDB) to manage multiple disparate Configuration Management Data bases (CMDBs). The chargeback is not quite per individual pay-per-use, but more at the departmental level.
- Aging Data: The Challenges of Long-Term Data Retention
The analyst defined "aging data" to be any data that is older than 90 days. A quick poll of the audience showed the what type of data was the biggest challenge:
In addition to aging data, the analyst used the term "vintage" to refer to aging data that you might actually need in the future, and "digital waste" being data you have no use for. She also defined "orphaned" data as data that has been archived but not actively owned or managed by anyone.
You need policies for retention, deletion, legal hold, and access. Most people forget to include access policies. How are people dealing with data and retention policies? Here were the poll results:
The analyst predicts that half of all applications running today will be retired by 2020. Tools like "IBM InfoSphere Optim" can help with application retirement by preserving both the data and metadata needed to make sense of the information after the application is no longer available. App retirement has a strong ROI.
Another problem is that there is data growth in unstructured data, but nobody is given the responsibility of "archivist" for this data, so it goes un-managed and becomes a "dumping ground". Long-term retention involves hardware, software and process working together. The reason that purpose-built archive hardware (such as IBM's Information Archive or EMC's Centera) was that companies failed to get the appropriate software and process to complete the solution.
Cloud computing will help. The analyst estimates that 40 percent of new email deployments will be done in the cloud, such as IBM LotusLive, Google Apps, and Microsoft Online365. This offloads the archive requirement to the public cloud provider.
A case study is University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute that has three tiers for their storage: 136TB of fast storage for scratch space, 600TB of slower disk for project space, and 640 TB of tape for long-term retention.
What are people using today to hold their long-term retention data? Here were the poll results:
Bottom line is that retention of aging data is a business problem, techology problem, economic problem and 100-year problem.
- A Case Study for Deploying a Unified 10G Ethernet Network
Brian Johnson from Intel presented the latest developments on 10Gb Ethernet. Case studies from Yahoo and NASA, both members of the [Open Data Center Alliance] found that upgrading from 1Gb to 10Gb Ethernet was more than just an improvement in speed. Other benefits include:
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Ruiping Sun, from Yahoo, found that 10Gb FCoE achieved 920 MB/sec, which was 15 percent faster than the 8Gb FCP they were using before.
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While some companies are still arguing over whether to implement a private cloud, an archive retention policy, or 10Gb Ethernet, other companies have shown great success moving forward.
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Worthless without pics. I wanna see that big 5x5 just like everybody else here!
I have a shed I picked up in 16D in the Gila 2 years ago. I never scored it before but did yesterday, scores 148.75 for that side. I'm guessing this bull would go about 330 as a 5x5 if he was found whole - does that sound about right?
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Worthless without pics. I wanna see that big 5x5 just like everybody else here!
Pics please!!! Lets see this thing!
there is a big 5x in sportsmans in idahofalls right now that is a monster 5x. pretty impressive. as soon as you walk in doors its sitting on a pedistool with an american flag.
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You were right, those thirds are awsome!
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Update on FrancoiseFrancoise is 40 years old. She is married and she works together with her husband.
She owns a boutique and has been in the business for the past 18 years. With the loan requested, she would like to buy more retail items such as rice, sugar and soaps for sale. The profits from the business will be used to renovate the house.
Previous Loan DetailsFrancoise is a mother of five children. She owns a business boutique selling various items. With the loan, she wants to buy more maize, sugar cane and other items to sell in her boutique. The profits from the business will be used to pay the school fees for her children. More from Francoise's previous loan »
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About Urwego Opportunity Bank of Rwanda (UOB)Urwego Opportunity Bank (UOB) helps underserved Rwandans by providing its clients with the necessary credit and savings capabilities required for economic transformation. It offers credit products, including group and individual loans, as well as training in business development, financial literacy and health management. UOB loan products leverage social collateral since most group members have little to no collateral.
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The Amsoil/Mopar Muscle Engine Challenge - JMS Racing EnginesWritten by on July 1, 2009 Contributors: Randy Bolig JMS Racing Engines Finishes Fifth With A Stout 440 Street Engine
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One of our favorite subjects here at Mopar Muscle magazine is engines, so it's no wonder we enjoy our annual Engine Challenge held each year at Comp Cams so much. Not only do we get to hang out at Comp's state of the art dyno cell and research facility, we also get to discuss Mopar engines with some of the top engine builders in the country during the competition. We vary the rules slightly each year, featuring a different Mopar engine in each of our Engine Challenges. This year, we chose the largest factory displacement Chrysler engine, the 440, and each builder had to use the same Indy SR cylinder heads, building what is commonly referred to as a "spec" engine because the major specifications of each engine are the same. As you can imagine, this was a close competition since all of the engines were limited to the factory stroke, a .060 inch overbore, and the same Rockett Brand 93 octane pump gas. JMS Racing Engines brought a strong contender to this year's contest, placing fifth with his 678 horsepower 440.
JMS Racing Engines was a newcomer to our Engine Challenge this year, but they made a lasting impression as their stout 440 screamed to more than 678 horsepower on Comp's engine dyno. Having made multiple pulls on his in-house dyno, Engine builder Mike Johnson came prepared to run his engine, and did very little tuning to optimize his combination while at Comp. His engine was tuned with 34 degrees of total ignition timing, and his carb was jetted with size 90 jets all the way around which Mike says made the most power on his dyno. Mike was so confident in his tune-up that he made all three of his qualifying pulls back to back in the first three minutes of his 45 minute qualifying session. Then after a brief cool-down he made his three judged pulls back to back as well. Having plenty of time left, Mike then jetted his carb with 92s, and bumped the timing to 36 degrees to make three additional pulls netting a best of 678.1 horsepower and 563.5 lb/ft of torque for a combined score of 1241.6.
Starting with a seasoned factory 440 block and a factory forged steel crankshaft, JMS Racing Engines utilized Ross PN 99764 forged pistons and RPM connecting rods as the foundation for their short-block. ACL main and rod bearings kept the rotating assembly spinning freely and JE piston rings ensured a tight combustion chamber seal. A Melling oil pump was used in conjunction with a Milodon PN30931 oil pan and windage tray to ensure this big-block received proper lubrication. All the machine work was performed in-house, and the rotating assembly was precisely balanced. A Professional Products PN 80013 SFI balancer was used to dampen any harmonics. To actuate the valves, a JMS custom roller camshaft was employed with Isky PN 1612RH "Red Zone" solid roller lifters. A JP Performance double roller chain and gears kept the bumpstick loping in time with the crankshaft.
Topping their 440, JMS used the Indy SR aluminum cylinder heads that each builder was required by the rules to utilize. These heads are a great fit to the 440, offering big ports and valves, while rocker gear remains in the stock location. Starting with the CNC ported castings, the ports and chambers of the Indy heads were cleaned up in-house, then the heads were treated to a multi-angle valve job, then assembled with SI stainless steel valves and Isky PN 9375 P105 valvesprings to match the custom roller cam. T & D PN 8215 rocker arms were utilized for their strength and accuracy, and JMS had no valvetrain related issues during their dyno session. To top this combination, JMS used an Indy PN 440-14-12 aluminum single-plane intake manifold with a 4150 style flange, and topped it with a PC Carbs HP 1000 stage III four-barrel.
Having a dyno in-house was definitely an advantage for JMS Racing Engines. Their engine was ready to go right out of the box, making all its required pulls without any tuning whatsoever. In fact, it was only during the final three pulls of the session that engine builder Mike Johnson made any changes to his engine, stepping up the jets and increasing ignition timing slightly to compensate for the atmospheric differences at Comp. With these changes, their 440 made its best pull of 678.1 horsepower and 563.5 lb/ft of torque for a combined score of 1241.6, finishing fifth overall. We congratulate Mike and the crew of JMS Racing Engines on a strong finish in their inaugural Amsoil/Mopar Muscle Engine Challenge and look forward to seeing them compete in future contests.
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Adding two degrees of ignition timing and increasing the carburetor's jet sizes improved his score slightly.Engine builder Mike Johnson used a seasoned 440 block and factory forged crankshaft as the foundation for his Challenge engine.As an alternative to a main girdle or aftermarket main caps, JMS machined their factory block and main caps for these additional bolts, creating a four-bolt main setup to prevent cap walk.The skirts of the Ross pistons were drilled in an effort to keep the piston from rocking in the bore. Mike claims this modification equalizes pressure between the piston and the cylinder wall, and prevents the piston from rocking and scuffing the cylinder.Did we say JMS used a "seasoned" block? This one has been clearanced at the rear so clutch dust could escape as it was used in a full-race, blown-alcohol application prior to being used in our Engine Challenge.JMS also fabricated a tunnel over the camshaft for additional oil control. Since this year's challenge featured a spec engine, incremental power gains were very important.Indy heads get their oil externally, from the rear of the block. Since the roller valve gear doesn't need much oil, Mike modified his oil supply fittings to accommodate Holley jets, restricting the oil to the top of the motor and keeping it where it's needed most, at the bearings.Tight combustion chamber quench is one key to making power, and JMS Racing Engines got their clearances about as tight as possible without causing damage. Look closely and you can see the part number of the piston has been legibly transferred to the bottom of the cylinder head. JMS sharpened their pencils to figure the proper compression and deck heights so they could achieve the maximum squeeze with their flat-top pistons.
Using ball/ball end push rods, T & D rocker arms are some of the toughest rockers on the market for the big-block Mopar.The Indy heads were ported and machined in-house for optimum flow. The seats and valves were treated to a multi-angle, race oriented valve job.Topping their 440, JMS Racing Engines chose a HP 1000 Holley carb prepped by PC Carburetors and an Indy single-plane aluminum intake. Though smaller than the Dominators run by most competitors, the 4150 series carb performed well and made good power throughout the rpm range.Incremental gains were the key this year since everyone had to run the same basic combination. One of the tricks employed by JMS to free up some power was to under-drive their water pump.Noticing the turbulent air in Comp's dyno cell, JMS Racing installed a velocity stack to smooth the air's transition into the carburetor.Mike Johnson efficiently tuned the JMS Racing Engines 440 to more than 678 horsepower on Rockett Brand 93 octane pump fuel. This 440 would be a blast in a street-driven Mopar or would be an awesome street/strip engine.


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With small "house" churches multiplying in cities and influential executives coming to faith, Christianity is growing so fast in China that Communist officials are having a hard time keeping up
"Wildfire" Continued...
CHINA- Chinese CEOs preaching Christ to their employees and setting up Bible studies on company time. House churches, told by the police that they're getting too big for official comfort, splitting in half, then growing and splitting again. Bibles readily available in every city. Christian plaques sold openly in a local marketplace.
Americans are used to thinking of Chinese Christians as people imprisoned and beaten for their faith, and word-of-mouth says that is still true in some rural areas. In the cities, a more nuanced struggle has emerged, with harassment replacing outright persecution and leaders negotiating with secret police at the local Starbucks.
Trees stand in perfectly straight rows alongside modern Chinese expressways, but little is straightforward in the relations between a decadent Communist Party and a surging Christianity that contributes to a growing economy. What follows are snapshots of one small slice of Chinese life, based on visits early this month to several Chinese cities, and intensive discussions (usually employing translators) with two dozen influential Chinese Christian urban professionals.
One group that works with such influencers provided introductions that allowed WORLD to enter this growing Christian network where caution is still essential. While interviewees regularly said that government officials were aware of their Christian work, quoting the Christians by name in a national U.S. magazine could cause the officials to lose face and feel a need to round up the usual suspects. This article, therefore, does not use real names and leaves out other specific detail, including the particular cities in which organizations are located.
Let's start with the nuanced situation of at least 30 Christians who are CEOs of major Chinese companies. One 40-ish executive, Mr. Han, explained in his conference room that he came from a poor, rural family: His father died when he was 12 and he often went hungry. The future CEO "studied very hard to change the situation of my family," scored high on tests, entered Beijing University, and went on to garner a grand salary.
Mr. Han was an atheist who thought that "only rural grandmas believe in God." By the end of 1999 he "had enough money for my whole life" but was depressed: "I tried to make myself happy by traveling overseas, feasting at restaurants. . . . Still I had emptiness and suffering within me. I thought, maybe I'm not happy because I'm working for other people. I'll become happy by starting my own business."
Mr. Han did that and made even more money, but his depression became deeper. He tried burning incense at a Buddhist temple and felt a little better, but misery quickly returned. For six months he paid a top Taoist sage to give him a schedule each month with favorable and unfavorable blocks of time, and tried to arrange his meetings accordingly-only to find that some at the good times went poorly, and some he was forced to have at bad times went well.
In 2002 a classmate who had studied in the United States suggested that Mr. Han visit a church. He and his wife did, and she immediately became a believer in Christ, but he "tried to keep awake in the pew and could not." By August 2003, he was "very depressed. I needed help, but no person could help me. Only when I was cornered and understood that man's end is dust did I become serious about reading the Bible. Then I realized that my preconceptions were wrong, that belief in God is not unscientific, that by myself I don't know where I'm from and where I'm going . . . that happiness comes only from observing God's teaching."
Mr. Han was baptized on Easter, 2004. Now he provides job opportunities for Christian migrants from the countryside to his large city. He has voluntary Bible studies Wednesday evening at all four of his factories and offices, and a company-wide Bible study from 12:30 to 1:30 on Fridays, with employees allowed to go home early that day in return for the lunchtime they give up. He says that many of his employees have become Christians.
Mr. Han's belief has changed his business practice in other ways as well: "As a company we pay our taxes strictly and honestly; we treat our employees with love and pay them in a timely fashion." Those practices are unusual in a China where the hot business books of the past three years have titles like The Wolf Spirit of Enterprises and Think Like Wolves. Mr. Han, however, gives local government officials Bibles: He says they accept them happily, with those who have visited Western countries often saying that they read the Bibles in hotel rooms and are glad to have their own.
Mr. Han also sees benefits among his employees: "Christians work well whether they are supervised or not. They tend to be optimistic, more tolerant of co-workers. They have more integrity, more responsibility, and serve customers better"-and that is also impressing government officials.
A second CEO-call him Mr. Wang-recalled his experience as he walked around his factory: In 2003, prodded by a wife who had become a Christian and the problems of a company with poor morale and cash flow, he "begged God, what shall I do? For the first time I prayed from the bottom of my heart. I felt His love and devoted 2004 to spreading the gospel." Now he provides Bible-based character training to his employees every morning from 7:30 to 8:30, and he says that most have become Christians.
Mr. Wang also has occasional hymn sings and testimony offerings during the day; at one, 125 employees in navy blue T-shirts stood and sweetly sang, with 10 more standing silently. He said that government officials have "had some conversations with me. I tell officials we use Bible verses to train workers. It is up to each employee whether to believe or not, but each will be exposed to the gospel. The officials say I can teach anything within the company."
One manager who once was a Communist Party member attests to the ways Mr. Wang's company is different from state-owned ones and others where "bribery is common." He says CEOs who become Christians have only one set of books and pay their taxes honestly; they no longer have mistresses or win contracts by proffering prostitutes to customers.
These Chinese executives see Christianity bringing immediate as well as long-term benefits, but they do not preach a prosperity gospel. Mr. Wang's company lost a large order it needed for profitability because he refused to pay a bribe totaling 3 percent of the contract. Some of Mr. Wang's financial backers think his ethical behavior is foolish. Some local officials are holding up the sale of his current property, a sale he needs to fund new construction at a site where a foundation stone-proclaiming "Glory to the Lord, and the people will benefit"-is already laid.
The semi-liberty these CEOs have-within certain defined rules that could be changed arbitrarily-parallels the semi-liberty that house churches now have in some major cities. (All churches are supposed to register with the government and place themselves under its authority, so "house church" means a non-registered church and not necessarily one that meets in a home. Most do, but some in the countryside meet in caves and some in cities meet in auditoriums.)
It's against government rules for Westerners to attend house churches, but several Christians gave WORLD entry into that sphere, as long as locations of meeting places remained unspecified and individual participants unnamed. One house church visited makes use of a generic conference room-chairs behind long white tables-in one of the thousands of buildings where foreign companies have offices, so that the entrance of two Westerners does not alarm the government policeman at the door.
One service, conducted entirely in Mandarin Chinese, began promptly at 9:00, with 44 women and 16 men in attendance. First came a recitation of the Apostles' Creed and then a responsive reading of Psalm 53. The first half-hour included prayer, two hymns sung antiphonally (with some stanzas sung by men only and others by women only), and a congregational reading of Genesis 39. Everyone read from church-provided Bibles and sang from a booklet of hymns downloaded from internet sites in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and California.
The pastor arrived just before the service began after taking an overnight train from another Chinese province. He put on a fresh, short-sleeved white shirt in the car that rushed him to the meeting place and began preaching promptly at 9:30: He took off his watch, placed it on the lectern in front of him, and finished preaching exactly at 10:00. His sermon was the third of a five-part series on how Joseph progressed from multi-colored robe to servant's robe to prisoner's robe to prime minister's robe and finally to a robe as God's servant.
The pastor, with evident practical applications for his young church, told of how God transformed Joseph from a naïve and proud child to a mature, faithful adult who learned, as church members should learn, to focus his mind on God's message rather than on political pressures, gossip, or revenge. The pastor explained that Chinese Christians should forgive their enemies, as Joseph did, and should realize that even when we are in prison our minds are free: From Joseph's life we know that even a godly man has many difficulties and suffering, but he also has peace of mind and the ability to overcome Satan's attacks.
After the sermon came more prayer, a locally written hymn, a congregational reading of the warning about taking communion found in 1 Corinthians 11, and the distribution of a flaky cracker and grape juice. Then all sat, reciting the Lord's Prayer and applauding a young woman who had just joined the church. Finally, members filled out prayer-request slips that were then collected and passed out at random to others, who were charged with praying throughout the week for that individual: "That's how we get to know each other's needs."
Overall, security was low: One church leader said nonchalantly that he assumed a government spy was among the attendees, but the government would have to switch him out quickly or he would convert. Nor were doors locked at a different house-church evening meeting in a large apartment, where 22 adults and 13 children talked, sang hymns, played, and eagerly asked questions about life in America. The only locked inner door witnessed over a week in various Chinese cities was one within a shop where bootleg DVDs were being sold.
This non-defensiveness probably contributes to rapid church growth: No one except God knows how many Christians there are in China, but 100 million (out of the total population of 1.3 billion) is a commonly offered guesstimate. The rapid, recent spread of Christianity among business leaders and other urban professionals poses a difficult problem for a government used to persecuting uneducated rural people.
What keeps discontent from spreading is the economic boom, so if the government moves against business leaders who are creating it, China's economic safety valve might become stuck. Officials have tried to slow down Christianity's growth by limiting the size of house churches-Christians say over 50 participants brings a "you're getting too big" warning-but such restrictions have merely catalyzed church planting and produced even more rapid growth.
Christians, meanwhile, have generally acted like smart baseball players who know that hot-dogging it around the bases after hitting a home run merely prods the pitcher to give them a fastball bruise the next time up. The battle between church and state in China is no game, but Christians lighting up the scoreboard see value in allowing authorities to save face.
For example, Mr. Chang, a leading conductor, said he had sought fame by excelling in music and had achieved his goal-yet "I hated my life." He searched in Taoism and Buddhism but eventually encountered Christians who displayed love and humility: "This touched me. I wanted to be one of them. Reading the Bible, I realized why I was so miserable-because I am a sinner."
Mr. Chang is now running a thriving school that trains music directors for house churches. Contributions have allowed him to move into a new facility with 18 pianos in soundproof practice rooms, a 200-seat concert hall, and a dormitory housing five to eight students per room; Mr. Chang says his school will be at its 100-student capacity next February. The government has canceled all his public concerts, but he fills his hall one Saturday per month with a concert publicized only by word-of-mouth: He says he lives an "illegal but reasonable existence" by not flaunting his independence.
Many Chinese Christians said that instead of criticizing the government they piggyback on what government officials themselves are saying about the need for stronger moral values. For example, a divorce rate estimated at 30 percent to 60 percent (there are no reliable official figures) is creating havoc in Chinese families, so church-sponsored Marriage Encounter weekends and "water buffalo camps"-teaching men not to be so hard on wives-have won favor even from high-ranking officials who themselves have troubled marriages.
China is also facing an enormous migrant problem as the population quickly moves from 80-20 rural to 80-20 urban. Many newcomers to cities live in poverty as grinding as they faced in the countryside, but they have lost the dignity and community that previously sustained them. Marginalized, embittered, and angry, they can't crawl home, but their pent-up grievances could lead to a violent explosion unless Christians, like the British Methodists of the 18th century, pave the way to a peaceful transition to a fully industrialized society.
All Chinese seminaries need government permits to operate, but numerous illegal seminaries dedicated to teaching migrants have sprung up. At one, located in two run-down apartments with old bicycles and part of a kitchen sink outside, Pastor Gao and helpers teach theology, English, computers, and music to 26 students, some of them still teenagers, who squeeze into five small bedrooms. Mr. Gao has not been arrested over the past two years, but before that he was usually jailed once a year for several days each time.
Mr. Gao's familial and personal history reflects the history of Chinese Christianity and Communism. His grandfather when young was a disciple of famed missionary Hudson Taylor, who died in China in 1905. Mr. Gao became a Communist Party member and a pastor in the government's official church, sometimes preaching while drunk, but he listened to radio broadcasts from other countries and began to read the Bible seriously. He prayed to "the God of my grandfather" and now disciples students who aspire to be missionaries to Pakistan or other Muslim countries. The past has become the future.
Some Chinese Christian urban professionals, asked for their sense of China's future, believe the economy will continue to soar and corruption will diminish. Others expect an Enron-like crash, perhaps following the 2008 Olympics, since they say China's foundation is weak; some also forecast God's judgment against China for its emphasis on abortion and other evils. Many say they can't do much on a national scale so they concentrate their energies on local evangelism.
China's evangelism explosion means that in many churches the leaders have only two or three years of Christian experience-and that's rarely enough time to develop a consistent Christian worldview. Many interviewees spoke of discipleship as their churches' greatest need. The church gender gap, with more women than men attending, also receives scrutiny, with the common explanation an indictment of males for a self-centered pridefulness that sees admitting problems as signs of weakness.
American Christians can help China's house churches by providing discipling resources such as internet seminary lectures and also publications that apply a Christian worldview to cultural and professional issues. (Materials need to stay away from anything that looks like foreign involvement in Chinese politics.) Bibles no longer need to be smuggled in, since state-approved religious organizations now print Bibles and happily raise money by selling them to house churches. (Real loosening here, of course, would be for the state to allow legal importation of all translations, so Christians would not necessarily have to put up with just the stodgy one that is printed.)
American Christians considering living in China should realize that their opportunity to worship alongside Chinese Christians is strictly limited, but the prospects of making contact by working in businesses or teaching English are nearly limitless. One small group leader within a house church said, "We are such young Christians. We look up to the U.S. for living examples of how to lead Christian lives."
That's a scary thought. But, for American Christians, it's also a challenge and an opportunity.


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This exhibition provides a balanced look at the artist's desire to convey beauty, peacefulness and simplicity, as found in the Japanese woodblock prints of the ukiyo-e period, and traditional Chinese brush paintings; alongside subjects of unrest, protest and challenge. The Bristol Harbour watercolours have a tranquillity and harmony of light and colour, which is carried into illuminating the more turbulent topic of economic change and the Occupy London movement. These new paintings follow on from a watercolour of the last year's Stokes Croft riots, an event that the artist was able to watch from her sitting room window. This (sold) watercolour, entitled "Bristol Burns" was carried out by creating an invented and balanced composition, incorporating all the elements the artist remembered from the event. It was painted with a colourful harmony depicting the unsettling subject with a still simplicity. Abigail has attempted to bring this harmony into her new paintings based around London and St Paul's cathedral. She believes that it is the artist's job to try and capture and convey eyewitness accounts of important moments in the time and history.
The medium of watercolour has often been used in England to depict tranquil and idyllic traditional countryside scenes, but has also been used in a challenging way, by Turner and Paul Nash for example, to illustrate scenes of unrest, such as battle scenes. Abigail's use of the medium reflects her desire to fully explore its potential for depicting both calm scenes and more challenging and complex ones. The exhibition also shows the artist experimenting with mixed media (acrylics and oils) to create new effects. These works reflect her ongoing pursuit of learning about media and aim to retain the luminosity of her watercolours, whilst assimilating a freer and bolder brushstroke.
Abigail has exhibited all over Bristol and in Bath in the last five years, including shows at the Bristol Affordable Art fair and the Bristol Museum. Her work has been featured in many local and national publications, including the Art of England. She has undertaken several important commissions, including large paintings for the Marriott Royal and watercolours for Ernst and Young. In autumn she will be exhibiting at the London Affordable Art fairs with London- based gallery Degree Art.
Still Waters and Revolutions is Abigail's second solo show at the RWA, following last year's exhibition "Art for Sustainable Transport" in the Milner Gallery. She is an Artist Member of the RWA and a regular exhibitor at the Autumn Exhibition.


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|Weather causes weekend damage
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The first major storms of the summer rolled through the area this past weekend. Heavy amounts of rain were received Friday, Saturday and Sunday all around Phillips County. Two miles east of Amherst, six REA poles succumbed to high winds and were blown over.
Weather observer Gordon Leben said he lost power around 9:30 p.m. Saturday night due to the broken poles and Highline Electric had power back up by midnight. He isn't sure if a small tornado or a microburst took the poles down. Winds were continually gusting at 50-55 m.p.h. Saturday night.
Holyoke received a total of 2.05 inches of rain from the weekend storms.
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NEW MANCHESTER - It seems there has been a girl named Ecklebery in the Oak Glen girls' basketball team's lineup for a long, long time. And whichever Ecklebery it was, she was a very good player and a leader.
For example, the last four years the name was Payden Ecklebery and she was good enough to earn a scholarship to play at Fairmont State University.
Along with Ecklebery, Oak Glen coach Scott Wiley said goodbye to Amy Webster, Hayley McLaughlin and Natalie Farnsworth when graduation day rolled around last May.
In addition, another starter, Alex Burch, who also excelled on the Golden Bears track team, decided not play basketball her senior year.
Those five players were key to the Golden Bears going 18-8 and reaching the regional level for the second year in a row.
Oak Glen, however, has five letter winners returning, led by the second-leading scorer a year ago, Vanessa Hissam. The list includes Casey Patterson, the only senior on the squad, Tori Feicht and Karley Wiley, all juniors, and sophomore Jessica Stivason. Patterson and Hissam are returning starters.
"I'm excited about those five letter winners," said Wiley, who is in his third year at the helm.
Rounding out the varsity squad are Kaitlyn Herstine, Bria Evans, both sophomores and freshmen Logan Andrews and Alex Arnott.
Eckleberry has been the Oak Glen point guard the past four years and had control of the basketball the majority of the time.
"While Feicht is expected to lead us running the offense this year, we could have five point guards," Wiley explained. "A lot of times this year whoever gets the rebound will just go ahead and bring the ball down the floor.
"One of our strengths is our size. We have some tall girls that are quick and all of them can handle the ball. We should be able to run."
Wiley is concerned about bench strength this year.
"None of our bench players has any varsity experience," he continued. "We will need our bench to step in and help because I want to go nine deep so we can run at every opportunity and be able to give the girls that get tired a blow as much as we can."


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Looks good, I like the water ripples about the continents. I think it would be cool to see more colour variation on the land.
Hey guys,
Here's a map I began working on yesterday. It's a fantasy version of the Minecraft server community buxville.net. The map does not resemble the actual server map, it's just what I dream it could be. Town names are taken from real towns on the server. Buxville is both the name of the server, and its capital city.
Really really WIP, had just begun forests. Tell me what you guys think or advice :>
Looks good, I like the water ripples about the continents. I think it would be cool to see more colour variation on the land.
Thanks for the input Datoria
A lot of details added, here's a list:
- more towns (smaller)
- Admin Island
- ferry lines + ports
- mountain peaks
- mountain ranges
- more forests
- some climate additions
- deserts in the southeast
- snow in the north and on mountaintops
- Scar now has a Nether biome
Really liking the details on this. I'm not a massive fan of the font you've used, and using a hollowed out font generally makes it hard to read when it goes over he top of the terrain (eg. the Chat Mountains at the bottom) and you should really avoid putting labels over the top of each other as it looks a little messy (mapping aside labeling really is a skill in itself). Other than that I'd say try and and some extra colour to the sea and maybe a little texture (though I would keep it subtle as I think it's quite striking being plainer).
Look forward to seeing how this progresses
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