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Oblivion And Fallout 3 Double Pack Announced
Bethesda announced a double-pack release of Oblivion and Fallout 3 today. On April 3rd, you'll be able to pick up the dual Game of the Year winners on on Xbox 360 and PC for $29.99 and $19.99, respectively. Although these are both "Games of the Year," these are not the Game of the Year editions, so they do not come with the DLC packs...
Morality in Gaming - Sessler's Soapbox
Morality in gaming is nothing new. We've all played RPG and action games that have different story lines and endings based on how good or evil you play, but some games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim give you moral choices that don't affect the outcome. Such is the topic of this week's Soapbox. Adam ponders if these murky moral choices give a...
X-Play Presents The Top 7 Goriest Games Of All Time
Watch Larger Version | Watch HD Version Like it or not, violence in video games is here to stay, and probably will become even more over-the-top in the years to come. With Halloween fresh on our minds, X-Play took a look back at the seven goriest games of all time. From shooting limbs off in slow motion in Fallout, to doing pretty much the...
Deus Ex: Human Revolution And Its Fatal Beginning - Sessler's Soapbox
While gamers and critics seem to be loving Deus Ex: Human Revolution, everyone agrees that there are some choices you have to make in the beginning of the game that can ruin your experience and force you to restart. The Sess sees this as something of a problem, so he decided to discuss it on this week's Soapbox. Like novels, films, and tv shows,...
Inventory Management: RPG's Dead Weight - Sessler's Soapbox
Adam Sessler has a lot on his shoulders, so he doesn't need a video game telling him he's carrying too much weight. On this week's Soapbox The Sess discusses the gameplay mechanic of encumbrance and how it's been used in games for force players to travel light. Do you enjoy inventory micro-management? Or would you download the "weightless...
Happy St. Patrick's Day - Getting Drunk in Video Games
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Top o' the morning to you all! Instead of writing an in-depth article about the connection of St. Patrick's Day and video games. We decided, just this morning, to talk about video games where you can get drunk. So bask in drunken glory with the below list of alkie-friendly video games. Disclaimer: G4 does not promote...
Who Played The Dogs Out? The Realistic Dogs of Gaming
Watch Larger Version of this Video There's no way to put this gently, so I'll just say it: Marmaduke is 2010's most universally reviled film so far. It's a live action adaptation Brad Anderson's newspaper comic strip that's been running since 1954, and it stars Owen Wilson as the voice of Marmaduke, with George Lopez voicing a...
We're All Damned: A Heartwarming Earth Day Journey Through Video Games
Judging from the flood of negative comments our blog receives whenever we mention environmental awareness in a positive light, our readers aren't particularly interested in the plight of Mother Earth. In the popular imagination of the internet, the image of environmentalism seems forever entwined with annoying self-righteousness, hippy...
Sessler's Soapbox: An Open World is Not Enough
By now, gamers are very used to playing a large collection of open world games. From GTA IV to Fallout 3 to Just Cause 2, there are plenty of high quality titles that allow you to make your own story and go about missions how you see fit. But is that enough to make a great game? Such is the subject of this week's Soapbox. The Sess uses his...
Top Five Irish Video Game Characters
It's Saint Patrick's Day, folks, also known as amateur night for drinkers! But let's celebrate the Irish, and our important contributions to Western Culture. There's jovial fist-fights, the Irish stereotype of the drunken, poetic genius embodied in such great Irishmen as James Joyce, Brendan Behan, and The Pogues' Shane...
Morning Hangover: What Did You Play This Weekend?
I spent the weekend playing a bunch of Red Steel 2. I have to wait until 9AM PST to tell you what I thought, but I'll give you a hint: It's awesome. Other than that "official" game-playing, I revisted Fallout 3. Even though there are a ton of new games sitting on my shelf, and half-finished older games, I went back to the Wasteland...
Project: V13 (AKA Fallout MMO) Entering Public Beta...In 2012
As Interplay and Bethesda duke out the future of the Fallout brand in the courts, Interplay is moving forward with Project: V13, widely believed to be a codename for a Fallout MMO. Interplay has since announced a development deal for Project: V13 with Masthead Studios (also developing Earthrise) and revealed plans to have the online game enter...
X-Play Breaks Down the Best Games of the Decade
The past decade in gaming featured some of the best games ever created, and X-Play is here to document that with this three-part look at the best that the aughts had to offer. Watch these videos and let us know if you agree or disagree with Adam and Morgan's assessment of the best of the 2000's. Is your favorite game represented in the...
Is The Book Of Eli Really Fallout 3: The Movie?
Denzel Washington's The Book of Eli comes out this Friday, and we're all obviously excited by the prospect of Denzel kicking ass and/or taking names in a post apocalyptic wasteland. But take a look at the Book of Eli trailer... ...and tell me: Does that remind you of anything? It reminded me of Fallout 3. Check out the similarities: ...
Sessler's Soapbox: A Decade of Gaming
It's the end of the year. The end of a decade. The end of an era. What better time to sit down and look back at what the past decade of gaming has brought into our homes. Such is the subject of the last Soapbox of 2009. Adam sits down to talk about all the games and gaming trends that have come and gone since the year 2000. Some good, some bad,...
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PNY, a leading supplier of flash-based devices as well as consumer and professional graphics cards, said on Wednesday that it would provide discounts to customers with graphics cards by BFG Technologies. Usually companies start to provide discounts to owners of competing products in order to acquire a customer base and typically this happens when everything is over for the rival.
Starting today, PNY will be offering up to a 25% discount on a selection of PNY GeForce graphics cards, valid only to existing BFG Tech graphics card owners. Consumers can choose to send in either a functioning or non-functioning graphics card in exchange for the discount. Discounts are off of MSRP pricing and are only attainable via PNY.com and customers need to call a special telephone number to arrange the deal. Additionally, all graphics card users taking advantage of this program will receive a bonus copy of the Just Cause 2 from Square Enix, via an online download redemption code, valued at $49.99. This program is available for a limited time and will only be in effect until October 31, 2010.
This is not the first time when PNY effectively buys graphics cards of former competitors from their owners in order to get new loyal customers. Back in 2006 the company already made discounts on professional Quadro-series graphics cards for owners of various professional solutions from 3Dlabs.
"Consumers can feel that their investment in PNY graphics card is safe based on our 25-year-old business foundation, solid warranty program, and first class Technical Support team. We are giving them the opportunity to either trade in an otherwise defective card or trade up for an even better value at an incredible price," said Nicholas Mauro, senior marketing manager of PC components business at PNY.
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Saturday, July 12, 2008
The Return of Global Dimming
The American Geophysical Union recently published Aerosol and cloud effects on solar brightening and the recent rapid warming. The paper uses evidence to theorize that the recent drive to clean our skies of pollution aerosols has increased the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth and has aided the greenhouse effect in warming the Earth.
This, if true, is a prime case of good intentions pave the road to Hell. No one can deny that the Earth is a massively complex system and ideas that tinker with processes like climate cycles need to be fully weighed before initiated. Clean skies seems like a simple, noncontroversial idea. However, it serves as a warning from jumping to conclusions.
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Are you trying to tell people its ok if they pollute?
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No, quite the contrary. I favor as clean an environment with healthy scale of living as possible. I am just pointing out that the climate system is a very complex one and simple ideas on how to fix it have hidden failures.
Remember how people said biofuels were so great? Now food prices are higher, people are starving, and biofuels cause more pollution with production and lack of efficency.
- James P said...
I think this is what Garret Hardin said about Tragedy of the Commons (and in his book Living within Limits). The root problem is human over-population and we all think the commons (sea, air, water, open space) are free so we utilize it to the max.
So we - human breed, use fossil oil, pollute air, water and land.
Contrary to what religion told you life is joy too many life bring misery but they won't tell you. Look at Africa, India and China and all the developing countries. When a country natural resources and human resources can't support their livelihood suffering begins.
When the world goes downhill, those developing countries are the first to suffer. In a scale down scenario, when Katrina hit New Orleans the rich can fill up gas and go to some safe place do some sightseeing. The poor stay and face the storm.


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Smallgrass: Family Friendly Programming at Exploration Place
Tallgrass & Exploration Place are joining forces once again to present Smallgrass, a children's film program to be shown at Exploration Place (300 N. McLean Blvd), the Sedgwick County Science and Discovery Center, on Saturday, October 19th in conjunction with the 11th annual Tallgrass Film Festival.
Smallgrass is specifically curated for families with children ages 3 and up – and for the young at heart.
Cost of admission per person is $7, or $5 for members of TFA and Exploration Place, , and includes three film programs plus admission to Exploration Place exhibits.
*Tickets for Smallgrass will be sold exclusively at Exploration Place on the day of the show.
Schedule of Films:
11:00 am: Tail Spin: Aviation in Animation: Presented by Lamphouse Entertainment, this shorts program features a collection of classic cartoons.
1:00 pm: Earning Wings: A collection of short films from around the world, including animation and narrative films.
3:00 pm: FROM UP ON POPPY HILL: The critically-acclaimed animated feature film from the famed Japanese Director Goro Miyazaki tells the story of a group of Yokohama teens who look to save their school's clubhouse from the wrecking ball in preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Plus, enjoy these flight-inspired activities between films:
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How many helium balloons would it take to lift you off the ground? Find out with our Balloonometer!
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Watch a beach ball float in the air, and how to make toilet paper fly without touching it!
"We had a wonderful response to Smallgrass last year from festival-goers and we're sure that the program will grow more this year," said Jan Luth, Exploration Place president. "A love of films starts early and we welcome the opportunity to introduce such a creative art form to young ones and their families."
About Exploration Place
Exploration Place offers visitors of all ages eleven hands-on exhibit galleries, Kansas' largest domed theater – the Boeing Dome Theater and Planetarium – imaginative spaces, and outdoor recreation, all located on a 20-acre site along the scenic Arkansas River in downtown Wichita, Kansas. www.facebook.com/ExplorationPlace www.twitter.com/DiscoverAtEP


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Sports: Real Losses And Potential Downslides
By editor • May 5, 2012
Originally published on May 6, 2012 7:26 am
Another football tragedy this week renews questions about the safety of the game that made many stars rich, but at some cost. Also, it may be closing time for one of the all-time greats. Over in hockey playoffs, are they going Hollywood? Host Scott Simon talks with Howard Bryant of ESPN.


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Memoizer class that can be used like this:
Foo foo = (Foo) Memoizer.memoize(new FooImpl());
Foo is the interface whose method calls are to be
memoized, and
FooImpl is the concrete implementation of
Foo. The
foo variable is an instance of the
Foo interface; it behaves just like
FooImpl, except
that return values are cached. The beauty of the single
class is that adding memoization to any class is trivial: define an interface
that comprises the methods to be memoized, then just call
with an implementation of the interface.
To understand how
Memoizer is implemented, it is useful to
build up to it in steps. First, I explore how caching can be built into the
class that needs it. Then I examine how to add a caching wrapper to a specific
class. Finally, I explain how a caching wrapper can be generalized to work for
any class.
As an example of a computationally intensive routine, consider a class
PiBinaryDigitsCalculator that calculates the binary digits
of pi. The only public method,
calculateBinaryDigit, takes an
integer that describes the binary digit required -- for example,
-1000000 will return the one millionth digit after the decimal
point -- and returns a byte value that is either
0 or
1. (For details of the novel algorithm used, consult the paper by the
trio that discovered it.)
public class PiBinaryDigitsCalculator {
* Returns the coefficient of 2^n in the binary
* expansion of pi.
* @param n the binary digit of pi to calculate.
* @throws ValidityCheckFailedException if the validity
* check fails, this means the implementation is buggy
* or n is too large for sufficient precision to be
* retained.
public byte calculateBinaryDigit(final int n) {
return runBBPAlgorithm(n);
private byte runBBPAlgorithm(final int n) {
// Lengthy routine goes here ...
The simplest and most direct way to cache return values is to modify the
class to have a
Map instance variable to store previously computed
import java.util.HashMap;
public class PiBinaryDigitsCalculator {
private HashMap cache = new HashMap();
public synchronized byte calculateBinaryDigit(
final int n) {
final Integer N = new Integer(n);
Byte B = (Byte) cache.get(N);
if (B == null) {
byte b = runBBPAlgorithm(n);
cache.put(N, new Byte(b));
return b;
} else {
return B.byteValue();
private byte runBBPAlgorithm(final int n) {
// Lengthy routine goes here ...
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calculateBinaryDigit method first checks a
HashMap cache for a key, based on the input value (
and simply returns the value if found. Otherwise, the lengthy calculation is
performed and the result stored in the cache. There is also a little extra work
in translating between primitive values and object wrappers to allow primitives
to be placed in the map.
While this approach works, it has several drawbacks. First, there is no separation of concerns between caching code and algorithm code. One class is responsible for performing the calculation and maintaining the cached values. As a result, it is hard to test the code cleanly. For example, you cannot write a test that checks that the algorithm consistently returns the same value each time it is called, since from the second call onwards, the value is retrieved from the cache.
Second, it is hard to remove the caching code if it is not needed, since it is tightly intertwined with the code that performs the underlying calculation. Indeed, it is difficult to know if the caching is yielding significant performance improvements, as you cannot test the class with caching turned off. If you improve the algorithm, the caching might not be helping performance any longer -- but you would not know.
Third, the caching code cannot be reused. Although the code conforms to a
common pattern, it is dedicated to the
The first two objections can be dealt with by introducing a caching wrapper.
By using the Decorator pattern, it is simple to separate the code that performs the calculation from the code that provides caching. First, define an interface that abstracts out the essential method call:
public interface BinaryDigitsCalculator {
public byte calculateBinaryDigit(final int n);
Then create two implementations, one for each separate responsibility:
public class PiBinaryDigitsCalculator
implements BinaryDigitsCalculator {
public byte calculateBinaryDigit(final int n) {
return runBBPAlgorithm(n);
private byte runBBPAlgorithm(final int n) {
// Lengthy routine goes here ...
import java.util.HashMap;
public class CachingBinaryDigitsCalculator implements
BinaryDigitsCalculator {
private BinaryDigitsCalculator binaryDigitsCalculator;
private HashMap cache = new HashMap();
public CachingBinaryDigitsCalculator(
BinaryDigitsCalculator calculator) {
this.binaryDigitsCalculator = calculator;
public synchronized byte calculateBinaryDigit(int n) {
final Integer N = new Integer(n);
Byte B = (Byte) cache.get(N);
if (B == null) {
byte b =
cache.put(N, new Byte(b));
return b;
} else {
return B.byteValue();
This listing is simply a refactored version of the previous implementation
CachingBinaryDigitsCalculator wraps any instance of
BinaryDigitsCalculator and adds caching for calls to the
calculateBinaryDigit method. For a few more lines of code, the
classes have improved in readability and maintainability. Since clients can
now use the algorithm through the
interface, it is easy to switch a caching implementation in or out as
In addition, proper tests for the caching code can be written. Imagine a
mock implementation of
BinaryDigitsCalculator that returns a
different value each time the
calculateBinaryDigit method is
called with the same argument. By using this mock object, we can test that the
caching wrapper is working, since it will return the same value each time. Such
a test was impossible to write with the previous implementation that mixed
caching and calculation.
The only remaining disadvantage of using caching wrappers is their non-reusability. Every time I wish to add caching to a class, I need to write a specialized caching wrapper for the target interface. This can be slow and prone to error.
Version 1.3 of the Java™ 2 SDK, Standard Edition,
introduced support for dynamic proxy classes: special classes that can
choose which interfaces they implement when created at runtime. (Contrast this
to normal Java classes, whose implemented interfaces are known -- and
fixed -- at compile time.) By using this feature, it is possible to write a
generic caching wrapper class, called
Memoizer, that determines at
runtime which interface it implements. There is no longer any need for the
CachingBinaryDigitsCalculator wrapper; calls such as this one:
BinaryDigitsCalculator calculator =
new CachingBinaryDigitsCalculator(
new PiBinaryDigitsCalculator()
can be rewritten to use
Memoizer as follows:
BinaryDigitsCalculator calculator =
(BinaryDigitsCalculator) Memoizer.memoize(
new PiBinaryDigitsCalculator()
The listing for
Memoizer appears below:
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationHandler;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.lang.reflect.Proxy;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
public class Memoizer implements InvocationHandler {
public static Object memoize(Object object) {
return Proxy.newProxyInstance(
new Memoizer(object)
private Object object;
private Map caches = new HashMap();
private Memoizer(Object object) {
this.object = object;
public Object invoke(Object proxy, Method method,
Object[] args) throws Throwable {
if (method.getReturnType().equals(Void.TYPE)) {
// Don't cache void methods
return invoke(method, args);
} else {
Map cache = getCache(method);
List key = Arrays.asList(args);
Object value = cache.get(key);
if (value == null && !cache.containsKey(key)) {
value = invoke(method, args);
cache.put(key, value);
return value;
private Object invoke(Method method, Object[] args)
throws Throwable {
try {
return method.invoke(object, args);
} catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
throw e.getTargetException();
private synchronized Map getCache(Method m) {
Map cache = (Map) caches.get(m);
if (cache == null) {
cache = Collections.synchronizedMap(
new HashMap()
caches.put(m, cache);
return cache;
A call to the static method
memoize with an object creates a
new proxy instance -- that is, an instance of
java.lang.reflect.Proxy -- that implements the same set of
interfaces as the passed-in object. The set of interfaces is determined by
object.getClass().getInterfaces(). Each proxy instance has an
invocation handler (
java.lang.reflect.InvocationHandler) that
handles all method invocations that are made on the instance. In this case,
Memoizer is the invocation handler.
When a method is invoked on the proxy instance (for example,
calculateBinaryDigit), the
invoke method is called on
Memoizer instance owned by the proxy instance. The
invoke method is passed information that allows it to determine
which method was called on the proxy instance, along with the array of
arguments. In this example, the
java.lang.Method object given to
Memoizer instance represents
calculateBinaryDigit, and the array of
arguments encapsulate the
int parameter
n (wrapped as
Integer). At this point,
Memoizer can step in to
do its caching.
The key used for the cache is essentially the method signature: a
combination of the
Method object and the array of
Object arguments passed to the
invoke method. For
simplicity of implementation,
Memoizer has a map of caches, one
for each method, and then combines the array of
Object arguments
into a
java.util.List object for the key to the relevant cache. It
is convenient to use an implementation of
java.util.List for the
key, since it makes strong guarantees about the
equals method, thus
ensuring that method signatures match only if all of the corresponding pairs of
arguments are equal.
Once the key has been created, the cache is checked for a previously
computed value. If one is found, it is simply returned. Otherwise, the method
has not been called with these arguments before, so it is invoked reflectively
by calling the
invoke method on
java.lang.Method. In
this example, the invocation will call
calculateBinaryDigit on the
concrete class
PiBinaryDigitsCalculator. The return value is
stored in
Memoizer's cache before it is returned. The invocation
handler has now finished its work.
As a general rule,
Memoizer can be used whenever a more
traditional cache -- such as those developed above -- is suitable.
More specifically, each method on the interface to be memoized should meet all
of the following criteria:
Clearly, it is futile to memoize methods that can change every time you
invoke them. Equally, it is important not to memoize methods that have
intentional side effects (methods that update state in some way), since the
side effects will not be repeated for subsequent calls. The single exception to
this advice is
void methods. The implementation of
Memoizer will always invoke a
void method, since the
only reason to invoke it is for its side effects.
It can be dangerous to memoize methods with mutable arguments for the same
reason that it can be dangerous to store mutable classes in hash tables. As the
doc comment for
java.util.Map states, "The behavior of a map is
not specified if the value of an object is changed in a manner that affects
equals comparisons while the object is a key in the map." If you call a
memoized method with an argument once, mutate the argument object, then call
the method a second time,
Memoizer might see this as a cache hit
and not recompute the value. In short, the wrong value could be returned.
The whole point of using caching is to improve the speed of your
application. However, reflection is notorious for its lack of performance. (The
gap is closing, though: Bloch reports that in the Sun implementation of J2SE 1.4, reflective calls are typically only twice as slow as normal calls, compared to a forty-fold difference in J2SE 1.3.)
Memoizer makes heavy use of reflection, so it might seem that it is a poor candidate for achieving performance gains. This conclusion is not necessarily valid; if the
cost of calling the method to be memoized is high compared to the cost of a
reflective method call (that is, the call to the
invoke method on
InvocationHandler interface that
implements), then memoizing the method call can result in a speed up.
Running the
PiBinaryDigitsCalculator example on a recent J2SE
1.4 JVM shows that the cost of a memoized method call is comparable to the cost
of a normal call for very small values of
n (for instance,
-10). The overhead of the memoization is quickly swamped by the
cost of performing the calculation for larger magnitudes of
Therefore, clients making frequent use of
could certainly benefit from a memoized version.
Unfortunately, the only way to tell if your code can benefit from memoization is to profile it. Nevertheless, it is very easy to apply a memoizing wrapper to existing code, and, importantly, it is just as easy to remove a wrapper. This suggests the following simple optimization strategy:
Ideally, you should analyze the impact of adding memoization to a class on
the system as a whole, since only then can you be sure that it is worth adding.
Some methods, even though they are computationally expensive, may not benefit
from being memoized, simply because they are never called with the same
arguments more than once. To gauge this, I am making available a more fully featured version of
Memoizer that implements an interface called
CacheStatistics that allows you to retrieve the number of cache
hits and cache misses. You can use this interface during performance testing to
measure whether memoization is "pulling its weight."
It is straightforward to modify the
Memoizer class to support
different cache implementation strategies. A common type of cache is the
Least-Recently-Used (LRU) cache that holds a bounded number of
entries. The cache ensures that it does not exceed its maximum size by
discarding the oldest entry, that is, the one that was least recently accessed.
A class might choose to use a LRU cache to protect against memory filling up in
an unbounded manner on long-running applications. To select the type of cache
used, you simply pass an extra argument to the
memoize method
that specifies the
CacheFactory implementation to use. Here the
LRU cache can hold a maximum of 1000 entries:
BinaryDigitsCalculator calculator =
(BinaryDigitsCalculator) Memoizer.memoize(
new PiBinaryDigitsCalculator(),
new LruCacheFactory(1000)
Even in its simplest form, the
Memoizer class is another useful
tool that should be in every Java programmer's arsenal. But remember -- profile your code before and after using it.
Tom White has been an Apache Hadoop committer since February 2007, and is a member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has written numerous articles for O'Reilly, java.net and IBM's developerWorks, and has spoken at several conferences, including at ApacheCon 2008 on Hadoop.
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Officials and residents alike blame Romaine, who is away on vacation, and Murphy, who left the area as snow started falling.
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The National Weather Service in Honolulu issued a special weather statement warning the public of frequent dangerous lightning, small hail and locally heavy rain Sunday night.
A small thunderstorm moved down the windward coast of Oahu from Laie to Kailua Sunday afternoon, dumping heavy rain and rice-sized hail.
Forecasters said scattered thunderstorms are moving toward the southeast around 10 to 15 mph and that dangerous conditions are possible with the strongest storms.
KITV4 Chief Meteorologist Justin Fujioka said, "A very unstable airmass has moved in, but due to a lack of moisture and lack of humidity, widespread thunderstorm activity is not likely."
"Expect more of a hit-or-miss situation with clear and dry conditions in some areas, and spotty showers, downpours and thunderstorms just a few miles away, especially in windward and mountain areas," he said.
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Time to admit unpopular opinions you have about Naruto!! :D
I'll go first. I give zero shits about Minato Namikaze. He is a boring character imo.
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Itachi was a traitor/ failure/ murderer.
Are you like yoda?
Unpopular opinions,You have...
He's awesome imo.
Originally Posted by TheEvilOne
Itachi was a traitor/ failure/ murderer.
All are true except for traitor...
funny cuz imo, minato > itatchi >.>
Originally Posted by sky4life
Are you like yoda?
Unpopular opinions,You have...
Wish for that, I do.
Shukaku Gaara > Most Top Ten Characters
Kakuzu > Itachi, and EMS Sasuke.
Minato is a bland character, and nothing he does is interesting imo
edo Hashirama > Edo Madara
Edo Madara => SO6P without the juubi
SO6P is only stronger then living Hashirama due to the Juubi
Noone is on Hashirama's level, except Rikudou
Edos are not to be counted in top 10s
Tsunade is a better Hokage then Hiruzen and Minato
Jiraiya is now the weakest Sanin
And some others i will share later
And also I agree with that statement about Minato. Hes kind of the Shino type Hokage, "just there".
Originally Posted by The7thHokage
All are true except for traitor...
Betrayed Konoha ninja . Uchiha CLan. The Akatsuki.
Originally Posted by DrProof
Shukaku Gaara > Most Top Ten Characters
Kakuzu > Itachi, and EMS Sasuke.
That would seem to be unpopular lol
My opinions on Madara Is, He is a shitty villain, he never killed a character in the entire series LUL thats a fact, he has no connection to the main hero, he dont care about the main hero and people expect him to be MV?? GET Outta here, Madara is only good for being betrayed by the juubi, controlled by the juubi and then get killed by it after serving its purpose which is bringing about the END OF THE WORLD PROPHECY
In my opinion Sasuke > Narutoverse, but it's one I keep to myself.
Don't want to look like a fanboy... Ok. Back to being my usual moderate self...
Sasori >>> most of akastuki
I don't really know what's unpopular among the base, so I'll list a few that may. I don't like Sasuke's personality, I think Naruto might be able to beat EMS Madara (without dominated 9 tails) as well As Nagato beating EMS Madara with Kurama, I think Obito>Madara without Juubi.
Rock Lee and Neji had so much potential but get forgetten; and i hope Lee does something soon.
Hinata and Sakura are both bad "characters".
Naruto not being an actual underdog from birth disappointed me.
I also don't care about Minato; a bad character.
I dislike the fact that edo hokages fighting instead of current generation; and i don't care about what wil they show; their feats could be covered in mini history arcs; or they could stay as how they are.
It should be known that some people are fan of characters who are not Uchihas...
what if all what is happening now is just a gengetsu? from the time obito started doing the 10 tails.
The sage is not an uzumaki
Elder sons eyes are just an ems
Minato doesn't have kuramas yin chakra but is using the seal that narutos changes into when he uses kuramas filtered yang chakra the first time in kcm
The sage didn't get rinnegan from the juubi
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HashiMada should be shipped by everyone, hard.
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Along with providing greener power, First Wind's Kawailoa farm will help Hawaii's clean energy production soar to new heights.
But now, the wind farm is in 300 pieces at Kalaeloa, after the huge parts arrived in several shipments.
Each blades spans 162 feet, and the nacelle that holds them in place weighs a whopping 190,000 pounds. The tower components are gigantic, but many are more interested in the big dent the parts will put in Hawaii's oil dependency.
"We're just addicted to oil. We pay two and a half times the national average. This is the first of many steps to break that addiction," said Brian Schatz, Hawaii's Lt. Governor.
Once all 30 new turbines are put in place on Oahu's north shore, the wind farm will be the state's largest and tallest.
"From the ground level to the top of the blade is 493 feet. The turbines will be about 70 feet taller than our Kahuku turbines," said First Wind's Kekoa Kaluhiwa.
The wind farm will provide power to about 14,000 homes and is expected to be operational by the end of the year. But first, all 300 of the pieces have to be trucked from Kalaeloa to Haleiwa. An 18-wheeler is not enough, so a special 74-wheeler was also shipped in. It has two engines, one to push it and one to pull it and needs two people to steer the super-stretched big rig.
The over-sized loads will be on the roads Monday through Friday from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. and it could take up to two months to get all of the parts moved.
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TOWN OF MINISINK, NY — Neighborhood children lined up in front of a prosperous-looking home on a street with acres of manicured lawn and echoed the chants of their parents. "Who are we?" the young girl shouted. "Minisink," her friends responded. "What do we want?" "Justice."
Meanwhile, on the autumn afternoon of October 26, large earthmoving machines moved through the farm fields across the street in the early steps of the construction of a project will include two 6,130- horsepower natural gas turbine-driven compressors to increase capacity in the Millennium Pipeline.
Before the children chanted, a man with a bullhorn shouted out to construction workers across the road while more than 100 members of the neighborhood looked on. "Do you really feel good? Do you feel good about yourself, with all these people looking at you, and with what you're going to do to our community?"
The workmen across the street did not reply.
Congresswoman Nan Heyworth showed up to address the crowd. "I'm here because you asked me to be here. I'm here to be your voice in this process. I am here to make sure that your voice is heard."
What members of the group Stop the Minisink Compressor Station (StopMCS) want is for Millennium Pipeline to build its compressor station at a site it already owns about 10 miles away called the Wagoner Alternative, which has been used for a compressor station in the past. Millennium claims the Wagoner site will cause more environmental damage than the Jacobs Road site, which is a claim that StopMCS strongly disputes.
In Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) documents, the company also claims that building the station at the Wagoner site will cost 50% more than the Jacobs Road site, because that would require enlarging a 7.2 mile section of the pipeline called the Neversink Segment from 24-inch pipe to 30-inch pipe.
But Carolyn Petschler, a member of StopMCS said, "They're planning to replace the Neversink Segment in 2014, and we have the documentation to prove it." Stop MCS says the Neversink Segment is a bottleneck in the company's gas supply operation.
Millennium spokesman Steve Sullivan disputes this, and says if the company is able to construct the compression station on Jacobs Road there will be no need to replace the Neverskin Segment.
According to Tom Collins, another spokesman for Millennium, FERC is reviewing a request for a rehearing on the approval of the compression station. Wording on a FERC document says: "In order to afford additional time for consideration of the matters raised or to be raised, rehearing of the Commission's order is hereby granted for the limited purpose of further consideration, and timely-filed rehearing requests will not be deemed denied by operation of law."
The residents have complained that the commission is taking too long in making a decision on the matter. Now, with support from Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer, residents are hoping FERC will soon come to a decision.
The senators wrote to FERC, "We are confident that you share our desire for timely and appropriate disposition of matters pending before your commission, and would urge the commission to issue a final determination on this matter."
Two of the five commissioners agreed with StopMCS that the Wagoner Alternative would be a better site for a compressor station. If the FERC decision goes against them, the residents will take the matter to federal court, but they can't make that move until FERC makes a final determination.
Meanwhile, as of November 1, according to Asha Canalos of StopMCS, while many people in the town are without power because of Hurricane Sandy, Millennium has several large generators on site and construction continues.


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"I like tech ed, science and geography, of course," said Zach Holcomb, Meadowview Middle School 8th grader.
Zach's passion for landmarks and other cultures was obvious to his 7th grade geography teacher.
"Free time... instead of picking up a free reading book, he would pick up an atlas and read," said Chad Guns, Meadowview Middle School geography teacher. "So, I kind of knew right away at the beginning of the year that he really had a love for it."
"I started taking an interest in geography in second grade," said Holcomb.
So, last year, when Zach was a 7th grader, Mr. Guns encouraged Zach to put his knowledge to the test by competing in the state-wide National Geographic Bee.
"I told him he should probably try out for the school-wide," said Guns. "And he won. Then (he) qualified for state by taking a test."
And he made a good showing at state last year against the other 99 students from across the state.
"I almost made it into the top ten," said Holcomb.
With his 11th place finish, Zach decided to work harder and try again this year.
"Since last year, he really studied hard and he did very well on the school-wide. It was over rather quickly this year," said Guns.
Lisa: "How do you go about preparing yourself to understand the cultures of the world?"
"I just take these quizzes online and they really help me a lot," said Holcomb. "I try to look up in books about different cultures and stuff and where their tribes are located."
Last year, Zach missed a question about Native Americans which knocked him out of the top ten. This year, Zach is most nervous about a different region.
"Africa, Central Africa. That's a little harder sometimes, cause you've got a lot of tribes and stuff," said Holcomb. "I just don't know about that region. So, I work on that a lot."
Hopefully, all of Zach's hard work will help him achieve his goal of getting into the top ten this year and maybe winning it all.
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I don't like Gold. All the other characters felt like they have grown and Gold just struck me as a brat. Sort of like Naruto prior to him getting older. The kid has talent he just annoys me. Silver I found much more interesting since he had far more depth than in the games which I wish every time I ran into I would pile drive him into the dirt cause hes sooo mean! He makes Blue from the games look tame.
Chris I thought was cool despite the OP's dislike for her. I thought she was different since she was a catcher and not just a battler which was neat.
Red is probably my favorite though. Hes like a grown up Ash that manages to win a league championship. That reminds me, Ash needs to stop being 11. Its been like a decade since that shows been on.
Certain aspects leave much to be desired, I always seem to find entertainment value in each arc be it Yellow or Emerald. Yes, THAT arc. True certain things bug me but there can be a difference between quality and entertainment. Hell, a few things about Volumes 10 and 11 that stopped it from being boring was me liking Crys (whom I find to be cute) and even Eusine.
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Don't ask me what I think about all of the characters, but I am a BIG fan of Pearl
Am I the only one who thinks the Black and White arc is rushed? I feel like everything is happening so fast, and I can't even grasp what's going on. I also dislike how they portrayed N. I love, love, love N - he's my favorite character in BW and BW2, but the manga just made him more creepy than anything else.
e, e, e, electric shock
The electric shocks are flowing down my body
About to faint, risky, e l e c t r i f y i n g
Set the voltage, love me
Im in shock
the name tradition is kinda dsitrubing
and i think i kinda like creepy N XD
As interesting as PokeSpe's take on N is, I wish he was more emotive in facial expressions or he got more mad than sad.
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I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but I don't really like N's protrayal in the manga much at all. He just exists to be some creepy dude, and always has a blank stare of indifference on his face like matt said. In the games I've always imagined N to be much more emotive, and acting pretty much like a child. In the manga he's just...boring. But Black makes up for it because he's awesome.
Oh and if Pryce is gonna be fighting Dialga, then my only request is for the metal dragon to kick his sorry old *** kthnx.
The DP Arc is the second best Arc..RS Arc is first (Diamond is one of my favorite characters because unlike Ruby..his personally didn't get annoying and he had great character development)
Here's mine.
I skipped over most of the R/S chapter. I found the storyline boring, I just couldn't get into it at all. Not to mention, Sapphire really pissed me off too so I just went right on to the FireRed/LeafGreen chapter.
I think that the RS Arc was the best chapter, because they were characters that you'd least expect. Honestly, when did you ever hear of the boy protagonist as the Coordinator, and the girl protagonist as the Gym Challenger? I'm not being sexist here, really, and I do not intend to be. Ruby was hilarious for me, and really grew as a character, to me at least. He went from a nitpicker to someone who you thought was pretty cool.
Also, I don't like Emerald as a character, and would've preferred to have Wally as the main protag for that chapter instead. There could've been a cool chapter about how Ruby would eventually give Ruru to Wally again, or something. I don't know. I just don't like Emerald.
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Green is the girl. Blue is the boy.
Wally is overrated...but he's better than Emerald.
This isn't so unpopular for the games or anime, but it seems to be for the manga: Generations 1 and 2 of Special were better than RSE and beyond, I refuse to even associate them with Special. Yellow was weak, but still better than gens 3-5.
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My unpopular opinion? I REALLY disliked B/W. I think it was rushed, I don't like any of the main characters, and the storyline is completely uninteresting to me.
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Hmm I always found RBGY to be the weakest chapters. I found Red/Green (boy) and Yellow to be generic. Blue (girl) I thought was unique because of her trickery and stuff. I also thought GSC was good and RS FRLG. After the PokeSpe seemed to become rushed.
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Platinum maybe but others seemed like homages and shout outs to the other Pokemon media out there. I think it's pretty cool actually.
N in PokeSpe isn't bad but I mostly don't like how unexpressive he is outside of a small smile.
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Originally Posted by swagking
Ninjutsu: 5
Taijutsu: 5
Genjutsu: 5
Intelligence: 5
speed: 5
Strength: 4
Stamina: 5
hand seal: 4.5?
total stats:38.5
correct me on anything.
Here you go:
Originally Posted by Zlad
Disagree. He was able to kamui himself before A hit him, rescue Sasuke before it took him with jinton etc etc.
Able to break a wall of stones is more than 3. Naruto even commented on him saying his strength was heavy.
Tai is at least 4.5, we all saw that in chapter 597 if I remember right
Ninjutsu I agree
Genjutsu is 5. He used genjutsu to control a 'perfect jinchuuriki' which was a Mizukage for years, he simple manipulated her and did everything he wanted and was the shadow.
Intelligence is 5.
mizukage was a girl?WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
pretty much yeah. i'd put strength as a 5 though, naruto commented on his strength and he was able to a. kill torune with his bare hands and b. block the executioner blade with his arm. maybe taijutsu could be a point or half point lower since he's been hit a couple of times even with kamui. that said he should be above 38 score for sure, even w/o rinnegan imo.
Originally Posted by zoos
mizukage was a girl?WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
Yeah like Haku was a boy.
that stats is too strong for a hybrid rinnegan/sharingan user. Usually they didnt have much strength in taijutsu and a little slow.
Yeah and his Tai is not that great he uses kamui always
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Good afternoon,
Today I am pleased to announce the piloting stage for the state's new Student Information System (SIS). ISBE approved the three-year project this week that will greatly enhance the data collection process of student information. At the district level, and for all of us, it should result in more accurate information being collected for the annual report cards.
ISBE, in conjunction with IBM, will develop and implement the tracking system that will help districts to provide more accurate student information for state assessments used for the Report Card.
As some of you may be aware, we have been planning this for several
years. Fortunately, the actual
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The contract with IBM over the next three years will cost $5.7 million and will be funded equally through state and federal sources.
The SIS system is yet another step to helping all of us move toward completely electronic and paperless processes. SIS promises to offer several benefits including:
· Reducing the burden of repeated data collection by schools and districts;
· Enhancing the use of state data by schools and districts;
· Improving the accuracy and quality of information gathered from schools and districts;
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Phase I of the project (school year 2004 – 2005), will involve two pilot projects with a consortium of selected districts, vendors that support their local student information systems, ISBE Student Assessment staff, and ISBE testing contractors.
One pilot project will focus on:
· Collecting local student identification numbers and demographic information from pilot districts;
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· Developing a process to allow pilot district administrators to request a unique state student identifier for students entering the district during the year (this process will include probabilistic algorithms to determine whether or not the student already exists in the ISBE SIS, thereby minimizing the assignment of more than one unique student identifier to each student).
The second pilot will involve working with selected districts, ISBE
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Phases II and III will be implemented for the FY06 and FY07 school years.
I want to thank all of you who have been involved in providing input on this or who will be involved in helping us pilot the system.
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The Assessment Frameworks are the blueprints for the state tests that will be designed and administered beginning in 2006. These frameworks are not intended to be the curriculum guide for districts but instead provide districts with a set of guidelines to what, and when, areas of the Illinois State Standards will be assessed.
The Frameworks were posted last fall in order to move the process along in our test design process. Through this process, however, practitioners have provided input and guidance on the assessment objectives and focus in these documents. Therefore, the Student Assessment Division is in the process of including this input for the Frameworks in writing, mathematics, and science. We will put these revised documents on the Web site in the near future for districts use (www.isbe.net/assessment/IAFindex.htm).
We appreciate greatly the input and work that we have received from practitioners around the state in order to provide frameworks that reflect the standards. Again, if you have questions, please contact the Student Assessment Division at 217/782-4823.
Small Rural School Achievement (SRSA) Program Funds
Notification by letter to approximately 240
Title Program Performance Reports Deadline Extended
The deadline for completing the 2002-2003 Title Programs Performance Report has been extended to July 30. If you received any federal Title funds in 2002-2003, please have appropriate staff go into IWAS and complete the report. Title funds for 2004-05 may be frozen if the report is not complete. Call 217/524-4832 if there are any questions.
Posting/Converting Microsoft Excel FY05 Budget Form to Adobe PDF
Since budget time is once again on the minds of school business administrators, this is a reminder that if your school district has a website, in accordance with Section 17-1.2 and Section 34-43a of the School Code, you are required to post your budget on your school district's website. To assist you in meeting this requirement, follow the steps below to convert the ISBE 50-36 Budget Form to a .pdf that can easily be posted to your website. This form can be located on the ISBE website.
Conversion of the Microsoft Excel format school district or joint agreement budget to an Adobe .pdf is now an 8 step process. While placing your school district or joint agreement budget on your website as a .pdf adheres to statute, also note, you can adhere to Section 17-1.2 and Section 34-43a of the School Code by placing the Excel version of your budget on your website. There is a free Excel viewer, which would assist your constituents who do not have Excel.
v Note: Adobe Acrobat .PDF Maker/Writer is required for converting a Microsoft Excel form to Adobe .pdf. The free Adobe Acrobat Reader is required for viewing a .pdf.
Conversion of your Microsoft Excel budget to Adobe .pdf format can be accomplished by following these steps:
1. Open the Excel workbook and select all the worksheets – accomplished by selecting the first page, holding down the shift key, and then going to the end of the selection you want and clicking on that worksheet. The tabs will appear highlighted.
2. Within Excel, select "File" and "Print". Within the "Print" window, select "Adobe PDFWriter" as the "Printer" and click "OK".
3. This will prompt you to save the .pdf to your computer. This is where the process deviates from the norm. At this first "Save PDF File As" window, create a new folder, named "budget05" and use file name "1". Click "save" to start the process.
4. Your computer will proceed as normal for a moment, and then return to the window which prompts you to save the .pdf. At this second prompt, use the file name "2", within the "budget05" folder.
5. Again, your computer will proceed as normal, but will return to the window requesting a file name. Continue to number your files in order, "1…2…3…" within the "budget05" folder. You may go as far as 8.
6. Once you have created all of your .pdfs, you will want to open "1" in your Adobe PDFWriter software.
7. With "1" open, select "Document" and "Insert Pages". This will open a window which will allow you to navigate to the "budget05" folder. At this point, chose "2" and place "2" at the end of "1".
8. With "1" and "2" now successfully merged together, go to the end of the now larger "1" and select "Document" and "Insert Pages" and select "3". Complete this process until all of the .pdfs have been inserted at the end of "1". This has now created a .pdf of all the worksheets of the Excel budget.
Caution: Depending on the printer settings of your computer, some pages of the Excel budget workbook and subsequent .pdf print on more than 1 page.
To correct this:
1. In Excel, select ONLY the page which needs to be re-created.
2. Choose "File", "Page Setup" and within "Scaling", select "fit to 1 page wide and 1 page tall". You can then check to ensure you have successfully reduced the page by choosing "Print Preview".
3. At this point, select "Adobe PDFWriter" and when prompted for a file name, use the page number you are re-creating, such as "pg30".
4. Then, when in Adobe PDFWriter, delete the page that is not printing on one page and insert the new page – both deleting and inserting functions are found within the "Document" menu.
If you experience any difficulties and need assistance, contact Sally Cray, School Business and Support Services at 217/785-8779.
Proposals for "Smaller Learning Communities" Due in August
from Chiefline, CCSSO
The Office of Vocational and Adult Education has reopened "The Smaller Learning Communities" competition for new applications. Applicants that were not accepted during the spring competition should use the comments provided to them in order to revise and resubmit their proposals. Over $70 million is available for grants for the 2004-05 school year.
The Smaller Learning Communities Program is a $142 million competitive federal grant program to plan, implement, or expand smaller learning communities in large high schools. Local education agencies (LEAs), on behalf of one or more large high schools (schools that include grades 11 and 12 and enroll at least 1,000 students in grades 9 and above) may apply. These funds can be used for assisting those high schools identified as in need of improvement.
Proposals are due August 9 and awarded by September. The full notice is in the July 8 issue of the Federal Register. For more information, contact Tom Houlihan at email@example.com .
ISBE at
ISBE is planning on having a booth at the Illinois State Fair Aug.
13-22. We will be located within
Details on activities will be forthcoming at a later date. For now, please plan to stop by and meet our staff!
The 18th Annual High Schools That Work Staff
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The conference provides state, district, school and teacher leaders with research-based practices for building a school culture that sets and meets high performance student standards.


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Trophy travelling to Pacific Northwest
The World Series trophy is coming to the Northwest — and we're not talking about Medford, Ore.
The Salem-Keizer Volcanoes have made arrangements with the World Champion San Francisco Giants to bring the 2010 World Series trophy to Keizer this summer.
The date is July 9.
The Volcanoes will host an private reception for Volcanoes season-ticket holders, ticket-package holders and the media.
The team released very little additional information about the visit of the trophy. However, the Volcanoes, the Class A short-season affiliate of the Giants, have a home game at 7:05 p.m. against the Tri-City Dust Devils on Saturday, July 9. No word if the trophy will be on display during the game or not.
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That is an awesome event.
I think every team that wins the big gold trophy should let their minor league affiliates have a day with it for their faithful fans. Only seems right as the minor league system as a whole produced, matured and force fed these guys baseball for so long.
Even if members of Giants 25-man playoff roster did not get their start here, so many other did get their humble beginnigs and advancements through the ladder. From short-season /Rookie to developmental all the way to Triple-A, the fans that support the system should get their day to celebrate too.
Kudos to everyone involved in this awesome event from the first thought to the last…
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I have had three kids who #1 hate diaper changes and #2 are heavy wetters. This means that at a young age, I either had to move to training pants (not as absorbent) or change more frequently (more costly)- neither option was one I liked. Yes, I do use cloth (or did, Baby B is only in diapers at night and naps) but there are always occasions when having disposables is both handy or necessary (like last week when Irene was due to hit- I wasn't sure when we'd lose/gain power back and didn't want diapers sitting a week wet…so we opted to get a pack of 'sposies instead). Last week in anticipation of Irene's arrival, I did decide to get some disposables to have on hand.
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11 NCAA Div. III individual championships
GRINNELL—The Central College men's and women's track and field teams both topped the 12-team standings at the Grinnell Indoor Invitational Saturday.
The Dutch men nearly doubled the runner-up's point total with 172 points scored in 18 events. Dubuque was second with 87, followed by Southwestern, Grinnell and Clarke. The Dutch women scored 116.5 points over 17 events, topping Clarke by 25 points, with North Iowa Area, Grinnell and Cornell rounding out the top five.
"We had some good performances across the board," coach Joe Dunham said. "We made good progress despite being tired and sore. It was one of those weeks where we were heavy in our training, but we were able to improve a little bit at the meet. It's all about progression and getting better.
"I'm pleased with the way we competed."
Relay teams propel Dutch women—Central's 4x200-meter relay team of Abi Davis (sophomore, Des Moines, Dowling Catholic HS), Monica Ruiz (sophomore, Hudson), Taylor Beckman (junior, Panora, Panorama HS) and McKenna Zimmerman (junior, Urbandale) was best by more than three seconds in 1:47.40. Camie Kibbee (junior, Mason City), Melanie Nielsen (sophomore, Atlantic), Allie McBroom (junior, Runnells, Southeast Polk HS) and Abby Saladino (sophomore, Long Grove, North Scott HS) finished second. Ruiz was also runner-up in the 60-meter dash in 8.27, while Davis was fifth in the 400-meter dash in 1:01.74.
The distance medley relay team of Molly Bramble (sophomore, Waukee), Nielsen, Alyssa Eaves (junior, Grinnell, Johnston HS) and Andie Arthofer (freshman, Dubuque, Senior HS) took the top spot in 13:34.92.
Mid-distance runner Elin Phipps (sophomore, Boone) was tops in the mile run in 5:12.05, setting a personal record by more than 17 seconds and besting the runner-up from Creighton by 1.80 seconds. Phipps also placed fourth in the 600 in 1:45.80.
High jumper Hillary Hotz (junior, Fort Dodge, St. Edmond HS) cleared a height of 5-3.25 for the top spot.
Multi-eventer Emma Drees (freshman, Waukee) set a personal record in the long jump by nearly one foot with a leap of 16-1 for runner-up honors.
Pole vaulter Maddy Frehe (senior, De Soto, Kan.) cleared 8-0.5 for third place. The 4x400-meter relay team of Kibbee, Beckman, Ruiz and Phipps was also third in 4:16.80.
Hurdler Meredith Zimmerman (junior, Urbandale) was fourth in the 60-meter hurdles 9.69, a personal best, while distance runner Kasey Wiedmaier (freshman, Indianola) was fourth in the 800-meter run in 2:27.36.
Dutch men throw a winner—Thrower Steven Messerschmidt (senior, Neola, Tri-Center HS) won the shot put with a personal-best toss of 48-9.5. Gunnar Johnson (junior, Ankeny, Johnston HS) was third with a mark of 46-5.5, while Josh Tack (junior, Hudson) also set a personal record with a fourth-place throw of 43-3.75, besting his previous record by more than six feet. Messerschmidt also won the weight throw with a toss of 54-6. Tack and Chris Davis (sophomore, Waverly, Waverly-Shell Rock HS) finished third and fourth, respectively, with throws of 44-9 and 44-8. It was the third consecutive week Davis has set a personal record in the weight throw.
Multi-eventer Eric Larson (junior, Waverly, Waverly-Shell Rock HS) was best in the long jump with a leap of 21-9. Larson was also fourth in the pole vault, clearing 13-3.75 and fifth in the 60-meter hurdles in 8.66.
Distance runner Eli Horton (junior, Runnells, Southeast Polk HS) won the 3,000-meter run by more than three seconds in a career-best time of 8:30.87. Cole Decker (sophomore, Des Moines, Dowling Catholic HS) placed third in 8:40.03. Decker was also fourth in the 800-meter run in 2:04.45. Distance teammate Isaac Steffensmeier (freshman, St. Paul, Fort Madison HS) was tops in the 5,000-meter run in 15:27.95.
Hurdler Dan Roemerman (sophomore, Iowa City, City High HS) was runner-up in the 60-meter hurdles in 8.26, a personal record by .15 seconds. Roemerman also ran a personal best in the 200-meter dash in 23.38, good for fourth.
The 4x200-meter relay team of Mason Zimmerman (junior, Urbandale), Mitch Wagoner (senior, Iowa Falls, Iowa Falls-Alden HS), Spencer Hammack (sophomore, Ottumwa) and Austin Roberts (sophomore, Bloomfield, Davis HS) was runner-up in 1:32.60. Wagoner was part of the winning distance medley relay team with Austin O'Brien (senior, Bettendorf, Pleasant Valley HS), Drew Jackson (junior, Johnston) and Jamie Vander Veer (junior, Knoxville) in 10:29.32, more than 40 seconds in front of the runner-up team. Zimmerman was also third in the 200 in 23.37.
Jumper Logan Mulford (freshman, Mount Pleasant) was runner-up in the high jump with a mark of 6-4. Fellow jumper Jordan Sump (senior, Grimes, Dallas Center-Grimes HS) finished fourth in the triple jump with a mark of 39-2.25.
Mid-distance runner LJ Lipscomb (junior, Johnston) finished third in the 400-meter dash in 52.19.
Next weekend is a busy one for the Central track and field teams. Dutch athletes will compete at four different invitationals, including the Iowa State Classic at Ames Friday and Saturday and the Monmouth Invitational at Monmouth, Ill.
In addition, six men's track athletes will travel to Massachusetts for the opportunity to qualify for the NCAA national meet in the distance medley relay. The relay team will run at the Tufts University Cupid Challenge in the morning, with individual events throughout the day, and cap the trip by competing in the 5,000-meter run at the Boston University Scarlet and White Invitational.


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Mappc was started by Will Dickinson in summer 2007 and as of September 2009 all the information on the wiki has been ported into the Peace Corps Corps Wiki and can been found under the category:maps
- 1 Goals
- 2 Maps by Country
- 3 Why
- 4 Future desires and development
- 5 Featured Pages 2007-2009
- 5.1 March 2009 Featured Page: Madagascar
- 5.2 February 2009 Featured Page: Morocco
- 5.3 JULY 2008 Featured Page: Turkmenistan
- 5.4 MARCH 2008 Featured Page: Niger
- 5.5 FEBRUARY 2008 Featured Page: Benin
- 5.6 JANUARY 2008 Featured Page: El Salvador
- 5.7 DECEMBER 2007 Featured Page: Lesotho
- 5.8 NOVEMBER 2007 Featured Page: Armenia
- 6 Give a Map
- 7 Insert these into your article
"Mappc.org" was created with those researching the history of mapping in the Peace Corps in mind. Furthermore, it is designed to spark the imaginations of those future map makers and visionaries that have yet to join PC. The site showcases the skills and accomplishments made by a wide cross section of volunteers over the lifetime of PC. The maps and art show the creativity of Americans living in small communities around the world.
1. A forum for RPCVs, PCVs and people with an interest in maps and the Peace Corps
2. Online galley of some fine pieces of art and many ways the capture the experience of living in a country. Often these are the only personal records that document the way that PCVs interacted with a community. Maps contribute to tracing the history of the development of the Peace Corps and how environments and communities have changed over time. They are also functional for the communities. In order to bring projects, many NGOs require maps of the community. In the earlier days, some volunteers actually mapped land for the first time in the country's history.
3. Institutional memory building
4. Exposure and diffusion of map technology may help the in process of reform and growth at the administrative level of PC, which with intern shape future policy and training.
5. Showcasing the skills and accomplishments made by a wide cross section of volunteers.
6. Spark the imaginations of those future map makers and visionaries that have yet to join PC.
7. A resource to communities, RPCVs, and current PCVs on mapping technology. Including jobs, tech links, and libraries of info.
8. To demonstrate how grassroots map creation can make a small but appreciable change in the overall awareness of the community and their planning activities.
9. Showcase the latest in spatial technologies available in the open source web programming.
Maps by Country
Why else…. there is nothing like it out there….well it meets goal "three" of Peace Corps.
"Dealing with what I could and couldn't do regarding community planning and trying to reconstruction the history of my site was one of the most frustrating aspects of my PC experience." -Will Dickinson
Future desires and development
Add additional articles and maps Including helpful tips and useful information Organizing it in such away that it is accessible to those that are searching for information on development strategies. More customized web tools that met the desires of the users.
Featured Pages 2007-2009
March 2009 Featured Page: Madagascar
Faith and Tom, 2007-2009, Madagascar http://blog.faithandtom.com/2009/02/22/the-map-project.aspx?ref=rss
February 2009 Featured Page: Morocco
Unknown Volunteer some where in the Atlas Mountains 2008-2010 [1] 2/24/09 Mural Mapping (Map Muraling?) This weekend, we had the third meeting of our group, the Future Leaders of Berberville. We talked about the upcoming tree planting and **painted a world map mural**. They already had a world map with geographical boundaries (although it was flaking badly, and more than one country had been knocked off the map by knocking out the plaster under it - reminded me of the now-headless images of Hatshepsut in her palace in Luxor), plus we wanted to maintain the Environmental Education aspect of the project, so we created a map of world biomes. Polar and Mountain Ice, Tundra, Chapparal, Savannah, Desert, etc. The geography teacher and English teacher worked together Friday night to translate the names for us.
JULY 2008 Featured Page: Turkmenistan
Annie Peirce 2007-2009 [[2]]
MARCH 2008 Featured Page: Niger
Mallamawa Kaka
Leah Wohlsdorf, 2002-2004, Mayahi, Niger.
FEBRUARY 2008 Featured Page: Benin
Chris Starace, 1995-1997, Allada, Benin.
"The concentric circles represent the distance from my house that I could comfortably ride my bike to villages to teach cooperatives small business development. A Mtn. Bike was my only means of transportation and due to the heat, mud and rain, 6-10 miles was all I could do each way. The return trip was usually mid-day and was usually quite hot or very wet. This map was indispensable to me to help me find my way around. In the African bush there certainly are no street signs, and I was never good enough at the local language to ask for directions and understand anything more than a point of the finger." Right. "I lived across the path from [...] one extended family [...] Since there were 40 or so people who lived there, I found it hard to learn everyone's name, figure out how and to whom they were related, and in which house they lived. To help figure this out I drew a simple map of their housing compound and I labeled the parents of each house since one couple and their children lived in each house." -Chris Starace Hand Drawn Community Map
Chris's Documentary DVD http://www.geocities.com/fon_is_fun/DVD.htm Chris's 2004 photos http://www.friends-of-benin.org/Chris-s-photos-7.04.htm
JANUARY 2008 Featured Page: El Salvador
Nuevo Eden de San Juan
Chris Delcher, 1998-2000, Nuevo Eden de San Juan.
(Left) Funding for a latrine project: Red symbols show households with no latrines in the area around the central plaza. I made this map because it was an application for funding requirement of the Pan American Health Organization.
(Right) Our group had this map of El Salvador commissioned for a T-shirt. Created by one of the PCVs, it shows a machine gun transforming into a corn-stalk representing peace after the civil war. The San Salvador volcano is in the background.
DECEMBER 2007 Featured Page: Lesotho
Maineng & Ha Ramabanta
Jack Conviser, Pen and Ink Drawing, Maineng & Ha Ramabanta. "The left hand image shows a sketch of the village of Maineng and the pragmatic separation between different family groups of houses based on topography and the access to garden spaces and animal Kraals. The right hand map shows my "neighborhood" in Ha Ramabanta. The locations of doors and window in the Ronduvals speak to the basic orientation of the housing for the sun(to the north!), to the east to face the river valley, and for good social contact with the family yards. People would often leave their doors open to talk to those doing things in their yards, such as cooking, threshing corn, "gossiping" etc.
Perhaps, equally important are the names of all of my neighbors. Walking around with a sketch pad in hand, making the map helped me to meet and introduce myself to those closest to me, gave an excuse to visit see their gardens behind the fences and hear a few of their stores. After I was properly introduced at a village meeting, this became a great form of meet and greet that only needed minimal language access. I would do it again that way in any new setting."
NOVEMBER 2007 Featured Page: Armenia
Training GPS/GIS Winter'06 with community engineers, Noyemberian, Armenia. Will Dickinson, 2004-2006 Ijevan/Jermuk.
Give a Map
- Add your map collection
- Make a searchable map for the volunteer that will replace you. (This could start a trend whereby maps are passed from volunteer to volunteer and community changes can be tracked through time.)
Directions to give a map(s)
- To generate institutional memory, maps are very important; they are unique in their ability to convey spatial relationships.
- Please give a map to the volunteer after you so they can orient themselves in their new community, and see all the work you have done.
- See Mappc.org:Disclaimer for more information about map sensitivity
- Identifying projects, potential projects, established institutes, and landmarks is encouraged.
- Go to mappc.org
- Go to Create Article; please enter either your name or the name of your project,
- Wiki will prompt you to edit the page:
- Please replace the template with information on your PC mapping experience
Uploading images
- You can upload the following image formats: jpg, png, gif, bmp.
- The wiki will prompt you for a name to call the image, I suggest naming it "name_country.jpg" (example: "Dickinson_Armenia.jpg"
Insert these into your article
[[image:(imagename.jpg)]] Example: [[image:Dickinson_Armenia.jpg]]
Suggestions about images size
Please don't upload images over 500kb, they will just be slow. If you have a large map images please email it to the webmaster for posting.
Creating a Google map on your page
- Click on the map icon on the toolbar.
- Enter the name of your site or the closest town or city.
- Google Maps should fly you there and you can establish a marker.
- Save the marker and enter what you like in the bubble.
- Paste the code into the article
Main Map
Shows the location of all projects and pages on the site.
Mileage Counter
"It would be very cool to have a counter or such to show increase the area of the Earth mapped by volunteers and their host communities" - agreed. Don't think there is any open source on this yet. There are some folks that have similar technologies…I will check on this…or I would have to get someone to build it out. Think this doable however. With the Google Map stuff if you can envision it, they can build it. We can do KML file map overlays and then calculate the square mileage in this way.
In the PC the mapping thing seemed to be very two faced. On one hand they were very helpful and required by the administration for evacuation purposes. On the other there is very little in the way of training that the administration receives on this.
Community Map Posting Issues
- Maps may reveal the people in the community that are helpful and friendly to PC.
- knowing that this information is on the internet could make counterparts less likely to help out next time…depends??
Suggested Format for you Article The left side bar identifies you. Depending on how much you fill in it identifies: Name, Country, Years in PC, Map Area, Year map created, Work Area the map was created for.