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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The White House criticized Russia on Friday for allowing National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden to meet with human rights activists, calling it a "propaganda platform" for the man who seeks to avoid prosecution for leaking classified information about secret U.S. electronic surveillance programs.
A Russian lawmaker who was among the officials who met privately with Snowden in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo airport on Friday said Snowden wants asylum in Russia and is willing to stop sharing the secrets in his possession in exchange for such a deal.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Russia should instead send Snowden back to the U.S. to face the felony charges that are pending against him.
"Providing a propaganda platform for Mr. Snowden runs counter to the Russian government's previous declarations of Russia's neutrality and that they have no control over his presence in the airport," Carney said. "It's also incompatible with Russian assurances that they do not want Mr. Snowden to further damage U.S. interests."
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki used similar language to express disappointment over the meeting.
"We are disappointed that Russian officials and agencies facilitated this meeting today by allowing these activists and representatives into the Moscow airport's transit zone to meet with Mr. Snowden despite the government's declarations of Russia's neutrality with respect to Mr. Snowden," Psaki said. "Our concern here is that he's been provided this opportunity to speak in a propaganda platform."
President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed Snowden, among other issues, during a telephone call on Friday, the White House said in a terse statement that provided no specifics of their conversation about the NSA leaker. Carney said the call was planned several days ago, suggesting that it was unrelated to Snowden's meeting with the activists.
Carney said Snowden is not a human-rights activist or a dissident. "He is accused of leaking classified information, has been charged with three felony counts and should be returned to the United States," the spokesman said.
Carney also urged the Russian government to "afford human rights organizations the ability to do their work in Russia throughout Russia, not just at the Moscow transit lounge."
Snowden is believed to have been staying at the airport transit zone since June 23, when he arrived by air from Hong Kong. He fled to Hong Kong from the U.S. before his revelations were made public. Snowden had been expected to transfer in Moscow to a Cuba-bound flight, but he did not get on the plane.
He made an initial bid for asylum in Russia, but Putin said Snowden would have to agree to stop leaking the classified information in his possession before asylum would be considered. Snowden then withdrew his bid.
It was not immediately clear whether Russia would take Snowden up on his latest request for asylum. The Kremlin has signaled that it wants him out of the country. Granting asylum could further test U.S.-Russia relations.
Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua recently offered Snowden asylum.
At the State Department, Psaki denied that the U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, had telephoned a representative from Human Rights Watch. The anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks, which has been assisting Snowden, said in a statement that McFaul called the Human Rights Watch representative on her way to the airport and asked her to relay a message to Snowden that he is not considered a whistle-blower and was wanted in the United States.
Psaki said a U.S. Embassy officer placed the call.
"Ambassador McFaul did not call any representative from Human Rights Watch," she said. "An embassy officer did call to explain our position ... but at no point did this official or any official from the U.S. government ask anyone to convey a message to Mr. Snowden."
Psaki confirmed, however, that U.S. officials have been in touch with individuals who attended the meeting.
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Originally posted by muffins89
LOL they didn't construct a building! They rented office space! And even still, ALL that money is riding on ESO to earn it back. Regardless of what the costs were for, all the money went to Zenimax Online Studios and the only way they are making it back is with their only product, ESO.
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Originally posted by Entinerint
From what I understand zenimax online (unlike bioware austin) wasnt created to make just one game, the $300,000,000 is an investment into online gaming as a whole not just to make TESO
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Originally posted by deakon
With only that information to go on, we have to assume it is all going into ESO, as anything beyond that would be far too long term for such a large investment. The investment was made in, supposedly, 2010 and they will likely expect their return from the first product produced within a year of its release. That's just how investment works.
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Originally posted by Entinerint
http://siliconrepublic.newsweaver.ie/ida-ezine/65his7bz2ka12wj3rxioav they chose ireland because they didnt want to play the whole cost. the government and tax payers there are contributing to the cost of the "New Facility". not unlike a company asking a city for taxpayer help when building a stadium, a mall, or anyhting else that can help drive the local economy by creating jobs.
I think the prostitute mod corrupted your game files man. -elhefen
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Joined: 7/09/06
Depends on the person..if they make the pvp meaningful, then that will keep some people around.If you don't mind grinding dungeons over and over then you'll stick around.in my opinion, it'll be like any other theme park...good for a month or 2..then no thanks.
Insufficient data.
Daggerfall,Morrowind or Skyrim online then yes.
WoW / Oblivion online then no.
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Originally posted by Entinerint
The investment was made in 07 and wasnt ONLY for TESO
"The proceeds of the investment will be used to fund future growth, increase game development and publishing, facilitate acquisitions, and finance massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs). "
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Everything has it's time and its place, know yours?
Originally posted by coretex666
It's too early to even know, so why bother being worried about it? The game has some geat features. However, reading some of your further posts, you lost my interest in your whole post when you decided to add borecraft. Sad that every game made these days has to have that topic brought up. (I honestly don't care about another ban. Anytime anyone speaks truth about anything on these forums, they are tempt banned.)
P.S- You and others like you need to stop worrying about "endgame". This is exactly why producers fail. You and your pals cause the added stress that they do not need. Allow them to make the game in their eyes and not yours. I'm guessing that if producers were allowed to envision their own games, the mmo market might be better.
To all of the producers that have to go through this, I'm truly sorry for continued moronic thoughts. Just know that there are a ton of us that know you're very capable of making a great game if people like the OP would allow it. You have a huge group of us awaiting that very game patiently. (Let the ban begin) :)
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"I shall take your position into consideration"
Why ban
You are entitled to your opinion and I respect it.
Waiting for L2 EU Classic
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"No path is darker then when your eyes are shut." -Flemeth
Has ANY MMO now longevity? I think not.
In past theres 2 or 3 MMOs existed. You could not move on. Today, every 6 weeks a new MMO is launched. How is ANY MMO to have longevity under these circumstances. Tell me that?
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It's too early to tell.
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein
Originally posted by Elikal
By bringing a shift in paradigm - and making it gripping.
Easier said than done of course....
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Joined: 1/29/12
It's too early to tell.
Still, we could discuss what would bring longevity to any MMORPG.
PVE wise, long-ish leveling process, with alt replayability (multiple alternative leveling zones) and carrot obtained through well scaled heroics and/or raids.
I think that even combat is not that much important as the previous features. Crafting and housing would be icing on the cake, but would not make or break the game.
PVP wise, I think the game should have at least 2/3 from the following scenarios: massive open PVP battles, instanced warzones with different objectives, instanced PVP death matches.
We know that massive PVP battles should be in, but even if they are perfectly implemented, I don't think that it will suffice, to cater to mayjority of PVP playerbase. Carrot has to be in. Either in form of vertical progression (not a fan of vertical progression in PVP) or horizontal, which preferably transfers to other parts of the game.
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One movement, One moment, One shot, One mistake, One questions, will you be ready?
Originally posted by BadSpock
My favorite part of this is "the whole thing isn't too grindy."
All games are a grind, don't care what you say or do, all of them no matter what you're doing is a form of one grind or another. You're either grinding for points, coin, gear or ranks, what ever it is, it's still a grind. That will never change, no matter what a company does for design on game content, everything in them can be considered a grind.
Personally I also don't buy into this Theme Park / Sandbox description of games either. Where ever that started at, needs to go away! LOL It's like every year there is some new term for what a game is or isn't. It doesn't bloody matter! What matters is, you bought it, played it, was it fun? If not, you move on! Just like Music or Movies, you buy the CD or go pay for your Ticket to watch the movie. Until the film starts rolling, you have no real idea ( Aside from select few we can name ) if you're really going to like this movie or not. Same holds true with games. I believe in games being fun, not work. I also believe in MMO's being in a class of their own, not that of a Single Stand Alone game where it comes to life-span ( Granted I'm still replaying Skyrim a lot even as of now ).
One of my posts on here I've stated the state of MMO's are stagnate because they lack any real challenge, content or longevity. Which is true if you think about it. How many recent MMO's have come out and were fully completed within less than two months time from release? I can name several, but I shouldn't need to because I'm certain you all know exactly which ones they are. To me, that is not an MMO, that is a waste of money. That's me or you, spending $60 to $150 or more, for the initial purchase only to find there isn't even a months worth of content or challenging enough to make it last longer.
This is what has me worried about The Elder Scrolls Online, if they follow this suit? I'll be very disappointed and pretty much I'm going to personally give up on MMO's and just stick with games like Skyrim and hope they at one point just put a multiplayer aspect into that. Because after playing MMO's since 2001 and I have been a part of some big ones, as well as a ton of others through Beta Testing and I feel this one for me will be my last. I'm only going to give this one a shot because of how much I love ES series.
My concerns are all over the place on this one. But I'm trying to have faith in the making of it. Videos are cool and all, but we all know the truth is in the Release, not Alpha or even Stand Beta. Nothing is solidified till six months after release, even then changes will be made.
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One movement, One moment, One shot, One mistake, One questions, will you be ready?
Originally posted by Elikal
The answer is easy but the player base wont like it. Players of today do not want to have to work for a single thing really. They get in, rush to max level in a week or less, run a few dungeons then go to the Raids. By the end of the month they've completed all the end game content ( Not neccessarily completed the game 100% just the part they wanted ). This has been a growing disease on games as well as one of the biggest issues as to why MMO's do not last long anymore and there is a new one out every other month or so, if not sooner.
How this would be fixed would be first off all from the design end of things, they'd need to slow down leveling, completely. They'd also need to offer a LOT more content upon release as well add in a couple of Major Content Updates along the way in the first year ( New Raid, New Dungeons, New Land, anything.... ). Also stop making everything a Zerg-fest through PvE Content, so that it's a challenge again. Give more incentives for grouping and being in Guilds ( Especially the Guild Fact which is a joke now days in all games, as in they don't make it worth joining and working within a guild, instead they promote being in multiple Guilds and never really helping any of them ).
The problem is, MMO as an industry now, is mainstream. It used to be for those gamers that were super serious and wanted a lot more out of a game than just what a Stand Alone would give. Stand Alone games at that time only lasted a couple of months then you had to wait almost a year before an expansion was released, then you had to wait for the next major release. While MMO's at this time it would take you a very long time to get to max level, you had constantly growing, ever-changing environments with added content to keep you busy for an extremely long time.
Today everyone is in a hurry, everyone wants to hit max level and get into raiding. I blame WoW for this mantality. Not at first, but definitely later. Now everyone feels pressured to do this or they wont get players. Personally I feel a game company should not care to become the next big icon in the gaming industry, as this leads to poor quality in design, mechanics and over all gaming experience. Because all they're doing is releasing this stuff too soon to the public, rushing it out, to make money as fast as they can. Then when it fails, they take it to Free To Play ( Freemium ) to nickle and dime you to death by touting the word "FREE" in it.
The MMO industry is no longer about quality, it's about quantity and has lost touch with what it really should be. It started catering to people that it should have stood up against and said "If you don't like our game, there are others to choose from". This is the biggest single issue MMO's have to deal with and it's going to take one heck of a company to really pull it back together and be accepting of the fact they will never have the numbers of the so called "Mainstream" games, but they will have the most loyal players for it though. By that I mean they're so happy with the fact they have quality in the game that they're not sitting at their keyboards night after night talking about how they hope the next game coming out is far better than the one they're currently in....
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One movement, One moment, One shot, One mistake, One questions, will you be ready?
Originally posted by DeniZg
Personally here is a small list of what I feel would help....
I could go on and on here, as myself I have a lot of ideas of what I'd want to see in an MMO. I feel after playing them for over 11 years now, I could come up with a complete story line, map and full drawn out plans for one. If I had the people to work with to help build on? I definitely would. But I'm no programmer, I'm a graphic artist and musician. I get together nightly almost with friends and this is all we talk about some nights is how we would do things if we could. At certain times I have said, we should! But these things take years to develop and to do one right would definitely be that, years!
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If it's a themepark, probably not. I'm really burned out on themeparks.
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Gaming should be about fun, not gender equality.
Will it sell copies and be profitable? Yes, with an IP this big it would be hard not to.
Will it have longetivity? No ThemePark since WoW have shown singicant longetivity so probably not. Average playtime will probably be around 2-3 months.
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Joined: 11/26/04
Not looking for longevity. Happy with few months worth of entertainment.
"The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in."
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need to try the game, hopefully in beta; that will give me an idea if I will or won't play the game when released


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Toledo has many talented rappers, but few are as consistent and successful as Clemmye. He hails from the legendary rap group The Hollow Boys from the Hill area of Toledo.
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Martini Rox: You have been on the local rap scene since 2000, how has your hustle changed?
Clemmye: Back then our goal was selling CDs. We would put them in stores on consignment for $10 a CD and sell out every day. It was crazy, we didn't know and (we had sales) from all sides of town. It spread so far and I don't even know how far it spread. We didn't expect it to be like that. I put out the "First 48" and I'm older, I'm 31 now and so I've got some younger rappers under me some 18-, 19-year-olds and they're like "The game is different, people don't pay $10 for a mixtape no more." I just told them to watch, it's different. I sold maybe the first 200-300 CDs at $10 a pop and I never went to the clubs and asked them to buy it, I didn't tag anybody on Facebook or anything.
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Gun control focus misplaced
The current discussion on gun violence is totally disconnected from reality. That reality is the actual data on the FBI website (visit fbi.gov, and search "expanded homicide data 2011," and select Table 8). There you will find annual data for murder victims broken down by weapon type.
In 2011 (the latest data): 12,664 individuals were murdered, of which 6,220 were murdered by handguns, 323 murdered by rifles, and 356 murdered by shotguns. There are a total of 16 categories broken out. That includes: 1,694 murdered by knives or cutting instruments; 496 murdered by blunt objects (clubs, hammers, etc.); 728 murdered by personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc.).
Our political class is obsessing on the control of assault style weapons. From the FBI data, a maximum of 323 individuals were murdered in 2011 by such weapons. Of course, if you were one of those individuals, or one of their family members, that is one too many.
But, in the broader societal context, more than five times as many were murdered with knives, and almost 20 times as many were murdered with handguns. Significantly more people were simply beaten to death, literally at the hands of the criminal. So why all this focus on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines?
The obvious conclusion is that we are spectators at a political charade. The primary focus on controlling gun violence should be upon reducing handgun murders.
But that would require raising questions embarrassing to the political class as to the who and where of handgun murders. That would require a totally different focus than today's meaningless Washington kabuki theater (with my profound apologies to the honorable, ancient art of kabuki).
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The South Carolina Legislature is moving to ease some of the states judicial backlog by appointing nine new roving judges for the state early next year.
That sounds like good news, but the sudden burst of appointments once again calls into question the states method of judicial selection. Plain and simple, its controlled, start to finish, by the Legislature.
The judges are nominated by the 10-member Judicial Merit Selection Commission, which is appointed, and hence controlled by the Legislature, then all 170 members of the Legislature vote on the nominees. Public input is limited and maybe not all that effective in the first place.
Six of the 10 members of the JMSC must be sitting members of the Legislature three from the House and three from the Senate and the other four dont always seem that independent, not that it would matter much if they were. A current House appointee to the commission is John Davis Harrell, the brother of House Speaker Bobby Harrell.
To be fair, there is one additional step in South Carolinas system. Judicial candidates must be qualified by the JMSC prior to nomination by the JMSC. This includes taking (and presumably passing) a test on court procedures, and surviving a background check conducted by the South Carolina Bar Association and regional citizens commissions appointed by the JMSC.
Various interest groups have complained about the South Carolina system in general, and about its ineffectiveness at selecting judges from certain subgroups women, minorities, the Pee Dee but supporters say it beats the alternative: judicial elections. Elective systems North Carolina picks judges this way gives the people a say, but it opens the door to any and all candidacies and other possible perversions of the selection process. Recent Supreme Court rulings relating campaign financing, say some critics, have put judicial seats up for sale. An interest group could easily buy a judgeship with advertising and marketing, given that most judicial campaigns arent well-funded and candidates struggle to gain attention on crowded ballots. A couple hundred thousand not a big sum compared to the benefits a corporation might reap from certain rulings could sway many races.
That tips the scales in many minds back to merit selection, but that leads back to worries about secretive good ol boy systems, like the one employed by South Carolina.
South Carolina is in the majority when it comes to judicial selection. Thirty-three of 50 states use what can generally be called the merit selection process. But merit systems vary and critics of the S.C. system say it is more closed than most. Other states involve the governors office the governor appoints, the Legislature confirms and still others use popular referendums for nomination or first-term recall.
South Carolinas current system is actually a recent reform. When legislators picked two judges in 1995 who were not qualified i.e., they flunked the test outrage led to the creation of the JMSC in 1997.
The JMSC does not release test scores, but is supposed to assure that all nominated are qualified. The problem now isnt finding qualified candidates. For most seats, there are far more who qualify than can be nominated. The JMSC is limited to three nominations per seat.
Thats where the funny business insider trading if you will could come into play. The biggest hurdle to becoming a judge is getting into the final three. Its the JMSC that makes that choice, with considerable legislative input, of course.
The S.C. system could stand more reform. Involvement by some other body independent from the Legislature the governors office, or an JMSC not handpicked by the legislators might do the trick.
The chances of that happening?
Not good.
The folks whod have to initiate such a change are, of course, our state legislators.
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Snooki and JWOWW do it all together — they work out, go tanning, and even trade dates for the night to dig up dirt for each other.
And while the pair is absolutely inseparable, they still won't be having a combined wedding — as they confessed on LIVE! With Kelly & Michael — even though Kelly Ripa called them "the power couple of the series." Sorry, Sam and Ron!
But that doesn't mean that their love is any less pure; in fact, Snooki made quite a reveal during their appearance!
"Right when I met her, I knew I loved her," Snooks told the hosts. "It was just like love at first sight!"
Aww, now that is true friendship. "Best friends forever," Jenni added in, regardless of the arguments the two have. Plus, even though they won't be sharing a walk down the aisle, they do have one activity that they will always do together!
When Kelly and Michael played a game, asking the besties who would do what in a situation, a fabulous nighttime event came up: karaoke!
"I'd got to get drunk, and she'd go to sing," Jenni said about her and Snooki's adventure. Snooks then chimed in, "Well... and get drunk!"
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A video of an overcrowded school bus alarmed Logan County parents who have asked the Logan County Board of Education to take action.
The video was taken by a seventh-grade student at Man Middle School and shows students four or five to a seat and standing in the aisles of what appears to be a moving bus.
The Logan County Board of Education policy says how many students are in seats depends on the the capacity for the bus. West Virginia School policy forbids drivers from moving while students are standing.
Reports quoted LBOE Director of Transportation Mark Adkins, "There are times when the buses have mechanical failures and we must place students on another bus to get home."
According to one of the parents, there is a single bus transporting children who live from the East End of Man to Proctor Bottom (Amherstdale) and one other bus covering the route from Proctor Bottom to Lorado. In the past, there were two buses for each of the two routes.
Students who have had to stand also complained they had to exit the bus several times to allow students in the back to get off the bus.
Logan County Board of Education Superintendent Wilma Zigmond said even when additional students are put on a bus, it is still not supposed to exceed the capacity for the bus. Zigmond said the board will investigate the issue.


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Coach Jason Garrett said DeMarco Murray (foot) still has some physical tests to pass before he's cleared to play.
Chiefs NT Dontari Poe (back surgery) could return "early" in the season.
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Bloomberg's Scott Soshnick reports the NFL has asked the U.S. District Court in Manhattan to "confirm" Tom Brady's four-game suspension.
The NFL has reduced Le'Veon Bell's suspension for violating the league's substance-abuse policy from three games to two.
The league has upheld Tom Brady's four-game suspension.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports the Cowboys have "no interest" in free agent Ray Rice.
Updating an earlier item, Rams RB Todd Gurley (ACL) will begin training camp on the active roster.
Dolphins coach Joe Philbin says the team is open to giving Lamar Miller more carries in 2015.
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Rick Perlstein's massive chronicle of "the whackadoodle far-right" gets ever more manic.
Faced with sweeping social change, conservative Christians are walling themselves off from secular society. But when religion isolates itself, both sides lose.
How, and why, Cass Sunstein believes laws and public policies should help save us from our irrational impulses
Why government transparency can be the enemy of liberty
Fifty years later, new accounts of its fraught passage reveal the era's real hero—and it isn't the Supreme Court.
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Critics say he's pompous and reckless—but his relentlessness may end up making him the most consequential secretary of state in years.
President Kennedy's leadership style generated a "creative tension" that energized the executive branch, but his proposals failed to excite Congress.
The core of the Kennedy image was, in many respects, a lie. A presidential biographer, granted access to medical files, portrays a man far sicker than the public knew.
A former first lady's notion for competing with the Soviets: give young Americans a chance to spend two years in an underdeveloped country, offering help and spreading goodwill toward the West
In assembling the youngest Cabinet in generations, the 43-year-old president insisted that his appointees think along similar lines and communicate easily. For the first time since the New Deal, an administration was in the hands of intellectuals.
During the Kennedy years, The Atlantic regularly published unsigned reports that provided an insider's perspective on the mood in Washington. Here, the column described Kennedy's political ruthlessness, which helped him secure the Democratic nomination for president in 1960.
Kennedy's team treated the bureaucracy as the enemy, launching a counterinsurgency that centralized authority in the White House, and placed a dangerous amount of power in one man's hands.
Candidate Kennedy promised a civil-rights bill, but President Kennedy was cautious—overly cautious, critics said—in proposing legislative action.
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In 1960, Kennedy campaigned hard against the Republican negligence that had allowed the Soviet Union to overtake the United States in producing missiles. Once in office, however, JFK learned that there was no missile gap—which gave him an opening to negotiate with Moscow from a position of strength.


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For the first time, Springfield High School students are competing in the National History Day competition in Washington, D.C.
It also happens to be the first time they entered the contest, thanks in part to grant money from the Springfield Schools Foundation.
In the fall, U.S. history teacher Andrew Screptock requested $1,143 to buy video cameras for his students to use for the competition.
"These opportunities might not have happened without foundation seed money," said foundation president Cynthia Beekley at a breakfast honoring the grant winners.
Most recently, the board (of which I am a member) provided matching funds for Springfield's parenting associations, which with the help of the board of education, will result in the purchase of 120 new laptops.
Ambitious parents and innovative teachers like Screptock are the reason the foundation wants to continue to offer grants.
Screptock said he decided to give his AP U.S. history class an extra credit assignment of competing at the National History Day competition. Next year, he will open up the project to the whole high school since there are no history-related extracurricular activities at Springfield.
"Every year they have a theme for the nation and this year's theme was 'Rights and Responsibilities,'" Screptock said. "You have to pick a topic that relates to the theme and there are five ways you can present it: live performance, 10-minute documentary, written paper, exhibit or you can do a website.'"
Nearly everyone in his class decided to give it a try.
"They are really competitive and want their grades to be as high as possible," Screptock said.
On March 22, the students competed at districts. Three Springfield groups advanced to state on April 26. There, more than 80 schools competed and one group of Springfield students advanced to nationals.
Casey Wong, Lily Taplin and Kristen Kuras will present their project, "'A Jap's a Jap': Denying Japanese Americans the Right to Claim Citizenship," on June 15. The students' exhibit on Japanese internment in World War II includes a process paper and annotated bibliography. Screptock said the students are still trying to raise money for the trip. To donate, visit http://www.gofundme.com/shsnhd.
"I was really excited they advanced to nationals," Screptock said. "We got to see the other exhibits and we knew we were going to do well. A lot of the exhibits looked pretty good, but a lot is based on the content."
In the past decade, Beekley said Springfield Schools Foundation has given more than $200,000 toward innovative teaching ideas. This past school year, it funded 12 grant requests, totaling about $9,609. The maximum classroom award from the foundation is $1,500, and applications are considered twice during each school year.
One of the projects was called "Busy Bodies." The board provided $1,418.44 for the purchase of special iPad cases that bounce when dropped, along with headphones to allow students to work on projects without getting distracted.
"The grants committee looks for innovative and creative projects that will enrich and enhance student learning beyond the scope of normal required school expenditures and the required course of study," said Judy Gorun, foundation member. "The foundation exists for the purpose of facilitating the implementation of creative ideas and talents of teachers. As board members, we know that the teachers are appreciative of our support in helping their students go beyond the typical classroom learning experience."
Beekley said initial grants from the board created partnerships to support outdoor education, which now exists for middle-school students in the school's grove.
"In addition to the science that students learn, the projects also foster mentorships between high school students and young elementary students, some realizing for the first time their love of science, plants, bugs and the outdoors."
Beekley said the foundation wants to continue to award grants, but that will depend on donations.
"We haven't spent a lot of time telling our story, nor have we asked people for money. The only reason we don't give more is because we don't have more funds to give."
Superintendent Kathryn Hott said she is proud of the teachers who submitted grant applications and received money. She believes the foundation is a great asset to the district.
"The teachers went above and beyond by seeking out engaging and innovative initiatives for our students and taking the time in a very busy school year, especially this year, to write a grant application and make it happen," Hott said.
Editor's note: Brandi Barhite is a new board member on the Springfield Schools Foundation.
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Dake knocks off Paulson, Taylor, Howe to earn shot at Burroughs in finals of U.S. World Team Trials | TheMat.com - USA WrestlingSTILLWATER, Okla. The question came just minutes after Kyle Dake knocked off Trent Paulson, David Taylor and Andrew Howe to win the Challenge Tournament.
How do you beat the best wrestler in the World?
Im the best in the World, Dake said.
Dake will receive a chance to prove that when he faces reigning World and Olympic champion Jordan Burroughs in U.S. World Team Trials final-round series on Friday night at Oklahoma States Gallagher-Iba Arena.
The fifth-seeded Dake turned in a phenomenal run in the Challenge Tournament on Friday by downing the No. 4 Paulson, No. 1 Taylor and No. 2 Howe in succession.
This is wrestling's verison of Ali v. Frazier. These guys are pretty much the two best in the world. Can't wait to see who wins.


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Baseball Summer League Update #1
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Throughout the summer WVUsports.com will provide weekly updates of how current team members are doing in their respective summer leagues.
This is the first addition, featuring updates from the start of summer collegiate leagues through games on Sunday, June 16.
Bobby Boyd, Bourn Braves, Cape Cod Baseball League
Boyd has started all four games for the Bourn Braves (0-4). He is batting 3-for-13 (.231) with three strikeouts. He also was caught stealing once. Against Harwich on June 15, Boyd went 2-for-4.
Sean Carley, Anchorage Glacier Pilots, Alaska Baseball League
Carley has yet to pitch for the Glacier Pilots, but is expected to make his debut this week.
Michael Constantini, Quakertown Blazers, Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League
Constantini is batting 3-for-25 (.120) with seven runs, two RBIs, five walks and eight stolen bases for Quakertown. His best performance has was on June 16, as he went 1-for-2 with one run, one hit by pitch and one stolen base.
Justin Fox, Leesburg Lightning, Florida Collegiate Summer League
Fox has been one of the hottest hitters in Florida, batting 10-for-27 (.370) with eight runs, five doubles, one homer and seven RBIs in eight games. His best game to date was on June 13, batting 3-for-3 with two doubles and two RBIs.
Ray Guerrini, Rockbridge Rapids, Valley Baseball League
Guerrini has had one start at catcher and is batting 2-for-11 (.182) with one run in six games. He also has made two appearances on the mound with a 5.40 ERA in two games, allowing three hits and walking three.
Ryan McBroom, Laconia Muskrats, New England Collegiate Baseball League
McBroom is expected to join Laconia sometime this week.
John Means, Falmouth Commodores, Cape Cod Baseball League
Means is on the Falmouth roster, but has yet to pitch.
Taylor Munden, McKinney Marshals, Texas Collegiate League
Munden has been a two-way player for the Marshals. At the plate, he is hitting 5-for-27 (.185) with three runs, one double, one home run and one RBI. He has had one hit in five games. Munden has pitched 3.0 innings on the mound in two appearances, allowing two hits with three strikeouts and one walk.
Max Nogay, New Bedford Bay Sox, New England Collegiate Baseball League
Nogay has played in three games and is batting 4-for-11 (.364) with one run. Against Plymouth on June 16, he went 2-for-4 with a run.
Jacob Rice, Anchorage Glacier Pilots, Alaska Baseball League
Rice joined the Glacier Pilots last week and has a played in a few games, but stats are currently unavailable.
Billy Sager
Sager began the summer with the Waynesboro Generals and started 0-for-10 before
switching leagues.
Alex Stephens, DeLand Suns, Florida Collegiate Summer League
Stephens is hitting at a .308 (8-for-26) clip with two runs, two doubles and one RBI in eight games. Last week on June 12, he had three hits with a double to lead DeLand in a losing effort.
Michael Teagle, Clippers, Karl Young College Baseball League
Teagle's stats are currently unavailable.
Ryan Tezak, Laconia Muskrats, New England Collegiate Baseball League
Tezak earned the win in his only appearance on June 15, pitching 1.0 inning of no-hit ball and giving up one walk.
Shaun Wood, Vienna River Dogs, Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League
Wood recently just joined Vienna after beginning the season with Rockbridge in the Valley Baseball League. In his first game at Vienna, he went 1-for-5 with an RBI. Wood played in nine games for Rockbridge and batted 6-for-21 (.286) with four runs and three walks in nine games.
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An Andrews man entered a guilty plea Wednesday in connection with the March, 2013 shooting death of his girlfriend.
Carnell Antonio Kennedy, 33, of Big Bay Road, was sentenced to 21 years in prison by Circuit Court Judge Edward Cottingham after pleading guilty to Voluntary Manslaughter.
Kennedy shot his girlfriend, 31-year-old Yvonne Holmes, four times in her Claire Street apartment, according to Senior Assistant Solicitor Erin Bailey who prosecuted the case.
After shooting Holmes, Kennedy called her mother, Vanessa Holmes, and told her what he had done. He then went next door to the apartment of Yvonne Holmes aunt and told them what had happened.
Holmes 10-year-old son was in the apartment when the shooting took place but authorities said the day of the incident he was in bed and did not witness the killing.
Holmes mother said Holmes and her son were in love.
Holmes mother said her daughter had been dating Kennedy and they were all together just hours before the shooting took place.
Everyone was laughing and talking, she said, adding she did not detect any problems between her daughter and Kennedy while they were all together that afternoon.
Holmes worked at Litchfield Beach and Golf Resort.
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Brandy Round presented her friend Samantha Hunt with a check for $4,451 Saturday afternoon, which was the proceeds of a fund-raiser held at Kema's Hobby Bookstore. The money will be used to help with the expenses of a heart operation Hunt's daughter Ruby will undergo Aug. 8 to help oxygenate her blood and give her more energy.
RubyAnne Regina Hunt, known to many as Baby Ruby, was born Jan. 21, 2009, with hypo-plastic left heart syndrome. That means she has only the right side of her heart.
Ruby's parents, Samantha and Jason, knew about their baby's heart condition before her birth and worked to raise money for the expenses they knew were coming. The couple also had a 2-year old son, Samson, at the time Ruby was born.
Three hours after her birth, the infant was airlifted to Egleston Children's Hospital in Atlanta for her first surgery. Samantha entered a contest from the makers of Similac and won a $10,000 grant to complete the specialized nursery her daughter would need when she arrived home.
With the help of family and friends, what was previously a garage was transformed into a state-of-the-art nursery.
Last week's fund-raiser was set to begin July 25, and Hunt, who is a talented jewelry maker, provided jewelry to be sold, and other items were donated for the sale.
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Originally posted by Corehaven
Not sure that ever happened in eve, I know for the last 4 years at least there has been no such thing as perma-death in eve. Even if you lose a pod twice, and forget to get a new clone, all you lose is some skillpoints, not sure the exact ammount, I think it's your highest sp skill is wiped, but you don't by any means have to start over.
To find an intelligent person in a PUG is not that rare, but to find a PUG made up of "all" intelligent people is one of the rarest phenomenons in the known universe.
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Originally posted by jmcdermottukOriginally posted by RefMinor
I have to admit to ignorance of the IP so you may be right.
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I watched the whole video just now and from what I gathered:
The game will have multiple cities all on one shard, each named after IRL cities, but fantasized versions of them.
Every city will have a Prince.
The Prince will be a player who was voted into that position by other players.
The Prince will be able to set in motion the series of events that will lead to a player being perma killed.
From the sound of it, this act will be a very big deal so it probably won't happen often.
In order for the Prince to kill you, you need to be kind of a big deal. Or you need to do something that pisses alot of peope off. So, if you keep your nose clean and respect the Prince, you won't get killed. Think of it like maintaining a friendship, or staying on the good side of the MVP of the game. Just don't piss him off and your character will be fine.
I think perma death will probably be as rare as Jedi's were in SWG, (pre Jedi Trial Grind).
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It's actually quite suitable to lore, and could work mechanically, but it has to be *crazy hard* to die in the first place.
Vampires in WoD can experience a 'final death' in many ways, and it's just as easy to die as a werewolf from aggregated wounds made from silver, fire or spectral materials. Otherwise, it really is hard to take one down.
The issue would be in placing those options into the hands of other Players. A permadeath game works fine when it's not as easy as purchasing silver bullets and wasting an AFK player before he has a chance to even see he's permadead. In PvE, it adds a serious sense of "watch what the f**k you are doing". A horror setting where you *are* the horror element can retain scares by occasional sequences of 'futility'. By this, I mean the occasional invincible monster or swat team with silver bullets that you are *meant* to flee from. In these situations, it's the Players fault for thinking he is meant to overcome it, especially if prior knowledge is given that "some things you are not meant to handle alone, or ever". People had a serious hero/God complex in video games, and a good horror setting requires the complete opposite of the spectrum; weakness. Well, at least a strong character that is not impervious, or immortal.
Long story short - works fine in PvE, sucks balls in PvP.
Also, after reading the above post, it makes total sense that a Camarilla advocate could push a 'final death' clause on shithead players. In that case, it's theoretically a great anti-PK and political balancing measure, but won't stop it, as some Players will still act out in the hopes to avoid this punishment indefinitely. Which again, works.
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Also there trully a prince could not call for a blood hunt whenever he/she desired, and normally a prince had a concil of vampiric/hkindred elders that would both comment on his actions, as well as advise them on events in the cites. Even city princes were not the heads of the vampiric culture overall except in their own city largely, add in that with this evading the city of a prince you had annoyed enouph would be pretty good method to stave off blood hunts, since other princes do not take kindly to blood hunts of another cities prince pursueing targets without permission. Both of these facts can be good measures to keep abuse of a perma-death system in check, since if you place semi-regid requirements for a prince to actually call a hunt you reinforce what that hunt means, and the same is true for having politics between city princes to make it possibe to evade/hide from blood hunts in rival cities. I really hope they flesh out the blood hunt system in how they can be called, where they can go, as well as how inter-city blood hunt mechanics such as politics.
Originally posted by RefMinor
I've never understood by what definition this is true. 'They don't breathe or have a heartbeat' is pretty weak. Obviously, they're just living without those things.
'Well, they're not dead, they're undead.'
'Un-dead... so, they were dead, but now they're alive. So, they're alive.'
'No, just... living dead.'
'Is that like "acting natural"?'
'You know, dead but animated.'
'What exactly is the difference between "dead but animated" and "alive"?'
'Well, they don't have a soul.'
'Meaning what, no mind? They're incapable of thought, just laying in a coma for eternity?'
'Well, no...'
I think vampire mythology is long past due to dump its medieval definitions of life and death, but that's possibly just me.
Originally posted by Kazuhiro
It's definitely possible. The amount of skillpoints you retain when you are podded is determined by your clone grade. If you have an alpha grade clone, you'll only retain 900,000 skillpoints no matter how many you have. For a 40 million skillpoint character, going back to 900 thousand is definitely starting over.
I'd definitely believe that this has never happened, because the likelihood of someone being out of hisec with nothing but an alpha grade clone waiting is infinitesimal, but I'm just saying it is possibe to get into that position with the approprate dose of derp.
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Perma death is stupid.
For those that want it, just play your games "ironman" style. when your character dies, delete it.
Originally posted by jinxxed0
... glad you thought this through.
It's not that anyone wants to lose their character, or to have other lose their characters, but that some would appreciate having the threat there, because of how cheap and empty a feeling it is for a game to pretend it threatens your character when it obviously doesn't.
It also defeats the point on another level to do this in a game designed to kill PCs frequently. You're thinking about it in a vacuum, divorced from game design. 'Oh, you wanna have death? Hur dur delete.' It's such a tired and shortsighted retort.
Game design isn't a bunch of independent modules of closed systems you tack together which never interact. It comes together into a big picture, and the threat of death and all the game design that would take that into account is what the desire to make death somehow possible in a game is about.
The goal is to not lose your character, and preferably for the game to make it difficult to lose your character, whilst having the game enriched by the knowledge that you are not indestructible.
Which is a message that could not be more important to the game of Vampire, and the World of Darkness in general.
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Originally posted by stormseekaz
Yes this is it exactly. You need to be guilty of a major clusterfuck for the Prince to call a blood hunt on you. Follow the rules and observe the Masquerade (the term used for keeping vampires a secret) and you're fine. Run around picking up cars and throwing them around in front of mortals and you're gonna find yourself hunted down and staked out waiting for sunrise.
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Originally posted by jmcdermottuk
So stoked about this game..sandbox with permadeath...hot
Originally posted by jinxxed0
The fact of weither perma-death is stupid or dumb is rather too much of a personal opinion to be able to state that it is either dumb or great across the board. In a game like the WOD setting where the permenent death f a character or figure in the game actually did play into the setting quite abit, yet also was a way of creating a sense of tension when a player would act against thimgs in the setting thaat were quite powerful or far reaching. Also add in that in the setting you dealt with death being more of downed type of state, and also give that feeling that even immortal beings like vampires had fear about death even placing alot of stigma upon those that would actually cause it to another vampire. I would only say that perma-death systems that have been placed into other games in mmos are relatively weak in how they function, but the idea of using the permenent death as well as removal of a character as a driving factor to create tension for players is not a bad idea at all.
To me any method of causing a kindred/vampire to enter into the final death/perma-die should have alot of stigma placed upon it by the whole of vampire culture, since really for a race of immrtal beings that have largely cheated or evaded death that idea of oblivion or trully dieing would be a tramatic thought. Things like the blood hunts that a prince could call up, the act of oDiablerie (or the act of blood draining a kindred, and then devouring thier soul) is another act that can bring final death, and both of these have uses as well as allure to using them in the setting. WIth one the blood hunt used to both punish those that over step the rules of a prince while also once more re-affirming the prince's power too; Yet with Diablerie has the allure of actually being able to both learn new powers as well as lower one's onw generation standing also. In the culture of vampires Diablerie was seen like cannabilism is for humanity, and so those that partake in it are dealt with in very guarded ways, as well as being also sometimes hunted for their actions too in the setting.
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Originally posted by RefMinor
I dont think so. Really. Another Prince would be in an entirely different city. A bloodhunt called by a Prince is very likely to target underlings.
I wouldnt be surprised in Prince's were NOT in a position for perma death to occur. Otherwise there's going to be constant assasinations and chaos.
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Originally posted by jmcdermottuk
For my two cents this is pretty much what I got out of it too.
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Originally posted by stormseekaz
Sorry, too much power to be giving one player in a game.
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Originally posted by eyeswideopen
Presumably, the Prince isn't indestructible, either. I can't imagine a Prince that calls erroneous Blood Hunts being in power long. The idea should be for both parties to fear each other, really.
Plus, when the kinslay-happy despot is removed from power, you can imagine the next Prince calling a Blood Hunt of their own, if you want retribution...
Also, if you are or have ever been an EVE player, think back to EVE. A CEO has tremendous power: namely access to everything in the corporation wallets and hangars. A CEO could wreak havoc on the whole of the corporation, like in no other game, really, but it doesn't happen. Because the effort it takes to get into a CEO position in a powerful corporation isn't worth squandering like that.
Likewise, I can't imagine a player that has worked themselves into being the Prince of a city will ever consider it worthwhile to take out their personal grudges with Blood Hunts. That's a tremendous amount of effort to go through just to kill a couple of people and then probably have a coup on your hands.
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Originally posted by SaerainOriginally posted by eyeswideopen
If as people are saying, the price calls the blood hunt for a particular transgression of the lore then it can't be done on a whim. The prince may show mercy to allies and call the bloodhunt on rivals, but it will need the player to transgress the lore rules first. As it is a sandbox it also gives the rivals a reason to topple the prince from power.
Originally posted by RefMinor
Right, and I'm actually betting that the action of calling a blood hunt will not be as simple as clicking a button on just anyone's name and waiting for the news. Under my backseat designer hat, I suspect that it will differ from EVE's bounty system, in which you can place a bounty on anyone for any reason, in that a blood hunt will be an option offered to a Prince only when the game recognizes that they've performed kin-slaying, diablerie, or wide-scale breaches of the Masquerade—probably though something analagous to a security rating. Such that it should be less like the bounty system and more like a player's right to fire on another in hisec. That, but with the Prince as an arbiter as to whether the game's accusation is justified.
TL;DR: the Prince can't call a blood hunt off-the-cuff, but can either authorize it when the game suggests it, or pardon the offender.
Just my suspicion, though.
Originally posted by Deathenger
i think ccp have something exciting up their sleeve. if you follow white wolf's games, you can see with their card game version of VtM, that you don't play a vampire as such. you play an uber vampire who's pretty much controlling vampires as though they're puppets. i think that's how ccp will play it which is why, in the end, permadeath won't matter as much because as they said, you AS A PLAYER don't die. i think though you will be playing a vampire, you'll probably be encouraged to have alts and these alts will be your powerbase. lose one and it's pretty meh if you've built it up.
there's a moment in the big presentation where they're talking about permadeath and you can almost see them trying to say that, but they don't want to let the cat out of the proverbial bag too early.
i reckon your vampires won't be as meaningful but will work similar to ships in eve. you simply pilot the vampires. which also explains why they're avoiding generations and levelling of characters as such.
if that's the way they go - i think this will be very very fun.
While this sounds too good to be true, I consider all games to be smoke and mirrors until I can actually see the combat.
If it's another hotkey fest, I think I'll have to pass, regardless of how good the other features are.


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The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Athletics Department celebrated the school's 241st Commencement at the McKenzie Arena today. The Mocs had 47 student-athletes, managers and staff earn degrees at the packed ceremony at the Roundhouse.
A total of 13 student-athletes graduated with distinction, led by Maria Juliana Joza (Women's Golf), Jenna Nurik (Women's Tennis), Morgan Buchanan (Track & Field/Cross Country) and Christina Teter (Volleyball) who all Summa Cum Laude.
Magna Cum Laude student-athlete graduates included Irvin Hernandez (Football), Adam Miller (Football), Ethan Poe (Football), Lucas Cotter (Track & Field/Cross Country) and Matt Kenwrigh (Cross Country).
Steven Nease (Football), William Disterdick (Men's Tennis), Heather Parman (Volleyball) and Dean Pavlou (Wrestling) are all Cum Laude grads.
Hernandez, Nurik and Teter were all elected to the Alpha Society. The Alpha Scholastic Honor Society of UTC is one of the University's oldest and most prestigious honor societies. The Alpha Society was organized on the UTC campus in 1918 to recognize outstanding achievement. The Alpha Society elects new members annually from graduating seniors, faculty, administrators, distinguished alumni and community members.
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Chris Awuah - Communications
Bo Dyer – Health & Human Performance
Justin Galyon – Master of Education (Special Education)
Mike Hammons - Education
Shane Heatherly – Engineering Technology Management
Irvin Hernandez – Political Science – Magna Cum Laude (Alpha Society)
Adam Miller – Engineering Technology Management – Magna Cum Laude
Steven Nease – Biology – Cum Laude
Graham Nichols – Business Administration
Ethan Poe – Economics – Magna Cum Laude
Jeff Veres – Business Administration
Josh Williams – Health & Human Performance
Men's Golf
Alex Ratliff – Business Administration
Women's Golf
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Jordan Middleton – Sociology & Anthropology
Tayler Shelby - Biology
Becca Smith – Interior Design
Kelsey Swann – Sociology & Anthropology
Lauren Wilson - Biology
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Women's Tennis
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Track & Field/Cross Country
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The Gambia, country in western Africa situated on the Atlantic coast and surrounded by the neighbouring country of Senegal. It occupies a long narrow strip of land that surrounds the Gambia River. The land is flat and is dominated by the river, which is navigable throughout the length of the country.
The peculiar shape and size of the country are the result of territorial compromises made during the 19th century by Great Britain, which controlled the lower Gambia River, and France, which ruled the neighbouring colony of Senegal. Periodic talks in the 20th century to unite The Gambia and Senegal led to the short-lived Senegambia confederation (1982–89).
The Gambia is Africa's smallest non-island country; it is also one of Africa's most densely populated countries. A few towns are located upriver, but most Gambians live in rural villages. The major ethnic groups are similar to those in Senegal and consist of the majority Malinke and also include Wolof, Fulani (Fulbe), Diola (Jola), and Soninke peoples. The Gambian economy is heavily dependent on peanut (groundnut) production and export.
The country is known for the beaches along its small Atlantic coastline and for being home to Jufureh (Juffure), the reputed ancestral village of Kunta Kinte, the main character in Alex Haley's well-known novel Roots. The capital, Banjul (called Bathurst until 1973), is situated where the Gambia River flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
The Gambia is a strip of land 15 to 30 miles (25 to 50 km) wide on either side of the Gambia River and extends almost 300 miles (480 km) into the interior; except for a short coastline along the Atlantic Ocean, it is entirely surrounded by Senegal.
Relief and drainage
The Gambia River is the country's dominant feature. It flows across a plateau of Miocene-Pliocene sandstone consisting of compacted sediment composed predominantly of quartz grains formed from about 23.7 to 1.6 million years ago. In the east, narrow valleys are separated by broad interfluves or flattish hills. In the west, lower and smaller sand hills alternate with depressions filled in with sand to form a flat plain.
Soils and climate
The Gambia has a wet-and-dry tropical climate characterized by an intense rainy season occurring generally between June and October and by a longer dry season. Near the coast the rainy season lasts longer, and the rainfall is heavier, diminishing eastward. At Yundum the average annual rainfall is about 50 inches (1,300 mm), and the mean monthly temperature tends to be in the upper 70s F (mid-20s C), while at Basse Santa Su, about 270 miles (435 km) inland, the comparable figures are about 40 inches (1,000 mm) and the low 80s F (upper 20s C). The relative humidity is high but drops from December to April, when the dry northeastern wind known as the harmattan is dominant.
Plant and animal life
The vegetation cover of The Gambia is savanna on the uplands, various kinds of inland swamp in the low-lying areas, and mangrove swamp along the brackish lower Gambia River. Few wild animals are native to the region, and those that survive are under pressure from the human and domestic animal populations. In the middle and upper river areas there are warthogs, monkeys, baboons, antelope, pygmy hippopotamuses, and crocodiles. In addition, more than 500 species of birds live throughout the country. Birds and wildlife can be found in Bijilo Forest Park, along the Atlantic coast, the Abuko Nature Reserve, just upriver from Banjul, Kiang West National Park, farther inland, and River Gambia National Park (also known as Baboon Island National Park), near Kuntaur.
Ethnic groups
The river basin was a focal point for migrating groups of people escaping the turmoil of western Sudanic wars dating from the 12th century. The Diola (Jola) are the people longest resident in the country; they are now located mostly in western Gambia. The largest group is the Malinke, comprising about two-fifths of the population. The Wolof, who are the dominant group in Senegal, also predominate in Banjul. The Fulani settled the extreme upriver areas, and their kingdom, Fuladu, became a major power in the late 19th century. The Soninke, an admixture of Malinke and Fulani, are also concentrated in the upriver areas.
English is the official language, but the most frequently spoken languages are generally of the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo family. Mandinka and Wolof constitute the lingua francas of the country, and other languages spoken include Pulaar (Fulbe), Serer, Diola, and Soninke. Some Muslim clerics are literate in Arabic.
The population is overwhelmingly Muslim. There are a small number of Christians—predominantly Roman Catholic—and some adherents of traditional beliefs.
Settlement patterns
Human settlement in The Gambia extends across both banks of the river and is found in three regions: the swamps adjacent to the river, the riverine flats, known as banto faros (from a Mande word meaning "beyond the swamp"), and the sandstone uplands. Most rural settlement is concentrated on the uplands, which have the best-drained soils. A number of settlements are located in the banto faros on the middle course of the river, where there is less danger of flooding than in the swamps. Many villages are built on the boundary between the uplands and the riverine flats.
More than one-fourth of the population lives in urban areas. The major urban concentration is around Banjul, the capital, and several large urban centres have developed in the vicinity. Urban dwellers retain close ties to their rural relatives, and there is considerable interaction between rural and urban populations. Migration to urban areas has remained steady since the 1970s.
Demographic trends
The population growth rate and infant mortality rate in The Gambia are among the highest in western Africa. Life expectancy is comparable to the regional average but lower than that of the world. Over the years, conflict in other western African countries has led to an influx of refugees into The Gambia, most notably those fleeing from fighting in Senegal's Casamance region, as well as those who fled from civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing
Gambian agriculture can be described as a classic monoculture; peanuts (groundnuts) are the most valuable agricultural commodity. Land is cleared by the slash-and-burn technique, but farmers practice conservation. Most land is held in common by the villagers. There is a sharp division of labour, with men involved in planting, cultivating, and harvesting cash crops while women cultivate subsistence crops such as cassava (manioc), yams, eggplant, tomatoes, rice, and lentils. There are citrus orchards in the western area near Banjul.
The production of peanuts has increased with the wider use of fertilizers and ox-drawn equipment and the introduction of better seeds. In order to diversify the economy, the government has encouraged the production of rice. A pilot scheme was begun in the mid-1960s to introduce plantation oil palm production, but this has had little impact on the national economy. Stock farming, always a factor in the Fulani culture, has also received government support, but factors such as insufficient animal husbandry techniques and the scarcity of suitable pasture and water have limited the size of herds. The drought years of the 1970s and '80s seriously damaged agricultural production, particularly upriver. The country was not as hard hit as other countries in the region, however, and recovery has been steady.
Although the country's small ocean coastline limits marine fishing, there is some potential for commercial fishing offshore and in the river. Most Gambians are not fishermen, but those who are have been handicapped by inadequate equipment. The government has offered small loans for the purchase of motorized fishing boats and the construction of smoke huts for the processing of bonga (shad, or West African herring), which is exported to other western African states.
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|Official name
|Republic of The Gambia
|Form of government
|multiparty republic with one legislative house (National Assembly [531])
|Head of state and government
|President: Yahya Jammeh
|Official language
|Official religion
|Monetary unit
|dalasi (D)
|(2014 est.) 1,958,000
|Total area (sq mi)
|Total area (sq km)
|Urban-rural population
|Urban: (2011) 58.9%
Rural: (2011) 41.1%
|Life expectancy at birth
|Male: (2009) 60.6 years
Female: (2009) 65.1 years
|Literacy: percentage of population age 15 and over literate
|Male: (2010) 60%
Female: (2010) 40.4%
|GNI per capita (U.S.$)
|(2013) 510