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Joined: 4/09/11
Hello there fellow MMORPG players,
I have something I need to tell you about a recently released MMORPG known as Prius Online.
Released just a few months ago by gPotato gala-net.
Now before I get into the details you must know that, I was a dedicated player to this game, not just some poor sap who got level 20 and then quit. No I was one of the number 1 PvE players in the games current existance. First level 50(1st release Level Cap) of my class, 2nd to level 60(Live Expansion level Cap) and amoung the first 10 to hit level 60, as well as the 10th anima of my server and 4th to obtain Gigas. Alltime Historical unchangelbe records, When it comes to Prius Online USA, I am not a newb who passed by, I am a game legendary there, I'm not saying this to brag, not by a long shot. Instead I am telling you this to state that what im about to say isnt from the eyes and ears of someone who didnt experiance the game, but rather from a most dedicated player.
Now onto business.
If you value your sanity and pride as a MMORPG player , you'd do best to avoid this game, and there are several reasons as to why you should.
First off, the US/Global version of the game is much different and was notibly altered from its Korean, Taiwanese, and Japanese published versions. And this has created much of an unveiling of the severe greed mongering that has been applied to the game in order to money sink people, and give next to nothing in return. First off, just for starters, the upgrade system was not only altered but rigged as well.
The upgrade rates are obsurdly low, and the upgrade safe range is nil. The altered the upgrade system to require a safety item EVERYTIME you attempt an upgrade. Some of these are obtainable in game, but the main source of supply is via their shop. the main item in which everyone will have to purchase or else risk their current upgrades is called a Master work steel, and they cost 32 fucking USD, for 10. I personally have bought and used these items to attempt to make an upgrade. On one item my Dark Raven Bow a level 54 weapon, I spent 80 USD+ on this weapon and it was only +8. The upgrade range is +15.
I not only used the upgrade items, I also used the success aguments which cost 7USD for 10. for each 10round attempt it costed me a totaly of 39$, I tried it twice. 20 items 20tries one freaking upgrade level up. from +7 to +8.
According to the JP upgrade rate, i should have had at least 18.5% chance per attempt of getting the upgrade teir to +9.
18.5% is pretty high compared to the average majority. This isnt just bad luck, this is defying probability and chance. For ever attempt the probabilty of getting an upgrade goes up based on counting. 80$ for a single level up teir on a mid range weapon is obsurd. Oh, and I am not the onlyone reporting a change to the games system. I have a chinese friend who plays the Taiwan version. he spent roughtly 1/4 what I did, and got from +9 to +15 in only 13 attempts. that is average too. the average person uses about 13~17 to get from +9 to +15 on taiwan server. The statistical rate is serverly lowered.
The upgrade system wasnt the only thing to show a change. I, haveing played the TW version long before the USA version had noticed that a certain quest reward had been removed from the US version. This item that WAS free in all versions except the US, is now sitting in their shop for 20USD. From free and standard to privledge and expensive and paid players only.
It gets even better though. The GM and administration staff is pure corrupt. Talk about game masters on a power trip, and playing favorites. I have a video of pure and clear cut evidence of harassment, Blatent and utter harassment by a single guild in the server that I played, And the Game Masters Did NOTHING about it. These people werent just harassing me,They were out right preventing me from the game. What makes this even worse, is that first off I received a 1 day ban a few weeks before for the EXACT same behavoir, THEN I get this email when i sent in 40+ screenshots as evidence of their bevoir.
Dear valued Prius Player,
Heres one of my following responces
To further the proof of harasment seeing as how no one on the prius team was beleiving what was going on I have a video of the people in question of the ticket
These people have been allowed to harass other players without consequence for months now.
Oh and in the end, the best part of all, Is many people started to speak out about this sort of behavoir, and they became the whistleblowers about the games corruption. Every one of them has been in game banned for temporary periods and or also on the ir forums as well. Infact aposter on the forums risked a permanant ban to note it to the rest of the community. I myself began revealing stuff about the game, becoming a whistle blower. I wasnt just an average poster either. I was a member of the volenteer team. I was one of their Wiki Editors. Their official reason for removing me was that I was in active, untrue seeing as how i edited more than 2 of their other editors combined. One of which hasnt made more than a few icon uploads. The made the message clear, speak out and get banned. Also to add on, One of their famed wiki editors, was a person known to banbypass and hack and host Private servers of their Gpotato games, and the team was FULLY AWARE of this as well. He was appointed head of the wiki staff and they GMs LITERALLY bent over to his will. They found the policy of crying mercy to a 16 year old brat a better idea than offcially dealing with him. The gave him the keys to their infomation source and let him loose. All people ever did was complain about him being a complete asshole and a prior bannie of the Gpotato portal(has bragged about an 80+ permanant global bans from Gpotato). Corruption at its finiest. Mind you this person wasnt demoted and dealt with until someone managed to screenshot one of his slip ups and they had to remove him.
Mind also about their PvP gear incedent that turn into an absolutely unessisary and beyond stupid fight between player base and Prius staff.
In the game, there is a PVP arena sysstemt hat no one uses unless its to wintrade and get PvP gear to be better at open world PK. More than understand able seeing as how Prius's host PvP is utter horse crap and teams always end up stacked and one sided.
The Game masters flipped out and called the entire player base who had this gear, Illegtimate, cheaters and exploiters. They made such a big deal about it that it was even threated to remove items that players had spent 100 of USD on. Not only did this evoked alot of anger in the player base it turned the Attitude towards the game on its head.
So whats the result of all this? a near 90%~95% population loss. the games launch was assumed nearly 20k people, now? less than 1000 players between 2 servers.
Severaly thousand disgruntled pissed of players, and a desperate attempt to recover their game.
Well? To bad for them they pissed off the wrong people. They pissed of the honest to god, true blue dedicated players. And some of us Wont rest until the game closes its doors.
So fair warning to anyone who wants to risk it, But you cant say,I didnt warn you. Player beware, Prius is a terrible MMORPG in the US/Global region. I suggest you find a better atlernative than this corrupt game.
Oh and I didnt even touch on the 3D engine restrictions, the lack of any serious PvP, the enumerous game glitchs and bugs that prevent some classes from being able to play, and so many faulry and unattended to screw ups. Oh yeah HORRIBLE voice acting, gender locked classes and a complete stupid story that has next to NOTHING to do with you, your character or your anima, other than the fact that you live on the same planet and just happened to ahe a quest there.
Good luck finding a better game. wont be hard, I suggest IRIS ONLINE, but what do I know? Im just a MMORPG PVE Lord, speaking out about a terribley corrupt game.
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Joined: 12/11/08
Originally posted by FranBuniFF12
I think your probability computations are off. If you have an 18.5% chance of successfully upgrading an item each time, then in 20 attempts, the probability that at most one will succeed is about 9.26%. That hardly requires defying laws of probability. Or perhaps rather, you didn't do any computations, and your intuition is wildly wrong. Most people have terrible intuition about probability, which is the basis for most such gambling, anyway.
Furthermore, one could ask how your sword got to +7 in the first place. Most likely, you're cherry-picking a run of bad luck. If it took 160 attempts to go from +0 to +8, then that would be far more convincing data that the probability isn't 18.5%. But if you have 200 upgrades attempts in total with an 18.5% chance of success each, then the probability that you have a run of at most one success in some sequence of 20 consecutive attempts is actually pretty high. What would be remarkable is if you didn't have any run of bad luck.
Novice Member
Joined: 3/18/07
Ahh yes, "Hypers." The people who praise and hate every MMORPG... We've dismissed that claim.
First off, I have no sympathy for you being killed repeatedly. If there is player killing enabled, expect to be killed by players. PVP happened in a PVP world so they say.
Their customer and billing service is pretty poor as well. I used their cash shop once. Worked fine. A little later I decided to use it again and they rejected the transaction stating that my paypal e-mail didn't match my account e-mail even though I used the different e-mail address previously. Costing me additional transfer/conversion fees for the failed transaction.
Avoid gPotato I say.
Apprentice Member
Joined: 12/27/09
Under my personal experience, Gpotato/Gala-net is well known for having corrupt staff favoring big guilds in several of their games.
Then again it happens on every single mmo platform where 15 yy olds are allowed to become staff members.
I remember back then when gaming platforms only hired adult, professional individuals for their staff positions, trained them and even passed them thru psychological tests before actually giving them any sort of power, and were kicked away at the very first sight of corruption.
But nowadays it´s much cheaper to take a few random 1337 kids, give them some cash shop points, and tell them to make ppl stfu.
Novice Member
Joined: 1/06/08
I guess you havent played other Gpotato distributed games. Look at the old Flyff or the not so recent already Allods online rage. I dont need to say more. Players who have been playing mmos over the years know Gpotato reputation. From the 1st day i saw that gpotato was the distributor, i skipped the Eng/Global version and continued playing on the Prius asia server. Nothing amaze me.
Novice Member
Joined: 3/05/10
Originally posted by Quizzical
Sadly true. I can't tell if his statement that "For ever attempt the probability of getting an upgrade goes up based on counting" is a reverse-engineered guess about how their upgrade system works or just a re-statement of the (false) law of averages.
The more central flaw with this rant, though, is that there's really no false advertising going on. No bait-and-switch. If the JP or Taiwanese success rates really are higher than the American rates—and you've offered NO evidence of that, short of "I have a friend who heard it from some people"—then so what? Unless they explicitly said "these are the success chances" or "the success chances are the same across all countries' servers", you are not being cheated or lied to.
Bottom line: you paid real money for the chance to moderately improve a virtual item. Even within the P2P world and even among the people who truly like the idea of P2W in P2P games, this is pretty bad deal to willingly walk into, and you willingly walked into it. Enjoy your +8 bow, sir.
No comment on the harassment/moderator issue without more info.
Apprentice Member
Joined: 4/09/11
Originally posted by AzurePrower
It wasnt the fact that I was being killed repeatedly, its the fact that It is agasint gPotato policy. Absolutely a bannable out right harassing offence. They took several PvP characters and pitted them against a single PvE build character. PvE Lord that I am, No matter how hard I try, there is no way a Fully speced PvP Character will ever fall to a PvE character in pvp combat not, a chance. The conditions of play were illegal, which is what I was refering to in the first place. The fact that they are an illegal condition, they should have been dealt with. I TOO COMMINTED THE OFFENCES! Did you forget to read that? But I was dealt with. These people were not, they were allowed to continue their clear harassment to this very day. I was denoting the GM corruption and favoritisim.
Also as it comes to Gpotato, Its a real team to team basis, and not even joking. Just a few offices down from Prius Allods and Flyff, is the office of one of the BEST Online games I have ever encountered in my entire 7 year+ MMO Experiance.
A quaint little skill based racing platformer called Tales Runner. This game has the best GM staff and the best Dev team I have ever seen in my entire gaming career. Heres a little letter i wrote to Tales Runner: http://talesrunner-forum.gpotato.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21607&sid=4560a6dde1a88693e6e16153a6def3c2
And down the hall is one of the best traditional MMORPGs I have ever played, not because it was epic or amazing just because it took the ideas it had and did them right. Now the GM staff here is ALSO very very good an helpful.
HOW ON EARTH can two of their games be sooooo well staffed and managed, just to the point of impressiveness, but the rest of their games are utter trash and bullshit?
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Joined: 12/08/04
How can anyone seriously consider playing a game by a company called "gPOTATO"?????
I mean, really???
Advanced Member
Joined: 3/28/07
it is surprisingly easy to cheat luck lol ask loto-quebec (in quebec canada)
Novice Member
Joined: 8/07/09
Ive played most of Gpotatos games and they're great time killers, Thats it. If your looking for a seriouse game to put your time and money into then Gpotato games are not the place.
On the other hand if you need something to do or kill time simply because you dont want to watch ghost hunters with your wife then this or any gpotato game is for you.
I feel really bad for FranBuniFF12 who was always very helpful and active on the Prius forums. Many of the Q & A posts are still there as a help to new players.
Sad to say, this is what is happening and is often the experience from many of the f2p MMO's from "game hub" type companies that have a bunch of "free games" as a part of a single portal. The individual games are usually so under manned and under funded that there just aren't enough good people in charge to be fair or timely in corrective action. Often action by GM's are misguided because they just aren't given the adequate time to make a good and fair decision. Each game simply has to work well enough to get people to buy stuff from the cash shop. It's usually not about the gameplay or development after release...it's about getting people to buy from that cash shop.
Sadly, I had a similar experience with Allods. A great game destroyed by terrible management decisions. Regardless of what they do now, I just can't trust the people running it. Ironically, Allods is also from gPotato...
The game may be great, but as with any mmo, mismanagement and poor leadership will destroy it.
RIP Prius Online.
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Joined: 10/01/07
Originally posted by sklfkr
This right here, is the way to go. Honestly if you really need an MMO to spend money on, you really need to pay for a subscription based model. People say they spend $100 to get one weapon from +8 to +9 (even if it was 0 to +whatever), you do realize that could have been an entire YEAR of a subscription.
I still cant fathom why people are so excited over the F2P model. I have been against it since the beginning, but i cant deny it works. Companies make way more money with a F2P game than they ever would with a subscription. Havent you ever wondered how an MMO that failed with a P2P model suddenly doesnt have to shut down when they go F2P? Do thier costs change? NO, its because they are now making a ton more money. Free is anything but when it comes to games. Do i still play F2P games, of course i do. Do i spend money on them? Never, i have a sub based game for that. I spend my 15 a month happily, and have access to an entire game, no holds barred. Would you ever get that in a F2P? I dare anyone to name a free game that you can access the entire game content (including loot tables, zones and quests) for $15 a month.
I feel for people that post on forums saying they got ripped off. I really do, but honestly you had it coming. Just by spending a single dollar in a F2P game you just got ripped off. The first time you upgrade a weapon, repair your armor or buy a quest pack using real money, you just got ripped off. I dont blame the companies for this, they know what they are doing, and they never have tried to deny it. Its the players that are naive, and the more you spend, the more it encourages them.
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Joined: 3/11/11
This is a typical game at galanet/gpotato all their games are like this, they repeadly make changes and put items that are avilable in other regions versions in game, they take said item out and make it item mall only, as well as lowering taming and upgrade chances. The whole lv 150, 155 then 160 gear in rappelz was total bullshit. You spend probally hundreds of dollars to upgrade a lv 150 item to +20, only to have to repeat the process again 5 levels later. This same gear has a set bonus, but BUT to get the set bonus you have to buy a 20 US dollar helm out of the cash shop since its not a ingame drop.
1 hour of double exp in rappelz also will cost you 2 dollars US. Compare that to Eden Eternal at Aeriagames where 6-7 US can get you 1 week of +50% exp and class xp(equivlement to rappelz JP), Like Stamina saves in rappelz this 6 day exp item is tradable before its used. I myself don't spend in gpotato's cash shops since their prices for vitural goods that cost them 0 to produce is far FAR to high for what they do.
I'd honestly reccomend staying anyway from anything that gpotato has touched, because their games are 100% setup so that you have to spend out the ass or else you have no chance, even in pve. Now you can farm ingame cash to buy said items but that can take months, or years, and its 99% totally based on luck for making money. About the only guarnteed thing is Lak drops, which if you have a +10 lv 10 lak neck(Which would have cost you about $115 US to get). it can hold 50k lak which in HV (Special zone u gotta pay to get into with rl cash viz buying a pass), you get 375k per 1k lack. otherwise its 250k per 1k. The drop rate in rappelx also drops sharply, once u hit 80+ your extremly lucky to ever see anything other than cash drops and maybe a potion or 2 from any mob. Of course though they now have a drop rate increase potion that I bet Gpotato lowered items drop rates to make up for them being there.
Anyway, yeah.. General advice stay away from gpotato games, or look for private servers of their games, you'd be better off.
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Joined: 7/25/10
The games that Gpotato publish are good. The problem is they dont know how to handle something good. They dont update there wikis and there quest are bugged most of the time.
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Originally posted by aslan132
to aslan132:
Actually there are, but not many.
I suppose Turbine`s DDO and LOTRO would be the closest to it.
Either you spend 10+ bucks monthly to purchase cash shop items needed for your leveling or just subscribe as a monthly subscription to unlock everything there is in the game. Meanwhile you get points monthly which are given to you to enable you to buy cash shop items which are able to last you forever after you drop the subscriptions.
Bottom line is all cash shop stuff purchased are permanent whether your a free / premium / subscriber player. Where some other ftp game you just "rent" the full game as a subsriber.
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Joined: 12/09/08
MMORPGs are no longer about the mass multi-user
Originally posted by AzurePrower
I gave Prius a try as well. I gotta say, I do like the game in it's basics, but I have problems with the cash shop as well. Ever since Allods online, gpotato implemented a *MUST* to use items from the cash shop in their games. I really hate this way of forcing a cash shop on players.
One of the most annoying things I think in Prius and it's cash shop is the use of monthly storage fees. If you only take the bag and 'house' storage, then you've already spent 800 taters (8 US$) for only 1 character. I know most players will have more than 1 char, so start doing the maths. And with more than 1 char, you want account storage as well - an other 800 taters down the drain. Then there is (as already stated) the price for enchanting. I know it's a Pay2Win MMO, but WTF are those prices?
Playing this game to it's fullest you'll spend more $$$ than the avarage subscription MMO. And when you take that in account, and compare Prius to any subscription MMO, then I gotta say that Prius is not worth the money spend on.
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I have played Gpotatos games for years and i'm not surprise with the OP post.
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Joined: 10/08/11
While randomly lurking reveiws, I read this discussion, and would like to comment. Although I haven't played Gpotato's games, I had looked at them, and decided against them. Instead I had played Shaiya from Aeriagames since it's CB, and ran into the same type of crap the OP ran into in their game. For those that don't know AGE's Shaiya, it includes impossible crafting for higher end gear without the cash shop, difficult and expensive with it, and a lovely perma-death function at the highest mode that require a cash shop item to prevent deletion. Oh, and that item is buggy as shit, in all versions of it. One of many reasons I left it over a year ago.
(Still leaves a bad taste in the mouth to think about it.)
However, this isn't the point of what I wish to say, because we all know that all too often game hosters can/will ruin a game that has potential.
@zzx81 in response to aslan132
I actually wanted to comment on the DDO reference. Other than Minecraft, it's the only MMO I'm currently playing. I've done FTP at first, went VIP, and now currently enjoy being a premium player. What wasn't explained enough in the previous post is that DDO gives you store credit just for leveling and gaining "House Favor". While some of the content must be purchased (or be a vip), quite alot of it is FTP, enough for a person to get to the max level in game, all while gaining more points. Once you buy an account option, IE: content pack, more char slots, any other permanent change to the account, you are forever "Premium".
The points are account based, so multiple chars pay into it, and content unlocked is shared through the entire account. I'll be completely honest, I haven't found anything that is required to have from the shop to progress. Some items are easier to obtain from the shop, but are still obtainable with some work through game.
All in all, I have found DDO's store/game management to be pretty much the best from other games I've tried. I've tried quite a few too, from private servers of games I liked, to official, and time and again I ran into the same crap till DDO. The only fault I truly find with DDO is the lack of a proper PvP setting. That's about it.
Sorry if this became a bit of a review for DDO, but I felt it needed clarified.
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If for every 100 attempts it is 18.5 then for 20 attempts is it not 3.7 % . This case it says every attempt is 18.5 % that never changes it is 18.5 % for every attempt.


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III. Background: The Palestinian Refugees in Iraq
Iraq, like Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt, has played host to a significant Palestinian refugee population since the 1948-49 Arab-Israeli war that caused large-scale displacement of Palestinians from Israel.[1] Unlike those states, Iraq did not sign an agreement with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), established in 1949, preferring instead to address the assistance needs of the Palestinian refugees itself. There are no accurate statistics for the Palestinian refugee community in Iraq, but most policy makers, including UNHCR and the Iraqi authorities, estimate the pre-2003 war Palestinian refugee population of Iraq at 34,000.[2]
The Palestinian refugee population in Iraq can be roughly divided into four groups: Palestinian refugees who fled or were expelled during the 1948-49 Arab-Israeli conflict;[3] Palestinian refugees who fled or were expelled during the 1967 conflict; Palestinians who fled or were expelled from Kuwait and other Gulf States following the 1991 Gulf War, when Yasser Arafat's public support for the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait inflamed anti-Palestinian sentiments; and a significant number of Palestinians from other Arab states who had come to work or had resettled in Iraq.
Almost the entire Palestinian population in Iraq lives in the capital, Baghdad.Prior to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, approximately 4,000 Palestinians lived in the northern city of Mosul, and an estimated 700 Palestinians lived in the southern city of Basra.[4] A large percentage of Iraq's Palestinians live in the following neighborhoods of Baghdad: al-Mashtal, Baghdad al-Jadida, al-Salam, al-Dura, Karrada al-Sharqiyya, al-Batawin, al-Za`faraniyya, al-Baladiyyat, and al-Hurriyya, although others were dispersed in private housing throughout the city. Many Palestinians live in low-rise apartment buildings built by the Iraqi government. Some families live in government shelters, such as former schools. In al-Za`faraniyya, for instance, eighty families lived in a former school for the blind, and another eighty families lived in a former orphanage. In some neighborhoods, Palestinian families rented private homes.[5]
During the 1948-49 war, the Iraqi army fought in the area from Haifa to Jenin, and when it withdrew, took some Palestinian refugees with it. (As a result, many Iraqi Palestinian families are originally from Haifa, in what is now Israel.) The Iraqi government housed thousands of arriving Palestinian refugees in schools and military camps as an emergency measure. Soon after, the Iraqi government began constructing temporary "shelter residential systems" to house the Palestinian refugees. Thereafter, in the 1970s, the Iraqi government constructed housing complexes for Palestinian refugees with basic services such as water, sewage, and electricity. The conditions in the shelters were poor, and the government-constructed housing was inadequate for the rapidly growing Palestinian population.In response to housing needs, the Iraqi government began to rent private housing for Palestinian refugees, providing the housing free of charge.An estimated 63 percent of the Palestinian refugees in Iraq benefited from such government-provided housing.[6]
As U.N. sanctions imposed after the 1991 Gulf War crippled Iraq's economy, causing massive inflation, the Iraqi government froze the rents it was paying to the landlords of homes occupied by the Palestinians, as it did with many other government payments. By the end of the 1990s, the mostly Shi`a landlords were receiving next to nothing for the homes occupied by Palestinians many of the Palestinians interviewed by Human Rights Watch in 2003 stated that their rent (paid by the government) amounted to the equivalent of less than U.S.$1 a month. Iraqi law prohibited landlords from breaking rental agreements.[7] Landlords forced to rent to Palestinians for inconsequential sums were, in effect, deprived of their property. In 1999, a group of Shi`a landlords from al-Tubji neighborhood of Baghdad tried to challenge the unfair agreements in court. They lost their case.[8]
The favorable housing arrangements Palestinians enjoyed was only one source of the resentment some Iraqis held against them. In order to improve his standing as an Arab leader, Saddam Hussein in 2001 announced the formation of a new paramilitary force, the Jaysh al-Quds (Jerusalem Army), with the aim of "liberating" Jerusalem. Iraqi males of military age, particularly Shi`a and Kurds, were often forced to "volunteer" for service in the force. In addition, Saddam Hussein openly provided "martyr" payments of U.S.$25,000 to families of Palestinian suicide bombers and U.S.$10,000 to the families of other Palestinians killed in the Intifada.[9] Iraqis suffering under the strict sanctions regime reportedly resented Saddam Hussein's decision in 2001 to send 1 billion to aid Palestinians throughout the Middle East.[10]
The Iraqi government exempted Palestinians from military service, including in the Jerusalem Army, but subjected them to certain restrictions. Since 1950, the government provided Palestinians in Iraq with refugee travel documents, but not Iraqi passports.[11]Those who came in the aftermath of 1948-49 and their Iraqi-born descendants remained registered as refugees, and did not become citizens. (This was the standard practice throughout the Middle East, with the exception of Jordan, which granted Palestinian refugees Jordanian citizenship.)[12] The travel documents made travel outside Iraq very difficult, and the Iraqi Palestinians were also subjected to the same foreign travel restrictions the Iraqi government imposed on Iraqis generally in the 1990s, such as the requirement to pay 400,000 Iraqi dinars (approximately U.S.$200) to obtain an exit visa.In early 2000, the Saddam Hussein government announced a new policy to grant Palestinians who had resided in the country since 1948 the right to own property in Baghdad.[13] However, Iraqi Palestinians interviewed by Human Rights Watch for this report said that, until 2002, legal restrictions prohibiting them from registering homes, cars, or telephone lines in their own name remained in force.[14]
[1] See for example Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988); Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
[2] See "Palestinians Targeted in Iraq," IRIN News, May 5, 2006 (citing the Iraqi government estimate of a Palestinian refugee population of 34,000); and UNHCR, "Palestinians Leave Desert Camp for Baghdad," May 26, 2004 (estimating the Palestinian refugee population of Iraq at between 34,000 and 42,000).Prior to the 2003 conflict, estimates of the Palestinian refugee population in Iraq varied from 34,000 to over 90,000.See U.S. Committee for Refugees, Iraq Country Report 2002 (estimating 34,000 Palestinian refugees in Iraq), and Palestinian Refugees in Iraq, Department of Refugee Affairs, Palestine Liberation Organization, 1999 (estimating 92,000 Palestinian refugees in Iraq).A post-2003 war registration campaign by UNHCR, conducted in 2003, registered 23,000 Palestinian refugees in Baghdad, but acknowledged that the actual population of Palestinian refugees in Iraq was substantially higher.
[3] Israeli historian Benny Morris researched the displacement of the Arab population during the 1948-49 hostilities, and in an authoritative work provided the date and the reasons for the flight of the Arab civilian population from 369 cities, towns and villages throughout Palestine.Morris uses the following categories to describe the "decisive" reason for depopulation: expulsion by Jewish forces; abandonment on Arab orders; fear of Jewish attack or being caught up in the fighting; military assault by Jewish troops; psychological warfare by the Haganah/Israel Defense Force to induce flight (known as "whispering" campaigns); and influence of the fall of or flight from a neighboring town. Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949, p. viii.
[4]Palestinian Refugees in Iraq, Department of Refugee Affairs, Palestine Liberation Organization, 1999.
[5] Ibid.
[6] Ibid.
[7] Human Rights Watch interview with I.J., al-Ruwaishid refugee camp, Jordan, April 29, 2003. I.J. is an Iraqi Palestinian lawyer who gave Human Rights Watch a detailed description of the legal regime affecting the properties rented for Iraqi Palestinians by the Iraqi government.
[8] Ibid.
[9]See Human Rights Watch, Erased in a Moment: Suicide Bombing Attacks Against Israeli Civilians (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2002), pp. 100-101.In July 2002, an official from the Iraq-affiliated Arab Liberation Front told reporters that Saddam Hussein had provided an estimated U.S.$20 million in aid to Palestinians in the OccupiedPalestinianTerritories since the outbreak of the second Intifada. Sky TV Broadcast of July 17, 2002.
[10] "Saddam says Palestinian Solution Must Include Refugee Right to Return," Agence France-Presse, January 16, 2001.
[11]Palestinian Refugees in Iraq, Department of Refugee Affairs, Palestine Liberation Organization, 1999.
[12] Abbas Shiblak, "Residency Status and Civil Rights of Palestinian Refugees in Arab Countries," Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 25 No. 3 (Spring 1996), pp. 38-39:
Two main principles, not necessarily compatible, seem to have influenced the attitudes of host Arab states The first was to express solidarity with and sympathy toward the refugees.This was illustrated in the willingness, at least in theory, of the Arab governments to give the Palestinians residency, though not political rights on the same footing as their own citizens. The second principle was to emphasize the preservation of Palestinian identity by maintaining their status as refugees, which would prevent Israel from evading responsibility for their plight. [Arab states] normally resisted resettlement and naturalization as a solution to the refugee problem.The exception was Jordan, which granted the Palestinian refugees Jordanian nationality.
[13] "Palestinians Resident in Baghdad Since 1948 to Own Houses," Agence France-Presse, March 29, 2000 (quoting Zidane Khalaf al-Tae, director-general of housing registration in Baghdad).
[14] In Accordance with Decree No. 23 of 1992 passed by Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council (RCC).

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December 4th, 2006 #1
first post !critique critique!
Hey guys,
I've been in the background now, for a while... enjoying all the amazing work that gets posted here.
anyhoo... I finally decided to post something.
sketched on paper, "inked" in PS and colored in painter9.
this is, more or less, the first picture I've ever "completed" in painter (after manymany try-get-to-know-the-tools doodles). I wanted the picture to have a real lush, oily look... and although im somewhat pleased with it... i know im just scratching the surface.
love to hear what you guys have to say about it!
Last edited by Maudite; December 5th, 2006 at 12:19 AM.
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I like it. The sedate pose is countered well by the nearly frenetic line work. I'm not as wild about the blurs on the red, nor that they avoid the figure, but that's not a big deal.
December 5th, 2006 #3
Hey, I like this too, I wish the color was a little more finished.It looks as if you planned on another pass. Know what I mean? But very cool lines and style.
December 5th, 2006 #4
Hey guys, thanks.
He's a possible character in a comic im illustrating. i want it to have fantastic, slightly exaggerated line work with a rich oil painting color. really messy, but really lush... the kind of stuff john singer sergeant would've done, if he was door nail drunk... and missing an eye. i think it's on that path... just far from where it's heading.
the red smeariness: i agree... it started off as a test scribble, trying out some of the messy tools in painter. i just left it.. cause i thought it was kinda pretty.
and ill see what i can do to polish it up a little... while still staying within the messy one-eyed sergeant look
and ill most certainly post more, soon.
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December 5th, 2006 #6
mike mignola inspiration?
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December 6th, 2006 #7
thanks designboot
Hey Panda,
I am a Mignola fan... and I am, no doubt influenced by his work.
my pencil sketch of this guy.. had his body really bulky.. and almost uncomfortable looking... so I tried to give him a more relaxed stature.
now that I look at it... I can see the resemblance there.
So yea... I guess it is.
Last edited by Maudite; December 6th, 2006 at 06:01 PM.
December 7th, 2006 #8
This might just be a style thing, but compared to his arms, he seems to have a tiny head. =p I love the face though.
The world is filled with people who were given great natural gifts, sometimes conspicuosly flashy gifts, yet never produce anything. And when that happens, the world soon ceases to care whether they are talented.
December 8th, 2006 #9
hey taboo,
thanks about the face.
It is a style thing.. but his arms, i think, are a little too big... at the size and shape they are now... he'd have some *massive* mits.
also, i have a question...
is there a certian brush type/setting in painter9 that works really well with sketching and/or linework. I've always enjoyed the look of the PS7's default brush. but have trouble finding a nice fluid look with the painter pens and pencils. i know they're there... but, i've only found brushes that produce really hard almost pixelated lines.
3 Days Ago #10
I like the drawing its very well done but not the background, the red patch lacks depth and looks a bit out of place. Cheers!
3 Days Ago #11
Something tells me the OP might not need critique on this piece 9 year after posting it (check the date of all but the most recent post)...
3 Days Ago #12
Sound like a spammer to me. Waits patiently.
Currently doing the Level Up course, so my SB is going to be lonely
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Maria Gaveia, one of the featured survivors who lived with fistula for 27 years, says that "my self esteem has improved (after treatment). I was desperate, but now I don't face any discrimination." The report, which was linked to the launch of the national fistula strategy, quotes the UNFPA country Representative, Mrs. Bettina Maas, saying that fistula is one of the worst faces of gender inequalities and poor access to sexual and reproductive health.
Dr. Alexandre Manguele, Mozambique's Minister of Health, says in the report that improving girl's education, delaying the first pregnancy until the age of 18 and providing basic obstetric care are important measures to avoid fistula. The report mentioned that UNFPA is working with the government in the battle against fistula. Read in Portuguese: Noticias
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Carphone Warehouse details MiFi products18 September 2009
Carphone Warehouse has detailed the mobile Wi-Fi, or MiFi range it is now offering. Creating portable Wi-Fi hotspots, the devices can connect up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices to the Internet at any place, any time and without any need for dongles or other... >>
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A study instigated by the London School of Dickheadery carried out tests on 5,800 Harry Potter 'haters', who had noted their distaste for the books, films and franchise.
Participants took a lengthy written test to determine their level on the scale of Dickheadery and then continued on to answer a questionnaire on their appreciation of J.K.Rowling's masterpiece.
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The results of the two tests found a strong positive correlation between Dickheadery and Harry Potter hatred. Researchers cannot determine a cause/effect relationship, that is, the unanswered question is whether being a Dickhead makes you hate Harry Potter, or hating Harry Potter makes you a Dickhead. Despite this, a strong link is apparent.
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Proposal could limit boating
Posted: November 1, 2012 at 4:51 a.m.
Under a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers policy scheduled to go into effect in January, recreational boaters will get reduced access to locks on the Arkansas River.
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Wigdahl's is Voice in Wilderness on Eco Park
Lot of fans of the Myrick Hixon Eco Park on the La Crosse city council. Council member Marilyn Wigdahl isn't one of them. Wigdahl is the lone no vote so far on a new ten year lease deal with the Eco Park. She questions the park's focus as a unique environmental educational resource for kids
Wigdahl says she used to donate to the Eco-Park. Until the park decided to dump plans to have animals. Now, she's not a supporter. Full council votes on the lease next week.


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Cricket today is closing the spaces for new ways of imagining our better selves.
The charge of "sedition" against a bunch of students in Meerut, with its stark overtones of identity and stereotype, may have been withdrawn within days, but the incident must leave sport with a lingering question. What does it say about cricket in India today that even in routine fixtures, with the rather indifferent standard of the Asia Cup (barring the spunky show by the Afghans), there are such reflexive expectations of fans' loyalty to the Indian team?
Sport, they say, is best appreciated by those who have no team to naturally call their own — something kindly disposed fellow spectators at the Olympics will tell the Indian visitor. Without athletes turned out in your national colours, or winnable ones at any rate, it makes it so much easier to be a "patriot for the nation of excellence", as Simon Barnes puts it in his manifesto, The Meaning of Sport.
Uninhibited by exacting partisanship, you are free to truly gauge the contest, to cheer on the team of your choice — indeed, to make an allegiance as you choose and for as long as you choose, to have the option to keep changing allegiance, to lose your heart to the drama of the sport as no person with the obvious allegiance can, and in the process work out the essence of the athlete's quest.
Not so while watching cricket. Cricket, of course, has a rich history of allowing the spectator to have multiple allegiances (as a truly rewarding spectator sport should allow), to her team, to particular players, to the demands of a particular context. Its longest thread, of course, is the political challenge the field permitted to the imperial project. Even back when Ranjitsinhji claimed he "tried his best to play with a straight bat for the empire", his exploits demolished racial stereotypes attached particularly to the cricket field.
The island nations of the West Indies found self-confidence on the field. In fact, less than a decade ago, when South Africa got its first non-white captain, Ashwell Prince, he told me that when he played for his country, friends would say, we want you to do well, but couldn't care about the team. His mate Makhaya Ntini would gush about how he loved to tour the Caribbean for the ethnic diversity visible in the stands, in contrast to the overwhelmingly white attendance at South African grounds.
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FSN to deliver seven Timbers games in 2009
PORTLAND, Ore. - FSN and the Portland Timbers today announced the team's television schedule for the 2009 season, which includes a package of seven Timbers soccer games televised throughout FSN's five-state territory. The Timbers will officially kick off this year's FSN schedule when they play host to the Carolina RailHawks on April 30 at 7 p.m.
The seven-game schedule continues a multi-year agreement announced in 2008 between FSN and PGE Park to broadcast Timbers games exclusively throughout the Northwest. This season marks the second consecutive season that Timbers fans can look forward to watching their team on FSN. Highlights of this year's television schedule include matchups against the Montreal Impact on June 4, a visit from the Puerto Rico Islanders on July 23 and a battle against the Cleveland City Stars on September 13, all available live on FSN.
2009 Portland Timbers on FSN (all games originating from PGE Park)
April 30 – vs. Carolina (7 p.m.)
June 4 – vs. Montreal (7 p.m.)
June 28 – vs. Montreal (5 p.m.)
July 23 – vs. Puerto Rico (7 p.m.)
Aug. 22 – vs. Miami FC (7:30 p.m.)
Sept. 13 – vs. Cleveland (5 p.m.)
Sept. 17 – vs. Cleveland (7:30 p.m.)
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FSN Northwest is the cable home of the Seattle Mariners, Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Storm, Portland Beavers, Portland Timbers, Washington Huskies, Washington State Cougars, Oregon State Beavers and Gonzaga Bulldogs. The region reaches more than 3.4 million cable homes in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. FSN Northwest is a member of the Liberty Sports Group, which also includes the regional sports networks FSN Pittsburgh and FSN Rocky Mountain. The three networks combined reach more than 8.5 million viewers across 17 states and own exclusive programming and distribution partnerships with more than 23 professional and collegiate teams. Liberty Sports Group is a controlled subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation attributed to the Liberty Entertainment Group (Nasdaq: LMDIA). For more information, please visit www.libertysportsgroup.com.


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AT&T agrees to buy spectrum from rival
Deal with Verizon worth $1.9 billion
Posted: January 26, 2013 at 3:17 a.m.
AT&T Inc., the second biggest U.S. wireless carrier, has agreed to acquire the rights to a section of the radio spectrum from larger rival Verizon Wireless for $1.9 billion, helping to bolster its network in a region that covers 42 million people.
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Federal Agents Investigating the Death of Man Found Hanging in Tree in Jackson, Mississippi
Police Say Ambush Suspect's Journal is 'Chilling' [PHOTOS]
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After pleading guilty to second-degree manslaughter in the death of his nine-month old son, Levon, Jevon Wameling is being sentenced to serve between seven and a half to fifteen years in jail.
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The FBI is looking for information about about the man, they believe, was responsible for a mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard in the District of Columbia on Monday morning.
Authorities say Aaron Alexis was killed during a shootout on Monday that resulted in the death of at least 12 innocent victims


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The Dock Office (or as it has been known since 1972, the Port of Liverpool Building) is the oldest of the three large Pier Head buildings, the Royal Liver Building having been begun in 1908 and the Cunard in 1913. If the Cunard Building is the most elegant, this building is the grandest and most magisterial, with more than a passing resemblance to the Capitol in Washington DC.
The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board was founded by Act of Parliament in 1858 in response to pressure from merchants in Manchester and elsewhere who alleged that the Corporation of Liverpool was administering the docks for its own sole benefit, not to say aggrandisement. The docks had been under the Corporation's administration since the first Dock Act of 1709; from 1793 the Dock Committee kept its own distinct series of minutes, and further stages of the corporate evolution of the Dock Administration were marked by new legislation and extended representation on the Committee in 1811 and 1840. The establishment of the Board in 1858 was the culmination of this process.
The Board continued to use the main offices in the domed Customs House which the Dock Trust, as its predecessor was called, had occupied from 1839 up to 1907 when the Port of Liverpool Building was complete. The Customs House was damaged in the Second World War and regrettably demolished soon after. The very concept of a grand building as the Corporate home of the Board was fiercely contested, particularly the proposal for the erection of a dome. It was contended that it was not part of the Board's duty to beautify the town!
In 1898 the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board agreed with the Liverpool Corporation to close and fill in George's Dock and to sell the site to the Corporation. George's Dock lay to the north of and was connected with Canning Dock; it extended to the bottom end of Water Street.
The Board retained the southerly portion of the George's Dock site for the building of an office and set up a committee under the chairmanship of Robert Gladstone (second cousin of William Ewart Gladstone) to plan a building to accommodate the whole of the Board's staff who were then housed in various offices around the city.
About a dozen Liverpool architects were invited to submit designs for the new office, prizes of £300, £200 and £100 being offered for the best three entries. Alfred Waterhouse RA, the eminent Liverpool born architect (whose buildings include Manchester Town Hall, the Prudential buildings in London and Dale Street, the Victorian buildings of Liverpool University and the former North-Western Hotel in Lime Street) was retained to help draw up the conditions for the competition and to advise on the judging. Seven entries were received and the prize was awarded to Briggs and Wolstenholme, F.B. Hobbs and Arnold Thornely. Even so, the winning architects were asked to prepare a revised design.
In 1903 tenders for building an office to the new design were invited from about 30 builders and a contract was awarded to William Brown & Son, Manchester, in the summer of that year at a contract price of £277,000. The Board's headquarters' staff moved from their offices in the old Customs House in Canning Place into the new building on the 15 July 1907, and various other departments moved in during the course of the year. The eventual total cost of the buildings, including fittings and professional fees, was some £350,000.
The following extracts are taken from a description of the building by the architects in an illustrated brochure published at the time the building was completed:
"The structure was started about five years ago, the first nine months being occupied in putting in the foundations, which start from the solid rock from 30 ft to 40 ft below street level. About 35,000 tons of cement concrete were used for this portion of the work. Owing to the proximity of the River Mersey, and the fact that spring tides reach within 3 ft of the level of the street, great care has been taken to ensure the basement being thoroughly dry. An inch of asphalt was accordingly laid over the whole of the site and carried up inside the balustrade wall to pavement level. The building is of fire-resisting construction throughout, steel columns, girders, etc being encased in concrete ......
The grand staircase is constructed of grey granite from the quarries belonging to the Dock Board at Creetown, Dumfrieshire, and the balustrade round the site is also built of the same material.
The halls and corridors on the ground floor are lined with white (Calacata) marble to a height of 8 ft 6 ins, the corridors of the upper floors having dadoes of white marble.
Danzig oak is used for the woodwork, except in the Boardroom, which is finished in Spanish mahogany. Bronze has been used throughout for all floor furniture, all fittings being to special designs ...
The ornamental work is interesting, as illustrating what is being done by the combination of the artists and craftsmen in the North of England. The casements, stained and leaded glass, gates, railings, balustrading, lift enclosures, electric light fittings and door furniture, were executed in the studios and workshops of George Wragge Ltd., Salford.
The designs have been arranged with thought, imbued with the maritime nature of the business for which the building was erected ... especially noticeable being the bronze terminals on the main entrance gates, representing a globe supported by dolphins, and the outside bronze electric light brackets, with the lamps in the hands of the broadly designed figure of Neptune.
The treatment of leaded and stained glass windows and domes, fulfilling first of all the utilitarian demand, and carrying out a harmonious treatment of colour combined with design, give an added dignified charm to the internal fittings and fitments. (The stained glass windows show representations of the coats of arms of all the constituent territories of the British Empire at the time.)
The central hall is surmounted externally by a dome rising to a height of 220 ft above the pavement. The copper roofing of the dome was executed by Ewart & Son of London. This forms the principal feature of the exterior, which is entirely faced with Portland stone from the quarries of F.J. Barnes, Isle of Portland. At each of the four corners of the building is an octagonal tower 140 ft high.
The main entrance, situated in the centre of the river frontage, is flanked by two stone statues representing "Commerce" and "Industry". The extreme dimensions of the building are 264 ft by 216 ft, and from the pavement to main cornice the height is 80 ft".
In the early hours of the 3 May 1941, a heavy bomb exploded in the basement at the eastern side of the building which was very badly damaged. Temporary repairs enabled most of the offices to be re-occupied, apart from those in the eastern wing which had been completely gutted by fire. The building was restored shortly after the War, the cost of re-construction being far more than the original cost.
In 1994 the Port Authority, which had been reconstituted in 1972 as the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company, moved totally from the offices it had occupied for 87 years and occupied its new headquarters at the Maritime Centre, near the Seaforth Dock.
The Port of Liverpool Building continues in Dock Company ownership and is let out to a number of tenants. It is possible to visit the former Dock Company's headquarters, which were recently refurbished, if escorted by a Mersey Tourism Guide, normally as part of a Port or Pier Head Tour.
Maritime Archives & Library holds the records of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. This includes items relating to the Port of Liverpool Building, for example, MDHM/LEG/H95, MDHB and Messrs. W. Brown: Contract for New Dock Office and MDHB/DISC/1-252, Discussions at the Board. For further details see Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum, Vol. 1, Gordon Read & Michael J. Stammers.
CAVANAGH, T. Public Sculpture of Liverpool. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1997.
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Women's Swimming & Diving Heads to NCAA Championships
March 20, 2013
RALEIGH, N.C. - Nine members of the NC State women's swimming & diving team will compete in the 2013 NCAA Championships, held Thursday, Mar. 21 - Saturday, Mar. 23, at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis, Ind.
"We're eager to compete at the 2013 NCAA Championships," said head coach Braden Holloway. "Last year we only had one qualifier and this year we have nine, so it is a great improvement."
Seniors Allison Hendren, Marifrances Henley and Hannah Hopkins (diver), junior Zina Grogg, sophomores Hannah Freyman, Rachel Mumma (diver) and Lauren Poli along with freshmen Riki Bonnema and Kristin Connors will represent the Wolfpack.
State qualified to swim five relay events, including the 200 freestyle relay (1:29.60), 400 freestyle (3:18.59), 800 freestyle (7:11.99), 200 medley (1:38.52) and 400 medley (3:36.45).
In addition to qualifying as members of relay teams, Bonnema, Grogg and Henley also qualified as individuals by meeting the required time standards in their respective events. Bonnema will compete in the 50 freestyle, Grogg will take part in the 100 backstroke and Henley will swim the 100 freestyle.
"We're looking to do the best we can to represent NC State and try to bring home some All-Americans," said Holloway.
Hopkins will compete on the platform dive for the second-consecutive year at the championships, and hopes to duplicate last year's results when she claimed All-America honors with a seventh-place finish. Mumma will take part in the one-meter and three-meter diving events.
Action is set to get underway on Thursday with preliminary heats beginning at 11 a.m., followed by finals at 7 p.m. Thursday's schedule will consist of the 200 freestyle relay, 500 freestyle, 200 individual medley, 50 freestyle, 400 medley relay and one-meter diving.
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Wind gusts of 100 kilometers per hour possible on January 15
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"Winds will generally be in the 50 to 60 kilometer per hour range, but will at times gust to 100 km/h or perhaps stronger. The winds should abate to below warning levels this evening," the warning highlights.