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Finally after months and months of saying that I would add development articles to my blog, here is the first one :)
EditText is a component that everybody knows and it is the primary way to get user input in an Android application.
What is really less known is its cousin :
AutoCompleteTextView. It's a subclass of
EditText that allows you to display possible autocompletions to the user depending on what he/she already entered in the
This article will focus on how to use this component and how to bind different data sources to provide the completions.
1 – Presentation of AutoCompleteTextView and simple autocompletion
AutoCompleteTextView is used exactly the same way as an
EditText in your layouts (as it's a subclass of
EditText). You just need to replace your
EditText by an
AutoCompleteTextView and this part is done !
Now that our layout is ready, let's look at the code.
For this first example we are going to use a really simple example (based on the documentation of
AutoCompleteTextView class in the Android SDK). The possible autocompletions are going to be a fixed list of countries.
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private static final String[] COUNTRIES = new String[] { "Belgium", "France", "Italy", "Germany", "Spain" }; // In the onCreate method AutoCompleteTextView textView = (AutoCompleteTextView) findViewById(R.id.actv_country); ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line, COUNTRIES); textView.setAdapter(adapter);
We just have an array of
Strings as the data source and we just bind via an
ArrayAdapter the list of countries> The component will manage them by itself.
Now let's look at a little more complex example.
2 – Email autocompletion
Let's say we have a login screen in our application where the login is an email. An email is quite long and really annoying to type in, especially with a virtual keyboard.
We don't know all the email addresses the user could potentially have. What we know however from his phone is all the email addresses he/she used as an account (Google, Facebook, Twitter, …).
We can use them as a data source to provide completion.
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private static final Pattern EMAIL_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Z]{2,4}$", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE); // In the onCreate method AutoCompleteTextView editTextLogin = (AutoCompleteTextView) findViewById(R.id.actv_login); Account[] accounts = AccountManager.get(this).getAccounts(); Set<String> emailSet = new HashSet<String>(); for (Account account : accounts) { if (EMAIL_PATTERN.matcher(account.name).matches()) { emailSet.add(account.name); } } editTextLogin.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line, new ArrayList<String>(emailSet)));
This time instead of using a fixed array of
Strings, we load the user accounts through the
As some accounts may not have an email address linked to them, we filter them and keep only the ones who matches an email regex. We also use a
Set to remove the duplicates.
Then we use the same way as before to bind them to the
AutoCompleteTextView through an
One thing to know if you want to use this snippet of code as is in your project : it requires the permission
android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS to be able to read the user accounts.
You can use this example with any other data source as long as you manage to get an array of
Strings to display.
3 – Webservice autocompletion
For the first 2 examples, we only used static data. Now let's use dynamic data for the auto-completion. The data is going to be returned from a web service which is going to be called every time the user input changes in the field.
For this example, we are going to write the code to add autocompletion to an address field :
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AutoCompleteTextView editTextAddress = (AutoCompleteTextView)findViewById(R.id.actv_address); editTextAddress.setAdapter(new AutoCompleteAdapter(this)); // And the corresponding Adapter private class AutoCompleteAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<Address> implements Filterable { private LayoutInflater mInflater; private Geocoder mGeocoder; private StringBuilder mSb = new StringBuilder(); public AutoCompleteAdapter(final Context context) { super(context, -1); mInflater = LayoutInflater.from(context); mGeocoder = new Geocoder(context); } @Override public View getView(final int position, final View convertView, final ViewGroup parent) { final TextView tv; if (convertView != null) { tv = (TextView) convertView; } else { tv = (TextView) mInflater.inflate(android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line, parent, false); } tv.setText(createFormattedAddressFromAddress(getItem(position))); return tv; } private String createFormattedAddressFromAddress(final Address address) { mSb.setLength(0); final int addressLineSize = address.getMaxAddressLineIndex(); for (int i = 0; i < addressLineSize; i++) { mSb.append(address.getAddressLine(i)); if (i != addressLineSize - 1) { mSb.append(", "); } } return mSb.toString(); } @Override public Filter getFilter() { Filter myFilter = new Filter() { @Override protected FilterResults performFiltering(final CharSequence constraint) { List<Address> addressList = null; if (constraint != null) { try { addressList = mGeocoder.getFromLocationName((String) constraint, 5); } catch (IOException e) { } } if (addressList == null) { addressList = new ArrayList<Address>(); } final FilterResults filterResults = new FilterResults(); filterResults.values = addressList; filterResults.count = addressList.size(); return filterResults; } @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") @Override protected void publishResults(final CharSequence contraint, final FilterResults results) { clear(); for (Address address : (List<Address>) results.values) { add(address); } if (results.count > 0) { notifyDataSetChanged(); } else { notifyDataSetInvalidated(); } } @Override public CharSequence convertResultToString(final Object resultValue) { return resultValue == null ? "" : ((Address) resultValue).getAddressLine(0); } }; return myFilter; } }
As the data is dynamic depending on the current value, we can't just provide beforehand the list of elements. Instead we create an
ArrayAdapter with a special
Everytime the input changes, the
performFiltering method is called and we retrieve in it the corresponding values from the webservice. These values are then transfered through the
FilterResults object to the
publishResults method where we replace the current elements with the new ones.
In our specific case, our webservice is the SDK
Geocoder which calls the Maps server to get possible addresses based on input provided by the user.
As the result type,
Address, is a complex object and we only want to display its formatted address while still keeping the object in the
Adapter for further use, we also have to override both
getView and
convertResultToString methods :
- The first one,
getView, to choose how to display our special object in the list of possible autocompletions.
convertResultToStringis used internally by the
AutoCompleteTextViewto choose what to display in the
EditTextfield when the user selects one of the completions (in our case, the formatted address).
If the data returned by your webservice is only a
String, you don't need to do that (except if you want a special format, like upper case or something).
One thing to remember, the code in the
performFiltering method is executed in a worker thread so we can directly access the webservice (in our case the
Geocoder) to get the corresponding results even if it's a long process.
4 – Conclusion
Normally now you know how to add autocompletion to your applications :)
If you have some questions about it, feel free to comment this article or to contact me via email !
And I have made a small application containing all these examples. Here is the APK and the project source code.


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Welcome to 2011, everyone! There are updates scattered all over the website this month.
There's several new military men picked up from the WO97 military pensions series. Most of these are for pre-1900 service and are from the ASHPOOL, BIRCH, BRAND, DUNCOMBE, ESSEX, GATES, GUTTERIDGE, HOUNSLOW, NEWENS, ROGERS, SHRIMPTON and WOODEARDS families.
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I received a transcript of the will of George TRUEMAN thanks to Alan Jones - as well as the will itself, George was a major benefactor to the Congregational Union Church and a key player in the brickmaking business in Wing, and the will contained important information on both those areas. See those pages for further elaboration.
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When Nora and Benedikta went to the Bambi Awards, we had the lucky chance to make their gowns. Here's the regal opulence with ethnic flair we came up with for Nora. The underskirt peeks out from center front and at the hem, the embroidered detail frames the face as fit for a queen, and the curved seaming adds extra couture touch. Just in time for Prom season, we can't wait to see your creations.
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silk shantung, embroidered ribbon, silk charmeuse, horsehair braid, hooks and eyes
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Dec 5, 2010, 01.38 AMby mumsew
my daughter really likes this pattern so i would like to print it for her but, what are the sizes in which it is available? can't seem to find sizes anywhere. i am new to this site so am still finding my way around
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Dec 5, 2010, 01.48 AMby mumsew
ok just found sizes.is there any chance it will be available in plus sizes in the future. i could just bring it up to the next size but it is such a pain doing it and would just love to have it done for me. am getting lazy in my old age!
Dec 1, 2010, 02.32 AMby coffeeinchina
I think this is beautiful too! When you plus size this pattern, perhaps you could just do every second size, as we all come inbetween sizes in various areas, and most of us have to adjust parts anyway? just to make your life easier…..
Nov 30, 2010, 07.26 PMby jaie
A wonderful dress. Too bad it doesn't come in a size above a US 14. Then I'd be willing to purchase and make.
Oct 5, 2010, 11.19 PMby pixielynx
I love this!! I am actually going to be making this for my wedding dress with longer "angel" sleeves, and a full dress underneath as a Medieval styled wedding dress. What I would love to know, is where can I find that trim?!?!?! I love it and would love to add trim like that to mine. Thank you
Jun 28, 2010, 06.48 PMby heidilea
I am totally in freaking love with this dress.
Dec 28, 2009, 08.41 AMby Wendy C Allen
OMG! That is so beautiful! I love the orange and pink color (that is my fave color combination btw – I've used it myself, several times.)
Jun 3, 2009, 01.48 PMby Floral
wow amazing!! I so have to learn how to sew this!! good job!
Apr 29, 2009, 09.43 AMby cabrlamo
Gorgeous! My husband and I are going to renew our vows sometime in the next year or two. I can envision a unique bridal dress in some soft colors. I can't wait to get this pattern in my hands and some test fabric!
Apr 22, 2009, 05.51 PMby tynwia
This is gorgeous! Last September my daughter and I were at the fabric shop leafing through pattern magazines. She saw a costume for plus sizes in Simplicity and said it would make and awesome Prom dress. So I promptly bought it. It is lovely but not near as lovely as this! I should have waited.
Apr 21, 2009, 08.46 PMby bluecinquefoil
I do love the style and the colors, i personally find the decoration a bit heavy looking, though i agree the width is just right, It is just beautiful and I love the seaming, PLEASE make it in a plus size, I dont think I have the stamina to make all the pieces bigger and try to fit it myself. Lovely work.
Apr 20, 2009, 01.20 PMby nora
'Nora' in Arabic means 'light', I always thought it's the same in Hebrew! The plus size will be coming, we'll post the pattern soon! For a cocktail dress you just have to shorten it above or below the knee (whatever you like), it's very simple. Tell us if you have any questions!
Apr 17, 2009, 10.06 AMby naonao
'nora' in hebrew means aweful, just as we're talking about the middle east and ethnical gowns. Well, fortunately aweful does not at all describe the dress or pretty Nora wearing it :) So, good job guys, I like it a lot and I think it's very different from any of your other patterns which I really appreciate. Although I'm not a plus size, I could see this dress working for many body shapes, so go for it, make it a plus!
Apr 17, 2009, 02.04 AMby Ruffles Gazebo
i think this would be awesome(even tho it already is) if u made a cut off version so it was more of a cocktail dress….tempting
Apr 15, 2009, 01.01 PMby nora
Thank you so much everyone for the nice comments! This is actually the first dress I designed for BurdaStyle! I was inspired by antique ethnic clothes as well as bedouin (North Sinai) and Arabic peninsula abayas. This is not insulting, but rather an homage!
Apr 14, 2009, 11.14 AMby luloo
Very cute, but it seems all the patterns on this site don't have plus sizing. What is wrong with this picture? AND if it goes over a size 6 you have to buy it!
sheesh, can't big girls get a little love? now boys and girls……..can we say discriminatory?
Apr 12, 2009, 06.47 AMby lovejust
So pretty!
Apr 10, 2009, 03.28 PMby lookingpast
This is absolutely gorgeous! The colors are so rich and the beaded trim is perfect. Like others have said, Nora just glows in it. Absolutely fantastic. I'd love to see it in a Plus size version. Please hurry, because I'm already thinking of how I'd play with the design! (Long sleeves, eliminate the piece at the waist, shorten to jacket length, use only the outer 'coat' as a jacket or long sleeves, just the outer 'coat, add a hood, eliminate the waist or make sleeveless from a light gauze with an eyelet underbodice and underskirt or . . . . .)
Apr 10, 2009, 09.37 AMby mariap
Can anyone suggest another fabric I could make this from that has the same movement? I dont mind losing the sheen. I'm vegan so really dont want to use silk and cant afford expensive material really. I read about cotton shantung but cant find it in the UK so any suggestions would be great! I'l be making a shorter version so I wont be using horsehair either! Thanx!
Apr 10, 2009, 08.19 AMby polychromatin
One could also make a coat out of it, I like the seamlines in the back.
Apr 9, 2009, 05.39 AMby mariap
I love this, I think I will change the colour as I can't wear yellows and make it a little shorter so its more wearable, Just need to go fabric shopping….
Apr 8, 2009, 12.17 PMby caprice202hotmailcom
this seems to have a middle eastern touch with the colour, braid and vibrancy it is absolutely gorgeous. it reminds me of the arabian nights. i am short and too heavy to wear such a beautiful dress such as this. too many adjustments to the pattern for me. but i love it.
i would like to see more of your work.
Apr 8, 2009, 12.10 PMby kmhark
This is a stunner! It would really flatter a wide range of figures and, as others have suggested, could easily go from ultraformal to summer casual with a change of fabric and trim. Please do make a plus version of this!
Apr 8, 2009, 11.52 AMby nmterrier
Love this and agree with the others that it needs to be in Plus Sizes as well. Very versatile and could be done a number of ways, good job!
Apr 8, 2009, 10.47 AMby Marte Holm
This is just crazy awesome! I've always loved overskirts like that. The inverted V is exceptionally flattering on all body types, especially us curvy girls. Burdastyle, I LOVE the direction you've taken lately. There has been so many wearable and classic styles lately, and I love it.
Also girls, this will look equally great in a more casual fabric. I recommend linen for summer. Another option is to go up a size, shorten the skirt and make a jacket of it.
Everythingsfree: How is "ethnic" insulting? The fabric combination and colours are quite Indian-ish, and I believe this shape was big among the hippies, who borrowed from far-eastern cultures. I have seen the same overskirt in many medieval european fashions.
Apr 8, 2009, 09.06 AMby everythingsfree
This is very pretty, but why is it described as 'Ethnic'? It's kind of an insulting descriptor, and I don't really see anything 'ethnic' about the dress. 'Ethnic' from what culture?
Apr 8, 2009, 03.31 AMby kiraph
Very pretty, but not something that I'm wanting to make right now. :) Have nowhere even remotely formal to go to!!
Apr 7, 2009, 07.15 PMby auntchelle
I like it. I'll add my vote for a Plus size version too please.
Apr 7, 2009, 12.07 PMby ink
Very Chanel 70's. I remember my mother wearing dresses like this in very thick silks. Come to think of it I remember our neighbours' father wore similar looking tops out of very jewel toned silks.
Apr 7, 2009, 11.55 AMby ed2122
I agree with SallyBC, you definitely need to make a plus size version of this! The style would work really well on a larger woman. The sleeves are especially nice for those of us who don't like to show off the tops of our arms. The dress also seems to emphasize the smallest part of the waist.
It occurred to me that a possible variation on this might be to leave off the sleeves and have it as a halter-style dress…
Apr 7, 2009, 08.24 AMby mirela
These are the kind of patterns I expect from BurdaStyle! Keep this up! It's an absolutely gorgeous dress! Very interesting and flattering cut
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St. Patrick's Day is just about here, making it a very good time to once again bring you a batch of Irish recipes from Darina Allen, the "Julia Child of Ireland" and noted founder of the Ballymaloe Cookery School in Shanagarry, County Cork, Ireland.
Allen's recipes for Cottage Pie with Garlic Butter, Buttered Cabbage and Irish Apple Cake, enhanced with Irish-made Kerrygold 100 percent natural cheeses and Pure Irish Butter - made with milk that comes from Ireland's grass-fed cows - are about as Irish as they come.
"In Ireland we can grow grass like nowhere else in the world," Allen
said in a news release. "Many of our best foods, like our butter, come from this lush green grass."
Besides teaching cooking courses at Ballymaloe, Allen also finds time to work as a food writer, newspaper columnist, cookbook author and television presenter. In addition, Allen's website, at www.cookingisfun.ie, is a treasure trove of Irish recipes, images and philosophy: "Finally, we believe that cooking and eating should be enriching, enjoyable, entertaining and, in a word, fun."
For more Irish recipes (and ideas for St. Patrick's Day), go to www.kerrygoldusa.com. To find a store that carries hormone-free Kerrygold dairy products, go to www.kerrygoldusa.com/where-to-buy.
Sue Ade, a Lowcountry resident since 1985, is a gourmet baker and collector of vintage cooking utensils and cookbooks. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 683-0375.
Recipes for St. Patrick's Day, adapted from "Forgotten Skills of Cooking," by Darina Allen (www.cookingisfun.ie), courtesy www.kerrygold.usa.com.
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 garlic cloves, mashed
1 small onion, chopped
1 pound beef, freshly ground
1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves
1/2 cup dry white or red wine
1 cup beef stock
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon tomato paste
Roux (recipe below)
Salt and freshly ground pepper
For the topping
3 pounds baking potatoes, unpeeled
1 cup whole milk, boiling
Salt and freshly ground pepper
2 tablespoons Kerrygold Irish butter
1 tablespoon chopped chives (optional)
1/4 cup grated Dubliner cheese
1/4 cup grated Kerrygold Aged Cheddar cheese
For the roux
"Roux can be stored in a cool place and used as required, or it can be made up on the spot, if preferred, to thicken up a sauce." - Darina Allen
8 tablespoons Kerrygold Irish butter
Scant cup all-purpose flour
Melt the butter in a pan and cook the flour in it for 2 minutes on low heat, stirring occasionally. It will keep for two weeks in the refrigerator.
To serve
Garlic Butter (recipe below)
Green salad
Heat the oil in a saucepan. Add the garlic and onion and fry until soft and slightly brown. Increase the heat, add the ground beef and thyme and fry until the beef changes color. Add the wine, half the stock, the Worcestershire sauce and the tomato paste. Simmer for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, boil the unpeeled potatoes, then peel them. Add boiling milk and mash the potatoes while they are still hot. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper and add the butter and the chives, if using. Bring the rest of the stock to a boil and thicken it well with roux. Stir it into the beef - it should be thick but still juicy. Taste and correct the seasoning. Put the meat mixture into one large or six individual pie dishes. Pipe or spread the mashed potato mixture over the top. Sprinkle with the grated cheeses. Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for 30 minutes, until the top is golden and slightly crispy. Serve with garlic butter and a green salad. Serves six.
"Slather over bruschetta or toast. Also great with grilled fish, meat or vegetables." - Darina Allen
8 tablespoons Kerrygold Irish butter
2 tablespoons finely chopped parsley
3 to 5 cloves crushed garlic
A few drops of freshly squeezed lemon juice
Whip the butter, then add in the parsley, garlic and a few drops of lemon juice at a time. Roll into butter pats or form into a roll and wrap in parchment paper or foil, twisting each end. Refrigerate to harden.
1 pound fresh Savoy cabbage
2 tablespoons Kerrygold Irish butter (or more if you like)
Salt and freshly ground pepper
A dab of butter
Remove the tough outer leaves and divide the cabbage into four quarters. Cut out the stalks and then cut each section into fine shreds across the grain.
Put two or three tablespoons of water into a wide saucepan with the butter and a pinch of salt. Bring to a boil, add the cabbage and toss constantly over high heat, then cover for a few minutes. Toss again and add some more salt, freshly ground pepper and a dab of butter. Serve immediately. Serves six.
"Irish Apple Cake varies from house to house and the technique has been passed from mother to daughter in farmhouses all over the country for generations." - Darina Allen
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
8 tablespoons (1/4 pound) Kerrygold Irish butter
1/2 cup superfine sugar
1 large egg
About 1/4-1/2 cup whole milk
1 to 2 cooking apples
2 to 3 whole cloves, optional
Egg wash
10-inch ovenproof plate
For serving
Heavy cream, softly whipped
Raw sugar
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Sift the flour and baking powder into a bowl. Rub in the butter with your fingertips until it resembles the texture of breadcrumbs then add 1/3 cup of the superfine sugar. Make a well in the center and mix to a soft dough with the beaten egg and enough milk to form a soft dough. Turn out onto a board divide in two. Put one half onto an ovenproof plate and press it out with floured fingers to cover the base. Peel, core and chop up the apples, place them on the dough and tuck in the cloves, if using. Sprinkle over some or all of the remaining sugar, depending on the sweetness of the apples. Roll out the second half of the pastry and fit it on top - easier said than done, as this "pastry" is more like scone dough and as a result is very soft. Press the sides together, cut a slit through the lid, egg wash, and bake for about 40 minutes or until cooked through and nicely browned on top. Dredge with superfine sugar and serve warm with raw sugar and softly whipped cream. Serves about six.


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Political blogs--online journals featuring commentary, often highly opinionated--have rapidly become a presence in the campaign landscape. Now some established news organizations are hiring established bloggers or creating their own. How much impact does this instant punditry have on mainstream political reporting?
By Rachel Smolkin
The answer, I quickly learned, depends on four factors: how you define "political blog"; which political bloggers you mean; which political reporters you mean; and--not to go all Bill Clinton on you--what the meaning of "hear" is.
Blog, for the uninitiated, is shorthand for "Web log," online journals of thought and commentary. They feature a personal, distinctive voice, links to other sources and regular postings displayed in reverse chronological order with the newest entry first. Readers scroll down the screen to scan the blogs, which often include a place for reader input, archives of past entries and "blogrolls," lists of other blogs the author finds useful.
Political bloggers chew over the news of the day, frequently skewering journalists' coverage or spotlighting what they feel are undercovered stories. Objectivity is generally verboten in the blogosphere, although ideology tends to be less rigid than the partisan debates that play out so repetitiously in newspapers and on television. And bloggers are a clubby bunch, referencing and linking to each other even when ideologies clash.
A few hours into my research, I felt a rising sense of panic--there was SO MUCH OUT THERE.
There are the rock stars of political blogging--Glenn H. Reynolds (www.instapundit.com), Andrew Sullivan (www.andrewsullivan.com), Joshua Micah Marshall (www.talkingpointsmemo.com) and Mickey Kaus (www.kausfiles.com)--moody maestros who stroke their keyboards more quietly but no less fervently than Coldplay's Chris Martin.
There are amateurs and pros and semi-pros and group blogs and pure blogs and media blogs and bloglike-journals-that-aren't-really-blogs-or-kinda-are-depending-on-your-point-of-view. There are more blogs out there than any one person could reasonably hope to read or even find. After new software made blogging easy and free in 1999, the phenomenon took off. The September 11 attacks and their aftermath spawned another wave of political blogs.
"The people are now talking," says Jeff Jarvis, the blogger behind Buzzmachine.com and president of Advance.net, which runs online services for Newhouse Newspapers. "The people are blogging. Millions of them are blogging."
Yes, in these hardened, cynical times, amid angst over media conglomerates and homogenization of news, political junkies are using cyberspace to opine and whine, to preach and beseech.
And the news media are gingerly following the people's lead. The line between pure political bloggers and "Big Journalism," as Reynolds calls it, is fading.
"Big Journalism," the target of so much contempt and derision in the blogosphere, is borrowing elements of blogs, experimenting with them and sometimes even co-opting the bloggers themselves.
Kaus, a former writer for The New Republic and Newsweek, moved his once independent Kausfiles to Slate, a Microsoft-owned online magazine, in May 2002. The Washington Monthly, a small but influential politics and policy magazine, hired blogger Kevin Drum in March. Reynolds blogs for MSNBC.com in addition to writing his own InstaPundit blog.
The conservative magazine National Review hosts a group blog called The Corner; the liberal magazine The American Prospect countered with Tapped. In September, the Prospect hired blogger Matthew Yglesias as a writing fellow; he now blogs for Tapped in addition to his own site.
Some journalists' blogs favor reported tidbits and analysis over swashbuckling commentary. Daniel Weintraub, a public affairs columnist at the Sacramento Bee, helped set the tone for coverage during his state's recall race with his California Insider blog. The New Republic's Ryan Lizza blogs about the presidential race on the magazine's Campaign Journal site. Even the New York Times has launched an edited campaign blog of sorts, Times on the Trail, which is breezier than the paper but more straitlaced than most blogs.
Political blogs add to the cacophony of 24/7 information sources available to journalists and the public. While cable news endlessly repeats political headlines, Weblogs chatter over inside information that mesmerizes the junkies.
"What Weblogs do, both professional and amateur, is they help spread detailed political information all day long," says Jonathan Dube, managing producer for MSNBC.com and publisher of CyberJournalist.net, an American Press Institute site tracking online journalism.
Dube believes amateur blogs have fostered public involvement in politics and enhanced political dialogue. But he cautions, "It's hard for people to weed through and know what is opinion, what is fact. It may contribute to the spreading of misinformation and to misperceptions and to spin."
Bloggers and their defenders argue that their medium is ideally suited to fixing errors because corrections can be posted immediately rather than waiting until the next day's paper. But the blogosphere has dished up its share of misinformation and spin.
When Internet gossip columnist Matt Drudge in February posted an unsubstantiated rumor of a John Kerry affair, it surfaced on Wonkette.com, The Corner and other blogs. The Drudge Report itself often is considered a blog or at least blog-like.
While the mainstream news media overplayed Gov. Howard Dean's scream, the blogosphere positively wallowed in it, setting it to music and boogeying to its beat.
And bloggers' predictions about the primaries were just as inaccurate, but less restrained, as those of newspaper and television pundits. Kaus held a "Kerry Withdrawal Contest" before the primaries to "help" Kerry drop out of the race, saying he "faces not just defeat but utter humiliation in the New Hampshire primary." That was, of course, before Kerry triumphed in New Hampshire and quickly wrapped up the Democratic nomination.
Kaus notes that he suspended his contest after Saddam Hussein was captured because he figured it gave candidates who voted for war a "fresh opening." And, as Kaus once wrote, bloggers get to "go off half-cocked," trust their instincts and change their minds later if they're wrong. He believes that this clash of "insta-takes" from many sources on the Web gets to the truth more quickly than the traditional, more contemplative method of analysis long employed by political journalists such as the Washington Post's David Broder.
If bloggers don't always get to the truth, they are at least banging out their beliefs with a pitch fevered enough to attract some attention.
Walter Shapiro, a political columnist for USA Today and a reader of blogs, says blogs collectively are "definitely having an impact" on political journalism, "but we haven't figured out what the impact is. About all these trends we get too gushy on the way up, and too dismissive on the way down. And we're sort of in the middle age on blogs, at least in Andy Warhol terms." As Warhol showed, all "forms of communication get modified in the marketplace," Shapiro observes. Some of the blogs' "original functions have been absorbed by Web sites or people far removed from the lonely law professor at the University of Tennessee."
That lonely Tennessee professor is Reynolds, who teaches constitutional and Internet law. He was inspired by early bloggers such as Kaus; Sullivan, a former editor of The New Republic; and Virginia Postrel, a New York Times economics columnist and former editor of Reason magazine.
In August 2001, Reynolds started InstaPundit, now among the most heavily visited political blogs. "Bloggers have very little power," says Reynolds. "What they have is influence. They have an ability to get ideas noticed that would otherwise be ignored and to shame people"--namely journalists--"into doing their jobs better."
Reynolds, who also started a paid blog for MSNBC.com in January 2003, notes "the blogosphere is pretty hard on big journalism, and I think rightly so. But most of the problems of big journalism is institutional... My experience with big-name journalists in general is that most of them are very supportive and encouraging."
Reynolds repeated an assertion that I heard often from bloggers and blogging enthusiasts: "There's not much doubt that most political journalists read a lot of the blogs."
Mark Halperin, ABC News political director and coauthor of The Note, reads political blogs and says many of his colleagues do as well. In April, on the morning of Bush's third prime-time news conference, The Note counseled readers: "Watch the blogs for insta-reaction."
But Halperin doesn't like hearing the popular online political trove he helps write called a blog, even though it shares some stylistic features. "A blog to me is opinion and observations from one brain," Halperin says. "We are producing news and analysis from a group of people across ABC News... We're not about opinions generating from one brain."
Some political reporters say they don't pay much attention to bloggers. "I must confess I don't track a whole lot of them," says Washington Post national political reporter Jim VandeHei, although readers do occasionally e-mail him about blogs trashing his work. "I would challenge someone to point to me where they've really had that much influence on the coverage." Noting the proliferation of sources for news commentary and roundup, VandeHei says Web surfing could easily consume all of a reporter's time, and "at some point, you really actually have to pick up the phone and do some reporting."
Ron Brownstein, a Los Angeles Times national political correspondent and CNN political analyst, reads campaign blogs, but that's about it. "There's just so much information out there," he says. "I feel like we're talking to ourselves with most of that stuff."
New York Times national political reporter Adam Nagourney says he's constantly surfing the Web, but he's doing Google searches or reading the online sites of newspapers or magazines. He does keep on eye on The New Republic's campaign blog and sometimes looks at Talking Points Memo or InstaPundit, but not regularly. "Otherwise I would spend all my day reading," Nagourney says, "and some of the stuff on the Web is so out there that it doesn't really help to read it."
Nagourney's colleague Jodi Wilgoren, the Times' Chicago bureau chief who also is covering the presidential campaign, was the subject of The Wilgoren Watch, a blog dedicated to "deconstructing" her coverage of Howard Dean.
"I'm not a journalist and never pretended to be," the unnamed blogger wrote on January 11. "I'm just a guy (veterinarian by trade) living in Northern Virginia who supports Gov. Howard Dean in his run for the White House and happens to know a little about HTML... I'm a lifelong Democrat who--like many of us--was caught off guard by the degree to which Al Gore was mistreated by the media in 2000. I just want to do my little part to mount a little 'pre-emption' in case the same treatment is applied to Gov. Dean this time around."
Dean's supporters, the self-proclaimed "Dean Defense Forces," launched what they dubbed an "Adopt-a-Journalist" effort, and blogs also targeted Associated Press reporter Nedra Pickler, who covered Dean. But media accounts have tended to focus on the Wilgoren Watch. "I think mine got more attention because of the alliteration. I know that sounds ridiculous," says Wilgoren, who signed up to receive e-mail notification of new postings. "If people were writing about my work and talking about my work, I wanted to know what they were saying."
Wilgoren's fiancé and father were angered by what were sometimes very personal attacks against her. But she suggested they suppress their urges to defend her and warned of "Lemon-Lyman" syndrome--a reference to an episode of NBC's "The West Wing" in which Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman writes to correct a Web site and becomes the target of a cyber frenzy. "Beware of writing back," Wilgoren counseled. "No good can come of it."
The reader feedback she received through Wilgoren Watch as well as other blogs and e-mails "typically did not reflect much knowledge about or understanding of mainstream journalism," Wilgoren says, and often came from passionate Dean supporters. "I got many, many letters accusing me of being a tool of the Republican administration or trying to destroy Howard Dean."
She tracked Dean's Blog For America, has glanced at the Kerry blog, "although it seems not to have much bite to it," and has seen the liberal blog Daily Kos (www.dailykos.com). But asked about InstaPundit, that blogging giant, Wilgoren replies, "I've never been on InstaPundit. I don't even know what that is."
One newspaper fan of InstaPundit is USA Today columnist Shapiro. "Any time John Ashcroft is in the news, I'm checking Glenn Reynolds three times a day," says Shapiro, who enjoys the right-leaning blogger's "libertarian skepticism of the conduct of the war on terror." And Shapiro reads the blog of Kaus, a longtime friend, "religiously."
Howard Fineman, Newsweek's chief political correspondent and an analyst for NBC, also looks at Kausfiles--Kaus is a friend and former Newsweek colleague--as well as at Sullivan's and Marshall's blogs.
Fineman says blogs give him a "feel for the conversation going on in the country about politics" and he reads them for the "same reason I try not to sit on my tush inside the Beltway, and get outside the Beltway as much as possible. Cyberspace is a place you need to go."
Karen Tumulty, Time magazine's national political correspondent, last October asked Dean's chief blogger, Mathew Gross, to recommend some blogs. She bookmarked some of them, including InstaPundit, Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos.
Tumulty's "absolute, total guilty pleasure is Wonkette," a biting politics and D.C. social scene blog authored by Ana Marie Cox. (The New York Times on April 18 described the blog by Cox, a self-proclaimed "failed journalist," as "gossipy, raunchy, potty-mouthed," a review Cox proudly posted on her site.)
Blogs are a "good indicator of what's in the political bloodstream at any given moment," says Tumulty, who adds that a turning point in blogs' impact came when National Journal's influential political newsletter Hotline began citing them. Tumulty likens reading blogs to "sitting around with a bunch of political reporters and having a beer--without the buzz."
Ryan Lizza, a reporter for The New Republic covering the presidential campaign, says he reads blogs "pretty religiously. I have a list of 10 or 15 blogs that I check in with at least once a day." Lizza thinks "one really smart blog that deserves to get more attention" is The Decembrist (markschmitt.typepad.com), which "tends to be more thoughtful, more of an essay style." But he cautions that "you don't want to get too wrapped up in what some parts of the blogosphere are obsessing about, because it can sometimes be this self-contained world."
In addition to writing for The New Republic, Lizza started a blog just before the primaries as an outlet for tidbits and other material that might not hold for a week until the print edition (www.tnr.com/blog/campaignjournal). "It's a little different," he says. "It's not a blog in the sense that it's a list of things that Ryan Lizza has read out there on the Internet. I'm trying to keep it more reportorial and not just a list of random thoughts."
Lizza has used his blog to break news. On April 2 he happened to be on the phone with Jim Margolis, Kerry's admaker, when Margolis said he was leaving the Kerry campaign and read Lizza a prepared statement. "It was a very inside story, but kind of cool because you could break it and put it on the blog," says Lizza, who posted the news at 12:22 p.m. that day, beating the Associated Press with the scooplet by
11 minutes.
At the New York Times, Wilgoren learned about Margolis' departure when a colleague e-mailed her Lizza's post. "My guess is that everybody who wrote about this heard about it" from there, Wilgoren says. "It seemed that everybody I called about Margolis had read Ryan's thing. So he broke news on the blog."
But in the annals of bloggers' impact on political journalism, one story stands above the rest. It sired breathless newspaper articles about the burgeoning influence of bloggers and even inspired a Harvard University case study.
On December 5, 2002, then-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, a Mississippi Republican, remarked at a birthday party for retiring Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina that the nation "wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years" had Thurmond triumphed in his 1948 segregationist bid for the presidency.
Initially, the media largely ignored Lott's shocking faux pas. But ABC News aired a brief story at 4:30 a.m. on December 6 and described the incident on The Note, which other Internet sites then referenced, according to a study by Esther Scott, a case writer for Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
The blogosphere seized on Lott's comments, howling with outrage and sleuthing for similar outrageous statements from Lott's past. "Oh, what could have been!!!" opined a sarcastic Josh Marshall on December 6, 2002. "Just another example of the hubris now reigning among Capitol Hill Republicans."
Bloggers on the right also were enraged. "Trent Lott Must Go," declared a December 9, 2002, posting by Andrew Sullivan that called on the Republican Party to "get rid" of Lott as majority leader or "come out formally as a party that regrets desegregation and civil rights for African-Americans."
During the Lott post-mortem, the media paid homage to bloggers for refusing to let the story fade. "The papers did not make note of his comments until days after he had made them," observed a December 23, 2002, Time magazine cover story by Dan Goodgame and Tumulty. "But the stillness was broken by the hum of Internet 'bloggers' who were posting their outrage and compiling rap sheets of Lott's earlier comments."
New York Post columnist John Podhoretz wrote on December 13, 2002, that, "There's nothing more exciting than watching a new medium mature before your eyes... The drumbeat that turned this story into a major calamity for Lott, and led directly to President Bush's welcome disavowal of Lott's views yesterday, was entirely driven by the Internet blogosphere."
Scott's study was somewhat more circumspect, concluding it was difficult to determine how "much of the story made its way from the blogs--as opposed to other Internet sources, such as The Note--into the mainstream." But she found "anecdotal evidence" that some reporters and columnists picked up the story from a blog.
"The mainstream media had sort of a blind spot on that story, and it was really left to a number of blogs to keep the story going," says Marshall, a former Washington editor for The American Prospect whose thoughtful site won praise from several journalists interviewed for this article. But he cautions that it's easy to exaggerate bloggers' impact and describes them as "part of an ecosystem of news sources. They have a niche."
Media companies are experimenting with their own place in this expanding ecosystem. Leonard M. Apcar, editor in chief of NYTimes.com, doesn't describe his online roundup of campaign news, Times on the Trail, as a blog. But he says he was influenced by blogs and tried to borrow some elements to create "our own special space" about the campaign, which debuted in January (www.nytimes.com/onthetrail).
"If you define blogs as unedited opinion and sometimes just passing on rumors, that's not what Times on the Trail is," Apcar says. "We are edited; we're not opinion as much as we are analysis, and we don't report rumors... Blog purists would say this is not a blog. Call it a blog. Call it a flog. I don't care. We call it Times on the Trail."
When the Sacramento Bee's Daniel Weintraub started his California Insider blog in April 2003, the serendipitous (for him) recall contest soon offered a rare opportunity to showcase his new medium. (See Free Press, December/January.) His blog has provided an additional venue for communicating with sources. People Weintraub knows through his reporting read his blog and send him unsolicited ideas and responses. "You can't put out 100 telephone calls a day, but you can put something on the Web that people can read and either take the time to e-mail or call," he says.
But a few weeks before the recall election, some of Weintraub's writings about candidate Cruz Bustamante stirred criticism among Latino politicians, and some of his newsroom colleagues objected to the double standard for editing.
Editorial Page Editor David Holwerk decided that an editor would clear blog entries, as with print columns, to preserve the newspaper's obligations to credibility and accuracy. The blogosphere greeted his decision with outrage.
Weintraub says he may subconsciously eschew more trivial items to avoid wasting his editors' time on something completely lighthearted or fluffy. "It's probably not as light and spontaneous," he says. "It's a little more formal... But it's not like I'm holding back on commentary or anything significant."
He also has noticed some friction between blogging and some of the "historical norms" of print journalism: Print journalists don't particularly like to acknowledge competitors' work, but bloggers do so regularly.
One amateur political blogger stumbled over stricter rules in another professional arena, that of politics. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, 32, author of the Daily Kos, majored in journalism at Northern Illinois University, edited the student newspaper and freelanced for the Chicago Tribune. He graduated from law school and headed to Silicon Valley to make millions in the dotcom world, a venture that "didn't go well at all." Moulitsas, who was raised in El Salvador and served in the U.S. Army, started the Daily Kos in May 2002--drawing from his Army nickname, which rhymes with "rose."
He and his business partner, Jerome Armstrong, worked as paid consultants to Dean's campaign; Moulitsas now consults for "a couple Democratic congressional campaigns and interest groups," though he declines to specify which ones.
His reluctance is perhaps understandable given an April controversy that Moulitsas touched off with a callous observation about four American contractors killed in Iraq. "I feel nothing over the death of mercenaries," he wrote. "Screw them."
Moulitsas later clarified his remarks but stopped short of an apology, and a cyberspace furor ensued. "Kos has been rather a weasel about first making the comments, then hiding them, then issuing a bogus pseudo-apology, and now--as if there were more to this than dumb statements on a blog that led to some angry commentary and e-mail--he's playing the victim," Reynolds declared on InstaPundit.
The Kerry campaign dropped its link to Daily Kos, and some candidates pulled their advertisements from his blog. The Washington Post mentioned the brouhaha in an April 18 story that described how some political candidates are turning to blogs as a new, cheap venue for ads.
Moulitsas asserts, "I can write about whatever I want without somebody telling me I can't talk about an issue. At the end of the day, I don't need advertisers."
He proudly proclaims himself an activist, not a journalist. "My God, if I was a journalist, I'd be breaking half the canon of journalistic ethics," Moulitsas says wryly. "I am one walking conflict of interest. I am the epitome of conflict of interest, but at least I don't pretend otherwise, like Cokie Roberts taking money from trade groups and talking before them." (ABC News' Roberts was criticized in the mid-1990s for accepting large fees for giving speeches to trade associations--see "Talk Is Expensive," May 1994 and "Take the Money and Talk," June 1995.)
Kevin Drum, a self-described "centrist liberal" and one of the more contemplative bloggers, spent two decades as a software-marketing executive before launching his blog in August 2002. In mid-March, he agreed to blog for The Washington Monthly (www.washingtonmonthly.com).
His unedited blog is a comfortable fit with the magazine's advocacy. But Drum notes that bloggers such as Reynolds and the anonymous Atrios (www.atrios.blogspot.com) are not nearly so sober, and that style "is part of what makes blogs a lot of fun." Drum worries "if you try to put the rules of mainstream journalism onto blogs, you end up sucking the life out of them."
While professional journalism has standards for sourcing and reporting, with blogs, the whole point "is that the standards are lower," Drum says. "They're able to toss stuff out that a reporter on a daily newspaper couldn't. They express opinions loudly and with fervor. It's not clear to me how those two things can intersect."
Drum, who holds a journalism degree from California State University, Long Beach, admits to "some doubt about whether blogging and professional journalism can go together... If it turns out at the end of the year that the five most popular blogs are associated with professional journalism, it would change the nature of blogging."
USA Today's Walter Shapiro also wonders whether blogs will change because of their success. "We don't know where this is going," Shapiro says. "But what we do know is there are not enough eyes and enough hours to support the entire blog world" at its current level.
"I have real affection for the underlying notion here of the original blogs, which were people sitting at their computers, reading the morning news and commenting on it," he adds. "And that lonely person element there, the one voice, is something that, however this all evolves, I hope will not be lost."


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A couple days ago the great and powerful forces over at NVIDIA launched a new graphics card called the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216. This new graphics card was launched to fill the gap between the GeForce GTX 260 and GeForce GTX 280. What gap might this be? It would be the gap where the ATI Radeon HD 4870 would be performing. By adding more shaders and increasing the MSRP by $50 the marketing team over at NVIDIA felt it made for a great new product and thus a card was born. This launch came to a shock as I didn't know much about it till just a number of weeks before these cards launched and since we got our review sample the day the new GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 graphics cards launched it can be assumed that these were rushed to market very quickly. Another sign of this is that NVIDIA didn't send out any reference cards and all the review samples were from add-in-board partners like the one we are looking at today from EVGA. You might be thinking how NVIDIA added more shaders to the GeForce GTX 260, so let's answer that before moving on to the review.
When the GeForce GTX 200 series originally launched I covered some of the basic processing architecture, so feel free to reference that article to get a feel for the GTX 200 series. The processing architecture of the GeForce GTX 280 video card has 240 shader processors that are arranged within 10 blocks of 24 as seen in the diagram above. Each of these blocks is called a TPC (Thread Processing Cluster) and is where the focus will be for this article. The GeForce GTX 280 offers a full 512-bit memory bus thanks to the eight 64-bit memory controllers that are also seen in the above image. In order to make a lower cost part that more people can afford, NVIDIA then made a part with less TPCs and memory controllers by disabling certain areas of the core. The result of 'neutering' the GTX 280 was the GTX 260 seen here.
By removing a pair of the Thread Processing Clusters and one of the 64-bit memory controllers you end up with the GeForce GTX 260 that is on the market today. By removing/disabling these parts the GeForce GTX 260 has 192 shader processors and a 448-bit memory bus, which wasn't enough to compete with the ATI Radeon HD 4870 graphics card that was right behind the GeForce GTX 280 in nearly all the benchmarks I tested it in.
The quick and easy way to give the GeForce GTX 260 a performance boost was to enable/add one more Thread Processing Cluster, which contains 24 more shader processors. This gives the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 a total of 216 shader processors and a new name. Since nothing was done with the memory controllers everything else on the card stays the same. What you end up with is card that offers a 448-bit memory bus and 896MB GDDR3 frame buffer just like the original GTX 260. The clock speeds also remain the same with the core clock at 576MHz, shaders at 1242MHz and the memory clock set to 999MHz. Pricing on a regular GeForce GTX 260 runs about $250 and one of these new Core 216 versions will set you back for about $300. Let's take a look at the actual card that will be reviewed today.
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My painting-----LOL Fan art
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lol offical forum post http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=1261551&highlight=wangwang
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I like the character but not the over sexualizing aspect.ReplyDelete
Forgive my ignorance, are these actually painted? If so, are you selling?ReplyDelete
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Please make one for akali
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Can I have a 1920x1080 print of the lux one? amazing wallpaper :DReplyDelete
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Truly awesome. Very cool style.ReplyDelete
Most awesome fanarts I have ever seen for a video game, and I like browsing such stuff!ReplyDelete
I love how you bring this dark style to it. Reminds me of Disciples 2 and Berserk.
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PLEASE MORE YOU R SO GOOOOOOOOOOD!!! keep it upReplyDelete
I have to second that. MOAR. Really great work.ReplyDelete
Who is that that blitz is holding?ReplyDelete
Btw, i was wondering if you could do some of characters like Ashe, Mordekaiser, Cassiopia, Annie (i think it would be cool to see how your dark style lends itself to annie), or Wukong. I think you could do some cool art of them. but anyways, i LOVE your art. as an aspiring artist, i really admire your work. :D
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These are fantastic! Keep em coming!!ReplyDelete
Can you try to do a kog'maw one? PleaaaaseeeReplyDelete
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please do one of malzhar vs kassadin :D you go so much talen give something to me :PReplyDelete
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Yeah Im still wondering who Blitz is grabbing.ReplyDelete
The hair makes me think Kat but is she like...nude?
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Amazing art bro!
Totally badass. I dig these hard. I hope you do more!ReplyDelete
I saw the Banshee's Veil on the yeti :D
Am i the only one that notices Shaco in the middle of the picture very faintly on the lux picture?!?!ReplyDelete
Did Riot give you the extra 7 RP you needed for that skin after you showed them these? (Awesome work. You should be getting paid for these)ReplyDelete
thank you .that is ok. just paint it for fun.I didnt expect too much .ReplyDelete
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Camera? Well I'm in no rush as it not that much better than what I have now for underwater.
A) you've sold the Z1 and upgraded as the EX1's shed loads better than that old relic..
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Friday, February 29, 2008
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This evening as I was reviewing new geocaches, I was pleasantly surprised to see a photo of a rock that I immediately recognized. (OK, I can hear you snickering out there. Yes, it's true. I recognized a rock.) It's called the Gwynne Rock and it's located on the Iowa State campus. It's actually a boulder, and it is featured in a new geocache placed by called LCC 50th--Hitaga Sand Prairie Big Rock (GC19KX7) , a cache by Linn County Conservation and jimmygps. I have several "connections" with this rock. First of all, I'm an ISU alum and I walked and rode past that rock hundreds of times. Secondly, the rock is named after the late Dr. Charles Gwynne, a former professor of geology at ISU and my great uncle. Thirdly, several years after my graduation from ISU, I lived in Marion for seven years and one of my favorite places to go hiking, biking and cross-country skiing was Squaw Creek Park, where the rock was discovered before being moved to the Iowa State campus. Read more about Dr. Gywnne and the rock here.
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- Iowa Tom said...
Neat erratic! We have a smaller version of that here in Waterloo.
I imagine that was hard to pick up w/o marking it up.
- 9:44 PM, March 03, 2008
- juliecache said...
very cool stories about the rock. As an ISU alum, I feel more compelled to visit now. and I'm taking the kids along!
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During each of the webinars 2-6 April 2012 beginning at 6pm Pacific US time, we would like to share a lot of your success stories -- what you've found, how the process worked. That's how we'll learn - by sharing.
So blog about it, tweet about it, Facebook about it. Upload images to Flickr. Whatever it takes. Just SHARE what you are doing with the 1940 US census.
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Ol' Myrt here has switched next week's nightly 1940 census webinars from her small 100-person capacity to a big 1,000-person capacity room, thanks to RootsMagic. There has been such an outpouring of interest, we want as many people as possible to participate live. The session will also be recorded, and will appear shortly after each webinar has concluded.
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