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The mid-point of the 2013-14 scholastic season has come and gone, and much has happened in the high school wrestling landscape. This includes the development of Aaron Pico no longer being part of the scholastic wrestling pool. Pico is going to focus exclusively on an international wrestling career, and then move onto mixed martial arts. Since he is no longer wrestling scholastically, or in college, Pico will no longer be evaluated in the grade rankings. As a result, Mark Hall moves into the No. 1 slot for the Class of 2016. The other four No. 1 positions remain unchanged: Kyle Snyder (Good Counsel, Md./USOTC) leads the 2014 group, Lance Benick (Totino Grace, Minn.) is best in the 2015 class, Spencer Lee (Franklin Regional, Pa.) is tops among the Class of 2017, while Cade Olivas (California) is the top junior high wrestler.

A notable mover in the senior class is Dylan Milonas (Blair Academy, N.J.), who is now No. 18 after winning titles at the Ironman and Beast of the East. An additional positive mover in that group is Zeke Moisey (Bethlehem Catholic, Pa.) up to No. 21 after winning titles at both the Beast of the East and the Escape the Rock Tournament.

Among juniors the notable mover is Ke-Shawn Hayes (Park Hill, Mo.), who is now No. 4 overall after winning titles at both the Walsh Ironman and Kansas City Stampede.

A newcomer to the junior high top 15 is Theorius Robinson (Colorado), who won a title at the Tulsa Nationals earlier this month.

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Class of 2014 | Class of 2015 | Class of 2016 | Class of 2017 | Class of 2018+

Sneak Peek

Below is a sneak peek at the top wrestlers in each grade.

Class of 2014 (Top Ten): 1. Kyle Snyder (Good Counsel, Md.) 2. Chance Marsteller (Kennard Dale, Pa.) 3. Bryce Brill (Mount Carmel, Ill.) 4. Nick Nevills (Clovis, Calif.) 5. Bo Nickal (Allen, Texas) 6. Micah Jordan (St. Paris Graham, Ohio) 7. Jason Nolf ( Kittanning, Pa.) 8. Joey McKenna (Blair Academy, N.J.) 9. Thomas Haines (Solanco, Pa.) 10. Sam Stoll (Kasson-Mantorville, Minn.)

Class of 2015 (Top Five): 1. Lance Benick (Totino-Grace, Minn.) 2. Logan Massa (St. Johns, Mich.) 3. Anthony Valencia (St. John Bosco, Calif.) 4. Ke-Shawn Hayes (Park Hill, Mo.) 5. Myles Martin (McDonogh, Md.)

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If homing pigeons wonder why humans are always driving them to faraway spots and leaving them behind, they dont hold it against us. They just keep coming back, providing prize money for pigeon racers and new data for scientists studying the navigational powers of an avian brain. Now those scientists have discovered a new trick in pigeons homing toolkit: the birds learn best when traveling near a boundary.

A homing pigeon thats looking for its loft can use many kinds of clues. It may navigate by the sun, the earths magnetic field, or the smell of a nearby chocolate factory. It might use visual landmarks, too. The birds seem to return well to the spires in the center of Oxford, for example, says Uppsala University mathematics researcher Richard Mann. However, Mann says, What has been missing is a direct link from something we can measure about [any] landscapeto a measurable change in the birds navigational behavior.

So Mann and his colleagues studied the flight paths of 31 homing pigeons, recorded by tiny GPS devices the birds wore on their backs. Each pigeon flew home 20 times from one of four different sites around Oxford. The birds had never been released at these sites before the study began.

Using an aerial photograph of the landscape around Oxford, the researchers calculated how simple or complex the birds-eye view was from one pixel to the next. They did this using edges, or changes in intensity in the image, Mann explains. You get a lot in cities and in forests, while an open field has fewer.

Left: Paths to the pigeons home loft from each of the release sites, ranging from 5 to 10.6 kilometers away. Right: The same aerial image filtered to show edges, or complexity. Boundaries between dark and light areas were where the birds learned best.

Then they calculated how similar each flight was to the flight taken right before it. As a bird repeated the same trip over and over, how quickly did it memorize the route it would stick to?

A birds faithfulness to one route, the scientists saw, depended on the complexity of the landscape it was flying over. Very complex spaces with lots of edgeslike the middle of the city, or dense areas of forestwerent ideal. (Previous studies have found that its hard to teach pigeons a route over a city, and that the birds avoid flying over certain patches of woodland.) But empty spaces werent great either.

There seemed to be a kind of Goldilocks landscape, not too dense and not too open, over which the pigeons learned best. Mann says you can picture this ideal scenery as a view that was half open field, half houses or dense trees. In other words, a boundary between an open area and a city or a forest. I think it is likely that the pigeons are [using] these large-scale boundaries as landmarks, Mann says, when they navigate their way home.

Mann has mostly moved on from navigation research and is now studying collective behavior in birds, fish, and humans. In homing pigeons, he and scientists at Oxford are now trying to find out how flocks of birds can pool their knowledge to navigate as a group. Mann has also published a paper about the best strategy for a game of Battleshipa problem that, compared to navigating home from an unfamiliar place, is more suited to a feeble human brain.

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Landscape architect Len Zickler, a principal in the Spokane office of Tacoma-based AHBL Inc., says the company is seeing more requests to design environmentally friendly infrastructure to manage stormwater drainage.

He expects this approach, called low-impact development, to increase in demand.

Since 2010, he says the AHBL office has worked on four Spokane projects with significant environmental sustainability features. The latest design work is for an upcoming $2.5 million project to replace an asphalt median ditch between lanes on Country Homes Boulevard with a mile of buried pipe covered by soils and native plants to absorb much of the runoff from storms.

I believe in the next 10 years well see a significant shift toward the application of these technologies, says Zickler, who during his 23-year AHBL tenure has consulted with more than 40 cities and counties in Washington state on how to apply low-impact development techniques.

One problem we see at the outset is there arent many people familiar with the concepts, but expertise is on the rise, Zickler adds. Were seeing more contractors and developers who are getting more familiar with the concepts and asking for them. Fortunately, more individual engineers in Spokane are familiar with low-impact development, and more are beginning to embrace it.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency defines low-impact development, or green infrastructure, as building techniques that work environmentally to manage stormwater as close to its source as possible. Zickler says the most effective approach is distributing clusters of stormwater management techniques across a property.

The techniques do a much better job if they are smaller scale and distributed, he says.

Largely, the practices include installing drainage systems designed with specific plants and soils to absorb runoff more effectively. Other methods include installing rooftop gardens, pervious pavement areas that enable water to percolate into gravel underneath, and container collection systems to capture precipitation for eventual irrigation use. Additionally, properties can have clusters of small storm gardens with plants and soils to filter runoff, as well as plant-soil bioretention swales that are similar in function to traditional grassy swales.

While AHBL isnt involved in Greenstone Corp.s ongoing Kendall Yards mixed-use development northwest of downtown, Zickler applauds that project for applying a number of green infrastructure techniques, including a drainage system to handle stormwater with park-like open spaces.

He contends that consumers who want to live in such neighborhoods and cities with sustainable features also are affecting the trend here and in other parts of the state.

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In post-apocalyptic films featuring the fight-to-the-finish Thunderdome, an audience chants the arenas guiding principle, Two men enter, one man leaves. In many ways, the ongoing Thunderdome Debates initiated last fall at the University of California, Berkeleys College of Environmental Design (CED) borrow from the movies, but theres no steel cage. And if anyone is left behind, its only figuratively.

The Thunderdome Debates stake out their own special purposes and rules. Theres no blood, just verbal sparring by two leading minds in landscape architecture and environmental planning one man and one woman who face off in Wurster Hall in front of an audience comprised mostly of well-mannered students looking for more than the typical and too-often-sleepy expert presentations.

My take-over-the-world goal is to re-position Berkeley at the center of debates in this field, since theres broad interest in the big topics well discuss, quipped Kristina Hill, an associate professor of landscape architecture and environmental planning and Thunderdome Debates mastermind.

Kristina Hill

Moderator Kristina Hill to Julie Bargmann:

What pisses you off about starting with form instead of process?

Bargmann: Thats actually why I left sculpture. I was making objects, and gravitated more and more towards making installations it is just that kind of, you know, object-making. Objectification. Thats the thing that burns my ass

Kristina Hill to Walter Hood:

Are there aspects of all this process stuff that piss you off?

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