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Unveiling a new fullcourt press defense for the first time this season, ETSU players like senior guards Ben Rhoda (Dayton, Ohio) and Tim Smith (Newport News, Va.) thrived in the fast-paced action, both eclipsing 20 points for the game as the Buccaneers snapped a four-game losing streak and dropped Central Michigan 69-57 Wednesday night in front of 3,998 fans at Memorial Center.
"This was a big game to get us going in the right direction," said ETSU head coach Murry Bartow, whose team improved to 2-6 on the year. "I've said often I still think we're going to be good, and we're going to enjoy this win. I think players like Tim and Ben play well in an up-and-down game so we tried to force that tonight."
ETSU opened the game in the usual 2-3 zone defense, but quickly changed to the fullcourt trapping style, building a lead of as many as nine points at 17-8 with left in the first half. The Chippewas (2-7) rallied at that point with a 12-3 run to take their only lead of the game at 20-18 with remaining before the break, but the Bucs quickly regained the advantage and enjoyed a six-point lead at halftime, 34-28.
In the second half, ETSU built a 14-point lead at 42-28 before CMU battled back to move to within six at 52-46 with remaining. From there, the Bucs went on a 7-0 run to regain a sizeable 13-point advantage and simply traded baskets with CMU the rest of the game.
The Bucs forced 28 turnovers in all and picked up 11 steals on the night, and enjoyed a double-digit win despite shooting just 39 percent from the floor. The difference really came at the foul line, where ETSU hit on 21-of-32 attempts compared to just 8-of-11 for the Chippewas.
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The Washington Redskins re-signed free agent punter Sav Rocca.
Rocca, 39, averaged a career-best 43.9 yards per punt in 68 attempts for the NFC East champions last season.
Heading into his seventh NFL campaign, the former Australian Football League standout has averaged 43.1 yards per kick against only three blocks over 433 attempts in 96 games with the Eagles and Redskins.


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A St. Francis Goshen class is learning about history, geography and sports all at once as a second-grade teacher prepares to run the Boston Marathon.
Madelyn Blue will be competing in the prestigious race for the third time when the gun goes off at 10 a.m. today (Monday).
Athletes must run qualifying times to enter the Boston Marathon or fundraise for a charity position.
Blue is integrating the event into her classroom at St. Francis, including teaching about the course's many famous landmarks.
Blue and her students use a SmartBoard — an electronic whiteboard — to spot different landmarks along the course map.
They help Blue find the Newton Hills section of the course, a series of four climbs famous for Heartbreak Hill, which challenges many runners at mile 21.
The marathon course goes from Hopkington, Mass., a city west of Boston, and through five other cities before ending in downtown Boston.
Blue's students find the different spots where her time will be posted live on the internet — roughly every three miles — through an online athlete tracking system.
The class also calculated what her time needs to be at the halfway point to hit her goal of 3:30.
Other math-related tasks have included tracking Blue's mileage in training and the course's elevation chart.
Students also learned about Patriot's Day, the Massachusetts holiday on which the race is held.
Because of the Monday date, Blue will be out of the classroom Monday and Tuesday.
Even an acrostic poem using the word "marathon" challenged students to come up with different words that fit the theme.
They've also talked about the elite runners who will be competing for the title — Blue said her students have asked several times if she'll win or at least earn second place.
Instead, students learned about past champions and the push in recent years by American runners to place high in the race. Last year, the second place men's and women's finishers were both Americans.
Blue won't be first, although she hopes to better her own best time at this year's event with pacing help from Prospect resident Mark Schoenegge, one of her training partners.
Blue, 30, qualified for this year's race when she ran the Boston Marathon last year.
She finished the race in 3:34:50, more than five minutes under the qualifying time for her age group, and set a new personal best.
Almost 24,000 people finished the 2011 race.
However, race standards will be tougher for the 2013 event — about five minutes faster for most age groups. Women 34 and younger must run a 3:35 at a sanctioned marathon to qualify; men in the same age group must run a 3:05.
After the Boston Marathon, Blue will continue training for several triathlon events she plans to complete this year.
In June, she'll travel to California for the Escape from Alcatraz triathlon, where competitors swim 1.5 miles from Alcatraz Island to shore. Blue will then tackle an 18-mile bike race and an 8-mile run.
While the overall distance isn't a worry, the rough, chilly ocean swim has Blue nervous.
Blue will also complete several other triathlons this summer as training for Ford Ironman Louisville. The 140.6-mile event includes Oldham County in its course and takes place Aug. 26.
It will be Blue's fourth Ironman-distance event.
Blue enjoys the opportunity to share her training and racing experiences with her students, who are excited to see how Blue does in the Boston Marathon — one student even wore a Boston shirt to show support last week.
The Boston Marathon begins at 10 a.m. April 16. Check back for finishing times for Blue and other local runners. There are nine local runners registered for the event, including Crestwood residents and Naphtali Tate, Pewee Valley resident Dannis Hughbanks and Prospect residents Frank Cupolo, Brian Jones, Mark Schoenegge Ellen Thimme and Brooke Vernon.
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Infants at risk for food allergies should be gradually introduced to suspect foods to build up tolerance, according to new recommendations from a leading allergy doctor group. WSJ's Sumathi Reddy joins Lunch Break with a look at the evidence. Photo: AP.
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Big-time tennis appeals to all sorts of people for reasons as varied as the crowds that fill tennis stadiums in New York (rowdy), Paris (coolly critical) or Wimbledon (politely appreciative). Some people enjoy the simplicity of the sport. Some enjoy the human, immediately graspable physical scale of the court itself, while others — accomplished amateur players, for example, who know how hard it is to stay mentally tough and physically strong during a long match — stand in awe of how jaw-droppingly good the professionals really are.
Then there are those fans who thrill at the prospect of a singles final at center court — the tennis equivalent of a heavyweight title bout, but without all the split lips, swollen eyes, bloody noses and controversial, brawl-inducing decisions that boxing is heir to. The idea, after all, of two physically formidable combatants facing one another in an arena — surrounded by the immediate presence of several thousand riveted, vocal fans — has something almost primal about it: there will be a battle; the contestants are on their own; and at the end, there's only one winner.
And, of course, one loser. Tennis is after all, a pitiless sport.
But pitiless or not, it's also a sport that, every once in a while, is able to get people who ordinarily don't pay any attention at all to the ATP or the WTA quite frantically worked up about tournament seeds, court conditions, ball boys and ball girls, line judges' calls and Williams sisters' outfits and, as the quarters and the semis and finals approach, about the matches and the players themselves.
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As an adaptation of a graphic novel that doesn't feature superheroes, bland 20-something actors or an overarching mythology linking into other movies, Red is already a giant breath of fresh air from minute one. Taking on Warren Elis's slim novel and expanding it into a giant world of CIA agents marked "Retired: Extremely Dangerous," director Robert Schwentke is practically licking his chops behind the scenes as he puts Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Brian Cox and Morgan Freeman together onscreen, hands them a bunch of dangerous weapons, and lets them go to town. It's irresistible for anyone who loves these actors-- which is everybody-- and there are many moments of Red that capitalize on that promise of gleeful, grown-up violence.
Unfortunately most of those moments are in the trailer, and a disappointing amount of Red limps along, failing to grapple with its own shifts in tone or to structure the action in a way that builds in any satisfying way. Humor beats are held a little too long, actors like Richard Dreyfuss and Malkovich are allowed to mug shamelessly, and with all these old pro actors jostling each other for screentime, you get the sense that the inmates are running the asylum. Schwentke has a good handle of action beats, and stages a spectacular fight scene and any number of great explosions, but he never feels totally in control of his movie, and Red starts to devolve into nonsense well before it takes advantage of the many things it has going for it.
As retired and lonely CIA agent Frank Moses, Willis is charming but basically on autopilot, fending off black-ops bad guys when they invade his house with a simple trick of bullets in a frying pan, then jetting off to Kansas City to pick up Sarah (Mary Louise Parker), the girl he's fallen for solely based on phone calls to her government department. From there it's a zany road trip across the country (told in clever postcard titles) as Frank realizes he's being targeted by the government for knowing too much, and his former CIA cohorts are all in danger too. After picking up Joe (Freeman) at the retirement home, Marvin (Malkovich) in his crazy underground bunker and Victoria (Mirren) in her stately home, the team regroups to fight back against the spooks who want them silenced.
Why do they want them silenced? It has something to do with the vice-president and overseas murders, though honestly, the plot is so irrelevant and incoherent I gave up following early on. All that really matters is that stern, slightly sadistic William Cooper (Karl Urban) is on their tail, and when he and his team catch up with them, hand-to-hand combat and explosions ensue. The fight scenes are far more fun than in other action comedies like The Losers or The A-Team, largely thanks to Malkovich's batshit, hilarious Marvin, but they fit into the film's structure so oddly that they don't add any energy to the rest of the languishing film.
It's worth noting that Ernest Borgnine fits into this mix somehow, and that Helen Mirren fires a machine gun with steely precision, and Morgan Freeman slaps Richard Dreyfuss in the face, and Bruce Willis describes Karl Urban's character as "cute hair"-- all funny, entertaining bits that keep Red going but also remind you of how much stronger a movie it could be. Though it's got far more of the right pieces in place than the plethora of other disappointing other action comedies this year, Red still doesn't quite have the juice, the skill or maybe even the nerve to make it sing.


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Aoki set to bring 'Aokify America Tour' to Houston
Grammy nominated and EDM legend Steve Aoki returns to Houston TX to perform at the Bayou Music Theater (520 Texas Ave) headlining the "Aokify America Tour" on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 8 p.m. Tickets for this all ages show are $31 and can be purchased at the venue or Ticketmaster outlets.
Aoki, who created his own record label Dim Mak Records in 1998, has released hit singles such as "I'm in the House," "Turbulence," "No Beef," "Boneless" and his latest sensation "Bring You to Life (Transcend)."
Also slated to perform are Borgore and hip hop heavyweight Waka Flaka Flame.
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How to change the course of our nation's decline
Few Christians in America are confident in the spiritual direction our country is headed. We are a troubled nation, growing progressively worse in a time when people "call evil good, and good evil" (Is. 5:20).
As I was musing on the state of the nation during a walk the other day, I asked the Lord some pointed yet disturbing questions: "Lord, if You judge America, if You harshly judge this nation, what will happen to Your people? And I mean true believers—will they be spared? What about my four precious daughters? What will come of them?"
I came to a standstill, in utter shock and horror, at the thought of what the answer to that question could be. Because the truth is, if God does to His people today what He did with His people in the Old Testament when the nation of Israel was judged, then the answer is clear—and it's not a good one.
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A story in 1 Samuel gives a fascinating account of a situation that many believe parallels the American church today.
Long story short, after Israel loses a battle and the Ark of the Covenant to the Philistines, the Philistines encounter every kind of problem you can imagine. After many an affliction, they realize they have to rid themselves of this curse (the Ark of the Covenant), and they send it back to Israel.
Upon seeing the cart carrying the Ark, the Israelites "rejoiced at the sight" (1 Sam. 6:13, NIV). But what followed wasn't exactly what they expected. The Ark did not bring them good fortune or great blessing, as they had thought it would. Instead, for more than 20 years, all the presence of the Lord brought the Israelites was judgment, so much so that it says in chapter 7 that "all the people turned back to the Lord" (v. 2)—even though they were already in His presence!
What we quickly find out in the next two verses is that while they had the presence of the Lord in the Ark of the Covenant for those 20 years, they also had idols, including Ashtoreth poles, Baals and other foreign gods, in their midst, in their tents and in their cities—again, while in the presence of the Lord.
We can easily hear words like idols, Ashtoreth poles and Baals and think such idolatry is a million miles away or, more specifically, thousands of years removed from our tech-driven, progressive-thinking modern world. After all, who in America today carves out images of deities such as Ashtoreth and Baal and worships them?
Well, the idols may have changed shape and form, but our compulsion to worship other gods is just as prominent.
Defining Idols
What is an idol? Dictionary.com tells us it's "any person or thing regarded with blind admiration, adoration or devotion."
If there's any ambiguity on what constitutes an idol, let me make it so simple that you'll know in an instant what yours is.
For some, it is an object, such as a car, a boat or even a video game. For others, it is a person or a set of persons—perhaps someone famous, such as a television, movie, reality show or music personality. For others, it may be something like an itch; you try so hard not to scratch it, but sometimes you do, and it is never more than an instant away from your fingertips.
An idol is your apple in the garden—your one thing you tell yourself over and over you could stop any time you really wanted to, but you don't. And even though you walk into churches and feel God's presence, you just can't seem to move to that next step—that next level—and joy eludes you again and again because you are trying to live a life where both coexist: the presence of God and that something you know is standing between you and your God.
Consumed by Media
I have been alarmed at the boldness of the American media the past few years, but within the past year it seems things on this front are accelerating like never before. I've never seen network and cable TV filled with so much brazen, out-and-out immorality, violence and sexuality—all of which are our version of Ashtoreth poles and Baals.
This fall's new TV season will undoubtedly usher in another wave of shows pushing the boundaries of moral decency on screen. Try counting the number of shows with the word lie, liars, deceit or some other reference to untruth in their titles. And as everyone knows by now, homosexuality is presented as just a normal part of society on the small screen. One show even calls it the "new normal."
This is to be expected from a godless culture. But studies show our TV viewing habits in the church are no different than those in the world. We come home from church, plop down and let the TV run for hours in our homes. We're just as likely to tune in to every episode of the latest reality TV hit celebrating immorality, decadence and a no-holds-barred approach to life. Some of us claim to watch these programs merely to stay relevant and culturally up-to-date, yet we succumb to the same diluted standards and begin to refer to what we see on screen as normal.
If you don't think this shift in media has an effect on real-life people, just wait for the next tragic rampage to hit our nation and see what's really behind the carnage.
Children are dying in their classrooms and people are walking into movie theaters and shopping malls and schools, killing people at a clip I have never seen in my 40-something years. Teens are taking their lives and entering rehab centers at alarming rates while one camp of the church wrestles with being culturally relevant and the other camp wrestles with being 100 percent theologically correct and outing any who are not.
Were it not for the promise in God's Word, one would think victory was slipping through our hands like water through a broken dam.
The Cycle Repeats
When will we learn this isn't anything new? The views of morality the U.S. media embraces right now aren't new. They aren't depicting evolving thought processes or progressive breakthroughs. This is as old as the Bible itself. It is the same cycle that has repeated itself over and over. It is our history. It is our Christian heritage, and it isn't a good one.
Throughout history, God's people have gone from seeing amazing victories to drifting away from their center through generational decline to conforming more to the culture of the surrounding peoples to chasing after other gods and then bowing to the other gods and then, inevitably, to God's judgment—His strong hand of correction. More times than not, this meant captivity, slaughter and loss of life as they knew it.
How modern they must have felt in Sodom! How forward-thinking they must have thought they were as Babylon was marching! How righteous and well-educated they must have thought themselves when the Savior of the world stood in their very midst, as they dismissed Him as a threat to their power and position!
In 2013, it's a different day, same dilemma.
Is there hope? Absolutely! But a sifting must come first, and that is where I believe Christianity in the U.S. is today and what I believe God is doing in the church as we know it right now: sifting.
Rick Warren recently told a viewing audience a very simple truth: that every civilization has a starting point and an ending point. All great civilizations, at some point, die. And ours has outlived most.
We must never think God needs His people to live well and live free in a Christian nation for the kingdom to be advanced. In fact, many of the greatest moves of God came when His people were in the minority or under the oppression of a foreign government, burning at the stake or even in slavery or prison, as was the case with Daniel, Esther, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, Moses, Joseph, Paul, Barnabas—and the list goes on and on.
This life we live today could be gone tomorrow, as has been the case with every major civilization in the history of the planet—and for most, their end was swift and painful.
The Church's Response
I will tell you this, and I say this with the sincerest prophetic utterance and persuasion that I have been called to say it: God loves His church and stands ready to bless her even in these evil days. But God will not be mocked, and He is a jealous God.
The highest form of idolatry is when God's people begin to break free from the life with God they surrendered to live and begin to live according to the limits of their minds, their reason, their surrounding culture, their media and their vices—in other words, their version of Ashtoreth poles and Baals.
I have watched too many once-mainline denominations and well-known pastors yield to the wisdom of the day and stray from their founding principles and the Scriptures with which they were formed. In their pursuit to be relevant, they find themselves being, in all things once absolute, relative. The same goes for the colleges founded in their names.
Let me be clear: Any movement, church or individual that would relegate the Bible to metaphors, good stories and anything less than the inerrant, living, breathing Word of God is committing the highest form of idolatry, as it's the equivalent of declaring yourself the god of your own life, weighing all things through the finite reasoning of your own mind and conscience, church committee or denominational vote. We do this to our own great peril.
When views on abortion, suicide, adultery, divorce, homosexuality, alcoholism, drug use, sex outside of marriage, gambling, foul language and other leading issues are no different in the church than they are in the unsaved world, there is idolatry. It means refusing to surrender our own desires and beliefs to the will of the God of the universe and His Word and refusing to bow the knee.
When you say, "I know the Bible says this, but I am going to do this, or I think differently," then you have declared yourself to be your own god, and that is the highest form of idolatry. In the words of Calvary Chapel founding pastor Chuck Smith, "If the Bible is not completely true or inerrant, then, pray tell, who decides which parts are true and which parts are not?"
When a church or a church leader strays in this way, they can sing all the songs they want and pray all the prayers they want to pray, but they are singing and praying to dead air, no matter how good the music makes them feel or how inspiring the words of the leader may be. They have taken their anointing and covering from their God and placed them in the hands of man or an ideology. In doing so, they have become no more than a club or a group—and the nation incurs the loss, as does the church.
What Is Our Hope?
Our hope is as old as our faith itself, and it can be summed up in one word: surrender. So many churches are struggling, and many have closed. They say it's the economy, but one look at Europe—once the seat of so many great missionary and evangelistic movements in church history—and we can see great parallels to the decline of Christianity in the U.S. over the last 20 years.
I do not wish to pour salt in the wounds of precious pastors in the trenches, but I do want to say that even in these difficult financial times, I know of many churches that are flourishing and seeing amazing moves of God. What do these churches have in common? They possess a passionate commitment to prayer, private fasting, God's Word and seeing the lost come to Christ. And they speak the truth in love about idols.
We hold the answer, friends. We always have. Bend the knee. Come under the authority of God's Word. Guard your children against the "new normal."
Churches, be willing to break from your weekly and yearly calendar, and schedule regular times of prayer and fasting. Give as you have never given before. Do not turn a blind eye to the orphan, the widow, the single mother, the alien or the hungry. See beyond your own shores, and set foot on lands you have not known. Extend a hand weekly to the lost, and make evangelism and discipleship the pillars of everything you do. Pray for your leaders. Pray for your president, whether you agree with him or not. Pray for his children. And pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Pastors, engage as you have never engaged before. We do not need words from the stage only. We need shepherds who smell like sheep and prophets who are not afraid to proclaim what God whispers in their ears. We desperately need leaders who are strong and courageous.
The passage in 1 Samuel 7 shows that everything changed with three simple acts. The people destroyed their idols; they assembled to fast; and they confessed.
We are not so different than our ancient church ancestors. I know I'm not. I have my something, just like you have your something. And I have tried in vain to serve and worship One while entertaining the other in those off hours—those hours when no one is looking. But I have a name for it now—idolatry—and it must die if I am to go on with Him.
I am not ready to throw in the towel, and by God's grace, Satan will not have my children. My Bible says no weapon formed against me will prosper. My Bible says God will build His church and the very gates of hell will not prevail against it. My Bible says if God's people will humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways, then He will hear from heaven and heal their land. The promises are there, and they are real.
Rich Rogers is a pastor, speaker, counselor, educator and coach who has worked with children, teens and adult learners for more than 25 years. He is also the author of numerous articles and books, including Next Level Living and Next Level Parenting. Rich currently serves as administrative pastor at Shoreline Church in Fountain Valley, Calif.
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Vernon is a doctor and cancer survivor. He is first introduced as Lee escapes the sewers during Episode 4. When he first met Lee he thought he was a member of Crawford. Lee, upon learning Vernon was a doctor, asked him if he could come with him to help Omid.
He along with Lee, Brie, and the rest of Lee's group (Clementine can come with you or stay in the house if you decide) infiltrated Crawford mid-way in Episode 4 to get the necessary supplies to get the boat up and running.
At the beginning of Episode 5, he alongside the other cancer survivors that we're with him, stole the boat Lee and his group we're going to use to escape. He and the other cancer survivors locked Lee's group in the garage (or left a note if everyone came with you to get Clementine) where the boat was while Lee was looking for Clementine.
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Hip-hop star Macklemore struggled to enjoy his quadruple win at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, because he felt terrible for "robbing" pal Kendrick Lamar of the Best Rap Album honor.
The Thrift Shop hitmaker and his collaborator Ryan Lewis claimed the title for their debut release The Heist, but Macklemore admits he was genuinely shocked to learn they had beaten Lamar to the prize – and he sent the Swimming Pools (Drank) star a text to express his guilt.
Macklemore, who shared a screen grab of the cell phone message with his Instagram.com followers after Sunday's ceremony, wrote: "You got robbed. I wanted you to win. You should have. It's weird and it sucks that I robbed you.
"I was gonna say that during the speech. Then the music started playing during my speech and I froze. Anyway you know what it is. Congrats on this year and your music."
The award was actually handed out during a pre-Grammys telecast prizegiving, which Macklemore & Ryan Lewis did not attend because they were preparing for their performance with Madonna and Mary Lambert at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The only award the duo picked up at the official event was one for Best New Artist.
In the accompanying photo caption to Macklemore's Instagram post, he further explained, "He (Lamar) deserved best rap album. I'm honored and completely blown away to win anything much less 4 Grammys. But in that category, he should have won IMO (in my opinion)."
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, who headed into Sunday with seven nominations, also claimed Grammys for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song for Thrift Shop.
They also made history at the Grammy Awards by performing their gay rights anthem Same Love with Mary Lambert and Madonna, as Queen Latifah officiated a group wedding ceremony for 33 gay, straight and interracial couples in the aisles of the Staples Center.
Lamar was another seven-time nominee, but walked away from the prizegiving empty-handed.
Hip-hop star Macklemore struggled to enjoy his quadruple win at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, because he felt terrible for "robbing" pal Kendrick Lamar of the Best Rap Album honor.


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The following areas now have seasonal closures in effect:
• BLM Beach on the south side of Lake Billy Chinook will be closed from Jan. 1 – Aug. 31 to protect nesting bald eagles. The BLM does not have alternate campsites in the area.
• Millican Plateau OHV Trail System (Route #95 only) –This route closed Jan. 1 – Aug. 31 to protect nesting bald eagles. There are numerous other routes in the area for out-and-back as well as loop rides.
• North Millican OHV Trail System (Route #25) – This route closed from Feb. 1 – Aug. 31 to protect nesting golden eagles. There are numerous other routes in the area.
• Trout Creek Trail (South side of the Trout Creek Trail only) - Visitors are required to stay on the Trout Creek Trail or between Trout Creek Trail and the Lower Deschutes River. This area is closed from Jan. 15 – Aug. 31 to protect nesting golden eagles. Climbers can use other climbing locations such as Rattlesnake, Skinners Butte or the Gorge at Smith Rocks.
• Cline Buttes Recreation Area (portions of the Deep Canyon, Fryrear, Maston, and Jaguar Road only) – are closed from Feb. 1 – Aug. 31 to protect nesting golden eagles. Alternative Trail Use Areas in Cline Buttes include Tumalo Canal Historic Area, the Buttes and the open portions of the areas listed above.
• Horny Hollow Trail near Crooked River Ranch is closed from Feb. 1 – Aug. 31 to protect nesting golden eagles. Alternate trail sites in the area include Otter Bench, Scout Camp, Folley Waters and Steelhead Falls.
• Dry River Canyon Trail on the southeast side of the Badlands is closed to protect nesting prairie falcons and golden eagles from Feb. 1 – Aug. 31. Alternate places in the area to recreate include Badlands Rock Trail, Flatiron Trail and the Horse Ridge Trail Complex.
Bald and golden eagles are protected by three Federal laws: The Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Lacey Act. Coverage provided by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act also extends to prairie falcons.
• The Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act protects bald and golden eagles by prohibiting the take, possession, sale, purchase, barter, offer to sell, transport, export or import, of any bald or golden eagle, alive or dead, including any part, nest, or egg, unless allowed by permit. Under this Act, "take" includes activities such as molesting or disturbing eagles, as well as more severe actions like killing or wounding them.
• The Lacey Act also protects bald eagles by making it a Federal offense to take, possess, transport, sell, import, or export their nests, eggs and parts that are taken in violation of any state, tribal or U.S. law.
• Migratory Bird Treaty Act is a Federal law that carries out the United States' commitment to four international conventions with Canada, Japan, Mexico and Russia. Those conventions protect birds that migrate across international borders.
Violating the Prineville District closure orders can lead to a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment of not more than 12 months, or both. Convictions under the protection acts listed above can be much more severe. BLM will lift closures earlier if biologists determine a nest is not occupied or the young have left the nest.
More information about these closures as well as maps of closure areas can be found on the Alerts/Notices section of the Prineville BLM website; www.or.blm.gov/prineville or by calling the Prineville BLM office at (541) 416-6700.


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Just about a year after his arrest, Jose Escobar-Monterrozo, 36, was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Escobar-Monterrozo, was arrested on Jan. 25, 2012, as a suspect in the murder of his 33-year-old live-in girlfriend, Claudia Menjivar. She had allegedly been having an affair with an ex-boyfriend. It is reported that Escobar-Monterrozo repeatedly hit her with a steering wheel lock, eventually causing her death in the Simi Valley home they shared. The couple's 5-year-old son was apparently present during the homicide, and was dropped off at a neighbor's house by Escobar-Monterrozo before he fled the crime scene. Menjivar's body was discovered by her 15-year-old daughter.
Escobar-Monterrozo was initially charged with two counts of felony child abuse, residential burglary and felony murder, with a special allegation of the use of a deadly weapon during the commission of the crime. After the preliminary hearing in October, new evidence caused the District Attorney's office to reduce the murder charges to voluntary manslaughter. On Dec. 4, Escobar-Monterrozo pleaded guilty to all charges.
He is scheduled to be deported back to his native Guatemala after serving his prison sentence.
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Former reserve police officer Christopher Blankenship, 45, will appear in court for an early disposition conference on Feb. 11 at 1:30 p.m. in courtroom 12. His recent hearing was postponed after his attorney requested more time. Blankenship is currently free on bail.
On July 25, 2012, he was driving his 1984 Jeep Wrangler with three passengers when he allegedly lost control of the vehicle while maneuvering a turn on South Mountain Lookout Road, between Santa Paula and Somis. One of the passengers, 33-year-old Santa Paula police officer Kimberley Hemminger, was partially ejected and trapped under the vehicle. She died at the scene. According to the California Highway Patrol, none of the four occupants of the jeep had been wearing a seatbelt. Blankenship was arrested on suspicion of DUI. Following the arrest, he posted the $50,000 bail and immediately resigned from the Santa Paula Police Department, where he had worked as a reserve police officer for 10 years. Prior to that, he had volunteered with the Ventura County Police and Sheriff's Reserve Officer Academy.
Blankenship is charged with felony DUI and vehicular manslaughter. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Nov. 30.
of Ventura
The trial of 23-year-old accused murder suspect Joshua Graham Packer was delayed due to various motions. On Jan. 25, the next three upcoming court dates were confirmed as previously set, and Packer's attorneys requested a continuance.
Packer was arrested in 2010 for the May 2009 murder of Brock and Davina Husted (who was pregnant). He allegedly stabbed the couple multiple times and robbed them in their Ventura home, which he also reportedly burglarized.
In May 2012, however, DNA evidence revealed that he had apparently forced Davina Husted to engage in oral sex prior to the homicide. This led to a second indictment, which Packer's attorneys fought to have dismissed due to the alleged legal errors in the presentation of evidence. The motion was denied, as was the motion to dismiss the presiding judge, which had been filed out of concern that Packer would be unable to receive a fair trial.
The trial, which was set to begin in August 2012, was postponed by the judge after Packer's attorneys requested more time to prepare, following the consolidation of the two indictments. The judge also issued a gag order, forbidding all involved attorneys and staff to discuss the case with the media. On Sept. 4, a recusal motion was filed by Packer's attorneys to remove Deputy District Attorney Mike Frawley from the case, citing conflict of interest that would interfere with a fair trial. In November, the motion was denied. Both parties continue to present and appeal various motions. Currently, the jury trial is scheduled to begin on March 4.
Packer is charged with three counts of murder with attached special allegations for the use of a firearm while committing burglary and robbery plus forcible oral copulation on Davina Husted with a knife. He has entered a plea of not guilty to all charges; the district attorney is seeking the death penalty.
A motion for discovery will be heard on Feb.1 at 1:30 p.m. in courtroom 25, where the judge is also expected to rule on the recent request for a continuance.
Gina Drake, 46, entered a plea of not guilty at her late December arraignment, which had been repeatedly postponed since her arrest. She is charged with felony murder, with the special allegation of using a knife during the crime.
Drake is accused of fatally stabbing her aunt, Wendy DiRodio, in the Ventura home the 61-year-old licensed therapist and author shared with her parents. The murder she allegedly committed occurred on 3, 2009 ,and there had been no arrests until Drake's in May 2012. Her husband, a Ventura police officer, filed for divorce following the revelation that she was a suspect. The motive for the alleged homicide is still unknown, and Drake reportedly invoked her Fifth Amendment right, protecting her from self-incrimination, when she was apparently questioned by her former husband regarding the murder. She is facing a maximum penalty of 26 years to life in prison.
Her attorney's previous requests for bail reduction to $510,000 were denied and she is currently free on the initial $1 million amount.
An early disposition conference has been scheduled for April 4 at 11 a.m. in courtroom 12 at the Ventura County Superior Court.


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"I Did It!" Before and After Weight-Loss Success Photos
These women shaped up, slimmed down, and found weight-loss success. Here, see their weight loss photos and find out how they lost the weight.
"I Love My 40s!"
"I wasn't active, and I loved food — ice cream, burgers, my dad's Hungarian goulash," says Lynne Frumkin, a mortgage banker from Great Falls, Virginia. When she moved to south Florida in her late 20s, Lynne took up aerobics and dropped to 135 pounds, where she stayed for years — even after the birth of her first baby. But with her second pregnancy, five years ago, everything changed. "After I gave birth I weighed 157 pounds and I couldn't lose an ounce of it," she says. Caring for an infant and a toddler left her exhausted, and she found comfort in food. "I had no time or energy to work out, and I ate crackers, pizza and cereal late at night."
Then she moved back to Washington, D.C., and reunited with her former work colleagues. "People kept saying that I looked so different," she says. "I also realized that I had no energy for things I used to be excited about, like my job and my family." Lynne decided it was time to change — desserts and pasta were saved for treats. She also cut back on white flour and added high-protein snacks like peanut butter and cottage cheese. In six months, she lost 20 pounds. Then she recommitted to exercise, hitting the stairclimber at the gym and weight training four to six times a week. Within four months, she dropped from 137 to 121. Now her energy levels are soaring. "I pack a ton into every day — kids, work, time with my husband," she says. "I wish I had known that my 40s would be so much fun!"
Age: 47
Height: 5'7 1/2"
Pounds lost: 36
Time at current weight: 12 months
"I Love My 40s!": After
My Diet: "Breakfast is oatmeal and an egg-white omelet. Lunch is chicken or tuna salad. Dinner is grilled steak and brown rice. Snacks are usually protein shakes."
My Guilty Pleasure: "A really good meal out -- like linguini with clam sauce, and chocolate cake."
My Workout: "Four to six days a week, I work out for 90 minutes -- a combination of weight training and the elliptical machine."
My #1 Motivator: "My husband, Dan, helps out by getting the kids off to school so I can get to the gym."
"I Lost 95 Pounds and Doubled My Energy!"
Misty Harris once carried 210 pounds on her 5'2" frame — weighing even more than her 6'3" husband when this photo was taken. But by revamping her diet and exercise habits, she lost a whopping 95 pounds over a two-year period.
"I Lost 95 Pounds and Doubled My Energy!": After
Misty Harris, now slender and fit, has maintained a healthy weight of 125 pounds for over two years. What's her secret? Read her story.
"I Cut Portions and Dropped the Baby Weight"
Two babies in two years left Dawn Scrutchins carrying an extra 50 pounds on her once slender body. When this photo was taken, she weighed in at 170 pounds. Portion cutting and an exercise plan have since helped her lose her baby weight.
"I Cut Portions and Dropped the Baby Weight": After
135 pounds is perfect -- and much healthier -- for Dawn's 5'6" frame. How'd she lose the weight and keep it off? Read her story.
"A Shopping Meltdown Made Me Lose 75 Pounds"
After a nightmarish dressing room trip when even the store's biggest jeans didn't fit, 200-pound Kristi Dear resolved to lose weight. In this photo, she's at her heaviest.
"A Shopping Meltdown Made Me Lose 75 Pounds": After
Kristi reached her goal weight -- she lost 75 pounds -- within a year, and has now maintained it for three years! How? Read her story.
"A Women-Only Gym Helped Me Drop 35 Pounds"
Margaret Robinson struggled with her weight for years — and then a women-only gym caught her eye. There she found the support she needed to drop 35 pounds.
"A Women-Only Gym Helped Me Drop 35 Pounds": After
Margaret has been down to a healthy 125 pounds for over 15 months now. How'd she finally lose the weight? Read her story.
"Martial Arts Helped Reshape My Body"
Kimmarie Barrett's weight was so out-of-control when this image was taken that her doctors were prescribing medication. But exercise — particularly martial arts — helped her finally slim down.
"Martial Arts Helped Reshape My Body": After
Now trim and fit, Kimmarie has maintained her healthy weight and muscular body for over a year. How'd she do it? Read her story.
"I Started Running and Dropped 90 Pounds"
Emotional eater Kara Thayer is at her biggest in this image — nearly 240 pounds. It took a wake-up call about her health to motivate her to finally lose the weight. What happened? Read her story.
"I Started Running and Dropped 90 Pounds": After
A new-found love of running helped Kara, now fit and slender, lose 90 pounds. How has she kept it off? Read her story.
"I Dropped 30 Pounds in My Home Gym"
Eliana Martinez, pictured here at her former weight of 170 pounds, used to think that weight gain was normal as an adult. Now she knows better — and has the body to prove it. How'd she do it? Read her story.
"I Dropped 30 Pounds in My Home Gym": After
Eliana, now fit and energetic, has made fitness a daily part of her life. How much has she changed? Read her story.


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Monday, August 16, 2010
Coming up short?
If you follow indie games, you might have heard of Limbo, a recent platform game available now on Xbox Live Arcade. It is deliciously atmospheric - you play a lonely little boy jumping his way through a minimalist black and white world that manages to be hauntingly beautiful without being pretentious. Limbo has been universally praised by reviewers, but there has been one universal criticism: it's a little on the short side.
Like VVVVVV, this is a criticism that has been leveled at my own games more than once. "The game is great - but it's too darn short!" the critics say. To which I can only respond... "Well, you're right." There's no denying it. A typical Blackwell game can take you from 2-4 hours to complete if you are a hardcore adventure gamer. Maybe 6-8 if you are more casual. There are those who even play with a walkthrough handy on their first go-round, and they zip through it in no time at all - often faster than me!
So yeah, my internal games tend to be on the short side. Why is that? There are a lot of good reasons for short games - they don't overstay their welcome, people don't have as much time to play games these days, or simply because the game is better served by being a smaller experience (Portal is the game that is usually used as the best example of this).
But for me, the reason is simpler than that. I am a trembling abject coward.
Read any indie developer blog and you'll often hear that they are "one flop away from going out of business." As an indie developer, and an indie adventure game developer at that, I don't like those odds. Adventure games are a tough sell even for mainstream AAA companies, and they have bigger marketing budgets than I do. If I spend a year or more on just one game, spending lots of money and man-hours on it, only to have it sell poorly... well, that would be the last you hear of me.
So... I tread carefully. To make a game, a developer can spend money to pay someone to do the work, or spend time doing it him/herself. If I spend more money, I will have to earn that money back. If I spend more time, it's time that the game is not earning any money (which I will still have to earn back). As a result, I tend to keep my games tight and lean - making them deep instead of broad. So if I screw up and the game bombs, then it won't be too much of a financial burden for my little studio to bear. I can just make another game and move on.
This is not to say that my games can't be long, epic works of grandeur.. It's just that they won't be long, epic works of grandeur yet. As I've gained more customers and fans I have slowly increased the length of my games. Convergence was easily longer than Unbound or Legacy, and the upcoming Deception is shaping up to be significantly longer than Convergence. Baby steps, kids. Baby steps.
So to answer the question of "Why are my games on the short side?" The simple answer for me is because I want to keep making games. I love making these games. And, for some strange reason that I am eternally thankful for, enough people like them enough to spend their money on them so I can continue to do this full time and make more (even during these crazy economic times). It's a great way to live, but there is always that little ever-present fear that it could all end if I am not smart. I'd have to - gulp - get a real job. And we can't have that.
This blog post is one in a series of posts for what we've called "Size Doesn't Matter Day." For other blog posts on this topic, check out:
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Great article, Dave. I couldn't agree more. (Although I do think there is an untapped demographic market for shorter games that cellphone apps have filled to some degree. We will see this expand I believe) There is room in the gaming world for many types and lengths--the key is marketing them successfully so that the audience doesn't get confused or feel misled. Think of the supermarket over the years...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 17, 2010 at 6:24 AM
The only Blackwell game that felt a bit shortish to me was Unbound. However, I don't think it was a direct result of the game's actual length, just that the storyline felt less epic and complete than in Legacy and Convergence and more like a TV series episode.ReplyDelete
I'd say Convergence has an excellent length and provides several solid hours of fun, but I definitely wouldn't mind a Gabriel Knight scale in future installments either.
- AnonymousAugust 17, 2010 at 6:38 AM
Good advice Dave, I should really make smaller games =0).ReplyDelete
I want to do this full time too, and at the moment I seem to be spending quite a significant amount of time working for other people while I wait for Jolly Rover sales to allow me to make another game, and this is quite difficult after experiencing the sheer joy of creation that I felt during Jolly Rover.
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Well, you might remember that Unbound and Convergence were originally supposed to be one game! Taken together, it might have been the epic game people were looking for.
Hah, well to be fair you didn't have to make a small game since you got some funding for Jolly Rover, which took a bit of the risk out for you. With less risk comes greater flexibility! But look how it's paid off! Dude, you're all over the place. It's pretty amazing. Although... I still have to play the game. :-x
I do wonder how much pricing of (short) indie games could be based on an understanding of its audience; some middle class academics who are pretentious and consume artsy games could maybe be open for the idea of paying more than the regular customer because it makes them feel even more singled-out, elitist. I do think I remember the creator of "Spider and Web" and "A Change in the Weather" saying something about pricing and that applications for iphone who are very cheap aren't appreciated by the audience simply because the application doesn't warrant och necessitate much time to be spent with in order for the consumtion to feel "good" and justified for the customer. Definitely some cognitive dissonance going on here:ReplyDelete
I wouldn't say that Blackwell customers are elitist or academic, or even indie game customers in general. Although I think that the cheap prices on iPhones and other devices are indicative of a larger problem - that games are fast becoming quickly consumable items. Since iPhone games are cheaper than a street hot dog, it's easy to play around with one, get tired of it, and then move onto the next. When people ask me why I don't make games for the iPhone or iPad, that's the main reason why.ReplyDelete
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For the third straight year, the highest ranked Division I athletic program on the Front Range doesn't have a football team.
That's right. The University of Denver, with its broad-based athletic program, is the perfect fit to rack up the points on the Director's Cup standings. The Pioneers led all area programs in 65th place nationally.
Stanford, thanks to its menu of 28 programs, won its 16th straight national title. In an effort to balance the non-revenue program have's and have-not's, only 20 programs can by counted by a school in any given year.
The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics oversees the standings and establishes scoring system based on post-season success. A championship in skiing counts as much as the national football crown.
(Some naysayers suggest Colorado and Colorado State with their forgettable 3-9 campaigns don't have football, either.)
CU hadn't won the area unofficial title since 2007 when the Buffs finished 37th to DU's 74th.
Here's the area rankings for the just completed '09-'10 school year: DU, 65th; CU, 69th; Air Force 96th, CSU T123rd; Wyoming, 163rd and Northern Colorado 195th.
DU had points in women's skiing, men's ice hockey, women's gymnastics, men's lacrosse, women's golf, men's tennis. CU always relies on skiing, cross country and track for its points, while CSU gets the bulk of its scoring from volleyball.
CU placed 10th among Big 12 schools and would have ranked ninth among the future 12-school Pac-10. While joining the Pac-10 revives CU's eternal hopes for adding programs, the new league home is also more competitive. The Big 12 placed four teams in the Top 17 while the Pac-10 landed seven in the Top 25.
Air Force, CSU and Wyoming took the bottom three slots among Mountain West schools.


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God Wants Homeless People To Lobby The FCC To Help The Outcast & Downtrodden AT&T?
from the say-what-now? deptFor years we've talked about how various lobbyist organizations in DC have "special interest" front groups. These are groups who get attention from politicians but really have no interest in the policy matters at hand. However, because large companies have donated to those front groups, the lobbyists get to write up letters pretending to be from those groups, so they can pressure politicians who don't want to "upset" a certain special interest group.
"You go down the Latino people, the deaf people, the farmers, and choose them.... You say, 'I can't use this one--I already used them last time...' We had their letterhead. We'd just write the letter. We'd fax it to them and tell them, 'You're in favor of this.'"Sometimes they don't even bother getting permission, such as the time that a Burger King franchise wrote a letter complaining about the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Except, when a reporter called the franchise execs, they had no idea what the CFTC was. There was some actual backlash earlier this year when AT&T got the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) to come out in favor of its merger with T-Mobile, upsetting much of the membership, and leading a bunch of board members (including an AT&T lobbyist) to resign.
However, one small setback in such practices is no big deal when you have that big list of groups to go through. After "the Latino people, the deaf people, the farmers" apparently there are the religious homeless shelters. The Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission, proud recipients of a $50,000 donation from AT&T, has come out in favor of the merger with impeccably inscrutable logic:
The faith-based service provider offered what it acknowledged was "an out-of-place endorsement" of the AT&T merger with T-Mobile, with Rev. R. Henry Martin explaining that "People often call on God to help the outcasts and downtrodden that walk among us, [but] [s]ometimes, however, it is our responsibility to take matters into our own hands. Please support this merger."I'm still trying to figure out what that means. First, it seems to be suggesting that homeless people need to step up their game to support the "outcasts and downtrodden" AT&T and T-Mobile that "walk among us." Because, um, otherwise, what does that refer to? The homeless people may be outcasts and downtrodden, but the shelter isn't asking for any help for them.. but rather for AT&T and T-Mobile. I guess it also implies that God supports the merger but apparently God alone can't convince the FCC, so apparently, if homeless folks could lobby and support one of the largest corporations around, that will be helpful.
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Sunday Sweets: Farmed Out
Submitted Stacey L., made by her friend BethThis shows that your cake doesn't have to be big, sculpted, or multi-tiered to be awesome. Love it!
And a "cluck cluck" there:
It's a wedding cake! How very City Slickers.
Here a "neigh:"
There an "apple:"
It was inspired by the song "Big Yellow Taxi." Gorgeous!
Everywhere a "barrel of ducks wearing cowboy hats with a bar of soap:"
Before you ask, the "water" is pulled sugar covered with piping gel. Genius.
Old McDonald...
Oops... sorry. Sometimes I get my McDonalds mixed up.
Well, finally, here's a bonus Sweet for all you Farmville
addicts enthusiasts:
I'm digging those carrots.
Get it? "Digging?"
Sorry; my sense of humor is firmly rooted in puns
Get it? "Rooted?"


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This month's featured gallery is Artist Made Jewelry. Handcrafted jewelry is not only an expression of the artist who created it but of the one who wears it. Whether created in silver or gold; plain or sparkling with gems and stones, artist made jewelry is a coming together of personalities that is unique. Throughout the remainder of March, we are going to take a few moments to catch up with some of EBSQ's Jewelry artists.
Terah Lyn Ware
My interest in women's history and adornment has led me to create the timeless jewelry collection, "An Era's Ambiance". In my studies of historical attire, jewelry was found to be very symbolic in women's lives by representing stature, the mourning a loved one or simply adorning one's soul. I use heirlooms from the past to adorn the souls of today. The antiquity and history of each heirloom that I handpick transcends beauty from a time in one's past…"An Era's Ambiance".
My handmade jewelry would be described as "upcycled" works of art, altered creations, and "Neo Victorian" Classics. I create my jewelry from heart and soul to create "gifts" for those that relate to the past. – Terah Lyn Ware
Terah resides in Berkeley Springs, WV with her husband and son. She is an art teacher for Morgan County, WV.
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* These are the only [[core series]] games that do not have ''Version'' (or its equivalent in that language) in their Western language names.
* These are the only [[core series]] games that do not have ''Version'' (or its equivalent in that language) in their Western language names.
* These are the only [[core series]] games to be released on the same date worldwide.
* These are the only [[core series]] games to be released on the same date worldwide.
* you play either game on your birthday (or what is set as your birthday on your 3DS), you visit the Pokemon Center, the room will grow dark. A few seconds later, the room will illuminate with confetti cannons and Nurse Joy giving you a birthday message. The LED behind her will show a cake to commemorate your birthday, plus the Pokemon Center Theme also has been changed to a more melodic and soothing sound. Every time you want to heal your Pokemon, she'll say "Happy Birthday" to you and then ask to heal your Pokemon.
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Revision as of 22:13, 14 April 2014
- Pokémon X redirects here. For other uses, see Pokémon X (disambiguation).
Pokémon X (Japanese: ポケットモンスターX Pocket Monsters X) and Pokémon Y (Japanese: ポケットモンスターY Pocket Monsters Y) are the primary paired versions of Generation VI. The games are available on the Nintendo 3DS. The games take place in the new Kalos region.
Both games were revealed during a worldwide announcement by Satoru Iwata through Nintendo Direct at 8 pm JST, on January 8, 2013. The paired versions were released worldwide (except for select countries) on October 12, 2013 and are available for both retail sale and download.[6] All copies of the game are playable in all seven of the languages that the Pokémon games are released in: Japanese, English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Korean.
- 1 Plot
- 2 Blurb
- 3 Features
- 3.1 3D compatible gameplay
- 3.2 Renames
- 3.3 Transportation
- 3.4 Player Search System
- 3.5 Pokémon-Amie
- 3.6 Sky Battles
- 3.7 Horde Encounters
- 3.8 Super Training
- 3.9 New type
- 3.10 Trainer customization
- 3.11 Gyms
- 3.12 Elite Four and Champion
- 3.13 Pokémon
- 4 Music
- 5 Staff
- 6 Beta elements
- 7 Gallery
- 8 Trivia
- 9 See also
- 10 External links
- 11 References
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The next evolution in Pokémon!
New Pokémon! Explosive 3D battles! Exciting New Features!
3D compatible gameplay
Unlike previous games in the main series, Pokémon X and Y feature a three dimensional style of gameplay, and 3D modeled characters and creatures are used, rather than sprites like has always been done in the main series. In addition, the games still feature 2D elements of gameplay. The battle system is aesthetically overhauled, featuring more lively reactions to the attacks, such as when a Pokémon is being hit.
In non-Japanese languages, many move and item names are now spelled or formatted differently. For example, ThunderShock is now formatted as Thunder Shock and Faint Attack is now spelled Feint Attack.
Players can now walk on an 8 directional grid, allowing diagonal movement, as opposed to the four way grid in previous games.
The player now has the ability to rollerskate, at least under certain conditions, and can also free roam on no grid. This also works with the bike. The player can use the roller skates and can grind to overcome obstacles. Skiddo, Mamoswine, and Rhyhorn can be ridden in certain locations and allow the player to interact with the environment, by destroying rocks and crossing broken paths. Gogoat can also be ridden, although only around Lumiose City in a set path.
Player Search System
- Main article: Player Search System
The Player Search System (PSS) is a multiplayer feature that allows people to connect, battle, and trade with other players through the internet. It uses the bottom screen and allows the player to search for other people playing both globally and locally.
- Main article: Pokémon-Amie
Pokémon-Amie is a new feature that allows the player to develop stronger bonds with their Pokémon. It uses the touch screen to allow players to pet, feed, and play with Pokémon currently on their team. Players may interact with their Pokémon by petting or feeding them via the touchscreen or mimicking their movements using the camera.
Sky Battles
- Main article: Sky Battle
Sky Battles are battles which are restricted to Flying Pokémon, although some Pokémon with Levitate can enter. These airborne battles take place against Trainers standing far away, such as on cliffs.
Horde Encounters
- Main article: Horde Encounter
It is now possible to encounter several wild Pokémon at once. Up to five wild Pokémon will battle against one of the player's Pokémon. These battles offer a lot of experience. Some attacks, such as Rock Slide, are shown to hit all five of the opposing Pokémon. However, after the player's turn, their Pokémon must withstand attacks from all five of the opposing Pokémon.
Super Training
- Main article: Super Training
Super Training is a new method of quickly and easily increasing a Pokémon's EVs.
New type
- Main article: Fairy (type)
One new type has been introduced, the Fairy type. This type was added to balance the Dragon type, which was previously only weak to itself and Ice. Fairy-type attacks are strong against Dragon, Fighting, and Dark types and resisted by Fire, Poison, and Steel types; Fairy-type Pokémon are weak to Poison- and Steel-type attacks, resist Fighting-, Bug-, and Dark-type attacks, and are immune to Dragon-type attacks.
Trainer customization
- Main article: Trainer customization
The player will now be able to change their appearance in-game, allowing them to customize their characters by changing their hair color and clothing.
X and Y feature Gyms just as every other main series title. In Kalos, the Gym Leaders are Viola (Bug), Grant (Rock), Korrina (Fighting), Ramos (Grass), Clemont (Electric), Valerie (Fairy), Olympia (Psychic), and Wulfric (Ice).
Elite Four and Champion
Just as in Unova, the Elite Four can be battled in any order. After battling all four, a path to the Champion is unlocked. The Elite Four members are Wikstrom (Steel), Malva (Fire), Drasna (Dragon), and Siebold (Water). After beating all four Elite Four members, the player will face the Champion, Diantha, who uses a variety of types along with a Gardevoir which can Mega Evolve.
70 new Pokémon were introduced for X and Y, bringing the known total from 649 to 719.
The first Pokémon to be revealed were Chespin, Fennekin, Froakie, Xerneas, and Yveltal on January 8, 2013.
Mega Evolution
- Main article: Mega Evolution
A unique state, Mega Evolution, was introduced in Pokémon X and Y. Mega Evolution is a temporary in-battle transformation that results in an overall increase in stats, sometimes also changing a Pokémon's Ability and types. Not all Pokémon can Mega Evolve. A Pokémon can only Mega Evolve if it is holding a Mega Stone in battle and its Trainer has a Key Stone.
Version-exclusive Pokémon
This list of version-exclusive Pokémon applies to the main game. Some of the Pokémon listed can be found in the Friend Safari regardless of version.
- Main article: Pokémon X & Pokémon Y: Super Music Collection
The soundtrack contains most of the background music and effect music from the games. The music is composed by Shota Kageyama (Sound Director of Pokémon X & Y), Hitomi Satō, Minako Adachi, and Junichi Masuda. Pokémon X & Pokémon Y are the first main series titles since Pokémon Gold and Silver that Gō Ichinose did not work on as a composer, since he shifted to a side project of Game Freak's during the development of Pokémon X & Y.
- Main article: Staff of Pokémon X and Y
Beta elements
- Main article: Pokémon X and Y beta
- These are the only core series games that do not have Version (or its equivalent in that language) in their Western language names.
- These are the only core series games to be released on the same date worldwide.
- A cool Easter Egg occurs if you play either game on your birthday (or what is set as your birthday on your 3DS), If you visit the Pokemon Center, the room will instantly grow dark. A few seconds later, the room will illuminate with confetti cannons and Nurse Joy giving you a birthday message. The LED behind her will show a cake to commemorate your birthday, plus the Pokemon Center Theme also has been changed to a more melodic and soothing sound. Every time you want to heal your Pokemon, she'll say "Happy Birthday" to you and then ask to heal your Pokemon.
See also
External links
- ↑ Japanese Pokémon X and Y minisite (Japanese)
- ↑ Pokémon.com (US)
- ↑ Nintendo Australia
- ↑ Pokémon.com (UK)
- ↑ Korean Pokémon X and Y minisite (Korean)
- ↑ 『ポケットモンスター X・Y』ニンテンドー3DSで2013年10月、世界同時発売【画像追加】 (Japanese)
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