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With 2:13 left in the game, the Jackets decided to go for the score on fourth down. Their quarterback dropped back and threw to the back left corner of the endzone. There, junior Wildcat cornerback Bryan Wynne made a huge defensive play, batting the ball out of the Jacket receiver's hands and saving the game. From there, the Wildcats retained possession of the ball and ran out the clock.
"I feel good," Coach Bryan Craig said after the victory. "It's going right, but we're not there yet. We're going to continue to work on it and get better. I'm proud of the guys. It was a hard fought game, and I'm proud of the way they played."
Sonora next hosts Calaveras High School at Dunlavy Field at 7 p.m. Sept. 22. The Wildcats then travel to Amador High to take on the Buffaloes at 7 p.m. Sept. 29.


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The industry group Growth Energy petitioned the EPA to raise the blend in March 2009. The decision was initially expected last December but was delayed twice as the agency and the Energy Department completed additional testing.
Growth Energy President Tom Buis called the move a "good first step" and said the fuel could be available for sale as soon as early next year. He urged the agency to quickly approve the blend for older vehicles, saying there is no reason to limit the higher concentration to the newer models.
Critics said the decision could be a frustration to drivers and argued that many retailers will opt not to sell the higher blend because of the expense of adding new pumps and signs.
"We're really going to make the consumers a guinea pig here," said Craig Cox of the Environmental Working Group, an environmental advocacy group that opposes increases in the fuel. "Have we really thought through what it's going to take to distinguish E15 to E10?"
The EPA said the 2007 and newer models eligible for the fuel represent more than a third of current gas consumption and more than 65 million vehicles. The rules would affect only those cars and trucks because they have more durable emissions systems. Ethanol burns hotter than gasoline, causing catalytic converters, which treat engine emissions, to break down faster. The newer vehicles have components in the emissions systems that are better able to adjust to the higher ethanol blends.
Automakers said they were worried the EPA decision would eventually lead to motorists unknowingly filling up their older cars and trucks with E15 and hurting their engines.
The problem could be exacerbated if E15 fuels are cheaper than more conventional blends, prompting owners of older vehicles to use the fuel despite the potential engine problems.
"Anytime you're dividing up model years and having different fuels for different model years, then it risks a misfueling situation and that's a real concern for the longterm success of alternative fuels," said Gloria Bergquist, spokeswoman for Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers.
Since 2000, U.S. automakers have increased production of so-called flex-fuel vehicles, which can run on blends of up to 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. There are currently about 8 million flex-fuel vehicles on the road. Detroit automakers have pledged to make about half of their vehicle production capable of running on E85 by 2012.
The Obama administration's decision to boost the ethanol concentration in gasoline is a victory for the industry as it struggles to hold onto other subsidies. An increased public skepticism of the renewable fuel has caused some lawmakers who have always championed ethanol to divert the money to other priorities. A key tax credit is scheduled to expire at the end of this year, and some in Congress are considering cutting it or doing away with it altogether.
Ethanol producers say expiration of the credits, which are paid to oil companies as an incentive to blend gasoline with ethanol, could mean the loss of almost 40 percent of the industry's plants and tougher times for a domestic fuel that is good for national security.
Associated Press writer Ken Thomas contributed to this report.

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It was with the Blues that Talbot was involved in one of the seminal moments in hockey history. In overtime of the 1970 final, Talbot was checking Bobby Orr in the corner when a give-and-go with Derek Sanderson resulted in Orr firing the puck past St. Louis goalie Glenn Hall. As Orr got lofted into the air off the stick of Blues defenseman Noel Picard, Talbot had a front-row seat. Watch it on YouTube and you'll see No. 17 Talbot in a white helmet cruising behind the Blues net.
"I had the best vantage point of all," Talbot said. "It all happened right there in front of me."
That was the last playoff game Talbot played. He finished his 16-year career in Buffalo, then transitioned into coaching. After a few seasons in minor league Denver and one with the Blues, Talbot got a call from ex-Canadiens teammate John Ferguson to coach in the Big Apple. His one-year coaching stint in New York was more dubious than remarkable. Talbot made the mistake of wearing a polyester tracksuit behind the bench and that became known as hockey's biggest fashion faux pas.
Talbot was prone to sweating and got embarrassed when his shirt and jacket were dripping with perspiration in post-game scrums. He got caught in a perfect storm of sweat, sweatpants and practical decision-making.
"I asked (GM) John (Ferguson) 'Will you let me wear a tracksuit during games? They're looser and more comfortable. After a game, I take a shower and it feels good to put on a clean, dry suit instead of one that's damp from the sweat.' I think John felt bad for me so he didn't argue with it. He let me do it for the last half of the season."
An NHL coach wearing a tracksuit wasn't that huge of a deal in the loosey-goosey 1970s, a decade infused with disco lights and Ultrasuede leisure suits. But with the passage of time, the "awe, really" factor gets ramped up.
Talbot left coaching in 1978 and worked 12 years as a sales rep for O'Keefe Breweries in Trois-Rivieres, Que. Now 81 and married to Pierrette for 61 years, Talbot is in good health and spends some travel time visiting two sons and a daughter (and five granddaughters) in Texas, Colorado and New York.
This article originally appeared in the Oct. 14, 2013 edition of The Hockey News. For more great analysis, news and views from the world of hockey, subscribe to THN magazine.


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I liked the first book better. I still cheering for M. The trangle love has gotten more complex in the second book. Both boys are meplating and Alissa lies a few times, so no one is perfect. Book gets a lot more emotional and everyone's secrits is reveiled. I really liked the ending.
J'ai aimé autant que le premier. Super interessant. Wonderland dans le monde humain était très cool.
For one thing, I loved how Jeb had like, absolutely no idea what is going on. I think that Alyssa should definitely end up with Morpheus. I think he's just a lot more interesting than the boring human Jeb. And, can I just say that I love the prom scene. And the end, when Alyssa ends up in the asylum? I am so excited to finish Ensnared!!!!
lot more interesting as the first one also Morpheus is mysterious yet fabulous but in love I loved this book just as the first one
I thought Unhinged was a great way to carry on the Splintered story. The characters are great, and I felt as if I knew them. I really like this version of Wonderland A.G. Howard has created. It's creepy, but you could actually see it being real (well, I can, at least). There is a love triangle, so if you like them, you would probably like the trilogy. I liked how there was a cliff hanger at the end. I just like cliff hangers. Unhinged is a really good book, and I can't wait for Ensnared next year!
Wow!! I can't wait for the next book. It's getting very intense.
Though I wish there was more 'Wonderland' time in this book.
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What about these scenarios: 1. I have a web 2.0 GUI based application where a user can create some content by pushing buttons and writing snippets of code -- the end result is stored as text -- and then saved to the database. 2. I want the user to be able to list their files, edit them, then resave them -- all from the web 2.0 interface. or 1. I have a web 2.0 application where users input the vitamins levels they take vs their symptom levels for each day. Each day they can input their own symptom descriptions and values like 1 to 10. 2. When prompted, the system grabs all their data and runs statistics on it in javascript. In each case I want to do authentication -- like login/session/signup. That kind of thing. The web 2.0 GUI interfaces for both these projects involve 1000's of lines of javascript from different libraries, and multiple graphic image sets for the GUI, all of which are changing all the time during the development process. How is couchdb used in these scenarios. Right now I'm trying to get it working with couch.js but running into the cross domain problem. I can't send anything from an html page into the :5984 port. Thanks, Dan -----Original Message----- From: Randall Leeds <email@example.com> To: email@example.com Sent: Thu, Aug 19, 2010 4:42 pm Subject: Re: reverse proxy discouraged? I think for your use case a reverse proxy is fine, especially if the 'web2.0' content is a server itself running python/ruby/perl/java/erlang/scala/node/insert/favorite/middleware/here At which point you likely don't even need to expose couch to the outside at all. Just put it in your private network and access it from your application server. Exposing couch directly to the world via a reverse proxy is probably only a good plan if you need to co-host a public couch with other apps or static files behind different virtual hosts or if you want to do complicated authentication in front of your couch that couchdb can't do itself. -Randall On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 15:41, <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > Is using a reverse proxy to serve up html and couchdb from the same domain and port problematic? > Someone told me that it is highly discouraged > > and that html pages should be served from couchdb. > But on a site that is web 2.0 and has a complicated GUI there would need to be 100's of attachments that would be necessary to correctly > serve up a page as an attachment to a document. > > This sounds unreasonable for development where 100's of changes are made per day. > > The reverse proxy method seems feasible but why would it be discouraged? > > Thanks, > > Dan > > > > > > > >
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Did you know that you can speed up your website load times by 60 percent, practically eliminate DDoS attacks, eliminate bandwidth usage limits, and eliminate spam on your blog? It seems incredible, but CloudFlare does exactly that. One of the issues on most webmasters' minds, at one point or another, is security. Making a site more secure builds trust between you and your visitors, reduces headaches for you, and allows you to focus on what you do best: content creation and running your business. Another issue webmasters face is limitations on bandwidth usage, spam attacks, and DDos attacks (if you're a semi-popular website). While it wasn't originally designed to act as a distribution channel and content delivery network, CloudFlare's serendipitous experiment has thus far given users far more than what they bargained for.
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Website security is often done "in-house" for most large websites. Corporate blogs and highly-paid CEOs might shuffle this decision off to some IT personnel who is really motivated to keep his job - and rightly so. For this reason, security has traditionally been comprised of custom code installation from third-party security providers, widely-used plugins (some free, some paid), and custom security solutions. While all of these technically do work, the overhead in maintaining the security system can be brutal. IT specialists have to constantly monitor your website and keep up with all of the latest security threats. On top of that, there's no real guarantee that the security measures can't be defeated the same day that an upgrade takes place.
Even if you hired a good security team, you still have to essentially hand the reigns over to someone else and hope that the site functions as it should. For smaller websites and part-time bloggers, hiring a full-time security team is simply out of the question. Even small to medium-sized businesses normally can't pay for a dedicated security team.
If you can't afford a dedicated security team, what options do you have? Well, you basically have to run security detail yourself. Unless you're a computer programmer, you'll spend a lot of time getting acquainted with the dashboard of every security plugin, 3rd party code, and update process for every security measure on your site.
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It should be obvious by now that the major problem with traditional approaches to security is the time-intensive nature of keeping your website secure. One accidental keystroke, or glitch in Wordpress, can easily break your site and frustrate you for hours, days, and even weeks trying to figure out what "?" or "<" is missing from your PHP code, javascript, or whatever other language your code is written in.
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West Point remembers
Linda Malone is the widow of the late artist David O. Malone, who painted his impression of the New York skyline. He had intended to create an artistic tribute with a series of paintings. Malone was killed in a car crash Oct. 28, 2011, and never completed the series of paintings.
"David worked in New York a lot and was very familiar with Manhattan and the World Trade Center," Malone said. "Like everyone, he was devastated by the destruction of the Twin Towers by Islamic terrorists."
Malone said her husband seemed to be haunted by what had happened and began creating paintings of the skyline with the World Trace Center still standing.
"He painted so many pictures," Malone said. "It seemed like he was working through his grief. He had planned to start on another angle and then paint more without the towers. He never got around to working on the second or third series."
Many people have purchased the paintings after his death. The paintings hang in many homes and offices in West Point. Malone said even though the subject of the paintings are the same, and are all similar, no two are alike.
"He used different colors or shading for each one," Malone said. "Some are more blue, others contain oranges and reds like a sunset. There is one he painted where the main color is yellow. Under the right lighting I think that one is the most beautiful. There is one where it looks like it is raining and makes you think of the sadness of the families losing their loved ones. He brought something different to each one."
Malone said she was librarian at Central School when the World Trade Center was attacked.
"Each classroom and the library had a TV," Malone said. "I had the news on in the library and the classrooms could tune in, as well. That was a scary feeling like a bombing. Nothing like that had happened since the Kennedy assassination."
She said that was the only thing she could compare it to, as they were both events that made the entire country stand still.
West Point Fire Chief Ken Wilbourne said he was sitting at the kitchen bar at Fire Station 1 having a meeting with the hazmat team on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
"The weather that day was much like it was today (Thursday)," Wilbourne said. "It was cool and a cobalt blue sky. It's kind of strange."
Wilbourne, who was the battalion chief at the time, said he watched the attack happen on live television.
"The second plane went in, and I knew it was deliberate," Ken said.
Wilbourne said his first cousin was in Tower One when the plane crashed into the building.
"I had a first cousin in Tower One, and I wondered what happened to him," he said. "Luckily, I was able to hear from him the next day. He had just gotten to work and was in the bookstore on the first floor."
Wilbourne said he was afraid for the firefighters who were trying to rescue others that day.
"Watching it on TV, I thought there would have been many more killed than were," he said.
Wilbourne said many things changed in the department after 9/11.
"We kept the bay doors locked where the firetrucks are kept," he said. "There were rumors of firetrucks getting hijacked. There were so many rumors. There has also been more training of what to do with weapons of mass destruction, bombs and terrorist attacks - a whole lot more."
Priscilla Ivy is the reference librarian at the Bryan Public Library. At the time of the attacks, she was living in Plano, Texas, working for Electronic Data Systems.
"My work had brought me to Mississippi," Ivy said. "I was headed north on Highway 45, when I got a 911 alert from my supervisor. I was told to report back to Jackson, the closest home base for the company. They were trying to locate everyone. Some employees had been working in the U.K. and were flying back to the U.S. Our employer wanted to be sure none of our people were on one of those four planes."
Ivy said the scary part was seeing all the long lines at the gas stations. People were filling their cars and gas cans to be sure in case of an emergency they had plenty of gas. It was like since that had happened, something terrible could happen anytime, anywhere.
"It was like someone had broken into our country and stolen our safety and security," Ivy said. "My child was still in Texas and EDS allowed us to go home as soon as they had located everyone. We were grounded for three days. There were no planes flying. We were able to go back to work as soon as EDS made sure all of its employees were safe."
She said everyone was fearful, with no idea what might be the next target. It took a long time for things to return to normal.
"It has always made me sad to think of all the people who died that day," Ivy said. "There was nothing left of most of them to identify. I wonder if their families still hold onto a little hope that maybe they escaped. Still waiting and hoping they might walk in the door someday. The not knowing, of not having a positive identification of their loved ones, even after 16 years, must be horrible."
North Mississippi Mississippi Center Wellness Center Director of Wellness Tracy Arnett said she was hiking and camping in the Grand Canyon with a group of friends a few days prior to 9/11, and while they were hiking out they met a group of men hiking in who were tugboat drivers around the Statue of Liberty in New York City.
"Later on when I found out what had happened I thought, 'Those guys' friends are dying and they won't find out about it until they come out of the canyon days from now,'" Arnett said.
Arnett said she and her friends arrived at a hotel on Sept. 10 and planned to fly out of the airport in Albuquerque the next morning.
"While we were checking out of the hotel, the planes hit," Arnett said. "I told my friends there was no way we would be able to fly home, so we immediately went to the airport and got the last rental car available in the Albuquerque airport."
Arnett said the drive home took 20 hours, and they listened to the news on the radio the whole way home.
"We drove all night long and didn't stop because the world was just in chaos," she said. "I just wanted to get home because an event like that is so otherworldly, but I wasn't even in my own home to experience it. I just needed to get back to something familiar."
Arnett said she remembers immediately knowing 9/11 would be a world-changing event.
"I remember telling my friends, 'The world will never be the same again after this,' and I'm surprised it didn't change more dramatically than it did," she said. "I don't know what I was expecting - I guess more of a terrorist state."
Arnett said Monday she is joining her husband, who is a firefighter with the Starkville Fire Department, in running and walking 110 flights of stairs, the height of the World Trade Centers, at Davis Wade Stadium to commemorate the firefighters who lost their lives on that tragic day while rescuing others.


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A colleague of mine here recently wrote an article about wine versus beer. He made a point of saying that one isn't really better than the other and I definitely agree.
Often, when I go out to eat, if there's a great beer on tap, I regularly order a pint or two of beer instead of a glass of wine from a winery you can buy anywhere. Plus there's just something great about drinking a great glass of beer on tap.
My fellow writer didn't pick sides in this age-old rivalry. But I'm more than up for the challenge and happy to extol the virtues of wine. I'm especially proud to take a stand for wine since many wine drinkers in this country seem to shrink in the face of anyone who badmouths wine and brags about the virtues of beer.
The tired old refrain I often hear from people is beer is for everyone and wine is a snobby drink for rich people riding around in Rolls Royces asking if they have any Grey Poupon.
Give me a break.
There's are tons of great wines out there that cost far less than many single bottles of craft beer. (If you wanted, you could spend $26.99 on a single 750 ml bottle (the same size as a standard bottle of wine) on Chimay's 150th anniversary beer at Table and Vine in West Springfield, which actually sounds terrific since I'm a big fan of Belgian ales.) The problem is many wine magazines and movies love to play up the image of wine as the wealthy man's drink. Stories about wine auctions and six-figure wines routinely make the news, reinforcing many people's stereotypes about wine being a fancy, high-priced drink.
Enough already. I'm here to take a stand for the millions of wine drinkers around the world who don't consume wine simply to impress their uptight neighbors. I'm here to speak out for every regular man and woman that loves to drink a glass or two of wine with dinner or after work or in a quiet hour of meditation, as Dwight Schrute might exclaim in between pounding his fists or randomly fist pumping the air.
And we're not alone. Wine consumption continues to climb every year in the United States. And there's a reason why. In fact, I'll give you five reasons why wine continues to be more popular year after year. So watch out, Beer. Wine's coming for you. And here's five reasons why wine is better.
1) Wine's good for you - I don't care what some web site says. You can say all you want about beer making bones stronger or boosting your vitamins or guarding against carcinogens. Who needs facts when you have "60 Minutes" and beer guts.
In 1991, the CBS News program "60 Minutes" ran probably the most influential news segment about wine on television in the history of mankind. (Feel free to use your choice of over-the-top Will Ferrell voices to read that last line. I'm partial to his James Lipton interviewing Charles Nelson Reilly, played by Alec Baldwin on "Saturday Night Live.") In the "60 Minutes" segment entitled "The French Paradox," the news show explored why French people have fewer heart problems than Americans. The simple answer: red wine. Since then, wine sales in America have climbed higher year after year.
As for beer guts, well, all I'll say is you never hear about people drinking too much wine and developing a "wine gut." And don't let those beer ads with guys with six-pack abs fool you. Keep drinking that beer and you'll soon be carrying around a 12-pack underneath your bulging shirt, Elby.
2) Wine often costs less - I can already hear you hooligans throwing your beer cans and yelling, "Who are kidding? Wine costs a fortune," blurts out Beer Guy, who we'll call Barney, in honor of "The Simpson's" beer-guzzling patron at Moe's.
Pipe down, Choir Boy. If you want to spend a fortune on wine, go for it. But if you've read this column before or been in a liquor store in the last 10 years, you'd know that you can easily find lots of great wine for under $10 a bottle or even less than $5 a bottle in some cases.
As a rule of thumb, there's four glasses of wine in a 750 ml bottle, which is 25.3 ounces. At $5 a bottle, that's $1.25 a glass. So if you're buying a six pack of wine, if wine in a can is your thing, that would work out to $7.50 for six glasses. Sure, there are beers that cost less, but there are many, many more than cost far more, which is fine if that's your favorite beer and you want to spend a few extra dollars. Just don't badmouth wine and say it's a rich man's drink, Barney.
3) Wine often gets better with age - This is one of the great things about wine. Often, most wines taste great the minute you get them home from the store. But in some cases with certain wines, they just get better with age - sort of like Meryl Streep or George Clooney.
That's because some wines, especially certain red ones, have tannins. Let me get a little wine nerdy for a second and talk about tannins, which are a chemical substance found in the grapes used to make wine. These natural-forming chemicals give certain wines a slightly bitter taste when the grapes are young. But as the wines age in a cool, dark place, these chemicals transform these wines into smooth, velvety gems that would give Barry White's voice a run for its money. Oh Baby!
4) Wine's sexier - Speaking of Barry White (and who doesn't love to?), there's just something more dashing, more debonaire about wine. "Hey, I thought you were the Regular Joe's drink," Barney burps. That's true, buddy. But here's the deal. Next time you go out on a date or want to have a nice romantic night with your partner, bring a six pack of beer one night and break out a bottle of sparkling wine another night. Trust me, my friend. Unless you're "The Most Interesting Man In The World," your wine night should be much more romantic - unless of course you decide to break out the Plungerhead.
5) Wine just tastes better - I know what you're going to say, or at least attempt to say, Barney. Taste is all in the eye of the beholder. Or as you might eloquently put it, "Wine sucks."
A fair point, my beer-bellied friend. But close your eyes and take a sip of your favorite beer. Now close your eyes and take a sip of a really fantastic wine. It can red or white. Either's fine. Now take another sip of your favorite beer. And another sip of that delicious wine. Then another sip of beer. Or is it the wine's turn. Wait, where was I? Is that my glass or yours?
You get the point. If you love wine, stop making apologies and just enjoy!


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Great Eastern orders PSV's at Singmarine
India's Great Eastern Shipping Company Ltd (GE Shipping) reports that Greatship Global Offshore Services Pte Ltd, Singapore has signed a contract for two newbuilding multipurpose platform supply and support vessels with Keppel Singmarine Pte Ltd, Singapore.
These vessels are expected to join the company's fleet in the second quarter of FY 2009-10. The 4,600+ dwt vessels will be DP-2 equipped and have diesel electric propulsion.
Great Eastern says the vessels, which are also prepared for helideck and offshore crane, will be larger and technologically more advanced than any PSV currently operational in the Indian waters.
Greatship Global Offshore Services Pte Ltd is wholly owned by Greatship (India) Ltd (GIL), which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of Great eastern.
GIL and its subsidiaries already have a newbuilding order book of 10 offshore supply vessels (2 mid sized PSV's and 8 AHTSV's) and one 350 ft jack-up rig. Additionally, a second hand modem PSV is to be delivered in the second quarter of FY 2007-08.


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Take a short look at the Embree Ray Tracing Frameworks from the show floor at SIGGRAPH 2017! Embree is a collection of high-performance ray tracing kernels, that are optimized for photo-realistic rendering on the latest Intel® processors with support for SSE, AVX, AVX2, and AVX-512.
Hi. My name is Carsten Benthin. I'm one of the core developers of the Embree software ray tracing framework. I'm here at Siggraph and showcase, again, two application scenarios for the Embree Ray tracing kernels.
Embree is a collection of high performance ray tracing kernels optimized for Intel architecture. It is widely used and adopted in the industry. [INAUDIBLE] basically wanted to speed up their rendering. And by using the Embree ray tracing kernels, they get the latest and greatest features of the Intel architecture and the highest performance on these architectures. Using the latest Entree ray tracing kernels, we achieve interactive performance for highly complex scenes, as shown here in the above demo.
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The popularity of cheap mobile games such as "Angry Birds" has led some analysts to wonder if $200 to $300 consoles like the Wii, Xbox, and PlayStation are destined for the Island of Misfit Toys.
According to the market-research firm NPD Group, packaged game sales in 2011 were 22 percent lower than in 2008, when revenue peaked at $11.7 billion. Game hardware sales are off 30 percent through the first 10 months of 2012 from the same period last year. Peter Vesterbacka, chief marketing officer of Finnish mobile game developer Rovio, creator of the "Angry Birds" franchise, has called consoles a "dying breed."
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Nintendo's $300 Wii U console, which went on sale in the United States Nov. 18, sold 400,000 in its first week, according to the company. Activision's "Call of Duty: Black Ops II" game grossed more than $500 million within 24 hours of its Nov. 13 release. And Sony and Microsoft are expected to have new PlayStation and Xbox consoles ready in late 2013.
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Some analysts say the game industry data showing declines in recent years don't tell the whole story. Figures compiled by NPD, which publishes the gaming industry's most widely cited retail results, don't include revenue from downloaded content such as online games and extra levels. If counted, content sales would add more than $1 billion to industry revenue in 2012, according to Jesse Divnich, vice president for insights and analysis at Eedar, a video game research firm.
"Once you factor in digital," Divnich said, "you're down to a single-digit decline" for 2012.
In hindsight, the runaway growth of console game sales in the past - 29.6 percent in 2007 and 23.1 percent the following year, according to NPD - looks like a bubble. At their 2009 peak, the "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" franchises alone were responsible for 15 percent of game revenue, according to Divnich, but people lost interest in both soon after.
The success of Nintendo's Wii, which expanded the market for game consoles when it was released in 2006 by introducing motion controllers that appealed to families, also helped sales - but some Wii owners seem to have stopped buying games.
"Wii was a success story, since Nintendo sold a ton of hardware," said Billy Pidgeon, a senior analyst at Inside Network Research. "But there are a lot of Wiis gathering dust in closets right now."
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Pachter says the more dedicated "core gamers" that the business depends on haven't gone anywhere, which is why software sales for Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 have fallen less than 10 percent. At least some of that decline is expected, the natural result of aging consoles.
"It's very important to keep in mind the length of the cycle, which went on for two years too long," said Ubisoft North America President Laurent Detoc.
With new devices coming on the market, the console gaming business could start to expand again. "Our objective is to continue to grow the universe of gamers," said Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime.
His company's Wii U offers new technology, in the form of controllers that have touch-screens, which can be used for more complex games or to play games without a television. It also has a Web browser, a social network, and a video-chat program. And Fils-Aime says the console will let developers add features to games that mobile titles will not be able to match. For example, in "Madden NFL 13," the Electronic Arts football game, one player can use the Wii U controller's touch-screen to plan out plays so the other player can't see them.
Microsoft will introduce its machine a year from now, and analysts expect the next-generation PlayStation from Sony around the same time. Pachter says that will get the game business growing again by 2014, although that doesn't mean software companies will have it easy.
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Now that people can buy entertaining mobile games for a dollar or two, they won't spend $60 for a console title unless it wows them. With development costs on some console games running between $20 million and $40 million, publishers are already releasing fewer games and concentrating on potential blockbusters.
"This idea of 'go big or go home' is going to continue," Divnich said.
That may not leave as much room in the portable market, which Nintendo dominates. Handheld devices can deliver a better gaming experience than smartphones, but only dedicated players seem to appreciate the difference. "The handhelds are getting devastated," Pachter said. "If you're a casual gamer, 'Angry Birds' probably satisfies you, and now every kid wants an iPhone, so they're not playing as much Nintendo DS anymore."
Video game analyst Divnich says consoles and casual mobile-based games will continue to coexist.
"It's normal for the market to get excited about new business models when Zynga and 'Angry Birds' are in the news," he said. "But there's also a market for a deeper, richer experience, and that's what consoles do well."
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Complaint will stall restrooms at park
By Matt Caulder
Published in News on April 10, 2013 1:46 PM
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The site for the planned restrooms at Stoney Creek Park sits laid out, but vacant, after work was halted Monday.
Construction of the public restroom at Stoney Creek Park was halted Monday after former city councilman Bob Waller and other Randolph Street residents raised concerns about its location after work began Friday.
City Manager Scott Stevens gave the order to stop construction Monday after Councilman Bill Broadaway brought the concerns of Waller and others to him.
"It was talked about and publicly voted on by the city council," said Scott Barnard, Parks and Recreation director. "It stopping was a surprise to us all."
Construction for the project was approved at the March 18 City Council meeting after nearly two years of planning.
Construction crews broke ground on the right side of Mulberry Street on Friday, framing the site and preparing the area to set the support posts before the unexpected shut-down Monday.
To move the restroom at this stage in the process would require backtracking to return the current site to the condition it was in before work began, in addition to getting approval to build on the site approximately 35 yards to the north across Mulberry Street.
The expected cost of building the restrooms and picnic shelter, also approved on March 18 to be built near the Ash Street parking lot, was expected to be $78,000, but if the site is moved it will drive the cost up.
Optimistically, Barnard said, the change will cost the city about $3,000, but that number could be higher.
The project is partially funded by a grant, meaning the project was only to cost the city 50 cents of every dollar spent, but if the project is moved, that entire cost will be shouldered solely by the city.
And, Barnard said, because the money to redo the project has not been budgeted, it will have to again be taken before the City Council for approval and the contractor rescheduled.
After construction began on the restrooms Friday, Waller contacted Broadaway, who lives four houses down on Walnut Street, to raise his concerns with the location of the structure.
Waller, who was involved with the planned improvements on the park while he was on the City Council and as part of the Stoney Creek Park Alliance, a group formed to deliver opinions about the direction of park developments, believes the area should be an open, passive space with only a few amenities such as the children's play area.
"It was decided a long time ago nothing would go there because it would detract from the scenery of the park," he said, adding that he was probably the one who initially made contact with Broadaway about the location of the restroom.
He is confident the structure will be moved but says if not, he will have some more conversations with the Council on the issue.
The public restroom has to be on the west side of the park to keep it away from the flood plain that covers the park, but Broadaway agreed the current placement, out in the open by the children's play area, would be unsightly to the residents on Randolph Street.
He said that he, too, is confident the structure will be moved across Mulberry Street behind a stand of Leyland cypress trees where an area has been staked out to decide if it would be suitable.
Placing the structure behind the trees would obscure it from view of Randolph Street residents.
Barnard said there is a 75 percent chance the structure would move across the street, but that he won't know until he brings the expected cost analysis to the City Council for discussion Monday.
Goldsboro Parks and Recreation received notice May 5, 2011, that it had been awarded a $132,750 grant for the installation of picnic shelters, an amphitheater, a beach volleyball area and the restroom facilities.
The project proposal approved in March did not include an amphitheater.
The location approved in the grant for the bathroom structure planned for the building to be built north of Walnut Street near the Randolph Street intersection, but that original location came under fire from Stoney Creek Park Alliance member John Casey, who lives on Randolph Street.
Casey was concerned that placing public bathrooms on the other side of hedges behind his house would lead to thefts from his property.
The decision was made to build the structure on the west side of the park on the right side of the Mulberry Street cul-de-sac.
That location was unanimously agreed upon by the Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission and sent to the city council who passed the plan as well.


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Photo, Print, Drawing Judging Clowns
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- Title
- Judging Clowns
- Contributor Names
- Phillips, Willard "Deanie" (Depicted)
- Fleischhauer, Carl (Photographer)
- Created / Published
- August 14, 1983
- Subject Headings
- - Clown Contest
- - Photographs
- - Ethnography
- - United States -- Nebraska -- Macy
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- Photographs
- Ethnography
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- - Included in the photograph is Willard "Deanie" Phillips. From Dorothy Sara Lee's fieldnotes: "The clowns did not seem terribly ferocious, but their covered faces and mildly outrageous actions seemed to frighten some of the younger children. The clown dancers were apparently not intended to be taken seriously, and there was a bit of clowning between one of the dancers and one of the arena directors. Clown costumes were take-offs on pow-wow regalia: headpieces made of an old rug or mop; rag tails. All clown dancers wore cloths over their heads to disguise their identities. Some appeared to be serious dancers--one danced with hula hoops but finished with the drum. Others parodied the movements of fancy dancers. Supposedly, the clown contest was judged by the audience; the arena directors held a flag over the heads of each contestant and listened [sic] the corresponding applause" (p. 13). 1983 Omaha pow-wow. Macy, Nebraska.
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- photographic print
- Call Number/Physical Location
- Source Collection
- Omaha Powwow Project collection (AFC 1986/038)
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FormatPhoto, Print, Drawing
ContributorsFleischhauer, Carl
Phillips, Willard "deanie
United States
SubjectsClown Contest
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