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Two weeks in the West
As more people play in the snow, skirmishes heat up.
"The culture in the Salt Lake Valley is a plus
for anybody who is not avant-garde, urban or cutting-edge."
—Respondent in a survey of Utah executives. The
study found that Utah's low rate of unemployment could be a
problem for economic growth.
THE SCENE: A mountain meadow full of untouched sugary snow.
ENTER (stage left): A cross-country skier. Steam rises around her face. The only sound is the pounding of her heart.
ENTER (stage right): A snarling snowmobile, ridden by an adrenaline-charged young man.
The skier gives the sledder the finger for wrecking her backcountry experience; the snowmobiler glares back, knowing she poses a threat to his freedom to ride.
This scene is playing out all over the mountain West this winter. More people are enjoying the backcountry snow now than ever before: 11.9 million ride snowmobiles and 12.3 million cross-country ski or snowshoe, four times more than 20 years ago. As a result, public land that once would have remained people-free from November to May has become a crowded battleground.
In Utah, spandex-clad two-plankers are irked at the U.S. Forest Service for opening about half of a 10,000-acre swath of Logan Canyon to sledheads. The area had previously been nonmotorized. Some claim the Forest Service is biased, pointing to the fact that 70 percent of public land in the West's snowy states is already open to snowmobiles.
And sledheads up on the Montana-Idaho line don't want to give up any of that land. They're fretting about potential wilderness designation for Mount Jefferson, a popular snowmobiling area. U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, and local county commissioners have joined the motorized cause. They worry that cutting off access will hurt the local economy; environmentalists counter that there are plenty of other places for sledders to play.
Then there's Yellowstone National Park — ground zero in this fight. The park's draft plan would allow 720 snowmobiles into the park each day, close to the average number that buzzed through the park's gates in December (up 19 percent from 2005). But that concerns the Environmental Protection Agency, which wants the Park Service to pay closer attention to potential impacts on air quality and human health from the noise and copious exhaust the machines cough up. Skier visits to the park are down 42 percent from last year so far.
It's not
just the exhaust that can hurt people. A snowmobiler collided with
a snowboarder near Aspen, Colo., in January, severely injuring the
snowboarder. Near Bozeman, Mont., a day earlier, a Utah woman
riding a snowmobile crashed and was killed. Perhaps that's
what Ski-Doo's 2006 motto, "Sharpening the edge of
excitement," referred to.
Tidbits from the West…
Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth retired Jan. 12 from
the post he held for six years. Gail Kimbell, the first
woman ever to lead the agency, will replace him. Kimbell served as
supervisor of forests in Colorado, Wyoming and Alaska.
Environmentalists are not cheering: Kimbell helped create President
Bush's controversial Healthy Forests program.
It's looking as if 2008 may be the year the West
emerges as a big player in national politics. On Jan. 22,
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, D, threw his
"sombrero" (as the New York Post's headline
condescendingly put it) into the presidential ring. Just 11 days
earlier, national Democrats chose Denver over New York to hold the
party's 2008 convention. There's more: Nevada will hold
the second caucus in the nation; New Mexico, Arizona and Utah will
hold presidential primaries on Feb. 5, giving them more influence
in the nominating process. Republican early favorites include Sen.
John McCain of Arizona and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a
member of the Mormon Church.
The 700-mile fence proposed for the southern border will cost a bundle of cash — as much as $49 billion, says the Congressional Research Service — if it ever gets built; Democrats in Congress, now holding the reins of power, aren't too excited about it.
Furbearer Facts
Total number of wolverines trapped in Montana, 2002.
$18/$98 Average pelt price for an Oregon river
otter in 1954 and 2005.
Average pelt price for a Montana bobcat in 1999 and 2005.
580,000 Number of pelts produced by Utah's
70 mink farms annually.
$8,999 Sale
price of a full-length bobcat coat with shawl collar from Henig
Furs. (Red fox vest, beaver sheared knitted jacket, coyote jacket:
$1,999 each.)
20 Estimated number of
pelts to make a full-length bobcat jacket.
$1,199.99 Cost of nutria bomber jacket, on
special at furoutlet.com.
176 Feral
cats accidentally captured by Idaho trappers 2004-2005.
400 Number of renowned fashion designers showing
fur fashions, coats and fur-trimmed merchandise, compared to 42 in
12 Percent of Americans who own fur clothing.
Sources: Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks; Oregon Furbearer Harvest and Pursuit Season Proposals; National Agricultural Statistics Service; National Trappers Association; Responsive Management study: American Attitudes Toward Scientific Wildlife Management and Human Use of Fish and Wildlife; Fur Information Council of America; Idaho Fish and Game Report.)


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The Texas Department of Transportation and Fort Bend County, in conjunction with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), propose to widen existing two-lane Trammel Fresno Road from Fort Bend Parkway to FM 521 in Fort Bend County.
Proposed Conditions
The proposed widening would create 3.021 miles of a four-lane roadway within the existing right of way, which varies between 90 and 160 feet.
Improvements include a 12-foot continuous left turn lane, continuous 14-foot outside and 11-foot inside lane. The project would also include sidewalks along both sides of the roadway from Hurricane Lane to the South Post Oak Road intersection. Where sidewalks are not proposed, pedestrian accommodations would be possible on the proposed 7.5-foot roadway shoulders.
To enhance the pedestrian safety along Trammel Fresno, the proposed project includes crosswalk stripes and signage at all signalized intersections. A new signal with countdown timer would be installed at S. Post Oak Boulevard and join existing signals on the corridor.
Cyclist accommodations would be addressed with the addition of a 14-foot outside travel lane in each direction through the limits of the proposed project.
Two detention ponds would be constructed in areas outside of the right of way to accommodate associated drainage needs of the project. Right of way for these ponds (approximately 3.6 acres) has been identified adjacent to the roadway corridor and would not require the displacement of any individual structures.
Construction is expected to begin in May 2015 and continue until June 2017.
This study is a partnership between TxDOT, Fort Bend County and the Federal Highway Administration.
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This textbook chapter outlines the historical development of the Theory of Natural Selection, presenting classic evidence including Darwin's study of finch beak variation in the Galapagos Islands and Kettlewell's investigation of the pepper moth... (View More) in England. A simulation activity depicting the process of natural selection is included. The resource includes a link to current news articles and a teacher's guide with additional investigations and student research project ideas. This is the third chapter in the unit, Losing Biodiversity, examining the endangerment and extinction of entire species of plants and animals throughout the world due to human actions. The resource is part of Global System Science (GSS), an interdisciplinary course for high school students that emphasizes how scientists from a wide variety of fields work together to understand significant problems of global impact. (View Less)
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In this activity, students identify habitats in Arizona, define and illustrate a food web in a kinesthetic exercise, and explain the importance of biodiversity in a writing assignment. Required materials include a ball of yarn or string. The... (View More) resource includes two student worksheets, a data sheet, answer keys, and Web links. This is Lesson 1 in the unit on Biodiversity, part of IMAGERS, Interactive Media Adventures for Grade School Education using Remote Sensing. The website provides hands-on activities in the classroom supporting the science content in two interactive media books, The Adventures of Echo the Bat and Amelia the Pigeon. (View Less)
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This is a lesson about the categorization of the three domains of life on Earth and how they relate to the study of astrobiology. Learners will explore, compare, discuss, and explain the basic differences between organisms assigned to the... (View More) eukaryotic, bacterial, and archaeal domains. Topics in astrobiology are explored through projects, vocabulary reinforcement, and drawing assignments. Includes teacher notes, learning objectives, and assessment of prior knowledge and preconceptions. This is Lesson 1 in Exploring Deep-Subsurface Life. Earth Analogues for Possible Life on Mars: Lessons and Activities. (View Less)
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COLD WEATHER: The risk fell as the temperatures went up. The chances of being hospitalized for a stroke fell 3 percent for every 5-degree rise in temperature.
HUMIDITY: Each 5-degree rise in the dew point (humidity) raised the risk by 2 percent.
TEMPERATURE CHANGES: Big changes over one day made a difference. Each 5-degree increase in daily temperature fluctuation raised the chance of stroke hospitalization by 6 percent.


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Why Saying 'We Knew This' Or 'Everybody Spies' In Response To NSA Revelations Is Wrong
from the we-didn't-know,-and-it's-not-the-same dept
Zeynep Tufekci recently wrote a great piece over at Medium, in which she debunks these weak excuses, by pointing out that (1) while some people claim to have known, tons of people didn't -- and that's what's important and (2) the scale here is well beyond what was done in the past.
To start with, it does not matter much whether knowledgeable people should have guessed the scale of NSA spying or not. That is probably the least relevant question one can ask about all this. It relies on an old and outdated understanding of a world that is simply no more.As we discussed recently, the real "danger" of these leaks is that the US government can't get away with its hypocritical positions so easily any more, because the public (especially the non-US public) is demanding a response. And that makes a huge difference.
Repeating the mantra "this is nothing new, all governments spy" may make the mostly DC-insider chorus who cling to it ever more tightly with each new leak feel better, and entrench their self-image as insiders. There are certainly psychological and financial rewards to acting and feeling like insiders. But it does nothing to change the fact that this chorus has completely missed the point of the tectonic shifts affecting them, and all governance: They aren't the only insiders anymore.
The "nothing new here" people aren't fully correct, even in the technical details. It's true: spying by governments, including on their own citizens and on other governments, be they enemies, allies or frenenemies, is not new. It's even expected. However, the scale of the spying, enabled by the shift to digital infrastructure, is certainly novel.
Furthermore, she points out, the most amazing thing in all of this is that the NSA appears to have no plan at all in place for how to deal with this situation. It's as if they just assumed that everything they did would remain secret. Basically, Tufekci points out, the NSA relied on the idea that some "insiders" might know about this, but the great unwashed "outsiders" would never know.
But that's changed. In a big way -- and that matters, because the "context collapse" can have massive implications:
Context collapse is everywhere. It's not just teenagers on Facebook whose ordinary adolescent boundary-testing actions are viewed by finger-wagging adults; it's not just a variety of institutions that have found their internal communications meant for friendly eyes are exposed to the world; it's not just academics whose scholarly studies are being dug up by various constituencies as fodder for outrage. It's everywhere.Meanwhile, there's a related article over at The Atlantic by James Fallows, in which he publishes an email from a Defense Department insider, which hopefully should put to rest the idea that everyone knew about this and that there's nothing "shocking" in the revelations. This is from an actual insider who argues the exact opposite, even as he supports many of the general actions:
The outsiders are peeking in and moving in, and they are here to stay. If, as an institution, keeping your balance relies on outsiders staying outside while you talk in jargon and acronyms with your fellow insiders, it's time to look for a safety net and a harness. A fall is coming, sooner or later. In this world, "this is what we have always done" is not going to cut it.
I obviously can't be quoted by name on this ... and indeed, since this email is being read (Hi guys!), I can probably get fired just for sending it, but let me just stress how shocking these NSA revelations are.But, that insider notes, the stunning thing about the NSA revelations aren't that they exceeded what most people believed the law is, but that it was an everyday thing rather than an "exceptional" case:
Look, I'm not a shrinking violet. I work for DoD. I support much of the war on terror. Some of these assholes out there just need killing. And gathering info on them that allows us to schwhack them is okay with me.
But there is law. And my view is that you have two choices. Either you change the law openly, publicly, or if that is impossible and you consider violating the law imperative, then you make a claim of "exceptional illegality."
But the thing about the NSA revelations is that this isn't exceptional illegality. It is routine, somehow justified by legal opinions written by John Yoo-style hacks.The situation is stunning in many ways. To claim that "there's nothing new" or that "everyone spies" is to miss almost everything that's important about these revelations and the impact they are already having.
And worse, it is so routine that 29 y/o contractors have access to it.


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David Akers: Will kicker get the boot?
Atlanta --
The 49ers are going to the Super Bowl.
Will David Akers make the trip to New Orleans with them?
The 49ers' placekicker added a chapter to his nightmarish season when his only field-goal attempt, a 38-yarder, clanged off the top of the left upright in the third quarter of San Francisco's 28-24 win over Atlanta on Sunday in the NFC Championship Game.
Akers, who was among the first players to leave for the team bus, was asked if he expected to kick in San Francisco's final game.
"I'm here until they tell me otherwise," Akers said outside the locker room.
Akers, who has missed 15 of his past 38 attempts dating back to Week 3, earned the right to kick in the postseason after he survived a weeklong practice competition this month with Billy Cundiff, who was waived Friday.
Akers attempted to accentuate the positive after his latest miss, noting that all five of his kickoffs resulted in touchbacks.
"Three inches to the right and I would have had a perfect game today," Akers said. "All touchbacks, real deep balls so they couldn't get returns. I felt really good going out and kicking the ball. I thought it would come in a little bit more.
"Again, it's just one of those things I just keep scratching my head."
Later, he said: "I struck the ball and it lands on top of the goalpost. Figure that one out and let me know."
His latest miss was particularly troubling, given his accuracy from inside 40 yards, where he made 19 of 22 attempts during the regular season. The 49ers were trailing 24-21 when he pushed his attempt left with 5:51 left in the third quarter.
When Akers came onto the field, Falcons cornerback Asante Samuel gleefully yelled at the kicker.
After Akers missed the field-goal try, Jim Harbaugh shook his head and his shoulders sagged.
As a result of his miss, Akers, who was with the Eagles when they lost the 2005 Super Bowl to the Patriots, might not be guaranteed to make a second trip.
"It lands on top of the goalpost," Akers said. "It's kind of a crazy thing. I'm just glad it didn't affect anything. It's just an awesome feeling for the guys to be going to the Super Bowl. (I've) been able to play there one time and came up just a little bit short."
Eric Branch is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.


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Scarlett Johansson Splits with Nate Naylor
Scarlett Johannson and her beau of less then a year Nate Naylor have reportedly called it quits, a source tells Us Weekly.
The 27-year-old actress and her business man boyfriend apparently broke up sometime within the past week.
The pair were most recently spotted out together looking lovey-dovey in Paris over the summer. Check out the pics if you missed them.
Last month, Scarlett was spotted getting cozy with rocker Jared Leto, but her rep shot any romantic connections.
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The industry is in a strange place. Everyone is discussing the significance of mobile gaming and how it might be eating away at the portable gaming market that's long been dominated by Nintendo and Sony. Let's forget about that for a second and concentrate on the home consoles.
Nintendo has made it very clear that they intend to capture the 'hardcore' market that slipped through their fingers with the Wii. Despite the Wii being an excellent console it lacked the power to match the Xbox 360 and PS3, making it difficult for developers to port their games over to Wii without creating a whole different engine.
I think the WiiU will be able to compete well against the PS3 and Xbox 360 and then some. I do think it is ready for next gen PS and Xbox, but in terms of power it may be the weakest out of the 3 (new consoles.
I don't think the controller is going to lead to a lot of direct competition with PS3/360. The Wii U is more like a home console for iphone lovers. It might have some neat stuff and it'll probably do alright, but I don't think it will "beat" Sony or Microsoft even if it sells 100 million units. If that were the case, then they already lost to Apple, Samsung, Google, Facebook, etc. etc.
Against the PS3 and 360? Why? At that point, the PS4 and Xbox720 will be announce and out soon. The price of WiiU will be a lot more costly than a PS3 and Xbox360.
Those with WiiU are casual folks mainly, so I sincerely doubt many of them will go out and get the WiiU.
@ozstar Sorry individual mario and metriod/zelda, games aren't sitting at 50-100 million copies sold are they. If not then it's very likely the casuals aren't likely to eat up the wiiu like they did the wii.
@madjedi, New Super Mario Brothers Wii has sold 22 million.
good thing power isn't what matters. What matter is the library of games. Sure wasn't power that sold the ps1 and ps2 lol
Looking at the wii's third party lineup vs the ps3/360 lineup you sure you want make that foolish a statement, next time specify your argument better.
If power or graphics didn't matter, we would still playing 8 bit games can people stop pretending that graphics and power doesn't matter.
Btw the gameplay nowadays wouldn't be possible without the power to run and process it.
I wish we had more information about Wii U's online setup. Reggie basically said we'd hear something at E3, though Nintendo hasn't said much.
Yeah, up to now they've been pretty vague about what to expect with their online stuff. I'm keeping an open mind until we get concrete details. I hope it is on-par with the PSN at least.
Basically Developers are Free to pick their own system.
Nintendo will provide their own, but they do NOT have to use the system.
Ubisoft already explained with GR that they are using their own user system.
The Wii U won't be able to compete graphically with the Xbox 720 and PS4.
720 and ps4 will never be able to compete graphically with my pc either. and i dont see them being graphically superior to the wiiU infact the wiiU is gonna be the first true 1080 console dont expect anything more from the ps4/720 maby bigger hard drive and more memory but as for blow your mind away graphical leap between them and the wiiU it wont happen because basicly it isent possible. gone are the days of major graphical leaps its not gonna be like it was years ago
I don't know man...
I think consoles are capable of holding their ground against PCs in their early days. Don't get me wrong, PCs catch up quick (for a higher price) but you'd be crazy (imo) to suggest that consoles are always inferior to PCs.
Consoles are more for me... For the sole reason that I like the ease of it... Knowing that what ever you get on your console (90% of the time) will run how you expect it to. But I respect what the PC can do... And hell, I'm yet to stumble across a console game as addictive as the Total War series...
EDIT: And I don't know about the Wii U... There was a time when Nintendo held their ground with powerful hardware... Then they moved into more innovative stuff... But (again, imo) they seem to have pushed it a little far with the 3ds, and I have a feeling the Wii U might not tick as many boxes as they'd hope... One thing I am certain of though is the power of the Nintendo First party games. They will remain a major strength of Nintendo for a long while yet x
you are wrong, MS has been working on 720s gpu since 2009 thats where AMDs new GCN gpu architecture was derived from.
MS wanted a GPGPU for their nextbox and the traditional VLIW that amd gpus up till now have used is not efficient and not good for compute tasks so AMD had to develop a new architecture for the nextbox that'd be able to accelerate the cpu(work as a cpu co processor as well as GPU). how do I know this ? because I work at AMD although I;m not on the 720 development team neither do I know their base of operations.
nintendo themselves said that wii u will not be significantly more powerful than current hardware although if rumored specs are true it should be about 8-10x more powerful than current consoles with 1.5-2gb ram which is still NOT a generational leap. a current single gpu high end pc is between 30-35 times more powerful than consoles in real world performance now THAT is a generation leap.
there are already a number of pc games that make console games look last generation so what are you talking about ?
the next gen consoles will be more powerful than singe gpu high end pcs of today. console makes do not buy hardware like we do they contract companies to design the cpu and gpu then outsource manufacturing to the lowest bidder and pay loyalties to the chip designers on each console sold this is MUCH cheaper than buying parts ready made and combined with the cost savings associated with mass production the price goes down even MORE.
a gtx580 die costs about 180(maybe even less to manufacture) yet sells for over 500. why? because nvidia has to make PROFIT thats not how things work with consoles. I'm a pc fanboy myself but saying n=nextbox and ps4 won't be as powerful as high end pcs of today is ignorant .
using 28nm nvidia can pack 2gtx580s into the same die space as a single current gtx 580 and will cost the SAME amount to manufactor($180) and the same power consumption as current 580s. fabrication technology affects die size(which also affects manufacturing costs) and power consumption.
Aside from this MS and Sony launch their consoels at a loss which turns to profit as the hardware becomes cheaper over time(they both did this at the begining of the generation MS took a $160 hit on each console at launch wile sony took an even bigger one) they both did this so they could use fairy powerful hardware(by 2005 standards).
It also makes sense because they can use profits from software sales( and this gen) to pad their balance sheets as till their hardware becomes profitable
the first 28nm gpus are coming before the end of this year(the amd southern islands gpus) then early next year nvidias 28nm kepler will be released so you are dead wrong. 28nm is ready its 20nm that may not be ready until late 2014. besides the launch ps3 was 380w(I think the slims are about 250w) so what are you talking about ? next generation launch machines will have a power consumption of about 450w MAXIMUM which will reduce with die shrinks.
current consoles where NEVER 100watts not at launch and not even now that the chip die sizes have been shrunk significantly.
and no I don't talk about next gen hardware all the time I usually troll console articles
Hey qwertyz, do you do this all the time? There is no way you can cost and heat effectively place even one GTX580 into a console as high and half as thin as a PC. Unless you wait until GTX580 because part of the low end section of graphics cards there is no way thats happening. Not to mention you aren't going to see 28nm being mass produced until about 2015. Current consoles use about 100 watts all together. A 580 uses 3 times that and would easily melt a console. So unless you are willing to pay hundreds of dollars more to get a 28nm GTX580 in 2014-2015, you wont get one. Also, the average gen gap is 8-10 times the power. Gen 7 was a monster, but that won't happen again seeing there is nothing higher than 1080p to aim for, so this gen all we will get is native 1080p and 60fps.
Ummm you do realize that none of the consoles that you mentioned are realeased yet right? That means we have absolutely no specs. So how is that a Fact?
WiiU is using OpenGl 5 basically DX11/DX12 u cant beat that its also 1080p Native alot better than ps3 640p plus WiiU does the highest resolution textures u can get its got at least a 4 core cpu at 3.6ghz as EA said imagine our games on this amazing system in 1080p with fluid animations running on our Frostbite tech then imagine an open online where u can share game experiences on Facebook/Twitter/Youtube ect the WiiU in a nut shell is DX11/DX12 comparable 1080p social beast.
Its officially using OpenGl its confirmed to be more capable than DX11 so i was guessing it had to be OpenGl 5.0 maybe im wrong but its going to be powerful and think SM4.1/SM5.0 aswell BEAST that Zelda Tech shown me all i need to know i didnt need Iwata to confirm it isnt possible on ps3 i knew it wasnt straight away.
To Droid Control - When PS4/720 come out what exactly do u think they will be DX12/DX14 no such thing m8 Crytek are working on Timesplitters4 now 4 PS4 on DX11 as a benchmark 4 next gen sorry kid but like EA said with WiiU its at a stage where Graphics are at there best now with 1080p/OpenGl 5/DX11/DX12 u cant improve on WiiU its got tons of on board EDRAM 4 extreme gameplay remember the PS2 had faster RAM then PS3 ie why PS3 cant play PS2 games all im saying is WiiU is as good as it will get Next-Gen we have hit a brick wall at that level its down to creativity now end of there will be no OH we dont want to make WiiU games anymore its not powerful enough bullshit as all 3 will be around DX11/DX12 mark get a grip Mr Droid
It would have been enough back in 2009 - however it needs a raft of compelling exclusives or third party titles to remain relevant.
The next generation will introduce a wealth of new features, will the Wii U be enough to compete?
u know ho everyone was amazed by dreamcast's graphics but by the time time ps2, gamecube and xbox came out, they crushed dreamcast in terms of horsepower. i think this is going 2 be da same with wii u. also i can see alot of potential in wii u but sadly i think alot of devs wont use it! everyone had dreams of really really good wii games with the motion tech but sadly it was a gimmick! super smas bros brawl sucks on the wii mote, but its really good on a gamecube controller.
It just feels like Nintendo has been constantly behind with the times. I don't think this new "innovation" will be able to change that. 20 years ago or whatever Mario, Zelda, and the rest of the crew was what pushed gaming to what it is today. But with more and more young kids playing more adult games like CoD and Halo, Nintendo's icon sort of show their age when they came from a less violent time.
That's the reason I keep buying Nintendo products. It's the excellent first party games that you can't play anywhere else. They aren't like Microsoft or Sony exclusives, and i'm very thankful for that.
For me, the Wii U is too little too late. They are making a current gen console when Sony and Microsoft are making next gen ones.
The Wii had a handful of good games, all of which were first party, all of which would have worked just as good on the gamecube.
The poor old gen graphics hurt my eyes on my HDTV and the lack of an online service compounded my general unease with the system.
I feel that Nintendo are making all the same mistakes with the Wii U.
Why doesn't it have a hard drive as standard?
Why doesn't it have next gen graphics?
Its going to be nothing more than a port machine. It'll get all of the 360's hand-me-downs.
And then when the 720 and PS4 come out a year of two later develoeprs will abondon it like they did the Wii for more powerful and fullfilling experiences.
"Why doesn't it have a hard drive as standard?
Why doesn't it have next gen graphics? "
Cause buying an external one is cheaper.
Have you seen the Zelda tech demo?
It looks better than the best 360/Ps3 exclusive.
The reason Wii was "abandoned" was simply because engines like UNREAL didn't run on it. That's not the problem now.
I think you are mixing it all up.
The Zelda tech demo wasn't even shown on the Wii U, if I remember correctly. And that's like saying the in-game graphics would be that good. Obviously, they won't.
Having a hard drive as standard should be.. well, standard. It's cheaper to do like the PS3 and use a laptop hard drive. As for the graphics, I can't say I've seen ANYTHING actually running on the Wii U, so we don't know how good it'll really look just yet.
@sidar An external hdd is cheaper, seriously it's not that damn hard to have a built in hdd day 1, something that should be a given to even behind the times nintendo.
Nintendo is being lazy and/or cheap and doesn't want to seriously support a psn store/live marketplace system. But with the way they handled transferring games you bought on one wii to another wii, maybe it's for the best.
"Have you seen the Zelda tech demo?
It looks better than the best 360/Ps3 exclusive." Two points of contention.
1. Its a tech demo, when a demo or actual game footage is shown, then it will be comparable to a real game, i own many games but no tech demos.
2. It's not using 7+ year old hardware with a lack of memory, if the games not tech demos from a 2012 console, isn't surpassing a console released in 2006 by a significant amount, then there is problems.
@droid Until we see some real spec/games, you can't really say the wiiu will be a wii2(ie slightly faster last gen era hardware).
The WiiU Zelda tech demo ran at 720p with no AA. It that really something to get exited about? Nothing "next gen" about it.
Screen from tech demo:
even tho the Wii U may be the weakest technology wise by the time PS4/X720 (but we still don't know what's under the hood of the Wii U their still changing it as we speak) I'm still excited to see what they bring out and will be getting one at launch.
Nintendo has taken a notion of being a follower after the GameCube almost killed them. They want to appear like they are innovating still, but they are just happy to sit back and follow in the path laid out by MS & Sony/etc.
Hell, I see "OnLive" as a company that's pushing the game market into a new future more than Nintendo. And we're talking about Nintendo - the gaming company - being outdone by a recent startup.
Let's not forget that the Wii U comes with one (1) cool screen controller, so that's not even the big push for the system? So current-gen graphics are really the only thing Wii U has over Wii? Granted, as others have stated, we still have to wait and see Wii U's online plan, but still...
Nintendo almost died, they got scared, they fell back into a safe place. That's were they staid all through the Wii's lifespan, and now it's just not printing money anymore. Sadly, rather than actually bring anything new and exciting - Nintendo refuses to leave the safe place and is just releasing another safe Nintendo product that will make tons of money, but not really change anything in the market.
In my humble opinion. :)
"intendo almost died, they got scared, they fell back into a safe place. That's were they staid all through the Wii's lifespan,"
Your humble opinion must be drugged with crack.
What Nintendo did was a MAJOR risk.
The idea is to advance on all fronts, but Nintendo used hardware that couldn't compete with the other two.
You have seen/heard how it came a cross. No one believed it would do any good. They said it would fail so hard Nintendo would go out of business.
" but they are just happy to sit back and follow in the path laid out by MS & Sony/etc. "
Is that why Sony suddenly started promoting Move? Is that why Kinect suddenly became MS main interest last year?
"So current-gen graphics are really the only thing Wii U has over Wii? "
No one knows how powerful the Wii-U GPU really is.
Stop smoking crack and think for a second will ya?
First off, I've never smoked crack in my life.
Second off, brilliant use of selective-quoting to make me look silly - maybe you should go work for Fox. :)
Finally, you say:
"What Nintendo did was a MAJOR risk."
And that's the only one your counter-points I wish to respond to. :)
Nintendo took almost NO RISK AT ALL wit the Wii. They were MAKING PROFIT on every unit sold from the beginning. You know why? Because the system was (admittedly) under-powered and not much more than the GameCube's hardware spec. This is why I say Nintendo took the safe way, because they didn't "risk" anything. The GameCube almost brought them to the brink of destruction, so they were already there before the Wii launch anyway.
What they did was the same thing that happened to Square with Final Fantasy. They said, "Fuck it, we're done anyway - let's do this last thing and see what happens." - of course history shows that the Wii was beyond successful and saved the company in more ways than one.
But now what? Now that Nintendo is back in the game and not struggling anymore - they are just releasing another safe console to stay in the game. That's how I see it - especially since the Wii U brings NOT ONE NEW FEATURE to gaming consoles.
Screens on the controller were invented by SEGA with the DreamCast, motion is a Wii feature, and graphics have been done and will be done better eventually so it's moot.
So.... where did Nintendo risk everything exactly? Whereas when MS entered the gaming ring with the original Xbox - THAT was taking a RISK that no one expected to pay off so well.
Again - my opinion. Oh, my drug-free opinion. :)
Nintendo did not almost "die" as you put it. and most certainly not because of the Gamecube.
In fact the Gamecube still sold over 20 million units and the first Xbox sold a little over 24 million. Yet the Playstation 1 sold well over 120 million units and the PS2 over 140 million and still selling especially in places like asia and europe etc.
In case you forget kid Nintendo also has a very successful handheld market to rake in even more $$$.
So no Nintendo most certainly did not "almost die".
"Nintendo did not almost "die" as you put it. and most certainly not because of the Gamecube. "
Wrong. :)
Please can everyone stop calling me "kid" and "crackhead" ?
I've worked in the videogame industry for over 10 years, I've seen almost everything come to pass, I do realize all the angles you're trying to throw at me.
Nintendo did almost die during the Gamecube era - simple known fact. Regardless of the final sales number, the GameCube was initially ill-received and hurt Nintendo's reputation a LOT.
Yes - everyone looks back at it now like it's some awesome thing, and it DOES have some excellent titles. BUT please remember that everything awesome about the GameCube happened midway or towards the end of that console. The launch was weak, and it was an uphill struggle for Nintendo to get that console moving.
Oh, and Nintendo's strong handheld market? Again - not during early GameCube days. The GBA was on the way out, and the DS was on the way. The DS Phat when released into the world, was not doing well at all. The DS didn't become "the" handheld until the Lite update really brought it to the forefront of handheld gaming.
Anyone who's played a DS Phat realizes that the original DS was NOT a great handheld gaming device in comparison to today's DS Lite/etc.
So yes - if you look at Nintendo today it doesn't look like the GameCube could have possibly killed them - but I'm telling you I was there, I saw, it almost did.
It only took 1 system to end SEGA's console domination - the DreamCast killed them. The story was almost exactly the same with the GameCube - the only reason it didn't is because Nintendo saw SEGA's path and narrowly avoided following it. As well as re-releasing the DS into something far more popular.
And if you don't think Nintendo repeats it's own history all the time, just look at the 3DS - it's NOT doing well at all! So Nintendo dropped the price immediately, and will likely release a 3DS Lite in the next year or two which will be much more popular.
Assume I don't know what I'm talking about all you want - but the simple fact is I've been knee-deep in this for years, and I do know what's going on from the frontline perspective. :)
How can you say that Nintendo took no risk with the Wii? They gambled on a target audience that didnt even exist before the Wii. They sold your grandma and grandpa a video game console... thats not risky to you?
The risk paid of, and now you have Playstation Move and Microsoft Kinect. They followed Nintendo, not the other way around my friend.
You make your points as if Sony and Microsoft are "changing" the video game industry. Both of which simply just added more power to their consoles (which are still inferior to a top-notch PC). I guess that that is "new and exciting" for you huh?
Nintendo has become really good at selling last gen graphics to the masses under the banner of a next-gen system because of gimmicky add-ons. Can you imagine a Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Pikmin game with the graphics PS4 and 720 will be pumping out? Just look at the "Samaratin" demo put out my Epic. That kind of quality with the gameplay of a Nintendo game would be unstoppable, you would get the masses and the hardcore. Unfortunately another generation of Nintendo titles being stuck inside a cheap console.
so the ps1 and ps2 were cheap consoles? I mean they were the weakest of the bunch in their respective generations.
Yes HD was the only reason i stayed away welcome back nintendo.
As long it can do 1920x1080p and higher than 30 frames without an effort, it will be fine.
The question is will it have the library of games and not shovelware? Will Nintendo regain the confidence of the core gamer? Will nintendo be able to sell another gimmick?
only time will tell
wow this is a really good question it all comes down to software if has good software it can do well with the other 2 consoles
I think Nintendo is not worried about cranking out huge amount of polygon processing power from the Wii U. Instead, I think Nintendo main key ingredient to making the Wii U a success is adding a hefty unified shaders capability beyond any other gaming console to date. In addition, Packing about 2 gigs of RAM will also be another key ingredient.
OH, the fact that the Wii U has a total of 8 GB of flash memory under the Wii U hood could possibly be served as Nintnedo's secret weapon by tricking the Wii 8 GB of flash memory U in to thinking it part of the system RAM.
IT like like having a built in virtual memory.
Just my guess since you can do the same thing with modded android phone.
It looks as though Nintendo will yet again find themselves in a very strange place come the next generation of game consoles.
The Wii U is said to be "about 2x as powerful as the PS3". Thats not bad but does that mean that the Wii U will get slightly inferior ports of next generation games? probably yea.
As others have stated Nintendo has been low key on their online aspects for the Wii U and that will certainly play into their supposed effort to reclaim some of the hardcore gamer support.
I honestly dont believe that many hardcore gamers will ever go back to Nintendo for a number of reasons including the fact that hardcore gamers have far better options in Xbox, Playstation and PC especially when it comes to online tech.
I have absolutely no interest as a core gamer in the Wii U until Nintendo announces an online game service that is at LEAST as good as PSN and a support for a more traditional game controller along with the Wii U standard controller.
Good points as always clockworkrazor.
But becareful not to count your chickens before theyve hatched. Sony has said that the graphical leap from PS3 to PS4 will not be as significant as PS2 to PS3.
Now, of course, things can change... but what if it doesnt? The PS4 could roughly end up in the same graphical ballpark as the WiiU (i believe that you said about 2x as powerful as PS3). But who knows?
Im also concerned with how the WiiU will approach online gaming. Leaving it up to 3rd party developers sounds like it could work extremely well... or not.
Do you know if that is the online approach that PC's use? Sorry if thats a dumb question.
I think it'll be more o less like the Wii. Does anyone here really think that the Wii "compete" with PS3/360? Come on, maybe here in N4G, where everyone is hardcore -lol-, but out there, in the real world, lots of casuals are playing and enjoying a Wii.
And so, I think the WiiU will not compete. Same as Wii, it'll compete on it's own league.
yea ms working on the gpu since 2009 u say? its now nearly 2012 and then its not coming out till 2014 ? let me think will that make the arcetexture 5 years old will it?. just like ms and sony the wiiU internals could be changing as we speak with no solid info yet bing released


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Middle Tennessee might not be considered a major hotbed for recruiting but the region continues to produce top level talent and things are getting better with each year.
Last year, there were eleven prospects from the region that signed with BCS conference schools including Caleb Azubike(Vanderbilt), Woody Baron (Virginia Tech), Blake Bars (Michigan), Cory Batey (Vanderbilt), I'Tavius Mathers (Ole Miss) and Graham Shuler (Stanford). Several other prospects signed with other FBS programs while a few more signed with FCS schools.
Overall, 73 prospects from the region have signed with FBS programs over the last four recruiting periods.
The 2013 class appears to have star quality once again. As with every year, VandySports.com ranks the top prospects in the middle Tennessee region with the Mid-State Top 15.
Two of the state's top athletes, Brentwood Academy's Jalen Ramsey and Ensworth's Corn Elder sit atop the group.
Ramsey, a Rivals100 member, has seen his recruiting stock explode since last fall. The four-star prospect has collected offers from all over the nation and is now considered a Top 10 level cornerback by Rivals.com. Rivals.com regards Ramsey as the state's No.1 overall prospect.
As a junior, Ramsey locked down opposing receivers and picked off a couple of passes. He also racked up 30 tackles and accounted for 600 all-purpose yards on limited touches.
Elder, a Rivals250 member, has also seen his interest pick up in recent months. The exciting all-around player and two-sport star has over a dozen scholarship offers and is ranked as a Top 10 level athlete by Rivals.com. Elder is also ranked No.3 among players in the state of Tennessee.
The 2011 Mr.Football Award winner, Elder led Ensworth to its second straight Division II-AA state championship with 2,722 all-purpose yards and 29 touchdowns. The all-state standout also led the Tigers defense with five interceptions and three more pass breakups.
A year ago, Brentwood Academy had three prospects on the final edition of the Mid-State Top 15, and that is the case in this year's initial release. Joining Ramsey from the Eagles program are quarterback Max Staver and running back Dmontre Wade.
Staver, a three-star prospect, checks in at No.4 on the ranking after a strong spring and good initial first season as the Eagles starter in 2011. Staver passed for over 1,800 yards and 18 touchdowns as BA finished with a 9-3 record. The 6-foot-5 talent committed to the Florida Gators on Monday, and will become the first mid-state quarterback to sign with a SEC program since Ethan Flatt signed with Ole Miss in 2002. 2012 passer C.J. Beathard committed to the Rebels as well last spring but signed with the University of Iowa on signing day.
Wade, checking in at No.12, is one of the more underrated prospects in the state, but that might not be for too much longer as several programs are turning up the heat, including Mississippi State and Cincinnati.
Father Ryan's Jamonte Graham joins his Division II-AA rivals on the initial ranking. The 6-foot-2 safety prospect led the Irish in all-purpose yardage and defense last fall. Schools from all over the southeast and midwest have taken a liking to Graham and offers could soon be on the way.
Prospects Jedediah Vivio of Goodpasture and Albert Mitchell of Christ Presbyterian Academy round out the prospects from the Nashville area. Vivio has been one of the mid-state's best linemen the past two years and he's on the radar of several programs across the south. Mitchell is another one of the region's best passers and the 6-foot-2 talent has picked up offers from Presbyterian and UT Martin, but he may be on the verge of FBS offers after several outstanding camp performances.
The city of Clarksville has steady improved to on the high school gridiron during recent years and two prospects, Jalen Reeves-Maybin and Maleek Hall represent Montgomery County in the initial rankings.
Ranked No.3 overall, Reeves-Maybin is one of the most versatile prospects in the southeast and one of the tops in the state. As a junior, Reeves-Maybin accounted for over 40 touchdowns on offense at Northeast High. He also racked up 100 tackles. The three-star prospect has received offers from several major schools this spring, becoming a national prospect.
Kenwood star Maleek Hall has made a name for himself on the recruiting trail this summer with strong performances at camps and combines. The 5-foot-10, 180-pound prospect picked off five passes as a junior and rushed for over 1,000 yards. Ranked No.15, Hall has already received one offer and has many other programs interested.
Rutherford County has annually produced major college talent, and though most of the regions talent is in the younger classes, a pair of teammates from Murfreesboro's Siegel High, Tae Martin and Brent Stockstill.
Martin, a receiver and safety prospect, has received a couple of offers including one from local program MTSU. The 5-foot-11 athlete is starting to see his recruitment heat up and more offers could be along the way.
Stockstill, a 6-foot quarterback, has already received a pair of offers from the Mid-American Conference and has impressed others including the Tennessee staff at recent camps. The son of MTSU head coach Rick Stockstill, Brent figures to be a FBS signee next February.
Springfield defensive lineman Terrence Summers represents Robertson County in the ranking. The 6-foot-2, 270-pound interior linemen recently picked up his first offer from Tennessee State, but many believe he's a slam dunk FBS prospect.
Maury County has been represented by Columbia Central High in recent years, but this time around it's Mount Pleasant quarterback/athlete Princeton Harlan that is the top prospect from the region. The 6-foot-4 talent has received attention from several SEC programs this recruiting period and should see his first set of offers arrive in the coming months.
Mt. Juliet has produced several quality prospects over the years and athlete Jalen Graham looks to be no different. The 6-foot-2 running back/defensive back has attracted programs from all over and just finished up a good performance at Clemson.
Shelbyville Central running back Marquis Morton represents Bedford County in the ranking, and may be one of the state's most underrated all-around athletes. The recent MTSU commitment gained nearly 2,000 all-purpose yards last season and picked off nearly a handful of passes, including three turnovers he returned for touchdowns.
The Mid-State Top 15 rankings are based upon in-person evaluations by VandySports.com during the high school season and summer camp period. Highlight videos are also used in the evaluation process.
VandySports.com will update the Top 15 in October and present a final list in January prior to signing day.
Players who just missed the first cut of the mid-state rankings include Brentwood Academy defensive lineman Amos Mason, Columbia Central receiver Dre Hall, Wilson Central receiver Chris Lee, Pearl-Cohn offensive lineman Darius Hooten, Ensworth's Myles Pasley, Tullahoma running back Trey Burks, Dickson County linebacker Demonta Daniel, Mt. Juliet running back Contrez McCathern and Fairview running back Julian Franklin.


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Cotton has long been known as a salt tolerant crop, but despite many small-scale field and laboratory trials over 30 years almost no marginally saline water of more than 1,000 ppm salt in the San Joaquin Valley is used for long-term production.
Over this same period, however, water costs have increased four- to tenfold while cotton prices have actually declined to those seen in the early 1960s. Farmers are looking for more secure water supplies and converting acreage to more profitable permanent orchard and vine crops.
For permanent crops only pistachios have been shown to be tolerant of the salinity often found on the Westside of the San Joaquin Valley, especially when soluble boron levels go above 1 ppm. Work in Iran, salt tank studies at the USDA Salinity Lab, Riverside, and a nine-year small plot study in northwest Kern County indicate pistachios may have the same level of salt tolerance as cotton. However, this has not been proven on a large commercial scale in California under our high-yield production conditions.
Enter one of the "old salts" of Kern County cotton, Fred Starrh of Starrh & Starrh Farming. Like many of the Westside Kern water districts, a 100 percent allocation of surface water in the Belridge Water District only gets Starrh about two acre feet each season. It takes 2.6 to 3 acre feet to grow cotton and about four acre feet to grow almonds, pistachios or alfalfa. It's been more than 5 years since the last 100 percent allocation. The choices have been simple; either fallow acreage or buy more expensive supplemental water elsewhere.
Groundwater in this area had previously been marked as "unusable" by the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board. However, recent testing of old wells and historical data indicated salinity ranged from 2 to 6 dS/m with 1 to 10 ppm boron.
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Not known for taking the timid approach in finding solutions for big problems, Starrh decided that it would be economically beneficial to utilize this groundwater. Seven wells were drilled from the end of 2002 through 2003. The eventual goal is to convert much of this acreage to pistachio production. With this end in mind, the six quarter section fields outfitted with drip tape are laid out to accommodate pistachios planted on a 22-foot row spacing and still allow for rows of interplanted cotton for the first three years that pistachios are growing.
In two of these fields Starrh is working with the University of California Cooperative Extension in one of the largest salinity field trials ever installed in the San Joaquin Valley to get detailed information comparing the fresh Aqueduct water to the 50/50 blend and full strength well water.
In the first year of this trial (2004) cotton was planted to the entire field. Total salts applied in the 32 inches of irrigation water were 1,898 pounds of salt per acre for the Aqueduct water, 11,680 pounds of sale per acre for the 50/50 blend, and 17,285 pounds of salt per acre from the well water.
It is essential to have adequate drainage when handling this amount of additional salt. Drainage plus the application of six to eight inches of Aqueduct water in the spring for leaching and crop establishment is the key to maintaining yield.
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In 2004, large-scale replicated test plots (19.4 acres each) using drip-tape buried 10 inches below the top of the bed were set up over 310 acres to test the impact of saline well water on cotton yields. A 2,015 pounds of lint per acre of Pima cotton (DP340) on a 38-inch row spacing was achieved using this well water (3,000 ppm TDS or 4.5 dS/m EC). A 50/50 blend of well and California Aqueduct water (1,900 ppm or 3.0 dS/m) yielded 1,930 pounds of lint and the Aqueduct water (262 ppm or 0.41 dS/m) yielded 1,935 pounds of cotton. Yields were not statistically different.
Another 600 production acres under drip tape and 600 acres using hand-move sprinklers were irrigated with the 50/50 water using additional wells. The mixture of Acala and Pima fields all yielded between three and four bales per acre. This conjunctive use program provided the grower with 2,000 acre feet of well water at an average cost of about $60 per acre foot of water; a savings of $30-$60 per acre foot compared to the cost of the water from the district or other sources.
In the pistachio trial, rootstock seedlings (PG1) were planted March 2005. Four 38-inch rows of cotton were interplanted in April when the weather warmed up. Plant mapping of cotton shows no treatment growth differences for 2005. Boll loads look similar and yields may be close to 3 bales per acre, not bad considering the very late spring. Trunk circumference, shoot growth and bud take in the pistachios show no difference as of the end of September.
Crop water use (ET) is slightly reduced for the saline well water, which actually helps prevent rank cotton growth.


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Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Armed Volunteer 'Posses' Patrolling Arizona Schools
Starting today in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Arizona county: armed volunteer "posses" lurking around schools.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's armed volunteer posses are set to begin patrolling areas around Phoenix, Ariz. schools on Monday, more than a week after the plan drew national attention in the wake of the deadly mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
Arizona's 3TV reports that Arpaio's volunteer force is comprised of around 3,000 members, some of whom have criminal pasts.
According to CBS5, Arpaio's office has provided a list of more than 50 schools in unincorporated Maricopa County that will be patrolled by the posses, which are in charge of providing all of their own weapons and equipment. The volunteers will not actually be posted on school campuses, but will instead monitor the areas around the facilities.


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Mike Shalin's Working Press: Passion before, after Pats' gameBy MIKE SHALIN
September 25. 2017 11:50PM
Devin McCourty, one of the New England Patriots' leaders, started his Sunday post-game session by making a statement before the first question. The words came from passion — and from a truly class athlete.
"I'm just going to say how I feel, how a lot of guys felt," he said. "We were obviously very conflicted. We knew our message would be perceived by a lot of people in a way that wasn't what we were trying to put out. A lot of guys felt, I mean, all over the place about the comments by the President Friday night. As a leader on the team, a lot of guys came to me and they didn't know what to do. They just were kind of angry. It was good Saturday. We all kind of talked as a group of releasing that anger and not being angry."
"We were in chapel and a lot of guys talked about that in our faith, God is first. We wanted to come together. First and foremost, we hate that people are going to see it as that we don't respect the military and the men and women that are way braver than us that go and put their life on the line every day for us to have the right to play football, and we know people are going to see it that way. Guys have family members, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters that serve, and they were really conflicted about it.
"But, we just wanted to send a message of unity and being together and not standing for the disrespect and different ways guys felt. (There were] so many different things going through a lot of guys' heads, and it was unique to see guys kind of come together and bond together as a group before the game and do that. But, I think all of us want a message that goes out of unity, being together, obviously as a team, and also as a fraternity of NFL players."
Monday, Tom Brady, who showed his support Sunday by locking arms with teammate Phillip Dorsett, who is black, told WEEI, "Yeah, I certainly disagree with what he (the President) said. I thought it was just divisive. Like I said, I just want to support my teammates. I am never one to say, 'Oh, that is wrong. That is right.' I do believe in what I believe in. I believe in bringing people together and respect and love and trust. Those are the values that my parents instilled in me. That is how I try and live every day.
"I have a lot of respect for the players around the league and for obviously my teammates," said Brady. "I said after the game I just love my teammates and it takes a lot to play in the NFL. The guys that have played in the past really paved the way for us and what I thought in that post is that is what makes this game great — players, coaches that come together for one goal, to try and go out there and do the best we can do every week. It certainly is not an easy game. It's intense. You sacrifice a lot. We're all making a choice to do that. There's no — we love doing that and I love being out there being out there playing with my teammates. It's a great blessing in my life. That's kind of how I felt."
"Hopefully it brings everyone together. I think that is what unity and love — like I said after the game, those are the things that concern me. When you're in a locker room full of 53 players, you're working to a common goal. You support the guys that you play with and you support your coaches, coaches support you. You just do the best you can do. You're navigating through life. These things aren't easy. Everyone deals with different challenges in their life and you respect everyone's opinions and views. You don't have to agree with everything. It's hard to agree with your own wife on everything from day-to-day. I have so much respect for my teammates and what we're trying to accomplish. Hopefully we can keep marching toward the end of the season, keep making improvements, get better and win more football games."
One of the needed improvements has to be on the defense. The absence of Dont'a Hightower has been so important. The Patriots chased rookie Deshaun Watson all over the field Sunday and this week have to deal with Cam Newton, a bigger and more-experienced version of Watson.
Gronk is honest
Gronkowski, who had suffered a groin injury the previous week, was confident he would play and he did, catching eight passes, one for a touchdown. Afterward, he said the number of catches was just fine. Plenty on a hot day.
"I don't really care what my role is, whether it's blocking, if it's receiving a lot," he said. "But I just appreciate that I'm out there playing the game. Whatever role the coaches want me to do — if it's jamming, if it's blocking I've got no problem, especially a game like that.
"I don't think I would've made it if I ran 50 routes today because I'm usually running deep, up and down. So I actually appreciated being in there and jamming J.J. (Watt) a few times instead of going out on a route. I mean, it's helping out the team jamming the pass rush so Tom gets more time and also at the same time a guy covering in man is sitting there so it's kind of like taking two guys for one helping out the team that way. I have no problem doing that on a day like today."
Brady and Rodgers
It happened hours apart, on a day that won't be forgotten around the NFL for a long time.
Amid all the craziness that resulted from the ill-spoken words of the President, Brady and the Packers' Aaron Rodgers, two Hall of Fame quarterbacks, used late heroics to rescue their teams.
First, buoyed by a defense that forced the Texans into a field goal, Brady took the team 75 yards for another comeback win — the 52nd time in his career he's engineered his team from behind in the fourth quarter.
He had some help along the way, like Gronkowski bulling his way to a first down, and Houston's Corey Moore dropping an interception at his own 2. But he got it done.
Hours later, Rodgers took HIS team 75 yards in the closing minutes, but only to a tie. He then threw a 72-yard pass to Geronimo Allison to set up a winning field goal.
Two special guys. Two special events.
Farrell speaks
Adding baseball to the mix, with the entire sports world having its collective eye on what's going on with Washington, John Farrell was asked Sunday about backing his players, the way the Oakland A's did for Bruce Maxwell Saturday after the catcher became the first baseball player to take a knee.
"I follow it closely," Farrell said. "As it relates to our players, if they were to choose to express themselves in the way we've seen other athletes in other sports, we would fully support them. We strive to create an environment that's inclusive.
"We would have their back as an organization if that's the expression they chose. It's their constitutional right. But I would tell you, we're at a point of time in history — and I'm not a historian by any means — but there's a lot of division that is currently in the forefront in a lot of people's minds. The more united we can become, I think that is a goal I think for all of us."
Mike Shalin covers Boston pro sports for the New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News. His email address is email@example.com.
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DMV warns of fee-charging, unofficial license renewal websites
February 11. 2013 12:09PM
CONCORD - The New Hampshire DMV is warning residents renewing their driver's licenses online to make sure they are on the official state website, otherwise they could be hit with unexpected and unnecessary fees.
The DMV's official website - www.dmv.nh.gov - has the wording, "An Official State of New Hampshire Government Website," at the top right-hand corner of the site.
Unofficial sites will charge extra fees, DMV Director Richard C. Bailey Jr. said Monday.
"People should be sure to enter the exact web address that is listed on their renewal notification letter in the web address line, not on a search line," Bailey said. "If they do a web search to find it, they might not reach the official DMV site."
The cost to renew a five-year, operator-only driver license is $50.
"There are no additional charges for renewing a license online." Bailey said. "Anyone who reaches a website that imposes additional charges should exit that site immediately. These sites don't offer anything that the official DMV website doesn't provide for free."
Anyone with questions about online renewal may call 227-4020 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Most New Hampshire drivers are eligible for online renewal. Anyone holding a New Hampshire driver's license receives a letter several weeks before the license expires. If the driver is eligible for online renewal, the letter contains a 10-digit renewal identification number and instructions for online renewal. Also needed are a computer with Internet access and a printer, the current license and a valid MasterCard or Visa credit card.
In 2012, more than 48,000 New Hampshire drivers renewed their licenses online and saved themselves a trip to the DMV. That is nearly 27 percent of eligible drivers. Online renewal has been available in New Hampshire since December 2009.


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The College of Mount St. Joseph has developed a partnership with the Education Ministry of Bavaria in Germany aimed at studying the special education system in the United States and Germany.
Amy Emery, TEAM-MSE clinical experience coordinator at the Mount, recently met with Erich Weigl, minister of special education with the Bavarian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, and German educators of children with disabilities in Munich, Germany to formalize the arrangement. In June, she will accompany 12 graduate students to Germany as part of a course, "Inclusive practices in Bavaria," which will allow Mount students to tour special German schools for children with disabilities, observe inclusive practices for children with disabilities and meet with teachers and other education officials. The course was co-designed by Emery and Clarissa Rosas, Ph.D., program director of TEAM-MSE, an accelerated graduate program in multicultural special education designed for individuals who aspire to teach as an intervention specialist. The students going to Germany are part of the Mount's TEAM-MSE program.
"This is a unique opportunity for our students who will be able to see Germany's special education model firsthand as they move to inclusive practices for children with special needs," said Emery. "Our hope is that German educators will come to our country and observe our inclusive practices and learn more about services for students with special needs in the United States."
In Bavaria, children with special needs historically have been placed in special schools. Bavaria is moving toward an inclusive model of delivery of special services in a methodical manner. Emery and Weigl met last summer during her involvement with the Munich Teacher Exchange through the Hamilton County Education Service Center scholarship program. During this dialogue of inclusive best practices, it was determined that a future exchange would occur with the Mount's TEAM-MSE students to foster global awareness and to further develop the knowledge of the teacher from Bavaria in inclusive practices.
"Our German counterparts in education are looking at other practices for special education students, including inclusive practices," Emery said. "I think they will gain a new insight when they come to our country to understand how our inclusion works."
"This is also a wonderful opportunity for our graduate students and practicing teachers in the field of special education to have firsthand international experience as they further their knowledge on ethical perspective of inclusive practices for students with disabilities," Rosas added.
Three Rivers School District teacher Julie Davey, a Mount alumna, received professional time off from the district to accompany Emery to Germany. The district received a technology grant to purchase iPads which allowed Davey to conduct some lessons from Germany with her students at Three Rivers Middle School using Facetime.


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Experience what it's like to be an Ops Commander as you lead a five-person squad in a special mission to discover what's behind the annihilation of NATO Special Forces in Southeast Asia. Continuing to raise the bar for tactical gaming, SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs introduces new ways for players to engage in combat. For the first time in franchise history, players will be able to utilize both the PlayStation Move and DualShock controllers to enable precise, tactical control over their A.I. teammates.
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The Best Reds
Some of us (Hillary) loathe Christmas carols. Perhaps it's because she was forced to listen to heaps of "Mannheim Steamroller Christmas" during the holiday seasons of her youth, one never knows. Some of us (Katherine) have been singing Jingle Bells for the past two weeks. Perhaps it's because she's insane in the membrane, one never knows. Despite this disparity, there is one thing that unites us this season-our infatuation with red, red nails. When picking a polish, we suggest staying away from any reds with anything other than a subtle sheen-this is neither the time nor the place to get sparkly. We feel that the bright pop of a cherry nail varnish is best set off by short nails (you want to be vampy not trampy). Most of our favorite brands (Lippmann, $15, Rescue Beauty Lounge, $18, and Essie, $7) can be found on www.beauty.com and OPI, $6.00 can be found at www.goddess-within.com