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At this point, it would be news if an MMO, or one of the new breed of always-online "player plus" games, launched without any server issues. Nonetheless, the technical issues around the launch of EA's reboot of the SimCity franchise have been the cause of considerable angst. In the face of access issues following the US launch of SimCity, Amazon has suspended digital sales of the game.
A perfect storm
SimCity has created something of a perfect storm – its launch issues having been complicated by ambivalence among players at the utility of the elements offered in exchange for its compulsory online play, and a deeper ambivalence at EA's Origin service. Tie that in with an antipathy cultivated towards EA among many self-identified core gamers for a perceived trend towards gratuitous multiplayer, in-game purchases and simplification of play, and the barrage of anger not only from but on behalf of day-one purchasers of SimCity unable to log in and play is not wholly inexplicable.
The sharp divide between reviewers (who largely got to play it on uncluttered servers before launch) and Joe SimPack is nowhere sharper than MetaCritic, where the critics' average is in the 80s and the fan average less than 2. The trend continues on Amazon.com, where its rating has dipped to a single star.
EA's official response so far has been that these problems are affecting "some" players, or a "small percentage" of users – although of course a small percentage of a lot of people is still a lot of people. Amazon, in suspending digital sales, is saying that "many" are being affected:
Many customers are having issues connecting to the "SimCity" servers. EA is actively working to resolve these issues, but at this time we do not know when the issue will be fixed.
Throttling sales briefly while resolving server issues is not a wholly unfamiliar response – last year, faced with server issues, AreaNet suspended digital sales of Guild Wars 2 until the issue could be resolved. However, that decision was taken by the publisher rather than an independent digital retailer. Confirmation is being sought of EA's role in this decision.
One day, computers will be powerful enough to play games without even connecting to the Internet…
EA, meanwhile, continues to work on the issue, disabling features and adding and updating servers. As the international rollout begins (Australia and New Zealand are already encountering similar issues, according to reports), further demand will be placed on the two bottlenecks – downloads from the Origin store and game servers. Tweeting from the official Origin account, EA representatives have assured audiences outside the US that Origin will be "stable for international launches".
The promised land – Sim City
While many are focusing on the issues of games which demand always-on connectivity and the management of load in the opening days of a games' release – where a large number of copies are sold, and demand will be higher than at any later point – this current issue also speaks to another recent controversy – that of the preorder. With refunds often hard to manage for digital sales (how, after all, can they be said to have been "unopened", or "undamaged"? How does one manage a restocking fee?) there seems to be a growing resentment towards the preorder system as a whole, and incidences like this provide flashpoints.
EA's immediate focus must be on restoring functionality to its servers; if some buyers decide to hold off for a few days or weeks little is lost, but a delayed purchase can become a lost purchase, and traditionally major-label games do heavy business in their opening week, when publicity campaigns are intended to crest. This is being generally portrayed as a customer service and PR issue, but it could also become a sales issue – and dealing with not only the technical issues but also processing complaints and refund claims is itself further overhead.
In the longer term, situations like this raise questions around the way the games industry is adapting to a digital economy which need to be considered. Even after this immediate issue is resolved, SimCity will still be dependent for full functionality on an online connection and central servers. Whether this adds value is an open question, but clearly many gamers remain to be convinced of the wisdom of this approach. EA will be eager for everyone to have the opportunity to consider SimCity on its merits.
(Sources: The Verge, Eurogamer, The Australian, EA and Origin official sites, Amazon.com, others.)
Take the refund Amazon is offering and get out people. No point having spending money on a game you can't play. If you really want to play it buy it again if actually works down the line. But for the short term show EA you aren't willing to put up with their anti-consumer practices by hurting their wallet.
If you can't take the refund from Amazon call up EA's customer support and request a refund. Tell them that this experience has severely damaged your opinion of Origin/EA and that you will not continue using their services.
The only way these practices stop is if you hurt EA's wallet.
They're not selling direct physical copies now, either– and the price has dropped.
I should have bought from Amazon since they seem to be the only place willing to refund it.
Its because of this I'm glad I'm moving away from preorders and day one buy's as from a consumer standpoint the risk of not getting to use the product at my own leisure (always online) or the game does not live up to the hype or personal expectations (Mass Effect 3) or worse feels like a cash in or bait and switch (Aliens: CM).
It also helps that I no longer buy anything stamped with the EA logo on it.
I think the core problem that content producers have is they fail to realize just how important word of mouth really is in selling their product.
Sure, SimCity is a legacy franchise and it would have sold well regardless of the marketing behind it, but based on the general response I've seen in chatrooms while watching streamers play it on TwitchTV, many gamers didn't even know it was releasing…. There was still a large number of gamers who were receptive to buying it who were just learning it launched. So, for people to be discovering it at the same time they are witnessing this "perfect storm" of anger from even hardcore fans is absolutely catastrophic.
They would sell many more copies if people could just play the game unencumbered, enjoying its features, showing it off via streams and YouTube gameplay videos. That organic way that many consumers learn about new games, movies, music is what promotes love of that IP, and therefore sales.
Companies see only the short term gain of "selling every copy that's out there and preventing piracy," but they aren't understanding the measures they are taking to combat piracy are DESTROYING the goodwill/word-of-mouth/grassroots kind of sales that happen when the game launches.
It is incredibly penny-wise, pound foolish… it actually makes an argument *FOR* piracy (as people will inevitable create pirate servers with cracks that allow them to play the game without connectivity issues)… and the sad part is that it was all preventable, knowable, and obvious to anybody who follows this sort of thing.
Online-only for single player games is predictably bad. Um, D3… ever heard of it before, EA? And as your article pointed out, just about every MMO has these issues, so why companies can't ever seem to anticipate these problems is beyond me…
I hope the people who advocated DRM for a game like this are fired, tarred and feathered, and sent to some place very cold for a very long time. But, it's EA… they probably promoted them and put them in charge of more legacy/flagship franchises… =/
I can understand the push for netting as many sales as possible during the initial release rush. Most marketing for games follows that blitkreig marketing style. Get people super amped to generate buzz and get those sales in. However it seems like with EA in particular, and others as well, that the initial rush is all they care about. They also need to worry about the long term.
They give off the perception that they're either unconcerned with future sales or they're trapped in some sort of blitzkreig marketing death spiral. Constantly churning out generic titles with a lot of buzz that ulitmately stain or ruin potential franchises.
The past two years has shown that EA needs, at the very least, a PR and marketing overhaul. No more "Sin to Win" or "Lets spend ungodly ammounts of money firing copies of Mass Effect 3 into space" PR. And with youtube, facebook, twitter and more positive word of mouth has the potential to go from being door to door to being global. A smart efficient marketing team should be able to take full advantage of this instead of plastering their game all over cans of soda and chips.
I'm used to mmo launches where you can't log in day one, I'm okay with that, but they did NOT do a massive beta test, and for that they never truly stress tested their servers. Anyone with half a brain knows if you are making a game that requires the internet and servers, you have to stress test, everyone with a god damn EA account should of been invited to a open beta stress test, just to see if their servers to hold.
Its these people who don't play mmos, or who have never played an online game period really that are freaking out. Once you've seen 8 or so bad mmo launches, this really doesn't phase you.
Except both Diablo 3 and Sim City are NOT "MMOs" and saying that they are is an MMO is baloney and disingenuous at best. Since the features and the requirements thereof deign if a game should carry the "MMO" genre brand and not marketing buzzwords or type of DRM.
Both games are decidedly Single Player, but they're a new breed of single player game that have a built in DRM limiting their use-cases and deigning them to a designed obsolescence as soon as the sequels are out. Diablo III and Sim City for that matter are the only games that do that for now. There was actually a third I knew of called Miner Wars 2081, but they removed the requirement post-launch. It's a bad precedent and has to be stopped lest more and more decidedly SinglePlayer games do the same thing and then "disappear" forever at some point like MMOs do when server upkeep isn't profitable anymore (out of whatever reason) while people can still play Sim City 2000 from 20 years ago without a problem.
GoG even banked on that by tweeting: "Server problems? DRM-free SimCity 2000 needs no internet to play AND it's only $5.99 #simcity"
It's the second best selling game on their service now.
Now let's examine the meaning of the word "MMO" as it pertains to Sim City…
Massive(ly) –> Usually means more than 128 people (often much more) and with a persistent world, Battlefield for instance had 64×64 player maps and soldier persistency mechanics for a long while and it's still "only" a Multiplayer game (and also always had its Single Player part in being able to play against Bots). In the case of Sim City there are regions that people can play either alone, or share cities with a rather (low) number of other people, usually 2-6 other people.
Multiplayer –> Should be a little more than a few values you could unmarshal/marshal from/into a simple file. You can play alone in Sim City, there isn't even a "Co-Op" 2-player city building feature or anything like that as far as I know that would require Multiplayer. All new features could be developed as an (optional) Multiplayer mode.
Regions and sharing/trading resources aren't a new thing, see Sim City 4 from 2003: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity_4#Regional_gameplay
As far as I know there were even people playing it in "Multiplayer" like the new "Sim City" that way by simply synching a few of the State/Save-files amongst each other using DropBox, see here: http://community.simtropolis.com/topic/40240-simcity-4-multiplayer-mode/
There's also a big difference between "Synchronous Multiplayer Games" (you know, what MMOs are using where people run around with each other, form groups or raids and appear with hundreds of other people in a common town or area and states are updated instantaneously to transmit the new positional data based on ping latency from clients to server) and "Asynchronous Multiplayer Games" like Sim City where you can play all by your lonesome, building your city not much minding what other people do, even if they are Offline at the moment and then they get to see what you did when they log in next and get to do the same.
The only mechanism required for this is a asynchronous way to push/pull and merge that data at given intervals depending on how the players want to, e.g. every hour/day/week or whatever. Instead they made it all just worse, by requiring an Always-On connection even if you are playing alone (which most people are likely going to do).
Online –> Yep, forced "Always-Online DRM", because EA mostly.
As I said, Sim City still is a decidedly Single Player game (that could make use of an Optional Multiplayer Mode which would only need to synch State files with a master server every time in a period of X hours/minutes or even multiple days if the player chooses so, no need to be Always Online for it)
The likely real reason for the use of the "Always-Online DRM" on top of the game is to protect it against piracy and protect their business model of using Microtransactions and get people to buy those, being as it is the only way to modify the game.


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Crooked Check For Chairs
A 62-year-old woman of the 700 block of Monroe Avenue in St. Charles reported at 3:08 p.m. Oct. 10 that someone used a fraudulent check to attempt to purchase some chairs she attempted to sell on Craigslist. The buyer agreed to sell the chairs for $325. She was sent a check for $3,050, with instructions to deposit the check in her account. Then she was supposed to send a check for the balance, minus $120 for her trouble, via Western Union to a person in Indianapolis.
The woman told police she believed something was not right and took the check to a Bank of America branch on which the check was drawn. She learned there were no Bank of America branches in Utah, where the check reportedly originated. She took the check to police.
Richard Frederick Foster, 22, of the 6N400 block of Route 31, was charged with the following on Oct. 6:
- Driving under the influence of alcohol
- Aggravated DUI-revoked or suspended license
- Aggravated DUI-no insurance
- Possession of cannabis-30 to 500 grams
- Resisting a peace officer
- Operating an uninsured vehicle
- Improper lane use
- Driving without headlights
- Driving on a revoked/suspended license
- Possession of drug paraphernalia
Police pulled Foster over after seeing him drive without his headlights turned on in the 1500 block of West Main Street. Foster tried to run away from the officer who arrested him. He was transported to the Kane County Jail to await a court hearing.
Thief Thirsty For Champagne
The Dominick's at 880 Roosevelt Road got taken twice in one week for some pricey alcohol. Someone at the store reported liquor theft at 1:23 p.m. Sept. 30. The thief or thieves stole several bottles of wine and champagne at an estimated loss of about $303. Then a Dominick's employee reported another retail theft at 9:43 p.m. on Oct. 5. Three bottles of wine were taken from the store in the incident.
Scary Steals
Denise's Adornments, 221 S. Third St., reported two thefts in as many days. Someone took spider crystal earrings valued at $25 between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Oct. 4. Someone took two pumpkins worth about $30 between 8 p.m. Oct. 2 and 9 a.m. Oct. 3. The pumpkins were placed outside the business between the entrance and the sidewalk.
Hammer Time
Two male drivers got into a verbal dispute that turned physical Sept. 28 on Batavia's east side. A 65-year-old from Smithfield, NC, grabbed a 49-year-driver from New Hope, AL, by the neck. The New Hope man later approached the Smithfield man "in a threatening manner," which resulted in the Smithfield man hitting the other man's thumb with a hammer, according to a police report.
Paramedics were contacted and the New Hope man was transported to the hospital due to possible injury to his thumb. Police on the scene at 3:08 p.m. determined the two to be mutual combatants. The men were each referred to the State's Attorney's Office.

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New Chevrolet Colorado Pickup Confirmed for US Market
It was just confirmed that the new Chevy Colorado pickup will be built in the US, we're guessing for the 2013 model.
DETROIT A version of the all-new Colorado midsize pickup will be built and sold in the United States, Chevrolet confirmed today.
The first version of the truck is launching this month in Thailand, to be followed by other regions around the globe.
The new Chevrolet Colorado is generating a lot of excitement as we begin its launch in Thailand, said Chris Perry, vice president, global marketing and strategy for Chevrolet. We think the design, capability and fuel efficiency of the new Colorado will make it attractive to U.S. customers.
Product details, timing, pricing and the production location will be announced later. The current-generation Colorado will be produced in Shreveport, La., through the 2012 model year.
The all-new global Colorado builds on Chevrolets strong truck DNA and award-winning heritage, and the show truck versions generated significant attention at global auto shows in Thailand, Argentina, Australia and Germany. Thailand is the worlds largest market for midsize pickup trucks.
In Thailand, the model lineup will include 2WD and 4WD regular, extended-cab and crew cab variants. Gasoline and diesel engines will be available, including new 2.5L and 2.8L turbo diesel engines that produce broad torque bands engineered for excellent cargo and towing capability.
Engine availability for U.S. versions will be announced at a future date.
The new Colorado is based on an all-new midsize truck architecture developed by GM do Brasil within GMs global product development organization. In major markets where the Colorado will be sold, engineers will tailor the truck to meet local needs.
For example, Chevrolet Colorado Chief Engineer Roberto Rempel and his team lived in Thailand during the Colorados development, said Brad Merkel, global vehicle line executive. They immersed themselves in the highly competitive truck market and observed how the Thai people use their vehicles and the driving conditions they experience.
A similar development process will precede the launch of the truck in the U.S. market, said Merkel. We think American customers will be pleased with the results.
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GM KEEP THE DIESEL!!! man would i love an ext cab with the 2.8L diesel, and a 5spd or 6spd man, 4wd. I wouldnt need a fullsize for anything other than hauling the 5th wheel! but give me cruise and AC! and the other luxury items, and keep the sticker under $30K for once...
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Great news.
Any clue as to which plant will manufacture Colorado/Canyon?
Any clue as to introduction dates?
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JEFFERSONVILLE — Edward Dale Bagshaw was found guilty of murdering his estranged wife Kelly Bagshaw by a jury that deliberated less than two hours Friday evening.
After the verdict was read about 7 p.m. in Clark County Circuit Court No. 4., Bagshaw, dressed in a cranberry shirt and tie, was placed into handcuffs and ushered by bailiffs out of the courtroom.
"I love my kids, and I miss them," Bagshaw said in hallway outside of the court, before stepping into an elevator leading to the Michael L. Becher Adult Correctional Facility.
Bagshaw will be sentenced to spend between 45 and 65 years in the Indiana Department of Correction, following the outcome of a sentencing hearing slated for March 4.
Soon after Bagshaw's departure from the court, tearful wails filled the halls of the second floor of the Clark County Courthouse.
"No matter what my dad did, he is my dad, and I love him no matter what," Joshua Bagshaw, Dale Bagshaw's 17-year-old son from a previous marriage, said. "I am here, and I am going to be here for him."
Joshua Bagshaw said he had the opportunity to whisper to his father that he loved him before he was taken away by the bailiffs.
"It is a life-changer," Joshua Bagshaw said of the his stepmother's murder and the drawn-out court proceedings. "It is something you can't put away — something you have to deal with."
Joshua Bagshaw said he hopes no other families will have to go through the pain he has experienced.
"He is still my dad, and I am not ashamed of him," Joshua Bagshaw said. "He is a great man, and he did a wrong thing."
After the verdict was delivered, Joshua Bagshaw was consoled by Kelly Bagshaw's sister Terry Clark, who said she will raise the Bagshaws' biological 3- and 7-year-old children.


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DERRY — There are only a few more weeks to go until the school bells will ring.
Last week, Hood Park concluded its popular summer playground schedule with its annual Carnival Day celebration.
Children and families converged upon the waterfront park last week to enjoy carnival games, prizes and snacks.
Hood Park hosts a full schedule of recreation activities every year.
For information, call Parks and Recreation at 432-6136.


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Student Success: Measures of Student Success
Measures of Student Success in Undergraduate Programs
Measures of Student Success
Adult undergraduate students enroll at institutions like Golden Gate University for a variety of reasons. Personal edification, serving as a role model for other family members, improving career options and career advancement are only a few of the reasons. In the end, there is a single goal -- to earn a Bachelor's degree. Along the journey to completing an undergraduate degree program students can often be derailed by career demands, family obligations, limited financial resources, and life in general. The higher education experience can also get in the way of a student's success -- lack of support in academic advising and navigating university policies, a poor learning experience or a lack of customer service can also interfere with reaching a graduation goal.
With a firm commitment to providing appropriate support for academic and administrative guidance while delivering a challenging, quality learning experience, the faculty and staff of Undergraduate Programs pay close attention to a number of indicators that point to student success. Retention rates: the percentage of students who start a degree program and who consistently enroll over time to reach degree attainment, and graduation rates: the number of students who start and earn their degree as well as how long it takes to reach graduation, are important factors to determine how well we are serving our students.
Understanding Retention & Graduation Rates
The student profile for those seeking a bachelor's degree at Golden Gate University is very different from a traditional, full-time, residential student profile we typically think of when considering retention and graduation rates. The Undergraduate Programs Student Profile consists of students who tend to enroll part-time while working more than 30 hours per week and managing a family. On average, our students transfer in 45 to 51 units of transfer credit but students can enroll at GGU with zero college units earned (with work experience) or as many as 93 units completed. All of these factors impact the enrollment patterns of our students including persistence in a program and time to graduation. There is very little national data to benchmark a "good" retention and graduation rate for this population, but we strive to improve our historical retention and graduation rates while continuing to research performance of like programs nationwide to benchmark the institution's performance.
Retention and Graduation Rates for Undergraduate Programs is available back to Fall 2003. In Fall 2007 a number of new support initiatives were implemented to improve student satisfaction and success. As a result of those activities, long-term retention and graduation rates are looked at in two groups -- Fall 2003 to Summer 2007 and Fall 2007 to present. The goal is to use comparative, longitudinal studies of the two groups to determine the effectiveness of the new services and programs deployed since Fall 2007.
The data will be updated each term to reflect the progress made by each cohort.
Questions or concerns with the data provided should be sent to Cherron Hoppes, Ed.D., Dean of Undergraduate Programs
Retention Rates for Undergraduate Programs
Each term -- fall, spring and summer -- the newly enrolled, degree-seeking students are tracked as a group (cohort group) across time regarding enrollment looking at registrations, stop-outs (students who have not enrolled for more than three terms), and graduation. Retention focuses on student success so those who enroll or who graduate are considered a "positive" action and are tracked as a percentage of the original cohort group.
Undergraduate Programs has developed an "apples to apples" model for comparison, looking at multiple starting cohorts at like times in the program -- term 4, 5, 6, etc. A comparison of the two groups (with significantly fewer terms of comparison) at like points in the program indicates improvement during terms 3-6. As a time based data point, additional terms will be required before any definitive conclusions can be made about the impact of the new initiatives however early indicators are quite positive.
Graduation Rates for Undergraduate Programs
As a cohort progresses through the degree programs, a graduation rate can be calculated. A number of factors impact the graduation rate -- the retention of enrolled students, the number of units transferred in at admissions and the number of units/courses completed each term. On average it takes 3.5 to 4 years for a GGU undergraduate to complete their remaining units for graduation. Approximately 50% of the students who have enrolled since 2003 have graduated with their bachelor's degree. This number is relative, however, as it is not unusual to have a student return after a 10 or 15 year hiatus to finally finish the program.
Given the average time to graduation, there is limited data available for the Fall 2007 to Present group. Graduation rates for the pre-2007 groups are, on average, 15% two years after program start, 29% three years after program start, 37% four years after program start, 42% five years after program start, and 47% six years after program. Data available for the post-2007 groups are, on average, 17% two years after program start, a 2% improvement over the pre-2007 groups.


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FRANKFORT — This week, we saw some very good legislation and, unfortunately, some very poor legislation moving through the legislative process.
Legislation I strongly opposed dealt with a proposed measure to balance the Medicaid budget. Medicaid needs to be fixed – no doubt about that -- but it needs to be fixed with Medicaid money and not by sacrificing education as well as other state programs and jobs.
I voted against House Bill 305 -- a plan to balance the State Medicaid budget -- as amended by the Senate Committee Substitute for that very reason. I have heard from teachers and school administrators throughout my district and they are all delivering the same message: Education cannot withstand additional cuts.
School personnel and programs have already been cut severely in most districts and additional reductions in funding to schools will significantly impact teaching and learning. School systems are already facing a reduction in funds because of the rising gasoline prices. A 2.26 percent reduction will force schools to release teachers and other staff, which naturally will result in overcrowded classrooms.
When I came to Frankfort, one of my goals was to help make education better – not to hurt school systems. I fear additional cuts will do great damage to education in the Commonwealth. We have already cut all the fat out of the education budget, and now we are cutting into the muscle and bone. It has to stop. This is the eighth budget cut we have seen in the last five years. Those cuts are affecting all of Kentucky.
As legislators, we are aware of the recession and its impact on our state. There are no easy answers, but balancing the budget on the backs of our children – our future – is not the answer. I hope a better solution can be worked out in a conference committee.
Very few truly transformational reforms ever make it through the legislative process. Our two-chamber system was designed by the framers for just that purpose -- to slow down hasty overhauls and focus on incremental changes -- a tweak here and there to fix the current problems, rather than scrapping entire systems.
Over time, however, those small adjustments can lead to a system that does not function as a cohesive whole. That has become the case with our State's criminal code, which was last comprehensively reviewed in the 1970s.
Since then, every new criminal issue, from drugs to abuse of modern technology, has given rise to legislation establishing new crimes with (usually) stiff penalties.
Many times the punishment fits the crime, but the State has often reacted just like the public at large -- overestimating the threat and requiring unnecessarily long sentences.
That has especially been true with non-violent drug offenses. Injustice in the disposition of these offenses punishes every taxpayer in Kentucky through expensive prison stays, when outpatient drug treatment or community service would be a cheaper alternative that returns those offenders to a productive society.
In fact, corrections spending is now one of the largest growth areas in the State budget, driven largely by jail time for inmates convicted of non-violent drug crimes and other issues caused by their drug use.
We moved in the direction of treatment instead of incarceration in 2009 with Senate Bill 4, which was designed to help identify addicts and get them the help they need to overcome their problems, rather than simply lock them up and — as long prison terms frequently do — turn them into hardened criminals.
This week, we took the next giant step toward restoring rationality to the system and passed the first comprehensive penal-code reform in nearly 40 years. House Bill 463 is the result of a yearlong study by a task force of judges, attorneys, public officials and legal experts, all focused on making the criminal justice system work more effectively, efficiently and rationally.
HB 463 will reduce the penalties for minor drug misdemeanors, such as possession of small amounts, allowing people to seek treatment under community supervision. The real source of the problem — drug dealers and suppliers — would instead be the focus of harsh penalties.
Police will also issue more simple citations for petty drug crimes rather than making an immediate arrest and forcing offenders to waste tax dollars sitting in jail overnight. The theme is the same: cellblocks are only for those who are dangerous to society, because there are other options for less-threatening offenders.
Another step forward in this bill is a new mandate for evidence-based, data-driven programs. In the future, the only diversion programs that use your tax dollars will be those proven by facts that work.
For those who do go to prison, HB 463 would encourage education and drug treatment by giving prisoners sentence credit for work in those areas, getting them back to productive lives and giving them the tools they need to work and support themselves.
Just as important as the bill's impact on individuals and families is its effect on our budget. Estimates range as high as $147 million in savings over the next decade from reduced jail and court costs alone, even after reinvestments in treatment programs, as well as probation and parole monitoring.
That does not include the jobs would-be inmates can obtain following drug treatment, boosting our economy and State tax revenues.
Savings in prison costs through reduced jail population will be accomplished by moving many non-violent drug offenders into addiction treatment programs and community supervision – as they transition back into society, hopefully as productive citizens.
To help insure sure that small criminal code changes do not add up to further problems, HB 463 also mandates that any future legislation affecting the criminal code be analyzed for its impact on the State treasury and identify funding sources to pay for itself.
The final step was that legislators and Governor Steve Beshear worked together across party lines to finalize this piece of legislation. This week, the Governor signed HB 463 into law.
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FRANKFORT — This week, we saw some very good legislation and, unfortunately, some very poor legislation moving through the legislative process.
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The old furniture is still in great shape and it would've been terrible to simply throw away. The right thing to do was to find a charitable organization that could put the tables and chairs to good use. But we also knew it was no small task for any group to willingly take nearly 400 sets. That's 2000 pieces of furniture! We wanted to find a group that could utilize everything, not just half or three-quarters.
After doing some research, we contacted Streetlite Christian Fellowship in Baltimore. Among other endeavors, they spend countless hours helping to feed the homeless of Baltimore City and operate a non-profit substance abuse program out of their existing property.
However, Streetlite is getting set to open a new 140,000 square foot facility dubbed the "Streetlite Transformation Center" located in the old Baltimore City municipal repair shop. The new complex will house a communal recreation center, a soup kitchen for the homeless, and facilities to host a variety of public assistance programs including after school events and substance abuse therapy. The tables and chairs will help them immensely and in turn, people in the community and especially those in need. We feel honored knowing that our old furniture will live on helping others.
The furniture will be picked up on Friday evening (8/24) by volunteers from Streetlite and the new furniture will be in place on Saturday morning.
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RUMFORD — Unless it can raise $51,000 this summer and fall, Black Mountain of Maine ski area likely will remain closed this coming winter, say Black Mountain and Maine Winter Sports Center officials.
Town meeting voters on June 11 defeated Black Mountain's request for funding.
"As it stands now, we have been instructed by the (Maine Winter Sports Center) to raise the $51,000 however we can or the mountain will remain closed this winter," Roger Arsenault, president of the Black Mountain board of directors, wrote in an email.
He said he fully understood the center's position and had accepted it.
"This is not punishment for the loss of the money, but just a reality that we lost the partnership between this community and (the sports center)," he said. "It is hard for them to continue investing in us if we do not even invest in ourselves."
In the June 11 referendum, the ski area requested $51,700, which the Finance Committee recommended raising and appropriating. Selectmen recommended $51,000.
The money was to help carry the ski area through the summer, get it ready for winter and pay wages for three employees, Arsenault said.
The initiated article was defeated 497-939. Due to a previous charter change, there is no recourse for initiated article requests that are defeated.
The Maine Winter Sports Center, which is backed by grants from the Libra Foundation, bought Black Mountain ski area in 2003 and quickly expanded it.
"This is a very complex arrangement with the (sports center) ownership, but the bottom line is, ski areas are very capital-intensive and we need somebody like them to make it work," Arsenault said.
Last fall, the center invested several thousand dollars into Black Mountain and installed a new snow-making system and high-efficiency snow guns. Lift tickets were reduced to $15, Mother Nature brought plenty of snow and skier visits shot way up.
Arsenault said the sports center "has been quietly supporting us in offsetting our losses every year and we were seeing growth this year, spiraling up toward profitability. Our budgeted loss for this year was heading for profitability, but putting $51,000 loss on our bottom line just moved us back for a major loss."
He said the Black Mountain board is still working out the details but is committed to finding a way to raise the money.
"We just don't have a full plan yet," Arsenault said. "We have come too far and have created a great facility for our area to give up. We have employees' livelihood at stake and that is a responsibility we take very seriously. We are committed to the survival and will do whatever it takes to make it work."


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Food court
A food court or food hall is generally an indoor plaza or common area within a facility that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food vendors and provides a common area for self-serve dining.[1][2]
Food courts may be found in shopping malls, airports, and parks. In various regions (such as Asia, the Americas, and Africa), it may be a standalone development. In some places of learning such as high schools and universities, food courts have also come to replace or complement traditional cafeterias.[3][4][5]
The average cost of a meal per person in an American food court in 2004 was $6.[6]
Typical usage[edit]
Food courts consist of a number of vendors at food stalls or service counters. Meals are ordered at one of the vendors and then carried to a common dining area. The food may also be ordered as takeout for consumption at another location, such as a home, or workplace. In this case, it may be packaged in foam food containers, though one common food tray used by all the stalls might also be utilitzed to allow the food to be carried to the table. Food courts may also have shops which sell prepared meals for consumers to take home and reheat, making the food court a daily stop for some.[6]
Food is usually eaten with plastic cutlery, and sporks are sometimes used to avoid the necessity of providing both forks and spoons. There are exceptions: Carrefour Laval requires its food court tenants to use solid dinnerware and cutlery which it provides.[7]
Typical North American and European food courts have mostly fast food chains such as McDonald's and Sbarro, with perhaps a few smaller private vendors. Berkshire Hathaway is also a frequent presence at food courts via their Dairy Queen and Orange Julius divisions. Cuisines and choices are varied, with larger food courts offering more global choices. Asian and African food courts are mostly private vendors that offer local cuisine. In Singapore, food courts and hawker centres are the people's main eating choice when dining out.[8]
Common materials used in constructing food courts are tile, linoleum, Formica, stainless steel, and glass, all of which facilitate easy cleanup.[6]
The second-floor food court at the Paramus Park shopping mall in New Jersey, which opened in March 1974, has been credited as the first successful shopping mall food court.[9] Built by The Rouse Company, one of the leading mall building companies of the time, it followed an unsuccessful attempt at the Plymouth Meeting Mall in 1971, which reportedly failed because it was "deemed too small and insufficiently varied."[9][10]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Landlord Tenant Common Areas Law & Legal Definition". definitions.uslegal.com. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
- ^ Food court. (n.d.). The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved May 22, 2007, from Answers.com Web site: http://www.answers.com/topic/food-court
- ^ George Beach, "High School Food Courts: A New Evolution in Student Dining", School Planning and Management; v39 n8, p22–23; August 2000
- ^ Amy Milshtein, "Bye Bye Cafeteria - Hello Restaurant-Style Dining", College Planning and Management, November 1999
- ^ Stamford University Food Court
- ^ a b c Underhill, Paco (2004). Call of the Mall. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-3592-4.
- ^ "CARREFOUR LAVAL REINVENTS THE SHOPPING CENTER FOOD EXPERIENCE WITH ITS NEW DINING TERRACE" 4 November 2009
- ^ Food & leisure - Eating in Singapore, famous Singapore food
- ^ a b "Rouse Left Mark On Malls, Not Just His Own". Shopping Centers Today (International Council of Shopping Centers). May 2004. Retrieved April 20, 2010.
- ^ Bloom, Nicholas Dagen. Public Life as Consumerism: American Businessmen Revolutionize Suburban Commerce, in From department store to shopping mall (2005)
External links[edit]
- Media related to Food courts at Wikimedia Commons
- The dictionary definition of food court at Wiktionary


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Sharks hooker Bismarck du Plessis was cited on Sunday for stamping on an opponent in the team's Currie Cup game against the Free State Cheetahs.
The Springbok received a yellow card in the 65th minute for the incident, which is in breach of Law 10.4 (b). The Law states that a player must not stamp on or trample an opponent.
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When Marlon Brown — the oft-injured University of Georgia wide receiver whose career in Athens was ended by anterior cruciate ligament surgery — received scant attention at the NFL combine last spring, he didn't let it affect his attitude. When he wasn't drafted, he did not despair.
His confidence remained high because of his belief in his ability and his love of competition.
The Baltimore Ravens and Houston Texans expressed interest in him as a free agent. Marlon thought his best opportunity was with Houston, but the Texans were concerned he might not be fully recovered from surgery. He only spent one day in Houston. While that was disconcerting, he still believed he could play in the NFL. When Brown received a call from Ravens coach John Harbaugh encouraging him to sign a free agent contract, the former Bulldog's journey had begun — although there were no guarantees.
Yet Marlon realized immediately he could compete. He was healthy for the first time since his freshman year at Georgia. He had no responsibilities but to work, study and sleep football. Training camp was fun. He realized he was making progress. When the cuts were made, he was one of those left standing. After the third preseason game, when the roster was reduced from 90 to 75, Brown was still in possession of his playbook.
Nonetheless, he realized that ultimately there would only be 53 spots on the team's active roster.
At lunch one day, he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned around to a smiling Harbaugh, who was offering congratulations. He had made the team. He would play on special teams and be a backup receiver.
"Marlon," Harbaugh said, "is a humble, hard-working guy. There are plenty of things he can get better at ... but he stays after it and he made big plays for us.
"He's a big, strong guy with body control. (Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco) can put the ball around him, and he can make an adjustment and go make the catch. That's really valuable in the red zone."
The Ravens gained confidence in Brown right away, realizing he had big-play capability. When the Ravens hosted the Minnesota Vikings on Dec. 8, Brown scored the decisive touchdown in a 29-26 win that featured an exciting final quarter — Baltimore led 7-6 going into the fourth.
For Brown, who finished the game with seven catches for 92 yards, that touchdown catch was the highlight of the year for at least two reasons. First, it gave him confidence that he could compete against the NFL's best. Second, his grandmother, Calvary Malone, was in Baltimore to see the game.
"She came to town for a couple of weeks," Brown said. "She stayed at my condo and cooked for me. It made me feel good to see her enjoying herself, and I sure enjoyed her cooking."
As soon as the season was over, Brown hurried back to Athens to enroll in classes, and he has plans to compete degree requirements in 2015. He signed up for 12 hours of coursework and is giving top priority to earning his degree in psychology. In the afternoons, he is hard at work on the Georgia practice field and in the weight room.
"You can always improve," he said. "I won't get caught letting up. In the NFL, there is always somebody poised to take your place."
The first thing he noticed was that all the defensive backs in the league were fast and tough. But Brown learned he could play tough, too — he played fumble-free his entire first season in the NFL, which he finished with 49 catches (including seven touchdowns) for 524 yards. He played in 14 games.
It was Brown's consistency that got the attention of Harbaugh and the Ravens' offensive staff.
"You can tell nothing is too big for him," Harbaugh said. "He is always ready to go in there and make plays. I think he is going to have a good future for us."
With a successful rookie year behind him, Brown reflected on his Georgia experience.
"I felt that when I got to the league, I had an advantage on the other rookies because of the fundamentals I learned from (Bulldogs wide receivers coach Tony Ball). He taught me fundamentals which have enabled me to compete and earn a job. My Georgia experience was very positive, and I enjoyed my time in Athens."
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Uruguay's Jorge Larrionda and Italy's Roberto Rosetti, whose blunders have prompted FIFA to rethink using video technology, have been left off the list of referees for the rest of the World Cup. Larrionda failed to see an England shot cross the line in a 4-1 loss to Germany and Rosetti wrongly awarded a goal to Argentina's Carlos Tevez against Mexico when he was offside.
Without giving reasons, FIFA announced the cut Tuesday. Two more left out were Koman Coulibaly of Mali, who disallowed a third United States goal in a 2-2 draw with Slovenia, and French ref Stephane Lannoy who harshly sent off Brazil's Kaka for a second yellow after Ivory Coast's Kader Keita ran into him while going for the ball.


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GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A man is dead after a fire destroyed a mobile home in East Tennessee.
Mosheim Volunteer Fire chief Harold Williamson told The Greeneville Sun that two people passing by the residence early Saturday morning saw flames and called authorities. Williamson said by the time firefighters arrive, the mobile home "has already been fully involved and was on the ground."
He said the man who died was alone in the residence. His name wasn't released.
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The family of Kyle McCroy will have to wait longer for possible answers as to what happened in his murder. The man accused of fatally shooting McCroy, William Bush, was set to go to trial this week. A mistrial was declared after a discrepancy arose during opening statements.
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The official roster of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, the Kontinental Hockey League team that was tragically decimated today in a Russian plane crash, lists no former Buffalo Sabres players or draft picks.
Lokomotiv had several former NHL players on the roster, including coach Brad McCrimmon and forward Pavol Demitra.
"At first we didn't want to believe it, but right now there is no hope," a Lokomotiv official said according to a Russian report. "The team is gone."
KHL President Alexander Medvedev vowed to support the club, which is a three-time champion.
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The goal of REACH is to motivate the elderly and adults to participate actively and meaningfully in LLL (Life Long Learning) processes.
Partner organisations from Lithuania, Iceland and Finland came together between 2010 and 2012 to investigate and test innovative methods to promote elderly participation in the life long learning process.
After having shared adult learning situations in their countries and identifying the strong and weak points, it was agreed that the main problem in all countries was how to reach those who are not participating or rarely participating in learning/teaching activities. In order to change this, the project partners decided to pursue the following objectives:
1. To analyse and map different countries' attitudes towards LLL: reasons for not participating, most popular programmes and learning forms, effective and ineffective marketing strategies.
2. To analyse and test different advertisement and marketing tools, in order to attract as many elderly and adult learners as possible from rural areas.
3. To improve, develop and test adult education programmes among selected groups (content and forms of delivery).
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Professor Ebenezer Alexander, 59, erstwhile dean of faculty at the University of North Carolina, had been a quiet fellow who wore a gray mustache and smoked a pipe and was handy with a quotation from a Greek sage. One Friday evening in 1910, he stepped out of his carriage on Church Street, and died. Roundly eulogized as a splendid fellow, he was a learned, well-traveled gentleman with famous friends from the Ivy League universities to the palaces of Europe—but also "one of the gentlest, most retiring and modest of men."
The fact that, 14 years earlier, he had helped launch the first modern Olympic Games was perhaps not a big enough deal to mention.
Alexander had been born in 1851 on Summit Hill—not the street, but downtown's northern knoll, son of a judge of the same name and an old-family mother. He attended the local university's prep school before matriculating at Yale, where he'd been a member of the Skull and Bones society. A kid named Alexander may be more likely to love the myths and history of ancient Greece, and he went into classical scholarship. He taught classics at the University of Tennessee until a vocational reorganization in 1886 suggested UT would have less use for ancient Greece. Frustrated, Alexander quit UT in favor of UNC. He was no athlete, and struck some as frail, but he liked to walk. Sometimes he walked from Knoxville to Chapel Hill.
In 1893, President Grover Cleveland picked him to be U.S. minister to Serbia, Rumania, and Greece. He knew the language and seemed a born peacemaker. In 1893, Professor Alexander moved to Athens. There he befriended some big shots, including King George, of course, and Crown Prince Constantine. He became close with a young American foreign correspondent, novelist Stephen Crane, and an unusual French nobleman, the Baron de Coubertin.
They shared a dream: reviving the ancient Olympic Games. Coubertin's movement had been afoot a few months before Alexander landed in Athens, but Alexander was excited about the prospect, and wanted to help.
If you look at histories of the Olympics, you probably won't find his name in the index. Sports authors aren't always keen on politics, happy to race through the paperwork preliminaries to get to the action. Only 13 nations participated in those first Games. You'd think, since U.S. participation was such a key to that original event's credibility as a global phenomenon, any history of the Athens games would mention the U.S. ambassador in Athens, even if he'd been a stick in the mud about it. And Alexander was a true believer.
A few years ago, an Associated Press article by North Carolina historian Dr. H.G. Jones was sometimes headlined, "Tar Heel Re-Invented Olympics." That may overstate the case. But Alexander is listed in an 1895 Harper's article as the world's very first financial donor to the Olympics. According to that article, Alexander was "looked upon and claimed in Athens as a true Hellene, both by his wide acquaintance with the Greek language and literature and his whole-hearted sympathy with the country and its people."
The ambassador's on-the-ground enthusiasm helped assure American participation in those very first international Olympics. In the 1890s, America's most sophisticated athletic programs were in the Ivy League, and it was assumed that the men of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton were the nation's finest athletes. By some accounts, Alexander's Ivy League connections helped assure that the first modern Olympians included some of America's best. I haven't been through his correspondence, which is in special collections at UNC, but according to summaries, some of it concerns those first American Olympic athletes.
There's one story I can't prove but hope is true. I heard it years ago from Professor Alexander's grandson. Alexander so impressed the American athletes with the authenticity of this revival of the ancient games that when they arrived in Athens, they immediately began practicing naked. Someone, perhaps from the Olympic committee, informed the lads that in this modern, compromised version of the Olympics, most competitions would indeed require clothing.
Despite being outnumbered by Greeks, the Americans earned the most gold, dominating the track and field events.
Ambassador Alexander's tenure ended with Cleveland's Democratic administration in 1897, and he came back to his professorship at Chapel Hill, visiting his Knoxville home frequently, where his son was starting a long career as a physician. The professor forgave UT enough to come speak at a commencement. At UNC, popular Professor Alexander rose to the office of Dean in 1900, the year of the Paris Games. Taken over by the French government and barely organized, it rendered some events a near-fiasco.
The 1904 and 1908 games were chaotic, too, riddled with scandal, financial problems, and poor organization. Professor Alexander may have wondered whether the Herculean efforts of 1896 had been worth the trouble.
In his 50s, he began to encounter heart problems. In 1909, he got a leave of absence from Chapel Hill to come to Knoxville to relax and recuperate. He liked to take carriage rides around the growing city, already almost unrecognizable from the rough-edged, war-ravaged town of his youth. By 1909 Knoxville had multiple electric streetcar lines, multiple department stores, a couple of steel-frame "skyscrapers," the new Bijou Theatre, electric lights all over Market Square, and plans for a big regional exposition. The waves of European immigration that had kept Knoxville culturally lively for the last 60 years was drying up. The one exception, Professor Alexander must have observed, was a growing population of Greek immigrants.
That day in 1910, the world traveler took his last tour of his hometown. As he alighted from his carriage at the livery stable, his heart stopped. He was buried at Old Gray with a stone inscribed "Teacher, Administrator, Diplomat."
That livery stable, by the way, was run by a guy named Pryor Brown. Today, the parking garage on the same site, perhaps a modern equivalent to his livery stable, bears his name.
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Before you donate to charities that claim to help military veterans or victims of Hurricane Sandy, first ask questions about the organization soliciting a contribution.
"Pennsylvanians are generous and want to do all they can to help the brave men and women who have defended our country, particularly around Veterans Day,'' said Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele.
Pennsylvania is home to more than 1,034,000 veterans, the fourth-most of any state, which is one reason many veterans' assistance organizations are located in the commonwealth. Aichele emphasized there are many reputable organizations in Pennsylvania that do help veterans.
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As mentioned before, the campground is part of the cafe in town and closes are 2:00 PM. We arrived after this time and took a site, plenty open. Paid for the site the next morning when the cafe opened. Did not use the bathrooms so can not comment on their conditions. Location is great for exploring town, just walk up the street. Brewery has move out of town, up on the hill. During summer months there is a shuttle from down town to the brewery for tours. Would stay again for a night or two. We camped here in a Motorhome.
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This park is a mixed bag. Good news first: It's located right in the town of New Glarus, literally within walking distance of the town's historical district and attractions. The bad news: The park is operated by the Town Edge Restaurant and seems to be more or less an afterthought. The 24 sites consist of 12 pull-through lanes long enough for two units. (After the first unit pulls in the second site in the lane is a back-in.) The lanes are extremely narrow, so if the park is full you can't extend slide-outs or awnings. No trees, no picnic tables. It wasn't full when we were there, so it wasn't too bad. The restrooms are a joke. They are located in what appears to have been a small motel. After paying a key deposit you enter a hallway through an exterior door and go to one of two small former bedrooms labeled "men" and "women". The restrooms are tiny bathrooms off these bedrooms, smaller than the bathroom in many RVs! And they weren't very clean when we were there. If you are there at an off-peak period and don't need the campground restrooms, it does have great location, and the folks are friendly. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
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This park survives solely as a safe, quiet place to park an RV for as many nights you need to explore the beautiful surrounding area. Resting on the outskirts of the American-Swiss community of New Glarus you'll find the park in close proximity to a great deal of south-central Wisconsin's natural and cultural attractions. This includes an excellent Belgian brewery and the Swiss community. The highlight, for us at least, is the Oktoberfest now held in late September. We have camped here both in 2007 and 2008. The "RV Park" is basically a grass lot with moderately functional water and usually stable electrical connections for RVs. At the same time the lot serves as a storage area for a couple of ancient, broken down RVs ranging from a pop-up to a used-up Holiday Rambler. As the name implies the park is mostly an adjunct to a stereotypical breakfast and lunch greasy spoon. Additionally there is a pretty seedy looking motel but I don't think that is in regular operation. The dump station is not always in service. It depends if there has been recent heavy rainfall. If it is closed they recommend using the nearby New Glarus Woods State Park RV camping facilities. Here's a secret, they don't have a dump station, yet. While looking over the state park we were told by the Ranger that next year they were going to build 40 additional electric only RV sites with the usual Wisconsin state park facilities. When they're finished we'll be sure to headquarter our New Glarus excursions in the state park. While some of this review paints a pretty bleak picture I want to emphasize that both times we have stayed here it has been a safe and pleasant place for our friends and us to camp and enjoy the previously described attractions. We will camp here once or twice every year until expanded New Glarus Woods facilities open up. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
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Before Pfeiffer: Transferred in from Shenendoah University . . . Attended Spotswood High School . . . also played basketball, soccer, softball and track and field in high school . . . was a First Team All-District performer in volleyball in 2010 . . . also was a Second Team All-District softball player in 2008.


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The Coyotes have signed Sean Burke to a multi-year contract extension to serve as Assistant to the General Manager/Goaltender Coach.
In addition to his current responsibilities that include overseeing all goaltenders in the Coyotes system and player development, Burke will now work with Coyotes general manager Don Maloney, assistant general manager Brad Treliving and director of hockey administration Chris OHearn in all areas of hockey operations.
We are very pleased to sign Sean to a contract extension, Maloney said. For the past three years, Sean has done a tremendous job working with all the goaltenders in our organization helping them improve and succeed on the ice. We look forward to him continuing in this role and also assisting our hockey operations department in all areas of the business.
Under the guidance of Burke, the Coyotes goaltenders have flourished the past three seasons. In 2011-12, Burke helped Coyotes netminder Mike Smith reach career highs in games played (67), wins (38), goals against average (2.21), save percentage (.930) and shutouts (eighth). Smith ranked fourth in the NHL in wins, tied for third in save percentage, tied for third in shutouts and ranked ninth in GAA. In the post-season, Smith ranked tied for first in shutouts (three), third in save percentage (.944), fourth in wins (nine) and seventh in GAA (1.99).
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By LIBBY CLUETT
Administrators, trustees, architects, contractors and citizens gathered near U.S. Highway 180 West and Palo Pinto General Hospital's marquee to help turn the first earth Friday on its second medical office building, also known as the MOB II.
Hospital CEO Harris Brooks noted to the crowd that Friday's earth turning was ceremonial, but added large earth-moving apparatus would begin working on the site this week.
"It's been great working with HKS Architectural Firm," he said. "They put a lot of time and sweat into the building, which we hope will be phenomenal and will suit our needs for the next five-to-10 years. And we look forward to working more closely for the next 10 to 12 months with Skiles, our general contractor, and we hope it goes smoothly."
As the group stood under one of two trees, Brooks said they worked on plans that would not lose two trees on property.
"We hope this time next year to be having a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a grand opening," Brooks said.
The purpose of the building is to serve the hospital and Mineral Wells medical community as a medical office building, he explained to those gathered, providing space for professional and doctors' offices.
The MOB II will be sited on 3.5 acres near the hospital marquee, between Palo Pinto Nursing and Rehab and the US Renal Care dialysis center.
Brooks said the construction is expected to be close to $6 million; however, he said it will take another $2.5 million to equip the building.
"While the building is right around 30,000 square feet, we will only partially be finishing it out. The outside will all be complete and on the inside it will be shelled-in a bit for future growth as we need it," he explained.
"Our first couple of tenants will be relocating our existing family health clinic – that flanks our emergency department – into the building," he said, adding "and … our home health and hospice department will be relocating into it, as well as future recruiting efforts."


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Event planned for Friday, August 1st, 5-8pm on the courthouse square
Dr. Beth Niedermeyer tapped to lead district
All students in grades 6-12 will receive iPads this fall. Click here to learn more.
Beginning July 10, 2014, Noblesville Schools is pleased to announce the availability of applying for Free and Reduced Priced Meals online. Click here to learn more.
Parent access to PowerSchool is open for making enrollment updates.
Students will receive their new passwords at iPad deployment or may login to the PowerSchool student portal to see their new password.
Enter Gate 5, the main gym door, and proceed to the cafeteria.
Deadline to be in the Yearbook is December 6, 2014.
All students at NHS will be 1:1 with iPads in the fall of 2014. Click here to learn more.
Noblesville High School has been named a Four Star School by the Indiana Department of Education.
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