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Red-hot Peralta takes the mound against Rockies
Wily Peralta. Photo: Image by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By James Kust. CREATED Jul 26, 2013
MILWAUKEE - In his last four starts, Wily Peralta has thrown 29.1 innings and given up just one earned run. Not bad for a 24 year old. He takes the mound again tonight against the Colorado Rockies.
Peralta is tops among all pitchers in the MLB for the month of July. He has a 0.31 ERA. Tonight Peralta faces off against Colorado's Tyler Chatwood (6-3, 2.48 ERA).
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Monday, July 2, 2012
Gifts for the Home
Looking for a special gift for your own home... or for someone else's? Gallery at Marina Square has all kinds of beautiful gifts... stained glass window medallions and hangers, windchimes, decorative tiles, wooden boxes, trivets and baskets, coasters, glass platters and bowls, decorative ironware for outside or inside, candle lanterns, ceramic mugs, bowls and vases, handmade soap, little mosaic bird houses, tiny glass vials... and much more!
Don't forget to check out our "garden cart" just outside the back door to the gallery!
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saw it in the classifieds, not running, I gave the guy $50 to bring it over on top of what he was asking. an hour later it was purring like a kitten, the only problem is the oil leak between the oil pump housing and the block, I need a gasket. 14hp onan
And I need a paint job, waaaaay rustier then my 71 ford and it's only half the age


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You can still see the crime scene tape, marking clearly the Eustis Apartment Complex on North Eustis Street. According to police, this is where 36-year-old Yolanda Walker allegedly had her own son break into storage units belonging to neighbors.
Police said nearly $10,000 worth of items were stolen, including talking toys and electronics
Walker is spending another night at the Lake County Jail behind bars, charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, burglary, and theft. A police report states that Walker had the 10-year-old boy try to "jimmy the lock" on an apartment door using a butter knife and screwdriver.
"It baffles me that a parent would do something like that!" said Officer Robert Simken with the Eustis Police Department. "We're teaching our children to do bad things, and that is going to grow into other bad things!"
The boy told police he would stand on chairs, with bricks, so he could see through the windows.
Walker's bond is set at $7,500. The ten-year-old is staying with an aunt. The Florida Department of Children and Family Services and the courts will decide what happens to him next.
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Nice scope very clear love the bdc great feature.
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Good product. This is a XMas gift for a buddy. He will love it!
Nikon is good
Nice scope, looks good, clear. Have not mounted or shot yet.
For the price it may very well be impossible to beat the quality of Nikon glass. You get scope that is slightly less good than scope that costs 3X as much.
This is a great scope. Clear and bright with fast pick-up on targets. Very accurate magnification. When I need another scope I'll buy it again.
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These are just a few of the things that I found in Vancouver's Alley this week :)
Tag Archive for Leica m9
picking on complete strangers – black & white
Main Street Sinks & Sidewalks!
Blue Skies and Razor Wire
Rebar in East Van
Colour In The Hood!
Stuff Found On Posts and Walls
These next couple posts are devoted to Stuff found On Posts and Walls. Seriously whilst wandering about it the wilds I find an enormous amount of stuff posted on poles or on walls that is just really interesting. Some times it is an advertisement, sometimes it's graffiti, other times it is the ravings of weirdos, and sometimes I have no idea what the hell it is about. As such I think I will start a new collection of the 'Stuff I Find Posted On Stuff' :)
Thanks to Rachael for point this last one out :)
Robson Street
Last year at around this time I had snagged this commission to do photos for a hotel & restaurant renovation on Robson street. The creative team hired me to create what I normally do edgy gritty and creative, but then didn't want anything edgy, nothing creative, and definitely nothing gritty. They instead wanted the typical lame hotel art drivel that makes us all cringe. The project thus fell through when I got tired of ruining art, but I did manage to create some awesome work that I am just getting to look at now.


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It's not too late to register online for the first Morristown Women in Business breakfast, said Mary Dougherty, co-founder of the organization.
Her husband, Mayor Tim Dougherty, will address the Jan. 9, 2014, gathering at the Hyatt Morristown. His topic: "What's Happening in Morristown and How It Will Enhance Your Business."
The event runs from 8 am to 10 am and costs $25 for Morristown WIB members and $35 for non-members.
Mary Dougherty and Melody McGinley Whitelaw of The Main Event on Washington Street founded the organization to promote local businesses owned or operated by women.
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Um, you have heard about "Romneycare" ? He pretty much invented the idea of the individual mandate. And yup, it's working.
Um, you have heard about "Romneycare" ? He pretty much invented the idea of the individual mandate. And yup, it's working.
seriously drop all mail incoming and outgoing to/from yahoo groups. Put them out of business instantly.
I have personally witnessed a user break out the little tab in a usb jack by repeatedly trying to force the plug in backwards. Twice. The same user.
I've set up a few Cisco Valets and they pick some rather amusing default SSIDs.. usually an adjective plus a species of plant. And the guest password is some kind of fruit or vegetable followed by digits. Some seem so appropos.
Between OS-X, IOS and Android, this discussion is more than a little comical.
Even I, a non-hunter, know that around here deer are normally killed with either a lead slug from a shotgun or with buckshot (notice the word "buck" in the name) which is a shell filled with 9 pellets each of which can contribute little shavings of lead into the meat.
I'm not sure it's legal to hunt deer with a rifle at any time in my state unless it's a herd-thinning thing.
or proceed as if a interested party couldn't equip all those new typewriters with high-tech keyloggers
Remember them? They're still the bane of my existence. Many trucking companies still communicate only by fax.. which injects just enough credibility to keep a lot of other people thinking that faxing is a sane thing to do.
Even very complex problems can be made to look simple at various levels of abstraction. Hiding complexity inside objects that represent real-world objects is a good way to make the code that uses those objects simpler.
In development, plan to do at least one major refactoring after the project is feature-complete to move complicatons in and out of abstractions, add new abstractions or collapse old old ones as needed to make things "feel good".
just got an "iHome" BT keyboard for my Nexus 10. Makes chopping through those email replies a lot faster on the road. I was going to get Poetic the keyboard-case thingy but decided I didn't want to carry the keyboard with me everywhere. Also this keyboard is wider than the tablet, so it's better to type on.
Microsoft is well on its way to becoming SCO.
Confirmed here
One nice thing about multi-tennancy is problems get attention immediately.. they simply cannot be ignored.
When I finally put a stake in the heart of the SCO UNIX system that hosted our legacy accounting system, someone commented "so I guess UNIX is dead now, isn't it?" Then I pointed out that our server infrastructure was still Linux-based, and that the Google Apps we used ran on Linux, and that the NetSuite ERP system we use ran on Oracle Linux, and that the few macs we have were BSD Unix-based, and then the iPhones, iPads, Android phones, Android tablets and well, pretty much everything except the Windows desktops were UNIX-based. I think they were more confused rather than less after that explanation, but it felt good.
I get at least two or three calls a day on my employer-provided cell phone from someone who wants to lower my credit card rates. You have to press "1" to talk to someone about it. If you complain to them or ask who they're calling from they instantly hang up. Unless I'm very busy I always put the phone on speaker and press 1. Then I say hello to the human, and wait for them to say something. If there are other people in ear shot I'll take the phone off speaker and and stage-whisper "die in a fire!" into the phone before hanging up. If there's no one else around I will say something considerably more creative along the same lines. Something that will come to them in their dreams for weeks or months, I hope.
Worst case I cost them some minutes and lowered their rate of return.
We will have solar energy as soon as the utility companies solve one technical problem -- how to run a sunbeam through a meter.


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From Katie Tarbox to all Katiesplace.org visitors
Some of you may know who I am. I am a victim of an Internet sexual predator. When I was thirteen I met someone from the Internet I thought was much younger, and was molested. I was lucky enough to have supporting parents and help. Even with all that help, though, I lived with years of pain, guilt and fear. I ended up writing a book originally called "Katie.com" that was later changed to "A Girl's Life Online."
Millions of young people around the world have read my book and learned how to be safer online. [link to Katies bio page and excerpts form her book (to come)] But thousands of young people are still being victimized by Internet predators every year, and too many remain silent. That has to stop.
Katiesplace.Org is the birth of a dream. I hope that no other victim of sexual exploitation has to go to sleep silent. By coming to the site, I know that victims and those who love them will find comfort in reaching out for anonymous support and by reading the real stories of others.
Several years ago I received this letter from a young woman. It stays with me. It provided the inspiration for Katiesplace.org, where we hope to help young victims understand that no one is alone…where there will always be someone to listen and others who understand.
Let me start by saying on how much of a big inspiration you are to me, reading your book made me feel like I am really not alone when it comes to have been molested.
I read your book over two years ago. I am a victim of sexual assault myself and at the time I found great comfort in your writing. Today marks the seventh anniversary that I raped by someone I met on-line.
I still think about this every day, and have for the seven years. I still feel traumatized and scared inside. From the outside I seem like this very funny, happy, out-going person who makes everyone laugh and feel good about themselves, but on the inside I feel like a broken mirror shattered but also beaten.
If you got over the feeling of being molested, HOW? I can't and I don't think I ever will, although sometimes I manage to get my mind off it, but so many other times it returns haunting me inside shedding tears from my eyes.
I was wondering if maybe you could help me cope with this problem on how to forget about the past and live in the present and be happy inside instead of pretending to be."
This letter still haunts and motivates me years later. I suspect it always will. I am devastated to read and hear about victims who cannot move forward with their lives and do not have the opportunity to share about their trauma. I am motivated because I want to give every victim an opportunity to let their voice be heard, and to understand they are not alone in this world. While that is an easy idea to understand, a victim doesn't feel it until they experience it.
I am not sure when the stereotypes in society developed towards victims of sexual assault or even why we tolerate them. Somehow we've allowed victims to be conditioned that they should remain silent, and this is the remedy to recovering from such a traumatic experience.
As a survivor of this crime, I know that this is far from the truth. Through many years of therapy and finding the confidence to tell my story, I also found the confidence to call myself a "survivor." Surviving is more than living through the pain, through the molestation. Surviving means finding the strength and ability to heal and move on. I want every victim of sexual assault and exploitation, especially when the Internet is involved, to be able to share this title.
I know that seven years is simply much too long to be a victim, too long to face this alone. We can survive, together.
"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration." Pear S. Buck


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This is the first of a new series of personal work, where I'd like to take some of my favorite movies and redesign and illustrate the movie poster! This one is for Martin Scorsese's 1995 "Casino" starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone. Enjoy!
Brett Affrunti – Casino movie poster
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Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan is listed as questionable on the team's injury report after sitting out practice again on Friday, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Ryan missed the team's Week 13 loss to the Eagles after suffering a turf toe injury the previous week. He has been held out of practice all this week, only participating in the team's walk-throughs. At 6-6, the Falcons face a must-win game this weekend against the undefeated Saints.


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Free Entertainment Tent at Graceland Crossing
August 9: 5:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. August 10 - 14, 16, 17: 12:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. August 15: 12:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Continuous presentation of Elvis music performed live by various singers and bands, plus other activities. A schedule for the Elvis Week entertainment tent will be available at the Elvis Week information table upon arrival in Memphis.
Morning and Evening Walk Ups to Meditation Garden
Daily throughout the year, there is a special period of time for free admission walk up visits to the Meditation Garden at Graceland. Elvis Week morning walk ups will be from 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. on August 10-18. Morning walk-ups may not be available on August 16 due to the Candlelight Vigil. Elvis Week evening walk ups will be from 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. on August 10-14 and August 16-17. Evening walk-ups will not be available the night of August 15 due to the Candlelight Vigil.
Graceland Mansion Tours
Available daily. Tour Elvis Presley's Graceland and enjoy our two new 2013 exhibits - Elvis' Hawaii: Concerts, Movies and More! and Elvis: Live from Vegas. Click here for tour details and pricing.
Children's Activities at Ticket Pavilion
August 10 - August 17. 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. at Graceland Ticket Pavilion. Children can enjoy arts and crafts each day while learning about the King of Rock 'n' Roll.
Graceland Stable Tours
August 15 - August 17. Daily tour times: 11:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. Tour the stables at Graceland! Artifacts on display as part of the Elvis Presley Stable Tour include saddles used by Elvis and his entourage, personal western wear worn by Elvis, checks and documents related to the purchase of some of Elvis' horses, and home movie footage of Elvis on horseback at Graceland. Cost is $15. Dates/times are subject to weather conditions, safety issues and availability. Tickets may be purchased at the Graceland Ticket Pavilion on day of the tour.
Dinstuhl's Chocolate Sampling
August 14: 11:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m., August 15: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m, August 16: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Elvis in Hawaii Exhibit in Graceland Crossing. Join Dinstuhl's representative Stephanie Land in Elvis' Hawaii for a sampling of our new Aloha From Hawaii Coconut Crunch chocolate bar. Once you have tasted the tropical blend of creamy milk chocolate and fresh coconut you will know why this confection is fit for a King. This Graceland Exclusive is made by hand so quantities are limited—get yours today!
Elvis BINGO
August 12 - August 14: 11:00 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 2:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel. Pick up tickets in hotel lobby 30 minutes before each game (no children under 12 will be admitted). Free.
Meet 'n' Greet with Betty Harper
August 12 - August 15: 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Heartbreak Hotel. Meet artist Betty Harper and see her latest Elvis artwork. Her broad collection of original Elvis portraits illustrate the personal side of Elvis.
Meet 'n' Greet with Joe Petruccio
August 12 - August 15: 3:00 - 9:00 p.m. Everything Elvis, Graceland Crossing. Meet artist Joe Petruccio, view his new fine art pieces, and don't miss out on exclusive merchandise featuring his artwork.
Lowell Hays Trunk Show
August 12: 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. August 13: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. August 14: 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. August 15: 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. August 16: 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. August 17: 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. Gallery Elvis, Graceland Plaza. Meet jeweler Lowell Hays, the creator of Elvis' famous TCB ring. View both his fine and fashion jewelry lines featuring items made from the original molds of Elvis' jewelry.
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Leaders of Broward's Top Arts Groups Share Best Practices in Marketing
- Wednesday, January 16, 2013 from 8:30 a.m. – Noon, at ArtServe, Second Workshop in 2013 Cooperative Marketing Services Program -
l-r: Brendan Glynn, Carmen Ackerman, Tony Beall & Hannah Hausman
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Jody Horne-Leshinsky,
Broward County Cultural Division
Broward Cultural Division invites you to a workshop that introduces some of Broward County's not-for-profit marketing experts. Interact and learn from a panel of four successful marketing managers - your peers and business leaders! Broward Center for the Performing Arts' and Riverwalk a & e's Director of Marketing, Carmen Ackerman; President/CEO of Mister Nonprofit Consultancy, Tony Beall; Florida Grand Opera's Director of Marketing, Brendan Glynn; and Hannah Hausman, Director of Development for the new Young At Art Museum.
This panel will meet on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 from 8:30 a.m. – Noon at ArtServe, 1350 E. Sunrise Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale.
Best Practices Marketing Workshop: How Your Peers Market Their Organizations Effectively
is the second workshop in the 2013 Cooperative Marketing Services Program.
Among other things, Carmen Ackerman will share the marketing overview for the Riverwalk Arts & Entertainment District and how the collaborative efforts of six consortium partners and the programs created for this initiative may have real-world applications for other cultural groups looking to create awareness for their organizations; Hannah Hausman will share fundraising and other marketing expertise, while Brendan Glynn will discuss increasing ticket sales and establishing media partnerships. Tony Beal brings more than 23 years of organizational leadership.
Tony Beall
, President/CEO at Mister Nonprofit Consultancy, will bring his experience in developing and implementing synergistic solutions for nonprofit organizations. Mister Nonprofit Consultancy is the recipient of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce's 2012 Small Business of the Year award and Beall recently returned from Monaco where he worked on the first collaborative fundraiser for the William J. Clinton Foundation and the Prince Albert III of Monaco Foundation. Carmen Ackerman joined the Riverwalk a & e team as Project Manager with an extensive background in Public Relations and Marketing in the hospitality industry. As Director of Public Relations with the Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club (Miami) for more than 10 years, Ackerman developed many cooperative programs and media initiatives that helped garner regional, national and international recognition for the property. She was also named Director of Public Relations for the Fairmont Mayakoba (Playa del Carmen, Mexico) where she directed all of the public relations efforts that launched this five-diamond property in Mexico's famed Riviera Maya district. As Project Manager, Ackerman works with Riverwalk a & e cultural partners, hospitality groups and community organizations to promote arts and entertainment to Greater Fort Lauderdale visitors.
Since 2009, under his leadership of Director of Marketing,
Brendan Glynn
, Florida Grand Opera has successfully increased ticket sales, reduced overall marketing expense, established media partnerships that have increased exposure, and solidified the institution as a social media innovator. In 2005, Glynn transitioned from a successful 13-year career at MARC Advertising in Coral Gables to Director of Marketing and Communications for the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. He brought a fresh, varied perspective to the arts industry, drawing on marketing best practices from his vast client service experience within the retail, real estate, packaged goods, and hospitality industries.
Hannah Hausman
is an accomplished fundraiser, marketing professional and supporter of the arts with more than ten years of non-profit experience, raising more than 5 million dollars for the South Florida community. Her career has taken her from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Miami to the Miami Children's Museum and the United Way Miami Wine & Food Festival. She is currently the Director of Development for the new Young At Art Museum, a 55,000 square-foot, Gold LEED-certified permanent facility in Broward County serving 250,000 children and families annually. Hannah has served as a grants panelist for Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, chair of the Coral Gables Chamber Cultural Affairs Committee, committee member for the Arts & Business Council and committee member for the Association of Children's Museums.
Launched in 1991, the Broward Cultural Division's Cooperative Marketing Services Program provides Broward-based not-for-profit cultural organizations and artists receiving Cultural Division incentives, with reduced advertising rates and a recognizable presence through larger media placements.
The cost for the workshop is $15, in advance: $20 at the door.
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Joy Swartz, Environmental Studies, Holekamp 203, Ext. 5808
Karen Hite, University Registrar, Early-Fielding Building, Ext. 8451
Linda Johnson, Director of Law School Records, Law School, Ext. 8505
Lori Oliver, Treasurer's Office, Old Courthouse 302, Ext. 8740
Macy Coffey, Law Library, Law School, Ext. 8541
Penny Patterson, General Counsel Office, Old Courthouse 113, Ext. 8940
Sheryl Salm, Senior Legal Assistant, Law School, Ext. 8482
Shirley Richardson, Romance Languages, Tucker Hall 316, Ext. 8821
Sue Bryant, Business Office, Old Courthouse 205, Ext. 8731
Sue Coffey, Senior Legal Assistant, Community Legal Practice Center, Ext. 8981
Suzannah Vess, Human Resources, Early-Fielding Building, Ext. 8348
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Granted it is early....but after tonight's performance against the Cardinals, it is time for Reyes to move ahead of Kawakami in the rotation.
Reyes' performance last season aside as we all know how dreadful he was....and the fact that at this point has won more major league games and clearly throwing the baseball right now with much better command than Kawakami....he currently gives us a much better chance of winning ballgames than the Japanese veteran hurler.
Perhaps Kawakami finds himself and I hope so considering the $$ we are paying him....but his H/BB-IP is atrocious and over the long-haul can't continue if he is going to stay in the 4th spot of the Braves rotation. Pick a stud....Webb, Peavy, Oswalt, Beckett, Santana, Hudson....whoever....they would even teeter on success if they walked 5, 6, 7 guys in a start!
They way Reyes has pitched in the 2009 season between Spring Training and his two regular season starts warrant more opportunities to get the ball and give our beloved Bravos a better chance at winning!
Of course....as I'm watching Terry Pendleton sleep on the bench and our players swinging at first pitches time after time after time after time.....it doesn't matter much how any of our pitchers throw without run support!
Maybe Reyes will be dealt for a hitter.....as the Braves have numerous 2010 starting options!


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ANDERSON, Ind. —
A teenager accused of raping an 11-year-old girl had his initial hearing Monday afternoon through Madison Circuit Court's video court.
Victor M. Perez, 17, is charged with rape, criminal deviant conduct and child molestation, all Class B felonies that carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison if he's convicted.
A non-citizen from Guatemala, Perez cannot speak English and had to have an interpreter present for his hearing under Judge Stephen Clase.
He is accused of raping the daughter of the family he was staying with and is being charged as an adult in the case.
His charges all stem from the same alleged incident, in which the girl described going to Perez's room to watch a DVD when he pulled her into his bed and forced himself upon her, according to the probable cause affidavit.
According to the affidavit, the incident is believed to have occurred some time in the month of September.
The girl's mother discovered what happened when she confronted her daughter about her change in behavior, the police report said.
The girl described the incident in detail to police and Perez was arrested at Anderson High School on Friday, according to the report.
Madison County Prosecutor Rodney Cummings said Perez is in the U.S. to attend school at Anderson High School and had been staying with the family since April.
Whether he was with the family under a sanctioned student exchange program has not yet been determined, he added.
Madison Circuit Court 3 Judge Thomas Newman Jr. appointed Anderson attorney Steve Smith to act as a guardian for Perez because he has no family available, Cummings said.
His bond has been set at $20,000, full cash only. Clase said Perez is considered a flight risk because he is an illegal immigrant who has no ties to the community.
Perez told Clase that he has immigrant court in Chicago in 2014. Whether he is convicted or not, Cummings said he will still have to face that court.
The court and date for Perez's criminal trial has not yet been determined.
Reporter Dani Palmer contributed to this report.


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Social Studies
The Social Studies Program of the Fairfield Public Schools provides students with the knowledge, skills, and attitude necessary to make reasoned decisions as productive participants in a democratic nation and a culturally diverse interconnected world. The curriculum fosters an understanding of how the physical setting, economic and political systems, cultural influences, and increased interdependence have impacted human history, as well as how that history shapes our perceptions of current and emerging trends.
Students are asked to show their genuine understanding through the application of knowledge, interpretation of information, acknowledgement of multiple perspectives, display of empathy for others' situation, and by making connections to one's own life and experiences.
Finally, it is essential that the design and implementation of social studies education be a liberating force in the life of every citizen. It calls for all citizens to be public spirited and self-sacrificing with the work we do in social studies, highlighting the connection between social studies learning, productive citizenship, and democratic values.
The standards found in the Fairfield Public School's social studies curriculum documents are the same as the state standards in the Connecticut Social Studies Framework.
To accomplish this vision of developing scholars and citizens the Fairfield Public Schools:
Provide for the development of an articulated and rigorous program of instruction for all students
Set graduation requirements including successfully completing Fairfield's K-5 and 6-8 social studies program and a minimum of three years of social studies coursework at the high school level
Provide a scope of offerings that allow students to demonstrate an understanding of the concept of culture and how different perspectives emerge from different cultures.
Provide a program which enables students to access information from a variety of sources by employing appropriate technologies
Provide instruction to help students think logically, write effectively,analyze and solve a variety of problems and make informed decisions.
Provide a variety of learning opportunities based upon the needs of students
Elementary K-5
Kindergarten Social Studies (PDF)
Grade 1 Social Studies (PDF)
Grade 2 Social Studies (PDF)
Grade 3 Social Studies (PDF)
Grade 4 Social Studies (PDF)
Grade 5 Social Studies (PDF)
Middle School 6-8
Standards CT Social Studies Framework 2008 (PDF)
Grade 6 Ancient Civilizations (PDF)
Grade 7 Geography for Life (PDF)
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First-round play continues Tuesday in the French Open 2011 at Stade Roland Garros, with match coverage beginning at 5 a.m. EDT. Rafael Nadal, Kim Clijsters, Andy Murray, and Robin Söderling will all be featured in first-round action. Today's TV schedule:
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2011 French Open tennis matches can also be viewed online at the Tennis Channel's free live stream in the morning, and later this afternoon on ESPN3. Live scores can be found throughout the day at Roland Garros' official website. The schedule of play is as follows:
Scheduled Day 3 matches for Court Philippe Chatrier:
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• No. 18 Gilles Simon vs. Michael Russell
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• No. 16 Fernando Verdasco vs. Juan Monaco
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Healthy start to life for staff and patients at Wiveliscombe's £2m Lister House Surgery
12:00pm Saturday 7th June 2014 in News By Michael Marsh
AFTER what felt like an eternity waiting for a new doctors' surgery in Wiveliscombe, life in a modern state-of-the-art facility has flown by for staff.
This week marks the six-month anniversary since the opening of the £2million surgery and reporter MICHAEL MARSH popped along to see how things were going.
STAFF at Wiveliscombe's doctors' surgery have had a positive start to life since their move in December.
The cramped Bollams Mead site was bursting at the seams, with staff working out of cupboards and hot-desking from room to room.
But life is much more comfortable at the £2million facility on Croft Way and bosses say they are now able to deal with their 6,800 patients more efficiently, plus cope with any expansion to the town with hundreds of homes planned.
Manager Emma Spiller said: "Patient numbers have remained static but we expected it to be like that for a number of months.
"However, we are in a better place to deal with them and have better conditions to do so. We have new fixings and staff are much better placed to work, unlike at the old site.
"To sum it up, we are delighted with the new premises and the facilities.
"Parking is easier and we have better disabled access, so in the future when the town grows or if we need to adapt to suit NHS policies we will be in a good position to do so."
A new surgery has been in the pipeline for years – in 2005, the County Gazette reported how the existing surgery was too small and could not cope with the high demand of patients after the GP contract was introduced.
These days, patients are 'enjoying' their experience a lot more and are impressed with the new facilities.
Peter Berman, vice chairman of the patient group, said: "We are in the middle of collating views from patients and seeing what they like or don't like about the experience at the new surgery.
"So far, feedback has generally been positive with many patients commenting on the waiting room and reception area."
There are now dedicated receptionists to deal with visitors and others to deal with calls, meaning patients get undivided attention.
"It is much better for staff," added Peter. "My wife used to be secretary at the old practice and when she came to have a look at this she was green with envy."
Receptionist Helen Gouldson said: "Working conditions are fantastic now and even though patients are unwell, they are still happy coming into a much better building."
The County Gazette took a tour of the building with MP Jeremy Browne in September, while construction work was still taking place, but this was the first visit since it was built.
Mr Browne has also visited the health centre and praised the modern facilities that patients in the area now enjoy.
He said: "Patients previously had very cramped and out-dated facilities when they went to see the doctor.
"The space was so limited that staff were sharing rooms and even working out of converted cupboards.
"I was very supportive of a new health centre being built in Wiveliscombe and I was impressed by the development when I visited it during the construction phase.
"It is great to see it is now fully up-and-running and providing excellent facilities. There are more consulting rooms, better facilities for staff, a bigger waiting room and more parking spaces.
"It is a great improvement and I am delighted that the town has benefitted from this substantial investment."
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Wiveliscombe's £2m Lister House Surgery was built using borrowed money in the form of a Public Private Partnership (PPP).
Public Private Partnerships (PPP) is the umbrella name given to a range of schemes that give the private sector a chance to make money from schools and hospitals. The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) was once the most common.
The key difference between PFI/PPP and normal ways of providing public services is that the public do not own the asset.
The council or health board make an annual payment to a private company who provide the building and associated services.
The public sector workers' trade union Unison and others have consistently warned of the dangers of involving the private sector in delivering public infrastructure through PPP/PFI deals.
They tend to be more expensive, inflexible, lack transparency and do not provide taxpayers with good value for money.
But the companies involved make millions.
PFI schemes cost much more than conventionally funded projects because governments can borrow money at much lower rates than private companies.
The Commons Treasury Committee found the capital cost of a typical PFI project is eight per cent – more than double that of government borrowing.
Audit Scotland have calculated these costs as adding £200,000 to £300,000 each year for every £10million invested.
In April 2011, the National Audit Office (NAO) urged the UK Government to find alternative ways of funding major projects because of the high costs of PFI.
They warned that the scheme had become increasingly expensive owing to the credit crisis.
And in August 2011, the Treasury Select Committee "found no convincing evidence that savings and efficiencies made during the lifetime of PFI projects could offset the higher cost of using private capital rather than government borrowing".
Supporters of PFI argue that it transfers risks to the private sector and that makes PFI value for money.
However, that claim doesn't stand up to scrutiny. The National Audit Office have called the value for money calculation "pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo." When public finances were growing, these additional costs could be masked.
Unlike other budgets, you can't cut PFI payments – the contractors and the bankers always get their cash.
The current unelected coalition of ConDem millionaires and the past, so called 'Labour' government have all chased a financial illusion, the taxpayer is picking up the bill and big business is laughing all the way to the bailed out banks.
In their attempts to destroy the NHS the government has established local organisations under the guise of local accountability.
In reality these bodies are part and parcel of the privatisation and fragmentation agenda.
The most important are the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). They exist in every locality, are responsible for spending about 80% of the national NHS budget, comprise of local GPs and commission most NHS services.
It is they that are responsible for outsourcing medical services to private providers.
For example in Bracknell, when the NHS Minor Injuries Unit closed at Heatherwood Hospital, it was the CCG that commissioned a private provider to replace it.
Sometimes there could be a clear conflict of interest with GPs both commissioning services and being themselves providers of private services.
Another body is the Healthwatch (HW), which is meant to be the local independent, health watchdog on behalf of patients.
It is neither independent nor democratic. It is funded by the government via the local authority, although the money is not ring-fenced.
HW is commissioned by the local authority although the latter is responsible for public health, a clear conflict of interest.
In Bracknell our HW is supportive of all the government's reforms, including privatisation of dementia services.
In fact they castigated campaigners for demonstrating against the privatisation. So we launched Bracknell Forest People's Healthwatch, which is democratic, accountable and fights against NHS privatisation and calls for openness and transparency in the NHS.
We recently organised a survey asking people what they know about these bodies. Early indications are that most people have never heard about them, yet they are the organisations running the NHS at a local level.
Mobilising the trade unions nationally to fight the government privatisation of the NHS is vital, but it is also important to build local struggles.
Here in Bracknell we have built a united front against the government policies, involving trade unionists, pensioners, anti-cuts campaigners, political activists and patients.
We think that to defeat the government we must first understand their strategy. While the local NHS bosses do not like us they have learned to respect us, after all we obtained 25,000 names opposing closure of our local hospital and they were forced to back off.
The Socialist Party fights for:
*No cuts. Abolish the Health and Social Care Act which allows the further selling off of our NHS to private companies
*End big business profiteering from the NHS: Abandon the Private Finance Initiative which is bleeding the NHS dry
*End NHS job losses and low pay. No downbanding
*Nationalise the pharmaceutical and medical supply industries and all private health providers
*A fully publicly funded NHS, free for all at the point of use
*Democratic control and accountability of health services
*United action to defend the NHS - the TUC must name the day for a 24-hour general strike against austerity
*A new mass workers' party that fights for these demands. Support the
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (www.tusc.org.uk) as a step in this direction
*A socialist planned society that can genuinely meet and exceed the original aims of the NHS
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Varina town meeting June 20 to examine reservoir project, education foundation
The next town meeting of Varina District Supervisor Jim Donati will examine the efforts of the Henrico Education Foundation and will provide information about the Cobbs Creek Water Supply Reservoir project. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, June 20 at the Henrico Theatre, 305 E. Nine Mile Road.
Executive Director Susan Stanley will be on hand to discuss the work of the Henrico Education Foundation, a private, nonprofit organization that provides supplemental funding such as instructional grants and learning support for specific initiatives in Henrico County Public Schools.
The meeting also will highlight the 1,100-acre Cobbs Creek Water Supply Reservoir project, a regional cooperation effort designed to ensure a long-term water supply. A question-and-answer period will follow.
Varina town meetings are open to the public. Call 501-4208 for more information.
Author, child abuse survivor to speak at Henrico event
To help celebrate twenty years of service to advocating for abused and neglected children in Henrico County, Henrico Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (CASA) will host an evening with bestselling author K.L. Randis on Tuesday, Aug. 26, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Belmont Recreation Center in Lakeside.
Randis is best known for her bestselling novel, Spilled Milk, which tells her painful – but ultimately triumphant – personal story of abuse and of child abuse prevention. The book is her first novel.
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Like money. Lots and lots of money – into the 11-figures-and-counting range. In case you weren't aware, 2006's Cars was the biggest moneymaker Disney had in decades – not because of how much green the film printed at the box office, but because a combination of toys, games and snack foods stamped with the Cars seal of approval routinely pulls in tens of billions of dollars per year. > Read more.
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The video game crash of 1983, also known as Atari shock in Japan,[1] was a massive recession of the video game industry that occurred from 1983 to 1985. Revenues had peaked at around $3.2 billion in 1983,[2] then fell to around $100 million by 1985 (a drop of almost 97 percent). The crash was a serious event that brought an abrupt end to what is considered the second generation of console video gaming in North America.
The crash almost destroyed the then-fledgling industry and led to the bankruptcy of several companies producing home computers and video game consoles in the region, including the fastest-growing U.S. company in history at that point, Atari.[3] It lasted about two years, and many business analysts of the time expressed doubts about the long-term viability of video game consoles. The video game industry recovered a few years later, mostly due to the widespread success of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), which was soft launched in New York City in late 1985 and had become extremely popular in North America by 1987.[4]
There were several reasons for the crash, but the main cause was saturation of the market with hundreds of mostly low-quality games which resulted in the loss of consumer confidence. The full effects of the industry crash would not be felt until 1985.[5]
- 1 Causes and factors
- 2 Fallout effects
- 3 See also
- 4 References
- 5 Further reading
- 6 External links
Causes and factors[edit]
The North American video game console crash of 1983 was caused by a combination of factors. Although some were more important than others, all played a role in saturating and then imploding the video game industry.
Flooded console market[edit]
At the time of the U.S. crash, there were numerous consoles on the market, including the Atari 2600, the Atari 5200, the Bally Astrocade, the ColecoVision, the Coleco Gemini (a 2600 clone), the Emerson Arcadia 2001, the Fairchild Channel F System II, the Magnavox Odyssey 2, the Mattel Intellivision (and its just-released update with several peripherals, the Intellivision II), the Sears Tele-Games systems (which included both 2600 and Intellivision clones), the Tandyvision (an Intellivision clone for Radio Shack) and the Vectrex.
Each of these consoles had its own library of games, and many had large third-party libraries. Likewise, many of these same companies announced yet another generation of consoles for 1984, such as the Odyssey3, and Atari 7800.[6]
Adding to the industry's woes was a glut of poor titles from hastily-financed startup companies. These games, combined with weak high-profile Atari 2600 games, such as Pac-Man and the video-game version of the 1982 hit movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, seriously damaged the reputation of the industry.[7][8][9] Atari's market-leading 2600, then in its sixth year, was starting to approach saturation and its 1977-era design was showing serious hardware limitations. Its 128 bytes of RAM, 160x192 graphic resolution and 1.19 MHz MOS Technology 6507 processor were no match for a desktop PC.
In November 1982, Atari attempted to counter an exodus to rival manufacturers' consoles by launching the Atari 5200 as a stripped-down version of the Atari 400/800 desktop PC hardware.[10] The 5200 console would not directly run Atari 2600 cartridge games; it was also incompatible with Atari's 400/800 desktop computer platform and was discontinued less than two years after launch. A proposed Atari 7800 was 2600-compatible, but its 1984 launch was shelved when Warner split up Atari. The 7800 console was introduced in 1986, too late to turn around the company's fortunes as gamers increasingly adopted the IBM PC compatible desktop computer platform.[citation needed]
Competition from home computers[edit]
The first microcomputers such as the Altair 8800 and Apple I were marketed to a niche of electronics hobbyists as most required assembly from a kit. In 1977, pre-assembled machines with BASIC in ROM became available, including the "Trio of '77": the Apple II, Commodore PET, and TRS-80 Model I. The latter two retailed for under $1,000, but lacked game joysticks and high-resolution color video.[11] Third-party developers created games for all of these platforms. The TRS-80 benefited from Radio Shack's retail stores, which displayed computers and accessories locally in an era where many personal computers were mail-ordered from manufacturers.
In 1979, Atari unveiled the Atari 400 and 800 computers, built around a chipset originally meant for use in a game console, and which retailed for the same price as their names. In 1981, IBM introduced the IBM 5150 PC with a $1,565 base price,[12] while Sinclair Research introduced its low-end ZX81 microcomputer for ₤70. By 1982, new desktop computer designs were commonly providing better color graphics and sound than game consoles and personal computer sales were booming. The TI 99/4A and the Atari 400 were both at $349, Radio Shack's Color Computer sold at $379, and Commodore had just reduced the price of the Commodore VIC-20 to $199 and the Commodore 64 to $499.[13][14][15]
Because home computers generally had more memory and faster processors than a console, they permitted more sophisticated games. They could also be used for tasks such as word processing and home accounting. Games were easier to duplicate, since they could be packaged as floppy disks or cassette tapes instead of ROM modules (though some cassette-based systems retained ROM modules as an "instant-on" option). This opened the field to a cottage industry of third-party software developers. Writeable storage media allowed players to save games in progress, a useful feature for increasingly complex games which was not available on the consoles of the era.
Dan Gutman, founder in 1982 of Video Games Player magazine, recalled that "As the first wave of the personal computer boom started, the video games market began to taper off. People asked themselves, 'Why should I buy a video game system when I can buy a computer that will play games and do so much more?'"[16] Commodore explicitly targeted video game players by offering competitive upgrades, where rival systems could be traded for a discount toward the purchase of a Commodore 64. Commodore's ownership of chip fabricator MOS Technology allowed manufacture of integrated circuits in-house, so the VIC-20 and C64 sold for much lower prices than competing home computers. This contributed to a ruinous price war between rival, incompatible platforms. Atari and Texas Instruments were squeezed out of the desktop market. Radio Shack, less vulnerable as it owned a retail distribution chain, abandoned its proprietary lines[when?] to embrace the IBM PC standard. Many European and Japanese computer manufacturers chose to avoid the saturated U.S. market, hence the North American absence of computers like the MSX and Amstrad CPC.[citation needed]
By 1983, Gutman wrote, "Video games were officially dead and computers were hot". He renamed his magazine to Computer Games in October 1983, but "I noticed that the word games became a dirty word in the press. We started replacing it with simulations as often as possible". Soon "The computer slump began ... Suddenly, everyone was saying that the home computer was a fad, just another hula hoop". Computer Games published its last issue in late 1984.[16]
The American game industry lobbied in Washington, D.C., for a smaller $1 coin, closer to the size of a quarter, arguing that inflation (which had reduced the quarter's spending power by a third in the early 1980s) was making it difficult to prosper.[17] (During the 1970s, the dollar coin in use was the Eisenhower Dollar, a massive coin impractical for coin vending machines. The Susan B. Anthony Dollar was introduced in 1979, and its size fit the video game manufacturers' demands, but it was a failure in the general public.) In Canada, existing dollar bills were removed from circulation and replaced with coins in 1987.
Arcade machines in Japan had standardized the use of ¥100 coins, worth roughly $1, which industry veteran Mark Cerny proposed as a reason for Japan's game industry stability of the time.[17]
Loss of publishing control[edit]
Activision was founded by Atari programmers who left the company in 1979 because Atari did not allow credits to appear on the games and did not pay employees a royalty based on sales. At the time, Atari was owned by Warner Communications, and the developers felt that they should receive the same recognition that musicians, directors, and actors got from Warner's other divisions. After Activision went into business, Atari quickly sued to block sales of Activision's products, but never won a restraining order and ultimately settled the case in 1982.[18] This court case legitimized third-party development, encouraging companies such as Quaker Oats (with their US Games division) to rush to open video-game divisions, hoping to impress both stockholders and consumers. Companies lured away each other's programmers or used reverse engineering to learn how to make games for proprietary systems. Atari even hired several programmers from Mattel's Intellivision development studio, prompting a lawsuit by Mattel against Atari that included charges of industrial espionage.
Despite the lessons learned by Atari in the loss of its programmers to Activision, Mattel continued to try to avoid crediting game designers. Rather than reveal the names of Intellivision game designers, Mattel instead required that a 1981 TV Guide interview with them change their names to protect their collective identities. ColecoVision designers worked in similar obscurity, feeding more departures to upstart competitors.
Unlike Nintendo, Sega, Sony, or Microsoft in later decades, the hardware manufacturers in this era lost exclusive control of their platforms' supply of games. With it, they also lost the ability to ensure stores were never overloaded with products. Activision, Atari, and Mattel all had experienced programmers, but many of the new companies rushing to join the market did not have enough experience and talent to create the games. Titles such as Chase the Chuck Wagon (about dogs eating food, bankrolled by the dog food company Purina), Skeet Shoot, and Lost Luggage were examples of games made in the hopes of taking advantage of the video-game boom. While heavily advertised and marketed, these games were perceived to be of poor quality and did not catch on as hoped, further damaging the industry.
BYTE magazine stated in December 1982, "In 1982 few games broke new ground in either design or format ... If the public really likes an idea, it is milked for all it's worth, and numerous clones of a different color soon crowd the shelves. That is, until the public stops buying or something better comes along. Companies who believe that microcomputer games are the hula hoop of the 1980s only want to play Quick Profit."[19]
High-profile failures[edit]
A core cause of the crash was two high-profile titles for the Atari 2600 that were failures. In 1982, Atari attempted to take advantage of the craze following the arcade game Pac-Man by releasing a version for the Atari 2600. However, development was rushed so as to have the game out in time for the 1982 Christmas season. Although the game managed to sell well in terms of absolute numbers, Atari had grossly overestimated the number of sales it would generate. Critics and gamers universally panned the game as being nothing like the lively, colorful original. In the end, Atari only sold a little over half the number of cartridges it produced. Production cost overruns combined with the expense of the marketing campaign for the game resulted in huge losses for Atari. With Atari in full meltdown by the second half of 1983, CEO Ray Kassar was fired and later investigated by the SEC for embezzling company funds, although the charges were dropped.[20]
Atari also issued the widely advertised E.T. game. Once again, it manufactured millions of units in anticipation of a major hit. Concerned about making the Christmas season, Atari again rushed the game to market quickly, after a mere six weeks of development time. The end result is widely considered to be one of the worst video games ever.[21][22] It is generally inferred that, in order to clear their inventory, Atari eventually ended up burying the unsold copies in a landfill in New Mexico.[22][23][24] Combined with the high costs for the movie license, E.T. became another financial failure for Atari. Eventually the company's arcade and home divisions were split off into two separate companies, the latter being taken over by Commodore founder Jack Tramiel and his sons after their expulsion from that company.
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Immediate effects[edit]
The release of so many new games in 1982 flooded the market. Most stores had insufficient space to carry new games and consoles. As stores tried to return the surplus games to the new publishers, the publishers had neither new products nor cash to issue refunds to the retailers. Many publishers, including Games by Apollo and US Games, quickly folded. Unable to return the unsold games to defunct publishers, stores marked down the titles and placed them in discount bins and sale tables. Recently released games which initially sold for USD$35 were in bins for $5.[25] By June 1983, the market for the more expensive games had shrunk dramatically and was replaced by a new market of rushed-to-market, low-budget games.
A massive industry shakeout resulted. Magnavox and Coleco abandoned the video game business entirely. Imagic withdrew its IPO the day before its stock was to go public; the company later collapsed. The largest third-party developer, Activision, survived in part because they also developed games for home computers to offset their console losses. Most of the smaller software development houses supporting the Atari 2600 closed.
Toy retailers, which controlled consumer access to games, had concluded that video games were a fad. That fad, they assumed, had ended, and the shelf space would be reassigned to different products; as a result, many retailers ignored video games for several years. This was the most formidable barrier that confronted Nintendo, as it tried to market its Famicom system in the United States. Retailer opposition to video games was directly responsible for causing Nintendo's branding its product an "Entertainment System" rather than a "console", using terms such as "control deck" and "Game Pak", as well as producing a toy robot called R.O.B. to convince toy retailers to allow it in their stores.[26][27]
The sales of home video games had dropped considerably during this period, from $3 billion in 1982 to as low as $100 million in 1985, leading to bankruptcy for many game companies at the time. Following the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985, the industry began recovering, with annual sales exceeding $2.3 billion by 1988, with 70% of the market dominated by Nintendo.[28] In 1986, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi noted that "Atari collapsed because they gave too much freedom to third-party developers and the market was swamped with rubbish games". In response, Nintendo limited the number of titles that third-party developers could release for their system each year, and promoted its "Seal of Quality", which it allowed to be used on games and peripherals by publishers that met Nintendo's quality standards.[29]
The introduction in June 1986 of the Commodore 64c—a redesigned Commodore 64—meant that the company raised the price of the C64 for the first time, which Compute! cited as the end of the home-computer price war.[30][31]
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The North American video game crash had two long-lasting results. The first result was that dominance in the home console market shifted from the United States to Japan. When the video game market recovered in the late 1980s, Nintendo's NES was by far the dominant console, leaving only a fraction of the market to a resurgent Atari battling Sega's Master System for the number-two spot soon after. By 1989, home video game sales in the United States had reached $5 billion, surpassing the 1982 peak of $3 billion during the previous generation. A large majority of the market was controlled by Nintendo, whose NES ultimately sold more than 35 million units in the United States, exceeding the sales of other consoles and personal computers by a considerable margin.[32] Other Japanese companies also rivalled Nintendo's success in the United States, with Sega's Mega Drive/Genesis in 1989, and then the Sony PlayStation in 1995. Atari never truly recovered and could not match the success of its competitors or its own 2600 console; it finally stopped producing game systems in 1996 after the failure of the Atari Jaguar. It was not until 2001, when Microsoft released the Xbox, that a U.S. manufacturer became competitive in the home console market again, albeit with heavy losses in the market throughout the first few years[citation needed].
A second, highly visible result of the crash was the institution of measures to control third-party development of software. Using secrecy to combat industrial espionage had failed to stop rival companies from reverse engineering the Mattel and Atari systems and hiring away their trained game programmers. While Mattel and Coleco implemented lockout measures to control third-party development (the ColecoVision BIOS checked for a copyright string on power-up), the Atari 2600 was completely unprotected and once information on its hardware became available, little prevented anyone from making games for it. Nintendo thus instituted a strict licensing policy for the NES that included equipping the cartridge and console with lockout chips, which were region-specific and had to match in order for a game to work. In addition to preventing the use of unlicensed games, it also was designed to combat piracy, rarely a problem in the United States or Europe, but rampant in East Asia.
Accolade achieved a technical victory in one court case against Sega, challenging this control, even though it ultimately yielded and signed the Sega licensing agreement. Several publishers, notably Tengen (Atari), Color Dreams, and Camerica, challenged Nintendo's control system during the 8-bit era by producing unlicensed NES games. The concepts of such a control system remain in use on every major video game console produced today, even with fewer "cartridge-based" consoles on the market than in the 8/16-bit era. Replacing the security chips in most modern consoles are specially-encoded optical discs that cannot be copied by most users and can only be read by a particular console under normal circumstances.
Nintendo reserved a large part of NES game revenue for itself by limiting most third-party publishers to only five games per year on its systems (some companies tried to get around this by creating additional company labels like Konami's Ultra Games label). It also required all cartridges to be manufactured by Nintendo, and to be paid for in full before they were manufactured. Cartridges could not be returned to Nintendo, so publishers assumed all the risk. As a result, some publishers lost more money due to distress sales of remaining inventory at the end of the NES era than they ever earned in profits from sales of the games.
Nintendo portrayed these measures as intended to protect the public against poor-quality games, and placed a golden seal of approval on all licensed games released for the system. These strict licensing measures backfired somewhat after Nintendo was accused of trust behavior.[33] In the longer run, however, many third-party publishers such as Electronic Arts actively supported competing consoles such as the Sega Genesis. Most of the Nintendo platform-control measures were adopted by later console manufacturers such as Sega, Sony, and Microsoft, although not as stringent. Indeed consoles from Nintendo's rivals had always enjoyed much stronger third-party support than Nintendo which relied more heavily on first-party games.
Effects on world gaming markets[edit]
In Europe, the early years of personal computing (1981–85) were spearheaded by the very aggressive marketing of inexpensive home computers with the theme "Why buy your child a video game and distract them from school when you can buy them a home computer that will prepare them for university?"[34] Marketing research for both the gaming and the home-computer industries tracked the change as millions of consumers shifted their intention to buy choices from game consoles to low-end computers that retailed for similar prices but still allowed access to comparable games, while at the same time being useful for other tasks such as word processing, calculations and programming. That is why video game consoles had already been largely marginalized in Europe by 1984, thus, leaving the North American video game crash with little effect for the European market.
Although the European home computer market began later than the U.S. market, it took off extremely fast. The Commodore 64 arrived in Europe during 1983, the same year in which the ZX Spectrum was launched in the UK. With disk drives being unaffordable for home users there, nearly all software came on cassette tapes. However, Germany and other countries on the European mainland quickly adopted disk drives on their home computers.
Having destroyed most of their low-end competition in North America, Commodore survived there to the end of the decade with the C64 and Amiga being marketed as a niche platform for gaming. By that point however, the company's primary focus was on Europe where they were a leading computer manufacturer until a series of poor business decisions lead to bankruptcy in 1994.
While the U.S. market was shifting away from 8-bit computers and cassette storage during the mid-1980s, this was not the case in Europe where technology moved slower and IBM compatibles did not gain a significant foothold. As video-game consoles only had a minor share in the European market until nearly the end of the 1980s, computer gaming became the established tradition there and Nintendo failed to make an impact with the NES, although Sega was quite successful with the Master System and Mega Drive. Overall however, console games never became as popular as computer gaming in Europe and PC compatibles would not become dominant until Commodore's demise in the mid-1990s and the greater availability of non-English language software.
Japan's home market meanwhile was effectively insulated from the rest of the world and the crash had little more effect there than in Europe. High prices and the small size of Japanese homes meant that personal computers never became widespread there, with consoles being the dominant form of gaming. A number of Japanese computers did however achieve fair success such as NEC's machines, the Sharp X68000, and the Fujitsu FM Towns, although the majority of games released for them were adult-oriented titles that would not meet the licensing requirements of Nintendo and other console manufacturers. While Japanese companies did not attempt to sell their computers in North America, some were released in Europe with varying degrees of success.
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- ^ Jary, Simon (August 19, 2011). "HP TouchPads to be dumped in landfill?". PC Advisor. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
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- ^ Commodore PET FAQ
- ^ IBM.com
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- ^ Ahl, David H. (1984 November). The first decade of personal computing. Creative Computing, vol. 10, no. 11: p. 30.
- ^ The Inflation Calculator
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- ^ a b Mark Cerny. "The Long View". Game Developers Conference.
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Further reading[edit]
- DeMaria, Rusel & Wilson, Johnny L. (2003). High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill/Osborne. ISBN 0-07-222428-2.
- Gallagher, Scott & Park, Seung Ho (2002). "Innovation and Competition in Standard-Based Industries: A Historical Analysis of the U.S. Home Video Game Market". IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, vol. 49, no. 1, February 2002, pp. 67–82. doi: 10.1109/17.985749
External links[edit]
- Article at The Dot Eaters, a chronicle of the Great Videogame Crash
- The Golden Age of Video Game Arcades (a 200-page story contained within Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records) by Walter Day (1998), ISBN 1-887472-25-8
- Classic Gaming Expo site Biographies and history of the era
- Official Intellivision History Site by the original programmers
- The History of Computer Games: The Atari Years Written by Chris Crawford, a game designer at Atari during the crash
- Chronology of the Commodore 64 Computer Events & Game release dates (1982–1990)


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