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The VCU Parkinson's and Movement Disorders Center strives to provide a seamless experience for the movement disorders community by providing access to clinicians from a variety of disciplines in one location. You may be referred by your doctor or you may directly make an appointment for yourself or a family member.
We offer evaluation and care for the full spectrum of movement disorders:
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- What is Ataxia?
- Ataxia is a sign of an abnormality in the brain or nerves causing difficulty coordinating movements. It can effect walking, arm and leg control, speaking, swallowing and activities requiring fine motor control. There are many causes of Ataxia including stroke, certain vitamin deficiencies, drug or alcohol use, genetic diseases, Wilson's disease, multiple sclerosis or cerebral palsy. Diagnosis is made through physical exam and certain tests depending on your history and exam.
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- What is Blepharospasm?
- Blepharospasm is a neurological condition which causes involuntary blinking and spasm of the eyelids. It can be a sign of another neurological disease or it can be isolated. Botulinum toxin injections are the most effective treatment for blepharospasm and this can be done through our clinic.
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Corticobasal degeneration (CBD)
- What is Corticobasal degeneration?
- Corticobasal degeneration is a progressive neurological condition caused by abnormal tau protein in the brain cells. It causes symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease such as rigidity, slowness of movement, tremor and imbalance. It can also cause cognitive impairment or dementia. It does not typically respond well to medications used to treat Parkinson's disease, but there are ways to help manage symptoms such as providing supportive medications and therapies.
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Dementia with Lewy Bodies
- What is dementia with Lewy Bodies?
- Dementia with Lewy Bodies is a neurodegenerative disease causing fluctuating symptoms of progressive cognitive decline, Parkinsonism and hallucinations. It can also cause anxiety, depression and sleep disturbances. People with DLB are often very sensitive to medications used to treat Parkinson's disease and do not tolerate them well, but there are ways to help manage symptoms such as providing supportive medications and therapies.
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Huntington's Disease
Multiple System Atrophy (MSA)
- What is Multiple System Atrophy?
- Multiple System Atrophy is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by abnormal accumulation of alpha synuclein proteins in the brain. It is similar to Parkinson's disease and is characterized by rigidity, tremor, slowness of movement and instability. It is also associated with autonomic nervous system problems such as low blood pressure and sensation of light headedness, urinary incontinence, and lower leg swelling. Some patients also have abnormal coordination. It does not typically respond well to medications used to treat Parkinson's disease, but there are ways to help manage symptoms such as providing supportive medications and therapies.
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- What is Myoclonus?
- Myoclonus is an abnormal neurological sign, not a disease. It is characterized by sudden, involuntary, abnormal jerking of muscles. It can be benign or associated with a variety of neurological diseases. Myoclonus can be treated with medications.
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Parkinson's Disease
Parkinsonism/Parkinson-Plus Syndromes
- What is Parkinsonism?
- Parkinsonism is a group of symptoms similar to those found in Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism can be caused by Parkinson's disease, cerebrovascular disease, certain medications, Dementia with Lewy Bodies, Multiple System Atrophy, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Corticobasal degeneration. All types of Parkinsonism are clinical diagnoses which means that they are diagnosed by history and physical exam. Treatment depends on the type of Parkinsonism diagnosed by the provider.
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Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP)
- What is PSP?
- Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by abnormal accumulation of tau proteins in the brain. It causes symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease with slowness, stiffness and tremor. It can also cause slowness of eye movements, mood and cognitive changes and early falls. It often does not respond well to medications used to treat Parkinson's disease, but there are ways to help manage symptoms such as providing supportive medications and therapies.
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Restless Legs Syndrome
- What is Restless Legs Syndrome?
- Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a neurological condition which causes abnormal sensations in the legs and sometimes arms resulting in an uncontrollable urge to move. Movement helps relieve the symptoms temporarily. Symptoms generally occur at night, but can occur during the day as well when trying to rest or relax.
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Tardive Dyskinesia / Tardive Dystonia
- What is Tardive Dyskinesia?
- Tardive Dyskinesia is a neurological disease causing abnormal and involuntary movements. Most often, these movements are seen in the tongue, lips and face, but they can also occur in the arms, legs or torso. It is caused by taking certain medications for psychiatric or gastrointestinal disorders, usually for long periods of time.
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Tics and Tourette Syndrome
- What are Tics?
- Tics are involuntary, repetitive movements (motor tics) and vocalizations (vocal tics). Tics are usually associated with a sensation or urge to perform the tic (premonitory sensation) followed by a sense of relief afterwards. They are a symptom of neurodevelopmental disorders which begin in childhood. Tourette syndrome is a tic disorder characterized by having a combination of two motor tics and one vocal tic for one year or more. Education, environmental adaptations and medications can help manage symptoms.
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Wilson's Disease
- What is Wilson's Disease?
- Wilson's disease is a rare genetic disorder causing abnormal accumulation of copper in the liver, brain and other organs. Symptoms can include fatigue, yellowing of the skin, abdominal pain, abnormal movements, depression and anxiety. It is diagnosed with laboratory tests and treated with chelation, medications and diet changes.
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Writer's Cramp and Musician's Cramp
- What is writers/ musicians cramp?
- Writers and Musicians Cramp is a type of focal dystonia causing abnormal and involuntary contractions of hand muscles when performing specific activities such as writing or playing a musical instrument. It can be treated with exercises, adaptive techniques, botulinum toxin injections or medications.
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Interdisciplinary evaluation
The VCU Parkinson's and Movement Disorders Center interdisciplinary evaluation allows patients to access sub-specialty care providers in one location. This evaluation will include assessments by the professionals described below, and will result in a comprehensive treatment plan that will address each individual's needs. This treatment plan will be shared with other healthcare providers managing a patient's care.
- Movement Disorder Neurology
- The movement disorder neurologist evaluation includes assessment of symptoms, including non-motor features such as gastrointestinal and sleep problems.
- Clinical Neuropsychology
- The neuropsychologist examines thinking skills such as attention, speed of thinking, visual and language skills, learning and memory, problem-solving, reasoning, and other brain and behavior functions including mood and quality of life.
- Genetic Counseling
- The genetic counselor is available to discuss genetic testing, including pre-symptomatic testing for Huntington Disease.
- Rehabilitation
- The physical therapist evaluates conditioning, balance, coordination and motor skills.
- Speech and Language Pathology
- Speech Therapy
- The speech therapist evaluates speaking and swallowing.
As part of VCU Medical Center, our patients have access to other services as recommended by our team.
Care and treatment
We offer state-of-the-art medical and surgical treatment options. Our movement disorders specialists are able to provide individual treatment recommendations and referrals as appropriate.
Our center offers access to a variety of treatment options, including:
- Botulinum toxin injections
- Carbidopa/levodopa enteral suspension for advanced Parkinson's disease
- Deep Brain Stimulation surgery and post-surgical programming and support
- Mindfulness therapy
Our team will provide recommendations and work with you and your family to determine the best treatments for you.
Other services
Other services available include geriatric psychiatry, genetic counseling, and evaluation for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) surgery and post-surgical DBS programming.
Telemedicine services
We offer telemedicine consultations to patients on Virginia's Eastern Shore in partnership with Dr. Robert Paschall of Riverside Neurology Specialists.
Telemedicine uses secure technology to connect two locations with video and sound through a computer, allowing for access to our specialists without having to travel long distances.
Patients go to Dr. Paschall's office, where a computer with special video equipment will securely connected to a similarly equipped computer at the VCU Parkinson's and Movement Disorders Center in Richmond. Dr. Leslie Cloud is the VCU neurologist who provides these consultations. She talks with the patient and family members using a video chat program on the computer. The computer software and connections are secured using special technology to ensure that private health information is protected.
Dr. Cloud provides advice for ongoing care and treatment for patients with movement disorders, and Dr. Paschall and his office help to facilitate any follow-up testing or prescriptions.
Dr. Paschall and his staff arrange telemedicine appointments. Please contact his office at (757) 442-6600 with any questions or to set up an appointment.
HDSA Center of Excellence
Our Huntington Disease program has been designated a Center of Excellence by the Huntington's Disease Society of America. Our team of experienced providers is dedicated to providing interdisciplinary consultations to meet our patients' individual needs. We strive to integrate expert clinical care with clinical research to advance knowledge in HD.
Our program is one of 29 selected nationwide for this prestigious designation, reserved for programs committed to collaborative, multidisciplinary care for HD affected families.
Huntington Disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disease. HD is most often thought of as a movement disorder, but it also causes emotional and behavioral changes, and cognitive decline. The symptoms associated with HD usually become more severe over time. Currently there is not a cure for HD, but there are medications to manage the symptoms. There are also many other ways to improve a person's independence and quality of life.
Learn more about our HD Program.
Resources and education
In additional to clinical care services, we also offer resources and education opportunities. You do not have to be a current patient to participate.
We also host two support groups at our center:
- Richmond Metro Huntington Disease Support Group
Meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 6pm
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- Women's Support Group - for women diagnosed with Parkinson's disease or other movement disorder
Meets the 2nd Friday of each month at 10am
Contact Susan Chandler, firstname.lastname@example.com or (804) 628-2022
Other support groups are available and we maintain a listing of groups in Virginia for:
Financial assistance
If you worry that you may have difficulty paying your bill for your care in full, VCU may be able to help. It is important that you let us know if you will have trouble paying your bill or balances after insurance. For more information about financial assistance please, please visit the VCU Medical Center website.


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|Las Vegas Wranglers
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The Las Vegas Wranglers are a minor league ice hockey team.
The Wranglers were originally to begin play in the West Coast Hockey League, but the WCHL merged with the ECHL before the beginning of the 2003-04 season. Home games are played at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. The Wranglers are the first and only team to hold a game that is played at midnight. The annual "Midnight Holiday Roundup" (the 'Holiday' part is so-called because it is held every December) was created so that Las Vegans who work during the usual game times (e.g. employees of the gaming industry), could watch a game. Other wacky Wranglers promotions have included the traditional mullet hat night and even a give away of orange vests that said "Don't Shoot...I'm Human!" during a game on March 17, 2006, a joke on the Dick Cheney hunting incident.[1] The Wranglers are the first team in ECHL history to have three consecutive 100-point seasons.[2]
The Wranglers have been the ECHL affiliate of the National Hockey League's (NHL) Calgary Flames and the American Hockey League's (AHL) Quad City Flames since the team's inaugural season in 2003. Under the terms of the affiliation agreement, up to nine Flames prospects can play for Las Vegas.[3]
The Wranglers play in the Pacific Division of the ECHL's National Conference and are one of the most prolific teams in ECHL history.
The market was previously served by:
- Las Vegas Thunder (1993-1999) (IHL)
- Las Vegas Aces (1994-1995) (PSHL)
Team captainsEdit
- Jason McBain 2003-05
- Mike McBain 2005-07
- Peter Ferraro 2007-08
- Shawn Limpright 2008-present
Notable playersEdit
- Brent Krahn (2003-04)
- Marc "Mags" Magliarditi* (2003-07)
- Jason McBain* (2003-05)
- Mike McBain* (2003-08)
- Adam Pardy (2005-06)
- Dany Sabourin (2003-04)
- Tyler Sloan (2005-06)
- Billy Tibbetts (2004-05)
*-Retired with team
Coaching HistoryEdit
|Current status
|Glen Gulutzan
|2003 -
|Current Coach and GM
- First team in ECHL history to have three consecutive 100-point seasons.
- Highest Winning Percentage (.676; 2003-08) in ECHL History
- Highest Road Winning Percentage (.706; 2003-08) in ECHL History
- Fewest (5; 2006-07) and 3rd (7; 2007-08) Fewest Road Losses in One Season
- Tied for Longest Road Win Streak in ECHL history (10 - 22'Nov'05 - 31'Dec'05)
- Hold Longest Win Streak in ECHL history (18 games)
- Tied with 1990-91 Peoria Rivermen of the IHL for Longest Win Streak in professional hockey history (18 games).
- Fewest Shorthanded Goals Allowed, One Season (2; 2007-08)
- Fewest Penalty Minutes in One Game (0; 27'Nov'04 @ Florida Everblades)
- 2nd Most Road Wins in One Season (25; 2005-06)
- 3rd Most Wins in One Season (53; 2005-06)
- 3rd (12; 2006-07) Fewest Loses in One Season
- 3rd and 4th Longest Regular Season Win Streaks in ECHL History
- 3rd Most Consecutive Games without a Regulation Loss (20 - 03'Nov'07 - 21'Dec'07)
- 4th Most Ties in One Season (14; 2006-07)
- 5th Most Points in One Season (112; 2005-06)
- 5th Highest Winning Percentage for One Season (.778; 2005-06)
- 2006 John Brophy Award (Glen Gulutzan)
- Division Titles: 2 – 2006-07, 2007-08
- Kelly Cups: none
- Brabham Cups: 1 – 2006-07
- Bruce Taylor Cups: 1 – 2007-08
Affiliation HistoryEdit
- Calgary Flames (2003 - 2009)
- Phoenix Coyotes (2009-2010)
- No Affiliation/ Independant (2010 - Present)
Main RivalsEdit
The Las Vegas Wranglers have significant rivalries with the Alaska Aces, Bakersfield Condors, Fresno Falcons, Idaho Steelheads, and Utah Grizzlies. The longest of the rivalries is with the Utah Grizzlies, which started between the Las Vegas Thunder and the Utah Grizzlies in the International Hockey League and came to its highest point during 1996 IHL Western Conference Finals. The Wranglers and the Steelheads have had a constant rivalry that has centered around the playoffs. The Wranglers have met the Steelheads in all three of their playoff appearnaces. The Alaska Aces rivalry began during the 2005-06 season in which the Wranglers fell one point behind the Aces for the West Division and Brabham Cup titles. The rivalries with the Condors and Falcons started off very softly during the Wranglers inaugural season but has become more heated since the Wranglers move into the Pacific Division during the 2006-07 season. In 2008-09, the Wranglers are expecting a new rival with the Texas Wildcatters relocating to Ontario, CA (becoming the Ontario Reign). The Reign are affiliates of the Los Angeles Kings who have a heavy fan base in the Las Vegas metropolitan area as Las Vegas is a part of the Los Angeles sports market.
The major current rivals of the Wranglers include a heavy rivalry with the Ontario Reign and the Alaska Aces. All three teams have battled heavily in recent years for the top spot in the league. With the 2011-2012 season coming to a close, all three teams are again high in the standings and have clinched a playoff spot. Many times Alaska and Las Vegas are in the struggle for top spot while the Reign have had their history with the Wranglers as noted by the "Beat Vegas" hats that are still available for purchase. (Contributed by DavidC, 03/31/12 with updates to the "Affiliation History" section)
Former rivals of the Wranglers included the Long Beach Ice Dogs, San Diego Gulls, and Toledo Storm. The rivalry with Long Beach and San Diego came from the time that the teams were members of the IHL and made numerous playoff appearances against each other, while the rivalry with Toledo was based upon the large population of Las Vegas residents from Toledo, OH.
Theme SongsEdit
The Wranglers have had numerous songs that represent the team during pre-game introductions. Songs that represented the regular season have included: Never Gonna Stop (The Red Red Kroovy) by Rob Zombie, Stand Up by Trapt, Ready Steady Go by Paul Oakenfold, ...To Be Loved and Crash by Papa Roach. When the team makes the playoffs, the song that was used in the regular season is usually changed. Songs that have represented the playoffs have included: The Hand That Feeds by Nine Inch Nails and Lights and Sounds by Yellowcard. During the regular season the Wranglers used Ain't Nothing Wrong With That by Robert Randolph and the Family Band and The Pretender by the Foo Fighters as their theme song. For the 2008 Kelly Cup Playoffs, the Wranglers used Give It All by Rise Against as their anthem for the playoffs.
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basically on lots of records, many newer rap songs and tons of other songs, you'll hear a verse and then just one word, usually the last one, gets repeated in tempo however many times. i assume they're not just turning on a delay pedal with trails just as the singer is about to sing that word and then turning it off right after the word is sung. i guess in this age it is all digital post-production where you can take a segment and apply repeats just to that.
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More realistic version of the grap picker Braud SB 60, equipped that got 104 horsepower engine. The mod contains the grap picker and the shaker.
Additionnal information:
- For turn signal and brake lights work, install the mod "RealLights.zip" in the Mods folder.
- The autopilot what turned off (because it is not compatible with the way of working of this machine).
- The fruit type of this mod is "raisin". If you play on map who had a different name of fruit type, you must change it in xml of grap picker and shaker too.
- Green star;
- Speed display control;
- Hydraulics;
- RealExhaust Particle System VMR;
- Indoor sound;
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Bungie (founded as Bungie Software Products Corporation) is an American video game developer currently located in Kirkland, Washington, USA. The company was established in May 1991 by University of Chicago undergraduate student Alex Seropian, who later brought in programmer Jason Jones after publishing Jones' game Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete. Originally based in Chicago, Illinois, the company concentrated primarily on Macintosh games during its early years, producing the popular Marathon and Myth series; a West Coast offshoot produced the game console title Oni. Microsoft acquired Bungie in 2000, and their then-current project, the first-person shooter Halo: Combat Evolved, was repurposed into a launch title for Microsoft's new Xbox console. Halo went on to become the Xbox's "killer application", selling millions of copies and spawning a billion dollar franchise.
On October 5, 2007, Bungie announced that it had split with Microsoft and become a privately held independent company, Bungie LLC. In 2010, the company signed a ten-year publishing deal with Activision Blizzard.
Among Bungie's side projects are Bungie.net, the company's official website, which includes forums as well as statistics-tracking and integration with many of their games. Bungie also sells company-related merchandise and runs other projects including an official Bungie podcast and online publications about game topics. The company is well-known for its informal and dedicated workplace culture, and is currently working on multiple projects, including their newest addition to the Halo series, Halo: Reach, and an unknown new IP.
In the early 1990s, Alex Seropian was pursuing a mathematics degree with an emphasis in computer science at the University of Chicago. Seropian was interested in programming, and his first video game was a Pong clone called Gnop! (Pong spelled backwards). Gnop! was free, although a few players paid Seropian $15 for the source code. After debating whether to get a job or start a game company, Seropian decided on the latter, founding Bungie in May 1991 to self-publish the war-themed video game Operation Desert Storm.[4] Seropian culled funding from friends and family, assembling the game boxes and writing the disks himself.[5]
The origin of the name "Bungie" is the subject of conflicting answers. Many in the company treat it as a closely guarded secret,[4] and while a bonus disc provided in the Halo 3 Legendary Edition states the name is "the punchline to a dirty joke", the explanation has been used before by Bungie for other questions as explanations for other company secrets.[6] According to the Marathon Scrapbook Seropian "agonized over what he would name his company, finally settling on 'Bungie' because 'it sounded fun.'"[7]
Operation Desert Storm sold 2,500 copies, and Seropian began looking for another game to publish. The programmer met Jason Jones in an artificial intelligence course at the University. Jones recalled that he believed "I didn't really know [Alex] in the class. I think he actually thought I was a dick because I had a fancy computer." Jones did, however, have a nearly-completed game called Minotaur.[4] Seropian and Jones partnered to release the role-playing game as Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete in 1992. The game relied on a then-uncommon internet modems and AppleTalk connections for play and only sold around 2,500 copies,[8] but it developed a devoted following.
The team focused on the Macintosh platform, not Windows-based personal computers, because the Mac market was more open and Jones had been raised on the platform. While Jones was responsible for many of the creative and technical aspects, Seropian was a businessman and marketer.[5] "What I liked about [Seropian] was that he never wasted any money," Jones recalled, and at the time there was no money to waste—the two assembled Minotaur boxes by hand in Seropian's apartment.[4] While the pair were still strapped for cash—Seropian's wife was largely supporting him—the modest success of Minotaur gave the team enough money to develop another project.[9]
Bungie's next project was a 3D adventure game, Pathways into Darkness, released in 1993. Jones did all the coding, with his friend Colin Brendt creating the game's art.[10] The game was a critical and commercial success, winning awards including Inside Mac Games' "Adventure Game of the Year" and MacworldTemplate:'s "Best Role-Playing Game". Soon after Bungie moved from a one-bedroom apartment to a studio in Chicago's South Side on South Halsted Street;[9][10] Bungie composer Martin O'Donnell remembered that the studio, a former girl's school next to a crack house, "smelled like a frat house after a really long weekend" and reminded staff of a locale from the Silent Hill horror video games.[11]
Marathon, Myth, and Oni
Bungie's next project began as a loose sequel to Pathways into Darkness, but evolved into a futuristic first person shooter called Marathon.[12] The first game's success led to a sequel, Marathon 2: Durandal, which was later the first game Bungie ported to Windows 95. The series introduced several elements, including cooperative mode, which made their way to later Bungie games.[12]
Bungie's success gave rise to a large third-party developer community as well as a short-lived newsletter published through BBS. Following the success of Marathon, Bungie released the Myth series of games, which stressed tactical unit management as opposed to the resource gathering model of other combat strategy titles. The Myth games won several awards and spawned a large and active online community. Myth: The Fallen Lords was the first Bungie game to be released simultaneously for both Mac and Windows platforms.[13] In 1997, Bungie established Bungie West, a studio in California.[14] Bungie West's first and only game would be Oni, an action title for the Mac, PC and PlayStation 2.[14]
Halo and buyout
In 1999, Bungie announced its next product, Halo, as a first-person action game for Windows and Macintosh.[15] Halo's public unveiling occurred at the Macworld Expo 1999 keynote address by Apple's then-interim-CEO Steve Jobs (after a closed-door screening at E3 in 1999).[15]
On June 19, 2000, soon after HaloTemplate:'s preview at Electronic Entertainment Expo 2000, Microsoft announced that it had acquired Bungie Software and that Bungie would become a part of the Microsoft Game Division under the name Bungie Studios. Halo would be developed as an exclusive title for the Xbox. The reasons for Bungie accepting Microsoft's offer were varied. Jones stated that "I don't remember the details exactly, it was all a blur. We'd been talking to people for years and years—before we even published Marathon, Activision made a serious offer. But the chance to work on Xbox—the chance to work with a company that took the games seriously. Before that we worried that we'd get bought by someone who just wanted Mac ports or didn't have a clue."[16] Martin O'Donnell, who had joined Bungie as an employee only ten days before the merger was announced, remembers that the stability of the Xbox as a development platform was not the only benefit.[11] Around the same time, it was discovered that Asian versions of Myth II could entirely erase a player's hard drive; the glitch led to a massive recall of the games right before they shipped,[5][12] which cost Bungie nearly one million dollars.[5] O'Donnell stated in a Bungie podcast that this recall created some financial uncertainty, although accepting the offer was not something "Bungie had to do."[11] Seropian and Jones had refused to accept Microsoft's offer until the entire studio agreed to the buyout.[5]
As a result of the buyout, the rights to Myth and Oni were transferred to Take-Two Interactive as part of the three-way deal between Microsoft, Bungie and Take-Two; most of the original Oni developers were able to continue working on Oni until its release in 2001.[17] Halo: Combat Evolved, meanwhile, went on to become a critically acclaimed hit, selling more than 6.5 million copies,[18] and becoming the Xbox's flagship franchise.[19]
HaloTemplate:'s success led to Bungie creating two sequels. Halo 2 was released on November 9, 2004, making more than $125 million on release day and setting a record in the entertainment industry.[20] Halo 3, the final installment in the Halo trilogy, was released on September 25, 2007 and surpassed Halo 2Template:'s records, making $170 million in its first twenty-four hours of release[21] and becoming the most pre-ordered game in history.[22]
Independent company
On October 1, 2007, a mere six days after the release of Halo 3, Microsoft and Bungie announced that Bungie was splitting off from its parent and becoming a privately-held Limited Liability Company named Bungie LLC.[23] As outlined in a deal between the two, Microsoft would retain a minority stake and continue to partner with Bungie on publishing and marketing both Halo and future projects, with the Halo intellectual property belonging to Microsoft.[24]
While Bungie planned on revealing a new game at E3 2008, Bungie studio head Harold Ryan announced that the unveiling was canceled.[25] Bungie announced the project originally meant for E3 in October, a prequel and expansion to Halo 3 titled Halo 3: ODST. Bungie and Microsoft revealed the company was developing another Halo-related game, Halo: Reach, for release in 2010.[26] Reach will be Bungie's last game in the Halo franchise.[27]
Bungie is currently expanding, though they have not committed to details about new projects and ship dates.[28] The company grew from roughly 120 employees in May 2008[29] to 165 in June 2009, outgrowing the studio Microsoft developed. Ryan helped redesign a former multiplex in Bellevue into new Bungie offices, with the 80,000 square feet replacing the 41,000 square feet they occupied.[30]
On April 29th, 2010, Bungie announced that it was entering into a 10-year publishing agreement with publisher Activision Blizzard to bring a new IP to multiple platforms.[31][32] Under Bungie's agreement with Activision, new intellectual property developed by Bungie will be owned by Bungie, not the publisher, a rare agreement in the video game industry.[32][33]
Bungie.net serves as the main official portal for interaction between company staff and the community surrounding Bungie's games. The "News" area of the site contains information about events in the community, project news, and weekly postings called "Bungie Weekly Updates". Bungie.net also features forums where users can interact. When Bungie was bought by Microsoft, the site was originally seen as in competition with Microsoft's own Xbox.com site, but community management eventually won out as the bigger concern.[34] The website also contains screenshots, several gaming forums, and a media player.[35]
Bungie.net profiles can link to player's Xbox Live accounts and display their Bungie game achievements and statistics. Detailed information about each game of Halo 2,"Halo 3", and "Halo 3:ODST" played is recorded, and can be viewed using the "My Stats" area of the website.[36] This information includes statistics on each player in the game,[36] and a map of the game level showing where kills occurred, called "Heatmaps".[37]
While Bungie had long provided places for fans to congregate and talk about games, as well as releasing new information and screenshots over Bungie.net, they had historically made less effort and been less successful at providing access to the inside workings of Bungie and its staff. As part of a move to become more familiar in the game industry, Bungie recruited recognized and respected voices from the fan community, including writer Luke Smith. The developer hosts a podcast where staff members are interviewed in a round-table, informal atmosphere.[38]
Martin O'Donnell described Bungie's workplace culture as "a slightly irreverent attitude, and not corporate, bureaucratic or business-focused";[39] artist Shi Kai Wang noted that when he walked into Bungie for an interview, "I realized that I was the one who was over-dressed, [and] I knew this was the place I wanted to work."[40] Frank O'Connor comically noted that at a Gamestop conference, the Bungie team was told to wear business casual, to which O'Connor replied "We [Bungie] don't do business casual."[36]
This informal, creative culture was one of the reasons Microsoft was interested in acquiring Bungie,[41] although Jordan Weisman said that Microsoft came close to destroying the company's development culture, as it had with FASA Studio.[42] Studio head Harold Ryan emphasized that even when Bungie was bought by Microsoft, the team was still independent:
One of the first things [Microsoft] tried after acquiring Bungie, after first attempting to fully assimilate them, was to move Bungie into a standard Microsoft building with the rest of the game group. But unlike the rest of the teams they'd brought in previously, Bungie didn't move into Microsoft corporate offices – we tore all of the walls out of that section of the building and sat in a big open environment. Luckily Alex and Jason [Seropian and Jones, Bungie's founders] were pretty steadfast at the time about staying somewhat separate and isolated.[39]Microsoft eventually moved the studio to Kirkland, Washington, where the company has stayed since.[39] Despite the move, financial analyst Roger Ehrenberg declared the Bungie-Microsoft marriage "doomed to fail" due to these fundamental differences.[43] Bungie also pointed out that they were tired of new intellectual property being cast aside to work on the Halo franchise.[39] Edge described the typical Bungie employee as "simultaneously irreverent and passionately loyal; fiercely self-critical; full of excitement at the company's achievements, no matter how obscure; [and] recruited from its devoted fanbase."[34]
The Bungie workplace is highly informal, with new and old staff willing to challenge each other on topics, such as fundamental game elements. Staff are able to publicly criticize their own games and each other.[34][44] Fostering studio cooperation and competition, Bungie holds events such as the "Bungie Pentathlon", in which staff square off in teams playing games such as Halo, Pictionary, Dance Dance Revolution, and Rock Band.[44] Bungie also faces off against professional eSports teams and other game studios in Halo during "Humpdays", with the results of the multiplayer matches being posted on Bungie.net.[45]
Bungie's staff and fans, known as the "Seventh Column", have banded together for charity and other causes. After Hurricane Katrina, Bungie was one of several game companies to announce their intention to help those affected by the hurricane, with Bungie donating the proceeds of special t-shirts to the American Red Cross;[46][47][48] after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Bungie sold "Be a Hero" t-shirts and donated money to the Red Cross for every Halo 3 or ODST player on Xbox Live who wore a special heart-shaped emblem.[49] Other charity work Bungie has done included auctioning off a painting of "Mister Chief" by Frank O'Connor,[50] a Halo 2 soda machine from Bungie's offices,[51] and collaborating with Child's Play auctions.[52] Bungie also responded to a story about a gamer who lost all the personalization on his Xbox 360 when Microsoft repaired his console by sending the gamer an autographed Master Chief helmet and other memorabilia.[53]
Offshoot companies
Many of Bungie's employees have left the company to form their own studios. Double Aught was a short-lived company composed of several former Bungie team members, founded by Greg Kirkpatrick. The company helped Bungie develop Marathon: Infinity, the last game in the Marathon series.[12] Wideload Games, creator of Stubbs the Zombie in "Rebel Without a Pulse", is another company that came from Bungie; It is headed by one of the two Bungie founders, Alex Seropian, and 7 out of the 11 employees previously worked at Bungie. Other companies include Giant Bite, founded by Hamilton Chu (former lead producer of Bungie Studios) and Michal Evans (former Bungie programmer),[54] and Certain Affinity, founded by Max Hoberman (the multiplayer design lead for Halo 2 and Halo 3); Certain Affinity's team of nine included former Bungie employees David Bowman and Chad Armstrong (who later returned to Bungie). The company collaborated with Bungie in releasing the last two downloadable maps for Halo 2.[55]
- ↑ Osborne, Eric (July 30, 2010). "Bungie Weekly Update: 07.30.2010". Bungie.net. http://halo.bungie.net/news/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=BWU_073010. Retrieved July 31, 2010.
- ↑ Bishop, Todd (March 19, 2009). "Report: 'Halo' maker Bungie moving to former movie theater". TechFlash. http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2009/03/Report_Bungie_moving_to_former_movie_theater_41537332.html. Retrieved July 31, 2010.
- ↑ Campbell, Colin (April 12, 2016). "The day the music died". eurogamer.net. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-04-12-the-day-the-music-died-when-bungie-fired-marty-odonnell. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Staff. "History of Bungie; Primordial Soup: Gnop!". Bungie.net. http://www.bungie.net/inside/history.aspx?link=HistoryOfBungie_p1. Retrieved 2007-10-08.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Template:Cite episode
- ↑ Staff (1996-10-15). "The Bungie Newsletter Vol. I Issue 1". Marathon.Bungie.Org. http://marathon.bungie.org/story/bungienewsletter.html. Retrieved 2008-03-01.
- ↑ Sinclair, Hamish (2004-04-11). "Marathon's Story... Facts". Marathon.Bungie.Org. http://marathon.bungie.org/story/scrapbook.html. Retrieved 2008-03-01.
- ↑ Xbox World 360 (2007-10-08). "The History of Halo; How two students went from Pong clones to the biggest game of all time". GamesRadar. pp. 1–4. http://www.gamesradar.com/f/the-history-of-halo/a-2007100812649684036. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
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- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 O'Connor, Frank; Luke Smith (2007-12-12). "Official Bungie Podcast 12/12/2007: With Martin O'Donnell". Bungie.net. http://www.bungie.net/Inside/content.aspx?link=bungiepodcasttime. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
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- ↑ Staff. "History of Bungie; Primordial Soup: Juggernougat". Bungie.net. http://www.bungie.net/inside/history.aspx?link=Myth. Retrieved 2010-03-04.
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- ↑ Microsoft (2007-10-04). "Halo 3 Records more than $300 Million in First-Week Sales". Xbox.com. Microsoft. http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/h/halo3/news/20071004-oneweeksales.htm. Retrieved 2008-02-29.
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- ↑ O'Connor, Frank (2007-10-05). "Bungie Weekly What's Update". Bungie.net. http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12834. Retrieved 2008-03-06.
- ↑ Snow, Blake (2008-07-15). "Bungie cancels announcement of surprise E3 game". GamePro. http://www.gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=202648. Retrieved 2008-07-16.
- ↑ Sinclair, Brendan (2009-06-01). "Halo Reach arrives 2010". Gamespot. http://e3.gamespot.com/story/6210617/halo-reach-arrives-2010. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
- ↑ Nutt, Christian (2009-07-24). "Reports: Halo: Reach Bungie's Last Halo Game, More". Gamasutra. http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=24578. Retrieved 2009-07-25.
- ↑ Dudley, Brier (2009-06-29). "Bungie chief on ODST, Halo 4, Natal and being ex-Microsoft". The Seattle Times. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/technologybrierdudleysblog/2009397250_bungie_chief_on_odst_halo_4_na.html. Retrieved 2009-06-30.
- ↑ Smith, Luke (2008-05-16). "Bungie Weekly Update: 16 May 2008". Bungie.net. http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13795. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
- ↑ Dudley, Brian (2009-06-29). "Developers at Bungie ready to spring new heroes in the 'Halo' universe". The Seattle Times. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009395945_brier29.html. Retrieved 2009-06-30.
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After two years, it´s clear that Hearken is riding one of the biggest waves in the evolution of journalism. Introduced by Jennifer Brandel and Corey Haines as a tool for better engagement between a news organization and its consumers, Hearken -which means "listen"- allows the public to have a say in the reporting process.
Based on an embeddable "curiosity module" that can be placed in almost any website (and hopefully Facebook and Twitter at some point), the first product of Hearken allows journalists and editors to ask the audience for questions. Those questions may direct the journalist towards specific subjects or angles pointed by the people that consume his job, and it also works as a big hose of ideas that come from a frequently untapped resource. But it´s not just that: among other things, Hearken helps the newsroom to respond to that enquiry while developing a relationship with the readers that took part in the process.
At some point in the history of press, "the newsroom phone" was where people regularly called either to comment about an issue, to complain or to suggest angles or new stories. This was actually a way of measuring how well a story did, before the age of metrics.
But I still have the image of that desk phone in the first newsroom that I worked for, ringing lots of times during the day with no one answering it. To me, this is a perfect example of what Andrew Losowsky describes as a big flaw of our industry: "We´ve mostly failed to give our audiences any real avenues to engage with us on an ongoing basis, beyond letters to the editor and an occasional Google form. Even when people do reach out, we keep no record of it, and a few days later we´ve mostly forgotten who they are".
Hearken came to take advantage again of this opportunity, harnessing the power of today´s technology. And by doing this, it projects us to a fundamental concept that Amy O'Leary from Upworthy, notes: "While (journalists´s) mission remains essential and unchanged, 2017 will be the year when the best practitioners of the craft will wake to see that this mission has a new mandate: Journalists will finally dig in to understand how their stories travel in our information ecosystem, and will respond with new strategies to not only cover diverse groups and ideologies, but to reach them as well". In this scenario, Hearken is just a tool, one of many that we will be able to use to apply a new mindset when doing journalism.
As I tried Hearken a couple of years ago in my newsroom, I grew frustrated with the reaction of lots of my colleagues, inside and outside the company, who seemed to point these kind of initiatives as opposed to "true journalism". It is somewhat draining to confirm that some of your folks remain in that bubble made of a concept based in, as social journalist Simon Galperin brilliantly describes it, "a false sense of objectivity and a blissful ignorance in the belief that they have righteously inherited the duties and burden of the fourth estate of old".
Encouraging fact: the Hearken experience in my newsroom was great: we received more than 600 questions in two months about different subjects, and many questions that we answered became important politics stories and also went among the most popular stories of their day of publication, in terms of pageviews and average time spent by the reader in those stories.
As we start using this tool in our CUNY #SocialJ program, my big goal is to build up from that experience by keep trying to learn again a basic ability: to ask. Because I was also one of those guys that didn´t picked up that newsroom phone. It seems like a good time to admit that asking questions to the people formerly known as the audience is not the same thing as engaging to a traditional source, and that this is something that we still don´t know how to do in a right way. In order to receive good questions and ideas to develop in the newsroom, journalists and engagement editors need to do things such as asking them to focus con concrete issues or subjects or narrowing the possibilities of formulating questions about some topics, just to mention three aspects of these kinds of interactions. We will have to work with the reader in order to get him to ask us some questions. At the end of the day, it´s all about learning how to get people involved in our process by having a voice and, at the same time, by letting them see how we work.
As I start learning how to get in touch with the community that I´ll be working with this year -people affected by the lack of access to energy at their homes- I don´t see why we as an industry shouldn´t go further with this approach. I can imagine a big newsroom trying to get into this approach if they really want to pop that aforementioned bubble, but I´m also thinking about a small newsroom with journalists from different backgrounds, 100% at the service of the audience, reporting only on what people tells them to report through tools like Hearken and many others (like those old phones, by the way).
If we know how to listen and what it is to listen nowadays, we may have a way of reestablish the power of journalism to provide truth and sense-making. That may also be one of the few remaining ways to make the readers stand up for what we do again. Because even if we do things the right way, what power can the press have if it´s not supported by the power of the people?


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|Shine of the Sparks
|General Information
|Scooby-Doo! Terror Time
|Episode Number
|July 13th, 2013
|The Scare Plane
|Written By
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Flight of the Scare Plane is the ninth episode of the first season in Scooby-Doo! Terror Time.
The gang heads to Shaggy's house. The house fills with sparks, nothing can be seen. Suddenly, a pterodactyl bursts out of the sparks and kidnaps Daphne!
The gang arrives at Daphne's house. Shaggy and Scooby begin munching on a sandwich. Suddenly, everybody is blinded by sparks! A pterodactyl made of sparks swoops into the room and vanishes. When the sparks are gone, so is Daphne! The gang splits up to search for clues. While searching, Scooby and Shaggy are attacked by the Spark Pterodactyl, leading to the chase scene. After escaping, Scooby and Shaggy bump into Daphne's mother. She walks off. Scooby and Shaggy are given sandwiches by Buster the Butler. Buster growls as he walks off, doping a machine, Shaggy picks it up to find it's a Spark Maker 5000.
Meanwhile, Fred and Velma are searching the garden. They meet Gardener, he's the gardener. Gardener yells at Fred for touching a plant. Fred and Velma hide in a toolshed; it's filled with empty books with covers. One has the cover of Scooby and Shaggy running from the Creeper. "Something funny's going on here," Velma says. Suddenly, the Spark Pterodactyl appears. It spits fireballs at Velma and Fred, transporting them next to Shaggy and Scooby. Shaggy shows Velma the Spark Maker 5000 and says Buster dropped it.
Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, and Velma start spying on buster. Buster picks up a Spark Maker 5000 and presses a button on it. He backs off. Sparks blind everybody. When they clear, Buster is gone!
Soon, Fred, Velma, Scooby and Shaggy are adding up the clues. They see Gardener with a sack big enough to fit Daphne. He tosses it in a hole and digs it up. Mrs. Blake walks up to them. She's sad Daphne's gone and will never come back. Velma asks how long Gardner and Buster have been working at the house. Mrs. Blake says they've been at the house for about two weeks. She walks off. Velma wonders if they don't like Daphne. Buster walks by, growling. Velma wonders how he vanished and got back. Suddenly, the Spark Pterodactyl appears. Scooby jumps into Shaggy's arms.
The second chase scene starts. Scooby and Shaggy are running from the Spark Pterodactyl. They dress as the butlers and they are ignored. Scooby and Shaggy run away, followed by the Spark Pterodactyl. Fred is running from the Spark Pterodactyl. He escapes. Velma is running from the Spark Pterodactyl. She lassos it and the rope burns. Velma escapes. Fred, Shaggy, Velma, and Scooby and running from the Spark Pterodactyl. Scooby dumps water on it, ending the chase scene. The gang comes crashing into a tree in the garden. Gardener points his shovel at them and tells them to get out. They take his orders and run into the dining room. Buster is there, growling.
Velma starts to feel the ground. Fred asks what she's doing. Shaggy and Scooby agree. Velma says they'll see. The ground opens. The gang falls into a secret room. Daphne is tied to a chair. She's typing on a computer. Fred looks at what she's typing. It's the mystery of the Creeper. Shaggy asks Daphne what she's doing. Daphne turns to them. Fred unties her. Daphne explains her mom made her write novels of their mysteries. Mrs. Blake was going to publish them with her name on them instead of Daphne's. Buster comes in with the police. Mrs. Blake is there and the police take her away. Buster and Gardener were mean because they knew Mrs. Blake was up to something and they thought Daphne was helping her.
The episode ends with the gang getting a telephone call asking them to solve a mystery.
Cast and charactersEdit
|Frank Welker
| Scooby-Doo
Fred Jones
|Matthew Lillard
|Shaggy Rogers
|Mindy Cohn
|Velma Dinkley
|Grey DeLisle
| Daphne Blake
Mrs. Blake
|John DiMaggio
|Casey Kasem
|Buster the Butler
|Spark Pterodactyl
|Mrs. Blake
|To get Daphne to write of the gang's mysteries into books; next, Mrs. Blake would publish them and take credit for the novels.
|He was mean.
|Buster the Butler
|He had a Spark Maker 5000.
- Daphne's house
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