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VIDEO GAMES (continued): • In 1971, engineers Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney created “Computer Space,” the first arcade game. The following year they founded Atari, and released the legendary arcade game “Pong.” Bushnell sold Atari to Warner Communications in 1976 for $28 million and remained employed as president of the company. By 1982, the company was experiencing $1.3 billion in annual sales and was the fastest-growing company in the history of American business. The Atari 2000 was introduced in 1977, a game system that incorporated joysticks, interchangeable cartridges, color graphics, and different settings for difficulty. • Before long, Atari wasn’t the only game in town. In 1979, Mattel debuted their game system Intellivision, an improvement over the Atari 2000, and experienced sales of three million units. • In July of 1980, a Japanese company, Namco, released the arcade game Pac-Man. It was designed by Toru Iwatani, supposedly while eating pizza. The player guides Pac-Man through a maze as he eats dots while pursued by four enemy “ghosts,” Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde. One of the highest-grossing video games of all time, it was followed by Ms. Pac-Man in 1982. • Nintendo acquired the rights to distribute the Magnavox Odyssey in 1974, the first home video game console, a system with 12 games. In 1981, the company released the first of its many successful games, “Donkey Kong,” featuring a carpenter named Jumpman. It was the world’s first look at the character who would later be called Mario, with a new occupation, that of plumber. “Donkey Kong” was the first game to have four levels. • In 1983, Atari suffered losses of $533 million, and the company was sectioned off and sold to three different buyers. • A 29-year-old Russian mathematician named Alexey Pajitnov released the puzzle game “Tetris” in 1984, featuring “Tetriminos,” geometric game pieces made up of four square blocks each. As the puzzle pieces fit together, lines are cleared, and when four lines are cleared, the player achieves a “Tetris.” The name comes from the ancient Greek word tetra, meaning “four.” • Nintendo released its game system in 1985, as well as the wildly successful “Super Mario Brothers” game. Another huge success, “The Legend of Zelda” came along in 1987. In 1989, the company introduced the hand-held video game device, the Game Boy. • Sega took a chunk out of Nintendo’s profits when they introduced their system, Sega Genesis, in 1989, with sales of nearly 31 million units, and their famous character Sonic the Hedgehog in 1991. Another competitor entered the scene in 1995 when Sony debuted their first PlayStation. Nintendo rebounded the following year with the Nintendo 64 system, and Sega followed up in 1999 with their Dreamcast console. • Microsoft unveiled their X-Box system in 2001, launching it with the new game “Halo.” Sony quickly answered with the PlayStation 2 the next year, the first game console to use DVD technology. PlayStation 2 is the best-selling home game console to date, with over 155 million units sold, while their latest upgrade, PlayStation 4, released in 2013, is the fastest-selling in history, with sales of one million consoles in the first 24 hours. • Anyone could become a musician like Jimi Hendrix with the introduction of “Guitar Hero” in 2005. With its guitar-shaped controller, resembling a miniature Gibson SG, the player presses buttons on the controller keeping in time with the music notes on the screen. • Although Guitar Hero was enormously successful, (with sales of $1 billion in its first week), it had trouble keeping producers and developers, and the franchise shut down in 2011. • There are several negative aspects of playing video games, including tendonitis in the hands and wrists, backaches, carpal tunnel syndrome, the promotion of sedentary behavior, and social isolation. Violent games have been linked to aggressive behavior and desensitization to violence. Gaming marathons have even resulted in deaths, including recently when a 38-year-old man died after playing non-stop for five days, and another 32-year-old who suffered a heart attack and died after playing for three days straight without stopping. • Video games also have some positive benefits. Studies indicate that they improve hand-eye coordination, motor skills, and spatial reasoning skills. Playing also contributes to the ability to multi-task and make quick decisions, since most games require fast reactions. Brain scans have shown improved concentration and pattern recognition. Favorable results have been achieved in helping people with autism and with improving memory in those with dementia. • Who plays video games in America? More than 150 million Americans play on a regular basis, about twothirds of American households. Four out of five U.S. households own a device that is used to play video games, with at least two gamers per household. Fifty-one percent of U.S. homes have a dedicated game console. The average age is 35, with 60% males and 40% female, with 42% of Americans playng three hours or more per week. Thirty-five percent of players use their Smartphone to play.
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Dave Kinskey This week Tidbits had the opportunity to interview our senator and former mayor Dave Kinskey! As a child, Dave worked for his father at the Jersey Creamery. His first job was mopping the floor, making 25 cents. Dave has 8 siblings, and at one time or another nearly all of them worked at the dairy plant. Tired of stacking ice cream, one summer he flagged for a crop duster. “It made me appreciate working in the freezer in the summer,” he says. In his college years, Dave worked as a security guard for Burns Detective Services. In 1976 he worked for Senator Wallop and in 1977 he worked for Senator Al Simpson. Soon after he gained more political experience by becoming the executive director for the Wyoming Retail Merchants Association. Dave completed his undergraduate degree at Harvard University and two weeks later he started law school at UW. He began practicing law two weeks after graduating from the University of Wyoming. Three years later, Dave chose to quit his legal career and get into something more rewarding. He went back to work for his father who owned several Mini Marts. “Dad is a good businessman, and I learned much from him,” Kinskey says. After Mini Mart was sold, Dave set out to build his own business in home health care. This career proved to be very rewarding. Dave bought a small home healthcare company housed in the back of a drugstore in Sunnyvale, CA. For thirteen years Dave built his homecare company from a few employees to 72. He served a broad array of home care needs, and employed nurses, pharmacists, respiratory therapists and numerous others. “The industry changed to where the big companies had the advantage and were buying up smaller firms,” Dave says, and he decided it was time to sell. Soon he and his family moved back to the place he loved, Sheridan, Wyoming. His wife, too, is from Sheridan. They went to high school together and have been married 40 years. Dave ran for mayor and won! “I hoped to bring a businesslike approach to running a town. Taxpayers expect and deserve value from their government” says Kinskey. He served as mayor for 10 years. After the great John Shiffer passed away he ran for State Senator and was appointed in July of 2014. He is still serving us Wyomingites as our Senator and making us proud. Thank you for your services and dedication to this community Dave Kinskey!
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PAW’S CORNER By Sam Mazzotta Some Dog Owners Need Training, Too --DEAR PAW’S CORNER: When I’m out at the dog park, I see so many people who are ignored by their dogs. No matter how much they scream or shout, their pets just do whatever they want. I’ve tried to tell them that yelling only goes so far, but they don’t listen. What else can I do? -- Clarisse G., Cartersville, Georgia
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES May 1 – 7 has been designated as Goodwill Industries Week, and what finer time for Tidbits to bring you the particulars on this worldwide charitable organization. • It was the dream of Edgar Helms’ parents that he live his life on the Iowa family farm, but Edgar had a dream for a greater cause. Feeling a call to devote his life to the church and helping others, he enrolled in Cornell College, and later Boston University, earning a Bachelors Degree of Sacred Theology. His excellent academic achievements earned him a fellowship to London to study the poverty-stricken neighborhoods there, with the dream of doing missionary work in India afterward. • Helms was disappointed to learn that he was not being sent to India after all, but instead to a Methodist church in one of Boston’s poorest immigrant areas. Morgan Hill Chapel, situated in one of America’s worst slums, was surrounded by drug addicts, thieves, gamblers, prostitutes, and every type of criminal. Helms and his wife established a settlement house, a haven for immigrants which provided a nursery, a gymnasium, recreational activities, English classes, and other education helping the immigrants settle into their new life. • Helms was soon inundated with requests for food and clothing. In 1902, he began combing Boston’s wealthier neighborhoods carrying a burlap bag, collecting discarded and damaged goods. He then offered wages to the poor of Morgan Hill to mend and repair items, which were in turn sold to the poor. The proceeds were used to develop job training programs. It was Helms’ motto that the poor “needed a chance, not a charity,” believing that their greatest need and want was employment. (continued on last page).
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DEAR CLARISSE: One of the hardest subjects to broach with other owners is how to handle their pets. Particularly with dogs, owners have relationships akin to their own child, and the results of well-intentioned advice tend to be ineffectual. Owners may even snap back at you. However, a badly behaved dog in a public area can have a lot of repercussions. An unruly dog may be attacked by another dog, or a human may be injured by a dog bite -- events like that just add fuel to arguments against dog parks or dogs in public areas. To get a dog to behave on command, two key factors can make a difference in training: A calm, confident voice when giving commands, and consequences. If a dog won’t follow a command, corrective action must be given as soon as possible -- putting it back on the leash, leaving the dog park, whatever. Not surprisingly, dog owners who aren’t controlling their dogs respond to the same factors. If a dog is disrupting the other pets’ enjoyment of the park, tell its owner -- with confidence! -- that their dog has to act within the park’s rules, or leave. If they don’t respond, then bring the consequences: report the owner and dog to the city, or to the group -- if the dog park has an organized group of other owners. Send your questions or pet care tips to ask@pawscorner.com. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.
UNUSUAL ANIMALS: RED PANDA Most of us think of pandas as the giant black-and-white bear weighing close to 350 lbs. (160 kg.) Did you know there is also a red panda that doesn’t even resemble that big bear? Read along and learn. • The red panda, found in Nepal, India, Bhutan, and part of China, isn’t really a panda at all, or even a bear. It shares the habitat of the giant panda of the foothills of Nepal’s Himalayan Mountain range and in the cool bamboo forests of central China, and eats the same diet, but there the similarities end. The red panda more closely resembles a raccoon, complete with a ring-striped tail, and in fact belongs to the same genetic superfamily as the raccoon, skunk, weasel, and badger. • It’s just slightly larger than a household cat, about 25 inches (63 cm) long, with a long bushy tail of an additional 19 inches (47 cm), which it uses as a wraparound blanket on cold nights. A red panda will weigh from 7 to 14 pounds (3.2 to 6.4 kg) when fully grown. Its entire body, even the bottom of its feet, is covered with soft dense fur. • For the most part, red pandas are herbivores, a plant-eating animal. However, they do supplement their diet with fish, bird eggs, and insects when available, as well as fruit during the warmer seasons. They also like mushrooms and acorns but two-thirds of their diet consists of bamboo. Unfortunately, bamboo is not a very good source of energy as well as being hard to digest. The panda must spend 13 hours a day eating and looking for food in order to sustain its body, and must eat 20% to 30% of its body weight each day – between 2 and 4 lbs. (1 to 2 kg) of bamboo shoots and leaves. A panda might eat up to 20,000 bamboo leaves in one day! • The pandas spend most of their lives in trees, feeding and sleeping. They aren’t social animals, and keep pretty much to themselves, leading a solitary life. A typical panda’s life span is about eight years. • The name “panda” translates from the Nepali language “ponya,” which means “bamboo or plant-eating animal.” In the Chinese, the name is “hun-ho,” translating “firefox,” which is used by Mozilla as the name of their browser. (Mozilla had originally considered “Firebird” as the name, but discovered it was already been used.) • Because it’s estimated that there are fewer than 10,000 adult red pandas remaining, it’s classified an endangered species. While hunting is illegal in most places, in southwest China, they are hunted for their fur, particularly the bushy tails, from which hats are created. The tails and hides are frequently part of weddings, as bridegrooms traditionally carry the hide, and panda tail hats are considered goodluck charms for newlyweds. Images of the panda have been discovered in 13th-century Chinese artwork as part of a hunting scene. • Fans of the animated Kung Fu Panda films will recognize the character of Shifu as an elderly red panda. Voiced by Dustin Hoffman, Shifu serves as the strict kung fu master.
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GOODWILL INDUSTRIES (continued): • By 1905, Helms’ endeavor was known as Morgan Memorial Cooperative Industries and Stores. With money from his church, Helms began a trek across the United States, spreading the word of his undertaking. He also became a pioneer in the fight for equal pay and fair treatment of immigrant workers. When approached by the disabled, he became an advocate for their equal employment opportunities as well. • The organization was soon incorporated as Goodwill Industries, and by 1934, Goodwill was a strong force in providing aid to those in need. They approached one of the advisors to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt with an innovative idea. Goodwill’s executives proposed that the federal government make a $5 million grant to the organization, and Goodwill would put every unemployed American to work. There is no evidence that FDR considered the proposition. • Following Edgar’s death in 1942, his son Reverend Henry Helms became executive director, and devoted his life to fulfilling his father’s mission. • Today, Goodwill generates nearly $5.5 billion in revenue every year, with over 80% of that amount spent directly on the organization’s employment and community services. Last year, close to 27 million people were served and nearly 320,000 people placed into employment after receiving Goodwill’s job training. More than 2,600 thrift stores fund Goodwill’s calling. • Macon, Georgia, is home to Helms College, an institution established in 2007 to provide education in the culinary arts, medical and health vocations, automotive technology, and the construction industry.
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