Sometimes a picture can help make sense of a situation. This viz shows the proportion of government employees who are currently furloughed. It's as grim as the rest of the shutdown news.
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"Delicate Arch" in Arches National Park, a short drive from Moab, Utah. The natural sandstone arch is one of the more popular arches, set off from the main road and reachable by a short hike.
By Matthew DeLuca, Staff Writer, NBC News
Utah has struck a deal with Department of the Interior to reopen eight of the state’s National Parks and monuments as other states that depend heavily on the tourism dollars generated by the outdoor attractions considered similar measures amid the ongoing government shutdown.
The state agreed to pay $1.67 million to get people back in the parks for up to 10 days, with any leftover funds to be returned if lawmakers in Washington bring the budget impasse to a resolution, according to Thursday release from Gov. Gary Herbert’s office.
The announcement came after the Obama administration said on Thursday that states would be given the option to spend their own money to reopen some of the parks shuttered by the lapse in government funding. The Utah parks could open as early as Friday and may be fully up and running by Saturday, according to the release.
“Utah’s national parks are the backbone of many rural economies and hard-working Utahns are paying a heavy price for this shutdown,” Herbert said in a statement on Thursday. On Oct. 8, Herbert wrote a letter to President Obama asking him to reopen the state’s five national parks, and the governor’s office estimated the total cost of the shutdown to Utah at $100 million.
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard first proposed using state workers to open parts of Mt. Rushmore, spokesman Tony Venhuizen said on Friday, but the National Park Service rejected that plan. The state is reviewing its options given the interior department’s changed position, he said.
“Gov. Daugaard asked yesterday for details as what the cost to the state would be under this proposal, and he is awaiting that information,” Venhuizen said. “He appreciates this change in approach towards flexibility and partnership with states, and is hopeful that it will lead to the reopening of Mt. Rushmore.”
The tourism industry is taking a nosedive in towns near national parks thanks to the government shutdown. NBC's Jay Gray reports.
Other states including Colorado and Arizona have expressed interest in getting parks in their states back open, and not just to net sightseers’ dollars. Colorado would like to reopen Trail Ridge Road through Rocky Mountain National Park to allow access to the town of Estes Park, which is working to recover from recent flooding, Eric Brown, a spokesman for Gov. John Hickenlooper, said in an email on Friday.
Just over 400 national parks were shut down after government funds were cut off amid congressional bickering, and about 20,000 park service employees have been furloughed, Reuters reported. That includes the Grand Canyon, which Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has asked to be allowed to reopen in part, according to the Arizona Republic.
Brewer sent a letter to Obama with top state lawmakers asking to reopen the parks, citing a National Park Service study that found the Grand Canyon brings in more than $467 million in revenue and about 7,400 jobs.
“As Arizona is no less exposed to the current unstable and struggling national economy than any other state, we cannot afford to turn away this kind of revenue,” Brewer wrote in the letter cosigned by State Senate President Andy Biggs and State House of Representatives Speaker Andy Tobin. “To do so will unnecessarily devastate the employment of thousands of Arizonans who depend on the Grand Canyon – especially when there is a common-sense alternative.”
A park service spokesman said that reopening the park piecemeal might not be feasible, however.
“It gets too complicated when you’re trying to do sections of park and you still have areas barricaded off,” National Park Service spokesman Mike Litterst said, according to the Associated Press.
In Wyoming, Gov. Matt Mead said he would not use taxpayer money to reopen the state’s parks, which includes the majority of Yellowstone National Park.
“Gov. Mead did ask about the federal government’s plan for national parks and was told the shutdown order prohibited any state from reopening a national park,” Mead spokesman Renny MacKay wrote in an email to local newspaper the Casper Star-Tribune. “While the Department of Interior’s position may have changed, Wyoming’s position has not.”
In Nevada, Gov. Brian Sandoval has said no thanks to the idea of spending state money to reopen the park, saying there are more pressing concerns for his constituents as the shutdown drags on.
Julie Jacobson / AP
Tourist Ryszard Skrzypek, of Vienna, Austria, takes a photo of his wife Walendowska Malgorzata in front of a sign near the entrance to Grand Canyon National Park on Oct. 4. Skrzypek and Malgorzata had traveled from Austria with the Grand Canyon as the main stop on their vacation only to find it closed when they arrived. The two opted for a helicopter tour later in the afternoon.
“Nevada is already making critical funding decisions on programs such as food stamps, unemployment insurance, programs for women, infants and children, and dozens of others,” spokesman Mary-Sarah Kinner said in an email to NBC News on Friday. “With so many Nevadans facing real consequences, the state simply cannot afford to reopen federal parks at this time. Nevada state parks, however, are open and experiencing record visitation.”
Florida Gov. Rick Scott also said he would not use state funds to open National Parks in the Sunshine State, said Deputy Communications Director Frank Collins.
"It's the federal government's obligation to reopen and cancel restrictions on Florida's natural treasures, and Florida taxpayers will not foot the bill to cover Washington's failure to negotiate and compromise," Collins said in a statement.
The requests to reopen the parks have extended to the county level in some areas that depend on them for tourism dollars. Mayor Ed Mitchell of Blount County in north-eastern Tennessee sent a letter to Interior Department Secretary Sally Jewell offering to foot the bill if parks in his area were allowed to reopen, according to local newspaper The Daily Times.
“The federal government’s decision to shut down the Great Smoky National Park and, in particular, Cades Cove and the Foothills Parkway, will have a tremendous impact on the citizens of Blount County,” Mitchell said, according to the newspaper. “This is the peak time for park visits by tourists from all over our country.”
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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Minecraft is your blocky, beautiful sandbox, to build in and play with as you please. The core of the game is exploring and surviving in a hostile world made from building-blocks that you can build with as you please. But as you play, you'll quickly see that this game has so much more to offer than just architecture.
The Minecraft Way
As a player, your only advantage over a hostile landscape is the ability to build, so if you don't want to die, you need shelter (and a food source). If you want shelter, you need to gather materials. If you want to gather materials faster, you need to craft tools. If you don't want to cower in a dark hole all night (eight minutes of real time) then you better build a nicer house.
The underlying rule of Minecraft is that you have to work for everything. Even figuring out the specific crafting recipes will require some effort. You can try to figure these out on your own, but the Minecraft Wiki is an invaluable source that will connect you to everything that can be done in the game along with the huge, active community of players.
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The real fun of Minecraft is that it's flexible enough for players to enjoy on their own terms. You can focus on monster slaying, farming and animal husbandry, magic and enchantments, or astounding electro-mechanical contraptions using redstone?the in-game surrogate for electricity. A normal game is usually a mix of everything.
Minecraft even offers two modes of play. Survival Mode more is geared towards dodging enemies and building while exploring the surprisingly beautiful landscape while Creative Mode offers a pallet of every block and item in the game so you can easily construc enormous architectural triumphs or massive redstone computers.
Minecraft is also flexible in its hardware requirements. The developers say it requires at minimum 1GB of RAM, a dedicated video card (preferably nVidia GeForce 6xxx Series or ATI Radeon 9xxx Series), a 1.8GHZ CPU, and the latest 64-bit installation of Java. The game runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, with updates released simultaneously for all three. I used a Windows 8 machine and a Mac Mini in my testing. There are also versions of the game for Android, iOS, and XBox 360. The game looks excellent on high-end machines, but will perform adequately on even modestly powered laptops.
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Swedish developer Mojang avoided the bloated, years-long development cycle and sky-high prices of major game releases by selling copies of Minecraft long before it was "finished." New features continue to come out at a fairly regular pace. The game was recently updated to 1.6, bringing with it an exciting new feature: horses.
Players can now find and tame blocky horses (and donkeys) for riding and use as pack animals. The increased mobility is quite welcome in Minecraft, as the monsters will become more difficult the longer you spend in a particular area. Horses can be ridden with the addition of a saddle, and can also be protected with specially-crafted horse armor. Donkeys can be outfitted with chests for an additional 15 inventory slots, opening the door for in-game caravans of goods. Watch out when crossing water with these steeds, however; you'll automatically dismount in deep oceans or lakes.
Along with horses are "leads," which let you snag any animal from a distance and secure it to a fence post?a feature in-game farmers are sure to love. Also for animal lovers are nametags, which let you assign a specific name to an animal. Interestingly, these require experience points to create, increasing the places for players to spend their hard-earned XP.
The new update was not without its quirks, however. Boats now use the same controls as horses, which makes the already awkward watercraft all the more ungainly.
1.6 also introduced a new game launcher, with which you can assign different versions of the game to different profiles. This means you can enjoy all the latest features, but still easily move back a version if your favorite multiplayer server requires it. The new launcher will someday make modding the game much easier, but for now adding mods is still too complicated for all but the most dedicated player.
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