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July 2 - Pending home sales rose sharply in May, with lower mortgage rates and increased inventory accelerating the market, according to the National Association of Realtors. All four regions of the country saw increases in pending sales, with the Northeast and West experiencing the largest gains.
The Pending Home Sales Index,* a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, increased 6.1 percent to 103.9 in May from 97.9 in April, but still remains 5.2 percent below May 2013 (109.6). Mays 6.1 percent increase was the largest month-over-month gain since April 2010 (9.6 percent), when first-time home buyers rushed to sign purchase contracts before a popular tax credit program ended.
Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, expects improving home sales in the second half of the year. Sales should exceed an annual pace of 5 million homes in some of the upcoming months behind favorable mortgage rates, more inventory and improved job creation, he said. However, second-half sales growth wont be enough to compensate for the sluggish first quarter and will likely fall below last years total.
Despite the positive gains in signed contracts last month, Yun cautions that affordability and access to credit is still an area of concern for first-time home buyers, who accounted for only 27 percent of existing-home sales1 in May and typically carry student loan debt and lower credit scores.
The flourishing stock market the last few years has propelled sales in the higher price brackets, while sales for homes under $250,000 are 10 percent behind last years pace. Meanwhile, apartment rents are expected to rise 8 percent cumulatively over the next two years because of tight availability, said Yun. Solid income growth and a slight easing in underwriting standards are needed to encourage first-time buyer participation, especially as renting becomes less affordable.
The PHSI in the Northeast jumped 8.8 percent to 86.3 in May, and is now 0.2 percent above a year ago. In the Midwest the index rose 6.3 percent to 105.4 in May, but is still 6.6 percent below May 2013.
Pending home sales in the South advanced 4.4 percent to an index of 117.0 in May, and is 2.9 percent below a year ago. The index in the West rose 7.6 percent in May to 95.4, but remains 11.1 percent below May 2013.
Yun expects existing-homes sales to be down 2.8 percent this year to 4.95 million, compared to 5.1 million sales of existing homes in 2013. The national median existing-home price is projected to grow between 5 and 6 percent this year and in the range of 4 to 5 percent in 2015.
*The Pending Home Sales Index is a leading indicator for the housing sector, based on pending sales of existing homes. A sale is listed as pending when the contract has been signed but the transaction has not closed, though the sale usually is finalized within one or two months of signing.
The index is based on a large national sample, typically representing about 20 percent of transactions for existing-home sales. In developing the model for the index, it was demonstrated that the level of monthly sales-contract activity parallels the level of closed existing-home sales in the following two months.
An index of 100 is equal to the average level of contract activity during 2001, which was the first year to be examined. By coincidence, the volume of existing-home sales in 2001 fell within the range of 5.0 to 5.5 million, which is considered normal for the current U.S. population.


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Report to the Board of Directors on the World Swimming Exhibition,
"Passion and Progress" at the 14th FINA World Swimming Championships,
Shanghai, China, July 16 – 31, 2011
We arrived in Beijing on July 14th - hand carrying over $200,000 worth of Olympic medals, from Emil Rauch's 1904 Olympic participation medal – the most rare and valuable medal in our collection – to Aaron Peirsol's 2008 Olympic Gold medal for the 100M backstroke. Other, more cumbersome artifacts of an even greater value had been shipped earlier. Upon arrival, we were taken to the Magnolia Natatorium, one of three pools used for the championships, which served as the location of the exhibition. There we met with staff from the Shanghai Sports Administration (SSA) and Shanghai Sports Museum (SSM), with whom we had been working on this project for over a year, and placed the artifacts that we hand carried into the displays. We also reviewed the exhibit boards for accuracy.
On the morning of the 16th, the SSA conducted an opening ceremony for our exhibition, which was truly unprecedented in ISHOF history. I was one of 8 individuals introduced to a the large crowd of media and spectators, including the Vice-Mayor of Shanghai, President of the SSA, Julio Maglioni (President of FINA), Cornel Marculescu (Executive Director of FINA) and other prominent politicians and members of the World Championship Organizing Committee. Behind us stood members of the FINA Bureau and other major dignitaries. The ceremonies included a really amazing performance by school children and then a red-carpet tour of the exhibition – all of which you can see in the video I've previously sent to you. By the close of the Championships, over 30,000 people had visited the exhibition. The exhibition was so successful from the local organizing committee's perspective that together we negotiated and signed a mutual agreement for cooperation and assistance with the Shanghai Sports Museum – that also turned into an official ceremony and press conference. For our part, we donated several items from our exhibition (6 replica Olympic medals and 4 antique bathing costumes of which we also had duplicates) and they provided us with several pieces of Chinese Swimming history, templates of the exhibits and we designated two of their directors as official "consultants to ISHOF. Although this ceremony and press conference was held during Swimming preliminaries, it was attended by most of the Chinese media outlets, several Chinese Olympic heroes, ISHOF Board Member and FINA Honorary Member Eldon Godfrey, FINA Honorary Member Guillermo Martinez (Cuba), FINA Bureau Members Tamas Gyarfas (HUN) and Dr. Margo Mountjoy (CAN). Unfortunately, FINA's past president Mustapha Larfaouie, was caught in traffic, but did show his support by arriving a few minutes after the event concluded – a significant show of support.
During the Championships, I had positive meetings with most of the FINA Bureau members and leaders of several of organizing committees for future events, such as the London Olympic Games, the World Championships in 2013 (Barcelona) and 2015 (Kazan, Russia), and the FINA World Congress 2014 (Singapore) who all expressed interest in a similar exhibition.
While in Shanghai, FINA Bureau Member Eugenio Martinez (CUB) showed me a document from 1975 that included an official report to the FINA Bureau from Dr. James Councilman, then ISHOF Chairman of the Board, outlining all ISHOF had done during its first 10 years to be "International." I am now drafting an outline of a letter for our Chairman and the Board that I believe should be sent to all members of the FINA Bureau regarding all of our efforts to be "International" and to dispel the curious opinion within some quarters of FINA that ISHOF is "American" only.
During the Championships, I also met with Dr. Jan-Amders Manson, scientist responsible for testing the legality of swimsuits. He approached me about a special exhibit the evolution of swimwear, incorporating his research into our displays of swimsuits for the re-opening of the IOC museum next year.
After the close of the Championships, I traveled to Bejing where I had two meetings with Dr. Jun Wang, Director of the Chinese Sports Museum, the director and marketing director of the WaterCube (site of the 2008 Olympic Swimming events) and the marketing committee for the upcoming FINA Diving World Cup (April). They very much want exhibits for these events and Dr. Wang would like to see how we can send the exhibition we developed for Shanghai around all of China. She is exploring these opportunities and we look to develop a similar relationship with her as we have developed with the Shanghai Sports museum.
The opportunity to showcase our imagery and memorabilia was invaluable for ISHOF's international reputation. However, while the Shanghai Sports groups contributed significantly to the exhibition – covering all costs, including travel and accommodation expenses for Janet and I to Shanghai - ISHOF made no money from this exhibition. This led to a discussion with several of the museum people (and our Chinese business partner in the development of the safe swimming device) on ways of developing our traveling exhibits into a profitable business model.
Having recently attended the Shanghai World's Fair and the Xi'an International Horticultural Exposition – it is apparent that every exhibit at these fairs is funded substantially by their exhibit store. In the coming weeks, I will be working with our partner to find products that we can sell at our exhibitions related to aquatics that might make these exhibitions profitable. We will also explore partnering with FINA sponsors, such as Speedo. who could also benefit from a "Museum Store" at major events – such as the US Olympic Swimming and Diving trials, in addition to the FINA events. One of the "big ticket" items that we already have in our inventory, include "the touch" photo autographed by Michael Phelps and Milorad Cavic. Other items might be copies of sculptures or signed memorabilia arrangements with star swimmers and divers.
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One year since Trayvon Martin's death
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Apparently a man in Mobile, AL was beaten on his own front porch by a group of 20 black individuals. The victims sister witnessed the beating and claims that as the group was leaving one of the individuals stated "Now thats justice for Trayvon."
This event has become so emotionally charged that there is a powder keg just waiting to go off. For anyone that remembers the riots after the Rodney King verdict, this has the potential to make that look mild. There will be more violence, and if Zimmerman is acquitted or found not guilty, it will get significantly worse.
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In my post "Why Bonnie should win…" I told the tale of Bonnie and I attending Blog World Expo last year for the first time. We attended seminars and the exhibits throughout the conference. We didn't play hooky to see the town or gamble as it was so exciting to be there. There were a […]
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Keeping Up with Salman Rushdie
Yes, this clears the air. Salman Rushdie has committed the sin for which there is no forgiveness—the sin of having Arnold Wesker as a friend.
Wesker in fact is one of the Dismayed Friends. He described Rushdie's conversion as a victory for religious terrorists. To which Rushdie retorted that it was "none of Arnold's business." With me, when I suggested we might record a little talk together, Salman was gentler but still firm: what was none of Arnold's business was none of mine either. But there were other things we might talk about than God and Islam, and I thought the reader might be interested to get just a flavor of Rushdie's current thinking on this and that—his table talk, if you like.
I first got to know Salman Rushdie—or to feel that I was beginning to do so—in Toronto just over two years ago at the Harborfront literary festivals. At the time, the row over The Satanic Verses was a cloud no bigger than Rajiv Gandhi's hand. The book had been banned in India after riots protesting its publication, but the worst of the rioting was still to come, and the row seemed as much political as religious. Salman read from the book. He's a born performer, a first-rate mimic, and he had the audience immediately on his side and laughing. In the discussions, he defended his corner in the way he has always been able to do, with a fine arrogance. Not quite the arrogance that he used against Rajiv himself in print—
Mr. Prime Minister, The Satanic Verses may just, in the eyes of the world, be the unmaking of you. Worse still is the judgment of the eye of eternity…and, Mr. Gandhi, has it struck you that I may be your posterity? Perhaps you feel that by banning my fourth novel you are taking a long overdue revenge for the treatment of your mother in my second; but can you be sure that Indira Gandhi's reputation will endure better and longer than Midnight's Children? Are you certain that the cultural history of India will deal kindly with the enemies of The Satanic Verses? You own the present; but the centuries belong to art—2
but with the same relish for a fight.
I had been away from England for more than two years, and was feeling in need of contact and news. Salman and I went for a walk by the lake, and I remember particularly the sad way he spoke of Bruce Chatwin, who was then in the last stages of AIDS. Salman in private was less ebullient than I expected, and for reasons not much to do with his novel. He was fed up with England, where he found a horrible mixture of hypocrisy and xenophobia, mediocrity and envy of success. He was anyway somewhat vulnerable to any printed slight, but I knew from the example of another friend of mine (not an immigrant but a Jew) that when England begins to affect you in this way you may be absolutely sure that you will find evidence to reinforce your feelings. England becomes a prison.
So we walked along the shore, with Salman going on about how insincere the English were, and me (being nothing if not English) trying hard to be more sincere, to make up for everybody else's insincerity. So I asked him if it had occurred to him to go back to India, and immediately I worried if that would sound xenophobic and hostile, but it appeared to go down okay, and he said that you can't, once you've made that break, go back. He was thinking, perhaps (his wife was American) of moving to New York….
Well, he went back to England, Bruce Chatwin his friend died, and Salman's last public appearance for many months was at his memorial service. The doors closed. The nightmare began. In Manila, where I was living, the postman spoke to me for the first time ever, to inquire about the case of Salman Rushdie, and I thought: Friend, you have achieved a fame beyond Byron's.
Meeting him again in London recently, two years after the Saint Valentine's Day Fatwa, I was concerned to set straight one small matter, on which I felt I could speak with some authority, and that was the question of the kipper. In much that is written about Salman Rushdie, and in The Satanic Verses, you come across the sad story of the thirteen-year-old Indian at Rugby School, faced with this strange fish that he has never seen before, a bony thing he doesn't know how to eat. Nobody at the table gives him any advice. He decides he must face this one out, and heroically struggles away until the kipper is eventually consumed.
Now this story is designed to make any fellow victim of the British public school system feel guilty: Where was I when Salman faced his first kipper? But what I wanted to say was that none of the rest of us really knew how to eat kippers, or if we did we all kept quiet about it. They were unpredictable fish in those days—sometimes you found an edible one with a comprehensible bone structure, but the rest were a lottery.
The second point is: when I think of Salman and the kipper—and he all of thirteen years old—I also think of myself at the age of seven, on the first night at prep school, faced with the fact that someone had stolen the entire contents of my sponge bag. If I must ask myself, Where was I when Salman faced his first kipper? am I not also entitled to wonder, Where was Salman when I faced my empty sponge bag? Was there a kindly nine-year-old Indian boy who helped me face down the bullies? These things cut both ways after all.
Salman: "I don't think you should apologize for the kipper."
Self: "It's not just me apologizing. It is England. England apologizes to you."
Salman: "Let me tell you, this is very touching, because you're the second person in my life to have made an apology to me on behalf of a nation. The first time was actually the first time I went to the United States. I was much younger and I was, working in advertising and I had been sent to America because I was supposed to write ads about going on holiday in America for the United States Travel Service. I had never been there before. In those days I was going to say that I had longer hair but I should probably say I had hair. In those days I had lots of hair."
Self: "We both had hair."
Salman: "Yes, we had hair. I'm talking about the early 1970s now. I had lots of hair, long hair, and a mustache, and it was the early Seventies and I remember I flew directly to the West Coast, it must have been San Francisco, and in the customs hall there was a sign saying, 'A few minutes extra in customs is a small price to pay to save your children from the menace of drugs.' And in front of me in the queue were these two classic American rednecks with very wide necks, and one of them turned to me and said: 'Buddy, I sure feel sorry for you, because even if you haven't got anything they'll find something.' And they tried. I was taken apart, the body search, the rectal examination, everything, and after what felt like about a week of this, I was finally—"
Self (audibly shocked): "You mean a week up the rectum?"
Salman: "Yes. I was finally released into America, a kind of gibbering wreck. I was standing in the queue waiting for the bus, clearly in major trauma, and there in front of me was a tiny white-haired lady about half my size who saw that I was in pain, and she said, Was I all right? And, just because this was a moment of human generosity, it all poured out. I unleashed at her this whole tirade about the awful humiliation to which I'd been submitted. At the end of which, I'll never forget, she did the most extraordinary thing. She heard me out, and when the storm blew out, she drew herself up to a tiny height, clasped her hands together, and delivered to me a formal apology on behalf of the United States of America. It was extraordinary. She said: We, the people of the United States of America, wish to apologize to you for this terrible intrusion into your privacy. We are not all as you feel that we might be, and to many of us this is as offensive as it is to you, and we too are violated by this intrusion into your privacy, etcetera. The thing that was amazing about it was that by the time she had finished I felt better. I thought, Okay, fine, that's good. And then I was able to go into America and have a great time. And she made it all right. So maybe you just finally made the kipper all right, James."
Having laid the ghost of the kipper, I proceeded to inquire whether he still felt as badly about England as he had at the time of our discussion in Toronto. He did not.
Salman: "It's true at that time I was in a state of considerable disillusion with England, which after all I wasn't alone in, in that we were talking about the depths of the Thatcher catastrophe, and, whatever one might think about the Thatcher catastrophe, one of the things that was always true about it is that half the country hated it. I was a part of that half of the country, and was much more fortunate than most of that half, in that I was able to do something about it, in that, if I chose to do so, I could go somewhere else. I thought maybe that would be a good idea. Anyway I'm a boy from a big country, and there's a part of me that's always hankered for a big country round me again, not a small island. One of the things that I promised myself after The Satanic Verses came out was that I was going to buy myself a small pied-a-terre, a kind of joint in Bombay, so that I could have a place of my own back in my hometown, so that if I wanted to go for a month or two every year I didn't have to bum off my friends or stay in hotels. So I'd made all kinds of plans about restoring large skies to myself. All that has become impossible."
Impossible to slope off back in the direction of Bombay, now and then. Impossible to go anywhere without the British government informing the government of that country, and securing their acquiescence, in case anything should crop up.
Illustrated Weekly of India, October 7, 1989, cited in Malise Ruthven, A Satanic Affair (Hogarth Press, 1991).↩
Illustrated Weekly of India, October 7, 1989, cited in Malise Ruthven, A Satanic Affair (Hogarth Press, 1991).↩


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Borderlands 2 "Gear Up Weekend" preps you for Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt
Borderlands 2 players are privy to a special event this weekend event, which should help them get prepped for Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt's release next week. Last night, "an influx of powerful shotguns" where spread throughout Pandora, while today, it's all about grenade mods. You can get more information on the Gearbox community site. […]0


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As Fantasy Flight Games has done in the past, I would like to see a video with a Civlization gameplay overview. Is that in the works?
Civilazation Rules Overview Video?
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yes i want to see a vidieo to of this game.
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What Geithner 'Stress Test' Book Implies for ECB
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Tim Geithner reveals in his new book "Stress Test" that European leaders liked to refer to the former Treasury Secretary as the "smiling hegemon," so don't expect them to be especially eager to hear what he has to say.
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David Tepper, one of the world's most successful hedge fund managers, said Wednesday that the European Central Bank had better ease interest rates in June, or things could get scary.
Would Geithner agree with Tepper?It's a pretty sure bet he would. Chapter two of "Stress Test" describes how Geithner spent the late 1990s at the Treasury Department helping fight fires around the globe-in Mexico, Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea and Brazil-with mixed but generally positive results. In each case, Geithner recommended throwing money at the problem. "I was usually on the aggressive side when it came to intervention--and the permissive side when it came to conditionality," Geithner writes. One notable exception was Russia, which he says he recommended allow to default, as it did in 1998. "I thought it would be crazy to throw good money after bad. Russia looked hopeless then, financially and politically," Geithner writes. It is hard to imagine Geithner would say the same thing about Western Europe today. His biggest fear in the late 1990s was that Europeans would get in the way of the Americans' efforts to bail everyone out. Referring to the "more conservative European countries," Geithner writes, "we didn't want their occasional parochialism and moral hazard fundamentalism to paralyze future crisis responses." So just as he showered bailout money at big banks like Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC) while Treasury Secretary even though his staff described them as "financial death stars," Geithner would almost assuredly advocate more generous interest rate policies at the European Central Bank. Geithner has little patience with those stodgy Europeans who worry that bailouts or easy money encourage even riskier behavior. In what might as well be his credo, he writes, "it's hard to believe that the existence of firehouses causes fires." Follow @dan_freed
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- MBIA (MBI) appears to have a strong case in its legal battle against Bank of America (BAC), though that may not be enough, and, like many "back from the dead" stocks, investors would be wise to exercise caution.
MBIA shares gained 4.7% Thursday, and at one point were up much more than that, as Reuters and Bloomberg reported on a day-old research report from Creditsights' Rob Haines that repeated one of several wild guesses BTIG Research's Mark Palmer had made a few days earlier.
That wild guess proved wrong, we learned after the market closed, and it appears MBIA shares will open sharply lower Friday. (Another one of Palmer's guesses proved correct.)
A quick refresher on what's at stake. MBIA claims Bank of America owes it several billion dollars because of faulty mortgage backed securities it sold and which MBIA insured. Bank of America, meanwhile is using every legal means at its disposal to fight MBIA--from challenging a split up of the company, to trying to run out the clock on the insurer in the hope it will run out of cash and stop fighting, to other, more complex maneuvers such as fighting over bonds the company has issued and is trying to amend.Only a small number of analysts cover MBIA. The three whose research I have seen regularly--BTIG's Palmer, Creditsights' Haines and Harry Fong of MKM Partners, are all bulls. While publishing analysts tend to be bullish in general, they may be particularly so when it comes to a company like MBIA that much of Wall Street has written off as highly speculative. Many analysts who used to follow MBIA dropped coverage after the crisis left it reeling from its massive exposure to subprime mortgage bonds it insured. That led other analysts, such as BTIG's Palmer, to take a fresh look. However, if analysts don't see promise in a company that is struggling for survival, they aren't likely to start covering it. As a result, there are few if any bears who are thinking carefully about MBIA (or other such highly speculative stocks, for that matter) and sharing their views with the public. The bullish analysts make solid arguments. They follow the extensive court proceedings and take the judges' temperatures. They note that a giant like Bank of America would not fight so hard if it didn't believe it was vulnerable and the stakes were high. They calculate how much cash MBIA has left and decide it has enough to keep fighting for a while. They urge investors to buy the bonds, taking a loss if necessary, to profit on the stock.
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A Neurologist Makes the Case for the Video Game Model as a Learning Tool
The popularity of video games is not the enemy of education, but rather a model for best teaching strategies. Games insert players at their achievable challenge level and reward player effort and practice with acknowledgement of incremental goal progress, not just final product. The fuel for this process is the pleasure experience related to the release of dopamine.
Dopamine Motivation
The human brain, much like that of most mammals, has hardwired physiological responses that had survival value at some point in evolutionary progression. The dopamine-reward system is fueled by the brain's recognition of making a successful prediction, choice, or behavioral response.
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that, when released in higher than usual amounts, goes beyond the synapse and flows to other regions of the brain producing a powerful pleasure response. This is a deep satisfaction, such as quenching a long thirst. After making a prediction, choice, or action, and receiving feedback that it was correct, the reward from the release of dopamine prompts the brain seek future opportunities to repeat the action. For animal survival, this promotes life or species-sustaining choices and behaviors, such as following a new scent that leads to a mate or a meal and remembering that scent the next time it is present.
No Pain, No Gain
The survival benefit of the dopamine-reward system is building skills and adaptive responses. The system is only activated and available to promote, sustain, or repeat some mental or physical effort when the outcome is not assured. If there is no risk, there is no reward. If there is no challenge, such as adding single digit numbers by a student who has achieved mastery in adding double-digit numbers, there is activation of the dopamine-reward network.
In humans, the dopamine reward response that promotes pleasure and motivation also requires that they are aware that they solved a problem, figured out a puzzle, correctly answered a challenging question, or achieved the sequence of movements needed to play a song on the piano or swing a baseball bat to hit a home run. This is why students need to use what they learn in authentic ways that allow them to recognize their progress as clearly as they see it when playing video games.
Awareness of Incremental Goal Progress
In a sequential, multilevel video game, feedback of progress is often ongoing, such as accumulating points, visual tokens, or celebratory sound effects, but the real jolt of dopamine reward is in response to the player achieving the challenge, solution, sequence, etc. needed to progress to the next and more challenging level of the game. When the brain receives that feedback that this progress has been made, it reinforces the networks used to succeed. Through a feedback system, that neuronal circuit becomes stronger and more durable. In other words, memory of the mental or physical response used to achieve the dopamine reward is reinforced.
It may seem counter intuitive to think that children would consider harder work a reward for doing well on a homework problem, test, or physical skill to which they devoted considerable physical or mental energy. Yet, that is just what the video playing brain seeks after experiencing the pleasure of reaching a higher level in the game. A computer game doesn't hand out cash, toys, or even hugs. The motivation to persevere is the brain seeking another surge of dopamine -- the fuel of intrinsic reinforcement.
Individualized Achievable Challenge
Individualized achievable challenge level is one where a task, action, or choice is not so easy as to be essentially automatic or 100% successful. When that is the case the brain is not alert for feedback and there is no activation of the dopamine reward response system. The task must also not be perceived as so difficult that there is no chance of success. It is only when the brain perceives a reasonable possibility of success for achieving a desirable goal that it invests the energy and activates the dopamine reward circuit.
fMRI and cognitive studies reveal that the brain "evaluates" the probability of effort resulting in success before expending the cognitive effort in solving mental problems. If the challenge seems too high, or students have a fixed mindset related past failures that they will not succeed in a subject or topic, the brain is not likely to expend the effort needed to achieve the challenge.
Brain effort is costly because this three-pound organ needs 20% of the body's supply of oxygen and glucose to keep its cells alive. The brain operates to conserve its resources unless the energy cost is low or the expectation of reward is high. In the classroom, that is the ideal level of instructional challenge for student motivation.
When learners have opportunities to participate in learning challenges at their individualized achievable challenge level, their brains invest more effort to the task and are more responsive to feedback. Students working toward clear, desirable goals within their range of perceived achievable challenge, reach levels of engagement much like the focus and perseverance we see when they play their video games.
Feedback or scaffolding may be needed to support students' perception that the challenge is achievable, but the levels of mastery are rarely the same for every student in the class. This is when we need to provide opportunities for differentiating and individualizing. These interventions range from clearly scaled rubrics, to small flexible groups for "as needed" support, or collaborative groups through which students can "enter" from their strengths. Descriptions of these strategies, beyond the scope of this article, are found in differentiated instruction literature.
Game Entry Point is a Perfect Fit Through Pre-assessment and Feedback
The best on-line learning programs for building students' missing foundational knowledge use student responses to structure learning at individualized achievable challenge levels. These programs also provide timely corrective and progress-acknowledging feedback that allows the students to correct mistakes, build understanding progressively, and recognize their incremental progress.
The classroom model can follow suit. Video games with levels of play allow the player to progress quickly through early levels if the gamer already has the skill needed. Gamers reportedly make errors 80% of the time, but the most compelling games give hints, cues, and other feedback so players' brains have enough expectation of dopamine reward to persevere. The games require practice for the specific skills the player needs to master, without the off-putting requirement to repeat tasks already mastered. This type of game keeps the brain engaged because the dopamine surge is perceived to be within reach if effort and practice are sustained.
Good games give players opportunities for experiencing intrinsic reward at frequent intervals, when they apply the effort and practice the specific skills they need to get to the next level. The games do not require mastery of all tasks and the completion of the whole game before giving the brain the feedback for dopamine boosts of satisfaction. The dopamine release comes each time the game provides feedback that the player's actions or responses are correct. The player gains points or tokens for small incremental progress and ultimately the powerful feedback of the success of progressing to the next level. This is when players seek "harder work". To keep the pleasure of intrinsic satisfaction going, the brain needs a higher level of challenge, because staying at a level once mastery is achieved doesn't release the dopamine.
Bringing Incremental Progress Recognition to the Classroom... and Beyond
In the classroom, the video model can be achieved with timely, corrective feedback so students recognize incorrect foundational knowledge and then have opportunities to strengthen the correct new memory circuits through practice and application. However, individualized instruction, assignments, and feedback, that allow students to consistently work at their individualized achievable challenge levels, are time-consuming processes not possible for teachers to consistently provide all students.
What we can do is be aware of the reason the brain is so responsive to video game play and keep achievable challenge and incremental progress feedback in mind when planning units of instruction. One way to help each student sustain motivation and effort is to shift progress recognition to students themselves. This can be done by having students use a variety of methods of recording their own progress toward individualized goals. Through brief conferences, goals can be mutually agreed upon, such as number of pages read a week (with comprehension accountability), progression to the next level of the multiplication tables, or achievement of a higher level on a rubric for writing an essay. Free bar graphs downloaded from the Internet can be filled in by students as they record and see evidence of their incremental goal progress. In contrast to the system of recognition delayed until a final product is completed, graphing reveals the incremental progress evidence throughout the learning process. I've found that for students who have lost confidence to the point of not wanting to risk more failure, it is helpful to start the effort-to-progress record keeping and graphing with something they enjoy, such as shooting foul shots or computer keyboarding speed and accuracy.
Immediate Gratification or Long-term Goal Pursuit?
Compared to an adult brain, a young brain needs more frequent dopamine boosts to sustain effort, persevere through challenges and setbacks, and build the trait of resilience. The brain's prefrontal cortex, with its executive functions (judgment, analysis, delay of immediate gratification, prioritizing, planning, etc.) will be the subject of a future blog. In relation to the video game model, it is important to plan instruction keeping in mind that the executive function circuits are late to mature - well into the twenties. The visible evidence seen on their graphs or rubric progress evidence helps students develop the concept that effort toward a goal brings progress. This, in turn, builds their capacity to resist their young brain's strong drive for immediate gratification. As students use visible models to recognize their incremental goal progress, they build the executive function of goal-directed behavior.
Classroom instruction that provides opportunities for incremental progress feedback at students' achievable challenge levels pays off with increased focus, resilience, and willingness to revise and persevere toward achievement of goals. The development of students' awareness of their potentials to achieve success, through effort and response to feedback, extends far beyond the classroom walls. Your application of the video game model to instruction encourages the habits of mind through which your students can achieve their highest academic, social, and emotional potentials.
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I have always thought that video games are one of the worst things invented, but after reading this article i feel very different. Everything that was said made complete since. I never thought about it in a way that will satisfy the child when he or she gets to the next level, or succeeds and wins. It is something that they will remember and learn from because they worked hard for it. The classroom is so similar to the way a child plays video games.
I think this article is great. Lots of parents have always had a negative view of video games and this really shows why children like them so much and that they actually can be productive and educational. Kids love video games and I think it would be an excellent idea to have them incororporated into school activities or learning centers!
Interesting article! I understand the idea behind this model, but the students would have to be completely engaged in the subject matter to feel the same rush they do from a video game. Children being able to keep track of their own progress and receiving instant feedback is a great idea. This process would keep children engaged in their own learning process and practicing self-regulation. Another idea I found interesting was a way to individualize a child's learning by allowing them to progress quickly through levels they have already mastered. I believe this would keep children from becoming bored, and keep them interested in their own learning. If children were able to keep a record of their progress it would definitely keep them motivated and in charge of their own success.
This is a very interesting way of looking at video games. Intrinsic motivation is just as important if not more important than extrinsic motivation. I never thought that a video game would lead to increasing a child's intrinsic motivation, but there are many things in video games that display to the gamer how they are doing. Trying this model in a classroom would be worth a try.
This article was very interesting. It is important that educators implement teaching tools that students find enjoyable. Video games are popular amongst most children and learning while playing games can defiantly have its benefits.
This article was very interesting. It is important that educators implement teaching tools that students find enjoyable. Video games are popular amongst most children and learning while playing games can defiantly have its benefits.
As a gamer myself, I found this article very interesting but really not surprising. I got to experience teaching videos games when I was in early elementary. My school received enough Mac computers to fill two labs and allow teachers to have at least two in their classrooms. We'd have weekly visits to the computer lab where they'd slowly introduce us to learning games; Introductions to drawing and letter games in kindergarten, then typing and math games in first grade, and second through sixth got the same types, but it grew progressively more challenging depending on the grade. The half an hour we'd spend working with these programs didn't feel like learning. Video games like that are great ways to get children involved and can make almost anyone excited to learn.
I do not mind using video games when you are talking about educational purposes and games directly ade for that purpose. However, I do not think that we should just lump all games into the same group and say that all games help teach kids some skill and therefore are ok to play. As with all education tools, they must be age appropriate and there needs to be an expected outcome of skill or learning in order to call a video game educational. In stating my opinion, I am not saying that kids should only be allowed to play games because they have some intentional educational purpose either. Some games are fine to let the kids play and they will indeed learn some skills without having to feel as though it is an educational game.
I think that this idea is very interesting. I do agree that there are many video games that are very educational and challenge children in many ways. There are some that are educational but not appropriate in the classroom. There are also those games that are very appropriate to use in the classroom and are very educational, but fun for the students. I think that fun ways of learning are what keep children's attention in learning, so I think that this is a very useful article in showing what video games can do for the children.
I was very surprised by the information in this article! Throughout my childhood it was an understood fact that video games were a negative influence and that we should focus on schoolwork and playing outside with our friends instead. We were basically forbidden to play video games, even at friends houses. Due to the fact that so many children spend hours and hours on video games every week, I found it wonderful to learn that video games can be geared more positively to impact children's development. I had never thought about the points that this article talks about, but it was very interesting. Our world is increasingly embracing technology as an aid in education so I think it is amazing that video games can impact children positively!
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Another sector that is looking undervalued is technology. When an investor looks at legacy companies like Microsoft (MSFT) with its nearly 3.3% dividend and trading at just nine times forward earnings, one could envision a one-year total return of 25 to 30%.
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Subramaniam, Chandrasekaran (1993) Pasteurella Multocida Type B In Malaysia: Characterisation, Immune Response And Protection In Vaccinated Buffaloes. Masters thesis, Universiti Pertanian Malaysia.
A study on the characteristics of the Malaysian field and vaccine strains of Pasteurella multocida type B was conducted . In addition , the immunogenic potential of haemorrhagic septicaemia ( HS ) vaccines was evaluated in buffaloes . A total of 48 P. multocida isolates including the five HS vaccine strains were included in the study . Initial studies showed significant cross-protection in mice amongst the five vaccine strains . The 48 isolates , when subjected to biochemical tests had very little or no variability amongst them. Type-specific hyper immune sera were prepared in rabbits and buffaloes . The sera were then absorbed using antigens prepared from the 48 isolates . A series of serological tests were conducted using the pre- and post-absorbed sera and the antigen preparations . The protein profile of the five vaccine and five randomly selected field strains of this organism revealed that there appeared to be no variation amongst the field and vaccine strains . The antibody responses of buffaloes immunised with three conventional HS vaccines viz . , broth bacterin ( BB ) , alum-precipitated vaccine ( APV ) and oil adjuvant vaccine ( OAV ) and one experimental double emulsion vaccine ( DEV ) were determined by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay ( ELISA ) . Antibody levels were significantly higher in buffaloes immunised with the adjuvanted vaccines ( APV , OAV , DEV ) . Buffaloes immunised with BB alone were protected at 6 weeks but not at 12 weeks post-immunisation . Buffaloes immunised with APV were protected at 24 weeks but only partially at 52 weeks post-immunisation . On the other hand , buffaloes immunised with OAV or DEV were fully protected at 52 weeks but only partially at 76 weeks post-immunisation .There was also a positive relationship between the ELISA titres and protection in buffaloes .
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5 wounded — 1 critically — in shootout at Pioneer Square
Police are still piecing together what happened in Pioneer Square early Monday when gunfire left five people injured, including one critically.
Seattle Times staff reporter
Seattle police are still piecing together what happened to spark a fight between two men outside a nightclub in Pioneer Square early Monday and then "spun out of control" and left five people wounded by gunfire.
One of the victims, a 26-year-old woman, suffered life-threatening injuries when she was shot in the face, according to police. Four others — three men ages 19, 20 and 24 and a 22-year-old-woman — were also wounded, but not as severely, police said.
Seattle Police Department spokesman Jeff Kappel said detectives believe that at least two people fired guns.
One suspect, a 21-year-old man, was arrested away from the shooting scene. He was booked into the King County Jail for investigation of felony assault and being a felon in possession of a firearm, police said.
Police said the altercation began shortly after 1 a.m. at Second Avenue South and South Main Street.
While headed to the scene, officers heard gunshots and then reported that their patrol car had been struck by a beige sedan driven by a woman who was fleeing the shooting scene, according to police.
The woman, who also ran into a parked car, was detained and questioned, police said.
A witness then led police to where the critically injured 26-year-old woman was lying. She was taken to Harborview Medical Center, where she remained under treatment later Monday, Kappel said.
At 1:30 a.m., a second victim of the shooting, a man, was dropped off at a Seattle hospital with a gunshot wound to his foot, police said.
The occupants of the car that dropped him off, which was located and detained on Martin Luther King Jr. Way, also were questioned, police said.
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espresso and chocolate swirl cheesecake
1 9-ounce package chocolate wafer cookies
6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) unsalted butter, melted, cooled
2 tablespoons instant espresso powder
1 tablespoon water
3 8-ounce packages cream cheese, room temperature
1 cup sugar
3 large eggs
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, melted, cooled
1 tablespoon finely ground coffee
6 ounces bittersweet (not unsweetened) or semisweet chocolate, chopped
1/4 cup whipping cream
For crust:
Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 400 F. Grind cookies in
processor. Add butter and process using on/off turns until crumbs are
Press crumbs on bottom and 1 1/2 inches up sides of 9-inch-diameter
springform pan with 2 3/4-inch-high sides. Wrap outside of pan with
For filling:
In small bowl, dissolve instant espresso in 1 tablespoon water. Using
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sides. Let stand at room temperature 30 minutes. Transfer to platter and
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Washington Navy Yard, DC 20374-5060
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This collection contains letter reports, messages, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials documenting the work of naval doctors and corpsmen in Vietnam. Coverage is included for USS Repose (AH-16) and Sanctuary (AH-17) and for the US Navy Hospital in Danang. Also included are articles on Vietnam subjects appearing in US Navy Medicine and the US Navy Medical Newsletter.
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- Whole Grain Ritz with Cream Cheese and turkey pepperoni
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Our go to lunch anymore is cheese and crackers, a veggie, a fruit, and nuts. Not bad, Right?
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|16 shelled hazelnuts
|1 tablespoon minced parsley
|1 bunch watercress
|1 tablespoon Dijon mustard (for dressing)
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|2 tablespoons sherry vinegar (for dressing)
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Mott a winner at Churchill
Although he has yet to win its biggest race, Bill Mott is still far in front on the list of all-time wins at Churchill Downs and the Hall of Famer is back in Louisville in search of more big wins for his resumé.
Another girl! Havre de Grace
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With the Churchill Downs Spring Meet behind us and the Fall Meet and the return of the Breeders' Cup World Championships a little more than 100 days away, many racing fans are starting to focus on the historic track in autumn.


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David Beito on the 1930s Tax Revolt
Recorded: Monday, April 18, 2011
David Beito, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, discusses an episode in the 1930s in which many Americans initiated a series of strikes and revolts against rising property taxes.
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Eminent Domain: Abuse of Government Power?
Recorded: Tuesday, January 31, 2006
In June 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Kelo v. New London that local governments may force property owners to sell out and to make way for private economic development, even if the property is not blighted. In response, many states have passed legislation and proposed amendments to their state constitutions to block this unprecedented government assault on the rights of property owners.
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