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I've been dipping into this almost continually since I bought my copy in November.
Although it contains a lot of new material by Terry, it isn't really a novel as such: it takes the in-universe form of an updated and revised version of Welcomme to Ankh-Morporkke - A Citie of Onne Thousand Surprises, the indispensible (and often wildly inaccurate) guide-book for visitors.
The bulk of the book takes the form of a directory of trades and services, often with lovely little advertisment illustrations, and it includes an updated and much-improved, much more detailed, pull-out Streets of Ankh-Morpork city map.
From a point of view of editing and writing the l-Space Wiki, there is so much additional information here that it would take YEARS to update the Wiki and add it all. (but who's in a hurry?)
And as a fan-fic writer, I have to say it is a lovely and wonderful source of inspiration for stories. I am already planning a Discworld-Lord of the Rings crossover called Bunfight at the Prancing Pony Tea-Rooms, for instance. (The Prancing Pony Tea-Rooms are located in upper Dimwell, near to the Deosil Gate).
The only caveat I would place on a work like this is - there is a risk of providing Too Much Information. For anything rooted in fantasy fiction to work, there have got to be grey areas, unexplored and mysterious parts of the City, loosde ends left to dangle, if only to provide an ongoing sense of mystery... anyone else have any ideas or reflections on this book?

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SNCC played a major role in the sit-ins and Freedom Rides, a leading role in the 1963 March on Washington, Mississippi Freedom Summer, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party over the next few years.Though the group claimed to have no leaders, its executive secretary, James Forman, was the closest thing. John Lewis, chairman, and Robert Parris Moses (also known as Robert Parris), who had an M.A. from Harvard, were alsoseen as leaders. In the later part of the 1960s, led by fiery leaders such as Stokely Carmichael, SNCC focused on "black power", and then protesting against the Vietnam War. As early as 1965 Forman said he didn't know "how much longer we can stay nonviolent" and in 1969, SNCC officially changed its name to the Student National Coordinating Committee to reflect the broadening of its strategies. It passed out of existence in the 1970s.
SNCC, as an organization, began with an $800 grant from the SCLC for a conference where student activists could share experiences and coordinate activities. Held at Shaw University in April 1960, the conference was attended by 126 student delegates from 58 sit-in centers in 12 states, along with delegates from 19 northern colleges, SCLC, CORE, Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), National Student Association (NSA), and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Out of this conference the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed.
Ella Baker, who organized the Shaw conference, had been the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) director before helping form SNCC, but this did not mean SNCC was a branch of SCLC. Instead of being closely tied to SCLC or other groups such as the NAACP as a "youth division," SNCC sought to stand on its own. Among important SNCC leaders attending the conference were Stokely Carmichael from Howard University; J. Charles Jones, who organized 200 students to participate in sit-ins at department stores throughout Charlotte, North Carolina; Diane Nash; James Lawson; John Lewis; Bernard Lafayette; James Bevel; and Marion Barry from the Nashville Student Movement.
In the years that followed, SNCC members were referred to as "shock troops of the revolution. SNCC took on greater risks in 1961, after a mob of Ku Klux Klan members and other whites attacked integrated groups of bus passengers who defied local segregation laws as part of the Freedom Rides organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Rather than allowing mob violence to stop them, SNCC volunteers, including Diane Nash, James Bevel, Marion Barry, Angeline Butler, and John Lewis, put themselves at great personal risk by traveling into the deep South, along with numerous CORE volunteers. Their actions forced the Kennedy Administration to briefly provide federal protection so mob violence would be temporarily abated. 436 people took part in these Freedom Rides during the spring and summer of 1961.
In 1963 SNCC conducted the Freedom Ballot, a mock election in which black Mississippians came out to show their willingness to vote — a right they had been denied for decades, despite the provisions of the Fifteenth Amendment, due to a combination of state laws and constitutional provisions, economic reprisals and violence by white authorities and private citizens.
SNCC followed up on the Freedom Ballot with the Mississippi Summer Project, also known as Freedom Summer, which focused on voter registration. SNCC organized black Mississippians to register to vote, almost always without success. White authorities either rejected their applications on any pretexts available or, failing that, simply refused to accept their applications.
Mississippi Summer got national attention when three civil rights workers involved in the project, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, disappeared after having been released from police custody. Their bodies were eventually found after a reluctant J. Edgar Hoover directed the FBI to search for them. In the process the FBI also found corpses of several other missing black Mississippians, whose disappearances had not attracted public attention outside the Delta.
SNCC also established Freedom Schools to teach children to read and to educate them to stand up for their rights. As in the struggle to desegregate public accommodations led by Martin Luther King, Jr. in Birmingham, Alabama the year before, the bolder attitudes of the children helped shake their parents out of the fear that had paralyzed many of them.
The goal of the Mississippi Summer Project was to organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), an integrated party, to win seats at the 1964 Democratic National Convention for a slate of delegates elected by disfranchised black Mississippians and white sympathizers. The MFDP was, however, tremendously inconvenient for the Johnson Administration. It had wanted to minimize the inroads that Barry Goldwater's campaign was making into what had previously been the Democratic stronghold of the "Solid South" and the support that George Wallace received during the Democratic primaries in the North.
When the MFDP started to organize a fight over credentials, Johnson originally would not budge. When Fannie Lou Hamer, the leader of the MFDP, was in the midst of testifying about the beatings the police had given to her and others for attempting to exercise their right to vote, Johnson preempted television coverage of the credentials fight. Even so, her testimony had created enough uproar that Johnson offered the MFDP a "compromise": they would receive two non-voting seats, while the delegation sent by the official Democratic Party would take its seats.
Johnson used all of his resources, mobilizing Walter Reuther, one of his key supporters within the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, and his Vice-Presidential nominee Hubert Humphrey, to put pressure on King and other mainstream civil rights leaders to bring the MFDP around, while directing Hoover to put the delegation under surveillance. The MFDP rejected both the compromise and the pressure on them to accept it and walked out.
That experience destroyed what little faith SNCC activists had in the good faith of the federal government, even though Johnson had obtained a broad Civil Rights Act barring discrimination in public accommodations, employment and private education in 1964 and would go on to obtain an equally broad Voting Rights Act in 1965. It also estranged SNCC leaders from many of the mainstream leaders of the civil rights movement.
Those differences carried over into the voting rights struggle that centered on Selma, Alabama in 1965. SNCC had begun organizing black citizens to register to vote in Selma in 1963, but made little headway against the adamant resistance of Sheriff Jim Clark and the White Citizens' Council. In early 1965, local Selma activists asked the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for aid and the two organizations formed an uneasy alliance in the struggle for voting rights. SNCC disagreed with SCLC over tactical and strategic issues, including the decision not to attempt to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge a second time after county sheriffs and state troopers attacked them on "Bloody Sunday" on March 7, 1965.
The civil rights activists crossed the bridge on the third attempt, with the aid of a federal court order barring authorities from interfering with the march. It was part of a five-day march to Montgomery, Alabama that helped dramatize the need for a Voting Rights Act. During this period, SNCC activists became more and more disenchanted with nonviolence, integration as a strategic goal, and cooperation with white liberals or the Federal government.
After the Watts riots in Los Angeles in 1965, some SNCC members sought to break their ties with the mainstream civil rights movement and the liberal organizations that supported it. They argued instead that blacks needed to build power of their own rather than seek accommodations from the power structure in place. Eventually, the leader of the militant branch, Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture), replaced John Lewis as head of SNCC in May 1966.
Carmichael first argued that blacks should be free to use violence in self-defense, then later he advocated revolutionary violence to overthrow oppression. Carmichael rejected the civil rights legislation that the movement had fought so hard to achieve as mere palliatives. The Department of Defense stated in 1967:
SNCC can no longer be considered a civil rights group. It has become a racist organization with black supremacy ideals and an expressed hatred for whites. It employs violent and militant measures which may be defined as extreme when compared with those of more moderate groups.
Carmichael raised the banner of Black Power in a speech in Greenwood, Mississippi in June 1966. As the mainstream civil rights movement distanced itself from SNCC, SNCC expelled white staff and volunteers, and denounced the whites who had supported it in the past. By early 1967 SNCC was approaching bankruptcy and close to disappearing.
Carmichael left SNCC in June 1967 to join the Black Panther Party. H. Rap Brown, later known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, replaced him as the head of SNCC. Brown renamed the group the Student National Coordinating Committee and supported violence, which he described "as American as cherry pie." He resigned from SNCC in 1968, after being indicted for inciting to riot in Cambridge, Maryland in 1967. Brown then became Minister of Justice of the Black Panther Party.
It is also true that H. Rap Brown proposed violence against violence if the power structure in the US did not change its racist actions against Blacks. Brown was also targeted by the FBI and incarcerated without legal representation during 1968-1969. The government indicted Brown to make an example of him, despite a lack of proper evidence.
By that point, SNCC was no longer an effective organization. It largely disappeared in the early 1970s, although chapters in communities such as San Antonio, Texas continued for several more years. SNCC has begun again at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.
Mario Marcel Salas, field secretary of the SNCC chapter in San Antonio successfully operated until 1976. The San Antonio SNCC chapter was part Black Panther Party and part SNCC. Dr. Charles Jones of Atlanta State University termed it a "hybrid organization" since it had panther styled survival programs. Salas also worked closely with La Raza Unida Party, running for political office and organizing demonstrations to expose discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. Salas later helped in the liberation of the island of Grenada from the dictator Eric Gairy in 1979, and became the chairman of the Free Nelson Mandela Movement in San Antonio Texas.
Many prominent black women rose to recognition by their participation in SNCC. Some of these women include Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, Donna Richards, Fay Bellamy, Gwen Patton, Cynthia Washington, Jean Wiley, Muriel Tillinghast, Fannie Lou Hamer, Annie Pearl Avery, Diane Nash, Ella Baker, Victoria Gray, Unita Blackwell, Bettie Mae Fikes, Joyce Ladner, Dorie Ladner, Gloria Richardson, Bernice Reagon, Prathia Hall, Connie Curry, Judy Richardson, Ruby Sales, Endesha Ida Mae Holland, Eleanor Holmes Norton and Anne Moody.
Anne Moody published her autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi, in 1970, detailing her decision to participate in SNCC and later CORE, and her experience as a woman in the movement. She described the widespread trend of black women to become involved with SNCC at their educational institutions. As young college students or teachers, these black women were often heavily involved in grassroots campaign by teaching Freedom Schools and promoting voter registration.
On the other hand, white women became very involved with SNCC particularly after the Freedom Summer of 1964. Many northern white women were inspired by the ideology of racial equality. Most of the direct-action resolutions, including peaceful protests and voter registration, took place in Mississippi, challenging the Jim Crow laws of the South. Some white women, such as Mary King, Casey Hayden, and Mary Varela were able to obtain status and leadership within SNCC. Through organizations like SNCC, women of both races were becoming more politically active than they did at any time in American history. However, their positions and treatment in SNCC only demonstrated the patriarchic bias that existed in the society. A group of women in SNCC who were later identified as Mary King and Casey Hayden openly challenged the way women were treated when they issued the "SNCC Position Paper (Women in the Movement)". Notably, the paper was published anonymously, helping King and Hayden avoid unwanted attention. The paper specifically listed 11 events in which women were treated as subordinate to men. According to the paper, women in SNCC did not have a chance to become the face of the organization, the top leaders, because they were assigned to clerical and housekeeping duties whereas men were involved in decision-making.
When Stokely Carmichael took over the leadership of SNCC from John Lewis, he essentially reoriented the path of SNCC towards Black Power. He famously said in a speech, "it is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations." White women thus lost their influence and power in SNCC; Mary King and Casey Hayden left SNCC to become active in pursuing equality for women. They co-authored Sex and Caste: A Kind of Memo, which later became an influential piece in feminism. As SNCC turned its focus to Black Power, black women also lost their voice and became subject to the already-existing patriarchal structure of the organization. The limited opportunities for women from the original community-building ideology were erased by the usurping Black Power movement, in which power was more centralized in the hands of the male-dominated top leadership.
It is important to mention that former SNCC member Kathleen Cleaver played a key role in the central committee of the Black Panther Party as communications secretary (1968). Her position in this "male dominated" leadership was both effective and influential to Brown, Red and Yellow Power groups of the late 60s and early 70s.
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Once again the rather daft but always out to entertain theatre group Laughing Monkey have ventured out to bring the disk and it's resident to the stage, with Steven Brigg's adaptation of the Terry Pratchett's Maskerade on the 13th, 15th and 16th of October.
Returning to the disk following our last outing in 'Wyrd Sisters', we find ourselves in a curious tale that bares absolutely no resemblance to any other stories about phantoms ... in opera houses ... honest!
The prospect of becoming a witch doesn't really appeal to Agnes Nitt … certainly not if Granny Weatherwax is anything to go by. Fleeing her destiny she travels to Ankh Morpork where she means to make a name for herself as a singer at the Discworld-famous Opera House … although singing someone else's part, from the chorus, wasn't quite what she had in mind. Within the Opera House, fear and terror are rife. The infamous 'Opera Ghost', once considered good luck by the company, has recently been responsible for a number of terrible 'accidents': vandalism, assault … even murder …
Meanwhile, with their coven reduced to two, Nanny Ogg is very worried that Granny Weatherwax might be turning … well … black. Fortunately Granny's ire is pricked when she discovers that Nanny's rather suspect cook-book, The Joye of Snacks, has made a fortune for a publishing house in Ankh Morpork. Setting off to recover her diddled royalties, the witches become embroiled in the mystery at the Opera House … and if there's one thing Granny Weatherwax won't put up with, it's a mystery ...
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MOOCs and Learning Sciences: Where we have been. Where we are going. George Siemens Scandinavian MOOC Conference Stockholm, Sweden June 12, 2015
George Siemens es el referente internacional sobre la educación abierta, masiva y online, junto a Stephen Downes.
"In this talk, I will address these issues by presenting several examples of research projects in my lab that are trying to study what students learn when then make, build, program, and do inquiry science. We use methods from design-based research together with learning analytics and educational data mining to inquire into the complex, multimodal activities that students engage in science labs, and makerspaces. For example, in some studies, we examine the impact of maker activities in students' STEM identity, career choice, and problem solving skills. In another set of studies, we evaluated a model which we termed the "flipped flipped classroom," in which students explored a problem *before* they watch a video. In other studies, we use computational techniques to examine 100,000+ snapshots of computer code generated by students in a programming course, or second-by-second actions when students are building engineering projects. Taken together, these studies are trying to determine the value of constructivist education in the context of STEM education and in the "maker" movement, in order to make them possible equalizers of educational opportunity, rather than an instrument to further increase the educational gap in our society."
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Among educational practice there has been significant attention on the flipped classroom, which is an innovative pedagogical method used by K-12 to college and university educators. There are many different approaches to implementing a flipped classroom. In particular, some educators pre-record lectures of themselves presenting material, others use screen casts to convey information to students before attending class in order to facilitate more peer-to-peer learning, and some teachers use a flipped classroom approach that does not involve videos. Ultimately, the shift in learning is focused on changing the classroom from passive to active.
The purpose of the symposium is to present papers on the flipped classroom and its development of flipped learning. Although some authors are invited to discuss the technical aspects of the flipped classroom, the focus of our symposium will be about how teachers use the face-to-face class time gained by changing from a completely lecture based classroom. Please join the discussion during this symposium as we explore the wide variety of approaches with the authors and other members of the chemical education and flipped classroom communities
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8 very informative papers about the flipped classroom, primarily in 1st and 2nd year college classes in Chemistry.
Sometimes when you get a good content idea, you can feel it. Other times, the idea isn't quite so clear. These tools can get you moving in the right direction.
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"U.S.-based technology companies have also recently been putting more of their money into robotics. In 2012, Amazon spent more than $700 million to acquire Kiva Systems, which makes a mobile robot for carting items sitting on shelves over to packers working inside Amazon fulfillment centers. In 2013, Apple announced it was investing more than $10 billion in supply-chain robots.
"While interesting developments on their own, taken together these moves represent a galvanizing moment for the U.S. robotics industry. According to the International Federation of Robotics, the worldwide market for industrial robotics systems is worth $29 billion.
"About 235,000 robots are already in use inside U.S. factories, placing the U.S. second to Japan in robot use, according to May numbers from the Robotic Industries Association (RIA). Advances in technology are making robots less expensive, pulling them out of the military and medical realms and pushing them into smaller and medium-size companies, private tech firms and even the consumer market. For years Japan has dominated the robotics industry."
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Dubai has unveiled plans to build the world's first fully-functional 3D printed building.
Experts estimate that 3D printing technology can reduce the production time of buildings by 50-70 percent, reduce labour costs by up to 80 percent, and can save between 30-60 percent of construction waste.
The office will be approximately 2,000 square feet in size and will be printed layer-by-layer using a 20-foot tall 3D printer, then assembled on site in Dubai in just a few weeks.
All interior furniture, detailing, and structural components will also be built using 3D printing technology, a statement said.
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This week, the GE Foundation released a solutions-driven white paper, titled "The Skills Gap and the New Economy: Implications for Low-Income Students," that outlines strategic steps needed to help low-income students succeed in college and career.
a job description that could serve as a template for building innovation leadership in any school.
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Today's high school students interact with their guidance counselors an average of 38 minutes per year. Even more troubling are the profound gaps between rich and poor students' access to mentors in general: according to Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam, nearly two thirds of affluent children have some mentoring beyond their extended family, whereas nearly two thirds of low-income children do not. In order to ensure that all students know how to navigate both their high school careers and the sea of post-secondary options available, schools need to focus on filling these gaps.
There are a number of organizations emerging to tackle these shortages by using technology to expand students' access to adult supports in ways never before possible.
Chris Kobza is managing director for learning spaces at the University of Oklahoma.
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Politics isn't only about who gets elected, or the day to day "action" on Capitol Hill, it's a negotiation of power in any relationship – who has it, who can use it, and over how many other people. The Maker Movement is about sharing ideas and access to solutions with the world, not for money or power, but to make the world a better place. It's about trusting other people, many times people you don't know, to use these ideas for good.
Making in the classroom is also about power and trust, and perhaps in an even more important way, because it's about transferring power to the learner. Young people who are the ones who will take over the world in the not too distant future. And in giving the learner agency and responsibility over their own learning, they gain trust, not just the trust of the adults in the room, but trust in themselves as powerful problem-solvers and agents of change.
Flipping the classroom is about minimizing the amount of time we are spending on content delivery in the classroom so we can maximize time spent on challenging students to be active, while they collaborate and create. Video lectures are more effective for delivering content to students and can be 60-80% shorter than live lectures. So, if we are using video lectures, what should we do with all that extra class time? Challenge students to…
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Fascinating paper from 20 years ago responding to Clark's 1983 assertion that media do not influence learning under any conditions.
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This is sure to blow your students' minds (and a lot of other people's too). What a great way to start off the school year in September!
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"Whether you're practicing flipped or blended learning in your classroom, set the occasional video assignment, or have just observed that your students are part of the Netflix generation, you've likely seen what a powerful tool video can be for teaching and learning. And, while there's certainly a wealth of great educational content available online, sometimes you — and your students — will want to create your own.
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Situated in Pembroke, this hotel is within a 10-minute walk of Hamilton Ferry Dock, Albuoy's Point Park, and The Birdcage. Bermuda Historical Society Museum and Par-la-Ville Park are also within 10 minutes.
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A restaurant, an outdoor pool, and a bar/lounge are available at this hotel. Free full breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and a free area shuttle are also provided. Other amenities include a snack bar/deli, coffee/tea in the lobby, and dry cleaning.
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All 44 individually decorated rooms provide free WiFi, free wired Internet, and pillowtop beds. For a bit of entertainment, flat-screen TVs come with cable channels, and guests can also appreciate conveniences like refrigerators and coffee makers.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a snack bar/deli. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A complimentary breakfast is offered. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access.
This Pembroke hotel also offers an outdoor pool, a garden, and coffee/tea in the lobby.
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Even in this day of increasingly sophisticated electronic fuel control systems, carburetors are still often the component of choice for racers and high-performance street machine enthusiasts alike. And why not? Over the course of the past 200 years or so, carburetor technology has evolved and improved by leaps and bounds. Carbs are a known quantity, and they work. But even after all this time, there are still aspects of carburetor function and performance that are hard to control, which means there are still problems to be solved.
An ultra-high-performance engine, whether in a NASCAR, a Pro Stocker, or even a heavy-duty street machine, needs an incredible amount of fuel to do what it's supposed to do at high speeds. Unfortunately, that can leave you with a fuel meter whose float bowls flood at low speeds. And even if you use high pressure to get the fuel to the carburetor, it may not actually get in to the carburetor, thanks to the foaming and float bounce that high pressure can cause. "Everybody's got enough fuel pressure," says veteran carb tuner Dave Lange. "We just couldn't get enough into the float bowls."
Lange, who through the years has worked on everything from Stock Eliminators to Blown Alcohol cars and now works out of his own shop, Fuel Curve West, has fought these problems for years and recently came up with a solution: this integral two-stage fuel regulator valve. Lange invited us over to check out his invention and even explained how it works. The valve mounts to the carburetor like any other similar piece and also works like one at low speeds. An adjustable internal regulator runs around 1 to 2 1/2 psi of fuel pressure, which is ideal for, as Lange puts it, "puttin' around the pits, staging, and driving in cruise mode."
The regulator also features a solenoid-activated "high side," which can be triggered in a number of ways, such as a carb-mounted micro switch, an MSD-style rpm-activated switch, or even a "chipped" ignition port. Once activated, an internal diaphragm opens, allowing fuel to flow unrestricted through four orifices. At its top setting, 9 psi, Lange's valve will flow a staggering 2,600 pounds per hour (for reference, a Lear jet flows 2,180 pph). The normal pressure setting is between 4 and 6 psi; over 6 pounds, the foaming and float bounce problems return. At 3-6 pounds of pressure, however, Lange tells us that foaming is "about 70 percent gone," while still flowing 4 gallons a minute through the needles and seats. Lange even includes a set of .150 needles with each regulator. While needles this large might be hard to control with a high-pressure system, Lange tells us his high-volume, low-pressure system will "keep 'em fed without a problem."
Lange summed things up very succinctly, so we'll let him speak for himself: "You essentially have a two-stage system, so that you can have the comfort of not flooding while you're cruising. You go to the 'high' side, you've got enough fuel to feed anything." So far, most of Lange's feedback on his regulator has come from Pro Stock and Pro Stock Truck racers. Even on "real comp stuff" like these guys run, he tells us, "we only run 4-5 pounds of pressure. We don't need more, 'cause we've got a whole bunch of volume."
Of course, the first question out of the mouths of many is, "Will it help me go any faster?" The answer is, it certainly might. Lange didn't design his regulator with that in mind; he was only interested in controlling the fuel flow problems. But, given that this system allows a high volume of unaerated fuel to get into the carb, it's not surprising that the early results on performance enhancement are encouraging. One of the first shops to get one of Lange's regulators, ironically enough, was Vrbancic Bros. Racing (1463 E. Philadelphia, Dept. SC, Ontario, CA; 909/930-9980), a "competitor" of Lange's own Fuel Curve West. According to Lange, the brothers "didn't believe you could feed an engine on 4 psi; they made 1,040 horsepower with a 540ci engine running one four-barrel carb and 4 psi. They were very happy." We bet!


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Diablo III In-Depth Walkthrough | FAQ
Welcome to the world of Hell Spawn - Sanctuary; A place where doom and evil lurks around every corner and where you face evil at every step you take. Join us as we vanquish - yet again, the lord of destruction and his hellspawn. This guide documents our quest to find items and equipment of rare and great power and the will and might to face and defeat every form of evil in Sanctuary and the resilience to earn every point of XP and to pick up every coin of gold the damned world of Sanctuary has to offer throughout the four acts of the game.
We at Gamezone have taken extra care to mention the locations of all the Legendary equipment so that you can trade them in the Auction House - for real money - so follow the guide carefully and leave a comment if you want to thank us for getting rich ;P
NOTE: Enhanced version of this guide will be available soon...Walkthrough will be updated daily (we hope Blizzard can keep their servers up for more than a few hours each day...)
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El Diablo...
COMPLETE CHARACTER CLASS GUIDE (page 2)
MAIN WALKTHROUGH (Page 3)
WALKTHROUGH CONTINUED (Page 4)
The most important thing to remember while playing any game as extensive as Diablo III is that you can change your controls at will by going into the options menu - and you should do that too. That way, you'll not only remember what keys you assigned to specific actions but you will also feel that it is easier to go thru the entire game.
You will need to learn the key layout quickly since all battles and enemies in the game are relentless - although I have to say that all keys assigned are at optimal positions for any avid gamer so will not have too many problems either way. Here are the default keys -
Movement - Left Click: The Diablo franchise like many other dungeon crawler games (Baldur's gate and so on) employ a click to move system. So, just left click on any part of the ground you see on the screen to move there.
Primary Skill / Interact - Left Click: To use a skill or to talk to any other NPC or interact with objects in the world you will need to left click on them.
Secondary Skill - Right Click
Stand Still - Shift: The shift button is used to force your character to stand in one spot even if you click on the screen to make your character move. This is important in battle scneraios when you may accidentally click on the ground instead of the opponent which makes your charater to move. So use the stand still button while in combat to force your character to hold the position.
Action Bar Skills 1,2,3,4 - 1,2,3,4: The action bar skills are invoked by their corresponding numeric value.
Potion - Q: Another very important button, hit Q to use a equipped potion.
Inventory - I
Skills - S
Quests Listing - J
Journal / Notes- L
Follower Menu - F: Used to bring up the whole menu of all the followers.
Map - Tab
Banner - G
Town Portal Button - T
Zoom - Z
Show enemy health bars - V
Show Health Bars on Players - D
Show all Items on Ground - Alt
Show tooltip for item on Ground - Ctrl
DIABLO III Important Notes and Tips
Max Level - The Level Cap in Diablo III till which your Characters grow to and at which your charater will become the epitome of the class is Level 60. At level 60, The Barbarian and Wizard will unlock their last power ( other classes at 55 and 58). But you will not reach the higher levels if you play on low difficulties. Characters may advance to only 31 level if the game is done on normal difficulty. The Nightmare and Hell difficulties take up the number of levels to 50 and 60 and the Inferno difficulty should only be attempted after your character reaches level 60.
Gaining XP - Your character gains XP each time she or he kills a monster, completes a quest or discovers the lore of Sanctuary. You will also get small bonuses for fast kills and other such feats.
Health (Potions and Globes) - Obivously the most important thing in the game - who will you fight with if our Charater has no health? You can increase the total HP (Hit or Health Points) your character has by assigning points to the Vitality rating after you level up. The amount of health you gain for each point you assign will vary depending on the level of your character starting with 10 HP on level 1 and going up till 35 at 60. You can replenish your health in three ways in the game. The first is by drinking Health Potions (Q). Enemies some times drop health globes when killed. The size and number of globes dropped change with the level of the enemies - increasing in both aspects for high level monsters.
Repairs and Durability of Equipment - Apart from losing Durability from repeated usage, the weapons and armor you have equipped will lose 10% each time you get killed. You can fix up your weapons at almost all merchants in exchange for Gold.
Shrines - There are four types of shrines across the game which bless your character with a special power for 120 secs. There are -
Shrine of Enlightenment - 25% additional experience from killing enemies - this is obviously the most important kind of shrine.
Protection Shrine - Damage Taken reduced by 25%.
Frenzied Shrine - Additional 25% Attack Speed.
Fortune Shrine - Additional 25% gold and magic looted.
Equipment Quality and Color Code - Diablo III (like many other RPG's) has a color specific distribution of equipment.
White - The most common type of equipment. They are useful only in the initial stages of the game and become worthless later on only useful for the little gold they may fetch at a merchant.
Blue - Blue color is given to basic magical equipment. This type of equipment can be salvaged at any Blacksmith or sold for a higher price than white items.
Yellow - Rare items are yellow, and have a greater range of magical properties. They can be salvaged for better parts and also fetch more gold than blue items.
Orange - Legendary items are branded with Orange color. They are area and enemy specific items which are found only in certain fixed locations in the game. You can salvage them for legendary crafting materials and they fetch a lot of gold. You can consider selling these in the Auction House too for real money.
Green - Similar to Legendary Equipment but part of a set. If you have all pieces in a set you can become a very rich person in the Auction House.
Your Traveling Chest - STASH
You will come across a chest near "The Slaughtered Calf Inn" in New Tristram in the beginning of the game, which will be with you throughout the game (it travels around from act to act with a Caravan), and is directly connected to your battle.net account. All contents of this chest are uploaded to the server which maintains a log. You use the items from this chest to trade in the Auction House and also, the contents of this chest will be with your account so that you can use them in another playthrough or with another hero, if you want to play with another class. So if you find a nice set of Barbarian's armor but are playing as a Monk then you can start again as a Barbarian and use the items in this chest.
The following are the various status effects you will see in the game.
Slow: Slowed enemies of Characters will (obviously) move with a lower speed affecting their speed of attack and speed of spell casting. Basically, Slowed enemies are vulnerable to more powerful attacks which may take time to execute.
Chill: Chill is like slow but if you follow up with other elemental attacks, a chilled enemy will sustain more damage.
Rooted: Enemies which are rooted will be stuck in a location but they can still do ranged attacks and cast spells. So use rooting only on more powerful melee fighting enemies as the status is useless on spell casters and ranged fighters.
Frozen: Frozen enemies will not be able to move for a period of time or until the ice around them is melted.
Stun: Similar to Frozen but may last for a longer time.
Silenced: Silenced enemies will not be able to cast spells so this is useless on enemies who do not cast spells but is extremely effective on magic casters.
Fear: Under the state of Fear, the enemies will flee from combat.
Blind: Blinded enemies will not attack unless attacked upon.
Confused: Confused enemies may attack other enemies.
Charmed: Charmed enemies fight with you against other enemies.
And we all know that leveling up is the most important aspect of anyone's game - apart from accumulating a ludicrous amount of Gold and collecting Rare Equipment.
With each new level, your character gains a fixed number of points to their core stats - Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence and Vitality. Depending on your class, the amount given differs but we have no control over the distribution. You will also be able to unlock new skill slots or action bar slots at specified levels.
Also, certain rare or powerful equipment can be used by your character only if she pr he reaches the level specified on that piece of equipment.
New Skills and Skill slots are unlocked at various levels of your character. All characters have their Skill Slots distributed as - Primary, Secondary, Defensive and 3 class-specific categories. These are the default set for which the controls key configuration is set. But you can organize all of these by yourself and according to your wish if you choose the "Elective Mode" from your options menu.
More information on Skills pertaining to each class is written separately for the classes below.
Strength: This is the core attribute of the Barbarian. As the strength increases, the attack powers of the Barbarian increases and an increased strength is needed to equip better armor for all classes.
Dexterity: This is the core attribute of the Demon Hunter and Monk classes. Increase in Dexterity results in increased damage done by all Monk and Demon Hunters. All Classes depend on Dexterity for increased Dodge chances.
Intelligence : This is the core attribute for Wizards and Witch Doctors. Damage dealt by Wizards and Witch Doctors increase with increase in Intelligence and all classes depend on Intelligence for greater resistance scores.
Vitality: A Core attribute to all classes - this attribute is directly connected to the HP of the character.
Armour: Your armor rating increases with the use of better armor, gems and also passive skills.
Damage per Second: This shows the amount of damage your character can deal per second and is dependent on various factors.
There are additional parts to each core attribute, the following is an explanation of some of the most important ones.
Critical Hit - Critical Hits deal additional damage to a target. The chance to make a critical hit and also the damage dealt can be improved with various items in the game.
Dodge and Block - You can only Block when your character is equipped with a shield. But still, your character will need to undergo a successful chance to be able to block. Both the chance and amount of damage blocked can be improved. Dodge is for specific classes like the Monk and Witch Doctor who depend on Dexterity as their core attribute. A successful Dodge will negate full damage from the enemy.
Resistances - There are five types of resistances in the game to Arcane, Fire, Cold, Lightning and finally Poison.
Resource - Each class has a specific resource like the Barbarian's Fury. Depending on the Class, the amount and the regeneration speed of the resource will increase as your character levels up by the use of certain skills.
Movement Speed - This can be increased by the usage of certain items and skills.
Gold/Magic Finding chance - Certain equipment and Skills will improve the hero's chance of finding rare items which will be dropped by slain enemies and also the amount of gold you find.
HELP FOR HIRE - FOLLOWERS (more soon...)
The level of the Follower you hire will be one below your own level. According to their level, their powers and intervention in battle increases.
Meet during: Reign of Black King in Act 1
Ability : Single handed weapons and Shield
Level 5 - Heal once for a random value (cooldown - 30 secs)
Level 10 - Regenerate a random amount of life per second
Level 5 - Intervene (Taunt)
Level 10 - Intimidate (Slow enemies)
Level 15 - Charge (Stun Multiple enemies)
Level 15 - Onslaught (Deal 200% damage to single enemy)
Level 20 - Guardian (Knock back enemies nearby the Hero and heal a random amount)
Special: Level 20 - Inspire (increase varying amount of resource generation for all classes)
Meet During: The Sword of the Stranger in Act 1
Ability: Ranged Combat
Level 5 - Crippling Shot (Slow Target)
Level 5 - Poison Bolts
Level 15 - Powered Shot (Arcane Damage and Stun)
Level 15 - Multishot (3 bolts per shot)
Level 10 - Dirty Fighting (blind enemies)
Level 10 - Vanish
Level 20 - Hysteria (Increased damage after a critical hit for 3 secs)
Level 20 - Anatomy (improved critical hit chance to Scoundrel and you)
Meet During: Beneath the Burning Sands in Act 2
Ability: Weilds all weapons and has Magical abilities
Level 15 - Charm (read status effects above)
Level 25 - Disorient (Confuse)
Level 30 - Mass Control (Similar to Stun)
Level 15 - Forceful Push (Deal Arcane Damage and knock back)
Level 20 - Reflect Missiles
Level 20 - Powered Armour (Increase armour rating)
Level 25 - Erosion (Enemeis take additional damage)
Level 30 - Focused Mind (Increase attack speed of Enchantress and Ally)


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Jones was going into this fight as a classy fighter. I wish he would of waited until he defended his title at least once. Refrence argue with someone stuip and people loose track of who;s stuiped. Take the high road Jones be diffrent
Jones was going into this fight as a classy fighter. I wish he would of waited until he defended his title at least once. Refrence argue with someone stuip and people loose track of who;s stuiped. Take the high road Jones be diffrent
Am i one of the only ones who think Rashad got more of a chance then people seem to be giving him? I mean we kno what rashads gameplan will be right? What if he is able to takedown jones, Will jones cardio hold up? He looked tired in the shogun fight and we kno shogun did notta to him. All im saying is everyone is talking about jones like hes the best thing in the sport right now, he hasnt even defended his title yet and has only beat one guy in the top 10 and hes the best? Im pulling for rashad in this fight as i have seen jones go from humble to letting the hype get to him. First signing as champion before he even won the belt, and then bring out stuff the apparenty happened in the gym. What happens in the gym suppose to stay in gym. I think hes up on a pedistal and needs to come back down to earth. WAR Suga
But by the same token, I'm not even writing off Shogun in a rematch. Shogun was put on survival mode with the knee in the first round...on another night, in another fight, it could go entirely different.
The problem I have with MMA fans is that they assume that because something happened once it's a given to happen through all variables in every situation.
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Rashad will go into this fight with the most detailed knowledge of Bones' strengths and weaknesses of any opponent Bones has ever faced, and that could be a major factor in this fight. If Rashad can use that knowledge to his advantage he could expose a weakness in Bones that none of us fans have seen yet, and springboard off of that to victory.
It has to be said however that Bones (and especially his trainers) also have intimate knowledge of Rashad's strengths and weaknesses, and are also in a position to exploit them.
I won't be counting Rashad out, although he is probably the deserved underdog coming in. Still, if he can land that concussive right hand of his flush on the chin, Bones will go to sleep.
This is all a planned angle and imo cheap heat. Anyone that believes it is a mark. As pointed out earlier, it happened too fast. First they were not fighting each other, next dana doesnt like that, then rashad leaves the camp, now they are hyping a fight bc if theyre going to do it they want to get paid. Theyre going to hug at the end, and have a laugh about it backstage while dana makes all the real money off this.
That being said, rashad is going to take jones down and hold him there the same way he did rampage. Jones best shot is a knee when rashad comes in or some elbows from the top guard. He might be able to distance himself to avoid takedowns but rashad is very quick and the cage isnt big enough to do too much avoiding. The x-factor imo is rashads takedown defense. I dont think rashad is going to try to stand with jones.
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