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TheForgivenOne wrote:Okay, to get the ball rolling again. For this thread, people have been suggesting that:
A) 30~ Second wait before a Speed Game will start.
B) 12 Hour wait for all FOW Games.
C) 12 Wait on all Clan Games.
Okay, i can already see the problems with option B. It would hurt more freemium members then it would help. So I think that can be stricken from the record. A Obviously helps a lot of Freestyle players, who may be roaming in the Forums waiting for their game to start, then get the disadvantage when it does. C i am a little sketchy on, as it can help with strategy purposes.
drunkmonkey wrote:I honestly wonder why anyone becomes a mod on this site. You're the whiniest bunch of players imaginable.
Ron Burgundy wrote:Why don't you go back to your home on Whore Island?
patrickaa317 wrote:Hate to be that guy but if you don't like it, then don't play it.
skychaser wrote:Just to say it plainly, there's abosolutely NO strategy at freestyle.
mr. CD wrote:I'm going to say something crazy here:
What if... both people would try to get the victory objective?
But... but... that'd mean they have a conflict and they'd have to, they'd have to... fall back on strategy to make sure they get it. NOOOOOOOOO!
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Mrs. Heckman's five-year-old students are one step closer to completing their preschool. Both the morning and afternoon classes made a trip to the Kane Elementary School where they participated in a tour of the many rooms they would encounter when entering kindergarten this fall.Â
The four-year-old classes at the Kane Day School, located at the Tabor Lutheran Church, got to visit with their upcoming kindergarten teachers. The teachers along with Mrs. Wolfe, Reading Specialist, visited the classes to administer the Phelps Kindergarten Readiness Scale Test to children. The teachers took time to initiate conversations with the children shortly after the arrived at school. Then Mrs. Tunnal and Mrs. Feikls left to visit and test the children at another preschool. Mrs. Wolfe, Mrs. Pusateri, Mrs. Lorenzo, and Mrs.
These are the 2013 officers for the Auxiliary for the Kane Volunteer Fire Department. Officers include, left to right: Brenda O'Rourke, vice president; Toni Kane, chaplain; Esther Kelley, president; and Karen Smith, secretary. Angela Wheatley, treasurer, was not present when the photo was taken.
Pennsylvania American Water, which serves Kane, has made a $500 donation to the Kane Volunteer Fire Department. Tim Mague (left), the field operations supervisor for the Pennsylvania American Water Kane District, presents the donation to Tim Holt (right), chief of the Kane Fire Department. Pennsylvania American Water since 2009 has contributed about $140,000 to assist fire departments in its service areas. In making the donations, the company praises the fire departments for "your hard work, dedication and invaluable service to provide fire protection to our communities."
Pictured from right to left are Brock Wensel (kindergarten), Mitchell Morgan (1st grade), Jayna Johnson (2nd grade), Hailey Tuttle (3rd grade), Mason Zuzek (4th grade), and Braden Doughery (5th grade). Each month the Kane Elementary School is holding a prize drawing for students who complete their read and respond homework. For every week of completed read and respond homework students receive a ticket and chance to win the drawing. The drawing is sponsored by area restaurants that have generously donated certificates for each grade level winner. This month's reward comes from the Colonial.
Dawson Glogau, a second grade student in Mrs. Paula Mosier's class, was inducted into the prestigious AR 100 Club at Kane's elementary school recently. It is certainly understandable why he has had such reading success... he loves his SFA reading class at school. In his spare time, Dawson enjoys playing with his black lab, Abby. Dawson is the son of Heather and Rich Glogau of Kane.
These are the students-of-the-month for March at the Kane Elementary School. The honored students are holding certificates presented by the Kane Elks Lodge. The students include, left to right: 5th grade-- Kelly Eschrich; 4th grade-- Morgan Witherell; 3rd grade-- Zachary Rush; 2nd grade-- Abigail Port; 1st grade-- Raeann Raught; and kindergarten--Isabella Smith.
Second-grader Branden Bentley is the latest student at the Kane Area Elementary School to achieve Accelerated Club 100 status. He poses with the 100th book he read and tested on, "Dogzilla" by Dav Pilkey. In an interview at the school, Branden shared that he really likes fantasy books. Although he is making great success in his reading, he loves playing with friends at recess or playing TV games, as well as eating his favorite dark chocolate cake.
This is the Board of Trustees for the Kane Volunteer Fire Department. The group includes, left to right: Jim Greville, Dave Silvis, Brian Nelson, Zach Holt, Mike Detsch and Matt Rich. Missing from the photo are Leo "Jerry" Geibel, Bill Horton and Tim Lehman (head trustee).
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Derrek Lee: Dangerous Inside, But Elsewhere..
Growing tired of Lyle Overbay's punchless hitting, the Pirates picked up Derrek Lee from the Orioles on Saturday for minor league first baseman Aaron Baker. While Lee is in the midst of his worst offensive season since he was in his early twenties (.246/.302/.404), he's still an upgrade on Overbay (.227/.300/.349) and ZiPS, a major league projection system, suggests that Lee could improve the Pirates' offense by three to five runs the rest of the way. It's hardly a division-altering move, but the price was low and every little bit of offensive improvement helps.
One reason that Lee has struggled in 2011 is that he's flailing at the plate unless he gets something thrown inside. First, look at where pitchers are spotting their stuff versus Lee:
Pitches have thrown to the outside corner about 45 percent of the time against Lee, and about 26 percent down the middle. Now, look at Lee's in-play slugging percentage by pitch location:
He's killing inside pitches, but he's ice-cold for the most part on middle and away stuff. Lee's Weighted On-Base Average (wOBA) versus inside pitches is .416, way above the .339 league average. But his wOBA on middle pitches is .241 (.337 average), and he's got a .278 wOBA against pitches on the outer third (.286 average).
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Greg Zoetmulder's Evil CJ-7
The title says it all. You're looking at the world's quickest street-driven Jeep. With a quarter-mile time of 8.87 seconds at 151 mph, Greg Zoetmulder's supercharged CJ-7 is a screaming example of horsepower's ability to overcome absolute aerodynamic inefficiency. Not only does the small-block Chevy 400 pull enough snort to send a brick down the 1,320 in less than 9 seconds, but with the exception of the fiberglass hood and fenders, the body is all steel, the lights all work, it still uses the stock Jeep leaf springs, and the open cockpit effectively creates enough drag that Greg may as well have a parachute following him down the track. The fact that it can muster less than a 12-second time is good-a sub-9-second pass is just flat-out amazing.
As stated above, Greg's '80 CJ-7 essentially sits on the original suspension. The stock front and rear leaf springs have been de-arched by Spring Alliance in Palitine, Illinois, to lower the ride height. Even the shocks are the factory pieces. Out back, a set of slapper traction bars put the snubbers to the forward spring eyes when the slicks hook, keeping pinion climb down and increasing tire bite. The factory CJ-7 frame has been marginally reinforced and benefits from a little stiffening, thanks to the front- and mid-engine plates that solid-mount the engine to the chassis, but otherwise, it's just as it left the factory.
Up on the front frame horn, a factory manual-steering box puts the turn to stock Dana 30 knuckles. The centersection was cut out, converting the rest of the Dana 30 to a full-tube front axle. That's right, folks, this Jeep is for haulin'-not crawlin'. Other sanctioned items for the track include the use of a driveshaft loop in case of U-joint failure, a tranny shield, and a set of genuine, no-foolin' wheelie bars out back.
Let's just get right to the meat of the matter. It takes a lot of reliable, repeatable horsepower to do what Greg does with this Jeep. While nitrous used to be the weapon of choice, Greg has since ditched the funny gas in favor of a ProCharger F2 centrifugal supercharger with an air-to-air intercooler. To keep an engine alive with such a brutal induction system, a bunch of stout parts went into building the engine.
For starters, Anthony Schroeder of Automotive Engine Specialties (AES) in Elk Grove, Illinois, took a Dart Iron Eagle 4-bolt block and filled it with a billet crank, 6-inch Crower billet rods, and Forged CP pistons with Hellfire rings to bring the compression to a blower-friendly 8.0:1. A set of fully CNC-ported Dart Pro-1 220 heads received 2.10 intake and 1.60 exhaust valves and were topped with an Edelbrock Super Victor high-rise manifold. A Cam Motion solid roller camshaft with 260 intake and 272 intake duration at 0.050-inch lift and 0.629 intake and 0.640 exhaust lift moves a massive volume of air.
To top off all this intricate engine work, a Carburetor Solutions Unlimited (CSU) 1,000-cfm carb specially designed for blow-through boosted applications was fitted to the intake. Along with the cog-belted F2 blower, a ProCharger race blowout valve was fitted to the intake plumbing and ensures the engine and Precision Turbo 1,200hp intercooler won't be overboosted. The fuel system is a full tilt MagnaFuel ProStar 500 with a boost-referenced regulator-that means as the boost increases, so does the fuel supply. A set of 171/48-inch primary tube Kooks headers feeding into4-inch collector mufflers and side pipes shatter eardrums.
Backing the brutal engine is a TH400 built by DRC Performance Transmissions in Elk Grove, Illinois. The tranny employs a Precision Industries 3,800-rpm stall converter, a Hibsters transmission brake, and a huge TCI cooler. A B&M ProShifter toggles the gears.
Moving backward, a 3.5-inch-diameter driveshaft connects to a fully braced Motive Gear Ford 9-inch. The Strange Engineering centersection is loaded with 3.73 gears, a spool, and 31-spline Moser axleshafts. Wilwood four-piston calipers are juiced by the stock manual master cylinder and pull the Jeep down from speed without locking thanks to a Wilwood proportioning valve.
A set of Weld Drag Lites 15x5 front and 15x10 rear hold the Mickey Thompson tires. In case you're wondering, the rears are 28x10.5 and don't rub anywhere.


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lloydfire Posts: 1So my power steering has been making noises the last few weeks when i turn to the left. Well this am i was heading to work and it was cold out side and it mad a loud squeaking noise and then after i made my third turn this morning i noticed the my break light and battery light came on on the dash board, I also smelled like a burning smell and i had no power steering. any thoughts?? thanks
Sounds like it could be the steering rack, which is a serious problem. This is what happened to my Impreza wagon at only 7K miles.
Initially with power steering problems, you will only hear noise (and shaking) when the car is cold, and when you turn to extremes. Later, more stuff happens more often.
If you've lost power steering, and lights are on, this really sounds like an urgent situation. It might be unsafe to even drive the car. I ended up getting my car towed using the Subaru 24 hour roadside assist to the closest dealer. It was easy. No hassle, no problem, no charge.
[I had waited until my car was un-driveable because I kept thinking it was 1) my imagination, or 2) I'd take it to the dealer and they would say #1]
One quick thing you can check is the power steering fluid level, if you're able. My car had no fluid left after the rack had broken.
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The colors used on our Cayman dinnerware is reminiscent of the Caribbean Sea. Softened by the sun, muted shades of brown and turquoise appear like chiseled stones around the edges of this stoneware dinnerware set. Due to the nature of reactive glaze, each piece of this handcrafted collection will exhibit unique variations in color and pattern. Microwave and dishwasher safe. A dinner table basic. Even if you don't use cream or sugar, a serving set like this can be used for gravy and sauces or condiments like grated cheese or chives. Sugar bowl holds 10 oz. (4-1/2 inch long x 4 inch wide x 3-3/4 inch high) and creamer holds 14 oz. (5-3/4 inch long x 3-1/4 inch wide x 4-1/4 inch high)


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Looking for a way to introduce your kids to the joy of fishing? This easy-to-use Zebco SpongeBob Squarepants™ rod and reel combo is sure to get them hooked. The combo includes a 30'', one-piece rod with a spincast reel specifically designed to fit small hands. The ''Bob rod'' combo floats just in case an anxious young angler accidentally drops it in the water.
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Rated 4 out of 5 by msteudel Great for small kids I bought this for my daughters 3yr birthday. She's on the small size (10th percentile in most things), so the short rod length helps her easily manage the rod. It took her about 15 - 20 minutes to get the hang of casting. Now she can cast it 10 - 12 ft all by herself. Yeah it's not the best reel in the whole world. It does tangle some, but is very easy to untangle. The rod itself seems quite durable. I do dislike that you can't get one of these without some sort of commercial branding on it ... but oh well, eventually we'll get out of these sorts of rods. June 13, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by WildBillVMI Great fun I don't know why people don't enjoy using this pole with their kids. My daughter and I bought this on a whim because it was funny and we wanted to show everyone you don't need high speed gear to catch fish. We caught a ton of fish on this and the thing worked just fine. We even caught a few 2 lb bass out of the lake I used to fish. No, its not an amazing drag or super smooth action but the thing works! Change the line to PLine as I do with all spincast reels and you won't have any trouble. Now my 2 year old loves it and uses it as a broom, sword, you name it! NEARLY INDESTRUCTIBLE! May 10, 2011
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James Paul Gee on Learning with Video Games (Transcript)
James: Digital media, video games in particular, work just like we know books work. You know, it's all the stuff that you know about literacy is true of digital media.
One thing that a lotta people who are not into games are not aware of is that today, in the way that people game socially is, the game is not the only thing at stake, right? And if you're gonna contemplate the possible use of games or digital media for learning about learning, you really have to say, "Wait a minute, don't just look at the game. There's more going on." Now, so I'm gonna show you what it is.
All right, this is World of Warcraft, 15 million people. This is the most played multiplayer game now in the world. It's a role playing game that has some interesting properties. Role playing means you have to play this with other people. You don't have to, but you do play this with other people. The basic unit is five people. Now in each of the five people, each one has to have a deep skill set, which they've chosen to specialize in those skills, and it has to be different than the other four. So you cannot bring in to the so called dungeons, that is, where you're going to go play and do challenges and fight-- you can't bring in five people with the same skill set. The problems are designed that they're hard, and they can only be solved if you integrate five different skill sets. See, so I was a priest, a healer. You bring in five priests to a dungeon and you die in two seconds, right? So the idea, first of all, is each person must be deeply skilled in one skill set, but has to understand the big picture, so they can integrate their skill set with the very different skill sets of the other people. Now why is this interesting? Because in the world of high tech work, this is called a cross functional team. If you go look at the new capitalism and high tech workplaces, they're almost all organized in cross functional teams, which means every member of the team has to be an absolute expert, but able to understand everybody else's role so they can integrate with it, and even replace them if they're gone. Now in work, this is considered extremely high stress. Then you go home to play World of Warcraft to do it again.
Portal is a game where you use a portal gun to make an orange or blue portal. And if you go in one, you come out the other, and they obey a whole bunch of the laws of physics, for this world, its own physical laws.
So this is a game that is essentially playing with a certain physics, and it's very interesting, problem solving, and it's a lot of fun.
And people could say, "Well, surely this is good for tacit understanding, kind of an embodied understanding," but it doesn't mean you can say any physics, right? And you know, as educators, say, "Well, you can't articulate your physics, so what good is it?" What those people are missing is that games today are only half the picture, because what happens in any game that people get passionate about is they play the game and then they get interested in going on an internet site, which I will call an affinity space, I'll tell you why, and discussing that game, modifying the game, researching it, and explicating everything about it, right?
And so, you get stuff, the first portal, like this. This is a group of people who play Portal who decided to make a Wiki to explicate all the physics in it. There are links, like in momentum, to actual physical definitions and physics textbooks and physics articles.
So now you see, whoa, far from there being no articulation and language of the knowledge being developed in the game, there's a whole community devoted to doing just that.
These games give rise to these people that get on the internet and begin to use quite technical, specialist language, like you just saw, right?
That is not vernacular English, right? You wouldn't talk that way at the dinner table. It's what people call academic language, or what I will call specialist language. Now this is the only piece of true gobbledygook I have in this talk and it's sad, but this is the way psychologists write. It's why they don't have friends. But yet the point is just really crucial. This is from a body of research that's now about twenty years old that shows that when human beings understand anything, whether it's a text or the world, they understand it not by abstract generalities, but by literally being able to run in their head a simulation of images and actions and experiences that the words refer to. And it turns out, and every teacher here is gonna say, "I could have told you that," when a human being is doing that is when they are thinking, because they have to get ready to take an action that they want to take, and they want that action to succeed, they think really well. But when you ask them to think about stuff, but there's no action they're gonna take, and they don't really care what the outcome is, they think very poorly.
You see, in American law, there's a very interesting legal principle that is completely wrong, called opportunity to learn. Courts have ruled, two kids had the same opportunity to learn if they got the same book. But in fact, I'm saying that if one kid has ten thousand hours of experience with the stuff the book's about, like ten thousand hours of playing Portal-- that's what the language is about-- that kid has a much better opportunity to learn than the kid that has fourteen minutes or seconds, right? That opportunity to learn is not the book. It's whether you can bring experience to the book.
When I first started to play video games, I was brand new, I was in my fifties and I was shocked at how hard they were. And like any good baby boomer, I said, "Okay, I can handle this. I'll read the manual first," and I sat down to read this little twenty page book. And the twenty page book had one hundred and ninety-nine bolded headings, each cross referenced to the other hundred and ninety-eight that were technical definitions. But I did what every kid would do, I went and played the game for hours, terribly. And then the weirdest thing happened to me. I picked this book up right there and I could no longer recover why that wasn't crystal clear. I couldn't even recover it anymore, because I have seen in the game, an image, an action, an experience, a goal, a dialog, that fit those words. See, these words are about a world, and if you haven't lived in that world, and you can't see it in your mind, these are just words. You can look them up in a dictionary, which is completely useless.
And it struck me at that day that the key problem of our schools, more now with No Child Left Behind, is it's full of manuals without the games. We have handed kids all the manuals without the games. And imagine, now if you did that to gamers, there'd be a revolution.
There isn't any such thing as technical, hard language. There's only language you don't know because you didn't live in its world, you didn't play its game. Therefore, in theory, we could level the playing field for the first time in American education if we brought the games to the manuals, and I don't mean a video game. If we brought the activities, the problem solving, the living in the worlds of chemistry and algebra, with making kids want to do things with them. That is, to see them as tools, to surmise new possibilities, that's the game. And if we brought those to school, they'd like it as well as Portal.
- Producer: Zachary Fink
- Camera / Editor: Hervé Cohen
- Associate Producer: Douglas Keely
- Video Programming Producer: Amy Erin Borovoy
© 2012 | The George Lucas Educational Foundation | All rights reserved.
© 2012 | The George Lucas Educational Foundation | All Rights Reserved
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Gee hit the bullseye!
Dr. Gee is pure genius in this video regarding project-based learning and games. As a gamer/educator for the past 20+ years, and World of Warcraft (WoW) player for the past 2 years, I am confident that we need to bring the games (subjects in schools) to the manuals (textbooks) in creative and exciting ways. Students need to be deeply engaged in their learning; also, learning should be hard work and rewarding.
This is what users (adults and kids) experience and expect when they play a game like WoW. Chew on this information regarding "priest" (Dr. Gee mentions his priest skillset in the video) healing statistics from a WoW website that supports the game:
"A very interesting thing happens when you reach one of these extra tick points: the duration of your damage- or healing-over-time spells increases from its hastened duration back to its natural duration. This is important to note because while the ticks are still ticking at roughly the same frequency as they were prior to hitting one of these points, and thus doing roughly the same DPS, they are now doing it for a slightly longer time. That extra time allows for you to insert other damage-dealing abilites such as Mind Flay (which aside from being our nuke is also behaves as a DoT benefiting from haste).
There are several formulas which are important to note, one calculates cast speed and another calculates the haste rating required for additional ticks.
To calculate the hastened cast time of a spell, use the following formula:
New_Cast_Time = Normal_Cast_Time / ((1 + (Haste_Rating / 12805)) * Shadow_Form * Darkness)
Where Shadow_Form = 1.05 and Darkness = 1.03
Example, if we take Mind Blast with a 1.5 second Normal_Cast_Time and a 950 Haste_Rating, we will get the following:
New_Cast_Time = 1.5 / ((1 + (950 / 12805)) * 1.05 * 1.03) = 1.291 sec"
Reference: http://elitistjerks.com/f77/t124358-shadow_priest_pve_guide_4_3_updated/
Accessed: 3/22/11
Sounds like information you would read in a textbook doesn't it? This "academic language" makes no sense unless you play the game, WoW, and apply the information over and over again. Looks like learning to me.
Fifteen million subscribers pay to play WoW, because it is hard, technical, immersive, and fun. Also, you get to work on projects (kill a boss in an instance) with other group members who possess different skill sets. If you don't know your skill set well enough in WoW, your group members are able to "kick" you out of the group. Learning quickly is serious business in WoW. Your virtual life depends on it. LOL