There were four packs respectively containing 25, 50, 150 and 500 superpowers. We increased the biggest power pack from 500 to infinity. Practically, nothing changed. 500 superpowers were more than enough for the entire game, and very few users had spent all of it. However, after the change was made, the revenue from this pack grew by 50%

I decided to compare how those who got it for free and those paid for it went through the levels in the game. There was a hypothesis that those who got it for “free” should stop using the game faster and sooner than those who paid for it. The hypothesis turned out to be wrong. The users of both the free and the paid version had identical behavior in the first 40 levels However, after level 40, the “free” players started quitting the game much faster. I interpreted this as those who received the game for free appreciated it less, so their motivation to go till the end or return to it after a couple of days was less

If you want to change the rules of the game in a field that you are about to enter, try to portray your product as something new and different. Doing so will enable you to set the rules of the game from scratch and be the first one to establish the anchor. And when you install the anchor, do not lower the price; there will still be time for that (making a discount always sounds better than raising the price)

The second wave of Reali-TV programming, ushered in by the ratings success of the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' in 1999 and Sur-vivor in 2000,

he second wave of Reali-TV programming, ushered in by the ratings success of the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' in 1999 and Sur-vivor in 2000

At the capital arose a similar problem for the Han ruler: how toavoid domination of the court by the family of an empress. When a Hanemperor died, power resided in his widow, the empress dowager, to ap-point her husband’s successor from the Liu clan (the clan of the Han em-perors). She might appoint a minor of the Liu clan as emperor, and astrong-man regent of her own clan to rule for him. Half a dozen familiesof empresses played this game. An emperor, however, could rely withinthe palace on the staff of eunuchs, whose castration fitted them to lookafter the women selected for the emperor’s harem. There, by having sev-eral sons, the emperor hoped to find one worth selecting as his successor.Eunuchs, being entirely dependent on a young emperor as his servantsand companions, might be his only reliable supporters against an em-press’s family. The palace was a center of intrigue.

By 1955, Richard had scored more goals, 422, than anyone in the history of the NHL — 98 more than the next guy on the list. He had become the only player to score 50 goals in the 50-game season. He held the record for most goals in a playoff game, with five. Not only did he score often, he scored meaningful goals, when his team needed them the most, the game-winners in a record eight playoff games and more than 60 regular-season games.

“Because I always try so hard to win and had my troubles in Boston, I was suspended. At playoff time, it hurts not to be in the game with the boys.

sports can mean so much more than a game.

They shattered display windows and carried away what they could. They crashed windows of banks and the post office. They terrified patrons of a restaurant and bar with the objects they flung through windows.

No longer distracted by their team’s losing effort on the ice, disgruntled patrons turned their attention to Campbell, and the deluge in his direction intensified.

Yet if he did not go, he feared people would see him as a coward, his own pride trumping common sense.

Not surprising, then, that a French paper published a cartoon of Campbell’s bloody head on a platter with the caption, “This is how we would like to see him.”

. During 18 seasons total, he was assessed 1,285 minutes in penalties.

ot only did he score often, he scored meaningful goals, when his team needed them the most, the game-winners in a record eight playoff games and more than 60 regular-season games.

ichard averaged a goal a game, playing in all 50 games, and the legend took root.

y. I am John Smith, the one who created this world. I was obsessed with computers from a young age and constantly fiddled with them. I had never truly fit in with the people around me, so I always wanted to find out a way to do so. As I grew older

tutorial bot, the dungeon master, and the sorting hat.

For a second, he thought he saw that her eyes might have been pixellated but as she opened them fully he saw that they looked normal.“Just a loading bug or something

My skin is perfect though and I no longer have that strange bump from when I broke my wrist

technology Eve created

Chapter 3

it had a light scent of air freshener

dark

“Well, that was quite a day.” Adam says, “I’ll see you guys tomorrow.”

his hands. 

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ADAM!

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signs of its old age

The melee, which forced the game to be suspended, ushered in arevolution

diva's entrance

French-speaking Quebecois listening to the game on the radio

"Charity has been the function of the church. Now it's the team who is taking charge of the social life, visiting children in hospitals, inviting children to see a game or giving money to charity…

Students in the class might have some fun with a pastoral activity Bauer plans to assign. "Maybe invite Guy Carbonneau to speak at your church, or maybe you can create a hockey team in your church. Maybe organize a hockey tournament with different ethnic or religious communities," he said. Topics will change each week. Students will find themselves examining religious metaphors, behaviours and ethics, and drawing links between them and the Habs. Certain religious behaviours, like praying, surround the Canadiens, Bauer pointed out. "The fans, they pray for two things. The first is that the Canadiens will win. The second thing is that they pray for the Canadiens to crush the Maple Leafs, but I think you don't need any God for that," he said with a laugh. Another example of religious behaviour is an expectation of sacrifice, Bauer said. "You know, you have to suffer if you want to win. Jesus had to die and resurrect. That's the kind of thing we expect from our players. You must be ready to suffer in order to win or earn us some victory. You must risk everything and sweat and fight or be knocked out," he said. Other parallels can be taken from various media, Bauer said. Newspapers, for instance, have called Patrick Roy St. Patrick, and referred to Carey Price as Jesus Price. Ethics also offers an interesting study topic. "Charity has been the function of the church. Now it's the team who is taking charge of the social life, visiting children in hospitals, inviting children to see a game or giving money to charity… Does that mean they have kind of a religious role?" he asked. "I hope [people] will be moved by what I teach them," he said. Bauer, who is from Switzerland, has lived in France, French Polynesia and Washington, and said discovering sport has been a way to discover society. "Sport is part of culture and a good way to learn about another country… To discover why people are so passionate about it, it's like, 'Tell me what your sport is and I'll tell you who you are,' " he said.CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices|About CBC SportsSend FeedbackRelated Stories Montreal Forum: An event not to be missed Memories of Red, white and blue BLOG: Elliotte Friedman: Patrick Roy nearly left Montreal in a much different way Roy welcomed back to Montreal Roy, religion and the HabsPopular Now1BreakingHomegrown hero Andrew Harris helps Blue Bombers end 29-year Grey Cup drought2LiveWatch the World Curling Tour: Ashley

… When you have a lot of people passionate about hockey, and not about religion, it's interesting to see people's reactions to the question," she said. "If they can make connections between religion and sport, it helps get people involved; there will be a lot of diversity." In Bauer's class, students will compare and contrast the Montreal Canadiens and other religions. Bauer said he might demonstrate his neutrality on the subject by lecturing in a referee jersey. He knows the class will attract students who are unfamiliar with religious studies and says that's okay. He noted, however, it's still an academic course. "We don't just want to look at some games and drink beers. You have to work, but even if you're not a theologian student you can follow the class," he said, adding that those who don't believe the team is a religion can still earn high marks. Course assignments include studying media coverage of the Canadiens, reading chapters from the book La religion du Canadien de Montréal (co-edited by Bauer and Jean-Marc Barreau), and writing essays. Bauer's book has six chapters, one of which was written by Benoît Melançon, author of the book Les Yeux de Maurice Richard (The Eyes of Maurice Richard, which will be published in English in April 2009 as The Rocket: A Cultural History of Maurice Richard). Melançon said he's pleased that Bauer is bringing attention to the topic. "[Bauer] has really touched something deep in Quebec society, something that is so obvious nobody has taken the time to mention it," he said. "It really strikes something, and it's really fun too. Serious, but with some humour." Students in the class might have some fun with a pastoral activity Bauer plans to assign. "Maybe invite Guy Carbonneau to speak at your church, or maybe you can create a hockey team in your church. Maybe organize a hockey tournament with different ethnic or religious communities," he said. Topics will change each week. Students will find themselves examining religious metaphors, behaviours and ethics, and drawing links between them and the Habs. Certain religious behaviours, like praying, surround the Canadiens, Bauer pointed out. "The fans, they pray for two things. The first is that the Canadiens will win. The second thing is that they pray for the Canadiens to crush the Maple Leafs, but I think you don't need any God for that," he said with a laugh. Another example of religious behaviour is an expectation of sacrifice, Bauer said. "You know, you have to suffer if you want to win. Jesus had to die and resurrect. That's the kind of thing we expect from our players. You must be ready to suffer in order to win or earn us some victory. You must risk everything and sweat and fight or be knocked out," he said. Other parallels can be taken from various media, Bauer said. Newspapers, for instance, have called Patrick Roy St. Patrick, and referred to Carey Price as Jesus Price. Ethics also offers an interesting study topic. "Charity has been the function of the church. Now it's the team who is taking charge of the social life, visiting children in hospitals, inviting children to see a game or giving money to charity… Does that mean they have kind of a religious role?" he asked. "I hope [people] will be moved by what I teach them," he said. Bauer, who is from Switzerland, has lived in France, French Polynesia and Washington, and said discovering sport has been a way to discover society. "Sport is part of culture and a good way to learn about another country… To discover why people are so passionate about it, it's like, 'Tell me what your sport is and I'll tell you who you are,' " he said.CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices|About CBC SportsSend FeedbackRelated Stories Montreal Forum: An event not to be missed Memories of Red, white and blue BLOG: Elliotte Friedman: Patrick Roy nearly left Montreal in a much different way Roy welcomed back to Montreal Roy, religion and the HabsPopular Now1BreakingHomegrown hero Andrew Harris helps Blue Bombers end 29-year Grey Cup drought2Live

hare the exact same problem set?

These experiments such as stem cell research and human genetic engineering will harm test subjects, but will result in saving millions of more lives.

he showed up to the game (10 minutes late) with his secretary (future wife) and took his regular place.

She changed her life course just so he could be satisfied. Flanagan and Nissenbaum describe values as "properties of things and states of affairs that we care about and strive to obtain." (5)

Does the technology allow students to focus on the task of the assignment or activity with little potential distraction? Does the technology motivate students to start the learning process? Does the technology cause a shift in the behavior of the students, where they move from passive to active social learners? Does the technology tool aid students in developing or demonstrating a more sophisticated understanding of the content, creating opportunities for creation/production over consumption? Does the technology create scaffolds to make it easier to understand concepts or ideas? Does the technology create paths for students to demonstrate their understanding of the learning goals in a way that they could not do with traditional tools? Does the technology create opportunities for students to learn outside of their typical school day? Does the technology create a bridge between school learning and everyday life experiences? Does the technology allow students to build skills that they can use in their everyday lives?

We played until 3 A. M. I won forty-six dollars. (I usually do win … I guess over a period of six months or so I’m about five-hundred bucks ahead of the game. Which is why I like to play over at Joe’s, even though I am always so damned tired when I leave. Guess I’m not as young as I was.)

“I have suffered, more than I can ever describe. But seeing you again, and the prospect of spending the rest of my life with you, has more than compensated for my sorrows. Even during the twenty years we were apart I found an ironic joy in learning of your progress in college, and in your American game of football.”

they make the places they live and work more productive

Game Makers will most likely punish her harshly.

Trying to convince the Game Makers I failed each requirement will be difficult. For the first task, I decide to eat a non-food item. Maybe by the Game Makers seeing that did not eat food, then I was unable to find a food source and thus failed the task.

A sea breeze cools my face as I look around and try to determine where the Game Makers just placed me. Directly in front of me is a beach with small, crashing waves. I have never been to a beach before, and the smell of the saltwater and the calming breeze are very refreshing.

12-hour shifts regularly, Game Makers are expected to work at least 14-hour shifts

House after house is gray concrete with mold growing on the corners. Old bricks are used to pave the roads because the Goldsfield mayor is too cheap to have nicely paved roads. There are no natural parks where people to have leisure time in. Houses have no lawns unless they are the rich apartments close the Game Center.

The Game will cease to exist, allowing for people to choose their own occupations and paths for life.

These two must be Game Makers who are trying to eliminate me because Sophia told me their secrets.

to bridge game-based learning and game-based assessment, particularly in assessing complex  problem-solving processes and outcomes in a digital game-based learning environment

the war photographer taking images of suffering and death without stepping into the fray

ideo game modules such as XBOX Tiger Woods PGA Tour

America the safe haven and America the self-absorbed, even the self-righteous America that assumes the right to impose enlightenment on foreign nations

Why Do People Need Mindfulness?

When non-Somali clients whose tanf benefits are re-duced or denied because of household changes blame Somalis for their loss of benefits, he patiently explains that “everyone is getting exactly what they’re eligible for and Somalis don’t get any more than anyone else.” He is frustrated by the accusations that somehow Somali eligibility impacts the eligibility of other Mainers, and when I suggest it may reflect a perception of a zero-sum game—t he more they get, the less there is for me—he replies, “It’s not about the division of resources. It’s about prejudice.”

Each finger will be trained individually to enhance sensory discrimination between the digits (Prudente et al., 2018). As progress is observed, multiple fingers may be trained simultaneously.

he Uno game has been chosen as cards are linked to various actions, aiming to make FHD patients

Reading Braille in a card during a game of Uno is more fun and motivating than just reading from a book, while also requiring a conscious cognitive effort from participants to keep playing as they will need to read the cards correctly to win.

Since games typically have perfect information, the outcome of the game is completely driven by the actions of the players.

• circulate(by blogging, podcasting, or forwarding links)• collaborate (by working together with others to produce and share information via projects, such as Wikipedia)• create (by producing and exchanging media via platforms like YouTube and Flickr)• connect (through social media, such as Facebook or Twitter, or through online communities, such as game clans or fandoms)

The consultation/enforcement mode suggests the pragmatic side of a game in which theactual manifestation as a site of independent yet transparent lobbying efforts, deviatesfrom its original setup as a site of discussion.

In the discussion game, editors par-ticipate in AfD discussions in a way that is similar to other online asynchronous chats(although lonely“discussions”with only one comment are also common)

I will conceptualize Wikipedia editors’online exchanges as amovein a“language game,”acentral concept of Wittgenstein’s view on language as social actions

“Leading from good to greatdoes notmeancoming up with the right answers and motivating others to follow.... It means understandingthat youdon’thave all the answers and thenasking the questionsthat will lead to the best possi-ble insights” (italics added)

Some women felt those who played longer should get more money, but the WTA decided that all players should be equally paid. Editors’ PicksGulf Oysters Are Dying, Putting a Southern Tradition at RiskHow to (Gently) Help Your Aging Parents Manage Their MoneyReading This While Walking? Here’s How to Break That

We had arrived in England at the beginning of October, and it was now February. We accordingly determined to commence our journey towards the north at the expiration of another month. In this expedition we did not v3_025intend to follow the great road to Edinburgh, but to visit Windsor, Oxford, Matlock, and the Cumberland lakes, resolving to arrive at the completion of this tour about the end of July. I packed up my chemical instruments, and the materials I had collected, resolving to finish my labours in some obscure nook in the northern highlands of Scotland. We quitted London on the 27th of March, and remained a few days at Windsor, rambling in its beautiful forest. This was a new scene to us mountaineers; the majestic oaks, the quantity of game, and the herds of stately deer, were all novelties to us.

Quantum Realism: A virtual reality would be subject to virtual time, where each processing cycle is one "tick." Every gamer knows that when the computer is busy the screen lags—game time slows down under load. Likewise, time in our world slows down with speed or near massive bodies, suggesting that it is virtual. So the rocket twin only aged a year because that was all the processing cycles the system busy moving him could spare. What changed was his virtual time.

ue to the many factors mentioned above inthe paragraph above, the ability to train the mus-cles to improve core stability and/or strength relieson the training being functional and specific to theeveryday or sporting movement that is to be per-formed.

All of them were also accompanied by a gigantic virtual reality rig, which he knew is how they could really get some of the players in the game. He remember seeing how players would load up in the virtual reality, and then their virtual character would appear in the arenas, but they would always look so lifelike. Not only did they have equipment for virtual games though, he also recognized the cybernetic mech suits that his brother would be seen playing the rougher contact games like Potshot, where the players would constantly be running into others, and tackling each other. Rory found it quite cool that these suits would basically shield the player from all harm, even though they were capable of literally throwing each other into the sides of the arena.

The UN's guidelines for REDD projects are also easy to game. Developers are required to define an "imaginary" emissions baseline, or the rate at which logging and other forces would degrade the environment in the event that the proposed project didn't go into effect. "In essence, the purpose of this offset policy is to ensure that greenhouse gas reductions are 'in addition to what would have happened anyway,'" Martin and Walters wrote in the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy article. While this might be easier to prove on a factory retrofit, by, for example, using an emissions device to measure how much carbon dioxide is released before modifications, determining how nature and markets will act on a forest in the future is a guessing game subject to significant corruption. "One can imagine situations where local collusion might occur in relation to future land use and, in establishing a baseline, propose … degradation activities that may never have been undertaken in reality," the authors continue. If developers imagined a scenario where half the forest was logged, for example, the carbon credits would be worth more and the returns on the market would be much higher, even if that amount of logging was unlikely.When Nilsson was initially considering his carbon projects, the proposed baseline was already an area he planned on fudging.

terrupted by the glittering bayonets of the soldiery; who poured in upon them from every quarter, and hemmed them in, with a bristling chevaux-de-frise of steel. The Vampyres, surprised but undaunted, unsheathed their sabres, and drew up in a gallant style, as if determined to die game; being, indeed, assured, that like so many Phœnixes, they would rise from their own ashes, as often as they might be cut down.

“Great, you can slide the block across to extend it, or you can add more walls and connect them.”Eve moves the block first to the right, then to the left to create one longer wall. “This will be the back wall,” Eve says. She proceeds to add the side walls and the front, leaving room for a door to be added.

punish her harshly.

She is realizing how her career is over, and the Game Makers will most likely punish her harshly.

Winners of The Game are forced to work tirelessly and are abused worse than normal workers.

“Excuse me, what? Who are you and why are you interrupting me right now? I am trying to win The Game so just leave me alone,” I replied annoyed.

As the circuit is incrementally closed, or intensified, it exhibits ever greater autonomy, or automation. It becomes more tightly auto-productive (which is only what ‘positive feedback’ already says). Because it appeals to nothing beyond itself, it is inherently nihilistic. It has no conceivable meaning beside self-amplification. It grows in order to grow. Mankind is its temporary host, not its master. Its only purpose is itself.

As it stands, exploring the entire dungeon usually ISN’T a choice. It’s something most players just do automatically. Players very rarely leave any stone unturned in a dungeon. That’s partly because the game has made the costs of turning over every stone really cheap and easy and partly because, in most dungeons, players can’t really see the path to their goal anyway. And if they can’t see where their goal is, they can’t divert resources from pursuing it.

Duolingo offers a fairly convenient, free, and basic mobile learning application whichcontains motivational DGBL [digital game-based learning] features that give it enough of an addictive edge for many learners to stay engaged. However, its strict linear curriculum,lack of authentic language, and limited assortment of activities prevent its full realization,relevance, and utility as a DGBL opportunity. (p. 8)

On the screen, the console will also show the participants center of pressure; giving them visual feedback on top of the somatosensory and vestibular feedback.

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typically developing (TD) individuals to individuals with DCD using the Yoga tree pose

twenty participants with cerebral palsy underwent an 8-week training session using the Table Tilt exercise as a new therapeutic intervention to improve static balance and saw almost immediate improvements. As previously mentioned, DCD is thought to be on the continuum of cerebral palsy; therefore the study may be significantly correlated to how patients with DCD can improve their balance.

got my game face on

With the power to remove obstacles such as the geographical location of employees or clients, technology is making learning more holistic and embedded in daily life.

One of the most common behaviors in anxious kids is not doing things or refusing to go places, also known as avoidance.

they prescribe for one a dog feast; for another, that a game of crosse or dish should be played; for another, sleep on such and such a skin, and other stupid and diabolical extravagances; another still, an emetic, to make the charm, if there be any, come forth,—

What strategy could be used to reliably guess a number in much fewer than 12 tries? Describe your strategy clearly enough for others to use to play the game.

Unit 2, Lab 2: Developing a Number Guessing Game with Script Variables.

You build a number guessing game in

Play the game a few times and keep track of how many guesses you made to identify the computer's secret number

One simple version of the Unit 2 number guessing game is in the project link below; click the picture to open it.

On this page, you will revise your number guessing game from Unit 2 to make the computer guess your number.

The area indicated by the hatched region representsthe total amount of heat input into the bottom of the boundarylayer from sunrise until time t1

Research Interests Dr. An's research interests include digital game-based learning, gamification, constructionist gaming (game design by students), scaffolding complex problem solving in virtual/augmented environments, learner-centered technology integration, and teacher professional development.

Conventional wisdom: video games are a distraction at best.While conventional wisdom has it that video games are largely a waste of time, distracting youth from other, far more meaningfulpursuits, some educators and developers view video games as powerful learning tools

we define the physiological and environmental parameters that mediate the transition from cooperation to competition

Do you remember playing double-dutch (the jump rope game, with two ropes) as a kid? Do you remember ever standing there — frozen in self-doubt — just watching the ropes twirl by while your friends all shouted, “Jump in! Jump in!”?

which psychological outcomes can be strictly considered to stem from game

self-developed English learning game helped elementary school students e ff  ectively acquire vocabulary items

DGBLL researchers tend to use custom-built games through which they canmore  󿬂 exibly align the gaming goals with the learning objectives

nto six main categories: language acquisition,knowledge acquisition, contemporary competences, participatory behaviors, a ff  ective or psychological states, and correlationaloutcomes.

as a playful activity that is structured by rules for the pursuit of quanti 󿬁 able outcomes (e.g., win states and points), andincorporates educational objectives (e.g., knowledge acquisition) as its own end.

An example of this type of game design is token curated registries, which aim to use game theory to decentralized the curation of ranked lists. Rather than relying on a list owner (such as a newspaper editorial team) to rank items by quality, users of the registry vote on which content should be accepted to the list. The token economics are supposed to guarantee that users only accept high-quality content to the list and don’t accept low-quality content. The claim is that since users must buy tokens to submit content to the list and stake tokens to vote on content, and the token will increase in value as the list becomes more popular, users will want to maximize the popularity of the list, and they will do this by voting for the highest-quality content.

forms of learning within a dynamic media ecology that has the participatory andsocial nature of gaming at its core.

And, yes, poorchildren and teenagers do play video games, even if they have to find a com-puter or game console at school, in a library, or community center, or at afriend’s house.

If a game has poorlearning principles built into its design, then it won’t get learned or playedand won’t sell well

Your online survival relies on beautiful photography for your social media feeds and e-commerce sites. Followers and customers make an instant judgement about you and your products based on the the way your photos look. If you want to own the photo game, then you need amazing photo content. My book reveals the cheat code to easily take stunning photos with any smartphone to get the attention you need to drive engagement and grow sales for your online business or social media feed.

Determinacy is a subfield of set theory, a branch of mathematics, that examines the conditions under which one or the other player of a game has a winning strategy, and the consequences of the existence of such strategies. Alternatively and similarly, "determinacy" is the property of a game whereby such a strategy exists.

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development of Sony's fourth video game console began as early as 2008.

Moreover, children's thinking at this stage is egocentric by nature, and they are likely to evaluate others and events based on their own viewpoint. For instance, 3-year-old Dana told her older brother Chris that the moon was following her while they were walking outside one evening. Likewise, children at this stage have a hard time understanding the function of rules. You have probably noticed that young children often change the rules of a game to suit their needs.

Gaming is way more mainstream than it used to be, with the most popular game streamers earning millions of dollars.

adding more productive hours to your day.

improve fluency with multiplication and division. Students learn a new game, Remainders Win, in which they work with division problems with remainders. 

7-Eleven Reducing Environmental Footprint Jul. 11, 2016 FacebookTwitterLinkedIn View All Slides IRVING, Texas -- 7-Eleven Inc. is working with nonprofit group Conservation International to set measurable corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals to reduce its environmental footprint. 7-Eleven’s goal is to:Reduce its energy footprint in stores and offices by 20% by 2025.Reduce its packaging footprint by 20% by 2025.Increase corporate giving to 1% of operating net income annually, beginning in 2017.Using 2015 as a baseline, 7-Eleven will continue to reduce its carbon footprint and increase community engagement in the United States and Canada by concentrating on energy, packaging and philanthropy, it said.“These goals are specific and measurable,” said Joe DePinto, 7-Eleven president and CEO. “We’ve already taken important steps to reduce our carbon footprint, and these new targets will help us focus our efforts to make even greater strides.”7-Eleven's CSR mission has three focus areas, it said: “planet, products and people.” Click through for details.Next Slide  View All Slides Planet7-Eleven has decreased electricity use in store operations by an estimated 21% over the past seven years through projects including installing LED lighting, energy management systems and high-efficiency HVAC units. The retailer has also joined CI’s Business and Sustainability Council, a forum for corporate leaders taking positive environmental actions in their businesses, to explore mutually beneficial ways to further reduce its environmental impact.CI is a nonprofit organization “dedicated to building a healthier, more prosperous and more productive planet through science, policy and partnerships.” It seeks to protect the nature people rely on for food, fresh water and livelihoods.“It is no secret that the conveniences that make each day better for us all require resources from nature,” said Peter Seligmann, chairman and CEO of Conservation International, Arlington, Va. “7-Eleven’s 2025 goals reveal how a company can make decisions that support their business as well as our planet’s future. Conservation International is thrilled to support 7-Eleven in this endeavor.” Previous SlideNext Slide  View All Slides ProductsIrving, Texas-based 7-Eleven, which operates, franchises and licenses more than 10,700 convenience stores in North America, is designing eco-friendly packaging in order to reduce waste, including a recyclable stay-hot coffee cup, private-brand beverage bottles made with recycled materials and hot-foods packaging made with less material.  Previous SlideNext Slide  View All Slides PeopleStarting in 2017, 7-Eleven will tie its corporate giving to its performance, giving back 1% of its operating net income annually with a focus on expanding participation in two of its most successful programs benefiting youth: Project A-Game, which has awarded nearly 1,800 financial grants totaling more than $900,000 to local schools and youth sports organizations; and Operation Chill, which partners with more than 900 local law-enforcement agencies to reward young people caught in the act of “doing good” with a free Slurpee drink coupon.  Previous SlideprevnextTrendingFuelsPump Price Slippage ResumesRetailers gain gasoline margin { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Article", "headline": "Pump Price Slippage Resumes", "mainEntityOfPage":{ "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://www.cspdailynews.com/fuels/pump-price-slippage-resumes" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "CSP Daily News", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://cdn.winsightmedia.com/platform/files/sites/media/cspdn/images/logo-cspdn-json-ld.png", "width": 600, "height": 60 } } ,"description": "Retailers gain gasoline margin " ,"image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://cdn.winsightmedia.com/platform/files/public/2019-10/background/shutterstock_691363474_1572279552.jpg?UE69APIEq5718xsWrjCRtM_CSjjhElZB" } ,"datePublished": "2019-10-28T14:46:24+00:00" ,"dateModified": "2019-10-28T17:03:42+00:00" ,"author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Trilby Lundberg", "url": "/profile/trilby-lundberg" } ] } Foodservice7-Eleven to Offer Halloween Pizza SpecialsDeals include buy one, get one free pie, as well as other offers through 7Now app { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Article", "headline": "7-Eleven to Offer Halloween Pizza Specials", "mainEntityOfPage":{ "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://www.cspdailynews.com/foodservice/7-eleven-offer-halloween-pizza-specials" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "CSP Daily News", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://cdn.winsightmedia.com/platform/files/sites/media/cspdn/images/logo-cspdn-json-ld.png", "width": 600, "height": 60 } } ,"description": "Deals include buy one, get one free pie, as well as other offers through 7Now app" ,"image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://cdn.winsightmedia.com/platform/files/public/2019-10/background/7ELV-19-0003_1572279334.jpg?cbooL9v4RLLOSwXqUxX0xX7DArArhNy2" } ,"datePublished": "2019-10-28T14:21:56+00:00" ,"dateModified": "2019-10-28T18:57:45+00:00" ,"author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brett Dworski", "url": "/profile/brett-dworski" } ] }

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Making a bigger community impact with a smaller footprint 7‑Eleven expects to grow dramatically over the next 10 years. Our CSR strategy demands that we limit the impact of this growth on our planet and the people in the communities we serve. To help us set long-term goals for reducing our carbon footprint over the upcoming years, we partnered with Conservation International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a healthier, more prosperous and productive planet. Our strategy focuses in on three measurable goals: Reducing our energy footprint in stores and offices by 20% by 2025 Increasing corporate giving to 1% of operating net income annually, beginning in 2017 Reducing our packaging footprint by 20% by 2025 People 2025 Goal: Increase corporate giving to 1% of operating net income annually. Communities built for youth 7‑Eleven stores play a vital role in healthy, growing neighborhoods. We’re committed to making a difference in these communities by getting involved and giving back through programs that directly benefit the well-being of youth. The Project A-Game program is a community outreach program created to provide meaningful youth development opportunities through education, fitness, safety and hunger relief, so children establish a strong foundation that supports their future success. Learn more A tasty reward for staying cool – that’s the Operation Chill program. This 7‑Eleven community outreach program is designed to reduce crime and enhance relations between police and youth. Learn more

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This addictive game plunks you down somewhere in the world using Google Street view. You literally start on some country road and the whole point of the game is to figure out where in the world you are. You can navigate down the road in the app, and you can turn around and zoom in to look more closely at things, but because the game often chooses the most remote locations, you often find yourself traveling for quite a while before you see any clues. Once you do see something—a road sign, ideally, or something at least with language on it—you can start figuring it out.

Developing gaming fluencies with Scratch: Realizinggame design as a design process.

It’s in the humans’ use of the goose to issue meaning for their empty lives in the first place.

The delight of beholding Chang’s perverse accomplishment is eclipsed only by the terror of pondering actually carrying out the act yourself. Thank goodness you don’t have to.

Someone will have to do the work, because someone always does.

A painting or a television show just blares at its viewer, requiring essentially zero effort to enact that viewing.

And in the process, they spare the majority of goose fans the need to pick up the controls and operate the game to get there.

Perhaps the best definition of a meme is just an image that, against the odds, actually gets seen—before mercifully vanishing.

It’s no wonder that the droll, more biting memes rise above the fray.

But as images both real and fake have proliferated, their volume has become oppressive. The hundreds your Instagram or Facebook friends post daily. The thousands on Pinterest that show up, welcome or not, with every Google search.

Only the eyeballs move in the skull. An image, even a disturbing one, always goes down smooth.

It might please or it might disturb, but either way, it ends as quickly as it begins.

Memes are remixes, and taking them out of their original context erases some—and sometimes all—reference to the material they sample. Memeification doesn’t necessarily return any spoils to the thing memed.

Instead, they delegate the effort to a smaller group, which delivers parcels of enjoyment by condensing them into bite-size memes.

The walking simulator offers one response to the risk of instrumental reason: Remove as much game-play as possible in order to guard against transforming play into a means for measuring, and maximizing, utility.

The goose isn’t really wreaking havoc, it turns out. The goose is running errands.

The work quickly devolves from curiosity to chore.

The certain sight gag of piloting a virtual goose around gives way to the nuisance of piloting a goose around. The bird’s awkward lumber gets in the way of the tasks it’s supposed to make funny.

to carry out a set of tasks, recorded for you on a to-do list, by any means possible.

“doing the job of a goose.”

unknowable, really, but surely unconcerned with our civilization and its trials

It’s the same catharsis that violent or antisocial games such as Hitman or Grand Theft Auto offer up, but rewritten in the dialect of English pastoral politesse, appropriate for all ages.

As Brexit looms, the seas rise, and private wealth balloons, what a pleasure it is to upend the sleepy lives of a small band of villagers: to soak the gardener by luring him into the path of his own sprinkler;

Even when a game does not literally exploit its players’ leisure for its creator’s gain, it orients the player toward formal, often numerical goals that structure progress and, by extension, define enjoyment. The fact that consultants and entrepreneurs have applied game metrics such as points, levels, and badges in institutional settings, dubbing the effort “gamification,” only further entrenches the connection between games and work.

and yet they demand toil in leisure’s pursuit

Games, by contrast, are supposed to be entertainment

Likewise, when you feel obliged to check work email or Slack at all hours, you confuse work with leisure until no boundary exists between the two.

The game theorist Julian Kücklich even coined a portmanteau, playbor, to describe the fusion of work and leisure in contemporary life.

Role-playing gamers sometimes talk about “grinding”— completing boring, repetitive tasks to advance their character’s abilities in order to make progress—a term that exactly mirrors the drudgery and toil of labor.

It’s easy to pass the eyes over the pages of a book, or to bathe in the waves of image and sound at the cinema or in your living room.

Game-play—the work of working a game—is fundamentally irritating, at least in comparison with other media forms.

And like all labor, the best way to get it done is to farm it out to others. Let the memers honk their geese so you don’t have to.

t might even be more fun not to play the game than to play it.

That’s not a slight or a dodge. It doesn’t disrespect the game, its creators, or the fans who truly do enjoy actually playing it.

of the quandary of game-play’s fundamental aggravation: Someone has to play the game, but that someone needn’t be you.

The only problem is that you have to play the game to do so.

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In order to find genuine excitement in learning a subject, students need to be comfortable with the game.

he way we understand the expectations and promises of today’s game-based approaches will have a long-term impact on how we imagine and implement them in the future.

Teachers see this motivation translating into academic performance too: 78 percent of teachers using digital games saw improved performance on curricular subjects due to gameplay and 71 percent saw improvement in extracurricular subjects

Civilization is sometimes criticized for not being historically accurate, but Gilbert sees that flaw as a teachable moment. “You can turn the things that might not be necessarily correct into learning experiences,” he said

He’s been using game simulations in his classroom since 1995, but when he started playing the commercial game Civilization IV for fun, he immediately recognized its potential to get 6th graders hooked on history

“Game mechanics” learn to adjust settings and manipulate the relationship between components within a particular framework

In fact, almost all games have an underlying puzzle structure.

. Gamers remain on a long continuum toward mastery.

When you engage with the game, you not only try to see the game from the perspective of your students, you also understand how the game presents the material.

What platforms (hardware) do you have available in your class? Is yours a BYOD (bring your own device) classroom, or do you have school-owned hardware to work with? Will games be a full-class activity or just one station in a room full of learning activities

Just adding the alphabet to popular games like Angry Birds or Temple Run might make parents more willing to whip out their credit cards, but it won’t necessarily teach their children how to read.

Students experimented with the digital model prior to doing an actual DNA extraction in the lab

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The Institute of Play provides game design and development exper-tise for students and teachers and serves as a primary conduit to the professional game-development community.

Students not only will develop these capacities within the curricular experiences of the school but will be supported in their development through internships, community service, service-learning opportunities, and capstone research projects, especially within the upper grades.

But as for this little one here, it is the key to the closet at the end of the great hall on the ground floor.

I see crowds of people, walking round in a ring.

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