Of course, games can also be absorbing and done for their own sake -- playing Words With Friends or Grand Theft Auto -- so those types of games are fine

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They feel that their minds and bodies have been extended into this virtual world. This process appears to allow players to identify powerfully with the virtual character or characters they are playing in a game and to become strongly motivated to commit themselves to the virtual world the game is creating with their help.

The challenge of the walking simulator genre is that it replaces your personal survival with a mystery. Doesn't have to be your mystery! In Gone Home, it was "What happened to Samantha?" Everything in the game, everything you discover, ties into mystery of her disappearance. That is your motivation. For every new tidbit you find, you can wonder: "But what does this mean for Sam's disappearance?"

With Kentucky Route Zero, the absence of consequence makes choices both more interesting and less stressful.

It’s hard to think about Tacoma without also thinking about Firewatch. That game had a lot in common with this one – both are essentially ‘walking simulators’, where the player is free to move but has little control over the events around them, games where environment and occasional moments of ambient theatrics aim to give you the sense of narrative, where the bulk is conveyed through context.

 At  what  point  will  you  need  to  persist  in  spite  of  failures,  set  backsand  rejections?If  you  are  a  student-­‐athlete,  you  already  know  how  that  goes.  Athletes  don’t  quit  every  time  they  lose  a  game  or  a  match.  They  get  up.  They  practice  again.They  get  older.  They  compete  against  more  talented  athletes.  They  lose.  They  practice  again.  They  get  older.  And  by  the  time  we  might  call  an  athlete  “successful”  (in  college  sports,  in  the  Olympics,  or  professionally),  he  or  she  has  likely  logged  well  over  10,000  hours  of  practice.8Do  the  math.  That’s  eight  hours  a  day,  five  days  a  week,  52  weeks  a  year,  for  five  solid  years.

At  what  point  will  you  need  to  persist  in  spite  of  failures,  set  backsand  rejections?If  you  are  a  student-­‐athlete,  you  already  know  how  that  goes.  Athletes  don’t  quit  every  time  they  lose  a  game  or  a  match.  They  get  up.  They  practice  again.They  get  older.  They  compete  against  more  talented  athletes.  They  lose.  They  practice  again.  They  get  older.

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Still,theseanticipationsofGatsbyareoffsetbytheindignationofthisobserveratFleischman'svulgarityand"terribletaste,"unlikeNick'sreactionstoGatsby.Contrarytohisintentions,Fleischman'sexpensivepurchasessimplyconfirmhisoriginstobewelldownthesocialladder.Thespeaker'scharacterizationofFleischmanas"agentlemanbootlegger"shadesintoironyasitbecomesclearthathedoesn'tconsiderhisloudhostagentlemanatall.Hisobsessionwithhistapestries,diamond-studdedrevolver,andonce-wornshirtsbecomedamningevidenceofhispoortasteandshallowvalue

The cheapness that had made them so unsuitable for fine books and government records made them excellent fodder for experimental, unusual, and controversial literary developments.

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Multitasking forces you to pay a mental price each time you interrupt one task and jump to another. In psychology terms, this mental price is called the switching cost.

In particular, 21st-century students have grown up using different technology from that which their professors grew up with.

not necessarily video games

Mr. Oldbuck, pursued by the police, disguises himself as an officer

The student must compose his response rather than select it from a set of alternatives,

the effect of tradition and of the lack of tradition upon the mind of a writer

assessors have known for sometime now that assessment does not work

it is12,000 B.C.E., the tail end of the last ice age, and humans are on the move. Smallgroups of nomadic hunters track big game across a recently surfaced land bridge fromSiberia to Alaska, where they discover an ice-free corridor leading to the south.

"I wake up in the middle of the night dreaming that I walk in the door, and he's hanging or he shot himself because he's that depressed," the mother of a former college basketball player tells Only A Game. "You put trust in these universities. You trust them with your kid on and off the court. And once you're a damaged good, they just kick you to the curb."

“I don’t care if a kid wants to tweet while she’s watching American Idol, or have music on while he plays a video game. But when students are doing serious work with their minds, they have to have focus.”

“I don’t care if a kid wants to tweet while she’s watching American Idol, or have music on while he plays a video game. But when students are doing serious work with their minds, they have to have focus.”

It’s multitasking while learning that has the biggest potential downside,” she says. “I don’t care if a kid wants to tweet while she’s watching American Idol, or have music on while he plays a video game. But when students are doing serious work with their minds, they have to have focus.”

“I don’t care if a kid wants to tweet while she’s watching American Idol, or have music on while he plays a video game. But when students are doing serious work with their minds, they have to have focus.”

@media (min-width: 641px) { .custom .landing-header.thin.rollup .sponsor-logo img { height: 25px; width: auto; } } @media (max-width: 640px) { .custom .landing-header.thin.rollup .sponsor-logo img { height: auto; max-width: 100px; position: absolute; right: auto; top: 15px; left: 155px; } } SlateScienceThe state of the universe.May 3 2013 10:45 AM You’ll Never Learn! 8.1k 1 Students can’t resist multitasking, and it’s impairing their memory. By Annie Murphy Paul   Attending to multiple streams of information and entertainment while studying, doing homework, or even sitting in class has become common behavior among young people Photo by Louisa Goulimaki/AFP/Getty Images requirejs(["jquery"], function($) { if ($(window).width() < 640) { $(".slate_image figure").width("100%"); } }); Living rooms, dens, kitchens, even bedrooms: Investigators followed students into the spaces where homework gets done. Pens poised over their “study observation forms,” the observers watched intently as the students—in middle school, high school, and college, 263 in all—opened their books and turned on their computers. For a quarter of an hour, the investigators from the lab of Larry Rosen, a psychology professor at California State University–Dominguez Hills, marked down once a minute what the students were doing as they studied. A checklist on the form included: reading a book, writing on paper, typing on the computer—and also using email, looking at Facebook, engaging in instant messaging, texting, talking on the phone, watching television, listening to music, surfing the Web. Sitting unobtrusively at the back of the room, the observers counted the number of windows open on the students’ screens and noted whether the students were wearing earbuds. Although the students had been told at the outset that they should “study something important, including homework, an upcoming examination or project, or reading a book for a course,” it wasn’t long before their attention drifted: Students’ “on-task behavior” started declining around the two-minute mark as they began responding to arriving texts or checking their Facebook feeds. By the time the 15 minutes were up, they had spent only about 65 percent of the observation period actually doing their schoolwork. Advertisement “We were amazed at how frequently they multitasked, even though they knew someone was watching,” Rosen says. “It really seems that they could not go for 15 minutes without engaging their devices,” adding, “It was kind of scary, actually.” Concern about young people’s use of technology is nothing new, of course. But Rosen’s study, published in the May issue of Computers in Human Behavior, is part of a growing body of research focused on a very particular use of technology: media multitasking while learning. Attending to multiple streams of information and entertainment while studying, doing homework, or even sitting in class has become common behavior among young people—so common that many of them rarely write a paper or complete a problem set any other way. But evidence from psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience suggests that when students multitask while doing schoolwork, their learning is far spottier and shallower than if the work had their full attention. They understand and remember less, and they have greater difficulty transferring their learning to new contexts. So detrimental is this practice that some researchers are proposing that a new prerequisite for academic and even professional success—the new marshmallow test of self-discipline—is the ability to resist a blinking inbox or a buzzing phone. The media multitasking habit starts early. In “Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds,” a survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and published in 2010, almost a third of those surveyed said that when they were doing homework, “most of the time” they were also watching TV, texting, listening to music, or using some other medium. The lead author of the study was Victoria Rideout, then a vice president at Kaiser and now an independent research and policy consultant. Although the study looked at all aspects of kids’ media use, Rideout told me she was particularly troubled by its findings regarding media multitasking while doing schoolwork. Advertisement “This is a concern we should have distinct from worrying about how much kids are online or how much kids are media multitasking overall. It’s multitasking while learning that has the biggest potential downside,” she says. “I don’t care if a kid wants to tweet while she’s watching American Idol, or have music on while he plays a video game. But when students are doing serious work with their minds, they have to have focus.” For older students, the media multitasking habit extends into the classroom. While most middle and high school students don’t have the opportunity to text, email, and surf the Internet during class, studies show the practice is nearly universal among students in college and professional school. One large survey found that 80 percent of college students admit to texting during class; 15 percent say they send 11 or more texts in a single class period. During the first meeting of his courses, Rosen makes a practice of calling on a student who is busy with his phone. “I ask him, ‘What was on the slide I just showed to the class?’ The student always pulls a blank,” Rosen reports. “Young people have a wildly inflated idea of how many things they can attend to at once, and this demonstration helps drive the point home: If you’re paying attention to your phone, you’re not paying attention to what’s going on in class.” Other professors have taken a more surreptitious approach, installing electronic spyware or planting human observers to record whether students are taking notes on their laptops or using them for other, unauthorized purposes. Such steps may seem excessive, even paranoid: After all, isn’t technology increasingly becoming an intentional part of classroom activities and homework assignments? Educators are using social media sites like Facebook and Twitter as well as social sites created just for schools, such as Edmodo, to communicate with students, take class polls, assign homework, and have students collaborate on projects. But researchers are concerned about the use of laptops, tablets, cellphones, and other technology for purposes quite apart from schoolwork. Now that these devices have been admitted into classrooms and study spaces, it has proven difficult to police the line between their approved and illicit uses by students. Advertisement In the study involving spyware, for example, two professors of business administration at the University of Vermont found that “students engage in substantial multitasking behavior with their laptops and have non-course-related software applications open and active about 42 percent of the time.” The professors, James Kraushaar and David Novak, obtained students’ permission before installing the monitoring software on their computers—so, as in Rosen’s study, the students were engaging in flagrant multitasking even though they knew their actions were being recorded. Another study, carried out at St. John’s University in New York, used human observers stationed at the back of the classroom to record the technological activities of law students. The spies reported that 58 percent of second- and third-year law students who had laptops in class were using them for “non-class purposes” more than half the time. (First-year students were far more likely to use their computers for taking notes, although an observer did note one first-year student texting just 17 minutes into her very first class—the beginning of her law school career.) Texting, emailing, and posting on Facebook and other social media sites are by far the most common digital activities students undertake while learning, according to Rosen. That’s a problem, because these operations are actually quite mentally complex, and they draw on the same mental resources—using language, parsing meaning—demanded by schoolwork. David Meyer, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan who’s studied the effects of divided attention on learning, takes a firm line on the brain’s ability to multitask: “Under most conditions, the brain simply cannot do two complex tasks at the same time. It can happen only when the two tasks are both very simple and when they don’t compete with each other for the same mental resources.

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What’s Wrong With Writing Essays Posted on March 12, 2009May 14, 2014 by Mark Sample A few days ago I mentioned that as a professor invested in critical thinking — that is, in difficult thinking — I have become increasingly disillusioned with the traditional student paper. Just as the only thing a standardized test measures is how well you can take a standardized test, the only thing a student essay measures is how well a student can conform to the rigid thesis/defense model that (surprise!) eliminates complexity, ambiguity, and most traces of critical thinking. I don’t believe that my mission as a professor is to turn my students into miniature versions of myself or of any other professor.  Yet that is the only function that the traditional student essay serves. And even if I did want to churn out little professors, the essay fails exceedingly well at this. Somehow the student essay has come to stand in for all the research, dialogue, revision, and work that professional scholars engage in. It doesn’t. The student essay is a twitch in a void. A compressed outpouring of energy (if we’re lucky) that means nothing to no one. My friend and occasional collaborator Randy Bass has said that nowhere but school would we ask somebody to write something that nobody will ever read. This is the primary reason I’ve integrated more and more public writing into my classes. I strive to instill in my students the sense that what they think and what they say and what they write matters — to me, to them, to their classmates, and through open access blogs and wikis, to the world. In addition to making student writing public, I’ve also begun taking the words out of writing. Why must writing, especially writing that captures critical thinking, be composed of words? Why not images? Why not sound? Why not objects? The word text, after all, derives from the Latin textus, meaning that which is woven, strands of different material intertwined together. Let the warp be words and the weft be something else entirely. With this in mind, I am moving away from asking students to write toward asking them to weave. To build, to fabricate, to design. I don’t want my students to become miniature scholars. I want them to be aspiring Rauschenbergs, assembling mixed media combines, all the while through their engagement with seemingly incongruous materials, developing a critical thinking practice about the process and the product. Sid Meier’s Pirates Mapped in 3D (Click image for a larger version) In my next post I’ll describe in more detail some “writing” assignments that have very little to do with traditional writing. I’ll include some sample student work then, but I’ll conclude today’s post by highlighting one project here. I asked students to design an abstract visualization of an NES videogame, a kind of model that would capture some of the game’s complexity and reveal underlying patterns to the way actions, space, and time unfold in the game. One student “mapped” Sid Meier’s Pirates! (1991) onto a piece of driftwood (larger image). This “captain’s log,” covered with screenshots and overlayed with axes measuring time and action, evokes the static nature of the game more than words ever can. Like Meier’s Civilization, much of Pirates! is given over to configurations, selecting from menus, and other non-diegetic actions. Pitched battles on the high seas, what would seem to be the highlight of any game about pirates, are rare, and though a flat photograph of the log doesn’t do justice to the actual object in all its physicality, you can see some of that absence of action here, where the top of the log is full of blank wood. I will talk more about about this assignment and others — and where the critical thinking comes into play — in my next post. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)174Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)174Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Related Zen Scavenger Essay WritingBuilding and Sharing (When You're Supposed to be Teaching)What is Critical Thinking? Posted in TeachingTagged Literature, pedagogy, Teaching Post navigation Previous Post What is Critical Thinking?Next Post Writing is a Concentrated Form of Thinking 12 thoughts on “What’s Wrong With Writing Essays” Jeff Allred March 12, 20093:36 pm Perfesser, Nice to hear from you, and most interesting. But I wonder if the public/private issue shouldn’t be separated from the essay/”woven mediatext” issue. After all, the driftwood is as private and hermetic as an essay submitted to a class (or, to be a bit fairer, a gallery installation at best), and a traditional essays are published as blogs all the time. I’m with you that our pedagogy should emphasize a “writing process” that culminates in publication: the best pedagogy does this even at the grade-school level, even though most college pedagogy is, as you say, all too private. But the plain ol’ essay has proven its enormous flexibility over five centuries and, it seems to me, still has a lot of value as a teaching tool, insofar as it forces one to think carefully about audience, organization, evidence, and the like. Sure: it’s simple and linear in ways that multimedia texts are complex and digressive. But the form is capable of almost infinite experiment/extension and considerable multi-media “weaving” as well. Awright: back to grading. Oh the irony. Diane March 15, 20094:03 pm I’ll be honest in saying that all of the writing done for essays and what-not, are not only dull in reading but dulls the students’ minds into pencil stumps. Recalling back to certain classes (which I’m not going to name), where I had to write certain essays about subjects I don’t really even care about, I find all of it to not only be completely irrelevant but also completely unhelpful to the state of my mind and creative soul. And now that I’m about to graduate, and I’m in classes that force me to not adhere to the typical “scholarly writing” I find it difficult to articulate my thoughts and words. It’s like I’m now conditioned to write a certain way, that I’ve become a drone, mindlessly on auto-pilot. It sickens me. I find it difficult to write creatively when it used to come to me so freely when I first started college. But even the whole educational system doesn’t care about how creative you are, just how well you can follow the rules, thus I find myself tied to system of GPAs and grades so much so that I’m almost fearful of stepping out of the cliched “box.” I state it as something I’m almost feared of, because sometimes I get a professor that is willing to let me speak my own mind and be passionate about what I write and less on how really how I write it. That brings to question on what’s really more important, proof that I’m thinking and responding to the world around me or or fitting a ridiculous outline on a subject that neither I nor my professor really cares about. Furthermore, the weaving of multiple mediums is really a beautiful concept but I would say difficult to bring out in students. Not saying that it can’t be done (obviously by your own example) but it’s come to a point (and I’ve also been a victim to this) where students have become trains. We’re merged into a one-tracked way of thinking, always going forwards or backwards on our tracks but never off of them. We want to do the most little work to get us the grade that we possibly can and sometimes even less knowing that we can get by with that. Granted, there are some who don’t think that way and become cars, willing to go in whatever direction, but there aren’t too many of them out there. It’s because of the conditioning of the education system. We’re told all our life to be a train (proof, the Little Engine that Could), to fit into this track and be warned to never get off because we can’t run if we become derailed. That’s what most parents want from their kids, and most kids want to please their parents. Sorry if I went off on a tangent a bit Prof. Sample. I really enjoyed your class though, and tell everyone I know that can to try and take it. (I actually tried to take the Intro to Game Design class, and to be honest, I had to drop it because I learned in your class all about the background of games and the structure and psychological influence of games.)

Some people may have some exceptional drive, in pursuing which they satisfy their need for the power process. For example, those who have an unusually strong drive for social status may spend their whole lives climbing the status ladder without ever getting bored with that game.

could be on course for global warming of more than seven degrees

It is a vision of a future so apocalyptic that it is hard to even imagine.

game over

4.78C to 7.36C by 2100

despite obvious global warming

Because, they believe, the climate is more sensitive to greenhouse gases when it is warmer.

based on one set of calculations.

Earth’s average temperature will rise by between 2.6 and 4.8 degrees above pre-industrial levels by 2100.

She cites The Rules of the Game

ach episode/game is relatively short, of approximately 200 actions

ices together. Tasks like writing a letter can be managed a lot easierusing a keyboard than using a gamepad. Different tasks require different input devices.Most people playing games on the PC favor using keyboard and mouse, while the console-game industry enhance their controller design from generation to generation. Secretariesin an office use a keyboard and a mouse, to navigate through their programs. Engineerswork with 3D environments in CAD programs. CAD stands for computer-aided design.In CAD programs, users can create 2D or 3D models for further usage. Moreover, insuch programs, input devices like the SpaceController1 are oft

その後、1970年1月に発売になった森山加代子の「白い蝶のサンバ」と、3月に発売になった和田アキ子の「笑って許して」は、ともに新しいレーベルから生まれたヒットでしたが、その後は老舗のレコード会社からの仕事も増えていきました。しかしその時点では新進気鋭の作詞家という立場でしたから、自由な発想で作品を書くにしても、事前に関係者の承諾が必要だったはずです。

Just their existence makes you want to become a better athlete,

Try to avoid using vague, all-purpose nouns, which often lead to wordiness.

The bitter taste of salt burned my mouth as I desperately gasped for air. Wave after wave crashed down upon me, each time it felt like I was gaining a foothold. Desperate for air before the tide submerged me once more, I stretched my neck, took a deep breathe and suddenly water was cascading down through my throat. One gulp after another, my throat and lungs burned. After what seemed like an eternity, I finally escaped the riptide, more by chance than anything else. As other kids threw away their armbands and floats, I clutched to mine every time my parents took me to the beach. One day, I glanced upon a bunch of kids diving into the water like dolphins and competing to find a key one of them was hurling blindly into the water. Spray and laughter erupted from the sea as one boy emerged from the water proudly holding aloft the shining silver key. Attracted by the excitement of the game, I asked if I could join, one kid looked skeptically, and sneered, “How can you dive…with… that thing?” I responded by pretending to be absolutely calm as I stepped forwards and felt the icy chill of the water. I spotted the key just a few meters behind me. I remember myself diving fearlessly, but in truth this was probably one of the most graceless dives in human history. But my head emerged with the key firmly clasped in my fingertips.

Head Impact Telemetry (HIT) System technology (Simbex, Lebanon, NH; Sideline Response System, Riddell, Chicago, IL) records the frequency, location, and magnitude of impacts sustained by football players during live play,4,11,16,20,27,44 and was specifically developed to enable research to better understand the relationship between measured parameters of head kinematics and concussion. This technology incorporates an array of non-orthogonal accelerometers (Analog Devices, Inc., Cambridge, MA), data acquisition, and RF telemetry hardware into self-contained inserts placed in commercially available helmets. While physically connected to the helmet, the instrumented insert acts as an effective spring to maintain contact with the head during impact and to decouple head acceleration from helmet acceleration.26 Because traditional mathematical approaches to calculate linear and rotational acceleration at the head center of gravity, such as those employed by the HIII, require precise mounting of accelerometers that is not practical for field implementation, the HIT System uses proprietary, simulated-annealing optimization algorithms to estimate linear and rotational acceleration

Over the last decade, advances in technology have enabled researchers to evaluate concussion biomechanics through measurement of head impacts sustained during play using two primary methods: (1) laboratory reconstruction of open-field head contact, and (2) instrumented helmets. The purpose of this study was to correlate measures of head kinematics recorded by the Head Impact Telemetry (HIT) System (Simbex, NH) with those obtained from a Hybrid III (HIII) anthropometric headform under conditions that mimicked impacts occurring in the NFL. Linear regression analysis was performed to correlate peak linear acceleration, peak rotational acceleration, Gadd Severity Index (GSI), and Head Injury Criterion (HIC15) obtained from the instrumented helmet and HIII. The average absolute location error between instrumented helmet impact location and the direction of HIII head linear acceleration were also calculated.

Bloodborne

"Youbringbackmuchwampum,"saysCappie:"Dogoodinwar,mybraves,andcapturemanyscalps."Thisisanotherofherpretenses:thattheyareboys,andbloodthirsty.Butsuchagamecannotbeplayedbysubstitutingthewordsquaw.Itwouldnotworkatall.

Military

On our eos-noon branch we have implemented a number of changes to the underlying DPOS framework to support 500 ms blocks (2 blocks every second). This change will dramatically increase the responsiveness of decentralized applications.

LEN DEIGHTON: BERLIN GAME (1983)

For research, 1) sender speaks truth about the referent; 2) the addressee can accept or reject statements he hears; 3) referent expressed in statements is supposed to conform to actuality – which raises the problem of proof, which are supposedly resolved in 19th century criteria of verification and 20th century falsification.

With every man I date (yes, I date!), I go through some degree of 1998 whiplash. I need to be extremely circumspect about what it means to be “public” with someone. In the early years post-impeachment, I once left a front-row seat along the third-base line at a Yankees game when I learned that my date—a guy whose company I thoroughly enjoyed—was actually in another relationship. It was only a green-card marriage, but I freaked that we could be photographed together and someone might call the gossip rags. I’ve become adept at figuring out when men are interested in me for the wrong reason. Thankfully, those have been few and far between. But every man that has been special to me over the past 16 years has helped me find another piece of myself—the self that was shattered in 1998. And so, no matter the heartbreak, tears, or disenchantment, I’ll always be grateful to them.

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Fort Good Hope

Frank T’Seleie

The Dene in general, as a group of natives, dealt with a vast amount of conflict stemming from the interruption of settlers. The Sayisi Dene, located in Manitoba, were completely displaced. For more than a thousand years, “The Sayisi Dene had lived in what’s now northern Manitoba and the Northwest Territories, between the open tundra and the tree line along the Churchill River, but in 1956, the Government of Canada moved the Sayisi Dene away from their traditional homeland and their way of life” (Bussidor XI). This story of displacement can be related to the struggles that Chief T’Seleie and his people faced. In both cases, fair treatment of native peoples and their culture was compromised in some way, and had an immediate effect on the identity and security of their individuality. In addition, the Dene nation and culture started to blossom “at a time when southern whites were prosperous and concerned about both the welfare of the environment and the plight of the aboriginal peoples of Canada” (Posluns). However, “the federal government was not buckling under Dene pressure for self-government and was still demanding extinguishment of aboriginal land rights in return for a land claims settlement” (Posluns).  Overall, the European involvement was based off of the goal to “to train Indians to cope with persons of European ancestry and eventually 'civilize' them” (Whyte 178). T’Seleie was trying to stop this assimilation in order to preserve the culture and traditions of native peoples such as the Dene tribes. The pipeline proposal is a perfect example of how the settlers tried to impose their desires and aspirations for wealth upon aboriginal peoples without their acceptance.

T’Seleie was the main spokesperson of the rejection of the pipeline as long as land claim conflicts were still being debated. He “denounced the president of one gas company for being a "modern-day General Custer" and threatened an explosion of violent resistance if the companies and the government proceeded with the pipeline project” (Sabin 40). He preached that the pipeline construction would be stealing the land of the Dene and their history while he campaigned for the right for the Dene to continue to spread the pride of their culture through the right to have the freedom of their land. To Berger, he respectfully reported that he would not stand for the pipeline as it would intrude on the plans for the Dene people’s land and their future in order to make someone else rich. He considered this construction a genocide, a mass murder of history, culture, pride, and a nation all together. T’Seleie made a big impact on the opinion and result of the pipeline proposal by expressing leadership with distain in regard to the disruption of the land of the aboriginal people. After T’Seleie fought for his people, “Fort Good Hope and other opponents of the pipeline won their battle. A natural gas pipeline from either Prudhoe Bay or the Mackenzie Delta has yet to be built” (Sabin 40). 

The university is open because it has been declared open in the above-mentioned circumstances. That this is so is not subject to discussion or verification on the part of the addressee, who is immediately placed within the new context created by the utterance. As for the sender, he must be invested 'with the ' authority to make such a statement.

The science game is diachronic

Opening the leaden casket

we can tell stories about a game we have played

The Games and Media Archaeology

exaggerated expectations in the media

  And finally,   play a game during a transition such as guess which object.  You would hold up two objects that begin with different sounds, such as a leaf and a marker. Identify each object with the children to ensure that you all are using the same label.  Guess which object begins with the /l/ sound.

That's why the mainstream media's obsession a few years ago with unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of bitcoin, was so silly

China has re-emerged to become a dominant foreign player in Cambodia.

The Joy that isn’t shared, I’ve heard,dies young.

Customized majors: when students conceive of, design, and build their own majors, they ask critical questions about education that we often don’t invite them to ask in the course of traditional college. Why is this a field? Where is this field going? How do each of these courses contribute to the overall integrity of the major? Why is this worth studying? Why does this matter, to the student and to the world? When students write their program statements to get their majors approved, they ask fundamental questions that help them see the relevance of even the least appealing (to them) courses in their programs, and gives them a sense of ownership over the journey. This connects to #3 above, and moves students into the driver’s seat right from the start.

In particular, the DoOO program has really been a game-changer for us. Students create ePorts

students who find new passions late in the game

students who find new passions late in the game who lament having to use their precious final semesters to finish a major they now would prefer to leave in the past.

students who find new passions late in the game

Battier cut him off. Bryant tossed the ball back out to Derek Fisher, out of shooting range.

55 . . . 54 . . . 53 . . .

As the third quarter

n person, Weiss’s voice has a sturdier timbre than you might expect from her delicate frame. She’s luminous and slight, but authoritative in the breadth of her knowledge about the industry and Glossier’s game plan.

attending closely to the techniques by which Austen authorizes certain points of view illuminates how the narrative’s form enacts its thematic content

Problems are sure to arise if the formal and informal evaluation of teachers is inconsistent with the essential elements of inquiry.

In the Ninjas’ parlance, the game had been “broken.”

And I see no good reason why we should require the production of educators and students to be fair game for resellers who want to pluck it for free out of the commons and charge money for it to those not lucky enough to be a part of our community.

acques Rancière’s work on Joseph Jacotot

collegial spirit of a tabletop game

I would add that the capacity for a single user to play multiple roles would open up the game

I wanted to capture some of the playful, collegial spirit of a tabletop game and require students to share the process of creating moves rather than just the products.

to capture the voice of the role in writing

role-playing game (RPG)

Study Says It’s Good for Kids to Play Video Gamesgoogle_ad_client = "ca-pub-2687663125856668"; google_ad_slot = "8756569627"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280; google_ad_region= "test"; If your kid is playing video games, don’t stop him. A recent study conducted by Oxford University suggests that young people’s development improves if they play video games each day, as long as it’s not too much.How much? An hour a day or less, unless you want them to actually be harmed by playing. A study that engulfed 5000 British children from the ages of 10 to 15 revealed that 75% of them play video games regularly, and from the questions about certain social factors the conclusion of the benefits (and harms) of video games were reached. .connatix h2.entry-title a {text-decoration: none;color: #2c393e;}.connatix h2.entry-title a:hover {text-decoration: none;color: #2c393e;}@media only screen and (min-width: 480px) {.connatix .connatix-img {float: left;margin-right: 15px;width: 60%;}}@media only screen and (max-width: 479px) {.connatix .connatix-img {width: 100%;margin-bottom: 15px;}} November 8, 2017 .By rcwilley.com Traditional Chestnut B... The Valley Springs 6-piece queen bedroom set, offered by RC Willey, features a luxuriou... The study claims that those playing video games on a regular basis are more satisfied with their lives, are less prone to being hyperactive and have less emotional issues than those who don’t play video games at all.According to Dr. Andrew Przybylski, being engaged in video games may give children a common language. And for someone who is not part of this conversation, this might end up cutting the young person off.But what about those who play video games for more than an hour a day? Three hours a day? That may not be so productive.Children who play video games for more than three hours each day were prone to be less adjusted and less satisfied with their lives.For the entire study / Image via Kidsarelovely.comFor a bit more on gaming, check out the 10 best games to play with your SO, or some rant on the Wife/Girlfriend vs Video Game problem. It works the same if you switch genders as well.

The shape of your breasts is a physical quality but there is a direct association between your personality and your physical features.

 The difficulty experienced in attaining absolute correctness is greater than might be supposed by those who have never tried the experiment, and we are far from claiming that we have made no mistakes.

3. Playing Tetris for just three minutes stops your craving for sex, alcohol and food.A team of psychologists from Plymouth University and Queensland University of Technology have determined, after many hours of Tetris, that the game can be addicting and distract users from doing other stuff for a while like eating, drinking and having sex. It kind of makes you wonder how they managed to finish the study.“We think the Tetris effect happens because craving involves imagining the experience of consuming a particular substance or indulging in a particular activity,” said one researcher. “Playing a visually interesting game like Tetris occupies the mental processes that support that imagery; it is hard to imagine something vividly and play Tetris at the same time. As a support tool, Tetris could help people manage their cravings in their daily lives and over extended time periods."Tetris addicting? No way.

“Do you have an Augmentor?”

He wanted to augment in clean, blank places, where he was free to fully extend, unhindered.

“Got something in his hands—or thinks he does.” She took a packet of tobacco from a deep pocket in the front of her garment and began to roll a cigarette, using the girl as a shield from the wind.

“Not a church,” the boy corrected. “14 Ware Street, built 1950, originally domestic property, situated on a floodplain, condemned for safety. Site of ‘St. Jude’s’—local, outlier congregation. Has no official status.”

He would meet the President! He would shake the President’s hand.

Lead children in creative movement—sway like a tree, swim like a fish, and jump like a frog.  This is a wonderful transition activity such as when waiting to go outdoors.   Describe an animal that most children have seen. Ask children to show what that animal does.

ask students to engage in a version of Peter Elbow’s Doubting and Believing Game.

It was his first time at this level. Another world began to construct itself around Bill Peek, a shining city on a hill.

These literatures provide a rich theoretical basis for the serious game design process, however it is clear that due to the inherent incongruities between game design (which prioritises entertainment), simulation design (which prioritises fidelity), and peda-gogy (which prioritises education), difficulties persist in balancing these elements during the design process and indeed in reconciling these elements into one coherent theoretical frame-work for serious game design:

King argues that while this may be a less “authentic” depiction of the real world, it is a more “playful” and therefore pleasurable experience.

Adams (2010) states that “the goal of a game is to entertain through play” (p. 30) with the essence of game play comprising the challenge/action relationship whereby a player is permitted to take various actions in order to address the challenges underpinning the game. With serious games where the non-entertainment objectives of educating and informing enter the game de-sign process, most experts argue that achieving an effective balance of play and pedagogy is key to their effectiveness (de Freitas, 2007; Seeney & Routledge, 2009).

Instead of measuring clicks and likes, what if Facebook optimized for how much value an article or video or game gave us weeks or months afterward?

We brought you high, laid you low, and now here you sit, the same emotionwise as before our testing even began. That is powerful. That is killer. We have unlocked a mysterious eternal secret. What a fantastic game-changer! Say someone can’t love? Now he or she can.

Death Pulse kill HP regen multiplier rescaled from 10 to 6 Death Pulse kill HP regen duration rescaled from 7 to 6 Death Pulse HP regen rescaled from 1/3/5/7 to 2/3/4/5

Some local observers have laid blame for the poor results at the feet of school choice advocates, most notably U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.

Extra rewards were available to those, like Walter Duranty, who played the game particularly well. Duranty was The New York Times correspondent in Moscow from 1922 until 1936, a role that, for a time, made him relatively rich and famous. British by birth, Duranty had no ties to the ideological left, adopting rather the position of a hard-headed and skeptical “realist,” trying to listen to both sides of the story. “It may be objected that the vivisection of living animals is a sad and dreadful thing, and it is true that the lot of kulaks and others who have opposed the Soviet experiment is not a happy one,” he wrote in 1935—the kulaks being the so-called wealthy peasants whom Stalin accused of causing the famine. But “in both cases, the suffering inflicted is done with a noble purpose.”This position made Duranty enormously useful to the regime, which went out of its way to ensure that Duranty lived well in Moscow. He had a large flat, kept a car and a mistress, had the best access of any correspondent, and twice received coveted interviews with Stalin.

Cuddy felt as if Simmons had set them up; that they included her TED talk in the headline made it feel personal, as if they were going after her rather than the work.

included critics like Lewis Mumford,

"This wasn't a video game, buddy," she said in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper. "This was real people. There are real consequences to what you did. I'm sorry you've chosen to do that. You have ruined your life and you've disturbed mine, but you took my child from me."

realization of Jean-Francois Lyotard's "game of perfect information"

Information that promotes enhancing cognitive development Post your hypothesis comments here

notreflectedin country music, but is, rather, partiallyproducedby it.

shoot pool.

pool room

1. those who knowingly support the limits and configu-ration of “official’’ authority within the fundamental or-der of public schools for their own personal gain; 2. thosewho are complicit as a consequence of insufficient knowl-edge and skills to contest the system; 3. those who protecttheir class interests by “playing the game’’ while payinglip service to the rhetoric of helping the oppressed; and4. those who consent due to their overwhelming fear ofauthority.

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Greyhounds

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We are now exploring at UCSF, at our center, creating video games, which we know young people certainly enjoy playing, that are not just entertaining and engaging but take principles like meditation and exercise and music and bring them into a game environment to help improve these very fundamental abilities of the mind.

video games, which we know young people certainly enjoy playing

Very depressing birthday party today at home of Lilly’s friend Leslie Torrini. House is mansion where Lafayette once stayed. Torrinis showed us Lafayette’s room: now their “Fun Den.” Plasma TV, pinball game, foot massager. Thirty acres, six garages (they call them “outbuildings”): one for Ferraris (three), one for Porsches (two, plus one he is rebuilding), one for historical merry-go-round they are restoring as family (!). Across trout-stocked stream, red Oriental bridge flown in from China. Showed us hoofmark from some dynasty. In front room, near Steinway, plaster cast of hoofmark from even earlier dynasty, in wood of different bridge. Picasso autograph, Disney autograph, dress Greta Garbo once wore, all displayed in massive mahogany cabinet. Vegetable garden tended by guy named Karl.

Crack the Whip

68% of 13- to 14-year-olds

subject is changed from the people or humanity to the “speculative spirit,” which makes the “game of legitimation” philosophical.

Thus, the process of delegitimation was fueled by the demand for legitimation itself, and universities lost their function as speculative legitimation and emphasized the need for teachers, not researchers. There is also an intrinsic erosion in the narrative of emancipation, but it differs from that of the speculative discourse; when science plays its own language game, it is incapable of others, such as prescriptions, and cannot legitimate itself. In postmodernity, there is a recognition of multiple language games and a sense of “splintering,” and nobody can speak all the distinct discourses, and no universal metalanguage can join them.

There is also an intrinsic erosion in the narrative of emancipation, but it differs from that of the speculative discourse; when science plays its own language game, it is incapable of others, such as prescriptions, and cannot legitimate itself. In postmodernity, there is a recognition of multiple language games and a sense of “splintering,” and nobody can speak all the distinct discourses, and no universal metalanguage can join them.

“various categories of utterance can be defined in terms of rules specifying their properties and the uses to which they can be put—in exactly the same way as the game of chess is defined by a set of rules determining the properties of each piece, in other words, the proper way to move.” [For example, in science’s language game, it makes denotative statements or statements about regularities, and precludes statements of prescription.]

1)      Rules do not carry within them their own legitimation

is legitimation by paralogy possible?

The science game is diachronic

The social bond is a language game, because “it immediately positions” the sender, the addressee, and the referent.

“Scientific knowledge cannot know and make known that it is the true knowledge without resorting to the other, narrative, kind of knowledge, which from its point of view has no knowledge at all.” Modern science leaves behind metaphysics of proof of the proof and recognizes that the “conditions of truth” are immanent in the “game,” whose rules are confirmed by experts

Thus, the process of delegitimation was fueled by the demand for legitimation itself, and universities lost their function as speculative legitimation and emphasized the need for teachers, not researchers. There is also an intrinsic erosion in the narrative of emancipation, but it differs from that of the speculative discourse; when science plays its own language game, it is incapable of others, such as prescriptions, and cannot legitimate itself.

Every utterance is a “move” in a game.

If there are no rules, there is no game

Most of us, given a choice between chaos and naming, between catastrophe and cliché, would choose naming. Most of us see this as a zero sum game—as if there were no third place to be: something without a name is commonly thought not to exist.

Blood and Beauty on a Texas Exotic-Game Ranch

The hot water at ten. And if it rains, a closed car at four. And we shall play a game of chess, Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

there’s an aspect that feels a lot like watching a sports game to me. I have a team I’m rooting for. I feel like I can help my team when I go out to vote for them. I’m an economist. I do listen to the policies. But I’m also engaged with the horse race aspect of it. That’s the fun part. The policy part is the eating your vegetables part. The treatment of news as entertainment, and bringing this horse race aspect in, can make people better informed.

My God, think of all the nets that are taken for granted in sports! Ping-Pong nets. Batting cage nets. Terrell Owens's bassinet. If you sit behind the plate at a baseball game,you watch the action through a net. You download the highlights on Netscape and forward it on the net to your friend Ben-net while eating Raisinets. Sports is nothing but net. So next time you think of a net, go to that website and click yourself happy. Way more fun than your fantasy bowling league, dude.

Sports are forms of game which include physical rigor in order to complete and compete for a certain objective.

In the ordinary use of discourse - for example, in a discussion between two friends - the interlocutors use any available ammunition, changing games from one utterance to the next: questions, requests, assertions, and narratives are launched pell-mell into battle. The war is not without rules, but the rules allow and encourage the greatest possible flexibility of utterance.

It is useful to make the following three observations about language games. The first is that their rules do not carry within themselves their own legitimation, but are the object of a contract, explicit ,or not, between players (which is not to say that the players invent the rules). The second is that if there are no rules, there is no game, that even an infinitesimal modification of one rule alters the nature of the game, that a "move" or utterance that does not satisfy the rules does not belong to the game they define. The third remark is suggested by what has just been said: every utterance should be thought of as a "move" in a game.

want to win the long game.

“Game Studies is an interdiscipline that combines Communications with Computer Science.”

With Palczewski teachings I am able to apply categorizes to deconstructing rhetoric as: symbols, symbolic action (expressive human actions), identification, agency, social reality, and reality understood (Palczewski:16). Conversely, Palczewski names and discusses constraints acknowledging we do not share the same experiences and therefore, are limited with shared interpretations of experiences.

OPENING SCENARIO 

She is supposed to have her first chemotherapy in a month BUT she has to quit anything that makes her make a lot of physical effort in order to not faint at anytime and her case would get worse so joy has the choice to either :

Im still thinking of the rest of the story so to be continued … p.s this game isn’t intending to make you depressed ; I just want everyone to feel the daily and detailed struggle that they never though of that a cancer patient go through .. Cancer patients actually think that they see death everyday because the cure for their illness actually could make them die

she is going to die already.

BUT Joy didn’t want to tell her parents cause they always get pretty worried about anything ,but at the same time she didn’t want to lie Joy would go without telling them ( they would get upset if they knew and she doesn’t like to to make them sad ) Joy would take her friend with her( just to not go alone and have a good company ) Joy would tell her parents and they would with her.( they would be nervous until her result  appear )

Joy was too sad and depressed that she had no clue what to do; she knew she had to talk to her parents ,but she was afraid of their respond and she was sacred that they could get really depressed.

Joy is a part of basketball team and she is one of the best players and her team always counts on her

deteriorating situation.

civic online reasoning—the ability to evaluate digital content and reach warranted conclusions about social and political issues: (1) identifying who’s behind the information presented, (2) evaluating the evidence presented, and (3) investigating what other sources say.