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Country Music has so many great singers and entertainers. Luke Bryan is a force to be reckoned with! He is currently opening for Jason Aldean and really knows how to get a crowd going. I went to see the show on Friday, February 24 in Nashville at the Bridgestone Arena and met with Luke's FOH engineer Pete Healy to catch soundcheck.
Pete has the band dialed in nicely. The drums sounded thunderous with a Beta 98AMP on the high tom and 2 SM27's on the low toms. On the guitar amp, Pete's using the SM27/SM57 combination that cuts through and is in your face. Sitting on top of it all is Luke's Chrome plated SM58 wireless.
The crowd was ready for Luke and he gave them all that energy right back. He didn't stand still the entire show, working every inch of that stage for his hour long set. He's got several hits out and the crowd knew every word.
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2011 Best Product at Global Pet Expo
- Keep one very unique desktop pet
- Comes with everything you need for a jelly
- Squishy will arrive later by overnight mail
Looking for a totally unique pet that will remind you to just keep swimming? How about a jellyfish you can keep on your desktop at work? We discovered this product when it was a top project on Kickstarter and won the Best Product award at the Global Pet Expo. It was just awesome enough for us to want several of our very own. We named them all Squishy, naturally.
This set comes with everything you need for a jellyfish habitat: the tank, air pump and valves, hydrometer, substrate, feeding pipette, and even a color-changing LED with remote control so your Squishy looks super cool.
The one thing it doesn't come with right away? The jellyfish. Obviously our robot warehouse monkeys would squish them and then they would be squished and that would be horrible. So what you'll get in your kit is a voucher. Go to the jellyfish website listed, pop in your voucher code, and one very special Moon Jellyfish will be shipped to your door overnight for no additional charge. (It also is backed by an Arrive Alive Guarantee.)
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The Saints gain fellowship with God by obedience—We must confess our sins to gain forgiveness.
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HOUSTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Texas Public Utility Commissioner Rolando Pablos said Thursday he will leave the agency March 1, leaving just two commissioners to continue working to find ways to entice new electricity generation to the state to avoid the rising prospect of rolling outages.
In a statement, Pablos said his objective had been to strengthen the state economy "through the application of fair, transparent, and predictable regulation" in the electricity and telecommunication areas.
The PUC is working with the state grid operator to address a looming shortage of electric capacity in the state that increases the likelihood of rolling outages.
The two other commissioners, Donna Nelson and Ken Anderson, are divided over how to send the right price signals to attract new generation without huge market changes or dramatically higher costs for power in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state's primary grid.
While complimentary of Pablos' talent, one PUC observer said it did not appear he had a long-term interest in the complex electric issues facing the state's deregulated market.
"He came from outside the industry to such an extent that the learning curve with everything going on was really severe," said John Moore, a principal with Stratus Energy Group of Austin.
"Over the last few months, it has become apparent that he was not participating in discussions at open meetings to the level that you might expect of someone with a long-term vision," Moore said.
Pablos was appointed to the PUC in September 2011 by Texas Governor Rick Perry. His term was due to end Sept. 1.
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A third commissioner likely won't be appointed until after the Texas Legislature adjourns in late May since appointments made during the session require confirmation before the session ends.
The next commissioner will face decisions that will shape the Texas power market for years to come.
"Whoever is appointed could be the deciding factor as to what market structure the PUC ultimately adopts and perhaps the potential profitability of power plants in ERCOT," said Paul Patterson, an energy analyst at Glenrock Associates of New York.
Pablos' departure will not slow the current pace of work at the PUC to address the issue of resource adequacy.
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How do you make one of the best events every summer in Sioux Falls better?
You make it bigger!
Hot Harley Nights is adding an additional night to their annual July event, which this year will begin on Thursday and run from July 10-13.
I asked Char Roth from Hot Harley Nights and J&L Harley-Davidson about what's planned for the extra night:
One of the highlights of Hot Harley Nights each year is the motorcycle parade and free downtown events on Saturday night. It's the most impressive thing this side of Sturgis.
The details for Saturday night are coming together:
The real stars of the show at Hot Harley Nights every year are the kids from South Dakota Make-A-Wish. Their smiles and waves as they lead off the parade are definitely the highlight of the weekend.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB Kepler Graphics Card Review
Another GK104 Option for $299
If you missed our live stream with PC Perspective's Ryan Shrout and NVIDIA's Tom Petersen discussing the new GeForce GTX 660 Ti you can find the replay at this link!!
While NVIDIA doesn't like us to use the codenames anymore, very few GPUs are as flexible and as stout as the GK104. Originally released with the GTX 680 and then with the dual-GPU beast known as the GTX 690 and THEN with the more modestly priced GTX 670, this single chip has caused AMD quite a few headaches. It appears things will only be worse with the release of the new GeForce GTX 660 Ti today, once again powered by GK104 and the Kepler architecture at the $299 price point.
While many PC gamers lament about the lack of games that really push hardware today, NVIDIA has been promoting the GTX 660 Ti as the upgrade option of choice for gamers on a 2 -4 year cycle. Back in 2008 the GTX 260 was the mid-range enthusiast option while in 2010 it was the GTX 470 based on Fermi. NVIDIA claims GTX 260 users will see more than 3x the performance increase with the 660 Ti all while generating those pixels more efficiently.
I mentioned that the GeForce GTX 660 Ti was based on GK104 and what you mind find interesting is that it is nearly identical to the specifications of the GTX 670. Both utilize 7 SMXs for a total of 1344 stream processors or CUDA cores and both run at a reference clock speed of 915 MHz base and 980 MHz Boost. Both include 112 texture units though the GeForce GTX 660 Ti does see a drop in ROP count from 32 to 24 and L2 cache drops from 512KB to 384KB. Why?
Continue reading our review of the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB Graphics Card!!
The only other major specification to change is the memory bus width: the GeForce GTX 660 Ti will have a 192-bit memory bus while the GTX 670 and the GTX 680 run at 256-bit. While the memory will still run at 6.0 GHz, the total available memory bandwidth drops from 192.2 GB/s down to 144.2 GB/s - a decrease of 35%. How that will play out in actual gaming will be shown on the benchmark pages but I can tell you that it altered performance more than I expected it to.
Here is the full breakdown of specifications as detailed above with other notable change seen in the TDP decrease of 20 watts.
For this launch NVIDIA didn't send us any reference cards and instead we got partner overclocked solutions from Galaxy, MSI, EVGA and Zotac. (We are going to follow up this week with a quick roundup.) Because of that, our pictures are going to vary from card to card and design to design, but we'll use the MSI option for our descriptions here.
The output configuration could vary but we expect all the GeForce GTX 660 Ti cards to include a pair of DVI connections, a full size HDMI and a full size DisplayPort.
Like the GTX 670, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti only requires a pair of 6-pin PCIe power connections.
3-Way SLI support continues here as well!
If you remember, the reference GTX 670s used a smaller length PCB and while our MSI and Galaxy cards for the GeForce GTX 660 Ti launch do NOT, the EVGA and Zotac options did, seen here.
For gamers looking to pick up a GeForce GTX 660 Ti right away, you might be stoked to find out that NVIDIA is including a copy of Borderlands 2 with MOST of the retail units. Considering how successful we expect this game to be, that $50-60 value really is great to see for a launch like this.
NVIDIA sent along this video that demonstrates Borderlands 2 OF COURSE with a PhysX emphasis - why not include it here to get you excited for the game?
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nvidia has a beast of a video card with 660ti compared to 7950 even with an updated bios.
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All the retailers say there are non listed. I hope I don't miss the wave before they oos :/
I am looking forward to the upcoming price drops from AMD. Isn't competition great!?
i cant wait till the fall/winter when amd releases the 8xxx series of cards then nv sits and waits for a year than updates its lineup
Low TDP, cuda cores, and the MSI Twin Frozr looks promising to overclock. I might just move on from my 6970 to this card. 1344 Cuda cores should help in AE rendering.
How much more performous would you get if you have a gtx 670 and want to run that with the 660ti as sli
I doublt you can SLI a 660ti and a 670 together, and a 660ti is about 5-10% less powerful than a 670.
no you SLI a 660 ti and a 670 because are different cards you dick, you can only SLI the same card but they can be different makes. e.g MSI and EVGA, but they have to be the same GPU!
For building an SLI-System you need to use SAME GPUs.
2x GTX 670 OR 2x GTX 660 Ti.
GTX 670 + 660 Ti is not able to run in SLI-Mode.
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touched some fastidious factors here. Any way keep up wrinting.
660ti SLI is about a 20% performance increase from a single 680
Gtx 660 ti sli is in some cases even more powerful than the gtx Titan
how does sli scale on this card? will it be worth it towards highly oc'ed 600$ cards?
Hi, i play in a 25' Monitor, and i'm going to buy a 660Ti When the 660Ti goes "Cheap" here in Brazil ( A Lot Expensive here :\ ), but the question is i can Run the 660Ti i have risk of lose the 660ti With a 400w Power Supply ? with a core i3 2120 and 8 gb Kingston Memory ? Thank You. And Sorry for The bad english, i'm Training.
What brand PSU is it? A seasonic, thermaltake, or corsair 400w PSU likely would be okay, but the 660ti like a 450+. Other than that, your next upgrade would likely be a Quad Core i5, but even then the difference would be marginal between an i3 and an i5.
I Have a Corsair, but i was seeing that probably i will need to change my power suplly, i have Corsair 400CX, that only have a 6 pin connector.
Will faster GPUs help productivity with Folding at Home?
If you use the GPU-Client it will. The faster the card, the more points you'll get.
But in Folding@home the Radeons are much faster, then the GTXs.
Question for Tom:
Do you think the 660 has been nerfed enough so that overclocked versions won't exceed a more expensive 670? Because that was a real problem with the 670 vs 680!
at lower rez like 1080 don't think would take much OC to get it to around 670 speed, but that disabled memory controller is a ~25% memory bandwidth hit which would be a pretty size-able OC to get that back. I would say it could get in 670 ball park. This card was aimed at single monitor people.
wish i haddent bought a hd 7850
Why the 660Ti is between the 7870 and 7850 check out a real review on TomsHardware.com
Unless I missed it in my rather quick glance at this review (which has been discarded because of this fact), you should have included the 560 Ti. Did you just assume that no one was interested in the increase of power between the generation gap?
Should have used the 560 Ti, 570, and a 670 as a bench mark competitor - this review is useless with out it.
560ti is marginally faster than the 470.
You missed it, because its quiet obvious with as close as the 660ti performs to the 670.
And that comparison probably in the works anyway....
what Catalyst version you used for the test?
12.6 for AMD, 305.37 for NVIDIA. Article updated!
Can this one card be used to drive an HD TV, and 3 monitors in or out of eyefinity? I want to display a TV on on screen and have 3 monitor computing, not hardcore gaming but along those lines. I don't play many games, but I'm looking for a card that can do this. I currently run 3 heads off of a 6950/70 and run the TV off the z68 gigabyte iSSD mobo. THe current setup works, but I'm looking to upgrade...
I am planning a build which will use 3 660ti's in a 3 way SLi configuration so I should find out just how much of an improvement that makes in the next year. Your next question is why? Well I am not as interested in the performance gain as I am interested in getting at cheap GPUs. I am building the computer as mainly a GPU compute platform its ability to serve as a gaming platform is a perk. I am looking to take advantage GPU processing capabilities for GIS work.
interesting, what type of data?
*HELP* Can it handle 3 monitors???? *HELP*
it can handle 4, 3 at once for gaming and one on the side
It's my understanding that a 660Ti is a crippled 670gtx on a 192bit bus. So why? can these cards not SLI? surely the 670 would reduce its bus speed down to 192. before you go saying whats the point (I picked up a 660ti for £80 Black friday on Amazon) two 660ti's beat a 670gtx in most youtube benchies.
I'm going to buy gtx 660 ti but,I don't know which version of gtx660ti is the best. I'm thinking about gigabyte gtx660ti 3gb (gv n66toc 3gd)
As of right now, the HD 7870 is $80 less than the 660 Ti on Newegg. I don't think that $80 is worth the performance difference at all.


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cbartens needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 242 designs submitted by 74 freelance designers.
The Datalicious group focuses on delivering actionable insights based on data analysis and although we like our current logo we think it is time for a little professional help and refinement.
Since Datalicious was launched in Januray this year we've been swamped with work and subsequently expanded into new fields culminating in the foundation of 3 separate units combined under the Datalicious brand.
1) Datalicious Analytics: web analytics implementations, website analysis, system integration, online surveys, data mining, one-off projects.
2) Datalicious Media: SEM, SEO, landing page testing, a/b testing, multivariate testing, search lead media planning and execution, campaign analysis and optimization.
3) Datalicious Team: staff training, recruiting and on-demand staffing solutions for agencies and clients around the above key skill sets.
The idea is to have one global brand, Datalicious, with one and the same motto, to deliver actionable insights based on data (data / insights / action tagline) but introduce the new specialty areas (analytics, media, team) into the logo as well.
More info on http://www.datalicious.com.au/.
- New logo design building on the current one
- Looking for logo refinement not complete redesign
- Current artwork: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/10822/Artwork.zip
- Current logo is well liked but lacking recognisable icon
- Universal logo that is slightly different for the 3 business units
- Unit versions should contain words analytics, media, team
- Logo versions with and without tagline (data / insights / action)
- Global logo maybe with tagline, others without, otherwise too busy?
- In total 8 versions, 1 global plus 3 business unit ones both need to work on light and dark backgrounds
- Need artwork in Photoshop format with all layers intact
- no capital letters
- no fancy fluffy designs, keep it simple
- not many colours, slight variations ok but stick to current ones were possible
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Both sides were claiming victories of sort Wednesday in the legal battle between former National Basketball Players Association chief Billy Hunter and the union, including former president Derek Fisher.
A superior court judge in Los Angeles dismissed most of the claims made by Hunter against Fisher and his aide Jamie Wior (12 of 14, with two to be addressed in the coming days). But judge Huey Cotton ruled that Hunter's breach-of-contract suit seeking $10 million from the union can continue. Hunter, the NBPA's longtime executive director, claims he had a valid contract when he was terminated last February.
The crux of what remains centers around Hunter's 2010 contract extension and whether it was properly ratified by the board of player representatives. The NBPA claims it was not and therefore was invalid, but Cotton did not rule on the union by-laws and how they pertain to contract extensions.
But what might matter most to anyone not directly involved, including NBA fans, is that the union's search for Hunter's replacement is moving slowly. According to Bleacher Report's Howard Beck, NBA commissioner David Stern could be several months into his retirement and deputy Adam Silver well into his first year as Stern's successor by the time the NBPA fills its leadership void:
Union officials are still interviewing candidates for Hunter's successor as executive director. Contrary to a recent report, the union has not yet settled on a group of finalists, and the process could drag into the summer.
There isn't anything as urgent as an expiring collective bargaining agreement in play, but a number of matters on which the league and the union hope to work together – such as enhancing the joint anti-drug policy to include testing for human growth hormone – have been on hold awaiting an NBPA hire. Guard Chris Paul of the Los Angeles Clippers was elected union president, succeeding Fisher, at last year's All-Star Weekend.
Hunter was dismissed amid accusations of nepotism and improper business dealings. That triggered his lawsuit, which Fisher's and Wior's attorney Andrew Kassof described as "retaliation" after Cotton's ruling:
Hunter sued the NPBA, Fisher, its former president, and Wior last May, saying they conspired to undermine his authority during the 2011 lockout, and then have his employment terminated following the labor dispute.
"Today proved that Mr. Hunter's claims continue to be both farfetched and offensive," Kassof said.
But Hunter's attorney David Anderson of Sidley Austin said Cotton's decision supports Hunter's claims that his contract was valid, reported CBSSports.com's Ken Berger.
Cotton's ruling is expected to lead to settlement talks between Hunter and the union, though a previous attempt at negotiations reportedly failed.


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Reducing Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, One Brick at a Time
The latest science, described in the World Bank report "Turn Down the Heat," indicates that we are heading toward a 4° C warmer world, with catastrophic consequences in this century. While carbon dioxide (CO2) is still the No. 1 threat, there is another category of warming agent called short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs). Mitigating these pollutants is a must if we want to avoid the 4° C warmer future.
The main SLCPs are black carbon, methane, tropospheric ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons. They are potentially responsible for more than one-third of the current warming. Because SLCPs have a much shorter lifetime in the air than CO2; reducing their emissions can create almost immediate reduction of global/regional warming, which is not possible by reducing CO2 emissions alone. According to one U.N. report, full implementation of 16 identified measures to mitigate SLCPs would reduce future global warming by about 0.5˚C.
In this blog, we will focus on one SLCP – black carbon. Black carbon is a primary component of particulate matter (PM), the major environmental cause of premature deaths globally. As a climate pollutant, black carbon's global warming effects are multi-faceted. It can warm the atmosphere directly by absorbing radiation. When deposited on ice and snow, black carbon reduces their reflecting power and increases their melting rate. At the regional level, it also influences cloud formation and impacts regional circulation and rainfall patterns such as the monsoon in South Asia.


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Recently, my priest hit 85 and I decided it was time to level her alchemy from its dismal state – 120 or so – to max. And this week, I decided my druid should be an enchanter instead of a miner. Yes, I have an enchanter already but first, I wanted to have an enchanter in our raid, 100% of the time, and second, I like the bonus.
For both professions, I had a smattering of materials at various levels – a few stacks of random herbs, handfuls of different dusts and essences – and was willing to spend several thousand gold just to get things leveled up. Both of them were annoying in spots but very do-able; I did my alchemy in two couple-hour sessions, and I've spent about 4 hours so far on the enchanting and I'm almost to Cata level.
Materials are definitely the place where you are contrasting time versus money. If you go out on an herbalist and pick the flowers, you can get alchemy leveled without spending more than training gold and money for vials. But it's time consuming and annoying. An enchanter could go kill stuff for greens – but if you do this, you'll probably give up after the thousandth time a low level mob drops Melon Juice instead of a green.
I chose to use the Auction House as my materials source. This works better for enchanting than alchemy, because you have fewer components: basically at each level, you've got 1 type of dust, 1 type of essence that you use either greater or lessers (three lessers combine into a greater, or one greater breaks down into 3 lessers) , a Shard (larger and smaller), and a crystal. Most of the recipes you use to skill up won't need shards, and if you are using crystals at any point in power leveling you're probably doing it wrong.
For Alchemy, however, you have a huge number of plants that are combined in various recipes – sometimes you'll get a stretch of forty skill points where the only recipes offering a good chance of skill up require, say, Goldthorn. If there's ample Goldthorn on the auction house, you're fine. If there's not much, or if it costs too much, you may have to go pick the herbs yourself.
Some enchanting mats may be on the AH by themselves; check and see. I found that many of them were a reasonable price. If there aren't enough of a particular mat, or it's outrageously expensive (someone was selling Eternal Essence for 500 gold a piece on our server), then look up what level range of gear disenchants into that mat, buy a bunch, and disenchant your own. You'll probably get a lot of dust, a few essences, and one or two shards out of every ten or so items you buy.
The first 100 or so skill points in each seem pretty easy to get. For alchemy you can set yourself making multiples of whatever potion is going to give you a skill up. For enchanting, buy stacks of vellum from the enchanting supplies vendor and go to town – this is so much more convenient than the old "enchant your own bracers 200 times" method! I just destroyed most of the scrolls I made, but a few I sent to my bank alt to try to sell. You do have to click multiple times for every enchant you're trying to do; once in the book, once on the vellum. Power leveling enchanting runs a risk of repetitive stress injury, that's for sure.
Both professions have a nasty spot somewhere near the top end of Vanilla recipes, where the mats you need are farmed from level 55+ zones. Maybe you'll be on a server where there's a lot of people farming this content, but most likely, you're going to have to spend time or money to get over the hump. Don't worry! If you can get through the 270-300 zone, it gets considerably easier. Outlands and Northrend level recipes use fewer mats which drop from more things. It gets better.
A word about Enchanting: somewhere around 300 is where I started running into real rod difficulty. Rod difficulty? What's that? Well every so often your enchanting rod just isn't good enough and you have to make a new one. Sometimes you learn the pattern from your trainer; sometimes you have to go get it yourself. If you're going to power level enchanting, you might go pick these up first. One recipe is in Moonglade, there's another in Outlands, Hellfire to be precise. Wowhead can give you good directions. This will happen again near max level enchanting, when you have to buy the pattern from a vendor in Twilight Highlands. If you're not 84 and can't open the zone, you can't max out enchanting yet.
The components to make the rods can be… expensive… as well. If you have or know a blacksmith, get him to make you all the rods you'll need in order to make your runed rod. So far the worst one for mats has been the runed adamantite rod; you need a Primal Might, which may set you back a bit.
Anyhow. An alchemist doesn't have to bother with any of this, but if you are leveling alchemy, remember your specialization! You can certainly go back and get this one after maxing things out. Google a guide to learn how to gain a specialization. I went Elixir specialization which gave me extra flask procs. To do this I had to make a few flasks and get some weird components that dropped in Caverns of Time: Black Morass. Two clears and I was done there; at level 85 even a shadow priest can solo that place. No big deal.
Back to leveling. When you hit Northrend level, there should be lots of mats on the auction house for you. If you have a jewelcrafter, one cheap way to get enchanting mats is to craft a whole bunch of rings – the Sun Rock Ring takes two Crystallized Earth and a bloodstone. It mostly disenchants into dust but sometimes Cosmic Essence instead and is extremely cost effective.
Either profession is very easy to power level these days, if you invest a couple hours and maybe 2000 gold. Enchanting is slower, and slightly more annoying IMO. Once you get toward max level, you can level your alchemy with transmuting gems but for enchanting you're going to have to go to Twilight Highlands and buy some patterns – so if you're not 84 yet you can't complete enchanting. Alchemy, you can get well before you're 85, if you're interested.
There's leveling guides out there that tell you the "most efficient/cost effective" way to level either but basically those assume that your auction house will actually have the componentst, or that you're spending the time yourself. I find that the best way to do things is just make what you have mats for. Don't make green recipes, unless it's the last skilling-up recipe you have that uses a particular mat. Don't get frustrated; it's better to walk away and come back later.
If you're looking to switch a profession, now is a pretty darn good time to do so. There's plenty of mats on the auction house, the power levellers have already been past, and – well, it's cold outside, you probably are spending lots of time on WoW anyway.


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Morse Girls Soccer 2010
Wow! You girls are AWESOME! So much fun, so many pictures! They are arranged in order of shirt number, Varsity and JV mixed together. All photos are available for purchase from the website, but you may also order using the forms you got from Coach. The order forms have different products, but most importantly, money-saving packages. Some of you have several action shots in succession. I can make those into a collage for you, just send me an email and we'll put together something great! Another fun idea is Posters! All of these pix are high-rez, perfect for posters and lots of other great photo ideas. If you have an idea, please share! I'm at firstname.lastname@example.com and can't wait to hear from you! One More Thing... every photo is available for ONLY $5 to LEGALLY download for internet use! Thank you for the opportunity to work with your team!Read More
Good Luck with the rest of your season and I'll see you all soon!
Good Luck with the rest of your season and I'll see you all soon!
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What Can Sri Lanka and Africa Learn from Each Other?
The title of this post may seem a bit odd. What can an island of 20 million people and a diverse continent of 47 countries have in common? The answer: Both were thought to have initial advantages that would generate rapid economic growth; instead, they have fallen painfully short of expectations.
In the African case, the advantage was its rich natural resources such as oil and minerals. But instead of exploiting this potential ticket to poverty reduction, Africa's natural resource producers have seen their per capita income grow more slowly than that of non-mineral countries. Nigeria is a case in point. Its per capita income in 1970 (before the oil boom) was $913; today it is $454.
Sri Lanka's asset is its human resources—reflected in the high levels of literacy and low levels of child and maternal mortality that have stood out since the 1960s. Like Africa, Sri Lanka has been an exercise in disappointment. In fact, there is no other country with a lower infant mortality rate and a lower per capita income than Sri Lanka.
The question for Africa and Sri Lanka is therefore how to manage the enormous assets they posses in a way that translates into sustainable wellbeing for their populations?


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by Tom Utescher
Co-champion in the Athletic Association of Catholic Academies last fall and the outright winner of the title in 2011, Mount St. Joseph should once again be in the forefront of the league tennis scene this year. Still, the rebuilding process has presented some twists and turns for the perennial AACA power.
Among the four seniors who graduated from the 2012 line-up was Mary Gorman, a four-year fixture in varsity singles, and the projected number one for the 2013 squad, junior Morgan Weiss, has undergone ankle surgery and will not be able to play this fall.
After playing an opening scrimmage against Springfield High School last Monday, the Magic were scheduled to open their league campaign against visiting Merion Mercy on Thursday afternoon, but a downpour that began around lunchtime put the kibosh on those plans.
The following morning the Mounties were able to see action in a road scrimmage against Wissahickon High School. The MSJ singles players didn't have an easy time of it against their counterparts from Wissahickon, the defending PIAA District 1 champion, but the doubles players enjoyed more success, and they'll provide depth for the team when AACA competition actually begins.
For the start of his ninth season at the helm of the Mount program, head coach Ron Mutchnik has Betsy Napolitano playing in the first singles position, with fellow juniors Belin Mirabile and Emily Christine holding down the second and third spots, respectively.
Last year's All-League first doubles duo of Morgan Devine and Allison Murray is no more, since both players have graduated, and stepping up to form the Mount's premier pair this fall are junior Colleen Burns and senior Krista Goebel.
Goebel and the three other 12th-graders, Máiread Glowacki, Katie Moses, and Nikki Williamson, are the captains for the 2013 Mount St. Joe franchise. Moses is playing second doubles along with junior Nicolette Sommar, while Glowacki is teamed up with sophomore Maria Thomas in the number three tandem. Williamson plays fourth singles, with junior Serena Romanelli as her partner.
That would constitute a full line-up for a regulation PIAA match (three singles, four doubles), but within the Catholic Academies League, the old three singles, two doubles format is still employed.
Thomas, a converted soccer player who is showing promise with a tennis racquet, is one of just two sophomores, along with Sophia Gardell. Kaitlyn Meister is a returning player who is a member of the strong junior class, but she had a conflicting engagement last Saturday. Five freshmen were on hand for the Wissahickon scrimmage, all seeing action in doubles play.
Going forward, the Mount's opponents will all be league teams with one exception; the Magic will host Archbishop Carroll a week after Labor Day.


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"Doesn't he know the motto of the Musketeers?" asks Porthos (Howard Charles) as he watches D'Artagnan (Luke Pasqualino) frantically trying to escape from Cardinal Richelieu's men. "Everyone for themselves," he adds, as he and his friends Athos (Tom Burke) and Aramis (Santiago Cabrera) take off running.
The new 10-episode BBC America swashbuckling series "The Musketeers" is an appealing mixture of cheek and derring-do with a solid cast. Based on the characters from Alexandre Dumas' classic and oft-told novel, "The Three Musketeers," it's set in 1630 France and introduces the major characters quickly. D'Artagnan is a skilled but untested swordsman from rural Gascony. He and his father are on a mission to see King Louis XIII (Ryan Gage) when they are ambushed by masked men and the older man is killed.
The crime is blamed on Athos, and D'Artagnan proceeds to Paris for revenge, where he stops at a ratty hotel. There, every amenity is extra except for the "communal towel." When served an indescribable meal, D'Artagnan stares at the fare and grumbles, "Looks like the intestines of badger." "Specialty of the house," the hag of a landlady retorts.
The series enjoys making the odd joke or two about the personal hygiene of the day, although all the principals are attractive and have their teeth. Maimie McCoy, as the mysterious Milady de Winter, is a definitive head-turner. Early on, she seduces D'Artagnan and leaves him in a precarious situation. The femme fatale works for Cardinal Richelieu (Peter Capaldi), who controls France through the king, though the prelate's ambitions are thwarted from time to time by Captain Treville (Hugo Speer) and his Musketeers.
The dashing Aramis is thwarting the Cardinal by sleeping with his mistress, but it's a dangerous game, especially after Athos is framed for crimes by the masked men and sentenced to death. In keeping with the novel, D'Artagnan and the Musketeers will become "all for one," but the story takes another route. There are different plots in the series, although the main antagonists remain the same. Capaldi is excellent as the scheming Richelieu, but he won't be in season two, already in the works, since he is the new "Doctor Who."
Burke is perfect as the brooding Athos with his secret past, while Pasqualino has the charisma needed to be D'Artagnan. Cabrera displays the right amount of rogue for Aramis.
Tamla Kari offers some comic relief and earthy beauty as Constance. The married seamstress is excited to have D'Artagnan and these men in her life as a counterpoint to her dull marriage. Also unhappy in her marriage is the strong-willed Queen Anne (Alexandra Dowling), who needs to produce an heir; she and Aramis have been eying each other.
While the sword-fighting is not exactly imaginatively staged, it is violently convincing, and so is the "The Musketeers." With solid production values, it has set itself up to tell an old tale in a fun, entertaining way.


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Richard Fisher wants the monetary spigot turned off.
In remarks to a group of Dallas businessmen released today, the Dallas Fed governor said he was disturbed by what he saw as Wall Street's continued cries for more Fed accommodation:
I am personally perplexed by the continued preoccupation, bordering upon fetish, that Wall Street exhibits regarding the potential for further monetary accommodation—the so-called QE3, or third round of quantitative easing.
Yet financial market operators keep looking and hoping for more. Why? I think it may be because they have become hooked on the monetary morphine we provided when we performed massive reconstructive surgery, rescuing the economy from the Financial Panic of 2008-09, and then kept the medication in the financial bloodstream to ensure recovery.
Things have to get really bad before Fisher will jump on the QE bandwagon.
"I personally see no need to administer additional doses unless the patient goes into postoperative decline. I would suggest to you that, if the data continue to improve, however gradually, the markets should begin preparing themselves for the good Dr. Fed to wean them from their dependency rather than administer further dosage.


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Key Votes
HR 2346 - 2008-2009 Supplemental Appropriations - National Key Vote
Phil Hare voted Yea (Conference Report Vote) on this Legislation.
Read statements Phil Hare made in this general time period.
- June 24, 2009 Executive Signed
- June 18, 2009 Senate Conference Report Adopted
- June 16, 2009 House Conference Report Adopted
- May 21, 2009 Senate Bill Passed
- May 14, 2009 House Bill Passed
- May 12, 2009 Introduced
Issues Related to HR 2346
Stage Details
Legislation - Signed (Executive) - Became Public Law No. 111-32 - June 24, 2009
Title: 2008-2009 Supplemental Appropriations
Legislation - Conference Report Adopted (Senate) (91-5) - June 18, 2009
Legislation -
Conference Report Adopted
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June 16, 2009(Key vote)
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Title: 2008-2009 Supplemental Appropriations
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Vote to adopt a conference report that supplements appropriations to respective departments and agencies for fiscal year 2008-2009.
- Supplements and rescinds appropriations for the Department of Defense (includes Department of Defense-Civil), totaling $80.93 billion in supplemental funding, including, but not limited to, the following (Titles III, IV & X):
- $29.51 billion for operation and maintenance (includes rescissions of appropriations under prior defense appropriation Acts), including, but not limited to:
- $3.61 billion for the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund; and
- $400 million for the Pakistan Counterinsurgency Fund;
- $25.3 billion for Procurement (includes rescissions of appropriations under prior defense appropriation Acts);
- $18.73 billion for military personnel;
- $2.87 billion for military construction;
- $1.12 billion for the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund;
- $1.06 billion for the Defense Health Program; and
- $534.4 million for payments to members of the Armed Forces who, at any time during the period of September 11, 2001 through September 30, 2009, served on active duty while the members' enlistment or period of obligated service was extended.
- Appropriates $9.7 billion for the Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development, and other agencies for costs associated with international assistance, including, but not limited to, the following (Title XI):
- $4.65 billion for bilateral economic assistance, including, but not limited to, $2.97 billion for the Economic Support Fund;
- $2.18 billion for international security assistance, including, but not limited to, $1.29 billion for the Foreign Military Financing Program;
- $1.94 billion for Diplomatic and Consular Programs; and
- $721 million for international peacekeeping activities.
- Appropriates $7.73 billion in supplemental funding for the Department of Health and Human Services, including, but not limited to, $7.65 billion for costs associated with preparation for and response to the influenza pandemic (Title VIII).
- Appropriates $4.97 billion to increase the U.S. quota in the International Monetary Fund (Title XIV).
- Appropriates $1 billion for the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Program ("Cash for Clunkers"), of which $50 million is available for administration (Title XIII).
- Prohibits funds from being used to transfer a prisoner detained at the Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to the U.S., unless the prisoner is being transferred for the purposes of prosecution or detainment during legal proceedings and the President has submitted a plan to Congress that includes the following (Sec. 14103):
- Findings of an analysis regarding any risk to the national security of the U.S. that is posed by the transfer of the prisoner and a plan for the mitigation of such risk;
- Costs associated with transferring the prisoner;
- Legal rationale and associated court demands for transfer; and
- Copy of a notification sent to the Governor of the State to which the individual will be transferred or, in the case of the District of Columbia, a copy of a notification sent to the the Mayor.
- Prohibits funds from being used to establish permanent military bases in Iraq or Afghanistan or exercise U.S. control over the oil resources of Iraq (Secs. 314-315).
- Requires the President to submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees no later than the date of submission of the fiscal year 2010-2011 budget assessing the extent to which the Governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan are demonstrating the necessary commitment, capability, conduct and unity of purpose to warrant the continuation of the President's policy. The report must include the following (Sec. 1116):
- Level of political consensus and unity of purpose across ethnic, tribal, religious and political party affiliations;
- Level of government corruption;
- Actions taken by security forces and appropriate government entities in developing a counterinsurgency capability;
- Actions taken by intelligence agencies in cooperating with the U.S. on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations;
- Ability of the Governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan to effectively control and govern territory within their respective borders; and
- Ways in which U.S. assistance has contributed, or failed to contribute, to achieving the stated goals.
- Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to Congress no later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act and every 90 days thereafter through September 30, 2010 on the current reduction and eventual withdrawal of U.S. troops in Iraq by August 31, 2010. The report must include the following (Sec. 316):
- Troop draw down status and goals;
- Month-by-month description of the transition of U.S. military forces and contractors out of Iraq;
- How the Government of Iraq is assuming the responsibility for reconciliation initiatives;
- How the draw down plan complies with the President's planned withdrawal of combat brigades; and
- The roles and responsibilities of remaining contractors in Iraq.
Legislation - Bill Passed With Amendment (Senate) (86-3) - May 21, 2009
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (368-60) - May 14, 2009
Legislation - Introduced (House) - May 12, 2009
Title: 2008-2009 Supplemental Appropriations
- David Ross 'Dave' Obey (WI - D) (Out Of Office)


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Solving Exit Handling Problems
In this age of improved engine systems that help us gain more horsepower and torque, what remains as one of the greatest challenges in circle track racing is the issue of handling. It is a generally accepted truth that speed gained in the turns is much more significant than any small legal gain in engine power.
Speed gained in the turns will be carried all the way around the racetrack. If you can gain 1 mph in each of the turns, then you will have gained 1 mph on the straights, too. That 1 mph equals a reduction in lap times of 111/42 tenths for a 16-second-per-lap track with an average speed of 100 mph. For most tracks and series, that represents the difference between the pole and Tenth Place in qualifying.
In Part One of this two-part series, we examined how to recognize basic handling problems and ways to correct them for corner entry and the middle of the turn. We believe that midturn balance is most important to overall handling performance. Entry and exit performance is also very important for both performance and the ability to race other cars and move forward through the field, even if that means passing lapped traffic. We have worked on midturn and entry problems. Now let's tackle the exit problems.
Loose on Exit Being loose off the corner is possibly the most detrimental handling problem we can have in an actual race. Many passes occur as the cars are exiting a turn. Other racers can recognize when you are having problems with bite off the corner and set you up by laying back a bit and making a run off the corners. You are forced high coming out and must steer more to avoid the wall. With a car that is already loose, that means backing off and letting the passing car go. This will happen with many more cars until one comes along that is as loose off as yours.
A car that is loose on exit could have several problems. When we race on asphalt, this condition usually occurs on flatter racetracks and on tracks with worn surfaces. Some of these problems/fixes relate to both dirt and asphalt, but some will not cover both.
1 Shock Compression and Rebound Rates
If the LR shock is too soft on compression or the RR shock is too stiff on compression, the car will lose some amount of crossweight percentage momentarily as we get back into the throttle and load transfers to the back of the car. With that, the rear of the car and the rear shocks compress and the front shocks rebound. To gain bite off the corners, the LR shock should be at a higher rating for compression than the RR shock. This serves to increase the crossweight momentarily as the car accelerates and the rear of the car squats.
Front rebound rates affect the distribution of weight also. Many teams will decrease the rebound rate of the LF shock to loosen a tight car off the corners. This could be making your car too loose off. Match the front rebound rates if a split is making the car loose.
2Rear Spring Rates
The combination of rear spring rates can affect the amount of traction we have on exit at the rear of the car. This could be especially significant with the asphalt big bar and soft spring setups. With the BBSS springs, the RR spring is usually much stiffer than the LR spring. As load transfers to the rear upon acceleration, the LR spring compresses more than the RR spring, and that de-wedges the car. To compensate for this, the LR shock should have a much greater compression rate than the RR shock.
Basic shock tech tells us we need more compression control for a soft spring, because the spring resists compression, too, and there is less spring to resist. For stiffer springs, we need much less compression because that stiff spring will resist compression so well.
For conventional setups, keep the rear springs even in rates or use a slightly softer RR spring if traction is needed. Whichever setup combination you choose, make sure the setup is balanced and that changes to the spring rates are in conjunction with corresponding changes to the Panhard bar height to maintain a balanced setup.
The amount of rear spring split (RR softer than the LR) needed varies with the type of car. A coilover asphalt Late Model car only needs about 10 or 15 pounds of split to get the job done. A dirt LM could use a 50- or 75-pound split to cause the car to roll over more dramatically with dry-slick conditions in order to create a sufficient amount of rear suspension movement to promote the rear steer that is needed for those conditions.
A stock car with the metric four-link rear suspension and big springs mounted in the stock location needs more split of up to 50 pounds of difference in order to overcome the high rear moment center that is associated with that type of suspension.
3 Rear Steer
Your car could develop a loose condition if the rear suspension is designed to steer to the right as the car rolls and squats on exit under full acceleration. The suspension links may produce zero steer under normal cornering attitudes associated with rolling and diving. That may change as the car squats after weight has transferred when the car accelerates so that the new arm angles now produce rear steer to the right.
Adjust the angles of the rear control arms so that you will have near zero rear steer when the car is at the exit attitude. An increase in the amount of antisquat also serves to limit the amount of rear suspension movement while the car is accelerating, which reduces the effect of rear steer. This effect can be mistaken for added bite. In reality, it reduces unwanted rear steer to the right, fixing a loose-off condition.
4 Mechanical Traction Control
If the car is good through the middle and initial exit but loose off the corner as we get into the gas, then the problem might be one of power-induced wheelspin and we need to further develop our traction-enhancing program. The primary goal is to eliminate the "shock" that reaches the rear tires due to engine torque that comes from initial application of power. We can utilize systems that increase the crossweight and those that produce rear steer to the left to help tighten a loose-off car.
The cars with the metric four-link rear suspensions can benefit from mechanical traction control, too. I have heard of teams utilizing more solid bushings in the left-side connections at the chassis and the rear end, but leaving the stock rubber bushings in the right side. This provides less rear steer in the middle of the turns but introduces rear steer to the left upon acceleration as the right-side bushings compress.
5Weight Distribution and Placement
If we feel comfortable with the balance of the car related to the geometry of the front and rear ends, then we might be set up a little too loose with the crossweight percentage. The car might be able to handle more crossweight and still turn fine through the middle of the corner as long as the front geometry is correct. A car that is more "free" feels really nice through the middle, turning with almost no effort, but we need a slight amount of "tight" to assist our exit performance.
One driver I used to work with (who had won several championships) always drove faster, especially during the race, if the car was a little tight in the middle. He would say after a practice run, "She's pretty good, just a touch tight in the middle." When I would take that "touch" out of the car, he would slow down by 2-3 tenths.
A driver must feel that the rear of the car is under him or her to feel more confident pushing the speeds in the turns and taking the car to the limits when passing other cars or holding off a challenge. That is exactly why the front geometry needs to be correct so that when we need to turn the car against a tighter setup, it goes where we point it.
6 Tight/Loose Syndrome
The limit to what was discussed above is when we set up the car to be too tight. We have learned that a tire will actually gain traction as we increase the angle of attack, or in more simple terms, when we increase steering wheel input. That means if we have a tight car in the middle of the turns, we can compensate by increasing the steering input and the front will gain traction to match the rear.
The problem with this is what we call the tight/loose syndrome. When the car is set up too tight, we can still possibly overcome that with even more steering input, but at some point, and this happens very quickly, the balance is reversed and the front ends up with more traction than the rear.
This almost always occurs just about the time when we are getting back into the throttle. So the car is already going loose, and then bam-we gas it up and then the car really goes loose. The driver comes in and swears that the car is loose, but if we can recognize the tightness in the middle, evidenced by the amount of steering input, then we will know the difference and be able to apply the correct fix, which is to loosen the car for a more balanced midturn.
7 Sway Bar Preload
One effect that tightens a car that is loose off the corner is sway bar preload. It has been demonstrated many times that we can help provide more traction off the corners by adding preload to the sway bar. A caution here is in order. If we know the correct crossweight that the car needs for midturn performance, then we need to weigh the car after we preload the sway bar. Adding preload, especially when using a larger-diameter bar, really adds to the crossweight percentage.
For the larger sway bar setups, preload is not an option. I have seen teams try to preload a large sway bar only to see the ride heights change dramatically. I watched one team fight the ride heights for over a half-hour. You cannot preload a 111/42-inch or larger sway bar.
8 Racetrack Transition
The shape of the racetrack can affect how the car is balanced when exiting the turns. If the transition is abrupt and the top of the track drops to match the inside edge elevation going into the straightaways, then the RF will follow the drop-off and unload the LR wheel. Shock rebound rates need to be adjusted to allow the LR tire to stay in contact with the racing surface.
If the LR shock has too much rebound, then that tire will lose a lot of load and not be able to provide traction. The RR tire will be the only one trying to accelerate and turn the car, and it will run out of traction and spin. Decrease the amount of rebound in the LR shock and/or soften the rebound in the RF shock to help this situation.
9Excess Rear Stagger
Every race car needs a certain amount of tire stagger (tire size difference in the rear tires to compensate for the turn radius so the rear-wheel rpm will be equal at midturn) and no more or less. Excess stagger should never be used as a crutch to help make the car turn in the middle or while under power if it is tight. Doing this will probably make the car loose off the turns while under power.
Stagger only affects midturn handling if the car has a spool type of rear differential or a Posi-traction type of rear differential. With a Detroit Locker, one or both of the axles will be unlocked going in and through the middle and lock back up on exit while under power. So, with the DL style of rearend, stagger should match the radius of the turn where the car is starting to accelerate.
Tight Off the Corner
Many racers could say they wished they had this problem, but nonetheless, it does exist. This condition is many times tied to a geometry problem or possibly a shock package mismatch. It hurts our performance because as we accelerate off the corner, we might need to eventually lift to avoid the outside wall if the push is severe enough.
If we are racing someone and get under them coming out of the turns, we would most likely be forced to lift to avoid pushing into the outside car. Many cars have been taken out because the inside car did not lift when they should have. Here are some common reasons why the car might be tight on exit off the corners.
1 Front Shock Compression Rates
If the RF shock is too stiff on rebound or the LR shock is too soft on compression, the RF corner of the car will lose weight as the car accelerates, causing the LR to also lose weight. The result is more weight distributed to the LF and RR, which reduces the crossweight. This will obviously make the car loose initially as the car starts to accelerate.
2 Rear Spring Rates
The rear spring rate combination could make the car tight off the corners. Excess rear spring rate split, with the RR spring rate less than the LR spring rate, would make the car very tight off the corner while under power.
In most cases, reduce the spring split until the desired effect is less than needed and go back up to the next level. If you have a 25-pound split in the rear springs, try a 15-pound split. If that produces enough bite, leave it there. The car must be neutral off the corners so that we can maneuver around other cars in the race.
3 Rear Steer
A small adjustment to the geometry of the rear suspension can reduce the degree of rear steer to make the car more neutral while under power. If the car squats as power is applied, then it is possible that the added movement is making too much rear steer to the left, which tightens the car considerably.
With three-link rear suspensions, the arms are fairly short and a height difference at the front of the arms of a quarter of an inch can be felt by the driver. A half-inch change can make the car undrivable. Make height changes to your trailing arms in small increments.
4 Front Wheel Camber Change
If the front of the car rises as we get back into the throttle, it is possible that this movement will cause the front wheels to change camber quickly and lose traction on initial application of power.
In a test session we were running at Concord Speedway in North Carolina a few years ago, the car was developing a slight push just as the driver was accelerating off the corner. We could see the front end rise, evidenced by the increase in the gap between the top of the left-front tire and the top of the wheelwell. We pulled the front shocks and increased the rebound rates in both front shocks. That solved the problem. Since we maintained the rebound split between the shocks, we determined that it was the sudden change in the camber of the front wheels that caused the front of the car to lose grip.
5 Rear Stagger
If we do not run a sufficient amount of rear stagger for the radius of the turns, especially where the car is initially accelerating, then the rear end will drive the car to the right. I have known teams who had otherwise nicely balanced race cars that could not get off the turns without heading for the outside wall.
Running less stagger than required for the track banking angle and radius will make the car tight on exit, driving the front toward the wall. In a recent exchange with a team, it was discovered that they were running only about 31/44 to 1 inch of stagger when the track they were running at required 2 to 211/44 inches of stagger. Obviously, their problem was a car that was tight off the corners.
We have discussed and given advice about rear stagger and what the car wants at various types of racetracks in CT. Use those guides and do not tune the car's handling with stagger. Give it what it wants and some of your exit problems will go away.
Conclusion When attempting to tune your car's handling balance at the racetrack, always start with the middle phase of the turns. Run the car at a moderate speed through the middle, well below race speed, and note how far the steering wheel is turned. Speed up and do a few hot laps and again note the position of the steering wheel. If the wheel is turned farther at speed, the car is tight; if it is turned less, it is loose. If you have to steer to the right at midturn, bring the car back in. That simple test has helped many teams quickly determine the status of their setups so they will quickly know which direction to go when tuning the midturn handling.
Next, tune the entry balance and then tune the exit balance. When all three phases are balanced, work on driver finesse and practice passing maneuvers running high and low off the corners. With the car set up correctly, it is just a matter of experience and a little racing luck that brings that first win.
The rear stagger should be matched to the racetrack and not used to correct handling problems. A racetrack will require a certain amount of rear stagger, depending on the radius of the turns and the banking angle. The track turn radius you will use to determine the correct stagger matters the most where the car will be accelerating. The accelerating-portion radius (exiting one-third of the turn) might be larger than the midturn radius. With cars that use the Detroit locker rear differentials, less stagger should be used than would be dictated by the middle radius so that both rear wheels are turning the same rpm off the corner.
The front mounting bracket on a three-link rear suspension is adjustable to allow the team to change the angle of the trailing arm. The driver can feel small changes to the height of the front of the trailing arm.
A "pushrod" trailing arm installed on the right side will compress when the car is accelerating. This shortens the link and allows the rear end to steer to the left, which tightens the car considerably. Most teams who find this useful always find it necessary to tighten the preload on the rubber biscuit to limit the amount of movement. Small amounts of rear steer go a long way toward tightening the car off the corner.


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A New Paradigm for Education
By Jan L. Plass, with Melissa Biles, Jonathan Frye & Tsu-Ting Huang
Digital games have become an integral part of the daily lives of millions of individuals, and are increasingly recognized for their potential as environments for supporting learning. In fact, with their vast popularity and singular ability to engage young people, digital games have been hailed as tools that may enable a new paradigm for education. Because of this great potential, as described at the recent NYU Teaching with Technology Conference, Courant computer scientist Ken Perlin and I have joined with colleagues from six other universities to explore their educational use and to guide their creation through empirically-supported design patterns. With support from Microsoft Research, we formed the Games for Learning Institute (G4LI), where we study games for learning, develop design patterns, build game prototypes, and test them in a variety of learning settings.
Here we give an overview of the reasons and ways that games can be effective tools for pedagogy, followed by a summary of some of the G4LI's current research projects.
Games Provide Highly Contextualized Problem-Solving Spaces
Unlike many classroom-based learning experiences, video games allow students to apply their knowledge in complex and varied contexts. For example, when playing through a level of Portal 2, a popular sci-fi video game, the player is challenged to analyze the constraints of the area around them and solve spatial puzzles. This experience leverages the player's knowledge of physics and their ability to apply this knowledge to the game. Likewise, LittleBigPlanet 2 introduces tools (e.g., a grappling hook) and then provides a wide range of situations and contexts in which players learn the proper use of those tools. Through these types of rich in-game interactions, video games can situate students in authentic experiences, allowing them to expand and apply practical knowledge.
Games Support Highly Engaging, Individualized Learning
Rather than having a single, generic experience that may cater only to a particular type of learner, games have the ability to adjust gameplay based on the players' past actions and decisions. A player's game experience can be tailored to their preferences and performance; not only can players choose the options they prefer, but based on gameplay metrics, the game can automatically change difficulty and rewards. In commercial role-playing games (RPGs) like Dragon Age, for example, players will have a dynamically different experience depending on the type of character they pick, along with the decisions and conversation options they choose within the game world.
Applying these concepts to a learning game, the players' ability to correctly solve problems or identify and apply relevant concepts within the game space determines the types of challenges the game will present to them in the future. If a player is struggling with a learning concept, the game could adjust by presenting the same concept in a different context or by decreasing the difficulty level until the player has demonstrated mastery of that skill or concept. Similarly, if a player seems to be successfully employing a particular problem solving strategy, the game could present new material within that familiar framework. After the player has demonstrated mastery of the material, the game could then follow up with new frameworks. By balancing gameplay enjoyment with an appropriate level of challenge, games have the ability to keep players in their own unique optimally challenging and engaging zone for learning.
Games Bridge in-School and out-of-School Learning
Video games are easily accessed anywhere—on computers at home, school, and everywhere in between (including cell phones and tablets). By not limiting educational opportunities to time spent in the classroom, games can bridge learning environments across many settings. Subsequently, a lesson started in school can be played on the bus ride home and then continued on a home computer. Since games can be designed to have embedded assessments, teachers could keep track of students' progress playing educational games as homework.
Games Have High Emotional Impact
Students learn better when they are actively interested and engaged in the subject matter at hand. Although the learner is often treated within the classroom as a purely cognitive being, the thinking process cannot be separated from feeling. Even conventional learning materials, such as homework and quizzes, evoke an emotional response, though often a negative one. Our research has shown that learning is facilitated when students are in a positive emotional state. Video games can create such a positive emotional impact through compelling design of narrative environments.
Uncharted, for example, is a popular action-adventure game series revolving around the exploits of treasure hunter Nathan Drake. The game creates a compelling element of adventure by taking the player through dank dungeons and crumbling ruins. By situating the player's decisions within this very detailed and realistic world, the game imbues the player's choices with gravitas. Likewise, in the interactive narrative game Heavy Rain, players are presented with morally-ambiguous situations that require them to engage in a decision-making process. The emotional impact of such games can cause the players to become more motivated and involved in the learning process, which means they are more likely to remember the "how" and the "why" behind the particular decisions they make.
Games Create Communities of Practice
One of the most powerful features of games is that they bring together individuals with common goals. Popular games such as World of Warcraft, for example, spawned online communities with hundreds of thousands of contributors. It has been argued, therefore, that much of the actual learning happens outside of a game, through the discussion of player strategies, development of documents with virtual walkthroughs, and formation of governance structures within these communities that engage players in activities not unlike the management of a small business. From an educational perspective, many of the skills learned in these communities are beneficial, but not typically taught in schools.
Games Allow for Embedded Assessment
One of the challenges in traditional educational environments is the assessment of learning outcomes. Conventional assessments are typically given once, after a period of learning, and therefore represent only one perspective of a learner's progress, rather than tracking their progress throughout their learning experience. Games, by comparison, allow learning to be monitored and tracked in real time. Each action a player makes in a game can be logged, contextualized, and matched with learning standards, such as the common core, to gain a deeper understanding of the player's mental models. This is seen in many games that allow players to collect and analyze statistics, such as real-time strategy (RTS) games like Starcraft 2. By providing a constant stream of valuable information during gameplay, games allow continual monitoring of learning as a process—not simply the learner's ability to perform at one point in time.
Research Projects on Games and Learning
Well-designed games that integrate some or many of the above ideas can make very effective learning environments. But what can research tell us about the design of good games? A first step is the consideration of the function of a game in the learning process. In the course of the G4LI's work, we have developed the following heuristic: Does it prepare future learning by providing students with a shared experience the instructor can reference? Does it introduce new concepts and skills, or is it designed to practice and automate existing concepts and skills? Is it designed to teach important life skills such as team collaboration, creativity, or problem solving?
Once the function of a game for learning has been clarified, a myriad of other design decisions remain. NYU has played an active role in contributing to research and development that furthers the efficacy and understanding of these choices. The Steinhardt School's Consortium for Research and Evaluation of Advanced Technologies in Education (CREATE) lab, for example, conducts research on the design, critique, and evaluation of a wide range of advanced digital technologies for learning. At the CREATE lab, interdisciplinary teams of scholars and developers work together to identify the optimal design elements of digital materials to use in a variety of formal and informal educational settings. Projects include game design for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning, educational game design for mobile devices, chemistry simulations for high school students, the development of a computer programming game for middle school girls, and the construction of interactive tools for medical education.
Examples of Research Collaboration
Many of the projects underway at the G4LI benefit from collaborations of diverse groups. The Mathematics Fluency Data Collaborative, for example, is a G4LI project led by Carnegie Learning and in collaboration with Game2Learn at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte; the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center at Carnegie Mellon University; Pellissippi State Community College; and PlayPower. These diverse contributors bring together their expertise in mathematics education, cognition, game design, and data mining to build a research and development platform for creating, refining, and distributing high-quality mathematics games. This project aims to dramatically improve performance in developmental mathematics courses by building games that help students acquire the skills to succeed in mathematical problem solving. The games address issues related to the challenges around open source courseware, as well as blended learning, learner analytics, and student engagement.
Another G4LI research initiative, the Create to Learn Network (C2L), aims to foster the development of creativity, innovation, inquiry, and math competency in middle school students through game design. Under the guidance of researchers, students from the Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women take on the roles of designers, innovators, and evaluators of learning games. This project is founded on the belief that creation and innovation require inquiry; it is important to have actively involved students evaluate their own game designs through reviews, testing, and empirical study of game effectiveness.
Other G4LI collaborative projects involve designing and testing games that aim to foster early literacy skills in four to six year olds (Microsoft Game Studio collaboration) and a real-time multiplayer game for the New York Hall of Science designed to raise awareness of the economic, social, and environmental factors that influence sustainability.
From our work it has become clear that research and development in the area of digital games and learning requires collaborative, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary teams. G4LI and CREATE serve as examples of NYU initiatives where such collaboration has come to fruition.
Learn More
For details about these and other G4LI games and research, as well as information about how to initiate collaboration with the Institute or apply this work to your own pedagogy, visit the Games for Learning Institute's website (www.g4li.org) or contact Jan Plass at firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information on the CREATE lab, see the sidebar, and visit www.createlabs.org.
More about the CREATE Lab
CREATE is a member lab of the NYU-based Games for Learning Institute (G4LI), which brings together game designers, computer scientists, and educational researchers from a total of seven universities, with support from Microsoft Research. G4LI examine issues related to the art and science of designing effective and fun games for learning. The intricacies of game design are approached from multiple angles using advanced research methods, such as eye tracking, biometrics, video analysis, and game telemetry, to develop theory-based and empirically-validated design patterns of effective games for learning.


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