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The Warhammer Online Age of Reckoning release date is September 18th. Many newcomers are wondering just where this whole Warhammer craze has come from. Those of us who have been around a while remember Dungeons and Dragons but may not be familiar with Warhammer.

The first edition of Warhammer was released in 1983 by Games Workshop. It was the English version of Dungeons and Dragons and quickly caught on. The game incorporated pewter miniatures in table top battles following rules set up for combat and magic using dice while attempting to complete campaigns. By 1987 Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay overtook Dungeons and Dragons as the most popular game of its kind in the UK.

Warhammer 40,000 was released in 1987 and used a similar rule set as the original Warhammer except it had a Sci-Fi twist. Games Workshop followed with other spin offs including War Master which focused more on command and control using smaller sized miniatures and Man O'War which was all about sea battles. In 2006, Games Workshop released Warhammer Quest, an actual board game using the Warhammer universe. There have also been novels, console games and collectible card games based on the Warhammer world.

The new Warhammer Online Age of Reckoning feeds directly off the original version for races, maps and lore. The MMO uses only six of the sixteen currently available races, including the Empire and Chaos humans, the High Elves, the Dark Elves, the Dwarves and the Greenskins (Orcs and goblins). This leaves plenty of room for expansion to add newer races later. The RvR theme and character classes (like Witch Hunter and Warrior Priest) also conform to the existing Warhammer Universe.

Whether you have loved Warhammer since the 80's or you had never heard of it before, Warhammer Online is sure be a great MMO combining a compelling PvE experience with the ultimate in RvR combat. It is available now for Preorder at select retailers or via digital download. The Warhammer Online Age of Reckoning release date is September 18th. Prepare for War!

James Ostenson is an avid gamer and has played several online fantasy games starting with Ultima Online. Warhammer Online looks to be the next best thing in the MMORPG world. Check out his Squidoo page where he does a review of the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning preview weekend.

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AP - It's been eight years since the re-count of the 2000 Florida election, but Jim Dobyns is still living with chads. One waited for him when he went to clean the top of the microwave. He found another by the coffee table. And when he was petting his cat recently he plucked one of the manila-colored flakes from its fur.

I think games in the future will be even more realistic then the games we already have with our Xbox 360s and Play Station 3s. Microsoft and Sony will more than likely come out with something even more insane like a virtual game or something and that would be the game of the century. To have a virtual game that you put on but still used an Xbox or Play Station and you played shooting games like you play online today. I think that would be the best game to come out ever.

If you just thought about what we have now and just think about we will have in the future you should be amazed because with graphics and games getting so much more finer in quality and look it going to be a good future.

Just like I said about the virtual game thing you could have that same idea but have just sunglasses to put on and you see everything through the lenses. That would be a lightweight piece to put on yet a whole big bang of game, if you just had that and an Xbox you would be set for playing online. That would be a whole new online experience for most gamers. I wouldn't think that anyone had ever seen anything like that before.

Also people are suggesting that they would like to be able to speak with characters from the game. The whole point of the game is to play not talk is what I think. I think if you want to talk you need to get online and play a game like Counterstrike or Day of Defeat or maybe get on Xbox live and do some Gears of War or Halo 3. That's the type of games that you should want to talk on or to. If you ever go online you will see people talking online a lot and that might motivate you to get involved. It's a lot better to want to talk to other people online then talk to a character in a game that is made to answer questions that you are going to ask unless it has a brain and can speak and think on its own. I don't think something like that would come out for at least another hundred years.

If you are the one to talk then you should just go online or get an Xbox and an Xbox live account and get started playing shooting games online or play some type of role playing game. That's if you want to talk in the game that you are playing. You can still not talk and play online or on any other game. I think playing games online like Madden and sports games are fun and you don't have to talk with other people. Most people do like the idea of being able to talk with each other especially since you can talk with people from all over the world. I don't see why someone would want to talk with a game character in a game.

Gregg Hall is an author living with his 18 year old son in Jensen Beach, Florida. Find more about Xbox games as well as video game systems at http://www.nsearch.com

AP - Scrambling to win the West, Democrat Barack Obama mocked John McCain on Saturday for aggressively trying to distance himself from President Bush. McCain touted his Western ties and warned that Obama is a tax-and-spend threat to the nation.

Life's becoming a little more difficult for lawbreakers, thanks to some new digital technologies. For example, British researchers have developed a fingerprint compression technology that transmits prints from a crime scene to a fingerprint bureau in a fraction of the typical four to 20 minutes. The same researchers are working on a technology to identify shoe impressions taken from crime scenes-a procedure currently done manually.

Police in Richmond, Virginia, are introducing data mining, predictive analysis and business intelligence tools to respond more rapidly to a crime, and possibly to prevent future crime from occurring. LAPD police are using video surveillance and criminal recognition software to get a bird's-eye view of activities in a crime-riddled area.

CompStat

Various technologies are gaining prominence, such as the somewhat controversial but highly regarded CompStat. CompStat assists law enforcement organizations in collecting and organizing crime information quickly. This, in turn, allows officials to identify emerging patterns in criminal activity, and allows police agencies to deploy resources more effectively.

According to BlogHouston.net , proponents describe this technology as an "advanced statistical analysis of crime aimed at preventing future crime."

This award-winning program is said to have reduced crime rates through increased police accountability. Various law enforcement agencies across the United States, including the NYPD and the LYPD, use this program to analyze data and plan crime-prevention tactics. The program apparently played a key role in the well-documented reduction in crime enjoyed by New York City under the hand of former mayor Rudy Giuliani.

In With the Old

Sometimes harnessing the power of crime-fighting technologies involves using older technologies in new and inventive ways. For example, in late 2006, New York City announced plans to equip 911 call centers to receive digital images and digital videos sent from cell phones and computers. When citizens report a crime in progress, they can simultaneously send pictures or video of the crime scene, the perpetrator or the victim.

The digital imagery provides emergency response workers and law enforcement teams with a better understanding of the situation, and is likely to offer information not provided by panicked callers. The response teams can therefore better access the preferred approach to handling the incident. Empowering citizens to use everyday technology in this way was a world first, according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

In a similar vein, the New York City is combating domestic violence in part through the MapInfo Professional mapping software application. This tool allows law enforcement personnel to better visualize relationships between data and geography.

The city is also using MapInfo's Mapmaker tool for mapping and analyzing data and adding geographic coordinates to database records. A city spokesperson reported that he had imported miscellaneous, city-based data-such as roadmaps, English proficiency ratings and homicide rates-into MapInfo, and then overlaid that over a map of the city to display patterns and trends.

The information generated by these tools assists the city in deciding how resources should be allocated. It also reveals information about an area's cultural makeup and languages most often spoken in that community. Knowing where domestic violence victims live and the language they speak allows law enforcement officers to better communicate with victims.

Real-Life Success

These and other forensic technologies translate into real-life success stories that impact upon our lives in ways we could not have imagined 20 years ago. For example, in San Jose in October, a man driving a stolen Toyota kidnapped a 12-year-old girl. The girl escaped and reported the incident to the police. The kidnapper abandoned the Toyota. Some hours later, a patrol car using license-plate recognition technology passed the Toyota. "Stolen car" remarked the technology's computer-generated voice. The police officer discovered evidence in the Toyota that led to the arrest of the kidnapper.

Europe and Britain have used license-plate recognition technology for more than 20 years, but it is relatively new on the scene in the United States. The police have been able to enter license plates into a computer manually, but this technology lets them scan the plate of every car they pass. An officer can now check as many as 12,000 plates per shift, instead of the 50 that could be done manually. Although the technology raises concerns with privacy watchdogs, it is difficult to argue that any privacy violation occurred in this example.

In another interesting and recent development, Thai researchers used nanotechnology to develop a set of eyeglasses that easily detect invisible traces of bodily fluids left at a crime scene. The scientists applied nano crystallized indium osynitride to glass or plastic lenses. These special lenses can filter light waves of various lengths, and allow the user to see invisible traces of saliva, sperm, blood and lymph immediately.

The current technology-a forensic light source-also allows investigators to see traces that cannot be seen with the naked eye. However, this is an awkward and time-consuming procedure, since forensic teams must check separately for each type of fluid. Once the new technology is patented and commercialized, it will dramatically speed up this process.

Closer to home, researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia have found a mathematical solution that can separate one sound from another in a recording of a noisy environment. In what is referred to as the "cocktail party" problem, sound editing technologies have been unable to separate one voice from many voices in busy environments, such as the cocktail party example, or in a crowded mall. Researchers in the past have separated voices, but could not reproduce the voice's characteristics.

Current technologies are not completely reliable because they confuse voices with other voices with similar pitches. With the new mathematical solution and assistance from computer programmers, the researchers hope to develop a software application that will allow law enforcement agencies or the Department of Homeland Security to isolate voices or sounds with reliability.

Sadly, though, there's a flip side to all this good news. In an interview with Computerworld magazine, Frank Abagnale, the notorious (former) criminal depicted in the movie Catch Me if you Can , remarked that it would be 4,000 times easier for him to commit his crimes today than it was 40 years ago-and that today he probably wouldn't go to prison for it.

"Technology breeds crime-it always has, it always will," he is reported to have said.

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There are many great ways to encourage children to be imaginative. In many ways they automatically gravitate to natural creativity by playing pretend and other forms of games. When kids play pretend it allows them to grow in ways that define their interests while exercising their mind. Parents should take care to make that extra effort to provide children with learning materials and even programs that are focused on pretend play.

From a very early age children pick up on things like acting and singing through playing pretend. School plays are a part of most people's backgrounds and make for the start to a full blown hobby for some. Why not put on a play at home? Select a story that the kids know well and designate characters. A backyard play in the summer can be a great way to pass time when the kids are on summer holidays. Keeping them busy is a nice break for Mom too.

Get the kids involved in costume design for the play they will put on. Even an old sheet or curtain can become something else with some decorative features like sequins and glitter. When you allow kids to take over and run wild with their imagination, the things they come up with might surprise you. Help by doing any necessary cutting or sewing then turn them loose with decorative supplies. Feathers, rhinestones and ribbons all make great materials for this task.

If your children have an exceptional love for the dramatic arts that go along with playing pretend, consider enrolling them in a drama class. Even preschool children can have fun with this. Dressing up and pretending to be someone else like a superhero is excitement we can all relate to. Get in on the act by taking on a role alongside your children.

There are plenty of great online options for games that get your child into playing pretend. A simple search will turn up more great educational game sites than you will ever need. Most children are learning to use the computer at a much younger age as well. Increase their skills by signing them on to child friendly game sites. Puzzles, match games and even card games are all easily accessible via the internet. Be sure to always enforce child safety through the internet as well by ensuring sites are suited to the child's age and skill level.

Games or activities that are designed to encourage imaginative play should always be geared toward a specific age group. Matching kids up with an activity which is fitting to their personal skills is necessary for success. The wrong program or one that is too easy or too difficult will cause children to become bored or frustrated. Try playing the games yourself to be certain that they suit your purposes. Children love to be involved in creative activities. The world of pretend opens the door to anything their minds can dream up. Allow their opinions and interests to really take form through pretend play and games.

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Businesses today wrestle and grapple with the thought of hiring their own technology support staff to support their daily need for IT support without fully understanding the risks and the costs associated with having their own team of technology professionals.

Business owners, C level execs and Managers are attracted to the idea of having a team or a consultant readily available within shouting distance down the hall, basically having an IT resource committed to them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. However, many of today's business owners across the country are not aware of the total risks their business is exposed to by electing to bring their technology support in-house.

More often than not it is purely a cost based decision, on the surface it may appear to be more cost effective to hire a consultant or employee who is committed as a full time employee. CFOs and Accounting Managers often look only at the cost of having their IT outsourced and or attracted to hiring someone for a few thousand dollars a month as part of their staff will save their company in the long run. This is not the case in reality and by having a full time employee will actually end up costing business today more in the long run.

So what are the advantages of having an IT Partner who focuses on delivering a complete managed technology solution? There are a number of immediate benefits over having a full time employee. These benefits include:

• The average technology professional with five years experience may be worth $60,000 a year. This is great when you looking at the bills from your IT provider and see that you have probably spent paid the same in their consulting bills for only a fraction of the time. When a business elects to go internal, a $60,000 salary now buys the business one person and not a team of professionals offering depth in expertise and knowledge.
• IT Partners will provide around the clock monitoring and coverage throughout the entire term of the contract. When a company hires their own IT staff, now the challenges around vacation scheduling, training and time off from illness impacts the company. An outsourced IT Partner provided full time coverage, vacations, illness and other absences now are not an impact on your technology support.
• There are hidden additional costs when a business elects to hire internally. The costs associated with training can rise rapidly, when you have a trusted IT partner, training is no longer the company's challenge. The IT partner ensures that the skills of their team are up to date. Combine this with costs associated with procurement of equipment that include SmartPhones, laptops and other supplies can quickly add up and then there is the added payroll expenses associated with healthcare, payroll and others logistical items.
• IT partners can offer a wealth of knowledge and great resources when needed, offering networks of partners who can help geographical and even across town. When a company turns to hiring their own staff, this experience often is not available to them and they are stuck with just a single person or a very small team with limited expertise. Now when these skills are required outside of the skills level of their staff, this is now an additional expense that normally the right IT partner can extend to a company as part of their program.
• IT technicians always like to be challenged even the ones that you hire. What happens at the average company when the challenges stop occurring? Boredom is disastrous. There are two possible outcomes that occur with in-house staff who deal with challenges with boredom.
• They choose to leave to seek out challenges - When a company loses a member of their own internal staff, the intellectual property and knowledge goes with them. This leaves a huge void in the understanding of your systems and network layout. With a trusted IT partner, this knowledge is retained and companies continue to function as if nothing occurred.
• They decide to adopt "make work" projects - When this occurs it can be disastrous as well. Many make work projects are the result of boredom and complacency because of lack of challenges. When make work projects appear, what isn't getting done is the attention to the daily needs of your systems and network. Make works projects are distractions and your IT partner doesn't worry about finding stuff to do on your network. The daily attention to your systems is still the main focus of their services.

Michael Fafinski, President of Syand Corporation in Minneapolis states about the value of having a full service IT partner can bring to a company, "having a full feature IT partner eliminates the "tunnel vision" found with internal employees. Too often, employers are limited only by the expertise of their internal employees and lose opportunities to improve their business."

Many firms that elect to go with their own in-house IT person, more often than not resent this decision down the road. What seemed like a great idea quickly turns into a huge business mistake that ends up costing them.

Randy Biggs from VACS in St. Catharines, Ontario shares "Hiring a trusted IT partners allows a company to have access to many additional certified resources without having to keep paying for their staff to get certified. I find that with hired staff, you get one of two types. One that always wants the latest and greatest that many companies cannot afford to keep up with and the second, someone who becomes complacent and only does what needs done. In either case, they aren't looking out for the best interest of the company."

When a company elects to retain an outsourced firm over hiring internal, they are getting service from a company who is focused on ensuring the IT needs are being addressed in the most efficient manner possible. Many trusted IT partners are focused on the bigger picture, ensuring everything is looked after in a company's environment including:

• Vendor Relations
• IT Budgeting
• Network Monitoring and Proactive IT services
• Knowledge Base Management
• Disaster Recovery Planning

Partnering with a trusted IT Partner brings value to any business no matter what the size, what makes more sense to you? Limiting the knowledge, options and having to deal with people challenges such as complacency and boredom or expanding available options by having a wonderful relationship with a trusted IT partner who understands what business needs to grow, increase profits and the importance of the right technology solution.

Stuart Crawford is the Vice President of Business Development for IT Matters Inc. A Calgary based Professional Services firm focused on delivering Managed IT Services in Southern Alberta. IT Matters is a Gold Microsoft Partner and Small Business Specialist. Visit their website at http://www.itmatters.ca - You can contact Stuart at scrawford@itmatters.ca or through his blog at http://blog.itsuccessmentor.com

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During your journey through Atlantica you will come across many type of boxes that once right clicked will give you some random crafting material, enchanting stones, level gears, and scrolls.
You can get these from quests or from monster drops and can be used to your benefit or sold in the market for a decent profit.

Equipment Boxes

You will pick up these boxes fairly frequently when you are in areas fighting monsters for quests or exp. By the time you complete the quests in your area and are ready for a new set of quests you should have enough to get you +4 to +5 gear for each merc but enchanting them with your exchange stones. The bad part of this is its very time consuming to right each click each box and let it cycle through and stop. I can take hours unless you are always opening them when you get them.

Commodity Boxes

These boxes work the same way when they get clicked and you will receive either a growth vial or some random skill book. This is a good way to equip your mercs with lightning spear, blessed life, brutal will and other basic books for your mercs. You can get these from quests or random monster drops. You have a higher chance of finding them if you are able to kill the bonus monster which appears with a + bonus icon above its head. If you can kill them quick you will always get a material box or a commodity box.

Depending on what level you are depends on what level of books or growth vials that you can get. So the higher level the more valuable they become.

Scroll Boxes

These types of boxes are very important to your formation and some ways are more important than you realize. Don't waste your scrolls unless you really need it. I will discuss strategies and other good tips on how to use them effectively in other guides. You can get these boxes during quests and monster drops. The higher level the box the more powerful your scrolls are gonna be. At low level drops your scrolls will do less and less against higher level mobs until you find a mid level box. Your scrolls performance also relies on your characters level who is using it.

Material Boxes

These boxes are great to go through when you are starting your crafting. At low levels buying materials from market is inexpensive and won't matter, But at higher level boxes materials become very expensive and having a bunch of these boxes to pick through will save you some money for other things. The first level boxes you will get random materials for crafting for level 1-6 crafting plus you will have a chance to get an ashen crystal that is worth a lot! Or you could save your crystals to upgrade your mercs when they hit level 20 for a cheap price of only 50 ashen crystals each. Basically the higher level the box the higher level materials and crystals you will get.

Enchanting Stone Boxes

These are pretty simple boxes as you only have 2 choices to pick from. The blue exchange stones are used to enchant your armor and the red enchant stones are used to upgrade your weapons.
I personally go through a lot more armor based enchanting than the weapons as there is less weapons to craft. A good ratio is for every 1 red enchant stone i would do 5 -6 blue enchant stones. You can always buy more from the market if you run out, they aren't too expensive.

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In an argument about whether or not one can use a Warhammer Online guide, the discussion came up about the types of players that play the new MMORPG game. These players can fit into some somewhat specific categories, and although a wide variety of players break the mold, it is not uncommon for gamers to feel themselves a part of one of these types of game players.

Warhammer Online Game Player Types

There are three types of game players:
Game Appreciators
Game Gamers
Casual Gamers

Game Appreciators

Game appreciators are those that see games as not only something fun, but also somewhat of an art form. They love to explore games in order to see what the developers put into them and to see if they can find any interesting things on their way.

Game appreciators can benefit from a Warhammer Online guide because they can explore at their leisure without worrying about whether or not they are going to forget what they are doing and get lost. Just mark where they are in the guide and get as lost as they wish to be.

Game Gamers

Game Gamers are those that want to beat the game. A game to them is a goal, and they want to complete the goal as quickly and efficiently as they can. They want to be the best, and they want to be the best fast.

Game gamers can benefit from a Warhammer Online guide because they can go through the game efficiently and at a quicker pace than others, allowing them to go through all of the best routes.

Casual Gamers

Casual gamers are gamers that play for fun. They are not necessarily invested and may never complete the game, but play often enough and enjoy it that they are likely to finish it in time.

Casual gamers benefit from a Warhammer Online guide because they can leave the game as often as they want and come back to know exactly where they are and exactly what they need to do next. They also have the ability to look up where to go when they get lost, as many casual gamers do not have the memory or expectations that video games expect in order to finish it like the Game gamers and appreciators.

All Benefits

As you can see, a good Warhammer Online guide can benefit anyone. It just benefits them in different ways. There is never any harm with preparing yourself with information and anyone looking to be fully equipped when they start playing the MMORPG should strongly consider getting a guide before they begin.

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Mahjong is a traditional Chinese game that involves skill, intelligence, and a little bit of luck. Mahjong means the game of a hundred intelligences in Chinese and it lives up to that meaning. Its traditionally a gambling game and it has gone by many different names in the past. Ma Chiao, Mo Tsiah, Ma Cheuk, Ma Jong, Ma Chiang, Ma Chong, Man Chu, Mah Diao, Pung Chow, Mah Chong, Ching Chong, Mah Cheuk, Ma Chiang, Kong Chow, Mah Deuck, Lung Chan, Mah Lowe, Pe Ling, Baak Ling.

There are many different versions of the game, but it is generally played by Chinese, Japanese, and American styles. There are tournaments held all over the world. There is even a World Championship for the game.

Mahjong normally is played by 4 players, but you can play with 2-5 players. You can choose to play with mahjong cards or tiles, but tiles are commonly used. There are 136-152 tiles that are used when playing.

The point of the game is to make a set of four defined groups of tiles. The first player to complete the sets is the winner. All tiles have a value on them and that is how scoring is based. Many people enjoy the game of mahjong. You can also play it on your computer at home.

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There is a big debate out there on how much energy consumption that our nation can reduce through technology and conservation. If we concentrate on efficiency one recent report suggest that we can reduce our energy usage by up to 35%, yet the Environmental Protection Agency disagrees, stating in a recent report that the United States of America can save 50% of its energy consumption by 2025 or before.

In England they have saved quite a bit of energy thru changing all the light bulbs, which is a very wise thing to do, and they are working to save even more with such initiatives. Still, over all energy use is a factor of growth in population and the number of new homes and businesses.

In the United States we just went through a period of a major increase in residential homes, which as you know led to the current credit crunch and economic fallout, still even with those issues aside, think of all the increased energy usage. Worse, most of the builders were building the houses as cheap as possible and that meant fewer energy saving materials which long term make a difference in our nation's energy usage.

So, this great controversy of how much energy we can save in the US is still up for radical change and interpretation. There are factors of growth, economic inflation and future materials, and everything must be considered when determining the future of our energy usage. Besides who knows what alternative energies we will be using in the future? To learn more and get a full report from the EPA .

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The modern world is driven by technology to an ever-increasing level, and with the growth of the technology market the choice is expanding as manufacturers introduce new models and refine their ranges all the time. The rise in popularity of the digital camera is a good measure of the market, with manufacturers abounding and many different levels of ability, features and price available.

Digital cameras have now taken over the photographic market, but finding the right one for you should not be a problem. If you know how much you have to spend, and what you require from your camera, a search on the internet should provide you with plenty of alternative websites offering digital cameras across a vast price range.

What to look for in a camera

Look for the greatest number of pixels the camera takes hosts in - this determines the basic quality - and also take into account the various anti shake mechanisms available on digital cameras these days, and you will be sure to find a camera to meet your needs.

The same is true of video cameras, the digital variety of which is now the market leader and has evolved from the old cine camera and VHS versions of before. Again, there are numerous sites that will come to the fore with a simple web search, and again the variety and specification available is wide ranging.

Lookout for a good size memory - a 30gb hard drive will provide you with a number of hours recording, anything above even more - and for universal docking to transfer your films to your computer.

One time use ideal for holidays

The one time use camera, if you are not looking for an instrument that will last a long time, is popular with holidaymakers and people on daytrips, and is affordable and easy to use. These are available across the internet at a variety of prices, and the primary choice should be made around ease of use and availability of film. Of course, the finished film needs to be given to a developer to produce your photographs, but the ease and simplicity of shooting a series of pictures and not needing to worry about the attractiveness of your camera to thieves, or losing the camera in a busy place, makes a one time use camera a good choice for holidays.

Home entertainment - audio and video

Home entertainment systems are also a sensible buy in the web, with audio and video both widely available at good prices and with a choice that is almost unending.

In addition to television, home cinema systems are all the rage at the moment and enable you to watch movies with surround sound, and the home entertainment system market also encompasses DVD, CD, computer and audio devices devised for your pleasure.

If you wish, you can customise your laptop, mobile, I-pod and more with skins, colourful and attractive designs available on websites to make your device stand out from the crowd, and you the envy of your friends and family, too. Some suppliers offer you the opportunity to create your own skin, hence taking the individuality to another level entirely.

Shopping on the web offers convenience, not just in getting the best deal from the widest choice, but also in knowing your purchase will be delivered to your door shortly after you have completed the purchase. Remember to look for reputable, reliable and safe suppliers with whom to make your purchase, and you can be sure you have found the best way of buying your items available.

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It is easy to identify if people are football fans because they save soccer ball wallpaper or icons in their desktop. Nowadays it is very easy and convenient to download wallpaper for free coming from internet. There so many colorful football picture to download. For girls there are pink colors, yellow, red, and orange with white combination or more on girly styles. For boys the very popular black and white combination, blue and white with different design like pentagon or stars.

You can save that wallpaper to your personal computers, cell phone or print it and stick it to your room. Also you can print it to your shirt, pillow cases, bed sheets, in your car or anywhere you wanted.

For football enthusiast wallpaper inspired them to pursue their goal, even if you are just avid fans of the sport. If you have a dream to watch it soccer live, posting soccer ball makes you a reminder that you have goals to watch the game live. Or even dreaming to see your favorite players or team what you are usually will do is posted their pictures or soccer ball as your wallpaper.

There is much soccer ball wallpaper where you can download. You can have it with charge or free of charge. For people who really loved football they take it with charge, because the wallpaper is very rare and more original than the other. You can browse it to the internet that there is much wallpaper that you choose for.

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For the people that don't know what MAME is, it is an arcade emulator made for Microsoft Windows all the way back in 1997. In short, what it did was, to allow any PC owner to be able to play all those classic arcade video games from the past, right on their computer.

After MAME got really big for the PC, arcade cabinet makers decided that it would be a financially wise idea to use the MAME emulator on actual arcade cabinets. Of course, no matter how much fun the games might have been on the computer, it was a million times better on an arcade cabinet. There was no comparison when it came down to playing the game the way it was initially intended for. Playing Double Dragon on the PC just couldn't compete with that.

It was really the perfect idea. You're able to store thousands of games, if needed be, in one single cabinet. The sheer convenience plus the ability to save a whole bunch of money was just too much for gamers to say no to.

The real perk about MAME arcade machines it is that you don't need the newest, most expensive technology to create one. The internal computer doesn't have to be greatest, because the majority of the older arcade games were just not that demanding on memory.

Now, for the purists out there. I'm speaking about the ones that have been collecting arcade machines since they first hit the mainstream, MAME arcade machines are viewed as second rate. To the die hard purists, owning the original machine with its original artwork, buttons, joystick is the only way to collect arcade games.

Do they have a point? Absolutely, they do! No matter how great a MAME machine might be, there is still no substitute to the feeling you get when you see a basement full of old arcade games. MAME machine just can't compete with that site.

However, one thing is for certain: MAME arcade machines are here to stay and are a major part of this business/hobby.

What's your preference MAME machines or actually getting the old-school classic arcade cabinets? They both have there pros and cons. Check out ClassicArcadeStore.com and judge for yourself. You'll find thousands of listings on both MAME and classic arcade machines You be the judge!

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Unless you have been living under a rock for the past five years, you know all about the Halo franchise of games. Halo 1 propelled the original Xbox onto the scene as a major competitor to PlayStation 2 and put a whole new spin on first person shooters. Halo 2 builds upon the foundation of Halo 1, expanding gameplay, improving graphics, and continuing the story of Master Chief and the battle for civilization. Halo 3 was the flagship game for Xbox 360, grossing nearly $200 million in sales on the first day it was released and has now sold over 8 million copies.

And now comes Halo wars. The latest game from Bungee and Ensemble Studios is expected to hit the shelves in late 2008 or early 2009 with much anticipation.

Why Halo Wars, and not Halo 4? Well Halo Wars is a patently different game than its predecessors. While the first three Halo games were first-person shooters, having you take on the role of Master chief, Halo Wars is a game of real-time strategy. Think traditional first-person shooter meets World of Warcraft. Needless to say, the overall gaming experience is going to be a lot different with Halo Wars. You'll be able to control and command armies, send them to do battle, or protect your bases.

Will all the die hard Halo fans be receptive to this new type of game? I think it is safe to say most of them will at least give it a shot, as all the familiar characters and vehicles will be featured in Halo Wars, such as scorpion tanks, UNSC Marines, and the Warthog. Expect some new, unfamiliar character as well.

The developers of Halo wars are trying to garner a new set of gaming fans, those who may be hardcore into real-time strategy games like Starcraft or World of Warcraft. It may be difficult to win over these fans, as there are already a couple of well established real-time strategy franchises that have a very devoted fan base. Nonetheless, with the popularity of previous Halo games, many of these fans are likely to be intrigued by halo wars. The designers know this and are going out of their way to make a Halo Wars the most talked about strategy game of the year.

While we all wait in anticipation of the game's release, there is not much we can do other than speculate about the ins-and-outs of Halo Wars. The good news is, Ensemble Studios has released a Halo Wars gameplay video to give you an idea of the games action. It's not much, but it will holdover the hard-core fans until we can play the game ourselves.

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There are literally more reasons to download wii games than I can count. Today I will focus on what I feel to be the five most important reasons to download games. I will tell you about the best places I found at the end of this article.

Cost - Have you seen the prices on wii games lately? For the lack of a better word it is just ridiculous. with all of the games that are available for your wii console it would literally cost you a small fortune. The worst part is that small fortune would only get you a fraction of the wii titles that are available. Guess what Nintendo? My pockets are not some bottomless money pit that you can drain empty. Its my money! Hands off!

Convenience - This is an easy one. Is it easier to sit in front of your computer and download the game you want or jump in your car and go buy it? Thats a rhetorical question and does not require and answer. I would much rather sit in my comfortable computer chair than to fight my way through traffic and stand in long lines.

Trial and error - If you buy a game and don't like it you are pretty much stuck with it. If you download wii games and don't like them you can simply delete them from your hard drive and move to the next game. You might think that you can just return the store bought games. Have you tried to return anything lately? Stores now require 56 forms of ID, DNA, and a drug test in order to return anything. So I exaggerated a little bit, but I think you get the point.

You cant break a download - The disks that wii games are on are extremely fragile and can be considered nothing more than junk with even a little scratch. Nothing makes me more mad than putting a game in and getting some kind of disk error. A download is impossible to scratch unless your my six year old because he can scratch or break anything.

A download has great customer service - Have you been to a retail store to try and buy a game recently? If you are lucky enough to find the game you want you have to get someone to unlock a case. Most of the time by the time the 16 year old employee gets done talking on his cell phone to get my game I am steaming. I do not want to hear his conversation about the rash that hes developing or the party on Friday night. I just want my game, why is that so hard to understand? A download does not have a social life and will get me my game whenever I click my mouse.

In an attempt to find good sources I spent almost 6 hours of my life researching on the internet. I encountered some good and some very bad options to download wii games. when I say bad I'm talking about Michael Jackson in a day care center bad. Let me tell you about a couple of them.

Torrents are officially horrible - It used to be that you could download just about anything that you wanted from a torrent site. Torrents sites are now the hang out spot for a bunch of pimple faced computer nerds whose main goal in life is to infect as many computers as possible with the net version of herpes. Trust me when I tell you that some of these viruses that they pass around now are almost impossible to get rid of.

Monthly membership sites are the drunk uncle - These sites are outcasts. They do offer a good resource but they are simply not affordable. People try to find a way to download wii games so that they are not constantly making their wallets scream in agony. These are the types of sites that should be kept a secret. The kind of secret that you should never tell anyone about. Just like your drunk uncle.

Google is not your savior - As good as google is sometimes its just not good enough. I tried to just search for game titles in google and did get some results. I downloaded the file and opened it up only to find that it was a south park scene of Cartman telling tom cruise to come out of the closet. Im not going to lie, I did get a good chuckle out of it but in the end was irritated because it was not the game that I was looking for.

I did however, find a couple of sites that I have dubbed "mega sites" these sites allowed me to download an unlimited amount of wii games and all I had to do was sign up for a membership. I was surprised to find that they also provided movies that I was able to download and watch on my wii as well. Once I got my membership confirmation in my email I signed into the site and was provided with complete instructions and software which allowed me to download wii games as much as I wanted to. I made a listing of all of the sites that I found to be head and shoulders above the rest. For a review and all the details all you have to do is follow the link. DOWNLOAD WII GAMES

Do not download a single game until you read this DOWNLOAD WII GAMES

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Handy Dungeon Tips For World Of Warcraft

Navigating dungeons is an integral part of the World Of Warcraft experience. Knowing how to do so effectively will greatly work to your advantage. Many of the basic rules of party play, etiquette and the rest still need to be kept in mind, but this article will outline how they apply to a dungeon context.

THINGS TO DO BEFORE ENTERING A DUNGEON

- Make sure to have ample food and water, even more than you think you'll need

- Make sure your equipment is in good repair

- Make sure you've got space to carry loot

PARTY GROUPS

Having a good party group is more important than ever when exploring dungeons. At least one healer, one tank and one puller are a must. Ideally, taking a priest as a healer is the best scenario because of their resurrection abilities. For the tank, having a Warrior in your party to absorb enemy attacks will make things much easier. On the pulling front, Warriors and Hunters are the best characters for the job.

PICK A GOOD LEADER

Try your best to pick a leader who won't lead the party astray. If you want to discover all the secrets that a dungeon has to offer, pick someone who will let you do this, or even help you. Conversely, if you want to learn the ropes, choose a leader who knows what they're doing.

BE AWARE OF THE TIME INVOLVED

Before starting a dungeon, try and talk to other players who have done it before to see how long it will take. If you don't think you'll have enough time to stick it out from start to finish, DON'T START IT. Doing so will only make things very difficult for your fellow party members, and - if you do it on a regular basis - might even land you with a bad reputation.

Want more World of Warcraft? Check out my World of Warcraft Guides Reviewed. Its how I quickly got to level 70.

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Teaching is changing. Are you?

Two generations and only six decades later, their grandson the student received twenty years of formal English and French education, from dozens of specialized educators on three continents. Today, their grandson the teacher has many new resources, but the challenges continue. I have one class of ten-to eleven-year-olds, access to educational assistants, consultants, administrators, seminars for personal growth, and technological education tools to deliver information to my students in our small town of Penetanguishene, Ontario, from anywhere in the world.

Why is teaching still a challenge? Children are still children, with all the challenges of yesteryear - discipline, attentiveness, self-esteem, peer and parent pressure, and homework. Another significant challenge is that students today reside in a big global village, with big global problems. In this new world, information arrives at lightning speed from all corners of the earth. This high-speed digital highway influences most aspects of their society. Financial services, health care, the military, government services, and transportation are a few examples of where high-speed data collection, storage, and processing have forever changed the way we do business.

This technological tidal wave has now arrived at today's schoolhouse, revolutionizing how teachers teach and students learn. How is this happening? Computers, cell phones, digital whiteboards, student-response systems, projectors, the Internet, portable media players, software, and email are tools now available to front-line teachers and students.

What does today's technology allow us to do?

Access information in various formats from anywhere at any time

Translate words instantly from one language into another

Enhance geography lessons with satellite images

Tap into the world's webcams to examine our living planet or to interact with other classrooms

Assess student knowledge using digital tools and adjust lessons accordingly

At a single touch, access the world's news programs, newspapers, libraries, and museums

Preparing students to be citizens in this high-speed world is a significant undertaking. As a first step, educators must start teaching with the technology tools their students will use as future leaders and problem solvers.

To implement technology in classrooms, schools must prepare front-line teachers. 6 Steps to Success in Teaching with Technology helps teachers learn about, adapt to, and embrace technology.

Step 1: Understand Why
Before an educator can begin to incorporate technology effectively into her classroom, she must be a believer. Step 1 outlines the benefits of incorporating technology into teaching.

Step 2: Adapt
Two adaptations must occur for success in teaching with technology. Teachers must adapt to technology, and technology must be adapted to teachers.

Step 3: Plan
Having a good plan is a key to success. Step 3 prepares teachers for the Teaching with Technology world by reviewing important planning questions.

Step 4: Do Your Homework
Before spending money, teachers need to understand technology options. Step 4 overviews the most popular hardware and software used in today's classrooms.

Step 5: Implement Effectively
Having the latest tools in your classroom may look impressive, but you must be able to use them to deliver quality lessons. Step 5 explains how to do this.

Step 6: Keep Up to Date
Technology changes daily. Managing this moving target is a challenge for busy teachers. Step 6 shows teachers how to stay on top of the latest changes in educational technology.

6 Steps also includes helpful tips from my own classroom experiences, and a glossary of teaching with technology terms to help you begin this new and exciting process. Let's face it-our world is changing. It's time to learn, adapt, and embrace teaching with technology!

Lucas Kent is an experienced educator and author of 6 Steps to Success in Teaching with Technology which in now available on Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com and many other online bookstores.

His website http://MrKent.Net - Education Technology Made Simple is designed to help schools and educators implement technology effectively into their educational practices.

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Blu-ray is a new optical disc standard based on the use of a blue laser rather than the red laser of dvd players. It is not just a format for high-definition video and audio, it's a higher-capacity disc format. This format is currently supported by more than 180 of the world's leading consumer electronics, personal computer, recording media, video game and music companies.

Blu-ray players capable of showing picture-in-picture - a feature called "bonus view" - have only just started to appear. The discs will not play on current cd and dvd players, because they lack the blue-violet laser required to read them. The disc players (BDPs) are available from a number of manufacturers, including Panasonic, Pioneer, Samsung and Sony.

Sony led the fight for blu-ray dvd players. Sony is a rare company that may actually benefit from it's success, mainly because higher production of the players could reduce component costs for the playStation 3, driving improved profitability for Sony's all-important video-game unit. Also adding to the momentum was the gradual increase in sales of Sony's playStation 3 home video-game console, which also works as a blu-ray player.

Blu-ray delivers crisp, clear high-definition pictures and sound, which are more detailed and vivid than existing video technology. Like the rewritable dvd formats, blu-ray uses phase change technology to enable repeated writing to the disc. It has has already won backing from major Hollywood studios, such as MGM Studios, Disney, and Buena Vista,as well as top technology firms like Dell, LG, Samsung and Phillips amongst others. But the absolutely genius part about Sony putting PS3 games on blu-ray disk (and they know this and planned it all along) means that the disk production ramped up very quickly to high volumes, thus softening the blow of the higher manufacturing costs of the new technology. Although the disc specification has been finalized, engineers continue working to advance the technology.

The next generation of dvds will hold high-definition video and sound. Likewise, consoles rely on single discs, so dvds that can hold six times more data mean much better,high-resolution games. Basically, blu-ray is a newer format of dvd with superior visual quality and storage space compared with standard dvds. While it is not compulsory for manufacturers, the Blu-ray Disc Association recommends that the disc drives should be capable of reading standard dvds for backward compatibility.

Entertainment decided to release movie discs only in the blu-ray format, joining Sony Pictures and Walt Disney Co. Blu-ray is the next-generation digital video disc. The next-generation dvd format blu-ray is winning more supporters than its rival, according to its backers. Just a few short weeks into 2008, blu-ray is now the dominant player in the game.

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Captain Falcon is regarded highly among all the Nintendo characters as one of the most prominent. He has starred in the F-Zero futuristic racing series. Also, Captain Falcon has starred in the infamous Super Smash Bros series as one of the starting characters.

His famous Falcon Punch can be recognized everywhere around the world by its loud yelling and flasny falcon. However, most gamers have not heard of the Captain Falcon/ F-Zero Densetsu Anime. This anime first aired in Japan and grew in popularity and then premiered on the Foxbox in the United States of America. It premiered in the United States on October 7, 2003 and ended in September 28, 2004. The main character in the series is a young racing prodigy named Rick Wheeler. The Densetsu Anime still retains many of F-Zero's most prominent features. It retains the features of futuristic racing and high speed car races.

IT also has many of the villans like the evil Black Shadow and the devil Zoda. Many other favorites are still there such as Jody Summer, John Tanoka and Dr. Clash. The main focus of the anime is the revolved around the F-Zero GP Legend game. This game premiered in the Game Boy Advanced and was the second game to appear on the Game Boy Advanced. However, the F-Zero Densetsu anime was not well received and eventually faded out around 50 episodes. However, to the hard core fans, the series lives on! Most of the videos out today, however, do not have english subtitles due to lack of a large fan base.

To learn more about the Captain Falcon (Videos, Pictures, Biography and Downloads) click here: Captain Falcon

To watch some of the F-Zero Densetsu anime and other F-Zero/ Captain Falcon videos like the Falcon Punch, click here: F-Zero Densetsu

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I get a chuckle at some of the marketers I know. They pour thousands of dollars into these fancy websites without any way of knowing how to promote them. The fanciest website in the world is absolutely worthless if nobody sees it. And nobody is going to see it if you don't promote it actively. This is without a doubt the most basic fundamental of Internet marketing. Promotion is the name of the game. Okay, great, but how? Well, in this article, I'm going to share with you a few cheap and effective ways of promoting your product or service that work wonders.

Content makes the world go round. Think about anything at all that you've looked for online. Ultimately, your search brought you to an article of some kind. Maybe it was a review of the product. Maybe it was some data on the problem. Ultimately, these articles helped you to make a decision on your next purchase. Well, I've been writing articles for the purpose of marketing for years. Are they effective? They account for about 67% of my monthly income. That's how effective they are. Writing articles and submitting them to article directories like this one or to your own blog is a great way to market your products and services.

Another great marketing strategy is forum participation. The reason for this is simple. People who hang out at forums do so because they are looking for answers to their problems. There are forums for all kinds of problems from health to earning money to video games. Each one of these has the potential to be profitable if used correctly. Simply contribute to the discussions and establish yourself as an authority on the subject. After all, you are an authority, right? Then behave like one and you'll be making sales before you know it. Just one rule...don't spam forums. Spamming will get you kicked out quick.

Finally, there's video marketing. The Internet is evolving daily and video is one of the biggest things today. Just go to YouTube if you think I'm kidding and look at some of the views that these videos are getting. A well made video in a niche with rabid buyers can bring you tons of traffic to your site. And you don't have to spend a lot of money to create these videos either. With tools like CamStudio, which is free, you can make excellent videos that will more than get the job done.

Bottom line is this. Without promoting your site, you're not going to get traffic. I've given you three great ways that won't cost you any money at all. So take advantage of them.

Promotion IS the name of the game.

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YouTube and Google videos have changed the way we use the internet and have changed the way we view content and entertainment as well with many other sites using streaming video for their own purposes and creating a whole generation that has turned away from television in absolute droves! The only problem is we are also a mobile generation with our iPods, complicated cell phones, PDAs and laptops where we demand access to what we need quickly. Until the internet is available quickly and cheaply from our mobile devices being able to have our own copy of videos is very important for our lifestyle but is getting videos off YouTube possible?

The answer is yes though YouTube does not make this easy. YouTube uses a version of macromedia flash files called FLV files which are embedded into the page in a way that tries to stop people downloading the videos for reasons of their own (they want more traffic to make money from advertising). This code is not impossible to crack but the average internet user will find it very difficult unless you are very tech savvy and even they it becomes quite a task for each video making even the geekiest of us question if there is an easier way of getting videos off YouTube.

Luckily some of these tech savvy geeks have decided to make an easier way of getting videos off YouTube that involves just a single click! With this technology you can get your favorite videos on your computer, convert them to any format for viewing on mobile devices, to make presentations without a net connection and to grab any videos before YouTube takes them down also so you won't miss out on the best stuff!

To find out how easy it is to download YouTube videos click below to view a short movie explaining how!

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Online games are a new rage on the Internet than other thing that people log on to the web and it is one of the fastest growing segments on the Internet. For some online games are a leisure and unwinding tool to help boost altered egos from daily pressures of life while for some it a waste of time.

You might have got bored watching television and would like to do something else, you do not want to go out and meet friends nor are in any mood for a dinner outside you want to laze around the house and do something entertaining if possible. What could the best options than playing free online games that has been designed for every age group. Parents can also join their children in online games that would surely make them come closer and will also enable them to control the types of games played and the hours spent by their children. Online games are fun and sharpen strategic thinking and improve our responses. But have you ever thought of the consequences if one gets addicted towards these online games that have been conceptualized for fun?

You will find numerous journals, surveys revealing the alarming rate of people getting addicted towards these games and the sad consequences following them. Older people playing online games for several hours are losing their social contacts and young people spending less time with their friends or in other social things. They display more aggressive behaviors and less supportive behaviors. With the enormous rise in the popularity and affordability of computer games and equipment, and high speed internet connections contribute significantly to the computer games addiction. Thus online computer games have a profound impact on the lives of individuals threatening their normal growth and development. Usage of a disproportionate amount of time on the video game and thinking about it even when you are not on the video game or you continue to spend disproportionate amount of your money, are the symptoms of addiction. Addiction is when you cannot stop yourself getting away from it and you need to do it more and you crave it when it is not there. A computer addiction is like an eating disorder.

This computer games addiction is a way for the person to escape from their regular life in the real world to the world of fantasy where they achieve more control of their social relationships in the virtual reality realm than in real relationships. While there is no quick, overnight cure for computer games addiction parents can limit their child's exposure to video games, especially the more violent ones. Their simple rule can minimize media's potentially harmful effects on their child/children.

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Gearing for PvP Combat

When participating in player versus player competition too often players undervalue stats that keep you alive (such as resilience and stamina) and overvalue stats that get you big crits (crit rating, Attack Power, or Spell Damage). Now obviously players still must maintain the ability to damage their opponent, and be able to do it rapidly enough to kill them. You also have to realize that if you're dead then you can't kill anyone!

It's really tough trying to PvP with less than 10,000 health these days, and if you are just starting out and you don't have any gear at all you may be down around the 7,000 health mark. Also remember that players that live longer tend to get more honor per game and per hour. If you stay alive longer you receive more honor since you are around for more kills.

The next part of this blog will tell you how to get your gear up so you can compete in arenas and battlegrounds, today let's talk about what stats to look for when gearing your character.

Resilience - What it means to You in PvP Resilience accomplishes three different things currently in World of Warcraft and with the coming of Patch 2.4 will accomplish four things.

1. Reduces the chance you are critically hit by all attacks. For level 70 players, 39.4 resilience is a 1% decreased chance you are critically hit by any attacker.
2. Resilience reduces the damage of all critical strikes against you by double the amount of critical strike chance reduction. So for every 39.4 resilience critical strike damage will be reduced by 2%.
3. Resilience also reduces the amount of damage you take from Damage over Time effects. DoT effects are reduced by the same amount as the decreased critical strike chance. So 39.4 resilience will decrease DoT effects by 1%.
4. NEW in 2.4 - Resilience will also decrease mana drain effects by the same amount it reduces critical strike damage. So 39.4 resilience will decrease mana drain effects by 2%.

As you can see, resilience is an extremely powerful stat for all PvP players. It not only decreases the chance you are hit with a critical strike but also the damage from critical strikes and DoT effects.

Let's break this effect down with math real quick.

• Player 1 - Zero Resilience
• Player 2 - 200 Resilience
• Player 3 - 400 Resilience

Assume incoming damage of 1000 every 2 seconds with a 33% chance to crit, meaning every third hit is a critical strike before factoring in resilience. Incoming critical strike will cause 200% damage before resilience factors in. Lets calculate the average DPS a player will take from this simplified attack sequence.

• Player 1 - Will take 667 DPS
• Player 2 - Will Take 624 DPS, a 6.3% decrease over no resilience.
• Player 3 - Will take 587 DPS, a 12.0 % decrease over no resilience.

While this does not sound like much this is only incoming damage from one player. The more players you add, the more damage you will be mitigating with resilience. Think about this against a 4 DPS 5v5 team and how much 12% decrease would be, and how much easier it would be for healers to keep you alive.

Resilience is an extremely valuable stat for all classes, 400 resilience is the generally accepted norm for high ranking PvP players and should be everyone's goal as they start to gear up for arenas and battlegrounds. For players just beginning to PvP 250 resilience is a good point to shoot for. Until you have reached 200-250 resilience most of your enchants and gems should revolve around stamina and resilience.

Note that resilience critical strike reduction is capped at 25% which equates to 492 resilience. You can still continue to mitigate DoT effects and critical strike damage but not critical strike chance. As of right now it would be extremely difficult to reach this point without over sacrificing for stats.

Stamina - What it means to You in PvP Stamina is also an often undervalued stat. Stamina, however, is not quite the powerhouse that resilience is but should not be overlooked. Too often I find players trying to PvP with less than 10,000 health, which generally does not go well for them. When I attack a player on the battlefield and see their health go to nearly half after an auto-attack and a Hemorrhage I tend to remember their name and class.

They are a very easy kill, and I target them every chance I get. There also the players that have 14,000 health and high resilience, these characters take forever to kill. These players I avoid if at all possible, they simply take too long to burn down, especially if they are a healing class such as a Discipline Priest or a Restoration Druid.

The standard for a player just starting to PvP is 10,000 hitpoints. Until you reach 10,000 hitpoint all your gems and enchants should revolve around stamina and resilience.

How to Value Stamina and Resilience versus Damage increasing Stats Many classes use a rating system to balance out stats so they are comparable by a standard value. An example of this system is Agility Equivalent Points, which is the system rogues use to evaluate gear options. This system takes all stats, including resilience and stamina and uqates them to a value based upon 1 agility point. Here is a listing of values for the most current rogue AEP system.

1 AEP = 1 Agi = 1.4286 Sta = 1.5385 Str = 1.6667 Hit = 1.5873 Crit = 1.5385 AP = 1.6667 Haste = 1.5385 Expertise = 6.6667 Arm Pen = 1 Resil

This means that 1 agility is valued the same as 1 resilience and 1.4286 Stamina for a rogue wishing to PvP. This system is great for ranking gear, lets use a gear example to display how this works.

There is a similar system available for all classes, and this can be used as a great way to evaluate gear.

Giving up Too Much Never give up too much for resilience or stamina. For example, don't forfeit 60 Spell Damage or 40 spell crit in order to gain 15 resilience or stamina. This is far too much damage to sacrifice in order to gain a small margin of survivability.

Realize that you much still damage the enemy to beat them, so remember to keep enough damage and attackpower or plus healing to prevail in the battle. All the resilience and stamina in the world will not save you if you can kill anything!

Rating Buster Addon Another good tool for evaluating gear is an addon called Ratings Buster, this addon will break down all your stats into percentage values. This is a great evaluation tool for all classes.

You can see it lists all the extra benefits of agility or resilience, it also has a very nice comparative aspect. This allows you to compare any piece of gear with an equipped piece of gear, it will show you what you gain or what you lose. This allows you to quickly make decisions on gear that would be an upgrade or not.

The Ultimate resource for PvP! Check out Spugnort's PvP Guide, find out how to dominate your opposition in every facet of World of Warcraft PvP from duels to arenas.

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Have you heard you can play Bejeweled Online for Free?

When you are looking for a great way to pass a few hours, or are looking for a hobby that you can share with your friends and family, you'll find that you can play Bejeweled online! More and more people are getting addicted to this appealing and rewarding game, and you'll find that once you give it a shot, you will start loving it to. The best part is that you can play Bejeweled free online if you only know where to look, and you'll discover that plenty of other people are playing it and love it!

This simple game has a very basic premise. You'll find that the Bejeweled free game starts with you being presented with a screen that is full of gems of different shapes and colors, and that you can cause the gems to trade places with any gem that is nearby. You have to make sure that each swap will result in you being able to form a horizontal or vertical chain of identical gems, which will then disappear. The objective of this game is to slowly clear the screen of all of the gems.

When you are playing the Bejeweled free game, you'll notice that a great deal has been done to make this game more complex as it goes on. The first few levels are quite straightforward, and you'll find that you can finish them quite easily. When you have reached a certain score, determined by how many blocks you have wiped out, you'll find that you will go up a level. The game is over when no more moves can be performed.

When you play Bejeweled online, you'll find that as the gems disappear, they are replaced at the top. You can gain bonus points when the chains that you form contain more than tree gems, or when you can make two connected lines of jewels disappear at once. You'll also notice that to help you along, some gems are "blank," which means that they can be used in line with two other gems, as long as though those two gems are of a similar designation.

To add a little bit of challenge to the game, you will find that you can also play a timed game. In the timed Bejewled free game, you'll find that there is a bar above the screen of jewels. The bar is continually decreasing, but you can push it up whenever you get points and advance in level. If you don't advance fast enough, the game will end, resulting in a slightly harder game that requires that you think on your feet.

Take some time to learn about the Bejeweled game online, and you'll find that you can end up a winner!

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This is an awesome build for the Elf Templar, great at PvE and great at PvP. Templars are in a sense battle priests. They are extremely difficult to kill in PvP and PvE making it easy to solo and great in parties.

Stat Build: This builds points are mostly distributed in Psyche but has some points in intelligence too. The main reason I put points into intelligence is to get the most out of the Hammer based attacks and the DoT's (Poison). This also leaves room to add skill points to some of the intelligence/psyche based healing and attack spells. I suggest if you get enough skill stones from cash shop or finding them from mobs you shoudl put them in Mental Barrier or Party Absorb HP, and Absorb HP.

PvE: You have access to Magic Barrier and MP barrier making you impenetrable and nearly impossible to kill. With these skills in your arsenal you will be able to take on multiple mobs at the same time and destroying then quickly without seeing your HP bar ever go down. Doing your quests and solo grinding is a breeze, your only problem is that you might get bored lol. This build allows you to be able to tank some smaller bosses and not feel much pain. However larger bosses that have alot of HP and do alot of damage it might not be a good idea to tank since you have very low hp. This build even allows you to act as a priest in a party if a pure priest cannot be found. Has good healing and good ressurection skills. Unfortunately you can do the killing in the party and need to focus on party survival unless you are great at doing some light killing and healing at the same time :)

PvP: This build and the Templar are very good in PvP. They don't have a huge amount of DPS but they can outlast most classes as they can absorb a ton of damage with MP Barrier and Magic Barrier and on top of that they can heal themselves making them immortal :) You can severely weaken opponents using Dispel on them and deleting their buffs and you have the ability to cast Reflection which makes you immune to enemy harmful effects and casts them back at them. If you are low on mana or your absorbtion buffs are out you can use the Teleport spell to buy you some time for a recast of them.

Stat Point Build at Level 99

The recommended spell upgrades:
(Elf Healer Tree)

1. Heal-Level 5: Heals the target by 600% of Intelligence and 600% of Wisdom.
2. MP Recovery-Level 5: Increases the MP recovery speed of the target by 60% for 15 minutes.
3. Root-Level 1: For 4 seconds the target is unable to move.
4. Cure Confusion-Level 1: Cures the target of confusion.
5. Divine Aura-Level 1: Party only skill. When monsters become hostile, instantly resets the aggro value of the caster.
6. Cure Silence-Level 1: Cures target of Silence.
7. Magic Buff-Level 5: Increases the magical attack power of the target by 25% for 30 minutes.
8. Group Heal-Level 5: Heals the entire party by 700% of Wisdom and 200% of Intelligence.
9. Reveal Hidden-Level 1: Hidden players and monsters in a radius of 12 will be revealed for 30 seconds.
10. Magic Barrier-Level 5: Absorbs physical damage 12 times the caster's Wisdom, lasts 60 seconds if not all damage is absorbed.
11. Teleport-Level 1: Instantly teleports 7 meters in the direction that the caster selects.
12. Resurrection-Level 1: Resurrects target of up to level 20 with 10% of HP.
13. Poison-Level 5: Deals 10 ticks of damage over time by 100% of Intelligence and 50% of Wisdom over 30 seconds.
14. Kill Time-Level 1: Causes the next skill cast to not have a recast time. Effective duration 15 minutes if unused.

The recommended spell upgrades:
(Elf Templar Tree)

1. Wisdom Buff-Level 5: Increases the Wisdom of the target by 15% for 30 minutes.
2. Reincarnation-Level 5: Resurrects target of up to level 100 with 75% HP and MP. Restores 70% of the experience lost.
3. Intelligence Buff-Level 5: Increases the Intelligence of the target by 15% for 30 minutes.
4. Rebirth-Level 1: If the caster dies within 30 seconds of using this skill, experience loss will not apply.
5. Absorb HP-Level 1: 3% of physical damage dealt is converted into HP.
6. Dispel-Level 5: Randomly removes 5 buffs from an enemy or 5 debuffs from a friendly target.
7. Holy Hammer-Level 5: Increases 1-handed hammer damage by 12% and attack speed by 60% for 30 minutes.
8. Party Absorb HP-Level 1: 2% of physical damage dealt is converted into HP for the entire party.
9. Reflection-Level 5: Harmful skill effects and debuffs are reflected back to the caster for 50 seconds.
10. Holy Crash-Level 5: 1-handed hammer attack skill with damage equal to 500% of Intelligence. Also stuns the target.
11. MP Barrier-Level 5: Each 10 HP damage taken is converted to 10 MP consumed.
12. Unravel-Level 1: Removes root status from the target.
13. Hammer Stun-Level 5: 1-handed hammer attack that damages 8 enemies in a radius of 14 meters and stuns for 6 seconds.
14. Final Crash-Level 5: Attack spell with damage equal to 800% of Wisdom.
15. AOE MP Drain-Level 5: Attack spell that damages the target and X enemies around it with 90% MP damage and does 14 times that amount as HP damage.
16. Cast Over-Level 1: The next skill used within 30 seconds can be cast instantly.

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