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Tic Tac Toe Strategy How to Win or Draw at Tic Tac Toe but Never Lose Tic Tac Toe, the game that has more X's and O's in it than your last letter from old Aunt Sofie, has been around for a long, long time. In fact, Tic Tac Toe was probably the first strategy game that most of us ever played. In my experience, the majority of players who enjoy Tic Tac Toe think of it as a very simple strategy game. To refresh you on the rules, the object of the game is to make three of your symbol in a row which wins the game. In the following strategy guide, I will detail a tic tac toe strategy for both Player X and Player O that will allow them to either Win the game or force a Draw, but never lose it, with all possible plays detailed. ChessandPoker.com Browsing Options Thank you for reading this featured game article! Game Strategy Guides More strategy guides and game solutions are waiting for you on our homepage! Copyright © 2003 - 2014 James Yates All Rights Reserved.

Wind Map An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future. This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US. The wind map is a personal art project, not associated with any company. We've done our best to make this as accurate as possible, but can't make any guarantees about the correctness of the data or our software. Please do not use the map or its data to fly a plane, sail a boat, or fight wildfires :-) If the map is missing or seems slow, we recommend the latest Chrome browser. Surface wind data comes from the National Digital Forecast Database. If you're looking for a weather map, or just want more detail on the weather today, see these more traditional maps of temperature and wind.

12 Practical Business Lessons From Social Psychology The Foot in the Door PhenomenonIt’s been said many times that business is all about people. That being the case, perhaps we should stop reading management books for advice and start looking at social psychology. Very simply, social psychologists study how people interact with others – their families, friends, and yes, business partners. Smart marketers and executives have been using the findings of this growing field for decades to close sales, hold effective meetings and get their way in negotiations. But rather than putting you through an academic psychology lesson, we condensed the most useful concepts into one article. Foot In Door The Concept: If you’re wondering how to convince superiors, employees or customers to do what you ask, try using the foot in the door phenomenon. How You Can Use It: This handy principle has countless applications in the business world.

The PowerPot by David Toledo Hello, and thank you for checking out our project! The PowerPot is a a portable electric generator that doubles as a cooking pot. It can be used indoors or outside and works with any fuel source. Simply put, The PowerPot transforms the heat from cooking into electricity with no moving parts. Paul and I are both materials science engineers and avid campers. Right now, we are launching two models, the PowerPot V and the PowerPot X, which respectively produce 5 and 10 watts of usable electricity. The PowerPot V is a typical backpacking type cooking pot, with thermoelectric technology attached to the base that makes it a 5W generator. The PowerPot X is a typical kitchen-style pot, with integrated thermoelectric technology that makes it a 10W generator. The PowerPot XV is a 15 Watt PowerPot model currently in development. All PowerPots are being hand-assembled in the United States, and each PowerPot is put through strenuous quality control testing to ensure the highest grade of product.

10 Strange Things About The Universe Space The universe can be a very strange place. While groundbreaking ideas such as quantum theory, relativity and even the Earth going around the Sun might be commonly accepted now, science still continues to show that the universe contains things you might find it difficult to believe, and even more difficult to get your head around. Theoretically, the lowest temperature that can be achieved is absolute zero, exactly ?273.15°C, where the motion of all particles stops completely. However, you can never actually cool something to this temperature because, in quantum mechanics, every particle has a minimum energy, called “zero-point energy,” which you cannot get below. One of the properties of a negative-energy vacuum is that light actually travels faster in it than it does in a normal vacuum, something that may one day allow people to travel faster than the speed of light in a kind of negative-energy vacuum bubble. Relativity of Simultaneity Antimatter Retrocausality

Ross_Fisher_and_Frey_Art_of_Argumentation.pdf (application/pdf Object) Bloom's Taxonomy: Critical Thinking Skills for Kids | Exquisite Minds: Gifted and Creative Children Updated: December, 2013 We all want our children to use necessary critical thinking skills. Thanks to Bloom’s Taxonomy, parents can help develop and strengthen their child’s thinking skills at home. Unfortunately, teachers and parents are more likely to ask children questions at the Remembering level which is the lowest level of thinking. This includes questions like: who, what, where, when and why. These types of questions only require children to use memorization in order to respond. Bloom’s Taxonomy is named after Benjamin Bloom, a psychologist who in 1956 developed the classification of questioning according to six levels of higher level thinking. When children are moved beyond Bloom’s lowest level, Remembering to the next level of Understanding, they are answering questions which ask them to organize previous information, such as: comparing, interpreting the meaning, or organizing the information. Here are some examples of how to use Bloom’s Taxonomy with your child: .

Cross-dressing pharaoh found in her feminine form Caroline Morley, online picture researcher (Image: Mary-Ann Pouls Wegner) Hatshepsut ruled Egypt in the 15th century BC in a relatively long and prosperous reign. A statue uncovered in Abydos, Egypt, is thought to show her more feminine side. An expedition led by a team from the University of Toronto, Canada, found a wooden statue of a king, thought to represent this powerful woman because of its distinctly feminine features: a smaller waist and delicate jawline. The find also included a private offering chapel, a monumental building and the remains of over 80 animal mummies. The chapel, where the wooden statue was found, was close to a processional route.

The 11 Ways That Consumers Are Hopeless at Math - Derek Thompson This is your brain on shopping, and it's not very smart Reuters You walk into a Starbucks and see two deals for a cup of coffee. The first deal offers 33% extra coffee. "They're about equal!" The upshot: Getting something extra "for free" feels better than getting the same for less. There are two broad reasons why these kind of tricks work. Here are 10 more ways consumers are bad at math, with an assist from historian and author William Poundstone. (2) We're heavily influenced by the first number. (3) We're terrified of extremes. People were offered 2 kinds of beer: premium beer for $2.50 and bargain beer for $1.80. In short: We are all Goldilocks. (4) We're in love with stories. (5) We do what we're told. (6) We let our emotions get the best of us. (7) We're easily made dumber by alcohol, time, decisions. (8) We're pained by transaction costs... (9) ... but we're weird about rebates and warranties. (10) We're obsessed with the number 9. (11) We're compelled by a strong sense of fairness.

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