The food and meal lists in this report have been tailored to help Carol get more of the nutrients that she is not currently getting a lot of while also helping her to meet her goal of fat loss.
The chart below shows the micronutrients provided by Carol's diet as a proportion of the daily recommended intake (DRI) for each nutrient (including supplements).
The supplements listed below will provide Carol with the nutrients that she is not getting enough of until she is able to improve the nutrient density of her diet.
Going forward, we want to prioritise the micronutrients that Carol's is not getting a lot of. These are highlighted in the table below. We also want to prioritise nutrients that are below 500% DRI for your specific condition: depression, inflammation, insomnia.
The foods listed below will provide Carol with the nutrients that she is currently not getting in large amounts while also aligning with her goal of weight loss . The foods are ranked in descending order of priority (from the top of the page to the bottom).
The macronutrient split of Carol's diet is shown in the chart below.
While Carol's primary focus should be on nutrient density, the table below shows the macro ranges required to achieve a reasonable level of nutrition. These ranges can be entered in Cronometer as a guide.
The chart below shows a comparison of the nutrient density of Carol's food log based on the harder to find 50% of the essential nutrients. Carol's most nutrient dense day is October 01 2019 while her least nutrient-dense day is September 01 2019.
Carol's food diary for the best and worst days are shown below for comparison. Carol should try to eat more of the foods towards the top and less of the ones towards the bottom of these tables.
The meals listed below will provide more of the nutrients Carol is not getting in large quantities while also helping with her goal of fat loss.


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Scientists Track Sloshed Tweeters in Real Time
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Applied machine learning techniques can identify tweeters' behaviors in real time and locate them to within 100 meters, according to a paper Rochester University computer scientists published earlier this month.
The research team focused on discovering patterns of alcohol use in urban and suburban settings to better understand where and how people drink. Drinking results in about 75,000 deaths annually in the United States, and the information could be used in public health efforts.
"The more interesting information that could be derived from this study is not the location tracking, but the personality links between those that post frequently and their drinking habits," said Jim McGregor, principal analyst atTirias Research.
"The potential information that can be derived is almost endless, depending on who's looking at the data and what they're looking for," he told TechNewsWorld.
The technique "could be a useful tool for analyzing data for direct marketing, traffic patterns, … or it could be used by police to track potential drunk drivers, by criminals to track when people are away from their home, or by insurance companies to track the unhealthy habits of clients," McGregor added.
How the Researchers Did It
The team collected geotagged tweets from urban, suburban and rural areas of New York state from July 2013 to July 2014, preprocessed them to make them easier to analyze, then used Amazon's Mechanical Turk to create a training set that captures details such as whether the tweets mentioned drinking alcohol, the user drinking or the user drinking when tweeting.
The approach adhered to the concept of human guided machine learning introduced in a 2013paper.
Researchers created a hierarchy of three support vector machine, or SVM, classifiers to distinguish the fine details.
They performed fine-grained home location inference of Twitter users by training an SVM classifier to predict home location for active users — those with five or more geotagged tweets — within 100-x-100-meter grids.
For each SVM, the team used 80 percent of the labeled data for training and the rest for testing. It employed fivefold cross-validation.
The team wrote its own software in Python and used the scikit-learn library, said Professor Henry Kautz, director of the Institute for Data Science at Rochester University.
Not Just for Nabbing Drunken Tweeters
The methodology can be used to analyze what users of social media are doing if they post about their activities, when they're doing it, and, if their devices are location-enabled, where.
Analyzing people's location and content together and correlating it has been done before, pointed out Mukul Krishna, a senior global director at Frost & Sullivan.
"The approach is general," he told TechNewsWorld. "The new ideas are a way to distinguish tweets that are about a topic in general from those that are about the user doing that thing at that moment and guessing the user's home location."
The data can be used to build communities of people, then segment those communities' members and serve up, through ad exchanges, very focused ads for that particular segment, Krishna said.
The approach could be used during elections. "If a significant number of people discussed a particular … candidate, conclusions consistent with what was discussed could be made," suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group.
It also could help in deciding where to locate a business. "Based on travel patterns of the sample, uses could [include] ideas where to build the next big bar," he told TechNewsWorld.
Marketing and advertising efforts also could be further refined, as "you could likely even make accurate differentiations based on age and sex from the information supplied by Twitter," Enderle surmised.
That might backfire, though, because "the more effective this becomes in terms of its use to target consumers, the more negative reaction and backlash we'll see from the people who believe privacy is more important than effective marketing," Larry Chiagouris, a professor of marketing atPace University, told TechNewsWorld.
Or perhaps not. Consumers are willing to share personal information,Sitecorefound, in order to have a more personalized customer experience when buying online.

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Medjugorje – Papal Envoy …The Message of Peace is intended for the whole world.
October 7, 2018 October 7, 2018 stephen ryan 1818 Views
Originally Published on Cruxnow.com
ROME – By comparing Medjugorje, a site where the Virgin Mary has allegedly been appearing since 1981, to the already recognized shrines of Fatima and Lourdes, a papal envoy has raised hopes that official confirmation of Medjugorje may also be in the works.
"I believe that the message of peace, which is central here in Medjugorje, is intended for the whole world," said Polish Archbishop Henryk Hose, appointed in May as "Apostolic Visitor" for an undetermined time to the Saint James parish in Medjugorje, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, run by the Franciscan friars.
According to the prelate, the message allegedly being delivered in Medjugorje can be put at the same level as that delivered in the French city of Lourdes and the Portuguese city of Fatima. The last two have been recognized by the Vatican as worthy of belief for over a century.
"With regard to the international phenomenology, they are very similar," Hoser said according to the website Total Croatia. "These are certainly the three greatest pilgrimage sites. Here we have two and a half million pilgrims a year."
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"These are the three Marian shrines which call for repentance and conversion and for the prayer of the rosary," he said, noting that Lourdes is a "great shrine" based on "dogmatical truth about the Immaculate Conception and tells us about the identity of the Mother of God."
Fatima, which was visited by Francis last year on the 100th anniversary of the apparitions, "gives us a look at the contemporary history of the world as well as the future. Between these three pilgrimage sites there's a kind of spiritual solidarity and bond."
As Hoser reportedly noted, Medjugorje has no imposing shrine. On the contrary, "it's a simple parish."
"The power of grace that is felt here, the power of God's words here proclaimed, make us witness to many radical transformations that are happening here. Medjugorje has become the confessional of the world," he said.
There are 35 confessionals in seven different languages in Medjugorje, which draw a constant line of penitents at all hours. Many priests have spoken publicly about confessions they've heard in Medjugorje making them believe there's a supernatural grace in the place.
Often with an apocalyptic tint, certain Marian apparitions such as the ones in Lourdes or Fatima have long been accepted by the Church, even if they're not presented as dogmatic truths as is the case with the Holy Trinity or Mary's virginity.
Apparitions fall under the heading of "private revelation," even those addressed to the whole world such as Fatima. As such, according to Church law, it's never a requirement of the faith that they be accepted.
Those who take the reported apparitions of Our Lady of Peace in Medjugorje at face value believe the Virgin Mary, or the "Gospa," as she's affectionately known there, has been appearing in this small town 60 miles from Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, since June 24, 1981.
According to the lore, the Virgin first appeared daily to six young people aged between 10 and 17 at the time, but since 1989 has continued to do so only to some of them – twice a month: on the 2nd and the 25th.
The alleged messages are often distinguished between the "original" ones and the ones that allegedly followed. A report commissioned by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI found that there was reason to look further into the those first messages.
RELATED: Commission reportedly thought first seven Medjugorje visions were real
Despite his readiness to compare Medjugorje to Fatima and Lourdes, when asked about the apparitions, Hoser says that the Church's position continues to be "let's wait and see. In general terms, the message of peace that emerges from the Medjugorje phenomenon is always valid."
Regarding the attitude of the last three popes to the phenomenon, the Polish archbishop said that there's "continuity."
John Paul II, he argued, "monitored the development of the situation. The relatively short pontificate of Benedict XVI was very positive towards Medjugorje. This was also demonstrated by the establishment of the international commission for Medjugorje. Pope Francis has taken the biggest step by sending his representative here. Pope Francis wants to develop pastoral activities in Medjugorje and thus confirms the value of this place."
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Numbers 151. Report of Colonel Edward Harland, Eighth Connecticut Infantry, commanding Second Brigade, Third Division, of the battle of Antietam.
About sunset on the 16th brigade was placed in line of battle by order of General Rodman on the left of Colonel Scammon's division, supported on the left by the First Brigade, of General Rodman's division. The line was formed behind a range of hills running nearly parallel with Antietam Creek and about one-quarter of a mile directly back from across the creek. Strong pickets were placed at the distance of 300 yards in front of the line, and in this position we remained until morning. At daylight the enemy commenced shelling the position, and as they had obtained the exact range our loss was considerable.


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The Commercial Appropriation of Frame: A Cultural Analysis of Right of Publicity and Passing off
Peter Jaszi, American University Washington College of LawFollow
Singapore Journal of Legal Studies
Over several centuries, the rhetoric of 'gap filling' has often been invoked to naturalise expansions of intellectual property ("IP") rights-copyright term extension, the patenting of life forms, trademark disparagement, and so forth. The ready pragmatism of the phrase has definite audience appeal, making big changes sound like straightforward responses to external conditions-rather than choices about how to draw the line between private ownership and public discourse. We know, however, that once filled, 'gaps' tend to stay filled. Retrospective debates about the wisdom of such decisions tend to be (both literally and figuratively) of merely academic interest. So what is most refreshing and commendable about Professor Tan's The Commercial Appropriationof Fame is that the author's thorough and clear-eyed review of one such gap-filling project is powerful and timely enough that it could make a practical difference. Professor Tan not only tells us all we need to know about the historical origins of legal protection for celebrity personas, but also suggests a way that the scope of such protection can be reasonably cabined, in ways that largely fulfil the public interest in access to information, in years to come. This is all the more true because in the United States ("US") (with which Professor Tan is largely concerned), and elsewhere, the right of publicity and its cognates are largely creatures of the courts-common law improvisations which (even where they have received statutory confirmation) are still widely open to judicial interpretation.
Peter Jaszi, The Commercial Appropriation of Frame: A Cultural Analysis of Right of Publicity and Passing off, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 391 (2017).
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Farmers Driven To Debt As Banks Turn Risk-Averse In Pandemic
Aug 27, 2020 | Pratirodh Bureau
FILE PHOTO: A farmer carries saplings to plant in a rice field on the outskirts of Srinagar on June 10, 2015
Last month, Dnyaneshwar Siddhanth, a farmer from Maharashtra, was in desperate need of money to buy seed and fertilizer as the monsoon sowing season approached.
But after being rejected by his bank for a loan despite several attempts, Siddhanth finally borrowed Rs 150,000 ($2,021) from a moneylender at a rate of 60% annually.
Amid India's worst economic slowdown in decades due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, millions of farmers like Siddhanth are being shunned by banks as lenders turn cautious due to rising bad loans.
That is forcing them to turn to illegal moneylenders who are charging increasingly exorbitant rates, according to over a dozen farmers and bankers that Reuters spoke to.
Agriculture accounts for near 15% of India's $2.8 trillion economy and is a source of livelihood for more than half of its 1.3 billion people.
Higher interest rates will reduce farm earnings, impacting overall rural incomes which are key to reviving the economy.
"Most of the profit goes to paying interest to a private moneylender," Siddhanth said.
"Everything now depends on monsoon rains. If the crops fail, then I will have to sell land to repay the loan."
LENDERS HAMSTRUNG
Till last year private moneylenders were charging 24-36% interest, but are now asking for 48-60% as more farmers seek loans, said Prashant Kathe, another farmer who has borrowed Rs 300,000 at a 60% interest rate.
Typically, banks charge anywhere between 4-10% for crop related loans.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has been instructing banks to increase lending, but bankers say they are choosing to be cautious.
Economists forecast India's economy to shrink by 5.1% in the current fiscal year, the weakest performance since 1979.
Lenders also complain that they are caught up by farm loan waiver schemes announced by several governments to win over farmers ahead of elections.
"Even though some of the states announced the scheme years ago, the money has still not reached the bank, so technically, the farmer's account is a non-performing asset for us and we can't give more loans till the outstanding is cleared," said the head of agriculture lending at a large state-owned bank.
Last year, the government in India's richest state, Maharashtra, had announced that banks will write off loans of up to Rs 200,000 to distressed farmers.
Siddhanth, who already owed a bank Rs 178,000 from a previous loan, was covered under the scheme. However, the state government is yet to provide funds to repay it, and nearly one-third of the loan remains outstanding.
As of October 2019, 10 states that had announced farm loan waivers since 2014-15 had yet to complete the promised loan write-offs, according to local media reports.
"Only about 30-35% of the promised amount by the various state governments has been sanctioned to the bank," said a senior banker who didn't wish to be identified.
The high level of bad loans in the agriculture sector is another deterrent to more lending.
The share of soured loans in the segment has risen from 8.4% as of September 2018 to 10.1% as of March 2020, at a time when the overall share of bad loans in the banking sector has been going down.
"There is reluctance to lend in the agri segment due to poor asset quality. As a result, banks are more keen to lend if there is gold as collateral, but otherwise fresh lending in the segment has been tepid," said Anil Gupta, analyst at credit rating agency ICRA.
Between March and June this year, lending to the agriculture sector contracted 1.8%, according to the Reserve Bank of India. During June 2019-2020, lending to the sector grew by 6.7% compared to 11% in the same period the previous year.
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realme India CEO, Madhav Sheth has explained that the company aims to be the 5G leader and democratizer in India and will therefore equip all smartphones above INR15,000 (USD201) with 5G. He has further explained that the company is currently allocating 90% of realme R&D resources to develop 5G technology. (Gizmo China, BGR)
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Canada's Project Arrow is a new zero-emissions vehicle concept. The vehicle is the industry's first all-Canadian concept vehicle. It is seen as an important component in Canada's goal to achieve a zero-emissions future by 2050. The project's goal is to create the first original and fully Canadian-built concept vehicle, and currently, more than 130 different companies are interested in participating. (CN Beta, Project Arrow, SlashGear, Auto Blog)
Malaysia, a Southeast Asian country, has suffered the worst floods since 2014. According to the latest Malaysian official statistics, the floods have caused 46 deaths, 5 missing, and more than 40,000 displaced. Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturer BE Semiconductor and Japanese quartz crystal manufacturer Nihon Dempa Kogyo have both suspended their local production lines due to flooding. As an important part of the global semiconductor and even electronics industry, Southeast Asia's packaging and testing production capacity accounts for 13% of the world's total, and electronic components production capacity accounts for 20% of the world's total. The top-10 semiconductor manufacturers such as Intel, Samsung Electronics, Micron, Broadcom, and Texas Instruments have local production lines in South East Asia. (CN Beta, IT Home, EET China)
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At least one of Apple's iPhone 15 model launched in 2023 will feature a periscope camera system, allowing for increased optical zoom, according to Haitong Securities analyst Jeff Pu. With a periscope system, light entering the telephoto lens on the back of the iPhone would be reflected by an angled mirror towards the camera's image sensor. The change in direction in which the light travels would allow for Apple to fit a longer telephoto setup inside the iPhone, enabling users to zoom in further without any blurriness. (CN Beta, Mac Rumors, Sina, My Drivers)
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Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda has indicated that decentralized games using technologies like blockchain will be a "major strategic theme" for the company from 2022 onward. He has hinted at how future releases would incorporate the distributed technology. (Engadget, Square-Enix, The Block Crypto)
Samsung has announced that its 2022 TV lineup will include built-in support for browsing, purchasing, and showing off non-fungible tokens (NFT) art. The "NFT Aggregation Platform", which will be available on Samsung's MicroLed, Neo QLED and The Frame models, allows users to browse and buy NFTs directly from their sets. The platform pulls in NFTs from several marketplaces, so users can preview the art and see other relevant details, like who created the work, as well as relevant blockchain metadata. (The Verge, Gizmodo, Engadget, Samsung)
German food delivery group Delivery Hero has signed an agreement to acquire about a 39.4% stake in Spanish delivery app Glovo. The company currently holds about 43.8% in Glovo shares on a non-diluted basis. (CN Beta, Reuters, Delivery Hero)


Discussion in 'News & Announcements' started by CM Praballo, Dec 6, 2018.
First a word of caution, the following preview information is subject to change but we are happy to share some basic residence features in A:IR.
The player residence will not only be a chill-out zone and a playground for aspiring interior decorators but also an important production hub.
Today we want to tell you a little about obtaining resources. While exploring the world of A:IR you will often come across resources that can be gathered, including "seeds". Those "seeds" can be cultivated in your residence area and will return bigger rewards after a while. The term "seeds" can be understood literally when growing your own crop or more figurative when dropping your big catch in your private pond to start fish breeding.
Every homeowner has several plots available enabling a steady supply of resources.
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*nods slowly* I am digging the high overview of the housing area. I am extremely interested in the 'Animal Farming'. Does the husbandry include mount 'breeding' and leveling that seems to be gaining popularity in today's market, or just resource gathering ala ArcheAge Husbandry?
Thank you for giving us this little bit.
The water in the fishing image looks strangely high resolution. Eyes CM Praballo You guys using UE4 now?
J'adore ça dans les MMORPG, avoir un espace à soi ! Même si c'est de l'housing instancié c'est toujours un plus. Après une longue session de jeu, c'est toujours agréable de pouvoir flâner un peu au calme. Je crois comprendre qu'on pourra le partager avec ses amis, ou sa guilde, d'après le screen, parfait ! C'est aussi une bonne idée de pouvoir faire de l'élevage ou récupérer des graines sur les ressources et d'avoir tout ça dans son jardin à porté de main . Si j'ai bien compris il y a un aussi un espace de craft ?!
Ça promet pas mal de trucs sympas, me tarde vraiment de voir tout ça in game. Mais bon va falloir encore attendre un peu, et faire peuve de patience visiblement. Enfin quoi qu'il en soit, merci pour la new !
Thanks for all your work you and the team behind the game does!!
I and many others are very hyped but remain skeptical aswell since we dont know much how the game will turn out yet.
But We are looking forward bigtime to diving into this world and spending many many hours.
Keep up the so awesome work, but if possible think about posting a "update" where the game is atm in the developer progress, and maybe What is beeing redone and whatever relevant information you can share.
Very happy about what i am seeing so far!
The latest words from the devs indicate, that "Animal Farming" will be more exciting than just meat production.
The engine used is a heavily modified UE3 engine, so no, it's not UE4.
3 threads about single-player dungeos, now we have housing and farming... "PART 1".
We have december, and we know absolutely nothing about the game, as an MMORPG.
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It is UE3 on DX11 standard so they can modify/custom it to provide for better graphical features and rendering that DX11 can provide. That's what this is!
Batman Arkham Knight is an example of a UE3-modified game on DX11 - it looks graphically beautiful almost like a UE4 game (even the Dynamic Lighting)!
A:IR is something similar to that! The game is being developed on DX11 standard so there is nothing wrong with using UE3 as I can already see here that they obviously modified it! The only benefit here to using UE4 (and by the way, it is impossible to 'port' a UE3/UDK Project to UE4 because they are two completely different Engines that have different standards - Unreal Script vs C++, Kismet nodes vs Blueprints, etc. so there is no way to directly and indirectly 'move' the references but to replicate them) is just the simplification of the software (by making it more advanced and high level) and therefore more efficient and easier to use by Users (Developers). It takes more work and time to produce the same result in UE3 but it's possible.
The Engine is not one of my complaints about this game - I know that they started developing this game on 2012 (when UE4 was not even available yet) when the game was still a concept.
The difference between this game and AA, as I already stated a million times, is this game is a Themepark while AA is a hybrid Sandbox. BDO is also a Sandbox. Their game designs are good and they are not WoW clones. The Publishers may have ruined these games but certainly their game designs are far better than all these Themepark WoW clones that are almost composing the entire market!
WoW is very popular and successful, not because the game design is good, it is because they made it more "accessible" to all types of players such as making the MMO linear and simplified. WoW has been garbage since WotLK! WoW is also Pay-to-Win right now on top of keeping it's Sub model. We are not playing WoW because we don't want a game design like that, and here you are, replicating the same thing! We want an MMO that feels persistent, rewarding and engaging. We want root features of MMOs that WoW removed or didn't incorporated to their design in the first place! We want an MMORPG that is not a "dumbed-down"-version of the genre like WoW!
Life Skills is a good topic here to talk about since this is an MMORPG! These are the 'kinds' of things that we are very much interested to hear about than more Instant Dungeons!
I am skeptical here because the Life Skills seem and are likely not deep, the Residential Area is probably Instanced (because of technical limitations due to the tradeoffs), and the fact that the game is Themepark with already so many Instanced gameplay. If this will be the case, it doesn't look like a good investment because the package here is very incomplete - If I am interested more on those features, I will rather invest in an MMO that has them more adequately! If the Life Skills is not deep, do you think I will care if this is an existing feature?
*You want me to stay on topic? That paragraph under the line is on topic and is my opinion regarding the Life Skills of this game. I like the concept, but I want them to be deep, not just an existing feature! But nothing much can be helped because at the end of the day, this is a Themepark and a lot of gameplay is Instanced. Do not even compare this to AA!
Thank you for that little bit of confirmation. Low key do you take chocolate bribes for insider information?
They are sharing what they can. Here is a post from a different thread after you initially posted. I know this most likely does not satisfy your need to know the details of combat, raids, dungeons, etc; but I would rather wait longer for correct information than constantly receive updates that contradict each other.
Looking good, loving the life skilling as well!
WoW is P2W?!? that the biggest bs i've seen. You're clearly dont know what You're talking about. Level boost gives you nothing, the engame is HC/Mythic Raiding or High rated arenas. WoW is popular because it has rich engame content (PVE) and the game is updated regularly. WoW had its best days long time ago, yet no other game is able to match.
I dont have anything against life skills, farming or housing. But that is not the main content. Most players dont give a f*** about that. Yeah, its funny, a good additional entertainment but it has nothing to do with mmorpg. We need good PvE or PvP content (preferably both). It's 2019 almost. We need this content in open world. We have already instanced mmo's. If they push all PvE and PvP content to intances, the game will fall in 3-6 months. But if they make life skills or solo gaming a main content - the game is dead already.
We're over one year after g-star and we dont know anything. We saw few boring instances (pvp and pve) and quite boring combat system. We dont know if they even plan to do something with that. Instead, we have farming and solo dungeons - Anti-MMORPG bs.
Yes, I wanted to see a better version of AA... but for now It looks worse than bless.
I dont have anything against life skills, farming or housing. But that is not the main content. Most players dont give a f*** about that. Yeah, its funny, a good additional entertainment but it has nothing to do with mmorpg.
Yes it does! If they are not Instanced and if Trading has no limitations. They are staple PVE contents, an Interaction with the Virtual World. Can this foster Social Interaction? Ofcourse it can! Not only do they enrich the MMO gameplay systems of the game and make the game more persistent, rewarding, and immersive, they add to the foundation of the player Economy and Trading, thus Player-Interaction. You are undermining it's importance to this genre! We both want an "MMORPG" that is true to the genre, I think this is a very important feature and can be executed well if they will not Instanced it and not limit Trading! You talked about "MMORPGs", there should be depth to the systems of MMORPGs like they used to have Traditionally! To ask them not to deliver on depth is asking for a dumbed-down-MMO! Like I said, we don't want them to deliver just Instant experience, there are also other aspects (and far more important aspects) to MMORPGs than what the game can instantly deliver!
This is not the main content, but I want it to be a part of the systems of the gameplay, and as a staple part, I don't want them to undermine this aspect. This is an MMO, I have to stress it's importance!
Instead, we have farming and solo dungeons - Anti-MMORPG bs.
The Solo Dungeons are, and I want them removed from this game! The Farming? It's an important part of an MMO, and like I said, in the circumstances that they are not Instanced and no limitations to Trading. I am not asking this to be the main content, I am asking them not to undermine it's importance. What is a Life Skills that is not deep like Bless'? It means nothing to the gameplay of an MMORPG!
We have already instanced mmo's. If they push all PvE and PvP content to intances, the game will fall in 3-6 months.
And this will be another one, you wanna know why? Just look at the Combat of this game and look at it technically! Client-based Action-targeting Combat of Vehicle-Armaments with Collision-Detection of Ballistics. How do you think they are gonna be able to calculate and render that in a Massive Multiplayer Online? You guessed it, by Instancing the game!
The Tradeoffs that they are willing to make and everything that they have made so far, from all their games in the past, are all the same thing! they don't care about making a good MMORPG but to appeal to the masses!
They already decided which tradeoffs to make! I am not impress with their decisions as the tradeoffs made are more appropriate for Battle Royales, not MMOs!
We have already instanced mmo's.
This is not just an Instanced MMO, this is also a Session-based MMO meaning it is time-gated, just to add more to your disappointments!
We're over one year after g-star and we dont know anything.
And you will wait for another year for this game to officially or softly Release! I'm sorry but that will likely be the case! There are other competitions that I am looking at! I am not stupid to bet on a horse that have no pedigree for racing but for drafting.
You are certainly correct! Even this game is worse than Bless and that game is already terrible! Atleast Bless is an Open-World-based game with activities taking place in the Open World such as Monster Hunts and Taming, with Instanced-Dungeons, Instanced-Battlegrounds, and Instanced-Turbans.
WoW is P2W?!? that the biggest bs i've seen. You're clearly dont know what You're talking about.
I highly disagree! It is Pay-to-Win now! Stop holding Blizzard and WoW high like they are gods that we should be worshiping! Both the game and the company is a failure now in the eyes of it's Playerbase! I no longer have faith and trust in Blizzard when their internal culture changed, highly because of pressure from Activision. Do you think I believe that they care about the quality of their products after all the decisions that have happened so far and is set to happen in the future? I am not stupid and I will not worship these greedy bastards like an idol!
They are selling their playerbase now for greed! We should stop looking at them like they still have their integrity!
If you want to worship them and be indebted to them, go ahead! You will hear nothing positive from me regarding them! They didn't built the genre, they trashed the genre just like their Call of Duty franchise trashed the First-person Shooter genre!
Charging mandatory monthly Sub on top of it's popularity and having the biggest Player Count of all MMOs, now with the presence of a Cash Shop on a Pay-to-Play game, you dare monetize the game further with WoW Tokens that can be directly exchanged for Gold?
That is just pure greediness and Pay-to-Win! What is even the point of keeping the game Pay-to-Play if the game is already Pay-to-Win?
By the way, I am in favor of Pay-to-Play Business Model, but if the game is to remain Pay-to-Play for the reason of keeping the systems of the game 100% equitable, you shouldn't have any other Monetization/s that defeat/s the purpose of a Pay-to-Play Model in the first place!
Pay to Win piece of trash!
Looks like fun to me! Can't wait to check it out. Thanks for the update!
You don't understand what P2W means I think. You can spend one milion $ at once and you will get nothing. Gold isnt endgame in this game. Raiding (PvE) and Arenas (PvP) are. I am a founder one of the bigger polish WoW community since TBC, and my guild is raiding until today. Maybe I'm not raiding anymore, but i'm still playing casualy PvP so dont try to lie to me about WoW. I know exactly how WoW works. There is NO P2W at all in this game.
Yes, I agree that WoW had his best days long time ago. Today we see how Blizzard is falling, moslty because of stupidity of Activision, but STILL WoW is most actively developed MMORPG nad STILL has the best payment method of all MMORPG. I'm pretty sure that without this stupid activision, WoW would go in the right direction few years ago. But we know what happened, most valuable employees left blizzard and activision (like EA) is killing not only WoW, but all franchises.


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Tag: NBA Draft 2019
Nike Blamed For Zion Williamson's Injury
In what might be the most bizarre moment of the year, Duke star Zion Williamson suffered a leg injury after blowing out his sneakers on Wednesday's night game vs North Carolina.
At the start of the game around 19:30 in the first half, Zion Williamson came off a handoff play. As he was driving to the basket, he did a half spin move and collapsed. Zion blew out his sneakers and suffered a mild knee sprain leaving him out the rest of the game.
The Blue Devils went on to lose against North Carolina 88 -72, R.J. Barrett took on the scoring load ending the game with 33 points and 13 rebounds in the loss.
Nike is hoping to have an investigation on the incident and has issued a statement on Zion's injury and shoe blowing out:
"We are obviously concerned and want to wish Zion a speedy recovery. The quality and performance of our products are of utmost importance. While this is an isolated occurrence, we are working to identify the issue."
Nike's stock has started to drop since the accident and they are being viewed in a negative way.
One of the more notable things about Zion is his size, at 6'7 284lbs he is a human truck. With his crazy athleticism and force exerted on that play, maybe the sneaker was not to blame for his injury.
It should be noted, that this injury could be a combination of both poor manufacturing of the footwear as well as the force Zion exerted on the sneaker.
Furthermore, this injury sparked a conversation on if Zion should sit out the rest of the season or play. Zion is projected to go #1 in the NBA Draft in June. This injury has raised concerns of if this might affect his draft stock.
Zion has gained the support from Lebron James and former President Barack Obama for a speedy recovery.
Hope young fella is ok! Literally blew thru his 👟. 🙏🏾
— LeBron James (@KingJames) February 21, 2019
Zion Williamson seems like an outstanding young man as well as an outstanding basketball player. Wishing him a speedy recovery.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 21, 2019
Filed under: Duke Blue Devils, Injury, NBA, NBA Draft 2019, NBA News, NBA Trade rumors, ncaa, NCAA Basketball, News, Nike, North Carolina, R.J. Barrett, sports, Zion Williamson
King James Can't Save The City Of Angels Alone
The Los Angeles Lakers easily were the biggest losers coming out of the NBA trade deadline after striking out of Anthony Davis. With this loss, the Lakers face the possibility of missing the playoffs.
The Lakers are at a crossroads at the halfway mark of the NBA season. They struck out on landing Anthony Davis and the chemistry of the team has been up and down. The team is so out of it that they may not even make the playoffs and not even the best basketball player in the world may be able to save them.
Lebron James, 34 years old, is easily the best player on this Laker team and has helped them to improve drastically this season, but other than Lebron what other options do the Lakers have?
Brandon Ingram and Kyle Kuzma are considered to be the two complementary pieces next to Lebron, but their play has not been up to standards this season.
The Lakers are 3-7 in their last 10 games, getting blown out by teams such as the Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers.
The Western Conference has been tough and with hungry teams such as the Clippers, Kings, T-Wolves, and Mavericks creeping up to the 8th seed, this leaves the Lakers with minimal room to throw away games.
If the Lakers end up making the playoffs, it will most likely be as an 8th seed which means playing the Golden State Warriors in the first round. The Warriors are currently rolling and barring any injuries, it is more than likely they will steamroll through the Lakers and the entire Western Conference.
If the Lakers miss the playoffs, Lebron's legacy may be called into question as this will be the first time since 2005 that he will miss the playoffs.
The young Lakers must step up and close out games without Lebron. Players such as Brandon Ingram, Kyle Kuzma, and Rajon Rondo has to step up as leaders. If these guys want to be Lakers next season, they have to take charge and win by any means possible.
Filed under: Anthony Davis, Brandon Ingram, Golden State Warriors, Kevin Durant, Kyle Kuzma, Lebron James, Los Angeles Clippers, NBA, NBA Draft 2019, NBA Free Agency, NBA History, NBA News, NBA Playoffs, NBA Trade rumors, News, Philadelphia 76ers, sports, Stephen Curry
NBA	 February 9, 2019 February 9, 2019
Dennis Smith Jr. May Be A Diamond In The Rough For The Knicks
In Friday night's loss vs the Pistons, Knicks point guard Dennis Smith Jr. scored a career-high 31 points and dished out 8 assists to his new teammates.
Dennis isn't missing a beat after being traded from the Mavericks during the trade deadline. Coach David Fizdale has placed his trust in the young guard and it is showing in his recent play as a Knick.
"I'm enjoying playing basketball not enjoying losing, but I'm having fun going out there and competing," Dennis said after Pistons game.
In Dennis' first 3 games as a Knick, he is averaging 21.3 points and 6.7 assists on 46% from the field. Dennis has shown that he is already the best player on this team and is connecting with his team.
On the other hand, Dennis still struggles with shooting the basketball as he misses free throws and is shooting below 30% from 3 so far with the Knicks.
If Dennis finds a consistent shooting stroke, the Knicks may not need Kyrie Irving in the summer. Shooting is the key factor that will elevate Dennis' game.
The Knicks let go of some big pieces during the trade deadline, Kristaps Porzingis being the biggest loss, but Dennis is already showing the potential that he can grow into a star and be the best player on a team.
The Knicks are looking forward to the summer as the draft and free agency takes place. They must look at the possibilities if Zion Williamson, Kevin Durant, and Kyrie Irving don't land there. Do the Knicks believe that Dennis can be a big-time player for them?
Filed under: Blake Griffin, Dallas Mavericks, David Fizdale, Dennis Smith Jr., Detroit Pistons, Kevin Durant, Kristaps Porzingis, Kyrie Irving, NBA, NBA Draft 2019, NBA Free Agency, NBA free picks, NBA News, NBA Playoffs, NBA Trade rumors, New York Knicks, News, sports, Zion Williamson
The Dallas Mavericks Won The Trade Deadline
No one expected the Dallas Mavericks to make a bunch of moves during the trade deadline. But Mark Cuban, Donnie Nelson, and the Dallas Mavericks organization were extremely active and made some blockbuster trades that have turned their franchise around.
Also to mention the trade that brought Luka Doncic to Dallas last June in the draft. This was a callback to the 1998 NBA Draft where the Mavericks traded Robert Traylor for Dirk Nowitzki.
Now Luka has emerged as the star of the Dallas Mavericks franchise. As each day goes by, the Mavericks are looking like geniuses for making that trade with Atlanta.
The Mavericks have taken big risks and were able to turn expiring contracts and aging players into a young core plus cap space to spend in free agency.
Dallas-Sacramento Trade Details:
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Sacramento Receives:
The Mavericks are now able to sign a big-time free agent this summer. After the Porzingis deal, one of the concerning factors was Dallas' cap space going into free agency. After getting rid of Harrison Barnes' contract, the Mavericks are now in contention to sign at least one big time free agent with around $30 million in cap space.
Possible free agent targets being Nikola Vucevic, Demarcus Cousins or Klay Thompson. The Mavericks are a dark horse team to sign one of these guys. Now that they have a core of Luka and Kristaps, Dallas may be a more attractive destination for free agents.
The Mavericks showed that they are geared towards free agency and could care less about how the season plays out now. The future looks bright in Dallas but there is still more work to be done. It will interesting to see how the Mavericks play their cards this free agency.
Filed under: Dallas Mavericks, Deandre Jordan, Dennis Smith Jr., Dirk Nowitzki, Donnie Nelson, Harrison Barnes, Kristaps Porzingis, Luka Dončić, Mark Cuban, NBA, NBA Draft 2019, NBA Free Agency, NBA News, NBA Playoffs, NBA Trade rumors, New York Knicks, News, Sacramento Kings, sports, trade, Trade deadline
NBA	 January 29, 2019 January 29, 2019
New York Knicks and Anthony Davis Should Stay Far Away From Each Other
With recent news of Anthony Davis wanting out of New Orleans, many fans and analysts have put out trade destinations such as Davis going to the Lakers, Raptors, Celtics and even the forever struggling New York Knicks.
The Knicks should not look to entertain a trade for Anthony Davis as this would mean sacrificing talents such as Kevin Knox, Allonzo Trier, Kristaps Porzingis and even potentially the #1 pick in the 2019 NBA Draft which can turn into Zion Williamson or even R.J. Barrett. Two players who can elevate your franchise.
A core of Zion/Barrett, Porzingis and Knox would be a great core to build off of for the Knicks. It's a core that could potentially be a big-time threat in a couple of years.
If you are the Knicks you have to ask yourself is Anthony Davis really worth giving up your future for?
The Knicks necessarily hasn't been a winning situation for anyone and this should raise concerns on Anthony Davis' end. What is the difference between the situation in New Orleans and the Knicks?
Trading for Davis would be a risk for the Knicks end as you would have to give up a lot of young assets for him. Davis would be paired up with no one once he gets there. The Knicks would have to pray to the basketball gods that a top free agent will come there in the summer.
The Knicks haven't been serious contenders for a long time and is looked to be one of the laughing stock franchises in the NBA.
If a trade does go down and the Knicks land Davis, you are going to have to be 100% certain Kevin Durant or Kawhi Leonard will come to the Big Apple. If there are any uncertainties that with these players not coming, you are setting Anthony Davis up to fail.
Ultimately, the Knicks shouldn't throw away the years they are rebuilding for Davis. From the history books, winning championships come from building through the draft and the Knicks have plenty of young players with upside. Don't throw those years away.
Filed under: Anthony Davis, Boston Celtics, Kawhi Leonard, Kevin Durant, Kevin Knox, Kristaps Porzingis, Lebron James, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, NBA, NBA Draft 2019, NBA Free Agency, NBA History, NBA News, NBA Playoffs, NBA Trade rumors, New Orleans Pelicans, New York Knicks, News, R.J. Barrett, sports, Toronto Raptors, trade, Zion Williamson
Early NBA Mock Draft 2019 (Picks #1-10)
1. Cleveland Cavaliers – Zion Williamson
Strengths: Unique Physical Attributes, Finishing ability, Motor/Aggressive play, Upside
Weaknesses: Shooting consistency, Discipline on Defense
NBA Comparison: Charles Barkley/ Larry Johnson
2. New York Knicks – R.J. Barrett
Strengths: Scoring Ability, Creating Offense, Defensive Potential, Slashing ability, Upside
Weaknesses: Streaky shooter, Decision Making, Shot Selection
NBA Comparison: Andrew Wiggins/Demar DeRozan
3. Phoenix Suns – Ja Morant
Strengths: Point Guard Polish, Creating Offense, Scoring Ability, Athleticism, Upside
Weaknesses: Strength/Frame, Shooting Consistency
NBA Comparison: De'Aaron Fox
4. Chicago Bulls – Cameron Reddish
Strengths: Athleticism, Scoring Versatility, Playmaking Potential
Weaknesses: Motor, Consistency, Competitive Fire
NBA Comparison: Rudy Gay/Tyreke Evans
5. Atlanta Hawks – Rui Hachimura
Strengths: Offensive Versatility, Upside, Motor
Weaknesses: shooting ability, defensive consistency
NBA Comparison: Wilson Chandler
6. Memphis Grizzlies – Romeo Langford
Strengths: Scoring Ability, Defensive Potential, Athleticism
Weaknesses: Suspect Ball Handling, Streaky shooter, Motor
NBA Comparison: Khris Middleton/Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
7. Orlando Magic – Darius Garland
Strengths: Scoring Ability, Shot Creator, Playmaking Potential
Weaknesses: Decision Making, Shot IQ, Turnovers, finishing ability
NBA Comparison: Kemba Walker
8. Detroit Pistons – Jarrett Culver
Strengths: Offensive Versatility, Rebounding, Defensive Potential, Upside
Weaknesses: Shot IQ, Creating Offense, Defensive Discipline
NBA Comparison: Courtney Lee/Nicolas Batum
9. Washington Wizards – Kevin Porter Jr.
Strengths: Scoring Ability, Finishing ability, Ball Handling Ability, Upside
Weaknesses: Playmaking ability, Shooting ability
NBA Comparison: Kelly Oubre Jr./Justise Winslow
10. New Orleans Pelicans – Nassir Little
Strengths: Athleticism, Defensive Versatility, Motor, Physical tools
Weaknesses: Shooting Consistency, Offensive Polish, Creating Offense
NBA Comparison: Gerald Wallace
Filed under: Cleveland Cavaliers, Darius Garland, Draft, Duke Blue Devils, Ja Morant, NBA, NBA Comparisons, NBA Draft 2019, NBA Free Agency, NBA Mock Draft, NBA News, NBA picks, NBA Playoffs, NBA Trade rumors, New York Knicks, News, Orlando Magic, Phoenix Suns, R.J. Barrett, Romeo Langford, Rui Hachimura, sports, Zion Williamson


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newswire article reporting global 05.Jan.2004 15:32
corporate dominance | health
Mad Cat Disease
author: Brent Herbert
Fortunately all those cats with mad cow disease are foreigners, and the American cat is completely safe....
Alisa Harrison (spokeswoman for the U.S. Agriculture secretary, Veneman) has worked tirelessly the last two weeks to spread the message that bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, is not a risk to American consumers... For her, it's a familiar message. Before joining the department, Ms. Harrison was director of public relations for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, the beef industry's largest trade group, where she battled government food safety efforts... and sent out press releases with titles like 'Mad Cow Disease Not a Problem in the U.S.' "... Right now you'd have a hard time finding a federal agency more completely dominated by the industry it was created to regulate. Dale Moore, Ms. Veneman's chief of staff, was previously the chief lobbyist for the cattlemen's association. Other veterans of that group have high-ranking jobs at the department, as do former meat-packing executives and a former president of the National Pork Producers Council." (Eric Schlosser, "The Cow Jumped Over the U.S.D.A.," New York Times, January 2nd, 2004)
Mad Cow CharadeIt was Agriculture Department opposition and the Republican majority leadership in Congress that defeated a measure proposed just last month to prohibit so-called "downer cattle," too sick to walk into the slaughterhouse, from being added to the nation's meat supply. (Note how quickly things can change in a month...)
Mad Cat Disease "Mad cow has been found in a small number of cats ? about 100 ? in the United Kingdom, as well as a handful in other European countries. Larger zoo felines that fed directly off infected carcasses also died from the disease, Torres said. Officials in the United Kingdom and elsewhere have said they suspect the cats got the disease by eating cat food tainted with infected meat. That suspicion is bolstered by evidence that British cats contracted the disease at about the same time, and in the same places. "Your gut tells you yes, and the reports tell you yes, because they're linked temporally and geographically," said Dr. Niels Pedersen, a specialist in feline infectious diseases at the University of California at Davis."
Swiss cat diagnosed with Mad Cow disease "A Swiss cat has been diagnosed with the feline form of mad cow disease, thought to have been spread through infected pet food ... Britain has reported around 90 cases of the feline disease among the nation's pets, while Norway has also witnessed a case, despite being clear of the bovine brain-wasting disease. The disease also affects the domestic cat's bigger cousins and has been reported in pumas, cheetahs, lions and tigers held in zoos and fed with infected meat."
Zoo cat found to have mad cow-related brain disease " An Asiatic Golden Cat at Melbourne Zoo was found to have a rare brain disease related to mad cow disease...During its captivity the cat was only ever fed chickens, rats, rabbits and kangaroo meat. "
FDA has yet to close loopholes in mad-cow regulation "Since August 1997, FDA has banned the use of cattle remains as an ingredient in feed for other cows, goats and sheep. But there are plenty of loopholes...Poultry can't get mad-cow-like diseases, so feeding them protein meal made from rendered cattle has been considered safe. But poultry litter ? food they drop while eating, along with their excrement, feathers and bedding ? can legally be fed to cattle. Also, outdated pet food can be used in ruminant (cow, sheep and goat) feed. Retail dry pet food frequently contains ruminant meat and bone meal. Out-of-date dry cat and dog food is sometimes sold as salvage and ends up in cattle feed. Because feeding cattle to cattle is really the only way they get infected, critics of the livestock industry, as well as some within it, have long argued that the best way to deal once and for all with the issue is to totally ban the feeding of all ruminant-derived protein to any living animal, including fish."
yum 05.Jan.2004 15:40
brent link
From the Tom Tommorrow site..."Fortunately the government is on the case: "downer" cows, too ill to stand upright, will no longer be used to provide meat for humans. And if that doesn't reassure you, there's more:
In addition, brains, skulls, spinal cords, vertebral columns, eyes and certain nerve tissues from cows older than 30 months, as well as the small intestine from all cows, will also be banned from the food supply because they are most likely to harbor the agent that causes mad cow disease. But brains from younger animals will still be considered fit for human consumption.
Boy, that just makes you want to rush out to the nearest fast food joint, doesn't it?"
media spin 05.Jan.2004 15:48
I have been listening to some of the media spin on mad cow today and basically what I have heard boils down to this...'There was only those two mad cows...we don't have mad cows here...' The statement 'only two mad cows in the whole country' is meaningless, since mad cow is not required by law to be reported, and almost no testing is done (thus not finding or reporting any mad cows, and those mad cows that are found need not be reported, and its perfectly legal)
for some reason those media talking heads ignore this salient point...
another salient piont being ignored is the fact that over the last year there have been two reported deaths fin humans from mad cow disease...given how mad cow can only be diagnosed after death, via autopsy, and few of these autopsies are reported (mad cow in humans can mimic 'alzheimers' even what is known as 'early onset alzheirmers) and it would seem to me that with mad cat going around, and the very rare reporting and discovery of humans with mad cow, this salient fact would be worth mentioning when some talking head comes on the tube to talk up the cow, and encourage more cow eating...but for some reason none of these things are mentioned...
letterman 05.Jan.2004 15:54
that tom tommorrow bit mentioning all those brains and spinal columns and eye balls brings to mind those david letterman jokes about hot dogs ... yum ... my brother in law works in a meat packing plant and he says that if you saw what they put in hot dogs you would never eat another dog again (he doesn''t ... i guess he just can't get the image out of his mind when he's about about to bite into that hot dog...of course with this new rules, I guess the hot dog of tommorrow with be sans eye balls and genitals and brains, unless they come from really young cows...
have a nice day...
Is it just you 05.Jan.2004 16:05
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Is ti just you or just me, I haven't seena dog or cat within 500 yards of a Mcdonalds in the past week. Are people still going there and is this a clean the gene bank program?
how now mad cow 05.Jan.2004 16:22
How Now Mad Cow "The discovery of the Washington state cow also triggered long-rehearsed plans at other organizations like the U.S. Department of Agriculture and McDonald's Corp. and the Association which has been working since 1990 to prepare for this day... Meat from a Washington state slaughterhouse that contained cuts from a lone cow that tested positive for mad cow disease was sold in as many as nine California counties, but current rules forbid the state or counties from telling consumers exactly where recalled meat was sold ... "I've just inspected over 80,000 pounds of meat (boxed beef rounds and boxed boneless beef briskets) on two trucks. I wasn't running or hurrying either. One was bound for Sante Fe Springs, California, the other for San Jose, California. I just stamped on their paperwork `USDA Inspected and Passed' in 45 seconds."
This Is The End Of The World 06.Jan.2004 11:46
a cow killing disease, fine...But cats nooooooooooooooooooo link
Not My cats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Canibals and capitalism 07.Jan.2004 02:31
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According to "fast food nation" Cats are being fed cats and dogs in cheap cat food. That is why the humane society is so keen to kill them. Canibalization is a factor in mad cow disease. thanks for reminding me. By a higher grade cat food for your cats and dogs. They are canibalizing pets in petfood.


Hello common reader this is a gene in James body and I am the gene to make James get up early in the morning! Yep I'm the gene that makes it so you don't need more then 6 hours to be up and ready to go out to the world and have fun. You common people need more sleep. No I am not the gene in your teen agers body so they can stay up an extra hour. "MOM I HAVE DEC2 SO I DONT NEED TO GO TO SLEEP". No little Bobby that wont work this time. What Bobby didn't know is that he had a text that next morning. Haha I laugh every time. Hey I don't have anything's to think about in this here body but I get around to tellingp all the other genes funny stories you know.
So you might be thinking to yourself about how stupid my back story is going but hey this is my story. Okay if I have to tell you how I work, my name is BHLHE41 and that stands for Basic Helix Loop Helix Family Member e41 (YEA ITS LONG BUT WHY NOT IT EXPLAINS ALOT) so me, this gene as the name implies, a basic loop protein in various tissues of both humans and mice as we know! (YEA I GET AROUND TO EVERYONE) I am also known as DEC2, hDEC2, and SHARP1. but you can call me DEC2 for short.
NOW my function is that the gene encodes a transcription factor that belongs to the hairy/enhancer of split subfamily of basic loop system factors. Well that's what gene school tells you (yea we got schooling). You could just think of it as I make people sleep less but still keeping the host energised through out the day. OR IF YOU REALLY DONT GET IT: take your normal life and take off a few hours of your sleep schedule.
Part 1: What Questions Did I Ask?
What gene does it effect?
How many people have this?
Does this happen at birth?
Can this happen to me later on?
Why cant I have this, it seems very helpful?
After reading one source I also decided to go to other websites just to confirm they all sound the same and to make sure I wasn't messing up on false information.
Part 4: How did you verify the information you found?
I verified the information by going through more than just one source to confirm the information.
Part 5: How did the process of completing the assignment go? What could have been done better?
The overall process of creating this project was a success and had some troubles here and there but all else was fine. I started the assignment a little later than I should have and that could of had effected the way the whole project came out. The thing I could improve on is the explanation on how the mutation occurs. All in all I think this project was fun and I made the story how I think I look at it and could of been very different if someone else created this or would have done this mutation.


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FDA OKs mixing COVID vaccines; backs Moderna, J&J boosters
Oct 20, 2021, 2:34 PM | Updated: Oct 21, 2021, 6:15 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators on Wednesday signed off on extending COVID-19 boosters to Americans who got the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine and said anyone eligible for an extra dose can get a brand different from the one they received initially.
The Food and Drug Administration's decisions mark a big step toward expanding the U.S. booster campaign, which began with extra doses of the Pfizer vaccine last month. But before more people roll up their sleeves, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will consult an expert panel Thursday before finalizing official recommendations for who should get boosters and when.
The latest moves would expand by tens of millions the number of Americans eligible for boosters and formally allow "mixing and matching" of shots — making it simpler to get another dose, especially for people who had a side effect from one brand but still want the proven protection of vaccination.
Specifically, the FDA authorized a third Moderna shot for seniors and others at high risk from COVID-19 because of their health problems, jobs or living conditions — six months after their last shot. One big change: Moderna's booster will be half the dose that's used for the first two shots, based on company data showing that was plenty to rev up immunity again.
For J&J's single-shot vaccine, the FDA said all U.S. recipients, no matter their age, could get a second dose at least two months following their initial vaccination.
The FDA rulings differ because the vaccines are made differently, with different dosing schedules — and the J&J vaccine has consistently shown a lower level of effectiveness than either of the two-shot Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.
As for mixing and matching, the FDA said it's OK to use any brand for the booster regardless of which vaccination people got first. The interchangeability of the shots is expected to speed the booster campaign, particularly in nursing homes and other institutional settings where residents have received different shots over time.
FDA officials said they wanted to make the booster guidance as flexible as possible, given that many people don't remember which brand of vaccine they received.
"Being able to interchange these vaccines is a good thing — it's like what we do with flu vaccines," FDA's Dr. Peter Marks told reporters Wednesday evening. "Most people don't know what brand of flu vaccine they received."
Still, he added that many people will decide to get a booster from the same company as their initial vaccination.
The agency's mix-and-match decision was based on preliminary results from a government study of different booster combinations that showed an extra dose of any type revs up levels of virus-fighting antibodies. That study also showed recipients of the single-dose J&J vaccination had a far bigger response if they got a full-strength Moderna booster or a Pfizer booster rather than a second J&J shot. The study didn't test the half-dose Moderna booster.
Health authorities stress that the priority still is getting first shots to about 65 million eligible Americans who remain unvaccinated. But the booster campaign is meant to shore up protection against the virus amid signs that vaccine effectiveness is waning against mild infections, even though all three brands continue to protect against hospitalization and death.
"Today the currently available data suggest waning immunity in some populations of fully vaccinated people," said FDA's acting commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock. "The availability of these authorized boosters is important for continued protection against COVID-19 disease."
The Moderna booster decision essentially matches FDA's ruling that high-risk groups are eligible for the Pfizer vaccine, which is made with the same technology.
FDA recommended that everyone who'd gotten the single-shot J&J vaccine get a booster since it has consistently shown lower protection than its two-shot rivals. And several independent FDA advisers who backed the booster decision suggested J&J's vaccine should have originally been designed to require two doses.
Experts continue to debate the rationale of the booster campaign. Some warn that the U.S. government hasn't clearly articulated the goals of boosters given that the shots continue to head off the worst effects of COVID-19, and wonder if the aim is to tamp down on virus spread by curbing, at least temporarily, milder infections.
FDA regulators said they would move quickly to expand boosters to lower age groups, such as people in their 40s and 50s, if warranted.
"We are watching this very closely and will take action as appropriate to make sure that the maximum protection is provided to the population," said Marks, the FDA's top vaccine official.
In August, the Biden administration announced plans for an across-the-board booster campaign aimed at all U.S. adults, but outside experts have repeatedly argued against such a sweeping effort.
On Thursday an influential panel convened by the CDC is expected to offer more specifics on who should get boosters and when. Their recommendations are subject to approval by the CDC director.
The vast majority of the nearly 190 million Americans who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 have received the Pfizer or Moderna options, while about 15 million have received the J&J vaccine.
Associated Press writer Mike Stobbe contributed to this story from New York.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A 24-year-old man was acquitted Friday of fatally shooting the brother of an NFL football player in 2019. After two days of deliberations, a Jefferson County jury decided Darrius Frazier fired in self-defense when he killed 27-year-old Gjamal Antonio Rodriguez and wounded Rodriguez's girlfriend, Dedria Johnson, more than two years ago, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of prices that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve rose 5.8% last year, the sharpest increase since 1982, as brisk consumer spending collided with snarled supply chains to raise the costs of food, furniture, appliances and other goods. The report Friday from the Commerce Department also said that consumer […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Just days after the banning of "Maus" by a Tennessee school district made national news, two editions of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel about the Holocaust have reached the top 20 on Amazon.com and are in limited supply. "Maus" was No. 12 on Amazon as of early Friday evening, […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The International Monetary Fund said Friday that El Salvador should dissolve the $150 million trust fund it created when it made the cryptocurrency Bitcoin legal tender and return any of those unused funds to its treasury. The recommendation was part of the international lender's report on El Salvador's economy and went […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Supreme Court on Friday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by 16 young Alaskans who claimed long-term effects of climate change will devastate Alaska and interfere with their individual constitutional rights. The lawsuit against the state of Alaska claimed the state's legislative and executive branches had not taken […]
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Having not grown up in the US, I never really got the opportunity to study the American Revoluation like most high school students. In fact, until I took a class on it in college, I hardly knew anything about it. I mean, I recognized the name Paul Revere, and knew some of the major political players, but that was it. However, when my ship pulled into Boston for the 4th of July a few years ago, I got to do the geeky historical thing and go and see all the key sites of events that occurred during the initial stages of the American Revolution. So knowing all this, when I started The Schoolmaster's Daughter, I had a good idea of the key events as they occurred.
I felt that the author did a good job of exploring the various dynamics that were occurring during this time period. The families that were split between being Tories and Whig's (like Abigail/her brothers and her father/mother), the interaction of the British troops with the general population and the overall climate that one would expect in a country soon to be consumed by war. While I didn't necessarily agree with all of Abigails actions, and felt that she def. had some TSTL moments, as a character she was engaging and I would like to see her maybe show up in another book that takes place after the revolution.
The audiobook version of this was narrated by Elisabeth S. Rodgers. This isn't the first time that I had listened to something narrated by her and it won't be the last. She does a great job of being able to provide voices to a wide variety of characters and at no time did I feel like the voices were starting to blend together. At times, I wanted to continue driving just so I could listen to a bit more before I got to work or at home at night.
Sounds like an interesting book. I love the cover! Glad you enjoyed it!


I recently discovered the Fish Market Oxford tucked away on Osney Mead, just off the Botley Road (Station end). It's the wholesalers that supplies the Covered Market. The fish is extremely fresh and beautifully kept. Plus they have some fantastic deals that you won't get in the Supermarkets.
I bought 1 kg of Cobbler (white fish) which I'll keep in the freezer to make curry with. It cost just £3.99. I also picked up some Fish Pie Mix at just £6.95 a kilo which contains plenty of salmon and white fish perfect for a delicious family meal or two.
All produce sold at the Fish Market is sourced from fishermen on Devon and Cornish ports. The fisherman use sustainable methods that can be maintained indefinitely without reducing the target species' ability to maintain its population, and without adversely impacting on other species within the ecosystem by removing their food source, accidentally killing them, or damaging their physical environment.
There's free parking and it's walking distance from Oxford Train Station. They also offer a delivery service, and are open 7 days a week!
This entry was posted in Deals on local produce on January 27, 2015 by carolinementzer.


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Constantine Doukas (), Latinized as Ducas, was ruler of Thessaly from  to his death in 1303.

Life
Constantine Doukas was the second son of John I Doukas of Thessaly by his wife, who is only known by her monastic name Hypomone ("Patience"). He succeeded his father sometime in or before 1289 as ruler of Thessaly until his death in 1303. From  on he bore the title of sebastokrator. At the beginning of his reign, as he was underage, he stood under the regency of Anna Palaiologina Kantakouzene. His younger brother Theodore Angelos was his co-ruler until his own death in ca. 1299.

Early in his reign, Constantine's mother entered into negotiations with the Byzantine Empire and, in exchange for recognizing nominal Byzantine suzerainty, Constantine was invested with the title of sebastokratōr. Constantine continued his father's war against Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas of Epirus and his Angevin allies. The campaign of 1295 resulted in Thessalian occupation of the fortresses that Nikephoros had designated as the dowry of his daughter Thamar Angelina Komnene when she married Philip I of Taranto, son of King Charles II of Naples and Maria of Hungary. Most of these conquests were lost to the Angevins in 1296, when a truce was signed. Further fighting followed in 1301, and Angelokastron in Aetolia-Acarnania had to be returned to Philip of Taranto. Virtually nothing else is known about the reign of Constantine, who died in 1303.

Family
His wife is unknown; Karl Hopf reported that she was called Anna Evagionissa, and that she outlived Constantine, dying in 1317. The couple had at least one child, John II Doukas, who succeeded as ruler of Thessaly.

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My third cousin, a "Living Kallstrom."
My third cousin, a "Living Moisson."
My first cousin twice removed, a "Living Westby."
My third cousin, a "Living Wall."
My third cousin once removed, a "Living Hicks."
My second cousin three times removed, William F. Nash. He would have been 140 years old today.


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Worker Changing Flat Tyre Crushed to Death
Blog Worker Changing Flat Tyre Crushed to Death
A family run business has pleaded guilty to health and safety breaches after a worker changing a flat tyre was fatally crushed.
The sub-contractor was under a static caravan when the four-tonne home collapsed on top of him.
Inadequate Safety Procedures
In what was described as an 'accident waiting to happen', the court heard the firm's safety procedures were unwritten and based on the experience of staff.
The caravan was 16 years old and had no designated chassis jacking points. It was being jacked-up on hydraulic bottle jacks, with breeze blocks used to take the weight, when the structure somehow 'unexpectedly' twisted on its supports – apparently the company had been changing wheels and tyres in this fashion for decades.
However, prosecutors said the firm had failed to make sure industry safety standards were followed when the 'inherently dangerous' job was carried out. The court heard the firm failed to follow accepted industry standards by not:
Ensuring the operation was carried out on a suitable hard surface;
Using axle stands to take the weight; and
Using cups on the jacks to better grip the chassis.
The judge said it was clear:
no proper safety procedures had been in place at the time of the incident; and
there had been little or no planning to make sure tyres could be changed safely.
Blackhills Caravan Sales Ltd pleaded guilty to failing to discharge its duties under the Health & Safety at Work etc Act 1974 in regard to people's welfare and safety.
It was fined £120,000 and ordered to pay £14,000 toward prosecution costs.
Three health and safety charges against company directors were dropped following the firm's guilty plea.


Kitwe residents rioted on Monday morning after media reports over the weekend that the government was planning to sell Zambia Forest and Forestry Industries Corporation (ZAFFICO) to a Chinese company.
Last week, ZAFFICO workers protested a government decision to list the company on the stock market and a possible take-over by the Chinese.
And when it was clear before the public that government was planning to sell one of the few remaining profit making parastatals, residents of Kitwe's Kawama, Chimwemwe, Kwacha, Buchi, and Kamitondo compounds rioted.
The rioters protested the sell by stoning a Clinic in Twatasha compound and burning tyres on roads, among other things.
And confirming the incident, Copperbelt Province police commissioner Charity Katanga said the riots in fact started in the morning.
She said police had already picked up some rioters and detained them.
When asked for more details, Katanga promised to release a comprehensive report later in the day.
The angry residents denounced the government by chanting anti-Chinese slogans.
They further wondered why the government was selling everything to the Chinese.
''Ifili fyonse balefwaya ukushitisha kushitisha kuma Chinese. Bushe ninshi ebakulatuteka? (Whatever they [government] want to sell, they offer it to the Chinese. Are they the ones governing us?'' asked one angered resident in a local language.
According to a proposal in next year's national budget, the government wants to list ZAFFICO shares on the Lusaka Stock Exchange, a move which sparked another riot last week from employees.
The Industrial Development Corporation refuted claims of such a sell.
Public relations manager Namakau Mukulebai only confirmed the listing of the firm.


Shinobi 3D: 11 Minutes of Japanese Gameplay… And Squealing.
Home » Videos » Shinobi 3D: 11 Minutes of Japanese Gameplay… And Squealing.
Courtesy of SEGA Japan's YouTube channel, a good long look at the gameplay.


Newly elected politicians to open parliament despite president's call for more time to probe fraud claims.
Hundreds of newly elected Afghan members of parliament appear to be headed for a political confrontation with the country's president, having decided to hold the first session of the parliament on Sunday against his wishes.
More than 200 MPs said they would defy President Hamid Karzai by going ahead with the planned opening session of the new parliament on Sunday. Karzai had suggested that the session be postponed for a month so that a tribunal can contine investigating allegations of election fraud.
"If the police don't let us in the parliament, we can meet in the street, the road, there are open fields," Mohammad Akbari, a parliamentarian from Bamiyan province, said.
"We are against tension and protests, but we are the representatives of the Afghan people. The president cannot postpone parliament. We are in the right."
The decision by the MPs comes despite a call from the head of a special tribunal, set up in December, to look into more than 400 cases of alleged electoral fraud in September's parliamentary polls, for a delay of at least a month.
Sidiqullah Haqiq, the tribunal head, warned that his body could still rule in favour of recounts.
It is unclear if the tribunal, deemed unconstitutional by both the international community and the electoral bodies who organised and oversaw the election, has the authority to alter the result of any races.
The United Nation's mission in Afghanistan expressed its "deep concern and surprise" at the president's order for a delay.
In a statement released on Friday, the UN, the EU, the US, Canada and other nations said they continued to support a "reasonable, enduring and peaceful resolution to this issue" so that the Afghan parliament can convene "as soon as possible".
The parliament was set to start work on Sunday after an earlier investigation by an anti-fraud watchdog into the charges of irregularities.
That group discarded 1.3 million ballots, nearly a quarter of the total, and disqualified 19 winning candidates before final results were issued on November 24.
But Afghanistan's attorney general said the investigation had not been thorough enough and launched a new round of inquiries, which led the Supreme Court to create the special tribunal in late December.
As well as being hit by fraud and violence, the original parliamentary election resulted in a weak showing for the Pashtuns, Karzai's traditional power base and Afghanistan's biggest single ethnic group.
A free and fair election would have shown Karzai's commitment to fight cronyism and corruption a year after international criticism over a fraud-tainted presidential poll that led to his own re-election.
However, the parliamentary ballot, in which 2,500 contenders ran for 249 seats, was marred by allegations of fraud and voter intimidation.


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PRESIDENT CLINTON:
IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF AMERICAN FAMILIES
Although medical technology is ever-changing, the values of your profession -- the Hippocratic Oath -- are everlasting. We face a choice, as we walk together into the future, whether to widen the circle of access and extend the opportunity of new treatments to all American families. If we keep in mind the values you were taught and continue to uphold, then we will have a healthier America, and a stronger America, in the 21st century.
- President Bill Clinton
Today, President Clinton is the first President to address the American Medical Association (AMA) in 15 years. In his remarks he calls on Congress to pass a Patients' Bill of Rights, comprehensive tobacco legislation to reduce teen tobacco use, and a proposal to allow hundreds of thousands of Americans ages 55 to 65 to buy into Medicare.
Urging Congress To Pass Legislation Guaranteeing A Patients' Bill Of Rights. The nation's health care system is undergoing significant change. Many Americans worry that these changes may reduce their health care options and lower the standards of care. A Patients' Bill of Rights would provide Americans much needed protections, including:
Guaranteed access to needed health care providers to ensure that patients are provided appropriate high quality care;
Access to emergency services when and where the need arises;
Confidentiality of medical records to ensure that individually identifiable medical information is not disseminated and to provide consumers the right to access and amend their own medical records; and,
Grievance and appeals processes for consumers to resolve their differences with their health plans and health care providers.
Releasing A New Report Underscoring The Bipartisan Support For The Patients' Bill Of Rights. In today's event the President releases a report showing that 44 states -- including 28 states with Republican governors -- have enacted at least one of the provisions in the Patients' Bill of Rights. To ensure that all health plans serving Americans provide the protections envisioned by the Quality Commission, we must pass and enact bipartisan Federal legislation.
Calling On Congress To pass Comprehensive Tobacco Legislation. A recent study concluded that the Administration's proposal to increase the price of cigarettes by $1.50 per pack, coupled with proposed sales and advertising restrictions, would keep up to 1.9 million Americans from smoking 2003, sparing as many as 1 million of today's young people from premature deaths resulting from smoking-related diseases. The President is proposing tobacco legislation that includes five key principles:
A comprehensive plan to reduce youth smoking;
Full authority of the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco products;
Changes in how the tobacco industry does business, including an end to marketing and promotion to children;
Progress towards other public goals, including a reduction of secondhand smoke; promotion of cessation programs; public health research; and the strengthening of international efforts to control tobacco;
Protection for tobacco farmers and their communities.
Urging Congress To Pass His Targeted Proposal To Expand Adequate, Affordable Health Coverage. The President has a carefully-targeted, fiscally-responsible proposal that would allow hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Americans to gain access to more affordable health care coverage by: allowing Americans ages 62 to 65 to buy into the Medicare program; allowing displaced workers age 55 and over a similar buy-in option; and allowing Americans 55 and over who have lost their retiree health benefits to buy into their former employers' health plan.