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I am currently in college finishing up my last year with an
intended degree in the pharmacology. I've been looking into
programs involving the CDC because it is a somewhat humanitarian
agency. Thats a mouthful lol. I really enjoy meeting new people and
spending time with others. I have found that I learn alot from
socializing with others.
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What I'm doing with my life
Don't overthink this one; tell us what you're doing day-to-day.
I currently am a full time student but I am also a frequent
volunteer/coordinator with Red cross and New york cares. In my free
time I stay active by running and taking long walks. Going to the
gym is my primary means of staying fit though.
I'm really good at
Go on, brag a little (or a lot). We won't judge.
I am very good at carrying conversations. I try to avoid formal
talk as much as possible because it's boring. No one wants to feel
like they are at a fucking interview 24/7 lol. I'll usually start
conversations about world wide events, government, environment,
health and anything else that is pretty thought provoking.
Favorite books, movies, shows, music, and food
Help your potential matches find common interests.
Shows: Naruto, Transformers, Psycho Pass, Attack on Titan(Yes im a
geek. Get over it lol), Bill Maher, Cosmos, House, Orange is the
new black, Treme,
Movies: Black Fish, Enemy of the State, Along Came Polly, 50 First Dates, Mr. Deeds, Polar Express, Inside Man, Avengers, Frozen and many others ( Dont judge me lol)
Music: Almost anything, seriously. You would be surprised at how much music i listen to daily. My least favorite genre though is country. My most favored genre is jazz.
Movies: Black Fish, Enemy of the State, Along Came Polly, 50 First Dates, Mr. Deeds, Polar Express, Inside Man, Avengers, Frozen and many others ( Dont judge me lol)
Music: Almost anything, seriously. You would be surprised at how much music i listen to daily. My least favorite genre though is country. My most favored genre is jazz.
The six things I could never do without
Think outside the box. Sometimes the little things can say a lot.
Good Sex
Piano,Saxophone ( equally important)
Good Sex
Piano,Saxophone ( equally important)
I spend a lot of time thinking about
Global warming, lunch, or your next vacation… it's all fair game.
Family and friends are two of things I often think about. I
realized over the years that life is short and how imperative it is
to spend time around people that you consider to be important while
you can. I lost a decent amount of people over the years in my
family and have regretted not being around them more when I was
younger. But instead of beating myself up about the past I've
decided to strengthen the bonds between my family and myself
constantly meeting new people and making friends. From the moment I
made this my goal up until now I have definitely been a happier and
more fulfilled person.
On a typical Friday night I am
Netflix and takeout, or getting your party on — how do you let loose?
Usually walking around in the city looking for clubs or concerts
that I want to attend.
You should message me if
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restaurants, movies, parks, pretty much anywhere. The place really
doesnt matter to me. If the vibe is cool and genuine we should be
able to have fun anywhere.(As a side note DO NOT message me if your
not interested in using protection. Im not the reckless type.There
are many other guys on here that would happily take your request
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Allstate Northern Ireland is part of the Time to Compute programme—a scheme developed by Business in the Community in partnership with local Education and Library Boards to help improve computing skills in local primary schools. ANI gives their support to volunteers going out into local primary schools to assist the pupils with IT tasks, providing half the time volunteered back to the employee. Currently 12 Allstate NI employees are volunteering in various local schools (Our Lady's Primary School, St Therese of Lisieux Primary School, Nettlefield Primary School & St Matthew's Primary School).
Malcolm Turner and Marbeth Scott (occasionally joined by Nagendiran Vilvanathan) have been volunteering for 3 years in St. Matthew's Primary School in Belfast. For 1 hour a week they teach 8-10 year olds basic IT skills on a 1-1 basis, using approved educational software, occasionally also assisting with on-going classroom projects.
Marbeth had the following to say about her time at St. Matthews,
"It is such a rewarding project. The teachers and pupils make us feel most welcome. At times they just want us to stay for longer. We laugh with them, discuss many topics and get to know the pupils".
Malcolm followed up by saying,
"St. Matthew's is a brilliant school where we are welcomed and feel that we can make a difference for the pupils with our skills, and it's very rewarding seeing the pupils' reactions when they've achieved something new."
This year the team has been working with the children towards achieving an ICT accreditation from the local education authority, CCEA. To achieve this accreditation the school were to design a "Victorian Newsletter" using Microsoft Publisher—with every class member producing their own newsletter.
Following on from this, pupils engaged with 'Scratch', a very user-friendly but powerful scripting language that uses Turtle graphics and also Sprites. Using this, the team worked through the steps of creating a web page with each of the children, and also did a more advanced project with two of the children selected by the class teacher. The topic was chosen to be "Healthy Eating" by the children and teacher again to tie in with work being done in class.
Their project is uploaded to the Scratch website at http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/MalcolmANI/3301050—just click the green flag.
Tanya Mc Crory (Primary 7 teacher) spoke highly of the initiative,
"Being involved with Time to Compute has provided the children in our school with an ideal platform to develop a wide range of ICT skills. I have seen at first-hand how the children have become more proficient in the use of ICT, in real and meaningful contexts. They have enjoyed finding out about new software and can see the great potential of ICT in supporting their learning".
Time to compute is one of the many Corporate Social Responsibility efforts that Allstate NI are passionate about. If you are interested in taking part in Time to Compute next year please get in contact with Sonya Kerr email@example.com.
Published: 15.12.2014 On Wednesday 10th December Allstate NI announced the winners of their recent Hackathon competition which was held at Queen's University Belfast. Read More >
Published: 31.10.2014 The Allstate NI Belfast Charities Committee ran a number of events during this year's Stand Up to Cancer Week which ran from 13-17 October. Read More >
Published: 30.10.2014 On Wednesday 22nd October a group of Allstate NI employees and Students from Queen's University Belfast (QUB) met in the University's Computer Science at Elmwood building to kick off the Allstate NI Connected Car Hackathon. Read More >
Published: 24.10.2014 Since 2010 Allstate Northern Ireland's XtheTXT road safety campaign, in partnership with the Police Service of Northern Ireland and DOE, has led the way in promoting the dangers of texting whilst driving, delivering workshops to more than 18,000 students across the province to date. Read More >
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- 25 Feb 2015 Anonymous Australia
- " Awesome place to meet people both local and vacationers. Awesome experience overall! "
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- " very nice building, excellent dorms, staff super helpful, just on thing, there's no kitchen... but besides that superb! :) "
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- " The Freehand is a funny place. Swanky night club by night, and dirtbag hostel with 8 to a room by day. I got into an air conditioner war with a small, snoring, Pakistani man, who apparently liked it sweltering in the room. When I first claimed my bunk, the sheets were damp. Come to find out, that dampness was bleach, which ruined the pants I was wearing at the time. So while I am tempted to give them high marks for cleanliness, this jaded me slightly. The staff were incredibly friendly. "
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Our Rating: :: STICK WITH THE INVERTEBRATES :: Read Our Full Review >>MiniBattle tries to capture the fun and excitement found in other turn-based games involving chucking ordinance at other players, but in the end it doesn't even come close.
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In most cases, you won't have symptoms of hepatitis C until your liver becomes more damaged. That can take a long time -- years or even decades.
If you've been infected with hepatitis C for many years and don't get treatment, you may develop cirrhosis. This is a condition that inflames and scars the liver.
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In cirrhosis, scar tissue replaces healthy liver tissue. If this continues unchecked, scarring blocks blood flow through your liver. It also makes it hard for the liver to:
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- Fight infection
- Digest food and process nutrients, hormones, and drugs
- Make proteins to control blood clotting
- Store energy
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- Loss of appetite or weight loss
- Dark-yellow urine
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- Symptoms of type 2 diabetes
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Nonsense trailing off
Made-up words slipping into the breeze
Sweaty, clammy grip on my mind
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Slipping away
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In my mind's eye
Swallowed by blackness or an unnamed fear
Unseen foes with bright eyes
Staring at me through the darkness
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The secrets the darkness holds
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I've seen them all.
"I am not insane." says one.
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GRACE acronates "Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment." Its story is well told in Kathryn Joyce's "By Grace Alone," an article in American Prospect (May/June; see "Sources," below).
July 24, 2014
The Rohingya Muslim group on the Myanmar (Burma) side of the Bangladesh-Myanmar frontier are probably the most deprived people in East Asia; their plight is constantly in the international media, t
July 21, 2014
"Many a bum show has been saved by the flag," actor and playwright George M. Cohan once mumbled in criticism of the hypocritical use of patriotic symbols in efforts to rescue bad plays.
July 17, 2014
More than half of Americans believe that divine forces play a role in the outcome of sporting events (according to a survey by the Public Religion Research Institute conducted prior to this year's Super Bowl).
July 14, 2014
"THE NEW JIHAD" screamed the first line of a really, really big headline in last weekend's Wall Street Journal. The next few lines were equally and credibly, or incredibly, alarming: "A brazen new generat
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Recipes for the Dead is a independent mini-comic that can be funded by you if you like steampunk, cookies, and gorgeous manga art. Read more
Recipes for the Dead is a independent mini-comic that can be funded by you if you like steampunk, cookies, and gorgeous manga art.
About this project
Issue 1 will be funded! Thank you everyone who made this possible (and in such a short amount of time)! I'm overwhelmed with appreciation and happiness at the prospect of this project going live! Thank you all!
From now on, anyone can pledge with trust that they will be accepting their rewards soon. And all extra money will go into making extra copies of the comic. If, by some miracle, we collect an extra $500, that money will go into the funding of Issue 2. So keep spreading the news about Recipes for the Dead and thank you again!
--- Hi! I'm Vera Greentea and Recipes for the Dead is a mini-comic written by me. This story will be my first self-published comic book.
Recipes for the Dead is a story about a shy girl named Veronica who bakes her way into the heart of a demon. In this first issue, Veronica takes a recipe cookbook from the recently inhabited old house down the road. After realizing that the recipes aren't exactly kosher, (and actually they're from a whole different world altogether), Veronica throws all caution into the wind and starts on a journey to cook each recipe with disastrous results.
Ein Lee is a talented manga artist who evokes the macabre and darkness at will. She will be using her powers for good and evil when drawing Veronica, her delectable recipes and her malevolent foes. She's going to create all new art for the book!
I hope to self-publish the 16-20 page story by October. The $750 will help me pay Ein and cover some of the printing costs. The goal is to have the PDF at the printer by early September and have the books in hand by October. I will post sketches, updates and notes from the story on Veronica's blog to which anyone can get the password just by donating $1.
In October, I will be going to the comic con armed with Recipes for the Dead books and Veronica's fresh baked cookies. I hope to see you guys there! If you see me there, just mention that you know me from the kickstarter page and I will happily give you a cookie and talk to you.
Thanks so much for reading this! I hope you decide to contribute!
Yours sincerely, Vera Greentea
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As aspirations rise, ethics often fall
He had a taste of fame but wanted more. It's not far fetched to believe that Richard Heene's taste of celebrity, acquired by appearing on "Wife Swap", infected him with the virus celebrityitus. After all, one appearance wasn't enough, so he signed his whole family up for a second episode. Then there were clues he was trying to convince producers to give him his own show.
This drive for camera time led to an elaborate and deceiving runaway balloon scheme that attracted media attention worldwide. Whether his wife, Mayumi encouraged the hoax or was an unwilling participant is not clear, but it's obvious that the desire for fame and fortune were the motivating factors. Admit it, we've all yearned for public attention in one-way or another. Professional recognition, artistic success, or the opportunity to see ourselves on the little screen and be recognized by strangers does give the ego a little boost, unless, of course you're featured on an episode of "Cheaters" or seen coming out of the courthouse surrounded by an angry mob.
We're often called on to support a loved one's dream of fame and fortune, like the cousin trying to make it as an actor or the friend completely focused on being the next WWE superstar. While some are worthy pursuits, many are hopeless causes which leads to the question of the week:
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Arte Moreno might look like the world's most interesting man, but the Angels number two starter C.J. Wilson might actually be the world's most interesting man. Many a blogger has put down thousands of words concerning Mr. Wilson's extracurricular activities. From racing to break dancing, C.J. covers virtually the entire hobby spectrum. So much so, that I'm going to let this video take over from here.
Drafted out of Loyola Marymount University, Wilson only once cracked the Rangers top 10 prospects, and never ranked in the top 100 of all baseball prospects. After call ups in 2005 and 2006, Wilson became an everyday member of the Rangers bullpen in 2007 and subsequently posted an ERA of 3.03 across 68⅓ innings and was given the closer role after Eric Gagne was traded that season. A solid improvement on the 4.06 ERA that he posted in 44⅓ innings in 2006 and was now an important cog in the Rangers bullpen after being, more or less, unimpressive during his minor league career. Named the closer coming into 2008, Wilson was poised to cement himself at the back end of the Rangers bullpen. He flopped, and flopped fantastically at that. Across 46⅓ innings in 2008, Wilson put up a 6.02 ERA and was leveled by a preposterous 16.3% HR/FB rate. He would convert 24 saves, but an elbow injury (we'll talk about this later) shut him down and he would lose the closer to role to Frank Francisco.
After successful offseason surgery to remove a bone spur in Wilson's left elbow (sound familiar?), C.J. entered the 2009 season as the setup man to Frank Francisco, and then went on to have his best season as a reliever. Pitching 73⅔ innings, C.J. posted an ERA of 2.81 (new career best) and put up SO/9 of 10.3. The former Fountain Valley Baron and one time ho hum minor league prospect had arrived, but he wouldn't remain in the bullpen for long. Wilson had expressed to the Rangers organization about returning to starting in 2006, and after his strong performance in 2009, the Rangers decided to give Wilson a shot going into the 2010 season and told him to be prepared to start by spring training.
Like the first person who added hollandaise to an egg mcmuffin giving us the delicious eggs benedict, the move was perfect. After compiling a total of 280⅔ career major league innings, the straight edge Taoist threw 204 innings in his first season as a starter putting up a 3.35 ERA and a SO/9 of 7.5. He still had trouble with walking people (4.1 BB/9), but the transition was seamless, and considering his home ballpark's bandbox reputation, his 0.4 HR/9 was better than anyone could ask for. So, how do you improve upon a season in which your expectations were around that of what an average number five starter would provide? You become an All Star, that's how you improve. To date, C.J.'s 2011 season is his best. 223⅓ innings pitched, a 2.94 ERA, SO/9 rose to 8.3 and he put up an incredible WHIP of 1.187. The best part, he cut out a full walk per nine innings pitched, lowering his BB/9 to 3.0. An All Star, a number one starter for the Rangers, and heading into free agency, Wilson and his positive mental attitude had arrived.
Prior to 2012, Wilson signed a five year $77.5 million deal with the Angels (of course he did, why else would I be writing about him here?) and became a member of what was supposed to be one of the most heralded rotations in baseball history. Now, the only fair way to sum up Christopher John's 2012 season is to talk about it in two halves. In the first half of the season, he was as advertised. Across 111⅓ innings his ERA was sitting at 2.43 with a WHIP of 1.159. He earned a trip to the All Star Game and was solid number two behind our other All Star pitcher Jered Weaver. The hometown product was performing as he was expected too. Fans couldn't be happier and everything was it was supposed to be. Then came the second half, which can be summed up in one word…..ugly. 91 innings, a 5.54 ERA and a WHIP of 1.571. I say again, ugly. As the season wound down, reports came out that C.J. was pitching with a bone spur in his left elbow (Remember that whole "talking about this later" thing? Yeah, we're almost there) that was limiting his extension and at one point forced him to abandon throwing his splitter altogether because of the pain. Overall, a 3.83 ERA and a 1.344 WHIP coupled with a BB/9 rising back up to 4.0 were not the finish line numbers that fans expected to see from their new pitcher, but that's baseball.
Slingin' PMA in 2013 at ya fools.
Unless of course you're ZiPS. Szymborski expects C.J. to throw less than 200 innings this year (193) have a career average K% (20%) and improve marginally on his BB% (9.5%) while finishing with average-ish ERA (3.49), and this time, I disagree. This is where the numbers fail and peeling back the layers on a season are absolutely necessary. By the numbers, Wilson's 2012 was sub-par compared to what was expected and what he has done as a starter up to this point. But, factor in that he was pitching through an injury that shut him down in 2008 and his performance becomes – not acceptable – understandable. And I behoove you to not forget that after having this procedure done in 2008, his 2009 was – up to that point – a career year for Wilson. ZiPS could be pointing to his age as a reason for its projections (suggesting the start of a natural decline), but again would be missing the target. Wilson for his career has thrown 910⅓ big league innings and is heading into his age 32 season. For comparisons sake, the Angels Ace, Jered Weaver, has thrown 1,320⅓ big league innings. The "low mileage" arm is a real thing, and for a soon to be 32 year old pitcher, the amount of innings Wilson has pitched is well behind the curve of where a 32 year old should be at.
Please, please, please don't break.
If any of our pitchers are to go down, ready, willing and waiting in the wings is an entire staff AAAA pitcher types. With the exception of Jerome Williams (the magic pixie dust will wear off eventually) and Garrett Richards (Not sold on him), the rest of the depth chart at the position strikes fear into the hearts of absolutely nobody. If any of the pitchers at the back end of the rotation were to go down with injuries, the replacement would at least be on par with what was already in that rotation spot. If either Weaver or Wilson go down, it will be imperative that I break out the voodoo dolls and start weaving magic spells over the teams within the division. Luckily – aside from the two bone spur issues in his past – Wilson has been quite healthy throughout his career, and more of the same should be expected. But, he is a pitcher, and that is arguably the most volatile position in all of baseball. It should never be assumed that a pitchers elbow or shoulder won't explode during a pitch.
C.J. Wilson is no stranger low expectations, he is no stranger to coming back from elbow surgery and he is no stranger to the pressure that comes with being at the front end of the rotation. He became a starter in 2010 and was slotted as the number three. That October, he was pitching Game 2 of the ALDS. In 2011, he was the Rangers Ace and Opening Day starter. Now, he is the number two to Jered Weaver, but could conceivably pitch more like a co-Ace than Weaver's sidekick in the rotation. For all the grief and worry that fans have been throwing around this offseason concerning the Angels rotation – and yes, a lot of it is warranted – Christopher John Wilson's presence on the mound should illicit no such worries. He's not just the Angels number two starter; he's the hometown kid that made good, even when his career was heading nowhere. He's got that PMA, and I suggest you catch what he's got.


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Wye Oak Embrace Reinvention, Abandon Guitar on Upcoming Fourth Album
Baltimore-based duo discuss 'Civilian' follow-up in Brooklyn's Rare Book Room studio
"We've been really excited," Wye Oak's Andy Stack says, "that this record can finally be a time when people put to rest the moniker 'indie folk.'" The 28-year-old multi-instrumentalist is sitting alongside his bandmate, 27-year-old singer-guitarist Jenn Wasner, inside Rare Book Room, a dimly lit studio decorated with musky furniture, located in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. Here, the duo are in the midst of recording their as-yet-unofficially-titled fourth album, due for release in 2014 via Merge Records.
The upcoming full-length follows 2011's alluring (and profile-raising) Civilian, and marks a drastic shift for Wye Oak's creative process. "There's not a lick of guitar on this whole record," says Wasner, who has now assumed bass-playing duties. "It basically inverts what we were responsible for. Andy was playing droney bass lines on keyboard. Now he's responsible for the more upper register stuff that guitar would normally handle, while I'm playing bass lines on a bass guitar. The idea was really appealing to me because we had sort of hit a wall, just with the complete and total excess of touring that we had done, the use and overuse of that format. It tainted the guitar for me and I was finding it really, really hard to get anything out of it from a writing perspective. I wasn't excited about it — too much baggage. It just felt tired to me."
Wasner found some much-needed inspiration when she stumbled upon the idea of sacrificing her six-string skills. "I sort of fell to the ground in relief and excitement," she says. "I didn't want this band to end, but I knew that we needed something new to make us excited about it again. I felt like I had cheated the system. We had found a way to be the same band and yet be totally different, sonically and compositionally, within that framework of our band."
Stack, who has moved from Wye Oak's hometown of Baltimore to Portland in the time since Civilian's release, shares Wasner's enthusiasm. "Instruments can interact with each other in different ways that we're not used to," he says. "We never had a bass player in this band, or, at least, the bass that we've had in recordings in the past has been a secondary thing. When you start having bass be a primary compositional instrument, it interacts with everything else differently."
"It also means we get to start using words like 'pocket' and 'funky,'" Wasner jokes.
Kidding aside, Wye Oak realize the risk involved with such a reinvention. "There is more at stake then whether my feelings get hurt or not," Wasner says, anticipating some measure of blowback from fans. "We've been touring in this band, making a living off of it since Civilian and we are very fortunate that that has been the case, but we're both very aware that it could totally go away. But I like what I'm doing enough that I'm confident I will still love it even if people don't like it. I feel that strongly about it. I don't think there is any amount of hate and vitriol and backlash that could make me not love it."
That kind of positivity can be felt all throughout the forthcoming effort, which Wye Oak are self-producing with input from engineer and Rare Book Room proprietor Nicolas Vernhes. "It's much happier sounding," Wasner says of the 10-track album. "And lyrically, I think there's contentment and peace. It's learning to write and be creative in a non-destructive way. I don't want to fucking self-destruct all the time. It feels good to be happy and be at peace and learn how to tap into those feelings as well."


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Until then, the Phoenix-metro area will see one more day of near record heat as a ridge of high pressure remains in control of the region.
Under partly sunny skies, highs in the Valley Friday afternoon should be around 97. The record high temperature for this date in Phoenix is 98, set in 1989.
Friday night, expect mostly cloudy skies in the Valley with a Saturday morning low of 67.
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Season 2 Community Suggestion Thread
Warning, thread is under construction at the moment. I'm going to be slowly updating the OP to appear much cleaner instead of being a massive wall of text. Paraphrasing may not be viable for a lot of topics, but I will do my best to allow people to essentially "search" the post for what they want. Alright, considering all of my suggestions are usually posted in an extremely rude manner, I've decided to be professional for once. Below are going to be compiled suggestions I have for the Season 2 client, as really expecting any of these changes overnight would just be asinine. I'll also be updating this as I find more things on the forums, or as I think of new problems/ideas. I'm officially opening this up to be a community project. Post your ideas and concerns as well and I will update the OP. My goal isn't to tear down RIOT at all, instead I want to build them up with our ideas and inspiration for Season 2 with all of the things we've learned from Season 1 as the players. So if you've ever had an idea that you wanted to be heard, post it here! MISC SUGGESTIONS Just posting this stuff at the top as its from users of our community, and I want the newer stuff at the top. Posted by FFDeek "Hi Riot, I have a lot of real life friends that play this game. Respectively, I'm like ten times better then any one of them. Can you please implement an option for me to appear offline when i want to do ranked or just plain don't want to lose. I like playing with my friends some times but .... I also like to win. And I don't want to go through that whole awkward conversation of why I can't play with them. Because some of my friends will hold that against me and call me a try hard. I don't feel like making new friends so this option would save me some stress." Kind of a funny way to ask for it, but appearing offline is used in most online messenger systems today. Would be useful for an immense amount of reasons. Posted by Cm2n "Lately I've been wondering: why is it I can only change my graphics, key bindings, and just about everything else only when I'm IN GAME? Wouldn't it make more sense to be able to change all that with say a sample picture showing us what our graphics will look like in game? How am I supposed to know what "low" graphics will look like and how my computer will take it. Sometimes I'm running other applications in the background and I need to adjust my graphics to a lower setting, but I can't do so without A. entering a game and opening the menu and B. waiting for the game to implement the settings while I'm sitting idle at base or next to my tower, wasting about 30 seconds to a minute because I have to change my stupid graphics. The rest of the settings, such as sounds, key bindings, etc., would be much better if they could be adjusted outside the game. What do you think?" My personal opinion on the matter: Yes, it's slow as hell if you're somebody who changes keybindings for playing certain characters... or maybe a fan blew on your comp between matches (very unlikely I know) and you need your super awesome gfx card to tone it down a bit and take a break. Whatever the case may be, its a slow daunting task to set up these things... and it has to be done in game. While not a HUGE issue, it's still annoying to have to start up a practice game just to change some settings, only to find out a minute later you're not playing this character, you're playing this character, time to switch settings back. Clearly I'm more addressing keybindings than the gfx issue, but the point remains the same. Simple VB frontend to edit the cfg file for those who don't know how. It would take an experienced coder like 10 minutes to make...... hell I might start on it actually. Posted by 69stang "Hey Riot, I know that there are many times I am waiting for a friend to finish their game and I think it would be great if you could enter the game as a viewer. I have spoken to several friends and they all think it would be way cool. You could also let people view different tourn. and watch their favorite players play. This would be like being a spectator in 'The Coliseum' watching your favorite gladiators duke it out in the Twisted Treeline or wherever. the WWLOL If anyone else out there thinks this is a cool idea or would like to add to it, I think it has a lot of merrit. If it is a cost issue, you could even make $$ by charging 5 cents or something per viewer...might try a free version first to see if people will go for it. Anyway, all of you let me know what you think...if you agree that it would be cool sign this to let RIOT know you want it." Posted by Korica Riftaxe "Considering this game is free, and I enjoy it, I never feel bad when I slap down $10 to buy a skin or something. I also like the idea that I am supporting a new company very close to its players, rather than a faceless corporation. To this end, I think Riot could easily implement an optional subscription program. It would not be a Gold Member type thing that gives us tons of super benefits, but rather just a way for us supportive types with extra cash to continuously support Riot. At the very most, perhaps being a subscriber could provide the player with an occasional 2-win IP boost, or small discount on RP purchases (5%-10%) I don't want to pay for power, I just want to make it known that some of us don't mind supporting Riot and would gladly pay you!" My own personal input, I'd like to see something like this but with maybe discounted rune packages. So if I wanted to buy all 9 Dodge Yellows, I could pay 6k IP instead of 7380 IP. UI SUGGESTIONS The first area I want to visit in the pvp.net client is our Profile page. I like the way it is set up compared to pre season, however I feel we have lost too much for what we were given. As I said in another post, I don't feel casual players are being given any consideration when it comes to stat tracking. I feel that while LoL is practically a Major League sport, you guys are catering too much to the hardcore competitive players. Yes, you should cater to them in terms of matchmaking and champion/game balancing. However, the time comes when you are separating your community to make half of the community hate the other half. We get people popping into ranked when they aren't ready just because they want to have their stats recorded. We get people who are just generally angry at the try hard players, because the try hards are competitive and to the others, its just a game. Then you have hardcore players mad at casual players because they're playing ranked and don't care whether they win or lose. Now you can't in all honesty just resolve community relations, however, you can make the casual players feel more important. New Stat Tracking Instead of listing for normal games, TAKEDOWNS/MONSTER AND MINION KILLS/WINS, lets get some real stat tracking going on here. In pre season we had a pretty awesome profile page that showed our top 3 champions and their overall/season stats. Now we have it for ranked, but what about normals? Why should the casual player feel left out? His profile page is practically empty aside from some stupid medals that anybody can farm up by playing enough matches. This draws people to play ranked, and essentially creates the swirl that is ELO Hell for the players who aren't good enough to carry an entire team. So here are a few suggestions for a new profile layout. Instead of the ranked stats button, lets have a Career Stats button (or just Career.) It sounds fancy, and through the career page, we can see our overall stats for ranked and normal combined, or through filters we can see champion progress, and through further filters, Ranked or Normal. It would be no different than on our champion page, where we search by multiple tags. While we're touching on this, why not also add more specific filters. Arranged team stats (which can simply be saved whenever we choose to queue with another person, be it 1 or 4), and per map stats. So altogether we'd have a career page where I could check my progress as Ezreal; Kills:326 Deaths:314 Assists:431 Then I could refine my search on Ezreal to be; Summoners Rift - Arranged - Normal Kills:130 Deaths:46 Assists:152 OR Twisted Treeline - Arranged - Ranked Kills:13 Deaths:3 Assists:8 I feel that this kind of stat tracking will honestly benefit everybody, and I'm more than positive that there won't be objections from the community if you choose to do this. One last thing for stat tracking. Allow the time that matches take to be saved as well as whether you won by surrender or not. It's a much simpler update than what I'm asking above, so I would hope to see it implemented sooner, but I'm not going to rush it. Simply show on our match history the time the match took and for surrenders, either write it on the match in green or red letters, the latter representing a defeat by surrender. You could also add this to the list of filters in the stat tracking. Maybe in our career page add an average game time for ranked, normal, and overall. Now I'm sure the counter argument of server issues comes up because the added stat tracking will take up more server space. Now I'm not sure how you guys actually keep your stats, but it would make sense to me that you could just have the game servers send the required variable data that is keeping our stats to another server that stores xml files attached to our accounts with our stat data. I'm also not sure of the efficiency of using xml files as far as storage space is concerned, but I do know that a lot of other games have used them for similar means successfully. Of course I'm also not aware of just how many people actually play LoL. I know there are 85,150 players who are above or at 1200 rating on the solo queue 5v5 ladder, so I can only imagine that there are at least 15-20 times more players. By my calculations that's somewhere near 2 million players. And I'm more than sure there are more than that, so yeah a HUGE server load. That's why its a suggestion, and I hope you take what you can from it and implement it. Updated Champion Info Under the champion info we need to have the champions passive listed. Passives are essentially another champion ability and therefore quintessential to playing the champion. Currently we have to go to outside sources to view these, or own the champion and play it (well rotation works too but still.) Per level gains to the abilities as well as AP/AD scales and cooldowns would be nice, but thats not completely necessary. Masteries It's been suggested several times, and I am reposting it here. Saved mastery pages. Worried about implementing it into your servers? Well, don't! Simply add a file to our LoL folders that is basically an over glorified text file with a 2mb front end that I myself could code in Visual Basic that presents to us a replication of the masteries tree and allows us to assign up to 30 points, and then saves it to that file. Then we could just have different files and when we go to choose our masteries, you could have a load button and then we choose one of the files we have saved and load those masteries. As for low level summoners, if you use more mastery points then your level, it will simply deny your request to load the mastery file. This could be done by adding a line that just basically has the level requirement and the pvp.net client will read that and compare the two values. Summoner level=Required Level Store Crashes Yeah, I hate this so much. I've pretty much come to terms with the fact that, if a new champion is released, I just shouldn't play until Thursday, because the server load is ridiculous, and the store never works. I'm usually upset about not being able to play the new guy on patch day. So, why don't you implement something similar to the login queue for the store. Instead of allowing everybody access and brute forcing your servers into crash mode, have a line... just like in real life department stores. Once the store hits a user cap for whatever server cluster you're connected to, you sit in a queue. To avoid this being abused, summoners will be disconnected from the shop after 5 minutes. Leaguecraft and other sites have constantly updated information on runes, so if you're upset about not being able to hold your shop window open to do your calculations, do them there before you enter the shop. I hate to be blunt about it to other summoners, but this is a much more efficient solution that actually benefits everybody. Clan System In addition to the friends list in our UI, why not add a clan interface. Now knowing the roots LoL comes from, and the people involved I'm sure this is already on the list, it's probably more of a "how pertinent is this?" kinda thing. I think clans are a community thing and while limitations were suggested in the post I found this in, I'm not for or against limitations. However, implementing a clan system is more than just another tab on your friends list, because then we'll be wanting stat tracking for clans, and clan matchmaking, etc. I think it's a wonderful idea, however I don't think RIOT could implement it within the next 6 months (unless it had already been under development.) I definitely hope for it someday, and I hope this will show RIOT how much we really want one. Posted by DarkVirux "Suggestions I think the images that display for each map should be the actual map itself, either a resized version of the actual mini-map from in-game, or an artists conception of the map like the one I have in the image. This would allow new players to browse through the multiple maps and understand the layout of each one, and the theme, before joining. I also think that the text, "Team up against other players and destroy the enemy Nexus" should be removed entirely. It's too obvious. Evidently anybody playing the game will already know the basic objective. Also, only a short bit of work could really improve the "Average Game Time" for each map by literally calculating the average time of games played on that map(to be more accurate, reset every week to adapt for gamestyle changes). Possibly even display some other statistics, like average kill/death ratios, IP/experience penalties or bonuses for the map, maximum and minimum game times, rankings, etc. While viewing other peoples profiles, I think it would be nice to be able to see the champions the other user has purchased. Often times I'm just curious what champions the user has. A "Report" and "Add as Friend" button should also be included to profiles. Just something quick and small to do the job is fine. Earlier today myself and another person happened to win this epic 3v3 game even with a leaver. However Riot was doing chat system maintenance and I mistakingly returned to lobby, unable to return to the after-game screen to Report our leaver or add the other user as a friend. I did take a screenshot of the after-game screen before leaving, so I have their names but still no way to do said actions. Additionally, a "Back to After-Game Screen" button would be fabulous. User avatar icons. Allow users to upload their own, or have a much bigger array of images, I don't really like any of them to be honest. The game also mentions something about unlocking more with achievements. But really just adding more or an upload system(image verification by Tribunal?) would be cool. Display connection status/ping speed in Lobby or somewhere visible. An if statement to close the client immediately if not connected to PvP. It often lags very badly when I attempt to close it, but only when I'm not connected to the chat." Here was his UI edit image http://i499.photobucket.com/albums/r...PInterface.jpg Posted by DJ Reeve So I know that there's a countdown timer AFTER just finishing a game up, but how about a timer or some sort of indicator OUTSIDE of the post-game statistics? Like at the home screen. This indicator could be a like a green orb up in the corner by your IP and RP that is either on or off to indicate whether the first win of the day bonus is available.Something like the IP bonus indicator from having an "IP Boost" Maybe it could be shown as another tile on the bottom near the chat boxes and notifications. Or it could be integrated with the play button, where if the play button has a glowing aura it means you can get your first win of the day. But what I'm really looking for is a easy to see indicator that shows you if the first win of the day bonus is available. If the first win of the day bonus is not available then the indicator will be "off" and when your mouse rolls over it or clicks on it it will indicate how much time is left before the first win of the day is available Posted by f4nt0m Hi all, Being an avid gamer, I constantly game from various locations including at university during my breaks; at home; and at a mate's place. With this, I constantly create practice games before joining a normal/ranked game in fear of having high latency. It seems that hosting a single player practice game will allow me to check my ping - though it does not seem to be accurate as there have been times after that where I have joined a game to check my ping and it just shot up to 300-400. This is often the case at university (especially where the wireless signal is stronger at some places). I have tried many times to ping 184.108.40.206 via the command prompt and for some reason, the requests always time out - Possibly configured to not respond to pings? So, would it then be possible to somehow implement a ping-checking button to the interface (possibly, the options window) that will allow one to check if their connection is alright before joining a game? This could be a simple ping to the US server (220.127.116.11) to get our latency (that we see during load screens) and to prevent spam, disable it after 5 clicks for 15 minutes or something. This will enable a large amount of the community that are not based in US (playing from Sydney, Australia) to make sure we don't start disconnecting or having immense lag during games. Sometimes too, ISPs start to go crazy and for those with unstable ISPs, this would help them too. tl;dr - Add a ping-checking button somewhere, so we can ensure our connections won't ruin the game for ourselves and for others. GAME RELATED SUGGESTIONS ELO Calculations Yes, a VERY touchy subject for you guys. You're paying out the ass for people to come up with efficient formulas, and all we ever do is yell at you for it. I understand that its frustrating for you guys as a company, and I'm sure you guys understand our frustration as players. I believe this issue is identical to how people in World of Warcraft used to have Gear Score requirements to raid. The common counter argument was GS doesn't = skill! Well, the fact of the matter is, ELO doesn't equal skill, to a point. Once you hit the 1700's and 1800's yeah, you've got something to be **** proud of. And all you 2k+ players, congrats to you guys, because clearly you guys are the best of the best. HOWEVER, there are people stuck at 1100-1200 who belong in the 1400's and people just all mis matched. So, how can RIOT help the ELO crisis that Season 1 has created? Regulate the ELO a little differently. Right now there are a few factors going into how much ELO you get or lose. I've played four games before and ended up negative from when I started even though I went 2/2. I've also gone 2/3 and ended up neutral or positive, so clearly the ELO formulas aren't black and white, wins to losses. I think even though stats are little overrated in game, perhaps they should be considered by deaths to wins and kills to losses with match time factored. So... lets say you win a game that takes 20 minutes because they surrendered, and you died 14 times. You should get less ELO than the guy who only died 2 times on your team. If you lose a match that takes 51 minutes and have 21 kills to 6 deaths, you should lose less ELO than the guy who had 2 Kills and 18 Deaths. Of course we also need to factor in assists as well, because maybe that guy was a tank and had 30+ assists, in which case he should be properly rewarded and not lose as much ELO either. So lets say that the base ELO for winning (which of course there needs to be a base or else you can't make the formula) is 30. The base for losing is -25. So for the win, lets say you had the 14 deaths and got 10 kills and 5 assists in the 20 minute game. So you would get 30 - (14*.2)(60/20) + (10*.8)(20/60) + (5*.8)(20/60) = 25.6 ELO. I would assume rounded up which would bring it to 26. The formula I created for this was BASE ELO minus (deaths multiplied by .2) multiplied by (one hour divided by game time) plus (Kills multiplied by .8) multiplied by (game time divided by one hour) plus (Assists multiplied by .8) multiplied by (game time divided by one hour) equalling our total result. I chose the .2 and .8 after testing a few other numbers, and as I'm no mathematician I won't argue if somebody wants to say w/e. Now one could argue that 26 ELO is pathetic for winning (considering I used a base of 30) however that person died 14 times in 20 minutes and had barely any assists. A better player who had gone 5/0/5 in a 20 minute game would get 33 ELO. So its not a terrible formula for somebody who has no real education in the field it comes from. For losses simply substitute the Base ELO for the -25. In an hour long game where you went 10/5/10 you would only lose 10 ELO. I hope that some of that proves useful to whoever you have in charge of ELO calculations and obviously those base numbers are way off from your actual base numbers. LEAVERS AND QUEUE DODGING Alright, so we've all seen your multiple attempts at solving the leaver solution, but this most recent one combined with Season 1 penalties are just way to much. I am afraid to queue dodge when it's necessary because A) I'm going to lose ELO anyway, and B) I don't want to get banned. Why should I be punished for queue dodging if somebody in ranked gets a random champion through AFK picking? So my solution that I am suggesting is actually not to bad. Make it so that a summoner can't be assigned a champion if they don't select one by the end of the queue timer. Instead they are booted back to the main pvp client screen, and NOT put back into queue. Also on the other end of the spectrum we have really coordinated players who get paired up and communicate in pre game chat and then suddenly with 0 seconds left on the clock, "Summoner 4 has left during champion selection". Now you're back in queue and end up getting paired against the people you just talked with, and your jungler is completely boned because they know his strat, or if you were planning an early gank, they know it, etc. This makes the game seriously unfair and just not fun. Especially if my queue re pops instantly. So, how can we fix this? We can make it so that once a team is paired it stays paired. So if a summoner on the other team queue dodges, the team I'm on stays together. Likewise if I was in the team that queue dodged, the rest of us are put back into the queue and reassembled with other people. The team that stays together simply sits in the game lobby until presented with another opposing team. As far as actual in game leavers, I think your system is working just fine, except for the problem that queue dodgers are seen as leavers. Though, if you implement the system I mentioned, no longer letting people afk pick champions, then I'm sure it's not NEARLY as big a problem. Offline Client It's been asked for a looooooong time. As I said in my other post about this, we probably just haven't gotten one because of the security compromises it could risk. In all honesty though, I would hope that RIOT plans on releasing a standalone offline client for us at some point. It doesn't need to be linked to our summoners, it could function just like how War3 and DOTA did where we could just pick a user name, and then jump into the action with friends and LAN. Another great thing is people would eventually mod it, bringing up new champion ideas for you guys so you don't have to try so hard as well as bringing LoL back to it's roots in a modding community. Obviously modding an online game just isn't viable, but an offline client, that's a different story. Honestly, I wouldn't mind one bit dishing out $20 or so to get a copy of an offline LoL that I could LAN with my friends. I'm sure some people might be upset that I said that, but honestly, if it encourages the development of LoLAN, then cough it up.... besides, most summoners spend more than that on skins. Game modes!! Finally found a summoner suggesting a new game mode! I'm sure there have been some suggested before but I didn't have this thread at the time. Random Mode (or Mystery Showdown... that sounds cool.... yeah.... lets go with that) Posted by RainRainery "Title undecided but this isn't a very complex gamemode, Basically you are thrust into a game with a completely random champion (out of all, not just the ones you own), once your champion is decided you can quickly set your masteries(everyone has all 30) and spells(all spells), and use one of the 3 preset rune pages (caster, dps and tank). The goal here is to establish no advantage in the game and use what you know to play the game with your current champion." He eventually mentioned being for lvl 30s and ranked only.... I don't really buy into that whole idea. I say stick with it being a gametype for all to enjoy. It's a great way to blow some steam! RIOT if you're worried about ip farming it... make it give 20% reduced IP. Problem solved. ARAM/APAM Of course we know this would be a hit. You would click Play, PvP, and then under classic have All Mid, and then where the maps are usually listed have All Random and All Pick as two separate options. Then it could be a game mode where you just have a mid lane to run down with minions spawning normally, and of course your inhibitor and two nexus turrets. Maybe even add some special brush here and there in the lane. You would have to make it so that certain summoners were disabled for the match type... make it so stack items weren't in the shop, and add a really cool laser box thing that makes it so you can't run a certain distance behind your tower. Of course you wouldn't be able to B. Honestly... it'd be pretty sweet to have APAM ranked or something. Not like draft mode... just have public ELO's for it. Hell yeah, I would be in that all day (not really... but I would for a while.) 1v1 Could have a specially designed map (or chopped regurgitation of summoners rift) for this, and maybe disable summoners? Idk, cool idea, somebody post something so I can add more to this. I'm sure all of you guys have way better ideas than me! These are all the ideas I have for now, but I'll keep checking around the forums for ideas and suggestions and update this post with new things. I hope this more professional approach will grab your attention and actually get some notice. Note I'm not just speaking on my behalf, but I'm also reposting community concerns and interests. P.S. MAGMA CHAMBER PLOX!! P.S.S Thanks to everybody who has posted their ideas and concerns! Another edit! My rant on matchmaking balance issues! Note this is directed at players and is in defense of RIOT Matchmaking can't ever be truly balanced. ELO is a simple number given to not calculate how "good" you are, its a number given to calculate where you rank on the ladder stacked up to other players (you can be carried.) You don't actually get players with 200 wins and 190 losses being paired up against players with 2000 wins, unless that person with 2000 wins has had a LOT of losses (would have to be close to 3k losses.) Wins don't determine your elo either. I have a friend with almost 700 wins, but almost 800 losses. I on the other hand have 270 wins to 220 losses and am much higher in elo than him (we're talking about normal games here.) The higher up the ladder you go without losing elo, the more you get paired against people who also have higher elo's (this should be common sense to you guys.) Eventually you're going to hit a wall where you stop winning for a bit (especially when queueing with multiple people.) After you've lost a few matches, you'll resume winning. When you hit this plateau of winning and losing on and off, thats where you belong. From here you have two options. A) Start understanding why you're losing to the higher elo players that you can't seem to beat and think you're being unfairly matched against. B) Accept that you have reached your peak and will stay in this general elo. It's not that matchmaking is stupidly random... its that if you're queueing as a full premade... its going to try and pair you up against full premades.... this means sometimes, you'll get REALLY good players. If you're solo queueing and win 10 games in a row... expect that reign to end, because you're going to boost your elo into a higher bracket where sometimes better players may be. If you win 200 matches and only lose 30 times... you better believe you're going to get paired against a guy with 2k wins and 1500 losses... and thats because you deserve to be playing those people... accept it as an honor... not as a flaw. |
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How about adding a report option that will allow you to explain everything that occurred during your match. This would allow people to help the LoL community while not putting all the blame onto one person for there bad experience. It could even help the people in the tribunal, or the people placing bans, to have these kind of report's so they know the person accusing would have witnesses or to see if they were just reporting out of spite.


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LEGO The Hobbit Video Game Trailer Revealed
Posted Dec 16 2013 - 10:43 AM
If you didn't get enough LEGO video game news in the past week, here's another one: Today the first trailer for the LEGO The Hobbit video game has been published. Honestly, it looks quite bland to me and at least in the trailer it even seems to be lacking the famous LEGO humor for the most part but that does not mean YOU cannot be excited for it! In that case, you may want to watch the trailer here or read on to watch it on our site.
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Posted Dec 16 2013 - 02:51 PM
It looks... I dunno. Because they're using the actors' voices, it doesn't give them much leeway to make good jokes. Just look at the ending, when a washing machine lands on top of the giant troll or whatever it is. That's not funny; it's random and confusing. Like this:
That's not funny. It's Lurtz shooting Boromir with a banana and a chicken. What's funny about that? It's random and stupid. If they'd stuck to him being shot with arrows it'd have been better, even if it is more violent (but parents who let their kids play a Lord of the Rings video game probably shouldn't care). Because they really can't use dialogue to their advantage they're trying to tell visual gags, but they clearly aren't as well thought out as in the early LEGO games.
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Posted Dec 16 2013 - 06:01 PM
I agree with Skelly, to an extent. The humour in the LEGO games has always existed, but I think it would be better if they (for the most part) left it out in the LoTR and Hobbit games.
Though I must say, Bilbo losing his hair was kinda funny.
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Posted Dec 18 2013 - 02:21 PM
I think they should have waited until the third movie was released to really kick into gear, or at least started later so that the release date could be sooner. If they do release it before the third movie, I wonder how they'll handle it. maybe expansion packs?
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Posted Dec 19 2013 - 06:52 PM
On a similar note to what Skeletonman said, I'm not a huge fan of the games using dialogue clips from the movies. I think the mostly mute (or at least gibberish speaking) minifigures are part of what made the humor work so well in the LEGO Star Wars games. Although I do confess to enjoying the laundry machine gag at the end- just poking a little harmless fun at a scene which some viewers of the movie found over the top to begin wtih.
But I suppose its no big deal. Those who enjoy the LEGO game formula will probably enjoy this one as well. Too bad it doesn't cover all three films, but that's really a separate discussion entirely.
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The Fuming Fuji Says No to Little Einsteins Cereal
Posted By Worker Bee On April 24, 2007 @ 3:35 pm In Big Agra,Big Moo,Diet,Health,Humor,Hype,Nutrition,Raising Healthy Children | No Comments
The Fuming Fuji is outraged at the marketing of toxic food, especially when it is aimed at the small fry. This week, the Fuji has decided to have a serious problem with Little Einsteins cereal from General Mills.
But, Fuming Fuji, you say, kids need whole grain and calcium!
The Fuming Fuji says no!
The claim: Fuji, your blasphemous true colors have been revealed. Who would say no to whole grain and calcium? 1 in 10 children don't get enough grain in their diet. General Mills says cereal is a great way to change this!
The catch: Fuji admits you have caught me in a semantic trap. Good for you. But, I do not say no to fiber and calcium. I say no to these not-genius-at-all candy nuggets that belong in a black hole…known as the trash can.
Who said kids need grains? Why the obsession with obesity-inducing starch for fiber? Only 1 in 10 children get "enough" whole grains? Wonderful! If only that number were zero!
The comeback: Well. A little vehement, don't you think, Fuji? Look, kids need to eat more grains. Otherwise the corn, soy and wheat industries will fail. Is that really what you want, you bitter little apple? Plus, if you eat these Einstein "nuggets" with milk, you get 10% of your DV of calcium, and that's why GM can claim to be a "good source of calcium". Aren't you guys always talking about the need for fiber and vitamins?
The conclusion: All right, I am really about to fume very hard now. Beware. The Fuji is very much in favor of fiber and vitamins, as stated before. But if you think that cereal made from dehydrated old cheap grains is the brainiest source of fiber, or that 10% of the DV of calcium (added only from Big Moo [7], not the cereal!) is a "good source", then the Fuji does not think you would qualify for Mensa at all. But maybe the FDA.
The catchphrase: Little Einsteins cereal? Relativity, all right.
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