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Now playing: Britney Spears - Why Should I Be Sad
Day: February 23, 2008
Blizzard’s statement about RMT – the Secondary Market of MMOGs
After so many years, here’s another official statement from an online gaming company regarding RMT (Real-Money Trading) which is the lucrative Secondary Market of MMOGs.
Here are some excerpts that I find very good to spread.
What many people don’t realize when buying gold is the large impact it has on the game economy, and also how the companies selling gold obtain it. Our developers, in-game support, and anti-hack teams work diligently to stop the exploits these companies use and help players who have become victims of their services. We regularly track the source of the gold these companies sell, and find that an alarmingly high amount comes from hacked accounts.
Selling gold for real money and having characters power-leveled are violations of our Terms of Use and End User License Agreement, and we regularly take corrective action when we find that these services have been used. We hope the information presented here is helpful to anyone considering buying gold or using a power-leveling service; these are just a few reasons that those services can negatively impact World of Warcraft and other games, and we strongly encourage players not to support the companies that offer them.
Read the full statement here: Purchased gold comes at every player’s expense
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Effects of Night Shift on Health
Source: http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2008/02/19/3276781.htm
People who work nights are keener to a dangerous heart condition - possibly because of the chronic stress caused by their work patterns. A research suggests that employees who worked in day shifts are more safe then the night shift employees.
The chances of heart attack are very high for the night shift employees few more reasons are lack of sleep, continue stressing etc, chronic stress is cited as the main reason. The researchers say an irregular heartbeat can be an indicator a person will go on to develop more serious heart problems.
Mostly it happens because human body�s natural circadian rhythms tell that the concerned person should not be working when he or she should take sleep. Many of our physical and chemical roles keep fluctuating during different times of the day. Take for example; let me tell you something about cortisol concentration which changes daily.
Cortisol is the most potent glucocorticoid produced by the human adrenal.
This peaks during the morning hours when glucose is needed for activity and reaches its low point late in the evening. So the chances of heart attacks are very high in the morning time.
It is important to take a proper rest while working in the night shift at call centers and we can avoid the heart attacks.
The world is too much with us
The world is too much with us: late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
Little we see in nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The wind that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers –
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be
A pagan suckled in a creed outworn,
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn,
Have eight of proteus rising from the sea
Or hear old Trison blow his wreathed horn.
(William Wordsworth)