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Good activity + Respecting the rules PRO!

Yes @Cyberpsycho?

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You have a good activity, deserve a chance.

Well, we thank you for this suggestion, but we want stronger suggestions that contribute to developing the server and making it better. Skins and shapes have no effect in making the server better. Yes, there is nothing wrong with suggesting more beautiful things, but we do not think about changing the appearance of Predator Zombie. So thank you! Solved. T/C.

#Accepted! T/C.

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@Otman. Has been added to our team. Welcome.

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Are you serious in that guys? Pro for what? for No activity in DH?! I am absent now because of my exams. I opened the forum to see the news and was frankly shocked by your answer!! What do you give a Pro for? He has no activity at all! #Rejected! You do not have any activity in the project, please do some activity and come back and make a request again.

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The original BMW M3 was created for Group A's 5000-unit homologation rules, but a subsection of those regs allowed even hotter "evolution" models to race if 500 were made. BMW's fastest E30-generation M3 "Evo," the Sport Evolution got an enlarged engine, an adjustable rear wing, and many other bits BMW wanted for racing. Just 600 M3 Sport Evolutions were built, and they weren't sold new in North America, making this French-market car a rear rarity. The 1980s gave us many wild homologation specials, but few cast as long a shadow as the original E30-series BMW M3. The car was designed as a track weapon for Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (DTM) and other FIA Group A touring car series, and BMW had to build 5000 roadgoing M3s to make them race legal. In the process, it created an uncompromising, sharp-handling, box-flared hero that's now one of the most beloved BMWs ever made. What could be better? An even hotter factory-issue E30 M3, of course. This 1990 BMW M3 Sport Evolution, up for auction on Bring a Trailer (which, like Car and Driver is part of Hearst Autos) is the final and fastest of a trio of M3 "Evos." In creating them, BMW was trying to stay ahead of a Group A arms race. Created in 1982, the Group A formula aimed to make racers more like regular road cars than the outgoing Group 2 rules. Early on, it worked, becoming the formula for many global series, including DTM, the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC), and the World Rally Championship. But like a Pirate's code, racing homologation rules often invite creative interpretation. Automakers soon spotted a Crater Lake-sized regulatory loophole. After the initial 5000 cars were made, they could homologate more specialized "Evolution" models if they built at least 500 of them. Thus began the age of the Evo, which in DTM and ETCC spawned cars like the Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.3-16, Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth, and Volvo 240T. In Volvo's case, it built 505 cars but later stripped many of them of their performance gear and sold them as normal 240s, leading other automakers to protest. Pirate's code indeed. With the 6-series fading in 1985, the original BMW M3 was meant to conquer Group A, and it did. The M3's shell was based on the regular E30 two-door, but was lighter, wider, and more aerodynamic. It's high-revving heart, the four-cylinder S14 engine, pumped out 197 horsepower (plenty for a 2.3-liter four back then) mated to a close-ratio Getrag five-speed and a limited-slip rear diff. Bigger brakes, revalved shocks, stiffer springs, and thick anti-roll bars also featured, which at first was enough. Fast on the track and remarkably well sorted on the road, the light, lithe M3 quickly racked up win after win, ultimately taking more than 1400 racing podiums globally including two DTM championships, two ETCC crowns, and the 1987 Tour De Corse Rally in the hands of future Subaru masters ProDrive. Creating that streak going meant continually improving the car. The first M3 Evolution in 1987 (505 built) got a revised cylinder head but few other changes. The 1988 Evolution 2 (501 made) got more changes including a higher compression ratio, a hotter cam, thinner side glass, and more aerodynamic spoilers. By late 1989, ETCC had collapsed amid spiraling racing costs, but that December BMW created another radical M3 Evo for DTM: the Sport Evolution. For this ultimate M3, the S14 six was bored and stroked to 2.5 liters, given bigger valves, an even hotter cam, and other internal updates for 238 horsepower. The side glass was further thinned, and the Sport Evolution had lighter bumpers and a smaller fuel tank. The bumpers were made even more aerodynamic, and brake-cooling ducts replaced the fog lights. The tail spoiler got an adjustable extension with three settings: Monza, Normal, and Nürburgring (for maximum downforce). A total of 600 were made, all in black or red. None of the M3 Evos were sold in the U.S., but they aren't actually the rarest E30 M3s. The convertibles and special editions named for racers Johnny Cocetto and Gianfranco Brancatelli are rarer, but the Sport Evolution is the fastest factory E30 M3. That means bragging rights and investment potential, not to mention just plain fun. This French-spec M3 Sport Evolution was sold new by Corsican BMW dealer François Bernardini and imported to the U.S. in 2018. Just after importation it had quite a bit of maintenance work, including new gaskets and various seals, a replacement fuel tank, and many renewed suspension bits including the shocks and bushings. Since it shows just 48,000 kilometers (30,000 miles), it's possible it needed all that freshening after a period of disuse. Whatever the reason, it's here now and ready to go. This is a rare chance to grab a low-mileage example of the ne plus ultra of E30 M3s, but you'll need deep pockets. Recent sales of these rare Bimmers have seen bids in excess of $180,000. This auction ends on May 5. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60617775/1990-bmw-m3-sport-evolution-bring-a-trailer-auction/

Josko Gvardiol’s goal helped Manchester City remain one point behind leaders Arsenal with a game in hand. Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA Pep Guardiola has warned Manchester City cannot drop any points if they are to secure a historic fourth successive Premier League as he expects Arsenal to win their remaining matches after proving their mettle by defeating Spurs on Sunday. Josko Gvardiol and Erling Haaland edged City past Nottingham Forest to leave them a point behind top spot but crucially with a game in hand. “We prefer they lose, we cannot control what they do,” Guardiola said of Arsenal. “There are four games left, I don’t think they are going to lose any points, so we know exactly what we have to do.” It was a less-than-vintage City performance in Nottingham as Forest, who expect to learn the result of the points deduction appeal this week, made it as difficult as possible with a disciplined defensive display. The hosts even had chances of their own but Chris Wood and Murillo failed to convert from close range. “Really hard, harder than last season when we drew and we played miles better than today. We knew the circumstances when we arrived here, so we knew how the game would happen,” Guardiola said of the win. “We were so lucky that the pitch was so dry and, because with the chances they had, on better pitch conditions they would have scored, we were incredibly fortunate for that.” City have won five Premier League matches in a row and a further four victories would confirm a sixth title under Guardiola. “The players were really good but suffering,” Guardiola said. “The second half was much better; with the second goal we had the game in our hands before that it was so dangerous – in certain moments they were much better than us.” Guardiola may have to do without his first-choice goalkeeper Ederson for their remaining fixtures after the Brazilian was forced off with a shoulder injury at half-time and left the ground with his arm in a sling. “It doesn’t look good,” Guardiola said. “We will see tomorrow with the doctor.” Ederson was replaced by Stefan Ortega who has deputised on numerous occasions and did not put a foot wrong against Forest, making a fine save to prevent Callum Hudson-Odoi scoring from distance. The pressure was on City after Arsenal held on to win against Tottenham. The Gunners took a three-goal lead at Tottenham but were made to battle to secure the victory as Cristian Romero and Son Heung-min reduced the deficit to create a nervous finale for Arsenal, who held on for what could prove a crucial win. “Yeah, 100%,” Mikel Arteta said when asked if he could see a battling spirit within the Arsenal squad. “I’ve seen that the whole season. They give me the reason to believe that every single day. We are right on it. The motivation for what is ahead is beautiful. We are all expecting that they’re going to have a real go.” City have home games against Wolves and West Ham, with trips to Fulham and Tottenham in between remaining. Arsenal face Bournemouth, Manchester United and Everton, meaning both clubs in the title race will be hoping for a favour from their nearest geographical rivals. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/28/pep-guardiola-manchester-city-nottingham-forest-arsenal-premier-league-football

‘Don’t knock on the door at 7.30am’: Fay Ripley. Photograph: Dave Benett/Getty Images for Fortnum & Mason Sunday worries? My Sundays are changing. My kids are now 17 and 21, and we’re at a crossroads between me being in control and them being old enough to be in control. I’m in an area of grief. The empty nesting has left me quite sad. Family time? Sundays have such a weight of expectation of being together as a family. Food is at the centre of my life – we would all break bread together. Now the kids say, ‘I think you’ll find I’m going to be asleep until 4pm.’ This generation isn’t as scared of their parents as we were. Sundays growing up? My parents were divorced, so it was a game of two halves, travelling between them. Everyone would be drinking. My dad always had a big cigar in his mouth, there was a lot of arguing, a lot of jokes, and there were dogs barking. Everyone seemed to be having an affair in the 70s. In my memory, all the adults were having sex with each other. I was brought up in Surrey. There was nothing else to do other than shag your neighbour. Sunday grub? I’ve written three cookbooks: I’m a feeder. There’s breakfast, brunch, homemade snacks. Then we have a big roast with homemade pudding. As a child, the house would be full and I liked the chaos. Now, I’ll invite any old strangers just to hear that clink of cutlery. Sunday me-time? Don’t knock on the door at 7.30am, because Mum’s in the bath. My husband endlessly books massages. I’m like: ‘You all right mate? You could just run a bath.’ Sunday memories? My brain is blown by the fact Sundays were defined in my 20s and 30s. You’d have a lie-in, probably have sex, then read the papers. Future Sundays? The kids will leave. Our dog is elderly. Will it just be me and my husband? I’ll fill the void with friends to remind me of the times when I was in charge of the world. Swede Caroline is in cinemas now https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/28/sunday-with-fay-ripley-im-a-feeder-breakfast-brunch-snacks-roast

The study found zebra finch chicks exposed to noise pollution in the egg were more than 10% smaller, and effects continued into their adult lives. Photograph: Juniors Bildarchiv GmbH/Alamy Noise pollution from traffic stunts growth in baby birds, even while inside the egg, research has found. Unhatched birds and hatchlings that are exposed to noise from city traffic experience long-term negative effects on their health, growth and reproduction, the study found. “Sound has a much stronger and more direct impact on bird development than we knew before,” said Dr Mylene Mariette, a bird communication expert at Deakin University in Australia and a co-author of the study, published in the journal Science. “It would be wise to work more to reduce noise pollution.” A growing body of research has suggested that noise pollution causes stress to birds and makes communication harder for them. But whether birds are already distressed at a young age because they are affected by noise, or by how noise disrupts their environment and parental care, was still unclear. Mariette’s team routinely exposed zebra finch eggs for five days to either silence, soothing playbacks of zebra finch songs, or recordings of city traffic noises such as revving motors and cars driving past. They did the same with newborn chicks for about four hours a night for up to 13 nights, without exposing the birds’ parents to the sounds. They noticed that the bird eggs were almost 20% less likely to hatch if exposed to traffic noise. The chicks that did hatch were more than 10% smaller and almost 15% lighter than the other hatchlings. When the team ran analyses on their red blood cells and their telomeres – a piece of DNA that shortens with stress and age – they were more eroded and shorter than their counterparts’. The effects continued even after the chicks were no longer exposed to noise pollution, and carried over into their reproductive age four years later. The birds disturbed by noise during the early stages of their lives produced fewer than half as many offspring as their counterparts. “We were expecting some effects, but we didn’t expect them to be so strong,” said Mariette, especially because the exposure to noise pollution was relatively mild and for only four hours a day. “It was really quite striking.” “We generally assume, based on numerous studies, that very young birds, especially in the egg, have very poor or no sensitivity to sound,” said Robert Dooling, an animal hearing expert from the University of Maryland in the US, who was not involved in the study. But “this study raises the spectre of broad, negative, enduring effects of noise on development”. Hans Slabbekoorn, a professor of acoustic ecology and behaviour at Leiden University in the Netherlands who was not involved in the study, said he was particularly surprised. When his team ran experiments exposing chicks and their parents to moderate noise pollution, they did not find any impact on the growth of the chicks. Slabbekoorn speculated that changes in the behaviour of the parents – such as how they attended to their nests more – may have avoided or compensated for the negative effects of noise on the chicks. “I was indeed not expecting [such a] big impact necessarily,” Slabbekoorn said. It is the cumulative nature of these negative effects that may “in the end be most problematic”, he added. “Especially when noisy conditions are indeed frequent or continuous, as with birds living in noisy neighbourhoods, close to airports, or busy highways.” His research has also found that birds at airports are exposed to such loud noise levels that they may be partially deaf. More data is needed to pinpoint how many birds and which species these levels apply to, and it remains unclear whether it is the loudness, the pattern, the pitch, or other elements of traffic noise that disturb the young birds, or the mechanism behind the observed effects. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/25/noise-from-traffic-stunts-growth-of-baby-birds-study-finds

The US president offers a toast to ‘press freedom and democracy’ around the world but fails to mention the killings of many Palestinian journalists since October. People demonstrate in support of Palestinians in Gaza during a protest near the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, DC [Nathan Howard/Reuters] Activists in the United States demanding an end to Israel’s war on Gaza have rallied outside a hotel hosting the annual White House correspondent’s dinner, condemning President Joe Biden for his support of the military campaign and “under-coverage” of the conflict by Western news outlets. However, Biden, who attended Saturday’s event in Washington, DC and delivered a 10-minute speech, made no mention of the war in Gaza or the grave humanitarian crisis there. Protests at the gala event – which is normally devoted to presidents, journalists and comedians taking outrageous pokes at political scandals and each other – took place as antiwar demonstrations also spread through US college campuses, with students pitching encampments and withstanding police sweeps in an effort to force their universities to divest from companies enabling Israel’s military campaign on Gaza. The protests in the US capital forced Biden’s motorcade to take an alternate route from the White House to the Washington Hilton, where more than 100 protesters, some of them waving Palestinian flags, shouted “shame on you” at guests hurrying inside. At one point, the crowds chanted, “Western media we see you, and all the horrors that you hide”, while some protesters sprawled motionless on the pavement, next to mock-ups of bloodied flak vests with “press” insignia. The crowds also cheered when someone inside the Washington Hilton – where the dinner has been held for decades – unfurled a Palestinian flag from a top-floor hotel window. Since Israel’s war on Gaza began last October, the Israeli military has killed 142 media workers and arrested at least 40 Palestinian journalists, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said 2023 was the deadliest year for those in the profession in a decade, with some 75 percent of those killed worldwide being Palestinians reporting on the war in Gaza. In his speech, Biden offered a toast for “press freedom and democracy around the world”, but failed to speak about the suffering in Gaza. He spent most of his address poking fun at his main rival in this year’s presidential race, Donald Trump, as well as the two men’s advanced age. His speech remained focused on what he believes is at stake this election, speaking about how another Trump administration would be more harmful to the country than his first term. “We have to take this seriously. Eight years ago we could have written it off as ‘Trump talk’, but not after January 6,” he told the audience, referring to the supporters of Trump who stormed the US Capitol after Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 election. One of the few mentions of Gaza came from Kelly O’Donnell, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA), who briefly noted some 100 journalists have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza. Biden raises a toast during the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington, DC [Tom Brenner/Reuters] In advance of the event, more than two dozen Palestinian journalists published a letter calling for their colleagues to boycott the gala, accusing the Biden administration of being complicit in Israel’s systematic killing of media workers in Gaza. “The toll exacted on us for merely fulfilling our journalistic duties is staggering,” the letter stated. “We are subjected to detentions, interrogations, and torture by the Israeli military, all for the ‘crime’ of journalistic integrity.” One organiser complained that the WHCA – which represents the hundreds of journalists who cover the president – has largely been silent since the first weeks of the war about the killings of Palestinian journalists. The WHCA did not respond to a request for comment. American-Palestinian journalist Ahmed Shihab Eldin, one of the signatories of the letter, told Al Jazeera that it is “unacceptable” for media workers to stay silent for fear of endangering job security. “We are seeing journalists in Gaza continuing to be, not just killed, but detained, tortured, and even their families killed,” he said. Sandra Tamari, executive director of Adalah Justice Project, a US-based Palestinian advocacy group that helped organise the letter from journalists in Gaza, said, “It is shameful for the media to dine and laugh with President Biden while he enables the Israeli devastation and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.” In addition, the Adalah Justice Project started an email campaign targeting 12 media executives at various news outlets expected to attend the dinner who previously signed onto a letter calling for the protection of journalists in Gaza. “How can you still go when your colleagues in Gaza asked you not to,” a demonstrator asked guests heading in. “You are complicit.” Demonstrators try to block arriving guests outside the Washington Hilton, the site of the annual White House correspondents’ dinner [Kent Nishimura/Getty via AFP] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/28/shame-on-you-pro-palestine-protest-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner