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I have the warning message given in the title. I would like to understand and remove it. I found already some answers on this question but I do not understand these answers because of an overload with technical terms. Is it possible to explain this issue with simple words?
P.S. I know what OOP is. I know what is object, class, method, field and instantiation.
P.P.S. If somebody needs my code it is here:
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class HelloWorldSwing extends JFrame {
JTextArea m_resultArea = new JTextArea(6, 30);
public HelloWorldSwing() {
//... Set initial text, scrolling, and border.
m_resultArea.setText("Enter more text to see scrollbars");
JScrollPane scrollingArea = new JScrollPane(m_resultArea);
// Get the content pane, set layout, add to center
Container content = this.getContentPane();
content.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
content.add(scrollingArea, BorderLayout.CENTER);
public static void createAndViewJFrame() {
JFrame win = new HelloWorldSwing();
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
public void run(){
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Can it be that the discussed warning message is a reason why my GUI application freeze? – Roman Feb 18 '10 at 13:56
no, nothing to do with your gui freezing. – james Feb 18 '10 at 15:04
Dup: stackoverflow.com/questions/285793/… – skaffman Feb 18 '10 at 21:19
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From the javadoc:
You can configure your IDE to:
• ignore this, instead of giving a warning.
• autogenerate an id
As per your additional question "Can it be that the discussed warning message is a reason why my GUI application freeze?":
No, it can't be. It can cause a problem only if you are serializing objects and deserializing them in a different place (or time) where (when) the class has changed, and it will not result in freezing, but in InvalidClassException.
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You can also let your IDE to autogenerate one. – BalusC Feb 18 '10 at 14:08
@BalusC - how can we do that in eclipse ? Is it safe to auto generate ? – Jedi Knight Mar 17 '13 at 7:09
@JediKnight In Eclispse it is Window>Preferences>Java>Code Style>Clean Up>Missing Code>activate "Add serial version ID" under "Potential programming problems". Then if you are in the default profile, obviously you must save it as a different one. – 0x41414141 Apr 20 at 9:47
it must be changed whenever anything changes that affects the serialization (additional fields, removed fields, change of field order, ...)
That's not correct, and you will be unable to cite an authoriitative source for that claim. It should be changed whenever you make a change that is incompatible under the rules given in the Versioning of Serializable Objects section of the Object Serialization Specification, which specifically does not include additional fields or change of field order, and when you haven't provided readObject()/writeObject() and/or readResolve()/writeReplace() methods and/or a serializableFields declaration that could cope with the change.
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+1 for your attention to details. – gulbrandr Feb 1 '11 at 15:28
The reasons for warning are documented here, and the simple fixes are to turn off the warning or put the following declaration in your code to supply the version UID. The actual value is not relevant, start with 999 if you like, but changing it when you make incompatible changes to the class is.
public class HelloWorldSwing extends JFrame {
JTextArea m_resultArea = new JTextArea(6, 30);
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
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+1 Thanks for being concrete about how to solve it. – ezdazuzena Sep 18 '13 at 16:26
The other answers so far have a lot of technical information. I will try to answer, as requested, in simple terms.
Serialization is what you do to an instance of an object if you want to dump it to a raw buffer, save it to disk, transport it in a binary stream (e.g., sending an object over a network socket), or otherwise create a serialized binary representation of an object. (For more info on serialization see Java Serialization on Wikipedia).
If you have no intention of serializing your class, you can add the annotation just above your class @SuppressWarnings("serial").
If you are going to serialize, then you have a host of things to worry about all centered around the proper use of UUID. Basically, the UUID is a way to "version" an object you would serialize so that whatever process is de-serializing knows that it's de-serializing properly. I would look at Ensure proper version control for serialized objects for more information.
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There are several major mistakes in your citation, and also some self-contradictions. – EJP Jun 14 at 9:54
@EJP It would be helpful for all if you enumerated the errors. – MrMas Jun 18 at 16:18
Any class that can be serialized (i.e. implements Serializable) should declare that UID and it must be changed whenever anything changes that affects the serialization (additional fields, removed fields, change of field order, ...). The field's value is checked during deserialization and if the value of the serialized object does not equal the value of the class in the current VM, an exception is thrown.
Note that this value is special in that it is serialized with the object even though it is static, for the reasons described above.
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I JFrame a serializable class? What is UID and how I can declare it? Does my code "changes something that affects the serialization"? What actually the serialization means? – Roman Feb 18 '10 at 14:00
Yes, JFrame is a java.awt.Component which implements Serializable. Code never changes anything that affects serialization, only programmers do that. I don't know a list that lists all changes that affect serialization. Check en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization#Java for a description of serialization in Java. – Thomas Lötzer Feb 18 '10 at 14:12
It is not serialized with the object. It shouldn't be changed unless you want to break compatibility, or if you have already done so by departing from what it says in the Versioning section of the specification. That does not include adding or reordering fields. The correct reference is not Wikipedia but the Object Serialization Specification. – EJP May 16 '11 at 1:18
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class JFrame10 extends JFrame {
JCheckBoxMenuItem cb;
JMenu file,edit;
private static final long serialVersionUID=100L;
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-1 Poster asked for an explanation in simple words. No explanation whatsoever here. – EJP Feb 6 '12 at 6:44
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Is there a python equivalent function similar to normplot from MATLAB? Perhaps in matplotlib?
MATLAB syntax:
x = normrnd(10,1,25,1);
enter image description here
I have tried using matplotlib & numpy module to determine the probability/percentile of the values in array but the output plot y-axis scales are linear as compared to the plot from MATLAB.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
data =[-11.83,-8.53,-2.86,-6.49,-7.53,-9.74,-9.44,-3.58,-6.68,-13.26,-4.52]
plot_percentiles = range(0, 110, 10)
x = np.percentile(data, plot_percentiles)
plt.plot(x, plot_percentiles, 'ro-')
Gives: enter image description here
Else, how could the scales be adjusted as in the first plot?
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I'm fairly certain matplotlib doesn't provide anything like this.
It's possible to do, of course, but you'll have to either rescale your data and change your y axis ticks/labels to match, or, if you're planning on doing this often, perhaps code a new scale that can be applied to matplotlib axes, like in this example: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/api/custom_scale_example.html.
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Maybe you can use the probplot function of scipy (scipy.stats), this seems to me an equivalent for MATLABs normplot:
Calculate quantiles for a probability plot of sample data against a specified theoretical distribution.
probplot optionally calculates a best-fit line for the data and plots the results using Matplotlib or a given plot function.
But is does not solve your problem of the different y-axis scale.
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Using matplotlib.semilogy will get closer to the matlab output.
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Polar Fireball Captured by Armagh Observatory Cameras
The fireball of 22nd November as imaged by the Polar Bear camera at the Armagh Observatory
See also: Video of the fireball
At around 1 o'clock in the early hours of Sunday 22nd November a piece of space rock about the size of an apple moving at some 25 km per second entered the atmosphere somewhere over the north Atlantic ocean between Scotland and Northern Ireland. Friction with the upper atmosphere caused the small rock to glow with an intensity brighter than the planet Venus, thus creating a very bright shooting star or "fireball".
As it headed westwards, burning to nothing within a few seconds, it was picked up by the Armagh Observatory meteor patrol cameras set up by Apostolos Christou four years ago to investigate swarms of dust or "streams" that occasionally hit the Earth. At the same time, the trail of incandescent air and material that it left behind registered for a full minute on the apparatus of Bangor amateur radio astronomer Richard White as it reflected radio waves emitted from distant TV stations.
The fireball also crossed the field of the Observatory's Polar Bear cameras, a project conceived by astronomer Simon Jeffery to monitor the variability of stars in the area of sky around the Pole Star, Polaris. The extremely detailed views observed by the Polar Bear system, with a resolution of approximately 50 metres, show how material from the disintegrating object spread along and across its path.
Objects such as the one that created this fireball are fragments of comets and asteroids, remnants of the primordial building blocks of our solar system. These and their smaller siblings, meteoroidal dust, hit the Earth's atmosphere many times every day, only 100 km or so above our heads, yet the process of their destruction is so violent that it cannot be reproduced in a laboratory on the Earth. Monitoring the sky with different kinds of instruments helps scientists to understand this process and provides indirect information on both the object and the "parent" comet or asteroid as well. No-one can predict when the next fireball will be seen, and it is for this reason that the efforts of amateur astronomers world-wide, such as Richard White and others around Ireland, are vital to meteor science, more so than most other branches of astronomy.
In this case the relatively high speed of the meteoroid and its final fragmentation at high altitude is suggestive of a cometary source, though many fireballs would have orbits similar to those of the majority of near-Earth asteroids.
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The anticipation for Todd Terje's debut album, It's Album Time can be likened to the excitement you see at the Apple store the night before the release of the iPhone 8.4s, in the line at Foot Looker for the next limited edition sneaker? I think? I mean that whole thing perplexes me - people line up for shoes? Or you could even liken it to the excitement you see in the line at KFC at 4am on a Saturday night. Basically my point is, lots of anticipation, lots of excitement and this album does go well with some popcorn chicken.
The thing about It's Album Time is, that it isn't 12 variations of Inspector Norse and Terje makes a point of this from the very start. The Intro, aptly titled Intro (It's Album Time), is a well polished version of the type of track you'd want to hear at a live show just before the curtains open for your favourite band - it arouses excitement, suspense and makes for the perfect reveal to what is almost a perfect album.
The album is cohesive and so pleasing to the ear - it all just makes really good sense together. Leisure Suit Preben is a slightly odd track for me though. I totally appreciate the production and the genius of it all, but it's just a little bit loopy. It sounds like the opening sequence of a children's show but a little bit twisted. In saying all that, at the 2 and a half minute mark, just as I'm thinking, 'not for me' it all becomes familiar again. The thick bass line, the bells are all a part of the Terje signature disco twist. The smooth transition into Preben Goes to Acapulco is almost too much for me. How much I love transitions like this on albums isn't something I could even express in a 1000 words. While I'm disillusioned by Leisure Suit Preben, I've got my bags ready to go to Acapulco and without the Leisure Suit where would I be?
Enough crap analogies though...
Svenk Sass is made for the opening sequence of Sex And The City 3 (which thankfully they are way too old to make and let's face it, who really wants another sassy yet racist movie from the gals?). It's sexy music targeting the hips and your endorphins. I don't deny that watching a pair of attractive hips moving to this track would make you very happy, but this song could get you there without them. Strandbar is a rush of euphoria and nostalgia and brings me back to Terje's genius three-part EP from last year - and if you're wondering, I'm definitely a Disko Version fan.
A modulating, versatile piece of art, Dolorean Dynamite is so far one of my favourite tracks of this year. It's thirst quenching and brilliant and please note, does not require any remixes. The light and shade as well as the peaks and troughs make this the standout track on the album.
Pulling down the energy with Johnny and Mary Terje manages to surprise me with a track I can't say I expected from this album. It's a cover of Robert Palmer's track, turning it into a tale of melancholy and a stark contrast to the original. Alfonso Muskedunder immediately picks you back up before you're thrown back into another 2-part journey with Swing Star Part 1 and Swing Star Part 2. Working as polar opposites to one another, this pair is the sunrise and sunset of the album and tracks you will no doubt be hearing at the club.
This is probably really shallow, really skating over the ice, but doesn't Oh Joy sound like a celebration of the album? It sounds as though Terje is spinning around in a room and we've got a birds eye view of him dancing around after he's finally recorded and polished off this record. And then it all ends with Inspector Norse.
This album really isn't disappointing at all, it doesn't fall short of any of my expectations but I can't quite shake that I'm not overwhelmed by it? I really wanted to be overwhelmed by this long awaited album from one of my favourite producers and I just wasn't. Maybe it's the type of album that I will listen to over time and realise how silly that statement was, but only time will tell if this is going to be the kind of record you return to for years to come.
#Album Review#featured#It's Album Time#Todd Terje
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Aluminum-Brass-Chrome. The components used in the production of non-ringed engines. These engines use an aluminum piston, and a chrome or nickel plated brass sleeve. The engine is harder to turn over and start due to the tight fit between the piston and cylinder. This tight fit is what makes the engine more efficient, and powerful. ABC engines must be run in for best performance.
After Run Oil
A lubricant designed to displace unburned fuel in the engine after running. The fuel can accelerate corrosion on some engine parts. By using an after run oil, the fuel is displaced, and a protective coating lines sensitive engine parts. This is an inexpensive engine insurance, and promotes long engine life. There are several good after run oils on the market.
Brake horsepower. A measurement standard used by manufacturers to help consumers compare engines. NOTE: BHP is measured at the maximum operating RPMof the engine, which may not be the RPM level at which your engine will provide maximum life and consistent performance.
Term used to describe the weighted end of the fuel pickup line in the fuel tank. The purpose of this is to ensure that the fuel pickup is always in the fuel supply, even when inverted
This effect is the bending of the rotor or propeller blades when stressed.
Dead Stick
Slang term for a landing without engine power.
Term describing the shape of the rotary wing or propeller formed by the spinning blades.
The methanol or gasoline fueled power plant used in a model. Two or four-stroke gasoline and glow engines are very popular in aircraft. Four-stroke engines tend to turn higher diameter lower pitch props, and therefore tend to be used in applications requiring more torque and less speed response.
The methanol/nitromethane/lubricant mix used to fuel model engines. A helicopter fuel mix has a higher concentration of lubricant to counter the lack of sufficient airflow over the engine in a hover.
Slang for a model using a gasoline engine as a power plant.
Glow Fuel
A Methanol based fuel, with a lubricating agent, used in most model engines. Most model fuels also use a percentage of nitromethane.
Glow Heater
This is used to heat the element in a glow plug, and is used when starting the model engine. AKA Ni-Starter.
Glow Plug
This is the plug that is used to help ignite the fuel in a model engine. The combustion of the fuel in the engine keeps the element hot between cycles, thus the glow plug does not need to be regulated or powered while the engine is running.
Header Tank
This is a small fuel tank used in line between the main tank and the carburetor. The purpose of the header tank is to ensure that the fuel fed to the carb is free of bubbles, which can be caused by foaming, or by the clunk falling away from fuel during complex maneuvers. Also, lets the pilot see the fuel level for helicopters which have a hidden fuel tank.
Helicopter Fuel
A fuel mix using a higher concentration of lubricant, to aid in the cooling of the engine in helicopter models.
Hot Start
An engine which has been running will tend to remain hot for a short time. During this period, it is possible to restart the engine by turning the crankshaft without the glow plug being plugged in to a glow starter. This is something to be aware of, as it could possibly create an unsafe condition.
Hydraulic Lock
Hydraulic lock happens when the engine becomes flooded with fuel, to the point where the piston cannot compress it in the combustion chamber. This can result in engine damage if the crankshaft is forced through a rotation without relieving the pressure. To cure, remove the glow plug, and pour out the excess fuel.
Refers to carburetor setting. When an engine is run too lean it will overheat, causing damage, and likely an in flight engine failure. Tuning a carburetor is best accomplished by starting rich, and working gradually to the condition which produces maximum power, while allowing a small amount of unburned fuel mixture to lubricate and cool the engine.
Lean Run
This happens when an engine develops a lean condition. Possible causes are improper tuning, improper fuel choice, fuel foaming due to excessive vibration, or a leak developing in the fuel delivery system. The air in the fuel line will cause the engine to run lean.
The agent used to aid in the reduction of friction between two parts. This term is used for many substances, which in turn are used in many different ways. They are all, however, used to reach the same objective, that being the reduction of wear between parts. In the case of engine fuel, the lubricant is added to the fuel at the factory in many cases. This might be castor, a synthetic, or a blend. The percentage of lubricant required in the fuel will depend on the type of fuel, the engine, and the model requirement. For helicopters, a higher percentage of lubricant is required, as the engine is not in a position to receive as much airflow. Thus the lubricant is also used as a coolant. Bearing grease, and oils for moving parts are other examples of lubricants.
The power band of an engine between idle and full throttle. The helicopter engine specifically requires more careful tuning for optimum performance in the midrange, as that is where the helicopter will hover.
Fuel to air mixture is determined by the needle valve on the engine carburetor.
Needle Valve
This is used to tune the fuel to air mixture on the engine carburetor. On most engines, the needle is turned clockwise to lean the mixture, and counterclockwise to richen.
Abbreviation for nitromethane. The addition of nitromethane in fuel provides more power, and a smoother idle, thus making the engine easier to tune. The nitro also makes an engine require more careful tuning, therefore, the amount of nitro added to a fuel results in a tradeoff. Common nitro mixes vary from 0% to 30% and beyond.
The addition of nitromethane in fuel provides more power, and a smoother idle, thus making the engine easier to tune. The nitro also makes an engine require more careful tuning, however, to avoid overheating. Common nitro mixes range from 0% (FAI fuel) to 30%.
Prop Balancer
Device designed to aid in the balancing of model airplane propellers.
This is the vibration frequency of a rotating or moving object. When the resonance of many parts of a machine are in synch, the whole machine will vibrate at a greater rate. This can cause vibration damage. Resonance can cause difficulties in an aircraft, particularly when using a vibration mount with an improperly balanced propeller/spinner wherein the engine is vibrating at one frequency and the propeller at another.
An engine which uses a piston with a piston ring. Compare to ABC or ABN. Best used in dusty environments, a ringed engine is less susceptible to damage from contaminants in the fuel/air mixture, but does not provide the higher compression ratio of the ABC/ABN engines.
The force which tends to cause rotation.
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I have a machine with Windows 7 x64 and 2 screens.
Both Samsung,
a SyncMaster 2443NW (max 1920x1200) and a SyncMaster 2032MW (max 1680x1050)
Problem is that the 2032MW on Windows 7 one only gives this ranges:
alt text
And the 24'' monitor, only gives a maximum of 1600x1200 !
I tried installing the Samsung drivers but they do nothing, the Graphic card is capable of such resolutions as it's an NVidia GeForce 9800 GT with 1024Mb Ram
on my MacBook Pro I have no problems in showing this as there is a nice application called SwitchResX that I can set any resolution.
What can I do in my Windows 7 machine?
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up vote 4 down vote accepted
Check the NVIDIA Control Panel, you should be able to add a custom resolution and enable it from there.
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will try that, thxs – balexandre Jun 27 '10 at 8:25
No luck :( it allows to add, but soon I press the Test, it says "Failed", add to add 1679x1050 in order to work... weird! :( – balexandre Jul 1 '10 at 6:44
In Device Manager, try manually installing a driver for your monitor. Right-click Computer, then click Manage. Expand Monitors, then right-click your monitor and click "Update driver software...". Click "Browse my computer", then "Pick from a list". Uncheck "Show compatible hardware" and select the "Digital Flat Panel" for your monitor.
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I have a Motorola modem SURFBoard SB4200, along with a wireless Linksys router that connects to that modem. The router works normally but the modem often dies and restarts itself after about 1-2 minutes.
What could be causing this problem? How should I start debugging it?
Could an excessive amount of network traffic be bringing down the modem? Are there any tools that can monitor the modem?
BTW, I use internet cable service provided by Comcast.
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If the modem is provided by Comcast, have you contacted them for ideas or replacement? Sounds broken though. :( – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 Sep 5 '11 at 7:04
I know there are issues with some ADSL2+ modems where they are limited to a certain number of TCP connections and they freak out and lockup and then restart after they are overloaded. I saw this with a lot of broadxent modems being used with torrents. I would heed techie007's advice and contact Comcast through, they'll have a list known issues or steps to troubleshoot and replace the modem if it is indeed bad. – MaQleod Sep 5 '11 at 17:22
I actually replaced the one provided by Comast with this one. So, I guess they would not provide technical support for it. I don't use bittorrent, though. I wonder how I can login to the modem to check the log or something. I connect my MacBook to the modem using USB cable trying to read its logs but the modem is not shown in the MacBook. The modem has address 192.168.1.x, the wireless network has address 192.168.2.x so I can't remotely login to the modem through browser. – chepukha Sep 6 '11 at 7:03
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there is a feature called 'IP Flood Detection' that needs to be disabled. (It is located under the Firewall page) By default, it is turned ON. When ON, this feature eventually causes everything to slow to a crawl and randomly reset modem. Turn it OFF (uncheck box) This is certainly a failing on Motorola's part to default a poor-functioning feature ON in the first place.
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That sounds like an old modem from the DOCSIS 1.0 & 1.1 standard era from my search on your brand & model. DOCSIS 3.0 standard modems were released in August 2006, according to Wikipedia. You may be handicapped with that SB4200 modem and it is tripping up on new ISP protocol delivery standards, thus the constant reboot? A simple question to Comcast's tech support regarding DOCSIS 1.0 & 1.1 support in 2011 might shed light on compatibility issues or known problems. They should have a list of compatible modems as well, yet probably not a complete list.
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So I got myself an Apple "Ultra-Thin" USB keyboard (the one that has two USB hub ports).
However, I use PC, so some of the keys on the keyboard are not mapped to Windows keys. Specifically, I am worried about the loss of the print screen, scroll lock, and other keys, and how certain Mac keys don't have a function.
I read online that using Apple Boot Camp drivers for Windows would fix this problem. My question is:
Is using the Boot Camp drivers the right approach? If so, can I get them online anywhere (for free, as I don't have a Mac disk)? If not, what can fix my problems? I think I read somewhere (possibly on Coding Horror) that there's a program called SharpKey which does these modifications. An alternative solution that I've heard of is using AutoHotKey. So, what should I do?
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I've tried using the Boot Camp drivers, but it was in the Mac .dmg format and I couldn't open the package. When I finally got around to opening it, all I could do was install the entire Boot Camp package -- which I didn't want to do considering it might overwrite drivers and make a royal mess. All I wanted was keyboard and the only thing I ended up with was a 32-bit package (couldn't find the 64-bit keyboard package) so I ended up using RandyRants' SharpKeys and AutoHotkey. I use them both anyway.
I have an Apple Pro Keyboard (graphite) and use it in Windows Vista -- I use Randyrants.com's SharpKeys to map:
F13 -> PrintScreen
F14 -> Scroll Lock
Left Alt -> Left Windows
Left Win -> Left Alt
Right Alt -> Right Windows
Right Win -> Left Alt
(since the Win key belongs between Alt and Ctrl)
The only thing SharpKeys can't do is Pause-Break, which appears to use a three-byte scancode which native Windows key-remapping can't handle (it'll just fire NumLock instead)
For Pause-Break, I added a definition to my AutoHotkey ahk file:
Send {Break}
The Eject key still doesn't work -- this seems to be a special key handled differently, as Eject can be used before an OS is even running.
ymmv, especially on newer Apple keyboards. As long as it produces a scancode, SharpKeys should be able to do it. The only troublesome key is Pause-Break.
SharpKeys is here : http://www.randyrants.com/2008/12/sharpkeys_30.html
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A couple things. The F13-F15 keys could be your print screen, etc. in Windows. I have the same exact keyboard but I'm not quite sure if it works.
If that doesn't work, installing the Boot Camp drivers will not fix anything for you (or what you have requested). The alternative sources you have mentioned are probably the best choices for solving the problem.
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This seems to depend on the iteration of Apple keyboard. I use an Apple Pro keyboard straight through USB, and F13 actually sends F13 to Windows, not PrintScreen. You can remap F13, etc to do PrintScreen. However, if I use my Apple Extended II through an ADB-to-USB adapter, the F13 key actually fires PrintScreen. – krhainos Jan 1 '10 at 9:18
Ahhh, that makes a lot of sense. I use my Apple keyboard through a KVM switch. – Steven Lu Jan 1 '10 at 17:26
Yea, it sounds like your KVM re-issuing keystrokes for you. Which is actually sort of cool heh. I'm guessing OS X accepts PrtSc or F13 for the F13 key -- while Windows only works with PrtSc and just shrugs when F13 is sent to it. – krhainos Jan 2 '10 at 1:08
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Re: Error when "fetching affected paths" in subclipse bug
From: Mark Phippard <MarkP_at_softlanding.com>
Date: 2005-07-11 20:18:00 CEST
Ingo Adler <[email protected]> wrote on 07/11/2005 02:06:41 PM:
> Mark Phippard wrote:
> >It might be a new bug, but more likely the problem is that you did Show
> >History on a branch, the history is showing info of changes that came
> >before the branch was created. So the error is telling you that the
> >does not exist at that revision. There is really know way around the
> >fundamental problem, TortoiseSVN also suffers from this. I did add a
> >workaround that exists in 0.9.31. If you properly defined your
> >root URL in your repository connection, then we use the root URL when
> >asking for the revisions. This should allow Subclipse to be able to
> >retrieve them since the root URL always exists.
> >
> >Mark
> >
> >
> I have this problem too with 0.9.31. I'm doing a Show History on a moved
> file. I can't do a Blame neither.
> TortoiseSVN works with this file. I connected the Eclipse workspace to
> the already checked out files with "Share Project", so I didn't define
> the respository root URL explicitly.
The repository root can be added after the fact. See if that helps. We
didn't do anything with Blame in this area, but since it does a Show
History, perhaps it is just having problems in that part of the process.
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When I use the command \usepackage{xcolor} I get an error saying xcolor.sty was not found. Even though other commands like \usepackage{amsmath} have worked. I am very new to LaTeX and am not sure why this is happening, and help would be greatly appreciated.
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marked as duplicate by cmhughes, Peter Jansson, Ludovic C., zeroth, diabonas Nov 5 '13 at 17:39
Welcome to the site! have a look at How do I update my TeX distribution? :) – cmhughes Nov 5 '13 at 3:50
I don't think it applies to me since I have Miktex not Tex Live? – Hani Sayegh Nov 5 '13 at 3:58
Thank you everyone for the useful tips, I was finally able to install the package, and I realized my main problem was that I was not being allowed to install the packages due to some random security permissions problem (even though this is my own personal laptop), so I have to manually install a package everythime I need one:( – Hani Sayegh Nov 5 '13 at 16:17
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I don't think that this is an update issue. I think that the package is simply not installed.
MiKTeX has the option to install missing packages on-the-fly. You can check if this option is enabled by looking by opening the "Settings" application of your MiKTeX installation.
This application can be found by going to:"Start Menu --> MiKTeX 2.x --> Maintenance --> Settings". At the bottom of the first tab, the "General" tab, there should be the option to enable the "on-the-fly installation process". This should solve any issues with missing packages when you compile your documents.
In the same "Maintenance" folder you will also find the applications to update ("Update") and manually manage the packages to be isntalled/removed/updated ("Package Manager"). More information on those two can be found on the link provided by cmhughes.
I hope this has cleared some of the maintenance work needed to install/update/remove packages.
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As comment on Can the extended register pool be used for \newinsert?, there is a reference to Dealing with tons of floats. It is interesting but uses \unexpanded:
How can this be replaced by something like \expandafter, \noexpand, \toks@, which does not require the eTeX extension? (With eTeX probably \etex@unexpanded from the etexcmds package would be better than \unexpanded.)
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Without the e-TeX extensions, you need to use a toks to have control of expansion inside an \edef. Usually, this is done using \toks@, and so to avoid any issues with other code a group is normally employed
(You may be able to use \xdef here, but without a careful check I am not sure of the scope of \@freelist.)
You could also achieve the same directly using just \expandafter:
which works by first expanding \ExtraFloatCommand, then expanding \@freelist, both inside the new definition of \@freelist.
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Both approaches are in my opinion much less readable than with e-TeX! – Joseph Wright Jan 10 '12 at 17:50
Yes, if one has e-TeX, it surely is to be preferred! +1 for the answer. While accepting after a short time might not be good style in general, I think your answer just provides THE "translation" (both ways of it, indeed!), therefore I just accept it now. Thank you! – Stephen Jan 10 '12 at 19:05
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Synonyms for ring
1. ring, sound
usage: a characteristic sound; "it has the ring of sincerity"
2. ring, halo, annulus, anulus, doughnut, anchor ring, toroid
3. hoop, ring, band
4. closed chain, ring, chain, chemical chain
usage: (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
5. gang, pack, ring, mob, association
6. ring, ringing, tintinnabulation, sound
usage: the sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the tintinnabulation that so volumnously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe
7. ring, platform
usage: a square platform marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
8. ring, band, jewelry, jewellery
9. band, ring, strip, slip
1. ring, peal, sound, go, ring out
usage: sound loudly and sonorously; "the bells rang"
2. resound, echo, ring, reverberate, sound, go
usage: ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter"
3. ring, knell, sound
4. surround, environ, encircle, circle, round, ring, hold, bear, carry, contain
usage: be around; "Developments surround the town"; "The river encircles the village"
5. call, telephone, call up, phone, ring, telecommunicate
6. ring, band, attach
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014
To Live
An almost white drop of sweat made its way down her scarred right cheek. Her cold, pale hands trembled as the beating sun shone through the window onto her frail body. Her faintly colored veins pounded in anticipation. She calmly shut her eyes, as had become procedure. Her body remained in place, swaying from side to side as she’d lost her sense of balance; her mind, however, drifted far from her putrid, cheap motel room.
“Come on Nicole, just try it.”
“My sister did it once and she was fine. Don’t be such a little bitch.”
Nicole stared at the needle. The moonlight reflected off of its point, creating an alluring glow.
Nicole was a rather reserved young woman. Her nightly routine most often consisted of homework and a dash of television. Though once content with a life so bland, the grips of monotony had transformed from comforting to insufferable. She felt trapped in an all-too-typical fantasy. As any normal adolescent does, she began to develop a craving for excitement; something to free her from the prison of perpetual predictability.
Nicole examined every inch of the needle. Her heart was throbbing, nearly protruding from her chest. Caroline continued to pester her, but Nicole couldn’t hear.
Time began to slow down.
She gazed at Caroline and noticed an expression of carefree relaxation. It was not an expression that comes as a result of perpetual predictability; it was an expression of independence, of sheer contentment. Caroline’s words were coarse and tone assertive, but her mouth nevertheless curved upward at its corners. When she concealed the smile, the easiness of her voice and drooping of her eyes served still as indication of her altered, seemingly more thrilling state.
Nicole’s subconscious had already determined her course of action. She was tired of analyzing every aspect of her life. She was tired of relying on television characters through which she could vicariously live. She was tired of turning to her novels, which she so often got lost in, for a taste of adventure.
Rejecting all logical reasoning, Nicole reached for the rubber rope that was resting on the glove box. In a heap, she tied it around her arm, choking her vein until she could nearly see the blood pumping through her body. With the edge of the rope in her mouth and caution to the wind, she shifted her focus to the needle that was made all the more enticing by its illumination. She began to reach for the glistening light, but the uncontrollable shaking in her hands inhibited the endeavor. Determined, she took a deep breath, bit the rope with might, and wrapped her hand around her escape.
When the needle slipped into her arm, she felt liberated. She felt alive.
Nicole, with her eyes still shut, remained standing in her run down motel room. Suddenly, a plethora of memories began to flood in. She recalled what followed that night: The partying. The stealing from her parents. Integrating herself into a dangerous crowd. The first arrest. The second. Third. The first of what would be many interventions. The moment her parents kicked her out and cut her off. The first blow job she gave for money. The miscarriage. The times she woke up in the hospital, entirely unsure of how she got there. The overdoses. The attempts to get clean. The withdrawals. The apologies. The failed twelve steps. Relapses. Heartbreak. Failed suicide attempts. Hopelessness. Hatred.
Nicole’s eyes opened. She looked at the glistening needle as the sun reflected off of its tip. Her mouth salivated. As she reached for the alluring, shimmering silver, she found herself inhibited by that ever-familiar trembling. For the first time in four years, she experienced the reluctance that she’d once foolishly ignored.
Overcome by emotion, Nicole dropped to her knees. She buried her face in her hands and began to sob. Peace of mind, stability, simplicity - all of the things she’d once so vehemently wished to escape - had now become her most desired, yet elusive, objects.
Suddenly, Nicole heard a voice in her head. It was her mother.
“Our most determining moments come while on our knees. How we got there isn’t what defines us, though. Where we go upon getting up is.”
Nicole lifted her head up enough to gaze again at the needle lying so seductively on the coffee table. She summoned her deepest sources of strength and began to push her frail body upward. Her sobs turned into determined grunts. Her face grew blank. She experienced a feeling that she’d almost forgotten: empowerment.
Nicole turned and made her way to the door. She opened it with haste, stumbling into the parking lot of the motel she’d come to know as home. For the first time in years, she saw the light of the world from its source. She no longer required an instrument off which the sun reflected to give her hope. She no longer felt the need to remain living vicariously through the needles that had come to define her.
When she walked away from that coffee table, she left her past in the dark. She was finally, truly, and eternally free. She was, for the first time in her life, independently alive.
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1. As I read this blog post, tears threatened to run out of my eyes. You so perfectly captured the despair of a person in Nicole's position. The pain and depression of addiction that Nicole is going through at the end is not something that can easily be put into words. This is truly an amazing piece of writing.
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maghanap ng salita, tulad ng b4nny:
The most amazing fanfiction in the Justin Bieber Fanfiction world.
Fan: "Hey, I'm going to read Plotwist!"
Twister: "Me too! It's the most amazing fanfic EVER!"
Fan: "Yes! It's better than Danger and everything!"
Twister:"I wish it would get published! It's WAY too amazing!"
Fan: "I know right!"
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an amazing fanfiction that everyone is jealous of so some begin to hate on. it's actually descriptive and worthy of publishing unlike fanfics like danger and whatnot. It turns haters into lovers.
Reader: "Plotwist is the most amazing fanfiction!"
Hater: "It got boring after a while."
Reader: "Just continue reading, you'll see, it gets better."
-Hour later-
Hater: "Oh my god, IT'S AMAZING!"
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Letter 269
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The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Letter 269
RecipientW.H. Auden
DateMay 12, 1965
Subject(s)Irredeemably wicked Orcs a heresy?
Defeating pirates
Letter 269 is a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien.
W.H. Auden asked if the notion of Orcs as an irredeemably wicked race was heretical or not. Tolkien said he lacked sufficient theological understanding to say whether or not his notion of orcs was heretical, but he did state that he felt no obligation to make his story fit with formalized Christian theology. The Lord of the Rings was intended to be consonant with Christian thought and belief. Frodo asserted that the orcs were not evil in origin.[1] We believe that of all humans, though some as individuals or groups appeared unredeemable.
Tolkien had been sending to press a revised translation of Gawain with a translation of Pearl when he had to switch to the desperate problem of the U.S.A. copyright issue. He now had to devote all efforts to revisions of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit for copyrighting and defeating the pirates.
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Music for Blizzard Conditions
After a couple days of false starts, the big blizzard is finally here!
It's a balmy 16F (-9C) outside. There's not a lot of snow yet, but at least it's not turning to slush on arrival anymore. With any luck, by Saturday I'll be able to seriously play in the snow!
Until then here is some music to set the mood for skiing snowshoeing and snowball tossing.
Karoliina Kantelinen, the brilliant Finnish ethnomusicologist, performing "Ellös huolta huomisesta".
Solveig Andersson of Norway, Yoiking "bjiejjie"
The group Jarŋŋa from Northern Sweden performing "Jåvna vuolle"
oyhabibti said...
The snow was just like slurpees over here yesterday. Now it's just plain freezing.
I can't wait to adorn my yard with snow creatures. Finally have my OWN yard this year, so it'll be crazy, for sure.
Mo'in said...
Dear Mushtaq,
Thank you very much for sharing all of this music! I particularly like Solveig Andersson of Norway, Yoiking "bjiejjie."
Best wishes,
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I found a small amount of Albanian lekë (can you say "leks" in English?) in my wallet from last summer's visit there. Is there any place in Helsinki where I can change those back into euros? Forex, at least, doesn't list the currency on their website.
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Or, indeed, is there any place outside Albania where you can change lekë? I noticed a comment by Hippietrail saying that
I heard that Macedonian denar and Albanian lek are inconvertible currencies [...]
Is this true? Any source for this info?
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"Leks" sounds more like a NSFW verb to me! en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lek#Verb – Andrew Grimm Mar 30 at 3:24
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I have just been to two Exchange offices in Sofia, Bulgaria. I had banknotes from Serbia, Macedonia and Albania with me. They both offered to buy all three of them.
This doesn't mean you find someone who does this in Finland but it proves that both Macedonian denar and Albanian lek are indeed convertible currencies.
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This is a sign from one of the exchange places. The rates are into Bulgarian lev.
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Thanks, good to have such rumours or outdated information cleared up! – Jonik Nov 20 '11 at 11:21
Wow those are very fair rates too! – hippietrail Nov 20 '11 at 11:22
Ok, Peter cleared up the more general doubt about exchangeability of the lek anywhere outside Albania. As to my original / more specific question:
Seems like no, not in Helsinki.
• A "Money Change" booth I stumbled upon in Kamppi Centre: no (raising a suspicious eyebrow at the bills I procuced).
• At Forex, they also said no. "Not yet, but maybe some day, if and when the currency becomes more accepted internationally." The clerk also said she doubts any banks would change leks either. (According to her, Forex has the widest selection of currencies available across any establishments that do currency exchange here.)
• Just to make sure, I asked a friend who works in a large bank. She checked with their travel currency department, and confirmed that the Albanian lek is not accepted.
So if I really needed to get rid of the leks in Finland, I guess I should post to Pallontallaajat travellers' forum in hope of finding someone going to Albania. (Dunno about that; the amount I have is so small it doesn't warrant going to much trouble.)
Maybe we can deduce that accepting Albanian money is currently limited to countries near Albania...
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Modern Family recap: Mamma Mia!
In an episode about Mother's Day, Gloria and Claire take their kids on a hiking trip, while Jay sheds a few tears (and not just from the onions).
Ep. 21 | Aired May 4, 2011
DESPERATE MOTHERS Claire and Gloria bonded over their children. Specifically, over the fact that their kids are driving them insane.
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There were no hidden feelings when it came to Mitchell and Cameron on Mother's Day, however. Mitchell hit a nerve with Cam when he made him breakfast in bed and declared that the holiday was for him. As Cam explained, gay men do not want to be treated like women. That means no baby-shower invites, people!
It turned out, though, that Mitchell has developed a habit of talking about Cam like the woman in their relationship. "Mrs. Pritchett loves to shop." "The wife's not gonna like this." The pancake gesture did not help. Not even the increasingly adorable Lily holding balloons would have smoothed things over.
Things only got worse when they arrived at the park to meet up with their fellow parent friends, who asked Cam to pose for a picture with all the moms. I honestly don't know which moment I loved more: the look on Eric Stonestreet's face as the photo was snapped, or the way he screamed in horror moments later after he accidentally hit a biker with a football. Mitchell's cry for him to lower his arms was equally DVR rewind-worthy.
Later, the whole extended family finally got together for dinner, where Phil spilled the beans that Jay had cried thinking about his mom. And try as he might to prove otherwise, Jay broke down again once Mitchell and Claire started reminiscing about their grandmother at the table. "You only get one mom," he cried to his family. Don't worry, Jay, you weren't the only one crying after that.
His breakdown at the table got everyone else to kiss and make up (well, except for Mitchell, who held things down for the stoic Pritchett fort), including the Dunphy kids, who ran to hug their one and only mom.
This may not go down as one of the all-time greats of Modern Family, but a satisfying episode it most certainly was. It's really too bad Father's Day is in the summer, because there's no doubt they'd give that holiday the proper treatment too.
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%% This is a visual trope. The development of characters' personalities, backgrounds, and idiosyncrasies is not what this trope %% is about.
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[[caption-width-right:350:I think I see the [[Series/DoctorWho Ninth]] [[StealthPun Doctor]] in there.]]
Sometimes, an artist has decided to take the time to give even the most incidental of background characters each a unique face and appearance. Doing this is time-consuming and difficult, [[DifficultButAwesome but]] ''[[DifficultButAwesome man]]'' [[DifficultButAwesome does it make for]] SugarWiki/AwesomeArt. It also often requires the artist to kick GenericCuteness in the face and throw it out the window -- which, in turn, can make characters that are ''supposed'' to be attractive a whole lot more attractive by comparison to the other characters.
Please note that almost all the facial features of the characters are different. Slight changes in hairstyle, hair colour, eye shape or eye colour do not count. The opposite of this trope is OnlySixFaces, where even the main characters tend to look alike. In video games, there are usually only six background characters (YouALLLookFamiliar). Tends to go [[SisterTrope hand in hand]] with LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters. Sort of related to TasteTheRainbow, where a class of characters may come in a huge number of permutations. Unrelated to SpecialSnowflakeSyndrome.
[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. There are LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, with many of them in the RedshirtArmy. Nearly all of the characters (with the exception of, what, four or five out of how many dozen?) have either black or blonde hair, making facial features more significant.
** Maybe her ability to distinguish similarly built characters is why [[spoiler: Father looks completely different from first Hohenheim and then Ed (''especially'' Ed, there seems to be barely a passing resemblance between the alchemist and his counterpart due to mannerisms and attitude alone) even though he is [[{{Doppelganger}} identical to them in physical features]].]] The same tactics are used to differ [[spoiler: Ling from Greed after they end up sharing a body and amazingly can still be fairly easily told apart from one another when they switch dominance in control.]]
** And to make it more impressive: Not only are the characters in Arakawa's ''Manga/SilverSpoon'' also very different from each other, they're also quite different from the FMA characters, with occasional exceptions that are so obvious one might claim it's a deliberate {{Expy}}, such as the P.E. teacher who looks a lot like Major Armstrong.
* Similarly to ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Natsuki Takaya's works, particularly ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', manage fall under this despite the fact that nearly all facial structures are completely identical. It helps that in ''FruitsBasket'', a lot of the [[BigScrewedUpFamily cursed characters]] are easily distinguishable due to [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair unique hair]] and eye colors corresponding to their Zodiac animals.
** Also, ''all'' characters have unique eye shapes and eye colors, as well as hairstyles. The artist also gives small differences here and there like the size of ''eyelids'' and the length of eyelashes, etc. that help a little bit. Overall, each character, including the minor ones, has a relatively unique design, which is necessary with a cast full of LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters.
** At the amount of designs is actually rather small but as ArtEvolution marches on each of the characters gain their respective appearances.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'' is king of this. Need a big crowd of Amazons? Marauding army of Pirates? Every single one of them with have a unique face, hairstyle, outfit, and most likely, superpower.
** But it must also be said, that ''One Piece'' kinda has it easy in creating distinct characters, as it often just features extremely bizarre character designs, unrealistic proportions and a large number of {{Gonk}}s.
** However, the biggest improvement in the art of ''One Piece'' has been the elimination of Nami clones, Creator/EiichiroOda has gotten much better at drawing women, giving them small details that separate their appearance, rather than just unique hair styles that most mangaka seem to use as a crutch
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' same with ''FMA'' but with hundreds of (realistic) sets of armor.
* ''Manga/{{Monster}}'', oh ''Monster''. As shown in the page pic, the style allows the artist to give variety to various features, including the noses and eyes.
** Same goes for just about everything else Creator/NaokiUrasawa has done. In ''Manga/TwentiethCenturyBoys'', Yukiji's attractiveness is much more striking with the complete avoidance of GenericCuteness, for instance.
* Taken to a [[UpToEleven logical extreme]] in ''OretachiNiTsubasaWaNai'', where the series occasionally gives names to many characters, sometimes two per ''second'', and all of them have a distinct personality and style. In fact, the opening is a good example of how to introduce ''every major character in the series''. However, the series will also parody the trope by giving useless names to {{One Scene Wonder}}s, like [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Kissme]]!
* Hiroya Oku's ''Manga/{{Gantz}}''. Necessary, since the whole cast wears identical black suits.
* ''Manga/LiarGame'' is a rather impressive example considering that each new arc introduces about 15 new characters. Not only is each character distinct but the characters facial expressions display a range of emotions wider than the vast majority of manga.
* ''Manga/BlackButler'' definitely applies. There are [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters whole new sets of characters in every arc]], yet all of them are easily distinguishable.
** Despite some contradictions between characters (such as Sebastian and Vincent, Bardroy and Phipps, etc.), Toboso Yana still stays within this trope by varying their expressions and overall body-language. While most of her bishies are long-jawed and narrow-eyed, one would still be able to identify them naked and bald.
* ''Manga/KarateShoukoushiKohinataMinoru'' gives everyone a unique appearance in terms of build, facial structure and features, not to mention diverse wardrobes, down to the unnamed bit part characters.
* ''Manga/SoulEater'' is pretty good with this. Every character in the series, most notably the main cast, has unique eyes, mouths, body types, and of course, hairstyles. You could differentiate the characters from miles away. However, some characters tend to look extremely alike (such as Patty and Kim), and in the anime at least it's a subversion as background characters are greyed out and indistinct, differing from a proper CastOfSnowflakes.
* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' is a good example of this. Despite the fact the most characters are simply wearing suits and many have similar (and realistic) hairstyles, every character in the [[LoadsandLoadsofCharacters massive cast]] looks completely unique.
** ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', also. Since it's set in a massive city, it applies ConservationOfDetail to distinguish greater population of figures who are ''not'' cast by leaving them indistinct and grey. Still, many extras are also distinctly detailed.
* ''Anime/RahXephon'' - all of the character designs are given unique facial profiles, making sure that everyone has a unique appearance. [[spoiler: The only exception being the Isshki clones, but who counts them, anyhow?]]
* Common with classic manga artists, such as OsamuTezuka, ShotaroIshinomori, Creator/GoNagai and KenIshikawa. Impressive when you consider that these artists generally drew most of their characters with black hair and conservative hair styles.
* Masanori Morita, author of ''Manga/RokudenashiBlues'' and ''Manga/{{Rookies}}'', is very good at this. Despite none of the characters wearing particularly distinctive outfits and only a few having AnimeHair of any kind, each of them has a very distinctive face. It helps that he draws in a very realistic style.
* Takeshi Obata is good at this . . .
** ''HikaruNoGo''? All the characters wear normal, everyday clothes. But all of them are ''very'' distinct and unique - including the old people, fat people, young people, etc.
** The ''Manga/DeathNote'' manga has distinct faces for nearly everyone, including random criminals who only appear once in a mugshot (though they tend to look [[{{Gonk}} a bit]] [[BeautyEqualsGoodness odd]]). Essential since there are LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters.
*** On the other hand, as the artist himself acknowledges, the female characters tend to look very similar, save for their hairstyles.
** The one time a character (one of the Yotsuba Group executives) looks similar (yet distinct) to the main character, Light, it's fixed by Misa LampshadeHanging.
* Many (if not all) of Creator/SatoshiKon's works feature this, most noticeably in ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'', which has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters.
* ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'' goes above and beyond when it comes to making each character extremely distinctive. Every audience shot is filled with detailed, individualized people, and one can even spot the "regulars" amongst the crowd. And even if a character has so much as ONE notable speaking line, you can guarantee there's gonna be a little character profile for them at the end of the chapter.
** And of course, that's not even mentioning the HUGE cast of main and secondary characters who are in football uniform 75% of the time, who are still instantly recognizable due to very distinctive body types and faces.
** A quiz in one of the manga volumes just shows a bunch of ''hands'' and has the reader identify what characters they belong to. Yes, even their hands are unique.
* ''Manga/{{Zetman}}'' definitely falls into this trope.
* The 33 background students in Class 3-2 from the second season of ''Manga/KOn'' all have distinctive character designs (although one of them looks like Mio wearing [[{{Meganekko}} glasses]], and another is an {{Expy}} of [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Rukia Kuchiki]]).
* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' has completely unique designs for practically every major and minor character. Most notably the contractors, who along with having very odd appearances compared to the non contractor characters, all feature completely unique and often abstract abilities, along with a unique and abstract [[PowerAtAPrice remuneration.]]
** This uniqueness even extends to characters who only show up for a few minutes at best. [[FanNickname Burger-Kun]] for example. The character designs often add strange or unusual aspects to a characters appearance with no real reasoning behind it, such as Wei's elf ears, Amagiri's one eye always half closed, and Maki's heterochromia.
* ''{{Hellsing}}'' definitely applies. While it's not a manga with LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters per se, the main and secondary characters in it are all extremely stylized with completely unique outfits, hairstyles, facial features, weapons and poses.
* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' is pretty good about this, especially post ArtEvolution. Every character has distinct facial features and expressions, with various traits by which to distinguish themselves, including secondary characters and even some recurring extras. And while the series may not have LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, with 30-some noteworthy characters in the mix it's certainly well on its way.
* ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' has an insane amount of characters but each of them are distinct from each other (and if there is a resemblance, expect there to be a reason).
* Inariya Fusanosuke manages to pull this off in ''MaidenRose'' despite the fact that 90% of the cast are wearing the same military uniform, of the same ethnicity and with no AnimeHair to speak of.
* Anything made by YoshihiroTogashi.
** In any given series Togashi created, it'll even go into "NonstandardCharacterDesign" territory. Some of the characters he creates look like they belong to some other manga series, especially in the case of ''HunterXHunter''. In some cases, it's just... ''[[UncannyValley weird]]''.
* ''TweenyWitches'' is very good about this. Even though most of the characters are young girls.
* ''Manga/PokemonSpecial'' is usually pretty good with this, with the exception of the evil teams' {{Mook}}s. However, the Team Plasma grunts all have strikingly different faces and bodies.
* ''BattleAngelAlita'' and its sequel series ''Last Order'' both have extremely varied character designs, even for the most minor background cyborgs. If two character resemble each other, it's likely related to plot or thematic reasons, and not the artist being lazy.
* ''{{Manga/Shiki}}'' characters have very different faces from each other, even the ones who are only in a little while. Their [[NoodlePeople body types]] tend to be the same, though.
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has a variety of distinct character faces.
* ''BladeOfTheImmortal'' definitely deserves a mention. As it's set in the Edo-era Japan, most characters wear kimonos and have pretty normal hair styles and colours, but Hiroaki Samura's realistic and detailed art style allows for plenty of variation in face and body features... though fans have complained that his women look too much alike.
* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' might count as an exaggerated example. In a show with '''32''' main characters in the protagonist team ''alone'' (and then we start adding the five main rival teams, the support cast...) they ''still'' go out of their way to try to make random background characters memorable. ''[[UpToEleven Then]]'' they add personal traits (as meta-characters) to the teams and tanks themselves, to the point that the sheer detail of each apparently broke the folder system.
* ''Manhua/RavagesOfTime'' notably manages a greatly varied roster of faces for the male cast even for those who are only around for brief or even [[spoiler:seemingly]] one-time appearances. Unfortunately, with women OnlySixFaces is in full effect.
* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'''s GenericCuteness and excessive use of IdiotHair could make one assume it has a case of OnlySixFaces. But no two characters have the same eyes. [[http://31.media.tumblr.com/414459de95c6697d8a3f367c25aad6f5/tumblr_moyutotHFS1rjd0g7o1_1280.jpg Many characters also have distinctive jawlines and expressions.]] Most people accusing Hetalia of having OnlySixFaces probably only [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/b4c1556f2c1dcd37c729c5481a9dc74c/tumblr_mnu6cr3F4d1rurbs5o1_500.jpg saw the anime]] pre-ArtEvolution.
* The main cast of ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' are all distinct in terms of face shape, eye shape, build, etc, which is especially impressive since almost all of them wear the same uniform.
** Pretty much every Titan that gets any screentime is very distinctive too. Lots of the have a FanNickname based on their appearance.
* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' and its spinoff ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'' does a good job of this considering the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters. Even Mikoto's clones have slight variances from her. One exception is that Shutaura Sequenzia from the ''Miracle of Endymion'' movie looks exactly like Seiri Fukiyose. The series' artist, Kiyotaka Haimura, realized this too late and apologized to the fans when the movie came out and he noticed the mistake.
* ''Manga/BlueExorcist'' does this ''really'' well. However, Kato also takes into consideration ''family relations'' and so you can actually ''see'' they are related by their similiar features (for example [[AntiAntiChrist Rin]], [[BigLittleBrother Yukio]], [[HeroKiller Amaimon]] and [[TheChessmaster Mephisto]] all sons of {{Satan}}) but still are easily identifiable.
* ''Manga/GashBell'' is this by far! Multiple demons and their book owners are introduced, all distinguishable. Even friends, simply allies, and one episode characters are this.
* Becomes increasingly common in Tsutomu Takahashi's works as his draftsmanship improves, with most of the characters in ''Manga/SkyHigh'', ''Sidooh'' and Manga/HitoHitoriFutari all having unique designs.
* Anime/KillLaKill is very good at giving everyone, both important and of lesser importance, distinct appearances. The heavy stylization helps.
* Every main and even background character in ''Manga/YowamushiPedal'' has a unique face and build, which is quite necessary considering the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, and also quite impressive when you realise that while Imaizumi and Arakita have the same hair colour, eye colour and a near identical hairstyle, they also look nothing like each other.
[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Bryan Hitch of ''TheUltimates'' fame, known for his realistic depiction of superheroes, loves drawing scenes with many characters. And they all have different faces. He is also known for drawing superhero characters who don't wear masks, and yet keeping them recognizable.
** Alan Davis blows Hitch away in this regard, though it can be ironic, in that he often works with previously existing characters & gives them distinctive faces they didn't have before.
* R. Crumb's recent rendition of the Book of Genesis includes a unique and detailed depiction of every single "Begat" in the entire book.
* George Perez ''(Comicbook/TeenTitans, CrisisOnInfiniteEarths, Comicbook/TheAvengers)'' loves drawing huge crowd scenes better than almost anything else, and will gleefully fill a page with miniscule Where's Waldo-sized figures who each look different from one another.
* Comic book painter Alex Ross ''({{Marvels}}, ComicBook/KingdomCome)'' is very good about this as well. He is notable for using live models for most of his work.
* Gil Kane ''(GreenLantern)'' was always pretty good about this.
** So are Doug Mahnke and [[BlackestNight Ivan Reis]]. Seems to be a requirement for GL artists. Comes [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters with the territory]], probably.
* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' by Wendy and Richard Pini.
* A random crowd in ''ComicBook/{{Sillage}}'' will usually be made up of lots of different ''species''. If there is a pair of one species in such a scene, this might not apply, but as soon as a group made up of individuals of one species is featured, and there are no plot/worldbuilding reasons, they will get the CastOfSnowflakes treatment.
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'', which is impressive considering that almost everyone has the same bulbous nose.
** Even more impressive if you notice that this is combined with distinguishing the ethnic groups by giving the members of the same ethnic group some subtle common facial or body traits.
* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' as a lot of different supporting characters, from different ethnicities, and all of them are different. They are all represented on the inside covers of each of the modern French albums
* ''{{Bone}}'' is great with this.
* Creator/SergioAragones sways back and forth, much for the same reason as the Japanese mangaka examples above. When you really look at a crowd scene, he makes every effort (which is ''very'' hard with his art style) to give everyone a unique appearance, while in his shorts you see characters reused very often. In fact some shorts are all one person, ala the classic WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} sports and safety shorts.
* Crowd scenes in {{DC Comics}}' yearly mega-crossovers. Hey, look, there's the last living Bloodlines guy! Bonus: when they include made-up heroes nobody has ever seen before as crowd-filler.
* Done nicely in ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}''. Dave Gibbons went to great lengths to give each character a distinctive look both in and out of costume and often used actor's faces for inspiration. The Comedian was based on Groucho Marx, while Rorschach was based off Bruce Weitz as Belker in ''HillStreetBlues''.
--> '''Dave Gibbons:''' "I wanted them to be individuals, more like the near-caricatures common in European comics, rather than the square-jawed variations on a theme of most American comics."
* TheDarkKnightReturns involves not only a decent sized cast of main characters, but many different media pundits and man on the street interviews with the random denizens of Gotham and they all look different, except the Mutants who are trying to look alike.
* Kyle Baker is quite skilled at caricature so the casts for his comics tend to all be visually distinct.
* StrangersInParadise, by Terry Moore.
* ''{{Persepolis}}'' doesn't make every crowd look different from page to page, but in any given panel every non-fundamentalist portrayed will differ in some way from the others, even if they're all dressed identically. (Fundamentalists, however, can usually only be told apart by gender.)
* Chris Claremont's first ComicBook/{{X-Men}} team follows this, with each character being very distinct from one another. You have Cyclops, who goes around wearing red sunglasses or visors. Then there's Storm, a tall, voluptuous white haired black woman in a sexy black costume. Next is Wolverine, a short guy who has metal claws and wears a yellow and blue suit. Banshee was an Irish redhead with a yellow and green costume, and Colossus is a big Russian guy who spends much of his time in his metal form. Finally there was Nightcrawler, the most distinct of them all. He resembled a blue demon, pointy tail and all, and went around in a tight red suit.
* Although ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' suffered from OnlySixFaces under Mark Bagley and Stuart Immonen's pencils, the characters got more varied in appearance when Dave Lafuente showed up and kept their new looks when Sara Pichelli took over. Originally you could barely tell Kitty Pryde from Spider-Woman. Now you could never make that mistake.
* UsagiYojimbo tends to follow this rule - you can generally see when an issue was a little rushed because the crowds tend to be generic dog-like creatures, but when time permits the artist/writer loves to present crowd scenes in which every face is different. The comic also has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, so at times one will spot a minor recurring character passing by who [[ContinuityNod has nothing to do with that issue's story at all.]]
[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Blog/AlwaysHavingJuice'' has near complete redesigns for the SonicTheHedgehog characters that appear, even the non-mains. And that's [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters a lot]].
* The non-human characters in the ''StarWars'' movies, regardless of whether they were puppets or CG, as with Ewoks and Wookiees. A marked exception is the crowd of dancing Gungans at the end of the Phantom Menace: not only are they [[DittoAliens identical,]] their movements are in [[ConspicuousCG perfect unison.]]
* Also used to great effect in James Cameron's ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', in which the ''many'' mo-cap Na'vi are as distinguishable from each other as real humans.
* ''Film/TheHobbit'': A good effort has been made to avert OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame and make thirteen of them all distinguishable. [[http://collider.com/dwarves-images-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey/ See here]].
* The cast of characters in ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman''.
[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* Ostensibly the point of paint-your-own miniatures in any number of tabletop games. Not everyone bothers, however, to paint theirs differently, or at all.
[[folder:Video Games]]
* Sometimes in video games, faces will be made and put through an "imperfect factory" using [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_generation procedural generation]]. The result of this is that everyone looks different, without causing the artists too much pain. Extensively used in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion''.
** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' uses the same engine; the absence of YouAllLookFamiliar is impressive. (Especially amongst the ghouls, who are significantly harder to distinguish by facial features alone. They all have ''different-looking'' rotted flesh.)
* ''{{Dishonored}}'' uses a blend of gritty realism and stylization for its character designs, which results in each of them looking in a way that indicates their function: thugs and bandits are brutish, wide-set brutes with hands as big as their heads, as are the lower city guards. Meanwhile, Watch officers and nobles are gaunt, noble-looking dudes that emanate arrogance, and RenaissanceMan and famous drunkard [[MadScientist Anton Sokolov]] rightly looks like a blend of GrigoriRasputin and LeonardoDaVinci. The game's character design is one of its main attractions.
* The 3D ''[[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]]'' games tend to do this with the human and Hylian characters. Whether they do it with other races, though, depends on the game and the race.
** Special mention goes to ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'', in which ''every single character'' was unique, no matter what race or how minor they were. In fact, one (massive) sidequest involves taking pictures of them and turning them in to a special character, who will make neat little figurines of the pictures' subjects. Incidentally, this sidequest is one of the few in any ''Zelda'' game where [[GuideDangIt stuff can be missed]], which is probably why it's one of the few 3D ''Zelda'' games with a NewGamePlus.
* ''VideoGame/EliteBeatAgents''. Some of these people seriously look like possible clients for the agents to take on.
* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' is a pro at this. Every villager in every town and city is completely different, everyone actually has a name (if Nameless Man counts as a name). Not to mention the Dragonians, Sparrows, and the Oina tribe could have been easily written off as different examples of a PlanetOfHats, but instead are all completely unique. Even the Emperor's RedShirtArmy has a variety of guards that vary in appearance. What's additionally surprising is that about 99% of the characters from this 40-hour long game actually all have official art.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'', every character in the game is unique. One of the mini-games revolves around finding all 60 students and taking photos of them. Add the various school staff and townsfolk to that 60, and the game has over 100 characters.
* ''Franchise/MetalGear'' manages to give every character in the series a unique model.
* ''VideoGame/{{Shenmue}}'' and its sequel (which are largely set in urban areas with milling crowds) are distinguished for having every single background and NPC character be a unique person with their own in-game home, daily schedule throughout the day and unique voice. The "special features" DVD even includes a brief description of each person. So if you see an NPC character walk by in the street, and later see someone who looks the same in a shop, they don't just look alike, they are the same person.
* ''Timestalkers'' has around 80 unique characters, although being an RPG the enemy creatures aren't afforded such luxuries (four per 'monster family'). Still, being an RPG, it is hugely impressive. Also, non-consumable items? Yes that's right, ALSO given the same treatment. (almost, most knuckle weapons look alike unless they have a special element/material.) Even if you dislike this sort of game, its worth it to hunt down and try just to take in the attention to detail.
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' does that on every Person and even animal. Since the visuals are bare-bones, it is shown in text, but is still an amazing example. Each dwarf has his/her own personality traits that influence how they respond to certain events and how they go about their day. And it does that not only procedural but includes genetics too! [=DF2010=] adds even ''more'' details, now including what each creature looks like. (Here's [[http://i53.tinypic.com/29o290p.png a description of a random dwarf]].)
* ''VisualNovel/PrincessWaltz'' is notable among {{Visual Novel}}s for giving every minor character their own set of unique paper dolls. In a big way, this helps to set up a big reveal around mid-game that one of those minor characters [[ChekhovsGunman isn't so minor after all...]]
* ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' tends to [[EconomyCast keep the cast as small as possible]] if they can get away with it, but every single character that has a name is instantly recognisable. Helped somewhat by some characters being drawn in notably different styles from the rest, such as Mike Meekins.
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' games love this trope. ''Every'' one has a playable cast of at least 20 characters and a huge amount of side characters, all of whom look different. Generic enemies and {{Non Player Character}}s usually [[http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=070912 don't get this luxury]].
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' gives every NPC a unique appearance, populating entire villages with them.
** There's still the occasional bug that spawns more than one of the same character in one town.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' Believe commercials featuring the miniatures pulled this off, no human face looked the same.
* The ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'' games take this UpToEleven by having LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters (over 1000 characters in the first game, and over '''''2000''''' in the third), of which ''every single one'' has a unique set of head sprites, 3D head model, mug shot, and a short bio. And this is all crammed onto a little Nintendo DS card, mind you.
* The cast of ''VisualNovel/{{Morenatsu}}'' almost all look completely different. Exceptions are the UncannyFamilyResemblance of Kounosuke and Yukiharu, and Nanafuse [[ShapeShifting assuming the appearance]] of Shun. Even in the latter case, Nanafuse has [[CreepyChild eerily]] distinct facial expressions that make him impossible to actually confuse with Shun.
* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' is well-known for this.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'''s ''nine'' playable classes were specifically designed to look different from one another, to make them easy to pick out on the battlefield. In particular, each has a distinct silhouette that can be easily identified at a glance.
** This even extends to their weapons! For example, the Scout's melee weapons range from an aluminum baseball bat, to a roll of wrapping paper, to a wooden baseball bat, to a dead fish!
** The extension goes so far as to include the NPC cast. It goes so far as to include a pair of twins, who are the ''only'' discrete characters [[CaptainObvious who look identical]].
** The players themselves can do this even within classes. With the glut of cosmetic items and new weapons which [[RandomlyDrops randomly drop]] and the paint that can be applied to them, even an uninitiated observer can pick out different players simply by what they wear and what weapons they carry.
* Just about every NPC in ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}'' has a unique sprite, and even generic enemies have some personality attached to them or contain two or three permutations of the same enemy class. Lampshaded during one sidequest:
-->'''Red:''' Another "unique" character I have to deal with. Gimme a break...
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' has a cast of (as-of-writing) '''109''' playable characters, all of them looking and playing completely differently from each other.
** This is a standard feature of MultiplayerOnlineBattleArena games. Much of the games' variety comes from the playable characters, so most [=MOBAs=] have LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, who have to be distinct and easily-identified in a chaotic teamfight.
* The last few of Koei's eleven (soon to be twelve) ''VideoGame/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' games have over six hundred officers... and ALL of them have a unique, hand-drawn portrait. Even as far back as the second game there were three hundred and fifty officers with less than half of them assembled from stock graphics, with none of them assembled identically.
* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' takes this to the next level. As well as having many different looks, abilties and personalities due to the game being set in a FantasyKitchenSink, all the playable characters have a unique gameplay mechanic or attack. Apart from the anime art style and the guitar work in the character themes, there is almost nothing the cast has in common.
** A trait (minus the Drives) that ''[=BlazBlue=]'' shares in common with its predecessor ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', naturally.
* ''VideoGame/CaveStory'': Pretty much every named character has a unique talk sprite and game sprite. Even the Mimiga are easily identifiable from another; it's impossible to mistake Jack for Santa, Sue for Toroko[[note]]Although a plot point involves Toroko getting mistaken for Sue by the villains[[/note]], Fat Mimiga for Fishing Mimiga, etc.
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'' has a long list of {{Non Player Character}}s, almost every one of which has a unique appearance. Even among the generic, unnamed {{Non Player Character}}s, it's almost impossible to find two exactly identical.
* The various personalities and races of ''VideoGame/WildStar'' are as bright and colorful as the world itself.
* Good luck finding two background [=NPCs=], let alone player characters, who look even remotely alike in ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}''. Well, aside from the Egrets, but they're a special case.
* ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle'' mixes aspects of Araki's evolving art style without completely succumbing to the homogenization and lower muscle mass of his current art, and as a result, there's a lot of diversity.
* Writers for the ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' [[LevelEditor Foundry]] find that hitting the "random" button once or twice is a very good way to create individualized extras for their missions. Many authors take full advantage, although there's a hard cap to how many custom {{NPC}}s you can have in a given mission. There's also a godly number of premade {{NPC}}s that are useful.
* Every Wonderful One in ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101'' is unique. [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters All 100+ of them.]] Each one has their own name, superhero alias, outfit, signature weapon, {{catchphrase}}, and [[ThePointsMeanNothing pointless set of stats]], as well as each one coming from different cities in the world.
* VisualNovel/DanganRonpa is very good at giving all the students very distinct looks from each other, helped by the fact that some are drawn in different ways to others. This is even worked in as a plot point, as [[spoiler:the fact that Ikusaba and Enoshima have different faces is what leads Naegi to the truth]].
* Each and every customer in the Papa Louie series of time-management games has their own dress style and facial appearance. In the two latest games, which introduced holidays, the toughest customers even get their own Halloween costumes.
[[folder:Web Animation]]
* The ''{{CCC}}'' series does to a large extent.
* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' gives a unique character design to every character. Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and Strong Sad are ''brothers'' and don't resemble each other in the least. The only characters who even look remotely like each other are Homestar and Homsar, and that's because Homsar started as a one-off joke to make fun of [[RougeAnglesOfSatin a misspelling of "Homestar"]].
* Every student in ''MonsterHigh'' has their own distinct look, as well as being different creatures.
** Not counting the main characters though, which are all [[OnlySixFaces essentially the same model]], but with different clothes and hair.
* GenericCuteness is a rule in ''Webcomic/{{Chirault}}'' and it's sometimes hard to tell [[AmbiguousGender whether someone is a he or a she]], but the latter is caused exactly by this trope: some guys are more effeminate than others and some ladies are more masculine than them. So the end result is fairly diverse.
* ''Webcomic/{{Opplopolis}}'' has a large cast of various [[http://www.opplopolis.com/issues/3/3 ages]], [[http://www.opplopolis.com/issues/1/23 body types]] and [[http://www.opplopolis.com/issues/6/4 ethnicities]]. Even [[http://www.opplopolis.com/issues/7/4 the aliens]] are surprisingly distinguishable, despite their uniform, circular eyes.
* ''GuildedAge'' has quite the unique cast. Even besides the obvious body types differences between races (humans, gnomes, dwarves, elves, savage beasts, etc.), all of the characters have instantaneously recognizable faces.
* Background characters in ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' tend to have unique faces. Even characters who initially appear as just random people in a crowd will typically return later with distinct names and personalities.
* Characters in ''PennyArcade'' tend to look unique [[ArtEvolution except in the first two years or so of the strip.]]
* ''LastRes0rt'' uses FacelessMasses for [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale massive crowd scenes like the arena audience]], but otherwise hews to this pretty nicely.
** Doesn't stop readers from mixing up Vince and Nate though; yes, they're supposed to be a WrestlingFamily (after a fashion), but Cypress at least has bluer skin (and curly hair), Damien has those headwings, and they both have different hair colors.
* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' is pretty good in this respect, at least with any character that shows up in more than one comic. The comic also deserves a special mention in the sense that it's not only the faces that are distinguishable, but characters' body shapes as well, even between characters who have the same general type of figure. (Well, at least you can see the differences if you know how to look. They can be subtle, just like in real life.) It did take some ArtEvolution since the beginning to achieve this.
** The comic takes advantage of this in dimension-travelling storylines -- it's actually rare to run into someone in a different dimension who ''isn't'' an alternative version of a main character or one of those unique minor characters.
** The demons of the Dimension of Pain are all unique to the point of not visibly fitting the definition for being of the same species, or even genus. During the Dimension of Lame invasion, some caught on with fans enough to get more exposure. Some "Outsider" mutants found later on have the same trait.
* ''HowIKilledYourMaster''
* ''LackadaisyCats'': All the characters are highly distinct and defined in every way.
** Which is even more impressive when you remember that they are, in fact, anthropomorphic [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin cats.]]
* {{Webcomic/Zoophobia}}.
* ''Webcomic/{{Sakana}}''
* ''HannaIsNotABoysName'' has a number of distinct characters with different faces, heights, body language (which gives them fairly distinct silhouettes, though nearly all of them have [[NoodlePeople similar builds]]), and color schemes. [[http://vert-is-ninja.deviantart.com/art/Next-To-You-I-m-Really-Short-151903123 Check 'em out!]]
* Mattel's MonsterHigh, amazing since it's a flash cartoon.
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'''s secondary and minor characters vary considerably, in some ways moreso than the main characters who by comparison suffer from OnlySixFaces.
** [[ArtEvolution Though Dan's started make differences to their facial features.]]
* ''Webcomic/TheMeek'' has a rather distinct cast, where no one person looks like another, all the while using realistically-drawn cartoon figures.
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' also does quite well with its CastOfSnowflakes.
** To the point where the creator only half-jokingly points out that random background characters are not related to the main story in any way.
* {{Bobwhite}}. No two sets of eyes, heads, noses, colors, shapes, and bodies are the same, and all characters who only appear in one or two comics has a distinct face you'd be able to pick out if given a picture of them. Some of them even have stories and backgrounds!
* Ethan Nichole's series (Chumble Spuzz, Webcomic/AxeCop, and {{Bearmageddon}}) are all examples of this, but note should be made of Axe Cop's main sidekick, who changes identity every few pages and always looks completely different: first he's Flute Cop, resembling Sipowitz from NYPD Blue, until he gets some dinosaur blood on him and becomes Dinosaur Soldier, who is an anthropomorphic t-rex built like Schwarzenegger. Later updates include him becoming Viking Cop, Ghost Cop, and Avocado Soldier (who soon gains a unicorn horn and becomes Uni-Avocado Soldier).
* All of the cast in ''TheDreamer'' look quite distinct from each other, even more so in the art evolution.
* ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'' does a good job making every character visually distinct.
* The {{Walkyverse}} features LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, all of whom can be identified quite easily. See [[http://i.imgur.com/myAIs.jpg this poster]] for examples. Note that the only reason some of the people on the far right look like those on the left is that they ''are'' the same characters, but from [[DumbingOfAge another universe]].
** When Dorothy was introduced, some commenters noticed a resemblance to Amber, and dubbed her Blonde Amber. ArtEvolution has since diverged their appearances more, and the similarity was lampshaded when Danny revealed that he became interested in Amber primarily because she sort of looked like his ex Dorothy.
* DresdenCodak: The artist [[http://dresdencodak.tumblr.com/post/3583964949/figures-they-speak-for-themselves-mildly-nsfw makes a point of designing characters this way]] (mildly NSFW).
* ''WebComic/HeroOhHero'' has [[http://fav.me/d6o9h6a 100 unique sprites]] already in reserve, each with their own design (even the ones wearing uniforms or otherwise sharing outfits).
* Interesting semi-example ''Webcomic/GrrlPower''. You'd expect Harem, capable of SelfDuplication, to have all her clones look exactly the same, since they're, you know, ''clones''. Nope, she and her four other clones all have different hairstyles, hair colors, and outfits!
* Every single character in WeaponBrown is a parody of a syndicated comic strip character. Crowd scenes are a who's who of different characters by different artists spanning more than a century of the genre.
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* {{Disney}}'s ''{{Fillmore}}'' has a distinct love of using distinct background characters. Often one-shot characters from previous [[ChekhovsGunman (or even future)]] episodes...
* The various secondary, minor, and background characters in ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}''.
* Occurs in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' largely by virtue of the fact that [[LongRunner they keep making episodes]] and never throw anything away. Bumblebee Man? Disco Stu? Permanent residents.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' went through a similar process. So much so that one of the last scenes of ''Into the Wild Green Yonder'' has a crowd shot containing every adult character at once (it was originally supposed to be every one ever, but a joke necessitated them to remove them because it hinged on there not being any children present).
** In fact, Matt Groening has a rule of thumb for character design that's become widely known as "The Groening Rule" stating it should be identifiable by silhouette.
*** See ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' for a similar scene, the mob scene includes characters who haven't been seen for over a decade!
* Both main and background ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' characters alike have very unique designs.
* Every ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' character has a unique design and none of them look even a little bit alike, even though all the girls have the same HartmanHips.
** WordOfGod says this was done intentionally so that each character could easily be recognized in silhouette.
* WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb has this in spades.
* The characters in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold''.
* Pretty much any Creator/CartoonNetwork show has characters who are distinctive.
** [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation They're usually quite colorful, too.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. Some of the earlier episodes have repeated designs for background characters, but by and large it follows this trope. If you recognize a specific character design from an earlier episode, you may be pretty certain it's the same individual. Once had a whole flock of 12-year-old boys who were in identical costumes and ''bald''. They were all distinguishable. The main characters also routinely swap hairstyles and costumes, and remain completely recognizable.
** Continued in SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra.'' Even background characters in a bustling metropolis have distinct features.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' tends to reuse certain background characters who have their own distinct looks, behaviors, and even voices. Many an EnsembleDarkhorse has been birthed from this.
* ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'', featuring the [[AnimationBump best animation quality]] in the two series, uses this to great effect during crowd shots. Often done on purpose to feature many cameos from all over the 25-year franchise.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' - both the sculpted character faces/expressions and the engine models themselves, with a handful of exceptions.
** Most new characters in Season 5 had look-alike faces - large, round chin and nose, high cheeks, round eyes.
** From Season 7, Arthur, Emily, and Murdoch all had round faces, oblong eyes, triangular noses, and small mouths, just with different proportions.
** Diesel, 'Arry & Bert, and Splatter & Dodge from TheMovie are all based on the same engine type, just different faces and paintwork.
** Stanley, Billy, and Charlie are all practically identical builds of tank engine, again, with different faces and paint.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': despite a pretty simple art style, every character (even relatives) looks distinct from one another; even background and one-off characters each look unique in nearly every way possible.
** In the former show, the exception seems to be family members -- Lois and Meg have similar faces, along with Lois' mother. Peter is also a dead-ringer for his biological father.
* Everybody in ''WesternAnimation/WeAreTheStrange''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles'', ever character, including unnamed extras and RedShirts, is distinct from every other character. Even when [[FacelessMooks the troopers are wearing full helmets that obscure their faces]] they can be identified by their armor and name tags. [[OnlySixFaces The one time it is averted]] it becomes a vital clue to the team that something is wrong, as they notice that they keep passing the same people all throughout a town.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', every character has not only a different design, but also [[MediumBlending a different art style]].
* Creator/JohnKricfalusi and Spumco produced shows, such as ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' and ''TheRippingFriends''. Of course, all of it is done with full intention, since this ''is'' Creator/JohnKricfalusi we're talkin' about.
* The characters in ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{X-Men Evolution}}''. Head character designer Steven E. Gordon is often praised for unique character designs for each person, even minor background characters. However, clothing designing is often very similar and reused (Boys tend to wear sagging pants and exposed boxers, while girls tend to [[BareYourMidriff show off their stomachs]]). The facial designs and haircuts are so unique, that when two characters have slightly similar appearences (Amara and X-23, both being young, short, with dark skin and brown hair) some fans make a big deal about how much they look alike, despite being completely different (Both have different builds, different skin tone, and different hair cuts and shades).
* ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'' has this, the neighbors, military personnel, random citizens, and school students all look VERY different. Some occur several times, but if they go to the same school, this is justified.
** An added bonus is that they seem to have individual personalities as well, the students primarily.
* The characters of ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''.
* ''HuntikSecretsAndSeekers'' is good about this, having unique designs for everyone, even random civilians and [[{{Mooks}} Suits]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Motorcity}}'', especially since the characters still have a more realistic shape with some cartoony features, much like {{Anime}}.
* ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' and its [[WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie two movies]] have significant variance in important characters, minor characters, and extras in terms of head shape, face and ear shape, body shape and physical size, and even the degree of anthropomorphism applied to the PettingZooPeople and ''what'' animal characteristics are retained, which can vary significantly even within one ''family''. Even the characters who are meant to physically take after one another (Max after Goofy, [[GenderEqualsBreed PJ after Pete, Pistol after Peg]]) have significantly different faces and head shapes.
* Impressively, the meerkats in the crowd scenes of ''Disney/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'' all look distinct, despite having similar body shapes and no clothes to help distiguish them.
* ''MoralOrel'', a stop-motion example. While some faces/designs are shared occasionally[[labelnote:Note]]such as Orel's crush Christina, which is his head but with longer hair[[/labelnote]], most of the models are very distinct, usually by noses or the shape of their head.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' always had very unique character designs for the main characters, though background characters could suffer from OnlySixFaces.
* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' due to the fact that everyone except for Jimmy and Heloise are {{Cartoon Creature}}s.
[[folder:Real Life]]
* The Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang contains approximately 8,000 terracotta soldiers. And each one looks different.
* Occurs with any 'mass scale miniature' or otherwise not created for a gaming/collectible purpose. There was a Belgian exhibit with 855 knights and footsoldiers engaged in combat, and every single face was readily distinguishable from another. Quite an amazing feat considering the figurines were something like 1/25-1/30 scale. Feel sorry for the poor bastard's hand.
* Actual people in real life, [[CaptainObvious of course]].
** If you go to two universities or spend a long time there, you will start to notice very similar people studying the same thing in each place or class. It's quite eerie, really. They're still different people, but not too different.
** Inverted to varying degrees for people with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia face-blindness.]]
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It's best to Read the Freaking Monster Manual when you want the facts.
Weaponsmith: I.. uh.. estimate a 25% increase in attack accuracy, with a corresponding enhancement to damage.
Roy: It's okay, you can just say +5 sword here. We do stuff like that all the time.
Initially, it looks like a standard Role-Playing Game Verse — but then the characters explicitly start referring to spot checks, hit points in Stat-O-Vision, roleplaying, Always Chaotic Evil monsters, and other Role-Playing Game Terms. Is this an RPG in which the characters' players are weaving in and out of character and this is represented by the characters themselves speaking, or perhaps a video game which breaks the Fourth Wall more often than usual?
Nope - or at least it is not shown. The Verse this takes place in really does work exactly like a tabletop RPG.
Because of the Fourth Wall-breaking implications, this usually happens only in comedies. Frequently takes place in a Purely Aesthetic Era, especially for Fantasy games.
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Anime and Manga
• The anime Beet the Vandel Buster (started in 2002) which features experience levels printed on the characters' chest and money for killing monsters.
• In classic Dragon Quest tradition, keeping track of experience requires regularly visiting someone (an old crone in this case) who keeps track of your kills. Beet got tired of this, and so appeared horribly underleveled when he first reappeared after the prologue.
• The even older Mahoujin Guru Guru features characters who steal objects from random places in homes and badges on their chests which indicate their experience level.
• And even older than that is Dragon Pink, an OAV series from 1994 based on a manga from 1990 implied to be set in an H-Game fantasy RPG.
• Tower of Druaga has elements of this depending that fluctuate from episode to episode.
• Fortune Quest (in the OAV at least) has levels which are visible to the characters (some of whom complain about not levelling).
• The Gamer has the main character develop the ability to treat life as an RPG.
• An in-universe and less comedic Diegetic Interface appears on most items and individuals seen by adventurers in what was a normal MMORPG, now The Game Come to Life, in Log Horizon. Characters Calling Your Attacks and speaking of stats and game mechanics, despite the world no longer being a game, is common.
• Scott Pilgrim, kind of. For the most part it's the real world, if surreal and videogame-like, but Scott occasionally talks about his allocated skill proficiencies, gains experience points and levels up.
• It's based on the mechanics from River City Ransom specifically. So if it isn't a full RPG Mechanics Verse, it's at least an RPG Elements verse.
• In the movie, Scott earns points for defeating people or for solving things in his life (for instance, patching things up with Kim). It also seems that people in that universe have coins for blood, since Gideon coughs up a coin when injured and people burst into coins when defeated.
Fan Works
• The main character in Harry Potter And The Natural 20 comes from one of these, and still works on Dungeons and Dragons rules logic while in the Harry Potter verse, causing confusion and occasional terror for everyone involved. He's also a Munchkin.
• In the Alternate Universe of Harry Potter And The Munchkins, all wizards are players and the schoolbooks are detailed enough that they can be used as RPG core books. As discussions of maximizing feats and stats are everywhere, Harry takes a correspondence course in Personal Optimization to get the most out of his growth. He also spends some semesters having teachers analyze the odd merits appearing on his Character Sheet - Potter Family Curse and a Mother's Love.
• The Tabula Avatar Universe kicks off with the Scoobies being uploaded to Baldur's Gate 2 when the Trio find the unbroken memory crystal from 'Tabula Rasa'.
• Xander's aware of how Dungeons & Dragons' magical weapons scale with pluses and minuses. When he proves it as a working model, it's named after him.
• That certain enchantments work differently between the first story and Neverwinter Nights due to the edition change is Lampshaded by the characters.
• Not a true example, but the 1984 thriller Cloak & Dagger briefly flirted with this in its opening sequence. It begins with superspy Jack Flack infiltrating an embassy and dispatching a bunch of colourful ethnic archetypes with an arsenal of James Bond gadgets, then escapes down the street when a gate closes in front of him. Suddenly, a pair of giant numbered dodecahedrons roll towards him. Cut to two kids playing a board game, the boy yelling triumphantly, "Jack Flack escapes!"
• Being an adaptation of the graphic novel, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World also runs on video game logic.
• Dragon Road song apparently describes such an OOC-verse:
They all jumped upon us because we were lawful good.
• The lyrics to the Morlocks song "Hardcore" contains the line "What's bad for you is good for me, I've got less than five in Humanity", a reference to Vampire: The Masquerade.
Real Life
• A university professor came up with a revolutionary new method for grading his students: couch grades in gaming terms, and he goes on to suggest that business managers do the same.
• This strategy is called Gamification and it can be used to motivate and teach all sorts of things such as learning instruments. See here for more information.
Video Games
• Disgaea characters are fully aware that they're in a turn based-strategy RPG, and thus will occasionally make comments about character levels, critical hits, save points, and whether or not the final boss has an additional form that grants him stat bonuses.
Valvatorez: That wasn't his full power! We can expect at least three levels of transformations, with additional power multipliers every time!
• Fallout 2 invokes this from time to time, which is no surprise, given how flimsy the Fourth Wall is. Some party members even comment, "Hm. I feel that I've reach an arbitrary experience threshold and gained some new abilities," upon leveling up.
• Subverted for laughs in Touhou 11: Subterranean Animism. If you play as Marisa with Alice's assist, they spend the entire storyline sassing each other and discussing the quest in terms of RPG tropes. They're also hilariously wrong, since SA is a Bullet Hell-style Shoot 'em Up like most Touhou games.
Visual Novels
• Actually played completely serious in Fate/stay night. All Heroes get a viewable Character Sheet that explains their skills, stats and abilities, all in RPG Mechanics Verse, even how many turns an area spell lasts for,
• In-game as well, more than once the characters quantify mana, and then spend the rest of the scene treating it literally like MP.
• It should be noted, however, that Servants' abilities is something that every master views differently because their minds interpret the information given to them in different terms. The whole 'RPG Character Sheet' method is simply Shirou's mind's way of quantifying the information. Now, what does that tell us about Shirou?
• The Order of the Stick, which operates more or less according to the Dungeons & Dragons rules. As a matter of fact, the very first strip takes place when the D&D rules change from 3rd to 3.5th Edition.
• Besides the page quote, it's also lampshaded in a dream/hallucination Belkar has about Lord Shojo telling him he needs to play "The Game" (basically that he needs to at least pretend to go along with people's rules) and Belkar briefly thought he meant the whole webcomic is a Deep-Immersion Gaming of some players' campaign.
• They also sometimes measure time in "strips", and make direct references to "this comic". That's right — they're not just aware they're in an RPG, they're aware they're in a comic strip that's set in an RPG.
• Goblins plays with this, with a "player character" cleric worshiping "the dungeon master" as a god. One character didn't die from an injury until they realized that Mage Armor didn't grant damage reduction. Word of God is that their world runs according to a heavily houseruled D&D ruleset, and that all combat results are legitimate under these altered rules.
• It's a Deconstruction of life as RPG fodder characters, so it (partially) breaks the rule about comedies.
• Erfworld has a main character recruited from the real world to become a general inside a world that looks like a fantasy-themed Turn-Based Strategy game. Many of the various mechanical simplifications of a turn based strategy game are literally true in Erfworld (for instance, the two sides of the war take turns, and each side's units instantly recover hit points and movement when their turn begins). One of the few places where it is not played for laughs. Well, okay, where it's only sometimes played for laughs.
• 8-Bit Theater does this, although it's generally only Red Mage who thinks this way. For example he was once able to survive an otherwise fatal fall by "forgetting" to record the damage. However, it appears Red Mage is only right when it makes for a better joke. He also accesses his items by speaking the menu options out loud.
• A one off joke horrifically subverts part of this concept. All Red Mages believed the world ran on RPG rules. Because they considered themselves scientists this had to be tested empirically. Sadly they began by trying to determine hit points and ended up slaughtering each other For Science!.
• At first, even Black Mage seemed to minorly operate on this (well, more Video Game mechanics than anything else, really), and had him reading a game guide to Final Fantasy I (the game upon which the comic is based). He got over this relatively fast, though, leaving RM as the only "metagamer" in the series.
• Though he apparently still has the thing on him.
• Thief likewise displayed such Medium Awareness early on, as seen by the line "Your GP or your HP."
• One example of the thing obeying the laws of the game it's based on is when they notice it only became night and then morning when one of them stayed at an inn.
• Red Mage has fun with it, telling Thief how interrogation is just emptying "pockets" of information from a victim's mind, and you can just remove a lock from a "pocket" in a door.
• Played for laughs in the late, lamented RPG World webcomic, which runs on console RPG rules. Cherry was the only character who consistently seemed bewildered by the characters not wondering why numbers appeared over their heads when they were injured in battle, etc.
• Adventurers! takes place in a console RPG with characters that are well aware of the game mechanics, and one repeatedly complains about how ridiculous they are.
• Will Save World For Gold is set in 4th Edition D&D, and makes fun of many different RPG Tropes.
• Keychain of Creation uses the rules and setting for Exalted Second Edition, with some house rules thrown in, in a similar manner to The Order of the Stick.
• Now defunct webcomic Ledgermain also took place in one of these.
• Gold Coin Comics does this all the time. The most notable of which might possibly be when Lance first encountered an actual save point within his own universe.
• Captain SNES has a few of these, due to the fact that said universes are actual video games.
• Yamara has AD&D mechanics (not surprising, as it was published in Dragon Magazine):
Blag: Cause ya see, girlie, nobody cares if ya got an 18 Intelligence. Nobody'd care if you were one o' th' lucky broads with a 18 Wisdom! All that counts is a nice, round 18—
• The world of Homestuck, while otherwise being the Text-Based Adventure Game's equivalent to this trope, has a strife system that appears to be based on turn-based RPG combat. The Game Within a Game, Sburb, also features an "echeladder" that seems to parody an RPG's level system— and since the lines between Sburb and reality are so blurry as to be nearly non-existent, this could be said to apply to the story's "real world" as well.
• Hael me Plz!!11 happens inside a "non-official" Ragnarok Online server, and all the cast are very aware of it, even if one of the characters managed to bring with him a Flame spell from Lineage 2.
• Prepare to Die is entirely built around a D&D-esque world, complete with character sheets, NPCs, skill checks, and die rolls.
• Rumors of War uses an RPG Mechanics Verse according to Rule of Drama, of all things.
• A Beginner's Guide to the End of the Universe, though the protagonist is the only person aware of this.
• Alternatively, it could be argued that the RPG mechanics only apply to him: when he is hurt he loses hit points, but when other people are hurt they begin bleeding like normal people.
• Turn Signals on a Land Raider has elements of this, only with tabletop wargaming instead of tabletop RPG.
• Rusty and Co. features three Monster Adventurers (who saw who had the better deal in the D&D world) working through levels. In the first level (story), Mimic tells Rusty to go ahead and eat the sword stuck in him — there being no rules about tetanus. Plus, of course, having Roxy consult the Monster Manual while Cube is working his way through the bears.
• Sidequest Story uses elements of this trope, with characters having health bars, and damage and healing being shown with -/+ numbers, respectively.
• In By The Book the main characters became adventurers simply by reading a copy of the "Adventurer's Handbook, v.3.5" and filling out character sheets.
• The Gamer has an interesting example in that the setting as a whole apparently isn't RPG Mechanics Verse; it's more that the main character's superpower is to interact with the world as if it were one.
• Corgi Quest uses Pathfinder rules for everything, and the author keeps up-to-date character sheets for the main party available.
• Uber Quest appears to work like an MMORPG.
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Lush was a British Alternative Rock band active from 1989 to 1996. It was, along with My Bloody Valentine, Ride and Slowdive, one of the main examples of Shoegazing, a genre from the early 1990s thus named because of its druggy Psychedelic Rock music and the relatively static live performances.
The band was formed in 1987 and initially called itself The Baby Machines; its members were Meriel Barham (vocals), Emma Anderson (guitar), Miki Berenyi (guitar), Steve Rippon (bass), and Chris Acland (drums). The following year Barham left the band, Berenyi and Anderson took over as lead vocalists, and the band was renamed Lush. In 1989 Lush signed to famous alternative talent incubators 4AD Records (see Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, The Breeders, The Pixies, etc.), released Scar, a 6-track mini-album, and put together a live show that proved extremely popular.
Lush further raised its profile with additional EPs, extensive touring during the years 1990-91 (when it acquired the "shoegazing" label), performing among other places at the Glastonbury festival and going to Japan and the USA. In 1992 it released its first full-length album, Spooky, produced by Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins, resulting in a sound fairly similar to that of the latter band—namely walls of sound, ethereal vocals and plenty of guitar effects. Just before the release of the album Rippon left the band and was replaced by Phil King.
Lush played at Lollapalooza in 1992, and released two more albums in the following years, Split, which featured a more stripped-down sound than Spooky but otherwise continued with the trippy shoegazing, and the upbeat Lovelife, which surfed on the mid-1990s Britpop craze to great success in the UK. However the attempted breakthrough on the American rock scene proved unsuccessful, and the band broke with their management after the cancellation of tours in the UK and Japan. In 1996 Acland committed suicide and Lush went into hiatus, eventually disbanding in 1998.
A piece of trivia: Miki Berenyi is half-Japanese, half-Hungarian, and her mother, Yasuko Nagazumi, played minor roles in You Only Live Twice and Space: 1999.
• Scar EP (1989)
• Mad Love EP (1990)
• Sweetness and Light EP (1990)
• Gala (1990) - compilation including the previously released EPs and additional songs
• Spooky (1992)
• Split (1994)
• Lovelife (1996)
Tropes associated with Lush:
• Epic Rocking: The seven-and-a-half-minute-long "Desire Lines".
• Excited Song Title!: "Superblast!"
• Filk Song: "500 (Shake Baby Shake)", their ode to the Fiat 500 supercompact and its reliability.
• Grass Is Greener: "Single Girl". The song begins with "I don't want to be a single girl"... and then after she finds love and endures some fights and annoyances, the song ends with "I just want to be a single girl".
• New Sound Album: Split toned down the dream-pop and Lovelife turned up the Britpop.
• Non-Appearing Title: It'd be easier to list the songs that avert this trope (such as "Single Girl" and "Hypocrite").
• Perishing Alt Rock Voice: Definitely in the earlier stuff.
• Repurposed Pop Song: "Sweetness And Light" turned up in a Volkswagen commercial in the late 90s.
• Shout-Out: "Laura" seems to be this to Laura Nyro, with its references to Nyro's songs "Luckie", "Stoney End" and "Sweet Blindness".
• Token Minority: Miki is an English woman of half-Japanese, half-Hungarian parentage.
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Bella/Carlisle Sick inside
Damonfan22 February 8, 2011 User blog:Damonfan22
I'm just a girl who/kissed a boy.It's not like I meant for this to happen. It was an accident. I wouldn't hurt Edward like that.Who is in love with someone else.The kiss was just impulsive. I love Esme. But in that moment, I couldn't help it.I didn't mean to/feel the way I do.I didn't mean to love him. I knew it wasn't supposed to happen.It just happened by itself.Looking at her, her eyes, her smile, was too much. So I kissed her without thinking.'And now I'm sick inside.The day after our kiss, I thought I was going to throw up. How could I betray Edward like this?Yeah it makes me wanna cry.I couldn't cry. But I wanted to, for hurting my wife this way.I'm so sorry about last night."Edward, please. Forgive me." I truly was sorry.Yeah it happened so fast.'I wanted it to last.In that moment, feeling her lips on mine and her heart race, I didn't want to stop kissing her.In the moment it felt so right."What are we doing, Carlisle?""I don't know. But it feels right.""Yeah, it does."But now I'm sick inside.It felt like every type of imaginable pain that could happen to a vampire was being inflicted on me as Esme looked at me with tear filled eyes.He stopped by my house/we were hanging out."Hey Carlisle."He smiled."Mind if I join you?"He was wondering where you are."Wasn't Esme supposed to come see you, Bella?""Yeah, but she didn't."We went walking/we were just talking.I took her for a walk around the woods, asking her about Jacob and her friends.Then he kissed me by his car.We got back to his Mercedes, and as I turned to leave, Carlisle grabbed my hand. Pulling me close, he kissed me softly.And now I'm sick inside/yeah it makes me wanna cry."Bella, what are we going to do?"My throat constricted."I don't know. You kissed me, remember?"I'm so sorry about last night."Esme, please say something."But she turned her head."I'm sorry!""Doesn't change anything, Carlisle."Yeah it happened so fast.'I wanted it to last."Bella, can you honestly say that you wanted the kiss to end?"Could I?"No, Edward."In the moment it felt so right.I couldn't end it. I didn't want to. Kissing her made me see stars.But now I'm sick inside."I feel so sick, and so wrong, Edward. I know I can't take the kiss back, but please just forgive me?"Now I'm stuck with this feeling in the pit of my soul.'Guess I should've had a little self control.Where was all of my perfected self control when I needed it? How could it just disappear when it mattered the most.Looking at her, I guess it didn't matter anymore.I knew that it was wrong/I admit it.Why was I kissing Carlisle? I loved Edward. It was wrong to do this.I wish there was a way that I could make it alright."Esme, if I could make things normal again, I would.""I wish I could go back, Edward."I really wanna tell you that I put up a fight."Did you at least fight it?" Their eyes begged us to say yes.We wanted to lie so badly.But that would be a lie.But we couldn't."No.""No."And now I'm sick inside.'Yeah it makes me wanna cry.I could see tears form in Carlisle's eyes.And in mine.I'm so sorry about last night."Bella, Edward, Esme. This is my fault. I'm truly sorry for my lapse in judgement."What was he saying? It was my fault too."Not just his, but mine as well."Yeah it happened so fast/I wanted it to last.As I looked at her, the kiss replayed in my head. But I wasn't sorry for kissing her, just for hurting everyone else."I didn't want the kiss to end. I love Carlisle too much.""I feel the exact same way about Bella."In the moment/it felt so right."We acted on impulse, you two. We can't help feeling that way."And now I'm sick inside."Leave," Esme said quietly.I could tell that Edward felt sick."I'm sorry."Now I'm sick inside.'Yeah it makes me wanna cry.I could feel my tears falling.In the moment it felt so right.How could I risk everything for a kiss? Even if it seemed like the right thing to do?I'm just a girl.I was just a girl who fell in love.Who kissed a boy.I was the one who made this happen. If I hadn't kissed Bella, this wouldn't be happening.But I didn't regret anything.Who is in love with you."Don't make Carlisle leave, Esme. It was my fault."I turned to leave, and caught a glimpse of Carlisle's golden eyes.I love you, Bella, they said.But he couldn't love me.Not anymore.
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[Twisted-Python] Learning Twisted
Jason Diamond jason at injektilo.org
Sun May 16 21:32:51 EDT 2004
Christopher Armstrong wrote:
> Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
>> Jason Diamond wrote:
>>> Also, it's not obvious to me how protocol implementors decide when to
>>> have users override a method versus having them use callbacks. I know
>>> I'm working on client code but knowing this might help me know how to
>>> use their code. Is it a matter of personal preference? The ircLogBot
>>> example didn't have any callbacks using deferreds but it looks like I
>>> had no choice when using IMAP4Client.
>> It's not purely preference, but there is some overlap. Generally,
>> what Deferreds are used for are when you've got some operation that
>> happens once, with one result: you want to delete a message, for
>> example, and get a notification when that deletion operation has
>> completed. Methods on objects are used when you are doing something
>> more persistent, for example, connecting a client to a server - there
>> is a potential for success or failure of that one operation, true,
>> but the more interesting thing is the continuous stream of data being
>> received from or sent to the other side of the connection.
> Also, the "request" vs "arbitrary events" distinction should be
> clarified: Deferreds (i.e., callbacks) are used when you want to
> expose an API that allows a request to be made for some operation to
> occur, and they'll get triggered when the operation is complete (or
> has errored). Methods to be overridden are there for when there's no
> 1:1 mapping of requests to responses, when these events can happen
> even without expecting them.
Ah! This makes perfect sense to me. So I can think of overridable
methods as events that didn't require any action on my part to fire.
However, the ircLogBot example [1], implies that calling self.join will
eventually invoke self.joined as if self.joined was the permanent
callback for calling self.join. I like your explanation for the
distinction between deferreds and methods but this seems to be blurring
the two. What happens if an error occurred while trying to join a
channel? (I'm not trying to pick anybody--I'm just trying to make sense
of the examples that I'm seeing.)
-- Jason
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Interesting run. found a sledge hammer a tap & some lovely door knobs. Luckily at the end #standard
Anyone got any ideas what these are for? #firstrun2014 #buffetbuster
good to know
Sigur Ross in my eyes and ears was most agreeable.
Day of the jackal #dysonstylee
talking of crazies meant to send you this. Makes me chuckle every time.
#sept #boreoff #johnlewis
DiResta not too disappointed about loosing out on pole #bbcf1
is that you with the flag?
#garlic #chilli fair enough
tho shalt not look upon it
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Re: America's White Injuns
Steve Firth (
Thu, 22 Aug 1996 19:51:52 +0100
In article <321b014a.1118671@>, (S.W.) wrote:
>Well, many if not most Scandinavians live in areas where the climate is
>rather mild,
Svante! How are you me old Swedish turn-up?
Hello, hello, testing, testing, testing kill file, come in Svante, over.
PS, nice .sig, small and perfectly formed.
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Re: This used to be on disease and immunity
Eric Brunner (
16 Jul 1996 13:37:39 GMT
Philip Deitiker ( wrote:
: (Eric Brunner) wrote:
: >For some reason Philip is following up on a follow-up I made to one of
: >Sisal's posts. Oh well...
: >Philip Deitiker ( wrote:
: >: (Eric Brunner) wrote:
: >: >Feel free to post anything you want, now that you've established the value
: >: >you place on definitions of such key athropological terms as domesticatants,
: >: >cultigens and so forth.
: >: Example 1 (see below): BTW, As an 'anthropologist' Eric you should
: >: know that vocabulary is the property of those societies which choose
: >: to use those words to intercommunicate. While your language bashing
: >domesticatant and cultigen are hardly obscure terms in the literature(s)
: >of anthropology. Perhaps those so troubled by the cognitive dissonance
: >introduced by reliance upon such tacitly encumbered texts as dictionaries
: >when attempting to _think_ about culture should re-think the utility of
: >their attempts.
: Example #7
: >I recommend Dave Rindos' work for both, see Domingo's recent post with
: >that cite. If there is a serious discussion of the subject, I'll drop
: >him a line and he'll "drop by" for questions.
: If you find a word usage innappropriate, _define it and give a
: source_, in a since when you criticized one of my statements you did
: not help in defining, in and as much no-one has actually done so.
Read Rindos. Deletions.
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January 13: New Year's Eve for Julius Caesar fans who insist on using his calender instead of ours
WARNING! May cause choking in children over 40.
• 1610 - Galileo Galilei discovers the fourth satellite of Jupiter and names it "Shit".
• 1830 - A devastating fire burns large parts of New Orleans to the ground. Hurricane Katrina helps extinguish the last remaining flames 175 years later
• 1774 - Ireland is violently liberated from Apaches. Heavy drinking ensues
• 1874 - Thomas Edison patents the pneumatic kitten extruder, which gains widespread success in new Chinese markets
• 1942 - Henry Ford gets a patent for his new automobile, which runs efficiently on Jew blood and diesel
• 2002 - President George W. Bush faints after choking on a pretzel, which will be remembered as the defining moment of his presidency. In a completely unrelated move, President Bush signs a bill forcing all pretzel companies to post the notice "DANGER: PRETZELS MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH" on their packages in large red letters.
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HP Lovecraft
Everyone's favourite horror writer and hilarious racist, HP Lovecraft.
For those without comedic tastes, the so-called experts at Wikipedia have an article about H. P. Lovecraft.
How the man known as Howard Phillips Lovecraft[1] came to have an Uncyclopedia entry written about him is a fact of whose blasphemous origins we shall never be privileged to know. That it is written at all is miracle enough, for we live on an infinitesimal and placid island of literacy, consoled by structured and educated ignorance, swallowed in the midst of the boundless black seas of inconceivable truths to which we owe our own existence, broiling with a slobbering idiocy that inhabits both timeless places and unknowable concepts far beyond those precious few possibilities that can be reached by our wildest and most broken of nightmares.
It was not meant that we should use a simple spellcheck to cover our own ineptitudes, and had it been known what foul ravings would creep onto our website under the cover of wretched darkness, we would have tried inexorably to keep constant vigilance in the form of a log, thus that or natural cravings for hidden knowledge could be be tickled by its unearthly reply. Harsh and unrelenting imprisonment in the ravaged husks of our own minds would have invariably been our fates, for all of time, both having passed and yet to come.
The great unwashed, each mashing their keyboards in the darkness of their parents' basements, have hitherto harmed us little in our blissful ignorance; but perhaps their random effusions have now conspired to allow an article of whose utter, mind-destroying idiocy, deep seated as it is in unfathomable and yet undeniable truths, will send us screaming to our nearest Webster's Dictionary, seeking structured and reasoned solace from the coming storm of inescapable realizations now sneaking their vile repercussions into the deepest regions of our very souls; a cacophony of unrequited sorrows writhing in the filth of untold woes, beating our thoughts into willing and unquestioning submission to a boundless madness.
Who wrote such blasphemous, unrelenting and wicked ramblings shall remain a mystery; for the following is a peculiar message that had suddenly and inexplicably materialized as an article on Uncyclopedia. It had come to be here after a seemingly impossible eldritch power failure lashed out at the website's server with a seeming sense of purpose, perhaps even urgency, during a stormy night when wolves, ravens and cicadas alike were unusually persevering in a combined cacaphonic frenzy previously unheard by any mortal ear, and a massive aurora borealis was observed across even the far reaches of the Northern Hemisphere. Not one among the living knows where the message came from, other than that the message itself hints at an origin so horrible and blasphemous that any further details of its foul beginnings are perhaps best left unknown.
///Here begins the message///
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If you can read this, that means I am probably dead, swallowed whole by some nightmarish entity, disturbed by my latest inquiries, but I cannot let these things rest until I find the answers I seek. I do not advise that anyone follow these sojourns, lest they find a similarly horrid fate to my own at the end of their journey.
It was during the last months of my impoverished life as a student of metaphysics at Miskatonic University that I lived in the locality known as Quastro Plango in Providence, where the black tarred river, Megamoltron, meets back unto itself again, smashing upon itself barbarically. At a time during which I befriended the dread horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft, a grevious mistake that was revealed to be. Ever since the unspeakable precipices which thus triggered my haphazardous effugi from that wormridden poorhouse district, I have been unable to locate the locality of Quastro Plango, though I have since examined every map of the city whether new and untouched or withered and yellowed, with a great labor and arduous resolve. Its apparent nonexistence is a fact which I find both singular and perplexing.
Much of the details of Lovecraft's birth, curiously twisted education, rise, fall, death, foul renaissance, and crucification on a queerly shaped cross of stygian dimensions[2] have been lost to the ravages of ineluctable time. All we have left, save my own dubious memories of the ramblings of the horror writer, is this curious and rotted manuscript, found in the oldest districts and alleys of Providence, beneath a black Byzantine church with two-hundred-fifty-foot spires, in an abandoned McDonalds restaurant, where at night a phantom white-bearded daemon swineherd drives about with his staff a flock of fungous and flabby beasts whose appearance filled me with unutterable loathing, to try to piece together the story of how this monstrous and utterly degenerate cartooni-ni-ni-ni...
"No, no, I tell you, I am not that daemon swineherd in the twilight restaurant! It's voodoo, I tell you ... that spotted snake ... Curse you, I'll teach you to faint at what my family do!
You were afraid of the cosmic truth, you damned coward, but now I've got you! Look at this text, coward - read what I impart to you. Do you suppose there are really any such things as time and magnitude? Do you fancy there are such things as form or matter?
I tell you, I have struck depths that your little brain can't picture. I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down demons from the stars... I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness... Space belongs to me? Things are hunting me now - the things that devour and dissolve, that fats and instructs the very worms that gnaws and vexes the nethermost caverns, the dull scavengers of earth that festers and swell, monstrous to plague it - but I know how to elude them. It is you they will get!!! Stirring, dear sir? 'Sblood, thou stinkard, I'll learn ye how to gust ... wolde ye swynke me thilke wys?... Iä! Iä! Hastur! Hastur! Hastur! Cat-huloo fatanng yang kipperbang... dripping death astride a bacchanale of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial... Magna Mater! Magna Mater!... Atys... Dia ad aghaidh's ad aodaun... agus bas dunarch ort! Dhonas 's dholas ort, agus leat-sa!... Ungl unl... rrlh ... chchch... Iä! Iä!- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn..."
The mysterious purveyor of this unseemly and blasphemous article. His warped visage stares monotonously upon your screen, lacking even the comforting cogniscience of ancient reptiles his eyes are filled with dark and primal urges that hint at cosmic horror that beats a strange rhythm in foul communion with the darkness the center of all infinity. He is wrapped in the cold and inhuman filth of a twisted jacket ripped from the back of grotesque inhabitants of a cruel asylums deepest bowels. Within his mouth resides that cursed ball which deprives man of his ability to dissent the foul horrors laid upon him.
This is what they say I said when the police found me in that McDonald's restaurant later... found me while I was trying to strangle a Ronald McDonald statue with a large vuvuzela thrusted up my rectum while bellowing forth purportedly horrible blasphemies in an abrasive and yet horribly sepulchral voice that was not my own, and in languages I cannot claim to fathom to any degree of coherency. Now they have locked me into a padded cell, demolished that haunted restaurant, and taken the paper slips away from me to be locked into a restricted governmental archive, and yet I feel that I must tell what was written on it even though I know that the ghastly contexts and otherwordly depths it hints at would be enough to annihilate the very soul of anyone for whom fate has been merciful enough to spare this knowledge that no sound mind should possess. For if it is true, then we as a species must reevaluate our place in the universe and accept that we may be lowest of the many sapient races that has come and gone and those who are yet to come. The psychiatrists must be made to believe me, but the authorities have, despite careful searches and investigations, been unable to locate the district of Quastro Plango where I lived next door to the horror writer and documented his life as foretold by himself, and which place I know must exist, although I do not know in what dimension.
Though I miss not those narrow, odorous alleys and disproportionally steeply and crooked streets of Quastro Plango in its slummed bleakness, and shudder at the thought of the ancient and forsaken 'cybercafé'. This utterly indescribable site of unholy reunion boasted a clattering sound that tore at my soul each day as I walked past, not daring to peer inside. The horridly wrinkled Norwegian fishermen I spoke with one evening whispered in such frightened words how its very existence alone would be the only proof to the authorities of my shrivelled sanity. But my God, if they had only seen the face of that blue-green, pungently swamp-smelling thing I caught with one of its many hands in my cookie jar last week!!! It had been said that the pen is mightier than the sword, and I now see with blood-red clarity how true that sentiment is. His books, his damnable books - they must all be burned in the fires of the next Walpurgis Night... They say the madman is dead, but I know differently. Those foul knaves, those ignorant fools!!! Did you really believe that that was your own hand in the cookie jar?!
Nay; the hack horror writer, whose hypnotically thick and soporific voice I can still hear whispering even as I am writing this one last memorandum, merely lies dreaming, and we... we are the dreams... By will I shall vainly send my message, with fleeting hope that one day there may be some medium capable of receiving this biography of H. P. Lovecraft I have written, out across the illimitable aether of background radiation in whose cosmic timbre would be concentrated all the primal, ultimate space-time seethings which lie behind the massed spheres of matter. It is no small task to speak about the unspeakable, describe the indescribable, to illuminate that which the sun must never alight, but by Jove, leastways I shall try.
I know now that my time draws nigh, for I sense once more the filthy acid-breath of that blue-green monstrosity that looked at me that frightful night with glossy black eyes filled with what I now understand to be limitless, prehistoric hatred and whose blasphemous, malformed visage I only now realize bears a putrefied, sardonic semblance to that of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, nigh unrecognizable to anyone save one such as I who have spoken to and lived next door to the madman in his hellbound workroom, the repellent spectre which haunts me further now even in the recurrent dream I have every night, save those when the doctors are merciful enough to give me dream-supressing medicine. Tonight I shall break free of this mental institution even though I know I will die trying...
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Gothic castle
The frightening spectre of a weathered and cold basalt castle which was the unholy birth-place of of the late and tormented Howard Phillips Lovecraft in times immemorial, before the great darkness from beyond the depths of infinity had griped his soul and raped his every waking thought.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born during the conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter and Earth to the sounds of muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes in an horribly ancient, black basalt castle in the Providence countryside as the only son of Winfield Scott Lovecraft and Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft. During the night of his birth, nine dozens of naked, mindless negros from Bongo-Bongo Land danced ceaselessly and tirelessly around a grotesque phallus symbol of prodigious proportions, which was painted in unknown and indescribable spectrum, made to resemble the hideous visage of the unspeakable Shub-Niggurath; the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young who ever spawns new nightmares made flesh from her towering ebony fortress on the Lower East Side. The birthscene with its unearthly blasphemous rituals that no sane person should ever cast eyes on was so horrible that both of his parents went mad and had to spend the rest of their days in Arkham Asylum.
There they were separated in two different padded cells where each unceasingly described horrible visions of odd shadows and unearthly geometric patterns, resembling rotating candy canes with lilac undertones, to the psychatrists. Because of this, the young Lovecraft came to be fostered by Whipple Van Buren Phillips, a grandparent so shockingly aged that he was certainly born in an egg in the prehistoric Iapetus Ocean, and by two subhuman aunts consumed with ancient, forbidden witchcraft lore originating from antediluvian Atlantis. During his childhood, young Lovecrafts non-mammalian grandfather read the Necronomicon by the fabled Abdul Alhazred to him. The accursed tome of blasphemous and hideous creatures thenceforth became his favourite book.
Whipple Van Buren Phillips
Whipple Van Buren Phillips, H. P. Lovecraft's non-mammalian caretaker, born of strange eons and enshrouded in the primal energies of forgotten terror, he waits for the command of some foul beckon from beyond the edge of infinity, where even the Elder Gods dare not speak of.
When Lovecraft was merely four years old, he was abducted by the winged, starheaded, half-vegetable race of palaeogean Antarctica and taken outside the three dimensional space-time continuum to the black throne of the boundless daemon-sultan Azathoth whose name no lips dare speak aloud, where he wrote his name with his own blood in Azathoth's Black Book. Thus, his mind and soul became the property of Azathoth, the blind idiot god amidst the bubbling, monstrous nuclear chaos outside angled space and was cursed to spend the rest of his life writing the daemon-sultan's memoirs ceaselessly since that torpid, amorphous, mindless blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity was busy doing absolutely nothing for all eternity.
Lovecraft did not shriek, but all the fiendish ghouls that ride the nightwind shrieked for him as in that same second there crashed down upon his mind a single fleeting avalanche of soul-annihilating memory, the aeon-withered, abysmal blueprints for Azathoth and his cosmic pantheon's unfathomable life span, which become deeply engraved into the young Lovecraft's tormented subconsciousness, being forever a slave to the Outer Gods. Then Lovecraft fell into a deep sleep and reemerged, wholly remade, in 1895 with the forbidden knowledge of countless, unhallowed centuries deeply embedded into the darkest corners of his mind and which would shape his life forevermore.
Since that frightful day, from his childhood up until his eventual death in adulthood, the fearsome cosmic entities Nyarlathotep and Hastur would come through a narrow fissure in the fabric of time and space every odd Friday to keep bringing him instructions on what to write, which is, of course, all real. The one leverage they had on him, should he fail to comply, was this: if he refused, they would forcibly acquire Hollywood filming rights for one or more of the works which he had already written. Knowing full well that any movie based on his writings would drive the world population mad from such indescribable and inappropriate cosmic truths, Lovecraft had no choice but to remain the inofficial vocal chord of the dark gods from beyond, not wanting to plunge the world into utter anarchy and mass hysteria.
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Because of his horrible abduction as a toddler, Lovecraft was always cursed by experiencing night terrors, an especially vivid form of nightmares. His horrific dreams always began with him lying motionless in his bed while hearing how his bathtub is suddenly beginning to fill itself in the bathroom. Two minutes later, once the tap turns itself off, he always hears oddly distorted splashing noises whose pitch and timbre seems to be unlike any other eartly sound - if sound it may even be called - followed by the ominous sensation of hearing diminutive webbed feet marching in loathsome unison towards him while dripping water on the floor. As he brings himself to look, he always see the shape of twelve hidious rubber ducks with bloodred, vampirish fangs, an upper beak tapering into one cream-white tentacle, and white glowing eyes as cold as the bleakest midwinter nights of Crocker Land sardonically parading towards him in inhuman exultation in kinematic patterns more resembling quadrupedal reptiles than that of bipedal avians as the things of dread begin climbing up on him. While six of them starts to peck a large hole in his cranium to sever the synapses that runs between his ganglions, dendrites and motor neurons one by one, the others whisper the truths- the truths that man should not, can not, know- about the Great Old Ones in his ears as he begins to awake screaming.
edit Education
Young H. P. Lovecraft at the age of ten, already a hideous spectre of things to come, an eire light enshrouds... Just look at the damn picture
When Lovecraft was six he began his education at Arkham Unspeakable Catholic School. At the age of seven, he was bitten by a radioactive adjective during an English language class. That day, the groundwork for he who would one day be refered to as the "Master of Horror" or the "Father of Modern Horror" was laid. Having both sold his soul to the Outer Gods and became addicted to profusely using superfluous descriptions that really gets under the readers skin and sentences so long that the whole known universe cannot contain them, he was now ready to master the writing medium to spread the gospels of the dark gods, Azathoth and Nyarlathotep. A year later he was expelled for excessive use of obscure adjectives in his creative writing class. A nervous, eldritch, breakdown subsequently forced him to be homeschooled until he obtained a scholarship to the privileged Miskatonic University, based in Pickmantown, Cthulhuchusetts, USA, where he studied advanced non-Euclidean geometrics and the blasphemous Swedish in which the Necronomicron itself was written.
The years following Lovecraft's graduation are shrouded in stygian mystery, though it is believed that it was during this time he made a the first of his pilgrimages to one of the forgotten shrines of elder evil (as marked on the "Providence Guide to Visiting Forgotten Shrines of Elder Evil"). In 1928 Lovecraft moved to the nearby town of Innsmouth, in order to further his education in the occult. It was here that he endeared himself to the local subhuman, degenerated fishermen, most of whom shared the same surname, and several of the same heads and limbs.
edit Career
In 1931 Lovecraft acquired part-time employment as a stripper at Happy Cthulhu Seafood Hut (or, Olive Garden, as it's known in some parts of Lithuania) to pay for face elongation surgery. The "food" at Happy Cthulhu was said to give him the giggles, which in turn inspired many of his darker cartoons. Lovecraft began to enjoy his job and even started experiencing irregular bouts of severe contentedness. To combat the abnormality, his doctor recommended racism. However, it all fell into ruin the dark day when he finally managed to bring himself to attempt eating todays dish for himself. Though it may have looked like your ordinary meal with spaghetti, meatballs, tomato sauce and broccoli, he felt that their relation to him was not the same as that of the spaghetti, meatballs, tomato sauce, and broccoli he knew in another and dimly remembered life. The nature of the difference he could not tell, yet he shook in stark fright as it impressed itself upon him. Then it dawned upon him: it was the spaghetti. Normal as it may have seen at first glance, he only now saw that their geometric shape was not that of ordinary spaghetti but were non-Euclidian cosmic superstrings that were the other worldly end of sightless Stygian depths where Nyarlathotep, the mad faceless god, howls blindly in the darkness to the piping of two amorphous idiot flute-players.
Lovecraftian madness
H. P. Lovecraft's restaurant scene of horror, devouring his sight and replacing it with a thousand blasphemies. He sees only the cruel deeds of primal foulness from beyond the edge of infinity, where the fabric of all time and space weaves together in... sorry.
Over everything was a pall of intensely maddening fear, and the climax was reached when the waiter arrived with the bill. As the qualmish spectacle continued, he felt a sudden relief that he did not know the recipe, for in that unimaginative, unaesthetically mixed dish straight out of the great Food Guide Pyramid of Giza he sensed the workings of a monstrous and invincible evil and of causalities that would shatter his very soul had he not been guarded by a blissful ignorance, and briefly considered vegetarianism in his smothering moments of cold perspiration. He heard voices, and yowls, and echoes in the restaurant, but above all there gently rose that impious, insidious scurrying; gently rising, rising, as a stiff bloated corpse gently rises above an oily river that flows under the endless onyx bridges to a black, putrid sea. And when that sardonically glittering surface of the tomato sauce seemed to reflect the ancient phantasmagorial abysses that the mad Swede Abdul Alhazred had quietly spoken of in muffled and frightened words, and when he turned a meatball over with his fork to realize all too late what a shocking resemblence it bore to his own monstrous grandfather, he cringed in disgust and reached clumsily and awkwardly about for the table salt, noticing as he did so the annoying absence of any table knife.
This is the last rational act he performed that week. For that carefully sprinkled salt had arrayed itself in forms that all too well reminded him of the stellar constellations leading the way to the everblack carcass-planet Yuggoth, and when the broccoli displayed an uncanny resemblance to the squid-face of the ever-dreaming horror that is Cthulhu, he merely screamed and raced madly out of that restaurant and into the narrow alleys of Providence, his screams soon dissolving into peals of hysterical laughter. God! Those carrion brown balls of sinews, processed meat and cholesterol-ridden fat! Those nightmare recipes choked with the Swedish, Celtic, Roman, and English cuisines of countless unhallowed centuries! Madness rides the star-wind... Tomato sauce squeezed from tomatoes of vermillioned soil choked with the gleaming white bones of the dim aeons of screeching pagan rites...
When his psychatrist learned over H. P. Lovecraft's nervous breakdown over a perfectly ordinary dish of spaghetti with meatballs and his nearly obsessive far-fetched associations of black voids and eldritch abysses with just about anything, Lovecraft knew that his culinary days of gastronomical prospecting were well nigh over. Though Lovecraft insisted that his horror had been real and motivated, his psychatrist gently explained to him that sane persons don't freak out over restaurant meals and dashes off without paying the bill. Lovecraft wondered quietly if his fragile composure may have had something to do with him signing his name in his own blood in Azathoth's Black Book. Was he compelled to do nothing save for writing the daemon-sultan's unspeakable memoirs? What horrible cohesions had ensnared him so distastrously?
Though a respected writer of horror fiction, he is best remembered now for his cyclopean comic strip in the Providence newspaper the Daily Groin, where he created the Cat-huloo mythos, featuring a rascally eldritch feline that managed to get himself into all manner of japes and scrapes.
Lovecraft and Sonia Greene
H.P. Lovecraft and his wife Sonia Greene, who is in fact the chthonic cosmic entity Yog-Hurt, Mistress Obscurus of the Kmart Express Checkout (those cosmic entities all come with some silly random title), younger sister of Yog-Sothoth, an elaborate deception which Lovecraft could unfortunely not perceive due to having sold his soul to Azathoth and Nyarlathotep.
Cat-huloo. No amount of Ice Cream can free my soul from this horror invading my dreams!
The Cat-huloo strip ran for over 27 years, printed on alternate Wednesdays, and with a bumper 9 frame strip published on Saint Nyarlathotep's Days.
However, with the success of the comic strip, there also came sadness for Lovecraft as in 1928, his house was demolished by a swarm of nameless, unspeakable honey-crazed killer slugs. In 1928 H.P. Lovecraft met S. C. Starcraft and W. O. Warcraft. Both soon became his best friends; they spent years writing about each other in various books. These books were the inspiration for the Necronomicon, because no one could read them without laughing a lot; which Lovecraft swore meant they drove the reader mad with terrible, blasphemous, cosmic truths. In 1929, he attempted to kill Nietzsche's Ubermensch as a response to his harsh criticism of Cthulhu. Failing miserably, Lovecraft was hospitalized with nine broken ribs, three knife wounds, and a critically damaged sphincter. In 1934, Lovecraft was himself arrested for possession of an illegal and cyclopean moustache. During this time, he produced some of his darkest work including the acclaimed tale "It's Raining Elder Gods" which was posthumously nominated for several Hugos, Nebulas and a Bram Stoker Award. His coming out of the closet was a cause for great celebration amongst Lovecraft admirers everywhere, including Rio Linda.
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When the newspaper finally canceled the strip in late January of 1937 in response to the public outcry, started by the mad Swede Abdul Alhazred, editor of the abhorred adult magazine the Necronomicon, over the notorious "Cat-huloo shot JFK" cartoon, it was the final stroke for the now tragically depressed Lovecraft. He knew now that his time was nigh, for no man or woman among the living could abuse and overuse that many unpatented adjectives and adverbs over the years without karma eventually coming back to bite you in the ass.
In early February of 1937, he began to hear strange nocturnal scratching noises from his workroom window when he was not present, and while trying to expose the voyeur saw nothing at first but heard faint demonic giggles as if from a sinister voice pitched by helium inhalation and seemingly chattering in Dutch language, noticing as he did so several torn out pages from a bizarre, perverse and sadomasochistic pornographic magazine specializing in brutal and yet shockingly realistic anthropo-animalistic female-cephalopod tentacle rape lying scattered outside in his garden.
At five such occasions, while staring out of the workroom window, he could swear that he saw a large peculiar dog dressed in a canine Captain Marvel suit running back and forth restlessly in highly irregular kinematic patterns while howling strangely in front of the moon by the horizon, far away in the barren, desolate old meadow which had once been the site of an ancient Indian burial ground. At one night he went out in the woods to investigate, and presently heard a swishing in the sparse grass toward the left, and saw the dark form of the strange dog looming up in the moonlight. Lovecraft leaped up at once and raced madly out of those woods and across endless leagues of plateau till he reached the increasingly treacherous safety of his home - doing this not because the dog had been wearing a Captain Marvel suit, but because it had asked him for directions on how to promptly reach the summit of the Brocken...
Since that fearful night, the descent of H. P. Lovecraft's sanity into madness only escalated. And when in March he developed a sudden, fiendishly overwhelming and yet unmotived coulrophobia and a manic, irrestistable urge to read the novel Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder over and over again, he could not doubt but that his sanity was slipping away from him piece by piece. Not long after, H. P. Lovecraft vanished in broad daylight without a trace, no doubt the work of some primordial demonic evil.
One night his body was found three days later, neatly stuffed into the glove compartment of a contemporary Ford CX car parked on the roadside in the woods near the desolate meadow and with his left arm and forefinger mysteriously pointing towards a certain point in the sky in a locked rigor mortis position, this point being somewhere between the Lynx and Auriga constellations. Crime scene forensics found him embalmed in a strange, loathsome peanut-like oil and transformed into a nightmarish blasphemy with huge, savage paws. A faux copy of the forbidden book known as Unaussprechlichen Kulten was found nearby with a number of unidentifiable stains and strange, indecipherable heiroglyphs written in goat blood in the right margin. He had smothered himself to death in souvenir royal silver jubilee tea-towels, and used the curious Voorish Sign. But what still puzzles and worries the scholars in neolithic paleontology at Miskatonic University even today more than anything else was merely this; in a rural grocery store a mere kilometer away, on the backside of a Kelloggs cornflakes package, dumbfounded witnesses discovered an irregular caret followed by this enigmatic text written in Ancient Aramaic but here translated to modern English, undoubtly in H. P. Lovecraft's own handwriting but hastily and slovenly written as if in some sudden bout of sheer mind-consuming panic:
So it ends, and begins anew...
///Here ends the message///
edit Legacy
“Start with a regular ghost story or some such. Liberally add the words 'chthonic' and 'eldritch'. When in need to choose between a number of synonyms, always pick out the most obscure and archaic one and add another adjective in front off it just for good measure. Then make up a bunch of words and phrases with clusters of vowels or consonants, and add those. Voila!”
~ H.P. Lovecraft on How to write a supernatural horror story
“Hmmmm... this guy is a bit of a pessimist, isn't he? Could need a good cheering up, had he not been dead already.”
~ Captain Obvious and Captain Understatement on H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft have inspired many works since his unholy death, in the forms of movies, fan fiction, toys and popular culture. For instance, you can now build your own Lego non-Euclidian space-time portals to access the horrific realms of the unknown, more than likely disappearing with nothing more left than a stain of blood and a fading scream that bystanders may notice. In honour and recognition of his works, H. P. Lovecraft had a brand of sauce named after him. H. P. Lovesauce has been a long time perennial favourite, especially in British cuisine, despite allegations that its consumption may carry a risk of accidental invocation of the Elder Ones. Recent tests by the FDA suggest that H. P. Sauce may also cause hallucinations, dementia and paranoid schizophrenia. These findings are published in the journal Nature, but can not be read in this plane of existence. Notable films and television based upon his works are, amongst others, "In the Mouth of Madness" by John Carpenter, American Idol and Lost, which completely ripped off Shub-Niggurath as inspiration for the Smoke Monster. Unbeknownst to most people, the language of the Necronomicron is actually a distorted version of Cthulhuian black speech.
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1. Although some argue that H. P. actually stands for "Hewlett Packard" or Harry Potter.
2. Which is but one of many interpretations of what actually happened the day when Lovecraft met his rumoured death and undoubtly one of the more easily digestible to mere mortals.
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Using FreeBSD 8.2. I'm accessing my machine over vnc using tightvnc. I log in as my normal user. This is okay. I can open X applications and they display fine. Then I su to root and they won't open. I used to be able to do xhost +localhost but this doesn't work anymore. I read online about copying .Xauthority, so now in my .cshrc for root I do this:
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This gets me further but now I get an error:
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I searched for this online and someone said to prefix the command with dbus-launch first:
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I tried this and it works but it seems kludgy. How do I get this working so I can launch X based programs after su'ing to root seamlessly (like I could with FreeBSD 6.x)?
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Ok I kinda have a fix for this. There is a nice explanation from this site https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gconf/+bug/336660 :
The explanation of the problem is the following:
When you su to root from a terminal where you are logged in as another user the new "su-ed" user gonna inherit the environment variables from the parent shell user.
Example: let's say that for the user jack the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable is set to: "unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-l5SiTFzmR8,guid=1af28c9d83400a896ef6268d4a7af59f" Now if you open a terminal as jack and make a su to root the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS variable shall remain as for the user jack. And here is the problem, exactly this specific env. variable (DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS) generates that problem. Gnome programs like gedit, nautilus . . . use the dbus protocol to communicate with gconf where application specific configurations are stored, and not just. A program executed as root uses a different D-Bus session bus address compared when you execute that program as the jack user for instance. So the problem is that you switch to root, but the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS variable still points the the jack's dbus session bus address.
Solution: The root user has a separate dbus session address too (located in /root/.dbus/session-bus/. . .) So to use the root's dbus address when you are in a terminal and "su-ed" to root just clear the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS variable. like: export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="" A program that needs dbus communication with gconf for instance, checks that environment variable, and if it is empty it reads the dbus address from the users ~/.dbus/session-bus/ directory (the right place). To make this permanent add the following line to the root users .bashrc file: export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="" This means that every time when you su to root and the terminal is not a login shell (the case when you are logged in as jack and opened a terminal and executed su) the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS variable is cleared, so the applications gonna read the dbus address from the right place.
by the way you do not need to start a new dbus session with dbus-launch. Even if you do so but the applications still read the dbus address from the wrong place, the problem will persist.
When I unsetenv DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS, I can now start emacs in X after su'ing. However I still get warnings:
(emacs 1879): GLib-WARNING **: In call to g_spawn_sync()...
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Great! This saved me some time trying to figure out why you can't use "apply-schema" by from a parent root terminal using su. The dbus session address needs to be cleared. – ascotan Jul 4 '11 at 14:48
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Should I care about unnecessary cats?
Both would be functionally equivalent, but when using cat wouldn't it be slower because you have a process first reading the file and then sending it through a pipe to another process, instead of the process just reading the file? But I've seen this usage 'cat file | program' in a lot of examples. I assume they wouldn't use it that much in examples if it had bad performance.
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Yes, but the bigger slowdown would be starting up the first process(cat).
However, seeing as how the difference is minimal on any computer made in the last 15 years that isn't loaded down very heavily(load avg < 30), the bigger disadvantage is code readability.
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A big +1 for the practical advice, focusing on readability. – Jefromi Jul 17 '11 at 7:12
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I think the question is better phrased as "Why do/should we care to differentiate login and non-login shells?" Many places on the web already tell us what are the differences, in terms of what startup files each read; but none of them seems to answer the "why" in a satisfactory and convincing way. Example use cases where you definitely do not want one or the other behaviour would be great. – Kal Apr 15 '13 at 3:49
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A login shell is the first process that executes under your user ID when you log in for an interactive session. The login process tells the shell to behave as a login shell with a convention: passing argument 0, which is normally the name of the shell executable, with a - character prepended (e.g. -bash whereas it would normally be bash. Login shells typically read a file that does things like setting environment variables: /etc/profile and ~/.profile for the traditional Bourne shell, ~/.bash_profile additionally for bash, /etc/zprofile and ~/.zprofile for zsh, /etc/csh.login and ~/.login for csh, etc.
When you log in on a text console, or through SSH, or with su -, you get an interactive login shell. When you log in in graphical mode (on an X display manager), you don't get a login shell, instead you get a session manager or a window manager.
It's rare to run a non-interactive login shell, but some X settings do that when you log in with a display manager, so as to arrange to read the profile files. Other settings (this depends on the distribution and on the display manager) read /etc/profile and ~/.profile explicitly, or don't read them.
When you start a shell in a terminal in an existing session (screen, X terminal, Emacs terminal buffer, a shell inside another, …), you get an interactive, non-login shell. That shell might read a shell configuration file (~/.bashrc for bash, /etc/zshrc and ~/.zshrc for zsh, /etc/csh.cshrc and ~/.cshrc for csh, etc.).
When a shell runs a script or a command passed on its command line, it's a non-interactive, non-login shell. Such shells run all the time: it's very common that when a program calls another program, it really runs a tiny script in a shell to invoke that other program. Some shells read a startup file in this case (ksh and bash run the file indicated by the ENV variable, zsh runs /etc/zshenv and ~/.zshenv), but this is risky: the shell can be invoked in all sorts of contexts, and there's hardly anything you can do that might not break something.
I'm simplifying a little, see the manual for the gory details.
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Could you give example how to run bash as a non-interactive login shell? – Piotr Dobrogost Jun 16 '13 at 8:47
@PiotrDobrogost echo $- | bash -lx – Gilles Jun 16 '13 at 12:11
In a login shell, argv[0][0] == '-'. This is how it knows it's a login shell.
And then in some situations it behaves differently depending on its "login shell" status. E.g. a shell, that is not a login shell, would not execute a "logout" command.
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A shell started in a new terminal in a GUI would be an interactive non-login shell. It would source your .bashrc, but not your .profile, for example.
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Go to /etc/passwd and look for the 7th part of it .... yes you are right its "shell".
Now if any user is associated with any "shell" in /etc/passwd file then, at the time of login, that shell will becomes his default login shell.
Now if any user is logged in and he wanted to switch to any other shell for whatever be the reason that shell is non-login shell.
NOTE : Be careful when you are using # su commmand to login any user.
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downvoted because the answerer appears to either not understand the question or not understand the (correct) answer. or the answer is just too ambiguous. – strugee Sep 4 '13 at 5:13
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Reflections on the Seven Penitential Psalms: Psalm 38
By Graziano Marcheschi, M.A. D.Min
Psalm 38 — Prayer of an Afflicted Sinner
We often use metaphors to describe sin and its effects on us. Metaphors give a shape and sound to sin. They make it visible and tangible and help us recognize and name the insidious impact it has on us. Because the diagnosis had not yet been made, the ancients couldn’t use the most powerful metaphor for sin we have today: cancer. But they surely knew enough of the malignancy we call sin to speak of it as a sickness that robs the body of “health” and “wholesomeness.” They understood that sin gets deep inside us, penetrating even to the bone. They realized that sin spreads, that it’s a silent killer moving often undetected to the farthest reaches of our beings, making itself at home as it consumes its home from the inside out.
Today, we don’t speak so graphically about sin. We tend to psychologize it, even explain it away. We see ourselves more as victims than as sinners; as wounded, misunderstood nice-guys and gals who are doing the best we can. We don’t sin; we just make mistakes.
But that’s not the way the psalmist saw it. He makes no excuses and seeks no place to hide. He knows that sin has taken up residence inside him. The evidence of sin’s effects is all around him: his body is failing; his mind is troubled; his spirit is in turmoil. And in addition to this internal misery, he’s also afflicted from without. “Enemies” set traps and lie in wait, and his friends and neighbors shun him.
All this the psalmist sees as God’s punishment. But the punishment is not arbitrary or random. No, it flows directly from his actions. The situations in which he finds himself were not knotted together by God the way an overlord might fashion a whip to chastise a rebellious servant. The psalmist knows he’s the one who made the whip, tied the knots, and attached the bone chips that will tear his flesh when he is flogged with the consequences of his own free choices.
But let us not forget the psalms are prayers, not the rantings of hopeless sinners. The psalmist has shut his mouth and raised his arms in surrender because he lacks a remedy for all his ills. He has no excuses and can make no self-defense. And so he turns to the only place he can: the merciful God to whom he can say in confidence, “Do not forsake me… /help me,/ my Lord and my salvation!” That’s the genius of the psalms. The goodness of God shines all the brighter when human frailty is not hidden but openly admitted. It’s when we face the darkness of our sin, that the light of God’s merciful love shines brightest.
Questions for Reflection:
Do you agree that sin is often psychologized? What are the negative effects of such an approach?
In what ways is the quality of God’s mercy watered down if we don’t recognize the full extent of our own sinfulness?
The Lord’s Prayer exhorts us to forgive as we are forgiven. Do you find it easier to ask for mercy or to give it?
Are you comfortable with the very graphic, earthy language of the Psalms? Could you write your own psalm expressing your pain and need to the Lord?
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• Maybe MPD [] is worth a look? It consists of a player dæmon that also manages your library (no GStreamer dependency!), plus any of a whole bunch of different clients. They come in all sorts of varieties – small window, large window, KDE, GNOME, pure gtk+, just console, web-based (nifty)… pretty much anything.
• Someone emailed me, suggesting moc. Something about pittying the fool who has never seen it. Okay, now I've seen it:
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Captain Spaulding is a villain from the films House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects. He is a member of the group of killers known as the Firefly family. He is the father of Baby Firefly, who he is fiercly protective of, and possibly Otis B. Driftwood, although this is not certain. He runs a roadside attraction called Captain Spaulding's Museum of Monsters and Madmen near Ruggsville, TX, which includes a murder ride detailing the acts of several serial killers. He dresses up as a clown and sells fried chicken. He often uses this establishment as means of directing more victims toward the Firefly house. Captain Spaulding's real name may be "Cutter," but it may just be another alias.
House of 1000 Corpses
Captain Spaulding is only a supporting character in the first film, and most of his scenes take place in his shop. He directs Jerry Goldsmith, Bill Hudley, Denise Willis, and Mary Knowles in the direction of the Firefly house, where they are terrorized by the Fireflies, especially Baby and Otis. When police Lt. George Wydell goes looking for them after Denise's father Don reports them missing, He directs him to the house as well, where Wydell, Willis, Deputy Steve Nash are killed. He later picks up Denise, the only survivor of the ordeal, and takes her right back to the house.
The Devil's Rejects
About one year after the events of the first film, Sheriff John Quincy Wydell, brother of George, led a police raid on the Firefly house. Captain Spaulding met up with Otis and Baby, the only two to escape, at the Kahiki Palms Motel. He then took them to the whorehouse owned by his friend Charlie Altamont. Wydell, who had been slowly going insane after learning of his brother's death, traced them to Altamont and pressured him into giving them up. Wydell raided the whorehouse, taking the three fugitives back to the Firefly house, where he tortured them. Captain Spaulding had a picture of George Wydell stapled to his chest, while the others were tortured in a similar manner. Spaulding and the others were saved by Tiny, a family member who wasn't caught because he had been away from the house. Captain Spaulding, Otis, and Baby tried to get away, but were shot to death by the police when they attempted to ram a blockade on the highway.
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When you look at a picture of the Earth from space you notice all the blue—the oceans. The oceans cover most of the surface of the Earth, about 70 percent. And even though the oceans are miles deep, in comparison to the total volume of the Earth, all the water only occupies a thin layer on the surface of the planet. So, if we rolled up all water into one big ball, how big would that ball be?
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I'm using Google Reader to subscribe to a small handful of blogs. There's also the menu item Recommended items which often contains interesting and relevant stuff.
But Recommended items always contains something from some food blog or other even though I've never subscribed to any food blog and I consistently click that not interested footer button in the recommended items.
Why does Google keep pushing food blogs? How can I prevent that? I'm not interested in posts about mushroom quiche's or chili muffins, no matter how often I scroll past them.
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I wonder if maybe Google is using your search history and possibly the text of the e-mail you send & receive? Is food something you search for regularly or that you talk about? Or maybe someone in your household who uses your computer while you're logged into Google? – Phong Apr 13 '12 at 17:54
Everyone has their own computer and Google account, so I don't think that my profile is "polluted". I never search for anything food-related except the occasional restaurant website. No recipe searches. – Torben Gundtofte-Bruun Apr 16 '12 at 6:52
I've found myself in the same situation, and my friend as well. It's possible that, if you have a Google Plus account, Google looks at what your friends are interested in and assumes similar interests. That, or food is a default. – Koviko Apr 24 '12 at 3:33
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Thursday, June 15, 2006
Let's be "Real Mac Users"
Hence the difficult situation faced by small-minded Windows users who do not get the appeal of the Mac; to admit that Mac users' strong preferences are reasonable would be to admit that they (the Windows users) are unable to perceive something that Mac users can.
--John Gruber, "And Oranges"
As goes the Mac vs. Windows debate, so goes the One True Programming Language debate.
I'm deeply suspicious of Mac users who claim to be perfectly happy with Mac OS X. Real Mac users, to me, are people with much higher standards, impossibly high standards, and who use Macs not because they're great, but because they suck less than everything else.
--John Gruber, "And Oranges"
Let's be like John's "Real Mac Users." We aren't Lisp/Ruby/Python zealots, or Agile fanatics, or AJAX aficionados. We aren't perfectly happy with our tools. We don't boast of them because we can drive all day in them and not reach the edge of our imagination. We don't swagger because we are satisfied with merely outrunning our colleagues.
We are developers with impossibly high standards and we use our tools not because they're great but because they suck less.
And when we hear of new languages, new tools, or even improvements to approaches we have discarded in the past, let's approach them with an open mind. We may find that they contain little of interest, but to an open mind, anything at all of interest is an opportunity to learn and improve.
We are far better off finding one good idea in a new tool than blogging about 999 ways it is inferior to what we already have. It takes us closer to achieving our goals.
That's what matters.
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Spec# and Boogie Released on CodePlex
You may have noticed that in the past that I’ve talked extensively about Spec#, an object-oriented .NET language based upon C# with contract-first features as well as a non-null type system. This project has not only been covered by myself, but also my CodeBetter compatriot, Greg Young, and by the illustrious Tony Hoare at QCon London during his “Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake” presentation. This project, after gaining momentum in the .NET world, has now been made part of .NET 4.0 as Code Contracts for .NET.
Today, the big news is that both Spec# and the program verification system, Boogie have been released on CodePlex. The Boogie project is released under the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) and Spec# has been released under the Microsoft Research Shared Source License Agreement (MSR-SSLA), which restricts Spec# usage to non-commercial uses only.
What is Spec#?
As I mentioned above, Spec# is a language approach to implementing contract-first development principles as well as a non-null type system on top of the C# language with additional constructs. Mike Barnett and Rustan Leino of Microsoft Research worked on this project along with many others and finally released on CodePlex. What does that buy for us exactly?
It allows us to specify three main areas of concern:
• What do we expect? (preconditions)
• What do we guarantee? (postconditions)
• What do we maintain? (invariants)
Through the language support, we can model:
• Acceptable and unacceptable input values
• Return values
• Error conditions
• Preconditions which subclasses may weaken (not strengthen)
• Postconditions which subclasses may strengthen (not weaken)
• Invariants which subclasses may strengthen (not weaken)
As it is a dialect of C#, we can model our preconditions such as requiring a dividend not being equal to zero:
public double Divide(int divisor, int dividend)
requires dividend != 0;
return divisor / dividend;
By using the requires keyword, we can easily specify inline with the method signature what our preconditions are. Just as well, we can also model our postconditions, also known as what we guarantee, such as when we add an integer to our list, we increment the count by 1:
public int Count { ... }
public void Add(int number)
ensures Count == old(Count) + 1;
{ ... }
By using the ensures keyword, we can create postconditions. In this case, I also used the old(…) function to denote that we will compare the old value of Count before this method was called. We can also model our invariants, what must hold true for our members such as an age of a person must be greater than zero:
class Person {
private int age;
invariant age >= 0;
During any operation, this invariant must hold or an exception will be thrown. We have the ability to expose these sections where our state changes to the prover which then asserts that our invariants hold.
One more interesting facet of Spec# is the introduction of the non-null type system. This allows us to specify either by default through a property window that all reference types must be non-null, or we can explicitly mark them as such using the ! or bang notation:
public int Count { ... }
public void Add(object! item)
ensures Count == old(Count) + 1;
{ ... }
This non-null reference then becomes statically checked to ensure that we are not handing this Add method a null reference. There are many other advanced topics that are covered in the Spec# documentation.
You can hear Mike and Rustan talk about Spec# and their experiences on some podcasts:
The Code Contracts being released as part of .NET 4.0 is based upon this approach, but instead of being a language approach, the idea is to allow all languages to use them as a library feature. This allows me to use this in my F# code as well as any C#, VB.NET and so on
What Kind of a Name is Boogie Anyways?
So, we’ve talked about Spec#, but what about the other release, Boogie? Well, Boogie, the name is applied actually to two different pieces. First, Boogie is an immediate verification language which is intended to build program verifiers for other languages. This allowed for targeting not only Spec#, but also C, Chalice among others. Boogie, however, is also a tool that accepts the Boogie language as input and generates verification conditions that are passed to an SMT solver. In the case of Spec#, that has been the Z3 theorem prover. You can read more about Boogie, the language here as well as the architecture here.
These have been interesting times with the release of Trident and Dryad/DryadLINQ last month to the release of Boogie and Spec#. It is quite encouraging to see these tools come into the public domain where not only other researchers can learn, but the average developer as well. Although Code Contracts for .NET is the way to go going forward with .NET, it’s still encouraging to see Spec# being put out there for public consumption.
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الثلاثاء، نوفمبر 26، 2013
Questions which the Brotherhood and Islamist Apologists will never Answer
Brotherhood and Islamist apologists forget that the first pillar of democracy is Rule of Law - something a Clandestine International Crime Organization will never talk about. We wish they will answer these questions:
• How can they legitimize their secret organization? This organization has been engaged in clandestine operations working outside the realm of the law for 65 years, ever since the government decree to dissolve the Brotherhood in 1948.
• How will they deal with their vast illegitimate assets, companies and secret accounts? Will they surrender them to the government?
• When will they disband their militias and hand over the weapons that they have stored in the Sinai and throughout the country? Or do they expect Egyptians to settle for a Libya- or Syria-style state, ruled by militias?
• What steps will they take to free their party and affiliated civil society organizations from being controlled and manipulated by an illegitimate secret organization?
• What will they do in order to become an independent and purely Egyptian political party, free from overlapping interests with the global Muslim Brotherhood organization and in compliance with Egyptian laws requiring all political parties to be independent?
• How will they disassociate themselves from manipulating syndicates and unions looting their finances?
• How can they rewrite their political manifesto in a way that respects the sovereignty of Egypt, integrity of its soil and independence of its political will?
• What ideological changes will they adopt in order to protect the national security of Egypt since they currently do not recognize the concept of a nation-state?
• When will they disassociate themselves from earlier alliances with international terrorist organizations and end the "good terrorist vs. bad terrorist" act?
And most importantly:
• When will they apologize to the Egyptian people and show sincere remorse, away from hypocrisy, lies and deceit?
• How can they apologize to the Brotherhood's youth and their supporters and admit to the catastrophic mistakes the Brotherhood leaders have committed, which led to the current situation?
• How can they convince the Egyptian people once again that they are their compatriots and that the Brotherhood is not a superior entity that claims to monopolize godliness?
Seeking to establish political competition between law-abiding political parties on the one hand, and some illegal, covert organization on the other, is pointless. In the past, this was a part of a theatrical competition that the regime allowed to serve its own purposes, but is no longer tolerable.
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Advent Photo Calendar
In an earlier blog and the Buzz newspaper I promised to put more detailed instructions on the advent photo calendar. So here it is… Cut a piece of mat board to roughly 16” x 20” and cover it with decorative paper. Use a glue stick, photo tape or white glue thinned down with water (this […]
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Kentucky presidential primary en Political Observers Expect No Surprises in Kentucky's Presidential Primaries <p> </p><p>Even though the presidential nomination process is effectively over, Kentuckians can still vote for candidates other than Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama in tomorrow's primary.</p><p>Republicans can cast ballots for Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul, even though they're no longer in the running. And Democrats will be able to choose 'uncommitted' instead of President Obama.</p><p>But University of Louisville political scientist Dewey Clayton says those other names don't really matter.</p> Mon, 21 May 2012 19:31:20 +0000 Kenny Colston 394 at
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Guillain-Barré syndrome historical perspective
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It was first reported by Landry in 1859 as a case study of 10 patients with ascending paralysis. Later the characteristic features of the disease like flaccid paralysis, areflexia and CSF findings were reported by Guillain, Barré, and Strohl. The syndrome was later named Guillain-Barré syndrome after these physicians.
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1. Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome and Miller Fisher's syndrome at Who Named It
2. Wallace, Sam. "Grateful Babbel a tower of strength again", Telegraph, 2002-08-10. Retrieved on 2009-11-23.
3. Lea, Robert. "Relative Values: Tony and Josh Benn", The Times, 2002-10-17. Retrieved on 2009-01-15.
4. Gaby, A True Story (1987). Films involving Disabilities.
5. The case of Sam Goldstein and the swine flu vaccine,, May 5, 2009
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7. Vogel, Speed; Heller, Joseph (2004). No Laughing Matter. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-4717-5.
8. Luci Baines Johnson hospitalized with nervous system disorder.
9. "The untold story of Hugh McElhenny, the King of Montlake", Seattle PI, 2004-09-02. Retrieved on 2010-01-07.
10. "Lucky Oceans in hospital", The Australian, 2008-10-13. Retrieved on 2008-10-28.
11. "Chris Mortensen on Len Pasquarelli's comeback",, 2009-01-26. Retrieved on 2009-01-26.
12. Serge Payer Foundation, Serge Payer Foundation Mission.
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14. Goldman AS, Schmalstieg EJ, Freeman DH, Goldman DA, Schmalstieg FC (2003). "What was the cause of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's paralytic illness?" (PDF). J Med Biogr 11 (4): 232–40. PMID 14562158. Retrieved on 2010-08-07.
15. Norton Simon Biography. Retrieved on 13 October 2009.
16. Kozinn, Allan. "Hans Vonk, 63, Conductor Of the St. Louis Symphony", The New York Times, 2004-08-31. Retrieved on 2009-08-26.
17. Dooley, Pat. Wuerffel hospitalized to treat nervous system disorder. Retrieved on 16 June 2011.
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Project Success Factors
Question: Have you ever been on a project that has failed? Do you want to increase the success of your projects by knowing what the critical success factors are?
In his webinar on September 16th, Eric Verzuh is going to offer “The Five Project Success factors” from 11 AM – 12 PM PDT. It’s free, and if you are still thinking about the question I asked at the top of this blog, you should register right now >> here<<
One of the success factors he’s going to show us can be applied to MS Project usage and strategy. It’s so powerful I’m going to write a blog article on it after his webinar!
Stay tuned…
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Schedule Tasks Your Way
In all previous versions of MS Project, from 1.0 through 2007, the question most asked of me is “How do I get MS Project to leave my schedule alone?” This question is convenience and usability based, not competency based. My answer has always been, “let’s talk about the goal and how the software can help achieve it.” Naturally, discussion followed on how Project schedules and coaching or training solved the problem. Microsoft has addressed this common question brilliantly in Project 2010 with a new feature - Manual Scheduling.
Manual Scheduling allows the user to create and schedule tasks and resources without the interference of MS Project's scheduling engine. This means that Project won't be second guessing the starting and ending dates when you enter a task or move a task to a different date. This is now the default scheduling setting in Project 2010.
There are several MPUG articles on the Manually Scheduled Tasks feature and its use in planning. There is also a very nice explanation of Manual Scheduling in MS Project 2010’s Help. Reading these is definitely worth the time.
Now my most frequent question is “How can I have Auto Schedule (2007’s default) as my default, but not lose the Manually Schedule feature when I need it?”
The answer is in Project’s Options. Go to File, then Options. In the Schedule topic and Schedule section are the two settings that need to be set to meet your needs. If you want Automatic Scheduling as your default, just match the noted settings in the figure below and OK the dialog.
Setting the Default Task Mode
New projects will now be Auto Scheduled. If you want to Manually Schedule a task, you’ll need to select the task and choose Manually Schedule from the Ribbon. See the figure below for its location in the Ribbon.
Stting the Task Mode on an individual task
Regardless of your choice for Task Mode, Project will give you what you want. Now you can schedule your way!
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I was hoping someone could clear the air for me when it comes to using transients with memcached.
When running a plugin like w3-total-cache, are there any actual performance advantages to using transients to store large post queries? If we are running memcached, the queries will already be cached by memcached correct? What then, if any, is the advantage to using these two methods in tandem?
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I doubt there's any advantage. Transients are stored in the database just like posts, so caching your query trough transients and then memcached will most likely be slower than caching the query directly to memcached – onetrickpony Aug 24 '11 at 19:09
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When and how to use transients or the object cache is a bit tricky and site-dependent. Here's the breakdown:
1. When not using a persistent object cache (like memcached):
• Transients are stored in the database
• Objects in the object cache are only cached for the duration of the page request.
2. When using a persistent object cache (like memcached):
• Transients are stored in the object cache
• Objects in the object cache are cached in the persistent object cache and thus available across page requests.
So yes, transients can make things faster if you're using memcached. However, if you know you're using memcached to begin with, you could just use the object cache directly instead of mucking with a transient.
The right time to use these is thus:
For publicly released code:
• Use a transient when you have to store anything that takes a while to generate/retrieve and which can be re-generated or re-retrieved when the transient expires. Because this may be stored in the database, don't use it for stuff that you already have to get from the database anyway. You save very little time, even if the query is a big one with a bunch of joins and such. Rely on the database's intelligence for this. Optimize the query instead.
• Use the object cache to store the individual results (like, posts, or users) of large queries that might be needed often, perhaps even during the same page run.
If this is custom code for a custom site that you have (custom) control over and you know it's using memcached, then transients and the object cache basically are the same thing, with slightly different interfaces. So you don't really need to use transients at all, per se. wp_cache_set and wp_cache_get work quite nicely in such a situation, and without the minor amount of overhead transients add.
For multi-site, the object cache has the advantage of having "global groups", which are specific groups (third parameter to wp_cache_set) which are considered to be global across the network of sites. You can add groups to the global grouping with wp_cache_add_global_groups().
For example, users are globally grouped in multi-site, because the users table is shared anyway. So this offers performance speedups because users loaded on one site will be put into the persistent object cache, keyed by user id, and available to all the other sites on the system in the memory cache immediately. They're global, in other words. This can offer significant performance increases and prevent you from having to switch_to_blog a lot if you want network-wide data. For example, a most-recent-post plugin could store the latest post in the object cache with a global grouping, and then every site on the network would instantly know about it without having to search, because they're pulling the information from the shared memory cache.
TL;DR: How you do things depends heavily on your specific use case and whether or not you're planning on making the code available to the general public, who may not share your specific setup.
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Thanks Otto, you confirmed my suspicions. Thanks for the tip about the no_found_rows parameter at WordCamp too. I put out a ticket today to put that gem to use. – Colin Morgan Aug 26 '11 at 4:31
W3TC does diffenet things, among which are:
• caching database queries;
• implementing object cache (which transients use).
These are two entirely separate processes.
Caching individual database queries with transients doesn't make much sense with or without memcached and W3TC involved. Transients are best used for fragment caching final result of operation (like chunk of HTML code), not intermediary steps.
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I would like to list posts by the "modified" date not the published date. Is there a way to do this?
$documents = array('posts_per_page' => 10, 'post_type' => 'documents',);
query_posts( $documents );
get_template_part( 'loop', 'docid' );
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When a media (image) is uploaded and the subsequent images are created (all the different sizes), I would like to perform a few actions. It is simple and I basically need only the new attachment ID, that would be enough.
Same during deletion: before or after deletion, I need to know which attachment ID is concerned.
Thanks for your help :)
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i guess you are looking for this
add_action('add_attachment', 'attachment_manipulation');
function attachment_manipulation($id)
//do your own tasks
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Thanks it helped :) – Jordy Meow Jun 25 '12 at 9:50
and don't forget edit_attachment (in case you care if the image is rotated or scaled after being added) – DavidJ Sep 3 '12 at 17:38
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Z-board TBC keyset product review
Ideazon's Z-board keyset for World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade provides an exciting new way to experience World of Warcraft. This custom keyboard gives you easy access to various functions via a single keystroke, as well as highlights the default commands that are accessed with each key, and has the potential to streamline your gameplay.
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The Z-board
Originally created by Ideazon in 2003, the Z-board is the first mainstream attempt to create a keyboard designed for playing computer games. After all, one of the biggest differences between computer games and console games is the streamlined controller, right? The Z-board itself is an innovative piece of engineering because it comes to you as a somewhat ordinary-looking keyboard, with the slight exception that the keyset seems to have three distinct areas it is divided into, and a few additional buttons lining the upper edge. The reason the keys are so divided, however, is because a clasp on the side of the keyboard unlocks the keys and allows you to remove them!
Underneath, the Z-board looks like a big tray with a large matrix of key connections. And just what in the world is this good for? Why, putting different sets of keys on it!
The other keyset that comes with the Z-board by default is the "Gaming Keyset" that clearly is inspired from First Person Shooter games like Doom, Quake and Halflife. The lettered part of the keyboard is shifted to the right, and a cluster of buttons for character control and changing weapons are arranged neatly where your left hand would rest.
The Gaming Keyset is not the least bit useful for playing most other games or for use in ordinary day-to-day typing, which is why when you're done, all that needs to be done is unlatch the Gaming Keyset, remove it from the "tray" that it sets into, and return the Standard Keyset.
I haven't played a computer-based First Person Shooter in a long time, but I'm tempted to go dig one out of the closet just to try it. However, the more pressing question to the MMO community is "Are the other keysets any good? Like the one for World of Warcraft?"
WoW: TBC keyset
One of the immediate setbacks in design for trying to create a keyboard or keyset for an MMORPG is that the players need to be able to type normally. Unlike in a first-person shooter, the users are routinely communicating with each other by text, and many of the slash commands the game employs also demands ready access to a standard set of letters. As such, the World of Warcraft keyset isn't nearly as inspired. What the folks at Ideazon have chosen to do, in realizing this constraint, is compress the keys toward the left two-thirds of the KB, eliminate the numeric keypad, and replace it with a set of one-touch hotkeys for functions you might not want to fumble around looking for.
One has to ask themselves, "If I had to add 20 buttons for performing commands that are used consistently, but are a pain to remember or to actually execute, what would I add?" I think everyone would come up with a different list, especially when considering different playstyles. Since the rapid key access is most pertinent in a PvP environment, however, a few of the keys have that slant - duel, yield, pvp on/off, battle map, scoreboard - and then there are also a few raid commands - raid chat, raid info, ready check, and raid warning. Rounding out the set is a show/hide UI button right next to the screenshot button (which is quite nice,) inspect, roll, invite and follow. And the final quarter of the buttons are for /say, /party, /guild, /yell, and /whisper.
I think I would be inclined to make different choices with my 20 buttons. I don't think it's really any easier to reach to the right end of my keyboard to push a button than it is to type /p, /g, /w, /pvp, /d, /ra, or most of those other choices. Fortunately, I have that option. The upper edge of the keyboard has nine additional buttons that I can configure through the Z-board software to perform whatever task I want. They're still more or less limited to the same commands you could put in a macro, but this way they aren't taking up space on your hotkey bars and you always have access to them. If shouting "incoming %t!" to my raid was something I wanted a button for as the guild puller, I might very well dedicate one of these buttons.
The main section of the keyboard is fairly colorful and full of text compared to an ordinary keyboard. This might have something to do with reminders of what every button is used for (by default) printed on each key. And while the basic uses for these keys might not seem all that utilitarian, the shift and control keys are printed in green and yellow rather than white, and similarly their functions on each key are printed in these colors. You probably never knew that bringing up your pet's spell book could be reached by pressing Control-I! There's even a dedicated key for those of you who use voice chat programs like TeamSpeak and Ventrillo.
The final feature involves the function keys. Just past the F12 key is a separate button marked "emote". After pressing that key, if you use any of the function keys, they will each perform a particular emote. I don't know how often I need /greet or /kiss on demand, but at least I can quickly /rude or /spit someone, which happen to be the two buttons closest to the emote key.
Overall, the team at Ideazon did probably everything they could with World of Warcraft, but aside from the keyboard itself feeling cramped and uncomfortable for my fingers (which is the same reason I can't stand using laptop keyboards,) the specialized keyset really just provides quick access to things that I either don't need or am so used to typing anyway that I don't know relearning the game with the buttons will make things any easier. Then again, I've been playing World of Warcraft since beta phase 2, which means I've almost reached the three-year mark. You can't teach an old dog new tricks, but for some of the newer players who haven't yet learned all the little keyboard shortcuts for everything, the Z-board might be a very worthwhile investment. And if you've already got a Z-board, there's little reason not to have the WoW keyset.
For more information, visit Ideazon's advert on their own website.
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Breakfast Topic: You're all real people
So yesterday I logged into WoW on my baby hunter and started messing around in Mulgore. I don't have any other characters on this particular server and I forget where my heirlooms are, so I was leveling at my own pace, didn't have any bags or anything.
Much to my surprise, a level 90 on a Corrupted Firehawk landed next to me, opened trade, and dumped 100g and several 16 slot bags onto me before flying off again. (Hey, if you did that on Wyrmrest Accord, thanks.) And it got me thinking about how this is a game full of actual people, all living their own lives, and I'll never really know what the majority of y'all are doing.
I used to tell the story of the dungeon run with racist tank quite often - I've actually forgotten much of the specifics, other than that it was Grim Batol, he had a racist macro for his paladin shield throw ability, and I dropped that group like a hot potato. But what would possess a person to create a racist Avenger's Shield macro? It's such a strange, baffling thing to do.
So I figure, here's a BT about the strange, improbable, human side of World of Warcraft for you guys to fill up the comments on. Good deeds, bad practices. Share it with us.
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WoW Moviewatch: Teenage Mutant Ninja Orcs
Just in time for Michael Bay's upcoming snoutless explosion fest, Gremsly Goblin created one of the finest Horde videos you've ever seen. Teenage Mutant Ninja Orcs tracks a team of four turtles who find themselves transformed into orcs, and launch themselves into a world of adventure.
I can't really give you a detailed breakdown of the video points. It was just a long blur of joy. This video left me awash in sweet nostalgia, and I was completely satisfied with the character choices. Splinter became just the right critter. Shredder maybe could have been a little better, but the human-with-claws wasn't a bad choice. I've watched this video about ten times now, and I'm pretty sure I'm ready for some pizza.
Taurenbunga, dudes.
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Warlords of Draenor: Recruit Nat Pagle for your garrison
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Last Week on Massively: It is your Destiny
Console fans were treated to a hefty dose of sci-fi pseudo-MMO Destiny this week as the beta opened up for PS3, PS4, and XBone and developers showered trinkets on players. In spite of the game's lack of cross-platform play, at least one analyst predicts Bungie could sell as many as 20 million units.
Meanwhile, we finished up our trio of articles previewing the World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor beta.
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The Queue: How creepy
Those cyclops critters always freak me out a little bit. They look so happy. Therefore, I find being happy creepy, I guess?
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Do you think there's going to be a WoD version of the Timeless (aka Loot) Isle sometime in the future? How would that work?
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Around Azeroth: Battle without honor or humanity
"About eighteen months you were kind enough to feature a little motivational poster I put together for my guild with an 8-bit-style rendition of our struggle against Elegon," writes Stormscythe of The Splintered Hand on Turalyon (EU-A). "Well, I've done a few more since then, but when we finally beat Garrosh after weeks of hard work and more wipes than I'd care to count, I wanted to do something a bit different to celebrate our ultimate victory in the enigmatic land of Pandaria." Anyone want to translate the characters at the sides?
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Breakfast Topic: What's the one thing you wish you hadn't gotten rid of?
Once upon a time, many years ago, I took my priest through the introductory world event for Wrath of the Lich King. Somewhere along the way I got distracted by the whole zombie invasion process, and neglected to turn in the Dual-Plagued Brain that was a part of the quest process for the event. I didn't mind, really -- I liked the Brain. It talked to my priest, mumbling little encouraging words of wisdom like "Cling to your hope, mortal!"
Mind you, it promptly followed that up by adding that hope sweetened the soul and thus would make a really good dessert for the Lich King, but it was the thought that counted. Or maybe it wasn't the thought, since the thought was pretty horrible. Regardless, I kept the Brain in my bags, pleased that my priest had something to talk to, even if it made little sense to those around her. Unfortunately, at some point after the event was over, the Brain fell silent and spoke no more. I kept it anyway -- I mean, why not? Who in their right mind would keep a Dual-Plagued Brain in their bags?
Sadly, during Cataclysm I chose to take one for the guild team and race-changed to a tauren briefly, so we could get the Classy Tauren achievement. When I did so, the Dual-Plagued Brain vanished from my bags for good -- I didn't realize it would remove the item from my bags until it was too late to do anything about it. Out of all the things I've inadvertently deleted over the years, I miss the Dual-Plagued Brain the most -- largely because I can never get it back. What about you guys? What's the one thing you've gotten rid of that you wish you had back again? Is it a piece of armor? A weapon? A quest item, or a trinket? What's that one thing you really want back again?
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Know Your Lore: Quests, story, and you in Warlords of Draenor
A new expansion is certainly about delivering new content, but it's also a vehicle for story progression -- and the end of Mists of Pandaria left behind plenty of questions waiting to be answered. Unfortunately, any questions having to do with Pandaria or Azeroth will have to wait, as we have other, more pressing matters to think about. In Warlords of Draenor, the Iron Horde looms just over the horizon, a threat eerily reminiscent of the old Horde that began the First War so many years ago. Except the Iron Horde is stronger, more organized, and bolstered by the knowledge of just what's on the other side of that Dark Portal they are constructing, thanks to Garrosh Hellscream.
That story, the story of Warlords of Draenor, is taking us in a different kind of direction, the likes of which we haven't seen before. While Mists may have pushed the button on innovation as far as max-level content was concerned, its seemingly never-ending cycle of daily quests upon daily quests quickly grew from entertainment to frustration as players quickly grew tired of the cycle of daily gated content and rewards. Warlords has none of that -- but it does have a whole host of new ways to make the story feel important, without overpowering how the player approaches the game.
Please note: The following Know Your Lore contains small spoilers for Warlords of Draenor.
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Patch 5.1 PTR: Guide to the Dagger in the Dark scenario
Patch 51 PTR Dagger in the Dark scenario
Patch 5.1 may not have any raid content, but it's got plenty of scenarios with plenty of story. The first scenario you'll encounter as a member of the Horde is Dagger in the Dark. Horde scouts have found what appears to be ancient magic somewhere in the saurok caverns located in the Veiled Stair, and you've been sent to figure out just what's up with all the magic.
But you aren't alone -- you're sent to meet up with Vol'jin, who has arrived on Pandaria against Garrosh's wishes. You heard that right. Warchief Garrosh didn't bother asking the Darkspear or their leader along on the trip to Pandaria, citing a lack of loyalty shown by the Darkspear leader. But Vol'jin has arrived, so Garrosh sends him on the mission to the saurok caverns as a test to see whether or not Vol'jin really is loyal to the Horde ... or rather, to Warchief Hellscream.
Unlike most scenarios, this one will most decidedly kill you immediately if you aren't paying attention. But if you know what to look for, everything is a breeze.
Please note: This guide does contain spoilers for patch 5.1 story content. If you're avoiding all spoilers, turn away now.
Patch 51 PTR Dagger in the Dark scenario
In order to get into the saurok cavern, you'll have to defeat waves of saurok that are protecting the caves. Vol'jin is most definitely not useless in this mission, and he's terribly glad that you're watching his back. As you fight, Vol'jin will set down a variety of totems to assist you, and throw heals and attacks around while he's at it. Eventually the waves will stop, and you'll face the first boss of the scenario, the Darkhatched Lizard-Lord.
Vol'jin's totems come in extremely handy during this fight. Keep an eye out for trap totems like the one shown above, and kite the boss into the traps. The Lizard-Lord has a frontal AoE attack called Water Jets. It's easy enough to avoid -- just look for the small waves on the ground and run out of them. He also summons reinforcements, and if you manage to kite three adds into his Water Jets, you'll get the achievement Watery Grave.
Once he's dead, you and your party will head into the caverns proper. Vol'jin's got a goblin buddy who will fix up one of the boats at the mouth of the cavern, modifying it with a gun. Only one of your party can ride in the boat and fire the gun, the other two will be stuck on foot.
Patch 51 PTR Dagger in the Dark scenario
If you're on the boat, your strategy is pretty simple: if it's a lizard and it's moving, blow it up. Things are slightly more tricky for the two players on foot, but there's help for you in the caverns. Along the path into the cavern are glowing blue circles like the one shown above. Standing in the circle will give you the Mogu Power buff. This buff stays with you, increasing your damage done and also healing you as you go along. It'll stack up to 5 times -- so as you're smacking saurok around, make sure you run through five circles while you're doing it.
A 50% damage increase makes the cavern relatively easy for those on foot. Your next stop is Patch 51 PTR Dagger in the Dark scenariothe cavern interior, where you'll face off against Broodmaster Noshi. The Broodmaster is in a cavern full of -- you guessed it, eggs -- and he will hatch the eggs as the fight progresses. He'll also fixate on one player and follow that player around. If you have a big pair of eyes over your head, you're it. And if you're it, you probably shouldn't stand there and let the boss hit you.
At the end of the fight, the Broodmaster will hatch all eggs in the cavern and enrage. Vol'jin will cast a giant bubble on the ground -- stand in that so you don't take damage, then smack the Broodmaster around until he's dead. If you kite the boss and kill all the eggs before the Broodmaster hits 20% health, you'll score the achievement No Egg Left Behind.
Just when you think everything is over, Garrosh's crony Rak'gor Bloodrazor shows up. When Vol'jin figures out exactly what it is Garrosh is after, he's utterly horrified, and expresses his disgust. This doesn't make Rak'gor happy. And since he's been eager to stick a knife in Vol'jin's ribs in the name of the Warchief, he does so. As Vol'jin collapses, it's up to you to defeat Rak'gor, before he can go running back to Garrosh babbling about your treachery.
Patch 51 PTR Dagger in the Dark scenario
Here's the trick to Rak'gor -- kite the everloving heck out of him. If you have eyes over your head, get away from him as quickly as possible. Let the other dps work on his health, and when his aggro switches, turn around and kill him. Rak'gor hits like a truck, and if you try to stand there and tank him, you will die. Vol'jin will place healing totems on the ground throughout the fight. If you find yourself low on health, go stand near the totem until you're all better.
If you decide not to use the healing totems, you'll snag the achievement You Mean That Wasn't a Void Zone? once Rak'gor is dead. And even if you don't, you'll still get the Dagger in the Dark achievement for completing the scenario. Do not leave immediately after the boss is dead, at least not the first time you're in there -- there is some important story information that plays out after Rak'gor is dead, and you don't want to miss it.
All in all, this is a pretty challenging little scenario. It's also jam-packed full of story relevant to what's going on in 5.1, so it's definitely worth running at least once just to catch up on what's going on. And if you're a Vol'jin fan, you don't want to miss what you'll see here.
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The Care and Feeding of Warriors Too good and not good enough
Okay, I'm just going to say it: Titan's Grip is ludicrous AoE right now. I switched to TG this week because I got a Zerat's off of a coin roll and another dropped, and so I'm still getting used to TG's more random proc based gameplay. On the whole I'd say my single target DPS was fair to middling, not awful, but not as good as SMF and not as good as I'm currently capable of as arms because, well, in part I'm still in that weird place gear wise where arms does really well and partly I'm very used to arms and can perform the priority of attacks without though, while TG still requires me to think about what I'm doing. This need to concentrate on Raging Blow procs actually got me killed a few times on Durumu, so that's embarrassing.
The Care and Feeding of Warriors Too good and not good enough SatSun
However, while my single target isn't where I want (or expect) it to be, my AoE was insane. You'd think I was a druid tank on some pulls. Bladestorm actually lowered my DPS on a few pulls because the stacking of Meat Cleaver with your Whirlwind feeds into Raging Blow hitting up to four targets, and the Raging Wind glyph means that Raging Blow buffs your next WW, which which you'll start stacking up Meat Cleaver again.
Standing as a storm of blood
This basically means that all you want to do is hit Whirlwind until you have Meat Cleaver stacked either to the number of targets you want to hit (if there are three mobs total, you'd WW twice, for one Raging Blow on your main target and two additional targets) or three times if you have four or more potential targets, and then you pop a Raging Blow that hits all four targets at full force. That's right, it doesn't spread damage like an AoE attack, it just hits each target with a Raging Blow. Why does this make for so much more damage for TG fury than SMF fury? Because Raging Blow hits with both weapons. Hitting up to four targets with both two hand weapons for 190% weapon damage is pretty amazing. Whirlwind, by comparison, hits all targets around it for 85% weapon damage with both weapons. In a situation where there are four or more targets popping those WW is less about the damage they themselves do and more about getting that beefy 2h weapon Raging Blow to hit four mobs for its full damage. And as always keep in mind that since you have to be enraged to get Raging Blow, you're also getting your damage on that attack buffed by Enrage and your mastery.
What this ends up with is that TG falls behind SMF on single target - sometimes to extreme levels - but blows way ahead of it on trash or adds. Even arms, with Sweeping Strikes and Blood and Thunder, cannot defeat TG fury in any sort of sustained AoE DPS situation. I find it a lot easier to sustain single target DPS as arms, frankly - I switch to arms on fights where I know I won't have to AoE because while TG can compete with some lucky procs, it's a lot easier to maintain that DPS as arms.
Does it matter?
I'll be watching this as gear improves - my impression based on sims is that once I've got full Tier 15 and am at or above 522 (I'm 514 right now) that TG will start to break even with arms single target as well as maintain its incredible AoE capacity. The real question is, does it matter? I'm not sure yet. Trash DPS isn't really very important, but having a very high AoE capacity matters on add fights (like Primordius, Tortos and Horridon) and is a lot less important on single target fights. As long as TG can stay in the ballpark on fights without AoE, does it matter if it's lower there and higher on others? Honestly, I don't have an answer yet. My gut feeling is that TG's AoE needs to be toned down a little and its single target beefed up, but it won't break the spec if it doesn't happen.
Of course, you always have to keep in mind your own personal best vs. theoretical best - since I can't get a pair of 2h weapons to save my life, I pretty much have to confine myself to 2h weapons and arms vs. TG fury, and consider what my best option is between the two. Right now, for any fight with any sort of AoE component, TG comes out ahead. As my proficiency increases it may also take over purely single target fights just due to the cost of gear customization (I can't reforge/regem between every fight). To be honest, I can't figure out how you'd rearrange TG's damage so it did about the same as it does now, but less AoE and more single target. So perhaps doing nothing is the best choice.
Next week, I'll tell you how this past two weeks of attempting PvP went for me.
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March 09, 2012
Readers, I Have Finished Grave Mercy.
I ... lost track of time reading. There was sun on my chair, and then, I looked up, and it was dusk.
Oh, my goodness.
I sat down with GRAVE MERCY, and nibbled at it - and was hooked, but I was still able to get up, and, you know, function. She was out of a bad situation, into a better one, it was all good. And then, things got interesting. I was unable to stop, at that point.
And then, things went all, as the British say, "pear shaped." And I couldn't put it down until the last page.
I cannot WAIT for you to get a chance to read this one. It's OUT APRIL 3rd, and it's a great story - and those of you who serve on the Cybils SFF will know what I mean when I say that there's a PURPOSE to the sequel. This is a complete tale, with a beginning, middle, and end, but you will LONG for more.
Review to follow, first, I should make an attempt to, oh, you know, cook food. Eat it. Bathe. That sort of thing... Tune in next week.
Meanwhile, a note to the author:
Dear Robin, THANK YOU.
That was amazing.
aquafortis said...
Aaagh, I am so jealous SO JEALOUS!! I can't wait to read it. I'm thinking it will be a nice reward for finishing this semester...
tanita davis said...
It will be worth it when you get there... really. *REALLY* really.
R.L. LaFevers said...
Dear Tanita,
Thank YOU! I definitely have a case of the pre-pub jitters and am so relieved to hear you liked Grave Mercy! Yay!
Little Willow said...
Let me know when it comes out!
tanita davis said...
@ Robin: I know from the jitters, but really, NO NEED. So, SO very pleased for you and your fabulous book. Any time you'd like to do another interview, Wonderland would very much LOVE to have you. Kudos! ♥
@ LW: It's APRIL 3, baby! You'll be excited and happy to read this one - it strikes that perfect note.
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Use of Default Reasoning for Disambiguation under Question Answering
Boris Galitsky
We develop the default logic for pragmatic analysis of natural language queries. Ambiguous sentences are considered so that each set of meanings is assigned an extension of default system. The approach is applied to natural language question answering, where even a correct semantic representation needs to be modified in accordance to the set of default rules to better match a knowledge domain.
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Features and Benefits
ACT Engage® Grades 10–12 is an extremely powerful and cost-effective way for educators to improve their graduation rates and directly reach students whose personal challenges go unreported in standardized academic tests.
ACT developed ACT Engage to measure students' behaviors and psychosocial attributes, which are critical but often overlooked components of their success. Backed by our enduring expertise in research, ACT Engage can predict—with a remarkable degree of accuracy—how likely each of your students is to graduate high school, and whether they will earn at least a 2.0 GPA.
ACT Engage is easy for schools to administer because it requires minimal advance planning. In just 30 minutes (one class period), without the pressure of a high-stakes assessment, students answer 108 simple questions about themselves. You will have online reports available immediately that you can use to make a greater impact in your students' lives.
Here's an overview of what ACT Engage measures:
Domain ACT Engage Scale Definition
Motivation & Skills
Personal characteristics that help students to succeed academically by focusing and maintaining energies on goal-directed activities.
Academic Discipline The amount of effort a student puts into schoolwork and the degree to which a student sees him-/herself as hardworking and conscientious.
General Determination The extent to which one strives to follow through on commitments and obligations.
Goal Striving The strength of one's efforts to achieve objectives and end goals.
Commitment to College Commitment to staying in college and getting a degree.
Study Skills The extent to which students believe they know how to assess an academic problem, organize a solution, and successfully complete academic assignments.
Communication Skills Attentiveness to others' feelings and flexibility in resolving conflicts with others.
Social Engagement
Interpersonal factors that influence students' successful integration or adaptation into their environment.
Social Connection One's feelings of connection and involvement with the school community.
Social Activity One's comfort in meeting and interacting with other people.
Cognitive and affective processes used to monitor, regulate, and control behavior related to learning.
Academic Self-Confidence The belief in one's ability to perform well in school.
Steadiness One's responses to and management of strong feelings.
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The Qualifications Directory provides a full listing of graduate qualifications that are awarded by the University of Cambridge.
Qualifications are divided into two categories: courses with taught elements, and research programmes. A full description of each qualification type can be found in the Glossary of Awards.
For specific courses that are on offer, please browse by either the course title or subject area, or the department, faculty or institution where the course may be carried out.
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CEP: October 2011
Last month's cover feature was the Back to Basics article, "Measuring Temperature by Direct Contact."Now, in this issue, you'll find two articles that include the quote, "if you can't measure something, you can't manage it."...
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Understand the Fundamentals of Wastewater Treatment
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Wastewater treatment technologies range from membrane filtration to UV radiation to activated sludge. Compare their advantages and disadvantages to select the appropriate methods for your application.
Using Automation to Produce Quality Pharmaceuticals
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Automation can pay large dividends in the form of reduced process cycle times, lower operational costs, and more-consistent processes for manufacturing high-quality pharmaceutical products.
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Annual operating expenses for compressed air systems can exceed the equipment’s purchase price. Follow these seven steps to implement efficiency measures that yield cost reductions.
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Anyone who has ever closed a multisite real estate transaction knows that success is the product of good organization. Any transaction, even one with a single site, requires some level of organization. Because each state has its own real estate law and title insurance regulations, a transaction involving properties in several states is complex and requires more organization than a single site transaction. Title insurance can be useful to facilitate a smooth closing in multistate real estate transactions, but the issues relating to title insurance must be appropriately organized and structured.
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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 22:09:14 -0400 From: "William H. Smith" Subject: Re: Golden Oldies At 11:32 AM 7/7/97 -0400, Ron Butters wrote: >.... Did you check the obvious slang dictionary sources before asking this question? > No, the holdings at Piedmont College are rather small, and library budgets are getting smaller (and perhaps smaller still if Richard Jewel has his way), and I didn't have time to drive "Out of the hills of Habersham/ Down through the valleys of Hall" to the 'Plastic City" (Athens). Anyway, my wife said, "You can find these things on the internet." Besides, it opened an interesting thread. In contribution to my own query, when I first met Karl Nicholas he came to me after I had presented a paper, introduced himself, and said, "I bet you thought 'cock' referred to female anatomy until you entered the service." He was right. Is anyone else familiar with that usage? Some ten years later Karl reported that when he was in Jamaica a little girl asked if he wanted to see her 'cockle' (for money, of course). Bill Smith Piedmont College
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re: Astronaut McArthur: about batteries and he tried to listen to the SUITSAT signal!
Yeah, i heard something similar to that on a [US] Pacific Coast pass,
this Saturday morning (PST). However, from what i heard about the NASA
safety requirements for Suitsat, it had to be designed such that it would
not transmit until there was plenty of time after the device was armed by
the astronaut/cosmonaut. So if that was the last thing they did before
coming back inside the ISS, it might be reasonable not to have heard
anything from Suitsat when they came inside.
-- KD6PAG (Networking Old-Timer, Satellite QRPer)
probably isn't from me.]
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Aurora Testo
Testo Aurora
Scarica la suoneria di Aurora!
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Are you comfortable with the skin you're in?
Are you screaming loud enough to be important?
It took all these nights alone.
Alone we are.
Aurora, don't leave me out.
Your lipstick-stained life is arriving.
So at ease with the night that we drove along.
From the top of the hill where we conquer.
And we dreamt it all along, from the nights when the line stayed alive, we shared.
In hope I speak your name for closure.
By a thread we'll hang, to never give in.
Tonight may be the last night in these shoes
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Joseph of Gallia is a anime/manga character in the The Familiar of Zero franchise
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Monte-Silo House made from Two Corrugated Grain Silos
This home, made out of two corrugated-metal grain silos, is one of the coolest green homes we've seen in awhile. We don't know if it's the circular interior space, or that shiny exterior. Take a look inside.
Also: We're bringing back the basin (it's a great way to save water). We're also looking for a sink cleaning tip, exploring the West's best small eco-friendly towns, and we're asking one very important question: Can Etsy save the economy? Get the links after the jump.
Can Etsy save the economy? Well, we don't know -- but people are becoming more and more interested in handmade good. Why? We want to know what you think.
Do you use a basin in your sink? It's a green way to do the dishes and save a little water.
Sunset has compiled a list of its 20 favorite small towns -- a list that includes its favorite eco-friendly small towns. Are there any other towns you'd add to the list?
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Echinodorus amazonicus
Echinodorus amazonicus
As the name suggests, this plant originates from the Amazon River basin where it grows in the mid and lower regions of the river system. In addition to Echinodorus amazonicus, it is also known as Echinodorus brevipedicellutus. The Amazon Sword is sometimes confused with Echinodorus bleheri, since this close relative is also commonly referred to as Amazon Sword.
The Amazon Sword grows rather big and can exceed 40 cm in height. It is therefore often used as a centre or focal plant in aquariums. The plant consists of lanceolate arched leaves that are about 2-3 cm wide. The leaf coloration is light green and you can see five veins that extend from the base to the tip of each leaf.
The Amazon Sword appreciates medium bright light and a water temperature in the 24-28 degrees C range. The pH-value should be kept around neutral, from pH 6.5 to 7.2. The Amazon Sword will not do well in hard water, since its native environment consists of really soft water.
Amazon Swords should ideally be planted in a medium fine gravel bed. Like most of its close relatives in the genus Echinodorus, it can grow out of the water and is therefore a great choice for an open aquarium. It will however do fine completely submersed too. In the wild, you can often see Amazon Swords growing in boggy environments.
Propagate Amazon Sword plant
Propagation of this species is carried out by adventitious roots or by runner. When Amazon Swords grow completely submerged, their flowers will never open. If you allow your Amazon Sword to grow up above the surface, it will produce a thin floral stalk with four to nine white flowers. The pollen is yellow and you can use a feather or soft brush to cause fertilization once the flowers have opened up.
Be patient, because Amazon Sword seeds need plenty of time to develop. You may think that something has gone wrong when all you see is a lifeless, dried up crown in the centre of a wilted flower, but this is how it’s supposed to look.
Ideally keep the nodes of your Amazon Sword submersed because this will aid the formation of plantlets. It is possible for plantlets to form above the water as well, provided that the humidity is high enough, but such plantlets will not produce any roots.
When you can see roots on the plantlets, gently twist them off the runner and plant them in the substrate. If you want more plantlets it is important not to injure the runner, because a good runner can produce plantlets many times. It just needs to rest for a few months.
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Power Technology Expands: Alexander Firm Creates Niche In Giant Industry
Thomas Burgess, founder and CEO of Power Technology Inc., knew that lasers represented the future when he first began tinkering with product refinements during the 1960s. But he never saw where innovation would take those early models.
"Didn't have any idea at the time," said the 70-year-old businessman. "We knew it was growing but didn't have any estimates."
As lasers grew in number and uses, Power Technology established a multimillion-dollar niche in a multibillion-dollar industry dominated by large corporations.
The company grew from humble beginnings making laser components to producing laser modules that sometimes are components as well. Power Technology is proud to proclaim that its products have blasted into space on shuttle missions and submerged beneath the waves with deep-sea explorers.
In the biomedical field, its products aid surgery procedures, DNA analysis and cancer detection. Commercial uses of Power Technology laser-related products include inspecting semi-conductors and scanning bar codes.
The company's day-to-day leadership has shifted from Burgess to his twin sons, Walter and William.
The brothers quip that Power Technology became the biggest business in town after relocating its operations in 2000 from the Mabelvale area of southwest Little Rock. That statistical reality was aided by moving from the largest city in Arkansas to neighboring Alexander, population 640.
The 25,000-SF facility on Alexander Road just south of Interstate 30 represents a big jump from the early days when Thomas Burgess was the staff and his kitchen table was the production line.
Over the years, the company moved from the kitchen to the Burgess family garage to separate quarters that started at 3,000 SF, doubled to 6,000 SF and doubled again to 12,000 SF.
"We ramped up because laser technology is more and more popular with no end in sight," said William Burgess, 34, vice president of operations.
All but a handful of Power Technology's 65 employees work out of the Alexander facility. A half dozen are split between the company's West Coast sales office in Meadow Vista, Calif. (about 40 miles northeast of Sacramento), and its East Coast sales office in Endicott, N.Y. (about 80 miles south of Syracuse).
Annual revenue is more than $7 million, with domestic business accounting for about 75 percent of sales. Instead of high-volume, low-margin products, the firm traditionally has focused on items with bigger profit margins and more stable markets.
The Power Technology line ranges from a $50 laser built to operate from a household electrical outlet to a $15,000 custom-made laser.
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If you make up your mind not to be happy, there's no reason why you shouldn't have a good time.
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The follies which a man regrets the most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
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Are You Afraid Of Commitment?
Are You Afraid Of Commitment?
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your worst nightmare? Men who get into relationships rarely know what to expect as things begin to progress. But if there's one thing women can be sure of, it's that we're likely to treat commitment with disdain.
me, scared?
First off, let's be clear that this article pertains to men that have found themselves a great mate, with whom they wish to be serious. And this usually occurs after four or five months of dating.
Although it won't apply to a player, men can still learn a thing or two about being with the right woman.
Ask yourself; "Do I see myself with this woman in ten years?"
Sometimes, a simple thought-provoking question like this is enough to address some concerns about whether or not you're ready to settle down.
be afraid, be very afraid
Many men tend to believe that once things get serious, women will come down on them (no, not in the "good" sense) and expect a very serious relationship.
In this situation, men think that their women will begin to pressure them, and they will need to seek solace at the nearest strip joint.
But it's important to realize that when things begin to get serious, women tend to follow the logical course of action in which the two of you become exclusive and start planning a future together.
My goal here is to help men understand what lies ahead in their romantic endeavors. In other words, if you always think your relationships are not right and things are not going the way they should, then you might actually be the problem, and not the women in your life. This is especially true if all your relationships never make it past the 3-month mark.
Since you might be the catalyst to all your breakups, you must understand the reasons for them in order to rectify what's wrong.
love me, hurt me
You're stuck in a rut. If one of your past girlfriends cheated on you, you're likely to fear that every following lover will do the same. What you need to do is understand why she cheated. Was she unhappy? Or was she just a skank? Figure it out and close the subject; she's not worth sabotaging every future relationship over.
Learn to judge people on who they are as individuals, don't stigmatize all women simply because of their gender. Aren't you tired of hearing that "all men are pigs"? Then stop lumping the ladies together.
other women still want you
Ever since you've been dating your lady, other women have been flocking to you like white on rice. It seems that we give off this "I don't care" air when we are involved with someone, and when other women pick up on this nonchalant attitude, we suddenly become the ultimate catch.
What you're probably not understanding is that although your ego leaves you believing that you're all that and then some, in reality you might only be receiving this attention because you have a woman by your side.
If you're living in the "there must be someone better" frame of mind, then don't hang around your present girlfriend until that "perfect" lady comes along. And if you're only feeling that way because a hottie hit on you last week, think hard about what your present woman does for you.
Now that you know some of the reasons behind the fear of commitment, here are some signs why you might flee the premises of a serious relationship like a plump turkey does come Thanksgiving.
Here are the signs that you're running even if she's a keeper...
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Bible Commands Christians to Kill Nonbelievers
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One often hears that it is not religious belief itself that is problematic but religious extremism. This sounds appealing until one realizes that the presence of religious believers, including religious moderates, is what often shields religious extremists from criticism. That is, the presence of religious moderates provides a context in which religious extremism doesn't seem nearly as irrational and dangerous as it should. Moderate believers makes it far more difficult to question even the most extreme religious beliefs.
But isn't it a bit of an exaggeration to say that religious extremism is actually dangerous? Maybe Islamic extremists are dangerous, but surely there is nothing wrong with their Christian counterparts! I mean, isn't their "holy" book mostly about how they should be nice to others?
Let's examine the Christian bible:
Deuteronomy 17
Fairly clear, isn't it? Christians are instructed in their "holy" bible to murder persons who do not believe in their god. Why haven't we heard more about this? Because many Christians are content to ignore certain parts of their bible while obsessing about others. And what of those who do not ignore such parts of their "sacred" text? We call them extremists.
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2 Samuel 23
2SAM 23:1 And these `are' the last words of David: -- `The affirmation of David son of Jesse -- And the affirmation of the man raised up -- Concerning the Anointed of the God of Jacob, And the Sweetness of the Songs of Israel:
2SAM 23:2 The Spirit of Jehovah hath spoken by me, And His word `is' on my tongue.
2SAM 23:3 He said -- the God of Israel -- to me, He spake -- the Rock of Israel: He who is ruling over man `is' righteous, He is ruling in the fear of God.
2SAM 23:5 For -- not so `is' my house with God; For -- a covenant age-during He made with me, Arranged in all things, and kept; For -- all my salvation, and all desire, For -- He hath not caused `it' to spring up.
2SAM 23:6 As to the worthless -- As a thorn driven away `are' all of them, For -- not by hand are they taken;
2SAM 23:8 These `are' the names of the mighty ones whom David hath: sitting in the seat `is' the Tachmonite, head of the captains -- he `is' Adino, who hardened himself against eight hundred -- wounded at one time.
2SAM 23:9 And after him `is' Eleazar son of Dodo, son of Ahohi, of the three mighty men with David; in their exposing themselves among the Philistines -- they have been gathered there to battle, and the men of Israel go up --
2SAM 23:11 And after him `is' Shammah son of Agee the Hararite, and the Philistines are gathered into a company, and there is there a portion of the field full of lentiles, and the people hath fled from the presence of the Philistines,
2SAM 23:12 and he stationeth himself in the midst of the portion, and delivereth it, and smiteth the Philistines, and Jehovah worketh a great salvation.
2SAM 23:14 and David `is' then in a fortress, and the station of the Philistines `is' then in Beth-Lehem,
2SAM 23:15 and David longeth and saith, `Who doth give me a drink of the water of the well of Beth-Lehem, which `is' by the gate?'
2SAM 23:16 And the three mighty ones cleave through the camp of the Philistines, and draw water out of the well of Beth-Lehem, which `is' by the gate, and take `it' up, and bring in unto David; and he was not willing to drink it, and poureth it out to Jehovah,
2SAM 23:17 and saith, `Far be it from me, O Jehovah, to do this; is it the blood of the men who are going with their lives?' and he was not willing to drink it; these `things' did the three mighty ones.
2SAM 23:18 And Abishai brother of Joab, son of Zeruiah, he `is' head of three, and he is lifting up his spear against three hundred -- wounded, and he hath a name among three.
2SAM 23:19 Of the three is he not the honoured? and he becometh their head; and unto the `first' three he hath not come.
2SAM 23:21 And he hath smitten the Egyptian man, a man of appearance, and in the hand of the Egyptian `is' a spear, and he goeth down unto him with a rod, and taketh violently away the spear out of the hand of the Egyptian, and slayeth him with his own spear.
2SAM 23:22 These `things' hath Benaiah son of Jehoiada done, and hath a name among three mighty.
2SAM 23:23 Of the thirty he is honoured, and unto the three he came not; and David setteth him over his guard.
2SAM 23:24 Asahel brother of Joab `is' of the thirty; Elhanan son of Dodo of Beth-Lehem.
2SAM 23:25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
2SAM 23:26 Helez the Paltite, Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
2SAM 23:27 Abiezer the Annethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
2SAM 23:28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
2SAM 23:29 Heleb son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the sons of Benjamin,
2SAM 23:30 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,
2SAM 23:31 Abi-Albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,
2SAM 23:32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, `of' the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,
2SAM 23:33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam son of Sharar the Hararite,
2SAM 23:34 Eliphelet son of Ahasbai, son of the Maachathite, Eliam son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
2SAM 23:35 Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
2SAM 23:36 Igal son of Nathan from Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
2SAM 23:37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, bearer of the weapons of Joab son of Zeruiah,
2SAM 23:38 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
2SAM 23:39 Uriah the Hittite; in all thirty and seven.
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Infant potty training: What it is and how to do it
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Does it work?
That depends on what you mean by "work." If your goal is to use fewer diapers and get your baby practicing a skill that he'll certainly use later, the answer is yes. If your goal is to have a young baby who never needs diapers again and never has an accident, the answer is probably no.
Given parents' success stories, some babies apparently can learn to read their bodies' signals and get themselves to the potty as soon as they're mobile – but undoubtedly others will need more time to develop the skill (or, perhaps, the interest). There's no way to know how it'll go for your child unless you give it a try.
If your main goal is getting your child trained sooner than average, that's something you can attempt whether you use the infant potty training method or the more common approach. If your child isn't taking to it, though, it's probably worth waiting until he exhibits signs that he's ready.
How can I get started?
It's best to start between birth and 4 months, according to those who've used infant potty training. (If you start with an older child, it may take longer for him to learn, as he'll have to "unlearn" his diapering behavior.) Here are the basic steps:
Watch your baby and get to know his elimination patterns. When and how often does your baby go to the bathroom? Does he always go at a particular time of day – right after waking up, for example? Does he make any particular noises, gestures, or expressions when he has to go?
When your baby makes one of his typical elimination signs, hold him gently over a toilet, a potty, or even a bucket or pot, which may better suit his tiny size.
While he's relieving himself, make a noise that your baby will learn to associate with elimination (many parents use ssssss or some other waterlike sound; others use a word or phrase like "go potty").
Repeat this sound or phrase whenever you see that your baby has to go, and also while he's going, so he'll learn to recognize it as a signal and connect his own impulses with the act of using the potty.
When an accident happens, be matter-of-fact about it and stay relaxed. Advocate and mother of five Parise says your attitude helps your child stay relaxed about the process, too.
During the nighttime, keep a potty right by the bed and put your baby on it before nursing or if he's restless during the night. Some advocates say that babies rarely pee or poop during a deep sleep and will usually become restless or give some sort of sign sufficient to wake a parent when they need to go – assuming that you're co-sleeping. (Other advocates say that using diapers at night is fine. Even self-proclaimed infant potty training "evangelist" Lynch admits, "In our house, sleep trumps pee.") If you opt to put your baby down sans diaper, place him on a waterproof mattress pad in case of an accident.
Be flexible. You don't have to be a purist to practice infant potty training. As mentioned above, it's fine to use diapers sometimes (at night, or when you're out, for instance) if it makes life easier. If you can, use cloth diapers, since disposables are so absorbent that your baby often won't realize when he's wet or soiled.
Stay positive. Avoid using pressure or punishment. However and whenever your child learns to use the potty, training should be gentle and positive, and done with a sense of humor. The goal is to help your child get in tune with his body and feel good about using the potty.
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My 3 year old son has coughing spells approx. once every hr especially at night. What can I do?
My 3y/o son has coughing spells especially at night about once maybe twice every hour. It is a dry cough. Once in a while he will have phlem but when he does he will cough until he throws up. It is an uncontrollable cough. What can this be and how can I help him? I'd appreciate any suggestions
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You may no longer be looking here for an answer as you posted your question nearly 2 months ago... but I would take your son to an asthma/allery doctor. My oldest daughter did the same thing - especially when she got a cold, etc... and it turned out to be asthma. She now gets routine breathing treatments and her coughing fits have completely stopped! It was the best thing we could have done and are so grateful to find out what was wrong with her! Hope this helps...
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My boyfriend wants me to have an abortion....what to do?
I found out on Monday that I am pregnant after missing my period for two days. I told my boyfriend that day and he freaked out, he said "there is alwyas control". He automatically jumped at the suggestion to have an abortion. I really don't want to have and abortion i don't believe in that, I came from a religious family and my mother told me to always be responsible with the decisions I make. We have been together for 9 months and are very commiteed to each other we moved in together after 5 months and moved to a different state. Everything has been going great for us since we moved. The only problem is that he is 19 and Im 22. I have no problem in my age to have a child, I would be 23 and he would be 20 by the time this child comes. Now my life is a disaster. I can barely sleep, we argue all day evryday for the past week. I have cried so much because I don't want to do it. But I love him very much and I don't want to ruin his life with my decision. PLEASE HELP!!!
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im going through the same thing right now. Im 22 and my boyfriends 23 i just found out i was pregnant and hes tyring to force me to get an abortion saying i ruined his life and were not ready for this. i dont know what to do either. its hard to think about. he dont care tho he wants nothing to do with any of this. im going to tell you what everyone told me.. if u think u can do ths if you think u can be a mom and everything will work out then you have to go with how u feel yes he has feelings too but this is harder on a women then it will ever be on a man.
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the decision is YOURS and yours alone sweetie it's your body and if thats your belief then dont do it. maybe u two need to sit down and talk about it not yell does he know how u feel about all this, if he truly cares for u he will sit there and listen.
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The first of London's Cycle Superhighways is being launched, covering an 8.5 mile commuter route from south London into the city centre.
It is one of two initial routes to open this summer, the other going from Barking to Tower Gateway.
Another ten cycle routes from the outskirts of the city to the centre will open between now and 2015.
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Radio: Karlaplansstudion, Stockholm, Sweden
In the morning they had attempted to do some sightseeing in Stockholm. Beatlemania had already broken out in Sweden, and they were soon swamped by hundreds of fans. They also held a press conference which was barely more orderly.
The recording took place at the Karlaplansstudion – later the Maximteatern – in Stockholm, in front of a studio audience of teenage girls. A hundred tickets were given away, but more than twice as many people turned up in the hope of seeing the performance.
The Beatles played a spirited set of seven songs: I Saw Her Standing There, From Me To You, Money (That’s What I Want), Roll Over Beethoven, You Really Got A Hold On Me, She Loves You and Twist And Shout.
Between Money and Roll Over Beethoven the group took a short break, and local band Hasse Rosen and the Norsmen performed three songs.
This edition of the radio show was subtitled ‘Popgrupp från Liverpool på besök i Stockholm’, which translates as ‘Pop group from Liverpool visiting Stockholm’. It was recorded from 5pm and broadcast on Monday 11 November 1963 from 10.05-10.30pm.
Studio engineer Hans Westman had trouble attempting to limit the distortion on The Beatles’ recordings, a problem caused by the lack of a rehearsal and sound check. There were also problems converting the group’s UK cables to Swedish electrical outlets.
Westman used six RCA and Velocity microphones to record The Beatles: two for vocals, one for the drums, a fourth by Paul McCartney‘s bass amplifier, and two more for John Lennon and George Harrison‘s guitar amps. Four more were used to pick up ambient noise including sounds from the audience.
Although he later described it as “the worst recording I’ve ever made”, The Beatles later expressed delight at the results. Indeed, five of the songs – I Saw Her Standing There, From Me To You, Money, You Really Got A Hold On Me and Roll Over Beethoven – featured on 1995′s Anthology 1.
I wasn’t satisfied with the recording and I apologised The Beatles for the high distortion. But they seemed very delighted.
I lost control over the height of the sound. The amplifiers couldn’t make it when The Beatles started to play. It was the highest recording level I had seen and certainly the worst distortion I ever had heard.
Now, when I’ve seen the result, I can understand why The Beatles was so delighted. They had, already way back in 1963, started to use the distortion to create a very special sound.
Hans Westman
Afterwards The Beatles left the studio through the front doors, as there was no stage exit. They boarded a blue Fiat 1500 parked outside the studio, and were promptly besieged by fans.
Also on this day...
Want more? Visit the Beatles history section.
5 responses on “Radio: Karlaplansstudion, Stockholm, Sweden
1. Happy Nat
Cool article! I wasn’t aware of the technical problems with the sound equipment. I noted that I Saw Her Standing There is missing from the initial list of seven songs in the article but is mentioned later in the list of what was included on Anthology 1.
2. Olof
‘Pupgrupp Fran Liverpool Pa Besok I Stockholm’ is a little bit a strange spelling. Correctly it should be, using Swedish letters, ‘Popgrupp från Liverpool på besök i Stockholm’.
Best Regards
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1 Samuel 7:7-12 (New International Version)
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7 When the Philistines heard that Israel had assembled at Mizpah, the rulers of the Philistines came up to attack them. And when the Israelites heard of it, they were afraid1 because of the Philistines. 8 They said to Samuel, "Do not stop crying2 out to the LORD our God for us, that he may rescue us from the hand of the Philistines." 9 Then Samuel3 took a suckling lamb and offered it up as a whole burnt offering to the LORD. He cried out to the LORD on Israel's behalf, and the LORD answered him.4 10 While Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to engage Israel in battle. But that day the LORD thundered5 with loud thunder against the Philistines and threw them into such a panic6 that they were routed before the Israelites. 11 The men of Israel rushed out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, slaughtering them along the way to a point below Beth Car. 12 Then Samuel took a stone7 and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer,a8 saying, "Thus far has the LORD helped us."
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Jeremiah 33:2 CEB/NIV - Online Parallel Bible
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2 The LORD proclaims, the LORD who made the earth, who formed and established it, whose name is the LORD: 2 "This is what the LORD says, he who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it--the LORD is his name:
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Mitotic spindle and magnetic poles.
Robert Clark rgregoryclark at
Sat Nov 29 04:50:55 EST 2003
Take a look at the image of the mitotic spindle of a Drosophila embryo
in Figs. 1,b and 1,c on this page:
1. Study of the Effect of Electric Fields on E. coli
Note that the spindles are straight close to the middle but are more
rounded further out.
Then compare this to the images of the field lines of magnetic and
electric dipoles on the same page in Figs. 2 and 3. They are also
straight close to the middle but more rounded further out.
A definitive test would be to use the very sensitive magnetometers
available now to see if the mitotic spindle generates a magnetic
field. Inexpensive magnetometers are available now that can measure in
the nanotesla range or 10 microgauss. As a comparison the magnetic
field of the Earth is on the order of .5 gauss.
Bob Clark
r norman <rsn_ at> wrote in message news:<n678svknctqsnub9qerajfaie5ueprr783 at>...
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 20:08:46 +0000, Tom Anderson
> <ucgatan at> wrote:
> >On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, r norman wrote:
> >
> >> In the spindle, the process is very different. The spindle fibers
> >> radiate outward from both poles. Some of these, the astral fibers,
> >> always remain that way. These do not look at all like the magnetic or
> >> electric dipole lines but look more like a magnetic or electric
> >> monopole. Others meet (either by direct contact as in the polar
> >> fibers or by connecting to the same chromosome in the kinetochore
> >> fibers). These fibers tend to spread out from one pole and then
> >> rejoin at the other, and so sort of look like the field lines of the
> >> magnetic or electric dipole. Since the fibers that attach to the
> >> chromosomes are the "important" ones, they are the ones shown in all
> >> the diagrams.
> >
> >Ah, but if that was all it was, the spindle fibres would be straight,
> >wouldn't they? They aren't, they definitely curved.
> >
> Are you sure they are curved? Don't look at diagrams or drawings.
> Look at pictures of the fibers. Tubules tend to be straight except
> that they are flexible and can bend around obstacles. The pictures of
> the kinetochore tubules (the ones that attach to chromosomes) and the
> astral tubules (the ones that radiate out) are distinctly straight
> except when there are obvious obstacles bending them. The polar
> tubule (the ones radiating from pole to pole without connecting to
> chromosomes) are different. These are curved for a different reason.
> Each one radiates out straight from the pole but, when they meet, they
> tend to become aligned. These do have a curved shape somewhat
> reminiscent of the field lines of a dipole (electric or magnetic) and
> for the same reason that things that radiate out from one pole and
> converge on another must necessary curve in between.
> There is still no relationship to a magnetic dipole even though
> intense magnetic fields may disrupt tubule formation.
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Human Reproduction Problem Set
This problem set is designed to help students understand the human reproductive system. It covers such topics as the anatomy of the male and female reproductive systems, the hormones that influence these systems, fertilization, sterilization, and transmission of HIV.
1. Hormone released by hypothalamus
2. Site of fertilization
3. Anatomy of the penis
4. Pituitary hormones
5. Female reproductive cycle
6. The sperm journey
7. High-risk sexual partners in terms of HIV exposure
8. Journey of the sperm to the egg
9. Ovaries
10. Hormone produced by the corpus luteum
11. Passage of sperm out of the epididymis
12. Surgical sterilization of females
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live album en Album Review: Iron Maiden - "En Vivo!" <p>You remember that classic Chuck Jones cartoon "Hare Way to the Stars," where Marvin the Martian sprouts a bunch of 'instant martians' from tiny pills by dousing them with water, then hastily sends them chasing off on a fool's errand after Bugs Bunny, who has absconded with the 'Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator'? That's kind of what Iron Maiden's new live release "En Vivo!" is like. (Albeit without the slapstick.)</p> <p><a href="" target="_blank">read more</a></p> album review En Vivo heavy metal iron maiden live album Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:10:08 +0000 M. Drew 6172 at
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The BMRB Metabolomics website is being developed as a repository for public-domain metabolomics/metabonomics standard compound NMR data.
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And at least one or more of the following:
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Since the data sets can become quite large, we ask that you archive your files with the tar utility and then compress them with zip or gzip. Refer to your operating system's instructions for more information about tar, zip, and gzip.
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To deposit time-domain data, you need to use the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Since a web browser tends to limit the size of the files that can be transfered through FTP, we suggest that you do not use your browser to transfer time-domain data sets. There are software packages for using FTP, but if you are using a Windows, UNIX, Linux, or Mac OSX computer, FTP is a built in function of its command line interface.
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Mukesh - Na Kajre Ki Dhar
The song was originally sung by Mukesh Ji and was composed by Kalyanji-Anandji with Indeevar being the lyricist...But the song went unreleased and was latter used in movie Mohra with Pankaj Udhas singing for it.
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John of the Woods eBook
Presently the bird gave a queer screech, and began to imitate John’s own laughter so exactly that the Prince shook with mirth. At this the raven stood upon one leg gravely, and began to sidle along the footboard of the bed. Presently he spied some fruit carved on the wooden uprights, and making a dart began to peck at the pears and peaches. Then, discovering his mistake, once more he began to chuckle, this time so heartily that he seemed ready to have a fit. And as he listened the Prince’s mouth widened and he burst into roars of laughter.
“Hush, you foolish bird!” said John reprovingly. “Be not so noisy in a Prince’s chamber. It is not good manners!” and he threw his handkerchief over the raven’s head.
But the Prince protested. “Let him do his pleasure,” he said, laughing. “I have not seen anything so funny for many a day. I shall teach him many tricks.”
So the raven stayed with the Prince, and learned many tricks. And the carrier pigeon stayed. And the others stayed,—all but the wolf, who would never leave John,—making themselves quite at home on the Prince’s velvet couch. And the little Princess played with them, enjoying the happiest hours of her life.
One only of the animals the Prince had not seen. The Hermit and John agreed that until he was stronger he must not see the bear whom he had once tried to kill. For they knew that now it would make the Prince sad and ashamed to remember that day in the forest. Such a change had come upon the young man! He was no longer hard and cruel, but tender and affectionate.
The King felt the change, and it made him angry.
Daily, as the Prince grew stronger, he became more and more devoted to the animals, to John and the good Hermit. He could scarcely bear them out of his sight. When they were with him his face lighted with smiles, and he seemed to blossom as a flower does in sunshine. Only in the presence of the King he grew silent and sad once more. The light passed from his eyes as he looked at the grim old man. A visit from the King was almost enough to undo the good effects of a whole day of happiness.
The King knew this, and it made him furious. He did not see that it was his own fault; that it was the badness in him which made the Prince shrink. He thought it was the doing of some one else. He grew to hate the Hermit and John and the animals, of whom his son and daughter were so fond. In his heart he cared little for any one. He had never loved the Princess Clare, and the Prince was dear only because one day he would be king. Yet Robert hated to see them love any one else.
The King was resolved to put an end to this state of things as soon as might be. But he dared not do anything yet for fear of causing his son to fall ill again. He sat and brooded and planned in his wicked heart what he would do when the Prince should be well once more. And for him the time went slowly which others found so happy.
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The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates eBook
To conclude: if, because Socrates was condemned to death, any one should believe that he was a liar to say that he had a good demon that guided him, and gave him instructions what he should or should not do, let him consider, in the first place, that he was arrived to such an age that if he had not died when he did, he could not have lived much longer; that by dying when he did he avoided the most toilsome part of life, in which the mind loses much of its vigour; and that in amends for it he discovered to the whole world the greatness of his soul, acquired to himself an immortal glory, by the defence he made before his judges, in behaving himself with a sincerity, courage, and probity that were indeed wonderful, and in receiving his sentence with a patience and resolution of mind never to be equalled; for it is agreed by all that no man ever suffered death with greater constancy than Socrates.
He lived thirty days after his condemnation, because the Delian feasts happened in that month, and the law forbids to put any man to death till the consecrated vessel that is sent to the Isle of Delos be come back to Athens. During that time his friends, who saw him continually, found no change in him; but that he always retained that tranquillity of mind and agreeableness of temper which before had made all the world admire him. Now, certainly no man can die with greater constancy than this; this is doubtless the most glorious death that can be imagined; but if it be the most glorious, it is the most happy; and if it be the most happy, it is the most acceptable to the Deity.
Hermogenes has told me, that being with him a little after Melitus had accused him, he observed, that he seemed to decline speaking of that affair: from whence he took occasion to tell him that it would not be amiss for him to think of what he should answer in his own justification. To which Socrates replied: “Do you believe I have done anything else all my life than think of it?” And Hermogenes asking him what he meant by saying so? Socrates told him that he had made it the whole business of his life to examine what was just and what unjust; that he had always cherished justice and hated injustice, and that he did not believe there was any better way to justify himself.
Hermogenes said further to him—“Do you not know that judges have often condemned the innocent to death, only because their answers offended them, and that, on the contrary, they have often acquitted the guilty?” “I know it very well,” answered Socrates; “but I assure you, that having set myself to think what I should say to my judges, the demon that advises me dissuaded me from it.” At which Hermogenes seeming surprised, Socrates said to him, “Why are you surprised that this God thinks it better for me to leave this world than to
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Candide Quiz | Lesson Plans Eight Week Quiz C
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Eight Week Quiz C
Name: _________________________ Period: ___________________
Multiple Choice Questions
1. To where do Candide, Cunégonde, and the old woman flee?
(a) Cadiz.
(b) Madrid.
(c) Sevilla.
(d) Lisbon.
2. What does Pangloss call the castle of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh?
(a) The only castle in Bulgaria.
(b) The best of all possible castles.
(c) The castle of many mysteries.
(d) The richest castle in the world.
3. What happens to the Bicayan and the two Portuguese in the auto-da-fe that follows in Chapter 6?
(a) They are hanged.
(b) They are burned.
(c) They are flogged.
(d) They are beheaded.
4. What is being put together when the old woman, Candide, and Cunégonde arrive in Cadiz?
(a) A castle.
(b) A house.
(c) A moat.
(d) An army.
5. To whom does Candide give the two coins someone gave him in Chapter 3?
(a) A soldier with one leg.
(b) A hungry child.
(c) A beggar.
(d) A fruit vender.
Short Answer Questions
1. Whose health do the soldiers make Candide drink to?
2. How long does it take Candide's wounds to heal?
3. What does Candide do after being put in charge of the Cadiz soldiers?
4. Why did the old woman never marry her true love, the Prince of Massa-Carrara?
5. Where does Candide walk the street and ask for charity after visiting the villages that have been pummeled?
(see the answer key)
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Growing Organizations, Churches, and People through Communication and Consultation.
In 1997 I was leading a consultation for a dying organization. At a large group meeting a retired gentleman stood and asked everyone to turn in their seats and look at one another. After some nudging, they turned and looked into the eyes of the other members. "Those people you just looked at...that's why we have to change," he said.
I am here to help you change. Whether your event needs a refreshing change, your church is dying for a change, or your organization only has one change left before everyone quits, I'm here to help you grow as a group or as individuals. Through consultation, speaking, storytelling, and communication, I will help you find change...and much more.
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Few in the North American church scene have as much experience with local church turnaround as Paul Borden. An experienced teacher, preacher, leader, and speaker, Paul will capture your imagination with story, inspire you with real-world application, and give you the tools you need to make the tough decisions work.
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On 04/12, the Together Against Abuse fundraiser was held by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children at the InterContinental Hotel, to raise money for children who are abused and neglected.
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I went to Northwestern in Chicago, in Evanston, and then I ended up trickling down in Chicago theater. I did a bunch of plays, but I was non-equity. For a lot of people, non-equity means you're not yet professional. But for me, if you're in a mainstream theater, you're doing something real.
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dermatomyositis, chronic progressive inflammation of the skin and muscles, particularly the muscles of the shoulders and pelvis.
Dermatomyositis occurs in both children (some of whom recover in about two years) and adults. The disease is more common in women. In most cases the first symptom of dermatomyositis is a skin rash, which appears in a variety of forms. A reddish violet rash commonly appears on the upper eyelids with swelling of the skin around the eyes. A rash sometimes also appears on the cheeks, neck, shoulders, forehead, trunk, and elbows, as well as across the joints of the fingers and toes. Other symptoms include muscle weakness and pain. The muscles commonly affected are those of the neck, pharynx, and torso. Calcium deposits often develop in affected skin and muscles, and this calcification of tissues can be very disabling. Dermatomyositis in adults is associated with a higher incidence of certain cancers, including malignancies of the lung, breast, and gastrointestinal tract.
The characteristic muscular inflammation of dermatomyositis is similar to that seen in the related disorder polymyositis. In both diseases it is believed to result from destruction of cells caused by an autoimmune reaction—i.e., the reaction of the immune system against the body’s own cells—but the particular mechanisms responsible for the tissue injury of dermatomyositis are thought to differ from those that give rise to polymyositis.
Corticosteroids, such as prednisone, are the most common treatment for dermatomyositis. Immunoglobulins and immunosuppressive drugs such as methotrexate also are used.
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