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Dante's Inferno gets no points whatsoever for originality, but it's such an entertaining, suspenseful and gorgeously designed videogame that it would be a shame for anyone to dismiss it based on poor marketing or the uninspiring downloadable demo. Visceral Games has proven themselves once again to make solid entertainment with striking visual aesthetics, and luckily for all of us seem to be growing a bit as storytellers as well.
- Dante's Inferno
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Release Date: February 9, 2010
Platforms: Playstation 3, Xbox 360 (version reviewed)
Developer: Visceral Games
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Genre: God of War Clone
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Even though Electronic Arts has spent enough money on Dante's Inferno's marketing campaign to buy and sell all of Greece (too soon?), none of their efforts have managed to shake the typical gamer's impression that the game may be the most shameless God of War clone ever made. Both games feature warriors from bygone eras with permanent red bodily scarring struggling with anger control issues who are in conflict with oversized interpretations of religious icons taken from classic literature everyone had to read in high school. Both games have essentially the same control schemes, fixed cameras and instant-kill grab attacks that prevent the smaller enemies from feeling like much of a threat. But the biggest similarity, and this is the important part, is that both games are ridiculously good.
Both bullet points of the previous paragraph – derivative but of very high quality – should come as no surprise when one considers that Visceral Games, the developers of Dante's Inferno, also brought unto the world 2008's Dead Space, which was atmospheric and exciting despite shamelessly cheating off of Event Horizon's homework. Dante's Inferno never successfully shakes off the feeling of déjà vu that results from going all "Single White Female" on the God of War franchise, but the result is less insulting than one might imagine. This is The Magnificent Seven of videogames, shamelessly transporting functional elements of a classic and well-remembered original and adapting them effectively into a new cultural mold.
The culture in question is of course Catholicism, and in particular the vision of Hell described in Dante's Inferno, the classic text that more people have been forced to read in high school than actually enjoyed. Sadly for all of those English Lit slackers out there, the videogame Dante's Inferno will not act as a Cliff's Notes for a hastily written midterm. Instead of telling the tale of Italian writer Dante Alighieri as he journeys towards enlightenment through the Nine Circles of Hell (followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso, the often neglected books in the trilogy), this Dante's Inferno tells the tale of an entirely different Dante, a soldier in the Third Crusade who abandons the Holy War after a near-death experience shows him an afterlife in Hell for all of the sins he committed in the name of God. He returns home after ritually scarring himself in penance for his wrongs only to find that his wife, Beatrice, has been murdered and that Lucifer himself is in the process of taking her soul to Hell. Dante quickly learns that her damnation is entirely his fault – although the game never fully explains how that works – and follows Lucifer down to Hell. There he faces off against scores of demons and the damned while repeatedly confronting the corruption in his own soul.
Despite the many and accurate accusations of artistic license lobbed at Dante's Inferno, the developers deserve credit for their adaptation, which effectively uses the world Dante Alighieri created as a well-defined backdrop to tell a different tale altogether in which the protagonists just happen to have similar names. The story they do tell is as compelling as most action games get, with a protagonist who manages to be a great warrior and feel really guilty about it without ever succumbing to any annoying whinery. As we discover throughout the game, Dante is not much of a "hero" and arguably deserves to be damned to Hell for his various sins, but this only makes his path to redemption all the more suspenseful. The fact that Beatrice's own journey to Hell is never fully justified would ordinarily seem like a serious flaw in the narrative, but in practice it serves to act as the only part of Dante's suffering that seems unjust. He may deserve to go to Hell for all the Lust, Deception, Murder, and countless other atrocities he convinced himself were in God's name, but Beatrice doesn't, and Dante's epic journey to save her for just that reason is all that is needed to keep him sympathetic and as complicated as a videogame protagonist tends to get.
The controls are, as stated above, pretty much lifted wholesale from God of War, but like God of War they are fully functional and intuitive. Gameplay never feels like a chore, except perhaps for a bit towards the end of the game when Dante has to pass through a seemingly endless number of "Challenge Rooms" in which the only obstacles to overcome are arbitrary; some, like "Survive the Battle for Five Minutes," or "Defeat All Enemies Without Using Magic," are reasonable, but others require players to suddenly master gameplay elements that were never necessary before, like using mid-air combos to stay above the ground for 8 seconds, or defeating enormous hordes of enemies using a single combo. Other gameplay nitpicks include rooms filled with deathtraps that could not be predicted until they have already killed Dante at least once, which seems unfair but these rooms almost always have an auto-save point right outside of them, preventing a mere annoyance from escalating into a painful experience.
If anything, the only truly distracting elements of Dante's Inferno come from the game's system for leveling up, which allows the player to improve certain aspects of gameplay by "Punishing" the damned, and other aspects of gameplay by "Absolving" them. This system actually works fine, but it raises the very valid question of "Exactly what right does Dante have to absolve anyone, when his own hopelessly corrupted soul is laid bare throughout the entire story?" It's a plot point that comes up so very often throughout the game that it's outright disappointing that no attempt is made to explain it, although it is fun to come across sinners like Elektra or Pontius Pilate and ask yourself, on a personal level, whether they actually deserve to be punished for their famous transgressions. It's like an English Literature discussion group, except the moral questions raised by the narratives must be answered, and those answers actually affect the outcome of the story.
Dante's Inferno gets no points whatsoever for originality, but it's such an entertaining, suspenseful and gorgeously designed videogame that it would be a shame for anyone to dismiss it based on poor marketing or the uninspiring downloadable demo. Visceral Games has proven themselves once again to make solid entertainment with striking visual aesthetics, and luckily for all of us seem to be growing a bit as storytellers as well. Maybe someday they'll give us something we've never seen before, but if all of their rip-offs turn out as good as Dante's Inferno… then I'll be damned if that's not kind of heavenly.
William Bibbiani is a highly opinionated film, TV and videogame critic living in Los Angeles, California. In addition to his work at the "California Literary Review" William also contributes articles and criticism to "Geekscape" and "Ranker" and has won multiple awards for co-hosting the weekly Geekscape podcast and for his series of Safe-For-Work satirical pornographic film critiques, "Geekscape After Dark." He also writes screenplays and, when coerced with sweet, sweet nothings, occasionally acts in such internet series as "Bus Pirates" and "Heads Up with Nar Williams." A graduate of the UCLA School of Film, Television and Digital Media, William sometimes regrets not pursuing a career in what he refers to as "lawyering" so that he could afford luxuries like food and shoes.
William can be found on both the Xbox Live and Playstation Network as GuyGardner2814, and on Twitter as – surprisingly – WilliamBibbiani.
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Its landscape is famously wild and rugged, but against the odds, Connemara has produced some of the most beautiful gardens in Ireland
When it comes to feats of nature, you have to give credit to Connemara's gardens. Connemara's location right on Ireland's west coast means salt and storm is pitched against every single plant, tree and flower. But faith, and a lot of tender loving care, has prevailed, with local gardeners growing some of the most spectacular hydrangeas, rhododendrons, heather, azaleas and camellias ever to be seen.
"Connemara is such a wild and untamed place and its natural beauty is more than capable of holding one captivated," says Shirley Lanigan, author of The 100 Best Gardens of Ireland. "Any garden that can hold its own against such a backdrop must be impressive."
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One way of discovering the best gardens around here is with the Connemara Garden Trail. On the trail, you'll find everything from formal to floral and from wild to whimsical, with many surrounding beautiful old houses. Some go for an exotic look – palm trees pop up here and there – others are all about maintaining 300-year-old traditions.
One of the most famous on the trail is Kylemore Abbey, with its six-acre Victorian walled garden and tragic love story. "The garden at Kylemore is so unique," says head gardener Anja Gohlke, "I love the order of the formal garden beds set against the wilderness of Connemara."
Shirley Lanigan, meanwhile, is in no doubt about which are her favourites: "The flower-filled jungle that surrounds Cashel House and Lorna McMahon's extraordinary hillside garden in Oranmore."
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The new search isn't replacing the current keyword-search system, but will rely on understanding the actual meaning of words, the Wall Street Journal reported. In this way, Google will be able to distinguish between Jaguar the luxury car and the jaguar, a South American big cat.
Amit Singhal, a top Google search executive, said the search engine will better match queries with a database containing hundreds of millions of people, places and things which the company has quietly amassed in the past two years.
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Wikipedia has a pretty elaborate comparaison chart for various email clients but Poco and Barca are not yet listed... hum! hum!
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Maximus wrote:MonBidoux wrote:If only i could understand either language!
Well, try it with French (I am assuming you are a real Quebecois). Pocomail is mentioned, however not yet described in the French language version of Wikipedia as well:
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Adobe Acrobat Turns It Up to 11!
Adobe Acrobat is widely used throughout the public sector, in federal as well as state and local governments, to harness the power of the ubiquitous PDF file format. Yesterday, Adobe marked a new milestone with the release of Acrobat version 11!
Kevin M. Lynch, SVP and GM of Acrobat and Document Services at Adobe, further describes some benefits of Acrobat XI in the article below which was originally posted to the Adobe Document Services blog.
October 1 marks a major milestone for the Adobe Acrobat business. We're launching Adobe Acrobat XI. Acrobat XI software with cloud services is a powerful new solution that rises to today's complex document challenges for creating, consuming, sharing and securing PDF content across devices and platforms.
We've added several much-asked-for features that are aimed at making life easier for information workers like you. Acrobat XI features complete PDF editing and export to PowerPoint; touch-friendly capabilities on tablets; sophisticated web contracting with Adobe EchoSign; and forms creation, data collection and analysis with Adobe FormsCentral.
We've added features IT people have asked for, too: seamless Microsoft Office and SharePoint integration, easy deployment, applications virtualization and robust application security to provide a low cost of ownership and sound return on investment.
The new Acrobat XI family includes Acrobat XI, Adobe Reader XI and newly integrated document services, Adobe FormsCentral and Adobe EchoSign.
It's About Productivity
The explosion of digital documents in the workplace has created new challenges for productivity. With Acrobat XI we're taking on the issues that are dragging down individual and organizational productivity.
Each week, individual information workers spend half their time searching, filing, organizing, merging and editing comments, obtaining signatures, reviewing feedback and consolidating data, or collaborating with people outside their organizations. IT departments struggle with integrating and managing a diversity of platforms, devices and services, while trying to protect sensitive corporate IP and personal information.
Information workers are asking: "How do I do what I was doing before, but work in this new environment?"
And organizations of all types are faced with adapting to this complexity, while driving their businesses forward, wondering: "How do I accelerate revenue, secure my IP and continue to evolve my workers capabilities to meet these new challenges?"
These productivity, collaboration, device and security issues have a significant impact on organizations. We're calling this the Document Productivity Gap. The key to closing the gap is to recognize that it is a set of compounding issues, multiple, little things that add up to have a big impact.
We asked IDC to take a closer look at these inefficiencies and the impact document-based challenges have on information workers and IT professionals. One finding startled me. According to a recent global IDC white paper, sponsored by Adobe, the addressable impact of these inefficiencies on an organization of 1,000 employees is almost $16 million annually. And those are the addressable gaps – not theoretical nirvana that is impossible to reach, but very realistic, tangible gaps that can be closed today. For example, if we could bridge the gap we could add 21.3 percent to an organization's resources – or the equivalent of 213 employees for every 1,000 people at an organization. Even if we recover just half of this productivity loss, it could equal hiring close to 100 new employees for a 1,000 person organization. Imagine the impact of 100 new engineers, salespeople, marketers or IT professionals?
What "11" Means: Customers Weigh In
With the new release, we have made significant innovations across the desktop and the cloud to address the gap. We wanted to:
Enable information workers to unlock PDF content with comprehensive tools for both editing and content reuse.
Accelerate document exchange using PDF and the web, forms data collection, review, approvals and eSignatures.
Empower employees to be productive on the go with PDF on tablets and smartphones.
Mitigate risk and lower IT costs with the most advanced document and application security.
It looks like we've succeeded. Acrobat XI has gotten high marks from customers that were in our beta program. These customers are typical of those dealing with the gap.
Security is high on the list for many. Mike Mann, release and deployment analyst at tax and finance consultancy, McGladrey, said, "Our client information is sensitive, so document security is critical. Acrobat XI offers advance document protection capabilities that are easier than ever for our staff to uniformly secure documents."
Bill Lunsford of BBDO Atlanta likes the speed and efficiency he gets with the integrated services, especially EchoSign. "The new EchoSign features within Adobe Acrobat XI will streamline everyday tasks. These days, no one is going to stand at a fax machine to wait for approvals. Being able to electronically sign a PDF on cost estimates for a project will accelerate go-to-market schedules."
Yvonne Willis, enterprise applications and project manager at Pillsbury Law, echoed that: "Security is the talk of the town. All of our clients expect the highest level of security, from our documents through our applications and IT environment. Acrobat XI provides key security enhancements that support both users and IT professionals."
Regarding accelerating document exchange, Saul Morse, vice president of multichannel integration, Palio, said, "Acrobat XI now makes it even easier and faster to create PDF forms and to automatically distribute and collect information with new online forms services available within Acrobat XI."
But BBDO Atlanta's Lunsford summed up Acrobat XI best: "I leverage the heck out of Adobe Acrobat because I can cut down on the resources and my IT department loves me."
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This year will be my first Christmas in my own house. Since my husband was a child he has been collecting diecast tractors and farm toys. This year instead of keeping them boxed up, I am going to make him a tractor tree! I have already been getting them out and putting ribbon on them to hang from the branches.
Since a lot of the stuff is too big for the tree I will have a farm scene under the tree with farms and animals and such.
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Most unfortunately, Traitor To the Throne (Rebel of the Sands #2) came down with a severe case of Second Book Blues.
It actually wasn't a terrible book and I still liked it!! But because I loved Rebel of the Sands so enormously much…I slapped my cover of Traitor shut and felt enormously disappointed. It was nothing like its big sibling and I felt like I'd eaten a sandwich that was more sand than wich. (I'm assuming the "wich" part of sandwich is the part with the cheese and no lettuce in sight. Because lettuce is a sin.)
NOTE: The review doesn't contain spoilers for Traitor To the Throne! Mild spoilers may apply for the first book — BUT VERY VERY MILD. I am being all the careful.
- I STILL MONSTROUSLY ADORE THE WORLD. I'm a sucker for Persian culture! Even though Traitor to the Throne took a massive faceplant into Political Intrigue Stuff (shh that's the technical phrasing) I still did like the scuttling about palaces and harems and conspiracy theories. PLUS IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL! The description was lush and there was tons of backstory for the world.
- THE COVERS ARE JUST THE BEST. Ha ha to the Americans who had to change covers. (Ahem excuse me, I was not gloating.) But I love the colours and the art and just = I would eat it I love it so.
- There is lots of magic!! Lots of using the desert as a weapon which I think is an A+ idea because do you know what happens when you get sand in your hair? It stays there. Forever. GOOD WEAPON! These Demdji (which are like the demigods of this culture I guess? Half Djinni x half human) know how to attack. Plus there is still shooting!! Although, sadly, not near as much as the first book.
- WE GET ANSWERS. Answers are nice! I do like a sequel that informs us about:
- Who Amani's magical Djinni father is.
- What happened to Tamid who was left bleeding in the sand at the start of book 1 #nice
- What happened to some of Amani's cousins.
- What happens when you are a special of specialest snowflakes but live in a desert do you melt omg who can know
- IT WAS MISSING EVERYTHING I LOVED ABOUT THE FIRST BOOK. Ya. I'm crying too. My absolutely favourite things in Rebel of the Sands were (1) Jin, (2) sass, (3) shooting all the things, and (4) action. Oh Jin's not dead, don't worry. He's just SIMPLY NOT AROUND. And while I appreciate that Amani can be an interesting character by herself (#StrongIndependentYoungWomenFTW) I missed Jin because he featured so much in the last book and was my favourite. AND WHAT ABOUT THE SASS. WHERE WAS IT. WHEREEEEEEE.
- SPEAKING OF WHICH….MY SHIP RAN AGROUND IN THE DESSERT. It's not sunk per se. But since Jin is literally not around for like 450 of the 500 page book — IT'S HARD TO FEEL ANYTHING'S SAILING. Before the book even starts, apparently Jin and Amani had this massive argument THAT WE DID NOT GET TO SEE. What?!?? That is not a good way to open a book. How can I, a reader, go from the end of book 1 where they were smooching in the desert, to the beginning of book 2 where Amani is angry at Jin for things I never saw — and yet I'm expected to understand??? Also I 10000% hate the "this is the sequel so the happy couple have got to hate each other" trope.
- SO MANY CHARACTERS. SO MUCH NO CARE. I didn't keep up with the 39839 characters and names and then WOAH let's add in a dozen princes or so that I'm meant to tell apart. I haven't got a flippity flying clue who's related to who. THERE WERE CHARACTERS POPPING OUT OF THE
SNOWSAND LIKE DAISIES. Plus I didn't care about these characters. I care about Jin. WHY IS JIN GONE.
- WHY WAS IT 500 PAGES LONG. What did I do to deserve this. One of my biggest compliments about Book #1 was how it was fun, sassy, short, and concise. THIS HAD NONE OF THAT. It was long, tedious, and full of talking instead of doing. And since Amani is the specialist snowflake of ever she can't be hurt and….oh sorry. I had to take a small moment to cry with frustration. #CaitIsAWeepingWalnut
I do think it suffered violently from sequel blues.
Which is ironic because it's red. But shh, details details. It just lacked nearly everything I loved about Rebel of the Sands?? Which isn't to say, of course, that YOU will not love it, because you are not me! (Thank goodness. The universe barely handles one of me.) But I'm still giving it 3 stars because I enjoy the world and I still like Amani…but this is still a dastardly disappointing sequel and I am a sand monster of regrets.
THANK YOU TO ALLEN & UNWIN FOR THE ARC. Traitor To The Throne (Rebel of the Sands #2) by Alwyin Hamilton was published January, 2017.
Nearly a year has passed since Amani and the rebels won their epic battle at Fahali. Amani has come into both her powers and her reputation as the Blue-Eyed Bandit, and the Rebel Prince's message has spread across the desert – and some might say out of control. But when a surprise encounter turns into a brutal kidnapping, Amani finds herself betrayed in the cruellest manner possible.
Stripped of her powers and her identity, and torn from the man she loves, Amani must return to her desert-girl's instinct for survival. For the Sultan's palace is a dangerous one, and the harem is a viper's nest of suspicion, fear and intrigue. Just the right place for a spy to thrive… But spying is a dangerous game, and when ghosts from Amani's past emerge to haunt her, she begins to wonder if she can trust her own treacherous heart.
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Bright and early Thursday morning in Augusta, Georgia, a field of 93 golfers will begin to tee off in the 77th edition of the Masters golf tournament. And, as usual, there will be multiple story lines to follow all the way to Sunday afternoon.
One interesting subplot is that of Tianlang Guan, a 14-year-old 8th grader from China. He is the youngest qualifier in Masters history, having won the Asia Pacific Amateur championship last November. The previous youngest qualifier was Matteo Manassero in 2010, who won the British Amateur to qualify at age 16.
Guan will begin tournament play paired with Manassero and two-time Masters champion Ben Crenshaw on Thursday at 12:24 p.m. Eastern time.
Four-time champion Tiger Woods comes to Augusta National having won three times so far this season and is listed as a favorite to win a fifth green jacket this year. Woods is paired with Englishman Luke Donald and fellow American Scott Piercy in the tournament's first two rounds, teeing off at 10:45 a.m. Thursday.
Phil Mickelson will attempt to draw even with Tiger Woods by winning his fourth Masters this weekend. Equipped with a new hybrid wood, the 'Phrankenwood,' the three-time former champion hopes to get around the 7,435-yard Augusta National layout in fewer strokes than any of the other competitors. The combined driver/3-wood attempts to give him more distance and directional control.
"It's almost like a small driver but its put the 3-wood technology of our X Hot into a driver. What it's done is taken a lot of spin off of it. And if you watch, you'll see a lot of the shots off the tee that I hit have a lot more scoot on them," Mickelson told Golf.com Tuesday.
Mickelson is paired with South African Louis Oosthuizen, the former British Open champ who hit the second-best shot in last year's Masters - knocking in his second shot on the par-5 second hole for a 'double eagle' - and finished in second place. Former PGA champion Martin Kaymer of Germany rounds out the threesome that will tee off at 1:30 p.m. Thursday.
Defending champion Bubba Watson comes into the Masters having made the cut in five of six PGA Tour events so far in 2013. He's probably made more of a 'splash' this year by showing off his new amphibious golf cart, 'Bubba's Hover.' Watson will be teeing off at 10:34 a.m. Thursday, paired with Ian Poulter of England and last year's US Amateur champ Steven Fox.
The 77th Masters will be televised on ESPN Thursday and Friday, beginning at 3 p.m. Eastern time. CBS picks up the weekend coverage Saturday at 3 p.m. Eastern time and 2 p.m. Sunday.


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Level 40! Time To Get That Healing Offspec
I recently received my first email asking for paladin advice. I was super excited! Strangely enough, I get quite a few emails on blogging and writing styles (which I find both flattering and amusing since I'm a noob to blogging and my English education comprises of a few English Second Language classes back in high school), but for whatever reason, I'm very rarely asked about paladin stuff.
The question was from Mike, who has recently hit level 40 on his retribution paladin and was considering grabbing a healing offspec. He was looking for some recommendations and, in my enthusiasm, I replied with a wall of text he's probably not finished reading yet.
After I hit the "send" button, I thought it would make for a good blog post. With everyone and their cousin leveling healers in the LFD system these days, I'm sure many players would benefit from some pointers. Plus, the last time I leveled a holy paladin was 4 years ago, so I'm sure you guys have stuff to add that I wouldn't even have thought of.
So, after the cut is how I would go about building a healer at level 40.
1- Spec/Glyphs
I assume that all healing will be done in instances/group quests. In other words, not PvP. I would love to offer PvP leveling advice, but that would land me my first very angry email.
Also assuming the spec won't be used for solo questing/soloing, I'd recommend this kind of talent point spending at level 40:
with the next talent point to be put in holy power (to get 5/5 holy power).
If you find that you're always using Blessing of Kings and not Blessing of Wisdom, you can take the two points from Improved Blessing of Wisdom and put them in Aura Mastery and/or Improved Concentration Aura.
Glyphs are flexible, but the ones in the link are the ones I'd start with. Obviously, you don't have all your glyph spots open yet so feel free to switch them around based on whether you need more output or mana. I prefer Seal of Wisdom as a first Major and Lay on Hands as first Minor, but your mileage may vary.
As you move down the holy talent tree, you'll want talents that increase your casting speed (Light's Grace, Judgements of the Pure, Infusion of Light), your output (Holy Guidance, Beacon of Light) and reduce mana cost (Divine Illumination). Also take Enlightened Judgements to make judging easier. After you have the Judgement of the Pure talent, you'll want to judge at least once a minute to keep up a haste buff.
Once you reach the bottom of the holy tree, you can either go down the Protection tree (Divinity is nice while you level) or the Retribution tree for the crit talents (nice for 5 mans, especially if you run out of mana a lot).
2- Spells/Healing style
Level 40 is a good time to start getting familiar with reading green health bars and practicing your basic healing spells since you won't be getting the gimmicky spells until way later on. Right now, you'll have Flash of Light (little heal), Holy Light (big heal) and, with the spec I suggested, Holy Shock (instant but mana expensive heal). The key is to experiment with them to see how much they heal for and how big a dent they put in your mana bar. At lower levels, your spell choice will really depend on who ends up in your group. Low level players are all over the skill/common sense map, so you're in for a great healing workout.
Also don't forget to Purify (remove poison/disease) or Cleanse (remove magic/poison/disease after level 42) whenever you can. Makes healing sooo much easier.
Other spells at your disposal that you should have hotkeyed are:
Hand of Protection – Makes someone immune to physical damage but prevents them from dealing physical damage. It's good to use on mages/warlocks/priests the second they pull aggro on physical mobs. I tend to keep mine on CD. Never use it on a tank (there are a few raid exceptions, but general rule is never, ever use it on a tank) and only use it on melee if you're trying to teach them a lesson.
Hand of Salvation – You can put it on someone to reduce their threat. Good for melee that pulls aggro as well as clothies if your hand of protection is on CD.
Another cooldown you can use is Divine Sacrifice to transfer some of the party's damage to yourself. You'll get the most effect from it if you cast it when you bubble, but you don't need to bubble to use it. A single target version of the spell is Hand of Sacrifice, but you'll want to bubble for that one!
I'm assuming that by level 40, all paladins are in touch with their Lay on Hands spell (I would have lost my mind levelling my ret pally without it). Just in case, though, Lay on Hands restores the targets health based on your maximum health. It's lovely. Use it and rejoice.
3- Seals/Judgements/Auras
Keep a seal up at all times. Seal of Wisdom (especially if you're using the glyph) will probably be your best bet, but if you find you never run out of mana, you can glyph for Seal of Light and keep that up instead. If you stand near mobs and melee them as you heal with Seal of Wisdom up, you'll get some extra mana back. This is a controversial and often misunderstood trick, so expect some groups to protest. Also, play it smart, if on a specific fight being in melee range will hurt you, don't stand there.
Try to judge as often as possible. Judgement of Light is the default judgement for a holy paladin, but if another paladin in the group is judging that, you can Judge Wisdom.
Adjust your aura as needed. Devotion Aura is the default. If your group isn't taking much damage, you can use Retribution Aura. If the other auras are covered and/or the casters are getting beat on a lot, you can do Concentration Aura.
4- Building a UI
The most important part of a healer UI is your frames. In 5 mans, you can do fine with the default UI, but it's a lot easier with addon frames. The most popular frames are:
I use Grid+Clique and I love it because I use it for my tanking abilities too, but others have had great experiences with Vuhdo or Healbot.
In a nutshell, Grid is just your frames, it tracks everything going on in the raid. You configure it so it shows what you want and how you want it. To cast spells by clicking/mousing+keying on someones name, you need to either make mouseover macros (my macros never work so I can't help there!), or get the Clique addon which will let you can spells by simply clicking on someone's name.
Whatever frames you use, you want to configure them to show the following:
- Health (they'll all do that automatically)
- Aggro warning (super important, and good to have as a tank as well)
- Dispellable debuffs: Disease, Poison and Magic (Magic is after level 42) (ideally you'll want those as an icon)
- Undispellable debuffs: Curses (just so you know to give a cursed person some extra attention)
Later on, when you get Beacon of Light (level 60 via talents) and Sacred Shield (trained at level 80), you'll want to track those as well.
Dristanel wrote a guide to configuring Grid
You should hotkey your spells to however is more comfortable to you. You should have your 3 healing spells on hand, plus HoProtection and HoSalv. You can bind HoSacrifice too, I don't use it much, but I probably should. Later on, you'll want Beacon and Sacred Shield nearby as well.
Some paladins choose to have Lay on Hands bound. I have a bad habit of hitting it by accident so I don't have it bound to my mouse. If you never fat figure your spells, keep it close too.
Pally Power is another must have, but it's not holy specific. If you don't have it already, download it here:
Later on, it's recommended to get a Beacon of Light/Sacred Shield timer (I use BOLT – http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/bolt-beacon-light-timer/download/408351.aspx) but you won't need it for a few more levels.
I'm also a huge fan of Scrolling Battle text. It's not necessary, but I personally can't play well without it.
Layout wise, most healers like to have their raid frames at the bottom of the screen, below feet level, so they can watch their frames and the fight at the same time. I keep Power Power to the right of my screen, but you can put it anywhere, as long as its out of the way. I keep my BoL/SS timers next to my frames so I don't have to move my eyes as much.
The rest is all practice
There's only so much you can get out of a guide, the rest is exploring and experimenting. Healing is very much a personal thing. There are guidelines but every healer has their idiosyncrasies that make no sense to anyone else. Low level healing especially requires flexibility and willingness to adapt. No two groups are alike and you're subject to the whims of the strangest players.
At any time, if you all alone and discouraged, I suggest you look to Vidyala at Pugging Pally to find a kindred spirit.Explore posts in the same categories: Baby Paladining, Teh paladin
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February 24, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Yay for Grid! The only issue with it is that is not practical to use for healing without extensive setup. Worth the trouble though, 100%. I use mouseover macros exclusively (but I get them wrong whenever I try to write them without researching). I did try Clique but I kept casting heals accidently. It was embarrassing.
I keep my healing Grid at the bottom of the screen too but I haven't found the perfect spot… it gets blocked by popups too often, especially when some fool loots mid-battle.


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Happy New Year!!!
The year 2013 is the year of the "Black" Snake that comes once every 60 years but not until February 10, 2013, the first day of the lunar calendar since the zodiac signs are based on the cycles of the moon. Most Koreans consider Lunar New Year Day or Seollal much more important than today (the first day of the Gregorian calendar).
Please read my old posts below if you want to learn about how South Korea sends off the year and welcomes in New Year and of course what they eat and do on New Year's Day.
- Korean New Year's Eve
- Korean New Year's Day: Ddeokguk (Rice Cake Soup) and Korean Age
- Seollal (New Year's Day) and the Great Exodus
- Meaning of Seol and Seollal (New Year's Day)
- Seollal (New Year's Day) and Ggachi Seollal (Magpies' New Year's Day)
- Traditional Seollal Customs ❶
- Traditional Seollal Customs and Pastimes ❷
- Learn How to Make Ddeokguk (Rice Cake Soup)
- Rice Cake Metaphors in Korean Maxims
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Her victory also marks the first time ever that Nebraska had a Miss America winner, said the AP.
During the competition, Scanlan wore a black bikini and white evening gown, performed a musical piece on piano, and offered her opinion on WikiLeaks.
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Alyse Eady--Miss Arkansas--was the first runner-up followed by Jalee Fuselier--Miss Hawaii--as the second runner-up.
In addition to the three top finalists, the competition's other semi-finalists included: Emoly West (Miss Oklahoma); Ashley Melnick (Miss Texas); Deborah Saint-Vil (Miss Rhode Island); Christina Lowe (Miss Utah); Jacquie Brown (Miss Washington); Kathryn Bulkley (Miss Arizona); Caitlin Uze (Miss Virginia); Arianna Afsar (Miss California); Claire Buffie (Miss New York); Kayla Martell (Miss Delaware); Djuan Trent (Miss Kentucky); and Stephanie Steers (Miss Oregon).
Entertainment Weekly's Tanner Stransky argues that there was hardly any promotion for the broadcast, which aired on ABC. "Where are the billboards? The magazine advertisements? The hosts and last year's winner Miss Virginia parading through the morning-show circuit?" Stransky writes.
The pageant did feel like it was thrown together at the last minute, from the lackluster beginning choreography, to the hiccups between the hosts. During the eveningwear segment of the show, the girls kept saying how the "real me" is someone who stays home in pajamas and frumpy shoes. But it seems like a lot of the "inner beauty"
"I love Lady Gaga's meat gown, I kind of wish I had one," said Miss Kentucky Djuan Trent.
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In version 2.75, an object plugin cannot see the file info, so you have to define your own custom text. You only have to do it once at the start of the staff.
classifying page text independent of its page boundary locationmultiple instances of page text using the same page boundary locationsize adjustments to the built-in font stylesre-use of size and position for updated text sharing the same class
I'd also like to set Page Display Control to 'first page only'
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IMO, a centered title ought to be centered on the page:
I believe this to be the same issue that I raised
If you have any form of staff labels activated, even if you don't have a staff label defined, then the title (defined as Top-Center) on page one is slightly adjusted in comparison with the positions of the same top-center titles on other pages.
You can do this by copying your original instruction to Page 2 and setting the visibility to "Never" .
I am looking into this.
x = (pg_r - pg_l)/2 + cx
x = (pg_r + pg_l)/2 + cx
In PageTxtMaestro, line 135, change the centering calculation from:Code: (lua) [Select · Download]x = (pg_r - pg_l)/2 + cxtoCode: (lua) [Select · Download]x = (pg_r + pg_l)/2 + cxMike
I may be missing something, but I don't find a way to indicate that a text object should be used only once. One can, of course, enter a copy of the "PageTxt" object on the next page with no text in it, but that's awkward. I'd like to see the "Page Display Control" drop-down box include a "this page only" option.
I'd like to see the "Page Display Control" drop-down box include a "this page only" option.
(the dummy bar is there to force the first boundary to take effect):
...Also, if I wanted to make an entire separate front page of text with performance notes and background info, what would be the best way to go about it? (Not necessarily with this plug in if there is an easier way to do it within NWC.)
Like what I did in the PDF linked in that posting? I do not use NWC for this, but write separate documents and combine them to a single PDF with free PDFCreator (a common and standard tool for creating PDF files).In that case, I wrote the first page separately (in Microsoft Word) and then used the "Merge" feature of PDFCreator to first print the front page, then do "Merge", then print the NWC score (from NWC to PDFCreator as printer), and then "Merge All" to create a single PDF from it.H.M.
Yes, exactly! It would be great to be able to do this within NWC.
Well I thought about suppressing them but that seems like it is more work to put in all those different objects rather than dealing with it in the one big file information box.
We should prefer dedicated tools for separate things.
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Now, when you get into this place where your thought has given up, you are then in a strange state which for us is very very scary.
Because you're not thinking anything. I remember the first time this happened when I went for a period of time not thinking anything and I suddenly got panicked. I thought "oh, I've taken too many drugs, look, I've blown my mind! I'm not thinking anything!"
Because thought was money, thought was power, thought was the game. I'd drive across the country usually with a tape recorder and a pad of paper attached to my thigh and as I'd go I'd have ideas, I'd research ideas and I'd write them down. I'd create designs and proposals and theories and think it all up and dictate letters and suddenly I'm empty. Nothing at all. And then I started to find out this very far out thing: that the emptier my mind was, the more optimal my response was to every situation.
I don't have any plan for what I'm going to say to you. What I wrote down were the things that said in the catalog about what I was supposed to talk about. But I had no idea about what to say, but what I say I say. What I say is the result of this situation. If you were a group of Catholic priests sitting here, out would come something entirely different. But what I had to develop was a trust in the fact that when I was not thinking, it was still possible to act, and the Buddha says "as long as you think there is a doer you are still attached". You only get to the point where you begin to watch from this place where you calm your mind down, this center you get into, what I call "the witness." You develop a place from which you watch your entire drama go by. Including your own thoughts. It's like you're standing on a bridge watching your life go under the water.
Keeping a Mantra is a Way to Calm Thought
Now you've noticed that much of the time this morning I've been working with these beads. This is called a 'mala' and this looks like 'well, he's into a religious mushy trip', that kind of thing. This is a very exquisite heuristic device for cognitive centering, if it's not too profane to put it that way. What, in effect, I am doing is I am keeping a mantra going inside which part of the morning has been "ram ram ram ram" and part of it has been a Tibetan mantra, Om Mani Padme Hum, keeping all of this going all of the time I've been talking to you. In other words, most of the time you've been in this room you've been busy listening and identifying with yourself as a listener. At no time that I have been in this room have I been identifying myself as a speaker. It's a hard one. That is there is a place inside where I am sitting where I am watching him speak, just as I am watching him listen. And this is all happening, I don't think "who I am is what's speaking." Speaking IS. It's going on at the same level you all do, when you drive cars, most of you, when you do it on automatic, you can drive a car and sit and talk to somebody else and make these fantastically complex responses, make all kinds of judgments and you never think about it at all. And your mind is somewhere else, now where is your mind? It's usually on something else. And that something else can become secondary and you'd be on something else. You can be scratching yourself and driving and talking. Then you can be scratching and smoking and driving and talking and you can get to where you're doing a dozen things, none of which are conscious.
Well the idea is that you find a place, you start to localize in on a place inside you where the flame never flickers. A candle place inside where the flame never flickers and you sit in that place, absolute calm, content and centered- from which your drama goes by. There's that thought, there's that fear. Personality becomes like clothing- body becomes like clothing. And behind it all here I am, and I can make the statement to you that if you were centered in that inner place in you and I in me, the far out thing is that we would be one because there's only one inner place. And sometimes in a room you can experience a psychic space that we're all sharing independent of a little drama that we're playing and talking. I can look into someone's eyes and continue to talk to them while looking into their eyes and in effect say "here we are, we have this contact, and then there is this contact of talking, you're listening, I'm speaking and we're both watching that." It's like when Englishmen play tennis, and they're right at the set point and it's add in or add out, it's at a very critical point and it's a fierce tennis match and just as the serve is about to start they look at each other and they are so conscious that at that point they say "wow, isn't this great." That here we are fighting fiercely under this beautiful sun playing this exquisite game. In other words, they are simultaneously living the two levels, a level which is meta to the game role which they're involved in. Well, finally you live in a place that is meta to all the roles you live in. You live meta to your body, meta to your desires, meta to your feelings, and you start to center in a place. And once you live in that more and more and more, attachments keep falling away. That doesn't mean actions fall away, but attachments to actions fall away.
Changing Perspective
This has been an adventure for me to share these experiences because when I came back from India I was told I had to come back because I still had attachments back in the West, and I had to come back and live out my karma until I was ready to come back to India. When I asked what I was to do in America, they said "do your spiritual work" and I asked "what does that include?" and they said "everything you do." I was told that I just would "do" and everything would take care of itself. So when I am asked, I speak, when I'm not I sit in the cabin. When people come, I teach. And what is awesome to me is that as I come back there are literally, as I go around the country, hundreds of thousands of people who are ready to hear just exactly the thing that I'm involved in. Not because it's me, but because there is a simultaneity of opening in thousands of people in Vancouver, San Francisco, Chicago, New Mexico, New York. And the thing that is further awesome to me is that all my categories of who we are and who they are break down. Miles of generation gaps and good guys and bad guys, it all turns out to be crap because behind it all here we are.
Carl Jung said in his eulogy of Richard Wilhelm who translated the I Ching, he said "it takes somebody who is willing to give up the Western predisposing perceptual framework sufficiently to experience another orientation toward the universe to be able to know what needs to be known outside of one's own system." You have to give it up first. And what I felt is that there has been a surrender of my Western model of who I am and how it all works, and at the moment I don't have the desire yet to bring it back into science or to know I know. I am a student, I am a beginning student in this whole process. And as I understand it, finally, one teaches by one's being- it isn't what you say or what you understand, it's the state of your own existence and what gets communicated to another being. In other words it's not what you say, but what you are.
~ Ram Dass


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A jury convicted Bonds of a single felony count of obstruction, stemming from when he answered a question about whether his trainer, Greg Anderson, had ever injected him with a substance by discussing the difficulties of being the son of a famous father. Bonds' father is former major leaguer Bobby Bonds. The jury deadlocked on three other counts of perjury over Bonds' denial that he knowingly used drugs and those charges were later dismissed.
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And while the report said the general picture of Australian unions was that they are "honestly run" it did not investigate that issue itself.
Federal opposition workplace relations spokesman Eric Abetz dismissed the report as a whitewash.
ACTU secretary Dave Oliver said unions should "feel proud" of the report, which was commissioned by the ACTU last year. Its panel of experts was headed by former Federal Court judge Rod Madgwick.
He said the positive response to the report from union leaders on Wednesday meant he expected them to make changes where needed.
Mr Oliver said the review was never meant to investigate corruption itself but he was confident the problems had been limited to a "couple of individuals in one union".
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Assemblyman Bill Magee friend of farm organization
To The Editor:
I am pleased to announce that New York Farm Bureau has recently named Assemblyman Bill Magee to our annual "Circle of Friends" list. This legislative award is granted based upon his record of legislative support for New York agriculture and the Farm Bureau. New York Farm Bureau is a non-partisan organization and does not endorse elected officials or political candidates.
Assemblyman Magee joins a number of other legislators in the Senate and Assembly that have a superior voting record on issues and have shown strong support for the New York farm industry during the 2011 state legislative session. Each member of the Farm Bureau "Circle of Friends" has demonstrated an understanding of the important issues impacting farmers and the considerable impact the industry has on our economy and quality of life.
New York Farm Bureau, the state's largest general farm advocacy organization, works closely with the state legislature to strengthen and enhance the agricultural industry in New York State. This year's legislative session proved to be a challenging one for farmers, but with significant support from key legislators, such as Assemblyman Magee, agriculture will continue to be one of New York's most important industries.
We are pleased to provide the "Circle of Friends" designation to Assemblyman Bill Magee to thank him for his hard work on behalf of farmers in his District and across New York state.


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Economists have been getting increasingly bullish on housing, with some expecting home prices to rise 8 percent this year.To gauge the housing recovery analysts watch data points including home sales and inventory for insight into how tight the housing supply is.
They also watch for sentiment among home builders.
This week we see four important housing data points. Here's what to expect:
- The NAHB housing market index for March is out on Monday at 10 a.m. ET. Economists polled by Bloomberg are looking for homebuilder sentiment to rise to 47, from 46 the previous month.
- Housing Starts for February are out 8:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday. Economists polled by Bloomberg are looking for housing starts to rise 2.8 percent month-over-month to 915,000, compared with the 8.5 percent decline in January to 890,000. Meanwhile, building permits are expected to rise 2.1 percent to 923,000, compared with a 1.8 percent rise in January to 925,000.
- On Thursday, we get the FHFA house price index (HPI) for January at 9 a.m. ET. Economists polled by Bloomberg are looking for HPI to rise 0.7 percent month-over-month, compared with 0.6 percent the previous month.
- Existing home sales for February are also out on Thursday, at 10 a.m. ET. Economists polled by Bloomberg are looking for existing home sales to rise 1.6 percent month-over-month to an annual rate of 5 million, compared with a 0.4 percent rise to an annual rate of 4.92 million in January.
While monthly data tends to be volatile, it gives us insight into developing trends in the housing market.
SOURCE: Business Insider


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The Winnebago County Bar Association will promote and support the practice of law and the administration of justice according to the highest standards while also serving its members through education, collegiality and opportunities for public service.
Bar Foundation
Grant Request Application Form
for 2018-2019 Fiscal Year
Winnebago County Bar Foundation
Mission Statement:
To support and recognize, when deserving, efforts which further strengthen or uphold American jurisprudence within Winnebago County, Illinois.
Winnebago County Bar Foundation
Statement of Goal relating to grant making:
One of the goals of the Winnebago County Bar Foundations is to financially support individuals, groups and organizations which in the opinion of the Board of Directors of the Foundation, seek to institute, maintain or support activities, products or endeavors consistent with the mission of the Foundation and for which other funds, public or private, are not available.
Instructions: 1. Complete the Application Form attached.
Organizations/charities purposes must fit the mission statement of the Winnebago County Bar Foundation.
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All applications are due by April 30, 2020 Submit the applications to the Winnebago County Bar Association office, One Court Place, #401, Rockford, IL 61101
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5. Availability of other identified sources of support.
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Nicole Scherzinger Reveals Two Huge One Direction Bombshells
Directioners, you may want to be sitting down.
In a new, 100-question (!) interview with PopJustice, former 'X Factor' judge Nicole Scherzinger drops not one, but two One Direction bombshells about the band.
When asked which member will be the first to leave the group, the former Pussycat Dolls singer didn't hesitate to respond.
"Harry," she answered. "Even though when I put the group together, Liam was hesitant about it because he wanted to go solo."
Hold the phone! Not only does she predict that Harry will be the first member to go solo, Liam almost wasn't in the band because he wanted to pursue his own career?! We need a second to collect ourselves.
While fans are well aware of the group's three-year contract, Nicole's shocking revelation about the band will only fuel the constant rumors about Harry going solo. And though her surprising confession about Liam may leave 1D fans stunned (although his hesitancy would make sense, considering the guys all were solo before joining the group) everyone can at least breathe a sigh of relief in that department -- because obviously Liam went on to join the band.
Still, Nicole's casual 1D confessions may very well leave Directioners feeling a bit uneasy. But look on the bright side: The group (and the fans!) have a ton to look forward to in 1D Land, including the upcoming North American leg of their Where We Are Tour. And we know how much the guys care about each other -- just look at how they came to Liam's rescue after he hurt himself onstage. You can't break those bonds so easily.
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Antipasto bread
I got the Chocolate & Zucchini book Daily adventures in a Parisian kitchen for Christmas, and was flipping through it today and saw a recipe for tomato, pistachio and chorizo bread. I skimmed the recipe, thinking I had some chorizo in the fridge, and decided to try it out. I made some changes due to my taste and what I had on hand (turns out I had salami and not chorizo) and it turned out well. It is very good if you spread it with a little butter and toast it - it's very moist. Tomorrow I might cut it into cubes for croutons, would that be crazy?
Antipasto bread
Adapted from Daily adventures in a Parisian kitchen, but gluten free and with different flavors. I added all antipasto things, olives, capers, pesto, salami, sun-dried tomatoes in oil.
2 T sesame seeds
1 1/4 c rice flour mix
3/4 t xanthan gum
a heaping tablespoon baking powder
3 eggs
1/4 t salt
1/2 t pepper
1/4 c olive oil
1/2 c greek yogurt
1/4 c chopped salami
1/4 c chopped sun dried tomatoes
1/4 c chunky olive tapenade
1/4 c parm cheese
2 T pesto
Preheat oven to 350, and lightly grease a 9x5 loaf pan. Sprinkle 1 T sesame seeds over the bottom of the pan and set aside. In a small bowl, mix together the flour mix, xanthan gum, and baking powder, then set aside. Beat the eggs with the salt and pepper, then add the olive oil then yogurt. When smooth, fold in the flour mix and stir just until combined. Fold in the salami, tomatoes, olive tapenade, and parm cheese. Spread half the batter in the pan, plop the pesto over the top, then spread the rest of the batter on the top. Smooth the top, then sprinkle with the rest of the sesame seeds. Bake for about 50 minutes, until crusty and brown on top and a knife comes out clean. Cool in the pan until cool enough to handle, then turn out and cool completely on a rack.
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Your version sounds very tasty, Jill, and I'm glad you successfully converted the recipe to be gluten-free. If anyone asks, I'll be sure to point them to your post.ReplyDelete
YUM -- good idea - I love antipasto, and we always do a full antipasto before thanksgiving/xmas/easter, this would be a good idea for the leftovers & even just to put out with all the goods!ReplyDelete
My friend made me a version of this by simply subbing almond flour for the regular flour. A little dense but a good idea: http://lifeofmymouth.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-years-eve.htmlReplyDelete
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Come out and enjoy the fun at the 28th annual Go for the Gold
(formerly MacAttack) 5K Run/3K Family Fun Walk and "Kid's Races"!
Proceeds from this event will benefit the continued efforts of Brighter Tomorrows,
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From Middle English, borrowed from Latin gibbus ("humped, hunched"), probably cognate with cubō ("bend oneself, lie down"), Italian gobba ("humpback"), Greek κύφος (kýfos, "humpback, bent"), κύβος (kývos, "cube, vertebra"), Spanish giboso ("humped").
gibbous (comparative more gibbous, superlative most gibbous)
- Characterized by convexity; protuberant.
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, chapter 22
- In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready [...]
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, chapter 22
- (astronomy) Phase of moon or planet between first quarter and full or between full and last quarter.
- Humpbacked.
- 1697, Dryden, Aeneid, book 8
- A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black,
- Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back;
- 1697, Dryden, Aeneid, book 8
Derived terms[edit]
characterized by convexity; protuberant
phase of moon or planet
humpbacked — see humpbacked


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