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From project home page:
- The "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment" is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment. Maintained by an international community of developers, it comes with a beautiful interface, multi-language support, standard keyboard short cuts and additional features like tabbed file browsing. LXDE uses less CPU and less RAM than other environments. It is especially designed for cloud computers with low hardware specifications, such as, netbooks, mobile devices (e.g. MIDs) or older computers.
- 1 Installation
- 2 Starting the desktop
- 3 Tips and tricks
- 3.1 Application menu editing
- 3.2 Auto mount
- 3.3 Autostart programs
- 3.4 Bindings
- 3.5 Cursors
- 3.6 Digital clock applet time
- 3.7 Font settings
- 3.8 Keyboard layout
- 3.9 Screen locking
- 3.10 Disabling screen blanking without installing GUI screensaver
- 3.11 lxpanel icons
- 3.12 Network Management
- 3.13 PCManFM
- 3.14 Replacing window managers
- 3.15 Shutdown, reboot, suspend and hibernate options ( LXSession-logout)
- 4 Troubleshooting
- 5 See also
LXDE is considered modular, meaning that choosing a specific package for a task is usually accomplishable; the minimal required packages which you have to install to run LXDE are lxde-common and openbox (or another window manager).
The complete LXDE suite can be installed with the group lxde, available in the official repositories. It contains the following packages:
- gpicview - Lightweight image viewer
- libfm - Library for file management
- lxappearance - Utility to configure themes, icons and fonts for GTK+ applications
- lxappearance-obconf - Plugin for LXAppearance to configure Openbox
- lxde-common - Default settings for integrating different LXDE components
- lxde-icon-theme - Icon theme for LXDE
- lxdm - Lightweight display manager
- lxinput - Small program to configure keyboard and mouse for LXDE
- lxlauncher - Application launcher mainly for netbooks
- lxmenu-data - Collection of files intended to adapt freedesktop.org menu specification
- lxmusic - Lightweight XMMS2 client
- lxpanel - Desktop panel for LXDE
- lxpolkit - Simple polkit authentication agent for LXDE
- lxrandr - Screen manager
- lxsession - Standard-compliant X11 session manager with shutdown, reboot and suspend support
- lxshortcut - Small program used to edit application shortcuts
- lxtask - Lightweight task manager
- lxterminal - Lightweight terminal emulator
- menu-cache - Daemon which automatically generates the menu for LXDE
- openbox - Lightweight, standard-compliant and highly-configurable window manager typically used with LXDE
- pcmanfm - Default lightweight file manager for LXDE which also provides desktop integration
leafpad and epdfview are some lightweight applications that are typically used with LXDE and are also available in the official repositories.
Starting the desktop
There are lots of ways to start a LXDE desktop.
Display managers
If you are using a display manager like GDM, KDM, or SLiM, switch the session to LXDE. Please consult the display manager's wiki page for instructions.
Instructions for using LXDM, an experimental display manager provided by the LXDE project, are included in LXDM page.
If you are not using a display manager you might want to add
export DESKTOP_SESSION=LXDE
to your
~/.bash_profile in order for xdg-open to function properly.
To be able to start the desktop from the console, several other options exist.
To use startx, you will need to define LXDE in your
~/.xinitrc file:
exec startlxde
If you want to run startx at boot automatically, take a look at the Starting X at boot guide.
For other tasks you will want to be sure that dbus is running as a daemon.
See xinitrc for details, such as preserving the logind session.
Tips and tricks
The application menu works by resolving the
.desktop files located in
/usr/share/applications. Many desktop environments run programs that supersede these settings to allow customization of the menu. LXDE has yet to create an application menu editor but you can manually build them yourself if you are so inclined. Third party menu editor can be found in AUR - lxmedAUR
To add or edit a menu item, create or link to the
.desktop file in
/usr/local/share/applications, or
~/.local/share/applications. (The latter two have the advantage of putting your application outside of directories governed by
pacman.) Consult the desktop entry specification on freedesktop.org for structures of
.desktop files.
To remove items from the menu, instead of deleting the
.desktop files, you can edit the file and add the following line in the file:
To expedite the process for a good number of files you can put it in a loop. For example:
$ cd /usr/share/applications $ for i in program1.desktop program2.desktop ...; do cp /usr/share/applications/$i \ /home/user/.local/share/applications/; echo "NoDisplay=true" >> \ /home/user/.local/share/applications/$i; done
This will work for all applications except KDE applications. For these, the only way to remove them from the menu is to log into KDE itself and use it's menu editor. For every item that you do not want displayed, check the 'Show only in KDE' option. If adding NoDisplay=True will not work, you can add ShowOnlyIn=XFCE.
Auto mount
Please consult the PCManfm and File_manager_functionality wiki articles for information regarding automounting.
Autostart programs
By default, Openbox is the window manager for LXDE, so Openbox#Startup programs affects LXDE too.
.desktop files
First you can link a program's
.desktop in
/usr/share/applications/ file to
~/.config/autostart/. For example, to execute lxterminal automatically at startup:
$ ln -s /usr/share/applications/lxterminal.desktop ~/.config/autostart/
.desktop files have been added you can manipulate them with the GUI configuration tool lxsession-editAUR.
autostart file
The second method is to use a
~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart file. This file is not a shell script, but each line represents a command to be executed, if a line begins with a @ symbol, the command following the @ will be automatically re-executed if it crashes. For example, to execute lxterminal and leafpad automatically at startup:
@lxterminal @leafpad
There is also a global autostart file at
/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart. If both files are present, all entries in both files will be executed.
Mouse and key bindings (i.e. keyboard shortcuts) are implemented with Openbox and are described in detail here. LXDE users should follow these instructions to edit the file ~/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml
An optional GUI for editing the key bindings is obkeyAUR available in the AUR. The default edit for obkey is rc.xml, but you can direct it to the LXDE configuration as follows:
$ obkey ~/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml
More information on obkey is here.
Main article: Cursor Themes.
lxappearance provides functionality to change cursor themes.
Digital clock applet time
You can right click on the digital clock applet on the panel and set how it displays the current time. For example, to display standard time instead of military time in the format of HH:MM:SS:
And in YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS format:
%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S
If you wish to display standard time with and AM/PM:
%I:%M %p
See the man page on
strftime (3) for more options.
Font settings
Most users of LXDE usually try to use GTK+ programs because GTK+ is the backend for LXDE. To set the fonts, you can use lxappearance and set the main font. For other fonts you will need to use the Openbox configuration tool obconf.
Keyboard layout
See Keyboard Configuration in Xorg for generic instructions.
See #Autostart programs for a way to automatically start setxkbmap in LXDE.
Add the "Keyboard Layout Switcher" to our taskbar
- Right-click on your taskbar
- Choose "Add/Remove panel items"
- Choose "Add"
- Choose "Keyboard layout switcher"
Screen locking
It is recommended that you use xscreensaver for screen locking in LXDE to start it click on the
screensaver option in the settings section of the LXDE menu and when asked if you want to run the daemon click
yes. Xscreensaver will be added to the
/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart file automatically meaning that it will be started every time you log in with no manual intervention required. Please consult the Xscreensaver wiki article for more information regarding configuration.
Disabling screen blanking without installing GUI screensaver
If you do not want to install GUI screensaver, to disable screen blanking add these lines below to
~/.xinitrc before exec command.
xset s off & xset -dpms &
lxpanel icons
Default icons used by lxpanel are stored in
/usr/share/pixmaps and any custom icons you want lxpanel to use need to be saved there as well.
You can change default icons for applications by taking the following steps:
- Save the new icon to /usr/share/pixmaps
- Use a text editor to open the
.desktopfile of the program whose icon you want to change in
- Change
Network Management
It is recommended that you use networkmanager and network-manager-applet for connecting to and managing networks in LXDE. Please consult the Network_manager wiki article for more details.
PCManFM is the standard file manager in LXDE. See the main article PCManFM for details.
Replacing window managers
Openbox, the default window manager of LXDE, can be easily replaced by other window managers, such as fvwm, icewm, dwm, metacity, xfwm4, compiz, etc.
LXDE will attempt to use window manager from the user lxsession configuration file
~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/desktop.conf. If it does not exist, it will then attempt to use the global configuration file
Replace the openbox-lxde command with the window manager of your choice:
[Session] window_manager=openbox-lxde
For metacity:
For compiz:
window_manager=compiz ccp --indirect-rendering
Shutdown, reboot, suspend and hibernate options ( LXSession-logout)
Ensure that the package upower is installed. Then simply choose the required option from the logout dialogue which can be accessed from the panel.
SSH key management
A very lightweight solution to ssh key management can be found by using keychain. See the using keychain article for details.
NTFS with chinese characters
For a storage device with an NTFS filesystem, you will need to install the NTFS-3G package. Generally, PCManFM works well with NTFS filesystems, however there is one bug affecting NTFS users that if you have files or directories on an NTFS filesystem, the names of which contain non-latin characters (e.g. Chinese characters) may disappear when opening (or auto-mounting) the NTFS volume. This happens because the lxsession mount-helper is not correctly parsing the policies and locale options. There is a workaround for this:
Remove the
/sbin/mount.ntfs-3g which is a symbolic link.
# rm /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g
Create a new
/sbin/mount.ntfs-3g with a new bash script containing:
#!/bin/bash /bin/ntfs-3g $1 $2 -o locale=en_US.UTF-8
And then make it executable:
# chmod +x /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g
Add or edit the following line to
/etc/pacman.conf under the [options] tag to prevent modification of this file in case of upgrading:
NoUpgrade = sbin/mount.ntfs-3g
KDM and LXDE Session
As of KDE 4.3.3, KDM will not recognize the LXDE desktop session. To fix it:
# cp /usr/share/xsessions/LXDE.desktop /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/
GTK+ warnings with lxsession 0.4.1
When starting GTK+2 programs you get the following message:
GTK+ icon them is not properly set
This usually means you do not have an XSETTINGS manager running. Desktop environment like GNOME or XFCE automatically execute their XSETTING managers like gnome-settings-daemon or xfce-mcs-manager. This is caused by the migration of lxde-settings-daemon config files into lxsession. If you made customizations to these config files, you are in need of merging those config files:
Alternatively, you can use lxappearance from the community repository to fix this.


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One more day before the storm,
At the barricades of freedom.
When our ranks begin to form,
Will you take your place with me?
Tomorrow we'll be far away,
Tomorrow is the judgment day,
Tomorrow we'll discover what our Lord in heaven has in store:
One more dawn,
One more day,
One day more!
Still gives me chills after all these years.
An, ahem, more authentic version is here.
Say, how'd it turn out for those idealistic young revolutionaries, anyway?
03 November 2008
One Day More!
One more day before the storm,
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- ehoffman11/03/2008 5:22 PM
Between that one and "Do You Hear The People Sing", the hairs on my arms are standing up :) Must be all of the hope. Nice find!ReplyDelete
- cynic11/03/2008 8:49 PM
ODG, somebody shoot me.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/03/2008 8:52 PM
They overturned a corrupt monarchy.ReplyDelete
And in the long run, we're all dead anyway.
Few revolutionaries die in bed. The American revolutionaries stand out in this matter because a fair number of them did.
I am supposed to muster tomorrow at 5:30 a.m., but I can't sleep. It will end badly. Not tomorrow, but eventually. There will be scandals and missed opportunities. There will missteps and misdeeds. The cynics are always right eventually. But the fact remains sentimental hope addicts like me can't help it.ReplyDelete

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Especially useful in printed books, an index is an alphabetical list of words and expressions with the pages of the book upon which they are to be found. LaTeX supports the creation of indices with its package makeidx, and its support program
makeindex, called on some systems
- 1 Using makeidx
- 2 Abbreviation list
- 3 Multiple indices
- 4 Adding index to table of contents
- 5 International indices
Using makeidx[edit]
To enable the indexing feature of LaTeX, the makeidx package must be loaded in the preamble with:
and the special indexing commands must be enabled by putting the
command into the input file preamble. This should be done within the preamble, since it tells LaTeX to create the files needed for indexing. To tell LaTeX what to index, use
where key is the index entry and does not appear in the final layout. You enter the index commands at the points in the text that you want to be referenced in the index, likely near the reason for the key. For example, the text
To solve various problems in physics, it can be advantageous
to express any arbitrary piecewise-smooth function as a
Fourier Series composed of multiples of sine and cosine functions.
can be re-written as
To solve various problems in physics, it can be advantageous
to express any arbitrary piecewise-smooth function as a Fourier Series
\index{Fourier Series}
composed of multiples of sine and cosine functions.
to create an entry called 'Fourier Series' with a reference to the target page. Multiple uses of \index with the same key on different pages will add those target pages to the same index entry.
To show the index within the document, merely use the command
It is common to place it at the end of the document. The default index format is two columns.
The showidx package that comes with LaTeX prints out all index entries in the right margin of the text. This is quite useful for proofreading a document and verifying the index.
Compiling indices[edit]
When the input file is processed with LaTeX, each
\index command writes an appropriate index entry, together with the current page number, to a special file. The file has the same name as the LaTeX input file, but a different extension (
.idx). This
.idx file can then be processed with the
makeindex program. Type in the command line:
makeindex filename
Note that filename is without extension: the program will look for filename.idx and use that. You can optionally pass filename.idx directly to the program as an argument. The
makeindex program generates a sorted index with the same base file name, but this time with the extension
.ind. If now the LaTeX input file is processed again, this sorted index gets included into the document at the point where LaTeX finds
The index created by latex with the default options may not look as nice or as suitable as you would like it. To improve the looks of the index
makeindex comes with a set of style files, usually located somewhere in the tex directory structure, usually below the
makeindex subdirectory. To tell makeindex to use a specific style file, run it with the command line option:
makeindex -s [style file] filename
If you use a GUI for compiling latex and index files, you may have to set this in the options. Here are some configuration tips for typical tools:
MakeIndex settings in WinEdt[edit]
Say you want to add an index style file named
- Texify/PDFTexify: Options→Execution Modes→Accessories→PDFTeXify, add to the Switches:
--mkidx-option="-s simpleidx.ist"
- MakeIndex alone: Options→Execution Modes→Accessories→MakeIndex, add to command line:
-s simpleidx.ist
Sophisticated indexing[edit]
Below are examples of
\index entries:
|Index Entry
|hello, 1
|Plain entry
|Peter, 3
|Subentry under 'hello'
|Sam, 2
|Subentry formatted and sorted
|Sam, 2
|Formatted entry
|Lin, 7
|Same as above
|Jenny, 3
|Formatted page number
|Joe, 5
|Same as above
|école, 4
|Handling of accents
\index{Peter|see {hello}}
|Peter, see hello
\index{Greeting|see {hello, Peter}}
|Greeting, see hello, Peter
|Cross-referencing a subentry
|Jen, see also Jenny
|Same as above
If some entry has subsections, these can be marked off with
!. For example,
would create an index entry with 'cp850' categorized under 'input' (which itself is categorized into 'encodings'). These are called subsubentries and subentries in makeidx terminology.
Controlling sorting[edit]
In order to determine how an index key is sorted, place a value to sort by before the key with the
@ as a separator. This is useful if there is any formatting or math mode, so one example may be
so that the entry in the index will show as '' but be sorted as 'F'.
To combine with the above feature for subentries, you should style the appropriate component(s):
\index{bug reports!In re code@\emph{In re} code}
\index{LaTeX@\LaTeX!Typesetting engine}
Changing page number style[edit]
To change the formatting of a page number, append a
| and the name of some command which does the formatting. This command should only accept one argument.
For example, if on page 3 of a book you introduce bulldogs and include the command
and on page 10 of the same book you wish to show the main section on bulldogs with a bold page number, use
This will appear in the index as bulldog, 3, 10
If you use
texindy in place of
makeindex, the classified entries will be sorted too, such that all the bolded entries will be placed before all others by default.
Multiple pages[edit]
To perform multi-page indexing, add a
|( and
|) to the end of the
\index command, as in
\index{Quantum Mechanics!History|(}
In 1901, Max Planck released his theory of radiation dependent on quantized energy.
While this explained the ultraviolet catastrophe in the spectrum of
blackbody radiation, this had far larger consequences as the beginnings of quantum mechanics.
\index{Quantum Mechanics!History|)}
The entry in the index for the subentry 'History' will be the range of pages between the two
\index commands.
Using special characters[edit]
In order to place values with
@, or
|, which are otherwise escape characters, in the index, one must quote these characters in the
\index command by putting a double quotation mark (
") in front of them, and one can only place a
" in the index by quoting it (i.e., a key for " would be
This rule does not hold for \", so to put the letter ä in the index, one may still use
Abbreviation list[edit]
You can make a list of abbreviations with the package nomencl [1]. You may also be interested in using the glossaries package described in the Glossary chapter. Another option is the package acronym [2].
To enable the Nomenclature feature of LaTeX, the nomencl package must be loaded in the preamble with:
\usepackage[⟨options ⟩]{nomencl}
Issue the
\nomenclature[⟨prefix⟩]{⟨symbol⟩}{⟨description⟩} command for each symbol you want to have included in the nomenclature list. The best place for this command is immediately after you introduce the symbol for the first time. Put
\printnomenclature at the place you want to have your nomenclature list.
Run LaTeX 2 times then
makeindex filename.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o filename.nls
followed by running LaTeX once again.
To add the abbreviation list to the table of content, intoc option can be used when declare the nomencl package, i.e.
instead of using the code in Adding Index to Table Of Contents section.
The title of the list can be changed using the following command:
\renewcommand{\nomname}{List of Abbreviations}
Multiple indices[edit]
If you need multiple indices you can use the package multind [3].
This package provides the same commands as makeidx, but now you also have to pass a name as the first argument to every command.
\index{books}{A book to index}
\index{authors}{Put this author in the index}
\printindex{books}{The Books index}
\printindex{authors}{The Authors index}
Adding index to table of contents[edit]
By default, Index won't show in Table Of Contents, so you have to add it manually.
To add index as a chapter, use these commands:
If you use the book class, you may want to start it on an odd page by using
International indices[edit]
If you want to sort entries that have international characters (such as ő, ą, ó, ç, etc.) you may find that the sorting "is not quite right". In most cases the characters are treated as special characters and end up in the same group as @, ¶ or µ. In most languages that use Latin alphabet it's not correct.
Generating index[edit]
Unfortunately, current version of
xindy and hyperref are incompatible. When you use textbf or textit modifiers,
texindy will print error message:
unknown cross-reference-class `hyperindexformat'! (ignored) and won't add those pages to index. Work-around for this bug is described on the talk page.
To generate international index file you have to use
texindy instead of
xindy is a much more extensible and robust indexing system than the
makeindex system.
For example, one does not need to write:
to get the Lin entry after LAN and before LZA, instead, it's enough to write
But what is much more important, it can properly sort index files in many languages, not only English.
Unfortunately, generating indices ready to use by LaTeX using
xindy is a bit more complicated than with
First, we need to know in what encoding the .tex project file is saved. In most cases it will be UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1, though if you live, for example in Poland it may be ISO-8859-2 or CP-1250. Check the parameter to the
inputenc package.
Second, we need to know which language is prominently used in our document. xindy can natively sort indices in Albanian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Gypsy, Hausa, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Klingon, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese,
I don't know if other languages have similar problems, but with Polish, if your
.tex is saved using UTF-8, the
.ind produced by texindy will be encoded in ISO-8859-2 if you use only
-L polish.
While it's not a problem for entries containing polish letters, as LaTeX internally encodes all letters to plain ASCII, it is for accented letters at beginning of words, they create new index entry groups, if you have, for example an "średnia" entry, you'll get a "Ś" encoded in ISO-8859-2
.ind file.
LaTeX doesn't like if part of the file is in UTF-8 and part is in ISO-8859-2.
The obvious solution (adding
-C utf8) doesn't work,
texindy stops with
ERROR: Could not find file "tex/inputenc/utf8.xdy"
To fix this, you have to load the definiton style for the headings using
-M switch:
-M lang/polish/utf8
In the end we have to run such command:
texindy -L polish -M lang/polish/utf8 filename.idx
An additional way to fix this problem is use "iconv" to create utf8.xdy from latin2.xdy
iconv -f latin2 -t utf8 latin2.xdy >utf8.xdy
in directory
(You must have root privileges)
xindy in kile[edit]
To use
texindy instead of
makeindex in kile, you have to either redefine the MakeIndex tool in Settings → Configure Kile... → Tools → Build, or define new tool and redefine other tools to use it (for example by adding it to QuickBuild).
xindy definition should look similar to this:
General: Command: texindy Options: -L polish -M lang/polish/utf8 -I latex '%S.idx' Advanced: Type: Run Outside of Kile Class: Compile Source extension: idx Target extension: ind Target file: <empty> Relative dir: <empty> State: Editor Menu: Add tool to Build menu: Compile Icon: the one you like


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dislekcia wrote:Spike still doesn't sound useful... Contrast the superfluous -spike suffix to -stacking. Stacking is simply collecting, but as there are many different things to collect, that's a useful term to have differentiators for: Dodge-stacking, DP-stacking, Burning-stacking, Poison-stacking, Resist-stacking, CP-stacking, etc.
That also makes sense, but stacking is more of a setup term than execution term. If you're firing off stuff that you stacked and use term the in the "stacking damage/attacks via X" then you get as arcane as with "spike". I guess some of the players simply differentiate between setup and execution and needed terms for it, and we ended up with an arbitrary one (much likeanyone would). "Stringing" was also a term I used as in "a string of free hits".
The concept of "spike" is most useful when you think about how aiming for a spike is going to affect you opportunity cost tradeofs and resource management while you play.
dislekcia wrote:Gods certainly don't each have a "spike" by design because that's not a concept that's meaningful to us. They each have different angles of efficiency and tradeoffs though.
They really don't - JJ and Pactmaker don't have one at all. All the other ones do, but it certainly didn't have to be an intentional decision to make them that way. I was more that they were recognized as such by players when Gods became preps and as such "answers" to dungeons/PQI. It helps have a cohesive picture of sinergies. The game existed in the alpha without the prep system, and that might be why the beta playtest brought this bit of terminlogy up.
Apparently just playing the game is always some form of spike. So, yeah, we probably do when we play, we just don't think of things that way.
You could call it a "banana" (or a "saga" lol), but when your thinking just in terms of strategy and a dungeon puts specific challenges before you you sort of need either a plan or a system of reading the board. Dragon Isles put a set of challenges before you - you need to find a way to get around, find a way to, well, stack resources and buffs, deal with one boss, deal with the guards or manouver them out of the way, deal with another boss. All of that is "playing the game" but not all of that is a spike. Just killing the firstborn and the matron is, and dealing with the guards can be but doesn't have to be.
So you can plan for it - I'll stack my health while I explore, and then XP-banana the firstborn. I'll stack my piety while I'm at it, and potion-banana the guards to get rid of their debuffs. Then I'll piety-banana the matron. If I find the wonnafyt, I can save my potions, level up to 10 and ignore the dragonguards...
If there was always only one boss, then the word for banana... er, "spike" would be "endgame" or "endgame plan", but since there are more than one ussually, it's not the endgame but just a point where you turn resources into damage instead of just other resources, moving space or whatever. If you can tell what your options are in advance, you can tune the rest of your "playing the game" to support your angle of attack the best...
Darvin wrote:dislekcia wrote:Spike still doesn't sound useful. We never designed around the term or the concept.
And yet, you can feel it in-game. Think of a Warlord against Bleaty; between CYDSTEPP and GETINDARE he can be assured three free attacks, enough to be within shooting distance of a KO. Then think of that same Warlord against SMM; no matter how much mana/potions he gets for consecutive DP's, he's not going to get through all those hit points and needs to change his approach. Alternately, a Paladin will have significant trouble just surviving a hit from Bleaty, but has no problems wearing down low-damage SMM with attrition strategies.
Since you can use tools to replicate or support either approach, and have to for 100% completion, you have to know what you're replicating. And you're not replicating a Warlord or a Paladin, you're replicating their "Spike". Except you possibly need to "stack" more stuff on yourself to be as good at it as them since they're built for it and others might not be.


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I really like it, i think it fits well with our Manga. Excellent work, have you ever considered doing something more intense like music for a Guts vs Zodd fight i would really like to see the outcome. Keep up with the good work.
To tell you the truth, I have already started on another track. The problem with Berserk is that it's VERY hard to stream off from Hirasawa. Frankly, I'd like to give both Zodd and Skullknight their own little theme... But we'll see.
After telling Aaz years and years I wanted to make some kind of score related to Berserk. I guess I finally did it. This track is nothing innovative, and it's as predictable as a Stallone flick. But I think it fits the profile.
I'm listening to it now, so I'll be adding things I notice as I go.I'm not sure I like the way you have it echo at the beginning after each phrase. At least not as much as it is right now. The dynamics are also a bit funky at the beginning. It's strange to hear an accent at the end of a phrase. Especially at the beginning of a song.
I play by ear alone.
I'm glad you like it, and I welcome any critisism to it. The rain FX I added wanted to give it the "exterior" feel to it.
Hey maybe we got ourselves the Berserk:Recut OST
but allow me to point out that it couldn't possible rain on the Hill of Swords. Check the picture you posted to find out why.
Great work Nomad, fits multiple scenes and moods from the hill of swords, and you could have told me this was off the official PS2 soundtrack and I would have believed it. Besides that, I just like it.MOAR! Don't think I didn't immediately consider it.
You hear that Aaz? That's the sound of the illusion being shattered by technicality... Who knows! Perhaps El Niño made its presence to Midland?
I should have replied earlier about this but ... to draw from a conversation me and Aaz had back in November:Walter: "Hill_Of_Swords.mp3 = my main ringtone."'Nuff said.
But upon re-watching it it kind of works.
I think it more than just "kind of" works. Griffith did a very good job with the music video. Even on first viewing, the timing and scene selections are evident. They match up. I especially like the sunrise. Personally I think the video works better like this, without showing the sword swing and break. After all, sometimes showing less says more. Emphasis isn't on how he broke his sword, but how Guts broke Griffith by leaving.
Put this together last night inspired by your excellent score, Nomad:http://www.youtube.com/v/WWH_DjrmqfQ[/flash][/center]I tried to really showcase it as a score in the first half, while the second half is more like a regular music video. Since there's no footage of the hill of swords, I wanted to tell a coherent story that focused on the themes and allusions relevant to it: death, departure, downfall, snow, and of course the Hawks. This scene was basically tailor made for all that. Guts even recalls it after his encounter with Griffith on the Hill of Swords, directly comparing the two. Anyway, it's my first attempt at something like this, I hope you like it, and thanks again, Nomad!


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Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Bad Ramen
11 comments:
- Helen said...
And so now you know how I feel about wine...oh except I've drank a shitload of wine. Hmmm. Maybe it is that I'm just useless, then. I can't retain any information about it despite having taken 3 courses. I can't set up any points of reference in my mind and remember them. The reason for this escapes me...(FEAR FEAR FEAR).
Still mahoosive kudos on the ramen making, though...
- 2 May 2012 at 06:11
- Kavey said...
This, Mr E is a truth. A TRUTH.
- 2 May 2012 at 08:40
- Donald Edwards said...
Kavey, thanks, (best comment ever) x
- 2 May 2012 at 10:26
isn't that just the problem when you start appreciating the finer subtleties about what you eat and what you drink? you suddenly realise it applies to EVERYTHING, and a simple thing like taste starts to feel like an insurmountable task. so much to learn... or just blag it...
- 2 May 2012 at 12:02
You made your own ramen according to the Prophet Chang and ate them with a fork?! You might as well stuck them in a plastic tub and stuck foil over them too. Whatever subtleties you may or may not perceive with the noodles would have been lot against the cold hard metal fork.
- 3 May 2012 at 00:41
- Donald Edwards said...
Tanya - Quite, I don't doubt that you can appreciate beautifully made Ramen or the like, just that the emotional pull might be lacking.
Lap-Fai - Apologies, I shall nip out to buy some proper chop sticks this afternoon so I can appreciate them properly the next time I make them.. I was actually rather pissed off when I came to serve and realised what we were missing.
- 3 May 2012 at 01:59
Sometimes I eat pasta with chopsticks too, it feels so wrong. It shouldn't but it does.
- 3 May 2012 at 04:22
- Donald Edwards said...
Lap, I've got a friend who after he moved houses couldn't be bothered to buy cutlery so for about a year ate everything with chop sticks..
- 3 May 2012 at 04:32
- Sophie McLean said...
I hear a trip to China coming on! :-)
- 8 May 2012 at 14:54
- Shu Han said...
good ramen is springy, with a bite, but substantial and tasty enough on their own.
But I understand when people don't get it.
It's the same way I feel about beer, or wine. I feel like I ought to like them, and be able to make fine judgements about them, especially if I love food, but nope.
Anyway, great read (:
- 6 June 2012 at 14:55
- Donald Edwards said...
Hi Shu Han, thanks for the comment, you'll be glad to know that the more I eat Ramen, the more I seem to get a feel for them, having now made them a couple of times has really helped. Especially as I now know what they taste like very fresh.
- 7 June 2012 at 04:51


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Watch how to make this recipe.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Spread hazelnuts onto a baking tray. Toast hazelnuts in oven until light golden brown and fragrant, about 5 to 7 minutes. Allow to cool completely. Coarsely chop the cooled hazelnuts and set aside.
In a 10 or 12-inch saute pan with high sides, bring 2 quarts of salted water to a boil. Add the vegetable oil to prevent the ravioli from sticking to one another. Add ravioli and cook for 4 minutes or until they float to the top. Using a spider strainer, carefully remove ravioli to a large platter and tent with foil to keep warm.
In a small saute pan, melt the butter. When butter is sizzling and starts to brown, tear sage leaves into the pan and fry for about 20 seconds. Remove from heat and stir in nutmeg. Pour butter sauce over ravioli and sprinkle with toasted hazelnuts. Grate amaretti cookies over the dish and serve immediately.


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AUSTIN – By now, you've probably seen media reports that Attorney General Greg Abbott has told state agencies they don't have to release information on potentially hazardous chemicals in Texans' backyards. Instead, he's told concerned members of the public to "drive around" looking for the facilities, and then go ahead and ask the private companies for this information.
But do you know what you REALLY need to do to get access to this information? Here is a simple breakdown of the steps you must take to gain access to chemical inventory information at Texas facilities.
1) Identify the facility location you want to know more about. Write down the address and company name.
[A good place to get started is this Houston Chronicle interactive created after the West explosion last year, with locations of vulnerable ammonium nitrate sites across Texas. You can also search for sites near your zip code on the website of the Texas Department of Insurance]
2) Requests for information must be made IN WRITING. This can mean email or regular mail.
[I used email when I made my own requests for a story that ran July 2, 2014. Using emails means you have electronic proof the request was made, and evidence of any responses.]
Google the company and see if you can find a telephone number and email address, ideally for that individual facility. I called most of the companies first to see what email would be best for requests of this kind. For those without numbers, I emailed any and all email addresses I could find on the website.
3. Send an email using the template provided below. State law requires the information be provided within 10 days, but you'll likely be asked for some follow-up information. Keep an eye on your email or mailbox for questions from the company's legal counsel.
4. Companies may provide anything from a simple chemical inventory list to a complete Tier II form, which is a report the federal government requires each facilities with volatile compounds in certain amounts to submit to local and state emergency planners.
5. What does this mean? If you need to run the chemicals list by someone, to identify which may be hazardous, I would suggest calling your local college or university's environmental science department. If you encounter any problems, state and local public interest groups like the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas are an indispensable resource.
Lauren McGaughy is an Austin bureau reporter for the Houston Chronicle. You can contact her at email@example.com or on Twitter @lmcgaughy.
To whom it may concern:
I am requesting the most recent chemical inventory list or Tier II report for the [COMPANY NAME HERE] [FACILITY LOCATION HERE] . The state Health and Safety Code requires this information be provided within 10 days of a request. The statute is below:
Sec. 505.007. DIRECT CITIZEN ACCESS TO INFORMATION. (a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, a person may request in writing copies of the facility's existing workplace chemical list for community right-to-know purposes.
(b) Except as otherwise provided by this section, any facility covered by this chapter shall furnish or mail, within 10 working days of the date of receipt of a request under Subsection (a), either a copy of the facility's existing workplace chemical list or a modified version of the most recent tier two form using a 500-pound threshold.
(c) Any facility that has received five requests under Subsection (a) in a calendar month, four requests in a calendar month for two or more months in a row, or more than 10 requests in a year may elect to furnish the material to the department.
(d) Any facility electing to furnish the material to the department under Subsection (c) may during that same filing period inform persons making requests under Subsection (a) of the availability of the information at the department and refer the request to the department for that filing period. The notice to persons making requests shall state the address of the department and shall be mailed within seven days of the date of receipt of the request, if by mail, and at the time of the request if in person.
Please confirm receipt of this request and estimated timeline on return of the requested information.


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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
2009 LA MYTH Art Show "Burrito Perfecto"
The theme of the show is LA myths. And as everyone living here knows, there is a rumored "perfect burrito" in this cursed city. A burrito so perfect, that it would immediately kill you from its glorious taste.
To this day, I have never found such perfection. The journey continues...
18 comments:
- Fulanita said...
So cute! I understand and sympathize my dear.
- January 14, 2009 at 4:02 PM
- oz said...
impresionantes trabajos, mis respetos Sr Gutierrez, espero seguir viendo piezas inspiradoras!
saludos desde Paraguay
- January 14, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Freaking awesome. If by chance in your journies you come upon the perfect cheeseburger, call me.
- January 15, 2009 at 10:01 AM
- Eric "The Gute" Gonzalez said...
If only the rumors were true, I would gladly lay down and die.
Awesome piece carnal!
- January 15, 2009 at 12:47 PM
- lorelay bove said...
- January 15, 2009 at 12:50 PM
- Chris Battle said...
May you never find it; The world still needs more cool cartoons from you.
- January 15, 2009 at 4:27 PM
- Jorge R. Gutierrez said...
You guys are waaaay to nice!
- January 15, 2009 at 5:31 PM
- Thierry Cattant said...
Your M. Burrito is so good and so funny!
I put your blog on mine for my link "blog of the week" ;-)
- January 15, 2009 at 10:40 PM
- Jorge R. Gutierrez said...
Thanks Thierry! I'm a huge fan of your work sir.
- January 15, 2009 at 11:42 PM
- Adele K Thomas said...
he is sooo cute with all his death and tastiness!
- January 18, 2009 at 3:40 PM
- Book said...
Oh man! I wish I was in LA to see your show Jorge! Will you have pics online?
- January 18, 2009 at 11:01 PM
- Jorge R. Gutierrez said...
Hey Josh! I'll post some opening pics. I have another painting in there and Sandra did a really spicy one. Say hi to Roman!
- January 18, 2009 at 11:13 PM
- Josh Parpan said...
I'm pretty sure the perfect burrito is in old town San Diego, It's a very secret secret!
- January 19, 2009 at 3:22 PM
- Jorge R. Gutierrez said...
- January 20, 2009 at 12:56 AM
- Mukpuddy said...
Ha ha, nice dude!
- January 20, 2009 at 2:13 PM
- Puga Vida said...
Haha i think ive tried the burrito perfecto, at El Tepeyac over in Boyle Heights. order the Manuel Special and you'll poop you pants. and maybe drop dead later.
- January 21, 2009 at 1:12 PM
- Gerald said...
As long as that burrito just has carne asada, guac, and pico de gallo and none of that B.S. with the rice and beans and lettuce, it's "Burrito Perfecto" to me!!! Any awesome burritos you can recommend in San Diego (Besides the ---berto places)? I'm making a trip down there soon!
- February 1, 2009 at 11:55 PM
- Jorge R. Gutierrez said...
Best Mexican food I had in San Diego EVER:
Try the Quesotaco!
- February 1, 2009 at 11:58 PM


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by Grant Moser
Chestnut Hill resident Neal Phillips, 58, can remember his mother playing the piano in their Maryland home when he was a boy. The folk singer/songwriter even remembers the first folk song he sang when he was a child: "Go Tell Aunt Rhody." But it wasn't until he was 12 when he was really introduced to folk music.
His neighbor, a boy a little bit older, "had some Bob Dylan records, and he showed me how to play some tunes. I got interested in that, and then Peter, Paul & Mary, and later Simon & Garfunkel, that sort of thing. I liked the harmonies and that it was something that I could play," Phillips explained.
He played guitar, which he picked up by ear alone, without lessons. He used to sit in his room and play the records over and over again to figure out how to make the same sounds. As a teenager, he, his brother Paul and a friend would play music in the garage together, just fooling around.
He attended the University of Delaware for both his B.A. (1975) and his Masters in Marine Studies (1978) and received a PhD in Ecology from the University of Georgia in 1983. Then he started working for an environmental consulting company in Florida, the same company that he works for remotely today. Phillips continued to play folk music, but it was mostly by himself and in his spare time.
Then in 1990 he met Terry Andrews. He was a folk singer, "sort of a Jimmy Buffett-style singer and guitarist. I started sitting in with him, playing bass and singing harmony. We played a lot of gigs together. We even recorded an album of his songs called 'Silver Rails,'" he said.
Phillips learned a lot from Andrews about how to entertain people with a show, not just sitting on stage and playing music. Playing with Andrews also eased him into the idea of playing publicly. "When you're with someone on stage who is very magnetic or charismatic, it's like you have an umbrella of that person's energy over you. They're making it all possible, and you're just supporting that. That made it very easy," Phillips said.
His time with Andrews only lasted a year before he and his wife, Claudia, moved to Blacksburg, Virginia for her school. But he soon started playing with a husband and wife duo, and they formed a trio called Trifolkal that is still together today.
"Laura [Pole] and Greg [Trafidlo] had been performing together, and they had a show; they were good together. I was just supporting them. But over time it grew to be more of a three-way partnership where I was writing more songs and singing my own songs and they were backing me up. Personality-wise, we get along very well. We've been through many, many fun and challenging times together, and it's a great friendship to be making music with people for 20 years now," Phillips explained.
It was with Trifolkal that he also first performed original songs of his own. It was "One Small Thing" and then "The Tumbler," which is a parody of "The Gambler." Phillips has written many parodies and often incorporates humor into his songs.
These experiences playing publicly with Andrews and Trifolkal helped make music a large part of his life again. He joined songwriter organizations in Virginia and then similar organizations when he moved to Baltimore in 1997, and subsequently Philadelphia in 2004, because of his wife's career. The local organization here is the Philadelphia Area Songwriters Alliance (PASA). "It's really helpful as a writer to get feedback from someone else. You write a song and you take it to a group and get some critiques on it," Phillips explained.
Even with his job at the environmental consulting firm, Phillips tries to play music every single day, whether it's practicing or recording his music. It's his way of maintaining the momentum. He is working on a new CD right now (he has four available currently) and hopes to release it this fall.
Although Phillips doesn't do many gigs anymore, to keep his chops up and "try different things," he sits in with a pick-up band that plays for contra dances (partnered folk style dances) in Glenside, as well as with Chestnut Hill resident Sam Rossitto at yoga studios playing kirtan, a call-and-response chanting accompanied by music.
He suggests that if someone is interested in learning about folk music, the best place to start locally is with the Philadelphia Folksong Society (www.pfs.org), which sponsors the upcoming Philadelphia Folk Festival in August.
For more information about Phillips and his music, please visit http://www.phillipsmusic.net/neal/.


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CEO Council: Fighting for Tax Reform
At the WSJ CEO Council, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman discuss taxes and how the lack of tax reform is hurting U.S. competitiveness.
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Cleaning the kitchen can sometimes be as easy as running the dishwasher, but to create a tidy, organized environment, there are some steps you need to take.�
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Unless ingredients are creating a stink in the back of your fridge, chances are you barely notice old items�that you don't need anymore. Things such as old flour that you'll never use because your child was diagnosed with a gluten allergy, baking chocolate that you won't eat because you're on a diet, and the beef in the back of your freezer that's probably too old to eat by now you should toss. Go through all of your cabinets, your fridge, and your freezer, and get rid of anything that you don't think you'll ever need.�
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piotr_h needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 345 designs submitted by 101 freelance designers.
Kyberlogi / Cyberlogi
First of, we are about a dozen people (6 coders, 6 office girls and 6 warehouse workers or so), young, fun, wild, ready to take tha market. And we want to communicate that.
We are a spin-of of an established manufacturer specializing in "Information enriched logistics". Meaning we ship crates and boxes (oldschool) but using quite sophisticated self-developed software (Web 2.0) for that.
We offer services at the joint between retail and logistics. This includes spare-part logistics, returns processing, drop-shipping, billing and very sophisticated track and trace (offering options like "bill credit card in the moment the package are delivered to the doorstep") and the like.
We also offer mass customization services like engraving, printing on products, custom packaging etc.
We are different from the logistics industry by our approach to customer relationship. Instead of "contact us to get in touch with our sales staff" we publish our prices online and have a "enter your credit card to get your customized after-sales website and phone number online within the next 20 minutes" approach. Easy, automated, cheap and self-service. Call it "utility logistics".
Small Online Retailers, eBay Powersellers and the like (very technology friendly) and logistics companies like trucking firms etc. (very conservative and inexperienced in Internet business models).
We are looking for a stand alone logo in approximately square format.
We also want a variant with the logo incorporating the company name. The company name is is "Kyberlogi" or "Cyberlogi" (choose whatever fit's better). This variant can be of arbitrary proportions (meaning it does not need to be square).
It should look good when printed in black and white on a 300 dpi laser printer as a letter head. It should also work reasonably well when printed in about 3x1 cm size with 200 dpi on a shipping label. And finally it should also work in color in a Web browser.
A package or a box as part of the logo might look nice but we leave this up to you.
We require a RGB vector image (AI format) containing Logo and Logo with Name in RGB and b/w variants.
No rights of 3rd parties can be violated, all the work must be original.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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To: Dean Sanpei,
Subject: HB 388 - More Transit = Less Pollution
Date: Wed Feb 26 15:45:23 MST 2014
Dear State Representative Sanpei,
We appreciate your efforts to clean up Utah's air. We know air quality is one of the top issues you face in the current legislative session, and most of the solutions are difficult, expensive and complicated.
One direct, simple – and very substantive – action you can take this session is to support expanding and increasing the convenience and frequency of public transit that will take cars off roads and significantly improve our air quality. This is a step forward endorsed by the Governor's Clean Air Action Team.
A "Quarter for Clean Air" – Rep. Johnny Anderson's HB388, lifts the cap on local-option sales tax funding by one quarter of one percent. This would enable counties to ask voters if they would like to expand public transit and would be a significant action taken by you to clean our air.
We urge you to support HB 388 out of committee with a favorable recommendation.
Sincerely, Jaren Stanton UTA 1016 University Village Salt Lake City, UT 84108


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Chicken flying contest at The Old Timers Festival in Xenia, Ohio
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