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The poison for Kuzco, the poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's poison. That poison?
Persona Mafia Postgame
Persona Mafia Postgame So this game actually came to me on a whim in the middle of Underground Mafia. I really liked the role Joshua and how it was supposed to theoretically play out with his win condition. The assumption was that if one player in one of the two partnerships would die, then he would have a chance to ally himself with the remaining partner. The idea of a reverse lynch-pin sparked the idea of a mass lynch-pin set up. In the mass lynch-pin set up, everyone was under the assumption that they were village. No kidding. Everyone. They're win conditions would basically start out with "You are allied with the village, you win if you remove all other threats." However, once a person died, then whoever was "secretly" allied with that person would break off from the main village in a lynch-pin alliance. The idea to put HP into the game became obvious when I thought that there should be a way to slightly delay these from happening. The theme came up while I was thinking of concepts to throw into the game. The idea of Personas and fusions made me giddy and I wanted to try it out in the game. The Expert label became a must due to the complexity of all of the concepts that were going to be used in the game, as I didn't want another "Sir" experience like in Underground Mafia where the noobs dropped out due to difficulty. However, in order to get the game going, I need a cohost to give me good feedback. Originally I had Midou hop on board, but as soon as billymills told me that my cohost needed to be a strong one, I dropped him (sorry Midou) in favor of Jumpluff who offered to help cohost one of my games earlier which never ended up coming into fruition. So then I dove into making the game. The game itself was built from the top-down. In other words all the stats, mechanics, and such were worked out before win conditions became official. The reason why I kept the win conditions for last was to make sure that the Personas would be fairly balanced out early on in tandem with the win conditions. I also felt it was necessary to put strong contemplation into win conditions so that all the problems could be tweaked out. Fusion mechanics were also left last so that a proper fusion mechanic could be developed. After around a month of working on both this game and my Mafia Article, I was pretty much finished. However, the only remaining things were win conditions and a few last things pertaining fusions. Now, I don't have anything against jumpluff, and I hope she doesn't have anything against me, but it was hard to get a good time to talk with her so that we could finish up the win conditions, as I felt that the win conditions were supposed to be the most important aspect in the making of this game. She's a busy gal, and I'm a busy guy. What could we do? In any event, my impatience got the better of me as summer was getting really close, and so I decided to put up signups. During the middle of signups, I decided to use an idea I had during one of the few conversations I had with her of putting players into partnerships into a semi-FFA game. However, I really rushed pushing out a win condition, and as such made a huge sloppy mistake. And so, I will say that this game is one where everything that could go wrong did. A deeper look at the concepts Personas: Personas were the easiest thing to generate for the game. Using the idea I had with Pins and Levelling Up from Underground Mafia and FFV Mafia respectively, I decided to fuse the two ideas to create the idea behind Personas (the pun is very much intended). Stats: I had worked with Attack and HP in the past, but never worked with the concept of Defense that Paper Mario Mafia introduced or the concept of Speed (which is just a RPG concept in general). And so I thought using those two stat types would be create something fresh and new, not to mention make the game feel very RPGish. Day/Night Cycles: Many of you questioned the reason why the cycles followed a strange pattern early on, i.e. D0, N0, N1, D1, etc. The reason for N1 immediately followed N0 was due to the original idea of the mass lynch-pin set up, so that players would be encouraged to discuss who to lynch during the NOC phase in public rather in private. The bonuses of the days were added since the theme was Persona and you can't have Persona without a "weather"-like concept involved. Nights were meant to be set-ups while days were to involve intense exchanges. Thus the reason why Fusions only happened during night cycles and Persona purchases were day only. Fusion: This is where things got a little tough and why earlygame there was a lot of confusion pertaining fusion results, mostly due to something huge that I overlooked. Now remember that fusion chart that I linked in the topic of the chat early on? Originally when I looked at the chart, I just skimmed it without putting too much thought into it and thought the whole chart showed how fusions happened. If I was a little smarter I would've looked at my Persona 3:FES handbook, but I didn't and so I didn't see that in fine print in the legend that orange colored fusions were as a result of Triangle fusions. Had I seen that, I am quite sure that there wouldn't have been as much hassle over how fusions would work out. If you look at the spreadsheet (which I provided in a link a little further down), you will notice that in the Legend Tab it discusses how Persona fusions are worked out. So pretty much the reason some people were disappointed over their fusion result was due to how I originally read the chart. Yeah, I feel a bit foolish admitting it, but it's true. Win Conditions: Win conditions, as I noted, went through intense scrutiny by yours truly, but when I came across a mental block, I just couldn't get over it and my imagination failed to give me a good idea about how to write them up. As such, I slopilly created the win conditions you saw ingame. Persona Mafia collection: Persona Mafia Folder The Game Thread The players: at a glance Since the game was Expert, I had a better chance at getting a strong playerlist, and this one, no doubt, was strong. Role PMs
I think this was the first time Fate actually played one of my games, so I was pretty thrilled to have him on board. I knew he was a quality player so he was one of my top picks. I chose to put him together with Ditto because I figured that the two of them would be able to do some crazy antics with one another due to the good sense of humor each of them had. The Fool Arcana was one of the two powerhouse arcanas that was strong early on in terms of stats, but had a lack of many abilities. __
theangryscientist has played every game I ever hosted, and as such I felt he was a good pick for this game. He did fairly good early on, however people targetted him early ala Underground Mafia, and as such poor tas died too early to see any good action. However, the fact that the two had a few issues with timezones and tas being busy early-game meant that they had a little harder time in coordinating actions with one another. The Magician Arcana was meant to be weak defensively but strong offensively with good damage dealing abilities and okay speed. __
Ace Emerald
Ace Emerald wasn't one of my first picks due to the amount of strong players that originally joined the game, but I put him in because I remembered that he did a good job in many games in the past. I don't recall talking to him too much about the game, so I wouldn't know if there were any good moves that he made during the game. The Priestess arcana was meant to be take the role of bard duty - boosting defenses and making sure that other players had a harder time dealing with anyone allied with the Priestess. __
Flamestrike was another one of the originals who played in all of my games. Flamestrike was a good player who knew how my games usually worked, and as such he was one of my first picks. I put together with imperfectluck because I thought that ipl would need a strong partner in order to stay alive long enough in this game (more on ipl later 9.9). The Empress arcana was meant to be a hybrid role - providing healing and damage at the same time. Leanan Sidhe was such a popular choice that about one-third of the players in the game chose the arcana, due to its strong flexibility. __
I think the last time aska was in any of my games was in FF3, and so having him come back was really nice. I put him together with little gk since I knew they both hung out a lot in #moo a lot with Johann, so I thought, "Hey, they would be pretty decent partners!" Unfortunately, the two weren't able to establish themselves early on too well due to both being out and about doing they're own irl stuff. So there wasn't much they could do against B_T's crew. The Emperor arcana was meant to be a strong offensive role with good defenses and low speed. __
Having Lightwolf on board was another great thing about the playerlist. I gave Lightwolf a strong supporting role in tandem with tas's fragility. He played pretty well, staying active and even attempting to guess what Personas would result from fusions (of which I think he got only one - Satan, lol). The Hierophant arcana was an all-over-the-place arcana, having no specific goal in terms of abilities. __
/me huggles Ditto. Yep, I put Ditto in the Lovers arcana for a reason. ;D In any event, Ditto was paired up with Fatecrashers for reasons I mentioned earlier. Due to the fragility of the Lovers arcana, he was meant to support Fate, while Fate would bring in the beatdown. Ditto, however, managed to get strong fusion combinations buy purchasing Yatagarasu and Nekomata, which resulted in him obtaining Byakko late game (and thanks to the number of offensive abilities he gathered, he could've potentially dealt 15 damage alone (which is one of the reasons I called game early). The Lovers Arcana was meant to be a defensive clerical role, having strong healing abilities and providing strong support. __
The leader of #thebowl alliance. He and Paperblade managed to gather a rag-tag group of people and managed to get every one of them to win as well. I remember him doing something similar in FFV, and so it was fun to watch him gather a good roster of people around him. I also gave him the Chariot because I figured he would like a heavy-hitting role early which would provide him with a strong lynch early game. Lynches were moot point, sadly, and as such there really was no point to the role except for fusion experimenting. The Chariot was meant to be a strong offensively with the final fusion, Thor sitting at one of the highest attack stats in the game. Combined with Vorpal Blade, this role would be a wrecking ball, taking out players one by one. __
p3 played very well during this game, and as such I was sad to see him lose. Alas, my idiotic changes to the win conditions created such an environment where good players failed even when they did a great job in-game. The Justice Arcana was meant to be a poke role with versatility such as Marin Karin and Provoke. __
Da Letter El
The impossible win condition. Due to my original thoughts on this game, I was under the impression things would be over by around Night 5. Unfortunately I misjudged how fast this game would be and as such this win condition became impossible. Probably would've been better off making it two partnerships and Night 3, but even then the game went by too fast. The Hermit Arcana was another jack-of-all trades role with high speed to make sure that its priority was always above others. __
Aura Guardian
If I recall correctly, I gave Aura Guardian the Fortuna role because he said he enjoyed playing information roles in the Mafia social group. Aura Guardian was another player who did a fair job at staying involved in the game. He made sure he covered his bases when it came to fusions and purchases, and he was fairly inquisitive about the game. The Fortune Arcana was hugely an information role with fair defenses. __
little gk
little gk played in FFIII and FFV, so having him come back to play in Persona Mafia was a treat. I paired him up with askaninjask for reasons I already stated above. He was fairly uninvolved early on in the game, so when the game actually began to roll, he was a little behind. Strength Arcana was meant to be a bulky, yet heavy hitter. __
So yeah, HD's birthday was around the time I put up postgame, so this game was like, 10% dedicated to that. Anyways, I paired HD up with Altair because the two had done stuff in FFIII together iirc, so I thought it would be cool to see them work together this time. HD and Altair did a fair job, although HD managed to die before he could win...Anyways, the Hanged Man Arcana was meant to be a frail, but fast damage dealer. __
ginganinja was another fun addition, bringing in his Susan Coffeyness to the game. Unfortunately, he and Aura Guardian got the short end of the stick when it came to the win conditions, since Blue_Tornado's team was able to get the upper hand. ginganinja did do a fine job playing, staying quite actively involved in the game, so to see him lose didn't feel right. The Death Arcana was purely a preventative arcana, having abilities such as Pulinpa, Evil Smile, and Bewilder in its roster. __
Layell's decent performance in Underground Mafia in coupled with his activity meant he was another great pick for this game. I put him with Crux because I thought that Crux's experience would be able to bring something strong to the table for their partnership. Unfortunately, because Crux dropped out, I had to sub kingofkongs in instead. The two of them did a fine job, managing to make friends with the #thebowl alliance and were able to win - even with the fact that the two of them were revealed, publicly, to be partners. The Temperance arcana was meant to be a bulky attacker, with abilities such as Invigorate 2, Endure, and Vorpal Blade. __
RaRe555 > Walrein
RaRe555 was replaced by Walrein fairly early on, due to some irl stuff that rare had going on. Anyways, Walrein was able to barely keep up with the game due to him being busy with LoL and other unexplained things (fapping maybe? anyone?). He didn't even know that you could purchase Personas in order to fuse (he was under the impression that you fused with your partner...lol). Anyways, the Devil arcana was another elemental attacking arcana, but with fair defense (Lilim was the suckiest out of the three to be honest though...). __
Poor imperfectluck. He always ends up dying too early in many games because people are scared of him. He didn't even do much this time around!! However, one thing I would like to note is that we made a minor error midgame, and he wasn't supposed to die the cycle that he did, (Daenym forgot what Endure did...Daenymsux). Nevertheless, I think even if he didn't die, the game would've ended close to the time that it did. Anyways, the Tower Arcana was a purely defensive role, having Endure, Regenerate, and even both Invigorates. __
Crux > kingofkongs
As I mentioned earlier, the initial roster for this game was amazingly strong with a tight group of good mafia players. Crux was no exception, however, due to circumstances unseen, Crux had to sub out of the game early on. I had kingofkongs take over for Crux, and he did a great job working with Layell to capture that win. The Star Arcana was mainly a non-offensive role with preventative abilities and great passives, along with high speed. __
Perhaps one of the only players whose partner died but still managed to win, all in the same cycle. Altair and HD worked together well, but due to HD being targetted by #thebowl alliance, HD wasn't able to win. The Moon arcana was primarily an offensive role, with both elemental and normal attacks. __
One of the stronger earlygame roles, Paperblade's role was perhaps one of the best received ones for #thebowl alliance, due to the fact that he had Full Analysis early on. By working together with B_T and the rest of #thebowl, they were able to clinch victory. The Sun Arcana was primarily an information gathering arcana (that had the highest speed in the game), with the exception of the final fusion __
Agape never was in any of my games before, so it was interesting to have him join in. He was fairly inquisitive, and remained fairly active until his death. The Judgement Arcana was one of the most defensive arcanas, having a high defense, great defensive passives, and the only unique fusion in the game - Messiah, which could only be obtained by fusing Orpheus and Thanatos. Things that could be changed/worked on Win Conditions: Enemies could be mutual between partners. That is one thing that would've made more sense. If your partner died, you should have also been able to keep playing, just having the responsibility of taking out your partner's enemies as well. OR Carry over the idea I originally had and build it up so that it would actually make sense. Higher Base HP or Def: Personas needed more Def and players should have started with at least 6 base HP if not 8 base HP, so that players would have more survivability, not to mention, increasing the length of the game (which is a good thing in this case due to the fact that the game ran for such a short time). Abilities: The stat boosters, particularily the Def stat booster should've been more effective. Abilities that prevented other abilities from happening, such as hooks (or a BG like ability or SG like ability), would have been worth adding in. There was a huge number of offensive abilities which meant that players would die too quickly. A decrease in that amount would've been good as well. Fusions and Purchasing: Fusions should've been based on the normal fusion portion of the chart, not including the triangle fusion portion. This would've eliminated a bit of randomness and added more reliability and would have given players the ability to plan better. Night cycles could've happened once every 2 days instead of 3 so that players could fuse more often. This would've worked with Purchasing much better, since players would be able to purchase 2 Personas, max out their Persona count, then follow up with a fusion the following cycle. NOC: The NOC portion could've been eliminated as well, unless win conditions followed what I originally planned. A strong cohost: Boy do I love the word strong right now. A cohost who is capable of organizing things in their spare time would've been very helpful. The cohost didn't need to do updates, basically do what Daenym did, but put a little more devotion into it, so that if either host went AWOL, the other would be able to keep up. Unfortunately, I was at fault this time myself, but there are things you can't control IRL, so I can't blame myself (for going AWOL that is), Daenym, or even jumpluff for that matter on how the game went. Patience on my part: This would've been more productive, and would've made the game much more enjoyable for everyone else, as it was because I wanted to get this game going that things sort of ended the way that they did. I hate being a Debbie downer, but really, this game sucked compared to the others I have hosted in the past (Underground being my best, FFV being a clustefuck yet bearable, and FFIII being my newb hosting game). And many more things I may or may not have missed. Awards and stuff: MVP: Blue_Tornado Best Luck: Altair Worst Luck: imperfectluck (oh the irony of a username) Best Play: Killing HD Worst Play: Walrein not buying Personas and fusing (sorry this wasn't expanded bro, not entirely your fault) Best Partnership: Tie between B_T/Paperblade and Fatecrashers/Ditto Cutest User: Ditto
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Jun 15th, 2012, 6:04:21 PM | #2 | |
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Yeah, non-mutual enemies really fucked with my early-game plans, as almost every single person that I almost got an alliance with ended up either needing me or IPL dead or being one of our targets >.> This was particularly hilarious when Paperblade and I convinced each other that we were clean only to have Paper say his partner was Chariot (which he wasn't even lying about), making me utterly confused. Did you guys know I was Empress by that point or did you actually think I could win with you? Anyway, good job to the winners, assembling any kind of an alliance in this game must have been difficult (though I suppose having Full Analysis helped...) and special congrats to Altair, the one person who I could have actually (and seemingly would have were it not for my untimely death >.>) allied with!
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Jun 16th, 2012, 1:49:19 AM | #4 |
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The fact that kok and I won while everyone knew one of us had the question asker was some sort of miracle.
I'm still of the opinion that the best play is the endgame maneuver we pulled. We set up a solid alliance with all of our inspects and questions, the fact we made a way for us all to win and not step on each others toes was a miracle. KoK and I got worried at some points that somebody in the alliance would lose and such. Having to kill people because they were close to winning and their winning would result in one of us losing wasn't fun. Analysis is really really useful, especially before the 2nd round of fusions since you can pseudo clean people based on their persona fusion result. I mentioned this in the chat but I think this is a game that could be played a 2nd time, just change the WC and maybe some stats. Not knowing the persona's was annoying anyways, if we all know it can only lead to better strategies.
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Jun 16th, 2012, 2:15:24 AM | #5 |
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Go explain that Night 1 please, you said you would, at this point I don't see it as anything but a clear boost to anyone with growth.
Also who ever targeted tas the day he died could list what he was hit with? I wanna know what could kill tas who had 4 health 5 def and a 4 Hp heal incomming at the speed of 1. Also the list of every ability, and every possible fusion.
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Jun 16th, 2012, 2:32:55 AM | #6 |
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I don't have the list, but I believe I added another 2dmg when he had 8+.
Speed doesn't matter as long as he was targeted by enough stuff at the same speed. Although, if he was attacked, healed, then attacked, and he died, it means that the heal didn't 'heal' the damage buffered by his defense points. As in, healing only healed hp.
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Jun 16th, 2012, 2:49:03 AM | #7 | |
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I am with flamestrike in that non neutral enemies screwed everything up. My persona was not bad at outlasting and healing shit off, however "outlasting" didn't really work when you would lose faster than Underground which sucked. For this reason (and the fact that many of the losses were outside of other players control, I didn't enjoy this game quite as much as I could have. Oh well. Thanks to AG for being a good partner man, we had some good chats.
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As I demonstrated above, healing really turned out to be 'not so good' when people ganged up on you anyway. And ganging up on someone was a necessity for bypassing defense.
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Jun 16th, 2012, 3:13:41 AM | #9 |
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You missed my point, I was saying that he was built like a wall, and had an alliance with him which prevented him being ganged up on. It was hardly a "miracle" he won.
Regardless, having access to a full Persona inspector with Growth (did anyone else have that combo early on?) was one of the main reasons, the alliance was so successful, but w/e. Anyway grats to everyone who won :)
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Another thing that fucked up this game were the randomness of Persona, most people didn't realise how each Arcana worked, so some ended up being fucked over by the end result (Mind Charge on offensiveless Titania GG). The specific attributes of each Arcana should have been disclosed, at least stating whether they are Support, Defensive or Offensive or a combination. Also removing the Triangle fusion list would have been stupid, I checked and there exists no way to fuse a Judgement Arcana outside of fusing two of them outside the triangle list. It didn't really add any randomness tbh, most could expect that if there are two options, you will only be able to fuse the normal one not the triangle. Another problem is that Persona with good stats are broken. Most of those don't come with good abilities, but just due to the fact that Magic is not a stat means they can easily use the elemental spells and healing if fused on to them due to the set power of those.(My exact plan for TAS, fusing Mind Charge and Mabufu+Agi onto either Siegfried or Thor (not to mention Thor might have Ziodyne)). Sure this never happened (mostly because tas got destroyed) but would have been a legit issue if the game ever reached Tier 3(ergo Night 3)
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I wasn't saying healing was useless, but more that it wasn't as useful as it was intended to be. Especially if they, in fact, healed hp and hp only. I agree with the rest of your post.
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Jun 16th, 2012, 5:04:26 AM | #12 |
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I get role PM. I think "how the hell am i supposed to win with this" I realize I need to protect people, so I do some research and find out what a likely persona to protect would be (Lovers), so i get empress to get there. I claim to flamestrike because flamestrike is cool. Flamestrike dies pretty early which makes me sad. Ipl is like "hi i was flamestrike's partner" Ipl seems in control of the game from my talking to him and makes me feel as though he will wreck partnerships. I stab ipl and tell p3 that ipl needs him dead. I want to work with p3 but he literally vanishes the cycle after. I have no contacts and very little chance of winning and my care kind of waned. Sorry. Interesting role idea, though; I really did appreciate playing in this game. |
Jun 16th, 2012, 5:11:14 AM | #13 |
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We didn't, BT actually intended to ally with you guys when he got online. Due to my N0 inspect we assumed the people listed as your enemies were partners, and when it turned out oops they weren't and my win condition was just special it kind of threw a wrench in that idea.
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Spreadsheet. I was sure that it was included in the link to the Persona folder. I made it so anyone with the link should be able to access it. If that didn't work, I'll just relink all the rest of the files. As for removing triangle fusions, I could have gone the other way as well and removed normal fusions in favor of triangle fusions to create more options. That could have made more sense, theoretically.
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Funny thing is that he asked to sub out this game as well, and I instantly thought of that comic. lol
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Jun 17th, 2012, 9:40:07 AM | #18 |
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This game had so much RPG elements it could perhaps be remade into a full RPG-esque tactical game. It was much fun, I guessed that Messiah would be an unique fusion but died before thinking about it too much. Oh well...
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Time Resolved Photoluminescence Spectroscopy (TRPL)
Time resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy probes those excited states which have a radiative decay channel. For these measurements we have two available setups. In the first, a frequency tripled pulsed Nd:YAG laser with a pulse duration of 9 ns is used as an excitation source. This output can be converted by an optical parametric oscillator in a wavelength range of 210-2500nm to stimulate the sample. The resulting emission is spectrally resolved using a spectrograph, and detected by a gated intensified CCD. By a sequential shift of the gate window with respect to the excitation (over a range from 1ns up to several ms), it is possible to measure the spectrally resolved decay of the photoluminescence, providing information about the excited state.
For excited states with lifetimes of less than 10 ns, a streak setup is available. In this, the excitation is given either by an Verdi pumped Ti:Sapphire Laser or a supercontinuum white light source, both with a pulse length of around 100 fs. For the latter, the desired excitation wavelength can be selected from the white light by an eight channel modulator. In this setup the photoluminescence signal is also spectrally resolved by a spectrograph before it hits the streak cathode. The electrons released by the streak unit travel through a time dependent field which is synchronized with the laser excitation. This causes the electrons to reach the target phosphor screen at a distinct height which depends upon the time after excitation that they were released in the streak cathode. The flash of striking electrons is recorded by a CCD camera. The result is a spectrally and time resolved image with a time resolution of around 15 ps.


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I know Facebook Chat is unreliable, but its getting more stable and actually really compliments the site, its minimal, doesn't get in the way and its quite tidy too.
Just wondering if anyone is aware of such a mod yet for SMF, or whether someone's considered working on one?
I would be in to help pay for such a mod to be made. Maybe if we can get some more people involved that are willing to pay for such a mod we would be able to keep the cost minimual to us but still have the coder make some money. Just a thought.
Good point, although it would have to be far more stable than the Facebook implementation, hehe. They've changed theirs now though so that the Chat DIV itself doesn't reload per page change - I think the page changes are now within their own iframe or something of that nature?
This is the exact thing I was wondering for possibilities!
I can't see it being that hard to implement something like this, utilising database writes/reads and a divs/iframes with their content refreshing constantly - I bet its not long before a developer picks this one up - would be a great feature, potentially quite a fair bit of extra load on the server though.
I guess the other consideration when looking at such a facility is that you in effect reduce chatter/discussion on the forum itself, instead of replying to posts, people may instead catch the member via the chat and blabber on there instead?
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yellow throated vireo 2 1024 ws
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cerulean warbler 1 1024ws
hooded warbler 1 1024ws
cape may warbler 1a 1024ws
northern waterthrush 1 1024ws
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warbling vireo 1 1024ws
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white crowned sparrow 1 1024ws
pine siskin 1 1024ws
american redstart 1 1024ws
palm warbler 3 1024ws
palm warbler 1 1024 ws
palm warbler 2 1024 ws
blue headed vireo 1 1024 ws
smith's longspur 1a 1024 ws
lapland longspur 1 1024 ws
northern saw whet owl 1a 1024 ws
boreal owl 1a 1024 ws
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common merganser 1b 1024ws
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bald eagle 2a 800ws
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carolina wren 1 800ws
white breasted nuthatch 1 800ws
field sparrow 1 800ws
house finch 1a 800ws
pileated woodpecker 1b 800ws
barred owl 1 800 ws
barnacle goose 1 800ws
white winged crossbill 1b 800ws
peregrine falcon 1d 800ws
red crossbill 1 800 ws
eastern bluebird 1 800ws
barred owl 1c 800ws
virginia warlber 2 800ws
orange crowned warbler 2 800ws
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northern-saw whet owl 1a 800
virginia warbler 1 800ws
hairy woodpecker 1 800
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Savannah Sparrow (Ipswich)
Grace's Warbler
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American Kestrel
Northern Shrike
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Red-bellied Woodpecker
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Red-throated Loon
American Black Duck
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Northern Shoveler
Pied-billed Grebe
Peregrine Falcon
Turkey Vulture
Red-tailed Hawk
Black Vulture
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Cooper's Hawk
Yellow-breasted Chat
Red-shouldered Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Gray-cheeked Thrush
White-rumped Sandpiper
Swainson's Thrush
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Black-throated Blue Warbler
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Black Tern
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Pectoral Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Willow Flycatcher
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Black Skimmer (chick)
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Common Tern (juvenile)
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Barred Owl
Grasshopper Sparrow
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Orchard Oriole
Kirtland's Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
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Golden-cheeked Warbler
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Seaside Sparrow
Black-capped Vireo
Puerto Rican Tody
Pine Warbler
Common Eider
American Bittern
Hermit Warbler
Varied Thrush
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
Prothonotary Warbler
Black Skimmer and Chick
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Great-crested Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Great-horned Owl (Owlet)
Worm-eating Warbler
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Today's Daily Babe is from Puerto Rico. Bodine Koehler Pena is a model and beauty pageant title holder. She was born in the Netherlands, but grew up in Puerto Rico. She's of Dutch and Dominican descent. She is one of the most well-known top models on the Island. She represented Rio Grande municipality at Miss Puerto Rico 2012 and won it. She also won the La Batalla del Bikini competition, which gives her an automatic spot on the semi-finalists at the final competition. In November 2011 Bodine Koehler Pena was crowned Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2012 and was therefore selected to represent Puerto Rico in the Miss Universe 2012 competition.
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Bill Adams serves as director of World Renew's Disaster Response Services program. World Renew is a relief, development, and educational ministry of the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) in North America.
Aaron Baart is the dean of chapel at Dordt College. Baart was previously the pastor at Bridge of Hope Ministries in Sioux Center, Iowa.
Jon De Groot served as the worship pastor for nine years at The Crossing (an RCA church plant) in Sioux Falls. He helped build a culture of worship by training worship leaders and teams. Now campus ministries coordinator at Dordt College, De Groot trains worship leaders through the worship arts program, oversees worship events on campus, and leads worship in weekly chapel.
Lee De Groot is the youth coordinator for MINN-I-KOTA Youth Ministries. She works with and encourages young people and their leaders in 50 different churches in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Iowa.
Karen DeMol has been involved in worship planning for 20 years. Currently co-chair of the worship committee at First Christian Reformed Church in Sioux Center, she has taught courses in music and worship at Dordt College and is the author of Sound Stewardship: How Shall Christians Think About Music? Recently retired as professor of music, she continues to work at Dordt part-time.
Ron De Weerd is the director of development for the Foods Resource Bank, encouraging rural and urban communities to begin community projects in which they raise crops and livestock as well as funds for food security programs in developing nations.
Rick Droog is the ministry coordinator for the Siouxland Diaconal Conference. A member of World Renew's (formerly CRWRC) North America ministry team, he works with churches throughout the Midwest.
Dale Ellens is the executive director of Bethesda Christian Counseling Midwest. He is a licensed professional counselor and a marriage and family therapist.
Jill Friend serves on the CRC Faith Formation Committee. She is a music educator at Sioux Center Christian School and worship coordinator at Covenant CRC in Sioux Center.
Paul Hansen is the pastor of First Christian Reformed Church in Artesia, California.
Syd Hielema serves on the CRC Faith Formation Committee and is the chaplain and a professor of theology at Redeemer University College in Ontario. From 1996 to 2006 he served as a professor of theology at Dordt College.
Sam Keyzer helped start a church called the Northern Lighthouse in Lincoln, Nebraska. Keyzer is currently a chaplain to the Lincoln, Nebraska Re-Integration Program (RIP), a ministry that grew out of the Northern Lighthouse to serve inmates transitioning from prison to society. He has specialized training in Christian Caregiving (Stephen's Ministry), evangelism (Training 2000 Network), leadership development (Strategic Global Assistance), and family systems (Clinical Pastoral Education).
Troy Kooima is a worship leader and "youth guy." He has led numerous junior and senior high youth events, camps, conferences, conventions, and mission trips around North America. Troy has been a youth pastor for more than a decade and has led worship with young people and congregations for more than 18 years.
John Lee holds an M.Div. from Calvin Theological Seminary including graduate studies in Israel. He has served as a missionary in Latin America and currently is senior pastor at Bethel CRC in Sioux Center.
Kurt Rietema, his wife, Emily, and their family live in the Argentine neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas. The Rietemas lead Christian community development efforts for the CRC in this lower income, ethnically diverse neighborhood, hoping to help a new faith community emerge as they seek God's shalom for Argentine.
John Rottman is professor of preaching at Calvin Theological Seminary. He is an American by birth, having grown up in Muskegon, Michigan, and a Canadian by choice. He worked as a pastor at two CRC churches in Toronto, Ontario, living in Canada for almost 20 years. He loves Iowa for the students it sends to the seminary and for the opportunities it provides for pheasant hunting.
Dawn Ryswyk is a keyboardist and worship leader. She has worked in a youth ministry/networking position for 20 years. Ryswyk has written materials for groups and retreats, and she is a worship leader in her church in Edgerton, Minnesota.
Jay Shim teaches theology at Dordt College. He has a Ph.D. from Calvin Theological Seminary. Before coming to Dordt, Shim was dean of research and professor of theology at Cheonan University in Seoul. He has been a multi-cultural liason for the Christian Reformed denomination for many years.
Mike Vander Berg is a native of Sioux Center and currently lies in Waupun, Wisconsin. Vander Berg co-owns and operates a software development company called Dynamic Internet Solutions, a ministry-based business dedicated to the website and software needs of churches, Christian schools, and other ministries.
J. William "Bill" Van Der Heide is the pastor of Ocheyedan Christian Reformed Church in Ocheyedan, Iowa, where the elders are attempting to rekindle the ministry of visiting with the families of that congregation. Van Der Heide was born and raised in the Hudson River Valley in New York. He attended Goshen Christian Reformed Church where he experienced family visiting. He has served churches in Iowa, Michigan, and Montana and has a spiritual passion for a "Master-Apprentice" teaching style matched by a desire to talk to people about their faith journey and how to make it stronger.
Deon Wynia is a church health professional and mental health therapist with Bethesda Christian Counseling Services. He has been a licensed counselor since 1994, working with churches for the past 17 years. He has served as an elder for nine years and assisted in two church plants. Wynia has training and experience with life coaching, mediation, conflict coaching, and reconciling church conflict.
Todd Zuidema is pastor at Hope CRC, Hull, Iowa, where he has served since 2005. Zuidema is thankful for the dedicated elders at Sully CRC who took the time to teach him the value of the Heidelberg Catechism as he was growing up.


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The question is "I have and insignia TV that uses code 10463, for my comcast remote what is the code so i can change my input?
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Air Quality: Airborne contaminant level of G1 or lower as defined by ISA-S71.04-1985
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EqualLogic Host Integration Tools This family of host-based software provides tight integration between the EqualLogic array and the host. Dell provides host integration tools for Microsoft®, VMware® and Linux® environments, providing customers with the following benefits:
EqualLogic SAN Headquarters Dell EqualLogic SAN Headquarters (SAN HQ) is a centralized monitoring and reporting tool that gathers and provides in-depth information on performance, capacity and alerts across multiple groups of EqualLogic PS arrays, helping improve performance and effective allocation of group resources. |
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Okay, have the module sort of working now, but I've a new issue that may or may not be specific to zencart v1.5...
I was testing the payment process and unlike paypal, when you click to confirm the order in step 3, the GTpayment module is actually ADDING the order to the database... you are then expected to pay with your credit card of choice. However, if you abandon the cart at this point, the order still resides within zencart (though un-paid).
If you complete the order payment, the order does get updated with payment info. So I don't know if this is a design flaw on GT's part, how something changed from 1.3.9 to 1.5, or something else.
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Take charge of your health today. Be informed. Be involved.
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"Differences in health based on race, ethnicity, or economics can be reduced but will require public awareness and understanding of which groups are most vulnerable, which disparities are most correctable through available interventions, and whether disparities are being resolved over time."—Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The city of Pittsburgh has been in the national spotlight lately for its revitalization—in appearance, spirit, and even economic momentum. But, what about the people of Pittsburgh? How well are we doing?
In terms of health, we should be concerned. According to findings recently published in the report Allegheny County Health in Black and White, produced by the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh, the Allegheny County Health Department and the University of Pittsburgh's University Center for Social and Urban Research, we have some work to do, especially with regard to minority health and health disparities. It's time to pause, refocus our game and take charge of our health.
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Urban League of Pittsburgh CEO appeals for community participation
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This series on health disparities in the Pittsburgh region is the result of collaboration between the New Pittsburgh Courier, Community PARTners, a core service of the University of Pittsburgh's Clinical and Translational Institute and the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh. Pitt assistant professors Michael Yonas, DrPH, and Jessica Griffin Burke, PhD, and professor Ronald D. Stall, PhD, co-direct Community PARTners with Esther L. Bush, president and CEO of the Urban League. Dr. Yonas recently sat down to speak with Ms. Bush about the partnership.
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Pittsburgh a Hypertension Hot Spot
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Pittsburgh is known as the Most Livable City, but what many do not know; it is also considered a top Hot Spot. Not for vacation destinations, but for hypertension. A recent analysis conducted by Sperling's BestPlaces, an independent research firm, in partnership with Takeda Pharmaceuticals North American Inc., found Pittsburgh to have the sixth highest rate of hypertension and hypertension risk factors in the country for Hypertension Hot Spots.
Hypertension, or high blood pressure as it is commonly known, is a condition of elevated blood pressure. Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps out blood. It is the second leading preventing risk factor for death in the United States and like many other diseases, hits African-Americans the hardest. It is also considered a silent killer, because it virtually has no exact symptoms. If untreated it can lead to serious problems, such as heart or kidney disease, stroke, congestive heart failure or even death.
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DIABETES: Know your risk and what you can do
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(ARA)—Diabetes is a serious disease that affects nearly 26 million children and adults in the United States. Early diagnosis is critical to successful treatment and delaying or preventing some of its complications such as heart disease, blindness, kidney disease, stroke, amputation and death.
This year, T-fal has joined the American Diabetes Association's Stop Diabetes movement to educate and teach consumers about healthful eating. By following the simple steps below, families can better understand their risk and take the necessary steps to help combat this disease.
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Who benefits most from weight-loss TV shows?
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by Sandy Cohen
LOS ANGELES (AP)—Despite all the "Biggest Loser"-type shows on TV, all the pounds shed by their contestants and all the weight-loss products purchased by viewers, America continues to be the Biggest Gainer.
At least 10 weight-loss shows are airing these days, and on "The Biggest Loser" alone, this season's three top finalists dropped a combined 365 pounds. Yet the rest of us are just getting chubbier, with obesity rates in the United States now the highest of any industrialized nation. In fact, more people are obese today than when "Loser" premiered in 2004.
So why aren't these reality shows helping in the fat fight?
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Christmas is just around the corner, but if you're still struggling to find gifts for the photographer in your life, fear not - Josie Reavely has put together a guide to 10 quirky, inspiring stocking-fillers that will make perfect last-minute gifts for any photographer.
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National Violent Death Reporting System
The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) can help provide states and communities with a clearer understanding of violent deaths so we can prevent them.
Tragically, more than 38,000 people died by suicide in the United States in 2010.1 Homicide claimed another 16,000 people. We know these numbers can be lowered. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is committed to preventing violent deaths in the U.S.
Surveillance Data from 18 States
To stop violent deaths, we must first understand all the facts. Created in 2002, the NVDRS is a surveillance system that pulls together data on violent deaths in 18 states (see map below), including information about child maltreatment (or child abuse) fatalities, intimate partner homicides, other homicides, suicides, deaths where individuals are killed by law enforcement in the line of duty, unintentional firearm injury deaths, and deaths of undetermined intent.
NVDRS data help to:
- Inform decision makers and program planners about the magnitude, trends, and characteristics of violent deaths in their state or community so appropriate prevention efforts can be identified and implemented;
- Facilitate the evaluation of state-based prevention programs and strategies.
A national system will allow CDC to provide information for every state to inform their prevention efforts. It will also ensure we have enhanced information on the national scope of the problem of violent deaths to monitor and track trends and to inform national efforts.
Linking Data to Save Lives
Linking information about the "who, when, where and how" from data on violent deaths will provide insights about "why" they occurred. Frontline investigators, including homicide detectives, coroners, crime lab investigators and medical examiners, collect valuable information about violent deaths. But these data are often not combined to provide a complete picture.
NVDRS collects facts from four major sources about the same incident, and pools information into a usable, anonymous database. An incident can include one victim or multiple victims. The four major data sources are:
- Death certificates;
- Coroner/medical examiner reports;
- Police reports; and
- Crime laboratories.
As NVDRS data become available, state and local violence prevention practitioners use it to guide prevention programs, policies, and practices. To answer the questions surrounding violent deaths, NVDRS:
- Links records to describe in detail the circumstances that may contribute to a violent death;
- Identifies violent deaths occurring in the same incident to help describe the circumstances of multiple homicides or homicide–suicides;
- Provides timely preliminary information on violent deaths, including cause or mechanism; and
- Characterizes the relationship of the victim to suspect.
NVDRS References
- NVDRS Fact Sheet [PDF 378 KB]
- Overview: Linking Data to Saving Lives [PDF 661KB]
- NVDRS Timeline [PDF 3MB]
- NVDRS Data Online
- Publications
NVDRS Resources
- Practice Questions
- Frequently Asked Questions
- State Profiles
- Data Collection and Access
- Training and Technical Assistance
- Restricted Access Database
- Partners
NVDRS Success Stories
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