The message should be clear, credible, transparent, direct, and sticky using characters and stories familiar to consumers.
Most fan fiction is published on the Internet (see fanfiction.net), and it's usually preceded by disclaimers noting that the writer is using characters or settings from someone else's work.
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The education secretary listed other suggestions for primary teachers, produced by other groups, including using characters such as Nemo, a fish from the Disney film of the same name or "Eddy the Teddy".
The bottom line: To be effective, a message must be appealing, clear, direct, sticky, credible, and transparent, using characters and stories that people are familiar with, can easily memorize and can recall at the moment they are making a decision.
Taiwan residents write Chinese using traditional characters, while mainlanders prefer simplified forms adopted in 1951.
Of course, you must convince me why by using 140 characters or less.
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"This means using our characters -- characters children love and parents trust -- to bridge some of the world's most intractable divides, " Knell said.
The digital game assets will also be utilized in the pre-visualization (Previz) phase allowing us to block the scenes using CGI characters and in some cases locations.
Imagine, we have all those alphanumeric IDs and passwords some even using special characters and a simple, lousy telephone call can easily override the whole system.
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Conference representatives said 1997 will be the year of the Internet, in which cyberspace becomes more lifelike though advanced graphics and such features as three-dimensional chat rooms where users can communicate using animated characters.
Tuesday's episode, which coincides with Learn To Sign Week, features a storyline using deaf characters - both of whom are played by deaf actors - together with a hearing actor who uses British Sign Language.
When Coca-Cola began looking for a suitable Chinese version of its name after launching the drink there in 1927, it found that some local shopkeepers had produced homemade signs using Chinese characters to replicate the sound of the words "Coca-Cola, " without noticing that the characters in combination could be read as "female horse fastened with wax" or "bite the wax tadpole, " according to Coca-Cola researchers.
Leveraging WebGL and Javascript, the system samples the search giant's images and generates text art using the appropriate characters and hues.
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In the game, players take on a series of increasingly tough enemies in an arena drawn using only the basic characters and punctuation marks available in Excel.
The Model 33 Teletype keyboard connected to the computer Mr Tomlinson was using only had about 12 punctuation characters.
After toying with using an alphabet to replace Chinese characters altogether, the government settled on a scheme to create new, simplified versions of the characters.
The duo rose to fame as teenage actors on BBC children's show Byker Grove before a stint as pop singers, using the names of their TV characters, PJ and Duncan.
Using Teespring they can now test which characters people like, as the character will hit the minimum threshold.
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With that hugely popular TV show behind it and the fact that each of the characters in the game battle using their own unique moves, Simpsons Wrestling really does have an edge that will keep you playing for months to come.
"Once" may earn the same special status by doing something similar, albeit on a more intimate scale -- using pop-rock songs to shape its characters' ecstatic feelings.
"We now live in a society in which millions of our citizens prefer to vote characters off reality TV programmes - using their mobile phones at 25 pence a shot - rather than turn up at polling booths for elections, " he said.
Players would peer through stationary goggles and manipulate monochromatic red characters that popped out from the screen using a wired controller.
Nitsch's fondness for retro visualizations don't end there, however, he also created a system that superimposes a gaggle of characters in the wake of a physical paintbrush using a Kinect and a projector.
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Using it, a snippet of text as short as 20 characters can be assigned unerringly to the language it was written in.
Mr. Carsen's spellbinding production made Blanche's fear visual, using light, shadows and a large, menacing crowd that pressed toward the characters from the edges of the mostly empty stage (Michael Levine designed the set).
Then, using "augmented reality" technology from Total Immersion Software, the device translated the Mandarin characters on the sign into English, and in real time, super-imposed the characters on the device screen with English translations.
At heart, the game is a 3D adventure game, involving finding items, using them on the environment and each other to solve problems, and talking to other characters to get clues as to what to do next.
The old series used a technique called "supermarionation", using fine wires to move the puppets, but the new series will use computer-generated characters.
At least with that example the case can be made that without those 12 characters being on the disc it would require gamers to download them just to see other people using them.
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