Slug
Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word slug is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a small internal shell, particularly sea slugs and semislugs (this is in contrast to the common name snail, which applies to gastropods that have a coiled shell large enough that the animal can fully retract its soft parts into the shell).
Various taxonomic families of land slugs form part of several quite different evolutionary lineages, which also include snails. Thus, the various families of slugs are not closely related, despite a superficial similarity in the overall body form. The shell-less condition has arisen many times independently during the evolutionary past, and thus the category "slug" is emphatically a polyphyletic one.
Taxonomy
Of the six orders of Pulmonata, two – the Onchidiacea and Soleolifera – solely comprise slugs. A third family, the Sigmurethra, contains various clades of snails, semi-slugs (i.e. snails whose shells are too small for them to retract fully into) and slugs. The taxonomy of this group is in the process of being revised in light of DNA sequencing. It appears that pulmonates are paraphyletic and basal to the opisthobranchs, which are a terminal branch of the tree. The family Ellobiidae are also polyphyletic.
Slug (typesetting)
In typesetting, a slug is a piece of lead or other type metal, in any of several specific word senses. In one sense, a slug is a piece of spacing material used to space paragraphs. In the era of commercial typesetting in metal type, they were usually manufactured in strips of 6-point lead. In another sense, a slug is one line of Linotype typeset matter, where each line corresponds to one piece of lead.
In modern typesetting programs such as Adobe InDesign, slugs hold printing information, customized color bar information, or displays other instructions and descriptions for other information in the document. Objects (including text frames) positioned in the slug area are printed but will disappear when the document is trimmed to its final page size.
Usage in web publishing
More recently this term is also used in web publishing to refer to short article labels that can be used as a part of an URL. Slugs are usually derived from article's title and are limited in length and the set of characters (to prevent percent-encoding, often only letters, numbers and hyphens are allowed).
Slug (railroad)
A railroad slug is an accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive. It has trucks with traction motors but, unlike a B unit, is unable to move about under its own power, as it does not contain a prime mover to produce electricity, nor is there a cab for an operator. Instead, it is connected to a locomotive, called the mother, which provides the needed electrical power to operate the traction motors, and the motor controls.
Basic principles
A slug is used to increase adhesive weight, allowing full power to be applied at a lower speed, thus allowing a higher maximum tractive effort. They are often used in low-speed operations such as switching operations in yards. At low speeds, a diesel-electric locomotive prime mover is capable of producing more electricity than its traction motors can use effectively. Extra power would simply cause the wheels to slip and possibly overheat the traction motors. A slug increases the number of traction motors available to the locomotive, increasing both the pulling and braking power. In addition the load on each traction motor is reduced, which helps prevent overheating from excess current. Slugs typically carry ballast to increase their weight and improve traction. Large blocks of concrete are frequently used for this purpose, substituting for the weight of the now-absent prime mover.
Podcasts:
Slug
ALBUMS
- Sauna, Volume 1 released: 1997
Sauna, Volume 1
Released 1997- My Broken Heart (radio edit)
- Someone to Believe In (Us Fragile mix)
- Push! (Vocoder edit)
- Can't See This (Seable mix)
- Superstjärna (radio edit)
- Not Human
- Stalker (Goth mix)
- Collaborate to Fit
- Stand Alone
- Static Tension
- Oublier (Virtual Panic mix)
- Bleu Shield
- I Remember (Now and Then mix)
- The Hall of Pain (Paranoia mix)
- Fasten Your Seatbelts
- Stillborn Heart
- Date on Mars
Slug
ALBUMS
- A Hot Wild Drive in the City released: 2000
- Poop Alley Tapes released: 1995
A Hot Wild Drive in the City
Released 2000- Car Ride Intro
- Motor Drive
- 8 Chrome Piston
- She Drives
- Dialog
- Hot Rod
- Ballad of Earl Scheib
- Crash Words
- Crash Wilkinson
- Put It in Neutral
- A.M. Radio
- Rap Music is Killing America
- Traffic
- East of Nowhere
- Highway Sounds
- Big Rig
- Steal This Car
- My Pickup Truck
- Car Crash Chase
- Diesel
- God's Car
- American Car
- Hot Rod Lincoln
- Car Down Again
- Car Burn 2000
- Cars End
Poop Alley Tapes
Released 1995- California
- Love on the Rocks
- Study No. 1 for Symphony No. 1
- Ten Nights
- Teenage Blues
- Rediculous
- Fascinating Girl
- Honky Tonky Woman
- Kinda Sorta Maybe
- Alan's Got an Axe to Grind
- Sty
- Fading Fast
- Nevadaesque
- Hot Custom Long Board
- Drinking Dogs
- Turkey's Lament
- Hello There Chico
- Excerpt of "Dark Light Approaching Reason"
Slug
ALBUMS
- We Really Freestyle released: 2003
- Live AT Fat Beats in L.A. released: 2001
- AWOL One and Slug Present Nightcaps released:
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ALBUMS
- A.W.O.L. Presents... released: 2014
- Ungovernable Resistance 2013 Compilation, Volume 3 released: 2013
- Freedom Punker, Volume 9 released: 2013
- Freedom Punker, Volume 5 released: 2013
- Freedom Punker, Volume 3 released: 2013
- Freedom Punker, Volume 2 released: 2013
- A New World in Our Hearts released: 2013
A.W.O.L. Presents...
Released 2014- In Ignorance
- C.D.G.
- Red Grass
- Killing It
- Give Em War
- Missiles on the Roof
- Vendetta
- Samantha
- Vivisection
- Bringing It Back
- An Even Playing Field
- Coppers in the Dance
- 99% Uprising
- Think Tank
- Irremovable
- Death Special
- Set Me Free
- TRS
- Illuminati
- Dicktraitor
- Drag Me Down
- There's Something Wrong With You
- The Sideboard Song (techno Gremlin edit)
Ungovernable Resistance 2013 Compilation, Volume 3
Released 2013- El Destierro
- Architecture of a Perfect Weapon
- Greedy Bastards
- Monkey vs. Drunkenfist
- Prey Upon the Weak
- Middle East War
- Abort the Troops
- Career Suicide
- More Desolation for World Domination
- Structural Oppression
- Locked Up
- Another Nuclear Age
- Cursed Earth
- Lavoro lavoro (ma quale lavoro...)
- Gulag
- Thin the Herd
- War on the System
- Traitor
- Hope's Couch
- The Stalker
Freedom Punker, Volume 9
Released 2013- The Rich Are Killing the Poor
- On and On
- Paraliż
- Middle East War
- Warmonger
- Fictional Stories
- Greedy Bastards
- Stand Up, Be Counted
- Lay Down
- More Suffering
- Guerra Bombas e Genocidio
- After the Massacre
- Lie to Me
- Drifting Thought of an Absurd Dream
- Load Up Your Guns
- Out of the Blue
- Courage for Peace
- Stealing Lives
- Bloody Weeds
- Pabeulit
Freedom Punker, Volume 3
Released 2013- Blue Blood
- Dis Brutality Continues
- Botox Beauty
- All Against...
- Walls and Barriers
- Pemerintah Buta Ijo
- Μακροοικονομική Δημοκρατία
- They Don't Get It
- Fascists Raus
- Blood of Innocent
- Revolution Spirit
- My Grandad Didn't Vote for Fascists
- Comeback of the Plague
- Power Like God
- Thin Thread
- L'Autunno Del'Umanitã
- Religion Wants Us Dead
- Human Sickness
A New World in Our Hearts
Released 2013- Grogne Populaire
- No ID for I’n’I
- Grismarchen
- Their Shitty Paradigm
- Let’s Take the Fight to Them
- Jean Charles de Menezes
- Leviathan
- You’re a James Hunt
- Nil Existence
- Follow the Herd
- Gulag
- A Quiet One
- Solidarity
- Fight the Rich, Not Their Wars!
- We’re Out Here (Cos They’re in There)
- Not So Fast, Mr. Mosley!
- The New Definition of Modern Crime
- Nichts ist vergessen
- People Never Heard
- Economic Genocide
- Guerra de classes
- Idiot Jamboree
- Fahrenheit 451
- Face the Dagger
- Desert Hips
- Big Purple Friend
- Stop Deportations
- MGD
- River Soul, Part 2
- No Guns No War
- Grand Collapse
- You Can Burn Down All the Buildings
- 6AM
- Our Guitars Kill Fascists
- They Said We Could Have Everything in the Argos Catalogue
- War Britannia
- Dio Patria Famiglia
- Race Ignorance
- Budget Cuts
- Step Up
- No Borders
- You Have My Back
- Poor Little Rich Boy
- Striking Thirteen
- Welfare
- Wobbly Bit
- Saltpeter
- Blok
- Strontfront
- Fratelli di battaglie
- Mass Injustice
- Skulls and Crosses
- Working for the CIA
- War Dog
- Shell to Sea
- Fascists raus
- Changing
- Autonomous Spaces
- Oppression
- Third Estate
- Red and Black
- Faith Defiler
- Void
- Alphaville
- Throat Pipe
- You Didn’t Just Turn Into
- War’s a Common Enemy
- Center of the Storm
- Tide Will Turn
- Cognitive Blindness
- Fuer die quote
S.L.U.G.
ALBUMS
- Bong Hits From the Astral Basement Volume 2 released: 2014
Bong Hits From the Astral Basement Volume 2
Released 2014- Imperial Staches
- Bring Me the Light
- The Whimper of Whipped Dogs
- Urban Brawl
- Idle Conversation
- Ritual
- I'm Done
- Evil and Right
- Witch Castle in the Sea of Death
- Conestoga Breaks Down
- Count of Monte Fristoe
- Infinite Witches
- Glossolalia
- Far Beyond Fields and Evergreens
- Infinity Creep
- Rockets on Fire
- Satan
- Imperial Duster
- Lonely Prey
- Living To Die
- Autumn Woods
- Deserted Planet 2078
- Weed the People
- Loss of Youth
- The Sun
- Twisted Horse Boogie
- Cross to Bear
- Mindweasels
- Dirty Game
- Nice For Three Days
- Man of Mayhem
- Back in the Cave
- High Rider
- Dying Sun
- Hydrogen (Heavy Planet exclusive edit)
- Vultures' Wake
- Entropy
- Trapped By the Sky
- Chuck Mantooth
- Women of Doom
- Greasy Mush
- Atomic Rhythm
- Winner Dies Last (Aspiration)
- Dawn Of a New Age
- Ghost Prayer
- Ego Tripper
- Into the Ocean
- Quasar
- Frontman
- Green Lung
- Mt. Aloha
- Void
- Progress
- Dreadful Crash
- Amanita Kingdom
- V.A.G.
- Rollin'
- Reef Do All the Work, the Beatles Get All the Credit
- Why Am I Normal
- Beautiful Bird
- Wickerman
- The Covey
- The Legend of the Cowboy Punk
- Lady Ogress
- Seven Deadly Suns
- New Stone
- Hijo de Gaia
- Sinkhole
- Garden of Meat
- Hiela la Sangre
- Older No Wiser
- To the World's End
- The Great Silence
- Gran Torino
- Building a Haunted House
- Lord of Illusion
- For a Lifetime
- Dope Messiah
- Napalm
- War Elephant
- Sick Mouth
- Blackrock
- The Cult
- The Storm
- Eclectic Tail
- Empty Sky
- Deja Vu
- Negatron
- Eye For An Eye
- Dream Song
- To Break Is Divine and Inspirational
- Khan
- Tears of Blood
- Of Beasts
- Secrets Untold
- Revenge
- Peer Cloud
- Howl
- Grifters
- Ghost Town
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Don't Ever Fucking Question That
by: SlugEnough to hold you to the brightest of lights
To place you dangerously close to that sun
Enough to acknowledge the flaws you can't ignore
And recognize the cause of what's done is done
More than enough to put my name behind my ideals
And neglect my logic twice daily
Enough to keep me looking for my Lucy in the sky
With gems when I remember how you use to call me baby
Enough to look in my mirror with the test
For every tear you shed regardless of why you wept
Enough to curse any man who can't appreciate the depths of the ocean
I swam till I ran out of breathe
(Chorus)
I love you don't ever fucking question that
This why we probably never get along
If I was better at finding the right words to say
I wouldn't need to right these motherfucking songs
I love you (I love you) Never (Never)
Don't ever fucking question that (I love you)
Don't ever fucking question that
Riding the public transit
I study the black stairs to answer the question
of how and why I got so many gray hairs
I take care of the nervous that runs through my extension cord
And I reflect on that reoccurring dream where we meet the lord
Single filed lines to give her a pound one at a time
But when I faced her I attempted to embrace her she looked so fine
I awokened from my sleep
before her bodyguard had the chance to beat me to submission
And I still walked with my religion
I watched the children scurry in circles around the two-way mirror
Worrying about which side of the glass projects the reflection clearer
I hear the whispers of the wind trying to get me to grin
Gassing me up about the love i plucked and not been stuck within
For every eclipse that stairs at me
from the other side of a paper cup of espresso
I light a match beneath the kettle
And for every set of lips that come attached
and equipped with that program to seek success
I bleed my ethic at a slow drip
I know a man who knew meet a woman don't remember where
Big beautiful eyes and light brown hair
She was from the Burbs he was from Southside of the city
This is back when Franklin Avenue was still pretty
Two different worlds apart
But the world is just a small town
We all know how people like to get down
Here we go Aquarius, Pisces
Feel the flow of the fluid as I swim through it to free my soul
Push up that came without the glove dumb the pain
The magic from up above what it does to the brain
Make the love paint the picture write the song
The player meet a virgin made a Virgo named him Sean
Make the love paint the picture write the song
The player meet a virgin made a Virgo named him Sean
Make the love paint the picture and write that song
Til the break of dawn
(Chorus x2)
I love you don't ever fucking question that
This why we probably never get along
If i was better at finding the right words to say
I wouldn't need to right these motherfucking songs
Make the love paint that picture write the song
(I could quit writing all these songs)
Make the love paint that picture write the song
(I could quit writing all these songs)
Make the love paint that picture write the song
(I could love fucking all these songs)
Make the love paint that picture write the song
(I could quit writing all these songs)
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