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Spend a day improving your NoiseBridge! Work on large and small projects to make the space more useful and user-friendly! Learn how to run electric and put up drywall in our general areas, or work on small projects for your favorite area of the space. We'll have music with a live DJ for a portion of the day, and food for those who put in a couple hours of work.
June 5th, noon til 7pm
Potential Projects
Sign Making
- Identify sign needs
"Please sign and date your food so its not thrown away when the fridge is cleaned"
- Member Shelves sign
- Hack Shelf Signage
- Create signage
- Post signs
Trash and Recycling Organization
- Identify and mark areas in the space that should have a trash can/recycle bin
- Spray paint buckets to be used for recycling
- Acquire additional trash/recycling bins if necessary
PA Equipment Organization
- Designate a place for equipment to be returned to
- Clearly label all pieces of equipment
- Create instructions for use of equipment
- Test instructions for clarity
- Print out/Mount instructions
Put the front door back together
Hang Sign Over Outside Front Door
General Org
- Create a place for extension cords and power strips (separate from hack stuff)
- Move some Shelving to the main space for games and toys
- Clean fridge
- Clean bathroom
- General sweeping/trash cleanup
- Fix printer/ Document how to hook up to it
- Take hutches into dirty shop/ Sand and stain
- Rotate makerbot table 90 degrees
- Make wire spool stand/ put spools on it
- Remove desk from back corner of electronics area
- Hang plywood and begin mounting component drawers
- Pull up rest of plywood/linoleum tiles
- Replace missing rotted boards
- Run electric for microwave and fridge
- Clean up old kitchen space
- Paint backsplash with gloss paint
- Wash, dry and fold towels (we have detergent)
- Install adapter on kitchen faucet for dish washer
Dirty Shop
- Signage for tools and major areas to help describe what's going on in that space
- Material Racks to keep area organized/safe
- Plastic slats for shop doors?
- Dust/Noise Abatement
- obtain and install doors
Sewing Area
- Clean up fabric/Empty scrap bins
- Sew new cover for ironing table
- Shelving for project storage?
- A workable system for organizing books at NB
- A system for keeping track of which books we currently have
- Stamping the inside of books with the Noisebridge name address and website
Hack Shelf
- Basic org
Install light switches throughout space
- Gang boxes
- conduit straps
- masonry bit
- anchors
- screwdriver/drill


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WHEELING - The Governor's Advisory Council on Substance Abuse is making inroads toward curbing drug addiction problems in West Virginia, according to state officials and treatment experts.
The Governor's Regional Substance Abuse Task Force for Region 1 met Monday in Wheeling at Northwood Health Systems to receive an update on the state's plan to tackle drug addiction. Members learned two additional substance abuse programs are going to be established in the Northern Panhandle as a result of the council's recommendations.
A women's recovery center will be established within the YWCA in Wheeling and run through the Miracles Happen Residential Substance Abuse Program, said Kathy L. Paxton, director of the Division on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse for the West Virginia Bureau for Health and Health Facilities.
And a six-bed crisis intervention center focusing on substance abuse is coming to Healthways Inc. in Weirton, she added.
Stopping drug addiction is a focus for Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, said former state Sen. Ed Bowman, a Hancock County Democrat who now works as a field director for Tomblin.
"From what I hear, our area here in the Northern Panhandle has one of the highest rates of heroin use in the nation," Bowman said. "I don't have to tell you how scary that is."
One of the state's biggest problems is that employers have difficulty finding workers who can pass a drug test, he continued.
But Paxton said the problem of drug addiction is showing signs for improvement.
"We know the depths of the problems of drug abuse, but we don't always know about the positives that are happening," she said.
Most recent figures show that for the first time in many years, there has been a decrease in prescription drug abuse in West Virginia, Paxton noted.
"While some folks maybe change their drug ... I still believe there will be some who won't graduate from taking a pill to ingesting heroin," she added.
Russ Taylor, Region 1 representative to the Governor's Advisory Council on Substance Abuse, said he had at first been skeptical the council would make any headway in forcing action to curb drug addiction in the state. He admitted he was wrong, as it has resulted in at least two programs starting in the Northern Panhandle, and he said he will continue to push for more.


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At some point in time the Social Security and Medicare trust funds may well face a deficit. However, at this time, neither has contributed one thin dime to our current financial deficit.
In fact it is surplus from these trust funds that has been used to help provide some of the lowest tax rates in decades for high income people. To even suggest reducing Social Security or Medicare entitlements to help resolve our current fiscal crisis, lacking an increase in higher income tax rates is nothing less than political cold-hearted selfish ineptness.
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Toy Police Cars sold by TCB Imports have been recalled for a violation of the lead paint standard, although no incident or injuries have been reported. Parents whose children own the affected products should contact the company for more information at (888) 674-5497, or visit their website: www.tcbimports.com.
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Dealing with Whining, Profanity, and Sass
In This Article:
Battling Tattling
Tattling happens most frequently between siblings, though it happens between playmates as well. Here's the issue—nobody likes a "rat," but kids often get points for disclosing information. Here are a couple of things to keep in mind:
- Never reward a tattler by punishing a child whose behavior you haven't seen.
- Encourage kids to "tell" only if there are safety or moral issues involved. Stress that letting an adult know if something is truly wrong is not tattling.
Oh, That Sass!
Tales from the Parent Zone
I have a six-year-old daughter who questions everything—authority, assumptions, you name it. The other day I was telling her "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" for the umpteenth time, and she interrupted me. "Is Goldilocks the same size as Baby Bear?" "I guess so," I said, adding, "That's why his chair is `just right' for her." "Good," she said, and paused, "but if they're the same size, why does Goldilocks break the chair when she sits in it?" Geez. Mind like a steel trap. The Grimm Brothers didn't write the answer to this one.
"Sass" is also known as "talking back" or "spunk," and it's a quality in children that tends to elicit mixed responses from adults. The child who questions and defies is infuriating at times, and often knows just how to rile up anger. On the other hand, a child showing sassy behavior has a strong self-image, can stand up for herself, and is showing qualities that are worthy of respect in adults.
Consider why your child's sass is so upsetting to you. Is this an issue of hierarchy? Are you upset at her "sass" because you are an adult, she is a kid, and kids need to talk with respect to adults? Keep in mind that:
- Standing up for yourself is different from being disrespectful. True sass is great (though infuriating).
- The "sassy" child takes to heart the old bumper stickers "Question Authority" and "Question Assumptions." She's probably a good thinker, intelligent, and possibly underchallenged. Give this kid more responsibilities!
- Consider whether the child is "talking back" just to get a reaction from you.
- This is the child who will be fighting for your rights when you're old, gray, and decrepit. Foster the positive impulse here. How about enrolling her in debate club?
- Increased incidents of "talking back" might indicate something going on. Is your child very angry about something? How is she handling stress? Is something unusually stressful going on in life?
- All kids are impudent at times.
- It's great, and appropriate, for a child to express her feelings and opinions. She can do it with vehemence, she can do it in a sassy fashion, but she can not do it in an abusive manner.
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The Reading Room of the Field Museum Library serves as the center of activity for the daily operations of the library. Museum staff, volunteers and the general public visit the Reading Room for its reference services, access to computers, entrance to the general stacks, and as a quiet atmosphere in which to study. It has been a long-standing tradition in the museum to provide open access to library collections and services. That being said, some full time staff may be granted 24-hour access to the Library's collections via card readers.
While the Reading Room is often used to host evening events, lectures and tours, the Library discourages the use of the area for daytime functions, unless it is specifically for a library-related purpose. Daytime events in the reading room are disruptive to library service and access to the collections is subsequently denied to any potential users. The use of the Library Reading Room for special events is at the discretion of the Museum Librarian. In some extraordinary cases, exception can be made.
Computers & Scanners
The Reading Room provides 3 computers for research use. Users can search the Library's website, online catalog, photo archives database, or check their museum email. Please be respectful of other users and limit use if others are waiting.
Please note that the Library does not have a photocopier for visitor use. We do have a book-friendly, overhead scanner that takes image captures from book and journals and converts them to PDF's for your research use only. Please bring your own USB drive.
New Books & Periodicals
Items located on the New Book Shelf are available for immediate check out to registered Library users (borrowing privileges reserved for Museum staff and associates). New periodicals are displayed in the Reading Room every Tuesday and remain there for 1 week. These periodicals do not circulate until the following Tuesday.
The Reading Room is unlocked Tuesday-Friday, 8am-4pm. After hours access is available via the ID card reader. Requests must be made to the Museum Librarian who will grant privileges at her/his discretion. Please note that visitors from the general public must make an appointment, register with security and be escorted to the Library. Hours for the general public are Tuesday-Friday, 1-4pm (appointments required).
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Excuse my ignorance but I see physicists use $c^2$ in equations and I was wondering what reasoning they use to justify $c^2$ since, as far as I understand, $c^2$ must be an absurd quantity because there is a speed limit imposed by physicists themselves at $c$. If there is no motion faster than $c$, how do you justify using $c^2$ in an equation?
I don't think people should downvote this question so I will attempt a serious answer.
When scientists deal with physical quantities, they're concerned not just with the number but also what units the number is measured in. So the speed of light, $c$, is $299,792,458$ meters per second ($m/s$). Both parts, the number and the unit, are meaningful and important.
In particular, you do math on both the numbers and the units. So the speed of light squared is $$c^2=299,792,458\space m/s\times299,792,458\space m/s=89,875,517,873,681,764\space m^2/s^2$$
Look carefully at this answer. Sure, $8.99\times10^{16}$ seems like a pretty huge number based on normal everyday experience. But it really doesn't mean anything without the units. In this case the units are meters squared over seconds squared. This is not a unit of speed!
You have to compare apples to apples, or like units to like units. $c^2$ isn't faster - or slower - than $c$. It's just a different thing entirely; an orange.
As a matter of fact, it's not really valid to give it a physical meaning. What is it supposed to mean, square meters per square second? Square meters are area, but what area could this be? And what the heck is a square second? It's just not correct to think of $c^2$ as a really fast speed. Rather it is a mathematical constant that happens to have units of speed-squared.
So it's not a violation of the universal speed limit to use the speed of light squared in an equation.
As to why $c^2$ is used at all: it's basically an extension of the observation that the kinetic energy of a particle is $\frac{1}{2}mv^2$. Notice the units of speed squared there, as well. This is a simplification but should give you the idea.
By using $c^2$, physicists are not implying that anything is moving at that velocity because, as you said, c is the maximum velocity. Note, though, that $c^2$ is just a mathematical term.
A lot of the heavy math in physics doesn't relate to tangible things but rather to mathematical relationships. The example you're probably most familiar with is $E=mc^2$. This doesn't mean that matter moves at the speed of light squared or that it's moving at all. Rather Einstein's famous equation shows that a little bit of rest mass equates to a lot of energy. In atomic bombs, for instance, only a small amount of the bomb's payload is converted to energy but because the mass term is multiplied by the speed of light squared it ends up releasing a LOT of energy.
Someone else can probably provide a much more detailed explanation of where $c^2$ comes from, but I cannot. All I can give you is the above overview.
c2 does not represent velocity faster than c since c2 does not represent velocity at all, just like a2 does not represent length (a denoting the length of a side of a square here). You can see this easily checking the units: c is expressed in m/s while c2 is expressed in m2/s2.


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Is it possible for me to allow other Google users to view my contacts in Google Contacts, or perhaps only certain groups of contacts? Or is this a feature I'd need Google Apps for?
With the delegate option that's possible:
As Jacob mentioned, to my knowledge, the only way to currently do this is via Google Apps accounts & Delegation. I don't think a way exists to do it with a standard account.
Your best bet might be to look for a CRM that syncs with Google Contacts - it might be a little overkill for your needs (depending on the context), but it might work. However, in my research it seems like a good number of the CRMs are based on Google Apps accounts only, so that could be a roadblock. But worth looking into further.
We're currently trying to solve this problem at FullContact (yes, I work for them, so take my recommendation with a grain of salt - I'm biased). Our cloud address book pulls in Google Contacts and lets you organize and create shared lists of contacts, then syncs directly back to Google Contacts. We'll begin releasing beta invites in the near future - but unfortunately, it doesn't solve your problem now.
At the moment, since I'm not aware of any add-on app that offers this functionality, the easiest path to your result would probably be to just upgrade to a Google Apps account and call it good.


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In Minecraft, presumably the world is finite. What happens when you reach the edge of the world? Or will the world become too large to reasonably deal with before this happens?
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As of Beta 1.8 [source]:
A few patches ago the world was practically infinite (couple of million kilometers) but with the later updates problems occur closer to the 0 point (around 8000 kilometers)
As seen in the video (not mine) bounding boxes will be located differently from the cubes themselves, movement stutters and various other problems come up (going even further renders the game completely unplayable).
This still leaves you with around (2*8000)*(2*8000) = 256000000 square kilometers of playable surfaces area (the distances only matter on 1 axes for the most part so its a roughly square surface, its also times two cause you can go 8000 kilometers both north and south)
Notch himself wrote a blog post about Minecraft's world generation.
Short answer: The maps are infinite (until your hard drive fills up), but will become buggier the bigger they are.
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The map is pretty much infinite. The Far Lands do get quite weird over time, because, as Notch stated, problems in the map generator produce some weird effects.
As close as 500,000 blocks away from your spawn point, the frame rate starts to slow down. As you get further and further away, the framerate keeps on slowing down to the point where you cannot move at all. Then Minecraft crashes.
The point in which the Far Lands really begin, however, is at X/Z 12,550,821. The terrain generator starts going crazy, producing amazingly tall and smooth floating structures that keep on going to infinity. The Far Lands are monster magnets, because the spaces between one structure and another are pitch black, so they are able to spawn.
At X/Z 32,000,000, the terrain generator goes out of control. The structures don't change, however now there is no lighting, trees, monsters or animals. You will have to use a mod to fly now, because now the block positioning system is out of control too. If you are not flying, you will fall through the blocks into the Void (yes, even the Bedrock goes crazy). While you are flying, try to break a block at the top of the Far Lands. First you will find out that it is very hard to do so. Second, when you have done it, the hole in the block shakes from side to side.
At X/Z of ±2,147,483,648, positions of items, mob pathfinding and other things using 32-bit integers will overflow and act weird, usually resulting in Minecraft crashing.
Finally, at the hard limit which is at about X/Z ±34,359,738,368 (if you convert that to meters, is is one-quarter of the way from the Earth to the Sun), blocks and chunks will simply stop generating.
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MARTINS FERRY - Candidates for elected office in Belmont County told voters why they believe they should be elected during a political forum Tuesday night.
The Martins Ferry Area Chamber of Commerce hosted the "Meet the Candidates" night at Martins Ferry High School.
First to speak was former U.S. Rep. Charles Wilson, a Democrat, who seeks to regain the 6th District seat he lost to incumbent Rep. Bill Johnson in 2010. The Republican Johnson did not attend.
Wilson spoke of the differences between him and Johnson. Wilson said he would not have voted for trade polices with Columbia, Panama and South Korea that Johnson helped pass in the House.
"He also doesn't believe in bringing money home," Wilson said. "I'm very proud of the money I brought home. During the four years I was in Congress, I brought $383 million back home to the district. ... In my opinion - certainly in the 6th District - I don't feel we should be a donor district. I feel we should get money back."
Incumbent Ohio Sen. Lou Gentile, D-Steubenville, was first elected to the Ohio House in 2010 and appointed to the Ohio Senate in November. He said during his tenure in the Ohio General Assembly, he feels he has been effective and that he has worked with Republicans to protect the interests of East Ohio.
Republican challenger Shane Thompson, seeking to unseat Gentile, did not attend.
All three candidates for Belmont County commissioner were present and addressed the crowd. They are incumbent Commissioner Matt Coffland, a Democrat, and independent candidates Jerry Echemann and Doug Longenette.
Candidates for sheriff Richard "Dick" Flanagan, a Democrat, and David Lucas, a Republican, told those present why they hope to be elected.
Also speaking were five of the six candidates seeking to be the next Western Division Court judge, succeeding Judge Harry White - Charles Bean, Eric Costine, Kevin Flanagan, Todd Kildow and Helen Yonak. William Thomas was not present.
Though the new 95th District in the Ohio House doesn't encompass Martins Ferry, Charles Daniels, Democratic nominee for the seat, was present for the forum. He pointed out that Belmont County is split in half in terms of representation in the Ohio House.
"And I don't see how you can represent half a county," he noted.
Republican incumbent 7th District Ohio Court of Appeals Judge Mary DeGenaro was on hand, but her opponent Democrat Mark Hanni was not present.
Other candidates present included Ohio Rep. Jack Cera, D-Bellaire; Northern Division Court Judge Frank Fregiato and Belmont County Commissioner Ginny Favede, all of whom are running unopposed.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW)__We all have a plan to deal with emergencies when tragedy strikes our homes. Coinciding with National Be Kind To Animals week, the Helping Hands Humane Society wants to make sure we don't forget about our canine companions or furry felines.
The outdoor warning sirens rang throughout Shawnee County Monday afternoon, a reminder for residents to prepare in case of emergency, but what about the animals many of us hold dear? Michael McNulty of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment has a plan that he relayed to attendees at Monday's Pet Disaster Preparedness Seminar. "For the safety of our whole family and community its important for us as owners to have a plan, should we need to provide shelter during a storm or evacuate."
Attendees were eager to provide their pets with a plan. Valarie Sesler said, "I would be lost without my dogs. I want to make sure I'm prepared for them should something happen. I live out in the country and that makes it even more important if I need to go looking for them."
here at the seminar, speakers touched on the importance of having 3-7 days worth of food and water for your pet, but also what many owners may not have ready, a "Go-bag."
State Director of the U.S. Humane Society, Midge Grindstead said, "They are critical when you have to leave. You have to make sure it contains what they need. Medication and first aid kits in case they get injured. Most importantly something that keeps them calm. A blanket or a toy or something that keeps them calm and back to normal."
Midge also says to take a picture of your pet without yourself in it. This way authorities can get a full length look at your pet in case they need to find it. Another helpful hint is to document any unique markings or personalities about your pet that would make it easier for rescuers to spot them.
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Kansas crime victims and a host of other advocates and public officials are rallying for victims' rights as part of a national awareness effort.
Friday's event starts at noon on the south side of the Kansas Statehouse. Several victims are scheduled to speak about their experiences.
Others on the program include Department of Corrections Secretary Ray Roberts and Dorthy Stucky Halley, victim services director for the Kansas attorney general's office.
Following the rally, participants will hold a walk around the Statehouse grounds to promote increased rights for victims of crimes.
The event coincides with National Crime Victims' Rights Week, which ends Saturday.
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One thing I haven't found in 4th edition online is a plethora of solo monsters. The idea of these fights are fascinating! Sadly though, all the products in 4th focus on multiple opponent fights (with the exceptions of dragons). Are there any tips that you can give me for designing solo fights?
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Clarification: The MM3 part may appear to conflict with the Boatloads of Health part, but this isn't actually the case. The goal is to create a fight that lasts 2-5 rounds and consumes at least 1 daily power and 1 healing surge per player (though not necessarily evenly distributed between the party). If you can judge your party's damage output well enough to achieve this lifespan by setting the solo's HP total ahead of time, more power to you. If not, then consider not tracking HP and simply pretending they've finally done enough damage once you feel the fight has gone on the right amount of time.
Additional Stuff: As BESW mentioned, the Angry DM wrote a great series of articles on improving solo fights (part1, part2, part3, part4). In particular, it's an excellent resource for learning more about building multi-phase fights (it includes two examples).
Sid Meier said something along the lines that a good game is a series of interesting decisions. Thus, the key to making fun Solo monster fights is to present the players with an array of tactical choices to make during the fight.
Traditional fights move multiple monsters around to give players basic tactical choices: where to move, which target to attack. Solo monsters tend* not to move as much and not to present players with as many targets (*when played as presented in some of the earlier material). Thus the trick to making good Solo fights is to find other tactical choices for players to puzzle over on their turns.
It can be helpful to look at modern boss battle design in video games for inspiration. Games designed for large groups, such as MMORPGs, often have to find ways to keep every player interested and engaged in the battle even if they're not the one being attacked.
Exciting Environment: It isn't sufficient to simply design an interesting battlefield because that will only provide interesting choices for the first few rounds. Once everyone is settled into an optimal location, movement will come to an end and the fight will grind on as a war of attrition until the bosses HP pool is finally exhausted. Therefore, it is important to have a continuously changing environment. Fights with multiple monsters continuously change as monsters move around; with solos, you'll want other features to move around and change the environment instead.
For example, the Blue Dragon Broodmother in the final installment of the Scales of War campaign (Dungeon 175 p.41) keeps the battlefield changing by launching randomly moving whirlwinds down various paths, flinging players to and fro. Players have to try to guess where the whirlwinds are going and how to get out of their way.
You can also turn to the tried and true MMORRPG method of lobbing attacks at random places around the battlefield to keep players moving. You can designate several target zones on one turn, then have attacks hit them on the next turn. It might not be fun in a time-sensitive way, but you can carefully place them to block off all the good spots and force players to find other squares to stand for a round.
You can also make the battlefield more fun by having the battlefield move around. Imagine a battlefield of floating platforms moving to different locations each round. An advantageous spot at one moment might put someone up close to the boss the next! You can also keep the battlefield moving in other ways, like having the players fight a boss while in a tunnel that's collapsing, yipes!
Multiple Actions: While having a lot of actions sounds good in theory, it's horrible in practice, especially if the Solo executes them all on its one turn. The last thing players want is to get hit with a "nova" attack that knocks them out before they can react. A better idea is to give the Solo monster several turns in the combat order, to spread out the damage and give at least a few players a chance to react between attacks.
For example, Tiamat (Dungeon 175 p.46) is a famous 5-headed dragon and, appropriately, gets 5 turns on 5 different initiative spots. This, in a sense, makes the fight feel more like fighting 5 monsters instead of 1 (which, as you point out, is what a lot of D&D combat is based around) and keeps the battle a bit more interesting because you don't have a full cycle of player actions between monster attacks. (Mind you, Tiamat is also poorly constructed and the designers forgot to give her move actions, oops!)
Alternatively, you can give the monster more off-turn actions, such as opportunity actions and immediate actions that have different triggers. I'd even be willing to fudge a Solo and give it 2 or 3 Immediate actions per round rather than just one, to keep things exciting! Rely on off-turn surprises to ambush your players more than on-turn novas. (Again, Tiamat gets 5 immediate actions per round, refreshing after each head's action)
Find ways to allow players to counter additional attacks. For example, a standard action that grabs a player, then a minor that does damage to them on subsequent rounds, is a common trick used in the Monster Manual books. This sort of says "you've got one round to get free or get freed or you'll get pwnd!" and gives the players an additional objective to work towards. This is especially useful if there are non-obvious ways to avoid the extra damage, like intentionally falling prone to avoid a scything blade that careens over the battlefield.
Immunities: I think the default ruling of +5 saving throws is a horrible way of dealing with the disability problems, especially because they blanket affect things that Solos certainly don't need special immunity from, like ongoing damage (especially with those 1,000+ HP pools!). Instead, find creative ways to limit crippling effects. The creature is knocked prone, but stands up after being hit once. Dazed cripples one of the dragon's claws, reducing it's claw claw bite attack to just claw bite. Dominated allows you to force it to miss one opportunity action or immediate action it declares per round.
(Tiamat counters stun and dazed by having it affect only the next head to take its turn)
Ultimately, I'd take a LOT of liberty dealing with status effects on a Solo monster. You're the DM, you can make stuff up on the fly. It's useful to evaluate how crippling each effect is and how much of a benefit it gives the party. If your entire party relies on knocking monsters prone and wailing on them with Headsman's Chop, you might allow your monster to stay prone for the feat but retain movement capabilities or not grant combat advantage. You have to be careful not to completely negate your party's well thought out and coordinated strategy by simply making the monster immune to it, but you are more than welcome to give the players an added challenge for the Solo fight (so, in this example, standing up after being chopped once gives a balance between some chopping and not too much chopping).
Extra Objectives: I've often seen skill challenges wrapped up with Solo monster fights to give players an extra set of tactical options. You could fight normally... or you could try to fiddle with that arcane blaster tower over there that could drastically sway the tide of battle. Be careful with skill challenge designs though, you don't want to simply negate one player from the party by having the challenge only use their skill, like a trap that only takes Thievery checks which basically takes the Rogue out of the fight and forces her to do nothing but skill checks each round.
A good idea is to have the Solo monster interacting with the skill challenge too. Perhaps the arcane blaster has several control panels and the Solo is actively trying to keep players away from all of them. By splitting up and running to different ones the Solo can't stop them all, and by using good forced movement and controller powers the Solo might not be able to intercept a player making a mad dash under its legs to reach the final panel. This kind of coordination is both fun and cinematic!
Random Powers/Status Effects: Another way to keep players engaged while fighting a Solo is to employ the randomness of dice rolls. You can re-create things like WoW's famous Heigan dance by marking different coloured areas on the floor and afflicting people with a "dance (save ends)" penalty. At the start of each turn, they roll a die equal to the number of areas on the floor, then if they don't end up in the area corresponding to the die they take damage/penalty/something. Roll a die and determine your fate... OH NO! That's the furthest one away! How will I ever get there in time?
In closing, I'd suggest being very creative with Solo monsters. The creativity of encounters largely comes from terrain and monster composition, but Solo monsters really stand out. They tend to have interesting stories and personalities and tend to be more meaningful than just a wave of orcs. They should be exciting boss fight moments that really push players to their limits -- both power-wise and to the creative edges of role-playing.


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As the 2011 racing season rolls into its second half, the spotlight on the sport from the Triple Crown run is fading and the primary players of that three-race saga have either departed the stage or are hanging somewhere in the wings.
Gone is I'll Have Another, the winner of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands and the Preakness, whose racing career ended two days before a planned bid for the Belmont Stakes, the final jewel of the Triple Crown. The tendon issue that ended the racing career of owner Paul Reddam's horse resulted not only in his retirement, but his departure from the country.
After U.S. breeders displayed only tepid interest in the classic-winning son of Flower Alley, Reddam sold I'll Have Another to Japanese breeding interests for $10 million. So not only is I'll Have Another gone, he is long-gone in terms of possible future impact on American racing.
The winner of the Belmont, the unlucky Union Rags, suffered more misfortune following his dramatic victory that eased some of the pain from his horrendous journey at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby Day. The temporary leader of the 3-year-old class after his gutty, but very slow, Belmont win suffered a ligament injury while training toward the June 29 Haskell Invitational at New Jersey's Monmouth Park, and will be out of racing for the rest of the year.
The good news in this story is that the colt's prognosis is good and the team behind Union Rags plans a return to competition for the grand-looking colt in 2013. But his sudden absence takes a little more air out of the sport's second half.
With the Triple Crown stars out of the picture, many racing fans were looking to Kentucky Derby and Preakness runner-up Bodemeister to become a force in the year's second half. He ran tremendous races in both Triple Crown appearances and figured to be a heavy favorite in next week's Haskell, the $1 million race that is the first big post-Triple Crown event for 3-year-olds.
Bodemeister could still dominate the second half of the season, but he'll have to wait until after the Haskell. Trainer Bob Baffert announced over the weekend that Bodemeister would miss that race after coming down with a high temperature in his Santa Anita barn. The illness, which Baffert said had affected other horses in his barn, would set Bodemeister back a couple of weeks.
The absence of those major stars is a disappointment for Triple Crown fans who had looked forward to the second half of the year after the dramatic races of the spring, but the Haskell still holds plenty of interest if Monmouth Park officials can hold the race together for a few more days.
Scheduled to appear in the 1 1/8-mile race is Dullahan, the third-place finisher in the Derby who ran a disappointing seventh as the favorite in the Belmont. Some critics have already written off trainer Dale Romans' colt as a force on traditional dirt following his run at the Belmont. While his two career victories have come on Keeneland's synthetic Polytrack course and he has run very well on grass, he also ran well at Churchill Downs in the Derby and last fall's Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile, so it's a bit early for Romans to forget dirt surfaces.
It's very possible that Dullahan might not have cared for the Belmont course known as the "Big Sandy," or that a sizzling Belmont Week worked by the colt might have taken a toll on Belmont Stakes Day. Plus, Romans already has a budding turf monster in his barn in a 3-year-old colt named Silver Max, so he might as well give Dullahan one more try on the natural footing.
As the Haskell appears to be a bid for redemption for Dullahan, it will probably provide that opportunity to a couple of well-fancied Derby hopes that were beaten soundly at Churchill Downs on the first Saturday in May. With Bodemeister offstage for the race, it appears that reigning 2-year-old Hansen, ninth in the Derby, and Wood Memorial and Kentucky Jockey Club winner Gemologist, who ran 16th in the big race, could appear in the starting gate at Belmont Park.
And Baffert could still show up on the Jersey Shore with a strong contender in Paynter, who narrowly lost the Belmont Stakes to Union Rags. The Baffert camp has long regarded Paynter as big star waiting to rise, and the Haskell could provide that opportunity to justify that enthusiasm.
Another colt that could enhance his reputation with a big run in the Haskell is Neck 'n Neck, a runaway winner of the Matt Winn Stakes at Churchill Downs in mid-June. Trainer Ian Wilkes' son of Flower Alley ran decently against top company over the winter in Florida, but not well enough to merit serious Kentucky Derby consideration.
Neck 'n Neck's 7 ½-length Matt Winn capped a Churchill Downs meet in which the colt won twice. Those victories could be a sign that he's a late-blooming good horse, but there's a chance he could be a Churchill Downs "horse for the course." Wilkes colt is 3-for-5 beneath the Twin Spires, but winless in five races everywhere else.
Now, a couple of updates on jockeys injured during the recently-completed Churchill Downs Spring Meet. Jockey John Velazquez, who suffered a broken collarbone and other injuries in a homestretch spill on the June 16 Stephen Foster Handicap nighttime card, returned to the saddle last Monday to work a 2-year-old for trainer Todd Pletcher at Saratoga.
Velazquez, who won the 2011 Kentucky Derby aboard Animal Kingdom and piloted Union Rags to his Belmont victory, is not expected to return to a full riding schedule until at least a couple of weeks into the upcoming racing meet at Saratoga.
Best wishes to Shane Sellers, who continues to recuperate from a fractured right shoulder blade suffered in a fall on Friday, June 29. Sellers' mount ran into the temporary rail on the Churchill Downs turf course.
Agent Fred Aime said Tuesday that Sellers is "feeling great" and should resume exercising horses by the end of July. He said Sellers would likely focus on his business in Kentucky when he resumes riding, and gear-up for a hoped-for strong finish on the year at Keeneland and Churchill Downs.
Sellers, a three-time leading rider at Churchill Downs, returned to the track this spring on a full-time basis for the first time in several years. He won 14 races, good for an eighth-place finish in the Spring Meet riding standings.


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I have often heard meditation is good and calms your mind,i have also enjoyed the benefits of it and but it just lasts several minutes,i know that meditation means present moment but i always keep deviating and thinking of future or the past,why cant i be here? why do i keep going out in that unknown future or past,whenever i am in the present moment i feel blissful but why cant remain in that state permanantly,can anyone give me some technique or some method which can make me alert and aware of my thinking process? thanks
To achieve this you just have to practice. It is normal that your thoughts are wandering around. But acting on and attaching to them is your decision.
For me to be in the present moment is not just a feeling. If you try to depend only on feeling than you will get discouraged fast. To be present is to be aware of what is right now in front of you and do what is important. For this I think, the best habit is learning to ask important questions:
And for this you have to know what values are important to you, so that you can do good decisions.
To break out of daydreaming and get into this state you can use what you learned for meditation. To be aware of your breathing. This happens always in the present moment and is I think the most simple and powerfull technique.


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By Jason Charles | Truth Alliance | May 25, 2012
This last weekend the NATO summit convened in Chicago amidst massive protest and police state build up. Topping the agenda, NATO Members and partner nations (PN) are said to be discussing Afghanistan and the role NATO played in the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya over this last year. What is really going on behind the scenes? The answer is a New World Order.
U.N. Powder Blue Helmets given to Riot Police During Chicago NATO Summit
This is an important milestone summit for NATO, because it marks a transition in strategy in Afghanistan and more importantly it marks the new vision and role NATO has assumed as the enforcement arm of the UN.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO was formed as an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was ratified and signed on April 4th, 1949 to ensure the collective defense of its member states during the Cold War.
Though it's role as a security collective has changed over the course of the last century it has primarily been used as a peace keeping force to prevent regional wars from erupting into larger bloodier conflicts.
An example of such action is when the Clinton Administration used NATO, not the U.N., as the military instrument in the Balkan peacekeeping operation. Richard Holbrooke announced that peace talks had failed and called upon NATO for military action on March 23, 1999. The NATO bombing campaign lasted 4 months from March 24th to June 11th, 1999 and involved Tomahawk cruise missiles that were delivered from over 1000 aircrafts stationed in Italy and aircraft carriers in the Adriatic and was participated in by all NATO partner nations except for Greece.
This bombing campaign drew huge criticism in the U.S. and abroad due to the civilian casualties and almost a million refuges that fled their homes as a result of the 38,000 combat missions directed at Yugoslavian targets on the ground. One of the excuses the Clinton administration gave for the fall-out over the NATO mission was the lack of intelligence, and force integration of the NATO alliance members. Factories, roads, bridges, homes, civilians, friendly forces and even journalists were wrongly targeted and blamed on faulty Intel in the wake of the NATO backed peace keeping mission, which drew calls for war crime tribunals from the international community.
The need for force integration and Intel sharing was a highlighted objective to alleviate collateral damage in future NATO backed conflicts.
The Global War on Terror
On September 11, 2011, NATO expanded it's objectives to include the Global War on Terror. George W. Bush initiated on Sept. 11, 2001 for the first time Article 5. Article 5 commits member nations to the defense of any country facing an external threat. The U.S. led invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq along with the "Coalition of the Willing" provided the perfect opportunity for NATO partner nations to begin to integrate special operation forces, Intelligence systems, and their respective militaries across the board.
An article everyone should read by Rick Rozoff demonstrates how NATO forces are utilizing expansive training exercises in the Balkans and the Middle East to assist in the integration of these forces. There are on going training exercises and drills involving every level of the military and political hierarchy to create a seamless command structure. He writes,
"The U.S. and NATO have claimed that moving military forces and equipment into Eastern Europe, several thousand U.S. troops to Bulgaria and Romania at any given times along with jet fighters to the Baltic Sea region and missiles to Poland, is not in violation of the CFE treaty as they are not permanent deployments. But they are. NATO's Baltic air policing mission, for example, has been conducted for almost six and a half years and, as seen above, is expanding in scope into the indefinite future.
Moreover, NATO's four new members on the Baltic Sea – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland – have been transformed into training grounds for the Pentagon's and NATO's wars abroad, especially that in Afghanistan, and to prepare for potential confrontation and conflict with fellow Baltic littoral state Russia.
U.S. troops, warships and warplanes are present in the region on a regular basis, conducting military exercises several times a year."
A integral part in this objective was the creation of the NATO Special Operations Head Quarters located in Belgium where soldiers from the worlds elite special forces are learning to integrate and operate in unison on an unprecedented scale as shown in the video below.
A "Global Security Web"
The cited reason why special forces are increasingly being used as the go to vehicle for NATO led military action is because partner nations cannot contribute anywhere close to the financial and military commitments of the United States. A statement put out ahead of the NATO summit by the Atlantic Council sums up this strategic transition to special operation forces (SOF) below,
"Cooperation in Afghanistan has allowed allied SOF to gain valuable experience operating together, and NATO Special Operations Headquarters is an optimal platform for alliance members to continue cooperating in a cost-effective manner. This cooperation should be intensified and institutionalized. While conventional forces of member states often remain at home in the absence of major conflict, SOF are constantly deployed worldwide, generally in support of indigenous regional partners. While "out-of-area" major combat operations may be less likely going forward, SOF will continue to operate globally, and doing so in partnership through a NATO headquarters will help NATO maintain the gains in interoperability acquired over the last decade."
In reality the use of special forces has a much more sinister application and ties directly into the real objective and agenda behind NATO and the UN, mainly global governance. In fact it was Zbigniew Brzezinski and former Senator Gary Hart that brought this topic up in late 2009 as seen in the quotes below.
Gary Hart Wrote these very telling words in a Huffington Post article back in Nov. 2009 and continued to articulate this shift in NATO/Global policy in his book Under the Eagles Wings: A National Security Strategy of the United States for 2009
"Among the early lessons of Afghanistan and Iraq, however, is that 21st century conflict demands Special Forces and small unit capabilities even more than traditional big divisions, large carrier task groups, and long range strategic bombers. Historic nation-state wars, though always plausible, are declining. Irregular, unconventional warfare involving dispersed terrorist cells, stateless nations, insurgencies, and tribes, clans, and gangs are increasing dramatically."
On top of that policy advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski also shared this sentiment back in October 2009 when he spoke before the Council on Foreign Relations where he laid out the overarching vision for the NATO allied nations in a talk entitled An Agenda for NATO: Towards a Global Security Web and can be viewed in it's entirety in the video below.
The talking point that went out in the lead up to the Chicago NATO summit, was NATO is swiftly becoming a global security force, citing instances like Libya and Syria as a primary example and mirrors exactly what was brought up by Sen. Hart and Brzezinski back in 2009. In fact just this month President Obama and the NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen met ahead of the summit and articulated this very same sentiment in a White House Press Release this last week,
"...the President and the Secretary General discussed the importance of NATO's partnerships with non-NATO countries. NATO is now a hub for a global network of security partners which have served alongside NATO forces in Afghanistan, Libya, and Kosovo."
We also saw SOCOM commander Adm. Bill McRaven and Deputy Director of Operations Brig. Gen. Sean Mulholland begin to detail what exactly the logistics and command structure of such a massive undertaking will look like when speaking to a May 7th, Middle East Special Operations Commanders Conference.
"U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) wants to establish a worldwide network linking special operations forces (SOF) of allied and partner nations to combat terrorism.
Championed by SOCOM commander Adm. Bill McRaven and Deputy Director of Operations Brig. Gen. Sean Mulholland, the network would comprise regional security coordination centers, organized and structured similarly to NATO SOF Headquarters in Mons, Belgium.
"Imagine the power a confederation of SOF interests could have. It could collectively increase its influence and operational reach around the globe," Mulholland told participants at a May 7 Middle East Special Operations Commanders Conference here."
NATO: Running Drugs, and Weapons to Expand It's Global Power
An incredible article in the Wall Street Journal on March 10, 2012 exposed the fact that the $1.9 Billion dollars the U.S. poured into the Afghanistan Air Force (AAF) in the way of planes and helicopters were being used to run weapons and drugs. This operation was being conducted out of the Kabul Airport right under the nose of senior U.S. military and NATO coalition forces.
An investigation was opened on the matter after an AAF Afghanistan Colonel, Col Gul Col. "burst into a meeting room at the military side of Kabul airport and shot Col. Bryant, seven other U.S. service members and a U.S. contractor." over what is being attributed to a dispute involving the drugs leaving the base on AAF air strip called Ramp No. 5.
"About half of all incidents where Afghan servicemen turn on their coalition counterparts are the result of personal disputes, NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan said shortly after the April shooting, challenging the Taliban claim of having planted Col. Gul.
The current probe into alleged drugs and weapons transport continues to look into ramp No. 5. Investigators are also looking into movements at other military airfields used by the AAF, especially those close to northern border areas."
There can be no doubt at this point that NATO forces are allowing drugs and weapons to flow out of the country for profit. The ensuing money is being used to fund Pakistani\Taliban militants and Al- Qaeda forces by NATO to lead rebellions in the countries like Libya and Syria were CIA fomented student revolutions are being backed by ruthless bands of terrorists to overthrow the regimes in these nations.
View More Pictures of NATO Troops Guarding Opium
In fact straight from the horses mouth the New York Times quotes Gen. McChrystal despite protest from Afghanistan officials that the U.S. policy especially in places like Marja a major center for cultivation was to be left alone.
From Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal on down, the military's position is clear: "U.S. forces no longer eradicate," as one NATO official put it. Opium is the main livelihood of 60 to 70 percent of the farmers in Marja, which was seized from Taliban rebels in a major offensive last month. American Marines occupying the area are under orders to leave the farmers' fields alone.
Though these allegations are hard to come to grips with for the average American, it is indeed true. In fact one of the most damaging pieces of evidence we have to date implicating direct knowledge and participation in these hideous crimes by high level U.S. and NATO officials comes from Sibel Edmonds. Sibel Edmonds was recruited by the FBI right after 9/11 as an FBI translator. As an translator with the FBI she was in a unique position to translate raw intelligence coming in from informants and agents who had direct knowledge of NATO, the U.S. and Turkey using elite criminal networks to smuggle weapons, drugs, classified intelligence and even nuclear arms to the highest bidders. As a result of her allegations and the ensuing cover-up by the Bush administration John Ascroft gagged her with the State Secrets Act, making here the most gagged women in U.S. history.
In her newly released book Classified Women where in candid detail, she reflects on the gag order placed on her by Ashcroft. She wonders just how deep and pervasive the corruption surrounding this global criminal syndicate goes.
"There were so many questions, and so many possible answers. I knew a lot. What caused this move by Ashcroft? Was it congressional corruption that involved one of the most powerful men in Congress and a few others there? Was it government officials within the State Department and Pentagon, on the payroll of foreign entities who sold our secrets, intelligence and technology? Did this have anything to do with narcotics trafficking, with some of those involved connected to the higher-ups at the State Department, Pentagon, NATO, as well as certain lobbyists? Was it the cover up related to 9/11-those issues we'd all been warned to keep quite about?"
Global Strike Force, is the NATO Violence Coming Home?
One of the major cost cutting measures introduced and utilized by NATO has of course as discussed been the use of Special Operation Forces (SOF) to train and command militant/mercenary forces to remove those the State Department deems "Terrorists".
Unfortunately the word terrorists has been expanded to included both radical Islam and anybody the powers that be determine is a threat to the criminals that have taken over the American Empire. With this expansion, drone warfare has been pushed to the forefront of the tactical military arsenal as a cheap, easy and effective way of dealing with the threat from both extremists and dissenters who oppose the military methods being utilized to centralize global power under the UN. In fact in a panel discussion about the NATO summit U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Ivo Daalder talks about NATO being given Global Hawk drones.
"One of the most important gaps was in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities, and at this summit, NATO signed an agreement with Northrop Grumman to buy five Global Hawk drones to provide the alliance the capability for intelligence gathering, surveillance, and reconnaissance, and so it no longer has to rely on the United States to provide that capability."
Though it is known that the CIA and JSOC operat these drones, and this NATO deal seems small fry stuff compared to what the U.S. is capable of deploying in the way of drone warfare all over the globe, it shows a shift towards their preference in both U.S. and NATO strategy.
We have all read how President Obama has used drones in places like Yemen to assassinate an American citizen and likely double agent by the name of Anwar Al-Awlaki. This sets a new precedent effectively removing any rights we may of had left rendering the Constitution as George W. Bush said, "Just a Goddamn piece of Paper".
Don't think that your elected officials won't utilize these drones in America in fact you can count on an assassination on American soil to set a new standard and scare the pants out of the American public and anyone who dares go against the policy of murder locally or abroad.
Our country is slowly being whittled down by the War on Terror to the point that we will acceptt anything whether it be, TSA gropes at the airports, domestic wiretapping and yes even armed drones flying over American soil. The purchase of 30,000 drones has been reported to fly over America and just recently one of these armed drones was spotted over Chicago in the lead up to the NATO summit causing quite the stir at a children's soccer game.
So who is making the decision to target anyone, anywhere at anytime for drone strikes and assassination? That task has been given to John Brennan and will be operationally conducted by the CIA and JSOC.
Take a good look at Obama's newly elected Assassination Czar, and hope and pray someone like Ron Paul will win this years election who has been the only out spoken Presidential Candidate on this topic and intends on ending this un-constitional action at the Federal level.
In light of everything discussed in this article, you will begin to see patterns emerge in which NATO is being given everything it needs, provocation, drug money, weapons, special forces, drones, radicalized militants and the support of the conspirators behind the build up towards a bloody New World Order. If you want to know where the next direct action will be by NATO all you have to do is look at Turkey.
This month Turkey called for Article 5 to be used and directed towards Syria where the militants are currently being directed against President Bashar al-Assad claiming their military is firing across border lines. A perfect instigated situation to warrant more NATO action in that country precisely like we saw in Libya.
It won't stop there either, the prize is a showdown between Iran, Russia and China and the NATO missile shield is the fail safe in the event of Nuclear war. No article is complete without mentioning the missile shield and it too just so happened to be another major topic of discussion at the Chicago NATO Summit, coincidence? I think not.
The Rand company and the other think tanks who designed this strategy of global domination are confident their plan will succeed. Will the American people wake up in time to put a stop to it? Only time will tell.


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14 May 2012 12:15 AM #1
sass: include pullrefresh css
I'm using sass for managing the css. But from the documentation it is unclear how to add the css for the PullRefresh plugin.
After googling I found out that you have to do : @include sencha-list-pullrefresh ;
Is this somewhere documented in the Sencha Touch 2 docs (http://docs.sencha.com/touch/2-0/ ) ?
15 May 2012 11:57 PM #2
Yes, it is necessary to include that line in your scss file. The same is for the List Paging Plugin (in this case the correct mixin is @include sencha-list-paging).
The documentation doesn't mention these mixins, but there are some user comments about that (in the documentation of Ext.plugin.PullRefresh for example).
Maybe they would add these configurations in the next documentation release.
16 May 2012 12:45 AM #3


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Consider a hypergraph (of rank 3) $H = (V, E)$ (where the rank of $H$ is the maximum cardinality of a hyperedge). $H$ is said to be planar if we can construct a planar graph $G = (V, A)$, and a mapping $f$ from $E$ to the faces of $G$ such that $v \in E$ iff $v$ is adjacent to $f(E)$ in the drawing.
Further, a hypergraph is said to be 2-colorable if there is an assignment of the colors R, B to the vertices so that no edge is monochromatic.
It is known that $2$-coloring a hypergraph of rank 3 is NP-complete.
Is there anything known about the complexity of 2-coloring a planar hypergraph of rank 3 ?


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We discovered a non-functional smoke detector that's hard-wired into the electrical system of the house we recently bought. I removed the smoke detector and am replacing it with a battery operated one. But there is one set of 4 small wires hanging out of the ceiling. They all run through one single wrap. The colors are black, red, green and yellow. The hole in the ceiling is small. I won't be able to cap each wire and push it back through. Not sure if they can all be capped together into one wire nut or what....
Those wire colors (black, red, green and yellow) are commonly found in the wiring for security systems; smoke detectors that hardwire into security systems typically run on 12VDC or 24VDC, unlike the 120VAC detectors that you generally find at home improvement stores. I'm guessing the wires are stranded instead of solid core (like mains wiring) and of a smaller gauge wire. Another clue is that there's a small hole in the ceiling; if it was a 120V detector, there should be a ceiling box, and the wires would be colored black and white, possibly with a third, red, insulated wire, and probably a bare copper wire for ground.
Since this smoke detector isn't working, the security system may have been disconnected or removed. Do you have other smoke detectors in the house, and do they work? What about other security system components like motion detectors, glassbreaks, the control panel and/or keyboard?
Use a multimeter to check that there's no voltage between any of the wires; the supply for the detector was probably on the red and black, but check all the combinations to be sure. I would seal the hole with some expanding foam to prevent air leaks into the ceiling, then wrap each exposed wire individually with electrical tape and just leave them behind the base plate for the new detector.
As someone who has had smoke detectors save his house twice please rethink your plan. The big advantage to the electric detectors are they are wired together, one goes off,they all go off. The cost of having the electrician come back is minimal to the added benifit. There is also the chance that modifications to the wiring may make them all inoperative.
If the old security system is gone, you should be able to just push the wires, uncapped, into the wall. If you want to be really smart about it, wrap them in electrical tape before you do and leave a tiny bit protruding out the hold and taped flat to the wall so you can retrieve them at a later date if you choose.


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Phoebe Gloeckner will present portions of her new project exploring the murders of women and girls in Ciudad Juárez, in which she recreates Juárez-based streetscapes, domestic spaces, crime scenes and prison cells in a series of scale-model environments populated by digitally manipulated dolls.
Phoebe Gloeckner is best known as the author of groundbreaking comics stories about young girls in early-1970s San Francisco. Her comics have appeared in legendary underground publications like Weirdo and Wimmen's Comix as well as in book-length collections, drawing accolades from popular and scholarly audiences. During the last decade, Gloeckner has been experimenting with new content and new media, performing intensive research in and creating multimedia artworks about the border city of Ciudad Juárez, where, amidst larger waves of political, economic and drug-related violence, thousands of girls and women have been murdered or gone missing. Gloeckner will present portions of the new project, in which she recreates Juárez-based streetscapes, domestic spaces, crime scenes and prison cells in a series of scale-model environments populated by digitally manipulated dolls with which the viewer can interact. Gloeckner's exploration of the relationship between fact and fiction, between digital and physical media, and between art and activism, represents an important response to the violence in Juárez, while raising questions about the role of artists in investigating politically charged issues.
Phoebe Gloeckner's collection of comics A Child's Life and Other Stories comprised a gathering of her earlier work and was followed by The Diary of a Teenage Girl. Gloeckner has produced illustrations and cover images for volumes in the RE/Search series (Angry Women, The Atrocity Exhibition and Dangerous Drawings) and for children's books, including Weird Things You Can Grow. In 2003, Utne Reader listed Gloeckner among "Forty Artists Who Will Shake the World." A medical illustrator as well as a writer and artist, Gloeckner provided drawings for Embryogenesis: Species, Gender, and Identity and for the third edition of The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex. Gloeckner is on the faculty of the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in support of her Ciudad Juárez project.
Organized by Alice Gambrell (English).
USC's University Park Campus, Doheny Memorial Library
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Apparently the verb pleuvoir can only be conjugated in the third person, but I don't understand why you would ever conjugate it in the plural. If Il pleut means It's raining, what does Ils pleuvent mean?
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You could use this form in a figurative way, when describing objects falling down or being thrown in big quantities. It can also be found in sport comments, usually tennis and maybe boxing, for example Les coups droits pleuvaient sur le Central (litterally Forehands were raining on the Central Court).
More accurately (IMO) coups is a common word for this, but many other terms expressing something abstract can also be used: insultes or injures is a common exemple in dictionaries too. The TLFi has a bunch of examples if you care to look at it.


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Cottage Grove Speedway Has Another Great Night Of Racing
By Ben Deatherage
(Photo Courtesy of Madman Photography)
The Cottage Grove Speedway was back in action last Saturday June 22nd. The ¼-mile bullring rained out for the first time this year for the midweek show on Wednesday the 19th for the Wild Wild West Modified Shootout. Classes in action for Saturday's event were the 360 Sprints, Late Models, Street Stocks, and Hornets.
The 360 Sprints main event had the crowd on their feet several times. With only one caution taking place the thirty-lap feature went pretty much incident free but the action was pretty breathtaking. Outside pole sitter Brendan Boyce of Eugene in the Boyce & Sons Landscaping and Building Materials/BC Motorsports #65 XXX was the early favorite as he seized the lead in the first lap.
Boyce would set a rapid pace over the rest of the field but would lose the lead to Rob Held as the front runners approached lapped traffic. Held, of Sutherlin, managed to retain the lead and stay out in front for the remainder of the event to put his Held's Automotive/Budget Lumber #68 J&J in victory lane for the first time in 2013.
Original inside pole sitter Garen Linder of Central Point was second in the Linder Powdercoating/Rodgers Racing Engines #22 KPC followed by Seth Nunes of Medford in third in his Lucas Oil Products/Napa Auto Parts/Lonnie's Auto Body #5N Maxim. The remainder of the top five finishers was Chadd Noland from Central Point in the Hedge Carter Continuous Gutter Service/Oregon West RV/Steelhouse Metal Roofing Supply #71 XXX in fourth for car owner Hedge Carter and Brendan Boyce in fifth.
Rob Held was quick time in qualifying with a time of 10.780 seconds. Heat race winners were Seth Nunes and Eugene's Kyle Miller in the family owned Grant Springer Racing Engines/Gary's Subaru Service/Finest Detail #10 XXX. Zack Spaulding of Springfield was the trophy dash winner in the Myers Logging/Armstrong Contract Cutting/Peterson CAT #21T XXX for car owners Sam and Tony Myers.
In the Late Model feature Brittany Ray of Beaverton in her #12B Swartz set the early pace until she got caught up in an incident on lap three. Eventually it would be Chuck Christian from Eugene getting to the front and putting on a good battle with Sweet Home's Kye Frick. Christian and Frick would finish side by side at the start/finish line on the last lap with Christian edging out Frick for the win. It was the first career Late Model feature victory for Chuck Christian and the Redwood Northwest/Colleen's One Stop Bird Shop #422 GRT machine.
Kye Frick would earn a respectable second place in the No Drought Potable Water Service #08 Swartz with the X-Factor Race Cars/All Pro Steel #42 X-Factor of Paul Culp from Springfield ending the night in third. Earning fourth place would be Creswell's Blaine Taylor in the My Boy's Slate Fired Pizza/Mueller Commercial Restaurant Services #18 MasterSbilt and Brittany Ray was fifth. Paul Culp was quick time at 14.023 second while Kye Frick won the trophy dash and heat race.
It was a battle between the "House of Crooks" for much of the Street Stock main event. Defending champion Darin Crooks of Cottage Grove would win the race despite battling hard with his own father Darryl. Once Darin Crooks had the lead secured Portland pilot Don Garrett III made it a race to the finish but Darin Crooks would beat him out at the line to pick up the victory. It marked the second win of the season for Darin and his #73 Nova.
Don Garrett III and his #75 Camaro would finish in second followed by the Stacy Graves Massage Therapy #00 Nova of Darryl Crooks. Dusten Henderson of Cottage Grove was fourth in the Fountain Gutters/White Water Well Drilling #0 Chevelle with Jeff Casto, also of Cottage Grove, completing the top five finishing order in fifth chauffeuring his Emerald Valley Reclaimed Timbers #4 Camaro. Casto had a great early part of the evening setting fast time (17.558 seconds) and winning both the heat race and trophy dash.
The Hornet main event was a caution filled affair. Five total stoppages would take place including one red flag. Josh Corley of Veneta was the car to beat in the #7C as once he took over the race lead he was out and running. Corley would cross the line in first place but unfortunately would not pass the post-race technical inspection and was disqualified. The win would be given to another driver from Veneta, Joe Maricle, for his fourth win of the season in the Ram Jack Foundation Repair #11 entry.
Chris Pierce of Cottage Grove finished in the runner-up position in his Material Fabrication/Racing Trends #28 mount followed by the teenager Evan Britton, also of Cottage Grove, in third driving the Gilkison & Dad Inc. #32 machine for car owner Kent Crump. The balance of the top five would consist of two Cottage Grove drivers, in fact two brothers, finishing in fourth and fifth. The industrial Finishes/Kimwood Corporation #34 of Mike Simmons would end his evening in fourth while in fifth was Jim Simmons in his Small Town Treasures/Nichol's Napa Auto Parts #89.
The Cottage Grove Speedway returns to action this Saturday for Ladies Night on June 29th for the next installment to the 2013 season. All Ladies get into the races for FREE while classes in action will include the Northwest Extreme Sprints, Midgets, Street Stocks, and Hornets. The Hornets will be a very busy division as they are scheduled to compete in two features during the course of the night. For more information log on to www.cottagegrovespeedway.com.
Race Summary:
Saturday June 22nd, 2013
Cottage Grove Speedway
Cottage Grove, Oregon
360 Sprints
13 Entries
A-Feature: 1. Rob Held, 2. Garen Linder, 3. Seth Nunes, 4. Chadd Noland, 5. Brendan Boyce, 6. Kyle Miller, 7. Zack Spaulding, 8. Colin Baker, 9. Cody Ridge, 10. Jesse Thistle, 11. Mike Romig, 12. Raquel Ivie, 13. Kady Adelman
Late Models
8 Entries
A-Feature: 1. Chuck Christian, 2. Kye Frick, 3. Paul Culp, 4. Blaine Taylor, 5. Brittany Ray, 6. Rob Williams, 7. Skeet Phillips, 8. Mike Peters
Street Stocks
5 Entries
A-Feature: 1. Darin Crooks, 2. Don Garrett III, 3. Darryl Crooks, 4. Dusten Henderson, 5. Jeff Casto
20 Entries
A-Feature: 1. Joe Maricle, 2. Chris Pierce, 3. Evan Britton, 4. Mike Simmons, 5. Jim Simmons, 6. James Donaldson, 7. Melvin Walker, 8. Mike Swaim, 9. Teresa Walker, 10. James Simmons, 11. Taunton Swaim, 12. Dan Jenkinson, 13. Aaron Hanson, 14. Kayla Simmons, 15. James Deatherage, 16. Breanne Walker, DNS Dale Jenkinson, DNS Steve Moore, DNS Patricia Walker, DQ Josh Corley
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Do the coins that are on your Pirate Ship Mat need to disappear (go back to the coin pile) when you opt to use them in your buy? Or do they stay there for the entire game, being used whenever you have the Pirate Ship card come up and opt to do so?
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You don't lose the Coin tokens on your Pirate Ship Mat when you use them in your buy.
I think the clue is in the fact that the rules refers to them as "Coin tokens", not just "Coins". Confusion between them and coins is understandable, but basically they're something completely different: the tokens only serve as a reminder of how many Coins you receive every time you play a Pirate Ship and choose its second option. Coin tokens do give you Coins, but they are not Coins themselves and are not expended in the same way as Coins!


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In a Jewish-owned and -operated mifa'al (factory/business), there is a room that is designated for the non-Jewish workers where they can eat, rest, etc. The room is used for nothing else (not even for storage purposes). Does the room need a mezuzah?
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This site gives some excellent information about mezuzot and is worth browsing through. As you can see, from the part of it that I linked to, a room needs a mezuzah so long as it is either owned or rented by a Jew, whether or not it is a room in which people dwell.
The book reviewed here, by Rabbi Reuvain Mendlowitz, looks to contain a lot of excellent information on the question that you have asked as well, and will be available shortly.


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The idea is to have a background container (blue) with an overlay toolbar (grey). The toolbar will have a margin, so the user can see the background container all around the toolbar. Also, the background container and toolbar need to be active (so I believe that rules out a modal approach). There will be a button to hide the toolbar, in order to increase screen space if needed. Any ideas how to implement this?


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To the editor:
The infamous splash pad - headlined on the front page and reported on for the 50th time on television ("Splash pad built as Mingo Junction finances crumble," Sept. 16.) It is so stupid to keep harping on something that is not the cause of the village of Mingo Junction to be broke. Would counting on the revenue from the mill forever be a component in the village being broke? Basically, it has not been running since 2009 and is now closed.
It seems that some want to keep the focus on the splash pad and away from the reality that the town is broke and there is a lot of work ahead to try to turn it around.
The community has very little industry, no bank, no gas station and now DiCarlo's Market has closed. They did not think about the future and put in place safeguards. They increased the water and sewer bills in the last three years, instead of having done it during the last 20 when the village was producing mass amounts of water for the mill. Think of the revenue that could have been in the bank collecting interest.
The splash pad was voted on when I was in office. We sat down with a rep from Rain Drop and Don Moore from CT Consultants and picked out and planned, with their guidance, the infamous splash pad.
There was a consultant who was supposed to oversee the project from start to finish. Accountability?
The mayor and administrator spent the first few months in office trying to send back equipment and renege on the contract with Cattrell Cos. Would that have had anything to do with the inflated cost of the controversial splash pad or why it did not open this season?
It is irrelevant to discuss who did what, then and now. What is relevant is what are you going to do now?
Our community is in need of leadership and someone who is willing to make hard decisions and work toward a better future, not a mayor who shows up half the time and an administrator who is resigning because the going got rough.
There is still more than $400,000 in the community complex fund to be used to pay bills and wages out of. I believe the current mayor, administrator and councilman asked the clerk to see if they can borrow from the different funds and set up a repayment plan. How would they be able to set up a repayment plan is beyond me. Pay it back with what? After the money from the community complex is gone, then what?
The money came from a tax base levy the people voted on more than 16 years ago, and it was never used when the bucks were rolling in. We tried to give something back to the people and make the park a nice place. As one of the council members suggested not too long ago, "Sell the damn thing."
Judy L. Ruckman
Mingo Junction