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Feb 01, '12 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: asmeurer
Well, actually, the workspaces in Mission Control are the same as the Spaces from (Snow) Leopard. The biggest difference is that they are now one-dimensional.
But the important thing is that application bindings to spaces still works, even though the preferences to set them have been removed from System Preferences. If you already had this setup from 10.5/10.6, the settings should transfer over to Lion. Even so, you may want to modify them given the new behaviors.
Here is a small guide on how to set this up. I'm sure there are commands that could make this easier, and I hope that commenters will supply them. Actually, my real hope is that someone will code up a GUI for doing this.
The settings are in the file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist. You're going to want to open this in a good text editor, like TextWrangler. Note that Library is now hidden by default in Lion. A good text editor like TextWrangler will be able to browser hidden directories. If your favorite editor doesn't for some reason, you can open it with the Terminal command:
open -a YourTextEditor ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist
Replace YourTextEditor with the name of your actual text editor.
Once you have this file, you will want to edit the key workspaces-app-bindings. If you used Spaces in (Snow) Leopard, this should already exist. Otherwise, you will need to create it by adding:
<key>workspaces-app-bindings</key> <dict> <key></key> </dict>
<key>workspaces</key> <true/>
Now, to add Application bindings, below the line, add lines like:
<key>ch.sudo.cyberduck</key> <integer>4</integer>
As far as I can tell the old Spaces settings regarding the number of spaces have no effect in Mission Control. The number of spaces created is equal to the largest number of the spaces needed for open applications. So if you have application A mapped to space 3 and application B mapped to space 4, and you only have application A open, there will be three space created. But if you open application B, there will be four spaces. I haven't tested this thoroughly, so I may be wrong, though.
To make an application appear in every space, set the integer to 65544. This is a little glitchy in Lion (the application will not appear until you have finished switching spaces), but it works.
Finally, some tips. First, you will probably want to disable space rearranging in the Mission Control preferences. Second, full screen applications still create their own space (to the right of the allotted space). Third, you can setup Keyboard Shortcuts for the spaces in the Keyboard System Preferences, under the Mission Control section of the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. If you have a number pad, this can be a useful way of creating an illusion of two-dimensional spaces. Just pretend that the spaces are arranged like they are in your number pad. If you had Spaces from (Snow) Leopard, these settings will be transferred over automatically. It seems that you can set a keyboard shortcut for any space, as long as it is in existence, except for spaces for full screen applications.
[crarko adds: There are a lot of variables involved here, so be sure to have backups of the plist files before changing them.]


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This morning the AFL announced details of the band new free draft game called AFL Fantasy Elite.
After limited success of the previous draft games offered (originally with Premium Dream Team, Dream Team Pro and as part of the Assistant Coach subscription), Virtual Sports/AFL have revamped the whole game. This new game has heaps of features which are outlined below and the game play and customisation is what experienced coaches of US fantasy games will appreciate.
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AFL Fantasy Elite will launch on February 1 along with the new look AFL Dream Team.
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Everything in the game – with the exception of how the points players earn are calculated, which is based upon AFL Fantasy Dream Team scores – is fully customisable by the league creator or 'commissioner', meaning you can choose the league size, squad size, trading rules and even competition start date that suits you.
The new game format will run alongside the traditional AFL Fantasy Dream Team game, which will continue this season.
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Setting up a league
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Toby Landesman, Copyright 1985Author's note: This edition of Tools was written with the help of Amy Becker
As I began preparing to write this edition of "Tools," I noticed that I had saved a PBS Program on my DVR: Rene Fleming/Master Class. As I watched Ms. Fleming observe and then guide four young opera singers through the aria that each of them presented to her, I became aware that I was watching a remarkable learning experience. These four students of Opera had studied voice for hundreds of hours, over several years, to get to their present level of performance. Yet here they were, singing for one of the great sopranos of our time, with the hope that she would help them make further progress by making small corrections to their posture, breath control, mouth position, and even the placement of their tongues in the singing of certain musical phrases.
While this exercise could easily be seen as specific only to young students of the complex process of becoming an accomplished opera singer, watching Ms. Fleming gently and skillfully guide, encourage, and correct her students struck me in another way. I felt like I had been given a Zen slap by a very wise Master. Here was a basic truth of life opening up before me. If we want to live our lives fully, if we want to evolve and transform to become the best persons we can be, we must open ourselves to skillful guidance, take it in, and then make use of it. This learning process can be found throughout recorded history. It forms the basis of what is meant by "practice."
"Getting your Geese in a Row" Copyright 2012, Toby Landesman
Most of us have heard and used the word "practice" from very early in our lives. In third grade, I began to take music lessons and was encouraged by my teacher to practice the accordion. Soon I was also going to Little League practice, where my coach instructed us in the best ways to throw, catch, hit and run the bases When I was 11 or 12, my father began to teach me to play golf, explaining to me that if I wanted to become a good golfer, it would take lots of practice to learn how to use each club in my bag. And then, when I entered high school, I tried out for the freshman football team and really learned the meaning of the word. Practice came to mean participating in an almost daily ordeal of calisthenics, wind sprints, blocking and tackling drills, and playing simulated games against ourselves. Practice came to mean learning to do something that is very difficult, and then doing it over and over until you get it right.
It's fairly easy to see what's good about the practicing process in almost any arena where learning skills are involved. Practicing teaches us a number of really good things:
1) We can enter an activity that we know very little about and be taught what we need to know to begin to participate.
2) We can learn to do things more and more effectively by repetition of learned skills.
3) We can develop the discipline needed to go beyond rudimentary learning of something that intrigues us.
4) If we discover that this activity or discipline is really important to us, we can develop mastery of it at a high level.
There is a down side, however, to the process of learning to do something through practice. I believe part of this difficulty is associated with how much succeeding in competition with others is the underlying motivation for the practicing we are doing. Another powerful influence has to do with how much pressure and criticism we are subjected to in the learning process. Finally, what are the consequences for our self-esteem, if we don't reach the level of accomplishment that is expected of us by ourselves or someone important to us? My concern is that all too often, many people, particularly children and adolescents, come away from trying to do something they hope to become good at with the feeling that they are simply not good enough.
I ended last month's blog with a Ted Talk by Brene Brown entitled the "Power of Vulnerability," in which she makes a powerful connection between our fear of personal vulnerability and the feeling we call shame. "Shame," Brene proclaims, "is the fear that we are not worthy of connection." Shame causes us to hide from our feelings, keep secrets about things we are ashamed of, and then ultimately try to present the best version of ourselves to the world. In doing so, we hope that our masks won't crack and that our true stories will not be revealed. The terrible irony is that if we want meaningful and pleasurable connection with our families and with friends and colleagues, we need to be able to reveal to them who we truly are, warts and all.
Watching the four students perform for Renee Fleming, I noticed that they all seemed quite nervous. They were well dressed, attending to their posture and carriage, and working hard to present their vocal abilities in the best light possible. However, they seemed tense, even rigid, and their voice tone was almost universally somewhat "squeezed." Although each student was quite accomplished and felt thrilled to be working with Renee, their overall demeanor was "up tight." Of course it is not surprising that this was the case. They were presenting their vocal talent and artistry to a world renowned opera star. However, even if this event were simply a recital in front of their families and friends, we might expect a similar level of discomfort to be present. What is going on here? My hypothesis is that in these performance situations, we are likely to feel whatever fear we have that we are not good enough. This fear keeps many of us from taking the risks we need to take to become who we really are, and causes others to try too hard to be perfect, thereby losing touch with their "Soul."
So this month, I will explore one remedy for this almost universal sense of shame that most of us carry within, whether we are consciously aware of it or not. This feeling is the fear that we are not good enough to connect, to ourselves, to our audience, to our loved ones, or to our lives in a way that will fulfill us. This remedy, in the fullest possible spectrum of its meaning, is practice. As I write these words, I hear a voice from my inner chorus of critics saying, "Oh great, that's all you've got for us. Practice makes perfect. Try and try again. Never give up! What a crock." Indeed, if this is all I have to say, it's time for me to pack it in as a blogger, or at least, try a new topic. What I intend to do instead, is to take our understanding of practice to a deeper level, to explore practice as an interpersonal learning process that includes self-awareness, self-acceptance, breathing techniques, meditative receptivity, and learning to create an inner sense of peace and joy in the company of supportive, understanding, and even compassionate teachers or guides. Hopefully, that composite understanding of practice holds a bit more interest for my internal critical chorus. (They are quiet for the moment.)
Quan Yin, Bodhisattva of Compassion, Amy Becker,
copyright 2013
I feel very fortunate to have found wonderful teachers throughout my life to help me learn to do what I was interested in. In 1975 I began to study Tai Chi Chuan with Hubert Lui, a true master of that art and a master teacher as well. Mr. Lui had many sayings that he repeated over and over as he taught. One of his favorites was, "No Practice, No Breakfast, NPNB." If you didn't practice the Tai Chi form that you were learning, you were to deprive yourself of breakfast. There was no way for him to enforce this edict, but that wasn't what he was interested in. He was letting us know in no uncertain terms, if you want to internalize the graceful and powerful movements of Tai Chi, you needed to practice on a daily basis.
Hubert Lui was not a judgmental or critical teacher. When he taught us a new part of a sequence of moves, he would demonstrate them himself and then ask us to follow him. In the beginning of each new sequence, we would struggle in our attempts to reproduce his moves. All he ever said in response to our clumsiness and wrong turnings was "Try Again," with a very kind voice tone. I can still hear him saying "Try Again" with a particular lilt in his voice that communicated, "You can do this. Just keep practicing with me."
I heard that same kind and encouraging tone in Renee Fleming's voice as she corrected her advanced students in her Master Class. She would complement them first for whatever they were doing beautifully. She would affirm their talents and positive characteristics, and then she would say, "Now what if we were to try this one little thing. Put your finger on your tongue and sing the passage again." No critical judgment, no scolding, no scathing critique; instead a gentle, "Try this and let's see what happens." Her approach allowed her students to become aware of what they had started with and what was beginning to happen for them now.
If I were writing a cook book, I would suggest that the two most important ingredients in this dish we call "practice" are self-awareness and self-acceptance. We need to be aware of our state of mind as we begin something we are interested in learning, and to be able to accept our initial level of competence or incompetence. From that point, we need to proceed without unnecessary critical judgment, negative evaluation, or shaming. In Zen Buddhism, this disposition is called "beginners mind." Even if we think we know something well, we are asked to put on the open and curious disposition of the beginner; then we are asked to follow our teacher's directives without resistance. At the end of the class or course, our teacher will likely recommend that we repeat whatever we are learning again and again until our muscles and cells have memorized the information. Learning through repetition turns out to be the key to growth, development, and refinement of our craft, our art, and our internal resources. If we could recall our early learning process clearly, we would know that this is the way that we learned to crawl, stand up, and begin to walk.
If we can clear negative criticism of ourselves from our field of exploration to a sufficient degree, we will discover the third essential ingredient of practice, "open relaxation." I was in a hypnotic trance guided by my mentor Dick Olney when I heard these words coming through to me, "and in a trance, you can remember what you have always known, that you learn most easily when you are relaxed." I took these words in immediately. In the trance state, I felt no doubt or resistance, and it did seem like I had known that truth a long time ago but had forgotten it. What I have learned since then, is that when I allow myself to relax, when I experience a sense of ease and connect to feelings of wellbeing, I am better prepared to do whatever I need to do. And if in this state of ease I can begin to open myself to the feelings in my body, my inner voices, inner music, and my inner vision, I will be practicing with my entire organism available to me. This will allow the memory of what I am doing to imprint more fully.
Toby Landesman, Copyright 2013
When I write these blogs, I spend a lot of time getting in the right state of mind. I do things that I enjoy, that give me pleasure, make me laugh, or activate my emotional self in some significant way. This afternoon, I spent more time than I thought I should, looking at the beautiful photographs and art work that my friends post on face book. I read the poetry of the master poets that I find posted there and took heart that their words are remembered by generation after generation. Lately I have been reading the posts of my younger friends, who are 30 and 40 years younger than I am. In doing so, I find commonalities of interest between us that bridge several generations, whether we live in the United States, Mexico, Pakistan, Hungary, Russia, Africa or South America. This realization has given me a great deal of joy and inspiration. My experience here is an example of the next ingredients in the recipe for a deepening practice, joy, pleasure, and inspiration.
I have in writing this particular piece, the good fortune of collaborating with my dear friend Amy Becker, an extraordinary practitioner and teacher of Yoga. Some years ago Amy and I did an exchange that inspired me to start taking Yoga with her after a long hiatus. I had decided in my twenties that I had too rigid a body type to do Yoga, which is the way that I covered my shame that I simply couldn't do Yoga well at all. When I first tried to learn Hatha Yoga in my twenties, I felt inadequate, and that I had been betrayed by my rigid body. When I found myself struggling with the poses that Amy was teaching in the workshop I signed up for, I realized that I had been absolutely right. I could barely do the poses. But somehow, with Amy teaching the class, it didn't seem to matter. I was learning about my body. I was stretching where I hadn't stretched for years, and although it was challenging, and at times somewhat painful, the good humor and lively spirit with which Amy approached the class made it all enjoyable. There was no negativity in her adjustments, only sensitivity, compassion, and real support. Meanwhile, while she adjusted my posture and position, she gave me information about how I could become more flexible, feel stronger in the pose, and gain knowledge that would let me go further into the asana.
I asked Amy to write her thoughts about her practice of yoga so that I could add her understanding to this article.
"One purpose behind the practice of yoga is to ease the mind. When I go to the mat to practice, it is like being at home with my heart. I understand things from this place, because it is calm, still and quiet. What begins to arise is pure love, peace and light. The practice experience reminds me I can "connect" with this sensation anytime anywhere. This is me. It can be very relevant to letting go of control and understanding power. I don't need to control my breathing but it is powerful if I do. I don't need to control my mind but it is powerful if I do, and like this.
The practice brings with it the acceptance of "coming as you are". I am not judged by "yoga". I am accepted just as I am, broken or shining. The practice welcomes me fully and expects nothing. I place expectations of me in my practice of yoga, and it is as powerful to practice using them as it is to have no expectations.
The practice is steadying for me. I can always count on it. When I am willing and open, yoga is waiting to share endless gifts with me.
The practice of yoga helps me to connect with God. I pray when I practice, always have. It may not be with words, my prayer may simply come from an open heart of love and a smile."
I hope my description of these approaches makes it obvious, that whatever your dreams are, whatever you are trying to learn, there are important ingredients that make our growth and development more possible: self-awareness; self-acceptance; relaxation; and taking real pleasure in the process. Renee Fleming and Amy Becker, just as Dick Olney and Huber Lui did before them, embody these qualities in their teaching and model them for us so that we can learn from their example. Once we learn to practice in this way, we begin to develop compassion for ourselves, and then appreciation and joy as we experience how we are growing and changing in the process.
Here's where I am going with all this information. First, I want to point to practice itself as a valuable tool for transformation and healing. For almost two years in this blog, I have been presenting tools that I know can be very useful to almost anyone's healing process and personal growth. In order for these tools to be truly effective for us, we need to put them into practice in an ongoing way. Experiential self-acceptance and its companion, the Inner Source are very powerful healing processes that can change the course of our lives. Using them regularly can foster feelings of compassion for ourselves and others. I teach these tools to every client that I work with because these experiential practices deepen healing, foster insight and compassion, and increase our self- esteem. The evolving methods presented here are also effective means of treating anxiety, shame, fear, guilt, and grief. They are stepping stones of deliverance from the crippling emotional states that plague thousands upon thousands of us.
If we are willing to put these tools and understandings to personal use, we will, I believe, be very pleased with the results. To receive the gains that are possible in psychotherapy, or as a student of Yoga or Tai Chi, or to benefit from the classes and courses we take, we need to employ this deeper understanding of what it means to practice:
1) To accept ourselves fully in awareness.
2) To learn to relax and breathe deeply.
3) To surrender and open ourselves to the felt experience of what we are doing.
4) To open our hearts and our senses so that we can feel the streams of pleasure and well- being that our bodies and our nervous systems are capable of experiencing.
I wholeheartedly believe that this multidimensional approach to the art of practice will give us access to healing, to personal and spiritual transformation, and to the satisfaction of becoming who we are truly meant to be. As you continue your own practices and methods, please let us know your results. We will all benefit from your sharing your experience with us, because I will be sure to pass your experience along to my readers.
Great thanks to those of you who read this blog, and to my team of collaborators for this issue, Amy Becker for her understanding of "practice" and her photos; Toby Landesman, for her photographic skill and editing; and Valerie Pierce for her ongoing support.
And here for your listening pleasure, the fully formed virtuosity of Renee Fleming!
And in case you missed this in my last blog, the virtuosity and understanding of Percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who teaches us how to truly listen.
Toby Landesman's photos can be seen at www.tobylandesmanphotographics.com
Article written by Thomas Goforth
Newtopia staff writer THOMAS GOFORTH is a psychotherapist and pastoral counselor working in Chicago, IL. He was ordained to the Episcopal priesthood in 1967 and served as Chaplain to the Cook County Jail and the Chicago House of Correction while working for St. Leonard's House, one of the first halfway houses in the country.. He did draft counseling and community organizing during the Viet Nam War, and was one of the founding members of the Lincoln Park Therapy Collective, an all volunteer organization which provided free group therapy for people living on the North Side of Chicago from 1968 until the mid 80′s.He helped organize the first crisis phone line in Chicago, and later helped train the staff counselors for Kool Aide Youth Emergency Services and Metro Help. He was an actor in the Free Theater Company and Rapid Transit Guerrilla Communications, two groundbreaking political theater companies performing in Chicago during the late 60′s and early 70′s. In the 80′s he helped found the Milton H. Erickson Institute of Chicago and became its third president and a member of its teaching faculty. At the invitation of Charles Shaw, he became the acting "Pit Boss" of the New Poetry Collective, the poetry arm of Newtopia Magazine in its first incarnation. Follow him at Twitter @thomas_goforth.


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This clinic is located on the grounds of the Orange County Rescue Mission, a transitional living facility for homeless individuals and families. Trinity students provide pro bono services to help residents with a variety of legal issues so that they can start their new life with a clean slate.
As part of our partnership with the Orange County Rescue Mission, we offer opportunities for students to volunteer in our "law office on wheels" that offers walk-up services to all low-income and homeless residents of Orange County.
The Orange County office of Pacific Justice Institute, a non-profit organization that provides legal services in religious freedom cases, is located on our campus. Students who serve in the Religious Liberty Clinic at the Pacific Justice Institute benefit from this close partnership by conducting research and writing a wide variety of trial and appellate level documents, including amicus briefs, for current cases.
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California residents filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy receive legal support from a practicing bankruptcy attorney while students assist with problem solving and preparation.


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More Incentives Would Drive Schools To Improve, Business Alliance Argues
More incentives for schools, educators, and students are needed to pick up the pace of improving public education, a major business group advises in a new report.
For More Information
|Read "Improving Performance: Competition in American Public Education," (requires Adobe's Acrobat Reader). From the National Alliance of Business.
The National Alliance of Business, a 5,000-member organization that focuses on workforce-competitiveness issues, argues for more competition-related initiatives in the schools. The Washington-based group is promoting a wide range of incentives, such as school report cards, schoolwide rewards for achievement and penalties for failure, public school open enrollment, charter schools, and promotion "gates" and graduation "hurdles" for students.
"The private sector encourages hard work, innovation, and high standards through the risks and rewards of competition," the report says. "But in public schools, educators and students have faced few consequences for their failures and even fewer awards for their successes."
"Improving Performance: Competition in American Public Education" was written for the NAB by education journalist Thomas Toch, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
"If schools can embrace competition on their playing fields, there's no reason they shouldn't reap the benefits of competition in the classroom," Mr. Toch said last week.
Incentive programs can be either fair or unfair, he added. "The devil is in the details," he said.
Carrots and Sticks
The report touts a North Carolina plan in which all members of the instructional staffs of high-achieving schools share in bonus money. It argues that such a model is an improvement over merit pay, in which teachers compete against each other for rewards, "to the detriment of staff unity."
North Carolina rewards schools that improve their test scores, not just the top-achieving schools, thus giving "even those schools with very low-scoring students an incentive to work hard," the report says.
Another approach it cites is sanctions, such as those adopted by the Chicago school system. Low-performing schools are subject to reconstitution, in which a school's principal, staff, or local governing council could be replaced.
The report also promotes various incentives for individual educators and students. Some states provide cash bonuses to teachers who pass the rigorous certification process of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, it notes, while Edison Schools Inc., the nation's largest private manager of public schools, has a bonus system for principals tied to student performance.
For students, the report praises Chicago's crackdown on social promotion of pupils deemed academically unready for the next grade, and it calls on employers to make their academic performance in high school a factor in hiring decisions.
While the report discusses the role of charter schools and privately managed schools in adding competition to traditional public schools, it steers clear of any mention of private school vouchers.
Roberts T. Jones, the president of the NAB, said the voucher debate detracts from the larger discussion of how to improve the entire public school system.
"At the presidential-campaign level, it's characterized as either school construction or vouchers," he said. "Here are 17 things that have a more positive energy for creating change in the system."
Vol. 19, Issue 23, Page 8Published in Print: February 16, 2000, as More Incentives Would Drive Schools To Improve, Business Alliance Argues
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Joan Flood Ashwell of the New Hampshire League of Women Voters:
"It's saying to voters, 'We suspect you of being a criminal.'"
Despite overwhelming media presence for the primary, there were no reports of problems.
However, the liberal article ignores the problem of vote fraud in New Hampshire. This is not a Republican or conservative complaint but one stated by the Democrat Secretary of State, Bill Gardner, who personally witnessed vote fraud and is leading the fight against vote fraud for Voter ID:
"Well, I think the voter registration form that the legislature passed was an attempt to prevent voter fraud."
The hyperbole of the left notwithstanding, vote fraud is a real problem and Voter ID is a solution. And in New Hampshire, the fight has bipartisan support.


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The Smart Cities Council has launched its Smart Cities Project Activator, a web-based portal to help cities collect and organize the information they need for smart city project planning.
Users answer a series of questions about a proposed smart city project covering their city's specific needs, the challenges it's trying to address through the project, previous efforts and what partners the city brought on.
"We're talking about data that cities already have -- it's just not organized, it's not put together in a framework that allows them to get to the point where they can deliver the benefits," Smart Cities Council Managing Director Philip Bane said.
In 2016, the council conducted a survey that found the biggest barriers facing cities trying to start technology projects are financing and capacity, meaning the organizational resources and processes to move these projects along. Questions regarding how a technology worked were still important, but less of an issue, Bane said.
"We've reached this point where we understand that the market is beyond just talking, beyond just reading, but the cities want to be able to accelerate their progress toward delivering benefits," he said in an interview.
The questions are meant to help cities assemble all the information they need – whether that be for an entire citywide smart city plan or the procurement of a single solution -- in one location. The portal then has 27 different modeling tools that help cities determine if they have enough data for a business case analysis or to issue a request for proposals.
The Smart Cities Project Activator will be used by applicants for Smart Cities Readiness Challenge grants in October. After that it will be opened up to any city in the world that wants to use it to plan smart city projects.
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Just a few funny things recently
Mommy or daddy: "Whats that noise" or "Ugh, you're too heavy stop jumping on me" or "Who is jumping on the bed"
Nolan: "It's just Nolan!"
Mommy or daddy: "Time for bed, good night" as we leave his room.
Nolan: "I have a question. What's hot lava?"
In reference to many things mommy or daddy says or something Nolan sees: "How's that work" or "What's that do" or What's that called". (I suppose this is very typical, though)
Every morning
Daddy: "Nolan, do you want some coffee?"
Nolan: "No, its too hot."
While playing a game where I fake sleep on his bed
Nolan (melodically): "Daddy wants to hear looovely music"
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For Live Tracking Here
(Over 4,000 feet of climb each day)
Strict 9 hour time limit each day.
Wednesday 11th November to Sunday 15th November 2020
9am start each day
£36 Affiliated or £38 Unafilliated
or all 5 days for £170/£180
For Terms & Conditions Click Here
To Defer a Place Complete the Form Here
Wednesday 11th Nov Day 1 Single Entry & Start Lists
Thursday 12th Nov Day 2 Single Entry & Start Lists
Friday 13th Nov Day 3 Single Entry & Start Lists
Saturday 14th Nov Day 4 Single Entry & Start Lists
Sunday 15th Nov Day 5 Single Entry & Start Lists
View Hell of a Hill Hall of Fame Members
Entry Includes
A bespoke medal each day
Chip timed race/split lap timing
All 5 in 5 runners get an award on completing
Hot soup/beans on toast & drinks after the race in race HQ
Personal baggage taken to feed station
Fully signposted route
Showers/toilets at race HQ
Free cake/electrolyte/water & sweets at feed station
Race HQ
Bibbys Farm Activity Centre
Charnock Back Lane
Heath Charnock
Chorley PR6 9DL
Please enter Bibbys Farm via Long Lane (Limbrick)
& not from Rivington as the road is very narrow.
Available at Race HQ
Car park is free to runners/support crew (£2.50 to spectators which includes access to site/facilities)
(Please pay for car parking at Race HQ)
All camping is booked through Time2Run Events.
Complete the Contact Form Here
Accomodation inside the bulidings is available
Tent camping per person £5.50 per night
Caravan/motorhome £5.50 per night
(Sorry no electric hook up , hard standing is on the farm car park approach)
Showers/toilets are available to all runners
Race HQ will be located in the kitchen/canteen (number 3 on map)
All campers have access to showers/toilets & washing up facilities 24 hours a day .
Sorry, no dogs allowed on site.
No vehicles on the grass (after tent unloading please return your car to the car park).
(Click on map for PDF)
The Route
Starting and finishing on the road at the back of Race HQ
A 3.50 mile trail/country road run to the feed station
Complete 5 x 3.85 mile laps over Rivington Pike
Then back along the 3.50 mile route to the finish outside Race HQ
Out and back section
(Click on Maps for Full Route Link)
Lap Route
1st 5 in 5 Male/Female £100 Cash
Male/Female Each Day £25 Time2Run Cash
Hell of a Hill merchadise will be available to purchase on the day
hoodies & tech shirts
Runner Race Day Instructions
The prize giving and after Party
for 5 day runners is at 17:00 pm at Race HQ
(or when all runners have finished) where each runner has photos and gets the 5 in 5 awards
(Everyone Welcome).
All runners must register each day at Race HQ from 7:00am until 8:45am, remember the feed station kit vehicle leaves at 8:45am each morning, if your kit is not in the buckets by then it isnt going! 5 day challenge runners must also register each day at Race HQ (new clean chip each day is given out) . Put all Kit for feed station in the RACE SUPPORT VEHICLE VAN for your own drinks/day kit/bags to be put in that you will require for the lap part of the course and can be accessed every 3.80 miles (Vehicle leaves Race HQ at 8:45am so please ensure you have put your stuff in before this time as the vehicle will not wait). Please label your drinks and bags etc. so they can be easily identified from other participants . Head torches must be worn on the course from 3pm onwards so it is advised that these are also placed in the vehicle labelled up. In addition a water/feed station will be available every 3.80 miles stocked with bottled water/Cake/Sweets/electrolyte and other nutritional goods for all runners. Please take into consideration that the van will not leave the course until the last runner finishes (possible 8 hours) so it is advised if you require belonging that have been placed in the van you will need to pick them up at the end. Supporters can park at the public and free car park on the lap route at Lower House Car Park (3.5 miles from the start/finish line) (Car Park Closes at 7pm).If you drop out please leave you're chip at a feed station do not take it home with you.
All runners when crossing the finish line each day will receive that days medal and any prize due, on completing all 5 days runners will in addition be presented an award at the after race Party at Race HQ on the Sunday (approx 17:00pm) along with having there name placed on the Hell of a Hill hall of Fame.
Please note that you leave any valuables/clothing and drinks at your own risk, we will not be responsible for any loss of property.The weather in November and on the hill can be unforgiving, although the extreme weather is part of the challenge we have to consider runners safety at all times. In previous years it has been common to see strong winds, snow, floods and extreme cold weather. If the event needs to be cancelled due to bad weather or any other reason then all entries will automatically go into the next staging of the event. Please bring suitable clothing and footwear for what the conditions are likely to be and keep checking the forecast days before the event (weather reports are updated daily at Race HQ along with latest Results).
Please remember from 3pm each day of the marathon it is mandatory to have a head torch!!
Bring some spare warm dry clothes in a bag to change into (the bag can be left at race HQ/at the water station, please don't forget to label all bags/clothing and nutrition)
The Hill can be extremely windy and cold, please dress sensibly as the conditions can be extreme at this time of year and change within minutes (in 2014 we had 70mph winds on the top of the Pike).
Waterproof clothing (can be stored at race HQ/water station
Lap Chip System, You will be recorded each lap as you pass the feeder.
Course Records
5 in 5 Course Records 2013-2016
Fastest Male Marathon - Rick Vercoe (100 Marathon Club) Day 1- 2013 - 3:56:41
Fastest - Female Marathon Cecily Shepherd (Kendal AAC) Day 2 - 2015 5:26:18
Oldest 5 Day Finisher - David Brady (100 Marathon Ireland) Age 63 - 2013 29:22:21
Fastest 5 Day Consecutive Time Male - Rick Vercoe (100 Marathon Club) 2013 - 20:03:59
Fastest 5 Day Consecutive Time - Female Cecily Shepherd (Kendal AAC) 2015 - 28:16:33
Youngest 5 Day Finisher Fiona MacSweeney (Prestwich AC) Age 24 -2013 37:10:42
5 in 5 Course Records 2016
Fastest Male Marathon - Adam Holland (Notfast) Day 4 2016 - 3:27:55
Fastest Female Marathon - Janine Fallon (Darwen Dashers) Day 2 2016 - 4:44:52
Fastest 5 Day Consecutive Time Male - Adam Holland (Notfast) 2016 - 18:06:37
Fastest 5 Day Consecutive Time Female - Janine Fallon (Daren Dashers) 2016 24:39:03
Oldest 5 Day Finisher Nigel Coates - 2016 Age 61 27:18:38
Youngest 5 Day Finisher Hannah Witchalls - (Bishops Stortford RC) 2016 Age 24 - 31:43:09
Single Day Course Records 2013-2015
Fastest Male Marathon - Mark Ryall (Marshall Milton keynes) Day 5 2014 - 3:51:20
Fastest Female Marathon - Catherine O'Dwyer (Bolton Harriers) Day 5 2013 - 4:25:13
Single Day Course Records 2016
Fastest Male Marathon -John Naylor (Red Rose Road Runners) Day 5 - 3:52:01
Fastest Female Marathon - Amy Freeman (Darwen Dashers) Day 2 - 4:18:16
5 in 5 Course Records 2017 Onwards
Fastest Male Marathon - Jason Lewis 3Hours 52Mins 21Secs (Day1)
Fastest Female Marathon - Kelly Sullavan - 4 Hours 46Mins :25Secs (Day 2)
5in5 Male Fastest Consecutive Time -Jason Lewis - 20:08:37
5in5 Female Fastest Consecutive Time - Kelly Sullavan - 24:12:47
Single Day Course Records 2017 Onwards
Fastest Male Marathon -Matthew Smith - 3:42:05 - Day 4 2018
Fastest Female Marathon - Katherine Brougham - 04:01:53 Day 4 2018
SSIC will be open from 13:00 onwards on Friday,Saturday & Sunday located in Race HQ, This service is open to all Entries
(5 day and single day runners)
booking is not required this year and you can pay via Card .
Prices are:
15 minutes- £10, 25 minutes- £15, Sports Massage 15 Mins £10
Any Rock Taping- £5
Due to the nature of this event we strongly recommend you use this service!
To book in please email firstname.lastname@example.com
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The Voice Services department of Information Technology Services offers two options for conferencing calling at Boston College:
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Conference Bridges
Conference bridges reservations should be made a minimum of 3 business days prior to the intended call.
Of the three conference bridge numbers available for use, two can host up to 10 callers, while one can host up to 30 callers. Toll free options are available with one of the 10 port bridges and the 30 port bridge. If a toll free number is needed for the intended call, be sure to inform the staff member scheduling the call.
Dialing instructions for utilizing a conference bridge can be provided upon scheduling. It is recommended that at least one participant should be calling from a BC campus phone, though this is not required.
Voice Services reserves the right to change the conference bridge numbers at any given time due to abuse. Changes will be made on a routine basis.
Conference Speakerphones
Speakerphone reservations should be made a minimum of 5 business days prior to the intended call.
Speakerphones are available for temporary use in administrative offices throughout the university. If an analog telephone line is not available for use, a temporary line will be installed by a telecommunications technician. If a user is not familiar with this information, a technician or Technology Consultant can confirm the availability. The speakerphone will be installed just prior to the scheduled event and will be retrieved as soon as possible thereafter.
Questions on either service can be directed to 617-552-1820 (2-1820 from on-campus).


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Pingyao is China's best-preserved walled city. Exploring the streets and ramparts of this former financial region is like stepping back into Imperial China.
Established during the fourteenth century, the city walls enclose one square mile (about 1.6 square kilometres) of cobbled streets and lanes lined with Ming and Qing Dynasty-era shops, houses and temples. It is a perfect example of traditional architecture and urban planning, earning it UNESCO World Heritage status.
During the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) the city of Pingyao was filled with merchants selling products from all over the Middle Kingdom. During the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912) the city became a financial centre for China and has been called "The Wall Street of the East". This influx of mercantile wealth was exemplified in the grand imperial homes resplendent in ornamental detail and charming walled gardens.
Ancient Streets
Ancient streets of Pingyao are a joy to explore at night
Wandering the cobbled streets of Pingyao transports you back in time. This ancient town is like a movie set, indeed "Raise the Red Lantern" – a thriller based in 1920's China - was set in one of the old merchant's mansions which is open to tourists. This Imperial ambiance and feeling of days gone by is even more pronounced by the restriction on cars anywhere inside the city walls, handing the streets over to pedestrians and cyclists. Walking along the ramparts of the city walls affords charming views of the streets and lanes below. Entry into most of the cities attractions, including the city walls, temples, museums and banks is by a single tourist pass, valid for two days and costing 120 Yuan (about 20USD).
Locals in imperial Chinese dress
Rishengchang Exchange House, China's first bank, opened in 1823 and survived until 1932. In 1995 it was completely restored and turned into a museum. As a major stop on China's trade routes, Pingyao was full of merchants, but dealing with increasingly large sums of money became dangerous, which led to the opening of the bank. So successful was the bank that it opened branches throughout China and traded internationally. It also led to the rise of the banking industry in Pingyao, which at its peak was home to half the banks in mainland China, with many also now restored and open to tourists.
Ming-Qing Street
Ming-Qing is the main street of Pingyao and has been the commercial centre for hundreds of years. Almost all the buildings along it are originally from the Ming and Qing eras, and it is lined with courtyard houses and most of the tourist attractions. This is also where the majority of shops remain today. Note: most of what is sold here is cheaper to buy in China's big cities and the 'antiques' are seldom genuine.
Local home in Pingyao
County office
The county office was the office and home of the local Magistrate. Known as a yamen, the county office was built in 1346, although only one building from this period has survived, with the rest dating from the later Qing dynasty. This complex was very important in the prefecture system and includes the court, prison, meeting rooms and offices, as well as an impressive house and garden.
Classic Pingyao courtyard
Temple of the City God
The Temple of the City God is in the exact opposite location from the county office. This is to balance the yin and the yang. While the county office is responsible for the yang, or the human world, the temple represents the yin, or the spiritual world. Each is on the same street, equidistant from Qing-Ming Street. Many locals still worship at this ancient structure, and the main hall is almost entirely original. A highlight amongst the many halls and courtyards is the depiction of those sent to either heaven or hell.
Travel video of Datong and Pingyao
Insider Journeys offers private tours to Pingyao departing from Beijing. Our 4 day/3 night Datong and Pingyao Explorer includes a high speed train from Beijing, a tour of the ancient caves and grottos of Datong, two days with touring in Pingyao and a transfer to Taiyuan where you can get a train or flight back to Beijing.


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(0:02) How do you increase student knowledge about this lack of diversity and the importance of closing the gap, (specifically students who might not be privy to these kinds of lectures and aware of this gender gap)?
So I think one of the most important things is to talk about it. It's really surprising that this is the only discipline where participation by women has declined. So talking about how unusual it is that you have these great jobs, and not enough people for them, and that women could do really well in computer science, and they're not doing it. So you know, I actually I mean there have been articles in the press, there are blogs about it, there's tv and radio. But I actually I think among student communities [you should] put it on your Facebook page, share it with your friends, encourage your friends to make it go viral.
(1:07) Do you have any advice for girls or minorities who are at universities where they are especially underrepresented, somewhere where they're not as fortunate as we are at Trinity to kind of have equal footing? Or places where the "bro-culture" is very prevalent?
I think one of the really important things is to talk to the department chair. In my experience, the place that most change comes from is from the department chair. It's also really important and it sounds terrible but, whining is not usually the right approach. Usually being constructive and optimistic and saying 'I'd love to work with you to change this' and 'here are some of the ideas I have'. You can look at things like the Anita Borg Institute, NCWIT (National Center for Women & Information Technology), there's a variety of organizations that basically give you a bunch of tools to make change. So going to your department chair with enthusiasm and preferably a couple of you so it's not so scary, and saying we'd really love to help make this a place where women have a great experience. We've looked up all of these resources and here are the kinds of things that make a difference, and we'd like to work with you to make it happen. I think most faculty members, particularly department chairs, when they have a couple of energetic and enthusiastic young women coming and saying we want to help you change the culture, they embrace it. The second thing is, if you try that, and you basically get a department chair who is sort of too tired, go to the department administrator or the secretary and ask who the most friendly or the person most likely to follow to be interested in this, and then follow that advice. So start with the chair because it's always best to start there, but then if you get pushed back or if you just don't get a lot of enthusiasm with them saying, "I'm really too busy to take this on", then you talk to the secretary or administrator, because she will always know, it's almost always a she, and she will know who cares about this issue.


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Hermann Franz Joseph Hubertus Maria Anschütz-Kaempfe (3 October 1872 – 6 May 1931) was a German art historian and inventor. He was born in Zweibrücken and died in Munich.
In his quest to navigate to the North Pole by submarine, he became interested in the concept of the gyrocompass. In 1905 he founded, with Friedrich Treitschke, the first firm to manufacture gyroscopic navigation instruments, which he designed. One of his staff was Maximilian Schuler, who made the fundamental discovery of Schuler tuning.
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- Arnold Keller (1953), "Anschütz-Kaempfe, Hermann Franz Joseph Hubertus Maria", Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in German), 1, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 308–309; (full text online)
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Viral pathogens pose a continuous and shifting biological threat to military readiness and national security overall in the form of infectious disease with pandemic potential. Today's limited vaccines and other antivirals are often circumvented by quickly mutating viruses that evolve to develop resistance to treatments that are carefully formulated to act only specific strains of a virus. DARPA's INTERfering and Co-Evolving Prevention and Therapy (INTERCEPT) program aims to harness viral evolution to create a novel, adaptive form of medical countermeasure—therapeutic interfering particles (TIPs)—that outcompetes viruses in the body to prevent or treat infection.
Whereas current preventive and therapeutic approaches are designed to target viruses in their original state at the time of discovery or diagnosis, INTERCEPT uses viral evolution as the basis for its protective effect. Because TIPs are harmless, virus-derived particles with defective genomes that can only replicate in the presence of virus, they interfere with viral infection by competing for essential viral components. And, just like their parent virus, TIPs are susceptible to mutation over time and co-evolve with the mutating virus, thus diminishing the virus' ability to evade the therapeutic.
Over the course of this countermeasure-development effort, INTERCEPT performer teams will use novel molecular and genetic design tools, high throughput genomic technologies, and advanced computational methods to address TIP safety, efficacy, long-term co-evolution, and generalizability. If successful, INTERCEPT will deliver new treatments for fast-evolving viruses such as Ebola, SARS, Dengue, Zika, and Chikungunya—providing broad coverage against multiple strains—and make available a platform technology that could be readily adapted to confront even engineered viral threats.
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National treasury bonds are the safe option in times of global turmoil, and the more uncertain things are, the more people buy them, and the higher their prices go. Read the rest
National treasury bonds are the safe option in times of global turmoil, and the more uncertain things are, the more people buy them, and the higher their prices go. Read the rest
Matthew says: "Evan Booth builds weapons with materials purchased in an airport terminal, past the security screening. Here's a frag grenade built with a coffee mug, batteries, and a condom." Read the rest
People who explore the urban ruins of cities are terrorist dupes! Wired: "Urban Explorers (UE) — hobbyists who seek illicit access to transportation and industrial facilities in urban areas — frequently post photographs, video footage, and diagrams on line [sic] that could be used by terrorists to remotely identify and surveil potential targets," warns the nation's premiere all-source center for counterterrorism analysis. "Any suspicious UE activity should be reported to the nearest State and Major Area Fusion Center and to the local FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force." (Thanks, Matthew) Read the rest
Enjoy these 14 depressing slides from a Business Insider article about investor Jeremy Grantham's report on exploding commodity prices.
"The ever-increasing-yield per acre, by the way, is the result of heavy fertilizer use. And most fertilizers are commodities, too (potassium, for example). So there's no infinite supply of fertilizers, either."
The other 13 graphs in the article (about oil, metals, crop yields) are also going in the wrong direction.
This Grantham dude is bumming me out.
Business Insider: We're Headed For A Disaster Of Biblical Proportions Read the rest
Yesterday Cory wrote that "Geoffrey McGann, a southern California artist, was arrested at Oakland airport for wearing an assemblage sculpture/watch he'd made."
[UPDATE: I think this is the watch McGann was arrested for, not the one at the top. I'll bet McGann made them both, though.]
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I thought you might like to know the San Jose Mercury news has posted photos of Mr. McGann's watch.
Mr. McGann's attorney says his client has traveled with the watch before and has never previously been arrested. In fact, Horngrad said the first time McGann traveled with the watch, he showed it to a TSA supervisor at Los Angeles International Airport and the supervisor told him it was OK to wear it on the plane.
All the charges have been dropped.
(This happened to Star Simpson a few years ago, but she didn't get off as easily.)
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Our friends in the Tea Party have revealed President Obama's sinister plan for a "United Nations-run communist dictatorship in which suburbanites will be forcibly relocated to cities."
On October 11, at a closed-door meeting of the Republican caucus convened by the body's majority leader, Chip Rogers, a tea party activist told Republican lawmakers that Obama was mounting this most diabolical conspiracy. The event—captured on tape by a member of the Athens-based watchdog Better Georgia (who was removed from the room after 52 minutes) —- had been billed as an information session on Agenda 21, a nonbinding UN agreement that commits member nations to promote sustainable development. In the eyes of conservative activists, Agenda 21 is a nefarious plot that includes forcibly relocating non-urban-dwellers and prescribing mandatory contraception as a means of curbing population growth. The invitation to the Georgia state Senate event noted the presentation would explain: "How pleasant sounding names are fostering a Socialist plan to change the way we live, eat, learn, and communicate to 'save the earth.'"
"You're not a threat and you are doing a public service but just be careful next time," FBI Agent David Pileggi to Michael Galindo, who took a photo of a thundercloud over an oil refinery near Houston, TX. (Via The Agitator) Read the rest
Louisiana governor (and retired exorcist) Bobby Jindal has signed an aggressive charter school bill that will transfer millions in tax dollars to religious academies run by evolution-denying, homophobic, climate-change-denying Christian extremists. Mother Jones's Deanna Pan went for a dig through these schools' official texts and discovered that Louisiana's publicly funded education system will soon tell some of its luckiest students that the KKK "achieved a certain respectability" by fighting bootleggers; "the majority of slave holders treated their slaves well;" dragons might be real; "dinosaurs and humans were definitely on the earth at the same time," and many other fun facts.
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3. "God used the Trail of Tears to bring many Indians to Christ."—America: Land That I Love, Teacher ed., A Beka Book, 1994...
7. The Great Depression wasn't as bad as the liberals made it sound: "Perhaps the best known work of propaganda to come from the Depression was John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath…Other forms of propaganda included rumors of mortgage foreclosures, mass evictions, and hunger riots and exaggerated statistics representing the number of unemployed and homeless people in America."—United States History: Heritage of Freedom, 2nd ed., A Beka Book, 1996...
10. Mark Twain and Emily Dickinson were a couple of hacks: "[Mark] Twain's outlook was both self-centered and ultimately hopeless…Twain's skepticism was clearly not the honest questioning of a seeker of truth but the deliberate defiance of a confessed rebel."—Elements of Literature for Christian Schools, Bob Jones University, 2001
"Several of [Emily Dickinson's] poems show a presumptuous attitude concerning her eternal destiny and a veiled disrespect for authority in general.


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Swarm Tactics Set
The Swarm Tactics space set consists of three consoles:
- [Console - Universal - Amplifying Ravager Beam]
- [Console - Universal - Energy Nullifier Disperser]
- [Console - Universal - Nullifying Tractor Field]
These consoles are equippable on any playable faction vessels. They can be put into any console slot.
Console - Universal - Amplifying Ravager Beam[edit | edit source]
+15% Phaser Weapon Damage
+0-6 Weapon Power Setting, scales up as power setting decreases
Heavy Kinetic Damage
- For 5 seconds, to foes directly infront of you:
- * _____ Kinetic Damage 5 times per sec
- 2 min recharge
- Special Ability: Amplifying Ravager Beam
The Console - Universal - Amplifying Ravager Beam is obtained from the Hur'q Ravager Escort Carrier (Swarm Lock Box, Cross-Faction Tier 6).
Game Description[edit | edit source]
While it seems originally intended as a high-powered ore extraction tool, this highly powerful device has since been amplified and strengthened beyond all reason for use as a tool, and is now merely a force of great destruction. While active, your ship will channel extreme amounts of energy through and out of your ship, causing severe kinetic damage to anything caught in the path for the duration.
This console provides a passive boost to your Weapon Power and Phaser Weapon Damage.
Console - Universal - Energy Nullifier Disperser[edit | edit source]
+15 Physical Damage Resistance Rating
+15 Kinetic Damage Resistance Rating
+15 Starship Control Expertise
- (Improves Control Effects / Resistance to Same)
+15 Starship Drain Expertise
- (Improves Energy & Shield Drains / Resistance to Same)
Launch Energy Nullifier Swarm
- Creates up to 32 Energy Nullifiers for 15 sec
- Each will seek out the nearest foe and explode dealing ____ Phaser Damage (20% Shield Penetration) and -50 Current Engine Power
- 2 min recharge
- Special Ability: Launch Energy Nullifiers
The Console - Universal - Energy Nullifier Disperser is obtained from the Hur'q Vedcrid Hive Dreadnought Carrier (Special Requisition Choice Pack - Tier 6 Promotional Ship Choice Pack, Cross-Faction Tier 6).
Game Description[edit | edit source]
Upon activation, dozens of tiny energy signatures are ejected into space around the vessel, confusing targeting sensors into firing upon the resilient spheres of barely-contained phased-harmonic energy. These energy signatures nullify nearly all wavelengths of energy directed at them, absorbing stray shots from enemy weapons. They will seek out nearby enemy ships and detonate after a few seconds, dealing Phaser damage in a small area. While each Nullifier's damage is individually small, they follow Hur'q design mentality by making up for this in sheer numbers.
This console provides as passive bonus to Physical Damage Resistance Rating, Kinetic Damage Resistance Rating, Drain Expertise Skill, and Control Expertise Skill.
Console - Universal - Nullifying Tractor Field[edit | edit source]
+6.5% Maximum Hull Capacity
+0 - 6 Auxiliary Power Setting, scales up as power setting decreases
Slow, Kinetic Damage, -Cloak
- ____ Kinetic Damage twice per second for 10 sec (ignores shields)
- Significantly reduces Turn Rate and Flight Speed for 10 sec
- Disables Cloaking
- Floods the area around the target with Energy Nullifiers
- 2 min recharge
- Special Ability: Nullifying Tractor Field
The Console - Universal - Nullifying Tractor Field is obtained from the Hur'q Assembly Multi-Mission Science Vessel (Lobi Crystal Consortium, 900 , Cross-Faction Tier 6).
Game Description[edit | edit source]
The Nullifying Tractor Field is based on the same widespread technology used in Tractor Beams, but is significantly different in implementation and output. These differences appear to stem from the single-mindedness of the design of the Nullifying field as a weapon - it lacks safety measures that make the beam precisely wrap around its target and some of the precision on how the force is applied, making it much more effective at ensuring a ship stops, and much less effective about keeping it in good condition afterwards. Additionally, activating this surprisingly destructive field will flood the target with Energy Nullifiers, which will further harass the target and distract its targeting systems.
This console also provides passive bonuses to Auxiliary Power and Maximum Hit Points.
- Skills that affect this ability:
- Exotic Particle Generator - Improves Exotic Damage
- Control Expertise - Improves Control Effects/Resistance to Same.
Set powers[edit | edit source]
For each item added after the first, an additional power is available.
Set 2: Coordinated Maneuvers
- +10% Flight Speed
- +10% Flight Turn Rate
Set 3: Unified Targeting
- Affects Friends and Self (20 max)
- +1 - 20% All Damage (Based on number of allies with the same target)
- +1 - 20 Accuracy Rating (Based on number of allies with the same target)