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Residency Frequently Asked Questions
Below is a list of frequently asked questions concerning residency for tuition purposes.
What are the requirements for establishing Ohio and/or Lorain County residency for tuition purposes?
In general, a student must demonstrate that they meet all of the following criteria:
- The student is expected to live in Ohio and/or Lorain County for a full, 12 consecutive months immediately preceding the term for which they are applying for a residency change.
- The student should demonstrate their intent to become an Ohio resident by transferring any items of registration to Ohio such as a driver's license, automobile registration, and voter registration (if applicable).
- The student must demonstrate that during the 12-month period while establishing residency, that they have had sufficient income to meet all expenses without the need of money from outside the State of Ohio and/or Lorain County. Documentation of income sources used during the 12-month period is required.
What documentation do I need to submit to apply for a residency change?
Documentation required for certain sections of the residency application is listed with the specific section or question where documentation is needed. If there is additional documentation required, you will be contacted by the college and asked to provide the additional documentation. It is important to provide us with a good phone number to reach you during the day, so as not to delay the processing of your application.
If my parents or spouse move to Ohio and/or Lorain County, when am I eligible to become a resident?
You may be eligible for residency prior to the 12-month domicile requirement, under C(3) of the law, if you are dependent upon a parent/spouse who is working full-time and has established domicile in Ohio and/or Lorain County before the beginning of a term. Refer to C(3) in the Ohio Board of Regents Guidelines for information on this type of residency exception.
Can I qualify for C(3) through someone other than my parent/legal guardian or spouse?
No. A student cannot qualify for C(3) through other relatives, fiancées, in-laws, etc. A student may only be reviewed for C(3) through their dependency upon a parent/legal guardian or spouse who is living and working on a full-time basis in Ohio.
Does marrying an Ohio and/or Lorain County resident automatically make me a resident?
Marriage to a person living in Ohio does not automatically make you an Ohio resident for tuition purposes. The person you marry must qualify as a resident for all legal purposes. See C-1 of the Guidelines and the Ohio Board of Regents Guidelines for the definition of an Ohio resident for all legal purposes.
If my legal guardian is an Ohio and/or Lorain County resident will I be considered a resident for tuition purposes?
The residency guidelines allow students to be considered residents if they have a legal guardian who is an Ohio and/or Lorain County resident. However, setting up a legal guardianship in order to qualify for residency is not permitted. The burden of proof is upon the student to show that a legal guardianship was not arranged in order for the student to gain residency. In general, the expectation will be that the legal guardianship has been in effect for at least 12 months, and that the student has been financially dependent upon the legal guardian during that time. The student's relationship and involvement with his or her parents will also be a consideration.
I am currently considered a resident of Ohio and/or Lorain County. How is my residency affected if I leave Ohio?
The Ohio Board of Regents Guidelines allow Ohio residents 12 months out of the state before they "lose" their residency. If you leave the state and/or county for more than 12 months, your residency will likely be affected.
Except for the past couple of years, I lived in Ohio and/or Lorain County my entire life. Shouldn't I (and/or my children and spouse) still be considered a resident?
In determining a person's eligibility for residency, the guidelines are primarily concerned only with the 12-month period immediately preceding the term for which the student is applying for residency. The cumulative time a person lived in Ohio and/or Lorain County is not relevant if the person has been away for more than the 12 months immediately preceding enrollment.
My parents are divorced, but one of them lives in Ohio and/or Lorain County. Does that make me a resident?
As long as a dependent student has one parent who has been an Ohio and/or Lorain County resident for at least the 12 months immediately preceding enrollment, they will be considered a resident. To apply for residency under this clause, the student should submit a letter from the parent currently residing in Ohio and/or Lorain County that contains supporting information
How does being in the military affect my (or my children or spouse's) residency?
For individuals who are on full-time, active duty status with the military, or in the Ohio National Guard, the state has three exceptions in the residency guidelines:
- If you are an Ohio and/or Lorain County resident on full-time, active duty status with the military, you and your dependents are considered residents as long as Ohio has remained your state of domicile and you have fulfilled your tax obligation to the state while on active duty.
- If you are not an Ohio resident but are stationed in Ohio and/or Lorain County on a full-time, active duty status, you and your dependents will be considered residents for tuition purposes.
- If you are a person who is a member of the Ohio National Guard and who is domiciled in Ohio and/or Lorain County, you and your dependents will be considered residents for tuition purposes.
If I am currently working full-time in Ohio and/or Lorain County, am I eligible for residency?
If you are employed on a full-time or part-time and self-sustaining basis, you may be eligible for "Conditional" Residency.
What is Conditional Residency?
Conditional Residency allows an individual who is living in Ohio and is employed on a full-time or part-time and self-sustaining basis in Ohio and/or Lorain County to enroll as an in-state/in-county student for part-time studies, regardless of how long the individual has lived here. Conditional Residents must be able to demonstrate that they are self-supporting solely on their current employment income. All income must be subject to Ohio/Lorain County taxation also. Conditional Residents may not register for more than 11 hours or they will be billed as a non-resident for all hours. See E(1) Residency under Exceptions in the Guidelines.
If I'm employed and being paid cash (i.e., tip income, babysitting) is this income eligible for residency?
Employment income earned as cash is only eligible for any type of residency if it is subject to Ohio and/or Lorain County taxation. The impetus is on the student to provide proof that the income has been subject to Ohio and/or Lorain County taxation. Otherwise it is ineligible income.
If I am paying taxes to Ohio and/or Lorain County, doesn't that make me a resident?
Not necessarily. If you are trying to establish residency in Ohio and/or Lorain County, paying taxes is an indicator of your intent to become a resident. However, you must meet all the residency criteria to be eligible for residency for tuition purposes.
Will I automatically become a resident for tuition purposes once I have lived in Ohio and/or Lorain County for a year?
No. Any student who has been classified as a non-resident must apply for reclassification as a resident.
Are non-U.S. citizens eligible for residency for tuition purposes?
If a person is financially independent, they must be a U.S. citizen, Permanent Resident Alien, Political Asylee, Political Refugee, or hold specific visa types that are eligible for residency consideration. If a student is financially dependent upon a spouse or parent, the person they are dependent upon must also must be a U.S. citizen, Permanent Resident Alien, Political Asylee or Political Refugee, or hold an eligible visa type. Students who hold an B, F, J, or M visa are not eligible to establish Ohio and/or Lorain County residency unless they are financially dependent upon a spouse or parent who is a bona fide Ohio and/or Lorain County resident. Students whose immigration status is pending are eligible to establish residency only if their most recent immigration status (visa type) was eligible to establish residency.
I own property or a business in Ohio and/or Lorain County, but live elsewhere. Does that make me or my dependents Ohio residents for tuition purposes?
The state guidelines do not grant residency to individuals or their dependents solely on the basis that they own property or a business in Ohio and/or Lorain County.
How important is it that I obtain an Ohio driver's license or register to vote in Ohio and/or Lorain County?
Obtaining an Ohio driver's license and registering to vote demonstrate your intent to make Ohio and/or Lorain County your residence. Since the Ohio Board of Regents Guidelines are meant to exclude from residency those who are in Ohio for educational purposes only, transferring these items of registration is a way to show that you intend to become a resident.
I am currently trying to establish residency. How does leaving Ohio and/or Lorain county for any period of time affect my residency application?
The expectation is that students who are in the process of establishing their residency are physically living in the State and/or county for the 12 consecutive months prior to the term for which they are requesting reclassification. Leaving for any length of time longer than a year seriously jeopardizes your claim to residency.
After reading the residency guidelines, I think I should have been considered a resident previously. Can I apply for a prior term and get a refund if I can show I was a resident then?
No. The state guidelines prohibit retroactive residency decisions. You must apply by the deadline for the term in question in order to be reviewed for residency for that term.
Who can I talk to for more information about residency for tuition purposes?
Contact the Records office at (440) 366-4067 for more information or to obtain clarification on any items you don't understand.


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A lot of colorful linguistic hybrids — portanteaus, if we must get technical about these accordion phrases — have emerged in recent times. Some that have been difficult to escape are:
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I came across a new hybrid recently that I have readily embraced: civilogue.
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My remedy: go train with Arnold or spend a few years as Hock's stunt man- they'll sort you out!
incidental contact
I think it is great to be afraid of getting hit! It makes your defense better!!!
Quoteincidental contactHAHAHAHAHAHAHAYou have never had "incidental" contact!!!! Give me a break.
-I should add, the final test would be to pepper them point blank with airsoft rifles. Right boys?That should take care of your fear factor
Have you ever done a drill where the intent is NOT to make contact but due to clumsiness or being tired or you screwing up or the other guy screwing up that contact happens? That's incidental contact.
Crafty- Great drills-but what if we are talking about a middleaged man/lady who comes for self defense training-what do you start with then-If you start with the worst sanario-might lose the student??WW (ELB)
Tank and DawgSorry for overreacting guys.I read the post during my first cup of coffee and hadn't absorbed enough caffeine.Mark
As for rolling with Tank or you-that is a shocker in its self-what do you guys weigh combigned -a zillion lbs- =WW (ELB)


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Spark your child's creativity and make some really cool things together with ideas from our craft expert. Find out more »
One of my favorite ways to encourage kids to be creative is by collaborating with them on projects. A simple but rewarding way to do this is by embroidering their artwork onto fabric; making it a usable keepsake. In the past I've stitched my sons' artwork onto journals, t-shirts and even a birthday card pillow for Nana. The possibilities for this technique are endless, including incorporating it into your Halloween celebration!
This year, sweeten a Trick or Treat tote with scary sketches done by your little devils. Kiddos will feel proud displaying their talents, and parents will have a crafty record of darlings' doodles to save for years to come. Oh and if you've never embroidered before, no problem! This project requires only using one, easy stitch: the back stitch. Here's everything you'll need to know to make one of these boo-tiful bags yourself!
Paper & Pencil (for child's drawing)
Plain, Canvas Tote Bag
Assorted Colors, Embroidery Floss
Embroidery Needle
Embroidery Hoop
Transfer Paper (found in art supply aisle at craft store)
Note: Be sure to buy light colored transfer paper if you're working with a dark, tote bag and dark paper for lighter versions.
Hey there and welcome to the very first article on the PBS Parents' CRAFT APPARENT blog! I'm Vickie Howell, and I'll be your guide to all things craft-- with and for your kiddos. As the mother of 7 & 9 year old boys and a 4-month-old girl, I'm inspired on a daily basis by my children. They're often my creative muses as well as both recipients and collaborators on projects I make. Like most parents though, I struggle to juggle family with life's other obligations. There's not a lot of time and in this economy especially, not a lot of extra money--if we're going to nourish our creative sides, then it needs to fit into both our schedules and our budgets. CRAFT APPARENT is right there with you; focusing on get-crafty projects for you and your kids that only require a little bit of time and cash!
Today I'm showing how to create unique and adorable costumes for your little goblin; all beginning with a plain, white snap suit (ya know, those one-piece rompers that have a name that's trademarked ;-)). They're easy to assemble (with both sew & no-sew options), can be made in a few hours, and all cost under $20. Hooray for Halloween!
Here's the scoop.
Basic Materials (all costumes)
White, Baby Snap Suit
Sewing Pins
Fabric Glue, Sewing Machine OR Needle & Thread (your choice)
Marking Pen
Measuring Tape
Safety Pin
Strong Man Extra Materials
Pot of Coffee
1/8-1/4" yd Leopard Fabric (depending on size)
Black Embroidery Thread & Needle
Small Amount, Black Yarn & Felt
Strong Man How-To
Fold over rough edges 1/4" & press with iron to create hem. Glue or sew hems.
Machine, hand-sew or glue leopard piece to snap suit at the crotch, sides and shoulder. Make sure to leave a little bit of give room for baby belly!
Munchkin Extra Materials
1/8"-1/4" Solid Color Fabric (depending on size)
Small Piece, Patterned Fabric
Fusible Tape (Optional: Only for a no-sew version)
1 yd., 1" Wide Ribbon
Plastic Cup
Fake Flower
Small Amount, Green Tulle
2 Buttons (optional)
Scraps of RicRac, Lace and/or other Embellishments
Baby Headband
White Craft Paint & Sponge Brush
Hot Glue Gun & Glue Stick
Munchkin How-To
Cut 7"x 9" (or whatever the length of other piece is) piece of contrasting fabric.
Hem sides and bottoms of both pieces by pressing 1/2" and sewing, gluing or using fusible tape to secure.
Center contrasting piece on solid fabric; fold top edge of both pieces over 1 1/2" and sew or glue or fuse (using 1 1/4" seam allowance) to secure. This will create a ribbon channel.
Use safety pin to feed ribbon through channel. Gather skirt, tie a bow and trim ribbon.
Wee Witch Extra Materials
Black, Washing Machine Fabric Dye (iDye, RIT, etc.)
1/4" Each, Orange & Black Tulle
2 Pieces, Orange, Stiff Craft Felt
2, 1 yd Pieces of Decorative Ribbon
Black Needle & Thread
Orange Thread (Optional)
RicRac, Ribbon, Sequin or other Embellishments
Plastic Spiders
Stripey Leggings
Wee Witch How-To
Use safety pin to feed 1 piece of ribbon through channel. Gather skirt, tie a bow and trim ribbon.
Hand sew plastic spiders to skirt front.
Cut up skirt bottom to desired length--the more jagged the spookier!
Glue buckle adornment onto hat, above brim.
Cut piece of ribbon in half; hand sew pieces evenly, to underside of brim.
Baby Sasquatch Extra Materials
Brown, Washing Machine Fabric Dye (iDye, RIT, etc.)
1/2 yd, Tan, Faux Fur
1/4" Wide Baby Elastic
1/2" Wide Elastic
Scraps, Tan Fabric
Baby Sasquatch How-to
Hem the top and bottom ends of one rectangle by folding raw edges over 1/2" and machine or hand sewing. Use safety pin to feed elastic through top hem of piece. With right sides facing, fold faux fur in half width-wise. Machine or hand-sew up the back. Turn right side out. Repeat for other leg.
Cut piece of elastic to baby's head measurement (without adding extra 2"). Feed elastic through headband; fold in half and sew ends together to form a circle.
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In the previous post I announced that Panoramio will be in maintenance for around 48 hours starting on Sunday September 20th 12:00 GMT (13:00 Continental Europe, 05:00, San Francisco, 21:00 Beijing).
After that maintenance work the site will be back to normality on Tuesday around 12:00 GMT with some minor changes and removed limitations. All comments, tags and favorites will be displayed again. Also the 32 thumbnails per page will be back. You will see more photos on the map and reviewed photos will be added to Google Earth weekly. Also you will be able to upload up to 10 Mb files. However the "all" tab will disappear temporary and the popular tab and KMLs will not get new photos for 2 weeks. You can read more details about these changes in the forum.
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It's a major problem that state governments are starting to grapple with: More than 50% of working-age Americans have no retirement-plan coverage at work.
This week, Oregon is expected to become one of a small but growing number of states to consider shifting responsibility for setting up retirement plans for such workers to the government.
Last week, the lower chamber of the state's legislature passed a bill that would authorize a task force, composed of representatives from employers, the financial services industry, and government, to consider whether Oregon ought to establish such a system. Supporters of the measure say it has bipartisan backing in the state Senate, and Gov. John Kitzhaber also supports the bill.
Last September, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed similar legislation.
Oregon's bill would give the task force until the end of 2014 to draw up a plan; the legislature would have to vote again on whether to implement it. The bill bars the task force from including in the plan any guarantees that would "cause the State of Oregon to incur any liability or obligation for the payment of savings or benefits earned by plan participants." It also requires any plan to "be available to all working Oregonians on a voluntary basis."
The California measure, in contrast, is more specific: If that state's task force decides the plan is feasible–and the legislature signs off on it –it would require private-sector companies with five or more employees that do not currently offer a retirement plan to automatically deduct contributions from employees' paychecks and funnel them into an IRA, at a default savings rate of 3% of salary. (Employees would be free to opt out.) The state would choose a professional money manager to invest the funds in a conservative investment whose return would be guaranteed at no risk to the state. (The manager would be required to purchase insurance to protect against losses).
The Oregon bill's House sponsor, Rep. Jules Bailey, says his goal is not to "replace or supplant what employers might offer" but ensure that all Oregonians have access to a plan. Oregon's senior population is expected to double in the next two decades, and a recent AARP poll indicates that about 25% of working Oregonians ages 45 to 64 have less than $25,000 in savings, according to Retirement In Reach, a coalition dedicated to the passage of the bill.
Bailey, 33, is a Democrat who jokes that he represents a district in "the People's Republic of Portland." He says the issue resonates with his constituents, many of whom are young. "This would give them an option to be able to retire," he says. "If we don't get out in front of this, it's going to be a major crisis."
The bill's supporters include AARP Oregon, The Urban League of Portland, the Oregon State Firefighters Council, and the AFL-CIO.
The California program also has hurdles to clear before it can operate. Most significantly, the Internal Revenue Service will need to allow contributions to be made on a pre-tax basis. For more on how to encourage more 401(k)-style savings, see my Wall Street Journal article, "How to Fix 401(k)s."


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I think I'm the last of us to post about this, but I've joined the Spirits and Cocktails ad network that Darcy O'Neil and Jeffrey Morgenthaler have set up.
My rationale for joining is this: I've never expected to get rich from this site, but I would like to bring in a little money to cover my expenses and, more importantly, to fuel my hobby. As most of you know, spirits aren't always cheap, and I'd love a little extra cash each month to purchase new products, cocktail manuals, equipment, and so forth–all with the goal of providing more material for this site.
Seeing my name among the folks involved in the initial group of sites (Darcy, Jeffrey, Natalie, Paul, Gabriel, and Rick) is a little heady, so I'm even happier to take part. We'd all attest to getting press releases regularly from distributors and PR firms with recipes and other drink ideas. Speaking for myself, I'll only ever build a post around these press releases if I'm actually interested in the product or the drink recipe mentioned therein, but it shows that these companies are actively trying to reach our readers.
Through advertising, the companies can talk to you, our readers, directly. And if we can make a little money off of it, so much the better.
The press release, after the jump.
—- Press Release —-
Industry: Food & Beverage
Release Date: June 27, 2007
Bloggers Launch Spirit and Cocktail Advertising Co-op
In the past few years the revival of the cocktail has resonated around the world. This new popularity has been helped along by shows like Sex and the City, and by events like the annual Tales of the Cocktail conference in New Orleans. This growth has coincided with the development of a great number of websites that celebrate great cocktails and use a chef-like approach to their drink creations. A significant part of today's cocktail renaissance is being driven by a group of dedicated cocktail and spirits bloggers who have made intelligent cocktail discussions a reality, and have created a community of like-minded individuals wanting to learn more about this intriguing culinary art form.
Because of the rapid growth and increased competition in the beverage industry, many companies are looking for better ways to connect with customers. Participation in Internet communities has been demonstrated to be a great way of staying connected to customers.
To facilitate the inclusion of food and beverage companies into this growing online community, a group of bloggers has created the Spirits and Cocktail advertising "Hive", through BlogAds, that allows companies to purchase premium ad space on the participating sites. The initial group of sites includes The Art of Drink, Jeffrey Morgenthaler, The Liquid Muse, The Cocktail Chronicles, A Dash of Bitters, Cocktailnerd and Kaiser Penguin. These blogs are written by bartenders, cocktail enthusiasts, restaurant / bar owners and industry experts, and together they represent the best the web has to offer in modern cocktail creation and spirits reviews. Additional sites will be added in coming months.
This advertising co-op offers participating companies approximately 50,000 highly target ad impressions per week, from people who are keenly interested in their products. The readers of these blogs are people who are looking for quality products for use in cocktail creation. They have an interest in learning about new liquors, bar tools, techniques, books and related beverages.
Industry participation helps to support the bloggers who provide a valuable service to the industry. Not only do these websites provide opinion and discussion for a wide variety of products, they also promote responsible consumption of alcoholic drinks by focusing on quality instead of quantity, these bloggers believe and promote the idea of "Drink Better, Not More."
For more information please visit the Spirits and Cocktails Hive on the BlogAds site.


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The procedure for configuring a client to use an SSL-based connection service differs depending on whether it is an application client (using the ssljms connection service) or a Message Queue administrative client such as imqcmd (using the ssladmin connection service.)
For application clients, you must make sure the client has the following .jar files specified in its CLASSPATH variable:
Once the CLASSPATH files are properly specified, one way to start the client and connect to the broker's ssljms connection service is by entering a command like the following:
java -DimqConnectionType=TLS clientAppName
This tells the connection to use an SSL-based connection service.
For administrative clients, you can establish a secure connection by including the -secure option when you invoke the imqcmd command: for example,
imqcmd list svc -b hostName:portNumber -u userName -secure
where userName is a valid ADMIN entry in the Message Queue user repository. The command will prompt you for the password.
Listing the connection services is a way to verify that the ssladmin service is running and that you can successfully make a secure administrative connection, as shown in Example 9–6.


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By Shawn Langlois
While there does seem to be a genuine sense of panic in the market of late, there's also a growing chorus of pundits — both professional and armchair — who are desperately trying to restore some sanity.
After all, way back in … April, the S&P knocked out an all-time high.
But the proximity of the market peak cuts both ways. Either this is just a healthy blip on a continued uptrend, or this is a foreshock ahead of the big shaker that doom-and-gloomers have been licking their chops over for ages now. Take your pick.
And those casting it off as a relatively soft downturn clearly aren't heavily weighted in momentum names. There's plenty of double-digit roadkill in that group.
The move from momo to defensive, while the crux of our call of the day, is a theme that should give way to two biggies poised to decide the short-term fate of the market. Earnings and the latest in Ukraine. The latter will override the former should it ever truly blow up, but it's the quarterly reports that will either cement the idea of a spiraling investment landscape or bring buyers back to the table.
The good news is that gratuitous Fed over-communication won't be the focal point.
Key market gauges: Futures on the Dow /quotes/zigman/17899764/realtime YMM4 and the S&P /quotes/zigman/20258906/realtime ESM4 shook off earlier blues to push higher after Citigroup reported, and then added to gains after a surprise jump in retail sales.
In Asia /quotes/zigman/6959860/realtime XX:ADOW , most of the major indexes failed to find their way higher. Europe /quotes/zigman/2380150/realtime XX:SXXP is under pressure, partly given its proximity to Russia, where the MICEX is down more than 1% amid increasing violence in Ukraine.
The quote of the day: "What we saw last week is a minor pullback from fresh highs. It is not even close to a full-blown correction, despite the media coverage. If what you see makes you uncomfortable and interferes with your regular life, your position is too big." — Jeff Miller from the Dash of Insight blog.
The economy: Retail sales for March jumped 1.1% to a seasonally adjusted $433.9 billion, the largest gain since September and topping views of 0.8%. They were seen as a test of weather consumers got back to buying after the snow-drenched first two months of the year, and the strong results prompted comments such as this one:
Take that snow!
— Michael McDonough (@M_McDonough) April 14, 2014
Separately, business inventories will be released at 10 a.m. Eastern. Later this week, we'll get data on housing starts, building permits and initial jobless claims. Read: Economic preview.
Earnings: After J.P. Morgan /quotes/zigman/272085/delayed /quotes/nls/jpm JPM got earnings off to a lackluster start last week, Citigroup /quotes/zigman/5065548/delayed /quotes/nls/c C shares are up over 3% after an earnings beat. Separately, the company has cut another couple of hundred jobs, including Steve Prince, the younger brother of former CEO Charles Prince.
Others on the relatively crowded earnings docket for the rest of the week include Coca-Cola /quotes/zigman/222647/delayed /quotes/nls/ko KO , Google /quotes/zigman/30194416/delayed /quotes/nls/goog GOOG , Intel /quotes/zigman/20392/delayed /quotes/nls/intc INTC , IBM /quotes/zigman/230066/delayed /quotes/nls/ibm IBM and Johnson & Johnson /quotes/zigman/230812/delayed /quotes/nls/jnj JNJ , to name just a few. Check out our Earnings Wall.
The buzz: Amazon /quotes/zigman/63011/delayed /quotes/nls/amzn AMZN is making another splash on word of its new smartphone, which is supposedly capable of showing 3-D images without having to wear funny glasses. The stock's up premarket.
Glencore Xstrata said Sunday it will sell its Las Bambas Peruvian copper project to a Chinese consortium in an all-cash deal worth at least $5.8 billion. The massive deal follows months of tortuous negotiations over how much the copper project is worth.
Shares of Edwards Lifesciences /quotes/zigman/257334/delayed /quotes/nls/ew EW is ripping higher after the company won an injunction against Medtronic /quotes/zigman/233680/delayed /quotes/nls/mdt MDT on the sale of a heart valve as part of a patent case.
Philip Morris /quotes/zigman/499558/delayed /quotes/nls/pm PM and two other tobacco firms are getting sued by South Korea's state health insurer for $52 million. Apparently, the brains trust over there has come to the conclusion that "smoking is a serious issue affecting people."
Social-media stocks are still reeling and, according to this formula, there's more pain in the cards for the likes of Facebook /quotes/zigman/9962609/delayed /quotes/nls/fb FB and Twitter /quotes/zigman/23556538/delayed /quotes/nls/twtr TWTR . Whatever happens this week, the former high-fliers will again be under the microscope.
Deal news for a Monday: TIAA-CREF is buying Nuveen Investments for $6.25 billion, says WSJ.
The chart of the day: "For the loser now will be later to win, for the times they are a-changin'" Any financial blog post that starts off with a Bob Dylan lyric has my attention. This chart from Charles Bilello at Pension Partners shows the uncanny shift of what's hot and what's not in the stock market this year vs. what we saw last year. "With the exception of high-yield bonds, which advanced last year and have posted gains so far this year, 2014 is literally the inverse of 2013," Bilello said.
The call of the day: The rush out of momentum stocks has investors leering over at more-defensive options. But they're doing so at their own peril, says Alliance Bernstein's Joseph Paul. "Those rushing into defensive stocks as shelter from the carnage in the dream stocks may find themselves trading one risk for another, as the defensives are likely to underperform when interest rates rise," he said
Random reads: College Humor presents "13 gods of the Internet pantheon", including Listikles, "technically a demigod, but the most well-known of them all."
Harrison Ford hits Reddit. Tells us about that time he had dysentery and opted to shoot the swordsman instead of battling it out for three days.
Hilarious teen jokes on Twitter about a terror attack. American Airlines, not laughing.
Downtown L.A., from gritty to glitzy, with a dash of Skid Row.
Youth was almost, but not quite, served at Augusta.
Pot in a vending machine.
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In 2010, I contributed a tutorial article on designing interactive PDF forms using Adobe Acrobat/LiveCycle Designer to the IEEE Professional Communication Society Newsletter. Later, STC's Intercom published a version of this article revised for Acrobat X.
Read the Intercom version of the article at this link.
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Pearl is a total perfectionist who's easily flustered when something messes up her plans. That something is usually Steven. Her weapon of choice is a magical spear.
Amethyst is the wild child of the Crystal Gems. She loves to roughhouse with Steven and trade jokes. Her weapon is a crystal whip she conjures from the gem in her chest.
A strong and disciplined warrior, Garnet is the unofficial leader of the group. She's a Gem of few words, letting her powerful gauntlets do the talking.
Steven is the goofy oddball of the team. He may not be as powerful as the other Gems. Or as smart. But he always finds a surprising way to save the day!
Believe in Steven! Steven Universe is a half-human, half-Gem hero who's learning to save the world with the magical powers that come from his bellybutton. Steven may not be as powerful as the Crystal Gems. Or as smart. But that doesn't stop him from joining Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl on their magical adventures - where Steven always finds a surprising way to save the day.


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RALEIGH, N.C. -- The Chicago Blackhawks and Carolina Hurricanes don't get to see each other often, but the teams will become familiar with each other when they lock horns Friday night at RBC Arena in Raleigh, N.C.
The Hawks have never won a game at RBC Arena. Their last win in Carolina--and only road win against the Hurricanes since the franchise relocated from Hartford, Conn.--was Jan. 14, 1998 at the Greensboro Coliseum. The Hawks and Hurricanes have not met more than once in a season since 2000-01.
Center Dave Bolland gave his scouting report following the Hawks' morning skate.
"Carolina has some great players with (Jussi) Jokinen, (Tuomo) Ruutu, (Eric) Staal and all them," Bolland said. "To play against them you just have to be tough and be hard against them and be sure where they are on the ice and be aware."
In addition to the Hurricanes that Bolland mentioned, Carolina has one of the NHL's top young players in Jeff Skinner. The 19-year-old leads the Hurricanes in scoring with four goals and six assists.
Corey Crawford will start his sixth consecutive game in goal for the Hawks. He is 1-1-0 with a 2.50 goals-against average against the Hurricanes in his career. Cam Ward is scheduled to start in goal for Hurricanes.
Marian Hossa, who has scored a goal in his last five games, leads all Hawks with 23 goals, 31 assists in 48 career games against Carolina. Andrew Brunette has six goals and 11 assists in 24 career games against it.
Here are the projected lines:
FORWARDS: Tlusty-Staal-LaRose;Skinner-Jokinen-Ruutu; Ponikarovsky-Bra. Sutter-Dwyer; Bre. Sutter-Brent-Boychuk/Stewart
DEFENSEMEN: Pitkanen-McBain; Allen-Gleason; Kaberle-Harrison
GOALTENDER: Ward
INJURED: Dalpe, Stewart (game-time decision)
FORWARDS: Sharp-Toews-Brunette; Carcillo--Kane-Hossa; Bickell-Bolland-Frolik; Stalberg-Kruger-Mayers
DEFENSEMEN: Leddy-Keith; Seabrook-Hjalmarsson; O'Donnell-Montador
GOALTENDER: Crawford
SCRATCHES: Scott; Lepisto; Olesz
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San Bernardino Valley College stayed close to home in selecting the next coach for its marquee athletic program as Quincy Brewer has been named men's basketball coach.
Brewer, 34, spent last season as an assistant to Gerry Wright. He is the program's fourth coach in as many years. The past three coaches were once assistants in the program.
Brewer is an Inland Empire product. He graduated from Riverside North High School in 1992 and later came back to get his start in coaching at Riverside Ramona High School after finishing college.
He has a bachelor's degree in social work and master's degrees in education and physical education.
"I grew up here and I like this area," Brewer said. "This job doesn't have to be the stepping stone for anything else for me."
Brewer's appointment was finalized at the monthly Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday although word of his selection has been circulating for several weeks.
Wright, then an assistant, took over the program in December of 2006 when Derrick Pugh was let go only minutes before the team was leaving for an afternoon game. Wright did an admirable job and led the team to a Foothill Conference title, earning conference coach of the year honors in the process.
The team settled for fourth in 2007-08, missing the playoffs for the first time in 10 years. But that is deceiving. The Wolverines finished 13-15 overall and a respectable 9-5 in conference and were part of a four-way tie for first on the final day of the season.
Wright was not retained because his master's degree is in education and the position is full-time, one based out of the physical education department which requires a master's in that area.
The two boast contrasting styles.
"He's the guy that's cool as ice and I'm the guy that's fiery hot," Brewer said. "One isn't better than the other. We're just different."
While his demeanor may be different, Brewer said one thing that has been a trademark of the program will not be altered.
"All the coaches here have done a good job of advancing players and that will not change," Brewer said. "Our goal is always an education. It's nice to win games but it's about getting guys to the next level."
Before arriving on the SBVC campus, Brewer spent three seasons as the coach at Ramona where he directed the Rams to an overall mark of 71-16, with a pair of league titles.
That record is noteworthy because the Rams won just three games the year before Brewer took over. The team made the playoffs all three seasons, reaching the CIF quarterfinals in 2005 and the semifinals in 2007, the best playoff run for the Rams in three decades.
As a player, Brewer helped the Riverside North Huskies to a pair of appearances in the CIF finals.
He went on to Arizona State, where he was a three-year starter. The Sun Devils advanced to the NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16 his junior year. After college, he played professionally in six countries.
Athletic Director Dave Rubio was pleased with the pool of 24 applicants. The school interviewed five before deciding on Brewer.
"He gave a great interview, by far better than anyone else. He was well prepared and had all the right answers," Rubio said. "He also has great work ethic and will run a disciplined program."
In addition to coaching with the Wolverines, Brewer runs the NextLevel basketball training company. He and his wife, Berenice, live in Riverside. They have three children – Kenneth, Andrea and Brianna.


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Another week has passed and as per usual, Facebook pushed plenty of updates and made its fair share of headlines — including its new mobile Share button, a Pages-only News Feed, and the expansion of its Gifts service. But as there's always more Facebook news to be had, so here are five more stories you may have missed over the week.
Facebook Emoticons now available for iOS
Emoticons add some personality to our text-filled conversations, and Facebook continues to experiment here. With the many messaging apps out there already boasting variations of smiley faces, Facebook is finally opening up access to its slate of 52 emoticons to mobile devices. As we reported last month, Facebook enabled emoticons for its desktop app, but not for its mobile apps. But fear not: Facebook is now supporting the feature as part of the iOS update. The emoticons can be found when you press the plus icon. We did notice, however, that many on the list of supported Facebook emoticons for the desktop were not the same as the emoticons offered on its mobile app.
Facebook enables tagging from your iPhone
An additional feature, announced alongside the emoticon and share update for mobile devices, is tagging. This is another tool that exists for desktop but hasn't been available for your mobile apps, but now you can tag friends in posts and comments directly from your smartphone. Usually when there's a post that you'd like to bring to your friends' attention, for instance you might be bringing a news article to their attention, tagging them with the @ symbol notifies them that they've been tagged in a post. The update is also only available for iOS at the moment.
Facebook lock up expires and shares jump
773 million Facebook shares were expected to flood the market as the lockup expired and early investors and employees become able to cash in on their shares. Wall Street presumed that Facebook's market cap was expected to fall since shares were freed up, but it appears that with unanticipated consumer confidence in the social network, share prices have soared more than 17 percent to $23.42 at the time of this writing. Despite the jump, Facebook shares are still more than 39 percent lower than the original $38/share IPO price.
Facebook's "conversion measurement" advertising tool
On Friday, Reuters reported that Facebook was launching a new conversion measurement tool that has been long requested by its advertisers. The tool will enable advertisers to track the performance of an ad even a week after a user has viewed the advertisement. "It lets marketers track the impact of a Facebook ad hours or days or even a week beyond when someone might have viewed the ad. That allows marketers to understand the impact of the Facebook ad on the ultimate purchase," Debra Aho Williamson, an analyst at eMarketer told Reuters. The tool will only show the number of people who have made a purchase, according to Facebook product manager, David Base. Personally identifiable information will be inconsequential since users will just show up as a statistic in a broader analytic that displays how well an ad is performing. Fab.com, a beta tester of the service, claims to have reduced its cost per new customer acquisition by a whopping 39 percent. According to Reuters, Fab was able to identify the groups of users more likely to make a purchase and served the ads to these individuals using Facebook's conversion tool.
Facebook app alerts for developers
Facebook app developers out there might want to pay attention to this. Facebook announced that it is rolling out developer alerts beginning on November 16 and will notify developers of any new information regarding feature or policy changes to a their apps. The types of alerts that fall under this update are as follows as explained by Facebook software engineer, Min-Young Wu:
- Breaking changes. If your app is using functionality that we're changing or removing, you will be sent an alert at least 90 days before the change goes into effect. As a courtesy, we'll also send reminders at 60, 30, and 0 days. Once you've enabled the respective migration, we will no longer send you alerts.
- App status changes. If you have submitted Open Graph actions or created an app detail page for App Center, we will use Developer Alerts to notify you when the status of your submission changes. For example, we will send an alert when your Open Graph actions are approved.
- Policy violations and enforcement. If your app doesn't adhere to our Platform Policies you will be notified through these alerts. For example, if your app does not list a privacy policy, you will receive an alert telling you to add one before your app is forced into sandbox mode.
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text: Jim Lux wrote: > At 06:58 AM 11/11/2005, Robert G. Brown wrote: > >> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Jim Lux wrote: >> >> > > Home/self built packaging is, I'd venture to guess, a way to do "proof > of concept" on a limited budget. Or, it's a somewhat unique artistic > medium. > > Exactly.. I'd say the size of 4-16 (just to keep it powers of 2) nodes > is where the "sweet spot" is for proof of concept/hobby/self > packaged. You're still at a reasonable overall power consumption > (e.g. you can plug it into one circuit and not start a fire, nor cause > your a/c bill to skyrocket). And, it's going to be in the "fit under > or next to a desk" sort of size. > > My previous experience with getting moderate quantities of sheet metal > enclosures made makes me think that the basic per unit cost of such a > thing might be in the $15-20 range, for quantities in the tens or low > hundreds. A few hundred dollars for NRE setup, then the rest is > machine time and handling (the raw material is steel, and exceedingly > cheap) > We used metal rails in our enclosure of 8 CPUs(about which I already posted on that list, however I don't think that the student website about it is still up) to mount the motherboards : this way, no need for a precise adjustment of the holes, only the rail spacing has to be measured carefully. We just pierced a number of large holes at the bottom of the case for vcntilation. The cluster took us about three weeks of work to build (thus the money saved on the cases was wasted here) but we learned a number of things about cooling, and we now have a valuable exhibit for lab visits and so on. The cluster has now been running fine for two and a half years : the money saved on the cases allowed us to buy excellent fans and power supplies which is not necessarily the case with cheap cases sold by assemblers. In a way the three weeks of work have been compensated by the total absence of maintenance. No ground loops problems at all ; we used a common rail to plug the power supplies. F.C.


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Action sports and high fashion may not seem like the most likely of companions, but in the past decade designers have done more than dip a toe into surf culture; they have embraced the easygoing, sun-drenched lifestyle common to Southern California and found plenty of inspiration.
The fashion industry's love affair with surfing became most apparent about 11 years ago, when Karl Lagerfeld sent models clutching Chanel-logoed surfboards down the runway as they modeled clothes for spring 2003. Since then, high-end interpretations of surf-inspired clothing and accessories have come from Alexander Wang, Rag & Bone and Proenza Schouler.
And now the next wave of the trend has arrived in the form of rash guards: the second-skin, mock turtleneck shirts traditionally used to protect surfers and other water sports enthusiasts from the elements, as well as the abrasive buildup of surf wax found on a board's surface.
"It's mainly female surfers who wear rash guards," says Chad Marshall, professional surfer and co-owner and manager of Mollusk surf shop in Venice. "Rash guards have become more stylish with better cuts and tailoring. It's about having the total kit, looking cute with a new surfboard and all of your gear and taking it to the next level."
Taking it to the next level and catapulting rash guards into the mainstream this spring are companies such as Tory Burch, J. Crew, Cynthia Rowley and the Australian line Zimmermann, which have emblazoned the stretchy shirts with digital floral prints, nautical stripes and even sexy snakeskin patterns that feel more club kid than beach bum.
"We've introduced new textures and cut them in a way that creates a more feminine feel," says Nicky Zimmermann, head designer and creative director of Zimmermann. "I think that has opened up the way in which they can be worn." She adds that "rashies," as they call them in Australia, are also functional in bridging one's beach-to-bar wardrobe.
Many of the styles this season incorporate some form of color-blocking and mixing of patterns. Burch's version includes a sea horse print and navy blue panels down the torso for a slimming effect. Rowley keeps the traditional neon hues of 1980s wetsuits alive in her feminine floral printed rash guards. And J. Crew stays true to its preppy roots with a versatile nautical striped style that could also work for a casual lunch, when worn with denim shorts and a pair of ivory Superga sneakers.
According to Rowley, her customers aren't buying her color-blocked and floral print wetsuits and rash guards solely for hard-core water sports. "A printed rash guard looks cool mixed with a cute bikini," she says. "And if you want to take it to the extreme, pair it with a pretty skirt and go out at night."


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My Potentially Controversial Opinions on Various Topics:
If you don't care, stop reading now.
Look, I don't demand much from a pop star. The lyrics can get lazy (I still love you old-school Black Eyed Peas). You don't have to sell out stadiums (Amerie forever holds a place in my heart). You don't even have to be that great of a singer (Britneyyyyy). But I do want a pop star to have something, that quote-unquote "It factor". CHARISMA. This is why I can't stand Rihanna.
Don't get me wrong. I love her song "S.O.S." and that will likely never stop. However, it's not as though no one else could have made that song great. In fact, it would have been massively improved without her dull, intoning voice. That song's greatness is the production and the sampling. That Rihanna is the singer is pure chance.
What I strongly dislike about her ("hate" is such a strong word) is that she has no personality whatsoever. Is that just me? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here!
Does nobody else on this planet notice that her eyes are like an emotionless void. She just seems so dead all the time. And I think her new "bad girl" image is painfully contrived.
She seems like the kind of girl who just does what she's told and it pisses me off how she's becoming a symbol of strength. This ain't Tina Turner, guys.
Though, clearly, I'm the one who is missing something here, because she is wildly successful. And you know what? I'm wrong. It's because of her distinct lack of genuine personality that she has thrived so. She is the "perfect" pop star because she can be whoever suits the record label's interests best.
That won't build you a nice warm nesting in the inviting place that is my heart, RiRi.
Roman Motherfucking Polanski:
Now, I am a big fan of Roman Polanski's work, and I adored his autobiography, but I'm not simply blindly defending him when I say let him go! My two main reasons for this:
1. He is clearly not a continued threat. Since the situation in the 70's, there has been no further complaints. He has settled down and married.
2. This is the more important one, in my opinion. His "victim" has repeatedly begged the court to not pursue the case.
What is the reason sex offenders are prosecuted? To prevent further incidents and to avenge the victim. If he isn't a threat and the victim desperately wants the case dropped, what purpose are we serving?
Am I saying celebrities should be exempt from the law? Not necessarily. But I do think high-profile artists like Roman Polanski should not be treated like your average neighborhood pervert. And that's just my opinion.
People find this surprising but I love. T-Pain. And yes, you have to pause after that "love" to get the proper emphasis. No, I don't like everybody and their step-third-cousin using AutoTune, but everything in moderation, people, and T-Pain owns that shit. I've raved about his genius ("And let me assure you: I use that word often" - Tracy Jordan) before. I had a lot to say on the subject but it was simply the same themes over and over: subversive yadda yadda, statement on the depth of human emotion yadda yadda, really sweet dance moves yadda yadda, P-Funk-esque top hat...
I also have a playlist on my iPod called "I'm T-Pain, you know me"
Family Circus:
People who know me well know a few things: I have a deep, semi-unexplained love for Scatman Crothers (mostly based on the awesomeness of his name), I cannot sleep with a TV or light on and I will get huffy until that is remedied and I have a blind rage for Family Circus that I can rant about for minutes. I'd say hours, but, really, let's be reasonable.
I believe Family Circus is the devil disguised in an "innocent" family comic strip. Why? Because it defies all logic. It is a comic strip that is never funny. I am not exaggerating. It is literally never funny. And it's not even amusing in a so-bad-its-good way. More often than not, I can't even see anything that remotely resembles a joke. Sometimes its like, "alright, nice try, Family Circus, but that joke wasn't funny". But usually it's like, "That is just a sentence. I cannot even detect an attempt at a joke."
Oftentimes, I like to play a game with myself where I read the comics and judge what percentage of times that a comic strip is entertaining. For example, Doonesbury is funny 95% of the time, Dilbert is funny 80% of the time, Hagar is funny 10% of the time...Family Circus is the only one that scores 0%.
My theory: the author's idea of funny is getting paid for this bullshit.
A rudimentary understanding of the concept of infinite doesn't automatically translate to "funny", guy.


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Research has always been an important part of DRC. After all, research is our middle name! DRC evolved out of the Institute for Delphinid Research. When DRC's founders took over the facility in 1984, research remained a high priority. We have since expanded our in-house research goals, and also worked with world-renowned scientists who have come to DRC to study our resident colony of dolphins. DRC's research program focuses on three main areas: Cognition, Behavior and Husbandry.


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Republican voters dominated Torrington on Election Day
TORRINGTON >> While the state and nation seemingly turned blue on Election Day, voters in Torrington cast their ballots overwhelmingly in favor of the Republican Party and town Republican leaders, not turning green with Democratic envy, now see the votes as tell-tale signs of local hope.
Besides U.S. Rep. John Larson, State Rep. Michelle Cook and Registrar of Voters John Ciesco, all incumbent Democrats, Torrington voters turned to the GOP candidates Tuesday. Incumbent State Rep. Roberta Willis lost in Torrington, but still carried the rest of her district; Presidential ticket Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan won here; U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon beat out U.S. Senator-elect Chris Murphy by 1,800 votes, despite the Democrat's landslide victory over the WWE executive.
But alas, for town Republicans, national politics don't revolve around Torrington, nor does the city carry much weight when it comes to Capitol Hill's representation. If it did, the Republican Party might have won nearly every race in the 2012 Presidential election.
Despite everything Torrington voters told through their ballots, despite the failed attempt at gaining a Congressional representative, U.S. senator and president, Republicans here believe the election tells them something differently.
"The overwhelmingly majority who go out and vote are saying that the fiscal issues are driving a lot of votes," City Councilor Gregg Cogswell said.
Cogswell, the vice-chairman for the Torrington Republican Town Committee, said since 2005, he's witnessed this trend. "In Torrington, they don't go by parties, because there are a lot more Democrats registered. But here, where there are many hard working, blue collar families, voters tend to be fiscally conservative and looking for candidates who are fiscally conservative.
"They don't judge locally by party. Torrington votes by fiscal issues," Cogswell added.
Torrington voters chose Romney 7,279 to President Barack Obama's 6,777; they picked Roraback by nearly 3,000 votes and State Senator-elect Clark Chapin by 646 votes over Democrat William Riiska. Re-elected State Sen. Kevin Witkos, whose 8th senate district includes Torrington and 10 other towns, beat opponent Daniel Seger by 913 votes in Torrington. The lone exception to the rule comes through the state representative 65th, where Cook beat contender and Torrington Republican Town Committee Chairperson Wendy Traub by 1,489 votes.
Cogswell was appointed to the Republican-heavy City Council in 2010, and was elected to serve during the 2011 election. According to him, the leadership and issues Torrington Republicans dive into headfirst are the resounding ones with voters, and that's the reason turnout is so strong for the GOP.
That trend might play a key role in Republican strategy for the upcoming 2013 municipal election. With Mayor Ryan Bingham's term ending in a year, and no public inclination one way or the other of Bingham seeking the same office again, Torrington Republicans can look to the 2012 voter turnout as a platform worth building on.
And that's what puts Torrington Democrats in a rut.
"Right after we left our headquarters on Tuesday night, we were very happy with Michelle's win and Roberta's win, but we did notice that we lost every race," Democratic Town Committee Chairman Glenn McLeod said. "It's been trending that way for awhile. Even in the governor's race three years ago. Everyone won in Connecticut, but not in Torrington. All the unaffiliated voters are going that way and voting for fiscal conservatives, usually the ones on the Republican tickets."
McLeod said his Democratic committee hasn't developed a plan yet -- they're waiting until things cool down from Tuesday's election -- but they understand the need to "get things moving" and produce impressive candidates. With the clock ticking toward a mayoral election, McLeod understands the importance of putting key leadership on the ballot.
"Politics is local," McLeod said. "As long as we get the word out and work hard, we can get our message across. I'm going to be critical of you and your paper, and your competitor, but last year's local election had no coverage. If there's a message, it needs to get across and people don't want to read propaganda; I understand that."
The local election, some 360 days away, will be left up to the harder worker and those who can get their message out most effectively, both Cogswell and McLeod agreed. But the methods of achieving office and the attraction of unaffiliated voters -- those leaning and voting fiscally conservative, and thus, Republican ticket-punchers -- relies on the respective parties. The momentum and numbers, too, show a Republican-dominated election -- something the Republicans hope to carry into the 2013 mayoral election, and something the Democrats know they need to address.
"We're aware of it, and we're attacking it," said McLeod.
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Editor's note: The initial story, which ran in the Nov. 9 print edition of The Register Citizen, had Democratic Town Committee Chairman Glenn McLeod's name misspelled. This article has been changed to reflect it.


text: Howdy Robert, On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 09:15, Robert G. Brown wrote: > > Sure, but a) this sort of thing is very dangerous and b) why bother? > /dev/random is ALREADY doing a moderately sophisticated (and probably > much more sophisticated and better thought through) job of doing this > sort of thing. Well, this was off the top of my head, Robert. Also, I know for a fact that you and the code crankers behind /dev/random know infinitely more about random-number generation than I ever will :^). [Big snip of some stuff WAY over my head :^). I'll take your word on it, though, Robert :^)] > Or, to argue the other way, if you INSIST on using e.g. /dev/random as a > source of a stream of "really random" random numbers, accepting that it > will block until it accumulates enough entropy (by its internal > measures) to return the next one AND accepting that abusing it by USING > it to generate a stream in this way, where each number is almost by > definition "barely random enough" according to the standards of "barely" > implemented by the designers and may or may not be random "enough" for > your application, then this is indeed a suitable sort of thing to > implement on a cluster basis! Kewl! :^). Now think up a crazy-sounding acronym to call the process. Hmmm. Let's see if we can somehow work words like CRAP, FARTS, or DORK into the name, too. I think it would be totally hilarious to go to a conference and here some serious-sounding and well-meaning speaker say something like, "The obvious solution to this type of random- generation problem is CRAP." :^) :^). The major problem here, though, is that the audience might be laughing too much to actually pay attention to what was being said. They'd probably be hanging on every word, waiting to here the term used in a context that actually meant something else :^). Hmmm. OTOH, maybe an acronym like this would actually make the audience pay attention and listen :^). Best Regards, Randall -- Randall Jouett Amateur Radio: AB5NI


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How to Develop a Stormwater Utility Fee
Absorbent soils and lands in a community are gradually replaced by less
permeable surfaces, such as parking lots and driveways. Water that once
settled in hollows, meandered around stream curves, and seeped and
soaked into the ground, now speeds downhill, spills into low areas, and
overfills clogged ditches. As a result, flooding occurs more frequently.
Contingent upon any comprehensive plan to control flooding is a strategy
for managing stormwaters. Oklahoma's progressive cities regard
stormwater management as a service they owe their customers. As a
result, an increasing number of cities are passing ordinances that
recognize this "forgotten utility." Cities often include stormwater drainage
fees in monthly water/sewer bills. The fees are used to create dependable,
dedicated funds for maintaining stormwater removal systems. Additionally,
this fee can be used for the treatment of stormwater pollution to meet EPA
standards before it is discharged in rivers, lakes, and streams.
Stormwater Management:
The Forgotten Utility
Which residents should be responsible for paying a stormwater utility fee?
Stormwater runs off every property in the city. Residents on both hillsides and lowlands contribute to runoff. Everyone
creates the problem, so everyone should help in its solution.
What is the difference between the stormwater drainage fee and the charge for sewer service on
my utility bill?
The stormwater drainage fee is entirely separate from the sewer (wastewater) system fee. Stormwater drainage
consists of a network of ditches, streams, and underground pipes that safely carry away excess water or runoff. The
wastewater system disposes of water that goes down household drains from sinks, tubs, toilets, and washing
Why do we need a
stormwater or drainage
The fee is necessary to maintain
and improve the facilities that
safely carry stormwaters away.
It can be used for the following:
• Inspecting and repairing
storm drains and pump
• Removing silt and debris
from ditches, creeks, and
• Improving detention basins.
• Developing a master drain-age
• Constructing small projects.
• Complying with local flood-plain
management regula-tions.
• Maintaining the flood carrying
capacity of improved or man-made
How to Develop a Stormwater Utility Fee - Page 2
Stormwater Utility Fee Q &A
How to Develop a Stormwater Utility Fee - Page 3
How much would a stormwater utility fee add to my
The cost of abating flood damage caused by inadequate stormwater
drainage systems is affordable if it is allotted equitably among all
citizens in a community. However, public and private costs can be
substantial when floodwaters swamp debris-choked creeks and
channels, clogged and collapsed sewers, and neglected pump
• Tulsa set its utility fee based on essential costs, and then appor-tions
them among all homes and businesses. Homeowners pay a
stormwater utility fee of $3.10 per month for every 2,650 square
feet of impervious surface on their properties. Tulsa's program
generates approximately $13 million each year for operation and
maintenance of its stormwater program and the construction of
small flood mitigation projects.
• Oklahoma City's stormwater utility fees are based on water meter
size, but for all residential structures and most small businesses
the cost is $3.10 per month. Oklahoma City does not use an
equivalent service unit due to its complexity and potential in-creased
costs to the City.
• Edmond attaches a monthly drainage fee of $2 to most residential utility bills (based on a rate of $2 per 10,000
square feet of impervious area), with a maximum monthly charge of $100 for commercial and industrial sites.
• Bixby, a community of over 13,000 near Tulsa, created a stormwater management fee through Ordinance 550.
This ordinance requires each equivalent service unit (2,650 square feet of impervious area) to pay a monthly
charge of $2.00. The fee is part of each property's monthly water/utility bill. Proceeds are deposited into Bixby's
stormwater drainage fund.
Stormwater Control
Control of stormwater is necessary
because development on higher ground
can increase flooding, siltation and
erosion. Changes in the natural
balance require compensations in the
form of well planned and maintained
drainage systems.
Urbanization significantly increases runoff.
Peak rates of stormwater flow increase as
vegetation is removed and the natural
landscape is altered, replacing slow
draining wetlands, depressions, meanders
and gullies with paved areas, fast draining
Tulsa public works officials
estimate that of the 6,000 buildings
damaged in the Memorial Day
Flood of 1984, up to 1,000 would
have been spared if the city's
stormwater system had functioned
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Does a Stormwater Management Fee affect eligibility in the NFIP?
A stormwater management fee helps communities remain eligible to receive the Federal Emergency Management
Agency's insurance and disaster assistance benefits. If your community is enrolled in the National Flood Insurance
Program, FEMA requires maintenance of the carrying capacity of any modified channel (including a bridge over the
channel, a concrete-lined ditch or a straightened stream segment, or other alteration to increase the channel's ability
to carry floodwaters). These channels must be kept open by
cleaning out excessive vegetative growth, silt, and debris.
How do we fund a stormwater program?
Cities need reliable, long-term funding for their stormwater
programs--money safe from shifts in political winds or
changes in local administrations. The recommended first
step in seeking durable funding is to visit with program
administrators in cities that have model programs, such as
Tulsa, Lawton, Oklahoma City, Edmond, and Bixby. Citizens
in some communities have approved a sales tax earmarked
for the drainage program. Others have passed an ordinance
permitting the addition of a stormwater fee to their regular
monthly utility bill. In other areas, city councils have
mandated the fee.
How should a city gain citizen support for the stormwater fee concept?
Naturally, cities that have experienced frequent flooding will find more support for the program. From the beginning,
city officials should solicit input from utility users and seek citizen acceptance through public information, education
and awareness programs.
Clearly, the answer to solving many persistent flooding problems is a
comprehensive stormwater management plan that encompasses the entire
watershed. Floodplain management and stormwater management are
interconnected, so all strategies should target the solution of flooding
problems. An integrated plan includes prevention and control of flooding by
structural and nonstructural means, community participation in the National
Flood Insurance Program, and hazard mitigation strategies.
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August 1, 2013—Though EEG (Electroencephalography) has been around for decades, now, new technology allows us to detect and measure brain activity with a lightweight headset and mobile phone. National Geographic Emerging Explorer and entrepreneur Tan Le demonstrates how her company's EEG headset and software can be used for a variety of research purposes.
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So, EEG has been around since the 1930's, but the way in which we've collected those signals have been very much confined to a clinical context. The benefit now is that you can collect this data in a highly contextualized manner.
This particular headset provides coverage of key EEG sites around the cerebral cortex. Within a few minutes the signals will settle and you're ready to collect EEG. And so, with this it gives you an insight to someone's emotional state in real time.
She's awesome. So Amazing.
You record the data and once you complete your recording the rest of the data is sent to the cloud and then it generates a report to let you know how you performed essentially.
I had a relatively high degree of emotional arousal to that content because I am a woman trying to forge new frontiers and so that really resonated with me. There was a really strong degree of emotional positivity towards that segment and also I was pretty engaged. I had a high degree of attention and emersion. And the idea with this is it's not a one-time score but it's about getting a longitudinal sense of your activities. What interests you, how often are you engaged, how engaged are you.
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Provo • It took BYU basketball coach Dave Rose only 134 games to get to 100 wins after he was hired in 2005 to replace Steve Cleveland and resuscitate a program that had just gone 9-21.
Against the Saint Mary's Gaels on Wednesday night at the Marriott Center, Rose was trying to pick up his 200th win in just his 258th game at BYU's helm.
It looked like the coach was going to reach the milestone when Tyler Haws made a jumper with 2.5 seconds left to give the Cougars a two-point lead. But Saint Mary's quickly inbounded the ball to Matthew Dellavedova, and the Gaels guard drained a 35-footer at the buzzer for the 70-69 win.
"He had to make a pretty tough shot to win it, and he did," Rose said.
So the coach will try for No. 200 on Saturday when BYU plays host to San Diego at the Marriott Center.
All Rose would say about the milestone before the game was that he hoped it would come quickly.
"But when people ask me questions about things like that, I think about our players, the guys who have been here, and the coaches who have coached with us. I have been really fortunate to have great players and coaches working with me," he said.
Only 14 coaches in NCAA Division I college basketball history have had the chance to get to 200 wins faster than Rose, who is now 199-59 overall.
He is second in total wins at BYU behind only Stan Watts, and first in winning percentage (.774).
"I am just trying to figure out how to make this team better, and figure out how to win the next game that we play. The best thing about those types of milestones are when they are over and people stop talking about them, and you just move on," Rose said.
The former member of Houston's Phi Slamma Jamma teams entered the game fourth in career winning percentage among active coaches, behind only North Carolina's Roy Williams (.798), Gonzaga's Mark Few (.797) and Butler's Brad Stevens (.785).
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Properties are a central concept in .NET languages and a foundation principal when building classes. They have several advanced features over simple field variables and their use is integrated in many way throughout class interaction. Understanding how to properties work, and more importantly how properties can make your application smarter friendlier and easier to code is vital to advancing your trade-craft as a software developer.
Why is this important to learn about?
The professional coding community uses properties extensively. Its a primary concept. Its how classes communicate with each other. If your code doesn't use them then its going to be a real headache to interact with other classes. Making your code not follow established styles and technology is going to hinder you and make your code something that no co-worker or employer will want to deal with.
Terms you should be familiar with:
Note: All examples were created using Visual Studio 2012, targetting the .NET Framework 4.5, using a WPF project. We'll do our best to point out anything that might not work in older versions or ways of using the same techniques in WinForms.
Properties can best be thought of as advanced variables. You call and use them like variable. From the caller's point of view
public string Name;
public string Name { get; set; }
are exactly the same thing. "So why do I care about properties?" is probably your first through. Because as mentioned they are an advanced construct. In reality they are a wrapper around a get and set method. Let me say that again: Properties are a wrapper around two methods. And as we know methods are exectuable code that can do things and make comparrisons and decisions. Simple variables can't do anything.
In its simplest syntax a property can be autoset, meaning it has no backing field variable (more on this in a sec., so don't panic) The Name property above is an autoset property. It has a get and a set method that contain nothing. It will act exactly like any other variable. But that's like using a Ferrari to get groceries: Its under utilizing the tools at your disposal.
The get method within the property uses an important keyword: value
That is the value being passed in. You can work with that value within the get method. The only condition on this is that as soon as you start doing these things you have to have a backing variable for the property. The value has to be stored someplace while the methods do their job. Let's see it in action so it becomes clear.
private int _Age = 0; public int Age { get { return _Age; } set { if (value < 0) value = 0; _Age = value; } }
In our example Age is the property, _Age is the backing variariable.1
If you had a simple int variable for someone's age your code would have to validate it everyplace you used it. A typical program might refer to the Age 100 times. What if somewhere in all that our calculation screwed up? Do we really want to have to qualify every calculation every time? Worse yet, what if there are new rules put into place about validating age: We would have to scrub through thousands of lines of code and copy/paste the new rules into the 100 places we do it. YUCK!
For example, what if the age was accidentally set to a negative number? Its legal for an int to be -4, but that's not a valid age. But the get method executes on incoming values. We can make an age property that does this for us one time, in one place so we don't have to validate the age in 100 places.
void SomeMethod() { // Do a bunch of fancy stuff and get information from a database // In the course of our work we update the Age property. Age = OurNewCalculatedValue; }
Let's assume that after a faulty calculation OurNewCalculatedValue is -18 instead of positive 18. Well -18 is certainly not a valid age. Let's walk through how our property will validate and overcome wrote values being passed in:
Age = OurNewCalculatedValue; // is therefore
Age = -18; // Sending -18 as the value to the set method within the Age property.
set { if (value < 0) // {which is} if (-18 < 0) so yeah, this is true value = 0; // set the value to 0 _Age = value; // set our backing field variable to our corrected value } }
What happens most of the time when the original calculation doesn't screw up? Let's assume that after a correct calculation OurNewCalculatedValue is positive 21: A perfectly valid age
set { if (value < 0) // {which is} if (21 < 0) nope, not the case value = 0; // so this line doesn't execut _Age = value; // set our backing value to the passed in value of 21 } }
So if only for the capability of centralizing the validation of values properties are well worth the time. But wait! There's more! And this one is a doozy. There is an interface called INotifyPropertyChanged. We love this! The short description is: This how a property can raise an event telling any subscriber that it's value has been changed. Picture this very common situation:
You have a window and on it are various controls with information about a persion: Name, age, address, phone number etc. When a user inputs a change you want the property to update. By the same token if the age updates from an programmatic source (like a database update) you want the GUI to update automatically. This is exactly the same as say a calculator. When the math is done the Answer property is updated and you want that to be shown on screen. Or you are writting a chat program and the Message property updates when a new message is received.... Or you are watching a USB weather station and the Temperature gets a new value so you want that on-screen.
This is pretty much how any program should work: The work class does the work and the GUI acts as an interface between the user and the work.
You could do this:
private int _Age = 0; public int Age { get { return _Age; } set { if (value < 0) value = 0; _Age = value; lbl_Age.Text = value; } } //and void lbl_Age_TextChanged(object sender, eventargs e) { Age = Convert.ToInt32(lbl_Age.Text); }
But that violates a prime rule of OOP: One clase shouldn't know more than is necessary about another class. AND your data shouldn't be tightly bound to your GUI. The problem here becomes if a designer changes the layout or names of the controls on the GUI then the data class breaks because it is calling those controls directly. And the controls would have to be made public making them vulnerable to unintentional changes... and... and... and...
So instead we want to just raise up a notice (an event) that the data has been updated. The data class doesn't know or care who's listening: That's the responsiblity of the listener to update itself. Not the responsibility of a pure data class to fix up the GUI.
All we have to do is bind the value of the GUI control to the property, then tell the property to raise a PropertyChanged event when it gets set
WPF example:
In the C# code behind we
- Line 9: add a using statement for System.ComponentModel because that's where interface INotifyPropertyChanged lives.
- line 16: Add INotifyPropertyChanged to our class signature
- Lines 40-48: Impliment the events for INotifyPropertyChanged
That stuff is just one time, to get our class prepped. You don't do that for every property.
- Line 33: When the property gets changed, raise an event saying so.
// Using statements tell our assembly where to look for commands. // They let us abreviate our code a little. // For example bool is really System.Bool but nobody want to type // System.Bool each and every time you use it. So we place a // using System statement at the hed of the file. When the compiler // sees 'bool' it will start looking through all of our usings to // find where this object is defined. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Windows; namespace DicTutorial { public partial class MainWindow : Window, INotifyPropertyChanged { // Constructor method (Note lack of return type and name matches the name of the class) public MainWindow() { InitializeComponent(); } #region Property Tutorial private int _Age = 0; public int Age { get { return _Age; } set { if (value < 0) value = 0; _Age = value; RaisePropertyChanged("Age"); } } #endregion #region INotifyPropertyChanged Members public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged; private void RaisePropertyChanged(string propertyName) { if (PropertyChanged != null) PropertyChanged(this, e: new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName)); } #endregion } }
Then on our WPF window we bind the .Value of the control to the Age property, speicfying two way. That way when the property is changed the GUI is updated, and when the GUI is changed the property is updated.
Now that all the groundwork has been laid we can add as many easy-to-bind properties as we like. For a contact card we might add Name, address and so on to our existing Age property. One of my most common uses is to give the user status updates on the status bar at the bottom of the window.
Add all we had to do was add one more property that that reports when it has a change.
private string _Status; public string Status { get { return _Status; } set { if (_Status == value) return; _Status = value; RaisePropertyChanged("Status"); } }
Now we can give the user status updates easily with a single line from any method in our application.
bool DownloadData() { // Fancy download code Status = "Download complete"; return true; } void ReceiveNewTemperatureFromWeatherStation(int NewTemp) { WriteNewTempToDatabase(NewTemp); Status = string.Format("New Temp: {0}f", NewTemp); } void ExitApplication() { Status = "Cleaning up before close"; SaveUnsavedData(); }
In Conclusion
There is even more advanced features about properties. But this tutorial is already getting pretty long. We've covered the basics about what properties are and even some intermediate stuff about cool ways to use them. Hopefully this will get you thinking, and using properties as much as possible.
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