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The majority of financial aid awards have enrollment status requirements you must meet and adhere to in order to be eligible to receive funding. When discussing a change in your enrollment status is important to distinguish between a drop in enrollment versus a withdrawal from all classes, as each can affect your financial aid awards differently.
A drop occurs when you officially withdraw from a class while you're still enrolled and attending other classes, whereas a withdrawal occurs when you cease attendance in all of your classes. You can either officially or unofficially withdraw. An official withdrawal occurs when you withdraw from a class and are no longer registered for the class. You can officially withdraw from a class either in person at Raider Connect or online via WINGS Express until designated dates for a given term. An unofficial withdrawal occurs when you either stop attending a class without officially withdrawing from the class or you don't earn a grade for the class. A faculty member identifies a student who has unofficially withdrawn from a class by assigning the student an X (Unofficial Withdrawal) grade at the end of the term on the student's grade report.
Important things to consider when dropping or withdrawing...
- Often dropping a class or withdrawing from all classes results in a reduction of your financial aid awards, which in turn creates a balance owed to Wright State University. It is highly recommended you contact Raider Connect to determine how the drop/withdrawal may affect your financial aid awards.
- Dropping a class or withdrawing from all of your classes can impact your ability to meet Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) requirements for federal student aid.
- Depending on when you drop a class or officially withdraw from all classes, you may be eligible for a refund of tuition and fees. For information on Wright State's refund policy for tuition and fees, see Official University Refund Policy.
- If you plan to withdraw from Wright State and currently reside in on campus housing, you are strongly encouraged to contact the Office of Residence Services for information on appeal procedures for a refund/cancelation of your housing charges/contract.
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Federal student aid is subject to change when you officially drop a class and receive a 100% refund of tuition and fees. The Office of Financial Aid will return federal student loan funds that have been disbursed to you for a given term if you drop to less than half-time enrollment prior to the start of the term.
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- Subsidized Direct Loans
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- Federal Pell Grant for which a return is required
- Federal Supplemental educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) for which a return of funds is required
- Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grant for which a return is required.
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Policies and procedures for the handling of Wright State University funds when a student drops or withdraws vary depending upon the type of aid.
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- Academic Scholarships — Contact Raider Connect.
- Athletic Grants — Contact your Head Coach or the Athletics Department.
- Lake Campus Scholarships — Contact Lake Campus Student Services.
- Other Scholarships — Contact Raider Connect.
- WSU Grants — Contact Raider Connect.
Employment/Federal Work Study — Contact the Office of Career Services.
Campus-Based Loans — Contact Raider Connect.
Graduate Assistantships, Tuition Scholarships, Fellowships and Stipends — Contact the School of Graduate Studies.
Boonshoft School of Medicine Scholarships and Fellowships — Contact the Boonshoft School of Medicine.
School of Professional Psychology Scholarships and Fellowships — Contact the School of Professional Psychology.
Tuition Remission — Contact the Office of the Bursar.
External Scholarships
Policies and procedures for the handling of external scholarship monies when a student or withdraws are determined by the external scholarship Donor. Always contact your Donor first if you have any questions.
Alternative Loans
Pay close attention to the terms and conditions of your alternative loan. Policies and procedures regarding the handling of loan funds when a student drops or withdraws are established by the lender. Typically students must be registered at least half-time to be eligible for loan funds but not always. Contact Raider Connect for more information.


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I work in the armoured car industry, carry a loaded handgun on my side, keep a loaded 12 gauge in the truck, and receive bi-annual training and requalification, so I know how to use my weapons. All that aside, we are still trained to give up the loot in a robbery rather then get into a gunfight. Odds are, the assailants will be so keyed up on adrenaline, any sudden movement will result in you getting shot. Shogun did the right thing.
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Verizon sells 2.2 million iPhone 4, says iPhone 5 will be a world phone
Verizon joined Apple and AT&T this week in releasing their quarterly results, and during the conference call revealed 2.2 million Verizon iPhone 4 were sold since launch, and that iPhone 5 looks to be a world phone. Overall, Verizon announced 6.3 percent year-over-year increase in revenues, data revenues up 22.3 percent, 1.8 million net new subscribers, and 104.0 million total connections, including 88.4 million retail customers.
Demand was strong for new LTE devices -- as well as for Apple's iPhone 4, which produced the most successful first-day sales in Verizon Wireless history when it was introduced in February to existing customers.
During the call, Verizon also said that the next iPhone, (presumably iPhone 5), whenever it is released (presumably this fall), will be a global device (presumably a hybrid CDMA/GSM iPhone 5).
The current Verizon iPhone already has a dual-mode Qualcomm CDMA/GSM chipset but the GSM radio is not enabled. Flipping that switch makes a lot of sense given Apple's history of simple product lines and huge economies of scale.
There was not mention of LTE, which doesn't rule it out but given Apple COO, Tim Cook's comments during Apple's conference call yesterday, we probably shouldn't hold our breath until the technology requires less "compromises" (like poor battery life).
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Verizon sells 2.2 million iPhone 4, says iPhone 5 will be a world phone
And THAT's not even a fair comparision--because when AT&T first sold the 4, it was brand new--and the retina display was never seen before. People were naturally not as plussed up about the nearly identical (save for lack of SIM card, moved mute switch, older iOS version, and CDMA internals) phone. So it's really apples and oranges (pardon the pun). The only viable comparison that will hold water will be an identical, multiple-carrier launch of a next-gen iPhone.
Yay for slow ass data. I sit next to a guy in computer science that pulled a whopping 459kb down. I hit speed test for a 5252kb down 1263 up.
I have both AT&T and a Verizon IPhone 4, I love both of them. I get speed differences in different areas, Verizon is better FOR ME at work and AT&T is better at home.
Its all good
Palm Treo 650, 700P, HTC Touch Pro, Palm Pre, HTC Evo 4G, Iphone 4 (AT&T/Verizon)
If Apple has an iPhone 5 with LTE and 64 GB later this year, I'm buying. Maybe even stand in line! Would switch from AT&T and lose my business discount, but 700 MHz LTE goodness would be too much to pass up. Man, they really need to release spectrum from 300 MHz to 400 MHz to the carriers. The building penetrations would be so much better.
Sure, we'll sit back and watch 300mhz spectrum burn a hole in your head from the radiation.
yay for no dropped calls, I smile inside when my wife (AT&T Iphone ) calls someone only to have that call drop in about 2 min. she has to call back and gets to talk for another 4 min. Dont get me wrong I had AT&T and it was fast. Nothing beats the Verizon Iphone when it comes to calls, I get up to 20mbps on wifi at home and at work. Small note.... I live in the San Francisco Bay Area so maybe that has something to do with it. The reason the wify stays with AT&T is because the company pays for it. Sad to say but sometimes I miss by Droid. ( sometimes). maybe it was google doing everything for me where as apple telling me what to do. Im just talking crazy talk its 10am on a slow thursday and I dont want to get back to work.
An additional question is "Did VZW sell as many iPhone as THEY had expected?" My guess is No, but almost. Once some of AT&T contracts are up they will be switching to VZW. Vzw iphone user will steadly increase while at&t will decrease. waiting on 2nd qrt results which will be a better comparision.
Screw the compromises of battery life with An LTE enabled phone, Apple BETTER be LTE ready with iPhone5 when it hits verizon this year.
Let me worry about my battery life and disable 4G whenever I need to reserve some battery. Otherwise, I want blazing fast Internet with my next iPhone! I mean ish, why not? The cellular providers are already broadcasting such data speeds.
Apple better not fall behind on 4G, the same way they released a dreaded slow edge phone on their first gen model when 3G was clearly available at that point.
So what? Just do like the HTC Thunderbolt does and have it hand off to GSM/CDMA if no 4G present. How hard is it? If you have a Thunderbolt, and you are in a 3G area, you still have data coverage.
I have to agree, 3g is good enough on Verizon to survive without LTE if battery life would be compromised. However I can't imagine it matters whether or not ATT offers 4g or whatever if their service does not improve and their buying TMO offers little hope that they're serious about improving their service.
"tepid", "slow", "quite small" were terms used for the sell-through of the world-wide roll-out of the Galaxy Tab. Verizon probably activated (essentially sell-through) something on the order of 200k to 400k Galaxy Tabs. Nobody really knows what the numbers as Samsung hasn't released any numbers sold to customers yet. They've only released the numbers sold into the channel. Haven't seen anything from Verizon on the matter.
In comparison, the Verizon iPhone numbers are actually pretty good compared to AT&T iPhone numbers. The Verizon iPhone activation rate is actually higher than the ATT activation rate. Overall though, they are below people's expectations. Not sure if it was the continual marketing of Verizon having a better network or not. Who knows.
And what would that be? The entire world will mostly move to LTE because it's faster. Verizon's LTE is just the start. Faster implementations of LTE are on the way. I believe AT&T will use LTE Advanced, which is faster than Verizon's current LTE network. LTE Advance, though, is going to possibly be a software upgrade for LTE, so Verizon should have it, too, at some point, and will have backward compatibility with LTE, allowing your LTE phone to work on an LTE Advanced network.
i'm 100% waiting for the Verizon iphone 5.
I expected it in june so i haven't upgraded. now who knows when i'll get it. But i'm switching from sprint and with the changes to verizon upgrade policies what i get will have to hold me over for a while. And i'm not the type that just buys every new phone. plus i'd like more storage and some other features so i'm hoping that is all in the next version.
Apple is really stuck between a rock and a hard place right now. If they really intend on making iPhone 5 3G only again (which is likely) and looking at a September release it will look old from the get go. Verizon will have at least 4-5 LTE phones on the market with more coming by Holiday. Apple will start to lose the wow factor it's had from the beginning. I don't buy the coverage complaint, Verizon said just this morning on the earnings call that LTE will be in 175 markets (almost 200 million people covered) by the end of the year. That's basically just short of AT&T's 3G map.
The problem is Apple is all about simplicity, and AT&T is nowhere close to real markets on LTE and HSPA+ is still limited too. And iphone 5 won't be more on one and less on the other favoring one carrier or the other.
I hope they have something else that will make up for having 10x slower speeds while my friends stream HD on the fly, video chat anywhere, talk/surf on 4G and 3G (vz)
After using lte on the thunderbolt, I can never use a phone without it ever again. If the iPhone 5 doesn't have lte then I won't even consider it as streaming lte to the ipad2 is win. Going back to a non lte phone would be like going back to dialup. Lte is a much bigger performance gain than any other technology like dual core.
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so you wont be coming over? thats a bit of a drive for you. :-)
just like you can pull up pix of broken polymer lowers i can pull up pix of broken forged ones. its not that hard to do.
did you read about the one in YOUR picture? the guy put a bad buffer tube on it, mismatched buffers and got key strikes in the back where he bottomed it out... he BEAT IT INTO..... it was an UPPER PROBLEM not the fault of the lower... & yet even when admitting it was HIS FAULT... they still sent him a new one. as a note: he also received impact marks in his Aluminum lowers when he ran this combo.
but if you want to go that route then read this thread: Plum crazy composite lower...is it reliable - Page 2
or maybe this one...
Plum Crazy Lowers - Page 6 - Colorado AR-15 Shooters Club Discussion Forums
and heres a forged lower to show it can happen there too.
no one said these are perfect or the only choice in the world, but the likely hood of a regular shooter buying one of these and "wearing them out" is not too high.
im not sure how much more torture testing past the 50BMG upper you could ask out of one of these.
then theres that "free replacement" thing that ive never had offered to me on a forged one.. or even a billet one.
there are things to not like about them: my main complaint on the polymer lowers is the trigger guard area... its too tight & too square.
seriously though bud.. im not exactly a noob in this hobby. im into actually BUILDING guns, not just buying parts & put them together.
look at some of my builds.. ive done 0%, 30%, 60% & dozens of 80% AR's... put out a free plate design several years ago so that people who dont have a mill could do these with a drill press.
that replacement policy is great--i am sure many will get to find out how good their service is. hopefully before they change hands --again.
no i am not convinced at all. matter of fact the more i look at these the less i like them.
tell ya what --send one of these to my FFL and then we'll see. i'll get that 240lb 20 year old teenager a couple field days shooting one of them around the farm and if he don't fuck it up --i'll agree.
and we need to get some side bets going --any takers?
if everyone is so sure these things are great --this should be no-problem---
Yup real steel, is the real deal!!! And bellson, I have many more Mausers to go along with the one I got from you!!!! With maybe 2 more on the way soon, that will make #10+#11. I'm loving the one I got from you by the way, just wish the weather would turn nice again so I can finish getting it broken in. It went from 83 to <20-30 degrees with 30+mph winds for the last 8 days!!!!! And with no improvement in sight till next week, Sucks!!!! You were right about the 170 something gr projectiles, much better in that gun, the 150's hang up on the feed ramp, to short and they don't shoot as well. Still may convert it to 06 though, plenty of room in the mag and they feed much better, odviously I didn't chamber them, but they picked up nicer and I may go that route when all is said and done. Don't have an 06 Mauser yet, but maybe soon with that one, if I can find someone I trust to ream it. I haven't been able to shoot it sense putting the Millett scope on it yet. DOWWWWW!! I'm going to get a Zestava from Century in eaither 223 or 270, can't decide which yet, I'd like both to tell ya the truth, we'll see what happens bucks wise. Much rather have 2 of those compaired to a plastic Glock for the same price, just me. Keep it real, keep it steel!!!
no more than these cost you can pay for your own. :-) i just got 2 more yesterday... so ive got over a dozen of these to compare to all my regular AR's & the ones we did from blocks..
just for you though here is a 1,000 round test in 5.56 of these:
The Glock of AR-15s - forum.Saiga-12.com
ya gotta remember not everything is for everybody. lots of people swear up and down that Glocks are no good. others dont like M1 carbines.. and many more wont touch an AK.... theres also a large crowd that are sure that blackrifles of any type are junk.
for me a gun is what you make of it.
if your coming in my house door that Saiga12 of mine is gonna do the job just fine.
but if your over at my neighbors house an AK is great.
if your at my other neighbors house? PKM is perfect.
theres a use and a place for everything, including plastic guns.
when will i see a grunt doing a combat roll with one, or a bunch of boots doing butt-strokes and bayonet drills? now that would be interesting.
i would like to see a rifle company of boots outfitted with these plastic lowers. in seconds of handing the rifles out one is probably going to get broke---
they may be OK for some very light use. no fricking way these are as strong as a forging.
yep ONE may have made 1,000 rounds while being treated like a baby--where tens of thousands of the forgings made 50K+ rounds after being treated like a red-headed step child!
sure many are going to buy these simple for the "disposable" aspect and i am sure they have their reasons.
but i seriously doubt anybody is buying plastic lowers for durability.
i get it. these wont be for you. still doesnt mean they arent OK. i dont like fat women..... doesnt mean they are bad.... just not for me.
but seriously? do you really think people dont shoot these? or shoot these a LOT?
or that only 1 has had a test? ive shot thousands of rounds thru these things, but dont always write it down and make a big test out of it. we shoot because we like to shoot or blow shit up....
honestly cant tell you how many rounds of 5.45x39 have been thru my favorite AR on one of these lowers but its more than a couple of spam cans for sure.
but your right i dont use them to open doors with the buttstock & wouldnt with an Aluminum one either.
come on! ive broken AR's that were billet, let alone regular forged. when i need to open a door i use the KNOB or a sledgehammer.
just wait till you see the new PLASTIC springs that are coming out. :-)
why bother if it ain't as strong as the real thing? gee-wizz is saving $50 that big of a deal?
besides who knows how long these things will last? i have seen plastic oil cans bust from just setting in the sun for a few days--
maybe i should start making some plastic lowers, melt down some plastic bottles and melly-vannalli CD's!
what will i call this new high-tech creation?
maybe "P"hit-sandwich!!!--LOL one of those things you don't have to taste to know you don't want any!
and when did you break a billet? when did you break a forging? i want to know WHOs forgings and billets you managed to break?
i have been shooting these things for real since 1981 and i have only seen a boot break ONE and that was his fault--
so give me some names and dates or i am gonna call BS on that one---
I have built cast Tannery 80%'s and forged 0% DSA to audibike and TM 80% after 15 years I have never broken a casting or forged. oh with hand tools
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iOS 6 was the first full iOS update offered over-the-air (OTA) using Apple's bit-differential, update-in-place iCloud system. That should make for faster, more convenient updates for current devices, and easier migrations to new devices. But the thing is, when pushing around billions of bits, things can and will go wrong. Storage has errors, power and connectivity fails at the worst times possible, and files get corrupted.
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- Right click your device name in the navigation bar and choose Back Up as well.
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I love iCloud backup and certainly recommend it to all my friends. The one gotcha I experienced is that if you happen to be traveling, or have a vacation cabin, etc... and use one of those Verizon or AT&T hotspot devices, the iPhone / iPad thinks it is real WiFi. So... yup, you guessed it. If you have several iDevices connected with iCloud backup set, you clobber your hotspot data allocation at night while they all do a backup, and it never crosses your mind how you could possibly be churning through all that data! Ok, who was up in the middle of the night streaming video?
It's a nice backup (iCloud), but doesn't allow for much control. Also, people often confuse backup and archival.
Backup is generally a more automated thing to catch snapshots in time (the main iCloud deficiency in this regard is lack of control over the restore and what to restore, at least as far as I can see).
Archival is when you take a controlled snapshot or take data from independent sources and apps to store away until you decide to get rid of it.
IMO, both are critical. Never depend on backup alone, as there are almost always gotcha's involved. The automation might break or mess up; the backup destination could be destroyed or lost/stolen; etc. (I worked IS/IT as a consultant and in a Fortune 100 for years... I could tell you tons of horror stories where very good backups were in place, but where archival and proper testing wasn't implemented.)
Great article! I hadn't realized I could JUST backup with iTunes (right-click), so I had been only using iCloud, as I didn't want any sort of sync going on. (Note: I unchecked any kind of sync on ALL the tabs, as well as the main sync on the summary page. It might be good to clarify this in the article).
The other problem, is how to restore just the data for one app, rather than the whole device. I'm assuming that is what PhoneView helps with, so I might want to look into that at some point. The one big problem with iCloud at this point is having zero control. Heck, who even knows what it might be doing.... if the data somehow got mucked up or deleted in one place, iCloud might be efficiently and effectively deleting and mucking up that data everywhere!
The other thing I've been doing is keeping data from apps which allow it, separately archived. This is actually a feature I look for when purchasing an app. Does it allow me to save the data file up to Dropbox or transfer it via WiFi to my computer? Or, for core apps like Calendar and Contacts, I actually export them on my desktop once a month (with a reminder set in ToDo). I've had friends tell me about seeing a duplicate, deleting it, and losing that contact (which iCloud efficiently gets rid of everywhere). That kind of data is too important not to have redundancy which can so easily be destroyed (in an automated fashion, at that).
Quality post. These kind of reminders are really helpful to me. Just did my 3 backups. Thank you.
I like the iCloud backup, but my iPhone alone takes up all of the free 5GB, and then fails saying not enough storage. This has been happening since I started using Spotify, and syncing music to my iphone... Any way to selectively back up the data of some apps, and not others? I think I saw a previous post on that... I've gotta check...
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Good news, friends with X Factor bennies. Our favorite troop of bros are about to become next-level famous. That's right, Simon Cowell has signed Emblem3 to his label, Syco Music — which he co-owns with Sony — after their hugely successful run on everyone's favorite music competition.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Wesley Stromberg, Keaton Stromberg and their kinda-sorta brother, Drew Chadwick, are already hard at work on their debut album, which is slated to be released sometime in 2013. One more reason this is going to be the best year ever!
"They have a great attitude, are fun, and genuinely love music," Simon says. "They deserve this and I'm really pleased we are continuing working together." The band boys are stoked too — Wes adds that he wants Emblem3 to create "empowering tunes" that will "impact other people in a positive way and maybe help brighten things up a bit."
Shouldn't be too hard, considering that these dudes are working with One Direction lyricists Carl Falk and Rami Yacoub, Good Charlotte's Benji and Joel Madden, The Cardigans' Peter Svensson and Kool Kojak, as well as The X Factor's vocal coach Savan Kotecha — in other words, the best of the best.
"I was so impressed by the talent and energy of the Emblem3 boys that I had to work with them," Kotecha says. "I'm looking forward to helping them fulfil their creative vision and working with the amazing Syco and Columbia team who, in my opinion, are the best in the business."
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Peter O'Brien looks like a big league baseball player.
The Charleston RiverDogs catcher and one of the top prospects in the New York Yankees farm system has a 6-foot-4-inch frame and weighs a strong 225 pounds. He even has the trademark of every seasoned catcher – the wrist band tan line.
"I really try not to focus on that," he said about the pressure of being highly touted. "The only thing you can really do is go out and play well, and the rest will take care of itself."
O'Brien slipped through the MLB Draft last year before being selected by the Yankees with the 89th overall pick. Early reports from New York indicated he signed for about $500k.
Part of the reason for the All-ACC first teamer from the University of Miami dropping to the second round of the First-Year-Player-Draft was a wrist injury. He missed about 20 games with the Hurricanes and with any wrist injury to power hitters, his ability to swing for the fences became in jeopardy.
After hitting 10 home runs and collecting 32 RBI last year with the Staten Island Yankees, he's hoping the Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park won't be able to contain his hitting.
"I'm just excited to play a full season," O'Brien, 22, said. "Charleston seems like a great town, so that'll make it easier."
While O'Brien has plenty to prove to the Yankees front office, every member of a minor league roster faces the same pressure. Even first-year manager Al Pedrique, who served as interim manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2004, has to meet his own and his bosses' expectations.
"I would like to definitely get back to the bigs," Pedrique admitted, and added he'd be happy with any role on a MLB team. "I know there are some things I need to work on. I'm open minded."
Pedrique is the fifth RiverDogs manager in as many years. He has professional playing experience in the late 1970s with the New York Mets. It took him nine years to advance through the minor league ranks before getting promoted to the top as a shortstop.
He said he will emphasize patience, fundamentals and playing the game "the right way." The RiverDogs' season opener is Thursday in Greenville, and their home opener will be April 11 against Augusta. First pitch is scheduled for 7 p.m.
"I'm not trying to bring the big leagues to them too much," Pedrique said, who has managing and playing experience in baseball's top level. "That's the one thing I need to be careful with is not to put so much emphasis on winning, winning, winning because my job right now is to help them play the game the right way and how to get to the point to understand how to win games."
He critiqued O'Brien noting he has room to improve on his defense. Infielder Gregory Bird, a former fifth round draft pick in 2011, was praised for his maturity, smart hitting and "great" defense. Outfielder Yeicok Calderon has "a lot of power" and enjoyed a "great spring," according to Pedrique. And he sees potential in Cesar Vargas, a right-handed pitcher who was promoted to the RiverDogs late last year.
"No matter what, you have a uniform on," Pedrique said he tells his players about the minor league process. "Anyone can sit in the stands that day and watch you. If you open somebody's eyes, that might be your shot."
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Information About The Purple People Eater
The Purple People Eater is a novelty song that was released and heard on the radio in 1958. It was very popular and reached number one on the Billboard Charts. a tool that measures the sales of records.
The song was written by Shelby "Sheb" Wooley, a character actor that appeared in many famous movies of the Western genre, as well as having a recurring role on the television series "Rawhide" which ran on CBS Television from 1959 - 1965.
In the 1940s, Wooley took an interest in his wife's young cousin, Roger Miller, and taught him guitar. Miller grew up to have some success as a recording star as well.
Embarking on his own recording career, Wooley wrote and recorded "The Purple People Eater", which tells the story of a strange looking creature from space, who comes to Earth because he wants to be in a rock and roll band.
The song caught the imagination of radio listeners, who drew pictures of the "Purple People Eater" and sent them in to radio stations as part of local promotions.
In the song, the "voice" of the Purple People Eater is a normal singing voice that was sped up on a tape recorder to be re-recorded. This technique was taken from an earlier 1958 song "The Witch Doctor" by Ross Bagdasarian. Bagdasarian has even more success in the future with the same technique, creating and recording songs by an imaginary group 'Alvin and the Chipmunks'.
Wooley also wrote the theme song for the long running television program 'Hee Haw'.
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26 Comments
Alpha Skua, USA
7 May 2015 at 11:11pm
By Sheb Wooly
James, United States
23 April 2015 at 3:18pm
Love it
Chloe, Canada
4 November 2014 at 11:53pm
Love it!!
Chloe Gioia, Canada
8 September 2014 at 11:09pm
I'm so glad this is a BusSong!
amani watson, United States
26 September 2013 at 9:01pm
It needs water chickens
Allison, United States
28 May 2012 at 7:16pm
We just got back from vacation and we were trying to remember the words to this song when we were driving home! So glad we have them now! Thanks!
Lily Davis, United States
26 April 2012 at 6:44pm
You r wrong ch&unknown i sung this & i am 8 13 times 13=16. Bye.
Ch, United States
24 October 2011 at 11:37pm
thats awsome!
Unknown, United States
14 May 2011 at 3:04pm
we always use this in my school's Halloween show!
Unknown, United States
14 May 2011 at 3:01pm
Amber, United States
19 February 2011 at 11:54pm
When my friends and I were young w eused to belt this out on the bus.
Isa, United States
16 December 2010 at 9:13pm
That thing would be dead because there arn`t any purple people to eat. But this song is very funny and i love the video! :)
Changpu, China
10 December 2010 at 2:50pm
i purple cats does that count?
Deb, United States
7 November 2010 at 3:26am
Haven't heard this in a very long time. It still puts a smile on my face.
Krystal, Australia
10 October 2010 at 11:46pm
i like the song as well my mum calls me the purple people eater because i dyed my hair purple i had never heard of it intill she started doing that
Barbara, Magna, Utah
28 September 2010 at 11:59pm
Cute video-clip but wasn't it a one-eyed, one-horned purple people-eater?
Ellen, Aust, Vic
5 June 2010 at 1:59am
first time i heard this song when i was little i thought it ate purple people.....wow
Makaylak, Old Saybrook Conecticut
12 March 2010 at 12:54am
Purple People!? are u krazy?!?
Zoolak, Treeland, Mars
3 May 2009 at 9:41pm
Well, im a purple people eater, and this song is offending! sheez, what you humans will do to get famous! >.<
Kenzie, Spiceland
7 March 2009 at 1:38pm
I love this song it is awesome!


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Comparing Options
The following fictitious story, about twin brothers Harry and Richard, shows the differences between the High-36 and CSB/REDUX retirement plans, the potential worth of the Career Status Bonus and insight of the lifetime value of the two retirement options. How this story plays out for you depends upon your personal situation and assumptions about your career and the economy. A planning calculator is available on this website for you to make some comparisons of your own.
In August 1986, Harry and Richard, twenty-year old twins, enlisted in the military. As Harry and Richard had always done everything together, they continued to do so by being promoted with identical dates for their entire career. But, one event is about to make their careers and futures different.
In 2001, Harry and Richard face a choice. They are nearing their 15th year of service and may retain the High-36 retirement plan or they may take a $30,000 Career Status Bonus and the REDUX retirement plan.
Harry chose High-36 and Richard chose the single lump sum CSB/REDUX option. Immediately, their finances changed. Richard now had $30,000 more in cash. This money was his to spend as he wished -- a down payment on a house, college tuition for the kids, a new car, or invest for use later.
This $30,000 is taxable unless placed into the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) or other qualified investment. Under current rules, Richard may place a maximum of $10,500 in a TSP account. Taxes would not be paid on this $10,500 nor its earnings until withdrawal. This is a very positive feature that Richard would be well-advised to consider. To simplify this story, however, Richard decided not to invest in the TSP, but instead to pay tax on the entire amount now and invest the entire after-tax balance in a mutual fund earning 8% annually. As the $30,000 is taxable income and Richard is in the 28% tax bracket, he will pay $8,400 in taxes on this bonus leaving $21,600 to invest.
In 2006, Harry and Richard retire with 20 years of service. Since they both had an average (High 36-month) base pay of $3,000 per month, Harry, under High-36, gets 50% or $1,500 per month, and Richard, under REDUX, gets 40% or $1,200. Although Harry has a larger retirement check than Richard, Richard has been building up the savings on his $21,600 of Career Status Bonus for the past five years -- it is now worth $28,600 (after paying taxes on its earnings).
(Note: Retirement income is generally taxable. Tax implications on the retirement income are not reflected in this story.)
Each year during their retirement, Harry and Richard will receive cost of living adjustments (COLA) based upon the consumer price index (CPI) which measures inflation. Harry's High-36 COLA is the full CPI (3.5% each year in our story) so Harry gets a 3.5% raise. Richard, however, gets a 2.5% raise because COLAs under the REDUX system are equal to CPI minus 1%. But, Richard's Career Status Bonus is still growing in his mutual fund.
This story continues the same way until 2028 as they near their 62nd birthday. Up to this point, Harry has received nearly $582,000 in retirement income and his current monthly amount is now about $3,100. Richard has collected $415,000 total and now gets a bit more than $2,000 each month. But, Richard is still saving that Career Status Bonus -- it's now worth $98,000. Counting both the mutual fund value and what he's collected in retirement, selecting the CSB/REDUX plan netted him $513,600 -- close, but $68,300 less than what Harry has received.
Their 62nd birthday also brings retirement adjustment for Richard. Richard's retirement pay is recomputed as if he had been under High-36 all these years. This means that he will now get 50% of his original base pay plus full 3.5% COLAs added to it for his past retirement years. So, for one year, Harry and Richard receive the exact same retirement pay -- about $3,200 per month. This is for only one year because the following year, Harry gets his 3.5% COLA and Richard gets his 2.5% COLA, but it's added to his newly adjusted retirement salary of $3,200. This "catch-up" adjustment impacts Richard's total accumulation and by the end of the year, his total is within $63,000 of Harry's total accumulation. The following year Richard's total retirement accumulation and the balance of his mutual fund begins to surpass Harry's total accumulation.
By now some people would have spent some or all of the money that Richard put in the mutual fund on vacations, cars, or to augment their retirement income, but Richard wants to pass the money to his heirs and keeps saving. When they are seventy-five, Harry has received over $1,260,000 in retirement income; his current monthly amount is $5,000. Richard has collected over $1,049,000 in retirement income and now earns $4,400 each month. But, Richard is still saving that Career Status Bonus -- it's worth over $214,600. Counting both the mutual fund value and what he's collected in retirement, selecting the CSB/REDUX retirement option is worth $1,264,000, surpassing Harry's total amount by $4,000. From this point forward, Richard will continue to outpace Harry's total accumulation.
The following chart summarizes Harry and Richard's story. Remember that this is an example that shows what the differences between the CSB/REDUX and High-36 options. These results are dependent upon the assumptions built into the story and the choices that Richard made.
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Time of Retirement
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End of First Retirement Year
Retirement pay for the year
Age 61
Age 62 -- REDUX Readjustment
Cumulative retired pay
Age 75
Now, on the other hand, if Richard had taken REDUX and used his CSB to buy that new car in 2001, his cumulative would be over $200,000 less than what his brother has received at age 75. And if his mutual fund earned less than 8%, well ???
Many individual differences --- age, salary, years of service at retirement, spending and saving habits --- will and should influence your decision and will make your story with a fictitious twin different than Harry and Richard's. A calculator that allows you to enter your personal situation into it is available at this website so you may do some comparison of options for yourself.
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Valentines Day is fast approaching, and the pressure is on to make plans. You could always join the masses at the theater for the latest Nicholas Sparks' movie, "Safe Haven" or the highly anticipated young adult book adaptation "Beautiful Creatures", both of which will be released on Thursday. Or you can bypass the masses and view some iconic movies you may not have seen before in the comfort of your own home.
Whether you are spending the evening with a significant other or enjoying the holiday with friends, here are some of my all time favorite romantic-comedies that are sure to be a hit with the loved ones in your life.
"Sleepless In Seattle": Staring Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan (in my opinion one of the one of the most perfect movie couples ever), "Sleepless In Seattle" is a story of two people who find each other through a radio talk show and a son's interference, that eventually lead them to the top of the Empire State Building on Valentine's Day.
"Serendipity": This is a beautiful story about a couple who meets one evening in New York city, but only exchange first names, and how they find their way back to one another. "Serendipity" features a truly unique plot, heartfelt moments, and characters you will be rooting for.
"Can't Buy Me Love": This is an iconic eighties movie, one of which that was referenced in the hit movie, "Easy A", that features a young Patrick Dempsey who eventually rides off a lawn mower with the girl of his dreams. Along the way Ronald (Dempsey) learns lesson what genuine relationships are and that while money may be able to buy you popularity, it can't buy you love.
"Say Anything": "Say Anything" is another eighties movie that was referenced in "Easy A", where John Cusack holds up a boom box outside his ex-girlfriends window in hopes of winning her back. This is a film with several cute moments, which illustrates two polar opposite personalities finding their way together.
"Sixteen Candles": Staring Molly Ringwald, "Sixteen Candles" depicts the classic high school experience, where she encounters annoying freshman, deals with a slightly dysfunctional family that forgets her birthday, and spends her time pining for the most popular guy in school. This is a classic film I believe everyone needs to see at least once that is both humorous and heartwarming, with a beautiful ending.
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