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BSU Catalog Home | Technological Studies Program | All-University Courses and Descriptions
Check with department for semester when these courses are offered. Read each course description for prerequisites.
1210 MATERIALS AND PROCESSES - FORMING (4 credits) An overview of forming processes used in manufacturing such as welding, casting, spraying, compacting, bending, laminating, extruding, rolling, shaping, fastening, and drawing. Also included are the primary materials which are formed in the manufacturing environment and the application of the forming processes to contemporary industry.
1220 MATERIALS AND PROCESSES - SEPARATING (4 credits) A comprehensive study of the separating processes which occur in manufacturing production. Traditional and non-traditional processes are introduced, along with the primary materials which are utilized in the separation processes.
1310 MECHANICAL POWER (2 credits) An introduction to the general field of power. Theory and operation of the power source converters and a study of the sources themselves. Covers the sun, fuels, external combustion, turbojet, diesel and gas turbine operation.
1350 ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY (4 credits) Fundamental principles of electricity and electronics. Various topics are explored including basic circuits, transformers and motors.
1410 COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (3 credits) Students will gain an understanding and experience the skills necessary for effective management of communication in a virtual office environment.
1460 TECHNICAL GRAPHICS (3 credits) An introduction to the principles and practices of technical drawing. The course provides a working familiarity with computer-aided design and drafting through the study of multi-view and pictorial drawing systems.
1501 TECHNICAL FOUNDATIONS I (4 credits) Exploratory introduction to the processes and techniques used to create images for the design industry. Explores basic photography techniques, the ideation process along with pictorial and illustrative techniques. Students also gain experience in the critical thinking process used to analyze imagery.
1502 TECHNICAL FOUNDATIONS II (4 credits) Exploratory introduction to the computer-related processes and techniques used to create 2-D images and layouts for the design industry. Computer-related applications used allow students to create and edit bitmap and metafile graphic images along with electronic publishing documents. Students also gain a basic understanding and experience in preparing and managing the image files for electronic and print output. Prerequisite: IT 1501 or consent of instructor.
1600 MODELING COMMUNICATIONS (3 credits) An introduction to three-dimensional communication techniques. Attention to detail, design and technical problem solving will be applied in each assignment.
2100 IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY (2 credits) Defines technology and examines the relationship between technology, human civilization, and other disciplines. Course includes a focus on the related social, cultural, environmental and economic impacts of technology and encourages students to understand the development of technology from the earliest civilizations to implications for the 21st Century. This course is designed primarily for the liberal education program. Liberal Education Goal Areas 5 & 9
2110 MANUFACTURING MATERIALS AND PROCESSES (3 credits) Survey of the raw materials commonly used in manufacturing and the processes used to create products from them. Processes include separating, forming, joining, treating, finishing, and assembly.
2210 ADVANCED FABRICATION TECHNOLOGY (3 credits) Welding techniques with gas, arc, MIG, TIG, applied to a variety of metals. Other joining processes of assemblies also applied. Prerequisite: IT 1210. (Might not be offered every year)
2250 CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY (2 credits) A broad study of the building and heavy construction industries. Emphasis is given to residential and light commercial applications of materials, methods, tools, equipment, structural systems and personnel. Prerequisite: IT 1220.
2310 SMALL GASOLINE ENGINES (3 credits) The theory and operation of small 2 cycle and 4 cycle engines. Laboratory exercises and rebuilding of components and engines. Prerequisite: IT 1310. (Might not be offered every year)
2370 AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY (3 credits) An introduction to the field of automation as found in the industrial environment. Concepts of CNC, CAM PLC's, vision systems, bar coding and robotics are explored.
2410 PHOTOGRAPHIC/ELECTRONIC IMAGING (3 credits) Advanced photographic and digital imaging techniques with special application to design and communication areas. Includes black and white, color, large format and digital processes. Prerequisite: DT major only, IT 1501, IT 1502, or consent of instructor.
2607 MODEL MOLDING, CASTING, AND FINISHING (4 credits) Principles and techniques of current technology in model molding, casting, and finishing, including the study of chemical characteristics, surface preparation, application procedures, environmental issues, and safety. Prerequisites: IT 1210, IT 1220, and IT 1600.
2608 COMPUTER-CONTROLLED MACHINING (3 credits) Introduction to computer-controlled machining operations. Emphasis on tools and materials as applied in a wide variety of manufacturing and modeling applications. Prerequisites: IT 1210, IT 1220, and IT 1460, or consent of instructor.
2640 MODEL LIGHTING AND CONTROLS (3 credits) Model lighting design and control, micro lamps, light emitting diodes, fiber optics, solid state logic, programmable controls, model making applications. Prerequisites: IT 1210, IT 1220, and IT 1600. (Might not be offered every year)
3100 PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (2 credits) An overview for professionals in the field of Technological Studies. Students research and report on such topics as historical and future technological developments, personality inventories, trade and professional organizations, professional publications, and personal professional development plans. Educational degree requirements and policies to meet development plans are also reviewed.
3217 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND METALLURGY (3 credits) A study of the five primary classifications of materials used in manufacturing. Basic physical and chemical aspects are reviewed, including fundamental laboratory testing processes, structure analysis and engineering requirements.
3218 ADVANCED MACHINING PROCESSES (3 credits) An extended study of the traditional and non-traditional machining processes used in manufacturing. Thread cutting, gear design and manufacture, precision grinding and application of CNC concepts are focused upon in this course. Prerequisites: IT 1220 or consent of instructor.
3240 CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS AND PRACTICES (3 credits) Comprehensive study of construction materials, their characteristics, applications and testing. Prerequisites: IT 1220 and IT 2250 or consent of instructor.
3250 PRINT READING AND PROJECT DOCUMENTATION (3 credits) An introductory course in production specifications and contract usage. Includes the study of materials, methods and labor functions as they relate to use of specifications, contracts and drawings. Prerequisite: IT 2250 or consent of instructor.
3260 PROJECT BIDDING AND ESTIMATING (3 credits) A foundational course in the analysis and determination of construction and manufacturing project costs. Bidding strategies and proposals; material, equipment and labor estimate; as well as overhead and profit are examined. Prerequisite: IT 3250 or consent of instructor.
3267 ENGINEERING COST ANALYSIS (3 credits) Introduction to the methods for determining costs related to developing and producing a product, for analyzing the present and future value of liquid and physical assets, and for analyzing the present and future value of a time series of payments. Other topics include basic accounting practices, cost estimating, and forecasting.
3310 FLUID POWER (3 credits) Theory of fluid power systems including both hydraulics and pneumatics. Study and systematic analysis of industrial systems, components, circuitry and the laws relating to pressure and force development. Prerequisite: IT 1310 or consent of instructor.
3330 INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION (3 credits) The integration of robotics and automated controls into manufacturing operations. Topics include planning for, specifying, and integrating sensors, actuators, part feeding devices, fixtures, material handling equipment, robotics, and programmable logic controllers in an automated environment, such as a work cell or an assembly line. Two hours lecture and two hours lab per week. Prerequisites: IT 2608, PHYS 2500, and STAT 2610.
3350 GENERAL POWER (3 credits) Theory and operating principles of internal combustion engines with over fifty cubic inches of displacement. Laboratory experiences include rebuilding procedures and related technical specifications and data. Prerequisite: IT 1310. (Might not be offered every year)
3380 EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES (4 credits) In this laboratory-based course, students experience a variety of emerging technologies and understand how such content could be delivered in a technology education program. Examples of emerging technologies include transportation, space colonization, and biotechnology. Prerequisites: IT 3850 and Junior status.
3410 DIGITAL VIDEO (3 credits) Introduction to digital video production, including preproduction planning, videography, lighting, non-linear editing, and post-production processes that support multimedia, Web, and training video production. Prerequisites: DT majors only, IT 1501, IT 1502, IT 2410, or consent of instructor.
3420 PUBLICATION PROCESSES I (4 credits) Study and practices in publication production includes copy preparation, electronic publishing and imaging used to create single and multi-color documents. Production practices in offset reproduction, photo conversion, finishing and basic planning. Prerequisites: DT major only, IT 2410, VSAR 2701, VSAR 2702, or consent of instructor.
3430 3-D COMPUTER IMAGING I (4 credits) Study of 3-D computer illustration construction methods to create environmental structures. Includes environmental/structure construction, material development, lighting, and walk-thru renderings. Also explores relationship of CAD and specialty 3-D software. Prerequisites: DT major only, IT 1460, IT 1502, or consent of instructor.
3460 PARAMETRIC 3-D MODELING (3 credits) Examines current topics, research, exploration, testing, and evaluation of computer-aided drafting and design programs for Windows computers. Prerequisite: IT 1460.
3499 EXHIBIT DESIGN (3 credits) Study of the major fields of emphasis in the exhibit design industry in a global market place. Creative design solutions are communicated in 2-D and 3-D and verbally. Prerequisites: DT majors only, VSAR 1101 or IT 1501 or consent of instructor.
3520 MULTIMEDIA PROCESSES I (4 credits) An overview of the Internet and Web design from the visual designer's perspective, with an emphasis on theories of interactivity, navigation, and structure. How proper preparation, research, goal formation, marketing, and customer relationships inform the production of Web graphics, pages, and sites using image editing programs and HTML editors. Prerequisites: DT major only, IT 2410, VSAR 2701, or consent of instructor.
3570 COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE (3 credits) Planning and design of commercial buildings and their structural systems, city and industrial planning, and landscaping. (Might not be offered every year)
3599 EXHIBIT PROCESSES I (4 credits) Study of the essential components of the exhibit industry as they relate to exhibit architecture. Prerequisites: DT major only, IT 1460, IT 3499, or consent of instructor.
3600 ARCHITECTURAL/ENGINEERING MODEL MAKING (4 credits) A study of architectural and engineering model making and their processes and materials. From technical drawings, a teamwork approach is used to complete a professional quality model. Prerequisites: IT 1600, IT 2607, IT 2608, or consent of instructor.
3606 ENGINEERING MODEL (4 credits) A study of engineering model making and its processes and materials. From technical drawings, an individual and teamwork approach is used to complete a professional quality model. Prerequisite: AAS degree in Industrial Model Making from Northwest Technical College or consent of instructor.
3607 ARCHITECTURAL MODEL (4 credits) A study of architectural model making and its processes and materials. From technical drawings, an individual and teamwork approach is used to complete a professional quality model. Prerequisite: AAS degree in Industrial Model Making from Northwest Technical College or consent of instructor.
3610 INDUSTRIAL PROTOTYPES (4 credits) Development of industrial quality prototypes from engineering or designer prints. Includes the selection of materials and processes for production feasibility and market testing prototypes. Prerequisites: IT 1600, IT 2607, IT 2608, or consent of instructor.
3700 PRODUCTION PLANNING AND CONTROL (3 credits) The concepts, tools, techniques, and quantitative methods used to plan for and control operations in the production of goods and services. Topics include, but are not limited to, traditional inventory management, just-in-time inventory, materials- and enterprise-resource planning, facilities location and layout, process strategies, aggregate planning, scheduling, maintenance and reliability, project management, and supply chain management.
3810/VSAR 3810 PORTFOLIO PREPARATION (1 credit) Student will gain an understanding of the preparation of a professional portfolio and interview techniques. Prerequisite: Junior or Senior status or consent of instructor.
3850 FOUNDATION OF TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION (2 credits) Survey of the history, philosophy, curriculum, and instructional practices of the technology education field. Emphasizes the goals and objectives of technology education programs in the K-12 public school system. Includes current issues, career options, professional organizations, and licensure requirements. Prerequisite: IT 1100
3857 METHODS OF TEACHING INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY/VOCATIONAL EDUCATION (4 credits) Approaches and delivery strategies for teaching technology education. Instructional technologies, records management, lesson planning and classroom practica. Prerequisites: IT 4850, Junior or Senior status, or consent of instructor.
3870 TECHNICAL SALES/PRESENTATIONS (2 credits) The philosophy and practice of consultative selling. The course stresses the methodology and planning, design and negotiation of technical sales. The course also covers the basics of designing technical proposals and presentations.
3877 ENGINEERING PROBLEM SOLVING (3 credits) Investigates the terminology, concepts, and analytical techniques essential to solving complex problems which occur in manufacturing.
3878 INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION STUDIES (2 credits) Study and visitations of the production industry, highlighting the expanding role of technical and managerial employees.
3879 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT (3 credits) The establishment of time standards essential to the decision making, forecasting, and process control efforts of manufacturing engineering groups and operations management.
3880 HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (2 credits) Examines the trends of training and organizational development. Includes skills and training, design and implementation.
3890 MATERIAL HANDLING AND PLANT LAYOUT (2 credits) Introduction to the scope, problems, management, concepts and organization of material handling and the relationships between plant layout and material handling.
3897 ERGONOMICS AND HUMAN FACTORS (3 credits) Students learn how to apply human-centered design principles to minimize the risk of harm while simultaneously facilitating the use of man-made artifacts. These principles may be applied in the work environment to design or improve work methods and work environments. They may also be used in the design of consumer goods. Includes a course project and lab activities. Two hours lecture and two hours lab per week. Prerequisites: IT 1460, IT 3879, and STAT 2610. (Might not be offered every year)
4006 TOPICS IN VIRTUAL MODELING (3 credits) Current topics in solid modeling, parametric 3-D modeling, or other topics used to construct virtual models. Prerequisites: IT 1460, IT 3460, and MODL 2250 (NTC course) or consent of instructor. May be repeated with a different subtitle.
4259 CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT (3 credits) An advanced study of construction project planning, contracting, and supervision. The management functions of a construction business environment are emphasized. Attention is given to the differences between construction management and construction contracting.
4260 COMPUTERIZED CONSTRUCTION ESTIMATING (3 credits) An exploration and study of computerized construction estimating methods, software, and approaches for estimating, planning, and documenting construction projects. Prerequisites: IT 3250 and IT 3260 or consent of instructor.
4340 INDUSTRIAL CONTROLS (4 credits) A study of industrial controls including electromechanical devices, programmable logic controllers and computer control. Prerequisite: IT 1350. (Might not be offered every year)
4349 PRINCIPLES OF TECHNOLOGY (3 credits) A laboratory based study of electrical, mechanical, thermal and optical systems which combines theory and practice to develop an understanding of technological systems based on mathematical and physical models.
4370 COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING (3 credits) Study of how to synchronize operations in an environment that incorporates automated production equipment, material handling systems, plant control systems, design engineering functions, production- and inventory-control systems, and various management functions. Prerequisites: IT 2110, IT 2608, IT 3330, and IT 3460.
4420 PUBLICATION PROCESSES II (4 credits) Advanced study of practice and skills in electronic publishing and color reproduction systems. Includes advanced electronic publishing techniques, color separation and color offset printing. Prerequisite: IT 3420, DT major only, or consent of instructor.
4430 3-D COMPUTER IMAGING II (4 credits) Advanced study of 3-D computer animation and special effects methods to create logo and character animations. Includes character construction, material development, lighting, and structure animation. Also includes storyboarding and production controls and management. Prerequisites: DT major or IT 3430 or consent of instructor.
4460 DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURABILITY (3 credits) A study of the tools, techniques, and guidelines used to design parts and products, while minimizing costs, facilitating manufacturing operations, maximizing quality and functionality, and supporting modern production management techniques. (Might not be offered every year)
4464 MACHINE ELEMENT DESIGN (3 credits) Application of mechanical principles, such as physics, stress analysis, motion analysis, mechanical power, fluid power, fastening and joining techniques, and electric motor selection/control to the design of components and mechanisms. Prerequisites: IT 3217, IT 3310, IT 3460, PHYS 2210, and PHYS 2220. (Might not be offered every year)
4465 MECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF PARAMETRIC 3D MODELS (3 credits) The use of a parametric 3D CAD package, in conjunction with either add-on or third-party software applications, to create virtual part and assembly models, and to analyze their physical performance using computer simulation techniques. Topics include shape optimization, and stress-, fatigue-, and kinematic-analysis, plus additional analysis techniques as planned by the instructor. Prerequisites: IT 3460 and IT 4464. (Might not be offered every year)
4520 MULTIMEDIA PROCESSES II (4 credits) Advanced applied study of multimedia production processes for interactive presentations. Production integrates 2-D and 3-D animation, digital imagery, digital video, and digital audio into multimedia presentations. Prerequisites: DT major only, IT 3410, IT 3520, or consent of instructor.
4537 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN (3 credits) Exploration of the industrial design process balancing form and function. Includes defining specific customer needs and the research, identification, testing, evaluation and implementation of effective solutions to technological problems. Also included is the development of a design proposal, written and graphic documentation, determining appropriate materials, processes and the ethical, environmental, social and economic impacts of design solutions. Prerequisites: IT 1210, IT 1220, IT 1410, and IT 1460, or consent of instructor.
4568 TOPICS IN COMPUTER IMAGING (to be subtitled) (2 credits) Current topics, research, exploration, testing and evaluation of computer-aided drafting and design programs and/or imaging programs for MS/DOS, Windows or Macintosh computers.
4599 EXHIBIT PROCESSES II (4 credits) Study of the essential components of the exhibit industry as they relate to environmental design. Prerequisites: DT majors only, IT 3430, IT 3599, or consent of instructor.
4600 MODEL CULMINATION (2 credits) Advanced student directed study and execution of an architectural/industrial model for clients. Emphasis on proper use of materials, processes and interpretation of client documentation. May be repeated for a total of 4 semester hours. Prerequisite: Senior status.
4610 CUTAWAYS AND DIORAMAS (2 credits) Application of various materials and techniques in the construction of cutaway models and dioramas, museum quality in scale size, colors and textures will be represented accurately. Prerequisites: IT 1600.
4699 ADVANCED EXHIBIT DESIGN (4 credits) Creative application of design processes to exhibit industry design problems rendered in appropriate 2-D and 3-D computer programs. Prerequisites: DT majors only, IT 4430, IT 4599, or consent of instructor.
4777 ADVANCED TOPICS IN QUALITY (3 credits) This course addresses the theory, implementation, and application of advanced quality topics. It may examine quality systems and quality topics such as Six Sigma, Malcolm Baldrige award, and other current quality topics. Prerequisite: IT 4878 or consent of instructor. (Might not be offered every year)
4810/VSAR 4810 PORTFOLIO PRESENTATION (1 credit) Final preparation and presentation of a well designed portfolio and resume in preparation for seeking internships and employment. Prerequisites: Senior status and IT/VSAR 3810 or consent of instructor.
4817 SENIOR PROJECT I (2 credits) Culminating experience in the Design Technology program. To be proposed in consultation with a Design Technology advisor and course supervisor. Must take IT 4818 the following semester if used as a substitute for internship. Prerequisite: Senior status or consent of instructor.
4818 SENIOR PROJECT II (2 credits) Culminating experience in the Design Technology program. To be proposed in consultation with a Design Technology advisor and course supervisor. Must take IT 4817 the previous semester if used as a substitute for internship. Prerequisites: IT 4817, Senior status, or consent of instructor.
4819 DESIGN MANAGEMENT (4 credits) Studies directed to review business structure and management issues within the design industry. Prerequisite: DT major only, Junior or Senior status, or consent of instructor. (Might not be offered every year)
4820 ENGINEERING CASE STUDY (3 credits) Study and development of a solution to a new or existing engineering-related problem. Students propose an appropriate case within their field of interest to be given approval by the instructor. Based on instructor approval, students submit a case study which documents the proposal, implementation strategy, and results of the proposal.
4830 FOUNDATIONS IN CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION (2 credits) Students will research learning theory and demonstrate basic instructional competencies unique to career & technical education, including philosophy, methods of teaching, and student assessment. Course also addresses the inclusion of teaching strategies in reading, reading comprehension and writing.
4837 EVALUATION IN CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION (2 credits) A study of testing and measurement techniques and applications in occupational programs. The construction of teacher-made performance test, written tests, rating scales and checklists is emphasized. Vendor and standardized are included. (Might not be offered every year)
4839 INDUSTRIAL/CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION STUDENT ORGANIZATION (2 credits) Acquaints students with the issues of planning and implementation of student organizations. Also includes student organizations at the secondary and post-secondary levels and their relationship to state and federal policy and legislation.
4847 METHODS OF TEACHING CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION (2 credits) Instructional methodology used in the implementation of occupationally and technically orientated curriculum.
4849 CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT IN CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION (2 credits) Managing the career and technical education learning classroom, including impact on effective teaching approaches, laboratory safety, material purchase and inventory, equipment purchase and maintenance, and program budgeting.
4850 PHILOSOPHY OF CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION (2 credits) A study of the history, philosophy, and practices of career and technical education. Includes a survey of curriculum characteristics, certification requirements, professional organizations, and career options.
4858 CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT IN TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, AND CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION (2 credits) The philosophy of curriculum and course construction. Gives special attention to the formulation of purposes, selection and sequence of activities and learner outcomes and assessment. Prerequisite: IT 4850 or consent of instructor.
4859 SPECIAL NEEDS IN CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION (2 credits) Objectives, materials, and methods of developing and modifying curriculum in the various vocational fields for students with special needs.
4860 MANAGEMENT IN INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION (4 credits) Managing the learning environment, budget, equipment and student projects in the technology education setting, Also covers safety considerations and investigates strategies for learning within the technological clusters and for accommodating special needs students. Prerequisites: IT 4850, IT 3857, IT 4858, or consent of instructor.
4870 PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT (3 credits) Practical experience in starting a manufacturing business, elements of entrepreneurship applied to designing, manufacturing and marketing a product. Prerequisites: All IT BS technical professional core courses or consent of instructor.
4877 INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE AND SAFETY (3 credits) A study of maintenance and safety management within industry. Preventive and maintenance, planning and scheduling of maintenance, OSHA and the development of safety awareness.
4878 QUALITY ASSURANCE (3 credits) The course teaches the theory and applications of statistical analysis, quality problem solving and implementation.
4879 SERVICE PROCESS DESIGN AND IMPROVEMENT (3 credits) The design and improvement of work processes in the service industries and in the service functions of manufacturing organizations. Topics include, but are not limited to, the tools and techniques required for designing, setting up, and managing service systems; improving service quality; the impacts of technology on service management; managing nonprofit service organizations; services strategies; and the positioning and marketing of services. Prerequisites: IT 3267, IT 3879, and IT 3897.
4880 TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (3 credits) An overview of the current quality control management techniques including process capability, action research and the international standards organization (ISO 9000). Prerequisite: IT 4878 or consent of instructor.
4887 CAREER DEVELOPMENT THEORY AND PRACTICE (2 credits) A course designed to acquaint professionals with the various phases of lifetime career development. Strategies are reviewed to provide a comprehensive understanding of career awareness and the role that it plays in the life of each individual and society. (Might not be offered every year)
4888 WORK/OCCUPATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF LEARNERS (2 credits) An investigation of the use of informal and formal techniques used in the design and implementation of occupational assessment with school systems. (Might not be offered every year)
4889 COORDINATION TECHNIQUES OF CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION (2 credits) The course involves the role of teacher-coordinators in the design and implementation of internships and other cooperative experimental learning methods.
4890 INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION AND LEADERSHIP (3 credits) A study of organizational structure and supervision. Course deals with the work of supervisor as leader, staff relations and the improvement of industrial operations.
4897 PROJECT MANAGEMENT (3 credits) The combination of people, systems and techniques required to coordinate the resources needed to complete a project according to established goals, standards and deadlines.
4898 SIMULATION OF INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES (3 credits) Application of computer-based, discrete event simulation to improve or design work processes in business and industry. Emphasizes building mathematical systems models of work processes to be analyzed and optimized using simulation software such as, but not limited to, Promodel or Arena. Two hours lecture and two hours computer lab per week. Prerequisites: IT 3879, IT 3890, PHYS 3400, and STAT 2610. (Might not be offered every year)
4899 DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS (3 credits) Planning, execution, and analysis of factorial-based industrial experiments. Topics include, but are not limited to, analysis of variance, fitting of regression models, two-level factorial designs, blocking strategies and confounding of variables, fractional factorial designs, response surface methods, nested and split-plot designs, three-level and mixed-level designs, and experiments with random factors. Prerequisites: PHYS 3400 and STAT 2610.
4910 DIRECTED INDEPENDENT STUDY (1-3 credits) Emphasis and semester hours may vary with field of emphasis. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
4920 DIRECTED GROUP STUDY (2 credits) When taken as a seminar, the following description applies: Critical analysis of current literature, research, and experimentation pertaining to selected decisions in the development and delivery of instruction by practitioners in training and development: (a) training program delivery, (b) technological strategies for non-school settings, (c) design and utilization of training facilities and workshop formats and delivery systems.
4970 INTERNSHIP: INDUSTRIAL, BUSINESS, AND/OR TEACHING (1-12 credits) Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Status.


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Americans for Prosperity-NH launches big TV ad buy, targets Shea-Porter, Kuster on ObamacareBy JOHN DiSTASO
Senior Political Reporter
February 23. 2014 9:57PM
MANCHESTER — The conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire today will launch a more than $500,000 television advertising effort focusing on Reps. Carol Shea-Porter and Ann Kuster's support for the Affordable Care Act.
The ads will be aired on statewide broadcast and cable television stations and follow AFP's expenditure of $1.1 million last month on advertising focusing on Kuster and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.
The new ads have what AFP calls "personal stories" of two Granite State women "who have lost their health insurance and hold Reps. Carol Shea-Porter and Ann Kuster responsible for their support of ObamaCare."
"These are real New Hampshire residents who have real stories about how ObamaCare has undercut their ability to keep high-quality health care and has instead left them with higher costs, less access to care and tremendous uncertainty of their future," said Greg Moore, AFP-NH state director.
"Unfortunately, these are stories that are shared by thousands of New Hampshire citizens, who were told they could keep their care, and then were left dealing with the reality of the 'Lie of the Year.' For many, that means higher prescription costs, losing access to their doctors and hospitals and being forced into poorly run ObamaCare exchanges."
Moore said Shea-Porter and Kuster "refuse to acknowledge that ObamaCare is a debacle and hurting our residents."
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OVB: Outside Vertical Bar
VRCB: Volatility Reduced Compression Bar
Core Position: $50,000,000
PowerShares DB Agriculture (DBA):
09/21/2012 Closing Price: 29.78
Intermediate Term Trend is bullish.
Current Position: FLAT
Current Downside Targets = 28.59 – 28.34
Projected Weekly Range: .72
Trading 185,000 Shares
- DBA is a comprehensive agricultural ETF. Holdings include fairly equally-weighted futures contracts in sugar #11, live cattle, corn, soybeans, cocoa, coffee, lean hogs, wheat, and cattle feeder.
- DBA experienced its worst single-week sell-off since May 2012. After the previous week closed at new yearly highs, last week's close was down 3.5%, largely due to bearish price action in the soybean and corn futures markets. The extreme volatility resulted in a rare technical pattern where a confirmation bar violates the previous bottom, immediately following a new high bar. This bearish pattern has led us to believe a correction will follow, stopping within the 28.59 – 28.34 price range. DBA has failed to establish a definitive direction since late July; for this reason we remain flat.
iPath DJ-UBS Grains (JJG):
09/21/2012 Closing Price: 60.32
Intermediate Term Trend is bullish.
Current Position: FLAT
Current Downside Targets = 56.94 – 55.80
Projected Weekly Range: 2.33
Trading 87,000 Shares
- JJG is concentrated in agricultural grain futures, holding 46% soybeans, 30% wheat and 24% corn.
- Our previous long position in JJG was profitably exited at 62.25, nearly two dollars higher than last week's close. Our tight trailing stops limit initial risk and maximize locked-in profits. JJG is currently in a short-term correction, one that we believe will not violate the 55 price point. Price action was clearly bearish, confirmed by Friday's close below the midrange, below the previous close and below the open. All trends are currently bullish and we rarely trade against the trend. This results in a higher percentage of profitable trades with smaller equity drawdowns. We will look for buy entries near our downside targets.
SPDR Gold Shares (GLD):
09/21/2012 Closing Price: 171.96
Intermediate Term Trend is bullish.
Current Position: LONG @ 158.81 on 08/21/2012; STOP @ 166.29 OR Weekly Close Below 170.06
Current Upside Target = 165.88 – 176.15: COVER 7,000 (20%)
Projected Weekly Range: 4.80
Trading 35,000 Shares; COVERED 3,500 (10%) @ 164.12, COVERED 7,000 (20%) @ 169.35
- Initial trade risk was $139,650 or .28%. Current trade risk is $0. Current trade profits are $414,540 or .83%.
- GLD's single holding is gold bullion.
- Our current GLD position increased equity last week while most other markets gave back profits to lower prices. Although upward acceleration slowed last week, price action was still bullish, never retracing to the previous week's midrange. The short-term trend reveals that the weekly range was very restricted until Friday, where a gap higher open violated the previous week's high. The first four days' range would have resulted in a VRCB, indicating buying pressure was beginning to be neutralized by selling pressure. We believe this wild upward move will slow down, yet prices will continue higher towards 176.15. Look to cover another 7000 shares at our upside target, locking in $121,380. If this week trades lower, look to exit the remaining 70% of our position at 166.29 or a weekly close below 170.06.


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The New Soundcraft Si Compact Digital Live Sound Mixer. Powerful. Intuitive. Flexible. Affordable.
With full DSP functionality built-in to a small-footprint chassis, the Si Compact provides up to 40 inputs to mix in 3 frame sizes, the smallest of which is also rack-mountable. Motorized faders with patented Soundcraft FaderGlow™ operate on two layers, but the main difference from similarly priced mixers is the provision of a full encoder set for all the functions on a channel, from input gain through EQ and dynamics to bus controls.
Drawing on its bigger brothers; Soundcraft's acclaimed Si Series, the new Si Compact packs powerful digital mixing facilities along with stunning Lexicon® effects into a trio of small footprint consoles available in 16, 24 or 32 mic/line input formats, with 4 stereo returns, the first, the Si Compact 24 is on show at PLASA, with pricing expected to be around £6000 UK list.
And for once, compact doesn't mean compromise. No layering of the audio controls makes operation fast and simple, and with 4 separate Lexicon FX processors with dedicated FX busses in addition to the main mixes, and BSS Graphic EQ for every bus, you'll never find yourself wishing you had more processing power.
Speaking of the launch, Andy Trott, Harman's Vice President and General Manager for Mixing, Microphones & Headphones said, "Whilst over the past two years we've expanded our digital range with high- and mid-range extensions to the Vista, OnAir, Vi and Si Series', we've been determined to drive our product portfolio down into the sub $10,000 price points. Our strategy has always been to integrate no-compromise audio quality together with innovative, feature-rich specifications and an easy-to-use-and-learn, highly intuitive user interface. Si Compact is the result of 18 months extremely focused and creative development and is particularly exciting as it's so unique; it brings together so many professional features and technologies from across Harman Professional brands into a highly specified but yet super compact mixing platform at an unbelievably low price point."
Legendary Soundcraft audio quality comes courtesy of EMMA Lite, the same DSP platform that has helped propel the larger Si Series to industry standard status and riders on events all around the world. Features like dedicated FX busses, 16 line outputs plus AES, an option card slot for MADI or other connectivity, a Global Mode for instant access to Pan, Gain and Filters, a colour touchscreen interface and FaderGlow™ equip Si Compact to easily handle a range of live sound mixing applications including bands, theatres and houses of worship.
Key Features
• Frames with 16, 24 or 32 mono inputs and 4 stereo channels to mix
• 14 mono aux busses
• 4 FX busses
• 4 Matrix busses
• LRC Mix busses
• 4 Stereo Lexicon Effects engines
• 4 Mute Groups
• 4 assignable insert send/returns (24 and 32 models)
• Harman HiQnet integration
Trott adds, "I'm confident that the user community will be delighted with the Si Compact and the wide choice we now provide with Soundcraft and Studer mixing consoles. We've now got the widest price-range of digital consoles in our history – that's got to be good for engineers and audio companies!"
For a personal demo and overview at PLASA please visit the Harman booth (number 1-E21) or the Harman press conference at 5pm on 12th September in the Marlborough Room in Earl's Court.


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Maine man in critical condition after Friday night crash in FarmingtonBY JOHN QUINN
Union Leader Correspondent
September 08. 2013 4:29PM
FARMINGTON – Police continue to investigate a crash which serious injured a motorcyclist along Route 11 Friday.
Police, firefighters and emergency personnel responded around 8 p.m. after a westbound Buel XB12 motorcycle, driven by Alden Shelley, 23, of Owl's Head Maine, and a Chevy Blazer driven by Thomas Roux, 54, of Farmington, collided near Cocheco Veterinary Hospital, according to Sgt. Michael McNeil.
McNeil said Shelley, who was not wearing a helmet, was airlifted from the scene to Maine Medical Center in Portland. He said Shelley was in critical condition as of Saturday night.
While her identity has not been released, McNeil said New Durham ambulance crews transported a female passenger to Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester for non-life threatening injuries. He added she was transported to the hospital as a precaution.
McNeil said Roux and his passenger escaped injuries.
"Everything is under investigation at this point," McNeil said, adding road conditions were normal, but investigators have not ruled out whether speed, alcohol or mechanical issues were involved.
McNeil said Roux agreed to have his blood tested and investigators are checking to see whether the motorcycle's lights were working.
Route 11 was closed for several hours as firefighters, police and members of Strafford County Technical Accident Reconstruction team worked at the scene.
McNeil said police from Middleton, Milton and New Durham responded to help local officers.
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Is the gender balance in the comics world tipping? Click through to read about the challenges and hopes shared by these women in the industry. (Los Angeles Times; DC Comics; Seth Kushner; Handout; Joe Alcorn ; Drew Forehand)Link
Sarah Oleksyk: "If you want older people, people of color and more women and girls to read comics, you need to write and publish comics that appeal to them first. It does take a long time, and it's hard to do in this field where there's a quick turnover, and if something doesn't immediately show profits, then it's 'too risky.'" (Credit: Oni Press; Photo by Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)Link
Hope Larson: "I am a feminist and have no doubts that sexism is real, and pervasive, but I'm tired of being asked so frequently about being a 'woman in comics' and so rarely about my work." (Atheneum Books; Macmillan)Link
Amanda Conner: "I do know one or two guys that do unbelievably beautiful, really busty superhero females, but by the same token they also do male characters with really nice packages. ... Power Girl is classic. She's become so identified with her boobs, and people are like, 'When you took over Power Girl, why didn't you shrink her boobs?' And I was like, 'Because then it would become an issue.' Everybody knows that Power Girl has big boobs. Let's acknowledge it, and let's move on to the story." (DC Comics)Link
Vera Brosgel: "My generation has had it amazingly good. The comics I grew up reading were Japanese comics, which are still super popular with girls. There was never any lack of comics for me to read that weren't superheroes, and the Internet was full of people that were just starting to do their own work. ... The industry has been kind of a boy's club for a long time, but if [women are] coming out of school, that's who's going to wind up making up the work force. It's just inevitable. So a few decades from now, it's gonna be pretty different." (First Second; Handout)Link
Lora Innes: "You go to comic conventions, and there are women everywhere, behind the tables making the art and telling the stories,and also reading. So even though it surely isn't balanced yet, it's come a long way. With things like the big boom that we're in right now in Hollywood with every Marvel comic that comes out being an insane blockbuster event, men and women are enjoying those movies pretty equally, and all of that is starting to change kind of what comics mean." (IDW; Drew Forehand)Link
Jessica Abel: "What we really need are more articles about why aren't there more people of color in comics. That's really a huge thing. There are a few, but not very many, and there need to be more. There needs to be more diverse voices. And that's the big scandal, I think, more than women in comics." (Pantheon; Seth Kushner)Link
Ann Nocenti: "I think that women do love comics, and a lot of women like superheroes, but perhaps there's something to the fact that the genre itself is an action genre. Big things have to happen, and conflicts have to be resolved, violently, with lots of action. That's the genre. That's the formula. It would be nice if comics could slow it down a little bit. You know, not all conflict has to be resolved with violence, but figure out more meandering ways to work in the form so that perhaps the appeal to women would widen." (Marvel; DC Comics; Marvel)Link
Faith Erin Hicks: "Most of the superhero comics written nowadays are written and drawn in a way that, at its very worst, is not pleasant to read as a female reader. Sometimes I'll look at these comics and think, "Have these guys ever seen a woman, like a real woman?" ... I feel like it is an issue, but it is only an issue within a small segment of the comics industry. If you look at all of comics, if you include Web comics or comics from book publishers, you'll see a lot of diversity there. (Faith Erin Hicks; Joe Alcorn)Link
Becky Cloonan: "Having more girls create is just going to create more stories for more people to enjoy. And not just for girls. What about the 50-plus crowd and senior citizens? Or really little kids? ... That's why it's so important to have more women, more people in general, more people of color and people of all ages getting into comics, reading them and then creating them. This is a medium that deserves to be made and to be read and to be enjoyed and celebrated." (Vertigo Comics; Dark Horse Comics; Seth Kushner; Becky Cloonan)Link
Heidi MacDonald: "There've always been few-and-far-between but very visibile women who were successful. But if you actually just look at what's happened in the last 10 years, with Web comics available and with people able to get their work out there without gatekeepers, there's so many amazing women, and they've being doing great work everywhere." (Vertigo; Handout; International Humor Advisory Council)Link
Bobbie Chase: "I have to change my perception, because the old-day wisdom was 'Oh, women just aren't interested. No matter what you do, you're not going to shove comic books down their throats to get them to be interested.' So it has changed, definitely." (DC Comics)Link
Selina Kyle's lacy red bra and its ample, curvy contents fill the first panel of "Catwoman" No. 1, published last year when DC Comics relaunched 52 of its most popular titles. By the last page, she's straddling Batman and spilling out of her leather suit once more.
Catwoman wasn't DC's only female superhero to make her "New 52" debut in lingerie. In "Red Hood and the Outlaws" No. 1, extraterrestrial princess Starfire strikes a Playboy-like pose, bursting out of her purple bikini as she propositions Red Hood. And Voodoo, a shape-shifting half-alien hybrid, spends half of her first issue stripping.
Comics blogs buzzed with debate, and critics cried sexism, pointing to the company's predominantly male creative staff. DC's rival Marvel Comics often faces similar criticism — the superhero comics genre historically has been a boys' club.
But a broader look at the world of comics and the women who work there reveals the industry is far more gender-balanced than the superhero fare suggests. Though women still make up a minority of creative talent at Marvel and DC, their influence is growing. And in comics at large, women are on even footing and gaining ground.
"Outside the world of Marvel and DC, women are just doing it, and it's awesome," said Heidi MacDonald, a comics journalist and former editor for Disney and DC Comics. "They're succeeding or failing on the content of their work."
Women dominate the pages of manga (comics created in Japan), their graphic novels fill the catalogs of small independent publishers, and their Web comics draw millions of eyeballs.
Sarah Oleksyk, whose first graphic novel, "Ivy," earned her two prestigious Eisner Award nominations, self-published her book in installments before small publisher Oni Press picked it up. Eisner winner Vera Brosgol's graphic novel "Anya's Ghost" was published by First Second. Both novels are coming-of-age stories — Ivy is a teenager who runs away from home and Anya a Russian immigrant who struggles to fit in at her high school.
"Teenage boys aren't the only people with money, and unfortunately I think the mainstream comics juggernaut has just been focusing on this little section of readership for a long time," Oleksyk said. "There's this gigantic range of stories being told in indie comics — biographies, nonfiction, every sort of thing. So if you don't want to read something about crime-fighting superheroes, you have 10,000 other subjects to choose, and most of those are independently published."
Young female comics creators are coming up through the Internet, unhindered by the tastemakers and gatekeepers that guarded comics 30 years ago. Faith Erin Hicks, turned off by mainstream superhero comics, created a strip called "The Adventures of Superhero Girl" about an otherwise ordinary young woman who uses her super-strength to fight crime. The cartoon was printed in the free Halifax, Canada, newspaper the Coast, but it was online that Hicks amassed her devoted following.
Lora Innes began "The Dreamer" — about a girl whose dreams take her back to the American Revolution — as a Web comic, taking to MySpace to invite teenyboppers and Revolutionary War enthusiast groups to read the comic online. Now, "The Dreamer" is published by IDW, and Innes continues to attract readers who otherwise might not have set foot in a comics shop.
Industry veterans welcome the influx of female talent and are happy to bid farewell to the days of being grossly outnumbered by men at comic conventions.
"I look at my classes, and it's not uncommon that there are a few more women than men," said Jessica Abel, author of the graphic novel "La Perdida." Abel has taught undergraduate cartooning courses at the School of Visual Arts in New York. "It's also not uncommon that they're the best students in class."
MacDonald, the Eisner-nominated comics journalist and editor of comics blog The Beat, points to the stark contrast between today's comics industry and that of the 1980s and '90s, when she helped start Friends of Lulu, a nonprofit promoting female readership and participation in comics. The group ceased operating last year.
"I think part of the reason why it faded away is that people were getting their own gigs," MacDonald said. "The reason for the organization kind of dried up. There was a lot more opportunity, and there wasn't so much need for it."
MacDonald points to the success of cartoonists such as MacArthur grant recipient Alison Bechdel, whose graphic memoir "Fun Home" was named the best book of 2006 by Time magazine, and "Hark! A Vagrant" author Kate Beaton, who started by publishing her cartoons online and now draws some of the longest book-signing lines at comic conventions.
MacDonald, Abel, Oleksyk and others are quick to point out that the frequently spotlighted superhero genre is just a tide pool in an ocean of work — a tide pool that has somehow managed to delay the sea change undergone by the rest of the industry.
"They consistently make editorial decisions that seem designed to alienate women," Abel said. "So it's self-reinforcing. If you're constantly straight-arming women, women aren't going to read them. If they don't read them, they don't grow up imagining them. If they don't grow up imagining them, they're not going to make them."
Though she disagrees with the practice, MacDonald says she understands why the so-called Big Two cater so heavily to teenage boys and men.
"They're just terrified of getting the girl cooties on there and losing their audience," she said. "Marvel and DC, they have a different goal, a different corporate mandate. Certainly for Marvel, they are absolutely part of Disney's great master plan to have more boy readers…. For DC, as part of the corporate structure, that is more where they fit in."
But even in the superhero world, new artists and more women are being brought in, partly in response to fan concerns.
"It's definitely been a push," said Bobbie Chase, editorial director for DC. "We're pursuing people all the time who could be new voices for comic books, but it's still going to be a predominantly male industry. I don't think that has to change, but we can certainly make a much better balance."
Chase doesn't apologize for unrealistically sexy portrayals of DC's heroines, but she emphasizes context.
"You're doing idealized, muscled characters, so obviously they don't look realistic, and they're in costume," Chase said, noting that the real measure of progress is in the personalities of such characters as Wonder Woman, Batgirl and Catwoman. "They're not cheesecakey women books. They're strong female characters."
Chase points out that 25% of the editorial staff is women. Numbers for the creative staff were not available, but she said that more women are joining the New 52 roster in the coming months.
One of those women is Ann Nocenti, a veteran comics writer recently recruited to take over "Catwoman."
"I think they reached out to me partly for that reason … as an effort to bring female perspective into comics," Nocenti said.
But toning down Catwoman's sexuality is not part of her plan, she said.
"She puts on a skintight leather black cat suit with one zipper," Nocenti said. "Do you know anyone who dresses like that? If you did, you would assume that they were loving their sexuality. … I think there should always be intentionality to the sex in a character."
It's a sentiment shared by Becky Cloonan, a young comics creator who has distinguished herself with an edgy artistic style.
"I think about character a lot," said Cloonan. "I'll sit down and sketch for pages and pages until I get just the right face and body type…. All women have different bodies, and it's really fun to try to match that with a character."
Her work — for Marvel, Vertigo, Tokyopop and Dark Horse as well as self-published titles — falls on both sides of the divide between indie and superhero comics. Cloonan stresses the importance of growing a diverse readership to make earning a living in comics feasible for more people.
She also celebrates how far women have come. When she began reading comics as a child, she said she could count on her fingers the number of female-created titles on comic shop shelves.
"You can definitely see a change in the people creating, and that's going to show a change in the readership," she said. "I think more girls should be involved in doing superheroes, but I think there's going to be a tipping point…. It might take them five or 10 years to break in to the industry, but I think you're going to see a real shift in the next few years."
One thing that the superhero creators and indie creators can agree on is that they're tired of talking about "women in comics."
"It's a running joke at this point, I think," Brosgol said. "There've been so many panels at comic conventions and articles, and they're becoming a little bit awkward because the people on the panels don't have any horror stories to relate. They're just sort of staring at whoever asked the question."
And that in itself might be the best sign of progress.
"I can't address it enough," MacDonald said. "I think the time has come to stop saying, 'Oh, my God, there are women in comics!' and just be like, 'Here's some really cool stuff.' And really just talk about the work and not the issue, because it's just not an issue the way it used to be."
— Noelene Clark
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Can anyone describe for me, what exactly the XO can/will do for poor children? I know that OLPC calls it a solution to unlock their potentials and that it will provide a brighter future. But how?
What is it within the programs, the mobility, the Linux-system, the ability to mesh-network etc, that can make a change? I'm not question if it works. Im just asking how it works?
To say that poor kids (or any kids) should use XO, is to say that, there must be some kind of evidens or description that in fact it is true that i works. Otherwise why not just give them a rock or the 100 dollars instead? I apologise for the sarcastic alternative, but it has puzzled me ever since I first came to know OLPC.


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UK Treasury chief to announce bank breakup powers
LONDON -- Britain's treasury chief is set to say that the country's banks could be forcibly split into smaller pieces if they fail to properly insulate their retail operations from their riskier investment arms.
George Osborne is due to issue the stark warning during a speech Monday before executives from JP Morgan.
According to prepared remarks, Osborne will say taxpayers shouldn't be expected to bail out the banks again. He will say that next time a crisis hits, the treasury chief should have the choice of keeping "the bank branches going, the cash machines operating, while letting the investment arm fail."
Osborne's remarks follow recommendations from the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards that proposals for a "ring-fence" to protect retail banks needed to be "electrified" to discourage banks from probing for loopholes.


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Fashion/Art/Culture Fashion Show
Held at the Ross Park Mall Macy's store featuring designs from I.N.C International Concepts. This event, sponsored by Macy's and WHIRL Magazine, benefited Tickets for Kids Charities, a non-profit organization that ensures all children have access to cultural and sporting events by connecting them with tickets and other exciting opportunities. Photography by john Altdorfer.Read More


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Florida Travel Guide for Aviation Enthusiasts: DeLand Naval Air Station Museum
The Museum and Hangar are filled with military artifacts, vintage photographs, memorabilia that have been donated to the Museum. There is also a room dedicated to World War I. The museum's collection includes a MASH helicopter from the Korean War, 1954 Army jeep, 1941 Buick convertible, F-14 Tomcat and a TBF Avenger torpedo bomber. 910 Biscayne Boulevard, DeLand, FL 32724, 386-738-4149, www.delandnavalairstation.org
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Top Reasons to Visit Buffalo Hills Resort
- The resort spreads across 360 acres in southeastern Ohio's hilly countryside near Amish country.
- A herd of buffalo lives on the resort grounds. Keep a camera handy to snap photos of them grazing on the property.
- This deal includes horseback riding for two along trails crisscrossing the resort.
- Other onsite recreation opportunities include ATV rentals, mini golf, and fishing.
- Most of the cabins on this private resort come equipped with full kitchens.
Senecaville, Ohio: Quiet Village near Southeastern Ohio's Amish Country
The small village of Senecaville sits in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in southeastern Ohio. The verdant hillsides are dotted with Amish farmhouses where locals sell baked goods and handcrafted furniture. It's not uncommon to see a horse and buggy clopping along the tree-lined streets. Not far from Buffalo Hills Resort, you can go fishing at Seneca Lake, a manmade reservoir that's one of the largest lakes in Ohio.
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The plunge and rebound in Indian stocks that pushed the S&P CNX Nifty Index down 16 percent in eight seconds underscored concern about financial markets.
Trading in the Nifty and some companies stopped for 15 minutes in Mumbai yesterday after the 50-stock gauge tumbled as much as 16 percent. A brokerage that mishandled trades for an institutional client was to blame, according to the National Stock Exchange of India.
Indian Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram told reporters in Mumbai today that the government will investigate the stock plunge, as regulators around the world probe market structures and electronic trading after a series of malfunctions. In May 2010, high-frequency orders worsened the U.S.'s so-called flash crash, which briefly wiped $862 billion from the nation's stocks. The Nasdaq was this May overwhelmed by cancelled orders and trade confirmations were delayed in the public debut of Facebook Inc., 2012's largest initial public offering.
"Everyone is very sensitive to these electronic errors," Adam Mattessich, head of international trading at Cantor Fitzgerald LP, said by phone from New York. "It's the kind of thing that could be nothing or it could become a financial calamity."
Orders entered by Emkay Global Financial Services Ltd. that led to trades valued at 6.5 billion rupees ($125 million) caused the drop, said Divya Malik Lahiri an NSE spokeswoman in New Delhi.
Circuit-breaker limits enforced by the NSE get activated "after existing orders are executed," Ravi Varanasi, head of business development at the exchange in Mumbai, said by phone. "We are investigating the reason behind the wrong orders and how checks and balances at the member's end failed."
'System Failure'
The NSE's trading limits for the Nifty range from 10 percent to 20 percent. The percentages are calculated into index points at the end of every quarter and applied for the next three months. A rise or decline of 570 points, equal to 10 percent of the Nifty's closing level of 5703.3 on Sept. 28, is meant to halt trading on any day in the quarter through Dec. 31, according to a circular on the NSE's website.
The volume of stocks in the benchmark index that were traded almost doubled from the 100-day average, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. An index of Indian stocks traded in New York slipped as much as 1.2 percent.
"Even if there was order backlog, the index couldn't have slumped 900 points before halting when the circuit filter was set for a 570-point fall," Arun Kejriwal, director at Kejriwal Research & Investment Services Pvt., said by phone. "This is a system failure. Blaming a broker does not absolve the exchange of the lapse on their system's part."
'No Systemic Risk'
"I am assured that there is no systemic risk" to Indian markets, Chidambaram told reporters. "The NSE is looking into it and SEBI will also investigate the matter," he said, referring to the financial regulator.
The NSE's systems weren't at fault, according to the exchange's Varanasi.
"There is no question of any glitch or malfunctioning in NSE's systems," he said by e-mail. "The broker's dealer put in an erroneous quantity in the orders, which is being investigated."
Emkay Global Managing Director Prakash Kacholia didn't answer his mobile phone. The broker's shares plunged by the 10 percent daily limit to 31.1 rupees.
While the drop in India drew comparisons with the rout in American equities on May 6, 2010, the U.S. event spurred many times the losses of the Nifty's plunge and affected more companies.
About 20 stocks in India saw declines of 19 percent or more on Oct. 5, compared with the more than 300 securities that lost at least 60 percent during the flash crash before the trades were canceled, a September 2010 report from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission found. The decline and rebound in the Nifty lasted seconds, compared with more than 15 minutes for stocks, futures and indexes in the flash crash.
'Fat-Finger Mistake'
"It's definitely concerning but we feel it was a fat- finger mistake rather than a market structural issue," Ben Rozin, who helps manage the $600 million Manning & Napier International Fund, which includes Indian stocks, said by phone from Rochester, New York. "When we look at the Indian equity market, we think it's pretty well run, and that this has very low impact."
The NSE, India's largest bourse, controls more than 90 percent of India's $28 billion equity derivatives market and handles 75 percent of the stock trades. The stoppage, the biggest such problem in more than two years, comes as a burst of policy reforms by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh propels Indian stocks to a 17-month high. Foreign investors have plowed a net $16.5 billion into local shares this year, the most among 10 Asian markets tracked by Bloomberg, excluding China.
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- Apr 3:
- CU-Boulder announces new 4/20 crackdown, plans to ticket pot smokers
- Jul 30:
- 24 percent of undergrad students sampled in CU-Boulder survey said they smoked pot at 4/20 event
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- CU-Boulder chancellor, student leaders look to snuff 4/20 smoke-out
- Apr 23:
- During a tough economic climate, 4/20 costs CU-Boulder $50,000
- Apr 20:
- 4/20 in Boulder: 10,000 light up on Norlin Quad for smoke-out
- Apr 16:
- Medical marijuana, social networking help fuel 4/20 smoke-out at CU-Boulder
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- Playboy: CU-Boulder nation's No. 1 party school, thanks to 4/20, pot, beer
As the University of Colorado tries to figure out how to divorce itself from the 4/20 pot-smoking picnic that takes place annually on its campus, one thing is for certain, officials say: The problem can't be dumped on the city of Boulder.
For the past few years, town-gown relations have been strengthening as the city and CU have collaborated on issues ranging from alcohol abuse among college students to appropriate building heights for campus structures. But barring pot smokers from campus -- and displacing them into the city's jurisdiction -- would put a strain on the city and CU's budding relationship.
CU's student government voted almost two weeks ago to move the 4/20 smoke-out off the campus.
"The answer is we don't know where it goes," said CU spokesman Bronson Hilliard. "We're not recommending a strategy on where it should go. Nobody wants to displace it on the city of Boulder. It's not something we want to unload on somebody else. That makes the solution more of a challenge."
The unofficial 4/20 gathering on Norlin Quad has surpassed 10,000 people, making it the largest smoke-out on a college campus. A few years ago, demonstrators staged a smaller, secondary smoke-out at the Central Park Bandshell -- but since then they've joined the masses at CU.
Hilliard said the university is in constant communication with the city about its plans for ending 4/20.
Boulder City Councilman Ken Wilson -- who lives on University Hill, a neighborhood densely populated with students -- said he is unsure where the 4/20 revelers would go should CU put an end to the unofficial event.
"I'm sure the idea is not to dump it on the city," he said. "How you manage to avoid that is a good question. There really isn't a place in the city where people could go -- other than Pearl Street or city park. We tend to be stricter about enforcing marijuana laws than CU is, though."
Wilson said that demonstrations are an important part of democracy, until they become a public safety issue, as is the case of the 4/20 smoke-out.
Frank Bruno -- who served as city manager before taking a vice chancellor job at CU -- said that the university is gaining momentum toward ending the event. Bruno left his job at CU last summer to become vice president of administration for Boulder-based Western Disposal, Inc.
"Having the students on board is huge in my estimate," he said. "We hadn't had that in years past."
Bruno said that his former colleagues at CU are mindful about the city's concerns surrounding 4/20, and together they need to show that the smoke-out is not a productive event for the community.
Other universities across the country are also faced with managing large 4/20 events, and in some cases, the school and the local town have worked together. The University of Michigan and the City of Ann Arbor have collaborated to manage crowds at "Hash Bash" -- a pro-marijuana demonstration that is in its 40th year and is staged on campus every April. The event, in peak years, has drawn about 1,600 people.
Rick Fitzgerald, a spokesman for the university, said the school steadfastly supports free speech on campus. But police ticket those who smoke marijuana during the Hash Bash.
"It's not a free pass kind of day," he said. "In recent years, it hasn't been a major disruption to the community. There are no discussions -- that I'm aware of -- of people trying to take steps to end it."
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Emmy nominees Kerry Washington, Josh Charles, Anna Chlumsky, Joanne Froggatt, Julie Bowen and Allison Janney kicked back at the Entertainment Weekly party at Fig & Olive in West Hollywood on Saturday night. But one nominee in particular won't be able to relax until the ceremony — and her award show diet — officially end. "It's all about eating. French fries or salt and vinegar potato chips, some kind of chocolate bar, doughnut, ice cream. I'm hungry," Sarah Paulson said. "All those things that are quote unquote forbidden when you're thinking about wearing a dress that's couture. It's just crazy," said the "American Horror Story: Coven" star of her post-Emmys plan to binge on junk food.
As the pressure of the big day mounts, Paulson's day-of plans will likely include a visit to the gym. "Women who say they don't do that [and say] 'I was just out with my friends eating a waffle.' Nobody eats a waffle before they go on the red carpet. Stop lying! They didn't lose all the weight by breastfeeding. Just start telling the truth. We're all dieting and the food's being delivered. This is how it happens. Period. I just can't stand it," said the three-time nominee in a refreshingly honest diatribe that could have doubled as a stand-up act. "I should stop, right? I'm sober!" she insisted to reporters on the red carpet, as her publicist shook her head.
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Way out of earshot: Washington, who showed off her trim post-baby physique in a crystal-encrusted black dress and posed for selfies with her "Scandal" co-stars, Darby Stanchfield and Katie Lowes. Paulson also donned a number with an "Eighties prom dress" vibe, while Chlumsky, Padma Lakshmi and Mira Sorvino rocked frocks in the color of the moment, fuchsia.
Jaime Pressly came ready to party in a sparkly vintage Halston dress and a freshly chopped pixie cut. "This is the one [event] everyone loves,where everybody cuts loose. It's normally the night before the Emmys, so I think people are probably going to cut loose a little more than they normally would because the Emmys aren't till Monday. Sleep in tomorrow," she said.
Pressly, who took home a statue for her role on "My Name Is Earl," has big Emmy night plans this year: "To be in my sweats watching it on TV. It's nice to be able to go and be nominated and win, and it's nice to be able to sit at home and watch it in your sweats. It's nice either way," she said.


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WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will hold a news conference on Wednesday, his first since being re-elected to a second term.
White House press secretary Jay Carney says Obama will take questions from reporters on a variety of topics in the White House East Room. The news conference will take place two days before Obama meets with congressional leaders Nov. 16 on the fiscal cliff, the combination of pending tax increases and spending cuts that could plunge the economy back into a recession.
Obama has not taken questions from the White House media corps since August, when he made a surprise visit to the White House briefing room and took questions from four reporters.


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As supervising director of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," Dave Filoni has completed a staggering personal arc from "Star Wars" fan to having a major hand in steering one of the franchise's most important projects. While several of the major characters on the "Clone Wars" series were well known already (Yoda, R2D2, Obi-Wan Kenobi), the series has introduced several other new fan favorites over its previous four seasons. Here Filoni share his thoughts on some of the more notable "Clone Wars" characters.Link
AHSOKA TANO -- Ahsoka's presence is "something that's grown and grown each year. I think at first, people weren't that concerned with her. They thought, 'Who's this kid? And why is she in my "Star Wars" movie?' It's like having a kid sister appear that you didn't have before. Each year, we've made her a little more mature and grown her as a character. Now, I even have dads coming up saying ,'Hey, so what's going to happen to Ahsoka? It's for my little girl. She's really worried.' I'm like, 'Uh-huh. I don't believe you.' " (Lucasfilm)Link
ASAJJ VENTRESS -- "She started out as a sketch done for 'Attack of the Clones.' She was a concept Sith villain. This is before they landed on Count Dooku. She was just in the pile of sketches. The [creators of the] comic books saw he ....They were the first to develop her as a Sith assassin .... She's now out in a gray area. She's been ousted by Dooku and reborn as a new character. We'll deal with her again this season." (Lucasfilm)Link
SAVAGE OPRESS -- "Clancy Brown was an actor I wanted to hire for quite some time. I always enjoyed his role in 'Highlander.' I found out from Dee Baker [voice of the clone troopers] that he was a fan of the show, but there was always a question of having a character good enough to have Clancy play. When we had Savage Opress, I thought, 'Bingo. This is our big Kurgon-like character.' At first glance, he's just a brute force kind of guy. But, not unlike Anakin, he's trying to do the good thing .... He can do terrible things, but it wouldn't be outside Savage's realm to hand a little girl a flower." (Lucasfilm)Link
CAPTAIN REX and COMMANDER CODY -- "Very early on I asked Dee Baker, the guy who voice acts the clones, 'You're Rex, but do you want to play all these guys? How is that even going to work?' He and I weren't really sure. But he does an amazing job in the episodes. You really don't think about the fact that it's all one guy. You get into the fact that it's Rex, it's Cody, it's whoever he's voicing at that moment. One thing you'll see in certain episodes this season is how color starts to get drawn out of this world .... The clones who are more affiliated with the Tarkins of the world are red with white or just plain white. Eventually, they'll be the stormtroopers." (Lucasfilm)Link
PLO KOON -- "He was in the films, but you wouldn't notice because he just sits in the chair on the Jedi Council. For some reason, as a fan when the movies were coming out, I had it in my mind that I was going to pick one of the Jedi Council and say, 'This is going to be my guy.' He's only on screen for a couple of minutes. But in those couple of minutes I decided that Plo Koon was the coolest-looking one, ergo, he will be my favorite one. Among many reasons to like him, it was a great way to cut down on how much 'Star Wars' stuff you had to buy. Let's face it, they didn't license a lot of Plo Koon merchandise. I think he scares most kids." (Lucasfilm)Link
KIT FISTO -- "Much to my chagrin, no matter what I do about it, Kit Fisto still knocks out Plo Koon, in terms of popularity. Kit Fisto smiles. Plo Koon cannot smile. That winning smile of Kit Fisto always seems to put him over the top with kids. He gets the cooler toys." (Lucasfilm)Link
CAD BANE -- "Cad is one of our best inclusions. Corey Burton does a masterful job voicing him. George was the one who said, 'I want to create this bounty hunter called Cad Bane.' He's filled the shadowy, mysterious villain role that Boba Fett filled when I was a kid .... I'm very excited about his character and where it goes in the future. Anything that comes from George is all connected. So if you see George involved, then there's going to be continuity [to other parts of the 'Star Wars' franchise]."Link
When animator Dave Filoni was handed the reins of George Lucas' computer animated series "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" back in 2006, he thought he knew what to expect.
Lucas, the creator and mastermind of the entire multibillion-dollar "Star Wars" operation, would give some initial guidance, notes and feedback and quickly fade away, moving on to tend to other aspects of his Lucasfilm empire. After all, it was a cartoon series aimed a kids, airing on Cartoon Network and regarded by many of the franchise's older hardcore fans as a nice, but hardly essential, extension of the "Star Wars" experience.
"As he saw the first footage coming back, and I think he could sense our excitement levels through the whole thing, he got more and more engaged and excited," Filoni said. "He just kept coming in. He wouldn't go away. Which was great for us!"
In the years since its debut, "The Clone Wars," which will begin its fifth season on the Cartoon Network on Saturday , has gone from just another offshoot of the "Star Wars" phenomenon to one of its essential parts. At the recent Star Wars Celebration VI this summer in Orlando, Fla., much of the focus was on the series, whose audience has grown far beyond kids.
"Starting around the third season, there was a bit of a shift," said Jimmy "Mac" McInerney, co-host of The ForceCast, one of the most popular "Star Wars" themed podcasts. "Story lines got darker and more mature. And that brought older fans around to it more."
While the "Star Wars" prequel films, especially "The Phantom Menace," were much criticized for being too juvenile in tone, the cartoon series set in the years between "Attack of the Clones" and "Revenge of the Sith" has been praised for its sophistication. Rather than focus on one or two main characters, the series jumps around the galaxy, telling stories from many different perspectives.
Yes, Obi-Wan and Yoda have their occasional star turns, but tales are also told from the grunt's-eye view, with formerly anonymous clone troopers getting names and personalities. Story lines spill over from episode to episode, with some stories starting in the middle of the action, and not every story gets tied up neatly in the end.
At the close of Season 4, events took an even darker turn as Darth Maul, the horned Sith lord who got sliced in half at the end of "Phantom Menace," returned in a frightening and half-mad form. Dark stuff for a show that airs on Saturday mornings.
"There was zero effort to tone me down," says actor Sam Witwer, who provides the voice of Maul. "Dave said to me, 'Show them the dark side. Show them how awful it is.' "
The series is also shaking up the way animated series are traditionally handled. Instead of recording the voice actors individually and mixing their lines together after the fact, the cast records together in the style of Lucas' beloved radio dramas of the past. And rather than use writers with a track record in animation, Filoni employs writers from more adult dramatic fare, such as "Lost," "The Wire" and "Sons of Anarchy." In fact, Lucas himself has made appearances in the writers' room, pitching potential story lines.
"It's different," Filoni says. "But as you'll find with many things with George, he's just different. He'll come at things from an angle I often find people haven't thought of before."
As the fifth season begins, even darker adult moments are promised. The evolution of Anakin Skywalker from the do-gooder Jedi of "Attack of the Clones" moves inexorably toward the dark side in "Revenge of the Sith."
And as the eventual end of the series looms ever closer, fan anxiety is growing over the fate of a female character named Asohka. Introduced as an apprentice for Anakin in the "Clone Wars" movie, Asohka has become a fan favorite. It has not gone unnoticed that her character is nowhere to be seen in "Revenge of the Sith."
"Now I get dads coming up to me saying, 'So what's going to happen to Asokha? It's for my little girl. She's really worried.' " Filoni says. "And I'm like, 'Uh-huh. I don't believe you.'"
Before the series premiered, Lucas projected that it would run at least 100 episodes. At the end of Season 5, 110 episodes will have aired. And Filoni and company are already at work on a sixth season. So how will it end? And when?
Not anytime soon, apparently.
"Last year I did a big outline of how I thought a whole series of episodes could spiral into the end of this thing," Filoni said. "[George] read it and said, 'That's very nice, but we're not going to do that yet.' "
— Patrick Kevin Day
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Final plans are being made for the fifth annual Art Walk in La Junta, according to Nancy Bennett of Artistic Expressions art group. The Walk will by held on Saturday, Oct. 12, at several locations from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Final plans are being made for the fifth annual Art Walk in La Junta, according to Nancy Bennett of Artistic Expressions art group. The Walk will by held on Saturday, Oct. 12, at several locations from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Bennett reminds artists to remember to bring their work to Somewhere On San Juan, 422 San Juan, on Sunday or Monday, Oct. 6 or 7, between the hours of 1 and 4 p.m. If other arrangements need to be made, she can be contacted at 384-2154.
There will be an opening reception at Somewhere On San Juan on Friday evening, Oct. 11, from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. with wine and hors d'oeuvres. The show will be open Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4.m., as well as on Sunday afternoon, 1 to 4 p.m. One of the special displays will be soft stuffed self portrait busts made by members of Artistic Expressions.
An inter-community cooperation, which has been fostered through Southeast Colorado Creative Partnership, has added a new event to the Art Walk this year. "Take Five" music ensemble from Lamar will give a concert at Picketwire Center for Performing and Visual Arts, 802 San Juan, on Friday night, Oct. 11 from 7 to 9 p.m. The $10 admission is a donation to Picketwire Players to help pay for the new lighting recently installed, and it will be a good opportunity for music lovers to see the wonder of the new lights, according to Tracey Salzbrenner, lighting tech. "Before the new lights were installed I was afraid we might have to do our next performance by flashlight," she added.
Two recently donated collections will be on display at Koshare Indian Museum, 115 West 18th, which will have free admission during the Art Walk on Saturday, according to Jeremy Manyik, museum director. Several paintings from the collection of long-time Koshare friend, Wally Harper, and pottery, baskets and blankets from the collection of Dr. Dana Ragsdale are on display. "We also have an on-going project to refurbish our display cases," Manyik said, "and those that have been completed can be viewed now."
A special exhibit of altered boxes will be shown at Woodruff Memorial Library, 522 Colorado, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Members of Artistic Expressions were each given an old metal file box, most of them quite rusty, with the challenge to do something "artistic" with them. So far, what has been created has been a secret, all of which will be revealed on Oct. 12.
First Street Emporium, 112 West First, will be featuring original art works in many of the booths, in addition to collectibles and antiques, according to Barb Ingles.
Well known Trinidad artist Doug Holdread and some of his friends will be showing at The Barista, where art lovers can also enjoy a cup of coffee, lunch or ice cream, while viewing the art work, according to Cheryl Lindner, owner.
Creative quilters in the Prairie Piecers Quilt Guild have come up with the idea of a "Walking Quilt Show," according to Cheryl Freidenberger, guild member. Because the group did not feel they had finished enough quilts in the past year for a good display, they will instead have a "Walking Quilt Show"! Members will meet for breakfast at 9 a.m. then will walk around La Junta wearing a quilt block on their backs or an article of quilted clothing, while viewing the Art Walk. They will welcome conversations about their work from patrons enjoying the Art Walk.
Selected quilts made for the Mennonite Relief Sale will be displayed in the windows of CrossRoads MarketPlace, 211 Colorado, according to Rhonda Jones, store manager.


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