Cat On Fire

I imagine this may be a wildly stupid question, but if you look at Lake Erie, especially in the west between Toledo and Sandusky, there are areas designated as reefs, such as Buckeye Reef, Sugar Reef, etc.

Now where I'm getting confused is I thought reefs needed salt water and therefor couldn't occur in the Great Lakes? Or is there some other type of reef/definition of the word I'm not aware of?

I attend a university that twice now has changed my major requirements on me and has for the third time rescheduled a class to a time during my work hours when I won't be able to attend class. When I try to protest any of these I either get ignored, sent in circles (talk to adviser -> department -> college -> adviser etc.), or my current schedule and/or requirements regurgitated back at me without any attempt made to address the issue at hand. I've even attempted to visit the vice president provost, and got ignored until he attempted to walk right by me and out of the office and then blew me off when I tried to talk to him.

At the advice of my wife I attempted to contact one of the state senators with my issue as it is a state university, but nearly a week has passed without any reply. I know there still could be a reply, but I'm already planning my next state - media attention with the local news.

However, if I contact the media I don't want to be the lone weirdo. There's no credibility in that. I want to find other people who have had issues with the school similar to mine and are also willing to say to the region "This is what this school is doing wrong." However, I don't know how to find people and build my case without gaining attention from the school until we actually reach the media. How would I go about doing this? Would I use Craigslist, ask individuals on campus (difficult due to a full time job schedule), or any other ideas?

I want to make a custom menu on a web site in which the user clicks on the menu and it summons a drop-down menu, each part of which instantly directs the user to another page. I know about the <select> box already, but I want something with more customizable graphics (I want a black rectangle with white text), and I want an instant reaction.

Unfortunately ASP is out of the question since the serer I have access to is Linux-based, but PHP and Javascript are good.

I just reached level 90 with my druid. He's dual spec balance/restoration, and so far for leveling I've been using the same gear set for both specs and have been doing well enough but as he's not my first 90 I also know that what passes for good enough while leveling is far from good enough in the endgame. So what I'm wondering is can I continue to build just one set of gear, or do I need to start building two separate gear sets? And if that's the case, how should they be different? Google searches have given me results for WotLK and Cata but nothing for the Pandara endgame.

Thanks in advance.

Between Microsoft no longer supporting XNA and XNA not being a fan of WIndows 8 to begin with, as well as numerous other reasons, I'm trying to find a good tutorial for developing games in C# using native libraries, or at least the graphics aspect of it.

I've already confronted my good friend Google, and the only tutorial I've been able to find has only one lesson concerning timers and then stops.

I'm making a Snake game for my class, but I'm having a very strange issue with the segments of the snake. When the snake moves horizontally they either follow above or below the head, and when moving vertically they follow either to the left or right of the head. They're in the correct order aside from that.

Here's my code for adding a snake segment:

Block body=new Block();

Block end=theSnake.get(theSnake.size()-1);

body.setPic("snakeBody.png");

// Determine where to place the new segment based on direction of travel

switch(dir) {

case 0:

body.setX(end.getX());

break;

case 1:

body.setY(end.getY());

break;

case 2:

body.setX(end.getX());

break;

case 3:

body.setY(end.getY());

break;

} // End switch(dir)

theSnake.add(body);

For moving the snake:

// Update the snakes' position

for(int i=0; i<theSnake.size(); i++) {

// Create a dummy block

Block temp=new Block();

temp=theSnake.get(i);

// Update the head

if(i==0) {

switch(dir) {

case 0:

temp.setX(temp.getX()-1);

break;

case 1:

temp.setY(temp.getY()-1);

break;

case 2:

temp.setX(temp.getX()+1);

break;

default:

temp.setY(temp.getY()+1);

break;

} // End switch(dir)

} else {

// Create a second dummy block

Block prev=theSnake.get(i-1);

temp.setX(prev.getOldX());

temp.setY(prev.getOldY());

} // End if(i)

// Update the snake

theSnake.set(i, temp);

} // End for(i)

And the snake is an ArrayList of Block objects, the code for which is:

public class Block {

/* Variables */

// Primitives

private int X, Y; // Coordinates (on grid)

private int OldX, OldY; // Former coordinates

// Game objects

private BufferedImage thePic; // Picture associated with segment

/* Constructors */

// No-argument constructor

public Block() {

// Set default coordinates

setX(0);

setY(0);

setPic("mousePellet.png");

} // End constructor

// Full constructor

public Block(int theX, int theY, String Pic) {

setX(theX);

setY(theY);

setPic(Pic);

} // End full constructor

/* Methods */

// Set methods

// setX(int)

// Sets the X coordinate

public void setX(int theX) {

OldX=X;

X=theX;

} // End setX(int)

// setY(int)

// Sets the Y coordinate

public void setY(int theY) {

OldY=Y;

Y=theY;

} // End setY(int)

// setPic(string)

// Sets the image

public void setPic(String theFrame) {

try {

thePic=ImageIO.read(new File(theFrame));

} catch (IOException e) {

// TODO Auto-generated catch block

e.printStackTrace();

}

} // End setPic

// Get methods

// getX()

// Gets the X coordinate

public int getX() {

return X;

} // end getX()

// getY()

// Gets the Y coordinate

public int getY() {

return Y;

} // end getY()

// getOldX()

// Gets the old X coordinate

public int getOldX() {

return OldX;

} // End getOldX()

// getOldY()

// Gets the old Y coordinate

public int getOldY() {

return OldY;

} // End getOldY()

// getPic()

// Gets the picture

public Image getPic() {

return thePic;

} // end getPic()

So my phone just started beeping at me and said there's an amber alert issued in my area. However, I never signed up to receive such alerts and the phone number won't display so I can't see who sent it. It's a very inconsiderate prank to be pulling, and very annoying as well.

Anyway, my question is how do I stop this? I don't know how to block numbers and can't find the number anyway. And I'm convinced it's a prank because I never signed up for alerts like this.

For what it's worth, the phone is a Galaxy S3, and my only thought is it could be something to do with Google Now?

I want to see it this weekend if possible, but I don't know where to go that won't be flooded with light pollution. I thought about Walborn Reservoir, but doesn't the park district close that place down at night?

Anyway, any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks!

Because I'm on the go so often, I have access to my Android phone a lot more often than I do to my computer. So what I'm wondering is if there's a Java IDE app for Android devices that I could use to work on my programming homework while I'm not at home or not in a very easy place to get out my laptop.

I've tried searching for one, but I just get a bunch of links concerning programming for Android devices which does me no good as I already have software for that on my computer.