Code amendments open doors to home-based businesses

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The Fremont City Council approved two of three proposed changes to a zoning code amendment on Tuesday prior to unanimously passing a group of amendments intended to open Fremonts doors wider to home-based businesses and home occupations.

The council heard public opposition and support during first reading of the three zoning codes on Sept. 29, but there was no opposition on Tuesday when the council, with Kevin Eairleywine and Steve Navarrette absent, approved all three amendments.

The first amendment differentiates between home-based businesses and home occupations, a distinction that didnt exist in current codes.

Under the new language, home occupations are operations run only by people who live within the household. A home-based business, on the other hand, can have up to two employees who do not live in the home.

Creating the distinction, interim City Planner Justin Zetterman explained at an Oct. 12 council meeting, allows zoning codes to be more liberally applied to home occupations than to home-based businesses. Home occupations will be allowed in nearly all residential districts, while home-based businesses will be allowed in some districts, and require a conditional use permit in others.

The Fremont Planning Commission, on Sept. 15, voted 4-3 against that amendment, and did not bring to a vote the two ensuing amendments outlining regulations on home-based businesses and home occupations. It was the second of those two ensuing amendments where Councilman Larry Johnson on Tuesday proposed changes before voting on the amendment itself.

Johnsons first change, refining language about allowable signage at home-based businesses, passed 6-0.

His second alteration, adding tattoo parlors to the list of businesses explicitly prohibited in residential districts, passed 4-2 with Jennifer Bixby and Michael Kuhns opposed. Other prohibited businesses include stables and adult entertainment establishments.

Ive talked to no one who wants a tattoo parlor in their neighborhood, Johnson said. If were going to exclude some of those other things, I think we should make it clear that thats not something that we would be approving by our changes here.

Its not necessarily the number of people, its the atmosphere, he said. I happen to drive up Main Street when Im going anywhere, and I look at the tattoo parlor that was on Main and Military, and there are regularly folks outside that just arent enhancing the image of the community, or they wouldnt be enhancing the image of a residential neighborhood.

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Cryptocurrency Round-Up: Bitcoin on Tor Puts Users at Risk of Attack, Kraken Launches

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Academics claim "bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea", while bitcoin exchange Kraken launches.(IBTimes UK)

Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies have continued to see their prices slide, with nine out of the top ten most valuable mineable altcoins all falling over the last 24 hours.

The negative movement was felt most keenly by darkcoin, which saw its market capitalisation fall from around $9 million to $7.5 million in the space of just a few hours yesterday.

Bucking the trend was cannabisdarkcoin with a 65% rise in value. It is still early days for cannabisdarkcoin, having only launched on 24 October, however it is already among the top 100 most valuable cryptocurrencies.

'Bitcoin over TOR isn't a good idea'

Academics from the University of Luxembourg have claimed that using bitcoin over anonymous browsers like TOR could create an attack vector for 'man-in-the-middle' and double-spend attacks.

In a paper titled Bitcoin over TOR isn't a good idea, Alex Biryukov and Ivan Pustogarov reiterate previous criticisms about bitcoin relating to its lack of anonymity, but also highlight issues with using it over networks widely regarded to be private and secure.

"A low-resource attacker can gain full control of information flows between all users who chose to use bitcoin over Tor," the paper states."In particular the attacker can link together user's transactions regardless of pseudonyms used, control which bitcoin blocks and transactions are relayed to the user and can delay or discard user's transactions and blocks.

"In collusion with a powerful miner double-spending attacks become possible and a totally virtual bitcoin reality can be created for such set of users."

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Bitcoin Weekly 2014 October 29: Bitcoin sidechains, the Bits debate, identify scams and frauds, G+ Bitcoin community

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This week in Bitcoin is still overshadowed by last weeks Bitcoin sidechains AMA by the authors of a vastly popular whitepaper on this technology that might fundamentally change how the Bitcoin protocol can be used.

Scams can be fairly prevalent in the wild, wild west of BTCeven as it slowly gains mainstream adoption (or perhaps because of that approach to the mainstream) so its important to know how to tell who is good and who is bad so we take a look at BadBitcoin.org.

The G+ Bitcoin Community surpassed 100,000 members andSiliconAngle briefly interviewed Avatar X, the community host, as to its future.

The Bitcoin market has been seeing a continued downward trend since the lastBitcoin Weeklyfalling to around $340 from almost $385. Last week around Oct 22 the market value of BTC had reached $385, but then quickly dropped to a band around $355; however today, the value fell even further to around $340.

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Bitcoin sidechains: What they are and what they arent, with Blockstream

Last week, two Bitcoin core devs and other extremely smart people made a splash in the Bitcoin community with the release of a white paper on Bitcoin sidechains: a concept that allows the construction of blockchains that provide external functionality to Bitcoin but remain entangled with Bitcoin itself.

The whitepaper announcement came along with the revelation of Blockstream, a business co-founded by several of the authors of the whitepaper dedicated to innovating around the idea of sidechains.

The sidechain whitepaper and Blockstream both have a very strong lineup of people involved including Bitcoin core developers Gregory Maxwell and Pieter Wuille. While the authors of the whitepaper and Blockstreams founders are not entirely the same people, there is some overlap.

The whitepaper announcement opened with a Reddit AMA and this led to a sweep of the news media and community with articles from SiliconAngle, CryptoCoinsNews, TechCrunch, and CoinDesk. As well as blogs working to demystify the entire meaning of and concepts behind sidechains such as this excellent article by Gendal.

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Comets finish regular season undefeated after win

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The Melfort Comets put forth a dominant performance against the LP Miller Bears to end their regular football season on October 24, defeating their opponents 54-12. The victory, which saw the Comets finish their regular season record at 6-0, and finish atop their conference. We were fortunate to be undefeated throughout the regular season, it reflects a lot on the hard work of our players and coaches and the amount of preparation we put into every game, Comets head coach, Doug Rogers said following the game. The Comets established an early lead after failing to convert on their first possession. After scoring a touchdown on their next possession, Melfort dominated their opponents on both sides of the ball, extending their lead to 47-0 at the end of the first half. Melfort continued to pile on the points in the second half, adding one more touchdown in the fourth quarter to extend their lead, and put the game out of reach for the Bears. The Comets will host the Meadow Lake Spartans in the Provincial Quarter-Final on November 1. Rogers said that while the victory was a nice touch to their perfect season, he felt they still have room to improve ahead of next Saturdays matchup. I think in the first half we played a good football game, we didnt play a great football game. We have room to improve, offensively, on our execution to begin with, he said. Theres a couple things to clean up on offense and theres always room to improve. When youre through improving, in any sort of sport, thats when youre through. Melfort and Meadow Lake met in the Provincial Semi-Finals in 2011, which saw the Comets advance to the Provincial Championships. Rogers said he expects to see a competitive game when the two teams square off. I wouldnt be surprised to see a motivated, fired-up Meadow Lake Spartans team, who comes in and gives us a good, challenging football game, he said.

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ACT Comets fall short in Queensland chase

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David Dawson was brilliant for the Comets against Queensland. Photo: Rohan Thomson

ACT Comets captain David Dawson spent all but 76 minutes of the four-day Futures League clash against Queensland on the field, almost carrying his bat twice, but he was critical of himself for getting out at a crucial time.

He was caught and bowled by Cameron Brimblecombe 14 runs short of his second century of the game as the Comets lost their season opener by 40 runs.

Dawson said a NSW Blues call-up was out of his control, but he would take the opportunity if it arose.

He wasn't picked in their Sheffield Shield side to play Victoria at the MCG on Friday, but his 143 not out in the first innings and 86 in the second hasn't done his chances of a recall any harm.

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Having carried his bat through the first innings, Dawson spent almost every minute of the game on the field.

With the Comets' next fixture against WA on November 17, the 32-year-old will play for his Sydney club University of NSW in the meantime.

"It's always nice to get a few runs, but it's obviously more important to try and get the win and unfortunately we didn't quite get there today, which was disappointing," Dawson said.

"Obviously I was hoping to help the boys get over the line, but unfortunately I got out at a crucial time."

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Contra Costa College seeks championship goal

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The Contra Costa College football team has a lunch pail approach and a hunger to make history.

Coach Alonzo Carter's squad is trying to become the first champion of the new American-Pacific 7 Conference. The Comets (6-1, 3-0) can take a big step toward that objective with a win over visiting Shasta (6-1, 3-0) on Saturday. Kickoff is 3 p.m.

"It is pretty big one," Carter said of the showdown.

In his fifth season in San Pablo, Carter goes by the see it, believe it, achieve it method.

Clearly, he has worked wonders with a once-woeful program. The Comets went 4-6 and 6-4 in his first two years after winning just once in their previous two years combined.

In 2012, they really got rolling. An 8-3 record included an outright Bay Valley Conference title and a bowl victory. Last year, they went 7-4 and shared the BVC title with Los Medanos and Shasta, before dropping a bowl game 37-26 to Hartnell.

Before taking the job at Contra Costa, Carter went 25-8-1 over three seasons at Berkeley High. His final year, the Yellowjackets won their first North Coast Section playoff game since 1996. Previous to that, Carter's McClymonds' teams were 57-35 over eight seasons.

This season, the Comets overcame the jolt of losing of outside linebacker Takkarist McKinley, the top-rated junior college prospect in California by 247Sports.com, after he signed with UCLA on Sept. 15.

Carter said McKinley was "respected" and "loved" by his teammates and left with the Comets' blessing, but his departure put a "little bit of a wrench in what we wanted to do."

But the cupboard is far from bare. The Comets defense ranks in the top 10 in the state in passing yardage allowed, total yards per game and scoring.

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