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t ,-.'•" r- i",»-..'■' • ■ '*i • . • * < ALL THE. REAL NEWS AND SPECIAL FEATURES CAREFULLY EDITED. IT SHINES FOR ALL THE PEOPLE IN NORTHERN STARK COUNTY. ' An Independent Newspaper That Plays No Favorites Among Advertisers or Subscribers, and With One Price To AH VOL. 1—NO. 45. NORTH CANTON, STARK COUNTY, OHIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1923. $2.00 PER YEAR. x ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL • MAY BE ENLARGED Enrollment of 142 As Compared With 108 Last Year Leads To the Belief That Another Story Will Be Necessary. ABLE STAFF OF TEACHERS St. Faul's Parochial school opened rhe new year with an enrollment of 142 as compared to 108 of the preceding year. Eight grades are taught in the school, with an average of 18 pupils to a grade. All the graduates of last year's 8th grade are now attending the local public high school. At the present time there are four spacious, well-lighted class-rooms in St.. Paul's school in charge of competent teachers, all members of the religious order of the Humility of Mary, graduates of Normal school and holding- state certificates. This religious order cf sisters, as well as other orders, makes school-teaching its life work. Many members of these orders, unknown to the world, possess college and university degrees. New Teacher From Cleveland With one exception, the staff of teachers is the same as last year. The exception is Sr. M. Cleophas, in charge of the 7th and 8th grades, who was transferred here from St. Edward's V".. school in Cleveland. She takes the place of Sr. M. Regina Mercedes, the latter having been transferred to take a class at Mt. Marie Academy. Rev. R. C. Kotheimer acts as principal of the school. Having had charge of a school of 700 in Akron for ten years, Father Kotheimer is by no means a novice in this phase of his work. The new school building has been arranged so that an additional story ■ can be added whenever the need arises, and if the enrollment increases in the same proportion of this year, the need for additional room will demand the other story sooner than expected. 4^^**4i*4*.*4*f******^l4*** *********** . | HE LIKES THE SUN $ t * * N. B. Rudder Backs His Opinion X * A V With a Subscription. + N. B. Radder, a- farmer residing on route 2, Worth Canton, in subscribing for The Sun Baid it was "the best all-around newspaper he knew anything about, and he made it a point to read every line each week." As Mr. Radder backs his opinion with the thing called money we accept the compliment in the <s X spirit in which it is given. 4 * *\ ************************** BUSINESS MEN MEET Exchange Ideas For the Welfare of the Community. 1 The Business Men held a meeting in the Community Building on Monday night with many exchanges of ideas. The next meeting will he in ihe same room and members will see the date announced in The Sun. HOOVER SOFTBALL LEAGUERS OUTING N. C. HI FOOTBALLERS EAGER FOR BATTLE First Game of Season Will Be Played On Friday, September 28, Against Team To Be Selected In a Few Days. COACH ADAMS IS PLEASED Players Will Go To the Dam On Tuesday Evening, Sept. 25, and Enjoy a Good Meal tnd a Classy Time. TWO TEAMS IN HOT RACE BOWLING LEAGUE Men of St. Paul's To Meet and Arrange Schedule On Monday Night. A bowling league composed of eight teams under the auspicies of the Holv Name Society of St. Paul's church has been organized in North Canton. On Monday night the members will meet with the Rev. Father Kotheimer and choose teams and arrange schedules. Bowling will begin the first Monday in October at the Community Building. Four teams will occupy thc alleys one time at 6:00 and 8:00 p. m. o Mr. and Mrs. Merton Kolp and Mr. j'.nd Mrs. T. R. Givens mutoied to Cleveland to attend the dedication ser- I vices of the Rev. Joseph Schmit's new J church in Lakewood, on Sunday Rev. Schmidt is a former pastor of St. Paul's church here. An outing of all the players in the Hoover Softball League will be held at the Hoover Dam on Tuesday evening, September 25, as a wind-up of the season''; work. All players of the ten teams will leave thc factory immediately at 5:15 in machines -which are being arranged for by the transportation committee. A committee on eats- is also planning big things for the boys as well as some entertainment to keep things moving. Included in the entertainment will Le a ball game between the leading team -of tha league and a picked team from the other teams. This should be worth witnessing. The crown of the Hoover Baseball League is at a critical condition according to the standing,, of tht teams and schedule left remaining to play. The Snb-Assemblsrs cnly lead the league".by one game overQie Business Men, "and both teams having two games to be played yet, -migltt easily be throwh into a lie. League standing will all be settled and prizes now being planned by the prize committee will he awarded members of the three leading teams at the outing on Tuesday night- Present Standing of League Sub Assembly 34 2 875 Business Men 13 3 812 Factory Office 11 6 647 Office-.: -.10 6 625 Polishing 11 7 611 Final Assembly -.6 ID 375 Machine and Tool P 11 35.1 Eiiginners A 11 266 Shipping 4 11 2Cfi Seivice ; 2 ^4 12ri The High School Football squad is working hard in anticipation of their flrst game, Sept 28, one- week' fro,m Friday. Just with whom this game vill be played is not known, as the County -League schedule committee is meeting on Saturday tb arrange the schedule for the coming season. It is needless to say that the game will be fast and interesting as this year North Canton is out to win. Neither Coach M. B. Adams nor the players are making any boasts or predictions, but it is a certainty that -.»hen the referee's whistle blows there will be a squad there imbued with the fighting spirit that is so necessary to success. The coach is not announcing any positions on the team, as yet, for many things will depend on who will start the first game. Regularity to practice and strict training are two of the most stringent rules and the ones that adhere closest to them will undoubtedly get the first call. Squad Practicing Faithfully A squad of from 17 to 22 boys have been out practicing, and are all working hard, and not complaining. Fundamentals have been the schedule so far, such as falling on the ball, kicking, passing, tackling and blocking, but this week the team is working on plays and having Home scrimmages. Boys Show Up Well Among the men that au showing up especially well are Mohler, end; Anthony Grant, halfback; while Warstler with his passes and Willaman as quarterback and -punter are out with all their former skill. Schick. one of the backfield mainstays, has two rather severly lacerated fingers, but says he will be right there when tlie --yhistle blows. Team Wants Support The team asks the support cf the school and town, not only ir. spirit, bat'also in lungs. Come out and yell for us and help us bring that championship to North Canton. The following men have been out tj date and are shewing up as real players. .Centers: Schiltz, Scafer. Guards: D. Grant, Shriver, Swope. Tacklers: Shanafelt, Dieble. Workinger, Fohl. End3: T. Mohler, Warburton, Kolp, Hagelbarger, Hanel, Pierce and Evans. Quarterback: Willaman. Centers: Schiltz, Schafer. Fullback!: Warstler. The coach,states that he never met a bunch of more willing workers than this year's squad. GOOD THINGS TO EAT TOM SHEETS IN PAINSVILLE Adam Moledore went over on Sunday to see Tom Sheets who is in the Painsville hospital, and not in Massillon as at first reported. On the Concrete F "•$ W N s m Will Be Put On Sale In North Canton On Saturday. The Clover Leaf class of the Christian church, Mrs. M. A. Cossaboom, teacher is preparing to furnish good things to eat to all who will call at the township hall on Saturday beginning at 10 o'clock in the morning. This class always is doing worthy work and the proceeds will be usee! for some good cause. They will have baked goods of al! kinds, salads in variety and many ether articles. Get something for Sunday and save yourself from cooking, beside help a good cause. DANIEL STRAUSSER IS TAKEN BY DEATH Father of North Canton Business Man Passes Away At Home of His Daughter In Manchester On Monday. HE WAS 88 YEARS OF AGE Daniel Strausser, a widely known and respected citizen, 88 years, died on Monday in the heme cf his dr.utvh- te.r, Mrs. Isaac Carmanv. of Manches- ter, with whom he lived. Infirmities of age caused his death. He leave;-, two daughters, Mr;... Isaac Carmanv, of Manchester; Mrs. Daniel Keck of Greentown; two sons, C. B. and D. W. of North Canton; 11 grand-children and Id great-grand-children; one- brother, Josiah Strausser of Wayland, Portage county, and three sisters, Mrs. William P. Essig of West Maple street; Mrs. Mary Moore of Moga- dor and Mi?? Amanda Strausser of Massillon. Funeral services weie held i.-n Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in the McDonaldsville church, the Rev. J. M. Temple officiating. Interment in .McDonaldsville cemetery, which is opposite his old home. Daniel Stransser's father was one of the -early settlers of Ohio and the farm now known as the Johnnie Essie farm is the place where he settled and where Daniel, the oldest of thirteen children, was born, and he lived in this vicinity all of his eighty-eight jears. He was a member of the McDonaldsville church, from which he was buried, sixty-five years. BOY SCOUTS ASSIST TRAFFIC POLICEMAN North Canton Lads Help Young School Children and Adults To Cross Streets In Safety In Congested District. ON TH*E LINE EVERY DAY Beginning Monday Sept. 17, the Boy Scout Troops are furnishing three Scouts to help Mr. Talley, traffic officer, to handle the congestion at the square encountered at noon, by the school children, the Hoover employees and the usual traffic conditions. 'Ihey will also help at 3:15 at the close of school and at 5:15 p.m. when the worst congestion of thc day takes place en tlie square. One Scout will diiect traffic before the school building on Portage street at noon and at the close of school, each day. After this work he will go' to the square to assist at that point. This is a safety first move that the Scouts are pleased to become associated with. Mr. Talley is enthusiastic about it, as is also the town council. All we ask of North Canton citizens is courteous treatment to these "Deputy Traffic Cops." They'll do their best at all times. Accidents seldom take place around schools, but it is only by obeying and following "Safety First" instruction that this toll has been reduced to a minimum. We know the school children will respond to those of their number who may be assigned this duty from week to week. Each set of three boys will be con- 'Jnuouolv on duty for one week, starting each Monday neon and ending on Saturday noon. .-. For t.h.V work they will '-Wcoive credit' rn Merit Badge work in "Safety First," will receive a gold*pin from the Canton ' Council cf. Boy Scout:? and will receive ,--.ome sort of recognition from the City. Council. Besides.alt this they will feel the besft repaid by considering the work as a 'Community good turn."' ^ "_• ,:;. ■ [continued on page seven] MAKING MECHANICS IN PUBLIC SCHOOL Twenty-five Boys Under Capable Instructor Are Learning To Work On Wood and Metal In North Canton Building. PLANT IS A MODERN. ONE If you like to gaze upon clean-looking, intelligent boys working as though they were in love with the job visit the basement of the public school on Portage street, North Canton, and you will get an idea of what the Smith-Hughes law, enacted a few years ago. is doing for the youth of Ohio. As a result of North Canton cooperating with the Trade and Industrial Service of the State Department of Education 25 m.-.nly boys are learning to become industrious men under a capable young man named R. D. Heine. He comes from Sidney, Ohio, and although only in charge of the work a few days the boys are satisfied that he measures up to the job, ar.d when apprentices feel that the man over them is competent and "regular*'—to borrow their own expression—there is little danger of their lagging behind in their studies. Heine Wants Good Work Mr. Heine is a university man, and an adept in wood and metal woik, and it is his ambition to teach the boys as much as they can absorb without fracturing their intellects. He coaches them, corrects tlieir errors, praises them when they deserve it, and keeps ever before them that a thing worth doing al all should be done we!'.. Halfway work, or the "get-by'' variety doesn't suit him, and the boy-- are be- ginninu to under.-tr..:d that if they want to gam favor with their vocational teacher it ir.'.-si ':■•? by c iiscieii- tious application to their w«,ik. A -.'Titer for Thc Sun visited the school en Tuesday morning, v.nd came, away feeling that Mr. Heine and his pupils were getting along famously together. How the Classes Work The classes are composed of Freshmen, Sophomores and Juniors. The Freshmen and Sophomores are ir. the workshop all morning anil the Juniors all afternoon. There are nc Seniors this year in the workshop. The equipment is thoroughly modern, and next year if another teacher is adder to assist Mr. Heine the seventh and eighth grades will be taught woodwork fiid the Freshmen and Sophomores "metal work. The Juniors and Seniors are scheduled to cooperate in the Hoover factory next year also: spending part time there and the remaining hours in school. From what The Sun hears around the school building the Hoovers not only have helped to equip the room, but they have intimated that boys displaying an interest in their work will be given every opportunity to earn money and advance themselves in the big factory beginning next year. Such an offer will no doubt be seized upon by boys eager to secure lucrative positions when they reach young manhood. It i.s a well known fact that SO per cent of the population live and die in the community in which they a-o hor,.. and tlu.s hi the na'ural order of thin".-- North Canton in the years to cor,..; will have a population of which it w.l! ho ,i".i-i!-. proud, thanks to the- gen.:r- ON THE SICK LIST Samuel Pfouts Little Samuel Pfouts, 7 years-old grandson of Mrs. Sam Willaman, is quite ill with bronchitis. Mrs. Harry Getz Mrs. Harry Getz of West Maple street underwent an operation on Friday in a Canton hospital. Report says she is improving nicely. Lucille Ramser Lucille Ramser i*s improving aftei her operation for appendicitis, ami it is expected she will be able to be brought home soon. .Mrs. Samuel Schriner Mrs. Samuel Schriner of Witwer street is in a critical condition. She has not wakened since going to .sleep on Sunday evening about 8 o'clock in spite of every effort by the doctors to arouse her. Peter Hildphraut Mr. and Mrs/Peic-r K-ildebrant Jiavr returned from Mt. Gilead'where they were called by tho serious illness of Mr. Hiliiebrant,'senior, and whtfce con- t-ition remains unchanged. , •' m o— Mrs. Fanny Secrist of Detroit visited with Mrs. C. B. Albee over thc week-ehd. • REPAIRING TRACKS X. O. T. Get Busy On Streets of North Canton. The N. O. T. and L. put a force of men to work on the roadbed of their tracks in Norti Canton on Monday morning. The broken bricks of unsavory memory were yanked out and granite blocks inserted. Automobile drivers and pedestrians won't be in danger of breaking their necks now that the road is repaired. osity of the Hoovers in opening their factory doors to the school-boys of this town. Plenty of Tools In the workshop are four woodworking lathes, one drill press, one sander, sixteen benches, one band saw, one jointer, one table saw. Each boy has one pattern-making hammer, one jack plane, one marking j'auge, one block plane, two pattern-making knives, cue combination square, three chisels, one-inch, one-half inch, o: c- ouarter inch; one shrink rule, set of seven drills, four lathes tools, one hand saw. In tlie cabinet are tools of every description for the use of the boys. Thc Freshmen are studying elementary woodworking and elementary drawing. The Sophomores are putting in their time when not in the school room learning advanced woodworking, pattern making, wood turning, use of machines and advanced drawing. The Juniors the first semester take advanced pattern making and sheet metal work, assembly and detail lira wings. There are no seniors this year owing to the fact that the course has no. 1 een filled up at all times. .. Planning For Next Year Now that the Trade and Industrial Service is U'etiing under wav in. a manner .-.at isfactor.-, to tlie Si ate Department of Education and the School Board cf North Canton plans are being laid to make next year's school one of the most tdvanced in metal and wood work in Ohio. More equipment in the nature of a metal shop will be added as it is needed and thc students will get a chance to advance if they care to do so without going to college. E. W. Myers, assistant supervisor of the Trade and Industrial Service of the State Department of Education, told The Sun writer a few days ago that he considered the North Canton school one of the best in Ohio and he predicted a bright future for the boys fortunate enough to he enrolled in the vocational department. The state pays GO per cent, of the vocational teacher's salary up to ."•2,000. Any amount over that the state pays 40 per cent. Boys Taking the Course Twenty-five boys are taking the course. They are: Freshmen—Everett Engle, Loran Smith, Harry Yoho, Howard Lantry, James Hanel, Harold McAfee. Sophomores—Marion Baab, Harry Gothard, Lester Hess, Miron Hummel. Harold Lesh, Erich Schaak, Albei" Schri\er, Howard Wylos, Paul Evans. Juniors—Percy Wilhtman, dame,- 1'ccher, Robert Boettler. Edward Mar quot, Leo Scharver. Kiveiie Schafer. AI'.dersi n Schiltz, Laid Sun,: Warstler, William Wri'.ht. WILL ISSUE BONDS FOR STORM SEWER1 To Run From Main Street Iri Westerly Direction and Will Cost About $12,000—More Equipment For Firemen. TO REVISE ORDINANCES At the meeting on Monday night the Council of North Canton passed an ordinance to issue bonds for the purpose of constructing a storm sewer from Main street in a westerly direction to West street, extended northwardly to oue lot No. 4 and to clean out, dredge, widen and deepend the Willaman ditch from the end of such' proposed storm sewer in a westward!-? direction to the east line of out lot No. G. The bonds are to be $800 each, numbered from 1 to 15, not lo be dated later than November 1, 1923, and draw- interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum, payable May 1' and December 1. They run until November i, 103!'. Another ordinance passed i.s to revise, codify, and rearrange the general ordinance of the village of North Canton. .More Fire Equipment The duestion of more equipment for fighting fires has been agitated for some time, and the Councilmen believe with Fire Chief Joe Smith that North Canton should be protected in every possible way. As a result of the debate up to the minute equipment will be given the firemen. October 7 tn 13 is "fire prevention week" all over Ohio, and Council granted Chief Smith permission to employ enough men to make an inspection lour of the town during that week. To Examine Water Dr. Peters, health commissioner in Canton, has been invited to bring his retainers to North Canton and get sample of the drink water for the purpose of having the same analyzed by the State Board of Health. This is merely a precautionary measure, and is done to protect the citizens before and not "after." The water here is said to stand the test. Sidewalk Completed The sidewalk on Royer street having been completed the clerk was anthor- j izeil to mail bills to property owners as soon as the charges are fig-.-rcd out by the village engineer. (die; -o- GREETED THE ROSS Several Hundred Men .Meet Him A; Hoover Camn. W. H. Hoover returned home last week, and as announced in The Sun, Ihe members of the Men's Bible class and other men in the Christian church planned to meet him at the Hoove: camp on Thursday evening. The\ were there to the number of severa hundred, and The Boss was kept bus-, extending his hand to them. A big meal, baseball, volleyball, illustrated songs and othei amusements went across big. The feature cf the baseball game was the hitting and base running of Harry Evans. He would be rouniting the sacks even now- had; not some one ihouted that they were patting the cantaloupe on the table. Then he made a bee-line foi the other side of the fence and the game came to an end. Score (mark in your own figuipg). The umpire's job was an easy one, owing Mo the fact that each player decided the point' that concerned the play :n dispute.. ,i ' '. ° *- Miss Florence Roberts of Wooster \ isited Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Roberts from Sunday morning until Monday evening. VOLUNTEERS ASK HELP Will Be Glad To Accept Fruit For the Needy. The Volunteers of America, wdio are row running what uaed to be the Brier Brca Home of Canton, are asking all persons who hi ve fruit they can spare, to donate it to them. Their home ir. on !-'j-:th street N. E. If those who huve an oll'eriii'j, can imi driver il in Canton wil! leave i; with Mrs. Mungrave it will reach it-, destination. This ap- p-.;J is made for 1 !-.■ hi ;t ';;,• Hie Loyal Helper;- cla'-T, of ■.!.'-. '.-'l.'.'i. t;.;n church. THE DEATH ROLL T1H.M '..' 'i'i ! !.V Thomas Ti.lly, ;.:".-.■! Ur< yi -. -., ■ ■> miles from Massill 'i, w;..-' l.lh' ,-■ ::.ri in the cemetery at Massillon on Wednesday. He wa': married to Ed i\i.:-- C'arty's sister, who with six • hhuii.-i survive him. Three of the d.i .-'.h'er.; are convent sisters; two, Ma.y '-..'-l Helen, are ai homo Jerome, the. so::, is married. Mr. and Mrs. McCarty and r.cweral of the children left North Cai:l.en on Wednesday morning to attend flic funeral. Thomas Tulh' had many lriend.;, aid it is said he held them because he never broks a promise ar.d waa loyal to then1 at all times. WILLIAM L. NORD1CK William L. Nordick, 10 months old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar J. Nordick, died on Monday afternoon after an illness of a few days. Funeral sendees were held in St. Mary's Catholic church in Canton on Wednesday morning. Burial in Calvary cemetery. Father Wagner officiated. The baby was tlie great-gran l-child of ft.is. Joe Marchand of Cole a\enue. W. H. WHITNEY (£;) Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Martin and daughter Naomi were called to Akron to attend the funeral of tlieir brother-in-law, M. H. Whitney, which took place on Monday afternoon. .,-">'•'.i^.
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An Independent Newspaper That Plays No Favorites Among Advertisers or Subscribers, and With One Price To AH
x ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL
Enrollment of 142 As Compared
With 108 Last Year Leads To
the Belief That Another Story
Will Be Necessary.
St. Faul's Parochial school opened
rhe new year with an enrollment of
142 as compared to 108 of the preceding year. Eight grades are taught
in the school, with an average of 18
pupils to a grade. All the graduates
of last year's 8th grade are now attending the local public high school.
At the present time there are four
spacious, well-lighted class-rooms in
St.. Paul's school in charge of competent teachers, all members of the religious order of the Humility of Mary,
graduates of Normal school and holding- state certificates. This religious
order cf sisters, as well as other
orders, makes school-teaching its life
work. Many members of these orders,
unknown to the world, possess college
and university degrees.
New Teacher From Cleveland
With one exception, the staff of
teachers is the same as last year. The
exception is Sr. M. Cleophas, in charge
of the 7th and 8th grades, who was
transferred here from St. Edward's
V".. school in Cleveland. She takes the
place of Sr. M. Regina Mercedes, the
latter having been transferred to take
a class at Mt. Marie Academy. Rev.
R. C. Kotheimer acts as principal of
the school. Having had charge of a
school of 700 in Akron for ten years,
Father Kotheimer is by no means a
novice in this phase of his work.
The new school building has been
arranged so that an additional story
■ can be added whenever the need
arises, and if the enrollment increases
in the same proportion of this year,
the need for additional room will demand the other story sooner than expected.
4^^**4i*4*.*4*f******^l4*** *********** .
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* N. B. Rudder Backs His Opinion X
V With a Subscription. +
N. B. Radder, a- farmer residing on route 2, Worth Canton,
in subscribing for The Sun Baid
it was "the best all-around
newspaper he knew anything
about, and he made it a point
to read every line each week."
As Mr. Radder backs his opinion with the thing called money
we accept the compliment in the
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Ruth Kling, 91, of Ankeny passed away Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, at Taylor Hospice House in Des Moines, Iowa.
A funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at Ankeny Funeral Home 1510 W. First St., Ankeny, Iowa. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, at the funeral home.
Edna Ruth Kling was born Feb. 4, 1921, in Delta, Iowa, to John Clayton and Jennie (Hamilton) Cook. She grew up in Jasper County and graduated from Newton High School in 1938. On August 14, 1945, Ruth was united in marriage to John Philip Kling in Newton, Iowa. The couple was blessed with six children.
Ruth and Phil loved to travel all around central Iowa to various dance halls. She was a longtime member of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Des Moines, Iowa. Ruth was an avid reader and also enjoyed word search puzzles, her pets, photography, and the changing of seasons in Iowa. Mostly she loved watching her grandchildren and great-grandchildren grow up.
Survivors include her children, Sally Ann Kling, Peggy Jean Klinge, Jennie Mae (Mark) Anderson, Clayton Philip (Deborah) Kling, and Vickie Lee (James) Roach; 13 grandchildren; 312⁄3 great-grandchildren; and many nieces, nephews, and cousins. She was preceded in death by her husband, Phil in 2010; parents; son, Bill Kling; and brothers, Willis Cook and Bob Cook.
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WASHINGTON – With six days until the election, President Obama's double-digit lead over Mitt Romney when it comes to whom voters trust more on health policy has eroded over the last month, according to the latest Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll.
The poll, conducted every month, continues to show that voters are more likely to trust Obama than Romney to do a better job on health issues ranging from lowering health care costs to determining the future of Medicare and Medicaid.
But Obama's edge on most health issues has narrowed to just five to eight percentage points, according to October results released Wednesday. In September, the president had a 16 to 18 percentage point lead over Romney on these issues.
There is one exception: Obama continues to enjoy a large advantage on the issue of women's reproductive health choices and services. On that topic, 51 percent of voters said they were more likely to trust Obama to do a better job. Only 33 percent chose Romney.
The largest change in public opinion on the candidates' ability to handle health issues was in the future of Medicare, with Obama and Romney virtually tied at 46 percent to 41 percent. Last month, 52 percent trusted Obama and 36 percent favored Romney.
Among seniors over the age of 65, however, Romney enjoys the lead when it comes to the future of Medicare; 48 percent trust Romney, more compared to Obama's 43 percent. Seniors say they overwhelmingly prefer the current Medicare system – with the government guaranteeing all seniors the same set of health insurance benefits – over the premium support system Romney is advocating, but Romney has promised not to subject current retirees or those close to retiring to his plan. Among the elderly, 72 percent prefer the status quo.
Romney has proposed privatizing Medicare, and changing the system to allow the government to allot each senior a fixed amount of money to buy either traditional Medicare or a private plan – an idea most voters of all ages oppose.
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"I'm a traitor. I came to Montauk to surf, and now I play golf," the man known as the "Thunder From Down Under," said last week at his house in Montauk. Anton Fig, the drummer responsible for driving the orchestra for the David Letterman show for the past 25 years, loves the links, the Montauk Downs course in particular.
On Saturday night, he will light the fire under Skollie, a band of three world-class musicians rocking upstairs at the Montauk Downs to benefit what the drummer, and many others, believe to be one of the finest public courses in the country. With state park funds spread thin in the current economy, the links could use some help keeping up appearances. "Manpower is diminished. They're looking at alternative ways to raise money. I'd like to give back," Mr. Fig said.
Skollie (South African slang for a lowlife) also includes Blondie Chaplin, a guitarist with the Rolling Stones for the past 10 years and the vocalist on the Beach Boys hit "Sail on Sailor." Keith Lentin, with Link Wray for years, plays bass. Both men played on Paul Butterfield's most recent album. All three musicians have made music together for decades going back to their early years in South Africa.
Karlus Trapp will get things started with an acoustic set. Doors open at 8 for an evening of what promises to be some of the best music East Enders are likely to hear all summer, a bargain at only $25 in advance, $30 at the door.
Mr. Fig offered his surf-to-golf conversion apologetically as someone who had grown up surfing in and around Cape Town. Turning coat was probably out of his control, he said, "a predestination story," a genetic response.
"My father was an excellent golfer. He had a one or three handicap. In my 30s, I was drawn to it. I have been in Montauk for almost 25 years, the first 15 surfing. Then, I played the Montauk course. It was love at first sight. Since then I've played on courses around the country and I think this is one of the best. Each hole is a real individual, different every day. Dad did play Montauk on one of his visits."
Mr. Fig started playing drums at the age of 4. He came to the U.S. in the early 1970s and studied jazz and classical music at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston before moving to New York City in 1976. "I did session work plus gigs with all different bands.
He has played with Miles Davis, James Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Winwood, Bonnie Raitt, and Tony Bennett. The CBS Orchestra has backed the likes of Stevie Wonder, Little Richard, B.B. King, Al Green, and Eric Clapton. The list goes on.
Mr. Chaplin hails from Durban, Natal, South Africa. He started playing music at an early age, but apartheid caused him and his band, the Flames, to seek more and better opportunities in England. He was 16. Ginger Baker, the legendary drummer for Cream and Blind Faith, a resident of South Africa, said Mr. Chaplin had to be good to get out of South Africa when he did on music alone. He caught the attention of the Beach Boys' Carl Wilson in London, resulting in a spot in that band for a time and roots in Los Angeles, now his base. But more recently, in New York he worked with Keith Richards on his solo album, "Wingless Angels."
Mr. Lentin has lent his bass guitar and production skills to a number of bands starting with Spider, a group that included Mr. Fig, Manda Blue, Holly Knight, and Jimmy Lowell. He, too, was born in Cape Town and shared the dream come true of making it in the music biz in the U.S.
"No, I don't play golf, but I'm going to make Fig wear a helmet so he doesn't get hit in the head with a ball," Mr. Chaplin said.


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April 25, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The excitement around the 2009 Yale football season has been building ever since January, when Tom Williams was introduced as the Joel E. Smilow '54 Head Coach of Football. Saturday was the first chance for the general public to get a real sense for what the new Bulldogs are about, as the team held its annual Blue-White Scrimmage at the Yale Bowl, Class of 1954 Field. It was also a chance for Williams to evaluate his team under game conditions, and he liked what he saw.
"I thought the guys came out and competed very hard," Williams said. "I was excited to watch them. I think we've got a great young nucleus of football players to complement the returners from last year. If they continue to develop as they have this spring, we'll have as much depth as I think Yale has had in a long time."
Williams came to Yale after two seasons as an assistant with the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars. A Stanford graduate, he has made collegiate coaching stops at his alma mater along with Hawaii, San Jose State and Washington. The former linebacker also brought in seven new assistant coaches when he came to Yale.
There has also been plenty of change on the field for the Bulldogs. The defense has seen much turnover in personnel, but the Elis are ready to embrace the challenge of continuing to lead the nation in scoring defense. They allowed three touchdown drives on Saturday, but two of those came during the "goal-line" segment of the scrimmage, with the offense starting from first-and-goal at the five-yard line.
"We still have the same goals -- be No. 1 in the nation in scoring defense, and all that stuff statistically," said senior captain Paul Rice, who moves from cornerback to linebacker this year. "But it's going to be a different kind of style. A little more aggressive."
That aggression starts up front, where the lone returning starting lineman -- junior Tom McCarthy -- feels that players such as sophomores Pat Moran and Joe Young are ready to step up. The whistle blew as soon as a defensive player got near a quarterback in Saturday's scrimmage, so that was the closest anyone could get to a "sack", but the defensive line still had four of those.
"Pat's a big, strong kid," McCarthy said. "He's going to draw a lot of double-teams this year. Not only is that going to help out me, but it's going to free up the linebackers behind us. Joe and Pat are some big bruisers up front."
And Williams, with his NFL background, sees the potential for freshman defensive lineman Jake Stoller to make it to that level some day.
"Jake has the opportunity to be an NFL prospect," Williams said. "He's got a big upside."
The addition of Rice shores up a linebacking corps that loses a pair of starters. Junior Tim Handlon, a two-year letterwinner who saw time in all 10 games as a linebacker last year, gives Yale another player with experience ready to step in. And freshman Nick Schneider brought Saturday's scrimmage to a dramatic conclusion by generating the only turnover, an interception.
Junior Justin Oplinger returns after starting all 10 games at defensive end, and fellow junior defensive end Travis Henry continues to let his hits do the talking as he states his case for playing time. By far the loudest cheers on Saturday came when Henry leveled the ball carrier on a punt return, underscoring his ability to swing the momentum of a game with just one play.
The lone returning starter in the defensive secondary is strong safety Larry Abare, who is back for the 2009 season after receiving a medical hardship waiver (he missed the majority of 2007 with an injury). Sophomore Adam Money emerged as a starter at cornerback in the second-to-last game of 2008, and freshman Drew Baldwin saw action in all 10 games playing primarily on special teams. Sophomore safety John Pagliaro and freshman defensive back Geoff Dunham, who each played in all 10 games, add to the impressive list of younger players who could make impacts in the secondary next season.
"It's exciting to see what we're going to be able to do Saturdays in the fall," said McCarthy. "We've got a lot of playmakers. We lost a lot of guys in the secondary, but that doesn't mean the guys we have aren't good players in their own right. They were buried behind some other great players."
There's also a new leader for the Yale defense, as Williams brought in Ikaika Malloe from Hawaii as defensive coordinator. The energetic Malloe has made an instant impression.
"I love him," Henry said. "He definitely has a different approach to the game. He's fired up, he's running around, jumping around, head-butting people. It feels like there's a player on the sideline -- he's got a lot of life."
Henry also noted that having a new coaching staff has helped the Bulldogs bring along some of their younger players.
"We're doing a good job bringing our new guys in and letting them feel confident," Henry said. "The coaches are doing a good job. We talked as a senior class before spring ball started. We made sure one of the first things we told the younger guys was that they are just as important to the team as everyone else. Everyone's confident in what they can do. Having a new staff, a lot of guys feel like they have an opportunity to play -- everyone's on a level playing field."
There's also opportunity on the offensive side of the ball, with Williams bringing in Brian Stark from San Diego State as the new offensive coordinator. With the graduation of all-time leading rusher Mike McLeod '09, the Bulldogs worked five different ball carriers into the scrimmage on Saturday. Junior Rodney Reynolds had the lone rushing touchdown, while freshman Alex Thomas found the end zone by turning a short pass into a 38-yard TD. Junior Jordan Farrell showed he is fully recovered from the injury that cost him the 2008 season, and Ricky Galvez and Brandon Scott also saw time.
The Bulldogs also gave extensive work to each of their three quarterbacks, as the position is shaping up to be heavily competitive. Sophomore Brook Hart started the final five games of 2008, but he is being challenged by both junior Rich Scudellari and freshman Bryan Farris.
"All the guys have done a great job," Williams said. "Brook's had a great spring, Scudellari has done some really nice things. Bryan was probably the unknown coming into spring, and he certainly has raised our eyebrows."
Farris and Hart each had touchdown tosses, Hart's on the 38-yarder to Thomas and Farris' on a nicely thrown fade to junior Reid Lathan from four yards out. Scudellari completed a team-high eight of 13 pass attempts. Farris also had 14 yards rushing.
Lathan is part of a group that gives Yale 121 returning receptions from last year, led by junior H-back John Sheffield (43 for 359 yards) and sophomore receiver Jordan Forney (26 for 374 yards). Sophomore receiver Peter Balsam, a converted quarterback, came on strong at the end of the season and had 12 catches for 299 yards. Junior A.J. Haase led the tight ends in catches with 10, and sophomore Caleb Smith provided one of the highlights on Saturday with a 23-yard catch from Farris. In all, 10 of 16 completions on Saturday went to freshmen or sophomores.
The blocking may very well be up to a younger group, as four of the five offensive linemen who started on Saturday were freshmen or sophomores.
"Those are the guys that have played the best," Williams said. "As I say, we [coaches] don't determine the depth chart -- the players do. That's what they have determined, so that's who we started out with. They know that if that changes, they won't be the first guys out there. The whole idea is to continue to compete. You have to earn your job every day."
Shane Bannon, the lone returning letterwinner at fullback, is a sophomore as well.
Special teams is one area where the Bulldogs have many key returnees. Return man Gio Christodoulou was as elusive as ever on Saturday, breaking off multiple punt returns for long yardage. And the kicking chores next season will once again be handled by junior Tom Mante, another NFL prospect. The second team All-Ivy punter and honorable mention All-Ivy kicker averaged nearly 50 yards per punt on Saturday, and he is one of many who credit the new coaching staff for adding to the team's intensity.
"They brought a definite new swagger to this team on both sides of the ball," Mante said. "And we're not going to want to let the coaches down, because they have set the level high. We have to play to their expectations, and hopefully the swagger will carry over to the fall."
McCarthy has seen an immediate difference in the spring practices, which were condensed into three weeks of four practices each.
"The enthusiasm is definitely noticeable," McCarthy said. "Everybody's running around in practice. It's up-tempo, and everybody's flying around the whole time."
That was part of Williams' plan, and Saturday was one of the first public signs of it. It was also the end of a busy week that saw the Yale football team contributing to the community as well, leading a record-breaking marrow donor testing drive Thursday that attracted more than 700 participants. The weekend's festivities started with a meet-and-greet for alums and parents with the coaches on Friday night and continued with a pre-scrimmage and post-scrimmage tailgate on Saturday. The beautiful spring weather helped generate a large turnout at the Yale Bowl, Class of 1954 Field.
"Just being a part of Yale tradition -- having so many people come out from the community, along with the parents and former players, to witness this new era -- for me personally, it was a sight to behold," Williams said. "The energy and aura was palpable. I felt like the enthusiasm was at a peak. It humbles me as the head coach here to be a part of that."
And while it was important for Williams to continue to connect with Yale's storied past, the weekend was also about building for the future. Along those lines, there were a couple dozen recruits at the scrimmage as potential members of the Yale Football Class of 2014. Their day started with a tour of the campus and ended at the Yale Bowl, where there are also plenty of signs of progress off the field. The Kenney Family Field Center is rising gradually in the area behind the press box and will soon be home to a new team room and an area for alumni functions. The Jensen Family Plaza will be built in the area right in front and will serve as a grand entrance to the Bowl.
Even with those facilities still in progress, the recruits saw enough on Saturday to make a lasting impression.
"They were blown away by the campus, the weight room, Payne Whitney Gym and all of those other things," Williams said. "They were ecstatic. They saw enough to make them feel good about Yale as where they'd like to attend."
Yale opens the 2009 season at Georgetown on Sept. 19.
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Costello slashes taxes, revamps welfareMatthew Liddy, ABC News Online
The Federal Government's multi-billion dollar tax plan will come under greater scrutiny today as Treasurer Peter Costello promotes his 10th Budget.
The Treasurer's Budget promises tax cuts for all Australians and a shake-up of the welfare system designed to get single mothers and disability pensioners into the work force.
High-income earners will pick up the lion's share of the tax breaks, with low to average earners keeping just $1.50 to $6 a week extra in their pockets.
Mr Costello says it is a "Budget for the future" but has brushed off questions about his own future and leadership ambitions, refusing to say whether the tax cuts were his or the Prime Minister's idea.
Last year, Mr Costello shifted the tax brackets to deliver cuts to Australians earning more than $50,000.
This year he has gone further, delivering tax relief across the board while forecasting an underlying cash surplus at $8.9 billion.
"This Budget is about sharing the benefits of the Government's strong economic management with all Australians," Mr Costello said.
From July 1, the 17 per cent tax rate - affecting income from $6,000 to $21,600 - will be cut to 15 per cent.
The 42 per cent tax threshold was already due to increase from $58,000 to $63,000 from the same date but in addition will now climb to $70,000 from July 1 next year.
Further up the scale, the 47 per cent threshold will increase from $70,000 to $95,000 this year and then rise again to $125,000 from the middle of next year.
The changes will deliver savings of $1.50 a week for those on $10,000 a year, $6 a week for those earning $25,000-$55,000 a year and $41 a week for Australians earning $100,000 a year. (See how the tax cuts affect you.)
In percentage terms, the lowest-income earners will get a tax break of 18 per cent of tax paid and the highest nearly 10 per cent, while average earners will save as little as 2-3 per cent.
Super surcharge scrapped
The Government was tipped to cut the superannuation surcharge - affecting middle and upper-income earners - from 12 per cent to 7.5 per cent. Instead, Mr Costello has abolished it.
"The surcharge was introduced in 1996 when Labor left a large Budget deficit," Mr Costello told Parliament in his Budget speech.
"We have now paid off most of Labor's legacy ... so tonight I announce the complete abolition of the surcharge."
The move will save taxpayers $2.5 billion over the next four years.
Tax cuts are also in order for business, with the Government abolishing the 3 per cent tariff on imported business inputs which do not have substitutes in Australia from midnight tonight.
Treasury says the move will save business $1.3 billion over five years and "improve the international competitiveness of Australian business", particularly manufacturing.
Businesses will save $205 million over three years as the Government allows tax deducations for 'blackhole' expenditures.
Mr Costello says he is "very confident" the tax cuts will not come back to bite taxpayers in the form of an interest rates hike.
Welfare into work
As expected, the Budget outlines financial incentives and penalties designed to drive single mothers and disability pensioners, among others, off welfare and into work.
The Government says growing numbers of working-age Australians are dependent on welfare and wants to reverse that trend.
"If you are able-bodied and you are of working age, which is 15 to 65, then you are expected to look for work if you are capable of it," Mr Costello said.
"If more people are able to move from welfare to work then this will help them with higher incomes and better participation in mainstream economic life," he added in Parliament.
"It will also reduce the obligation on other taxpayers whose taxes pay for the welfare support."
Under the measures, single parents receiving the Parenting Payment will be expected to look for at least part-time work once their youngest child turns six and is ready for school.
And the Government will cut the Disability Support Pension for anyone capable of working more than 15 hours a week at award wages.
Instead, they will move onto the Newstart allowance and have to look for work.
The move is particularly targeted at people with bad backs, who the Government says may not be able to perform manual labour but could perform non-manual jobs.
Mr Costello says 6.5 per cent of the work force is on the Disability Support Pension, many of them because there is no requirement to look for work. He added: "6.5 per cent of the work force is not disabled."
But wary of a "scare campaign", the Government has quarantined the existing 700,000 disability pensioners from the changes.
"The object of these changes is to protect the genuinely disabled but to encourage those capable of part-time work to look for it," Mr Costello said.
The measures are to kick in from July next year, with Mr Costello saying they should see 190,000 extra Australians move into jobs by 2008-09.
Carrot and stick
As an incentive, the 17 per cent tax rate drops to 15 cents and the rate at which part-time workers lose their welfare entitlements when they earn more at work will drop.
"Instead of 70 cents in the dollar withdrawal it will be 60 cents after they have earned $250 per fortnight," Mr Costello said.
Mr Costello says the Government will spend more than $2 billion on services to help the groups find work over the next four years, more than the changes will save in welfare payments.
The money will be spent on rehabilitation programs and vocational education and training.
The Treasurer says child care has been "massively increased" to help cope with the added demand, including 80,000 new places in outside-school-hours care.
Mr Costello says that while the 'welfare into work' measures will cost money in the short-term, the Government expects to break even after eight years and then they will start saving money "down the line".
Along with the financial incentives come tougher penalties.
From July 1 next year, a job-seeker who does not meet requirements will have the payments suspended until they meet their obligations.
Repeated breaches will result in an eight-week suspension.
Despite some pre-Budget speculation to the contrary, decisions about penalties will remain with Centrelink.
Economic trends
The underlying cash surplus of $8.9 billion is about double that predicted in December's Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook.
Treasury has revised down its estimate of economic growth this year to 2 per cent, predicting that will climb to 3 per cent in 2005-06 and 3.5 per cent the following year.
On inflation, it projects a rate of 2.75 per cent next financial year, dropping to 2.5 per cent in 2006-07.
That contrasts with the Reserve Bank's assessment that inflation will reach 3 per cent this year.
Mr Costello says the unemployment rate is "expected to remain around its 28-year low".
Future Fund
Though scant on details, the Government has confirmed it plans to establish a 'Future Fund' to help pay for unfunded superannuation liabilities and save for the demands of an ageing Australian population.
"It will begin to fund the liabilities we have already incurred but not yet made provision to pay for," Mr Costello said.
"Earnings will accumulate in this fund and it will be safeguarded by legislation.
"Whilst the fund will invest the money allocated to it, no government will be able to draw money out of it until it is sufficient to meet all the unfunded liabilities to which it is dedicated.
"A statutory independent board will be created to manage the fund."
Mr Costello refused to say whether the complete proceeds from the full sale of Telstra would be paid into the 'Future Fund' but said that was the "object".
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Rob Pomazak's extensive strength and conditioning background was one of his chief selling points when St. Charles North hired him last year as the school's new football coach.
Now, Pomazak plans to put his stamp on the school's weightroom with a creative new fundraiser.
On Saturday, Pomazak is helping oversee the school's "1st Annual Pennies 4 Pounds Lift-A-Thon," in which dozens of North student-athletes will record lifts in the bench press, squat and power clean, with per-pound pledges helping raise money for what Pomazak envisions as substantial upgrades to North's weightroom.
"When I got here in February, we came in and kind of took a look at the facility itself, and it's a great space, there's plenty of room, we've got these high ceilings – but really looking at one of the major needs we had is probably getting more racks," Pomazak said. "When people see racks, they think of straight power lifting, but in today's day and age of strength and conditioning, racks can be used as self-contained areas for athletes to train. You can do a lot of station work at them."
Pomazak emphasized the fundraiser is designed to benefit all North students and athletes, not only the football program. Creating a more versatile and inclusive weightroom is a central part of Pomazak's goal in the coming years.
"A lot of our training was done in the hallways," said Pomazak, who was strength and conditioning coordinator at Elk Grove and also holds those duties at North. "Kind of what we're looking to do is make this a one-stop shop where you feel like you can have your whole program in here, and you can get everything that you need to do, whether your focus is strength or endurance or if it's speed and agility and quickness. We kind of want to make this room meet every single student-athlete's needs, and I feel like right now maybe it only meets some of them."
At least 60 North student-athletes are expected to participate in the Lift-A-Thon, representing several different sports.
North football junior running back Nick Edlund likes the creative approach the school is taking with the fundraiser.
"It's definitely a lot more interesting, a lot more kind of motivating than just going door-to-door and just selling raffle tickets or something like that," Edlund said. "You pretty much reel in how much money you lift that day. It's an interesting twist to it and I think it motivates a lot more kids to try and challenge themselves to go and raise money for a good, winning program."
North's boosters organization is helping orchestrate the event. Boosters president Tom Mullally said an event that benefits all of North's programs is a natural extension of the school recently consolidating to a central boosters system rather than each sport having its own group.
"Being that it's our inaugural, we're certainly doing everything we can to shed as much light onto it as possible because I think if it's successful this year, it gives us a great foundation to build on it year over year," Mullally said.
Batavia revamped its weight-training facility a few years ago, and the Bulldogs' football program – coincidentally or not – has enjoyed a historically successful run since, including the school's first football state championship last season.
Referring to Batavia, Pomazak cited a "direct correlation between their physical strength and their emotional investment in their team." North has missed the playoffs four straight seasons, going 5-4 in Pomazak's debut in 2013.
"I think that type of team-building is something that you just can't replicate," Pomazak said. "I really think if you get that in place and you get the equipment in place and kids start to buy into that atmosphere of this is the place where you do win championships, I think you're only going to get more kids out for your program, I think you're going to have stronger kids who are coming out and I think more committed kids."


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I have to agree with the dreaded 70% that support Kevorkian's work. Don't get me wrong, I am not Jewish, and I love Judaism. however...
I have chronic pain and other issues with no help to be seen anywhere on the horizon soon. I have looked in as many places possible for help, and I often wonder that if sometimes if I pray to G-d, that it is truly useless. What if He decides to simply keep me in the situation I am in and not help me?? He's G-d. He can do or not do anything He wants. It's known in Judaism that NO ONE can help you or hurt you without G-d's permission. Must I not account for the possibility that g-d will keep the status quo and not hear me??
Sometimes, I think using the "World to Come" as a deterrent to difficult issues like assisted suicide become some sort of carrot to be waved in front of a racing rabbit's nose.
I really would rather not live my life in the pursuit of just-out-of-reach "carrots". I believe in quality of life and not just quantity. If someone has a severe or even mild disability and can accept their quality of life, that's wonderful. But for those who can't, who am I to have the audacity to say "Grin and bear it! And just remember, G-d will take away your 'carrot' if you don't!"
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Generally system programming is considered to be the domain of compiled languages, especially when the system under consideration is MS Windows. However there are always exceptions to the general rule. When the scripting language in consideration is of the caliber of Python, the exception is more profound.
Python gets its caliber from the fact that for each platform there is a specific set of extensions, using which the full potential of the host system can be completely tapped into. Also there are no "semantics" or syntactic changes required when using these extensions. Thus the developer can avail himself of the power of the native APIs without leaving the highly flexible environment of Python.
The extension to the Windows platform contains three distinct sets of extensions — the COM extension, access to the native Win32 API, and the PythonWin GUI extensions. In this article, I will be discussing the COM extensions. The first section will provide an overview of the COM technology. The focus of the second section will be the steps involved in using the COM extensions. In the third segment, I will be using the COM extensions to access the mail merge functionalities of MS Word. That is the outline for this discussion.
{mospagebreak title=What is COM?}
Component Object Model is a software architecture that allows software to be built from binary components. This implies that if COM objects are used in building software, they can communicate with each other without knowing each other's details. Even if the components are implemented in different languages, they can communicate with each other.
At the lowest level, COM is all about interfaces. It leaves the implementation details up to the class that implements the interface. In short, COM makes a clear distinction between the interfaces and the objects that implement these interfaces. When working with COM it is important to understand how COM views certain common terms. They are:
1. Interface
2. Objects
3. Globally Unique Identifier
4. COM Libraries
All of these together provide a framework-like implementation to COM specifications. Let's look at the details to understand how these provide the framework-like implementation.
1. Interface:
By definition, "Interface is a class in which all the methods are pure virtual methods." When seen in accordance with the COM specification, interface is a strongly typed "contract" between software components. This contract provides a small but useful set of methods. In essence COM treats interfaces as the definition of an expected behavior and responsibilities. One of the main characteristic features of a COM interface is that if new methods are added to the interface, it becomes a new interface.
The convention for naming interfaces is that the names are preceded with an "I." The best example is the IUnkown interface. It is defined by COM to implement some essential functionality. All COM components are required to implement the IUnkown interface. The specialty of the IUnkown interface is that by implementing it, COM objects can control their own lifespan. Thus through the IUnknown interface, COM provides the basis of a likely framework.
2. Objects:
In OOPs, an object is an instance of a class. But in COM, an object is a piece of compiled code that provides some specific service to rest of the software system. As described under Interface above, the COM objects (or components as they are generally called) support the IUnknown interface. The main difference between simple objects and COM components is that unlike other objects, one COM component can never access another COM component directly. The access must be through interface pointers.
COM defines many interfaces. One of the implemented interfaces is the IDispatch interface. It allows COM components to be called from scripting environments. Also, the components that implement IDispatch are known as automation components. The reason is that by using such a COM object, OLE automation can be implemented. As I said in the Interface section, each component has a unique identifier. It is known as GUID.
3. Globally Unique Identifier:
Globally Unique Identifier, or GUID for short, is a 128 bit integer that is guaranteed to be unique across all the COM components used the world over and created in the past or present. The human readable names are provided just for convenience, and their scope is local, which prevents accidental connections to wrong interfaces or methods. When a GUID refers to the class, it is known as CLSID, whereas GUID referring to the interfaces are called IID. The GUIDs can be created using tools such as uuidgen, provided by Microsoft.
4. COM Libraries:
COM library is a system component that provides the mechanics of COM as well as encapsulating the leg work associated with launching COM components and communicating with other components. Generally when a COM component has to be launched, the CLSID of the component is passed to the COM library, which in turn uses the CLSID to look up the associated server code in the registry and launches the component using either CoRegisterClassFactory or DllGetClassFactory.
That's about all the overview about COM. The above described four aspects form the basis for any type of COM application. In the next section I will focus on how Python maps the COM techniques into its domain.
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Now that the basis of COM is clear, it's time to see how to call COM components from the Python environment. This discussion will be focused on automation objects. I will be using the Word automation object as example. There are three major steps in calling a COM component from Python, which are:
1. Importing the win32 module.
2. Creating/launching the COM component.
3. Invoking methods on the object.
All of the above are the common steps to be followed in any type of programming. Still, while calling COM objects from the Python environment, the details of the steps are not that common.
1. Importing win32com package:
All the APIs required to work with the COM object are available in the win32com package. If COM automation objects have to be called, then the client module of the win32 module has to be used. If a server has to be created, then the server module has to be used. Hence to use COM automation objects, the import statement will be:
import win32com.client
2. Creating/launching the COM component:
As discussed in the previous section, COM components are registered with unique CLSIDs and human readable ProgIDs. For example, MS Word defines Word.Application as its ProgID. Using the ProgID, COM objects can be created. To use it with Python, the ProgID has to be passed to the Dispatch method of the client module. For example, to launch a Word automation object, the syntax would be:
import win32com.client
word = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
word is now an object that represents MS Word. Now that we have an object of COM component, let's look at how to call the methods.
3. Invoking methods on the object:
Before actually invoking methods of the MS Word object, it would be better to understand the binding that takes place while calling a method of COM object. There are two types of binding associated with COM components (as is usual in the object-oriented world): late binding and early binding.
With compiled languages, late binding refers to runtime binding of values to the attributes of the object, whereas early binding refers to the value/method resolution at compile time. However, as Python is a scripted language, there is a bit of a twist.
Let's take a look at late binding. In the case of COM it is known as Late Bound Automation. It means that Python doesn't have knowledge of the property or method available for an object in advance. So whenever a property is referenced, the object is queried for that property. The following example will make this more clear. The Word automation object contains a property that decides the visibility of the object. The datatype is Boolean. So when Python sees this code:
it queries the word object to determine whether there is a property named visible. If it is there, its value would be set to 1. This is Late Bound Automation. And it is the default behavior of COM object launched by the Python environment. In the terminology of PythonCOM, which is the base package of PythonWin, this behavior is known as dynamic dispatch.
Now let's look at early binding. It is the opposite of late binding. If the supporting source packages of any COM object are available, then there is no requirement for dynamic dispatch. For this to happen, the PyMake utility has to be used. It generates Python source code supporting the COM interface using COM type library. The whys and wherefores will be discussed in the future. There is no change in semantics in the case of Early Binding. The only change would be in the internal working and improved execution.
To create a early-bound interface, start the PyMake from the win32com directory. Once started, it would present a list of objects MakePy can use to support early binding. Selecting the Word entry from the list and clicking the OK button would cause the support interface to be generated. The list presented by PyMake would be something like this:
So each COM object has its own methods. For example, to invoke the open method of word object, the statement would be:
word. Open(doc_template_name)
where doc_template_name is the name of the document to be opened. If Python source is available for the interface, it would be used. Otherwise dynamic dispatch would be used. That brings us to the end of this section. In the next section I will be applying the concepts and techniques discussed until now to create a MS Word Mail-Merge application using COM.
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The application to be developed will take the advantage of early binding. So for the application to work efficiently, having the supporting interface generated would be a better choice. Moving on to the application, I will be developing the mail-merge application (without any GUI) by using the mail-merge functionality provided by the Word automation. The application requires the following to work:
1. A doc template for Word.
2. The addresses which have to be merged with the template in CSV format
3. The document where the merged document must be saved.
Now let's look at the code. First, the imports:
import os, win32com.client
The os package is required to determine the absolute path of all the required files, which is done in the next statements path using the path module:
import os, win32com.client
doc_template_name = os.path.abspath('template.doc')
data_source_name = os.path.abspath('record23.csv')
doc_final_name = os.path.abspath('record23.doc')
then create an object of Word application:
import os, win32com.client
doc_template_name = os.path.abspath('template.doc')
data_source_name = os.path.abspath('record23.csv')
doc_final_name = os.path.abspath('record23.doc')
app = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
The next step is to obtain the document object by calling the open method of Documents object (which is contained within the returned app object) with the doc template's name.
import os, win32com.client
doc_template_name = os.path.abspath('template.doc')
data_source_name = os.path.abspath('record23.csv')
doc_final_name = os.path.abspath('record23.doc')
app = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
doc_template = app.Documents.Open(doc_template_name)
Next we must obtain reference to the MailMerge object, which provides the mail-merge functionality. Then we must open the data source for addresses using the OpenDataSource() method of the MailMerge object. And then we will merge the data source with the document. For brevity only one record is being merged:
import os, win32com.client
doc_template_name = os.path.abspath('template.doc')
data_source_name = os.path.abspath('record23.csv')
doc_final_name = os.path.abspath('record23.doc')
app = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
doc_template = app.Documents.Open(doc_template_name)
mm = doc_template.MailMerge
#attach data source to template
#merge just one record – this step may be redundant
mm.DataSource.FirstRecord = 1
mm.DataSource.LastRecord = 1
#send the merge result to a new document
mm.Destination = win32com.client.constants.wdSendToNewDocument
Before calling the execute method to merge the documents, the destination has to be specified, which is done using the COM constant- win32com.client.constants.wdSendToNewDocument.
Next we must obtain the reference of the newly merged document and then save it to the required file:
import os, win32com.client
doc_template_name = os.path.abspath('template.doc')
data_source_name = os.path.abspath('record23.csv')
doc_final_name = os.path.abspath('record23.doc')
app = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
doc_template = app.Documents.Open(doc_template_name)
mm = doc_template.MailMerge
#attach data source to template
#merge just one record – this step may be redundant
mm.DataSource.FirstRecord = 1
mm.DataSource.LastRecord = 1
#send the merge result to a new document
mm.Destination = win32com.client.constants.wdSendToNewDocument
#apparently app.Documents is like a stack
doc_final = app.Documents[0]
#save our new document
Once the task is done, the cleaning up has to be done by calling close on the final document object and doc template, apart from calling quit on the Word object to stop processing.
That brings us to the end of this discussion. What I have discussed here is just the tip of the iceberg. What else can be achieved using win32com package will be discussed in the future. Till then…


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With members sporting stage names like Snaxx, V-Chip, Murder, Tal Vez and Shorty, Easthampton Savings Band sounds more like a loose association of neighborhood thugs than a musical group—the kind of folks who'd sucker you into a game of three-card Monte or shake you down for your lunch money. In reality, anything dark or seamy about them is effectively exorcised through the music, which is alternatively art-noir and punk-twang, with a warped, primitive-modern country edge one might call "transistorbilly."
ESB's new release, Kunst Master, is a raw but well-produced offering, credited as being "recorded in the barn and basement by James Chiarelli." Though everything from guitar tracks to vocals is innately punky and rooted in a low-fi tradition, it's all crystal clear in the mix, to such a degree that any real fan of music or even noise might ask, "Why doesn't everybody do this?" In 2013, it seems pointless to limit the fidelity of a recording to indulge sentimental affection for things like tape hiss or some other such purposefully imposed quality inhibitor.
Easthampton Savings Band certainly needs no such hipster tricks to retain its bizarre indie sound. Lead vocalist Jenna Lloyd (Snaxx) has a powerful and crazy warbly voice that can only be described as a combination of Gothic, spastic and operatic. Trilly and shout-y at once, it's almost the female equivalent of a voice like The Dead Kennedys' Jello Biafra's, with femme fatale style that recalls '80s punk/goth icons like Siouxsie and the Banshees or The Cramps (whose "TV Set" they cover on Kunst Master). Add in some deep reverb here and there and cello and violin parts by (respectively) Vanessa Zaehring (V-Chip) and Margaret Chiarelli (who also plays bass), odd spoken-word voiceovers and strange echoes and synth effects, and you've got the makings of something pretty original, even for the Pioneer Valley. Guitarist Thomas Ferriter (Murder) rides the line between straight rock and more arty, Bauhaus-style single-note melodies (with generous processing), and drummer Jeff Lloyd (Tal Vez) similarly alternates between solid rock beats and rolling rhythmic pastiches that add a 1969-type psychedelic feel.
As an album, Kunst Master probably would have been hailed as a brave departure from the rock norm in 1986 or so, and even today it's definitely a bold and, at times, passionate piece of work that's obviously a labor of love. There's nothing on the record that you could legitimately call "pop"; it's a refreshingly honest product that isn't in search of anything like "cross-over appeal" or a "broader market."
Like that of a lot of niche bands, ESB's music probably isn't for everybody, but for those who can tap into the band's West Coast-style exploration of music as both therapy and elastic art form, the group may well represent that "it" spot that some people are always craving and even demand.•
Easthampton Savings Band plays a CD release show Aug. 23, 9 p.m., The Elevens, 140 Pleasant St., Northampton, (413) 586-9155. Goddard, Strange Men and Worms also perform.


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Perera, S., Chew, J., Alsharif, A. and Lukyanov, D., 2016. The influence of bore fluid concentration on porous structure in a 13X zeolite adsorbent hollow fibre for gas separation. In: Saudi conference 14-15th February 2016, Scientific Society for Saudi Arabia (organized by the University of Birmingham in the UK), 2016-02-14 - 2016-02-15, Saudi conference 14-15th February, 2016, Scientific Society for Saudi Arabia (organized by the University of Birmingham in the UK.
Foo, R., Vazhnova, T., Lukyanov, D. B., Millington, P., Collier, J., Rajaram, R. and Golunski, S., 2015. Formation of reactive Lewis acid sites on Fe/WO3–ZrO2 catalysts for higher temperature SCR applications. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 162, pp. 174-179.
Lukyanov, D. B., Vazhnova, T., Cherkasov, N., Casci, J. L. and Birtill, J. J., 2014. Insights into Brønsted acid sites in the zeolite mordenite. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118 (41), pp. 23918-23929.
Vazhnova, T. and Lukyanov, D. B., 2013. Fourier self-deconvolution of the IR spectra as a tool for investigation of distinct functional groups in porous materials:Brønsted acid sites in zeolites. Analytical Chemistry, 85 (23), pp. 11291-11296.
Vazhnova, T., Rigby, S. P. and Lukyanov, D. B., 2013. Benzene alkylation with ethane in ethylbenzene over a PtH-MFI catalyst:Kinetic and IR investigation of the catalyst deactivation. Journal of Catalysis, 301, pp. 125-133.
Wong, K. S., Vazhnova, T., Rigby, S. P. and Lukyanov, D. B., 2013. Temperature effects in benzene alkylation with ethane into ethylbenzene over a PtH-MFI bifunctional catalyst. Applied Catalysis A General, 454, pp. 137-144.
Lukyanov, D. B., Beckett, S. J. and Vazhnova, T., 2012. Toward better understanding of the catalytic action of acidic zeolites: investigation in methane and ethane activation and transformation. ACS Catalysis, 2 (12), pp. 2596-2601.
Kolaczkowski, S., Ye, S., Yap, Y., Robinson, K. and Lukyanov, D., 2012. Transient experiments on a full-scale DOC - methodology and techniques to support modelling. Catalysis Today, 188 (1), pp. 53-61.
Ye, S., Yap, Y. H., Kolaczkowski, S. T., Robinson, K. and Lukyanov, D., 2012. Catalyst 'light-off' experiments on a diesel oxidation catalyst connected to a diesel engine - methodology and techniques. Chemical Engineering Research & Design, 90 (6), pp. 834-845.
Lukyanov, D. B. and Vazhnova, T., 2011. Transformation of methane over platinum supported catalysts at moderate temperature. Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 342-343, pp. 1-5.
Chua, L. M., Vazhnova, T., Mays, T. J., Lukyanov, D. B. and Rigby, S. P., 2010. Deactivation of PtH-MFI bifunctional catalysts by coke formation during benzene alkylation with ethane. Journal of Catalysis, 271 (2), pp. 401-412.
Lukyanov, D. B. and Vazhnova, T., 2009. Selective and stable benzene alkylation with methane into toluene over PtH-MFI bifunctional catalyst. Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 305 (1-2), pp. 95-99.
Lukyanov, D. B. and Vazhnova, T., 2008. Highly selective and stable alkylation of benzene with ethane into ethylbenzene over bifunctional PtH-MFI catalysts. Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 279 (1), pp. 128-132.
Lukyanov, D. B. and Vazhnova, T., 2008. A kinetic study of benzene alkylation with ethane into ethylbenzene over bifunctional PtH-MFI catalyst. Journal of Catalysis, 257 (2), pp. 382-389.
Lukyanov, D. B. and Vazhnova, T., 2006. Active Sites in Working Bifunctional GaH-TON Aromatization Catalysts: Kinetic Evaluation. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110 (37), pp. 18473-18480.
Lukyanov, D. B. and Vazhnova, T., 2006. Aromatization activity of gallium containing MFI and TON zeolite catalysts in n-butane conversion: Effects of gallium and reaction conditions. Applied Catalysis A General, 316 (1), pp. 61-67.
Nguyen, L. H., Vazhnova, T., Kolaczkowski, S. T. and Lukyanov, D. B., 2006. Combined experimental and kinetic modelling studies of the pathways of propane and n-butane aromatization over H-ZSM-5 catalyst. Chemical Engineering Science, 61 (17), pp. 5881-5894.
Lukyanov, D. B., Nguyen, L. H., Vazhnova, T. and Kolaczkowski, S. T., 2005. Combined experimental and kinetic modelling studies of catalyst deactivation: propene and propane aromatisation over H-ZSM-5 catalyst. In: World Congress of Chemical Engineering, 7th, 2005-07-10 - 2005-07-14.
Kagansky, A., Freeman, L., Lukyanov, D. and Strunnikov, A., 2004. Histone Tail-independent Chromatin Binding Activity of Recombinant Cohesin Holocomplex. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 279 (5), pp. 3382-3388.
Lukyanov, D. B. and Vazhnova, T., 2001. Dehydroisomerisation of n-butane into isobutene over Ga-containing zeolite catalysts. Special Publication - Royal Society of Chemistry, 266 (Supported Catalysts ), pp. 188-195.


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I ran on the weekend with a guy who works there and they are stocking parts in store.Very interesting.....
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No way....
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future shop?.....oh. yeah, interesting. I guess if nothing else, it might put more cheap secondhand vehicles on the market after rich kid blows a servo and considers the whole thing trash. But I think more realistically the sales won't be there for them to continue carrying traxxas items. Of course, only time will tell
Yeah that's what I was thinking.
Someone at the bar the other day said to me, "So I was in BestBuy and they had these new RC cars... incredible, it had like air shocks or something!?" Hahah
Would be helpful for me parts on a Sunday...when our one crappy hobby store is closed...if it doesn't last maybe they will have a blow out sale.good for us at least.plus we all started knowing nothing....then you discover this forum
And it's too late you've slipped down the rc addiction slope.
Unless of course ,you have a summit,then lock'em up and go
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And for us guys who who live south of the Canadian border . . . . .
. . . . . Whats a "future shop"??
Im assuming its like a corner grocery or gas station?
MAN, Use Common Sense.
Outside? THERE IS NO BOX !
ummm im canadian so im thiking circut city or a radio shack glorafide
but yes it is a steep slop to learn specialy if you are all ready missinforming the masses even before you sell the stuff
but we all have to start some where
and the guy hows running it i dont think he know a hole lot calling all the 8th scale tenths rotff and saying the traxxas upgrades make it faster(?aluminum heavy)
if you want to see my other reply look in the alley for a thread like thise
itleast 10 thing rong on one page for future shop
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And it's not a great store.but they can order you parts,oh wait so can I and get them quicker.still a week minimum.
The LHS here started out selling shaver
Yes electric shavers.the store is call Bc shavers.Ok now that your done laughing that is my local hobby shop
The only one on the island.the island is 400 miles long. One shop makes breakdowns a ordeal if its a Sunday
Your done for the day
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When I got my first truck a few years ago from the LHS, he said that a 15 minute quick charger would charge the Nimh batt's just fine. All I needed to do was turn it 4 times to add up to an hour! He failed to mention that would also totally fry my battery pack after a short period of use...
i never thought of it but
boxing day
ya jamann
my lhs i open tues-wed 5-6pm then trurs-fri 5-9pm and from 1-4pm on saturday and unpredictibly closed lol but all in all probable the cheapest hobby shop in ontario period and same price if not lower than online
but i will have to check out the future shop in the coming weeks see what i can teach them lol
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I thought that BC Shaver Shop would be a good LHS due to its size, but I was there last Xmas. They didn't have much stock, and didn't know anything. I do miss the island tho.
oh guys should have remembered this from the last future shop thread but best buy is in the traxxas race to
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They are the same company...
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i went to a futur shop in london(about 40mins away) and they do have traxxas in stock but very limited maybe a quarter of an isle
theey seemed to only have the salash 4x4 and pede 4x4 both at 450 bucks plus tax
parts well. they seemed to have two racks fulls of titan 12t motors lol and all the others were the ones that dont seem to break as easyle like the 4x4 center shafts ans stuff
oh 100buck plus tax for a 3500kv vxl motor and 200bucks for the vxl combo
other than that very limited supply and parts both for the cars they stock(three replacement parts found) and others well very poor supply
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oh ya i forgot to mention this but futur shop got traxxas to make diffrent part headers and boxes with 4 diffrent types of languages on all products
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Can someone post a pic of the different boxes and displays? we don't have future shops here... just curious
If you have a best buy its the same company
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so since best buy is in the us are they going to be selling them in the us?
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hey guys so i learned that futur shop is just going to stock traxxas as a christmas thing and be done by the end of january
now i dont know if this rumor is true or not
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Just checked Best Buy online store. They have an E-MAXX for $731.00. What a screaming deal .
Not true, i work there.
We have a few models in stock, almost all of them online
Same for parts, some in store some online.
We're offering service and repair throught the car install bay and no it aint end in january.
Ok I know this is kinda a old thread but thought I'd share my two cents, My local LHS shop is very high priced, I paid $289 plus tax for a 1/16th digger a few months ago, think it was $313 with tax, the same truck was available at Future shop for the last 2 weeks for $140 plus tax, I just got a mini revo brushless 4x4 from Future shop for $281.59 delivered right to my door and it only took 3 days, they have the Stampede vxl 4x4 on for $319 right now, the Summit for $499 and the Slash vxl 4x4 for $349, it's too good of a deal to pass up, I gotta decide which one, sale ends the 17th, the fact that they don't stock much really doesn't matter if I can get it in 3 days and shipping is free, I personally know 5 people that bought trucks there in the last few weeks that its their first R/C, I think with these prices they will sell a ton and maybe get people into the hobby that normally wouldn't spend the money, I mean the Stampede vxl 4x4 is $180 cheaper there than at our local LHS.
Thought I'd give the info I have from living with a future shop manager lol. I have boughten a summit and slash 4x4 from there. Lhs have told me they can't even touch future shops prices on most things. Traxxas ain't going anywhere quite yet, sales are good.
For ppl in Victoria, like me, the best buy in town has the best on shelf selection of parts because of its large size. Online at futureshop.ca or online bestbuy you can order almost every stock part and traxxas performance line stuff and have it within 3days. And they have warehouses full of stuff that's common for the summit.
Now I know that almost everyone around here loves to tinker and fix their own machine, but for anyone who loves it but is overwhelmed when it comes to fixing it. Futureshop in Langford has two ppl trained by traxxas on repairing traxxas stuff. It's the stereo installers, but they also are big into rc on their personal time.
Just my 2 cents lol little plug for the wife.
Anyways.... Carry on
I almost bought a MERV from there the other day but I realized it was brushed, was just getting some TVs and stuff though I didn't know they sold traxxas there .. pretty sweet because the closest hobby shop to me is a half hour away and the future shop is just a few minutes
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Yeah I got my rear hub carriers for my 4x4 slash there! If anybody here is from winnipeg or surrounding area, go to the one right beside the best buy near the silver city theatures! Great store on route 90 I believe.
You bet, live in shawnigan. Pm me some time if your heading out
great video Jamaan!
Summit, dewalt 12v, 18/68 gear, T-bone skids
Nice vid! Wish there was more Summits around my neck of the woods. Keep it up
Thanks guys.there are around a dozen here now.Getting them together is the challange
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Consider yourself lucky no rc interest at all in my area... wait I am sure that is not true, problem is nearest hobby shop is over 100 km away so , more likely lack of availability is the issue although we do have a great rc airport just a few miles away that gets well used by the fly boys. I do keep my boat harbored in Victoria so I may have to hit you up next time I am out there for a weekend. looks like you guys have a lot of fun.Thanks guys.there are around a dozen here now.Getting them together is the challenge
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Rex Rooster: Eggsterminator
Rex Rooster: Eggsterminator Released.
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Rex Rooster formerly named Cock Blocker started off as a game based on a gimmicky title and a joke developed by two former GameHouse Studio employees in their spare time.
The developers - Roel & Ruud - Resubmitted the game as Rex Rooster: Eggsterminator.
Gameplay of Rex Rooster: Eggsterminator takes place in a peaceful henhouse that is flooded by hungry predators once its fence is breeched during a freak storm.
Players control the titular Rex Rooster, who defends his roost by firing eggs at waves of hungry cats, foxes, wolves, and bears.
As players successfully defeat these waves of predators, they earn coins that can be used to purchase specialty chicks which lay super-powered fire or ice eggs.
Initially, Rex Rooster: Eggsterminator will offer three level packs each with unique enemies to fight. The developers also plan to release more level packs - with even more predators to battle - in future updates.
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I was on the facebook page of my friend who we got the puppy from when I read that her other dog, not the mother of the puppies, has parvo. I knew she was sick but they had thought she got ahold of ant poison. I thought this was still the case, but I guess not. They didn't have the money to get the puppies shots started so I may have brought parvo into our house. I guess that is what I get for thinking with my heart and not my head!
Foxy is current on her vaccinations so really I am not concerned a lot there. And Autumn doesn't appear to be sick but I think we could still have it flare up in a couple weeks. I am a little worried about it but will talk to the vet about it. We are about to leave for our appointment!