text: Freescale Semiconductor Order this document by AN1775/D Rev. 1 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc... AN1775 Expanding Digital Input with an A/D Converter By Brad Bierschenk Freescale Applications Engineering Austin, Texas Introduction This application note documents a method of extending digital input using the analog-to-digital converter (ADC) of a microcontroller unit (MCU). Many MCU applications require digital input and arbitration. For example, determining which key of a keypad was pressed. This is commonly done by arranging switches in a matrix configuration, connecting to a series of digital input pins, and reading a digital input data register to determine which key was pressed. While this method is easily implemented, it does require the use of an MCU's parallel port pins. Some applications require all available bidirectional or input-only pins for other purposes. In such a case, an alternate method of arbitrating keypresses is desired. By using the ADC of an MCU connected to a resistor ladder, user input can be more efficiently processed. © Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., 2004. All rights reserved. © Motorola, Inc., 1998 AN1775 Rev. 1 For More Information On This Product, Go to: www.freescale.com Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Application Note Freescale Semiconductor, Inc... Background Dedicated Input A microcontroller typically receives user input through digital input pins. The simplest implementation is a single switch directly connected to a digital input pin. This is easy to realize, but is not the most efficient use of resources, with one pin dedicated to one input. One port data bit represents the state of one switch. Matrix Input Another method uses a keypad, a common element in embedded systems. These are ordinarily arranged in a matrix, as shown in Figure 1. In this case, the byte value of an entire port data register can be polled to determine which key was pressed. This is more efficient, as a 4 x 4 keypad can interface 16 keys with eight input pins. Px0 Px1 Px2 Px3 Px4 Px5 Px6 Px7 Figure 1. Resistor Matrix Keypad Using Parallel Port Pins AN1775 Rev. 1 For More Information On This Product, Go to: www.freescale.com Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Application Note Implementation Freescale Semiconductor, Inc... ADC Alternative In many cases, input pins are at a premium. One can't always freely assign input pins to the function of user input. A more efficient use of microcontroller resources can be devised. One common feature of many Freescale MCUs is the analog-to-digital converter, or ADC. The ADC of a Freesca;e MCU usually features four to eight channels of analog input, which is compared with a reference voltage and converted to an 8-bit digital value. When a resistor ladder is connected to an analog input through switches in each segment, the conversion result can be used to arbitrate an input. This allows many keys to be interfaced with one input pin, with only a little more software overhead. Figure 2 shows such an implementation. VDD MCU ADC INPUT PIN VIn Figure 2. Resistor Ladder Keys Using an Analog Input Pin Implementation ADC Operation An MCU ADC typically has 8-bit precision. This means there are 28, or 256, distinguishable A/D inputs, including 0. The analog inputs are converted to a binary number, which represents the magnitude of the input voltage in relation to a reference voltage. AN1775 Rev. 1 For More Information On This Product, Go to: www.freescale.com Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Application Note The range of an ADC is the difference between its high and low reference voltages. This means an analog input between VREFH and VREFL will convert to an 8-bit number, with VREFL converting to $00 and VREFH converting to $FF. Freescale Semiconductor, Inc... The resolution, defined as the range divided by the precision, defines the analog step that a change in one least significant bit (LSB) represents. In the case of a 5-volt, 8-bit ADC, the resolution is 5/255 (volts), or 19.6 mV. This means that a change in one LSB in the ADC data register reflects a change of about 20 mV at the analog input. Resistor Ladder Voltage Divider Consider a resistor ladder connected to an ADC input, as shown in Figure 3. Because this arrangement is a voltage divider, each segment in the ladder can alter the voltage at the input when grounded. If switches are provided at each segment, one can selectively ground that segment, altering the composition of the divider, and thus altering the voltage presented to the ADC pin. In this way, software can determine which switch in the ladder was selected by reading the resulting A/D data value. The resistor R0 acts as a pullup to maintain VDD on the analog input line while no keys are active. Thus, a conversion value of $FF indicates that no key has been pressed. VDD R0 ADC INPUT R2 VIn K1 R3 K2 R5 R4 K3 K4 R6 K5 R7 K6 R8 K7 K8 Figure 3. Digital Input Alternative AN1775 Rev. 1 For More Information On This Product, Go to: www.freescale.com Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Freescale Semiconductor, Inc... Application Note Implementation Considerations Using this method, one can theoretically connect 255 input switches to one ADC pin. However, there are many potential sources of inaccuracies, which make it impractical to connect so many key inputs. One should account for some error padding. Resistor Precision One inaccuracy is provided by the resistors themselves. Resistors are categorized according to their variance from a labeled value. The application should be tolerant to the precision of the resistors being used (typically, 1 percent or 5 percent). Also, a calculated resistor value might not be a commonly available value, so the user should plan for a range of resistor values. ADC Accuracy Typically, an 8-bit ADC is accurate within two least significant bits. This should be accounted for as well. The best way to allow for these tolerances is to assign to each key switch a range of resulting A/D data register values. If an analog input falls within a particular range, one can determine that the key was pressed. By adjusting the range of ADC results which represent a given keypress, the user can change the error margin for the application. To ensure the best ADC accuracy, the full range of the converter should be used. In cases where the high reference is not variable, it is typically fixed at the operating voltage. A spreadsheet is a good way to determine resistor values and A/D result ranges. An example of computing values for Figure 3 are shown in Table 1. AN1775 Rev. 1 For More Information On This Product, Go to: www.freescale.com Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Application Note Freescale Semiconductor, Inc... Table 1. Spreadsheet Calculations VDD = 5 Converter Resolution = # Keys = 8 Voltage Steps = 0.625 (VDD/# Keys) R0 = 0.01961 (Vdd/255) 10000 (Pullup) (Hex) (Hex) Key pressed VIn Req Rn Vinmin Vinmax ADDRmin ADDRmax No Key 5 0 10000 4.6875 5 EF FF 1 0 0 0 0 0.3125 0 F 2 0.625 1429 1429 0.3125 0.9375 F 2F 3 1.25 3333 1904 0.9375 1.5625 2F 4F 4 1.875 6000 2667 1.5625 2.1875 4F 6F 5 2.5 10000 4000 2.1875 2.8125 6F 8F 6 3.125 16667 6667 2.8125 3.4375 8F AF 7 3.75 30000 13333 3.4375 4.0625 AF CF 8 4.375 70000 40000 4.0625 4.6875 CF EF Some notes on the spreadsheet: • VIn is determined by decrementing the high voltage reference by the voltage step for each segment in the ladder. (See Figure 4.) • Rn is the resistor value of the current key segment needed to form desired equivalent resistance Req. • Req represents the equivalent resistance of ladder, including the current resistor (Rn) and excluding the pullup resistor (R0). • Vinmin and Vinmax are the minimum and maximum voltages that can be arbitrated as a particular key. In this case, VIn +/–Vstep/2 was used. • ADDRmin and ADDRmax are the ADC data register value range used to represent a given keypress. This range can be narrowed or widened to affect precision. In this case, the ranges were maximized, so no conversion result is undefined. • This particular spreadsheet did not use resistor precision, but this could be considered to further pad the error. AN1775 Rev. 1 For More Information On This Product, Go to: www.freescale.com Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Application Note Implementation VDD REQ R0 VIn REQ(N-1) RN Freescale Semiconductor, Inc... Figure 4. Voltage Divider Constants First, VDD (or VREFH, the high reference for the converter) and the number of keys are determined. The converter resolution is found by dividing VDD by the converter precision. The number of voltage steps needed is VDD divided by the number of key switches. An ADC should always be operated at its full range. The pullup resistor, R0, typically, should be chosen between 4.7 k (to limit current) to 22 k (to limit time constant). Variables Once these constant values are decided, a spreadsheet can be used to determine the resistor values needed in each segment of the divider ladder, according to the desired input voltages. When using an ADC, always use the entire range of the converter (VREFH – VREFL). This is the reason for determining the voltage steps first (VDD – n*step value) and then calculating the necessary resistor values to achieve these voltages through the divider. For each segment in the ladder, the nth segment's necessary resistor value needs to be calculated (Rn in the spreadsheet). When a key is pressed, the equivalent resistance of the included segment resistors forms a voltage divider with the pullup resistor. Given the voltage desired at the ADC input (VIn), the user can determine the equivalent resistance needed to achieve that voltage by: Req(n) = (VIn*R0)/(VREFH – VIn) The resistor that will form the needed equivalent resistance with the other resistors in the ladder can be determined, as: Rn = Req(n) – Req(n – 1) AN1775 Rev. 1 For More Information On This Product, Go to: www.freescale.com Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Application Note The only exception is key 1, which connects VSS to the ADC input and needs no resistor. Freescale Semiconductor, Inc... By assigning a range of ADC conversion values to each key, the user can provide a fair amount of error padding. Considerations include resistor tolerance, ADC accuracy, and parasitic time constants. The range of conversion values for a particular keypress can be narrowed to improve the accuracy of the application. Or, for "quick and dirty" arbitration, keep the range as wide as possible. Using a Single Resistor Value The method presented here used different resistor values to produce equal voltage intervals. Another method would be to use the same resistance value for all segments in the divider. The disadvantage of using the same resistor values is that it greatly diminishes the effective range of conversions. Also, if resistances are kept equal, the voltage step between switches approaches the resolution of the ADC. Therefore, the error margin diminishes as more keys are added. Programming Considerations There are several ways to implement such an application. One thing to choose is whether to poll the ADC when desired or link a keypress to an interrupt source. Some ADCs continuously convert once enabled, allowing a new value to be available every 32 clock cycles. Others do a single conversion when a register is written to and don't do another conversion until the register is written to again. A polling scheme can use a periodic timing source as a signal to poll. For example, the real-time interrupt (RTI) or timer overflow (TOF) interrupt can be used to scan the ADC input at a given rate. Not linking a keypress to an interrupt source can cause timing problems and might miss a keypress. Careful consideration should be given to timing and voltage error requirements to determine if this method is appropriate. AN1775 Rev. 1 For More Information On This Product, Go to: www.freescale.com Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Application Note A Brief Example with the MC68HC705P6A MCU A Brief Example with the MC68HC705P6A MCU The small code segment example that follows illustrates the software implementation of this method of keypress arbitration. The example was defined around the spreadsheet analysis example shown in Table 1. Freescale Semiconductor, Inc... The MC68HC705P6A (P6A) MCU features a 4-channel, 8-bit A/D converter. The P6A ADC uses continuous conversion, making a new value available every 32 internal clock cycles after being turned on. The software example assumes a resistor ladder is connected to AD0 (A/D channel 0, port C, pin 6). The software is not intended to be a complete application. This software starts the ADC, selects channel 0 for A/D conversions, then polls the ADC data register to determine if a key was pressed. The software uses a lookup table, with predefined maximum and minimum ADC values which represent a specific segment in the divider being grounded. Once the key has been arbitrated, the RAM variable InKey will tell an application which key was switched most recently. AN1775 Rev. 1 For More Information On This Product, Go to: www.freescale.com Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Application Note Freescale Semiconductor, Inc... Code Listings * * * * * * * * * * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------EXPANDIO.ASM Written for the MC68HC705P6A microcontroller A code segment example to illustrate the use of the A/D converter for key input arbitration This simple example polls the AD0 channel, compares the conversion result to a lookup table, and determines which of 8 keys were pressed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Memory map equates RAMSPACE EQU ROMSPACE EQU $50 $100 ; A/D Registers ADC EQU ADSC EQU $1D $1E ;A/D Data register ;A/D Status and control ; ADSC Bits CC ADRC ADON 7 6 5 ;Conversion complete flag ;A/D RC oscillator enable ;A/D enable bit EQU EQU EQU * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------; RAM Variables * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------ORG RAMSPACE ;Start of user RAM InKey RMB 1 ;Identifies the last key pressed ADValue RMB 1 ;Stores the last ADC result * ; ; ; * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Program code Simply loops, polling the A/D converter channel AD0 and determining which key was pressed ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------ORG ROMSPACE ;Start of user ROM Start: LDA #$20 ;Turn on A/D, select AD0 channel STA ADSC MainLoop: BRCLR LDA STA CLR CLRX CC,ADSC,* ADC ADValue InKey ;Wait for conversion complete ;Get the result ;Record the result ;Clear the InKey variable ;Clear the offset AN1775 Rev. 1 For More Information On This Product, Go to: www.freescale.com Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Freescale Semiconductor, Inc... Application Note Code Listings ;Check the entries in the table, to find the ADC value range ;that corresponds to the ADC data register value. KeyLoop: LDA KeyTable+1,X ;Check high range CMP ADValue BLS Match ;Within range LDA KeyTable,X ;Check low range CMP ADVAlue BLS Match ;Within range INCX ;Point to next table record INCX ;Increment the key value, when a match is made, ;the variable will contain the key that was pressed. INC InKey BRA KeyLoop ; At this point, InKey variable holds keypress information ; One can arbitrate the key press here. For this simple example ; we just repeat the main loop Match: BRA MainLoop * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------; Key lookup table. 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IDCCA President's Message
by Doug House, IDCCA President
@ILDCCA @RICoDemocrats
What Does the Democratic Party Stand For?
I have heard what we as Democrats stand for summed up into one word before, for me that word is compassion.
While simplistic, it's spot-on.
I know that I am wading into some very tricky territory when I try to define what it is that we stand for, because as much as any one of you have done, I too have traveled this state and know our Illinois Democrats, their make-up, and the various forms we take well.
I do however think that we Democrats share a great deal in common with each other and it is that commonality that draws newly emerging Democrats to identify with us. That is why we need to talk about our basic identity and why people should become Democrats, be active within the Democratic Party, and why they should support our candidates, especially now as more people are getting involved than ever before.
Democrats believe:
- In Economic Justice (A good paying Job) that provides opportunities for growth for all our citizens and a brighter future for the generations that will follow us. A future that includes being able to have access to higher education, being able to afford to settle down, providing for a family, buying a home and building for a retirement. The consolidation of wealth that we have seen in our nation, and the pillaging of our wages and savings through the elimination of all workers' rights and protections, is obscene. Our nation's workers have been forced to be beholden to the "Company Store," owned by an elite 1% that takes all that we toil for and leaves little crumbs we must use to provide for basics, things we took for granted not so very long ago. This country and the middle class were built by organized labor and we must protect it.
- In Healthcare as a right, where we collectively as a nation have a responsibility to care for the weakest among us. A person – regardless of their social and economic standing, their individual opportunities and capabilities, their level of health or sickness – deserves to live with dignity. It is our responsibility to help those who need it transition to a higher social ability or economic independence. The undermining of our healthcare system and the dissolution of the ladders to opportunity built by Democrats for years are chronically impoverishing millions of Americans.
- In Human Equality and self determination as the basis for mutual respect, essential to our coexistence. Regardless of an individual's geographical origin, nation of birth, gender, age, sexual orientation or identification and economic status, we are all deserving of protection from discrimination for any or these things that make us the unique individuals we are. No exceptions. These differences must never be allowed to shorten our life, limit our independence, our earning ability, deprive us of housing, or of sharing our life with who we love. Nor should we ever allow these differences to be exploited by those in power to divide us against each other for oppression.
- We believe in the truth, in saving our planet and in science, not instead of a higher power nor solely because of one. But because it is only with the truth that an honest discussion can begin to bring about real change on the difficult issues of our day.
It is important to note that I am not a scholar, a professor of Political Science or of Sociology, but I am a lifelong Democrat that wants what I do to have a meaning greater than myself. I know that the most important thing is not the fight, but who we are fighting for. That is what it means to be a Democrat to me.

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Dulles, VA – March 1, 2016 – Technica Corporation today announced that former HPTi CEO and co-founder, Timothy Keenan, has been appointed as the charter member of the company's newly formed Advisory Board. The Advisory Board will help guide Technica's long term strategic planning for the company's three diverse operating entities: Enterprise Services, Technica Labs, and Integrated Technologies across the company's current portfolio of prime contracts and strategic targets. Mr. Keenan brings a rich and diverse experience in corporate strategy, program capture and competitive strategy development, developing leading-edge systems in the federal marketplace, acquisition streamlining, and business transformation.
Technica is a 200-person, mid-sized government prime contractor focusing on high/mid-level systems engineering services, software development, data analytics, network operations in addition to product and support services. Technica co-founders Mr. Miguel Collado (CEO) and Mr. Bill Groah (CFO) have grown the company from an initial capitalization of $1,000 to over $100M in revenue in 2015.
"We are looking to quickly accelerate our growth and our value proposition to the federal marketplace," states CEO Miguel Collado. "Tim has A-Team experience and his strategic guidance and support on our new Advisory Board is a step in taking the corporation up to another level. His background in high performance computing and its evolution to today's hyper-converged stack solutions is a major plus in accelerating our own expertise in data center consolidation, large-data science analytics and business intelligence solution spaces."
Mr. Keenan is an active advisor and entrepreneur widely known for the planning, operating and building of successful companies in the government IT space. Best known as a co-founder of HPTi, Mr. Keenan led the company through extraordinary challenges. He led an organic growth strategy building the company from $20M in revenue to $115M and 500 employees in 2011 and growing at a double digit pace. Mr. Keenan sold the company in 2011 to DRC for $143M (later purchased by Engility in 2014) in what Washington Technology cited as one of the best mid-size deals of the year.
As the charter member of Technica's newly formed Advisory Board, company management is looking to draw from Mr. Keenan's experience as one the industry's most successful and experienced executives to advise, help establish, and execute accelerated growth strategies. "I am excited to join a team so well poised for growth," commented Mr. Keenan. "With a technically proficient and innovative team and the ability to manage complex contracts as the prime, Technica has the mix that government customers need in today's rapidly evolving technology landscape."
About Technica Corporation
Technica Corporation, founded in 1991, provides professional services, products, and innovative technology solutions to Defense, Intelligence, Law Enforcement, and civilian agencies. The company specializes in network operations and infrastructure; cyber defense and security; government application integration; product research and development; systems engineering and training; and product deployment planning, and support. Technica is a veteran and minority-owned small disadvantaged business. For more information, please visit: www.technicacorp.com.
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But before I continue, let's discuss a few important facts about the logistics of government emails…sort of a 'government emails 101' civics lesson that even those new to government and those of us who have been following 'emailgate' closely know. Fact one: the Federal Records Act requires that all government agencies hold onto all official communications, including all work-related emails, and government employees cannot destroy or remove relevant records. Fact two: the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) regulations dictate exactly how records should be created and maintained stressing that materials must be maintained "by the agency," that they should be "readily found," and that the records must "make possible a proper scrutiny by the Congress." Fact three: Section 1924 of Title 18 relates to deletion and retention of classified documents and stresses that "knowingly" removing or housing classified information at an "unauthorized location" is subject to a fine or a year in prison.
'C' is for Confidential, Crooked, and Concussion
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots
"Clinton never deleted, nor did she instruct anyone to delete, her email to avoid complying with the Federal Records Act, [the Freedom of Information Act], or State or FBI requests for information."
- One notation in the F.B.I.'s recently released 58-pages of notes regarding Hillary' deleted emails
And so the woman who has hidden her emails from the public for six years…32,000 emails to be exact…32,000 she called "boring" emails she and her staff deleted, now has a red face as 17,448 of those emails have been recovered by the F.B.I., including work related emails that were supposed to be but were never turned over to the Department of State. And we also just found out that when she was Secretary of State, Hillary had in her possession 13 separate cell phones, including 11 'smart phones' linked to two different phone numbers and that eight of those phones were used to communicate with others via her private…"I didn't know it was wrong to have one"…home computer server.
And this self-proclaimed anything but computer and techno savvy person…yet another lie for why have 11 'smart phones' unless you knew how to use them…had the audacity to claim a whopping 39 times when interviewed by the F.B.I. that she could not "recall" certain things the FBI asked her about (that's in addition to the 327 times her aides and others interviewed could not remember or recall events either) as well as claiming that she did not know that the letter 'C' meant confidential…confidential and obviously classified as the two do go hand-in-hand when dealing with someone in her high-up in the governmental peeking order position.
And yet Hillary and her cohorts in crime…yes crime…ignore the fact that in today's political whelm 'A' is taken to mean aiding and abetting, 'B' is taken to mean bribe, and 'C' actually does mean confidential…as in 'Top Secret' as per Department of Defense Directive 5200.01. But Hillary, a 2-term Senator and a woman who has spent her entire adult life in politics and who had countless security briefings and training sessions on classified information while a senator including during the six years she spent on the Armed Services Committee...suddenly and oh so conveniently says she did not have any such briefings or if she did have them she forgot that she did because let's not forget that in Hillary Clinton's world 'C' also means concussion.
Concussion…something we've suspected for a long time. In fact, ever since she fell (drunk perhaps) in her private bathroom and went splat…banging her head on the toilet…concussion personified complete with the required for effect bump on her head…this has been something Hillary has denied time and again. But recently she a had a slip of the tongue and admitted to not only having had a concussion but to now...years after the fact...having 'memory lapses' because of said concussion. And these 'memory lapses' just oh so conveniently happened to kick in this past July when she was being interviewed by the F.B.I. regarding her missing "boring" emails.
And during said F.B.I. interview some of Hillary's 'memory lapses' included her not remembering receiving emails she thought should not be on an unclassified system… meaning that if she knew about an unclassified system she surely knew about a classified one…yet she claimed that she did not know the difference between the government's classifications of 'Top Secret,' 'Secret,' and 'Confidential'…another obvious lie.
In fact, Hillary…who used her private unsecured email server to send at least 22 specific emails that included information classified as 'Top Secret' as well as eight 'Top Secret' chains, 36 containing 'Secret' information and eight more that were 'Confidential' with another 2,000 that were classified 'Confidential' later in the game…had the audacity to tell the F.B.I. that she "did not pay attention to the 'level' of classification and took all classified information seriously." Oh really, she cannot have it both ways…she either knew about the levels of classification or she did not, but to be honest no one in the position of U.S. Secretary of State can, with a straight face, seriously claim they did not know about said levels and have it be believable.
Hillary damn well knew about those levels when the emails were sent but the true question should be just who were they sent to…something we have yet to discover.
And so Hillary's 'memory lapses' continued on when asked about conversations regarding the creation of the clintonemail.com domain, Bryan Pagaliano's upgrading of said home server, or that she even contacting Pagaliano for technical support for her email account… all quite unbelievable as he was a guest in her Chappaqua, New York home, and on many occasions to boot.
And also forgotten was her not recalling whether she received any actual guidance from the Department of State regarding generalized email policies outlined in the Foreign Affairs Manual or about a specific agenda for deleting or not deleting emails from her account while in her official capacity as Secretary of State. Also including in this guidance would be instructions about how to secure personal email accounts sent to employees and what to do about any others having an account on clintonemail.com, that is besides her BFF and muslim advisor Huma Abedin. And Hillary also did not "recall"… her word not mine…her top foreign policy advisor Jacob Sullivan using his private Google email account for official Department of State business.
Amnesia on demand I call it…amnesia as the scapegoat…and done with that famous Hillary wink, nod, and a cough...and a now suddenly and oh so conveniently admitted to concussion being the cause of it all.
"The FBI identified three email chains, encompassing eight individual email exchanges to or from Clinton's personal email accounts, which contained at least one paragraph marked '(C),' a marking ostensibly indicating the presence of information classified at the CONFIDENTIAL level."
- Another notation in the F.B.I.'s 58-pages of notes
And all I can do is deeply sigh for the truth is that Hillary Clinton was very well aware that as Secretary of State her emails would most assuredly contain classified information. In fact one specific email chain recovered did contain information that was highly classified yet Hillary knowingly chose to "remove it from its proper place of custody"…this being on an official government server...a felony under US Code 793 f...and had it "retained at an unauthorized location"…this being her private home server which is a misdemeanor under US Code 1924 a. And this proves it was no an accident that the information was removed…"gross negligence" F.B.I. Director James Comey called it…but it was a conscious and willfully intentional act to remove classified information from its rightful and "proper place of custody."
And this means, in no uncertain terms, that Hillary should have been prosecuted under the above stated statutes and would have been if she was not a Clinton. And that coupled with her theatrically well-played boo-boo that caused a concussion which led to her supposedly not being able to "recall" her actions let alone remember or know what the letter 'C' means ...translates in her mind into a reality that she has once again not only pulled 'pulled the wool' over 'We the People's' eyes but that she has gotten away with still more of her, I believe, traitorous actions…or has she.
Fact four: the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was designed to "improve public access to agency records and information." Fact five: government emails containing so-called "sensitive" information have the letter 'C' at the top of the message received and/or in the subject line. And lastly fact six: government emails that have a 'C' in parentheses in the body means that a specific paragraph is classified. This is known as 'portion marking' and in no way does it change the reality that the document in question is indeed classified.
And so the woman who claims to know government operations inside and out, and who had previously told the F.B.I. that she understood that an email labeled with a 'C' was classified but that she did not know what the symbol meant when appearing in the body of an email, has now on numerous occasions claimed that many of the emails in question had been "retroactively classified or up-classified"…as in the information was not classified when it was emailed to her but is now…which is really something quite hard to believe as most people believe that the majority of deleted emails pertain to the happenings at Benghazi and its aftermath.
And Hillary's story about her thinking that the letter 'C'…which appeared in parentheses before certain paragraphs of her Department of State emails…was a direction to organize paragraphs in alphabetical order is beyond a doubt the stuff of fairy tales for why would anyone alphabetize paragraphs…content yes but actual paragraphs no...as doing so makes no sense. And you would think that logic alone would dictate that if Hillary by some outside chance did not get what the 'C' meant before she read some of the so-marked emails, it would be expected that she would have made the association from the very context of said emails.
Complicit indeed for not only did Comey…the very man who said that some of Hillary's emails "bore markings indicating the presence of classified information"…buy into Hillary's concussion story complete with its memory loss nonsense, but he chose not to seek criminal charges against her as well. And he did so even after laying out more than enough evidence of serious security breaches that can be summed up in his words that Hillary was "extremely careless in her handling of very sensitive, highly classified information" But the simple truth is that Comey rushed to decision before anyone had time to digest what Hillary had said during the 3-1/2 hour F.B.I. interview or to see the actual notes from said interview…notes that took almost two months to release when said notes could have been easily transcribed in a day or two. Also, remember that Comey's decision came a bit too close for comfort to the infamous Loretta Lynch's supposedly impromptu meeting with Billy-Boy only a week before.
Equal justice in America is now officially dead…and let the F.B.I. put that in their damn notes for all the good their notes did them or us…case closed.
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Which of Shakespeare's heroines are you?
Are you a witty Beatrice or a wicked Lady Macbeth? More like Viola or Desdemona? Take our quiz to find out which of Shakespeare's heroines you are – though we don't advise that you necessarily live your life accordingly.
William Shakespeare was an English dramatist, poet, and actor who is often considered the greatest writer in the English language. His vast collection of work includes sonnets, comedies, historical plays, great tragedies, and tragicomedies, all of which have been translated into every major modern language. His most renowned plays include Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest, and Cymbeline.


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Lake George History
For the historically minded visitor the Lake George area offers
the opportunity to visit the sites of events that helped shape history
and influenced the beginnings of a new country. Because of its strategic
location, Lake George was part of one of the most important travel corridors
of the time.
Lake George history indicates that one of the first white men to see the crystal clear waters of Lake George was Father Isaac Jogues, a Jesuit missionary who christened the lake "Lac du Saint Sacrement" in 1646. Soon after, war broke out between the European powers that sought to dominate the eastern part of North America. The conflicts spanned over 100 years and ended with the American Revolution. The lake retained the name given by Father Jogues "Lac du Saint Sacrement" until 1755 when it was renamed "Lake George" by Sir William Johnson in honor of England's King George II.
The first battle to take place in Lake George between the English
and French during the French and Indian war was the "Battle of
Lake George." The first part of the battle "The Bloody Morning
Scout" took place along the old military road a few miles south
of Lake George Village. In this battle Col. Ephraim Williams was killed.
The section of the bike path bordered by Rt. 9 on the north and Rt.
149 on the south is the location of part of this battle. In this area
you can visit the site of Bloody Pond and see the Monument marking the
site where Col. Ephraim Williams was killed.
Bloody Pond Marker....
Here Sept. 8, 1755 -Battle of Lake George- the Colonial forces under
Lieut. Col. Cole
checked the hitherto successful advance of Baron Dieskau and his allies,
changing the British rout into ultimate victory. Here likewise on the
evening of the same day, Capt. McGinnis assisted by Capt. Folsom with
200 New York and New Hampshire men, fell upon 300 Canadians and Indians
encamped near the pond for the night. After a desperate struggle the
French force was almost annihilated. Over 200 bodies rolled into the
pool stained the water red and gave it its name. In this conflict Rogers,
the famous Ranger made his debut as a soldier. Near this spot Oct. 11,
1780 Major Christopher Carleton and his band of Regulars, Tories and
Indians, defeated with great loss, Captain John Sill and an American
detachment from Fort George forcing the surrender of that station.
Terms of the surrender included safe passage of the soldiers, women & children to nearby Fort Edward. But the Indian allies defied Montcalm's orders and hundreds of British and Colonial men, women, & children were massacred. More information on the The Siege & Massacre.
Here too is where troops from this fort would move by the thousands up the lake to attack Fort Carillon, later to be renamed Ticonderoga, which was 5 miles past the 32 miles of Lake George. Some of the boats they used were called Bateaux. These were flat bottomed, double ended vessels. They also had floating gun batteries called Radeaux. They were seven-sided with cannon ports in each of the seven sides.
Try to imagine the sights and sounds of 15,000 men launching in 900 Bateaux and 150 other assorted craft and moving down the lake following General Abercrombie on his ill-fated attack on Fort Carillon.
The Northern end of Lake George is also rich in history. Here is where Abercrombie's army of 15,000 landed, where Lord Howe was killed, where Major Robert Rogers and his Rangers took a beating in the Battle on Snowshoes and the location of the Grand Carrying Place. Fort Ticonderoga is one of the best known historic sites in the Lake George region. Many battles and events took place around the Ticonderoga area and should also be explored by the visitor.
Not all of Lake George's historic sites are on land, some of them are underwater. For more information on the underwater heritage see our scuba diving page.
Try this link for a walking tour and map of historic sites in the
Fort William Henry area.
For a list of historical sites and state markers around the Lake George Village area contact the Lake George Chamber of Commerce at 518-668-5755 and ask for their brochure.
A brochure titled "The Mohican Trail" showing historic sites from Saratoga to Ticonderoga is available from the Adirondack Regional Chambers of Commerce by calling 518-798-1761.
The Lake George Historical Association is dedicated to the preservation of the history of the Lake George region.
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"The elderly schoolmasters and piano-teachers are dust,
and the leaves of the piano primer were eaten, note by note, by dust."
Chris McCully, Dust
"Not here, the darkness in this twittering world."
T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton
Note: I have not reproduced Lumsden's poems in this article, but they can be found by clicking here.
Those who admire Lumsden's work, but know little of his life, may be interested to know that he used to make his money from pub quiz machines. This is an interesting fact about a man who was once financially reliant on interesting facts. It is not the image of a man, stood alone, plying pound coins from the cold dead grasp of a machine that fascinates us though – it is the gestalt effect of the myriad anecdotes that lead the man to his wealth of tidbits.
Those who admire Lumsden's work, but know little of his life, may be interested to know that he used to make his money from pub quiz machines. This is an interesting fact about a man who was once financially reliant on interesting facts. It is not the image of a man, stood alone, plying pound coins from the cold dead grasp of a machine that fascinates us though – it is the gestalt effect of the myriad anecdotes that lead the man to his wealth of tidbits.
In fact, Danny Boyle rather smugly turned this concept into one of the most successful films of all time in Slumdog Millionaire. A knowledgeable man is an admirable thing, but it is the tales of this knowledge-acquisition that leaves us spellbound.
This is the premise for Lumsden's poems, Olivier and A Localised History of Dry Precipitation; the man of facts begins to map out snippets of autobiography behind a façade of trivia. Olivier opens with a misdirection, a clarification and a parenthetical anecdote, the role of the raconteur firmly established from the off:
'He married eighty three times, eighty of them in the West
End run of The Good Husband (by playwright Alexander
Morris, who later shot himself and his chocolate Lab – 'une
bufe brune', which survived – in the Place de la Bastille).'
Lumsden paints a portrait of an actor at his most idiosyncratic and human in a way that transcends the digital generation's need for its icons to bare bullet-pointed plot points in lives defined by their most public moments:
"He considered calling all his children after the heroines
from the novels of Colette, but had only sons."
But the pay-off of the poem is in its restraint – for any such anecdotes require verifiable sources. Lumsden provides this in the penultimate line with the centrifugal clause 'he told my father'. Following this is Olivier's only chance to speak for himself in the poem, yet we scarcely care because it is the father, not the celebrity, that we now yearn to hear of.
As I have already stated however, this poem finds its basis in misdirection – one gets so swept up in the acquisition of anecdotes and new information that we scarcely think to question who the titular 'Olivier' is or, as he later calls himself, 'Mr. Oliver'. It soon becomes clear that we are not dealing with the same man who married Vivien Leigh, so who is it? Is it a friend of the poet's father, or is it a re-imagined version of Laurence Olivier, told through vivid, yet apocryphal accounts?
Such questions carry over to A Localised History of Dry Precipitation, the poet's account of his father's fascination with dust particles. In the poem, Lumsden draws implied parallels between the amateur scientific, investigatory work of a father figure and his own career as a writer:
'Such elegance of
phrase, such turns in which, we must assume, his
best self lives on.'
When Lumsden sent this poem to Silkworms Ink for our 50th Chapbook, he was very clear that it absolutely had to be justified (ie. the left hand and right hand edges of the text needed to be a straight line. Word processors achieve this illusion by making minute adjustments to the spaces between words... to illustrate, this paragraph and the next one are justified).
There are a number of potential reasons for this structural choice – the one I would plump for, however, is our old friend, misdirection. Justifying a poem with tight margins, marooned in the middle of a page, creates the illusion of impenetrability and the idea that all the elements are somehow perfectly aligned. On closer inspection however, we literally spot the gaps.
Which has me thinking that maybe left-right justification should be more prevalent in modern poetry than it currently is. Does it not serve the same purpose as rhyme, but on a visual level? In both rhyme and left-right justification, the poet is creating the illusion that things are congruent, that they are equivalent, that they are comparable. The façade of order; poetry. I digress.
By the time we have read of an 'Olivier' who is not what he seems, we instinctively distrust our narrator and look to distil the truths from the fiction – not that we can only enjoy poetry as autobiography, but these poems are laced with so many fascinating facts that we yearn desperately for them to be real. Luckily, the sections on the derivation of 'abacus' and 'khaki' were bang on the money.
Truthful or otherwise, this poem represents the best of Lumsden's ability as a tentative conjurer of scenes. I have read the following six lines around fifty times since we issued our 50th Chapbook on Wednesday; there is something mesmerising in the way that Lumsden's attention to detail sucks the reader into the father's attention to detail in the poem in some beautiful meta mise-en-abyme:
'close, the micrometer's divinings, a sweep for
fragments and filings on the unused kitchen
worktop, a licked finger cosseting the length of a
tabletop, a welcome mat flipped and shaken above
an underlit screen.'
One imagines that Lumsden's experience of quiz machines has been a defining force in his approach to writing poems (as well as the quizzes he now writes for others). Like quizzes, his poems wilfully mislead, they challenge us and force us to question long-held truths, yet never at the expense of us having a good time.
All of Lumsden's poems featured on this site are taken from his forthcoming collection, Terrific Melancholy, which I eagerly look forward to reading and can be pre-ordered here.
Phil Brown
Poetry Editor


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81st N-G All-State Boys' Basketball Team: POY Jabari Parker
CHICAGO — Walk through the rotating doors outside Gate 4 at the United Center.
Take the elevator to the third floor.
Make an immediate left.
One quarter of the plush ballroom is full of circular tables bunched together, replete with white tablecloths and chairs pushed tightly together surrounding the tables.
The venue looks like it could host a high school prom with ease.
Instead on this day it hosts some of the most talented high school boys' and girls' basketball players in the country, there for McDonald's All-American Media Day.
Including Jabari Parker.
But the jam-packed room isn't, at the moment, paying attention to the Chicago Simeon standout, who was one of the last players to enter the room.
No one turned in awe or started taking photos of him with their cellphones when he ducked his 6-foot-8, 240-pound frame through the doorway.
Aaron Gordon is about to make his college decision. The buzz in the room is centered on the forward from Archbishop Mitty (Calif.) High School. Fine by Parker.
Four rows of media occupy the center of the room, not casting a glance past the assembled table Gordon will occupy in a few moments. Fine by Parker.
A bank of television cameras fills the last row, their light illuminating the room.
Fine by Parker.
Four hats — Arizona, Kentucky, Oregon and Washington — are lined up in front of Gordon, with their straight bills and graphic designs laid out in precise order.
Gordon picks up the Arizona hat, puts it on and declares he'll play his college basketball in Tucson. The media ask their assorted questions, with the attention squarely on Gordon. Fine by Parker.
Parker watches all this from the table farthest away from the announcement. He claps politely — three short golf claps — and ducks his head down, where his thumbs are busily working out his smartphone.
The yellow laces are untied on his black, red and yellow adidas tennis shoes, which match the standard black and red warmups all the players are wearing. After he is done browsing his phone and once Gordon's news conference ends, he plays with the tuft of facial hair he's trying to grow on his chin. He stands up, both hands on the backpack he's strapped over both his shoulders and walks precisely out the double doors that are open just outside Section 209 and 210 at the United Center.
Once his feet hit the gray carpet outside the ballroom, the attention turns back to Parker, the best high school basketball player since LeBron James.
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Or so said the cover of the May 21, 2012, issue of Sports Illustrated.
The label bestowed upon Parker, a Duke recruit and the 2013 News-Gazette All-State Player of the Year, last spring, however, didn't do him any favors, according to ESPN senior recruiting analyst Dave Telep.
"In the grassroots community, the people who know him and have watched him play, no one said this is the next LeBron," Telep said. "It could have been a disaster, or he could have handled it the way he did. That was too much for one guy to bear the burden. I didn't think it was a fair headline, but he just kind of put it in the rearview mirror."
Parker is an elite player. No doubt about it.
He is only the third player to receive The News-Gazette's Player of the Year honor twice in the 31 years of the award (Jon Scheyer of Glenbrook North in 2005 and 2006 and Jamie Brandon of Chicago King in 1989 and 1990 are the other two). He is also the only two-time recipient of the Mr. Basketball award given to the top Illinois boys' basketball player in its 33-year history.
"He makes the spectacular seem routine," said Mike Flaherty, the head coach at Chicago Mount Carmel who coached Parker's West squad in the McDonald's All-American Game and saw his team's 2012-13 season end against Simeon in a regional semifinal. "Some of his tip dunks and his shot creation, those are things that separate him from the other elite guys."
Consider the effect Parker has had for a moment, and it's not so hard to dismiss the comparison to James.
During his senior season, Parker and Simeon accomplished the following:
— Four games televised on ESPN's family of networks.
— Ten games played in college venues.
— Seven games against out-of-state opponents.
— Traveled more than 5,500 miles to games by bus and airplane.
— Had the state's largest newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, follow them at every practice and every game.
"The thing that was intriguing to me that when I came up with this whole idea was that traditionally Simeon players have never been allowed to talk to the media," said Paul Skrbina, the high school sports editor for the Chicago Tribune. "We've covered Jabari since he was a freshman, and we haven't gotten very much access to him. It remains to be seen whether Jabari's the best player to ever come out of the state of Illinois. He's certainly the most decorated player to ever come out of the state of Illinois, and we wanted to document that."
— And, most impressively, won a fourth straight Class 4A state championship, defeating Stevenson 58-40 on March 16 at Carver Arena in Peoria.
"What I like the most about Jabari is the fact that he's undefeated in state championship games," Telep said. "In Chicago and the rest of Illinois, it seems people are almost desensitized to how much he's won, but to think that a guy has won four state championships in Illinois is pretty remarkable."
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Sitting in a chair against the wall just outside the ballroom at the United Center, Parker doesn't have many free moments during media day. He had just completed a quick one-on-one interview before he was hurried off for a television interview and then brought back to the spot arranged for him against the wall. During the 90-minute media session, Parker clearly has the most consistent stream of people wanting to talk to him, snap a photo with him or shake his hand.
A few other players, like Andrew Wiggins, one of the top uncommitted players in the Class of 2013, and Julius Randle, a Kentucky commit, might have more reporters surrounding them at various junctures but not the steady procession Parker has to face.
He has two media handlers who usher in the next wave of reporters and keep media members who want to talk to him informed of when they can.
On this day, despite those close to Parker who emphasize he is just like a normal 18-year-old kid, he's far from normal.
"I just have fun with it," Parker said. "I don't let a lot of the media's praise or criticism blind me from what's most important, and that's just the love of the game. I'm using basketball as a tool. I love the fact that I'm getting a chance to go to college for free and don't give my parents that burden to pay off my expenses."
Parker committed to Duke on Dec. 20 during a news conference at Simeon that was televised live by ESPNU.
Parker hasn't signed yet with the Blue Devils and said he has no plans to do so until the last possible day, which is May 15.
"That's what a friend gave me advice on," Parker said with a simple shrug before he moves on to the next question thrown his way.
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Well before Parker grew into his body, well before Parker said he would attend Duke, well before Parker became a McDonald's All-American, well before Parker won two gold medals with USA Basketball and well before Parker slipped on a blue-and-yellow Simeon jersey, there was this moment.
Sixth grade. City playoffs. Simeon High School.
Parker's Robert A. Black Magnet School team was playing in the championship game.
But his team lost. The opponent and score is insignificant seven years later.
The scene following the loss, however, isn't. At least from the viewpoint of Rob Smith, Simeon's coach, who was watching that day.
"He probably had 25 points and I don't know how many rebounds, but after the loss, he went in the corner of the gym and started crying," Smith said. "I just walked up to him and said, 'You did everything you could possibly do for your team to win. That's all you can ask of yourself.' He turned and looked at me and said, 'Obviously I didn't do enough because we lost.' That's when I was like, 'Whoa, this kid could be special.' "
Just how special, though, wouldn't fully matriculate until a few years later. The hype and buzz was considerable surrounding Parker before he even played a game at Simeon.
"You always worry about these young phenoms," said Joe Henricksen, the publisher of the City/Suburban Hoops Report, "but you didn't think he would ever be a flameout."
He proved he wouldn't. Parker amassed 2,003 points, 906 rebounds and 413 assists during his four seasons with the Wolverines, which resulted in a 118-15 record.
Not too shabby.
"What really stands out about Jabari is the balance to his game," Telep said. "From the mental side to the physical side to the way he plays in the post and on the perimeter, it's all impressive. There may be some guys who are better shooters and better athletes, but I don't know if somebody has quite the entire package he has."
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Colleen Kane attended every Simeon practice this season. Every Simeon game.
The Chicago Tribune reporter and Illinois graduate had the task of covering the Wolverines all season.
Skrbina and Kane broached the topic with Smith before the season, not quite knowing what to expect from a program well-known for its strict access to players under former coach Bob Hambric.
"We weren't sure how he was going to feel about it, so we went and talked to him about it, and he said, 'Yeah, sure,' " Kane said. "We said, 'We'll be there every day' and wrote a story every day. It was a lot of time with them."
Time focused not just on Parker, but also in having the last reserve on the bench getting interviewed and having stories written about.
But time that most likely would not have happened if not for Parker, even with Illinois signees Kendrick Nunn and Jaylon Tate, along with Dayton signee Kendall Pollard, on Simeon's roster.
"People say he's the most covered player to ever come out of Chicago," Kane said. "I went with them on all their trips, and everywhere we went there were people trying to talk to him. Just the announcement that he was going to announce his college decision was a huge deal. He would always have little kids running around following him, looking for autographs."
Simeon has had notable players in its past.
Ben Wilson. Nick Anderson. Deon Thomas. Bryant Notree. Kevin Turner. Bobby Simmons. Calvin Brock. Steve Taylor.
And, of course, Derrick Rose. The Chicago Bulls guard and 2011 NBA Most Valuable Player suited up for Smith, winning Class AA state titles with Simeon in 2006 and 2007. Yet Smith acknowledges Parker is probably more well-known at this point in his basketball career than Rose was.
"That's solely because of social media, though," Smith said. "When Derrick was in high school, social media had just started. He could have been just as big as Jabari is now. Everybody gets a chance to see Jabari with all that is out there with YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Derrick didn't have that luxury."
The effect Parker has on Chicago goes beyond basketball.
"He's got a lot of star power," Notre Dame signee Demetrius Jackson said. "He challenged me to a game of pingpong (this past week), and he lost, but I think he still likes me. He's a great guy, and he does it the right way. I hope the best for him. Guys like that, you can really appreciate."
Skrbina said it's no coincidence the United Center has hosted the last three McDonald's All-American Games and plans to do so through 2015. Since the game started in 1978, no venue has hosted it more than once except the United Center. Skrbina attended the 2010 game at Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio, where he estimated maybe five or six media members attended media day festivities compared with the hundreds that turned out this year, with many to get a glimpse of Parker.
"Anybody that knows Jabari knows he can make everybody in the room smile," said Matt Jones, a guard from DeSoto (Texas) High School who will play with Parker at Duke next season. "Just seeing how much his fans love him is overwhelming to see."
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Henricksen has seen hundreds upon hundreds of high school basketball games in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs in the last 25 years.
He easily puts Parker in the top five prep players Illinois has produced in that span, throwing Parker's name in with the likes of Rose, Scheyer and Kevin Garnett.
"At his size, he literally can play anywhere on the floor," Henricksen said. "Even with some of the great players that have come through Illinois, they didn't have that versatile skill set where they can pass the ball, handle the ball and make those around him better. I just think that versatility is the one unique characteristic that sets him apart from a lot of the great ones."
Just don't expect Parker to tout his own abilities on Twitter. A popular choice of many prospects these days, the tweets Parker (@JabariParker22) sends out won't incite any message board discussions.
"He's really self-aware, and he's going to do right for the next guys to come through," Telep said. "A lot of guys, their Twitter personality doesn't match who they really are. That's not the case with Jabari."
He has plenty of followers (41,183 as of Wednesday afternoon. For comparison's sake, Nunn's Twitter account, @KNunnSG, and Tate's Twitter account, @JayTate_1, had just under 9,000 combined followers as of Wednesday afternoon) — that will likely grow in the next few years if his basketball career continues to rise. But he only has posted 193 tweets through the middle of last week, and none are retweets about any of his basketball highlights.
"What's up with this new Harlem shake?" Parker tweeted Feb. 25. "I don't remember this! I remember some rhythm, throwbacks, with special delivery... I was hitting it!"
That's about the extent of personality Parker will offer up on Twitter.
That doesn't mean, however, that Parker isn't a popular topic of conversation on Twitter.
"He can go to the bathroom, and before you know it, it'll be on Twitter," said Sonny Parker, Jabari's father, with a slight laugh. "The social media people have these days, everything is documented and recorded."
One can sense from talking to Jabari Parker, however briefly, that he has a clear vision of what his future can become. The words flow easily out of his mouth, yet he doesn't reveal too much.
"He's genuine, but very well-trained in dealing with the media and saying the right thing," Skrbina said. "In a way, I kind of feel bad for him. It's got to be tough being him. He's been on stage with the first lady and knows the mayor (of Chicago), but none of that stuff matters to him. He has not one ounce of ego in him outwardly. I think he has a lot of ego inwardly. He's a lot like Derrick Rose."
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Parker mentions Rose as his role model. His Twitter profile photo is one of Rose and himself, back when Jabari was a chubby middle-school student.
"I look up to that man so much," Parker said. "He's come from almost the same neighborhood and how he's been able to succeed with his work ethic shows how really diligent he is."
Parker said he, along with other top Chicago prospects like Nunn, Tate, Jahlil Okafor and Cliff Alexander, among others, understand they're looked at in ways just beyond what they do on a basketball court.
"We try to represent the city as much as possible, especially in a positive way," Parker said. "I know the news really illuminates Chicago as being real negative and a city with violence."
Parker is fully healthy these days, having recovered from a broken right foot he suffered last summer playing at the FIBA U17 World Championships in Lithuania.
"I can't give myself an excuse no more," he said with a laugh. "I'm feeling real good."
Those close to Parker say the injury helped motivate him more his senior season.
"A lot of people doubted he wasn't going to be back to where he was," Sonny Parker said. "It took some time. He was idle for over five months. He couldn't do anything because he had that boot on."
Another bit of inspiration, according to Smith, came after the Chicago Sun-Times named Okafor its Player of the Year at the end of February. Okafor, the junior center from Chicago Whitney Young, is the consensus top player in the Class of 2014, but Parker scored a game-high 29 points and had 13 rebounds while Okafor had 13 points and five rebounds when the two teams met for the Argo Sectional title March 8, a game Simeon won 69-51.
"I think that kind of did bother him when they gave that award to Okafor," Smith said. "Jabari was thinking, 'But you guys know I was hurt, yet I had no consideration of it, so I'm going to prove to (you) all. They will have their time to be good, but this is still my time.' "
A time that continued to flourish at the state tournament in Peoria, where Parker averaged 20 points and 11.5 rebounds at Carver Arena.
"He took over the state tournament," Simeon assistant coach Marlo Finner said. "It was totally gratifying."
His high school career in Illinois is finished now. For Parker, though, his basketball career is nowhere close to fully complete. He'll likely get a chance to crack Duke's starting lineup next season with Mason Plumlee, Ryan Kelly and Seth Curry all gone.
How long he stays in Durham, N.C., could become a talking point at this point next year, based on how Parker's freshman season goes.
Depending on what decision Parker makes in regards to a possible mission trip because of his Mormon faith, he might arrive back at the United Center soon. Only as an NBA player, not as a high school senior whose place in Illinois basketball history is set.
"He has that child mentality as well where he acts silly and still watches cartoons and pulls pranks," Smith said. "He's a typical 18-year-old kid in that sense, but when you get him on the basketball court, he's like a man. There's no question Jabari is the No. 1 player in the country."
Honor roll
2013 Jabari Parker Chicago Simeon
2012 Jabari Parker Chicago Simeon
2011 Chasson Randle Rock Island
2010 Rayvonte Rice Centennial
2009 Jereme Richmond Waukegan
2008 Lewis Jackson Decatur Eisenhower
2007 Derrick Rose Chicago Simeon
2006 Jon Scheyer Glenbrook North
2005 Jon Scheyer Glenbrook North
2004 Shaun Livingston Peoria Central
2003 Shannon Brown Proviso East
2002 Dee Brown Proviso East
2001 Eddy Curry Thornwood
2000 Darius Miles East St. Louis
1999 Brian Cook Lincoln
1998 Quentin Richardson Chicago Young
1997 Sergio McClain Peoria Manual
1996 Ronnie Fields Chicago Farragut
1995 Kevin Garnett Chicago Farragut
1994 Antoine Walker Chicago Mount Carmel
1993 Rashard Griffith Chicago King
1992 Chris Collins Glenbrook North
1991 Howard Nathan Peoria Manual
1990 Jamie Brandon Chicago King
1989 Jamie Brandon Chicago King
1988 LaPhonso Ellis East St. Louis Lincoln
1987 Marcus Liberty Chicago King
1986 Nick Anderson Chicago Simeon
Larry Smith Alton
1985 Ed Horton Springfield Lanphier
1984 Roger McClendon Centennial
1983 Marty Simmons Lawrenceville
Getting to know ... Jabari Parker
A few of my favorite things: Jesse Owens ... Jim Carrey ... Literature ... "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" ... "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" ... Subway ... Any old-school luxury car
Pet peeve: Being too close to people in awkward situations.
Three things on my bucket list: Go to Australia, perform community service in Africa and to find a lost civilization
Three people I'd like to dine with: Martin Luther King Jr., John Wooden and Abraham Lincoln
College plans: Attend Duke
First Team
Cliff Alexander Chicago Curie 6-9 Jr. C Uncommitted, averaged 21.7 points, 13.3 rebounds, 4.0 blocks for a 19-8 team; ranked fourth nationally among Class of 2014 athletes
Keita Bates-Diop Normal U-High 6-7 Jr. F Ohio State recruit averaged 18.4 points, 6.7 rebounds, 2.8 blocks for a 22-6 team that was repeat Corn Belt champs
Sterling Brown Proviso East 6-5 Sr. G/F SMU recruit, a repeat selection, was top rebounder (10.9) and No. 2 scorer (12.8 ppg) for a 29-5 team that placed fourth in Class 4A
Jalen Brunson Stevenson 6-1 So. G Uncommitted, averaged team-high 21.8 points, set school record for points in a season (689) for 29-5 team that placed second in Class 4A
David Cohn Elmhurst York 6-2 Sr. G Colorado State recruit averaged 17.4 points, 4.3 rebounds, 3.0 assists for 22-8 team; second on school's career scoring charts (1,640)
Garret Covington Edwardsville 6-3 Sr. G Western Illinois recruit was the top scorer and knocked down 105 three-pointers for a 31-3 team that placed third in Class 4A
Alvin Ellis De La Salle 6-3 Sr. G Minnesota recruit averaged 20.1 points, 5.7 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 2.7 steals per game for a 17-8 team; scored 1,079 career points
Billy Garrett Jr. Morgan Park 6-0 Sr. G DePaul recruit, a repeat selection, was top scorer (17.4 ppg) and three-point shooter (72 treys) for 33-3 team that won 3A state title
Malcolm Hill Belleville East 6-7 Sr. G/F Illinois recruit is a repeat selection who set school record for career scoring (2,004 points); averaged 25.3 points as senior for 24-4 team
Keenan Minor Cahokia 6-2 Sr. G Uncommitted, was the top scorer (21.2 ppg) and three-point shooter (101 treys) for 33-4 team that placed second in Class 3A
Kendrick Nunn Simeon 6-2 Sr. G Illinois recruit, a repeat pick, was second in scoring (14.7 ppg) and first in three-point shooting (46) for 30-3 team that won 4A state title
Jahlil Okafor Chicago Young 6-11 Jr. C Uncommitted, repeat selection was state runner-up in Mr. Basketball voting, averaged 20.7 points, 8.8 rebounds for a 27-4 team
Jabari Parker Simeon 6-9 Sr. F Duke recruit is repeat Player of Year and state's first two-time Mr. Basketball. Top scorer (18.4) and rebounder (10.4) on 30-3 4A champs
Tyler Ulis Chicago Hts. Marian 5-8 Jr. G Uncommitted, top scorer (21.9 average) and assist leader (3.7) for 29-4 team; set school's season (693) and career (1,612) scoring records
Milik Yarbrough Zion-Benton 6-6 Jr. F Uncommitted, averaged 21.7 points, 9.3 rebounds, 3.5 assists per game for 25-6 team. Has school-record 1,984 career points
Second Team
Peyton Allen Chatham Glenwood 6-4 Jr. G Uncommitted, averaged 18.1 points, 4.6 rebounds, 1.9 assists for a 23-11 team; stands third in school history in scoring (1,274 points)
Larry Austin Jr. Springfield Lanphier 6-2 Jr. G Uncommitted, averaged 17.0 points, 6.5 rebounds, 3.6 assists, 3.6 steals per game (all of which led the Lions) for a 15-12 team
Kyle Davis Morgan Park 6-0 Sr. G Dayton recruit was second in scoring (13.8 ppg) and second in three-point shooting (40 treys) for 33-3 team that won Class 3A state title
Michael Finke Centennial 6-9 Jr. F Illinois recruit and N-G All-Area Player of the Year, averaged team-high 16.6 points, 7.6 rebounds for 22-9 team that reached 3A Sweet 16
Tre Harris Edwardsville 6-3 Sr. G Uncommitted, was second in scoring (17.0), rebounding (9.1) and three-point shooting (66 treys) for 31-3 team that placed third in 4A
Paris Lee Proviso East 5-10 Sr. G Illinois State recruit led team in assists (5.1) and was second with 47 threes for 29-5 team that placed fourth in Class 4A; averaged 13.6 ppg
Deshawn Munson East St. Louis 6-4 Sr. G Uncommitted, averaged 17.8 points, 10.8 rebounds, 8.3 assists. Had 12 triple-doubles and amassed more than 1,500 career points
Malachi Nix Niles North 5-7 Sr. G Uncommitted, averaged 17.9 points, 4.0 assists, 3.0 steals per game. Set school record with 1,542 career points
Alec Peters Washington 6-8 Sr. F Valparaiso recruit averaged 22.6 points, 9.0 rebounds. Scored 1,471 career points and was an 82 percent free throw shooter on varsity
Miles Simelton Oswego 6-1 Sr. G Lehigh recruit averaged 18.7 points, 3.8 assists for school-record-setting 28-win team. Second all time at Oswego with 1,558 career points
Tyler Smithpeters Harrisburg 6-4 Sr. G Uncommitted, top scorer (17.5), three-point shooter (57 treys) and assist leader (5.4) for 33-1 team that won the Class 2A state title
Nathan Taphorn Pekin 6-7 Sr. F Northwestern recruit averaged 16.1 points, 7.1 rebounds for 19-8 team; finished 12th on school's career scoring chart (1.021 points)
Jaylon Tate Simeon 6-2 Sr. G Illinois recruit was team leader in assists (7.3 per game) for 30-3 team that won the Class 4A state title; averaged 8.3 points per game
Mark Weems Jr. Seton Academy 6-2 Sr. G Uncommitted, top scorer (17.4 ppg) and No. 2 in assists (2.9) and rebounds (4.4) for 22-11 team that placed second in Class 2A
Paul White Chicago Young 6-9 Jr. F Uncommitted, averaged 13.7 points, 5.9 rebounds and hit 28 three-pointers for 27-4 team. Shot 52.3 percent from the field
Special Mention 50
Jubril Adekoya Tinley Park Andrew 6-6 Sr. F
Brett Anderson Newark 6-4 Sr. F
Darius Austin Cahokia 6-7 Jr. G
Juozas Balciumas Lemont 6-1 Sr. G
Marcus Bartley Decatur MacArthur 6-3 Jr. G
Marquis Borney Madison 6-2 Sr. G
Isaiah Box Rockford East 6-1 Sr. G
Jared Brownridge Waubonsie Valley 6-2 Sr. G
Joe Byers Belvidere 6-3 Jr. G
C.J. Carr Rock Island 5-7 Jr. G
Max Cook Lincoln 6-2 Jr. G
Steven Cook New Trier 6-4 Sr. F
Andrew Drone Gallatin County 6-11 Sr. C
Morris Dunnigan Joliet West 6-2 Sr. G
Jared Entwistle Illini Central 5-11 Sr. G
Alex Fitch Quincy Notre Dame 6-3 Sr. F
Grant Gibson Galesburg 6-2 So. G/F
Tyquone Greer Chicago Orr 6-7 Jr. F
Ethan Happ Rockridge 6-7 Jr. F
Paxton Harmon West Hancock 6-4 Sr. G
Cole Hasselbring Cissna Park 6-4 Sr. F
Martel Hunter Monmouth Roseville 6-1 Jr. G
Branden Jenkins Proviso East 6-2 Sr. G
Jacob Johnston Erie 6-4 Sr. G/F
Mike Ljuboa Riverside-Brookfield 6-7 Sr. F
Alex Majewski Brother Rice 6-7 Sr. F
Hank Mathews Bartonville Limestone 6-2 Sr. F
Josh McAuley West Aurora 6-7 Sr. F/C
Andrew McAuliffe Glenbrook North 6-8 Sr. C
Johnny McCray East St. Louis 6-4 Sr. F
Elliott McGaughy Oswego 6-3 `Sr. G
L.J. McIntosh Chicago Marist 6-1 Sr. G
Matt Mooney Niles Notre Dame 6-4 Sr. G/F
Jovon Mooring Hillcrest 6-1 Sr. G
Sean O'Brien Mundelein 6-7 Sr. F
Sean O'Mara Lisle Benet 6-9 Jr. C
A.J. Patty Westchester St. Joseph 6-8 Sr. F
L.J. Peak Chicago Young 6-5 Jr. G
Devantae Price Tamms 6-1 Sr. G
A.J. Riley Niles Notre Dame 6-2 Sr. G
Brady Sanders Fieldcrest 6-1 Sr. G
Jabari Sandifer Neuqua Valley 6-1 Sr. G
Brent Schluter St. Joseph-Ogden 6-3 Jr. F
Herman Senor Springfield Southeast 5-11 Sr. G
Terrence Shelby Bartonville Limestone 6-3 Jr. G
Khalil Small Providence St. Mel 6-2 Sr. G
Denzel Smith Danville 6-6 Jr. C
Jens Soderholm LaSalle-Peru 6-4 Sr. G/F
Kendall Stephens St. Charles East 6-5 Sr. G
Carl White Chicago Foreman 6-5 Sr. F
Honorable Mention 75
Shaquon Alexander Hales Franciscan 6-2 Sr. G
JaVairius Amos-Mays North Chicago 6-4 Jr. G
Steven Armoska Rock Falls 6-4 Sr. F
Ore Arogundade St. Viator 6-3 Jr. G
Cullen Barr Carmel 6-6 Sr. F
Gavin Block Lincoln 6-5 So. F
Dedric Byrd Centennial 5-9 Jr. G
Jevon Carter Proviso East 6-1 Jr. G
Connor Cashaw Stevenson 6-3 So. G
Josh Cunningham Morgan Park 6-7 Jr. F
Armon Fletcher Edwardsville 6-5 Jr. F
Alex Foster Seton Academy 6-8 Sr. F/C
Brody Gronewold Illini West 6-2 Sr. G
Kurt Hall North Chicago 6-6 Jr. G
Malek Harris Sandburg 6-7 Jr. F
Jalen Henry Springfield Southeast 6-8 Jr. C
Capel Henshaw Harrisburg 6-3 Sr. G
Cody Hildebrand Payson Seymour 6-0 Jr. G
Maurius Hill Homewood-Flossmoor 6-5 Sr. F
Vincent Jackson Jr. Cahokia 6-6 Sr. F
Marlon Jones Chicago Orr 6-8 Jr. F
Andrew Kimball Wheaton St. Francis 6-1 Sr. G
Tevon King Providence St. Mel 6-1 Jr. G
Martin Kvitle Quincy 6-3 Sr. G
Kevin Kozan New Lenox Providence 6-2 Sr. G
Victor Law St. Rita 6-7 Jr. F
Ronald Lawton Rich East 6-6 Sr. G/F
Phillip Lee Hyde Park 6-1 Sr. G
Erick Locke Oak Park-River Forest 6-0 Jr. G
JayQuan McCloud North Chicago 6-4 Jr. G
Jamaal McDavis Bloomington 6-2 Sr. G
Jamal McDowell Chicago Orr 5-11 Sr. G
Donald McKinley Urbana 6-1 Sr. G
Ethan Miller Charleston 6-2 Sr. G/F
Ben Moore Bolingbrook 6-8 Sr. F
Langdon Neal Chicago Parker 6-1 Sr. G
Chase Patton St. Joseph-Ogden 6-3 Sr. G
Devontavius Payne Carbondale 6-1 Jr. G
Quentin Payne St. Charles North 6-4 Sr. G
Josh Peak Jacksonville 6-4 Sr. F
Kendall Pollard Simeon 6-5 Sr. G/F
Jacoby Posley Winnebago 6-0 Sr. G
Makur Puou Mooseheart 6-9 Jr. F/C
Darreon Reddick Belleville East 6-2 Jr. G
Matt Reinke Winnebago 6-4 Sr. G
Nic Reynolds Peoria Notre Dame 6-2 Sr. G
Matt Rosenwinkel Rochelle 6-2 Sr. G
Shawn Roundtree Edwardsville 6-0 Jr. G
Terrence Sardin Chicago Perspectives 6-8 Sr. F
Bodee Schlipf El Paso-Gridley 6-4 Sr. F
Tyler Schuring Arthur-Lovington 5-11 So. F
Dalton Shaner Lanark Eastland 6-1 Jr. G
Kamal Shasi Seton Academy 6-2 Sr. G
Aaron Siler Robinson 5-11 Sr. G
Derek Smith Teutopolis 6-3 Sr. G
Trayvon Smith Monmouth Roseville 6-6 Jr. C
Kendall Stephens St. Charles East 6-5 Sr. G
Nick Stokowski Monticello 6-2 Jr. G
Brock Stull Rockford Boylan 6-4 Jr. G
Max Stutsman Salt Fork 6-4 Jr. C
John Taylor Heritage 6-5 Sr. C
Moshawn Thomas Hyde Park 6-7 Sr. F
Jacob Timmerman Breese Central 6-0 Jr. G
Nick Van Osdale Belleville West 6-2 Sr. G
Justin Vanwambeke Machesney Park Harlem 6-2 Sr. G
Jontrel Walker West Aurora 6-0 Jr. G
Jeremy Weeke Okawville 6-4 Sr. G/F
Preston Wells Peoria Richwoods 6-0 Sr. G
Lance Whitaker Bartlett 6-3 Sr. G
Falando Wilkinson Collinsville 6-2 Sr. G
Arie Williams Elgin 5-9 Sr. G
Brandon Wolfe Casey-Westfield 6-3 Jr. F
Russell Woods Simeon 6-7 Sr. F/C
Devon Wright Nokomis 6-1 Sr. C
Andrew Zelis Wheaton North
The Nifty Fifty
Chicago Simeon's Jabari Parker stood out as the premier high school boys' basketball player in Illinois this past winter. A look at the Gatorade Player of the Year from each state:
State Player Yr. School College
Alabama Josh Langford Fr. Madison Academy Undecided
Alaska Adam Klie Sr. Service High Undecided
Arizona Casey Benson Jr. Corona del Sol High Undecided
Arkansas Bobby Portis Sr. Hall High Arkansas
California Roschon Prince Sr. Long Beach Poly High USC
Colorado Dominique Collier Jr. East High Undecided
Connecticut Kurt Steidl Sr. Ridgefield High Vermont
Delaware Sabri Thompson Sr. Sanford Northwestern State
Florida Joel Berry Jr. Lake Highland Prep North Carolina
Georgia Brannen Greene Sr. Tift County High Kansas
Hawaii Joshua Ko Sr. Kalaheo High Undecided
Idaho Isaiah Wright Jr. Borah High Undecided
Indiana Zak Irvin Sr. Hamilton Southeastern High Michigan
Iowa Jeremy Morgan Sr. Iowa City West High Northern Iowa
Kansas Semi Ojeleye Sr. Ottawa High Duke
Kentucky Dominique Hawkins Sr. Madison Central High Undecided
Louisiana Trey Touchet Jr. St. Thomas More High Undecided
Maine Garet Beal Sr. Jonesport-Beals High Maine
Maryland Marquis Wright Sr. North Point High Loyola (Md.)
Massachusetts Tyler Gibson Sr. Rockland High Massachusetts-Lowell
Michigan Derrick Walton Jr. Sr. Chandler Park Academy Michigan
Minnesota Tyus Jones Jr. Apple Valley High Undecided
Mississippi Devin Booker Jr. Moss Point High Undecided
Missouri Kyle Wolf Sr. Rockhurst High Undecided
Montana Daine Muller Sr. Skyview High Undecided
Nebraska Josiah Gustafson Sr. Millard North High Pittsburg State
Nevada Marcus Allen Sr. Centennial High Stanford
New Hampshire Eric Gendron Jr. Merrimack High Undecided
New Jersey Karl Towns Jr. Jr. St. Joseph High Kentucky
New Mexico Bryce Alford Sr. La Cueva High UCLA
New York Kentan Facey Sr. Long Island Lutheran High Connecticut
North Carolina Isaiah Hicks Sr. J.F. Webb High North Carolina
North Dakota A.J. Jacobson Sr. Shanley High North Dakota State
Ohio Jack Gibbs Sr. Westerville North High Davidson
Oklahoma Stephen Clark Sr. Douglass High Oklahoma State
Oregon Calvin Hermanson Sr. Lake Oswego Saint Mary's
Pennsylvania Steve Vasturia Sr. St. Joseph's Prep Notre Dame
Rhode Island Bonzie Colson Jr. St. Andrew's Undecided
South Carolina Justin McKie Sr. Irmo High South Carolina
South Dakota Zach Hanson Sr. T.F. Riggs High Creighton
Tennessee Austin Nichols Sr. Briarcrest Christian Memphis
Texas Justise Winslow Jr. St. John's Undecided
Utah Nick Emery Sr. Lone Peak High BYU
Vermont Matt St. Amour Sr. Missisquoi High Undecided
Virginia Troy Williams Sr. Oak Hill Academy Indiana
Washington Jason Todd Jr. Henry M. Jackson High Undecided
West Virginia Andrew Wiggins Sr. Huntington Prep Undecided
Wisconsin Luke Fischer Sr. Germantown High Indiana
Wyoming Cody Kelley Jr. Campbell County High Undecided


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This weekend many will be celebrating Easter. Casinos aren't necessarily the first place to visit for such an important holiday, but New England's seven casinos offer terrific promotions for this weekend. Check them out below, and as always, contact the casino or restaurant for information and reservations.
Hollywood Casino, Hotel & Raceway, Bangor
Easter Brunch: $26.99 , Kids Under 12: $14.99 All your Easter favorites will be on the Brunch Buffet from 9am-3pm on Sunday, April 1st!
Oxford Casino, Oxford
Sunday, April 1, 2018, 9:00am – 4:00pm, $21.95 per person. Delicious breakfast, brunch and dinner items including leg of lamb, ham and turkey carving stations and Easter favorites. Reservations recommended. Call (207) 539-6705
Twin River Casino, Lincoln, April 5th
Wicked Good Bar & Grill – Easter Specials at 12:00 Noon: Prime Rib Dinner, $20; Pineapple Brown Sugar Glazed Ham Dinner $15; Classic Carrot Cake $7
Plainridge Park Casino
Slack's Oyster House & Grill – Special Easter Brunch Menu with the regular menu.
Mohegan Sun Casino Resort, Uncasville
Easter Dining Specials
BALLO Italian Restaurant
Grilled lamb chops with English pea risotto, morels and pea shoots ($55)
Regular menu available
Jasper White's Summer Shack
Featured dish: Jasper's famous Pan Roasted Lobster
The Lansdowne Irish Pub & Music House
Easter Dinner Special: Glazed smoked ham served with mashed potatoes and roasted root vegetables ($16)
Michael Jordan's 23.sportcafe
16 oz. prime rib with mashed potatoes and asparagus ($29)
Michael Jordan's Steak House
Petite Filet with Chimichurri butter, lobster out of the shell with tomato beurre blanc and saffron rice pilaf ($55)
Sushi Koya
Featured dish: Sushi Koya Dinosaur Egg
Spicy tuna wrapped with fresh avocado and topped with tempura crunch and spicy mayo two eggs for $10
Tom's Urban
Featured item: Urban Mimosa with Infinite Monkey Theorem Sparkling Wine & OJ
Foxwoods Casino Resort, Mashentucket
Easter Dining Specials
ALTA STRADA – Lamb Shank Osso bucco • $42
CEDARS STEAKHOUSE & OYSTER BAR – Grilled Pesto Colossal Shrimp • $18
DAVID BURKE PRIME – Enjoy Easter brunch or dinner at Foxwoods' Prime steakhouse.
Grilled Rack of Lamb • $35.95
VERANDA CAFE – Grilled Rosemary Scented Lamb Chops • $24.99


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Canada's national median home listing price this month is $290,900, which means that Huberdeau is in the bottom 40% for Canada.
When our research team crunched the numbers we calculated that Huberdeau has a median home price of $149,000.
Across Canada the most common number of bedroom property being listed has 3 bedrooms, in Aug this neighbourhood's most common listing has properties with fewer bedrooms.
There are a number of important pieces of research you should do before deciding where to buy an investment property – this data for Huberdeau will hopefully provide an indicator to help you where to research in-depth
Because the amount of real estate listed for sale has increased it looks like housing market forces in neighbourhood are likely to drive prices down.
Across the country as a whole, Huberdeau is in the cheapest 20% when all of Canada's suburbs are listed in order of real estate listing prices.
While the median for Quebec is $198,000 , which means that Huberdeau's median price is $124,000 a lot lower than the rest of the province.
In province, the most common property on the listings this month has 2 bedrooms, in this neighbourhood it's 1.
From our data, it appears that neighbourhood is number 615th when comparing neighbourhoods by the number of properties available to investors across the nation, putting it in the lowest 40.
When we look at the data we have, it can help with trying to establish whether or not Huberdeau is a good investment target.
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Researchers in France have captured the first photographs of auroras on Uranus. Who knew Uranus was so scenic? The Voyager 2 probe detected signs of auroras on Uranus in 1986, but this was the first time anyone was able to photograph Uranus in this state. Which was surprising, because I've heard there are many photographs of Uranus on the internet. Just what I heard.
Scientists previously tried to detect auroras on Uranus in 1998 and 2005 but did not succeed; it would appear Uranus is more elusive than the research I've read in public bathrooms would suggest. Last September, Laurent Lamy and his team at the Observatoire de Paris in Meudon, France, timed their Hubble observations in an attempt to catch a solar storm directed toward Uranus.
They found two Earth-sized auroral storms of brief duration, as pictured above in research which will be published this week in Geophysical Research Letters. Uranus is going to be so famous.
Lamy hopes to get more opportunities to observe Uranus with Hubble before the telescope's useful life has passed. He says detecting auroras on Uranus will help them precisely locate the magnetic axis and finally determine which parts of the magnetosphere are active. As you can tell, there is much we don't yet know about Uranus. Unlike the other planets in our solar system, Uranus's magnetic axis is about 60 degrees off its spin axis and Uranus as a whole is mysteriously tilted to its side, possibly from being pounded by something huge. Yes, I am 12 years old.


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As I look back over the last months of Angie's life I am MOST grateful that all of us kids got to spend time with her.
Even though we could not predict how much time she had we all recognized that it was short.
I do wish that we had gotten hospice involved earlier than 9 days before her death. In the last weeks I finally could see the stair step pattern of continued decline with her never recovering to what had aready been a diminished quality of life. I wonder with the help of hospice if we could have gotten a better handle on her anxiety and restlessness.
Please forgive my rudimentary drawing below, but I use it because it illustrates a good point. Angie lived in a cottage independently for almost 10 years when she moved to Kansas. By March of 2013 she was using a walker, no longer drove, had fallen several times, had reluctantly let me take over the bill paying, and had trouble with tasks like using the microwave. These things prompted the move out of the cottage and into an apartment where she still remained independent with a lot of support in taking medications, phone calls to check on her and remind her to eat, laundry services etc...
In November there was a big decline in her functional status and she could no longer live alone. I think she had a stroke but can not be sure because we had decided no more testing and hospitalizations. There was no point if she could not get better. From the time she moved into the care center her quality of life steadily declined - this was through no fault of the care center staff. I have nothing but good things to say about how they cared for my mom and did their best to keep her functional. Her body was just shutting down. As I look at the chart above it's abundantly clear that I should have called hospice right when she moved in.
BUT, hindsight as they say is 20/20. We did the very best we could, and that is all you can do. Overall I have no regrets. Mom and I spent a lot of time together in the last 3 months of her life. We said "I love you" a LOT.
When I look back on this time together my body is tired but my heart is full.


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Through My Dreams Like a Knife is a black & white, silent short movie about self-reflection, wandering and transformation.
A photographer wanders in the forest and discovers an intriguing building. Elsewhere, mythical characters are immersed in playing minigolf. Everywhere, the unconscious domain of dreams and archetypes permeates waking reality, animate but unseen.
Sometimes life feels like you've stuck in a loop like a worn-out vinyl record. And even if you're not stuck in a loop, do you ever wonder whether there's life outside of the groove?


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The big half-yearly 70% off toy clearance at Target should be this Thursday, January 10. I checked out Mall 205 (Portland) on Sunday and they had four aisles filled with clearance toys and games. We will try to update our Facebook page with reader reports as to which stores have already been marked down. Here are a few tips to navigate the clearance:
- Make a budget and a plan. Who are you buying gifts for? How many? How much can you spend?
- Leave the kids at home (if possible).
- SCAN, SCAN, SCAN (did you get that?). Prices are not always marked correctly so make sure you check the price each item at the end-of-the-aisle scanners.
- Be kind to others. There will probably be tons of people shopping along with you so remember that it's just stuff (and most of it will be set up at garage sales later this summer :))!
Check other departments on end-caps and make sure to bring your coupon box just in case. Let us know what you're finding and make sure to post on Facebook if your store has been marked 70% off.
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