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Former All-Star Darryl Strawberry will be the featured speaker at the Springfield Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremonies.
The 24th annual banquet will be March 24 at the Crowne Plaza. Tickets, priced at $40, can be reserved by calling Lesa Schaive at 529-0008.
The names of the 2014 inductees, Friends of Sport and the Hall of Fame team will be announced in next Sunday�s edition of The State Journal-Register.
Strawberry spent 17 seasons in the major leagues with the New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants and New York Yankees from 1983-99. He finished with 335 career home runs, 1,000 runs batted in and a .259 batting average.
He was the first player taken in the 1980 First-Year Amateur Draft and made his big league debut on May 6, 1983. He batted .257 with 26 home runs, seven triples and 74 RBIs, earning Rookie of the Year honors in the National League.
Strawberry made the first of his eight All-Star Game appearances in 1984. He played on four World Series championship teams, was a two-time Silver Slugger Award winner, won the 1986 All-Star Game Home Run Derby, was the 1988 National League home run champion and joined baseball�s exclusive 30-30 club in 1987 when he hit 39 home runs and stole 36 bases. He finished second in NL Most Valuable Player voting to Kirk Gibson of the Dodgers in 1988.
He finished second in the MVP voting again in 1990, when he hit 37 homers and drove in 108 runs, and in November of 1990 he signed a five-year, $22.25 million free agent contract with his hometown Dodgers.
Strawberry hit 28 home runs and drove in 99 runs his first year in Los Angeles, but injuries and personal problems limited him to just 10 home runs combined in the next two seasons.
He was suspended from baseball at the beginning of the 1995 season due to his involvement with cocaine, but he played for the Yankees at the end of the season. After a stint in the Northern League at the start of the 1996 season, Strawberry again signed with the Yankees on July 4, 1996. He helped New York to World Series titles in 1996, 1998 and 1999, and he played his final game for the Yankees in 1999.
After battles with cancer and drug addiction, Strawberry became a born-again Christian and now is a minister in the St. Louis area with his wife, Tracy.
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But what if you simply want to plot a set of waypoints on a map to embed in a blog? A Google Fusion Table can be created for free using Google Drive. Check out our example map below of all 18 Library branches:
Collecting and Formatting Your Data
The most important part of putting together your map is correctly formatting your data into columns. In fact, when working with databases and spreadsheets, it is best to think of your columns as fields and your rows as separate entries in each field. Let's take a look at an example together:
This table is organized into two fields (Location and Address), and we see the first 11 entries--one for each branch. Each field has a specified data type, text for branch, and addresses has been formatted as location.
The table we made is very simple with no additional information, but you can add as many fields as you want. Your fields can include links to photos or websites, so be creative. The information will be displayed on the location marker on your map.
You can create and edit a spreadsheet using Excel or Google Spreadsheet and upload it to Google Drive. (Note: you will need to sign up for a Google account, which is free. You can use any email address and do not have to create Gmail account.)
Making Your Fusion Table
Once you have logged into your Google Drive account, select the 'Create' button. At the bottom of the drop down dialogue box, select 'Connect to More Apps' and search for 'Fusion Tables'. This will add Fusion Tables to the list of documents that you can now create.
You can create your table from scratch using Fusion Tables or upload a previously created table from you computer.
Once you have create a table with addresses (you can also use Geographic Coordinates for locations that do not have an address), click the 'Map' tab and Google will geocode your addresses and create map of you locations. You can select the drop-down menu from the 'Map' tab to edit the map style and settings.
Publishing and Sharing your Map
Once you have fine tuned your map and are ready to share it, select 'File > Share' and set you parameters. You can share it with one or more people and email a link to your map, or you can select share publicly and publish in a blog post or website.
To share on another site, select 'Tool > Publish' and copy the HTML embed code into your blog or site.
For more, check out this Video Tutorial
Using Map Maps for School
We have only really scratched the surface of what you can do with Fusion Tables. Here a few great ideas to take your next school project to the next level.
Autobiographical Photo Tour - make a map of the important places you've been and link to photos
Historical Locations - Civil War battle sites or Ancient Greek cities
Study Plants and Animals - map plant habitats or animal migration
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Her two most popular series The Twelve Kingdoms (linked to LFPL catalog) and Ghost Hunt have both been adapted into anime series. The Twelve Kingdoms has also been translated into English by former manga publisher Tokyo Pop. The story is about another world that exists on the other side of the ocean from Japan where rulers are chosen by mythical creatures, and evil demons plague the land. High school honor student Yoko is taken into the world of The Twelve Kingdoms to become the king of Kei by one of these mythical creatures. Through her eyes, the audience is introduced to an intricate cast of characters in a richly formed fantasy realm.
Onos other popular series, Ghost Hunt, has also been adapted into a manga series. This is a modern day horror series that follows the famous psychic Kazuya Shibuya characterized through ghost-hunting high school student Mai. Through her adventures with Shibuya, Mai develops her own psychic abilities and becomes friends with other spiritualists that join Shibuyas ghost hunts. There are many scary and sometimes gory moments in this series, so it is not for the faint of heart.
Take some time to branch out from manga authors and check out some of the very talented Japanese novelists like Fuyumi Ono!
-Lynn Johnson, Children and Teen Services, Westport and St. Matthews Branch
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Keep an eye on our program calendar for upcoming programs. You can click on Events by Location to check for programs at a specific branch, or click on Events by Type and then on Teens to look for teen programs at all the branches at once. Just FYI, its always a good idea to call the branch hosting the program to register beforehand so they dont run out of room or supplies for the program.
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Programs for September
Just to give you an idea of whats coming up in September: At Middletown we are having a celebration of all things Doctor Who on September 30 at 4 pm where you can come dressed up as your favorite Doctor, Companion or Villain for the costume contest and show up how knowledgeable you are about our favorite Gallifreyen with the trivia contest! Middletown will also have a Digital Cartooning program on September 25th at 4 pm. Also keep an eye out for Teen Tuesdays at Iroquois at 3:30 with DIY tech for comics, microcomputers, coding and app making. Fairdale has Tabletop Roleplaying gaming on Tuesdays at 4 pm. On September 5th at Newburg will be Open Mic Night with Prolific at 6 pm. Southwest Branch will host the Teen Code Club September 9th at 3:30, and Westport will have a Digital Collage program on September 11th at 3:30. You can decorate your Teen Summer Reading messenger bag at Jeffersontown September 9th at 4 pm and attend the Mortal Instruments party at St. Matthews September 14th at 3 pm!
Looking ahead to October
We also have tons of programs planned for October: At Middletown on October 29th at 4 pm we are celebrating the Day of the Dead with sugar skulls and papel picados. The Highlands/Shelby park branch will host its annual Teen Halloween Party on October 31st at 4 pm, and you can make Q-tip skeletons at Southwest on October 30th. Bon Airs Teen Book Club will have a literary showdown between Suzanne Collins and Veronica Roth. You can Get Your Craft on at Jeffersontown October 21st at 4 pm. Fairdale will have an Origami Night October 17th at 6 pm, and check out the Teen Art Club at Shawnee October 10th at 6:30 pm.
I have barely scratched the surface of teen programming at LFPL over the next couple of months. Please look at our Calendar of Events to see a list of all the upcoming teen programs. Hope to see you at some of them!
-Emily Mauldin, Youth Services, Middletown Branch
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Now that summer has moved into the school year, we are going to continue with our original mission of delivering posts revolving around technology. For our first week back, we are going to look a fun project that you can do on your own for a school project or fun with your friends and family: making a QR code scavenger hunt!
You may have joined us for a hunt this summer at the Library's Teen Survivor Night and Animecon X.
A Little QR History
First developed by a subsidiary of Toyota in the mid-1990s, QR codes (short for Quick Response Code) were initially designed to track vehicle parts during manufacturing (much like a grocery scanner tracks inventory from UPC codes). Due to the high amount of data that can be stored, QR codes were adopted for other applications, most notably the advertising industry. QR codes can hold a URL address that, when scanned with a smartphone, takes the user directly to a website. This makes accessing a site much quicker that manually typing the site address and utilizing a search engine.
There are multiple free apps that you can use to scan and retrieve information from QR codes. To find one, search your App marketplace, any of the free apps will work just fine.
Since QR codes can hold large types of data (like really long URL addresses), they are the perfect tool for creating a digital scavenger hunt.
What do QR Codes have to do with Scavenger Hunts, exactly?
Since QR's can hold data types, like URL addresses, you can set up a website that holds information leading a seeker toward clues. Try scanning or clicking the code at the top of the page .
When the user scans a QR, they are taken to a web page that holds the information that will lead them to the next code. When they scan the next code, they will be taken to another webpage that has all the information for finding another clue until they reach the end.
Making Your own Scavenger Hunt
To make your own scavenger hunt, you'll first need to make your own website with as many pages as you have clues. For more information on making your own site, click here. (We used Weebly.com to quickly create our own free site)
Next, transform all the URL address for each page of your site into a QR code. We used goo.gl URL shortener. Just click details under the shortened URL after verifying the captcha. You will be able to save the QR image for the hunt.
Print and hide the QR's within the parameters of the hunt boundaries, and edit the pages to give clues to the next code. Be sure to hide the pages on the home page when editing your site, or else the player can simply click the link to the last clue and find the prize.
A Hunt of Epic Proportions
If you can't get enough of scavenger hunts, give Munzee a shot. This combines QR hunts with GPS technology to lead you to hides in 50 different countries. This does require you to have an additional device with a GPS receiver, but most smartphones have that.
Awesome Treasure Hunt ReadsIf you enjoy seeking treasure or a good scavenger hunt, then be sure to check out these great books from your Library. Special thanks to Heather at the St. Matthews Library and Lindsay at Southwest for the reading recommendations!
- Treasure Island
- The Hobbit
- Dash and Lilys Book of Dares
- The Dust of 100 Dogs
- 13 Little Blue Envelopes
- Holes
- The Caged Graves
- Treasure Forest
- Skeleton Creek
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Today we will discuss the information that you can access through the Librarys Research Tools and Jefferson County Public School's Practice Your Skills. There are different Practice Your Skills sections for each level of education Elementary, Middle, and High once you click on the Students link from the JCPS website.
By having a library card, you can access a variety of databases and research sources from the Library's website. Anything from Arts & Entertainment to Test Preparation is readily awaiting your use.
(Dont forget High School students with ACT test coming up the study guides and practice tests)
For the JCPS site, you do not need anything but a computer with internet access. Narrow your lessons by grade and content area. Some of the homework help tools may be cut-and-dry lessons, while some may have a game to go along with a lesson, like Math Baseball.
-Micah Followay, Shively-Newman Branch
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Lemon balm is known by many names, such as balm mint, bee balm, blue balm, cure-all, garden balm, honey plant, melissa, sweet balm or even sweet Mary. These names describe the properties of the herb very well. Lemon balm was dedicated to the goddess Diana, and used medicinally by the Greeks. It is believed that lemon balm tea is a tension reliever and enhances relaxation, especially in expectant women.
My husband Lulu planted lemon balm in our garden a couple of years ago. Like mint, lemon balm grows easily and requires very little maintenance. The first crop of leaves was ready to be used this week, and we were all looking forward to a tall pitcher of lemon balm iced tea. For optimum fragrance, I waited for a sunny day to pick the leaves. First, I bruised the leaves and infused them in hot water. I added simple syrup and lemon juice to balance the flavor. I then added ice cubes to bring down the temperature of the tea. After a little time in the fridge, it was ready to serve.
The tea is incredibly soothing. When you swirl it, you can see the reflection of the essential oils from the lemon balm on the surface of the drink. It definitely sets the mood for a lazy summer day.
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There are lots of ways to describe it, but Malaysia simply is ... special.
It has history and variety that only a multi-cultural society living in harmony can offer.
It has big cities with great shopping and must tours to the oldest Muslim mosque The Magjid (55 per cent of the population is Muslim) and oldest Indian temple (Sri Maha Mariaman) and St. Mary's Anglican Church that is only 116 years old.
And it has rain forests and mountains with jungle scenery. It has islands, about 878 of them including Langkawi and Penang, two we visited.
That, of course, means it has great beaches with grand resorts ... as grand as anywhere in the world.
It has golf courses, of course, with smiling, entertaining caddies willing to line up your putts and give as good as they get in the one liner department.
They speak excellent English because it was the language taught in the schools since the country was under British rule for so long.
Best of all, its inhabitants sincerely enjoy having foreigners come for a visit or even to stay, if they want.
Being within eight degrees of the equator, Malaysia has a year-round climate that can be overwhelming until you get used to the heat and humidity.
What it doesn't have is cold or snow. Automobiles might have some puddles to negotiate, but studded winter tires and chains are not required options.
Bring your golf gloves and shoes, but leave your mitts and galoshes at home.
In reality, golf is a minor player in the burgeoning tourism industry, for this is a country with as diverse a culture as it's humming economy.
There are skyscrapers and KL (you refer to Kuala Lumpur as KL when you are no longer a rookie) is an exotic yet modern, bustling metropolis of more than four million. It is a treasure trove of history, and shopping with fine hotels and restaurants.
And our hotel in KL, the Royale Chulan, as good as any in North America, offered English-language newspaper at your door each morning. Great with morning coffee.
It has the fourth tallest building in the world and the iconic and distinctive twin towers (one built by the Japanese and one built by Koreans) with a connecting bridge 36 storeys above the ground.
In 1505, the Portuguese occupied Malaysia for 135 years before losing a three-year war to the Dutch and finally the British booted the Dutch and introduced bricks and brick construction to the country which was a good thing since Kuala Lumpur burned down three times before the British brought their bricks. Independence from Britain was granted the country only 54 years ago in 1957.
We also went to Melaka, Langkawi and Penang where the weather and water frontage translates into lots of wonderful resorts with huge soothingly inviting pools and beaches. Anything you can think of to do in the ocean, you'll find someone to guide you.
One of the favourite things our group did was go on a dinner cruise in Langkawi where a net was thrown off the back of the boat and we were dragged around in the 80 degree water enjoying a beverage all the while, of course.
Interestingly, the owner of the floating restaurant and entertainment centre was from Vancouver. Alex Isaac went to Simon Fraser University in Burnaby.
There are lots of things to do in the jungle/forest away from the ocean. Sixty per cent of the forest is virgin and some if it is 130,000 years old. The world's largest flower, raffsia which looks like a big strawberry only grows in the jungles of Malaysia.
And the good news is you're not likely to be eaten by some ferocious wild animal. There are no lions, tigers or jaguars that might otherwise find doughy travel writers tasty in the Malaysian jungles.
There are lots of monkeys willing to relieve you of any unattended food, but no arm-or leg-devouring carnivores. Just plenty of eco tourism such as river rafting and spelunking (cave exploring to you and me).
The native food tends to lean toward what we would describe as Chinese, but there is no shortage of fine North American-style dining and while there were no Tim Hortons to be seen, McDonalds, Burger King and other familiar fast food joints were easily found.
To appreciate all Malaysia has to offer you'll need a guide such as Yap Kim Kooi who took care of our little group. Interestingly, Yap worked on the Princess Cruiseships and the Alaska run a few years ago so got to know Vancouver quite well.
Not only are there the obvious tourist things to do, but some oddball ones such as having a message from a blind masseuse.
I'm crediting our talented guide Yap for directing us to the massage parlour that took our bus down some mighty narrow streets and had a sign about the size of a postage stamp.
In other words you had to know where you were going.
Kuala Lumpur played host to the 1998 Commonwealth Games when an 80,000-seat stadium was constructed ... has a monorail that looks just like SkyTrain.
We visited a square that was filled with children called Merdeka, which is Malaysian for Independence Square. It used to be used for setting the prices for coffee and tea and was open to white men only at one time.
Yap made the entire thing educational, too. From pointing out the Ferrari/Maserati dealerships to informing us there is only 2.1 per cent unemployment. It has a stable government that encourages immigration and they have recently discovered oil in Malaysia.
The straits of Melaka are the busiest in the world with 2,000 tankers a day passing through between Malaysia and Sumatra 42 kilometres away. The Indian Ocean is on the other side of Sumatra.
And while we were lucky with the weather when we golfed (it rained hard once for about 20-30 minutes), angry looking plum-coloured rain clouds were a daily occurrence.
But you wouldn't go all the way to Malaysia just to golf, because there aren't enough courses and too many other things to distract. Golf would just be an option and all the courses seemed to have club rentals, so you might as well just take shoes, tees and balls and rent the clubs when you get there. The highlight of Penang was the race track which had some golf holes in the infield. Unfortunately, we only saw it from the road on our way somewhere more important such as the Banana Leaf Indian restaurant for lunch.
We played four courses and looked at a nine-hole course. . . . We began our tour playing the benign Glenmarie outside KL and then played two in Melaka; Afamosa (the best layout of the four was designed by Australian architect Ross Watson) and Tiara Melaka Golf and Country Club, which was host to the World Amateur Inter Team Golf Championship. They added our little group to the tail end of the final round of the tournament which was more a southeast Asian rather than "world" tournament.
One side benefit for us was the Tiara Melaka course was the best conditioned of the four. That might have been coincidental to the tournament being played there.
Our final golf outing was at Gunung Raya in Langkawi, which was the victim of torrential rains for a couple of days before. A lot of the sand had been washed out of the traps and some of them were still under water. The only really interesting thing about the course was the greens. They were a darker shade emerald than the fairways. Hereabouts it's the other way around.
The greens in Malaysia, no matter the shade, are markedly slower than we are used to, as well. It appeared one of the difficulties in the maintenance of the courses is they don't have the specialized equipment that greens crews have in North America.
But if you play golf the way I do much of the time, the best thing about golfing in Malaysia is often the cold shower after the game. The clubhouse locker rooms are excellent. Take a change of clothes with you to the course and get a locker and towel from the attendant (included in the green fee) and then have an icy shower; let the water beat down on your over-heated head for as long as you can stand it.
It's a wonderful way to finish up and magically washes away the memory of all the lousy shots and double or triple bogeys.
Power: You'll need a plug-in adapter to charge your laptop and cel phone. It might be best to buy one here that way you won't have to go hunting for it in a strange land.
Currency: The local money is ringgit with the current exchange about 3.20 ringgit to a Canadian dollar. You can exchange money before you leave and use your bank card in Malaysia.
Climate: It tends to be rainy November through February. (It rained every day when we were there last month but only for 20-30 minutes). Temperatures range between 25-30 with extremely high humidity.
Language: Bahasa Malaysia is the national language, but English is compulsory in all schools and most people speak it fluently. (The best way to get around is with a guide. Yap Kim Kooi knows the country and speaks fluent English and German. Email: kko. yap Royale Chulan Kuala Lumpur (www.theroyalechulsn.com.my) Equatorial Hotel Melaka (www.equatorialhotel.com.mel) Frangipani Langkawi Resort and Spa (www.frangipanilangkawi) Note: Package deals such as hotel/golf are available and negotiable) Tourism Malaysia can answer all your other questions at www.malaysiatourism.ca


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Sonatina by James Brown. For Bb Clarinet and Viola Duet. Manuscript score. Published by Banks Music Publications (KP.14019).
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12 Medium-Easy Jazz, Blues & Funk Etudes. (C Instrument). By Bob Mintzer. For C Instruments. Book; CD; Instrumental Series. Belwin Play-Along Series. Blues; Funk; Jazz. Grade 2.5. 56 pages. Published by Belwin Music (AP.37011). ISBN 0739076132. Blues; Funk; Jazz. Created for a wide variety of musicians, 12 Medium-Easy Jazz, Blues & Funk Etudes will appeal to both aspiring players and more experienced musicians. Accessible, yet with some challenges, this music was written by world-renowned jazz composer, arranger, saxophonist, bandleader, educator, and member of the Yellowjackets, Bob Mintzer. Designed for the medium-easy difficulty level, this book includes: -12 jazz, blues and funk etudes composed by Bob Mintzer in a variety of jazz styles, tempos, and time signatures. -Performance notes/tips for each etude to assist in interpretation and improvisation. -Play-along CD with a stellar rhythm section. -Transcription Exercise -Composition Exercise -Practice Page with scales/chords -All books are compatible and written so they can be performed together -Opportunity to study and learn these skills: -Melodic composition -Improvisation -Sight reading -Motivic development -Scales and chords -Jazz concept -Major and minor blues -Jazz waltz -Slow/Medium/Fast swing -Funky groove
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September is Hunger Awareness Month, though Hudson County needs no reminder. Union City's Palisades Emergency Residence Corporation (PERC) soup kitchen, food pantry, and 40-bed shelter on 37th Street came to the aid of record-breaking numbers of guests this past year, according to Executive Director Emory Edwards.
The shelter first broke a record in January, but last month, typically slower like most summer months, they smashed that record.
Their food pantry served 1,307 people in August, many more than the 922 people in January.
PERC's Overflow Center, which houses guests in the center's cafeteria when their overnight shelter is full – which it always is, just like every shelter in Hudson County, Edwards said – housed 283 people in January and 348 in August.
"We have been unbelievably busy all summer," Edwards said, "So we're a little on edge about what the winter is going to look like. If it's this busy now, what are we going to do in January and February?"
Unfortunately, just when PERC's needs are at an all-time high, government funding and the ability of those in the community to help meet those needs are decreasing.
Last year the shelter lost $100,000 in funding, which forced them to restructure and concentrate all they have on what Head Chef Steve Baker calls "the front lines." Edwards' is the last remaining paid administrative position, and Baker chuckled a bit when he listed his title as head chef because, he said, he is actually the only chef.
"If it's this busy now, what are we going to do in January and February?" – Emory Edwards
"We have become the ultimate multitasking operation," Baker said. "You put your foot in and go for what you know our clients need. They have enough problems as it is once they get to us, so we try our best to not add to it. Our job is to keep the hope alive, and we do what it takes."
The danger in the myth
Edwards recalled one guest who, in her first week at the shelter, found herself in shock as she realized where her life had taken her.
"She couldn't believe she was here," he said. "She woke up and said, 'What happened?' After the second week, she realized that everyone here has a story that defies the usual stereotype of what someone in a shelter is like. The hope starts to come back and we keep people focused on what can be rather than what was."
Baker described his encounter with a middle-aged Caucasian mother who had been laid off from the job that supported her family. She managed to wrangle a summer job at Target typically taken by teenagers, and had to visit the food pantry every two weeks. But it was not enough.
She had to get a second job to make ends meet with the intention of weaning off the food pantry, but then she faced the expense of child care, which made that impossible.
"Cost of living is increasing and wages are decreasing. People are moving out of the city because they can't afford rent, and the net effect of richer people moving into the area boosts budgets, but makes it unaffordable for people who live here," Edwards explained. "People should come by at six and see who's eating, or on Wednesday afternoons and see who's at the pantry for food, because I know they'd be surprised."
Combating paucity with creativity
"Congressional funding for people who are poor and working class has been declining fairly precipitously," Edwards explained. "In fact, it fell off a cliff this year, but we are holding our own and learning to do more with less."
A tasty example of this was the day Baker found himself with no sugar in his supplies. But he did have five cases of root beer someone had donated, and a batch of Swiss Chard from a nearby farmer's market's leftover store. Baker made a cake out of it.
Clients were thrilled, and Edwards found a new favorite dessert.
"Planning for the week is impossible here," Baker said. "We try to keep things on reserve, but our entire reserve allocation went out the window this weekend. So we get creative, and we get a nutritional meal out no matter what it takes."
Hope in the face of desperation
What it takes to run PERC, both men emphasized, is the generosity of the community, even though the community is less and less able to donate. They have 200 volunteers to help run the operation, and local churches, farmers' markets, and neighboring organizations do whatever they can to make sure that people who show up hungry do not leave that way.
Those who tend to give the most are those who have been there or those who work most closely with people in emergency situations, Edwards said.
Like their former client who sends PERC three jars of peanut butter through Amazon.com each month. Or the clients who take from the food pantry, but only after volunteering to set it up on Wednesdays.
"Some days you're at your desk in front of a mountain and all you can see is the face of the people who help and are helped," Edwards said. "I open envelopes with five dollar checks and that's a gratitude moment. It's a job of gratitude, and it gets you through the day."
PERC's shelter, soup kitchen, and pantry are located at 111 37th St. in Union City.
PERC will hold its annual fundraiser on Oct. 23 at Antonia's by the Park located at 9011 Palisade Ave. in North Bergen from 6 to 9 p.m., with an R.S.V.P. deadline of Oct. 16. For more information on volunteering, donations, or the services PERC offers, call (201) 348-8150, email email@example.com, or visit the website at www.percshelter.org.
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RAISE YOUR HANDS AND REJOICE — the 2018 schedules are here
Only 87 days until kickoff, my fellow mammals.
Norwich Free Academy has been the state's "it" team this week, but it's not the only one that's gotten folks' gums flapping.
North Branford has made some new believers during the state tournament. The Pequot Sassacus champions have blitzed Trinity Catholic and Woodland on its way to Saturday's Class S final against Ansonia.
"To go up against an FCIAC team in Trinity — that's a quality football program and a quality league — I think there was a lot of desire and want to advance," Thunderbirds coach Mark Basil said. "We had this little curse where we've been (to the tournament) four times (since 2006) and hadn't won in the first round.
"We got by (the quarterfinals), and I think momentum started to build off of that; to be able to go up against Woodland and put up quite a few points (a 62-27 win)."
North Branford's 62 points were the fifth-most in a state playoff game. That rout was a good representation of what its done to opponents all season.
The Thunderbirds (12-0) have beaten foes by an average of 35 points. They've done so with a very balanced offense — they've averaged 234 yards passing and 227 yards rushing.
"Passing is important and running is important," Basil said. "If you don't have one or the other, you could be in trouble. Fortunately, we have both. We use that, and then take what the defense is going to give us."
Quarterback Brandan Basil has completed 62-percent of his passes for 2,793 yards with 40 touchdowns and seven interceptions. Dale Hausman had rushed for 1,311 yards and 13 touchdowns.
North Branford's top receivers have been Chris Caron (48 catches, 993 yards, 15 TDs), Joe Delucia (42 catches, 702 yards, 13 TDs), and Alex McGuigan (35 catches, 545 yards, 7 TDs).
Ansonia (13-0) is one of the few teams that have scored more than the Thunderbirds. Some of its players took part in last season's Class M title win, too.
"They're tough kids," Basil said. "They have skill. They have speed. They have a great coaching staff that is going to have those kids prepared.
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Xavier spent the past two seasons using the run to mow down foes with an occasional pass thrown in.
The Falcons decided to pass more this season, much to their opponents' dismay.
"We only (passed) about 25-percent last year, which shocked me a little bit" Xavier coach Sean Marinan said. "And any offensive coordinator in this day and age wants to throw the ball more than he runs."
The strategy made sense as given the talent of quarterback Tim Boyle (he's given Boston College a verbal commitment). Boyle has thrown for over 2,500 yards with 23 touchdowns. Kris Luster has been his top target (72 catches, 1,218 yards, 12 TDs).
"Over the last two weeks, I don't know exactly the number, but we're pretty close to a 50-50 (run-pass ratio)," Marinan said, "which is really where you'd like it to be because it puts a lot of stress on a defense."
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State football sage Bob Barton passed along some information on female players. It is believed that NFA kicker Elisa Formiglio would be the first female to play in a CIAC state final should her team attempt an extra point or field goal in Friday's Class LL final against Xavier.
Barton's records do not list a female ever scoring in a state final.
Brianna Valente was New Canaan's backup place-kicker in 2009 and 2010 (14 of 20 for her career). She didn't score in the state final either year.
Ashley McKenna of Ledyard caught a touchdown in a 40-0 rout of Bacon Academy in 2003. The Colonels lost to Hand, 28-0, in the Class M final. There's no record if she participated in that game.
Michelle Hypolite kicked five points for Bloomfield during the 1997 regular season but none in the state semifinal or final.
The first female to score a point in Connecticut was Andrea Lund from Kennedy of Waterbury. She kicked an extra point in a 56-7 loss at Seymour on Nov. 12, 1994. She made 2 of 3 PATs that season.
"There have been a few other girls who played and scored, including Veronica Roman of Wilcox Tech with a rushing TD in 2007," Barton wrote. "The only other I am aware of this season is Alexis Nagle, a senior at South Windsor, who was 9 for 11 on PATs this fall including 6 of 6 vs. Rockville. This was her only year of football."
Formiglio has made 59 of 69 PATs this season and kicked a 24-yard field goal.
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Mary Albi, JRC Amalgamated: Ansonia defense vs. North Branford offense — something's got to give.
Marc Allard, Norwich Bulletin: NFA players trying to enjoy week, and, Bacon Academy re-opens football coaching position.
Gentleman Jim Bransfield, Middletown Press: Xavier's O-line filled with unsung heroes, and, Different year for Falcons, same destination.
Matthew Conyers, Hartford Courant: Elisa Formiglio could make history kicking v. Xavier on Friday.
Carl Josephson, New Britain Herald: Playoff experience huge for Berlin football team heading into final, and, Redcoats ready for emotionally charged championship game.
Polecat Enterprises own Ralph Wiggum, MaxPreps: Windsor relishes trip to state final.
Only 87 days until kickoff, my fellow mammals.
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MINNEAPOLIS – Facing its second top 10 opponent this season, the Duke volleyball team came up short Saturday evening, dropping a 3-0 (25-19, 25-16, 25-17) decision at No. 4 Minnesota in the final match of the 2013 Diet Coke Classic.
The Gophers' Tori Dixon led all players with 15 kills to go along with eight blocks while Ashley Wittman was close behind with 13 kills. Minnesota (7-0) totaled 11 team blocks to three for the Blue Devils and posted a .397 hitting percentage for the match. Duke was unable to find its rhythm offensively, recording a season-low .097 hitting percentage.
Sophomore Emily Sklar led Duke (4-2) with 11 kills, her fourth match of the season in double-digit kills. Senior Ali McCurdy chipped in with a team-high 12 digs.
"We controlled the ball better on our serve and pass against a top 5 team," said head coach Jolene Nagel, "but we made too many hitting errors to show for it. We are a team in progress developing to understand what it takes to compete at the highest level. We have high aspirations, and this team will learn from this match tonight and be better as a result."
Following the match, McCurdy and classmate Chelsea Cook were named to the all-tournament team. McCurdy totaled 43 digs, averaging 4.78 per set, on the weekend to go along with a pair of service aces. Cook was Duke's most consistent target, posting a .500 hitting percentage with 22 kills and 10 blocks during Duke's three matches at the Diet Coke Classic.
The Blue Devils return to Durham, N.C., for their first home tournament of the season this coming weekend. The Duke Invitational - featuring Liberty, Utah State and South Carolina – runs Friday and Saturday, Sept. 13-14 in Cameron Indoor Stadium


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The Luther College men's tennis team kept its winning streak intact with an 8-1 victory over Wartburg. A doubles sweep gave the Norse early momentum on the way to a third straight victory against an IIAC opponent.
Matt Bellio and Sean Brown won again at No. 3 doubles in convincing fashion, defeating Dayton Stevens and Josh Trueblood by an (8-2) score. Ramesh Karki and Quinn Foley were also sharp, picking up an (8-1) victory against Yusuf Chowdry and Brian Rasmussen at No. 1. Nick Mozena and James Ayer held on to a one break advantage for much of the match, tallying an (8-5) victory over Eric Hilpert and Blayne Willadsen at No. 2, making it 3-0 in favor of the Norse.
Torstein Jystad continued his superb singles play on the day, winning (6-0, 6-2) over Stevens at No. 5. Mozena was a (6-2, 6-1) winner against Rasmussen at No. 2 and Ayer put together a (6-2, 6-4) victory over Willadsen at No. 4. Karki dropped his opening set at No. 1, but responded very well to win (2-6, 6-0, (10-1)) over Chowdry. Foley also went to a deciding third set super tie-breaker before prevailing (7-6, 4-6, (10-5)) against Trueblood at No. 6. The Knights won the final match of the day as Hilpert defeated Bellio (6-4, 7-5) at No. 3.
The Norse are now 10-9 overall and 3-1 in the IIAC. Luther will travel to Dubuque, Iowa on Tuesday, April 23 to face both Dubuque and Loras.
Questions? Contact David Blanchard, post_to_results, 563-387-1586


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Playground by 50 Cent is all about Butterball, a husky bully who thinks that name is much cooler than what is printed on his birth certificate. His teachers even call him Butterball. Hes the new kid at school and to keep kids from messing with him, he gets to them first. Hes a smart kid; he just does dumb stuff. Butterball's antics have gotten him into some serious trouble: suspension and required regular visits with a therapist. At home, things are just as disastrous.
His parents are not together. His father is not nearly as concerned with his son as he should be, and Butterball has completely lost the trust of his mother. Somehow, Butterball manages to weasel the trust of his mother once more, and she allows him to attend a party. Of course, he messes up. Thats what Butterball does. He wouldnt be Butterball if he didnt. A plan did not work out, the joke is on him, and the tables have turned: he is now the victim of bullying, and theres nothing he can do about it.
-Alexis Austin, Teen Services, Okolona Branch
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Right now, the master of surrealism for teens is Nova Ren Suma. For those unfamiliar with surrealism, it can be an acquired taste. Its not quite realistic fiction and its not quite fantasy or paranormal. Her books leave you with more questions than answers, and you may feel the story was dreamed rather than read. Suma says she was inspired by magical realism, which is a genre that introduces magical elements into an otherwise normal world. This isnt the magic of Harry Potter, but magic that exists at the edges of things. These books arent fully paranormal, but as a reader you cant shake the feeling that something is amiss. If youre the kind of reader that likes a solid ending that answers all of your questions, these may not be right for you. If you like open endings and enjoy the psychological heebie-jeebies, then you are in for a treat.
Nova Ren Sumas YA debut, Imaginary Girls, was released in the summer of 2011. At its surface, this book is about the relationship between two sisters, our narrator Chloe and her enigmatic sister Ruby. There are parties by a reservoir, cute boys, and interesting new friends; but readers will quickly discover that things are not what they appear. The first oddity is the reappearance of a girl who drowned two years prior, but Chloe is the only one who seems to remember. There are also the stories Ruby tells about the former residents of Olive, a town flooded when the reservoir was built. Are the former residents still living beneath the water? This book isnt a traditional paranormal thriller, but it is certainly unsettling. There is a dreamy quality to Sumas writing and this novel is unlike anything I have encountered in YA.
Favorite Quote:
Rubys stories didnt have morals. They meant one thing in the light and one thing in the dark and another thing entirely when she was wearing sunglasses.
Sumas most recent novel is 17 & Gone . The narrator, Lauren, is haunted by girls who disappeared the year they turned 17. Police never fully investigated the disappearances because it was believed the girls ran away willingly, but Lauren knows better. The missing girls keep appearing in her car, in her room, on the side of the road; and they want her to find out what really happened to them. The book is a mix of mystery, ghost story, and psychological thriller. There is a bit more action than in Imaginary Girls, but the same unsettling atmosphere remains. Determining what is real and what is just in Laurens head may be the focus, but the real horror of the novel is why no one cared to investigate after the girls went missing.
Favorite Quotes:
I was 17. I was a girl. Didn't we matter?
How heartless it was for a girl to be forgotten and buried before there was even anything of her to put in the ground."
-Ruth Houston, Youth Services, Teen Underground, Main Library
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Do you like dystopia? Do you like vampires? Then I have the book for you: When the Sea Is Rising Red by Cat Hellisen. Yep you guessed it: its vampire dystopia! In the society that is the backdrop for this story, marriages are arranged, class/caste is everything, and vampires are part of society. Felicita is a 17-year-old girl who is a member of the highest class, and her best friend, Ilven, has just committed suicide rather than marry the man her parents chose for her. When Felicitas family announces that her own marriage has been arranged to a man she has absolutely no wish to marry, Felicita decides to fake her own death and run away. She hides in the citys slums and becomes a dishwasher in a tea house. She also meets two very different guys: Dash, a charming bad-boy type, and Jannik, a vampire. And then, to top it all off, Ilvens suicide has called up some sort of sea creature bent on destruction, and Felicita has to save her new friends, her family, and the entire town from the creatures wrath.
Now for more vampires! This next book is a loose retelling of the Snow White fairy tale with vampires (and a little bit of The Godfather thrown in for good measure). Nameless by Lili St. Crow is about a girl named Camille. When she was a small child, Camille was discovered shivering in the snow by Enrico Vultusino, the head of one of the seven powerful vampire clans. Camille doesnt remember who she used to be or where all of her scars came from. And then she meets Tor, who has scars similar to her own, and wonders if he could be a link to her mysterious past.
Have a favorite vampire book or story? Share with us below.
-Emily Mauldin, Youth Services, Middletown Branch
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If you need to kill some time while waiting for more lives, here are some ideas:
Sweet Fiction, Non-fiction and DVDs
- Sweetly by Jackson Pearce
- The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull
- L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad (okay its not actually about candy but its got candy in the title, sue me)
- The Liddabit Sweets Candy Cookbook by Liz Gutman and Jen King
- Candy Making for Dummies by David E.H. Jones
- Candy from the History Channel
Sweet Links
Some of these look really cool and fun.
So get reading! Or crafting and baking you have 30 minutes between lives to waste or until your Facebook friends give you more. And just keep telling yourself, I can quit whenever I want Thats what Ill be telling myself.
-Heather Lee, Children and Teen Services, St Matthews Branch
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Smoke , (released September 10) and Walter Dean Myers' Invasion (September 24)
October New Releases
Hold on to your hats! Here are some of the most anticipated titles of October: the fourth title in Rick Riordans Heroes of Olympus series, House of Hades (releases on October 8); Allegiant, the fourth book in the Divergent series (October 22); and a new book in the House of Night series, Revealed (October 15)!
November New Releases
In November, we will see new titles from Margaret Peterson Haddix, Full Ride (November 12); Tamora Pierce, Battle Magic, from the Immortals series (November 24); and of course, we have the theatrical release of Catching Fire (November 22).
So much win for one season!
Are there any upcoming books, or movies youre excited about? Leave a comment and let us know!
-Stephani, Youth Services, Highlands/Shelby Park Branch
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Politics and probity of minimum wage
The increase in the Connecticut minimum wage Jan. 1 - rising from $8.25 to $8.70 per hour - was reasonable and measured. It will provide a bit more spending money for those dependent on low-wage, low-skill jobs for their living, but is not so sharp an increase that it will discourage job growth.
The state estimates the mandated pay hike affects about 21 percent of Connecticut's 1.7 million-member work force. The Connecticut minimum wage will bump up again to $9 on Jan. 1, 2015.
Yet the adjustment is, at best, a Band-Aid. The percent of individuals at or near the minimum wage indicates serious structural problems with the state economy. It shows that many workers do not have the adequate education or the proper skills to align with the bioscience, high-tech manufacturing, defense-production and other well-paying jobs the administration of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is attempting to grow in the state.
Addressing these challenges will be far more difficult than simply boosting the mandatory pay for those on the lowest rungs of the wage ladder. To be fair, the Malloy administration has increased funding for job retraining and reforming public education, but it will take time.
Talk of a mandatory "living wage" of $15 per hour, as referenced by Democratic Sen. Catherine Osten of Sprague during a Hartford news conference earlier this week, more resembles wishful thinking and political pandering than it does good public policy. The senator's 19th District includes Ledyard, Montville and Norwich.
The intent of a minimum wage is to place a floor on wages and prevent market abuses, not to magically assure everyone can make enough to support a family, regardless of a lack of marketable skills. The contention that all can be made well by mandating a "living wage" is as much voodoo economics as is the concept that big tax cuts to the most wealthy will trickle down to the middle and lower classes.
Economists have long disagreed over the efficacy of a minimum wage since Congress first created one - 25 cents per hour - at the federal level in 1938.
Critics say setting an artificial minimum increases unemployment because business owners, forced to pay more, will hire less. Young people, particularly in a poor economy, are particularly vulnerable to this consequence. If forced to pay more for unskilled labor, why not hire an experienced adult desperate for work, rather than a teen desirous of spending money. Fewer teens working means that there are fewer developing a work ethic.
Pro-minimum wage economists, note that the United States economy is largely driven by consumer spending. Increasing the minimum wage puts more money in the pockets of people who, by necessity, will have to spend it and that will boost jobs, goes the argument.
All agree, however, that the topic is extremely complex with countless variables. Inarguably, the federal minimum wage has not kept up with inflation. The 1978 minimum wage of $2.65, if adjusted for inflation, would be $9.47 today. Instead, it is $7.25.
The minimum wage has always been politically contentious, once again evident in the debate about to take place in Washington. President Obama and the Democrats are about to make a strong push for a federal minimum wage hike, with legislation proposed to increase it to $10.10 by 2015. A reasonable adjustment, if not to that level, is necessary.
A recent CBS news poll found strong support for a federal minimum wage increase, including among 70 percent of self-described moderates, 64 percent of unaffiliated voters and even 57 percent of Republicans. Democrats seek to put Republicans, who have traditionally opposed increases as anti-business, in a tough political spot.
One path to an increase would be to tie a minimum-wage hike to small-business friendly tax reform. Unfortunately, that is unlikely to happen, both because Democrats hope to use the minimum wage as a wedge issue in 2014 congressional campaigns and the improbability that the Republican House would even entertain the idea.
In other words, more politics than policy will continue to emanate from Washington.
The editorial board is composed of the publisher and four journalists of varied editing and reporting backgrounds. The board's discussions and information gained from its meetings with political, civic, and business leaders drive the institutional voice of The Day, as expressed in its editorials. The editorial department operates separately from the newsroom.
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Luther posted eight falls en route to a 57-0 victory over Simpson College. The match was the first of three in today's Iowa Conference Duals.
The victory increased Luther's record to 7-6, 2-1 in the IIAC. Simpson fell to 1-10, 0-4.
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Sound Transit Board approves cost-saving refinements to East Link alignmentWritten by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
In Washington state, the Sound Transit Board has unanimously approved refinements to the alignment for the East Link light-rail extension in Bellvue. The city previously approved the cost-savings plan, as reported by RT&S on April 24, 2013.
The changes will support the partnership to construct a tunnel in downtown Bellevue by reducing costs by an estimated $30 million to $53 million while maintaining fast, reliable and convenient service for riders.
"Today's action brings certainty to the East Link project and enables us to move the entire alignment into the final design process," said Sound Transit Board Chair and Pierce County Executive Pat McCarthy. "By working together in a spirit of collaboration and compromise we have created a major win for riders and city of Bellevue taxpayers and can move forward toward the 2023 opening."
The changes include a fully at-grade alignment along 112th Avenue Southeast south of downtown. As the route moves north from South Bellevue Way and turns east onto 112th Avenue Southeast, it will pass beneath a raised section of 112th at Southeast 15th Street to reach the west side of the roadway. A street-level crossing of Southeast Fourth Street will allow only emergency vehicle access into the Surrey Downs neighborhood at that location. The city of Bellevue had earlier proposed a trench alignment along 112th. The updated alignment is estimated to save $2 million to $4 million.
As previously planned, trains will travel north through downtown Bellevue in a tunnel under a cost-sharing agreement between Sound Transit and the city of Bellevue that shortens travel times while improving the flow of vehicle pedestrian traffic on the surface. The refinements replace a previously planned underground station with a daylight station located slightly further north as the tunnel turns east onto Sixth Avenue and transitions to an elevated alignment in preparation to cross I-405. The change will save an estimated $19 million to $33 million.
Other refinements identified through the process will save an estimated $9 million to $16 million. Sound Transit's work to advance engineering and secure permits will move forward under city of Bellevue land use changes that make the light-arail extension a permitted use.
Sound Transit is working to start construction in 2015 and launch passenger service in 2023. The project is estimated to create more than 20,000 direct, construction-related jobs during the duration of the work and 34,000 to 42,000 indirect jobs as the stimulus spreads throughout the economy.


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Forrest L. (Pick) Piggott, resident of rural Owasso, passed away Friday, November 16, 2012, at St. John Medical Center in Tulsa. He was 68 years of age.
Forrest L. (Pick) Piggott, resident of rural Owasso, passed away Friday, November 16, 2012, at St. John Medical Center in Tulsa. He was 68 years of age.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, November 24, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. at the South Eagle Methodist Church with Reverend Bill Montgomery officiating. The church is SW of Brookfield on State Highway TT and 3 ¾ miles south of Highway 36. Pick's request was to be cremated and his ashes will be interred at Laclede Cemetery, Laclede Missouri at a later date.
Memorials his memory may be made to PET MO-Columbia (Personal Energy Transport) in care of Mowery Funeral Service, 9110 North Garnett Road, Owasso, OK 74055. This organization provides motorized wheelchairs to those in need. Arrangements and services have been entrusted to Mowery Funeral Service of Owasso. Online condolences may be left at www.moweryfs.com
Pick was born May 30, 1944, at Brookfield, MO, to Forrest Leon and Marguerite (Roe) Piggott. He was raised and received his education in Brookfield, graduating school there. On October 28, 1962, Pick and Nita Sue Singleton were united in marriage at Linneus, MO. They made their home in the Kansas City area while Pick attended the University of Kansas where he received his bachelor's degree in civil engineering. He later obtained his masters degree at OSU-Tulsa in Bioenvironmental Engineering. In 1972 they moved to Tulsa where Pick began his career with the City of Tulsa. He retired in 2001 as the supervisor of the waste water treatment division. In his spare time, Pick enjoyed time on his farm, raising his cattle, gardening and doing improvements to their home.
Survivors include his wife of 50 years, Sue of the home; a sister, Janet Fletcher and husband, Jerry, Hale, and their children, Kate and Alex; a brother, Philip Piggott and wife, Marsha, Peru, IN, and their children, Matthew, Mike and Keri; and sister-in-law, Connie Piggott, Brookfield.
Pick was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Roger.


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I posted a few weeks back about stalled projects and realized that laziness and apathy were the only things holding my project back. I decided to change that.
Here is where I was a few weeks back:
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What's been done. Body has been cut down, stripped and polished. Custom rail was made by Luke. Rail has a RTP style flat bottom and utilizes an RTP style sear, but also uses an AM style sear pin. Rail is shorter than standard to eliminate the Z lock pin since I'm using a capped valve. TI'm using an RTP VASA for a shorter front grip/reg setup. Valve has been capped using a cap by Deus Machina on MCB. Using an older AKA sidewinder regulator now to regulate the pressure. Seems to be pretty accurate so far. At least as much as a stock valve is. Chimera frame has been gutted and modded for a sleeper pneu setup. The hole that was on the chimera was too big to be tapped for 1/8 NPT so I made the hole larger and milled down a threaded brass coupler to use an insert. Its the brass piece in the second pic. I JB welded the brass piece and made sure there were no air gaps on the sides. I am using a really thick rubber O-ring between the CP on/off and the bottom of the frame. No leaks when I aired it up. I also JB Welded a mount for the MSV to the inside of the frame as well as milling down the inside of the frame a little so that the fitting on the LPR could be securely tightened. Panels are from Mike780. I love these.
For the Pneumatics a typical MSV-2 was used as well as a MPA ram. The ram I had didnt have a delrin insert or anything so I just screwed a bolt into it. Seems to work until I can find a small peice of delrin. I have another pneu setup with a magnet mod. I like it, but wanted a different feel so I used a spring out of a pen to make a spring return. I tapped the mount so that you can increase the pressure on the trigger if you want by screwing the nut in or out increasing the pressure on the spring. I glued a pin on the back inside of the MSV lever to keep the spring from sliding around. The CP on/off was modded when I got it. Looks like a home job, but hey it works!
Got to air it up for the first time today and it aired up first time with no leaks! Seriously that never happens to me! One of the reasons I get behind on projects is because something usually goes pear shaped and I end up throwing things and not coming back to it for a month or two. Anyways, it still needs some tweaking, but I like the way it feels and overall pretty happy with it. Future plans are for more adjusting, more polishing and possibly more milling to the frame. Need to figure out if its cheaper to have the frame milled the way I want it or to have another rail milled. It also desperately needs CCM fittings. I am considering getting this hydrographic'd. There is one pattern that looks like rains drops. I think it would look kind of cool. Might just leave it as is and worry less about it getting knicked up. I think I could really learn to like this thing!!
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|KDoubleNumInput doesn't handle keyboard input properly esp. with '.'. I did see a FIXME in that file regarding the KIntNumInput validator or similar. KIntNumInput also has obvious problems.
|Clarence Dang
|Dirk Mueller
|Saving an image with RGB KImageIO crashes in SGIImage::writeImage().
|Clarence Dang
|Tobias Koenig & Melchior Franz
|KFileDialog::setPreviewWidget() does not display the widget.
|Clarence Dang
|The settings->configure shortcuts dialog needs some serious usability love :) Oh, and it fails to show up the majority of my actions in kword. Additionally, in Dolphin and KMail, some shortcuts appear as parents of others, even though they are not.
|Thomas Zander
|Andreas Hartmetz
|KPrinter doesn't work well after a myKPrinter.setOutputFormat(QPrinter::PdfFormat);
|Thomas Zander
|The arrows for toolbar buttons which contain a menu are not drawn. This is for example visible in the file open dialog. The user has no chance to discover that there are drop-down menus.
|Thomas McGuire
|Remove deprecated methods.
|Remove classes that aren't used by more than 1 app.
|KUIT i18n strings.
|KSSL needs love
|Buncha KIO issues
|Jeff Mitchell, ervin, dfaure
|Port K3Icon to KIcon.
|KDirNotify::emitFilesChanged complains that it's only half implemented
|KPrinter sucks, improve it.
|Remove kdefx in favor of Blitz + QImage/QPainter. ( note: apps can now use blitz from kdesupport to help with porting)
|mosfet, mwoehlke
|make it so
|add QPalette::ColorGroup awareness to KColorScheme
|done, now users must be fixed to DTRT
|kstyle fixes
|API improvements that make it easier to port from KDE3 (in the sense of less work or things to change). It is time to make our desktop functional, and while this might mean to change the API here and there, our focus should be to get the application code we have from KDE3 running at least as good as it did with KDE3, without actually having to rewrite all of our existing code.
|Print Timezone in formatDateTime()?
|Rename KXMLGUIBuilder, KXMLGUIClient, KXMLGUIFactory to KXmlGuiBuilder, KXmlGuiClient, KXmlGuiFactory, respectively
|Robin Stocker
Medium to large-scale API changes that we would like to make for the next binary incompatible release.
|Check for forked classes in kde pim and other modules
|Remove all KSocks references throughout KDE in favor of KNetwork's socket implementations.
|Remove all methods marked 'deprecated' in KDE 3.x.
|Make it possible to create a KSystemTray without a KMainWindow and instead lazily create the main window on demand.
|Make KSystemTray add its own reference to KApp, so tray apps that adhere to the style guide can safely close their main window without having to worry about the app quitting instead.
| Sort out reference counting of applications and KMainWindows: Add a setRefCountEnabled() function to KApplication; deref()ing the last reference should only quit the application if reference counts are enabled, and the reference count should be disabled by default so apps that don't use a KMainWindow mostly continue to work. Make the KMainWindow constructor call setRefCountEnabled(true), and make each KMainWindow hold its own reference to the application. The KMainWindow should drop its app reference on hide, and regain it on show.
Make KSysTray also hold a reference to the app. Then apps that use more than one main window and the tray (like KSIrc and Kopete) will quit at the right time without nasty hacks.
|Richard Smith
|Make some long-lasting operations threaded. There are some operations in KDE that take too long on at least ~500MHz hardware to be done using event loops. Examples are the use of KLibLoader to dlopen plugins and KRun to fire up other processes.
Konqueror and KMail tend to stall occasionally too, but that's harder to refactor because the bulk of the work there is X11-related.
|KPluginLoader replaces KLibLoader in most respects and is reentrant
|Make it possible to use SSL-ed sockets outside KIO. KSSL isn't very suitable for reuse, and the certificate dialogs are not even available in public API at all, leading e.g. to Kopete IRC duplicating a lot of stuff and all KDE Jabber clients based on libpsi (PSI, Light Hawk and Kopete) using homebrewn solutions. [How does this have to do with changing KIO? It's just a request to have that code in a different form....]
|Solve need for casting when using bitfield enums (e.g. K3Process::Communication) by the use of Q_DECLARE_FLAGS/Q_DECLARE_OPERATORS_FOR_FLAGS
|Merge kdelibs/kdecore/kuser.h and kdeadmin/kuser/kuser.h.
|KParts: remove plugin loading from setInstance, add an explicit loadPlugins() call in all parts that should load plugins (at the end of the derived-part ctor).
|KParts: come up with better names for ReadOnlyPart and ReadWritePart, ReadOnly is a minimum requirement, but this does not become clear until you dig deeper into the class. With QTextEdit and QTextBrowser for instance, the inheritance is the other way around. E.g.: ReaderPart? ViewerPart?
|Other ideas in this thread: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=107608067302571&w=2
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|Change classes that store bool data using strings ("true"/"false") to use bool calls (readBoolEntry()). Although not technicaly a binary incompatablity...just something to bring up for possible change (for the better)
Use KConfigXT instead!
|Is it really necessary to bother people using the KCM APIs with withFallback? I have never heard of it failing and when would you not like to have that fallback? I think a default of 'true' would be fine(and remove the argument in the APIs).
|Do we need to have factory arguments in the KCM API? (who would use it anyway?)
| The config options in kdeglobals needs to be cleaned up a little. Perhaps I'm being picky..
|KKeyDialog needs to be improved. It should simplify using KKeyChooser by not having to instantiate KDialogBase without restricting the possibilities of KKeyChooser (for instance, being able to configure global and application accels in one dialog). If there is only little time, simply expose the KKeyChooser object instead of making it private and inaccessible.
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|Fix the APIs taking Matthias Ettrich's hints into account, most importantly fix the massive amount of bool-usage in the CTORs.
|Michael Brade
|Implement a "default" ctor for the widgets i.e. explicit Foo(QWidget* parent =0).
|André Wöbbeking
|Make functions in KHelpMenu virtual so they can be overridden (ex: to provide an alternative help->contents action)
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|Make sure all GUI classes adopt well to palette changes.
|K3ListView lacked a setDnDMode to choose between "dnd to move items" (e.g. keditbookmarks) and "dnd onto items" (e.g. kmail). Check how to do this with QListView/QTreeView...
|Add the concept of a session to KIO, in particular for KHTML so that it can have all of its jobs associated in some way (a unique key of sorts). Will make SSL much easier to implement and allow removal of many hacks, mostly involving metadata.
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|Make KLibLoader default to RTLD_GLOBAL and make necessary changes to make KDE namespace clean.
|Maybe just make sure we don't emit multiple copies of per-class data (vtable,RTTI), then RTLD_LOCAL should do as well, and it should(?) be simpler this way.
|Many instances of creating containers on the heap instead of stack, can be replaced? [where?]
|Caleb Tennis
|Remove all of the (const char *name) arguments to QObject derived classes. [mostly done, what's missing?]
|Caleb Tennis
| Add KAssistant, a new KDE standards-compliant wizard, (TODO/KAssistant) Qt4 has no QWizard (only Q3Wizard left). Add a new KDE standards-compliant wizard with a bit more powerful API and features like "Steps list" pane on the left hand ofthe wizard (user can click any step if developer allowed such action).
Example from OO.org:
We could add more consistency (using themes, guidelines) in this area, as in KDE3 some apps implement wizard's features like left-hand funky pictures or help text again and again (see http://www.kolab.org/doc/kde-client-manual-0.9cvs20030801-html/c43.html).
Other ideas:
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|K3IconView/K3ListView equivalents based on Qt4 interview. As discussed on kde-core-devel,this probably means a custom QItemDelegate instead, to handle single-click/double-click, execute-mode/select-mode (cf K3IconView), number of lines used for wrapping, "held" signal.
In short, rewriting k3iconview features to be based on interview. For K3ListView we need to check if QTreeView supports both modes of drag-n-drop (dropping onto items, and dropping between items like in the bookmark editor).
|David, Till etc.
|It looks like most of the functions KStringHandler can be removed. At least, insword, setword,remrange, and remword could be removed [DONE] . Those four don't seem to be used anywhere inside of KDE. Other functions like capitalize and reverse seem to be sparsely used.
|Caleb Tennis
|Prevent re-entering event loop in kded to avoid reentrancy problems like with kwallet in KDE3.
|Customizable KToolTip/KWhatsThis widgets, now KWhatsThis is a part of KDE GSoC "Implement OpenUsability's Context Sensitive Help Redesign" project, by Joshua Keel, mentored by Ellen Reitmayr
|Jaroslaw Staniek
|Additional (automatic) shortcuts for KMessageBox. See http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-usability&m=109688936328920&w=2
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|Port krosskjs away from KjsEmbed to Kjs
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|Remove KDE-dependencies from the Kross-core to let Qt-only use it.
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YREKA – Following the preliminary hearing, Siskiyou County Superior Court Judge William Davis ruled on Friday that Patricia MacCallum, age 26, of Medford, Ore., will be held to answer to the charges in connection with the November 2012 murder of her 34-year-old husband Michael MacCallum. The murder allegedly occurred in the Applegate Creek area near the Oregon border.
Medford resident Amber Lubbers age 28, the proclaimed co-conspirator in the murder, entered into a plea agreement with the Siskiyou County District Attorney's Office and testified at the hearing – detailing the circumstances surrounding the alleged murder.
MacCallum is charged with murder, assault with a deadly weapon and corporal injury to a spouse. She also faces two special allegations: inflicting great bodily injury and discharge of a firearm causing great bodily injury or death. Siskiyou County District Attorney Kirk Andrus explained that the latter special allegation carries a 25-year to life enhancement over and above the 25-year to life sentence for the murder charge if she is found guilty.
The hearing began on Thursday when Lubbers, who was initially charged with murder as well, pleaded guilty to one count of being an accessory to murder. Her public defender Lael Kayfetz told the court that in return for Lubbers' guilty plea and willingness to "testify truthfully" in the preliminary hearing, she will receive a maximum sentence of 16 months in custody. The statutory sentence for this charge is a maximum of three years in custody.
Lubbers took the stand for direct examination by Siskiyou County Deputy District Attorney Joe Allison. During the line of questioning, Lubbers stated that she and MacCallum were best friends and former stepsisters.
Lubbers testified that MacCallum and her husband were separated and began living together again in September 2012. During that month, Lubbers alleged that MacCallum told her she wanted to kill her husband.
"She said something about how she wanted him dead. She said she wanted to make it look like an accident," Lubbers testified.
She told the court that a couple of weeks later, she and MacCallum drove to the Applegate Creek area "to find a spot."
"To find a spot for what?" Allison asked.
"For where it was going to happen … the murder," responded Lubbers.
Lubbers continued that she and MacCallum allegedly devised a plan for the three of them to go on a camping trip at the spot, prompt the victim to cross the swift Applegate River with rope tied to his waist, and then pull the rope so the victim would fall.
Shortly after this trip, the victim, Lubbers and MacCallum went on the camping excursion at the planned location, Lubbers testified.
Lubbers told the court that MacCallum packed a gun and a hatchet for the trip.
She testified that on the day of the murder at the campsite, the trio walked down to the river, and MacCallum was able to convince the victim to tie a rope around himself and secure the end of it around a tree and walk across the river. However, she said MacCallum did not pull on the rope to cause the victim to fall into the rapids.
When they returned to the campsite, Lubbers said she and MacCallum served the victim alcoholic beverages while the two women pretended to drink hard alcohol but really drank water with diluted amounts of alcohol.
When it got dark, Lubbers said they all went into their tent, and the victim fell asleep in his sleeping bag. At that point, she said that she and MacCallum went to the car.
Lubbers described MacCallum's demeanor as "emotionless."
"She said, 'I'm going to do this' and that 'he's not coming home with me,'" Lubbers testified. "She told me in the car that she was going to shoot him."
Lubbers said she and MacCallum loaded the camping gear from the tent into the car. Then, she alleged that while she stood by the car, MacCallum took the gun to the tent and shot the victim seven or eight times. Lubbers told the court MacCallum went back to the car and asked for a second clip, and then she walked back to the tent and allegedly shot the victim eight more times.
Lubbers continued that she and MacCallum allegedly rolled the victim up in the tent, secured it with rope and "kicked him down" an embankment.
Then, Lubbers told the court, MacCallum threw the gun and clips into a nearby waterfall and tossed the shells into the water.
Lubbers said while the two women drove back to Medford, MacCallum confided that "she felt liberated." Lubbers further stated that they planned to tell anyone who questioned the victim's whereabouts that he had stayed behind at the campsite to meet up with a friend.
When they returned to Medford, Lubbers said the two women went to a fast food restaurant and kept the receipt for an alibi.
When MacCallum's attorney, William Duncan, cross examined Lubbers, he asked for clarification as to why MacCallum allegedly wanted her husband dead.
"I believe it was for social security and for life insurance," Lubbers responded.
Duncan asked Lubbers if she had ever seen a life insurance policy, and she responded "No."
Upon further prompting for potential motives for the alleged murder, Lubbers said the victim had been cruel to one of MacCallum's family members, and that he forced the defendant to have an abortion.
"So, to this day you don't know of any other reasons she allegedly shot him?" Duncan asked.
"No," Lubbers responded.
Duncan noted that parts of Lubbers' testimony were inconsistent with statements she made to officers during the investigation – such as the events leading up to the camping trip, and the events after the women returned to Medford.
"I am under oath now," Lubbers stated.
On Friday, another witness took the stand. The witness told the court that he and McCallum had a sexual relationship, and he alleged that she told him she wanted her husband dead.
Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office Sgt. James Randall testified that when officials examined the victim's body during the autopsy, they discovered he had suffered eight or nine bullet wounds. He stated that one had severed the victim's spinal cord, and two had struck his heart, either of which could have been the cause of death. The victim was also shot in the wrist and shoulder, and the investigation revealed multiple bullet holes in the tent.
Randall stated that authorities determined it is unsafe at this time to send divers into the waterfall to search for other evidence.
At the close of the hearing, Davis immediately ruled that there is sufficient evidence to hold MacCallum to answer to the charges.
Davis scheduled MacCallum to reappear in court on Feb. 19 for further proceedings.
Lubbers is scheduled to reappear in court on Feb. 28 for sentencing.
MacCallum is being held in the Siskiyou County Jail on $1 million bail.


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As we have seen, George's was busy with his life. He had established a trading post on the south fork of the Pine River, then moved it to higher land, and obtained several patents for land in the area. In July of 1878 he went to Brainerd for some reason, probably to get supplies or do business, and took time to go a courting. He met and married Amarilla Grace Spracklin at a friend's house.
Amarilla had left her home near Blairstown, Iowa and migrated to Brainerd, Minnesota sometime after the 1870 U.S. Census. Her granddaughter Miriam said Amarilla arrived there about 1877. Amarilla had been living with her father, step-mother and half siblings since about 1863 in Iowa.
If you look at Iowa in reference to Minnesota you would see that Iowa is just straight south of Minnesota.
Miriam writes in another part of her notes, that Amarilla was not happy in her situation:
"Her father, Daniel Dare Spracklin had two families. Amarilla (Ammarilla , sometimes varied it) belonged to the first family, hated the second and left home. Supported herself as a seamstress. "
"Came to Brainerd, Minn., in 1877 and earned her living as a dressmaker and milliner." Miriam McDonald Notes circa 1980's.
There is no state census in Iowa for 1875 so we cannot be sure if Amarilla was still at home at that time. Miriam makes a further comment: "Born near Marengo, Iowa, Nov. 17, 1858." It was probably closer to Blairstown which is north of Marengo. In 1878 Amarilla would have been 20 years old.
The Logsleds to Snowmobile book makes the following statement:
"On July 27, 1878, in St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Brainerd, with the Reverend Herbert Root officiating. George Angus Barclay married Ammarilla Spracklin. Barclay's new bride was the first permanent white woman settler on the Pine River. She continued to hold the distinction for 15 years." pg. 105
This reference implies that George and Amarilla were married in the St. Paul Episcopal Church in Brainerd, however the evidence shows that the record of the marriage from the St. Paul Episcopal Church hint that it was at the residence of a C. H. Mayo. Click on the photo to make it larger.
Here is a copy of their marriage license. It is one of several that were in the Civil War Pension file of George A. Barclay's.
A brief article found in the Brainerd Tribune dated Saturday, August 3, 1878 on page 2 on the left at the bottom also repeats this information of a marriage at a friend's house, the home of a C. H. Mayo.
How George and Amarilla met is a mystery. Miriam said that Amarilla was a milliner, a person who makes hats.
An article in the Brainerd Daily Dispatch taken from the Centennial Edition (1871-1971) on the history of Brainerd and the Crossing states that their were 21 stores, and 1 tailor shop. So it might be possible that George spotted Amarilla in the town at one of these locations?
"After a brief courtship they were married on July 27, 1878. Following the ceremony, the new bride of 19 and her husband drove as far as Gull Lake, probably to John Bishop's half-way house on Bishop's Creek, where they stayed overnight. The next day they continued on with their "tote" to George Barclay's Ranch on the Pine River."
Logsleds to Snowmobiles, pg. 112
The Coroner's Inquest file regarding the murder of George Barclay from Cass County Records had a testimony by a Andrew Whitesides, an employee of George A. Barclay since 1894. He testified at the coroner's inquest about George's murder but in addition he made an interesting comment about Amarilla – that she was "an inmate of a variety theater?"
Now the same article I mentioned from the Brainerd Daily Disptach does indicate there were 15 saloons, and 2 billiards halls but it does not mention a theatre in Brainerd?


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ROCKFORD — City Council members voted to allow the Rockford Rescue Mission to expand its main facility at 715 West State St.
The two-story, 25,700 square-foot expansion will allow the Mission to combine its Women's Crisis Center located on Cedar Street with its main campus. The addition will bring 12 more crisis shelter beds for women and children and 32 additional beds for the women's life recovery program, a one-year program to help women in desperate circumstances find jobs, recover from addiction and further their education.
"We lost beds when the Mission's property was acquired in 2007 to make room for the Winnebago County Justice Center, and now we need them more than ever," Executive Director Sherry Pitney said. "With the recent economic struggles face by our region, our need to help people — especially women and children who never before needed us — has drastically increased."
In the last three years, the women's programs were forced to turn away nearly 500 women and children due to lack of space, Pitney said. She said about 85 percent of people seeking services are from the Rockford community.
The addition also prevents those at the existing center on Cedar from walking to the West State facility for meals and will save operational costs for the Mission.
Aldermen voted 11-1 to approve the zoning required to allow the Mission to expand. Ald. Venita Hervey, D-5, voted against because she said expanding the Mission further concentrates poverty in one area of town.
"I'm opposed to Rockford continuing to bring into our city huge populations of people who are indigent, who are in poverty, when we have one of the highest unemployment rates in the state," Hervey said. "Why do you bring people who need hope into a place that doesn't have enough? ... Then, why do you concentrate them in areas that are already overtaxed with social ills."
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