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Pulitzer Prize, History, 2008
In this addition to the esteemed Oxford History of the United States series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the Battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era of revolutionary improvements in transportation and communications that accelerated America's expansion and prompted the rise of mass political parties.
He examines the rise of Andrew Jackson and his Democratic party but contends that John Quincy Adams and other advocates of public education, economic integration, and the rights of blacks, women, and Indians were the true prophets of America's future.
Howe's panoramic narrative - weaving together social, economic, and cultural history with political and military events - culminates in the controversial but brilliantly executed war against Mexico that gained California and Texas for America.
Please note: The individual volumes of the series have not been published in historical order. What Hath God Wrought is number V in The Oxford History of the United States.
Listen to more of the definitive Oxford History of the United States.
©2007 Oxford University Press, Inc.; (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
"One of the most outstanding syntheses of U.S. history published this decade." (Publishers Weekly)
"He is a genuine rarity: an English intellectual who not merely writes about the United States but actually understands it." (Washington Post)
"A stunning synthesis....it is a rare thing to encounter a book so magisterial and judicious and also so compelling." (Chicago Tribune)
"Fantastic content, faulty narration"
This book provides a comprehensive overview of US history from the end of the War of 1812 to just after the admission of California to the Union. The ebb and flow of politics provides the main narrative framework for the book, into which Howe weaves detailed discussions of the competing social, economic, religious and technological forces that slowly transformed the coastal states of the founders into a continent-spanning empire riven by internal disputes that would erupt in the Civil War and reverberate for more than a century after. Howe makes the entire era come alive by drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, from census data to the writings contemporary diarists and newspaper accounts, and incorporating many engaging quotes.
This would be a perfect listen for an avid student of American history, since it covers a frequently overlooked period (overlooked, I would add, for reasons which Howe discusses at length towards the end of the book) were it not for the truly horrible quality of the recording. The narrator is overall quite good, but the editing is probably among the worst I have ever encountered. There are noticeable jumps in audio quality and speed throughout, sometimes even within the same sentence. These imperfections are substantial enough that at times I found myself listening more to the atrocious mixing than the actual content, which was a shame.
"comprehensive history"
I am a casual history fan and I've always had trouble keeping track of the Taylor's and the Tyler's in the first half of the 19th century. This book is comprehensive, well-read and detailed, sometimes to the point where it can be hard to follow, especially if you listen while commuting. There are many themes, and he jumps back and forth between them. I found myself backing up several times to make sense of things, but it was not too much of a chore. As the author says in the conclusion, he is telling a story, not asserting a thesis--this type of history I think is the most fun to listen to. I never found it tiresome, and that is a lot to say about a book this long. The other reviewer is correct, there were a lot of changes in the recording, sometimes in the middle of a sentence. While this is unusual in audiobooks, I did not find it very distracting.
"Thorough and in-depth analysis"
When writing a period survey, it is extremely difficult to be both comprehensive and cohesive. This book, however, succeeds marvelously at both. Howe has incorporated the breadth and inclusiveness of a period survey with in-depth critical analysis, and the result is a compelling story. Howe disclaims an attempt to present a thesis, yet he does identify several themes in his analysis, such as what he calls the revolutions in communications and transportation. He does a wonderful job maintaining his themes throughout the book, explaining how various events and trends influenced and were influenced by the themes. He also explains how many of these trends influenced the periods following 1815-1848, especially the lead-up to the Civil War, and continuing into the present.
"Great Comprehensive Look at the Period"
The phrase "What Hath God Wrought" was the first message sent long distance over the telegraph. This was in some ways the beginning of the communications age. This book covers the period from 1815 to 1848. Many viewed the War of 1812 as the second American Revolution. In the aftermath of that war the American nation began to grow quickly. By the end of the period another war would be fought. This one with Mexico. That war would complete what we today call the Continental United States.
This period is rich in American history. The nation grew in size, but also in many other areas. Religion flourished in many new and differing ways. An American culture began to grow in the areas of science, literature, and the arts. The tasks of governing a Republic of vast proportions was a novel concept and continued to perplex many leaders. This period saw the end of the Federalist party with the government becoming a one party system with the Republican party in control during the Monroe years. After that the Republican party split itself in two as the followers of Andrew Jackson created the Democrat party and the opponents of Jackson creating the Whig party. Some of the greatest orators and politicians of 19th century America lived and served in this time. It was the period of Jackson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, and John Quincy Adams. Towards the end of the period new leaders like Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas began to rise.
Slavery was the elephant in the room that could no longer be ignored. As abolitionist societies began to grow in the North the Southern planter class become more and more adamant about protecting slavery. This conflict would continue to pull at the fabric of the nation until, a dozen years after the final period of this book, it would tear the nation in two.
These are only a few of the areas covered by Daniel Walker Howe in this outstanding volume in the Oxford History of the United States. Even a seasoned reader of history is bound to discover some new gems in these pages. Howe's prose is never wooded and the subject is made very accessible. With magnificent books like these it is a shame that so few Americans read history. This is a great place to begin the study of a crucial time in our nation's history.
Say something about yourself!
Perhaps it's because I knew so little about this era, but this is one of the two or three greatest books I've read on American History. I think one can't really understand the United States as it IS today without understanding what occurred during this pivotal, transformative era. Howe does a fantastic job explaining the large, more well-known events that still affect us today as well as providing dozens of smaller subplots and odds and ends that help fill out what life was like during this era. For the most part, he doesn't judge the actors, except when they really deserve judging (E.g., it's hard for Andrew Jackson to avoid the label of actual, or aspiring, autocrat.) Howe also sets forth a compelling case that many of the large events early in the period were facilitated by the lack of communications technology (Jackson's rise, for example, is clearly tied to his reputation gained in the Battle of New Orleans that was unknowingly fought after the war's official end); while the most dramatic transformative movements and counter-movements that arose later (namely around slavery and women's rights) were facilitated by the revolution in communications and transportation technology. I can't recommend this highly enough, and it fits well in the outstanding Oxford History of the US series.
"bad editing"
Good book, good narrator, but the editing was horrible... leaving no pauses where they should be, running all the sentences together unnaturally. A tedious chore to listen to..almost as if the editors were trying to make the book as short as possible by crunching the sentences together as closely as they could. Never had the problem before with any other book -- I hope I never run into it again.
"An interesting book with some issues"
While I am enjoying this book, there are some issues. There is a LOT more about religion than I thought. From the description, I thought it was going to be about technology and politics. I'm a casual reader of history. It seems that this book is written for someone with a more than casual love of history. Be prepared to ocasionally pause this book and do a Google search for terms that the author assumes the reader is familiar with. While this book is read well, it doesn't seem to be edited well. I can imagine that it takes days if not weeks to record these books. In other books, you can tell when they have stopped and started recording by the suttle changes in pitch or tone. Usually this happens at the end of pages, chapters, or parts. In this book, it happens mid-sentence. A lot. While it doesn't make the book unlistenable, it is annoying.
"History with heroes and a villain"
This is an interesting, well-written history that provides more information about 1815-48 than you thought could fit into one book. Yes, it covers religion, as one reviewer said, but then again, it covers everything: electoral politics and newspapers of the 1830s, technological innovations, and even the execrable American diet and levels of drinking that had foreign visitors like Frances Trollope commenting on our peculiar ways.
Several heroes emerge, including John Quincy Adams in the Amistad trial, but there's one villain glowering over every bad decision that the U.S. made in this period: Andrew Jackson. Not that Howe isn't scrupulous in his reporting of history--he seems to be--but if this book were a melodrama, Jackson is its malign guiding force.
The editing is poor, as a few reviewers have commented. All the natural pauses have been snipped out, which makes the narration seem breathless. In fact, although the material is fascinating, it's hard to listen to this book for a long stretch of time without feeling tired, given the dense level of information and rushed delivery.
"Long, in depth, illuminating"
This period of history always gets the short stick. We go from revolution to civil war to WWI and 20th cetury without a pause into the largest technological, business, political, religous and social changes which enabled our 21st century ethics around the role of government, equal rights, the use of technology which seems so natural to us was quite different in 1812, but much closer to our current world in 1850. The discussion of women's rights, the revolutions of 1848, the great awakening, the war against Mexico, the development of the Whig's, and the anti-slavery movement are particualry engaging. Central is the change from the world of the horse to the technology of the railroad, telegraph, newspaper and strong federal government, complete with the central bank. This period of change rivals the change we feel has ocurred in the 20th century. Enjoy a great book.
"Well worth listening to."
I am a political conservative who likes honest, even critical history. If you are partial toward historians that are apologists for and who white wash past mistakes and wrongs, I would not recommend this book.
Though in many ways the American experiment may be exceptional, America's history of conquest, expropriation and displacement of natives, of chattel slavery, etc., is in no way exceptional nor remarkable. It is the history of the world.
"Poor production"
This is indeed another excellent volume in this series. And I was looking forward to listening to it. But as others have said, the reading seems to have undergone some sort of compression. Perhaps some automated process, which removes natural pauses in the reading and seems to speed it all up. Consequence is overwhelming and unpleasant.
Reader actually does a good job and has an attractive voice. Its the production at fault. This book should be removed from Audible until publisher has produced the reading properly !!
"Good, apart from the economics"
"What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848" by Daniel Walker Howe, read by Patrick Cullen is a good audiobook. Patrick Cullen reads it clearly.
The content of the book is, for the most part, a good explanation of the political and cultural changes in the US from 1815 to 1848. The judgements in it seem fair, like the judgement that the American colonists treated the Indians very shabbily and the US government didn't do much about this through a mixture of weakness and lack of concern for the Indians' rights.
Somewhat less good is the book's treatment of economics. The author takes for granted the idea that central banking and government spending money to prop up the economy during recessions. He doesn't argue that this is true, he just accepts it. And he's wrong. Central banking is a bad idea because it doesn't allow for voluntary adjustment of the money supply: instead the supply of money is adjusted by government fiat. The government pumping out money to "help" people during a recession is also a bad idea as it makes it more difficult for goods and services to be shifted out of the lines of production that are no longer profitable. See the works of George Selgin and Lawrence White on free banking and "Theory of Money and Credit" by Ludwig von Mises.
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After publication of this story, the APS responded with a statement that its Physics and Society Forum is merely one unit within the APS, and its views do not reflect those of the Society at large.
The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming "incontrovertible."
In a posting to the APS forum, editor Jeffrey Marque explains,"There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution."
The APS is opening its debate with the publication of a paper by Lord Monckton of Brenchley, which concludes that climate sensitivity -- the rate of temperature change a given amount of greenhouse gas will cause -- has been grossly overstated by IPCC modeling. A low sensitivity implies additional atmospheric CO2 will have little effect on global climate.
Larry Gould, Professor of Physics at the University of Hartford and Chairman of the New England Section of the APS, called Monckton's paper an "expose of the IPCC that details numerous exaggerations and "extensive errors"
In an email to DailyTech, Monckton says, "I was dismayed to discover that the IPCC's 2001 and 2007 reports did not devote chapters to the central 'climate sensitivity' question, and did not explain in proper, systematic detail the methods by which they evaluated it. When I began to investigate, it seemed that the IPCC was deliberately concealing and obscuring its method."
According to Monckton, there is substantial support for his results, "in the peer-reviewed literature, most articles on climate sensitivity conclude, as I have done, that climate sensitivity must be harmlessly low."
Monckton, who was the science advisor to Britain's Thatcher administration, says natural variability is the cause of most of the Earth's recent warming. "In the past 70 years the Sun was more active than at almost any other time in the past 11,400 years ... Mars, Jupiter, Neptune's largest moon, and Pluto warmed at the same time as Earth."
quote: This post makes me sad.So there is extra mass due to all the people being born? Where do you think those people come from?They grow. To fuel this growth, they eat. They eat food from the ground. (Or other animals which eat food from the ground.) The food grows from a seed. The seed grows by pulling in nutrients from the roots. Humans are, in a very distant sense, made of the ground.New people do not add to the mass of the Earth. The conservation of mass is first year physics.You got an A? Again, that makes me sad.
quote: BTW, I have PhD in physics
quote: The earth is not increasing in mass. Yes there is a little equation E=mc^2 which obviously you know very little about. Are you assuming the energy from the sun is being converted to mass? Ok fine, let's go there. The amount of energy received by the sun per year is approximately 3850 zettajoules. Assume all of that energy is converted to mass. That would be an increase in mass of the earth of 4.28 * 10^7 kilograms per year according to E = mc^2. The mass of the earth is about 5.97 * 10^24 grams. That is about a 10^(-16)% change in mass per year. Or put another way, it would take about 1 quadrillion years for the mass of the earth to increase by 1%.
quote: Your explanation of black hole formation is completely false. Stars lose mass as they age. They convert mass into energy. That is how they burn. Black holes form when the fuel of a very large star is consumed and there is not sufficient heat to keep the gravitational forces from collapsing the star. I will not go into the nuclear physics involved since obviously you need learn the basics first.
quote: Well you obviously can't read or follow conversations longer that five words. So when did you drop out of the fifth grade?
quote: As the previous conversation was about gaining mass due to energy absorption alone. He was isolating the affects of the earth gaining mass from energy only, NOT from ANY cosmic particles and it was a hypothetical calcluation in any case as he assumed 100% energy to mass conversion. Which does not happen right? right?
quote: Would it not also be true to say that the magnetic fields are repelling one another instead of attracting? What of the outward force of the solar wind? What did does this even have to do with the conversation at hand?
quote: Go back and learn how to read bozo.
quote: This f**cking idiot has pissed me off so much I have to write another post.So let me get this straight. The sun gains mass even thoughit loses mass due to fusion, loses mass due to solar flare coronal ejections, and loses mass due to the solar wind?I have to say it again, you are an idiot
quote: the earth is not increasing in mass? perhaps you should tell that to this guy:
quote: The earth is bombarded with cosmic dust and from ions from the sun, but the masses are insignificant and will not alter the orbital path of the earth in any measureable way.
quote: go to number 19 (Speed of Earth's Rotation Slowing?) and then number 24 (Weight Changes if Earth Stops Rotating) and for the coup de grace check out number 36 (Changes in the Earth-Sun Distance). there's plenty more there that adds support to my theory but allow me to just say: "checkmate".
quote: where did you get the idea that stars lose mass as they age? some links, the information taken together should be enough to convince you that a star's mass increases with time not decreases:

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Lyn feet question. It sounds stupid, I know.
Posted Nov 24, 2012 - 5:47 PM
Is there a way to give them normal feet during character creation? Or any rumors about more character creation options for Lyn?
This official picture seems to show Lyn without the animal feet:
Not like it's a major issue or anything, but I like to have complete control over how my character looks.
Posted Nov 24, 2012 - 5:55 PM
Hope this clarified something.
If you got more questions, feel free to ask, I have a valid account and play the game regularly (though I'm a lvl 20 noob).
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Posted Nov 24, 2012 - 6:04 PM
Now I know I'll be playing one. Thanks.
But can you modify the size of animal features? Like making those incredibly large fox ears a bit smaller?
Posted Nov 24, 2012 - 6:15 PM
Testarossa69, on Nov 24, 2012 - 6:04 PM, said:
Now I know I'll be playing one. Thanks.
But can you modify the size of animal features? Like making those incredibly large fox ears a bit smaller?
I think you can, I never tried, but in the character creation have a bunch of options, maybe one can make the ears smaller.
Posted Nov 24, 2012 - 6:32 PM
Can't wait for western release date announcement.
Posted Nov 24, 2012 - 6:35 PM
Posted Nov 24, 2012 - 8:28 PM
Plus, if it were meant to be a rabbit lyn, it would have that huge poofy tail, right? @w@
All of that plus the fact that the drawing is a dual-wielding blademaster, makes the whole image kind of confusing --
therefor not the best example of offical lyn artwork, I'd say..
That being said the drawing still does kind of look like it has the lyn feet, you can see it in the slightly awkward ankles which seem to be at a diagonal, and the way it looks as though the feet are arched/turned in. At least that's how I see it -- the reason it looks like "human" feet is because of the shoes.
Most of the time you can see the lyn on what looks like their tippy-toes with hind legs, but have you noticed that some of the lyn doboks have wedge-heeled shoes that fill in the arch and make their feet appear more "normal"? ----- Maybe it's hard to explain, my sibling dislikes the look of the animal feet and plans to just stick with the doboks that have shoes like that. haha.
(I also have yet to see any options for altering the lyn's feet shape or ear/tail size, all the lyns seem to have the same portioned ears/tails)
I don't know if I should have posted this, I don't know if i am making any sense, lalala
Posted Nov 25, 2012 - 9:45 AM
So I'm hoping this picture is a sign of things to come. Sexy outfits and human feet for Lyn included.
And I was also thinking it's just normal Lyn in shoes that make it look like she had human feet, but you can see almost to the toes and there is no fur at all.
Posted Nov 25, 2012 - 2:50 PM
BnS should also have more hair/eye colour options and hairstyle options >:V! Other games have BnS beat by miles in that area, they should step it up~
Posted Nov 25, 2012 - 3:34 PM
I will never fully understand the jokes of some companies...
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After starting out as "Ross the Intern" on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Ross Mathews went from fan to famous face. Now he's a fixture on Chelsea Handler's Chelsea Lately and on the red carpet as a correspondent for E!.
In his new book Man Up! (available May 7), Mathews shares a number of humorous anecdotes about his life on-and off-camera.
Here are four hilarious revelations from Mathews's new book.
He was in a prayer circle with Madonna and Britney Spears
While waiting backstage to meet Madonna, Mathews found himself smack dab in the middle of one of the singer's pre-show rituals.
"Everyone knows about Madonna's prayer circle, but hardly anyone's ever been in one," Mathews writes. "I opened my eyes and saw a blonde woman in white walking behind the circle, making her way toward Madonna. ... Madonna showed compassion. She stopped what she was saying, hugged the woman, invited her into the circle and continued, 'Everyone make room for Britney.' "
"Madonna continued: 'As you know, she's had a really hard time of late ... what with the press and the paparazzi and all ... she needs us now.' "
After years of being a huge Paltrow fan, Mathews finally met the actress at the Vanity Fair's Oscar party in 2002 and gave her his email address. "The next morning, I was about to head out to the dining hall to drown my sorrows in a breakfast burrito the size of a newborn baby when something told me to check my email one last time," he writes. "And, you guys? OMG, there was one unread email."
He continues: " 'Please God,' I prayed, Let this not be an ad for penis enlargement or spam from a Nigerian prince ... I took a deep breath and clicked on Inbox. There it was – the email ... 'Hello, it's Gwyneth. Very nice to meet you last night. Is this the right address for you? Verify before I continue or say anything too risqué. xoxo, gp.' "
Barbra Streisand helped him come out
Mathews talks openly about his sexuality and how he came to the conclusion he was gay.
"I realized I was gay in the shower one day with Barbra Streisand. It happened while I was lathering, rinsing, and repeating with Pert Plus," he writes. "As I was belting out the chorus to my favorite song from Funny Girl, " 'Oh my man, I love him so, he'll never know…' it hit me."
He's come a long way, baby
Mathews knows his tale of going from intern to television personality is unlikely, so much so he calls his it "the most outrageous story involving an intern since Monica Lewinsky."


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Sunday October 16th, 6:05pm CST
Grand Rapids Griffins (1-1-0-0) @ Rochester Americans (1-2-0-0)
The Griffins hit the road to take on the Rochester Americans. It will mark the start of their grueling 8 day road trip in which they will play 6 games. The Griffins claimed their first points of the season by defeating Toronto 3-2 on Friday. The Amerks have made a rough start to the season conceding 11 goals in just three games so the Griffins perhaps catch them at a good time. Griffins coach Curt Fraser has been impressed with his young squad, highlighting the strong performance of all 4 lines, as well as the outstanding goaltending of Joey MacDonald. After being the reserve for the first two games, Jordan Pearce may get the start tonight.
Nyquist Andersson Conner
Tatar Johnson Pare
Coetzee Raedeke Parkes
Ferraro Aubry Callahan
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Exelby Lashoff
Pyett Amadio
Team leaders:
Goals: Coetzee (2), 3 tied (1)
Assists: Conner (3), Nyquist (2)
Point: Conner, Nyquist (3), Coetzee (2)
PIMS: Amadio (11), Callahan (10)
Plus/Minus: 6 tied (+1)
Willie Coetzee: 2 game goal streak
Gustav Nyquist: 2 game point streak (1-2-3)
Chris Conner: 2 game point streak (0-3-3)
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Ken Holland: Hes (Mursak) a young guy, provides energy, can skate, hes a puck hound.
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Posted 16 October 2011 - 07:27 PM
AHLLive has a scrolling update on games. Said network issues, so they weren't showing it.
Is drum not streaming the video anymore, or is it just not available for this game?
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Cleary on, Ken!
Dan's World, Dan's World... Mediocrity!... Excellent!
Posted 16 October 2011 - 08:14 PM
Thanks for the update, and thank you for streaming the games.
AHLLive has a scrolling update on games. Said network issues, so they weren't showing it.
Posted 16 October 2011 - 10:31 PM
and Conner also chipped in with an assist on both goals making him the only other Griffin with a point in all 3 games. Tatar scored the other goal to make it a 1 goal game at 2-3 but the Americans then hit 4 unanswered tallies giving the final score a rather lob sided view.
Just over 3500 were at the Blue cross arena to witness their team double their goal tally for the season.
The Griffins next game is tuesday in Hamilton to face the Bulldogs, lets hope they fare a bit better.
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"Putting on the foil coach" Jeff Hanson
"Yeah, every game, you want some coach?" Steve Hanson
"Er, no. No thanks guys." Reggie Dunlop
"Make sure they don't leave the bench!" Reggie Dunlop.
Posted 17 October 2011 - 02:03 AM
Glad to see Nyquist and Tatar score. Disappointed that Aubry was a healthy scratch already, I really don't see the point in keeping him up if he's going to be a healthy scratch every second game. Back to juniors.
And this team will be much better when Smith returns so Ehrhardt sits.
Ken Holland: Hes (Mursak) a young guy, provides energy, can skate, hes a puck hound.
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Thursday, August 1, 2013
Downtown Summerville's historic James F. Dean theatre is home to Summerville's Flowertown Players. The Flowertown Players is a nonprofit theatre that features local talent. Heather Pallay Friend of help manager had her own thoughts about the emphasis of the theatre.
"The Flowertown Players is truly a theatre by the community, for the community," Pallay said.
Currently, the theatre is asking for volunteers to assist with the upkeep of the theatre.
"Although our staff and current volunteers work tirelessly to ensure our facilities are kept up throughout the year, we are in need of deep cleaning and reorganization as we prepare to open the 2013-2014 season." Pallay said.
The theatre is pursing volunteers for various available jobs such as, general cleaning, filing data, straightening of costume shop, hedge trimming etc. There are gifts volunteers can receive from The Flowertown Players for their hospitality. The volunteer with the most hours will receive seasonal membership from the theatre. Also, if you are searching for a place to fulfill community service hours, the theatre is offering that as well. If you are interested in volunteering, you may come in Wednesday through Saturday between 12 and 6 p.m.
The Flowertown Players will dance into there new season with the upcoming showing of "Grease," which begins tonight at 8 p.m. Everyone has volunteered this month has be entered in a contest to win one or two pair of tickets to the season opener "Grease."
Future showings and upcoming plays for this season can be found on their website, www.flowertownplayers.org.
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This fun family spot, open April-October, offers two miniature golf courses. This par 70 course exhibits excellent golfing conditions. The blue championship tees boast a 6191 yard layout; where as the white/silver/red tees cover 5833/5616/4946 yards respectively.
Autobahn Country Club is the 4th largest road course in the US. We have multiple public driving events and programs including Go Karting.
An 18-hole championship course cut thru 10,000 oak trees, with water hazards on 9 of 18 holes, complete clubhouse bar and restaurant. Chicagoland Golf 5 Star rated facility.
Opened in 1930 and designed by C.H. Muelenford and Sam Sneed. Hundreds of tall oak trees throughout the course (some oaks are centuries old), complimented by five lakes and Long Run Creek, will test your shot making abilities. Big Run Golf Club can be difficult but enjoyable, challenging and sporty. The course has never stood on it's laurels, it has been reshaped over the years to compliment both the improvements in today's golfers and to take advantage of this scenic piece of land golfers have come to enjoy.
Located in Lockport, IL, just 40 miles southwest of Chicago's Loop, Broken Arrow features 27 holes of Championship Golf, Driving Range, and Banquet Venue. Broken Arrow utilizes the "Prolink" GPS System by GPS Industries on its entire fleet of Club Car Golf Carts. These large and easy to use systems act as "virtual caddies" designed to give you all the information you need. At a glance, golfers can see the entire hole, hazards, bunkers, and rough areas. This system also allows the golf shop to issue weather warnings and other messages to golfers. The clubhouse features a full service golf shop, snack bar, locker rooms, restaurant, and banquet room. Accommodating up to 250 guest events, the Banquet Room is perfect for making your dream event a reality! With 27 holes of Championship Golf, Restaurant, and Banquet Venue, Broken Arrow has plenty to offer.
Brunswick Zone XL is a full- feature, family- friendly entertainment destination with something for everyone. Our center in Romeoville sets the standard for family entertainment with more than 60,000 sq. ft. of fun for all ages. Bowling, billiards, video games and more!
Cardinal Creek Golf Course is a Semi-Private, 27 hole golf course located in Beecher, Illinois. Cardinal Creek Golf Course has three 9-hole golf courses. These courses can be combined in pairs to form three different 18 hole course challenges. The nine-hole courses are The North Course, The South Course, and The Center Course.
You'll find 32 bowling lanes, all equipped with bumpers for kids, cosmic bowling on weekends, a snack bar, lounge and a bowling pro shop that's open daily during the season.
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Put some adventure into your getaway with our CPX package! This package includes two tickets to Challenge Park Extreme Sports, which has a paintball city, skate park, and mountain bike park! Also included is overnight accommodations at our hotel, complimentary hot buffet breakfast, and unlimited use of our heated indoor pool and whirlpool. You must be 10 years of age to participate in any activities at CPX Sports.
Come out and cheer on the Chicago Fire! Experience the fun and excitement of Major League Soccer at Toyota Park.
Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill., is a $130 million, 1.5-mile, D-shaped, tri-oval speedway that annually hosts the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, NASCAR XFINITY Series, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards. Chicagoland Speedway sits on 930 acres of land, which is large enough to accommodate 42 United Centers (home of the Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks). Chicagoland Speedway provides 500 acres of free parking for more than 30,000 vehicles. Standing at 15 stories tall, Chicagoland Speedway's grandstands are approximately the same height as the Navy Pier Ferris Wheel in downtown Chicago!
Choose from 4 unique camping options at Chicagoland Speedway! Benefits include: FREE newspaper delivery, payment plan options, free tram services around the facility, and non-stop entertainment.
Cog Hill Golf and Country Club
The public is invited to play any of Cog Hill's four award-winning, 18-hole championship golf courses, including the world-famous Course #4, Dubsdread. Dubsdread was host to the PGA Tour's BMW Championship from 2009-2011.
You've seen them race, now drive in real stock cars that have been used in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. At the Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure, you can drive around Chicagoland Speedway at speeds over 170 mph. Or you can choose the Ride-Along to experience the thrill of NASCAR racing like never before as a professional driver thunders you around the track. In 2014, the Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure will be at Chicagoland Speedway June 14-15 and August 16-17. See their site for more details.
Welcome to Chicago Southland's Best Conditioned Golf Course. Deer Creek Golf Club is rated 3 1/2 Stars by Golf Digest Magazine and is continually voted as one of Chicago's places to play. Deer Creek is a beautifully manicured Championship golf course with bent grass greens, 7 lakes and 55 sand bunkers. Throughout the course you will find aesthetically pleasing naturalized areas, which include a wide variety of wildflowers.
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George Dunne National Golf Course
George W. Dunne National, located in Southwest suburban Oak Forest, recognized by Golf Digest as one of the top public courses, is our premier 18-hole course. Dunne National offers the unique features of bent grass fairways and greens. Whether you play from the tips or are a beginner you'll enjoy the challenging terrain that Dunne National offers. Eight lakes, which come into play on eleven of the course's holes, tree lined fairways and not to mention an abundance of wildlife help make your golf experience a memorable one.
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18-hole Championship Golf Course is one of the oldest public golf facilities. Originally built in the 1920s. Senior tees available. New Club House in 2011. Traditional layout.
Scuba dive in a 12-acre, spring-fed quarry and see several varieties of fish, along with underwater attractions that include a 33-foot cabin cruiser, a marine dump truck and an amphibious vehicle. Rental equipment, air-fills and dive instruction are available.
Harrah's Joliet Casino & Hotel
Featuring 1,100+ slot machines, most Video Poker in town, 25 table games, and WSOP Poker room. Experience exceptional dining at the Reserve steakhouse and luxurious comfort in our hotel.
Haunted Trails Family Entertainment Centers
Family entertainment center featuring hundreds of games, rides, award-winning miniature golf, Go Karts & Batting Cages, Restaurant/Party room featuring karaoke. October Haunted House (www.frightmarehauntedhouse.com). Birthday party and group packages available.
Haunted Trails Restaurant & Entertainment Park
Perfect setting to raise your spirits! 14 acre park offers 3 go kart tracks, two 18-hole mini golf courses, batting cages, laser tag arena, rides, 100+ games, restaurant w/ private dining room plus private 5 acre picnic grove for company picnics and groups up to 2,000.
100 Room Hotel and a 80-spot RV park offering complimentary hot breakfast and WiFi. Complimentary shuttle service between hotel and Hollywood Casino-Joliet.
Live in the moment at Hollywood Casino Joliet and experience heart-pounding gaming action, thrilling entertainment, an on-site hotel and a wide variety of dining options!
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We have SUCH A FUN GIVEAWAY to share with you today! This gorgeous round up of stylish Purple & Grey Entertaining items comes courtesy of Dotcoms for Moms, a fabulous website that curates the best of the web to help save the rest of us time while searching for resources & products online. All of the recommendations by Dotcoms for Moms are "handpicked by moms for the modern mom looking for sites and products with style, design, taste and within budget." Learn more about them right here.
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1Janine SAYS:
I love the purple and grey, but my favorite color palette for the Holidays is black, white and silver. It so elegant and timeless, and it goes with everything. I throw color into the mix by wrapping my presents in coordinating bright colors or making bright colored arrangements in vases. This keeps it from becoming too "goth," as my mother-in-law says!
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I love that purple tree! And we decorate with lime and hot pink! It looks awesome and its fun!
2Erin Zoellick SAYS:
Oh my I am in love with the purple and gray!!!
I love to do silver, gold and white on my christmas tree!
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My nontraditional colors are blue and white. Sometimes some silver added too.
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I really like purple and silver. Or gold and silver.
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Gold and silver, because it reminds me of my grandmother's lovely antique tree ornaments.
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We decorate our house and tree with black, red and silver. Most of our ornaments on the tree are from our childhood, to remind us of the times we've spent with our families growing up.
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I am using hot pink and silver! I know that's a little untraditional but it's something definitely new :)
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I love white and silver frost. Just keeping it streamlined, comfy, cozy, classy is my favorite. =)
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I love bright red and pale blue or turquoise!
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Silver and baby blue!
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Love all that is shown here, but we do love the black, white, and silver. It's so classic and looks wonderful at a dinner party!
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I love ice blue and white during the holiday season :)
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Hi, I always love to decorate with non-traditional Christmas colors. My favorite has been Silver and Blue. It gives off a "cold" "shimmery" type of feeling to the house. It reminds me of a white christmas, where families and friends come together even more from being stuck inside the home!! This seasons trends: sequins! royal blue and silver sequins will give great life to your home!! :)
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I love all colors but I am in love with all the glitter golds!!
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I love the purple and gray, but my favorite Christmas colors are icy blue and silver. I love how they look so classic and elegant but still remind you of the holidays!
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Loving the Purple and grey palette! Another one of my color palettes for Christmas decor is the turquoise with a tint of pinks. <3
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I love red, purple and chartreuse together – its such an unexpected holiday color combination that still manages to look festive and fun!
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I LOVE woodland themed holiday decor. Gold, brown, & grassy green. I'm also a big fan of owls & love that I can use them in my decorating with this theme. Love the purple & gray too!! I could do multiple trees in my house:)


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On Wednesday, January 12th, APWA's Winter Maintenance Sub-committee Chair Mark Devries was featured in the NPR "On Point" national news program as a public works expert on winter weather emergencies, and how public works helps communities handle them. Also featured were Dr. Heidi Cullen, climate expert for the Weather Channel (and former research scientist for the National Center for Atmospheric Research), along with APWA members Mike Kennedy, Director of Winter Operations for the Minneapolis Department of Public Works, and Wanda Booker, who is sanitation services manager for the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The show's commentator, Tom Ashbrook, cited the recent extreme precipitation conditions that have hit North America, and Devries, Director/Superintendent of Public Works for the McHenry County Division of Transportation in Illinois, and a 2010 APWA Top Ten Public Works Leader, addressed issues that public works departments deal with on a day-to-day basis.
Devries and the other featured guests brought up the many challenges for communities' public works that occur in handling weather emergencies and large snow precipitation events. Devries also stressed that municipalities have to work to anticipate, and be prepared for, the various winter events that can occur. He went over the various methods that need to be considered for winter weather emergencies, from snow-removal to chemicals needed for pre-treating, and the possibilities of getting back to "bare pavement." Other issues discussed were budget and staff cut-backs with service expectations, civilian help with snow containment, and the data needed to adjust to and prepare for extreme weather situations.
Check local listings of the show with your local/regional NPR station. To listen to the original show, go to the NPR's website for the On Point show on January 12th called: Snow Removal Strategy & the Flurry of Winter Weather. You can access it directly when posted to the NPR website at: http://www.onpointradio.org/2011/01/snow-removal.


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Maybe it's the price of high expectations.
Maybe our imaginations are too strong – our memories too vivid. Especially when it comes to the stories and characters – some treasured since childhood – we hold most dear.
Whatever the reason, some classic books just don't translate well to the big screen.
When "The Great Gatsby" opens in theaters on Friday, it will join – for better or worse – the long list of films made from well-loved works of American literature.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age novel of identity, anticipation and longing would seem to make a perfect fit for a filmmaker's lens. (This is not the first time Hollywood has tried to make Jay Gatsby's story into a blockbuster.)
But is it?
"Gatsby" is actually the most muscular and streamlined of fictional narratives – with sparkling scenes that remain fresh in the reader's memory long after the covers are closed. It has turned out to be far trickier to bring to life on screen than many might have thought.
Soon we'll know more about the new "Gatsby." (Read Jeff Simon's review on Page 4.)
In the meantime, let's round up other films that were made from classic books we all know and love.
The good, the bad – and the downright curious.
Let's start with movie adaptations of books that hit the mark. For various reasons, these films didn't let us down.
"Gone With the Wind" (1939)
Margaret Mitchell's doorstop of a novel about the South during and after the Civil War, complete with spunky heroine Scarlett O'Hara, was a sprawling, sentimental and very popular book when it was published in 1936. When a film of the book was released three years later, with David O. Selznick as producer and big-name actors in leading roles, many thought the movie would be a disaster. But English actress Vivien Leigh somehow captured Scarlett. As for Clark Gable, his Rhett Butler superseded Mitchell's character for sheer charisma. Many people now know the movie better than the book.
"The Wizard of Oz" (1939)
L. Frank Baum, a struggling actor and businessman, published "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" in 1900, to popular acclaim. His book led to a series of "Oz" tales. The movie version of his initial Oz story with Judy Garland, Ray Bolger and Bert Lahr was different – but equal, in many if not all ways – to Baum's original story, as a work of art. Today, it's a favorite childhood memory of generations of men and women.
"Anne of Green Gables" (1985)
Many of those who loved Lucy Maud Montgomery's novels about the redheaded orphan Anne Shirley with the passion of childhood fandom were long disappointed by the fact that no terrific film adaptation had been made of the books. That changed with the 1985 miniseries on Canadian TV, starring Megan Follows as Anne, Colleen Dewhurst as Marilla Cuthbert and Richard Farnsworth as Matthew Cuthbert. Not a big-budget Hollywood release, true – but an absolute delight for those who love Green Gables, Ingleside and all things Anne.
"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" (2005)
If you think Anne Shirley fans are protective, just try C.S. Lewis devotees. Narnia, the fictional land created by British don Lewis in a series of seven children's novels first published in the early 1950s, would seem a tricky – but tempting – landscape for cinema storytelling. This film does a fine job of taking us on a journey into Narnia and back again. Tilda Swinton stars as the White Witch, with Jim Broadbent and others. It's not the book, but it's perfectly good.
Some movie adaptations of classic books made us squirm in dismay.
"The Scarlet Letter" (1995)
Five words tell the story here: Demi Moore as Hester Prynne. Nathaniel Hawthorne would not have liked movies of his work as much as F. Scott Fitzgerald and some others on this list, we're guessing, but there are few who would cheer for this unpleasant movie, which also starred Gary Oldman and Robert Duvall. A very loose retelling of Hawthorne's novel of sin, punishment and redemption, it may have scared other filmmakers away from the oeuvre of the New England master altogether. Pity.
"The Great Gatsby" (1974)
With Robert Redford as Gatsby and, yes, inexplicably, Mia Farrow as Daisy. Some scenes were memorable. But the whole affair was a puzzling and sorry take on Fitzgerald's classic. And, the main characters were utterly wrong for their parts. Daisy seemed vapid; Gatsby vain. This isn't the classic we remember.
"Mr. Popper's Penguins" (2011)
Full disclosure: I did not see this movie. But anyone who knows the beloved 1930s children's classic by the Atwaters, Richard and Florence, knows that any film adaptation that starts with the premise of Mr. Popper and his wife being divorced, and Popper estranged from his kids, is a one-way ticket to stupidity. (Even with Jim Carrey in the lead role.) The "Popper" mystique is, above all, that of a happy and caring family that pitches in together and takes on a troupe of performing penguins. Think of the book's lovely Mrs. Popper, cheerfully playing the penguins' march on the piano in her long gloves. What part of "happy" doesn't Hollywood understand?
Among the gems and failures, there are offbeat films.
"Little Women" (1933, 1949, 1994)
Whether it's the 1933 version with Katharine Hepburn, the 1949 movie with June Allyson or the 1994 film with Winona Ryder, these movies are all interesting to watch – but each somehow misses at presenting Marmee and her girls in exactly the way we imagine them.
"Moby Dick" (1956)
Now this one is truly strange. We have Orson Welles as Father Mapple. Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, gaunt and withdrawn. A script by Ray Bradbury. The film's idea of whale-hunting, made well before modern special effects, comes off as just scary enough to thoroughly frighten a 12-year-old – speaking from personal experience. (The image of Ahab lashed to the white whale's side took quite a few years to erase, believe me.)
The closing scenes are excruciating, but also compelling … in the can't-look-away school of cinema.
A strange movie, not an epic fail, just not "Moby Dick."
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5 Everyday Rip-Offs That Are Surprisingly Easy to Avoid
The world is an awful place, filled with people like us, all trying to screw us over every chance we get. Our only defense is intense, bile-filled suspicion, of anyone and everyone we deal with, including infants.
I've always considered it this column's mission to help my readers put up walls between themselves and everyone close to them. Which is why today I'd like to turn everyone's attention to the long grass of consumer purchases, and the jackals that lie in wait for you there. With the tips presented here, you'll soon find yourself saving five, even six dollars a week, which, over the course of 10 years, will add up to two or three grand. Which ... is actually a lot less impressive than it sounds. Huh. OK, I'll also put in some advanced tips, ways to avoid being ripped off so hard that you may actually rip something else entirely. So, as with most of the advice I give, please, please, remember to stretch first.
#5. Razor Blades
Disposable razor blade cartridges can cost more than $4 per cartridge, which, when replaced once per week, turns shaving into one of the most expensive face-related expenses we ever have to face. And yet, thanks to society, shaving is something that can't be ignored, unless we live in the hills, or Portland.
How to Avoid Being Ripped Off:
Replace the blades less often. First, those guidelines that say we should replace our blades three or four times a month come from the companies that are selling the blades. Now, these guys do know razors, but because they also know "taking your money," they might not be the most trustworthy source of advice. Instead, try replacing your blades when they stop working. And you can keep your blades working a lot longer with a few easy tips, also conspicuously absent from the razor blade cartel's promotional reading.
Razor blades don't dull from cutting your soft doughy face, nor even your food-encrusted whiskers -- the dulling effect actually comes from water and air corroding the metal. You can greatly limit that corrosion by simply drying the blades after each use -- blotting them on a towel is the easiest technique, but other people have had success with dipping them in alcohol, blowing on them really hard or throwing them in the direction of the sun.
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How to REALLY Avoid Being Ripped Off:
Pluck your face. Tweezers last basically forever, so it's economical, so long as your time isn't very expensive, which, let's be honest here, Cracked reader, it probably isn't. Also, the confidence you gain from plucking every hair on your neck and face will give you a demeanor that many observers would describe as "wild, shit-eating intensity" -- which will certainly come in handy during business negotiations or when staring down any hostage takers.
#4. Gas
Gasoline makes our cars run and our Molotov cocktails burn. And depending on how much you drive, or how much you fight The Man each week, gasoline may very well be one of the biggest expenses you have. Although the rising price of oil is the primary cause of the rising price of gas, the fact that every oil company is currently making record profits is justification enough for your rage, and offers a hint of who to offer your next batch of justice cocktails to.
How to Avoid Being Ripped Off:
There are a lot of tricks on how to save money when shopping for gas floating around out there. Gas-saving websites let you track local gas price fluctuations. Also, try timing your purchases to buy gas at the cheapest times (mornings, the 1980s). And if you can avoid driving all summer, you should definitely do that.
How to REALLY Avoid Being Ripped Off:
Don't give those sons of bitches your money in the first place by cutting back your need for gas. Gas-saving enthusiasts who call themselves hypermilers have compiled a whole bunch of fuel-economy tips that you can use, although the more advanced ones get pretty crazy. I'd suggest starting off with simple measures, like keeping your tires properly inflated, rolling your windows up and tailgating behind semi-trailers while driving downhill with your lights and air conditioning off.
Also, try blowing through stop signs while shrieking obscenities about OPEC.
#3. Extended Warranties
Extended warranties are typically offered when purchasing big-ticket appliances and home electronics. "Hey, wouldn't it suck if your television stopped working?" the sales pitch generally goes. "Give us a bunch of money and we'll make sure it sucks less."
"Please work, television! You're all I've got! I've made some big mistakes in my life, and ... I need House so bad right now. Just give me some House, please?"
There are a whole bunch of reasons why extended warranties are a rip-off. Briefly:
- Because many issues will be covered by the manufacturer's warranty.
- Because many repairs may cost less than the warranty itself.
- Because the extended warranty generally won't cover accidents, or abuse, or fudge damage.
How to Avoid Being Ripped Off:
Don't buy them. Even aside from the above reasons, there's a general rule about insurance -- which extended warranties are a form of -- that you should know. On the other side of every insurance deal is an insurance company with nerds and spreadsheets who know exactly how much that insurance should be worth and will sell it to you for a markup way higher than that.
For example, let's say you're insuring against an Uh-Oh.
Like getting into a Zeus-fight.
The insurance company figures this Uh-Oh has a 1 in 10 chance of happening each year, and if it does, it will cost $1,000 dollars. The insurance company will conclude that this insurance should cost them about $100 a year, and will then offer it to you for $150 a year with an enormous smile.
That's not completely unreasonable, incidentally. They obviously have to cover their overhead, the costs of maintaining all those nerds and spreadsheets, and they certainly have a right to make a profit. But you also have the right to not overpay for shit.
Now, in some cases, you should really still buy insurance. For things like home insurance, or life insurance, or car insurance, where you couldn't afford the costs of an Uh-Oh, then insurance is usually a prudent idea. It spreads out the costs of the Uh-Oh into small, bite-sized chunks. But if the Uh-Oh is less big -- more of a Meh-Oh, I guess -- where you can afford the costs, there's a concept called "self-insurance" you should know. This basically says, "Don't buy the damned insurance, Chester." The money you save by not buying it will more than offset the costs you'll incur. Losing a television would suck ...
"I would sell my body just for one tiny glimpse of you, Don Draper."
... but it's something most of us can probably recover from.
How to REALLY Avoid Being Ripped Off:
Offer Best Buy a reverse extended warranty. In exchange for them paying you a small fee, if at any time the product fails during the next three years, you won't drive your car through the front window, shrieking obscenities about OPEC.


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LE ROY – The long-vacant Wiss Hotel, overlooking the village's busiest intersection, is facing a future as shaky as the century-old building itself.
Will it be rehabilitated or demolished?
A group of village residents – would-be investors, headed by attorney Robert E. Fussell – want to buy the three-story structure and turn it into a mixture of stores, offices and hotel rooms.
Mayor Greg Rogers and a majority of the five-member Village Board are concerned about liability from a structure damaged by a leaky roof and interior rot, and want it torn down.
They're facing a demolition cost of $200,000 or more.
The board's next meeting is Feb. 13.
The Wiss House was named for John Wiss, who ran a tavern on the site for many years. It was the only hotel in the village and overlooked the intersection of State Routes 5 and 19.
Because it's a choice location, village businessman Tom Spadaro has offered $125,000 for a shovel-ready site on which to rebuild.
Rogers has said the board will consider all offers, including the Le Roy LLC that would save the structure and Spadaro, who would build something new.
Meanwhile, villagers will continue to see the contrast between the dilapidated Wiss and a new Walgreen drugstore on the opposite corner.


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A review of open source software programs for school management
Three open source school management software programs for teachers and student
Many educators might have been hesitant in the past regarding embracing open source software. But not anymore as the number that has taken to open source software (OSS) has increased significantly over the years. As more teachers as well as institutions are now engaging with organizations such as Open Source Schools, SchoolForge among others. Consequently, these educators have begun to realize the potential inherent in OSS that can help transform education in many ways.
Now, here is a list of open source applications that is available to assist educators in teaching as well as in inspiring their students:
openSIS otherwise known as "Open Source Student Information System" is a school administration application. And, it claims to reduce ownership cost for a school district by as much as 75% when compared with commercial systems of the same capability.
This application includes:
- Attendance: By period, by day, with comments and all accomplished with a only a few clicks. Customize attendance codes to meet your specific needs. Easily check attendance by using the built-in reports.
- Contact information: Easily add contact information for parents, relatives and authorized individuals. Designate legal guardian, bus stops and associate parents with students enabling automatic access to the openSIS parent portal.
- Student demographics: openSIS enables the tracking of numerous student demographic attributes in a permanent record and across enrollments. Need something not included in the base installation? Use the custom categories and fields that allow you to easily create any number of custom fields to capture any specific data needs.
- Gradebook: The built in grade book allows teachers to enter homework assignments, class tests and any other activity using weighted scales if desired. Automatic tallying of grades, reports to find erroneously entered grades and advanced ad hoc reporting is included.
- Scheduling: openSIS includes a scheduler that allows you to easily input student requests and mass schedule students. You can make multiple schedule runs as you make adjustments and have multiple schedules within a school. View and print student schedules and class rosters with just a few clicks.
- Health records: Nurses visits, immunizations, physician contact information, allergies and more are all a part of the health records.
- Report cards: Easily input final grades, create student report cards and calculate GPA's and class rankings.
The solutions is a 100% web-based application and has polished looks, a great deal of required functionality and appears to be easy to use based on the online demo website. openSIS is developed and maintained by Open Solutions for Education.
openSIS is written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database system to store information. The community edition is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, is free software and can be downloaded from the Sourceforge website.
Epoptes (a Greek word for overseer) is an open source computer lab management and monitoring tool. It allows for screen broadcasting and monitoring, remote command execution, message sending, imposing restrictions like screen locking or sound muting the clients and much more!
It can be installed in Ubuntu, Debian and openSUSE based labs that may contain any combination of the following: LTSP servers, thin and fatclients, non LTSP servers, standalone workstations, NX or XDMCP clients etc.It's a partial rewrite of an older application called sch-scripts, which has been successfully used the last year in about 250 Greek schools. Epoptes already has a lot of features, but a lot more are planned, and it's being developed at a very fast pace. It's maintained by IT teachers and students, so it should be around for a long time!
Fedena is developed on the powerful Ruby on Rails framework, view a demo here.
Fedena is a free and opensource school management software that has more features than a student information system. Use fedena to efficiently manage students, teachers, employees, courses & all the system & process related to your institution.
Fedena gives you complete control over how you want to manage your school's databases and provides many tools to organize its activities. It is a complete SIS plus with all the advantages of a perfect school ERP. With fedena there is no need of any extra hardware or technical maintenance staff. All you need is a computer with internet connection. You can operate fedena even with a mobile phone.
The official website claims that anyone with basic knowledge in computers will be able to use Fedena on first login without any instructions, but if you want support there is also a commercial site at www.fedena.com that can help you in the setup of the product.
Fedena is used by the Education Department of Government of Kerala to automate the system and process of over 15,000 schools in the state and is named as Sampoorna.
The benefits of making use of open source software or application can be said to be as follows: One it helps save money, which can now be used for other important things. Secondly, it gives educators several more options. Since there are so many applications that can help with teaching different subjects as well as with school administration as a whole.
Originally posted on Linuxaria. Reposted under Creative Commons.
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For those interested in education and open source, it might be worth checking schooltools.org.
Don't forget SchoolTool, at http://schooltool.org
SchoolTool is an open source student information system including demographics and personal data, gradebooks, outcome and skill tracking, attendance, and calendaring.
SchoolTool is used globally as part of the Intel Learning Series, by career and technical educators across the commonwealth of Virginia, and individual schools and programs around the world.
We've got one step installation on Ubuntu Linux, strong internationalization support, and a 100% open source platform based on Python.
@Tom, interested in covering this resource for our site?
I was thinking I could write about our collaboration with the Arlington Career Center and Virginia CTE Resource Center on a competency tracking component called CanDo (http://cando.cteresource.org/).
How many words would you want?
Thanks Robin and Tom! Would either of you be interested in elaborating further for our audience?
and you overlooked http://richtech.ca/openadmin/
Open Admin for Schools is a School Administration Program. It is a freely available, open source software package and is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
It is entirely web based and can run from a centrally located division wide server or a single computer in a school. It is designed to support an entire division on one or more central computers but can also work just fine for a single school. Currently several school divisions use this approach and have 15+ schools on a single central server. This is because it is designed to be lightweight both in server resource requirements and in communication bandwidth.
It is secure. Each school has two or more virtual websites and each is protected with password(s). One site, the 'admin' site, is used by the school office and another, the 'teacher' site, is used by teachers in the classroom. The teacher site also has password access for entering attendance by teachers and also uses cookies that expire in a short period, further limiting access. Another site, a parent/student site, is controlled by parent/student userid's and passwords. A fourth virtual site may be used by school liason officers from outside agencies to give them a slightly different access to school information. (Community Schools). A new version will support a single site using SSL to encrypt all traffic (like your bank).
I'm an absolute fan of Open Source. I've got some followers on Twitter that pointed me out to schooltool.org when I posted this article on Twitter. I've not used it myself though.
I am missing the differentiation between ict class control software (like epoptes) and school admin software like schooltool and openadmin for schools. What happened to iTalc?
As a 3rd important section of types of 'school' software you could add electronic learning environments like moodle, chamilo and open sankoré.
Thanks for the article Jason. It might be interesting to note that in British Columbia we are a year and a half into an enterprise-scale Student Information System called openStudent. Unlike most other SI systems, this student information system is being built to operate at the multi-district, state or province level. It encompasses a role-based security model, distributed hosting, cross-enrolment, continuous entry and many other significant advantages. It is also designed to interoperate with other district and school programs though the use of LDAP and other protocols. The core program is designed for elementary schools and will begin beta testing by April 2013. Embedded Reporting, Ad Hoc and business analysis is facilitated with the community version of JasperSoft Business Intelligence software. Functionality for middle and secondary schools will be available by 2014.
We have chosen the Educational Community License 2.0 for openStudent in much the same way the Kuali Foundation uses this license for its projects. For more information go to:
Thanks Gregg! Great info.
Thanks very much for the comment Jen. Since 2000 we have been implementing open source software in schools using Linux as the operating system and a host of OS applications. As an example, our students began by using StarOffice, then OpenOffice and now LibreOffice - quite a progression over the years.
The openStudent project is a logical outcome of our use of open source software and I would be very pleased to elaborate on the history and what led us up to this point.
Thanks again for the articles you and so many others contribute. It's one of my primary sources of open source information.
The sad part is primary key for student entry in sampoorna (fedina implimentation in Kerala) is aadhaar number. This software was used as a privacy invading tool by government of kerala for the mandatory stealing of biometric and iris data of all school children in kerala . Aadhaar card does not have any law backing till this date , and a parliamentary standing committee rejected the bill to give legal backing . Sometime back National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights has ordered an inquiry in this matter based on our complaint http://asiancorrespondent.com/68344/probe-ordered-into-kerala-govt-move-...
openSIS is one of the best and widely used student information system / school management system . As it is open source so it is cheap to acquire, and the technical support that openSIS team provides is the best compared to others.
HI , I am very interested in an open source K to 12 on line learning curriculum. I would like to find a supplement for a child or parents that want to offer a curriculum in step with their respective grade level. In our case it might not be used by the teachers or sanctioned byt the school so it will be truly a supplement to their school day.
thank you
I've been built Academic Information Systems using Open Source. Beside the security, quality and customizability, another 'wins' are we can reduce the complexity and improve the maintainability of software.
Great article!


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A bitterly cold Alaskan summer has had surprising results. For the first time in the area's recorded history, area glaciers have begun to expand, rather than shrink. Summer temperatures, which were some 3 degrees below average, allowed record levels of winter snow to remain much longer, leading to the increase in glacial mass.
"In mid-June, I was surprised to see snow still at sea level in Prince William Sound", said glaciologist Bruce Molnia. "In general, the weather this summer was the worst I have seen in at least 20 years".
"On the Juneau Icefield, there was still 20 feet of new snow on the surface [in] late July. At Bering Glacier, a landslide I am studying [did] not become snow free until early August."
Molnia, who works for the US Geological Survey, said it's been a "long time" since area glaciers have seen a positive mass balance -- an increase in the total amount of ice they contain.
Since 1946, the USGS has maintained a research project measuring the state of Alaskan glaciers. This year saw records broken for most snow buildup. It was also the first time since any records began being that the glaciers did not shrink during the summer months.
Those records date from the mid 1700s, when the region was first visited by Russian explorers. Molnia estimates that Alaskan glaciers have lost about 15% of their total area since that time -- an area the size of Connecticut.
One of the largest areas of shrinkage has been at the national park of Glacier Bay. When Alexei Ilich Chirikof first arrived in 1741, the bay didn't exist at all -- only a solid wall of ice. From that time until the early 1900s, the ice retreated some 50 miles, to form the bay and surrounding area.
Accordingly to Molnia, a difference of just 3 or 4 degrees is enough to shift the mass balance of glaciers from rapid shrinkage to rapid growth. From the 1600s to the 1900s, that's just the amount of warming that was seen, as the planet exited the Little Ice Age.
Molnia says one cold summer doesn't mean the start of a new climatic trend. At least years like this, however, might mark the beginning of another Little Ice Age.
As DailyTech reported earlier, Arctic sea ice this year has also increased substantially from its low in 2007.
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quote: 2. Lower prices for food means farmers get less paid. The ones that are hurt the most by this is third world farmers who cannot afford the luxury of using oil-based fertilizers.
quote: 4. Most ethanol is produced in Brazil. I doubt growing cheap food in South America will help the Africans much.
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EAST PALESTINE - The village fire and EMS department is finally receiving more federal money for ambulance billing.
Fire Chief Brett Todd told village officials in May that Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements were behind by nearly four months, for a loss of "tens of thousands of dollars" for the department.
The reimbursements are a large part of the department's fund and the payments stopped as a result of an error on the renewal application due in January of this year, he said at that time.
The department was receiving money from private insurance companies but without the reimbursements was looking at a significant loss in funding, he added.
Village Manager Pete Monteleone announced recently the village finally received roughly $30,000 from Medicare for the ambulance services.
"This is very positive for next year's budget. Some of this is current money owed and some is back-pay coming in," he said.
Ambulance billing revenue was less than half of what it was last year, according to Todd's October figures, and $30,000 is the largest amount given to the department this year in the reimbursements, which started trickling in over the summer.
Finance Director Traci Thompson previously said the first reimbursement check was for roughly $4,000 or $5,000.
The village also received a $10,000 check for the services in early October, for a roughly $45,000 total payback so far. The department began rebilling for the services that month as a result of the reimbursements slowly coming in. Billing had been halted while the village attempted to get the problem resolved.
Councilman and finance committee chairman Jim Tyger said then that the issue needed to be "put to bed" in order to balance the budget by the end of the year.
The village is expected to end 2012 with a $100,000 carry-over balance-down from $217,000 from last year. The department operates on a roughly $240,000 budget each year and is expected to operate on a $239,560 budget next year.
The department responds to calls within the village and Unity Township, as well as providing mutual aid to neighboring departments. Firefighters and emergency medical workers are only paid when they are out on a call.
In October the department responded to 62 ambulance calls and a total of 566 calls since January, according to a report provided by Todd. A data sheet showing how many calls the fleet responded to last month has not yet been made available.


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The Truckee girls took care of business with a 49-28 rout in a Mount Rose League basketball game at Sparks on Saturday - their fourth straight win to begin league play.
The Wolverines countered the Railroaders' outside shooting attack, which included five 3-pointers, with their own 3-point barrage led by Ashley Harris and Kaylee Neill, both of whom hit three shots from behind the arc.
After leading by only three points at the end of the first quarter, at 11-8, Truckee took control with a 14-3 run to start the second quarter, according to the Daily Sparks Tribune. By half, the Wolverines led 28-18.
Senior Sydnie English scored a game-high 17 points, while Truckee received balanced contributions from Neill, Harris, Kate Traeger, Olivia Duner, Cassandra Sawyer and Katey Hamill. Although the senior guard duo of Duner and Hamill did not score much, their defense and overall floor play created havoc for Sparks, resulting in many scoring opportunities for the rest of the team, said Truckee coach Geoff Stephens.
"Sparks played with a lot of heart but we are playing as well as we have all year," Stephens said. "The girls are now starting to play instinctively rather than sequential. Sometimes we don't even run set plays. The girls now are figuring out the ball, back and off screens with rolls and backdoors.
"They are now just playing basketball. It is very rewarding and now fun to watch. Hopefully we'll take it to the next level and do it for four quarters and game after game."
Truckee improved to 11-7 overall and 4-0 in Mount Rose League play while Sparks fell to 1-10 overall and 1-6 in league.
Truckee's boys did not fare as well, as they fell behind early - 10-0 in the opening minutes and 20-8 by the end of the first quarter - on their way to a 64-45 loss.
The Wolverines managed to outscore the hosts 30-29 in the second half, but it wasn't enough to overcome the large deficit.
Senior forward Adam Morgan scored 18 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Truckee, while Ian Wilson came off the bench to score eight points and grab five rebounds. D.J. Devine finished with a game-high 21 points and 16 rebounds for the Railroaders.
Truckee dropped to 9-8 overall and 2-2 in Mount Rose League play, and Sparks improved to 10-8 overall and 4-2 in league.
UP NEXT: Truckee is scheduled to host South Tahoe on Tuesday, girls at 6 p.m. and boys at 7:30. The Wolverines play at Incline on Friday and at Whittell next Tuesday.