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One of the top pitching coaches and recruiters in the country, Rob Childress enters his 10th season as the head coach of the Texas A&M baseball program.
With a steady stream of success, Childress has led A&M to a school-record eight consecutive NCAA Championships, two conference regular-season crown, three league tournament titles and the 2011 College World Series.
In 2014, Childress guided the Aggies through their second season in the Southeastern Conference, securing a spot in the SEC Tournament for the second consecutive year and earning a bid to a school-record eighth consecutive NCAA Championship.
In Texas A&M's first run through the SEC in 2013, Childress led A&M to the final six of the SEC Tournament and a seventh straight NCAA Championship. The Gilmer, Texas, native's expertise as a pitching coach is evident and has made an immediate impact as A&M's pitching staff ranked first or second in the rugged Big 12 in earned run average in each of his seven seasons in the league, including a Big 12-best 2.92 team ERA in 2012.
During the 2012 campaign, Childress guided the Aggies to a sixth consecutive trip to the NCAA tournament as A&M hosted an NCAA Regional in College Station for the second straight season.
In 2011, Childress captured co-Big 12 Coach of the Year honors as he led the Aggies to another milestone campaign as he guided the squad back to college baseball's promised land of Omaha, Nebraska, and the College World Series. The trip to Omaha was the fifth in program history and capped off another successful run in the NCAA Tournament.
The 2011 team also claimed the 23rd conference championship in program history as it brought home both the Big 12 regular season and tournament titles before emerging victorious in both the College Station Regional and Tallahassee Super Regional.
Additionally, the 2011 squad finished 14th in the country with a 2.90 team ERA, the Aggies' lowest since 1990 (2.80) while Childress' 2010 staff ranked 13th nationally at 3.70--the highest finish by an A&M staff in 16 years before last season.
A trio of Aggies (Tyler Naquin, Ross Stripling and Michael Wacha) garnered All-America honors in 2011 as Naquin was also named Big 12 Player of the Year while both Stripling and Wacha excelled on the mound under Childress' tutelage. Stripling blossomed during his third year in the A&M program as he led the nation in wins by turning in a 14-2 campaign with a 2.29 ERA.
Additionally, outfielder Krey Bratsen earned Freshman All-America accolades in his first season as a part of Childress' program.
During the 2011 season, Childress and the Aggies also accomplished something never done before in the program's 109-year history by earning a fifth consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament. The 2011 campaign also saw Texas A&M claim 47 victories to surpass the 40-win plateau for the fourth time in five seasons.
Under Childress' guidance the 2010 Aggies once again ascended to the top of the Big 12 as they claimed another conference crown under Childress' direction when A&M won the league's postseason tournament. Along the way the Aggie pitching staff, led by All-Americans Barret Loux and John Stilson, ranked as one of the country's best, finishing atop the Big 12 and second nationally in strikeouts per nine innings (9.3). The Aggies' 612 strikeouts set a school record, topping the previous year's total of 568.
In 2009, Childress guided the Aggies to 37 wins and another trip to the postseason. The pitching staff set a then-school record with 568 strikeouts, leading the Big 12 and finishing seventh nationally with an average of 9.5 per nine innings.
Named the Big 12's Coach of the Year by his peers in 2008, Childress guided the Aggies to 46 wins, their first regular-season championship in nine years and the first back-to-back NCAA regional championships in school history. Along the way A&M set a new school and Big 12 record by winning 16 straight conference games.
After just one season at the helm, Childress orchestrated the biggest turnaround in NCAA Division I baseball. His 2007 team finished 48-19, winning 23 more games than in 2006, in addition to claiming the NCAA College Station Regional championship, a berth in the Super Regionals and the school's first Big 12 title since 1999.
Childress was named the 19th head baseball coach in school history on June 21, 2005, after spending the previous eight seasons at Nebraska--the first five as an assistant under current Arkansas Head Coach Dave Van Horn and the last three as an assistant to Mike Anderson. In those eight seasons, the Huskers made the NCAA Tournament five times, advanced to the Super Regionals four times and made three appearances in the College World Series (2001, 2002 and 2005).
Under his tutelage, 52 pitchers were drafted or signed as free agents over the last 17 seasons. In the last eight years, 15 Aggie pitchers have been selected in the first 12 rounds of the Major League Baseball draft (Austin Creps, 6th round in 2006; David Newmann, 4th round, Kyle Nicholson, 7th round and Gary Campfield, 12th round in 2007; Kyle Thebeau, 9th round, and Alex Wilson, 10th round in 2008; Alex Wilson, 2nd round, and Brooks Raley, 6th round in 2009; Barrett Loux, 1st round in 2010; John Stilson, 3rd round, and Ross Stripling, 9th round, in 2011; Michael Wacha, 1st round and Ross Stripling, 5th round, in 2012; Kyle Martin, 9th round, in 2013; Daniel Mengden, 4th round and Corey Ray, 5th round, in 2014).
Over the past 14 seasons, Childress has coached 14 first-team all-conference pitchers and 10 Freshman All-America hurlers. The list is headlined by Shane Komine, the only two-time All-American in Nebraska baseball history and a two-time Big 12 Pitcher of the Year. In fact, Childress has coached three Big 12 Pitchers of the Year (Komine in 2000 and 2001, Aaron Marsden in 2003), three Big 12 Newcomers of the Year (Joba Chamberlain in 2005, David Newmann in 2007 and John Stilson in 2010) and a Big 12 Freshman of the Year (Johnny Dorn in 2005). Not included in that group is Brooks Raley, who as one of the nation's top two-way players in 2009 earned first-team all-conference accolades and second-team All-America honors and Loux, who became the 6th overall pick of the 2010 MLB Draft after earning All-America honors for the Aggies in 2010.
Childress was a collegiate assistant coach for 14 seasons, including 10 years at the Division I level. He spent seven seasons at Nebraska overseeing the pitching staff and the Husker recruiting efforts after serving with Van Horn at Northwestern State from 1995 to 1997.
As a pitching coach, Childress has constructed his pitching staffs into some of the best in the nation. The Nebraska pitching staff also turned in the top five single-season strikeout totals in school history under Childress' watch, including a school-record 538 strikeouts in 2005, while issuing fewer than three walks per game in his final five seasons in Lincoln.
In 2005, Childress' staff at Nebraska finished the season with a team ERA of 2.69, ranking in the top five nationally and at the top of the Big 12. In 2004, Nebraska tied for second in the Big 12 and was 25th nationally with a 3.76 ERA. In 2003, the Husker pitching staff guided Nebraska to 47 wins and the school's second Big 12 regular-season title in three years. The Huskers ranked second in the Big 12 with a 3.79 ERA, while ranking first or second in the league in seven categories, including a league-high five shutouts.
Nebraska's pitching depth carried the Huskers to 47 wins and a second straight College World Series appearance in 2002. The Huskers finished second in the Big 12 and 15th nationally with a 3.66 team ERA, while ranking first or second in the league in four categories, including ERA, complete games (nine, first), shutouts (five, second) and opposing batting average (.250, second).
The Husker pitching staff was instrumental in leading NU to its first regular-season conference title in 51 years in 2001 and in 2000, the Huskers led the nation with a 3.14 ERA. In 1999, the Huskers posted a 5.50 ERA, the lowest NU mark since 1994 at the time, and struck out a then-school-record 438 batters in 526 2/3 innings of action. Despite joining the staff 34 days before the 1998 season opener, Childress' impact was immediate, as Husker pitchers allowed just 236 earned runs, the fewest in seven years, and lowered the team ERA by nearly a run per game.
In his final season as the pitching coach at Northwestern State in 1997, Childress' staff had a 4.20 ERA and held opponents to a .268 batting average. He coached former major leaguer Brian Lawrence, who became the first Demon baseball player to reach the Major Leagues since 1954. In 1996, the Demons' staff owned a 4.66 ERA and held opponents to a .259 batting average. At Northwestern State, Childress handled the pitching coach duties, and was also responsible for recruiting, field maintenance, fund-raising, academic advisement and coordinating camps.
Childress and Van Horn first teamed up at Texarkana College during the 1991 and 1992 seasons. During that span, the Bulldogs were 93-22, winning the league title in 1991. Following the two seasons as an assistant at Texarkana, Childress was an assistant coach at his alma mater Northwood University. In 1994, he returned to Texarkana as the head coach and finished with an impressive 43-10 record in his only season as coach.
Before his coaching career, Childress, who graduated from Harmony High School in Gilmer, Texas, attended Northwood where he was twice named an all-conference pitcher. Northwood won two NAIA conference championships during his career and was runner-up at the regional tournament once. Childress was elected the school's Academic Athlete of the Year as a sophomore and senior.
Along with his collegiate coaching experience, Childress coached the Texarkana Mavericks to a 31-10 record in summer league play in 1991.
Childress graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration from Northwood in 1990 and earned a master's degree of science from East Texas State (now TAMU-Commerce) in 1994. He and his wife Amanda (A&M Class of 1992) have a daughter, Hannah, and a son, Maxwell, who serves as a bat boy for the Aggies.
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20% of ad spending on the social network goes to mobile, says a new report.
Zak Stambor
Roughly one-fifth of the dollars marketers spent on Facebook ads in November and December went to reaching consumers accessing the social network on a mobile device, according to Kenshoo Inc.
The company, which provides software to help retailers manage social media, paid search and online marketing programs, based its findings on data from Kenshoo's clients, which include 10 retailers in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide. Among them are Wal-Mart Stores Inc., No. 4, and Sears Holdings Corp., No. 8. The report also includes data from Kenshoo's clients in other industries, such as entertainment and finance.
With 20.3% of all ad spending on Facebook devoted to mobile devices in November and December—a six percentage point jump from the previous two months—it is clear to Kenshoo that the social media advertising landscape has changed dramatically from a year ago, when Facebook had yet to offer a single mobile advertising unit. "The social advertising landscape is radically evolving," says Todd Herrold, senior director, product marketing for Kenshoo Social. "These are really significant changes and they're happening very quickly."
Facebook last year introduced multiple mobile ad units, all of which appear in consumers' news feeds. Reaching consumers in their news feeds is essential, says Facebook, because that is where consumers spend 40% of their time on the social network.
Because all the mobile ads appear on the news feed—and the social network has said it doesn't want to overwhelm consumers' news feeds with advertising—there is a limited supply of mobile ad units, says Herrold. That's different from the desktop, where Facebook offers display ads on the right side of the page, as well as full-page ads that appear when a shopper logs out from the social network.
The limited supply of mobile ads has driven up the cost-per-click of Facebook ads, he says. The cost-per-click for a desktop ad on Facebook is 81 cents, compared with $1.38 for mobile ads.

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William Rouse of the Tennenbaum Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology explores why most business transformations fail and how modeling and simulation can help.
Interview conducted by Bo Parker, Karen Schwartz, Vinod Baya, and Terry Retter
Dr. William Rouse is the executive director of the Tennenbaum Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology, which focuses on researching and developing the knowledge and skills necessary for enterprise transformation. In this interview, Rouse provides his perspective on the value of enterprise modeling to transformation, a view informed by the institute's extensive research on the history of transformation efforts.
PwC: Can you tell us a bit about your background?
WR: I left the university for 13 years and started two software companies, the second of which had a suite of strategic planning tools for new product development and technology portfolio management. During that time, I worked with about a hundred companies, so that's how I got immersed in this—I saw how difficult it was for the companies to fundamentally change.
I did a lot of background research. In fact, my book Start Where You Are goes back about 200 years and looks at three industries: transportation, computing, and defense. Of course, computing in the 1800s was cash registers and things like that, not computers, but the bottom line was that when it came to fundamental transformation, almost everybody eventually failed.
There are only a limited number of big success stories, and everybody of course wants to be one of those success stories. For transformation to succeed, there has to be a perceived or experienced value deficiency, or people don't do anything. It's really rare that people just decide to change, either as enterprises or as individuals. The value deficiency can be something that is relative to what you thought you could accomplish. In other words, you may not be not failing as a business, but you are not getting where you would like to get.
The way you turn companies around is by understanding the work processes in the organization and how value is created for the organization's constituencies or markets. That often is very difficult for people to do. In healthcare, for example, people don't really think in terms of work processes; they think in terms of functions or specialties. So healthcare is a particularly thorny problem, because beyond people's reluctance to change, they also have difficulties thinking about it in a way that would enable change.
Beyond value deficiencies and work processes, a big issue is management decision making—executives' and senior managers' abilities, limitations, and inclinations to make decisions. In a lot of the companies I have worked with, the executives were not willing to make a fundamental change decision until the need was so patently obvious that everybody would go along with it, and at that point, their resources and time were lacking.
Beyond management decision making is the social network of the organization. The social network can be a great enabler of change, or it can be like an immune system. We found that large organizations tend to get insular over time. Because the majority of the people are not customer facing, they don't see the outside world, and that begins to reinforce their beliefs about the way in which the organization achieved its success and will sustain that success in the future. Often, these perceptions aren't valid, or at least no longer valid.
So, we study those four components: value—what it means, the nature of value deficiencies, and how these deficiencies are understood; work processes; management decision making; and social networks. And we feel that those four pieces are the keystones to successful transformation.
PwC: How does the transformation methodology you've developed differ from other methodologies enterprises generally use?
WR: In contrast to what I perceive to be the typical IT-driven approach, we tend to work top down. We start from business issues and understanding the strategic intent of the executive team and the board. And then, we focus on how you can develop an enterprise architecture—not necessarily an IT architecture, but an enterprise architecture—that can enable you to pursue the intent that you have. And then we address how you understand the relationship between the as-is enterprise and the to-be enterprise, which leads to IT eventually, as information is often a key facilitator for all this.
We have been involved with many companies who walked away from very substantial IT investments when they realized they hadn't done sufficient thinking at the beginning from the top down. When you start top down, in some ways the interactions are easier to find, because you are looking at the overall context of the enterprise and how it's put together. Engineering and manufacturing, marketing, and customer support—how do those all fit together in terms of the value that the customer perceives? The interactions of these processes are critical.
PwC: In your "Models of Complex Enterprise Networks" paper, you point out that the enterprise requires a balance between a holistic view and a reductionist view. Is that one of the main reasons why transformation is so difficult?
WR: Right. We have a wonderful case study going on right now in healthcare, and we are totally immersed in this, working with our partners in Mayo Clinic, Emory University, and other places. Everybody—all the different providers, the device companies, the pharmaceutical companies, the insurance companies, the hospitals, the integrated health systems—they are all seeing it from their perspective and arguing for change or a lack of change from that point of view. There isn't really anyone taking a holistic perspective.
We can take that broader view to find out where you can actually gain leverage. In the end, you do have to do some reductionist work—you have to get down there and make stuff happen—but the question is can you pick the places where you will actually get the biggest leverage in the whole enterprise, and for that you need a more holistic view. It's been very rare to find any instances where people have totally reengineered a large enterprise from the bottom up—even tried, never mind succeeded.
PwC: Is getting a holistic view difficult? How are enterprises getting better at it, and does modeling fit in at all?
WR: Sometimes you gain the holistic view by talking with key stakeholders of the executive team and key customers, and it can initially be a fairly qualitative model. When we try to become quantitative, often we start with some simple analytic models that portray the relationship between the enterprise and its markets or constituencies. How they provide value, how value flows, the costs, and the revenues are associated with these flows. And from those simple analytic models, we get initial insights to some of the key tradeoffs.
Then we start scaling up the analytic models. Pretty quickly at some point, we can no longer deal with the models analytically, and so we have to go to organizational simulation to be able to simulate the enterprise. We have found success in simulating the social network in the organization—not just the business processes, but also who knows who and who relies on who. We have been able to show how you can make major improvements in the organization by exploiting those relationships. In the case of one major company we work with, we showed them how to use their social network to reorganize the flow of projects through the organization, and with zero investment, they could achieve a 50 percent reduction in time to market, just by exploiting what they already had.
We are modeling the work processes in the enterprise, but we are overlaying it with the social network, which then allows you to portray who works with who, who relies on who, and who will go to who to get additional information or help.
PwC: So the organizational simulation that you alluded to is leading to more of a complex adaptive system view of the organization?
WR: Yes. In healthcare, you really have to take the view of a complex adaptive system. That's the only way you can constructively decide how you might address change, because you can't command a complex adaptive system.
Once we go from our analytic model, which might be algebra and a few other kinds of calculations, there are three directions we can go: a discrete event simulation, a system dynamics simulation, or an agent-based simulation. For the Air Force, we're working on how to combine those three simulations in a seamless way, rather than trying to force all the phenomena in the organization into one representation.
PwC: Would you compare and contrast each of those simulations?
WR: Discrete event simulation has the best off-the-shelf tools, tools that are very mature. There the key thing is the timing and flow of events, which could be people or products or information. In terms of control information, you are really looking at how capacities are allocated over time. By contrast, with the system dynamics approach, you are more concerned with feedback loops.
With the discrete event simulation, you might look for the steady-state, optimal solution to allocating resources. With the system dynamics simulation, you are looking for the time variations of the response. There are welldeveloped tools for this—they have been around a long time. However, they often don't seem to be as useful to get a really fine-grain representation that the discrete event simulations allow, in terms of off-the-shelf tools. The agent-based approach allows you the greatest level of granularity, but the tools are not as mature.
We learned it can be very useful to use those representations and convert the simulation into a game. This way, executives can play with the organization and try things out. For example, we have a game called Health Advisor in which you manage 500 patients. You are not a doctor, you are just a health coach, and you are helping these patients get through the healthcare system. We are using that game to study how different levels of information and different levels of incentives impact what people do. With an online game, you can study a large number of people playing the game. Or, if you are only concerned with simulating an enterprise, you can do what-if experiments in the virtual enterprise first and then port them to the full-scale enterprise.
Once you get to a certain scale, you might want a mixed representation of discrete event, system dynamics, and agent-based simulations. Only recently have tools emerged that allow you to manage that well. One of the problems with these large models is that the maintenance of the model becomes an enormous cost. I was on a DoD [US Department of Defense] senior advisory group for modeling and simulation a few years ago, and they were spending a lot more money on the maintenance of agent-based models than they were in creating models, because they were so handcrafted. We need to get beyond that.
PwC: Where do emergent properties enter the picture?
WR: Usually we can spot some emergent properties from the modeling exercise. For example, in one modeling project we expected that as your workforce became more and more competent, even though they may be more expensive, you would get better performance. So, as a benchmark in this model, we had everybody be maximally competent. You could never afford to hire that workforce, but that was our reference. And then, as people played around with the model, we were surprised to find that in this company—at least in the mix of projects they had—a blend of half expert and half entry-level personnel got almost the same performance as having everybody maximally competent. We did not expect that, but it reflected the fact that many things that needed to be done in the organization did not require maximal competency.
PwC: One final question. Where in the organization does model-keeping reside? It seems to us that enterprise architects are the most active modelers within most organizations, but they don't generally play a very strategic role. In your experience, where are you seeing the modeling capability emerge within corporations?
WR: We work with a lot of executives here at the university or in consulting, and the goal is to have the chief modeler, if you will, be pretty high up—a vice president or higher. I don't mean that they are out there coding. I mean that they are so into this, they are champions for the model-based approach. Sometimes it's the top person, sometimes it's the CFO, sometimes it could be the chief technology officer. And, if all goes well, the model-based approach becomes one of the main ways the executive teams think things through.
PwC: Are you saying that this role is usually somebody with more of an operational or a strategic role? Not the CIO?
WR: Well, while this is a representative sample, our advisory board at the Tennenbaum Institute includes 18 people, all of whom are vice president or higher at major companies and some smaller companies. They are all very IT- and model-oriented, but are more likely to be CEOs, CTOs, or CFOs, rather than CIOs.


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Skip to comments.Speaker Boehner Will Step Down After 2014 Elections
Posted on 09/04/2013 12:17:02 PM PDT by ph12321
Former Boehner Aides, GOP Sources: House Speaker Will Step Down After 2014 Elections
not soon enough
Why wait? Step down now!
Best news I've heard all day.
America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!
That brought a smile to my face.
At which point Obama will fly out to the deck of an aircraft carrier with a banner that reads 'Mission Accomplished!'
BOEHNER TO STEP ASIDE AS SPEAKER AFTER 2014 ELECTIONS:HUFF POST— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 4, 2013
Good but could he do it NOW!!!
I'll believe it when I see it.
He's been retired for years. Why wait we need a leader now!
Hasn't he embarrassed us enough already?
He must want more golf time with Obama, but as "not weepy speaker" he won't be welcome.
Until then old pink tie will be genuflecting towards Obama on the way out. Go back to the bar weepy.
My guess is that he knows there will be no point whatsoever to pretend there is an opposition party.
Obama will rule all by his lonesome, and all by decree.
Obama will simply make it all official beginning next year instead of pretending we are "the world's oldest Constitutional democracy" with 57 states.
Leave now, you moron.
Be a man- step down now. Courageous men faced death and have died- stop being a wuss.
Do it now.
He could always find work as a town crier.
Why wait? Why not right now?
Better offer from a consulting company with contracts to implement Obamacare?
Why put off until tomorrow...
Do it now please.
Not to mine. I suspect he's committed to amnesty, and understands that this means he won't be re-elected. But his backers have promised him a cushy retirement in exchange for getting it done.
He perhaps is forecasting the coming election....cannot be speaker if the other party is in charge.
How about this, leave now.
Bet he's got a real sweet gig all lined up, courtesy of those he's cleared the way for.
'Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.'
Great. Speaker Cantor. Be still my heart. </sarcasm>
Step down now you rotten to the core POS. I am sick of you.
Good to see him go, but worried what he will do in the interim...
Nice news John, I'll drink to that!!!!
Probably because he's got the inside scoop and he wouldn't be Speaker anyway, minority leader?
Unless he steps down TODAY,
the GOP is the enemy of all Americans
who support the US Constitution
and are Enemies of al Qaeda.
Do it it now Lyndon.
Obama: "You've served us well, John, but now, it's time for you to go."
Give him the boot.
I would have preferred now.
Why wait...
I'll quote Cromwell: "You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you."
This says something about an expectation of winning his seat. He expects to keep it. What does he do after he wins it? Step down?
It also says he expects to keep the House in republican hands. And along with keeping his seat, he expects to step down?
In short, he wants to hand pick the successor. Cantor?
You mean he is pickled enough?
By then he'll have bailed bambis a$$ out of the fire so much that he knows his will be handed to him on a silver platter.
Now he will do pretty much what ever Obama wants.
Boehner should DEMAND that 0bama stop IMMEDIATELY the politicization of the IRS or impeachment hearings commence immediately. So much for 0bama's promise that the illegal targeting by the IRS be resolved in 30 days. It's STILL happening.
Happy Happy ping
He should give up his seat before the election so Ohio can replace him with a conservative.
Can't say that it will be a big change.
Can he step down now..come on Johnny,do us all a favor
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How priests are supported—Divination, spiritualism, and the like are abominations—A Prophet (Christ) will arise like unto Moses.
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2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the Lord is their
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4 The
5 For the Lord thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to
6 ¶And if a Levite come from any of thy
7 Then he shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the Lord.
8 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
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10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter
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12 For all that do these things are an
13 Thou shalt be
14 For these nations, which thou shalt
15 ¶The Lord thy God will
16 According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not
17 And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.
18 I will raise them up a
19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
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Experience the history of the second of the famous debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. Its was at this site on August 27, 1858 that the Freeport Doctrine, an important statement regarding slavery and state's rights, was proclaimed by Douglas. Although Douglas won the Senatorial campaign for which the debate was held, his statements lost him the support of the South and split the Democratic Party. This enabled Lincoln to win the Presidency in 1860, thus precipitating the Civil War. The site is self-interpretive through a series of waysides that tell of the events and ideas which led up to the debates, and also includes a boulder and plaque dedicated by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903, as well as the life-size statues "Lincoln and Douglas in Debate" by artist Lily Tolpo which was dedicated in 1992. The park-like setting is complete with benches, lighting, and spacious walks.
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Savanna Museum and Cultural Center
This 3 story historic building contains artifacts telling the story of this Mississippi River community. Noteworthy displays include over 80 mannequins dressed in authentic Civil War uniforms, native son & famous big-band musician Wayne King memorabilia, railroad artifacts and running model RR layout Savanna Ordnance Depot artifacts and much more.
This monument honors William "Tutty" Baker, the founder of Freeport. Tutty came to this area, which was home to the Winnebago Indians, in 1835 and built a trading post along the banks of the Pecatonica River, offering travelers free ferry rides.
The Lena Historical Museum tells the history of Lena and the surrounding area, with galleries focusing on various historical topics. Highlights include a Civil War regimental flag and an extensive clothing collection. Also on the grounds are a summer kitchen, the first log schoolhouse built in Lena, an Illinois Central Railroad caboose, a general store, a recreated chapel, and a barn filled with antique vehicles and farm tools. Open: May thru September: Saturday: 1 pm to 4 pm; or by appointment (Group and School Tours are encouraged to schedule tours) Suggested Donation: Adults: $3; Students: $1; Children 5 and Under: Free
Stephenson County Historical Gift Shop
The museum gift shop is located at the rear entrance of the Taylor Mansion. It offers unique gifts including reproduction toys and games, pretzel-themed gift items, Rawleigh products, books of historical and local interest and more
Old River School Historic District
This residential district includes original Freeport and the city's first street, Monterey, and was later known as the "Gold Coast". Points of interest include Freeport's oldest house (built in 1838), the childhood home of famed Hollywood gossip columnist Louella Parsons, a monument honoring Freeport's founder, William "Tutty" Baker, and the Van Buren Bridge, built in 1885 of wrought iron.
Tour the Elizabeth History Museum and view more than four thousand local history artifacts on lead mining; the Apple River Fort; Elizabeth businesses, schools and veterans.
Jane Addams, born and raised in Cedarville, was an internationally famous humanitarian and social work pioneer who founded Hull House and won the Nobel Peace Prize. She is buried in this lovely old hillside cemetery.
At this real haunted house, built in 1870, you'll hear about the inn's spooky history on a tour that takes you through the twists and turns of this creepy building.
CITY:Mount Carroll
McConnell Area Historical Society & Museum
Items on display in this local town museum include a mill stone, ox yoke, McConnell telephone switchboard, and other items relating to the history of McConnell and Waddams Township. There is a large collection of family histories, obituaries, and genealogical materials. Special activities and exhibits are planned for each of the open dates.
High atop a wooded hill, overlooking the Mississippi River, sits Carroll County's grandest mansion. Experience a guided tour of this six story, 63 room, hilltop home of Mr. & Mrs. Alan St. George. An amazing 2.5 hour tour featuring original art work and sculptures. Alan and Adrienne St. George spent over 30 years perfecting this castle of American Aristocracy which is now open to the public. Available for tours, weddings, events and receptions. Call for reservations.
The Civil War Soldiers Monument, on the southwest corner of the Stephenson County Courthouse, is inscribed with the names of those soldiers from Stephenson County who lost their lives in the Civil War. On the southeast corner is the Stephenson County Vietnam Era Veterans Memorial, which is a bronze statue of a full-sized M-16 with a bayonet stuck in the ground and a helmet on top.
This museum is located in an 1889 school building and features a permanent exhibit honoring Jane Addams, who was born and raised in Cedarville. Miss Addams was an internationally famous humanitarian and social work pioneer who founded Chicago's Hull House and won the Nobel Peace Prize. Museum exhibits include personal items and memorabilia from her life and the life of her family. There are also changing exhibits on topics of local historical interest and a research center and a research center. Open: May thru October: Saturday and Sunday: 1 pm - 4 pm; or by appointment.
Take a self-guided walking tour through Mt. Carroll's historic district, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
CITY:Mount Carroll
Explore the largest Oliver Hart-Parr collection in the Midwest, including farm toys, advertising, and collectibles dating back to 1860, and real antique tractors and machinery. Bus and group tours are available, but should be scheduled in advance.
CITY:German Valley
This museum, operated by the Stephenson County Antique Engine Club, which also operates the Silver Creek and Stephenson Railroad, offers 20 rooms of early Americana. Exhibts include 500 pieces of crockery, dolls, a recreated schoolroom and kitchen, art exhibits, quilts, tools and agricultural equipment, and many other historical exhibits. Also on the grounds is a display of antique machinery and an exhibit of Henny Motor Company vehicles which were manufactured in Freeport. Plus visitors can view the operating Cooper-Corliss engine, a giant 130-ton steam engine with a 25 foot flywheel which originally operated a rolling mill in a zinc plant. Special exhibits and events are featured throughout the year. Open: May thru October on selected holidays and weekends: 11 am - 4 pm.
Silver Creek and Stephenson Railroad Antique Steam Train
All aboard, as a 36-ton, 1912 Heisler steam locomotive pulls three cabooses, including an antique red caboose reported to be the oldest in the state, for a four-mile ride through farmlands. Purchase your ticket at the Silver Creek Depot, a turn-of-the-century replica filled with railroad artifacts, and browse the Freight House Gift Shop and visit the Silvercreek Museum across the street. Open: May thru October on selected holiday and weekends; 1 am - 4 pm. Train departs on the hour.
Stockton Heritage Museum is a not-for-profit entity dedicated to the preservation and teaching of Stockton area history. Discover exhibits on the Chicago Great Western Railroad, model trains, history of Kraft Foods, and Stockton-area history exhibits.
This famous statue was designed by Leonard Crunelle and was presented to Freeport at the 71st anniversary of the Lincoln-Douglas Debate on August 27, 1929, by local industrialist W. T. Rawleigh. It is located in Taylor Park.
Built in 1896, the 100-foot-tall tower is believed to be one of only three in Illinois of similar construction, and has become the symbol of the Village of Lena.
Featuring local and Illinois made gifts, foods, and specialties. Enjoy specialty coffees, muffins, desserts and other goodies in their historic building built in 1906 which boasts the original art deco soda fountain from the 30's.


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By Kevin Tate/Outdoors Writer
Like their adult counterparts, kids recall times and places as the foggy backdrop of moments held crystal clear. Bad and good, those moments fill a memory that goes on to define a life.
Sharing the ones to which they'll return fondly is often a goal of time spent outdoors together.
For Tupelo's Todd Cary, this subtext was a natural element of the script he and his wife Casey formed for their family, for their boys.
"A lot of people play soccer and baseball, but we decided we like to boat, hunt and fish, so a few years ago we invested in a small cabin at J.P. Coleman State Park," Cary says. "Last year we were up there 44 weekends. We were up there 42 weekends the year before. We feel like that's a good way for them to grow up."
"I like going up there to relax," Casey says. "The simplicity of life up there is what's appealing. We're running wide open working during the week, but we can get in the car and in an hour and 15 minutes we're in a totally different place, physically and mentally. It's a different way of life."
As a child in the Silver Creek community between Brookhaven and Hattiesburg, Todd enjoyed the outdoors as one of life's given elements, and he wanted to pass that opportunity along to his own children.
"I'm pretty sentimental," Todd says. "When I'm with my boys (ages 10 and 13), it reminds me of time spent doing that with my dad. It's amazing how much smarter my dad gets the further I go along. When we're in the truck heading home and they say, 'Dad, thanks for taking us hunting,' that means everything. Seeing the boys group up into men is something special.
"Being in the woods gives unique opportunities to instill values that will pay off for the rest of their lives. Hunting and being at the cabin gives us family time. We eat together, cry together, laugh together. While they're young, we want to do this with them as much as we can because, as they get older, there'll be a period of time when they go away from us, at least for a while, but when they do grow up, we want them to come back and spend time outdoors with us again with their own families some day."
As traditions go, making nature a natural part of life is as good as they get.
Kevin Tate is V.P. of Media Productions for Mossy Oak in West Point.


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The bitter pill of NHL fandom
Patrick Johnston
December 28 2012 04:54PM
(Photo: Dave Chidley/Canadian Press)
Here we are, angry again. We just want hockey back. We don't want to hear any more about revenue splits, or term lengths, or bargaining rights, or…
The list goes on, right?
The media lights up at the slighest hint of an agreement; some of us get wound up by the news, whether or not we believe something might actually happen. It's absurd. In a cycle that began in September and has been repeated again and again, he are back to 'again.' For more than a month, so close have things been that everyone expresses disbelief that we are still where we are. No hockey. No apparent application of logic. No hope.
And yet, here we are, still talking about it. We clearly care. We care because, even as we have found other things to do with our time, we miss the emotion. There's a connection to hockey that comes from our earliest days. We may lament that it's one of the few examples of a unique Canadian culture, but there's no denying that. We care because it's not just in our blood, we care because it's something we all know and share.
Canucks fans love their heroes. Other fans hate our heroes. In the middle, we have common ground. We are given an outlet for our aggression, an outlet that in many ways was once only expressed in the streets and on the battlefield. This isn't an overwrought analogy, this is truth. That feeling in your gut that pops up now and then, symbiotic with thoughts of hockey? That's your emotional core, screaming out for release.
Hockey gives us a chance to share a sense of community – and it's not just on Saturday nights. We joke about water-cooler chatter, but in Canada, hockey is so often the water-cooler chatter. It may not be vital to our survival, but it's part of our every day lives. We care.
But that's where NHL fandom is finding its troubles. We care about great plays, about aggression and about winning. To us, that's what the game is. But we are also willing to shell out big bucks on it.
There should be no doubt that despite what we might think about the owners' or the players' positions, they still care a whole lot about hockey. They wouldn't be drawn to it if there wasn't an interest on their part. The difference, though, is the overriding factor- they are in this to make money. Say what you will about how realistic an owner might be if he doesn't own the Canucks or the Leafs or the Rangers or any of the other half-dozen highly profitable teams, but that is the primary motivation for all. One only needs to consider the experience in Phoenix to see that.
Greg Jamison, the current prospective owner of the Coyotes, has secured himself a deal that will underwrite most of the (ridiculous) costs of owning a team in Glendale. He may be a hockey fan, but buying the Coyotes isn't some altruistic notion about 'the good of the game'. It's about dollars and cents.
(Of course, this is also the reason that Jamison's plan continues to appear to be a pie-in-the-sky idea and also the reason why we speculate that the investors he refuses to name don't actually exist. Maybe he should start talking about mythical Florida investors, though that stunt is usually done to shake out who the team's real owner is.)
The dollars and cents have turned our love of the game into a bitter pill. We make think we are fans, but we are really consumers. 'The game' doesn't care about us; it's the fantasy, it doesn't know you exist as anything other than a money-spending presence. You're the drunk bar patron, who thinks the charming server is being nice to you because they want you to ask for their phone number; if you were sober, you'd remember that the last thing they want is your phone number, they just want you to leave a good tip.
When you come to understand the relationship in these terms, it becomes a whole lot more depressing. That machine that prints money, the one we all dream about? Well, for a NHL owner, you, the fans, are the money-printing machine.
Of course, there is the reality that without the fans, hockey doesn't happen. Your money is needed. But the way that the game has been manipulated in North America is now working against the fans' interest. Yes, the 'arena experience' is meant to keep 'fans' happy; but look at it from another angle, owners are merely looking for ways to convince their consumers to do what they are already inclined to do, to part with their hard-earned money with a minimum of thought.
So that's who we are, not fans, but consumers. If, like most people, you are upset about the lockout, perhaps you should spend time reflecting on your relationship with the game. The owners have felt comfortable taking a hard stand against the players because even if hockey goes away for while, the owners know that enough of us will be back that much of the current chaos will be brushed off as water under the bridge. Thinking of yourself as a 'fan' just conceals the true reality from you – you are a bag of money, from which the powers that be want to extract as much as possible.
So, ask yourself, if you are upset, are you willing to take control of this relationship? Or will you continue on, as you always have, buying jerseys while eating overpriced hotdogs, popcorn and beer?
Only when the word 'fan' is returned to its original meaning, separate from 'consumer,' will those who watch hockey have any real influence. People have one input into hockey – their wallet. If you want to really get mad, get mad at your spending habits. Stop dreaming of hockey getting back, start thinking about how you are going to take charge of the relationship.
Cancelling your cable *until* the lockout ends? Doesn't that undermine the point you are trying to make? The owners know you'll be back, ready to pay for your cable. No, the way you take charge is not buy merchandise, to not pay for the fancy cable extras - yes, no NHL Centre Ice or NHL Network - or even paying attention to team sponsors. It means taking charge of what you do when you go to a game (if you are willing to go at all). Don't pay for anything that can be considered what Jonathan Willis has called 'auxiliary streams of revenue.'
If you are going to let hockey back in your life, don't forget how mad you are now. Don't be so easy to forgive. You are the reason the games are there; you do have influence. But it's not easy. That's the truth.
Amen. I love this sport and the NHL is the greatest hockey league in the world, but I know that I'm being taken for granted. So I have committed to spending 0 money on merch or tickets this season. Which won't be too hard really, since a half season is pretty much a shameless money grab, in my opinion.
I'll still be watching, as always, but with no monetary investment.
December 28 2012, 07:11PM
Great read; you hit the heart of the core issues, the fan issues that is. I don't have a water cooler in my office, but a tap outside of it, and we do converse there as well, hockey is the only language spoken in my office. I took the Blue Pill when I was born, and it has become part of my DNA, that to would be hockey. I have been dedicated nightly, getting up at 1:am to watch our Jr. Guy's, that's true dedication, and want to thank my staff for letting me skive off for all the games, to include the Spengler. I no longer blog on the issue of greed, or who is to blame, just that silly little disc that I'm addicted to. Was I excited today; you bet, but who moves first. Easy answer; the fans did, just because of our dedication to hanging on with all kinds of hope. Will a deal get done? I say probably not. Will I give up; not likely. If anyone has Don's or Gary's private email, could you please send this to them. I seem to have more money to spend, and am missing those $200.00 seats that I pay for. Time for "them", like the Horror movie "they" to make a move and get this done. We are now at the door of Doom, it's time, so sign and we can get on with our lives.


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By TINA OLIVERStaff Write
In the recent meeting of the Huntington City Council there were two public hearings scheduled, one on the Black/Cowley property annexation and one concerning the city's plans to apply for Community Impact Board funding for improvements at the city cemetery.
The Black/Cowley annexation hearing was discussed by the council and the public hearing was closed.
In the public hearing for the city cemetery improvements Councilperson Julie Jones talked about the improvements that need to be made. Jones stated the sprinkling system needs to be split to efficiently be able to water the cemetery. The way it is set up now it causes over watering in some areas while other spots do not get the water they need.
Additionally, the way it was installed has all the sprinkling heads on the same line and it should not have been installed like that.The holding pond is leaking and needs to be fixed and she would like to see the south end of the cemetery cleaned up and possibly fenced off. The council agreed they need to have a better estimate of overall costs and bids on the sprinkling system and they will proceed from there.
The Huntington City treasurer addressed the council and thanked them for sending her to the training classes at the Treasurers Institute. She told them that the training is very useful. She talked about how in the classes they had been asked to caution their cities about the state of the economy. Cities need to take into consideration because of the economy, sales tax revenues are down, interest rates are down and cities will find themselves in trouble and low on funds if they fail to recognize this now. Everyone needs to step back and make sure they are not spending money on things that are not absolutely necessary.
During council department reports Councilperson Jones talked about needing more time and money for the task of cemetery care and maintenance, Councilman Bob Mills said the secondary water was shut off for the winter, Councilman Travis Larsen talked about the success of the fall clean-up and councilman Jerry Livingston said that all of the road projects scheduled for this season have been completed.Councilperson Cathy Cowley talked about the completion of the skate park and it was open and the kids really seemed to be enjoying it.
In other business the Black/Cowley annexation was approved. The Emery Telcom Video franchise was approved with the understanding that no more overhead lines can be added. Approval was granted for a power source at the rodeo grounds. They also approved a motion for an upgrade on a street light at 402 North and 300 East.
The next Huntington City Council meeting will be held on Dec. 17 at 6:30 p.m. in the Huntington City Hall.


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Dr Brian Kennedy
National Gallery of Australia
12 November 2001
President of the Academy, Professor Malcolm Gillies, Ladies and Gentlemen. It is a great pleasure and a privilege to be invited to address such a distinguished gathering. I thank you for the honour.
I have only one suggestion to offer tonight. Could we all spend a little more time imagining a future, one which will lead to a greater sense of confidence and well-being?
It was George Bernard Shaw who said that: 'An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination'. So this evening I would like to share a few thoughts with you about the power of imagination. We must focus more on the need for imagining. Who do we want to be? What do we want to be?
Theodore Adorno has asked whether works of art can be meaningful in an age of so much meaninglessness. The answer must be a forthright yes. Artists who search for meaning, challenging themselves by asking the crucial questions about human existence, will, perforce, create meaningful works of art. The principal role of art today is to challenge meaninglessness by a rigorous, vigorous examination of human existence.
When we look at something, do we actually see it? How much of what we look at, do we entirely fail to see? We cannot imagine it, we cannot remember it. We simply need to spend more time looking. It is when we see something, rather than merely look at it, that we enter into visual communication. This is a form of contemplation. It requires a sincere and humble submission to the power of imagination. Do we really use our imagination? Do we see that at which we look? We need to spend more time in silent dialogue, questioning and answering, looking and feeling.
James Elkins in a fascinating book The Object Stares Back has described the multiple acts of seeing that take place in an art gallery.
Imagine you are in the National Gallery. One person looking at one object. Think of all the different looking which may be taking place. You looking at a painting. The figures in the painting looking out at you. Figures in the painting looking at each other. Figures in the painting looking at objects in the painting or staring into space or with their eyes closed. There may be, additionally, the gallery security guard looking at you. Other people in the gallery looking at you or at the painting. We can imagine also the artist who once looked at this painting. The models who sat for the figures in the painting. All the people who have previously looked at the painting. Lastly, all the people who have never seen the painting but have seen reproductions of it.
The theologian, William Lynch, has sought to establish the imagination as the place of thought. He has rejected attempts to polarise the world of images and the world of ideas. He invites us to recognise imagination as a form of understanding.
The imagination is of course also the home of illusion and fantasy. Truth cannot be found in deception. In recent decades, we have witnessed the rise of the visual over the textual. After centuries of dominance of word over image, the electronic media of our age have taught us how easy it is to illuminate and yet to deceive, to fill the mind with images but to show a false picture. It is now essential that we begin to consider images as primary documents in their own right. They must no longer be seen as mere illustrations or evidence which validates a particular thought, interpretation or argument. Is it feasible any more to publish a book with no images. Text is only one language in a world of multimedia. Images are in themselves a mode of human expression. They should generate thought, interpretation and argument. They provide access to imagination.
Can I ask if we in Australia will accept a spirit of place, the revelation of what land can reveal to us. The poet Les Murray has written:
after the tree falls, there will reign the same silence
as stuns and spurs us, enraptures and defeats us,
as seems to some a challenge, and seems to others
to be waiting here for something beyond imagining.
The power of land in Australia is so much greater than our power to imagine it? But do we enter into it?
What sort of a world do we want to have? What spirit of education can we take from our universities today? Where is our creativity and how can we express it? It is essential in my view that we all seek to be different. We are all, each one of us, different. This is so much better than talking about whether we are better than each other. We are all wonderfully different and, with all our powers of imagination, we celebrate our individuality.
What is the Australian power of imagination? I see people with huge ambition, great achievement and a willingness to take on the world. But how can we make Australia a better powerhouse of imaginative ideas? We need ever greater determination and imagination. Australia can still dare to be different.
I completed my graduate studies at University College Dublin, an institution founded by John Henry Newman who wrote one of the great essays on the idea of the university. Newman wrote: 'you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you'. Truth, he said, is reached not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. We should know that although many of us travel the world, we are all rooted in the culture of the village. The novelist François Mauriac, claimed that the doors of imagination close at 20. Could this be true? Is our imagination already closed by 20? Let us hope not.
The power of imagination. Our will to dream. Newman said that we must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in us. The indigenous people of Australia believe that we all live in 'the eye of the storm'. We are in the central position of a world in flux. The eye of the storm is the calm center, created by the surrounding turmoil, which seeds fresh winds of change back into the storm. We must all react to contemporary realities. We must inject new perspectives and ideas into the wider consciousness.
I invite each one of you to continue to explore your imagination, to continue to make Australia a powerhouse of imaginative ideas. And may we wish for each other that we might be a calm centre, a prophetic 'eye of the storm'. Consequently, the eye of the true Australian soul may emerge from us.
Thank you so much for the time you have given me today.
Dr Brian Kennedy
National Gallery of Australia
12 November 2001


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Sunset Hills Golf Course is a locally owned course located in the center of the Sunset Hills neighborhood in Pekin, Illinois. Open to the public, this course offers many reasonable membership options, including varying discounts. This fantastic Pekin golf facility features a driving range to warm up with, and an experience rich with rolling hills and challenging flats.
Willett's Winery and Cellar in Manito is located in an 1895 building originally used as a harness shop. Our wines are created to please any palate, from dry oak-aged red (Leon Millot) to our very popular Cranberry Frost, made from 100% cranberry juice.
Amish-made furniture and accessories.
Opened in 1994, our Pekin location bar and grill is open until 1:00 AM seven days a week, with the kitchen serving food until 12 midnight. Conveniently located, Pekin Kouri's is full of Pekin memorabilia, including signed photos of various celebrities and sports stars. Equipped with 22 televisions, seating 125 inside and 80 in our outdoor patio, this is the place for all your sports bar needs. Luxuriate in the resort-like atmosphere of our patio, with a hooded crackling fire pit that adds that extra special touch. Burgers, steak, ribs, and chicken are popular menu items, with catfish served on Fridays. Buffalo wings, boneless wings, and oven-seared wings, in 12 different sauces, from Kamikaze super hot to delicious honey BBQ. An added dining bonus: our Pekin location serves pizza with 5 different sauce selections — and we also offer our own genuine, made fresh daily, Lebanese hummus (served with baked pita dipping bread), that is way better than anything you could buy at a grocery store. We also feature a kids menu, so bring the whole family. Daily food specials, with catfish every Friday.
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You could say that Tyler Barnes made a name for himself going dough to dough… from spinning pizza to owning the business. Like others attending college, Tyler worked summers to help off-set expenses by making pizzas in a family-owned Bartonville business called Terry's Pizza. A couple of years later, Tyler returned to Terry's Pizza as manager. In 1986, Tyler bought the business and subsequently renamed it Tyroni's, a nickname his in-laws created by eliding Tyler and pepperoni. Today Tyroni's Italian Cafe is one of greater Peoria's favorite dining spots. We appreciate our Senior Citizens 62 and older ~ 10% discount... Dine-In only, alcohol not included. From our family to yours, we'll serve you the best Italian food. We make every item to order - please tell us how you like it. Thanks for visiting!
A casual fine-dining restaurant in the historic Canton Hotel. Reservations recommended.
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Small family-owned motel.
Large bedrooms, most with private baths. 1st floor is wheelchair accessible. Meeting room with kitchen available. On-site catering for groups by reservation.
Rooms equipped with queen sized beds, cable TV, and free local calls. Ground floor building.
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This beautiful 18-hole course is situated on rolling elevations, with fast and true greens. Crane Creek also has a clubhouse, driving range, food service and a bar.
Home features an outside balcony overlooking the Illinois River.
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Better dining. Families welcome, children's menu. Full bar for the grown-ups.
A new boutique hotel in the heart of downtown Canton. The hotel's unique choice of art is historic pictures of Canton. The decor is natural browns and greens with maple woods. With 35 rooms, each guest suite has two king size beds, a refrigerator, microwave, large screen television mounted to the wall, availability of pay-per-view movies, a desk with data ports, and all the modern amenities One of the two meeting rooms will be fully fitted with the latest in technology such as digital projectors, automatic screens which come down from the ceiling, lighting controls, phones, and a conference table and classroom setting with data hookups for 25 to 30 people. The other room is more of a multi-purpose room where food can be served. The exercise facility has weights, tread mill, stair stepper, and other pieces of fitness equipment.
Special luncheons. Home-baked desserts. Located inside Heritage Grand Inn Motel.
Echo Valley Meats is located in beautiful Bartonville, IL where the local community has come to know and trust Dave Alwan and his staff to provide products that are "a cut above" the large grocery store's offerings. "It's simple", says Dave. "We offer the best quality meats at affordable prices". That, along with impeccable customer service from the owner himself, makes Echo Valley Meats the obvious choice. So try a steak package or a grilling bundle and see what the locals in Bartonville, Il (Right outside of Peoria, Il) are raving about. You will NOT be disappointed. Guaranteed. Bonus trivia: Dave Alwan represented Echo Valley Meats on the hit t.v show, "Shark Tank"!
Lick Creek Golf Course is located at 2210 N. Parkway Drive in Pekin, Illinois. During it's recent renovation, all of the tees and fairways were converted to bentgrass and the greens were re-planted with a newer generation to allow for faster, truer ball roll on greens. All of the bunkers were rebuilt and the golf car paths were re-paved with new asphalt. Lick Creek offers a driving range, pro shop and concession area for all golfers needs. We have expanded our dates for weekdays and weekends for these events no matter how big or small your event may be. Considered one of the best golf course in Central Illinois, you will be impressed at our low cost to play. Daily fees and season pass fees listed on this website. Lick Creek was rated 4 stars by Golf Digest in 2007.
A nice course open year round with some hills to add that extra challenge! This is a course you can walk and enjoy playing anytime. Parkview is an 18 hole course totaling 6002 yards and open seven days a week with twilight fees available. Located just east of Parkway Drive. Buy your season pass or a coupon book and play both Parkview and Lick Creek courses. We also invite you to shop for your golfing needs in our club houses.
Very nice lobby with fireplace, coffee, juice, and continental breakfast, tearoom on premises.
2-story facility. Upper level is three efficiency units equipped with microwave, refrigerator, and stove. Monthly and nightly rates available.
Concorde Inn & Suites is Pekin's only full service hotel that is locally owned. The Concorde has 119 guest rooms, including two room suites. Amongst our many amenities we offer complimentary continental breakfast, free wi-fi, fitness center, guest laundry, business center, free guest parking with separate lot for larger vehicles. McCritter's restaurant and lounge is accessible through the hotel lobby. Concorde Inn & Suites is the only hotel in Pekin, Illinois that has a large outdoor pool.
Good American food featuring chicken, steaks, fish, burgers and cookie chops. Serving breakfast Monday through Saturday.
Anderson Lake Conservation Area
State fish and wildlife area with Class C camping facilities.
This state of the art, beautifully landscaped miniature golf course features 18 holes of choice, chance, and challenge, including six holes that are handicapped accessible. With a stream running through the course, it's bound to add some unexpected challenges to your game. Walk through the caboose which serves as hole No. 4. Enjoy the beautiful landscaped eclectic theme of the history of Pekin.
Facilities include a 4-mile trail, indoor ice-skating rink, horse riding stables, fishing, bocce ball, canoes, bike boats, Frisbee golf course, mini-golf and a lot more.
Stay in the center of all the activity at this SUPER motel.
Willett's Wine and Dine Experience
The Wine & Dine Experience is a 4-course gourmet meal prepared by Chef Kevin Roecker with each course being expertly paired with wine from Willett's Winery & Cellar. During the evening, you'll hear about each course selection from Chef Kevin and each wine selection from winemaker, Dan Willett. Jazz music will be provided by Joe Metzka throughout the evening.
Peaceful country setting on 35 acres with open grassy or wooded sites. Large open and enclosed pavilions available for parties and reunions.
The Holiday Inn Express® Pekin (Peoria Area) hotel's location between downtown and I-155 makes it the perfect place to stay. Guests are mere minutes from both Avanti's Dome and Mineral Springs park, while Peoria is 20 miles from this hotel's accommodations in vibrant Pekin, Illinois. Business guests are well equipped to work away from the office thanks to free high-speed, wireless Internet access throughout the hotel and a business center that's open 24 hours. They're also one mile from meetings at the Avanti's Dome Banquet Center, or they can host a board meeting or gathering of up to 100 in the hotel's facilities. Pekin Insurance, Excel Foundry, Continental Carbonics and PAL Health Technologies are located within 10 miles. Lick Creek Golf Course is nearby, too. You can enjoy a tasting at Willett's Winery or head to nearby Peoria for Par-A-Dice Casino and Riverfront Park. Use your downtime from meetings and sightseeing to get energized in the fitness center or relax in the pool and spa.
Shaw Creek Golf Course. The course is best known for its forgiving fairways. The greens are well manicured and medium in size and speed. There is a creek that flows through this course that comes into play on three holes. The course is sporty and will give golfers an opportunity to post some low numbers, but several holes will provide an enjoyable challenge for both experienced and inexperienced golfers.
Pavillion on the Lagoon at Mineral Springs Park
This beautiful building built in 1905, serves as the focal point of our community and is available for your group, family or organization's use. Comfortably seating 70 people, the Pavilion is surrounded with windows overlooking the lagoon and a large, wrap-around porch. Weddings, anniversary parties, baby showers, business meetings, and family get-together's are popular. This historic building is equipped with a kitchen area with counters, microwave and refrigerator, air conditioning, and tables and chairs. The Pavilion is handicapped accessible.
A beautifully decorated Victorian carriage house behind an old home in the river town of Havana. It is a wonderful opportunity to see how life used to be without giving up modern luxuries like cable TV.
Tazewell County's newest sports complex. 75,900 square feet this versatile facility is unlike any other in all of Illinois. There is literally something for everyone as the Avanti's Dome plays host to soccer, softball and football leagues and tournaments, as well as trade shows, meetings and conventions.
This layout is wonderfully enjoyed by golfers of all skill levels, with 4 sets of tees on each hole the good golfers can go to the gold tees where it can play difficult, and the average player can enjoy themselves from the white tees. The 18-hole course features 6,900 yards from the longest tees for a par of 72, the course rating is 72.7 and it has a slope of 127.
Powerton Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area
The lake was built on the floodplain of the Illinois River in 1971 by Commonwealth Edison Company as a cooling reservoir for the fossil-fuel power plant. Today, the completely diked, 1,426-acre lake is leased for visitor hunting and fishing.
Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites - Pekin
Seventy-room property with indoor pool, jacuzzi, exercise room, business center and continental breakfast, suites, jacuzzi rooms and meeting facilities.
See the local Historical Society's authentic preservation of an 1800s school and town jail. Tours by appointment.
Spring Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area
Contains a large bluff overlooking a long, narrow lake. Camping, picnicking, fishing, boating, hiking, and hunting opportunities provide a vast recreational experience. Concession and boat rentals are also available.
The premier on-site archaeological museum, located 45 miles southwest of Peoria, interprets the 12,000 year history of American Indian cultures in Illinois through artifacts, interpretive exhibits, major multi-image productions, hands-on activities and a variety of public events in a rural setting.
Rice Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area
Rice Lake is a waterfowler's dream. Its high quality habitat attracts thousands of migrating birds annually. In addition, areas are also available for fishing, boating, camping, and wildlife observation.
The largest of all the state forests in Illinois. Covers 7,100 acres of native oak-hickory forests and pine plantations. Supports diverse desert flora and fauna in its sandy landscape as well as also offering a variety of recreational facilities.
CITY:Forest City
Banner Marsh State Fish and Wildlife Area
Fishing, boating, picnicking in the out-of-doors.
Championship course with a country club atmosphere. A challenging 18-hole course designed by the late Bruce Borland, senior designer for Jack Nicklaus.
Twelve sites with electricity and water available year-'round for nightly, weekly, and monthly camping. Close to footbridge. Complimentary firewood. One shelter.
A pleasant, relaxing shopping experience where you can browse our gift shops, eat at our lunch buffet and shop our mall full of flea market finds and antiques. Plenty of free parking. Buses welcome!
CITY:Hanna City
Browns Oakridge Zoo is a family owned and operated zoo established in 1990. Beginning with a single pot bellied pig and a few whitetail deer, the number of species housed at the zoo has grown to include five Siberian tigers, several black bears, two lions, and many more exotic and domestic animals. Over the years we have taken in many abandoned animals. A total of 152 lion and tiger cubs, abandoned in captivity have been reared here. Most of our animals have been raised in the house, and have had a lot of human contact. You won't just get to see the animals here, but you will be able to have hands on contact. Imagine being able to hold a lion, tiger, or bear cub. It brings out the kid in all of us.
DragonLand has something for everyone, all on three-plus acres of immaculately kept park land with ample room to stretch out and soak up the rays! DragonLand is handicapped accessible and has an award winning lifeguard staff ready to make your visit a safe one. Zero depth, play / entry area and two water slides that twist and turn you "Dude" the dragon slide with mushroom waterfall geyser play features Sand beach play area with water equipment and extended deck / patio with lounge chairs "Adults only" patio with large turf for sunbathing Reasonably priced cafeteria style concessions Sand beach volleyball courts with changing, shower and locker facilities Heated pool with lighting for night activities Fully handicapped accessible
Camping, fishing, picnicking, hiking.
Fulton County Camping & Recreation Area
Enjoy camping, hiking, fishing and other outdoor recreational activities.
CITY:St. David
A family-owned and operated winery nestled in a small-town atmosphere. Experience European charm with a glass of wine in our Market Street Courtyard.
Professional motorcycle racing. Oldest continuing dirt track in the world. Featuring Spring Poker Run, Annual Busch 600cc National TT, AHRMA TT, Camel Pro Challenge Cup, TT Steeplechase and the annual Turkey Run.
The Nature Conservancy Emiquon Preserve
The Emiquon Preserve, also known as the "Jewel of the Illinois River," is aptly named for its abundance of wetlands and wildlife. The sheer biological diversity made it the natural place for Native Americans to settle long ago. In recent years, the land has undergone a restoration returning its natural beauty for all to enjoy once again.
Enjoy a one-of-a-kind overnight stay at Wildlife Prairie Park in one of the Santa Fe Train Cabooses!
CITY:Hanna City
Formerly known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane. Come take a tour and hear stories of the history of the hospital, employees and the inmates. See how this nationally recognized historic
A unique, 2,000-acre zoological park which is home to wolves, bison, waterfowl, black bear, elk, cougar, otter, and others. You will enjoy the park's spectacular natural settings, butterfly garden, wildflowers, lakes and restored prairies.
CITY:Hanna City
Spoon River Valley Scenic Drive
The Spoon River Valley Scenic Drive Associates invite you to come to Fulton County, Illinois and enjoy the natural wonders of the Spoon River Valley. Spoon River has carved a wide scenic valley through Fulton County as it flows from London Mills to the south and east where it joins the Illinois River near the southeastern corner of the county. The Spoon River became nationally known from the work of Edgar Lee Masters, author of the noted Spoon River Anthology. Come on out the first two full weekends in October. There are over one hundred miles of scenic routes on the Spoon River Valley Scenic Drive to be enjoyed on this driving tour with beautiful fall colors. There will be food, arts, crafts, entertainment and flea market. Visit 17 villages and historic sites!
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Chapter 5
The Philistines place the ark in the house of Dagon, their god—The Philistines in Ashdod, then Gath, and then Ekron are plagued and slain because the ark is lodged with them.
1 And the Philistines took the
2 When the Philistines took the
3 ¶And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.
6 But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with
7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.
8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto
9 And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the
10 ¶Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.
11 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
12 And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.