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Making Weekend Plans Can Actually Ruin Your Weekend

By Selin Malkoc/The Conversation

Have you ever found yourself dreading a leisurely activity you had eagerly scheduled days or weeks in advance?
I first caught myself doing this a few years ago when I was traveling home to Turkey. I had excitedly made plans to meet up with some old friends. But to my surprise, as the date approached, I started to feel reluctant and unenthusiastic about these long-awaited reunions.
“I have to go get lunch with my friend,” I’d grouse to others, making it sound like a chore.
Was I an anomaly? Or do other people feel this way too? We increasingly rely on scheduling to organize our lives: phone calls, appointments, dates – and, yes, fun social activities. But can planning leisure activities also start to feel like work, too? Why might they become a source of dread?

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Posted on December 19, 2016

Hoverboard Amusement Park Is Opening In West Dundee

By Brad Garlin/HoverPark

A new concept, HoverPark is making its home in the new LifeZone360 sports complex/family fun center in West Dundee, Illinois.
HoverPark provides training for people who have never been on a hoverboard before, in addition to a variety of exciting and challenging hover courses/sections, including timed obstacle courses, hover hoops, ramps areas and an open-hover area.
HoverPark provides a revolutionary, state-of-the-art harness-based training system that eliminates the risk of those nasty backwards falls, often experienced by first-timers.
A visit to HoverPark makes it safer to experience a hoverboard, provides access to top-of-the-line UL2272 approved Swagtron hoverboards, and challenges experienced hoverboarders with advanced courses, in the safest possible environment.

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Posted on December 15, 2016

A Rob Sherman Remembrance

By Nikki Golden

Rob Sherman was a fixture of my childhood, growing up in Buffalo Grove, as he was often protesting something going on in our school district, where his son was a few years younger than me. I believe it was often the Pledge, and of course, you’d see that car with his ATHEIST plates around town.
In high school at Buffalo Grove HS, I was on the newspaper, and two other dorky friends and I started to cover the school board meetings, which hadn’t been covered before. My junior year of high school, the school board took three days away from our Winter Break, so instead of getting the full two weeks, we’d come back on a Wednesday. Their argument was it was too hard to get the requisite however many days the school year had to be otherwise.
So my two dorky friends and I created a petition, and having contacts from the other school newspapers, spread this petition district-wide and presented it to the school board. So you can imagine, we’re quite nervous about this and get to the board meeting, and everyone’s getting settled, and in walks Rob Sherman, who is also on the agenda to discuss the winter break issue. So we’re like, GAH! He’s probably wanting them to eliminate it all together because of the holidays, blah blah. We think we’re totally screwed because once he had something in his craw about it infringing on his atheist rights, he pursued it to the nth degree.

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Posted on December 14, 2016

Winter-Proof Your Pet

By The Chicago Veterinary Medical Association

The start of dangerously cold, adverse weather conditions requires immediate action from pet owners. The Chicago Veterinary Medical Association provides the following guidelines for the public to keep their pets safe from weather hazards and prevent serious health threats.
Cold weather can be as dangerous for pets, as it is for humans. Pets may have a more difficult time regulating their body temperature, and may be more susceptible to problems from extreme temperatures if they have a condition such as diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, or hormonal imbalances.
Since cold weather may worsen some medical conditions such as arthritis, it’s crucial for pets to receive a regular preventative care examination from a veterinarian to detect any potential diseases and other health problems.

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Posted on December 13, 2016

Chicagoetry: When The Levee Breaks

By J.J. Tindall

When the Levee Breaks
The song says
“Crying won’t help you,
Praying won’t do you
No good.”
Now: I do believe
That crying and praying
Give comfort
To those who
Cry and pray.

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Posted on December 12, 2016

Big Mac Creator Dead At 98; ‘All I Got Was A Plaque’

By Julie Noce/Reuters

The man behind the Big Mac died this week at age 98.
Michael James Delligatti invented the Big Mac, which debuted at a McDonald’s restaurant in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1967.
McDonald’s tweeted a message on Wednesday celebrating Delligatti’s contribution to the fast-food company where he was a franchisee.

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Posted on December 1, 2016

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