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By Nancy Fritschner
This webinar is designed to help you understand how compensation is taxed including salary, housing, and other benefits clergy may receive.
By Megan Castellan
Se ha dicho mucho acerca de la división generacional en otros contextos. Las generaciones afectan la forma en que abordamos la mayordomía, el compromiso teológico, la afiliación e incluso la música.
By Ellis Montes
Las personas millennials no somos una cultura monolítica. No somos solo lo que sucede en Los Ángeles o Nueva York. Somos de todas partes del mundo y aceptamos a quienes vienen de lugares lejanos, ofreciendo lo poco que tenemos a quienes no tienen nada.
By Ellis Montes
Ever wondered what kind of music resonates with millennials? There isn't one right answer. In What Do We Want? Ellis Montes reflects on the diverse tastes of this generation with a particular focus on worship and music, and shares why we need authentic conversation around this topic.
By Megan Castellan
What makes a good sermon? In Preach!, Megan Castellan explains why sermons need to change with the times to be effective, and emphasizes the importance of inclusive language and shared experiences.
By Isaac Everett
What do millennials need from the church? In Intentional Community, Isaac Everett explores a very real crisis that many young people have been thrust into – the lack of affordable housing, and offers hope and ideas for what the Church can do to create meaningful community for young people.
By Jason Merritt
Reaching millennials, bringing them into church life and retaining them is something many congregations have struggled with. In Engaging Millennials, Jason Merritt shares ideas on how to listen, learn and be present to build trust and have fruitful relationships with this frequently stereotyped group.
By Jay Sidebotham
Building up leaders who can get people moving and create a culture of discipleship in their communities requires intentional work. In Leading for Discipleship, Jay Sidebotham explains how important it is for leaders to be committed to discipleship to be able to propel their congregations forward on this important journey.
By Mike Chalk
Every so often the leadership of a congregation decides that it is necessary to spend some valuable time discerning what needs to be addressed.
By Jerry Keucher
The Discernment phase of a capital campaign is as important as either the Feasibility Study or the Solicitation phase, and it is a unique part of ECF's capital campaign method.


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Below is a list of GODORT Publications and Publications Committee Working Papers.
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- Morrison, Andrea M. Managing Electronic Government Information in Libraries Issues and Practices Edited by Andrea M. Morrison. Chicago: American Library Association, 2008.
- History of the Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) of the American Library Association 1972-2002. By Lois Mills (1972 - 1992) and Larry Romans and Sandy Peterson (1992 - 2002). Congressional Information Service, Inc.
- Abbott-Hoduski, Bernadine E. Cataloging government documents: a manual of interpretation for AACR2. Chicago: American Library Association, 1984
- Andrews, Michael, Elizabeth Dole, and Stephen Torok. Proceedings of the Second Annual Government Documents Workshop, June 19-20, 1975 held at University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Oswego: Continuing Education Office of the State University of New York, 1976
- Cheney, Debora. The complete guide to citing government information resources... Bethesda, MD: LexisNexis & CIS (3 eds., slightly different titles: 1984 - 2003. 1st ed. by Diane L. Garner; 2nd ed., Diane L. Garner, Diane H. Smith, et al.)
- Directory of government document collections & librarians. Bethesda, MD: LexisNexis & CIS (8 editions: 1974 to 2003)
- Directory of selected Illinois state agencies. Illinois State Library.; American Library Association, 1974
- Draft syllabus of resources for teaching government publications. American Library Association, 1976
- Guide to official publications of foreign countries. Bethesda, MD: CIS (1st ed., Gloria Westfall, editor in chief, 1990. 2nd ed., Susan I. Jover, editorial director, 1997)
- Guidelines for minimum state servicing of state documents. American Library Association, 1982
- Guidelines for state documents with selected commentary. American Library Association, 1972
- Harleston, Rebekah and LeRoy C Schwarzkopf. Reactions to proposed standards and guidelines for the depository library system. Arlington, Va. : Computer Microfilm International Corp.,1976
- Hernon, Peter et.al., eds. Municipal government reference sources: publications and collections. New York: Bowker, 1978
- Lane, Margaret T., comp. A Guide to the documents on documents collection, 1973... Baton Rouge, LA: M.T. Lane, 1984
- Lane, Margaret T. State publications: depository distribution and bibliographical programs. Austin, TX: Texas State Publications Clearinghouse, Texas State Library, 1980
- Lane, Margaret T. State publications depository legislation. Baton Rouge, 1977
- Lee, Tae Moon. Analysis of U.S. Government Printing Office documents depository survey items: final report. Chicago: American Library Association, 1978
- Shaaban, Marian, ed. in chief. Guide to country information in international governmental organization publications. Bethesda, MD: CIS, 1996
- Turner, Carol A., comp. Directory of foreign document collections. New York: UNIPUB, 1985
- Walsh, Jim, Barbara Hulyk, and George Barnum, eds. Rare and valuable government documents: a resource packet on identification preservation, and security issues for government documents collections. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1993
Publications Committee Working Papers
- Should Electronic Publishing be in GODORT's Future? A Discussion Paper on the possibility of GODORT publishing an electronic occasional paper series January 2002
- GODORT creating an online publishing presence: advantages and disadvantages? July 2000
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The wreck occurred around 7:15 a.m. when a car ran into the back of the bus, which had just stopped at the corner of Bees Creek Road and Ingram Lane. The driver of the car was not injured and there was only minor damage to the bus.
Another bus was dispatched to the scene and all students were transported to Ridgeland-Hardeeville High School where they were met by administrators. There were 33 Ridgeland Elementary School students and 15 Ridgeland-Hardeeville High School students on the bus at the time of the accident. The driver of the car was given a citation for following too close. The South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating the wreck.


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Trash-to-energy incinerator has big plans for local garbage
From his post overlooking the deep concrete pit that holds the region's perpetual trash mountain, equipment operator Matt McCluskey manipulated a joystick to swing a giant claw into place.
Closing it around a lumpy pile, the claw dragged the mass to mix and dismember the countless plastic bags holding every manner of garbage from homes, schools, offices, stores and restaurants.
"You just want to mix everything up so you get good combustion," John Vinson, facility manager at the Covanta trash-to-energy incinerator, explained during a tour this month of the facility off Route 12 in Preston. "The steadier the fuel, the better the burn."
Now, 21 years after it began burning the region's trash, an expansion of the facility's responsibilities for handling the region's waste is being considered.
"We're discussing broadening and bundling services," said Stephen Diaz, vice president for strategic services for Covanta. "Our goal is to keep the 12 communities long-term and provide some additional services."
Since 1992, the incinerator has operated under a contract with the Southeastern Connecticut Regional Resources Recovery Authority, the quasi-public agency for 12 towns that bring about 689 tons of trash per day to the facility. There, the refuse is burned in giant furnaces that reach temperatures exceeding 2,000 degrees. The furnaces heat boilers that produce steam to power turbines that generate enough electricity for 15,000 homes.
"We're making 19.23 megawatts of electricity now, sending it right to CL&P," Vinson said as he read one of the gauges in the control room at the plant.
Now, as the plant begins its third decade of operation, the future of the relationship between plant operator Covanta and the resource recovery authority is being decided. Discussions have begun over a new 25-year contract to replace the one that will expire in 2017. Some significant changes are being considered.
Diaz said the company is offering to provide "one-stop shopping" to the member towns, proposing to handle electronic waste, bulky waste, expired pharmaceuticals and compostable materials. A recycling facility for food waste, similar to the one the company announced in October for its Bristol plant, also is being considered, he said.
Dave Aldridge, executive director of the authority, said the organics recycling facility is generating interest. It would receive food scraps from grocery stores, casinos, restaurants, hospitals, schools and other institutions, and turn them into compost, generating energy through an anaerobic digestion process. At its Bristol incinerator, Covanta is working in partnership with Turning Earth, a King of Prussia, Pa., company, to build such a facility.
'Success story'
Aldridge said negotiations for a new contract began four years ahead of the expiration date so a final agreement could be reached by 2015, the same year the authority's bonds on the plant would be paid off and Covanta could exercise its option to purchase the plant.
The plant, he said, has been "a great success story" for the region, charging member towns $58 per ton, the lowest tipping fee of any of the state's trash-to-energy incinerators. That rate is expected to continue at least through 2015, he said.
Preston First Selectman Robert Congdon said that while the town fought the plant when it first was proposed, he is focused now on achieving the best possible host town agreement with Covanta.
"We know it's not going anywhere," he said.
As the host town, Preston pays about one-third less than the other 11 towns to dispose of its trash. Occasionally, he hears complaints about noise from the 100 trucks a day entering the grounds, but overall it's been a positive addition, he said.
"They've been a good company in our town," he said. "We get almost $1 million in (Payment In Lieu Of Taxes) funds and other benefits to offset the impact."
Casinos exempt
The addition of the composting facility would be a response to state laws passed in 2011 and this year that will require supermarkets, food wholesalers and processors, conference centers, resorts and similar commercial enterprises to separate food waste and send it to a composting facility, provided there is one within 20 miles.
"If you are a large generator of food scraps," said Chris Nelson, supervising environmental analyst for the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, "you'll have to compost your food."
Because they are located on sovereign tribal reservation property, the state's two casinos are exempt from the law, he said, although they already do some composting.
The state estimates that about 325,000 tons of food waste from commercial facilities could be recycled annually. Only a small amount is being composted.
"We're encouraging anything to do with increased recycling and diverting," said Gabrielle Frigon, supervising environmental analyst for DEEP.
Diaz, of Covanta, said his company, which operates 45 incinerators worldwide, is running all three of its Connecticut plants at "close to capacity" and is fully supportive of the state's efforts to increase recycling, not just of food wastes but other materials.
James Regan, spokesman for Covanta, noted that at least 100,000 tons of trash being shipped out of state annually instead could be handled by the incinerators, so there would be ample fuel to keep the incinerators operating efficiently even if more waste ends up getting recycled.
"We're in no way trying to hurt those efforts," Regan said.
Whose trash?
The following towns dispose of trash at the Covanta incinerator:
East Lyme, Griswold, Groton, Ledyard, Montville, New London, North Stonington, Norwich, Preston, Sprague, Stonington and Waterford.
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New London climate change forum talks hope
Experts from varying professions held a roundtable discussion Sunday at St. James Episcopal Church.
Sikh memorial display removed from Otis Library in Nowich after objections raised
The Otis Library has removed a display memorializing the thousands of Sikhs killed in 1984 in India, citing political divisiveness and complaints, including from the Indian General Consulate in New York.
New London's St. Francis House to celebrate 20 years
St. Francis House, created as an Episcopal urban ministry at 30 Broad St., is celebrating 20 years of existence this month.
Arboretum reflections
A group of walkers move along the docks at Connecticut College's Arboretum on Sunday.


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Theater of War
I began watching Theater of War with low expectations. Documentaries about the making of plays usually disappoint me for a variety of reasons, not the least being that what works well on stage seldom works well on film -- in so many ways, the art forms are the opposite of each other. The process of making plays is also not inherently dramatic -- it's generally slow and repetitive, often frustrating, and the best rehearsal processes, at least in my experience, are ones all about doing as much wrong as possible in order to find, through experiment and elimination, what's right.
I often found Theatre of War gripping, however. Partly, this is because I'm interested in the people involved -- Tony Kushner, George C. Wolfe, Meryl Streep, and, especially, Bertolt Brecht. The film uses the opportunity of chronicling the 2006 production of Mother Courage and Her Children put on by the Public Theater in Central Park to chronicle much more than that -- to explore Brecht's life and work, and to meditate on essential questions of art and politics.
The Public's production starred Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline, was directed by George C. Wolfe, and the translation/adaptation was by Tony Kushner, with music by Jeanine Tesori. Great actors, a tremendously creative director, and a script by one of the greatest playwrights of the last century translated/adapted by one of the greatest American playwrights of the last twenty-five years. As ingredients for productions go, that's a pretty marvelous mix, and part of my interest in the film was in seeing how all of those people worked together.
I don't know if the production was artistically successful -- I am inclined to trust Michael Feingold's judgment on things when it comes to Brecht, and he had only the barest praise for it. That doesn't really matter for the movie, though, because the film can sift and sort, showing us only the most interesting moments of the many hours filmed. Mostly, director/editor John Walter decided to focus on Meryl Streep's performance, and the judgment seems to have been a good one, because it lets us glimpse some of the development of the role.
For me, though, the most exciting material was about Brecht, Helene Weigel, and the Berliner Ensemble. I could listen to Carl Weber reminisce about Brecht for hours, and Barbara Brecht-Schall's reminiscences of life with her parents were fascinating, though all too brief. (If only they'd been able to add Eric Bentley!) I doubt some of these sections would be as compelling to someone who was not particularly interested in Brecht. I spent much time during my undergraduate years in a love-hate relationship with his work; have, over the last fifteen years, read the majority of his plays, poems, and essays; and have seen quite a few productions, especially of Mother Courage. Brecht remains a writer I wrestle with more than embrace, but that in some ways makes him a writer of more interest to me than most others (indeed, among playwrights, I would rank him second only to Beckett in the 20th century). John Walter skilfully weaves together ideas and information that would have proved daunting to many other filmmakers.
Ultimately, there is too much information and too many idea for the film to really cohere, but that didn't bother me too much -- because I'd gone in with low expectations, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the movie was interesting, and then I was willing to follow wherever it wanted to go. Any of its five sections could have been expanded into a film unto itself, but I was okay with that. Theater of War got me thinking about Brecht again, about art and politics, about fame and history and humanity. Most movies accomplish far less.


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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The VCU Men's & Women's Track & Field program had a strong showing at the 2012 Florida Relays held over the weekend at the University of Florida.
"We had a productive weekend and did some really good things," said VCU head coach Jon Riley. "We still have room for improvement."
Freshman Kiara Porter set a personal record in the 400 meter dash, crossing the finish line in 53.98 seconds for 18th place. The Yorktown, Va., native finished just .08 seconds shy of the school record in the event.
"That was Kiara's season opener and she didn't disappoint us," added Riley. "I think she shocked herself with that time today, but I'm not surprised at all because I see the potential every day at practice. Great things are still to come from this young freshman.
The women's 4x400 relay team of senior Jazlynn Finney, senior Rachel Montague, freshman Nicole Grasty and Porter broke the school record in the event, crossing the finish line of 3:44.93. The previous school record was set in 2011, which Finney was a member of, ran a time of 3:46.70.
Senior thrower Julia Anyaugo placed sixth in the university division of the women's discus, with a toss of 44.45 meters. The Sterling, Va., native's heave was a seasonal best and qualified her for ECACs later this spring, as it surpassed the 42.50 meter qualifying mark.
Junior Dionna Hayes ran a seasonal best 11.75 seconds in the 100 meter dash on her way to 22nd place honors in the university division.
Senior Nicole Walters ran the 800 meters for the first time of the season and crossed the finish line in 2:14.96.
The women's 4x100 meter relay team of freshman Alexis Stroman, Porter, Finney and Haynes ran their fastest time of the year (45.47) en route to a 12th place finish overall, including third place in their heat.
VCU will next compete at the Mason Invite next Saturday at George Mason University.


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1. Villanova: Will be voted No. 1 in Gannett New Jersey's Top 25 ballot.
2. Syracuse: Spanking of Georgetown made everyone sit up and notice.
3. West Virginia: Their alarm clocks must be set for halftime.
4. Georgetown: Got a bright orange handprint on their backside.
5. Pittsburgh: They handle the rock like it's a hand grenade.
6. Connecticut: You need Dramamine to follow this team.
7. Notre Dame: Has one more quality win than Mike Brey has ties.
8. Seton Hall: Here's an idea: Herb Pope bobblehead night at The Rock.
9. Louisville: Think it bugs Rick Pitino that Gonzo has beaten him twice in three years?
10. Marquette: Rutgers made them look like Jordan's Bulls.
11. Cincinnati: Born Ready . . . for the NIT.
12. Providence: Maybe the most impressive 4-4 league mark in the nation.
13. St. John's: A gold standard compared to the other major sports team in Queens.
14. South Florida: Spring training exhibitions will outdraw them.
15. DePaul: Barely better from the line (.564) than the Cuse is from the field (.534).
16. Rutgers: Instead of Caldwell can we put St. Pat's on their schedule?
Dominique Jones: South Florida's do-everything guard scored 46 points in a 109-105 overtime win at Providence, the second-highest total ever in a Big East game. He also notched 10 rebounds and eight assists.
Jay Wright: The dapper head coach of 19-1 Villanova is second-most popular guy in Philadelphia right now, after Kevin Kolb.
Geno Auriemma: His incredible success with the UConn women makes you wonder—could he win big as a Big East men's coach? We tend to think yes.
ADs in NJ: Seton Hall allowed Joe Quinlan's contract to expire. Maybe his old buddy Bob Mulcahy can hook him up.
ESPN: Why televise Seton Hall-South Florida on the deuce and relegate Seton Hall-Villanova to the U? At least the Worldwide Leader is done licking Brett Favre's boots (for now).
Jim Burr: To the dismay of Big East fans everywhere, the longtime ref is out indefinitely with a back injury.
WHO'S NO 1? That was the theme of the conference call. Read the story here
1,257: Career points in Big East games for Notre Dame's Luke Harangody, seventh on the league's all-time list.
100: Meetings between Notre Dame and DePaul. Notre Dame leads 56-44 after Saturday's 10-point win.
.639: Winning percentage of home teams in league games (39-22).
32: 20-win seasons for Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, an NCAA record.
5: Statistical categories in which Big East squads lead the nation as of mid-week: field-goal percentage (Syracuse, 53.4), assists (Syracuse, 20.3 per game), 3-point shooting (Marquette, 49.3 percent), blocks (Connecticut, 8.9 per game) and assist-to-turnover ratio (Notre Dame, 1.80).
4: Teams in the top six of the latest RPI Report: Syracuse (1), Villanova (4), West Virginia (5) and Georgetown (6).
0: Times Villanova opened 8-0 in league play prior to this season.
Connecticut at Louisville, Monday at 7 (ESPN): It's February 1, and the Huskies and Cardinals are desperate for a win. Has that sentence ever been typed before? Battle of the mercurial guards in Kemba Walker vs. Edgar Sosa.
Seton Hall at Villanova, Tuesday at 7 (ESPNU): Bobby Gonzalez likes to talk about "glamour games", "getting some buzz", and being "in the conversation." Well then, this is Gonzo heaven. Two deep, backcourt-driven rosters trade fireworks in a raucous environment.
Pittsburgh at West Virginia, Wednesday at 7 (SNY): The backyard brawl, basketball version. This will be more like a steel cage match as the league's two best defensive squads drop elbows on each other. Can you picture Bob Huggins flying off the top rope?
NOTABLE QUOTES from this week's conference call . . .
"His shoulder is getting better so he fouls more now. He can foul with two hands instead of one. In all serioussnes, he's been terrific. His shoulder is getting better and he's starting to shoot the ball with some range. We're looking for Joe to have a big impact down the stretch." —West Virginia's Bob Huggins on point guard Joe Mazzulla.
"I've talked to Lance about not trying to live up to other peoples' expectations. Define what a good basketball player is for yourself. He's struggled shooting the ball from the perimeter at times. He's worked hard on it. Learning to play off the ball is something he's worked hard on. As a coaching staff we've tried to get him to where he can get some easy baskets moving moving without the basketball . . . He's had a good year, for a freshman he's had a great year. You can't compare him to people like John Wall or Michael Beasley. You can't live up to the ridiculous expectations other people set for you." —Cincinnati's Mick Cronin on Lance Stephenson.
"You look at their schedule upcoming and it's like looking into the abyss. Welcome to Big East basketball. I'm sure SEC football coaches feel the same way probably about midway through October. They start looking around and thinking about where the wins are going to come from." —Cronin on Providence, which faces Syracuse twice, Georgetown, Marquette, Villanova and West Virginia over the first three weeks of February.
"Watching DePaul, I see they're playing very hard. Its' a tribune to their kids. They're rallying around the new coach. It's been impressive." —Syracuse's Jim Boeheim
"I don't think there's anybody that's No. 1. There are a bunch of teams that are real good and right behind them there are a bunch of teams that could beat them. Connecticut looked the best they've been all year, they dominated Texas, and they go and get beat at Providence by 15. It's very hard to tell what's going on in college basketball right now." —Boeheim
"We're certainly a team that's on the bubble. We have the goal of winning seven of the next 11, that's certainly a tall order. We're trying to get off the bubble and make the NCAA Tournament as probably 4-5 other Big East teams are trying to do." —Louisville's Rick Pitino, whose club is 4-3 in the league — Louisville's Rick Pitino (notice SHU fans: 11 league wins is the target number)
"We expected a lot from him, being with him over the summer and seeing his development and improvement. We lost Levance Fields and he was our backup point guard, so there were a lot of minutes there, a lot of opportunity . . . Watching him as a freshman you saw his work ethic and you knew he was going to get better and improve . . . he's improved in pretty much every area we've addressed with him and that's rare for a player so it's good to see." —Pitt's Jamie Dixon on Scotch Plains product Ashton Gibbs
On Mike Rosario's woes: "We've had some guys who have really shot the ball well over my 10 years here and the one thing is, the coach has to show confidence in him and you want him to keep shooting. I would think Coach Hill will do that with Mike. Mike is a key guy for them and he's got to be taking those shots. You want to take good ones, but you're not turning shots down just because you're going through a stretch where you're not making them."
On his concerns about Rutgers: "You think, When are they going to get rolling? When are they going to kick it into gear? But for us the focus has got to be on us. We're 4-4, we're scratching our way through the pack . . . our focus has got to be on us the next couple of days."
"We've got to do better on the glass. That's been an Achilles heel all year long and until we figure out a way to rebound it's going to continue to give us problems."
On Rosario's woes: "He's going through somewhat of a typical sophomore slump after a great freshman year. Part of that is the way people are defending him . . . We miss a little bit of the inside-out we had with Gregory Echenique. We were able to throw the ball inside and you had to make a decision on whether you had to help off Mike. Also Gregory was our best rebounder to start off our fast break and Mike was great in transition. He was getting some easy looks in transition and that was a big part of him getting going . . . He's got to kind of let the game come to him. He's our leading scorer and he still has to get us going, so once in a while we have to ask him to force the issue a little bit."


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Toyota 5.7 Liter V8 Engine Production Begins in Alabama
State and local officials joined Toyota officials and team members today to mark the production of the first 5.7 liter V8 engine at Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Alabama (TMMAL).
TMMAL employs 950 team members, has the capacity to produce 130,000 4.0 liter V6 engines, 120,000 4.7 liter V8 engines, 150,000 new 5.7 liter V8 engines annually. The total investment is $490 million.
TMMAL, which opened in 2003, supplies V8 engines for the Tundra full-size pickup and Sequoia full-size sport utility vehicle produced in Indiana. The plant also supplies V6 engines for Tacoma pickups produced in California and Mexico as well as the Tundra. The new 5.7 liter V8 engines will be used for the all new Tundra built in San Antonio, Texas and Princeton, Indiana.
Toyota Motor Corporation Senior Managing Director Shoji Ikawa congratulated team members and addressed the significance of the new engine. "This is the most powerful pickup truck engine Toyota has ever manufactured not only in North America, but in the world," Ikawa said. "The engine is the heart of any vehicle. Engine performance and quality are major considerations for today's truck customer. We know we can count on these team members to continue to deliver the high quality engines our customers expect from Toyota."
As part of the celebration, Toyota donated $50,000 to Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Huntsville for technology and reading programs and $50,000 to the National Children's Advocacy Center.
Kunihiko Ogura, president of TMMAL, expressed appreciation to the Huntsville community for their support.
"We are proud to be part of this wonderful community," Ogura said. "I am proud of the culture of this Toyota Alabama team. The power of teamwork is alive and well and will ensure a bright future for Toyota in Alabama."
Toyota (NYSE: TM) established operations in North America in 1957. By 2008, Toyota will have the annual capacity to build about 2 million carsand trucks in 14 plants across North America. There are more than 1,700 Toyota, Lexus and Scion dealerships in North America, which sell more than 2.8 million vehicles a year. Toyota directly employs nearly 40,000 people in North America. Toyota's investment in North America is valued at more than $17.6 billion.
Toyota produces 11 vehicles in North America, including the Avalon, Camry, Camry Hybrid, Corolla, Matrix, Sienna, Solara, Sequoia, Tacoma, Tundra and the Lexus RX 350. By 2008, Toyota will have the annual capacity to build about 2 million cars and trucks, 1.44 million engines and 600,000 automatic transmissions in North America.


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| This is the Sports merit badge for Scouts, Lone Scouts, and qualified Venturers or Sea Scouts.
Scouts, Lone Scouts, and qualified Venturers or Sea Scouts can also earn the Athletics and Personal Fitness meritbadges.
Webelos Scouts can complete the Stronger, Faster, Higher Webelos Adventure.
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|Millions of people participate in sports every year. For some the appeal is the close friendships that come with being part of a team. Some revel in the joy of victory and lessons of defeat. For some, the personal fitness is so important that exercise becomes a daily need. And still others desire the feeling of achievement, that feeling of measurable improvement that comes with dedication to a sport.
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- The activities used to fulfill the requirements for the Sports merit badge may not be used to help fulfill requirements for other merit badges.
- The BSA Sports Troop Program Feature offers meeting and activity plans to include Sports as one of your monthly themes.
Requirement resources
1. First Aid: Sprains - Strains - Contusions - Abrasions - Fractures - Blisters - Muscle Cramps - Dehydration - Heat Reactions - Cold Reactions - Injured Teeth - Nausea - Head, Neck, and Back Injuries
- Your handbook is your primary reference. See First-aid skills for step-by-step instructions and lesson video links.
- See also: First Aid merit badge pamphlet • First-aid kit • Emergency kit • Guide to Safe Scouting • Annual Health and Medical Record
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Map of main areas for a Tanzania safari
This map splits Tanzania into about 15 main holiday and safari areas. Read more about each one by clicking the blue markers. More detailed maps of the individual areas show where there are different camps, lodges and hotels; to see these, follow links in the bubbles – or at the bottom of the page.
Things to see on this Tanzania map
Tanzania is a vast country – take a look at the scale, bottom-left, to see this at a glance.
Notice how close the parks of the 'northern circuit' are: Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Lake Manyara, Tarangire (and Arusha). Their proximity makes guided 4WD safari practical here, when they are not feasible in the parks to the south and the west. (By contrast – see how far Dar is to Selous – and how much further to Ruaha!)
Then click onto any of the markers, and follow the links in the bubbles to more detailed maps of these areas. These show much more, and have precise locations for the various safari camps and lodges.
Navigating around this Tanzania map
Drag the sliding marker (over the left-side of the map) along the vertical scale to zoom the map in (+) and out (-), or click on the plus (+) and minus (-) buttons.
Move the mouse over the blue markers to see area names.
Click on the blue markers for more information on the areas.
Click on the links below for more detailed maps which show the safari camps and lodges in each area.
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Q How can we save our mother from a con man? Mom's in her mid-80s and very capable, but she's fallen under the sway of a clever scam artist, who has tricked her into believing he's her friend. We've contacted the district attorney's office, and they agree that he's a crook. However, they say they can't do anything until a crime has actually been committed. But by then it will be too late. Please help. Our mother's lifetime of savings is at risk.
A Too bad you're not related to Tony Soprano.
He'd know how to solve the problem.
Fortunately, so does your state's Adult Protective Services department. Your mother is not the first elderly person to be targeted by a con man, and these folks can help you protect her. Plus they may be able to persuade the D.A. to be more proactive.
You also might consider asking someone in law enforcement to put you in touch with a licensed private investigator — say, a physically imposing ex-cop — whom you can pay to knock on the con man's door, look him in the eye and tell him to cut it out. The creep who's targeting your mother needs to know he's being watched, and not just by you.
Q For my birthday, my daughter-in-law gave me a lovely pair of pajamas and included with them a gift receipt. When I went to exchange the pajamas for the proper size, they were on sale for $20 less than my daughter-in-law had paid, so the store gave me a gift card. My instinct is to give the $20 card to my daughter-in-law, but I'm afraid that could offend her. What should I do?
A Trust your instincts: Give your daughter-in-law the card.
She may give it right back – and you should accept it if she does – but she will appreciate your thoughtfulness.
If, though, you have a specific reason to believe your daughter-in-law will be offended, that's different. In that case, treat her to a nice lunch instead. As long as she gets the benefit of the sale price, how she gets it isn't important.
Q A few years back, I put $20,000 into an IRA at a large national bank and purchased a CD with the funds. Last year the CD matured, so, at the suggestion of someone in investments at the bank, I transferred the proceeds into a regular savings account and forgot about it. Now, to my horror, I've learned from my accountant that I owe 25 percent of that $20,000 to the IRS and another 10 percent to the state of Oregon. I'm sick! No one at the bank said anything about taxes when I was transferring the money into the savings account. I've called the bank to complain, but they say informing me of the tax liability was not their responsibility. What can I do?
A Find another bank.
We're no experts in the legal obligations of the banking industry. But when it comes to good business practices, the bank was sorely remiss if no one reminded you that there were likely to be tax consequences associated with the transaction you say they encouraged you to make.
To be fair, however, you should have known that you have to pay taxes on a withdrawal from an IRA. That's how IRAs work, and you had an obligation — to yourself — to have learned that when you opened the account, and an obligation to have remembered it when you decided to close the IRA.
The best thing for you to do at this point is ask your accountant to review your investments and advise you of the tax considerations associated with each of them. Better to pay a CPA a few hundred dollars for an education than to again be surprised by four-figure tax bills.
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This year has produced no shortage of Mormonism coverage with Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman in the presidential race. If you want a continual source for Mormon news, be sure to follow the work of Peggy Fletcher Stack, a reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune, located in Mormon central.
Earlier this year, the Tribune launched a religion blog called Following Faith, where Stack regularly updates national and local stories often related to Mormonism in the news. But Stack's reporting goes much further back than the blog. Stack, who studied at the University of Utah and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif., has been writing for Tribune's award-winning Faith section for more than two decades.
She spent four days following the Dalai Lama around Salt Lake City, two weeks following the late LDS President Gordon B. Hinckley around Africa, and about a half hour interviewing Archbishop Desmond Tutu during the 2002 Winter Olympics. We asked Stack to talk about her interest in religion's conflicts and cohesion for GetReligion's 5Q+1.
How do you think your job differs from a religion reporter at another newspaper, maybe one in Florida or one in Massachusetts? Because most Utahns belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I end up writing many more stories about that church, its teachings, programs and developments than about any other faith. While reporters in other regions such as the Bible Belt may spend the bulk of their time writing about the dominant faith in their area, this is also LDS Church headquarters and home to its hierarchy where all institutional decisions are made. Think Rhode Island's Catholic majority but with the Vatican in the state capital and priests as legislators. We are also the only secular paper that writes extensively about Mormonism, which means readers across the globe are looking to us for a knowledgeable, even-handed approach to LDS news.
Has the nation's increased interest in Mormonism changed your reporting or the stories you pursue? Sure, it has put more pressure on us to be the first, the best and the most definitive source of Mormon issues. For example, the paper sent me to the opening night of previews for "The Book of Mormon" musical. I quoted a Mormon who went with me as saying the show was "surprisingly sweet." I saw that quote and perspective repeated endlessly, even by playwrights Trey Parker and Matt Stone themselves. It humbled me to realize yet again that other reporters – and LDS members and critics worldwide – were watching what we do on Mormon issues, taking their cue from us. Obviously, we have made missteps in our coverage--which GetReligion is quick to point out--and each time we do, we go through rounds of self-analysis at what went wrong. But we remain committed to the ideal of fairness and balance. Now that there seems to be a bottomless appetite for reporting on Mormons, both for members themselves and curious outsiders, we feel it is important to be leaders in the field. At the same time, many of the stories other media are now exploring topics we have already printed and with which are readers are already fully familiar.
How do you balance coverage of other religions with high percentage of Mormons in your demographic? Even though much of our reporting is on the LDS Church, I enjoy covering all faiths and feel a desire and responsibility to educate our readers on the religious diversity in Utah. We work hard to highlight events, issues and developments in smaller Utah faiths, despite their percentage of the whole. I think even our Mormon readers appreciate learning about other groups and spiritual journeys.
Are there specific challenges to covering Mormonism that you might not find when covering other religions? Mormonism is such a closely knit community and all-encompassing experience for so many that it has spawned intense feelings of loyalty in believers and hostility among outsiders or former believers. It is tricky to maintain a reasoned approach, without tipping too far to one side or the other. I've been accused of being a Mormon church puppet on the one hand and the anti-Christ on the other, so I feel I am doing OK. About the only analogue I can conjure is Jerusalem, with its pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian factions, each looking for signs that a reporter is prejudiced against them. Too many readers know a lot about the LDS faith and practice and are ready to pounce if they think I got some detail wrong, while others know little or nothing. So I am always struggling to ensure my writing is thorough enough for insiders but not too detailed for everyone else. It can be exhausting. Sometimes I yearn for a good Jewish holiday story or a dicey exploration of ethics as a nice break from all the Mormon-created tension.
What is the most important religion story right now that you think the mainstream media are having a hard time grasping? Though lots of reporters have written about the theological differences between Mormonism and historic Christianity — some thoughtful, others superficial — few really understand the broader differences and similarities in culture and community. That goes to my problem with coverage of other faiths, too. Many reporters treat groups like Mormons, Muslims, and Buddhists as monolithic, describing a simple set of beliefs and practices that they presume all follow. There is often little context, nuance or texture in that kind of religion reporting. In a word, Mormons may all be in the same faith family, but they can be as different as brothers, sisters, step-siblings and adoptees.
What's the story you will be watching carefully in the next year or two? I expect I'll be writing much more about Mitt Romney and his faith as the next year unfolds. I will also continue to follow the impact of such national attention on the LDS Church itself. Will it be just a fleeting moment, somewhat like the spotlight shown on the Utah-based church by the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, or will it bring about lasting awareness or shifts in perspective? How many times will I have to explain to a French television crew that the LDS Church abandoned polgamy a century ago? How will the relationship between Mormons and evangelicals change, if at all? What elements of Mormon history and doctrine will capture the journalistic fancy and be studied – and written – to death?
BONUS: Do you have anything else you want to tell us about religion coverage in the mainstream news media? When I read a story about any religion, I closely observe what sources the reporter chose to quote. I realize it is tough to find authoritative Mormon sources, because LDS full-time officials rarely agree to interviews and a random leader in the local lay clergy may know little or nothing about the issue at hand. Mormonism doesn't have theologians, per se, who can explain the faith in terms outsiders can grasp. Even finding Mormons wearing the title, "president," (as in Elders' Quorum president or Relief Society president), doesn't mean their perspective is in any sense representative. I do feel that more investigative work on churches, particularly on money issues, would benefit the reading public. I don't think religions should be either critiqued for their teachings and practices or exempt from close scrutiny. I also would like to see more exploration of ethical issues as they relate to business, social services and religion stories.


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Liberty News
Selah yearbook now available online
Liberty University's award-winning Selah yearbook is meeting the digital needs of this generation by releasing its first online edition this week.
The yearbook staff held its annual release party on the front steps of Arthur S. DeMoss Hall on Wednesday, displaying the new edition and giving away free snow cones and cotton candy to students.
The online version is free and includes yearbooks from 1974-2012. Readers log on to the LifePages website, where they can set up an account. The site is interactive, with photos and videos. People can search for classmates and digitally "sign" other users' yearbooks.
|This is an event page from the 2012 online interactive edition of the Selah yearbook.
Sophomore Whitney Moon, editor-in-chief, said the books are "the best of the history that is made at Liberty each year."
She said making the edition available online for free "just sounded like common sense."
Sophomore Jacob Anspach, one of the designers, said the team "put our hands in this new interactive media with the yearbook" and was excited "to be the first to do this and to do it well."
Sophomore Mary-Helen Norris attended the release party.
"I think the new yearbook is great because it's so interactive and it will last longer because the Internet is forever," she said.
Selah has also partnered with Key Color Inc. to offer a "print-on-demand" version, where people can order a 75-page printed book for a fee, with 10 free additional pages they can customize with their own photos on premade templates. Users can upload pictures from Facebook, Twitter and various other social networking sites.
Moon said the staff began researching their options last fall. She said many people had input during the process, including Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr.; Ron Kennedy, Senior Vice President for Marketing at Liberty; and Laura Sipple, Director of Marketing for University Publications.
Selah has consistently won design awards and was recently awarded a Gold Crown Award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.


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Monday, March 31, 2014
Howard Weinstein, MD, running for Lorenzo, age 19, leukemia
Q: What is your name?
A: Howard Weinstein
Q: Where are you from?
A: Newton, MA
Q: What is your role at Massachusetts General Hospital?
A: Chief of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at MGHfC
Q: Why did you choose to run the marathon for MassGeneral Hospital for Children?
A: I am the founder of our Mass General Marathon Team and know firsthand how important it is to raise money for our childhood cancer program.
Q: What kind of experience do you have as a runner?
A: Training for the Boston Marathon is always a challenge, but the experience of running on marathon day makes it all worthwhile.
Q: What inspires you as a runner?
A: Each year I run in honor of one of my patients, and this is more than enough of an inspiration to get me from Hopkinton to Boston.
Q: What has been your most memorable moment preparing for the marathon?
A: Meeting my fellow teammates at long weekend runs and seeing how committed they are to supporting our childhood cancer program.
Q: What have you learned about your patient partner and what makes him special?
A: My patient partner came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a teenager not speaking English, and shortly thereafter was diagnosed with leukemia. He has handled his disease and treatment course with a very positive attitude, and he has learned English and will graduate from high school this year.
Q: What are you most looking forward to about marathon day?
A: I can't wait to get to mile 20 to hear the screams of our Mass General Marathon Team cheering section and get hugs from my family and patient partner
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A couple of days ago, I took President Obama to task for relying too much on fossil fuels and his "all of the above" energy strategy. We need stronger leadership from the president on clean energy, and the Sierra Club will continue pushing him to provide it.
Today, though, his administration took an important, historic step away from dirty energy when the EPA announced proposed new safeguards that would limit the amount of carbon pollution from new power plants.
On the face of it, this announcement seems self-evidently sensible — like announcing that you're going to stop hitting yourself on the head with a rock. We know carbon pollution is bad for our health and our climate. We also know how to generate power with clean energy like solar and wind. So why keep hitting ourselves on the head by building more dirty power plants?
Believe it or not, it was only ten years ago that the conventional wisdom was that we had no choice besides dirty energy. Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force proposed a massive effort to build new coal-fired power plants all across the country. It was going to be a new "Coal Rush."
That Coal Rush never materialized. What happened instead was a coordinated grassroots movement that, to date, has stopped 166 proposed new coal plants from ever being built. How did we do this? By pointing out that the emperor has no clothes — that building new dirty coal-fired power plants makes no sense economically, environmentally, or for the communities in which they'd be built. So today's announcement from Obama's EPA is as much a testament to determined grassroots organizing as anything else. And every person who has been part of this effort — whether through comments, emails, or on-the-ground action — deserves the credit.
For more than a hundred years, our country has relied heavily on coal to generate electricity. Along the way, we somehow learned to live — and die — with the problems that burning coal brings — from unhealthy air to environmental devastation. We've blasted mountains, destroyed communities, and polluted watersheds. Our babies have been poisoned by mercury, our children have struggled with asthma, and our parents have died prematurely from respiratory disease, both from working in coal mines and also from breathing dirty air once that coal is burned. Our climate is already changing — with once-in-lifetime unsettling weather events coming one after another.
These new carbon pollution protections won't put an end to that overnight. But they do put an end to the proposition that coal belongs in our energy future.
Is this a turning point in the transition to clean energy? That depends on what we do next. If we just switch our allegiance to another polluting fossil fuel like natural gas, then we've only traded our rock for a pipe wrench. Ultimately, the only way to stop hurting ourselves will be to do everything we can, everywhere we can, to accelerate the development of clean, renewable energy like solar and wind. Call it a "best of the above" strategy, if you will.
Yes, we still have a ways to go, but the journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step, as Laozi said. Today the Obama administration took an important one.
One important, final point: this particular fight is not yet finished. These are only proposed standards, not final ones. The EPA is collecting comments on its new carbon pollution standards. Let them know you support the strongest possible protections that will give us cleaner air and healthier communities.


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Where, you might ask, do our nation's NBA players get the idea that two steps is just a suggested limit? It starts early. PIVOT FOOT, YOU LITTLE CHEATER, NOT PIVOT FEET.
Swallowing the whistle there is more harmful to the growth of players than giving everybody a trophy. Someone get that kid a lesson with Coach Noah Chang.
Worst travel ever unveils youth refereeing crisis [Ball Don't Lie]
Why don't you knock off for the rest of the day? You've worked hard and could use a break.


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Fees & Financial Assistance (2002-2003)
Reminder: The information on this web page is taken from the printed version of the Graduate Studies catalog (updated annually). The latest fees are available through the Office of Billing & Receivables.
Tuition and Fees
The following schedules of tuition and fees are for one semester (fall or spring) 2002–2003. The schedule applies to all students who are classified as graduate students. These amounts are subject to change without notice by action of the Board of Trustees. Current tuition and fee schedules can be viewed at www.wiu.edu/tuition or can be obtained by contacting the Billing and Receivables Office at (309) 298-1831 or email email@example.com.
University Fees
Regional Center Fees
Continuing Education Tuition Rates
$114.75 per credit hour
Health Insurance of $155.50 included in fees for nine or more hours. This amount subject to change in accordance with bids received.
Full-time graduate students at the main campus of Western Illinois University who are residents of Clark, Lewis, or Marion counties in Missouri or Scott, Muscatine, Louisa, Des Moines, or Lee counties in Iowa are treated as in-state students for the period of one year for tuition purposes. Such students must meet residency requirements to qualify for in-state tuition after the first year. This policy is reviewed annually and is subject to change without notice.
University fees are evaluated and recommended by the students and staff to help facilitate various services and programs on campus. University fees are mandatory for all students and require payment regardless of whether or not the student receives direct benefits or is in a location which permits access to such benefits. Students registered for nine or more semester hours of student teaching, internship, or overseas experience will receive a 25 percent reduction in the student activity, athletics, computer, health center, and publication fees. The preceding tables reflect the full fee rates. Fees may vary depending on the location of course offering.
University fees are composed of the following:
A $7 nonrefundable transcript fee is assessed the first semester a student matriculates to Western Illinois University. This one-time fee entitles the student to unlimited transcripts at no additional cost.
A $75 non-refundable fee is assessed to all new international students for orientation programming.
All graduate students who enroll for nine hours or more and all graduate assistants under contract to the University with the exception of those registered for extension classes, will be assessed the student health insurance fee. Coverage for a spouse and/or dependents, is available and must be purchased separately at the Student Health Insurance Office during the first 10 days of each term during the academic year and the sixth day of the summer term. A brochure explaining the coverage of the student health insurance program is available at the Student Health Insurance Office, Beu Health Center, lower level. Student health insurance may be waived if the student provides proof of equal or better coverage. Waiver request forms are available at the Student Health Insurance Office. Completed forms must be received in the office by the tenth day of the fall/spring semester and the sixth day of summer session for a 100 percent refund.
Each month a bill issued by the Billing and Receivables Office will be produced for those students owing charges to the University. Unless a "billing" address is requested, bills will be mailed to the home address when the majority of students are home and the school address when classes are in session. A billing address may be established or corrected through the Billing and Receivables Office, Sherman Hall 106, 309/298-1831. Once a billing address is established for an account, all bills will be mailed to that address.
Advance payment of tuition, fees, and housing charges is not required. All available financial aid, including loans, may be applied to current semester educational costs, whether billed or unbilled, before any remaining balance is distributed to the student. Students will not be permitted to register for any succeeding semester until the financial obligations for the current term are paid or guaranteed by financial awards. Any balance unpaid by the date specified on the bill will be assessed finance charges at the rate of 1 percent per month. University transcripts are not issued if students have financial or administrative obligations. We recommend fall charges be paid by November 1 and spring charges be paid by April 1 to take advantage of pre-registration for the next term.
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Dropped Courses
Students enrolled in any combination of sessions, either on-campus and/or extension, must drop from the desired class within that session's 100 percent refund/credit period to avoid assessment of tuition and mandatory fee charges. Students will be assessed full tuition and fees in accordance with the University's tuition and fee schedule for classes dropped after the 100 percent refund/credit period.
Total University Withdrawal
Independent Study Courses Offered Through Extended Learning
A student who has registered for an independent study course offered through extended learning and officially withdraws from that course during the first six weeks of the term will receive a full credit/refund. A student who processes a withdrawal after the sixth week will be responsible for 100 percent of the tuition assessed. However, if the regular scheduled class withdrawal refund/credit period for a given semester extends beyond the six weeks 100 percent refund/credit period, the dates and percentages listed after the six week period will be honored for independent study courses offered through extended learning.
Graduate Assistantships
Graduate assistantships are academic-merit-based award programs which provide students with work opportunities in a job closely related to their academic field of study. Students with full-time graduate assistantships will receive a minimum stipend of $5,720 per academic year and a waiver of tuition. Graduate assistants on a two-month contract or greater receive a waiver of tuition (upon receipt of a signed contract) for the period of appointment plus one summer session either immediately preceding or immediately following the contract period. Tuition waivers are awarded automatically for the summer session immediately following a spring contract. Graduate assistants must contact the School of Graduate Studies to receive a summer tuition waiver immediately preceding a fall contract. The waiver does not include insurance costs or student fees.
For a four-month fall semester contract beginning after August 15, there are four equal pay periods. Full monthly paychecks will be received October 1, November 1, December 1, and January 1. For a four-month spring semester contract beginning before January 15, there are five pay periods. Two weeks of pay will be received on February 1 and June 1. Full monthly paychecks will be received on March 1, April 1, and May 1.
Assistantship applications received prior to March 15 may be given priority consideration. Assistantships are available only to graduate students who have been accepted in degree programs. Probationary students are not eligible to hold graduate assistantships. Graduate assistants must adhere to the same standards of professional ethics as regular faculty. Graduate assistants must meet their normal assigned duties but should not be asked or required to perform additional duties. Graduate assistants must be full-time students (at least nine semester hours) without other employment. Graduate assistants must also maintain a 3.0 grade point average.
To apply for an assistantship, an Application for Assistantship (available from the School of Graduate Studies or at www.wiu.edu/grad) must be submitted along with three letters of recommendation (some programs require specialized recommendation letters) and a statement of personal goals. The application, letters, and statement should be submitted to the School of Graduate Studies.
Several departments have research grants which include funds for research assistants. Stipends vary.
Several departments have paid internship arrangements with private and public agencies. Stipends vary.
Special Opportunities for Minority Graduate Students
Financial assistance programs are available to students who are members of ethnic groups which have been traditionally underrepresented in higher education. These programs include the President's Minority Graduate Access Program (PMGAP) and the Illinois Consortium for Equal Opportunity Program (ICEOP). The PMGAP award provides a stipend of $2,000 per semester which is applied to tuition, fees, or other educational expenses. Applications for the fall semester received before April 1 and applications for the spring semester received before November 1 will be given priority consideration. The ICEOP awards provide up to $12,500 annually. This program is designed to increase the number of minority faculty and staff at Illinois colleges and universities. The deadline for application for the academic year is the previous February. Further information and applications can be obtained from the School of Graduate Studies, Memorial Hall 237, 309/298-1806. PMGAP applications are also available in the Scholarship Office, Sherman Hall 308, 309/298-2001.
Residence Hall Graduate Assistants
These positions are available to students pursuing an advanced degree in counseling or college student personnel. The assistantship includes a stipend and tuition waiver plus an apartment and board.
Residence Hall Resident Assistants
These positions include a monthly stipend plus room and board. Tuition and fees are not waived.
Loans and Part-Time Employment
The University participates in the Federal Perkins Loan Program, the Federal Work-Study Program, and the Federal Family Education Loan Programs, as an institutional lender for graduate students. For detailed information on the application process, contact the Office of Financial Aid, Sherman Hall 127, 309/298-2446. Please remember enrollment information is not always available to the financial aid office when a loan is processed. Therefore, your loan will be based on the assumption that students will be enrolled for nine hours each semester. Accordingly, revision to loan amounts may be necessary if students take less than nine semester hours. Federal loans and work-study require at least six semester hours of graduate level course work each term plus enrollment in a qualified degree program. In addition, loans may be increased by request for the added amount of tuition if students register for 12 or more hours. Audit hours are not considered for financial aid.
Some departments have special scholarship opportunities for graduate students. Information concerning these scholarships can be obtained from the Scholarship Office, Sherman Hall 308, 309/298-2001, or from the academic department.
If students are receiving veterans' benefits through the Montgomery G.I. Bill, they must meet the financial aid requirements for satisfactory progress to continue receiving those benefits.


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Andrew Bazemore, M.D., M.P.H., pauses to take a student's question during his opening presentation at the recent Primary Care Interprofessional Leadership Institute in Sterling, Va.
Invite 23 inquisitive graduate-level students to an event with a keynote speaker steeped in knowledge about a shared topic of interest, and watch the passion explode.
That's exactly what happened recently at American Medical Student Association (AMSA)(www.amsa.org) headquarters in Sterling, Va., where the second annual Primary Care Interprofessional Leadership Institute was held Feb. 7-9. Students from a variety of health professions programs gathered to learn more about primary care and interprofessional team-based training.
Event organizers tapped Andrew Bazemore, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care(www.graham-center.org), as the speaker to launch the weekend conference.
Story highlights
- A select group of 23 graduate-level students, including allopathic and osteopathic medical students, recently attended the Primary Care Interprofessional Leadership Institute in Sterling, Va.
- Organizers chose Andrew Bazemore, M.D., M.P.H. director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, as their kick-off speaker.
- Bazemore engaged students with a discussion about the history of primary care, the primary care workforce shortage and the challenges that come with implementing team-based care.
"He did exactly what we wanted him to do in sparking interest and getting the wheels turning for the weekend," said Katie Eggerman, a third-year medical student at Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine and the co-coordinator for the 2014 event, in an interview with AAFP News.
Participants were handpicked from 130 applications received from around the country. The students are training to become allopathic or osteopathic primary care physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, or pharmacists.
Organizers aimed to give participants a good understanding of what a patient-centered interprofessional primary care practice should look like. In turn, participants are expected to use the knowledge and skills gained to implement projects at their home institutions that will promote exactly that kind of primary care in their communities.
Bazemore used his prime-time slot to engage students with a bit of history about the development of primary care and to highlight the critical role that primary care plays in the current U.S. health care system.
His slide presentation, titled "Building Teams to Deliver 21st Century Primary Care," served as a backdrop to introduce a variety of topics, such as how to
- address the nation's primary care workforce shortage,
- assure the future of primary care teams,
- foster team culture and structure, and
- work through primary care payment challenges.
"We had in that room students and probable future leaders from across the primary care provider disciplines taking the initiative to overcome temptations to defend disciplinary turf and, instead, look for ways to promote training together," said Bazemore.
"The primary care training pipeline is threatened for all of the provider groups, and we all need to commit to reforming it together," he added.
Bazemore used every second of his allotted speaking time and, according to Eggerman, "had a crowd of students around him asking additional questions," even as the next presenter prepared to speak.
A week later, recalling those students who peppered him with questions about workforce and pipeline issues and sources for the evidence he presented, Bazemore noted, "It was an engaged group of learners hungry for more information and evidence about primary care, its history and its future."
According to Bazemore, several students were interested in the Graham Center Larry A. Green Visiting Scholars Program(www.graham-center.org). "This is a great way to come work with our team to help create new evidence that might inform primary care policymakers about training and the need for teams," he said.
Unfortunately, other commitments limited Bazemore's time with the students to just a few hours the first day of the conference.
"I wish I could have stayed and been a fly on the wall," said Bazemore. "I would absolutely have loved to watch an interdisciplinary group of students -- committed to working together to improve and deliver primary care -- come up with solutions as to how to capture this elusive goal of team-based training. They know first-hand their schools and the barriers."
Eggerman recalled that as the weekend concluded, students shared their favorite moments. Their comments revealed a common theme that she described as an "unexpected connectivity" with students from other schools and even other health care disciplines.
"They realized they were not alone in their passion for primary care," said Eggerman.
Related ANN Coverage
Embracing the Primary Care Team
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Additional Resource
American Medical Student Association-Student Osteopathic Medical Association Primary Care Interprofessional Leadership Institute(www.amsa.org)
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Paul McCartney cited the lyrics of "Back in the USSR" on Thursday as he urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to release 30 people arrested during a Greenpeace protest at an Arctic oil rig almost two months ago.
In a letter, the former Beatle told Putin that he wrote his playful homage to the former Soviet Union in 1968, "back when it wasn't fashionable for English people to say nice things about your country."
Quoting the song's line "Gee it's good to be back home," McCartney asked: "Could you make that come true for the Greenpeace prisoners?"
The 28 protesters, as well as a photographer and a videographer working for Greenpeace, were detained aboard their ship, the Arctic Sunrise, on Sept. 18 after staging a protest at an oil rig owned by Russia's Gazprom state energy giant.
They were initially charged with piracy. That was later downgraded to hooliganism, which carries a maximum sentence of seven years in prison.
In the letter, posted on McCartney's official website, the musician cited his long association with Russia, including an outdoor concert in Red Square in 2003. On that occasion, Putin gave McCartney a personally guided tour of the Kremlin.
McCartney told Putin he hoped they would meet again, "when our schedules allow."
He said Greenpeace, which stages direct-action protests against alleged environmental offenders around the world, was nonviolent and "most certainly not an anti-Russian organization. In my experience they tend to annoy every government!"
"I understand of course that the Russian courts and the Russian presidency are separate," McCartney wrote. "Nevertheless I wonder if you may be able to use whatever influence you have to reunite the detainees with their families?"
An outspoken vegetarian, McCartney has long supported environmental causes, and he has opposed drilling for oil in the Arctic.
He also was one of several international celebrities who last year urged Russia to free two members of punk protest group Pussy Riot. They remain in jail.