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Hell’s Best Kept Secret Reviewed by Gary Gilley (Christian Research Net)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:59:17 GMT

Apprising Ministries with a a short review by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel in Springfield, IL. Dr. Gilley also has a fine ongoing series dealing with many contemporary theological issues facing the Body of Christ called Think on These Things.

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Delivery Agent (DA) - Class A - Rockford, IL (GadBall.com)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:37:00 GMT

Position Description Delivery Agent Location Rockford, IL Reports to Zone Manager Friday, July 4, 2008 Job ID HEWIL2008-951 Job Purpose Statement The Delivery Agents’ primary function is delivery and distribution of ice cream products on an assigned route within prescribed timelines. Deliver and unload palletized orders; pickup and deliver credit inventory and a variety of other materials and related...

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Home Sales 2008 Springfield, Illinois; Stable Market Changing (Article Archive)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:13:01 GMT

Touted as the best housing market in the Midwest in 2007, the market is changing with the pull back in consumer spending.

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He Fills Sandbags, Too (House of Eratosthenes)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:02:03 GMT

Via Freep, via Hugh Hewitt, via Varifrank. …With shovel in hand, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama visited a flood zone in Quincy, Illinois on Saturday. Obama helped locals fill sandbags to place on the banks of the Mississippi river. Obama has vowed to push for state and federal aid to help victims of the floods. Wow, what [...]

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Sikich LLP: Sikich LLP and Rockford Accounting Firm Millikin Benning Kleckler & Kobischka, LLC Announce Merger (Market Wire - Mergers and Acquisitions)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:41:00 GMT

AURORA, IL (MARKET WIRE) Jim Sikich, CEO of Sikich LLP, announces that Sikich has entered into a merger agreement with the accounting, tax, and business consulting practice of Millikin Benning Kleckler & Kobischka, LLC (MBK&K) in Rockford. The merger is effective July 1, 2008. MBK&K will operate under the Sikich name; however, their office will remain in Rockford.

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The Graduate debut album Anhedonia + tour dates (Band Weblogs)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:23:12 GMT

When you hear a new band for the first time, it's only natural to try to place it in context with the familiar. Upon first listen, Springfield, IL's The Graduate may drum up images of print hoodies and guyliner ...

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Ill. Democrats face off in rare impeachment fight (Arizona Republic)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:29:26 GMT

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Three of the state's governors have served time. Scores of legislators and aldermen have gotten into legal trouble over the years. But Illinois politicians haven't seriously considered impeaching one of their own - until now....

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Ill. Democrats face off in rare impeachment fight (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:03:00 GMT

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Three of the state's governors have served time. Scores of legislators and aldermen have gotten into legal trouble over the years. But Illinois politicians haven't seriously considered impeaching one of their own - until now.

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NVIDIA donates $500,000 ti University of Illinois (DV Hardware)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:28:35 GMT

NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual computing technologies, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) today announced that UIUC has been named as the world's first CUDA Center of Excellence. In addition to the appointment, NVIDIA has donated $500,000 to UIUC for the development of parallel computing facilities and the continuation of its research programs....

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Nvidia gives university Cuda stamp of approval (the INQUIRER)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:32:47 GMT

Stewart Meagher the Inquirer , Tuesday 1 July 2008. 15:11:00 And 500,000 big ones NVIDIA HAS BUNGED the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign $500,000 and named it its Cuda Center of Excellence. The wonga is to promote the development of parallel computing facilities, Nvidia said. The Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group at UIUC was apparently one of the first research groups to use...

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Macworld UK: Nvidia appoints first CUDA centre of excellence (mac.ro)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:53:20 GMT

Nvidia invests in development of parallel computing facilities and the continuation of its research programs Nvidia and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) today announced that UIUC has been named as the world's first CUDA Center of Excellence.

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Want to be a delegate to Illinois Dem Convention? (PrairieStateBlue - Front Page)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:18:18 GMT

The Illinois Democratic Party will be having its convention on August 13th in Springfield. If you want to be a delegate contact your state central committeeman/committeewoman, township committeeman or county chair. If you want help identifying who these people are, Lauren Beth Gash, the state central committeewoman for the Tenth Congreesional District has offered to help identifying your representatives...

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Clayco to manage supercomputer facility project at U of I (The St Louis Business Journal )

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:07:50 GMT

Clayco Inc. said Monday it was named construction manager for a new 90,000-square-foot computing facility to be built for the National Center for Super Computing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Kudos: Peoria Leaders’ Request to Heart of Illinois United Way (Romans 15:4 Project)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:00:00 GMT

Several Christian leaders in the Peoria area have signed a letter requesting that the Heart of Illinois United Way reconsider their support of the “destructive agency” Planned Parenthood. Rev. James McDonald notes, “While United Way helps many needed charities, our local chapter also gives to Planned Parenthood. . . [and now that our local Planned Parenthood] agency is a statewide organization,

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Researchers are first to simulate the binding of molecules to a protein (Eurekalert)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) You may not know what it is, but you burn more than your body weight of it every day. Adenosine triphosphate, a tiny molecule that packs a powerful punch, is the primary energy source for most of your cellular functions. Now researchers at the University of Illinois have identified a key step in the cellular recycling of ATP that allows your body to produce...

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Struggling on the streets -Peoria (IL) Journal-Star (NC Mental Hope News)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:23:00 GMT

Mental illness takes heavy toll on life of Peoria man left homeless By FRANK RADOSEVICH II At Peoria's Richwoods High School, Tom Iaun was a strapping athlete and an average student. A member of the school's wrestling team, he garnered medals while building a trim, muscular physique. After graduating in 1974, he left for Carthage College in Kenosha, Wis., where he continued swimming and began

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Springfield's Stalemate A Hostile Environment (IllinoisSierraClub)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:09:00 GMT

In the weeks since the adjournment, at least temporarily, of the General Assembly's spring session, I have been thinking a lot about how the dysfunction under the dome has dragged down the environmental agenda. In recent years Illinois' environmental community has had an impressive run of big legislative victories on some the major policy questions of our time. In 2007, the electric rate relief package...

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Chiefs win wild one 8-7 (The Cub Reporter)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:56:00 GMT

Peoria, IL - The Peoria Chiefs found themselves trailing by two runs headed into the bottom of the ninth inning but rallied for three runs in the final frame to beat the visiting Kane County Cougars 8-7 at O’Brien Field on Friday evening. The win is the fourth in a row by the Chiefs to [...]

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Illinois urged to get out of death-penalty limbo (Arizona Republic)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:54:47 GMT

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- When then-Gov. George Ryan took the extraordinary step of emptying Illinois' death row over fears that an innocent person could be executed, he urged lawmakers to reform the death penalty....

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Illinois urged to get out of death-penalty limbo (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:49:00 GMT

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- When then-Gov. George Ryan took the extraordinary step of emptying Illinois' death row over fears that an innocent person could be executed, he urged lawmakers to reform the death penalty.

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