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Insight

Part of: Electronic Documents of Illinois

Feature articles cover naming the State Library in honor of Gwendolyn Brooks, Library Advocacy Day, the receipt of $6 million in LSTA funds, "Letters About Literature" winners, and Synergy: the Illinois Library Leadership Institute.

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Insight

Part of: Electronic Documents of Illinois

Feature articles cover the State Library at the Illinois State Fair, LibraryU Reloaded, the Illinois Authors Book Fair, and the unveiling of a new Illinois Authors Browsing Collection.

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Interesese lo suficiente para llamar

Part of: Electronic Documents of Illinois

Brochure about reporting child abuse and neglect in Illinois. This brochure is in Spanish.

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Inform Quarterly

Part of: Electronic Documents of Illinois

This issue of Insight Quarterly has news items entitled The Man Who Made Modern America Alexander Hamilton exhibit Aug. 31-Oct. 13; INFORM Service; New in Reference; Federal Documents Depository at the ISL; Infoplease; and Bestseller/current interest titles. Systems in honor of their 40 years of service to Illinois

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Inform Quarterly

Part of: Electronic Documents of Illinois

Article topics include: e-Books and the Illinois Digital Academic Library; Illinois State Library's Standards Collection.

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Inform Quarterly

Part of: Electronic Documents of Illinois

Includes information on the Illinois State Library's Question Point program.

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Internet Privacy Statement

Part of: Electronic Documents of Illinois

Introduction: The Illinois State Treasurers Office has a strong commitment to providing excellent service to all of our constituents, including respecting their concerns about privacy. We understand that visitors to our website may have questions about whether and how this website collects and uses information. We have prepared this statement to inform you of the privacy principles that govern www.cashdash.net

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Irrigation practices in Illinois

Part of: Electronic Documents of Illinois

Biweekly and total irrigation amounts and irrigation scheduling practices were monitored at representative sites in central Illinois during the 1988 and 1989 growing seasons. The purpose was to gather baseline information on average quantities of irrigation water used in normal and drought years and on the general efficiency of irrigation operations in the subhumid climate of Illinois. Soil water-holding capacity is the most important factor in determining irrigation amounts, explaining about 65 percent of the variability in irrigation totals. Other important factors in explaining irrigation variations include weather changes, individual farmer idiosyncrasies, and crop differences. In general, irrigation farmers in Illinois appear to be applying appropriate amounts of irrigation water at appropriate times in the growing season, based on their soil type, crop type, and total evaporative losses.

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Long-term variations in seasonal weather conditions and their impacts on crop production and water resources in Illinois

Part of: Electronic Documents of Illinois

An analysis of long-term records of corn yields, water resource conditions, and seasonal weather conditions in Illinois found major temporal shifts and important spatial variations in the types of seasonal weather conditions that have positive and negative impacts on yields and water conditions. Nineteen different types of corn-weather seasons (May-August) occurred during 1901-1997, of which nine types accounted for most of the high corn yields (highest 20 of the 97 values) and eight types produced most low yields (lowest 20 values). An assessment of the years with either high or low yields revealed three findings about the distributions of the corn-weather seasons creating these extremes: 1) some types were uniformly distributed throughout the century; 2) others were unevenly distributed over time, some occurring only in the century's early decades and others only in the last few decades; and 3) certain types varied greatly regionally. Yield responses to certain seasonal types varied over time. The findings helped establish that changes in farming practices, corn varieties, and agricultural technology all affect how a given type of growing season affects corn yields. Sizable regional differences in yield outcomes from a given set of weather conditions, a result of varying soil and climate differences across Illinois, further revealed how impacts of similar seasonal weather conditions can vary spatially. These two conclusions revealed the importance of using weather effects in defining seasonal extremes. In general, the statewide results showed that the types of seasons creating high yields predominated during 1901-1910 and 1961-1997, and most seasons creating low yields were concentrated in 1911-1920, 1931-1940, and 1951-1960. Major seasonal weather effects on Illinois' water resources (surface water supplies, ground-water supplies, and water quality) were found to occur in the spring and summer seasons. Two conditions caused these effects in each season: either above normal temperatures and below normal precipitation, or above normal temperatures and precipitation. Spring impacts on water resources were typically mixed, some negative and some positive, whereas impacts from summer season extremes had largely negative impacts on water supplies and water quality. More impacts, positive and negative, occurred in southern Illinois than elsewhere, and most of the seasons having negative impacts on water resources occurred in Illinois during 1911-1960. Comparison of the 1901-1997 temporal distributions of yield extremes (high and low) and the negative summer water resource impacts with the temporal distributions of cyclone passages and the incidence of El Nio Southern Oscillation conditions that affect spring and summer weather conditions revealed a generally good relationship. Periods with many seasons creating numerous negative impacts on corn yields and water resources occurred in several decades (1911-1920, 1931-1940, and 1951-1960) when the number of cyclones was low and most incidences of La Nia conditions that create warm temperatures and negative impacts prevailed. Conversely, when seasonal weather conditions were generally beneficial (1901-1910, 1961-1970, and 1981-1997), Illinois had relatively large numbers of cyclone passages and most El Nio-related cool and wet summers occurred. Consideration needs to be given to the shifting temporal responses to various kinds of seasonal weather conditions during the 20th century to determine how future climatic conditions may affect Illinois' agriculture and water resources. Furthermore, some influential seasonal weather types appeared sporadically, some only during the early decades of the century and others only in the latter decades. Thus, data from the past 97 years reveal that efforts to project impacts of future climate conditions on agriculture and water resources may be difficult and subject to considerable error.

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Memorandum of Understanding

Part of: Electronic Documents of Illinois

These are agreements between the Illinois Department of Human Services, the Governors Office of Management and Budget, Mattie Hunter, Vice-Chairperson of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, Dale Righter, Republican Spokesperson of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, Rosemary Mulligan, the Republican Spokesperson for the House Special Committee on Fee-For-Service Initiatives and Barbara Flynn Currie, Chairperson of the House Special Committee on Fee-For-Service Initiatives to transition from a grant-based payment structure to a fee-for-service payment methodology for community-based alcohol and substance abuse treatment, services for people with developmental disabilities, and to make a smooth transition to the SASS system. Also, the Department of Human Services agreed to initiate a pilot project aimed at the improvement of delivery of community-based services by increasing the use of the competitive selection process by an aggregate contractual value of $64,000,000, and committed to prompt payment for services. Beginning with State Fiscal Year 2005, the first $95,000,000 received by the Department shall be deposited 26.3% into the General Revenue Fund and 73.7% into the Community Mental Health Medicaid Trust Fund. Amounts received in excess of $95,000,000 in fiscal years 2005 and 2006 shall be deposited 50% into the General Revenue Fund and 50% into the Community Mental Health Medicaid Trust Fund. No reserve will be imposed upon Mental Health community providers by the Governors Office of Management and Budget. The State Comptroller, the Department of Human Services, the Department of Public Aid, the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Public Health and the Department on Aging agreed to identify cases of service provider hardship and give priority to paying those providers.

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