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The 19th annual Eastern Illinois Literature Conference for Teachers and Lovers of Good Books will be held October 23 and 24 at Eastern Illinois University and will focus on Chaucer's ''The Canterbury Tales.''
This session includes a dramatic reading of ''Nun's Priest's Tale,'' a lecture on ''Chaucer Today,'' and workshops for secondary school teachers on teaching Chaucer. The October 23rd session includes the lecture and slide show ''Pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral'' and dramatic readings from ''The Canterbury Tales.'' Start: 1:00 pm
The Meaning of Service (MoS) is a reading and discussion program for Americorps volunteers featuring discussions that use short philosophical and literary texts on the nature of justice, service, and related themes. Meaning of Service presents participants with the opportunity to examine, refine, and regenerate the beliefs underlying their work.
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
 We live between fences. We may hardly notice them, but they are dominant features in our lives and in our history. Built of hedge, concrete, wood and metal, the fence skirts our properties and is central to the American landscape. We use them to enclose our houses and neighborhoods.Start: 5:00 pm
 Back in the old days, your employer would pick up your pension tab. From auto industry assembly line plants to corporate offices filled with row-upon-row of white-collar workers, most anyone earning a paycheck was part of what was called a defined benefit pension plan. That meant the employer, not the worker, paid for and managed the funds that would one day show up in a monthly pension check.
That changed in the late ‘70s and early '80s when the 401(k) came onto the employee benefits scene. The responsibility--and the risk--of saving for retirement were shifted to the worker. On the surface, it was not a terrible idea to give the individual a hand in preparing for retirement. But while fund managers and employers pushed 401(k) plans as a sure way to build million-dollar retirements nest eggs, they didn't always offer much information about the risks of investing. And today, millions of 401(k) plan participants are seeing a creeping erosion of their account balances as the stock market plunges. In a recent column, commentator Marie Cocco points out the over-the-top gushing that was used to sell 40l(k)s as get-rich-quick schemes: | ||
