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Is Delaware and Maryland part of Northeastern?
Is Delaware and Maryland part of Northeastern?
What a random question for a surf forum. I would say that Delaware is part of the Northeast and Maryland isn't. The Mason Dixon runs between these two states.
northeastern what? MD and Del are typically classified as mid-atlantic states.
there is no real defined lines... sometimes delaware and maryland could be considered northeast, but generally speaking, we are talking about north of New York.
For swellinfo purposes, northeast is north of New Jersey, just for grouping purposes. It is subjective.
Ok. I want to know if Delaware and Maryland are part of Northeastern states. I am starting Northeastern Deaf Surfriders. There is other deaf surfer from the south starting Southern Deaf Surfriders. We are not sure if Delaware and Maryland are belongs to Northeastern or Southern. That is why I am asking a question.
like i said it is subjective. if you are cutting the east coast and half, then it makes sense to include delaware/maryland in the northeast.
why not join forces and do an East Coast Deaf Riders?

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BY NEIL STEINBERG email@example.com December 12, 2012 11:34PM
The Illinois Youth Center in Murphysboro. | AP
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MURPHYSBORO, Ill. — Every weekday morning, three dozen guards, teachers, supervisors and counselors — the preferred term is "juvenile justice specialists" — gather here at the blandly named Illinois Youth Center/Murphysboro, the second newest of eight prisons the state runs for criminals under 18.
When IYC Murphysboro was constructed in 1997, it had a capacity of 100 teens, later expanded to 156. Its population today, like every day since mid-July, is zero. The steel bunk beds are unoccupied, the pool table and gymnasium unused. Only those paid to tend the non-existent prisoners come here anymore.
Not that they stay long.
At 8 a.m., there is a roll call of the staffers in blue polos and beige khakis. Then their workday begins by their leaving, together, in six white state vans, traveling in a convoy to the equally blandly named Illinois Youth Center/Harrisburg, 46 miles away, where there are young offenders to be overseen.
Two and half hours — one-third of their 7½-hour shift — will be spent in transit, at full pay. The state spends $30,000 a month in transportation alone, not only for the vans, but mileage for 30 other employees who transport themselves to Harrisburg and get 55 cents a mile, the state rate.
Which makes this sleek, brick facility — fully staffed with trained juvenile justice professionals but devoid of actual juveniles — a perfect symbol of the financial free-for-all going on in Illinois as the state tries to figure out how to stop spending billions of dollars it doesn't have and how to rein in billions more it has committed to spend but won't get in pensions, salaries and upkeep of hundreds of programs, including juvenile justice facilities it may or may not need.
Meanwhile labor unions, such as the two representing workers at IYC Murphysboro, battle through the courts, the media and the Legislature in a desperate attempt to keep from losing what they've spent years to gain.
In March 2011, the budget for Murphysboro was cut in half. Then in June, the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice announced it would be closing two adult prisons, Tamms and Dwight, and two juvenile correctional facilities, the Illinois Youth Centers in Joliet and Murphysboro — on Aug. 31.
"The state can no longer afford these facilities," Kelly Kraft, a spokeswoman for Gov. Pat Quinn's budget office, said in an email.
The governor said it would save $88 million. Local politicians took the closings — and the prospect of hundreds of jobs lost — hard.
"It is stunning and sad the lengths this governor will go to punish Southern Illinois," state Sen. Gary Forby (D-Benton) said when the closings were announced.
The state has been trying to close the four facilities ever since. But as yet, all four remain open. The Illinois Senate voted earlier this month to override the closings, but the House of Representatives last week refused to act, meaning they will close, maybe, unless the courts decide otherwise.
"It's this weird bureaucratic thing," explained Ashley Cross, chief of staff at the Department of Juvenile Justice.
When the closings were announced, only 11 Murphysboro staffers accepted transfers to other facilities, while the rest insist on being based here. At first, the juvenile justice specialists were put to work mothballing the facility — inventorying hardware, moving boxes, waxing the floors, or trying to. But that didn't work well, and there was much complaining. So the specialists have been shipped to Harrisburg to help out there.
Should Murphysboro be closed? Unlike an adult prison population that bursts at the seams as the failed drug war jams the courts and jails, over the past decade, young offenders have been diverted away from incarceration, not by a drop in crime, though crime is dropping, but by new laws and policies that encourage judges to direct teenage criminals into cheaper and more effective community-based programs.
When Murphysboro opened 15 years ago as a 100-bed boot camp, a spike in teenage crime had nearly doubled the juvenile prison population in Illinois in the previous four years.
"We were busting at the seams," said deputy director Ron Smith.
Conditions in Illinois, which created the idea of a separate juvenile justice system in 1899, were among the worst in the country. That's all changed. In the state of Illinois now, there are 939 youths — they don't like the term "prisoners" — between the ages of 13 and 20 now held in six juvenile facilities, one-third of the number in 1997.
"We are at an all-time low in our juvenile population," said Smith. "The lowest since 1985."
For the past few years, Murphysboro has housed half the number of kids it was designed to hold. A declining population was not met by a similar decline in staffing, which sent cost-per-inmate soaring — $142,342 per youth at Murphysboro, according to the state, which is what put the facility on the block.
"We didn't pull kids out of Murphysboro — they attritted out," said Smith. "We just didn't need it, and it slowly attritted down to nothing."
That isn't how the juvenile justice specialists see it — they would like Murphysboro to reopen and return to a boot camp.
"It was a great program; unique," said Greg Foreman, president of AFSCME Local 2335, one of the two unions representing the Murphysboro workers. "The things we did for the kids were above and beyond anything that the other institutions provided for them. The staff here actually developed relationships with these kids.
So this is all about the kids?
"Yes sir. It's all about the kids," he said.
Murphysboro is minimum security — despite its 12-foot fence topped with razor wire. But Harrisburg is maximum security, and the Murphysboro workers worry that youths being sent there are mixing with hardened criminals.
"Not everybody belongs in a maximum-security prison," said Gary Cline, a union steward, noting that at Harrisburg, "everybody gets treated as a thug, a murderer, a rapist. Not all incarcerated juveniles are like that. I've seen kids who look like they've been in car accidents because they're minimum-level security kids who were housed in a maximum-security prison."
Murphysboro, meanwhile, had "24 hours a day, seven days a week" supervision and a safer environment, according to its staffers. "It's a great place to be," said Don Julian, a clinical services supervisor. "Kids can't get raped here. There's almost no opportunity for suicide. It is the safest there is, no doubt."
That's why most of the Murphysboro workers say they refused the chance to permanently transfer to Harrisburg or other juvenile facilities. They feel that many youth being sent to Harrisburg don't belong there.
Murphysboro "is the only facility in the state of Illinois with open bay housing," said Cline. "There are some who are starting off on the wrong path, they come to a place, a minimum-security place like this where they can get turned around, not only best for juvenile and best for future victims, but it's financially best for the state, to get these guys turned around and productive at this young age."
What's happening next? The prison, 15 years old, has the feel of a new facility, and a quick stroll shows the money spent on it, from the five top-of-the-line Estwing hammers in the wood shop to the $5,000 unbreakable Lexan door in the kitchen — everything that looks like glass in the facility is actually Lexan.
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, instructing the lower court to "dissolve the injunction that has blocked us from closing Murphysboro and the other facilities. We're waiting for an order from a judge allowing us to close the prisons," said Abdon Pallasch, assistant budget director for the state. "The courts set their own timelines. Once the judge does that, we can make Murphysboro's closing official."
Until then, the devotion the specialists have to their place of employment baffles some. "Times are tough now in Southern Illinois," said Jim Clarke, the engineer left in charge of the building, who calls the staffers "crybabies" for resisting the changes. "They are going to be made. Everybody says, 'The choices must be made, but don't cut my facility.' I don't mean to insult some very, very good people, talented people. But don't whine because they're moving you to another facility. Be thankful you have a job."


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The following secret R.J. Reynolds document, Project Spa, describes the initial development concept of a safer cigarette. Project Spa was carried out in the late 1980s, and gave rise to RJR's Premier cigarette, a cigarette that did not burn, but instead just heated and aerosolized tobacco flavor. But RJR found that the Premier cigarette drew harder than traditional cigarettes, which led RJR to analyze the Premier to determine whether it functioned adequately as a nicotine delivery device (see archives -- Crack Puffing by Baboons Via Premier). That test, wherein baboons were made to smoke crack-laden Premier cigarettes (and their blood then analyzed for cocaine content), showed that the Premier cigarette did not function adequately drug delivery device. Premier is no longer on the market. NOTE: RJR Tobacco Company and their foray into Premier cigarettes were the subject of the movie Barbarians at the Gate starring James Garner, which is still available at some video rental houses. No baboons in the movie, but it's still worth a watch. Title: Project Spa (RJR Secret) Type of Document: Report Author: N/A Date: 3/17/86 No. of Pages: 11 Bates No. 504949270/9280 Site: R.J. Reynolds http://www.rjrtdocs.com/ MINNESOTA SELECTED URL: Sorry, the RJR site was down, and when it came back up I was unable to use the system for copying and pasting a URL any more. To find this document (and admittedly, it was tough to find a second time): Go to the RJR site and enter the following search criteria, exactly as I have written it, in fields I have indicated: Combined Text: Project Spa Document ID: 50494927* Document Type: Report This should return just one document, and that should be the one you want.
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Project Spa Revolutionary New Cigarette Product * Biggest change in cigarette design since the filter * Unique new technology that provides taste and satisfaction without burning tobacco * Controlled heat source produces a thermally generated aerosol * Consumer smokes it like a conventional cigarette Spa vs. Traditional Cigarette: Tobacco Smoke: 10,000+ compounds (reported), many identified, many remain unidentified, some reported to cause disease as delivered (Exc. Nicotine), CO, nicotine, 'mutagenic' Spa Aerosol: Less than 250 compounds, particulate matter noncontroversial, nicotine, CO, 'non-mutagenic' Product Characteristics * Scientists and the Medical Community have alleged that cigarettes cause disease. Consumers perceive that cigarettes are harmful. In response to these perceptions Spa was created. * The products of incomplete tobacco combustion (burning tobacco) are alleged to represent primary focus of smoking and health controversy given: --Chemical complexity of tobacco combustion by-products --A number of identified compounds alleged to cause disease --Many compounds released are unidentified * Spa is a technological breakthrough --carbon fuel cell produces a warm aerosol that passes through natural tobaccos and tobacco flavors --Rich tobacco flavor and aroma come through --However, since SPA's revolutionary new smoking system does not burn tobacco, there are no constituents produced as a consequence of the incomplete combustion of tobacco that are alleged in traditional cigarette products to cuase disease or contribute to disease causation in humans. * Further, traditional cigarette smoke condensate is alleged to cause 'adverse biological acitivity.' * 'Adverse biological activity' believed to cause disease by many scientists. * SPA has no adverse biological activity * Principal form of 'adverse biological acitivity' associated with disease causation in cigarettes is 'mutagenicity.' * Traditional cigarettes are 'mutagenic.' * SPA has no 'mutagenicity.' ....Smokers will have a new choice in selecting their smoking products. Those concerned about the controversy associated with traditional cigarettes will be able to choose SPA -- a product that is not mutgenic, produces no 'adverse biological activity,' and delivers full smoking satisfaction without burning tobacco. Product Characteristics * Given inhaled smoke as delivered is noncontroversial from a medical and scientific standpoint, exhaled smoke is similarly noncontroversial (passive smoke issue). * No sidestream tobacco smoke. * Low ignition propensity * No staining * Reduced objectionable odor * No ash
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After a long hiatus from a new release Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 HD arrives on the iPad with plenty of new features and revamped gameplay. There is a lot to like here, as EA Mobile has taken its time in re-tooling the game to integrate well with the iOS touch interface.
You begin by creating a golfer and customizing the gender, skin color and apparel choices. Unfortunately, you can not customize other aspects of the appearance, like facial features, height or muscles (may as well make yourself ripped).
You then can start playing a round of golf immediately or begin a PGA Tour season. Your golfer will be lacking in talent at first, so look to change this with good play. While playing regular rounds good performance will result in cash rewards which can be used to boost up the skill set, although it will take a few green jackets and trophies before you reach the Tiger level.
Controlling your golfer's swing is very easy to figure out. The swing accuracy and power are determined through sliding your finger back and forth on a power meter. Sliding slightly to the left or right will draw or fade the shot. After the shot then spin the large golf ball icon in the direction you want the ball to spin when hitting the ground. Learning to choose the right club and swing type will also greatly aide your chances.
Along with the more traditional game modes there is a closest-to-the-pin contest that integrates with Facebook. By linking your account you can challenge your friends to match your pin-seeking skills. If you would rather take on somebody in a full round of golf, there is also multi-player available through Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.
Despite a recent update, there are still a few stability issues. The app crashed twice when launching, and froze a couple of other times while testing.
Since the iPhone version of the game is on sale for $0.99, casual gamers may want to take advantage of that option. However, if you plan to invest some serious time into the game or are a golf enthusiast, the iPad option has enough going for it to be worth it.
Download Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 HD from the App Store
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Thread: Iowa Farm Rent
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Iowa Farm Rent
I'm helping an elderly relative with his business affairs/finances after he suffered a serious illness. He has approx 150 acres in central Iowa he rents out. He told me the farmer sends him what he thinks is fair at the end of the year. How do you determine intelligently what ground should rent for? Where do you start? I see the surveys for average rents but how would you decide what it should be for a particular piece? Where is ground advertised at? When is ground traditionally agreed to be rented? I would have to believe that there is normally a written lease, how long are leases normally?
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I have seen this situation before. Post what county the land is in
and can you dig up the CSR (Corn Suitability Rating), acres tillable,
and any yield information? I have a computer program that does a good job of basing a fair cash rent price. September 1st is generally
the deadline for terminating the lease by Iowa law. Leases can be
for 3 years or so, but most are written on a year to year basis. And
yes, you better have a written lease which includes a lien on the crop and many other issues. Also what cash rent per acre did he get
last crop year?
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If you want to change rental terms or tenants notice must be given
before september 1 on parcels of 40 acres or more in Iowa so you will have to deal with the current tenant at least for this year.
Iknow alot of farms that are rented on an oral contract. My first landlord told me if I needed a written lease he would not rent to me.
If my word wasn't good a piece of paper wouldn't make it any better.
That was over 30 years ago and I still farm that farm. I have several
farms I rented for a cash amount, however, I like your tenant, pay what I think is fair for the year. Sometimes it's higher than what we agreed on, sometimes not. It just depends on my margins.
On a fair rent, I know of land that rents for 250 an acre. Some is pretty good land, some not so much. However when the lease is up
I have never seen the same tenant rent it over.They all pay the big rent figuring on not applying potash and phosphate but mining the soil. Eventually the farm will get the reputation for being a poor farm and the landowner will have trouble renting it out.
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The only guy I know with those kind of leases North of I-80 is ICF. But for your information, you can obtain the CSR on the farm based upon soil types. A CSR over 75 is considered Class I soil in Iowa.
The CSR can be obtained from the Soil books maintained by the Soil Conservation Service. However, proven yields should be the yield rents are based upon, because CSR's are usually lower than actual yields.
I had a farmer who had farmed a farm I purchased in South Dakota try to get the seller to reimburse him for the nutrients in the soil since it was his contention that he had raised the fertility on the farm for the 20 years he had rented it and should be reimbursed for the fertilizer build up.
It was a nice calculation, because I was able to allocate part of the purchase price on the farm to fertilizer and amortize a portion of the purchase price. Of course the tenant was not reimbursed. You are responsible for liming the farm, the tenant is responsible for the fertilizers to grow the crop.
The rule of thumb is that the landlord gets 1/3, the Tenant gets 2/3 because he provides all the inputs and assumes the risk on the crop. Soo if the ground is producing 200 bu. Corn @ $3 a bushel, then the rent should approximate $200 an acre. If the rent is not prepaid, then the landlord should be named as a loss payee on the Federal Crop Insurance in case of crop failure.
In Iowa to perfect an interest on a crop share lease, the landlord is required to file a UCC-1. But if the rent is paid up front then no need for a UCC-1 filing to perfect a security interest. The tenant lender should always be in a second position, in Iowa the rule is first in time, is first in line as a creditor.
The old rule of thumb still applies. 1/3 to the landlord, 1/3 to the tenant, and 1/3 for input costs; soooooooo the tenant gets 2/3. Remember the tenant also gets the direct payments.
In the Delta, specifically Arkansas and Louisiana the Rent is usually the direct payment plus a few bucks more, because the direct payments for Cotton and Rice makes Corn and Soybean payments look lie poor relation.
The Cash rent is usually paid up front and usually due March 1, of each year. The tenant is entitled to possession of the farm through March 1, unless the tenant agrees to a different termination date. In Iowa there is no requirement that there be a written lease for an annual rental arrangement. The oral lease continues under the same terms as the previous year if the tenant is not terminated by mailing a certified letter to his last known address on or before September 1st. Adios Amigo. John
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Faust, most of the rent around my part of Arkansas is 70/30 for rowcrop and 75/25 for rice. I don't know about cotton. Landlord pays his part of fertilizer (either 30% or 25%) and upkeep on irrigation wells. Usually any land leveling that is done is on either a 50/50 basis or some kind of declining pay scale (farmer pays for all of land leveling. If he loses the ground after the first year, he will get 80% of money back, second year 60% etc.) Since the direct payment is frozen and rice prices have increased by 75% in the last few years, direct pay plus a few bucks per acre will not even get your foot in the door anymore, at least not around here. But there is very little, if any, cash rent here.
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Jeff - Yeah! I am thinking about ten years back! Do you know where Miller, Little River, and Lafayette Counties are in Arkansas. There is a lot of Billy Haw, Alligator, and Perry soils in that area. I was always looking for the Caspiana what you guys call "sugar dirt". Over along the Red River east of Texarkana! That is the area i was referring to.
I had friends down there from Ioway who knew how to farm that area, they came back to Ioway and purchased a big farm here after spending 10 years down there. A group of North of I-80 Ioway farmers picked up the land they leased, and blew out down there last year.
Also, you might know where the Molicy plantation 10,000 acres, is located just across the Arkansas line, SW of Lake Village, old Elton purchased that place, it was a former prison farm.
I am glad to see the guys making money down there, I have never seen such tough country to farm in, with the exception of Ioway South of I-80. When a person goes down there and sees the huge farms, they think it is the best land in the world, and few people really know what they are looking at. A person had better know what he is doing down there, or he will be going to db's greeter school.
Adios Amigo. Thanks for bringing me up to date. I have been invited to go down to little Rock next month, and look forward to returning to my old stomping grounds. adios
amigo. John
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Faust100F Posted - 01/18/2010 : 7:10:37 PM
The only guy I know with those kind of leases North of I-80 is ICF. But for your information, you can obtain the CSR on the farm based upon soil types. A CSR over 75 is considered Class I soil in Iowa.
Pretty funny Faust, I am a pretty smooth talker, but even I don't think I could talk a landlord into a "I will pay what I feel is fair"
lease. Have never heard of this in my 20+ years of farming. I own my
land, but negotiate leases on 2000+ acres of other family owned land,
however we only do a 80/20 modified crop share or I custom farm the land, never cash rent. Also, it is very common in a cash lease to say
that a 10 acre grid sample be done on a 160 acre farm and the tenant
is responsible for paying to bring the soil fertility up. This prevents the mining of the soil. In my area, I just do not see a large turn-over of tenants.
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Spring2010: All good comments. You definitely want a
written contract. You should go from year to year.
What most posters have left out is the importance of
the FSA. FSA will insist that the contract spell out
how payments are distributed. They will also insist
that the lease specifically says: This lease runs from
1-1-10 to 12-31-10...or whatever you want it to be.
Make sure you take your contract to the head of your
FSA office and have him/her review it for compliance
with their requirements.
Your contract should contain auto termination for the
next year. On oral leases in KS, either party must
terminate in writing 30 days prior to March 1st. This
does not apply to written contracts cuz they contain
their own Terms and Conditions.
On an oral lease in KS you must pay special attention
to March 1 cuz Feb only has 28 days. So, if you give
written termination on Feb. 1 it is null and void cuz
notice has to be given 30 days prior to Mar. 1.
In IA ban the growing of winter wheat. Insist on a
SB-C or C-C rotation. Just because you are Cash Renting does
not mean that you can not stipulate this. If you let
the tenant plant winter wheat, it will tie those acres
up for two years...whether you terminate him on 12-31-10
or not. No winter wheat...period.
Your contract should specify that the tenant must
fertilize to crop removal rates.
Your contract should specify who is responsible for
tiling, drainage, terrace repair, etc. Usually, these
are the responsibility of the landowner.
With an elderly person you should go for straight
cash rent, and it should be paid on Jan. 1st prior
to the tenant taking possession. This way you don't
have to worry about filing UCC statements and liens.
If the tenant has a crop failure, the bank is going
to take any crop and insurance proceeds. That's why
you want your Cash Rent in your hand before he steps
onto the property.
The other reason that you should take cash rent...
especially with an elderly person...is FSA has tightened
up the requirements for receiving a Direct Payment
and their rules on "Actively Engaged In Farming."
Also, if your elderly relative is well to do, that
can make your relative ineligible to receive payments.
You get Cash Rent. The tenant gets ALL the FSA payments.
But, the FSA payments are built into your cash rent,
so you are not losing anything.
You want a Hold Harmless clause from your tenant and any
of his help or employees.
You want the standard clause about leaving the property
in as good or better condition as when he took possession.
You want it specified that he takes care of grader ditches
and weeds.
You want a clause on wind/water erosion and best farming
practices. He should stop blowing ground immediately.
Make sure you have an attorney prepare the contract and
make your tenant go to the attorney's office to sign the
contract&give rent to the attorney. Make sure the attorney is
not his attorney. lol. This way the tenant knows that you
are not putting up with any funny business. Your attorney
may charge you a small escrow fee for this service.
You should have an independent CCA crop consultant pull
soil tests each year. If the tenant is not maintaining
fertility baseline levels, in other words, he is mining
your soil, you should request compensation. If he refuses
you should not hesitate to sue him for recovery. You are
talking big bucks here. Make sure the CCA is not your
tenant's crop consultant. lol.
Roger McEowen is the Ag Law expert at IA ST. He used to
be at KSU. I know him well. He is a nice guy and will
be glad to give you good advice at no charge. Your tax
dollars at work.
Good luck.
48 I have to disagree with you on planting wheat . If your old tenant planted wheat and you evict him I agree he doesn't owe next years rent but has the right to reenter to harvest his crop. Your new tenant , when he takes posession on Jan1st, owes you rent on the acres planted to wheat even if he is nonparticipating in the wheat crop. The rational is , he has the right to take posession right after the wheat is harvested to do what he wants with the land. In your way of thinking, why couldn't the new tenant continuous crop the wheat and skip out on paying any rent at all? The last guy didn't have to pay rent, why should he? Or even double crop beans or another crop behind the wheat. He wouldn't owe rent, right? lol.In wheat country the new tenant pays rent on all acres regardless of when he takes posession , be it July one or Jan. one. JMO
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Spring2010: An increasingly common practice around here
is Lease Auctions. You already have your contract prepared
as aforementioned. The bidders also have it and understand
the Terms&Conditions. The only thing to be filled in is
the amount of the Cash Rent. Auction/Real Estate companies
can handle this for you, or you can do it on your own, or
you can have your attorney do it. He never has to leave his
office. You advertise it. The prospective bidders give him
a CERTIFIED CASHIER'S CHECK. High bidder wins. This way you
know you are getting the highest available Cash Rent.


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Annapolis, MD (August 8, 2011) - County Executive John R. Leopold is seeking nominations for the Dallas G. Pace Humanitarian Award.
"Dallas Pace was a teacher, a coach, a scoutmaster, a soldier and a community leader," County Executive Leopold said. "The award in his name is given to someone who has really made a difference in the lives of citizens from all walks of life. If you know someone who has made such a contribution, nominate them to be recognized for their efforts."
Dallas Pace, who passed away in 1974, was the first Human Relations Commission Chairman for Anne Arundel County. His long list of accomplishments includes membership on the national board of the Red Cross, the Annapolis NAACP and the Anne Arundel County PTA.
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Cliff Anderson is a Senior Usability Engineer at Wachovia, the fourth largest bank in the US. He has been doing usability work for almost 20 years.
Susan Dray was one of the first women in the field of usability. Since then, she's started her own company, published and spoken extensively, done important work with a number of professional organizations, and carved a niche for herself in field work and international usability. Through it all, though, her philosophy has remained the same: "If the user can't use it, it doesn't work." ©
"I was back at Honeywell, in 1979, and I was just getting started - which proves how old I am," jokes Susan. "We did some user testing (before it was called that, of course), and I remember somebody saying, 'if only they could read better, if only they were smarter' - basically saying, 'it's not our fault, it's the user's fault.' And I shot back at them 'If the user can't use it, it doesn't work.'" © Since then, Susan "started saying that all the time," put in on the tschotkes she gave out, and even went so far as to copyright it.
Corporate Life
Susan came to Honeywell from academia, with a PhD in physiological psychology from UCLA. "I didn't want to stay in academia, and I was looking for a place to go and I sort of stumbled onto a place in Man-Machine Sciences - not the best name in the world," she laughs. "Computers were just starting to move out of the back office and into the front office, so it was the very beginning of the whole HCI discipline really. Man-Machine Sciences was in the forefront of it."
Some of her first work involved military systems, and included documentation as well as UI. From there, she moved on to office ergonomics and "socio-technical systems," where she took care of the "human side" of implementing technology.
From Honeywell, she moved to American Express, where she founded and headed up the Human Factors department. Once again, she was in charge of HCI, but also ergonomics, training, and documentation. She also started the company's first usability lab, "one of the first outside of the computer industry." One of her best memories there was when she presented to American Express's board, putting the CEO and another member of the board through a usability test with a VCR. "These are two men whose combined IQs are around 800," she points out, then adds drolly, "It took them about 12 minutes. That was fun."
On Her Own
Susan was now ready to move out on her own. Fourteen years later, it seems like it was a good move. "I love the opportunity to work with lots of different clients at lots of different stages of projects," she enthuses. She especially likes working "with usability people, helping them to find a way through whatever the challenge is, helping them become the hero."
There are drawbacks to owning your own business, however: "I wish I could say what I like is the flexibility and the freedom, but unfortunately when you're a consultant, you have the illusion of freedom. I like to say you trade the illusion of security for the illusion of freedom."
One of those drawbacks, though, is not the fact that she works with her husband, David Siegel, a leading light in his own right. "I love being able to work with my husband, who's my best friend," she gushes. "That's great 99% of the time," she goes on, "which is pretty darn good."
One thing having her own company has allowed her to focus on is her interest in field work. "I think that basically comes from being curious and nosy," she notes.
Another influence was work she did at Honeywell onboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitiz. "It was so different than what I thought it was going to be like," she reveals. "I could not have anticipated that. It had huge impacts. I knew this sense of the context was really important, and I had to figure it out."
Her typical environment is not so exotic however. "When you go to somebody's home," she notes, "you see an incredible richness that you lose when you're in the lab. You start seeing who's actually going to do the task. Is it them, is it their kid, is their kid going to help them? What do they have lying around? How old is their computer? Do they look at all kind of websites and have a different model in mind? You find out all kinds of things like that that you would never find in a lab."
At the same time, she cautions, "That's not to say that you can't get really good information from a lab. You just have to be very careful about when you do field usability versus lab work. There's a balance there. Hopefully, you'll start your process by doing some field work."
She also believes that you "don't have to be formal about your field work. It doesn't have to be that way. There's an awful lot to learn just from deep hanging out with people."
Another thing her company has focused on is international work. She has been to 24 countries, including most of Europe and the Far East, as well as Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. She hopes to add Kenya and Malaysia very soon. "It is one of the most exciting, interesting things to go into a home in India or Russia or China," she enthuses, "and see life that is so differently lived, and yet that is so similarly lived. It's just amazing. I just love it. It blows my mind every time."
Helping Others
Susan has also been very active over the years in publishing, speaking, and professional societies. "We have written a fair amount," she allows (she actually has over 100 publishing credits). "One of the things I always wished I had when I was starting a project was somebody else to tell me what had worked and what hadn't worked. So one of the things that David and I have tried to do is to help give back some of the information we've learned so other people won't stub their toe in the same places." That impulse has led her to serve as an editor at Interactions and Behaviour and Information Technology, and currently as Director of Publications for UPA.
Susan sees her speaking engagements and professional society work in much the same way. She has given over 80 presentations and addresses, and has held important posts at HFES (where she was one of the first people to be certified), IEA, and the ACM, as well as UPA.
Her impulse to help others is also behind what she calls her "cocktail party speech" (explaining what it is she actually does to people outside the field): "I help companies design products for us normal people." No doubt, it's also the impetus behind her blurting out, as a new hire and the first woman in a company full of men, that "If the user can't use it, it doesn't work!" ©
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A student who is enrolled in a BFA program can normally set up their degree so that if focuses mostly on one's desired field, which can consist of creative writing, graphic design, television production, printmaking, sculpture or acting. With that being said, it is important for a student to understand that all colleges are different and the programs that they offer might not fully fit to this curriculum. It is always important to discuss this with the college or university you want to attend.
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"In the face of global crises, we must now focus on how school feeding programs can be designed and implemented in a cost-effective and sustainable way to benefit and protect those most in need of help today and in the future."
World Bank Group President, Robert B. ZoellickWFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran
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- More than 60 million children go to school hungry every day – about 40% of them are in Africa.
- School feeding is an effective social safety net and helps boost school attendance, cognition and educational achievement.
- Targeted school feeding reaches the most vulnerable children, especially girls, helping to reduce their hunger and keep them in school.
- The World Bank and World Food Programme have joined in partnership to undertake a study of how to best implement school feeding programs.
- In 2008, the UN World Food Programme assisted some 22 million children, with school feeding in 70 countries.
- The World Bank Group recently launched a Global Food Crisis Response Facility that mobilized $1.2 billion to help countries respond to the food and fuel crises, including by scaling-up school feeding programs.
This book is written jointly by the World Bank Group and the World Food Programme, building on the comparative advantage of both organizations. The overall objective is to provide guidance on how to develop and implement effective school feeding programs, in the context of both a productive safety net as part of the response to the social shocks of the current global crises, and a fiscally sustainable investment in human capital as part of long-term global efforts to achieve Education for All (EFA) and provide social protection for the poor.
Why does school feeding make sense from both an education and social protection perspective? How do school feeding programs work best across socio-economic contexts, and to what end goal? The origins of this report developed to discuss how school feeding programs can respond to the urgent global food crisis. However, the report has since evolved to address the fiscal sustainability of productive safety nets in response to the long-term objectives of countries, the response to the social shocks of the current global crises, and a fiscally sustainable investment in human capital as part of long-term global efforts to achieve Education for All (EFA) and provide social protection for the poor. The review is targeted at the education and social protection sectors, but may also be relevant to the health sector in countries where school health and school feeding are coordinated by the health sector.
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School feeding is by no means a new concept, and has experienced a good deal of both success and progress as far as program development and growth. What can we say about the degree to which school feeding programs have become an established norm in both low and high-income countries around the world? The prevalence of these efforts is expansive. Every country for which we have data is in some way and at some scale seeking to provide food to its schoolchildren. Comprehensive school feeding is near universal in those high and middle-income countries that can afford the programs and for which we have data. Alarmingly though, countries with the greatest need are those where the school feeding programs are currently least adequate. The near universality of school feeding, and the inadequacy of programs where the need is greatest, suggest an important opportunity for development partners to assist governments to roll out safety nets in response to the current global crises. Safety nets also sow the seeds for longer-term investment in human capital and social protection.
School feeding programs are attractive in that they are able to address more than one development goal at the same time, showing substantial benefits for both the education and social protection of children from impoverished families. School feeding can impact educational attainment by increasing enrollment, attendance, cognition, and educational achievement, although the scale of benefit and the evidence of effect vary by program type. The social safety net roles of school feeding programs include an immediate response to social shocks as well as social protection over the longer term. Well-designed school feeding programs that include micronutrient fortification and deworming can provide additional nutritional benefits and should be designed to complement nutrition programs for younger children, which remain a clear priority for targeting malnutrition overall. Given the value to education and social protection, there is a need for these sectors to be more systematically engaged in the development of school feeding programs, including research, design, and policy dialogue.
School feeding programs are most successful when emphasized as part of an overall plan to improve education and social safety nets. In low-income countries, programs exhibit large variation in cost, with related opportunities for cost containment. As countries grow economically from low to middle-income status, the cost of school feeding declines substantially relative to the cost of education. This dynamic indicates the need for a strong focus on supporting programs in countries before they make that transformation. The main preconditions in order for countries to successfully make the transition to sustainable national programs entail mainstreaming school feeding in national policies and plans, especially education sector plans; national financing; and national implementation capacity. It is critical that long-term sustainability is designed into programs from their inception, and that programs are continuously revisited as they evolve. Countries also benefit from having a clear understanding of the duration of donor assistance, a systematic strategy to strengthen institutional capacity, and a concrete plan for transition to national ownership with timeframes and milestones of the process. Further benefits might accrue if support for school feeding is better aligned with the processes to harmonize development cooperation in the education sector, notably the Education for All-Fast Track Initiative.
A number of types of school feeding programs have been designed and shown to be successful. These various types of food delivery, or modalities, can include school lunches, take-home rations, or even fortified snacks. There are real differences in costs and benefits among the available modalities, and there are significant differences in the appropriateness of the different modalities to local capacity and contexts. Given a finite budget, targeting is essential to ensure that programs provide the most benefit to the intended beneficiaries, as well as maximize benefits and contain costs. There are significant and avoidable opportunity costs of using teachers to prepare food, and significant and avoidable environmental concerns that arise from school feeding operations, especially relating to cooking fuel and packaging. The participation of children and communities is a positive determinant factor in the sustainability of a program, but careful program design is required to avoid exploitation or negative implications for education. Designing effective programs requires understanding and careful consideration of trade-offs among targeting approaches, feeding modalities, and costs. To this end, there is a need for better data on the cost-effectiveness of the available approaches and modalities.
There are many factors to consider in designing an effective school feeding program, including, importantly, how they will be run and how they will be supplied. Institutional arrangements and procurement choices need to respond to the specific country context, especially in relation to policy, resources, and capacity. The management of school feeding programs has become increasingly decentralized, mirroring the trend in the education sector toward school-based management. Case studies of programs that have transitioned to sustainable national ownership show that programs benefit from having a designated national institution, usually the education sector, and appropriate capacity for implementation at subnational levels. Whereas national ownership appears to be a critical factor in transitioning to sustainability, many different approaches to implementation—including public sector, private sector, and public-private partnerships—appear to be effective. Local food procurement is being actively evaluated by countries as a means to achieve sustainable school feeding programs and at the same time stimulate the local agricultural economy by using the purchasing power of the program. The primary challenge is how to build sustainability into these programs from the outset.
A number of useful tools have been developed to improve the design and maintenance of school feeding programs. These tools go step by step through the process of developing and ensuring effective programs that are geared for long-term sustainability. Different tools are often appropriate for varied contexts and intended outcomes. The following checklists and tools are presented by the report's authors:
Additional resources also provide a wider framework for development and support.
A number of key areas for future research would contribute to the further advancement of knowledge and practice on school feeding. Policymakers would benefit from a database on school feeding programs that describes the coverage and function of programs globally. This information would be complemented by further assessment of the relative merits of school feeding versus other social safety net instruments. Impact studies are also needed to assess the benefits to education and potential nutritional contribution of different designs of school feeding programs. Comparisons of different school feeding modalities and the determinants of cost variation among countries would aid policymakers in best allocating resources. Cost breakdowns would also help weigh the relative benefits of different modalities of school feeding with the comparative cost-effectiveness. Case studies of countries that have successfully transitioned to sustainable programs present useful models. Further research is needed on the capacity of local procurement to provide additional economic and social benefits, and to contribute to sustainability. Continued progress would also be advanced by the development of new, improved technical guidance and knowledge management tools to support the design of school feeding programs.
Appendix 1. School Feeding in El Salvador: Preliminary Findings of a Case Study of the Transition
Appendix 2. Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping
Appendix 3. Setting Up School Feeding Programs
Appendix 4. Revisiting School Feeding Programs
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Session 2: Community Well-Being March 5-6, 2013
Ellen Annala is President and CEO of United Way of Central Indiana since 1998. Born and raised in Arizona, she earned a master's degree from Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs and a bachelor's degree in religion from Phillips University in Enid, OK. Ellen serves on the Board of Trustees of Christian Theological Seminary.
Jeremy Bird is National Deputy Director of Organizing for America. Jeremy has worked in community organizing, political and, legislative campaigns and advocacy work. He earned a bachelor's degree in Religion from Wabash and a master's degree from Harvard Divinity School, and currently lives in the Chicago area.
Kent Millard is Retired pastor of St. Luke's Methodist Church, Indianapolis, one of the ten largest congregations of United Methodist Churches in the United States. In 2007 he received The Distinguished Evangelist Award given to individuals who have made extraordinary accomplishments helping people experience God's transforming love through Jesus Christ in the Wesleyan tradition. Dr. Millard states: "We believe God has called us into being to make a positive, transforming difference in the world and that the heart of transformation is the transformation of the heart."
Clay Robbins is President of Lilly Endowment Inc. and a member of its Board of Directors. He is a graduate of Wabash College and received his J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University. He was a partner of Baker and Daniels prior to becoming President of Lilly Endowment. Clay is a member of North Methodist church in Indianapolis.
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David Shane recently retired as President and CEO of Lacy Diversified Industires, Ltd. LLC, investment company. In 2005 and 2006 he served as Gov. Mitch Daniels' senior policy advisor for education and employment, working in the areas of workforce development, higher education and K-12 education.
Bill Stanczykiewiez serves as President and CEO; Indiana Youth Institute; a statewide nonprofit which has become a favorite resource for youth-service providers, government officials and the media across Indiana. Bill earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a master's degree in public administration from George Mason University; and Bill is an adjunct faculty member at Purdue University in West Lafayette.
Claudia Cummings is the Vice President, Workforce and Education, Conexus Indiana. Conexus is focused on issues like workforce development, exploring new market opportunities and building research and supplier networks to help Indiana manufacturing and logistics firms succeed.
Jamie Merisotis is President and CEO of Lumina Foundation, America's largest private foundation whose goal is enrolling and graduating more students from college. Before joining Lumina Foundation, Merisotis was founding president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy. Founded in Washington, D.C., in 1993, IHEP is an independent, non-partisan organization dedicated to access and success in postsecondary education. While at IHEP, Merisotis helped establish the Alliance for Equity in Higher Education, a coalition of national associations whose members represent more than 350 minority-serving institutions, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and Hispanic-Serving Institutions.
Jay Height serves as Executive Director of Shepherd Community Center and has served the near-east side of Indianapolis since 1995. At Shepherd, Height leads the charge in breaking the cycle of poverty. In ten years, Height has accomplished a budget growth from $100,000 to the current $4.2 million and a staff growth from three to more than sixty. Prior to leading Shepherd, Height served at Common Ground Ministries in Cincinnati for three years.
Jim McClelland has been President and CEO, since 1997, of the Indianapolis-based Goodwill organization that, with 2500 employees and $100 million in revenue, is one of the largest of 160 Goodwill corporations in North America. In 2004 Goodwill founded the Indianapolis Metropolitan High School, a public charter school focused on helping increase the high school graduation rate in Indianapolis and the percent of graduates who enroll in and complete post-secondary education. In September 2010, Goodwill opened a second high school, The Excel Center, to provide a diploma option for older youth and adults who left school before graduating.
Dr. Vince Bertram is President and CEO of Project Lead The Way. Prior to joining PLTW, Vince was superintendent of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation. He earned doctorate, specialist, master, and bachelor degrees from Ball State University, a master's in education policy and management from Harvard University, an executive certificate in strategy and innovation from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and is an alumnus of the Chicago Management Institute at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
Session 4: Changing Economies in Indiana JULY 30 - 31, 2013
Ron Gifford: Executive Vice President, Public Policy, for Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP), which is an alliance of the CEO's of Central Indiana's major employers and the presidents of its flagship universities. CICP is focused on strategic priorities such as encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship, building a world-class workforce and creating a pro-growth business climate. He is an attorney and an active member of North United Methodist Church in Indianapolis.
David Johnson: One of the original organizers and serves today as President of BioCrossroads, a market-based enterprise seeking to improve Indiana's economic future through investments and jobs in the region's substantial life sciences sector. Among its many activities, BioCrossroads informs and educates; raises and invests venture capital funds in promising new companies; and builds business collaborations by bridging gaps across academia and industry. Through his work at BioCrossroads, Johnson has been responsible for raising over a quarter-billion dollars in philanthropic and venture capital funding for efforts and investments to advance new companies, promote innovative research, and deliver on the promise of highly skilled 21st-Century employment opportunities for Hoosiers. A longtime business leader and lawyer, Johnson is an honors graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Law School and Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
David Sklar: Director of Government Affairs, Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council. David graduated from Ball State University with a B.S. in Political Science and recently completed his Masters in Public Affairs from I.U.'s School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA). Before joining the JCRC in August of 2007 David worked at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Indianapolis as a Program Director in the Camping and Youth Services Departments. During his time lobbying at the Indiana General Assembly, David has become a leading advocate on various public policy issues including human service funding, poverty, public education and immigration. He currently serves as President of the Indiana Coalition for Human Services and as an officer or board member of numerous other statewide organizations
Susan Brouillette: Director of Healthy Families and Sustainable Communities, for Lafayette Urban Ministry. She is responsible for representing the policy concerns of at-risk children and working families before the Indiana General Assembly and provides immigration services to qualifying clients. Susan assists clients by identifying available resources, answering questions regarding immigration forms and other related applications, facilitating communication with Department of Homeland Security and Department of State, clarifying federal regulations and procedures, advocating for due process, and making referrals to other immigration providers. . Susan graduated with a Masters in Divinity from Christian Theological Seminary in 2007 and is preparing for ordination in the Presbyterian Church U.S.A.
Session 5: National Study Trip - San Diego, CA and Tijuana, Mexico AUGUST 12 - 19, 2013
Session 6: Immigration and Changing Demography OCTOBER 22- 23, 2013
Allert Brown-Gort is a faculty fellow of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and a senior research fellow at the Institute for Work and the Economy, an independent think tank. A citizen of both the United States and Mexico, he has worked at The University of Texas at Austin, the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) and Televisa in Mexico City, and at Columbia University. At these institutions he has worked on U.S. Latino, NAFTA, and Latin American issues. His major research interests include immigration policy, particularly its political, economic and public health implications; and the role of culture in shaping values, institutions and political systems. Current research projects include a national qualitative study of the opinions of the Mexican migrant and Mexican American communities; and the effects of the U.S. immigration discourse on Latino political behavior. He has served as an advisor to the Fox administration in Mexico and to the U.S. Senate Hispanic Task Force. He has also provided testimony before the Indiana Senate on potential effects of proposed legislation aimed at controlling unauthorized immigration.
Art Farnsley is a researcher, writer, and teacher. He is a Research Professor of Religious Studies at IUPUI, Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, and Executive Officer of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Art writes about religion's relationship to American culture, especially American politics, but he steers clear of the usual angles. He lives in Indianapolis with his wife Gail and has two daughters.
Bishop Julian Gordy is a native of Newnan, Georgia, Julian pastored various churches in Tennessee and Mississippi. In 2007 he was elected bishop of the ELCA Southeastern Synod. A long-time proponent of ministries of mercy and justice, Bishop Gordy was a founding member of the board of MATS, a unique home for homeless persons in Morristown, TN and of Samaritan Ministry of Jackson County, an ecumenical emergency relief agency on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. He is Chair of the Immigration Ready Bench for the Conference of Bishops and is a member of the Justice for Women Consulting Committee and the Board of the Journal of Lutheran Ethics. Before attending seminary, Bishop Gordy worked in university and hospital administration and in housing restoration. He is married to the Reverend Dr. P. Morgan Gordy, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church in Nashville.
Joyce Burnette is an economic historian who focuses on the role of women in the labor market. As Department Chair and Professor of Economics at Wabash College she teaches a Labor Economics and Game Theory course along with other economics courses. She has authors a book Gender, Work, and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain.
Jessicah Duckworth is the newly appointed program director of Lilly Endowment's religion division, Jessicah was an assistant professor of congregational and community care leadership at Luther Seminary in St. Paul. She previously served as assistant professor of Christian formation at Wesley Theological Seminary and was involved with several Lilly Endowment-funded projects as a Fund for Theological Education Ministry Fellow and a researcher for the Princeton Theological Seminary's Faithful Practices Project. Jessicah is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
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Session 7: Hunger and Poverty JANUARY 7 -8, 2014 (Cancelled due to weather)
Session 8: Conflict Resolution and Mediation MARCH 18 - 19, 2014
Fred Niedner is Professor of Theology and Associate Director of the Institute of Liturgical Studies Conference and former Chair of the Theology Department at Valparaiso University. His ongoing work in biblical theology focuses on narrative portions of the scriptures, with particular attention to the wilderness tradition, stories of forgiveness and reconciliation, and the ways that oft-told and oft-heard stories create a world in which listeners find meaning, identity and vocation. He has served numerous adjunct roles at Valparaiso University's Chapel of the Resurrection, contributes regularly to publications that offer text studies and other resources for preaching in the church, and writes a fortnightly column on matters religious for the NW Indiana Post-Tribune, http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/niedner/index.html
Dr. Scott Himsel has practiced law for over twenty years in Indianapolis at Baker & Daniels. His law practice focuses on clients that serve students including colleges, universities, sororities, fraternities, and religious organizations. He is a Wabash alumnus and Northwestern University law graduate. He teaches a course each semester at Wabash. Scott's wife Jane Ann, a fellow Northwestern University law graduate, practices employment law in Indianapolis at Littler Mendelson. Scott and Jane Ann share a strong interest in how law and religion intersect; they attend North United Methodist Church.
Dr. Mohamed Keshavjee recently retired from serving for thirty-two years in the Secretariat of the Aga Khan at Aiglemont, north of Paris. He was Barrister at Law at Gray's Inn, London and has a law degree from Queen's University, Canada. He recently completed a PhD in Law from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, with a thesis on 'Alternative Dispute Resolution in Diasporic Muslim community in the UK. For the past ten years he served as Director of International Training Programs of the Conciliation and Mediation Boards, implementing mediation programs among Ismaili Muslims in seventeen countries.
Session 9: Administering Justice in Indiana MAY 13 -14, 2014
Dr. David Fredrickson joined the New Testament faculty at Luther Seminary in 1987 and was promoted to associate professor in 1992. Ordained in 1980, he was associate pastor of St. John Lutheran Church in Janesville, Wis., for the next three years. Fredrickson received the B.A. degree from Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., in 1975 and the M.Div. degree from Luther Seminary in 1980. He then earned the M.A. and M.Phil. degrees from Yale University in 1985 and 1987, before finishing work on the Ph.D. degree in 1990. His most recent publication is Eros and the Christ: Longing and Envy in Paul's Christology (Fortress, 2013).
Jane Otte served as Executive Director of Prisoner and Family Ministry for Lutheran Social Services of Illinois from 1996 – June 30, 2013. Prisoner and Family Ministry included services to the incarcerated and their loved ones at 27 prisons and jails in Illinois from St Charles to Joliet to Lincoln to Vienna.
Previous to serving as the Ex. Director of Prisoner and Family Ministry, Jane was the supervisor of the southern region of Prisoner and Family Ministry and helped to develop collaborations between Habitat for Humanity affiliates and prisons in southern Illinois and participated in developing hospitality ministries in the southern most part of Illinois.
During her professional life, Jane has received a number of awards. In 1995, she received the Citizen Volunteer of the Year 1995 awarded by the Dept. of Justice for her work with prisoners' families at Marion Federal Penitentiary. In 1998 along with her colleague Sister Pat Davis, Jane was honored with the Citizen Award from Illinois Probation and Court Services for work with Restorative Justice of Illinois. Wheat Ridge Ministries recognized Jane's work through Prisoner and Family Ministry/LSSI with the Seeds of Hope Award in 2001.
Craig M. McKee has practiced law with Wilkinson Goeller Modesitt Wilkinson & Drummy, LLP in Terre Haute, Indiana since 1985. He has a general practice, focusing in litigation, health care, and mediation. He also was appointed in 2007 as U.S. Magistrate Judge (part-time) for the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana, Terre Haute Division. In that capacity he handles preliminary federal criminal proceedings for the nine Indiana counties in the Terre Haute Division.
McKee is a native of Terre Haute and was graduated from Indiana State University in 1979 with a B.S. degree in speech communication and journalism. He earned the J.D. degree from the Indiana University School of Law at Indianapolis in 1983. His legal career began as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Gene E. Brooks in Evansville (1983-1985).
McKee and his wife, Diann, reside in Terre Haute. In his spare time, Craig enjoys travel, reading (especially history and biographies), theatre, and sports. In his "pre law" life he worked for newspapers in Terre Haute and Indianapolis and was a member of the sports department of The Indianapolis Star while attending law school.
Detlev Schulz is a professor in the Department of Pastoral Ministry and Missions at Concordia Theological Seminary since Fall of 1998. From 1994-1998, Dr. Schulz was a missionary in Serowe, Botswana for the Lutheran Church Mission of the S.E.L.K. (Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Germany). Dr. Schulz has published numerous articles in the area of Missions and Systematic theology. He has translated a book on "The Church comes from all Nations. Luther Texts on Missions" which was published by CPH in Fall 2003. In 2007, he published a book on "Witness" through CPH and his latest book "Mission from the Cross" was published by CPH in August 2009. His current project is a book on "Theological Anthropology."
Dr. Schulz was born in South Africa as the son to former missionary and Bishop of the Lutheran Church of Southern Africa, Georg Schulz, D.D. He did all his undergraduate studies in South Africa. He attended Primary School in Dundee and High School in Wartburg, South Africa. In 1984 he earned his B.A. degree in Classics and German at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He then moved to Germany, where in 1988 he successfully completed his M.Div. studies at the seminary of the SELK, the Lutherische Theologische Hochschule in Oberursel, Germany. During his studies in Germany he also attended the Universities of Muenster and Heidelberg. In 1990 he earned his STM degree at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne. He then served in the S.E.L.K. as vicar in Heidelberg, Germany, from 1990-1992. In 1994 he concluded his studies at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis by earning a Th.D. in Systematic Theology. Dr. Schulz is presently the Chairman of the Pastoral Ministry and Missions Department at CTS, the Supervisor of the PhD program and Dean of Graduate Studies.
Fr. Eric Augenstein is a priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis. Since his ordination in 2004, he has served as a high school theology teacher and chaplain at Seton Catholic High School (Richmond, Indiana) and Our Lady of Providence High School (Clarksville, Indiana), as well as the Associate Pastor of St. Andrew, St. Mary, and Holy Family Churches (Richmond, Indiana), and pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church (New Albany, Indiana). He holds a BA in philosophy and theology from La Salle University in Philadelphia and an MA and MDiv from Saint Meinrad School of Theology in southern Indiana. He is a past participant in the Wabash Pastoral Leadership Program and has served as a pastoral ministry supervisor for seminarians at Saint Meinrad School of Theology. Since 2013, he has been serving as Vocation Director for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, helping to guide and mentor men who are discerning the Catholic priesthood. He is also Sacramental Minister at St. Agnes Church in Nashville, Indiana.
Session 10: Health Care and Ministry JULY 29 - 30, 2014
The Reverend Kevin Armstrong is President of the Methodist Hospital Foundation, Indiana, the philanthropic arm of Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital. Armstrong has been a member of the Foundation's Board of Directors since 2008. He is a graduate of DePauw University and Duke University, and he serves on the board of Duke Divinity School. He was the former Senior Pastor of North Methodist Church, Indianapolis.
Richard Gunderman is Chancellor's Professor of Radiology, Pediatrics, Medical Education, Philosophy, Liberal Arts, Philanthropy, and Medical Humanities and Health Studies at Indiana University. He received his AB Summa Cum Laude from Wabash College, MD and PhD (Committee on Social Thought) with honors from the University of Chicago, and MPH from Indiana University. He was a Chancellor Scholar of the Federal Republic of Germany and received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Garrett Theological Seminary at Northwestern University. He is a nine-time recipient of the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award. He was named the 2008 Outstanding Educator by the Radiological Society of North America, the 2011 American Roentgen Ray Society Berlin Scholar in Professionalism, and the 2012 Distinguished Educator of the American Roentgen Ray Society. In 2012, he received the Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Award for Teaching Excellence, the top teaching award from the Association of American Medical Colleges. In 2013, he was the Spinoza Professor at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of over 420 articles and has published eight books, including We Make a Life by What We Give (Indiana University, 2008), Leadership in Healthcare (Springer, 2009), Achieving Excellence in Medical Education (2nd edition, Springer, 2011), X-ray Vision (Oxford University, 2013), and Essential Radiology (3rd edition, Thieme, 2014). He is also past president of the faculty at Indiana University School of Medicine and a correspondent for the Atlantic. He and his wife Laura have four children.
Joel Salatin is a self-described "Christian environmentalist libertarian beyond-organic capitalist lunatic farmer." He hails from Swoope, Virginia, where his family's PolyFace Farm is located. Joel earned a degree in English from Bob Jones University and is the author of many books on the practicalities of farming, the trouble with our food system, and the environment. A winner of the prestigious Heinz Award, Joel is featured prominently in the book The Omnivore's Dilemma and the film Food Inc. His own books include Folks, This Ain't Normal, Pastured Poultry Products and Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front.
Session 11: International Study trip to South Africa OCTOBER 4 - 16, 2014
Session 12: YOUR Leadership DECEMBER 2-3, 2014


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As I reflect over the years that I've operated as the at-home caregiver for our family, I have to admit that there are a lot of things I have learned or grown in my respect for. I thought it might be fun to take a few weeks to list some of them.Comments
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"Good thing we grow up," she said. Good thing indeed. Sometimes a child's toy can do more teaching than we could imagine. Thanks Baby Alive.Comments
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Airlines have called upon their friends in Congress to block a
White House plan calling for carriers to fingerprint foreign
visitors before they travel back home.
That plan, backed by the Bush administration, calls for all
international carriers to tackle the financial and logistical
burden of computerized fingerprinting for 33 million visitors each
year... something the airlines say will cost $12 billion annually
through 2018.
USA Today reports airlines aren't opposed to the plan, per se...
they just don't want to pay for it, especially as they grapple with
high fuel prices. "US airlines obviously cannot bear the staggering
additional costs," the Air Transport Association, lobbying group
for the major domestic carriers, wrote last week.
A House vote later this month is expected to bar the Department
of Homeland Security from requiring carriers to start
fingerprinting, until DHS tests a system for doing so with the
airlines. That measure was approved last week by the House
Appropriations Committee, as part of the larger DHS funding bill
for FY2009.
Foreign visitors are already fingerprinted by DHS when they
arrive in the US, though that current paper-based system is known
to be error-prone, and difficult to manage.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson
(D-MS) says it's the responsibility of government, not private
carriers, to handle fingerprinting of international visitors. He
also wonders whether such a law is legal in the first place --
saying measures to insure US border security "have always been
federal responsibilities."
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responsibility," Thompson said.
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The governments of Germany and the United Kingdom are also against
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like the US Chamber of Commerce.
"This global opposition will hopefully provide a wake-up call to
the department," said Steve Lott of the International Air Transport
Stewart Baker, policy chief at DHS, says he's "open to being
persuaded there is some other more effective and efficient way" to
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I am a young lady with hope for disadvantaged girls because i believe that given an opportunity everyone can be who they dream to be!
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