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Winners of the ACE 2003 Fitness Professional of the Year Awards will be announced Saturday, March 1st. Awards will be presented for Personal Trainer of the Year, Group Fitness Instructor of the Year and Fitness Director of the Year. The ACE Fitness Professional of the Year Awards were created in 1999 to publicly recognize the significant contributions fitness professionals have made to the fitness industry. ACE honors fitness professionals who have excelled in the areas of client development, training techniques, successful marketing and revenue generation. Each winner receives a $2,500 scholarship toward continuing education in the health and fitness industry.
ACE's sponsorship at IHRSA includes Pat Croce's keynote address entitled, "The Entrepreneurial Spirit ... Leadership and Motivation." Pat Croce graced the cover of Success Magazine as the first person to ascend from the training room to the boardroom of a professional sports team. It has been defined as one of the most amazing stories in sports history. His journey and success as a physical therapist and pioneer in the sports medicine field to the colorful leader responsible for the resurrection of the NBA Philadelphia 76ers to an NBA championship contender has led him to help motivate millions through speaking engagements across the country.
In addition to Pat Croce's keynote address, ACE is sponsoring 18 educational sessions covering subjects ranging from core stabilization training to exercise for special populations to the business aspects of personal training. All club staff, management and fitness professionals in attendance will greatly benefit from the diverse array of topics covered during these highly informative sessions.
ACE will also offer its Group Fitness Instructor, Personal Trainer, Clinical Exercise Specialist and Lifestyle & Weight Management Consultant Certification Exams in conjunction with IHRSA. CECs will also be awarded for attending the educational sessions at the show.
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This simple but substantial main-course salad gets its goodness from smoky skillet-blackened tomatoes and a dressing prepared right in the pan—maximizing all the flavor from the tomatoes.
Nutrition Profile:
Diabetes Appropriate
Gluten Free Diet
Healthy Weight
Heart Healthy
High Potassium
Low Calorie
Low Carb
Low Cholesterol
Low Sat Fat
Low Sodium
Serves 6
Prep Time 40 min
Total Time 60 min.
Step 1
Place chicken in a skillet or saucepan and add enough water to cover; bring to a simmer over high heat. Cover, reduce heat and simmer gently until the chicken is cooked through and no longer pink in the middle, 10 to 12 minutes. Transfer to a cutting board. When cool enough to handle, shred with two forks into bite-size pieces.
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Bring a large pot of water to a boil, add broccoli and cook until tender, 3 to 5 minutes. Drain and rinse with cold water until cool.
Step 3
Meanwhile, core tomatoes and cut in half crosswise. Gently squeeze out seeds and discard. Set the tomatoes cut-side down on paper towels to drain for about 5 minutes.
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Place a large heavy skillet, such as cast-iron, over high heat until very hot. Brush the cut sides of the tomatoes with 1 teaspoon oil and place cut-side down in the pan. Cook until charred and beginning to soften, 4 to 5 minutes. Brush the tops lightly with another 1 teaspoon oil, turn and cook until the skin is charred, 1 to 2 minutes more. Transfer to a plate to cool. Do not clean the pan.
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Heat the remaining 3 tablespoons oil in the pan over medium heat. Stir in salt, pepper and chili powder and cook, stirring constantly, until fragrant, about 45 seconds. Slowly pour in lemon juice (it may splatter), then remove the pan from the heat. Stir to scrape up any browned bits.
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Coarsely chop the tomatoes and combine them in a large bowl with the shredded chicken, broccoli and the pan dressing; toss to coat.
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Letter grades are assigned at McCormick as follows: A, outstanding; B, good; C, satisfactory. Each grade may be given with a plus or minus added. Grade point averages are calculated on a three-point scale as follows:
The D.Min. degree requires a 3.00 average. A student with a grade point average below 3.00 is not making satisfactory progress. Doctoral level courses completed at other institutions may be accepted by transfer if the course work undertaken relates directly to the learning objectives of the student's D.Min. program at McCormick.
Full Academic Load
A full course load for students in the D.Min program is three courses, including work on the thesis, during an academic year.
Independent Study
An Independent Study may be negotiated with a member of the Seminary faculty. Except in extraordinary circumstances, an Independent Study may not be substituted for a course that is included in the Doctor of Ministry course offerings. The Dean of Doctor of Ministry Programs must approve an Independent Study in advance; the contract must be filled out fully by the student and the faculty member, signed by both, and sent to the D.Min. Dean for approval. Independent Studies at the D.Min. level must taken for letter grade and are subject to the same standards as regularly-offered courses.
Students and graduates who wish to receive unofficial copies of their transcripts or who wish to have official transcripts sent to other institutions or agencies may apply in writing to the Registrar. Telephone and e-mail requests will not be honored. Transcript request forms are available through the Registrar's office. The first transcript is provided at no charge. Each additional transcript is provided at a charge of $5. Transcripts on demand or walk-ins will be charged $10. Official transcripts will not be issued until the student has met all financial obligations to the Seminary.
Academic Standing
Degree candidates are expected to maintain an adequate qualitative level of work and to make progress sufficient to complete the degree in the statutory time allowed unless special permission for a slower rate of progress is given. The Seminary will honor the academic requirements in force at the time of matriculation for a particular degree program for the length of these time limits, after which any new requirements must be fulfilled.
The time limit for the Doctor of Ministry degree is five years. Students who do not complete the D.Min. program within the five-year time limit may petition the Dean of Doctor of Ministry Programs in writing for a one-year extension. A D.Min. student requesting an extension must present an intentional plan to move toward completion of the Doctor of Ministry program within an established time frame. The plan must show evidence of active work on the Thesis in the Practice of Ministry and registration for any courses needed to complete the nine other units of credit required for the degree. An annual continuation fee is charged to all D.Min. students who are granted a program extension. The D.Min. degree requires a 2.00 average on a four-point scale. A student with a grade point average below 2.00 is not making satisfactory progress.
Leave of Absence Policy
Students who find it necessary to take time away from studies should submit a request for a leave of absence to the Dean of Doctor of Ministry Programs, stating the reason and expected duration of the leave. A leave of absence may be granted for no more than one year at a time. At the end of the leave of absence, students must resubmit their statement of learning goals. Time while on a leave of absence is not included in calculation of the five-year program limit nor in calculation of the continuation fee. If a student needs additional time away from the program, he or she may voluntarily withdraw from the program and reapply for admission when ready to resume studies.
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A student who, for any reason, wishes to withdraw from the Doctor of Ministry program may do so by petitioning the dean of Doctor of Ministry Programs. All fees must be current before a withdrawal request will be granted. In the case of a voluntary withdrawal, a student may reapply in the future and be considered without prejudice.
All degrees are voted by the Board of Trustees on the recommendation of the faculty. The faculty explicitly reserves the right to determine whom it will recommend for any degree, taking into account not only the candidate's fulfillment of minimum course requirements but also the quality, coherence, and integrity of the student's program as a whole as indicated by the reports of the assessments.
Students expecting to graduate will fill out an application for graduation and pay the established graduation fee prior to the spring semester of the year of graduation. To be eligible to graduate, degree candidates are required to submit all academic work to instructors no later than April 1, unless specific arrangements have been made with the instructor and with the dean of D.Min. programs. All students must meet all financial obligations to the Seminary by April 15, including payment of rent in housing owned by other ACTS seminaries, settlement of all debts and obligations to JKM Library, other ACTS libraries, and the Regenstein Library. Diplomas will be withheld until all the graduate's accounts are reconciled and financial obligations have been satisfied. Additional details related to the procedures for completion of D.Min. degree requirements are found in the Thesis Handbook <link>.
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A. D.Min. student is placed on academic probation and suspended from the program for the following reasons:
• inability to function in an educational context and as a member of the learning community or D.Min. group of which she or he is a part;
• failure to pay tuition and fees on a timely basis;
• two Incompletes on the transcript.
When these conditions exist, the dean of Doctor of Ministry Programs will notify the student of the academic probation. Students on probation may not take additional courses or continue working with their advisor on their Thesis in the Practice of Ministry until the required financial payments have been made, or the incomplete work has been submitted.
D.Min. students may be dismissed by action of the Student Affairs Committee for any of the following reasons:
• failure to make academic progress in a timely manner;
• three or more Incompletes (Is), permanent incompletes (PIs) or Fs on the transcript;
• breach of integrity or other disciplinary actions.
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If a student leaves the program by voluntary or administrative withdrawal and then wishes to continue studies at McCormick, she or he must apply for readmission. Students applying for readmission will submit a complete and current admissions application. (An exception may be the request for transcripts, which are already on file unless there are additional transcripts to be presented.) The following guidelines and procedures will be in responding to the request for readmission:
• Students applying for readmission must present evidence that the reasons for previous difficulties have been identified and resolved.
• Previous indebtedness to the Seminary, including tuition for courses taken but not completed satisfactorily, must be satisfied.
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Students who are readmitted will:
• ordinarily be required to take or retake I-648 Thesis Residency and pay the full course and thesis fees;
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• required to maintain a 2.00 average in all courses after readmission and must complete all courses in accordance with the Seminary's rules or be again subject to action by the Student Standing Committee. After readmission, previous Fs and PIs will not be considered in computing the average.
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The Student Affairs Committee (SAC) of the faculty is responsible for taking appropriate action with students in academic or other difficulty that is affecting the student's ability to make satisfactory academic progress. When the SAC receives a referral concerning a student or a recommendation in writing for remedial action from a degree level dean, explaining the reasons for the referral/recommendation, SAC will come to a decision on the issue concerned, after which the appropriate dean will communicate with the student in writing, explaining the reasons for the referral/recommendation and for the SAC decision. The student may appeal the decision of the SSC by following the procedure set out in the Appeals section below.
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The Seminary maintains high standards for integrity in academic work and in community relationships. Evidence of a lack of integrity in either of these areas which comes to the attention of faculty members or students may be dealt with on a personal basis, or, in the case of flagrant breaches of academic honesty such as plagiarism, may be referred by the dean to the Student Affairs Committee. The Seminary is committed to fairness, due process, and proper compassion. At the same time, given its objectives, McCormick cannot overlook failures of personal integrity in members of the Seminary community and will deal with them in an effort to seek the best interests of all concerned.
Plagiarism is the unattributed use of another's words or ideas in material submitted by a student for a class, and for the purpose of academic integrity will not be tolerated at McCormick Theological Seminary. Students will be provided with a full plagiarism policy prior to their first class at McCormick, and will be expected to adhere to the definitiona and conditions of the policy throughout their enrollment in the D.Min. program.
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The 15th annual Family & Youth Festival will be 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 24 in the Lake Charles Civic Center. The theme is "Healthy Communities Begin with Healthy Children." Admission is free.
"This event is a thank you to the community for their support throughout the year," said Roxanne Camara, Family & Youth senior coordinator of special events. "It's an opportunity to have a fun day with your family. It's an alcohol-free event, and it's inside the colosseum, so it's air-conditioned."
Music will be provided by the band Cloud 9, representing the Lake Charles branch of Young Band Nation. Members' ages range from 10 to 17, according to Marcus Johnson, the owner of Lake Charles Young Band Nation.
The music will include classic rock like The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and The Cars, along with songs from current artists such as Adele. This will be the group's first year playing at the Family & Youth Festival.
Festival events will be sectioned into zones. The Fun and Happening zones will feature arts and crafts, golf, bowling, hat-making and spin-art. New to the festival is the Discovery Dome, provided by the Houston Museum of Natural Science. The dome features information on dinosaurs, Earth science and space. The Get Moving Zone will feature zydeco aerobics and Zumba.
For the preteen set, the Future Zone will include exhibits by the McNeese State University's Department of Agriculture, the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office, the Carlyss and Lake Charles fire departments, Citgo and Sasol.
The event will also have resources for parents to learn about local organizations, such as United Way.
Last year's festival drew more than 2,000 people, organizers said. Family & Youth, a United Way agency, was founded in 1970.
According to its website, the agency's focus is "to provide affordable and professional support through programs and services dedicated to advocacy, counseling and education for the people of Southwest Louisiana."
"We just want everyone to come out, and it's free of charge this year thanks to our supporters," said Camara. "Come out and bring your families to enjoy the day."


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Town of Danville will host a Free Movie Night featuring two films starting tonight at 6 p.m., Friday, March 5, at Magee House at Hap Magee Ranch Park, 1025 La Gonda Way, Danville. This event is free, but snacks and candy will be available for purchase. Call 314-3400.
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Heartland Symphony Orchestra to hold annual meeting June 17
Heartland Symphony Orchestra will hold its annual membership meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, June 17, at Perkins Restaurant on 16th Street Northeast in Little Falls.
All HSO members and anyone interested in becoming a member are invited to attend. To qualify as a member, one must make at least a $10 annual donation or volunteer significant time serving the orchestra. Orchestra players are considered volunteers and, thus, members.
The annual meeting agenda will include election of new board members, a brief financial report, plans for next season and an open forum for those present to ask questions.
Immediately following the annual meeting, the board of directors will conduct its regular monthly business meeting. All regular meetings are attended by the full board, the orchestra manager and the business manager. Other members present may stay and observe but may not participate in the regular monthly meeting unless issues are pre-approved and appear on the agenda.
To become a member of the HSO, to inquire about joining the orchestra as a volunteer musician, or to be considered for election to the board of directors, call the HSO office at 800-826-1997.
Concert ticket information for HSO's 2013-14 season will be available starting in August at www.heartlandsymphony.org or by calling the above number for a free season brochure.


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Nice, Very nice. Photos say it all.
Nice, Very nice. Photos say it all.
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Nice job on the fames, Ben! Really nice!
Thanks everyone; I loved doing it, and hope to do a lot more in the future. It's actually really mostly you guys' fault that they turned out, since y'all gave me all the tips, pics, and advice. Thanks a billion! Yes, I'll try to make a video as soon as I refine and streamline the process.
Very nice frame Ben I made some myself earlier this year. I know this may sound like a dumb question but why on the top bars outside of the end bars do all commercial frames and the ones that Ben has built do they taper down. What is the reason for this, I'm sure there is a good reason why not just leave them flat. Please someone educate me on this. Ben once again nice job.
Allegedly helps to keep the top bars from getting glued down by the bees. I say allegedly, because, I don't know that I ever saw any data on it.
Is Michael Bush on here tonight.
Nice job on the frames. As for the taper. I also understand it has to do with them getting glued in by the bees. What I do know is that it woudl prevent full surface contact between the frame end and the frame rest. Maybe a moisture issue???
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
I don't really see the necessity of a tapered top bar end, only 3/8" at most of the top bar sits on the frame rest, so the slight taper that the top bars have wouldn't even come into play, in that short of a distance (3/8") the top bar is going to come into complete contact with the frame rest anyway, so it would not help in keeping the bars from getting glued down any less in my opinion. There must be a reason for it, does anyone know if these tapers where put on frames decades ago, or is it a more modern thing? John
John, I suppose you could make some flat ones and find out if there is any reason.
looking at photos of frames from the 1800's I don't see a taper.
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
Daniel Y, it could be one of those things that was introduced years ago, and everyone forgot the reason why. Here's something I just though of though, what if the taper was added to lower the frame slightly so that the bee space between the top of the frame and the bottom bars of the frames above was kept correct? If you just cut a straight cut 3/8" across without a taper, then that would mean your side bars would not have as much depth in the notch (the notch that the top bar inserts into) and that would not be as strong of a joint. So by increasing the depth of that notch (which they did) about 1/8" then the top bar could be about 1/2"(which it is) thick at the point where it meets the side bar, and then the top bar could be tapered down to 3/8"(which it is) to give you a stronger frame that still keeps the bee space intact. We have to agree that the frame we use in the Lang hive took a bit of figuring out when it was first designed, and as far as I know it has remained virtually unchanged for many, many years. Because frames are frequently manipulated, they have to be as strong as possible in all the joints to not fall apart in a couple months, so much thought has gone into their design. John
jmgi others.. Looking closely at the cut and the side bar joint, to the top bar, It may very well be a strength issue. That taper would give a slightly larger area for glue and nail where the end bar joins the top bar.
I suppose that the taper is to keep the bees from gluing the bars down so badly. It also give more space if you are using the old style 7/8" rabbet and folded metal rests, and the bees can get under the bars that way. Don't know if that is a new idea, but it does keep small hive beetles from hiding there.
I made mine to pretty much match commercial ones, which have tapered ends. The point about more strength is well taken, of course.
The cut on the side bars so they are not in contact their full length is for the same reason -- the bees won't glue them together if they are 1/4" apart. I made some full length mediums last year and didn't have trouble getting them apart, but I'm going to cut all them this year. Somehow I forgot I had a jointer sitting right next to the table saw....
I also choose not to taper my End Bars, they are straight, rectangular in shape. I find that tapered End Bars kill bees, catching them in the angle formed by the taper as frames are slid back into place, similar to a guillotine.
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Thanks, Joseph; that's a great tip. One less cut to make. I'm gonna start doing that. Thanks again!
[QUOTE=Joseph Clemens;887183]When I make my own frames I have chosen to eliminate the weakness illustrated in your photo in the above quote. I do not cut a dado in the bottom of my End Bars, I cut my Bottom Bars short enough so they fit between the inner sides of my End Bars. I glue and nail (staple) the Bottom Bars in place. This makes for much stronger frames, where the Bottom Bars are highly unlikely to ever pull offQUOTE]
Joseph Clemens.... Just asking for clairification... AND..I AM NOT a physics major. (and I don't play one on TV either HA!!) Why would his joint be the weakness illustrated in the photo and how could the joint you describe make a much stronger frame. His method has three sides for glue and staples into the end bar, your method only has the end of your bottom bar against the side bars. Only 1 point of surface for glue and stapes.
Please don't be offended, I would just like to understand. I just don't really see how your joint would be better. Obviously it eliminates one saw step, but here we were talking about strength.
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Notched bottom and end bars with the nails driven at a 45 degree angle will be stronger than a butt joint. Thicker bottom bars are stronger than thin ones, but we don't have any trouble with standard divided bottom bars, at least so far. Most times the comb is strong enough to hold things together in normal use, but then we aren't exactly a giant operation, so I can't say how well my design (a copy of standard divided bottom bars) would be in commercial use.
So long as the bottom bar does not split, nailed butt joints will work fine. The that bar splits around the nail, though, it won't hold any better than any other design.
Bottom Bars, when set into the dado's/notches cut into the bottoms of the End Bars to accept them (like a socket), has been one of the few joints in frames that seem to regularly fail no matter how securely I glue/fasten them to those holes cut for them in the bottoms of End Bars. I've glued them on all three sides and at the same time toe-nailed/stapled them as well as sometimes even nailing/stapling through from one End Bar leg through the Bottom Bar and into the other End Bar leg, still they've sometimes failed. I believe that the fasteners used here, weaken the joints. When the bees glue the Bottom Bars to the Top Bars of the frames below, that is a powerful bond, that doesn't always give, when prying, before the End Bar/Bottom Bar joint fails. I haven't had one of these butt jointed End Bar/Bottom Bar connections fail, yet. However, I do expect that some of them will eventually fail. It puts an awful lot of stress on those joints when prying up frames whose Bottom Bars are affixed to the Top Bars below.
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Gabby Giffords's Husband Buys AR-15
Publicity Stunt. Nothing more than that.
When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America , you get a front row seat. - George Carlin
He can go ride his high horse straight to hell....
saw this yesterday on another site
what a f*cking JO
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he is another one of these I believe in the 2A , but why does anyone need more than 3 rounds charactor
Sprat and sprat1 are one and the same.
It is a shame that someone who is "supposed" to be a national hero, ......instead works to destroy the country and the U.S. Constitution.
I will not say what I really think of him and his (" deleted") wife. Maybe she has learned to stay away from "Gun Free" zones.
Mister Gabby Giffords can go suck it.
Anyone who sets several hundred dollars on fire only to voluntarily give their property up to police for no good reason is stupid.
What do you want to bet he originally didn't plan to give this up? And I wonder what the police are going to do with it? Give him a $50 gift card?!
Who was Gabby Hayes sidekick? John Wayne or Roy Rogers. Roy did shoot, he went to the Grand. When they sold his stuff, he had a model 12 he won from Clark Gable. The story said it went for $$.
So if he isn't purchasing it for himself isn't that a "straw Purchase" and an illegal purchase? Also what's the 1911 45 for? Hunting not likely perfect for self-defense and concealed carry thought. Pretty hypocritical just my opinion though. Oh and he'll probably will get a tax break for the donation
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows that as a government grows, LIBERTY DECREASES."
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2. After half an hour, squeeze the pulp out and sieve the liquid. Discard the pulp.
3. Add 2 cups of coconut milk to 2 cups of the tamarind water.
4. Gently poach cubes of lean pork (I used loin) in this mix. Keep warm.
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4. Mix well, then thin back to a firm paste with the remaining cup of tamarind water.
5. Thread the poached pork cubes onto skewers and dab the sambal onto each one.


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- 1 teaspoon plus 1/2 cup butter, softened, divided
- 3-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1/2 cup baking cocoa
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup M&M's minis
- Line an 8-in. square pan with foil and greased the foil with 1 teaspoon butter; set aside. In a large bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar, cocoa and salt. Melt remaining butter; add milk and vanilla. Stir into sugar mixture until blended; whisk until smooth. Stir in M&M's. Immediately spread into prepared pan. Refrigerate until firm, about 2 hours.
- Using foil, lift fudge out of pan. Discard foil; cut fudge into 1-in. squares. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Yield: 1-1/2 pounds.
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Twenty-five miles west of Gettysburg, in South Central Pennsylvania's beautiful Cumberland Valley, the borough of Chambersburg boasts a rich history that precedes even the American Revolution. Today, more than a dozen sites around town are listed on the National Register of Historic Places—from a pre-Revolution plantation home to a post-Civil War college—and substantial Amish and Mennonite communities have established themselves in the surrounding environs. Add to that its proximity to wine country, and it's clear this piece of small town America is an Escape for the ages.
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A twist on the classic Italian dish vitello tonnato--poached veal marinated in tuna sauce--is popular on hot summer nights. Make it a meal: Serve with grilled vegetables, whole-grain baguette and a glass of pinot grigio.
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The Australasian New Car Assessment Program (Ancap) has awarded the RAV4 a top five-star rating, largely helped by its count of seven airbags including a driver's knee airbag, and technology including seatbelt reminders for all seats.
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Committee on Appropriations
United States House of Representatives
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee:
Thank you for the opportunity to discuss our Fiscal Year (FY) 2000 budget request to support salaries and expenses of the Department of Education's Office of Inspector General.
I would like to submit my statement for the record and present a short summary of it for the Committee.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) was created under the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, to prevent and detect fraud, waste and abuse and improve the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of Education Department (ED) programs and operations. These responsibilities are carried out by staff in headquarters and in regional offices and under contracts administered by the OIG staff.
ED's FY 2000 budget request for the OIG is $34 million, a net increase of $2.758 million above the 1999 appropriation. The request supports 285 full-time equivalent positions, the same staffing level as 1999.
Approximately $1.1 million of the increase will support salary costs, including annualization of the 1999 pay raise, the proposed 4.4 percent government-wide FY 2000 pay raise, and increased employee benefits. The remaining increased amount of $1.7 million will help defray non-personnel costs, including the OIG's increased share of ED's overhead costs for services such as ADP processing and contracts, communication services, and other services. Also included in this increase is $895,000 in contract services for the OIG to supplement its own technical expertise in information technology and financial statement audits.
The OIG's budget justification includes a description of all the major initiatives we plan to undertake to support the continuous improvement in ED's programs and operations and to identify fraud and abuse. Our initiatives include a mix of improvement and deterrence activities focusing on systemic improvements, up-front assistance to ED in designing/improving its information systems, and identifying significant instances of non-compliance. For today, I would like to focus on two activities, which require contracting for technical expertise to supplement our staff.
- Systems Auditing. ED has 14 mission-critical ADP systems to manage its programs and operations, and there are numerous and complex systems used by the external entities (lenders, guaranty agencies, schools, and state and local education agencies). To operate in this diverse environment, the OIG is developing a Systems Auditing Staff to guide its ongoing ADP audit functions. The types of activities they engage in include: information technology strategic planning and consulting; systems development life cycle audits; general and application controls testing; and computer assisted audit and investigative techniques assistance. Much of the effort being planned is to meet requests made by senior ED officials for a greater OIG presence as ED designs and implements its information systems. To conduct this effort, the Systems Auditing Staff would use contract funds to obtain highly specialized skills it is still developing. Specific uses of the funds would be:
Student Financial Aid (SFA) Information Systems Audits. The OIG is requesting $230,000 to help conduct audits and evaluations of ED's development of information systems supporting SFA. ED oversees the delivery of approximately $50 billion per year in student financial aid and an overall loan portfolio of $190 billion through the use of 13 mission-critical systems. As ED begins a major effort to modernize and integrate these systems, the OIG plans to review ED's systems development life-cycle practices, policies, and procedures to ensure that they provide the guidance necessary for effective control of the development of new systems.
Security Audits. The OIG is requesting $200,000 in contract funds to assist in audits of ED's security for critical information systems. Information systems managers face the dilemma of balancing the need for security controls with the rising cost of computer operations. Highly publicized incidents of successful hacking of government systems raise the awareness of the need for better security over Federal information systems and data. Security becomes a more pressing concern as agencies, including ED, provide increasing public access to systems and databases over the Internet.
Our security reviews will provide management with an independent assessment on the adequacy of security controls and the impact of any weaknesses on the information technology (IT) environment. The reviews will provide risk exposure assessments for both the electronic data processing and manual portions of the IT control environment.
- Financial Statement Audit. The OIG is requesting an additional $465,000 to fully fund its contract for the statutorily required audit of the ED-wide FY 1999 financial statements. As required by the Government Management Reform Act of 1994, the OIG will oversee the conduct of an audit of the financial statements. The increase is necessary because the cost of the audit has increased significantly due to expansion of the scope of work and audit efficiencies lost when the contract was recompeted and awarded to a different contractor.
Improvement Activities: The OIG's activities in the last year included the following products designed to help ED improve its operations and programs.
- Information Systems. The OIG has concentrated major resources in the areas of information systems technology, financial systems and controls, and student financial assistance (SFA) information systems. Our work has been centered on "front-end" controls that should assist ED in administering its programs and leave the systems less vulnerable to fraud, waste, and abuse. For example, we reviewed ED's Grants Administration and Payment System (GAPS), a core component of ED's new central automated processing system. Our assessment of the overall security surrounding the GAPS production environment identified a number of technical and procedural security exposures. The OIG's recommendations presented opportunities for the enhancement of GAPS security in various areas,including security access control, cash management, audit trail controls, security administration,and ensuring accountability
- Year 2000 (Y2K) Readiness. Since our March 1998 report on ED's readiness for the Y2K, the OIG staff has continued to assist ED in preparing for the Y2K. We regularly attend and advise at the Y2K Steering Committee meetings chaired by the Acting Deputy Secretary. Some highlights of our Y2K-related work include: an assessment of Y2K risks associated with the Title IV programs (a report required by the Higher Education Act Amendments of 1998)); a report on the reasonableness of ED's Y2K cost estimates reported to OMB, including recommendations for strengthening the cost estimation process; and reviews at five guaranty agencies to determine the status of their Y2K readiness, which provided ED with information to assist in monitoring guaranty agency progress. In addition, we assisted in the contingency planning process for the Title IV programs by actively participating in team meetings and providing comments on draft documents.
- GPRA (Results Act). ED has prepared a strategic plan and an annual performance plan for FY 1999 and designed a framework for the validation and verification of performance indicators. However, we determined that ED needs to finalize and implement a process for assembling and analyzing performance data and preparing the performance report. Further, to ensure accurate and fair reporting, ED needs to establish controls over the analysis and reporting of performance indicators in its report. One such control we recommended was that program managers provide an assertion on the reliability and validity of the data sources or identify the weaknesses and have a plan for correcting them.
- Reauthorization. The OIG devoted significant resources to provide input to ED and Congress for three statutory reauthorizations.
Higher Education Act (HEA). The OIG submitted a package of HEA amendment proposals to Congress based on audits and investigations that the OIG designed to improve the integrity of the programs and to save hundreds of millions of dollars. When passed in October 1998, the reauthorization of the HEA included a number of OIG recommendations: eliminate Pell eligibility for high-default schools; require verification of applicants??? income data with IRS, and require discharge of loans to the extent of unpaid refunds for student victims of refund fraud by schools.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The OIG conducted a series of audits and reviews involving a wide variety of Federal, State, and local officials and institutions. Using these audits and reviews as well as many discussions with State and local officials, we developed a "Perspective Paper" on the 1999 reauthorization of the ESEA. This paper provided a discussion on "common sense" tests for determining necessary and comprehensible compliance requirements and how they might be formulated to incorporate the requirements of GPRA. The paper also provided a compendium of the pertinent audit results with recommendations for legislative changes and was designed to assist ED and Congress in determining needed revisions, additions, and/or deletions to the ESEA.
Safe and Drug Free Schools (SDFS). The OIG issued an audit report in December 1998 titled: "Safe and Drug Free Schools, Increasing Accountability and Preserving Flexibility." This audit provided information to ED and Congress for the upcoming reauthorization of the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act in 1999. The review found that the Federal and State application review process generally complied with the Act; funds were properly distributed to State and local education agencies (LEAs); some LEAs did not plan their SDFS activities to address their needs; and LEAs should be accountable for greatest need funding. We also found that three of the four states reviewed did not assure that their LEAs had outcome-based performance indicators.
- Program Improvement Audits. The OIG's activities included several program-specific audits designed to provide ED with recommendations to improve the programs. Two such activities were:
Direct Loan School Monitoring. Our review examined ED's process for monitoring school administration of the Direct Loan Program. We identified three weaknesses or concerns with ED's oversight of the program: (1) ED did not have sufficient data to effectively monitor schools participating in the Direct Loan Program; (2) ED needed to improve its approach to monitoring Direct Loan schools; and (3) the lack of loan-level matches decreased control over data reliability.
85/15 Percent Rule. The rule, which became effective July 1, 1995, requires that an institution eligible to receive Title IV funds receive at least 15 percent of its revenue from non-Title IV program funds. The OIG's first audit of the 85/15 requirement identified $8.6 million of Federal funds awarded to two ineligible institutions. We recommended that they return the funds and be terminated from participating in the Title IV programs.
- Financial Statement Audit. Due primarily to extraordinary efforts by ED staff and our auditors, in FY 1998 ED received an unqualified opinion on its FY 1997 financial statements. This is the first time management has reached that goal on a Department-wide basis.
Deterrence Activities: The OIG's significant deterrence efforts included:
- CSX Corporation. An OIG investigation of Cybernetics and Systems, Inc. (CSI), a subsidiary of CSX Corporation, resulted in a criminal conviction and a large civil settlement. CSI, which acted as a servicer for student loans reinsured by the Federal government, paid $28 million as well as a $2 million criminal fine to the United States government. The evidence showed that CSI employees falsified due diligence documentation used to support claims for federal student loans.
- Fraud by Student Aid Consultants. The OIG is presently involved in ten major fraud cases involving schemes by student financial aid consultants. To date, five consultants have been convicted. In one case, an individual self-employed as a student financial aid consultant helped approximately 700 clients to use falsified financial documents to get Pell Grants to which they were not entitled because their incomes were too high. In another case, a person who owned financial aid consultant businesses in Michigan and Alabama charged clients for supplying false income information to enable more than 300 clients to get more than $1.7 million in Pell and Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant funds fraudulently.
- Toldos Yakov Yosef Seminary. A long and complex OIG investigation in conjunction with several other law enforcement agencies recently culminated in guilty verdicts by a Federal jury in White Plains, New York. Four defendants were found guilty of conspiracy, wire fraud and mail fraud in connection with the theft of tens of millions of government dollars, including millions of dollars in Pell Grants for ineligible persons.
The OIG's activities have generated significant savings over the years from its audits and investigations. For several years, the Committee in its appropriations bill report has directed this and other OIGs under the Subcommittee's jurisdiction to submit quarterly reports of detailed information on actual monies collected as a result of OIG investigations and audit activities. Last year, the Committee's report expressed concern about our reporting. I can assure the Chairman that we have made substantial efforts to provide the information from available data and have made considerable progress in obtaining and reporting more timely and accurate data. We have met periodically with staff of this Subcommittee and with the Department of Justice to discuss our difficulties, and I believe these efforts will substantially improve the reporting process in the future.
In the last year, OIG investigations have in fact resulted in substantial collections, $34 million on two cases alone--about the entire amount of our FY 2000 budget request. This is not to say that we can expect to have similar results every year, since it can take years of hard work to bring major court cases to such successful conclusions. Using our small investigation staff with auditor assistance, we make
every effort to collect ill-gotten gains when possible, including using the asset forfeiture laws when appropriate. We think we have a good record of returning value for both our audit activities and criminal and civil investigations.
Let me conclude by saying that the OIG has set an aggressive agenda for itself. We believe our plan for FY 2000 addresses the major issues facing ED, including some common to the rest of government such as the Y2K problem, computer security, identity theft, abuse of electronic transmissions of funds, and electronic signatures.
Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, this concludes my statement. I will be happy to respond to any questions that you and the Committee members may have.


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