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	<title>Landmark Education News About Landmark Forum Graduates &#187; Chicago</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Martinis for Music: Chicagoans Party to Save Program</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/09/26/martinis-for-music-chicagoans-party-to-save-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George F</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Joanna Burgraf has created a project out of Landmark&#8217;s Education&#8217;s Self-Expression and Leadership Program that is raising substantial sums of money towards saving the music program at the Armor Elementary School in the south side of Chicago.
Named S.O.S., or Save Our Song, the initial idea for the project came from a partnership between Burgraf&#8217;s employer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pedal for Pads</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/08/08/pedal-for-pads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Cahill</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Homelessness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jeanne Thompson resolved to use her Self-Expression and Leadership program to raise money for an organization that reconnects homeless people to their community. In so doing, she created the Pedal for Pads Bikeathon and raised about $10,000 for an extremely worthy organization. The Daily Herald of Suburban Chicago wrote a story about the July 12 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French Transplant Brings Emotional Freedom to Community</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/07/29/french-transplant-brings-emotional-freedom-to-community/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/07/29/french-transplant-brings-emotional-freedom-to-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George F</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Therese Harmon&#8217;s project in Landmark Education&#8217;s Self Expression and Leadership program involved giving away her expertise in holistic healing free to community and civic groups. Her efforts caught the attention of the South Bend Tribune, whose story in Harmon is printed here in its entirety.

Tapped In
by Gene Stowe
After five years of pharmacy training in her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purpose Driven Sports - Athletes help Raise Money for Hope School</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/07/18/purpose-driven-sports-athletes-help-raise-money-for-hope-school/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/07/18/purpose-driven-sports-athletes-help-raise-money-for-hope-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George F</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Zech Gilbert&#8217;s Self-Expression and Leadership Program project, Purpose Driven Sports, began with a realization that not all professional athletes are making headlines by getting in trouble somewhere. Many of them are quietly making a difference int their communities. Gilbert, who is president of the Chicagosporting.com website, got the idea to honor those worthy athletes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Student Creates Memorial Garden for Riley Elementary</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/07/14/former-student-creates-memorial-garden-for-riley-elementary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/07/14/former-student-creates-memorial-garden-for-riley-elementary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George F</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Landmark Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Eric Schneider has taken on a project to create a memorial garden at the Riley Elementary School 1983 class reunion for those associated with the class who have passed. The project, which was Schneider&#8217;s project in his Self-Expression and Leadership program, took place on July 12, was written about by the Wheeling Countryside newspaper, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assyrian Superstar</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/06/27/assyrian-superstar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/06/27/assyrian-superstar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George F</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When Ather Yokany did Landmark Education&#8217;s Self-Expression and Leadership program a while back in Chicago, he knew he wanted impact a unique group of people: His own. Ather is Assyrian, and though Chicago is a home to many Assyrians&#8211;Who are both Middle Eastern and Christian&#8211;He saw distinctive Assyrian culture slipping away as people integrated into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicagoan Takes on Abandoned Lots</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/06/26/chicagoan-takes-on-abandoned-lots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/06/26/chicagoan-takes-on-abandoned-lots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George F</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicagoan Sean Parnell took on a big problem in his Self-Expression and Leadership program&#8211;The problem of abandoned homes or lots. Many houses or lots, particularly in poorer west and south side neighborhoods, have stood empty for many years. Parnell saw that this creates many problems for the community, from the use of those properties for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago Graduates Rescue Doomed Pets</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/03/28/chicago-graduates-rescue-doomed-pets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/03/28/chicago-graduates-rescue-doomed-pets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George F</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Over a thousand puppies and adult dogs were saved from euthanasia in Kentucky last year, thanks to the work of Margie Swift and other Chicago area graduates of the Landmark Forum. Margie Swift always had a love of animals. Prior to doing the Landmark Forum, she talked about them, but never did anything about it. As she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Landmark Forum Graduate Mehmet Ak Re-invents himself as a Raw Food Chef</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/03/25/landmark-forum-graduate-mehmet-ak-re-invents-himself-as-a-raw-food-chef/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/03/25/landmark-forum-graduate-mehmet-ak-re-invents-himself-as-a-raw-food-chef/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather D</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Video Features]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cousins IV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mehmet Ak is a restaurant owner, chef and Landmark Forum Graduate who lives in Chicago.   He has been in the restaurant business for most of his life.  First arriving in the United States at the age of 23, he worked his way through the various jobs of the food service industry until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS Marathon Training Program Celebrates 6th Year in Chicago</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/03/07/aids-marathon-training-progam-celebrates-6th-year-in-chicago/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/03/07/aids-marathon-training-progam-celebrates-6th-year-in-chicago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George F</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This year will mark the sixth year of the National AIDS Marathon Training Program in Chicago, a program designed to train people to run a marathon or half marathon, where each participant agrees to raise money for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. During the last five years, thousands of people have participated, and the event has allowed for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago Policeman Undertakes 1,000 Mile Swim around Lake Michigan</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/02/29/chicago-policeman-undertakes-1000-mile-swim-around-lake-michigan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/02/29/chicago-policeman-undertakes-1000-mile-swim-around-lake-michigan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Cahill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicago police officer and Landmark Forum graduate Nial Funchion has an extraordinary goal planned for June of this year: To swim around the entire perimeter of Lake Michigan, a distance of over 1,000 miles. Funchion&#8217;s motives in taking on the swim are not rooted in a daredevil spirit or a desire for glory.
&#8220;I am not concerned about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Suicide Survivors: Graduate Launches Website for those Left Behind</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/02/27/for-suicide-survivors-graduate-launches-website-for-those-left-behind/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/02/27/for-suicide-survivors-graduate-launches-website-for-those-left-behind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George F</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Landmark Education graduate Ronnie Walker has launched a new website for individuals grieving the loss of a loved one to suicide. The site provides extensive information about survivor reactions and traumatic grief, support for healing, and a variety of essays. There are discussion forums, links to support groups, a recommended book list, even poetry. The site was designed to be both informative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Landmark Graduate Brings Snorkeling to Tri-Cities; Wins Volunteer Award</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/02/14/landmark-graduate-brings-snorkeling-to-tri-cities-wins-volunteer-award/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/02/14/landmark-graduate-brings-snorkeling-to-tri-cities-wins-volunteer-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George F</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Leonard-Biddle, a graduate of the Landmark Forum who lives in St. Charles, Illinois, brought something new to her home town: Snorkeling. On February 3rd she organized a clinic for residents of the Tri-cities who wanted to learn how to snorkel. The clinic was held at the Norris Recreation Center Pool. Leonard&#8217; Biddle&#8217;s project received prominent attention from her local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Formerly Obese Landmark Education Graduate Climbs for Charity</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/02/11/formerly-obese-landmark-education-graduate-climbs-for-charity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2008/02/11/formerly-obese-landmark-education-graduate-climbs-for-charity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Cahill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no other way to put it: Landmark Education graduate Bob Talan was just plain fat. Overeating was such a mainstay of his life that his picture hangs in the Palm Steakhouse in North Fork Court, Illinois, near where he lives. In 2006, he won the best costume award at a Halloween party he went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genesis At The Crossroads Goes To Morocco</title>
		<link>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2007/08/15/genesis-at-the-crossroads-goes-to-morocco/</link>
		<comments>http://www.landmarkeducationnews.info/2007/08/15/genesis-at-the-crossroads-goes-to-morocco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather D</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ For the first time Genesis At the Crossroads is bringing together Arab, Jewish and Persian musicians to share the same stage in a series of concerts around the world.  Wendy Sternberg of Chicago created the project in the Landmark Self Expression and Leadership Program in 1999 as a way of use art to bring the Arab [...]]]></description>
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