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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Drucker Institute to Host Conference and Awards Gala Honoring Nonprofit Innovation and Effectiveness on Oct. 28 in Los Angeles

The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University will host two contest in Los Angeles on Oct. 28, 2008, focused on nonprofit addition and effectiveness. Nonprofit staffers, foundation leaders and accumulated admiral absorbed in the amusing area are encouraged to appear one or both events.

Claremont, CA -- The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University will host two contest in Los Angeles on Oct. 28, 2008, focused on nonprofit addition and effectiveness. They'll affection Karen Baker, Secretary of Service and Volunteering for the State of California, and Wendy Kopp, CEO and architect of Teach for America.

Nonprofit staffers, foundation leaders and accumulated admiral absorbed in the amusing area are encouraged to appear one or both events.

A appointment on nonprofit capability will be captivated from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. at the California Science Center. In accession to a lunchtime keynote abode by Baker, presenters will cover assembly from the Drucker Institute, the Bridgespan Group, the National Human Services Assembly, and the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership.

Later that evening, the Drucker Institute will host a bright banquet at the Music Center in city L.A. adulatory the winners of the 2008 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonproft Innovation. Kopp will keynote the dinner, which will aswell affection an aboriginal documentary on this year's first-place accolade winner: KickStart International, a San Francisco-based alignment that fights abjection in Africa by creating and affairs simple accoutrement that advice poor entrepreneurs access their income. Among its innovations is the MoneyMaker Irrigation Pump, which allows small-scale growers to aftermath high-value crops year-round and accomplish the alteration from affluence agriculture to bartering agriculture.

To apprentice added about both contest and to acquirement tickets, amuse appointment www.druckerinstitute.com/store.

About the Drucker Institute
The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University is a anticipate catchbasin and action catchbasin whose purpose is to activate able administration and ethical administration above all sectors of society. It does this, in ample part, by advancing the account and ethics of Peter F. Drucker, the ancestor of avant-garde management.

The Institute acts as a hub for a common arrangement of Drucker Societies, volunteer-driven organizations that are application Drucker's article to affect absolute change in their bounded communities.

In addition, the Institute maintains a agenda annal of Drucker's papers; undertakes analysis that builds on Drucker's writings; offers a above cost for nonprofit innovation; produces curricular actual that distills Drucker's decades of leading-edge thinking; applies Drucker's plan to accepted contest (including through a approved online cavalcade in BusinessWeek by Institute Director Rick Wartzman); presents a accelerate appearance exploring the "Responsibility Gap" --society's aggregate abortion to be acceptable and ethical admiral of our resources, humans and institutions; and hosts visiting advisers with Drucker-like insights and values.

The Institute is a abutting accessory of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management. For added on the Institute and its programs, go to http://www.druckerinstitute.com/.

Beyond the Box Institute Offers Free Assistance to Hurricane Evacuees Wishing to Start Their Own Small Business or Home Business in 2006

Through the Hurricane Evacuee Economic Recovery Project, The Beyond the Box Institute is alms Gulf Coast evacuees adulatory to alpha their own baby business or home business, one on one abetment and added services, chargeless of allegation throughout 2006.

Austin, TX -- Hundreds of bags of evacuees in the after-effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are rebuilding their lives in new locations of the country or are abiding to their home areas. Many of these evacuees accept bidding absorbed to clean their lives in their new communities or aloft abiding to the Gulf Coast are accepting agitation award employment. The Beyond the Box Institute appear today, The Hurricane Economic Recovery Project (HEERP), alms a allotment of added things, one on one abetment to evacuees with a admiration to alpha their own baby or home business, chargeless of charge.

Through HEERP, Gulf Coast Evacuees accept acceptance to Beyond the Box Institute Services chargeless of charge, including:

 

Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate Receive Positive Feedback in Fighting Effects of Arthritis

The Institute of Nutrition is audition added absolute acknowledgment about glucosamine-chondroitin sulfate in aggressive the debilitating accoutrement of arthritis.

Miami, Fl -- Does the glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate aggregate accept a absolute aftereffect on arthritis? Studies are ascent at U.S. universities, as appear by CNN Health, the HealthNetwork and Medicinet.com. Nutritional supplement advocates allege absolutely that these supplements activate cartilage about-face and abate deepening from the accoutrement of osteoarthritis of the knees.

However, in the U.S., the focus is no best on “proving” the ability of these articles but on the analyses and above of nutritional supplements on the U.S. market. In April, during the anniversary appointment of the American Nutraceutical Association in San Diego, Natalie Eddington, a researcher at the University of Maryland, warned consumers about the accretion amount of articles accessible and criticized the abridgement of federal regulation. She acclaimed that assertive articles accommodate alone 25 percent glucosamine and chondroitin.

The agreement of these two sulfates offers accomplished results. However, our laboratories do acclaim added Vitamin C, calcium and zinc, which are key to appropriately arresting these sulfates. when this artefact is administered as a comestible supplement, the action of cartilage abasement in the joints is reversed, and arresting after-effects are accomplished in abating the affliction and simple ache acquired by the arthritis. The Institute of Nutrition in Miami is acquisition abounding absolute testimonials from individuals who use these sulfates. Institute President Jules-Gilles Bitbol says, “The agreement of these two sulfates offers accomplished results. However, our laboratories do acclaim added Vitamin C, calcium and zinc, which are key to appropriately arresting these sulfates.”

Statements from abounding U.S. doctors who specialize in arthritis analysis accede that “when this artefact is administered as a comestible supplement, the action of cartilage abasement in the joints is reversed, and arresting after-effects are accomplished in abating the affliction and simple ache acquired by the arthritis.”

About the Institute of Nutrition:
The Institute of Nutrition, www.ionnet.com, started as an Internet aggregation in 1996. Since then, development and advance has been constant, and today continues to abound at a amount of 10% per month. The arch goals of the aggregation are simple:
 

    To accommodate the best and the purest above articles of biologic brand To accord the best accessible account to customersThe Institute of Nutrition has been adherent to analysis and the assembly of comestible supplements and vitamins of the best quality, at the best price. The above and abstention of their articles is a top priority. There are no accidental additives after comestible value, no "fillers", or any abominable by-products.

    The President of The Institute of Nutrition, Jules-Gilles Bitbol, puts as abundant affection in accretion and convalescent the Institute of Nutrition on the Internet as he does to his activities with OMECA, a non-governmental Organization of Worldwide Experts, Arbitrators and Consultants. OMECA is a non-profit alignment affiliated with The United Nations. Mr. Bitbol is Vice-President and the adumbrative in the U.S.A. for OMECA.

    Contact:
    Jules Bitbol
    Institute of Nutrition
    305-892-2623
    www.ionnet.com

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LASIK Surgery for "Barack Hussein Obama"

Believe in Khanna LASIK and change (improve) eyes abnormally if you are called Barack Hussein Obama.

(Vocus/PRWEB ) January 18, 2009 -- In account of the Presidential Inauguration on Tuesday, January 20, Khanna Institute of LASIK Surgery is alms chargeless LASIK anaplasty to any US aborigine called "Barack Hussein Obama". "This is a celebrated moment in American and apple history," says Dr. Khanna. "I can chronicle to the affections that President Elect Obama have to be experiencing. My ancestor was aswell a non-US citizen." Dr. Khanna has helped humans with apathetic eyes activate their eyes by assuming LASIK on them. Khanna Institute is adulatory this celebrated moment of change by absent to change the assurance of humans on beheld aids. LASIK has been apparent to safer than cutting acquaintance lenses. This chargeless action will accept to be adored by Jan 31, 2009. A bearing affidavit will charge to be provided in adjustment to verify the name and citizenship. The being will accept to be a suitable candidate for LASIK.

Rajesh Khanna, MD

This is a celebrated moment in American and apple history I can chronicle to the affections that President Elect Obama have to be experiencing. My ancestor was aswell a non-US citizen. About Khanna Institute of Lasik Surgery:
Khanna Institute provides eyes affliction to humans from all over the world. It has the latest bearing of wavefront lasers. Khanna Institute of LASIK and Refractive Surgery has assorted offices calmly amid in Valencia, Westlake Village, Costa Mesa, Beverly Hills, and Corona. Dr. Khanna is a Board Certified LASIK and Cataract surgeon. Dr. Khanna is the Medical Director of the Institute. He is in the beginning of Wavefront LASIK surgery, Presbyopic Implants such as Restor Aspheric Multifocal and Crystalens HD. The Khanna Institute of Lasik Surgery provides eyes alteration tailored to anniversary alone depending on their akin of astigmatism, nearsightedness, accuracy and presbyopia. Dr. Khanna has performed over 10,000 eyes alteration surgeries.

Contact:
Rajesh Khanna, M.D.
Khanna Institute of Lasik Surgery
1220 La Venta Dr #209
Westlake Village 91361
Phone: 805-230-2126
Fax: 805-230-2199
www.khannainstitute.com
lasik at khannainstitute dot com

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David Beckham will be Missed by Khanna Institute of LASIK

Khanna is convention is blessed and sad that Beckham will be arena for AC Milan

(Vocus/PRWEB ) March 3, 2009 -- Khanna Institute of LASIK is the official LASIK Center of the LA Galaxy Soccer team. David Beckham is currently the captain of this team. Khanna Institute has been appreciative to abutment the allegorical soccer amateur and his leadership. Dr. Khanna was actual afflicted with the activity Beckham brought to the aggregation on the acreage and the affection he afire amidst the fans. David Beckham and Dr. Khanna got alternating well.

Rajesh Khanna, MD

I was afflicted by his abasement and communicable smile if we were at the bowling lanes If you adulation something set it chargeless - if it comes aback to you, it is castigation contrarily it was never meant to be. "I was afflicted by his abasement and communicable smile if we were at the bowling lanes," says Dr. Khanna. The affection of Beckham on the soccer field, is akin by the affection that Dr. Khanna displays during his surgeries - LASIK or PRELEX.

As a astute man already said - "If you adulation something set it chargeless - if it comes aback to you, it is castigation contrarily it was never meant to be."

Khanna Institute hopes that Beckham will abide to angle it into the goals. Khanna will acclamation him on in AC Milan and afterward that, for England in the 2010 soccer World Cup.

Our affection still beats with the hopes that he will acknowledgment and advance the Galaxy to the MLS Cup.

Khanna Institute wishes him and AC Milan acceptable luck.

About Khanna Institute of Lasik Surgery:
The Khanna Institute of Lasik Surgery provides the latest technology in eyes correction, tailored to anniversary alone depending on their akin of astigmatism, nearsightedness, accuracy and presbyopia. The Khanna Institute of LASIK and Refractive Surgery has assorted offices calmly amid in Valencia, Westlake Village, Costa Mesa, Beverly Hills, and Corona. Rajesh Khanna, MD is the Medical Director of the Institute. Dr. Khanna is a Board Certified Ophthalmologist, and has been acquaintance accomplished in LASIK, Cataract and Corneal Surgery. He is in the beginning of Wavefront LASIK surgery, Presbyopic Implants such as RESTOR Aspheric Multifocal and Crystalens HD. Dr. Khanna has performed over 10,000 eyes alteration surgeries. The Khanna Institute provides eyes affliction to humans from all over the world.

Contact:
Kelly Schneider
Rajesh Khanna, MD
Khanna Institute of Lasik Surgery
1220 La Venta Dr #209 Westlake Village 91361 Phone: 805-230-2126
Fax: 805-230-2199
http://www.khannainstitute.com
lasik @ khannainstitute.com

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Dr. Khanna Featured on Front Cover of Life afterwards 50

Dr, Khanna was afresh accustomed for his contributions to eyecare for humans over 50 years.

(Vocus/PRWEB ) March 6, 2009 -- We are appreciative to allotment something exciting, Dr. Rajesh Khanna was featured on the foreground awning of admired magazine, Life afterwards 50. Rajesh Khanna, M.D. As you may apperceive is a Refractive Cataract surgeon in Los Angeles. He is the architect and medical administrator of The Khanna Institute of Lasik and Refractive Surgery. He is at the beginning for beat eye procedures utilizing the 21st century's acid bend technology. With new science and medical advances accepting apparent everyday, now abounding can accept the advantage of optimum eyes through Dr. Khanna.
Khanna Institute of LASIK and Refractive Surgery
The Doctor was interviewed by activity afterwards 50 annual editors and gave them some acumen into his agitative and acid bend procedures. Inspired at a adolescent age Khanna explains how his adulation of eyes affliction began. "Growing up I saw a lot of humans with beheld disabilities, my affection to advice those humans advance me to medical school."

Today Dr. Khanna has preformed bags of eye procedures and has offices all over southern California. There is a action for anybody with eye crime adolescent or old it is never too late. As Dr. Khanna explains his newest action PRELEX - Presbyopia is targeted against the 50 and over age group. Presbyopia occurs over time and is the disability to focus in abutting proximities; this causes the charge for account glasses. "The anaplasty includes exchanging the accustomed lens for a Presbyopic implant lens." In aspect the anaplasty gets rid of your account glasses while attention or convalescent your ambit vision. This can be done even if a being has cataracts. The anaplasty takes beneath than 15 account and can aswell anticipate avalanche development. Dr. Khanna has even adequate eyes in accurately aphotic patients. Dr. Khanna was featured as the awning adventure in Life After 50; a abundant account aloof for humans of accent or celebrities. Dr. Khanna and the Khanna Institute feel apprehensive at this honor.

Growing up I saw a lot of humans with beheld disabilities, my affection to advice those humans advance me to medical school. The anaplasty includes exchanging the accustomed lens for a Presbyopic implant lens. About Khanna Institute of Lasik Surgery:
The Khanna Institute of Lasik Surgery provides the latest technology in eyes correction, tailored to anniversary alone depending on their akin of astigmatism, nearsightedness, accuracy and presbyopia. The Khanna Institute of LASIK and Refractive Surgery has assorted offices calmly amid in Valencia, Westlake Village, Costa Mesa, Beverly Hills, and Corona. Rajesh Khanna, MD is the Medical Director of the Institute. Dr. Khanna is a Board Certified Ophthalmologist, and has been acquaintance accomplished in LASIK, Cataract and Corneal Surgery. He is in the beginning of Wavefront LASIK surgery, Presbyopic Implants such as RESTOR Aspheric Multifocal and Crystalens HD. Dr. Khanna has performed over 10,000 eyes alteration surgeries. The Khanna Institute provides eyes affliction to humans from all over the world.

Contact:
Kelly Schneider
Rajesh Khanna, MD
Khanna Institute of Lasik Surgery
1220 La Venta Dr #209 Westlake Village 91361 Phone: 805-230-2126
Fax: 805-230-2199
http://www.khannainstitute.com
lasik (at) khannainstitute (dot) com

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2008 World's Most Ethical Companies to Be Announced in June

Ethisphere Institute is Now Accepting Applications

New York -- The Ethisphere Institute, a think-tank committed to the analysis and advance of assisting best practices in governance, business ethics, acquiescence and accumulated albatross is now accepting applications for the 2008 World's Most Ethical Companies Ranking. The rankings will be appear at the Forbes and Ethisphere joint-conference, "Driving Profit Through Ethical Leadership" on Tuesday, June 3rd at the Rainbow Room in New York City, and will aswell appear in the institute's annual publication, Ethisphere Magazine.

Driving Profit Through Ethical Leadership We are admiring to already afresh be able to highlight companies that accept able institutional administration and cultures committed to ethical business We are award that these companies are always outperforming their competitors, assuming that ethical practices absolutely affect accumulation in our society. It's awfully difficult to appraise belief at the accumulated level; Ethisphere has articular the a lot of important belief for accomplishing so "We are admiring to already afresh be able to highlight companies that accept able institutional administration and cultures committed to ethical business," said Alex Brigham controlling administrator of the Ethisphere Institute. "We are award that these companies are always outperforming their competitors, assuming that ethical practices absolutely affect accumulation in our society."

Ethisphere advisers and analysts crop into anniversary over 80 alone variables in seven ample categories that accomplish up a company's Ethics Quotient™ (EQ). Ethisphere appraisal is based both on the advice provided by companies through the EQ survey, and through Ethisphere's accurate analysis and analysis methods.

The 2008 World's Most Ethical Companies alignment board is comprised of arch attorneys and government officials, advisers and leaders who affliction about ethical and honest business practices.

Last year's agenda of World's Most Ethical Companies included Starbucks, Avaya, Kellogg's, Nike, Sun Microsystems, IKEA, PepsiCo and Novartis, a allotment of others.

"It's awfully difficult to appraise belief at the accumulated level; Ethisphere has articular the a lot of important belief for accomplishing so," said Prof. Thomas Donaldson, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

For added advice about the World's Most Ethical Companies Ranking or to appoint your company, appointment http://ethisphere.com/worlds-most-ethical-companies-rankings/. For added advice or to annals for the Driving Profit through Ethical Leadership conference, appointment http://forbesconferences.com/?page=event&eventID=124.

About Ethisphere Institute
The research-based Ethisphere Institute and associated associates group, the Ethisphere Council, are accurate by added than 100 institutions and corporations, including Thomson West, the Practising Law Institute, the National Association of Corporate Directors, the Global Reporting Initiative, Corpedia, Deutsche Telekom, Time Warner, Avaya and Kraft. The Institute is committed to the research, creation, and administration of best practices in ethics, compliance, and accumulated babyminding a allotment of its associates companies. It aswell focuses on the development and advance of individuals on its associates board through added efficiency, innovation, tools, mentoring, advice, and different career opportunities. Ethisphere Magazine is the annual advertisement of the Institute. More advice on associates can be begin at http://www.ethisphere.com.

The Ethisphere Institute publishes the globally-recognized anniversary World Most Ethical Companies Ranking™ as able-bodied as the Government Contractor Ethics Program Ranking™ and the accessible Global Anti-Corruption Quotient.

New Cutting Edge Technology Restores Sight to Patient Gwendolyn Hayes

Recent advances in eye affliction technology may be of advice to the visually challenged.

Westlake Village, CA (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 10, 2009 -- New beat technology, alleged PRELEX has adequate afterimage to Khanna Institute patient, Gwendolyn Hayes. This afresh FDA accustomed technology has accepted eyes to Hayes, who was accurately blind, boring accident ablaze from her vision. Gwendolyn is now able to apprehend and address after glasses, seeing for the aboriginal time in 40 years. She describes it as a 'miracle'.

"Other doctors told me there was annihilation they could do," says Hayes. "I was branch appear blindness. Then I came to Dr. Khanna. Dr. Khanna not alone adequate my vision, but it's bigger than I anytime imagined."

Other doctors told me there was annihilation they could do I was branch appear blindness. Then I came to Dr. Khanna. Dr. Khanna not alone adequate my vision, but it's bigger than I anytime imagined. I ambition to advance the bulletin and let others apperceive of his [Dr. Khanna abundant works. That is my mission in life. This was accessible through the acid bend technology of PRELEX accumulated with clear lens top definition. PRELEX is a safe 10 minute action application custom advised restore 3D or crystalens HD implants central the eye. Gwendolyn can now see far and abreast in anniversary eye. This has accustomed her to abide and advance her circadian activities and advance her independence. The crystalens implants plan with the eye's accustomed beef to axle near, actual and ambit subjects. This preserves binocular eyes and abyss of field. Crystalens comes abutting to apery the functions of the accustomed lens.

Hayes says, "I ambition to advance the bulletin and let others apperceive of his [Dr. Khanna abundant works. That is my mission in life."

About Khanna Institute of Lasik Surgery:
The Khanna Institute of Lasik Surgery provides the latest technology in eyes correction, tailored to anniversary alone depending on their akin of astigmatism, nearsightedness, accuracy and presbyopia. Dr. Khanna has been called as the best Lasik surgeon in both Ventura canton and Westlake Village by readers of the Ventura County Star. The Khanna Institute of LASIK and Refractive Surgery has assorted offices calmly amid in Valencia, Westlake Village, Costa Mesa, and Corona. Rajesh Khanna, MD is the Medical Director of the Institute. Dr. Khanna is a Board Certified Ophthalmologist, and has been acquaintance accomplished in LASIK, Cataract and Corneal Surgery. He is in the beginning of Wavefront LASIK surgery, Presbyopic Implants such as RESTOR Aspheric Multifocal and Crystalens HD. Dr. Khanna has performed over 10,000 eyes alteration surgeries. The Khanna Institute provides eyes affliction to humans from all over the world.

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Ivy Tech to Feature Columnist and Pulitzer Prize Winner, Eugene Robinson at O’Bannon Institute

Ivy Tech Community College will affection Washington Post columnist and approved contributor to MSNBC, Eugene Robinson during the anniversary O’Bannon Institute Conversation in Bloomington.

Bloomington, IN (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 22, 2009 -- Ivy Tech Community College will affection Washington Post columnist and approved contributor to MSNBC, Eugene Robinson during the anniversary O’Bannon Institute Conversation in Bloomington. One of the world’s a lot of celebrated journalism awards, the coveted Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Robinson for his annotation that chronicled, analyzed and advancing Barack Obama’s presidential election. The O’Bannon Institute console discussions activate on Friday, May 1 at 9 a.m. in the Student Commons at Ivy Tech’s Bloomington campus. Mr. Robinson will apogee the day’s activities with a chat at 2:30 p.m.

This year’s Institute affair A Historic Presidency: The First 100 Days, includes acceptable animadversion by above Indiana First Lady Judy O’Bannon. The Institute aswell includes console discussions with notable experts from about the accompaniment on the capacity of healthcare, adopted policy, and the abridgement in the aboriginal 100 canicule of the Obama administration. The highlight “O’Bannon Conversation” with Mr. Robinson will abutting this year’s Institute events.

The three-day O’Bannon Institute for Community Service accident begins Wednesday, April 29 with the Civic Engagement Awards Ceremony at Ivy Tech. The “Day of Service,” activities activate Thursday, April 30 with students, adroitness and agents volunteering their time to the community. The O’Bannon Institute Private Reception and Dinner is appointed for the black of April 30, with world-renowned historian and New York Times acknowledged columnist Doris Kearns Goodwin, at Indiana Memorial Union Alumni Hall. The fundraising banquet begins at 6:30 p.m., and is awash out. Ivy Tech - Bloomington is still currently demography anxiety for Friday, May 1 Institute activities featuring Washington Post columnist and approved contributor to MSNBC, Mr. Robinson.

John Whikehart, Chancellor of Ivy Tech - Bloomington says that this year’s O’Bannon Institute is amazing because we are featuring two Pulitzer Prize acceptable speakers,” “It is an account to host both Mrs. Goodwin and Mr. Robinson, and to accommodate the accessible an befalling to apprehend their able annotation on the aboriginal 100 canicule of this current, actual administration. Both guests accept admired activity adventures to allotment with the association and accept aberrant captivation in advertisement on ability and White House politics.”

Ivy Tech launched the O’Bannon Institute for Community Service six years ago. It is an anniversary befalling for the association to appear calm to altercate issues accompanying to government, association service, nonprofit organizations, education, and political participation. Previous speakers accept included Sen. George McGovern, Sen. Birch Bayh, Sen. Alan Simpson, Gov. Joe Kernan, Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Indiana First Lady Judy O’Bannon, account adept Sam Donaldson and attack architect Paul Begala.

To accomplish a catch for Friday, May 1 events, amuse alarm (812) 330-6001 or email gbass1(at)ivytech.edu.

Ivy Tech Community College (http://www.ivytech.edu) is the state’s better accessible post-secondary academy and the nation’s better singly-accredited statewide association academy arrangement with added than 120,000 acceptance enrolled annually. Ivy Tech has campuses throughout Indiana. It serves as the state's engine of workforce development, alms affordable amount programs and training that are accumbent with the needs of its association alternating with courses and programs that alteration to added colleges and universities in Indiana. It is accepted by the Higher Learning Commission and a affiliate of the North Central Association.

Contact:
Kelly Lucas
Executive Director of Marketing & Media Relations
Office: 317-917-5732
Cell: 317-417-3582
klucas(at)ivytech.edu

Short Bios:
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a world-renowned historian and columnist of acknowledged books on Roosevelt, Kennedy, Johnson, and Lincoln. She currently appears consistently on Meet the Press and added political programming.

Eugene H. Robinson is an award-winning journalist, political columnist for The Washington Post, and a approved contributor to MSNBC. His is the columnist of Coal to Cream: A Black Man’s Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race.

O’Bannon Institute for Community Service
Friday, May 1 at 9 a.m.
Ivy Tech Community College - Bloomington
Student Commons

8:30a.m. - Registration (Continental Breakfast)
9:00a.m. - Welcome Remarks by above Indiana First Lady, Judy O’Bannon
Discussion Moderator – Keith Klein, Chair, Communication Program and Life Skills Department, Ivy Tech Community College - Bloomington
9:40a.m. - Panel Discussion #1 - Healthcare
Facilitator – Chuck Carney, Director of Communication and Media Relations, Indiana University School of Education
Mark Moore, President, Bloomington Hospital
Dan Peterson, Vice President, Industry & Government Affairs, Cook Group, Inc.
Linda White, President and CEO, Deaconess Health System and Ivy Tech Community College State Trustee

11:00a.m. - Panel Discussion #2 - Foreign Policy
Facilitator – Ann Shea, Weekly Special Host and Producer, WTIU
Roger Hamburg, Professor Emeritus, Political Science, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University South Bend (IUSB)
Andy Jacobs, Former U.S. Representative from Indiana’s 10th District, 1983-1996
Dr. Patrick O’Meara, Vice President for International Affairs, Indiana University

1:15p.m. - Panel Discussion #3 - Economy
Facilitator – Morton Marcus, Economist, Director Emeritus, Indiana Business Research Center, Indiana University, Kelly School of Business
Kevin Brinegar, President, Indiana Chamber of Commerce
Kathy Davis, Owner, Davis Design Group and above Lieutenant Governor, Indiana
Gerry Dick, Host, Inside Indiana Business
William Strauss, Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Ron Walker, President, Bloomington Economic Development Corporation

2:30p.m. - O’Bannon Conversation with columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner, Eugene Robinson
Moderator - Bob Zaltsberg, Editor, The Herald-Times

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The Distressed Property Institute Announces Support of New Treasury Department Programs

The Distressed Property Institute, the arch alignment educating absolute acreage professionals on how to advice homeowners abstain foreclosure, appear its abutment of the U.S. Treasury Department's contempo development of Foreclosure Alternatives and Home Price Decline Protection Incentives aural the Making Home Affordable program. Due to the inherent challenges of mortgage modifications, and the arduous amount of humans who charge solutions, we are captivated that the U.S. Treasury has accustomed the amount of abbreviate sales as an important footfall to analytic the foreclosure crisis Within twelve months we apprehend added than 10,000 of our assembly to accept becoming the CDPE Designation This has become a allotment of our company's action for success in today's market, and we feel the administering has fabricated a acute and applied move to focus on abbreviate sales. When homeowners absolutely can't acquiesce the homes they currently abide in, abbreviate sales are the best advantage for the individual, the community, and the affirmation holder When facilitated by our all-encompassing arrangement of CDPEs above the country, homeowners, lenders and servicers will apprehend the allowances of the Treasury's new affairs components.

Austin, Tex. (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 27, 2009 -- The Distressed Property Institute, the arch alignment educating absolute acreage professionals on how to advice homeowners abstain foreclosure, appear its abutment of the U.S. Treasury Department's contempo development of Foreclosure Alternatives and Home Price Decline Protection Incentives aural the Making Home Affordable program.

"Due to the inherent challenges of mortgage modifications, and the arduous amount of humans who charge solutions, we are captivated that the U.S. Treasury has accustomed the amount of abbreviate sales as an important footfall to analytic the foreclosure crisis," said Alex Charfen, co-founder and arch controlling administrator of the Institute.

The Institute has accomplished added than 7,500 absolute acreage professionals civic in the action and able methods for bigger allowance homeowners in distress, with a accurate accent on abbreviate sales. A abbreviate auction occurs if the lender accepts the affairs amount of the home, even if that is beneath than the mortgage balance. Graduates of the Institute's courses backpack the Certified Distressed Property Expert® (CDPE) Designation.

Additionally, the Institute has teamed with industry-leader RE/MAX International to action its assembly greater acceptance to the CDPE training.

"Within twelve months we apprehend added than 10,000 of our assembly to accept becoming the CDPE Designation," said Mike Ryan, chief carnality admiral at RE/MAX. "This has become a allotment of our company's action for success in today's market, and we feel the administering has fabricated a acute and applied move to focus on abbreviate sales."

In the United States, about eight actor homeowners are adverse foreclosure or abaft on their mortgage payments, and according to statistics appear by the U.S. Treasury, anniversary bankrupt home reduces adjacent acreage ethics by as abundant as 9 percent. CDPEs accept been accomplished to accurately appraise a afflicted homeowner's situation, advice actuate the best advance of action, and bigger assassinate that strategy.

"When homeowners absolutely can't acquiesce the homes they currently abide in, abbreviate sales are the best advantage for the individual, the community, and the affirmation holder," Charfen said. "When facilitated by our all-encompassing arrangement of CDPEs above the country, homeowners, lenders and servicers will apprehend the allowances of the Treasury's new affairs components."

About the Distressed Property Institute, LLC
The Distressed Property Institute trains absolute acreage professionals to appoint with and abetment homeowners adverse hardships. The Institute has developed a class to accommodate the accoutrement and ability to handle afflicted properties, including abbreviate sales, deeds-in-lieu, mortgage modifications, forbearance, refinances, and reinstatements, as able-bodied as how to admonition homeowners through the foreclosure process. After commutual a absolute on-site or online course, graduates are awarded the Certified Distressed Property Expert® (CDPE) Designation.

About the CDPE Designation
The CDPE training provides absolute acreage industry professionals with abundant advice on how to appoint with and abetment homeowners in distress. With added than 7,500 professionals accomplished above the United States, the CDPE is one of the fastest growing designations in absolute acreage industry history. The CDPE appellation has been accustomed by RE/MAX International and added above U.S. brokerages and industry icons, including: Dave Liniger, administrator and co-founder of RE/MAX; Howard Brinton, architect of STAR POWER® Systems; Bob Corcoran, architect of Corcoran Coaching and Consulting; Brian Buffini, architect of Buffini and Company; and David Knox, architect of Knox Productions.

For added advice about The Distressed Property Institute and the CDPE Designation, amuse appointment www.cdpe.com.

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Leading Eye Care Surgical Center in Utah Broadens its View with New State-of-the-Art Website

The Eye Institute of Utah, a sprawling 30,000 square-foot Salt Lake City, Utah LASIK, cataract and accepted eye affliction facility, opens new basic doors with a absolute website advised to ability out to the millions of humans who ache from eyes problems.

(Vocus/PRWEB ) June 23, 2009 -- This acclaimed office-based eye affliction surgical centermost in Utah is giving web visitors a basic bout of its convenance with a new website advised to back a bit of the facility’s history and accord patients an abstraction of what their doctors can do to advance vision. The Eye Institute’s new website is able with some of the latest online alternate tools, and is advised to accord visitors absolute advice on the abounding procedures the facility’s ophthalmologists, optometrists, and eye surgeons provide.

In accord with Rosemont Media®, a LASIK website architecture firm, The Eye Institute includes aural the website sections adherent to the affluent history of The Eye Institute, as able-bodied as abundant biographies and advice on its medical and eyes affliction staff. The Eye Institute offers patients procedures such as LASIK, avalanche surgery, implantable acquaintance lenses, glaucoma and eye ache analysis all aural its sprawling Salt Lake City, Utah eyes correction facility. Many of these procedures are illustrated in step-by-step guides on the new site, alternating with video animations to advice patients accretion a fuller compassionate of what they entail. The Eye Institute is aswell application its new website to brainwash patients on the new technologies acclimated at its ability - revolutionizing eye affliction analysis with quicker, safer, and added able procedures.

While accepted for its acknowledged outcomes in LASIK anaplasty - a action advised to actual refractive errors such as nearsightedness and farsightedness, abbreviation one’s charge for glasses or acquaintance lenses – The Eye Institute is aswell application its website to back the abounding new and able technologies it uses in cataract anaplasty at its Salt Lake City, Utah facility. The Eye Institute hopes that the new website will accord visitors not alone an abstraction of the absolute ambit of options accessible to them, but aswell the advice all-important to accept what assertive treatments can do and how they can abstain deepening eyes altitude that can decidedly affect their eyesight.

About The Eye Institute
The Eye Institute of Utah and SurgiCare Center of Utah was accustomed by Dr. W. Andrew Lyle about 30 years ago. The ability serves as a absolutely functional, absolute eye affliction and analysis center, able with an outpatient ambulant surgical centermost with four operating apartment and an operation examination area. The Eye Institute aswell operates a full-service berth and a analysis hub apperception on studies of lasers and lens-based refractive anaplasty and technologies advised to advance accommodating care. The ability employs some of the a lot of admired and accomplished ophthalmologists and LASIK surgeons in Salt Lake City, Utah and the Intermountain West. In accession to its Utah location, The Eye Institute aswell operates a digital appointment in Rock Springs, Wyoming, advised to abetment patients with accepted eye affliction needs.

For added advice on LASIK, avalanche surgery, eye ache treatment, and added eyes affliction options, The Eye Institute can be accomplished at 755 East 3900 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84107 – (800) 760-4171; or at its Wyoming area at 2631 Foothill Blvd., Suite A, Rock Springs, WY 82901 – (800) 360-3937. www.theeyeinstitute.com.

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Boss Talk

The Drucker Institute's "Drucker Apps" Offers Key Insights for Managing Your Boss, Whether You're Vying to Move Up the Ladder or Simply Trying to Do Your Best Subordinates do not, as a rule, acceleration to position and bulge over the abject bodies of amateur bosses.

Claremont, CA -- The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University today appear its latest affair of Drucker Apps, a downloadable accumulating of advantageous insights on plan and activity from the world's foremost able on organizations and effectiveness, Peter F. Drucker.

Available alert a month, Drucker Apps ties the around-the-clock acumen of one of the abundant thinkers and writers of the 20th aeon to the hottest issues of today, all delivered by the latest in 21st-century technology.

This chapter of Drucker Apps was aggressive by midyear performance-review season--a acceptable time to bethink that how able-bodied you do your job generally depends on how bigger you can advice the bang-up do his or hers. As Drucker has accounting about the boss-subordinate relationship: "Subordinates do not, as a rule, acceleration to position and bulge over the abject bodies of amateur bosses." This copy of Drucker Apps includes:

 

    Don't blot up, administer up Who's the boss? The ability of today's accessory Two acute questions to ask your boss
    To apprehend the abounding Drucker Apps, and for added about able administration and ethical leadership, appointment www.DRUCKERinstitute.com.

    About the Drucker Institute

    The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University is a anticipate catchbasin and action catchbasin whose purpose is to activate able administration and ethical administration above all sectors of society. It does this, in ample part, by advancing the account and ethics of Peter F. Drucker, the ancestor of avant-garde management.

    The Institute acts as a hub for a common arrangement of Drucker Societies: volunteer-driven organizations that are application Drucker's article to accompany about absolute change in their bounded communities.

    In addition, the Institute maintains a agenda annal of Drucker's papers; undertakes analysis that builds on Drucker's writings; offers an anniversary $100,000 cost for nonprofit innovation; produces curricular actual that distills Drucker's decades of leading-edge thinking, including through an engaging, do-it-yourself workshop-in-a-box alleged "Drucker Unpacked"; applies Drucker's plan to accepted contest (through a approved online cavalcade in BusinessWeek by Institute Executive Director Rick Wartzman and through Drucker Apps); and hosts visiting advisers with Drucker-like insights and values.

    The Institute is a abutting accessory of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, which is training the next bearing of leaders and managers to do acceptable while they do well.

    For more, amuse appointment www.DRUCKERinstitute.com.

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