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Best-Selling Author and Spiritual Teacher Byron Katie Will Be a Special Guest Speaker at the Chopra Centers Signature Mind-Body Healing Workshop Journey into Healing

By | February 17, 2012 | Education | No comments


Carlsbad, California (PRWEB) February 17, 2012

This March 7-11 in Carlsbad, California, best-selling author and teacher Byron Katie will be a featured guest speaker at Journey into the Healing, the Chopra Centers signature mind-body healing workshop led by co-founder and mind-body healing expert Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Journey into Healing is an intensive workshop that brings together the top minds in a variety of fields encompassing mind-body health, psychology, and personal transformation. This March at Journey into Healing, the Chopra Center is pleased to welcome Byron Katie to its roster of acclaimed guest speakers.

Byron Katie is the creator of a powerful process of self-inquiry known as The Work, which has helped hundreds of thousands of people break free from conditioned patterns of thinking, allowing them to heal from disorders, such as depression and anxiety, and the kinds of chronic emotional upset that lead to physical illness in the body, said Chopra Center co-founder Dr. Deepak Chopra.

We are excited that Byron Katie will be part of the faculty of Journey into Healing. Everyone who joins us for the workshop will experience an in-depth, practical exploration of health and well-being that combines the most recent discoveries in modern Western medicine and science with the healing arts of the East, Dr. Chopra said.

Every year hundreds of people from around the world attend Journey into Healing including health care professionals as well as individuals seeking personal healing and transformation. Journey into Healing is an accredited mind-body medicine course offering continuing education credits for health care providers.

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Dollar Loan Center Announces Back-To-School Scholarship Contest

By | February 15, 2012 | Education | No comments


Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) February 15, 2012

Dollar Loan Center announces its Back-to-School Scholarship Program, offering high school and college students the chance to win a $ 500 scholarship for educational expenses at an accredited college or private career school anywhere in the United States.

In nearly any profession, writing and grammar skills are of great importance, said Chuck Brennan, president/founder and CEO of Dollar Loan Center. That is especially true in the financial industry. With our Back-to-School Scholarship Program, Dollar Loan Center is providing a chance to further assist in educating our communities. Brennan, who founded Dollar Loan Center in 1998, is also co-author of the book Saving Money: Its in Your Best Interest.

Students can apply for the scholarship on Dollar Loan Centers Facebook page or website by February 28, 2012. The application includes a short essay on How technology has affected my personal finances. Essays will be judged on grammar, creativity and relevancy. Five finalists will be chosen and the scholarship recipient will be announced on March 5, 2012.

The Dollar Loan Center Back-to-School Scholarship Program is one more spectacular way we are extending opportunities to those who are truly committed to their education and pursuing it, said Brennan. Our young people are the leaders of tomorrow and it is up to us to help them make their dreams come true!

Details and rules for the Dollar Loan Center Back-to-School Scholarship Program can be found on the companys Facebook page and website.

Brennan owns and operates 50 Dollar Loan Center locations throughout Southern Nevada, South Dakota, and Utah. The philanthropic stores maintain a continuous stream of generous giving by supporting a collection of established charities. The company and its employees give to dozens of organizations including Las Vegas favorite charity, Opportunity Village, and Alice and Sheryl Coopers Solid Rock Foundation, among many others.

Brennan himself is one of Nevadas most recognized philanthropists, giving more than $ 200,000 annually to charities across the country. In 2011 alone, Brennan supported Opportunity Village in several campaigns, the 15 Foundation, Henderson Little League, Olive Crest, and dozens of other deserving organizations.

Dollar Loan Center is also the largest provider of short term credit services in South Dakota and Clark County (Las Vegas) Nevada. In 2007, Entrepreneur Magazine listed the company among its Hot 500 Fastest Growing Businesses and Entrepreneurs. For more information, visit http://www.dontbebroke.com.

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Court: $1.6 Million Denied & Delayed? Prompt Pay Penalty from ERISA Not State Prompt Pay Laws

By | January 30, 2012 | Education | No comments

Hanover Park, IL (PRWEB) January 29, 2012

ERISAclaim.com offers Executive Webinars to examine the latest federal court decisions on Nov. 09, 2011 that a providers state prompt pay lawsuit against CareFirst, Inc in Maryland state court must be removed to the federal ERISA Court, and on Nov. 28, 2011, the Court awarded $ 11,983.00 to the plaintiff provider under ERISA federal prompt pay protections.

The Court case info: Feldman’s Medical Center Pharmacy, Inc. V. CareFirst, Inc., Case #: 1:10-cv-00254-SKG, Document 150, Filed 11/09/11, in the United States District Court for the District Of Maryland.

ERISAclaim.coms Executive Webinars will discuss the Court decision in this case: (1) federal law ERISA completely pre-empts Maryland State Prompt Pay Law; (2) State prompt pay penalty law is statutory while federal ERISA prompt pay penalty is the discretion of the Court; (3) ERISA prompt pay penalty is available as the federal postjudgment interest rate under 28 U.S.C.

Pennsylvanias Largest Charter School to March on State Capitol for School Funding

By | January 24, 2012 | Education | No comments

Chester, PA (PRWEB) January 23, 2012

On January 24, 2012, Chester Community Charter School (CCCS), the largest K-8 charter school in Pennsylvania, accompanied by parents of its students, and community members, will demonstrate and deliver signed petitions to ensure that seriously delinquent funding required to continue their childrens education at the school is not curtailed or further delayed, as it has been over the past year.

On December 29, 2011, the school filed a lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in that regard, in the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court (Docket Number: 632 MD 2011).

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