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Simons Center announces winners of public writing competition

Simons Center announces winners of public writing competition











Fort Leavenworth, Kan. (PRWEB) May 31, 2012

The Col. Arthur D. Simons Center for the Study of Interagency Cooperation announces the winners of its Interagency Writing Competition for 2012. The competition was open to the public and ran from September 2011 through March 2012. The top three papers that provided insight and fresh thinking in advancing the knowledge, understanding, and practice of interagency coordination, cooperation, and collaboration at the tactical or operational level of effort were:

First Place: The Genie in the Bottle: Opportunist and Antagonistic Responses to Whole of Government Approaches, by Erik A. Claessen, a Belgian Army officer who works in the Strategy Department of the Belgian Joint Staff in Brussels. Claessen’s entry earned him $ 2,000, an engraved plaque and certificate.

Second Place: Embassy in the Lead: Lessons on Interagency Unity of Effort for Today’s U.S. Mission to Iraq from the 1947–1949 U.S. Mission to Greece, by Evans A. Hanson, a U.S. Army officer currently enrolled in the School for Advanced Military Studies program at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Hanson’s entry earned him a $ 1,000 cash award and certificate.

Third Place: Rethinking the Interagency Role in Preventing Conflict in Dealing with Failing or Failed States, by Rumu Sarkar, a senior legal advisor to Millennium Partners, an international development consulting group based in Charlottesville, Va. Sarker’s entry earned her a $ 500 cash award and a certificate.

The Simons Center has published each of these winners in its “InterAgency Papers” series. They are available on the Simons Center website at http://thesimonscenter.org/2012-public-writing-competition-winners/.

This first-ever public writing competition for the Simons Center garnered interest and entries from around the world—from the U.S., Europe and Canada, from San Diego to Switzerland. Authors were from a variety of backgrounds including military officers, academicians, government leaders and non-governmental organization leaders. Even a U.S. Navy chaplain weighed in with an entry.

Each entry for the competition was required to focus on one of two special topics:


The interagency role in preventing conflict when dealing with failing or failed states; or
The validity of the “whole-of-government” approach in dealing with the full range of homeland and national security threats.

A panel of Simons Center judges evaluated each entry on originality, substance of argument, style and contribution to advancing the understanding and practice of interagency cooperation at the operational and tactical levels of effort.

For more information about the writing competition, contact the Simons Center at editor(at)TheSimonsCenter(dot)org or call 913-682-7244. The Simons Center is a major program of the CGSC Foundation, Inc. Information about the Simons Center’s mission, organization, and publications is available at http://www.TheSimonsCenter.org.











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Posted on June 3, 2012 by , Reply

Phoenix NAP Voted ?Best Data Center?

Phoenix NAP Voted ‘Best Data Center’












Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) December 06, 2011

Phoenix NAP®, a full service data center, premier infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider and primary network access point (NAP), announced today that it has been named ‘Best Data Center’ by Arizona Foothills.com in the publication’s annual Best of our Valley Web contest.

“We are extremely honored to have been voted ‘Best Data Center’ in the Valley,” said Ian McClarty, president of Phoenix NAP. “Phoenix NAP takes great pride in providing leading systems and solutions to businesses both nationally and in the Valley and we couldn’t be any prouder to have been recognized right here in our own community.”

Phoenix NAP was crowned ‘Best Data Center’ after going up against three other local data centers. The annual Best of our Valley Web contest spotlights the best of more than 150 categories and winners are determined by hundreds of thousands of votes.

“Winning the title of ‘Best Data Center’ is a testament to the continual hard work and dedication of our entire team,” said McClarty. “Every day we strive to push ourselves as a company and data center to ensure that all of our clients’ needs are not only met but exceeded. Whether it’s through our security, NOC or support teams, Phoenix NAP prides itself in the services it provides and those who provide it.”

Phoenix NAP is a PCI DSS Validated Service Provider and a SAS 70 Type II certified facility.

About Phoenix NAP

Phoenix NAP, a full service data center, premier infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider and primary network access point (NAP) for the Phoenix, AZ, metro region leads the path for technology systems and solutions through its innovation and vastly redundant data center systems. Our highly personalized approach ensures that all of your requirements are met. Whether it’s high-density colocation, flexible storage, physical servers or cloud hosting services, our enterprise-grade facility and certified NOC technicians supply IT solutions to fit your every need. For more information, visit the company’s website at http://www.phoenixnap.com.

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Posted on December 8, 2011 by , Reply

ASIS International Partners with Brownyard Educational Center to Advance Education of Security Professionals

ASIS International Partners with Brownyard Educational Center to Advance Education of Security Professionals












Princeton, NJ (PRWEB) September 15, 2011

The Brownyard Educational Center (http://www.BrownyardU.com) and ASIS International (http://www.ASISOnline.org) today announced an educational partnership that will strengthen the Center’s role as the world’s first web-based center of excellence for security professionals. The educational partnership will make the Center’s continuing education and degree programs available to the 37,000 active ASIS members.

“It is fitting that we announce this important partnership with ASIS just days after the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, because well-educated and well-trained security professionals are the first line of defense, whether it’s against natural disasters, crime or acts of terrorism,” said Tory Brownyard, president of Brownyard Group.

The Brownyard Educational Center was founded by Brownyard Group, a leader in insurance for the security industry, and Cardinal Point Strategies, a risk management consulting firm working in national security, government affairs and professional development. The Center features three prominent educational partners: CiNet’s Professional Security Training Network (PSTN), Kaplan EduNeering and Kaplan University.

“Quality education is at the cornerstone of the ASIS mission,” stated Raymond T. O’Hara, CPP, president, ASIS International. “Partnerships with industry organizations such as the Brownyard Educational Center enable ASIS to broaden the scope of learning opportunities for our members around the world.”

“The partnership with ASIS International will help the Brownyard Educational Center reach more security professionals, a mission that is more important than ever,” said Paul Goldenberg, CEO of Cardinal Point Strategies. “With municipal and county police agencies facing unprecedented budget cuts and staff reductions, professionally trained private and contracted security officers will be needed to fill these gaps.”

Extensive Educational Offerings

The Brownyard Platinum Performance Training Program includes three tiers of courses from PSTN and Kaplan EduNeering:

    Tier I: Basic Security Officer Training Series (BSOTS)
    Tier II: Liability in Security Operations and Risk
    Tier III: Professional Development and Management – Supervisor Excellence Series

A partnership with Kaplan University makes available Kaplan University’s associate and bachelor’s degrees in Criminal Justice, as well as a master’s degree in Homeland Security & Emergency Management. Brownyard Educational Center students receive a 10 percent tuition reduction on Kaplan University courses.

Affordable, Online Learning System

The Brownyard Educational Center was designed to be both affordable and easy to use, with courses priced well below the security industry average and insurance incentives for participating security firms that are insured by Brownyard Group. In addition, security professionals have access to real-time information for the private security industry.

All courses are offered conveniently online, either through a state-of-the-art Learning Management System (LMS), or through Kaplan University:

    For the Brownyard Platinum Performance Training Program, the Center utilizes a robust, flexible and customizable interactive web-based LMS. Security professionals can take individualized courses and tests anytime, anywhere.
    Kaplan University serves more than 59,000 online and campus-based students with more than 100 academic programs, including master’s bachelor’s and associate’s degrees. The University is regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

Security professionals seeking to enroll in the program or with questions should contact the Brownyard Educational Center at 877-272-4501 or at info(at)brownyardu(dot)com.

About the Brownyard Educational Center

The Brownyard Educational Center is a Princeton, N.J.-based partnership of leading security and insurance experts that brings together the vast educational resources of CiNet’s Professional Security Training Network (PSTN), Kaplan EduNeering and Kaplan University. The Center gives security professionals a center of excellence that embraces advanced knowledge and skills and the delivery of leading practices and training standards. The scope of the Center’s training encompasses non site-specific training such as best practice recommendations, international issues, national legislation or topics that will directly affect security industry professionals. The Center also provides companies with objective and verifiable performance reports.

About ASIS International

ASIS International is the leading organization for security professionals, with more than 37,000 members worldwide. Founded in 1955, ASIS is dedicated to increasing the effectiveness and productivity of security professionals by developing educational programs and materials that address broad security interests, such as the ASIS Annual Seminar and Exhibits, as well as specific security topics. ASIS also advocates the role and value of the security management profession to business, the media, government entities and the public. By providing members and the security community with access to a full range of programs and services, and by publishing the industry’s No. 1 magazine—Security Management—ASIS leads the way for advanced and improved security performance.

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Posted on October 27, 2011 by , Reply

Muhammad Ali Center Facilitates Dialogue Concerning American Pows/Mias

Muhammad Ali Center Facilitates Dialogue Concerning American Pows/Mias










Louisville, KY (PRWEB) October 19, 2006

The Muhammad Ali Center (http://www.alicenter.org) in downtown Louisville hosted a special meeting on October 18 to facilitate a renewed request for continued assistance from the Republic of Vietnam in accounting for missing American POWs/MIAs from the Vietnam War. These American soldiers were last known to be captive or missing but never returned after Operation Homecoming in 1973, when only 591 American prisoners of war were repatriated.

Attorney Arnold Beizer, President of Let Freedom Ring, Inc. (http://www.letfreedomringinc.com), a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the cause of freedom and building awareness of the plight of American POWs/ MIAs from the Vietnam War, met with Nguyen Tam Chien, Republic of Vietnam’s Ambassador to the U.S. Mr. Beizer passed along a message addressed to the Vietnamese Ambassador from Mrs. Carol Hrdlicka, wife of missing American Air Force pilot Colonel David Hrdlicka whose F-105 aircraft was shot down over Laos on May 18, 1965. The meeting was facilitated by Michael Fox, President/CEO of the Muhammad Ali Center and Ben Jones, Executive Director of the World Affairs Council of Louisville and Southern Indiana. The Ambassador’s visit coincided with a luncheon held at the Ali Center on October 17, sponsored by the World Affairs Council.

The discussions with Ambassador Nguyen focused on the need for determining the status of the missing men and progress in finding and returning American pilots like Colonel David Hrdlicka. Colonel Hrdlicka was known to be alive after Operation Homecoming according to declassified government documents and live sighting reports dating back to 1992. Russian news correspondent Ivan Loboda told Arnold Beizer he had personally seen American pilots including David Hrdlicka in captivity several years after Colonel Hrdlicka was captured in Laos.

In 1994, Muhammad Ali traveled to Vietnam on a mission arranged by Let Freedom Ring Inc. to help POW/MIA family members establish a “bridge of friendship” with the Vietnamese people. Vietnam officials in 1994 acknowledged the Champ’s visit with a friendly red carpet welcome and promised to assist in every way possible in determining the whereabouts of missing American servicemen who were not part of the contingent that returned home in the prisoner release of 1973. There are 1,800 Americans still unaccounted for from the war.

Ambassador Nguyen sympathized with the family members of Americans missing in action and promised to address this issue with appropriate Vietnamese government officials and respond with a progress report. He extended an invitation for Mr. Ali and officials from the Ali Center and Let Freedom Ring, Inc. to join him in Vietnam to further this humanitarian effort that would also necessitate the involvement of neighboring countries to Vietnam. President George W. Bush recently proclaimed National POW/MIA Day on September 15, 2006 and promised to continue efforts to obtain a full and final accounting of all American POWs.

In assisting Let Freedom Ring’s efforts in the past, Muhammad Ali attended a Let Freedom Ring Charity Music concert in Philadelphia to benefit American POW families. There, Ali championed the cause of the POWs and proclaimed, “The world is my home and every country is only a room. All people of all races and religions are my brothers and sisters… It is fitting that we all celebrate freedom and toll the Liberty Bell calling for the release of brothers and sisters held hostage around the world. Let’s let freedom ring and let every man return to his own family. Let’s set the captives free at the sound of the bell.”

About Muhammad Ali Center

The Muhammad Ali Center is an international cultural and educational center that is inspired by the ideals of Muhammad Ali. Featuring a non-traditional visitor experience, educational and public programming, global initiatives and distance learning, the Ali Center will reach beyond its physical walls to fulfill its mission: To preserve and share the legacy and ideals of Muhammad Ali, to promote respect, hope and understanding, and to inspire adults and children everywhere to be as great as they can be.

About Let Freedom Ring, Inc.

For two decades, Let Freedom Ring, Inc. has promoted the cause of freedom and championed the plight of America’s Prisoners of War (POWs) and those Missing in Action (MIAs). Informing and educating Congress and the President on the unsolved POW/MIA issue is just one of Let Freedom Ring’s primary focuses as well as sponsoring media events held to generate much needed media coverage for the POW/MIA issue. However, the principal mission of Let Freedom Ring is to produce and provide music from the heart of America bringing a message of freedom to the masses.

Contacts:

Arnold Beizer

Let Freedom Ring, Inc.

(561) 368-1019 or

(860) 547-0440

http://www.letfreedomringinc.com

Stacy Arnett

Muhammad Ali Center

(502) 992-5318

http://www.alicenter.org

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Posted on March 13, 2011 by , Reply

Freedom Center Honors Two Former Presidents with 2007 International Freedom Conductor Award

Cincinnati, OH (PRWEB) May 27, 2007

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will present former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton with its prestigious International Freedom Conductor Award (IFCA) on Saturday, June 2, 2007 at the Duke Energy Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. The two men will be honored for their unprecedented collaboration in raising donations worldwide for victims of the Southeast Asia tsunami and Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi.

President Clinton will receive his award in person and President Bush will accept the IFCA award via a videotaped message. President Clinton will receive his award in person and be introduced by famed historian and personal friend John Hope Franklin. President Bush will accept the IFCA via a videotaped message, and will be introduced by Rob Portman, a Bush family friend and current Director of the Office of Management & Budget.

The IFCA is modeled after the Nobel Peace Prize and is intended to honor contemporary individuals or organizations that have made significant contributions to the cause of freedom and human rights around the world. The award recipients were selected by the Freedom Center Board of Trustees. U.S. Bank is the Founding Sponsor of the award.

The June 2 event is a black tie gala. Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of Public Television’s Washington Week in Review and senior correspondent for the network’s The News Hour, will serve as the mistress of ceremony. Tickets are $ 200 each and can be purchased by calling the Freedom Center at 513.333.7710.

For more information, visit http://ga1.org/ct/z1sxqq61qBjY/.

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National Underground Freedom center

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Posted on March 9, 2011 by , Reply

LifeWay.com and ChurchStaffing.com Team Up to Offer Ministry Personnel Center

Bryan, OH (PRWEB) November 17, 2004

Today over 300,000 churches in the United States employ well over half a million professional pastors and ministry workers.

LifeWay.com and ChurchStaffing.com today announce the launch of a full-service job and placement service for churches and pastors. With the introduction of the Lifeway Ministry Personnel Center, professional clergy and churches of all sizes will be able to tap into a great number of online resources designed to make the time of job transition go much easier.

“The internet provides the perfect environment for the ministry job search process,” according to Todd Rhoades of ChurchStaffing.com. “Using LifeWay’s new Ministry Personnel Center, church search committees are able to add their job opening to a database of over 700 current church and ministry job openings. They can also search nearly 6,000 ministry resumes at the new website.”

According to Rhoades, there are also a great number of services provided for the ministry job seeker. They can search the internet’s largest database of church job openings, add their resume, and even have access to low-cost resume tune-up and resume re-writing services. “It really brings the job seeker and the churches seeking workers together quickly, providing nearly instant contact. It allows churches to broaden their job search to a national scope with ease,” said Rhoades.

Other services include a unique range of church personnel printed resources, pre-employment background check services, and managed search options for larger churches.

ChurchStaffing.com, headquartered in Bryan, OH is a leader in the Christian website industry, partnering with such groups as LifeWay.com, Leadership Network, Worship Leader Magazine, Church Central Associates and others to provide ministry and staffing solutions to churches and individuals.

LifeWay.com is part of LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. Lifeway is one of the world’s largest providers of Christian products and services, including Bibles, church literature, books, music, audio and video recordings, church supplies and Internet services through LifeWay.com. Established in Nashville, Tenn., in 1891, the company owns and operates 122 LifeWay Christian Stores throughout the United States, as well as two of the largest Christian conference centers in the country.

For information: http://www.lifeway.com/jobboard


Contact: trhoades@churchstaffing.com

Contact:

Todd A. Rhoades

ChurchStaffing.com

6391 ST RTE 576

Bryan, OH 43506

Phone: 419-636-6862

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Center for the Constitution at James Madison’s Montpelier Releases “The State of the Constitution: What Americans Know …

Center for the Constitution at James Madison’s Montpelier Releases “The State of the Constitution: What Americans Know …
ORANGE, VA–(Marketwire – September 16, 2010) – The Center for the Constitution at James Madison’s Montpelier today released the results of its national survey, The State of the Constitution: What Americans Know . The results come on the eve of Constitution Day, the 223 rd anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. A video and full results are available on the James Madison’s …

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