Duthler Fleet

Bloomington, IN (PRWEB) May 03, 2012

RootWorks LLC, the accounting professions premier membership-based education organization, announced the launch of its new and highly improved website. On the public-facing side, the site is complete with a multi-author blog feed, engaging client success stories, and the ability to download content-rich educational white papers directly from the home page. On the member side, the site offers a powerful and newly enhanced member-only Resource CenterRootWorks comprehensive library of detailed process docs, how-to guides, educational webinars, and much more. All content within the site provides accounting professionals with timely, accurate information to support their transformation into a Next Generation Accounting Firm and help them stay ahead of trends.

We consistently tell our members that their website is the new front door to their firmthe primary place where they should be doing business with clients, said Darren Root, CEO, RootWorks. Striving to always lead by example, we invested much time and effort into upgrading our website to offer relevant information to our members first, and also to site visitors. Our website was developed to consistently draw our members back again and again.

In revamping the website, the RootWorks teams core focus was to significantly augment the client Resource Center, so members have access to all the tools and resources needed during their transition to next-generation status.

We really focused on developing helpful content for our membership. We spent a lot of time creating detailed white papers on such topics as the core elements of a Next Generation Accounting Firm and how to build a better client accounting model. We also enhanced the site significantly for our members, adding step-by-step how-to guides, process and workflow technical sheets, webinars, and so much more. As a leading education firm, its our responsibility to provide information that helps firms move forward in terms of technology adoption, workflow, branding, and marketing, stated Kristy Short, RootWorks Chief Marketing and Communications Officer.

The new RootWorks website launched April 26, 2012. View the site at http://www.RootWorks.com.

About RootWorks

RootWorks is an exclusive membership-only organization dedicated to serving the needs of small to mid-sized tax and accounting firms nationwide. We are committed to educating our members on how to implement leading strategies and innovative technologies to create workflows and systems that enable them to operate at peak efficiency. We also provide members with state-of-the-art website creation, brand identity, and marketing collateral development services. For more information on RootWorks, call 877.259.9256 or email info(at)rootworks(dot)com. Visit us at http://www.RootWorks.com.

Akron, OH (PRWEB) March 30, 2012

Through a donation of Thera-Band? professional resistance exercise products, Performance Health is supporting Athletes in Action (AIA) Sports Performances 2012 mission trips to Armenia, Guatemala, Mexico and South Africa. The donated Thera-Band products will be used as educational and training tools at AIAs international sports medicine clinics.

Athletes in Action is an international sports ministry with over 500 staff members in 60 countries and a ministry presence in 90 countries. In the US, through its work with 35 professional teams and staff on almost 200 colleges campuses, AIA focuses on ministering to athletes, coaches and support staff. AIAs international staff members work to impact their county through the platform of sport. Each year, AIA sends mission teams around the world to conduct 35 domestic and international tours, camps and projects. AIAs Sports Performance Department organizes clinical education teams of physicians, athletic trainers, strength coaches and other experts in the field of sports medicine and strength and conditioning.

We are very grateful to Performance Health for their generous product donation, stated Paul Newman, MS, ATC, Director, AIA Sports Performance. These professional Thera-Band products enable us to provide the best educational tools available at our clinics, and allow us to enhance the knowledge of international colleagues in the area of sports medicine.

Upcoming AIA Sports Performance clinics

Yerevan, Armenia; In-country dates: May 16 to May 21; Tour Director: Paul Newman, MS, ATC
Guatemala City, Guatemala; In-country dates: May 25 to May 29; Tour Director: Lisa Martin, MEd, ATC
Puebla, Mexico; In-country dates: May 30 to June 4; Tour Director: Vance Pickard, PhD, ATC
Cape Town, South Africa; In-country dates: July 23 to July 28; Tour Director: Jim Rumelhart, MEd, ATC

Like music and art, sports is a universal language with the power to positively impact a culture. Sports can break down political, racial and economic barriers and restore national pride, continued Mr. Newman. Because sports can speak a language that children around the world understand, we can rebuild youth sports programs that strenghten ethics and values for the individual, positively impacting society overall. As a ministry, we not only meet the physical needs of individuals, we have the opporutnity to meet their spiritual needs too.

We are very pleased to be able to support AIAs international initiatives with our products, added Phil Page, PhD, PT, ATC, FACSM, Director of Thera-Band Academy. Weve been supporting AIA for several years in their efforts to provide athletic training services to support safe sports around the world.

About Athletes in Action

Athletes in Action is a global pioneer, innovator and servant leader in sport ministry. AIA exists to change lives by building spiritual movements everywhere through the platform of sport. The vision of AIA Sports Performance is to minister to professionals and students in the disciplines of sports medicine and strength and conditioning, build them up in their faith, and give them the opportunity to experience missions in their field of expertise. As of 2011, AIA Sports Performances ministry has impacted 24 countries on five continents.

About Performance Health

Featuring leading brands like Thera-Band?, Biofreeze? and the new Pedigenix Foot Care System, Performance Health offers a broad portfolio of products for the therapy, rehabilitation, wellness, massage, podiatric and performance markets. In addition to market-leading products, Performance Health provides practice building support, evidence-based protocols, clinical and product education, turn-key dispensing and pain management solutions.

Houston, TX (PRWEB) January 04, 2012

While medical professionals are increasingly called upon to treat physical conditions related to stress, they themselves are also experiencing significantly elevated levels of stress and burnout. Isha Foundations 3-day Inner Engineering Program teaches simple but powerful yogic methods to counter this stress and to improve mental clarity and focus. As an additional incentive for medical professionals, the program provides up to 26 hours* of accredited continuing education for physicians, physician assistants, nurses and nurse practitioners, and, in certain circumstances, licensed social workers and marriage and family therapists. The program will be conducted by Isha Foundations founder, yogi Sadhguru Vasudev, at Houstons George R. Brown Convention Center from May 4-6, 2012.

Derived from the ancient science of yoga, Inner Engineering is a powerful program that instills a deep sense of inner balance, joy and mental clarity. Health care practitioners attending Inner Engineering have often remarked upon personal benefits they have received from the program, as well as benefits to their actual practice of health care. States Dr. Mark Halonen, a family physician from Michigan, The wisdom and practices taught in this course continue to impact my life to this day. A greater sense of inner calmness, more control, and how I choose to respond to life are benefits that are still evident and I feel will always be with me.

In a 2010 survey, over 500 people practicing Inner Engineerings 21 minute meditative practice,

reported on their physical, mental and emotional wellbeing, as well as their medication usage. The survey found that over 50% of respondents reported major physical health improvements ranging from lowered blood pressure to alleviated chronic headaches and insomnia. Also, over 70% of respondents reported significant improvements in overall mental health including increased clarity, concentration and productivity.

As a doctor, I know about the challenges of treating patients, and I have discovered that many

problems cannot be solved with prescriptions but, rather, require a deeper understanding of the body. I took this program a few years ago, and it has changed my life. I have watched as my husband and three kids attended the program, along with numerous friends and co-workers, and I never cease to be amazed at what yoga has done for them. My husband’s blood pressure has dropped considerably, and he has been able to bring his weight under control. My own concentration and memory have sharpened, helping to make my work more efficient – whether it be examining patients or prescribing treatment, says Dr. Kalpana Rajdev, M.D., a family physician and president of Isha Foundation, Inc. The practice taught in Inner Engineering is very subtle, but the results are profound. It does not require physical agility or flexibility. Powerful breathing techniques raise energy levels and bring balance to the system, and the meditation brings awareness of the body. Regardless of whether a person has a serious medical condition or not, he will benefit both physically and mentally from doing the daily practice.

According to Isha Foundation founder and Inner Engineering instructor Sadhguru Vasudev, health

benefits attained as a result of Inner Engineering are the by-product of overall balance achieved within the system. As he explained in a recent Huffington Post article, “In yoga, when we say ‘health,’ we don’t look at the body or the mind; we only look at the energy. If your energy body is in proper balance and in full flow, your physical body and mental body will be in perfect health.”

*The opportunity to earn continuing education credit is an additional incentive for medical practitioners to complete the Inner Engineering program. The Annenberg Center for Health Sciences designates this live activity for a maximum of 26 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). AAPA accepts Category 1 CME credit for the PRA from organizations accredited by ACCME. This program also meets the qualifications for 26 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Founded 30 years ago by Sadhguru, the Isha Foundation is an international non-profit organization dedicated to cultivating human potential through the ancient yogic system. The foundation has been providing yoga and meditation programs for more than 30 years in over 150 cities, and the yogic practices taught in these programs are practiced by millions of people worldwide.

An introductory video of Inner Engineering can be viewed at http://www.InnerEngineering.com/Houston.

Furthermore, a free meditation process which will provide powerful ongoing support for internal

balance, can be experienced at http://www.IshaKriya.com.

For additional information about this topic, please contact Leslie Crespi by phone 248-202-6237 or by email cme(at)innerenginneering(dot)com. For more information about Isha Foundation visit http://www.ishausa.org.

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London, UK (PRWEB UK) 11 November 2011

Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in standards-based unified communications (UC), today reported the results of a survey of 500 grade-school and university teachers across the UK, France, Germany, Russia and Nordics. The survey found that videoconferencing is the most desirable way for school teachers to communicate with parents, students and colleagueswhen in-person interactions cannot take place.

Key findings of the survey included:

????Three-quarters of the teachers (77%) think that more investment in videoconferencing would benefit their students and improve their education, citing the increased impact and engagement with subject matter that videoconferencing encourages.
????Two-thirds surveyed (67%) believe that videoconferencing improves core skills for use in later life and the workplace.

Another finding of the survey is that the uses of videoconferencing in learning are viewed somewhat differently by school teachers and university tutors:

????Teachers of school-age children saw the most potential for using videoconferencing as a collaborative working tool (65%) and for virtual field trips (60%) in other words as a way to expand the scope of the learning experience.
????University tutors, on the other hand, said that a more important benefit of videoconferencing, from their experience, is the ability to include more students such as reaching home-based students (64%) or enabling those who missed a class to view it later (62%).
????Over half the university tutors (54%) also stated that access to subject-matter experts was an important feature of video conferencing; and 56% see videoconferencing as a means of extending their educational services, therefore enabling them to teach via distance learning.

The popularity of videoconferencing as a method of communication in education is not surprising with an overwhelming majority (85%) of educators who expect the use of these technologies to increase over the next five years. comments Gary Rider, EMEA President, Polycom. The ability to connect students with other teachers and students around the world face to face has enormous benefits to their educational experience, continues Rider. Video is the only technology that allows a visual, rich learning experience outside of being in the room together. Video also enables higher quality collaboration and learning. This is important in an educational setting, especially distance learning, where teachers can ensure students are focused and absorbing new information better, while students can benefit from a richer learning experience.

Polycom education customers have already seen the benefits of utilising videoconferencing as a way of removing the classroom walls:

The National Distance Education University (UNED) educates through a blended-learning methodology based on the principles of distance learning; implementing Polycoms cutting edge videoconferencing was essential to effectively fulfil the obligation of the University to raise the standard of collaborative communications, said Covadonga Rodrigo, Vice Rector for Technology, UNED. Our Polycom Unified Communication solution allows us to connect teacher and students at any time, any place and over any distance, and enhances the distance learning experience for all our lifelong learning programmes.

Alan Cameron, Education Officer for Dumfries and Galloway, says, Through Polycoms solutions, weve seen teachers sharing ideas, weve been able to facilitate Continued Personal Development sessions with staff between schools, and have also developed excellent international links. One school has linked up for home economics lessons in Poland and another of our schools links with a school in the Caribbean. It has been very successful, and, looking to the future, it would be fantastic to have all schools kitted with video conferencing solutions.

Polycom believes all schools should have access to better technologies and the enriched educational capabilities of video collaboration and so is announcing a new Getting Started with Video Education bundle the Polycom RealPresence Education Bundle:

Polycom RealPresence Education Bundles

Polycom is offering its Polycom RealPresence Room HDX 7000 and Polycom RealPresence Room HDX 8000 bundles together with the newly announced Polycom UC Board for one year starting from November 2011. These room telepresence systems provide users with high quality audio and high definition video communications from low bandwidths using standards-base H.264 High Profile Technology, which reduces bandwidth needs by 50%. The Polycom UC Board is an innovative whiteboard solution which improves communication and collaboration in video conferences by instantly sharing content written on the whiteboard to all screens and mobile devices that are connected to the video meeting. Both bundles also include 50 x m100 telepresence licences. To request more information please visit: http://www.polycom.eu/forms/contact_polycom.html?id=conf_finder&link=sales_contact_form

About the Survey

The survey was conducted in August 2011, across the UK, France, Germany, Russia and the Nordics. 100 teachers were surveyed in each region. To view to full results and data please visit http://www.polycom.eu/education

About Polycom

Polycom is the global leader in standards-based unified communications (UC) solutions for telepresence, video, and voice powered by the Polycom RealPresence Platform. The RealPresence Platform interoperates with the broadest range of business, mobile, and social applications and devices. More than 400,000 organizations trust Polycom solutions to collaborate and meet face-to-face from any location for more productive and effective engagement with colleagues, partners, customers, and prospects. Polycom, together with its broad partner ecosystem, provides customers with the best TCO, scalability, and security on-premises, hosted, or cloud delivered. Visit http://www.polycom.com or connect with Polycom on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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Contacts

Sarah Brambley

Polycom EMEA PR Manager

sarah.brambley(at)polycom(dot)com

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