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Start: 11:00 am 
Democracy: Is It BestServed by a Strict Separation of Church and State?
 
Start: 4:00 pm 
Seasoned Entrepreneurial Panel Discussion The CAAO Minority Access toCapital Program. The mission of this
 program is the thoroughly educate minority entrepreneurs on all their funding
 options and to aid in building relationships between the funders and minority
 entrepreneurs of Northeast Ohio.
 |  | 03 / 19 
Start: 10:00 am 
Meet local authors Sarah Jane Ingrham and Jeannie Morse as they signand read their delightful new children's book.  Please bring your kids
 for this wonderful afternoon of storytelling at the Local Girl Gallery.  Copies of their book will
 |  | 03 / 20 |  | 03 / 21 
Start: 11:00 am 
Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Robert J. Triozzi for Mayor of Cleveland? |  | 03 / 22 
Start: 8:00 am 
You are invited to attend an air qualityworkshop at the offices of the Northeast Ohio Areawide
 Coordinating Agency (NOACA) to begin the public participation process for the
 Ozone and Particulate Matter State Implementation Plans (SIPs).
 As youmay already know, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)
 designated the counties of Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina,
 Portage, and Summit as in nonattainment for the new 8-hour ozone standard. The
 USEPA designated Ashtabula (partial), Cuyahoga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage,
 and Summit as in nonattainment for the new fine particulate (PM2.5) standard.
 These designations require that the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, with
 local input, submit SIPs to USEPA that would bring Northeast Ohio into
 attainment for both of these pollutants.
 Please join us for a free,public informational event that will include presentations on the air quality
 issues that Northeast Ohio faces, talks by affected industries, discussion of
 the Ohio EPA SIP development process, and an overview of potential attainment
 strategies. Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.
 Tuesday, March 22, 20059:00
 a.m. until 2:30 p.m.
 NOACA Board Room
 1299 Superior Avenue
 Cleveland,
 Ohio 44114
 Please RSVP by e-mailto Pam Davis at pdavis [at] mpo [dot] noaca [dot] org
 or by calling (216) 241-2414, Extension 284. Your participation is appreciated.
 We look forward to talking with you.Â
 
Start: 10:30 am 
Building a Creative Online Environment:Collaboration, Innovation and Education
 March 22, 2005 at11:30 AM - 1:00 PM    Register Now!
 
Start: 11:00 am 
State of the ClevelandSchools
 
Start: 1:00 pm 
Each Tuesday from 2:00 - 4:00 PM REI holds REALNEO planning and orientation sessions. These sessions are free and open to anyone interested in this initiative - and excellent time to work with volunteers on your Community Of Interest Links - feel free to come anytime between 2 and 4, and stick around after for the weekly Tuesday@REI meetings, from 4:00 - 5:45 PM. 
Start: 3:00 pm 
March 22:"Creating Arts Districts as Economic Development Engines"
 
Jim Harris, HL  |  | 03 / 23 
Start: 11:00 am 
Payments in Lieu of Taxes:Creative Revenue Stream or Fuzzy Math?
 |  | 03 / 24 
Start: 10:30 am 
InsideBusiness is pleased to honor the top-performing companies in Northeast Ohio.
 KeynoteSpeaker
 Dr. Toby Cosgrove
 The Cleveland Clinic
 
Start: 4:00 pm 
NEOSA Hits the Alleys at NeTT Tech Thursday Networking, spares and
 strikes will be in order as NEOSA holds its first NeTT Tech Thursday networking
 event for 2005, sponsored by Aztek, on March 24 at Winking Lizard Lanes in
 Lakewood. Click HERE
 to register.
 
Start: 4:30 pm 
American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and Michael Wyatt, Director of Training and TracyRohrbaugh, Associate Training Coordinator for Matco Tools.  Topics include: Capturing the stake holders; Understanding your companies planning and budget cycle; Developing a 1 year and 3-5 year implementation plan; The role of continuous improvement in training. $25.00 members $35 nonmembers. Registration 440-835-3579 or email at astd [at] apk [dot] net
 |  | 03 / 25 
Start: 11:00 am 
Good Friday: Reflecting onthe Plight of the World’s Children
 |  | 03 / 26 |  | 03 / 27 |  | 03 / 28 |  | 03 / 29 
Start: 1:00 pm 
Each Tuesday from 2:00 - 4:00 PM REI holds REALNEO planning andorientation sessions. These sessions are free and open to anyone
 interested in this initiative - and excellent time to work with
 volunteers on your Community Of Interest Links - feel free to come
 
Start: 3:00 pm 
March 29: “CIADesign & Technology Transfer Center: A Showcase for Sustainable Business
 Development in NEO"
 
Start: 5:30 pm 
Local design and usability experts and attendees analyze and test a web site such as the Web Association's Meeting registration process. $15 non-members registration.   
Start: 6:00 pm 
 CLEVELAND
 Panel looks for jobs ideas  The Council for Excellence in Government will hold a town hall meeting on jobs at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Cleveland State University's Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs. The nonprofit, nonpartisan group based in Washington, D.C., will ask residents for suggestions on job creation and the roles that government and the private sector should have in economic development. The session is also sponsored by the Global Markets Institute at Goldman Sachs. Panelists include Mayor Jane Campbell, Ohio Lt. Gov. Bruce Johnson and the head of the Cleveland AFL-CIO Federation of Labor John Ryan. The meeting is free, but seating is limited. Call 202-728-0418 |  | 03 / 30 |  | 03 / 31 
Start: 7:30 am 
The Conventionand Visitors Bureau (CVB) of Greater Cleveland will be hosting a forum to
 present a concept for development of an online marketplace for the sale of
 discount surplus tickets to events in Cleveland.  Loren Chylla, Director of Marketing,
 Cleveland.com and King Hill, Principal, Director of Marketing Services,
 Digiknow will be in attendance to give an overview of the proposed online
 model.  Community Partnership for Arts
 and Culture conducted significant background research on discount ticketing
 models for the arts and cultural tourism committee of the CVB.  This research has helped to shape and inform
 the model that is being proposed.  The
 FINAL FORUM will be held on the following date:
 |  | 04 / 1 
Start: 11:00 am 
Friday, April 01, 2005 12:00 PMCivil Rights Enforcement: The Bulwark of Opportunity
 R. Alexander Acosta
 Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights
 The first Hispanic to serve as an assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice, Alex Acosta will give remarks concerning the Division’s accomplishments during the past four years and the future of civil rights in the 21st century. The Civil Rights Division is responsible for enforcing federal civil rights statutes, including those statutes that prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, religion, and national origin in education, employment, credit, housing, public accommodations and facilities, voting and certain federally funded and conducted programs. Acosta previously was a member of the National Labor Relations Board and served as principal deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division. A native of Florida, Mr. Acosta earned his law degree from the Harvard Law School. After graduation, he served as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and then worked at a law firm, where he specialized in employment and labor issues. He is a 2004 recipient of the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee Michigan’s Distinguished Leadership Award, the 2003 Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund's Excellence in Government Service Award and the 2003 DC Hispanic Bar Association’s Hugh A. Johnson, Jr. Memorial Award. He has also taught several classes on employment law, disability-based discrimination law and civil rights law at the George Mason School of Law.  |  | 04 / 2 |  | 04 / 3 |  | 04 / 4 |  | 04 / 5 
Start: 1:00 pm 
Each Tuesday from 2:00 - 4:00 PM REI holds REALNEO planning andorientation sessions. These sessions are free and open to anyone
 interested in this initiative - and excellent time to work with
 volunteers on your Community Of Interest Links - feel free to come
 
Start: 3:00 pm 
What Lakefront Access Means to NEO
 Chris Ronayne, former Cleveland Planning Director and current Chief of Staff at City Hall will address Cleveland's competitiveness as a 21st Century City.  From an accessible waterfront to a growing downtown, an emergent R&D Center at University Circle and a diversified local economy.  Ronayne will build the case that Cleveland is poised for growth and has a unique pportunity to become the next development frontier of our region.
 
Start: 5:00 pm 
North CoastEntrepreneurs, Inc
Hosts of TheGorilla Group and Capitalist Clevelandâ„¢
  
Start: 5:00 pm 
This meeting will feature Frank Cotter who is in charge ofbusiness development for Integran. Integran is a one of the companies that has
 been successful in taking nano technology from the laboratory into the
 marketplace.  Their electrodeposited coatings have been developed for a
 wide variety of industrial, military, consumer and medical applications.Â
 Their's is a story how to find the market applications to commercialize a new
 technology.
 |  | 04 / 6 |  | 04 / 7 |  | 04 / 8 
Start: 7:30 am 
Notacon is the second iteration of a yearly technology, arts and music event held at the Cleveland Holiday Inn. 
Start: 8:00 am 
Exploring Community through Technology - Notacon is the second iteration of a yearly technology, arts and music event held in Cleveland, Ohio.This year's focus is on how technology and community intermingle.  The event itself hosts
 speakers, events, games, live music and a whole lot more.
 
Start: 11:00 am 
Terrorist Profiling: SaferAirlines or Violation of Civil Rights?
 |  | 04 / 9 |  | 04 / 10 |  | 04 / 11 
Start: 10:30 am 
Michael C. DeAloia - Senior Executive for Technology Development - City of Cleveland - “Technology Development in the City�                           Monday, April 11, 2005  - 11:30 Networking/12:00 Lunch Served/1:30 Adjourn The Union Club - 1211 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland Ohio
 |  | 04 / 12 
Start: 10:30 am 
Intranets and Portals– What are they? How do they work? How are Intranets and Portals used
 in day to day activities across different industries and environments?
 
Start: 1:00 pm 
Each Tuesday from 2:00 - 4:00 PM REI holds REALNEO planning andorientation sessions. These sessions are free and open to anyone
 interested in this initiative - and excellent time to work with
 volunteers on your Community Of Interest Links - feel free to come
 
Start: 3:00 pm 
 
 
Tuesday@REI: April 12: "The Gehry designed Peter B. Lewis portal to Industrial Innovation in NEO" 
Start: 4:30 pm 
Try Speed Dating For Your Business!  
Attraction, infatuation, going steady,engagement…and finally marriage! Sounds like the evolution of your relationship
 with your significant other, right? Well your business relationships are no
 different. And COSE has a way you can form a new business relationship and take
 it straight to the altar!
   Speed dating for your business is the idea behindCOSE’s Power 50 Networking event. You’ll take your turn making your company’s
 pitch to the other people seated at your table. Then, every fifteen minutes
 you’ll switch tables to address a new group of four tablemates, until you have
 met face-to-face will all 49 other attendees.
 This event, COSE’s most popular networking eventlast year, is limited to the first 50 members who register, and has consistently
 sold-out. Don’t wait…register now!
 For more information, call Amanda Flood at (216)592-2207.
   
   Who shouldattend: Anyone looking to make new business
 contacts!
 |  | 04 / 13 
Start: 6:30 am 
How do personal characteristics such asintelligence, education and wealth contribute to disparate health outcomes?
 
 Linda S. Gottfredson, Ph.D., professor
 of education at the University of Delaware, and co-director of the
 Delaware-Johns Hopkins Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society, will
 discuss this and related issues at the next program in the lecture series,
 "Prescriptions for Change: Reducing Health Disparities in Our Community,"
 presented by the Roundtable Community Council, a program of the Greater
 Cleveland Partnership, and the Center for Health Disparities, a collaboration
 between MetroHealth Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University.
 The program will be held from 7:30-9:30 a.m., Wed., April 13, at TheCity Club of Cleveland, 850 Euclid Avenue. It is sponsored by the St. Luke's and
 Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundations. Tickets are $15 for City Club members and
 nonmembers.
 Registerhere.
 Dr.
 Gottfredson has written extensively on the impact of general intelligence on
 personal functioning in different life domains, including in school, on the job
 and in health self-care. Among her recent publications is an article in Current Directions in Psychological
 Science,
 co-written in 2004 with Ian J. Deary of the University of
 Edinburgh (Scotland), examining the theory that intelligence (as measured by an
 IQ-type test) enhances individuals' care of their own health, because it
 represents learning, reasoning and problem-solving skills useful in preventing
 chronic disease and accidental injury and in adhering to complex treatment
 regimens.
 
Start: 10:00 am 
Creating Web User Interfaces that Work - After 10 years of changing web design trends, theenduring truth is that web sites are most successful when form and function work
 seamlessly together. A website’s orientation, the clarity of layout and
 terminology, and a common-sense, visitor-oriented approach are consistently
 rewarded by internal and external customers.
 
Start: 4:00 pm 
Work on your finance, marketing or business planstwice a month at the E4S Study Hall Night. Working on your business is hard to
 do when the demands of working in your business overwhelm your work day. Why not
 commit to working on your business plans two nights a month with your friends at
 E4S. You can work alone or bounce ideas off your peers. We will invite local
 business development experts to be on hand to help answer your questions.
 E4S Members in the Start-up, First Growth or Established Business categorieswho are interested in finding time to work ON your business not just IN your
 business.
 |  | 04 / 14 
Start: 2:30 pm 
David Cutler, professor of economics at Harvard University’sEconomics Department and the Kennedy School of Government, will deliver
 the annual Howard T. McMyler Lecture. He will discuss the U.S. health
 care system in a lecture, entitled “Your Money or Your Life� and
 co-hosted by the Economics Department of Case’s Weatherhead School
 of Management and by the Center for Health Care Research and Policy.
 The talk will take place on Thursday April 14, 2005, 3:30 p.m. in the
 Clark Room at the Cleveland Botanical Gardens. It is free and open to
 the public
 |  | 04 / 15 
Start: 4:00 am 
CommunityPartnership for Arts and Culture and COSE Present:
 The Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute
 
Start: 11:00 am 
Tax Day 2005: The Case forTax Reform
 
Start: 3:00 pm 
The growing visibility of sustainable developmentcreates new opportuinities for NEO. We have a strong foundation of
 organizations committed to sustainability. We have a thick network of
 committed civic entrepreneurs who know a lot about these issues. We can
 move forward with an aggressive sustainable development agenda in NEO.
 
Start: 4:30 pm 
In support of the The Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute, held April 15 & 16 at CSU, there is a networking event, allowing current AEI “students� to get to know “graduates� and other artists in the community.  If you have anyquestions please feel free to contact us at cpac2001 [at] aol [dot] com
 |  | 04 / 16 
Start: 8:00 am 
CommunityPartnership for Arts and Culture and COSE Present:
 The Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute
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