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Burbank, California (PRWEB) September 24, 2013
Talk show host, Leigh Gregory is back with another episode of The Learning Show, the training industrys de facto internet talk show. And this time, hes riffing on gameful learning, sharing the latest statistics on manager meetings; and talking with learning futurist, Elliott Masie.
One of our goals is to champion workplace learning in all its forms. We do that by talking to the current and emerging thought leaders in the space. And, you cant say the phrase thought leader without Elliott Masie coming to mind. Were stoked to have him on the show, said Leigh.
It was over 20 years ago, that Elliott originated the word, eLearning. And that word became the name for a training method and an entire industry. And Elliott continues to stand at the forefront of the movement to deliver quality learning in as many innovative and engaging ways as possible. Along the way, hes brought his insights to the Department of Defense and to the White House during initiatives to expand learning opportunities to all people. To that end, he used the Learning Show to introduce the emerging concept of personalized learning.
Were expanding out the definition of what eLearning is. And its evaporating, I hope, in an ironic way. I hope we just talk about Learning. Im almost ready to make the assumption that well always use electronics, well always use face to face. Maybe at some point, the E will go away, said Elliott, while outlining how learning will be personalized.
Im excited about Elliotts concept of personalized learning. And I cant wait to see how our industry responds creatively and technologically to this bold philosophical pivot, said Marguerite Gregory, co-founder of Trainevision and executive producer of The Learning Show.
Elliott Masie will host Learning 2013, his annual learning conference, from November 3 6 in Orlando, Florida. George Takei is a special presenter and the featured keynote address will be delivered by former Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The Learning Show is brought to you by Trainevision, Inc. The Elliott Masie episode is available now on Trainevisions website, Facebook page, and YouTube channel. Stay tuned for upcoming episodes featuring the industrys thought leaders, disruptors and shape shifters.
About Trainevision Trainevision, Inc. is a performance improvement company located in Burbank, CA. Trainevision produces off-the-shelf video heavy eLearning, Streaming and DVD learning solutions for small, medium and large companies that are looking to improve the soft skills performance of their employees. For more information, visit https://www.trainevision.com. Follow @Trainevision on Twitter, link up on LinkedIn, and like them on Facebook!
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Popular keynote speaker, healthcare futurist, and best-selling author, Jack Uldrich has been selected to deliver three keynote sessions to hospital associations across the country. On October 10, 2013, Uldrich will keynoting the Arkansas Hospital Association's annual meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas where he'll be discussing "Why Future Trends in Healthcare Will Require Unlearning." Later in the month, Uldrich be discussing key technological trends in health care with members of the Arizona Hospital Association in Phoenix on October 23.
The presentations, based on Uldrichs two most recent books: "Foresight 20/20: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow" and "Higher Unlearning: 39 Post Requisite Lessons for Achieving a Successful Future" as well as his popular article, "Top Ten Trends in Healthcare," will begin by discussing how continued advances in information technologies, biotechnology, nanotechnology, robotics, radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, genomics, regenerative medicine and social networking will radically transform healthcare in the decade ahead. (A video of Mr. Uldrich discussing future trends can be viewed here.)
Uldrich will then focus on why these trends will demand unlearning and discuss why participants must embrace the concept of unlearning in order to achieve future success. Uldrich, who has been hailed as Americas Chief Unlearning Officer, will conclude by reviewing specific habits, customs, beliefs and ideas that healthcare professionals canand mustunlearn. Throughout his talks, he will use vivid analogies and memorable stories, drawn from a wide spectrum of industries, to ensure his message of unlearning sticks with his audiences.
In the past year, Uldrich has addressed dozens of healthcare associations and hospitals, including the Alcetel-Lucent/Verizon Forum on Wireless Healthcare, IASIS Healthcare, Allina Hospitals, The Healthcare Trustees of New York, The Iowa Healthcare Collaborative, Care Providers of Minnesota, St. Jude Medical, Fairview Hospitals, University Hospitals & Health System of Ohio, and healthcare associations in Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin. He has also addressed a number of major, non-health-care-related corporations on the topic of unlearning including United Healthcare, PepsiCo, Cisco, IBM, WiPro, Guardian Life Insurance and General Electric. Uldrich also frequently addresses Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and Chamber of Commerce events throughout the country.
Parties interested in learning more about Jack Uldrich, his books, his daily blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to visit his website at: http://www.jumpthecurve.net. Media wishing to know more about the event or interviewing Jack Uldrich can contact him directly at 612-267-1212 or jack(at)schoolofunlearning(dot)com.
Uldrich is a renowned global healthcare futurist, best-selling author; editor of the monthly newsletter, The Exponential Executive, and host of the award-winning websites, http://www.jumpthecurve.net and http://www.schoolofunlearning.com. He is currently represented by a number of professional speakers bureaus, including Leading Authorities, Executive Speakers Bureau and Convention Connection.
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Madagascars security forces are struggling to combat bandits known as dahalo
Organized crime groups, often working with the compliance of governments, present a growing threat to citizens in fragile states. While casualties from armed conflict are reaching a historical low of approximately 50,000 a year according to research in 2012, little has been done to effectively combat the threat of organized crime groups around the world.
As the UN looks past the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 2015 deadline, many are calling for the inclusion of security and justice targets in the post-2015 agenda and a reframing of the current transnational crime discourse. Human rights organizations argue that freedom from fear and the tackling of organized crime are not just a personal security issue, but a development problem as well.
What is freedom from fear?
Freedom from fear requires a state that has monopoly of legitimate violence, Stephen Ellis, senior researcher at the African Studies Centre, University of Leiden, told IRIN. Its a modern, liberal concept of what a good state really is.
The 1994 Human Development Report broadly defined human security as freedom from fear and freedom from want. Although the phrase has roots going back to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this report instigated serious debate about human security and its connections to human development.
In their think piece for the UN system task team on the post-2015 UN development agenda last year, the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) argued that a new development paradigm is called for, directed to securing freedom from fear and want for all, without discrimination.
Posing questions about what constitutes fear for whom and in what contexts is likely to sharpen our analytical understanding of the conflicts of interest that generate fear in the first place Adam Edwards, director of the Cardiff University Center for Crime, Law and Justice, told IRIN. This can help to then draft policies to combat these fears.
But not everyone believes that the terminology is suited to meaningful action. In the abstract, its impossible not to have fear, Desmond Arias, associate professor at George Mason University, told IRIN. Even in a relatively safe society, you have fear. Its good to have a modest amount of fear.
Im not sure that its a useful concept, Vanda Felbab-Brown, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told IRIN. Freedom from fear is completely unrealistic, but also very absolutist. Therefore, it is impossible to actually achieve. The phrasing I would like to see is enhancing human security and strengthening the bond between citizens and governments, she said.
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The residents at downtown Hollands Freedom Village didnt back down when they were challenged. In fact they stepped up, in a big way, to the tune of $98,000.
The residents at Freedom Village were given a two-to-one challenge by local philanthropist Jim Brooks. Brooks would donate $100,000 to the Windmill Island Gardens Future Fund if the residents of Freedom Village could raise $50,000, said Gordon Van Wylen, a resident at the village who has helped with the fundraising campaign and former president of Hope College, who has also been involved in many community projects.
After a presentation from Brooks and city officials, including Mayor Kurt Dykstra, Van Wylen and an ad hoc advisory committee from freedom Village took on the challenge. Letters were written, donation cards and envelopes printed and sent throughout that little community.
Then a second $100,000 donation came in and doubled the challenge.
We were quite sure we could raise $50,000, Van Wylen said. We knew raising $100,000 would be difficult. But here we are, $2,000 away.
The presentation happened in June, and the those at Freedom Village who wanted to give, gave strong and right away. Being a neighbor to the park, the village has sort of adopted it. Its within walking distance. Its their view. And giving to the proposed pedestrian path that could get them out to the park safer was a great idea, Van Wylen said.
But once the village reached about $65,000 to $70,000, the donations dropped off, he said. So he went out in search of boost and found it with Grand Rapids businessman Richard Postma, who stepped in as chairman of Macatawa Bank during the recession, Van Wylen said. Postma donated $15,000, and the bank, which has a branch in Freedom Village, gave $2,500.
That boost got the ball rolling again at the village, and it is only $2,000 away from making the mark. Envelopes are collected Friday, Van Wylen said. Its possible they will make it.
When there was only $10,000 to go, people gave a smaller second gift, Van Wylen said.
He hopes the way Freedom Village stepped up to the challenge will encourage other people and organizations to do the same to support the restoration of Windmill DeZwaan and the future plans at Windmill Island Gardens.
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New rules for freedom campers have been approved by the Dunedin City Council, but without a blunt warning to tourists.
Councillors at Monday's full council meeting opted to approve the council's new ''responsible'' camping policy and bylaw, which eased restrictions across the city introduced before the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
However, Fliss Butcher's push to add a blunt warning about defecating in public to the top of a new freedom camping brochure was defeated, after other councillors turned their nose up at the idea.
Cr Butcher, a member of the hearings subcommittee, told her colleagues some tourists were ''pooing on Otago'' while on their travels.
Submitters had expressed concern, including one Macandrew Bay resident who discovered a tourist defecating in his garden one morning, and Cr Butcher said a blunt message should be sent.
She wanted the words ''Don't poo on Otago'' added to the top of the brochure as a ''radical, in-your-face way of saying 'stop doing it'.''
''This is a real problem. It's not going to go away by just pretending it's not happening. It is happening.''
Other councillors began to chortle as Kate Wilson expressed concern at the wording and declined to be the resolution's seconder.
Mayor Dave Cull couldn't resist: ''You don't want poo in your motion?'' he inquired casually.
As Cr Wilson shook her head, Neil Collins suggested a more diplomatic use of the word ''defecate'' instead, but also got nowhere.
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IRVINE, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 24, 2013) - The Fuel Freedom Foundation (FFF), in partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), sponsored a topic breakfast, entitled "Refueling the Fight Against Poverty," in conjunction with the annual meeting at CGI. The breakfast was held on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013.
The discussion was led by John Podesta, former White House Chief of Staff under Bill Clinton, and current Chair at The Center for American Progress. The panel featured Yossie Hollander, Fuel Freedom Foundation Chairman and co-founder; David R. Lee, Professor at Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management Cornell University; and Radha Muthiah, Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.
Fuel Freedom Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that is working to reduce the cost of driving your existing car or truck by opening the market to cheaper fuel choices at the pump. Achieving fuel freedom will mean accelerated economic growth, greater energy security, reduced air pollution, lower greenhouse gas emissions and improved health.
The scarcity of cheap, clean fuels is one of the greatest challenges facing much of the global population, and this especially affects the world's poorest three billion people. The shortage and lack of access to affordable fuels in the developing world negatively impacts food security, health and national security. The breakfast explored how the world can transform the traditional view and understanding of fuels today; and investigated alternatives to fuels commonly used for transportation, cooking, electricity, lighting and fertilizers. Rethinking low-cost and clean fuels will have a global impact in the fight against poverty.
About Fuel Freedom: Fuel Freedom Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to breaking our oil addiction by enabling the transportation fuels market to open so our cars and trucks can run on cheaper, cleaner, healthier American replacement fuels. Consumers could easily convert their cars to run on replacement fuels, but outdated regulations and entrenched commercial interests stand in the way. The Fuel Freedom campaign aims to remove barriers to competition so that natural gas, methanol, ethanol and electricity can compete on equal footing with gasoline at the pump and at the dealership. Achieving Fuel Freedom will lower fuel prices, create jobs, spur economic growth, reduce pollution, and improve national and global security. For more information visit us at http://www.fuelfreedom.org.
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Astrobiologists are overwhelmed by the huge volume of images from other planets. Now they have help in the form of a system that automatically identifies objects of interest in geological images
The search for life on other planets is hotting up. The seemingly endless train of Mars rovers have found convincing evidence of a warmer and wetter climate on Mars. The Huygens and Cassini spacecraft have found lakes, beaches, rivers and rain on Titan (albeit of the the oily variety). And Europas dark, warm ocean looks increasingly inviting for astrobiologists.
Then there are the ever-increasing hordes of exoplanets in the habitable zones around other stars.Its never been a better time to be an astrobiologist.
One problem that this new breed of scientist faces is data overload. Each image from Mars has to be pored over by a human expert before the rovers next move can be planned and executed.
And since these images are increasingly numerous, this is a time consuming task. So a way to automate the classification of these images, at least partially, would be hugely useful.
Step forward Patrick McGuire at the Freie Universitt in Berlin, Germany and a few pals who have built and tested an automated system that does just this. They call their new system the cyborg astrobiologist.
The new system is relatively simple. It consists of a Samsung Propel smartphone, which has a camera capable of taking 1280 x 960 pixel images, connected by bluetooth to a Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop. For the moment, it requires a human helper to carry and point the camera but its not hard to imagine how the system could be fitted to an autonomous rover.
The phone takes photos of the terrain as it moves around, sending them it to the laptop for analysis. This where the clever part takes place.
The laptop analyses each photo by comparing it earlier images it has received and looking for similarities between them. It analyses the colour of the scene and the texture to calculate a similarity score.
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Autumn clean-up on the beaches
1:00pm Tuesday 24th September 2013 in News By Emma Walker
VOLUNTEERS took to the beaches over the weekend to give them an autumn clean.
After a busy summer on the Dorset coast, when sun-seekers flocked to the area, teams headed to the seashore armed with bin bags and litter pickers for the Great Dorset Beach Clean.
Lyn Cooch of the Dorset Countryside coastal ranger team helped out on Chesil Beach.
She said: We have been conducting a survey of a 100-metre area on the beach to record what litter is being picked up.
The litter from these areas will then be weighed before the data is sent off.
It is a great initiative to keep our beaches clean after a busy summer.
Fishing nets, barbecues and plastic items made up a lot of the waste, with details of rubbish picked up sent to the Marine Conservation Society to add to its annual report on beach litter.
The clean-ups are organised by Dorset County Councils Country-side Ranger Service.
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This article is the first in a three-part series taking a close look at erosion along the Massachusetts coastline. Staff at our WickedLocal papers up and down the coast from Cape Cod to Cape Ann are talking to experts, residents and scientists to determine if our coast is eroding away and what, if anything, can be done to stop it.
The good news: The drive to the beach may be shorter in coming years.
The bad news weve already seen. Especially last winter. Homes falling into the ocean. Beaches scoured of sand. Seawalls and jetties degraded or destroyed. Roads washed out or buried in sand and debris.
Its difficult to say if last winters damage was a seasonal fluctuation or a definite, long-term trend, say experts. Coastlines, by their nature, change. Storm patterns, too, vary.
But experts agree on one point: Sea levels are rising, increasing the likelihood of long-term coastal flooding, erosion and storm damage.
Last winter may be an outlier. Four major noreasters rocked Massachusetts from October to March. From year to year, storms vary in severity and impact. Because the commonwealths coast suffered through a severe winter last year, doesnt necessarily mean this winter will be equally severe.
At the same time, barrier beaches can be very dynamic. They can narrow and shrink for a number of years. And then they can suddenly blossom again and widen. One beach can lose significant sand, while another, not far away, can gain.
There are areas where weve seen significant erosion and others where weve seen accretion, said Bruce Carlisle, director of the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management. Between 2001 and 2008, where weve done the actual mapping, within that small decade, the shoreline has moved up and back a little bit.
Its important to distinguish between the loss of a beach and the migration of a beach or barrier island, when an entire system can respond by changing its location, said Rob Thieler, a research geologist with United States Geological Survey in Woods Hole. Sometimes coastal changes are asymmetric. There can be narrowing for a decade or two, followed by widening, depending on how the overall system is changing.
Hurricanes cause some damage, said Bill Sargent, a NOVA consultant and author of numerous books about the environment and science including Beach Wars: 10,000 Years on a Barrier Beach and The View From Strawberry Hill: Reflections on the Hottest Year on Record, but Sargent argues noreasters can actually do more damage because theyll hang around for three or four days. They linger over far more high tides than a hurricane would and thats when you get a cumulative effect.
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The Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC) Planetarium will offer a day of programs for the entire family in celebration of Astronomy Day, Saturday, Oct. 12, from 3-9 p.m.
Visitors will be introduced to the Planetariums newly opened 3M Observatory for solar observing during the day, or will get a chance to take peeks of the Moon and other celestial objects in the evening sky.
Some of the activities will include viewing a scale model of the solar system or using ones body to tell time on a sundial. A light pollution demonstration also is planned. The event is appropriate for families with children ages six and older.
During the event, participants may want to view any of the four Planetarium shows scheduled: Fall Skies, 3 p.m.
Explore the night sky under the Planetarium dome with an expert guide. Learn what stars, planets and constellations are visible in tonights sky, including Venus. The constellations Andromeda, Pegasus and Cassiopeia are easy to find as well. Find out the status of the Sun-grazer Comet, ISON.
Laser Light Waves, 4 p.m. Enjoy a laser light show featuring such songs as Yellow Submarine by the Beatles, Tonight Tonight by Hot Chelle Rae, and Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf.
Fall Skies, 7 p.m. Explore the night sky under the Planetarium dome with an expert guide. Learn what stars, planets and constellations are visible in tonights sky, including Venus. The constellations Andromeda, Pegasus and Cassiopeia are easy to find as well. Find out the status of the Sun-grazer Comet, ISON.
Laser Classic Rock, 8 p.m. Enjoy a laser light show featuring such songs as You Aint Seen Nothing Yet by Bachman Turner Overdrive, Rebel Rebel by David Bowie, and Another One Bites the Dust by Queen.
All of the Astronomy Day activities are free of charge, but there is a cost for the star shows and laser concerts. Tickets cost $7 for one show or $12 for two shows. Reservations for the shows are strongly suggested.
For additional information about Astronomy Day or to make reservations, call 908-231-8805 or visit raritanval.edu/planetarium.
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