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Lisa Gautier (known as Lisa born 1997) is a dancer actress and singer. She is Michel Gautier's daughter and Mylène Farmer's niece.
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Lisa was born on the 26th of August 1997 , which was a Tuesday. Lisa will be turning 26 in only 210 days from today.
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Lisa is 25 years old. To be more precise (and nerdy), the current age as of right now is 9126 days or (even more geeky) 219024 hours. That's a lot of hours!
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Lisa's zodiac sign is Virgo.
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Lisa's career started in 2008. That is more than 15 years ago.
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Lisa's full given name is Lisa Gautier.
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As the FootyMaths Institute has highlighted in its most recent post, this year sees a startlingly wide spread of winning rates amongst the eight Finalists when we consider only their games from the home-and-away seasons against one another. These rates range from a low of 33% for the Kangaroos to a high of 75% for Hawthorn.
The table with all of that data appears below and reveals that the Hawks' dominance in scoring has come especially in 2nd and 4th Quarters where it's outscored its co-Finalists by 12.4 and 16.0 points per game, respectively.
In 4th Quarters, the Hawks' superiority has been both in terms of an excess of Scoring Shots (+3.5) and a better Conversion rate (+12% points), while in 2nd Quarters the superiority has been only in terms of additional Scoring Shots (+3.6). Whilst the Hawks have been a little less dominant in 3rd Quarters in terms of Scoring, they have been amazingly superior in terms of Scoring Shot Conversion, converting their own opportunities at a 62% rate while restricting their opponents to a rate of just 38%.
The Minor Premiers, Fremantle, have started well against the co-Finalists, registering more Scoring Shots (+1.1), converting them at a higher rate (+6% points), and therefore outscoring (+6.1 points) their opponents in 1st Quarters. They've conceded more Scoring Shots than they've generated in every other Quarter, however, so much so that even superior Conversion rates have been insufficient to enable them to outscore their opponents in any of these Quarters. Still, their dominance in Q1s has been enough to see them, on average, outscore their opponents across the entirety of the contest.
West Coast's dominance has been in 2nd and 4th Quarters where they have generated more Scoring Shots and registered more points than their opponents. Their Conversion has been somewhat problematic, however, being inferior to their opponents' in all of Quarters 1 through 3.
Sydney's statistics are inferior generally, the one bright light being 2nd Quarters where they're managed to outscore their opponents largely because of a vastly superior Conversion rate in these Quarters. In contrast, their Conversion rates in 1st and 3rd terms have been markedly worse than their opponents'.
Richmond has eked out superior 1st and 4th Quarter performances on the back of positive Conversion Rate differences in both Quarters, and on the back of greater Scoring Shot production in 4th Quarters. Overall, however, they've been outscored by their opponents across the four Quarters despite having a slightly superior Scoring Shot Conversion record across entire games, this because they've generated just over 1 Scoring Shot less than their opponents per game.
Adelaide, like Richmond, has outscored its opponents in 1st and 4th Quarters, but the Crows have needed to overcome a significant Scoring Shot Conversion rate deficit in 1st Quarters (-12% points) to do this. They've achieved that Quarter 1 superiority by generating 1.5 more Scoring Shots per game than their opponents. Quarter 2s have been particularly problematic for Adelaide, their 8% Scoring Shot Conversion rate deficit, coupled with a 1.3 Scoring Shot deficit, finding them scoring almost 7 points per quarter less than their opponents.
For the Dogs, points scoring superiority has come in 1st and 3rd Quarters, in 1st Quarters very much because of a superior Scoring Shot Conversion performance (+15% points), and in 3rd Quarters very much because of a superior Scoring Shot production performance (+2 Scoring Shots per quarter). Quarter 4s have hurt the Dogs, however, a Conversion rate deficit of 4% points paired with a Scoring Shot production deficit of 2.4 Scoring Shots per quarter seeing them outscored by 10.5 points in Q4s in an average game. That deficit has been enough to turn a +4.6 point scoring surplus in Q1s to Q3s into a 5.9 point scoring surplus for games taken as a whole, the third-worst result of all the Finalists.
Lastly, the Roos, like Sydney, show positive results in just a single quarter - for them, 3rd Quarters. In those Quarters they've, on average, generated 0.4 more Scoring Shots than their opponents, Converted these as a 5% point higher rate, and therefore outscored their opponents by 3.2 points per quarter. In all three other quarters they've generated fewer Scoring Shots and registered fewer points than their opponents. In 2nd Quarters they have, at least, been able to convert their Scoring Shots at a slightly higher rate than their opponents. while in 4th Quarters they've been particularly affected by their significantly inferior Scoring Shot Conversion rate, themselves converting at a rate of just 50% while their opponents have converted at 70%.


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2011 The Year of Open
Filed under: copyright, Open Educational Resources (OER) | Tags: copyright, creative commons, MOOC, OERU, open data, open educational resources, open faculty, open institutions, open pedagogies, open policy, open science, open students, UNESCO-COL Guidelines for Open Educational Resources
The "open" space is expanding.
2011 has been a watershed year with open gaining traction and acceptance.
photo by Paul Stacey
Governments in Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the US have all adopted Creative Commons licenses to communicate broad reuse rights to the content, data, and educational materials they create. By doing so these national governments are seeking to:
promote creative and innovative activities, which will deliver social and economic benefits
make government more transparent and open in its activities, ensuring that the public are better informed about the work of the government and the public sector
enable more civic and democratic engagement through social enterprise and voluntary and community activities
This move to more open government is not just happening at the national level. Here in British Columbia the provincial government has established a Ministry of Labour, Citizen's Services and Open Government and became the first provincial government in Canada to launch an open data portal.
Its even happening at the city or municipal level. The city of Sao Paulo in Brazil has decreed that all educational resources paid for by the city need to be Open Educational Resources (OER) licensed using Creative Commons license.
Its not just happening at the national, provincial, and municipal levels its happening at the organizational and institutional levels. The National Autonomous University of Mexico, better known as UNAM, has said it will make virtually all of its publications, databases, and course materials freely available on the Internet over the next few years. This is to include all magazines and periodicals published by UNAM, research published by UNAM employees, and online access to theses, dissertations and its approximately 300 undergraduate and graduate courses. The UNAM Online initiative seeks to achieve open access, public and free to all products, collections and digital developments of the university. This move is seen as part of the university's mission. A way to give back to society what it is doing with its financial support. A way of being open, accountable and transparent.
Its not just publications, research, theses and other content that is going open, 2011 was the year that open pedagogies including Massively Open Online Courses (MOOC) were adopted by mainstream big name institutions. A Massively Open Online Course is typically taught by faculty at an established institution to tuition paying regular students but is also open to enrollment by anyone interested for free. Only the tuition paying students receive accreditation. MOOC's have been around for a while (see here and here) but this year saw the following fascinating examples:
Digital Storytelling DS106 – Jim Groom's University of Mary Washington DS106 is an open, online course free to anyone who wants to take it. You can join in whenever you like and leave whenever you need. Participants develop skills in using technology as a tool for creative self-expression, building a digital identity, and critically examining the landscape of communication technologies. The 2011 version of this course invented a free form live streaming course radio station as a new form of teaching and learning. This course starts up again in January 2012 in case you'd like to sign up.
In the fall of 2011 Stanford Engineering professors offered three of the school's most popular computer science courses for free online as MOOC's, Machine Learning, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, and Introduction to Databases. The Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course generated over 100,000 enrollments and had to be capped. Students taking the course for free watch video lecture recordings, read course materials, complete assignments and take quizzes and an exam. What online students don't receive, however, is one-on-one interaction with professors, the full content of lectures – or a Stanford degree.
In late December MIT announced MITx which aims to let thousands of online learners take laboratory-intensive courses, while assessing their ability to work through complex problems, complete projects, and write assignments (see FAQ). As with other MOOC style offerings students won't have interaction with faculty or earn credit toward an MIT degree. However, for a small fee (yet to be defined) students can take an assessment which if successfully completed will provide them with a certificate from MITx. Whether this turns out to be anything more than the form letters Stanford's faculty provide non-enrolled students who complete the course remains to be seen. But, imagine this scenario. A student signs up for a free MITx course, completes the assignments, pays the assessment fee and receives a certificate indicating successful completion. That student then decides to apply to and enroll in MIT proper. Would that certificate be accepted by MIT as transfer credit or would they force the student to retake the entire course?
Museums and libraries are going open. Check out the Commons on Flickr to see how libraries and museums are openly sharing what have been hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives, and how they are openly sourcing public input and knowledge into making these collections even richer. The Commons on Flickr openly shares photos where "no known copyright restrictions" exist, such as:
The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired;
The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions;
The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control; or
The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.
I think of these collections as partially open. The rights statements of participating libraries and museums are full of statements like; "It is your responsibility to determine what permission(s) you need in order to use the Content and, if necessary, to obtain such permission." Not particularly helpful or encouraging of reuse. No where near as clear as Creative Commons licenses. However, I do really like the way they are seeking public input into the cataloging and data associated with these images. See No. 47. Crew member taking a movie of ice berg from the ship, Greenland, 1939 for an example of how Smithsonian images are being shared through the Commons on Flickr and how public input is improving the collection. It's particularly heartening to see the Smithsonian directly interacting with end users.
Photo from Smithsonian Institution's Photostream
In November 2011 Wired announced that all Wired.com staff-produced photos will be released under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC) license in high-res format on a newly launched public Flickr stream. In making the announcement Wired notes; "Like many other sites across the web, we've benefited from CC-licensed photos at Wired.com for years — thank you, sharers! It seems only fitting, and long overdue, to start sharing ourselves."
Its great to see these examples of open leadership happening at the national, provincial, municipal, institutional, and organizational level and it makes me wonder – Is open going viral? Is open going mainstream?
There is growing government interest in seeing resources produced through tax dollars be publicly accessible. Governments at all levels are using policy and legal frameworks to open up access to publicly held information, promote transparency, and enable wider economic and social gain. These are all factors every government and their electorate are interested in.
I can't wait for the day when more and more government officials recognize the benefits of open and establish themselves as proponents. Washington State representative Reuven Carlyle gets it in spades. See $64 million for out-of-date and educationally generic textbooks? Here's a new approach, and Beginning of the end for $100 college textbooks: Legislature, colleges, Gates Foundation partner for examples of how a politician can make a difference by understanding and leveraging open.
I think of open textbooks as low hanging fruit. One of the most compelling open education initiatives to undertake. Open textbooks have a clear value proposition for students, parents, educators and public funders. CK-12's flexbooks are totally impressive for the fact that they are Creative Commons licensed and for the simple way you can assemble a book as a .pdf, an e-book, or html and embed it in an LMS. And then there is Saylor's Open Textbook Challenge which is offering a "bounty" of $20,000 if you submit your textbook to them and it is accepted for use in their course materials. I expect we'll see open textbooks for high enrollment undergrad courses across the board.
While I'm interested in the full range of ways in which open principles are being used I'm particularly interested in how they apply to education. Governments could establish policy that requires public funds for education to result in education resources openly accessible to the public. Some governments have provided funding for development of educational resources under agreements that have the IP and copyright for those resources resting with the government. Governments could easily convert all these legacy educational resources to Open Educational Resources (OER) by simply using an open license like Creative Commons.
UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) published the UNESCO-COL Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education this year providing a set of guidelines to support governments, teaching staff, higher education institutions/providers, and quality assurance/accreditation and recognition bodies adopt and support OER.
The guidelines for government include:
a. Support the use of OER through the revision of policy regulating higher education
b. Contribute to raising awareness of key OER issues
c. Review national ICT/connectivity strategies for Higher Education
d. Consider adapting open licensing frameworks
e. Consider adopting open format standards
f. Support institutional investments in curriculum design
g. Support the sustainable production and sharing of learning materials
h. Collaborate to find effective ways to harness OER.
I look forward to seeing these policies adopted around the world, used at the national, provincial, municipal, and institutional level, and applied across all of education.
For public government, public service agencies, and not-for-profits open policy is a perfect fit. For the most compelling and articulate description of its obviousness I highly recommend you listen to Cable Green's Sloan-C presentation The Obviousness of Open Policy which he gave in November 2011 (advance to time index 10:25 and click on the 4 arrows in the upper right corner to go full screen). In a digital world the potential is there for open to become a widespread win/win de facto policy with benefits for governments and citizens. The most amazing thing of all is that government support for open can happen at the policy and guidelines level without any additional funding. It's hard to imagine why any entity serving the public interest wouldn't adopt open policies when open can clearly generate social and economic benefits.
I'm highlighting these government developments around policy and open as I see them as an essential complement to the grass roots way open adoption has happened to date. Individuals, on their own, have embraced open. Photographers have uploaded over 200 million images to Flickr tagged with Creative Commons licenses. Wikipedia's more than 3.8 million entries are openly licensed using Creative Commons. In June 2011 YouTube added the Creative Commons Attribution license as a licensing option for users and launched a Creative Commons video library containing 10,000 videos under CC BY from organizations such as C-SPAN, PublicResources.org, Voice of America, and Al Jazeera. There are now hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos that users have posted with Creative Commons licenses.
People who tweet and use social networks appreciate openly engaging others in solving problems or providing advice. The New Einsteins Will Be Scientists Who Share explores this potential for science. Even Scientific American is in on the act with their citizen science site. I expect we'll soon see national organizations responsible for research establish open innovation as an essential aspect of research agendas.
As might be expected there are a growing number of practices and technologies emerging to support this kind of open engagement. Knowledge in the Public Interest is using the concept of a JAM's for open engagement. A JAM is a a non-linear moderated discussion of fixed duration that is part creative brainstorming, part active dialogue, and part focus group. In a JAM participants share experiences, knowledge, and ideas, and collaborate in search of actionable responses to complex issues. It's interesting to note that Knowledge in the Public Interest's customized version of Moodle and its JAM process are similar to what BCcampus has been doing for years with its customized Moodle SCoPE seminars.
Idea Scale is another interesting example. The recently launched US initiative Digital Promise is using Idea Scale to generate and tackle "grand challenges" to spur breakthrough technologies that can help transform the way teachers teach and students learn. You can see grand challenge ideas submitted so far in Idea Scale here.
In education, Learning Management Systems are largely closed walled off online learning environments that require passwords and logins for entry. It was a welcome surprise then when in October 2011 Blackboard announced a series of new initiatives to provide greater support for open education efforts. Working with Creative Commons, Blackboard now supports publishing of open educational resources (OER) across its platforms. Support for OER enables instructors to publish and share their courses under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) so that anyone can easily preview and download the course content. Blackboard also updated its policy around fees so that there are no extra charges associated with sharing courses with outsiders such as other educators, auditors, or prospective students. Blackboard says it wants to help institutions share the content of their courses with larger, online audiences. When a technology vendor like Blackboard starts to support open then you know open is past the idea stage and going mainstream.
Given the growing personal use of open licenses by end users it makes sense for governments to do the same. Open will flourish when bottom-up grassroots efforts toward open take place in an environment supported top-down by policy.
photo by Deborah Stacey
My own work at BCcampus around OER has been an example of that synergy. Government Ministry of Advanced Education support for faculty development of online learning resources has been provided with the caveat that the resources be open and shareable. I've written about this initiative extensively elsewhere in this blog (see here, and here, and here) so thought I'd shine the light on a couple of other 2011 developments that add credence to the growing sense of open going viral and the synergy between policy and grassroots adoption.
In the US the Obama administration initiated the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) Grants Program out of the US Department of Labor. The first round of TAACCCT grants made available and awarded in 2011 totals $500 million but a total of $2 billion over four years has been committed. This example of government commitment to open is the largest I know of and I hope others are inspired to follow suit. TAACCCT provides eligible institutions of higher education with funds to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs that can be completed in 2 years or less, and that result in skills, degrees, and credentials that prepare program participants for employment in high-wage, high-skill occupations, and are suited for workers who are eligible for training under the TAA for Workers program. TAACCCT funds are capacity building grants strategically targeted to assist workers adversely affected by trade agreements. All TAACCCT initiatives are expected to meet accessibility and interoperability standards and produce OER licensed using Creative Commons (CC-BY).
Wayne Mackintosh and the Open Educational Resource Foundation (OERF) in New Zealand have been doing just an amazing job of bringing to life the OER university (OERu). Here's how the OERu is described:
The OER university is a virtual collaboration of like-minded institutions committed to creating flexible pathways for OER learners to gain formal academic credit.
The OER university aims to provide free learning to all students worldwide using OER learning materials with pathways to gain credible qualifications from recognised education institutions. It is rooted in the community service and outreach mission to develop a parallel learning universe to augment and add value to traditional delivery systems in post-secondary education. Through the community service mission of participating institutions we will open pathways for OER learners to earn formal academic credit and pay reduced fees for assessment and credit.
The concept of an OERu gained widespread support and made incredible progress over the 2011 year. Institutions from around the world have become OERu founding partners including:
BAOU (Gujarat's open university)
Empire State College (SUNY)
Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology
NorthTec
Open Polytechnic
Thompson Rivers University
University of South Africa
OER Foundation (non-teaching)
BCcampus (non-teaching)
These founding partners represent Canada, USA, New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, and India. For OERu to have attracted the interest and involvement of this many partners in a one year period is impressive. I'm particularly encouraged with the breadth, depth and reputations of these partners. It's worth pointing out that the OERu openly invites other institutions to join. I expect many additional institutions from all around the world will join the OERu and follow the early leadership these founding anchor partners have shown.
Over the course of 2011 the OERu:
conducted an international consultative webinar on the OER university with a focus on OER for assessment and credit for students in February 2011
hosted a strategic international planning meeting for the OER university February 2011
established a plan of action for implementing its logic model
held an international consultative webinar on designing OERu credentials in August 2011
brought on 15 anchor partners (see above)
held an OERu Founding Anchor Partners inaugural planning meeting in November 2011
defined 2012 prototype courses in Dec 2011
and is currently doing an international consultative webinar for designing Academic Volunteers International (until Dec 16) as well as conducting an OERu assessment and credentialisation practice survey (until Dec 31)
Perhaps the most impressive thing of all with OERu is that all of this has been planned and published openly on Wikieducator with invited and included participation from people all over the world. Got ideas you'd like to contribute to the OERu? Log on to the wiki and add them – input from all is welcome. OERu is not only about opening education its modelling how to do planning and development in an open and inclusive way. For the OERu, open is not just about content – its about all aspects of education, it seeks to engage and benefit all people everywhere, it's a way of working. Outstanding!
Against this backdrop of growing global momentum and critical mass around open, 2011 has been a pivotal year of open for me personally too. Here's my own personal 2011 top 10 open highlights:
#1. The University of Open articulates a vision of a new kind of university that strategically chooses to use and contribute to the code of Open Source Software, publish research openly using Open Access principles, teach openly in the public using Open Pedagogies, share data on it's activities using Open Data, and involve faculty and students in developing and using Open Educational Resources (OER). This vision of an alternative 'university of open' serves as an inspiration for me. I've been thrilled to find this idea picked up and promoted internationally by Sir John Daniel of the Commonwealth of Learning (Open Courseware, Open Content, Open Practices, Open Learning: Where are the limits? — Tertiary Education: How Open? — Open Universities: what are the dimensions of openness? — Publishing with Public Money for Public Benefit)
#2. Award of grants for the 2010 BCcampus Online Program Development Fund which supports partnerships of BC public post secondary institutions in their development of online learning curricula as OER. This was the eighth consecutive round, the longest running publicly funded OER initiative I know of, bringing the cumulative 2003-2010 investment to $9 million. Kudos to BC's Ministry of Advanced Education for its early foresight and willingness to back open over all these years.
#3. One of OER's holy grails is reuse by others. I think there is a dearth of understanding about just what people think this means but this past year several significant events happened around OER developed in BC being picked up and expanded by others elsewhere. I find these examples fascinating as they represent real-life examples of what happens as OER mature. The University of British Columbia's Virtual Soil Science Learning Resources are a great example of an OER initiative that started in BC and has expanded. The additional institutional partners brought on over time contribute to improving existing learning resources, developing new learning resources, and use existing virtual soil science learning resources for courses in their own institutions. I enjoyed helping bring together soil scientists in India with the core UBC team to further expand the work through an international partnership.
When someone says to me OER reuse I think about this – the formation of distributed social networks of faculty and students collectively working on shared curriculum.
Royal Roads University has a wonderful Open Educational Resources site and Mary Burgess, the lead for this initiative sent me an e-mail in November 2011 saying:
"We've had some exciting developments on our little OER project of late that I just had to share with you!
Last week, we found out that a consortium of Chinese institutions is using our Instructional Skills Workshop Online (shared from our OER site) – you can see it here.
And today, we found out that 2 of our Moodle customizations are being made part of Moodle core in version 2.3.
Finally, I had an email from a guy at the University of Madrid yesterday who is using another one of our Moodle patches.
We are over the moon that our work is of use to others!"
I love that last statement. It is exciting to see the work you openly share be of use to others.
#4. Consortium of BCcampus, WICHE, CCCS, North Island College, College of the Rockies and institutions in Montana, Wyoming and Colorado awarded Gates Foundation funded Next Generation Learning Challenges Wave I $750K grant for the North American Network of Science Labs Online. Especially momentous for me was the workshop we did at North Island College in Courtenay BC where over 50 educators, faculty and edtech specialists participated in a demonstration of the Remote Web-based Science Lab and in discipline panel discussions around the biology, chemistry and physics OER courses and labs this project is creating. This project is exciting and yet another example of an OER project that has been unfolding over several years in BC expanding outward and increasing impact through additional partners.
#5. Moodle Moot Canada 2011 keynote "Talking About All Things Open" with Terry Anderson, Stephen Downes, Gavin Hendrick and myself. Terry Andersons' description of open scholarship was a key idea for me. I also got a blast out of openly engaging all conference attendees in crowdsourcing the Future of E-Learning.
#6. Open4Learning Educational Technology Users Group Workshop in Nelson BC. An awesome program exploring the diverse aspects of open in education from a BC perspective.
#7. OERu. I've described this initiative in some detail earlier in this post. It's been fascinating to see this initiative evolve over 2011 and to be an active participant and facilitator in helping define what it is.
#8. Interview with Timothy Vollmer at Creative Commons resulting in Open Education and Policy
#9. University of Northern British Columbia Opportunity Side of Open talk, workshop on Finding and Using OER, and ABC Copyright Conference Especially enjoyed the conference Talkshop session exploring issues related to recent Access Copyright efforts to increase tariffs which caused many institutions to withdraw from Access Copyright and giving a keynote, the Opportunity Side of Open Part 2 which includes suggestions for actions faculty, students and institutions could pursue if they embrace and adopt open as a key aspect of their work.
I've received some inquiries from people as to whether I've evolved the University of Open concept. The answer is yes. Some of what I've been working on are these suggestions for actions faculty, students, and institutions could pursue if they embrace and adopt open as a key aspect of their work. I've been thinking about what people would do, how they'd behave, if they were committed to the University of Open. Here's a brief synopsis of possible actions:
Open Faculty:
Make intellectual projects & processes digitally visible & open to criticism/comment
Do open research
Publish in open access journals
Self archive work for open peer and public review
Create a new type of education work maximizing social learning, participatory pedagogies, global connections
Teach open courses
Develop OER with communities of professional peers & students
Use open educational resources developed by others
Assign and author open textbooks
Open Students:
Use OER to select institutions & courses of study
Use OER for self-study
Engage in open study around OER with global peers of students
Assemble OER and open/free software tools into personal learning environments
Customize, enhance and develop OER (for credit)
Actively participate in social learning and form networks and connections
Track and use open data on learning to plan and manage learning process
Create open e-portfolios making learning projects, processes, and outcomes digitally visible
Open Institutions:
Work in consortia to develop and use OER for academic programs
Use OER to market & promote programs & coursesof study
Use Open Source Software and contribute to developer community
Reward (performance) and support (policy & funds) open access research publishing
Generate and publish open data around learning, scholarly activities, and outcomes/achievements
Create unique identity and establish value by extent of open activity and global benefits
#10. BCcampus Opening Education event. It's really great to see in followup to this event that BC's Electronic Library Network at their December meeting began planning initiatives around OER, open textbooks and a copyright course for faculty and students in 2012. I think librarians can make a huge impact on open and will play a much more central role in the way it plays out in education over the coming years.
Going in to 2012 I see big opportunities for open to unfold on a larger scale. Summarizing calls for action from the above I hope:
Governments, municipalities and institutions adopt open policy and licenses
Legacy resources held by governments, municipalities and institutions are openly licensed
New grant funds for development of educational resources use open licenses
Faculty and students at the individual level automatically license their resources openly
International consortia form around the development and enhancement of open educational resources
For many "open" is not even on their radar screen. For others open is present but fragile. Still others think 'Open-ness' is growing, but in ways that are not quite what was anticipated by the more dedicated proponents of OERs. I agree with this last statement and hope I've depicted some of the breadth of ways open is growing in this post. I think open is past the tipping point. This year even institutions who were not early adopters began to find ways to be participants. I think there are even more people and organizations on the sidelines looking for a way to enter the field.
As is apparent from this blog Creative Commons licenses are critical enablers of open. 2012 will be Creative Commons' tenth anniversary. I've been imagining ways I'd improve Creative Commons. Everyone in the Open Educational Resource (OER) space has been wanting some way for tracking reuse. I think this could be enabled through the license although I'd frame it differently. I think we should be tracking attribution which is a condition of all Creative Commons licenses. Ideally creators receive attribution notification when others reuse their work – like pingbacks, or trackback in social media. Its motivating for creators to know that their work is having an impact and valued by others. Tracking attribution will generate a means of showing impact akin to research citations. My colleague Scott Leslie has done some work around tracking OER reuse and I'm also intrigued by the Total Impact work Heather Piwowar is involved with.
I've also been thinking of the potential to go "beyond permissions to intentions". Let me explain. Creative Commons licenses do a great job of complementing copyright by providing a mechanism for creators to express permissions they accord others in terms of use of their work. However, what is missing is any expression of creators intentions. Are they giving permissions and don't really care how its used? Would the creator like to see derivatives of their work that others create? Is the creator really interested in finding others who want to collaborate with them on the continuous improvement of the work? This latter intention is in my view critical to the long term success of OER. All open initiatives succeed over the long term based on the size and vibrancy of the open community that gets built up around it. I really wish there was some means of expressing creator intentions so that others reusing the work can do so in ways that fulfill creator aspirations.
So in summary I see Creative Commons licenses as having three components:
Permission – this component exists already. It's how creators express the permissions they are according to creators in terms of attribution, creating derivative works/or not, allowing commercial use/or not, and requiring share alike/or not.
Attribution – this component would make explicit how users are to provide attribution to the original creator and send the creator a trackback indicating attribution/reuse.
Intention – this component would express the creators intention in making the work available through Creative Commons and provide a means for subsequent users to support those intentions.
I'd like to see each of these three functions embedded in the license and available to creators and subsequent users with one click. One of my big interests is in increasing the value proposition for creators.
This blog post provides a body of evidence on the many ways open expanded in 2011. I'd like to close this blog by celebrating one form of open that happens every year at this time – the way Christmas opens the human heart. Merry Christmas all.
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Thank you Paul for an excellent summary of OER in 2011.
I complete agree with your 5 actions for 2012:
* Governments, municipalities and institutions adopt open policy and licenses
* Legacy resources held by governments, municipalities and institutions are openly licensed
* New grant funds for development of educational resources use open licenses
* Faculty and students at the individual level automatically license their resources openly
* International consortia form around the development and enhancement of open educational resources
I'd like to highlight the 2012 World OER Congress to be held at UNESCO HQ, Paris from 20 – 22 June, 2012. The objectives of the Congress are to:
1.	Showcase the world's best practices in OER policies, initiatives, and experts; and
2.	Release a 2012 Paris OER Declaration calling on Governments to support the development and use of OERs
3.	Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2002 UNESCO Forum that created the term OER;
We will be holding 6 preparatory meetings in the lead-up to the Congress:
a. Caribbean Meeting (Barbados) 25-27 Jan
b. Africa Meeting (Cape Town, SA) 21-23 Feb
c. Latin America Meeting (São Paulo or Rio, BR) 28-29 March
d. Europe and North America (Cambridge, UK), 16-18 April
e. Asia Pacific Meeting (Bangkok, TH) 23-24 April
f. Arab States Meeting (?) 7-8 May ?
The Congress is organised by UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) through the generous support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
a.caine@unesco.org
Comment by Abel Caine December 22, 2011 @ 9:35 pm
Abel:
Looking forward to the 2012 World OER Congress at UNESCO HQ.
Lots to celebrate!
Comment by godsvilla December 23, 2011 @ 2:31 pm
Thank you for such an excellent post on Open and OER across 2011. What hit me hardest was the lack of mention about the UK. Are we Brits really doing so little that we dont get a mention? That's shocking an something which clearly needs addressing in 2012 and beyond.
The Open University are using Moodle and OpenLearn as an exemplar but we surely need more of this and a multitude of examples from institutions, groups and individuals.
It's hard to think things will ever be as closed as they are now. Although I'm curious as holding onto IPR might grow in value over the coming years in the UK, due to raising tuition fees. But then the opposite of that may well be more diversity in teaching and learning methods!
A lot to think about…
Comment by Matt Jenner December 23, 2011 @ 12:17 am
Matt – have a look at this wiki – which provides a synthesis of activities understaken as part of the JISC funded ukoer programme. We have just finised the second phase and are starting phase three now. Some interesting work which considers open practice and OER from institutional, community and individual perspectives. Quite alot going on the uk with a range of examples of whole courses to individual OERs.
http://bit.ly/pQyP3d
Thanks for the great summarising post Paul.
Comment by Lou McGill December 23, 2011 @ 3:50 am
Matt thanks for mentioning the UK and Lou thanks for the link and helping bring the interesting OER UK work to the surface. I particularly like the way the UK OER work is exploring the cultural change that OER entail.
The list of phase 2 pilot programme outputs on the JISC Open Educational Resources InfoKit site depicts well the range of issues being investigated in the UK.
The phase 3 OER programme call for projects released in July 2011 looks to embed and sustain OER practice. It's interesting to see the call look to extend OER through collaborations beyond HE, embed include OER practices, and explore OER publishing models.
If there are other international OER initiatives that I've not included in this summary post please reply and tell us about them. I'm keen to see the 2011 Year of Open be as comprehensive and inclusive as possible.
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Outstanding overview of OER. I would also suggest a focus on education of individuals with disabilities across the globe.
Also the possibility to showcase OER and how it applies to all individuals now in a more inclusive world at an IASE conference July 7th-11th in Vancouver, 2013. This will be held at UBC.
Comment by iris December 23, 2011 @ 2:38 pm
Iris:
Agree a focus on OER as being accessible and inclusive of all individuals is desirable. I'd be interested in hearing about example work being done in this area. I had a look at your International Association of Special Education (IASE) web site but didn't see much there about work in this regard. I am aware of the work of the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) who, through a Gates Foundation grant, will be involved in supporting the Obama TAACCCT program grantees design their OER to be accessible. Are there other examples?
Great to see the IASE conference coming to Vancouver.
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I just recently figured out what a breakthrough it is that internet flattens the world and makes available al sorts of knowledge to everyone able to connect like never before, this new media has reached young maturity really fast. I teach English at Universidad Motolinía del Pedregal in México City, and received my degree from UNAM, and I was very happy that UNAM has taken the path of really making its resources available to everyone, because even in places where no "formal" education is available, in the many sierras in México, if there is internet service, UNAM´s resources will be available for those who want to learn, marvelous thing indeed! Furthermore, originally, I thought this to be a great gift to society, but now I understand it to be an obligation for public institutions. Of course, through internet, all the open resources become readily available too. For educators in my country, the challenge is to teach people to learn, and to exploit these oportunities, while for business the challenge is to make internet available to everyone. The resouces are here! Forums like these do open indescribable horizons for teachers around the world. Thanks Paul.
PD At the begining of your post there is a picture of the sky. I take pictures of the sky from my window, I´ve done it for years, reading this post is kind of looking at the same sky others do, and photograph. Cool!
Comment by Ed Torres December 29, 2011 @ 5:18 am
The government here in Kenya also launched an open data portal earlier in the year 2011.
Comment by stephen December 29, 2011 @ 6:25 pm
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You forgot The Open University making data available as linked data at data.open.ac.uk. You can find some of the datasets listed at http://data.open.ac.uk/datasets/. here's an html page listing data about an OpenLearn (the OU's OER project) object http://data.open.ac.uk/page/openlearn/aa100_1.
data related to our iTunes U http://www.open.edu/itunes/and YouTube http://www.youtube.com/openuniversity offerings is also in there
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Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (1964- )
By: Mary E. Sunderland
Keywords: Biography, Regeneration
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Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado is a Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah School of Medicine and is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, 24 February 1964, Sánchez Alvarado left his home to pursue education in the United States, where he received a Bachelor of Science in molecular biology and chemistry from Vanderbilt University in 1986 and a Doctorate in pharmacology and cell biophysics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1992. During his PhD studies Sánchez Alvarado examined the in vitro differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells. In 1994 he began a postdoctoral position at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Embryology, where he was appointed a staff associate in 1995. In 2002 he became an Associate Professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, and was promoted to Professor in 2005.
Sánchez Alvarado has often described regeneration as one of the long-standing problems of biology that still lacks a mechanistic understanding. The subject's rich history is something he has found very intriguing and motivating; indeed, he has lectured on the historical work of Abraham Trembley, Charles Bonnet, René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, and Lazzaro Spallanzani. Sánchez Alvarado has often pointed to Thomas Hunt Morgan's work with planarians as a great inspiration.
During his postdoctoral years Sánchez Alvarado first became interested in exploring regenerative processes at the molecular level. He quickly noticed all of the standardized and sanctioned animal models such as the mouse, rat, fruit fly, and nematode worm distinctly lacked regenerative abilities. In many review articles Sánchez Alvarado has argued that this under-representation has stunted our understanding of regeneration, and therefore of development more generally. He has aimed to remedy this situation by promoting the incorporation of a wide range of organisms with regenerative capacities into regeneration studies; in particular he has developed molecular tools to study fresh water planarians. Undergirded by a synthetic perception of developmental biology, his research program strives to elucidate the evolutionary origins of regeneration and its relationship to embryogenesis. Motivated by the hopes of informing big questions in biology, including biomedicine, Sánchez Alvarado has suggested that planarians are an ideal model with which to investigate the basic mechanisms of regeneration and development.
To aid in studying the molecular biology of regeneration Sánchez Alvarado was determined to find an invertebrate organism that possessed regenerative abilities and was also amenable to genetic analysis and manipulation. These qualities led him to planarians: bilaterally symmetric metazoans, members of the phylum Platyhelminthes, and the suborder Triclada. Planarians are also classified with respect to their ecological habitat: freshwater, marine, or terrestrial. There are thousands of different planarian species but Alvarado's group focuses largely on the free-living, freshwater flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea, which was selected for a number of reasons. Unlike other planarians, Schmidtea has a stable diploid structure, a comparatively small genome size with nearly half the base pairs of many other species, and both sexual and asexual forms. Furthermore, Schmidtea survives well in the laboratory and can be manipulated by serial amputations to produce large clonal colonies, which have been successfully bred and maintained in the laboratory, thereby overcoming the earlier restriction posed by breeding difficulties. These six characteristics helped Sánchez Alvarado to select Schmidtea mediterranea from among the many planarian species. He had to be familiar with a diversity of organisms in order to make this selection.
Planarians regenerate missing parts by first assembling a specialized structure, the regeneration blastema. This form of regeneration is referred to as blastemal regeneration and involves the initial proliferation of a specialized cell population called the neoblasts, which were recently shown by Sánchez Alvarado's group to be analogous to somatic stem cell populations. Sánchez Alvarado puts these definitions into historical context by referring back to Morgan's Regeneration where they were first introduced. Morgan's basic subdivision of regeneration into two general categories still holds today: epimorphosis, which involved cell proliferation, and morphallaxis, or the remodeling of existing cells without proliferation to restore missing or damaged structures. Epimorphosis was further subdivided by Sánchez Alvarado into non-blastemal and blastemal regeneration.
Non-blastemal based regeneration employs three general mechanisms: transdifferentiation of remaining tissue, such as lens regeneration in urodele amphibians; de-differentiation and proliferation of the surviving cells, as occurs during liver regeneration in humans; and proliferation and differentiation of stem cells already present in the damaged tissue, which occurs during bone regeneration in humans.
Blastemal regeneration requires the formation of the regeneration blastema, a specialized structure composed of two cell populations: an outer layer, the wound epidermis, which covers the wound surface after amputation; and an inner layer of mesenchymal cells. The basic structure of the blastema is similar in vertebrates and planarians, but the mechanism of formation differs. The wound epidermis in planarians forms by changes in cell shape rather than by cell proliferation, and the mesenchymal cells are derived from neoblasts, which are undifferentiated, pre-existing cells. The regeneration blastema may form within hours of amputation or may take up to a few days depending on the organism. Blastemal regeneration is a common mechanism observed in planarians, mollusks (gastropods and cephalopods), echinoderms, urochordates, and limb and tail regeneration in vertebrates.
Sánchez Alvarado asks why these different modes of regeneration are used in different cases. For example, why might regeneration occur via growth from a specialized blastema as opposed to the remodeling that occurs during morphallaxis? How do molecular pathways contribute to these different modes and also to the differences and similarities that exist between normal development and regeneration? He is also interested in studying the dynamics of the neoblast cell population, which makes up 25-35% of all planarian cells. Because these cells lack specific markers and have a rather uniform morphology, it is difficult to assess the heterogeneity of the population. His laboratory aims to detect the source of the neoblasts and to investigate the mechanisms underlying their ability to self-renew, dedifferentiate, and migrate.
Recently, Sanchez Alvarado used molecular tools to reanalyze one of Morgan's earlier observations, with rather interesting results. The paper " β-Catenin defines head versus tail identity during planarian regeneration and homeostasis," investigated the molecular mechanisms that underlie polarity. It was published in Science, where it was selected as Editor's Choice, indicating the editors deemed the results to be widely relevant and exceptionally interesting. His results were also described in the news sections of Nature Cell Biology and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, which is further evidence of the relevance of his approach and the theoretical implications of his results.
Although Sánchez Alvarado's laboratory currently focuses on Schmidtea mediterranea, his approach to studying development incorporates knowledge of a diversity of organisms. Considering a diversity of organisms is important to Sánchez Alvarado because his work is driven by questions about regeneration's place in evolution. He hopes investigating the evolutionary origin of regeneration will ultimately shed light on much more than simply regenerative processes. His laboratory work has challenged accepted notions about developmental biology and demonstrated new ways to study regeneration in the context of both development and evolution.
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Sánchez Alvarado, Alejandro. "Regeneration in the Metazoans: Why Does It Happen?" BioEssays 22 (2000): 578–90.
Sánchez Alvarado, Alejandro. "A Brief (Natural) History of Regeneration" (video file). From the American Society for Cell Biology, The Problem of Regeneration. http://www.ascb.org/ibioseminars/sanchez/sanchez1.cfm. (Accessed January 2008).
Sánchez Alvarado, Alejandro, and Panagiotis A. Tsonis. "Bridging the Regeneration Gap: Genetic Insights from Diverse Animal Models." Nature Reviews Genetics 7 (2006): 873–84.
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Sydney Festival 2014
This is our city in summer
SYDNEY/PRNewswire/ — Festival Director Lieven Bertels and the Sydney Festival team today revealed the full program for Sydney Festival 2014, an explosion of exceptional theatre, dance, music, visual arts, film and more that will bring the harbour city to life from January 9-26.
View the festival details at: http://www.multivu.com/players/English/63912-sydney-festival-2014/
Sydneysiders and visitors know Sydney Festival is one of the most wonderful summer festivals in the world – a claim underpinned by the city's lustre and charisma, making it an ideal showcase for the world's great artists.
Sydney Festival 2014 is comprised of 104 events, a staggering 21 of which are free. With 372 performances across 33 indoor and outdoor venues, Sydney Festival 2014 features 722 artists from 80 companies across 17 countries. With 10 world premieres, 4 Australian premieres and 13 Australian exclusives, summer in our beautiful city is absolutely not to be missed.
"If you are really into your arts, Sydney Festival will not disappoint, with opera, dance, theatre and music acts from across Australia and the world," says Festival Director, Lieven Bertels.
Against a backdrop of some of the world's greatest theatre and dance, new Australian works of magnitude and cultural importance dominate this year's theatre program. The world premiere of Black Diggers(directed by Wesley Enoch and written by Tom Wright)unfolds the untold stories of 1000 Indigenous soldiers who fought in World War One, whilst Michael Kantor and Tom E. Lewis' indigenous re-working of King Lear in The Shadow King has recently premiered to a rousing reception by audiences in Melbourne, Australia.
Internationally acclaimed choreographer Shaun Parker returns to Sydney Festival with the world premiere of Am I, whilst Halina Reijn performs the lead role in the retelling of the 1927 monologue by Jean Cocteau in the voyeuristic La Voix Humaine. Philip Glass presents a live score to Godfrey Reggio's Visitors to follow its premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and after a five month sell out season on London's Southbank LIMBO returns to heat up the 1920s Speigeltent in the wildly expanded Festival Village.
A main highlight of the 2014 program is Henry Purcell's great romantic tragedy Dido & Aeneas in Sasha Waltz's wondrous reimagining of the great opera, featuring stunning choreography, a prologue performed in a giant fish tank underwater, and celebrated baroque orchestra Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
And in Sydney's famous outdoor venue The Domain, two fantastic free events are set to delight, kicking off with Chicago's R'n'B, soul and disco diva Chaka Khan on the opening weekend, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing Gustav Holst's astronomical suite The Planets, conducted by Hamburg State Opera Artistic Director Simone Young, to wrap up the Festival and Australia Day with Symphony in the Domain on Sunday 26 January.
In Parramatta in Sydney's west, the favourite free event Parramatta Opening Party is back with free music and all sorts of festival fun, and everyone's favourite yellow friend Rubber Duck is back too!
All media releases are available for download at sydneyfestival.org.au/media
sydneyfestival.org.au/
When Thursday 9 January – Sunday 26 January 2014
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Air Products Expands Pipeline Coverage on Jurong Island to Support the Development of Singapore's Energy and Chemical Industry
SINGAPORE, Oct. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Air Products (NYSE: APD), a leading global industrial gases and performance materials supplier, today announced it has signed a contract to supply both gaseous and liquid nitrogen to Prime Evolue Singapore Pte. Ltd. Air Products will also further extend its existing industrial gas pipeline network to the Tembusu area from its existing pipeline network in the Sakra area on Jurong Island, Singapore, to support the growth of chemical and petrochemical customers with cost-effective and reliable industrial gas supply.
Strategically positioned as the heart of Singapore's energy and chemical industry, Jurong Island is home to more than 95 leading global petroleum, petrochemical and specialty chemicals companies. It provides well-developed "plug-and-play" infrastructure where companies can save capital costs through use of shared facilities and utilities to reap synergies through product integration.
Air Products has been serving petrochemical customers on the island since 1997 through its air separation plant, which can produce 250 metric tons per day of gases. The pipeline extension further strengthens the company's supply position to meet the increasing market demand.
"This latest pipeline expansion on Jurong Island is part of Air Products' long-standing commitment to drive growth in energy, environmental and emerging markets through investment," said Philip C. Sproger, vice president and general manager, Tonnage Gases-Asia at Air Products. "Singapore's energy and chemical industry plays an important role on the Asian as well as the world stage. We will continue to pursue opportunities to support its development and help customers be more productive, energy efficient and sustainable with our technology and experience."
Air Products marks its 16th anniversary in the Singapore market this year and has established long-term relationships with a mix of local and multinational companies. In addition to the air separation plant on Jurong Island the company currently operates a helium and specialty gas plant in Senoko and an epoxy additives and polyamide plant in Gul Crescent, supplying a wide array of industries in the country and other Asian markets.
As a leading global supplier to the petrochemical industry for over 65 years, Air Products provides a diverse portfolio of gas products and technologies. These industrial gases include oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen, among others, and technologies including air separation, hydrocarbon recovery, and purification. These gases and technologies help customers increase sustainability and operational efficiency, improve safety and product quality, as well as lower total operating costs. In addition, Air Products Express (APEX) services offer customers in the industry fast, flexible temporary industrial gas supply for a wide range of pipeline applications, including product displacement, pig pushing, pressure testing, maintenance purging, line drying, and inerting.
About Air Products
Air Products (NYSE:APD) provides atmospheric, process and specialty gases; performance materials; equipment; and technology. For over 70 years, the company has enabled customers to become more productive, energy efficient and sustainable. More than 20,000 employees in over 50 countries supply innovative solutions to the energy, environment and emerging markets. These include semiconductor materials, refinery hydrogen, coal gasification, natural gas liquefaction, and advanced coatings and adhesives. In fiscal 2012, Air Products had sales of approaching US$10 billion. For more information, visit http://www.airproducts.com.
NOTE: This release may contain forward-looking statements within the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on management's reasonable expectations and assumptions as of the date of this release regarding important risk factors. Actual performance and financial results may differ materially from projections and estimates expressed in the forward-looking statements because of many factors not anticipated by management, including risk factors described in the Company's Form 10K for its fiscal year ended September 30, 2012.
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Singapore Becomes Newest Chapter In Parenteral Drug Association
BETHESDA, Md. /PRNewswire/ — 45 pharmaceutical professionals have formed the Singapore chapter of PDA, bringing to 24 the number of chapters across the globe. In September, the group held its first official meeting with the following officers:
(LOGO: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130226/DC66667LOGO)
President: Maureen Hertog, PharmD, Novartis Singapore Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Pte Ltd
President-Elect: Sateesh Yelisetti, Baxter
Treasurer: Chia Phei Kok, Visentic Solutions Pte Ltd
Secretary: Wayne Lee, PhD, Pall
The Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) is the leading global provider of science, technology and regulatory information and education for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical community. Founded in 1946 as a nonprofit organization, PDA is committed to developing scientifically sound, practical technical information and resources to advance science and regulation through the expertise of its more than 9,500 members worldwide. PDA's Annual Meeting will be held April 7-9, 2014 in San Antonio, Texas. For information, visit http://www.pda.org and follow PDA on LinkedIn.
Amelia Townsend
Director of Marketing Services, Parenteral Drug Association® (PDA)
T: +1-301-656-5900, ext. 153, townsend@pda.org
Source: Parenteral Drug Association
APR Energy Announces Strategic Alliance with GE in Fast-Track Turnkey Power
Agreement creates world's leading fast-track mobile turbine power business, expanding APR Energy's global reach and its natural gas footprint
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — APR Energy (LSE: APR.L) is pleased to announce a strategic alliance with GE (NYSE: GE), extending the reach of both companies in the growing fast-track turnkey power solutions space.
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Under terms of the deal, GE contributes its turbine rental business to APR Energy in return for cash and approximately 16.5 percent of APR Energy, making GE a key strategic investor in the company. Additionally, GE and APR Energy have entered into a supply and services agreement that will continue to provide support to current and future clients of APR Energy.
"This is a transformational transaction for APR Energy, allowing us to move forward rapidly towards delivering our stated medium-term business objectives," said John Campion, Chief Executive Officer of APR Energy. "By creating the world's leading fast-track mobile turbine power business and a long-term relationship with GE, we are well placed to deliver against an underserved and rapidly growing opportunity with the preeminent technology. The transaction diversifies our revenue base, gives us exposure to new geographies and sectors, and enhances our natural gas footprint. We are excited to be working closely with GE, whose partnership and equity commitment is an endorsement of our prospects and our ambition to be the leader in the large-scale, fast-track power industry."
The transaction makes APR Energy the world's leading fast-track mobile gas turbine power provider, expanding reach into new regions and increasing its mobile turbine power capacity to 1.2 gigawatts — enough to power the equivalent of 1.2 million US homes. The deal includes approximately 520MW of capacity and rental contracts that GE currently has in place in Canada, Iraq, Australia, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Bangladesh.
Demand for fast-track power is driven by factors that include increasing energy consumption, aging infrastructure, geopolitical and natural events, and climatic impacts. Mobile turbine usage within this space has grown rapidly as customers look towards larger-scale, semi-permanent solutions that integrate into their existing plants or operations and offer greater reliability, fuel flexibility and lower emissions.
Lorraine Bolsinger, CEO of GE Power & Water's Distributed Power business, said, "Our investment in APR Energy reinforces our strong belief in the distributed power segment, as well as APR's strong capabilities and prospects for success. We continue to see growing demand from customers urgently needing our leading technology for bridging solutions while more permanent solutions can be put in place. With this alliance, customers can get fast power with our technology from a premiere fast-track power provider, APR Energy, or they can buy the equipment from us. For both kinds of customers, we are determined to offer the most efficient products and have them available for rapid deployment."
About APR Energy
APR Energy specializes in the sale of reliable and efficient electricity through the rapid global deployment and installation of scalable turnkey power solutions. APR Energy's solutions, coupled with comprehensive operation and maintenance services and flexible commercial terms, have established it as a leader in its industry. Serving both utility and industrial segments, APR Energy provides power generation solutions to customers and communities around the world, with an emphasis on Africa, the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia. For more information, visit the company's website at www.aprenergy.com.
Source: APR Energy
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30th Annual Cruise Shipping Miami is Scheduled March 10-13, 2014
– Event continues to refine conference and trade show for 30th anniversary
MIAMI /PRNewswire/ — Cruise Shipping Miami, the cruise industry's annual international conference and exhibition that draws more than 11,000 attendees and over 900 exhibiting companies from 100-plus countries, is scheduled March 10-13, 2014. The 2014 show marks the event's 30th anniversary, and organizers are continuing a campaign that began in 2012 to expand and enhance the show's conference and trade show offerings.
The cornerstone of UBM plc's Cruise Shipping Portfolio, Cruise Shipping Miami features a three-day trade show at the Miami Beach Convention Center that runs Tuesday through Thursday, and a four-day conference that offers sessions Monday through Thursday.
"We are continuing to tweak the conference lineup this year following last year's redesign, based on customer feedback and research, with a sharp focus on trend-related topics and bringing in new speakers and panelists for new perspectives," said Daniel Read, director of UBM's Cruise Shipping Portfolio. "And for the exhibition we're adding new pavilions and creating additional opportunities for buyers and suppliers to interact."
The current conference lineup includes four core tracks, or "streams," including Shipbuilding, Operations and Technology; Destinations and Ports; Market Segments, and Product Development. As individual conference sessions are developed and streams are refined, updates will be issued.
In addition to national pavilions, the massive trade show, which covers all four halls of the convention center, also features business sectors highlighting information technology, ship design and refurbishment, ship services and hotel operations, ship equipment, amusements and recreations attractions, entertainment and destinations.
New this year is the Grand Tasting Pavilion, an interactive exhibit for the Food & Beverage sector. The Grand Tasting Pavilion will offer F&B buyers and suppliers a focused venue to showcase food and food-service products, discover new trends and, of course, sample the merchandise.
Also new this year is the Cruise Trends Theater, a product and services platform that offers exhibitors and attendees an opportunity to present innovations from all industries impacting the cruise business including entertainment, food and beverage, sustainability and technology. Participants receive 30 minutes to present their concepts in the Cruise Trends Theater directly to key cruise industry stakeholders and interested media.
WHO ATTENDS: Exhibitors include ports and destinations, destination management companies, shore excursion providers, national tourism organizations, shipbuilders, ship equipment manufacturers, entertainment suppliers, amusements and recreations attractions, information technology, food and beverage suppliers, hotel & ship services providers.
Delegates and visitors include, ship owners and operators, cruise itinerary/deployment planners, port and terminal developers, shipbuilding and refurbishment professionals, engineers, IT professionals, cruise line sales and marketing professionals, food & beverage procurement and provisioning executives, industry partners such as insurance companies, banks, financiers, consultants, associations and travel agents.
Cruise Shipping Miami is exclusively supported by Cruise Lines International Association and Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association.
WHERE: Miami Beach Convention Center
1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33139
MEDIA REGISTRATION: Media registration is open now. Media credentials are issued to bona fide journalists covering the convention. Review the media policy, request a media registration online or contact Buck Banks.
MEDIA CONTACT: Buck Banks, +1-305-461-3300, press@cruiseshippingmiami.com.
CONVENTION CONTACT: UBM plc, 300 American Metro Blvd., Suite 125, Hamilton NJ 08619
Phone: +1-609-759-4700; fax: +1-609-759-4774; e-mail: info@cruiseshippingmiami.com
Source: Cruise Shipping Miami
STAR-CCM+ v8.06 Gets New Users Up and Running Like Pros
CD-adapco's new STAR-CCM+ v8.06 release enhances its user experience, simulation scope and turnaround time.
NEW YORK and LONDON, Oct. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — CD-adapco, the largest privately held CFD-focused CAE provider, announced today the release of STAR-CCM+ v8.06, the third release in 2013 of their flagship simulation tool.
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"The objective of the STAR-CCM+ v8 releases is to improve the overall user experience, to expand the application coverage and to boost turnaround times," says Senior VP of Product Management, Jean-Claude Ercolanelli.
Enhanced User Experience
"A significant challenge for simulation engineers lies in ensuring consistency of processes across large organizations or geographically dispersed teams," says Ercolanelli. "To address this, we are offering the Simulation Assistant, an interactive user interface that allows users to reproduce best practices and deploy them across whole organizations."
The Simulation Assistant is also perfect for introducing inexperienced engineers to your simulation process, exposing them to a step-by-step approach that guides them through the stages necessary to obtain meaningful results.
Expanded Coverage
"Multiphase flows are perceived as being difficult to simulate because models are often restricted to a narrow range of applications," says Ercolanelli. "One of our focuses in STAR-CCM+ involves making multiphase flows more accessible to users, closing gaps and allowing you to tackle a wider range of industrial applications."
STAR-CCM+ v8.06 introduces the ability to use multiphase with overset, which opens up the possibility to simulate phenomena such as ice buildup on aircraft wing flaps or spray painting. Discrete Element Method particles can now carry an active scalar that can be used for applications such as tablet coating thickness or moisture content for wood chip drying.
Improved Turnaround Time
"Being able to simulate part of a problem is not enough," says Ercolanelli. "We are committed to allowing our users to 'simulate systems' in their full complexity, by improving solver performance so that users can simulate phenomena that occur on an industrial scale and in an acceptable timescale."
Users of DEM will notice substantial performance improvements in STAR-CCM+ v8.06, with simulations taking as little as 30% of the time taken in previous versions. The introduction of a parallel trimmer will allow the faster creation of larger meshes, increasing overall productivity.
STAR-CCM+ v8.06 is available for download from the Steve Customer Portal. For more information, please visitwww.cd-adapco.com, or visit the CD-adapco blog.
Lauren Gautier
lauren.gautier@cd-adapco.com
Source: CD-adapco
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DDoS Perpetrators Changed Tactics in Q3 2013 to Amplify Attack Sizes and Hide Identities
— Can now use smaller botnets to launch high-bandwidth attacks
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. /PRNewswire/ — Prolexic Technologies, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, today reported that DDoS perpetrators changed tactics in Q3 2013 to boost attack sizes and hide their identities. This observation is one of many key findings found in the company's Q3 2013 Global DDoS Attack Report, which was published today, and can be downloaded from http://www.prolexic.com/attackreports.
"This quarter, the major concern is that reflection attacks are accelerating dramatically, increasing 265 percent over Q3 2012 and up 70 percent over Q2," said Stuart Scholly, president of Prolexic. "The bottom line is that DDoS attackers have found an easier, more efficient way to launch high bandwidth attacks with smaller botnets and that's concerning."
Attackers are flocking to so-called distributed reflection denial of service (DrDoS) attacks as they provide the benefit of obscuring the source of the attack (anonymity), while enabling the bandwidth of intermediary victims to be used, often unknowingly, to multiply the size of the attack (amplification). In DrDoS attacks, there are always two victims, the intended target and the intermediary.
Prolexic's latest report reveals that the total number of attacks against its clients in Q3 2013 remained high and represented the highest total for one quarter. This occurrence illustrates a consistently heightened level of DDoS activity around the world over the last six months. Of note, more than 62 percent of Q3 DDoS attacks originated from China, far surpassing all other countries. Findings are based on data gathered from attacks launched during the quarter against Prolexic's global client base.
For the quarter, peak bandwidth averaged 3.06 Gbps and peak packets-per-second (pps) averaged 4.22 Mpps. The largest attack Prolexic mitigated during Q3 was directed at a European media company, peaking at 120 Gbps.
Summary highlights from Prolexic's Q3 2013 Global DDoS Attack Report
Compared to Q2 2013
1.58 percent increase in total DDOS attacks
6 percent decrease in application layer (Layer 7) attacks
4 percent increase in infrastructure (Layer 3 & 4) attacks
44 percent decrease in the average attack duration: 21.33 hours vs. 38 hours
58 percent increase in total DDOS attacks
101 percent increase in application layer (Layer 7) attacks
48 percent increase in infrastructure (Layer 3 & 4) attacks
12.3 percent increase in the average attack duration: 21.33 hours vs. 19 hours
Analysis and emerging trends
Prolexic data for Q3 2013 shows a 70 percent increase in reflection attacks (DNS and CHARGEN) over the previous quarter and a 265 percent increase over the same quarter last year. This rise in DrDoS attacks should come as no surprise, as attack methods that inflict high damage with low effort will always be popular.
"DrDoS attacks don't require as many bots because the amplification factor is so large," explained Scholly. "Because less outbound bot traffic is needed, the botnet can be much smaller. This makes it easier for these botnets to fly under the radar unless you know what to look for."
Prolexic has closely monitored DrDoS attacks for the last 12 months and has correctly forecasted their increasing popularity, as discussed in a series of four white papers on this resurfacing attack methodology.
"Q3 data also shows that infrastructure attacks maintained their share of total attacks, but within this group there was a big jump in UDP attacks and a corresponding drop in SYN attacks," said Scholly. "Combined with the rise in reflection attacks, this quarter showed a significant shift in attack methodologies that all businesses should be aware of."
Prolexic's latest attack report includes a detailed analysis of the trend toward reflection attacks, DrDoS reflection services within the underground marketplace. The analysis examines DrDoS attack methods, tools and services – specifically CHARGEN attacks being integrated into the DDoS threatscape – and provides steps for remediating CHARGEN attacks.
A complimentary copy of Prolexic's Q3 2013 Global DDoS Attack Report is available as a free PDF download from http://www.prolexic.com/attackreports. Prolexic's Q4 2013 report will be released early in the first quarter of 2014.
About Prolexic
Prolexic is the world's largest, most trusted Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation provider. Able to absorb the largest and most complex attacks ever launched, Prolexic restores mission-critical Internet-facing infrastructures for global enterprises and government agencies within minutes. Ten of the world's largest banks and the leading companies in e-Commerce, SaaS, payment processing, travel/hospitality, gaming, energy and other at-risk industries rely on Prolexic to protect their businesses. Founded in 2003 as the world's first in-the-cloud DDoS mitigation platform, Prolexic is headquartered in Hollywood, Florida, and has scrubbing centers located in the Americas, Europe and Asia. To learn more about how Prolexic can stop DDoS attacks and protect your business, please visit http://www.prolexic.com, follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+, YouTube, and @Prolexic on Twitter.
Michael E. Donner
SVP, Chief Marketing Officer
Media {at} prolexic {dot} com
Source: Prolexic Technologies
Kaspersky Lab Launches Free App for Secure Web Browsing on iPhone and iPad
SINGAPORE, Oct. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces the recent release of Kaspersky Safe Browser for iOS, a new free app to ensure users are safe while surfing the web on their iPhone and iPad devices.
The new Kaspersky Safe Browser for iOS is now available from the Apple App Store.
Like any Internet user, iPhone and iPad owners can fall victim to cyber-attacks which use social engineering techniques.
The most widespread example of this is phishing, which tricks users into providing their personal information through the use of fake websites or mass mailings that use the names and logos of well-known companies.
The user could be tricked into sharing their passwords to a social networking site, email address, Apple ID account, and more.
The risks are even bigger for anyone who uses a mobile device for banking and financial transactions.
According to a recent B2B International survey, 38% of mobile device owners use their gadgets to perform financial transactions, while one in three users encountered phishing attacks that posed as e-banking services.
Kaspersky Safe Browser for iOS blocks links to phishing sites and other web-based resources that can be dangerous for users. The new application can also filter content according to selected user criteria.
This way, users can automatically block pornographic sites, material containing violence or profanity, gaming sites, social networks, chats, forums and more. There are 17 pre-defined content filtering categories in total.
Kaspersky Safe Browser for iOS provides real-time protection from known and emerging threats thanks to data it receives from Kaspersky Security Network, which processes threat intelligence delivered by users of Kaspersky Lab security products from around the world.
The new application is compatible with Apple devices running iOS 5 and higher.
"Quite a few users of Apple products believe their devices are immune to cyber attacks. This false sense of security makes it easier for cybercriminals to execute their plans. The Kaspersky Safe Browser for iOS app protects users from dangerous content whenever they go online," said Alexey Chikov, Product Manager at Kaspersky Lab.
"We are glad to have developed this app specifically for the iOS platform. In Singapore, there is a loyal customer base for Apple mobile devices. The Kaspersky Safe Browser for iOS app will definitely be very useful for iPad and iPhone users so that they can surf the web safer," said Jimmy Fong, Channel Sales Director for Kaspersky Lab Southeast Asia.
Contact Person: Jesmond Chang (Corporate Communications Manager, SEA)
Phone Number: +603-79625913
Email: pr@kaspersky-sea.com or jesmond.chang@kaspersky.com
Source: Kaspersky Lab
Global Thought Leaders Gather in Kuala Lumpur for the World Capital Markets Symposium
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Global thought leaders today gathered at the World Capital Markets Symposium (WCMS), organised by the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) in conjunction with its 20th anniversary.
At the opening session this morning, Malaysian Prime Minister Dato' Sri Najib Razak will be delivering a keynote address to more than 700 senior policymakers and representatives from global financial institutions, academia as well as local and foreign media from over 40 countries.
WCMS 2013 features prominent speakers including Lord Adair Turner, Senior Fellow, Institute for New Economic Thinking and Former Chairman, Financial Services Authority, U.K.; The Honourable Sheila C Bair, Former Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, USA; and Dr Fareed Zakaria, Editor-at-Large of Time magazine and host of Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN's flagship international affairs program.
Hans Hoogervorst, Chairman of International Accounting Standards Board and David Jeremy Wright, Secretary General of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions, two regulators from global financial standard-setting organisations, will share their thoughts on how a strong regulatory foundation can be the basis of a sustainable and resilient capital market.
Since the inaugural symposium in 2009, WCMS has emerged as a flagship thought-leadership platform for discussion and debate on opportunities and challenges faced by capital markets as well as the broader economy. The symposium is also a platform to attract investments into the Malaysian capital market, which apart from being recognised as an advanced emerging market, is also the world's largest sukuk market and Asia's third largest bond market by GDP.
Themed "Redefining Markets: Sustaining Growth and Resilience," prominent speakers will be sharing their views on factors underpinning efforts to build inclusive resilient and sustainable capital markets. The Symposium will also discuss the growing role of Asia and the impact of an integrated ASEAN on regional dynamics.
To find out more about WCMS, please visit www.worldcapitalmarketssymposium.org.
Karyn Nair
Tel: +603 2176 8788 | +6012 710 1291
Email: karyn.nair@ubm.com
Source: UBM Conferences (ASEAN)
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Samsung BioLogics Signs a Strategic Manufacturing Partnership with Roche
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Samsung BioLogics today announced that Samsung BioLogics and F. Hoffmann-La Roche have entered into a long term strategic manufacturing agreement under which Samsung will manufacture Roche's proprietary commercial biologic medicines at its two manufacturing facilities in Incheon, South Korea, of which one is currently under construction. Terms of the agreement will not be disclosed, including financial terms and products to be manufactured.
Top View of Samsung BioLogics Plant
Signing Ceremony for Strategic Manufacturing Partnership between F.Hoffmann-La Roche and Samsung BioLogics, Oct. 18th, 2013
"We are pleased to announce this strategic manufacturing relationship with Roche and look forward to delivering best-in-class manufacturing services with the highest global quality standards," said Tae-Han Kim, president and CEO of Samsung BioLogics. "This collaboration with the world's largest biotech company is an important milestone for Samsung as it validates our long term strategy of becoming a leader in biopharmaceutical manufacturing."
About Samsung BioLogics
Samsung BioLogics is a full-service provider of quality-driven contract process development and cGMP manufacturing to the global biopharmaceutical industry. Our facilities are custom designed for monoclonal antibody & recombinant protein production with maximum flexibility. Our one-stop services include cell line generation, process and analytical method development, analytical services, clinical and commercial bulk cGMP manufacturing of drug substance and drug product meeting the highest standards of quality and global regulatory compliance. For additional information about the company, please visithttp://www.samsungbiologics.com.
Samsung Disclaimer
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Samsung BioLogics
Changsik Park
changsiik.park@samsung.com
Source: Samsung BioLogics
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