“Lots of contemporary classical composers, from Stravinsky to Bolcom, have been captivated by ragtime, and have written pieces that subvert, transform, or simply pay homage to the genre,” said Rosenblum. “I thought it would be fun to put several of those pieces together on a program. That, plus we’re performing four world premieres. It should be very exciting.”

In addition to the Chesky violin concerto, the group will be premiering Michael Starobin’s Sleipnir, Steve Kenyon’s Das Lied von der Subway, and Rosenblum’s What If Bernard Herrmann Had Written Eleanor Rigby?

The Pit Stop Players, who collectively have played in pit orchestras for over 100 Broadway productions, include Ed Matthew, woodwinds; Steve Kenyon, woodwinds; Chris Jaudes, trumpet; Wayne Goodman, trombone; Dan Culpepper, horn; Robin Zeh, violin; Paul Woodiel, violin; Alissa Smith, viola; Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf, cello; Garah Landes, piano; Jeff Carney, bass; Scott Kuney, guitar; and Greg Landes, percussion.

Rosenblum anticipates presenting three concerts with the Pit Stop Players this season, and says nearly any genre is fair game for their programs, including traditional and contemporary classical, jazz, rock, fusion, and film music. However, the primary emphasis will be on new compositions and arrangements, written and orchestrated specifically for the group.

Rosenblum, who was trained as a classical pianist, has led the orchestras for thirteen Broadway and Off Broadway shows, including Wonderful Town, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Music Man, Miss Saigon and Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas. He is also the composer/creator of BUSH IS BAD, the hit Off Broadway satirical revue, and the composer/co-lyricist of Fermat’s Last Tango and Einstein’s Dreams. His instrumental music has been recorded on two CDs: Impetuosities and Sundry Notes, both on the Albany Records label. Rosenblum has written pieces on commission for Phil Smith, principal trumpeter of the New York Philharmonic; Ethel, America’s premiere post-classical string quartet; and the Chase Brock Experience dance troupe. He teaches Composing for Musical Theater at Yale University, his alma mater, and was recently awarded a grant from the Signature Theatre in Washington, D.C., as part of the American Musical Voices Project: The Next Generation.

Michael Starobin is an award-winning orchestrator and arranger working on Broadway and in Hollywood. He has orchestrated some of Broadway’s most innovative musicals, such as Falsettos, Sunday in the Park with George, Assassins (2004 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations) and Next to Normal (2009 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations). He was the conductor and orchestrator for Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame, and contributed orchestrations to Disney’s Once Upon a Mattress and the film versions of Chicago and Nine. Last year, the Queens Symphony performed the world premiere of his Sondheim Variations for string orchestra and percussion. Sleipnir is his second piece for the Pit Stop Players.

A three-time Grammy nominee is currently composer-in-residence for the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan. David Chesky’s works span both jazz and classical genres, and have earned him the distinction of being the only jazz composer ever to be nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Contemporary Classical Composition. His operas and orchestral works have been performed all around the world. David has developed is own unique style of composition he calls Urban Orchestral. This music emanates from the sounds he hears on the streets of New York. Also a pianist, David performs with the Grammy-nominated group The Body Acoustic, an ensemble that performs a mixture of Latin jazz and 12-tone contemporary classical works. In addition to working with major classical orchestras, David has performed at the world-famous jazz club The Village Vanguard, as well as the Newport, JVC, and Monterey Jazz Festivals. Besides being a musician and composer, David is also known worldwide as one of the leaders in the advancement of technological research on high-resolution recording techniques. His comic chamber opera, The Pig, The Farmer, and The Artist, was performed to great acclaim as part of this past season’s NYC Fringe Festival.

Woodwind player and composer Steve Kenyon has led ensembles performing his original music at the Blue Note, Birdland, Carnegie Hall, and live on WNYC radio. He has performed throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia with Maria Schneider, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Blood Sweat and Tears, Chuck Mangione, Rachel Z, Philip Glass, NYC Ballet, Brooklyn Philharmonic, NY Pops, American Symphony, NJSO, Aretha Franklin, Beyonce and A Prairie Home Companion. He is co-leader, composer, and lead saxophonist with the NewYorkestra big band and plays tenor with the NY Saxophone Quartet. He has performed with some 40 Broadway shows, numerous Encores! at City Center, and many Broadway cast recordings. Other recordings include his Quartet’s CD Fidel’s Nightmare, and albums with Mike Holober, Andy Middleton, NewYorkestra, Audra McDonald, Judy Collins, Maury Yeston, Ricky Ian Gordon, and Michael John LaChiusa. Television work includes Ed, Today Show, David Letterman, Wonder Pets, and many national jingles. He is currently lead woodwind for Broadway’s La Cage Aux Folles.

A noted champion of new music, groundbreaking violinist and composer Tom Chiu has performed over 150 premieres worldwide by influential composers such as David Chesky, Virko Baley, Joan La Barbara, Oliver Lake, Alvin Lucier, and Somei Satoh, among many others. His discography includes recordings for the Innova, Koch, Mode, Sombient, Tzadik labels, and his premiere recording of Chesky’s Violin Concerto No.1 was picked as “Record of the Month” by Stereophile Magazine. In a cross-discipline context Chiu has created new mixed-media works with choreographers Eun-Me Ahn and Shen Wei, audio-video artists Phill Niblock and Elise Kermani, sculptor Ernesto Neto, conceptual balloonist Judy Dunaway, and director Lee Breuer from avant theater troupe Mabou Mines. His extensive work in film further showcases his creative versatility: as composer (Boris), solo fiddler (I Sell The Dead), voice-over artist (Chandni Chowk to China), and actor (The Man With One Red Shoe, with Tom Hanks). As founder of the FLUX Quartet, he has led — for over a decade — a pioneering new-music group which has become “legendary for its furiously committed, untiring performances.” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker) Chiu holds degrees in chemistry and music from Yale, along with a doctorate from Juilliard. He appears frequently as a commentator on contemporary music and culture, and has served as panelist and consultant in a variety of artistic formats.

WHAT: Pit Stop Players Fall Concert
WHEN: Monday, September 27, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Second Presbyterian Church
6 W. 96th St. @ Central Park West
TICKETS: $25 ($15 for Students with ID) at the door
INFO: http://rosenblummusic.com/pitstop.html .

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“The new release builds on the enhancements recently introduced in v6,” said Russ Teubner, HostBridge CEO. “Customers will now be able to lower their costs by shifting integration/SOA workloads to the IBM zIIP specialty engine, develop Web services with greater speed and flexibility, and add Web 2.0 functionality to integration/SOA initiatives.”

HostBridge v6.5 will be introduced in a live webcast on Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 11:00 a.m. Central (U.S.). Those wishing to attend can register at www.HostBridge.com/index.php/hbv6-5 .

HostBridge for zIIP (HBzIIP) takes advantage of IBM’s System z Integrated Information Process (zIIP) specialty engine, which allows organizations to increase mainframe processing capacity for specific workloads without higher license fees – an attractive economy in today’s climate.

HostBridge users will be able to shift significant portions of their mainframe integration/SOA workloads to the zIIP. Using HBzIIP, organizations can lower the costs of mainframe integration and Web services processes. Depending on the scope of integration workloads, savings can be significant. Organizations can achieve these savings without reduction in performance.

Version 6 enhancements, introduced in late 2009, provide the foundation for v6.5:

HostBridge Process Automation Engine. For v6, HostBridge rebuilt its Process Automation Engine to fully support and comply with the ECMAScript Edition 3/JavaScript 1.8 standard. The new HB Process Automation Engine is a JavaScript-based development/runtime facility that lets users integrate any CICS(R) application or CICS-accessible data source (DB2, VSAM, DL/I, Datacom) with any distributed systems. Uniquely, HB Process Automation also allows users to orchestrate and automate complex CICS transaction processes as a single service. The rebuilt engine adds the greater power and flexibility inherent in the new ECMAScript/JavaScript standard, performs at higher levels, executes both inside and outside of CICS, and executes as an Enclave SRB.

Web 2.0/Lightweight Services. Newly supported services technologies include REST, E4X, XPath, JSON, and Atom. These give users flexible new choices for services-based CICS and mainframe data integration. They offer simpler, very effective alternatives to formal SOAP/WSDL-based services for faster, more agile integration of CICS data and business logic into new composite applications and mashups.

CICS and System z Support. HostBridge continues to support and exploit a wide range of CICS and System z tools and technologies, now including CICS Explorer, channels, containers, Event Processing, and mainframe/Internet security enhancements.

HostBridge v6.5 offers the highest-performance, highest-fidelity integration/SOA for organizations that bet their business on CICS and System z.

“Whether you’re a financial services provider repurposing a legacy CICS account application with a Web 2.0 interface or a health insurer making policy data available through a national eHealth cloud, integration remains one of the most effective ways to get maximum bang for your mainframe buck,” said Teubner. “We design and develop HostBridge with cost management and ROI always in mind. Our customers typically achieve payback in less than a year and realize significant returns on HostBridge and their mainframe investments for many years thereafter.”

HostBridge Technology is an IBM Advanced Business Partner, a member of the IBM Ready for Rational and Ready for SOA programs, and a licensed IBM zIIP ISV. HostBridge also partners with CA, Oracle, and other industry leaders.

More information: www.HostBridge.com/index.php/hbv6-5 .

About HostBridge Technology:

HostBridge Technology provides integration software for enterprises that rely on the IBM System z mainframe. Our patented products deliver mainframe data and business logic as XML/Web services, enabling organizations to extend mainframe access to many new users, modernize legacy applications with feature-rich Web interfaces, and integrate anything mainframe with anything distributed. Founded in 2000, HostBridge Technology has built a reputation for solving the hardest integration problems. Among its loyal customers, HostBridge counts many of the largest companies in the world. For more information, visit www.HostBridge.com .

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Mr. Ford feels that the combination of food for consumption and food for energy is a complete combination of business practicality and business productivity. Ford has spent his life doing humanitarian work. He is a Reverend, who obtained his master’s degree in Theology from Crowley Bible College in Pennsylvania. Ford also attended Grand Canyon University where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Christian Studies.

Henry is a devout follower of God. He practices sound relationship fundamentals with everyone he meets and believes that “your behavior should speak louder than your words.” Ford has been instrumental in founding World Food Ghana LTD. He prides himself on attention to detail.

Ford says, “It is often the attention to detail that decides the outcome of any transaction.” Henry Oliver is a seasoned business professional. He has contacts in every African country and seeks to establish a strong foundation in global agriculture.

Henry Oliver Ford began his career in agriculture in 2006. Ford traveled the world extensively searching for business ideas that created “win-win” scenarios. Henry felt as though generating profits was just not enough. Profits are often times the only factor that corporate leaders focus on. But Ford resisted the idea of creating a business model that propagated a “Global Benefit.” The people in today’s society clamor for a new form of leadership.

“As the world continues to evolve, the dynamics of our leadership must also evolve,” says Aaron Venable, another managing Principle of World Food Association. Market studies reveal that the need for food supplies is growing rapidly.

The management of these food supplies must reflect even temperance and social balance to ensure the proper allocation of these resources. Mr. Henry Oliver Ford is a genuine individual with a heart for helping others. For more information, you can write WFAO at 777 S. Flagler Drive 33411 or visit www.wfao.us .

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Since 2005, the company has earned a stellar reputation for its team of dedicated, certified teachers and its individualized tutoring services. The company’s new rate plan demonstrates its commitment to families impacted by the recession, and its mission to provide access to high quality tutoring services to students from all socio-economic backgrounds.

“For many families who want to enlist the assistance of an experienced tutor to help boost their children’s academic performance, the cost, especially during a recession, can be a huge financial burden,” said Alex Fisher, owner and chief executive officer of Crown Tutoring. “I firmly believe that a family’s financial challenges should not prevent their child from reaching his or her full academic potential, so we’re discounting our rates to ensure that cost is a minor issue for families who are committed to nurturing their children’s potential and grooming them for academic and overall life success.”

For six years, Crown Tutoring has specialized in affordable, one-on-one tutoring services designed to help students in grades K-12 and college students improve comprehension, master academic skills, and develop long-term habits for success. The company provides thorough consultations and assessments, tutoring plan development and implementation, and follow ups to ensure that educational goals are met.

All tutors employed by Crown Tutoring are certified teachers or college students preparing to graduate from educational programs and pursue careers as professional teachers. In addition to employing proven learning strategies, the tutors work closely with each student’s teachers and parents to encourage the students, model positive behaviors and boost self-esteem to help ensure progress and overall success. The tutors take a special interest in each student, and offer support and positive reinforcement.

Crown Tutoring’s motivated staff is trained to work with students at all stages of their academic careers. Tutors offer assistance in a wide range of subjects, including math, algebra, geometry, calculus, English, Spanish, reading, science, chemistry, biology, and physics. Tutors also provide test preparation for all standardizes tests, including the SAT, ACT, GMAT, GRE, GED, MCAT, DAT, OAT, AVSAB and LSAT. Crown Tutoring has earned itself a widespread reputation for excellence in SAT tutoring and preparation. The company is also equipped to tutor any subject offered in college.

Additionally, Crown Tutoring does not require its clients to purchase blocks of hours or sign long term contracts. Providing an unparalleled service, Crown Tutoring’s home tutoring model caters to parents and students by providing a unique level of flexibility not offered by most learning center-based tutoring programs. Families save time and travel expenses and enjoy the convenience of a highly trained staff of certified educators who are willing to work around their busy schedules and provide the service in their home, or at a library, school or community center of their choice.

Additionally, unlike many learning centers, Crown Tutoring primarily uses students’ schoolwork as the curriculum, and works closely with the students’ teachers to create individualized plans that are tailored to their needs. The company has an extensive track record working successfully with school districts throughout the U.S. under special arrangements to help students pass classes or grades they were in danger of failing.

For more information, visit: http://www.crowntutoring.com .

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DailyPillCalls.com is a service that sends its clients daily reminder messages directly to their home phone, cell phone or via text message. Each calling schedule is designed to meet the specific needs of its clients, from one to five times per day.

Aneel Robinson, owner of Daily Pill Calls, founded the company out of a personal need. He had high blood pressure and was supposed to be taking three pills a day. Like many, he would continually miss taking his medication at the directed times – sometimes, for two or three days in a row. This led to a mini-stroke.

As a result of using his own service, Robinson’s blood pressure is back to normal and now he only takes one pill per day.

“This much-needed service is primarily designed to benefit three different groups: patients, doctors and insurance companies,” explains Robinson. “Patients will ensure that they take their pills at designated times; doctors will know that their patients are complying; and insurance companies will realize a reduction in claims from non-complying patients.”

Additionally, Aneel explains that women who take birth control pills can also benefit from this service.

“It’s important for women to take their birth control pill at the same time each day,” says Robinson. “This service can help to prevent unwanted pregnancies.”

Calls are not limited to medication reminders, they may also include: prescription refill and doctor appointment reminders.

DailyPillCalls.com provides this service to people in the U.S. and Canada. Packages start as low as $3.50 per month.

For more information, visit: http://www.dailypillcalls.com .

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Based on the adaptive Phase I/II study design, which included an FDA allowance for surgical intervention to be added to the treatment protocol in cases where repeated Rexin-G infusions had served to control the cancer and halt disease progression, the report describes the use of Rexin-G as both neoadjuvant therapy (before surgery) and as adjuvant therapy (after surgery) to prevent post-surgical spread and disease recurrence. Remarkably, the excised tumor(s) showed the process of Rexin-G accumulation within the tumors, as well as the molecular mechanisms of tumor cell destruction, with an unprecedented level of histological high-definition.

The landmark paper, published in the latest issue of Oncology Reports (Open Access, 24: 829-833, 2010) demonstrates the physical accumulation of the intravenous Rexin-G nano-medicine within the metastatic tumor prior to its surgical excision.

It additionally reveals the selective accumulation of the Rexin-G nanoparticles on the surfaces of the target cells, i.e., pancreatic cancer cells and their proliferative vasculature, which is a distinctive property of the tumor-targeted nanotechnology platform. Using elegant immunohistochemistry to identify the process of active cell death (apoptosis) enforced by Rexin-G, the molecular mechanisms of precision tumor-targeting and selective cell death have never been more vividly displayed.

It bears mentioning that the pancreatic cancer patient highlighted in this histological study is currently in surgical remission, with no new lesions during Rexin-G treatment and no disease recurrence going on six months after the Rexin-G / Surgical Excision / Rexin-G treatment combination.

About Epeius Biotechnologies:

Epeius Biotechnologies Corporation is a privately held biopharmaceutical company that is bringing the latest advancements in genetic medicine to the cancer patient with the development and commercialization of its leading oncology products and its tumor-targeted delivery systems. Rexin-G(R) is currently approved for the treatment of all chemotherapy-resistant solid tumors by the Philippine FDA.

To learn more about our lead products and/or our pipeline of proprietary biotechnologies, please visit us at http://www.epeiusbiotech.com . For recent papers, expert reviews, clinical reports in oncology and molecular therapy, etc., see the “Publications” section.

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Mr. Markey joins Virtual Law Partners from Duane Morris, where he served as Chair of the Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Group in New York and represented clients in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, industrial gases and chemicals, and apparel industries. Prior to Duane Morris, he was a partner at Jones Day and Pennie & Edmonds.

“I have practiced IP law at major firms for about 25 years, during which time most IP practices have either merged into mega firms or sought to emulate such firms,” said Mr. Markey. “VLP appealed to me as an ideal platform to provide top level services to my clients without the huge overhead of traditional law firms. Particularly in today’s economy, businesses are seeking innovative ways to maintain high quality while decreasing expenses.”

Dr. Oh joins VLP from the Silicon Valley office of Dechert, where he was a senior attorney in the Patent Counseling Group and represented leading companies in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, clean technology and life sciences industries.

“VLP’s talented team of attorneys and its virtual law firm model were a great fit for me and my practice, and I look forward to working with Mr. Markey and the other attorneys in the group,” added Dr. Oh.

Mr. Markey’s practice is focused on patent and trademark counseling and prosecution. He has extensive experience in reissue applications, including multiple related reissue applications, and reexamination matters and proceedings, including merged reexaminations. Mr. Markey’s background also includes over a decade of intellectual property litigation and trial experience in a variety of technical fields.

Prior to practicing law, Mr. Markey worked as a design engineer for a heat transfer equipment manufacturer in the chemical process and energy industries. Admitted to practice in New York and Florida and registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Mr. Markey is a graduate of St. John’s University School of Law and a graduate of Manhattan College with a B.E. in Chemical Engineering.

Dr. Oh’s practice encompasses all aspects of patent counseling, including developing and procuring worldwide patent portfolios covering developmental and commercial products; providing assessments and opinions on patentability, freedom-to-operate, non-infringement and validity; evaluating intellectual property portfolios in connection with financings and industry collaborations; and mining patent portfolios for opportunities to maximize portfolio value. He specializes in strategic counseling and patent portfolio management in technology areas such as biologics (e.g., antibodies and peptide drugs), enzymes, drug discovery, drug formulations, vaccines, nutraceuticals, and diagnostics.

Prior to his legal career, Dr. Oh was a post-doctoral fellow at U.C. Berkeley, the California Institute of Technology, and U.C. San Francisco, where he carried out inter-disciplinary research covering the fields of neurobiology, genetics, molecular biology and biochemistry. Admitted to practice in California and registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Dr. Oh is a graduate of U.C. Hastings College of Law. He received a B.S. in Biochemistry from U.C. Los Angeles and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Johns Hopkins University.

“We are truly excited to have Jim and Charlie join our growing Intellectual Property practice,” stated Practice Leader David Roise. “Jim brings us an extremely broad and deep expertise in all areas of IP law, and, in particular, in post-issuance patent proceedings. This is an area of practice that is of major importance to many of our clients and complements our already outstanding group of patent prosecutors. Charlie has years of experience in the basic life sciences prior to beginning his law career. He bolsters our already strong life sciences practice and will provide exceptional patent counseling services for our clients in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and life sciences industries.”

About VLP’s Intellectual Property Practice:

VLP’s Intellectual Property practice is dedicated to providing the best protection for our clients’ intellectual property at the most cost-effective rates available. Our attorneys and staff provide services directed to meeting the particular needs and stage of development of our clients across a range of industries, including biotechnology, high technology, clean technology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, software and other cutting edge technologies. We provide counseling, strategic advice and specific protection in all areas of intellectual property, including patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret.

About VLP:

Founded in 2008, VLP is a virtually connected and geographically distributed law firm. VLP currently has 32 attorneys, each with outstanding credentials and an average of over 10 years of experience. VLP operates virtually, and VLP’s proprietary technology platform allows the firm to collaborate easily and to operate with a small, highly specialized staff, passing the savings to clients through substantially lower rates or flat fee arrangements (often 50% of the cost of traditional legal services). At VLP, we’re dedicated to proving that expensive buildings don’t provide great service – great people do.

For more information about VLP, visit www.virtuallawpartners.com .

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Mr. Ford has a practical train of thought that allows him to use derivatives and synthetic structures for basic and sustainable business growth. Mr. Ford’s philosophy revolves around the need for investment safety. He often says, “Why take a chance if you don’t have to?” This philosophy is something that Henry holds very high. Unfortunately many of his past colleagues did not share the same philosophies and thus suffered great individual and collective losses in the recent economic down turn that has left many countries poverty stricken.

The Finance structure that Mr. Henry Oliver Ford has used has been a myriad of ideas and concepts that have melded into one sound business model. This model is a form of Social Engineering that has its roots in the foundation of America. Henry is a strong proponent in self-produce. The only belief Mr. Ford has that he advocates more passionately than “self-production” is individual control of your “self-production.” Today’s global trade policy is fiercely competitive.

Countries that comprise the members of NAFTA must continually promote innovation in technology and stifle unwanted deterrents that promote non-productivity if they want to continue to remain viable.

“Our economy is now global and any pretext of one country monopolizing the flow of trade is preposterous,” says Mr. Ford, “The playing field is now even and no one country will be permitted to ‘run the show.’”

Africa’s leaders agree whole heartedly with Mr. Ford. Henry Oliver’s business model has stimulated billions in developmental funds for countries. However, Mr. Ford is a prudent financer. He elects to do business with countries that have a balanced political climate that is managed by leaders that have “the heart of a steward.” The responsibility of handling money is the responsibility of handling lives. With each monetary note that transfers from country to country a portion of a person’s life is also transferred.

People in some societies are viewed as disposable depending on their social cost and financial standing in their community. These people’s lives are considered worthless to some. However; Mr. Ford disagrees with this whole heartedly. He feels that any human life is more important than any financial gain. Humankind is perpetual, currencies come and go. Some leaders have either forgotten that or they never really knew or understood it.

Henry Oliver Ford is a man that has learned that lesson overtime and has never forgotten the importance of properly handling finance. To contact Mr. Henry Oliver Ford or any of his team members, please contact World Food Association Organization / World Food Ghana Ltd at 561-515-6015 or please visit the Web site at http://www.wfao.us .

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This research focuses on a structured approach for extracting value from learning data and is derived from three sources of information: standard reports, dashboards and advanced analytics. Furthermore, the paper draws upon the results of their industry survey. The research conducted by KnowledgeAdvisors’ Metrics that Matter(R) system was based upon substantial data collected across diverse industries in an effort to gain a comprehensive representation. As a result, readers will have their principal queries resolved in terms of what is being done to extract value from learning data as well. Valuable recommendations are offered pertaining to actions organizations can implement to ensure training is supporting business goals. These include but are not limited to measurement missions, value demonstration, tools and systems, personnel resources, financial resources and processes for extracting data.

The findings revealed that there appears to be a large disconnect between what organizations should do to extract value from their learning data and what they are actually doing. Merely 50% of respondents reveal that their organizations possess a measurement strategy. Moreover the top two goals of an L&D measurement group are to resolve areas of improvement and effectiveness issues. Plus 86.5% of respondents mentioned that there are less than five people designated to the measurement role for their entire corporations. Finally, funding is restricted to less than 1% of the L&D Budget for 55% of respondents.

In terms of recommendations, organizations should review the following guidelines in analyzing the results and using the data to drive decision-making. First, a clear measurement strategy with a short and long-term roadmap and gain support from stakeholders should be set. Second, financial resources should be acquired to buy capable systems and hire expert measurement personnel. Third, a focus should be built on creating information by optimizing the way data is analyzed and reported.

“The ability to extract information from multiple datasets to help leaders make decisions is the very essence of business intelligence. Without a strategy, resources or funding, corporations are not absorbing the full value from their learning evaluation data based on the results,” stated Kent Barnett, CEO of KnowledgeAdvisors.

Organizations interested in further details about this research can access the complimentary white paper found at: http://www.knowledgeadvisors.com/media-research/white-papers/research-paper-extracting-value-from-learning-data-2010/ .

About KnowledgeAdvisors:

KnowledgeAdvisors is the world’s largest provider of learning and talent measurement solutions. Leading organizations access its measurement expertise and on-demand software to ensure a high-performing workforce. As a thought leader in Human Capital Analytics, KnowledgeAdvisors provides the most comprehensive analytics solutions in the market. By combining measurement expertise, on-demand evaluation software, and integrated analytics solutions with benchmarking, organizations gain the necessary insights on how to best develop their workforce. For more about KnowledgeAdvisors, visit: www.knowledgeadvisors.com .

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Special discounts include folding campers from $4,999; trailers from $8,999; and motorhomes from $49,999. Plus, manufacturer rebates on select RVs. Booths featuring parts and accessories, campground information, on-site RV financing and RV rentals make this the complete RV show experience.

At the show, enter to win the Ultimate MIS Race Experience package from Michigan International Speedway. Includes tickets, camping and VIP access (valued at nearly $3,000).

A special $1 off coupon is available at www.marvac.org, southeast Michigan CVS Pharmacies, Big Boy restaurants and in area newspapers. The 2010 RV & Campsite, a guide to camping in Michigan, will be available free to consumers.

The 21st Fall Detroit Camper & RV Show will be held at the Rock Financial Showplace and is open weekdays 2-9 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m.-6 p.m. The cost for adult admission (ages 13 and up) is $8; senior admission is $7; children ages 12 and under are admitted free! Your RV show ticket will also get into the Fall Remodeling & Design Expo in adjacent area, Thursday through Sunday.

The show is sponsored by the Michigan Association of Recreation Vehicles and Campgrounds (MARVAC), a member organization representing all aspects of the camping and RV industries.

Consumers can call 517.349.8881 or visit www.marvac.org for additional information on the RV show.

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