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Scottsdale, AZ, January 08, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Michaels & Associates announces the release of two new features of the Percolate LMS™ that take advantage of its powerful tagging system: self-registration and communication.
Tagging systems are common across the Web and are typically seen on sites such as Flickr™, Twitter™, Delicious™ and any number of blogs as a way to label (or tag) an image, word or article for classification and rapid exploration of records. In the Percolate LMS, tags are unique keywords associated with a person or course used to group, filter, assign and report course data.
"To the best of our knowledge, the Percolate LMS is the only learning management system that uses the power and flexibility of tags as an integral component in everything it does. The beauty of the tagging system is that it gives clients complete control over their specific customization and implementation needs, translating into much faster ramp-up times and lower start-up costs. If clients want to, they can have their LMS up and running in less than a day," said Sherry Michaels, President of Michaels & Associates, the company that launched Percolate earlier this year. "Because we're continually updating the LMS, we're excited to offer self-registration and communication features as a part of our LMS's latest release."
What makes tagging in Percolate so powerful?
1. A Flexible Way to Organize, Manage and Sort People and Courses: Most LMSs offer a one-size-fits-all approach to manage, organize and search for people and courses. With Percolate, clients are limited only by their imagination when using custom tags (or unique keywords) to categorize teams of people and course collections. Think of tags as compartments to group and organize people and courses. Examples of people tags are: sales_team, managers, and southwest_region. Examples of course tags are: newhire_training, compliance and 1stQ_2013.
2. The Cornerstone of Assignments and Self-registration: Tagging is at the heart of Percolate's course assignment feature. Once people and courses have been given a tag, administrators can simply select a tagged person (or group of people) and drag-n-drop to assign him or her to the appropriate tagged course (or course collection). People tags now have additional functionality, allowing clients to offer self-registration of courses, if desired. Self-registration is easily integrated with any e-commerce system such as Google Wallet™, PayPal® or AmazonPayments™.
3. Intuitive and Quick Reporting and Communication: The basis for any LMS is to track people and course data. Custom tags allow administrators to create their own combination of people and courses to report on. Reporting is inherently intuitive throughout Percolate and all data that is collected is available for download in a spreadsheet format. By choosing a people tag in the new Communicate area in Percolate, administrators are able to quickly send an email to a select group of learners in a snap.
"We understand that tagging is new to some people, so we offer two hours of free LMS set-up support with every monthly subscription plan," Sherry said. "Tagging truly is a powerful tool. Later on, if our Percolate clients don't like their initial set-up, tagging puts control and customization in their hands. They can easily modify tags, allowing their LMS to flex and grow as their organization needs. The communication features help people let learners know of any new changes or assignments."
Based on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, the Percolate LMS leverages the web and eliminates the need to install software on a company network. Accounts begin with a 30-day trial at no charge. Percolate offers flexibility with four monthly subscription plans. Plans start at $99/month for 25 active users and increase to $1499/month for 2000 active users, with custom plans for companies with more than 2000 active users. When signing up for a monthly subscription, account holders will continue using Percolate as they have from the first day. There is no need to start over.
For more information, go to www.percolatelms.com.
About Michaels & Associates Docntrain, Ltd.
As a full-service custom training content development company, Michaels & Associates consultants have earned their stripes building e-learning for their clients' LMSs since 1998. Michaels & Associates believes in effective, instructionally sound training that improves employee performance. All projects are learner focused to ensure maximum learning retention and on the job performance. Working collaboratively with clients, Michaels & Associates ensures their training materials fit the time, budget and demands of business.
Specialties include: Online Training, Instructor-Led Training (ILT), Web-Based Training (WBT), Mobile Learning, E-learning, Certainty-Based Marking (CBM), Blended Learning, Percolate Learning Management System (LMS), Online Help, Technical Writing
For more information, go to www.mnalearning.com.
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Prep 10 mins
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This is an excellent recipe to dress up boneless chicken breasts. Flavorful and very complimentary to the chicken. I was not sure what was wanted in step 6, so I butterflied the breasts. This worked very well as it allowed them to cook through with just the right golden brown coloring. I had to simmer the sauce about 45 minutes, but I may have had the burner to low being cautious not to simmer to rapidly. The tomatoes never did break up and the mixture was not coming to the consistency I expected, so I used my immersion blender and blended it just about a minute, until the tomatoes pureed. This brought it to a very smooth and slightly thickened sauce consistency. The finishing step (14) with the butter was the crowning touch, making it a very creamy topping for the chicken breasts. I served a salad on the side and strawberries with sweetened whipped cream. A delicious meal.
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Tour de France: Sprint king Cavendish powers to first British stage win for five years
Mark Cavendish became the first Briton to win a stage of the Tour de France for five years with a brilliant sprint shoot-out on the fifth stage from Cholet to Chateauroux.
The Isle of Man rider for Team Columbia, who also won two stages in this year's Giro d'Italia, held off late attacks from Thor Hushovd, Oscar Freire and Erik Zabel, and pulled away from his rivals in the final metres.
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Sitting pretty: Mark Cavendish sits up in the saddle after springting to victory on the fifth stage of the Tour
The 232km stage was the longest in this year's Tour and was led almost from start to finish by three breakaway riders.
The French trio of Lilian Jegou, Florent Brard and national champion Nicolas Vogondy opened up a gap of more than eight minutes, which was slowly whittled away by the chasing peloton.
Vogondy broke away from his compatriots in the final 1.5km, only to be overhauled by the sprinters around 30 metres from the line.
Cavendish is the first British sprint victor since Barry Hoban in 1975.
Fist-pumping: Mark Cavendish crosses the line
There is no change in the overall lead, with Stefan Schumacher holding on to the yellow jersey, 12 seconds ahead of Kim Kirchen and Britain's David Millar.
Meanwhile, Juan Mauricio Soler has become the first major casualty of the 2008 Tour de France after the reigning King of the Mountains was forced to withdraw from the race with a wrist injury.
The Colombian climber fractured a bone in Saturday's opening stage, from Brest to Plumelec, and struggled through the next three days before suffering another fall in the neutral zone on Wednesday, before the long, flat stage from Cholet to Chateauroux.
Soler tried to continue but was withdrawn by his Barloworld team.
With this year's hilly race heading into the Massif Central tomorrow, the Tour is robbed of one its most talented climbers.
Soler, 25, won the polka dot jersey in his first Tour, after a stunning breakaway climb on stage nine last year, on the Alpine pass of the Col du Galibier.
He attacked in the Pyrenees to secure the mountains jersey, the third Colombian after Luis Herrera and Santiago Botero to achieve the feat.
Stage Result
1. Mark Cavendish (Britain / Columbia ) 5hr 27min 52 ec
2. Oscar Freire (Spain / Rabobank )
3. Erik Zabel (Germany / Milram )
4. Thor Hushovd (Norway / Credit Agricole )
5. Baden Cooke (Australia / Barloworld )
6. Robert Hunter (South Africa / Barloworld )
7. Leonardo Duque (Colombia / Cofidis )
8. Robbie McEwen (Australia / Silence - Lotto )
9. Francesco Chicchi (Italy / Liquigas )
10. Julian Dean (New Zealand / Garmin - Chipotle ) all same time
Overall Standings
1. Stefan Schumacher (Germany / Gerolsteiner ) 19hr 32min 33sec
2. Kim Kirchen (Luxembourg / Columbia ) +12 secs
3. David Millar (Britain / Garmin - Chipotle ) same time
4. Cadel Evans (Australia / Silence - Lotto ) +21"
5. Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland / Team CSC ) +33"
6. Christian Vandevelde (U.S. / Garmin - Chipotle ) +37"
7. George Hincapie (U.S. / Columbia ) +41"
8. Thomas Lovkvist (Sweden / Columbia ) +47"
9. Vincenzo Nibali (Italy / Liquigas ) +58"
10. Jose Ivan Gutierrez (Spain / Caisse d'Epargne ) +1:01"
Barry Hoban was the last Briton to win a sprint stage on the tour in 1975
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Nonenzymatic glycation of long-lived proteins has been implicated in several complications related to age and diabetes. Dicarbonyl compounds such as methylglyoxal (MGO) have been identified as the predominant source for the formation of advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) in various tissues. We investigated the effect of 13 micronutrients on MGO-mediated in vitro glycation of bovine serum albumin (BSA), as formation of AGEs and protein carbonyls. BSA (10 mg/ml) was incubated at 37°C with 100 mM MGO for 24 hours, in presence of ascorbic acid, Trolox (water-soluble α-tocopherol analog), β-carotene, retinol, riboflavin, thiamin, folic acid, niacin, pyridoxine, zinc, iron, manganese, and selenium. Fluorescence was measured at the wavelength pair of 370 and 440 nm as an index of the formation of AGEs and spectra were recorded for promising interactions at λex = 280 nm and λex = 370 nm. Within four standard antiglycating agents, aminoguanidine showed highest inhibitory response for BSA glycation followed by quercetin, gallic acid, and tannic acid. Promising antiglycation potential was seen for Trolox, riboflavin, Zn, and Mn as evidenced by decrease in the formation of AGEs and protein carbonyls.
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US: Danone debuts new Evian babies commercial
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Danone's Evian ad comes two years after the roller baby commercial debuted
Danone Waters of America has launched a new television advertising campaign for its Evian water brand in the US.
Two years after its roller babies commercial, the US arm of the food and beverage giant has aired a new 'Live Young' campaign, it said yesterday (19 April). Entitled 'Baby Inside', the interactive commercial offers consumers a chance to get involved in the ad.
The advert, which can be viewed below, features portraits of people wearing Evian t-shirts with babies in different poses. The t-shirts appear to the beat of the background music, creating the illusion that the babies are dancing.
A version of the commercial will be released on the internet at www.LetsBabyDance.evian.com, where consumers can load up their own pictures.
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>> business news from the capital region -- this is washington business report " "with rebecca cooper. thank >> for j joining us for lookok at busineness and finance and the washingtgton region. this week left invtors trying to decide whwhether to celebrate ththe unexpected strong job numberor frereak out about the fiscal cliff. josh boke declarered cliliffhangnging coulbe causing an nation breakdown. the president's supporters are pointing to o 146,000 new jobs created in november but the president's critics emphasisize the e half-million discouraged american to chchose not to look for work wer the unemployment rate to 7.7%. we've got a round table prered
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to discussss all this. jo boike barbabara lane, and alanana fein. welcome to our undtable. sh y wrotete a whole article about this whole national members break down. what is your interpretation? >> we shoulde passing this now. the president gets as much leverage as we get closer to the new yearhen tax is actuay go up. john boehner knows this and obama knows this so we will not see the conontotours of a deal yet. but that does not mean that the absence of evidence is the evidence of absence. 9 >> i noticed thahat while being out for r a week with the the flu
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is that nothing changein t wes i was gone.e. nothing has changed in months. it is aithetical washington does. they don't get a any kind of acaction until the last possible minute and the binesss community y hates that. theyey want t to seeee some kind of stability or predictality. wawall street needs to figure out how damaging this is to play this game. >> washington will interpret wall street as washington sees fit. wall street can say whatever it wants and can send the market into a tailspin. there will be a rponse from a repupublican or democr that will paint that tailspin in their favor. it is not just about the numbers.s. it i not in n it -- is about more than $500 billion in tax cuts. it'ss about a veryragilele psychology for this country. we see constandysfunction.
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alan kruer a has said this could d be dastatiting. there are psychchological srs leftft by this and we try to see evidence of that today with the drop in consumer confidence. that reading is a harsh remininder of what could a way to end it will really ve a big impact as we get oser to the holiday shopping season. one small businessman said to the presidident that nt time you scscdule thi don't do itt around christmas >> barbara ley in, what is s it businesseses aree more anxus about? arare they more excited about the grow in jobs o more anxious about the uncertainty in washington? >> they are anxious about the uncertainty. business people like prededictability whether it is good, bad, or whatevever. they want to know what they are dedealing with but people aree still uncomfortable and on well
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into thosese expansions and unwilling to hire a loof people because they just don't know whahat the public policy will bring. >> what are you hearing are the bibiggest concerns? are they concerned that we will only get a temporary bill? are they weren't there ll not be a deal at all? >> i think people generally feel there will be someme sort of deal. there is kicking down the can down the road a little bit longer, i think of a fid you will get something. what we would like to see is to get it done and get it done now. right nowow i'm a smallll organization i havave difficulty plannining. i am in no y like the rge ceo's in our area. we wou like to see something gett done. i don't know whether we will see
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chcheck out onto power norship -- to check out entreeneu ship on the flip side, from a credit peperspective, you need some st ofapital whether b big or small to get something started. this may be a grt ti for t the entrepreneneur, mak it difficult wh allhis ununcertainty may be keeping peop on t the sidelines fr investing. from the investor perspective if they don't start seeing something g that will really stick,k, they ll stay onhe sidelines because they don'tt want to see thihis dete happen over again in six months. >> i thi that's what congress will do. i think t they will try to save
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theieir own hide by coming up with a band--aid approach. that c could really undermine anyy kind of activity. dave cody fr honeyeywell saysys it is cowardly. you u talked about howonsumer confidence is defing ththis but it is only just t catcng up with where the business s confididence s been for some te. what are you hearing from the busineness community in teterms of whatat they think for next year? >> it is like someone is putting together a cooki dough and you don't ow how it willll taste when it bakes. a deal could take a variety of different directions. was to pull it outut of the oven, it might be burned or set the house on fire.
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Many companies make their money by selling you unnecessary add-ons and charging hefty "administration fees", causing the unwary traveller's budget to disappear in a cloud of oily smoke.
We've put together 10 steps for navigating your way through the car rental process without being driven round the bend.
1 Shop around
It almost goes without saying, but the first thing to do is check out major price comparison websites like Kayak and Travelocity.
These allow you to check out hundreds of listings at once, but you should also check out the main operators' own websites.
Sometimes they run promotions or deals that aren't picked up by the aggregators, and you may be able to get further discounts.
We managed to knock more than $50 off an Avis booking by using one of the recent coupon codes collected here.
2 Smaller model
Do you really need a giant SUV to take an intrepid trip to Wellington?
Car companies will always try and upsell you from a sensible compact car to a more spacious set of wheels, because they can charge twice as much.
A week's holiday pottering around Paris will cost you about $300 in a small Citroen hired from Avis- and more than $800 in a much larger five-door model.
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Avis charges $24 per day to reduce a whopping $3450 excess to $345.
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What's worse than picking up a $50 speeding ticket while you're trying to enjoy a relaxing holiday?
Being slapped with another $50 by the rental car company to add insult to injury.
That's the outrageous fee that Hertz charges for the arduous task of a) charging your credit card, and b) processing and sending on any notices related to the offence.
Avis charges $30 plus GST, and others are in a similar range. There's nothing you can do about it except drive like a nana when you're using a rental car.
The same "administration fees" also apply to toll roads. In New Zealand you only have to worry about the Northern Gateway, but if you're heading overseas make sure you're fully paid up.
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Now we're starting to see why one of the biggest rental companies is called 'Hertz'. Brace your wallet for more pain - if you make a mess in the car, you'll be charged as much as $250 (plus GST) to get it cleaned.
"This includes, but is not limited to, cleaning and/or deodorising necessitated by spillage of fluids, food, vomit, stains, smoke, unpleasant odours and animal hair," Hertz says.
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Nelson has suspended performances until December as a result.
The Texas Department of Public Safety says Nelson was not aboard in the weather-related accident around 3:30 a.m. CST Saturday on Interstate 30 near Sulphur Springs, 75 miles northeast of Dallas.
Nelson spokeswoman Elaine Schock says Paul English broke his ankle, his brother Billy English suffered a bruise hip and Tom Harkin has a cracked or bruised rib.
Nelson has postponed his four remaining November tour dates: Robinsonville and Jackson, Miss.; Fayetteville, Ark.; and Lafayette, La.
Trooper Sylvia Jennings says seven people were on the westbound bus, including the driver who was dealing with wet roads and high winds.
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University of Minnesota student-athletes are hosting the Unlimited Dance Marathon for the first time this year. The 12-hour dance marathon at Mariucci Arena on February 22-23. The event is designed to raise funds and awareness for Amplatz Children's Hospital.
Unlimited Dance Marathon is a year-long fundraising and awareness campaign for the fight against pediatric health issues. In addition to the no-sitting, no-sleeping dance marathon, the event will feature personal stories from children and families served through the resources Amplatz provides. Participants dancing in the marathon will earn pledges for their dance time. Similar to Penn State's THON event, this is the fourth year of the marathon held on the University of Minnesota campus and the first year with involvement from the Gopher student-athlete population.
The annual event aims to unite the campus and the entire student-body to impact the lives of patients. The funds obtained through Unlimited Dance Marathon will help build an indoor playground. Along with providing a break from hospital rooms, the playground also assists in recovery and rehabilitation efforts. In order to begin the building process, a pledge of $75,000 is needed.
Prior to the event in February, student-athletes will volunteer at various Gopher athletic events to raise monetary donations. The next opportunity to donate will be at the Gopher Football home games against Penn State Saturday and Wisconsin on November 23. Student-athletes will walk within the Gopher tailgate lots, asking for monetary donations, all of which go directly to this cause. Supporters can donate online here.
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