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The Science, History and How to of Contagious Laughter. If you like this post follow me on twitter Laughter is that involuntary response humans of all cultures share, and while we may think of it as a reaction to humor (the funnier we find something, the more we laugh at it, goes the common wisdom), devoid of any other qualification it is a complex (and virulently contagious) social phenomenon. In this post I study the science of social laughter, the history of epidemics of contagious laughter and I’ll detail how to get started creating your own outbreaks. A small observational study done by Robert Provine in 2000 showed that humor has little to do with laughter, rather it is our social setting that influences our giggles: Only 10% to 20% of the laughter episodes we witnessed followed anything joke-like. Even the most humorous of the 1,200 comments that preceded laughter weren’t necessarily howlers: “You don’t have to drink, just buy us drinks!”

And “Was that before or after I took my clothes off?.” Being two of my favorites. Holy Laughter. Measuring quality: Presentation and tool for you to use — Comma Theory. Nancy Duarte: The secret structure of great talks. ChooseMyPlate.gov. Images.4channel.org/f/src/589217_scale_of_universe_enhanced.swf. Mat Shore – Innovation Speaker. OpenScout :: skill-based scouting of open management content. TEDxBerkeley - Gopi Kallayil - Connecting the Internet to the Inner-net. Hyères. For the island group, see Îles d'Hyères.

The old town lies 4 km (2.5 mi) from the sea clustered around the Castle of Saint Bernard, which is set on a hill. Between the old town and the sea lies the pine-covered hill of Costebelle, which overlooks the peninsula of Giens. Hyères is the oldest resort on the French Riviera.[1] History[edit] Hellenic Olbia[edit] Middle Ages[edit] Originally a possession of the Viscount of Marseilles, it was later transferred to Charles of Anjou. 20th Century[edit] After defecting from Soviet intelligence in 1937, Walter Krivitsky hid in Hyères (one of the farthest points in France from his operative base in Paris).[5] World War II[edit] As part of Operation Dragoon on 15 August 1944, the joint United States/Canadian First Special Service Force came ashore off the coast of Hyères to take the islands of Port-Cros and Levant.

Geography[edit] The Place Massillon in Hyères. The commune has a land area of 132.38 square kilometres (51.11 sq mi). British in Hyères[edit] Search results for innovation. The Playboy of the Western World, by J. M. Synge. Innovaproject. Www.mindmapart.com/how-to-focus-mind-map-jane-genovese/ Bio_theo_eng. East Cross Border Region - EU Funding Opportunities Ireland. East Border Region Ltd is one of five local authority led cross border networks on the Ireland/Northern Ireland border. The East Border Region comprises ten local authorities, Newry and Mourne, Down and Banbridge District Councils, Armagh City and District Council, Craigavon, Ards and North Down Borough Councils in Northern Ireland and Louth, Monaghan and Meath County Councils in the Republic Of Ireland and has a total population of 826,000.

East Border Region was established in 1976 to promote innovative, cross border economic development in the areas of agriculture, Industry, Commerce and Tourism and to improve the living conditions and employment prospects of those living in the region. East Border Region was awarded the role of Implementing Body in the Ireland/Northern Ireland INTERREG IIIA Programme 2000-2006 and as a result successfully implemented approximately €25 million to genuine cross border projects across the region. East Cross Border Region - EU Funding Opportunities Ireland - Staff. The Paris Blog: Paris, France Expat Tips & Resources »Blog Archive » American-Style Bagel Fix! Gilles Verot, Charcutier de tradition. Pearltrees Raises $6.7M For Its “Collaborative Interest Graph” Pearltrees, a company offering a novel interface for sharing and finding content, has raised 5 million euros ($6.7 million US) in new funding.

The basic unit of the Pearltrees service is the pearl, which is basically a bookmark. Users can assemble these pearls into trees based around a topic. Meanwhile, Pearltrees is using that data to determine how different topics and bookmarks are related, and allows users to find new pearls (related to whatever topic they’re exploring) through its “related interests” button. Following the lead from Google’s PageRank and Facebook’s EdgeRank, Pearltrees has named its technology TreeRank. In essence, it’s offering its own version of the “interest graph”, a goal that many startups are chasing. Pearltrees launched in December 2009, and the company says it has been growing consistently at 15 percent per month, and that users have now created 15 million pearls which were assembled into 2 million trees.

Previous investor Groupe Accueil led the new round. Start-Ups Aim to Help Users Put a Price on Their Personal Data. Daniel Rosenbaum for The New York Times Shane Green, standing, founded Personal, a company that helps people control their personal data on the Internet, using what is known as a data locker. The data that people store in their locker can be as prosaic as birth dates, or as specific as a preference for spicy foods. People have been willing to give away their data while the companies make money. But there is some momentum for the idea that personal data could function as a kind of online currency, to be cashed in directly or exchanged for other items of value. A number of start-ups allow people to take control — and perhaps profit from — the digital trails that they leave on the Internet.

“That marketplace does not exist right now, because consumers are not in on the game,” said Shane Green, who founded a company called Personal in 2009. The idea behind Mr. The problem is that companies don’t need to pay for the information when they get it free. Home - Personal. Santa Fe Model Railroad Club. » Biography / noahstape.com. From Noah’s Tape unspools the inevitable, intimate product of a journey across physical and emotional borders. Alternately tender, corrosive and raw, Noah’s Tape spans and spills from one musical auteur’s odyssey across continents, culture and meaning. Fluently trilingual and of French-Thai descent, Jessica Chalisa Nay has been distilling affliction and bliss through the language of beats, boards and strings since age 16. Nay’s experimentation and continental drift from France and the US to the Far East culminated in the launch of a live act in 2011.

Since then Noah’s Tape has earned critical regard and captured audiences at music festivals, concerts and clubs in and around the international hub of Bangkok, Thailand. Obsessively focused on the minutiae of composition, production and stage craft, Nay sees Noah’s Tape as exemplifying the technology-driven democratization of music, where Independence and self-ownership cultivate authentic, lucid expression. Photograph © Agnès Dherbeys. Suport- Project. Blog Archive » The Web’s third frontier. Everyone realizes that the web is entering a new phase in its development.

One indication of this transition is the proliferation of attempts to explain the changes that are occurring. Functional explanations emphasize the real time web, collaborative systems and location-based services. Technical explanations argue that the interconnectivity of data is the most significant current development. They consider the web’s new frontiers to be closely related to the semantic web or the “web of things”. Although these explanations are both pertinent and intriguing, none of them offers an analytical matrix for assessing the developments that are now underway. In contrast, other explanations are far too broad to serve any useful purpose. How can the web’s development be understood? The web represents a compendium of technical resources, functionalities and usage practices, and it cannot be reduced to just one of these dimensions. The founding principles The two initial phases of growth.

The Best Industries for Starting a Business - Best Small Businesses - Start a Business. While a sure thing is rarity in entrepreneurship, there are certainly smart bets and calculated moves. In Inc. magazine’s annual look at the best industries for starting a business the goal was to seek out and highlight the industries that are primed for new opportunity. From green construction to baby products and translation services, these industries may not be the hippest or edgiest around, but they are consistent and making solid gains.

In effect, they're the industries that keep on giving. And in these days of economic fits and starts, that’s a quality that can't be oversold. As companies continue to mechanize their operations, they're investing big time in heavy-duty machinery. Peek Inside This Industry. Thanks in part to new building codes and tax incentives--along with a rebound in the housing market--eco-friendly building is having a moment. Peek Inside This Industry. Peek Inside This Industry. The economic recovery has certainly been better for some than others. The Best Industries for Starting a Business - Best Small Businesses - Start a Business. Living with FTTH - Sweden. Living with FTTH - Oberhausen.

Living with FTTH - Nuenen. Blogger Widgets. Lucien Engelen: Crowdsource your health. Página Oficial de la Junta Central Fallera. Fallas, la fiesta de la Comunidad Valenciana. Comisiones falleros, monumentos falleros, museo fallero, falleras, conozca los eventos falleros - Junta Central Fallera. Falles. City hall falla for 2014. The Falles (Valencian: [ˈfaʎes] ( ), sing. Falla), or Fallas (Spanish: [ˈfaʎas]),[1] is a traditional celebration held in commemoration of Saint Joseph in the city of Valencia, in Spain. The term Falles refers to both the celebration and the monuments created during the celebration. Each neighbourhood of the city has an organized group of people, the Casal faller, that works all year long holding fundraising parties and dinners, usually featuring the famous dish, paella, a specialty of the region.

Etymology[edit] The name of the festival is the plural of the Valencian word falla. Latin fax "torch" → Latin facvla (diminutive) → Vulgar Latin *facla → Valencian falla. Falles and ninots[edit] Formerly, much time would be spent by the Casal faller preparing the ninots (Valencian for puppets or dolls). Events during Falles[edit] La despertà: a brass band marches through a small street in the early morning.

Falleres in their costumes march with the band. La Despertà[edit] Blended Learning: A Disruptive Innovation [INFOGRAPHIC] #edtech #edutech. Innovation Uncensored: Infographics Uncensored. #Infographic: How to Build a Culture of Innovation. How Small And Medium Sized Businesses Fuel Innovation (Scaling) Infographics. The World's Leading Innovators. More Infographics on Good. The CORNET programme for research-acquiring SMEs - SME Techweb - Research. CORNET - ‘COllective Research NETworking’ is an ERA-NET in the field of Collective Research.

Collective research programmes benefit all or most of the SMEs working in the same sector or branch of industry. Any intellectual property rights generated through the project are typically distributed throughout the firms in the target sector. The CORNET Consortium consists of 21 partners managing research programmes involving 17 countries and regions. The coordination of the network is funded by a Seventh Framework Programme grant. Originally appearing in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), CORNET seeks to improve the efficiency of collective research policy and activities in Europe.

It is aimed at reinforcing the European Research Area (ERA) by improving cooperation between national/regional ministries and government agencies and creating opportunities for establishing collective research sourcing national/regional funding that crosses national borders. Who can apply? How does it work? CERI - Funding. Essays on collaborative processes among SMEs for competitiveness development - Publications - LTU - Luleå University of Technology. This thesis examine some important fundaments of collaborative processes, the drivers for inter-organizational collaboration and the logic behind how such processes can be important for competitiveness development.

The thesis particularly emphasizes collaboration among small and medium sized firms (SMEs), collaboration as a process (that takes place among various actors, such as SMEs, large companies, universities and/or public actors) and takes a specific view from a resource-based perspective. By looking closer into the process of working together in the pursuit of common objectives, and primarily among SMEs, such view of collaboration emphasizes the dynamic relationship that exists between the actors involved and elements of this process that can be important for understanding competitiveness.

Four papers are appended in this thesis where each individual paper has its own research purpose. These four papers are focusing on: Samples/SettingObjectivesLeaderGuide.pdf. Welcome to Maguire Training E-Learning Platform. 3 Cool Goal Setting Techniques. Yes to the Person, No to the Task - Negotiation Skills from MindTools. Asserting Yourself While Maintaining Relationships Offer an alternative to a straight "No". © iStockphoto/jacus The word "negotiation" conjures up images of high-pressure situations, where people have a lot to lose if they get things wrong.

In fact, you probably negotiate several times each day. You do it at home and at work for all sorts of things, from deciding what to make for dinner, to settling on terms for a job promotion. Because of this, you are a negotiator, even if you don't think of yourself as one! But how well do you negotiate? In this article, we'll discuss some of the fundamentals of negotiating successfully, so that you can meet your needs without causing conflict when you do have to say "no".

Negotiating Basics Negotiation is simply the act of reaching agreement as to how you'll move forwards. There are many ways to arrive at this agreement. The opposite approach is to accommodate. Negotiations that aim for mutually satisfying outcomes are often best. Do I have time to do it? How to Start the Practice of Collaborative Innovation. Today, many seek ways to transform the manner in which their organization convenes to solve problems and to reach a shared understanding of strategic intent.

The practice of collaborative innovation offers a path forward. In this article innovation architect Doug Collins suggests a place for people to start their journey focusing on how to work with the enquiry led, internally focused form. A Journey of a Thousand Miles People approach collaborative innovation from many places. Some seek a way for their group to solve problems more effectively. They define effective in many ways. Some want to engage their group more deeply. Each path leads its respective pilgrim to ask the following, critical questions: What does it mean to practice collaborative innovation?

By practice I mean when a person decides to pursue a path by which they gain mastery over a discipline, whether that discipline be the law, medicine, yoga, or, here, collaborative innovation. Getting a Lay of the Land By Doug Collins. RND Conference 2012 - Grenoble Ecole de Management. Le Club des Chefs des deux hémisphères. Www.oecd.org/dataoecd/39/62/46021220.pdf. Ec.europa.eu/research/sme-techweb/pdf/sme_en.pdf#view=fit&pagemode=none. Collaborative Skills for Teams. How To Make E Learning Work. Top100 Tools for Learning 2010. E-Learning Software and Authoring Tools | Articulate Rapid eLearning. These Simple Tips Will Help You Build the Right E-Learning. We’re in the middle of beta testing a new product.

It’s an interesting process because I get to see how people approach their projects and the steps they use to solve problems and find solutions. I had a conversation with a beta tester who was struggling with doing something. One reason for his struggle was that he was applying production techniques he used for a different product to the beta software. So things weren’t working as he had planned. His struggle was one common to many of us. He started with a solution and then tried to make it fit the problem he was trying to solve. He should have stepped away from the solution, taken a closer look at what he wanted to do, and then look at the options he had for meeting his objective.

Starting with a solution isn’t an issue isolated to those beta testing software. Recognize that elearning courses aren’t the objective. E-learning courses (and training programs for that matter) exist to meet objectives. Step away from the solutions. Tidbits: 3 Simple Ways to Measure the Success of Your E-Learning. Prof. F.M. Moghaddam. Show Pages - Fareed Zakaria GPS - CNN.com. Udutu | Online Collaborative Course Authoring. Social Media Dashboard for Teams using Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin. EtherPad. Posterous Spaces.

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