FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
“The Worm at Home: An Annmarie Campbell Retrospective”
August 18 – November 3, 2007 , Bernheim Gallery in the Old Visitor Center
Opening public reception and Dedication of Zen Garden October 13, 2007 1-4pm Education Center
(Louisville, Ky.)–Deceased artist Annmarie Campbell, daughter of Dawn Marie Yankeelov, enjoyed
many visits to Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in Bulllitt County, Ky., and other moments
of nature with her mother and sister studying nature from the flowers to the insects.
Her creative imagination applied during the last few years indicates her sympathy for life as a
worm, depicting human-like emotions and tendencies.
The matters of perspective and perception play in Annmarie Campbell’s works, as well as other
elements of landscapes, animals, and worlds of the sky. Visit the Zen Garden, her memorial area,
off the Lake Nevin Trail Extension, and take a moment to breath and enjoy the artistic birdhouses
done in her name.
www.bernheim.org for maps of all memorials there, including Annmarie Campbell’s.
Within Bernheim’s 14,000 acres you will find a nationally-recognized arboretum, beautiful gardens,
tranquil lakes, a nature center, large expanses of scenic natural area, 30 miles of hiking trails
and a 12,000-acre research forest. Enjoy a leisurely stroll, hike, bike, bring the family to the
Visitors Center or just come out to enjoy the ever changing display of natural splendor.
Donations can be made for the maintenance and upkeep of the Lake Nevin Trail Extension where
Annmarie’s Zen Garden resides in Annmarie Campbell’s memory to:
Bernheim, P.O. Box 130, Clermont, KY 40110-0130 .
To support the Annmarie Campbell Art Student Scholarship at Murray State University in Murray ,
Kentucky, contact Jennie Rottinghaus (877-282-0033) at the University or send a donation to:
Annmarie Campbell Scholarship
MSU Development Center Office 106
Murray, KY 42071.
Funds are being raised to have the scholarship reach endowment at $25,000, so that it may be
awarded annually.
Annmarie Campbell graduated from Murray State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in December
2005.
Annmarie Campbell Art Student Scholarship guidelines for Fall 2008 awards at Murray State
University :
1. The scholarship goes to a junior or senior female art student attending the institution.
They can receive the award in their junior year and reapply for senior year.
2. The student must submit at least 10 electronic photo or art images in email or printed
pictures of any type of art for review by 2 art professors for a final selection. Two Murray
art professors will be selected to review these each award period.
3. The student must have a 3.0 GPA and maintain a 3.0 GPA in order to be eligible to receive
the award again.
Please read the tribute available on www.foundationforgrace.org. And, view Annmarie’s personal
blog at vanillawas.blogspot.com; and www.myspace.com/lomenta. Dawn Yankeelov, Annmarie’s mother,
is also involved in the establishment of a new venture entitled Gallery Lomenta, coming soon in
the online art community 2008.
Dawn Marie Yankeelov, ASPectx
PR Consultant
502-292-2351
dawny@aspectx.com
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Catalyst Learning’s School at Work Births ECHO Product to Meet the Need
for Career Advising for Advancing Employees
College-Preparatory Coursework at Hospitals Create Career-Ladder Success
(Louisville, KY-March 28, 2007)—Catalyst Learning has launched a new program for hospital workers seeking advancement inside America’s hospitals and physician practices, building upon its workforce development model for employee advancement and engagement. The program is called “Expanding Your Career and Healthcare Opportunities” (ECHO). ECHO includes mentoring, career advising, classroom training in college-prep areas, such as anatomy and physiology. The typical ECHO student is employed as a team leader or supervisor, an advanced clerical worker, or in an allied health ‘tech’ position.
ECHO builds upon the base that Catalyst Learning has developed with its School at Work® product used by over 280 hospitals in 36 states. “ECHO was developed in response to hospital customer needs to accelerate the process for developing skilled clinical and support staff,” said Lynn Fischer, President of Catalyst Learning. “The career advising model that was introduced with School at Work in 2004 has proven adaptable to this more advanced employee audience in pilot tests conducted during 2006.” Fischer cited examples of pilot sites in Jacksonville, St. Louis and Columbus, OH using ECHO as a springboard to move employees into medical coding and related fields, where there are limited staff.
Liz Bruno, Director of Educational Development at St.Vincent’s Medical Center, in Jacksonville, Fla., has been impressed with the rapid acceptance of ECHO. “The ECHO product meets a real need. Here at St. Vincent’s, we were able to use this program to prepare a group of health information management employees for their intensive in-house coding school. The program was a real key to the success of the coding effort. All participants identified it as extremely valuable. Frankly, I have come to rely on Catalyst learning as one of the pillars in our workforce development program to enhance the performance of and opportunities for our entry level employees. With the addition of the accelerated SAW program, we are now able to better serve that ‘in between’ group.”
BJC Healthcare students in St. Louis are also an example of the results ECHO can achieve. For example, SAW graduate Francine Keys is now attending college classes to pursue an accounting degree. “The course was more than just a class; it really encouraged me to not be afraid to take that next step in following my heart to get my degree. Also, I believe I have made some lifelong friends,” she said.
Hospitals that participated in the ECHO pilot program included: Northwestern University Hospital (Chicago); Plaza Medical Hospital (Dallas); Mt. Carmel Hospital (Columbus); St. Agnes (Baltimore); Dubois (Pennsylvania); St. Vincent’s Medical Center (Jacksonville); and BJC Healthcare (St. Louis). ECHO is Catalyst Learning’s second education and career development product for the high-growth healthcare industry. Fischer indicated, “We have a phenomenal customer base of hospitals. These are industry leaders in focusing their energies on staff development and growth from within. It’s great to have them express additional needs that Catalyst Learning is able to help them meet.”
There have been 9 pilot sites to date, and approximately 88 students have participated in ECHO.
About Catalyst Learning
Catalyst Learning Company in Kentucky provides innovative workforce development models delivered at the worksite for adults in support level positions. Catalyst Learning’s principal products are School at Work ® (SAW), a career development system, and the accelerated SAW program, Expanding Your Career and Healthcare Opportunities (ECHO). The School at Work vision is to dramatically expand access to education for adults employed in support-level jobs. This vision is being achieved by working closely with employers to help them realize a return-on-investment and by using technology to deliver education. Education delivery is done in a blended learning approach which embraces the use of technology for instruction and classroom activity, as mentoring as key components. Catalyst Learning was founded in 1992 and is a female-owned small business.
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Header: January 23, 2007
Innovative Brain Scanning for Alzheimer’s Disease Screening Unveiled Clinical Trials with the Neuronetrix’ COGNISION headset at the University of Kentucky Begin in 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Innovative Brain Scanning for Alzheimer’s Disease Screening Unveiled
Clinical Trials with the Neuronetrix’ COGNISION headset at the
University of Kentucky Begin in 2008
LEXINGTON, KY (Jan. 23, 2008)—Researchers at the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging are launching an Alzheimer’s screening clinical trial with Neuronetrix’s innovative brain scanning system, called COGNISION™. The study will involve brainwave assessments using a technology called event-related potentials (ERP’s). The study is expected to validate the performance of the COGNISION™ system and to demonstrate the system’s applicability in a primary care setting. Up to 100 Alzheimer sufferers and controls will participate over the next 6-12 months.
During the study patients will wear a sophisticated electronic headset which will record brain activity in response to an auditory stimulus. The process is similar to hearing screening tests performed on newborn infants throughout the country. The data is then uploaded to an online database where a powerful pattern recognition engine will correlate the ERP tests with known brainwave patterns.
The COGNISION™ test is expected to be the first approved Alzheimer’s disease screening test which directly evaluates a patient’s cognitive performance. “We are not looking at a surrogate biomarker which may or may not correlate with Alzheimer’s, instead, we are directly measuring the cognitive deficits caused by the disease.” says K.C. Fadem, co-founder of Neuronetrix.
It is generally believed that the drugs used to treat Alzheimer’s, such as market leader Aricept® from Pfizer, are most effective early in the disease process. Because of this, a national focus has been placed on the importance of Alzheimer’s screening to determine optimum treatment paths in the early stage of the disease. At least one organization of medical experts, the AD Screening Discussion Group, has advocated that Alzheimer’s disease screenings become a routine part of the application for Medicare.
Alzheimer’s disease affects about 5 million Americans with 500,000 new cases reported each year. This number is expected to grow to 16 million by 2050. The CDC recently reported that Alzheimer’s disease moved up to 7th place from 8th place among the leading causes of death in 2004, passing influenza and pneumonia.
The Sanders-Brown Center at the University of Kentucky is one of only 32 Alzheimer’s Centers of Excellence in the country. Neuronetrix is planning a follow on study to evaluate the COGNISION™ System on a commercial scale that will be performed at other Alzheimer’s Centers of Excellence including the University of Pennsylvania and Indiana University.
For more information, go to www.neuronetrix.com.
Dawn Marie Yankeelov,Aspectx
PR Consultant
For More Information:
Dawn Marie Yankeelov
ASPectx
502-292-2351
dawny@aspectx.com
Catalyst Learning’s School-At-Work System Upgrades With
New Features to Engage Students
Employers Embrace Career Development for Entry-Level Workers
May 31, 2006—The growth of Catalyst Learning Company’s School at Work (SAW), career development system continues its quarter to quarter increase, with a total of 218 healthcare employers enrolled in 33 states. “We continue to expand our outreach into hospitals across the nation that are willing to look at workforce development as a life cycle that begins with the entry level worker,” said Founder and CEO Lynn Fischer of Catalyst Learning. The School at Work career ladder system was developed by
Catalyst Learning in 1998.
In 2002, the U.S. Department of Labor funded a regional School at Work demonstration project for the healthcare industry . Phase 1 of the resulting “Building A Career Ladder in Healthcare” program served 366 participants at 28 hospitals in four states. Phase 2 began in 2003 and served 778 participants at 60 hospitals in 13 states. In 2005, although federal funding ended, SAW continued to grow as employers learned of its success and added the SAW career ladder system into their workplace. Through 218 healthcare employers in 33 states, 3,832 employees have enrolled in SAW instruction.
SAW has also invested in new online components, and a re-engineered, intuitive user interface. “We have been listening to our coaches within the hospitals and taken their feedback to enhance the user experience in our DVD and web training,” said Fischer, based in Louisville, Ky.
Students average about 2.5 hours a week in DVD or online training. System enhancements include:
* Ease of Readability online
* Standardized colors for key courses
* Gaming approach to learning, i.e. edutainment
* More Visuals, including Anatomy Graphics
* Dynamic Content
* Enhanced Keyboarding: “Words Per Minute” Tracking and Testing
* Answer reviews at the end of each activity
“Students now have access to advanced keyboarding activities that prepare them for college-level work and for higher-level clerical positions,” Fischer explained.
School at Work’s success at the individual hospital level has been witnessed and documented within HCA. The School at Work initiative is now part of HCA Cares, a national scholarship program that provides employees with funds to support their career growth within healthcare and at HCA hospitals. Over thirty HCA hospitals will add the School at Work to employee development efforts in 2006.
About School at Work
The SAW “Building a Career Ladder in Healthcare” program is for healthcare employers, especially hospitals, to educate, retain, and advance entry-level employees internally. The SAW integrated instructional model uses the Internet, computer labs, DVD technology, and mentoring through onsite coaches. Employers present SAW as an opportunity to build upon basic job skills, improve computer proficiency and study medical terminology, medical ethics, anatomy and physiology. Students also develop an individual career and learning plan, usually with the help of a hospital recruiter. For more information, go to www.schoolatwork.com.
About Catalyst Learning
Louisville-based Catalyst Learning Company provides innovative workforce development models delivered at the worksite for adults in support level positions. Catalyst Learning’s principal product is School at Work ® (SAW), a career development system. The School at Work vision is to dramatically expand access to education for adults employed in support-level jobs. This vision is being achieved by working closely with employers to help them realize a return-on-investment and by using technology to deliver education. Education delivery is done in a blended learning approach which embraces the use of technology for instruction and classroom activity, as mentoring as key components. Catalyst Learning was founded in 1992 and is a female-owned small business.
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Header: May 12, 2006
Read To Me Launch Coordinated By Founder Dawn Marie Yankeelov of ASPectx
Summer Program Pairs Young Readers in Day Camp under Metro Parks and Beta Club Students at Area Schools
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
(Louisville, KY)—May 11, 2006—A new summer pilot program has been created by ASPectx Founder Dawn Marie Yankeelov, her daughter, Melissa, and her cousin, Caitlin, to assist young readers (6 to 10 years old) and teens in area Beta Clubs in pairing up for self-esteem, communications, a sense of achievement, and skills-building.
Read to Me participants will meet up at pre-selected Louisville Metro Parks Dept.’s Summer Camp sites twice a week. Each teen will be assigned a minimum of 2 children at each camp, one for each 30-minute period to have the young reader read aloud. “The mentoring from the teens will assist in the readers developing their skills, and having a partner for encouragement during the summer months,” said Yankeelov. “Our intention is to rollout this program to all interested Beta Clubs for year-round participation upon completion of the pilot program.”
Approximately 40 to 80 teens from area Beta Clubs are anticipated to participate with recruits coming initially from Kammerer Middle School and Ballard High School.
Beta Club teachers are constantly looking for service projects to recommend, and coordinate. The program called Read to Me will have its own website by summer’s end 2006, developed by and for students, at www.readtome.tv.
This project grew out of Ms. Yankeelov’s current participation in the Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program www.landmarkeducation.com
Program Premise:
Currently the school year end is approaching and many young children will be sent into environments where they are just not reading, since it is not a scheduled activity. While books may be available at summer camp, and, at times, they are read to as a small group, they may not be reading aloud themselves and building on their skills. Meanwhile, middle and high school students long for some way to make a difference. Those that are not yet old enough to work, may simply find themselves watching a lot of TV, talking on the phone with friends, surfing the Web, and generally bored.
As the summer progresses, young readers may actually slide back in their skills-building, and need the first few weeks of school to become accustomed again to learning to read basics. Many teens in the months of July and August begin to feel underfoot at home, and not appreciated. The prospect of summer could be very different if they are paired in the Read To Me program. A sense of accomplishment and pride can occur for both groups.
For more information on participation, contact Dawn Marie Yankeelov at 502-292-2351 or dawny@aspectx.com or Greg Davis, Coordinator of Summer Camp Programs for Louisville (KY) Metro Parks at 502-574-2795 or Greg.davis@louisvilleky.gov. All Beta Club student volunteers in the area are encouraged to sign up.
For More Information:
Dawn Marie Yankeelov
ASPectx
(502) 292-2351
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Read To Me Launch Coordinated By Founder Dawn Marie Yankeelov of ASPectx
Summer Program Pairs Young Readers in Day Camp under Metro Parks and Beta Club Students at Area
Schools
(Louisville, KY)—May 11, 2006—A new summer pilot program has been created by ASPectx Founder Dawn
Marie Yankeelov, her daughter, Melissa, and her cousin, Caitlin, to assist young readers (6 to 10
years old) and teens in area Beta Clubs in pairing up for self-esteem, communications, a sense of
achievement, and skills-building.
Read to Me participants will meet up at pre-selected Louisville Metro Parks Dept.’s Summer Camp
sites twice a week. Each teen will be assigned a minimum of 2 children at each camp, one for each
30-minute period to have the young reader read aloud. “The mentoring from the teens will assist in
the readers developing their skills, and having a partner for encouragement during the summer
months,” said Yankeelov. “Our intention is to rollout this program to all interested Beta Clubs
for year-round participation upon completion of the pilot program.”
Approximately 40 to 80 teens from area Beta Clubs are anticipated to participate with recruits
coming initially from Kammerer Middle School and Ballard High School.
Beta Club teachers are constantly looking for service projects to recommend, and coordinate. The
program called Read to Me will have its own website by summer’s end 2006, developed by and for
students, at www.readtome.tv.
This project grew out of Ms. Yankeelov’s current participation in the Landmark Education’s
Self-Expression and Leadership Program www.landmarkeducation.com
Program Premise:
Currently the school year end is approaching and many young children will be sent into
environments where they are just not reading, since it is not a scheduled activity. While books
may be available at summer camp, and, at times, they are read to as a small group, they may not be
reading aloud themselves and building on their skills. Meanwhile, middle and high school students
long for some way to make a difference. Those that are not yet old enough to work, may simply find
themselves watching a lot of TV, talking on the phone with friends, surfing the Web, and generally
bored.
As the summer progresses, young readers may actually slide back in their skills-building, and need
the first few weeks of school to become accustomed again to learning to read basics. Many teens in
the months of July and August begin to feel underfoot at home, and not appreciated. The prospect
of summer could be very different if they are paired in the Read To Me program. A sense of
accomplishment and pride can occur for both groups.
For more information on participation, contact Dawn Marie Yankeelov at 502-292-2351 or
dawny@aspectx.com or Greg Davis, Coordinator of Summer Camp Programs for Louisville (KY) Metro
Parks at 502-574-2795 or Greg.davis@louisvilleky.gov. All Beta Club student volunteers in the area
are encouraged to sign up.
For More Information:
Dawn Marie Yankeelov
ASPectx
(502) 292-2351
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Header: May 12, 2006
“911, Iraq, & Bin Laden: US’s $60 Billion Intelligence Failure”
Presented by Former Intelligence Officer Robert D. Steele from Washington, D.C.
The World Affairs Council of Kentucky/Southern Indiana’s Global Economic Forum
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Presented by Former Intelligence Officer Robert D. Steele from Washington, D.C.
The World Affairs Council of Kentucky/Southern Indiana’s Global Economic Forum
May 2, 2006—(Louisville, KY)—Former Career Intelligence Officer Robert D. Steele will come to Louisville, Ky. on June 14 to detail how and why open source intelligence methods should be used more frequently to track high priority issues and military enemies. ASPectx founder Dawn Yankeelov, and a member of the organizing committee for the area World Affairs Council’s Global Economic Forum Series, extended the invitation to bring perspective to Kentuckians in this the area.
Open source intelligence or “OSINT” refers to an intelligence gathering discipline based on analyzing information collected from open sources, i.e. information available to the general public. These sources include newspapers, the internet, books, phone books, scientific journals, radio broadcasts, television, and others.
Robert David Steele, a career intelligence officer who went on to found the Marine Corps Intelligence Command and then the international Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) movement, believes that 80 percent of the threats to the U.S. can be monitored through open source intelligence methods. However, Steele contends, $60 billion a year is spent on the 20% of the threats amenable to secret sources and methods.
The kickoff event for this year’s Global Economic Forum Series will be held on Weds., June 14th with a general lecture at 5:30PM open to the public and a business dinner at 6:30 PM. Tickets will be sold in advance and at the door: $20 for the main event; and $100 for the business dinner. The general lecture will be held in the Greenbaum Room, at Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald, 3500 National City Towner, followed by the business dinner at Vincenzo’s Italian Restaurant, 150 South 5th St. Tickets for both events are on a first-come basis, and seating is limited.
In November 2005, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) announced the creation of the Open Source Center (OSC). The OSC’s functions include the collection, analysis and research, training and information technology management to facilitate government-wide access and use of open source information. The center builds on the expertise of the CIA’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), which has provided the U.S. Government a broad range of open source products and services since 1941 (including world media content available to the public through World News Connection). The top operational open source intelligence unit in the US military is the Open Source Intelligence Branch of the Special Operations Command Joint Intelligence Center (SOCJIC).
Many other nations maintain open source intelligence gathering operations, for example Australia’s Office of National Assessments, the UK’s BBC Monitoring Service, and the Swiss Army. Collection and analysis tasks are allocated in different ways by different agencies.
To hear more on how this approach effects homeland security and you, join the general public and World Affairs Council members at this exciting event. may be purchased by calling the World Affairs Council at (502) 561-5422. Checks for tickets can be mailed to World Affairs Council, 200 West Broadway, Suite 607, Louisville, Kentucky 40202. Space is limited, and tickets for both events are on a first-come basis. Please include a daytime phone number, type of tickets and quantity desired, if ordering by mail.
About Robert Steele
Robert David Steele is a former career intelligence officer who founded the Marine Corps Intelligence Command and is the leading voice of the Open Intelligence Movement. He has been featured in Year in Computers 2000, named one of the Microtimes 100 industry leaders and unsung heroes shaping the future, and is the central character in Alvin Toffler’s chapter in War and Anti-War on “The Future of the Spy”. Steele has hosted over 6,000 multinational intelligence professionals at his annual Global Information Forum, and trained an additional 1,500 at various tailored events hosted by 19 different countries. He is the primary author of the DIA, NATO, and SOF Open Source Intelligence Handbook, and the primary sponsor for the 30,000 pages of substantive training materials on open source information that are offered free to the public at www.oss.net. Steele is the author of On Intelligence: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World (2000); The New Craft of Intelligence: Personal, Public, & Political (2002); and Information Operations: All Information, All Languages, All the Time (2005). He is also the publisher and a contributing editor to Peacekeeping Intelligence: Emerging Concepts for the Future (2003), and, Peacekeeping Intelligence: The Way Ahead (2006). For more information, go to http://www.oss.net.
The World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana is a community-based, non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to providing educational programming on international and intercultural topics throughout the state and community; and to fostering linkages between the people and institutions of Kentucky/Southern Indiana and their counterparts throughout the world.
To learn more about the World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana as well as the Global Economic Forum, visit our website at: http://www.wacaky-in.org
For More Information:
Ben Jones
World Affairs Council of Kentucky/Southern Indiana
director@licc.org
502-561-5422