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- Digital acceleration implements short-term tactical changes over longer-term strategic projects.
- Digital acceleration is a response to changing customer demands, not just COVID-19.
Digital transformation has been an industry catchphrase for some time now. Its definition is both vague and changeable, but it speaks to using technology to improve internal processes within an enterprise to deliver cost savings and/or improved performance. It encompasses a wide range of technologies including cloud, SD-WAN, collaboration, IoT, 5G, blockchain, AI, and SaaS.
However, there is a new buzz phrase on the block: digital acceleration. So, is there a difference between digital transformation and digital acceleration? The 'helpful' answer to that is 'yes and no.' The intentions of both digital transformation and digital acceleration are the same, as are the technologies involved. The big difference is in methodology.
Digital transformation has usually been a slow process. It usually involves a consultative-driven approach designed to review large sections of a business and then to recommend and implement a series of changes over an extended a period of time, quite often two or three years. Digital acceleration is, as the name suggests, designed to deliver change more quickly. To achieve this, it takes a more iterative, small-scale approach. Instead of reviewing large-scale systems, it seeks to take components within systems and replace them with more digital (i.e., more technologically advanced) alternatives.
Digital acceleration as a concept has been around for at least two years, but it has gained impetus from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID has forced enterprises to adapt at a phenomenal pace. The consequences for failing to do so have often been existential.
Work from home (WFH) is a good and common example of digital acceleration. The problem of WFH has been addressed in a piecemeal way rather a holistic way. Widespread adoption of hosted collaboration services such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Cisco WebEx dominated the early part of the pandemic in order to keep employees connected. This has now moved towards improving home connectivity and to solutions designed to improve conditions for those working from home.
There have also been multiple vertical examples. Healthcare has rapidly adopted telehealth solutions, as COVID-19 meant that in-person consultations were often not possible. The initial solutions were relatively crude uses of platforms like Zoom. The iterative digital acceleration process will see a series of more tailor-made, cloud-hosted platforms replace the initial solutions now that telemedicine has become a more firmly established practice.
In retail, businesses have quickly had to adjust to a world that is even more focused on online rather than brick-and-mortar shopping. Long-term plans for greater tie-ins between the in-person and online experience are now being prioritized and implemented at an accelerated rate. Solutions such as virtual fitting rooms that once seemed futuristic are now seen as relatively normal.
However, enterprises shouldn't see digital acceleration purely as a reaction to the pandemic. The methodology speaks to the need to respond quickly to customers who are increasingly used to an on-demand, personalized experience. There is still a place for longer-term strategies, but businesses should also think tactically.


Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Top Ten Tuesday
So I'm posting my Top Ten Tuesday on a Wednesday. I really need to remember not to order the second margarita when I go to Pasqual's.
Top Ten Books I'd Recommend to Someone Who Doesn't Read About Africa
1. We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch. The book is a bit dated; by now I would hope that most people have some familiarity with the Rwandan genocide. And it isn't flawless. But I think it gives one of the better accounts of the events and is a good source for starting to understand how the West both created many of Africa's contemporary struggles and continues to refuse responsibility.
2. This Voice in My Heart by Gilbert Tuhabonye and Gary Brozek. Despite what's been portrayed in the media and by Hollywood, the "Rwandan" genocide wasn't just about Rwanda. As Tuhabonye, an Olympic-level runner and sole survivor of the massacre of his schoolmates in Burundi, shows in his memoir, the violence encompassed a whole region and many of the victims, survivors, and perpetrators continue to be ignored. (See also, Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder)
3. What is the What by Dave Eggers. Yes, another book on violence and genocide. Unfortunately, that's a lot of what is published about Africa in the West. Eggers does a solid job of sharing the story of Valentino Achak Deng, one of the "Lost Boys" of Sudan. For me, the real strength of the book isn't in its retelling of the violence that Deng faced in Sudan, but rather in its portrayal of Deng's struggles once he had arrived to the "safety" of the West. So often the story of refugees ends with "They arrived in the West and lived happily ever after," but as Eggers shows, that is far from the reality for many.
4. King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild. We used this in the introduction to Africa course for which I was a teaching assistant, and the students found it both accessible and eye opening. Hochschild examines the colonization of Africa through the example of the brutal enslavement of the Congo. It's a good introduction to a part of history that most of us never got in school yet is essential for understanding contemporary Africa.
5. Weep Not, Child by James Ngugi (aka, Ngugi wa Thiong'o). The debut novel of one of Africa's foremost writers. Yes, it is also about violence and colonialism (specifically the Mau Mau resistance movement in 1950s Kenya), but it is also a beautifully rendered coming-of-age story about a young man struggling to find his place in the world.
6. Africa Since 1940 by Frederick Cooper. Much more academic than the previous books, but still a very readable and accessible primer on African history and the forces that have shaped contemporary Africa. Should be required reading for anyone engaging in humanitarian or voluntary work in Africa.
7. Global Shadows by James Ferguson. Again, a rather academic book, although written at a level that's accessible to your average undergraduate and doesn't require more than a cursory background on Africa (although I would strongly recommend reading the Cooper book first). Ignore the god-awful ugly cover and the boring title. Taking a more contemporary and broad approach to Africa, Ferguson considers Africa's place in the global community and, in the process, challenges simplistic models for understanding a complex continent.
8. A Heart for the Work by Claire Wendland. I promise: I'm not just recommending this book because it was written by my advisor (she doesn't even know about this blog---I hope---so I'm not actually earning any brownie points for this). Or because it's about Malawi. This is an extremely well-written book, and although its focus is on medical training in Malawi, I think it has a lot to say more generally about why so many African countries are so intractably mired in persistent, severe poverty.
9. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Like Ngugi, Adichie both depicts a specific historical moment---in this case, the Biafran war---and weaves a beautiful, timeless epic that transcends its setting.
10. TBD. I'm not sure how to interpret that I can't come up with a tenth book to recommend for people who don't normally read about Africa. Have I just not read sufficiently myself? Certainly that's true, particularly for fiction and creative works. Or is there a lack of good books about Africa that are accessible to general readers? I think that's also true, especially for nonfiction books. I have pages and pages of African Studies references, but most of the books are (1) dead boring, (2) deeply flawed, or (3) both. There just aren't a lot of books out there---at least, that I know of---that are both well written and rigorously researched.
A few that I thought about recommending include Compassion Fatigue by Susan Moeller; The Road to Hell by Michael Maren; and The Lords of Poverty by Graham Hancock. These are all highly readable, provocative books that reframe much of what we think we know about contemporary Africa and particularly about humanitarism. But they are also very polemical---and are quickly becoming outdated---so I wouldn't put them on a top-ten list. (Although I would definitely recommend reading any of them once you've finished the top ten or if you have a solid background in African Studies and can approach them with a more critical eye.)
Anything you would add/remove/qualify?
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Top Ten Tuesday
10 Authors I Wish Would Write Another Book
I (almost) always enjoy writing about books, but this week's Top Ten Tuesday from The Broke and the Bookish was more fun than usual. In trying to narrow down the list to just ten, I looked up various authors' bibliographies and was reminded of the many, many books that some of my favorite authors have written but I haven't yet read (despite having a good number of those titles in my home library). And I found a few that having upcoming novels that I didn't know about (New Toni Morrison! Yay!).
So now I have an even longer list of To Be Read Books to keep me occupied while I wait for the following authors to produce new works:
1. Margaret Atwood. Based on her Twitter updates, Atwood is working on a new novel, and I CANNOT WAIT.
2. Madeleine L'Engle. In particular, I wish she would have written a fifth installment in her Crosswicks Journal before leaving us.
3. Jonathan Kozol. One of the best writers on education and poverty. We desperately need his perspective on the current policy environment.
4. Bonnie Jo Campbell. Loved Once Upon a River. LOVED American Salvage. Campbell needs to write more, right now.
5. Joanna Kavenna. Like Campbell, Kavenna has a gift for devestatingly bleak realism. More please!
6. Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis is one of my all-time favorite books, and I think it's been time enough for her to add Vol. 3.
7. Michael Pollan. As much as I love his writing on food systems, I'd really like for him to apply his enthusiasm and engaging writing to a new topic.
8. Jeffrey Eugenides. So including Eugenides is a bit unfair because he did just release The Marriage Plot a couple of months ago. But I'm already itching for his next one. Please don't make us wait another nine years!
9. Muriel Barbery. Her fantastically absurb and whimsical novels are a nice antidote to aforementioned bleak realism.
10. Tim Gunn. Because we can never have enough Gunn in our lives.


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NATURE: In American Sign Language
as used by members of the American Deaf Community there are several ways to
express the concept of "nature." In surveys of Deaf people you will get a
variety of responses. Many will tell you to "spell it." Some will use the sign
"NORMAL" to mean "nature." Others will use signs relating to nature to express
the concept: "OUTSIDE, OUTSIDE, TREES, PLANTS, VARIOUS." Thus the "right" way
will depend on the circumstance. If you are in a bilingual / bicultural
environment such as a high-school mainstream classroom, an interpreter upon
first usage of the concept "nature" in a conversation or discussion may choose
to spell the word N-A-T-U-R-E show the sign for "NORMAL/natural" and, if needed,
sign a few "nature related signs" (MOUNTAIN, TREES, PLANTS, etc.). Upon
subsequent usage in the same conversation or lecture the interpreter will tend
to use only the fingerspelled word or only the sign "NORMAL."
If the lecture involves several related concepts
(normal/nature/naturally/of-course) the interpreter or signer will be more
likely to fingerspell "N-A-T-U-R-E."
If two individuals are chatting in ASL and one of them wishes to express the
concept, "I enjoy nature," he or she is actually more likely to sign something
to the effect of:
"I ENJOY CAMP(ing)."
"OUT/LEAVE+, I ENJOY!"
"MOUNTAIN HIKE, I ENJOY."
"FOREST, I ENJOY WALK-("stroll")."
Thus the concept of "nature" becomes expressed via the specific aspect of
NATURE: Sample expression:
Note: The video above is an example of how one of the people surveyed showed how
she would sign the concept of "nature." In this example the individual used the
signs: natural, bird, tree, river, diversity-(throughout).
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For this feasibility study, silver/superconductor jelly-roll samples with a superconductor composition of Bi1.8Pb0.4Sr 2Ca2Cu3Ox (2223), were fabricated via a thick-film processing technique. It was found that the densification and alignment of 2223 grains along the Ag layers was crucial to achieving high critical current densities (Jc). The effects of cyclic mechanical working and heat treatment were investigated to develop a scheme to maximize Jc. The highest zero-field J0 value of 2650 A cm -2 (Ic=43 A) was obtained in a jelly roll heat treated at 815 degrees C, where the majority of the mechanical deformation was performed prior to the first heat treatment. Magnetic-field-dependence measurements made in a 50 G field showed a 23% reduction in Jc when the field was applied parallel to the current flow, and a 30% reduction when the field was applied perpendicular to the current flow. This was superior to the best comparable powder-in-tube samples.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Ceramics and Composites
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Metals and Alloys
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Materials Chemistry

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When gdb prints a value, it first sees if there is a pretty-printer registered for the value. If there is then gdb invokes the pretty-printer to print the value. Otherwise the value is printed normally.
Pretty-printers are normally named. This makes them easy to manage. The 'info pretty-printer' command will list all the installed pretty-printers with their names. If a pretty-printer can handle multiple data types, then its subprinters are the printers for the individual data types. Each such subprinter has its own name. The format of the name is printer-name;subprinter-name.
Pretty-printers are installed by registering them with gdb. Typically they are automatically loaded and registered when the corresponding debug information is loaded, thus making them available without having to do anything special.
There are three places where a pretty-printer can be registered.
See Selecting Pretty-Printers, for further information on how pretty-printers are selected,
See Writing a Pretty-Printer, for implementing pretty printers for new types.


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Pick a number from 1 to 10. What is the probability
that you picked an odd number?
are five odd numbers between 1 and ten.
The probability is 5:10. Or you can express it
as a fraction: 5/10. Since it's a fraction, why not reduce it?
The probability that you will pick an odd number is 1/2.
Probability can also be expressed
as a percent...1/2=50%


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Most states require that contractors, suppliers, and other participants on construction projects send some sort of preliminary notice in order to secure lien rights. In states with preliminary notice requirements, failing to send notice is often fatal to a mechanics lien or bond claim. It is still generally incredibly beneficial to send preliminary notice even if it's not required in your state. Here are 5 reasons why:
1. Provides Visibility
Sending preliminary notice informs the parties in charge of the project of your involvement. You might be thinking, "of course they know I'm involved!" but it's rarely this simple. If you were hired by the general contractor or some other third party, it's very likely the property owner has no idea what your role is on the project and how much you expect to be paid. This problem is compounded on large projects which might have dozens of tiers of hiring.
2. Speeds Up the Payment Process
Sending a preliminary notice even if it's not required prioritizes your invoice and motivates the party with the money to pay you before others. The notice serves as a reminder that payment is due, and also motivates the paying party to make payment on time. For further reading, check out our article "How Preliminary Notices Improve The Payment Process For Everyone."
3. Avoid Filing a Lien
Filing a lien is a great option for construction parties who haven't been paid on time to secure payment – it's much more cost effective than hiring an attorney and filing a lawsuit or just eating costs. However, sending preliminary notice is even easier and less expensive than filing a lien, and is frequently sufficient to get the payment ball rolling. Levelset's data shows that a mechanics lien only needs to be filed in 2% of cases where preliminary notice and notice of intent are sent properly. See: What's the Difference Between a Preliminary Notice and a Notice of Intent to Lien?
4. Builds Good Relationships with Customers
The reason preliminary notice requirements exist in most states is for the benefit of top-of-chain parties for the reasons listed in this article, such as communication and visibility. Sending preliminary notice even if it's not required provides the recipient(s) with the same benefits and can also build trust.
5. Promotes Communication
Creating and maintaining an open flow of communication with customers is important. Think about it – when is communication ever a bad thing? Keeping top-of-chain parties in the loop helps avoid unpleasant surprises (like an unexpected lien), which is likely much more damaging to a business relationship than a preliminary notice.


Variable Speed Circulation
The topic of variable speed hydronic circulation has been something of a mystery for many in the industry. In 2004, Taco introduced the world to a full line of residential variable speed circulators. Even though that was five years ago, some are still grappling with this "new" technology.
Taking a closer look at the concept of variable-speed pumping, Taco trainer John Barba and professional contractor Bill Riley explain when it's best to apply the technology, where you'd use it and what the key benefits are.
The Universal Hydronics Formula
The purpose of a variable speed circulator is to automatically adjust its speed based on heating load demands, or how many BTUs are needed in a structure. To understand how it does that, let's take a quick look at the universal hydronics formula, which states that GPM is equal to BTUH divided by delta-T, multiplied by 500.
Let's define the terms.
GPM is gallons per minute. That's the flow rate needed to deliver the required amount of BTUs.
BTUH or BTUs per hour, or the required amount of heat for a house, or zone, at any given point in time. We all know that outdoor temps or the number of people in a home will alter the BTU load.
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Jiu-Jitsu: Turning Anger into Confidence
On September 4th, 2019, The First Guild (TFG) co-founder, Lana David interviewed a 30-year Jiu-Jitsu black belt and master instructor Gerson Sanginitto, owner of Gerson Sanginitto Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy in Culver City, CA.
Gerson Sanginitto Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy in Culver City - Black Belt Ceremony - Gerson is in the center of the group in blue uniform.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) is one of the fastest growing martial arts in the world. The benefits you can gain from BJJ are both physical and mental.
Lana is the one of the developers of Project: The First Guild (TFG), a large scale community project targeted to help young people with difficulty in the traditional educational system, to acquire the mental, emotional and entrepreneurial skills necessary to make a successful transition from youth to adulthood.
Project: TFG aims to reach youth coping with a good deal of anger, frustration, confusion and anxiety – a range of behaviors that need to be addressed beyond just verbal communication.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a proven system that can help to detox and re-channel such energy constructively.
BJJ is a major educational component of Project: TFG and we are honored to have Gerson as our Community Partner.
Gerson Sanginitto Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy in Culver City
Lana: Our program candidates are foster youth coping with a good deal of anger, frustration, confusion and anxiety often caused by distressing life circumstances. How can Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu help them go beyond the trauma and succeed in life? Could you provide examples.
Gerson: Here is a good example. I am 5 feet 2 inches tall. I was always the smallest in my school. If you are small, if you are the skinny one, usually someone is going to bully you, that's how it goes.
Nothing changed from my time. My daughter is now 11. She's just going to middle school and I told her, hey, it's the same when I was 11. She started to train in BJJ when she was four, I was lucky to start when I was seven years old.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu was created not to make the strong, stronger, it was was created to give the opportunity to the weak person fight a strong person.
Gerson Sanginitto Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy in Culver City - Gerson's Students
Lana: Project TFG is all about building a strong identity, which we believe is the foundation for success in life. How does BJJ relate to identity formation?
Gerson: It translates completely to identity. People come here and they cannot look me in my eyes. And you can see that their self esteem is very low because life is put them down somehow.
I was just talking to one of my students who is a higher belt here. I remember him one year ago. He changed completely. You see how he's acting now – he stands up, he looks into your eyes, he talks to you like a man, he demands respect, he gives respect. He's not like that guy that he was a year ago who could not look into my eyes and looked to the side when I ask him a question.
Gerson Sanginitto Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy in Culver City - Gerson is in the center of the group in blue shorts.
Lana: What is the advantage of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu over other forms of martial arts?
Gerson: In my opinion, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is the closest martial art to reality. I'm not talking less about other martial arts such as strike martial arts. To me this is one of the most important points of BJJ, it is the closest to reality than other martial arts.
BJJ fighting is closest to the street situation. It's going to be completely the same if someone attacks you on the street. You are not going to feel overwhelmed.That's what we do here every day. You defend yourself every day, fighting every single day.
There are situations with Jiu Jitsu that you feel completely uncomfortable. You cannot breathe well and there is someone bigger is stronger than you on top, trying to suffocate you and make you tap** by a choke hold or joint lock and you still find the strength to survive and get out there. That goes to each day of your life. It's not just the physical aspect. Most important is the mental aspect, that makes you stronger. (** to "tap" is to demonstrate submission and terminate the sparring session).
Video taken on 4/28/18: Gerson Sanginitto Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy in Culver City – Tarjei Hass (in white uniform ) will assist Gerson in training students of "project: The First Guild" Read our blog post: "Interview with Tarjei Hass: Why Jiu-Jitsu?"
Lana: I read that BJJ discourages an athlete from attacking an unaware or unprepared person. What is the philosophy behind this?
Gerson: If I tell you to go to that bag every single day and punch it 500 times as hard as you can – first day, first week, first month. you're not going to punch 500 times. After a year you are going to punch that bag 500 times very strong. If something happens and you need to defend yourself, the first thing you're going to do is to punch the person in the face. If I don't teach you anything and you have the anger in you and someone comes and attacks you first, you're gonna try to kick and punch the person.
In Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu we teach you how to defend yourself without harm to the other person, stop that person, control that person. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu teaches you being in control without anger. Fear makes you do a lot of bad things, but when you don't have that fear inside of you, when you know that you can just defend yourself from someone, you're not going to hurt a person…. unless you have to.
So when you don't have that fear inside of you, when your confidence is up, the fear goes down… the complete opposite direction.
Gerson Sanginitto Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy in Culver City - Gerson's Students training
Lana: I read that Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu athletes are strictly discouraged from using techniques that aim at injuring the opponent. Athletes are responsible for the safety of their opponent. Could you comment on this.
Gerson: Exactly. Because we need each other. We become a family and not just here. If you're trained in Jiu Jitsu, you're gonna be well received at any place on this planet.
Also there is the philosophy of the martial arts – we teach respect and good values in general. Respect each other, respect yourself.
I keep joking with my students, but I'm serious: "Jiu Jitsu is like life. Some days you lose, some days you win. You have to know how to lose. You lose and win with grace. You know, everyone wants to win. What you have to do is to prepare to be the winner, that's the thing."
And not just that. We teach dedication, we teach discipline, we teach hierarchy. We have the rank of 5 belts: white, blue, purple, brown, and black. You start with a white belt moving to blue. So why to move to everybody. Blue moves to purple, brown, and black. Purple moves to brown, and black. And that's how you start to understand hierarchy and respect for a higher rank, somebody who's been doing this for much longer than you.
I've been training my whole life since I was seven years old. Next month I'll be 54 and I'm feeling like I'm 34 I'm not kidding. You see my fingers were all broken and I have a pride of this because that shows my work. I don't just sell JJ to those guys. I sell a lifestyle. This is a lifestyle.
Gerson BJJ
Lana: Could you elaborate on what you mean by "Lifestyle" and give examples. Also how quickly can someone get results in Jiu-Jitsu?
Gerson: A young guy about 40 years old who is a CEO of a company just signed with me three weeks ago. This guy told me when he came: "look, I need something because I'm going crazy with work. I heard a lot about Jiu-Jitsu, I have friends who talk a lot about JJ with me. So finally I decided to try."
I said: "We offer two free classes. Try and see if you're like it."
Last Monday, he came after the roll* to me and said: "man, thank you very much! It's only been three weeks, but it's already changed my life." (* "roll" or "rolling" is a form of 'sparring', a way for students to test their skills and abilities against their teammates).
I said: "Yeah man, you are only 40. In 10 years or less, you're going to be a black belt. And it is a journey that will never stop. This journey for me will stop when I die."
And you know, it's very powerful because it gives you power. And this why you don't need to prove or show your power. It is the way you feel.
Here is another example: One day came here a big guy, maybe six-foot


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The role of beak shape in octopodid taxonomy
Ogden, R.S.; Allcock, A.L.; Watts, P.C.; Thorpe, J.P.. 1998 The role of beak shape in octopodid taxonomy. South African Journal of Marine Science, 20. 29-36.Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)
Beak shapes in nine species of Southern Ocean octopodids were measured using seven size-standardized ratios. The results were analysed using principal component analysis and discriminant function analysis and show that beak shape may be used as a taxonomic character to distinguish between genera, but not between species. Stepwise discriminant function analysis indicated that all seven ratios were required to maximize discrimination between beaks. A phenogram constructed from a matrix of Mahalanobis distances differed from a dendrogram produced from genetic data. This suggests that, although useful for discrimination, beak morphology is probably not suitable for constructing phylogenies.
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R-3: Relation of Sociodemographics and Local Characteristics to Community Participation and Community Living
This project was completed in September 2016
This secondary analysis of American Community Survey (ACS) data investigates the association of community living and participation with sociodemographic factors, features of the built housing environment, local public policies, and the nature of an individual's disability.
Individual, household and local environmental characteristics are likely to influence community participation and community living for people with disabilities. The complex interactions of individual (disability, age, race, gender, and education), residential (housing structure, composition) and local environmental factors (location of residence, available services) influence the level to which people with disabilities are able to participate in their communities. Although the literature has documented the existence of these barriers, the studies have typically included only small samples and people in non-institutional settings, or focused on a small subset of the disability population. In addition, they have typically only examined a minimal number of the factors without assessing the complex interactions between sociodemographic, residential and local environmental levels. The project will add to the existing literature by 1) pioneering the use of the American Community Survey (ACS) as a tool for understanding people with disabilities, and 2) using a nationally representative database to examine and document the complex interaction between personal, sociodemographic, and local characteristics on community participation and community living. The ACS is an ongoing statistical survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau that samples a small percentage of the population every year.
This project was funded under the RRTC on Community Living under a grant from the Department of Education, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) grant number H133B110006.


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Demonstrates a mode of teacher education that is practical in a non-technical sense and relies on Dewey's notion of curriculum as the reconstruction of experience. This book presents a curriculum that emerged through collaborative self-reflection and seeks to reconstruct personal histories of schooling.
Collins New Primary Maths Activity Book 1C is packed with exciting activities to help build and develop the skills needed to be successful in Maths. Each page features lots of hands-on highly visual activities with a low level of text to give pupils confidence in learning maths. Activity Book 1Cincludes activities for the summer term.


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Regular Bedtimes Make Kids Smarter
The Key to Developmentally Excelling
According to research presented at the 24th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, children that get adequate sleep score higher on a range of developmental assessments. The researchers emphasized that having a regular bedtime was the most consistent predictor of positive developmental outcomes at 4 years of age.
Scores for receptive and expressive language skills, awareness of soundword structure, literacy and early math abilities were higher in children whose parents maintained rules about going to bed at a prescribed time. Having an earlier bedtime further supported higher scores for most developmental measures.
The study involved a nationally representative sample of approximately 8,000 children that completed a direct assessment at 4 years of age. They were part of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort.
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The objective of this procedure is to show you how to use an oxyacetylene torch for heating. Wear a leather apron or similar protective clothing and welding gloves when using an oxyacetylene torch and always use proper welding goggles.
Part 1. Preparation and safety
- Use an oxyacetylene torch for heating.
Whenever you perform a task in the workshop you must use personal protective clothing and equipment that is appropriate for the task and which conforms to your local safety regulations and policies. Among other items, this may include:
- Work clothing - such as coveralls and steel-capped footwear
- Eye protection - such as safety glasses and face masks
- Ear protection - such as earmuffs and earplugs
- Hand protection - such as rubber gloves and barrier cream
- Respiratory equipment - such as face masks and valved respirators
If you are not certain what is appropriate or required, ask your supervisor.
- Oxygen and acetylene cylinders must be securely stored in an upright position.
- An oxyacetylene torch can produce a large amount of heat. Be aware that any objects you direct the flame towards will become hot.
- Always have a suitable fire extinguisher near your work area.
- Do not use an oxyacetylene torch near any flammable materials.
- Make sure that you understand and observe all legislative and personal safety procedures when carrying out the following tasks. If you are unsure of what these are, ask your supervisor.
Points to note
- If a cylinder falls over and breaks the main valve off, the cylinder will become a missile and cause extreme damage.
- Wear a leather apron or similar protective clothing and welding gloves when using an oxyacetylene torch. T-shirts, nylon and polyester blend clothing will not provide enough protection. Ultraviolet light and sparks of hot metal will pass through them.
- Always use proper welding goggles. Do not use sunglasses because they do not filter the extreme ultraviolet light as effectively. The plastic used in sunglass lenses will not protect your eyes from sparks.
- Never point the lighted flame toward another person or any flammable material.
- Always light the oxyacetylene torch with the striker. A cigarette lighter or match would put your hand too close to the igniting tip.
- Wherever possible, use a heat shield behind the component you are heating. This will prevent nearby objects from becoming hot.
- After heating a piece of metal, label it as "HOT" with a piece of chalk so that others will not attempt to pick it up.
Part 2: Step-by-step instruction
- Light the torch and adjust neutral flame
Light the torch and adjust the gas flow so that you have a neutral flame.
- Heat for 'Removal'
Place a flywheel and ring gear assembly on a set of insulating spacers, to elevate it from the working surface. Direct the flame onto the ring gear and apply the heat until smoke starts to appear. Stop applying the heat. At this stage, the ring gear is hot enough to remove by gently tapping with a hammer and drift. DO NOT TOUCH the metal with your hands. Use welding Gloves and tools that are designed for use in a hot environment.
- Heat to 'Red Hot'
Direct the flame to the component you wish to heat. If the component is made from thin metal it will heat quicker than one that is thicker. Apply the heat evenly, until you notice the object begin to glow red. Once the glow is uniform, the metal will now be hot enough to manipulate. Once again DO NOT TOUCH the metal with your hands. Use welding gloves and tools that are designed for use in a hot environment.
- Shut down
When you have finished the job, you will need to shut down the equipment. Turn off the acetylene valve on the torch handle. This will extinguish the flame. Turn off the oxygen valve on the torch handle. Next, remove your safety goggles or mask and your welding gloves. Turn the main cylinder valve clockwise on the top of both gas cylinders. Now open the two valves on the torch handle to "bleed" the system. Turn both the oxygen and acetylene regulator handles counter-clockwise until they are loose. Close both valves on the torch handle. Put the handle and tips away, and return the gas cylinders and their hoses to their proper storage area.


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Camp des Milles
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
The camp was first used to intern Germans and ex-Austrians living in the Marseilles Area, and by June 1940, some 3500 artists and intellectuals were detained there. Novelist Lion Feuchtwanger and visual artist Ferdinand Springer were inmates. Surrealist artists Hans Bellmer and Max Ernst were imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison for most of World War II. Between 1941 and 1942 Le Camp des Milles was used as a transit camp for Jews, mainly men. Women were at the Centre Bompard in Marseilles, while they waited for their visas and anthorisations to emigrate. As emigration became imossible Les Milles became one one of the Centre de rassemblement before deportation. 2000 of the inmates were shipped off to Drancy camp on the way to Auschwitz
After the war, the site was briefly re-opened in 1946 as a factory.
In 1995 a movie titled "Les Milles" commemorating this camp and the events that took place in this camp at the time of the Armistice in June 1940 was made.


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Translation of scorch in Spanish:
- the sun had scorched the fields/grassit was so hot I scorched my tongueel sol había agostado or abrasado los campos/la hierbathe iron scorched her sleeveestaba tan caliente que me quemé or me abrasé la lenguascorched-earth policyla plancha le chamuscó or le quemó la manga(estrategia militar que consiste en arrasar todo lo que puede serle útil al enemigo)Example sentences
- I could feel the heat surrounding me, burning me, scorching my skin, causing me to cry out wordlessly in pain.
- Closely following it was a blast of heat which scorched clothes, ignited buildings and set even the individual blades of grass on fire.
- The bright suns rays touched her sneakers, scorching them with fiery heat.
- I live in an area that was scorched by drought for several years.
- The countryside had been scorched; the acacia hedges were tipped with orange.
- In winter much of it is under snow; in spring grass appears, which is scorched dry and swept by the dust storms of summer.
- 1 (become scorched)(fabric)chamuscarse(food)quemarseExample sentences
- And then my lips, my tongue, were burning, scorching, stinging from the heat.
- I dropped my sword in panic because I thought that my hands would scorch in the flames.
- Stir occasionally for even heating and to prevent scorching.
- 2 (go fast)(person/vehicle)ir a toda velocidadir a todo lo que da or a toda mecha [colloquial]Example sentences
- The Glasgow speedster has fallen from grace almost as fast as the winger scorches down the sidelines.
- This inoffensive-looking car can scorch along at impressive figures, and, as it is based on a chassis with a decent set of dimensions, it has real space for adults in the back.
- He scorched out of traps to set a blistering pace.
- (before noun) scorch markquemadura (feminine) superficialmarca (feminine) de quemadura superficialExample sentences
- Huge black scorch marks marred the surface that would have normally been a shiny metal.
- Is that what this scorch mark is all about then?
- There were no scorch marks, no soiling of any sort.
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A portero is a superintendent in an apartment building who looks after it, keeps it clean, delivers mail, and keeps an eye on comings and goings. Porteros often have an apartment in the building as part of their pay. The portero, and particularly the female portera, are part of popular culture. They have a reputation for being inquisitive and fond of gossip.


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20 tips to build confidence
Before Mindsport outlines ways to improve confidence, it may be of use to identify whether you are an athlete that has high or low confidence.
If you are an athlete suffering from low confidence
 - You will often display lower levels of communication with teammates and coaches.
 - You may show signs of frustration and aggression after making a mistake.
 - After a poor performance, you tend to blame external factors such as the coach, teammates, and the opposition, instead of taking personal accountability.
 - When competing there is a greater likelihood that you will play an overly safe game; taking very few risks.
 - Negative body language may also be characteristic of a lack of confidence, for example slumped shoulders and a lowered head position are typical of someone with lowered levels of confidence.
 The power of optimism
 Its important to view mistakes and setbacks in sport as essential stepping stones in your career. Embrace mistakes and disappointments as fundamental components of your career, and they will lose their capacity to damage your confidence. Also regard losses as experiences that hold valuable information about yourself, highlighting areas where you need to improve, as another tool to meet set-backs constructively.
 It sounds contradictory but if you can integrate this approach into your sporting regime you may never feel frustrated, angry, or disappointed again. An ability to extract the positives from all sporting events is one of the most important and powerful strategies you can possess.
 Write down at least 3 things you learn after every loss, to improve your progression as an athlete. This can be done individually, or if you are part of a team as a group exercise.
 Famous individuals from all walks of life have talked about the importance of making every experience work for them in a positive way.
 Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb spoke publicly about the importance of making mistakes. After his seven hundredth unsuccessful attempt to invent an electric light he spoke to the media about his efforts:
 For more information about the optimistic mindset please read the article optimism vs pessimism
 Start Again, Simply
 Often in sport, immediately after making a mistake in the field of play you feel the need to compensate for the error, and try an over elaborate action. Doing this you increase the likelihood of making two consecutive errors, and as a consequence you run the risk of damaging your confidence.
 Directly after making a mistake start again simply. This increases the probability of a successful completion, helping to erase any negative mental impact the initial mistake may have had. Once the simple, successful completion has been made you are in a positive place to push beyond your comfort zone and try something more elaborate.
 'Simplicity is genius' Anonymous
 Look into my crystal ball
 Mental rehearsal is commonly referred to as visualisation, however this is misleading. The power of your imagination does not only apply to visuals, but to sounds, feelings, and tactile sensations. Fortunately the brain does not differentiate between real and imagined events making it a formidable tool if used regularly. Vivid dreams are a prime example of how powerful your imagination can be.
 Before training or competitive games mentally rehearse how you want your future performance to unfold. Close your eyes, and take three deep breaths. Once you are relaxed, imagine you are watching yourself on a large TV screen. See yourself playing well, and notice the sounds and feelings that accompany this image. For the greatest impact make the image bold, bright and full of vivid colour, and the sounds loud and clear. When you have created a clear picture drift into it and view everything from your own eyes. The more you practice this, the more vivid your mental experience will become.
 By completing this exercise you programme your mind to attract positive and successful outcomes.
 It is sometimes good to sit on the fence
 Often when you are suffering from bouts of low confidence, there is a tendency to try too hard, in an attempt to force yourself out of the poor run of form. This is inadvisable because the harder you struggle to rediscover your best, the further you push it beyond your grasp.
 In order to regain your form pitch your efforts in between being too relaxed and trying too hard. Find the middle ground between these two opposites to rediscover your best form. It is only through relaxed excellence that we can enter what sportsmen like to call 'the zone.'
 Lester Levenson
 Power talking
 Power talking is achieved by constructing self-affirmations. Self-affirmations are positive verbal statements that you express aloud or internally. They are designed to place your mind and body into highly resourceful states.
 Write down 10 different self-affirmations, all designed to work in different contexts.
 For example; 'you are going to have the best game of your life' is a self-affirmation to say to yourself just before a big performance.
 Once you have written down your affirmations, practice using them in the desired situations, remembering that the self-affirmation can be expressed internally or externally. Both can be equally effective.
 The self-affirmation should be expressed in the tone that best reflects its message. For example a loud, strong voice maybe adopted for 'come on, you can do it', while 'keep calm' may be expressed in softer tones.
 The message also needs to be stated in the present tense, for example 'I am performing at my best and it feels fantastic.' This way the message is more effective as it directly relates to your current state.
 The past doesn't lie
 As we have mentioned, mental rehearsal is a powerful tool that most top athletes have used at some point in their careers. Mental rehearsal can be used to recreate past successes. This gets you into a positive internal state, and reminds you that you have the resources to succeed.
 Imagine a time when you performed at your best. With your eyes closed recreate all the sights, sounds and feelings of one of your greatest past performances. Spend 5 minutes or longer indulging in your match winning performance and only open your eyes when you have no doubt that you can recreate this past performance in the present moment.
 If you have done it before, you can do it again
 Step into someone else's shoes
 When your confidence is low, it is common to want to step out of your own shoes and into someone else's. Using the power of the mind this is possible!
 Think of someone that is confident, and copy everything that they do that makes them this way. Behave and carry yourself in exactly the same manner, matching their body posture, their facial expressions and how physically move when they are performing at their best. After modifying your current state to mirror that of your model, you will to take on a persona that oozes confidence.
 Positive hallucination
 Behaviour is context dependent. This means that you behave differently in different situations. For example, if you perform well in training this does not guarantee you will perform well in competitive situations. Often due to the unfamiliar environment of the competitive arena, your top performances do not come as naturally as they would in a familiar training situation.
 When you arrive at the competition venue, take time to explore it. This will help to boost your confidence prior to the performance.
 Also try a technique called positive hallucination in order to raise your confidence levels:
 Begin by standing where you would normally stand as if you were about to compete in the arena. With your eyes open, picture yourself playing at your best, right in front of you. Notice how your body moves, how you physically carry yourself, recreating the sounds and feelings that accompany your vision.
 The fun factor
 One of the biggest predictors of performance is your internal state. If you feel good going into a contest the likelihood is that your performance will reflect this positive condition.
 To ensure feelings confident and positive remain, get yourself into a resourceful state. Ways to do this include listening to music; laughter; mental rehearsal; reading inspiring material and communicating with friends and family before competing.
 He who dares wins
 Sometimes a lack of confidence can sneak up on you because of a refusal to push beyond the comfort zone. Make sure that your behaviour is a reflection of someone who is courageous and positive, rather than someone who acts out of fear. If you very rarely venture outside of the comfort zone, you perform reactively and not proactively. This results in your performance being dictated and controlled by your opponents.
 During performances, try to engage in 3 or more actions that are productive and challenging. For example, if you are performing within a team and you find it difficult to communicate with others, actively encourage your team-mates. You will notice confidence boosting effects immediately. It doesn't matter which difficult acts you choose to engage in, so long as you know they will be beneficial to you and your performance.
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Design Patterns Revisited: Iterator
The Iterator Pattern came under attack. I shall take on the task of defending the Gof(as it's turning out)! So, okay, yes, yes, the iterator pattern as implemented in the way the class diagram - there's no better way to say it. This is the way the Iterator is implemented in the standard Java library. People hip to dynamic languages like python and smalltalk will point out that the iterator pattern looks much sexier in those languages. Yes, yes. The criticism in the "Design Patterns aren't" slide is that people copy and paste the code samples over and over again into their own code base. There are a few holes in this criticism.
 1. the "do it over and over again" retoric is not entirely correct. The concrete implementations of the iterator has to be implemented over and over, but not the Iterator interface itself. In fact, in the Java standard library, there's only one universal Iterator interface.
 2. If the only stuff that has to be done over and over again is the iterator implementations, this is not any different in dynamic languages
 3. The Gof does mention very specifically the different kinds of iterator patterns, in particular:
 1. external iterator - where the client of the iterator controls the iteration(generally how it's done in Java, C++ and python)
 2. internal iteration - where the client passes the iterator a code block, or closure, and the iterator controls the iteration(smalltalk, ruby)
 3. Some languages have iterators built right into the language(python, ruby)
 4. Although the code samples were in C++ only, Gof did give examples for both external and internal iterators, although internal iterators in C++ still suck, so it wasn't a good example(they used a template method pattern to do it, which is not very generic)
So, basically, I find the criticism in these slides unfair. Of course, all I have to go on are the slides, I don't have a clue as to what was said by the presenter. To give him the benefit of the doubt, he could just be saying that people are mis-using the Gof book. But then again, in the next few slides he starts to show off how iterator is done in perl and lisp, so probably not.
What does this all mean? People, if you have the Gof book, read it! Really read it, before you really go attacking it. I mean to say something about Christopher Alexander, but will leave it for a later post.
Update: However, I do agree with the point that much of what the book covers is how to implement the patterns in C++, which is much cluggier than in many dynamic languages. But there's a reason for this: some people just don't have a choice to which the language they use. This was more so in the 90s when C/C++ was the fastest platform but is still the case today where Java dominates the enterprise.
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1. Explain Berkeley's use of these terms with definitions and
B. sensible things
C. things immediately perceived
D. mediate perception
2. Why does Berkeley think intense heat is in the mind? Moderate heat? Taste? Odor?
3. On what grounds does Philonous reject Hylas' conclusion that: "We must not
therefore conclude absolutely, that there is no heat in the fire, or sweetness in the
sugar, but only that heat or sweetness, as perceived by us, are not in the fire or sugar.
4 Name the primary properties. What is Berkeley's argument to show that primary
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 - Some like the oversight United Way provides over partner agencies...making sure the finances are being handled properly.
 - Others like that someone else is checking to be sure the community's most critical problems are being targeted, not just band-aid solutions.
 - Still others appreciate the convenience of payroll deduction.
 - Some like that their donation can be directed to nearly any charity, anywhere they wish.
 - Everyone appreciates that they are helping those in need.
Why do employers like the United Way?
 - The United Way makes it easy for employers to help employees give back to their community. Many employers consider partnering with United Way as good corporate citizenship.
 - Since the United Way will direct employee donations to nearly any charitable organization, employers may choose to limit outside fundraising efforts.
 - Even the simplest payroll software accomodates payroll deduction. The employer simply sends one check to United Way on a monthly or quarterly basis. The United way does the work of keeping track of where the employee donations are directed.
Why do charities like the United Way?
 - Charities understand that United Way's trusted partnership with employers and their ability to utilize payroll deduction, is a powerful team that often results in larger donations directed to the charity.
 - Charities often suggest to their employees, their board members, and their supporters to take advantage of Donor Directed contributions and payroll deductions so that part, or all, of their donation benefits their organization.
 - Being a partner agency with United Way signals to the charity's donor that both the charity and the finances have been carefully reviewed by a third party.
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How to Calculate Hydraulic and Pneumatic Cylinder Buckling
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Much the same way that you want the columns on your front porch to have the strength to support the roof --avoiding any and all Tim the Tool Man Taylor incidents -- column strength is a critical piece when addressing cylinder design as well. So many of us don't understand what it is and how important it is; let's investigate some of the factors associated with it to help gain a better understanding.
Things to Consider When Calculating Column Buckling
Buckling is a failure of a structural member due to a high compressive load. In other words: too much load on the end of you cylinder rod when it is extending. Remember this only happens under a compressive load (more on this later).
There are different classes of mountings for cylinders. For fixed mounted cylinder (for example):
 - front head flange mount
 - front flange mount
 - rear head mount, (or any cylinder that has a fixed mount on the front or rear of the cylinder)
Next comes the head or intermediate pivotal mounts; they consist of a front trunnion mount or intermediate trunnion mount. And last but not least is the rear pivotal mount, clevis or pivot mounts.
Each mounting style has different classes of rod supports styles. For the fixed mounted cylinders there is:
 - class 1, which is fixed supported guided
 - class 2, which is pivoted supported guided
 - class 3 pivoted or fixed supported unguided and
 - class 6 free unsupported unguided
Next are the head or intermediate pivotal mounts, which has:
 - class 3 pivoted or fixed supported unguided, and
 - class 4, pivoted supported guided or unguided
And lastly the rear pivotal mounting, it has:
 - class 5, pivoted supported guided or unguided.
So what does all this technical jargon mean?
You just need to order a cylinder, right? So why all this class this, unguided that…blah, blah, blah.
Your column strength limitations are based on operating pressure, rod size and the length of stroke. After a certain point the longer your stroke the less operating pressure you can use based on your rod size. Spaghetti noodles can teach us alot about cylinder design, so for example, imagine if you take a long piece of raw spaghetti (not the limp wet stuff in the pot) and stand it on its end and press down on it with your palm you will see the long piece of spaghetti bend and eventually break. Now take one of those shorter pieces you just made and do the same thing and you will notice that you can apply more pressure before it bends and breaks and eventually you will get a piece so short that you can't bend it or break it in this manner -- this is column strength.
In the nut shell, the longer the rod the less column strength you have therefore the less pressure you can apply before bending or breaking occurs. Whether its a spaghetti noodle or a cylinder. You can have a failure without the rod losing it elasticity by the rod just bending and then returning to its original shape after the load is removed, the elasticity of the rod was not exceeded. You can't enhance the column strength by using high tension-proof steel or heat treated material, the only way to increase column strength is to make the diameter of the rod larger. If this is not possible then you are limited in your operating pressure base on your cylinder size, rod size, stroke and any rod extension you might have.
Check out the free PDF, 12 Fluid Power Charts and Guides for Everyday Use, to help you figure out what your needs and limitations are. And if the job is complex enough you can always ask an engineer.
Whether your designing a three stage telescopic cylinder capable of lifting a 300,000 pound load for the aerospace industry or a 18" bore, 9" rod and 120" stroke marine cylinder used for opening and closing a split hull hopper barge calculating column strength is imperitive when specifying a cylinder -- no matter the application.
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Economic Participation and Employment for People with Disability
The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) commissioned us to research what helps people with disability find and keep a job.
The research focused on employment support for people with:
- intellectual disability
- psychosocial disability.
What did the research involve?
We worked in partnership with the University of New South Wales and Brotherhood of St Laurence to carry out this research.
The research included four separate parts:
- An evidence review of how employment programs are described.
- A systematic review of national and international RCTS of employment programs to find out which programs work best.
- Identification of current employment programs in Australia and interviews with academics and senior government and non-government staff working in employment for people with disability.
- Mapping the evidence.
The review found 14 different types of employment programs that help people with disability find and keep a job. These were grouped into three categories:
- Supply side: programs designed to build the skills of an individual looking for work so they become (more) ready and able to find a job. These types of programs can also provide support employers to employ a person with disability.
- Demand side: programs designed to create work opportunities for people with disability.
- Bridging: programs that match a person with disability to appropriate work opportunities and provide support to both the person and their employer to access and maintain that employment
Some employment programs may sit in more than one category.
Most of the research related to building the capacity of people with disability or the employer for people with psychosocial disability. And, most of the supply-side activities were vocational programs which teach a person with disability work-related skills that prepare them to find and keep a job.
The review found many programs that were successful in helping people find a job.
Employment support for people with psychosocial disability
Most evidence of benefit was found in Individualised Placement Support, a program for people with psychosocial disability. Individualised Placement Support combines vocational training and employment support with mental health support.
The evidence suggests that Individualised Placement Support works best when extra support is provided. Extra support may include:
- Career advice that builds a person's knowledge of job opportunities and looking for work. This is sometimes called a Job Coach.
- Career mentoring that helps people with psychosocial disability to find a job and feel positive about work.
- Online support for young people with psychosocial disability to progress towards a work or study goal.
Employment support for people with autism
For young people with autism, there was some evidence that showed programs that integrate 'work training' into a person's final years of school can help improve work readiness.
Employment support for people with intellectual disability
We did not find any research trials focused on employment programs for people with intellectual disability.
Other employment programs and approaches that show promise
The evidence review also identified some programs that show promise for people with autism, intellectual disability or psychosocial disability. Combination supply, demand and bridging approaches may also be valuable in helping participants find and keep a job.
- Vocational programs that are integrated into workplaces and provide training and skill development relevant to the job. Ongoing support to both the person with a disability and the employer.
- Social enterprises that focus on building skills of people with disability to help them enter the mainstream job market. They provide structured training and paid employment, and help people to join the workforce through work experience or work placement.
- Customised employment, which involves working with the person with an intellectual disability and the employer to create jobs that are best matched to the skills and goals of the person. These programs focus on how a person's strengths and interests may benefit an employer. They are becoming more common in Australia but haven't been evaluated as yet.
We need to continue working with people with disability, employers, government departments and other stakeholders to generate high quality evidence and foster best practice.
Improving employment outcomes needs a combination of supply, demand and bridging approaches. This may include:
- Building the capacity of people with disability to find work and the capacity of employers to match or create job opportunities.
- Ensuring programs are guided by principles that put the person at the centre.
- Having inclusive workplaces designed together by employers and people with disability.
- Promoting programs where people learn the job skills they need in their workplace, rather than training people in another setting.
- Offering flexible working conditions that consider the changing needs of people with a psychosocial disability.
- Offering opportunity for service providers to share with each other about what works.
The Economic Participation and Employment project was funded by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA). The research was conducted by researchers at the Disability and Health Unit within the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne, the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the University of New South Wales Public Service Research Group.
The Summary Report brings together the findings from each of the research parts.
The Plain Language Summary is available on the NDIS website
The Technical reports below provide a detailed account of the methods and findings.
- Kavanagh A, Brown D, Dickinson H, Mallett S, Marck C & Weld-Blundell I (2021). Evidence review: strategies to increase employment and economic participation for people with a cognitive disability – Summary Report. Melbourne: The University of Melbourne.
- Kavanagh A, Brown D, Dickinson H, Mallett S, Marck C & Weld-Blundell I (2021). Evidence review: strategies to increase employment and economic participation for people with a cognitive disability – Plain Language Summary. Melbourne: The University of Melbourne.
- Weld-Blundell I, Shields M, Davy L, Dickinson H, Kavanagh A & Marck CH (2021). Interventions for employment participation in people with autism, intellectual disability, and/or psychosocial disability: a systematic literature review. Melbourne: University of Melbourne and UNSW Canberra.
- a) Brown D & Mallett S (2021). Environmental Scan Part 1: Current research and evaluation to promote economic participation of people with disability. Melbourne: Brotherhood of St Laurence.
b) Mallett S, Brown D & Finnis J (2021). Environmental Scan Part 2: Views of experts on effective employment interventions for people with disability. Melbourne: Brotherhood of St Laurence.
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Quick Answer: Can A Brain Scan Show Mental Illness?
Can MRI scan detect mental illness?
MRIs and related technology are becoming increasingly adept at diagnosing mental illness.
Currently, magnetic resonance imaging can play an important role alongside the observations of physicians and other mental health care professionals..
Can EEG detect mental illness?
Electroencephalography, or EEG, technology that measures brain function could encourage earlier diagnoses of common mental and neurological disorders, including autism, ADHD and dementia, according to findings published in The Neurodiagnostic Journal.
Can a brain scan show ADHD?
Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used to identify people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) from patients without the condition, according to a new study published in Radiology.
Can a brain scan show bipolar?
Can an EEG detect bipolar disorder?
Generally, routine electroencephalography (EEG) is unnecessary in the evaluation of bipolar disorder, or manic-depressive illness (MDI).
Can an EEG detect anxiety?
Increased communication between the amygdala and hippocampus appear to correlate with symptoms of depression and anxiety, in findings that may have treatment implications, new research suggests.
What does slow brain waves on an EEG mean?
Focal slow wave activity on the EEG is indicative of focal cerebral pathology of the underlying brain region. Slowing may be intermittent or persistent, with more persistent or consistently slower activity generally indicating more severe underlying focal cerebral dysfunction.
Can you see mental illness on a brain scan?
Brain scans alone cannot be used to diagnose a mental disorder, such as autism, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder. In some cases, a brain scan might be used to rule out other medical illnesses, such as a tumor, that could cause symptoms similar to a mental disorder, such as depression.
What can a brain scan detect?
CT scans, which use X-rays to detect brain structures, can show evidence of brain atrophy, strokes and ischemia, changes to the blood vessels, and other problems such as hydrocephalus and subdural hematomas. MRI scans use magnetic fields and focused radio waves to detect hydrogen atoms in tissues within the body.
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Purpose of activity: To learn the chemical formulas for some common minerals.
Target age group: any, but ideal for ages 9-13
Description of activity: A card/dice game. Players roll three dice marked with element symbols. If they roll the elements required to make one of the minerals, they pick up the card. First player to pick up five cards wins.
Time needed: One game can take anywhere from 5-20 minutes. It's a short game that you play more than once.
Materials you will need: Copies of pattern pages printed onto card stock, scissors, glue


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Brock student launches interactive children's book for iPad
Published on February 05 2013
A Brock PhD student's idea for an interactive children's book has grown into reality.
Danielle Beckett, a certified classroom teacher who now studies learning and cognition in the Faculty of Education at the University, created The Gingerbread Man storybook for the iPad through her start-up company GroDigital.
And this is no ordinary touch and flip e-book for children. Beckett's creation also doubles as a reading assessment tool because of groundbreaking voice-recognition technology developed by computer science students from Brock.
"The voice recognition allows for the child to be assessed while reading and providing feedback to improve their reading performance," says Beckett. "With this project, we're spearheading voice recognition technology."
The interactive choose-your-own-adventure e-book is based upon the popular 19th-century fairy tale, The Gingerbread Man, and is designed for children ages 4 to 8.


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Company/Affiliation: Stupid Fun Club
Description: Quadbot is a four-legged (or tentacle) based robot with a unique style of locomotion. Developed to have organic qualities, I modeled the kinetic geometry of its motion and engineered an actuated system using a single motor.
Quadbot has a distinctive locomotion. Using four tentacle appendages, the toy pushes and rolls its spherical body in a continuous fashion. The resulting motion has the Quadbot rolling about in a zigzag pattern. Tentacles are actuated by a double wire system which allows them to move in two directions. Inside the spherical body is a cam to which all the tentacle wires are attached. A single motor is able to drive this cam and simultaneously articulate each of the tentacles. When two tentacles are actuated they bend to create a fulcrum, while a third tentacle pushes the center of mass over this fulcrum, and allows the body to roll forward. The sequence is then repeated with a different combination of tentacles, resulting in the same movement but at 120 degrees apart, leading to a zigzagging motion.


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DELTA – In a climate-controlled warehouse here, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, much like a squirrel storing acorns for hard times, is putting away seeds of native plants and grasses for forest restoration and wildlife habitat improvement.
"We have three mixes here, maybe 15 species in all, that are going to Grand Junction for aerial reseeding in the area burned by the Pine Ridge Fire last summer," Jim Garner, a habitat biologist, said last week while moving pallets of seed bags with a forklift onto a truck.
The seed mixes, concocted for what will best fit steep slopes, harsh soil and general burn conditions, are among the estimated 140,000 pounds of seed that will be dropped on the Pine Ridge burn area.
The recently opened 9,000-square-foot seed repository, built at a cost of $1.2 million, is on a mesa in the Escalante Wildlife Area about six miles west of Delta.
The seed warehouse is an effort to be proactive instead of reactive, Garner said.
"We used to buy seed when we needed it," Garner said. "But we were subject to the market price."
As the size, intensity and frequency of wildfires across the West grew, forest officials began to look to the long-range future, Garner said. It was clear that stocking up on seeds would avoid scrambling when they were needed for reseeding, he said.
Reseeding helps hold off the invasion of non-native species of plants, Garner said. Increased recreation and energy exploration can transport non-natives on vehicles.
The state agency collects seeds or acquires them from collectors and companies, then sends them to nurseries where they can be produced in great number in greenhouses and outdoors, Garner said.
The majority of the seeds stocked in the warehouse will be preferred native species, but some non-natives are being produced because of cost, Garner said.
"Squirrel tail costs $10 to $15 a pound, but crested wheat is cheap, $2 to $3 a pound," Garner said. "Aspen fleabane and sulfur flowered buckwheat are $80 a pound."
Use of expensive seeds has to be evaluated in the light of project goals and how critical the situation is, he said.
The warehouse eventually will store about 50 to 70 species of grass and flower seeds, among them sagebrush, mountain brome, dusty penstemon, basin wildrye, Sandberg bluegrass, Oregon daisy, western yarrow and sulphur buckwheat.
The American dragon head is a native, but it's aggressive so it has to be used judiciously so as to maintain plant diversity, Garner said.
Warehouse stock will include seeds for the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management as well as parks and wildlife projects, Garner said.
Temperature is important for storing seeds, Garner said. Seeds have been known to remain viable for 25 to 30 years at room temperature, but it's not a sure thing, he said.
Fans at balcony level will keep the temperature in the ground-floor storage area in the high 70s or low 80s in the summer when the temperature outside is blistering, Garner said.
A small cooler is reserved for more finicky seeds, Garner said. Sagebrush seed in a natural setting, for example, lasts a year, but, in the freezer, the seed can be viable for five years.
In the cooler, the operative rule is to maintain the combination of temperature and relative humidity less than 100, Garner said. The temperature is kept in the low 40s and the relative humidity at 32 percent, well below the target.
On a more expansive scale, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has a National Center for Genetic Resource Preservation at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
Plant scientists and researchers globally have turned to the bank after natural disasters and in their search for plants with properties that increase their ability to meet medicinal, nutritional and climatic demands.
The Delta warehouse has no ties to the federal program, Garner said.
The 140,000 pounds of seed will be spread on almost 14,000 fire-scorched acres north of Grand Junction, said David Boyd, spokesman for the Bureau of Land Management in northwest Colorado.
"The reseeding is expected to take five days of flying," Boyd said. "We want to do it while there is snow on the ground."
The cost of seed and airplanes is $1 million, Boyd said.
"We want to get native seeds down to stabilize the soil before invasive species get started," Boyd said. "Cheat grass is a concern because it's not good for livestock or wildlife and it tends to dry quickly, which perpetuates the fire cycle."
Reseeding with seeds from the same area is preferable because the same species can have slight differences depending on latitude. Sagebrush in Colorado and Idaho could differ slightly, Joe Lewandowski, a spokesman for Colorado Park and Wildlife in Durango, said.
The idea for the seed warehouse germinated as a result of the Uncompahgre Plateau Project, a native plant program of Colorado Parks and Wildlife, federal and state agencies and utility companies.
Since 2002, the partners have harvested seeds from 1.2 million acres of timberland west of Montrose and sent them to growers.


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|First appearance||"Love's Labours Lost in Space" (1ACV04)|
Vergon 6 was a sunny little planet teeming with life and inhabited by a unique animal population. It was covered in vegetation with occasional ponds and rocky outcrops not unakin to those found in Arches National Monument on Earth; no oceans or major lakes could be spotted. The sky was green with light-green clouds. Seen from space, the surface was covered in hues of green, brown and yellow.
The Nibblonians founded a scientific outpost on Vergon 6 at least one thousand years ago, for which Lord Nibbler was named "Supreme Fuzzler" (4ACV10, 5ACV11). The Nibblonians studied and ate the various species of the planet, and made a planet-sized deposit of fecal dark matter as the years went on. In 2972, the DOOP came across the deposit and gave Mom a contract to mine the dark matter. The valuable resource was mined out by a DOOP mining crew made up of robot slaves created by MomCorp, which left the planet completely hollow and triggered a shrinking process that led to the catastrophic implosion of Vergon 6.
In the final days of the planet's existence, the Nimbus under the command of Zapp Brannigan guarded a DOOP security cordon around the planet in order to enforce Brannigan's Law (1ACV04). The Nibblonian science team evacuated themselves, but Nibbler was left behind due to digestive troubles (5ACV11). When Mom saw him, she realized that the dark matter was actually Nibblonian excrement, and she captured the Nibblonian science ship and took them all back to Earth. Meanwhile, the Planet Express crew arrived and performed a tax-deductible mission of charity on the planet to retrieve some of the doomed animals. However, the only creature actually taken from the planet was Nibbler, who was taken under the wing of Leela. He then ate all the creatures rescued by the crew, but some of the animals survived on fragments of the crust after the planet imploded.
Creatures from Vergon 6 included:
- How the Planet Express crew escaped as Vergon 6 self-destructed is similar to the first Death Star's destruction in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
- The hologram of Vergon 6 looks like the hologram for Endor in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Both are green, translucent, and orbit slowly.
- The creature called Sharktopus has been used in a SyFy/Roger Corman movie.


Address Number Methodology
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The addressing methodology used in Franklin County was adopted to enable our "first responders" to reach citizens requiring emergency services in the shortest time possible with the least amount of confusion. For public safety reasons, we strive for consistency in our addressing of structures throughout Franklin County. However, there is not complete consistency across the County. For the most part, the cities, towns and villages in the County took responsibility for addressing the structures in their communities and the methodologies used are not the same in many cases.
Road Address Determination
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Address numbers decrease as you travel south and as you travel west.
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Definition of bah
interj. - An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt.
The word "bah" uses 3 letters: A B H.
No direct anagrams for bah found in this word list.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after bah (in bold), or to abh in any order:
c - bach l - blah s - bash t - baht bath u - habu
Shorter words found within bah:
ab ah ba ha
Words formed from any letters in bah, plus an optional blank or existing letter
List all words starting with bah, words containing bah or words ending with bah
All words formed from bah by changing one letter
Other words with the same letter pairs: ba ah
Browse words starting with bah by next letter
Previous word in list: bagworms
Next word in list: bahadur
Some random words: moshing


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Objectives: Health care services in Malaysia are widely available and accessible at a minimal cost. However, in pursuing with the health care reform, policy-makers and hospital managers need to know the unit cost for the purpose of planning and efficiency of providing the services. This study estimated the cost of out-patient services in a public hospital
Methods:The study was conducted in a 341 bedded hospital that provide secondary level care to 24,486 in-patients and 127,389 specialist out-patients in 2010. The costs were estimated using a step-down approach where the costs were allocated to the different cost-centres. Capital costs were annualised cost of capital item with life expectancy of more than 1 year and recurrent cost were all inputs consumed within a year. Total costs were then allocated to the in-patient and out-patient services based on historical financial data with a ratio of 1: 4. This was then followed by a stepwise approach of allocating the ancillary department cost centres to the clinical department cost centres. The unit cost per patient visit was calculated based on the number of visits for each department. Base year of 2010 was used to calculate the cost and patients visits. Costs were calculated from the perspective of the hospital.
Conclusions: The findings provide an estimate of the costs for out-patient visit. At the current minimal fee of MYR 5.00 (USD 1.5), the Ministry of Health is subsidising more than 95.0% of the health care cost for each patient. These estimates provide the policy-makers with an understanding of the cost data should they need to establish a cost basis for payment rates.
* Title and MeSH Headings from MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.


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The Monkey's Paw
Directions: Please fill in the following chart completely including one piece of textual evidence cited correctly. Be sure to write in COMPLETE SENTENCES.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If this worksheet does not provide enough space for you to write in complete sentences or to write your textual evidence correctly, please use the back of this worksheet or separate piece of paper.
Textual Evidence
Example: "Mr. White was a grumpy old man" (683).
The explanation should include: setting and characters
What is conflict in this story?
Rising Action
What happens to increase the tension leading up to the climax?
What is the turning point of the story and what makes this part the "turning point?"
Falling Action
What happened after the Climax?
Is the conflict solved?


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Jan 23, 2024
Business Information Services
Have you ever been curious about what powers your favorite apps, gadgets, and online experiences? Spoiler alert: it's the magic of data. But, hold on a second! Have you ever thought about how reliable that data really is? That's where the protagonist of our narrative comes in – Data Fidelity. Now, I can almost hear you thinking – "Data what?" Relax, we'll walk you through it in a way that's easier than a '90s dance move tutorial. Data Fidelity, often referred to as Data Cleansing, is the process of identifying and rectifying errors, inconsistencies, and inaccuracies within datasets. Let's plunge into the world of 1s and 0s, where data fidelity plays a crucial role in our everyday digital escapades that might not get the spotlight it truly merits. So, what's the buzz about data fidelity, and why should it matter to your business? Well, Let's take a step back and look into the B2B landscape!
The Foundation of Success
In the fast-paced world of B2B transactions, The foundation of any successful business lies in accurate and reliable data that serves as the bedrock, laying the foundation for marketing strategies, client relationship management, effective B2B interactions, and decision-making processes. However, as businesses grow and evolve, so does their data. Unfortunately, data decay is an inherent challenge, where this parallel evolution often introduces duplications, inaccuracies and outdated information, posing a risk to the very foundation upon which they stand.
The Perils of Inaccurate Data
Failing to consider data quality can have serious consequences in a B2B setting when accuracy is key. Inaccurate data can lead to a cascade of issues, ranging from wasted resources on ineffective marketing campaigns, and failed customer interactions to missed business opportunities and ultimately, a damaged reputation. Inaccurate contact details, duplicate entries, and outdated information can undermine the efficiency of sales and marketing efforts, leading to a decline in revenue and decreased customer satisfaction.
The Never-Ending Battle
Recognizing the significance of accurate data is just the first step in the B2B setting, where it is the linchpin holding together the various facets of business such as client relationships, marketing strategies, and profitability operations. Data cleansing is not a one-time task but an ongoing process that requires commitment and the right tools. Fortunately, Technological Edge has bestowed upon us powerful tools and solutions to streamline the data cleansing process. From Automated tools, machine learning algorithms, and hand curation processes, businesses now have the means to effectively uphold the integrity of data assets. Ensuring that data is regularly updated and validated helps businesses make competent choices in the ever-shifting B2B marketplace.
Essential Bits for Data Cleansing
Deduplication: Eliminating redundant entries to ensure a single, accurate representation of each entity.
Validation: Verifying the accuracy and completeness of data through cross-referencing and validation checks.
Standardization: Ensuring uniformity in data format, structure, and representation for seamless integration and analysis.
Enrichment: Enriching existing data by incorporating additional information to deepen its scope and usefulness
Data Governance Practices: Establishing explicit protocols for data entry, implementing regular validation processes, and investing in technology that automates the cleansing process are crucial measures.
Regular Audits: Performing periodic audits of data quality helps pinpoint emerging issues and ensures the database remains in optimal condition.
Game-Changing Effect on Decision-Making
As the B2B landscape evolves, businesses armed with accurate data gain a competitive edge by adapting swiftly to changes and capitalizing on emerging opportunities. This not only fortifies brand reputation but also elevates customer satisfaction, and ultimately foster enduring business relationships. Harnessing the capabilities of data cleansing allows businesses to rejuvenate their operations, injecting vitality into their operations.
Accurate data ensures that executives and managers are working with accurate information, minimizing the risk of devising flawed strategies rooted in outdated or inaccurate data.
Elevated Customer Satisfaction:
Accurate data This empowers businesses to establish stronger connections with their clients, gain insights into their preferences, and craft solutions that align precisely with those preferences. This, in turn, can lead to increased loyalty, and positive word-of-mouth referrals.
Optimized Marketing Efforts:
The effectiveness of marketing campaigns hinges on the quality of the underlying data. By ensuring data accuracy, businesses can streamline their targeting efforts, avoiding wasted resources on outdated leads, thereby maximizing the impact of their campaigns.
Redundant or inaccurate data can lead to wasted resources. Data cleansing eliminates irrelevant information, streamlining operations and cutting down costs linked to misguided efforts.
Navigate the B2B Scene Like a Pro
In the uncharted terrain of B2B, where every nugget of data could be your golden ticket, data cleansing isn't just a to-do—it's a strategic must-do. The journey is ongoing, but the perks of riding this data-cleansing wave? Boundless – because the quest for accurate and reliable data is less of a finish line and more of a continuous adventure. Recognizing the perpetual nature of this adventure, and if you're packing the right tools and tricks, especially with lessburn's Business Information Service, you're essentially unlocking the real mojo of clean data. What's the payoff? Smarter decision-making, enhanced credibility, and agility in the face of industry dynamics!
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Here are the new spelling words:
clean agree teeth dream grain
coach display window shadow cheese
peach braid Sunday float thrown
entertain complain bleachers willow wheat
The trick this week is teaching them about long vowel combinations. I explain that when two vowels (a, e, i, o, u, and y) are together, they usually say the long sound of the first vowel. A cute way to remember it is, "When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking."
I hope this helps as you help your child study!
Hi! My name is Celinda Johnson, and I am very excited to join the 3rd grade team at Heritage Community Charter! I am thrilled to be your teacher, and I'm looking forward to a year of learning, fun, and adventures! My goal as a teacher is to instill a love of learning and exploration in all my students so they become life-long learners. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. It is so important to keep communication open and I would love to talk to you whenever you feel the need! I look forward to a great year together!


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ar that offer hiking trails with stunning views of the surrounding landscape.
- Gulkam Canyon – a natural canyon located near Iskandar that is popular for rock climbing and hiking.
- Kyzyl Kum Desert – an expansive desert region near Iskandar where visitors can take camel rides or go on desert safaris.
- Aqua Park Charvak – an amusement park with water slides and pools located near Lake Charvak.
- National Museum of Uzbekistan – a museum in Tashkent (the capital city) which showcases the history and culture of Uzbekistan through its exhibits.
Note: Please check current travel restrictions due to COVID-19 before planning any visits or activities mentioned above as it may change over time based on local regulations/restrictions imposed by authorities to ensure public safety during this pandemic period.


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Anders Schroder combines abstract with sensual to create a strikingly unique batch of idents for TV3's female-skewed lifestyle channel TV3 Puls (and realises the design store of the future in the process).
director: Anders Schroder
TV3 was very focused on the idea of creating an identity package that reflected the feel of the channel rather than the content of it. They had to be abstract, clearly avoiding literal clichees and had to be all graphic. Obviously it was very important for the channel to fit into the TV3 family while still holding its own.
In order to reflect the mood of the channel we were drawn towards natural materials and textures to create something that you would love to touch and feel. At the same time we did not want to be literal so we invented fictive objects and shapes that resembled abstract interior/design objects but that clearly did not have a real-world purpose. These semi-natural objects were deliberately mixed with all-synthetic CG objects which were then arranged into still-life-esque compositions.
We decided to base each ident around abstract concepts such as, a breath of fresh air, opening up, socializing, attraction, and balance. All positive concepts that could serve as the driving idea behind each ident.
We wanted to create a unique look that was cutting edge and aspirational with (wo)Man at the center of the idea.