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Daughter of a Lost Bird
Directed by: Brooke Pepion Swaney
Captions: Closed Captions
Daugther of a Lost Bird explores the ethics surrounding Native American adoption, via a singular story as an entry point into a more complicated national issue. In many ways, Kendra Potter is a perfect example of cultural assimilation, a modern representation of the painful phrase, "Kill the Indian, save the man." She is a thriving woman who grew up in a loving, upper-middle-class white family, and feels no significant loss with the absence of Native American culture or family in her life. And yet, as a Blackfeet/Salish woman, director Brooke Swaney could not imagine that Kendra could be content or complete without understanding her heritage.
So together they embark on a 7-year journey. After 34 years apart, Kendra finds her biological mother April and they meet face-to-face in Portland, Oregon. The film, both instigator and follower, documents Kendra on her journey to reconnect with her birth mother April, also a Native adoptee and returns to her Native homelands. April Newcomb is a woman who has done a lot of work to heal. Her childhood was marked by physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her adopted father, causing her to leave home at 15. After years spent lost in addiction, on and off the streets of Portland, OR, and three years trapped in sex trafficking, she found the strength to escape and seek a better life. We watch both women navigate what it means to be Native and to belong to a tribe from the outside looking in.
Through Kendra and April's unique experiences of growing up without knowledge of their heritage or tribal affiliation, we learn with and from them as they explore elements of their biological ties. The viewer learns, along with the women, of their inherited cultural trauma as well as some of the beauty of the Lummi ways. neither knew while growing up. It's a turning point for them both. A year after the reunion in Oregon, Kendra ventures for her first time to Lummi to experience the Stommish canoe races with April, see Lummi Island and hear from a tribe she never knew. They are both saddled with a new identity, unsure of how the story unfolds.
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The Branch MRT line was originally the third Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line in Singapore, initially operated as a branch to the existing East West line. The line was  long with four stations, and was operated by the SMRT Corporation. Travelling from one end of this line to the other end took about ten minutes, and the line was coloured brown and khaki on the rail map. The line is now part of the North South line, making it the first and  only defunct line in Singapore.

The line used to terminate at the centre track at Jurong East (then platforms C/D, now D/E). Trains operated at a six-minute frequency.

History
The line was conceptualized as the Western line during the early planning stages of the Singapore MRT network.

On 7 January 1986, the Taiwanese RSEA International and Hock Lian Seng Joint Venture were awarded the contract for the Branch MRT line stations – Bukit Batok, Bukit Gombak, and Choa Chu Kang.

The line started operations on 10 March 1990, and was named the Branch line, consisting of four stations. The line was subsequently merged into the North South line when the North South line Woodlands Extension opened on 10 February 1996, connecting the existing North South line at Yishun to the Branch line at Choa Chu Kang.
The station codes for Bukit Batok to Choa Chu Kang stations were changed to N23, N22 and N21 respectively, subsequently to their current code on the North South line with the revamp of the system map on 31 July 2001.

Stations

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Railway lines opened in 1990
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News CHP applies to ECtHR demanding cancellation of referendum results in Turkey
CHP applies to ECtHR demanding cancellation of referendum results in Turkey
Main opposition CHP chairperson Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.
Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) is applying to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for cancellation of the results of a referendum on April 16 due to the use of unstamped ballots, according to a statement from CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Tuesday.
Signing a petition to be submitted to the ECtHR on Tuesday, Kılıçdaroğlu said: "Unfortunately, the results of this referendum were illegitimate due to a decision made by the Supreme Election Board [YSK]. We have prepared a petition. We are applying to the European Court of Human Rights, and I am signing it [the petition] here. … Petitions will be sent [to the European court] today."
Earlier, the YSK, which changed the ballot validity criteria and accepted the unstamped ballots as valid, rejected a demand by CHP for the cancellation of the referendum.
The CHP then filed a case at Turkey's Council of State and demanded a stay for the referendum results. However, the court rejected its application on the grounds that it was outside its jurisdiction. The court made its ruling with a majority of votes.
A constitutional reform package introducing an executive presidency in Turkey was approved by 51.4 percent of the electorate in the referendum.
During the voting, some citizens cast their votes in unstamped ballots, while others used envelopes and ballots they brought with them, which prompted some opposition parties and naysayers to raise suspicions about the validity of the votes. (turkishminute.com) July 5, 2017
Turkey's top court rejects appeal to annul discriminatory early release law


Canada is about to get "goopified." You've been warned.
Gwyneth Paltrow speaks onstage at the In Goop Health Summit on June 9 in Culver City, California.
Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand Goop is coming to Canada, but critics in the medical community say they're ready to push back.
Goop chief content officer Elise Loehnen announced this week that the online wellness empire is bringing its series of 'In Goop Health' conferences to Canada for the first time this fall. Its e-commerce site will also expand the selection of products available to Canadians.
Loehnen, who will host the wellness summit in Vancouver on Oct. 27, said the day-long symposium will be more intimate and less "intense" than previous gatherings in the U.S.
Laura Linney, Gillian Flynn, Elaine Welteroth, Drew Barrymore, Chelsea Handler and Gwyneth Paltrow speak on stage at the In Goop Health Summit on Jan. 27 in New York City.
With tickets retailing at $400, the event at a "goopified" Stanley Park Pavilion is billed as a "mind-expanding day" featuring panels, wellness workshops and healthful eats prepared by Vancouver chefs.
"(Canadians) are sometimes even a little bit ahead of Goop in terms of where you are on the wellness spectrum, so it feels like a totally natural brand affinity," Loehnen said in a recent phone interview from Montreal.
"They're in our backyard now," said Timothy Caulfield, an Edmonton-based health science expert and author of "Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash."
Goop's expansion into Canada comes as the company adopts what Loehnen calls a more "buttoned-up" approach to fact-checking the information on its website in the face of mounting criticism from health experts who say it provides a platform to scientifically dubious information.
"We typically feature a wide range (of opinions), including many western doctors, and they're not necessarily debating what's in the medical cannon," said Loehnen. "A lot of content is around things that are more chronic, not incredibly well understood."
Goop is also bringing on a fact-checker to review and contextualize information on its website, she said, and working to assign clearer guide posts to help readers distinguish between claims grounded in modern science and those that are more "speculative."
But Caulfield said if the website was fact-checked to his standards, there would be little content left, and Goop's wares would look much less inviting to consumers with full information.
"(Goop) can't say that they're going to try to have evidence-based fact-checking and then reject the whole concept of science," said Caulfield. "They want the best of both worlds."
"(We're) looking to them so they could shed light so people can then go to their own primary-care physicians and ask questions," said Loehnen. "The idea is really just to do the work for readers so they feel like they're armed with information."
Winnipeg-raised gynecologist and obstetrician Jennifer Gunter, who calls herself the "people's choice" for Goop fact-checker, said the company has turned these holes in women's health care into a business model based on the propagation of medical "conspiracy theories."
"I think that (Goop is) profiting off of the way that women have been ignored by medicine," Gunter said in a phone interview from San Francisco, where she is now based.
Gunter attended the 'In Goop Health' conference in New York earlier this year and on her blog challenged many of the claims made by speakers there.
As Gunter sees it, Goop often blurs the line between things you do for happiness and healing, which she compared to the difference between getting a pedicure and seeing your doctor. Perpetuating this confusion does far more to harm women's health than help it, said Gunter.
"Women do not benefit from lack of information, and you can only be empowered about your health if you're informed about it," she said. "Using smoke-and-mirrors to say things that make you happy make you healthier ... is not fair."
But not all Canadians are opposed to Goop's foray across the border. Palak Loizides, who runs health and wellness-related workshops in Toronto said she's considering going to the Vancouver In Goop health summit.
"To me Goop is just about extracting whatever you want from something you feel speaks to you/will directly benefit you," Loizides told HuffPost. "With Goop, I ignore some of the 'questionable' practices and instead leverage it for recipes, city guides, fashion inspiration and sometimes wellness products IF I feel that they'll benefit me and I've done my research on other platforms."


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New research could improve solar power dramatically
By Liann Bobechko
Courtesy Ximin He
For cottagers on solar power, there's a research study just published that may mean big improvements in sun harvesting, especially in high latitudes.
Solar panels work well when the sun shines directly on them, but their efficiency drops as the sun sets, or seasonally, as the angle of the sun becomes lower to the horizon. Existing solutions that adjust the angle of the panel require an electromechanical device, something to move the panel, and a computer chip and preset computer program set to the position of the sun in the sky at a specific time on a specific day of the year. "We wanted a system that doesn't require human direction—that was the challenge. These systems are costly, and in need of a gigantic mechanical system. They're not as smart as natural plants," says Ximin He, an assistant professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Enter the new research, inspired by the ability of plants to orient toward light, called phototropism."Plants have this strategy that uses a self-control mechanism, without any programming," says He. "We thought it would be really advantageous to engineer self-tracking abilities in a man-made material in order to enhance the harvesting of solar energy," she says.
Inspired by sunflowers, He and her team's research developed a new use for hydrogels, a type of cross-linked polymer familiar to most people in the form of contact lenses and blister bandages. Their application, called SunBots, uses columns of this material that exhibit self-regulating autonomous motion using environmental stimuli to allow columns of the hydrogel to orient themselves towards light.
The technology works like this: when light comes in at an angle and hits the side of a column made of this photoresponsive hydrogel, the light stimulates the material to shrink and therefore causes the pillar to bend toward the light. "Different photo-responsive soft materials have different shrinkage mechanisms," she explains. "For example, hydrogels become hydrophobic and expel water out of the polymer network upon illumination." Another key challenge they faced was figuring out how to make the pillars know when to stop bending. "We found that as the pillar bends, the tip of the pillar blocks the light and causes a self-shadowing effect that mechanically blocks the light. The area starts to cool down," and because it is a reversible material, "there's a little recovery." The material is able to adjust itself between overbending and under bending and, she says, "it will find the most comfortable spot. As the sun changes angle, it continuously adjusts." How fast does the material respond? "It takes seconds or milliseconds to follow the light. That's much faster than real sunflowers."
How much more light are they able to harvest? He's team tested it across a range of angles, comparing non-tracking surfaces with theirs. As the light source gets lower, the difference between the harvesting capability rises. For example "when the angle of the light came in from 25 degrees above the surface, the non-tracking surface harvests 24 per cent of total input energy. With our surface, it tracks 90 per cent," she says. "That's almost a four-fold enhancement." In theory, says He, the improvement could be as much as 1200 per cent, when the sun is very close to the horizon and non-tracking solar panels are least efficient.
No products are yet on the market, as the research was only published earlier this month, but the team is working towards developing a coating to apply to existing solar panels. "If we can make the material itself have a self-control mechanism that is more efficient, and that also can apply light-tracking microstructures on all solar panels, windows, cars," she says, "it could completely change the game."
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Technology integration shouldn't be about the tool - it should be about the learning. In this competency-based program, you will explore what it means to transform learning and improve student outcomes through the thoughtful and engaging use of technology.
During the ISTE Certification process, educators will deeply engage with the ISTE Standards for Educators and pedagogy that transforms learning. We will move beyond tools into an exploration of using technology to empower and inspire students.
In Phase 1, you will come together with other educators for two days in a face-to-face learning environment to deepen your understanding of the standards (ISTE Standards for Students and for Educators) and explore how technology can be used to create lively and engaging learning environments.
In Phase 2, you will continue your learning over the next five weeks online, engaging with your colleagues from the course and creating artifacts of your learning that you can use immediately in your classroom.
Following the online portion of the program, you will enter Phase 3, the 6-month portfolio phase. In this phase, you will apply your learning to create artifacts and reflections into a competency-based portfolio in order to earn the ISTE Certification.
The ISTE Certification recognizes educators who understand how to use technology for learning in meaningful and transformative ways in classrooms and schools.
CES has been selected by ISTE to become an authorized provider of the ISTE Certification for Educators course due to our commitment to high-quality professional learning and our belief that technology has the power to transform the way we teach and the way we learn.
45 PDPs or 2 graduate credits will be awarded to participants upon completion of this training. Graduate credit is available at an additional cost of $130. Graduate credit registration and payment occurs at the first face-to-face meeting, and payment can be made by credit card or check at that time.
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Thankfully a quick search and I came across the MIMIC dataset put together by the MIT Lab for Computational Physiology. This is a deidentified dataset of over 40,000 critical care patients and contains all sorts of information such as lab tests, medications, demographics, etc. It's free, not too large (90GB when all said and done), and can be setup relatively easily thanks to the wonderful support they already provide!
I followed instructions in the documentation to request access by filling out the necessary information and taking the required HIPAA training.
Note: I'm glad they require the training because eventhough the data is deidentified, I'm sure with enough grit something identifiable could be derived from it and it's nice to make sure users are held to a standard.
So once I received access it just then became a matter of how I wanted to set up the dataset. The website linked above is very helpful in describing the dataset and providing information on how to download and/or setup a database so it was fairly painless. The repository on Github has a buildmimic folder with several options baked in. I went with the common Postgres install.
First things first, make sure you have Postgres installed. This can be checked with a simple which postgres in Terminal. If it comes back with nothing, then we'll have to get Postgres installed. Easiest way to do this, in my opinion, is to use homebrew. If that's not installed on your computer then I recommend just following along on their website and coming back here.
Assuming brew is installed, then I've put together a little gist to help out. Feel free to reach out if you have questions and I'll see if I can help.
So after following the above gist, you should have a functional postgres set up. Yay! Let's go ahead and move forward with getting the MIMIC code, data, and subsequently loading it into our local postgres.
Clone the MIMIC repository (assumes git is installed. If not brew install git). Find a place on your local system that you want to keep the code and in your Terminal run git clone https://github.com/MIT-LCP/mimic-code.git. This will "clone" the code to your local system so we can leverage the wonderful work the folks at MIT have already done.


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Vol 1 No 1 (2016): July /
Buckling Experiment on Anisotropic Long and Short Cylinders
Atsushi Takano Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan
Keywords: buckling, cylinders, anisotropy
A buckling experiment was performed on anisotropic, long and short cylinders with various radius-to-thickness ratios. The 13 cylinders had symmetric and anti-symmetric layups, were between 2 and 6 in terms of the length-to-radius ratio, between 154 and 647 in radius-to-thickness ratio, and made of two kinds of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) prepreg with high or low fiber modulus. The theoretical buckling loads for the cylinders were calculated from the previously published solution by using linear bifurcation theory considering layup anisotropy and transverse shear deformation and by using deep shell theory to account for the effect of length and compared with the test results. The theoretical buckling loads for the cylinders were calculated from the previously published solution by using linear bifurcation theory considering layup anisotropy and transverse shear deformation and by using deep shell theory to account for the effect of length. The knockdown factor, defined as the ratio of the experimental value to the theoretical value, was found to be between 0.451 and 0.877. The test results indicated that a large length-to-radius ratio reduces the knockdown factor, but the radius-to-thickness ratio and other factors do not affect it.
A. Takano, "Statistical knockdown factors of buckling anisotropic cylinders under axial compression," Journal of Applied Mechanics, vol. 79, 051004, pp 1-17, 2012.
A. Takano, "Improvement of Flügge's equations for buckling of moderately thick anisotropic cylindrical shells," AIAA Journal, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 903-911, 2008.
Y. Takano, T. Masai, H. Seko, A. Takano, and M. Miura, "Development of the lightweight large composite-honeycomb-sandwich central cylinder for next-generation satellites," Aerospace Technology Japan, vol. 10, pp.
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A. Takano, "Buckling Experiment on Anisotropic Long and Short Cylinders", Adv. technol. innov., vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 25-27, Jul. 2016.
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The Residences at Nobel Park
Condo & Townhouse in Vancouver
3483 Ross Drive, Vancouver, BC
Thoughtfully designed homes that are beautiful enough to catch passing eyes, The Residences at Nobel Park have a lot to offer.
The Residences at Nobel Park is a condominium and townhouse collection by Polygon Homes, an established real estate company that has built more than 30,000 homes in both master-planned communities and high-rise complexes.
The condo and townhouse community of The Residences at Nobel Park is designed by the well-known Francl Architecture and the homes feature not only stunning designs but also modern features that make life more comfortable.
The development is located at 3483 Ross Drive in Vancouver, a master-planned community called Wesbrook Village offering outstanding educational and other facilities.
Starting from: $2,288,800
Size Range: 2006 - 2579 SqFt
Type: High-Rise Condo and Townhouse
Developers: Polygon Homes
Architect: Francl Architecture
Interior Designer: TBA
Located at 3483 Ross Drive, Vancouver, BC
18 minutes to King Edward Station
4 minutes to Wesbrook Community Centre
3 minutes to Thunderbird Stadium
3 minutes to UBC Botanical Garden
10 minutes to Spanish Banks Beach
Easy access to W 16th Ave and SW Marine Drive
Want to know the price?
The development is located in an extremely well-planned and famous neighbourhood called UBC (University of British Columbia) in Vancouver. The neighbourhood is home to a number of intellectual, historical and artistic heritages including the Museum of Anthropology. There are also a number of beautiful parks and golf courses nearby.
The neighbourhood has good road connectivity which enables the residents to move around in the area quite freely and easily. The residents can access major highways like Highway 99 or Granville Street quite easily.
King Edward Station is about 18 minutes away for the residents who want to travel by train. The car drivers and motorists in the neighbourhood have easy access to W 16th Ave and SW Marine Drive.
The students and parents in the neighbourhood would rejoice at the fact that the area has an exceptional academic environment. There are a number of great universities and schools in the area within accessible distance.
The University of British Columbia is about 4 minutes away. Some of the other universities in the area include University of British Columbia Graduate School and St. John's College.
The neighbourhood is situated at such an outstanding location that enables it to have a range of different kinds of outdoor spaces. The neighbourhood has parks, gardens, golf courses, beaches and a lot more to explore.
Spanish Banks Beach is 10 minutes away. Wesbrook Community Centre, Thunderbird Stadium, Shaughnessy Golf and country club, and UBC Botanical Garden are a few of the other places to visit.
An outstanding condo and townhome community, The Residences at Nobel Park by Polygon Homes is located at a very desirable location of an excellent academic environment. The community has a total of 267 units and there are 14 floors.
The homes are available in different layouts of 2-, 3-, and 4-bedroom units. The residents get to enjoy a number of amenities including Green Spaces, a Lobby, a Private Courtyard, and Playgrounds.
The Polygon family of companies has built more than 30,000 homes throughout Metro Vancouver. Trusted, caring and forward-thinking. These traits have established Polygon as one of Vancouver's leading homebuilders. In that time, we've built everything from complete masterplanned communities to luxury high-rise towers in dynamic urban centres. Each one of our residences is crafted with decades of experience so that homeowners – at any stage of life, in any municipality across the Lower Mainland – can buy a home with confidence and peace of mind.
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Much as we would love to, we do not promise any date, duration in any resort. However, we know exactly what works, we understand the limitations of short stay availability in Austria and have excellent relationships with hotels that offer us just the right balance of flexibility.
Our packages usually include the accommodation and airport transfer element to which we or you can add flights. We offer a wide choice of Hotel options including Luxury Spa Hotels and we can pre-book lift passes, hire, private lessons or guides in advance.
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Unfortunately, the bigger and more well-known the resort, the less flexible hotels are likely to be and this is certainly the case in the likes of St Anton and Ischgl where most hotels book out Saturday-Saturday.
Almost without exception, hotels only accept 7-night stays in the high season (New Year, February School holidays). For the best ski weekend availability, aim for pre-Christmas, January, early February, March and April. You may want to consider arriving on a Saturday or Sunday for 3 or 4 nights rather than over a weekend. A Sunday-Wednesday break, for example, offers less crowded slopes and keener prices. The more flexible you are, the more Hotel and Resort options are available.
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We have been organising flexible, tailor made holidays to Austria since 1999. From the right flight times to the right airport, the best transfer options and resort and hotel best suited to you and your party, we are here to help.
These prices are a low season guide price per person based on 2 sharing and include 3 nights accommodation as described and return airport transfers from Salzburg or Innsbruck (minimum 4 share, minibus taxi shuttle). Flights are extra. Please contact our office or you can book your own flights.
Private or Munich transfers, 4*+ Luxury Spa Hotels or longer durations will increase these prices. As all of our ski weekends and short breaks are tailor-made in terms of resort, hotel and duration, please contact us here with your requirements.


The Buck Antler Table Lamp is the copper style sister of the Pacific Lighting Nickel Antler Table Lamp, but shares in the high quality luxury finish that has now become synonymous with Pacific Lighting products.
This stunning table lamp will fit right at home and blend into its surroundings seamlessly, whether you have a modern style or tradition style decor.
The Buck Antler Table Lamp will make a fantastic addition to homes with stylish interiors that also share in the love of quirky furnishings.
This gorgeous and vibrant table lamp will brighten up your home due to its vibrant colours lampshade, yet the swirling, intertwined copper coloured antlers which collect at the base give it a natural and understated vintage elegance.


These woven trousers from HUGO are a sleek canvas to endless styles currently residing in your wardrobe. This versatile pair are accented with an artisanal drawstring at the high-rise waist for a modern accent and sports-tailored touch, and crafted to fall into cropped tapered legs. Pair them with a minimalist T-shirt and trainers for the most unstudied take.
Size 32: Rise 12", inside leg 28", leg opening 12"


Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS): Pre-ETS include existing and new services to address the career development needs of students with disabilities. Students with disabilities are defined as individuals with disabilities in secondary, postsecondary, or other recognized education programs who are age 16-21. This service will assist students through the provision of pre-employment services with the objective of preparing students for successful long-term employment consistent with their strengths, resources, priorities, concerns, abilities, capabilities, interests and informed choice. Community providers are encouraged to develop and provide a full array of Pre-ETS to assist young adults with their transition to the world of work.
Pre-ETS will replace Youth Employment Services (YES). YES provided the foundation for developing Pre-ETS, which reflect the final WIOA regulations for the Rehabilitation Act. Under WIOA, ACCES-VR is required to provide students with disabilities with Pre-ETS. Pre-ETS include job and career exploration counseling and activities, work-based learning experiences, counseling on postsecondary options, and instruction in self-advocacy, which may include peer mentoring. Pre-ETS is not intended to shift the responsibility of service delivery from school districts to vocational rehabilitation. School districts will continue to be responsible for providing transition planning and educational services. Pre-ETS service provision should accommodate an academic calendar as necessary. For students enrolled in secondary school, Pre-ETS are recommended to begin to be offered at age 16.
Pre-ETS should focus on the unique concerns and issues of students with disabilities as related to preparing for employment, evaluating post-secondary education options, and developing employment related soft skills and obtaining work experience. Pre-ETS may combine individual services in a meaningful way to enhance job readiness.
Work-Based Coaching Supports for Students (for employment) – To provide coaching for supports youth engaged in paid work experiences.
Career Exploration Assessment: The Career Exploration Assessment is a comprehensive vocational evaluation that looks at the person's education, past work experience, skills, interest and aptitude areas. Referral information, information obtained during the interviews, career interest tools, and structured career exploration activities are used during the assessment period. This assessment will also allow a vocational evaluator to better understand the individual's unique employment factors - strengths, needs and interests - as well as any impediments to employment and how those factors might impact future employment. The specific abilities of the individual are identified as the basis for recommending flexible strategies for job development, placement and retention. This service can also be used to guide an individual through a goal validation process that would include a review of interests, labor market analysis, job requirements and local/regional employment demand/employers.
After the assessment period is completed, a team conference will be scheduled with the individual and ACCES-VR Counselor; the Customized Career Exploration Assessment will be presented and the recommendations discussed. Recommendations may include: referral to a Community Based Work Assessment for additional career exploration in integrated work settings; Work Experience Development for a work try out or paid community work experience; Work Readiness; Direct Placement; Supported Employment; or other education, including post-secondary options, or vocational training options in the community.
Post-Secondary Counseling for Students: This service is identical to Career Exploration Assessment, only with an emphasis on exploring post-secondary options for students age 16-21.
Job Exploration Counseling for Students: This service is identical to Career Exploration Assessment, only with an emphasis on exploring career options for students age 16-21.
Definition: Self-advocacy is the ability to express thoughts, feelings, and beliefs; know and understand rights and responsibilities; take responsibility for decisions and choices and exercise efforts to improve life situations. Self-advocacy for Employment skills emphasize career and employment exploration; understanding a range of employment opportunities to choose from; recognize personal strengths, talents, compensatory skills and disability-specific accommodation needs; disclosure of disability; learning employment rights under Title I of the ADA and learning when and how to request reasonable accommodation. The desired outcome of this service is that the individual will attain a set of core skills needed to identify personal needs and wants as they relate to career and employment exploration. At the conclusion of this service, participants will actively demonstrate a set of competencies and acquired skills that will enable them to navigate through their challenges related to employment. These personal criteria will then empower an individual to develop an individualized plan of strategies in preparation to engage and fully participate in the career development and employment process.
Self-Advocacy for Students: This service is to be used to adapt self-advocacy training or experiences for employment for students age 16 to 21. Self-advocacy facilitators or mentors will be competent role models trained to use strength-based person-centered planning and people first language about disability. Peer facilitators or mentors will have suitable educational qualifications and experience in providing strength-based approaches to facilitating and mentoring youth in developing their capacity for self-determination; and demonstrated competency in delivering self-advocacy training to youth with disabilities.
Definition: Participants are assisted in development of job-related skills. Work Readiness Services include components that enable a participant to successfully develop the following individual capacities for achieving and maintaining employment: work behaviors, social skills in the work setting, effective communication, accepting supervision, problem solving, grooming and hygiene, goal setting and work tolerance.
Work Readiness 1 – Soft Skills Training: ACCES-VR will be able to obtain these services prior to IPE development when appropriate to the needs of the individual. This service is a defined set of activities that lead to the acquisition of specific "soft" skills by the individual. They are primarily focused on tasks such as learning acceptable work and social conduct in the workplace, the culture of the workplace, preparing a resume, motivation for work and maintaining a job, and other skills such as, but not limited to, work-related daily living skills, disability awareness, transportation and home health management that are applicable across a variety of employment settings.
Work Readiness for Students – Soft Skills Training: This service is adapted to provide work readiness to students age 16-21.
Definition: Participants are served by providers with employment-related services necessary to obtain, retain, or advance in competitive employment. It is ACCES-VR's expectation that the employment be secured in a competitive integrated setting and consistent with the individual's employment goal.
Work Experience Development: This service is designed to aid in securing an employer-based (unpaid or paid) work experience opportunity for VR participants. Outreach to businesses for job development leads to setting up a developmental work experience, monitoring the participant's progress and making the arrangements for documentation of skill acquisition and performance with the employer. This service is designed to provide ACCES-VR participants with real work experiences and opportunities to network in actual business environments consistent with their vocational goals. It can be provided as a stand alone service or may be combined with other services, such as a work try out.
Work-based Learning Development for Students: This service is to be used when developing a work experience for students age 16-21.
Community Work Experience: This placement service is available for all eligible VR participants including youth. It is designed to provide paid work experiences. This service is a paid internship and reimburses a sponsoring vendor at minimum wage, (and not the prevailing wage if different), plus an administrative cost for payroll issues for up to 320 hours for a paid developmental work experience. This is a wage reimbursement mechanism for a community rehabilitation provider to work with an employer who is unable to put the ACCES-VR participant on their payroll during a brief developmental work experience. Work Experience Development may be provided in conjunction with this service to identify an appropriate work site for an individual, if necessary.
Work-based Learning Experience for Students: This service is adapted to provide a paid developmental work experience for students age 16-21.
Coaching Supports (for employment): This service includes interventions that provide the individual assistance and support on or off-the-job in activities on a short-term or long-term basis, that are employment-related and needed to promote job development, work adjustment and job retention. Services duration depends upon the individual's needs for supports while learning and performing work-related responsibilities. Activities may include, but are not limited to, job orientation, job destination/transportation training, resume writing, interviewing skills, job clubs, teaching basic job tasks, supervision at the worksite, supervisor consultation, assistance in integrating into the work environment or adjusting to changes in the work environment, assistance with public support agencies, the provision of supports due to changes in job duties, family and residential provider consultation and ongoing contact with the participant and/or employer to ensure continued job satisfaction and coaching supports for youth engaged in paid work experiences.
Work-based Coaching Supports for Students: This service is adapted to provide coaching supports for students age 16-21 during a work-based learning work experience.
Employment Customization does not apply to enclaves (dispersed or group), mobile work crews or any other job placements that are based on preferred source or other product or service contracts with a business or public entity, directly or indirectly, regardless of the source of wages for the individual or the nature of the work setting.
Definition: Supported Employment is paid competitive employment in an integrated setting with ongoing support for individuals with the most significant disabilities for whom competitive employment has not traditionally occurred, and who, because of the nature and severity of their disability, need on-going support services in order to obtain, perform, and retain their job. Supported Employment provides assistance such as job coaching and job placement, assistance in interacting with employers, on-site assistive technology training, specialized job training, and individually tailored supervision.
Extended Supported Employment: These are ongoing support services and related approaches needed to maintain an individual with a most significant disability in supported employment. Extended services assist an individual in maintaining supported employment once the intensive training has satisfactorily lead to stabilization of the individual on the job.
Extended Supported Employment for Youth: ACCES-VR intends to offer Extended Supported Employment for Youth using WIOA VR funds for up to 48 months for individuals or up until age 25.
Definition: Adjunct services are those services and supports which individual requires to achieve employment. They are provided in support of other ACCES-VR activities required to achieve the employment outcome.
Providing pre-semester campus orientations and personalized tour of the campus.
Assistance with admission applications, financial aid applications, and employment related paperwork.
Support and coaching to address adequate coping strategies/problem solving skills, stress management, social skill development, and advocacy/support with professors, other school personnel/offices, and employers.
Negotiating the residential setting (if applicable – to college housing).
Monitoring academic and employment progress and utilization of academic/employment resources.
Identification of on-campus or job site information: rights and resources.
Ongoing communication with ACCES-VR counselor regarding participant's progress in a post-secondary education program or job.
Assist students for whom post-secondary education has been interrupted, intermittent or previously non-existent as a result of limitations imposed by their disability.


The late summer feel on the delta of 'Redshanks everywhere' is getting underway, with nearly 1300 on the 6th. Other large totals include Little Egret at 1017 and Spoonbills at almost 500. White Pelicans are on the move back to Africa, with 409 stopping off on the 6th as they meander eastwards towards the short sea crossing of the Bosporus. Storks were present with 94 Whites and 34 Blacks. Autumn passage of Garganey is already building with 285 on the 6th.


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The ethics of AI, liveable cities, unf*cking work and how the office needs to be more like your home…
by Mark Eltringham • IN Magazine, News, Premium Content
IN13 is in production but you can see the digital edition of issue 12 of IN Magazine here. It continues to explore the most up to date topics for workplace managers and executives. Including: a look at the reality of liveable cities; why offices now need to offer people more privacy, peace and quiet; how firms need to address the challenges of the circular economy; a case study from the dynamic city of Ljubljana; David Sharp on the ethics of AI; Chelsea Perino on hybrid working; a critical review of Neil Usher's new book; Marie Puybaraud of JLL in conversation; and much more. All back issues of IN can be found here. And why not check out Works Magazine and Work&Place Journal too. More →
Decarbonisation of buildings key to cities hitting net zero targets
by Neil Franklin • Environment, News, Property
City governments are setting ambitious sustainability targets, often well ahead of national goals; yet plans to tackle the carbon emissions from buildings are frequently given insufficient attention. To deliver an effective plan for the decarbonisation of buildings, partnerships with landlords, investors, developers and occupiers are essential, the report claims. In a study of 32 global urban centres, Decarbonising Cities and Real Estate, JLL's research claims that real estate's contribution to emissions averages 60 percent, even higher in the world's largest business centres – as much as 78 percent in London, 73 percent in Tokyo, 71 percent in Washington, DC, 70 percent in Paris and 66 percent in New York. More →
Nature based solutions have the potential to transform cities and buildings
by Jayne Smith • Architecture, Cities, Environment, News
The UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) has launched a new framework to help organisations and planners to recognise the significant value and benefit of nature-based solutions across urban developments. The report claims to reveal the scale of positive outcomes which Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) can deliver, as well as the wide range of stakeholders who can benefit from their implementation across cities and urban areas. More →
UK tech talent shifts from London to other cities
by Neil Franklin • Cities, HR, News
The number of professionals with technology skills is expanding at a faster pace in the North of England than in London and the South of England, as demand for technology talent increases around the country, according to the latest U.K. Tech Talent Tracker from Accenture. The tracker, which analyses LinkedIn's Professional Network data, finds that the pool of technology talent in cities in the North of England has grown on average by 15 percent in the last year, outpacing southern cities that grew on average at 9 percent. Technology talent in cities across Scotland and Wales has grown on average by 5 percent and 9 percent respectively. More →
Cities need to open themselves up to Nature, report claims
by Jayne Smith • Cities, Environment, News
Cities contribute 80 percent to global GDP – but they also account for 75 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Integrating nature-positive solutions can help protect cities from growing risks associated with extreme weather while driving sustainable economic growth, according to a new study from the World Economic Forum. In collaboration with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute and Government of Colombia, WEF's BiodiverCities by 2030 Initiative published a report addressing the urgency of cities' untenable relationship with nature. The Initiative's goal is to reverse this existential global threat and move forward with a plan that will result in cities and nature co-existing in harmony by the end of the decade. More →
Pandemic highlights the need for smarter, more adaptable offices and cities
by Cedrik Neike • Features, Technology
The coronavirus pandemic is a new experience for every one of us. It has changed life as we know it – at work, at home and for public interactions. As some countries start to ease restrictions on public life, how can we go back to 'normal' while still maintaining social distancing and feeling safe? How do we manage crowded public spaces like shopping malls, cinemas and restaurants? How do we optimize safety in our offices and factories? More importantly, how do we avoid shutting down entire cities and countries when the next pandemic hits? More →
Smart cities infrastructure investment to top US$375 billion in 2030
by Neil Franklin • Cities, News, Technology
According to technology intelligence firm ABI Research, investments in urban infrastructure aimed at implementing new visions for smart cities will reach US$375 billion by 2030 as cities invest in brownfield and greenfield projects. Drivers behind urban innovation are numerous but both the digitalisation of lifestyles, accelerated by Covid-19, and the increasingly pressing need to address climate change are powerful engines for metropolitan transformation. Additional agents of change include the call for more equity and inclusiveness, scalable economic development, and more affordable living. More →
Commercial property markets in major UK cities won't meet sustainability targets
Six of the UK's key regional economic centres risk not achieving their net zero targets, unless significant action is taken to upgrade and improve their commercial property in the next 10 years, according to new analysis by JLL. The report, Sustainability and Value in the Regions, suggests that 90 percent of the office stock in England and Wales' largest regional office markets is at risk of not meeting the UK government's target for all non-domestic properties to have an EPC B rating by 2030. These findings come at a time when three of the cities analysed – Birmingham, Bristol (pictured) and Cardiff – have committed to achieving net zero status by 2030. Leeds and Manchester, both aim to be net zero by 2038. More →
London ranks as top smart city in the 'Cities of the Future Index'
by Jayne Smith • Cities, News
Through analysis of mobility, technology, business and environmental data, London ranks as the number one most intelligent and future-proof city for cities with a population of over three million people, with New York and San Francisco taking second and third place respectively, according to a new index from EasyPark, the parent company of RingGo. More →
Climate change action highlighted by coalition ahead of Cities, Regions and Built Environment Day at COP26
by Neil Franklin • Environment, News
Following the sobering message from the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, a coalition led by C40, the Global Alliance for Building and Construction (GlobalABC), The Resilience Shift, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) announce #BuildingToCOP26 — a partnership to promote radical collaboration for climate change action ahead of the Cities, Regions and Built Environment Day at COP26. More →
Cities could be more important post-pandemic, not less, suggests report
by Neil Franklin • Cities, Flexible working, News
Paradoxically, more in-person work environments and the concentration of jobs in cities could be a medium- to long-term impact of the pandemic's shift to remote working, suggests Citi GPS Technology at Work: The Coming of the Post-Production Society, a report produced by Citi and the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. The report cites the automation of manufacturing and clerical tasks alongside the potential for professional services jobs that can be done remotely to be done cheaper overseas as the start of a foundational shift in developed economies. The future of work in these countries, it suggests, could be based largely on innovation, exploration and creative thinking which require face-to-face interaction and geographic proximity. More →
Helsinki, Oslo and Zurich are cities with the best work-life balance
by Jayne Smith • Flexible working, News, Working culture
Mobile access company Kisi has released their annual study examining which cities around the world promote the most holistic work-life balance. With the goal of enhancing an individual's personal and professional life through technological innovation, Kisi has endeavored to find out which coveted metropolises worldwide are meeting their residents' lifestyle demands to make their city a more attractive place overall to work and live. More →


Human Resources (HR) Communications is part of the Global Employee Communications team and creates and drives communications for Nike's HR strategies around the world.
The core focus of this senior role will be to lead and drive a strategy to engage and inspire employees and drive a key people and culture narrative for Nike.
Create a strategic communications vision for the HR organization and key strategic communications deliverables for HR across the NIKE, Inc. enterprise, including how to connect, communicate with and engage all employees through HR's strategic functions (Total Rewards, Talent & Org Effectiveness, Talent Acquisition, Diversity & Inclusion, HR Service & Operations, Employee Relations). In the business, the vision will come to life in how HR shows up for and supports various functions: Marketplace, Converse, Global Operations, Strategic Function and Categories, Design, Product and Merchandising.
Create an employee and external communications strategy for HR to connect with all NIKE, Inc. employees, as well as a communications strategy to connect HR with HR.
Lead and drive tactical execution of communications strategy with HR Communications team. Work with external partners to drive key narrative and storylines where relevant.
Support all communications for NIKE, Inc.'s Chief Human Resources Officer (employee and external) and the HR Leadership Team. Drive employee communications strategies for all HR Vice Presidents to engage and inspire their employees.
Create strong narrative for HR and lead strategic storytelling for employees and externally, including driving select media interviews and externally speaking engagements when appropriate. Manage communications strategy and execution for Nike's employment brand internally and externally across multiple channels.
Manage issues as needed across HR portfolio. Continue to build, lead, drive and inspire diverse, global HR communications team.
The work will also include when appropriate relevant overall communications support for the team including writing, Q&As, press releases and speech writing.
The person in this role should have thorough experience in senior level HR communications and strategy, strategic media relations, leading a team, managing complex information, message and strategy development and excellent writing skills. This role requires a very thorough communicator with deep multi-channel experience and experience building and leading teams.
Bachelor's degree (minimum) in journalism, PR, English, communications, business, or related field required.
Demonstrated ability to communicate plans across a complex matrix on a corporate, regional and functional basis, including presenting before audiences of various sizes and cultures.
Experience initiating and driving the ideation process and contributing meaningful, innovative strategies to the business at concept stage.
Successful experience in working effectively at a very senior level with a proven ability to help provide guidance and direction to peers.
On the ground media/PR experience with ability to communicate clearly as a company spokesperson both on and off camera.
Experience leading communications strategy for major events, media outreach and across multiple vendor relationships including website management and content creation.
Deep understanding of both evolving consumer communications environment and digital landscape.
Experience working on high profile consumer brands is preferred.


At the time of this writing, there were over 1.1. billion websites on the web.
By the end of today, over 5 million blog posts will be published (this doesn't count the number of white papers, press release, etc).
631 posts will have been published by the time you're done reading this post.
Kind of puts things in perspective, doesn't it? If someone clicks your headline in the SERPs, it's kind of a miracle – especially if you haven't done any optimization.
As hard as it is to get someone to your site, once they get there you have to keep them. You have to persuade them, in an incredibly short amount of time (in 2014 it was about 15 seconds) – Not only do you have to stand out, but once they get in you have to persuade them, in the short amount of time you have, that you have what they need.
So what could be missing in your content? As it turns out, quite a lot.
Let's assume that you are targeting the right market. I know, that's a big assumption, but stick with me.
You expect a single content to achieve more than one objective, so it's not focused.
Each one of these is a big problem. If you hit more than one, your content goals are probably failing horribly. Time to fix that.
What are you writing for? I don't mean the obvious answer – business growth. I mean, the next piece of content, what is it for? What single action do you expect your readers to do?
Choose a single objective, pinpoint the key results, and move forward (come back or subscribe to learn more about this process called OKR).
Since we're assuming that you have the right target market, how could you be writing for the wrong audience? Simply put, web readers are not the same as print readers. Even those that read books with glee have a tendency to shift into the mindset of a web reader once they get online.
With few exceptions, the people reading your blog posts are not sophisticated creatures ready to settle down with a good blog post and a glass of wine. In general, the people reading your blogs are wild animals. We use information foraging to decide whether you have the information we need. We don't want to read long posts unless we know we're going to get something out of it.
Humans are silly creatures. We do things because that's what we think we're supposed to do. Maybe we think people won't know we have an awesome product unless we tell them. So, we're supposed to tell them that our product is awesome, fresh, and better than any other, right? Obviously.
And yet, there are many companies out there that manage to get conversions without telling everyone how cool their product is. Take Dropbox, for example.
Now, if you don't have umpteen million files all over the place, and all you ever use the computer for is search, games and maybe some music, that's not real interesting. If you're like me, however, this is interesting. I mean, as a business owner, I like being able to reach my files no matter where I am.
And it's free? And they offer a one-click sign up with my Google login? Huge bonus and a time saver? I'm so there. Consider me converted (I really am; I have a Dropbox account that I use with my clients when big files need to be passed back and forth).
Nowhere on that page do they come out and say how awesome their product is. They're relying on their target market thinking it's awesome. Because, hey, their target market are the people who need it.
This is the key. If your product is something people need, it's already half-way awesome. If you're providing information that people want to know, you're already halfway there to persuasive.
I'm not going to lie to you. Creating content is easy – anybody can type a sentence. However, creating persuasive content that people to react is hard. It's like, Parkour hard (if you don't know what parkour is, look it up. Now that's cool! Crazy, but cool). We're talking epic grade jumps.
Creating content that stands out from 5 million other posts and persuades people to act is even harder than that.
– But it's not hit and miss. There are many (not millions, but lots) individuals that have found the secret of constantly creating excellent, converting, persuasive content. Follow the tips above. Read through our blog. Read through other blogs. And when you finally have an understanding of what it all entails, give us a call. We'll help you build a clear content strategy to get your content to the right channels.
Until we hear from you, to your success!