Hi there Vladimir here with another video on how to learn English.
Today I'm going to talk about talent, talent for languages, the language gene
does it exist?
Is it about hard work or is it about talent?
One of my favorite comedians, the great late George Carlin suggests that
hard work is genetic
I find it hard to believe and I hope he is wrong.
I've had over, 1,200 students and it does seem that some learn faster
Is there such thing as a special talent for English?
That's a very difficult question to answer and I guess we'll never know
for the simple reason that it's very hard
even impossible to draw a line between hard work and talent,
hard work and genes.
An easier question to answer is: Do I have the language gene?
Do I have a talent for languages?
I've asked myself this question a few times and the reason I did that is because
I wanted to know whether my method could be used by everyone
do I have the language gene?
I don't know, but I probably don't.
What I have though is a certain curiosity for languages
It's not that I like studying, not at all, but I've always liked and most importantly
noticed the way different languages sound
At a relatively young age I was able to tell apart most European languages:
I didn't speak any of these languages and I still don't speak most of them
but I was able to tell them apart
Like in those videos of people doing fake languages.
It's not about the individual words it's about the way different languages sound/flow
English, I was able to tell the difference between British and American English
long before I was able to speak fluently
I have a good ear for languages and can usually tell where the person comes from
Does that mean I have a talent for languages?
No I don't think so.
Being able to distinguish between languages is a skill many people have
it's like being able to tell the difference between jazz and blues
It is a matter of listening and paying attention
what am I getting at here
what am I trying to say?
I think that those who seem to learn languages faster
have developed a certain interest in languages at a very young age
Interest in the way various languages sound.
Not necessarily in studying the language
but rather, in the rhythm and melody of various languages
And even have an interest in their native language and its regional dialects.
I remember as a child listening to my mother speaking with her relatives on the phone.
She is from the South-Western part of Bulgaria
a region with a very characteristic dialect
and every time she spoke with her sisters or brothers on the phone
my mother would switch to that local dialect
At home she would speak in the standard dialect but on the phone with her relatives and friends
she would switch to the dialect she grew up speaking
And I would notice that.
I was fortunate enough to grow up in a family which generally cared about language
our native Bulgarian language, how we spoke and what we said
I believe that those who care about their native language, generally improve faster.
And the other thing is having an ear for languages.
You have to have developed an ear for accents in particular
It's not about putting on an accent speaking with a posh British accent
no its not about that
It's about being able to hear various accents.
Without that ear for rhythm and melody you can never fully master English
You can still become very proficient and learn to communicate effectively
but you can never master it
You need that ear in order to better mimic the native speaker
It is very hard to acquire that sense of rhythm and melody as an adult
I've tired teaching it to a limited success.
You either develop it as a child or
you keep trying as an adult
These are my thoughts on talent and learning a foreign language English
It's not about genetics, it's more about environment
somebody in your family was able to spark an interest in you as a child
It's about you generally caring about language
about what you say and how you say it
about how other people talk and the sounds they are making
It's about noticing.
Having the ability to notice nuances is extremely important for learning any skill
It's something I talk about in my book Virtually Native
Save yourself time and money and read my book
which is available at Amazon and virtuallynative.com
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How I Created Non-Dues Revenue For My Association - Duration: 8:37.
Learn what it is you need to in order to be able to be successful. Confirm it with
both your board of directors, with the staff, with everybody that you're on the
right path and then start moving. So what we did was we've pulled things back.
We started to implement more surveys to get people's opinions out. We started to
do one-on-one phone calls in order to get the opinions through us as opposed
through the whole group of individuals trying to make a decision because as I'm
assuming you would know, hundred people trying to make a decision of where to go
for lunch or breakfast or dinner - it's very very difficult. So let's get the
information out in advance. So the surveys were done. We implemented
something called open space, which was an ability for members to provide feedback
within the organization. It was started a couple years before but
it's really become a very important aspect of how we can gather information
for our members in order to make decisionsat the board and that staffing
level and where we want to go. And then the final one was, as someone who's
interested in the technological way to solve some problems, I went out and I
developed an app. I got a grant from us, from a funding body. We created an app
called AG Meeting. The AG Meeting app was used this year and what it does is
it allows full participation in the room using a mobile device on your phone or a
laptop or what not - anything that's internet connected. And it allows you to
participate using a modified version of Robert's Rules. So it assists the
moderator. It has an administrator to do all the login portions and all that
kind of stuff. It assists them to make the the meeting happen. Let's turn
to some technology. Let's try to change and develop the way that our members
interact with us. Let's hope that this will move us going forward into
more technologically aware group and that builds that trust because if we
can go ahead and get it done, they're much more well willing to fill out a
survey, answer a phone call, or provide feedback than it is to push your way
through with a member of motion at an AGM. So The AG Meeting app, we had some
we're in the process of making it available to be sold because of
the fact that we have all the rights. So when it was developed, I worked close
with the original developer. We came up with an agreement.
They recognized and built the content specifically for us. We have full
licensing rights for it. So now our members have access and a handful of
those members are using the app for regular meetings. We use it for our board
of directors meetings because I have ten board members - all of them are located
across the country in different cities. So there's no opportunity to be able to
meet. This works as a facilitation system and process to help us in doing
that. What it's resulted in is now I have this finished product that is quite -
it still has some things to work out and we're continuing to develop and work
on it as we go through with anything. I'm not a developer per se and
I'm not a marketing and sales person so I don't know where to go. So what we've
started to do is we've been looking and connected with an individual
who takes products to market. So we've worked on signing an agreement with them
and what we expect to do is sort of just set our own expected rates and timeframe
and that individual will go ahead and sell that product. So we're talking about
hard cash back into our pockets which we expect in the next year, year
and a half, because the research we've shown and done shows that this is a
really needed product. So we took an initial problem that we were having,
solve that problem, but also took a step further and said, "well can we solve this
solution for other people?" and "can this make us some funding?" So when this
product sells (which I'm expecting it to sell within the next
year), we're looking at just an influx of cash that's open available and not tied
to anything which will really help us as an organisation be able to grow. So it's
just one of the examples of how that has been helping us and how we've been
looking outside of traditional membership or granting funding to be
able to grow our revenues. Again it comes with that thinking a little bit of
"what can I do as an association that would make my members a lot happier?"
We're in a market where members and radio stations aren't necessarily catered
to by a lot of individuals. So it leaves space for us to be
innovative and come up with solutions. So we've been lucky enough. As of now we've
received funding from four different sources for grants - not only for staffing
but for promotion and mostly for development.
We're now at close to $150,000 in developing new software which will allow
radio stations to receive submissions through audio of audio submissions
online. What it also does is it takes the costs from those who are servicing
the stations and reduces that completely.
So an artist that has a CD and wants to
reach a hundred radio stations - well now they're going to be able to reach
200. Now they're going to be able to upload and distribute it instantly. They
don't have to produce the CDs. They don't have to mail them. They don't have to
have all that waste. They don't have to be filtered by one person and have
50-70% of them being thrown out. They don't end up in a library that's
full. They don't end up taking up space (which organizations don't have space).
Then even at the radio station it's hard to discover the new music within itself
because so many people are doing it on their own. So we looked at all these
different stop points of having a success, not from the viewpoint
of our members receiving a service, but from those that were servicing the
members with their own product because ultimately for radio our product is the
output that goes on the air and a large portion of that is music. So it meant if
we could reduce cost, which is about 70% of the cost of what we're
sitting at, it will really encourage people to use this software as a way to
distribute and change the system. Then what else it means is that that
extra 30% cost over the long run is somewhere between $700,000 and $2.2
million worth of costs. So if we're
capturing that, that means that that which was going to Canada Post or to another
organization who is making CDs and now goes back into the association itself. I
now have a much stronger ability to hire staff members. We've already got our
first staff member hired for the project, more on the way for management of it. And
it means that in the long run, as an association, we can start to add members
with regards to staffing and maximize what we need in the office to be
successful. At some point, this is going to start to see a lot more funds coming
in that are necessary for the organization itself. So we see this as a
cycle where we're actually going to be kicking back some of those funds to our
members. So the members that use the service will, in the end, be getting
paid for the service. It'll pay for their costs within the station. It'll pay for
their membership. Maybe down the road, we'll be a member-free organization - a
membership-fee-free organization, where you're going to get some money to
actually join and participate and provide opportunities for multiple
sectors to grow. So for our standpoint, it's taking a look at some of
those, again, outlier expectations of what our sectors doing. What are
people or what are places or gaps in the sector that need to be filled and have
the association itself take a risk on attempting to fill those gaps?
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8 Immediate Benefits Of Ice Cubes For Your Skin - Duration: 3:02.
8 Immediate Benefits Of Ice Cubes For Your Skin
An ice cube can soothe pimples, sunburns, and skin inflammation.
It reduces redness and swelling and numbs the pain.
A face massage with ice cubes can brighten your complexion by boosting circulation.
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To relieve puffy eyes, make green tea ice cubes for instant relief.
Ice cubes can also prevent wrinkles by tightening the skin.
It'll also create a smoother surface for makeup.
When it comes to beauty hacks, an ice cube is the most underrated product.
It's easy to make and is extremely versatile.
Best of all, it is practically free! There's probably some in your freezer right now.
The effects of using ice cubes on the face are amazing.
These 8 benefits of ice cubes for your skin will elevate your beauty routine, making it easier to deal with common skin issues.
Reduce Pimples And Inflammation.
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February Comebacks To Get Ready For(News) - Duration: 3:26.
February Comebacks To Get Ready For
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gugudan will be making a comeback with their new single album Act. 04 Cait Sith on February 1, after a slight delay from its original January 31 release date. 14-member boy group 14U will also be returning on February 1 with a new single album.
CLC will release their song To the Sky on February 1 ahead of their next comeback. The song is said to be designed as a message of support to everyone as they make a new start in the new year.
Yoon Mi Rae will be putting out her new pre-release track No Gravity on February 2, ahead of her comeback thats scheduled for the first half of the year.
Super Junior-Ms Henry is sharing his self-composed song Monster on February 2 at 6 p.m. KST.
February 5 is the day of SEVENTEENs comeback with their special album Directors Cut, featuring the title track Thanks.
Hyorin is sharing a new digital single on February 6 at 6 p.m. KST. It will be her first solo release since she left Starship Entertainment and set up her own agency.
Dynamic Duo will be making their first comeback in over two years with a new digital single on February 7. Singer Hong Jin Young will also make a return that day with a new single album.
In addition, girl group APRIL is preparing a special unit album for February 7.
On February 12, duo CoCoSoRi is returning with Mi Amor, a year and eight months since their last release. Member Kim So Ri recently came in No. 7 among the female contestants on MIXNINE..
Singer Park Bo Ram is planning a comeback on February 13 with a winter ballad. More to look forward to. There are many other artists that are planning comebacks in February but havent announced dates yet!.
WINNERs comeback is planned for late February, Highlights Yang Yoseob is making a long-awaited solo comeback in mid-February, and Cosmic Girls is aiming for a return towards the end of the month.
Theres guaranteed to be much more K-pop coming in February, so stay tuned!.
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How To Leverage Marketing Technologies For Your Association - Duration: 6:35.
My name is Devin Bartley. I'm the Assistant Director of Marketing
Communications at NMHC or The National Multi-Family Housing Council. We
bring together the prominent owners, managers, and developers to help create
thriving communities by providing homes for 38 million Americans. NMHC -
provide a form of insight, advocacy, and action that enables both our members and
the communities they serve to help build and thrive. The overall marketing
campaign - overall marketing process - we created a scoring model that use your
interacted with, or our website. So basically certain keywords. Say you
interacted with, or engaged with content that included the word
"object" in it or included the word "data" or "data privacy" or "data security", we
would increase your score. We would use a baseline threshold of that score
in order to qualify you for the campaign along with other things that show
intent. So essentially with behavioral scoring, what we do - we try to look for
intent because it's a lot easier to market to or to sell something to somebody
who expresses intent to buy in the first place, intent to purchase. So just pretty
much a way of just re-targeting folks but without having to write anything
before you target them. So we determine it based on certain keywords that pretty
much we see applying to that product or that conference. Whether
it's an educational resource, whatever it may be. And we know that for at least our
meetings and our conferences, they are about certain topics. So for the same
example, like Optech, its about operations technology. It applies to our industries
or we're talking about sustainability, talking about marketing, talking about operations - it's
in the actual title. You're talking about these different topics
and subtopics. What we do is we call a list together of those topics
we curate a list, we put it into our system. And it's based on what we
define as a key word that we think apply directly to that product. And that
would contribute or be the driving factor of that behavioral score.
If we talk about marginal utility first, you have
each incremental increase of any used product. So let's say emails. You see that
people derive less and less utility from it. So say you're trying to sell
something to somebody and you're sending out a cadence (so say 15 emails) within
your marketing campaign. At least the email
portion of your marketing campaign, you'll see that their engagement is
going to decrease because the amount of utility, the
value prop doesn't really push them to start engaging any more. Right after looking at
that, we figured, we can find a sweet spot when it comes to
looking for those initial returns, looking at what the actual incremental
utility is. And say after email number 4, we see that the numbers are
dropping off - email number 5, the same thing - we try to optimize that campaign.
But if it continues to drop, what we do is instead of continuing to send somebody
who's not engaging with emails, we push you to other channels (social
marketing: so Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google Search Ads, Google Play Ads). So we
just use Facebook as another marketing channel within a bigger and more dynamic
ecosystem on whatever the campaign may be. Say if we're engaging people that aren't
already living within our ecosystem or a database, we'll use Facebook for lead
acquisition (first step). And the reason why we go with Facebook - say over certain
platforms (we go with LinkedIn at times) but it's always great to engage people where
they naturally play, so their playground. A lot of people use Facebook daily, in their daily life.
Some people use Facebook while they're at work (well, we're not saying
you should) but we're just taking advantage of the fact that you're
browsing on Facebook on a Tuesday afternoon because maybe you got a lot
done on Monday. You're still thinking about your work, your work
environment. So what we do is we target you on Facebook to acquire you
for a certain campaign. The great thing about Facebook and why we use
Facebook - say over LinkedIn - initially is the cost. The cost of
Facebook when it comes to the cost per click, the cost per impression, as long as
you're targeting correctly, it's pretty small. So we go in and we optimize based
on that down to: "well, we can run this on days, we know that we'll get
certain amount of leads on these days". And we pull them into our system. A
lot of it is just Facebook's targeting is like really, really dialed in. The
stuff you can target, the way you can target somebody, like again, where they
play - even though you're working, but it's still where you're more willing to click
on certain things. You're more willing to engage with certain things. With marginal
utility, you see that. The law of marginal utility is the economic law that they use
often. It's often used for pricing strategies that with each incremental
piece of say a bottle of water or say soda because you see some soda selling in
six packs. With each increase in that soda, people derive for less utility
from it. So they derive less pleasure from it. And you can apply that to
mostly any product or mostly any email campaign or anything where you're
doing a repetitive task. You're going to see that people are deriving
less utility from it so they're a couple things you could do. You can stop
using that channel or stop using that medium. Or try something based on
the fact that somebody's willing to pay X for a 6-pack and they're only
willing to pay Y for a 7-pack. And at an 8-pack, it's pretty much nothing they're willing to
pay above that 6- or 7- pack. So you can move, pivot, to a different medium or use
it for pricing strategy. Or you can use it to kind of change your strategy
when it comes to whatever that initial medium was. We've found that it's a
lot more effective if every single iteration within a campaign with an
email displays a different value proposition, your engagement goes way up
because people get conditioned to seeing new information. If someone keeps seeing
the same thing over and over and over again, they will eventually stop engaging
with you. True margin utility would be the same: the same static item with
the same variables. Nothing changes and you see on a graph, a slope
of whatever the engagement may be. But what we did to combat that (because
we know that's just a law of how people interact with anything) to combat that
we add a different product value proposition in every single thing we do.
For every single thing we show you within the cadence of any
campaign so you are, one: conditioned to seek new information and two: if you didn't
purchase when we said that early bird registration was closing, you obviously
don't care about early bird registration. That value proposition to you is now
void. Well you may purchase when we show you that this purchase to get the
conference that value proposition may be something that's you engage. On the next
value proposition, make something you engage on. At a certain point we stop
trying to get you engage and try to push it to another channel or another
segment of folks that are being engaged in a different fashion
because we know that, okay all these value props are doing nothing for you.
Maybe it's just hard to see our email so let's try and get you somewhere else.
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Arsenal planning for next season with club lining up summer move for Yannick Carrasco●News Now●#AFC - Duration: 2:17.
The Frenchman is keen to add to his attacking options at the Emirates
Arsenal are believed to be lining up a potential summer move for Atletico Madrid star Yannick
Carrasco, according to reports from Spain.
Barcelona-based publication Mundo Deportivo claim that the Gunners will offer the Belgian
international an escape route by making a £44million move for the talented attacker.
Despite impressing at Atleti in the past, the 24-year-old has not enjoyed the best of
seasons at the Wanda Metropolitano.
Although he has appeared in 26 games in all competitions for Diego Simeone's team, he
has only started seven times in La Liga.
The manager is reportedly willing to sell Carrasco this month, yet it looks highly unlikely
he will leave the Spanish capital before tomorrow's transfer deadline.
Serie A champions Juventus have been linked with a move for the player,
while reports from Italy over the weekend had suggested that Roma were lining up a move
for the player with Edin Dzeko set to head to Chelsea.
Although Arsene Wenger brought Henrikh Mkhitaryan to the club last week from Manchester United,
the reports claim that he is still keen to add to his attack with Carrasco.
During his time at Monaco, the player left a lasting impression on the manager
after scoring against the Gunners as the French side knocked them out of the Champions League
in 2015.
The Belgian international is currently contracted to Atleti until 2020 and his deal includes
an £88m release clause.
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Bad News For CNN Contributor After Pathetic Attempt To Slam Trump Backfires Big Time - Duration: 4:55.
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Mock IEP Meeting: Preparing for a Re-Evaluation of an Elementary Student - Duration: 10:51.
[Note to Viewers: Because English and ASL
express concepts in different ways, the timing of
the English captions and ASL may not always line up.]
Javanna is the fifth grade student in this mock IEP.
Both of her parents are deaf
and use ASL as their primary language.
She has 3 deaf siblings.
She attends the state residential school for the deaf
as a day student, not overnight.
She is a bright student with consistent exposure
to language since birth due to her deaf family.
Yet, she still struggles with reading, writing skills,
English vocabulary,
and grammar.
Her social skills are amazing!
She is kind, empathetic, thoughtful and mature.
She has a fantastic sense of humor.
Many students in her class have additional disabilities,
and she takes every opportunity she can to help them.
Nanette: Hello, thank you for coming today.
Let's do a brief round of introductions.
I'll start.
I'm Nanette McDevitt.
I'm Javanna's teacher of deaf/hard of hearing.
I'm also the IEP manager.
I'm Susan Lane-Outlaw.
I'm here as an administrator.
[My sign name is...]
I'm Justin Johnson, her father.
[My sign name is ...]
My name is Javanna Johnson.
[My sign name is...]
Nanette: The purpose of the IEP meeting
is to review Javanna's progress,
but also to hear about concerns
in the area of academic progress.
I'm going to share this
Discussion Guide.
You can refer to this during the meeting.
Justin and I talked earlier this week
through email and videophone
and looked at the Discussion Guide
to decide what to focus on,
and I think we agreed to look at the testing section area.
Justin, could you share with the group
what your concerns are for Javanna?
Justin: First, I'm sorry that my wife wasn't able to attend,
but I will do my best to share
our questions and thoughts about her.
Javanna's mom and I are concerned that
her writing and reading skills in English
are below grade level.
We are trying to figure out how to meet her needs.
We've also noticed when she is reading books,
she asks me what words mean
that I feel like she should know.
For example, she did not know the word "ancestor,"
which she should know for her level.
Javanna: I understand the story,
but there are some words I see,
and I don't know what they mean.
I think I would like reading more
if I didn't have to stop
so often to figure out the words.
Nanette: Understanding individual words can be hard.
Justin: Also, when she describes things in ASL,
she uses advanced ASL vocabulary,
and she is so descriptive.
But, when she writes in English,
she uses basic vocabulary,
and her writing is not very descriptive.
Nanette: Sounds good.
Let's take a look at the Discussion Guide, page 11.
What I'm looking at specifically in the Discussion Guide
is page 11 which we need to decide
when we pick which tests would
give us information about Javanna's English vocabulary
and general language skills.
We want to see how her English
and other language skills are related
to reading and writing skills.
Her IEP is due soon,
so we need to
update her English skills data.
Those ideas are on page 12.
Is that okay?
Susan: I think it will be good to get more data
to help Javanna do even better.
Justin: That sounds fine.
Who will test her? Will that person be fluent in ASL?
Nanette: Good question.
Yes, I will test her myself in ASL.
Justin: How do we do that?
Nanette: This will be a lot of information,
so be patient with me.
We have to make sure that
the tests are reliable and valid for Javanna.
Her first language is ASL not English,
so we need to look at how to test
her using her first language.
But, we also need to test her English skills
because it is related to her reading and writing skills.
The challenge with the English tests
is that we cannot do tests
that require speech and listening.
It doesn't mean that ASL is any less than English,
but we acknowledge it is a different language,
just like Spanish is different than English.
So, we can modify some of the tests,
but we will have to explain that.
Let's take a look at the tests on page 26.
[Note, Appendix II is on pages 25 and 26.]
Susan: Lots of options.
Nanette: Yes, we have a lot of tests to choose from.
We could do the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT).
For that test, it is usually given with spoken English.
For her, I will fingerspell the words
and have her point to the matching picture.
We could also do the Expressive Vocabulary Test (EVT).
This evaluates the opposite skill.
Javanna would have to fingerspell the word
that is shown in the picture.
She might know a sign, but we are looking
for specific English words to see
which words she knows.
She attends school that has
the language of instruction in ASL all day,
and English is taught through reading and writing.
So, we could test her written English skills
using the Test of Written Language.
It would give us information about
her writing skills in several areas.
You and her mom said that her writing is basic.
This test will evaluate many different areas
of her strengths and weakness that will help us.
Sorry, it is a lot of information.
We can include informal assessments
like a reading inventory
that measures Javanna's
understanding of English vocabulary,
recognizing sight words,
and also her understanding
of comprehension passages.
For reading comprehension, we will do tests
in two different ways.
First, we will sign a story using ASL,
then will ask her questions in ASL.
Then this test could be given with a written story
and she can read it herself
and answer questions independently.
We will test her on her reading comprehension
in two different ways, ASL and English.
Justin: I know this seems like a lot of testing,
but I think we need this information
to support Javanna
as she prepares for middle and high school.
I know her mother would agree with me.
Susan: Yes, we want to make sure
we are doing all we can to support Javanna.
Nanette: Now that we are on the same page,
let's start making a plan.
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How To Find The Right Decoder For Your Locomotive - Duration: 15:12.
have you recently bought a DCCC ready locomotive or have an older locomotive
that you want to put a DCC decoder into but have no idea what decoder you should
put in that locomotive well watch this video and I'll show you how you could
find out what decoder to put in your locomotive I'm Tom Kvichak and this
is Toms Trains and Things this channel was created to help other modelers who
are in need of guidance in pursuing their dream of building a model railroad
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to put in it that's when you need some help and trying to find that special
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playlists that I have I have them grouped into different categories by
topic so it's easy to find so if you're looking for something on soldering you
can find it if you're looking for electrical project you could find it if
you're looking for DCC you'll find it I have over 40 playlists on there where
the videos are grouped into categories so you could find them easily so take a
look at it now like always I'll have the links for every one of these webpages
down in the description now let's go take a look at this first one and that
would be Digitrax now on a Digitrax you have two ways
that you could do it you could do a normal selection and a reverse selection
on here so let's select a scale and we're gonna do a Cho and then we're
gonna select a brand from that scale now let's go and do let's do a Bachman all
right and then select an engine now there's a lot of different ones that we
could select in here and let's just say that we have what's a good one that we
could choose on here okay the four eight two we're gonna do a steam locomotive on
here now with this this will tell you each one of the decoders that will work
in that locomotive let's take another look on this and we're gonna pull up an
Athern and pull up a Genesis dese diesel DCC ready okay and these are the
decoders that are available that will fit in there and if you click on the
decoder itself let me see if I can bring up a sound decoder let me see this looks
like a good one here it'll bring up the specifications on there and product
details where you could check out the decoder and get a larger view on there
and zoom in on it so you could see what kind of it's an eight pin plus it's got
the speakers and it looks like it also has they stay alive on there I'm not
sure if that is what that is but that's what it looks like so that's a pretty
good feature that they have the link right there in the list it will take you
right to the product alright now that's it four digit tracks let's go on over to
NCE and see what they have now here on NCE
web page we have a decoder selector but it is in list form so it gives you by
scale the manufacturer the model and the first choice sometimes the second choice
and if there are notes in there sometimes they'll give you notes you
were starting out with the N scale manufacturer Arnold s2 and 145 are Atlas
you can see they have a lot of locomotives listed on their atlas
classic they haven't áthen concore kado okay let's go down to h0 scale same
thing they have by manufacturer the model and what decoder you would use on
there so let's go down to learners Intermountain will go to F7 and will see
it is a d1 45 R or you could use a KR s - s r this one it's D you know depending
on how you want to look it up with the digit I actually have two drop-down list
where you could choose it now here on the NCE you have a complete list of what
decoders will work where and let me see what else we have and they have how-to
videos on there also alright now let's go to soundtracks now soundtracks same
thing they have it in scale they have an HOH oh and 3s and we'll look in h0 now
they have the MA the manufacturers here let's go to rapido
trains in h0 scale and see what they have there now they have Elko AMD AMD
AMD AMD and md1 so in these ones they have the
tsunami to the economy and the speaker baffle kit so if you have an let me see
AMD f40 pH or f40 pH - 2d you would use the TSU 21 pin am now on this one here
you can see that they have this is a link now they set up links for the
product so you could go directly to the product and find it right there and get
everything you ever wanted to know about that product which is a pretty good deal
right here now let's start over and let's try a different brand will bring
up kado USA and we'll have the diesel okay let's see what this one does right
here does this actually show you the D yes it shows you the diesel and the
decoder that goes in it one hundred and forty five dollars and 85 cents for that
decoder let's go back to the last one and let's try a GE C 44 - 9w newer
releases and it shows you the locomotive there with the decoder let's take a look
at ESU I was really disappointed here because they have QuickStart guides but
they don't have a selector for the lock sound decoders on here now you would
have to look up the QuickStart guide okay now we have now this is a pretty
good detailed explanation of the decoder and you do have it in English this looks
like a pretty good drawing of what the decoder looks like and where the wires
go what what LEDs to use on there so that's a pretty good thing but the only
thing is you don't know what locomotive as it goes to now let's go
on over to JMRI JMRI has a decoder selection guide now you have to go through this
one manually to see this one tells you manufacturer the model and the family
like an atlas n scale for function dual mode length width and height if you are
looking for a particular decoder you could look it up here but there's no hot
links on it this is just a stagnant page where you could look up and this is a
very good list it's updated regularly and I think from what they said on here
that every decoder that was ever made is on this list so this is a pretty
extensive list here and I'll just keep on scrolling and scrolling you can see
the scroll bar here all the way down to the bottom I would say this is probably
the most extensive list of decoders anywhere but the only problem with this
you have to go through it manually to see the decoder in there and there are
no hot links now I'm not complaining about that but this is a very excellent
resource to look up decoders now I got this one here when I was looking for
decoder selectors I think this coastal DCC is a really
good one if you have a locomotive and you have the connector on there and you
can pull that up by what connector it has what the size it has and the
amperage now there are other factors that you could test on your locomotive
that's beyond the scope of this video right here I'm just showing you where
you could find the decoders but this is a very good example of how many
functions you want that amperage the connector and the size of it you could
narrow your search down by those factors right there which is
very good so let's take a look at a we'll take a so let's go to the ESU and
try it down way we'll pull up the ESU decoders
okay now this way it shows you the functions on there now once we have this
list up let's see if we can narrow that down with the functions and we'll look
for a sixth function and see if it will bring it up that way
this one this one doesn't let you choose all the different criteria at once you
have to do them one at a time let's just do it this way here we'll just go six
functions and see we could do it that way
and that's the same thing that we could only do one at a time on there even
though you're limited to one at a time this is still a really good way to look
up your decoders on here or I don't know how many decoders they have or it's just
the decoders that they are selling it looks like you know you had they have
hot links to some and there's no links to the decoders on some of the other
ones let's try a ESU right here and bringing up the link on that and it
gives you the information on it and it's 3350 I guess that's pounds so even
though you can only do one selection at a time that this is still a good data
base right here for selecting them but all the other ones are good also the
digit digit tracks the nce the soundtracks jmr i list is probably the
most populated list of all the decoders available and going back to this coastal
DCC that's a very good one too now that we have a pretty good idea of how to
find a decoder for your locomotive it should be pretty easy to go on any one
of those to find your decoder for your locomotive when I was browsing through
the DCCC concept webpage that was the very first time that I actually went and
selected any kind of decoder on there so that was the first time for me
I normally check things out thoroughly but I was really surprised that the way
that they could bring it up I was disappointed that you could only bring
up one it you know make one selection at a time but still that is a very good way
of doing it where you can narrow it down by the criteria that you are looking for
on your locomotive so I would say DCC concept is a really good one to check
out they're all good they all have their
advantages and they all have their disadvantages like the ones that are
specifically for the manufacturers they're only going to list obviously
their own decoders but on the other ones like J MRI and the DCC concept you're
gonna get every possible decoder and now I'm not I don't know how thorough or I
don't know how extensive the list is for DCC concept but that is probably the
easiest way to find it so I hope you enjoyed that I've learned something
along the way - if I ever get another locomotive that needs another decoder in
it I'm sure to be using that list right there in fact I'll probably check all of
them out just to make sure that I I could tie every one of them in together
cuz I'm like that I want if I see something here I'm gonna check it out on
this one too just to make sure that that one says the same thing this one over
here does so we'll see you and I gotta zoom out of here like this
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I need time to rest and prepare for big events, says Saina Nehwal - Duration: 3:21.
I need time to rest and prepare for big events, says Saina Nehwal
Indian badminton great Saina Nehwal on Wednesday said she is not getting any younger and needs more time to rest and prepare for the big-ticket events in a "killing" calendar.
Saina, who reached the final of Indonesia Masters last week, had written to Badminton Association of India (BAI) to allow her to withdraw from Asia Team Championship scheduled from February 6 to 11 at Alor Setar, Malaysia.
Playing the ABC will make it the third successive week for Saina, who is currently playing at the India Open following her final finish at Jakarta.
The Indian ace wants time to train for the All England Championship to be held at Birmingham from March 14 to 18. "It is not about training, it is about giving time to my body.
It is tough, it is a killing sport. It looks easy from outside that we are playing strokes.
I don't want to just play. I want time to be fresh for tournaments," said Saina, who had reached the finals of All England in 2015.
"I know people want me to play and want me to be there but what is the point when people say 'Saina lost' and 'Saina is out of form'. Then I have to face it, nobody else.
It is a funny thing but I feel bad. I cry sometime because it is not easy to take. It is not easy for people to understand what we go through.
I am not 20 anymore, I have to keep myself fit to be able to play for long and you see the calendar, it is akilling calendar and we don't know when and how many tournaments we will play and what happens next.".
The ABC is a qualifier for the Uber Cup Final to be held at Bangkok in May and BAI wants Saina to play to enhance India's chance of making the prestigious event.
"You have to understand that I still need time. It is not that I haven't played for India.
I have played enough Uber Cup and every time I played I have won all my matches," said Saina after reaching the second round here.
"I have planned in such a way that I give good result in team events and big events. So I am mostly looking at Commonwealth Games and Asian Games, those are two targets for me.
I want to challenge myself. Sometimes I play stupid strokes and I have to be smarter and I don't just want to play. I know if I am fit, I can win," she added.
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IEP Discussion Guide: Opportunities for Direct Instruction & Communication - Duration: 8:13.
Hello, my name is Mai Lor,
and I am a parent of a three-year-old daughter
who has a hearing loss in both ears
and wears a bone-anchored hearing aid,
which is also called a BAHA,
on one side and a behind-the-ear hearing aid
on the other side.
My daughter just finished
her first year of preschool.
The law called the Individuals with Disabilities
Educational Act, also known as IDEA,
helps teams of people to develop an IEP.
In that law, there is a section
that people need to think about
for students who are deaf or hard of hearing
because of the challenges they have
with language and communication access.
You will notice throughout this webinar series
that we talk about again and again
the student's need for direct communication
with teachers, peers, and other staff
in the child's language
such as English or other spoken languages
or ASL or cued English.
Use the discussion prompts to talk about
the communication access
and language of instruction
that the student is currently using
and determine if there is enough access
within the classroom and school.
Being deaf or hard of hearing is not only
a challenge in school.
Communication access is impacted
throughout the full day.
This is why parents are important team members
who can share what is working or not working
when communicating at home
and in the community as well.
When a student is deaf or hard of hearing,
direct communication with teachers, paraprofessionals
and other students are affected.
For example, hard of hearing students often
have a lot of trouble in noise.
In middle school, kids work in small groups
in the classroom,
with many people talking at the same time.
Some students may want to be more independent
and they may begin to reject using
assistive listening devices
because it makes them feel even more different.
Sometimes having students work
in a quiet hallway or another small space,
or making groups no more than 3 students helps.
In elementary school, recess may also be challenging
when kids get older and games
involve more language.
This includes hopscotch rhymes,
imaginative play or sitting and talking with friends.
For many hard of hearing or deaf students,
lunch time in the cafeteria is very difficult
due to background noise
or not being able to find specific peers
they can communicate well with.
Some students do better in a structured class,
but struggle during social situations.
Others have more difficulty understanding
what the teacher is saying
because of vocabulary and speed of information,
but they are able to make a few close friends.
Each student is individual.
Students who are deaf or hard of hearing
may have sign language interpreters
or cued language transliterators in the classroom.
However, students also need communication
with classmates
who sign, cue or speak directly to them.
If there are deaf or hard of hearing students
in the same school,
lunch might be scheduled together,
or students may play after school
in sports or join the same clubs.
Sometimes, the team needs to decide on a placement
in a school
or program for deaf students that allows immersion
in American Sign Language, cued languages
or connections with other deaf
or hard of hearing students throughout the school day.
Also, some students have quieter personalities
and are more reserved
when trying to start conversation with classmates.
Other students have more outgoing personalities
and are comfortable telling classmates
and teachers what they need
or even teaching hearing peers cued speech
or American Sign Language.
Students talking with other students in ASL
or cued speech
or even just being able to share experiences by chatting
seem to develop more self-confidence with themselves
and what it's like to be deaf
or hard of hearing.
Sometimes working in small groups of 2-3 kids
in a quieter space with a teacher of deaf/hard of hearing,
helps students to feel more included,
comfortable and confident
learning slang and idioms
and other social language.
These friendships may transfer to the playground,
lunch and outside of school.
For those students using cued speech
or American Sign Language,
direct instruction by the teacher
of deaf and hard of hearing
fluent in these languages or systems helps
to develop strong language skills.
Teachers of deaf/hard of hearing
have specialized training and knowledge
that can help students learn more vocabulary words,
and understand language.
These skills may different than
other special education teachers.
Teachers of deaf/hard of hearing better understand
and should be able
to explain why students struggle
because they don't overhear conversations
or other information, such as on media.
This is called incidental learning.
They also can consult with teachers
who need more information
about how to support and teach deaf or
hard of hearing students.
It is important that all students
who are deaf or hard of hearing
have language to advocate for themselves
when they start working
or go to college or training programs.
If they go to the local school district
or if they are in a program
or school for deaf and hard of hearing students,
it doesn't matter.
They all need to learn to advocate and ask for help.
Often students need to role-play to know
what and how to say things.
They need to learn how to talk and interact
with co-workers on the job
when they are the only deaf
or hard of hearing person.
Teachers of deaf/hard of hearing may practice
with students using ASL, cued speech
or spoken language.
Vocational vocabulary is also important to learn.
These teachers can also help connect
vocational rehabilitation counselors
who are trained to work with deaf
and hard of hearing clients.
Finally, it is important for the IEP team
to use data and observations
from the functional listening evaluation
combined with systematic classroom observations
to compare what hard of hearing or deaf students
understand in classes,
compared to students who are hearing.
Hard of hearing students,
who may have done well in earlier grades,
may need more support because classes
have more vocabulary
and are faster paced.
Direct social communication
with peers may change over time
as students become more aware of their hearing loss
and the language of their peers changes.
It is important that teams continue to review communication
and language needs for individual students each year.
I know as a mom, that my daughter's communication skills
will change as she gets older,
so we will need to continue to talk about direct communication
with her peers in school.
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