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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

An ice cube can soothe pimples, sunburns, and skin inflammation.

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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.

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February Comebacks To Get Ready For(News) - Duration: 3:26.

February Comebacks To Get Ready For

With February on the way, its time to prepare for more new K-pop releases!. Find out which K-pop artists are gearing up to share new music next month below. Soompi. Display. News. English. 300x250. Mobile. English. 300x250.

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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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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

and when we have a locomotive that's DCC ready and you have no idea what decoder

to put in it that's when you need some help and trying to find that special

decoder to put in there I've had many emails with this question in there about

the same predicament of not knowing what decoder to put in there locomotive so

recently I've done some research on it to find out different places where you

can find those decoders for your locomotive so I'm going to show you how

to do it right after this if you would like to see more videos like this go

ahead and hit that subscribe button and go to my channel click right below the

video where it says toms trains and things click on that and that'll take

you to my channel page and click on playlists and that will show you all the

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.

For more infomation >> I need time to rest and prepare for big events, says Saina Nehwal - Duration: 3:21.

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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.