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From electric cars that travel hundreds of miles on a single charge to chainsaws as mighty

as gas-powered versions, new products hit the market each year that take advantage of

recent advances in battery technology.

But that growth has led to concerns that the world's supply of lithium, the metal at

the heart of many of the new rechargeable batteries, may eventually be depleted.

Now researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found new evidence suggesting

that batteries based on sodium and potassium hold promise as a potential alternative to

lithium-based batteries.

One of the biggest obstacles for sodium- and potassium-ion batteries has been that they

tend to decay and degrade faster and hold less energy than alternative.

But the researchers have found that's not always the case.

The research team looked at how three different ions – lithium, sodium, and potassium – reacted

with particles of iron sulfide, also called pyrite and fool's gold..

As batteries charge and discharge, ions are constantly reacting with and penetrating the

particles that make up the battery electrode.

This reaction process causes large volume changes in the electrode's particles, often

breaking them up into small pieces.

Because sodium and potassium ions are larger than lithium, it's traditionally been thought

that they cause more significant degradation when reacting with particles.

In their experiments, the reactions that occur inside a battery were directly observed inside

an electron microscope, with the iron sulfide particles playing the role of a battery electrode.

The researchers found that iron sulfide was more stable during reaction with sodium and

potassium than with lithium, indicating that such a battery based on sodium or potassium

could have a much longer life than expected.

The difference between how the different ions reacted was stark visually.

When exposed to lithium, iron sulfide particles appeared to almost explode under the electron

microscope.

On the contrary, the iron sulfide expanded like a balloon when exposed to the sodium

and potassium.

Lithium batteries are still the most attractive right now because they have the most energy

density – you can pack a lot of energy in that space.

Sodium and potassium batteries at this point don't have more density, but they are based

on elements a thousand times more abundant in the earth's crust than lithium.

So they could be much cheaper in the future, which is important for large scale energy

storage – backup power for homes or the energy grid of the future.

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Why am I always so restless? Tarot Reading by Alejandro Jodorowsky for Giorgio - Duration: 17:17.

Dear Giorgio Bertolotti,

Giorgio

Bertolotti,

thank you

for having helped us

finish the movie Endless Poetry.

In exchange for that

I will try to read you the tarot.

Considering the cards you chose:

number 11,

the fool, which has no number,

number 11, the fool

and number 21,

it's very difficult for me

to read you the tarot.

I will do my best

to help you,

but it will be difficult.

Your question is as follows:

"Why

am I always so restless?

I cannot feel

cheerful anymore.

I run

after happiness

without being able to catch it.

Why?

What can I do?"

Look:

you are already 35 years old.

If you were 20 years old

it would be easier to tell him.

The fact that at 35 years old you still

haven't found what you desire

is a little bigger

problem.

It means that your...

your mind

has

tattoos

from the education you received,

tattoos from your family,

tattoos from society,

tattoos from...

from cultural history.

I don't see

another way to...

to analyze the cards you chose,

which are excellent.

Notice that you have a start: strength.

Strength has...

has all her creative energy, you see?

And she has the strength, that is to say she can dominate her animality.

She can dominate it.

She has a big mind, you see?

And she is barefoot, which means she is in full reality, she is in full reality.

And then that effort, the beast she has here,

she spiritualizes it.

The animal is painted

in blue, it's always the spiritualization of ego.

And this spiritualized ego contacts her essential being,

the fool,

a musician

that has no number,

that carries only the essentials,

that goes forward energetically,

that is precisely

the root, that forms a duo

with the world.

The fool goes to the world,

that's the whole story of the tarot.

The fool, which has no number, goes to the world,

which is the full fulfillment of the human being:

intellectual fulfillment,

emotional fulfillment,

sexual fulfillment,

material, corporal fulfillment

with the creation or the encounter of the soul.

That's the fulfillment,

it's what you've been chasing.

And here is the...

the...

the fool

chasing

the world, but he doesn't look at it.

Look:

he doesn't look at it,

but he looks

that way.

He looks

towards an illusion.

The thing the fool is running after,

as you say: "I'm always running after happiness."

That happiness

is an illusion,

it's not real happiness.

Real happiness

is not about obtaining something,

it's about reaching what one actually is,

and you are not a child anymore,

do you understand?

The whole tarot consists of 10 cards plus 10 cards

plus 2 cards.

They are

10 cards

from 1 to 10,

10 cards from 11

to 20

and 2 cards:

the "mat"

and the world.

The whole tarot is enclosed in here.

Some esoteric masters say

that the fool carries the whole tarot

here,

and that, as the fool touches the limit of the card with his head, he is a giant.

That's what

tradition or what some tarot legends say, you see?

But he actually is the whole:

he can be the divinity,

he can be total energy,

creative madness,

and he unites with number 21, you see?

And sometimes

it is put at the end of the tarot

to start

a new series of tests:

then the fool is leaving.

If you were the fool...

here I'm using

the fool you asked for, which is number 22,

because I'm using the fool as number 22.

And number 22 is now leaving.

Where is it going?

It's looking for something that doesn't exist,

a happiness

that doesn't exist.

So

under...

under number 11

there's number 1,

you see?

It's number 1.

Number 1 because number 11

is the dark side of the series of 10

and that's the bright side of the series of 10.

Number 11 has...

it knows sexuality.

The magician has a table

that cuts him in two

and he is essentially concerned about his games,

about achieving power, about being what he is,

but he has his mother here, in the background, do you see this?

Look, please.

There's an oval here...

Follow the stick, look,

look:

...which is the oval

in which you find the world, you see?

Which is the image of the mother Goddess,

of...

absolute lunar

femininity.

Well,

lunar because of the moon, right?

So I think this...

this completes your tarot

and means your childhood.

So

if we read it like this

you said:

"restless".

At 35 years old, restless like a child.

Children are in a constant state of restlessness.

They live restlessly because they

have so much energy.

A child has all the energy he needs to live for 100 or 150 years.

You are describing yourself like a child when you say that.

And then you said a key word:

"I cannot feel

cheerful anymore."

That "anymore"

means that you used to be happy, you see?

"I cannot be cheerful anymore.

I used to be cheerful before but now I can't anymore.

That is to say

I already became an adult,

I I already left my childhood behind, you see?

I run after happiness."

Childish happiness,

the happiness of playing.

It's almost a solitary happiness.

The child with his mom, you see?

The child with his mom.

It's more like the child with his mom

than the child with his parents, because there's no father anywhere here.

There's strength, which is a feminine woman,

there's the world, which has a feminine figure, you see?

So...

And the fool goes with his little dog.

So

you can't reach happiness.

Of course not, because you're running after a happiness

that is already over.

Childish happiness

is not happiness,

but it's a state

of childhood in which the child doesn't know about death.

The child is immortal,

you see?

He doesn't know...

He doesn't know about corporal anguish.

A sickness takes a child by surprise,

but he is not afraid of sicknesses,

for him they are a problem that his mother will...

will solve.

He has the cure: he has his mom

and often his father too,

you see?

So

poverty

doesn't exist for a child.

He doesn't work, he doesn't have to work to...

to eat or anything like that.

I'm not talking about poor kids who...

who are the product of war and misery.

I'm talking about...

I'm talking about you.

So

what to do?

What to do?

You need to

accept

what it is to be an adult.

When does a child

leave childhood behind?

When his sexuality

matures,

right?

Around 13 years old

a child already has semen, he passes to...

to...

to another level, the adolescence level, you see?

Does he lose childhood?

Maybe

if he hasn't received the education he needed

in order to accept

that he will become an adult.

And adolescence has other treasures,

and maturity

is another treasure,

and old age

is another treasure.

I already went through all that

and I feel really well.

I have corporal aliments like any old man

but this has to be taken with humour and with...

with resignation, because old age

gives a fantastic balance.

Namely old age

is no decline,

old age is like a liberation of the spirit

in which

all that is useless disappears gradually

and only the radiance of the soul is left,

you see?

A child cannot reach the world

as it is, because the world as it is has a mental development,

has an emotional development,

has a sexual development

and has a material development.

One learns to earn a living:

it's a material development.

And notice that

se keeps the children's

power wand.

And this coin he has,

this little treasure

that is a toy in his hands,

becomes

a sort of bag here

that holds the coin.

Namely here...

here the coins are real

and here the power of the wand is real,

you see?

And sexuality

unites

with the mind via the heart,

and the body is dancing;

it's not restless,

it's enjoying what it is,

you see?

So

what to do?

To realize

you are still a child.

That's what you have to do.

How?

Well, you can do it with a psychomagic act.

Go to Disneyland

dressed up like an 8 year old child,

ask a friend, a woman, to hold your hand like if you were a child

and discover your child's soul there,

a child

who...

who plays

and who has fun.

Accept your inner child.

Accept yourself

as you are.

Sometimes one stays as a child because he is affraid

of adulthood problems, like death,

isn't he?

Like...

sickness,

like misery,

like old age,

like loneliness

sometimes.

Then

a child is restless because he has no solution for that.

When I went to see my Zen master Ejo Takata

he looked at me, and the first thing he told me...

because I was restless like you, right?

He told me: "intellectual,

learn how to die."

"Intellectual, learn how to die."

And I was running away, I wanted...

I went to see the zen master so that he could teach me immortality,

or at least the immortality of the soul.

I didn't want to die.

And, of course, it was my main problem.

He told me: "Intellectual, learn how to die."

And then I had told him:

"I emptied my mind, master, I emptied my heart."

He said: "Idiot!

Empty mind,

full heart.

They're two different things.

And satisfied

sex

and happy body.

That's happiness.

Happiness is a body that is happy

to live the present."

What else can I tell you?

That's all I can tell you.

I told you everything I think.

Because you have it all:

you have magic, you have strength,

you have freedom

and you have fulfillment in you.

The magician's magic, number 1,

the strength from strength card,

the fool's freedom, that doesn't even have a number: he is free

and the world's full fulfillment, the soul.

Say: "today,

after having

listened Alejandro

read me the tarot,

I will do all my activities

looking at people in the eyes

and trying to establish a soul to soul relationship

without playing any games.

From soul to soul,

saying what I have to say

in a totally honest and calm way,

without thinking

that if I don't play with someone

I am making a mistake."

Thank you my friend

Giorgio Bertolotti.

Thank you very much.

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Kim Kardashian thanks La La Anthony for 'always being there' as she wishes her pal a happy 39th birthday

La La Anthony turned 39-years-old on Monday.

And her longtime friend Kim Kardashian took to social media to wish her a happy birthday.

The 37-year-old beauty shared an old photo with La La as well as best friend Jonathan Cheban to Instagram.

The caption read, 'Happy Birthday @lala Love you so much! Thanks for ALWAYS being there!!!'.

Kim had on a black outfit and over the knee boots as they sat on top of a car under what appeared to be the Brooklyn Bridge.

Cheban, who now goes by FoodGod, was off to the side.

La La's real name is Alani Nicole Anthony.

She is a television personality, New York Times best-selling author, business woman, producer and actress, according to her profile on Wikipedia.

In the early 2000s, La La came to fame as an MTV VJ on Total Request Live.

In 2010 she wed Carmelo Anthony but they split in April 2017 after claims he had stepped out on her.

They have a son named Kiyan, aged 11.

This post comes out after Kanye West said he thought he was going to split from Kim after his slavery comments to TMZ earlier this year.

The 41-year-old rapper got very personal in an interview with the New York Times published on Monday as he also admitted to contemplating suicide 'all the time.

Kanye - who has kids North, five, Saint, two, and five-month-old Chicago - also revealed he feared his wife would end their relationship following his now infamous rant in which he said slavery over 400 years 'sounds like a choice.

He confessed: 'There was a moment where I felt like after TMZ, maybe a week after that, I felt like the energy levels were low, and I called different family members and was asking, you know, "Was Kim thinking about leaving me after TMZ?" So that was a real conversation.

For more infomation >> Kim Kardashian thanks La La Anthony for 'always being there' as she wishes her pal a happy 39th btd - Duration: 3:11.

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Bellator targeting welterweight grand prix for September

Bellator MMA is staying in the grand prix business.

With its heavyweight tournament in full swing, the promotion is targeting an eight-man welterweight grand prix to kick off September 29 in San Jose on the same stacked card that will also feature Gegard Mousasi vs.

Rory MacDonald in a champion vs.

champion superfight, as well as a fourth showdown between MMA legends Wanderlei Silva and Quinton Jackson.

Promotion officials confirmed the news Tuesday at a press conference at Viacom's New York headquarters that doubled as an announcement of a new "nine-figure, multi-year distribution deal" between Bellator and sports streaming service DAZN.

The Los Angeles Times first reported news of the welterweight grand prix.

Former welterweight champions Douglas Lima and Andrey Koreshkov have been linked to the potential tournament field, as have British rivals Michael Page and Paul Daley, however the eight-man field has yet to be finalized.

MacDonald, the current Bellator welterweight champion, will also be introduced into the tournament's bracket in 2019.

Welterweight is one of Bellator's most talent-rich divisions.

In addition to the five 170-pound fighters named above, the promotion also employs the services of former UFC contenders Lorenz Larkin and Jon Fitch, plus homegrown names such as Brennan Ward, Neiman Gracie, and Ed Ruth, among others.

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Stevie J Kicked Out of "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta" Reunion for Trying to Fight Erica Mena - Duration: 3:40.

Stevie J Kicked Out of "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta" Reunion for Trying to Fight Erica Mena

Stevie J may have let his anger get the best of him during a recent taping of "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta.

The LHHATL Season 7 reunion was filmed in Atlanta at Tyler Perry Studios earlier this month and multiple sources have confirmed that Stevie J and Erica Mena had a pretty explosive argument that turned physical and eventually ended with Stevie being escorted from the building and not able to tape the rest of the show.

Erica and Stevie have been beefing back and forth the entire season because Erica feels as though Stevie has been brainwashing and taking advantage of her former BFF Estelita, who is Stevie's new artist on his label.

Before the beef, Stevie thought he and Erica were once "cool" with each other, and now things have gone completely left between the two.

According to a number of Twitter sources, Erica got Stevie J's blood boiling super high with a "low blow" comment that led to him allegedly resorting to calling her son a homophobic slur and not only that, but he also allegedly tried to physically assault her before security intervened.

Erica basically confirmed something went down between them during a brief chat on her Instagram Live.

"Stevie likes to fight females. So if you blogs wanna blog about anything, blog about the fact that Stevie J is a BitCH, and he likes to fight girls.".

There are rumors floating around that Stevie J has been fired from the show, or at the very least, suspended from filming, but none of that has been confirmed by production.

We're also not sure how much of the "fight" we'll be able to see when the reunion airs next month due to VH1's extremely low tolerance for violence, especially when it involves opposite genders.

Meanwhile, Stevie's ex and baby mama, former LHHATL star Joseline Hernandez, is out here screaming I TOLD YOU SO!.

The Love & Hip Hop Atlanta Season 7 finale airs next Monday (Jul. 2), with the two-part reunion following right behind on Monday, July 9th and July 16th.

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Comey Fingered in Case of Leak That Harmed US Defense 'for Years to Come' - Duration: 6:54.

By this point, the belief that James Comey still deserved to be FBI director and that

his firing at the hands of President Donald Trump was uncalled for takes an almost Herculean

act of intellectual dishonesty.

The inspector general's report on the FBI investigation into Hillary Cinton's emails

might have officially found no bias on the part of the bureau as an organization (questionable),

but it indisputably showed an organization full of Clintonista shills complete with Comey

at the helm, bumbling from one disaster to another.

This was in addition to what we already knew about Comey and his self-serving tendency

to place himself at the center of every major event of the 2016 presidential election.

That's enough to warrant his summary dismissal — and that's again based on what you know

about him.

Less well-known is how the former FBI director killed a limited immunity deal for WikiLeaks

founder Julian Assange that led to the publication of leaks about the CIA that harmed U.S. defense

"for years to come."

The whole thing was recounted by The Hill's John Solomon, who's done plenty of revealing

journalism regarding the dysfunction at the FBI during the tail end of Comey's reign.

"One of the more devastating intelligence leaks in American history — the unmasking

of the CIA's arsenal of cyber warfare weapons last year — has an untold prelude worthy

of a spy novel," Solomon wrote in a piece published Monday.

"Some of the characters are household names, thanks to the Russia scandal: James Comey,

fired FBI director.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Department of Justice (DOJ) official Bruce Ohr.

Julian Assange, grand master of WikiLeaks.

And American attorney Adam Waldman, who has a Forrest Gump-like penchant for showing up

in major cases of intrigue."

Solomon wrote that these individuals joined forces in early 2017 "to try to get Assange

to agree to 'risk mitigation' — essentially, limiting some classified CIA information he

might release in the future."

The deal was this: If Assange agreed not to release the information, he could leave the

Ecuadorian embassy in London — where he's been since 2012.

As for the United States, the benefits would be obvious; the intelligence community wouldn't

have to worry about the disastrous kinds of damaging leaks we've been subject to for

years.

"This yarn begins in January 2017 when Assange's legal team approached Waldman — known for

his government connections — to see if the new Trump administration would negotiate with

the WikiLeaks founder, holed up in Ecuador's London embassy," Solomon wrote.

"They hoped Waldman, a former Clinton Justice Department official, might navigate the U.S.

law enforcement bureaucracy and find the right people to engage.

"Assange had a bargaining chip: The U.S. government knew he had a massive trove of

documents from classified CIA computers, identifying sensitive assets and chronicling the agency's

offensive cyber warfare weapons," Solomon noted.

However, "Assange made clear through the lawyer that he would never compromise his

sources, or stop publishing information, but was willing to consider concessions like redactions.

"Although the intelligence community reviled Assange for the damage his past releases caused,

officials 'understood any visibility into his thinking, any opportunity to negotiate

any redactions, was in the national security interest and worth taking,' says a senior

official involved at the time."

Thus, a complicated series of negotiations took place that led to some major breakthroughs

with Assange.

"Subject to adequate and binding protections, including but not limited to an acceptable

immunity and safe passage agreement, Mr. Assange welcomes the opportunity to discuss with the

U.S. government risk mitigation approaches relating to CIA documents in WikiLeaks'

possession or control, such as the redaction of agency personnel in hostile jurisdictions

and foreign espionage risks to WikiLeaks staff," Waldman wrote in a March 28, 2017 message.

"Not included in the written proffer was an additional offer from Assange: He was willing

to discuss technical evidence ruling out certain parties in the controversial leak of Democratic

Party emails to WikiLeaks during the 2016 election," Solomon wrote.

"The U.S. government believes those emails were hacked by Russia; Assange insists they

did not come from Moscow."

"Mr. Assange offered to provide technical evidence and discussion regarding who did

not engage in the DNC releases," Waldman says.

"Finally, he offered his technical expertise to the U.S. government to help address what

he perceived as clear flaws in security systems that led to the loss of the U.S. cyber weapons

program."

That could have been huge.

The identity of the hackers who broke into the DNC computers has been bitterly contested

since WikiLeaks started publishing the hacked emails in 2016.

However, as things were progressing, Warner contacted Waldman with some instructions that

were apparently directly from James Comey.

"He told me he had just talked with Comey and that, while the government was appreciative

of my efforts, my instructions were to stand down, to end the discussions with Assange,"

Waldman says.

This, apparently, wasn't the chosen strategy of the Justice Department, which preferred

to go forward with the negotiations.

"Multiple sources tell me the FBI's counterintelligence team was aware and engaged in the Justice

Department's strategy but could not explain what motivated Comey to send a different message

around the negotiations through Warner," Solomon wrote.

"A lawyer for Comey did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

"The constructive, principled discussions with DOJ that occurred over nearly two months

were complicated by the confusing 'stand down' message," Waldman says."

While the negotiations continued, "the episode sowed distrust in Assange's camp."

The negotiations eventually failed and, on April 7 of last year, "Assange released

documents with the specifics of some of the CIA malware used for cyber attacks."

That obviously ended the negotiations.

Julian Assange may not be the most palatable person to work with, but the United States

had a chance to get information regarding actors in the DNC hack as well as to mitigate

its exposure to leaks.

Thanks to James Comey, it failed in this effort.

Whether or not it would have succeeded in the first place will be a matter of eternal

debate, but the point is that Comey managed to sabotage it before it could even begin.

Nice work.

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Kid Friendly Meals

Pita Pizza, Corn + Strawberries

Pitas and tomato sauce

Pepperoni

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Making Room for Employment Best Practices: Lessons Learned From Agencies by Nancy Brooks-Lane - Duration: 56:22.

>> NANCY BROOKS-LANE: Welcome to today's webinar, Making room

for employment best practices: Lessons learned from agencies.

I am so excited to be able to share with you some of the

information that we have learned over a five-year process of

working with agencies that have actually implemented best

practices by doing.

The overview of the projects which occurred in the south and

west involved competency-based training, technical assistance,

and side-by-side mentor utilizing employment best practices.

Leadership from state organizations that had the mission and

vision to help increase the employment rate of individuals with

disabilities.

Such as IDD organizations, mental health, our

behavior health organizations, vocational rehabilitation, the

American job centers, Medicaid were a part of the collaborative

that helped formulate how we would move forward as we

implemented this project.

Additionally, many of the states used a specific 3 phase policy

analysis, which I'll share more about.

The development of a replicable cost effective model for

employment initiatives that breaks down barriers was the goal.

New sources of funding was leveraged through community

connections, grants, increased use of work incentives, and other

braided funding strategies, and we'll talk more about that later

in today's webinar.

And, in one state, we actually developed a systems change

replication manual.

To explain further the three-phase policy analysis that I

mentioned, it is simply consisted of development of a statewide

leadership collaborative of those organizations that have

increasing the employment rate for individuals with disabilities

as their mission and vision, phase I was policy analysis and

review for change to incorporate best practices.

Policy development, where the actual policies were

changed to reflect the impacted best practices, and then policy

implementation.

In many cases, it was a competitive process to be a part of the

initiative.

So, there was a memorandum of understanding.

The participants in the project had to agree to

develop person centered support teams, the work that we do,

as we'll talk later, has to be a team-based model.

They also had to commit to supporting a minimum number of job seekers

to become employed.

They had to agree to utilize employment best practices

methodology, and also they had to agree to utilize community

connections to create opportunities for job seekers to become

employed.

So, under the training and technical assistance phase that was

provided, we utilized a competency-based training model.

Knowledge transfer was the goal.

It involved pre and post- testing with a minimal score on the post-test

to achieve the accreditation, and it's important to note

by requiring competency-based trainings, the aim is to

improve not only the quality of employment services for people

with disabilities, but to additionally raise the national service

delivery standard.

Under the technical assistance piece, it's important to note

that performance improvement was the goal.

And, we utilized metrics such as tracking fidelity to the methodology

of best practices, development of collaboratives to

achieve goals.

Expanding new funding sources.

Utilizing agency and board social capital.

And, increase in time and community building, and we'll talk more about what that looked

like.

Increased use of work incentives, and that policy procedures

and HR practices had to be revised to incorporate the best

practices methodologies and expectations.

The delivery method was immersion, and by that we mean

interactive curriculums, real-life experiences and scenarios,

practicing the new skills learned, fieldwork, side by side

mentoring with a subject matter expert as the team or the

employment specialist worked with a job seeker.

And, we also used adult learning theory.

And, again, we will pick back up on what that means, as well.

We also required that outcomes be tracked, such as the number of

job seekers who became employed, the types of jobs that they

employed in, work hours, benefits, pay, and development of

natural supports.

And, providing a road map through these training and technical

assistance processes we were able to continually focus on the

process of quality improvement.

It's critical to recognize that adults learn very differently

than what we think about as children, teenagers, or a school-

based model of training.

Malcolm Knowles is the father of adult learning theory, and these are the components

of his theory that we incorporate in the way that we work with

providers and other individuals involved in the training, such

as advocates, job seekers, families, champions, anyone interested

in learning more about how we can increase the employment rate

of individuals with disabilities through effective training.

So, for adults, it's important that they understand why the

information is being taught, learning is task oriented, not

lecture, content is relevant to their life or work.

The learning process is less formal with opportunities

for active participation.

Learners are respected as equal partners in the

process of learning, and socialization has to be a part of the

process of learning.

We also know from the work that we've been doing that practice

is critical.

We often don't think about that in the work we do

with human services.

In other areas, doctors, lawyers, sports figures, hair salon, trainees, and I could

go on and on, but I think you get the point, practice before they

get in real life situations to do the work, and we don't think

about that, and it's critical that as we are teaching individuals

new skill sets, that they have the opportunity to practice.

So, we think about individuals, and this is critical, who

receive training, achieve higher quality outcomes when time

is allotted for practice, utilizing the methodology learned

under the supervision of subject matter experts.

And, we're going to talk a little bit more about that later, as well.

And, individuals who receive training without side by side

mentoring tend to interpret what they hear in the training based

on their own lived and work experience, and the cautionary tale

tied to that is that they -- there may be issues around fidelity

to the process, or truly understanding what is learned in a

classroom setting and how that looks in real life situations may

be the point at which the individual needs greater support.

Additionally, critical to learning around the notion of

practice, observation, and critique by a mentor of the learner's

performance as they utilize the methodology taught is critical.

So, they get immediate feedback.

Structured opportunities for peer practice and critique is also

critical, because the work of best practices requires a team-

based model.

And, then use of scenarios to practice with co-workers, family,

their organizations HR department, or the participant works,

friends, those safe places and safe people where you can

practice and they can critique also helps improve skills.

The model of training requires a minimum of 40 hours, and this

includes both classroom work and community-based fieldwork.

And, all of this is still under the umbrella of training.

During the classroom work, we utilize learning labs, so there is

demonstration of the methodology being taught, practice by the

participants, observation, and then debriefing or critique.

And, it's all a team-based process.

I just can't stress enough that for best practices to be effective, it

has to be under a team-based process and not an isolation.

So, we spend time training in developing successful work teams.

In a team-oriented environment, the individuals contribute to

the overall success of the organization and work with fellow

employees to produce quality outcomes.

Even though the particular employee has a specific job function

and may be long to a specific department in the organization,

there is a unity and a cohesion with other co-workers to accomplish

the overall objectives.

So, the whole goal is to work together in a

cohesive manner to improve services and supports for

individuals.

Under the next heading where I point out community fieldwork,

community-based learning and practice, this is still under the

training format of what we know creates better outcomes.

So, under the tutelage of a subject matter expert, we go now

into the community to practice what we have been learning in the

classroom setting.

And, we focus on informational interviews as

one of those methodologies that can be so powerful.

And, we can use it in one of two ways.

During the discovery process as the job seeker is identifying and emerging vocational

themes are beginning to materialize, we can use informational

interviews to meet with individuals who work in the particular

field of interest of the job seeker.

It's information seeking process where the job seeker can learn more about

what is it like to work in that particular field, or that particular

type of work.

The second way we use informational interviews is to get to know

the businesses and the business needs that may then lead to

opportunities to negotiate job opportunities to meet the

business's needs.

Additionally, under the training format, we practice how we go

through the process of assessing a business's needs.

That includes questions like, what are you most

proud of?

What is not getting done?

What is keeping you awake at night?

What product or service would you like to expand

into?

And, utilizing those questions we're able to get

to those areas that might offer opportunities to create ways to

meet the needs of a business and match well a job seeker who can

help that organization, that business become more effective

and efficient.

We also learn about business culture.

This is critical, because many times we think if we have identified

the job seekers interest preferences, accommodation needs,

ideal conditions to be successful, all those things that help

us understand who this individual is, we forget to think about sometimes

what type of culture would the person be best suited for

if someone likes to work very independently and they can do the

job task and their interest are tied to what the business needs,

but if they're not a good fit, or the fact that maybe the business

is very family oriented, then we're setting them up for failure

just as much as if we had not identified well what the tasks

are that the individual has an interest in.

The other piece during the fieldwork in a particular location in

the south, I love that the participants came back after doing

the fieldwork and identified in the particular culture of one of

the businesses that they did the informational interview with is

the example of the bulletin board.

And, I'm quoting from the participant.

There is a bull hit ton board that is updated daily and is where everyone checks first thing

when they arrive at work.

This is important as one of the cultural practices of

the business and ties to opportunities to fade supports and

build natural supports.

So, any opportunity where the individual with a disability has

become employed, that they can be in the same space with co-

workers, that creates opportunities to build those bridges to

shift from the employment specialist providing supports to those

natural support in the work setting that we all depend on.

That insight would not have occurred without the

participant actually practicing and experiencing what these methodologies

look like in the real world and being able to debrief.

So, that was a moment of learning for everybody that is so

critical.

Fieldwork also has to involve building community.

And, by building community, we look for those opportunities

to connect with others around interest.

Examples are community gardens, topical clubs, festivals, craft, arts, must

music appreciation, cars, musical concerts, activism, green spaces

and environmental causes and urban farming.

So, whatever the interest that the job seeker has, there are so many opportunities,

and I suggest using Google to look at where in the community

are people meeting who have that particular interest

and helping the job seeker being in those spaces over and over

creates the opportunity for those relationships to form.

And, if you are bonding around a similar interest, you already

are a step ahead of the process of being able to create those

connections and relationships in the community.

Also, building community has to include the work that we do.

We have to go to those civic and community opportunities

where individuals who are interested in economic

development, and increasing the employment rate in communities,

we've got to also be in those spaces around the work that we

do so that we can begin to develop those networks and those

bonds of trust and relationships.

So, it's not just building community around a

job seeker and their particular interest, and that's critical,

but also it's critical for you to be able to build those

community connections around the work that we do to increase the

employment rate of individuals with disabilities being part of

the workforce.

And, you can't talk about community building without recognizing

social capital.

And, I'm quoting from Robert Putnam's, better together.

The positive effects of social capital, people in

relationships can reach goals that would have been far beyond

the grasp of individuals in isolation.

And, social capital involves doing for others and others doing

for you.

That's how we move through life.

We are social beings and it takes us helping one another to have

a quality life, to work through those hard times, and to create

those opportunities for the kind of quality life we want.

And, after each community-based activity that we do together for

individuals to practice, as well as is opportunities for

individuals to observe the work from a subject matter expert, we

always debrief what worked, what didn't work, what are the

strengths that the individuals involved feel that they have,

what are the areas that they would like more support to shift

challenges to strengths.

And, that completes the classroom and the community-based fieldwork training.

And, culminates in the post test.

And, for those individuals who achieve the minimal score,

achieve the certificate.

So, Phase II, and this is the piece that is critical.

We begin to work side by side in this particular model

with the employment specialist, who are part of the

project, and job seekers.

And, this is the exciting fun part of the work that we

get to do.

And, it begins with a conversation with the job

seeker, the family, and their significant other, to explain how

we're going to move forward to help them become employed.

And, each one of the stages, of the work that we

do, utilizing employment best practices, is done with the

employment specialist, the team, and the job seeker.

And, that's that aspect of this particular model that I was

referencing earlier, when individuals don't, then, translate the

knowledge learned during the classroom activity in the fieldwork

in the community during that training period that results in

the post testing, there can be disconnects between how that

individual implements best practices in the community if they don't

have that mentor to lead them through that process.

So, during the home visits, we go together and the purpose of,

of course, today is not to go into great detail about how these

various methodologies are implemented, it's to get the overall

view of what the lessons learned are based on the agencies that

choose to do, to begin to implement, to begin to take action

around the work we do.

We also work together around familiar activities.

Those activities that the job seeker loves to do,

because that helps us get to know who the person is at their

best.

We work together to identify individually based community

activities.

Identified as those activities the person would

like to do, but as never done.

This helps us see not only what interest a person may have when they get to

get in the real world and talk to folks who do this work,

but also, what does it look like when the individual may not know

what to expect?

What might be some stressors?

And additional strengths regarding the person handling unfamiliar experiences, because

that can tieback into how we support the person in a job.

And, then, at that point we are beginning to synthesize and

analyze information for emerging vocational themes and we begin

to talk to those folks who do the work in those particular job

settings.

What distinguishes this model from the labor market approach,

and of course the labor marked approach is based on those

traditional ways that we have helped people become employed,

those jobs that have openings or vacancies, ads, tapping into

how organizations recruit, jobs that we hear about, and it

usually involves an application, an interview with an HR

representative, and we know that that approach, because it's a

competitive approach, leaves many individuals out who have the

greatest impact of disability and we need all individuals

working, so we think of the work under the best practices model

as an economic development model.

So, folks who can participate well in a competitive model, then the labor

market approach is a great model for many people.

The economic development model works for individuals who would not have an

opportunity to compete in those traditional approaches and

we miss out on a group of individuals, those of us who have

disabilities, those of us who have the greatest impact of disability,

and they have so much to offer.

We have so much to offer to solving the needs of businesses.

So, the economic development model creates opportunities that

did not exist, because we get into the work with small business

owners of identifying what are their needs and how can we help

solve them.

It involves community exploration to understand business owner needs, as I just reiterated.

Job negotiation is mutually beneficial to the job seeker and

the employer.

And, we utilize social capital and community connections.

Depending on the statistics, and the world of work generally,

over 60% of jobs come about because someone knew someone,

they utilized their social connections, so this is not a

foreign concept.

I just want to give a couple of examples to demonstrate how to

think about the work we do differently under this model.

During one of the informational interviews, we were

able to meet with this lovely business owner, Michelle's salon

and spa.

Michelle is her daughter, and they work together.

And, so, when we began to talk about the business and the point was

not to go in and say are you hiring, do you have openings,

that leads nowhere in the approach that we're talking about.

Our goal was not for an ask.

Our goal was to learn about the business.

And, much like discovery, we spend time in the community

connecting with businesses to get to know them just as intimately

as we get to know job seekers, because it takes knowing

the small business owner and the job seeker to be able to match

them well.

So, with Michelle when we began talking to her

about her business, she had just opened it and she was in desperate

need of a receptionist, because she was trying to do

all those tasks.

So, she's in the middle of working with a customer

and the phone is ringing, she had to answer it, because she's

trying to grow her customer base.

So, not only did she share that she would like

to hire someone who is a good match for her business as a

receptionist, but the added value was that she wanted to offer

the opportunity for the individual to learn more about the salon

and spa business so that that individual would have an

opportunity for a career path.

The other aspect that we often overlook is many businesses have

diversity goals.

They want to have employees that really represent citizens in the community and, so,

with this particular individual, he owns an insurance

company and when we talked to him about what innovation, what

improvement he wanted to make to his particular business, was he

wanted to increase the diversity of the staff.

He wanted folks who could represent well the beautiful diversity in the community.

So, many times one of the aspects of being able to meet the

needs of a business is that they have diversity goals.

And, sometimes we don't think about that.

I love Richard Branson, and he was interviewed in the Harvard

business review, and he talks about career success.

This is how he hires, and it beautifully fits with a 21st

century work evolution of doing business in a way that

is not, you know, a traditional model that maybe our parents and

grandparents followed.

He hires based on considering life experience, what we learn as

we move through life is critical, he could care less about a

person's degree.

He hires on personality.

And, there are some great interviews that you can find on YouTube.

Richard Branson has dyslexia, and he knew that he needed folks

who could help him do those aspects of his business that

weren't his strengths, which then freed him up, because he's brilliant

in terms of innovation, thinking about systems, and so

he actually establishes his business utilizing a customized

employment model, finding the good people who can do

the work with the skillsets that are their strengths, identifying

the needs he has for folks to support him in those areas that

he has a learning disability that impacts aspects of the components

of his work, and again, freeing him up for that innovative

overall systemic brilliance that he brings to his work.

So, the way that he works is just a great example of the work

that we do in employment best practices.

And, of course, many of the methodologies that we use came out of progressive

business models.

And, at this point, we have moved through job negotiation,

developed employment proposals after those initial conversations

with small business owners, talking about the needs that they

have, matching well someone who can meet those needs, and it's a

good fit for the culture.

And, our celebrating the fact that we are increasing the number of citizens with

the greatest impact of disabilities to become employed.

So, I want to now talk about having giving you that grounding in

how this model works, what are some of the practical wisdom and

guidelines that together as agencies we want to highlight?

So, one thing that became very clear as we debriefed

on projects and looked at lessons learned, what worked, what

didn't work, what stood out was that staff had become community

builders using person-centered planning to be successful.

And, this involves assisting an individual with identifying their

interest.

Helping them identify how to participate and contribute to their

community.

And, having meaningful community roles and relationships.

And, this is no different than what any of us

want.

And, I think sometimes when we keep ourselves bound by a

disability model, we lose sight of the fact that we all want the

same things for quality life, relationships, valued roles, work,

involvement in the community based on our interests when we're

not working.

Safe places to live.

So, I think it is important to recognize that we're all one.

We move through life differently, we have different challenges,

we have different barriers, but we can creatively figure out

how, with best practices, to create opportunities for individuals

with support and accommodation, as needed to, to be a part

of the workforce and have a working life.

Communities are stronger and better when everybody has a valued role, and work

is part of that.

Another practical wisdom and guideline that is important is

social involvement, social participation equals social

engagement.

To be able to be a part of the community and participate in the community and find those

opportunities around those common interests, we have to get out

of buildings, facilities, traditional disability systems

and look at the community is where the good work happens.

Where we're able to achieve those outcomes.

We have to seek out those opportunities to connect with

community and civic committees and organizations in the work we

do to build business connections.

We have to have a presence, we have to build trust, and we have to bond

with those businesses and organizations that also are

tied to increasing the employment rate of communities and being

able to help support and advocate for everyone to have

a working life.

Social capital has to be a part of it.

Investing in social relationships and the value of these relationships

to do for each other.

It's a give and take.

And, to build partnerships and capitalize on those relationships and

networks to achieve outcomes.

But, it can't be one-sided.

It can't be, we go into the business world and just ask, can you help

get this person become employed or a pity model.

You will be a better person for hiring this person.

That devalues and demeans the contributions that folks with individuals

with disabilities can make to becoming effective members of the

workforce.

Community organizations that can work together to achieve goals,

this creates the context for how we develop employment

differently.

Working collaboratively with job seekers, families, champions, change agents, advocate,

politicians, vocational rehabilitation services, the American

job centers are one stops, as we also call them, provider

school systems.

Any network that can support individual's goals

to achieve the outcomes of employment are vital to collaborate

with.

And, to look at how can we move past those traditional funding

systems to more creative ways of thinking about the community.

The power of grants, looking for opportunities.

Micro loans.

Some organizations have branched out and with flexible dollars

or donated dollars that the organization may receive to provide

short-term loans to the job seekers they're working with.

So, they have additional funding to help them

achieve their employment goal.

ITAs and IDAs, past plans.

Many times, families and individuals have contributions

that they can make either in matching funds or they may have

resources that they can pull into achieving the outcomes.

Churches, community businesses, civic and community organizations.

And, it's important to know that donated funds often

have a flexibility that some of the more traditional funds don't

have and can be richer sources of financial support and being

able to do more creative ways of helping the person to achieve

their employment goal.

We have to work in collaboration and develop strong bonds of

trust with the American job centers in the WIOA changes that

only make us stronger in terms of working together

collaboratively across systems.

Micro enterprise centers.

Chambers of commerce.

Economic development centers.

And, we have to look at how we can braid these resources

together to integrate as many opportunities to help the

person meet their employment needs, and to map how each resource

can support those larger goals.

Lessons learned.

This has been one of the most powerful aspects of some of the trends that we began to pick

up on over the five years that we began to look at this model

and collect both anecdotal and some actual data around emerging

approaches that create better outcomes.

One issue that I'm sure many of us can relate to is that

sometimes people are a part of such an initiative, but things

happen and they get called away.

So, there is an inconsistency and disconnect between the individual participating

in all aspects of systems changed, initiatives utilizing

best practices in the model that I previously went through

when we began on this webinar.

So, we know that leadership must ensure staff are

able to participate and make it a priority, protecting their

time to attend these trainings.

They also need to make sure that there is a recognize that being able

to practice what is being learned before the individual gets into

real life situations past the sustainability piece once

the classroom, the fieldwork, and then the side by side mentoring

is completed.

The practicing needs to continue, because that is how folks

learn and grow and become better.

Leadership must strategically integrate the competencies, the

methodology, the expectations of incorporating best practices

into the organization, and to the policies and practices.

It has to be part of daily expectations of staff.

And, also needs to be added to the annual reviews that organizations

complete on employees.

We also know that leadership need to be supported as they begin

to shift the best practices.

So, it's important to support organizations and leadership as they develop

the strategic plans.

We don't have to recreate the wheel.

We can provide to organizations and leadership models that can

be very, very effective that are highly documented through

a variety of sources to utilize that as part of their strategic

planning.

And, this helps leadership, then, develop the ability to lead

and support change, as well as manage change.

This is so critical, because we run across this.

If the organizational resources are not in place

to be able to dedicate staff to be a part of the systems change effort,

then the infrastructure has to be developed prior to

investing resources in training.

So, if an organization begins to just involve staff and available trainings, but they have

not done the work strategically to develop their infrastructure

so that when staff have the skill sets to begin building capacity

within the organization, and there is not a structure

where those individuals come back to new roles and responsibilities,

it's just a waste of time.

And, so, I want to stress that, because we have experienced that during the time that

this webinar is based upon.

Individuals, and I just want to stress some of these points that

we alluded to earlier, but individuals who receive best

practices training achieve higher quality outcomes when time is

allotted for practice utilizing the methodology under the

supervision of subject matter experts.

And, that's that knowledge transfer that occurs when working

in real life situations with job seekers, and it's so critical.

And, this ties to that.

Individuals who receive training without that side-by-side

mentoring tend to interpret the transfer of knowledge to

practice through their own lived and work experiences, and as a

result, the job performance typically fails to meet fidelity of

the process and results in low quality outcomes.

Building capacity is depended upon continuing to provide

best practice trainings.

We just don't do the initial training and then we're

done and things all move forward in a good way.

It has to be -- there have to be refresher courses, and then

also continual training formats where staff can tap into

these opportunities as new individuals are hired.

There needs to be a focus on social security work incentives.

We also see that there has got to be a strong focus on grounding the work of best

practices in the values, such as zero exclusion, and other

values that we work from.

Self-determination, and positive behavioral supports.

And, people need to understand the concept of inclusion.

And, sometimes folks don't see how those have to

be part of the basic foundation that we then move forward to focus

on employment best practices.

Outcome measures help us track how well we're doing as provider

organizations and create performance standards that we want to

reach.

We hear over and over across systems the desire for common

language.

One organization may use a phrase that an organization may have a similar phrase, but

they have totally different meanings.

So, we have to continue to work to identify and integrate into the various systems that

collaborate a common language.

So, when we use a particular term, it has the same

meaning for everybody.

Transformation is facilitated when best practices and

collaboration occur within and across systems.

So, we need to involve the residential component of provider

organization or organizations that provide that service so

that they're a part of the planning with organizations that may

just provide the employment piece.

Day programs.

Any employment supports in systems, the transition services through the

school systems, VR workforce organizations, and any other stakeholders.

The most successful and dynamic customized employment teams

consisted both natural and paid supports, community leaders,

community members that can assist with identifying individual

employment opportunities, social capital and growing social

capital, and all of that leads to good quality community-based

outcomes.

And, as I'm wrapping up, I want to also point out how critical

communities of practicing be for the sustainability solution to

this work, and also to continue to support one another as the

work continues in particular regions that collaborate together

across all those various systems that I mentioned earlier.

So, concluding, the webinar, what does it take?

Looking at community differently; moving toward economic

development; creating opportunities where opportunities

did not exist; spending time with local businesses and in

the community and less time in those traditional disability

systems; collaborating around the notion of person-centered approaches

that are driven by the individual's interests, preferences,

strengths of an individual, not a program.

Often, we think about in the past that we're disability programs that happen

to provide employment.

That is not going to resonate in the business world.

We have to redefine ourself as employment services.

We have to recognize that disability does not occur in a vacuum.

It is part of the local economy, it's part of the local

community.

If we live long enough, we're all going to have an

impact of disability.

Our sensory process, our mobility are going to change over time, so disability is

natural.

And, also, and I want you to hear this statement in the slide

that I'm e going to move to conclude our time together.

Recognizing that individuals with disability are the largest

minority group.

Those of us with disabilities have the purchasing power of 50 million strong.

And, I'm going to end on this.

The power of purchasing and employer engagement.

I'm going to read it.

The Nelson consumer and shopper analytics team found that 5.5%

of U.S. households have a member with intellectual disabilities,

representing 31 billion in buying power annually.

The team also found that 7.1% additional households have an immediate family

member, parent or child, with intellectual disabilities who

live outside the household.

They have a 35 billion dollar buying power, combined

this group has 66 billion dollars in collective annual buying

power, indicating that it's a robust and important group in the

U.S. consumer market.

So, imagine when you think about that across all disabilities

that 35 billion increases to even higher purchasing power.

So, I think we need to also market the fact that

individuals with disabilities need to be a part of the workforce,

and that they are a powerful customer base that businesses

need to recognize and respect and honor.

So, thank you for your time, and there will be opportunities for

questions, and this concludes the webinar, and I hope it's been

beneficial.

If you have questions or comments, please feel free

to share those so that we can have continued discussion of the

information that I presented today.

Thank you.

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