By JB. facebook.com/4mformula Brought to you by facebook.com/4mformula Page 2 “A ‘formula’ is something that once applied to what it is suppose to, works in any region, country or place. It’s like the formula to make cars, the formula to make light bulbs, the formula to construct houses . . . You can always tweak or change the details but the ‘core’ formula remains the same. Did you know that the airline industry has been using the same “tube and wing” design to construct airplanes for over 100 years? Why? “Tube and Wing” is a proven formula, the rest are just tweaks and changes (Type of aircraft engine, color of aircraft, number of seats etc). The 4M Formula, as you will see, is the ‘Tube and Wing’ design for marketing websites. If you apply it to any current website or use it to start a brand new one, you will make it a success. That’s what a formula is and that’s exactly what the 4M Formula does . . . For a formula to work, all ingredients should be in place and ready to work in harmony together. If one part doesn’t work or is not properly used, the desired result (A successful online business in this case) will not be achieved. If you are starting from scratch, start with Step 1 and follow through. If you already have a website, or are already getting traffic or are even making a few sales but still struggling, visit the following page on WDclub: What stage of running an online business are you? This will help you identify which ‘ingredient’ you need to focus on or are missing to make your website a success. Regardless, no matter what stage you are on, I encourage you to read the 4M Formula in it’s entirety, so you can truly understand the 4 components required for a successful website online”. 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However, you can definitely give it away to your friends and family or anyone free of charge. By JB. facebook.com/4mformula Brought to you by facebook.com/4mformula Page 4 Introduction Use the 6-A Formula to Create Memories of the Future Use the 6-A Formula to Create Memories of the Future Bởi: Joe Tye “Believe Big The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief Think little goals and expect little achievements Think big goals and win big success Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier – certainly no more difficult – than small ideas and small plans.” David J Schwartz, PhD: The Magic of Thinking BIG: Acquire the Secrets of Success… Achieve Everything You’ve Always Wanted One of the exercises we at my annual Spark at Dream at the Grand Canyon Workshop is have everyone draw a picture of their dream on the front of a t-shirt For this exercise, no artistic talent is required – just a picture clear enough to remind you of that dream on those days when it feels so out-of-reach I’ve heard some amazingly wonderful stories back from people who have told me that the simple exercise of drawing their dream, and then wearing it next to their heart underneath whatever costume they happened to wear to work, helped them stay focused on what they had to in order to transform the dream into reality It’s a great metaphor for creating what I call a Memory of the Future If you were about to drive to Tuscaloosa for your sister’s wedding and had never been there before, the first thing you would is consult a map and plan the journey You are much more likely to arrive at the church on time than if you simply hopped in the car and started driving in the general direction of Alabama Studying the map is a form of mental rehearsal that greatly increases the odds you’ll be there for the big event In the same way, transforming your dreams into a Memory of the Future is a mental rehearsal that greatly increases the odds you’ll show up on time for your own celebration party There are six sequential steps to creating a memory of the Future, which I call “The 6-A’s:” Aspiration, Articulation, Affirmation, Asking, Action, and Adaptation 1/3 Use the 6-A Formula to Create Memories of the Future Let’s say that your big dream is having that dream home Here’s how you can transform that dormant dream into a vibrant Memory of the Future: Aspiration: This is the fuel for transforming wishful thinking into positive thinking Aspiration is the desire to make things better Without the aspirations of those who came before us there would be no cities, no schools, no corporations, no churches – no societies We would all still be hunting and gathering in small tribes Articulation:The second step is being able to articulate the dream, in multiple ways and as specifically as possible Instead of just “a big house” can you describe the ideal location (country or city); you have a mental picture of the ideal floor plan; in your mind, can you feel the brass fixtures with your fingertips, smell the new carpet on the floor, and hear the wood crackling in the fireplace? The more vivid your mental image, and the more different senses and emotions involved, the higher the likelihood of achievement Affirmation:This step is vital, because we dream in pictures but we worry in words You’ve got the picture of the dream house painted in your mind, but the negative little inner voice is saying, “You can’t afford the mortgage you have now, how are you going to pay for that monstrosity?” It’s essential to counteract this negative self-talk with affirmations that are positive and nurturing Of course, the next “A” will make the affirmations more believable Action: Without action, a dream is just a fantasy Action is the acid test that determines the difference between a daydream and a memory of the future But you don’t have to it all at once: small actions consistently applied can yield great results Every time you something, anything, in pursuit of your dream, even something as simple as setting up a savings account for the down payment on that dream house of yours, you are reinforcing a future reality, a memory of the future, in your own mind, which is ultimately where the battle is won or lost The secret is to something every single day Asking: Any dream of significance will require help from others, and the way you get that help is by asking for it In the case of the dream house, for example, you will probably have to ask the bank for a mortgage The best approach is to, very early in the process, go to the bank and share your dream, then ask: “What I have to in order for you to give me the loan I need to make this happen?” The bank is in the business of lending money, and your banker would love nothing better than to be in a position to approve your loan request Let them help you make sure that they can say “yes” when the time comes Adaptation:Finally, you must be willing to adapt to changing circumstances In many cases, that will mean adapting upward When that greatest of dreamers Walt Disney 2/3 Use the 6-A Formula to Create Memories of the Future astonished the world with Disneyland, no one - not even him - could ...Smart Posters How to use NFC tags and readers to create interactive experiences that benet both consumers and businesses April 2011 This document is copyright © 2005–2011 by the NFC Forum. All rights, including the right to copy and further distribute, are reserved. NFC Forum, Inc. 401 Edgewater Place, Suite 600 Wakeeld, MA, USA 01880 Contents Executive Summary 4 1. DenitionofanNFCSmartPoster 5 2. TheBusinessCasesforNFCSmartPosters 6 3. ConsumerMotivationsforUsingNFCSmartPosters 7 3.1. Precision 7 3.2. Ease of Use 7 3.3. Environmental Benet 7 3.4. Convenience 7 3.5. It’s Fun 7 4. CreatinganNFCSmartPoster 8 4.1. Ingredients of an NFC Smart Poster 8 4.2. Designing an NFC Smart Poster 11 4.3. NFC Smart Poster Content Management 11 4.4. Manufacturing an NFC Smart Poster 12 5. UseCasesforNFCSmartPosters 13 5.1. NFC Smart Posters at Work Around the World 13 5.2. NFC Smart Posters Made by Consumers 19 5.3. NFC Smart Digital Signage 20 6. Appendices 21 6.1. Glossary 21 6.2. Frequently Asked Questions about NFC Smart Posters 22 6.3. Where to Go for More Information 24 NFCSmartPosters 4 Executive Summary NFC Smart Posters, dened as objects in or on which readable NFC tags have been placed, are an easy way for both service providers and consumers to access the benets of NFC. The NFC Forum recognizes that there are many business models for the technology, and the use cases are plentiful. This white paper aims to give creators an easy guide to understanding what an NFC Smart Poster is, what is required in developing NFC Smart Posters, and how to avoid common obstacles when creating them. The goal of this white paper is to empower and encourage participants in the NFC ecosystem to embrace and implement NFC Smart Posters. Written by NFC Forum members from all parts of the NFC ecosystem, this paper also demonstrates what is being done with NFC Smart Posters. It highlights some of the ways in which NFC is already in use around the world, beneting industry and consumers alike. NFCSmartPosters 5 1.DenitionofanNFCSmartPoster NFC Smart Posters are objects in or on which readable NFC tags have been placed. An NFC Smart Poster can come in many forms – it can be a poster, billboard, magazine page, even a three-dimensional object. The common factor is an NFC tag that has an NDEF message stored in it and is attached or embedded in the desired medium. This small tag with information is read when an NFC device is held close to it. Examples include a poster with a web address for buying sports tickets, a timetable displayed at a bus stop, and coupons inserted in a magazine advertisement. A Smart Poster could even be a statue of a movie wizard character with an NFC tag embedded into the end of its wand. The other important part of an NFC Smart Poster is the “touchpoint” that indicates where users should hold their devices to read the tag. The NFC Forum is promoting its “N-Mark” as the global symbol to indicate where NFC functionality is available. Smart Posters are attractive to retailers, transport agencies, health care providers, and any entity that has information to share. They can be created by advertising agencies or in-house departments that develop communications materials. See Section 5 for A Word-to-Word Model of Translational Equivalence I. Dan Melamed Dept. of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, 19104, U.S.A. raelamed~unagi, c is. upenn, edu Abstract Many multilingual NLP applications need to translate words between different lan- guages, but cannot afford the computa- tional expense of inducing or applying a full translation model. For these applications, we have designed a fast algorithm for esti- mating a partial translation model, which accounts for translational equivalence only at the word level . The model's preci- sion/recall trade-off can be directly con- trolled via one threshold parameter. This feature makes the model more suitable for applications that are not fully statistical. The model's hidden parameters can be eas- ily conditioned on information extrinsic to the model, providing an easy way to inte- grate pre-existing knowledge such as part- of-speech, dictionaries, word order, etc Our model can link word tokens in paral- lel texts as well as other translation mod- els in the literature. Unlike other transla- tion models, it can automatically produce dictionary-sized translation lexicons, and it can do so with over 99% accuracy. 1 Introduction Over the past decade, researchers at IBM have devel- oped a series of increasingly sophisticated statistical models for machine translation (Brown et al., 1988; Brown et al., 1990; Brown et al., 1993a). However, the IBM models, which attempt to capture a broad range of translation phenomena, are computation- ally expensive to apply. Table look-up using an ex- plicit translation lexicon is sufficient and preferable for many multilingual NLP applications, including "crummy" MT on the World Wide Web (Church & I-Iovy, 1993), certain machine-assisted translation tools (e.g. (Macklovitch, 1994; Melamed, 1996b)), concordancing for bilingual lexicography (Catizone et al., 1993; Gale & Church, 1991), computer- assisted language learning, corpus linguistics (Melby. 1981), and cross-lingual information retrieval (Oard &Dorr, 1996). In this paper, we present a fast method for in- ducing accurate translation lexicons. The method assumes that words are translated one-to-one. This assumption reduces the explanatory power of our model in comparison to the IBM models, but, as shown in Section 3.1, it helps us to avoid what we call indirect associations, a major source of errors in other models. Section 3.1 also shows how the one- to-one assumption enables us to use a new greedy competitive linking algorithm for re-estimating the model's parameters, instead of more expensive algo- rithms that consider a much larger set of word cor- respondence possibilities. The model uses two hid- den parameters to estimate the confidence of its own predictions. The confidence estimates enable direct control of the balance between the model's preci- sion and recall via a simple threshold. The hidden parameters can be conditioned on prior knowledge about the bitext to improve the model's accuracy. 2 Co-occurrence With the exception of (Fung, 1998b), previous methods for automatically constructing statistical translation models begin by looking at word co- occurrence frequencies in bitexts (Gale & Church, 1991; Kumano & Hirakawa, 1994; Fung, 1998a; Melamed, 1995). A bitext comprises a pair of texts in two languages, where each text is a translation of the other. Word co-occurrence can be defined in various ways. The most common way is to divide each half of the bitext into an equal number of seg- ments and to align the segments so that each pair of segments Si and Ti are translations of each other (Gale & Church, 1991; Melamed, 1996a). WRITINGNEXT EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE WRITING OF ADOLESCENTS IN MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS By Steve Graham and Dolores Perin A Report to Carnegie Corporation of New York No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission fr om Car ne g ie Corporation of New York. A full-text PDF of this document is a v ailab le for fr ee download fr om www .all4ed.org and www .car neg ie.org/literacy.Additional print copies of this report may be ordered from the Alliance for Excellent Education at 1201 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 901,Washington, DC 20036, (202) 828-0828. 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About the Alliance for Excellent Education Based in Washington, D.C., the Alliance for Excellent Education is a national policy and advocacy organization that works to ensure that all children graduate from high school prepared for college and work and to be contributing members of society. It focuses on the needs of the six million secondary school students (those in the lowest RESEARC H Open Access Development of the ATAQ-IPF: a tool to assess quality of life in IPF Jeffrey J Swigris 1* , Sandra R Wilson 2 , Kathy E Green 3 , David B Sprunger 1 , Kevin K Brown 1 , Frederick S Wamboldt 4 Abstract Background: There is no disease-specific instrument to assess health-related quality of life (HRQL) in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Methods: Patients’ perspectives were collected to develop domains and items for an IPF-specific HRQL instrument. We used item variance and Rasch analysis to construct the ATAQ-IPF (A Tool to Assess Quality of life in IPF). Results: The ATAQ-IPF version 1 is composed of 74 items comprising 13 domains. All items fit the Rasch model. Domains and the total instrument possess acceptable psychometric characteristics for a multidimensional questionnaire. The pattern of correlations between ATAQ-IPF scores and physiologic variables known to be important in IPF, along with significant differences in ATAQ -IPF scores between subjects using versus those not using supplemental oxygen, support its validity. Conclusions: Patient-centered and careful statistical methodologies were used to construct the ATAQ-IPF version 1, an IPF-specific HRQL instrument. Simple summation scoring is used to derive individual domain scores as well as a total score. Results support the validity of the ATAQ-IPF, and future studies will build on that validity. Introduction Patient reported outcomes (PRO), such as quality of life (QOL) or health-related QOL (HRQL), are commonly used endpoints in clinic al studies and therapeutic trials in patients with pulmonary diseases. Instruments that assess PRO focus on the perceptions of patients with the condition of interest; as such, they generate mean- ingful data on disease effects not captured by other out- come measures. HRQL instruments are generic or disease-specific. The merit of disease-specific instruments is that they contain only items pertinent to patients with the disease of interest. Because of this, disease-specific instruments tend to be more responsive than generic instruments to underlying change. Disease-specific HRQL instruments have been develo ped for a number of p ulmonary condi- tions, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [1-3] and asthma,[4,5] but not for i diopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). IPF is a progressive, fibrosing, parenchymal lung dis- ease[6] with distinctive pathophysiological processes. IPF has no reliably effective therapy, a nd survival rates are worse than for many cancers [7]. In people with IPF, dyspnea limits physical activity, and hypoxemia ulti- mately develops, requiring patients to use supplemental oxygen. Given these discomforting aspects and the poor survival rates, it is not surprising that generic HRQL in patients with IPF is impaired [8,9]. Because IPF lacks a cure, there is a great deal of interest in maintaining or improving HRQL, so patients can live with acceptable QOL for however long they survive. Without a disease- specific instrument, there will continue to be uncertainty regarding whether relevant aspects and effects of the disease are being measured adequately and whether drug therapies, or other interventions, have a net benefi- cial or adverse impact on HRQL. In this manuscript, we report on the development an IPF-specific HRQL instrument called the ATAQ-IPF (A Tool to Assess QOL .. .Use the 6- A Formula to Create Memories of the Future Let’s say that your big dream is having that dream home Here’s how you can transform that dormant dream into a vibrant Memory of the Future: ... the case of the dream house, for example, you will probably have to ask the bank for a mortgage The best approach is to, very early in the process, go to the bank and share your dream, then ask:... many cases, that will mean adapting upward When that greatest of dreamers Walt Disney 2/3 Use the 6- A Formula to Create Memories of the Future astonished the world with Disneyland, no one - not