Week 16. My learning process

Week 16
Date- 19th-25th of January
Topic: Business Cost. Money

On these week the task wasn't too difficult, but sweat still had. I have one problem - on distansenglish audio doesn't work (http://goo.gl/QAlS3f). I had no problems with jobs, but it is a little difficult to answer questions. It is difficult to overestimate the contribution of bill gates and his wife charity they donated large sums of money and didn't stop there. I heard that in the year they donate about $ 8 billion.

The topic of the online meeting on Monday was money and business. I'm remembered how to talk big numbers, because I didn't say it at school. And of course Martin Luther King - a very strong personality. I learned a lot of new...

I haven't been on face-to-face meeting because of the snow, it fell a lot. We were not able to travel by car from the village. And on Saturday I haven't been, because I hoped for a lesson on Friday. I will definitely look record.

I write words in my vocabulary in LinguaLeo. After that I repeat them. Very effective) Who use this service? Add me in your pride)

This is not my picture. Just fun :)

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Ed Roberts Campus | An International Center for People with Disabilities

For those who are unfamiliar with Ed Roberts, he is considered the father of the disability rights movement. He helped make rights for people with disabilities a civil rights issue. Leading to laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). All while living most of his life with severe polio and having to use an iron lung. Yet still fell in love, married, and fathered a son. Without him and those like him, my job at a Center for Independent Living may not even exist. For more on his amazing life, read this brief bio.

This past April, the Ed Roberts Campus was opened in Berkley, CA in his honor. In case you didn’t read the bio (which you should), Ed Roberts was the first severely disabled student to attend the University of California Berkeley. The organizers of the campus stated that they want the campus to be a place that is dedicated to fostering collaboration and improving the services and opportunities for people with disabilities locally and worldwide.

Now let’s look at some of the design aspects of the building. First, the building is connected to the BART mass transit system. making it accessible to more of the population. After entering the building you’ll notice is the “floating” spiral staircase. Partially suspended and with natural light coming from up above, it appears light and delicate. You may wonder why such a long ramp is being used. Well there are plenty of elevators in the building, but in case of emergency, the ramp also serves as a quick exit that can handle many people.

The elevators have something very neat that I’ve never come across before that you can see in the picture above. Near the floor is a big call button that can be used by wheelchair users. They just use their footrests to bump into and push he button. There are many more accessible features to the building that can be found in the design section of the Ed Roberts Campus website at http://edrobertscampus.org/design.php . Below is a video that highlights the campus.

Read in Ukrainian - Міжнародний центр для людей з інвалідністю ім. Еда Робертса

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My presentation - Week 8-9

1.  Pcholkin Vitalii I work in National Assembly of Person with Disabilities and my presentation about my boss
2. ABOUT ME I live in Bucha, Kyiv region, and I’m 26 years old. Since the summer of 2014 I am the senior specialist of the Department of information support in National Assembly of Person with Disabilities. The main time Usually, I work from home, but our team is cohesive. I like to work in this team, we do a lot of good for people with disabilities in Ukraine.
3. VALERII SUSHKEVICH More than thirty-five years of his life Valerii Sushkevich engaged in solving social problems of persons with disabilities and ensuring their rights. Was the people's Deputy of Ukraine and more than 16 years working in the Parliament of Ukraine and is the author of more than 130 bills and countless other regulatory legal acts of social orientation that relate to the immediate challenges of ensuring the rights of persons with disabilities in Ukraine.
4. ABOUT NAPD He created the all-Ukrainian public Association «National Assembly of Persons with Disabilities of Ukraine», which is the largest public organization of disabled people and has around 2 million people with disabilities. The NAPD of Ukraine is the only public Association in the post-Soviet space, which is represented in the United Nations, having a special status with the economic and Social Council of the United Nations and, therefore, participates in the formation of provisions and recommendations in the decision-making process on these issues in the UN.
5. ABOUT NSCD One of the famous areas of work Valerii Sushkevich in Ukraine, Europe and the world is his work in the Paralympic and Deaflympic movement. He is the founder of the national Paralympic movement and the author of the unique and effective state system of physical culture and sports and rehabilitation of the disabled people in Ukraine. Since his election as President of the National Sports Committee for the Disabled of Ukraine was formed principally new state policy in the field of physical culture and sport of the disabled, the embedded mechanisms of state support. As a result, Ukraine is the world leader in the Paralympic and Deaflympic sports.
6. S The international community has noted the activities Valerii Sushkevich the highest award of the International Paralympic Committee - Paralympic order, and the state of Ukraine has awarded it’s merits the highest state award - the title of Hero of Ukraine.

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Hello World!

My first photo that caught the eye... Read training to the employees of the station in Lviv

Hi! My name is Vitaliy Pcholkin and I write to my success in English in this blog.

It's my first blog in English, but I have other blogs in Ukrainian and Russian:

• http://pcholkin.com/
• http://invafishki.info/
• http://beactive.org.ua/

And there is a microblog on twitter -  http://twitter.com/pchelav - Follow me!

I don't like Blogger, becouse the options here are limited (usually, I use Wordpress for my blogs), but it's very good platform create for free sites.

Waiting for your comments... Good Luck!

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