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Cutting Propagation 100 Hours Certificate Course
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Cutting Propagation 100 Hours Certificate Course
Cutting Propagation course online. Become an expert at cut flower growing. Cut flower growing has experienced rapid expansion in recent decades, resulting in increased demand for training in the skills and knowledge required by this industry in increasingly affluent countries. This course provides a thorough basic training for the commercial cut flower grower.
Learning Goals: Cutting Propagation BHT211
- To familiarise the student with the principles of propagating plants by cuttings
- To develop an understanding of how to propagate plants from stem cuttings
- To develop an understanding of how to propagate plants from non-stem cuttings
- To develop an understanding of the materials and equipment used for propagating plants from stems
- To understand the principles of growing media in relation to cutting propagation
- To understand how and why cuttings form roots. To learn how to manipulate the formation of roots on cuttings
- To understand the principles for establishing successful plant propagation areas
- To understand the principles of nursery crop scheduling
Lesson Structure: Cutting Propagation BHT211
There are 8 lessons:
1 Introduction.
- The principles of propagating plants by cuttings
- Importance of cuttings
- Phenotype vs genotype,
- Why choose cutting propagation
- Where to get cuttings from
- Basic cutting technique.
2 Stem cuttings.
- Ease with which tissue forms roots
- Types of stem cuttings (softwood, hardwood, semi hardwood, herbaceous, tip, heel, nodal, cane etc)
- Treatments (eg. basal heat, mist, tent, etc), testing rooting, etc.
3 Non-stem cuttings.
- Leaf cuttings
- Root cuttings (natural suckering with or without division
- Induced suckering
- In situ whole root cuttings
- Ex situ detached root cuttings)
- Bulb cuttings
- Scaling and twin scaling
- Sectioning
- Basal cuttage.
4 Materials and equipment.
- Selection and maintenance of stock plants
- Disinfecting cutting material;
5 Growing media.
- Propagation media; biological, chemical and physical characteristics of propagation and potting media
- Testing for toxins
- Air filled porosity
- Potting up cuttings
- Soil-less mixes
- Rockwool, etc.
6 Factors affecting rooting.
- Juvenility
- Cutting Treatments (hormones & their application, anti transparents
- Acid/base treatments
- Disinfectants etc)
- Callusing
- Mycorrhizae
- Carbon Dioxide enrichment, etc.
7 Setting up a propagation area.
- Creating and managing an appropriate cutting environment in terms of: Water; Disease; Temperature; Light and Air Quality. Greenhouses and other structures
- Watering methods (mist, fog, capillary etc), heating, etc.
8 Management of cutting crops.
- Estimating cost of production; Keeping records, etc.
Practicals - What You Will Do In This Course:
- Establish an area near where you live that can be used for the raising of cuttings ,It doesn't need to be a greenhouse, just a sheltered place where you can raise the cuttings you will be asked to grow for this course.
- Select ten different plants that can be grown by stem cuttings. Practice preparing different types of cuttings until you feel you can do this well.
- Place samples of your cuttings in a propagating mix and place in the propagation area. Keep the mix moist and observe the behaviour of the cuttings. (eg. does it put on new leaves? Do changes in temperature effect growth? Do any cuttings die? etc. )Make notes of your observations. You will be asked questions about your results later in the course.
- Prepare leaf cuttings for five different plant species.
- Prepare root cuttings for five different plant species.
- Prepare bulb cuttings for five different plant species.
- Place samples of cuttings in a propagating mix.
- Visit three plant propagation nurseries and see if you can find out where they obtain their propagation material.
- Test soil samples and name them.
- Go to your local nursery and/or garden supply and find out what rooting hormones they sell. See if you can discover what chemicals the products contain.
- Visit three different commercial greenhouses.
- Prepare a pot of cuttings and estimate the cost of production for each cutting produced.
Excerpt From The Course
You will always improve your success in cutting propagation, if you use the right equipment and materials for the job.
Stock plants are those plants from which you take your cuttings or other vegetative material (e.g. bulbs, layers, divisions). Stock plants are frequently the most under-rated aspect of vegetative production.
Note: 'Your Cuttings Are Only Ever As Good As The Plants They Come From!'
If your stock plants are in poor condition:
- Your cuttings may have a lower rate of success.
- Your cuttings may be slower to form roots.
- You may transmit pest or disease problems from your stock plants to other plants in your propagation bed or greenhouse.
- Your cuttings may not develop as strong a growth as they might otherwise.
Selecting Stock Plants
Only use:
- Plants free of disease and pests.
- Plants which are true to type. The stock plants need to be correctly identified and clearly labelled.
- Plants which have been grown under preferred conditions.
- Plants which have been growing well.
- Plants which have been adequately fed, and are free from signs of any nutrient deficiency or leaf burn.
Selection of a 'true-to-type' cultivar is something which may require the expert knowledge of a botanist, a taxonomist or a horticulturist. Clonal selection, practised in some countries, involves careful selection of one plant of optimum quality and type. All stock plants are then propagated from this one parent plant.
When deciding what plants to grow or stock in a nursery, you should take into consideration the following criteria:
Ease of Propagation
Is it very easy, of average ease or difficult?
Very easy to propagate plants may bring a lower wholesale price, and their supply in the marketplace might be greater. Difficult plants may be more costly to produce, and more risky to get a profit from unless you have better than average skills.
Availability of Stock
Can it always be purchased in the form you want it (i.e. is seed or tube stock of the plant available for purchase). If the propagation material is to be imported you will need to consider quarantine restrictions.
Time to Grow It
Some plants can be ready to sell within months, others take many years. Plants that can be produced and sold quickly will generate income quickly.
Suitability to Your Facilities
Do you have the right buildings, propagation equipment and other facilities to grow the particular plants under consideration?
Do you have the money and the space to provide those facilities?
Suitability of Climate
What plants are most suitable to grow in your climate?
It is always more efficient to work with the environment rather than trying to modify environments.
Distance from Potential Markets
Transport is costly, and can be risky.
Your Staff's Skills
Don't try to do what you are not skilled to do.
Someone with more or specialist skills will probably do it better and cheaper.
Stock Plants Must Be Labelled CorrectlyAlways cross-check the spelling with a reputable publication - such as the Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary or Hortus.
Planting Out Stock Plants
Stock plants should be planted and maintained in the very best conditions. Aspect, light conditions, soil type, etc. should be considered carefully. Avoid areas that have been used in recent times for any form of crop production, particularly if crops grown in the area are in any way related to the stock plants you wish to grow, or the pests and diseases that are common to the crops that were grown are likely to be problems also for your stock plants.
Any stock plant area should be cleaned thoroughly before planting. Remove all weeds and rubbish from the area.
Stock plants should be kept apart from the main production area of a nursery, so that disease or pest problems in the nursery can be stopped before they infect the stock area.
Treatment throughout the Year
Pruning may be necessary to control the type of growth as well as the size and shape of the plant. Pruning a few months prior to taking cuttings can stimulate more growth of the type which is best suited for cuttings.
Feeding should be adequate, but be careful ‑ too much nitrogen can stimulate too much soft growth.
Irrigation is important, particularly during the main growing season.
Some types of plants (e.g. those grown from hardwood cuttings) may require very hard annual pruning to encourage suitable cutting material to develop for the next season.
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Pug? As in FFVI's Tonberry Pug? Wow. The Ramuh Ring raises Wisdom by 10! That's enormous!
I just noticed that the Karate Gi has 80% Magic Evasion, that is insane!Wow, and the Zen Staff has a chance to paralyze, eh? That was a well spent 5000 GP... and it can Sleep? What can't this thing do?
Alright, let's see what Baigan is worth...Starts off by killing Porom with a normal attack, wonderful. Proceeds to kill Tellah. And massacred... alright then.Well, it took a couple of tries, but it basically became a matter of surviving and hoping the Zen Staff wielding Yang would eventually find his mark, which he did. I also got a lucky Comet early in the battle which hurt the left arm significantly and the body eventually crumbled to repeat hits from Yang, all while I tried to keep my head above water with potions and the like. Tellah and Porom went down and it was difficult to bring either back up. I also cast Blink where I could to keep Palom and Yang safe-ish. dealing with the elemental magic never got easier for those two. I could swap shields with Cecil though when I knew the patterns and counters.
Alright, so let's take on Cagnazzo!So... I hit him with Lit to prevent Drown, he used Drown anyway and everyone was hit for over 250+ damage of their less than 120 Max HP, after I had used Hope on him, hrmm... It may be a damage race since BigWave can also use HP to decide its damage.
Alright, I just let Zen Yang deal with a lot of it, I managed to keep everyone up. Cecil used the Legend Sword to cast Shell on various party members while Porom and Tellah got Slow on Cagnazzo which worked very well, it gave me ample time to get to Palom's turn to use the Shock Rod on him to stop Drown. Eventually he entered into his turtling phase. The first time he used Gush it hurt quite a bit, but Curse is useless to inflict from thereon out since it only effects physical atk/def rather than magical and since he doesn't physically attack from this point on it's a non issue. It took me a while to realize he was basically immune to all damage until he re-emerged. With that in mind I used Wise and Hope a good number of times and when he next came out I hit him with a boosted Lit-2 from Palom to end it.
Let's try to raid Eblan then...Ah, very good! You put in enemies. I did the same for my hack to assure you can't just waltz in at any level.
"Dragoons are elementalists." Um... I assume that means that Kain's weaponry will encompass the elements then.
Wait a second... "Black magic grows naturally from tormented hearts." "Heart of black" "Devoid of just character" "The Evil spell is a force of nature." Am I getting Golbez at some point?!
"Flash will grow stronger..." I wonder if its using the Counter formula then.
Chocobo Eggs, something called Zaio that attracts Chocobo, hmm... I do like that when you talk to the fellow the music changes to the Chocobo theme, cute touch. "Chocobos and Crystals are spiritually linked." I guess that's why I've found the Crystal Shards in Chocobo Forests then.
WarMech, eh? Glad to see another reference to FFI, I wonder when I can run into that then.
Haunted arrows, eh? I assume they can inflict Curse then. Neat.
So that's all six of the Crystal Shards, I'll need to keep a lookout on where to use them, oh and another Megalixir.
Hmm... Tellah has enough MP to cast Meteo now... I'm not sure that's thematically appropriate. Granted it can be argued that he dies casting Meteo because he expended his MP already into the negative since he used the 3 elemental spells and Bio, pushing him over his limit... I guess its fine.
Osmose is still pretty fantastic! Glad to see it's not been nerfed.
Um... new effect from using the Mythril Staff doesn't quite clue me in on what it does.
Mages don't seem to have much staying power. Zen Yang ends them instantly and the Mythril Staff puts them to sleep easily enough.
Morph... oh that could be bad.Hmm, the Dark Dragon seems to like Physical attacks so I should set an Image on Tellah, since it seems he might be aiming for him. The Shell buffs I can give at the start of the fight may be helping...? It's hard to tell. I also probably should have bought an Agart Axe so that Cid could hold a Shield. I never bought an Alert Helm, so I'm susceptible to Sleep as well.Oh right! Tellah knows Reflect now, that should deal with some of the tricks that the Dark Dragon uses.Whew, well I managed to win. I realized that this is not a battle of sustainability. If you let the Dark Dragon last, he will gain the upper hand. You have to strike fast and hard. But be aware that you can counter his dirtiest tricks with Reflect. The Legend Sword does tremendous damage to him, upwards of 700 and Zen Yang deals a strong amount of damage when Hasted. I managed to keep the whole party up through his Demis and various tricks and eventually took him down. Another satisfying boss fight. My levels were Tellah, Cid, Yang - 18, Cecil - 16.
You have done an amazing job with these stat and role rebalances. I even found myself using Cid's Scan! I was going to complain about you not changing it, but it is actually useful for once in... ever, since Tellah and Cecil normally have something more important to do than Scan.
I just noticed that you changed Tents to act as Cabins, removes a little redundancy and makes Tents that much more useful, not a bad change.
RUNNINGThis is a very controversial change. While inside dungeons in FF4:BoaD, you are not able to run whatsoever. Why? First, it makes little sense that in a closed, confined, dark space chock full of monsters, you could just run the other way and not either run into more monsters or fall off a cliff or something. Secondly, it resolves a ton of issues with balancing and pacing that the original game suffered from, due to it's lenient run mechanic. Eblan, Cave Magnes, Sealed Cave, Feymarch (Land of Summoned Monsters) and Sylph Cave can all be tuned to a specific level window, whereas previously, one could simply chain-run through, grabbing treasures. I was so pleased with the results, that I made all dungeons in the game like this. You'll find yourself having to ration items more, look for save points and plan your battles and steps accordingly. Finally, it ensures that all the new AI and scripting done to dungeon monsters gets seen and not simply run through and skipped. If you absolutely hate this mechanic, I can understand, but I urge you to give it a try.
Who runs from battles in Final Fantasy? Ha! COWARDS I never run if I can possibly help it. It's the absolute last thing I try, if I am getting killed and haven't saved in a while.
Well, I left the cave, normally I just use Exit but... that's not in the game. Walking out is actually quite interesting as you get to fight the foes at full power, instead of being restricted.
So I went to Eblan to see if I could scavenge anything. The first treasure one can access is the Earth Hammer, I really should have at least tried to look around the area the first time. Though I don't know if it counted as Metal or not.
Wha...?! The Earth Hammer raises Cid's stats by +15 all around?! That's crazy!
Agnostic Shield? That might be the wierdest name for a shield I've ever heard... Oh, it's going to kill my Will isn't it?
I can't say I know what the Fluffy Hat protects me from.
Eblan has never been more fruitful. There are still a couple of strong healing items to get there, as well as whatever the three Mad Ogres are guarding... I guess I'll try for it.
What exactly does a Sedative do? I would guess get rid of Berserk, but I'm not really sure. Also I may want to stock up on some Invis at only 500 GP for one.
Oh! I'm glad I remembered the Edward scene, now that's a creative use to encourage optional scenes, and that's partially what you meant by missable spells.
Interesting to see the IceLiz cast Ice-2, it gives a use for Mute... if the Earth Hammer and Moonbeam Sword didn't kill them, heh.
Whoa, what? Kain comes back with Black Magic?! I cannot say I ever expected that! A neat idea to give him those spells though.
Hrmm.. Despite Valvalis having Storm and focusing on using Lit-2 to try and bring down the party, I could easily heal back up with Cecil and Rosa. Her spin doesn't make her immune to attacks and Zen Yang just kept on pummeling her. All in all, it was over quite quickly and I didn't even need to put on Lit Shields to mitigate the damage. Levels - 25 - Cid, 26 - Kain, 24 - Yang, 26 - Rosa, 22 - Cecil.
The Tower of Zot was, oddly enough, easier here than it is in the normal game. In the normal game you have very limited supplies. Tellah with only 90 MP can't afford to just blast everything, even if you stocked up on Ethers his Speed is still rather poor. Here I had three characters that could spam multi-range spells and because enemy HP seemed to be reduced to account for the new expected damage, most were dead after one Quake and Comet, and if they weren't they were mopped up by Tellah's Fireball Rod and Zen Yang. In the normal game you can get through Zot with several strategies, using the elemental Fire sword you get to deal with the IceLiz as well as the elemental claws, using Form change spells like Pig, Toad, and Mini on certain foes to make them more susceptible and manageable. But here, the strategy was clear, spam my unlimited use weapon spells.
Well.. I learned Vitae, but did not find Bless, that worries me.
With Ether's only being 500 GP instead of 10000 GP it doesn't seem a bad idea to stock up.
Well, I was going to say that Calbrena was the first fight that forced me to take off the Zen Staff due to the counter Quake (Pound), but just as things seemed a bit hopeless Yang landed that one final blow upon his revival.
Golbez massacred me, alright then, let's take another look at this...It is probably not a good idea to fight Calbrena, at all. So I'll take off the Zen Staff and kick the dolls away along with the Fire Sword and Moonbeam Blade.
Second time around went much better. I forgot to dequip the Zen Staff and barely won against Calbrena with only Rosa still standing. She managed to take it out with a 148 damage hit with the Mythril Staff, amusingly enough. Golbez was a fun fight. He has the potential to kill anyone he wants if his routine cycles back to physical attack (front row) or Nuke. Stop is also potentially devastating. I handled him by first bringing back Cecil, then reviving Palidor Ring wearing Rosa. I used Rosa to bring back Cecil and recovered momentum from there, bringing back Kain and Yang, Rydia unfortunately didn't get to do much. I basically let Zen Yang deal with him while I kept the others on healing/reviving duty. At one point he Stopped Rosa which could have been really bad, but then proceeded to Nuke her on the next go-around so I could revive her and be fine. In the end everyone survived.
Well, alright. I didn't miss Bless. I think maybe you should change the kid's message in Agart to Shock then, since you can miss that.
Hmm, Rydia can use Bows now, eh? Interesting... Ah, the ElvenBow raises Wisdom by +10, great! But I never noticed that you need a Bow and Arrow for the Bow to give its bonus, it makes sense, but I wasn't expecting it.
Uh... the Shozoku gives Yang 99% Magic and Physical evasion. Is this intended? With the Seraphim Ring I can give him that x1 Multiplier he needs to evade Magic. Or at least, 1 guaranteed hit of a magic multiplier... which now that I think about it is likely why it is set up like that.
GoldWing?! A new enemy? Very nice!An interesting fight. Massive physical attack, Blinding ability, immunity to Death. In the end Yang dealt with it...And I get Jewels for my victory? Selling fodder?
Poison Whip, hmm? Increases all of Rydia's stats by +3, I'll try it out.
Caduceus, always nice to see such a reference. Increase Vit. +15, could be useful. It seems to cast Cure2 in battle, it's... okay.
DwarfBow casts Blaze... I can't say I saw that one coming.
So Tofu are Holy Elemental now, that's worrying... Thankfully new and improved Cecil has just what we need to deal with them. But wait... if you missed Shock, how are you meant to fight them?
Dragon...Rose... Gauntlets? Is that a reference I'm missing? I seemed to get it from a Chimera. +5 Strength and Agility, that is excellent!
I... just beat an Alert and got some gloves called Si02, ...what? Increases Agility and Vitality +5, interesting. I assume that they are also the racial gloves to guard against Robots, how convenient, right before I fight the only Robot boss in the game.
Haha! I leave the save room to make my way to Lugae and I run into another Alert who drops EMP Arrows instead of the Si02 Gloves.
Dr. Lugae was a bit of a pushover. Dead in 3 turns with a Focused Yang. Not much more to say than that.Oh, the Spirit Claws can also inflict Instant Death, well... that is important to remember.
I'm glad I stopped into the Ore Grotto and took a look around, otherwise I wouldn't have found the Punisher Rod... What's this?! It raises Intelligence by 15 and has 160 Power?! That's absolutely ludicrous! Rydia just became my most powerful fighter!
Ah, almost forget to head back to Troia! Dance is still the same, so that was Part 8, alright... I think I've seen them all? Baron 1, Baron 2, Kaipo 3, Fabul 4, Mysidia 5, Silvera 6, Agart 7, Troia 8, Dwarven Castle 9. How would I even know if I've seen them all, is it being recorded in the flags?
Let's see... Flash Whip, probably casts Flash, if I had to guess. Dancing Dagger, Ribbon, wonderful! And the Stardust Rod... which has some weird bonuses. +15 to Strength and Agility is pretty incredible. I will have to try out both the Stardust Rod and Punisher to see which I prefer.
...The Punisher Staff casts Osmose and deals Drain damage?! That's absurdly broken!"Chocobo Eggs are known for their healing properties." I guess keep this in mind when I find Yang? Oh wait, "special reagent" "The Elder is the only man alive capable of casting Holy..." I suppose that is what the Chocobo Egg is used for?
And with that, I am ready to head to Eblan Caves, I think. My levels are.. 29-Cecil, 31-Kain, 32-Rydia, 32-Rosa.
This has always been an issue; how do I increase the hit rate of Unarmed?
Indeed; did I say otherwise? I may need to tweak that dialogue.
Elementalist is used here loosely, I might change that title. Kain has power (or will...) over earth, gravity, wind, etc. Basically the non-Fire/Ice/Lit elements.
Ack, I hate to squash your hopes, but no. That'd just be too much hacking passed my skill level.
Whips are racially strong against ALL races; they don't come with big casting bonuses, but if you need Rydia to be a physical damage dealer for a fight, they work very well. They also inflict some nice secondary status effects.
This is a replacement staff, or a second instance of it in case you missed the first, which it seems you did. The first opportunity is in Agart, and at that time, a Cure2 staff for Tellah is a tempting consideration over the Mythril staff.
You must be hitting for gobs of damage
That is Rydia's ultimate weapon. It's available very early, but usually players aren't as thorough as checking the top half of that cavern on a whim. The hidden woman in Troia references it explicitly. Still, there are plenty of instances where Whips will be preferred over the Punisher rod. Also, the name is referencing the FF6 Strago ultimate wand.
Flash whip casting Flash… I'm almost embarrassed that I didn't think of that…
You are a little lower in level than someone might typically be at this point, but that's probably because you're an extremely advanced FF4 player hahaha. Well done, so far!
I liked Cid's reference to FFVII, cute touch. Also his daughter contradicts what the guard said "Use your GP and Items, its what they're there for." While she says to save GP.
Whoa! An Ice Shield from some Piranha's and EvilShell's! That's a nice find!
"We cannot defeat it using handheld weapons. We must defeat it using magic!" Nice break of expectations. Since in the original fight magic is hardly effective against OctoMamm, but here it looks to be the only way of dealing with it. I would complain about this being in an event scene where some people may not have been watching, but its hinted at in the Kaipo bar as well.
You get some nice rewards for fighting Jelly's! 3 Potions and a Life Potion is always good. And Ethers! It's best to hunt these things down!
I felt forced to grind to deal with the MomBomb, trying to equip Agility rings to everyone did not work, nor did the Fire Shield turn the tides, moreso than just letting me survive.
Alright, let's see what Baigan is worth...Starts off by killing Porom with a normal attack, wonderful. Proceeds to kill Tellah. And massacred... alright then.
I stand no chance against the MadOgres as of now.
And Eblan has been fully raided! As far as I'm aware. I made out with a bunch of excellent treasure, but I wonder if it was too excellent... while this is nice for the bold player, is there perhaps too much good stuff put in one place? I can't help but think the Palidor Ring and the Ragnarok Ring, with those incredible buffs would have been their own reward for a sidequest or something. Unless there's even better stuff waiting for me in the future.
I doubt the Boomerang counts as metallic and a number of people could equip it possibly. It would likely help out against the Bats by casting Aero if nothing else.
Well, I beat the Magus Sisters without much trouble, though they reflected Fire3 on me I tanked the damage and was relatively fine. Even a second reflected attack only brought some of the party down to critical rather than dead. Once I defeated Sandy it was basically over and I defeated Mindy before she could revive the other two.
Goodbye Tellah... I'll miss your massive MP pool, great healing, and Meteo usage in desperate situations. His death makes less sense here, I'm afraid... he uses spells that he clearly has enough MP for and uses a Meteo, which he still has enough MP to cast. What might be interesting is to have Tellah use a bunch of spells he doesn't know to show how enraged he is (and is quickly draining his MP pool) like Quake, Aero3, (I think I saw Level 4 spells shown in pictures), just have him use those and top it off with Meteo to show why he died. 1. He expended his MP, 2. He broke spell seals in a fit of emotion, 3. His drive for vengeance and blind rage cost him his life, but did severely hurt Golbez.
Hrmm.. Despite Valvalis having Storm and focusing on using Lit-2 to try and bring down the party, I could easily heal back up with Cecil and Rosa. Her spin doesn't make her immune to attacks and Zen Yang just kept on pummeling her. All in all, it was over quite quickly and I didn't even need to put on Lit Shields to mitigate the damage.
Quote from: Grimoire LD on August 03, 2019, 03:15:10 amWell, I was going to say that Calbrena was the first fight that forced me to take off the Zen Staff due to the counter Quake (Pound), but just as things seemed a bit hopeless Yang landed that one final blow upon his revival. I'm really surprised that the Zen staff has been THAT useful; I typically take it off during Zot and never put it back on, as his claws and control of the character become so critical. This is interesting.
Dr. Lugae was a bit of a pushover. Dead in 3 turns with a Focused Yang. Not much more to say than that.
The first opportunity is in Agart, and at that time, a Cure2 staff for Tellah is a tempting consideration over the Mythril staff.
Quote from: Grimoire LD on August 03, 2019, 03:15:10 amSo Tofu are Holy Elemental now, that's worrying... Thankfully new and improved Cecil has just what we need to deal with them. But wait... if you missed Shock, how are you meant to fight them?Paladin spell Light, Mist Dragon summon and a couple non-elemental spells like Pug.
Well, true to what the Dwarf said he did take several eternities to beat.
Electric sword might be useful, I'll pick it up.
Hey, glad someone else got around to playing!
I might just take out the ability to buy the Zen Staff period. If I recall, there is a treasure box with it inside, so it would still be attainable, just later in the game.It seems to be responsible for a lot of the imbalances so far.
Also, Valvalis should not be taking damage even from Zen staff during her spin phase. I will check the script there and see what's up. She is supposed to be able to take MAGIC damage while spinning, just not physical.
Yup, Valvalis was definitely taking physical hits during her spin.
I think I was about 3 points of Agility away from Kain getting to act before ToadLady and her croaking cronies, which would have completely nerfed those fights since the Toads won't act independently once ToadLady is dead. On the plus side, monsters apparently have infinite items, so Edge was able to steal what ended up being a lifetime supply of Ether2s, which were especially welcome here since Float is just so darn expensive.
The Warriors en route to the Land of Summoned Monsters should probably be toned down a bit. They were each getting twice as many turns as I was and attacking 3 times per turn; 2 Warriors was usually enough to annihilate everyone except Edge before anybody on my side got a turn, and an encounter with 5 Warriors meant they were dishing out 30 attacks between each of Edge's turns, which aside from being completely unfair also made that battle take forever. I saw no realistic option other than relying exclusively on Edge's godly evasion, and didn't even bother wasting resources on reviving the rest of the party. Edge dragged everyone else's corpses through the entire cave and went up at least 10 levels. I was, however, fortunate to make it completely through the area without meeting a single Arachne, though on a return visit I did have the displeasure of making their acquaintance .
After the semi-hellish trip to get to the bottom, having an exit tile is a nice touch, but it was practically the first thing I stepped on. Seeing myself unexpectedly back outside again was so not cool.
Ashura was a fun fight! I had to switch gear for Leviathan, but once I had better magic defense that fight went reasonably smoothly too. I think that was my first time seeing a level 4 spell .
In the Sealed Cave, you might want to check on the Trap Door script - in vanilla, I'm pretty sure if you injured the Trap Door enough to trigger the monster after it Targets somebody but before it Disrupts them, the targetted character survives, but here the targetted character dies when the enemies swap.
EvilWall went down on my second attempt. It was actually one of the easier bosses, but this being a challenge hack and all, I was still feeling some increased tension watching it creep across the screen all too quickly.
Back on the surface, Odin looked to be pretty much impossible at my current level of power, but I did find a way to win the race. Or, looking back after having seen this in a few later fights now, maybe I just managed to bug him into not killing me?
Ooh, neat music for the dance quest reward! Is that new? I don't remember it from vanilla.
I found a Prism from the chest near Bahamut. It looks like an out-of-battle usable item, but it has an empty description and does nothing when I use it. Maybe something for FuSoYa or Kain when I get them? Hmm, nope, still does nothing.
Even after pumping Agility as high as I can, nobody has time to get a spell off before Bahamut annihilates me, and with that counter physical attacks seem like a bad choice. Various hints suggest Bahamut is supposed to be fought once you get Kain back, so as much as I want to follow the advice of completing side quests as early as possible, I'm going to leave this one until later.
FuSoYa's stats seem unimpressive for his level, but I love that Regen is no longer a useless ability.
Last Arm's script might need some checking too, as it just sat there, letting me beat up on it until it died. And what a reward: Cecil finally gains some evasion!
I roamed the section with the 4 fiends for a little bit, hoping that maybe this was WarMech's bridge, but no luck there. On the other hand, I did get an Alert to summon a Dragon Mech, and stocked up on Samurai swords as Throw fodder for later.
Cecil was dealing 9999 damage per hit against the CPU. I really wanted to berserk him and watch the mayhem unfold, but that turned out to be a really bad idea, as he is required to do other things in this fight.
Woah, Kain has more MP than Rydia now! And he gains more than she does per level? I guess it's because his spells are so expensive.
Ah, that's what Prism is for. Thanks for the hint!
Speaking of hints, that explained what I was doing wrong on Mt. Ordeals.
Bug report (that you sort of already know about): if you use the non-key item Crystal Shards in the wrong order, you lose them.
And another: in a battle against a Warlock and a Kary on my way to try Bahamut again, I immediately told Edge to attack the Warlock on his first turn; while Edge was doing that (resulting in the Warlock's death, either to HP loss or the Death weapon effect), I told Cecil to attack the Kary. Before Cecil could act, Kain started flashing and waving his arms around despite it not normally being his turn next, but no menu window ever came up. The music kept playing, and the pause and run buttons still worked, but otherwise I was completely stuck and had to reload. Fortunately, changing the timing or target of Edge's attack bypassed the lock and I was able to complete the battle. I've actually had this happen in multiple different battles now, always involving Warlock + Kary, but sometimes also including a RedGiant.
The infinite items on monsters is weird though, that's not intentional... Edge should only be able to steal one item per fight.
Ah, the warriors. I may tone down their physical attacks, but give them a magical answer, too, specifically for Edge. [...]The warriors don't appear quite often enough to be guaranteed on a trip downwards, so even still, it's possible to never see them.
I'm not sure whether you mean the exit tile at the bottom of the 4-treasure area which has always been there (after going to the lower ledge from the first Town area) or some other tile.
After struggling through the cave, Ashura and Leviathan should be nigh impossible; if you manage to conquer the cave on a pre-sealed cave trip, your reward are the town treasures, access to the shop and the library of hints. I might make them harder.
This has been a reoccurring issue with this hack which I'm not sure how to fix. I think the original scripts were very delicately "stuck together" to prevent this.
I'd be interested to know your strategy! I'm surprised it took only 2 attempts. He is supposed to be rather tough, as he's a combination puzzle fight and DPS race. My typical strategy is to load up everyone on their best weapons, Slow him, then put everyone into Berserk and hope he goes down right in time. It may have been your weapons from the Underworld that helped so much.
This may be a bug. He is supposed to be nearly impossible to kill in the standard method. [...] It sounds like he may have bugged out for you and stopped attacking. I'll see what I can do about that.
Not sure if you were just Uber or he glitched out. Last Arm waits several turns then blows up, dealing whatever is left of his 10,000 health pool to every party member. He's a nasty surprise for over zealous treasure seekers, right before a Save Point.
You were in the right area for WarMech. That's his bridge. However, much in the same way he is in FF1, he's a 1/64 encounter. He's not necessary to beat the game, but he is a fun fight and the reward is well worth it.
Cecil shouldn't be doing that much to the CPU… unless you had Ragnarok equipped instead of Excalbur? In which case, grats on the cool strategy. Ragnarok has an unassuming battle power for a sword that late in the game, but it deals 4x damage to all races (including robots).
That should probably be tweaked. It doesn't sit well with me, lore-wise. His spells need to be more powerful, too.
Nice! Glad you got that one. What did you think of the encounter? Was the dialogue okay? Did you realize that this is the spot Kain stands on for the end of the game sequence? 😊
☹ This has been recurring problem with hacking this game. I'm not exactly sure what causes it, but usually it's when a monster gets put into a status where their script doesn't have a conditional and they wind up with a blank script and bug out the whole fight, soft locking the game. I'll take a look at all these encounters. I wonder if I accidentally left a status effect on a weapon for someone and they're causing monsters to become Stopped (bugs the game)…
After gaining some levels from all that running around, Cecil, Kain, and Rosa are lucky enough to survive Light, which lets me bring back Rydia and Edge. I'm guessing this is Kain's time to shine. I'm not sure how I did it, but I managed to stop Bahamut in his tracks (i.e. he took no more actions for the remainder of the battle despite having ample time) and Kain/Rydia brought him down fairly quickly after that. I only know about 2 more spells I'm still missing (Ultima and Rukh), unless I've forgotten about another Summon.
Time to assault the core! My entire party is at levels 56 - 57.
Random battles in the core aren't that bad, it turns out. There's some weapon swapping to hit the right weaknesses, but it seems like I've always got somebody, and sometimes multiple somebodies, who can hit some enemy for max damage, so it doesn't take long to tear through the random encounters.
All that Samurai Sword farming in the Giant made finding another one in a chest here rather underwhelming .
Found the Zeio, but the Pink Puffs were too much. As long as I'm careful they can't kill me, but I also can't kill them, and aside from their attacks changing with the music, it doesn't seem to be a time-based battle, since I looped through the music a couple of times while trying every single spell in everybody's arsenal. However, it takes a moment for their immunity to kick in, as I can actually land some blows and even kill one of them at the very beginning of the battle, so maybe if I were super fast... or maybe Ultima will be able to hit them?
Alright, I admit it: I cheated a bit and dropped the battle speed for the Plague fight. So sue me .
Most of the core bosses have been manageable, but getting Ultima is going to be tough. I won't spoil the fight too much for anybody else reading, but I will say the intro was pretty awesome. Assuming he doesn't get hit first, Edge with 99 Agility is able to perform 1 action before the entire party perishes. Even with the nice stat bonuses from endgame gear, I don't think I can get anybody else to 99 Agility yet, so I might need to level up some more. I'm guessing the Zeio is supposed to be used in Toroia, so I'll have another trip through the core to gain experience before trying again.
Well, since I'm here anyway, let's see what Zeromus has in store... Okay, I think I see how this is going to play out. The first few phases were pretty easy (Prism Shield FTW), but Rosa went down to the first BBang and I wasn't able to get her up in time to heal before the second BBang hit; RIP. Oh well, I'm getting low on Life potions anyway.
And the Pink Puffs are toast! Assuming whatever I get for a Pink Tail will be awesome, I farmed 5 of them. Thanks for not keeping them a rare encounter!Ugh, all 5 Pink Tails consumed, but only 1 reward item. There's no way to split inventory items, right? I guess I'm going to be doing a lot of walking back and forth :/ Why did we have to park so far awaaaay? This has been the only part of the game that's boring.
By the time I was ready to try for Ultima again, my levels were Kain: 86, Cecil: 87, Rosa/Rydia: 88, Edge: 92 (by far the highest levels I've ever had in any FFIV playthrough).
Zeromus: Wow, that was a truly epic final battle, and once again, it was Rydia who saved my bacon when all hope seemed lost. It might have been easier if I had remembered to raid my cache for all those Megalixiers I've been saving up (I had 24), but, well, what can I say? Sometimes I'm unprepared like that . Since I had some idea of what was coming from my earlier attempt, I actually did Berserk Rydia with the Punisher - she was dealing over 5k damage per hit, and considering the speed difference vs. casting, I don't think I could have topped that DPS with magic. Cecil was spamming Light, and Edge was just attacking, though if I had brought my good consumables, he should have been spamming Skean instead. Kain was on Jump duty out of principle (good thing too...), and Rosa was busy with support magic since Holy was useless. The battle was going well until the Doom/Demi fest started, after which things became... frantic. I lost count of the number of times I was at most one second away from Game Over. Life potions were absolutely essential, and I'm not sure I would have survived without the Prism Shield. After somehow making it through that phase and regrouping during the next phase, it was pure luck that Kain was airborne when Ultima hit, otherwise that would have been the end. I had just enough time to get everybody revived in time for the finale. All in all, I think it took me over an hour to finally KO Zeromus, but it came with a well-earned sense of accomplishment .
Although Mage will make it into the final game, I'm not sure I left it in?
The Samurai equipment (which badly needs to be tweaked) is Edge's black magic set. The swords do poor physical damage, but increase his WIS by a lot. Coupled with the other Samurai items, his Ninja magic can do some serious work, but ultimately, it pales in comparison to Rydia's so… I might rework this.
Hmm… I'm not sure how to make them completely impervious quickly enough. There is a special item needed to kill them called Dark Matter that is only found deep in the Lunar Core from a rare monster called a Zemusite. The idea is that they increment their invincibility bit, then you decrement it with Dark Matter, you kill them, then finally get Pink Tails. I'll fix this.
So glad you liked it! That encounter is the crown jewel of this hack, as it's completely made from scratch.
Yep, an 8-phase fight. I hope the final parts worked correctly… Namely where he becomes invulnerable and it becomes a survival test.
Sadly, yes, you can't split that item. ☹ This is semi-intentional. I want PinkPuffs to 100% drop the tail, but I don't want the encounter to be a solo Pink Puff, so this is just the way it has to be, sadly.
Thank you SO MUCH for such a detailed report; definitely gonna make some major changes. I'll let you know where your credit gets inserted, if you ever wanna play through again. Thanks again! 😊
Wow. Arachne just try to cast Quake ineffectually and have Ether2's to steal. Well... guess I'll be here a while. *Reverse Gravity, kill whole party*... nevermind.
[Arachnes, Swordsmen, Clapper Dragons, and Red Eyes, oh my!]
Force Armor, seems like another Dragon Quest reference, if memory serves. Not that great from a simple look. While it has good Magic Defense, making one invulnerable to the first couple hits of a magic spell, it has no physical defense at all, despite the +5 to Wis/Will, it doesn't seem like a good replacement for the Magic Armor or Cecil's Mythril Mail.
Golden Axe, eh? I hope its better than the other Axes so far...
So the Morbols only use Bad Breath, alright that means that my Ribbon wearer will be fine, who I should make Rydia since she can take care of the Malboro's the fastest, since they are now weak to Ice to a heavy extent.
"I don't remember this chest being here..." "Monsters!" "That would be why."And despite them now being Weak to... Weak, I was killed by Fire4 from the Red Dragon after he cast it twice.
For what it's worth, I can confirm that infinite steals is and always has been a thing in FFIV.
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Andrew W. Mellon, who was born in 1855 and passed away in 1937, gave the National Gallery of Art to the people of America. Originally from Pittsburgh, he was both a collector and financier who in 1921 moved to Washington, DC. There, he served as the Secretary of the Treasury. Throughout his time in public office, Mellon felt that the United States deserved an art museum of epic portions similar to what other nations had.
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In a letter written to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, Mellon made an incredible offer of donating his magnificent art collection to a new museum. As part of the offer, he even used his own money for the construction of the building that would in 1937 become the National Gallery of Art.
Once finished, the museum was beyond what anyone could have imagined. Having hired world-renowned architect, John Russell, the design was spectacular. All four entrances of the building have formal public entrances and the main floor is beautifully centered around a rotunda reminiscent of ancient Roman times. Barrel-vaulted sculpture halls are located to the east and west of the rotunda, which lead into breathtaking garden courts. To the north and south are interconnecting exhibition galleries with public spaces used today for a variety of reasons.
The West Building was completed using state-of-the-art technology for the time, which boasts a light pink Tennessee marble interior, rotunda columns, polished limestone that covers the walls on the primary floor, and Italian marble rotunda columns. To illuminate the space, Russell included skylights covering the entire three-acre rooftop in his design.
Mellon was strongly convicted that people visiting the National Gallery of Art should have a learning experience while enjoying various collections. Therefore, exhibits are broken down by national origin and period in stunningly beautiful decorated galleries. As an example, the Italian Renaissance galleries feature hand-finished plaster walls detailed with door and base moldings, built-in display niches, and Italian travertine wainscot. In comparison, the Dutch 17th century galleries were designed with wood paneling that captures the essence of the original setting.
At the time the National Gallery of Art opened for public viewing, the collection consisted of just 26 sculptures and 126 paintings. However, only two years later, the museum expanded its collection thanks to Samuel H. Kress who donated 18 Italian sculptures and 375 paintings. Then in 1943, Lessing J. Rosenwalk offered an impressive collection of drawings and prints, which eventually reached 22,000. Of those, over 350 woodcuts were from the 15 century.
The National Gallery of Art was further enhanced when a collector of American and French art, Chester Dale, lent seven American paintings and 25 Italian paintings from the 18 century to the early portion of the 20th century. He went on to donate 23 American and old master paintings, giving the gallery more credence. Over time, additional collectors made donations, making the National Gallery of Art an extremely important place that people can visit and enjoy.
One of the most recent changes to the gallery came in 1966 when it reached an agreement with the National Park Service to create a garden specifically for sculptures. The garden opened in 1999 and to this day, it remains a focal point. Included is a circular reflecting pool and fountain, which serve as the main feature. During the winter months, the pool is transformed into an ice skating rink. Surrounding the fountain are comfortable benches that provide visitors with a place of meditation.
Ironically, Andrew Mellon and John Russell both died in August 1937, just 24 hours apart. Although they had the opportunity to enjoy much of the work completed on the gallery, they unfortunately never lived to see its full potential.
The National Gallery of Art is a popular venue for various events and programs, including enrichment and educational programs available in person and online. Starting in 1942, the public was treated to free Sunday evening concerts featuring musicians and ensembles from around the world, as well as the National Gallery Orchestra. To this day, these same programs are offered during the fall and winter months.
Almost daily, public tours are available for anyone interested in learning about specific exhibits or the gallery itself. As part of this, trained staff members give talks along with tours of different collections and special exhibitions. To ensure that everyone receives the same five-star treatment, on specific days and at certain times, tours are offered in foreign languages. There are also self-guided audio tours for anyone interested in the West Building collections, as well as exhibitions on temporary display.
The highly-acclaimed lectures and films are another key offering of the gallery. Presented on a regular basis, both are available at no cost in the auditorium of the East Building, as well as sometimes in the West Building Lecture Hall. On weekends, films that connect to gallery exhibitions are screened in the East Building.
Students, teachers, and children are provided wonderful opportunities. Various programs are designed to reach groups of visitors who are excited about the gallery by using family activities, teacher workshops, volunteer opportunities, high school seminars, school tours, films for children and teens, and an annual teacher institute. The goal is to get children and adults to the gallery so they can learn about art in creative and engaging ways.
The National Gallery of Art is home to some of the finest art collections in existence. Whether looking at pop art or Byzantine altarpieces, everything is stunning. Although the gallery features a broad range of collections, paintings are among the most popular. The gallery began with Mellon's prominent collection of 121 old master paintings.
In addition, Chester Dale donated French and post impressionist's paintings, along with paintings from the School of Paris. Thanks to many additional bequests and donations, the gallery has one of the finest collections of American paintings in the country.
Sculptures are another huge part of the National Gallery of Art. Although the gallery opened with just 40 sculptures, the collection is significant. Expanding the sculpture collection was Samuel H. Kress and his brother Rush, who working in conjunction with Joseph Widener donated an incredible collection. This gallery remains one of the most respected of all Italian sculpture collections in America.
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This remarkable collection includes works by some of the most famous sculptors in the world such as Sansovino, Saint-Gaudens, Rossellino, Nadelman, Adriaen de Vries, Gauguin, and many other greats. Visitors can see fine collections up close and personal made form plaster, wood, marble, silver, bronze, ceramic, paper-maché, unbaked clay, and terracotta that date back to 100 BCE.
Additional collections at the National Gallery of Art include prints, drawings, decorative arts, photographs, and media arts, each leaving a distinct impression.
The National Gallery of Art also boasts the Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts. This center was an integral part of the East Building opening back in 1978 and it continues to bring scholars together so that art and architecture can be better understood and appreciated.
Commonly referred to as CASVA, the center routinely hosts visiting scholars from around the globe thanks to fellowships and sponsored professorships. Specific to members' research, different meetings and symposia are organized. In addition, volumes related to its seminars, symposia, and long-term research projects are published.
In the East Building is a major art research library, which features a massive collection of 400,000 plus books, documents, and periodicals, all relating to architecture, and the criticism, history, and theory of art. However, the main emphasis is on Western Art from the Middle Ages to present time. Included are exhibition catalogues, monographs, and a rare book collection. The department is also home to roughly 13 million photographs, microform images, slides, and negatives, also of Western architecture and art.
Another fascinating aspect of the National Gallery of Art is the perfectly manicured gardens both inside and outside of the West Building. The Garden Courts on the interior boasts tropical foliage that provides visitors a place of tranquility. On the outside are magnificent fountains and lush landscaping that enhances the building's aesthetics.
Because plants have been a key part of certain exhibitions for more than five decades, great care is given to growing vegetation. In fact, one of the essential elements of the East Building is plants, with the atrium featuring towering trees. After the Sculpture Garden opened in 1999, horticulture became prominent in the overall design.
The National Gallery of Art also has a division dedicated to conservation with the goal of studying and preserving works in different collections. Housed within the conservation division are specialized departments, including those for the treatment and care of paper, photographs, frames, objects, textiles, and paintings. This allows gallery caretakers and other professionals to properly maintain collections so that people can enjoy them for years to come. Through study, experts gain insight into proper and changing methods of care.
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This couple is so special to me! Years ago when she was in nursing school, Austin was my babysitter, and now she's planning her wedding and I get the honor of being the photographer! They equally love the beach and country, and since they're having a beach destination wedding, they really wanted to incorporate their love for cotton fields and the country side in to the engagement session. And of course we had to include the fur babies, which only lasted about 3 seconds down at the water location before jumping in for a quick swim. I am very much looking forward to this wedding next year!
Richmond VA Engagement Photographer | Rachel and Taylor
Years from now when their kids ask about their wedding they also will be able to also tell the story of their engagement session and how it took place IN their very own yard. I always ask if couples have a specific place in mind that is important to them or if there is a specific hobby that they want to include, because your engagements should be a representation of who you are as a couple. When I met Taylor + Rachel they had just bought a house and wanted to incorporate it in their session.
Mature trees, cute porches, and lots of little nooks around the house it was the perfect place for their engagement session. Some have no idea but still offer suggestions like, "lots of trees, or a water view, or the cityscape and old buildings" I mainly and exclusively have shot in and around the Richmond area for my almost 10 years as a photographer so if you have an idea I can certainly work with creating the perfect spot for you.
When Rachel called about booking me for her wedding we hadn't even met in person! It's always an honor to be able to connect with someone over the phone and with them looking at your portfolio them being confident that YOU are the person they want to book for one of the biggest days in their life.
Here are some of my favorite images from their session:


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Tune Tuesday: Interpol's El Pintor
No, this is not "new" news. But, that doesn't mean it's not important. The Pageant here in Saint Louis just announced that Interpol will be making a stop in our fair city while on their world tour. As a long-time fan, I nearly fell out of my chair when my friend Emily shared the Facebook announcement. The last time I saw Interpol live was while they were touring to support Our Love to Admire in 2007. That's 7+ years ago! I'm still a youngun' but that makes me feel a teensy bit old(er).
I'm no music critic, so I don't come here to talk about how bands have changed or stayed the same, or how their sound varies from older album. I come here on Tune Tuesdays to just share music I love. And Interpol has always been a big love of mine. We could argue all day about how Turn on the Bright Lights will always be their best album, and how "Evil" from the album Antics should be one of your favorite songs, but let's not. For the time, enjoy the video for "All The Rage Back Home:"


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German Rojas, 18, is an example of a child who has been in the DCF foster system for 6 years. In that time he has had 6 different parents, but never adopted. Rojas is one of the many in the system who is sticking it out to the end. At age 18, foster child can sign themselves out of DCF care, but Rojas is not. He is a senior in high school with his eyes set on UConn for college. He has a sharp mind and ambitions to go far. He said without DCF he doesn't know where he would have ended up.
"We see many kids on the streets if they sign themselves out at 18," said AJ Granta, a behaviorist with Community Residences, Inc. CRI is an agency that works with DCF to place children and families. They want families to give adoption or foster care a chance. To follow CRI and their events and activities check its Twitter handle @fosterhopect.
For more information you can head to www.ctfostercare.com and www.ct.gov/dcf


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ICTP has two guesthouses on its campus: the Adriatico and the Galileo Guesthouses. A lot of the bed-and-breakfasts are situated along the south, east and west coasts, and although they could vary in size, all of them provide the allure of cool 'n breezy" island life as a part of the package deal deal for your tropical getaway. These begin at a 'cosy' 14 square metres, but added extras just like the ultra-comfortable beds, satellite tv for pc TELEVISION, air-con, free Wi-Fi, tidy en-suite bathrooms and pleasant service more than make up for the shortage of house.
From the charming metropolis of Inverness to the shores of Loch Ness, you will see that a lot of B&B's and Guest Houses Be it considered one of our cosy guesthouses or quaint B&B's in either the hustle and bustle of Inverness city centre or the extra secluded calm of Loch Ness, you might be positive of a warm welcome.
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Schooling Supply is the world's largest full-text research database designed for training students, professionals and policymakers. The Web is therefore portrayed as permitting schooling to take place on an any time, anyplace, any tempo foundation. This leaves any makes an attempt to foretell the probably affect of the Web on future forms of schooling on unsure floor. Now we have some fairly good knowledge that music instruction does reliably enhance spatial-temporal abilities in kids over time," explains Pruett, who helped discovered the Performing Arts Medication Association.
In Africa, the New Partnership for Africa's Improvement (NEPAD) has launched an " e-school program " to provide all 600,000 main and high colleges with computer gear, learning materials and internet entry inside 10 years. Fourthly, the Web is seen to have dramatically customized the methods during which people be taught—thereby making schooling a far more individually determined process than was beforehand the case.
Many people, due to this fact, see the prospect of the Internet fully reinventing schooling not as a matter of if, but as a matter of when. On this sense the Internet's implicit support of various types of casual studying might be seen as its most substantial educational impression (see Ünlüsoy et al. 2014).
So, everyone involved within the founding and support of colleges had a transparent view about what classes kids ought to be taught in class. Outstanding post, I think blog owners ought to learn quite a bit from this website its actually consumer genial. As a global journal aimed at facilitating the worldwide alternate of training principle, contributions from completely different academic systems and cultures are encouraged.
The predominantly optimistic rhetoric of transformation and alter that at present surrounds the Internet and education distracts from a lot of vital conflicts and tensions that have to be better acknowledged and addressed. I must spend a while studying more or understanding more.


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Our offices are located in the following address:
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Telephone: +30 210-7795194
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What is the subject of the courses that you provide?
We provide seminars for all levels of knowledge in trading (Beginners – Intermediate – Advanced) throughout the month. During these seminars, you will gain fundamental knowledge of how trading works, but also practical knowledge and hands-on experience on a real trading platform, where through specialized strategies that you will be taught, you will learn how to make profitable transactions.
Do we receive a certification at the end of the seminars?
At the end of the intro course, which includes the 3-day introductory seminar for beginner traders and the 10-day practical sessions on a real trading platform, we provide you with a certification that you can definitely leverage for a potential future job in the financial sector.
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Category Archives for : Teacher Resources
One Headteacher's solution to the new Ofsted judgements
New Ofsted Common Inspection Framework (CIF) headings: A wake-up to thinking anew? By Headteacher, Ian Norton, Vranch House School, Exeter The Common Inspection Framework (CIF) always has,.
A great idea to make money for your school
Being a forward thinking company ourselves, we love new ideas from anywhere. Especially one that bring in extra cash for hard pressed schools. And we think our friends at School.
DfE Talk at Earwig SEND Conference
Thanks to all of you who attended our Rochford Review SEND Impact conference with guest speaker Andrew Hackett from The Department for Education. The talk from Andrew was very interesting and we.
The Rochford Review SEND Impact Conference and Lunch
Here's an excellent reason to find your way down to the TESSEN show in Islington this October. The DfE has just issued its response to the Rochford consultation. So now is the ideal.
Stress management tips for teachers
How do you manage your work-related stress? Guest blogger Erika Murray gives Earwig her tips to stay sane … Teachers are often rated amongst the top 5 most stressful.
Rochford review assessment framework revealed
The Rochford Review, commissioned by the DfE to advise of the future direction of SEN assessment was published late last year. Its recommendations include scrapping P-Scales and associated assessment.
Bullying and how to deal with it
Following our anti-bullying campaign in November we are pleased to have a guest blog from health writer Jenny Holt about her take on bullying and how to tackle it ….
Earwig hacks to save time in 2017
We love hearing from our staff and one topic which is always fascinating to us is all the alternative ways in which everyone is using Earwig. As if recording,.
Earwig launches anti-bullying campaign #Iwasbullied
It's national anti-bullying month. And the Earwig team feel as strongly about bullying as you do. Often the self-esteem of bullied children has been so eroded by the bullying that.
How to motivate: the carrot or the stick?
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Do you require a commercial air conditioning service in Melbourne? At Blue Innovation, we have the perfect solution for you. We offer repairs, maintenance, and installation on all types of air conditioners as part of our commercial air conditioning service in Melbourne, offered at competitive prices. Whether you need assistance in the installation of your new air conditioner or are having problems with your current one, our qualified technicians will be able to provide you with the support and solutions to ensure your machinery is fully functional. Our professional team at Blue Innovation are able to help you with your needs at an affordable price.
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We are highly dedicated to delivering customer satisfaction to the highest standards when providing our commercial air conditioning service in Melbourne. Choose us as your temperature control partner. You can rely on Blue Innovation for credibility and professionalism.
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So shortly after 3:00pm, I got a phone call from my parents. My sister had been rushed to a local emergency room after her blood sugar and pressure dropped unexpectedly.
After an absurd amount of time waiting to hear what caused all the trouble, Doctors have confirmed that she has a hot gallbladder.
Next steps are still pending this afternoon… I think she's going to be on a diet of water and jello for a few weeks and then a scheduled delivery and gallbladder two-fer will be scheduled.
My mom took this photo, while I told numerous inappropriate jokes in the Memorial Methodist Emergency Room….
Joker, by the way is doing ok. When the pain is gone and she's not freaking out about her unborn daughter - she's been known to crack both a smile.


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San Francisco 49ers
Matthew Barrows: For 49ers, playoff trips to Philadelphia and Seattle are best avoided
Anywhere. Any time. Anyone.
This has been, and will continue to be, the 49ers' slogan as they head into the playoffs, and it's the brash, take-all-comers attitude a team must have for a successful Super Bowl run.
But if you were to draw up their ideal road map through the playoffs, it might avoid a couple of destinations.
The first is Philadelphia.
The Eagles are an oddball team. They run the wide-open style of offense coach Chip Kelly brought from the University of Oregon. They run a lot of plays, they score a lot of points – they're second to Denver in points scored and yards gained – and they have the potential to exhaust an opponent.
The 49ers could win a game in Philadelphia, but would it hurt them the following week?
That's what happened late last season when the 49ers played New England. They beat the Patriots in a high-scoring, offense-driven game. But they also were on the field for 92 plays on defense and crashed 42-13 the following week in Seattle.
The Eagles also are on the opposite side of the country – 2,523 miles away, to be exact, the longest possible trip the 49ers could make in the NFC playoffs.
The 49ers already have been to London. They've been to Washington, D.C. They're recently back from Tampa, Fla. By the time Sunday's game in Arizona wraps up, they will have traveled 32,948 miles, 8,000 more than the circumference of Earth and 6,000 more than the second-most traveled team this season, the Chargers.
Barring the unlikely event the 49ers win the NFC West this weekend and earn a first-round bye, they are looking at a scenario for the Super Bowl in which they probably would have to win three consecutive road games before taking a 2,571-mile trip to New York for the big game.
Factor in the last three weeks of the regular season and the 49ers would be on the road in six of their final seven games. Shaving off a couple of thousand miles from that itinerary only can help.
The other city to avoid? Seattle, of course.
It seems inevitable the NFC West rivals will play at some point in the City of Brotherly Loud. The 49ers certainly think so. If Seattle wins at home Sunday against the Rams, they will wrap up the division and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.
The smartest tack for the 49ers is putting off a trip to Seattle for as long as possible – until the NFC Championship Game.
That may be contingent on the 49ers beating the Cardinals on Sunday. If they win, they will have at least the No. 5 seed. If the Eagles, who have won six of seven, beat the Cowboys in Dallas on Sunday, as expected, they would be the No. 3 seed, meaning the No. 5 seed 49ers would play the winner of Sunday's Chicago-Green Bay game in the opening round.
Landing the No. 5 seed also could mean holding off a trip to Seattle.
If the above scenario holds and the Saints also win their finale against the Buccaneers, they would head to Philadelphia to take on the Eagles in the first round. The Saints likely would be favored, and if they and the 49ers won opening-round games, New Orleans would head to Seattle to try to avenge a humbling 34-7 loss on Dec. 2.
Could the Saints pull off the upset? Probably not. They've lost their last two games in Seattle, including in the 2010 playoffs.
But if they did? And if the 49ers won their second-round game?
It would mean one final game at Candlestick Park between the teams that played perhaps the best game there in the last decade – the 49ers' 36-32 victory over the Saints in the 2011 divisional playoffs.
The old park may have one more classic left in it.


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Name: Drake Anthony
Age: 21
Marital status: Single
If single, where do you like to meet people? My classes are where I meet the most people. Plus, that's where the nerdy girls are, which are definitely my type!
Hometown? Goodfield, IL
How did you end up in Peoria? I live in Carbondale, IL right now, but I used to drive to Peoria nearly daily when I lived in central IL in order to go to my Jiu-Jitsu classes at the Peoria Athletic Club.
What makes you a geek? I specialize in creating giant death ray lasers from broken and scrap electronics parts. Plus, I am majoring in chemistry in school. I'd say that is pretty geeky!
How long have you been working with lasers? I've been working with lasers since I was 12 years old, and I began posting videos of my creations under the YouTube name "styropyro" soon after.
How did you get started? I first learned about how lasers work in science class, and found it so amazing that I went online to learn more. Eventually I learned how to build my own powerful lasers at home, and then I was hooked in the hobby!
Favorite movie? Law Abiding Citizen
Favorite book(s)? Into the Wild
Favorite type(s) of music? Rock/Metal!
Favorite band? Alter Bridge
What is your favorite way to spend your Sunday Mornings? Sleep!
Astrological Sign: Do you believe in horoscopes? I can't say I buy into Astrology.
What is your guilty pleasure? Procrastinating!
What is your favorite place in Peoria? The Peoria Athletic Club, an awesome place to learn the awesome art of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu!
Do you have any pets? I don't keep pets in my apartment, but my parents keep the cats I grew up with as a child. Our oldest cat is 16 years old.
Are there any special hobbies you enjoy? Lasers is what I'm known for doing, but I also enjoy chemistry, electronics, jiu-jitsu, hiking, and raising insects.
Questions from previous Peoria Life Geek Fellows:
Who shot first – Han Solo or Greedo? Can't say, I haven't seen the Star Wars movies.
Who is your favorite bearded person? Dmitri Mendeleev
Where do you think technology has the most potential for helping others in the future? The field of medical science is rapidly improving with continued research in the area, and I expect to see a lot of breakthroughs in treating disease in the relatively near future.
What are you excited about doing with the technology that's coming? As my field is in lasers, I am excited to see the advancements in laser technology in the coming years. Lasers will be more integrated in the medical field, as well as be used in technology like holographic data storage and laser TV.
Who would win in a fight? Superman vs. Batman, but Batman is in a Superman costume and Superman is in a Batman costume because it's a Halloween party? I'm going to go with Batman in a Superman costume.
What are you doing to make Peoria into the cultural and economic hub that it once was? I will spend some of this summer working for ATET construction rebuilding some of the homes destroyed in the Washington tornado. Although it isn't Peoria directly, obviously there is a major economic link between the two communities, and I will be looking forward to help rebuilding the homes lost!
What public figure do you look up to and why? Although he is no longer living, I look up to George Washington Carver because he was a great scientist that was actually born as a slave, but was still able to become a great scientist and improve the lives of so many people.
Make up a question for yourself and future geeks columnists to answer.
What is your favorite web comic? Xkcd all the way!


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Today's also the first day back at school for me.
I've been studying fine arts full-time at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts for the past 1.5 years. Was kinda quiet about it here because my parents were not supportive, so I wanted them to get used to the idea before "going" online with it. They're better now, but I doubt as old school #asianparents they'll ever truly be supportive. Haha! Stay tuned maybe?


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Church of St. Theodore Stratilates on the Brook Velikiy Novgorod Russia
- Letto da: Karolina Starin
- Serie: Guided Tours - ENG
- Durata: 19 min
- Versione integrale Audiolibro
- Data di pubblicazione: 11/10/2017
- Lingua: Inglese
- Editore: Il Narratore s.r.l.
Sintesi dell'editore
The audioguide tells the story, describes architecture and reports interesting facts about the Church of San Teodoro Stratilate on the Stream, founded in 1360. The author of this unique pictorial complex is unknown, but some signs, such as the precision with which Greek texts were painted and the similarity with the Greek frescoes of Teofane, make us infer that it was a Byzantine artist.
This audioguide has been made by professionals in the field of history and art.
This audioguide has been made by professionals in the field of history and art.
©2017 Associazione ACEB (P)2017 Associazione ACEB


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If I told you that there was a pill that would improve your brain power and memory capacity, would you take it?
Most likely yes, right?
While there isn't a pill that does this, there is protein that will do it. And this protein lives inside your body.
It's called BDNF.
And it acts like growth hormone for your brain.
Improves memory.
Increases mental sharpness & clarity.
Prevents dementia.
Sounds pretty good don't you think?
Well if you want a surge of BDNF you're going to have to work for it.
There are 5 ways to increase your BDNF levels:
1.Intermittent Fasting
Slows aging, kicks you out of weight loss resistance, and helps you build muscle. If you are not intermittent fasting, I highly recommend it.
Everyday you go 13-15 hours without food. I tell my patients stop eating at 8pm & don't eat again until after 11am. Basically you are skipping breakfast.
2.Eat More Good Fats
You want to elevate your DHA levels in order to get more BDNF. Here are my favorite foods to eat to make that happen:
- Mackerel
- Salmon
- Cod Liver Oil
- Walnuts
- Chia Seeds
- Herring
- Salmon (wild-caught)
- Flaxseeds
- Tuna
- White Fish
- Sardines
- Hemp Seeds
- Anchovies
- Natto
- Egg Yolks
3.Intense Aerobic Exercise
Twenty minutes of intense exercise is all it takes to get a surge of BDNF. But know that you need to make those twenty minutes intense. The more strenuous the exercise, the more BDNF that will get secreted.
Research is showing that high levels of Turmeric have been proven to increase BDNF. I also recommend a new class of brain supplements that have appeared called nootropics.
The nootropic I recommend to my patients is called Neurosyn. Neurosyn is formulated to support healthy brain aging, cognition, and memory. For more information on this supplement email my office manager at [email protected]
Remember it's always a multi-therapeutic approach that brings your health back & prevents disease.
No magic bullets.
Try the above strategies out, and see how your brain power improves.
Hope that helps! Have an awesome day.


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Mini Sessions
Capture your family's true connections with one of our gorgeous Mini Sessions!
Each session is $500 and includes:
A 25 minute session resulting in a gallery of 25-30 digital images from which to choose. 10 of these images are included via digital download (printing rights included). The full gallery of all 25-30 images is available for an additional $250.
A pre-determined location chosen by Amy (selected according to the most attractive landscapes for the given season). The location will be within 10 miles of Hinsdale, IL and will be sent no later than 1 week prior to the session date.
Images that reflect your family's personalities and connections. For a more in-depth description of what this means, please see the FAQs at the bottom of this page.
upcoming Session Dates:
spring 2019 lifestyle mini sessions will be announced soon!
What is a Mini Session?
Facilitated by Amy, your family will be captured playing, interacting, and connecting as she photographs it all! Parents and children, siblings, and families as a whole will be comfortably directed and guided, resulting in heartwarming, authentic images that reflect your family's love and connection.
Who are Mini Sessions for?
These sessions are for those who value candid, relational photography. Group "looking-at-the-camera" shots are not taken during these sessions. The images on this page are representative of the kinds of pictures you'll see in your family's gallery.
Our connections matter. When displayed on the walls of your home, these images speak volumes!
They become a daily reminder of the love you share, the comfort you give, and the safe place you are for another. When hanging photos* at our own home, we intentionally display images such as these... and they exude love and joy for our family each time we pass them by!
*Tripple photos in canvas display courtesy of the fabulous Twig and Olive Photography
A La Carte Prints, Canvases, & ALBUMS
(Our professional prints are available for any corresponding purchased digital image)
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4 x 6 | 50
5 x 7 | 50
8 x 10 | 50
11 x 14 | 65
16 x 20 | 105
20 x 24 | 150
24 x 36 | 260
11 x 14 | 130
16 x 20 | 210
20 x 20 | 290
20 x 24 | 300
24 x 36 | 520
10 x 10 | 550
12 x 12 | 650