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|Re: Spoiler - Wencit's Age & Gwynna
|by dwileye13 » Mon Oct 15, 2018 7:57 pm
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[quote="Louis R"]That reference is here: http://infodump.thefifthimperium.com/en ... essa/226/1
About half-way through.
Thank you, I was going only from what I read in the books. But from dialog and the memories of Kenhodan, it seems Herrick was killed in the last battle by Toren. Kenhoden is Toren or an alternate Toren. The cay eyed wizard is his cousin and believes he will be victorious because the prophecy said his line would win or endure blah blah ...
I am not young enough to know everything!
|Re: Spoiler - Wencit's Age & Gwynna
|by Louis R » Tue Oct 16, 2018 10:58 pm
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At the end of the infodump it says quite clearly that they took each other out. Of course, there are things in the book that suggest that that is not entirely correct...
|Re: Spoiler - Wencit's Age & Gwynna
|by feyhunde » Thu Oct 18, 2018 2:40 pm
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Also, even if Herrick died, the Fall took decades, more than enough time to have heirs.
Note also the same info dump establishes that the Sothoii's founders included cadet branches of the imperial family. Eg. Wizard blood. I thought Gwynna was going to be a wild wizard initially due to these confluences, and she'd be the first white wizard since Wencit. Instead....
|Re: Spoiler - Wencit's Age & Gwynna
|by dwileye13 » Wed Oct 24, 2018 6:04 pm
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Again thanks, I read that info dump and came away with a couple of thoughts.
I am not as convinced that it says Toren was killed. RFC has that backhanded way of using inference to create a smokescreen . . . "In the event, the battle between them -- which involved another artifact of the House of Ottovar [tum, te, tum, te, tum] -- not only dropped both of them but killed almost every man (and creature) . . . " I wonder!
Another casual idea . . .
"In fact, all present coursers are directly descended from a single stallion"
Kenhodan's stallion came from somewhere with the help of Wencit. If he sent Toren and his War-horse forward in time, who else would have had the Original Courser made for him but the Last Emperor?
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|Re: Spoiler - Wencit's Age & Gwynna
|by bkwormlisa » Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:36 pm
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That's a really neat idea, but I would assume from the infodump that the single stallion was a courser in the modern sense, and Kenhodan's horse is (effectively) a crossbreed. Of course, I could be wrong or it could have simply been almost as good at the actual courser stallion.


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Motivating yourself and your kids during the 10 days of Dhulhijjah
Remember how exciting the last 10 days of Ramadan were? Well, this is the time to be as excited as we were during those days because we have entered the first 10 days of Dhulhijjah.
If you were from the lowest point of your Imaan, it's time to dust the dirt off your clothes and pick yourself up right now.
Likewise, if you have been on a roll, it's time to switch gears and go on full blast right now.
In case you don't already know, these are the BEST ten days of the year!
As for myself, I have to be honest, I fall on the first category. I have been feeling exhausted lately and all I want to do is just lie on my bed all day. But having a toddler, we all know that's not gonna happen. Alhamdulillah.
So if you are in need of some motivation like me, here they are.
The best 10 days
It was narrated from Ibn 'Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "There are no days on which righteous deeds are more beloved to Allaah than these ten days."
They said: "Not even jihad for the sake of Allaah?"
He said: "Not even jihad for the sake of Allaah, unless a man goes out himself for jihad taking his wealth with him and does not come back with anything."
(Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 2/457)
Do not let your wealth and children distract you
"O you who have believed, let not your wealth and your children divert you from the remembrance of Allah . And whoever does that – then those are the losers."
[Surah Al-Munafiqun, Verse 9]
So what should we do?
Increase in good deeds
Time to recite more of the Qur'an, increase in remembrance, seek forgiveness from Allah, send salawat to the prophet (salallahu alaihi wasalam), make do'a, pray salah on time, strive to attain khusyu in our prayer, pray the sunnah prayers, make sadaqah, fast when you can.
Increase in tahleel, takbeer and tahmeed
It was narrated from 'Abd-Allaah ibn 'Umar (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:
"There are no days that are greater before Allaah or in which good deeds are more beloved to Him, than these ten days, so recite a great deal of tahleel, takbeer and tahmeed during them."
(Narrated by Ahmad, 7/224; its isnaad was classed as saheeh by Ahmad Shaakir.)
Be wary of falling into sins
Take care of your tongue, heart, and limbs. That includes refraining from backbiting, gazing at the haram, listening to the haram etc.
Leave off unbeneficial things
No more wasting time. That means no more aimlessly scrolling through social media or watching pointless videos on youtube, netflix or whatever.
Free printable planner
MashaAllah, there are so many things that we can do. But if you are in need of a little more motivation, here is a planner that was shared with me. I'm not so much of a planner person but I hope this will benefit you.
May Allah reward the person who created this planner. Allahumma Aamiin! Do share it around so that others can benefit from it too!
7 Things you can do with your kids on the 10 days of Dhul Hijjah
As for your kids, do not let them miss out on these best days. Here are some things that you can do with them:
- Share the story of sacrifice by Prophet Ibrahim and Prophet Ismail
- Share the story of how Hajar searched for zamzam
- Talk about the 5 pillars of Islam, emphasizing on Hajj
- Watch people perform hajj on makkah live on youtube
- List all the good deeds that can be done with your kids these 10 days
- Remind each other to recite takbeer, tahleel and tahmid
- Talk about the Sunnah of Eidul Adha
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Feature #6972closed
Custom fields in timelog report
In this article: http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/RedmineCustomFields
we can find following description of Redmine functionality:
Data in spent time entry custom fields can be used and/or will be displayed in the Timelog report.
I can't find this function in Redmine. Am I missing something or this function is not implemented?
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Updated by Felix Schäfer almost 13 years ago
I think this has been added in trunk but hasn't made its way to stable yet, sorry.
Updated by Maciej Czub almost 13 years ago
I'm using trunk branch (1.0.3.devel.4425 at the moment) and I don't see it.
Updated by Mischa The Evil almost 13 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- Resolution set to Duplicate
Felix Schäfer wrote:
I think this has been added in trunk but hasn't made its way to stable yet, sorry.
Nope, this feature has been available since Redmine 0.8. It was added in r1689, r1690 and r1691 for issue #772. Though, it has not been integrated completely; see below...
Maciej Czub wrote:
I'm using trunk branch (1.0.3.devel.4425 at the moment) and I don't see it.
It is slightly more complicated; let me explain:
Because Redmine has two time-entry reports, each having multiple output-formats (HTML, CSV and ATOM), we have to describe them separately and more explicit.
RedmineTimelogDetails (AKA Spent-time details)¶
No STCF data is displayed.
All STCF data is exported.
No STCF data is exported.
RedmineTimelogReport (AKA Spent-time report)¶
Some STCF data is displayed. Only data on STCF's of the type
boolean and
list can be used to filter the report.
Some STCF data is exported. Only data on STCF's of the type
boolean and
list is exported and this data is only added to the resulting CSV-file when the report is filtered using a filter containing data on STCF's of the type
boolean and
ATOM output is currently not available for the Spent-time report.
Some references to the related (duplicated) issues:
Maciej: Looking at your initial request you are looking to get the STCF data on the RedmineTimelogReport (AKA Spent-time report), which leads to the conclusion that this issue is a duplicate of #1692. Therefor I close this issue accordingly. Please reopen this issue elsewise...
Updated by Maciej Czub almost 13 years ago
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Religion can be a pain in the backside. What with all those prayers and religious meetings – not to mention all the more tangible sacrifices of money and (sometimes) goats.
It's enough to make an evolutionary psychologist scratch their head and go "hmmm". Why should people go to all that effort? What's in it for them?
One theory is that it signals to others that they are 'true believers', and so can be trusted. Another holds that beliefs that are 'demonstrated' by expensive behaviour are more likely to be believed, and so transmitted.
One idea that's received surprisingly little attention is that people may simply believe that they get a direct payoff from their sacrifice. They make an offering to their god, and god returns the favour by fixing that business deal (or making the rains come on time).
Paul Frijters, of the University of Queensland, and Juan Barón, at Australian National University, have run a series of studies on university students to investigate this.
It was a two-phase game. In the first phase, the students earned some points. For example, in one variant, they played a 'public good' game where everyone contributes anonymously to a central pot, which is then increased and shared equally. The best thing to do is to contribute nothing, and hope that everyone else contributes a lot. But if everyone does that, then no-one takes home much.
Then these points were turned into hard cash, at a rate determined by 'Theoi' (represented on a computer). Now, they didn't know the rules that Theoi used to do this, but they were given the opportunity to contribute some of their points to Theoi, if they so chose.
This cycle was repeated over 20 rounds, and the student's task was to figure out the optimal contribution to make to Theoi in order to maximise their payout.
Now, what the students didn't know is that Theoi in fact just worked at random. The amount they contributed (or 'sacrificed) to Theoi had no effect whatsoever on the outcome.
|Contributions to Theoi as a percentage of Phase 1 earnings.
Despite this fact, the level of sacrifice to Theoi was remarkably resilient. Although it did decrease as the rounds wore on, it did not decrease by much – and nearly half the students were sacrificing just as much at the end of the experiment as they were at the start.
There were some interesting tweaks. They tried giving the students access to everyone else's decisions and results. That was a large pool of data – more than enough for them to figure out that Theoi was just acting randomly. But still they didn't figure it out. In fact, those students who spent longer puzzling over it actually tended to then sacrifice even more!
When they renamed 'Theoi' as 'Weather', however, the level of sacrifice dropped more quickly. This suggests that anthropomorphisation is important.
What this study shows is that these students seem inherently resistant to learning that the forces at work are random. They started off with the assumption that Theoi would reward sacrifices, and they just didn't seem able to shake that assumption, despite all the evidence.
So who sacrificed most? Academic discipline didn't matter – engineers, artists, scientists, all sacrificed about the same.
Nor did religious or superstitious beliefs have any effect on the amount sacrificed. Perhaps that's because Theoi was clearly not really a god or supernatural in any way. They were just trying to second-guess the experimenter's fiendish mind.
Women maintained their level of sacrifice more than men. People with lucky charms, or a high sense of self-control ("locus of control") reduced their level of sacrifice more quickly.
The most significant factor was the amount contributed in Round 1, the "Public Good" game. The people who contribute most in this game are those people who have faith in communal cohesion – that their good deed will be reciprocated. However, I have doubts about whether this effect is real. Fritjers & Baron measured sacrifices as a percentage of winnings in round 1. The people who contributed most in round 1 would also leave it with the fewest points. Perhaps that affected their decision on what proportion to sacrifice.
Still, this is a very interesting study, even though it's clearly an artificial set-up. What it's really testing is people's ability to see the randomness when they're expecting their sacrifices to have some effect. What it shows is that these students were not very good at this task!
Really they want to believe in Theoi, despite all the evidence to the contrary. And for of them, that conviction seemed nearly impossible to shake.
Paul Frijters, Juan D. Barón. The Cult of Theoi: Economic Uncertainty and Religion. IZA DP No. 4902. April 2010
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Thanks go to the amazing Janice Pendarvis for leading the panel in Boston at Berklee College of Music in January, after we aired "20 Feet From Stardom." A fascinating discussion! It was a joy to share this event with Janice, Lisa Fischer, Gabrielle Goodman, Donna McElroy, and Carl Beatty.
On February 20th we gathered to celebrate the music of Rob Morseberger, a singer-songwriter we all held the highest regard. The night of Rob's music took place at Christopher St Coffeehouse, under the guise of the indomitable Valerie Ghent's Songwriter's Beat. I was truly honored to perform Rob's "Just Like Eating A Stone," and to play piano behind Ina May Wool, who offered a stunning rendition of Rob's "Relativity Blues Waltz."
This month we finished another track, thanks to the magic of laptops and Dropbox. "Walk It Down To You" included my usual home work on keys and vocals, Larry Saltzman added 12-string guitars, bass, and played the cello part on ebow, as Mark was just a bit too busy this month with Paul Simon, and Michael Golub performed his magic at the mixing console.


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The mighty Rhino is always exact about where he is going. That may not seem like an outstanding trait to those who have the same 360° vision capabilities as a Rhino, but it is an exemplary feat for most of us. The fact of the matter is that while it might seem like a great quality to know exactly where your sights are set; the key to knowing exactly
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Anyone who has watched martial arts dramas must know Yi Rongshu. Putting a human skin mask on one's face can make oneself "become" another person, and then can do things for another person. But the people around don't feel strange. This kind of plot that only existed in martial arts dramas before may also happen in real life in the future. A 3D scanning expert in Japan published a "work" of his own on the Internet, and everyone who saw it said it was unbelievable, because when he put on the printed mask, it was as small as the color of the pores and as large as the face. The moles on it can be said to be exactly the same as the original face, which is almost indistinguishable from true and false.
Colleagues who admire the incredible work of 3D Printing have also made many people even more worried. You must know that face recognition technology has been applied to most people's lives. Now almost every new mobile phone has a face recognition function, not only Unlock the phone, you can also use the phone to pay and transfer, and even perform actions such as loans. Sure enough, after the Japanese expert published this work, someone immediately asked: "Can you use this to crack the phone lock?" The mask author also experimented with the mask with his colleagues, and finally found that it was impossible to crack the iPhone at all, but In some relatively backward face recognition technology, occasionally it can be successful. Whether it is face recognition or 3D printing, the development and progress of science and technology is to enable us to enjoy life better. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with the development of technology, and we should support it. However, the defensiveness is indispensable, and you still have to be careful that some people will use technology to do illegal things.
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Known for its culinary scene and one of the first destinations in Vietnam to offer lessons to visitors, Hoi An is the perfect place for a cooking class. Learn how to create some of the best-known dishes in Hoi An and the greater area during this hands-on experience that includes visiting a market to select ingredients.
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text: Online exclusivePatient-education tips for new nursesSmith, Jackie A. PhD; Zsohar, Helen PhD, RN Author Information Jackie A. Smith is a professor (clinical) and Helen Zsohar is a professor emerita (clinical) at the University of Utah College of Nursing in Salt Lake City, Utah. The authors have disclosed that they have no financial relationships related to this article. Nursing 43(10):p 1-3, October 2013. | DOI: 10.1097/01.NURSE.0000434224.51627.8a Free Metrics NEW NURSES know that teaching patients is important. They also know that their shifts are usually so hectic that patient teaching comes after more immediate responsibilities, such as medicication administration and dressing changes. New nurses need to get in the habit of thinking about patient education as a way of providing nursing care beyond the here and now. Even more important, new nurses need to maximize the time they spend on patient education to obtain the best outcomes for their patients. Busy nurses often find it difficult to provide effective patient teaching in the current healthcare climate. As Fran London, a nurse, patient-education expert, and author, noted, "Teaching patients isn't rocket science, but it is a sophisticated skill that takes practice and commitment. Without patient education, there's very little effective healthcare with improved long-term outcomes" (Fran London, MS, RN, e-mail communication, June 12, 2009). When nurses incorporate patient education into the patient's plan of care, they can improve their teaching effectiveness and increase the likelihood of optimal patient outcomes.1 Many excellent resources describe tools and techniques nurses can use in patient education.2–6 Yet it can be difficult for nurses to sort through the forest of available resources when they're needed at a moment's notice. Nurses are often required to think on their feet when teaching patients under less-than-ideal situations. This article provides tips from experienced nurses working in a wide variety of specialties to make patient education as effective and efficient as possible. Find out about these creative approaches here. Patient-teaching techniques that work PatEdNet, StaffEdNet, and PIPELine are electronic mailing lists that let healthcare educators share and discuss patient- and staff-education issues. (For more information on how to subscribe and participate on the lists, go to the Health Care Education Association website at www.hcea-info.org.) The overall goal of these three noncommercial lists is to improve professional practice as participants learn from each other. To add to the best patient-education practices discussed in this article, the authors asked subscribers to the three lists to share effective patient-education strategies they've used. (In the request, subscribers were informed their ideas would be used in an article to be submitted to a nursing journal on best patient-education techniques.) Fourteen nurse colleagues with a wide array of teaching experiences in diabetes education, pediatrics, rehabilitation, neurology, general medicine, asthma education for children, pediatric special healthcare needs, and colostomy, urostomy, and ileostomy care voluntarily responded. One nurse has years of experience teaching patients and families with limited English-speaking abilities. Another nurse manages a program that uses computer kiosks at the bedside to facilitate patient education. These nurse colleagues willingly shared their ideas and agreed that certain strategies are keys to effective patient education. Assessment for individualized teaching By far the most effective patient-education strategy mentioned was to assess the patient and adjust teaching to these needs. For patient teaching to be effective, nurses must know their patients and individualize patient education. Busy nurses may think time allows them to give patients only printed materials. But as important as these materials are, they're only a small part of the individualized patient-education process. (See Asking key assessment questions.) Find out what motivates each patient. What's important to him or her? Motivational interviewing can help make your teaching more effective. One idea is to let the patient choose the topic of most interest, and then address that area first. Another question to ask the patient is, "What's important for you to learn?" Based on the assessment of patient learning needs and styles, the education provided should use common words, readable materials (written around the sixth grade reading level), and various teaching techniques based on learning styles. For example, does the patient prefer viewing audiovisual materials, watching demonstrations, listening to instructions, or reading printed materials? As one nurse colleague suggested, it boils down to "involve, individualize, assess, and evaluate understanding." Learning environment Several nurse colleagues mentioned the importance of surroundings that are conducive to learning, so turn off the TV and music, and shut the door. Nurses should set up an environment that's calm and supportive. They should introduce themselves and explain why they're there. Create surroundings that support teaching and engage the learner and an environment that makes the patient comfortable. After ensuring a quiet environment, nurses should get "eye-to-eye" with the patient. They should sit down by the patient. This act delivers the message that the nurse will be there long enough to focus on the patient. The nurse should make sure that other nursing responsibilities are being handled while spending time with the patient. Effective strategies Teaching isn't a one-time event that occurs only at discharge. According to one nurse colleague, learning occurs every time the nurse enters the patient's room. Nurses should think about how they learned nursing skills. It took practice, practice, and more practice. Let your patients do the same. Demonstration, return demonstration, and "teach back, tell back" were noted to be good teaching strategies to improve learning. For example, the patient can perform a recently learned procedure during the rest of the hospitalization. One nurse colleague teaches patients with a new colostomy how to change the pouching system at home and then has them do the procedure in the hospital under her guidance. Be sure to use the same kind of equipment the patient will be using at home. Another idea is to have the patient explain a recently learned procedure to a family member. Or, the nurse can have the patient verbalize what's been learned. This activity helps the nurse understand the learning that's taken place. Praise can go a long way in reinforcing learning. The goal of effective teaching is to go beyond asking, "Do you understand" to saying, "Tell and show me what you understand." Engage the learner! The learner needs to be involved in the education process. Involving family members or friends the patient has chosen can significantly improve learning.2 One nurse colleague suggested using visuals, models, dolls, and realistic medical equipment in teaching. Kiosks at the bedside have been successfully used by one institution as an innovative and interactive way to involve patients in the teaching process. The kiosk, which is available 24/7, lets nurses monitor the learning process and evaluate the patient's grasp of key points. The interactive kiosk contains patient-education modules and assessment learning tools. The nurse brings the kiosk into the patient's room and starts the program. Each patient goes through all of the modules at his or her own pace and answers questions. The kiosk provides a summary handout for the patient to take home and generates a completion certificate that's placed in the medical record. Other organizations create a video of patient-education sessions in the hospital. The video (often in DVD form) can be replayed in the hospital and provided to the patient to take home to review. Or, how about creating a personalized podcast and making it available to the patient? Another teaching strategy is to involve every possible resource. These include family members who can help, clinical experts at the facility who can teach the patient, and appropriate home-care referrals. Outpatient services may be available, such as support groups, outpatient diabetes education programs, a wound management center, or a wound, ostomy, and continence nurse. One thing that doesn't work is to ask the question, "Do you understand?" This question requires a simple "yes" or "no" response and tells the nurse nothing about the patient's level of understanding. Some patients may be reluctant to admit that they don't really understand what's been taught to them. How can you tell? According to one colleague, "One way is to have the patient demonstrate the skill or verbalize the information. Also, does the patient ask pertinent questions? Is the patient engaged? If not, this could be a caution sign." Is your teaching reaching? Nurses should confirm that their teaching was understood and will be put into practice by patients. Ask yourself these questions: "Is my teaching reaching?" and "Can patients demonstrate or teach back what they've learned?" Several nurse colleagues noted the importance of looking at outcomes associated with patient-education efforts. More research on outcomes is needed to increase administrative support and financial reimbursement of patient-education efforts at the organizational level. By using this advice from experienced nurses, new nurses can help their patients by providing effective patient teaching. Asking key assessment questions Nurse colleagues mentioned some key assessment questions, including these: What's the patient's educational level? How well does the patient read? Does the patient have the ability to read and comprehend instructions for medications, diet, procedures, and other regimens? What's the patient's learning style? For example, does the patient prefer reading printed materials, viewing audiovisual materials, or watching demonstrations? What are the patient's English language skills? Is the patient's first language something other than English? Would the patient like to know everything possible about the health concern or just the basics? Does the patient see and hear well? Does the patient wear glasses to read or use a hearing aid? Would the patient like a significant other to be involved in the patient-education process? REFERENCES 1. Hess CT. Incorporating patient education into your plan of care. Nursing. 2009;39(4):62. Cited Here 2. Bastable SB. Nurse as Educator: Principles of Teaching and Learning for Nursing Practice. 4th ed. Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers; 2013. Cited Here 3. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations. The Joint Commission Guide to Patient and Family Education. 2nd ed. Oakbrook Terrace, IL: Joint Commission Resources; 2007. 4. London F. No Time to Teach? The Essence of Patient and Family Education for Health Care Providers. Atlanta, GA: Pritchett & Hull Associates; 2009. 5. Rankin SH, Stallings KD, London F. Patient Education in Health and Illness. 5th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2005. 6. Redman BK. The Practice of Patient Education: A Case Study Approach. 10th ed. St. Louis, MO: Mosby/Elsevier; 2006. Cited Here © 2013 by Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.View full article text


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I love teaching the Seasons. It is so much fun! We don't do a whole lot of science and social studies, but this is a unit that is a must. I teach my whole unit around the Dr. Jean song Seasons from her Kiss the Brain CD. It is perfect for helping kiddos remember the 4 seasons. I do a brief intro by singing the song. I have a FREE PowerPoint on my Teachers Notebook account that I made to go with the Seasons song. Due to copyright reasons, it does not include the actual music. You can find that here. I also show the first couple of slides from the other FREE PowerPoint in my store. It includes the videos from BrainPopJr. that are WONDERFUL. You will have to have a subscription to BrainPopJr to access the videos. After the intro, we spend a couple of days on each season. I begin with Winter. (I start with Winter because the song does.) I show the slides from the PowerPoint on Winter and show the video. We discuss the weather, trees, what you wear, activities you do, and holidays we celebrate during the season. I use these books by Nuria Roca to teach the Seasons.
You can find them on Amazon.
We then begin our Seasons' book. This book includes a large page of each season. Here is the cover for the book:
I have no idea where I got the coloring page, so I created a new one this year and added it to my Seasons' mini unit. You can find in my Teachers Notebook store. The students just color it and glue it to a large piece of paper along with the chorus of the song.
Here is our Winter page:
Students just draw 3 circles (large, medium, small) and then paint them white. They had a scarf, hat, and face. They then add snow by using these rings:
They are perfect for creating that "snow" effect. You can see the Winter quote from the song on this page. I do this because when the book is complete, all the words to the song are in the book and kiddos can sing it to their parents.
Next is Spring. Here is our Spring page:
We create this by water coloring a coffee filter and adding a stem, and grass.
Here is our summer page:
This is a simple one. Just paint a sun and add googly eyes.
Last is our fall page:
For this page, students color a paper plate green, and add red, yellow, orange and brown tissue paper squares for leaves.
At the end of the unit, we staple them in order and send them home!
To wrap up our unit, the students complete an art project showing what the trees look like in each season.
I created a better template of the four trees and it is included in my mini unit! We have a lot of fun with this unit. The students LOVE their big book. If you want any of these items, just head to my Teacher's Notebook store and grab them!


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(PS4) Dark Souls:...
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Originally developed by Sony Computer Entertainment's Santa Monica Studio exclusively for the PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) system, God of War® III has been remastered for the PLAYSTATION®4 (PS4™) system and gameplay supports 1080p and is targeting 60fps. God of War III Remastered will bring epic battles to life with stunning graphics and an elaborate plot that puts Kratos at the center of carnage and destruction as he seeks revenge against the Gods who have betrayed him.
Release Date: 14 July 2015
Audio: English
Subtitle: English
Genre: Action Adventure
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Description: Females 5 - 10¾ inches, males 3½ - 5¾ inches. False Map Turtles have a dark olive or brown upper shell (carapace). Young turtles have a row of saw-toothed knobs down the center of the back. As they age the knobs will wear down. Adult male False Map Turtles usually keep pronounced knobs, but they may be very hard to detect in large females. The bottom shell (plastron) is light colored, and usually has no markings. The head is dark colored with light lines extending up the neck to the back of the eye. There is a light colored line behind each eye that extends to the top of the head, and then turns backwards down the neck. Some False Map Turtles maybe have a line that behind the eye that wraps around to the bottom of the eye.
Similar Species: None.
Status: Level III - Species of Conservation Priority (learn more)
Comments: Restricted to the Missouri River and its tributaries.


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Meet the project artists!
In late spring 2008, PDOT selected two Clinton Street Project Artists to assist us in producing potential bicycle boulevard markings & signage designs. In May, the project Artist Selection Panel selected the project team of Matt Cartwright and Brian Borrello. Click on their names to learn more about their artwork!


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A court here remanded Yug Pathak, the son of a retired IPS officer and one of the owners of the Mojos Bistro pub, to a five-day police custody in connection with the deadly fire at the Kamala Mills compound here on December 29, which had claimed 14 lives.
Pathak, the son of retired director general of police and former Pune police commissioner K K Pathak, was arrested on Saturday.
On Friday, the Mumbai Fire Brigade, in its preliminary probe report on the fire, which had engulfed Mojos Bistro and the adjacent 1 Above pub at the Kamala Mills compound in Lower Parel on December 29, had said the blaze possibly started at Mojos Bistro due to the flying embers of a hookah.
Pathak was produced at the Bhoiwada court in Dadar, which remanded him to police custody till January 12, a senior police official said.
"We sought his custody for further probe into the fire incident and to find out whether all the safety precautions and norms were followed by the pub," he added.
The police had on Saturday booked Pathak and his partner, Nagpur-based businessman Yug Tulli, under IPC sections 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 338 (causing grievous hurt by act endangering life and personal safety of others) and other relevant provisions.
The police had recorded Pathaks statement in the case earlier.
The names of Pathak and Tulli were added to the FIR, which was lodged on December 29 against the owners of 1 Above — Kripesh Sanghvi, Jignesh Sanghvi and Abhijeet Mankar.
Earlier, the police had arrested two managers of 1 Above in connection with the fire.
The police have also announced a reward of Rs one lakh for any information about the three pub owners, who are on the run.


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July Fire and Ice: Samuel Deduno Drives the Rotation Bus
By Wally Fish
Continuing our look back at the disaster that was the month of July for the Minnesota Twins, it's time to take a look at how the starting pitching held up. The good news is that the rotation fared better than the position players did during the previous month, but as you're surely aware, that's far from high praise. While the lineup has hit rock bottom and will surely improve in August, the starting pitching could go either way moving forward.
Gibson should have plenty of big league success in the future, but it's been elusive early on. (Photo Credit: Steven Bisig-USA TODAY Sports)
Minnesota needed starts from six arms during the month and finished with a rotation ERA of 4.75 in 144.0 innings of work. Five teams – Phillies, Rangers, Astros, Giants and Blue Jays – fared worse in the ERA department and thus the Twins ranked 25th in that category for July. While it's better than being dead last, their ERA was much closer to the bottom (Blue Jays – 5.34) than it was to the top (Rays – 2.25). Relative to their AL Central peers there is clearly a lot of ground to make up:
- Cleveland Indians (7th): 3.22 ERA in 151.0 IP
- Detroit Tigers (8th): 3.33 ERA in 162.1 IP
- Chicago White Sox (12th): 3.61 ERA in 169.1 IP
- Kansas City Royals (18th): 4.22 ERA in 149.1 IP
Stare at that list for a second and let it sink in. The Twins rotation during the month of July was a run and a half worse than the two teams leading the division.
Looking at the innings pitched rankings the team was again 25th in baseball ahead of the Phillies (142.2), Rockies (141.0), Astros (139.1), Angels (133.0) and Giants (131.0).
On Fire:
Sam Deduno (33.0 IP, 28 H, 11 ER, 14 BB, 18 SO) continued his run as the team's most consistent and reliable starter. He went at least 6.0 innings in each of his five July starts and four of those five resulted in a quality starts. The positive continue as he's completed a full 7.0 innings in each of his last three. Deduno's ERA+ currently sits at 130 putting him just outside the Top-10 in the American League and is surging having allowed just 13 hits and 3 earned runs in his last 21.o innings of work. The natural movement on his pitches does not result in a lot of swings and misses (5.0 SO/9 in 76.1 IP this season) but it does induce a lot of weak contact and an excellent 62.8 ground ball percentage.
Mike Pelfrey (27.2 IP, 28 H, 10 ER, 9 BB, 21 SO) was rolling through his first four July starts before the Royals got to him on the 30th for eight hits and four runs in just 4.0 innings of work. It was his worst start since May 15th but even with that included in his monthly line, he still wound up with a 3.25 ERA, 1.34 WHIP and 2.33 SO/BB. He's pitched better each and every month this season but was so awful in April that he's still stuck with a 5.31 ERA and 1.55 WHIP in 98.1 IP on the year.
Scott Diamond (26.0 IP, 28 H, 14 ER, 12 BB, 8 SO) has had a rough and wildly inconsistent season and that continued during July. Only once all season has he pitched back-to-back above average starts and we have to go back to the beginning of May to find those. This past month his five starts resulted in the following game scores (50 is average): 54, 21, 56, 25, 60. His first August start was a train wreck so the trend continues. His ERA (currently 5.52) hasn't been below 5.00 since June 2nd. Diamond was sent down to Rochester today and it's looking more and more like 2012 was a career year and an aberration.
P.J. Walters (5.0 IP, 4 H, 3 ER, 3 BB, 3 SO) made his 8th start of the season on July 3rd and though it was better than his previous three outings it wasn't enough to prevent a trip back to Rochester. Of the nine pitchers that have started a game for the Twins in 2013 Walters' 4.1 BB/9 and 1.22 SO/BB are the worst of the bunch. His 11.7 H/9 would also be at the bottom of the barrel were it not for Vance Worley's eyesore 15.2 H/9. Gibson and Worley both trail Walters in ERA+ as well but they're both 25 with room for improvement and better days ahead (hopefully). The same positive spin can not be applied to P.J. who is 28 years old.
Ice Cold:
Kevin Correia (25.0 IP, 35 H, 17 ER, 10 BB, 15 SO) had a 2.23 ERA after his 5th start of the season on April 28th. Unfortunately he's been unable to sustain that level of success and his ERA has been on an upward trend. In his last start on July 31st he allowed a pair of runs and didn't walk a batter in 6.0 innings but he gave ten hits and could have fared much, much worse. The bloom is off the rose with Correia in the AL and the best the Twins can hope for at this point is that he can resemble a league average pitcher while making $5.5 million in 2014.
Kyle Gibson (27.1 IP, 32 H, 21 ER, 11 BB, 13 SO) is just six starts – five of them coming in July – deep into what will hopefully be a long and productive major league career. As a result he gets a bit of a pass while he works to adapt to the level and cut into his 6.21 ERA. Minnesota desperately needs the 25-year old to develop into the #2/#3 stater they envisioned when he was drafted but for now he just needs to be left alone in the rotation so he can figure things out. Four of his six outings have registered a GSc of around 50 so he's holding his own most of the time but we haven't seen him go out and truly dominate an opposing lineup just yet.
Next up we will examine the true bright spot of the 2013 Minnesota Twins roster, the relief corps.


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The New Year is here again, so it must be time for all that New Year, New Me stuff.
And with what we've all been through recently, I could forgive you for breathing one enormous sigh of relief. It's the end of the year and it's finally the time to move on towards better things. After all, you deserve it.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, though; it doesn't work like that.
As humans, we don't suddenly change personalities or perspectives just because we move from one day to another on a calendar. Our perceived bad habits, lack of exercise, lack of motivation or food binging won't go away just because we say Happy New Year!
But if you do want to join the gym (at the busiest time of the year for gyms), start a blog or go on a diet, there are ways to move into better habits, whatever your goal is. You'll find a whole range of tips and strategies to help you across the Internet, but in my humble (and correct) opinion, there's only one that works.
Build a habit in a way that makes it unconscious. It's something you just do, like brushing your teeth in the morning. Day in and day out, month after month, and even, year after year.
Jerry Seinfeld is a successful comedian. He got so by learning early on that the secret to success was consistency. Not in making grand gestures, just the boring drudgery of repetition. So he set out early to write a joke a day.
The thing about consistency is that it's hard. Anyone who has ever tried to build a habit has felt exhaustion set in after six or seven days. Just about the time you start to lose count.
We get lazy and unmotivated. Life gets in the way. There's always something else to do. And by the time you get to 10 in the evening and you realise you haven't done that thing you were going to do, you let it slip till the next day.
That's fine, far be it for me to criticise anyone for a lack of motivation.
Seinfeld realised early on that good intentions weren't enough. He needed a system to keep his eye on the ball and keep him motivated.
So he got a big year-long wall calendar and hung it in a place he couldn't ignore. Every day he wrote a joke he would cross off using a red marker. Rather like Robinson Crusoe on the desert island, he counted the days.
The trick, therefore, comes in not breaking the chain because, after a relatively short period, you won't want to.
The Seinfeld Strategy is based around setting a goal, creating routines around that goal, setting up the calendar and executing.Many people will say that using a physical, paper calendar works best. Maybe it does, but I found Streaks on a Medium post and it changed my life.
It the physical act of ticking off another day doing (or not doing) is most satisfying.
As of today, I have a 1046-day stretch on Duolingo for learning Spanish and I really don't want to lose it. I've added to it with 115 and 116-day streaks in Portuguese and Italian.
I've built 152 and 153-day streaks in yoga and meditation, and it's been 165 days since I last had a drink. I've also managed to control my carb intake and radically reduce my blood sugar levels from the serious spikes I was getting in the first half of the year.
The strategy works because the disappointment and the ugliness of missing on the calendar are motivating. And filling them in is strangely rewarding.
Streaks will also not let you forget your goal, I've set them up as recurring tasks in my to-do list and the app sends me passive-aggressive reminders every day so I feel doubly guilty about not finishing them as well.
It's a system that's easy to use because it just involves ticking stuff off.
So as we go into the New Year, perhaps with a greater sense of good riddance than many of the previous ones, I can only hope that the next one will be better.
And whatever your goal, whatever habit you want to form or break, I can only hope you do.
The secret is consistency


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William Christenberry, who is 73, has been one of Washington's most important artists for something like 40 years, working as a painter, fine-art photographer, meticulous sculptor and careful installer of found things. But the best way back to the origins of all his varied work, and to the heart of what it means, is through a series of scrappy little snapshots that Christenberry made in the 1970s, shooting with a Kodak Brownie and getting his prints done at drugstore photo counters as he toured and contemplated Hale County, Ala., where his family is from.
Compared to Christenberry's deluxe maquettes of Southern buildings, to his evocative assemblages of Alabama scrap or even to his large-scale color photos of the rural South, shot on 8-by-10-inch film and preternaturally sharp, the drugstore prints barely even seem to count as art. That's what makes them so wonderful and so important. They feel like they provide the most direct, intense, unmediated encounter with the reality that matters to Christenberry, without any artifying filter getting in the way.
Thirteen of Christenberry's vintage snapshots, which have barely been exhibited since his first museum show at the Corcoran in Washington in 1973, are now on the walls at Hemphill Fine Arts. (On this page we're printing the images at actual size. If you're on a computer and want to see them at that scale, adjust your screen so they measure 3 1/2 by 5 inches.)
Christenberry left Alabama when he was 24 and has lived in the District since 1968. Yet almost all his art has been about his Southern roots, revisited on frequent trips home. Like so many artists, Christenberry's work seems to gets its start from an encounter with the world. And as with many other artists, the working-up of that raw material into finished art doesn't always lead to much improvement. Watching Leonardo da Vinci coming to grips with reality in a quick sketch is often as rewarding as seeing how he transformed that first encounter into the "art" of painting.
When Christenberry first started taking photos with his Brownie, he thought of them as nothing more than "sketches" for paintings. It took his mentor, the great New York photographer Walker Evans, some of whose most potent images were made in Hale County, to let him know how much they mattered. In fact, they turned out to be the "sketching" that underlies all of Christenberry's art.
In the photos at Hemphill, you can almost feel the moment when Christenberry, on yet another trip home, spots a church or a Coke sign or a car that interests him, squares it up in his Brownie and snaps a record of it. And the casualness of the snapshot helps make clear that what truly matters is the quality of the thing, rather than the virtue of the record that's been made of it. It's as though Christenberry's photos simply point a finger at the world and say "take a look at that," the way he himself might point and exclaim if you were driving with him down a Hale County lane. His photos don't seem to do the looking for us.
But there's one more step that makes these old Brownie prints succeed so well. The modest piece of equipment that shot them, and the modest scale and manner of their printing, seem to fit right into the modest rural world that they depict.
If the owner of one of the buildings Christenberry shot wanted a record of his home, you'd imagine him pulling out a Brownie just like Christenberry's, framing the scene square-on, as Christenberry does, and then heading down to the photo counter at Eckerd's to find out what's on the film, maybe running into that Christenberry boy -- the one who moved away and became some kind of famous artist -- as he orders up his prints.
Christenberry has often included found objects from the South in his artworks. The photographs at Hemphill feel like the South itself, found and delivered up to us by Christenberry at his best. Those fading snapshots show the world from which all his art has sprung, but they're part of that world, too. Over time, these magical objects have collapsed the gap between Christenberry's subjects and the works of art that show them.


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Adding some Zip to your Zooms
It was very early in the pandemic that my family embraced Zoom video meetings. As plans to visit in person got canceled, those video-calls were needed just to feel connected. And since my parents taught us to never pass up the opportunity to turn any event into a celebration, it was very quickly decided that our Zoom meetings would be cocktail parties, complete with themes.
One of the earliest was 'Crazy Hair Day.' Everyone, from my 8-year-old nephew to my 93-year-old Dad joined in. And so, the Berg Family Themed Zoom Cocktail Parties began.
In the beginning of stay-at-home requirements, fashioning costumes from items scrounged at home was key. Paper bags made a Viking vest, and there were several hats and props created from shipping boxes and tape, with kitchen items becoming accessories.
Weeks progressed, and we started having more involved motifs, with everyone offering theme suggestions. Through the summer there were fairly elaborate ones – Ninjas, Ancient Rome, literary characters. When school resumed, we chose "simpler" ideas for weeknights, and more involved ones for the weekend.
At one point, nephew Leif just simply chose SWORDS as a theme, as an 8-year-old boy would. (Funny side note, we all have them… hmm.)
I often make costumes, one sister creates amazing background art, sometimes we theme our drinks, props, décor, lighting. But we don't spend a lot of time on these, seriously. Most take 15 to 30 minutes to create. Games, trivia and jokes have also become a tradition.
The themes have added so much levity to our video parties. I highly recommend adding them to yours.
Even though vaccines are beginning to roll out, and an end to the pandemic may be on the horizon, video calls are probably going to be with us for a while. So, here are some tips for adding some Zing to your Zoom.
- Create themes for the Zoom
Pick something easy, like sports teams, denim, hats, or each household chooses a color. Remember that most folks are only visible from the shoulders up, so keep that in mind. And, not every theme has to involve dressing up. My sister has become the master of the Zoom Background. Every call, she creates a hand-drawn giant post-it inspired by the motif. My Mom usually has something theme-related on the buffet behind her. Think outside the box. You can click here for a downloadable list of Theme Ideas.
- Create a Common Experience with Food and Drinks
To help make people feel more together, have everyone prepare the same cocktail, dessert or snack item (share recipes in the invitation a couple of days before). I've been known to send cookies ( https://tamaracentral.com/2013/02/20/brown-sugar-shortbread/ ) to folks so that we could all be snacking on them during the video conference.
- Jokes, Puns and Riddles
Use your search engine to find jokes that will fit your theme. There are a lot of humor sites on the internet, and plenty of age-appropriate jokes. Whenever there's a lull in conversation, pull out a joke!
- Games
There are some games that work really well via video conference. Bingo, Scattergories, Farkle, Pictionary, you can even create a Trivia game, tailored to fit your theme! (here's random trivia generator https://www.randomtriviagenerator.com/?fbclid=IwAR3mVep1dcLeuN1mxmfoSjKf8iLFwGz3qCV9TMTonNkrkCwuM9ggHnUFtnE#/)
Good housekeeping created a good site with suggestions for games here. https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/g32098665/best-games-to-play-on-zoom/
I hope this gives you some ideas for adding zing to your Zooms. Screen time has been both a blessing and a drudgery during the pandemic. May yours include more joy and togetherness.


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Selenium toxicity is often known as selenosis, if you are consuming too much selenium from your meals and diet regime then you should consider knowing how much selenium should you take per day. I'm going to introduce to selenium intake.
What is Selenium?
Our body requires inorganic compounds, which is commonly known as elements but we also call it "minerals", it needs to support development, growth and daily function.
Despite the fact that Our body only requires smaller amounts of the mineral selenium. Selenium performs a crucial part in the production of proteins required to maintain the thyroid gland and helps to work immune system correctly.
- Selenium is a mineral found in the soil.
- It naturally shows up in water and some foods.
- Although We simply need a quite little amount.
- It performs a crucial part in the metabolism.
Selenium is available in two forms
- inorganic (selenate and selenite)
- organic (selenomethionine and selenocysteine)
The two forms can be good dietary sources of selenium. Soils include inorganic selenites and selenates, which plants acquire and even transform to organic forms of selenium, usually selenocysteine and selenomethionine along with their methylated derivatives.
How Much Selenium Should You Take Daily
I was reading about brazil nuts, and I found the rich amount of selenium in them. The problem was the excessive amount of selenium that brazil nuts possess.
Just 1 brazil nut gives you 95.9 mcg selenium that is more than recommended daily allowance of selenium Every day.
After researching about brazil nut, I discovered that 1 ounce of brazil nuts can cause you selenium toxicity for that reason it requires understanding how much selenium daily we need.
Consuming larger amount of selenium can cause selenium toxicity, which is also known as selenosis.
The following is the average daily recommended amounts of selenium each day.
[Source: Office of Dietary Supplements]
Age Group
Recommended Dietary Allowance
|Birth to 6 months
|15 micrograms/day
|Children 7-12 months
|20 micrograms/day
|Children 1-3
|20 micrograms/day
|Children 4-8
|30 micrograms/day
|Children 9-13
|40 micrograms/day
|Adults and children 14 and up
|55 micrograms/day
|Pregnant teens & women
|60 micrograms/day
|Breastfeeding teens & women
|70 micrograms/day
The following is the upper limits for selenium from foods and dietary supplements.
Age Group
Upper Limit
|Birth to 6 months
|45 micrograms/day
|Children 7-12 months
|60 micrograms/day
|Children 1-3
|90 micrograms/day
|Children 4-8
|150 micrograms/day
|Children 9-13
|280 micrograms/day
|Adults and children 14 and up
|400 micrograms/day
The Office of Dietary Supplements Suggests that a large amount of selenium in your blood understood to be a concentration of above 100 micrograms per deciliter, leads to "selenosis".
If you consume excessive amount of selenium then you can suffer from the selenosis, The symptoms of selenosis are following,
- Garlic breath
- Brittle hair or nails
- Loss of hair or nails
- Nausea
- Diarrhea
- Metallic taste in the mouth
- Discolored teeth
- Skin rashes
- Irritability
- Nervous system problems
The following question "how much selenium should you take daily" is important because our favorite brazil nuts contain too much selenium, and daily intake of selenium will clear us how many brazil nuts is safe to eat without suffering from selenosis or their symptoms. It will help us to stay on the safe side.
Let me know if you want to tell any experience with selenium through comments.


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In my rounds yesterday, stopped at the produce market to buy some in season veggies and fruit. When got home, put everything away - or so I thought. Fast forward - today needed to go to post office, and see if there were any empty boxes outside a liquor store (great for packing glass items that are being passed on to their new home). Got in the car to leave - Good grief! The smell of ripe cantaloupe closed up in a warm trunk for at least 24 hrs. is not very pleasant. Quick trip to post office, went to closest liq. store - no boxes. Decided I did not have to have them today and not worth driving around looking for boxes with a stinky cantaloupe in the car.
Looks like I will be spending some time outside the next few days - No heat wave this week.....
Oh - Where is the stinky cantaloupe now? In my kitchen smelling up the place.
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About 6400 more Iowans would be officially classified as "veterans" under legislation that's cleared the Iowa Senate. Under current law, certain privileges are only extended to those who served in the regular military during a time of war. Senator Jack Kibbie, a Korean War veteran from Emmetsburg, says the bill redefines veterans as anyone who served at any time in the U.S. military — guard and reserve members, too. "Every veteran will have the same privileges whether it's for a job or housing privileges or property tax exemptions," Kibbie says.
According to Kibbie, the move will be helpful to counties that're finding it hard to find wartime veterans to serve on county veterans commissions. "The older guys are dying off every day…so it's certainly a step in the right direction," Kibbie says.
Kibbie concedes the move has been controversial in the past as those who served during war time held fast to the idea that those who were in the military during so-called "peace time" weren't really "veterans."
"Over time, they've gotten away from this 'My buttons are shinier than yours because I was there for the big war,' but I think now people recognize that a veteran is a veteran," he says.
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I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga (Audiobook Review)
I absolutely loved the idea of this book, as morbid as that might sound. I could not wait to see if Lyga would be able to follow through. To put it simply . . . He did!! I grew to love the characters - the good, the bad, and the crazy. Jazz is quite the character in and of himself, carrying this story until the very end. He was brilliant and scary and vulnerable and strong. It is no wonder that I Hunt Killers made my Best of 2014 list!
I cannot close my thoughts on this book without also mentioning the narrator, Charlie Thurston. Thurston was the perfect fit for Jazz's tale, but also slipped into character so easily with the others in the story. His interpretation on Jazz's best friend, Howie was my personal favorite. I found myself sitting in parking lots, taking the long way home, and finding every excuse I could muster to listen to this book. I can only hope that Thurston continues to narrate this series.
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Back in 2015 a student pilot was preparing for his PPL Skills Test. Needless to say he was very nervous about the exam. Especially about the navigation part when you are required to divert from your pre-planned route. And can you blame him? It is frustrating enough to fly an aeroplane with an examiner sat next to you. On the top of that being rubbish at doing maths in your head does not help at all.
What it did help, was to put marks on the pencil every 5 nautical miles and pre-calculate the flight times at different speeds on a separate piece of paper.
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The University of Hawaii Board of Regents has hired former journalist Lynne Waters as a $141,000-per-year spokeswoman.
Waters had been working as spokeswoman for City Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro and now takes the title of "associate vice president for external affairs and university relations."
Waters is the wife of state Sen. Clayton Hee, Judiciary and Labor Committee chairman.
Waters' salary is officially set at $150,000 but is subject to a temporary six per cent restriction because of university budget cutbacks.
Waters will be the university's "media spokesperson, enhancing communications with internal and external stakeholders, and collaborating with the UH Foundation and other university constituencies on messaging and communications," said UH public information officer Kristen Bonilla.
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For those that have followed the wild stage antics of The Prodigy and its members Liam Howlett, Keith Flint, Keith Palmer since the early 90's it would seem now that that once inspiring rave/electronic stadium rock sounds have drifted off into nowhere land. The ravey sounds of screaming keys and droning kicks have suffered over time and not generated any good luck for this once jet setting band and returned to this new offering from The Prodigy. Although they should be congratulated at one time for giving aspiring producers across the world ideas because of their genre mixing styles of rave.breakbeat/hardcoe it's sad to see they haven't moved onto something new yet. But if you are stuck in that rut where your 3 times the size baggy pants still sit in your closet then perhaps it's time to bring back out and dress yourself with some candy bracelets.
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How to Choose a Wedding Photographer
When meeting a couple for their wedding consultation, the last thing I say is a few words of advice. I say to them, there are many fantastic photographers' around. Most important thing to do is take your time to find the wedding photographer that is right for you. Yes of course I would like them to pick me for their special day, however beyond that I would much rather they picked a wedding photographer that captures their day exactly how they dreamt it would be.
Having this in mind, and the advice I give to couples, I thought it would be a good to write this blog, and give my thoughts on how to choose the right photographer.
Here are my 7 tips of advice from a wedding photographer's perspective.
Photographers' Style
Wedding photographers' styles vary, and firstly when looking, it is important that you decide on what style you would like your photograph's to have. You may be thinking you would like traditional wedding photograph's, documentary style, portraiture style, fine art or natural wedding photography (which has become highly popular in recent times). There are many different styles to choose from, and it is very important that you choose the right one for the day. My advice would be to decide on a style, and then look for a photographer who can offer more than one style on your wedding day. An example being, taking formal photographs' of guests, couple shots, documented images' of the day such as the venue and smaller details and tie this in with a relaxed and natural approach. No photographer will be perfect; however, you will find a style that suits you both.
View a Full Wedding Album
A photographer's portfolio, as like mine, displays a range of the best images' from various weddings photographed. When I look at wedding photograph's from peoples wedding day, I would say that there will be around 10 or so images' that would be the couple's favourites, and these are usually all they will need for a lifetime. These images' maybe used for prints in their home or on social media. The problem with wedding portfolios is that you will not get a great understanding of the photographers' work and in somewhat I feel the photographer is hiding the full day that has been documented. If a photographer displays a full gallery from a wedding day, you can get a nice idea of how your photos will look. The way I have set up my online portfolio is I have a wedding portfolio which displays a variety of my best images and with the wedding galleries, people can view the couples full wedding album to get an idea of how the day will be documented from bridal preparations to the first dance and into the evening celebrations.
What to Look for in the Wedding Photographs'
My first piece of advice when looking at the photograph's, is how well the photographer documented the whole day of the wedding. There are many different sections of a wedding day you may not have thought about such as bridal preparations, ceremony, post ceremony, formals', couple photograph's, first dance and after party. It is important to know what areas you would like to have photographed. Yes, the ceremony and formals are within a standard wedding package, but if you're looking for extras such as bridal preparations and evening celebrations, how well does the photographer capture these moments? Another thing I always say to couples is look for good quality, clean and detailed image's. I think that there is no professional that should not be able to offer quality image's and by this, I mean that everything in the frame that should be focused and clear. I often see images online in portfolios that are blurry, have noise (which is like lots of dots in the photographs') and are not very detailed and sharp. The photographer could leave you with images' that are perfect but if they are not as mentioned, they will not be of good use. I shoot with a 5D Mark III which is a high spec professional camera, and this way I can ensure quality image's. You don't need to be a photographer to see a good quality image, however with this advice I think you will be able to see a very good photographer over an amateur one.
Wedding Packages
A good photographer will offer a nice selection of different packages. On a personal note and from my research I have done, I have found that couples want a variety of packages, which gives them nice and clear information about what they include and a range of prices. Gold, silver and bronze or other nicely named packages are often what photographer's use on their websites. Prices vary, and from understanding the UK market, you could pay from around £450 for an average photographer and up to £2,000 - £3,000 for a fine art wedding photographer who has a very professional portfolio. The first thing when deciding is to find out how long the photographer will stay for depending on what you want. Do you want a full day coverage? Do you want just the ceremony? These are decisions you will need to make, so you can get a better idea on prices. Some photographer's will say how many hours you will get coverage for, which for me is a bit cheeky! What if the day overruns? You will likely find yourself paying a premium for extra hours! My advice is find a photographer who charges for the day and have them photograph from bridal preparations to first dance and into the evening celebrations. I would then advise to look at what extras you can add to your wedding packages. Does the photographer do an engagement shoot? Can you have online galleries to view your images? Do they provide wedding albums? Once you have found this you can then tailor your package to become bespoke to how you want it, and work out how much you will likely be paying.
Do you get on well?
One of the most important things when choosing a photographer is have you bonded with them when you spoke, or met up with them? Personality is massively important, not only will you be spending many hours with them on the day, so will your guests. The better that you all get on, the better the images will come out. If you as a couple like the photographer it will make the photographs' fun and you won't be timid around each other. When speaking about your wedding day, does the photographer get excited about your vision for the photographs? Have they presented themselves well to you and been professional? You can get a good idea about the photographer's personality through reviews. Have other couples said nice things about them? On the day, a great photographer will be relaxed but assertive. You want them to allow you and your guests to enjoy the day, but when needed be able to speak up and help coordinate the photograph's and possibly some of the wedding day.
Yes, a photographer is there to take amazing images', however has been to many weddings and will know a good running order of the day. Do they seem like someone who can help you with that? Some photographer's go beyond what's expected. I once had a lovely review which read "We had lots of comments the next morning about how lovely you were and a number guests said you made the effort to say goodbye to them and wish them well at the end of the day. On a personal level that meant the world to us as it brought another touch that made everybody's day that bit more special" Having a nice photographer, who is confident, helpful and friendly with your guests, will really help make your wedding that little bit more special.
Yes, all photographers should, and most likely will display reviews on their website or have them on social media accounts such as Facebook. The reviews will give you a good idea of what previous couples have said about their services. I would recommend picking out things that are within reviews beyond the usual. Yes, "lovely photographs", "great service" and "we are delighted with our wedding photos", are things that will come up on many reviews. However, there will be other important messages such as "You were great with our guests during the day" "people loved you from our wedding" "You did much more than we were ever expecting" and I had one recently saying that "You were professional and fun and seem to absolutely love your job". To me these are comments that show that a photographer goes beyond the expected and describe them as an individual as well as a wedding photographer.
Postproduction from you Wedding Photographs'
After the excitement of your wedding day, you will most likely be wanting to get hold of your wedding photograph's as soon as you can. It is important to ask your photographer how long the images will take to turn around. Postproduction varies depending on the photographer and also how many weddings they have still to edit. It could be anything from 4 weeks to 4 months, and possibly longer. Personally, I like to get one image from the wedding to the couple as soon as I can, so they have one from their day and deliver the full gallery within 2 to 4 weeks. Questions to ask include things like do I have full rights to my images? how many photograph's should I expect from the wedding day? How will I get my images? When receiving your images, some photographer's may produce you an online gallery with a log in, some may send a USB and others will digitally send them to you. You may also want to know, if you have purchased an album, how long will this take to receive? You may also want to ask the photographer to not use your photograph's for advertising. My experience is couples do not mind, however if you want them to stay personal you may want to ask about your rights.
So that's it, my 7 tips which I think will help you to choose the right photographer for your wedding day. It's a big decision and one that does take time when researching. However, if you choose the right photographer this will make your day that little more special, and having full confidence in your photographer will help create moments that last forever.
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