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![]() But do not get obsessed with the idea of racing through the word lists to the finish line. Q: How long will it take to get through a whole word list? I want my child to learn ALL the words!!!Ī: That depends on a number of factors, including frequency of your lessons as well as your child’s ability to focus. Children who learn quickly may only need to use two or three of the techniques. If the child learns fine without Table Writing, then you can try leaving out the fourth technique, Air Writing. Start by eliminating the last activity, Table Writing, but be sure to review those words at the next lesson to see if the child actually retained them without that last exercise. After a few weeks of lessons, you will have a sense for how long it takes your child to learn new words and whether all five exercises are necessary. The techniques use different teaching methods and physical senses to support and reinforce the child’s memorization of the word. Q: Do I really need to do all five techniques for every word?Ī: Start out by using all five techniques with each new word. Give him time to grow confident with his current set of words, and avoid overwhelming the child with new words when he hasn’t yet become familiar with the old words. The child is learning how to learn the words and is developing pattern recognition approaches that will speed his progress. We have been on the same five words for a week!Ī: It is not unusual to have to repeat the same set of words several times, especially in the first weeks of sight words instruction. All you need is a flash card for each of the sight words you are covering in the lesson. The lessons get the child up to a baseline level of competence that is then reinforced by the games, which take them up to the level of mastery. The exercises combine many repetitions of the word (seeing, hearing, speaking, spelling, and writing) with physical movements that focus the child’s attention and cement each word into the child’s long-term memory. These techniques work together to activate different parts of the brain. ![]() Table Writing - A child writes the letters on a table, first looking at and then not looking at the flash card.Air Writing - A child says the word, then writes the letters in the air in front of the flash card.Arm Tapping - The child says the word and then spells out the letters while tapping them on his arm, then reads the word again.Spell Reading - The child says the word and spells out the letters, then reads the word again.See & Say - A child sees the word on the flash card and says the word while underlining it with her finger.Introduce new sight words using this sequence of five teaching techniques: You do not want one child to be regularly embarrassed in front of his classmates when he struggles with words the others have already mastered! NOTE: Be sure the child has a pretty good grasp of a sight word before using it in a game, especially if you are working with a group of children. The games are of course the most entertaining part of the sight words program, but they need to wait until after the first part of the sight words lesson. We have numerous sight words games that will make that repetition fun and entertaining for you and your child. Learning sight words takes lots of repetition. Use your game time to provide lots of repetition for these words until the child has thoroughly mastered them. Note: The child should have a good grasp of - but does not need to have completely mastered - a word before it gets replaced in your lesson plan. ![]() If he has trouble with more than two of the review words, then set aside the new words you were planning to introduce and devote that day’s lesson to review. If your child struggles to recognize a word, cover that word again in the main lesson, going through all five teaching techniques. ![]() Go through the See & Say exercise for each of the review words. Remember: solid knowledge of a few words is better than weak knowledge of a lot of words! Words often need to be covered a few times for the child to fully internalize them. 2.2 Review Old Wordsīegin each subsequent lesson by reviewing words from the previous lesson. As your child gets more advanced, you might increase the number of words you work on in each lesson. This part of a sight words session should be brisk and last no more than ten minutes. This lesson should establish basic familiarity with the new words. Then introduce the second word, and go through all five teaching techniques, and so on. Hold up the flash card for the first word, and go through all five techniques, in order. Introduce one word at a time, using the five teaching techniques. When first beginning sight words, work on no more than three unfamiliar words at a time to make it manageable for your child. ![]() ![]() ![]() We have signs in our stores and share general safety tips with our team members so they can stay alert and help guests as best as they can at our registers. "We are aware of the prevalence of gift card scams and take them very seriously. I asked Target, Walmart and Amazon about their policies. Rick says Target just sent him a $100 e-gift card giving him all of the money he paid. "I just put money in a card and let them do it themselves," he said. It's safer to buy a gift card online, send an e-gift card, or just go old school and avoid the issue altogether as one shopper told me. If you are victim, go back to where you bought the card with proof of purchase and balance.Īnd contact the business on the gift card. If it's been tampered with like his card, scammers used a permanent glue so part of the packaging sticks and peels off. Rick says he was told the card should be able to separate easily from the packaging. If the cover or access code feel rough or don't align, it could be tampered with. When he went back to find "which one is the $50 card" they scanned and told him they were "tampered with and they showed a $0.00 dollar balance." He says he bought Target gift cards "2 $25 and 1 $50." Rick let me know it just happened to him. With the gift card industry expected to reach $188 billion in the U.S. The scammers can then access activity knowing when the card is sold and loaded. They replace the code covers with stickers, like those we found sold cheaply online. "They said the money wasn't on it or anything so frustrating because I had so many things in my cars," she said.Īuthorities say scammers are going through card racks, scratching off the codes and taking down numbers. Some people are finding out their new gift card has zero balance.Ī Phoenix shopper told me it happened to her. PHOENIX - They are easy, desirable and will likely be the most popular holiday gift. ![]() ![]() ![]() 25 on the eastern bypass of the city, leading northwest to Lexington (with U.S. Route 25 forms the eastern bypass around the city, leading northwest to Lexington and south 14 mi (23 km) to Berea. Via I-75, downtown Lexington, Kentucky is 25 mi (40 km) northwest, and Knoxville, Tennessee is 147 mi (237 km) south. I-75 runs to the west of downtown, with access from exits 83, 87, and 90. Routes 25 and 421, and Kentucky Routes 52, 169 and 388. The Blue Grass Army Depot lies to the southeast of the city. Richmond is located in Madison County in the Bluegrass region of the state. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Richmond saw significant growth, becoming the state's seventh-largest city in 2009. In 1965, the institution was renamed Eastern Kentucky University. In 1922, it was established as a four-year college and in 1935 added a graduate degree program. The school graduated its first class of 11 teachers in 1909. In 1906, Eastern Kentucky State Normal School was founded in Richmond to train teachers. One historian called this battle "the nearest thing to a Cannae ever scored by any general, North or South, in the course of the whole war." Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith routed the Union General William Nelson, capturing or killing 5,300 of his 6,500 men. ![]() On August 30, 1862, during the Civil War, the Battle of Richmond took place. Kentucky was a border state during the Civil War and remained in the Union. On July 4, 1798, the new town was named Richmond in honor of Miller's Virginia birthplace. Although the residents of Milford strongly opposed the move, the county approved the transfer in March 1798. With the original county seat of Madison County being Milford, Kentucky, Miller successfully lobbied the Kentucky legislature to move it from Milford to present-day Richmond. According to lore, he was attracted to the area by its good spring water and friendly Native Americans. A British American, Miller served with the rebels in the Revolutionary War. Richmond was founded in 1798 by Colonel John Miller from Richmond, Virginia. In addition, Richmond is the principal city of the Richmond-Berea, Kentucky Micropolitan Area, which includes all of Madison and Rockcastle counties. The city serves as the center for work and shopping for south-central Kentucky. It is the ninth largest population center in the state with a Micropolitan population of 106,864. Richmond is the fourth-largest city in the Bluegrass region (after Louisville, Lexington and Georgetown) and the state's seventh-largest city. The population was 34,585 at the 2020 census. It is named after Richmond, Virginia, and is home to Eastern Kentucky University. Richmond is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Madison County, Kentucky, United States. ![]() ![]() On each channel, you have a level meter, a pan control, mute and solo buttons, a virtual fader and a link button to create stereo channels. The design is quite standard: on the left side you’ll find all eight hardware inputs, on the right side all eight software returns (of your sequencer) all of them can be renamed. These allow you to order the faders horizontally or vertically, or even to hide them so that only the meters are displayed. First of all, notice that there are several layouts provided. Once you install the driver, you’ll access a clear and easily readable GUI. We won’t beat around the bush: the software impressed us a lot due to its a well-designed and convenient virtual mixer. Sweet! On the right corner you’ll find a big volume control as well as three keys assigned to the master out: a Dim/Mute switch that allows you to cut or decrease the volume of the main output, a Mono switch, and a Speaker button to toggle between three pairs of monitor speakers connected to the analog outs on the rear panel. You also get two fully independent headphones outputs: they are assigned to different channels and have their own volume control. Nice! Next to the meters, there are two buttons: the first one can be assigned to different Pro Tools functions (we already mentioned that the link between the house’s own hardware and software is still strong!) while the other one allows you to turn the 48V phantom power on/off. In the middle of the front panel, you’ll find four meters with eight-LEDs each. Also notice that all four gain controls are push/pull pots allowing you to activate –20dB pads. ![]() They all have two switches: the first one to switch between the front inputs 1/2 (mic and instrument) and the two rear line inputs, and the second one to activate the soft limiter (which is a very rare feature on interfaces in this price range). The front panel is also very comprehensive: a pair of XLR/TRS combos for mic inputs 1 and 2 and the two instrument inputs. The only regret of the connections is the lack of an ADAT connector! A 1/4" footswitch jack will allow you to punch in and out while recording or start playing back audio - very practical! Finally, a D-Sub port provides you with a MIDI in/out on 5-pin DIN connectors, a coaxial S/PDIF connector and a BNC to feed it a wordclock signal using the provided breakout cable. Notice that the interface must be connected to its external PSU because it cannot be powered via the FireWire bus of the computer. On the right corner there are two mic inputs (3 and 4) on XLR connectors, while on the left corner you have a pair of FireWire ports. You also get a stereo Aux input on RCAs or minijack. ![]() The effect send and return are in the same TRS jack (tip=send, ring=return, sleeve=ground). The inserts are placed between the preamp and the A/D converter in the signal path. You also get four inserts on 1/4" TRS jacks. On the well-equipped rear panel you have six analog outs and four analog ins on 1/4" TRS jacks with switchable +4dBu/-10dBV sensitivity. Now, let’s have a look at the front and rear panels… ![]() However, it’s important to point out that the three interfaces don’t have the same specs (S/N ratio, dynamic range, etc.), so the differences between the three models are not limited to the number of connections. In that case we recommend the Mbox and Mbox Mini, which are lighter and ought to be enough if you don’t need many ins/outs. However, mobile sound freaks will find that the weight and bulky dimensions of the Mbox Pro are no advantage. AVID did a very nice job compared to former versions. The look of the new Mbox generation is pretty convincing. The knobs are made out of plastic but seem quite rugged. With such a weight, you can be sure it wont slip down from your desk! The dimensions are also generous: 13.7" × 7.6" × 2.3". It looks quite sturdy due to the fact that it has a metal housing and not less due to its heaviness (6.2 lb!). The design is very appealing, professional but not austere. Inside the nice black box with the AVID logo is the interface itself, which makes a good impression at first sight. ![]() ![]() phpMyAdmin default Apache configuration Alias /phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpmyadminĪuthUserFile /etc/phpmyadmin/htpasswd. ![]() Piotr, your comments were not useful, don't pollute. Had to pull a copy off an older installation, posting below. Remember to choose a strong password and store it securely to avoid any future password-related issues.Just ran into this issue on Debian 7, installer and dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin create a broken link "/etc/apache2/conf.d/nf" which points to the missing file "././phpmyadmin/nf". By following the step-by-step guide outlined in this blog post, you can regain access to your MySQL databases. Resetting a forgotten phpMyAdmin password in Ubuntu is a straightforward process that can be completed in just a few steps. If you can access your MySQL databases, then the password reset was successful. Log in to phpMyAdmin using your new password. Step 5: Flush the PrivilegesĪfter updating the password in the MySQL database, you will need to flush the privileges using the following command: FLUSH PRIVILEGES Step 6: Verify the Changes As your non-root sudo user, update your server’s package index: sudo apt update Following that you can install the phpmyadmin package. Replace “your_new_password” with the hashed value you copied in Step 3, and “your_username” with your phpMyAdmin username. Step 1 Installing phpMyAdmin You can use APT to install phpMyAdmin from the default Ubuntu repositories. Update the “password” field with the hashed password you generated in Step 3 using the following command: UPDATE er SET Password=PASSWORD('your_new_password') WHERE User='your_username' Locate the “users” table and find the row with your phpMyAdmin user account. You will be prompted to enter the MySQL root user password. Log in to your MySQL database using the following command in the terminal: mysql -u root -p The command will generate a hashed value for your new password. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations on MySQL and MariaDB. So just install the other required packages to run and access phpMyAdmin. phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP, intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Replace “your_new_password” with the new password you chose in Step 2. Step 1 Install Apache and PHP We are assuming you already have installed the MySQL server on Ubuntu system. You will need to generate a new hashed password using the following command in the terminal: echo -n 'your_new_password' | openssl sha1 PhpMyAdmin stores passwords as hashed values in the MySQL database. Save the changes to the configuration file by pressing “Ctrl+X”, then “Y”, and finally “Enter”. $cfg = ‘your_password’ Ĭhange “your_password” to a new password of your choice. Open the phpMyAdmin configuration file in a text editor using the following command: sudo nano Open a terminal window and navigate to the location of the configuration file using the following command: cd /etc/phpmyadmin/ Step 2: Edit the Configuration File In Ubuntu, the configuration file is located at /etc/phpmyadmin/. The first step is to locate and access the phpMyAdmin configuration file. Step 1 Installing phpMyAdmin You can install phpMyAdmin by using APT to download the phpmyadmin package from the default Ubuntu repositories. Step 1: Access the phpMyAdmin Configuration File ![]() There are a plethora of Open Source applications written using the LAMP application stack. Sets here the complete URL (with full path) to your phpMyAdmin installation’s directory. Discourse Get started with LAMP applications Server Guide powersj June 30, 2023, 4:28pm 1 Overview LAMP installations (Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP/Perl/Python) are a popular setup for Ubuntu servers. For isc-dhcp-server instructions, refer to this guide instead. It is newer and designed for more modern network environments. Kea is the DHCP server developed by ISC to replace isc-dhcp. Basic settings cfg 'PmaAbsoluteUri' Changed in version 4.6.5: This setting was not available in phpMyAdmin 4.6.0 - 4.6.4. How to install and configure isc-kea In this guide we show how to install and configure isc-kea in Ubuntu 23.04 or greater. By following these instructions, you can regain access to your MySQL databases. Debian or Ubuntu) store in /etc/phpmyadmin instead of within phpMyAdmin sources. This blog post will provide a step-by-step guide on resetting your forgotten phpMyAdmin password in Ubuntu. ![]() However, forgetting the password for your phpMyAdmin account can be a frustrating experience. PhpMyAdmin is a popular web-based application used to manage MySQL databases. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, with Rising Tide new let's take a close look at humanity that adapts to our world. Unfortunately, the signal they send, when they arrive in the world there was no surviving creature on our planet. But a new life form they would communicate with the world when they found it. Then communities sent a group of people to the interstellar journey. Billions of light years from our world, a new galaxy it had been discovered. Long-term research is finally a result he had given. The search for a new life form began in other galaxies. The world must be abandoned, seeking new worlds beginnings, new colonies, new civilizations and new order it should be established. All those war technologies, nuclear weapons, the world is no longer a place for biological and chemical gases she had been. Even on Earth even the battles were gone. Our planet came to the brink of disappearing. Just because of a mistake, the balance of the world was upset. Nature war against humanity he had opened. A few days ago we saw the leaked ‘iPhone XS’ marketing images that showed us both 5.8-inch and massive 6.5-inch OLED iPhones.Year 2600! There is nothing left in the world we know. 1 Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide wallpapers 1440p, 4k & 21:9 ultrawide. Also present in those leaked images was a brand new wallpaper featuring a planet from the outer space. Wallpapers for the mobile phone lock screen, tablet, iPhone or iPad. People were able to extract the wallpaper image so Apple fans could use them on their current devices, however those didn’t turn out to be that good due to pixelated look and low resolution. Beyond Earth is nowhere near the strongest game in the more than 20-year-old Civilization series, but this big collection of interesting experimental ideas definitely still kept me. If you wish to use something similar to iPhone XS’s space wallpaper on your iPhone X, iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus, then we have got you covered. ![]() Time after time theres always something new (and beautiful) to behold and the sense of. Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. One of the most common is the accelerometer. Explore the 6 Phone Wallpapers in the collection Civilization and download freely everything you like Toggle navigation Mobile Abyss. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space. ![]() In this post you will find iPhone XS inspired wallpapers that come directly from NASA. Nanachi Cover For iPhone 12, 11 Pro Max, XS, X, XR, 6, 7. 10 Sec Dyson gives glimpse of secret robot prototypes After a few weeks of building space empires, we’ve learned a thing or two about surviving these alien worlds. These high resolution images were turned into iPhone XS inspired wallpapers by designer AR72017, so huge thanks to him for creating them. He has also recreated high resolution version of the original iPhone XS wallpaper featured in the leaked marketing material, which you can also find below. Due to my past experience Beyond Earth is quite a simple game on every difficulty if you select all your carry-ons wisely. Until I look back into Civilization Beyond Earth. It is so many annoying features and modifiers, and combat does not look its way to Civ5, making it simply too easy. Tap and hold on the high resolution images to download them on your iOS device. 1 I once cannot understand why Civ6 is designed this way. 30/jan/2019 - New MacBook Pro wallpaper (2) formatted for iPhone X by AR7 2014 on Twitter. Die letzten beiden Wochen waren wunderbar und im Vergleich zu den Tagen davor (das Bermuda-Dreieck von Coromandel Town) der Himmel auf Erden. The leak utilizes an unreleased wallpaper depicting what appears to be one-half of an imaginary, colorful planet (looks great on OLED screens). ![]() Make sure you download the right version for your device, as separate wallpapers are available for iPhone X and other iPhone models. IPHONE XS CIVILIZATION BEYOND EARTH WALLPAPERS PRO IPHONE XS CIVILIZATION BEYOND EARTH WALLPAPERS PRO. ![]() ![]() Pilots Of Purple Twilight is lavishly packaged with a hard-back book with a new essay and many rare photographs and memorabilia. Tom Cruise, film 64K views, 342 likes, 98 loves, 24 comments, 141 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Decade 77-87 - a grown up disco: new wave, punk, postpunk, goth & indie: TANGERINE DREAM - LOVE. Finally, Hyperborea includes five bonus tracks originally issued on the Virgin soundtrack LP for the movie Risky Business, including Tangerine Dream's biggest streaming track, Love On A Real Train. Destructo", White Eagle features six bonus tracks recorded for the German television crime drama series Tatort, all of which are released for the first time on CD and digitally. a member of Tangerine Dream from 1972-1977, a very fertile and creative. ![]() In addition to this the soundtrack to Thief includes an extended promotional only version of "Dr. the Summer of Love, here are the 50 best psychedelic rock records of 1967. Pilots of Purple Twilight also features additional previously unreleased material across 4 discs, including the full concert at The Dominion Theatre, London (November 1982). All audio has been re-mastered from the original master tapes by Ben Wiseman. This set features newly remastered versions of the albums Tangram, Thief, Exit, White Eagle, Logos, Hyperborea along with the previously unreleased soundtracks from the films The Soldier, the 1982 movie directed by James Glickenhaus and The Keep from the 1983 movie directed by Michael Mann, something of a holy grail for Tangerine Dream fans. Tangerine Dream are one of the true pioneers of electronic and ambient music, and the albums they recorded for Virgin Records between 19 remain classics of the genre. "The Babysitter: Killer Queen Soundtrack - Every Song In The Netflix Movie". "In 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch,' Should You Pick Tangerine Dream Or Tomita?" (in en). "Steve Reich’s Piano Phase: What Are You Afraid Of?". Love On a Real Train (Risky Business) From Risky Business Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Tangerine Dream. No Happy Endings Tangerine Dream, Woody Jackson, The Alchemist, Oh No & DJ Shadow. 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![]() Both the sequel Going Commando and the following game Up Your Arsenal were well-received and considered commercial successes. They spent more time on developing interesting weapons to make the combat as enjoyable as the platforming sections of the game. In planning the second, they revamped Ratchet's character, as they felt the first game portrayed him as a jerk, according to writer TJ Fixman, and softened the character to make him more relatable, at that point hiring James Arnold Taylor to voice the character (Ratchet's behavior toward Clank in Tools of Destruction when speaking about the existence of the Zoni and the risks posed by the Dimesionator could be a hint or reference to the character in the first game). The first game Ratchet & Clank, released in 2002, was successful. Originally developed as a childlike version of the Star Wars character C-3PO, they later decided that Ratchet and Clank should work instead like a buddy cop film, and made Clank an equal to Ratchet. ![]() Along with this character they named Ratchet, they gave him a robotic companion, Clank. Artists sketched a number of concepts for this alien character, which was originally reptilian, but ended up as a new species they called a "Lombax", a name Price had come up with. This idea inspired the team since it would allow them to create new worlds and characters to develop. Now in 2001 and struggling with ideas, Chief Creative Officer Brian Hasting proposed the idea of "an alien that travels from planet to planet, collecting weapons and gadgets", an idea inspired from Spaceman Spiff from Calvin and Hobbes and from Marvin the Martian. One, called Monster Knight, never got past the prototyping stage, while a second, called Girl with a Stick and aimed to be a mashup of The Legend of Zelda and Tomb Raider series, had about six months of development work before Insomniac's CEO, Ted Price, decided to cancel it as "the team wasn't feeling it", according to director Brian Allgeier. With the PlayStation 2 recently announced in 2000, Insomniac began to prototype ideas for games on this new console. The series is noted for its inclusion of many exotic, unique and over-the-top weapons and gadgets, a concept that Insomniac Games has expanded into their other games.įollowing the development of Spyro: Year of the Dragon, the third installment of the Spyro series, Insomniac Games wanted to move into a new intellectual property, since the Spyro series was owned by Universal Interactive Studios. ![]() The games take place in a science fiction setting and follow the adventures of Ratchet (a feline humanoid known as a Lombax, who is a mechanic) and Clank (a diminutive, sentient Zoni "defective" robot) as they travel through the universe, saving it from evil forces that consistently threaten it. ![]() An animated feature film adaptation was released on April 29, 2016. Despite this however, the intellectual property is still owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The series was exclusive to Sony platforms until Rift Apart received a Windows port in 2023. Ratchet & Clank is a series of action-adventure platform and third-person shooter video games created and developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for PlayStation consoles, such as PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5, with the exclusion of Size Matters and Secret Agent Clank, which were developed by High Impact Games for the PlayStation Portable. ![]() |
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