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Elmer elephant outline3/31/2024 Filling in the missing parts of our Elmer works on this area. Visual Closure is the ability to fill in parts of a form in the mind’s eye to determine shape or a whole object. Visual Discrimination is determining differences in color, form, size, shape…Finding different sized squares to fit into the outline of our Elmer, discriminating the different colors, and shapes are a great way to work on this area. This Elmer building activity works on quite a few of these areas: There are many pieces to the giant term of “visual perception”. Visual perceptual skills in kids are necessary for so many things…from self-care to fine motor skills, to gross motor skills…all parts of a child’s development require visual perception. What a great way to work on visual perceptual skills, fine motor precision, dexterity, and line awareness! It was a fun puzzle to get the squares fitting into the outline. There were fingers everywhere, adding patchwork squares! Little Guy and I quizzed Baby Girl on her colors as we worked. This was such a great activity for both Little Guy and Baby Girl. We made our own patchwork elephant with lots of colors and had a great time building and creating while talking about color names. Let’s see those differences, accept them, and celebrate them! Those differences are what make us special. We all have different colors, shapes, interests, abilities, talents, and ideas. He teaches us about identity and tolerance. The book teaches us to accept differences because those differences are what make us who we are.Įlmer teaches us about diversity. He is funny, smart, caring, and an individual. Elmer is not only a colorful patchwork elephant. By exploring and interacting with his community of elephants, Elmer and the other elephants learn to accept and value his unique characteristics. He sticks out from the crowd of gray elephants. Elmer is a patchwork elephant with many colors. If you haven’t read Elmer by David McKee, this is definitely a book you need to check out. The lines were a great way to work on a few visual perceptual skills needed for handwriting. Little Guy was loving the puzzle-building portion of our activity. The colors in Elmer’s patchwork skin are perfect for Toddlers to practice naming colors. I loved throwing in the scissor work portion of the activity and working on a few important skills. My youngest daughter worked on her color identification and sorting. They loved creating and building our very own Elmer craft. Elmer’s colors made for a great way to help kids build fine motor skills and visual motor skills, too. Here are more books that teach empathy and friendship that can be used in therapy sessions or in the classroom or home. This Elmer the elephant activity can be used to illustrate differences, empathy, and friendship. This fine motor craft is a powerful one because it not only builds essential visual perceptual, visual motor, and fine motor skills, but it teaches as well. Add this book activity to your list of crafts based on children’s books that build skills through reading. This week’s book activity was so much fun to do with the kids, because it involved one of our favorite books (ever) and a great visual perception activity. We LOVE Elmer the Elephant…and all of the Elmer books. Every time we go to the library, we are sure to check the shelf for a new Elmer book that we may have missed. If you love the Elmer books as much as we do, then you will adore this Elmer the Elephant activity. Check out the Elmer the Elephant activity below that builds a baseline for these important skills, but also helps kids with fine motor skills, visual perceptual skills, and visual motor skills. Elmer teaches us about acceptance, friendship, and empathy. Through stories and colorful pictures that depict everyday elephant life, Elmer the elephant teaches us about diversity and differences. Elmer the patchwork elephant looks different than his friends.
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Breeze map valorant3/31/2024 In previous acts, Valorant's battle passes have been a bit naff, but the new one for Episode 2 Act 3 has some pretty decent stuff in it (and it's the first time I've actually been tempted to buy one). Look at that lovely coral reef - and a shipwreck too! Breeze won't be in the normal unrated or competitive modes during this time, though it will be available in Deathmatch, Spike Rush, Escalation and Custom games. I don't fully understand its purpose yet, but it's fun, and that's what really matters.Įpisode 2 Act III Gameplay Trailer - VALORANTįor the next two weeks, you'll be able to play in a Breeze-only unrated mode to try out the map before it shuffles into rotation with all the others. I also very much enjoyed the random trap door down one of Breeze's corridors. I played Breeze during a preview event and found it refreshing to finally have a Valorant map with some colour. It's out right now, alongside a new battle pass and some pricey gun skins in Episode 2 Act 3. Moving well away from the cold corridors of Icebox, Breeze is a lush seaside location complete with a historical fort, wide open spaces for relaxing (or fighting), and some ominous techy pyramids. But in Riot Games' tactical FPS Valorant, it's the delightful setting of the new map Breeze. It's time to take a trip to the bright beaches of the Bermuda Triangle - not in real life, I don't think I'd ever want to go to that spooky place.
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Then I stapled them closed, making sure that I stapled them so that they would stay open at the top a little bit, rather than totally flat. I used colored file folders to make the pockets, cutting them down to about 4″ by 2.5″ each. Then, as a guided practice or literacy center activity, they practice this skill by putting a coffee stirrer into the pocket for each syllable that they counted in the word. They are included in large and small sizes. These are the small flash cards that you can send home for homework, or cut up for the pockets. The children first learn how to count the syllables in a word by practicing on flash cards in a large or small group lesson. So here is how what you do with the syllable pockets. Once the child can accurately decode and read each syllable of the word- and write it- then he or she can also be taught where to separate the word if it needs to be hyphenated (broken apart) at the end of a line. When learning to spell a long word, it is often helpful to have a child read each syllable of the word back as he or she wrote it to see if any are missing. Later, when the children come to multisyllabic words that they are trying to decode (read) or spell with real spellings, they already realize that a great strategy is to break it down by syllables and take it one chunk at a time. Once I show my students how to do this, they get much better at writing longer words as they sound. When small children try to write phonetically (write words as they sound,) they are less likely to miss sounds if they take it one syllable of the word at a time. When children are trying to write, read, or sound out a word, a great strategy is to take it one section (or syllable) at a time. Therefore, it is a skill that all children should have mastered as they move forward through the grades. First of all, pronouncing and counting syllables is part of the Common Core and it falls under Kinder in the phonemic awareness section.
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Household budget percentages guidelines3/31/2024 This was a crucial area of savings to allow us to pay off our debt even faster. As you can see, I was able to get my food budget down to just 3% some months. The recommended Dave Ramsey food budget percentage is 5-15%. Dave Ramsey Food BudgetĪs time went on, I learned to save more, especially in the grocery category. Others, I might have gotten paid for a big project or blog promotion. Sometimes, we had just our usual paycheck. One big reason that our percentages cover a wide range is that our income varied wildly each month as I hustled to earn as much extra from home as possible. These varied from month to month for a few reasons. You’ll see a range of budget percentages for my real life debt free budget. Now let’s take a look at how the dave ramsey percentages work in the real world when you’re trying to pay off debt. Where Our Budget Percentages Differed from Dave Ramsey’s Recommendation But how well do they work in the real world? Dave Ramsey Budget Percentage Breakdown Budget Categoriesĩ% (health insurance included in Medical/Health category) Dave Ramsey’s budget percentage guidelines offer one option. It’s common to wonder how big of a slice to give each budget category. Specifically, I’ll be sharing my thoughts about one of the most common questions I get asked: “How much should I be spending in each budget category?”Īnd to satisfy my own nerdy love of data, I’ll be comparing my own budget while we were working to be debt free to the budget percentage breakdown that Dave Ramsey recommends, and just for fun, the spending habits of the average American. Since our debt free story went viral, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about exactly how we did it. Today, I’ll be answering one of the most common questions by sharing my real life debt free budget percentage breakdown. How much should you spend in each budget category? This article lists the Dave Ramsey budget percentages, categories, with a sample budget so you can jumpstart your budget.
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Empire total war darthmod install3/31/2024 You can try Darthmod, Imperial Splendour and NTW3 for multiplayer is highly recommended. Empire 2 mod is great, but it’s a bit buggy atm - with novdm on. Heres a link to the design document on Google Drive for those that might be interested. Tried uninstalling the Mod but it appeared to be uninstalling file after fille. Its been particularly commended for polish and stability. I extracted it to an unknown place in ETW and the next thing I noticed was the game expanded into a countless number of files. Zwar enthält sie keine neuen Einheiten oder andere. Die Darthmod ist bereits in Version 2.4 erhältlich. There were 3 files of which v8.0.1 part 2 was a Zip file. Wir stellen Ihnen die besten Modifikationen für den neuesten Teil Empire: Total War vor. I'll likely buy any TW game from Middle ages through Industrialization. I tried to install Darthmod Empire TW and made a complete and utter mess. I wish there were a way to have that system in all of my TW games. I just pray that they keep the wonderful supply/replenishment system used in Napoleon. I'd certainly buy a new Medieval or Empire. So what does that leave, in particular that hasn't been done already? So we are left with looking at re-boots of previous titles. I started with Darthmod, but moved to ETWII as soon as I saw the difference. And anything earlier would even less I think.Ģ0th century stuff is probably beyond this engine. But the time period doesn't float my boat. Good memories of that one, especially scouring the campaign map with that fantastic music in the background. Rome was my first TW game, and I liked it. Evidently they are working on a 'historical' game alongside Warhammer, but I've seen no announcements as to what it might be. I don't see them doing a Civil war game, just wishful thinking. And the US market must be the core of the franchise. Good luck fellow gamer.Yes, though anticipated sales surely plays the biggest part. One hint is to play battles zoomed up and out and it helps reduce load. So, to recap, your system is fine, try lowering resolution or unit size, it is still adjustable in DM. It isn't our systems as much as Total wars older school programing not taking full advantage of multi core, it allows lesser systems to work on lower resolution, and that is there marketplace trade off. and it just doesn't get too much better, I am able to run ultra max resolution on the new sys 4670k cpu, but DM does add to the numbers, and try 20000 troops in a battle in Total war Fos ( DM of course) and then we can cry in our beer, It actually runs, but at time if you go down low into the fighting can max out the single core it uses. Playing now on ultra and the way Total war codes the bottleneck is the cpu, not ram and not video, you have ample room there. probably 16 x 10 as I recall, and it helped on my older system which was a fast early quad core. Im familiar with your situation, I ran "reduced " resolution. The game is quite frankly a frigging mess. At one point I had to a reinstall of windows from the ground up then reinstall Empire just to get it running properly In some cases even that wont work and a full reinstall of the game is necessary. changing that modifier in the proper txt file will let you keep all the awesome that comes with Darthmod but with modified unit sizes your CPU can actually handle. There is a script somewhere that lets you designate unit size for the campain via modifier dial back troop numbers and you wont have a problem. Regardless your issue is because of troop numbers nothing more. Hyperthreading is also a hinderance as Warscape engine does not know the difference between a real thread and a hyper thread but with 1 thread handling graphics and renderer thus the game only uses 2 cores most users will see 1 core 99% 2 core at 30% depending on the Intel CPU. Discussions, strategies, stories, crude cave-drawings, and more for Medieval 2, Empire, Shogun 2, Rome 2, Attila, Thrones of Britannia, Warhammer, Three Kingdoms, Troy, Pharaoh and others. The game is SINGLE THREADED thus a single CPU core is handling physics / ai / animation subsystem / battle statistics etc. A subreddit for the Total War strategy game series, made by Creative Assembly. So many ppl here that dont know what there talking aboutĭarthmod usually cranks up the number of soldiers per unitsĤ x 20 = 80 units with units of 200 men thats 16,000 soldiers with even larger numbers I believe the last time I played Darthmod it was 300-400 men per unit at which case thats 24000-36000 soldiers.
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Afam lhc group itrain legacu3/30/2024 We'd like to remind everyone that certain statements and information on this call may be deemed to be forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.įorward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, statements relating to the transaction, including the timing of the transaction and anticipated benefits of the transaction LHC Group's and Almost Family's objectives, claims and strategies and all statements other than statements of historical facts and address activities, events or developments that LHC Group and Almost Family intend, accept, project, believe or anticipate, will or may occur in the future.Īny forward-looking statements in this call are made as of the date hereof and LHC Group and Almost Family undertake no duty to update or revise any such statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Also on the call today and available for Q&A are Steve Guenthner, Don Stelly and Josh Proffitt. In a moment, we'll hear from William Yarmuth, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Almost Family Keith Myers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of LHC Group. If you had not obtained a copy of the release along with a detailed presentation summarizing the terms and strategic rational of this transaction, you can find it on our websites, at and. I'd like to welcome everyone to LHC Group, Almost Family merger transaction call. It's now my pleasure to turn the conference over to Mr. As a reminder, today's conference call is being recorded for replay purposes. Welcome to LHC Group and Almost Family Merger Conference Call. Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. Josh Proffitt - EVP of Corporate Development, CFO, Treasurer of LHC Group Steve Guenthner - President, Principal Financial Officer, Treasurer & Secretaryĭon Stelly - President and COO of LHC Group Keith Myers - Chairman and CEO of LHC Group Almost Family Inc (AFAM) Almost Family & LHC Group Merger Conference Call Novem11:00 AM ET
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Ghosts of tsushima izuhara map3/30/2024 If you go here during Act 1 and the area isn’t hostile, you must advance the story further and backtrack to it). Mongol Territory #21: Takeshiki Farmstead (Note: This and other Farms become occupied by Mongols later in Act 2. Mongol Territory #20: Kechi Fishing Village (Note: This and other Farms become occupied by Mongols later in Act 2. Mongol Territory #18: Yagata Farmstead (Note: This and other Farms become occupied by Mongols later in Act 2. Mongol Territory #16: Traveler’s Rest Inn Mongol Territory #15: Liberate Ogawa Dojo Mongol Territory #14: Yoichi’s Crossroads Mongol Territory #13: Kuta Farmstead (Note: This and other Farms become occupied by Mongols later in Act 2. Mongol Territory #11: Destroy the Logging Camp These story-related ones you will conquer automatically. You automatically liberate some Outposts as part of the story: 2 in Izuhara (Komatsu Forge, Castle Kaneda), 1 in Toyotama (Castle Shimura), 1 in Kamiagata (Izumi Village). It’s also worth noting that some of these (Farms in particular) don’t show up until you reach the 2nd Region. In fact, after the story they all get marked on the map for you automatically! This takes out a lot of the search work for you. You can still free-roam after the story to liberate them. Region 1: Izuhara has 24 Occupied Areas, Region 2: Toyotama has 17 Occupied Areas, Region 3: Kamiagata has 15 Occupied Areas. There are 3 Regions in Ghost of Tsushima. Master Liberator – Liberate the entirety of Tsushima Island.A New Safe Haven – Liberate all occupied areas in Kamiagata. Mass Eviction – Liberate 7 occupied areas in Kamiagata.Securing Sanctuary… – Liberate all occupied areas in Toyotama.
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Best color crosshair valorant3/30/2024 Players can modify the crosshair settings in VALORANT to match their personal preferences. With that being said, I hope you found this short article useful, and of course, if your main focus is for your game to look nice and to have fun with it, you can use any crosshair color you want.What are the best crosshair settings in VALORANT? I know it might sound extra or even pretentious in some instances, after all, we are talking about crosshair colors, but I do genuinely believe that it can have an impact in key moments, especially when you’re trying to focus on multiple things at once. But I would advise using some thin outlines on a white crosshair to make it even more visible. Pink goes especially well with yellow enemy outlines, and white and green are amazing if you’re going for a classic crosshair. It’s always clearly visible, and it’s bright enough that you won’t have trouble seeing it. It doesn’t conflict with most ability animations, environments, or maps. Red is great for all the same reasons cyan is. The other great color for dot crosshairs is red, but only if the enemy highlight color is purple or yellow. It doesn’t conflict with any of the enemy highlight colors, it’s visible on almost all surfaces, it’s different enough from most environments and abilities, and it’s bright enough that you won’t be able to lose it by mistake. If you have a dot crosshair that you want to be visible at all times, I’d use cyan. With all of that in mind, which colors should you use in most instances? It’s true that in most scenarios it will not be relevant, but at the same time, if you want to be consistent, you might want to eliminate all the variables that might make it harder for you to focus on your aim. Especially in a fight with a lot of abilities. They have extremely well-made environments with a lot of greenery and light in most cases, and because of that, your crosshair might be less visible in some instances if it is yellow (or a variation of it). The agents, abilities, and maps are bright and vibrant. The issue becomes more apparent when you don’t have crosshair outlines enabled or if you’re using a dot crosshair.īecause of the game’s art style. If you have thicker outlines on your crosshair, the color doesn't matter that much, it can still have an impact in some niche scenarios, but if you really enjoy that color you should still use it. You might’ve noticed that I did not mention the yellow crosshairs, but why? Are yellow crosshairs that bad? The answer to that is… it depends. In short, avoid choosing a red crosshair if you have red enemy outlines, and avoid using a pink crosshair if you have purple enemy outlines. The more you have to think about where your crosshair is positioned, the less you can think about what’s happening in the game. I’m currently sitting comfortably in Diamond, and I’ve lost rounds and games, simply because I couldn’t see my crosshair in an important situation. Why? Because it makes your crosshair less visible in some situations.Įxample of the crosshair not being visible because of the color. The explanation for that is simple, you don’t want your crosshair to be the same color as enemy outlines and effects. The most important setting to keep in mind is “Enemy Highlight Color”. And if you’re just looking for the “top 5” crosshair colors, here they are:īut you might be interested to know why these are the best ones, and in what cases should you use them.įirst of all, we have to understand that some crosshair colors will put you at a disadvantage based on other settings you might have. I usually just go for the color I think looks nice or the one that feels right.Įven so, there are good crosshair colors and bad crosshair colors. A good crosshair can help you aim better, can offer you more information about where you’re shooting, can assist with lineups, and can help you remain focused.īut most people, myself included, don’t really think about the impact the color of your crosshair has. We all know crosshairs are important in FPS games, and we know they’re especially important in games like VALORANT.
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Test the button programmed to see if it operates your door.Available replacement parts are listed below. Press the program button on the remote to turn off the programming mode. Contractor Series 1/2 HP AC Chain Drive WiFi Garage Door Opener - Discontinued. Integrated Bluetooth technology: Reduces setup time and makes it even easier to connect to the myQ app. Next generation garage technology: Improved Wi-Fi® connectivity and enhanced memory to support new myQ features and solutions. Select one of the two remote buttons on this remote and press this button only for the number of times shown in the Chart D, corresponding to your older remote or the receiver in the garage. Smartphone control: Control, secure and monitor the garage with the myQ app- anytime, from anywhere.Find and press the Program button on the remote trasmitter until the LED lights up.To find the receiver look for the floppy antenna wire. Match the dip switch settings with the settings on your existing remote or the receiver on the ceiling in the garage.Slide open the bottom front of the universal remote shwon to expose the dip swithes and program button.Models 375LM and 375UT Universal Remotes Programming Instructions for dip switch remotes. Release and press again to test.ģ90 MHz Security + (Red/Orange Learn Button)ģ90 MHz Billion Code (Green Learn Button) Press and hold down on the remote control button programmed in Step 2 until the garage door opener lights blink, or 2 clicks are heard, or for 4 seconds.Wiring Diagram For Rail Trolley Garage Door Operators. LiftMaster Model 8587W 3-Part Specifications Spanish. LiftMaster Model 8587W 3-Part Specifications French. Recommended Articles No results for undefined. LiftMaster Model 8587W 3-PART Specification - English. Go to the garage door motor head and press the “Smart” button. Keypads & Remotes Locks Cameras Light Controls myQ Hubs Manuals Parts Belt Replacement myQ Ecosystem Partners & Dealers Register a product Product Help Belt Replacement LiftMaster Model 3585/3585-100 Owners Manual.Exit the remote programming by pressing and releasing any button other than the one you’re programming on the remote.Press and release the remote control button you with to use the number of times corresponding “Smart” button color on your garage door opener based on the chart below in Chart B:.Press and hold the program button on the hand held remote until the LED on the front of the remote turns on.Programming the 890MAX and 893MAX Remotes
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