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![]() Regardless of what age is starting the recorder, the process I use is the same. Spiraling the curriculum is key setting a solid foundation with good tone and tonguing, then adding reading rhythms and then melody will give the students a good basis from which to launch future instrumental endeavours.įourth grade is the year our district introduces the recorders to students, but I personally learned in third grade. How exciting that you get to start a fresh recorder program!!! I know this can also be a daunting task when it is also your first year teaching elementary music, but the fundamentals of teaching the recorder are the same as if you are teaching band or orchestra classes. Its not in my curriculum to continue recorders in 4th or 5th grade but I’m thinking of reprising it in 4th grade this year because I’m having a hard time getting them excited about anything else. I keep recorders of who forgot what and when because it is part of their second semester grade. I’ve never had more than 1 or 2 students forget their instrument on Wednesday (partly because their classroom teacher is AWESOME with writing it in the homework book on Tuesday) but I have some extra recorders in my room. It stays over night in my room, and then on Thursday after class they take it home again. Our class meets twice a week and I have the kids bring in their book (with signed practice sheet) and recorder on Wednesday. The parents send in money to buy a recorder and book (Recorder Express) and the kids were super energized to get playing music! Because they already knew GAB, they can play the first 10 pages in the book, including a lot of songs that are familiar. ![]() The kids LOVE it! When we came back in January, I continued the unit the way we always do. There is a GREAT recorder practice SMARTBoard lesson by Allison Shapiro called Rockin’ Recorder that has short etudes with background tracks. Rest/playing position, air, fingers, G A B, reading music… The students used my classroom recorders and I taught them notes myself. This year I started in October (but maybe 3 or 4 times a month only) and got all the annoying basics out of the way. Usually the recorder unit starts in January and they learn a song for the spring concert. I tried a new approach this year and have loved it so far. I teach recorders in 3rd grade as a precursor to band instruments in 4th grade. UPDATE: Applications of Research in Music Education.Professional Development via Music Educators Journal.NAfME Teaching with Primary Sources Curriculum Units for the 2014 Music Standards.Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access in Music Education Resources.Virtual Learning Resources for Music Educators.NAfME Academy®: Professional Development Webinars.NAfME Online Professional Learning Community Webinars. When I feel the emotional tug, when I react the way I hope the audience will, then I know I’ve got it. One’s response is not rational or technical. The years of theory and harmony at Juilliard can take you just so far. CM7 Em7 FM7 Am9 Am FM7 Mem'ries may be beautiful and yet Em7 E7 Am Am +7 FM7 What's too painful to re-mem-ber, E7sus4 E7 Am7 Am7/G FM7 We simply choose to forget. I can’t give you a musical explanation of why one melody is better than another‐I either respond or I don’t. ![]() I can only say that one day I wrote a melody that just got to me. You may wonder how I knew when I’d written the “right” melody. By doing this, I tried to give a sense of hope to this tragic story. And Although this song would reflect a heartbreaking story, I decided to write it in the major mode, not in the minor mode. In the musical score for this film, and the theme song, I wanted to reflect the sorrow and despondency and pain of the relationship and its outcome, the frustration and yearning of the woman in the relationship, and the star‐crossed nature of it all. Never was there a more harsh critic of my work than me. Unlike Juilliard, where a jury of three decided whether I would maintain my scholarship, here there was a jury of one. How many The Way We Were’s there were, I cannot tell you. ![]() Arthur Laurents wrote both the novel and screenplay based on his college days at Cornell University and his experiences with the House Un-American Activities Committee. I couldn’t wait to get to the piano, and I put in weeks and weeks of struggle to find the right theme. 50 million 1 The Way We Were is a 1973 American romantic drama film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. For this I would certainly work “on spec,” and I must confess that I sensed from the beginning that this was going to be my watershed in the movies. ![]() I think this is up your alley, and I’d like to give you a chance, he didn’t tell me till the end of the conversation that the director was Sydney Pollack, the stars were Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, and the movie was The Way We Were. When Ray Stark said to me: “Marvin, I’m working on a new picture which needs a theme song. Notes from Composer Marvin Hamlisch about the film “The Way We Were” and his musical score for this film: ![]() The release comes equipped with the standard of quality and depth you can expect from the seasoned developer with both PW1100G and LEAP 1A engines that have independent engine system modelling, an accurate model with a detailed cockpit along with animated seats, tray tables and windows, custom sounds courtesy of Turbine Sound Studios. Having previously developed the A319 and A321 for X-Plane, ToLiss has finally completed the family by releasing the A320NEO. These engines operate at a higher pressure than their predecessors, use composite materials and are up to 75% quieter than previous engines making the experience for the passengers even better. The two engine options that are available to the A320 NEO are the CFM Leading Edge Aviation Propulsion (LEAP) engine, an engine closely modelled on the GEnx engine that powers the Boeing 747-8 and Dreamliner, and the Pratt & Whitney PW1000G, initially designed for the Mitsubishi SpaceJet which was cancelled in 2008 and the Airbus A220. Since then, over 2600 A320 NEOs have been delivered. in 2016, the first Airbus A320 New Engine Option or NEO for short first flew for testing in 2014. In 2010, Airbus enlisted engine manufacturers Pratt & Whitney and CFM to help the existing airframe increase its range, efficiency, and even speed without redesigning a completely new replacement. Through many iterations including the shorter A318/319 and larger A321, the Airbus A320 family became Airbus’ best-selling aircraft and in 2019, the A320 family became the highest-selling airliner of all time. At that time, the full set of DLC for X-Plane 11 (2017) costs almost UAH 65,000 on Steam.The Airbus A320 started life in 1987 as Airbus’ third commercial aircraft venture designed as a short to medium-haul airliner to compete with the very popular Boeing 737. There are no paid DLCs with planes and airports for the new game yet. Among the new aircraft are the Airbus A330, Cessna Citation X, Lancair Evolution, Cirrus SR22, Piper PA-18 Super Cub, Van’s RV-10, F-14 Tomcat jet fighter and Robinson R22 helicopter.Īll detailed textures and objects for all continents, as in the case of MSFS, are available for free download. X-Plane 12 offers players a new VR-enabled game engine, volumetric clouds, photometric lighting, global weather, 3D water, new traffic AI, changing seasons, and more. But with the appearance of Microsoft Flight Simulator‘s game from Laminar Research found itself playing catch-up. Moreover, the US Federal Aviation Administration even used a simulator based on this game to train pilots. But by the time Microsoft dropped its series in the mid-2000s, X-Plane was definitely dominating the segment. ![]() The Microsoft Flight Simulator and X-Plane 12 series have been developing almost in parallel since the mid-90s of the last century. On the official website, the game is much more expensive – $59.99, but there you can download a demo version. ![]() The current price of the Steam version of the game for Ukrainians is UAH 699, at the recent sale in November it could be purchased for only UAH 468. X-Plane 12 is now available on both Steam and official game site. A newer version of the flight simulator X-Plane from Laminar Research, the main competitor of Microsoft Flight Simulator, has been released from early access. The subreddit’s short-squeeze of GameStop helped shoot up the price of the video game retailer’s stock a mind-boggling 1,700% from the beginning of January to Wednesday (before it fell again Thursday), captivating the minds and wallets of investors - both casual and institutional - and financial regulators.īut while millions are now discovering WallStreetBets for the first time, it has been building momentum throughout the pandemic. WallStreetBets exploded into the mainstream, moving from the front page of Reddit to the front page of the New York Times and nearly every other major news site. This past week has been a banner one for Reddit’s island of misfit investors. Stock market meets internet fringe culture This January, with WallStreetBets now an inescapable presence, Omar was back on the board. “I would not have traded options,” Omar admitted, “if I had not found WallStreetBets.” Omar, who spoke on the condition that he be referred to using a pseudonym out of concern over the legality of trading with money from his student loans, said that he blames himself for his losses but regrets ever stumbling upon one of Reddit’s most active communities. “All I wanted to do was just make my initial money back and pay it off.”īy the end of the week, he had lost it all again. “I was really scared,” Omar told CNN Business in an interview in August. Then he opened up WallStreetBets.īetween a Reddit and a hard place: As GameStop stock saga shows, populism is rising ![]() ![]() ![]() Within two days Omar had lost not only his gains but his entire initial investment.ĭesperate to earn it back, Omar, 23 years old and the child of working-class immigrant parents, took the rest of the money he could scrounge up - cash from his tutoring gig, his stimulus check, a chunk of his freshly-deposited student loans that was supposed to pay for his living expenses (which were basically non-existent after he had moved home during the Covid-19 outbreak) - and poured all of it, $22,000, into his Robinhood account. “It was diamond hands,” said Omar, using the site’s term for holding an option even after incurring extreme losses or gains. But he followed the mantra of the place where he’d first learned about options trading, the subreddit r/wallstreetbets, and held on. Omar knew he should probably sell the options before they became worthless. By lunchtime, the stock options Omar had bought were down around $7,000 from their peak. ![]() If the Qur’an was written six hundred years after the writing of the Gospels, did Allah not know it was corrupted in 632 AD? How can Muslims living in the 21st century produce a better argument against the Gospels than the author of the Qur’an if the author of the Qur’an is believed to be Allah? This means that Muslims should not reject what the Gospels say about the identity of Jesus. If the Gospels have been corrupted, then why would the Qur’an tell Christians to judge by them? Today, Muslim arguments against the reliability of the message of the Gospels are significantly more advanced than that of the Qur’an. The Qur’an also talks about the truthfulness of the Gospels (Surah 3:3–4). ![]() (Surah 5:47) There are numerous reasons to believe that the Gospels are reliable and that what we are now reading in them is what the apostles wrote down And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the defiantly disobedient. 1 This is a strange claim since the Qur’an does not teach that the Gospels have been corrupted, but rather commands Christians and Muslims to judge by what is written in the Gospels: And let the People of the Gospel judge by what Allah has revealed therein. Nevertheless, often when Christians do show Muslims that Jesus claimed to be divine, their response is to argue that the Gospels have been corrupted and therefore we cannot trust what they say about Jesus. Muhammad is the messenger of God.” Although both statements in the shahada are in the Qur’an (Surah 37:35 and 48:29), they are not found in those exact words in that order as a formula for someone to become a Muslim. As, if we applied the same criteria, then we could ask them to show us in the Qur’an where it says that to become a Muslim you have to use the exact words of the shahada (1 st pillar of Islam): “There is no god but God. ![]() Of course, this is an inconsistent and irrational demand. When sharing the gospel with Muslims, it is not uncommon to hear the objection: “Where did Jesus say, ‘I am God worship me’?” This is because many Muslims have been trained (by Muslim apologists) to ask this question of Christians and demand that the answer must be in those exact words. ![]() By their late 30s, some will be biological 60-year-olds. But researchers have discovered something that might startle many young people. ![]() They are free of deep wrinkles and gray hair and have yet to develop any chronic ailments. Young adults often live like they are invincible, and most are outwardly pretty healthy. But we already know enough for all of us to take biological aging seriously and to try to do something about it while the scientists keep working on better braking systems. We aren’t there yet, he and other researchers say. Austad, a distinguished professor and biology department chair at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. They don’t expect to cure aging, “but what we’d like to do is change the rate at which that happens so that, in 20 years, you might age 10 years,” says Steven N. They also are working on ways to slow it down with drugs, dietary regimens, and other approaches. Researchers are developing new ways to measure it. In 2020, biological age is more than just a feeling-it’s a science. Fast biological aging is what we fear when we say stress has taken years off our lives. Slow biological aging is what we perceive in a friend who looks younger than her chronological age. Jay Olshansky, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. ![]() “There’s no question we all do not age at the same rate-just go to a high school reunion and look around,” says S. ![]() ![]() Volo, author of Volo's Guide to Monsters, asks the group to find Floon Blagmaar, a friend who disappeared. ![]() Xanathar thinks that the Zhentarim stole it, but it was actually stolen by a rock gnome. The Xanathar had the stone, but it was stolen.The vault containing the treasure is guarded by a dragon.The location of the hoard is known only to the Stone of Golorr, an item that can alter memories.Lord Neverember embezzled money while he was ruling Waterdeep, but he wasn't able to extract the money before he was ousted.Synopsis: The synopsis in the book is great. The Xanathar (a beholder crime lord) and the Zhentarim (a criminal syndicate) are at odds. Short Version: 500,000 gold coins are hidden somewhere in Waterdeep. It's very handy, and you might want to check it out. That includes NPC dialogue! You just push a button and the group hears an actor deliver the boxed text. Syrinscape: Just so you are aware, Syrinscape has sound sets for this entire adventure. Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage is a "companion" adventure, and it will bring these characters all the way to level 20. Levels: This adventure is for characters who are levels 1-5. Rats of Waterdeep - A low level adventure that would fit in Chapter 2.Waterdeep: City Encounters - This has a ton of mini-adventures set in Waterdeep.Unseen Waterdeep - A new villain you could use.Blue Alley - A low level adventure that you could fit into chapter 2.You can get free color versions of many of the maps right here.You can order the Waterdeep: Dragon Heist Dice right here. Before our tailors handcraft your piece, our algorithm uses a. Rating: 4.1 out of 54.1 (170 ratings) 1,142 students Created by Scott Turner Last updated 8/2020 English English Auto Current price14.99 Original Price44. When your clothes are made with care, you can feel it. My plan is to one day be good enough to make my own characters, and etc bring them into i am guessing blender to do small animations with for fun, this is all hobby and would like to create my own universe of people and things that i enjoy that i could share with others for fun. Getting Started with 3D-Coat In this tutorial is shown how to create a helmet which reminds the helmet of Dwarf Gimli from the Lord of the rings movie. Hard Surface Modeling and Sculpting Course in 3D Coat An introduction tutorial to robot modelling and sculpting using hard surface techniques for 3D look development. I have done a lot of reading and i know some answers in ways but not to my liking if that makes sense at all. I am sure there are more questions i could come up. Should i just stick to blender for hard surface modeling? Is it harder to do same stuff in 3d coat as in zbrush? Would i be better off to sculpt characters in zbrush if i bought it down the road or can i do the same in 3d coat? My role was to create 3 fully featured environments. As for other possibilities, 3D-Coat has perfect tools for sculpting, retopology, UV-mapping, and even a native render. Worked as 3D Artist as well as Tech Artist on a VR project for internal use at Nexus Studios. But it does not have a rigging and animation toolset, although really it doesn’t need one. Here you can make everything from a 3D model for an animation to an ordinary 2D picture. The software is popular for boutique studios and indie developers alike. Is the pluralsight hard surface 3d coat tutorials any good?Ĭould i do a good job in time making characters female or male? 3D Coat is a 3D asset creation package that focuses on modeling, sculpting, retopology, UV-mapping, and texture painting. I have been learning blender and i have known about 3d coat for years but finally had the money to buy it. The questions i am hoping to be helped with is there anyone that knows a good tutorial to show how to do curves over a hard surface? i was trying to do a bagged pickup truck to try out the modeling. I bought 3d coat for several reasons and read lots of things about it before i made my decision. I have done a lot of research and found loads on youtube, some videos to buy on steam, and found on pluralsight. These scripts are configured in package.json. Or simply npm run watch as this will also run watch:js. The livereload script includes a reference to window, which is not available to the worker script: I looked into the docs of the rollup-plugin-livereload, it doesn't seemed to have a option to exclude files from adding the livereload script. minification) whenever you make a change to a JS file: npm run watch:js Rollup is a module bundler for JavaScript which compiles small pieces of code into something larger and more complex, such as a library or application. Buble for fast and lightweight transpiling of your code to ES5. CommonJS Plugin to use external CommonJS modules. This setup is pre-configured to compile all your JS in the src/ directory using the following plugins: Node Resolve Plugin to use external ES modules. Note: console and debugger are only allowed in development. Rollup is used to write modular JS and tree-shake unused functions. The compiled JS plus its sourcemap is written to the dist/ directory. Or simply npm run build as this will also run build:js. You can configure the plugins mentioned above or add your own plugins in. We will also need another one which reloads the page after each edit of our javascript files. Src/index.js is the main entry point for the JS compile script. Rollup.js comes with a variety of plugins and one of them can play as web server to host all your static files. Rollup Watch for fast incremental rebuilds during development.ESLint to validate syntax and code style.Uglify to minify your JS for production.If you need more feature support, consider the heavier Babel Plugin. Buble for fast and lightweight transpiling of your code to ES5.CommonJS Plugin to use external CommonJS modules. Locally, both npm run dev and npm run build produce working apps on my local machine, but when I push to netlify, I get: 8:34:07 PM: Installing NPM modules.Node Resolve Plugin to use external ES modules.This setup is pre-configured to compile all your JS in the src/ directory using the following plugins: ![]() Rollup is used to write modular JS and tree-shake unused functions. rollup-plugin-less Support for less files covered rollup-plugin-livereload Watches the bundle and reloads the page on change covered rollup-plugin-minify-html-literals Uses minify-html-literals to minify HTML and CSS markup inside JavaScript template literal strings. ![]() You can write modern JS with support for ES modules using import statements and most ES2015/16 features without worrying about transpiling to ES5 for older browsers. It also includes a watcher which re-bundles the JS files whenever a JS file changes. |