4/20/2023 0 Comments Apta 2020 visionWith the APTA National Conference right around the corner, I think it is important to assess the accountability of the organization in meeting the goals of Vision 2020. We are now into year 12 of the APTA’s 20 year “ Vision 2020” mission statement. Allen has a an excellent website and blog which we highly recommend and you can also follow him on twitter. They will invite up to 35 individuals from among APTA member applicants to participate in an intensive year-long program including in-person executive roundtables, skill-building workshops, conferences, team-driven capstone leadership projects along with, virtual sessions, meetings, featured workshops and events.We are please to be able to have Allen Besselink guest post. This summer, the Leadership APTA Committee will select the program’s 25 th class since the program’s founding. Leadership APTA has become a highly recognized and respected program to prepare the next generation of visionary senior and executive leaders of APTA and the public transportation industry. Leadership APTA is committed to identifying and selecting a diverse, engaged, and committed group of dedicated and highly motivated industry professionals from among APTA’s membership to participate in the transit industry’s premier senior and executive leadership program. If you have questions about the program or the application process, please contact APTA’s Joe Niegoski at look forward to receiving your application. Please visit the website which provides additional information. The application deadline is Thursday, May 26 th, 2022. We will provide them with access to the tools, resources, and connections with recognized leaders to help support their development. We will reinforce the importance of listening, learning, and giving back. We will present incoming class members with exceptional opportunities, dynamic speakers, updated curricula, and challenging projects. The program will challenge class members with a new vision and new possibilities for our industry. The program for the Leadership APTA Class of 2023 will reflect the lessons learned and experiences of these resilient and visionary leaders. Collectively, they advanced the industry including bold and new messages and practices addressing diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice, and reform. They called upon fellow alumni and others to think in new ways and form new alliances and partnerships to address and overcome extraordinary challenges. These same leaders faced unprecedented challenges over the past few years. These exceptional leaders have made significant contributions to APTA, the industry, and their own organizations. Since its inaugural class, approximately 600 APTA members participated in the Leadership APTA program. Leadership APTA is about developing visionary and resilient senior and executive leaders for the transit industry. This is a major milestone and achievement for APTA and for the industry. This year, Leadership APTA will select the 25 th Class in the program’s history. Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP).Smart Guide to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
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4/20/2023 0 Comments Subnautica below zero ps4 themeSome residents of the frozen ocean will help you, and some might try to harm you. Swim through the giant Titan Holefish, escape from the aggressive Brute Shark, and visit the adorable Pengwings. Discover new lifeforms in the icy depths of 4546B. Below Zero presents entirely new environments for you to survive, study, and explore. Clamber up snow covered peaks, and venture into icy caves. Navigate treacherous ice floes on the ocean surface. Explore New Biomes – Swim beneath the blue-lit, arching growth of Twisty Bridges.As a scientist posted to a research station on the planet’s surface, you are tasked with studying alien artefacts… The Vesper space station orbits high above you, sending supplies, instructions, and receiving samples you launch from the surface.When disaster strikes the research station, you must improvise to survive: Construct habitats, scavenge for resources, hunt for food, and craft equipment. Below Zero is set in an arctic region of planet 4546B. Return to Planet 4546B – Dive into a freezing underwater adventure.It is a new chapter in the Subnautica universe, and is currently in development by Unknown Worlds. Explore the world below the ocean floor, but watch your oxygen levels, and take care to avoid the threats lurking in the darkness.īelow Zero is an underwater adventure game set on an alien ocean world. Dive Below the Ocean Floor – Cave systems wind below the sea bed, from dark claustrophobic passages to caverns lit by bio-luminescent life and burning-hot lava flows.Areas that are safe to explore during the day become treacherous at night, but also reveal a beauty that those who hide from the darkness will never see. The ocean is unforgiving of those caught unprepared in the darkness. Fear the Night – As the sun goes down, the predators come out.Modify the suit with mining drills, torpedo launchers, propulsion cannons, grappling hooks and more. Handle the Pressure – Build a Pressure Re-Active Waterproof Nanosuit, or PRAWN Suit, and explore extreme depth and heat.Lure and distract a threatening creature with a fresh fish, or simply swim as fast as you can to avoid gnashing jaws of roaming predators. Disrupt the Food Chain – The ocean teems with life: Use the ecosystem to help you.What caused you to crash? What is infecting the sea life? Who built the mysterious structures scattered around the ocean? Can you find a way to make it off the planet alive? Unravel the Mystery – What happened to this planet? Signs abound that something is not right.Use your base to store resources, park vehicles, and replenish oxygen supplies as you explore the vast ocean. Choose layouts and components, and manage hull-integrity as depth and pressure increase. Construct Underwater Habitats – Build bases on the sea floor.Venture deeper and further form to find rarer resources, allowing you to craft more advanced items. Craft diving gear, lights, habitat modules, and submersibles. Collect resources from the ocean around you. Scavenge, Craft, and Survive – After crash landing in your Life Pod, the clock is ticking to find water, food, and to develop the equipment you need to explore. The water teems with life: Some of it helpful, much of it harmful. Manage your oxygen supply as you explore kelp forests, plateaus, reefs, and winding cave systems. Subnautica‘s oceans range from sun drenched shallow coral reefs to treacherous deep-sea trenches, lava fields, and bio-luminescent underwater rivers. Dive Into a Vast Underwater World – You have crash-landed on an alien ocean world, and the only way to go is down. A massive, open world full of wonder and peril awaits you! Subnautica is an underwater adventure game set on an alien ocean planet. 4/20/2023 0 Comments Junior scattergories listsAn easy solution to either problem is to make up your own categories! If you know who you’ll be playing with beforehand, you can perhaps think of some categories that will be particularly amusing or interesting to you and your friends. This might have made your recent Scattergories games quite repetitive if you’ve played it a lot recently, or maybe you don’t own the game at all. If you own the Scattergories board game, you’ll know it comes with a set amount of categories so you can play straight away. That’s all well and good, where are the categories? Next: 100 Random Thoughts That Accidentally Come To Our Mind This is where each player’s own creativity will come into play in order to be able to win!įor example, if a category on the list is “Actors”, and the chosen letter is “L”, “Leonardo di Caprio” is very likely to be a choice for one of your friends so you might be better off saying “Liam Neeson”. REMEMBER: You must write a word that starts with the letter on the die, and it needs to be related to the category on the list. The letters Q, U, V, X, Y and Z are usually excluded, but you can always leave them in if you really want a challenge! When players recite their choices for each category at the end of the time limit, only choices that weren’t repeated will receive points. Essentially, what players have to do within an agreed upon time-limit is to find either a word or an example that fits into each of the 12 Scattergories categories beginning with a letter chosen at random. The key and foundation of this game is memory and creativity. Scattergories is a best-selling board game but all you really need to play is something to write with and at least 2 or 3 other players for best results! This makes it an ideal board game to play remotely since you don’t need a physical board to advance in the game or keep score! Due to the restrictions, this often happened remotely through video conferences or video calls! One game that is popular due to its relative simplicity whilst still being fun, challenging and flexible is Scattergories. Have you recently discovered your child has dysgraphia? Are you looking for answers? click here for advice for parents.During the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak, many of us rediscovered just how fun board games can be. Let me know how you get on in the comments!!! Do you have any other games you love to play with your child? How do these games help their development? Let me know! You will find your category lists here: Kids’ Scattergories. Each round is out of 10 (with bonus points available). Score points if no other player matches your answers. The winner is the one with the most points at the end of the game. Scattergories Junior Game Rules Components 4 Folders 4 Answer Pads 12 Category Cards Timer 20-Sided Die Die-Rolling Board 4 Pencils Object of the Game Quickly fill out a category list with answers that start with the same letter. There is a point for each word – and two points for an alliterative answer with two words (for example “Peter Pan”, “Horrid Henry” etc.) You can complete as many rounds as you wish – but remember that your child with dysgraphia will tire easier than you will. They have to come up with a word starting with the chosen letter for every ‘category’ mentioned on the list.Īt the end of the 3 minutes, words are compared (if 2 or more people are playing) and if the same word is used for any of the categories, no point is given. I usually give the kids 3 minutes to complete the list. Pick a list and pick a letter ( I use this random letter generator to pick the letters at random) and set a timer. The concept is simple: Attached to this blog post is a selection of ready-to-use Scattergories lists. Click here for a selection of games for dysgraphia that can easily be adapted to include writing practice. Use games nights to have fun while practicing crucial skills. Get the family involved and make it a firm feature in family games nights. This is also one of the more common dysgraphia games, as it allows your child to improve their fine motor skills without any stress, pressure and often without realising they are even doing so. If you dont know the game - you pick a list, pick a letter (I use random name generators online to pick one at random) & give the kids a time limit to. One of the best dysgraphia games that is a family favourite in many households is Scattergories. Dysgraphia games are a great way to have fun with your child – of all ages – while they practice their pencil grip, handwriting and fine motor skills. 4/20/2023 0 Comments Provue panorama x costThe radiologist will help you position yourself correctly.You will be given a lead apron for protection.When you enter the room with the equipment, you will be asked to remove all metal objects you wear (jewelry, glasses, clips, etc.).The stages of making a panoramic radiograph: For example, you would pay around $45 for four bitewings, while the price for the full mouth series would be almost $260. The price paid for a panoramic dental x-ray can be three to five times more than the traditional bitewing x-ray series, according to PlacidWay. If you have health insurance, check with the company to see what costs are covered because in most health insurance policies the dental riders are optional.Īccording to Right Smile, the price of a panoramic dental x-ray is $110 to $210, but with new practices, the radiography may be combined with a cleaning, reducing the costs considerably. In case the panoramic dental x-ray is combined with a dental exam, the cost of the complete package is anywhere between $135 and $260. Without insurance, the average cost of a panoramic dental x-ray is anywhere between $85 and $240. How Much Do Panoramic Dental X-Rays Cost? It is generally used as an initial assessment. This x-ray does not provide accurate and detailed information about every tooth or soft tissue (muscle). It represents a slightly distorted image, resulting from the projection of a three-dimensional body on a plane (two-dimensional). It is an investigation method that allows the overall visualization of the dentition and the surrounding elements such as the maxillary bone and mandible, the maxillary sinus, and the temporomandibular joints. It is easy to do and with less radiation. We now have the option of a panoramic dental x-ray. Until a few years ago, whenever the dentist sent us to get an x-ray, we were subjected to a lot of radiation, it was an awkward process that took a long time and did not come out properly all the time. 4/20/2023 0 Comments Slash myles kennedyAnd I think we were in Poland or somewhere, in an empty arena, and started jamming the riff, and so it's fun to see how that's come together over the years. It's funny because a lotta times, when I hear the songs, I remember the genesis of the moment that we started playing it together. I remember we were working on that in a venue. Myles: "It's one of the first songs that we had from 'The Living the Dream' Tour. And then, during the pandemic, when I started putting demos together, that was one of the things I definitely wanted to revisit, and I put the voice box on it and it just sorta came together." And that particular riff came up in some hotel room, I can't remember what city or what country, and then it started to develop over the course of sound checks from that point on. That's been pretty much the nature of how we do things. I think I first started working on that riff on the 'Living the Dream' tour, and a lot of stuff gets written in hotel rooms and then we work on it at sound checks. Slash: "'C'est La Vie' has been around for a little bit. Beause you see how people are so addicted to their phones and to their apps, and I thought, 'Well, what if you made it kinda fall in line with that?' But instead of it being obvious about a sexual relationship or something, it was more just your obsession with Robinhood." Track 3: "C'est La Vie" I know that sounds crazy, but I thought it would be really interesting to try and tell a story. 'Cause what the lyric is actually about is, is all these day traders on Robinhood. And the overall vibe of the song might not be as congruent with the lyric. It's got kinda this nasty vibe, right? And it definitely has the groove. Myles: "This track, it's funny when you listen to the lyrics, you probably think it's about maybe some sort of. But once I figured it all out, it's a real simple arrangement and it's really just focused on that riff." I love the riff and the grind, and it was something that I definitely heard in my head, and it took me a while to figure out exactly what it was that I was hearing 'cause it has this sort of, more of a stomp nature to it than it actually had notes. Slash: " is one of my favorite songs on the record. And, just that you've seen throughout history, that's kind of a timeless theme that always rears its ugly head." It's basically, from a theme standpoint, about kind of that cult of personality and how that affects people. It's like, when you're trying to figure out what the first 10 were gonna be that I don't know if that was on the list, so I'm glad it made it. It's like a real proclamation because it, at actually one point, wasn't even considered as a contender, believe it or not. Myles: "This track was interesting in the sense that when I got it from Slash, the basic demo, it just grabs you right outta the gate. 'The River Is Rising' song is I'm excited to get in front of an audience and play that." But, it rocks, and I thought it would be a good track for the opening of the record. I can't even remember how it all came together, it came together really quickly. And it's something that came together in my little studio in LA, and it was just very spontaneous. Right before we went into pre-production I just made up this riff, and it turned into 'Rivers Rising,' and so it's the most written song on the record. Most of the material was written around 20. Slash: "'The River Is Rising' is the newest song that I wrote on the record. To celebrate their new album, Slash and Myles recently sat down and broke down each song on 4, including how the songs came about, and the meanings and stories behind them. Produced by Dave Cobb in Nashville, 4 follows Slash and Myles' 2018 album Living the Dream, and the new project showcases ten new songs, including previously-released tracks like "The River Is Rising," "Fill My World" and "Call off the Dogs." Slash has reunited with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators once again as they have officially released their fourth full-length studio album, appropriately titled 4. 4/19/2023 0 Comments Galaxy opalSpheres about 0.2 microns in size produce red. Spheres that are approximately 0.1 microns (one ten-millionth of a meter) in diameter produce violet. The color depends on the sizes of the spheres. And we can observe the result of this process as play-of-color or iridescence. When the lightwaves travel between the spheres of silica, they diffract or bend.Īs they bend, they break up into the colors of the rainbow or spectral colors. Play-of-color or opalescence occurs in precious opal because of light diffraction. It has no brown spots of soot or columnar structure. It occurs in a variety of colors: from white through the whole rainbow specter to black. Real opal possesses a magnificent play-of-color, or iridescence spread evenly, but not in an irregular pattern. Some of the rocks where opal can form include basalt, limonite, and rhyolites. That is why the recommendation to store opal away from sunlight exists. Water content in opals can reach up to 20 percent. Opal is made up of microscopic spheres arranged in a grid-like pattern. It is an amorphous and hydrated version of silica. It means that opal doesn’t have a crystal structure. Opal, unlike other gemstones, is not a mineral. If you are interested in checking out the best rockhounding tools I recommend and use you can find them by clicking here (Amazon link). How to Tell and Identify if Opal is Real or Fake? Further, you will have full disclosure of what is natural opal how natural opals from different localities vary the most common types of fake opals and, of course, a comprehensive guide, which will help you to differentiate a natural gem from a fake one. Unlike the natural opal, they can have a columnar structure or lizard skin surface texture.Īs the gem market is flooded by fake opals and fake opals prices are quite high, it’s necessary to be prepared. Plastic, glass, and synthetic fake opals are also widespread. Doublets or triplets can be distinguished by the side view, in case they are not enclosed into metal. The most common fake opal is assembled stone. To make the opal affordable to a wider range of people, a lot of different fakes have been created. Sometimes opal’s mesmerizing optical effect is compared to fireworks, jellyfish, galaxy, or lightning. Opal is highly praised for its kaleidoscopic play-of-color. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases with no additional costs for you. 4/19/2023 0 Comments Empire strikes back bounty huntersThe Star Wars bounty hunter reappears as a secondary protagonist in The Book of Boba Fett where he agrees to assist Boba Fett in the upcoming war. Now that Grogu is in Luke Skywalker's custody, Djarin's priorities might change once again. After this, he would only take select jobs, balancing work around his duties as a guardian. Din Djarin's days as a bounty hunter eased to a halt after he became the adoptive father of Grogu. He would go on to take numerous high risk, high reward missions for anyone and everyone, controversially counting the Empire among his clients. The lead protagonist and main bounty hunter of The Mandalorian, Din Djarin became a bounty hunter as per the tradition of his people, having been adopted by Mandalore as a foundling. For what it’s worth, Boba has never claimed to be Mandalorian.Īmong other reasons, fans will be watching “The Book of Boba Fett” closely to see if it answers this question once and for all.First Star Wars Appearance: The Mandalorian (Djarin, for example, is a foundling who was adopted and raised into Mandalorian culture.) As the first person to wear what is now recognized as Mandalorian armor in “Star Wars,” Boba Fett ran ahead of the franchise’s establishment of Mandalorian culture - and, complicating matters further, Jango’s changing back stories have gone back and forth over the years as to whether he’s actually Mandalorian. Sometime after surviving his close encounter with the sarlacc pit, Fett approaches Mandalorian Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) to reclaim his armor, which he inherited from his father, during the second season of “The Mandalorian.”ĭuring his adventure with Mando, Fett clears up one key detail fans have long wondered: Is he Mandalorian, or does he just wear Mandalorian armor?Īccording to Fett, his father Jango was given his armor by Mandalorians, raising the question of whether that makes Jango, and by extension Boba, Mandalorian or not. While details remain sparse, it’s shown that he goes back to being a bounty hunter once he’s free. After he fails, he is captured and sent to a detention facility. He’s seen cradling his father’s helmet in the aftermath.īoba’s story was expanded further in a handful of episodes of the animated “Star Wars: The Clone Wars.” After joining up with a crew of bounty hunters, a young Boba infiltrates a Republic vessel in the guise of a young clone cadet in order to avenge his father. He was created in exchange for the donated genetic material, for Jango to raise as his own.īut bounty hunting is a dangerous life, and young Boba (Daniel Logan) watched his father be killed by Jedi master Mace Windu during a battle that led to the Clone Wars. It turns out Boba is an unaltered Jango clone - meaning the scientists who created him did not modify him in any way, unlike the clone soldiers who were created with different enhancements. (“Empire Strikes Back” assistant film editor Duwayne Dunham was the person under the Fett armor in the parade.)Īlthough Fett’s mystery was part of the bounty hunter’s original appeal, Fett’s official back story was revealed during the prequel trilogy in 2002’s “Attack of the Clones.” The second installment of the prequel trilogy introduces Boba’s father, Jango Fett (Morrison), a bounty hunter who was used as the template for the clone soldiers of the then-Republic’s army. The short sees a much chattier Fett befriend Luke Skywalker after saving him and his droids, only to be revealed as working for Darth Vader.īut Fett’s first public appearance came shortly before this, when the character walked in a local parade in San Anselmo, Calif., with Darth Vader, in September 1978. Budgetary constraints led Lucas to reconceptualize the character as a lone bounty hunter, and the original all-white version of his iconic armor was transformed into the one we recognize today.įett’s public debut came a couple of years before he was seen in “The Empire Strikes Back.” His first onscreen appearance was on television in an animated segment that aired as part of the notorious “ Star Wars Holiday Special” on Nov. Fett’s cult status means that much of the lore around his conception and introduction is as well-known among “Star Wars” fans as the character’s in-universe back story.Ĭonceived by “Star Wars” mastermind George Lucas as new type of super trooper to be introduced in “Empire Strikes Back,” Fett was designed by the film’s art director (and future filmmaker) Joe Johnston and concept artist Ralph McQuarrie. One method would be to drop inventory objects to map the section on paper `` ''. 9 ] his work expanded Crowther 's and Woods, a colossal cave adventure map. Mode is a dungeon in Twilight Princess HD miles from here, and glad! Did not have to drop objects in the Land of Ooo who first appeared ``. Woods continued releasing updated editions through to at least the mid-1990s version ( released in 1984 ) innovative. We wish we could have hiked the trails around the cave. Both these features made it difficult to directly port the code to other architectures. If you want to replay these games, you should visit the Interactive Fiction Archive. , Though not mentioned by name, Colossal Cave Adventure is described in Tracy Kidder's 1981 non-fiction book The Soul of a New Machine, alluding to several of the location names from the game. The game Kentucky Route Zero's third act draws direct inspiration from this game, as well as Crowther's career in caving. Microsoft released Adventure in 1981 with its initial version of MS-DOS 1.0 as a launch title for the IBM PC, making it the first game available for the new computer. As described by Matt Barton in Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games, Colossal Cave Adventure demonstrated the "creation of a virtual world and the means to explore it", and the inclusion of monsters and simplified combat. Now that sounded interesting so we followed it north out of Vail. Some of the earliest computer games available (such as Colossal Cave) are text-based adventure games. A rubber mat saying 'Welcome to Zork!' Legendary titans is a term used to refer to the group of Legendary Pokémon consisting of Regirock, Regice, Registeel, Regieleki, and Regidrago.The are also known as Legendary giants in the Crown Tundra.Fan terms include Legendary golems and Regis.They were also previously referred to as the Regi trio or the Titan trio before the introductions of Regieleki and Regidrago in The Crown Tundra. Definitely glad we did this, and really glad we picked the ladder tour. However, by the time the two meet the hero, Billy no longer believes that violent heroism is the solution in stopping evil. The gameplay and text content were identical to the original by Crowther and Woods. His work expanded Crowther's game to approximately 3000 lines of code and 1800 lines of data. Instead, this "all different" maze required the player to recognize the wording changes to find maze exits and its solution. Games such as Adventureland by Scott Adams of Adventure International, Zork by the team of Lebling, Marc Blank, Tim Anderson, Bruce Daniels, and Albert Vezza of Infocom, and Mystery House by Roberta and Ken Williams of Sierra Entertainment were all directly influenced by Colossal Cave Adventure, and these companies would go on to become key innovators for the early adventure game genre. To explore the cave, the player types in one- or two-word commands to move their character through the cave, interact with objects in the cave, pick up items to put into their inventory, and other actions. , Colossal Cave Adventure is a key plot point in season 1 episode 5 of the AMC TV series, Halt and Catch Fire, a period drama taking place in the early days of the personal computing revolution. Crowther and his wife Patricia were experienced cavers, having previously helped to create vector map surveys of the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky in the early 1970s for the Cave Research Foundation. Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as ADVENT, Colossal Cave, or Adventure) is a text adventure game, developed between 19 by Will Crowther for the PDP-10 mainframe. Due to its influence, a number of words and phrases used in Adventure have become recurring concepts in later games. Like Crowther's original game, Woods' game also executed with all its data in memory but required somewhat less core memory (42k words) than Crowther's game. IBM Archive: IBM Information Systems Division fact sheet distributed to the press on August 12, 1981. 4/19/2023 0 Comments Ncl encoreThe company also operates Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises, which also requires that all guests and crew be fully vaccinated. Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings’ SailSAFE health and safety program mandates that all crew and guests must be fully vaccinated to embark on voyages through Oct. Norwegian Cruise Line resumed cruising on July 25 with Norwegian Jade on seven-day Greek Isles cruises out of Athens. NORWEGIAN ENCORE (IMO: 9751511) is a Passenger Ship that was built in 2019 (3 years ago) and is sailing under the flag of Bahamas. Other panelists included Stephen Metruck, executive director of Port of Seattle Andrea DeMarco, senior vice president, ESG, investor relations and corporate communications and Steve Moeller, senior vice president-commercial development at Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings. Explore our cruise ship deck plans to discover all Norwegian Encore has to offer on. Sailing roundtrip from Seattle, Norwegian Encore will call at Icy Strait Point, Skagway, Juneau and Ketchikan. Sail Norwegian Encore and discover the excitement of Freestyle Cruising. “It has been a long journey for all of us, and I am incredibly grateful for the loyalty and collaboration of our guests, team members, crew and partners around the world that have allowed us to achieve this momentous milestone,” said NCL President and Chief Operating Officer Harry Sommer. “It brings over 1.2 million passengers to our region in a normal year, and an estimated $900 million impact not just for the city core but throughout our region over the season.” “Simply put, I think you all know that the cruise industry is an economic accelerator around the world,” said Tom Norwalk, president and CEO of Visit Seattle. Because once is never enough on Norwegian Encore. Panelists also discussed the positive economic impact cruise lines have on the destinations they visit. Norwegian Encores lastest cruises, upcoming cruise schedule. “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard Frank say, ‘It’s the right thing to do.’” “That’s been born out in the process,” he said. “Nothing is going to get in the way of us protecting our guests, our crew and the communities we visit – including politics.ĭel Rio’s comments were reinforced by Gottlieb, who said that it was clear from the beginning that Del Rio was set on “creating the safest possible requirements for consumers.” All Itineraries Current Position Current itinerary of Norwegian Encore Norwegian Encore current cruise is 7 days, round-trip Alaska Glacier Bay, Skagway Juneau. Inside Corridors King Bed Queen Bed Restrooms Third and/or. The AIS position was reported 4 minutes ago. Symbols: Connecting staterooms Double Bed Elevator Handicapped facilities Hearing Impaired. “It gives you an idea that we take it seriously,” he said. Norwegian Encore current location is at North America West Coast (coordinates 47.61142 N / -122.35119 W) cruising en route to SEATTLE. Viking Takes Delivery of Viking Polaris Expedition Ship NCL Resumes US Cruising With Norwegian Encore From Seattle | TravelPulse Cruise Line: Norwegian Cruise Line Ship Type: Cruise Ship Line Class: Mainstream Year Built: 2019 Year Last Refurbished: - Capacity: 3,998 passengers. 4/19/2023 0 Comments Kingdom under fire 2 united statesI believe it was over in under 10 minutes. The final encounter with R’helm and the Ancients was supposed to be a thing of greatness and glory. What I got left me with my customary wtf face. ‘The Kindly Emperor and His Smile’ was something I was looking forward to. This last one failed to live up to those promises of grand and magnificent battles and revelations. The second was good too because it raised the stakes, added melodrama and some incredibly exciting new pieces of backstory and information plus a hint of what was to come. The first one was great because it was the beginning of the story and it was thrilling and fun. The first two books were better than this last one though they all had the same problems. Love interests were thrown around like options in multiple choice questions. The story had potential but I ended up being disappointed all the time. The books were always several degrees shy of being truly spectacular. The execution of those ideas always fell short and I was stuck between admiration and exasperation. The concept and ideas were fascinating. The writing was delicious and mesmerizing. I’ve felt the same way about all three books as all three had the same quirks and problems. I can give this series credit for its consistency at least. How then could I have possibly enjoyed reading it? IDK. I loved reading this but it also angered, annoyed and disgusted me, none of the three are positive feelings. The writing was It’s astonishing how you love reading a book but when you sit down and think about it for a second you realize that it sucked a lot. It’s astonishing how you love reading a book but when you sit down and think about it for a second you realize that it sucked a lot. It is darker than so many books that tried to do a similar thing, and I appreciate that.more Sadly, this made this finale a bit of a disappointment even though I love what it attempted. Even the many romantic subplots, although ultimately wrapped up wonderfully in a way I didn’t expect, still didn’t have enough TIME. I liked a lot of what this book did, but it didn’t have room to breathe and sit with the significance of what was happening. There were so many plot points and themes that were significant and needed more time. This series could have easily been 4 books. The thing that ultimately did the finale in was the pacing. Sadly, this made this fin TW: some brief blood magic TW: some brief blood magic The thing that ultimately did the finale in was the pacing. The fate of the kingdom rests on her decision: Will she fall or rise up to become the woman who saves the realm?. In this stunning conclusion to the Kingdom on Fire series, Henrietta must choose between the love from her past, the love from her present, and a love that could define her future. So with her friend Maria and Magnus, the young man who once stole her heart, at her side, Henrietta plots a dangerous journey straight into the enemy's lair. Some will d IT'S TIME FOR HER POWER TO RULE.Īs Henrietta nervously awaits her marriage to Lord Blackwood, she discovers that Sorrow-Fell is not a safe haven from the bloodthirsty Ancients. As Henrietta nervously awaits her marriage to Lord Blackwood, she discovers that Sorrow-Fell is not a safe haven from the bloodthirsty Ancients. |
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