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Bertholdt Hoover

Just last fanart I did.

[scrunckled-idiot]

DID I MISS YOUR BDAY HKH IM SO SORRY IF I DID HAPPY BIRTHDAY

THANK YOU POOKIE! MWA MWA!!!

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[ocean-liners]

Here’s one of the beautiful staterooms onboard RMS Queen Mary! Includes a couple of writing desks, working punkah louvers, and a fully functioning bathroom. We also take a look at some items that you might have once found in a cabin.

[a2zsportsnews]

Niemann closer to US Open berth after LIV Singapore win

Joaquin Niemann won LIV Golf Singapore by five shots on Sunday to rise to the top of the breakaway league’s standings and stay on course for a place at the US Open. The United States Golf Association (USGA) will this season award a berth in the season’s third major to the top-ranked player from the Saudi-backed series who is not otherwise exempt. The US Open is the only 2025 major for which…

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On the aft side, next the soldiers' berths, was a trap-door, like the stoke-hole of a furnace.

"For the Term of His Natural Life" - Marcus Clarke

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By law, you cannot move if kitty cat meow meow sleepy time; punishable by death

Megatron’s in his cogless form because of this

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Did his bros ever manage to get Screamer to get some sleep? Did they have to bribe him with something? Or practically hold him down until he gave in?

I don't think they were successful, Starscream mainly sleeps at his desk (unintentionally).

Ah, but what the heck, I can force Starscream to go to bed with his trine uwu ✨

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Washington Holds Off Oregon In Final Pac-12 Championship Game to Solidify CFP Berth

In a game with enormous College Football Playoff implications, the final championship game of the storied Pac-12 conference between No. 3 Washington and No. 5 Oregon was one for the ages.  The Huskies (13–0) outlasted the Ducks (11–2) for a thrilling 34–31 victory. With the win, Washington, who has won 20 straight games dating back to last season, secured a berth in the College Football Playoff,…

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NBA: Wembanyama focusing on Spurs playoff berth in first season

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how to trick your husband into admitting that hes sleep deprived:

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Eva Gonzalès / Will Barnet / Berthe Morisot / Kitagawa Utamaro / John William Waterhouse / Michael Orwick / Budkin Philipp Osipovich / Salman Toor / Auguste Toulmouche

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Davis Cup: Australia beats United States to book semifinal berth

Australia reached the Davis Cup semifinals for the third consecutive year, eliminating the United States 2-1 when Matt Ebden and Jordan Thompson beat the surprise, last-minute pairing of Ben Shelton and Tommy Paul 6-4, 6-4 in the deciding doubles match on Thursday. The victory on an indoor hard court at the Palacio de Deportes Jose Maria Martina Carpena in southern Spain means 28-time Davis Cup…

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Burger saga part 18: Wait which two????

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Writing Notes: Speech Development

Several stages of development have been distinguished in the first year, when the child develops the skills necessary to produce a successful first word.

FIRST 2 MONTHS

Apart from the cry patterns associated with hunger, pain, and discomfort, the first 2 months of life display a wide range of primitive vocal sounds reflecting the baby’s biological state and activities – as in the ‘vegetative’ noises heard while eating and excreting.

Some of the most basic features of speech, such as the ability to control air flow and produce rhythmic utterance, are being established at this time.

BETWEEN 6 & 8 WEEKS

There emerge the sounds generally known as cooing, produced when the baby is in a settled state.

Cooing sounds do not grow out of crying; rather, they develop alongside it, gradually becoming more frequent and varied.

They are quieter, lowerpitched, and more musical, typically consisting of a short vowel-like sound, often nasal in quality, and usually preceded by a consonant-like sound made towards the back of the mouth.

Strings of cooing noises soon emerge, and the sounds become more varied, as the baby begins to develop a greater measure of control over the muscles of the vocal organs – especially over tongue and lip movements and associated vocal-fold vibration.

BETWEEN 3 & 4 MONTHS

Cooing sounds begin to die away, to be replaced by sounds which are much more definite and controlled, often repeated, and produced with wide pitch glides.

It is a period commonly called vocal play, because the baby seems to take great pleasure in producing these noises, especially those made with the lips.

But it is perhaps more accurate to call it a time of vocal practice or experimentation.

AROUND 6 MONTHS

Vocal play gives way to babbling – a period of syllable sequences and repetitions which can last most of the second half of the first year.

To begin with, the consonant-like sounds are very repetitive:

Example: "babababa"

But at around 9 months, the babbling moves away from these fixed patterns.

The consonants and vowels change from one syllable to the next, producing such forms as [adu] and [maba], and there is a wider range of sounds, anticipating the sounds of the accent of English to be learned.

The utterances do not have any meaning, though they often resemble adult words – and of course adults love to ‘hear’ such words (especially mummy and daddy) in the baby’s vocalizations.

But babbling does not gradually shade into speech; indeed, many children continue to babble for several months after they have begun to talk.

Babbling is perhaps best summarized as a final step in the period of preparation for speech.

The child, in effect, ‘gets its act together’; but it has yet to learn what the act is for – that sounds are there to enable meaning to be communicated in a controlled way.

With the production of the ‘first word’, this final step is taken.

NOTE

However, the first word is not the first feature of adult language to be acquired.

From as early as 6 months, there is evidence that the child is picking up features of the melody and rhythm of the adult language.

Certainly by 9 months, strings of syllables are often being pronounced in conversation-like ways which adults interpret as communicative:

‘He/ she’s trying to tell us something’ is a common reaction to a piece of ‘scribble-talk’, and such speech-act functions as questioning, commanding, and greeting are ascribed to babbled utterances.

The melody and rhythm of often-used phrases, such as "all gone", are also likely to be heard long before the vowels and consonants are clearly articulated.

It is these prosodic features which are the first signs of real language production in children.

Prosody - the linguistic use of pitch, loudness, tempo, and rhythm; the study of versification

Source ⚜ Notes & References More: Children ⚜ Children's Dialogue ⚜ Childhood Bilingualism