3/27/2023 0 Comments Weed shop 2 game save![]() ![]() Too bad because I really enjoyed the game. Weird thing is when I quit the game and go back in there are usually 3 people waiting inside to buy (even though the store is still closed). It even says the store is open from the outside yet nobody comes inside and I lose points. To learn more about America Saves Week, visit. As of 2 days ago every time I click it tells me the store is closed. ![]() Johnson’s office will share savings tips on social media, highlighting a different theme every day.Īmerica Saves Week was first observed in 2007 and is coordinated by America Saves and its partners as an annual call to action for every day Americans to commit to saving. Grassdoor delivers to your doorstep throughout Los Angeles and Orange County. “We look forward to sharing information with Kansans over the next few days on ways our office can assist in achieving their financial goals.” “Just as we keep a watchful eye over the state’s finances at the State Treasurer’s office, it is important for Kansas families to keep tabs on their budgets and make sure they’re saving enough for unexpected emergencies and future goals,” said Johnson. Weed Shop 2 on Steam PC HD Indie GameplayGame Description: Weed Shop 2 is a first person recreational Marijuana dispensary simulator where you'll get to gr. Treasurer Johnson encourages individuals to check in with their finances by highlighting several key areas that contribute to financial stability. The Kansas State Treasurer’s Office said saving automatically, preparing for unexpected expenses, saving for college and career and reducing debt are a few of the ways Treasurer Johnson encourages Kansans to save during America Saves Week, Feb. All offers already include discounts from vouchers to save you time and money. (WIBW) - Kansas State Treasurer Steven Johnson encourages Kansans to think about their financial future during America Saves Week. Weed Shop 2 sale & discount - all in one place GG.deals aggregates game keys from over 40 digital distribution stores so you can find the best deals on video games.
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3/27/2023 0 Comments Gorogoa coal![]() "A lot of it was seeing what people said about the demo, and understanding their points, but they were referring to principles of design that I hadn't given a lot of thought. "So I encountered that criticism from other designers - I mean criticism in the constructive sense - after I'd already built something," he says, recalling the moment he showed that demo to people for the first time. Roberts started with the intention of writing a graphic novel, and simply followed the idea wherever it took him - very often into uncharted waters. Indeed, when he created the first demo in 2012, he did so "in total isolation as a developer." No feedback from a peer group, no education in game development he had never so much as read a book on game design theory. There is no question that Roberts struggled to finish Gorogoa and bring it to market, and that's largely down to a "bespoke" development process that was defined as much by naivety and inexperience as it was by his abundant talent. Every piece of Gorogoa was a new problem." If you build a game with a particular mechanic, not every story makes sense to tell that way. "The lesson, I hope, is about that thought process, by giving an example of what I went through to figure that out. Jason Roberts collecting a BAFTA for Best Debut Game The overall theme was about my struggle, over the years, to make the content of the game the themes work with the mechanics I had made. "I don't know which of the things I did I should encourage people to emulate, and which I shouldn't. "When I try and talk about it, it's just this confusing word salad that comes out of my head," he continues. Gorogoa is, he says, "a non-verbal experience" by design, and one created almost entirely on his own. In addition, the level of interest in hearing him explain his process since it launched to rapturous reviews in December 2017 is difficult to square with the way he sees the game. Roberts' speaks with a measured, even tone, and one gets the impression that he's no great lover of the spotlight. But I don't think I'd advise anybody else to." It's the first big talk I've done at GDC, and I didn't realise how much work goes into it. "But I still stressed a lot about the talk. ![]() "A little bit," Roberts concedes, when I ask if that's how the crowd's enthusiastic reception felt. "In a sense, making an unwise decision among wiser people will result in uniqueness" Seven years after work on Gorogoa started in earnest, Roberts is at GDC to take his victory lap. The room, one of the largest at GDC, is teeming with people, his arrival on stage greeted not just by applause, but a generous amount of enthusiastic cheering and hollering. That is very much the feeling during the talk given by Buried Signal's Jason Roberts, the one-man band behind the singular puzzle title Gorogoa, his first ever published game. The most distinctive creators from the previous year are given the biggest stages, and what often feels like the entire games industry gathers to reflect on their achievements - to gain a little insight into how brilliance works. But maybe you're not that type, in which case, this game is just some artsy-fartsy work of love pretty well-put-together by a guy who grew bored with his well-paying tech job, the poor idiot.A prominent indie designer once explained the Game Developers Conference to me like this: E3, PAX, EGX and their ilk are the race, but GDC is the victory lap. ![]() If you're the right kind of person, this game will offer you some genuine moments of insight and amazement. Does it succeed? I'd say that if if stirred your mind and soul, it did a pretty damn fine job. It's about following an epiphany, about seeing the inter-connectedness of everything, about pushing forward when the going gets hard, and in the end, finding meaning: the last piece of the puzzle to be put together, is your very life. The nifty mechanic of advancing your character through finding connections between parts of images is used as a metaphor for advancing on our spiritual journey through life. The game aims higher than just being an audio-visual treat, though. By the last part of the game, maybe you will grow tired of hunting images for elusive details to fit together, but it's an easy fix to that: don't take it all in one sitting, even if the whole experience only takes a few hours to get through. By the last part of the game, Did you ever want to enter the world of some lovingly-crafted illustration? This game offers at least that. Did you ever want to enter the world of some lovingly-crafted illustration? This game offers at least that. 3/26/2023 0 Comments Aruna khilaniK complains about a disclaimer against violent hate speech that the Yale School of Medicine put out in which they stated “how violent my talk was.” Support local journalism by subscribing to your Blank Slate Media community newspaper for just $50 a year.Īlthough she has yet to respond, she posted a TikTok video on her Twitter account In the video recording Dr. Would you like to unload a round into my head?” To express your rage? What good do you expect to come of it? I’m a white guy. I tweeted, “As a fellow MH professional, I’m trying 2 understand the purpose of you sharing your homicidal fantasy. To be fair, I reached out to the good doctor on Twitter to get her comment on the matter. K was quoted as telling the aspiring doctors that, “I had fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step. I found a June 5 piece in Newsweek magazine that did confirm the Post’s reporting. K’s speech to an audience of Yale medical students in the Post, I decided to look further for a more reliable source. Who can forget the 1983 classic, “Headless Body Found in Topless Bar?” Some consider it to be the greatest headline in New York newspaper history.Īfter reading about Dr. Support local journalism by subscribing to your Blank Slate Media community newspaper for just $35 a year. The New York Post was founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton, who I imagine had a vastly different vision than that of today’s publisher Rupert Murdoch. ![]() In the 1960s the Enquirer sucked readers in with stories of paranormal happenings, medical anomalies, freaks of nature, political scandal and celebrity gossip. K) violent, race-based fantasies in the New York Post, the modern-day incarnation of the old National Enquirer – a literary form of entertainment and titillation, at best. I imagine similar things could be said of the Romani.I first read about psychiatrist Aruna Khilanani’s (Dr. When there is a cultural acceptance that discrimination against one subset of the population is fair, then we have a societal problem that must be reckoned with. Khilanani is obviously engaging in a racist diatribe, the larger concern to be is the deafening silence from those who raise awareness of racial issues when the subject is anti-white behavior. Racism is ugly in all of it’s forms, but I do believe a collective racism is uglier than individual racism. (I’m not comparing the level of discrimination, simply using this analogy to place people on the same side of history based on their beliefs.) That sets up a dangerous precedent and I firmly believe you will end up on the wrong side of history, just like those who have and still do oppose gay marriage. I don’t believe it’s appropriate to qualify the level of marginalization for someone to be discriminated against based on their race. ![]() I’m not asking for my view to be changed on this topic. I’m open to feedback.įor those who believe racism cannot be directed against white people, I’m sorry, but we will have to disagree here. ![]() One commenter thought the term “cultural racism” would be more appropriate. Normally I’m not a fan of diluting a definition and I don’t think the negative, intangible consequences of diluting a word is worth it in this situation. I’m embarrassed to say I advocated diluting an important word, “institutional racism”. I was aware the term did not fit perfectly to the collective silence I’m referencing. I awarded two deltas specifically regarding the use of the term “institutional racism”. Khilanani, but at the members of our society who have been collectively silent in regards to anti-white behavior, yet have been the champions of raising racial awareness in our country for other races. Important Clarification - my reference to institutional racism was not directed at Dr. I know this is a controversial topic and causes strong emotions. I’m very thankful for the input from everyone. ![]() Khilanani receiving further opportunities to express racist opinions from college campuses are visible symptoms of institutional racism.Įdit: I’m responding here so any new viewers can quickly read a summary on my thoughts. The lack of outrage by mainstream news, Democrat politicians, and Dr. 3/26/2023 0 Comments Ultimate word search 160![]() The Brain Games book series was developed to help people increase their memory, sharpen their reasoning, and expand their creative thinking. Take along the book wherever you go- stimulate your mind a few minutes at a time. Solutions to all the puzzles are provided in the final section.īrain Games Large Print Word Searches #1 is spiral-bound and handy to use, no matter whether you are at home, on public transportation, in a long security line at the airport, or relaxing at poolside or on the beach. The more time you spend solving a word search, the more you are sure to appreciate the large-print format. The word searches get progressively more challenging as you proceed through the book. ![]() Both the search words and search grids are enlarged for ease of reading and writing, and each word search set is on facing pages. This book, from the popular Brain Games book series, presents more than 80 word searches in a large-print format. Plus, this giant volume will provide you with countless hours of fun!Īnd don't forget, this book also makes absolutely the best possible gift for the word search game fanatic in your life! No matter what your ability level, "The World's Largest Word Search Puzzle Book" is sure to help to improve your problem-solving skills. This huge word search puzzle collection is the perfect companion for word search fans like you who can't get enough of this addicting word game. This word search puzzle book for adults is packed with the following features:ġ,000 Puzzles All Solutions How-to-play instructions Are you a compulsive word search puzzle player? Do you finish the average word search puzzle in no time at all? If so, then you'll love "The World's Largest Word Search Puzzle Book." It is indeed the largest word search puzzle book ever, packed with more than 1,000 puzzles. "Absolutely love the book of word searches, it's perfect for when I'm relaxing." -Amanda "The book is something I've never seen before - l love it" -Walter S. But the truly brain-busting ones come at the end of the book, when the puzzles veer from the standard to the really challenging, and some even have no word list at all. And for something a little unusual, there’s even a "Minnesota Zip Code" puzzle, where you look for groups of numbers. "Conifer" includes such tree names as bristlecone, loblolly, and tamarack, while "Quantum Mechanics" offers bosons, fermions, and isobar. Experts who want something really challenging will find what they want here, too. See how many "Movie Stars" (Damon, Diesel, Streep) catch your eye or fun "Onomatopoeia" words you can circle-boom, buzz, clang, click, gurgle, hiccup, honk. Every page has TWO word searches on it, each with a cool theme, like "File Extensions" and "Fountains" or "Jelly Beans" and "Letter Order." ![]() Love word searches? Then try this super-duper colossal collection of 365 searches-a full year’s worth of mind-melting puzzles that will (as a bonus) improve your vocabulary, too. 3/26/2023 0 Comments Skype for desktop![]() There's also the virtual whiteboard where you can write, draw and add images or tables and save them for reference later. This feature makes it easy to give a good live presentation to other participants. You can choose whether to turn on your sound or not when doing this. You can share your screen during video calls so that other meeting participants can understand you better. A group meeting can last as long as 60 minutes and a one-on-one meeting can hold for up to 30 hours. The free version lets you host a meeting with up to 100 participants. It’s accessible from your web browser or a desktop or mobile app. ![]() You can start a call from any device with a functioning camera. Video conferencing on Microsoft Teams is as straightforward as you can expect. It was a no-brainer for individuals and businesses already familiar with the Microsoft ecosystem to pick the company’s video conferencing platform. Similarly to its aforementioned rival Zoom, the 2020 pandemic propelled Microsoft Teams to become one of the world’s most popular video conferencing tools. Microsoft released the Teams software in March 2017, six years after acquiring Skype. There’s some irony in putting it on this list because Microsoft is also the owner of Skype. Microsoft Teams is a video conferencing and collaboration tool offered by Microsoft, the tech giant best known for its Microsoft 365 software suite. The slight drawback we observed is that the security features aren’t maximized by default you have to jump through a few hoops to enable end-to-end encryption if that’s what you want. Zoom offers one of the broadest features for free users that we’ve encountered. ![]() There's also an in-built Calendar that you can use to plan your schedule and manage Zoom meetings. The free plan also gives you access to a chat tool that lets meeting participants send messages instantly to each other.įree users can use Zoom Mail, which allows them to access a third-party email account (Microsoft 365 or Gmail) inside the Zoom interface. The free plan for Zoom also gives you access to a virtual whiteboard where you can write and daw to brainstorm ideas with meeting participants it’s no different that the physical whiteboard you may have at your office. The paid plans let you host meetings for hundreds of participants and for up to 30 hours in a single session, which most people don’t reach anyways. But, note that the maximum time for a meeting is 40 minutes on the free plan. Free users can host meetings with up to 100 participants, one of the highest you can get without paying a dime. You can do that from your web browser or download the app on your smartphone or desktop. You can host high-quality video meetings on Zoom from any device with a functioning camera. It has low latency and one of the highest frame rates we have seen in a video calling tool. It works just well without the bugs, glitches, and errors that people are accustomed to when making audio or video calls. The main reason for Zoom’s user base explosion was its reliability. “Zoom” is in fact now a verb for video calling. Despite being barely a decade old, it amassed hundreds of millions of users and became the go-to video meeting tool for individuals and businesses. Zoom is a video conferencing tool that took the world by storm at the onset of the Covid pandemic in 2020. Security settings aren’t maximized by default Here then we'll list some of the best alternatives to Skype, not least in terms of features, support, ease of use, and accessibility. Even still, for many business users they will want to have a dedicated VoIP service for business (opens in new tab) and additionally use their own hardware, such as VoIP phones (opens in new tab). However, while there are now a lot of free alternatives, for business there are paid options available to ensure the best quality for calls and video. ![]() Not all users were happy about the acquisition and following changes, and with the growth of rival services, a number of Skype users began to migrate to these. Some people prefer not to use Skye after Microsoft bought it in 2021 and started making changes, such as integrating it into its office suite of software applications. Not only do these offer voice-calling over the internet by default, most now also include video conferencing (opens in new tab) features. Although Skype became one of the early success stories when it came to easy-access VoIP (opens in new tab), there are many alternatives now available. 3/26/2023 0 Comments Irapp gscaasEight distinct indel variations were detected in the chloroplast genome alignment of 24 Dioscorea species. ![]() Genes adjacent to the junction borders were similar in all species analyzed. Only mono-, di-, and trinucleotides were present in the genome. The overall GC content for all four species was 37%. A total of 113 genes were predicted, including 79 protein-coding sequences (CDS), 30 tRNA, and four rRNA genes. The chloroplast genomes of Dioscorea brevipetiolata, D. This study contributes to further understanding the evolutionary process and the biodiversity conservation of C. nipponicum is likely introduced through the north Eurasian root, not the mainland, and evolved independently in Ulleung Island. We found 833 polymorphic sites and eight highly variable regions in chloroplast genomes of six Cirsium species by calculating nucleotide diversity, as well as 18 specific variable regions distinguished C. The chloroplast genome was 152,586 bp, encoding 133 genes consisting of 8 rRNA genes, 37 tRNA genes, and 88 protein-coding genes. nipponicum and reconstructed the phylogenetic relationships within the genus Cirsium. ![]() We thus assembled the complete chloroplast of C. nipponicum, there is not much genomic information to estimate it. Although many researchers have questioned the origin and evolution of C. Unlike other Cirsium in Korea, Cirsium nipponicum (Island thistle) is distributed only on Ulleung Island, a volcanic island off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula, and a unique thistle with none or very small thorns. This study may provide useful information for genetic diversity analysis and molecular identification for Bidens species. Moreover, mutation hotspot analysis and in silico PCR analysis indicated that inter-genic regions of ndhD-ccsA, ndhI-ndhG, ndhF-rpl32, trnL_UAG-rpl32, ndhE-psaC, matK-rps16, rps2-atpI, cemA-petA, petN-psbM were candidate markers of molecular identification for Bidens plants. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that 3 Bidens plants clustered together and further formed molophyletic clade with other Bidens species, indicating Bidens plants might be under radiation adaptive selection to the changing environment world-widely. It seems that ndhE, ndhF, ndhG, and rpl32 from the Bidens plants were under positive selection while the majority of chloroplast genes were under purifying selection. Gene loss of clpP and psbD, IR expansion and contraction were detected in these Bidens plants. Similar number of SSRs and long repeats were found in Bidens, wherein mononucleotide repeats (A/T), forward and palindromic repeats were the most in abundance. The chloroplast genomes are in typical quadripartite structure with two inverted repeat regions separating a large single copy region and a small single copy region, and ranged from 151,599 to 154,478 bp in length. radiata) have been sequenced, assembled and annotated in this study to distinguish their molecular characterization and phylogenetic relationships. Source codes and the online suit available or genomes for 3 Bidens plants endemic to China (Bidens bipinnata Linn., Bidens pilosa Linn., and Bidens alba var. The software was tested using over a hundred embryophyte chloroplast genomes and in all cases a reliable output was obtained. The input of the program is an annotation GenBank (.gb) file, the accession or GI number of the sequence or a DOGMA output file. We introduce a website for easier use of the program as well as R source code of the software to be used in case of preferences to be changed and integrated into personal pipelines. The software and its dependent libraries are fully coded in R and the reflected plot is scaled up to realistic size of nucleotide base pairs in the vicinity of the junction sites. It allows the users to depict the genetic architecture of up to ten chloroplast genomes in the vicinity of the sites connecting the inverted repeats to the short and long single copy regions. Here we announce a new visualization tool that is specifically designed for chloroplast genomes. These tools can provide a deeper insight into the genomic structure of the organism. ![]() Genome plotting is performed using a wide range of visualizations tools each with emphasis on a different informative dimension of the genome. 3/26/2023 0 Comments Dig dug arrangement extend sound![]() Now residing in Brooklyn, he is writing the next chapter. ![]() 2/Sound Effects Used Namco Classic Collection Vol. This Northwest native has helped shape the region’s biggest electronic dance music festivals and clubs both behind the decks and behind the scenes. 1 Pac-Man Arrangement Rally-X Arrangement Dig Dug Arrangement Namco Classic Collection Vol. With a furious mixing style and meticulously constructed sets that showcase his custom edits and crate digging skils, his bassline-heavy performances are the result of over two decades of hustle.ĭoug’s impact as an artist is rivaled only by his work building the Pacific Northwest dance music scene. I recall this as being 'Dig Dug Arrangement' in Namco Museum Battle Collection, but theres also that other Dig Dug Arrangement.dang it Namco, dont make things so confusing This page does not work well in portrait mode on mobile. ![]() Dig-Dug began DJing in the West Coast underground dance music scene during the mid 90s. |
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