![]() The random discussion on "best fight ever" in the boys' sweat hut and Brennan's howling in the steam and talking about dead ancestors over in the girls'. Then there's the case, which mirrors all of the character story threads in that it is filled with the unexpected: The married guy who takes his mistress to a couples' retreat to work on their anger issues. Let's hope this means more screen time for last week's barkeep. Next thing you know, he's shaking hands with Booth and taking a leave of absence for an undisclosed amount of time. They did a better job last year when they did almost the same thing with Angela (Michaela Conlin) throughout the entire season. While Cam's story is somewhat dull, Sweets' grows more and more annoying as the writers try and convince us he no longer has what it takes. Out of nowhere, the shrink who never misses a beat is making one bad guess after another. Really, there's nothing wrong with this storyline, but it's far from compelling.ĭitto for the Sweets storyline. At least this time the relationship between Cam and Arastoo didn't feel so forced and awkward. Or maybe it's a statement on how difficult overturning identity theft can be? It could be to help prove the close group dynamic at the Jeffersonian, but that's also been firmly established and in much better episodes. Just as they've also had a tertiary character lose everything he owns to digital identity theft, yet not once does anyone wonder if Pelant could be the culprit again. The show has already had one main character go from cool and detached scientist to a warm, empathetic person. Her character journeys from stubborn and aloof in the beginning, to accepting help with moist eyes by the end. As the episode unfolds it's clear that she's a victim of identity theft and that whomever assumed her identity is intent on running it into the ground. But it's not Arastoo who's arrested, it's Cam. The episode opens with Cam riding into work with boyfriend Aratoo (Pej Vahdat) when he's pulled over by a blatantly racist cop.
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![]() ![]() The key problem with Faeries is that in many games, opponents can dictate the flow of the game and how Faeries is forced to react, rather the Fae controlling the opponent’s actions. These four decks are:Īll of these decks have won qualifiers and have put up impressive numbers in not only my own testing, but in that of other high-level players who I’ve been sharing information and testing results with. Even if you chalk this up to variance, the fact remains that if Fae was truly the best deck it wouldn’t have such close competition from Zoo in the overall standings of PTQ top eights and wins.įaeries is a very good deck you can choose to play for your remaining qualifiers, but it is not the de-facto best decision, rather it simply falls into the range of four decks that give you the best chances of winning. Faeries, despite all the hype and impressive PTQ results, haven’t won a Pro Tour or Grand Prix level tournament since this Extended season started. Saito didn’t win a Grand Prix without dropping a single match and defeating a number of Faeries players along the way by playing some inferior deck. Yes, that means I’m disagreeing with a bunch of pros and semi-pros that happen to love Blue, but I think they’re simply a little too confident in the little blue men. Faeries is not the best deck in Extended right now. ![]() I know what you’re thinking at home, “I already know the best deck, so what’s the point of this?’ Well dear friend, after chatting with some people and seeing as how a number of writers have said it’s the best, I’m sad to say there’s a bit of a misconception hanging around the format. What an exciting title, the best deck(s). If you have any troubles installing SMS Backup+ you can browse the program instructions and FAQ here which should be of help. The users all have various different Android devices and great feedback is provided. You can read testimonials from SMS Backup+ users in the Google Play store and see their helpful comments about the program. Open your Gmail account to access and print your text messages for court.Īn added bonus of SMS Backup+ is that it will also back up call logs which many Android users find helpful. Select "connect" and enter your Gmail account information. Install SMS Backup+ on any Android phone. Steps to print text messages for court on Android Once you turn on the IMAP preference in your Gmail account, you will be able to begin saving your text messages. Here are instructions on how to accomplish that task. Note: Before getting started, if you don't currently have IMAP enabled for your Gmail account you'll need to ensure that IMAP is turned on. The software is located in the Google Play Store and it lets anyone automatically backup their SMS and MMS messages. ![]() One of the easiest ways for Android users to print text messages is with SMS Backup+. Legal administrators, attorneys, solicitors, and law firm assistants, are now regularly requiring their clients to capture and print text messages so that they have copies for evidence or to present before a judge for court hearings. Whatever kind of legal-related issue you are having, printing out text messages from both iPhone and Android devices is easy with a few quick steps.Īs recently reported by Forbes Magazine, over 23 billion text messages are sent worldwide each day! The need to document and print SMS text messages for court is becoming commonplace, especially since large amounts of personal and business related information is sent and received via text message every single day. ![]() Each year there are millions of mobile phone users around the world that have a need to save and print text messages for court, trial, or their lawyer. The school clerk who aided the technician by clocking her into work retired prior to the fraud being discovered, and has subsequently been placed on a do-not-hire list. The school district has already placed the technician and principal on a do-not-hire list. Board of Education representatives said they have started the process to do so, although the case is still pending. The report does not name the employee or principal involved in the fraud, and both resigned after the fraud was uncovered and did not cooperate with the investigation.įletcher recommended the district ban the technician, her husband and the printing company from conducting business with the district. The wrongdoing was made public in the wide-ranging annual report released by CPS Inspector General Will Fletcher that included a review of sexual misconduct allegations and the revelation former CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett steered millions more district dollars to her friends than has previously been reported. ![]() ![]() While employed by CPS, the technician’s printing company sold $237,307 worth of products to 14 district schools, including $65,790 in printing supplies that she purchased on behalf of the elementary school where she worked. In addition to the ghost payroll scheme, the employee violated CPS’ Code of Ethics “by engaging in improper self-dealing” with a printing company where she and her husband were corporate officers, according to the report. The computer technician was aided in the scheme by a school clerk who continued to clock her into work at a CPS elementary school with the “apparent approval” of the principal, according to the district’s top watchdog. CHICAGO - A former Chicago Public Schools principal turned a blind eye as an employee at his school was paid $121,893 over two years despite not showing up to work and living in California. ![]() ![]() None of the many sequels and ports for 2004’s Lumines stack up to the PlayStation Portable original, a marriage of high-fidelity graphics, pumping Japanese dance tracks and bright charm. Where Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker came from (and why Nintendo brought it back).Get it here: Walmart | Amazon | Best Buy Read more: (It’s also on Nintendo 3DS and it’s great there too.) Like a lot of Nintendo games, it’s also great for kids and co-op play, with little in the way of frantic action or combat. It’s an accessible game with easy-to-understand rules, but it will regularly surprise you. It is also consistently charming, as Captain Toad (and Toadette) light up the screen with beaming smiles and chirps of success as they hunt down golden treasures. ![]() Treasure Tracker is a puzzle-adventure game that’s relaxing at times and confounding at others, thanks to Nintendo’s smart, sometimes devilish level designs. Now available on Switch, one of Nintendo’s most underappreciated projects is getting the audience it deserves. Unfortunately, it too was doomed on the Wii U. Nintendo later expanded that idea into a full game, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. They were wonderful little puzzle boxes in which players guided the waddling Toad through diorama-like levels to collect stars. When Nintendo released Super Mario 3D World on Wii U - you know, the console that barely anybody owned - the game maker included a handful of experimental levels starring perennial Mario sidekick Toad. Ni no Kuni 2 is better because it’s aimed at Western fans.Ni no Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom is a classic JRPG transported into the contemporary era.Ni no Kuni 2 is a solid contemporary JRPG that brings a lot of design ideas that I love into sharp, clear focus while staying entertaining and engaging throughout.”Īvailable on PlayStation 4 and Windows PC. Here’s Cameron Kunzelman’s take from our review: “There’s not a wasted breath or a plot point that doesn’t manage to pay off in a significant way. A fairytale storyline gives its motley band of heroes a playful pep that feels anachronistic, if not flagrantly in conflict with our times. Its colorful animation conceals a rich but not overly complicated kingdom-management system that gives the adventure a grand sense of scope. No, you needn’t have played the first Ni no Kuni to enjoy its sequel, a feverishly optimistic (and welcomingly naïve) Japanese role-playing game inspired, in part, by the works of Studio Ghibli. ![]() What was the last time your mobile phone, your ultimate handy source of information, was worth more after unpacking and using it? Well, here comes another crucial difference between electronics intended to work for a few years and a „obsolete“ technology, that was designed to work for decades. There is a wristwatch for every outfit, occasion and for every gentleman. Outfit is far more than just clothes and a wristwatch will definitely individualise your personal taste. A wristwatch compliments style and outfit of an individual (boys and girls alike).
![]() The internet has completely democratised language learning with unending resource from Youtube, apps, PDF books, music and ability to converse with new people across the world - and so much of it is free of charge.įinally, learning a language is an amazing gift to have, you can communicate with millions of new people, you expand your cranial capacity, your CV/Linkedin is that much better than monolinguals. This will help in the early stages of understanding that to say i like, you like, he/she/it likes etc has a different format to other Spanish verbs (Me gusta, Te gusta, le gusta). All you need to do is ask a native Spanish speaker, let’s spend the first 30 minutes speaking in English and the next 30 minutes speaking in Spanish. ![]() Immersion is key, so you could change the language of social media websites that you are familiar with. So itll open doors whether you want to work, travel or live abroad. So i would read about Spanish football teams, listen to Spanish and latin music and change my phone's language to Spanish. Spanish is the official language in over 20 countries around the world. The first trick we want to teach you is the absolute easiest Here is trick 1. For me that included football, music and technology. That’s because not only are the Spanish and French languages neighbors, but from the same family of romance languages. In comparison, Spanish and English have a lexical similarity of only 30-50, and French and English of only 40-50. The amount of time can vary, but the important part is you are meeting some new friends. For Spanish and French, their lexical similarity is about 75. Use things in your life that you love doing as a basis for learning. All you need to do is ask a native Spanish speaker, let’s spend the first 30 minutes speaking in English and the next 30 minutes speaking in Spanish. Spanish PDFs for Kids: CAL (Center for Applied Linguistics) has free Spanish workbooks and materials for grades 1-6. I spent many conversations in my first few years of learning saying the same lines over and over again until i was able to progress (where i'm from, what i like my name, my occupation and the inverse questions). You will hear it often said to not be afraid to make mistakes and it's 100% true. Naturally you will find you are better at one area than another but always maintain a balance in your learningĪt certain points, you will feel as though you have hit a blockage or become downhearted at your progress a) This is normal! b) Take a break from that specific area c) Accept it as a short term issue and come back to it in an hour/day/weekīe brave this is especially important during conversations. They are aimed at either student visitors who want to learn Spanish quickly or recent. Never forget that: *reading *writing *speaking *listening are just as important as each other. Spanish courses in Spain tend to be at least 10 hours of lessons a week. Lots of fantastic practical advice here so i have some broader insights for you that that has helped me. ![]() ![]() What has been added, under authorization from the First Presidency, is chapter and verse designations at the top of the pages, new explanatory chapter headings, new cross references to all volumes in the standard works, over six hundred quotations from the Joseph Smith Translation (popularly known as Joseph Smith’s “Inspired Version” of the Bible) that illuminate difficult verses in the King James version, new language notes, a 750-category topical guide that makes the new Bible edition an incalculably valuable resource for discovery and study, a revised Bible dictionary with information especially useful to Latter-day Saints, and a valuable 24-page section of four-color maps. Not one word of the King James text has been changed in this edition. This new edition of the Bible will be a powerful aid in that process of discovery and rediscovery. “I am convinced that each of us, at some time in our lives, must discover the scriptures for ourselves-and not just discover them once, but rediscover them again and again.” ( Ensign, Sept. And President Kimball in 1976 asked the members of the Church “to begin now to study the scriptures in earnest, if you have not already done so,” reminding us of our great blessing of living in the times of restoration and of a correspondingly great accountability if we do not take advantage of such accessibility. President Wilford Woodruff in 1890 urged that the standard works should be the “chief text books” of members of the Church ( Messages of the First Presidency, 3:87). Flinders, “Teach the Children,” unpublished manuscript, 1978, p. On 11 November 1867, President Brigham Young “spoke on education and said if he were to select the books his first choice would be the Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, and Doctrine and Covenants” (Neil J. This understanding increased steadily as the Prophet Joseph Smith spent much of his limited time revising essential passages in the King James translation and sharing those insights with members of the Church.Ĭontinuing this heritage of loyalty to the Bible, later presidents of the Church have reiterated the importance of knowing and cherishing the scriptures. These same early members subsequently recognized with joy the glad tidings of the gospel’s restoration, a restoration that greatly increased their understanding of the Bible message and their faith in it. Many of them had studied the New Testament and concluded that its truths were not being taught on earth. ![]() In addition to the Bible’s early impact on Joseph Smith, nearly all early members of the Church were familiar with the Bible. Indeed, we might say that the Restoration began when the teenaged Joseph Smith followed James’s counsel to “ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally” ( James 1:5). The Bible has always been very important to Latter-day Saints. Kimball gave the original committee: “to assist in improving doctrinal scholarship throughout the Church.” ![]() The publication this fall of this historic new edition of the King James Bible crowns the efforts of hundreds of workers and the General Authorities who have directed them, efforts that have lasted almost seven years.Įventually, this new edition of the Bible will be joined by a new edition of the triple combination to fulfill the charge President Spencer W. This year, for the first time in the history of the Church, Latter-day Saints will have an edition of the King James Bible whose references and supplementary material reflect the unique illuminations shed on it through our modern-day scriptures. ![]() No long introductions, high graphic requirements and complex character interaction - just simple, challenging entertainment in its purest form. The simple game design made the game easily accessible and playable on almost any device. Therefore, the natural development was to design the Bubble Shooter game for not just PC and arcade halls, but also other electronic gaming devices. The simple concept of shooting a bubble/ball in a certain direction and the name "Bubble Shooter" are not exactly elements that would seemingly attract adults, but it was rapidly acknowledged as a game having rather deep and complex mechanics despite its immediate simplicity. Divergent versions of the game had already been on the market for some time, but Bubble Shooter, the game as we know it today, was now operational for the player to install and play at home.īubble Shooter was created as a game for children, but the mechanics of the game also attracted a more mature player pool. The game was back then developed and published by Absolutist. Puzzle Bobble 2 was and still is a popular arcade game, and in 2001 the popularity of the game rose to unparalleled heights by becoming available as a game on PC - named Bubble Shooter as we know it as today. The history of Bubble Shooterīubble Shooter originally derives from Puzzle Bobble 2, which was created by Taito Corporation back in 1995. ![]() It is easy to play, but difficult to master and it is for this exact reason that Bubble Shooter is recognized worldwide as an all-time classic. The basics of the Bubble Shooter game are very simple and it may occur almost childish in design, but do not let yourself be fooled. You are forced to adjust your winning strategies to each game, and this is why the game is both simple and complex at the same time. There is no alternative way to play and win the game, but this is not the case when you play Bubble Shooter.īubble Shooter can be played a thousand times and not even two games will be alike. In other words, you get all the cool in-game concepts in high graphics, but once you finish, you are actually done. Regardless of how many times you play the game, the objective and the path towards it will remain the same. New popular games with exceptional storylines and strong graphics usually only provide one way of winning the game in order to win, you have to follow an exact path that will eventually lead you to your final destination. It is rather simple to play Bubble Shooter, but the winning conditions changes from game to game and it forces the player to think independently according to the actual display screen. A classic does not become a classic for arbitrary reasons, but they are here to stay because the concept of the game is simple yet challenging. New games are not here to replace game classics like Bubble Shooter, but they function as providers of an alternative. One may think that old, simple games will slowly fade in relevance in a time like this with continuously improved graphics in extraordinary games with magnificent storylines - however, that is not the case. ![]() The Bubble Shooter game is very simple, so we think you can figure out the rules – or else you can scroll further down the page to learn more. Play Bubble Shooter directly in your browser, right here on. ![]() ![]() To echo what the others have said, cluebooks were a big business. I'm more interested in the quality of the story than the way it's presented, and while watching the mages cast lightning bolts at Darkmoon until it vanished was cute, it made about as much sense as Khelben's ignorance to the danger posed by Dran Draggore. I mean, I suppose I prefer a cinematic to plain text, but only barely. There were times that the game was difficult, but it did not feature an "insane level of difficulty." And I guess I'm just jaded from modern games, but most reviewers seem to be far more in love with animated introductions and conclusions than I am. In contrast, I can find nothing to agree with in GameSpy's brief description of the game in a 2004 history of RPGs. He also notes the increase in encounters with role-playing options. My particular approach to playing and mapping doesn't really favor those changes, but I can see why some players would prefer them. He makes a good point on the relative ease of navigation in the sequel, with fewer teleporters and redundant stairways and more hints about secret door locations. Corey "Dingo" Brock offered a retrospective in 2011 on Hardcore Gaming 101. Overall, it's clear that like me she prefers games that eschew manual dexterity for more cerebral combat tactics.ĭarkmoon is so well known, of course, that there are plenty of modern takes on the game, too. She also complains about something that I didn't think to complain about but was a problem nonetheless: the need to use the mouse in combat and the keypad to move forces you into an awkward position in which your left hand is on the right side of the keyboard, meaning that your arm is either at a weird angle or you're off-center from the computer monitor. But she agrees with me on the interface issues, quoting a friend in saying, "It's only real-time for the monsters." She bemoans the freezing that accompanies spellcasting and swapping equipment. That highlights how little progress I'm making.) It's not one of her better reviews, full of spoilers and going into unnecessary meticulous detail about a handful of enemies. (I note with some amusement that the same issue has a review of Bloodwych, which I played nearly 6 years and over 200 games ago. Scorpia reviewed Darkmoon in the April 1992 Computer Gaming World. |
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