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![]() Gets White Trash GF Pregnant, Names Kid Terrell. Another funny white trash meme, featuring the young man formerly known as Scumbag Steve. I'm really glad I can help brighten anyone's day even if it's in such a small way. A white trash meme with Jersey Shore superstar Snooki and her fake tan’s orange hue. ![]() I tried to outsmart my dog and bought a locking trash can and put a 10 lb weight in the bottom. I myself have struggled to relate to others, so it's been a really rewarding experience putting my thoughts and feelings into my memes and seeing just how many people relate. 69 (415) trash waste pollution food problem question meme memes future economy fail wtf omg eat ugly. When Ashley comes over tonight if things get serious, make sure you’re SAFE Use this P.S. 2) Son, I know you have grown up now, and I’m proud of you. She continued: "Overall, I never expected such niche animal memes to become so popular and resonate with so many people! Since I started the account, raccoons and raccoon memes are all over Instagram now and it's really cool to see. 1) Let the funny dirty memes begin When you a hoe and even your toothpaste knows what that mouth do. ![]() ![]() They would break into our trash bin at night and my parents would go outside to scare them away and I would run out and try to stop them because I wanted to see the raccoons," said Hanna. I've always loved and related to raccoons from a young age. I'd like to think my page has helped with this as I've been told by some people that they hated raccoons until they found my page. "I wish more people knew that raccoons are just misunderstood little friends and they shouldn't be treated as pests or looked down upon. ![]() ![]() Regular Decision is a non-binding and unrestrictive admission plan that allows students more time to complete the application and to have grades from the first term of their senior year considered in the review. Deferred students will be reviewed during Regular Decision. ![]() Students admitted through the Early Action admission plan will have until May 1 to reserve a spot by in the incoming class. We aim to release decisions of admit, defer, or deny by mid-February. Deferred students will be reviewed during Regular Decision.Įarly Action is a non-binding and unrestrictive admission plan that may be an attractive option for those feel they can present a strong application without senior grades being reviewed. Decisions of admit, defer, or deny will be released in mid-December and students are expected to submit deposits by January 1. Students admitted through the Early Decision admission plan are required to cancel their applications elsewhere and enroll in UVA. 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We hope to offer students multiple options and the ability to choose the option that is best suited for them. ![]() ![]() We maintain a consistent review throughout the application process so there is no advantage to choosing one application plan over another. ![]() ![]() Thirty cards is substantially easier to manage than Magic’s sixty, but you’ve got to either really know what you’re doing or be a supremely analytical player to be able to make heads or tails over whether running one of a particular card is doing much better or worse than running two of that same card. If you’ve never played a game like that before, even as great as the Hearthstone tutorial and onboarding process is, you’re still talking more of a learning wall and less of a learning curve. That’s quite a mouthful, and it sounds complicated, but the magic of Clash Royale is it’s all presented in a way that I really don’t think you need to know anything about card games, RTS games, MOBAs, or the emergent strategies in any of those genres because everything has been simplified and streamlined to a masterful extent.īreaking that down further, in Hearthstone (Free) players are faced with amassing collections of hundreds of cards, spread across multiple classes, then used in a thirty card deck. The easiest way to describe it is as a collectable card game where your cards represent real-time strategy game-like units which are dropped onto MOBA-ish multi-lane battlefields with two towers and a base you need to attack while defending your own. The good news is the game itself is absolutely phenomenal, and much like Clash of Clans (Free), will undoubtedly summon a veritable tsunami of copycats and highly “inspired" spinoffs… Which might not necessarily be the worst thing, as the combination of genres and gameplay mechanics in Clash Royale actually works incredibly well for a mobile game.įor the sake of being thorough here, let’s assume this is somehow the first you’ve heard of Clash Royale. ![]() Well, the game officially launched worldwide early this morning along side the biggest Apple feature we’ve ever seen in App Store history, and when you combine Supercell’s penchant for huge blown-out advertising campaigns, I’m guessing it won’t be long until they start blasting all available airwaves with celebrity-packed Clash Royale TV commercials. The game defaults to a "point to shoot" targeting mode, making it easy to play on a phone, but there are also options for an "aim then shoot" mode, which requires adjusting the angle of the shot manually before shooting, and a mode that lets the player aim by rotating their phone.Reviewing these mega-releases always feels like a bit of formality, as if you’ve paid any attention to the mobile gaming scene over the last few months, you probably already followed our guide and have been playing the soft launched version of Clash Royale (Free), if for no reason other than to see what all the fuss is about. The single-player game can be played in Arcade mode, which gradually pushes the bubbles toward the bottom of the screen, or in Puzzle mode, where the only thing players need to worry about is their own mistakes. If the bubbles reach the bottom of the screen, the player loses. Once all the bubbles are gone, the level is over. When three bubbles of the same color touch, they are all removed, along with any bubbles that are only connected to the rest of the mass of bubbles by the bubbles being removed. The object of the game is to remove bubbles from the screen by shooting bubbles toward the bubbles already on the screen. 2048įrozen Bubble is one of the more popular open source games on Linux, and this app version brings the same gameplay to Android. Like I stated above, these are my personal favorites, and I am only covering a fraction of the games available in the F-Droid repository, so if I skipped one of your favorites, please share it in the comment section below. Because the list is quite lengthy, I have omitted Chess apps, which I covered at length in a previous article. Each games provides a single-player mode that does not require network access, so they are perfect for your next bus ride or plane trip. ![]() All the games are released under open source licenses, with no in-app purchases or any of the other dubious features and annoyances that plague modern mobile gaming. ![]() Many of these games are clones of proprietary computer games and board games, but they are still enjoyable and are excellent implementations of the games they are clones of.īelow, I look at 12 of my personal favorite games from the F-Droid repository. While the open source world is not exactly known for the quality of its games, there are a wide variety of open source games available in the F-Droid repository that are polished and very playable. Smartphones put a wealth of games at users' fingertips, but many of the proprietary games are loaded with advertisements, in-app purchases, and other features that create less-than-stellar play experiences. ![]() ![]() ![]() The fried shallots lend a wonderful crunch against the creamy congee. For Vietnamese, we like to serve the chicken congee with sliced scallions, cilantro, Vietnamese coriander (rau ram), julienned ginger, a squeeze of fresh lime juice, bird's eye chili, and bean sprouts. What to Serve Congee Withīeside the shredded chicken meat, there are so many wonderful savory toppings that you can pair with congee. You can add the shredded chicken back into the pot of congee or serve it separately. Pull the chicken meat from the bones and discard the bones and skin. Once the chicken is cooked, remove it from the Instant Pot and let it cool down for 25-30 minutes. You can also use chicken leg quarters instead of whole chicken if you don't feel like cooking a whole chicken. ![]() I like to use free range whole chicken for this recipe. Season with additional fish sauce and sugar to taste.Add the reserved chicken broth to thin the congee to the consistency that you like.Let it naturally release for 10 minutes before manually releasing the rest of the pressure. Cook the rice and broth on HIGH pressure for 15 minutes.Add 6 cups of chicken broth and rinsed rice to the IP.Rinsing it too much will remove the starch necessary to thicken the congee. Rinse it twice before adding it to the IP. Use broken jasmine rice to get the best texture.Strain the chicken broth for a clear broth.I usually remove at least 1 cup of fat for a 3-3.5 pound chicken. The chicken will release quite a bit of fat. Remove the fat on the surface for a healthier broth.Let it naturally release for 5 minutes before manually releasing the rest of the pressure. Cook the chicken for 10 minutes on HIGH pressure.Cooking the chicken first will give you a firmer texture compared to cooking the chicken along with the rice. Tips For Making Congee in the Instant Pot The rice can easily stick to the bottom of the pan and get burned if you don't stir it occasionally. Cooking on the stove requires a little bit of babysitting. The texture of the chicken congee comes out perfect each time.The cooking time using the Instant Pot is a fraction of the cooking time using the stove.Why I Love Making Congee in the Instant Pot I’m so excited to share an easy pressure cooker version, my Instant Pot Vietnamese chicken congee, or cháo gà. Instead of taking hours on the stove, the Instant Pot shortens the cooking time to less than an hour. In its simplest form, rice is simmered with water for a couple hours until the rice breaks down, releases their starch, and the mixture thickens resulting in a warm bowl of creamy, comforting congee. It also appeared at every single family celebration-birthdays, anniversaries, weddings. My mom would cook a big pot of congee whenever someone wasn't feeling well. In America it’s known as congee or porridge, jook in Cantonese, zhou in Mandarin, juk in Korean, and arroz caldo in Filipino. Cháo, is the ultimate Vietnamese comfort food. Growing up in Vietnam, I loved cháo as as much as I did rice and pho. My Instant Pot Vietnamese chicken congee makes a comforting and nourishing meal paired with all the delicious toppings. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our aim is simple: to help more people buy wall art online and decorate their homes with modern artworks.No one can afford to stand still in today's fast moving and ever changing world. If you have any questions, comments or special requests, Canvasbutik will be happy to help you create your own wall art. If you don’t have a photo you want to use, you can simply buy one of our canvas prints and oil paintings online from the comfort of your sofa. 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At Canvasbutik you will find a wide selection of canvas prints, oil paintings and posters at good prices. ![]() ![]() “But over time, as information has spread and it becomes easier, you have manufacturers selling, too.” Kaziukėnas estimates that as many as one-third of Amazon’s sellers are based in China. “As long as retail has existed, you’ve always had retailers sell to customers, because many manufacturers were unfit to do so,” Juozas Kaziukėnas, the founder and CEO of Marketplace Pulse, an e-commerce research site, told me. People can buy cheap stuff like bikinis or drones directly from the manufacturer or seller, no matter where that retailer is based. But now, these new sites are helping consumers skip that retailer middleman the websites are themselves the retail middleman. Then, they would browse the websites of stores and retailers and order clothes or headphones or cameras delivered to their doorsteps. For much of the 20th century, shoppers would drive to a store, browse through rows of goods, and then buy the clothes or headphones or cameras they wanted and then drive home. These sites represent a different type of shopping than customers have engaged in for decades, even with the rise of e-commerce. Its logo now appears on the jerseys of the Los Angeles Lakers. ![]() Its valuation has more than doubled since a year ago, when it received $500 million in funding. Wish is, according to Forbes, worth $8.5 billion, about the same as Macy’s, J.C. Though the products from these sites take longer to arrive because they’re coming from overseas, some analysts think sites like Wish represent the future of shopping. retailers who themselves have been importing goods from China. Wish and sites like AliExpress, LightInTheBox, and even Amazon have enabled more Chinese sellers to penetrate the U.S. Wish is emblematic of a growing trend in e-commerce: shoppers buying directly from Chinese manufacturers and merchants. “Its cool I like it for the price,” read one. The product had more than 8,000 reviews in dozens of languages, averaging four stars. I ordered the smart watch, advertised as “Hot Sell New product Q18S Smart Wrist Watch” for $18, marked down, supposedly, from $896. After receiving promotional emails from Wish offering bikinis for $4 (marked down from $75!), camera drones for $29 (down from $1,399!), and, for some reason, a spoon that says “My Peanut-Butter Spoon” for $1 (down from $12), I could no longer resist. I ordered the watch from, one of a growing number of sites that allows consumers from around the world to buy deeply discounted goods from China, directly from sellers or manufacturers there. Instead, the large digital face featured icons for Twitter, Facebook, a pedometer, and a photo-taking app called “Camina” rather than “camera.” It was about what you’d expect for a smart watch that cost less than $20. Inside the box was the watch itself, which looked nothing like the inexpensive Apple Watch I’d hoped it would be. Under layers of packaging, there was a box labeled Smart Watch, with no brand name. ![]() But when people observe them from a different cultural perspective, the common "Chinese Stuff" suddenly becomes fascinating.The package came in a small black box, covered in tape. These items are so common in the daily life of Chinese people that they are usually giving little attention. This album contains more than 100 examples that take the readers into the home of any common Chinese family, and even into their bedrooms and bathrooms. It is through these stuffs that we come to understand how everyday Chinese people live and adapt to this rapidly changing world - or not. With this book, the readers come to reflect and appreciate China's unique - and often amusing - way of life. It is through these stuffs that we come to understand how everyday Chinese people live and a Chinese Stuff looks at everyday life for the average Chinese, especially examining the modern, ancient, and conventional tools and devices people use in their everyday life. ![]() Chinese Stuff looks at everyday life for the average Chinese, especially examining the modern, ancient, and conventional tools and devices people use in their everyday life. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the actual name comes from Mackerel fish, an aquatic creature having these unique markings all over the dorsal area. One such name is ‘tiger cat’ due to the presence of tiger-like stripes on their bodies. ![]() ![]() Mackerel tabbies are known by different names. Mackerel Tabby Cat Name Comes From a Fish If either the sire or the dam kitty has a Mackerel tabby pattern regardless of the breed, there is a high probability that the offspring will be a Mackerel tabby cat. So one can say that any feline that exhibits the appearance pattern akin to tabbies is regarded as a tabby cat. For instance, the orange tabby cat is not a separate cat breed but only a group of cats from different breeds with various tabby patterns featuring orange color. None of the tabby cat patterns constitute separate breeds. Mackerel Tabby Cat Is About Pattern, Not Breed She served the town until her demise in 2017. In 1997, Stubbs the Tabby Cat was elected an honorary mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska. These kitties have a pink nose, a pattern of dark stripes running from top to bottom on the coat, rings on the tail, and lines on the legs.īut that is not all – there is a lot more to them, especially in terms of personality and history.Įxcited to know? Read the 15 amazing Mackerel tabby cat facts below and find them all!ĭid You Know? Egyptians are not alone in putting cats in power. Appealing to eyes, the Mackerel tabby cat is a popular pet choice due to its distinctive striped appearance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Going by this recording, Mumbai Saga doesn’t seem to have been mentioned at the event. Last week, the label held a press conference to celebrate the many milestones reached by “ Lut Gaye”. So now, the “non-film” release has gone back to being a film song! In fact, it might just end up being more successful than the movie itself. After it turned out to be a big hit, T-Series decided to tag “ Lut Gaye” on to Mumbai Saga after all. In other words, a film tune was seamlessly converted into a “non-film” track. Instead, the MV, directed by Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru, who also wrote the story, dialogues and poem for it, was marketed as a mini movie of its own. Although there were similarities between the character played by Hashmi in the film and the music video, there was no indication that “ Lut Gaye” was part of Mumbai Saga. But there was no space for it in the movie so they decided to put it out as a stand-alone single. The song was created for a film produced by the label, Mumbai Saga, starring Emraan Hashmi and John Abraham. Explicit evidence of the absolute meaningless of “non-film” arrived last month in the form of “ Lut Gaye”, Tanishk Bagchi and Jubin Nautiyal’s reinterpretation of a Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan qawwali, which was released by T-Series. Both showcase advanced choreography, set design, costuming and cinematography that resemble short films more than typical promotional clips.In truth, it would be easier to just call “non-film” music what it is really is: “commercial Hindi pop”. Last but not least, one viewing of each official music video for “ Lut Gaye” and “ Baarish Ki Jaaye” shows why audiences might be drawn to video rather than audio. Among the week’s top 40 video streamers, two-thirds are not sung in English, compared to just a quarter of the actual chart’s top 40, where audio streams and digital sales also factor in. and non-English-language songs generally over-index on video services. Second, as reflected by current hits by Israel & Rodolffo and Myke Towers, as well as others by BTS, Sech and Los Legendarios, non-U.S. charts include local streams from global digital music services available in that territory but do not yet include any India-specific streaming services. Both tracks are lighting up global video services such as YouTube, where the official music video for “Lut Gaye” has over 540 million cumulative views and “Baarish Ki Jaaye” has over 180 million, while likely scoring high audio stream counts on local streaming services that are not yet reported for the global charts. 87 and 157, respectively, leading the charge in video streams? For one, the Global 200 and Global Excl. How to explain the chart’s only two songs by Indian acts, at Nos. In extreme contrast, “Lut Gaye” and “Baarish Ki Jaaye” earned more than 95% of their streams for the week via video.īoney M.'s 'Rasputin' Charts Again on Global Excl U.S. chart sport about 70% of their streams from audio services and 30% from video. Sure, buzzy videos by America’s Lil Nas X and Canada’s Justin Bieber rank fourth and sixth, respectively, but Brazil’s Israel & Rodolffo and DJ Guuga featuring DJ Ivis fill out the top 10 with “Batom de Cereja,” alongside Myke Towers and Juhn (both from Puerto Rico) with “Bandido,” and Karol G (Colombia) and Mariah Angeliq (U.S.) with “El Makinon.” 157), the only other song on this week’s ranking by Indian acts, places third, with 19.9 million video streams.įurther, the top 10 of this sorting is infused by international acts. “Baarish Ki Jaaye” by B Praak featuring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sunanda Sharma (No. chart by video-only streaming activity, “Lut Gaye” isn’t an outlier at the top of the list regarding its country of origin. When sorting all 200 songs on the Global Excl. charts are based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music services, as well as download sales.) (The Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. “Lut Gaye” scored 27.1 million video streams in the week ending April 22, according to MRC Data, maintaining a 33% lead over its closest competitor, Pinkfong’s perennial “Baby Shark.” 87 but holds strong in one notable metric: for the fifth consecutive week, “Lut Gaye” boasts the most video streams of any song of the Global Excl. On the latest, May 1-dated survey, the song dips to No. Two months ago, Billboard reported that Jubin Nautiyal’s “Lut Gaye,” featuring Emraan Hashmi, became the third song by Indian acts to debut on the Billboard Global Excl. ![]() ![]() The only one of these mini-games with any depth is the Bejeweled clone, which managed to earn itself status as one of two unlockable modes. Only if that was really the aim, they fail miserably. These feel like completely arbitrary additions, included only as padding to prevent a one trick pony from getting old. Whisper Valley features four variations of a jigsaw, a tile sliding game, a wordsearch, and a Bejeweled clone. The puzzles themselves are a total let down and are painfully easy. Once you’ve powered through and found all the clues, you’ll be left to assemble them in the form of a jigsaw, before you’re left with the only lateral-thinking puzzle to complete the game. What is left of that time limit after beating all locations in a level is used to complete one of seven totally unrelated puzzles, and finishing a puzzle will unlock a ‘clue’ to escaping the town. In this sense, twenty-five levels is probably too much for the main mode, and you’ll find yourself going through the motions by the end. The game tries to balance this with the huge amount of items in each stage meaning that you’re looking for different objects each time, but it really doesn’t help with the repetition. The main problem here is that there are also twenty-five of these locations too, but as a level can have up to eight of these, the locations get boring very quickly. The game is separated into twenty-five levels, with each level giving you a couple of these cluttered locations to search for items in, and a time limit to in which to complete them all. This can be used many times but there is a short regeneration period before it can be used again.ĭon't ask me why there's a gnome in this picture. For the more visually challenged amongst us, the game offers a hint system, which once used highlights the area of something you’re looking for. The game has this ability to leave you sat looking blankly at the screen for ages when the answer is right under your nose, and it’s here where the game really excels. The items themselves are very well integrated into the environments, with a lot of items either acting a part of the scenery, camouflaged cleverly or just represented in a way that you wouldn’t expect. Some of the items in the list might be presented as cryptic clues, or they might require you to fulfil certain criteria, such as using tape to repair a wire, or putting items in a box. To tick an item off the list you simply click on it. You are presented with a picture of a decrepit and cluttered area, such as a library or train station and provided with a list of ten items to locate. ![]() The main bulk of the game seems to take inspiration from the old Virgin Digital Music quiz that did the rounds a few years back. ![]() ‘Where’s Wally’ crossed with Silent Hill… Thankfully, the core gameplay mechanics do actually work in the midst of a game that doesn’t quite know what it wants to be. It’s a set-up that is bizarrely inconsistent, and it comes across scatter-brained. The grand finale is the only scene that requires any lateral thinking and it sticks out like a sore thumb in comparison to the rest of the game. With this you’d expect a point and click game, or something that requires investigation, only bizarrely, the way to escape is to find objects from a 2D image and occasionally solve puzzle mini-games. The premise of the game is to escape from what seems to be a remote and deserted Silent Hill-esque American town called Whisper Valley. All signs seem to point to some sort of dark narrative, but there really is no narrative at all. To hear the chilling music, see the title and the opening screens, you’d be forgiven for thinking that this was not your typical Popcap game. ![]() Implying there’s a story when there really isn’t… The title intrigued me, but the premise intrigued me more in what I found to be a very strangely put together package. Billed as a ‘Hidden Object Game’, I had no idea what to expect when going in. One such smaller studio is Spintop Games, who haven’t exactly set the world alight with their contribution to the industry (I’d never heard of them before), however their latest game, Escape Whisper Valley, became available to purchase through Popcap and has received a fair amount of marketing. As part of Popcap’s quest to dominate the casual and puzzle market, they have been known to acquire smaller, independent studios along the way. ![]() |
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