![]() ![]() Or how Sims can take part-time jobs as a lifeguard or diving instructor to make ends meet. Or how the people love a good kava party. And there is plenty that this review hasn't even touched on, like how (with the Seasons expansion) Sulani is prone to monsoon weather. ![]() Ultimately, that's only a minor knock against the expansion pack when considering everything that Island Living gets right. However, that novelty is soon lost and mermaids don't feel meaningful enough from a gameplay or storytelling perspective to make a lasting impact, particularly when compared to the brilliant vampires. However, some of the expansion packs are better than others and have more value. The first time playing with a mermaid is novel, with specific powers (at the cost of hydration) allowing you to perform actions such as entrancing other Sims into the water like a siren and – if you have the Seasons expansion – change the weather. Plenty of Expansion Packs in The Sims 4 add various types of content to the game, from new worlds to new careers. Hydration is replenished by doing tasks like swimming in the ocean and taking a shower. The Sims 4 best packs: all expansion packs and other DLC explained Which Sims 4 packs are worth it Guide by Rebecca Jones Guides Writer Updated on Sept. We've seen glimpses of this in a couple of previous expansions, such as the diverse, metropolitan world of San Myshuno in City Living and the European-inspired Windenburg in Get Together, but developer Maxis outdid themselves here.Ī mermaid has the same needs as a normal Sim, except for the 'hygiene' meter being replaced with 'hydration'. There are points of interest in the world worth exploring as well – for instance, a gorgeous waterfall which Sims like to shower and play in (it's also a romantic spot for marriage proposals) and an active volcano that spews out hazardous lava bombs from time to time.īut what's most impressive about Sulani is how it evokes a real sense of place in a way that no other world has really done before. ![]() But with the amount of things your Sims can do outside, whether it's on the sandy beaches or the vast water, Sulani is the closest the game has come to replicating that open-world feeling. To this day, one of the most common criticisms about The Sims 4 is the lack of 'open world'. Published There's tons of extra content available for EA's life simulation game The Sims 4, but which are worth the asking price, and which should be skipped EA has recently announced Cottage Living, the latest expansion pack for The Sims 4. This also has a wonderful side effect of making the three neighbourhoods feel more expansive. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When a colony ship arrives at a planet and build a new settlement, the colony ship is destroyed and so are the points gained from that ship.Īs of version 3, a system of honor points has been implemented. Deleting a colony, all the defenses and points gained from resources spent on buildings in that colony are lost Crashing fleet such as losing espionage probes I get Death Stars are designed to hit things that dont move, but the fact that they dont consume fuel is outrageous. In other words, a research or building in progress will not receive points until after it is completed.Īs of version 0.78c, points are updated live. Points are calculated after a building, research, defense, or ship is completed. Resources spent on Fuel, navigating through the galaxy view, or using a Sensor Phalanx are not counted towards score points. Economy : The higher your mines are the better/ more economy points you haveĮxamining the different types of points with respect to espionage reports may offer valuable insight into the strength of a player.Star-Lord’s rant saw him admit his mistake when he said, The answer. 3 recalled the events of the past when explaining his relationship with Gamora. Research level: For each research or research upgrade completed, 1 research point is given, regardless of the actual research. Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.For example, Espionage Probes and Death Stars both give 1 point. Regardless of the ship, only 1 point is given per ship. ![]() Fleet number: For each ship built, 1 fleet point is given.If a building, ship, or defense structure is lost, the points previously given for building those objects are lost as well. Besides looking terrifyingly accurate, it suits the character almost better than the original. Deepfake technology was used to add Chris Pratts face to the Star-Lord model in the game, and it is a step in the right direction. For every 1000 resources spent,1 point is earned. Chris Pratt plays Star-Lord, the leader of the Guardians of the Galaxy, in the MCU movies. ![]()
![]() It's also not clear whether the wheel came directly from a train or perhaps was sitting in a maintenance area and simply fell or a shelf. The wheel in the picture embedded into the ground appeared to be black, not beige/tan. The "guide wheels" (the ones the ride on this inside of the rails and keep the train gauged properly on the track) were composed of black nylon/poly. It was most likely a "guide wheel" since when I rode Steel Vengeance a couple of weeks ago, I distinctly notices that all of the "drive wheels" (the ones that ride on top of the track - and carry most of the weight of the train) were composed of tan/beige nylon/poly. I'm pretty sure that wasn't a "drive wheel" pictured on Facebook. You are suspended in air as the car circles you. They even have you getting air time while doing a nearly 540 roll (more than 360 degree roll). ![]() Millennium Force is one of the top rides in the world along with Top Thrill Dragster. I had gone to cedar point last year and this year and it was so bad that I won't make an effort to go next year. There has always been the "not fare that they don't wait like others" but 4 times the wait due to fast pass. It was the first time I've ever been to a park (I go to many) and could see a real negative impact with fast passes. Everyone was complaining way to many fast pass tickets were sold. Later in the day from the same point in line it was 2 hours. Ride wait time for Steele vengeance was 30 min. We had early entry into the park and there is no fast pass for the first hour. ![]() Millennium and top thrill dragster were down a majority of the time. It was the only coaster that wasn't down for any time. That forced Cedar Point to close the ride then to run it in one-train operation for an extended period upon its return.Īdding to the challenges, Cedar Point parent Cedar Fair this month reported attendance was down two percent and revenue down one percent across the company, which invested big in RMC coasters for this season. Steel Vengeance wowed us on its media preview day, but paying guests to the park got an abbreviated introduction to the coaster when it a returning train collided with a dispatching train in the station on its opening day. Readers are saying trains were running again just before park close. No confirmation of those details from the park yet, though readers in the park report that ride ops are saying they expect an extended downtime. The tire then fell near the queue area, which snakes underneath the ride. It would be the second significant mishap on the Rocky Mountain Construction coaster since its debut last spring.Ī Facebook user posted to a Cedar Point fan group that it appeared a drive wheel tire snapped. The coaster closed again today after reports that a tire flew from the track into an area near the queue. The new RMC "hyper hybrid" coaster Steel Vengeance might offer an amazing ride, but its operational record is in danger of becoming as much of a headache as riding its predecessor, Mean Streak, was for Cedar Point visitors. That'll be interesting going in as everyone and their mother are essentially saying it's the best ride in the world.Robert Niles More trouble for Cedar Point's Steel Vengeance? Steel Vengeance, though, can't wait to try that. But for now I haven't ridden it enough to the point where I start to get bored of it, but I have a feeling it may start to slip in my rankings in the future. I do wonder how well it will hold up as I continue riding it. I've also greyed out multiple times on the bottom of the first drop and up into the overbank turn, so it's definitely not "Millennium Forceless." Seeing fireworks go off as I'm going upwards of 80 mph was quite a surreal moment. It's just a really fun ride and with some really solid moments, and I've gotten a couple of really great night rides. Since then of course I've expanded my horizons and ridden a good number of creds, but MF is one of the few rides in my Top 10 that hasn't really fallen (think it's always been in my Top 5), even after I rode it again in 2016. ![]() I've definitely gone through that phase of being a bit of a Cedar Point fanboy back when I was a young, amateur enthusiast ('round 2011-2013), so naturally I loved Millennium Force when I first rode it when I was 13. ![]() ![]() Mission: “Goodnight Brothers Country Ham is dedicated to offering our employees a friendly, clean, safe work environment with competitive wages, training, and state-of-the-art equipment. Together they grew the business to a point that expanding to a new facility was necessary in order to continue the growth. In 1985 Jim hired his first cousin Bill Goodnight, who was Neil’s son, to help with sales. Jim Goodnight, JC’s son, was hired in 1970 to run the country ham operation. By this time, Goodnight Brothers in Charlotte had merged with Pearce Young and Angel (known as PYA) giving JC a much greater area to sell his Watauga Country Ham and produce. JC remained in Boone running the produce and county ham operation. JC built a new country ham facility which opened in 1967. Brothers Howard, Joe, Neil and Olan were all working from the new Charlotte based warehouse. In the year 1961, the Goodnight brothers built a new state of the art food distribution warehouse on Wilkerson Boulevard in Charlotte. After WWII all the brothers, excluding JC, moved off the mountain to start other divisions of Goodnight Brothers. History: In the 1930’s the brothers were buying produce in Watauga County and selling it to stores and restaurants down the mountain. Mission: AppalaChai! is produced using only the finest organic ingredients. Tommy taught Katie how to make chai when they first started dating and she also makes amazing chai now too! Tommy and Joel now produce approximately 50-100 gallons of concentrate per week while Katie and Tommy work on sales, distribution, marketing and customer service. ![]() After many "meetings" on the disc golf course and brewing numerous small batches, adding and subtracting gram by gram of Tommy's friend's family recipe, they finally tweaked out what is now known as AppalaChai! When Joel and Tommy eventually got stuck on how to package and create the business officially, Katie came on board to kickstart the operation. They decided to fine tune a recipe that they could share with the public. Joel also made chai often, as well as many other medicinal teas. Tommy had been making chai nearly every day since he learned an Indian friend's generation old family recipe 10+ years ago. Joel and Tommy met in the summer of 2012 chatting in between sets of the Town Pump Tavern's Tuesday night open jams and discussed topics such as herbal remedies and natural healing over some good local craft brews. ![]() History: AppalaChai! was founded in Black Mountain, NC by Kathryn Ames, Tommy Winant, and Joel "Windfox" Boyle in January of 2014. ![]() ![]() ![]() Iconset with Outling and Solid sets of heroiconsĪt this point, you can use Iconset to search through your icons and see all of your files currently available in your collection. You can go ahead and do the same thing with the solid directory so then we’ll now have our two sets ready to go. Import Options: these are optional settings, but I typically select the optimize and clean option to make sure any icons are immediately ready to get working with.Īnd once you click Import, it will do it’s thing, and you’ll now have your first set of icons in Iconset!. ![]() For this, I recommend naming it “heroicons - Outline”. Set Name: Here we can name the set something that we’ll remember.If you had existing sets, you could import into those sets. Set: Since this is our first set, you’ll automatically be creating a new one.Now to get these into Iconset, select each folder individually and drag it right into Iconset. If you navigate to the optimized folder, you’ll see that there are two different versions: solid and outline. On the heroicons website, you should see a big Download all button, which will download a zip file including all of the files. To get started, let’s download the free icon set heroicons. Part 2: Adding icons to IconsetĪdding icons to Iconset is as easy as dragging in, but you have a few options during the process. Once it’s ready and available locally, you should be able to open it up and see a UI with No Icons, which is expected, as it doesn’t come with any icons out of the box. It should be a similar installation process as any other application. To get started, you’ll need to first install Iconset locally. We’re also going to walk through how you can easily manage Iconset between different computers or environments so you can have the same great library anywhere you work. We’re going to walk through a few different scenarios that'll show us how Iconset is useful. If you’re planning on using it for a React project, you can even copy the file as JSX and dump it right into your project! Iconset "Copy As" What are we going to learn? Love to quickly move between Font Awesome and heroicons but don’t want to keep switching libraries? You can use Iconset to make a quick search and drag it right into your project. ![]() Iconset is a free cross-platform tool that allows you to collect and manage all of your SVG files in one place. What do you name them? Do you have a computer that can easily preview them? What about search? What is Iconset? You can even animate it!īut trying to collect and organize a bunch of files can be challenging. First of all, it’s a vector format, meaning it scales as big or small as you want.īut it’s also flexible in that you can use SVG right in your development project with a typically small file size and infinite scale. And while it’s been around for a while, it has only recently been gaining momentum in the development community. SVG is a nearly 20 year old image file format. ![]() ![]() ![]() In short, there’s not one packaging approach to sustainability, but many.Īnother underlying driver with packaging is building a better customer experience. Eye-catching retail displays can even be shipped with the products that go in them, minimizing freight. Multiple packaging systems and methods support sustainability, adds Geoffrion, including automated lines that right-size cartons, minimizing scrap, leveraging more reusable packages and containers, or efficient kitting and fulfillment of store promotional materials. “It’s back up there as a leading goal, and so we as an organization continue to invest in sustainability from a packaging perspective.” “If I look at requests from customers and bids that are coming out, sustainability is definitely high on the agenda,” says Geoffrion. But during the depths of the pandemic when everyone was scrambling to obtain inventory, sustainability wasn’t top of mind, says Alicemarie Geoffrion, president of packaging for DHL Supply Chain, which offers packaging capabilities as part of its logistics services. ![]() Now that supply chains are regaining balance, the sustainable focus is back and as sharp as ever, with advances like autobagging machines that use recyclable paper stock and greater demand for automated packaging systems that can right-size cartons on demand.įor several years now, shippers have paid closer attention to “right-sizing” cartons for e-commerce fulfillment to reduce freight costs, and other channels have sought efficiencies such as greater use of reusable packaging. The pandemic threw so many supply chain obstacles at companies that the march toward sustainable packaging may have been thrown off pace. ![]() ![]() ![]() The kerfuffle turned into a whoosh of large wings, followed by a downdraft of air and the sound of claws on metal. ![]() Brush-turkeys seem to specialize in making a fuss about nothing. “Ah, just a brush-turkey,” I thought, and turned back to the cockatoos. I saw an Australian Brush-turkey flapping around among the trees a few metres away from me. I heard it too, and turned to look when I stopped filming. If you listen carefully in the first half of the above video, you’ll hear a bit of a kerfuffle in the background. Location: Manly Dam Park, near Sydney: 33☄6’55.0″S 151☁5’10.1″E A tale of a Brush-turkey and an Australian Raven That background noise leads into the story below! Hint: At the start of the video you can hear a bit of thrashing around in the undergrowth. Here’s another video of two of the birds, this time featuring the female. Video featuring the female Glossy Black-Cockatoo Poor bird, I hope the condition isn’t causing it too much discomfort. But even from the long distance, I did think that the bird looked duller and more skeletal than the other two. The birds were quite a distance away, and I was using my camera’s super zoom to photograph them. I didn’t notice the hole above the bird’s beak until I got the pictures home and put them on a big screen. It may be Psittacine beak and feather disease, or some sort of cancer, or maybe the result of a fight or accident? One of the three cockatoos has an illness which has affected its beak. Unwell Glossy Black-Cockatoo – b eak and feather disease? Definitely a moment for oohing and aahing. It’s a treat to see these unusual, gorgeous birds. You can also see a few of the tree’s tiny red flowers: The bird is holding a Casuarina seed pod. The feathers around its head and neck are quite brown in comparison to the darker black feathers on the rest of its body. Next comes a solo shot of the second of the three birds. Evidently the name Casuarina is derived from cassowary (a big bird) because the branches look like cassowary feathers. Casuarinas, also called sheoaks or she-oaks, are a group of trees and shrubs native to Australia and other Asian countries. This choosiness puts the birds at risk when the tree coverage is depleted by land clearance or bush fires. Glossy Black-Cockatoos depend on Casuarina seeds for their food. This one has a lot of yellow around its head, which means it’s probably a female: ![]() This munching and muttering is typical of the birds’ behaviour.īelow is a solo shot of the first of the three birds. About half way through the video (at around 50-53 seconds on the timeline) the birds mutter to each other in low-pitched raspy calls. In the video below, the birds are munching happily on Casuarina seed pods. The one on the right is, I think, a male. I think the bird on the left is a female, as she has a lot of yellow around her head. The feather arrangement around the glossies’ necks and the general setting of their heads make me think of a lion: They’re quite different in appearance from the more common Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos. This picture shows two of the Glossy Black-Cockatoos. Read the story below! First, the glossies While I was watching the cockatoos, a couple of other characters appeared and contributed to the encounter. Luckily there was no-one around to hear, and the birds ignored me! When I noticed them, I stopped walking and said “ooh” out loud. These large cockatoos are not a very common sight. Two days ago, I encountered a group of three Glossy Black-Cockatoos on a Casuarina tree. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Scratch your head as you wonder why it doesn't work and why you can't figure out which is all those tangled wires could be faulty or connected to the wrong pin.Wire everything up in a massive rat's nest of flying wires. ![]() Instead, solder breadboard-incompatible headers to them to make them breadboard incompatible. Buy other components that are breadboard compatible, but don't plug them into the breadboard.buy an MCU with a shield form-factor, but don't buy any kind of shield to use with it.Use solid core cable to hook up all components, cut to length and laid flat and neatly to the breadboard.Buy other components that will be needed in a form that is also breadboard compatible, that plugs directly into breadboard.Buy an MCU board that is compatible with breadboards, that plugs directly into a Breadboard.Buy several large breadboards and clip them together.My best tip for successfully building prototypes: The wemos can all join a local wi-fi network. Eso ofrece varias ventajas, ya que se puede programar igualmente desde el IDE de Arduino mediante el Core correspondiente y adems disponemos de un chip con conectividad Wifi muy potente. When a button is pressed, the client wemos sends an http request to the wemos with the servo. El Wemos D1 Wifi tiene el formato de la clsica placa Arduino UNO R3 pero con la diferencia que su chip principal es el conocido ESP8266. The wemos with the buttons acts as the client. The wemos with servos each act as a server. Link to card below: AZDelivery 3 x ESP32 NodeMCU D1 R32 Wlan Utvecklingskort med CH340G och WiFi +.ĪZDelivery 3 x ESP32 NodeMCU D1 R32 Wlan Utvecklingskort med CH340G och WiFi + Bluetooth IoT med micro USB kompatibel med Arduino inklusive E-Book! : : Elektronik the communication between the button-wemos and the servo-wemos should be wirefree. I want to have the same solution but instead with The code loops every analog signal on the multiplexor and afterwards each light will blink. I am using following code const int muxSIG = A0 ĭigitalWrite(muxS0, bitRead(channel, 0)) ĭigitalWrite(muxS1, bitRead(channel, 1)) ĭigitalWrite(muxS2, bitRead(channel, 2)) ĭigitalWrite(muxS3, bitRead(channel, 3)) ![]() ![]() ![]() It's worth to select Support Loyalists to decrease Sweden's liberty desire by 20%. Norway is relatively easy to integrate, however Sweden is not, having significantly more provinces than Denmark and tending to have a larger land force limit and more advanced administrative, diplomatic and military technologies than Denmark, thus usually wanting to declare an independence war against their overlord. In order to annex the personal unions of Norway and Sweden, Denmark must have at least as many provinces as the country you want to integrate as well as +190 relations with said country. Up from Patch 1.34, the mechanics for Denmark were changed and it is not possible to integrate Sweden and Norway without following the Danish missions any more. The strategy below worked in the game versions until Patch 1.33. Bear in mind, due to the dynamic nature of the game, it may unfold differently for other players. The below is one of many player suggested strategies for Denmark. If Has completed the mission “Colonize the Gold Coast”ĪI will always take this decision Disasters.If Has completed the mission “Push further West”.If Has completed the mission “The North Sea Empire”.If Has completed the mission “Colonize America”.If Has completed the mission “Dansk Vestindien”.If Has completed the mission “Dansk Deccan Coast”.Our country gains a permanent claim on all provinces in the following regions :.If Has completed the mission “Conquer Bengal”.Our country gains a permanent claim on all provinces in the following areas :.Country's name changes to “Kalmar Union”.Else, if has enacted the “Unified Kalmar Monarchy” government reform :.Country's name changes to “North Sea Empire”.gets “Increased Centralization” for 20 years, giving:.removes all provinces from the Holy Roman Empire, if it is a member and not an elector or the emperor.Trigger country event “New Traditions & Ambitions”.If the country does not have custom ideasnor Scandinavian Ideas :.gets permanent claims on Scandinavia region.increases rank to kingdom, if it is a duchy.owns at least 40 provinces within the Scandinavia region.has completed a mission that lets the nation ignore the tech requirement.Playing with normal or historical nations. has an administrative technology of at least 20.is not a subject nation other than a tributary state or a Cultural Influenced State.is not the Papal State or the Holy Roman Empire. ![]() Afterwards, the possibilities for Denmark are plenty, including colonization, fighting Muscovy/ Russia or dominating the North in general. Further on Denmark's goals are mainly keeping the two unions stable and eventually integrate their lands. It is a good idea to annex Holstein first, as Denmark will need 15 provinces to integrate Norway and at the start it only has 10, so the 2 additional provinces will be very welcome. Holstein is Denmark's vassal these circumstances give the player the chance to expand rapidly and peacefully early on. In 1444, Denmark starts as the leader of the Kalmar Union, the senior member of two personal unions Sweden and Norway. The Norwegians still favor the deposed Erik, while the Swedish nobility was recently united under their regent, Karl Knutsson. The Danish crown has pawned away many of its assets to its leading families while neither the Swedish or Norwegian nobles seem to care much for their new German king. Time will tell what Christopher's legacy will be. ![]() Cristopher has no ties to the Danish or Swedish nobility but it seems he has grand plans for the three Nordic kingdoms, styling himself the first Arch-King of the North. This recently culminated in a series of wars ending in the loss of Slesvig followed by the deposition of the Danish king Erik, now a mere pirate chief on the island of Gotland.ĭenmark has just elected a new king from the Bavarian Wittelsbach family. The Danish monarchy has many enemies however, in particular among the cities of the Hanseatic League, an alliance of free cities in control of the Baltic trade that Denmark now threatens. ![]() Since its inception this Kalmar Union has been lead by the Danes, the strongest and richest of the Nordic powers, close to the continent with an ambition to control and dominate the Baltic Sea area. As of the treaty of Kalmar in 1397 the Nordic Crowns of Norway, Sweden and Denmark are intended to be borne by one monarch. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gandi sells me any domain for a reasonable price, without bugging me with those AwEs0m3 Features!!!1!!1 I could buy for just 9.99$. Problem solved: "I need to scale this service". ![]() Or, I have this blockchain to analyze, let's spin up that 3 big EC2 machines. I have 25.000 req/min on my Heartbleed test API? Fine, spin up that Elastic Load Balancer in front of 15 of those EC2 machines, store logs in that S3 bucket, use that DynamoDB as cache. well I don't actually NEED this one, but it's a nice way to read articles and they will store/index them for me once I read them (see Pinboard) and it's dirty cheap.ĪWS works. Problem solved: "I remember reading about that somewhere, let's look it up".Ī Prime is just the free shipping part, it makes shopping oh-so-much-more enjoyable. Also, it will store a copy of everything I bookmarked, so that it does not get lost. Pinboard just saves my favorites, and lets me search through them when I need (full-text search). ![]() Problem solved: "I need to receive and send mail". It's fast, compatible, reliable and has a nice web interface, I don't need anything else. I get my domain with TLS delivery, a support line with devs, and nice power-user tools. Mail is a horrible thing to deal with on your own, but I rely on it, so I want to pay for it. Problem solved: "I need manage my project" + static hosting as a bonus.įastMail simply handles my mail. Also, GitHub Pages is the best static hosting platform I ever used. GitHub is how I'm trained to manage projects, for my private ones. Problem solved: "I need to host this sites/domains/DNS/mailboxes for my clients". Power-user friendly, I never thought "I wish they allowed/supported that". Problem solved: "I need to send clients invoices".ĭreamHost hosts anything, unlimited. Big colored buttons will tell me what to do, and if I can't still figure it out, support will do that for me. Problem solved: "My site is slow" + SSL as a bonus.įreshbooks lets me track my time, invoices and payments with 0 learning curve, I'm busy working after all. Problem solved: "I need a Ubuntu box".Ĭloudflare will cache my site - making it faster for clients and lighter for me -, handle DNS and get me A+ TLS (and other services I don't actually use) at the turn of a button. Linode gets me a box with a clear, clean, full-featured control panel, good specs and network, and every year or so, I'll magically get upgraded, so that I feel I'm always getting the best for my money (even if other services are cheaper). All of them will never misbehave, or make me think "did it work" or "how do I turn this off, it's annoying!". What I look for in a paid service, and what I get from these is a reliable, out-of-my-way, "premium" (I feel that the service is working to make things best for me) solution to _one_ problem I have, with good support that actually cares, if applicable. ![]() |
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