It has a bit of water on the edges of the track.īloon Circles: An intermediate track in a dry, wheaty field. The track has opposite counterparts to the track Lightning Scar. There are 2 entrances that come from the right side of the screen, which converge into 1 path. Snake River: A clean, nice and pleasant environment, grassy terrain. The color of the path in BTD4 is brown while here it is green. The paths the bloons take are confusing and can confuse a player as to where the bloons really are. Pool Table: A retro intermediate track that is located on a Pool Table. The paths can't be seen but the bloons go around the exterior of the MOAB. A design of a White MOAB is on the grass. White MOAB: An intermediate track on grassy terrain. Bloons move around the yellow striped path. There is a basin of water at the top/near the entrance of the track that is filled with bananas. Every round, the conveyor belt moves and changes the placement of any towers on the belt. No water.īanana Factory: An intermediate track inside a factory with a moving conveyor belt that the player can place towers on. The stone paths curl around the lakes and exit to the top.įireworks: A place taken in the forest, with barrels of fireworks and a celebration that might have scarred the grass into a shape of a firework explosion due to the rocket going haywire. It is presumably the hardest beginner track in btd5. This is one of the easiest tracks in btd5.Īlpine Lake: A set of 2 lakes with a stone path between them. 2 pools of water are in the corners of the wall. The bloons enter out of an extension on top of the wall, curve around 1 end of the U, go to the other end and curl back up, then exit at the extension. This is the only track to have the bloons enter and exit at the same point. Mortar towers targeting the center of any circle also work well.īrick Wall: A brick wall with an opening at the end and a square U-shaped end. Towers that affect an area in a circle around it like the Ice Monkey and Tack Shooter work quite well. Some bloons come from up,some from down.No water. The track itself is two tracks constantly crossing each other, forming the shape of a Z. Z Factor: A track on terrain much like Switch. Also, the small moon can have any tower except Boomerang Throwers, Bomb Towers, Monkey Bucaneers, Monkey Aces, Super Monkeys, Monkey Villages, Banana Farms, Mortar Towers, Dartling Guns and Spike Factories. The bloons follow the purple rocky path and loop around the planets 3 times. The player can place buccaneers in the water on the earth. This map was released on Bloons TD4 iOS version There is a lake of water on the bottom right of the track. The bloons appear from the top-right, and exit to the top-left. Military Base: A retro beginner track in a basement camp. This is presumably the easiest track of Bloons TD Series. A pool of water is in the top right surrounded by paths. It appears an animation of a penguin sliding and jumping onto the water. This track looks like the Mac Computer command key. This stage can be played on Bloons Tower Defense 4! There is a lake of water on the bottom-left corner of the screen. Ocean Road: A retro beginner track in the beach with the finest road, rocks and trees. Tack Shooters, Boomerang Throwers and Ice Towers are useful due to the U-turns in the track. Park Path: A clean and windy environment, grassy lands, with its spiraling nature. Towers cannot be placed on any of the stones except for the big stone in the center of the track. There are tunnels, which bloons go in, while MOAB-Class Bloons go above the tunnels instead.īloonhenge: A beginner track surrounded by many rocks like Stonehenge it looks like a crab's claw a slingshot and a wrench with the big rock acting like a bolt. The Bloons are back and this time they mean business! Build awesome towers, choose your favorite upgrades, hire cool new Special Agents, and pop every last invading Bloon in the best ever version of the most popular tower defense series in history.įeaturing 21 awesome Towers, cool Special Agents, glorious HD graphics, original Tracks and Special Missions, a whole new tier of Specialty Building upgrades, and the powerful Monkey Lab to further upgrade your towers, Bloons TD 5 delivers hours and hours of fun, challenging play to fans and new players alike.Monkey Lane: A clean and nice environment, this is the first beginner track. Five-star tower defense with unrivaled depth and replayability.
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Have 2 ships with Fighters level 2 and launch them in the first 2 rounds. Have 4 or more fighters on the map at once during a battle Unless your main ships are really exposed, the enemy will always try to hit your fighters first! Fighters are great because not only do they fight, but they also draw enemy fire. The more you research Artificial Intelligence the stronger your fighters will be. Fighters – launch one fighter per round until you reach your ships “fighter level”.The better the enemy sensors the better your Stealth needs to be (and vice versa). Stealth – makes you invisible to the enemy unless you’re in Sensor range.Sensors – help you detect enemy ships with Stealth.Together with the Stealth Torpedo Wonder this might be a thing, but I never tried… Torpedoes – cause a lot of damage, but it’s hard to hit the enemy, as one can see them coming.Plasma Cannon – basically a short range laser. Armor – makes hits not absorbed by your shields less heavy.Armor and Fighters are the heaviest things. Different components slow you down in different ways. Engines are what brings back that mobility.
Act out ferocious battle scenes with Indominus and relive all the exciting adventure and terror of the movie! Requires batteries: 3x "AG13" (included). An LED light in the throat lights up to show the human figure! WOW! Now get the slashing action going by pushing the front button for arm strikes and slashing sound effects. The mouth opens wide to swallow 3-inch figures in its throat. To activate, move the back button to operate the mouth and activate sound effects also use the button to make Indominus bend down, pick up and swallow human figures. Jurassic World Destroy n Devour Indominus Rex Spinosaurus & Carnotaurus Toys. Inspired by the film, this larger-sized dinosaur wreaks havoc and fear everywhere! Ominous features include realistic scales, longer arms with dagger-like claws, and push button activation. On this figure, it works well thanks to the darker paint around the orbit.Relive the terror! Be a part of the Jurassic World adventure with the ultimate in dinosaur battle action! An abomination hybrid of the Velociraptor,Giganotosaurus, Rugops, Majungasaurus, and Carnotaurus, the Indominus Rex is one of the most terrifying and deadliest dinosaur ever masterminded. Mattel has opted to let the background color act as the pupil, as they have done in many of their other dinosaur figures in the line. The upper palate is sculpted as well, but does not extend very far back due to the swallowing feature. They also have a glossy appearance, as does her nicely sculpted pink tongue and gums. The teeth are individually sculpted and painted a nice off-white. Regrettably, the hand claws are unpainted-but it’s not too distracting. The talons are painted a dark gray, and feature a nice gloss. Her body is a grayish white with darker highlights around the fenestra of the skull, and along the back. Indominus Rex’s coloration here is spot on. The mouth opens very wide, just as it does in the film. The figure’s feet are capable of turning as well. I’m not sure if this is common, or if I just have an overly sensitive throat switch.Īrticulations are mostly tied to the action gimmicks, although both arms are fully poseable, and the right leg can move somewhat. An interesting note: sometimes mine has the throat light up when I only push the rear button. Unfortunately, Destroy ‘N Devour Indominus Rex cannot swallow all the way like the classic Kenner Bull Rex, but that’s an understandable compromise given the mechanisms inside. A small plastic plate at the rear of her throat activates lights in her throat which shows the silhouette of whatever item is in her gullet. Tilting her down lowers her head, and tilting her up changes her normal roar to a chomping sound as she swallows her prey. A button in the middle activates a grabbing motion, as well as a swishing sound. The roars are loud, clear, and movie accurate. A button at the rear opens her mouth, allowing her to bite and roar. The figure’s gimmicks are both fun, and brilliantly executed. Standing approximately 10 inches (about 25 centimeters) tall and 24 inches (61 centimeters) long, she is definitely an eye catching display piece. In any case, the tail length does not detract from the figure as some had feared.īe prepared to make room for Destroy ‘N Devour Indominus Rex in your display area, because she’s gigantic! It is easily the largest in-scale toy besides Mattel’s Mosasaurus (Although, the upcoming Brachiosaurus will dwarf them all). The figure stands beautifully, and any change to her design could have thrown that off. A few fans have commented on the length of the tail, and feel it far too short, but it looks much better proportioned in person. CGI assets must have been used, because this is the most film accurate sculpt Mattel has produced thus far. Her teeth are jagged and menacing, and her talons are long and intimidating. Every scale, scute, bump, wrinkle, and osteoderm is present. This girl is stunning in every way! The saurian antagonist from 2015’s Jurassic World is brought to life in extraordinary detail. You may know him as The Paleo Collector ( Instagram & Facebook).Īrguably the most anticipated figure from the Mattel’s Dino Rivals lineup, the Destroy ‘N Devour Indominus Rex does not disappoint. Additionally, please welcome our newest Collect Jurassic contributor, Joshua. Photography for this review was provided courtesy of ( Instagram)-scroll below the article for more content. Players can trade resource cards with each other players may also trade off-island (in effect, with the non-player bank) at a ratio of four-to-one resources for one of any other. On the player's turn, the player may spend resource cards to build roads or settlements, upgrade settlements to cities (which replace existing settlements), or buy development cards. For example, If a player has 9 resource cards, and a 7 is rolled, the player must get rid of 4 cards. In addition, when a 7 is rolled, all players with 8 or more resource cards must discard their choice of half of their cards, rounded down. That player may also steal a resource card from another player with a settlement or city adjacent to the robber's new placement. There is also a robber token, initially placed on the desert if a player rolls 7, the robber must be moved to another hex, which will no longer produce resources until the robber is moved again. For example, if a player has one city and two settlements adjacent to a grain hex, that player would take four grain resource cards if the corresponding number was rolled. Players with a settlement adjacent to a hex containing the number just rolled receive one card of the corresponding resource cities produce two cards of the corresponding resource. On each player's turn, two six-sided dice are rolled to determine which hexes produce resources. Players build by spending resources (wool, grain, lumber, brick, and ore) that are depicted by these resource cards each land type, with the exception of the unproductive desert, produces a specific resource: hills produce brick, forests produce lumber, mountains produce ore, fields produce grain, and pastures produce wool. In 2016, editions of the game were released with a conventional fixed layout board in this configuration, the hexes of which cannot be rearranged. Newer editions of the game began to depict a fixed layout in their manual, which has been proved by computer simulations to be fairly even-handed, and recommend this to be used by beginners. The game board, which represents the island, is composed of hexagonal tiles ( hexes) of different land types, which are laid out randomly at the beginning of each game. Players build settlements, cities, and roads to connect them as they settle the island. The players in the game represent settlers establishing settlements on the fictional island of Catan. This is one of many custom, extra-large Catan boards seen during demonstrations and tournaments at Gen Con. A giant game of Catan being played at Gen Con Indy 2003. Whether or not you hear the difference is another question, but I am a firm believer in getting what you pay for so I think Qobuz could improve in this respect to help its customers. I can't imagine how many people just buy into the Hires thing and never realize they are listening to downsamples by the crappy Windows mixer (as it's know in audiophile circles). When you purchase tracks, you can select your preferred audio quality which ranges from 320kbps/128kbps lossy MP3 files to 24-bit/192kHz quality FLAC files. Wasapi exclusive mode only, or possibly ASIO though I can't test that on my Toslink output). Qobuz has over 70 million tracks in Hi-Fi quality and over 424,000 albums in Hi-Res quality. The goal of Qobuz is to provide high-quality, digitally delivered music for serious. I think Qobuz ought to ship its desktop app with clear instructions on how to set this thing up (e.g. And this will be system wide even when you leave Qobuz, so e.g. Recent updates have addressed the main reason. It also lets you buy and download music outright. In the image below my DAC is receiving a 96 kHz stream even though I am playing a CD-quality track in Qobuz. Qobuz not only offers lossless streaming, but better-than-CD quality music for recent releases. In order to output another sample rate than 48 kHz you have to specify it in the Advanced tab as in the following image, but this leads Windows to upsample everything to the setting you choose. Wasapi vanilla and DirectSound is still outputting 48 kHz to my DAC. These settings in the image below, where I have upped the sample rates to 96 kHz does not have any effect at all. Untick them all and you still will hear sounds from the chosen device. It's not like activating and deactivating a certain sample rate. When you tick the sample rate boxes in the sound control panel, it doesn't do anything what I can see, it's just a visual confirmation of what sample rates your device is capable of outputting. I don't know which tab you were referring to, so I'll just note this for interested readers: Window mode for HDR video file playback.TrueTheater Motion, Stretch, Stabilizer, Denoise, Surround.TrueTheater Color, Lighting & HDR for 4K video.Video streaming from PowerDVD to web browser.Video streaming from PowerDVD Center to PC.Media streaming from PowerDVD Center to Android/iOS device.Apply TrueTheater enhancements to video & audio in TV & casting modes UNIQUE.Cast video, photo, and audio to Apple TV®.Cast video, photo and audio to Chromecast™.Cast video, photo, and audio to Fire TV™.Optimized interface for large screens UNIQUE.Media streaming from Cloud to Fire TV™ and Apple TV® NEW.Manage files with CyberLink Cloud Media Management Center NEW.Share media collection with friends & family.Media streaming from Cloud to web browser.Media streaming from Cloud to Android/iOS.Transcode media before uploading to CyberLink Cloud.
But that’s dust blown in from the desert floor and after that I was so sick, it was two weeks of sitting on the couch. “I didn’t see what the big deal was, so I sat in the pool and watched one blow over. At the outset of the company in 2016, Herman and his family were living in Scottsdale, Ariz., an area known for its desert climate which surprisingly enough, played a significant role in the development of their brand.įirst, Herman depicts the time he tried to ride out an Arizona dust storm, or haboob, in his swimming pool. The two were introduced by JP Watts, who now serves as the company’s COO. And although their careers might have appeared to be far cry from the beer industry, Shirah’s business sense and Herman’s scientific mind would later become the perfect pairing for success. Herman was working in microbiology as a vaccine developer, creating vaccines that were using yeast as the backbone. Shirah was working on Wall Street as he describes, “I was doing your typical work in Manhattan, Fortune 500 stuff, the kind that doesn’t let you spend enough time with your family.” Prior to beginning their company, Founder Matt Shirah and Brewmaster Travis Herman each had careers in drastically different fields than brewing. “I wanted to let people know that we were authentic.” If the term scofflaw brings to mind thoughts of a rebellious and unconventional nature, then a brewery with an unconventional start is a perfect fit.“We were really rowdy in the beginning when we first came onto the market, and I did it to get attention,” says Founder Matt Shirah. Scofflaw: A person who flouts the law, especially by failing to comply with a law that is difficult to enforce effectively. But Minbox threw all of those formulas to the wind and it really paid off. Releasing a formulaic video isn’t so bad because people are already familiar with the formula, so all you have to explain to them is the product. If you take a quick scroll through Product Hunt, you’ll notice a lot of trends companies use for their startup videos, which isn’t a bad thing, especially if you’re introducing a totally new tech idea to the masses. It’s what first interested me in the idea of their disruptive file sharing service. If you watched the teaser trailer for Minbox 3, you’ll see that the company’s style is kind of guerilla. When you live and breathe every aspect of a product, you’re able to develop a style of your own in those early days and let the brand make a space for itself organically. Working with a small team definitely has its benefits, namely everyone has to know everything about the product. So it took us a while to find the right team, but it’s pretty much like we’re a family.” When you’re starting a company and you have a few employees - we only have four - every hire is kind of like really, really, really crucial. Everyone needs to find people that fit in their culture. Mimran said, “Finding good people to work with was a problem. To work through those initial startup phases, you have to have a solid team. This was an initial hurdle the Minbox team had to work through: tackling the back end to make the front end as intuitive and seamless as possible. The concept, of course, is a great one that people need, so you have to wonder the very thing that probably every founder wonders from time to time, “Why hasn’t anyone done this before?” Turns out, it’s not as simple to transfer files as it seems. “It was shortening the workflow to be as quick and easy as possible, and handles all of the problems with file sizes and conversions and everything else on the other end.” It was a lot of steps to take for an single action - sending photos. “Fashion photographers specifically because they take shots in RAW… during a photoshoot.” At the end of every shoot, Mimran said photographers have to import hundreds of the photos to an app, figure out which ones to send, then export those to JPG, zip them and share them (usually in clusters so as to stay within GB caps) with services like Dropbox and WeTransfer. The first place they looked to was the photography industry. “I think the problem is that there’s data everywhere in all of these different buckets and we’re trying to bring them together.” “We thought that there was still a lot of friction associated with sending large files or lots of files.” So, they asked themselves, “How can we make this experience seamless?” The initial idea for Minbox came from a need to transfer many gigabytes easily. What we do is we let people collaborate more, rather than just simple link sharing.” Mimran told me that with this version, “It will take a lot from the learning that we’ve experienced over the last two versions of seeing how people share files, who they share them with and why they’re sharing them. I got a sneak peek at the Minbox 3 beta, and the new features are definitely enhancing and streamlining how teams work on projects. Then with Minbox 2 came the addition of the web app. The first iteration of Minbox was a simple Mac application where you could drag and drop files to your menu bar and just enter your recipients’ emails and hit send. Please stay tuned for more interviews with startup founders sharing tough lessons they’ve learned the hard way, so hopefully you won’t have to.) What Is Minbox? (This is the first installation of our new Startup Stories series. I talked to him about the evolution of Minbox and how he’s looking to disrupt how we think about file sharing. With Minbox 3, Alexander Mimran and his small team are looking to change that. Each has their own perks and pitfalls but across the board, none of them are super ideal for cross-team, cross-cloud collaboration. "Phishing refers to fraudulent attempts to get personal information from you, usually by email.When you think about sharing files, your mind probably scrolls through to a few go-to services: Dropbox, Google Docs and maybe even WeTransfer. You'll find these steps here: If you can’t send email on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch Tap the email account that you want to remove. On your device, go to Settings > Mail, then tap Accounts. Make sure that all of your email is there or make sure that your email is saved somewhere other than on your iOS or iPadOS device. On your computer, sign in to your email provider’s website. If you don't recognize the email account that's appearing on your iPhone, you can remove it.ġ. When prompted, choose to replace your current data.Inside the folder, then select Paste Paste Item. Open Thunderbird (Close the account setup window if it appears.).On the copy of the Thunderbird profile folder that you created on the transfer device, then select Copy Copy "Thunderbird". Connect the same transfer device you have used before to copy your Thunderbird profile folder from the source computer.Note: This steps can also be used to create a backup of your Thunderbird profile folder. If you are using a local transfer device, remove it safely from the source computer.Please follow it to the end as importing is possible only if Outlook profile exists and configured. If you just installed Outlook, it will offer you to follow the configuration wizard. The device you are using to transfer your data, then select Paste Paste Item. Step 1: Saving Thunderbird Address Book into CSV file Run Microsoft Outlook. Make sure you have File Browser set to show hidden files.) thunderbird folder and select Copy Copy "Thunderbird". Right-click Hold down the control key while you click.From your Thunderbird profile folder in Windows Explorer File Browser Finder, go up three levels go up two levels open the Go menu and select Enclosing Folder two times.Your Thunderbird profile folder will open in Windows Explorer File Browser Finder. Locate the "Profile Folder" entry, then click Open Folder Open Directory Show in Finder.Open the Help menu and select Troubleshooting Information. Click the menu button, then click Help and select Troubleshooting Information.Connect a device for data transfer, either a local one such as a USB flash drive, or a remote storage drive.Thunderbird's new installation will use the already existing data. Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source 8 cross-platform email client, personal information manager, news client, RSS and chat client that is operated by the Mozilla Foundations subsidiary MZLA Technologies Corporation. Note: If you have used the Profile Manager on your source computer to store your Thunderbird profile folder in a custom location into a remote storage drive, create a new profile on your destination computer and set that profile to use the same location. “We wouldn’t want a country club on the Acropolis,” John N. Then, as now, the club’s unwillingness to make way for worldwide recognition of the site drew criticism. At that point, a group led by local professors and Native Americans organized a protest campaign - and some residents began questioning whether the course should exist at all. “Even though, on paper, it shouldn’t be that hard.”Įfforts to fully recognize the significance of the mounds as more than unusual golf hazards date back roughly two decades to a period when a bid to build a new clubhouse, whose foundation would have dug into the mounds, was denied. “It’s hard to shoot what you normally shoot here,” he said. Mitchell said the mounds are a more formidable obstacle than they at first appear. The course itself, with a slope rating of 119, is medium difficult, though no one would ever confuse it for Jack Nicklaus’s Muirfield Village Golf Club (slope 130), which sits 40 miles to the west. “The ancient Moundbuilders unwittingly left behind the setting for as strange and sporty a golf course as ever felt the blow of a niblick,” an article about the course in the January 1930 issue of Golf Illustrated proclaimed. The effort might have been an attempt to connect with or communicate with the powers which appeared to control the larger universe, said Hively, who discovered these alignments with a philosophy professor, Robert Horn, in the 1980s. Members of the Hopewell culture likely intended the earthworks, which can only be fully appreciated from above, to show their moon and sun gods that they understood their movements, said Ray Hively, a professor emeritus of astronomy and physics at Earlham College in Richmond, Ind. The alignments are no less sophisticated than the arranged stones at Stonehenge, experts say. When the rising moon reaches its northernmost position, it hovers above the octagon’s exact center, within one-half of a degree. Once every 18.6 years, if you stand atop the course’s observatory mound and look up the line of parallel mounds toward the octagonal area, something spectacular happens. But their value wasn’t recognized until recent years, and many were destroyed.Ĭreated one basketful of earth at a time, using pointed sticks and clamshell hoes, the mounds at the golf course are part of the broader Newark Earthworks and widely embraced as an astronomical and geometric marvel. There were once hundreds of major earthworks built by people of the Hopewell culture, which refers to the moundbuilding groups of Native Americans who lived in North America from about 100 B.C.E. Still, if one were to encounter a ball perched atop the ancient earthworks, there is no ban on whacking at it with a 3-iron. Golfers are barred from driving carts over them except on paved paths. The clubhouse features a painting and photographs of the mounds. Many of the golfers say they embrace that importance, too, even if they have indelicately nicknamed one eight-foot mound “Big Chief.” The club has a scrapbook that tracks the history of the earthworks, known as the Octagon Earthworks, back to their creation. Department of the Interior has already selected the land for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage site, as part of a larger proposed bid to recognize some of the similar sites in Ohio, known as the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks. The historical import of the site is clear. The dispute heads to the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday. An intermediate set of tees at about 5,600 could be of benefit here.The $1.7 million amount the state’s representatives have proposed under eminent domain is up from an initial offer of $800,000. I had to play from the golds because 6,600 yards is just too long for my game. The gold tees should be the whites white tees should be the blues, the blues should be the championship one. My one issue here is that the course is too long for many amateurs. The wind can play a big factor on the course, and it was howling making some holes extremely tough. But there are some holes that are very generic and feel little out of place with the rest of the layout. Course has a couple of excellent holes that really make you think, including the risk-reward par 5, 3rd hole. Layout has plenty of undulation to it, including a couple of blind shots (the second shots on 9 and 18 come to mind). Leaves weren't a problem, except for a couple of spots. The greens and tee boxes had been punched recently (it's the middle of October, kind of expected by now), but the fairways were still rolling very well. Finally got the chance to play it and it was surprisingly good. Taking I-70 by this course frequently, I've wondered for a while how good this course actually is. |
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