![]() You can't settle into a set economic strategy because some external force or an idiot islander will always come up and nudge you off that course. It's telling that one of the most advanced technologies you can research is just "Table Manners." It's an effective chain of events that, while repetitive, keeps you on your toes. They'll ask you to supply them with materials, and, in true, tongue-in-cheek Tropico fashion, you'll have to wrangle your incompetent staff from making a fool of you on the world's stage. Different factions like the United States and USSR will pressure you to trade with them. In time, Tropico will throw in even more complex forces. They check to see if your island's fledgling economy is strong enough to weather shocks. Each of these forces acts like a test, of sorts. As your nation grows, new resources will become available, others will deplete, and trade routes will shift. The opening is simple because you'll only have one supply chain to worry about at first. How you build out your economy is up to you. Or you can bypass that-try to find a gold mine and make jewelry instead, or grow sugar and distill it for rum. But once you've got your citizens fed, you can start cutting down your forests and refining the lumber into planks to sell. You have to trade for anything you can't make directly, and trade is the key to keeping your coffers filled. Your sole connection to the world outside, at least at first, is your port. And that's not always consistent or stable. Tropico 5 is about managing in and outflows of resources. It's easier to just give them decent housing than it is to suppress protestors, but sometimes things don't always go your way. It pays, then, to keep your people happy and healthy. Corruption too, while advantageous for your dynasty, drives up the cost of buildings, making critical resources tougher to provide for your populace. ![]() Without that, you won't be making much money at all-either for Tropico or your offshore accounts. ![]() If your people are starving it's hard to maintain a strong, healthy work force. Granted, all of these things come at a cost. It's a tone that seeps into the game at nearly every level from missions and diplomatic errands to curt quips when rebels get testy. Your advisor, Penultimo, is so foolish that he'll spout Batman jokes while you hunt down crime lords, or get distracted by jewelry when you first learn how to refine gold. And that fits with the game's cheeky sense of humor. ![]() Whether you're kind of cruel doesn't matter, so long as you can maintain your position. And those are troublesome things.Īll of these different factions, their leaders, and the choices you make that mold their opinion of you are vital pieces that reflect the game's central focus: keeping you in power. Only you know best, but their concerns still have to be addressed lest you find yourself in the middle of an uprising. Eventually, you have enough factions on your island that they'll start having their own ideas of how to run Tropico best. Each of these choices come with consequences, though. You set the budgets for every building and figure out where everything needs to go, like whether you'll keep food on the island for your people to eat, or if you direct it to a cannery and sell it to the highest bidder. As the head of Tropico, you're the brilliant mastermind guiding a mass of bumbling idiots, and it is through your power and will alone that any of them manage to accomplish anything in Tropico 5.
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You are clearly a skilled warrior, Kratos!.You are a pest and deserve to be crushed like one!.Aaaugh!!! Damn mortal! You will suffer when my sight returns!.Kratos, your death will not be a gentle one.AND I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN THAT IT WAS YOU WHO BUTCHERED MY BEAUTIFUL QUEEN! I will see you suffer as I have suffered! Your soul is MINE! And what else? What else?! Ah, and you killed my brother, Poseidon. How many sins have you committed against me? Oh, that's right, you murdered my niece, Athena. I sense some bad blood between us, Kratos. So glad you could carve out some time for us. Now, it falls to me to collect payment for the pain you have wrought.Welcome, Spartan, come in! Make yourself at home.I can understand why Zeus was so taken with you, Kratos.ENOUGH! Father and son will die together!.I never sought your death, Spartan, but you left me no choice! Kratos, the death of Zeus is within our reach! Jump into my hand!.Something has me! I cannot move, Kratos.Why won't you DIE?! Die! Tremble in fear.Surrender to me, and Pandora will live.Perhaps you should have chosen the other one. ![]() Petulant child! I will tolerate your insolence NO MORE!!!.Put aside the petty grievances that have splintered us for so long. A world that lives in the shadow and safety of my mountain, a mountain that has come to be the absolute measure of strength and power! Now, on this day, that power is to be tested! The mortal, Kratos, seeks to destroy all that I have wrought! Brothers. ![]() We created a world of peace, a world of prosperity. As it grew, so too did the might of the Olympians. Born from the depths of the Underworld, rooted in the River of Souls, our mountain emerged out of the chaos. A victory that ended the Great War and brought forth the reign of Mount Olympus. The Oscar®-nominated script, courtesy of longtime Hope scribes Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, opens with the three principals in age makeup, as the wealthy Chester Hooton (Hope) and his wife Sal (Lamour) are idling in their mansion, wistfully dwelling on how they gained a fortune and lost their best friend. The fourth entry in the series, Road to Utopia (1946), takes full advantage of each of these winning elements and is still considered one of the best entries in the series. Armed with their radio gag writers to bolster the screenplays, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby hit the "Road" with a string of popular comic adventures laden with outrageous sight gags, in-jokes, and humorous asides to the audience, to say nothing of the presence of the alluring Dorothy Lamour (usually cast as South Sea sirens). The studio had two contract players of enormous popularity in the broadcast medium, who had already established an obvious on-stage rapport with each other on their respective programs, and were clearly poised to become a popular comedic screen duo. Thirty-five years later, Duke meets the grown son of Chester and Sal, who is the spitting image of Duke, and Chester says they adopted him.įor Paramount Pictures in the 1940s, it was an opportunity that seems like a no-brainer in hindsight. Duke throws them the map and faces Ace's men. Ace's men chase Duke, Chester and Sal to the North Pole, where the ice splits, leaving Sal and Chester on one side and Duke on the other. Sal is tied up, but Duke and Chester steal the map from Ace's safe, rescue Sal, then blow up the saloon with a stick of dynamite after Sperry and McGurk enter it. Ace, LeBec, Kate and Sal, meanwhile, have returned to Skagway, where Sal confesses that she is in love with one of the "wanted" men and only went along with Ace's scheme in order to save them. When Sperry and McGurk arrive, Duke and Chester again outsmart them and escape back to Skagway, where they elude a crowd of townspeople ready to hang them as Sperry and McGurk. Kate convinces Sal that she can only save Duke's life by turning the map over to Ace, so she steals it and escapes with Kate. Sal falls in love with Duke, who tells her his true identity, and she confesses that the mine is hers. Sal arrives, and all four stay together in a cabin, where the women use their wiles to get Chester's half of the map, which is hidden in his undershirt. Duke and Chester follow and, taking Ace's bait, rescue Kate in the snow. Searching for the mine, LeBec, Kate and Ace travel into the frozen North by dog sled to Dawson City. While Sal seduces Duke and Chester, believing they are Sperry and McGurk, LeBec absconds with Duke's half of the map. Ace, who has hired Sal to sing in his saloon, plots with his girl friend Kate and his partner LeBec to swindle Sal out of her mine. In Skagway, the town waits in terror as the "murderers" arrive and enter the saloon. The thieves hold them up, but Duke and Chester outsmart them and escape disguised as Sperry and McGurk, leaving them tied up onboard. Meanwhile, Duke and Chester board a ship bound for Alaska as stowaways, hoping to cash in on the gold rush, and find the map to the mine in Sperry and McGurk's berth. Sal arrives in Skagway, Alaska to seek the help of saloon owner Ace Larson, an old friend of her father, who is now crooked. ![]() ![]() The thieves, Sperry and McGurk, killed a man for a map to a gold mine belonging to Sal Van Heusen. When a wealthy elderly couple is visited by Duke Johnson, an old friend who they thought was dead and have not seen in thirty-five years, he recounts the story of their early adventures: At the turn of the century, during the Alaska gold rush, Duke, a vaudeville performer, and his partner Chester Hooton, are forced out of town after a pair of murderous thieves run onstage while being chased by the police, and Duke and Chester are exposed as charlatans. ![]() Make a duplicate of the file and open it. To unlock factions in the Barbarian Invasion campaign: \BI\data\world\maps\campaign\barbarian_invasionģ.To unlock factions in the base Rome: Total War campaign: \data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign.Once you’ve reached one of the directories listed above, look for the file containing faction playability information in one of the locations listed below: Rome: Total War gold edition: C:\Program Files\The Creative Assembly\Rome – Total WarĢ.Rome: Total War basic edition: C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome – Total War.Steam version: In Steam, right click the game tab and select Properties → Local Files → Browse Local Files (or from your desktop, go to C:\Programs\Steam\Steam Apps\Common\Rome – Total War).This is the first stage in modifying both the Barbarian Invasion expansion and the base game. Depending on your game version, look at one of the following areas. Locate the game files for Rome: Total War. Hacking the Game Files to Unlock All Factionsġ. To make the other factions playable, use the hack technique listed below. All playable factions in the Barbarian Invasion expansion are unlocked by default.Use one of the techniques listed below to unlock them if you’re up for the task. Certain factions, usually the smaller and weaker ones, are not designed to be played. For the remaining factions, use the hacking approach. The Julii are perhaps the simplest of the three initial factions to defeat.ģ.To get something done faster, choose the short campaign. All remaining playable factions are unlocked if you complete a campaign as any faction. To unlock all factions, complete the campaign. You can only access The Greek Cities, Egypt, the Seleucid Empire, Carthage, Gaul, Germania, Britannia, and Parthia without the hack detailed in the section below.Ģ. ![]() Although this is not always a successful tactic, it will unlock the faction faster than defeating it on the battlefield. If this is your top priority, create a big number of assassins and dispatch them to assassinate family members on the spot. If you wish to play a certain faction, murder every single member of that faction’s family throughout the campaign (generals). After a few minutes of labour, you’ll be able to play as Macedon, Pontus, and other characters in your campaign. Fortunately, following instructions makes this simple. 3 Hacking the Game Files to Unlock All Factions Rome Total War Unlocking All FactionsĪlthough Rome: Total War has a large number of choices, several factions can only be unlocked by editing the game files. This is a bit like the SP Dispenser since it gives you SP. The SP dispenser slowly restores your spirit gauge one at a time whenever it’s not full. The Spirit gauge in Cyber Shadow lets you launch fireballs, throw shurikens, and chain together super stylish dash attacks. The Ningun will fire rapidly at nearby enemies one at a time as long as you’re facing in the direction of the enemies. However, this one mostly has a mind of its own. This is another floating helper that fires projectiles at enemies. The first is a single shot, the second fires off two smaller projectiles above and below where the single-shot flies, and the third level of charge combines the previous two for a total of three projectiles. This little floating blaster follows you around and fires off shots when you hit the attack button. But it will take a few seconds for the shield to regenerate after doing this. The shield can also be fired straight ahead by hitting the attack button. This will protect Shadow from most projectiles that come flying at him from the front. ![]() The E-Field is part shield, part projectile. You can even attack it to make the giant shuriken go flying into enemies. It spins around you and damages enemies as you move. ![]() Having this item will extend the reach of Shadow’s sword. Keep in mind that these items will be destroyed after you get hit three times and if you pick up a new item, then you’ll lose your current one. Here’s every single item you can get in Cyber Shadow, along with what they can do for you. But future and past checkpoints will still need you to pay up if you haven’t already. Each checkpoint has a single item that it can create if you toss in 20 or 50 of the game‘s currency.įortunately, once you pay up the first time, that checkpoint will always give you the item. Or you can synthesize items at checkpoints. You can either find them mid-level by destroying crates or parts of the environment. There are two ways to obtain items in Cyber Shadow. How to Get All Items & What They Do in Cyber Shadow ![]() Here’s everything you’ll need to know about how to get all the items in Cyber Shadow and what they do. You need to deck out Shadow with as many goodies as you can. What is a ninja without their weapons? Just a very quiet and nimble person dressed in all black. ![]() The map on the right shows the major hydrologic regions in the United States that the USGS derived by using digital elevation models and terrain information. The Tulare basin and the San Joaquin Valley is well defined, but there are other areas like on the Central or North Coast that consist of many, many small watersheds that drain water to the Pacific Ocean. The largest watershed is the Sacramento and San Joaquin River watershed there are parts of the watershed that do reach into Oregon. The map on the left shows the hydrologic regions in the state that more or less fit the hydrologic watershed boundaries that are derived from the terrain. One can use topographic maps, analyze digital elevation data with a geographic information system (GIS), or use established hydrologic unit maps. There are many different ways to define watersheds generally topography is used because water follows gravity and flows downhill. “ What we often do is choose a point such as a stream gauge on the river because this would then allow us to relate measurements of flow that we take at that stream gauge to whatever processes that happen upstream in the watershed.” “ When you want to define a watershed on the landscape, it’s up to you as the user to define the point that you set as the outlet for the watershed,” said Dr. And some of that water will percolate into the ground and accumulate in the groundwater basin. ![]() Some of the rainfall can drain off the land surface and end up in lakes and rivers where it might even flow out to the ocean. When it rains, much of the rainfall is absorbed by the ground or the plants and then evaporates back into the atmosphere. Watersheds are the source of surface water. Smaller watersheds are sometimes referred to as catchments large river basins are sometimes called drainage basins. A watershed can be a small area or as large as the Sacramento-San Joaquin basin. NOAA defines a watershed as the land that channels rainfall or snowmelt to creeks, rivers, streams, lakes, and eventually to outflow points such as surface reservoirs, bays, estuaries, and the ocean.Ī watershed includes all the natural and man-made features, including surface and subsurface features, climate and weather patterns, geologic and topographic history, soils and vegetation, and land use. Historically, watersheds were defined as the divide between two drainage basins that separates the rainfall runoff into one of the basins, but in recent years, the term has been come to be applied to the entirety of the basin and not just the divide. Helen Dahlke at UC Davis as part of the UC Davis Shortcourse on Groundwater and supplemented with additional research. This post is based in part on a lecture given by Dr. This post provides an overview of watersheds, the components of a watershed, water budgets, how to estimate runoff, protecting water quality, and watershed management. ![]() However, managing land and water for selected products or services has altered the conditions and functions in many of California’s watersheds, and so protecting and restoring watersheds is important for maintaining the resources that residents within the watershed depend on. A well-functioning watershed provides clean water for drinking and irrigation, healthy soils, flood protection, habitat for wildlife, and outdoor recreation opportunities. The water flowing over the land and through the soil creates a complex network that connects the uplands, springs, wetlands, streams, and rivers of the watershed. No matter where you are in the world, you are in a watershed. ![]() I would categorize LilyPond as a music typesetting tool, not a composition tool. ![]() ![]() Other people I have read here hate it or don't see the big deal.ĭorico, like LilyPond, has put extra emphasis on making scores look nearly perfect without the need for extra tweaking. You will find people who say that once you get into it it's the best environment ever. But Dorico is also very fast at adding those features.ĭorico's new approach to sheet music isn't popular with everyone. It is extremely powerful but like MuseScore, is sometimes missing little features that feel kind of basic. Dorico is the newest of all these programs and has a brought in a different approach to creating sheet music. I believe that in recent years they've started to bring in people who understand the field but I do not believe anything big has happened from Sibelius in a long time.īy the way, the developers they fired went on to create Dorico.ĭorico: New, being actively developed. About 10 years ago it fired its entire development staff and replaced them with programmers who had no experience with sheet music. Since it is not under active development (apparently), it feels like a sinking ship. And as the years went on, it caught up in terms of features and power.Īt the same time, it is starting to run into the same problem I mentioned above with Finale though perhaps not quite as bad. It is not as old as Finale and when it was being developed, they took care to improve upon the experience making, arguable, a better user experience than you find in Finale. Old people don't like to switch tools unless they have to. That said, it is still widely used in academia but mainly among older professors. Consensus seems to be that Finale is too old and since it does not appear to be under active development, it's hard to recommend it these days. There's always a fine line between being too old and needing to start over and being old enough to be powerful enough. Old program often have features that no one else has, but they also often have code bases that are so hacked together that it is difficult to improve upon them. ![]() For example, sharing an advertising or device identifier to a third party may be considered a “sale” under the CCPA. It includes the sharing of personal information with third parties in exchange for something of value, even if no money changes hands. But “sell” under the CCPA is broadly defined. 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Those who filed their taxes in 2018 or 2019 do not have to do anything to receive their check. ![]() When she isn’t hard at work on client’s books, Daisy enjoys baking, gardening, playing tennis and spending time with family and friends.The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has provided more information about the IRS stimulus payments they will distribute within the next three weeks, also referred to as Economic Impact Payments or COVID-relief checks. Conscientious, proactive and always with a happy disposition, she has honed her skillset to meet your accounting needs.ĭaisy and her husband Bob reside in Zieglerville, PA with their favorite feline Gadget, where they are active in their church and community. ![]() As a senior member of the accounting department, Daisy was an integral part in coordinating the communication of five separate accounting databases into one collective operating system and was responsible for the oversight of all bank relationships and on-site cash management.ĭaisy joined ENGAGE CPAs in 2016 as Chief Accounting Officer, Daisy oversees the accounting records of all clients to ensure proper postings of financial transactions, trains clients on how to properly utilize QuickBooks for their needs, and assists clients with any other bookkeeping, tax or accounting questions to ensure that clients understand their financial well-being throughout the year. After graduating from Lansdale School of Business she began her accounting career at Bear Creek Mountain Resort. And it’s a little insight into how frustrating it can be to deal with such a disorganized and complex agency.ĭaisy combines her passion and unique skillset to put a personal touch on our client’s needs. This shows the various departments and stops that your tax return and refunds pass through before money hits your bank account. Call your representative and voice your concerns over the IRS delaysīe sure to have your social security number, date of birth, address on your most recently filed tax return, and notice/return that’s in question ready when you are calling!Īnd while you’re waiting on hold, take a look at the Taxpayer Roadmap tool created by the IRS.Contact your local IRS office and see if you can make an appointment.Sign up for an IRS.gov account and view your payments, returns, child tax payments, and more.Call right when the IRS opens or right before they close.Some other options you may want to try if you have an unresolved notice are: It’s not the quickest solution, but it allows us to send documentation, explain the issue and give our contact information in order to at least respond to the notice by the due date on the notice, so our clients don’t get penalized. Well, we are currently writing lots of letters in our office. This means that unless you haven’t received your refund and it’s causing you economic hardship, they probably will not be able to help you at this point. I called them to see what advice they had for handling client notices, and they said they are currently only taking on “hardship cases” and not Economic Impact Payment or Advance Child Tax Credit issues. You may also find some helpful information on their website at This is an agency independent from the IRS and helps taxpayers resolve issues with the IRS when direct contact with the IRS has not solved the issue. Some taxpayers may benefit from using the Taxpayer Advocate Service. They continue to send out notices daily but have not processed millions of returns and refunds, and no one is available to help taxpayers and tax preparers resolve any issues. Please try again later”.Ģ020 – 2022 has been one of the most frustrating times to be a tax preparer, dealing with notices your clients send you from an agency that cannot get it together and even pick up the phone. Instead, they inform you that “due to extremely high call volume on this subject, we cannot answer your call at this time. You don’t even get the opportunity to sit on hold for 6 hours. Honestly – they are not answering the phone. Have you received a notice from the IRS with a change to the amount of your refund due to an Advance Child Tax Credit or Economic Impact Payment (Stimulus) discrepancy? Well, don’t try to call them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, rhythm rockers will be able to use any combination of instruments for any given song, with Activision giving the example of two guitars and two sets of drums rocking out together.Īctivision has also said that all Guitar Hero World Tour downloadable content will be compatible with Guitar Hero 5. The publisher is also lifting the restriction on the one-instrument, one-player rules that have defined the series. The game will include 85 new master recordings, with songs thus far announced including The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil," Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower," The White Stripes' "Blue Orchid," Tom Petty's "Runnin' Down a Dream," Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire," and Kings of Leon's "Sex on Fire."Īs with World Tour, Guitar Hero 5 lets gamers accompany playable tunes on the guitar, bass, drums, or microphone. Guitar Hero 5 will be available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, and PlayStation 2. Players are tasked with sleuthing out the answers to a number of band-centric clues that can be found through various Web sites, blogs, and TV shows. As its name implies, the sweepstakes offers gamers the chance to win five tickets to five different concerts. Activision Blizzard has revealed through the game's official Web site that the latest four-piece rhythm game will take to the main stage on September 1, exactly one week before archrival The Beatles: Rock Band strums its opening tune on September 9.Īlong with revealing a release date, the Guitar Hero Web site also offered the first details on Activision's 5 Tickets, 5 Concerts sweepstakes. However, such will not be the case with Guitar Hero 5. The Guitar Hero franchise has traditionally seen flagship installments launch right around Halloween in the US, with Guitar Hero III and World Tour coming in about a week before and Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero II about a week after. |
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