While the good cranberry juices are very tart, it’s hard to find ones that are just cranberries these days and not blends of other juices and flavors. The Cosmo (we’re on a casual name basis, you see) is distantly a sour cocktail, where the citrus is replaced by cranberry juice. I think it’s because the very first one I had, at a long-since-closed bar on West 14th Street, probably within days of arriving in NYC, was absolutely perfect - dry, not too sweet, with a clear suggestion of lime - despite the fact that not once since has been, I remember it as a good drink. Which means a backlash was shortly on its heels - we’re rather fickle, aren’t we? - and that brings us up to today, where despite the fact that many credit the Cosmopolitan with the launch of the craft cocktail movement, the prospect of a Cosmopolitan still elicits groans from anyone old enough to remember when you couldn’t escape them.īut not me. Well, there’s always 2019, right? While it existed before the martini-and-things-served-in-martini-glasses-that-make-martini-enthusiasts-shudder craze of the early 2000s - it’s a descendant of the Daisy, the Cape Codder, and more - the arrival of Absolut Citron (remember all those sleek Absolut ads?) led to Toby Cecchini putting it on the menu at The Odeon (a place to see and be seen downtown) where it got Madonna’s seal of approval and later a pop culture nudge from Sex and the City that landed it, well, everywhere. I vowed that 2018 was going to be the year that the cocktail dream of the late 90s/early-aughts, The Cosmopolitan, would get its due. Are we cooking dinner more, or trying to? Is the explosion of great bakeries in each city so wonderful we don’t need to make cookies and pie at home anymore? I will be mulling this over while enjoying a year-end cocktail if you don’t mind…. But this year, something flipped, and the savory recipes took a bit of a lead on the sweet ones. The world, or at least my world, needs both, even if I know asparagus tartines will never elicit the popular fervor of peanut butter cup cookies. I pull these Best Of collections most (er, some) years and sort them into sweet and savory, but what usually happens is that the sweet recipes really outrank the savory ones. Meanwhile, here are your Smitten Kitchen favorites from this year:Ī funny thing happened this year. So tell me: Did you learn how to cook anything new this year? I am so thankful you are here and since I am not tired of cooking, I hope you never get tired of reading. I bumbled along, I tried things I hated, I tried things I didn’t hate but felt no passion for, and one day I landed here and, to my surprise, am rarely asked to leave. Who knew what I’d do when I grew up? Certainly not me. I look at all of this and I am so excited about the year we’ve had, many of these things I had barely dreamed up yet this time last year, and I hope next year is even better.Īnd now, a brief moment of sap: Getting to hang out here, indulging my culinary whims, and having a cheering and encouragement squad had been one of great surprises and delights of my so-called adult life. I made a completely bonkers layered mocha cheesecake late in the day on my husband’s birthday, and last week we mashed up baklava and babka, just because we could. I learned to make the best apple pie I’ve ever had. We had a real talk about the InstantPot and got some delicious short ribs out of it. We made the sheet pan sandwiches of my dreams and they’re vegan too. We got cacio e pepe just about foolproof at home, just when I was convinced I never would. Look at all we did! I learned to make falafel, and that it’s shockingly easy! I got to make Pad Thai I crave the most at home. I always wish I had more time to cook all the things I want to cook (my To Cook list is still thousands deep), wish I could share more recipes more often here, but this caused me to look back at the new recipes here in 2018 and feel a murmur of pride. Did you learn how to cook anything new this year? Anna Hezel, senior editor at Taste (one of my favorite breakout food publications of the last couple years) asked this on Twitter last week and like a Muppet to the ABCs, I couldn’t resist jumping in.
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It’s worth noting, however, that like the August products, SimpliSafe’s smart lock is a converter for an existing conventional deadbolt. Today, SimpliSafe announced a smart lock of its own, and it’s priced much lower than either of August’s systems: Just $99. And you had to add the August Connect if you wanted to control the lock from afar. Door damage prevention requires an entry sensor to be installed on the door.Until now, if you wanted to add a smart lock to your SimpliSafe home security system, you had to purchase an August Smart Lock or August Smart Lock Pro.App control requires $24.99/month Interactive Monitoring plan.LaunchSquad for Based on publicly available measurements of leading smart lock brands, where a smart lock is defined as a door-locking device that can be controlled by a smartphone app. Amazon, Alexa and all related logos are trademarks of, Inc. SimpliLock is the trademark of SimpliSafe in the US and other countries. SimpliSafe and the SimpliSafe logo are the registered trademarks of SimpliSafe, Inc. The company remains committed to its founding goal: to make every home secure. SimpliSafe now protects over 3 million people. Founded in 2006, SimpliSafe was the first to offer homeowners professional-grade monitored home security with no long-term contracts and at radically fair prices. SimpliSafe fundamentally changed the alarm industry, pioneering a new way to make home the safest place on earth for everyone. The Smart Lock works with any All New SimpliSafe system, and a standalone lock will be released in the near future. On October 13th, it will be on shelves exclusively at Best Buy, and available for purchase at (online Best Buy preorders start October 1st). The SimpliSafe Smart Lock will be available for purchase online at on September 15th for $99. Door damage prevention keeps the deadbolt from extending unless the door is shut 3.Smartphone alerts for every lock and unlock combine to form a timeline of activity, showing who is coming and going from your home 2.Three stylish color combinations: Nickel, Cloud, and Obsidian.Auto-lock engages after too many incorrect PIN attempts.Extra long battery life, up to one year.Personalized PIN codes for household members and frequent visitors, and unique temporary guest PINs.You'll never have to stay home for a contractor again, or panic when your child leaves her backpack at school with the house key inside.” You'll never have to sit through a meeting worrying about whether you left the front door unlocked. "With the SimpliSafe Smart Lock and SimpliLock™ automatic lock timer, you’ll always know your home is safe. "Imagine being able to lock down your home from anywhere," said Chad Laurans, SimpliSafe's founder and CEO. You can engage the entire system by saying “Alexa, arm SimpliSafe”- or using your Google Assistant or SimpliSafe app 2 - arming every sensor-guarded door and window, activating motion and glassbreak sensors, and locking your doors. If someone is approaching your home, the SimpliSafe Video Doorbell Pro and SimpliSafe Security Camera alert your phone. The SimpliSafe Smart Lock works closely with the complete SimpliSafe system to protect your home inside and out. "We designed the SimpliSafe Smart Lock to be slim and modern, as well as easy and fast to install." "Many smart locks are large and bulky - they stick out from the door, physically and visually," says Dirk Ahlgrim, Head of Design at SimpliSafe. 2 The SimpliSafe Smart Lock can also be locked or unlocked using the included PIN Pad, with the SimpliSafe Keypad or Key Fob, or with your original key. Or lock it from anywhere in the world - and arm your system at the same time - with the SimpliSafe app. Set up the SimpliLock™ customizable auto-timer so that your door locks every sixty seconds. The SimpliSafe Smart Lock ensures your doors are always locked - even if you forget. The majority of break-ins happen through unlocked entry points. It joins SimpliSafe’s comprehensive array of fully integrated home protection technologies and services. 21, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - SimpliSafe ®, maker of award-winning home security systems, today announced the release of the SimpliSafe Smart Lock, designed to secure your entire home with a single touch.Īt 0.9 inches, the SimpliSafe Smart Lock is the thinnest on the market, 1 adding a powerful layer of protection to a home's most vulnerable entry point, the front door. SimpliSafe's Ultra-Thin Smart Lock Will Launch in SeptemberīOSTON, Aug. Note that you may see 2 instances of your device’s model name with the 1st one will likely being for your desired USB-sync profile and the 2nd one will likely be for your desired WiFi-sync profile. From MMW, go to Tools/Options/Portable Sync Device, and select/highlight the drive-letter of your Android device (like “E:” or your Android device’s model name. Connect your Android device to your PC as a USB drive (i.e. Install MediaMonkey for Android (MMA) on your Android device.ħ. Optionally, if you want a guaranteed pure, fresh start (which I recommend) and if your PC contains ALL of your music, connect your Android device to your PC by USB and “Turn on USB Storage", surf to your Music folder and delete everything.Ħ. (There are detailed instructions below in the section entitled, "Additional information for importing playlists from Window Media Player (WMP) to MediaMonkey".)ĥ. Optionally, if you want to import playlists from Windows Media Player (so that you can sync them to your Android device) install the free M3U-importing add-ons from. Optionally, you may want to take advantage of this opportunity to use MediaMonkey to fix up your filenames, file paths, metadata, album art, etc. Point it to your media libraries, like “My Music” and “My Videos”.ģ. Install MediaMonkey for Windows (MMW) on your PC.Ģ. It takes some time to initially set it up, but once you do, all subsequent synchronizations will be a breeze.Ĭlick HERE if you want to learn more about how the free MMW, the free MMA, and the free MediaMonkey Remote form a total PC-Android solution for media management, synchronization, playback & even remote playback.ġ. Following are detailed instructions for setting up the powerful, flexible synchronization options for syncing MediaMonkey for Windows (MMW) with MediaMonkey for Android (MMA). Intellect: increasing the intellect attribute will yield more silver from internal affairs(interior ministry) -> collection -> silver collectionĬharisma: increasing the charisma attribute will help you recruit more soldiers from internal affairs(interior ministry) -> collection -> recruit soldiers King’s Choice Tips To Increase Power Or Attributes⇓ Leadership: increasing the leadership attribute in King’s Choice will yield more grain from internal affairs(interior ministry) -> collection -> grain collection And, you will lose fewer soldiers in a fight Strength: increasing this attribute will improve your combat performance. The four main attributes that lord, knight, heirs, and lovers have are Strength, Leadership, Intellect, and Charisma. These four attributes are Strength, Leadership, Intellect, and Charisma. (2) Total Power: the lord’s total power is made up of four attributes that you see at the bottom of the lord info screen. This will open the lord info screen at the bottom of it, you will see the lord’s details current level, power, and the attributes Or, tap on the lord avatar frame in the upper-left corner. (3) Others: Daily Quests, Pirate Invasion, Road Construction, Knights Parade, Endless War, and Global Congratulation King’s Choice Guide To Lord Attributes Or Total Power⇓Īt the top-left corner of the screen, next to the lord’s avatar frame, below the lord level info, you will see the current power of the lord. Choose that choice if you want to earn prestige points and level up the lord. You will have to make choices one of the choices will give you prestige points. This will take you to the internal affairs screen where you have to tap the “government” option. (2) Internal Affairs: On the main screen of the game, tap on the “Interior Ministry” building. Defeat the enemies on these stages to yield lord EXP aka prestige. In each chapter, there is also a big boss fight where your knight will fight the enemy’s army’s knight. You will need more troops than the enemy’s to win the fight. There are lots of chapters in the King’s Choice game – each next one with more difficult stages. On the main screen of the game, tap on “outpost” -> this will take you to the campaign mode screen where you will see the current chapter progress. To increase the lord level in King’s Choice game, you will need prestige points, which you earn from the chapter mode stages or internal affairs. Read the progression guide below for more details.Īlso, see – King’s Choice Codes To Exchange King’s Choice Guide To Increase Lord Level⇓ As mentioned above, you start with new lord level 1 and make progress -> Rising Lord (X5 levels) -> Common Lord(X5 Levels) -> Senior Lord(X5 Levels) -> Superior Lord(X5 Levels) The max level of the lord is “Superior Lord Level 5” – as per the current version. You will start as new lord level 1 and as the level increases, at each next level, you get bonuses like an increase in grain collection limit, silver collection limit, troop recruitment limit, government affair limit, etc. In the King’s Choice game, you will be playing as a lord who will be responsible for all sorts of activities resource production, military troops, knights, land conquering, and much more. So let’s not waste any time and check out the main content: – King’s Choice Basics Guide⇓ This King’s Choice game guide will teach you how to play this game, a guide to the lord, knights, attributes, and other aspects such as tips on getting stronger, progression, currencies, lovers, heirs, and much more. King’s Choice Guide For Beginners: Basic Tips, Cheats & Strategies⇓ Read on for King’s Choice guide, tips, cheats & strategies! Our King’s Choice game guide covers the basic aspects of the game and helps you in progression. Collect Hundreds of New Items - Dozens of new Monster Infrequents and Hundreds of Epic and Legendary items are waiting to be added to your collection! Combine them with the new Illusion System to create a look unique to you!.14 Constellations - Unleash the might of the Arkovian Gods with 14 new Devotion Constellations that open up even more combinations in Grim Dawn’s massive constellation map.Earn their favor to unlock unique rewards, or become a nemesis to spawn powerful foes. Four Factions - New Factions provide more opportunities to make allies…and enemies.New Environments - Explore new parts of Cairn to the north of Burrwitch and beyond! Traverse the treacherous forest of Gloomwald and the murky Ugdenbog as you seek passage to the fallen city of Malmouth.Transform Your Appearance – A brand-new Illusionist Service NPC enables you to transform the appearance of your equipment and customize your ideal look! Draw upon every item in your collection across all characters!.Two Story Chapters - Confront the devious Aetherials and their twisted abominations in the fallen city of Malmouth as you push forward alongside the Black Legion and Inquisitor Creed in two epic Chapters!.Two New Class Masteries – Unleash your vengeance upon the enemies of humanity with two new Masteries: the Inquisitor and the Necromancer, both of which can be combined with the base game’s Masteries, nearly doubling the possible combinations!.Level Cap Increased to 100 - Reach for ever greater power with an increased level cap of 100 and an increased Devotion cap of 55!.Venture into dangerous new parts of the world as you discover unique items, empower your characters and make difficult choices that have a lasting impact on the people of Cairn. You must forge new alliances as you push forward through deep forest, the void and into the city itself in a heroic effort to end the Aetherial terror. Deep within the fallen city of Malmouth, the Shaper of Flesh crafts grotesque living weapons that could deal a final blow to the human resistance. Ashes of Malmouth picks up where Grim Dawn leaves off, expanding the world and story with two new chapters in the epic struggle to free humankind from the horrors of the Aetherials. The problem has been that now and again a sub-par performance creeps in among the glittering successes. Carlsen’s performance in the first half of 2019 was also well above the required target at 2942. Having got so close, why has the No 1 not already surpassed his target? His all-time peak tournament performance rating of 3002 was achieved as long ago as 2009 at Pearl Spring, China, which among TPRs of nine rounds minimum ranks second behind Fabiano Caruana’s 3103 at St Louis in 2014. He achieved 2882 in Fide’s monthly lists in the years 20, while his unofficial daily peak on the live ratings is 2889. A 10/13 total would take him to 2876, within range of his personal bests. His current rating after his world title match in Dubai is 2865, and he will need to score 9/13 at Wijk to gain just a single rating point. There was an Everest expedition a century ago in 1922, two years before the tragedy of the famous 1924 attempt.Ĭarlsen’s chances of reaching his personal summit are a good deal better than those of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine. Add on another zero for what used to be calculated as the exact height of the mountain, although it was publicly stated as 29,002 feet in order to avoid the impression that 29,000 was a rounded estimate. Black threatens to draw by Nxa5, so White needs a speedy solution,Ĭalling the 2900 target an Everest is an apt metaphor. 3798: Mark Taimamov v Bukhuti Gurgenidze, world senior championship 1993. Players use these instruments by playing scrolling musical "notes" on-screen in time with the music. Reusing many gameplay elements from the Guitar Hero series, Rock Band players use peripherals modeled after musical instruments to simulate the performance of rock music. The Band Meter (green meter on left) measures the performance of each band member, while the Energy Meter (gold meter beneath each interface) tracks each player's Overdrive. Each instrument is represented by a different interface: bass guitar (right), drums (middle), lead guitar (left), vocals (top). Gameplay of a full band playing Metallica's " Enter Sandman". The game's success prompted the release of six sequels: Rock Band 2, The Beatles: Rock Band, Lego Rock Band, Green Day: Rock Band, Rock Band 3 and Rock Band 4. Players have made over 100 million downloadable song purchases since Rock Band 's release. The game received widespread critical acclaim, with sales of four million units and global revenues of $600 million. Individual instrument peripherals were released at a later date. Īt launch, the game software was made available in a bundle that packaged it together with the instrument peripherals, as well as for purchase separately. In addition to the 58 core songs included on the game disc, over 2,000 downloadable songs were released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions. Players with the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions can interact with players on the same platform through both online and offline multiplayer capabilities. Players are scored on their ability to match scrolling musical " notes" while playing instruments, or by their ability to match the singer's pitch on vocals. Players can play the lead guitar, bass guitar, and drums parts to songs with "instrument controllers", as well as sing through a USB microphone. The game allows up to four players to simulate the performance of popular rock songs by playing with controllers modeled after musical instruments. After development of the series was shifted to Neversoft, Harmonix conceived Rock Band as a new title that would offer multi-instrument gameplay. Harmonix previously developed the first two games in the Guitar Hero series, which popularized gameplay of rock music with guitar-shaped controllers. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions were released in North America on November 20, 2007, while the PlayStation 2 version was released on Decem and the Wii version on June 22, 2008. It is the first title in the Rock Band series. Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix, published by MTV Games and distributed by Electronic Arts. Onsite, artists, labels and creators can upload content to the RouteNote catalogue and enter into a non-exclusive agreement permitting us to distribute their music to a worldwide audience. RouteNote has since grown into a full digital media management service providing artists, labels and creators instant access to a large proportion of the online market. RouteNote is partnered with some of the biggest retailers on the web to give artists massive and immediate availability for their products. Note: To get to the free version simply scroll down, click on download and select the free version.Officially launched in 2007, RouteNote began as a digital music distribution platform for independent artists and labels to get their music online,ĭesigned and built to take advantage of the shift towards independent and self-publication through online and mobile music or video outlets. If you like powerful plugins that do require you to spend some time learning them, then check out the Instant Flanger Mk II by Eventide. Once you have familiarized yourself with its workflow, you should consider upgrading since it’s a very powerful tool to have. Note: There’s a premium version which sells for $48, but it comes packed with a lot more features!įor beginners, I’d recommend going with the free version to learn how to use the plugin, which despite looking intimidating isn’t that hard to use because of its drag and drop interface. With the free version you will only have access to one effect per frequency band, as well as a single LF and envelope follower, but this should be enough for most people. MBMFX2 splits your sound into three bands and lets you manipulate each one differently by inserting the 22 built-in effects, one of which is a flanger. However, what it lacks in ease of use it more than makes up in overall quality and versatility. Just one look at this plugin’s interface and you know that the learning curve to learn how to use it will be pretty steep. Lastly, it works in mono, stereo, and even mid/side situations, and it is compatible with all major DAWs for Windows and Mac systems. Melda Productions has a full suite of free plugins that you can download on their website, such as Reverb, Compressors, EQs, and more, and the reason I like them so much is because they all come with more included features than most other free plugins. The interesting thing about the MFlanger is that it comes with the tube saturation module, and you can use this to add warmth to your tracks as well. In addition to this, it also comes with a tremolo section, as well as controls for parameters such as the delay time as well as the range of the delay, and High-pass and low-pass filters. It features a wide array of controls that you can use to adjust the depth, width, feedback, as well as the range of the flanging effect. This variable oscillator technology gives you control over the shapes and waveforms, and it even has a harmonic mode which allows you to tweak the signal by controlling the harmonic content instead of oscillator shape. MFlanger is a versatile plugin that features a variable oscillator technology, as well as tube saturation, for increased flexibility. "InstallPath"="E:\\Program Files\\Soulseek"Īnd if your proggie is in any extra directories, you'll need to put them into the path, pointing out, (only because I know that I would miss this were the situation reversed! :p) that the 'exe' in question is RegRap.exe. "InstallPath"="G:\\Program Files\\Soulseek" "InstallPath"="H:\\Program Files\\Soulseek" Click on the URL provided in the email and enter a new password. Check your inbox for a password reset email. All my saved searches, saved users, and in-progress downloads are gone. Instead, it seems to have created a new account with what was my username. I assumed it was just asking me to login, so I entered my username and password. Enter either the email address or username on the account. Old account gone I opened Soulseek and it asked me to create an account. I was doing it the hard way before, by editing my reg file each time the drive letter changed on my computer, but now I just make a registry file for each machine, like so: If you need help resetting your password, we can help by sending you a link to reset it. Your registry file within the settings folder needs to reflect your folder structure. I keep the folder structure on my drive similar to C:, just because thats the way I started on this endeavor (the whole portable app thing) about a year and a half ago. You must adjust the path in the registry file to reflect the path on your removeable drive. It's constantly not responding, upload speeds are always under 300kbs on a 100mb/s connection and I'm having to kill it every day or 2 as the upload speed drops to single figures. Ah, it seems I may have forgotten to mention something: Alternatives to SoulseekQT on Windows I've just tried SoulseekQT v20197.22 and am having some issues with it. Breeding calculator helps you better understand how breeding works by showing you possible results when pairing different dragons. The Amaterasu Dragon is a limited-time Card-Segment Dragon which is obtained if its required 120 matching Dragon Pieces are collected from various events, other than Clan Events, or from recurring promotional Card Packs. While we try our best to keep it up-to-date, Storm8 makes constant changes to the breeding rules, which can sometimes be implemented quickly, but other times they require a complete restructure of the code. You have everything from your garden variety hybrids like the Smoke Dragon to the legendary rare dragons that would cost a ton of gems, or otherwise have to be found through complete luck and patience, or a helluva lot of money. You can sort and filter them by their type (rarity), name and element. In addition to a breeding calculator, the site also provides several other features including but not limited to: a Team Planner, a Dragons/My Dragons tracking feature, Enchantment Materials calculator and converter, and several other planning and calculating features for food, gold, temples etc. Im confused, maybe this is why i never get with over 30 leveled dragons + other epics. An estimate of how difficult it is to rank highly for this keyword in organic search. It should be noted that the generation 2 or triple elemental dragons are harder to come by, you will almost always get a double elemental dragon instead.2,014 talking about this. We have provided a breeding combination sample to help you get started. We have found that method two has higher chance of successfully breeding the three element. There are two methods to create a generation 2 dragon. Generation 2 Dragon each possess three elements. Wind + Water = Ice Dragon Generation 2 Dragon Mania Dragon Breeds Generation 1 Dragon Mania Dragons can be created by breeding two basic dragons in the breeding den. Below is a list of the Dragon Mania dragon elements currently available in the game. Each dragon is associated with an element. Purchase the dragon egg from the market and hatch the egg in the nursery. Generation 2 Dragon Mania Dragon Breeds Basic Dragon Mania Dragon Breedīasic dragons do not require breeding. Generation 1 Dragon Mania Dragon Hybrid Breeds Please check out the rest of our mobile game guides if you have found this guide useful! You do have limited habitat spaces, so select your dragons wisely. Once the egg is hatched in the nursery, you can then place the baby dragon in the dragon element habitat. Place the egg after the dragon breeding in the nursery or sell it for money. The breeding time varies depending on the dragons. To create hybrid dragons (two elements and three elements dragon), you need to place two dragons in the breeding den. The breeding process in Dragon Mania is started at the breeding den which can be purchased in the market once you reach level 4. Basic dragon can be purchased in the market when you reach the unlock level. Each dragon is unlocked at different levels. The dragons can be bred using a combination of one element (basic dragons), two elements (Generation 1 dragons), or three elements (Generation 2 dragons). Dragon Mania is yet the latest dragon breeding game on IOS and Android. |
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