![]() ![]() "We try to provide a culture with our staff that helps promote and go back to the old-school way," he said. 16 launch, VanOverloop said he thinks visitors will be pleasantly surprised with the different environment Fresh Thyme creates. Jubilee didn't fail, he said its owners simply moved on.Īhead of the store's Sept. "Ohio has certainly been on our radar and right now we have several stores in Ohio, with Dublin being closest to Worthington."įor those wondering if Fresh Thyme will succeed, Harris said he has no doubts. "We're expanding over the entire Midwest in about 12 states," VanOverloop said. The newest location is the first of many in the works for the region. Throughout the grand-opening weekend, the store will host wine tastings, activities for children and other events. Fresh Thyme's grand-opening tradition is to give the first 250 customers a branded reusable bag filled with $50 worth of "healthy and nutritious offerings." The ribbon-cutting is scheduled at 6:45 a.m. ![]() "Sometimes we're selling hot dogs for $2 and a buck of that goes to organizations we're working with."ĭuring the store's grand opening, the business will award $2,500 in donations to the McConnell Arts Center and Friends of Worthington Library. "We rely heavily and direct our store directors to be part of the local chamber (of commerce) and involve themselves in organizations where we can put together maybe a donation event or other things," Van-Overloop said. VanOverloop said Worthington store director Ray Simkins already is working with the community and aims to participate with various groups to put events together. "It was universally desired to have a grocery store back downtown," he said.įresh Thyme said their stores combine "the spirit of a weekend farmers market and the convenience of a neighborhood store," and focus on giving back to the communities they move into. When he first joined the city in 2010, he took inventory of what residents wanted, and a replacement for Jubilee was high on the list, he said. ![]() Worthington Economic Development Manager Jeff Harris said the city had been working to bring a grocery store back downtown for some time. "We're adding value in what's an unintimidating environment in our stores." "We're really driving the healthy foods and bringing fresh, healthy foods to the masses," Fresh Thyme Director of Operations Bruce VanOverloop said. But Fresh Thyme promises to bring healthful and accessible food back to Worthington. The area has been without a grocery store since 2006, when Jubilee Foods closed its doors. 16 for its new location at 933 High St., just north of Old Worthington. "We're in regional malls in almost every city we're in now.Come September, downtown Worthington will have a grocery store again.įresh Thyme Farmers Market, in development since 2014, has set an opening date of Sept. "A regional-type mall is much better for us as far as a location," Cole said. Ray Cole, vice president of sales promotion in the company's Orlando headquarters, said Belk Lindsey is focusing on regional malls. "I was told the transition is going to be quick."Īlthough the Britton Plaza store is Tampa's last, Belk Lindsey is keeping 24 other stores open in Central Florida. "When the theater was being renovated, there was a difference" in her number of customers, she said. What concerns her most, she said, is the length of the transition. "(JByrons) is going to better the center."Ĭhristine Posner, manager of Discount Party House next to Belk Lindsey, said she doesn't expect the change of stores to affect her business much. "The whole south Dale Mabry area has picked up," he said. He said the addition of JByrons and ongoing renovation of the shopping center mirror an improving image of the area. Even the old theater has been renovated to near newness.Ĭhris Overloop, property manager for Bruce Strumpf Inc., the company that leases the center, said Belk Lindsey's space will be redesigned and expanded by 50,000 square feet. The center now hosts Albertsons, Play it Again Sports and SteinMart. Grants, Publix and JCPenny are long gone. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Winter stayed with Columbia and it’s boutique Blue Sky label for more than a decade, turning out such well-received platters as “Johnny Winter And” (1970), “Still Alive and Well” (1973) and “John Dawson Winter III” (1974). Looking back, writer Cub Koda described the period as one when “Straight out of Texas with a hot trio, Winter made blues-rock music for the angels.” That trio, by the way, included bassist Tommy Shannon who would go on to be part of SRV’s Double Trouble and drummer Uncle John Turner. ![]() The album peaked at No.24 on the billboard chart and was promptly followed by Second Winter later that same year. King’s “Be Careful with a Fool,” Sonny Boy Williamson II’s “Good Morning Little School Girl,” Robert Johnson’s “When You Got a Good Friend” and fellow Texan Lightin’ Hopkins’ “Back Door Friend.” It also featured two prime original Winter songs, “Dallas”and the controversial “I’m Yours and I’m Hers,” that went into heavy rotation on FM underground radio. ![]() The disc included audacious covers such blues classics as B.B. Johnny’s self-titled 1969 disc announced loudly that there was a new guitar-slinger on the new national scene. Winter’s big breakthrough came a few years later in 1968 when Rolling Stone writers Larry Sepulvado and John Burks featured him in a piece on the Texas Music scene, which prompted a bidding war among labels that Columbia eventually won. I got a standing ovation, and he took his guitar back!” Finally, he decided that there enough people who wanted to hear me that, no matter if I was good or not, it would be worth it to let me on stage. Also, I kept sending people over to ask him to let me play. He asked me for a union card, and I had one. But Johnny already had his chops down and wanted to play with the revered B.B.”I was about 17,” Johnny remembers, “and B.B. The only whites in the crowd, they no doubt stood out. King at a Beaumont club called the Raven. There’s a famous story about a time in 1962 when Johnny and his brother went to see B.B. Clarence, who recorded for the swamp boogie specialty label Goldband, KRCO, Frolic, Diamond, Moon-Lite, Hall-Way and other regional labels. Who opened Winter’s eye’s and ears to rural blues and Cajun music. I always felt welcome.” He also became friends with Clarence Garlow, a deejay at the black radio station KJET in Beaumont. I went to black clubs all the time, and nobody ever bothered me. Looking back, he believes people in the black community knew that he was sincere, that he was genuinely possessed by the blues. Despite the brutal legacy, Johnny remembers never hesitating as a kid to venture into black neighborhoods to hear and play music. Mobs wandered the streets, businesses burned, martial law went into effect, and more than 2,000 uniformed National Guardsmen and Texas Rangers sealed off the town from the rest of the world until tempers cooled. The town had been side to one of the worst race riots in Texas history just nine months before Johnny’s birth. Racial tensions in Beaumont were still high in those days. He formed his first band, Johnny and the Jammers, in 1959 at the age of 15, with his 12-year-old brother Edgar on keyboards. Richardson – The Big Bopper of “Chantilly Lace” fame – and became hooked on 50’s rock & roll. Growing up in a rough-and-tumble town populated by oilfield wildcatters and shipyard workers, he spent long hours listening to a local deejay named J.P. Constantly shifting between simple country blues in the vein of Robert Johnson, to all-out electric slide guitar blues-rock, – Johnny has always been one of the most respected singers and guitar players in rock and the clear link between British blues-rock and American Southern rock (a la the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd.) Throughout the ’70s and ’80s, Johnny was the unofficial torch-bearer for the blues, championing and aiding the careers of his idols like Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. Signing to Columbia records in 1969 called largest solo artist deal of it’s time, Johnny immediately laid out the blueprint for his fresh take on classic blues a prime combination for the legions of fans just discovering the blues via the likes of Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() at Kahn hospital this morning." A time of 6 AM is speculative. Howard Robin Muench The generation of semidiurnal internal tides along the South Scotia Ridge (SSR)the boundary between the northern Weddell Sea and the Scotia Seais investigated. Sy Scholfield quotes birth notice, The Marshall News Messenger (Texas),, p. Join Facebook to connect with Susan Howard and others you may know. Get a complete background report of Susan Howard at LocatePeople with phone, address, email, criminal, court and arrest records. View the profiles of people named Susan Howard. Notes: Played Donna Culver Krebbs, 1979-1987 Found 70 records for Susan Howard in California. associate relationship with Entertainment: Dallas (born 2 April 1978).Link to Wikipedia biography Relationships She is also a screenwriter and member of the Writers Guild of America. See all books authored by Susan Howard, including Shot by Shot A Practical Guide to Filmmaking (3rd Ed.), and Skills in Psychodynamic Counselling and. ![]() Howard has been active in the leadership of both the NRA and the Texas Republican Party. Since leaving television, Howard has become an increasingly active supporter of conservative causes, especially for "gun rights." In 1989, she was co-host of "The 700 Club". Susan Mosley-Howard is Professor and Dean Emerita and faculty affiliate in the Myaamia Center at Miami University. She made a guest appearance on Star Trek (1968), playing the first female Klingon ("Mara") on the original series (and the only one to ever speak). Her performance on Petrocelli was subsequently nominated for both the Golden Globe and Emmy awards. Susan Howard (1975 publicity photo) BiographyĪmerican screen actress, screenwriter, and political activist, perhaps best known for portraying the character Donna Culver Krebbs on the primetime TV serial Dallas (1979–1987), and as a co-star of the series Petrocelli (1974–1976). Susan Howard MSN, RN, IBCLC I am the founder and owner of Arlington Lactation & Feeding Therapy, LLC. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lintel, Mantel, Module, Shelf, with Lauren Bakst & Yuri Masnyj, Elliot Jerome Brown, Mary-Ann Monforton, Gahee Park, Isasc Pool, Curated by Samuel Draxler, La MaMa La Galleria Jan. Mary-Ann Monforton and Lawrence Swan, Valentine Gallery, Ridgewood, NY, Jan. Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat, Howl! Happening, NYC, May 2018īRIC’s 2017 OPEN (C)ALL: TRUTH exhibition, Brooklyn, NY November-December 2017 Summer Lovin, Mattress Gallery, NYC, Group Show, June 2018ĢD or not 2D, Mattress Gallery, NYC, Group Show, May 2018 Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat, Maier Museum, Lynchburg VA, September 2018 Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat, Contemporary Art Toledo, Toledo OH, January 25- March 22Ĭharlotte Beckett and Mary-Ann Monforton, 2 person exhibition, La MaMa Galleria, NYC, October 2018 Spring Break, NYC 2019, curated by Robin Winters and Brigitte Engler, March 2019 Sanctuary, High Noon, New York, NY, November - December 2020 You can dash to avoid incoming enemies or projectiles, slide under and into gaps, and mantle up ledges. Play Station, solo booth with High Noon at OMG Art Faire, Kingston, NY, November 2021 Doubletake ridgewood nj Clicktoflash safari 4-1-3 Journey to the savage planet platforms. I'm Not Done Playing with That, curated by Linda Griggs, Equity Gallery, New York, NY, December 2021 Salon Redux, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI, January 2022 Proceed to the Route, jail cell installation, Hatch Art, Hamtramck, MI, February - March 2022 Luxe, solo exhibition, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham MI, December 2022-February 2023 Get Together, Reyes Finn Gallery, Detroit MI, February - May 2023 Keller Williams At The Lakes: The beautiful Madrid. Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI 1.1K views, 28 likes, 0 loves, 1 comments, 3 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Don Migliore P.A. ![]() ![]() Since then I kind of forgot about it, re-installed OSX from a Time Machine after an unwanted formatting action, upgraded to Snow Leopard and further updates (now at 10.6.4) and I was wondering whatever happened to XQuartz. I think Xquartz is just a packaging of the Xorg server, built for macOS, but I could be wrong on that. X11 or XQuartz Something like a year ago I experimented with X11 aka XQuartz version 2.4.0. The information provided in this article is mostly for use on Mac systems. Mac OS X systems: you must install the XQuartz X11 server as an extra component. Linux systems: the client component of X2Go uses the local Xorg server. Something like a year ago I experimented with X11 aka XQuartz version 2.4.0. Xquartz is an X server that runs on top of the Mac graphic environment. Windows systems: an X11 server is provided with X2Go client. The latest version of macOS or Apple OS X Mountain Lion and Mavericks no longer ships with X11.app i.e. Once installed, run this command from Terminal. The XQuartzproject is an open-source effort to develop a version of the X.Org X Window System that runs on macOS and OS X. ![]() Visit Homebrew to install it on your system. (I get the impression that you believe Xquartz is the standard graphic Mac environment. sudo port -v install xorg Homebrew Alternatively, it is possible to install XQuartz with Homebrew. Refer to the end of this message for path examples, in case you do not know the exact location yourself. ![]() If XQuartz is already installed on your system, please select the correct path in the now upcoming dialog. You'll still have to boot into MacOS and log in to a Mac desktop, but after you have started Xquartz, you should be back in familiar X11 land. X2Go Client requires XQuartz to be installed. It is based on the X11 sources from X. xinitrc file, Quartz will start the quartz-wm window manager, which gives a "Mac look" to your X windows.) It should be theoretically possible to get an entire Gnome desktop running, but I have not tried that. XQuartz is a set of libraries to allow X11 applications to be compiled and run on OSX. In that file, you can start any window manager you like. Xquartz will run that file on start-up, just as would normally happen with startx or xinit. ![]() I don't think you can get rid of the Mac graphic environment entirely (short of installing some other OS, like *BSD or Linux), but you can hide it to a certain extent.Ĭonfigure Xquartz to run in full-screen mode (it's in the settings somewhere.). If I have understood you correctly, what you actually want to do is to get rid of the Mac graphic environment, and run a "classic" X11 session instead. XQuartz es una versión de código abierto del X Server de X. ![]() ![]() ![]() per group (up to 10) Explore Oklahoma City with a Unique Scavenger Hunt by Zombie Scavengers. Prince Anand M.D., Camille Filoromo Ph.D., Ahmad Alqesseih M.D., Derek Dubay M.D., Natalie Wessels BSN, Adrian Carlson Pharm.D., Jay McCarley Pharm.D. Celebrate with a Holiday Scavenger Hunt in Oklahoma City with Holly Jolly Hunt. Roland Mandane, Evelyn Lebron-Cooper, Joe Fraser, Corey Bess, Cyreano Hamoy, Roxie SmallwoodĪddressing Disparities in Kidney Transplant in a Rural Community Hospital ![]() Hitting the Mark: Implementation of a central venous catheter curriculum to improve medical student self-confidence in quality and safety of procedures Innovative Designs for Ventricular Assist Device Cannulas that Improve Outcomes for InfantsĬurry Sherard, Savannah Skidmore, Jesse Flynn, Joe Ruscito, Taufiek Konrad Rajab, M.D. Michelle Spiegel, M.D., Karen Melanson, Janet Byrne, Jamie Allen, D.O., Andrew Goodwin, M.D. Read more Shark Robot Convention Card Shark app offers a choice of several bidding systems - Standard American 5-Card Major, 2/1GF, ACOL. ![]() How to start, install and customize the applicati. The award winning projects and participants from our four events in 2023 are:ĮHR-Embedded Clinical Decision Support to Reduce Hospital-Acquired Infections Shark Bridge Game Shark App Video Tutorials Here are video tutorials presenting the essential mechanics and features in Shark Bridge app: 1. One of the main characters in Planetes is Ai Tanabe, a Japanese girl who achieves her childhood dream of working in space.This fun-filled annual event features teams who have been chosen as finalists pitching their idea to a panel of MUSC’s executive leaders for an opportunity to win bragging rights and funding to support the development or scaling of their concept. Working in a zero-gravity environment is new to her, and many of the earlier episodes are focused on her learning to adapt to life on board the station. The culture of an international space craft is just as foreign to her as the weightlessness of space. Full Metal Panic!'s Sousuke Sagara, despite being ethnically Japanese, was raised in war-torn Afghanistan. The Deep Fork has a total length of 370 kilometres (230 mi) and has a long narrow drainage basin averaging 40 kilometres (25 mi) in width. His mission places him (and his two American squadmates) in Tokyo, where Sousuke is forced to adapt to life as a normal high school student. Bahia Honda Bridge houses deep waters and has the perfect bait fish to draw in everything from lemon and nurse sharks to hammerheads and big bulls. The spin-off series Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu focuses on the comedy of Sousuke's attempt to adapt to the cultural differences of life in Japan.
![]() ![]() ![]() NonInteractive mode is automatically set if it is detected that the process is not user interactive.Īllows the 3010 return code (requires restart) to be passed back to the parent process (e.g. Options: Interactive = Shows dialogs, Silent = No dialogs, NonInteractive = Very silent, i.e. Specifies whether the installation should be run in Interactive, Silent, or NonInteractive mode. The script dot-sources the AppDeployToolkitMain.ps1 script which contains the logic and functions required to install or uninstall an application. The install deployment type is broken down into 3 main sections/phases: Pre-Install, Install, and Post-Install. The script either performs an "Install" deployment type or an "Uninstall" deployment type. The script is provided as a template to perform an install or uninstall of an application(s). Copy the PowerShell script below to “C:\Downloads\1PasswordCRX” ![]() ![]() For more information, see Exporting Shapes to Separate Geometry Nodes.īakes out a feature of your model. Note:The options in this menu are implemented in Python, and you can also use Python to add your own entries to the menu. You can then use the ApplyMaterial node to apply the projection to geometry created by baking Selected geometry. This creates a Project3D node with a FrameHold node set to lock the input image and camera to the texture frame. ![]() Projection - ModelBuilder creates a projection at the current texture frame.You can use this to bake out parts of the scene to set up projections by baking Projection. Selected geometry - ModelBuilder creates a geometry node for the selected items in the scene.Sets what ModelBuilder creates when you click the Bake button: This allows you to line up your UVs over features in the tex image and see how well the UVs work on the actual model. tex input - Display the image as a background in the UV preview and set it as the texture for the currently selected object in the 3D Viewer.off - Do not display the image in the UV preview or on the 3D model.Sets whether to display the image connected to the tex input in the UV preview window and on the 3D model: When Projected is set to frame difference, ModelBuilder subtracts this value from the current frame and projects the resulting frame on to the model. When Projected is set to locked frame, ModelBuilder always projects the texture from this frame onto the model. Note:This control only has an effect when display is set to textured or textured+wireframe. This can help you line up the shape against your source footage. frame difference - Subtract the frame specified in the field on the right from the current frame and project the resulting frame onto the shape.locked frame - Project the frame specified in the field on the right onto the shape.current frame - Project the current frame onto the shape.Low values position the shape close to the camera, and higher values mean further away. There are no specific units for the Distance value. New shapes are positioned at this distance from the camera. Sets the default distance at which shapes are created. You can use groups to organize and set the visibility for shapes in the scene.ĭeletes the selected shapes and groups from the scene.ĭuplicates the selected shapes and groups in the scene. Note that when an item is hidden, it doesn’t appear in the Viewer or renders. To toggle the visibility of shapes or groups, click. ![]() To rename shapes or groups, click on them and enter a new name. Shows the hierarchy of shapes and groups of shapes in the scene. When enabled, and the geometry has a material shader attached to it, the shape(s) can receive shadows. When enabled, the shape(s) can cast shadows. This control is independent from the display selection, but has the same settings. When disabled, points cannot be selected or changed. When enabled, you can make selections as normal in the Viewer.
![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Darth Maul witnesses them returning to the planet, and starts to attack the guards with the help of Zam Wesell. ![]() Returning back to Naboo, the heroes prepare to defeat the last hordes of Battle Droids. However, they are attacked by Darth Maul, although they still manage to escape. With the aid of Skywalker, they defeat Sebulba Pig in a race and fix their ship to escape from the planet. They eventually meet Anakin Skywalker, a young mechanic, who is seen repairing his podracer. Meanwhile, the heroes explore Tatooine to find pieces to repair the ship. Not very happy with this, he sends Darth Maul, Count Dooku, Jango Fett and some Battle Droids to attack them. However, he soon after notices that they were sent to Tatooine and that they were still alive. The villains manage to damage their ship, which satisfies Sidious. Meanwhile, onboard the Pork Federation Spaceship, Darth Sidious and Jango Fett notice that the heroes escaped from Naboo, and Sidious sends Jango and some Battle Droids to go after them. However, they are soon attacked by the remaining Battle Droids and escape. Defeating most of the Battle Droids, the trio save Padmé Amidala, Captain Panaka, and Jar Jar Binks, who were captured by the Pork Side. Fortunately however, Yoda comes in and helps them. ![]() There, they are outnumbered by a gigantic army of Battle Droids. The loading screen of Angry Birds Star Wars II.Īboard the Pork Federation Spaceship, Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice, Obi Wan Kenobi quickly escape to Naboo, where they fight their way through. The latter however closed on March 18, 2022. Despite this, the Carbonite Reward and the Rovio Account features which both require an internet connection still work as normal. However, the game can still be played as normal except from microtransactions and advertisements being disabled. In early 2020, the game was officially discontinued and the servers for Birds Star Wars II, Angry Birds Star Wars and Angry Birds Rio were closed down. ![]() Īs with all remaining Angry Birds games released before Angry Birds Transformers (aside from Angry Birds Friends), Angry Birds Star Wars II was deleted from the App Store and Google Play Store in 2019. The game also features the use of " Telepods" on plastic stands that enable players to import special character toys into the game, which the player can then use in-game for that level. The primary feature of Angry Birds Star Wars II is the ability to side with either the Bird or the Pork Side, each with their own sets of playable characters and chapters. A prequel of Angry Birds Star Wars, it was developed by Rovio Entertainment and LucasArts, and released in late 2013. 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My squad of heroes is mostly pitted against the heroes of a human opponent, but the other person isn’t spectating that match. And it’s this distinction which takes the sting out of the competition without damping the pleasure of winning.īut here, I’m playing a weird once-removed version of PvP. I particularly don’t want to be the worst on any leaderboard. But, with or without chat, I often feel massive pressure in PvP games. A message in Russian during my fourth match points to the former. It probably says a lot about the confusing interface that for ages I had no sense of whether the lack of repulsive messages was because the game elicits less rage or whether there’s just no all chat function. It taps into the little jolts of pleasure casual games are good at-the satisfaction of merging heroes, auto-fought battles with over-the top effects and the chance to win, a little leaderboard…Īnother joy is the lack of toxicity and the lack of pressure. Making a sub-optimal choice doesn’t feel like a total disaster. ![]() In each phase there are a manageable number of choices to make. Again, it’s a way that Dota Auto Chess feels true to an older form of Dota-the Defence of the Ancients which emerged from the Warcraft III fan-made map cauldron, and whose quirks are often the result of units being turned to a new purpose. The existential question of “when is a digital donkey not a digital donkey” is irrelevant to play, but it’s fun to notice how pieces of the main game are repurposed in these custom modes. You can tell it’s Io because it’s making Io’s Ibiza chillout beeping and blooping noises and trailing particle effects across the chessboard. Instead it seems to be the hero Io (as per the lore: a multidimensional wisp billed as a Fundamental of the universe) wearing a donkey costume. If you’re familiar with Dota, moving your donkey around is probably also when you’ll realise it’s not actually a donkey. Panning around you can check in on other players or enjoy the fact that the middle board is missing, replaced by a small version of the Dota map.įinding my island is how I discovered I needed to interact with my chesses by selecting a donkey and having the donkey do the chess on my behalf. The resulting panic is how I learned that the boards of each of the eight players are presented as physical islands in a 3x3 grid. The game tips disappeared offscreen before I’d read the first word and the camera was pointing at a rival’s board, meaning I couldn’t see the result of any of my actions. When I booted the game up for the first time it wasn’t even clear where I was, or how I was supposed to chess. This has knock-on effects when it comes to which heroes you buy, when you place them on the board, and how it raises or reduces the number of units on the board. Plonking down three identical heroes of the same level (with one or two class exceptions) will merge them into a single, more powerful hero. If you don’t know Dota you might not realise you need to deliver the items to specific heroes at all instead of just collecting them in your pack. Knowing the types of items which benefit particular heroes in the main game will give you a headstart here. Essentially, it’s the courier function the donkey traditionally fulfils in Dota 2. You can then ask the donkey to deliver the items to a specific unit, thus bestowing its benefits to that unit. If you beat them they can drop little treasure chests containing items which the donkey can fetch and put in its little backpack. Some rounds have you facing off against non-player units-the neutral creeps from Dota’s jungles. Do you bunch your heroes up or spread them out? Do you try to protect a vulnerable unit or shove them to the front as a meat shield? How can you keep important combos in play by keeping the relevant units alive? That’s one part which felt like it was drawing on my actual Dota knowledge.Īnother part which taps into that knowledge is the item system. Plonking down three identical heroes of the same level (with one or two class exceptions) will merge them into a single, more powerful hero.Īs well as that interplay there’s a spatial element. The orc species combo gets you a higher maximum HP for each orc, the mage class combo reduces enemy magic resistance. If you have multiple heroes from that species or class on the board you can get boosts. Each hero is listed with a species and class. ![]() |