![]() ![]() The live wallpapers are generated in high quality and overall decent resolutions. If you’re looking for anime wallpaper apps that provide live wallpapers, you should definitely check out HD Anime Live Wallpaper. However, live wallpapers can take the entire anime theme a bit further and change your entire user experience. HD Anime Live Wallpaper – Customization optionsįull HD and 4K wallpapers are great for customizing your iPhone. Price: Free (In-app purchases start at $4.99)ĭownload 4. Additionally, the Search function seems to have issues due to the lack of tags in the app. If you’re using the free version, you’ll have to deal with a significant number of ads. However, the app comes with a few glitches as well. ![]() Moreover, there are quite a few categories to explore, along with the functionality to save wallpapers either to your phone or in the app’s favorites section. ![]() So, while the list of anime wallpapers may not be huge, you’ll likely find plenty of variety through the app. This app is updated on a frequent basis, with a substantial amount of content added in each update. However, the main selling point of this anime wallpaper app is the number of updates. The list is relatively big, with wallpapers for anime such as My Hero Academia, Your Name, Dragon Ball Z, Naruto, and Tokyo Ghoul. In fact, if you think of any mildly popular anime, chances are that this app has the wallpapers for it. While it may not have the wallpapers for the more niche animes out there, it’s perfect if you’re a casual fan. Next on this list of the best anime wallpaper apps for iPhone is Anime Wallpapers X. Furthermore, the excellent and comprehensive wallpaper collection should satisfy casual anime fans for a long time!ĭownload 2. These wallpapers are usually of high quality and are hardly repeated over time. Through this feature, the developers select one outstanding wallpaper from a popular anime and make it their featured post of the day. Moreover, the app has daily updates with a special Wall of the Day feature. It’s also supplemented by the fact that you’ll find wallpapers for every major anime out there, from the recent Chainsaw Man series to the more mainstream Attack on Titan. The app itself is completely free to use, which means that you won’t have to pay a single dime to view or download wallpapers. With an average of 4.5 stars from almost 11000 ratings, this is one of the most popular anime wallpapers apps for iPhone that you can find in the App Store. Starting the list of the best anime wallpaper apps is Anime Wallpaper Master HD. Anime Wallpaper Master HD – Editor’s choice If you’re into anime and want to represent your love for your favorite characters on your iPhone, you should check out this list of the best anime wallpaper apps for iPhone.ġ. This popularity brings with it a bunch of goodies for the average anime watcher, from video games to wallpapers. With anywhere between 90 million to 100 million anime watchers across the globe, it’s clear that anime has become a pop culture sensation. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Old Man (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) / all NPCs (Old-gen console and 3DS versions) will also teleport to their house if they are standing on Dungeon Bricks, regardless of time. If both a town NPC and their house is offscreen, they will teleport to their house during night, rain, Solar Eclipse, or Slime Rain (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions). Town NPC home assignments can be rearranged using NPC flags from the housing menu, where players can also check whether a room is a suitable house. Houses must not be located near Corruption or Crimson, and if those biomes spread too close to an occupied house, the NPC living there may move out from that house. Two town NPCs cannot live in the same house at the same time. A house is a room of a certain size enclosed by a frame of blocks, with player-placed background walls, along with a valid light source, flat surface item, and comfort item. An additional (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) 3 / (Old-gen console version) 2 / 1 NPC(s) can be encountered that do not move into houses.Įach town NPC requires a suitable, vacant house. There are currently (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) 26 / (Old-gen console version) 21 / 19 Town NPCs, (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) 8 / (Old-gen console and 3DS versions) 6 of whom normally appear in Hardmode. However, a rescued NPC will stay rescued, and respawn without needing to be found again. ![]() the 50 SC requirement for the Merchant), that has to be met again for the respawn. (Old-gen console and 3DS versions) If the NPC has an inventory or population requirement for their initial spawn (e.g. If an NPC is killed, they will respawn after a delay, as long as a suitable vacant house is still available. (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) Occasionally, NPCs sit in chairs and randomly "talk" to other NPCs or the player (shown as mouth movement and speech bubbles).(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) Town NPCs gain defense and damage boosts based on which bosses have been defeated in the current world.They will not actively pursue combat, however, but rather attack in an act of self-defense. (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) Town NPCs will attack nearby enemies, each NPC having their own unique form of attack.The Nurse can furthermore heal herself and other nearby NPCs. They do not suffer from fall damage and their health regenerates over time. NPCs have limited health and can take damage, and ultimately die from enemies, traps, lava, or (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) by drowning in water however, they cannot be attacked directly by players (outside of special Voodoo Doll accessories, Rotten Eggs, or the Flymeal (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)). They remain still in their assigned houses at night and during certain events. Town NPCs generally walk around during the day. bases) with several integrated houses, to serve as their safe area. Players tend to utilize this effect by building large structures (e.g. However, this enemy spawn reduction effect will be weaker in the Underworld, and is negated in some circumstances (see Town § Notes for details). NPCs can reduce enemy spawn rates in the area, the effectiveness of which will increase as more NPCs are present, capped at 3 NPCs. They move into structures the player must provide, known as houses, which are generally required for town NPCs to remain available. Most NPCs are town NPCs, appearing after various milestones are achieved in game advancement. Some NPCs also have other options that perform other functions. They sell items to players in exchange for coins, and can be sold items by a player to obtain coins. Most NPCs are vendors, displaying a shop inventory when the " Shop" option is selected. Standing near an NPC and pressing the ⚷ Open / Activate button on them will open a dialogue window with one or more options for the player to select. NPCs are friendly automated non-player characters that provide services to players. For a complete list of NPC names, see NPC names. ![]() ![]() ![]() It sometimes doesn't connect automatically to your device, so go to the device manager to select it. The app is great for viewing basic Night Owl HD security cameras. Please fix all bugs, you have plenty of time. The other three years were spent trying to get connected. I've only seen remote viewing for one year. The cameras are great, but the remote viewing claims about the camera's performance seem almost fraudulent. I have had the night-owl system for 4 years. While I can connect to my DVR with a strong wifi signal, there are still issues. However, most times you can't connect to your DVR. The system is not recommended if your interests are the same as mine. The resolution is great, but I purchased the system to allow me to remotely monitor my home with my phone. Both scan and IP/domain failed to connect. It also drains your battery, even when you close the app.Īpp doesn't work. The screen then turns to white and displays an "application encountered an execting, please leave" message. I have not been able connect to my cameras for weeks. It seems that I can sell the system and switch to another brand. App shows the model, but it will not show 4 cameras. Update: I am now 2 years old and have already done all that tech told me to. It will connect for less than one day if I remove it and then reinstall. It worked fine up until the latest update. They tell me that I need to purchase a new phone after I have done everything asked. This company is horrible and their tech support is terrible. No problems with monitor connected directly to the device. Device, ethernet and wifi all work great. Update: Followed developers' suggestions. ![]() The system has been in place for five years. The next system will be to check Android reviews. It can cause anxiety and even panic if it isn't working properly. The whole idea is to be able to rest easy knowing that your security cameras and system are working. You are always screwed if there's an update. I would not recommend it or use it if it wasn't necessary.įrustrating! It sometimes works with Android, but most of the time it does not. The cameras work well, my WiFi works, but the app is false advertising. To get this ridiculous thing to work, I had to repeatedly restart my phone and force it to quit. I must uninstall the app and then reinstall it again. It doesn't work most of the time, and even when techs are available they don't have time to fix it. Customers service is rated 0 because it is worse than their system and completely useless.Īpp SUCKS. This system will frustrate and anger you. Do not buy this system if you have concerns about your office or home security. ![]() A second system was purchased by me, which I regret. The device "connects" 99 percent of the time, but it never connects unless I am at work and connected to the same wi-fi network. ![]() ![]() Employers will generally look for applicants with prior experience in quality control, but it is not always required.Ī Logistics Coordinator is one of the positions within the Supply Chain department. They spend much of their time in the warehouse completing general warehouse duties.
![]() ![]() There are 15 sparkling and non-sparkling flavors to choose from, six of which are in this variety pack. It gets its high caffeine content from a combination of sources: green tea extract with EGCG (a highly potent antioxidant found in green tea and matcha that helps prevent free-radical damage and reduce inflammation) ( 2 ) as well as guarana seed extract.īut what makes this one so popular? It’s accessible (you can get it at nearly every gas station or grocery store in America) and it’s damn tasty. Each 12-ounce can packs 200 mg of caffeine-more than any other drink on this list-and just 10 calories. ![]() ![]() Let’s start with the best healthy energy drink of the moment: Celsius Live Fit. In short, avoid artificial sweeteners like aspartame for their potential to be digestive upsetting look for monk fruit, agave, and honey, which are all generally considered safe. “As always, it is important to read the ingredient label, as sometimes stevia and monk fruit are combined with other unhealthy artificial sweeteners. Monk fruit is low-calorie and may contain antioxidants so it can be a good alternative to sugar,” she explains. “Though stevia has been generally recognized as safe, there are concerns over its impact on our overall health. If artificial sweeteners don’t cause you GI distress and you don’t have a medical condition like diabetes or high blood pressure to consider, Gately says they are safe for most people to consume in moderation. “Some people may experience GI distress, like diarrhea, after consumption,” explains Gately. Though faux sugars like stevia and sucralose (known as Splenda) have no sugar content, they also have zero nutritional value and can cause digestive issues. Then there are the sugar alternatives found in many energy drinks. The seed itself isn’t unhealthy, but it’s an NCAA-banned stimulant -it can show up in a urine test and shouldn’t be consumed by competitive college athletes, says Gately. If you’re starting your day with a quad-shot latte, reaching for an afternoon Americano, and taking down a Celsius before your men’s league basketball game, that’s overdoing it.īeyond excess caffeine and sugar, some popular “healthy” energy drinks, such as Celsius, also include guarana, whose seed s contain about four times more caffeine than coffee beans ( 1 ). The average person can safely consume around 400 mg (or less) of caffeine per day, or about four small cups of coffee. So it’s not about avoiding caffeine altogether, but rather about limiting your caffeine intake. “When you consume caffeine, it stimulates your nervous system causing your heart rate to increase, which pushes blood to your muscles and signals your liver to release glucose, providing you with energy,” adds Gately. Though some caffeine is perfectly healthy-it gives you energy and improves your ability to focus and concentrate-“some energy drinks contain high levels of caffeine that can be dangerous and negatively impact your heart, not to mention your anxiety and ability to sleep,” says registered dietitian Valerie Gately, MS, RDN, LD. Fortunately, it’s 2023, and there are plenty of healthy-ish alternatives to the sugar bombs of youth.ĭoes that mean we can consider these new-wave energy drinks to be “healthy”? Not quite. But that vice may come with downsides: caffeine jitters and an eventual sugar crash. A can of Red Bull or Monster can give you an energy boost when your ass is dragging at 3 p.m. ![]() ![]() ![]() Very approachable interface, given the number of tools on offer.Automatically corrects lens defects for thousands of lens/body combinations.Accepts raw files from 500+ different camera models. ![]() Comprehensive image management and editing features.Updates include an uprated version of the DeepPRIME engine, a more powerful retouching tool, integration of keystoning features from DxO ViewPoint, a new internal color space called DxO Wide Gamut, tools for soft-proofing your creations prior to printing, and a raft of minor enhancements to image management, cropping and more. ![]() Now here comes PhotoLab 6, yet another major release from the French company to see us through the next year, and this one promises to be more capable than ever. It also took on the clever U-Point local editing tech that DxO first inherited when it bought Google's Nik Collection suite, and offered better image management tools to boot. In the intervening version 5, PhotoLab finally received support for Fujifilm X-Trans cameras, answering the pleas of the Fujifilm faithful. Basically, because once those edits are baked into a TIFF, say, and returned to Lightroom I can only go non-destructive from that point.It's likewise been a couple of years since last we looked at PhotoLab 4, so before we introduce the new PhotoLab 6, perhaps a little catchup is in order. I only use PL for the things it does clearly better. Beyond this, I find LR easier to use for local adjustments, with PS6 as a fall-back for more complex edits.Īnd thirded by me. PL does the front part: PRIME noise reduction (excellent and far better than Adobe's), ClearView, other tools as needed. I use PL and LR6 in parallel, more rarely PS6 and specialty editors. It's a good way of using a dual monitor setup. Most software allows this or a slight variant, Hi ian, I use 2 monitors, one with the thumbnails and controls and the other with the image. ![]() You can have a grid like LR or I like to have the thumbnails shown vertically as vertical monitor space is limited with 16:9 displays: One tip is that the viewer can be undocked (Ctrl U). My main menu system workspace was shown above. Have you noticed that virtually every tool has a ? which when pressed provides a specific help note on that particular tool?Īlso the UI can be customised to suit you. I'd be happy if PL had something similar. I do think On1 has a good - and lengthy - PDF manual for On1 Raw. While U18 was working it was a close race, and U18 is better documented IMHO. Fortunately, I can still get better results than other sw I'm using, although if ACDSee support can ever figure out why U18 has stopped working on my system, I'll still compare it and PL. The documentation for PL is poor, and for me means I'm sure I'm not getting everything I could from it. Which of the above scenarios applies to you?Īgreed. If you are making adjustments in LR and then sending the raw file to DXO-PL using their plugin, then the adjustments in LR were pointless as you are sending the unadjusted raw file to DXO-PL for conversion If you first adjust in LR and then send the file to DXO-PL then either you are sending a rendered file by LR to DXO-PL, which is fairly pointless as DXO-PL is a raw converter and its ability to edit RGB files is limited. I don't want a video- I want something that I can look up a problem in the index and them read about it- Videos just dont hack it.įrom what you write you are not using DXO-PL as it was intended. It seems for several of these developers (ie Luminar, On1, ACDsee etc) they are good at software development but not so at teaching how to use it. They need to get someone to write a good 3rd party book (a Kelby like manual). Trying to search their online help for issues as simple as keystrokes can be an exercise in frustration. I find I am most often using lightroom 6 for basic development and then going to PL for further adjusting.Ī major frustration has been poor documention and learning aids. The Adobe subscription model pushed me out of their orbit. ![]() ![]() We say to them, take them, they are in body bags, we can give them to the Red Cross, send them to the Belarusian border, to wherever you want, we’ll give you these bodies,” said Vereshchuk. Vereshchuk said Ukraine had the bodies of at least 2,000 Russian soldiers in refrigerated storage in different regions across the country, as well as other cases where there were some charred remains or simply a identification token with a name, but that the Russians were not interested. There are corpses inside ruined tanks they’re burnt and difficult to get out,” he said. “They are lying there in the fields and the Russians don’t take them. Zelenskiy’s adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said the Russians had been using mobile crematoria in Crimea and Belarus to dispose of the remains of some soldiers, and that others were hard to retrieve. Ukraine has not released figures about its own casualties. Nato last week estimated the Russian death toll to be between 7,000 and 15,000. ![]() Russia’s defence ministry last week announced an official death toll of 1,351 for the first month of what Moscow has insisted on calling a “special military operation” in Ukraine, but Kyiv says the real total is more than 16,000. She just said, ‘We’ll work on it,’” said Vereshchuk. I talked to her, and said: ‘Take your bodies away.’ She had no response. “The Russian authorities don’t want these bodies. She said she had spoken by telephone or Zoom to several Russian officials, including the deputy defence minister, Alexander Fomin, and Tatyana Moskalkova, the Kremlin’s ombudsman for human rights. Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, who is responsible for negotiations with Moscow on returning the remains, said that despite repeated offers for Russia to present lists of the missing and have them returned, officials in Moscow were more concerned about covering up the scale of the losses. ![]() “I’m saying this to you as the president of a country that is fighting with Russian soldiers … It’s a war, but they are not animals.” Listen: even when a dog or a cat dies, that’s just not how to behave,” Zelenskiy said in an online interview with Russian journalists on Sunday evening. “We’ve all had a moment in our lives when someone has passed away, maybe not even close people or relatives. ![]() ![]() There are links to our Tools page, where you’ll find pattern worksheets and more information about the Cycle of Transformation and vicious cycles. Visit our graduate page to find all kinds of support. Go through them as a way to get to the light and love that are innately yours to have! And, knowing what patterns can be triggered in certain situations allows you the opportunity to pre-cycle patterns that may come up in the future.Īs I said at the beginning, vicious cycles are a treasure trove. Understanding and transforming a vicious cycle is kind of like bonus day at your favorite store – buy one, get 10 free! You get to identify and transform several patterns at once instead of puttering along with one today, another next week. This is how you resolve the pattern and find new behavior. ![]() You’ve now mapped out your vicious cycle.įrom here, you can identify patterns, and then take them through the Cycle of Transformation (awareness, expression, compassion and forgiveness). Keep repeating this step until you return to the original situation. Write out the situation, and then what’s the next thing that you think, feel, or do in regard to this situation. Think about a situation that happens frequently in your life (something work-related, relationship-related, maybe related to your body image). Mapping out a vicious cycle is a great tool by which to identify all the patterns working in the background. You’re not part of the “gang.” Tool HelpĪ vicious cycle is born! It can be very easy to slip into a vicious cycle, but despair not! Help is a tool away. You go back to comparing yourself to everyone else. Suddenly these judgements make you feel lonely, isolated. I don’t have to have plastic surgery to look good.” Judgy thoughts creep in and you start feeling superior to them, thinking, “ I don’t have to make millions to feel better about myself. You observe everyone laughing, engaged, having a good time. So you move to where the food is or go to the bar, and stuff your feelings with canapés and alcohol. I got nothing!”) Then you start to think you don’t belong here you’ll never be as successful, beautiful, etc. I don’t come close to that!” “That woman has it all. What’s the next thing you think, feel, or do? Do you compare yourself to them? (“That guy makes $30 million a year. You start comparing yourself to each person and you think, “I’m not as successful as everyone here.” Say you’re at a party and you are looking around at everyone there. Unraveling Vicious Cyclesīut what if we have a nest of patterns, a ball of behaviors that is making life miserable? How do we begin to unravel the hot mess that is making life hard, maybe even unbearable? One step at a time, as the saying goes.įirst, let’s look at a situation. That’s what we call the Cycle of Transformation. Through awareness, expression, compassion and forgiveness, we can transform these patterns into new behaviors. They can also be a treasure trove of information about what’s beneath our actions, words, and feelings.Īs we discovered in the Process, patterns are behaviors or ways of being that we learned in childhood. “ It’s also an opportunity for us to embrace and play with what makes the medium of sequential art so unique and give readers a tailored, stylistic experience to every sequence.Vicious cycles can be an annoyance, and they can be, well, vicious. The two families’ fraught history, tangled enough to fuel a whole season of high-country soap opera, keeps this installment from being the best place to take the initial plunge into the franchise, but first-timers will be intrigued and fans amply rewarded. This is thanks to the collaboration with Mattson, whose gift of being able to bring intimacy and subtle nuance to epic genre concepts helps make them feel personal as much as bombastic,” said Bermejo in a press release from BOOM! Studios. “A VICIOUS CIRCLE is a passion project and the most deliciously challenging thing I’ve done in my career thus far. ![]() Spanning from 22nd century Tokyo to 1950s New Orleans to the Cretaceous Era and beyond, the two mortal rivals are locked in a battle of wills that spans millions of years, all to alter the course of history. ![]() Shawn Thacker is a trained assassin from the future who seeks revenge on the only other man with his affliction-each life they take forces them both to involuntarily travel between vastly different past and future eras. BOOM! Studios announced a new original series, A Vicious Circle, a prestige three-issue series, from Mattson Tomlin and artist Lee Bermejo. ![]() ![]() We can also help you discover inspiring new technology, and keep you up-to-date on the latest tech innovations. Visit the Apple Retail Store to shop for Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod, and more. We can help you get more out of your tech, electronics and appliances. 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Visit the Apple Store to shop for iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch, iPad and more. 711 likes 1 talking about this 6,511 were here. You don’t need to wait for it to be authorized by the Apple store, though you will get a confirmation email. Lost or stolen iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Visit the Apple Store to shop for iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch, iPad. ![]() What’s great about this is that it only displays appointments that are currently available, and once you book, the appointment is yours. You can now select a date and time for your appointment. Apple Store Crossgates store hours, contact information, and weekly calendar of events. You can now search for a store or select one nearby.Īfter selecting the store you’d like to visit, tap the ‘Genius Bar’ tab, then select the device you’d like to see a Genius about. It’s a free download from the App Store. Once installed, open it up and tap on the ‘Stores’ tab along the bottom. First, ensure you have the Apple Store app installed on your device. ![]() ![]() ![]() Everything that I would give a mixed review seems brighter and better when I try to sum it up. ![]() The high-concept work in this novel is brilliant. But Vox uses clear point of view characters, excellent “tight shots” of individual moments of action, and then excellent summaries to breathe life into a fading trope of military fiction. Even more impressive is his rendering of Roman Legion battles, because they’ve been done to death in fiction. That’s not an easy thing to pull off and Vox Day does it well. The battle scenes are coherent, believable, clear, and engaging. The battle against his demon-werewolf Aalvarg involves Norse shield-wall tactics and free-wheeling medieval cavalry. Speaking of military, Vox does an excellent job with two very different styles of combat. ![]() There are three major stories told within the novel, and any one of them would suffice for a standard mass-market paperback: one tragic story, one political drama, and a military tale as well. Vox’s critical thinking skills and systematic approach to things supply a rare solidity to his fantasy world. ![]() In the critical concept-related portions of his novel Throne of Bones really shines through. The structure of the church, administration of the republic, and the political maneuvering between nobles are all based on fascinating concepts. Vox’s novel shines in the realm of ideas and formula. It robs something of the sense of wonder from the story, but makes the more mundane successes of his mortal heroes all the more compelling because they are not inevitable. There are no supermen here, only flawed mortals (all things being relative in a story with elves) doing their best according to their nature. Corvus has his unbending legalism, Clericus his matching idealism, and so it goes for every character. Every character has at least one major flaw. Vox’s characterization also harkens back to the great traditions of epic lore. His villains, the corrupt politician Patronus and his worldly daughter are living illustration of everything nauseating about Roman history and Byzantine corruption. Fjotra, the Norse princess is another strong antagonist, whose own journey highlights the better parts of her culture as well as making an interesting commentary on the roles of women in warrior societies. The Valerian nobles are strong male leads, the elder, Corvus, presents us with a useful embodiment of the classical Roman virtues of piety, family, and patriotism while his younger son Clericus (a joke because of his faith) is a fine officer in the standard fiction role of a freshly-minted officer earning his spurs. Theudric the mage is as close as any character comes to an Everyman. Throne of Bones has a strong cast of protagonists, each with unique strengths to their points of view. The humanity of the church’s officers comes through, as does the mystery of potential supernatural goings-on behind the scenes. Throne of Bones itself refers to the seat of the Not-Catholic Church in the heart of Not-Rome, and the novel begins with a strong voice and a fine characteristic introduction. I have already spoken about Vox’s strong amalgamation of Roman and French medieval worlds with standard Western tropes in my review of The Last Witchking. My first foray into Vox Day’s long fiction was his novel Throne of Bones, one of his stories in the fantasy world of Selenoth. ![]() |
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