This gives the sensation of an uneven fit around the foot, especially since the rubber section of the boot is made wide to compensate for a lack of ventilation. Keep in mind, though, they don’t do well with climbing steep terrain.Īdditionally, the laces only extend to the upper part of duck boots, lacking lower shoelaces on the rubber section. However, if you did end up using them for other outdoor activities, then camping would be a good idea. You can hike in duck boots, but not only are they limited to hikes in the colder seasons, but they can’t manage the 5–10-mile hikes that can be done with a typical pair of hiking boots.Īs mentioned previously, their main purpose is hunting. The bottom portion of the boot, which has a rubber sole, allows you to navigate damp and slushy grounds without losing your footing.Ĭombined with the waterproof leather upper, which is more flexible than what you’d find on some other boots, duck boots manage to give you agility comparable to some trail shoes. Since they combine elements of hiking boots and hiking shoes, duck boots are incredibly versatile and comfortable. Nowadays, they can be worn for things other than hunting, including dressing up in a stylish fall or winter outfit. The term “duck boots” comes from the fact that they were primarily used by hunters, especially duck hunters, to chase and capture various types of waterfowl. While they excel as hunting boots, not all duck boots outperform traditional hiking boots, despite having features that would make them ideal for some winter trails.ĭuck boots can either be ankle or mid-calf footwear that’s best suited for winter activities, such as hunting.ĭuck boots were originally made in 1911 by Leon Bean, a Maine fisherman, after needing a solution to his feet constantly getting wet when outdoors. Bean boots and Sperry duck boots are among the popular brands for hunters or outdoor enthusiasts who wear duck boots. Duck boots are a cross between rain boots and work boots and are designed to help duck hunters manage cold weather.
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Once a creature succeeds the saving throw or is dismissed, it can't be affected again by the effects of the potion for a month, unless it chooses to do so willingly.Artifacts are among the most powerful magic items in 5e Dungeons and Dragons that players will encounter. You can have only one creature under your control at any given time. The effect lasts until you dismiss the servant or until you die. The creature is under your control as if under the effect of a dominate beast, dominate person or dominate monster spell, accordingly to its type, and you don't need to maintain concentration to control it. If the creature is unconscious when it drinks the potion, it automatically fails the saving throw. On a fail, it suffers the effect of a true polymorph spell, but it retains the ability to speak and its mental ability scores. If any creature drinks it, you can force it to make a Wisdom saving throw. You can create a special potion with your Bad Taste feature. You learn how to submit to your will those foolish enough to accept to make a deal with you. Starting at 14th level, your patron decides to share a powerful secret with you. If an item is not used within the same day it is created, it loses its magical properties. You can only have a number of items created this way equal to half your Charisma modifier, rounded down (minimum 1). If you use an action to destroy the item, you can cast the spell infused within without expending a spell slot. Also, you can spend one hour during a long rest to create an object infused with a warlock spell you know with a cast duration of one action. You add identify to the list of spells you know and it counts as a warlock spell for you. Starting at 10th level, you develop an unusual curiosity for weird and unique objects and charms. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1), and you regain all expended charges after a long rest. If the attacker has disadvantage to the attack against you because of Sinister Sneer, it automatically fails the saving throw, while if it is immune to the charmed condition, it automatically succeeds. If it fails, the chosen creature becomes the new target of the attack. When you are targeted by an attack or spell, you can choose an hostile creature you can see within the range of the attack and then use your reaction to force the attacker to make a Wisdom saving throw. Starting at 6th level, you can blur the eyes and confuse the minds of your enemies, making them attack their own friends. A creature immediately succeeds on the saving throw if it is immune to the charmed condition. If it fails, it has disadvantage on attack rolls against you until the start of your next turn. This bonus does not stack with bonuses from similar features, like Expertise.Īdditionally, whenever you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that targets an hostile creature, you can use a bonus action to force the target to make a Wisdom saving throw. You gain proficiency in the Deception skill and double your proficiency bonus for it. Sinister SneerĪt 1st level, you learn tricks that your patron uses to deceive mortals and to instill fear and doubt in its enemies. You can cast a warlock spell you know as a ritual as long as the spell has the ritual tag. Wicked Crone Expanded Spells Spell levelĪt 1st level, you learn how to cast certain spells as rituals. Spells are added to the warlock spell list for you. The Wicked Crone lets you choose from an expanded list of Expanded Spell List, Ritual Casting, Sinister Sneer In my case, I replaced the bottom touch screen digitizer with a new one and also ended up replacing the housing with a white one. This is a great opportunity to clean the device and components or replace the housing. The process is pretty involved and you end up taking apart the entire DSi XL/LL. This is another piece of the guide that has already been well documented out by iFixit. Leave a comment and I can try to help if needed. Now the DSi XL should reboot and start up in Twilight Menu++, please note that the steps above are under the assumption that you have your SD card setup similar to mine, if that’s not the case you might need to try something else. Set Unlaunch to boot Twilight Menu++ by default: Once you’ve followed the steps to boot into Twilight Menu++, you should be able to launch the “Unlaunch” app, this will bring you to a point where the menu is displayed on the top screen, but since we don’t have a top screen we will have to just press the buttons as follows to navigate: I will provide the steps below on how to try and navigate the menu without a top screen. My first attempt at this was setting up my DSi XL without a top screen, this is not recommended, but if you want to do it this way, it is possible. Setting Up Twilight Menu++ as default boot without a top screen The screen should go purple and boot Twilight Menu++ Select the SD card and press “Start”Įject the SD card and reinsert into your DSi XL Go through the screens, select the correct version of your DSi firmware, Check all 3 boxes for TWiLight Menu++, dumpTool, Unlaunch. If you’re not in the mood to read through the guides and are fairly familiar with the CFW and Homebrew scene here are some steps to get your SD card prepped quickly for use:įormat your SD card to FAT32 with the allocation unit size set to 32kbĭownload and install 7-Zip, WinRAR and other compression software don’t work with the Lazy DSi File Downloaderĭownload and run Lazy DSi file Downloader for whatever OS you’re computer is running, you might need to turn off your antivirus in order for this to run, it’ll show up as a virus/trojan As the guide in the link mentions, if you’re using the latest version of Twilight Menu, more than likely the latest version of nds-bootstrap is included, but if it isn’t you can download the files here: NDS-bootstrap releases. Some games like Pokemon Soul Silver for example does not work so well because you need to constantly swap screens every time a new screen loads). Something to note here is that earlier this year there was a new release of nds-bootstrap that added the ability to swap screens from top to bottom, so if you are running a Gameboy Macro you should now also have the ability to play DS games along with your GBA games(DS games that don’t require a lot of use of the bottom screen work well. This is what I used: DSi Guide and Unlaunch setup guide. I won’t go in depth into how to install this since there are a million guides to do so out there. There are multiple ways to go about getting this installed, for this guide I am doing the install through the SD card. Unlaunch will automatically boot the system into Twilight Menu++ whenever you power on your DSi XL/LL. The reason why we want to install Twilight Menu++ is because the DSi XL/LL does not natively run GBA games and so we need to do some software modifications in order for the DSi to emulate GBA and DS games. Please note that you need to have completed the camera tutorial before attempting to go through this setup along with updating your DSi XL to the latest version. Please read through the entire guide before attempting this mod, it’s fairly involved and takes some tech know-how to accomplish.įirst thing before we start taking apart the DSi XL/LL is we need to do some software modding. As always, I’m not responsible if you brick your device or injure yourself in anyway, this was done as a hobby to potentially help anyone who might be looking for information. You might notice that there are different DSi XLs in the pictures, I did this over several weeks and modified different ones until I was happy with the way it turned out. So here’s my attempt a very concise and quick guide on making one yourself. There is an abundant amount of information about modifying the older Nintendo DS Lite and DS phat but no centralized place for making the modification on the Nintendo DSi XL/LL. The reason for writing this guide is because I’ve actually not seen too many guides on doing this. Recently I was feeling a bit nostalgic and decided to try my hand at taking a cheap Nintendo DSi XL that I bought from eBay and modifying it to become what some would call a Gameboy Macro XLi. I thorough enjoy getting electronic devices to do things beyond what they were meant for. Boba Fett, the Mandalorian bounty hunter, tracks the Millenium Falcon to Cloud City, and alerts Lord Vader to their location. Darth Vader dispatches a number of bounty hunters to locate and capture the fleeing Rebels. With the Rebel base on Hoth under siege, Han Solo and Princess Leia escape to Bespin's Cloud City. No longer a reckless vagrant, Han Solo becomes a general in the Rebel Alliance and is recognized as one of its most deserving and courageous heroes. After helping to rescue the Rebel leader Princess Leia from the clutches of the evil Empire, the charming yet insufferable pilot finds a focus for his flyboy talents. For this reason, he is hired to transport Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and young Luke Skywalker on a mission that will forever alter Han's roguish course. His skill with a blaster and uncanny luck are equaled only by his extraordinary piloting abilities.Īfter winning the Falcon from fellow gambler and friend Lando Calrissian, Han extensively modified his ship to become one of the fastest space vessels in the galaxy. Fast thinking and quick with a blaster, Han is noted for his narrow escapes from dangerous situations, many of which are the result of his own brash and arrogant behavior. 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Jun Liu (Rank:8) Stage Name: Jun Liu Birth Name: Liu Jun (刘隽) Birthday: 12 December, 1997 (?) Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius Chinese Zodiac Sign: Ox Height: 174 cm (5’8) Weight: 58 kg (127 lbs) Birthplace: Malaysia Company: Individual Trainee – For the position battle, he ranked #88th. – For the first judges evaluation, he earned a ‘B’. – School: ChongQing Institute of Humanities and Science. – Personal works: Road, Seven Kick, 365 days. – He participated in Triple Kill and Sing Everyday. Sun Yihang (Rank: 7) Stage Name: Sun Yihang (孙亦航) Birth Name: Huang Yu Hang (黄宇航) Birthday: OctoZodiac Sign: Libra-Scorpio cusp Chinese Zodiac Sign: Snake Height: 175 cm (5’9) )) Weight: 54 kg (119 lbs) Province/Hometown: Chongqing Company: Original Plan Entertainment – For the position battle, he ranked #60th. – For the first judges evaluation, he earned an ‘N’. – TMI: wraps himself in the warm quilt and turns on the air conditioner to 16 ℃ in the cold winter. Youth With You 3 Trainee Profile: Vic Wei (Rank: 77) Stage Name: Vic Wei Birth Name: Wei Xingchen (魏星丞) Birthday: 9 October, 1998 Zodiac Sign: Libra Chinese Zodiac Sign: Tiger Height: 188 cm (6’2) Weight: 66.2 kg (145 lbs) Company: Huayi Brothers Fashion ( NOTE:2 or 3 trainees left the show before they released any photos, so they wont be added to the profile & not all info will be accurate as I had to interpret them, please correct me if you spot any errors.) Data were extracted from video review by blinded, independent reviewers. The ED resuscitation room and the intravenous medication port were video recorded during the simulations. We performed a prospective, block-randomized, crossover study in which 10 emergency physician and nurse teams managed 2 simulated pediatric arrest scenarios in situ, using either prefilled, color-coded syringes (intervention) or conventional drug administration methods (control). 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You remember this guy, he broke your heart when he dissolved the squeaky shoe in that green goopy stuff. He put on this big show so everyone knows how hard he is only to later on show himself to be a snivelling snot weasel worse than that kids in school who hung out with the bullies, but only had the guts to agree with what the head bully had to say. He’s whispering green stuff here and there, he even appears to turn into a sugar skull at one point He has one of the most impressive musical sequences in modern Disney memory with the Friends on the Other Side song, where he makes himself look like a total badass with all the magic he needs right at his fingertips. This guy is both awesome and a total scumbag in equal measures. They refer to him as The Shadow Man or sometimes The Voodoo Man.ĭr Facilier uses his shadow friends from ‘the other side’ to hatch a plan to take over the whole of New Orleans to… Harvest their souls, or something. This guy is so scary the townspeople of New Orleans don’t even use his name, either that or they don’t think he’s interesting enough to bother learning his name. No one calls him by his name in the movie. You could be forgiven for not having a clue who Dr Facilier is, even if you’ve seen The Princess and the Frog. Even when watching it as an adult the grand finale with the gazillion foot tall Ursula is pretty disturbing, especially when she laughs as though she’s a vinyl recording of a creeping seaside laughing man played at the slowest possible speed.Ĥ) Dr Facilier – The Princess and the Frog I have to admit I don’t really remember being scared of Ursula, but I do remember being mesmerised by her and the way she used to slither about with her wayward tentacles. Have you heard her laugh? It’s the most typical evil laugh you’ve ever heard! She lives in a sea cave thing full of withered twiglet looking things with eyes. She’s all in black, she’s got some kind of weird thing going on with her hair, she has, quite frankly an amazing bosom. As soon as Ariel drops on by to sell her voice and change her species so Prince Eric will fall in love with her (seriously though ladies, don’t change who are just for some man, Prince of not) we can sense Ursula’s evility. The Little Mermaid was my first ever VHS and I watched it all the time. She was probably the first real villain that I ever encountered as a little whippersnapper. I’ll warn you now, there are spoilers contained within! So, we have villains to fight against and to teach us that greed and being evil is bad.Īlthough I firmly believe that not all animation is for kids, for the purpose of this list I have decided to concentrate of kids’ animation, so I can hark back to all those times I pooped my pants in the living room watching a movie (sorry Mum, you washed those knickers like a pro!) 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As such, the relatively small size of JPEG files makes them excellent for transporting over the Internet and using on websites. The considerable compression that JPEG offers is the reason for its wide use. JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group), is a universal file format that utilizes an algorithm to compress photographs and graphics. “We’re just kind of taking it day by day and seeing where this roller coaster of an adventure leads us. Hunter noted that they’ve had a “couple sneak aways,” and they’re both excited about what’s next. So I can drive to Georgia and be on the farm,” Meghan said. “I’m back in Tennessee so we’re only about 5 hours away from each other now. (FOX)Īs for what’s next for the couple, Meghan revealed that she’s moved home from Midland, Texas. Meghan in the ‘Farmer Wants A Wife’ finale. Hunter Grayson: 5 Things To Know About The Dashing ‘Farmer Wants A Life’ Suitor Landon Heaton: 5 Things To Know About The Cattle Rancher Looking For Love On ‘Farmer Wants A Wife’ 'Farmer Wants A Wife' Exclusive Preview: Ryan Opens Up To Lily About His Brother's Death That sealed it for me.” More 'Farmer Wants A Wife' News: But I think the fact that she always kept me on my toes and wasn’t afraid to check my line from time to time, and from time to time I mean every darn day. I remember seeing her smile and that little smirk and she’s just grinning like a mule eating briars in that short red dress and that pretty much did me in off the start. I remember walking into the barn, and I didn’t even know which group of women was the group I was supposed to be paired with. He added, “But I was instantly struck by her. “I think her favorite line is I can talk enough for the both of us,” Hunter quipped. However, he “wasn’t sure” she liked him after the speed date because Meghan was a bit shy. Hunter admitted that he felt an “instant connection” with Meghan. I had to come back to see if he felt the same way I felt about him, so I guess that’s where it started for me.” “We had just had the family visit, so obviously had feelings, but I left right when those feelings were really starting to form. Hunter dropped absolutely everything to make sure that I was okay and take me to the airport and just make sure I was comfortable,” Meghan explained. Meghan opened up about the heartfelt moment her feelings for Hunter changed during their Farmer Wants A Wife journey. It’s tough and there’s no handbook about how to go about doing this.” Articles Trending Now That’s tough when you’ve got a new relationship you’re trying to stoke those flames and keep everything alive when you’re not together all the time. We went on a cruise together in January, but once the commercials came out we had to stop almost cold turkey. I flew out to Midland and visited with her a little bit, and then came back and spent a little bit of time around Christmas together. “For me, and I think she’ll agree with me on this, we darn near lived together for 2 months, and then right after we could see each other a little bit here and there,” Hunter said. Hunter Grayson and Meghan in the ‘Farmer Wants A Wife’ finale. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with the couple about the most challenging part of keeping their relationship a secret, what their next move is, and more. Six months after filming the finale, Hunter and Meghan are still together and excited about the next chapter. Hunter Grayson made his final decision in the Farmer Wants A Wife finale and told Meghan Baker that he wanted to be with her. Search Hollywood Life Search Trending Navigation Trending Latest Hollywood Celebrity & Entertainment News Primary Menu Menu Close Menu This did not seem like my genre at all, but it turns out I may not know what kind of books I like after all. The fact that I am far from a library with no means to pick up the next book in the series annoyed me so much I had to buy all five books, hoping they'll be waiting for me when I get home from my vacation. They may not all have been necessary (come ON, the bad guys have you captured and are torturing your friend - and you're trying to seduce your boyfriend? Alexia, you know better than that.), but hey, compared to a lot of others books I've read this year no twins fucked each other, so that was a plus! There are a lot of not nearly but definitely getting there sex-scenes in the book, but I thought they were hilarious, in a good way. Although, as we find out, she still suffers from a whole range of emotions, not all of them proper. Miss Tarabotti isn't your average Victorian lady, since she doesn't possess a soul. I found myself liking her sisters and airhead best friend, and I don't think they were treated too poorly by the narrative either. Oh, yes, Miss Tarabotti does suffer from the special snowflake syndrome, being soo much better than your average lady of the time, but this did not bother me as much as it could have. But the steampunk part intrigued me a little more, but even so I had no hopes of liking this book. Honestly, werewolves and vampires in Victorian London? Not really my thing. … ( more)īasically, I picked this book up because for certain reasons I figured it'd be good karma. Similarly, Peters fans who like SF, steampunk, or vampires/werewolves, might enjoy the Carriger series. The Amelia Peabody books are, of course, "straight" historical mystery, without the steampunk elements of Carriger's series, but I imagine that Carriger fans who read out-of-genre also will enjoy the Peters' series. Similar era, similarly cranky and forthright spinster protagonist, similar sort of love affair, similar witty dialog and observations. … ( more) lquilter: Without knowing, I'd imagine that Gail Carriger had read Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody series (beginning with Crocodile on the Sandbank) before writing Blameless (et seq). Soulless is the first book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinki … ( more)Ģ9 1 Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters ( nessreader, lquilter) nessreader: The heroine of Soulless has a similar outlook to early Amelia Peabody (but I should warn that the Peabody series is cosy crime/romance, with no supernatural element while Soulless is gleeful fantasy) Both have strong willed on-the-shelf spinsters who are active protagonists in their story. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart? With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire â? and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. HTML: Buffy meets Jane Austen in the first book of this wickedly funny NYT bestselling series about a young woman whose brush with the supernatural leads to a deadly investigation of London's high society.Īlexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. |
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