![]() If it weren't for the rather contrived budding temptation that develops between Jake and Ellen, McConaughey's projection of integrity and fortitude would have single-handedly kept the story surging along. McConaughey finds a nice balance between outrage and desperation, allowing his character to wield lofty moral truisms without succumbing to sensationalism or sentimentality. Of course, it wouldn't matter how acutely Grisham or Goldsman examined these realities if Schumacher's cast hadn't given themselves to their roles. ![]() ![]() In that regard, A Time to Kill remains an important film one that manages to portray a potent cultural cancer as a dormant but dangerous factor in our modern lives. Political leanings aside, it's tough to deny that such archaic views have faded away - anyone who watched as campaign rally attendees frothed at the mouth and screamed obscenities at the thought of Barack Obama being elected president knows full well that racism is alive and well, regardless of how much our society likes to pretend it's been left in the past. ![]() The trial itself is merely a catalyst that brings out the worst in an otherwise peaceful community the real story is focused on the hatred brewing in a group of people who fail to grasp the state of affairs as they truly are. Haley's tale is a somber, all-too-relevant exploration of racism, bigotry, and justice that moves me each and every time I watch it. I've read more than a few disparaging reviews for A Time to Kill over the years - USA Today called it a "riotously cluttered melodrama," The Washington Post described it as "the moral equivalent of a cockfight," and the Razzie Awards nominated it for Worst Written Film Grossing Over $100 Million - but, to be honest, I simply can't wrap my head around the reason behind such vehement criticism. As Buckley presents a damning prosecution to an all-white jury, Jake and his colleagues have to find a way to overcome the prejudice dominating the community and convince twelve people that Haley shouldn't be convicted of his crimes. When the county's district attorney, Rufus Buckley (Kevin Spacey), seeks the death penalty, a young lawyer named Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey), a local divorce lawyer (Oliver Platt), and a feisty law student (Sandra Bullock) come together and agree to defend Carl. Unfortunately for Carl, a local deputy (Chris Cooper) is also wounded in the attack after a stray bullet from Haley's gun misses its mark. Jackson plays Carl Lee Haley, a rural Mississippi family man who takes the law into his own hands when he kills two men responsible for the rape and attempted hanging of his ten-year old daughter (Raeven Larrymore Kelly). Jackson teeters on the edge, eliciting empathy from his audience to great effect.Ī solemn and intense Samuel L. well, let's just say the actors prove they're more than up to the task. Dutton, and the late, great Patrick McGoohan. Jackson, Sandra Bullock, both Keifer and Donald Sutherland, Chris Cooper, Oliver Platt, Ashley Judd, Charles S. Schumacher delivers an inspiring ensemble that includes Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey, Samuel L. Notoriously uneven screenwriter Akiva Goldsman rights his Batman Forever wrongs with a script that's more akin to his work on A Beautiful Mind and Cinderella Man than Batman & Robin. Of the many films based on author John Grisham's legal fiction - The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, and Runaway Jury, among others - director Joel Schumacher's A Time to Kill is not only my favorite, but arguably one of the most sharply-written, smartly-cast courtroom dramas of the '90s. Reviewed by Kenneth Brown, February 14, 2009 Grisham's finest translates well to the big screen.
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![]() Want to hang out more? We do too! Sign up to get our email updates here. If you liked this project, we’d appreciate if you pinned it! Just click the button to pin: pin it One of the best things about this is that it is very inexpensive. You might need more, you might need less depending on the scope of your project. Below is a list of everything I needed to get my car painted. I dont want my truck looking like a pos rust bucket. First, you will need to purchase all of the materials needed to complete this job. Ready to see what our friends did with their Metal Effects Patina kits? Check out their projects below and if you’d like to see the full tutorial just click the pictures. Take a perfectly good paint job truck, and primer the whole thing for years, or pay to have this shit done. Pretty cool, huh? The best part is that we didn’t even use half of the paint, primer, and patina solution, so we can still do another project or two. We let it dry overnight and when we came back the next morning it looked like this. Once you spray the patina aging solution, the paint begins to turn dark blue within a few minutes, but you have to let it dry to get the full effect. The total better than new restoration paint jobs can be great as well, whatever you. Here’s what the pot looked like after primer and paint. rust type patina to show up like is now on my Reed 4c. There was an instruction booklet in the box, but the directions are pretty simple: two coats of primer, two coats of bronze paint, then spritz with the patina aging solution while the paint is still wet. I believe that tells the story of the truck and you can never replicate what Mother Nature has done over the course of 50 years. I prefer to find trucks with original paint, rust, patina, dents, and dings. But I hate spending the whole weekend detailing those shiny paint jobs. We decided to transform a decorative pot we found at the thrift store. I love shiny paint jobs like the next guy. ![]() They have three finishes, blue patina, green patina, or rust, and we chose to work with blue patina. Our Modern Masters Metal Effects kit came with everything needed to complete our project, including the brushes. This sponsored post was written by me on behalf of Modern Masters, and may contain affiliate links. It’s time for another Monthly DIY Challenge! This month our challenge item is Modern Master’s Metal Effects Patina Paint. Which doesnt appear to show a bluetooth audio connection? At the time of running the command the bluetooth headphones were connected and working as tested from the Ubuntu sound panel. **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****Ĭard 0: HDMI, device 3: HDMI 0 Ĭard 0: HDMI, device 7: HDMI 1 Ĭard 0: HDMI, device 8: HDMI 2 Ĭard 1: PCH, device 0: ALC668 Analog Ĭard 2: CODEC, device 0: USB Audio Im stuck on the final step, outputing through bluetooth headphones attached to the PC. ![]() The connection manager screenshot does not show if master-bus output is connected to the soundcard. Input: usb-mic, output: realtek HDA (onboard soundcard). So, now I have alsa_out working (alsa_out -d hw:1) which outputs the sound through my PC speakers once I make the connections through qjack. It seems that you’re using different devices for input and output. Ive looked at the video tutorials, and Im at a loss to to know what Im doing wrong.Ĭlearly theres something I dont understand! Can someone enlighten me please? I then try each of the outputs offered in HW-HDMI3, /dev/dsp, HW-PCH0, HW, PCH, HW-HDMI, plughw:0īut no change in Jack makes any difference to where the output goes, either during recording or playback. The PC speakers will play back (from another source eg music) just fine during this. define a new pseudo-device composed of 2 or more other devices. I then expect it to play back through the default audio device, which at the time are the PC speakers. The Windows version is complete, maintained and as robust as the other versions. In this case, we have an audio track called Audio 2 which has a single input. I have tried setting Jack output to default. ![]() ![]() No matter what I try, I cant get the output redirected to the PC speakers (or anywhere else). I want to play back through my PC (and ultimately through bluetooth headphones connected to it). I have connected a Zoom guitar effects box via USB which I can record and play back through the Zoom into an external amp. Under System, you can view the system type. Im running Ubuntu 14 on an Asus i7 laptop. Windows: To find out if your computer is running a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows in Windows 7 or Windows Vista, do the following: Open System by clicking the Start button, right-click Computer, and then click Properties. ![]() Ray's ability to float on the air without losing altitude gives him similar control to Tails' brand of flight while he can't ascend, he can decide when to dive, and his glide can carry him across distances perhaps even greater than Tails' flight and Knuckles' glide can if controlled properly. While his form of flight is more like gliding it doesn't have the properties of Knuckles' glide, most notably the slow descent. Ray is similar in appearance and gameplay to Tails, with a smaller size and flying capabilities. ![]() Ray, like Mighty, is introduced in Sonic Mania Plus, having previously made his only appearance in the 1993 arcade game SegaSonic the Hedgehog as an ally of Sonic. Thus, he's best played if you're looking for someone on the safer side. ![]() While Mighty has some advantages that make him strong and durable, they don't give him an edge when it comes to speedrunning (such as Knuckles' climbing and gliding, Tails' flying, or Sonic's Drop Dash and shield abilities). Mighty can also crash through breakable objects due to his strength. Secondly, Mighty's shell acts as a shield, making him immune to spikes when in ball form. Firstly, pressing an action button twice will cause Mighty to perform a ground pound, hurting all nearby enemies. In Mania Mighty plays in a manner similar to Sonic, though he has some different abilities up his sleeve that aid him in both offense and defense. His only other appearance between his debut and Sonic Mania was in Knuckles' Chaotix as an ally of Knuckles. Mighty the Armadillo is one of two characters introduced in Sonic Mania Plus, though his first appearance was in the 1993 arcade game SegaSonic the Hedgehog as an ally of Sonic. Defeating the final boss in this zone will allow you to view the true ending of the game. Additionally, just as in Sonic 3 & Knuckles, different types of shields give him unique abilities: the Fire Shield gives him the ability to perform an air dash, the Lightning Shield grants a double jump, and the Water Shield gives a bounce ability, alongside unlimited air underwater.Ĭollecting all Chaos Emeralds through Special Stages unlocks a secret zone exclusive to Sonic at the end of the game. Collecting enough medallions in the Bonus Stages unlocks other abilities for Sonic in place of the Drop Dash, both available in No Save mode: the Super Peel-Out from Sonic CD and the Insta-Shield from Sonic 3 & Knuckles. It can be performed by holding an action button ( / / / / / / ) while in mid-air Sonic's ensuing speed will be so impressive that he leaves behind a dust cloud. He is aided by his new ability, the Drop Dash, a kind of mid-air Spin Dash that gives him a boost after returning to the ground from a Spin Jump. Sonic is the fastest of all playable characters, and is thus best at maintaining that speed. Sonic is the primary hero of the game, having been pursuing Eggman longer than anyone else. ![]() ![]() The release also adds support for AI texture generation, with users now able to upload a diffuse map and have D5 Render generate matching normal, roughness, and displacement maps. It generates a sky matching the target image, either through D5 Render’s Geo&Sky system, or by selecting a readymade HDRI, and also generates matching weather effects. To that, D5 Render 2.6 adds new AI-based tools, including a new AI Atmosphere Match feature for matching the atmosphere of a scene automatically to a source image. The community edition of the software is free for commercial use, and is fully functional, with commercial Pro subscriptions adding access to advanced features and extra stock assets.ĭ5 Render 2.6: new AI tools for matching atmospheric looks and generating texture maps ![]() The software supports DXR-based hardware-accelerated ray tracing on current NVIDIA, AMD and Intel GPUs, and is capable of rendering 16K still images and panoramas, and 4K videos. Other features include object scattering and shot dressing tools, support for volumetric and particle-based effects, and path-based animation tools for crowd characters or vehicles. There are also updates throughout the existing material editing, lighting and post effects toolsets, to the Video Editor, and to the asset library and 3ds Max and Cinema 4D plugins.Ī rapidly evolving GPU ray tracing renderer for architectural visualisationįirst released in 2021, D5 Render is an increasingly powerful architectural renderer with linking plugins for a range of DCC and CAD tools, including 3ds Max, Blender and Cinema 4D.Īs well as rendering scenes directly from a linked DCC app, users can import models in FBX, Alembic or SketchUp’s SKP format, apply PBR materials, and assign HDRIs, lights and LUTs. The release adds new AI-based tools, including a new feature for matching the atmosphere of a scene automatically to a source image, and support for AI texture generation. Originally posted on 12 December 2023, and updated with details of the final release.ĭimension 5 Techs has released D5 Render 2.6, the next version of its GPU ray tracing renderer. ![]() It can give you a single pane of glass view for a large range of calendars including iCloud, Google, Microsoft 365,, , Zoom, Yahoo, Webex, MS Exchange, Todoist, etc. Fantastical is one of those apps that prevents me from ever going back to Windows.įantastical has won Mac app of the year award (2020), and is both visually beautiful as well as functional. ($4.75/mo) Fantastical is one of those must-have calendaring apps that is supported across the Apple ecosystem (macOS, iOS, iPadOS, WatchOS). Note: Download 1Password for Mac directly from their website. ![]() 1Password’s 128-bit secret key adds the critical extra layer of protection that Infosec professionals trust. I would not say that of any other cloud based password manager, as most all other apps rely solely on a master password to decrypt your vault. When done right ( like what 1Password does), storing a password vault in the cloud does not really increase the risk of your vault being decrypted by a threat actor. There’s a big misconception that storing passwords in the cloud is less secure than storing them locally. 1Password also has support for Passkeys, which is the future of secure logins. 1Password also has routine 3rd party security audits, which they publicly publish the results. If you are using any password manager other than 1Password I would urge you to strongly consider migrating. Infosec professionals that I’ve seen lately only recommend two options for password management: 1Password and Bitwarden.ġPassword has much stronger protection of your password vault than Bitwarden ( 128-bit secret key plus your master password vs. ![]() Security researcher after researcher pick 1Password as the best option, with an extremely high bar for security. Given the recent Lastpass security breaches, and their horrific security practices coming to light (not to mention their deceptive public statements and even outright lies), using a highly trusted password manager is a must. It has clients for macOS, iOS, Windows, Android, Linux, and many browser extensions including Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Brave, and Edge. (From $2.99/mo) 1Password is an awesome cross-platform password and privacy manager. ![]() ![]() Lost Mode notifies you when your AirTag is found, and you can enter a phone number where you can be contacted.The Find My network with hundreds of millions of devices can help you find your AirTag, even when it isn't nearby.AirTag can be located by playing a sound via the built-in speaker.Precision Finding uses visual, audible, and haptic feedback to guide you directly to your nearby AirTag using Ultra Wideband provided by the U1 chip on iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 models.Support for AirTag to keep track of and find your important items like your keys, wallet, backpack and more, privately and securely in the Find My app.Ability to unlock your iPhone X and later with Apple Watch Series 3 and later when you attempt to use Face ID while wearing a face mask.Siri adds more diverse voice options, and App Tracking Transparency lets you control which apps are allowed to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites. IOS 14.5 includes the option to unlock iPhone with Apple Watch while wearing a face mask, adds support for AirTag, and introduces separate skin tone variations for emoji with couples. iPhone may experience reduced performance during startup.Bluetooth devices could sometimes disconnect or send audio to a different device during an active call.Call blocking extensions may not appear in Settings.Unlock with Apple Watch may not work after using Lock iPhone on Apple Watch.This release also fixes the following issues: Voice Control users can unlock their iPhone for the first time after a restart using only their voice.AirTag will show the partially masked phone number of the owner when tapped with an NFC-capable device.Lost mode option to add an email address instead of a phone number for AirTag and Find My network accessories.Subscription support for channels and individual shows.Apple Card Family adds support for families to track expenses, manage spending with optional limits and controls, and build credit together.Apple Card can be shared with up to five people, including anyone 13 years or older in your Family Sharing group.This release also includes bug fixes for your iPhone. IOS 14.6 includes support for Apple Card Family and Podcasts subscriptions. Braille displays could show invalid information while composing Mail messagesįor information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website:.Battery service message that may have disappeared after reboot on some iPhone 11 models is restored.Dolby Atmos and Apple Music lossless audio playback may unexpectedly stop.Share playlist menu option missing in Apple Music.Podcasts library allows you to choose to see all shows or only followed shows.Air quality information is now available in Weather and Maps for Canada, France, Italy, Netherlands, South Korea, and Spain.Home app adds the ability to manage timers on HomePod.Apple Card Family adds the option to combine credit limits and share one co-owned account with an existing Apple Card user.MagSafe Battery Pack support for iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max.IOS 14.7 includes the following improvements and bug fixes for your iPhone: |
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