![]() ![]() The temperatures are enough to burn all life to a crisp during the day, while vast canyons and barely breathable air make movement a challenge at the best of times. Once this rag-tag team of soldiers comes to the Halo Ring with their nuke to destroy the Covenant’s only source of this terrifying element, they just have to deal with the inhospitable conditions brought about by the Ring itself and its close proximity to a star. Characters fit into the fairly standard military movie clichés, from the cocky jerk who has a problem with authority, the father who just wants to make it home to see his kids one more time, the female soldier, who despite her training and considerable skill is regularly referenced as needing to be saved, not one, but two hard-ass no nonsense squad leaders and, of course, several nameless soldiers that nobody seems to care about after their deaths. ![]() Locke and his squad are forced to work hand in hand with Sedra’s own local soldiers and there’s an instant, if rather clumsy, clash of personalities and egos. Luckily, (or more accurately because after completing their test, the Covenant doesn’t seem too bothered about covering up the evidence or eliminating witnesses), it’s possible to track the element used in this weapon to its only source in the entire universe, the shattered remains of a Halo Ring (Halo 1 reference). The Covenant has a new weapon, one which seemingly only targets human DNA, leaving other races alive. What follows is an attack revealed to be more of a test. The film kicks off with Jameson Locke and his elite team of soldiers investigating terrorist activity on the colony of Sedra when a certain alien species familiar to even casual Halo gamers makes its appearance, (although, this is a mercifully brief appearance as the CGI used is unquestionably lacking). Halo: Nightfall is the first release from Animatsu Entertainment and has already enjoyed a great deal of success since its release on DVD less than two weeks ago, reaching the Number 2 spot for new releases in the UK charts and hopefully it’s only the first of many successes for the company. Prolonged war between humanity and the fanatical alien alliance known as the Covenant has ended with a tenuous treaty.’ Originally aired as a five episode mini-series, Nightfall serves as an effective prequel to Halo 5. It did seem really low budget, though, and I have to ask myself what is the purpose of a low budget sci-fi series pilot which brings nothing in terms of story or characters? It only prepares an even less worked on series, right? Update: didn't realize that "the pilot" was the whole first season.Anime Reporter hops up and down and tries to remember which button is for throwing grenades before settling down to watch Halo: Nightfall, the live-action film set in the same universe as the Halo video game series. Bottom line: forgettable, but not that terrible. As a complete noob, I had no idea who MasterChef (he he!) was and what a Halo was. Also, it didn't really say anything about the Halo universe. As I have not played the game, I have no quarrels with that aspect of the movie, however it did seem that it had nothing to do with how a specialized fighting force would behave in the 26th century. Other than that, the plot is predictable, but not terrible, the acting is good and it kept me watching it, even if I knew how it would end from the first half of the movie. So basically, an entire setup for a medieval like quest, only on an alien world. It starts promising, detailing the threat and "the mission", it shows the characters, then they all go to an isolated place where technology works against them. The worst thing about the pilot is that it is not that sci-fi. ![]()
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![]() This issue hit Intel-based models with a T1 and T2 chip, which drives the System Management Controller (SMC) and Touch ID sensors in some Intel Macs. Bricked Macsīack in 2021 some Mac users found that Monterey bricked their Mac. It is usually the case that Apple will quickly address these issues via an update, so it may be necessary to wait for macOS 13.1 to arrive, but if that’s no good for you take a look below to see if your issue is being experienced by others and how they are tackling the problem. It is unfortunately the case that when Apple launches a new version of macOS some Mac users suffer from issues following the update, these issues tend to affect older Macs more than newer Macs. When you finally get the software up and running we advise that you run Disk Utility to correct any issues that might have caused the problem in the first place. How to create a bootable installer and install macOS from an external drive. ![]() If you’re still having issues with the install you could try installing the OS from an external drive. This update won’t include the latest version of the software so after performing the update, check Software Update and apply the latest macOS update. When it reinstalls macOS your Mac will replace all the Apple system files overwriting any problematic ones that may be contributing to this error – hopefully. How to reinstall MacOS using Recovery Mode. Time Machine backup, or perform a disk repair – but we recommend choosing the ‘Install new OS’ option. There are a number of options to choose from here – you could recover your Mac from your last You could for example delete old emails and text messages, or locate old Time Machine backup files from your Mac and delete them.Īs a final option you could restart the Mac in Recovery Mode (hold down Command + R at startup). We offer advice on making more space on your Mac here: If you have a 128GB Mac this can be a particularly challenging situation. So that’s more than 45GB free space required before you even start. ![]() We actually needed 35GB available when it came to doing the installation. You’ll see below that even 20GB space wasn’t sufficient when it came to installing macOS Big Sur. If you try to install without adequate space available your Mac may struggle with the installation – in fact macOS updates in the past few years have weighed in at just over 12GB, so you’ll need all the space you can get! We always recommend that you don’t attempt to install an update to macOS if you have less than 20GB of space free. We’ll run through the various problems you might encounter, the error messages you might see, and the best fixes below.Īnother reason you may not be able to download a macOS update is if you don’t have enough free space on your Mac. There are also a few possible reasons why download might be taking too long. There are a few reasons why the macOS download or installation process might not work or be interrupted. MacOS Ventura download errors: problems and fixes Has your Mac really frozen? Before you conclude that your Mac has frozen during the installation, you need to be aware that Updating MacOS can take a !.Read How to update macOS on a Mac for more advice on installing the latest version of the Mac operating system. ![]()
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![]() ![]() You can play Fruit Ninja for free on Poki Can I play Fruit Ninja on mobile devices and desktop?įruit Ninja can be played on your computer and mobile devices like phones and tablets What's the highest score in Fruit Ninja?įruit Ninja Classic World Record is 37,144. Check out their other game on Poki: Jetpack Joyride ! How can I play Fruit Ninja for free? On mobile, simply swipe your finger across the screen Who created Fruit Ninja?įruit Ninja is created by Halfbrick Studios. Fruit Ninja, the classic fruit destroying swiping adventure is here! How to play Fruit NinjaĬlick and swipe through the fruit with your mouse to score ![]() However, beware of the bombs! Hitting one of them will end your run. ![]() Most of these are clustered around Peachtree Street in the Downtown, Midtown, and Buckhead neighborhoods, with the suburban city of Sandy Springs also being the site of several skyscrapers. state of Georgia, is home to at least 39 skyscrapers over 400 feet (122 m) tall. Aim for the highest score by slicing multiple fruits at once and build up your combo to surpass everyone else! You can also get huge scores from critically striking the fruit so be strategic with your swiping. Atlanta, the capital and largest city of the U.S. Do join us for this full-day event presenting a cohort of architects making their mark on the future of the profession and the built environment.Fruit Ninja is an arcade game where you have to swipe and slash your way through all kinds of fruit, from pears and apples, to coconuts and bananas. Keeping to that theme, “Next Generation” is the title for this year’s Innovation Conference, Thursday, October 26. And, in some cases, demand is exceeding supply! Reading this comprehensive section, overseen by deputy editor Joann Gonchar, FAIA, LEED AP, can earn you not one but two HSW credits.Īlso in this issue we present a new generation of architects embracing the natural world and building with bio-based materials: Our annual Design Vanguard feature spotlights 10 emerging practices from nearly every continent. We detail the progress of building with wood, but also the stumbling blocks-quantifying the climate impacts and benefits with any precision is still tricky business. Did I mention carbon storing?īut there’s more to the wood story. This new engineered timber takes a material that was once fire-prone and makes it fire-resistant. These are not the stick-built structures of yore, but projects where giant prefabricated CLT and glulam members are easily assembled on-site. Match your tower wizardry against 3 others in local multiplayer, or challenge wizards around the world in an online battle of magics and engineering mayhem. We also examine the reasons for wood’s growing popularity, not least of which is speed of construction. We’re showcasing a number of completed and soon-to-open projects, as well as ones that are on the boards. This issue takes a closer look at the recent surge in building with wood. It’s worth noting that Paris, particularly with its preparations for the 2024 Olympics, is one of the cities leading the charge. But fast-forward to the 21st century, and the carbon-storing capacity of wood has brought about a renaissance in the use of this natural material, not only in the construction of houses, but in office and apartment towers, museums, academic buildings, stadia, and even airports. This Parisian scenario is perhaps a simple answer to the somewhat naive question: Why did we stop building in wood? With the growth of cities, advances in steel and concrete technologies made it possible to erect higher, faster, cheaper, and safer, buildings that are more hygienic, and less likely to catch on fire. And that cathedral’s timber roof spectacularly went up in flames in April 2019. With the grand exception of Notre-Dame, very little of Medieval Paris remains. The contrast with the limestone, mansard-roofed buildings of the Haussmann era that dominate the capital is striking. A certain rare sight in Paris continues to amaze me whenever I come upon it-half-timber houses with the wood exposed, dating back centuries. ![]() ![]() As a singer/songwriter she loves being able to express her personal experiences and inner thoughts through her music. She did cameos recently in two music videos by Swedish pop artists, Darrin and Vincent.Īlthough Anine is experiencing success as a model, her real passion is still music. Her friendship with such diverse celebrities as Edward Norton, movie director Brett Ratner, and guitarist Slash have provided her show with some of the most quirky, intriguing, and personal interviews. ![]() She was featured on the Unipart calendar, which is second only to the Pirelli calendar.Īnine’s bookings include the extensive Ellesse campaign, the American Crew campaign, and many TV commercial campaigns, including Ellesse, Coca Cola, Speedo, and IKEA.Īnine is the co-host of Klick!, an L.A.-based Hollywood celebrity interview show broadcast on Sweden’s TV7. Her Café covers have sold more magazines than any of those featuring other Café cover models, and she has been one of FHM’s Top 100 Models. Other magazine appearances include Elle, Cosmopolitan, Slitz, Frida, plaza KVINNA, and Veckans Vimmel. Her outstanding talent has led to prestigious bookings, gracing the covers of fashion magazines Style, Care, Pause, Café, M!, 944, Vecko Revyn, Solo and FHM. She’s worked for many catalogues, appearing on the cover of all of them, including Halens, Little Wood, Cellbes, H&M, Bjorn Borg, Speedo, Ellos, deVal, Message, and Salming Sportswear. She didn’t mind working difficult jobs because she was determined to earn enough to remain independent.Īnine Bing has clearly distinguished herself as one of the most promising young models in the world. She also worked in a café, pizzeria, and gas station. She learned a lot, grew up, and figured out how to take care of herself. She says it was hard to be that young and have to stand on her own without someone to help her. When Anine turned 16, she left home and traveled to Milan to seek a career in modeling. ![]() At the age of ten, her family moved to Sweden where she quickly learned the language and found lifelong friendships. She was very close to her Brazilian grandmother, and feels a close connection to her Brazilian family. The authorities considered the billboards featuring the sexy, Danish supermodel too dangerous of a distraction for drivers.īorn in Denmark, she is 1/4 Brazilian. She was the center of the controversial Ellesse advertising campaign, For Play, that caused a stir, and was banned, in the UK. She has co-written enough songs to fill several albums.Īlthough she has been singing since she was a young girl, her first professional successes have been as a fashion model. ![]() Anine Bing is passionate about her music. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prices are certainly reasonable, with $12,620 buying an LX sedan and the SX 4-door and Spectra5 in the $15,000 neighborhood. The Spectra5 and SX sedan get extra interior tchotchkes such as leather wrap for the steering wheel and shift knob, a sportier seat cloth, aluminum pedal pads and metalicized interior trim. Vent-control knobs are large, with legible markings.Īttention to detail is markedly improved in a lot of areas - nicely textured dash plastics, tight panel gaps, a solid thunk on door closure and other subtleties, like damped lids for the glovebox and overhead sunglasses holder, and a fan that's relatively quiet on its highest speed. Front seats are reasonably comfortable, and the straightforward instruments and dark-upper/light-lower dash treatment are easy on the eyes. greater width than last year's Spectra), these Kias have best-in-class interior room, with huge rear doors allowing access to a rear-seating area that's an easy fit for 6-footers. Now built on the Hyundai Elantra platform (with an additional 2.0 in. Spacious Spectra interior has upgraded plastics, better refinement.Įlsewhere, there's a lot to praise. Clutch take-up tallies another demerit it seems it either grabs just off idle or slips with slightly higher revs, leaving you searching for the engagement sweet spot. The linkage of the 5-speed manual, though more solid than last year's, feels a mite sticky into and out of each gate, and the 4-5 shift will occasionally balk. There is room for improvement in the driveline, however. The fatter midrange acceleration is appreciated, as is the newly refined sound and reduced vibration at the 6400-rpm redline - think sewing machine or well-oiled food processor, not wood chipper. that's fitted to 4-speed automatic versions in California, Massachusetts, Maine, New York and Vermont. of torque, respective gains of 14 and 17, unless you get the PZEV-SULEV version with 132 bhp and 133 lb.-ft. Gas it on the straights, and you'll find more power than last year's 1.8-liter Spectra, thanks to its Hyundai-designed Beta engine, a 2.0-liter dohc 16-valver with another Kia first: variable timing for its intake camshaft. On the safety front, all Spectras come standard with six airbags - two frontal, two seat-mounted side and two full-length side curtains, which pop down out of the headliner. Whatever the trim level, you get 4-wheel disc brakes (ABS is a $400 option, and not available on the base LX) and engine-speed-sensitive power rack-and-pinion steering. If you don't care for the 5-door body style, the same appearance and handling changes can be found in the SX sedan, due for a later, mid-2005 introduction. At the same time, the 5's praiseworthy bump absorption won't rattle your teeth on the crumbling urban infrastructure either. It's fully consistent with parent Hyundai's master plan to endow Kia cars with a sportier, more European feel. We're not talking Miata-like levels of responsiveness or flingability here rather, enough precision, steering feedback and roll control to make attacking the serpentine stuff a pleasure instead of a tire-punishing chore. Yet the Spectra5's most appealing aspect is actually the sum of several tweaks to shock valving, spring rates and anti-roll bars that act upon its strut-at-each-corner suspension, because it strikes us as the first Kia that's reasonably entertaining in the twisties. steel wheels with 195/60R-15 rubber), it looks the part of a sporty urban runabout. alloys with P205/50R-16 Goodyears (the sedans get 15-in. With a deeper air dam, flared rocker panels, a tidy roof spoiler, a black mesh grille and standard 16-in. The Koreans are on a learning curve as steep as Mount Everest, and Kia's latest sherpa-hauler, the Spectra5, is eyeing the summit in the entry-level ranks.Īctually, there are two Spectra body styles - a 4-door sedan in LX, EX and SX trim levels, and the hatchback Spectra5, its word/numeral nomenclature a nod to Mazda and handsome styling that looks like the result of a gene-splice experiment involving the Toyota Matrix and Honda Civic Si. ![]() ![]() The level of immersion will leave you craving for more as you let yourself be lovestruck by your crush and spoilt for choice regarding where you want your romance to be headed.Įxplore dozens of unique romantic plots, love stories, and genres! Listen to the whispers of the night as you make your decision and let the romantic adventure unfold. My Fantasy lets you dream big as you make your way through an interactive storytelling game that brings traditional romance stories and novels to shame. 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My Fantasy belongs to the genre of role playing games that let you experience a love fantasy shaped by the life choices you make. Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about My Fantasy: Choose Your Story. Go to Settings of your device -> iTunes & App Store -> Apple ID -> Subscriptions -> Stories and choose new subscription plan.īy subscribing you agree to all the terms of use, rules listed above and privacy policy.Love and dating simulator & interactive game where your choices shape the story! My Fantasy is a great app for young people, teenagers, and adults who. ![]() You can, also change your subscription plan in your iTunes account settings. My Fantasy MOD APK is a choose-your-story narrative game and offers you a couple. When the free trial ends it automatically converts to a paid weekly subscription unless you turned off auto-renewal at least 24 hours before the end of the current trial period. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time from your iTunes account settings, but refunds won’t be provided for any unused portion of the subscription period. The account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period Choose a story from a genre you like and prepare for an unforgettable adventure Subscribe: 0.99/ First Week, then 2.99/week. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. ![]() Pricing in other countries may be different. These prices are for the United States customers only. ![]()
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