![]() He still loves setting off fireworks in the Arizona desert, where he now lives and works. It is to Monson’s credit that he doesn’t disavow these boyish pleasures in some ill-fated effort at virtue signaling. ![]() Inspired by the film, he and his friends set off fireworks in the expansive wilderness, treating nature as a setting for play. He must face the Predator on his own.Īs a boy growing up in Michigan’s sparsely populated, highly rural Upper Peninsula, Monson thrilled to the movie’s most, well, boyish aspects: the explosions, the tough guy talk, the unspoken camaraderie. By the end, Dutch is alone, all of his comrades having been killed in brutal fashion. But after that, the movie becomes something else entirely: a science fiction–inflected horror movie, essentially, where the “Predator” picks off the soldiers one by one, not unlike the Xenomorph from Alien or Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street. (Whether or not the filmmakers intended it, the name has a very 1980s resonance: Dutch was Ronald Reagan’s adolescent nickname, even serving as the title for Edmund Morris’s memoir of the 40th president.) Their objective is to eliminate a guerrilla camp deep in the jungle, and they achieve that aim easily, deploying the full might of their weaponry. The movie starts as an action flick about American Übermenschen kicking ass, then becomes a horror movie about confronting the monstrous and coming up short.Ī fleet of commandos led by Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger at the peak of his testosteronal glory) is deployed to an unnamed Central American country. Part of what makes Predator effective is how it encapsulates this entire range in its own lean, 107-minute runtime. Subsequent entries in the franchise became naked wish fulfillment, the impotence of Vietnam redeemed with machine guns. First Blood (1982) says something honest about the trauma Vietnam veterans experienced. Perhaps no figure better illustrates this range than one John Rambo, portrayed so iconically by Sylvester Stallone. Of the glut of 1980s action movies starring muscle-bound men playing war, some were rather serious, while others were jingoistic cash-ins. Predator is a genre movie that’s better, and smarter, than it has any right to be. Perhaps you’ll see that you, too, are just as much a predator as the one from outer space. And learning how to see that enemy, and how that enemy sees you, teaches you how to see yourself. Which is to say: Being a man, and perhaps especially an American man, entails banding together with other American men to confront an enemy you can’t quite see. He begins to answer the question of why this movie, why this much, from the first chapter: “It’s about men and the way they relate to us, to themselves, and to each other more spectacularly than any other film I can think of, particularly any other film with a shitload of guns and an alien.” ![]() In it, he recounts the history of the film and his own relationship to it, drawing on episodes from his own life as well as others affected by the movie. His new memoir is called, appropriately enough, Predator. It might be that Monson - essayist, short story writer, and poet - specializes in creating idiosyncratic forms: poems in the forms of lists, essays that literally run off the page. What makes Predator such a prime object for Monson’s obsession? But there were plenty of other loud, dumb action movies on offer in the 1980s - Commando, Raw Deal, Red Dawn, and countless others. They loved recreating its most famous scenes on the playground (“Get to the choppa!”). Predator is one of those loud, dumb movies that became a kind of lingua franca for American boys and man-children of a certain age. He was 12 years old when the movie came out in 1987, which partially accounts for his obsession. ANDER MONSON HAS WATCHED Predator 146 times.
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![]() ![]() So, we just pass the crypto_rand_num and a new integer 1. However, we have the range from 0 to 5 again, so we just add 1 to the big.Int type by using the Add method associated to the big.Int type as crypto_rand_num variable and then parse two parameters as x and y, i.e. So, the crypto_rand.Int method takes in two parameters, the Reader object which will be the platform-specific random number generator/api, and the next parameter is the max range to generate the random number. This means it can be used as the platform's default random number generator in the program. However, it also takes in a Reader object that is global in the package used as a shared instance of a cryptographically secure random number generator. The package has Int method to generate a big.Int type of number in a given range. ![]() Then we can use the crypto/rand package to generate cryptographic random numbers. We use the max variable name as it denotes the maximum number to be generated in the next step. ![]() So, we parse the integer 6 which will create a memory location storing 6 as a big.Int type. The NewInt function returns a pointer to the integer. We create a new integer from the big package. In the above example, we have used the math/big package to store the random number generated by the Int method in the crypto/rand package. To simply generate a random number we can use the rand.Int method from the match/rand package to get a single random integer. This package contains a number of functions for generating random integers, floats, and strings. Golang provides a built-in package for both generating pseudo-random numbers called math/rand and cryptographic numbers with crypto/rand packages. However, actual cryptographic random numbers should be used for security tasks, crypto arithmetic, and other sensitive tasks. There is a particular pattern in the numbers, however, it is sufficient for trivial tasks in games, and simulations to some extent. The process is called pseudo-random number generation. Random number as the name suggest are used to get an unpredictable number, however, using software we can only mimic the actual randomness. Further, for demonstration, we use the Intmethod to generate a 64-bit random integer 5 times with a for loop.Īs we can see it generates a 5 random number, we will see why we need the random source initialized to the current time in the upcoming section. In the above example, we use the NewSource and the New method to generate the Source and the Rand object respectively. Further, we need to create a Rand object for accessing the methods and properties attached to the struct type in the rand package for generating random numbers.Įnter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode We use the rand.NewSource method to generate a new source of the random number, by initializing it with the current time in nanoseconds. If we do not add a new source each time we run the program or generate a random number, it will pick up the same source leading to the generation of the same pattern of the random numbers. We need to first create a source/seed to generate a random number. However, they are not truly random, as they are generated by a computer algorithm. This means that the numbers are generated in a way that is very difficult to predict or reproduce. The crypto/rand package in Golang generates cryptographically secure pseudorandom numbers. These functions are suitable for a variety of applications, such as games, simulations, and to some extent in cryptography. The math/rand package in Golang provides a number of functions for generating pseudorandom numbers. There are two types of random number generation processes in software pseudo-random numbers and cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generation. We will be exploring how to create a random number, generate random numbers within a range, shuffle slices/arrays, and generate random strings, float, and bytes. In the 27th post of the series, we will be looking into random number generation in golang. ![]() ![]() ![]() Netflix says it has no choice but to crack down on “unpaid viewing” as subscriber growth slows. The gradual rollout of more limited password sharing has sparked a backlash among subscribers elsewhere in the world, especially families with children in college or long-distance couples. Netflix uses IP addresses, device IDs and account activity from devices signed into an account to determine who shares a household. About one-third of Netflix subscribers live in the U.S. Netflix began testing features in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru that would let accounts pay extra to share access with up to two people outside their household in 2022. How does Netflix know who is in your household? Some 100 million people watch Netflix using someone else’s account, the company says.Ĭiti analyst Jason Bazinet estimated that streaming services lose about $25 billion a year. Netflix accounts for about 25% of that lost revenue. internet households share credentials or use shared credentials, up from 27% in 2019, a Parks Associates survey found in 2022. Why is Netflix cracking down on password sharing?įorty percent of consumers in U.S. In Canada, the number of paying subscribers is now higher than before, the company said. However, Netflix told investors that after a wave of cancellations, subscribers began adding "extra member" accounts. There is some risk, however. Netflix lost more than 1 million users in Spain in the first three months of 2023 after cracking down on password sharing in February, according to market research group Kantar. Netflix users, we think results bode well for traction of password restrictions," New Street Research said. New Street Research says its survey of paying and nonpaying Netflix users found that more than half – 54% – would pay for their own subscription if their access was yanked, 70% would choose a subscription that is not supported by advertising and 37% would pay extra for people who don't live in their household."While only a small sample of the broader population of U.S. Wells Fargo Securities says paid password sharing could be a bigger earnings opportunity for Netflix than people signing up for its ad-supported subscription. Moody's Investors Service says the password-sharing initiative could cause "short-term subscriber discontent and disruption but presents the company with a material revenue growth and margin expansion opportunity." ![]() subscribers from the initiative. Netflix accounted for 7.3% of total TV viewing in February 2023, according to Nielsen. “This is a way of getting folks who watch and enjoy Netflix to also contribute to the future of content,” Ted Sarandos, the co-CEO of Netflix, told the Toronto Star on April 6.Ĭowen senior research analyst John Blackledge estimates that Netflix could pick up 2.1 million new U.S. Now it’s looking to squeeze a few more bucks out of freeloaders. But it has changed its tune as subscriber growth slowed amid growing competition and a return to pre-pandemic viewing habits. The popular streaming service used to encourage sharing Netflix credentials with friends and extended family. It's not me, it's Netflix: With password sharing on the block, how to boot your friends Netflix password-sharing rules Who has your Netflix password? Check who's logging into your Netflix account and boot them Standard plans cost $15.49 a month and premium plans cost $20 a month. The monthly fee is less expensive than the basic ad-free plan, which is $10 a month, but more than the ad-supported plan, which is $7 a month. “Your Netflix account is for you and the people you live with – your household,” Netflix said in an email to U.S. Only people who live under the same roof can share accounts, the streaming company says. So you have two options: transfer your friends and family members mooching off your account to a new membership or share your Netflix account for an additional $8 monthly fee. Just months after enforcing new restrictions in Canada, Spain, Portugal and New Zealand, Netflix is rolling out account-sharing limits in the U.S. The Netflix password-sharing crackdown has officially begun in the United States. ![]() I am working on that and will hopefully edit this review in the future to adress it. ![]() They are clearly one single anime, and because of this I would like to review these entries as one. They are based on the same eroge series, they share similar opening displays, have the same opening song AND ending song, and are presented as a regular threepart hentai OVA, with a coherent style throughout. my opinion, but MAL doesn’t always agree with me. (Nanase Ren, Kazama Mana and Yagami Yuu should be viewed as one series in Night Shift Nurses 3 Yu Yagami - Hentai nurse becomes. Insanely well-drawn and made, so to speak. Night Shift Nurses 3 Yu Yagami Hentai nurse becomes total gangbang slut. The relationship’s turns and Yuu’s real self exposed is what excells this must watch above other hentai. This is Teruaki Murakami at his very peek, with extremely hot girls sucking and fucking like they’re dying from hornyness. Short spoiler-free review for this MAL entry:įinally we get to enjoy the stupidly good quality of the two previous entries without the scat! (Most disturbing thing here: eating dogfood.) This while almost upping everything else: story, art, twists, effects, production, voice acting… And most important sexier scenes. It's good as a hentai and as a horror while not really being grotesque or anything that would take away from the "enjoyment" of the hentai (there's really barely any blood). If you enjoy any kind of strange anime or manga like Higurashi or Ibitsu (Ibitsu is probably the closest thing I can think of to this even though it's not hentai) or don't mind steeping outside the limits of vanilla hentai, I recommend Yagami Yuu. It's definitely not your normal way of showing a sex scene but it works here. The whole thing looks like it is viewed through a drunk person's eyes as it fades in and out of clarity as the screen never stops moving around. And it seems no one can escape from her even if they think they have.Īs far as the art goes, it fits this bizarre hentai. Skip ahead to the present and you have one messed up nurse who is not only involved in sex with her patients, but commits murder as well. Since he was apparently the only person who really loved her, Yuu now feels completely alone. Not only was she forced into having sex day after day by her home tutor, Yuu came to get used to having sex with him. While some of the reasons things occur in this hentai involved Yagami Yuu are a little confusing, her past which she explains to the protagonist is definitely not something many people can compare to. But she isn't even an ordinary nurse by hentai Her name is Yagami Yuu and the man soon finds out after giving in to her beauty, that she is no ordinary nurse. Yagami Yuu is about a man who is hit by truck and taken to a hospital by a beautiful nurse who finds him. Dark shows such as Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni with insane characters suffering from traumatic pasts (in both cases this would be abuse though Higurashi's is just physical while Yagami Yuu's is physical, sexual, and psychological) There are two things you have to enjoy in order to like Yagami Yuu:Ģ. As for the preceding OVAs from Night Shift Nurses, the plot of this one centers around Yagami Yuu who likes being a responsible nurse at a hospital, she tooks her work in first place, giving pleasure to the hopeless patients in a descending spiral in a non-stop way, each time more perverted and dirty, reaching the downs of sexual behavior. Let me know if this guide has helped you by leaving your comment about your experience. * Note: If the problem persists, uninstall VirtualBox again and try to install an oldest version of the program. Finally, open the VirtualBox and start the VM machine that is causing the error: "Failed to open/create the internal network…". When the installation is complete, proceed to download and install also the latest version of Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack.ĩ. Then press Next and follow the rest instructions to install VIrtualBox.Ĩ. (important)ħ.Click Next on the first screen, and then make sure that Virtual Bridged Networking and VirtualBox Host-only Networking are selected for installation. Right-click on the downloaded file and select Run as Administrator. ![]() Navigate to VirtualBox download page and download the latest version of VirtualBox for Windows hosts.Ħ. Select the Oracle VM VirtualBox and click Uninstall.ĥ. Type appwiz.cpl in the search box and press Enterģ. ![]() Press the Win+R keys to open the Run dialog.Ģ. Now open the VirtualBox machine and check if the problem is fixed. Re-open the Properties again, re-check the VirtualBox NDIS6 Bridged Networking driver and click OK.Ħ. Uncheck the VirtualBox NDIS6 Bridged Networking Driver and click OK.ĥ. Right-click on VirtualBox Host-Only Network and choose Properties.Ĥ. Type devmgmt.msc and press Enter to open the Network Connections.ģ. Disable and Enable the VirtualBox NDIS6 Bridged Networking driver.Ģ. After the driver is updated, start the VM machine and check if the error persists. Select the VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter and click Next.Ħ. At the next screen choose Let me pick from a list of available drivers…ĥ. Under Network adapters, right-click on VirtualBox Host-Only Adapter and select Update Driver.ģ. Some users reported that the VirtualBox error "Failed to open-create the internal network" is solved after updating the driver of the VirtualBox Host Only Adapter.Ģ. Update VirtualBox Host Only Adapter driver. Start VirtualBox and see if the "Failed to open-create the internal network" error appears. Right-click again on VirtualBox Host-Only Adapter and choose Enable device.Ĥ. * Note: If you see here more than one VirtualBox Host-Only Adapters, uninstall all of them and reinstall Oracle VM VirtualBox.ģ. Under Network adapters, right-click on VirtualBox Host-Only Adapter and Disable device. The next method to fix the "Failed to open/create the internal network" error in VirtualBox, is to disable and re-enable the VirtualBox Host Only Adapter in Device Manager.Ģ. Disable & Enable VirtualBox Host Only Adapter. If not, use the drop-down menu and select the correct adapter. Now open the network settings of the VM machine and make sure that the same network adapter is selected. Under Network adapters, notice the name of the active Network adapter.Ĥ. Type devmgmt.msc and press Enter to open the device manager.ģ. Press Windows + R keys to load the Run dialog box.Ģ. In some cases the VirtualBox error "Failed to open/create the internal network", appears because after a Windows Update, Windows changes the name of the physical Network Adapter. Choose the Correct Network Adapter is selected in VM Network Settings. * Important: Before proceeding with the following methods, make sure that all Windows updates are installed and also see if the problem still occurs after restarting the computer. How to FIX: Failed to open/create the internal network in VirtualBox. You can either change the machine's network settings or stop the machine. ![]() ![]() Could not start the machine because the following physical network interfaces were not found: (adapter 1).Failed to open/create the internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter' (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND).įailed to attach the network LUN (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND).Failed to open a session for the virtual machine.įailed to open/create the internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-Ethernet-Name' (VERR_SUPDRV_COMPONENT_NOT_FOUND).Problem description: After installing a Windows 10 update and after restarting the computer, one of the following error(s) may appear when starting a VirtualBox machine: Failed to open a session for the virtual machine.", which usually appears after a Windows Update. This tutorial contains instructions to fix the following error in VirtualBox: "Failed to open-create the internal network. Paxton takes the stage to make his big speech and immediately tells his class that despite the fact they hoped he would do something fun and sexy, he actually wants to talk about hard work and all he’s done to make it to graduation thanks to Devi. But Eleanor smiles and says she’s actually excited over the news because it means they’ll get to spend another year together at Sherman Oaks. He tells Eleanor that he hid it from her because he was afraid she would be disappointed. Trent finally reveals that he actually failed and has to repeat his senior year. ![]() While they’re sad that they won’t spend senior year together, Fabiola points out that they still have the summer.Īs the class of 2022 starts walking in for their graduation ceremony, Eleanor confronts Trent and tells him that he’s missing his own graduation. How does Devi tell her friends she’s leaving?īefore graduation, Devi tells Fabiola and Eleanor about her decision. He says he would go on a date with her, so they make plans to go out. Meanwhile, Ben bumps into Margot in the art room and she says that she’s single. She admits to Nalini that she feels like she would fit in at the school and decides to go, which excites her mom. He declines, saying that for once, he knows exactly what he wants to say.ĭuring her Shrubland School visit, Devi is surprised that she seems to like it. ![]() Paxton works on his graduation speech and Eleanor asks if he wants help with it. Over at Paxton’s garage, Eleanor questions Trent after finding out that he hasn’t picked up his cap and gown, but Trent doesn’t respond. Ryan encourages her to give Shrubland a chance during her visit and notes that she has outgrown her freshman year dream of dating Paxton and being popular, so it might be time to move on to something bigger. Ryan and says she doesn’t want to be away from her friends during senior year. Nalini has a flashback to when Mohan wanted her to have the best academic opportunities, and she immediately tells Devi that she booked them plane tickets to go visit Shrubland.ĭevi talks with Dr. After dinner, Kamala talks with Nalini and asks her to reconsider Shrubland because it could be a big opportunity for Devi. Devi says she’s made up her mind not to go and Nalini says she’s not ready to let Devi go off on her own yet. Kulkarni is also there and points out that it’s super hard to get into the program. The Vishwakumars get together for dinner, and Nalini reveals she got a phone call about Devi getting into the Shrubland School. Aneesa congratulates Paxton on being voted the class speaker but he gets upset when he realizes the only reason they voted for him is because he’s hot. Eleanor says he’s in denial of everything changing, especially knowing that Paxton will be attending college in Arizona. Trent, seemingly nervous about something, immediately gets up and walks away. They all get together with Aneesa, Trent, and Paxton to talk about Paxton and Trent graduating. Later, Fabiola surprises everyone by admitting she had sex with Addison, and Devi points out that she’s now the only virgin left in the trio. Afterward, she hangs out with Eleanor and Fabiola, who are excited for Devi but sad that they wouldn’t spend their last year of high school together. In science class, Devi tells Ben and he says it would be a good chance for her and she shouldn’t give up the opportunity. While it can be her golden ticket to ultimately get into Princeton, it means Devi wouldn’t be able to stay at Sherman Oaks for her senior year. Principal Grubbs reveals Devi got into a special one-year program at the Shrubland School, a boarding school in Colorado. How does the Never Have I Ever season 3 finale start out?Īs we mentioned, it’s the last day of school and Devi is almost officially a senior! But she is surprised when Principal Grubbs calls her over to chat about something. ![]() Here’s the ultimate recap of Never Have I Everseason 3’s finale. Either way, buckle in, because this finale gave fans plenty of surprises leading up to the show’s fourth and final season. The season 3 finale of Never Have I Evermight surprise some fans, but if you’re reading this, it means that either (1) you have already seen the episode and want a recap or (2) you’re looking for major spoilers. It’s the last day of school at Sherman Oaks, which means it’s time to say goodbye to everyone for the summer…or maybe even longer. *S POILERS FOR SEASON 3 OF NEVER HAVE I EVER BELOW!* ![]() Faster security response time has its limits To be clear, those instances skew toward psychiatric and substance abuse hospitals, which saw far greater rates of injury than other hospitals and health care settings. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that health care workers and those who work in social assistance are five times more likely to experience workplace violence than other workers. The workplace violence health care workers experience is an issue that's been ongoing since even before the pandemic. One in 10 nurses, the study said, found it more difficult to report these incidents during the pandemic. Goats and Soda 'I Will Kill You': Health Care Workers Face Rising Attacks Amid COVID-19 OutbreakĪ study published last month showed nurses who took care of patients with COVID-19 were more likely to experience verbal and physical assaults. Since the pandemic, there's been a spike in assaults on health care workers all over the country. The pandemic has added to more workplace violence for health care workers That hospital said the system has decreased security response time. ![]() The panic button system was implemented last year at a nearby hospital, Cox Springfield. ![]() If the button is pushed, it activates a personal tracing system, security is notified and an alert on hospital computers shows the employee's location.įunding to implement the panic button system comes from a grant of more than $132,000 from a local charity, the Skaggs Foundation, which helps provide funding for medical projects in the region. The hospital said about 300 to 400 staff working in the emergency department and inpatient hospital rooms will have access to their personal panic buttons. "We want nurses to report everything," Clifton said, from a patient cussing them out to having a meal tray thrown at them. Many incidents currently go underreported. The hospital is hoping the system - which will be installed before the end of the year - will encourage more nurses to report incidents of verbal or physical violence. "Until these buttons are implemented, right now, a nurse either has to call security on her phone or scream for help, and so this is an extra easy way they can get immediate response."Ĭoronavirus Updates 3 Tourists Allegedly Attacked A Hostess Who Asked For Vaccine Proof At A Restaurantĭuring the pandemic, patients have been frustrated because they've had to wait longer to be seen and visitors have been upset they can't see their loved ones, Clifton said.Ĭlifton said that nurses have been "really grateful" the new system is coming. "That kind of raised a red flag that we need to get some extra protection in place," Brandei Clifton, the hospital's communications manager, told NPR. Injuries related to the assaults jumped from 17 to 78 during the same period. Last year, 123 attacks against hospital staff were reported - up from 40 in 2019. Nurses and other staff at a hospital in Missouri have experienced such a surge in assaults from patients that they will have a panic button system installed on their badges allowing them to alert hospital security more easily if they are in danger.īetween 20, assaults by patients tripled at the Cox Medical Center in Branson, Mo. Assaults of hospital staff tripled from 2019 to 2020, the hospital says. Cox Medical Center in Branson, Mo., is implementing a personal panic button system for hundreds of its employees. I would avoid paying full price if you can. ![]() This tablet is regularly on sale for 50% off during those times. I highly recommend waiting for Black Friday, Prime Day, or other major sale events. It has a Quad-Core processor, 2GB of RAM, 10 hour battery life, and a 16GB or 32GB capacity. It’s the smallest (7” screen) and therefore the lightest, so it is good for kids as young as 2. The Fire 7 (or as I call it, “the 7″) is newly updated and a great option for young children. All New Fire 7 Kids Tablet (2022 version) All of these tablets come in a case and include a carry handle/stand unless otherwise noted. All Fire kids tablets include a 2 year warranty (which includes accidental damage) and 1 year of Amazon Kids membership (which renews after 1 year for $4.99 a month). Kindle varieties change from time to time these are up to date as of November, 2022. These are suggestions and guidance but these devices are all “approved” for kids of most ages, so trust your instincts □ The numbers in the Kindle names (7, 8, 10) do NOT reflect how new they are, but instead reflect the SIZE of the screen.As always, you are the expert in your child and know what is best for your family. Rather than tell you which one is best, I’m going to list each option and provide some information as well as which kids each model would be best for. ![]() Part 1: Which Kindle Fire should you get? I link these items because they are relevant or items I personally vouch for I appreciate you using these links to support me when buying items you would otherwise buy or consider buying. As a member of the Amazon Associate program, I earn a small commission when you use these links. When possible I use Amazon affiliate links. Part 7: The absolute #1 tip you need (it is a life saver, I promise) Part 2: When should you buy one/what price is “good”? ![]() This guide will contain the following parts: But which should you get? Fire 7? Fire 8? Fire 10? Fire 8 pro? What do all of these mean?! This guide will walk you through it AND help you learn how to get the best deal, how to use the Kindle Fire, and how to set it up for your child to use successfully. Amazon Kids Kindle Fire steps in as a versatile, durable, and inexpensive option for families wanting a tablet for their child. iPads are versatile and intuitive, but also fragile and expensive. Which Fire Kids tablet should you buy and how do you set it up? This guide will walk you through it.įor families with young kids, a tablet is one of the first screen time/gaming tools they may use. ![]() What’s so great about this film is that each side of this argument, about whether government supervision is a good thing or not, is entirely understandable and fleshed out as best as they can be so that it’s not just black-and-white. Rogers and a handful of Avengers disagree with these new regulations, while others – led by Tony Stark/Iron Man ( Robert Downey Jr.) – are strongly in favour of being put in check, and as a series of international incidents lead to the resurgence of the Winter Soldier, a brainwashed assassin previously known as Steve’s closest friend Bucky Barnes ( Sebastian Stan), things soon escalate into an all-out confrontation between the former allies – all while a mysterious figure known as Zemo ( Daniel Brühl) operates covertly with his own agenda against the quarrelling Avengers. The plot, based very loosely on the popular comic storyline written by Mark Millar, sees Steve Rogers/Captain America ( Chris Evans) and his new team of Avengers – Black Widow ( Scarlett Johansson), War Machine ( Don Cheadle), Vision ( Paul Bettany), Falcon ( Anthony Mackie) and Scarlet Witch ( Elizabeth Olsen) – being faced with a new government body designed to monitor and police all superhero activity, after an opening mission in Lagos, Nigeria unexpectedly ends in tragedy. ![]() Watch: Captain America: Civil War World Premiere red carpet interviews This could well be Marvel at its peak it will be fascinating to see if any forthcoming film in their current “Phase 3” line-up can rival CIVIL WAR in almost all areas, from script work to direction to action to scope, and so on. ![]() To say that CIVIL WAR puts BATMAN V SUPERMAN to shame by doing pretty much the same thing they did but on a much more successful level is a major understatement it takes the idea of superheroes being pitted against one another in a full-on battle to bigger and more mature heights, challenging the viewer more than any other Marvel movie to date with complex themes and arguments that are weighted just evenly enough for us to understand and sympathise with both sides, but never allowing the fun and excitement to be buried underneath all the diplomacy. Having now seen CIVIL WAR, the third in the Captain America standalone trilogy that started with THE FIRST AVENGER and continued with THE WINTER SOLDIER, we can firmly say that if anyone can do exactly what Marvel can do and still somehow make it work, it’s Marvel. Watch: Captain America: Civil War European Premiere red carpet interviews Put simply, BATMAN V SUPERMAN was undeniably DC’s attempt to do everything that Marvel has spent almost a decade building up towards in one single movie, and because of that it was an overall failure – not a complete disaster, but a failure nonetheless. We still stand by our opinion that, while it’s definitely not a very good movie, it has more things to enjoy about it than its predecessor MAN OF STEEL (namely Affleck as Batman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, and a few others), but even still it is an absolute mess of a film, trying to cram in so much material in order to set up future DC movies, take inspiration from other popular Batman and Superman stories, reinvent iconic characters to little satisfying effect (Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor-Joker hybrid in particular), AND be its own story that ultimately doesn’t add up. ![]() The reasons for this were to not only start making comparisons in favour of Marvel’s own major superhero team-up movie, but also to see just how DC was attempting to run their own enterprise of comic-book movies. BASICALLY…: Steve Rogers/Captain America (Evans) and Tony Stark/Iron Man (Downey Jr) find themselves at odds when proposed government regulations threaten to limit superhero activity…īefore watching CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, we sat down for a late-afternoon and mostly empty screening of BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE. ![]() IA Writer is designed to provide the best digital writing experience: Keep your hands on the keyboard and your mind in the text. IA Writer 5.4 for iOS and iPadOS and for the Mac is available as a free update for existing users.IA Writer Pro is a professional writing suite that gives you full control over your notes, drafts and edits. That power is always just a tap or two away, but stays hidden until you need it, which is my favorite sort of pro app UI. There’s an incredible amount of power tucked away behind iA Writer’s simple UI. iA Writer has been a category-leading text editor for years, but it continues to receive regular updates that incorporate the latest technologies on every platform in ways that refine the experience for users and expand the app’s capabilities. In the broader scheme of iA Writer’s development, version 5.4 is a relatively minor update, though it does reinforce why the app was chosen as the MacStories Selects App of the Year. It’s worth noting, however, that hashtag suggestions are not displayed when iA Writer’s custom keyboard is displayed as a popover on the iPad Pro. Alternatively, if the cursor’s inside a word, the top row offers to convert the word into a hashtag. Hashtags aren’t a feature of iA Writer that I use, but the update makes accessing hashtags more convenient by displaying the most recent three in the row above the app’s custom keyboard if your cursor is on an empty space. IA Writer’s hashtag suggestions appear in the row above its custom keyboard.Īnother iOS and iPadOS-only feature that’s new for version 5.4 is hashtag suggestions. Hopefully, that will be fixed soon, but for now, the workaround is simple, and the issue is easily avoidable by not using the context menu to access backups for the time being. The editor lost the focus, so I had no cursor or keyboard, though it’s an issue that can be fixed by tapping into another document and then back to the one you’re editing. I did run into a bug when navigating back to the editor from the backup view when I entered it via the Library’s context menu. In my testing, the new backup feature worked well and provided additional peace of mind that my work is safe, which I love. By creating a local backup, iA Writer provides its users with a copy of their work on whichever device they’re using that isn’t affected by sync or other cloud-based issues. iOS 13 has been a buggy release, and iCloud Drive continues to cause trouble for some users. The strength of iA Writer’s backup feature is that the backups are local. You can also navigate to the root level of your Library folder structure from the backups of the document you are currently viewing, allowing you to browse every local backup created by iA Writer on your device. Backups of your files are created as you edit them, and reverting to an older version is as simple as selecting the one you want and tapping ‘Restore.’ If you change the name of a document, the app keeps the older backups under the file’s original name. On iOS and iPadOS, iA Writer 5.4 has also added local backups, which are accessed from the action button in the toolbar, by swiping left on or long-pressing an item in your Library, or using Quick Search, which Federico covered in his review of version 5.3 of the app. A local backup is saved as your document is edited. |
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