![]() ![]() The movie will be the acting debut of Sparks, who won the sixth season of “American Idol” and had top singles such as “No Air.”įor Epps, “Sparkle” reunites him with the Akils, for whom he starred in the surprise hit “Jumping the Broom.” The actor, better known for his comedic turns, is clearly in drama mode and just wrapped the psychological thriller “Vipaka” with Forest Whitaker. Houston was involved with the project as a producer when it was originally set up at Warners years ago (in an incarnation that was to star singer Aaliyah, who died in a plane crash) and will act as an exec producer on the new movie. Sam O'Steen Sparkle (1976) Watch Now Rent 3.99 HD PROMOTED Watch Now Filters Best Price Free SD HD 4K Rent 2.99 HD 2.99 HD 3.99 HD 3.99 3.99 HD 3.99 HD 3.99 HD Buy 4.99 HD 9.99 HD 9.99 9.99 HD 9. R&B icon Houston famously made her acting debut with 1992’s “The Bodyguard,” and also appeared in “Waiting to Exhale” and “Preacher’s Wife.” The last time she acted for the screen was in 1997’s TV movie “Cinderella,” with Brandy Norwood. Irene Cara played Sparkle in the original while Mary Alice, who played the Oracle in the “Matrix” movies, portrayed Effie. Epps will be Satin, a stand-up comedian who marries one of the sisters and gets her hooked on drugs. Men have a fistfight and must be pulled apart. A woman swats a man who is talking in church. Violence: Girls disobey their house rules and sneak out on multiple occasions. Sparks will play the title character, the talented member of the group while Houston will play her not-so encouraging mother. Sparkle is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for mature thematic content involving domestic abuse and drug material, and for some violence, language and smoking. ![]()
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![]() So, we’ve outlined some of the further advanced elements you need to progress in Stronghold Kingdoms. Stronghold Kingdoms Advanced Guide – Final Thoughts When attacking, focus more on swords than pikes, and vice versa for defending. When you’re assembling an army to accompany your captain, you want to make sure you have a balance of these types of troops. Once you have them all, you can focus on maxing out their stats. You’ll want to spend the time and resources researching each of these types of troops. When you upgrade them to a higher level, they can make easy work of walls and towers. If you’re carrying out sieges, these long-range weapons are essential. Once troops get near, they tend to be quite frail. However, you’ll need to make sure they’re well-protected by having some melee troops in front of them. You can utilize archers in many ways, and they’re good for attack and defense. They’re excellent for defense, as they will stay where you place them until the bitter end. Pikes don’t have the attack power that swordsmen do, but their health and armor is far superior. They can easily take down stone walls, and are a fearsome match for many units in the game. Although they don’t have that much armor and health, their attack power is very high. One of the key things here is to understand how certain units behave on the battlefield, and what their strengths and weaknesses are. However, once you hit the higher levels, you’ll need to start paying more attention to your troops. Early on in the game, your approach to your military isn’t quite as consequential. Once you’ve got yourself a castle worth defending, it’s time to assemble an army capable of defending it. Stronghold Kingdoms Advanced Guide – Armies You can also use oil pots for when troops approach the perimeter. ![]() Make sure that you cover your weak points with turrets and ballista to ward off attackers. When it comes to defending your castle, troops can only do so much. Of course, they come at a cost, so you’ll need plenty of gold for repairs and upkeep. So, they can be incredibly beneficial during large-scale sieges. They can act as a great replacement for stone walls, as catapults can’t attack moats. Moats are often underutilized by inexperienced players. So, you want to make sure you can fit as many stone towers around your design as possible. It’s important to understand that infantry troops can’t damage stone towers, but they can damage wood and stone walls. There are a few points to consider when planning out your fortress:ĭon’t mix wood and stone. In reality, a tactical approach to building your castle will yield much better results. Many inexperienced players just start building their castles in any way they see fit, putting looks and cost above all else. As such, you’ll need to have a design that reflects both elements. It’s your last line of defense, and your muster point for attacks. One of the central parts of Stronghold Kingdoms is your castle. Stronghold Kingdoms Advanced Guide – Castles Once you have all of these elements in place, you can start moving on to some of the more advanced aspects of the game. The latter is achieved through a quest, while the others require research points. Although apples will sustain you early on in the game, you’ll want to unlock meat, bread and cheese as early as possible. ![]() With points in Arts as well as scouts, you can start ramping up your honor points. Make sure max out your resource gathering, building speed, honor, and other areas such as Arts, Engineering and Mathematics. As well as carefully planning out your village and castle, you’ll want to spend the time upgrading them to maximize their output. Again, we covered this in more detail in our beginner’s guide. There are a few steps to reaching this point, mostly centered around the key mechanics of the game. Stronghold Kingdoms Advanced Guide – Getting Establishedīefore you start on the advanced tactics and approaches on offer in the game, you first need to establish yourself. We take a more detailed look at everything the game has to offer. However, if you need more info on playing the game, our Stronghold Kingdoms advanced guide is just the thing for you. In it, we outlined some of the basics of the game when you’re first getting into it. In a separate post, we covered a Stronghold Kingdoms Guide for Beginners. The fact it’s free to play on Steam helps, but there is a surprising amount of a depth to the free title. Despite being released back in 2012, Stronghold Kingdoms remains a popular strategy game. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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![]() No matter what design you're getting it's important to make sure it's what you want and that you communicate your desires clearly (and respectfully, of course) with your tattooist. It's a great way to see what shades you like best to create the tattoo of your dreams, and it helps determine if you have any potential allergies to pigment. While some artists might not have color tests listed on their booking pages, it's always a good idea to ask if they can do one as part of the consultation process, Mitchell says. "Color tests are basically swatches of ink - like small little dots, squares, or whatever shape you want - where you get the rainbow to see how each heals on your skin," before you commit to the full tattoo, they explain. That's why they highly recommend getting color tests, especially for any large pieces you want. For example, "let's say you have a red undertone and you get blue your tattoo could end up healing a turquoise-green color," Mitchell says. Once ink is healed, its color can shift into a different hue. "When you're dealing with dark skin, you've got to evaluate undertones, you have to study color theory… and then apply it." Sadly, some artists simply haven't dedicated the time and effort to learn how to do that. ![]() "It boils down to knowing that you have to have a different approach, you have to experiment more, and you have to have more understanding," Baltimore-based tattoo artist Tiaret Mitchell shares with Allure. It just requires your artist to be knowledgeable about working with darker skin - specifically, how to identify undertones within darker skin tones and adapt their techniques to accommodate the many different skin tones that exist. Tattooing darker skin with color is truly not impossible. If that were the case, tattoo artists like the ones featured in this article simply would not have a job: A lot of their work involves tattooing vibrant ink on clients with brown skin. Yes, it's true that colorful inks will not show up on more melanated skin the same way they do on lighter skin tones - but that doesn't mean the colors won't be visible at all, or we should just stick to black and gray ink. ![]() This makes color tattoo inspiration for folks with dark skin harder to find - and once they do find a design they love, it can be even trickier to find an artist who knows how to do the job effectively. Unfortunately, there's a very pervasive myth that darker skin tones cannot accommodate colorful tattoos. ![]() ![]() ![]() There's a single door between you and this old teleport device, and then you get in and the apparently dis-used place still has power and there's people around. Cool, sounds like a great concept! Except the elevator to this place is hidden behind a single sheet of plaster in a corridor about a minute away from the surface. Is Half-Life source any good? Is it worth it if you've already played the original game a lot? What about that Black Mesa recreation mod, in its current state ?Ī scientist has an idea to escape Black Mesa - use an old teleporter in an dis-used part of the base. Gameplay and level design felt random, all over the place and those goddamn co-op AI allies would ALWAYS glitch on me, they were a burden that always forced me to load a previous save. Opposing Forces I haven't played in a long time, but for me it's one of those "quantity over quality" games. I've heard people complain about its Xen section but I honestly don't remember anything wrong with it, although the complaints I've heard seemed to hold. It nails what makes Half Life good perfectly and gameplay is spot on. I think Blue Shift is the perfect summary of the game, with excellent level design. James I agree that Blue Shift is better than Ops Force. Anyway, people told me it should be possible to play it alone even though it's made for co-op, so I tried that, but got stuck in one of the very first rooms by finding doors that wouldn't open. Lunick Somebody ported the PS2 exclusive content to PC but I don't know how faithful it is, I don't know if they ripped the content or if it's a recreation. The enemies themselves, zombies and unknown monsters and the way most of the times you can hear them before you see them, etc there is so much survival horror in this entire part it baffles me I've never seen anyone make the connection. The way you see your coworkers either dead, dying, or as a zombie. The way you start weaponless, then with just a crowbar. Your environment becomes a threat and your goal is to survive, find an exit and make it out alive, while solving puzzles along the way. You start in a "normal" every day life situation when everything goes to shit, which is a classic horror trope. The first half of the game is very, very, much like a survival horror. I know most people praised HL for the soldier enemies and their AI, but for me the best part is everything that takes place before. Half-Life: Alyx team AMA To All New & Old Players of the Franchise - r/HalfLife Welcome Guide by /u/Nobiting Requirements for Half Life: Alyx What order should I play the Half-Life games in? The Best Singleplayer Mods Guide by /u/Dune_Jumper Marc Laidlaw's Epistle 3 with Real Names by /u/Gondile Where is Half-Life 3? These Things, They Take Time.The thing I love the most about HL1 is the entire first part of the game up until the surface. Offenders of these rules may be banned without warning. Any posts containing spoilers must be marked as spoiler using Reddit's built-in spoiler warnings. Posting unmarked spoilers or leaks of Half-Life: Alyx will result in an immediate ban.Do not pass other's work off as your own. 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Submissions must be directly related to the Half-Life franchise.We have a few light rules to keep discussion upbeat and interesting, check them out below! You've come to the right place to discuss Half-Life. ![]() You have chosen, or have been chosen to subscribe to our subreddit. ![]() ![]() As near as I can understand, Apple chose to target MainStage users as the ones who would want to take hardware with them without lugging gear. The weird thing about all of this is that Auto Sampler is only available in MainStage – and not in Logic. This basic interface still seems to satisfy what most people would do with Auto Sampler, though if there are tools you miss from other Redmatica offerings, I’d love to hear about it. I don’t think you have quite the range of functionality originally available from Redmatica, but MainStage is fairly cheap, and this is almost reason enough to use Logic, let alone pony up a little more cash for the feature. Set a range, choose how you want samples to be triggered and looped, or set one-shots. Then, you get the lovely interface at top. Inside the Audio FX section of that Channel Strip, you instantiate it just as you would another effect it’s under the MainStage submenu > Utility > Auto Sampler. It’s a MainStage plug-in, meaning it acts as an effect device that appears only inside the MainStage Channel Strip. You might have trouble even finding Auto Sampler. Not that Apple has exactly advertised it – too bad, given a feature that magically transforms hardware into software is kind of cool. And it has accordingly earned a loyal following from a lot of gigging artists.īut whether you want MainStage or not, you might consider paying for it just to get this single feature. ![]() It has some really powerful features for setting up set lists with software instruments and effects, and allowing users to focus on playing rather than squint at a computer. MainStage itself is a nice tool, one that I think doesn’t get enough attention from the music tech world. Apple didn’t focus on that new feature – you would have missed it apart from the release notes – but it has quickly become buzzed about in forums among enthusiasts, so it obviously matters to someone. The accompanying MainStage 3.1 adds Redmatica’s tech for automatically making sample instruments. Now, with Logic Pro X 10.1, that changes. It was unclear just what Apple intended to do with the tech. (See reporting from the time.) You could continue to use existing versions, of course, but without further support. In the form of the products Keymap Pro, AutoSample, ProManager, and GBSammpleManager, they sucked in sounds of outboard gear directly to sample instruments you can use.Īll that ended when Apple bought the developer in 2012 and it immediately closed shop, leaving users in the cold. Redmatica’s tools made all of that happen more or less automatically. Anyone who’s ever built samples of hardware knows the process can be fairly time-consuming: you trigger notes one at a time, record audio from them, and map that audio to the keyboard. Italian developer Redmatica had a host of technologies for transforming hardware instruments into software samples, all built around Apple’s EXS24 sampler. You need the latest MainStage to access it, but it allows you to easily create sampled software versions of external instruments. MainStage is available for US $29.99 in the Mac App Store.Hidden in last month’s update to Logic and MainStage is a feature a lot of sampler lovers have been missing.
![]() ![]() Dual tool/trekking pole attachments bring extra functionality when hiking up steep slopes, and multiple lash points on the lid and front secure essential tools. The padded waist belt features mesh pockets for easy access to on-the-go essentials, and the hydration port and clip work with a hanging reservoir (sold separately) for on-trail refreshment. ![]() Highly versatile in nature, this panel-loading pack contains a large main compartment, a front stash compartment for on-the-go essentials, a lid pocket with a key clip, and two side water bottle pockets. For almost 50 years, Marmot has been tried and trusted as a leader in outdoor performance clothing & gear from trail to town, winter sports, & more. 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Features of Marmot Kompressor Verve 32 L Pack: Full access panel loader Hydration port and clip for hanging reservoir Removable webbing waist belt Single. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now he makes the move to the NBA, perhaps as the best prospect since LeBron James came out of high school in 2003. ![]() ![]() Listed at 7-foot-4, he dominated his French league in his final season there, leading all players in scoring, rebounding and blocked shots. Wembanyama comes with far more height and hype than most No. The Spurs took the 19-year-old from France who arrives with enormous expectations to become basketball’s newest sensation on Thursday night, triggering chants of “Wemby! Wemby” from a group of Spurs fans waving signs from the first row of seats in Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The San Antonio Spurs are confident he will be worth the wait. “Longest five minutes of my life,” Wembanyama said. Yet as the clock above the stage he was facing ticked all the way down to zero, butterflies set in. 1 pick for months, the rare certainty in an NBA draft process that’s often a guessing game. GD checkin’ in □ #NBADraft2023 #WeTheNorth /ZrR7fOeX5V Toronto traded its second-round pick in the package deal that acquired centre Jakob Poeltl from San Antonio at the trade deadline in February. It was also the Raptors’ lone pick of the draft. It is the third time Toronto has had a lottery selection in the past decade. He also shot 40.3 per cent from three-point range, a sore spot for the Raptors in 2022-2023. The six-foot-eight, 205-pound guard averaged 14.1 points and 5.1 rebounds per game in his lone season with the Jayhawks. The Toronto Raptors have selected Gradey Dick of Kansas with the 13th overall pick in the NBA draft on Thursday in Brooklyn. ![]() ![]() The printer may go back online by itself.įor years my HL-5370DW Series Brother laser printer drove me crazy going offline. ![]() If it does, then the printer will stop and show as "Offline." If that happens, re-do the 2 steps above.Īfter a PC update or anytime the Brother printer goes offline, with your PC browser window open try turning off the printer power switch, then turning it back on. As long as all of your devices remain powered up, this dynamic IP address should not change. ![]() To do this:Ģ.3 Select "Printer Properties" (Not "Properties")Ģ.5 Find the port for your printer in the list and select itĢ.7 Change the IP Address to the one you found in Step 1 above. Change the IP Address in the printer properties on your PC. The IP Address will appear in the display.Ģ. To do this:ġ.1 go to the panel on the printer itself. I resolved the problem by changing the device port address to the one that shows in the window on the printer. It would sometimes show as offline from one of my PC's, even though I could access it from another. I had the same problem with a Brother MFC-J5720DW. But I am thinking as everyone stated this problem only would occur through a router and that has to do with ip addresses or something, thats where i get lost. Also, we connect just as the video showed, through our router, not directly wireless so might have different setup for different connection type. ![]() oh by the way this is for windows 7 pc, I have yet to retry our laptops, both windows 7 and windows 8. In any case I don't know if the new driver is all I really needed or something else made it work, time will tell. but when I had gone through the installation steps before there was a check box for a network troubleshooting tool and guess what, I was able to use that to fix it automatically! I just troubleshooted the printer, and actually I can't remember if the network troubleshooter just came up automatically when I clicked trouble shoot or not but it worked. When I was done and the computer rebooted it showed a different status monitor icon that before and it was still offline, ugh. So basically all I did was go online to brother and update the driver and then follow the you tube video to install the printer just as if the first time. ![]() I had to uninstall the old drivers first. I have checked for updated drivers before through the printer app on the computer but never found one so its worth looking online and downloading. But, and this is important, I first decided to check online for an updated driver and not use the one on my computer and I found one on the brother website. I am not really technically inclined but I don't give up too easily when problem solving as I really hate to leave something unsolved so my solution may not work for everyone but it is at least doable by everyone.Īs many here stated for over the last year when offline showed up would just uninstall and reinstall with the driver I already has on my computer to get it to work again and it did work for awhile before happening again.This last time I could not get it to reinstall, it just couldn't seem to find it so I looked at the various solutions on this thread and some, though they may have worked were just way over my non techie head so using the idea of youtube put forth by Kayjayo and searched installing the 4570 and found a video that was for my printer. Hello, just thought I would weigh in on this after doing much research and having much frustration with this problem also on our 4570 cdw machine. ![]() |
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