No detail or texture will be overlooked as we explore this rapidly changing city. We will explore the tree-lined Stevens Institute of Technology campus, discover quaint streets lined with Brownstones, and wonder at the historical Hoboken Railroad Terminal. Katrin Eismann - New York Skyline and Hoboken Join Ira Block, Sony Artisan of Imagery and National Geographic photographer, as he teaches you how to interact with your subjects in order to make them feel comfortable, relaxed and expressive. He will also discuss how to find locations that compliment and define your subjects. Ira Block - Adding Light to Your Environmental Portrait Participants will learn how to use 'view from above' angles to capture unique perspectives of an urban landscape. Vivenne Gucwa - A Unique Way to Capture NYCĬome along with travel photographer, best-selling author and Sony Artisan Vivienne Gucwa for a different type of Photo Walk that will take you to the rooftops of NYC. Sign up for this fun, creative, hands-on session that you and your child will never forget (children must be at least 4 years old). She's going to teach you both how to find great light, capture action, hunt for defining details to tell a story, and use ordinary shapes and lines to create extraordinary photos. Me Ra Koh - A Family Adventure Photo Experience Tony will teach you how and why to use flash outdoors, along with using multiple flash units to capture action. Join Sony Artisan Tony Gale in a unique hands-on experience on the streets of New York City as he shows you how to enhance your action photography with a small flash. Tony Gale - Action Photography Using Small Flash The shoot will include live models for students to photograph, offering a great opportunity to walk away with some amazing photos and useful tips. Miguel will show you how to scout the best location, pose your subject and offer guidelines to dial-in your settings using both available light and off-camera flash. Here are the photo walks slated for this year at PPE 2016: Learn from these insightful and inspiring pros as they help you hone your skills with the Sony system in a topical guided trek. Sadly we will have to wait a while longer or that.One of the most unique experiences at Photo Plus 2016 is the chance to explore the streets of New York City through a collection of Photo Walks led by Sony Artisans of Imagery. There is still no date on the full-frame 24-35 T2.2 lens, but Sigma again confirmed that this lens will be not be available in PL mount due to the size of the rear element.Įven though the lenses were publicly on display at the show, we were still not able to make any test shots yet. This may actually be a significant reason to go with the native E-mount version instead of an adapted EF or PL mount lens. We already knew that the Canon mount version will have electronic contacts, but another interesting specification that Sigma confirmed is that the Sony-E mount version will also have electronic contacts for communication of distance and iris info to suitable cameras. The 20mm Sigma cine lens has no filter thread The Sigma representative also reaffirmed that the most of the cine lenses will have a front filter thread of 82mm, but that the 85mm prime will have an 86mm, and the 20mm will not have a thread because of its bulbous front element. Sigma’s Shinji Yamaki shows the new cine lenses Sigma explained that you will be able to change the mount between the different fits, but that they do have to be returned to Sigma to do this. In the interview Chuck is told that the PL version probably won’t be available until Spring 2017. As we also reported, only the EF and Sony E-mount versions will be available at launch in December. Both lenses are going to be priced at $3999 US each.Īt the PhotoPlus Expo, Newsshooter’s Chuck Fadely had a chance to question Sigma in more detail about the fine details of the release. We already had the news this week of Sigma’s pricing for the 18-35mm T2 and 50-100 T2 Super35 Cine lenses.
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Meanwhile, Undead's Will of the Forsaken allows them to defeat Priests and Warlocks with little to fear. Orcs can combine their Blood Fury trait to boost their damage output for finishers, and Hardiness lets them endure stuns from other Rogues and Warriors better. Gnomes are generally seen as the weaker pick as Intellect does little and the only boon they get is Escape Artist (and a Rogue can get Improved Sprint instead).įor Horde, Both Orcs and Undead are seen as good picks for a Rogue. Humans are seen as a great pick for Rogues, especially in PvE situations due to having better hit chance when using swords, while Perception can give them the edge in PvP against other rogues.
His original War Room show launched in fall 2019 to defend Trump from the ongoing impeachment proceedings. War Room will host the Star News Networks’ reporters daily, and the two outlets will work in concert to curate the editorial agenda.īannon has already built a stronghold in the right-wing radio market. “Now we're basically giving them air cover with both radio streaming and web news services to back it up and, quite frankly, make these people stars.”īannon is also partnering with Star News Network, a conservative Tennessee-based digital outlet with a focus on hyper-local news currently operating in 11 cities, including those in Pennsylvania, Florida, and Arizona. “We know the hyper-local strategies resonate with people because they're volunteering like crazy,” Bannon told BuzzFeed News. But the show also plans to give airtime to people running for county supervisor, county judges, and election officials, as well as school boards and Republican Party committees. Listeners can expect appearances from MAGA candidates from all over the country, with an emphasis on Republican primaries and races for governor and secretary of state. “The Republican establishment is just totally fearful of the populist Trump movement now taking over institutions,” he said. It’s the hyper-local version of the War Room.”īannon said he won’t personally make endorsements but wants to widen the exposure of MAGA candidates through radio, streaming, and digital mediums. “It's a definite platform for MAGA and for America First. “We think there's an opportunity to literally destroy the Democratic Party as it currently exists in the November elections this year,” Bannon told BuzzFeed News in a phone interview. The show will broadcast in radio markets in states with some of the most contested races this year, including Pennsylvania and Georgia, with an emphasis on hyper-local races. weekdays, will give maximum exposure to Trump-aligned candidates. The one-hour show, airing from 6 to 7 p.m. The special edition show, titled War Room: Battleground, debuts on the John Fredericks Radio Network on March 7. Longtime Donald Trump ally and promoter Steve Bannon is turning his influential radio show into a platform for MAGA midterm candidates with an expansion that will allow him to grow as a right-wing gatekeeper. The 60-song soundtrack features arrangements overseen by the original composer, Hiroki Kikuta. If you find action games hard or want to focus on the story, select this difficulty. The Beginner setting allows players to resume in the same spot no matter how many times they get a game over. You have the option of four difficulty settings: Beginner, Easy, Normal, and Hard. With over 300 different kinds of abilities available, there are many different ways to train and power up your characters. In this remake, there’s also a newly added Class 4. Switch to light or dark classes to strengthen your characters and change their look. Utilize the signature ring menus of the Mana Series and new shortcut commands. Use the dynamic fighting system to evade enemies and fight back with aerial and combo attacks. See the spectacular world of Mana in full 3D render! Scenes and characters from the original game now in beautifully detailed graphics. The overlapping story of interwoven destinies changes depending on who you choose as your main character and companions! Players start their adventure by selecting three of the six main characters. Mana itself began to disappear from the world and the Mana Tree to wither. They started a terrible war to further their plot and destabilize the kingdoms. However, the forces of evil sought to free the Benevodons to gain control of the world. Weak from rebuilding the world, the Goddess changed into a tree and fell fast asleep for years. She sealed the horrors inside the eight Mana Stones, bringing the realm back from the brink. When the world was shrouded in darkness, the Goddess of Mana drew forth the Sword of Mana to smite the eight Benevodons, monsters of destruction. “Trials of Mana,” the hit console game with over 1 million copies and downloads sold worldwide.is coming to a smartphone near you!įun for longtime fans of the Mana Series and new players alike! Wear levelling is normally performed by the SSD’s inbuilt controller, and isn’t controlled in any way by the file system or operating system. If the SSD were to be used in a way that a few blocks were erased very frequently, those would hit their limit long before the rest of the blocks, and could result in the SSD failing much earlier than if the erase cycles were more evenly distributed across all the blocks in the SSD. Figures quoted for that number range between 3,000-5,000, and may exceed that in modern higher-quality SSDs. Whilst TRIM centres on write performance of an SSD, wear levelling is all about preventing an SSD from wearing out prematurely.Įach erasable block in an SSD has a finite number of erase cycles before it becomes unreliable. The trimforce command doesn’t have a verb which will inform you either. But no information on TRIM support is given for the most common connection for external SSDs, USB 3.1. This is given in System Information when you select that SSD according to its connection. The man page warns: “Use extreme caution when enabling TRIM, as some drives may not correctly handle the commands.”Īs far as I can see at present, looking in System Information and Disk Utility, you can only tell whether TRIM is enabled on certain SSDs, including those mounted internally or connected via buses such as Thunderbolt 3 which seem to pass this information. The command that you’ll then need to use isįollowed by restarting your Mac for it to take effect. I’ve been unable to find any recent recommendation from Apple or a similarly authoritative source that TRIM support should be enabled on internal or external SSDs running the current version of APFS.įor the moment, in the absence of any better information, I suggest that it’s wise to buy external enclosures and drives which can support TRIM, but not to enable it unless you observe slowed write performance on your SSD. Most accounts of TRIM and its support are now getting quite old, and don’t refer to file systems such as APFS which are optimised to work with SSDs. I have yet to see any reports that external SSDs in APFS format need TRIM to be enabled because write performance has deteriorated, although the default in macOS appears to be to disable TRIM support for external SSDs. In practice, it shouldn’t be hard to detect poor write performance on an SSD which could be addressed by enabling TRIM. In early releases of APFS, users who manually enabled TRIM sometimes encountered longer boot times, which have been attributed to TRIM commands being sent to the SSD during the boot process. While generally available for software RAID systems, except AppleRAID, the TRIM command is normally not supported by hardware RAID systems.Įnabling TRIM doesn’t automatically improve performance, and in some circumstances can instead impair performance. Operating systems, including macOS, gained TRIM support around 2010, but this has proved quite complex and varied by type of SSD, and by file system. This allows the SSD controller to erase that block, and maintains good write performance even under heavy use with limited free space. To avoid incurring such overhead, the operating system can maintain a list of blocks which are no longer in use, and once a block becomes unused, it can inform the SSD’s firmware that the block can now be re-used. This is commonly addressed by relocating any other retained data within the block, so enabling that block to be erased ready to receive the new data. This is complicated by the fact that data is written in pages of 4-16 kB, but erase commands always affect complete blocks, which typically consist of 128-512 pages. However, before NAND flash memory cells used in SSDs can be re-used for writing, their contents must be erased, a process which makes writing to them significantly slower. When re-using those blocks for new files only requires that they are rewritten, as on a hard disk, that’s not a problem, as the disk controller can choose to reuse them whenever it wants without any side effects. On any storage medium, the file system normally deletes files by marking their storage blocks as being no longer in use. This isn’t an abbreviation, but refers to the TRIM command, which is central to this issue. With many Mac users switching from hard disk storage to SSDs, and following my recent article about adding a two-SSD external enclosure, I thought it might be useful to look at some commonly-raised issues about SSDs: TRIM, wear levelling, and how they interact (or don’t) with macOS, particularly APFS. The skeleton is destined for museum display, where it'll offer visitors a unique learning opportunity.Īnd since our shared love of watching dead whales explode has brought us all this way down memory lane (and will probably do so again in future), why not pay due homage by brushing up on the right steps to take if you spot a stranded marine mammal. This time, there was not a stick of dynamite in sight – the remains were burned and buried. Scientists there have been on demolition duty since a giant blue whale carcass washed up on a local beach last week. Lessons we've learned about effective whale disposal over the past few decades must certainly have come in handy just recently, back on Exploding Whale's home turf in Oregon. The tense anticipation even spawned the website. 'The hope was that the long-dead Pacific gray whale would be almost disintegrated by the blast, and that any small pieces still around after the. The massive throat pouch that you see inflating in. They decided to obliterate it using 20 cases - half a ton - of dynamite. What would cause a whale to explode Gas builds up as the animal’s viscera and stomach contents decompose, but whale skin and blubber are tough. The results were pretty gory. Just last year, locals in a small Newfoundland town feared they were in for a similar scenario when the smelly and bloated carcass of a blue whale threatened to erupt on shore. Oregon highway workers had to find a way to dispose of the rotting carcass of a 45-foot-long, eight ton whale in Florence, the closest beach town to Eugene, on Nov. Now rewind to 2004, when a 60-ton sperm whale exploded on a busy street while being transported for necropsy in Taiwan. “We witnessed those two types of people in the Capitol riot as well.” “There’s an important distinction between an actor who is coordinating manipulation, and a retail investor who gets caught up in the movement,” he said. Sinal Aral, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, said the social media frenzy disrupting the stock market this week has parallels with the disinformation campaigns affecting national elections and the movement that led up to the Capitol riot - all situations where it can be hard to assign blame. “The group mind-set is where things can get iffy and get coordinated.” “What these communities are doing is a gray area,” said Allen Tran, 23, the administrator of a popular Robinhood trading group on Facebook that was temporarily shut down amid the frenzy. and other countries following the death of George Floyd last summer.īut the mass movement that emerged from online communities designed to let amateur stock traders share tips came as a shock to Wall Street. Social media also helped Black Lives Matter activists organize rallies, record police violence and communicate during the marches sweeping the U.S. Though the term was coined in 2006 by activist Tarana Burke, a confluence of the political climate, the case against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and the rise of social media allowed the movement to take off 11 years later. In 2017, the hashtag “MeToo” began going viral as women - and some men - shared their experiences of sexual assault on social media. It’s the same thing as when Jim Cramer gets on CNBC smashing buttons.” It’s really just a bunch of people sharing ideas. “It’s knowing how to know who to listen to and who to ignore. “Some of the people who are on that thread are probably on par with the stock pickers of these hedge funds,” he said. Wilkinson said the forums this week probably struck newcomers as “really, really childish and crazy,” full of rocket ship emojis, calls to pump stocks written to the tune of sea shanties and a flood of newcomers trying to jump on the bandwagon, but he said that’s not been his usual experience there. They soon found a shared enemy in hedge fund managers who tried to short the stock, encouraging each other to keep buying GameStop and push it ever higher -“to the moon.” The Reddit-based investors used the chat platform Discord to fire each other up and the trading app Robinhood to buy shares with a few clicks on their smartphones. Among them was Roaring Kitty, a YouTube personality from a Boston suburb who became a legendary fixture on the Reddit forum, expressing an early interest in buying GameStop shares and inspiring a growing legion of followers to pore through its financials. An earlier version of this story misstated the business model.As with many crowd movements, it was hard to trace where it all started, though there were at least a few high-profile instigators. The coordination "can apply to anything that's tradeable," he said.Ĭorrection: GameStop is a video game retailer. He added that it doesn't appear there's anything illegal with the process, "and I don't see why we won't see more of this and why people won't get together as a group and make some money." "Investors have shown they can organize and have the ability to coordinate for kicks, like it's a game, and can clearly make real money at the same time," he said. Imas said Wall Street is going to have to contend with the fact that this new form of grassroots collaborative investing is changing the landscape. The runup was due to many factors, including the birth of internet stock chat rooms, but nothing with the power we see today on platforms like Reddit. In March 2000, the Nasdaq hit a high of 5,048 before losing 76% of its value over the next two years. In December 1996 then-Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan warned of "irrational exuberance" in the stock market. 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Jonah Berger is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.NOTABLE QUOTABLE – “Nobody talks about boring companies, boring products, or boring ads,” – Jonah Berger.But the sight of him lights up the brain.” – This is your brain on Donald Trump Viewers may love or despise Donald Trump. FACT – “The most intriguing result was that Trump generated more brain engagement than his rivals in almost every demographic category, even among Democrats and Independents.FACT – A person must see your online adver tisement a minimum average of 4.7 times to convert.Godin worked as VP Direct Marketing at Yahoo before leaving to become a full time speaker, writer and blogger. 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gradle build (in case you have gradle 3.2.1 installed on your system)Īfter compilation, you may find in various folders packages containing executables, including the analysis, the replayer, the session reconstructor, etc.Compileĭepending on your local setup you may use: Your computer to the iobserve-repository directory. Substitute PATH_TO_IOBSERVE_REPOSITORY with the actual absolute path on In the iobserve-analysis directory, create a file gradle.properties.Īdd the following variable declaration to that file and save it.Īpi.baseline=PATH_TO_IOBSERVE_REPOSITORY/mvn-repo/ 'Note: This is outdated, we switched to gradle' Setup Build Environment Iobserve-analysis git clone You need Kieker example data, a RAC and a corresponding palladio model You need additional packages which are compiled in iobserve-repository.Ĭheckout the iobserve-repository git repository alongside.you need an Java 8 JDK installed on your machine. Setting up iObserve gradle build Prerequisites Some parts are still located in other SVN repositories. The code is in a prototype stage and not fully functional, especially, as Monitoring data, a PCM model and a supplementary mapping file. rac.creator this tool allows to create a RAC mapping based on.splitter separates monitoring data streams by host.rvice the service version of the analysis.analysis.cli command line version of the analysis.analysis for the analysis plugins on basis of teetime.common for the monitoring records (event types).Fixed a tricky problem with drag & drop.This repository contains the sources for the iobserve analysis including.Removed the wrong visibility mask when printing Startrack plots.Fixed the annoying beep when opening/closing folders.It will keep your current objects, and export Observing Runs and Night Logs to a safe place before being removed.Ī place to store astronomy-related websites is also provided, as well as a full-screen mode. Note for 0.8 beta users: An Upgrade Process will take place during first launch. IObserve also provides its famous times bar with Local Time, UTC, (Modified) Julian Date and the Local Mean Sidereal Time of an observatory you can choose. Perform searches in the object's references If you have your own astronomical observatory, being a remote amator or professional observatory, or simply your backyard, simply enter its coordinates, and you will be able to use it like any other builtin observatory. Get the time and length of the nights for 4 different twilights limits.Know how much time an object spends above a given altitude during the night.Find automatically for you the closest Landolt and UKIRT standard stars.Slide easily the night date to match future's observing dates.Observe the airmass curve over a night whose length and shift can be largely customized to even satisfy radio astronomers!.See the Moon's airmass curve in place, and its minimum separation to any object, when relevant.Get the table of the selected objects sorted according to their time of minimum airmass.
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