![]() Bringing together both Parker and Morales into the same game will also be what fans of the comics have been craving. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is going to be a huge game in Sony's exclusive portfolio. It doesn’t appear that anything similar will happen with this entry in the PlayStation Spider-Man universe. Previously, Marvel’s Spider-Man originally released on PlayStation 4, and then later made its way to the PS5 alongside Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales. The game will be a PS5 exclusive - it appears that Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is being built from the ground-up as a next-gen experience. Insomniac Games' Ryan Schneider, Head of Franchise Strategy & Studio Relations, confirmed as such via the official PlayStation Blog. Unfortunately for fans who have yet to buy a PS5, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 will not be releasing in tandem on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, at present. This is all speculation, of course, until we get confirmation from Insomniac and Sony. ![]() Not only is this character from Russia, he's always complaining about finding an equal he can battle. It's possible that this character is Kraven. We do know we can expect the game to at least follow from the narrative that unfolded in the original game in 2018 and the side story Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales.įrom the voiceover, it seems that whoever the symbiote is using has an Eastern European accent of some sort. Insomniac Games has yet to divulge any official details regarding what we can expect from Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. These games are single-player focused, and reward those who want to collect hidden goodies and look at everything the game offers and lays out before them.Ĭonsidering the game isn’t coming out until 2023, it’ll likely be some time until we see any meaningful gameplay. Since there are two Spider-Men in Spider-Man 2, it looks like there will be some tag-team combos.īoth previous Spider-Man games allowed for copious web-slinging from high-rise to high-rise, with story missions and optional quests sprinkled throughout the city, bookended by story scenes, street fights, and challenging boss encounters. Morales' venom bio-electric shock powers will also make a return in Spider-Man 2. It seems that Parker will wear the Iron Spider suit from the Spider-Man: Homecoming movie.
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![]() There is a Glitch about his final smash, allowing it to be endless. can freely move during this Final Smash, unlike some other characters. R.O.B.'s Final Smash makes him shoot a group of short-ranged whirling lasers out of his eyes, followed by some hard-hitting short lasers, similar to the Superspicy Curry. becomes a playable character in his own right. decided to stop destroying the world and teamed up with the gang to stop Ganondorf and Tabuu from destroying the Super Smash Bros. All the R.O.B.s attacked the Minister until his clothes were burned off and the gang discovered he was R.O.B. However, when they arrived, the Ancient Minister refused to battle with them.Ī hologram of Ganondorf suddenly appeared and started commanding all the R.O.B.s except for the Ancient Minister. Samus, Pikachu, Captain Olimar, Captain Falcon, Donkey Kong, and Diddy Kong were able to get in this same island. It is also revealed that R.O.B., the Ancient Minister, was once the ruler of the world and he lives on a floating island along with the other ministers. universe was because Tabuu had killed a lot of R.O.B.s and he had become very depressed. and the whole reason he was destroying the Super Smash Bros. In the Subspace Emissary, it is revealed that the Ancient Minister is actually R.O.B. When a pair of R.O.B.s are used to activate a Subspace Bomb, they are destroyed in the explosions. The bodyguards for the Ancient Minister are called The R.O.B. During Adventure Mode: The Subspace Emissary, they are part of the Subspace Army, and are used to activate the Subspace Bombs, as well as guard the Ancient Minister and come in different variations R.O.B. R.O.B.s appear under three roles in Super Smash Bros. Non-canon warning: This article or section contains non-canonical information that is not considered to be an official part of the Mario series and/or isn't considered to be part of the series' overall storyline. To defeat him, the player had to shoot the flashing blocks set-up for has if he was being used to play Stack-Up. He bobs around shooting a strange, orange pistol using both arms. Like many of his other appearances, he's in the Japanese model. is the boss of 9-Volt's stage, the Star Fox boss level. is also the subject of Stack-Up microgame in WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! from 9-Volt's games. When players play online, they may come across the HVC-012, the red Japanese version of R.O.B. The others (in the Mario Kart Arcade GP series) are Pac-Man, Ms. is the first non- Mario character to appear in the Mario Kart series. His karts are fast, heavy, and have wider handling. has two original karts: the ROB-BLS and the ROB-LGS which are similar to the motor bikes in Mario Kart Wii. In the game, he is one of the heaviest characters, his weight matched only by Bowser. He can be unlocked by getting all gold trophies in the Nirto or Retro Grand Prix in Mirror Mode. is also the last unlockable character in Mario Kart DS. ![]() “If I was the manager, I would want to try to have them removed,” says Johnson, “But it’s not an easy decision, and it won’t be an easy task.” The situation, he acknowledges, is complicated. With the primates’ population set to double by 2022, wildlife managers in the state are continuing their efforts to remove the terrors, but haven’t offered up many details on just how they’ll rid the state of the growing problem. “Fortunately nothing has happened yet, but I wouldn’t want to have that looming over me if I was the state.” “There’s a low risk, but very high consequence should something happen,” Johnson says. The monkeys are on the state’s “do not feed,” list, but Johnson says more must be done. While initially a thrill for riders of the captain’s glass-bottom boat expeditions, the animals quickly became a threat. Inspired by the film “Tarzan,” and looking to increase his tour’s allure, Tooey released six rhesus macaques onto an area island, where they have thrived and multiplied across Florida ever since. The primates are not native to the sunshine state’s Silver Springs State Park, but were introduced to the area by a wily tour guide, named Colonel Tooey, in the 1930s. The saga of these monkeys’ trail of terror began nearly 100 years ago. Kayaker Rod Guynn captured the moment rhesus macaques dove into the Silver River this October, putting on display their strong swimming skills, and offering a warning to other park-goers of how close the animals can get. The threat became a real one in November, when a monkey infected a Japanese scientist with herpes-B, putting the lab worker in critical condition.Īnd they can swim - fast. They’re wreaking havoc on the environment, gorging themselves on quail eggs and 50 species of plants.Īnd most menacingly, about 30 percent of those caught harbored herpes-B virus, and some actively carried the disease in their saliva and other bodily fluids, meaning it could easily be transmitted via a bite. The rhesus macaque population in Silver Springs State Park has grown to more than 1,000 statewide, increasingly terrified state officials say. “I personally am concerned,” Steve Johnson, associate professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Florida, tells the Guardian. And the rhesus macaques’ ranks are growing. What is Monkeypox virus? Maryland infection is second in US of 2021įeral primates capable of spreading deadly herpes are plaguing Floridians and the state’s wildlife, experts complain. Texas assistant coach, ex-stripper girlfriend sued in bizarre monkey bite saga Pet monkey fed cocaine before almost getting flushed down toilet Rampaging monkeys kill 250 dogs in revenge massacre Jacobson replicated the scam throughout the 1990s. The mysterious donation made national news at the time, though a source close to Jacobson later told CNN he'd sent the winning game piece in the hopes that the good deed might secure him a more lenient sentence should he ever be caught. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Tennessee. In 1998, Jacobson would pull his nephew into the scheme with the same offer (a $200,000 game piece for $45,000 upfront), according to The Daily Beast.Īt one point, Jacobson even anonymously mailed a $1 million game piece to the donations clerk at the St. That year, Jacobson gave one game piece worth $200,000 to his butcher in exchange for $45,000 in cash. Once he had a supply of winning game pieces, though, Jacobson needed to find some "winners." Since Jacobson couldn't claim any prizes himself without instantly exposing his scheme, he used friends and family to recruit people who would pay tens of thousands of dollars upfront to Jacobson and his network of recruiters to secure winning game pieces worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, all the way up to the $1 million grand prize. In airport bathroom stalls on his way to McDonald's packaging centers, Jacobson would open sealed packets of winning game pieces, dump them into his hand and replace them with regular, non-winning stickers before re-sealing the packet with his supply of seals. In order to open those packages without the auditor catching on, Jacobson had to sneak off to the one place the woman auditor couldn't follow him: the men's bathroom. Suddenly, Jacobson had a way of opening and re-sealing the packages of winning McDonald's game pieces. ![]() It was also around that time that a foreign supplier in charge of sending Simon Marketing the tamper-proof seals mistakenly sent a whole package of seals to Jacobson directly, according to The Daily Beast. She followed Jacobson wherever he carried the game pieces, double-checking that the winning McDonald's game pieces never left their tamper-proof case. ![]() He would take the stickers to packaging centers around the country where he would apply them himself to french fry cartons and soda cups bound for McDonald's locations previously selected by a random computer drawing, according to The Daily Beast, which viewed sealed court documents from Jacobson's case.Įven though he was the head of security, Jacobson was also under constant surveillance by an independent auditor, The Daily Beast noted. Securing the game pieces often meant Jacobson had to personally carry them in a case shut with a tamper-proof seal. But in the mid-90s, Jacobson figured out a way to rig the popular game so that the most lucrative winning game pieces would almost always find their way to people he knew - people who then shared millions of dollars in winnings with him, according to federal officials who announced the arrests of Jacobson and seven of his associates in 2001. It was Jacobson's job to look after game pieces for McDonald's promotional events, making sure no employees pocketed any of the prizes themselves. In the 1990s, Simon made the game pieces used in McDonald's promotional contests, including the Monopoly and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire games, where customers could win up to $1 million in prizes just by buying items like french fries or a soda. Jacobson, also known as "Uncle Jerry," was once director of security for Simon Marketing. If you work with archives more regularly and need fine-grained control, look for a more comprehensive tool. If you just need an archiver to extract the odd file, B1 can be a good choice. This includes both compression and decompression which weren't as good as with WinRAR or 7-Zip, as well as the GUI, which seemed to become a bit sluggish when a large (>1GB) archive was opened (tested on a Core i7 with 32 GB RAM and Windows 7 圆4). I personally felt that the speed of B1 wasn't the best though. Feature-wise, it's definitely a lot better than so many other archivers I tried (particularly on Mac) which make it almost impossible to do anything beyond double-click to extract. But what's there seems to work well, including drag & drop, and temporary extraction of files from an archive when opening them – two things other archivers still don't support or get right after many years (such as 7-Zip GUI). So it is definitely not the right tool for power users. While for B1 you get at least 5 compression presets, there are no settings at all for ZIP. There is also an interface on this tool known as Lite1.7 or Lite.7 which allows you to extract the email that contains a specific. SAP Business One B1 would be beneficial for delegates to have experience of working in the financial accounting field. The tool can create archives in ZIP and its own B1 format. Lite 1.7 is an excellent online tool or web application offers you the feature to filter email addresses from any data or source according to the query or settings you give to it. SAP Business One B1 Advance Pro Training Course 2021. While it does have a number of options to change its behaviour, I personally missed more detailed settings, especially when it comes to compression settings for a new archive. There is a setup wizard and tutorial that introduces newcomers to how archives in general, and B1 Archiver in particular, work. It supports many formats, has a nice GUI, and the most important functionality. Important Note: Refrigeration Plant Operator Edition 3 and the Refrigeration Plant Operator Edition 2.It's not a bad archiver.
Plus loads more - see the Adobe Lightroom Course Content Here.Īlternatively you could attend a one-off 3hr MasterClass in the evening where the lesson is focused on just the editing tools and how to use them effectively. Learn how to use the editing tools in LightroomĮnhanced editing of photos to give them a professional finish Implement an effective and efficient workflow for editing photos Import, organise and manage your photos on your computer and in Lightroom The course is a series of four consecutive weekly evening classes each lasting 3hrs that will teach you how to: I have been using Lightroom since early 2007 when it was first launched so have 8 years of experience, heavy usage and knowledge that I have packaged together into a course for Lightroom to enable beginners to get the most from it in the quickest time possible. However this may take you sometime to work through everything you really need to know and probably won't give you a good workflow to editing photos. You can of course use the on-line video tutorials that are available on YouTube and various other forums. ![]() We hope this meets the expectations of our customers and we look forward to an ongoing dialog. Access to Lightroom mobile workflows will also cease to function. The Develop and Map modules have been disabled in order to signal the end of the membership and the need to renew in order to receive Adobe’s continuous innovation in those areas. With Lightroom, at the end of a membership, the desktop application will continue to launch and provide access to the photographs managed within Lightroom as well as the Slideshow, Web, Book or Print creations that we know many photographers painstakingly create. If you end your subscription after 12 months you won't loose your photos and will still be able to access LR but in a restricted way. This is the same cost as buying LR CC outright but remember you are also getting Photoshop CC too and any upgrades to both products whilst your subscription is active. So in total you will pay 12 x £8.75 = £105. If you decide to go for the Creative Cloud subscription you are effectively just renting the software for a 12 month minimum period. Sign up for a Creative Cloud Subscription: Photographers Package £8.75 per month for LR CC & Photoshop CC £103 - You can also start a 30 day free trial before buying. Note: the stand-a-lone version does not support cloud sync between mobile devices and other features - see the list of what's not included with the stand-a-lone version. If you already own a "stand-a-lone" version of Lightroom you can upgrade to Lightroom 6 for £59. What are the options to purchase Lightroom? So it is worth upgrading or purchasing - the answer to that is simple, yes - the performance increases alone make it worthwhile and you will save even more time now with the enhanced editing tools. There is a subtle change of colour from light grey to dark greyon the panel background but this is to subtle for newbies into Lightroom - simply give users the option to change the colour of the panel background when in a "local adjustment" verses a "global adjustment". Web Module Improvements - Pet Eye Fix - iPhone/iPad Integration Improvements - plus.ĮG The exposure slider in Adjustment Brush but they moved the exposure slider in the Basic panel. Touch Screen Compatibility - for those who use touch enabled computers ![]() Improved Slideshows - Add more than 1 music track, better syncing of photos to music. Other Features added and improved.įacial Recognition & Tagging - Find photos of family and friends in your library. There is also a panoramic merge option in version 6 that I haven't used yet. I haven't done extensive testing and comparisons between LREnfuse which I have used happily for years and Adobe's new HDR Merge feature - I am just pleased its now been added as an option which means it should continue to improve over time. This one has been long overdue! You can now merge your bracketed exposures directly in Lightroom 6 without using a 3rd party plug-in like LREnfuse. I have tested the performance of Lightroom with this feature on and off and it does make a difference when turned on. There are some known compatibility issues with this on some ATI and AMD graphics cards so if after turning it on in your Performance Preferences it doesn't work then it may be worth you reading the following thread. ![]() ![]() His portrayal of a conflicted, power hungry youth plays out more like the na¯ve boy from The Girl Next Door, just with more hours logged playing Grand Theft Auto. Similar sentiments can be expressed about the performance laid down by Emile Hirsch, who has faired well in more simple roles in the past. Unfortunately it is too late to save his performance as a whole, as most of us had already lost interest. ![]() In the final moments of the film, his performance sures up considerably, allowing him to show off what those pesky marketers want you to see, he can actually act. Timberlake, who spends much of the first two thirds of the film gallivanting around like the court jester in Johnny Truelove’s kingdom of wannabe gangsterism. As you can imagine, what began as a fun game with some pot dealing breaks into what can only be described as terribly formulaic studio drama that ends as you would expect, just not soon enough.Īdding to the otherwise predictable plot, penned by Nick Cassavetes ( The Notebook), is the annoyance of Mr. In order to best live up to the legacy of Scarface (whose poster adorns his bedroom wall), this Halfling gangster decides to kidnap Jake’s brother (Anton Yelchin) and hold him as collateral until the debt is paid. Hirsch plays Johnny Truelove, a neighborhood drug runner in suburban California who takes up a beef with Jake (Foster) over a deal gone sour. But Timberlake ends up playing second fiddle to other young talents, such as Emile Hirsch ( The Girl Next Door) and Ben Foster ( Six Feet Under, X-Men: The Last Stand). Now, marketers over at Universal Pictures would have you believe that Alpha Dog is to be the breakout vehicle for pop star turned Saturday Night Live host turned actor Justin Timberlake. This year gives us Alpha Dog, a film that is doomed to be more of a lukewarm January filler than a serious late season contender. On the flipside, every year gets its share of Oscar bait-and-switch, movies that show promise but don’t quite make the cut. In some cases, films of this nature are held until the end of the year in order to maintain that fresh Oscar scent. With that onslaught come some excellent films, as seen this year with the likes of Pan’s Labyrinth or Children of Men. Toward the end of the year, and on into the month of January fans of cinema everywhere are bombarded with the last ditch efforts of studios to capture the limelight and rake in some coveted Award season hardware. 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Kindy first joined Dollar General in 2008 as vice president of distribution and has served as EVP of global supply chain since 2018. ![]() We recognize Mike’s dedication and achievements and wish him and his family the very best in this next chapter.” ![]() “The entire Dollar General leadership team is extremely grateful for Mike’s contributions for the past 13 years. “Mike’s retirement comes after an outstanding career marked by exceptional leadership in supply chain innovation and operational excellence,” said Owen. Tony Zuazo will be promoted to executive vice president of global supply chain upon Kindy’s retirement. “When taken together, we estimate there are a total of approximately 17,000 new store opportunities available across our format types which we believe represents a long runway for new unit growth.”ĮVP of global supply chain Mike Kindy to Retireĭollar General also announced the planned retirement of Mike Kindy, the company’s executive vice president of global supply chain, effective April 15, 2021. “ While we continue to evaluate, we currently estimate pOpshelf could add approximately 3,000 additional store opportunities in the Continental U.S., with about another 1,000 additional opportunities available for our smaller footprint DGX format,” said Owen. “While still early, we are very pleased with the results of our pOpshelf stores, which have far exceeded our initial expectations for both sales and gross margin,” said Vasos. “In terms of our store-within-a-store concept, a smaller footprint pOpshelf shop will be prominently positioned in the center of the store, and we will display both Dollar General and pOpshelf branding on exterior entrances to build and maximize awareness,” he added. The pOpshelf store concept aims to engage customers by offering a fun, affordable and differentiated treasure hunt experience delivered through continually refreshed merchandise, a differentiated in-store experience and exceptional value with about 95% of items priced at $5 or less, COO Jeff Owen said. In addition to these stores, it plans to incorporate this concept inside up to 25 Dollar General stores in 2021. Capital spending is expected to be in the range of $1.05-$1.15 billion.ĭG opened its first five pOpshelf locations in 2020 and said it will accelerate the rollout in 2021, opening up to 50 pOpshelf stores by year-end compared to its previous goal of about 30 locations. The retailer also plans to add produce in approximately 700 stores, bringing the total number of stores that carry produce to more than 1,800. The second new format DG is rolling out will be even larger at approximately 9,500 square selling feet, and will be deployed “opportunistically” across new store relocation and remodel opportunities.įor 2021, DG plans to remodel 1,750 stores and relocate 100 stores, representing 2,900 real estate projects in total (including the 1,050 new stores). “Beginning later this year, this new format along with our DGP concept will become our base prototype for nearly all new stores, replacing both our traditional and higher, cooler count DGTP format, allowing for a more optimized assortment and room to accommodate future growth,” said CEO Todd Vasos. Similar to its larger footprint DGP concept, the first new format store has selling space of approximately 8,500 square feet, which compares to about 7,300 square feet in a traditional store. The discount retailer also announced the retirement of Mike Kindy, EVP of global supply chain, and his replacement.ĭG said it will accelerate the rollout of its pOpshelf store concept, as well as build on the success of its Dollar General Plus Store (DGP) and introduce two new store formats, which it began testing in 2020. Dollar General Corporation (DG) said it expects to open 1,050 new stores in 2021, including two new store formats. Therefore the editing system does not need to be connected to the internet. If systems are not connected to GV STRATUS, proxy mode editing can also be made available by using the optional EDIUS XRE conform engine.ĭifferent to EDIUS Pro 8 the EDIUS Workgroup version allows an offline-activation. When you have finished editing, the project file will be auto-conformed by the GV STRATUS Render Engine workstation computer for final processing and output. You can search, stream and view stories as well as edit projects by proxy mode in low resolution or transfer the high-res-material onto your local storage before editing. The combination of EDIUS Workgroup 8 and GV STRATUS also offers an efficient content management system including workflow automation, the administration of user rights and storage optimization.Įven working remotely from a home office or directly from the set is possible with this system only requiring an internet-connection. This combination supports and serves numerous destinations at the same time such as playout-servers, content management systems, social media channels and digital libraries. Combined with GV STRATUS several cutters can work on the same story sharing the same source material, media and metadata for an ultrafast turnaround. Furthermore network solutions like a variety of MAM-systems (media asset management) are supported.Įspecially in a broadcast environment with EDIUS as a strong player all across the globe, networking features are essential. The workgroup-version allows connecting to the Grass Valley STRATUS Video Produktion & Content Management System and working directly with a Grass Valley K2 SAN-system. On top of that EDIUS Workgroup 8 offers additional features and benefits that we will describe in the following.ĮDIUS Workgroup 8 addresses broadcasters as well as individual users in need of an enhanced feature set. With EDIUS Pro 8.10 the performance of ProRes and DNxHD footage on the timeline has been speeded up by 250 %.ĮDIUS Workgroup 8 contains all features of EDIUS Pro 8 and supports the same plug-ins and hardware as EDIUS Pro 8. Versions i7-4790K and i7-6700k are highly recommended for desktop-PCs as well as the i7-4810QM and i7-6820HQ for notebooks. Quick Sync is a hardware implemented GPU-feature offered by many of Intel’s current Core i7, Core i5 and even Core i3 processors. ![]() ![]() Playing back H.264-footage on the timeline has been greatly improved as well as enabling to smoothly edit 4K-material even with a less then optimized office PC. Not only does Quick Sync speed up the encoding of H.264 exporting files up to 10 times faster. This includes the usage of up to 512 GB of system RAM for an optimal throughput of data, which is essential when using multiple layers, editing 3D and working with multicam-projects.ĮDIUS Pro 8 is optimized for Intel Quick Sync like no other NLE. Built from scratch as a native 64-bit-solution for Windows 7, 8 and 10 EDIUS Pro 8 utilizes all of the advantages of today’s advanced 64-bit-operating systems. |
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