![]() Fixed an inconsistent color coding issue that appeared once players reached the maximum number of Wraps.The “Maximum Insanity” achievement has been fixed so it only unlocks when the criteria are met.We still advocate against getting run over by a plane. The game no longer freezes during AllDrive: Hangout sessions when the player remains idle for two minutes on the airport runway.Corrected an error on the “Controller” tab that misstated the location of the horn button. ![]()
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Disaster-prone Jim Dixon, lecturer in medieval history (which he hates) at a red-brick English university (ditto), is under the thrall of Professor Welch, department head, enthusiast of medieval “music” and a bore of the deepest dye. Nearly 70 years after publication, it now appears as an audiobook (Blackstone, 9⅔ hours). (Simon & Schuster Audio, 8 hours, $17)‘Lucky Jim,’ by Kingsley AmisReturn to menuKingsley Amis’s 1954 book is, despite its unreconstructed attitude toward women, one of the funniest novels ever written. Also in play are buried treasure, a pair of ex-cons, a presidential candidate and, of course, a python. This entails employing a bibulous ex-newspaperman kitted out as the “Everglades Melon Monster,” which naturally becomes a TikTok sensation. While the two men get on with drinking, drugging and dreaming of success, Ken Bortle of Bortle Brothers Bait and Beer is hatching a scheme to lure tourists to the brothers’ justly unfrequented store. Jess Braddock is frustrated living in the Everglades with her baby, ex-boyfriend - an aspiring reality star whose idea of acting is whipping off his shirt - and his lecherous friend. ![]() (Penguin Audio, 8½ hours, $31.50)‘Swamp Story,’ by Dave BarryReturn to menuDave Barry narrates his latest novel in a calm, seemingly serious voice, never mind the endearing silliness of what he’s reading. She distinguishes between characters marvelously, shading her voice to project their personalities and emotional state so effectively that we feel we know them - though, naturally, they would not deign to know us. It’s absurdly satisfying, not least because of narrator Marin Ireland’s fine performance. ![]() The story moves along a familiar path, one dotted with pitfalls, recoveries, rich-person satire and eventual harmony. Cord’s sisters call her “the gold digger,” though, happily, they have their own problems. Middle-class Sasha has married old-money Cord Stockton of Brooklyn Heights, and it’s rough. It is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.Jenny Jackson’s debut is the story of immensely rich people saddled with wealth’s daunting problems: prenups, trust funds and tennis strokes among them. Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's masterpiece. Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life-from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction to the philosopher who becomes a pirate to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies but against those who needed him most-and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world's motor-and the motive power of every man? ![]() It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world-and did. The incomparable novel about the men of the mind on strike against the creed of self-sacrifice.Īyn Rand's epochal novel, first published in 1957, has been a continual bestseller as well as an intellectual landmark. ![]() These roaring and howling calls are performed mostly by the males in the group. These howlers are famous for their “dawn chorus”. Venezuelan red howlers are most active in the morning, when the group is on the move to find another feeding spot. The females of the group are in charge of the offspring. One male is the usually dominant monkey of the group, the alpha male, and he is responsible for leading them to new food sites and defending them. The groups are polygynous, with only one or two males and the rest females and their offspring. It lives in groups of three to 9 individuals (usually five to seven). This can be seen by the wide separation of the second and third digits of the hand. In addition, its hands and feet have a grasping pattern that allows it to better move about in the trees. Its long, prehensile tail also assists it by providing both support and grasping abilities. Its preferred method of locomotion is quadrupedal walking with minimal leaping. The diurnal Alouatta seniculus is an arboreal primate, so it spends much of its time high in the canopy. This makes them an exception among other New World monkeys. Howler monkeys also have an inflated bulla, which is the bony encasement of the middle ear. The position of the foramen magnum is very posterior to make way for the expanded jaw and enlarged hyoid bone. The jawbone of the red howler monkey is large, especially the body of the mandible. Their faces are surrounded by fur and they have stubby noses. The color of both males and females is a deep reddish-brown, and the color shade changes with age. ![]() The tail is covered with fur except for the last third of the underside, which allows it to grab branches. It has a long prehensile tail of 49–75 cm. The males weigh 5.4-9 kg, while females weigh 4.2–7 kg. Sexual dimorphism in this species is small males range from 49 to 72 cm and females from 46 to 57 cm long. All howler monkeys belong to the family Atelidae and the infraorder Platyrrhini (New World monkeys).ĭescription Skull of Alouatta seniculus. The population in the Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia was split off as a separate species, the Bolivian red howler, in 1986, and more recently, splitting off the population in northeastern South America and Trinidad as the Guyanan red howler has occurred. The Colombian red howler or Venezuelan red howler ( Alouatta seniculus) is a South American species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey, found in the western Amazon Basin in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil. ![]() The list price for Discovery Education is $4,000 per building and that includes access for all staff and students who require access. (Image credit: Discovery Education) How Much Does Discovery Education Cost? The quiz function, which lets teachers choose from preset quizzes and polls and/or embed their own questions or polls within video content, is also among the platform’s most popular new features. It is the most assigned content within the platform, Rougeux says. Rougeux says this provides teachers with a fun 10-minute activity they can do with students every day.Īnother category of offerings is interactives, which include virtual labs and other interactive simulations. One such tool is virtual Choice Boards, which allow students to explore topics at their own pace with interactive slides featuring short videos and multiple options to explore a topic.Ī variation on this feature that has become one of the platforms’ most popular offerings is a Daily Fix It, which shows students a flawed sentence and gives them the opportunity to move the words around to correct it. (Image credit: Discovery Education) What Are The Most Popular Discovery Education Features?īeyond video, Discovery Education features a variety of tools that have become increasingly popular since the pandemic started. I still want to add my artistry, but if you can get me 80 percent of the way there, that's a really big value add.'” “'Can you package it up for me into a lesson, activity, or assignment that I can edit?'” Rougeux says educators used to ask. Rougeux says this ability to customize was built into the system based upon user feedback. Once you’ve found the content you want to use, Discovery Education is designed to customize it to fit each instructor’s needs. They’ll also receive personalized suggestions based on previous content they’ve utilized.Įducators can also subscribe to channels such as “news and current events,” “virtual field trips,” and “cells,” which provide a landing page for curated content in those areas, organized by specific grade levels. On this page, educators can search for content organized by subject activity type, grade level, and more. On Discovery Education, teachers have access to a personalized landing page. (Image credit: Discovery Education) How Does Discovery Education Work? ![]() ![]() Avidemux supports OpenGL filters, several scripting languages, can be controlled from the command line and process files in batch mode. Ready-made video projects can be saved in AVI, MPEG, MP4, MKV, FLV and some other formats. Avidemux supports AVI, MPEG, ASF, H.263, MPEG-4, QuickTime, 3GP, MP4, Matroska and Flash Video as input formats. The program supports multiple audio filters, can work in multithreaded mode and allows you to extract sound from movies. With the help of this program you can convert video and its individual fragments into different formats, add effects, crop the frame, resize the picture, rotate the frame, conduct deinterlacing, work with fields, adjust the color balance, suppress video noise, superimpose subtitles and much more.Īvidemux users can save screenshots of video in JPG and BMP formats, adjust frame rate and decoder options, add audio tracks to video and burn finished video to DVD and CD. More details about the bugs fixed in Avidemux 2.8.1 are available in the release notes, on the official website, from where you can also download the new release as an AppImage universal binary that you can run on virtually any GNU/Linux distribution.Avidemux is a free open source video editor. Under the hood, the new Avidemux release comes bundled with the FFmpeg 4.4.2 multimedia framework and fixes for various issues like a crash that occurred when finishing the encoding with the VP9 encoder, multiple crashes in the “Resample FPS” video filter when enabling motion interpolation, a copy to clipboard crash when the selection extends to the end of video, as well as a crash in the VA-API driver on Linux systems. Last but not least, Avidemux 2.8.1 makes it possible to save the volume setting on exit, adds the ability to use the mouse wheel to seek by 60 seconds cycles through 1/2/4/60 seconds seek modes, adds a new keyboard shortcut (CTRL+F) to quickly add partial filters, and adds a new video encoder for macOS systems called VideoToolbox HEVC (“ffVTEncHEVC”). The user interface has been improved as well in this release and it now offers better support for HiDPI displays with a new HiDPI compatible button set, Light and Dark theme options in the View menu, extended file information, new buttons to seek to selection start (A) and end (B) in on-the-fly video filter preview, and scalable and draggable logo image in the “Add logo” video filter configuration dialog. On top of that, Avidemux 2.8.1 brings HDR tone mapping performance and quality improvements, support for 8-bit VP9 hardware decoding via VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) on Linux systems with GPUs that feature a VP9 decoder, as well as OpenGL rendered on-the-fly preview in video filter configuration dialogs to improve performance on HiDPI displays. This release also implements custom frame rate change (audio stretch with pitch control), a configurable compressor (DRC), independent channel gain and delay options, channel remap options, and a new option in the “Resize”, “Fit to size”, and “Zoom” filters to force the app to remember the selected resize method. ![]() ![]() Avidemux, the popular open-source, free, cross-platform non-linear video editing and transcoding software, has been updated to version 2.8.1, a big update that brings exciting new features and many enhancements.Īvidemux 2.8.1 is here nine months after Avidemux 2.8.0 and introduces several new features like a 3-band equalizer, new downmix options, namely stereo headphone and headphone virtual surround, the ability to configure up to 32 audio tracks, and three new filters, namely 3D LUT, Arbitrary Rotate, and Decimate. " Every cyclist has something to teach and something to learn. 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If you want to submit a trail or bike photo instead – your new bike leaning against a tree, or the view from top of the trail, for example – add it to the Weekly Gear Gallery Thread. The general rule is photo and video submissions to /r/mtb should be of people riding mountain bikes. Photos should be of people riding mountain bikes. If you need help choosing a bike, please be sure to tag your post with the WhichBike flair, and include some basic information, like your price range and the type of riding you'll be doing. ![]() If you think your post was removed by mistake, use the message the moderators link in the sidebar and include a link to your post. On the other hand, be generous with upvotes. Do not downvote opinions just because you disagree with them. This combination offers ratios for both spinning up steep hills, and a big top gear for high speed cruising and descending, without significant gaps in between. 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Andy Pettitte’s Career HighlightsĪndrew Eugene Pettitte was born on June 15, 1972, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I’ll conclude by discussing the PED issue and draw some conclusions about whether a plaque in Cooperstown is in Pettitte’s future. Next, because it’s such an important part of his history in the majors, I’ll go through Pettitte’s postseason performances on a year-by-year basis to establish the volume of his Hall-worthy deeds in October. The first several sections contain a brief biography and chronology of Andy Pettitte’s career highlights.įollowing the career highlights will be the basic case in favor of and the case against the Yankees/Astros lefty. This piece is a little long so allow me to offer a brief roadmap to those who are looking for a shorter version. Won 5 World Championships with the New York Yankees.5 times in the top 6 of Cy Young Award voting.Career: 117 ERA+, 60.7 WAR ( Wins Above Replacement).Cooperstown Cred: Andy Pettitte (SP)Ħth year on the BBWAA ballot in 2024 (received 17.0% of the vote in 2023) It has been updated in advance of the 2024 Hall of Fame vote. This piece was originally posted in January 2019. If Pettitte is ever to make the Hall of Fame, it’s going to take a long time. In the years since Pettitte has gotten 13.7% (in 2021), 10.7% (in 2022), and 17.0% last month on the weakest ballot since 2012. It didn’t matter for the tall lefty his vote share barely inched up, to 11.3%, putting him just the 15th best among the 16 players who got over 5% of the tallies. The 2020 ballot, however, was not nearly as crowded, thanks to the inductions of Mussina, Halladay, Edgar Martinez, and Mariano Rivera in 2019. The 2019 ballot was stacked and Pettitte was only the fifth-best starting pitcher it’s easy to understand why he was overlooked, considering that the writers are limited to 10 votes per ballot. He received just 9.9% of the vote on the BBWAA (Baseball Writers Association of America) ballot. In his first appearance on the ballot (in 2019), on a slate chock full of quality starters (Roger Clemens, Roy Halladay, Mike Mussina, and Curt Schilling), Pettitte got lost in the shuffle. On the “no” side, you have a pitcher with a career ERA of 3.85 who never won a Cy Young Award, was only selected to 3 All-Star squads, and has an admitted link to Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs). On the “yes” side you have a 256-game winner who contributed to 5 World Championships and 8 pennants. On next year’s 2024 Hall of Fame ballot, the case of longtime starting pitcher Andy Pettitte is one of the most interesting and complex. 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Bullet blenders are blenders with a single-serving jar shaped like a bullet. The first published iteration, far from complete, comprises Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse ( 18 rev vt Les Dix Jours d'Alphonse van Worden 1814 rev version trans Christine Donogher as Tales from the Saragossa Manuscript: (Ten Days in the Life of Alphonse Van Worden) 1990) it seems to have been printed privately (Potocki's frequent practice) and deposited in a Saint Petersburg library. Potocki (who lived part of his life in Paris and who – in common with most members of the Eastern European nobility – spoke and wrote in French) is thought to have begun composing the book as early as 1794, publishing parts of the cycle in the first years of the nineteenth century, and continuing to work on the manuscripts until his Suicide. Some early doubts about Potocki's authorship seem to have been laid to rest, and there have been no twenty-first century reiterations of any fundamental doubt about his composition of the whole but the story of the book's coming together and publication, and the continued discovery of added manuscript evidence, is exceedingly complicated authentic sources for some "days" seem still to be missing. Saragossa's creation around the beginning of the nineteenth century emphasizes its significance in the evolution of the short story Potocki's ingenious uses here of Club Story conventions are as compelling and evocative as E T A Hoffmann's similar innovations only a few years later. He is best-known for Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse, a complex text whose publication history is so convoluted that doubts were for some time plausibly expressed as to Potocki's actual authorship of the full book, which is a cycle of nested stories told by various characters (some of whom are themselves characters in some of the stories being told by others) over a period of sixty-six nights, the various sections (usually identified according to the days covered) being written, revised and published in no clear order single days do not necessarily correspond to individual stories, any more than The Arabian Nights contains 1001 tales in its 1001 nights. ![]() (1761-1815) Polish military engineer, ethnologist, linguist, traveller and author whose first stories – which show the influences of Arabian Fantasy – appeared in the 1780s, embedded into his travel books. |
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