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![]() Some times there are cover charges, sometimes not. You could walk there, or get your Uber to drop you off at Snug Harbor (home of legend jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis who plays on Friday nights) and work your way back down the street from here, popping into any bar that sounds like a bit of you.ĭrop into Three Muses and Spotted Cat too. Kermit Ruffins and me before the band played! For more great live music head to Frenchman Streetįor a whole lot of music all in the one place, the locals (and tourists in the know) head to Frenchmen Street just outside the French Quarter in the Faubourg Marigny district. The bar inside serves generous drinks and it’s all over by 9.30 – which is early for New Orleans! Kermit Ruffins playing at Mother in Law Lounge It’s $20 per person and they’ll come round and collect your money, then you just pay a tip for the beans and rice and also there were steaks cooking on a bbq. Be there by 7pm – we got there for 6.30 and got a couple of picnic tables together. It’s casual and fun and the seats are at picnic tables or old couches or rocking chairs. Out in the neighbourhood of Treme, virtually under the freeway bridge, jazz trumpeter and singer Kermit Ruffins owns a bar with a large courtyard out the back and every Monday night (when he’s in town) they serve beans and rice and he and his band, plus a few of his talented friends and family, take to the outdoor stage and play. I had a group of nine on this tour and we would all agree. This was my latest find – on my seventh visit to New Orleans! I’d read about it in a blog or in a magazine somewhere and honestly, it was the musical highlight of my latest visit. Kermit Ruffins Mother in Law Lounge The main entrance to Kermit’s Treme Mother in Law Lounge And once you’re done, pop next door to Pat O’Briens for a drink at the dueling piano bar. Preservation Hall is more of a room really and has been the home of jazz legends since the 1960s. Cushions on the floor take up the first 2 rows, then 2 rows of benches and it’s standing only in the back. They play 4x 45-minute concerts each night starting at 5pm, then on the hour, so if you miss the first one, you’ll get the next. If you don’t want to line up (and potentially miss out on a spot in the standing-room only room), book tickets online ($40-$50) and grab one of the two rows of bench seats for a much more comfortable experience. This is a cramped room with no sound system, just acoustic jazz played in four 45-minute concerts each night, where you can line up for tickets ($20) on a first come first served basis, but it’s absolutely worth it. Preservation HallĪmazing, authentic acoustic jazz at Preservation Hall Order a cheese platter and a couple of cocktails and enjoy the laid-back atmosphere of up and comers, old timers and musicians generally just loving what they do. No cover charge, and a really great vibe with low lighting and table service. But every night of the week live bands play at the Jazz Playhouse, just inside the lobby. Located on Bourbon Street, the Royal Sonesta hotel itself is stunning and elegant and I’d recommend you stay here if your wallet can handle it. In fact, I avoid most of them! Street musicians in the French Quarter Here are three must-visit venues for live jazz in New Orleans: Royal Sonesta Hotel Jazz Playhouse A different band plays each night, no cover, and this night Kermit Ruffins (see his bar below) crashed the stage and had a jam. Many bands play gigs for free in bars too and beer gardens and then there’s the nightlife… but at night you really do have to know where to go, as the live music in the bars on Bourbon Street barely scratch the surface. Bring a few $1 bills as they’re grateful for every dollar as you take your photos and videos. Walk through the French Quarter and you’ll see talented street musicians on so many corners, you could spend an entire day just taping your feet along with them. ![]() So, for advertising and other writing where you may want to add emphasis this feature is useless. If you are wondering what others will see… they will see whatever they have set their viewer to show. Then in Preferences->User Interface (left tabs)->Font (top tabs) make a change, close preferences, and look at the note card. You can see this by opening any note card. Also, unlike a word processor where you can make one word red and another blue that is NOT the case in note cards. ![]() So where is this font, and size info for note cards kept? In the viewer. In SL none of that information is in the note card. When you use MS Word or another word processor, the font, size, color, and other appearance information is embedded in the document. Unfortunately, this is not a server-side supported feature. One of those things is being able to change the font (style) in note cards. If you see viewer panels opening and things happening, TP to another region. Turning it off causes problems with some body and head HUDs. You can turn off Media on a Prim and close that particular exploit. The Lab has released a fix and the fix is winding its way through implementation and QA testing. A new griefing attack is being or was mounted and all viewers are suspectable to it. WarningĪnother new update… there is a revised beta version of Firestorm that should be hitting the grid 9/19 or 9/20. So, I’ll write about the things that interested me or I didn’t find in Inara’s coverage. I see no point in duplicating her work or you reading similar reviews. The reason the team gave long ago was that if there were a major glitch, there would be few Lindens at work to get them server-side information for diagnosing the problem.Īs usual, Inara has done her review of the new release. What is a bit unusual, is they released this update on a Friday. It has been 8 weeks since I grabbed the previous update. Just last July 26 I downloaded my then newly released update.Īs the Firestorm Development Team explains, they have a new development cycle in place and expect to have new releases out every 6 to 8 weeks, so every other month. Wow, we have a new release of the Firestorm Viewer. ![]() Your best bet in this case is to search the forum for the title of the movie, and to read through the thread. For discs with Java, MakeMKV will attempt to identify the correct playlist and it will be noted with a comment of "(FPL_MainFeature)" next to the title, although in most cases MakeMKV will be incorrect. Some discs use playlist obfuscation, and will show up to hundreds of false playlists. If you see a title with chapters and another title without chapters, you are seeing the mpls playlist with chapters, which is the one you want, as well as the original m2ts stream file, which the playlist is created from. Some discs will use a second playlist for playback of other regionalized differences, such as audio description with different accents ( MIB III), or minor changes within the movie itself ( MIB International, Independence Day: Resurgence). Some discs will use a second playlist for playback with audio commentary, instead of having the audio commentary and the primary audio options all available in the same playlist. One will have audio and subtitles for languages such as English, French, Spanish, etc, while the second one will be for Japanese language options. Sometimes discs will have 2 playlists for the main movie. Playlist 800 will be English, with 801, 802, etc being other languages. Disney discs (including Marvel and Star Wars, and some other studios have followed) will have multiple playlists for the main movie in order to localize different languages for credits and other text in the movie. Here are the most common multiple playlist situations: For more details, please refer to the rip errors thread. These errors result from the drive not being able to read the disc, often due to the disc requiring cleaning even if it looks perfectly clean. While ripping, I see Read or Medium errors such as "corrupt or invalid at offset" even though my disc is perfectly clean? ![]() I'm seeing errors about Volume Keys or HK downloading, how can I fix this? Please read the Attention Shoppers thread as a guide to these forums. ![]() According to a list in the forums, only a handful of HD-DVDs haven't been released on Blu-ray. Yes, although some are problematic and supporting them isn't a current priority of MakeMKV. 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It supports audio tracks with varying codecs including Dolby Digital, DTS-HD Master Audio, 7.1, 6.1, 5.1, Surround, Stereo, Mono, etc. It supports video tracks from DVDs, Blu-ray discs and 4K UHD discs with varying codecs, resolutions, and framerates including NTSC, PAL, Dolby Vision, HDR, VC-1, AVC, MVC. It is capable of multiple audio tracks, multiple subtitle tracks, chapter breaks, and 3D. It has fewer restrictions and is more flexible than other formats such as MP4. MKV is a "container" format for packaging video, audio, and subtitles. This FAQ contains answers to many common questions and links to many resources on this forum. ![]() And even when scientists began to embrace the scientific method, they still struggled to reconcile previous beliefs in the supernatural with science. There was no division between magic and reality-the two simply coexisted, so there was no reason to doubt mythical beasts. The Scientific Revolution would not start to make headway until later in the 17th century. The 1500s were rampant with superstition. The atmosphere of the day also fed people’s willingness to believe such tales. The more the stories were circulated and published, the more likely people were to mistake what they did see for a monster. Magnus and others like him gobbled up the stories and published them alongside authentic species. A giant squid became a blood-thirsty kraken. And so an oarfish became a 200-foot-long sea serpent. If they enlivened their accounts, that simply made for a better story. So they explained them with what they knew well: myths and legends. Sailors, or beachgoers who had the misfortune to stumble upon a rotting basking shark, had no experience with such creatures. Sea serpent gif created by Richard Naples (Smithsonian Libraries) based on a depiction by Conrad Gessner in Historia Animalium, 2nd ed., 1604. ![]() ![]() Less often, the decomposing remains of a washed-up carcass fueled confidence in the existence of these terrible beasts. More often than not, their information came not from first-hand observations but from sailors’ accounts of mysterious encounters while at sea. Publications by Magnus and those who copied him represented some of the first attempts to systematically aggregate and describe these animals. These “distorted portraits” came about in part because by the 1500s extensive oceanic exploration was still limited, and the fauna that called these places home remained virtually unknown. In his publication Sea Fables Explained (1883), he wrote, “… the descriptions by ancient writers of so-called ‘fabulous creatures’ are rather distorted portraits than invented falsehoods, and there is hardly any of the monsters of old which has not its prototype in Nature at the present day.” Where did the accounts of monsters come from in the first place? Were they simply fairy tales invented to scare curious minds and small children? Henry Lee, who wrote extensively on sea creatures and monsters, emphasized that many classical monsters are not simply pure myth. And over the centuries, many new monsters were added to the mix. ![]() Such repurposing ensured that these creatures were ingrained in the public mind as truth. Magnus’ descriptions and drawings were copied repeatedly, with little to no modification, for centuries by such historical titans as Edward Topsell, Ulisse Aldrovandi, John Jonstonus and Conrad Gessner, whose Historia Animalium, replete with Magnus’ drawings, is the first modern zoological work attempting to describe all known animals. Smithsonian Biodiversity Heritage Library Kraken gif created by Richard Naples, based on a drawing by Denys Montfort in Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des mollusques: animaux sans vertèbres et a sang blanc, v.2, 1801. His standing and reputation secured the widespread acceptance of his stories. Carta Marina is a detailed map of Scandinavia-one of the oldest ever created-and it depicts the Norwegian Sea so teaming with monsters that it would seem impossible to escape these waters uneaten. In 1555, Magnus published Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (“A Description of the Northern Peoples”), which not only related the history, customs, and beliefs of the Scandinavian people, but also reprinted and described the creatures found on Carta Marina. His travels brought him farther north than any of his contemporary European intellectuals, lending a great deal of perceived credibility to his accounts and publications. Magnus (1490-1557) was the Catholic archbishop of Sweden and a prominent historian. One of the most famous of these maps is Olaus Magnus’ Carta Marina, drawn between 1527and 1539. They mostly crop up in unexplored reaches of the oceans, warning would-be explorers of the perils of these unknown territories. Though the phrase itself is found on only one other historical artifact-a 1504 globe crafted on an ostrich egg-depictions of monsters and mythological beasts are common on early maps. This phrase translates from the Latin as “here are dragons.” It is etched on the eastern coast of Asia on one of the oldest terrestrial globe maps, the Lenox Globe, dating to 1510. ![]() Im not getting any sound out of my speakers at all but they turn on but there’s no sound coming out of my speaker. Im not getting any sound out of my speakers at all but they turn on but there’s no sound coming out of my speaker Tasco 6-24x40 Target Varmint Waterproof & Samson MBA28A Articulating Arm Microphone Stand. How to remove the band to charge the watch. I’m looking for a manual / Request for manualĬurrent requests for instruction manuals: You can’t find the operation manual you are looking for? 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![]() ![]() I also took care of the hidden alternate karts for the kart racing minigame. Pretty much all of the Chao World textures are redone now as well, including all the gardens, kindergarten, karate and all the races. I've also upscaled all the textures unique to the battle mode stages. With this update, I've taken care of all of the story cutscene textures, of which there were a lot more than I expected. Enjoy!Ī little unexpected, but here comes version 2.1 out of the blue! I just couldn't stay away, heh. anything else I've missed at this pointĮventually I hope to finish those up. Alternate karts for the Kart Race minigame battle mode specific stages (minus Downtown Race) Probably some cutscene specific textures With this release, I think I'm done for a bit with the pack as two weeks non-stop burned me out a bit. Yeah, you know what, if anyone has questions about any part of the pack now, I'll be happy to answer them, or post screenshots of specific things.Įvery single player stage from City Escape to Cannon's Core and the final battle has been redone, including all of the boss stages. That mural at the top of the frame was half the resolution of the original texture from SA2. The last screenshot I included from Death Chamber is a good example of the result. Thanks to the Dreamcast version textures, I was able to restore their original size and detail, and then upscale that. As I continued to dump textures from the game, I also found the gamecube release saved on memory by outright halving or quartering some of the larger textures. In most cases, the textures are identical, except the dreamcast versions are free of compression artifacts introduced in the gamecube release. Wherever I could, I used the textures from the original Dreamcast release. As expected, most of these are almost exclusively the result of the ESRGAN upscaling, with a caveat. The vast majority of the new textures are stage and environment textures. I created new eye textures for every character, which I think come through pretty well in the screenshots above. This was done through a combination of ESRGAN upscaling, cleanup, and some original work. As stated, I have redone every major character's textures, including those characters exclusive to battle mode. So instead, I'll just expand on the changelog a little bit. Ha, I figured I would write up about everything a little more in-depth here, but honestly I've done so much that I could go on for a while. So yeah, this is a huge release, and by far the largest texture pack I've put out here on the forums. Finally, highlight "Sonic Adventure 2 Battle HD Project" in the list and click on "Install" When the title turns green, everything's set to go (make sure you have "load custom textures" checked in the graphics options). Load up Dolphin and go to "Tools - Resource Pack Manager". zip file into "*\Dolphin Emulator\ResourcePacks". *Important Note: As of version 2.0, this texture pack is now a resource pack in compliance with Dolphin's new format. Texture upscaling done with a combination of Waifu2x and ESRGAN Note: Many textures now sourced from the original Dreamcast release of SA2Īnd blended with the SA2 Battle textures because they do notĬontain the compression artifacts of the Gamecube release.ĭreamcast textures ripped by Shadowth117. Inc: All single player stages, all boss stages, ![]() Most Stage and Environment textures upscaled, touched up, and redrawn Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, Eggman, Rouge Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, Eggman, Rouge, Amy Character Menu Themes upscaled and cleaned Standard Kart Race karts upscaled and redrawn Mech Bosses (Bigfoot, Hotshot, Flying Dog) upscaled and cleaned Chaos Drive textures upscaled and cleaned Most Animal textures upscaled and cleaned Collectibles Icons upscaled (animals, chaos drives) Pickup Icons redrawn (rings, 1-ups, etc) Chao World UI (Lobby, Gardens, Race, Karate, Kindergarten) inc: Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, Eggman, RougeĪmy, Metal Sonic, Tikal, Chaos 0, Chao Walkerĭark Chao Walker, The Tornado, Egg Walkerīig the Cat, Maria, Rouge Story Kart, Omochao Major characters and vehicles upscaled and redrawn (Standard Costumes) That said, I'll let the changelog speak for itself, plus some new screenshots, and the download link. Yep, just a few order of magnitudes bigger. The scope and size of this endeavor has gone from a modest 771 replaced textures weighing in at 354MB to. It took a week longer than I anticipated, but I think it was worth the wait as I am pleased to present version 2.0 of my Sonic Adventure 2 Battle HD Project. ![]() For a summer internship, for example, you may need to apply for opportunities six months in advance.Īpplying early will demonstrate that you’re proactive and also give you more time to consider your options. Some industries or internship programs often also have deadlines for applying. Internships can be competitive, so you should start searching and applying as soon as you know what you want and when you’ll be available. Related: 5 Paid Internships for College Students and How To Choose the Right One for You 3. A small company may offer more hands-on experience, while a large company may offer a program with more clearly defined tasks and goals. 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His rough, gravely voice is intimidating, and his nervous mannerisms - constantly rubbing his hands together, uttering "uh-huh"s every few words, and never meeting anyone else's gaze - do not inspire confidence. By Karl's own admission, he doesn't reckon he's got a reason to kill anyone else. According to the doctors, he has been cured. As the film opens, Karl is being released from the hospital. He plays Karl Childers, a "mentally challenged" man who has been incarcerated in the Arkansas State Hospital for the criminally insane since the age of nine, when he butchered his mother and her lover with a sling blade. The best acting in the entire motion picture is by Thornton himself. The narrative is little more than a flimsy envelope - it's the men and women who are sealed within that make Sling Blade worth watching. Nearly every scene is designed to reveal something about one of characters rather than advance the minimalist story. ![]() ![]() Thornton has developed Sling Blade as a slowly-paced character study. To a lesser extent, it also offers an atypical vision of the concept of "family" in modern society. Sling Blade, the directorial debut of actor/writer Billy Bob Thornton (who scripted One False Move and A Family Thing), is a fascinating examination of a damaged man's quest to make restitution for his past crimes. |