I noticed today when trying to download and save a photo that I had an option of HEIF format - which may be going to become a new "standard". Out of curiosity I created one, and then tried to open it with Affinity Photo. It seems that AP doesn't handle this format - yet. This may become more important in the future.
iPad Pro or Surface Book 2?
After much consideration I've decided to invest in a portable tablet so that I'm no longer tethered to my Workstation at home and can double my output of designs by working on the go. I currently use an Artisul D13 tablet and it's been good to me, but I've recently tried my friends iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil and it completely blows mine out of the water. It's highly responsive with no lag, pressure sensitivity was off the charts, and there was no parallax which completely blew my mind! I went to Best Buy to purchase one and stumbled upon the MS Surface Book 2 on display so I checked it out. Now I'm conflicted because the Surface Pen is just as impressive as the Apple Pencil! The fact that the Surface Book 2 also doubles as a laptop and runs Windows 10 is a huge plus, but I need to inquire about a few things before I make such an investment. 1) Designer is the main app I use for my illustrations so I was wondering when it's coming to the iPad Pro or if there's some type of beta I can use until the full release. 2) If I get the Surface Book 2 am I allowed to install the same Designer & Photo I have on my PC or do I need a different License? 3) I know Photo is optimized very well on the iPad Pro so is it safe to assume that the same could be said for all versions of the Surface Book 2? 4) Let's say I get the Surface Book 2 with the i7 CPU, GTX 1060 GPU, and 16gb of Ram; Are there any type of performance benefits to having all the extra memory and computing power? If so what are they? Sorry for the long post and please feel free to comment. All opinions are welcome specially if you have an iPad Pro or the Surface Book 2.
Hi guys, Any thoughts on MPEG/Apple's brand-spanking-new High Efficiency Image Format support? Affinity seems to be a logical choice for people who want to stay current on the latest and greatest standards, all with its fresh codebase and support for macOS-specific technologies… And let's not forget about PC and iPad folks as well. Having Affinity support that format on all major platforms would greatly boost its adoption rate. What do you say?
I wanted to use the templates that Apple supplies at https://developer.apple.com/design/resources/#tvos-apps and downloaded the Photoshop ones to use in Affinity Photo, but not all of the files will open. The error alert reported "Failed to open PSD file" and the informational text says "The file was not found." For example, "Template-TopShelf-HDTV-908x512.psd" can't be opened in AP 1.6.6 whereas the same file can be opened in Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 (v. 12.1). However, I can open "Template-TopShelf-1920x720.psd".
Hi!!. Im having a problem with the purchase of the software from the App Store in mac. When i click to buy it doesn't take my credit card, but this never happened to me before. I already buy another software from the appstore at 0,99 USD to see what happens but worked ok. I can't get to buy affinity and i need it so bad. Sorry for my english. Im from Argentina and my apple ID too. thanks in advance.
Akin to Photoshop (digital painting) worth it?


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Chapter 857 Cultivators Appear
Next, Chen Feng stomped and the power of earth surged, causing the planet to shake and the ground to crack. It felt as though the entire planet would split apart.
Reaching out with his hand, Chen Feng then grasped, causing space to twist as his magic powers took effect. Soil rolled about and a scarlet-red mine was pulled out from deep underground.
His move contained the power of space and even some magic techniques recorded within the Longevity Scripture. In fact, its effects had gone beyond the concept of mere power. This was the utilization of laws.
In the end, the spirit stone mine was sent into the Longevity Tower. Naturally, Chen Feng would not be using the spirit stones. For the present Chen Feng, Prized crystals were simply too inferior. He would not even utilize Sacred crystals for his normal cultivation efforts. Not to mention, he could already establish a link with the Immortal Plane to absorb immortal energy. More, the Immortal crystals piled up inside the Longevity Tower was at such a high number that Chen Feng could never finish them up. But wait, there's more. There were also some Profound Origin Jade Crystals that Tower had devoured back then left inside.
However, Chen Feng now commanded a territory with a radius of half a million kilometres and his subordinates was ever increasing in number. Thus, these Prized crystals would prove useful for them.
From what Chen Feng could gather, after reaching a certain cultivation level, cultivators from Eternal World would head to outer space for an adventure. When they find cultivation resources that they had no use for, they would utilize their magic powers to transport the resources back to their sect. The resources would then be utilized by the members of their sect.
This was also why some second-rate or third-rate sects could suddenly experience a meteoric rise in strength. Their members would be able to break through again and again to transform the sect into a first-rate sect. The reason behind this transformation was the support and resources received from the seniors of the sect.
By borrowing the Longevity Tower's power, Chen Feng was also capable of doing that. However, he was presently lost, with no way to return to Eternal World, let alone transport items back.
After collecting the spirit vein, Chen Feng continued advancing. Along the way, he encountered and collected a few more spirit veins of varying sizes. However, the grade of the spirit veins was very low. Most of them were only Magic crystals, with some Prized crystals amongst them. As for Sacred crystals, those were incredibly rare.
For Chen Feng, though, it was better than nothing.
However, Chen Feng felt puzzled about something. The entire planet only had fire-type spirit stones and some spiritual herbs. Even the air only had fire-type spiritual energy. The power of fire was everywhere on the planet.
Of course, he was only slightly puzzled by it. At any rate, there were too many peculiar happenings throughout the universe.
Through his past memories and the information he had gleaned from ancient books, Chen Feng had learned that there were even some planets within the universe that were composed of pure spirit stones. The living creatures on the planet would be born with powers and various types of special constitutions would constantly appear. These planets could be considered as Heaven-defying existences within the universe. And yet, despite their ability to give birth to formidable characters, in the grand scale of the cosmos, those planets were actually nothing spectacular.
Some planets were composed entirely of wood and all kinds of spiritual herbs would grow on the planet.
Some were simply a massive ball of fire. And yet, it could still give birth to life.
Planets composed entirely of gold.
Planets composed entirely of water.
Planets composed entirely of bones.
Some planets were transformed from the corpses left behind by Immortal Humans.
Naturally, most planets were barren and devoid of life.
Due to that, the fact that this planet only contained the power of fire did not faze Chen Feng. It was a very common occurrence.
If only the grade of the spirit stones is higher. Even if it's not Immortal crystals, then at least Sacred crystals, Chen Feng thought.
As Chen Feng was collecting a mountainous spirit vein, a colossal fire-type yao beast charged out. Wielding a staff in hand, the yao beast attacked Chen Feng.
A Great Yao. Its strength is already very close to the Human Immortal stage. Even though the power of fire within its body feels pure, there is still a certain roughness there. It must be due to the lack of a good cultivation technique. It must have forged the staff in its hand by itself. It is very rough, forged from a meteorite. One glance was all it took for Chen Feng to determine the yao beast's state.
Despite the yao beast's actions of attacking him, Chen Feng had no intentions of attacking the yao beast. Instead, he simply waved his hand to teleport the yao beast 500 kilometres away.
Upon falling to the ground, the yao beast fell into a state of shock. When it finally recollected itself, it swiftly turned and ran. Although it already knew that Chen Feng had no intentions of killing it, Chen Feng's display of might had caused its balls to disappear.
Chen Feng's divine sense spilled outwards once more, spreading up to a distance of 250,000 kilometres before stopping. Everywhere his divine sense went, the yao beasts there would crouch down and shiver.
Hmm? There are people here.
Originally, Chen Feng had only released his divine sense out due to boredom. Unexpectedly, he managed to sense the aura of human cultivators. Thus, Chen Feng settled his divine sense, which had been ferociously sweeping forward. Next, his figure flashed forward, disappearing from sight.
It did not take long for Chen Feng to halt somewhere 150,000 kilometres away from his previous location.
There were some people here just now.
Bringing out the Thousand Seeker Mirror, Chen Feng then tapped it and images began playing on the mirror.
By then, the Thousand Seeker Mirror was already a grade 9 Sacred artefact. Tracking and replaying these images was a piece of cake for it.
Quickly, the mirror revealed a male and a female cultivator. It could even replay the conversations between the two.
"Mid-level Human Immortals!"
Chen Feng was able to determine their cultivation levels with just a glance. In terms of cultivation levels, they were on the same level as him. In terms of combat power, however, Chen Feng could instantly kill off the two of them.
Seeing the two human cultivators left Chen Feng surprised. Judging by their appearances, they were most certainly not natives of this planet. Thus, they must have come from some other place. However, the fact that they were mid-level Human Immortals indicated that they were unlikely to be star wanderers. That left only one other possibility. They had utilized a certain passageway to come here.
I wonder where these two came from? Given Chen Feng's level of strength, directly capturing the two of them and searching their souls would allow him to find out everything. However, that was also the most inferior method.
Chen Feng followed the two cultivators while utilizing the Thousand Seeker Mirror to replay their every action. He wanted to find out their origins and objective.
Through their conversations and behaviour, Chen Feng was able to surmise that they were here in search of something. Additionally, they were trying to do so behind someone's back.
As expected, Chen Feng then noticed some people coming from behind him. With a thought, Chen Feng hid himself.
Chen Feng's divine sense caught the arrival of four cultivators. All four cultivators had Invisibility Talismans pasted on them and were invisible. However, they were incapable of escaping Chen Feng's divine sense.
All four are at the mid-level Human Immortal stage. Looks like they want to take action against the duo up ahead. It's a little strange. The aura from this group and the aura from the duo feels somewhat familiar. Chen Feng secretly observed them, unafraid of being detected.
Next up, Chen Feng continued hiding in the dark. When the four cultivators finally halted, he utilized his Magic Eyes of Darkness to peer through space and saw that the duo had stopped before a mountain.
This mountain was somewhat peculiar. Round in shape, it rose high up into the sky. However, the top of the mountain was very flat. It was as though someone had hacked the top with a single blade swing.
There were also smaller rolling mountains around this mountain. And yet, with the exception of the peculiar shape, there was nothing else special about the mountain.
The duo inspected their surroundings cautiously, seemingly fearful that someone might be following them. Next, they began setting up some magic arrays, working on it for two whole days before stopping.
Chen Feng, who was observing from the dark, saw that the four cultivators following the duo were staying quiet. They did not reveal themselves.
I wonder, what are the two cultivators trying to do? Chen Feng's curiosity was piqued, but he did not utilize his divine sense to investigate.
After the duo was done setting up the magic arrays, the male cultivator brought out an altar. There were various sacrificial offerings placed on the altar. Next, the two of them got on their knees. With a sincere expression on their faces, they began chanting. It seemed as though they were praying. Or perhaps, they were trying to contact something.
Time went by and the altar shook slightly. Following that, runes began emerging from the altar. Like spiders, the countless runes crawled out into their surroundings, filling up even space.
After the runes had enveloped the entire mountain, the male cultivator brought out a porcelain bottle and poured a drop of blood out from it onto the altar. With a plopping sound, the drop of blood splattered there before the altar absorbed the blood, fusing it with the surrounding runes.
In just one breath's worth of time, the hundreds of millions of runes around them had turned blood-red in colour. Even the mountain was radiating a bloody light. It was quite the ghastly appearance.
The drop of blood is probably the blood essence of an Earthen Immortal. Even for Human Immortals, that is already quite the treasure. Looks like the two of them are after something big, Chen Feng speculated.
The four cultivators who were hiding in the dark grew focused and they stared with unblinking eyes at what was happening.
Seemingly stimulated by the drop of blood, the entire mountain shook. As it did, the blood-coloured runes enveloping the mountain were absorbed into the mountain, where they disappeared without a trace.
A booming sound rang out and a dazzling light charged high up into the sky while illuminating the surrounding space, reaching a distance of 10,000 kilometres. Seeing that, Chen Feng's face flickered as he grew concerned that he might become exposed.
Chen Feng managed to evade the light's detection ability, but the four cultivators were exposed.
"Jiang Zeming, Jiang Zefeng, Du Haolong, Du Haoqiu! I knew the four of you would secretly try to follow us!" the male cultivator shouted.
"Is that so, Jiang Huo? If you already know, why open the grotto-mansion? Do you want to offer up the treasures inside to us to please us and become our subordinate?" Jiang Zeming said smilingly before turning his attention towards the female cultivator standing beside Jiang Huo.
"Ye Lin, of all the people you could choose to follow, you choose to follow this piece of trash with no future, even going so far as to work with him to open up the grotto-mansion. Ke ke! You've been dancing in the palm of my hands here. Now, I will give you two only one path to take."
"Oh, and what is it?" Killing intent glinted across the female cultivator known as Ye Lin's eyes, but she asked anyways.
"It's very simple. Follow us and we will take care of you. You will have a good future in the Firegod Sect." Jiang Zeming hooked his finger, an indifferent expression on his face. It seemed as though everything was within his control.
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Mallory James Mahoney
Quick Facts of Mallory James Mahoney
Full NameMallory James Mahoney
Date of Birth31 January, 2005
NicknameMallory
BirthplaceUnited States
ProfessionActress
Active Year2014-present
Eye colour Brown
Hair colour Golden Blonde
Online PresenceInstagram
Horoscope Aquarius
The 14-year-old, Mallory James Mahoney is an American child actress. She became famous for her role as Katy Cooper in the television film, 'Adventures in Babysitting.' She is also renowned for her performance as Destiny Baker in the TV series 'Bunk'd' and as Eleanor in the movie 'Tough Cookie.'
The adorable teenager, Mallory enjoys a decent net worth and earns a desirable income. Furthermore, she has a huge fan following on social media as well. Fans are curious to know about Mahoney's details, such as her parents, background, career, height, and many more. So, stay tuned!
Mallory James Mahoney-Bio
Mallory James Mahoney was born on January 31, 2005, in the United States. As of 2019, Mallory's age is 14 years, and her birth sign is Aquarius. She was born to parents Michael Mahoney (father) and Natalie Griffin Mahoney (mother). Mallory's family hails from Fort Worth, Texas.
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Mallory celebrates her birthday on 31st January. The young actress, Mahoney excelled in studies in River Trails Elementary School and was among the most talented kids in her class. She is continuing her education, along with her acting career.
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Despite her young age, Mallory earns a decent amount of net worth from her career. As of 2019, she appears in the comedy tv-series, Bunk'd. The average salary for child actors varies upon their projects. However, by assumption, we can say that Mahoney might earn a salary of over $35,000.
Some of the actors of Bunk'd who earn a desirable income are Peyton List, Skai Jackson, and Kevin Quinn. The young actress' net worth is still under review. As Mahoney is just at the beginning of her career, there is a lot more opportunity ahead. Also, her earnings and income might increase even more.
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Mallory is too young to be in a relationship. She is just 14 years old, and she is more concerned with her education and career. Mallory is very close to her parents and spends spare time with them. Also, fans might find her age-inappropriate to make a boyfriend.
Mallory James Mahoney with friends, Source: Instagram
As of now, Mallory is living a happy life with her parents in the United States Of America. Concerning her online presence, she is active on Instagram with 228K followers as of July 23, 2019. Moreover, she loves to post her pictures with her parents and co-star on her Instagram. Besides, she is an animal lover and has pet dogs at home.
The details about Mallory's height is not available. She is a teenager, so her physical features might change with time. As of now, she looks adorable and has green eyes with blonde hair.
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Mahoney first entered the entertainment industry doing a commercial for Chuck E. Cheese. Similarly, in 2014 Mallory got featured in the short film Dig as the lead role of Jenny. Additionally, after two years, she starred as Katy Cooper in the TV movie Adventures in Babysitting alongside Sabrina Carpenter and Sofia Carson.
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/*
 * app.c
 *
 *  Created on: May 12, 2017
 *      Author: beam
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include "freertos/FreeRTOS.h"
#include "freertos/task.h"
#include "esp_system.h"
#include "nvs_flash.h"
#include "freertos/queue.h"
#include "esp_log.h"
#include "driver/rtc_io.h"
#include "soc/rtc_cntl_reg.h"
#include "FreeRTOS_CLI.h"
#include "app.h"

#define AppQUEUE_LENGTH	3

static const char *APP_TAG = "App";

static AppState_t  sAppState;

xQueueHandle xAppInQueue = NULL;      // Make it avaliable for the ISR handlers ..
xQueueHandle xAppOutQueue = NULL;
static xSemaphoreHandle xAppMutex = NULL;
static pAppMessage master_pAppMsg = NULL;   // current transaction ..

static RTC_DATA_ATTR struct timeval sleep_enter_time;

static void prvAppTask( void *pvParameters );
static void vAppMainLoopStart(pAppMessage pAppMsg);
static void vAppDeepSleep(pAppMessage pAppMsg);
static void prvAppTimerExpieredTask( void *pvParameters );

/*-----------------------------------------------------------*/

void vAppStart( uint16_t usStackSize, portBASE_TYPE uxPriority )
{
	/* Create the queues used by application  tasks and interrupts */
	xAppInQueue = xQueueCreate( AppQUEUE_LENGTH, sizeof(AppMessage_t) );
	xAppOutQueue = xQueueCreate( 1, sizeof(AppMessage_t) );

	/* If the queue could not be created then don't create any tasks that might
	attempt to use the queue. */
	if( xAppInQueue != NULL && xAppOutQueue != NULL)
	{

		/* Create the semaphore used to access the SPI transmission. */
		xAppMutex = xSemaphoreCreateMutex();
		configASSERT( xAppMutex );

		sAppState.what_happen = WAKE_NOTHING;

		/* Create that task that handles the I2C Master itself. */
		xTaskCreate(prvAppTask,					/* The task that implements the application. */
					(const char *const) "APP",		/* Text name assigned to the task.  This is just to assist debugging.  The kernel does not use this name itself. */
					usStackSize,					/* The size of the stack allocated to the task. */
					NULL,						/* The parameter is not used, so NULL is passed. */
					uxPriority,					/* The priority allocated to the task. */
					NULL );						/* A handle is not required, so just pass NULL. */

	}
}

/*-----------------------------------------------------------*/
static void prvAppTask( void *pvParameters )
{
	AppMessage_t _AppMsg;   // current transaction ..
	( void ) pvParameters;

		master_pAppMsg = &_AppMsg;

		while(!isI2C0Ready()) {
			vTaskDelay(100);
		}

		while(1)
		{
			if( xQueueReceive( xAppInQueue, master_pAppMsg, portMAX_DELAY) == pdPASS)
			{
				if (master_pAppMsg ->cmd) {
					switch (master_pAppMsg ->cmd)
					{
					case APPMSG_GET_STACK_ROOM:
							master_pAppMsg->d.v= uxTaskGetStackHighWaterMark(NULL);
						break;
					case APPMSG_LIS3DH_INTR:
						//Got interrupt from the accelerometer ..
							if (master_pAppMsg->d.v == LIS3DH_GPIO_INT_PIN1)
								Lis3dhIntr1Clean();
							else
							if (master_pAppMsg->d.v == LIS3DH_GPIO_INT_PIN2)
								Lis3dhIntr2Clean();
						break;
					case APPMSG_MAIN_LOOP_START:
						sAppState.what_happen = WAKE_NOTHING;
						vAppMainLoopStart(master_pAppMsg);
						break;
					case APPMSG_MAIN_LOOP_STOP:
						sAppState.what_happen = WAKE_MANUALLY_STOPED;
						break;
					case APPMSG_DEEP_SLEEP:
						vAppDeepSleep(master_pAppMsg);
						break;
					}
					if (master_pAppMsg->app__doneCallback != NULL)
						master_pAppMsg->app__doneCallback(master_pAppMsg);
				}
			}
		}
}

portBASE_TYPE AppMsgPut(pAppMessage msg)
{
	if(xQueueSend(xAppInQueue, msg, ( portTickType ) 10) != pdPASS)
		{
			VApplicationGeneralFault;
		}
	return pdPASS;
}

/*-----------------------------------------------------------*/
portBASE_TYPE  AppOnDone(void *pvParameters)
{
	pAppMessage msg = (pAppMessage)pvParameters;

	if(xQueueSend(xAppOutQueue, msg, ( portTickType ) (10 /portTICK_RATE_MS)) != pdPASS)
	{
		VApplicationGeneralFault;
	}

	return pdPASS;
}
portBASE_TYPE AppMsgGet(pAppMessage msg)
{
	return xQueueReceive(xAppOutQueue, msg, portMAX_DELAY);
}

portBASE_TYPE AppTake(void *pvParameters)
{
	( void ) pvParameters;
	if (xAppMutex == NULL)  return pdFAIL;

        // Obtain the semaphore - don't block even if the semaphore is not
        // available during a time more then a reasonable.
	if( xSemaphoreTake( xAppMutex, (portMAX_DELAY -10) )  != pdPASS )
	{
		// Never return from  ..
		{
			VApplicationGeneralFault;
		}
	}
	return pdPASS;
}
portBASE_TYPE AppGive(void *pvParameters)
{
	( void ) pvParameters;
	if (xAppMutex == NULL)  return pdFAIL;

	if( xSemaphoreGive( xAppMutex ) != pdPASS )
	{
		// Never return from  ..
		{
			VApplicationGeneralFault;
		}
	}
	return pdPASS;
}

/*-----------------------------------------------------------*/
static void prvAppDeepSleepTimerTask( void *pvParameters )
{
}

/*-----------------------------------------------------------*/

#if (CONFIG_APPLICATION_DEBUG)
void vApplicationGeneralFault(  const char *function_name, int line )
{
	ESP_LOGI(APP_TAG, "Stopped at %s, line %d\r\n", function_name, line);
	taskDISABLE_INTERRUPTS();
	for( ;; );
}
#else
void vApplicationGeneralFault(void)
{
	taskDISABLE_INTERRUPTS();
	for( ;; );
}
#endif

pAppState psAppGetStatus(void)
{
    	return &sAppState;
}

void vAppSetCurrentTime(void)
{
    	gettimeofday(&sleep_enter_time, NULL);
}

void vAppWakeup(pAppState  st)
{
//    struct timeval now;
    gettimeofday(&st->app_time, NULL);
    int sleep_time_ms = (st->app_time.tv_sec - sleep_enter_time.tv_sec) * 1000 + (st->app_time.tv_usec - sleep_enter_time.tv_usec) / 1000;

    switch ((st->wakeup_reason = esp_deep_sleep_get_wakeup_cause())) {
        case ESP_DEEP_SLEEP_WAKEUP_EXT1: {
            uint64_t wakeup_pin_mask = esp_deep_sleep_get_ext1_wakeup_status();
            if (wakeup_pin_mask != 0) {
                int pin = __builtin_ffsll(wakeup_pin_mask) - 1;
                printf("Wake up from GPIO %d\n", pin);
            } else {
                printf("Wake up from GPIO\n");
            }
            break;
        }
        case ESP_DEEP_SLEEP_WAKEUP_TIMER: {
            printf("Wake up from timer. Time spent in deep sleep: %dms\n", sleep_time_ms);
            break;
        }
        case ESP_DEEP_SLEEP_WAKEUP_UNDEFINED:
        default:
            printf("Not a deep sleep reset\n");
    }

}

static void vAppMainLoopStart(pAppMessage pAppMsg)
{
	AppTimerCntl_t msg;

	msg.timer_idx = 0;     // Use TIMER_GROUP_0, TIMER_0
	msg.app_msg.cmd = APPMSG_TIMER_INIT;
	msg.app_msg.d.v = getAppTimerVal4Secs(APP_WAKE_PERIOD);
	msg.app_msg.app__doneCallback = AppTimerOnDone;
	msg.apptimer__doneCallback = NULL;    // Use default handler for the "timer expiered" event..

	AppTimersTake(NULL);

	AppTimerMsgPut(&msg);

	while (AppTimerMsgGet(&msg) != pdFAIL) {
		break;
	}
	AppTimersGive(NULL);

	xTaskCreate(prvAppTimerExpieredTask,	/* The task that implements the application. */
				(const char *const) "ATi",		/* Text name assigned to the task.  This is just to assist debugging.  The kernel does not use this name itself. */
				2048,						/* The size of the stack allocated to the task. */
				NULL,						/* The parameter is not used, so NULL is passed. */
				12,							/* The priority allocated to the task. */
				NULL );						/* A handle is not required, so just pass NULL. */

	msg.app_msg.cmd = APPMSG_TIMER_START;

	AppTimersTake(NULL);

	AppTimerMsgPut(&msg);

	while (AppTimerMsgGet(&msg) != pdFAIL) {
		break;
	}
	AppTimersGive(NULL);

}

static void prvAppTimerExpieredTask( void *pvParameters )
{
	AppTimerCntl_t msg;
	AppMessage_t dmsg;
//	uint64_t  val;

	while(1) {
		if (AppTimer0MsgGetTimeout(&msg, (200 / portTICK_PERIOD_MS)) == pdTRUE)
		{
			ESP_LOGI(APP_TAG, "%s: got interrupt from timer ..\r\n", __func__);
			msg.timer_idx = 0;     // Use TIMER_GROUP_0, TIMER_0
			msg.app_msg.cmd = APPMSG_TIMER_STOP;
			msg.app_msg.d.v = getAppTimerVal4Secs(APP_WAKE_PERIOD);
			msg.app_msg.app__doneCallback = AppTimerOnDone;
			msg.apptimer__doneCallback = NULL;    // Use default handler for the "timer expiered" event..

			AppTimersTake(NULL);

			AppTimerMsgPut(&msg);

			while (AppTimerMsgGet(&msg) != pdFAIL) {
				break;
			}
			AppTimersGive(NULL);

			if (sAppState.what_happen == WAKE_NOTHING)
			{
				// Nothing happen during the "wake" period, going to sleep again..
				dmsg.cmd = APPMSG_DEEP_SLEEP;
				dmsg.app__doneCallback = NULL;
				dmsg.d.v = APP_DEEP_SLEEP_PERIOD;
				AppMsgPut(&dmsg);
			}
			vTaskDelete(NULL);
		}
//		getAppTimerVal(0, &val);
//		printf("%s: h=%d, l=%d\r\n", __func__, (uint32_t)(val >> 32), (uint32_t)val&0xffffffff);
	}

}

static void vAppDeepSleep(pAppMessage pAppMsg)
{

    	ESP_LOGI(APP_TAG, "Enabling timer wakeup, %ds\n", pAppMsg->d.v);
    	esp_deep_sleep_enable_timer_wakeup(pAppMsg->d.v * 1000000);

	const int ext_wakeup_pin_1 = 25;
	const uint64_t ext_wakeup_pin_1_mask = 1ULL << ext_wakeup_pin_1;

//TODO:	[ADK]	06/12/2017	not yet, need init LIS3DH	Lis3dhIntr1Clean();

	ESP_LOGI(APP_TAG, "Enabling EXT1 wakeup on pins GPIO%d\n", ext_wakeup_pin_1);
	esp_deep_sleep_enable_ext1_wakeup(ext_wakeup_pin_1_mask /*| ext_wakeup_pin_2_mask */, ESP_EXT1_WAKEUP_ANY_HIGH);

    	ESP_LOGI(APP_TAG, "Entering deep sleep\n");
	vAppSetCurrentTime();

    	esp_deep_sleep_start();

}

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Complementing the screen is a monochrome metal frame available in a vibrant set of colours — with a matching or contrasting S Pen to suit your style.
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Medusa has a bad hair day in new Inhumans trailer
Lockjaw still seems like the best part of the ABC/Marvel/IMAX series
September 27, 2017 at 11:20 AM EDT
The new Inhumans trailer shows that the special effects for ABC and Marvel's upcoming series have come a long way since the first images and footage premiered. But even now, fans are still questioning its quality after a lukewarm fan reception from San Diego Comic-Con and IMAX screenings, as well as harsh critical reviews. (EW's Darren Franich saw some episodes and writes the show "represents all the worst instincts of Marvel's TV arm." Ouch!)
However, for Medusa, who we saw getting a particularly close shave in previous previews, the Queen of the Inhumans won't have to worry about her CGI locks for too long. Spotted in the trailer, the character (played by Serinda Swan) uses her animated hair to pummel a few thugs but is then forced to watch her strands fall from her head a few scenes later. The rest of her family members aren't in too good of shape, either.
Inhumans, which premiered its first two episodes in IMAX theaters earlier in September, follows the Inhumans royal family, led by the supersonic Black Bolt (Anson Mount). When his brother, Maximus (Iwan Rheon), executes a coup to take the throne of Attilan, their high-tech city, the royals head into hiding on Earth.
Lockjaw — their lovable, oversized, teleporting CGI pet pup — is still proving to be one of the more enjoyable moments of the marketing campaign.
Inhumans lands on ABC beginning Sept. 29 at 8 p.m. ET. Watch the trailer above.
Inhumans finale recap: '...And Finally: Black Bolt'
By Christian Holub
Inhumans recap: 'Havoc in the Hidden Land'
Inhumans recap: 'The Gentleman's Name Is Gorgon'
Inhumans recap: 'Something Inhuman This Way Comes...'
Inhumans recap: 'Make Way for...Medusa'
Inhumans recap: 'Divide and Conquer'
Inhumans series premiere recap: 'Behold... The Inhumans!'
Scott Buck
Anson Mount,
Serinda Swan,


We show that skill requirements in job vacancy postings differentially increased in MSAs that were hit hard by the Great Recession, relative to less hard-hit areas, and that these differences across MSAs persist through the end of 2015. The increases are prevalent within occupations, more pronounced in the non-traded sector, driven by both within-firm upskilling and substitution from older to newer firms, accompanied by increases in capital stock, and are evident in realized employment. We argue that this evidence reflects the restructuring of production toward moreskilled workers and routine-labor saving technologies, and that the Great Recession accelerated this process.
NBER Working Paper No. 22762, under same title ; The Great Recession Drastically Changed the Skill Employmers Want, Harvard Business Review, October 4, 2017.


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package org.apache.flink.table.api

import _root_.java.util.TimeZone

import org.apache.flink.table.calcite.CalciteConfig

/**
 * A config to define the runtime behavior of the Table API.
 */
class TableConfig {

  /**
   * Defines the timezone for date/time/timestamp conversions.
   */
  private var timeZone: TimeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC")

  /**
   * Defines if all fields need to be checked for NULL first.
   */
  private var nullCheck: Boolean = true

  /**
    * Defines the configuration of Calcite for Table API and SQL queries.
    */
  private var calciteConfig = CalciteConfig.DEFAULT

  /**
   * Sets the timezone for date/time/timestamp conversions.
   */
  def setTimeZone(timeZone: TimeZone): Unit = {
    require(timeZone != null, "timeZone must not be null.")
    this.timeZone = timeZone
  }

  /**
   * Returns the timezone for date/time/timestamp conversions.
   */
  def getTimeZone = timeZone

  /**
   * Returns the NULL check. If enabled, all fields need to be checked for NULL first.
   */
  def getNullCheck = nullCheck

  /**
   * Sets the NULL check. If enabled, all fields need to be checked for NULL first.
   */
  def setNullCheck(nullCheck: Boolean): Unit = {
    this.nullCheck = nullCheck
  }

  /**
    * Returns the current configuration of Calcite for Table API and SQL queries.
    */
  def getCalciteConfig: CalciteConfig = calciteConfig

  /**
    * Sets the configuration of Calcite for Table API and SQL queries.
    * Changing the configuration has no effect after the first query has been defined.
    */
  def setCalciteConfig(calciteConfig: CalciteConfig): Unit = {
    this.calciteConfig = calciteConfig
  }
}

object TableConfig {
  def DEFAULT = new TableConfig()
}


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Probably ranked #1 and CBS sports. Have we ever had those two jinxes at the same time before? Maybe they cancel each other out. Plus the CBS one has sort of ended. This is clearly a down North Dakota team but they've got some momentum so the crowd should be as nuts as usual.
Adam Scheel has seven wins against ranked teams this season.
Anyone know if Benson will be ready to go on Friday?
VIDEO: Watch @UNDmhockey head coach Brad Berry as he talks to the media before this weekend's home series against St. Cloud State.
Sid wrote: Anyone know if Benson will be ready to go on Friday?
At 20:00 of the coaches show Jim Erickson specifically asks Brett Larson about Benson and he said "day to day, week to week... hopefully in the next week or two he'll be back."
Benson, a senior from Grand Forks, could play this weekend. This will be the last regular season road trip for Benson, who won a state high school title playing for Red River High School with St. Cloud State teammate Jon Lizotte.
Fitzgerald, a sophomore from Oak Brook, Illinois, is going to be out 6-8 weeks because of his injury.
Sophomore defenseman Tyler Anderson suffered an upper body injury playing in an exhibition game for the Huskies on Dec. 27. He was practicing with the team and is now out with a lower body injury.
Follow the @SCSUHUSKIES_MH at North Dakota on Jan. 25...watch on @CBSSportsNet with @benholdenpxp @DStarmanHockey and @ShireenRinkside on the call from the REA.
Jacob Benson is playing 4th line right wing!
Your lines for @SCSUHUSKIES_MH at @UNDmhockey on Jan. 25.
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So stoked for this weekend, Huskies vs NoDak games are always among the best!
We overcame a terrible first to net 3 unanswered Goals and get the big W!
I think Jimmys hit was both a hip check and knee on knee. The refs saw that he was going for the hip check but the knee clearly caught him. I'm pretty sure that still should have been a major for Jimmy but it's either a major or not a penalty at all. The retaliation probably doesn't happen if the whistle blows on Jimmy so they would have had a major that would have gone into OT had they scored in the final 2:08.


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Note: Your clients didn't get their account credentials? You can re-send the invite.
Once they've logged in, they'll be able to view the workout plan that you have created for them.


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Wendi has three children who have grown up dancing at Napa Regional Dance Company, giving her an intimate understanding of the benefits of a ballet education for children, extending into their success as students and young adults with drive and focus in all subjects and a lasting love of the arts. Wendi arrived in Napa in 1996 and has been involved in supporting education, the arts and healthcare in the Valley ever since. She has been an active participant and chair of several nonprofit fundraisers, including Healthy Moms and Babies and Clinic Ole. Wendi served on the Blue Oak School Board of Trustees for six years, three as chair; she was board president of the St. Helena Cooperative Nursery School; and president of the Vichy Elementary School Parent Club. She holds a BA in development studies from the University of California Berkeley and a Masters in Latin American Studies from New York University.
In 1997 when his daughter began taking lessons at Napa Regional Dance Company, Mike became a self-professed "Ballet Dad," volunteering as a set builder and all around handyman for NRDC. Eventually, Mike brought his artistic eye and passion for photography to work for the studio, capturing and sharing thousands of images of the young dancers performing over the years. Mike is retired from a distinguished 28-year career in law enforcement, during which he was a police officer, park ranger and investigator. He holds a BA in Natural Science from San Jose State University and a California Teaching Credential for Law Enforcement. Mike finished his career as investigator and educator with the California Computer Crimes Task Force, focused on identity theft and internet safety.
Gloria is a lifelong arts enthusiast. She has lived in Napa for 35 years with her husband Thomas Edwards. She is Partner and Office Manager in their family design and construction business. For ten years she owned and operated the Carriage House restaurant in downtown Napa, before "restaurateur" was a career aspiration. For thirteen years she expressed her artistic side as a stylist at Anemone in Yountville. She has a degree in Art Design from San Francisco State University. While Gloria has no children of her own, she believes passionately that children should be art-educated to enrich their lives as they grow to become artists as well as art-lovers.
Wanda Martin McGill has been teaching Classical Ballet and Contemporary dance in the Bay Area and Napa Valley for over 30 years. She received her professional dance education with Dance Theater of Harlem in New York City and studied contemporary dance at The Alvin Ailey School. Returning to the Bay Area, she continued studies with Alonzo King, director of Lines Contemporary Ballet in San Francisco.
Wanda holds graduate level K-12 and Community College credentials in the areas of Fine Art and Dance. Since 1981 she has taught classical ballet and contemporary dance for Napa, Solano and Diablo Valley Community College Districts. She directed her own contemporary ballet company, Visual Moves, which performed in the Bay Area along with producing numerous dance productions for the colleges and the community. Wanda continues to provide professional dance education to hundreds of students each year and maintains the business operations for Napa Regional Dance Company.
Patricia has lived in Napa County with her husband American Canyon City Councilmember David Oro since 2005. With a career spanning three continents, she minded the family business in Argentina, sourced commodities in Hong Kong for the Noble Group, and in San Francisco worked for the start-up Keryx Biopharmaceutical. She is a mother of three and a partner at the Oro Group, a communications consultancy for the technology industry. She also pens a popular lifestyle blog called MomLikeThat <http://www.momlikethat.com/> that celebrates everything about motherhood, health, fashion, beauty, travel and food. A performing arts advocate, she started classical ballet at age 7 and continued her love of dance with flamenco.
Patricia serves as the Parent Association President at Napa's Blue Oak School and sits on the board as the vice president of the American Canyon Arts Foundation. A polyglot of five languages, she was born in Taipei, raised in Buenos Aires and attended university in the United States. She holds a BA in Business Administration and Marketing from New York University and MA in Human Resources Management from the University of Kansas.


Many students believe that international opportunities are only available to undergraduate students. This is not so. There are many opportunities for students to make their graduate experience an international one. Taking advantage of the multiple graduate scholarships available to study abroad is an effective way to internationalize your graduate program. Scholarships such as the FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) are specifically geared toward graduate students who want to study abroad as a part of their program.
However, some schools do not have the funding or infrastructure to support students abroad. Therefore, finding ways to give your graduate school work an international perspective is a plausible alternative.
Choosing courses with an international focus is a great way to internationalize your graduate experience. In many graduate programs, students have the flexibility to choose some general courses such as foreign language, international business, and area studies as a part of their program. Students can also talk to their professors or academic advisors about receiving independent study credit to take classes that would be unavailable otherwise.
You could make international focus a part of your graduate focus. This could be done as simply as giving the subject of your research an international theme. Rather than doing your graduate thesis on a particular subject in the United States, you can relate it to a situation in a foreign country. If you want a degree in political science and you are interested in Ireland, why not focus your thesis on a comparative analysis of the U.S. and Ireland's political structure? With enough ingenuity you can find some way to connect your area of focus to your country of interests.


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Q: How can I link two tables in terms of foreign keys via laravel migrations I'm trying to link the thread table to the message table but when migrating, I get an error that says:
SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1215 Cannot add foreign key constraint (SQL: alter table `thread` add constraint `thread_id_foreign` foreign key (`id`) references `message` (`thread_id`))

What am I doing wrong and how can I achieve this?
users migration:
public function up()
{
    Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->increments('id');
        $table->string('email')->unique();
        $table->string('full_name');
        $table->string('password');
        $table->string('bio');
        $table->rememberToken();
        $table->timestamps();
    });
}

Here's the thread migration:
   Schema::create('thread', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->id();
        $table->string('title');
        $table->foreign('id')
            ->references('thread_id')
            ->on('message');
    });

Here's message migration:
    Schema::create('message', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->id();
        $table->unsignedInteger('user_id');
        $table->unsignedInteger('thread_id');
        $table->string('body');
        $table->foreign('user_id')
            ->references('id')
            ->on('users')
            ->onDelete('cascade');
    });

A: You need to use unsignedBigInteger for foreign key column's
And you should set foreign key for child table not parent table
Try this:
Schema::create('thread', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->id();
        $table->string('title');
    });

*

*

Schema::create('message', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->id();
        $table->unsignedBigInteger('user_id');
        $table->unsignedBigInteger('thread_id');
        $table->string('body');

        $table->foreign('user_id')
            ->references('id')
            ->on('users')
            ->onDelete('cascade');

        $table->foreign('thread_id')
            ->references('id')
            ->on('thread')
            ->onDelete('cascade');
    });

A: if you are linking the thread table to the message use it like this
Note: make sure that you create the message migration first then the thread migration
    Schema::create('message', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->id();
        // $table->unsignedInteger('thread_id');-> No Need for this column in here
        $table->string('body');
        $table->foreignId('user_id')->constrained('users')->onDelete('cascade');
    });

   Schema::create('thread', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->id();
        $table->string('title');
        $table->foreignId('message_id')->constrained('message')->onDelete('cascade');
    });

but if you want to link the message table to thread table than use it like this
   Schema::create('thread', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->id();
        $table->string('title');
    });

    Schema::create('message', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->id();
        $table->foreignId('thread_id')->constrained('thread')->onDelete('cascade');
        $table->string('body');
        $table->foreignId('user_id')->constrained('users')->onDelete('cascade');
    });

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Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to perform together at Beatles tribute show
NME Jan 21, 2014 2:19 pm GMT
Ringo says he and old bandmate will duet on US TV special
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are set to perform together for an upcoming TV tribute to The Beatles.
It was previously reported that the pair would appear together at this year's Grammy Awards in Los Angeles but, as Access Hollywood reports, drummer Starr has now revealed that he and McCartney will also perform for The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute To The Beatles.
The televised show will take place on January 27 – one day after this year's Grammys and exactly 50 years after The Beatles played on The Ed Sullivan Show in the US. Starr said: "To celebrate the 50 years since we landed in New York in February [1964], they are putting on a big show on Monday and we will be doing it there."
It was previously revealed that Eurythmics will also reunite to pay tribute to the Fab Four as part of the TV special. Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart went on hiatus in 2005 and have not released a studio album in 1999.
Both McCartney and Starr has been nominated for a number of Grammy awards, with the bassist up for gongs including Best Rock Song for 'Cut Me Some Slack' with Dave Grohl and Krist Noveselic, whilst Starr will be honoured with the 2014 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award at the ceremony.
The Grammy Awards 2014 take place at The Staples Center in Los Angeles., with Beyonce, Jay Z and Taylor Swift all set to perform live.
Bob Dylan / Neil Young Credit: Getty (various)
Watch Bob Dylan and Neil Young perform together for the first time in 25 years
Kelly Clarkson (L), Taylor Swift (R). Credit: Shutterstock
Kelly Clarkson suggests Taylor Swift should re-record all her old songs
Lil Peep Credit: Rex
Another posthumous Lil Peep album is on the way


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Ovala is a village and the least populous municipality in the Astara Rayon of Azerbaijan.  It has a population of 258.

References

Populated places in Astara District

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One way to manage network scale is to configure affinity between vSmart controllers and vEdge routers. To do this, you place each vSmart controller into a controller group, and then you configure which group or groups a vEdge router can establish control connections with. The controller groups are what establishes the affinity between vSmart controllers and vEdge routers.
The identifier number can be from 0 through 100.
When vSmart controllers are in different data centers, it is recommended that you assign different controller group identifiers to the vSmart controllers. Doing this provides redundancy among data centers, in case a data center becomes unreachable.
If the vSmart controllers have the same controller group identifier, a vEdge router establishes a control connection to any one of them. If that vSmart controller becomes unreachable, the router simply establishes a control connection with another one of the controllers in the data center. As an example of how this might work, if one vSmart controller becomes unavailable during a software upgrade, the vEdge router immediately establishes a new TLOC with another vSmart controller, and the router's network operation is not interrupted. This network design provides redundancy among vSmart controllers in a data center.
If the vSmart controllers have different controller group identifiers, a vEdge router can use one controller as the preferred and the other as backup. As an example of how this might work, if you are upgrading the vSmart controller software, you can upgrade one controller group at a time. If a problem occurs with the upgrade, a vEdge router establishes TLOCs with the vSmart controllers in the second, backup controller group, and the router's network operation is not interrupted. When the vSmart controller in the first group again become available, the vEdge router switches its TLOCs back to that controller. This network design, while offerring redundancy among the vSmart controllers in a data center, also provides additional fault isolation.
For a vEdge router to participate in affinity, you configure the vSmart controllers that the router is allowed to establish control connections with, and you configure the maximum number of control connections (or TLOCs) that the vEdge router itself, and that an individual tunnel on the router, is allowed to establish.
At the system level, configure a single list of all the controller group identifiers that are present in the overlay network.
For each tunnel interface in VPN 0, you can choose to restrict which controller group identifiers the tunnel interface can establish control connections with. To do this, configure an exclusion list.
List the vSmart controller group identifiers that any of the tunnel connections on the vEdge router might want to establish control connections with. It is recommended that this list contain the identifiers for all the vSmart controller groups in the overlay network.
In this command, list the identifiers of the vSmart controller groups that this particular tunnel interface should never establish control connections with. The controller groups in this list must be a subset of the controller groups configured with the system controller-group-list command.
To display the controller groups configured on a vEdge router, use the show control connections command.
At the system level, configure that maximum number of control connections that the vEdge router can establish to vSmart controllers.
For each tunnel interface in VPN 0, configure the maximum number of control connections that the tunnel can establish to vSmart controllers.
The number of OMP sessions can be from 0 through 100.
Each DTLS and and each TLS control plane tunnel creates a separate OMP session.
It is the vEdge router as a whole, not the individual tunnel interfaces in VPN 0, that establishes OMP sessions with vSmart controllers. When different tunnel interfaces on the router have affinity with the same vSmart controller group, the vEdge router creates a single OMP session to one of the vSmart controllers in that group, and the different tunnel interfaces use this single OMP session.
The number of control connections can be from 0 through 100. The default value is the maximum number of OMP sessions configured with the system max-omp-sessions command.
When a vEdge routers has multiple WAN transport connections, and hence has multiple tunnel interfaces in VPN 0, the sum of the maximum number of control connections that all the tunnels can establish cannot exceed the maximum number allowed on the router itself.
To display the maximum number of control connections configured on an interface, use the show control local-properties command.
To display the actual number of control connections for each tunnel interface, use the show control affinity config command.
To display a list of the vSmart controllers that each tunnel interface has established control connections with, use the show control affinity status command.
In the system controller-group-list command on the vEdge router, list all the controller groups available in the overlay network. Doing so ensures that all the vSmart controllers in the overlay network are available for the affinity configuration, and it provides additional redundancy in case connectivity to the preferred group or groups is lost. You manipulate the number of control connections and their priority based on the maximum number of OMP sessions for the router, the maximum number of control connections for the tunnel, the controller groups a tunnel should not use.
A case in which listing all the controller groups in the system controller-group-list command provides additional redundancy is when the vEdge router site is having connectivity issues in reaching the vSmart controllers in the controller group list. To illustrate this, suppose, in a network with three controller groups (1, 2, and 3), the controller group list on a vEdge router contains only groups 1 and 2, because these are the preferred groups. If the router learns from the vBond controller that the vSmart controllers in groups 1 and 2 are up, but the router is having connectivity issues to both sites, the router loses its connectivity to the overlay network. However, if the controller group list contains all three controller groups, even though group 3 is not a preferred group, if the router is unable to connect to the vSmart controllers in group 1 or group 2, it is able to fall back and connect to the controllers in group 3.
Configuring affinity and the order in which to connect to vSmart controllers is only a preference. The preference is honored whenever possible. However, the overarching rule in enforcing high availability on the overlay network is to use any operational vSmart controller. The network ceases to function only when no vSmart controllers are operational. So it might happen that the least preferred vSmart controller is used if it is the only controller operational in the network at a particular time.
When a vEdge router boots, it learns about all the vSmart controllers in the overlay network, and the vBond orchestrator is continuously communicating to the router which vSmart controllers are up. So, if a vEdge router cannot reach any of the preferred vSmart controllers in the configured controller group and another vSmart controller is up, the router connects to that controller. Put another way, in a network with multiple vSmart controllers, as a last resort, a vEdge router connects to any of the controllers, to ensure that the overlay network remains operational, whether or not these controllers are configured in the router's controller group list.
The controller groups listed in the exclude-controller-group-list command must be a subset of the controller groups configured for the entire router, in the system controller-group-list command.
When a data center has multiple vSmart controllers that use the same controller group identifier, and when the overlay network has two or more data centers, it is recommended that the number of vSmart controllers in each of the controller groups be the same. For example, if Data Center 1 has three vSmart controllers, all with the same group identifier (let's say, 1), Data Center 2 should also have three vSmart controllers, all with the same group identifier (let's say, 2), and any additional data centers should also have three vSmart controllers.
When a data center has vSmart controllers in the same controller group, the hardware capabilities—specifically, the memory and CPU—on all the vSmart controllers should be identical. More broadly, all the vSmart controllers in the overlay network, whether in one data center or in many, should have the same hardware capabilities. Each vSmart controller should have equal capacity and capability to handle a control connection from any of the vEdge routers in the network.
When a router has two tunnel connections and the network has two (or more) data centers, it is recommended that you configure one of the tunnel interfaces to go to one of the data centers and the other to go to the second. This configuration provides vSmart redundancy with the minimum number of OMP sessions.
Whenever possible in your network design, you should leverage affinity configurations to create fault-isolation domains.


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41 patients with bronchiectasis inhaled MucoClear 6% twice daily for two months. Lung function, sputum production and quality of life was monitored for any changes during this period of time. All study-participants' overall condition had significantly improved with the use of nebulised 6% hypertonic saline – 12% found this improvement "life-changing".
100% of the patients thought, that mucus was easier to cough up, approximately one half of participants were able to "get rid of" increased amounts of sputum. Many patients on MucoClear 6%. therapy experienced improved oxygen saturation and lung function. In addition, responses from standardized questionnaires showed that patients quality of life had significantly ameliorated.
The study authors concluded that these results suggest that MucoClear 6% is a valuable option for patients with bronchiectasis – even if further controlled studies are recommended.
12% of the bronchiectasis patients found the improvent of their overall condition under therapy with hypertonic saline "life changing".


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October 27, 2021 sportfunfactss
For a sport often described as the "beautiful game," football has certainly seen an abundance of ugly uniforms over the years. Goalkeeper tops alone have featured some truly hideous designs, but the men between the sticks have mercifully been excluded from this list. Those with weak stomachs should proceed with caution as we rank the ugliest kits in world football history.
10. Kansas City Wizards 1996 Kit
Home kit or away kit – it doesn't matter so choose your poison. To give you an insight into the psyche of a jersey like this you need context. 1996 was a great time for science fiction and celebrating all things unusual. Kansas City Wizards attempted a psychedelic bright blue, dark blue, yellow, green and red wave pattern intertwined in front of a plain black top. The opposing kit did no favors, keeping the same rainbow look but changed the black to the white background. You expect something a bit more clever from a team named the Wizards.
9. La Hoya Lorca 2013 Away Kit
How on earth did it come to this? The lower league Spanish club La Hoya Lorca took advertising in soccer to a whole new level when they adopted a kit completely awash with peas! Yes, the food peas. The disgusting jersey certainly made a splash in the newspapers but their sponsor and club went too far. Considering the amount of PR and expertise in this department for 2013, this is an own goal of epic proportions!
8. Bury FC 1992-93 Kit
Small English outfit Bury had no problem clashing with anyone else's jersey in the 1992-93 season. This shocking purple/green/silver get up is an embarrassment to the sport and a worthy recipient of being in the Top 20 list. Sponsors Macpherson had no shame putting their name smack bang center of the top which manages to cloak the club emblem. From a distance it looks as though it's a jersey depicting static on the television with the waving "W" lines painted from side to side. Deplorable.
7. Barcelona 2012-13 Away Kit
Barcelona can play in a woolly jumper for all we care, they'll still win titles with their scintillating play. But what possessed them to go with an orange and yellow mash up "sunset" style kit for their 2012-13 season is yet to be answered. To make matters worse, their top sponsor the "Qatar Foundation" displays all that is wrong with modern soccer, embracing the money rich oil barons at the center of the FIFA corruption scandal. For one of the wealthiest clubs in the game, this was a moment to forget for the Catalan giants.
6. VFL Bochum 1997-98 Kit
The rainbow pattern simply doesn't work. German outfit Bochum kept up the camp tradition of bad 1990s kits for their 1997-98 campaign with this atrocious effort. The fabric combined fluro green, yellow, red and orange waves on the sleeve with dark blue, purple, white and half sky blue. The colors have no links with Bochum's tradition and looks like it's an edition sent out in celebration of a gay pride parade. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but we know this wasn't the intention. It's just a shockingly ugly kit.
5. Juventus 2011-12 Away Kit
The Old Lady Juventus have rejuvenated themselves back into being the European heavyweights from the 1990's. A season relegated after the scandal that rocked Italian football in 2006 has culminated in a Champions League Final barely months ago, yet their 3rd kit for the 2011-12 campaign left people wondering if they were taking their soccer seriously. Complete with bright pink and a black star, the Juve jersey stood out like a sore thumb and looked about as appetising. Their success subsequent to this fashion mishap is in spite of it, not because of it.
4. England Goalkeeper 1996 Kit
David Seaman was a great of English football. A stalwart for the Arsenal defense that won trophy after trophy, it was expected that the man between the sticks with the big mustache could be a colossus and help England win their first major football trophy since World Cup 1966. None of that eventuated, instead the goalie had the humiliation of wearing what can only be described as a car crash of a jersey. The combination of bright red, purple, green and yellow has to be seen to be believed, an utter travesty of a design.
3. Mexico Goalkeeper 1994 Kit
Goalkeepers need to stand out from the crowd. In tight spaces, the man or woman with the gloves need to be able to be differentiated to avoid heavy contact in the penalty area. Fair to say Mexican keeper Campos had no problem achieving this in the 1994 World Cup. The Christmas tree on steroids styling somehow got the tick of approval and to this day remains one of the seven wonders of the world.
2. Coventry City 1970's Kit
No one should need an explanation why a brown soccer jersey is a bad idea. Former top flight English club Coventry City threw away any notion of fashion sense by adopting a pure brown jersey and shorts with double white stripes lined down the sides. Mix this in with some funky haircuts and facial hair, and this was a mess of epic proportions. Coventry quickly reverted back to their sky blue colors and haven't been tempted by the brown since.
1. Colorado Caribous 1978 Kit
Is this a professional soccer team or a Dolly Parton tribute act? Quite frankly, there aren't enough words created in the English language to explain how horrific the formerly named Colorado Caribous' 1978 kit is. One feature stands out above all others for obvious reasons, creating the image that the players would prefer to be at a rodeo than on the soccer pitch. After 19 of the ugliest entries you will see in the fashion world, Colorado takes the cake for the ugliest of them all!
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Uber's Self-Driving Cars To Be Commercialized In 2019
By Daniel Fuller
Ride-hailing giant Uber will begin rolling out its self-driving cars publicly sometime within the next 18 months, according to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. Sitting down with Bloomberg Editor-In-Chief John Micklethwait to talk about the future of the company, Khosrowshahi mentioned that the firm's self-driving cars were nearly ready for primetime, and would begin making their way onto public roads throughout the United States within the aforementioned timeframe. The wide timeline leaves a lot of ambiguity, but with mainstream self-driving cars predicted to develop in 2020, an initial public rollout in 2019 is likely. Uber is already hosting public test runs of autonomous vehicles in some markets, though this testing is decidedly limited, both by fleet size and location.
Hinting further at the nature of Uber's future operations, Khosrowshahi dropped three keywords; "autonomous," "electric," and "shared." According to Khosrowshahi, all three of these are the necessary tenets of the ride-hailing industry and transportation, in general, going forward. The company has toyed with the idea of a fully electric fleet in the past. Many visions of the future of private transportation point to people generally not owning self-driving cars, but rather hailing shared units. This means that Khosrowshahi's words fit in with an industry consensus, and may well end up being the way of things in the near future.
Uber's self-driving cars were once studied and found to require being taken over by a human driver after about 1 mile of autonomous driving, on average. There has been a lot of time for Uber's autonomous vehicle systems to improve since then, and it's almost inevitable that things will be better this time around, or Uber most likely would not be planning a public rollout in the immediate future. Regardless, between the general public and United States lawmakers, one of the biggest things that need to happen for the field to advance is for people to trust self-driving cars. If Uber is one of the first out of the gate with nationwide, publicly available autonomous vehicles, the firm has the chance to serve as an ambassador of sorts for the technology, which is a role that is not to be taken lightly.
Daniel Fuller
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A Ruff Death, (1634-2008, Requiescat in pace)
During the winter of 1778, as George Washington's infantry rehearsed the manoeuvers of Baron von Steuben,[1.] it was the sound of an English drumming tradition that filled the parade ground of Valley Forge.
Over time the hand to hand beats played by English drummers had been grouped into short rhythmic patterns, given names, codified and passed on to colonial drummers. Some of the patterns signaled soldiers to perform camp duties such as getting fire wood or water, whilst other patterns directed their movements in battle.
In the hands of creative drummers, these patterns could be combined to enliven popular melodies which eased a soldier's weariness or emboldened fighting men in the face of an enemy. Drummers were required to practice these patterns assiduously.
Eventually they were known as the Rudiments of drumming and the drumming style, Rudimental.
The word rudiments first appeard in a drum book in 1812. On page 3 of A New Useful and Complete System of Drum Beating, Charles Stewart Ashworth wrote, Rudiments for Drum Beating in General. Under this heading he inscribed and named 26 patterns required of drummers by contemporary British and American armies and militias. The word Rudiment was not used again in US drum manuals until 1862. George B. Bruce began page 4 of Bruce and Emmett's Drummers and Fifers Guide with the words Rudimental Principles.
Beginning with the long roll, Bruce listed 35 patterns concluding with a paragraph titled Recapitulation of the Preceeding Rolls and Beats. On page 7 of his 1869 Drum and Fife Instructor, Gardiner A. Strube wrote, The Rudimental Principles of Drum – Beating, and followed with 25 examples, each named Lesson.
The National Association of Rudimental Drummers ("N.A.R.D.") was organized in 1933-34. The men of the N.A.R.D. were well known teachers, performers and composers. Some of them had studied drumming with Civil War veterans, whom they referred to as The Ancients. The N.A.R.D. was formed to enhance, preserve and disseminate what in their minds was an endangered style of drumming.
They combined Gardiner Strube's 25 lessons, added the long roll and perhaps for the first time in history, unambiguously declared each heretofore lesson, pattern, beat, or principle, a Rudiment. They called the first 13 rudiments "Essential". These were used to test applicants seeking membership in the Thirteen Club.
Another list of snare drum rudiments was compiled in 2008 by a group of drummers from the Percussive Arts Society (P.A.S.) Marching Percussion Committee. Their compilation contained 38 rudiments of unspecified origin including 24 of the "Hybrid" variety, and the 26 N.A.R.D. rudiments, making a grand total of 64 rudiments.
Drummers can become attached to a rudiment. Its appeal can be historic, or the feeling in the hands when its played. Even the onomatopoetic nature of its name may endear it. The Paradiddle and Ratamacue are examples of the latter. If one repeats these names, one can imagine how they'd sound played on a drum. [2.]
Along side the Flam, my favourites have always been the Ruff and its relative, the four stroke Ruff. These rudiments are to my mind, the most elegant and useful beats in a drummer's repertoire.
The Ruff's soft R suggests a variety of nuances. The four stroke Ruff, played as a roll can substitute for the five stroke roll. However, the Drag's consonant D, limits expressions. Even so, the P.A.S. committee changed the name of the Ruff to Drag.
Had the N.A.R.D. made their list to read Ruff, Ruff tap and double Ruff Tap, the P.A.S. committee may have followed suit, allowing a continuance to the life of Ruffs.
In May of 2011, a group of very good drummers began a contentious and sometimes humorous exchange of e-mails after one of them was criticized for using the word Drag rather than Ruff. If the statute of limitations runs out before I die, I may publish their correspondence.
Perhaps all this Tea pot tempest could be ameliorated by shifting the conversation to Strokes. As the inimitable John S. (Jack) Pratt said,
"Drum rudiments are exercises. The rudiments of drumming are strokes". [3,]
Without preamble I asked a group of friends, all prominent teachers and performers, how many strokes were used in snare drumming. Their answers ranged in number from 1 to 11, and one person replied, "Is this a trick question?"
If no agreement exists among some of the best drummers in North America about the number of strokes needed to play a snare drum, might not arguments about Ruffs and Drags be considered akin to bickering?
Today, within the ranks of Fife and Drum corps drummers, the Ruff's proud name, it's romantic evocation of history and onomatopoetic pedigree survive, but outside that cozy womb of nostalgia, in the brittle, frenetic world of Kevlar heads and carpal tunnel syndromes, the Ruff is only a memory, if that.
Now, after its first appearance in print 370 years ago, the Ruff is no longer a part of an academic drummer's lexicon.
The Ruff is dead, Viva la Ruff!!
N.A.R.D. rudiments 8, 9, and 10.
PAS Rudiments 31, 32 and 33
[1.] Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben was of Prussian birth and a soldier, though he seems to have awarded himself the title. He knew19th century infantry tactics, taught them to the Colonial Army and authored an illustrated compendium of his military learning, popularly known as the Blue Book because of its cover's colour, but officialy entitled Baron von Steuben and His Regulations.
[2.] In fact, the verbal repetition of onomatopoeia was sometimes used to teach musically illiterate young drummer boys. Today it is still used as a kind of verbal short hand.
[3,] Jack Pratt used the English language carefully. He took a Master's degree in English with a thesis about poet John Keats. He was a published member of the New Jersey Society of Poets and taught English in a local New Jersey high school until his retirement. Jack is also a virtuoso performer and prolific composer of drum solos in the so called Rudimental or military style. His carefully drawn manuscripts bear witness to his meticulous nature. Jack's lengthy and detailed Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame acceptance speech is the stuff of legends.
Posted by robinengelman on June 26, 2014 in Articles, Commentaries & Critiques, Fifes & Drums, History
Tags: Baron von Steuben, Bruce and Emmett's Drummers and Fifers Guide, Charles Stewart Ashworth, Drag, Gardiner A. Strube, George Washington, John S. (Jack) Pratt, National Association of Rudimental Drummers ("N.A.R.D."), onomatopoetic, Percussive Arts Society (P.A.S.), Rudiments, Ruff, the Thirteen Club, Valley Forge
Andrew Wyeth and Oysters
Andrew Wyeth
1917, Chadds Ford, PA. – 2009 Chadds Ford, PA.
My first encounter with Andrew Wyeth was in1968 after Houghton-Mifflin published a sumptious, oversized book with reproductions of his paintings on heavy rag paper titled "Andrew Wyeth". Later, as part of a War for Independence road trip that included Valley Forge and Brandywine Battlefield, my wife and I visited Chadds Ford.[1.] It was there I began to understand the love Wyeth had expressed for his mysterious, tucked-away-world. Wyeth's subtle, almost invisible egg tempera colours and textures were fascinating. I'd never followed his career and I learned of his death long after his passing. However, something in the spiritual ambience of his work, if not yet quite grasped, remained with me.
That missing something was finally revealed in May 2014 when we visited a large and conprehensive Wyeth exhibit in the National Gallery, Washington, DC called Looking Out, Looking In. The exhibit began with numerous watercolours, all new to me and they wove themselves seamlessly into his sketches and paintings. I discovered a nowness that Wyeth had captured – those incredibly timeless moments, the hallmark of a great artist. Many years ago Toru Takemitsu said,"Vermeer is not about colour". And indeed colour is not what he was about. Nor was Wyeth.
In Wyeth as in Vermeer, there is more, a most important more. As I meandered from room to room, Wyeth's paintings evolved into a private world of my own and became abstractions
Seed Corn, 1948, Private Collection.
Cellar Fireplace, 1955, Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
In 1965, Wyeth said that although he was thought of as a realist, he thought of himself as an abstractionist: "My people, my objects breathe in a different way: there's another core — an excitement that's definitely abstract. My God, when you really begin to peer into something, a simple object, and realize the profound meaning of that thing — if you have an emotion about it, there's no end".
Howard Pyle was to my mind a superb illustrator and painter. Pyle painted a great and recently stolen picture of English Grenadier drummers pushing their colleagues up Breed's (Bunker) Hill towards their second repulse by the "Colonial rabble". Pyle lived in Chadds Ford as did N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth's father, who studied with him. Andrew Wyeth said that illustrators like Howard Pyle painted pictures.
Battle of Bunker Hill, Howard Pyle, 1889.
Below is one of my favorite pictures. I took it after a long day on the Capital Mall. My wife and I had a marvelous bottle of Vouvray as an accompaniment to these even more marvelous Chesapeake Bay bivalves. (Eat your hearts out, ye denizins of P.E.I. or anywhere else for that matter.)
Starters, a Plate of 12 at Hank's Oyster Bar. Washington, D.C. photograph by R.E., 2009.
[1.] Chadds Ford was the major crossing of Brandywine Creek by the road from Baltimore to Philadelphia. The battle was fought 11 September 1777 between approximately 14,000 troops under General George Washington and 15,000 under General Sir William Howe. Though occupying a strong position, Washington failed to send out scouts and his right flank was turned. The defeat led to Howe capturing Philadelphia and Washington establishing winter quarters at Valley Forge.
Posted by robinengelman on June 24, 2014 in Articles, Commentaries & Critiques, History
Tags: Andrew Wyeth, Brandywine Battlefield, Chadds Ford, Chesapeake Bay Oysters, Hank's Oyster Bar, Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Valley Forge, Vouvray white wine
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