![]() She began her teaching career in remote Queensland high schools, but since her graduate studies she has taught in universities in Australia, Canada, England, France and the United States. * This review counts towards my participation in the Aussie Author Challenge 2012, The Australian Women Writers Challenge and Aussie Author Month.Īuthor Information: Born in 1942, Janette Turner Hospital grew up in Queensland, Australia. Genre: Action-Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Literature, Romance, Audio Janette Turner Hospital’s Due Preparations for the Plague is intense and compelling fiction, that at times leaves you asking, could or has this really happened? Highly recommended for deep thinkers with strong stomachs.īOOK RATING: The Story 4 / 5 The Writing 4.5 / 5īOOK DETAILS: Due Preparations for the Plague(Amazon & Audible) Due Preparations for the Plague (B&N) Due Preparations for the Plague(The Nile – Australia) His voice is dark and menacing, just perfect for the mood of this story. Sean Mangan is a narrator I have enjoyed before – Matthew Reilly’s Hell Island and Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves. I listened to this title in audio narrated by Sean Mangan. Its sheer ambition could be considered indulgence in a few instances and some of the more philosophical passages laboured from my perspective. Along with a literary display and intense psychological thriller, this could also be considered an action-adventure story and on various levels a romance also. Janette Turner Hospital has expertly tapped into the desired effect of terrorism, the destabilisation of whole societies through the acts of a fanatical few.ĭue Preparations for the Plague touches on such a vast array of issues, far too many to mention, and if anything that is probably its only weakness. She has shown that at extremis the human mind can justify the seemingly unthinkable. She has created them and then dug into their psyche with chilling results. Hospital has crafted some of the most disturbed fictional characters I have ever come across. It is also an intense psychological thriller. In Due Preparations for the Plague Janette Turner Hospital presents a powerful warning of just how tenuous our lives and the liberties we take for granted can be. The mysterious plot is one of the most complex and intelligent I have read in quite some time. ![]() The prose is superb – haunting and compelling. It is a title that is difficult to categorise. ![]() When you pick up Due Preparations for the Plague, prepare to have those glasses shattered!ĭue Preparations for the Plague by Janette Turner Hospital is a book that has left a lasting impression on me. Janette Turner Hospital probes with astonishing acuity the murky worlds of espionage and intelligence gathering, and the painful meaning of survival. ( Audible)įirst things first, this is not a book for the squeamish or those who like to see the world through rose-coloured glasses. Under the guise of her senior thesis, she pulls Lowell, the son of a victim, into a web of terror, death, and betrayal that he has spent his adult life trying to forget. As an adult, Samantha, one of the children set free by the terrorists, has become obsessed with the hijacking. This electrifying novel chronicles the lives of two strangers connected by the tragic loss of parents in a hijacked Paris-New York flight.
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It’s best for those who like building large fort-like bases. This defensive wall design of SIVOH’s is well structured and gives you many choices in terms of tactics. You’ll only need 1 Stick to reset it, and it basically turns into a small in its own right after having been activated by an enemy.ĭo you think anyone will even dare attacking you after setting up this defensive wall? You’re free to place as many as you want. The Happy Birthday Trap is a nice addition to this structure.This will prevent your enemies from leaping on top of your walls, or breaking through them. The Defensive Wall will add height to your points of defense.So, enemies who tend to hit low will have a very hard time breaching this defensive structure. The Rock Wall is very steady and stern.This defense strategy consists of building one stack of Rock Walls, placing a Defensive Wall on top of it, and leaving a few gaps to fill with the Happy Birthday Trap.The Forest drives its players to be creative, especially when it comes to their bases and defending them. But it doesn’t mean that he hasn’t an idea of what he’s doing here. The Overclock is one of the lesser-known The Forest players in this article. This is the best way for turning your defenses into a strategy to trap cannibals in The Forest. You can build enough Deadfall Traps so that they could form some sort of perimeter that holds its own defenses and alerts you every time something attempts to breach it.You will have to reset the Deadfall Trap every time an enemy activates it, but it only costs 1 stick and a 3 seconds button-hold to do so. ![]() So, as far as resources, it won’t take you much time to gather what you need to build enough traps that defend every possible point of attack. The Deadfall Trap only costs 3 Sticks and 3 Logs.It’s a very simple and cheap strategy – depending on the size of your base – but it’s still as effective as any successful defense approach. He basically placed Deadfall Traps all around the base.But it’s a great idea if you think about it, especially for the smaller of bases. This take of his on how to best defend your base seems a bit random. Farket shows you the best strategy to utilize these simple defenses.įarket is one of the most recognizable YouTubers who play The Forest. ![]() Plenty of support across all the typical art industry programs. Easily import scripts from Final Draft or export your layered panels for Photoshop. You can also create dynamic camera movements along with some experimental 3D features that work nicely for 3D animators. But the Story Flow tool makes it a breeze for writers to switch between board & script to follow each sequence, each scene, and each act. It can work well for ad agencies or for board artists doing small skits. Toon Boom is definitely more of an animator’s program. It’s a way to sketch your boards and see how they’d animate, all while tracking your script to make sure your scenes are on target. Really it’s a combo of both sketching and animating together. So what exactly does this program give you? This monthly fee gives you a chance to test the waters and see what you think of Toon Boom without committing to a massive single use license. Now with that said, it does offer a cheaper monthly fee that most people could afford compared to the upfront cost. To my knowledge this is the most expensive storyboarding software on the market and it’s also the industry standard.Ī good majority of studios use Toon Boom for boarding & animating so this is something you may want to learn if you want to break into the industry. Looking at the complete opposite of free we’ll find Toon Boom Storyboard Pro. That is why Storyboarder makes such a great choice for beginners who need a simple application to practice their boards.įrom a single screen you can draw each shot, add dialogue/stage directions, and even port the entire thing into Adobe Photoshop if you need a larger toolset.Īlso Storyboarder comes with a play feature so you can demo your boards in a slideshow preview much like a real animatic for animation.Īn excellent program for presenting to clients, or just for mucking around and practicing on your own. I’d think if you’re a newbie to storyboarding then you’d want to save money at every turn. This runs on all 3 major operating systems and it’s 100% free to download and use forever. ![]() One of their coolest projects is Storyboarder, a free app made for visualizing stories. The team at Wonder Unit has developed some really cool stuff for filmmakers. I’ll go through all the best options in this post and get you started on the path to magnificent digital storyboards. So what kind of software is best for storyboarding? And which programs offer the best features to support your creative projects? If you search around you’ll find plenty of options but they each have a range of features, benefits, and prices(some free!) The entertainment industry needs quality storyboard artists and those artists need great software. That means if you buy something we get a small commission at no extra cost to you( learn more)įrom action scenes to snappy dialogue, everything can be captured in a great storyboard. ![]() Resources Animation Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. ![]() WELLFLEET - Deep into the dense brush of Duck Harbor, a low rumbling sound reverberates off the pitch pines and oak trees. Unlike its meaning in our modern beach-and-sun-crazy culture, the original catchphrase had HERRING RIVER RESTORATION Meet the Man Who Is Mulching Duck Harbor “On the beach,” was the term sailors once used to describe being on land rather than at sea. 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Keyring: base url:, url user:, url pwd: Http auth: user anton.gogolev, password not set Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 3.6.2) ![]() ![]() My quick testing has shown that the regression started to manifest itself in TortoiseHg 3.6.2 (the hg.exe is the one that comes with TortoiseHg output truncated for readability): $ hg version One thing to note here is that this is decidedly not a TortoiseHg issue per se, since all TortoiseHg is doing is shelling out to Mercurial and parsing the output (in reality, internal workings are quite more complicated, but the essential idea remains the same). Mekk/mercurial_keyring: Issue #49: mercurial_keyring always asks for user/password.tortoisehg/thg: Issue #4401: mercurial_keyring always asks for user/password.The problem is as follows: when operating on URLs that include a username (like Keyring extension keeps on prompting for username and password. Not so long ago, the immensely useful Mercurial Keyring extension has stopped working for certain TortoiseHg versions in a specific scenario. Investigation: Mercurial Keyring Always Asking for Username and Password To put things into perspective, here is a standard clone operation with Clone Bundles disabled: If it does, a client doing the cloning first downloads the most appropriate bundle (a very fast operation), applies it locally (a very fast operation as well), and then effectively does an additional hg pull against the original repository to fetch any new commits that were pushed since the time the bundle was generated. First it checks whether the server advertises a list of pre-generated bundle files. Here’s what is going on under the hood when a Mercurial client clones a repository from a Clone Bundles-enabled server. If your HgLab installation serves repositories (say, over 100 Mb) or is under heavy load from frequent clones (say, from your build server), this feature will make scaling problems mostly go away. Head over to the Extensibility documentation article to learn more. This feature significantly reduces load on both TeamCity and HgLab. TeamCity Integration Extension uses VCS Post-Commit Hooks to trigger builds in TeamCity. Performance improvements in Clone Bundles.Improved JIRA, Slack and TeamCity Integration Extensions.Reduced memory usage and Large Object Heap optimizations.Significant performance improvements for all Mercurial-related operations (think faster hg pull and hg push).What HgLab does with Pull Bundles is essentialy it pre-computes and caches, well, bundles that are most likely to be pulled by clients. ![]() Now, with Pull Bundles, hg pulls got just so much faster. With Clone Bundles HgLab received performance boost for initial hg clone operations. Starting with this release HgLab now requires Microsoft. HgLab, a behind-the-firewall self-hosted Mercurial server, source control management system and code collaboration platform, has been updated to version 1.14. ![]() (In old age, as her sight deteriorated, she lost much of her freshness of vision, and her last few stories, written for publication in the United States, did not match her earlier work in style or draftsmanship. The tiny books, which she designed so that even the smallest children could hold them, combined a deceptively simple prose, concealing dry North Country humour, with illustrations in the best English watercolour tradition. In 1902 it was published commercially with great success by Frederick Warne & Company, which in the next 20 years brought out 22 additional books, beginning with The Tailor of Gloucester (1903), The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (1903), and The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904). The illustrated letter was so well received that she decided to privately publish it as The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901). On one of these holidays in Scotland, at age 27, she sent an illustrated animal story to a sick child of a former governess, about four bunnies named Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter. Potter, the only daughter of heirs to cotton fortunes, spent a solitary childhood, enlivened by long holidays in Scotland or the English Lake District, which inspired her love of animals and stimulated her imaginative watercolour drawings. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! 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Beatrix Potter, or Helen Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), a British childrens book author and illustrator, was secretly engaged to the publisher, Norman Warne.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() More drivers audited in System Compatibility report ![]() Premiere Pro provides robust native support and improved performance for widely used formats, like H264, HEVC, and ProRes – including ProRes HDR – on both macOS and Windows.Īpply metadata to HDR10 exports to ensure optimal display quality on HDR10-enabled devices The Essential Graphics panel in Premiere Pro has a number of text and graphics enhancements to make your titling and graphic workflows smoother.Īudio improvements in Premiere Pro include more streamlined workflows for multi-channel effects and increased range for audio gain.ĭo more creatively with re-timing shots without requiring nested sequences for bigger speed changes. 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Internally, even proponents of the technology thought Extensible Application Markup Language as a concept was a bad idea from the start. Industry observers announced the death of Silverlight as early as 2011. Silverlight was also used by Amazon Video and Netflix for their instant video streaming services, but Netflix said in its Tech Blog in 2013 that, since Microsoft had announced Silverlight's end-of-life, they would be moving to HTML5 video. Silverlight was used to provide video streaming for the NBC coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and the 2008 conventions for both major United States political parties. Support of these plugins is not mutually exclusive one system can support all three. Usage on July 2010 was 53.6%, whereas as of May 2011 market leader Adobe Flash was installed on 95.3% of browsers, and Java was supported on 76.5% of browsers. Adoption Īccording to, Microsoft Silverlight had a penetration of 64.2% in May 2011. Windows 7 and earlier do not get security updates.įrom the initial launch in 2007, reviewers compared the product to (since then discontinued) Adobe's Flash. Windows Embedded POSReady 7 and Windows Thin PC, while e.g. It is supported on Windows 8.1 and later and Windows Server 2012 and later, and e.g. Microsoft terminated support for Silverlight on Internet Explorer 11 (the last remaining web browser still supporting Silverlight) on October 12, 2021. Silverlight was one of the two application development platforms for Windows Phone, but web pages using Silverlight did not run on the Windows Phone or Windows Mobile versions of Internet Explorer, as there was no Silverlight plugin for Internet Explorer on those platforms. While early versions of Silverlight focused on streaming media, later versions supported multimedia, graphics, and animation, and gave support to developers for CLI languages and development tools. A plugin for Silverlight is still available for a very small number of browsers. Microsoft Silverlight is a discontinued application framework designed for writing and running rich web applications, similar to Adobe's runtime, Adobe Flash. Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Symbian OS Īpplication framework, run-time environment and multimedia framework For other uses, see Silverlight (disambiguation).Ĩ.0 (January 15, 2019 4 years ago ( )) ![]() Netflix 1 Screen - Unlimited Streaming $8."Silverlight" redirects here. Netflix 4 Screens - Unlimited Streaming $15.99 Netflix 1 Screen - Unlimited Streaming $8.99 Netflix 2 Screens - Unlimited Streaming $12.99 Note: While the software is classified as free, it offers in-App Purchases. Create up to five profiles in one account and get customized recommendations for every user. 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Editor's note: Netflix app is currently available only on the App Store for Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad. ![]() Note: NSX doesn’t include provisions for Multicast switching or routing, and follows standard Ethernet behaviour, which is to flood frames with Multicast destination MAC addresses within their L2 domain, i.e., individual VXLAN.Ī frame is considered Unknown Unicast by a host if it doesn’t have a corresponding MAC to VTEP IP cached entry. “BUM”), send it to all VTEPs for that given VXLAN. If that MAC address was a Broadcast, Unknown Unicast, or Multicast (a.k.a.When a VM on that host connected to an LS sends a frame addressed to a particular MAC address, figure out VTEP IP address of a host where this destination MAC address resides and.In general, each host running VXLAN needs to be able to do the following two things: Operational considerations for each of the modes.Additional Control Plane function enabled by NSX Controllers (ARP suppression).Traffic replication in the three modes, and how to calculate corresponding overheads.How VXLAN Control Plane information gets to the hosts. ![]() Fundamental VXLAN Control Plane functions, and how they’re implemented in three modes. ![]() Since this topic is a bit large, here’s a brief outline of what we’ll be talking about. In this post, I’m covering how each mode works along with some of those negatives and positives, to hopefully help you can make a better informed choice for your circumstances. None of these is “simply better” than others each has it’s positive and negative sides.
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