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(949 - ) est un courtisan, musicien et poète japonais du milieu de l'époque de Heian. Son père est Fujiwara no Tadatoshi et son grand-père Fujiwara no Saneyori. Il fait partie de la liste des trente-six poètes immortels du Moyen Âge (Chūko Sanjūrokkasen).

Il est nommé Jugoi en 964 et chambellan en 967. En 970 il est fonctionnaire dans la  province d'Ōmi, en 971 il est promu Shōgoi, en 984 shōshii et en 986 chef du kuraryō. Vers 990, il devient jusanmi puis sangi, en 1004 dazaifu de la province de Tsukushi, et en 1012 shōsanmi.

Comme poète waka, il réunit ses poèmes dans une compilation personnelle appelée  et 28 de ses poèmes paraissent dans diverses anthologies impériales dont le Shūi Wakashū. Il est aussi connu comme spécialiste de la flûte.

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Poète japonais
Fujiwara
Naissance en 949
Décès en 1013
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Since 2014, civil society organisations from all regions of the world have committed enormous time and resources to support the vital work of the Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with respect to human rights (OEIGWG). There have been many obstacles in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic that stalled the progress towards the drafting of a Legally Binding Instrument to Regulate in International Human Rights Law, The Activities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises (the Treaty). However, the seventh session of the OEIGWG in 2021 brought hope with its revised third draft, and many civil society organisations longed to see the fourth draft after the substantive textual contributions made last year.
Almost 11 months have passed since the end of the session, and many of the commitments made by the Chair-Rapporteur remain elusive. The failure to fulfil these commitments is a massive blow to the hard work States and civil society have invested over the past seven years in support of the vital work of the OEIGWG. The lack of progress means the people and communities whose daily reality comprises human rights abuses by corporations continue to suffer sustained injustice, while the violators are afforded impunity. People everywhere, especially in the Global South, are prejudiced by the delay – any stalling of the vital work of the OEIGWG is thus unacceptable!
The Chair-Rapporteur, Ecuadorian Ambassador Emilio Izquierdo, issued a letter dated 7 September 2022 in which he set out the reasons behind this delay. The letter confirms Ambassador Izquierdo made efforts to form a regionally-balanced 'Friends of the Chair' forum between February and July 2022. He claimed, however, it was "impossible to confirm the representation of at least one of the regional groups" and later confirmed the regional group which failed to confirm its representation was the African region. The letter notes further that, due to the absence of an African regional representative on the 'Friends of the Chair' forum, no new full revised draft of the Treaty text will be made available in advance of the eighth session of the OEIGWG, and the Chair-Rapporteur shall rather release an "informal contribution" to advance the eighth session discussions.
It is regrettable the failure to release a revised draft of the Treaty in advance of the eighth session is being blamed on the African region. The African region includes the original co-originator of the Resolution which gave rise to the OEIGWG and the drafting process (namely South Africa), and has furthermore consistently been a strong, supportive voice in the drafting process, while African civil society organisations have worked tirelessly to fight against corporate impunity. We remain concerned about this, and have written to both the Chair-Rapporteur and the relevant regional representative in this regard.
Furthermore, it is concerning the Chair-Rapporteur is relying upon delays in convening a sufficiently representative 'Friends of the Chair' forum to delay the drafting process in its entirety. This while the convening of this forum is not a pre-requisite for the progression of the drafting process.
The effect of the delay is that communities everywhere who have resisted and survived the most egregious violations and abuses will continue to go without the necessary binding international legal protection for years to come. The delay also means that a fourth draft will not be available as a basis for negotiation during the eighth session. The negotiations will likely be premised on the Chair's "informal contribution", which is scheduled for release only shortly before the negotiations. It is worth noting that the "informal contribution" consists of only contributions made in real-time to the third draft by states during the 7th session. This means that civil society continues to be excluded from both making substantive changes to the text, and participating in intersessional activities, including those of the 'Friends of the Chair' forum. If the work of the OEIGWG is to continue on this path, the contributions and life-experiences of Indigenous communities, workers, women, people with disabilities, immigrants, transgender persons, and gender non-conforming people, people of African descent, and other historically marginalised sectors of society, will be undermined.
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Update on 13 October 2022: The Chair-Rapporteur of the IGWG responded to the letter on 10 October 2022. That response can be accessed here.
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Interpreters and translators careers have again made it to top careers lists in 2019! Jobs for interpreters and translators are expected to continue growing at a much higher rate than other careers… Total employment in 2016 was 68,200 and that number is projected to grow by 18% to 80,300 by 2026, a rate significantly higher than the national average of 7%.
Linguistic and cultural diversity in the United States, as well as global business, continue to drive a need for professional language services. Interpreters and translators' careers are rewarding, as they are an integral part of providing communication and understanding for businesses, organizations, consumers, clients, and patients.
With the growing need for hihg-quality language services, interpreters and translators continue to top the lists of best jobs this year.
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In 2019, interpreters and translators careers ranked #98 on the 100 Best Jobs of 2019, with an estimated 12,100 new job openings projected between 2016 and 2026.
The annual list of the 100 Best Jobs, from U.S. News and World Report, starts by identifying professions based on jobs data with the largest projected number of openings from 2016 to 2026, as determined by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The jobs on the list are then selected for the 2019 Best Jobs analysis and rankings. Rankings are determined by evaluating the following seven component measures:
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If you are facing unfortunate circumstances and are facing foreclosure, chances are you have received countless letters from investors and have even had some knock on your door offering to buy your house CASH! You've probably asked yourself, "What should I do?" Many sellers are overwhelmed by the circumstances that got them in a tough spot to begin with; The countless offers, investors, and door knockers may be just too much to handle.
Believe it or not, you have many options that you just may not have thought of in your distress. While selling your property may ultimately end up being the best option, not all sales are the same.
You may have investors or wholesalers offer to take your property "Subject-To". What this means for you is that the buyer will take over your payments. While this may sound like an attractive option, seller beware; While the buyer will indeed take over your payments, you as the original mortgagee are still liable for the balance despite no longer being the owner of the property. In short, this is a form of owner financing.
Most experienced investors are ethical and moral, however as with anything there are bad apples in the bunch. A risk you run by selling subject-to without properly vetting the buyer is them simply not making the payments. As I mentioned, you are still liable for the note. Therefore, if they default on the loan, YOU are defaulting on the loan.
The entire reason you decided to go this route is to avoid foreclosure and all of a sudden you are in a worse situation with much less control. While you may be in distress, you should not allow the investor to steer you in a direction that is uncomfortable. Hire a loan servicer that will protect you and the investor by ensuring that all payments are made and made on time.
Selling Sub-to also has potential ramifications for you down the road should you be able to purchase another home or take out a loan. Being that you are still liable for the note, this debt will continue to show on your credit until the note is paid off or refinanced. The buyer typically has no incentive to refinance, therefore you could be holding that debt on your credit for countless years with no real remedy.
Subject-To could be a great option for a homeowner in distress, however the downside could be potentially disastrous.
What in the world does "and/or assigns" mean?
When a buyer places "and/or assigns" into a contract, they are letting you know that they may purchase the property or they may sell the contract to someone else as an assignment of contract.
While there are experienced investors that use "and/or assigns" in their purchase contracts, most investors that use this are typically not interested in purchasing your house.
Worse yet, they are incredibly inexperienced in these complex transactions. I strongly advise you to thoroughly vet the buyer and ensure they have funds to purchase the property. It is OKAY and in your best interest to ask them for a pre-approval letter, Proof of Funds letter, and/or bank statements showing the available funds to purchase your property.
In my time in this industry, I have seen inexperienced investors lock up properties under contract, shop the contract around, and not have the ability to purchase the house. In a situation of distress, time is money. If foreclosure is right around the corner, you need a buyer that will fulfill their end of the contract and not leave you holding the bag with days to remedy an impending foreclosure.
A short sale is a great option for a homeowner that just needs out of a bad situation or is upside down on their current loan. While a wholesaler or rookie investor may walk into your house and tell you the most you will get is an offer way below the mortgage payoff, I have found that most times a seller can get quite a bit more; At times, even satisfying the entire loan balance.
We have discovered that professional investment groups can offer substantially more than a loan wolf or rookie investor, due to their high-efficiency systems and in-house investment teams. On a recent short sale our team processed, a loan wolf/rookie investor had a property under contract for $48,000 LESS THAN the final selling price.
Once our team began to represent the seller and float the property to those professional investment groups we were able to do extraordinary work for our seller. With that $48,000, the seller was able to walk away with some cash in their pocket, a fully satisfied loan balance, and no derogatory marks on their credit history.
While other realty groups and brokerages look out for their investors, our team prides itself on doing what is right for the seller, rather than what is right for the buyer.
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The trek starts from Shutkadi, Sonamarg with normal gradient through lush green meadows. This follows a 5-hour hike through Burj forests of Table Top that gives an aerial view of Sonamarg and Thajwas Ranges. We camp at Nichnai, the valley of wild flowers for an overnight stay.
On the second day we walk through the kaleidoscope of wild flowers and gushing stream. A mild hike follows a steep ascend to Nichnai Vishansar Pass leading us to the Vishansar Valley.
A day-camping at Vishansar Valley, behold the Mount Vishnu standing at the mouth of Kishansar Lake.
On the last day we will trek back to Sonamarg through Nichnai. After a mild ascend till Vishansar Pass we will descend through the Alpine Flower Valley of Nichnai and Sonamarg.


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Дмитрий Александрович Бурлако́в (род. 1972) — российский актёр, телеведущий и режиссёр.

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Дмитрий Бурлаков родился 29 ноября 1972 года в городе Актюбинске. Свой творческий путь начал в Актюбинском областном театре драмы. А в 1990 году поступил на театральный факультет Саратовской государственной консерватории им. Собинова (курс Ермаковой В. А.).

После окончания театрального факультета Дмитрий работал в Саратовском театре драмы, а в 1996 году приехал покорять московских зрителей. Дмитрий работал в театре на Перовской и театре у Никитских ворот, где играл такие роли, как Гриффин в спектакле «Невидимка», а в постановке «История лошади» Дмитрия можно было увидеть в 3-х абсолютно разных ролях: Милый, граф Бобринский, офицер. В 1999 году Дмитрий приходит на кастинг мюзикла «Метро». Роль Платона-заики полюбилась зрителям. В 2002 году Филипп Киркоров привозит в Москву бродвейский мюзикл «Чикаго», в котором Бурлаков играл судью, Фреда Кейсли, Билли Флина. После объявления себя банкротом Филипп Киркоров закрывает мюзикл, но актёры, собравшись вместе, решили не дать «Чикаго» умереть. В мюзикле «Однажды в Чикаго», которой по сегодняшний день идёт в московских театрах, а также успешно гастролирует по городам России и ближнего зарубежья, Дмитрий играет Щедрого Гарри. В разное время озвучивал рекламы, фильмы, в том числе «Чикаго» и «Банды Нью-Йорка».

С 2004 года Дмитрий работает телеведущим программы «Зеркало жизни» на канале ТДК, а с 2007 года — актёром и ведущим передач на канале «Радость моя» («Шишкин Лес» (с 2004 г.), «Доброе слово», «Рассказы о святых», «Сказки и истории», «Добрый день»). В передаче «Сказки и истории» выступает также режиссёром некоторых выпусков.

В 2005 году на экраны выходит художественный фильм «Фартовый», по повести Высоцкого и Манчинского «Чёрная свеча», где Бурлаков играет роль Гарика Кламбоцкого. В 2007 году Дмитрий снимается в сериале «Татьянин день» в роли продюсера Эдуарда. В этом же году у него рождается сын Фёдор.

Творчество

Роли в театре
 «Пчёлка» — принц (Актюбинский областной театр драмы)
 «Фаворит» (В. Пикуль) — Гришка, денщик Потёмкина (Актюбинский областной театр драмы)
 «Саломея» — молодой сириец (дипломный)
 «Герой нашего времени» (М. Лермонтов) — Печорин (дипломный)
 «Любовь к трём апельсинам» — Дзанни (дипломный)
 «Виват, Виктор!» — Дзанни (Саратовский областной театр драмы)
 «Крематор» — сын (Саратовский областной театр драмы)
 «Лес» — Буланов (Театр на Перовской)
 «Муха-Цокатуха» (К. Чуковский) — комарик (Театр на Перовской)
 «Гамбринус» — Яшка (Театр у Никитских ворот)
 «История лошади» — милый, граф Бобринский, офицер (Театр у Никитских ворот)
 «Невидимка» — Гриффин (невидимка) (Театр у Никитских ворот)
 «Пир во время чумы» — Цыган (Театр у Никитских ворот)
 «Золотой тюльпан Фанфана» — солдат, генерал (Театр у Никитских ворот)
 «Метро» (мюзикл) — Платон
 «Чикаго» (мюзикл) — судья, Фред Кейсли, Билли Флин
 «Моя прекрасная Кэт» — бандит
 «Пола Негри» (мюзикл) — Эрнст Любич

Роли в кино
 «Родственный обмен» — водитель Милованова
 «Фартовый» — Гарик Кламбоцкий
 «Красная комната» — друг Николь
 «Шпионские игры» — следователь
 «Татьянин день» — продюсер Эдуард
 «Украсть У» — Паша
 «Звезда империи» — граф Оболенский
 «Бульварное кольцо» — врач скорой помощи
 «Улыбка пересмешника» — Николай Борисович, опер, друг Рудина
 «Условия контракта» — Костя, муж Тани

Работы на телевидении
 «Зеркало жизни» (ТДК), ведущий
 «Шишкин Лес» (телеканал «Радость моя»), ведущий
 «Доброе слово» (телеканал «Радость моя»), ведущий
 «Рассказы о святых» (телеканал «Радость моя»), ведущий
 «Добрый день» (телеканал «Радость моя»), ведущий
 цикл постановочных спектаклей «Сказки и истории» (телеканал «Радость моя»), актёр (Серж Огурцов, Слуга Короля, Следователь, Барон фон Буфон и другие персонажи), режиссёр некоторых выпусков
 телесериал «Усадьба» (телеканал «Радость моя»), режиссёр

Примечания

Выпускники Саратовской театральной школы
Актёры и актрисы Саратовского театра драмы
Персоналии:Саратовский театр драмы
Персоналии:У Никитских ворот
Телеведущие России
Телеведущие канала «Радость моя»


A Universal Basic Income, where everyone receives £500 a month whether they are in work or not, could be piloted in Sheffield.
The city would become the first in England to adopt the concept, which advocates claim is a simpler and fairer alternative to the benefits system, should a trial be approved.
Universal Basic Income would replace traditional means-tested benefits with an unconditional flat rate payment to all citizens, regardless of their circumstances.
A recent trial in Finland suggested it had the potential to improve people's health and happiness without significantly affecting how likely unemployed recipients were to find work, according to analysis by the University of Bath.
Sheffield has taken note, and a meeting and series of workshops are due to be held next month about the prospect of making such a scheme a reality in the city.
A draft proposal will be launched at the same time by UBI LAB: Sheffield, a collaboration of organisations and individuals within the city which are intrigued by the prospect.
Jason Leman, who chairs the group, said: "What the trial in Finland has shown us is that a Universal Basic Income works to improve health and wellbeing, which means people are less of a burden on health services and more likely to be able to contribute.
He described the existing tax and benefits system as a 'maze of paperwork and bureaucracy', and claimed changing the way things work could really benefit the lowest paid, including people on zero-hours contracts.
UBI LAB: Sheffield, whose members include Opus Independents, Centre for Welfare Reform, and University of Sheffield is considering three different models for a trial.
One would simply remove the need for people receiving disability benefits to keep undergoing assessments; another would provide a monthly £130 top-up for all; and a third would entitle everyone to a full basic income of £500 a month, to be funded by increasing income tax.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell last year said the Labour Party was considering including plans for a Universal Basic Income in its next manifesto.
The Star has contacted Sheffield Council, which declined to comment on the proposals.
'Basic Income: How do we get there?' is due to take place at the University of Sheffield's Diamond building on Leavygreave Road on Saturday, March 9, from 11am-4pm.
The event, which will be chaired by Dr Simon Duffy, of Citizens Network, is jointly sponsored by Basic Income UK, Citizens Basic Income Network Scotland, UBI LAB: Sheffield, and the University of Sheffield.


I ate curry donuts of KONNO and 3-biki no Kobuta. They were good.
For lunch I ate curry soba at Marufuku in Obihiro. It was good, too.
I went to Banseikan with my friends. We ate some kinds of meat. Beef, lamb, meat of horse, meat of deer and so on. Other foods were good, too. A menu said Thailand style pizza, which was in fact curry tasted pizza. It was good, too. But one of us were not good at curry. I was so sorry.
I went to Henohenomoheji in Memuro. I ate good foods and drank beer. One of them was naan curry pizza, so good. Others were sashimi (raw fishes), edamame (young beans), dashimaki tamago and so on. My friend was there, next to me. He drank Japanese sake. He is a good guy.


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Q: f#: constant union case tag number Each union case in discriminated union type gets a tag number
type Result<'TSuccess,'TFailure> =
   | Success of 'TSuccess
   | Failure of 'TFailure

let cases = FSharpType.GetUnionCases typedefof<Result<_,_>>
for case in cases do
    case.Tag

From looking at compiled code it's generated by compiler and constant depending on the order of cases. So Success is 0 and Failure is 1.

*

*Is the tag number always generated based on the order? Is this in F# specs?

*Is it possible to provide custom tag number, so that if the order changes or I put another case in the middle, between Success and Failure, their tag numbers don't change?

I'm trying to setup protobuf-net to serialize discriminated union by creating custom type model and adding Success and Failure as sub-types of Result. But for that to work need to specify the for each class, which must remain constant. I was hoping to automate the setup, but would need to be able to have a number relate to each type and for that relatonship to never change. Tag seems to be perfect, if it can be hardcoded in discriminated union definition.

A: So we can just read the spec:

If U has more than one case, it has one CLI nested type U.Tags. The U.Tags type contains one integer literal for each case, in increasing order starting from zero.

(section 8.5.4)
So it seems like you can rely on the order of the elements, but inserting new elements will cause new numbers to be created.

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[SOLVED] Drive Spindowns Affecting Media Playback?
It appears the problem is due to the Dynamix Cache Dirs, which I had installed recently. Removing it and the issue has not surfaced since.
This has been an ongoing irritating issue with my Media Server for some time now; I can't pinpoint when this started happening, whether it was in recent 6.x releases or earlier releases (I don't recall experiencing this issue under v5 and certainly not under v4). Upgrading to a completely brand new system in every single aspect has not resolved the issue. As I watch a movie, every 20 minutes or so the video would freeze for 10-20 seconds. It's almost like clockwork. I have several different media players from different companies so it's not an issue specific to media players (though my Oppo 203 seems to experience this less often; however, it is used only to watch 4K). If I log onto the NAS and spinup all drives, this seems to alleviate the issue for the remainder of the movie. These movies are full copies; no re-encoding so they command a lot of NAS/network traffic when playing. Regarding network, I recently moved so the topology is completely different, with only one switch (16-port rackmount NetGear ProSafe) transferred to new LAN. My drives are set to the default 1 hour spin down delay. I don't believe the issue is with the specific drive the movie is on, but I haven't dug into the logs to see if UnRAID was attempting to spin that drive down, or any other drives. Perhaps it's when UnRAID is attempting to spin another drive down that it unexpectedly causes a problem with other drives. I have the Cache Directories, Auto Fan Control (I no longer need this and will delete), Nerd Tools, VM Wake-On-LAN, and Unassigned Drive plugins. My VMs are currently not running (haven't resolved libvert service error since hardware migration), though they have been in the past. When It happens again, I will try to review the logs at that time. Until then, has anyone else experienced this issue?
Auggie replied to burr's topic in Good Deals!
Is there one molex connector per backplane, or two? The version with one is the newer with which the system I have had to have the pins taped. If you have the single, what HBA's are you using?
I got it all sorted out so this is to provide closure and hopefully help anyone else who expereinces similar networking issues. By default, UnRAID automatically activates and uses the first network interface it comes across, which may not be the physical first one (i.e. eth0, which is the case on my SuperMicro X9 board as UnRAID selected eth1 as the default), regardless of which port is physically connected to the LAN. All other network interfaces are then automatically set to inactive (shutdown). Since I didn't know the physical port order on the 2-port IBM NIC, I had plugged the ethernet cable to the most convenient one at the time of initial setup, which happened to be port 2 (eth1), which was the port closest to the motherboard PCIe slots. This caused all the problems I had experienced with no IP assignments and thus no network connectivity other than through the dedicated IPMI port. During my back and forth testing, I had by chance reconnected the ethernet cable to the other port (port 1 or eth0) when I had installed the trial UnRAID stick. This is why UnRAID network connectivity had become fully functional under that system, which I had initially attributed it to some configuration setting difference between my registered UnRAID stick and the trial; that was not the case here. It's all due to how UnRAID detects, enables, and disables the network ports it discovers. My recommended procedure for handling a new system and/or new NIC with multiple ports is to boot UnRAID into GUI mode (I had never before used the console GUI as all my UnRAID servers are headless) to determine which port had been assigned the default network port, and if it's currently active. If not, you can either switch the cable to the actively assigned port, or manually enable and assign the port you wish to use on the Network Settings page.
Most of the Easystore/My Book drives are "white label" Red drives and may need pins 1-3 taped to disable the SATA 3.2+ spec Power Disable (PWDIS) function in order for most motherboards to recognize them through their SATA ports, both onboard and HBAs. The current anecdotal evidence, and my own experience, shows the 10TB Easystore's are presently assembled with white label WD100EMAX drives which have this PWDIS feature. On my SuperMicro X7 and X9 boards with a mix of SAS2LPs, 9211-8i's, and M1015 HBA's in Norco RPC-4224 chassis, I've had to tape the pins for these newer-spec'd drives. I just got my new X11 system up and running with a Chenbro RM43348 chassis and I went ahead and taped the WD100EMAZ pins but I haven't tested whether it needs it or not.
Well, I was able to "disable" via BIOS, but I still can't seem to get UnRAID to recognize the PCI NIC now there doesn't appear to be any Ethernet NIC's available on UnRAID. The problem is that since I can't get a network-assigned IP address, I can't access UnRAID's web GUI from anywhere on the network. I can't figure out how to pause the scrolling in the small window of the SuperMicro mobo's iKVM/HTML5 screen so there's no way I can see what was scrolled out of view. I tried the Java-based console redirection but continually get errors getting the screen working. But regardless, I don't think being IBM-branded should be problematic; it's still an Intel-chipped dual-RJ45 Pro/1000 NIC. So at this time, I'm dead in the water as I just can't access unRAID's GUI nor can I effectively use the "console" as I can't pause the scrolling of pertinent information before it disappears.
I know in the past that UnRAID always used the first onboard NIC it came across with no option to select any other onboard or PCI NIC. Has this changed with the current version of UnRAID? I'm in the last steps of transitioning to my new SuperMicro X11SPH-nCTPF build, but since it has a pair of SFP+ 10Gb and I haven't yet upgraded my network to 10Gb, I'm trying to use a PCI 1G-BaseT NIC and haven't been able to get UnRAID to default to it as there is no way to disable the onboard NICs via BIOS or other means. Also, I'm not sure if the IBM Intel Pro/1000 39Y6127/39Y6128 NIC is even being recognized at all if I read the lspci list correctly (I'm a real noob at this command). So, two questions: 1) How do I set up UnRAID to use a specific NIC? I came across a few threads which mentioned "stub" but those were way too technical and lacked in a "layman's" step-by-step approach that I could follow. 2) What are some UnRAID "friendly" (i.e. plug-n-play) NICs I could select from, if the one I got isn't compatible?
I bit the bullet and did the long route. I just didn't want to spend another 48 hours or more building parity then rebuilding drive, but it's the safest bet.
Yea, the data rebuild finished with massive errors; I didn't know anything was wrong until I got home and the rebuild was completed. Before I left, I had been checking in on it all day and it had less than 2TB left to go in rebuilding from 4TB to 6TB and there were zero errors at the time. I'm just going to reinstall the original 4TB and rebuild the parity disk itself. Can't wait to migrate this server to the new Chenbro case with new SM X11 board. This current RPC4224 case with that broken SAS backplane has always given me fits since day one.
In my ongoing saga, a cable got disconnected (actually, it's the metal cage on the SAS backplane that holds the SAS cable in place that's partially broken off so it no longer securely locks the cable in place) during a disk replacement data rebuild. After resecuring the cable, I ran a parity check (no write corrections) and now its coming across sync errors but the log shows very generic entries, an example of which: Oct 15 09:05:16 UnRAID kernel: md: recovery thread: P incorrect, sector=9344918184 I don't know which disks these errors are being detected on or if it's on the parity disk itself so my question: How do I rebuild the replacement drive correctly? Should I reinstall the original drive and do a parity rebuild of the parity drive, then once successfully completed, reinstall the replacement drive? Or is there another way I could just restart the data rebuild? I really need to know which drive(s) the sync errors are occuring on as I want to make sure it's only on the replacement drive itself. All other data drives should be fine and parity drive should be accurate as I rebuilt it from scratch a few days ago after my previouis SNAFU.
I figured however the limit was established, many of the dependent routines were coded with that limit in mind and that changes to the limit would necessitate a cascading affect in order to support the new limits. Ergo, not a simple task.


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Back to Boobs...
I was incredulous when I found this personal journal by
"Marianne" of California, who describes in vivid detail how she
got her "B.A." --breast augmentation surgery -- through-the-navel blow-up
boobs, in fact, acronym'd TUBA-- and there's lots more at this site.
I remember looking at photos on the Internet and in magazines constantly to determine my desired size, look, etc. I knew I wanted to be a full DD and I really wanted to have breasts like Pamela Anderson. So I of course took pics of her perfect boobs. I wanted fake, round, stuck on, in your face BOOBS! I wanted them to stick straight up when I laid down...
Get your "Yes, They're Fake" merchandise right here, folks.
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From BoingBoing Blog's Mark Frauenfelder, comes this
intriguing stuff about Dr. Atkin's death report -- whose low carb diet is really
high protein-high fat --How can that be good for you, really?
Still, there is some mystery to it all --
Today, I sent an email to the Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), the non-profit organization that gave Dr. Atkins' death report to the Wall Street Journal. The PCRM promotes a vegan diet, so they obviously don't like the Atkins' diet, which is almost impossible to follow as a vegan.
A group called the Center for Consumer Freedom, a non-profit supported by restaurants and food companies that sell meat and junk food (and are therefore natural enemies of the PCRM), loves to issue press releases calling the PCRM a "phony" organization. It's doubtful that either group delivers the unvarnished truth, but on Tuesday the CCF issued a press release claiming that:
The late Dr. Robert Atkins is being smeared for his alleged obesity at the time of his death, by a phony doctors organization that has been exposed as a front group for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and has been censured by the American Medical Association (AMA).
The AMA has formally censured PCRM in the past, calling its recommendations "irresponsible" and "potentially dangerous to the health and welfare of Americans." The AMA has also called PCRM a "fringe organization" that uses "unethical tactics" and is "interested in perverting medical science."
Dr. Stuart Trager MD, chairman of the Atkins Physicians Council ... release this morning reads in part: "Due to water retention ... [Atkins] had a weight that varied between 180 and 195. During his coma, as he deteriorated and his major organs failed, fluid retention and bloating dramatically distorted his body and left him at 258 pounds at the time of his death, a documented weight gain of over 60 pounds."
9/11 Miscellany from What Matters:
1. The World is ensnared by the word 'terrorism'
2 a. b. c. Larry Silverstein - a crook?
3. Former German Defense Minister speaks out
4. Last Post from Dick Eastman, who gave his all
This is some new material - interesting perspective from across the pond--
WHAT MATTERS-165_ 9-11 Miscellany.eml
All bets are off in Sandoval County (where I live) with regard to gay
marriages too...The County Clerk, Victoria Dunlap, announced on
Thursday that Sandoval County would grant marriage licenses to
same-sex couples...and the next day, over 60 licenses were granted,
mostly to female couples - marriages were arranged immediately,many happy people celebrated!
- then the Governor and the Attorney General nixed the whole deal! Said it was all illegal, after all!
These people are insane, why do they
even care? It's baffling to me.
I am incredulous that Bush is calling for a
constitutional amendment to ban same-sex unions --
that will NOT help his campaign, I wouldn't think.
He should just keep his mouth shut about it!
This country is getting so polarized, every issue adds to the divide.
On a lighter note -- My dearest friend from waaaaaay back, Steve Cadwell
married Joe Levine--his partner for 15 years, co-parents of an 11 yr. old adopted
Guatemalan child, Isaac --in the town Stevie grew up in,
Rutland, Vermont on October 4-- in one of the first civil unions sanctioned by state law.
Steve sent me a gleeful poem he wrote, as a toast --
On the Occasion of the Freedom to Marry Coalitions' Sold out Dinner;
The Park Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts 2/14/04 Saint Valentine's Day
a brief intro of the courses, such as....
Mother's Goosed Rhyme over Cocktails
Merry Mary to Marry Sherry!
Why's that so contrary?
Why does the right's anger grow?
Are they empty Cuckolded Shells?
Deaf to Civil Wedding Bells?
And oh! The Religious Wrong makes such a Row!
Appetizer:
Warmed basket of tender mixed gender rolls .
Black woman's wet eyes glory gleam
To join white gay man's deepest dream.
We do overcome. We are overcome.
Salacious Salad Course (( off the record ))
First Course; Pasta Futura
Step past Time. Step past Time.
Marry! Popping out all over.
West Side Story's happy ending:
Jets snap up Sharks in a mass wedding.
First comes love,
Then comes marriage
Justice doesn't come to more miscarriage.
Halls don't come tumbling down: Walls do.
Main DisssCourse
Which wicked which is dead?
Bate and hate and switch,
that angry itch, is dead.
Oh, land of yellow brick road-kill,
Redeem your freedom still.
Oz's new causes:
Harriet to marry Juliet.
....to
Clearing the palate and the table:
Groundhog wakes early to shadow moon.
Plate Planets line up and laugh to see such sport.
Fork runs away with Fork. Spoon spoons Spoon.
....LOL!
Mazel Tov to Steve and Joe - and to all the ladies
we love so well, Aqui en Sandoval!
Nuances of gay identities reflected in new language
This is all very interesting -
'Homosexual' is passé in a 'boi's' life: "First, there was the term 'homosexual,' then 'gay' and 'lesbian,' then the once taboo 'dyke' and 'queer.'
Now, all bets are off." — San Francisco Chronicle
This new vernacular for genderfying is fascinating stuff:
What it all means Definitions of many words in the gay lexicon are hotly contested. Here is a sample:
Genderqueer: Someone who views the gender options as more than just male and female or who doesn't fit into the binary male-female system.
Transgender: An umbrella term for transgression of the binary gender system. May include surgical, hormonal or nonhormonal changes that result in a gender identity different from the one assigned at birth.
Pansexual: Someone attracted to people of multiple genders.
Trannydyke: A transgender person attracted to people with a more feminine gender.
Trannyfag: A transgender person attracted to people with a more masculine gender.
Boi: A boyish gay guy or a biological female with a boyish presentation.
Heteroflexible: A straight person with a queer mind-set.
E-mail Rona Marech at rmarech@sfchronicle.com.
Top of the Hill - a day in February
Mad Cow!
Lolly was a vegetarian...I am an omnivore, and I try not to give all that much thought to the bigger questions of what I am eating.
Now I am reading more about this Mad cow disease - BSE -bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and the fact that it is many diseases at once....CJD-
Cruetzfeld Jacob disease -- and CWD - chronic wasting disease -- and scabie, the same thing in ovine as bovine...hmmmm....20:20 hindsight!
I am thinking more about this .... More about prions - more about cannalistic feeding -- more about
the FDA covering up this whole story....Whew!
Now please, you must immediately go to look at this Flash movie: The Meatrix
From Boingboing.net: This website is by a man who claims to have slaughtered the mad cow. He says the cow was not a downer as claimed by the USDA.
WE WERE ONLY TESTING DOWNERS FOR BSE. NO MORE DOWNERS MEANS NO MORE BSE TESTING. PERIOD. We tested that big white walker because she was mixed in with the downers. Mad cows are not downers they are up and they are crazy. The USDA started testing downers because they didn't think they would find any BSE cows in that mess. They could then say to the consumer we've been testing and we haven't found anything. EAT YOUR MEAT. BUY BEEF. IT'S SAFELink
They are not testing the cows, because it would blow the lid off this story--
From Newswise_
Krull, a strong advocate for mad cow disease testing of all slaughtered cows intended for market, suggests the U.S. follow the lead of countries such as England and Japan. England, in response to their mad cow disease epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s, instates mandatory testing of all slaughtered cows intended for market, keep detailed records of all cows within their borders, and banned the use of all ruminant feed. Currently the U.S. and Canada lag on all accounts, says Krull.
"It's disturbing that, even with a confirmed case of mad cow disease, slaughtered cows are not tested before they are sent to market," said Krull. The United States Department of Agriculture tests approximately .03 percent of U.S. slaughtered cattle for mad cow disease in their random spot tests.
Testing of all cattle as part of the USDA's regular procedure, according to Krull, the cost of adding such testing is minimal, between $20 to $25 per cow, which translates into about six cents per pound of beef. Krull says the issue of testing for mad cow disease is highly political. The more cattle tested, the more likely it is that some will be found with mad cow disease. "They don't want to find it," says Krull. "The USDA really should be funding this like crazy, but they're not."
This is Your Brain on Beef
Madcow.org brings us the Thomas Pringle interview which will make you think twice or three times! about eating beef--by which I refer to factory-farm supermarket beef, part of an industry that hasused cannabilistic practices to feed calves blood and by-products, which is so disgusting.
And of course no one wants to know about this. Least of all me.
From Dr. Pringle's interview:
Brandan Kearney: I mentioned something about mad cow disease to a friend, and she said "Isn't that just some sort of conspiracy theory?" I also know people who refuse to visit your site because they don't want to be upset. One might argue that the United States doesn't need to censor information, because we're prone not to believe things when we hear them, or we choose to tune them out entirely.
Dr. Thomas Pringle: Good observation. This is the golden age of denial and avoidance... something like twenty percent of adults are on Prozac, and a lot of the others wallow in TV.
Brandan Kearney: Still, you mentioned that the site got seventeen-thousand hits one week; obviously people are using it to educate themselves. Could you discuss the beneficial effects of your site - the most gratifying, concrete results you've seen?
Dr. Thomas Pringle: The way it works is indirect and ungratifying. While there have been two-hundred-thousand visits from .gov from fifty-seven countries (they need to stay informed), only a handful provide direct links to us from their own TSE pages. It is a control-of-information issue for them; governments are used to controlling and spinning information. The press goes along with this to an alarming degree. Thus the Web threw their system into chaos. People who actually knew something now owned a printing press and had free perpetual distribution.
This disease is an inherently difficult topic. All power ultimately arises from content. Governments can be driven into information oblivion. Content rules.
However, governments are very reluctant to acknowledge an information alternative to themselves, because this cedes power. And so while I was quoted in two London papers and the New York Times yesterday on different subjects, only the Times identified me. And when a long-advocated, no-brainer policy comes about, such as today's end of cannibalistic feeding in the UK, it is their own thinking.
It is all compounded in this particular disease, indeed driven, by huge economic stakes in two megabuck industries: medical (blood, surgery) and livestock. Most government agencies -- e.g., the FDA or CDC -- were captured long ago by the industries they were supposed to regulate, and were reduced to towel boys.
Scientists are very similar to government; they are not accustomed to the rapid-publication aspect of the Web. Again, it is all about control. They are up the creek.
Meet the Prez
From On Lisa Rein's Radar - here is a hilarious
short clip on video from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
reporting on the Tim Russert interview on Meet the Press
with none other than our Commander in Chief - George W!
It is so funny, don't miss it. Download it now!
All about breasts
The odd thing was we had spent the day talking about breasts!
Ironically, a very dear friend was staying with us to go for surgery
Monday morning, after Super Bowl Sunday, to get her 30-yr problematic
breast implants removed from her body. She was to do so because
she had ruptured an implant somehow, and it was abcessed and
leaking.
Her long career as a slim, shapely woman was over - she
would return to "ironing-board flat" as a crone, grateful to get
those things out before they blew up and killed her.
We talked about breasts - how they were a symbol of fitting in to
society's mold of perfection. She was childless - hers were merely
ornamental. I had nursed three children over ten years, long and hard.
I am grateful for my skin, my glandulars never mammogrammed, they're
real and they're... well,you know!?
(...Ariana had told me that the muscles which hold the breasts high are
"Cooper's" and that the years lead to a condition known as "Cooper's
Droop"!)
Visiting the surgeon who would remove the implants, she heard him
talking to a young woman through the wall, waiting in an examination
room--
Girl: "Oh I would like to be a C, well surely not a D, that wouldn't be
right...I don't want to be a tease, you know, but just a B, or maybe a C...not a D..."
Doctor: "You have the choice, you can be any size you would like. Many
women choose to be a D."
Girl: "Really, well, I guess I could be a C, or even a D. Are they safe?"
Doctor: "Of course they are perfectly safe. Less than 1% have problems
with the modern breast augmentation implants."
She hears this through the thin walls. The surgery is successful.
She is now an A-minus.
On the subject of breast cancer - I ask you to read this article by
Harriet Beinfield, posted at Health World Online -
Revisiting Accepted Wisdom in the Management of Breast Cancer --
here is a brief abstract--
Misconceptions and illusions prevail in the management of breast cancer. Historical review reminds us that medical practice is commonly rooted in tradition rather than proof: The Halsted mastectomy inadvertently served the burgeoning profession of surgery in the early 20th century more than it has benefited women with breast cancer, yet 100 years later the operation continues to thrive. Despite evidence that mastectomy, radiation following lumpectomy, axillary node dissection, or intensive follow-up surveillance have little impact on survival, these practices are adhered to tenaciously. The extent to which current treatment for breast cancer succeeds in prolonging life remains open to question. Many accepted ideas and interventions are perilously disconnected from their true merit. The imperative for doctors to do something sometimes contradicts their pledge to do no harm. Reflection on what is known should guide future action. (Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. 1997; 3(5):35-53)
...from the article:
Poet Lucille Cliftons writes:
we are running
running and
time is clocking us
from the edge like an only
daughter.
our mothers stream before us,
cradling their breasts in their
oh pray that what we want
is worth this running,
pray that what we're running
toward
is what we want
(this article thanks to Lolly Simkins Daniels)
Navigation Notes -
If you are looking for Harold Joe Waldrum's obituary,
it is posted at this page -- on January 7, 2004.
For a fabulous photoblog, check out Capturing Light -
this photo of the Savannah Bridge is especially amazing.
Skid - Proof Grass in front of The Pentagon --
Introducing - The Amazing Penta-Lawn 2000!
This is the story by D. Grant Haynes on Online Journal that says it all - everything -
A mammary gland is a mammary gland, but 10,000 dead Iraqi civilians is a war crime
By D. Grant Haynes
Online Journal Contributing Writer
February 5, 2004—The inanity, the puritanical hypocrisy, the blindness to significant realities, the mass stupidity that characterize—indeed, that are—America are all encapsulated in the brouhaha now raging over the partial exposure of one of performer Janet Jackson's breasts during Super Bowl 2004's halftime extravaganza February 1.
After refusing to lend Super Bowl airing to a MoveOn.org-produced 30-second spot critical of George W. Bush's performance as president, CBS News crawled, groveled and apologized for more than 24 hours because viewers of the Super Bowl halftime show may have caught a glimpse of one of Jackson's breasts when co-singer Justin Timberlake intentionally pulled her scant outfit down a bit in a planned finale as he sang, "I'm gonna have you naked by the end of this song."
"CBS deeply regrets the incident that occurred during the Super Bowl halftime show. We attended all rehearsals throughout the week and there was no indication that any such thing would happen. The moment did not conform to CBS broadcast standards, and we would like to apologize to anyone who was offended," CBS offered by way of a quick apology.
And there is more insanity.
Secretary of Defense Colin Powell's rotund son, Michael Powell, head of the Federal Communications Commission, promised a federal investigation of the nipple incident, according to AP.
"Federal Communications Commission chief Michael Powell said in a statement, 'Like millions of Americans, my family and I gathered around the television for a celebration. Instead, that celebration was tainted by a classless, crass and deplorable stunt.' He promised an investigation . . ."
A federal investigation, folks.
And even the National Football League—prime purveyors of violence and animality at all times—had to apologize to America's Christian families, saying the NFL was "extremely disappointed" in Jackson's performance.
All of this feigned outrage from these unlikely hypocrites over a harmless attention-seeking stunt of a few second's duration executed by a mass media icon notorious for such actions.
By way of inexplicable contrast, I read of no outrage being expressed by any of these individuals or groups about CBS's cowardice in pulling the MoveOn.org ad.
Nor did I read of an apology from CBS that they lacked the courage and fairness to run the ad criticizing Bush for his role in destroying the economic viability of one nation and the very infrastructure of two other nations in his three years of miscreant misrule in an office he never won.
Nor did I read or hear of any outrage from these self-righteous Americans so shocked and indignant at the sight of a woman's breast that their tax dollars have been used to murder up to 10,000 Iraqi civilians in an immoral war of conquest—a war whose WMD justification has been universally exposed as a bald-faced lie that was peddled repeatedly by Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Indeed, there has been no moral outrage from staid and uptight sorts of John Ashcroft's stripe who blanch white and faint away at the sight of a human female's breast, (even a sexagenarian bronze one), but who were happy to see their nation launch an unprovoked shock and awe blitzkrieg on Baghdad last March that killed thousands in a few hours.
Where is the moral outrage at this nation's morally reprehensible record among these so-called morally upright individuals?
Sadly and deplorably, there is none.
Baring a woman's breast or viewing a woman's breast is not a sin and is hardly a newsworthy event. Ms. Jackson's publicity stunt deserved minimal attention at best, but has received non-stop major coverage.
On the other hand, murdering up to 10,000 innocent Iraqi civilians in a brutal military campaign of imperialistic aggression that continues to lack any justification whatsoever was and is a crime against humanity that should receive wide and continuing exposure, until the perpetrators are brought before an international war crimes tribunal at The Hague.
But there is only silence among the media in these matters, as they remain transfixed by what they see as a truly important news story: Janet Jackson's nipple.
The skewed value system of this sick nation of puritanical hypocrites causes me nausea on a daily basis.
I suppose I'll weigh in on the breastular controversy
that's raging -- Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction.
Her performance was about the only few minutes I actually
watched of the Super Bowl, since the Bushin30seconds
ad from MoveOn.Org was censored by CBS, and anyway
I was making dinner, as per usual for Stupor Bowl Sunday...
a "retail holiday" invented to boost sales between Xmas
and Valentine's Day...
...And true to form, it was a marketing blitzkreig, aimed at the
male adolescent and post-adolescent men in need of medical miracles.
Let's not forget, the pubescent-adolescent female American Barbie-Beyon'Ces
got an education in what it means to be a woman in this culture: what this is all
about -- primarily, breasts.
Breasts. Butts. Bruisin boobs. Bumpin...bitchin...a'busin,
stripping rubber bustiers...submissive jiving gyrating grabbing...
the tearing away, revealing the hard metal biting-back of ...
the Breast... the Beast!
This is the breast of a warrior who has lost the war.
Lost it!
This is not the nurturing breast of mother, the sweet giver of life.
This is not the beautiful breast of the mother who loves you,
or the tender breast of a lover, who shares her exquisite secrets with you.
This is the pointy weapon of repressed female sexuality and its
destructive power, long kept in check by physical domination,
abuse, fear and pain, which emerges as an icon of that pain, that
humiliation, thrown to the public in a performance that combines
black leather Nazi-style sexual displays with the preachy
power of commercialized Patriotism!
The Flag, held high, amidst all this black, ritualized dance of pain
and forbidden nightmares.
Onward to the Moon, to Mars, with the Flag and the righteousness
of our penetration and crusade.
We can shoot you from the moon!
What is pornography, if not this horrific flauntation of Sado-masochistic
patriotism? What, a surgically-enhanced, hub-capped protuberance of
semi-feminine forbidden flesh, aimed at the bored and frustrated audience of
130 million football fans, in a stunning instant of wardrobe malfunction?
Surely a flash of flesh is not pornographic - but patriotic sadism is tragically
acceptable when delivered by mass media to millions.
What is defined as obscene - a bronze be-jewelled mammary -- or the fact that
500+ of our country's brave men and women - our children!- have been lost
in a sorrowful battle that need not have been waged....Lost! They are gone
forever, without a mention on the fields of "glory "--The Super Bowl--Not even
a word about them , let alone the tens of thousands of innocent Iraqui women
and men and children, lost to "shock n awe" and that's just another pyrotechnics
show --to them, who would faint dead away at the sight of a woman's unclothed,
innocent, beautiful, bare breast. It is obscene, the culture that fears a woman's
power, and doesn't even bother to honor its own war dead or the millions
injured for the sake of these hyprocites.
I reallly didn't even watch much of the "show " -- the biggest holiday of the year--
I am merely passing on impressions based on
fleeting glimpses. The commercialization of the media and our public life
we have endured so long has become overpowering,so much that it
isn't funny anymore. The whole world is sold, bought and sold, logo'ed
and delivered to the consumer, whose fickle fancy will not float the boat
forever. Whose children, and whose grandchildren, trying to understand this
great mystery --sex and power, ownership and slavery, pain and pleasure --
will pay with their own lives when the note comes due.
New Wal-Mart Site
Is this the Red Planet? It could be Corrales--LOL!


To take IAEMP forward the New team has formed some committees--- Liaisoning Committee, Membership Committee, Advocacy Committee, Student Activity Committee, Technical Programs Committee, and A Committee for Events and Expos.
With a lot of new blood infused IAEMP is going to make a Quantum jump in its activities and I request all the inducted members to get into action and progress individually along with the Association. I sincerely greet the new Council and the Governing Body headed by the new President Shri Pradeep ji and offer to extend all help from my side.
IAEMP prepared a Vision Document for our "Mission-2022".


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[![Releases](https://img.shields.io/github/release/PX4/Firmware.svg)](https://github.com/PX4/Firmware/releases) [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/22634/PX4/Firmware.svg)](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/22634/PX4/Firmware)

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[![Slack](https://px4-slack.herokuapp.com/badge.svg)](http://slack.px4.io)

This repository holds the [PX4](http://px4.io) flight control solution for drones, with the main applications located in the [src/modules](https://github.com/PX4/Firmware/tree/master/src/modules) directory. It also contains the PX4 Drone Middleware Platform, which provides drivers and middleware to run drones.

* Official Website: http://px4.io (License: BSD 3-clause, [LICENSE](https://github.com/PX4/Firmware/blob/master/LICENSE))
* [Supported airframes](https://docs.px4.io/en/airframes/airframe_reference.html) ([portfolio](http://px4.io/#airframes)):
  * [Multicopters](https://docs.px4.io/en/airframes/airframe_reference.html#copter)
  * [Fixed wing](https://docs.px4.io/en/airframes/airframe_reference.html#plane)
  * [VTOL](https://docs.px4.io/en/airframes/airframe_reference.html#vtol)
  * many more experimental types (Rovers, Blimps, Boats, Submarines, etc)
* Releases: [Downloads](https://github.com/PX4/Firmware/releases)

## PX4 Users

The [PX4 User Guide](https://docs.px4.io/en/) explains how to assemble [supported vehicles](https://docs.px4.io/en/airframes/airframe_reference.html) and fly drones with PX4.
See the [forum and chat](https://docs.px4.io/en/#support) if you need help!

## PX4 Developers

This [Developer Guide](https://dev.px4.io/) is for software developers who want to modify the flight stack and middleware (e.g. to add new flight modes), hardware integrators who want to support new flight controller boards and peripherals, and anyone who wants to get PX4 working on a new (unsupported) airframe/vehicle.

Developers should read the [Guide for Contributions](https://dev.px4.io/en/contribute/).
See the [forum and chat](https://dev.px4.io/en/#support) if you need help!

### Weekly Dev Call

The PX4 Dev Team syncs up on a [weekly dev call](https://dev.px4.io/en/contribute/#dev_call).

> **Note** The dev call is open to all interested developers (not just the core dev team). This is a great opportunity to meet the team and contribute to the ongoing development of the platform. It includes a QA session for newcomers. All regular calls are listed in the [Dronecode calendar](https://www.dronecode.org/calendar/).

## Maintenance Team

  * Project: Founder - [Lorenz Meier](https://github.com/LorenzMeier), Architecture: [Daniel Agar](https://github.com/dagar)
    * [Dev Call](https://github.com/PX4/Firmware/labels/devcall) - [Ramon Roche](https://github.com/mrpollo)
  * Communication Architecture
    * [Beat Kueng](https://github.com/bkueng)
    * [Julian Oes](https://github.com/JulianOes)
  * UI in QGroundControl
    * [Gus Grubba](https://github.com/dogmaphobic)
  * [Multicopter Flight Control](https://github.com/PX4/Firmware/labels/multicopter)
    * [Mathieu Bresciani](https://github.com/bresch)
  * [Multicopter Software Architecture](https://github.com/PX4/Firmware/labels/multicopter)
    * [Matthias Grob](https://github.com/MaEtUgR)
  * [VTOL Flight Control](https://github.com/PX4/Firmware/labels/vtol)
    * [Roman Bapst](https://github.com/RomanBapst)
  * [Fixed Wing Flight Control](https://github.com/PX4/Firmware/labels/fixedwing)
    * [Roman Bapst](https://github.com/RomanBapst)
  * OS / NuttX [David Sidrane](https://github.com/davids5)
  * Driver Architecture [Daniel Agar](https://github.com/dagar)
  * Commander Architecture [Julian Oes](https://github.com/julianoes)
  * [UAVCAN](https://github.com/PX4/Firmware/labels/uavcan) [Daniel Agar](https://github.com/dagar)
  * [State Estimation](https://github.com/PX4/Firmware/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22state+estimation%22) - [Paul Riseborough](https://github.com/priseborough)
  * Vision based navigation
    * [Julian Kent](https://github.com/jkflying)
  * Obstacle Avoidance - [Martina Rivizzigno](https://github.com/mrivi)
  * RTPS/ROS2 Interface - [Nuno Marques](https://github.com/TSC21)

See also [About Us](http://px4.io/about-us/#development_team) (px4.io) and the [contributors list](https://github.com/PX4/Firmware/graphs/contributors) (Github).

## Supported Hardware

This repository contains code supporting these boards:
  * [Snapdragon Flight](https://docs.px4.io/en/flight_controller/snapdragon_flight.html)
  * [Intel Aero](https://docs.px4.io/en/flight_controller/intel_aero.html)
  * [Raspberry PI with Navio 2](https://docs.px4.io/en/flight_controller/raspberry_pi_navio2.html)
  * [Parrot Bebop 2](https://dev.px4.io/en/advanced/parrot_bebop.html)
  * FMUv2
    * [Pixhawk](https://docs.px4.io/en/flight_controller/pixhawk.html)
    * [Pixhawk Mini](https://docs.px4.io/en/flight_controller/pixhawk_mini.html)
    * [Pixfalcon](https://docs.px4.io/en/flight_controller/pixfalcon.html)
  * FMUv3 [Pixhawk 2](https://docs.px4.io/en/flight_controller/pixhawk-2.html)
  * FMUv4
    * [Pixracer](https://docs.px4.io/en/flight_controller/pixracer.html)
    * [Pixhawk 3 Pro](https://docs.px4.io/en/flight_controller/pixhawk3_pro.html)
  * FMUv5 (ARM Cortex M7)
    * [Pixhawk 4](https://docs.px4.io/en/flight_controller/pixhawk4.html)
    * [Pixhawk 4 mini](https://docs.px4.io/en/flight_controller/pixhawk4_mini.html)
  * [Airmind MindPX V2.8](http://www.mindpx.net/assets/accessories/UserGuide_MindPX.pdf)
  * [Airmind MindRacer V1.2](http://mindpx.net/assets/accessories/mindracer_user_guide_v1.2.pdf)
  * [Bitcraze Crazyflie 2.0](https://docs.px4.io/en/flight_controller/crazyflie2.html)

Additional information about supported hardware can be found in [PX4 user Guide > Autopilot Hardware](https://docs.px4.io/en/flight_controller/).

## Project Roadmap

A high level project roadmap is available [here](https://www.dronecode.org/roadmap/).

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Q: In C, check for the offset in a character string and count the number of bytes Further help on my assignment I asked about earlier. After reading a character string from stdin, it checks for any non-ascii characters. Any it finds will display it's value in hexadecimal and the zero offset. I got it to display the hexadecimal just fine, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to display the offset. This is my current code for it as of asking this question, showing only the relevant lines.
#define MASK 0x80

auto int inChar;

if ((inChar & MASK) == MASK)
{
    printf("NON-ASCII INPUT: %x detected at offset %#x \n", inChar, inChar);
    nonascii = 1;
}

There is another thing I need help with, hopefully this will be easier to answer though. If the line read has nothing but ASCII, it is to write out as such and display the total number of bytes read. I know how to do this with integers and multiplication by simply counting the number of times a do while is done, but the professor seems to want us to do it in a more direct manner.
This is my code for that as of writing.
if (nonascii == 0)
    printf("The input stream was pure ASCII with a total of %d bytes read", (numBytes &= inChar));

Much thanks to those who help me with this.

A: inChar contains the value of the character read; it does not carry information about where in the string the character is, therefore it is not possible to figure out the offset from this variable.
The place to look at is wherever you fill inChar with the current character; unfortunately, we do not see that part of the code. Most likely, at that point, you are extracting the value from a certain index in the string and you should just use the same index variable for displaying the offset. Another possibility is that you are extracting the value from the string by moving a pointer within the string. In that case, the way to extract the offset is by using pointer arithmetic: say that you have pointer string that points to the beginning of the string and stringIter that points at the currently processed character, then looking at how far the pointers are from each other will tell you your offset in the string: stringIter - string.

A: inChar is a character, not an offset.  Offset means the array index of where the character was found in the string, and you should probably print it as decimal using the %d formatter.
The simplest way to display a string's length is with the strlen() function.  But if you're not allowed to use that, then the length of the string is the array index + 1 when you fall out of the loop.


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The 8 Best NFT Projects to follow and invest in 2022
May 30, 2022 May 18, 2022 by Ema Smith
The world of crypto investing can be daunting. There are so many platforms and new projects popping up every day that it's hard to figure out which ones are legit and which ones are not. Don't worry, I've got you covered with my list of the top 8 best nft projects to follow and invest in 2022! The next 5 years will be full of amazing opportunities, so let's get started!
1: CryptoKitties
CryptoKitties, launched in late 2017, was a sensation. And it's not just because it's one of only a few games based on blockchain technology; CryptoKitties is a one of the best nft projects.
digital tokens that have real value — they can be bought, sold, or traded. If you wish to invest in NFTs, then right now is an as good time to invest in a crypto project like CryptoKitties.
You won't see great returns on individual kitties since their value depends on scarcity — but if you put your money into several different kinds of kitties you could see gains over time. So if you are investing your money in different kitties then it can reduce your scarcity.
2: CryptoPunks
An ERC721 non-fungible token, CryptoPunks has gained nearly $1.5M market cap at times. The challenge is creating a unique punk that other people find appealing for purchase. Learn more about CryptoPunks here. also a well known NFT projects.
In 1996, game developer Mike Merrill came up with an idea for CryptoPunks — a decentralized network of cartoon characters.
Each was unique and only one was ever minted. Some had funny names like UniBanker or Phish Fan while others were totally random (like Bacon Bits). And you couldn't just create one, either — if CryptoPunks existed today, they could only be created using Ethereum smart contracts. After they were made, no more copies could be produced or distributed.
If someone else wanted a CryptoPunk, they'd have to buy it from you or find their own digital artist in order to make a new one. So what does all that mean? Basically, each CryptoPunk is 100% owned by its owner. There are no middlemen or centralized servers involved at any point in its life cycle — not even when it's being bought and sold online.
The entire process is transparent and open-source because everything happens directly between two parties on a blockchain. That means there are zero fees! It also means there's no single authority who can take down your wallet or otherwise prevent you from buying, selling, trading, gifting, holding onto or collecting your CryptoPunks.
You're free to do whatever you want with them because they're yours not some company's asset.
3: Blockchain Cuties
An innovative blockchain game, Blockchain Cuties allows players to breed (and sell) their own unique crypto kitties. It's a fun and cute way to learn about cryptocurrencies, which is great for marketing purposes.
The project raised over $15 million during its ICO and shows no signs of slowing down. While it might not be useful as an income source now, it has a lot of potential for growth as blockchains gain traction in the future.
As a consumer-driven game, Blockchain Cuties is designed to be accessible, fun, and easy for newcomers.
The Blockchain Cuties game launched its global token sale in January 2018. According to project officials, more than $6 million was raised by early February 2018.
On February 22, about two weeks after its ICO began, Blockchain Cuties closed it due to an overwhelming response.
Currently listed among top digital currencies by market cap at No. 21 globally (at time of writing), up from No. 66 just 24 hours earlier according to CoinMarketCap, CryptoCute appears poised for success; or at least I hope so because they are one of my favorite projects out there!
4: EtherBots
This is a well known NFT projects game which utilizes ERC721 NFTs on Ethereum. The goal of EtherBots is to collect robots that can fight battles for you.
Players must first acquire three items in order to create their new battle bot: an arena, parts, and a core. To acquire these items, players can either win them through battle or purchase them from other players using fuel—Ether. After creating your bots, you must then train them at an arena before they are ready for war!
5: Decentraland
A Next-Generation Virtual Reality Platform – Decentraland is a next-generation virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Users can create, experience, and monetize content and applications. Every pixel is owned by you. A truly open system, built for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), that enables users to interact with digital items on an unprecedented scale. is also a smart NFT projects.
6: Axie Infinity
Made by Singapore based creator, Vince Li. He wanted a blockchain game where pets are raised for fun and profit, but without having to purchase actual real world pets. Axie Infinity is all about finding rare creatures with unique body parts or skins that can be used for trading. Collecting skins is so addictive you might lose an hour of your life reading about them on their website (which is exactly what I did). But let's face it, who hasn't?
7: Etheremon
Collectible MonOnoke. The next Pokemon Go? Etheremon, a game where users collect, train, and battle unique creatures called mono based on blockchain technology. The game has great art (based on SpriteCow), is already live with a working product, and has lots of room for growth. Market: The gaming industry $129 billion by 2021, Blockchain gaming market expected to grow from $20 million in 2017 to $170 million by 2020, according to SuperData Research.
The 7th Continent is a tabletop role-playing game where players start on an adventure together, where they have to conquer obstacles by using their deck of cards, featuring magic spells, weapons, and much more.
Moreover, each player has his own character, whose skills will be unique. The game is set on a different continent every time you play with new adventures on each journey. Thus, every time you play The 7th Continent it will be like visiting a new place.
Here are the best NFT projects in 2022
Decentraland is a virtual reality platform powered by Ethereum. People can obtain virtual land within their digital world, It can create traditional avatars, live on their land, and link with other users around the world.
Like most decentralized blockchain projects, there are no intermediaries involved – a unique property that is especially appealing for investors looking for more transparent investing opportunities.
New projects will allow users to earn tokens through in-game microtransactions or by renting land out to others. We'll certainly be keeping an eye on how Decentraland progresses as it pushes forward with building its first digital city.
Mysterium Network Mysterium Network offers encrypted peer-to-peer (P2P) VPN services that operate using blockchain technology. Please read this fully article for The 8 Best Non-Fungible Token Projects to follow and invest in 2022.
What is the best NFT to buy in 2022?
NFTs are unique items that do not have a fungible version; for example, if you own a Rare Pepe card, no one else will ever own that exact same card. With NFTs being so diverse, it's hard to make any sort of concrete prediction as to which ones are going to be worth a lot more money than they are now.
What are the best upcoming NFT?
With thousands of NFTs launching each year, it can be overwhelming trying to figure out which ones will really take off. So, here's a list of 20 upcoming NFT projects that might be worth looking into.
All these projects are expected to launch between 2018 and 2022. They all offer unique features or an interesting twist on an existing idea, but they all have one thing in common: they're based on non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
This means that unlike cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum, where every token is identical to another, these NFTs are completely unique. In some cases you could own just one token from a project—and it would still be valuable because there aren't any more like it!
There are plenty of reasons why someone would want their own unique digital asset; perhaps you want something truly rare for your collection or you want to show your support for a certain cause by buying its token—or maybe you just think digital art is cool!
Currently, there are so many interesting projects going on, but you have to do the research for the same, If it is good to feet to you then and only you have to invest in the project.
We've compiled a list of NFT projects that will likely be around for years to come. Since 2017 we have seen an increase in the popularity of games like CryptoKitties which has shown us how nonfungible tokens can be used as collectibles or tools used within games.
What are the best NFT communities?
These communities are where you can learn about potential new projects, read about existing NFTs that could be upcoming ICOs or just get informed on all things related to non-fungible tokens.
The top communities for NFT news include CryptoKitties, Rare Bits and EtherCasts. You also need to check out different forum forums like crypto_talk.dance, which lists a variety of subforums dedicated to specific topics such as gaming, art or games that have specific NFT payouts.
Another great community is Ethereum Alpaca's Discord channel; Discord is a chat platform focused on gaming, but it is a special community of both gamers and people who are interested in NFT gaming.
What kind of NFTs sell best?
NFTs that improve upon already existing collectibles, ones that represent artwork or music, or even ones representing real-world items seem to sell best. If you're not familiar with NFTs, a non fungible token (NFT) is one of many types of digital tokens used as part of blockchain technology.
These tokens can represent anything from an asset like gold to a digital item. For example: Cryptokitties, two years after their creation in 2017 (when they sold for just a few dollars each), are worth about $50 now.
Who has the best NFT?
Between crypto-collectibles, crypto games, digital pets, and virtual reality spaces; there are many different categories of non-fungible tokens. But which category is showing more promise for developers? And for investors? First, let's take a look at some of these categories of blockchain projects…
Best nft to invest in 2022
To understand what a non fungible token is, you first need to grasp how Ethereum's cryptocurrency Ether (ETH) works. ETH tokens run on a network called Ethereum, which supports smart contracts – code that controls funds rather than people.
In addition, applications built on Ethereum can take advantage of its virtual machine, allowing developers to create new programs that aren't tied just to digital currency. A non fungible token or NFT is similar in many ways.
It is a specific kind of crypto asset built on top of another blockchain platform, like Ethereum.
Upcoming NFT projects 2022
The year of blockchain games is almost upon us. With some new NFT projects launching every day, there's bound to be one that you like. Here are some games that caught our eye and are on our radar as we countdown to launch—take a look through them all! You might find something you like! For starters, let's look at platforms for playing games that use cryptocurrency for in-game purchases:
1) Gods Unchained: The first game from Fuel Bros., developers of Etherbots, Gods Unchained offers fast-paced strategy gameplay with a blockchain twist.
2) CryptoKitties: Ever dreamed of owning your own cryptokitty? This is your chance!
Best upcoming NFT projects
The most promising upcoming NFT projects that are aiming for release or beta in 2019 or 2020. These projects provide a solid foundation for investors, but be aware that most will require you to wait before you can exchange your ETH for tokens.
We also highlight established platforms with limited assets available on their marketplaces. We include links to offsite reviews for each project listed.
In addition, artists can able to create their own smart contracts and are able to sell independently IP without any third-party service.
Best NFT to buy on opensea
Opensea offers a variety of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) available for sale via their platform. As of June 2018, you can buy altcoins, which are often considered alternatives to bitcoin, like Factom.
One commonality NFTs all share is their limited number: no more than two identical tokens exist. For instance, each one of these ERC20 tokens stands for a unique cryptokitty; each was created by CryptoKitties' developers on Ethereum's blockchain at launch and corresponds with an exclusive cryptokitty.
CryptoKitties are already being sold for hundreds of dollars on secondary markets; therefore these tokenized kitties clearly provide a high potential return based on popularity alone!
Tips on How to Give NFTs as a gift
How to mint and buy NFTs with low gas fees.


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Battle Armor »
Niops Militia Infantry Formations
Author Topic: Niops Militia Infantry Formations (Read 2255 times)
Giovanni Blasini
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time...
Niops Militia Reservist Foot Infantry
The most common military force in the Niops Association Militia is, as with most Inner Sphere militaries, the common foot soldier.
In the Niops Association, the majority of infantry formations are comprised of reservist forces. These part-time soldiers come from a variety of backgrounds and primary occupations, ranging from food service workers to engineers and scientists. All are dedicated to defense of the Association from outside invaders, typically training one weekend per standard month and two weekends per year, with careful rotation of service ensuring maximum availability.
While not full-time soldiers, the Niops Association Militia endeavors to equip their infantry formations as well as possible, including with protective gear. The standard infantry kit includes the CSAS Mk.1 ballistic plate armor. While lacking the environmental sealing of the CSAS Mk. 3 used by other NAM formations, the Mk. 1 still provides considerable protection to its wearer.
Reserve formations are armed with domestic productions of the SLDF's standard laser pistol, the Brightstar J-7. Like the Clans' improved J-15 laser, Niopian engineers have extended the functionality of this weapon with a collapsible stock and extended barrel attachment though, unlike the J-15, this has mainly simplified and improved weapon handling, rather than extending its range and damage output.
Reservist infantry formations can be found nearly everywhere that NAM deploys on the three core worlds of the Niops Association, with the general exception of the asteroid mining facilities and other microgravity/hostile environments. There, NAM leadership prefers to deploy dedicted XCT Marine formations with the upgraded CSAS Mk.3 environmental armor, in order to both ensure the best survival training for local forces, as well as to not place undue burden on civilian staff in these facilities. The rare reservist formations serving in these facilities receive the same equipment and training regimen as the frontline XCT Marine formations.
Foot Platoon Niops Militia Reserve
TTech Base: Inner Sphere (Standard)
Transport Weight: 2.5
Primary Weapon: 20 Laser Pistol
Secondary Weapon: 8 Sniper Rifle (FNF-J12 (Dark Caste))
Armor: Ballistic Plate, Standard
Cost: 2,086,817.88 C-bills
Platoon Type (Specialty): Foot (None)
Ground MP: 1
Platoon Size (Squad/Platoon): 28 (7/4)
Armor Divisor: 2
To-Hit Modifier (Range in Hexes):
-1 (0 Hexes), +0 (1-5 Hexes), +1 (6-7 Hexes), +2 (8-10 Hexes), +3 (11-12 Hexes), +4 (13-15 Hexes)
Maximum Weapon Damage (# of Troopers):
8 (28-27), 7 (26-23), 6 (22-20), 5 (19-16), 4 (15-13), 3 (12-9), 2 (8-6), 1 (5-2)
Foot Squad Niops Militia Reserve
Tech Base: Inner Sphere (Standard)
Primary Weapon: 5 Laser Pistol
Cost: 521,704.47 C-bills
Platoon Size (Squad/Platoon): 7 (7/1)
2 (7-6), 1 (5-2)
Edit: MegaMek Lab text formatting bugs continue to screw me again, cutting off additional paragraphs in each section. I'm going back and rewriting them and adding them in.
Edit 2: OK, think I got it all recreated more or less.
« Last Edit: 22 June 2022, 17:41:21 by Giovanni Blasini »
""Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end." -- Stephen Hawking
Re: Niops Militia Infantry Formations
« Reply #1 on: 22 June 2022, 17:54:13 »
Niops Militia Regular Infantry
Niops Militia Regular infantry formations are generally similar to their reservist counterparts. As with the Reserves, CSAS Mk.1 ballistic plate armor is standard for soldier protection, with designated sharpshooters continuing to use domestic copies of the FNF-J12 sniper rifle. Where they differ from the reservist formations, however, is in the concentration of the few domestic-produced Mauser 960 copies the Niops Association Militia continues to field. While this weapon system is a considerable step up in firepower over the more common Brightstar J-7 used by reservists, it is far less common due to greater difficulty in reproducing the advanced pulse laser weapon.
In addition to dismounted "foot" formations, NAM Regular formations often make use of light vehicles as motorized infantry.
Foot Platoon Niops Militia Regulars
Primary Weapon: 20 Laser Rifle (Mauser 960)
Cost: 4,569,081.529 C-bills
15 (28), 14 (27-26), 13 (25-24), 12 (23-22), 11 (21-20), 10 (19-18), 9 (17-16), 8 (15-14), 7 (13), 6 (12-11), 5 (10-9), 4 (8-7), 3 (6-5), 2 (4-3), 1 (2-1)
Motorized Platoon Niops Militia Regulars
Platoon Type (Specialty): Motorized (None)
OK, going to pause for a bit for commentary. I'm seriously considering dumping the ballistic plate, and the idea of differing armor types, and just going with marine combat environmental suits for everyone, splurging on the extra cost, and maybe even throwing in XCT training across the board.
"Why?" you ask?
From a game mechanics perspective, it's got a 2.0 armor divisor without being encumbering, even if it is 15,000 C-Bills, which makes it more expensive than a Hostile Environmental Suit or Ballistic Plate, but doesn't drop the motorized infantry to 1 MP and the foot infantry down to being able to either move *or* shoot.
From an in-universe perspective, a lot of Niops' fortunes is wrapped up in their asteroid mining. On top of that, they got nuked during the Jihad, and a sealed environmental suit of some kind could be handy when dealing with toxic or irradiated areas. It would also allow the Militia to standardize on a single training regimen at their new academy, as well as standardize production of a single type of infantry armor.
I would go for the more expensive armor for regular units, but cut the reservists down to Ballistic Plate Vests. Check them out. They're cheaper, non-encumbering, and give that same SWEET Divisor 2...
Seriously, there's a reason I went with modified Tanker Smocks for my Lothians...
Quote from: Daryk on 22 June 2022, 19:30:29
Doesn't seem to be coded in MegaMekLab. My only 2-divisor non-encumbering armor options in MML are:
Comstar Kit
Environment Suit, Marine
Lyran 3060+ Kit
Marian Hegemony Kit
Myomer Vest
The only other ballistic plate armor they have is the concealed version, which has a 1.0 divisor.
My other option is to cut the number of secondary weapons to gain back 1 MP, but that just ends up dropping the range entirely.
My usual go-tos are Lyran and Davion armor jackets. Not sure why MML is missing vests. I also see MML isn't accounting for the infantry weapon nerf. You're probably better off hand jamming things these days...
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Where are the vests from?
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The nerf is in the dev versions. As for ballistic vest need to know what book its in to add.
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New Units and RAT's aren't added until after the 2 month release moratorium is passed.
I can count on one hand the number of times I've played on a regular tabletop in the last 10 years and have fingers left over. The few tabletop games I've managed to play have tended to be our local Alpha Strike games. Everything else has tended to be MegaMek against-the-bot type deals, either for fun or in support of scenarios for stories I'm writing.
Quote from: Hammer on 23 June 2022, 13:10:07
Confirmed. I'm running Dev version 0.49.8 and, while it displays the raw damage setting of 0.93 per the book for weapons like the Mauser 960 (see attached "MML Capture 1.JPG"), when calculating actual damage, it reduces the individual trooper damage to 0.60 as expected (see "MML Capture 2.JPG").
Looking at the Militia Regulars ones bears that out. Right now, and I'll be editing to fix it, it's showing 5 troopers with Mausers and 2 troopers with TAG per squad, and total platoon damage for all four squads is 12 points, which works out to 0.60 * 20.
With that said...it should actually show the two troopers with the same FNF-J12 (Dark Caste) sniper rifles instead of TAG, which it does as of me typing this. I'd been experimenting with the idea of using TAG, but then switched back to the sniper rifles, and then done an export to clipboard of the unit stats. But, I think that's an error on my part for switching the secondary weapon but forgetting to uncheck the "TAG Troops" specialization. I'm going to correct that now.
Ballistic Plate Vests are on page 288 of AToW, right below the "Suit". They're a mere 600 C-Bills, 8.8 kg, and NON-encumbering. Since they cover the torso, they count all of their armor ratings in the calculation for armor divisor...
« Reply #10 on: 24 June 2022, 16:16:45 »
That's why we didn't add them not in the list in TacOps. We didn't convert as it felt munchy to have a armor with a full divisor when it doesn't provide full coverage. Might add them unofficial.
The conversion rules only ever count torso armor. Do you count the jackets?
I don't think it includes the vests, no. Just the myomer vest and MechWarrior cooling vest.
If cooling vests are in, the Tanker's Smock should be too.
Meanwhile, working on a motorized infantry troop that uses the Support PPC as secondary weapons and tows field guns. The easiest way to set it up is in two or three platoons of 10 troops each with 2 support weapons. Any suggestions on field guns?
For primary weapon I'm debating between laser pistols for these troops but, for standard troops, I'm honestly considering making the FNF-J12 knockoffs the standard weapon. Their damage isn't quite as high as some other options, but are still quite good, and their ranges are just ridiculous.
To keep that ridiculous range, you need to stick to only one Support PPC per squad.
Fair point. So, something like this:
Motorized PPC Infantry Niops Militia
Tech Base: Inner Sphere (Advanced)
Transport Weight: 22
Primary Weapon: 27 Sniper Rifle (FNF-J12 (Dark Caste))
Secondary Weapon: 3 Particle Cannon (Support)
Armor: Environment Suit, Marine
Notes: 1 Thumper with 20 rounds of ammo. Requires 15 soldiers to operate.
Platoon Size (Squad/Platoon): 30 (10/3)
+0 (0-5 Hexes), +1 (6-7 Hexes), +2 (8-10 Hexes), +3 (11-12 Hexes), +4 (13-15 Hexes)
16 (30), 15 (29-28), 14 (27-26), 13 (25-24), 12 (23-22), 11 (21-20), 10 (19-18), 9 (17-16), 8 (15), 7 (14-13), 6 (12-11), 5 (10-9), 4 (8-7), 3 (6-5), 2 (4-3), 1 (2-1)
Wait... they can have Field Artillery AND Support Weapons?
I modeled my Niopian version after the Taurian one in Tech Readout 3085 on page 215, which also has 3 platoons of 10 troops. Theirs, however, has two Support PPCs per platoon, for a total of 24 auto-rifles, 6 support PPCs, and then also tows 6 light AC/5s.
So, I don't see why not.
Cool, I hadn't realized it was possible.
Yeah, just realized I need to tweak that one again to get 30 troops, so I have two Thumpers. Oops.
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Quote from: Giovanni Blasini on 27 June 2022, 23:12:31
need to keep this in mind
"For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed:And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!"
CVB
Since a platoon can fire either its field guns or its infantry weapons, I would prefer to give my field gun platoons cheap generic autorifles, and with the savings add some more platoons with hi-tech weapons, except for ac/20 platoons. In my experience, the other platoon types are either dead or victorious before their ammo runs out. With AC/20, both the small amount of ammo and the short field gun range leave enough opportunities to use some Daryk combinations.
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I'm willing to suspend my disbelief, but I'm not willing to hang it by the neck until it's dead, dead, dead!
Sniper Rifles are CHEAP augmentations to Auto-Rifle platoons. For a Taurian platoon, you only need six to take that Auto-Rifle damage out to the range of your choice...
True, that is a good compromise.