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The Reasons Behind the Musings

The following exchange takes place in the comments, but I thought I’d repost it here because it explains a bit about my motivation to post Musings of a Newbie. I would also like to apologise for not responding to the other answers I have received. 

Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions. It was really kind of you.

I thought I’d explain a bit more why I chose the questions I did and respond in turn to your answers.

Every question is motivated by a specific complaint that I saw on my dashboard during season 11 of The X-Files. One continuous complaint was how many horrible things have happened to the characters, especially Scully, since the beginning of the show. The reason why I asked about the ensemble cast is because I believe that some of the abuse heaped on the characters is due to the size of the cast. When John Doggett and Monica Reyes joined in seasons 8 and 9, they were tormented quite badly as well. And every time the focus turned on Skinner he had to endure all sorts of torture. However, quite a few were upset when they found out that one episode of season 11, Kitten, would primarily focus on Skinner and his back story. And the addition of the characters Einstein and Miller was mostly met with disdain. 

Furthermore, you pointed out one downside in that the actors became exhausted with the amount of work they had to put in due to the limited cast. It also meant that they couldn’t easily pursue other projects while doing the show, and had to be nearly paranoid about possible injuries or illness. Some of it was mitigated with the use of cell-phones in season 2, as David revealed while they did press for season 10 - both didn’t always have to be available at the same time. However, some storylines were directly motivated by the actor’s availability e.g. Scully’s original abduction being due to Gillian’s pregnancy and the delivery of Piper, Mulder becoming an absentee father due to David leaving the show, and Scully staying behind with William, despite the the clear threat against the child, due to Gillian’s contract for season 9.

2nd R: A pattern that shows up continuously on my dashboard is that when the show doesn’t provide what people want - mostly lack of confirmed romance, no kissing etc., or the storyline goes in a direction that is less than desired e.g. continuous storylines centered around Scully’s fertility and reproduction, they will attribute it to the lack of female input. Therefore, I was curious as to what that would mean in practice. The current commentary is too abstract for me to understand what is meant. However, I do agree that a more diverse and inclusive writing and directing pool would lead to a more welcoming working environment, and The X-Files certainly worked as a springboard for a lot of careers e.g. Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon - Homeland, Frank Spotnitz - The Man in the High Castle, Vince Gilligan - Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul. 

3rd R: I will have to disagree with you when it comes to FOX being willing to end the show if Chris Carter wanted to. As I mentioned before, there was a plan for a movie franchise, even if it did not come to pass, after season 5. There were also attempts to end everything in season 7 e.g. closing up the storyline with Samantha, getting rid of the Cigarette Smoking Man, and season 8 e.g. forcing Mulder permanently, at the time, off the X-Files, tying his storyline and motivation to William and giving Mulder and Scully one perfect moment of happiness in Existence, which is probably the least cliffhangery season ending we’ve received. FOX ordered one more season, as the numbers went up again following David’s return, when Mulder came back from his abduction. David’s contract had already ended and he was not willing to extend it, while Gillian signed up for both season 8 and 9 at the same time to achieve parity in pay. Chris Carter was set to leave, however, he stayed for Gillian, whom FOX demanded complete her contract. At the moment FOX has still not said whether there will be one more season or not, though I suppose after their acquisition that is now up to Disney. Thereby not saying that Chris Carter doesn’t have a monetary gain in continuing, however, as far as I can tell it has never been solely up to him as to whether there will be more or not. At a Paley conference in conjunction with the second movie, I Want to Believe, he explained the difficulty in planning when you never know who will be available to you in terms of writers, directors, and actors. Furthermore, they never knew if they were going to get another season.

Last R: While I agree that there was lack of women involved in the show there are still quite a few that could have commented. True, there were only two female directors during the original run, one in season 7 and one in Season 9 Episode 7 John Doe, as you already mentioned, and at that time David wasn’t around in any official capacity. However, the reason I used Joel McHale and Robert Patrick as my examples was because they spent a comparatively short time on the show. Robert Patrick got added in Season 8 and made 40 episodes, with his last being Season 9 Episode 19-20 The Truth. Annabeth Gish as Monica Reyes appears in Season 8 Episode 14 This Is Not Happening, and appeared in 26 episodes during seasons 8 and 9. She would have had a couple of episodes with both of them together, and she was there for both Season 9 Episode 16 William and Season 9 Episode 19-20 The Truth, when David was on set as he directed the former and came up with the original story together with Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter. She was also there for season 10 and 11. Joel McHale only had two episodes in season 10 My Struggle I and My Struggle II, and one in season 11 My Struggle IV and he still commented on it. Martin Landau was only in The X-Files: Fight the Future and had only scenes with David and still compared them to Spencer Tracy and Kathrine Hepburn. 

Furthermore, there were a few recurring female characters. Sheila Larken as Margaret Scully joined in Season 1 Episode 13 Beyond the Sea and has a total of 17 episodes through seasons 1-5 and 8-10. She is also married to R.W. Goodwin who worked on the X-Files during its Vancouver years as a co-executive producer, executive producer, director and writer. Melinda McGraw as Melissa Scully joined in Season 2 Episode 8 One Breath for a total of 4 episodes, her last appearance being in Season 5 Episode 6 Christmas Carol, though David was absent as he was promoting Playing God with Angelina Jolie. One might even count Megan Leitch, the actress who portrayed Samantha Mulder as an adult. Her first appearance was in Season 2 Episode 16 Colony, and her last Season 7 Episode 2 The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fait making it four episodes in total. Admittedly she had hardly any scenes with Gillian, but she was in episodes where they both appeared. Or even Rebecca Toolan as Teena Mulder, who also first appeared in Season 2 Episode 16 Colony, and came back in episodes through seasons 2-4 and 7 with Season 7 Episode 11 Closure being her last episode, bringing her up to ten episodes. 

Laurie Holden as Marita Covarrubias was introduced in Season 4 Episode 1 Herrenvolk and became fairly recurring during season 4 and then appeared more sporadically during seasons 5-7, her final appearance was in Season 9 Episode 19-20 The Truth for a total of ten episodes. Veronica Cartwright as Cassandra Spender appeared in Season 5 Episode 13 Patient X to Season 6 Episode 12 One Son making it four episodes. Mimi Rogers as Diana Fowley joined the cast in Season 5 Episode 20 The End and came back for a few episodes during season 6-7 until her final appearance in Season 7 Episode 2 The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati totalling 7 episodes.

There were also a number of female writers. The first being Marilyn Osborn who wrote Season 1 Episode 19 Shapes, followed by Sara B. Cooper as Sara B. Charno who wrote the episodes Season 2 Episode 12 Aubrey and Season 2 Episode 21 The Calusari. Kim Newton wrote Season 3 Episode 11 Revelations and Season 3 Episode 22 Quagmire, the latter with some assistance from Darin Morgan e.g. conversation on the rock. Valerie Mayhew and Vivian Mayhew wrote Season 4 Episode 6 Sanguinarium, Jessica Scott wrote Season 5 Episode 9 Schizogeny, and Dr. Margaret Fearon who wrote the story for Season 10 Episode 6 My Struggle II together with Anne Simon, the latter who worked as the science advisor in 1998 as well as during the revival. 

Kristen Cloke wrote Season 11 Episode 7 Rm9sbG93ZXJz together with Shannon Hamblin as well as worked as an actress as  Melissa Rydell Ephesian in Season 4 Episode 5 The Field Where I Died and she is married to Glen Morgan who was a writer for season 1, 2 and 4 and came back for season 10 and 11 to both write and direct. Karen Nielsen was a script coordinator for season 10 and 11 and wrote Season 11 Episode 9 Nothing Lasts Forever, and she is the one who rather gleefully announced that the whispering between Scully and Mulder was between Gillian and David and would not be revealed.

In season 11 both Carol Banker and Holly Dale directed, episode 6 Kitten and episode 8 Familiar respectively, even if Carol Banker’s episode mostly focused on Skinner. But she was also a script supervisor from season 6 to season 9, and an actress as Carol in Season 7 Episode 17 all things, which admittedly once again had less of David.

One of the reasons that I find it so fascinating is that the shipping fandom, those compelled by David and Gillian’s chemistry to pair up Mulder and Scully is mostly comprised of women. But when it comes to the show, the men seem far more impressed. Almost enamoured, or maybe its envy. Maybe they wished that they had that kind of connection with someone. Maybe we all do.

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How Did We Get Here? The History of BIM Service Providers in USA

Keywords: BIM services, BIM consulting companies, BIM service providers in USA, BIM consulting services.

The concept of BIM has existed since the 1970s. The first software tools developed for modelling buildings emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and included workstation products such as Chuck Eastman's Building Description System and GLIDE, RUCAPS, Sonata, Reflex and Gable 4D Series.

The two main methods of displaying and recording shape information that began to appear in the 1970s and 1980s were constructive solid geometry (CSG) and boundary representation (brep). The CSG system uses a series of primitive shapes that can be either solids or voids, so that the shapes can combine and intersect, subtract or combine to create the appearance of more complex shapes. This development is especially important in representing architecture as penetrations and subtractions are common procedures in design, (windows, and doors).

Database Building Design

Seeing buildings through the lens of the database contributed to the breakdown of architecture into its constituent components, necessitating a literal taxonomy of a buildings constituent parts. One of the first projects to successfully create a building database was the Building Description System (BDS) which was the first software to describe individual library elements which can be retrieved and added to a model. This program uses a graphical user interface, orthographic and perspective views and a sortable database that allows the user to retrieve information categorically by attributes including material type and supplier.

In the early 1980′s there were several systems developed in England that gained traction and were applied to constructed projects. These include GDS, EdCAAD, Cedar, RUCAPS, Sonata and Reflex. The RUCAPS software System developed by GMW Computers in 1986 was the first program to use the concept of temporal phasing of construction processes and was used to assist in the phased construction of Heathrow Airport’s Terminal three (Laiserin – History of BIM). The founding of the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE) at Stanford in 1988 by Paul Teicholz marks another landmark in the development of BIM as this created a wellspring of PhD students and industry collaborations to further the development of ‘four-dimensional’ building models with time attributes for construction. This marks an important point where two trends in the development of BIM technology would split and develop over the next two decades. On one side, the development of specialized tools for multiple disciplines to serve the construction industry and improve efficiency in construction. On the other side is the treatment of the BIM model as a prototype that could be tested and simulated against performance criteria.

A later but prominent example of a simulation tool that gave feedback and ‘suggested’ solutions based on a model is the Building Design Advisor, developed in 1993. This software utilizes an object model of a building and its context to perform simulations. The program includes basic optimization assistants to make decisions based on a range of criteria which are stored in sets called ‘Solutions’.

Virtual Building

While the developments were happening rapidly in the United States, the Soviet Block had two programming geniuses who would end up defining the BIM market as it is known today. ArchiCAD developed in 1982. Using similar technology as the Building Description System, the software Radar CH was released in 1984 for the Apple Lisa Operating System. This later became ArchiCAD, which makes ArchiCAD the first BIM software that was made available on a personal computer.

ArchiCAD has made substantial gains in user base from 2007-2011, mainly as a tool for developing residential and small commercial projects in Europe. Recent improvements have made ArchiCAD a major player in the market though fundamental issues such as a lack of a phasing component and a complicated (but flexible) programming environment for its family components using GDL (Geometric Description Language) To date, Graphisoft claims that more than 1,000,000 projects worldwide have been designed using ArchiCAD.

Not long after Graphisoft began to sell the first seats of Radar CH, Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) was founded in 1985 and released the first version of Pro/ENGINEER in 1988. This is a mechanical CAD program that is utilizes a constraint based parametric modeling engine.

By 2000 the company had developed a program called ‘Revit’, a made up word that is meant to imply revision and speed, which was written in C++ and utilized a parametric change engine, made possible through object oriented programming. In 2002, Autodesk purchased the company and began to heavily promote the software in competition with its own object-based software ‘Architectural Desktop’.

Revit revolutionized the world of Building Information Modeling by creating a platform that utilized a visual programming environment for creating parametric families and allowing for a time attribute to be added to a component to allow a ‘fourth-dimension’ of time to be associated with the building model. This enables contractors to generate construction schedules based on the BIM models and simulate the construction process.

Towards a Collaborative Architecture

There has been a trend towards the compositing of architectural files with those of engineers who create the systems to support them which has become more prevalent within the past seven years as Autodesk has released versions of Revit specifically for Structural and Mechanical engineers. This feature released in Revit 6 in 2004, enables large teams of architects and engineers to work on one integrated model, a form of collaborative software. There are now several firms working towards visualization of BIM models in the field using augmented reality.

To combat any inefficiency the International Foundation Class (IFC) file format was developed in 1995 and has continued to adapt to allow the exchange of data from one BIM program to another. This effort has been augmented by the development of viewing software such as Navisworks which is solely designed to coordinate across varying file formats.

Following in the footsteps of the Building Design Advisor, simulation programs such as Ecotect, Energy Plus, IES and Green Building Studio allow the BIM model to be imported directly and results to be gathered from simulations. Autodesk, through their growth and acquisition of a broad variety of software related to BIM have contributed to the expansion of what is possible from analysis of a model. In late November 2012, the development of format, an application that allows the conceptual beginnings of a BIM model to be started on a mobile device is a leap for the company.

Contemporary Practice and Design Academics

Some have taken a negative stance on BIM and parametric as they assume so much about the design process and limit any work produced to the user’s knowledge of the program. This can enable a novice designer who has learned how to perform basic commands to become an incredibly prolific producer while a highly educated and experienced architect can be crippled from inexperience with a programs interface or underlying concepts. This creates a potential for a generational break line that becomes harsher as a new technology gains market parity.

Some BIM platforms that have a small market share but have made big impacts on the world of design include Generative Components (GC), developed by Bentley Systems in 2003. The GC system is focused on parametric flexibility and sculpting geometry and supports NURBS surfaces. The interface hinges on a node-based scripting environment that is similar to Grasshopper to generate forms.

Parametricism can only exist via sophisticated parametric techniques. Finally, computationally advanced design techniques like scripting (in Mel-script or Rhino-script) and parametric modeling (with tools like GC or DP) are becoming a pervasive reality. Today it is impossible to compete within the contemporary avant-garde scene without mastering these techniques.”

Since these techniques have become increasingly complex there has become a component of architectural schools which is specified to train in specific software. The programmer takes an idea of what is commonsense and simulates a workflow using tools available to them to create an idealized goal. In the case of BIM tools, the building is represented as components including walls, roofs, floors, windows, columns, etc. These components have pre-defined rules or constraints which help them perform their respective tasks.

BIM platforms typically represent walls as objects with layers, these layers are defined in terms of the depth and height of a wall and are extruded along the length of a line. The program then has the ability to calculate the volume of material contained within the wall assembly and to create wall sections and details easily. This type of workflow is based on the existing building stock and common industry standards and therefore a project which is produced in a BIM platform which emphasizes these tools is likely to reinforce existing paradigms rather than develop new ones. Additionally, the programmers who worked on the early BIM platforms often did not have a background in architecture but employed hybrid architect/programmers who contributed to the development of the programs. One notable exception I have found to this is the work of Charles Eastman who received a Masters of Architecture from Berkeley before working on the Building Description System. The roots of the major BIM platforms that are in use today have been developed by programmers with the peripheral input of hybrid programmer/architects and a global user base who contributes to the development of the software via ‘wish lists’ or online forums where grievances can be aired about a product workflow. The grievances typically result in new features and build upon the existing interface.

Though the general concept and technology behind BIM services is approaching its thirtieth anniversary, the industry has only begun to realize the potential benefits of Building Information Models. As we reach a point where a majority of buildings are being crafted digitally, an existing building marketplace where building materials and structural components can be bought and sold locally will emerge.

Read more : bim modeling services

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I was going to send all of this in an ask to @rewhined​ but it got kind of long SO: my personal, mostly-canon-compliant headcanon of eliksni reproductive physiology!

(no nsfw below the cut, surprisingly, but it IS long)

I used to work at a clownfish research lab, and the way in which eliksni get definitively, physiologically Bigger and Different as they move up social ranks, not to mention the way they live(d) in physically separated habitats (i.e. ketches) with various means of social control being used to keep individuals from “moving up”, reminded me a lot of clownfish protandry!

Crash course: clownfish have a mutualistic relationship with anemones, which for them means they can live IN the anemones and be protected from all the predators in a coral reef, since anemones sting the shit out of everything else. Clownfish without an anemone are...basically dead, yeah. However, since there are limited anemones for adult clownfish to live in, there’ll be a bunch of adults in any one anemone (say, five or six), but only the two biggest/oldest will be breeding. The Biggest (and oldest) adult is laying the eggs (female) and the next biggest is fertilizing and tending them (male) - the others basically wait in line. Say the female dies, the male becomes female, and the next biggest nonbreeder becomes male - same if the male dies, the next biggest nonbreeder becomes the male. It’s actually pretty cool how all the nonbreeders will generally maintain a specific ratio of descending sizes (by voluntarily restricting food intake), so the queue order is always very clear and they don’t get seen as trying to jump the queue (which might start a dominance fight), but that’s an aside.

SO. I thought it might be interesting if the Fallen military units/structures we see in-game are actually corruptions of pre-Whirlwind family structures and corresponding gender roles, where the Kell and Archon are “females”, the Barons/Priests/Captains are “males”, and the Vandals/Dregs(/Marauders/Wretches) are “nonbreeders”, with the understanding that the word for the rank (Kell, Captain, Vandal) is actually derived from/the same as the word for a gender, at least in Eliksni. Probably due to power-grabs post-Whirlwind (or possibly a holdover of regressive noble attitudes from pre-Whirlwind), the gender roles became inextricably conflated with the military roles. Plus, of course, the artificial lowest role created by cutting some peoples’ ARMS off - which is clearly a method of social control, there is NO efficiency to using people as cannon fodder, especially if, again, you’ve CHOPPED THEIR ARMS OFF. (Bungie why did you give the eliksni space late capitalism? They didn’t deserve this.)

This would have several implications, including but not limited to:

1) The lore that all eliksni used to grow to Kell size pre-Whirlwind is actually some sort of myth/propaganda to valorize the Kell role, since with this theory, the requirements to transition would be both sufficient Ether AND the desire to transition, which presumably not ALL people would have, given free choice.

2) The arrangement in a contemporary Fallen house (at least pre-Destiny 2 merger?), assuming the Splicer=>Priest=>Archon progression is a separate “track” from the normal military promotion, is that the Kell and Archon split baby production responsibilities, [ahem] assisted by Baron(esse)s and Priests, respectively. 

Baron(esse)s are differentiated from Captains simply because they’re the ones the Kell likes best, all tangled up into the military dynamics.

3) Baby production is more demarcated from romance than it is for the average human culture (again, mostly in contemporary Fallen culture). A romantic relationship is understood to be a mutually beneficial emotional and physical support association/attraction.

With contemporary social dynamics, this typically means couples (or threesomes or foursomes or whatever), in a healthy dynamic at least, will be of the same rank(/gender), but it’s not technically required or expected. It’s just, you know. Power dynamics.

4) This is not to say that there weren’t or aren’t gender-nonconforming eliksni!

Even something as simple as a Vandal who is quite certain they want to stay a Vandal, even though what they SHOULD want is to be promoted/transitioned.

In fact, pre-Whirlwind, there were probably a greater percentage of Kells/Archons in the population, and family groups would be made of any mix of the three-ish (possibly more, if we’re adding theoretical different pre-Whirlwind cultures into the mix) genders people chose.

However, considering that the Kell and Archon’s total monopoly (duopoly?) on the production of new generations and the rigidity of roles and the promotion/transition involved are probably a big part of the power of the military roles of the contemporary Houses, this has probably been “forgotten”.

I think that would be rather demonstrative of how dysfunctional contemporary Fallen culture and norms have become, that gender roles are not only so rigid, but COMPLETELY equivalent to reproductive ability and societal rank.

I do think the Kell has more “rights of production” than the Archon, mind.

5) The thing where in-game eliksni are referred to as “he” or “she” with seemingly no pattern (which is probably actually an attempt by the devs to show that the Fallen have gender parity, never mind that none of the important eliksni characters save possibly Drevis use “she” :P) is actually a misunderstanding, mostly stemming from the Fallen side of things.

Possibly eliksni with free time and some experience with humans/Awoken/Exos will make up their own personality quizzes based on their theories of how pronouns are determined. Possibly people get into squabbles over their headcanons. Who knows?

6) Kells/Archons don’t typically personally raise the babies they, eh, put out, if only because of scale, so it’s the Baron/Captain/Priest gender that’s typically expected to parent them (also like clownfish!).

Granted, with the contemporary Houses, “parenting” often looks more like “training” or “indoctrinating” with much of the nitty-gritty care left to their subordinates, but still.

That’s not necessarily what’s healthiest or even most “natural”, so. Conclusion: CAPTAIN DAD.

Let me know thoughts, questions, concerns, whatever, I dig speculative astrobiology, ESPECIALLY thoroughly nonhuman societal structures.

(Further reading: I highly recommend Evolution’s Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden if you want to learn more about how the natural world doesn’t give two shits about heteronormativity!)

[wizofe-blog]

Redox 0x01

Introductory session

…and here we go! All excited. A first calendar entry to describe my attempt on ARM64 support in Redox OS. Specifically, looking into the Raspberry Pi2/3(B)/3+ (all of them having a Cortex-A53 ARMv8 64-bit microprocessor, although for all my experiments I am going to use the Raspberry Pi 3(B)).

Yesterday, I had my first meeting in Cambridge with @microcolonel! Very very inspiring, got many ideas and motivation. He reminded me that the first and most important thing I fell in love with Open Source is its people :)

Discussion Points

Everything started with a personal introduction, background and motivation reasons that we both participate in this project. It’s very important to note that we don’t want it to be a one-off thing but definitely the start of a longer support and experimentation with OS support and ARM.

Redox boot flow on AArch64

Some of the points discussed:

* boot * debug * MMU setup * TLS * syscalls `</pre> The current work by @microcolonel, is happening on the realms of `qemu-system-aarch64` platform. But what should I need to put my attention, when porting to the Rpi3? Here are some importants bits: <pre>`[ ] Typical AArch64 exception level transitions post reset: EL3 -> EL2 -> EL1 [x] Setting up a buildable u-boot (preferably the u-boot mainline) for RPi3 [ ] Setting up a BOOTP/TFTP server on the same subnet as the RPi3 [ ] Packaging the redox kernel binary as a (fake) Linux binary using u-boot's mkimage tool [ ] Obtaining an FDT blob for the RPi3 (Linux's DTB can be used for this). In hindsight, u-boot might be able to provide this too (u-boot's own generated ) [ ] Serving the packaged redox kernel binary as well as the FDT blob to u-boot via BOOT/TFTP [x] Statically expressing a suitable PL011 UART's physical base address within Redox as an initial debug console `</pre> Note: I’ve already completed (as shown) two important steps, which I am going to describe on my next blog post (to keep you excited ;-) **Challenges with recursive paging for AArch64** @microcolonel is very fond of recursive paging. He seems to succesfully to make it work on qemu and it seems that it may be possible in sillicon as well. This is for 48-bit Virtual Addresses with 4 levels of translation. As AArch64 has separate descriptors for page tables and pages which means that in order for recursive paging to work there must not be any disjoint bitfields in the two descriptor types. This is the case today but it is not clear if this will remain in the future. The problem is that if recursive paging doesn’t work on the physical implementation that may time much longer than expected to port for the RPi3. Another point, is that as opposed to x86_64, AArch6 has a separate translation scheme for user-space and kernel space. So while x86_64 has a single cr3 register containing the base address of the trnslation tables, AArch64 has two registers, ttbr_el0 for user-space and ttbr_el1 for the kernel. In this realm, there has been @microcolonel’s work to extend the paging schemes in Redox to cope with this. **TLS, Syscalls and Device Drivers** The Redox kernel’s reliance on Rust’s #[thread_local] attribute results in llvm generating references to the tpidr_el0 register. On AArch64 tpidr_el0 is supposed to contain the user-space TLS region’s base address. This is separate from tpidr_el1 which is supposted to contain the kernel-space TLS region’s base address. To fix this, @microcolonel has modified llvm such that the use of a ‘kernel’ code-model and an aarch64-unknown-redox target results in the emission og tpidr_el1. TLS support is underway at present. **Device drivers and FDT** For the device driver operation using fdt it’s very important to note the following: <pre>`* It will be important to create a registry of all the device drivers present * All device drivers will need to implement a trait that requires publishing of a device-tree compatible string property * As such, init code can then match the compatible string with the tree of nodes in the device tree in order to match drivers to their respective data elements in the tree `</pre> ** ** **Availability of @microcolonel’s code base** As he still expects his employer’s open source contribution approval there are still many steps to be done to port Redox OS. The structure of the code to be published was also discussed. At present @microcolonel’s work is a set of patches to the following repositories: <pre>`* Top level redox checkout (build glue etc) * Redox kernel submodule (core AArch64 support) * Redox syscall's submodule (AArch64 syscall support) * Redox's rust submodule (TLS support, redox toolchain triplet support) `</pre> Possible ways to manage the publishing of this code were also discussed. One way is to create AArch64 branches for all of the above and push them out to the redox github. This is TBD with **@jackpot51**. **Feature parity with x86_64** It’s very important to stay aligned with the current x86_64 port and for that reason the following work is important to be underways: <pre>`* Syscall implementation * Context switch support * kmain -> init invocation * Filesystem with apps * Framebuffer driver * Multi-core support * (...) (to be filled with a whole list of the current x86_64 features) `</pre> _Attaining feature parity would be the first concrete milestone for the AArch64 port as a whole._ **My next steps** As a result of the discussion and mentoring, the following steps were decided for the future: <pre>`[x] Get to a point where u-boot can be built from source and installed on the RPi3 [x] Figure out the UART base and verify that the UART's data register can be written to from the u-boot CLI (which should provoke an immediate appearance of characters on the CLI) [ ] Setup a flow using BOOTP/DHCP and u-boot that allows Redox kernels and DTBs to be sent to u-boot over ethernet [ ] Once microcolonel's code has been published, start by hacking in the UART base address and a DTB blob [ ] Aim to reach kstart with println output up and running. `</pre> **Next steps for @microcolonel** <pre>`[ ] Complete TLS support [ ] Get Board and CPU identification + display going via DTB probes [ ] Verify kstart entry on silicon. microcolonel means to use the Lemaker Hikey620 Linaro 96Board for this. It's a Cortex-A53 based board just like the RPi3. The idea is to quickly check if recursive paging on silicon is OK. This can make wizofe's like a lot rosier. :) [ ] Make the UART base address retrieval dynamic via DTB (as opposed to the static fixed address used at present which isn't portable) [ ] Get init invocation from kmain going [ ] Implement necessary device driver identification traits and registry [ ] Implement GIC and timer drivers (Red Flag for RPi3 here, as it has no implementation of GIC but rather a closed propietary approach) [ ] Focus on user-land bring-up `</pre> **Future work** If we could pick up the most important plan for the future of Redox that would be a roadmap! Some of the critical items that should be discussed: <pre>`* Suitable tests and Continuous integration (perhaps with Jenkins) * A pathway to run Linux applications under Redox. FreeBSD's linuxulator (system call translator) would be one way to do this. This would make complex applications such as firefox etc usable until native solutions become available in the longer term. * Self hosted development. Having redox bootable on a couple of popular laptops with a focus on featurefulness will go a great way in terms of perception. System76 dual boot with Pop_OS! ? ;) * A strategy to support hardware assisted virtualization.

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Thanks for reading! Hope to see you next time here. For any questions feel free to email me: code -@- wizofe dot uk. Many many insights are taken from @microcolonel’s very detailed summary; The following part of the blog is my own experimentation and exploration on the discussed matters!

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 There are hardly any things in life that are unavoidable maturing is one of the. Everybody ages, except what genuinely causes men to get alarm is losing the capacity to intercourse or accomplish an erection during excitement minutes. This is one of the remorseful minutes in each man's life.

 Rather than handling the issue, we wind up concealing it or keeping it mystery by not doing sex. That is our answer for sexual dysfunctions. Be that as it may, we don't need to shroud anything it's a typical issue simply like everything throughout everyday life.

 In this way, how about we examine our issues first to know the reasonable justification of such issues:

 1.            Erectile Dysfunction – Sexologists basically characterize erection and how can it happen? So as to discover the missing riddle during the maturing procedure because of which we wind up being inept throughout everyday life. The failure to hold or getting erect our penis to wind up ladies making a decision about our masculinity on the bed for unsure reasons. After some appropriate manual for erectile activity, I have run over the absolute best characterizing purposes behind ED in men. The absence of legitimate blood stream in penile cylinders prompts erectile brokenness.

 2.            Low testosterone is a progression of side effects that features the mitigating levels of male sex hormones. Testosterone hormone is one of the urgent masculinity traits. With developing age men appear to understand the decrease in the degrees of sex hormones demonstrating the misfortune in stimulating minutes, absence of getting an appropriate erection and low virility rate. In the wake of experiencing such data anybody could without much of a stretch relate testosterone as a definitive manly hormone. When men hit the 30s they just beginning confronting challenges in their sexual life. Low degrees of testosterone are a progression of side effects featuring the way that you are experiencing hypogonadism. Sexual dysfunctions will keep on climbing up to you.

 Men consistently take a ride in their sexual life. Bargaining their sexual life will be their most noticeably terrible thing however maturing difficulties disentangle this progression by making changes in our HGH (Human Growth Hormones) without giving a solitary opportunity to reestablish our sexual wellbeing. This enhancement is an ideal decision for men's sexual life.

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 As I have just disclosed to you the basic sexual issues now we have to discover the reasons for such obtrusive issues in the male regenerative framework and what genuinely empowers sexual brokenness:

 Ramulast Benefits  has to a great extent portrayed the reasons for male sexual brokenness and vows to push ahead with a characteristic arrangement. This male upgrade supplement is found in the confirmed labs through a progression of cross-checking which incorporates natural fixings and ranch developed mixes which were later distinguished as an ideal male improvement arrangement.

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 Initially, search for the Ramulast fixings:

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 3.            Epimedium – A mineral generally distinguishes as a significant component in our occasional table. It is as of late demonstrated that it additionally bolsters testosterone hormone by taking out the smothered testosterone focus.

 4.            Amino acids – An outstanding fixing in our item. Amino acids normally incorporate L-Arginine and L-Citrulline. Both have explicit occupations with respect to their job in delivering NO(Nitric Oxide) in the phones or tissues in the human body. As you are now mindful of the reality of the NO insufficiency factor in erectile qualification. A characteristic heap of amino concentrates could invigorate the creation of NO in the body normally.

 5.            Polypodium Vulgare – A veggie lover part essentially found in broccoli that really helps in reestablishing the sexual equalization of the human body appropriately. Finding an ideal arrangement is such takes to take care of any issue on the planet.

How accomplishes Ramulast work?

  Ramulast builds up it's the key ground of working on two fundamental things: Erectile activity and testosterone hormone.

 Both have a comparable job in the male regenerative framework with respect to intercourse and propagation. We will begin with penile erection to grandstand the best possible working of intercourse in late 40s men:

 Ramulast benefits

 This testo supporter supplement presents an ideal answer for each man to make the most of their masculinity somewhat longer without giving up anything throughout everyday life. Here are some best-given advantages recorded underneath:

 1.            Sexual dysfunctions are not, at this point an issue to be stressed over as the regular maturing procedure will barely influence men's sexual life in any capacity.

 2.            Low testosterone side effects can without much of a stretch be treated by reestablishing the ideal hormonal parity in the body.

 3.            Erectile activity is steady and hard simply like your typical erection prepared to intercourse.

 4.            It backings endurance and execution factor in men to convey fulfilling results on the bed.

 5.            By reestablishing the ideal equalization of masculinity, it rearranges the wellness objective.

 How to utilize Ramulast?

 Ramulast is anything but difficult to use as it comes as dietary pills which are suggested for oral utilization. A solitary jug accompanies 60 pressed enhancements with legitimate course to utilize. Each and every day you have to follow the prescribed measurement convention to keep away from any medication misuse.

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Instructions to Select a Lamp Shade

There are many issues to think about when choosing a lampshade. Following 27 years of helping vendors, creators and retail clients coordinate their lamps and shades these characterizing focuses which will permit you to respond to this occasionally overwhelming inquiry for yourself.

Magnificence isn't the main thing subjective depending on each person's preferences. People may as of now have assumptions of the correct size, shape, shading, material, and so on for a specific lamp conceal. Further, after one has viewed and lived with a specific lamp and shade mix for a considerable length of time any deviation from that can almost certainly be seen as "off-base". Things being what they are, how might you be certain that a specific lampshade is correct or that it "goes" with the lamp? Keep three fundamental focuses chief in your brain: depiction style, conceal size, and shade vertical area. you may also like www.totallylamps.com

Depiction STYLE: First and premier, what do you wish to depict with the lamp? Take a gander at your lamp and choose what style it is, for example, contemporary, conventional, collectible, astounding, and so on. If you truly can't observe a particular style, at that point, you should choose what is style or look that you wish to depict with this lamp. You will need the fundamental look or style of your lampshade to supplement, not conflict with the lamp style itself. You by and large don't need a luxurious and definite shade on the off chance that you wish to depict the spotless lines of a contemporary lamp. In like manner, you don't need a neat and tidy Chinese cooler sort to conceal for a lamp that you need to depict as a conventional style. Think as far as styles for the lamp and shade. This doesn't mean like hues, surfaces, size, and so on however broad style. When you have chosen the general lamp style that you wish to depict, at that point you can start focusing on different subtleties.

SHADE SIZE: This quality of your lamp conceal like all the others will be abstract and will change with the onlooker. Be that as it may, a few rules will assist you with deciding the limits inside which you should consider. You are searching for a parity in a lamp and shade measures that will make the lamp look neither top substantial or base overwhelming when seen from a separation of around 20 feet away.

There are four (4) estimations to think about when choosing a shade: top width (over), base measurement (over), side length (slant), and drop. The drop is the vertical separation the shade washer is from the top edge of the shade. Try not to be excessively worried about the drop. The drop and the harp size will decide the shade vertical area which we will cover later. You simply should know that various shades do have various drops. Little changes in the base distance across (1"- 2") will dramatically affect the appearance of your lamp. The equivalent applies to the side length and top width. The various mixes of these different estimations can be stunning. The following are some particular rules that you can convey with you to the store while choosing a lampshade.

Medium - little size conventional or antique style lamps that are 20" - 27" tall to the highest point of the shade will probably require conceals around 9" - 11" side length and 16" - 19" base distance across.

Medium size conventional or antique style lamps that are 27" - 30" tall to the highest point of the shade will probably require conceals around 11" - 13" side length and 16" - 19" base width.

Enormous size customary or antique style lamps that are 30" - 36" tall to the highest point of the shade will probably require conceals around 12" - 15" side length and 18" - 20" base distance across.

For every one of the above models, contemporary lamp shades will by and large have bigger base measurements and conceivably side lengths too. Bigger width lamps require bigger measurement shades and progressively thin lamps require littler distance across conceals.

Various attachment lamps are a unique thought that ought to be tended to by accomplished lighting proficient that you will discover in most legitimate lamps and lighting showrooms.

SHADE VERTICAL LOCATION: This attribute of your lampshade is genuinely easy to pass judgment. It is the vertical area of the base edge of your lampshade. On a solitary attachment lamp, this will quite often be around 2" beneath the base of the attachment get together. To decide the right vertical area, first look straight over the base edge of the lampshade and outwardly line up the close to the edge of the shade with the most distant edge of the shade. This line should then cross around 2" underneath the base of the attachment get together for most single-attachment lamps. How that you change this vertical area of the lampshade is with the HARP. This is the "U" molded wire that connects the lamp to the shade and it comes in various lengths from around 4" on up.

Shorter shades will require shorter harps and longer shades will require longer harps. Various attachment lamps are an extraordinary thought and I emphatically suggest the proficient direction for these examples, particularly for security worries just as stylish qualities.

Rundown: Use the above thoughts as a general rule and it ought to kick you off the correct way. For additional help, I emphatically suggest a respectable lamp and lighting showroom as this sort of store will probably have proficient experienced staff who are well furnished to assist you with the numerous unpretentious complexities of lampshade determination.

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In January 2017, two young girls took their lives in a suicide pact at Wapekeka First Nation. Desperate for mental health workers, the First Nation — a fly-in community 600 kilometers north of Thunder Bay — requested $376,706 in emergency funding from Health Canada. According to Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler, they were told it was an “awkward time” to be considered for funding approval.

Financial restraints on Indigenous economies

In the aftermath of loss, community spokesperson Joshua Frogg laid bare Ottawa’s fiscal power over their children: “It was awkward to break ground in permafrost so that we can bury these children. It was awkward for our youth to cry at the funeral.”

A few years earlier, the federal government chose a curious time to send the Canada Revenue Agency and Aboriginal Affairs into Elsipogtog to collect overdue bills. They came knocking at the height of the community’s anti-fracking protest against SWN Resources that shut down highways in New Brunswick — years after the debt was incurred.

“They are really pulling the financial strings hard,” stated band councilor Scott Sanipass to APTN News. Aboriginal Affairs threatened to hold back tuition payments and almost a million dollars owed to the band, in addition to 15 per cent of the band’s annual funding until the amount was paid back in full.

What ties these cases together, and so many others like them, is a document that all First Nation bands and organizations must negotiate with the federal government to release core funding.

The Contribution Funding Agreement.

The Contribution Funding Agreement is a key aspect of what Arthur Manuel called the 0.2 per cent economy in his book Unsettling Canada: A National Wake Up Call. This figure indicates the total percentage of the land base of Canada that is occupied by Indian reserves. As he explained, the implication of the 0.2 per cent economy is poverty and dependency: “I need to be blunt: you cannot improve child and family welfare and health services on Indian Reserves because you cannot generate any revenue from these depleted and minuscule 0.2% territories.”

For most communities, federal transfer payments are the sole source of income. So if First Nations rely on the government for most of their money, we need to look at what Ottawa does with the power this implies. Instead, the public has been staring down the wrong end of the barrel, obsessed with First Nations poverty rather than by its deliberate creation. [...]

Throughout the 1990s until today, numerous reports, audits, Royal Commissions, and Auditor General of Canada reports have cited the palliative nature of federal transfer funding to First Nations. Identifying chronic underfunding as a core concern, these evaluations consistently note that rigidly administered fiscal programs serve to prolong First Nations dependency in what we may call an indefinite limbo of permanent austerity.

The spending that First Nations ostensibly control is mostly transferred in CFAs that provide a core operating budget for band councils and funding for basic services and programs. But this funding barely covers costs.

Discrepancies in education, housing, and health spending between First Nations and other Canadians are not an accidental oversight. They are the product of deliberate tactics of fiscal brutality.

The current system of federal transfer payments evolved over a number of years. Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, the federal government made efforts to disentangle itself from the poverty on reserves that owed largely to broken treaties and loss of lands.

An AFN report describes how there was also increased pressure to provide services to First Nations at this time, services that were available to Canadians more generally with the post-war expansion of government social programs. But these new services offered no rights to economic benefits from treaty and traditional lands. Instead, new programs locked First Nations into social assistance programs with no prospect of real economic development and self-determination.

End goal: assimilation

Canada still hoped that the Indians would become Canadians. In that case, the funding burden of respecting nation-to-nation relations could be removed once and for all. In the backlash to the White Paper of 1969 that boldly promoted this kind of assimilation, Indigenous peoples fought instead for the establishment of core funding for Aboriginal organizations and won. But it was short-lived when widespread devolution programs were introduced in the 1980s as the Tories set out to shrink the government and deficit.

Neoliberalism affected all Canadians at the time. But the distinct nature of the fiscal crisis on reserves separated out Indigenous peoples from most other citizens. To take just one example, more than double the number of homes on reserves than elsewhere were in need of major structural repair. First Nations were also alone among Canadians in the high incidence of settlements lacking indoor plumbing and proper water sanitation.

Indian Affairs’ federal officials dubbed their devolution of services “the buffalo jump.” The “buffalo jump” is a reference to a hunting technique practiced in the prairies by Indigenous peoples for thousands of years; it involved killing their prey by expertly luring and chasing them off a precipice. The animals would be carved and cooked in a camp below.

The buffalo jump was technically a program review that recommended most federal responsibilities towards First Nations be transferred to the provinces and bands. Expenditures related to housing and infrastructure came under particularly severe attack, recommending “exit strategies” in funding by abolishing programs, cutting health care, and post-secondary education; relaxing standards in infrastructure management to ensure that “modern suburbs in the northern bush” were not created; introducing privatized program and service delivery; and the removal of incentives such as housing benefits for families to remain on reserves with high unemployment. [...]

Regime change changes little

In 2015 there was supposedly a regime change. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated: “It’s time for a new fiscal relationship with First Nations that gives your communities sufficient, predictable and sustained funding. This is a promise we made, and a promise we will keep.”

The two per cent cap implemented by the previous Liberal government was finally lifted. But the “disparities” continue to grow. A Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled that Canada discriminates against First Nations children by failing to provide the same level of child welfare services provided for non-Indigenous Canadians. Since the ruling, the tribunal has been forced to issue three compliance ordersto the Liberal government, which has failed to step in to provide funding parity.

Instead, Trudeau is doing what he does best: a public relations campaign about fiscal relations, rather than making any meaningful change.

In that regard, he is doing his favorite thing, which is setting up a process. The “First Nations – Canada Joint Committee on the Fiscal Relationship” with the Assembly of First Nations has given itself until the end of the year to complete its work, which is to negotiate a new fiscal framework with the federal government. The goals of the committee include the provision of sufficient funding.

Trapped in the 0.2 per cent Indigenous economy

Though $18 billion has been promised in the Liberal budget for First Nations, all of this money is reserve-focused funding: the 0.2 per cent economy. And most of it will not even be released until after the next election in an attempt to lead people along.

The federal government seems to still be operating under the buffalo jump policy. Pamela Palmater calls this system of fiscal relations “managed poverty.” She notes that while colonial law and policy created the dependency relationship, the current federal law and policies “maintain the national crisis of poverty in First Nations which in turn results in their premature deaths.”

Blueprints for change, however, abound. The Penner Report recommended that bands should be considered equivalent to provinces and receive financial support on those terms, as a distinct, constitutionally-protected order of government. A coalition of prairie chiefs including Peepeekisis First Nation proposed to redesign the CFA to receive direct funding from the Treasury Board, which was ignored.

As Chief Wallace Fox of Onion Lake First Nation explained to Ricochet in 2014 regarding the CFA: “They starved our people out hundreds of years ago and corralled us onto reserves . . . . They instituted a Pass Law where you couldn’t get approval to leave reserve . . . . We couldn’t hunt and couldn’t physically get a deer without going down to the Indian Agent’s office and asking permission. So we ended up begging for rations. We have a right to this land, further affirmed under treaty, and they’re trying to hold us hostage?”

“The underlying factor is that they want the land,” Chief Fox stated. “They got everything else from us, now they’ve come for the land.”

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WNBA nearly did All-Star weekend right. But they made the stars fly economy

The WNBA nearly did All-Star weekend right. Then 6’8 Brittney Griner was given a middle seat in coach.

Welcome to The W Is It, a weekly column about all the stuff that freakin’ rules in the WNBA. Have any tips of topics to cover? Find me @mellentuck on Twitter.

When Brittney Griner landed at McCarron International Airport in Las Vegas on the Thursday before the All-Star Game, she was greeted by a limo ready to take her to an upgraded suite at the Delano Hotel. As she walked through the doors of her new room, she witnessed something not seen at any of her previous five All-Star appearances: a room with a common room and supersized bathroom.

It’s here where the Phoenix Mercury center changed before going to a luxurious players-only dinner down the Vegas strip at the Bellagio. There were no ball-signings or media appearances to make. Just the best in the world enjoying a night together.

“It was fun,” Griner told SB Nation of the weekend. “Not that the other ones weren’t fun ... the one in Phoenix [in 2014] was fun. But it just felt like a real All-Star.”

At least it felt that way once the players arrived. The 22 All-Stars still had to fly coach to the event, which meant a middle seat for the 6’8 Griner. She had to pay her own money to upgrade and get the necessary extra leg room.

“If they would’ve listened to [Aces general manager and head coach] Bill Laimbeer on how to get us there, our travel there, to make us really feel like All-Stars, then it would’ve been great,” Griner said. “Like first-class seats, or at least exit row.”

Indeed, Las Vegas’ inaugural All-Star flashed the grandeur the stars of the league’s biggest celebratory weekend has long craved. At the same time, Griner’s flight difficulties showed the league still has a ways to go to improve the All-Star experience for those stars.

Upon arrival, everything was pristine. The biggest draw of the weekend featured a beach party performance the night before the game, with rapper Snoop Dogg and hip-hop artist Iggy Azalea performing at the Mandalay Bay casino and hotel. (Las Vegas Aces star Liz Cambage was set to open the night as a DJ, but technical difficulties scratched that segment.)

The next day, the All-Star Game player introductions were done between sets of Cirque Du Soleil stunts. For the first time ever, the game even had a halftime act, with singer Teyana Taylor owning the stage for the duration of the intermission.

Taylor was able to perform because, for the first time since 2006, the Three-Point Shootout and Skills Competition were not only paired together, but given their own night. For the past three years, the Three-Point shootout was played at halftime of the actual game, and there was no skills contest. Moving the events to Friday night gave the players a second day of spotlight on ESPN and opened the weekend to other events.

Taylor’s performance was a memorable one for the All Stars. In lieu of a halftime speech in the locker room, the players surrounded the stage to enjoy quasi-personal show. First-time All-Stars Diamond DeShield of the Chicago Sky and Odyssey Sims of the Minnesota Lynx took the mic to belt out Taylor lyrics in front of the crowd.

SING IT, @diamonddoesit1 pic.twitter.com/afZVZ3Lffk

— Chicago Sky (@wnbachicagosky) July 27, 2019

Griner also noticed all the other players from around the league in attendance to enjoy the weekend with them. With so much to enjoy around the game, it was hard for them to pass up, even if the alternative was a much-needed vacation. Luminaries included Sky forwards Gabby Williams and Stefanie Dolson, Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird and recent World Cup winner Megan Rapinoe, and NBA All-Stars Kobe Bryant and Chris Paul.

“I’d definitely call it my favorite weekend,” Griner said. “They made a lot of improvements. The aura around everything was great. I think it should be there again.”

But there’s still a ways for the league to go, through no fault of its host. One complaint was the All-Star Game’s early tip time at 12:30 p.m. PT the afternoon following the Snoop Dogg and Iggy Azalea concert. “Come on,” Griner said. “We’re all adults here. Maybe push the game back a little later.”

And then, there were the flights. All-Star Weekend is funded through a partnership between the WNBA and the host franchise, according to the league. Usually, the host franchise is responsible for travel arrangements.

Knowing that, Laimbeer, the coach and general manager of the Aces — and himself a 6’11 former NBA player — proposed setting $20,000 of his organization’s share aside to pay for first-class flights for the 22 All-Stars. But the league rejected the proposal, forcing Griner and her companions to squeeze into coach seats.

“I made a complaint at the board of governors meeting about that specific issue,” Laimbeer told The Associated Press. “They are our best assets, they are our All-Stars; treat them with respect. I apologized to them that I couldn’t get that done.”

Difficult travel accommodations have become a key point of emphasis for the league’s players and coaches. The WNBA’s collective bargaining agreement, which expires on Oct. 31, requires all players to fly commercially, which has contributed to frequent in-season delays, cancellations and uncomfortable trips across the country. Last season, 24 hours worth of plane troubles caused Laimbeer’s Aces to forfeit a late-season game with playoff implications. This season, new L.A. Sparks head coach Derek Fisher posted a picture of his team carrying their own bags through an airport terminal.

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So after a hard fought win on national television @la_sparks are right back to reality that these women are not being treated like the best athletes in the world!! #facts #hastochange #comeonnow

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“So after a hard fought win on national television [the L.A. Sparks] are right back to reality that these women are not being treated like the best athletes in the world!!”

Still, the league played police for All-Star in the name of fairness and parity. The fear was that Laimbeer’s first-class ticket offer would be seen as a recruiting tactic to lure top players to join Vegas’ superteam in the future. After all, Vegas acquired Cambage, last year’s league-leading scorer, when she requested a trade from a smaller-market Dallas Wings. MGM owns the Aces, and few, if any, other teams can and will match the pockets of the international powerhouse. The league OK’d the upgraded suites, but drew the line at airfare.

The league’s logic mirrors the decision to force Mystics guard Kristi Toliver to get paid a mere $10,000 for what is typically a six-figure role as an NBA assistant coach during the winter. The Wizards and Mystics are both owned by Monumental Sports, so the WNBA wanted to prevent them from using the carrot of a six-figure salary with the same organization to circumvent the salary cap and retain Tolliver as a player.

Yet this anti-tampering fear from the league is wildly misplaced. For one, the WNBA’s current CBA features the core designation, a provision similar to the NFL’s franchise tag that can be used to keep a player for up to four years. This is already one of the most team-friendly perks in all of sports, so what threat would a comped first-class flight really pose to a small-market team?

More fundamentally, the All-Stars deserve better. This isn’t the same as NBA teams offering perks outside the CBA to lure free agents like Kawhi Leonard that make tens of millions of dollars a season. These are the WNBA’s most talented athletes, who already play year-round because a maximum salary — a maximum salary — is worth just $117,500. Their bodies are pushed to limit over and over again, and their health should be the primary concern.

Consider that the All Star showcase was already missing six of the league’s biggest stars due to injury. Reigning MVP Breanna Stewart tore her Achilles in the Euroleague title game (Dynamo Kursk), while teammate and legendary point guard Sue Bird has missed the entire season to arthroscopic knee surgery. Former MVPs Candace Parker and Diana Taurasi have only played 10 games combined due to nagging ailments, and thus missed the weekend. A’ja Wilson, the league’s second-most popular player by fan vote, has been in a walking boot due to a high-ankle sprain in late July. Finally, Maya Moore, arguably the league’s most recognizable face, is taking the year off to focus on “family” and “ministry dreams.”

Vegas’ All-Star set the pace for what the W should bring every year, and players are eager to come back. But it wasn’t perfect just yet.

Now for some fun stuff.

Speaking of ... Candace Parker is BACK!

A hamstring injury has cost Parker all but nine games this season, and she’s looked shaky for most of those. Until this week.

Check out the highlights from @Candace_Parker's season-high performance ⬇️ #WatchMeWork pic.twitter.com/7YbIwm31P0

— WNBA (@WNBA) August 4, 2019

CP3 was named Player of the Week after a pair of wins showed her score 16 and then 21 points. She looked like her former All-Star self, throwing behind-the-head passes in a win over the Storm. Let’s goooooo!

now candace is throwing THIS pass l.a. is getting rude af and im ready for it pic.twitter.com/vPGgXjxh9N

— Matt Ellentuck (@mellentuck) August 4, 2019

Courtney Williams is a PROBLEM

The Sun quietly have the WNBA’s best record, despite being forced to trade top big Chimey Ogwumike to the Sparks before the season. Though forward Jonquel Jones takes a lot of the spotlight, Williams is an assassin. In a win over the Liberty, she scored 28 points on 12-of-18 shooting and also added seven rebounds, six assists and THIS BLOCK.

She’s 5’8.

courtney williams is 5'8 pic.twitter.com/L3wFJztoAc

— Matt Ellentuck (@mellentuck) August 4, 2019

Marina Mabrey is disrespectful as hell for this lmao

The L.A. Sparks guard:

Blocked the hell out of Seattle’s Jewell Loyd

Chucked the ball at her to try and gain possession

Dapped up her teammate Tierra Ruffin-Pratt after doing it

Legend.

marina mabrey lmfaaaaoo this is the most disrespectful shit ive ever seen pic.twitter.com/Z6KUDB9lbX

— Matt Ellentuck (@mellentuck) August 4, 2019

[christ2056]

MINDSYNC PLATFORM REVIEW

INTRODUCTION

Alongside the approach of blockchain, artificial intelligence is an advancement that could change the world. As cryptocurrencies have developed progressively well known being used and application, so too are the quantity of tasks concentrated on intertwining these two innovations together.

For those of you who don't generally know the advantages of AI in a blockchain platform here a portion of this advantages are:-

Simulated intelligence and Blockchain are exceptionally helpful when consolidated together

1. Artificial Intelligence and encryption function admirably together

Because of the cryptography inalienable in the documenting arrangement of Distributed Ledger Technology, the information put away in a Blockchain is secure. Consequently, Blockchains are perfect for the capacity for individual and touchy information. Since Blockchain databases store data in an encoded state, thusly it is important that the private keys are remained careful to guarantee that every one of the information on the chain is kept secure.

2. Choices made by AI can be comprehended with the assistance of Blockchain

Artificial intelligence settles on choices by breaking down an expansive number of factors. Such choices can be hard for people to get it. These choices wind up less demanding to be reviewed when they are put away on an information point by information point premise on the Blockchain. One can be sure that the data put away on the Blockchain is carefully designed.

3. Blockchains can be overseen proficiently with Artificial Intelligence

Up until this point, PCs have been inept as they are not ready to play out any undertaking without express guidelines. It implies that activities with information on the Blockchain would require a lot of computing power. This is the place Artificial Intelligence becomes an integral factor. Simulated intelligence makes PCs smart. A Machine Learning based mining calculation would most likely learn at work, and in this way hone its abilities.

Simulated intelligence fueled undertakings speak to a standout amongst the most energizing parts in the cryptocurrency space — yet with such a large number of to browse, it's elusive the ones most deserving of your consideration. Dread not! We're here to isolate the good product from the refuse. In this article I will discuss a standout amongst the best AI-based venture to pay special mind to in 2019, this task is called MINDSYNC.

MINDSYNC is essentially a platform and a worldwide community of artificial intelligence and AI experts that will help organizations of different types flourish. It is an AIaaS (AI-as-a-Service) and ExaaS (Expert-as-a-Service)platform that assistance take care of business problems identified with clients through artificial intelligence based solutions that is effectively accessible and moderate to a wide scope of organizations. Vital association with decentralized supercomputer ventures and crypto mining ranches by Mindsync will make computing power accessible to community individuals and clients. They will likewise gain rewards for utilizing this platform, trade involvement and speak with people of same mentality for individual and expert development. Mindsync capacities with blockchain shrewd contracts innovation.

There are three noteworthy kinds of Mindsync keen contracts which are;

1. AI Contest. A savvy contract can be made by any client of the Mindsync platform utilizing its formats he will make rivalry principles and challenge term for which he should pay contingent upon the length of the challenge.

2. Mindsync Platform Contract. This agreement comprise of the information notoriety of clients, as it will be given great vote or not, this will help the respectability of the platform as deceitful exercises will be limited and the guilty parties being conveyed to book and rebuffed.

3. MAI Token Contract. This agreement will store the parity of clients of the platform and direct where the tokens will be distributed to either for rivalry prize or master charges.

HOW DOES MINDSYNC WORKS

At the point when a business is confronting a specific issue they can post it as a test on the Mindsync platform which will be obvious to all the community individuals, and each one of the individuals who are intrigued and are experts in the platform will enroll for the test in the wake of tolerating the terms and conditions include. The group of experts or person that make the solution to the issue will present their work for survey by the client in need and different experts in the community. Also, if the audit is effective the client purchases the solution. Be that as it may, for a person to be a piece of the community he needs to make a record with Mindsync which is absolutely free and after that he is subject to appreciate every one of the advantages related with the platform.

So as to take an interest in the MindSync environment, engineers, experts, computing power and huge information suppliers, volunteers and scientists are required to have the MindSync Coins tokens. The tokens will likewise be utilized to rewards members on the biological system.

MINDSYNC MAI TOKEN  DETAILS

Token: MindSync Coin (MAI)

Token protocol: ERC20

Total token supply: 1,000,000,000

Token supply during ICO: 500,000,000

Token price: $0.14

ICO date: March 01, 2019

Accepted currencies: ETH, USD, BTC, LTC and 120+ altcoins

Soft Cap: 30,000,000 MAI

Hard Cap: 500,000,000 MAI

FOR INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT THE LINKS BELOW:

Website: https://mindsync.ai/

Whitepaper: https://mindsync.ai/

Telegram: http://t.me/mindsync_ai

Facebook: https://fb.me/mindsync.ai.official

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mind_sync

My bitcointalk Profile link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1120501

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VMware vSAN Resilience

By Curtis Brown

VMware vSAN™ is VMware’s hyper-converged storage solution.  It has quite a few different methods of providing resilience for the data hosted in it, but these all require some careful consideration when designing the cluster.  In this blog I take a look at the configuration options and the design repercussions.

Storage Policy with respect to Resilience

All the approaches are ultimately defined by the VMware vSphere Storage Policy definitions. These policies are defined in VMware vCenter and are applied to objects (usually VMs, but can be individual disks, VM configuration files), subject to the compatibility with the underlying vSAN cluster.  However, there are limitations.

The most basic, default policy is RAID-1 configured with a Failures to Tolerate (FTT) of 1 – classic mirroring.  In vSAN, this means a complete mirror of the given object, creating two components. In addition, there’s a smaller Witness component.  This means we must have a minimum of three nodes in a cluster (though four would be recommended for maintenance and failover).  We can up the ante here by increasing FTT value, but while resilience improves there is an obvious impact on capacity.

We can also look at using Erasure Coding to give us RAID-5/6 protection.  This takes our object and breaks it out into components, with the data striped across them for resilience.  From a configuration perspective, all that separates them is that the FTT value of 1 means RAID-5, while FTT of 2 is RAID-6.  However, this does impact the number of components created.  In RAID-5, for any object, we have three components created with data striped with a parity bit across them.  So rather than the 200% footprint as with RAID-1, we only need 133% instead and get the same resilience, though at a performance cost. RAID-6 requires a fourth object and an extra parity bit, so the footprint is in between at 150%.  In either case, we still have a witness component too, so RAID-5 needs a minimum of 4 hosts (5 recommended) and RAID-6 needs 5 hosts (6 recommended).

Fault Domains

Of course, physically our clustered hosts are usually installed in one or more physical racks. Ideally, we’d spread the nodes across racks to mitigate the loss of a rack.  vSAN provides Fault Domain functionality to provide an awareness of these physical boundaries.

Consider a Fault Domain as a grouping of hosts within the cluster to represent a boundary of resilience to ensure that vSAN objects subject to a Storage Policy are deployed across the domains, so providing resilience to a loss of a domain (i.e. the loss of a rack) outage.

However, it’s not quite as easy as slinging your hosts into a pair of racks and setting up two zones. As stated above, even RAID-1 requires three hosts due to three objects.  This has a knock-on impact when defining Fault Domains too.  For RAID-1 based policies, the number of Fault Domains can be represented by the formula (2 x FTT)+1, while RAID 5/6 is (2 x FTT)+2. Therefore, RAID-1 at a minimum requires three domains while RAID-6 would require at least six domains (6 = (2 x 2)+2).

This obviously has limitations as to how useful the feature is when mapped to physical racks – Are you going to spread a small 6-node cluster across six racks to achieve six domains?  Or, perhaps across two racks and configure 6 zones, but you could lose three in the event of a rack failure so negating the effort of configuring Fault Domains in the first place.

We now see that the scale of the cluster and physical placement are important factors when deciding whether to use Fault Domains.

Stretch Clusters

This approach is designed to be used across different locations (latency permitting) and largely builds on the concept of Fault Domains.  Here, we have two defined Fault Domains (a Preferred and Secondary).  Alongside these, we also deploy a Witness appliance in a third location – this serves as a third Fault Domain.  We also break out the Failures to Tolerate into two values.

Primary Failures to Tolerate – Refers to Site level failure and can be a value of zero (no resilience, all data resides on either the Preferred or Secondary site) or 1, where the data is replicated between the two domains in the manner of RAID-1.

Secondary Failures to Tolerate – Analogous to FTT in a single site, this is the resilient behaviour within the single site and so can be configured as RAID-1 or RAID-5/6 with various FTT values.

The PFTT value effectively sits above the SFTT value, resulting in the following:

Logically speaking, for a given object, such as a VMDK, the Primary value essentially pushes a RAID-1 mirror across each site, with a Witness component in the appliance.  The Secondary element in concert with the RAID setting defines the policy within a site, here a straightforward RAID-1 mirror.

For the numbers of hosts, we therefore need to adhere to the needs of the local policy (be that RAID-1, 5 or 6) and double-up for the second site.

As this resides in a stretch vSphere cluster, we also need to build in some stickiness with respect to compute – so designing DRS and HA accordingly to match the preferred sites.

Closing Thoughts…

When embarking on a vSphere with vSAN design, one should consider not just the compute factors when deciding the number of hosts, but what level of storage protection will be required for the VMs.  In fact, by using the protection as a starting point (i.e. ‘We want RAID-6, so a minimum of five hosts is recommended’), the RAM and CPU can be defined above that – whether scaling upwards (five big hosts) or outwards (more, smaller hosts).  Even the physical rack design might be a determining factor – whether you can spread across racks or not.

If you’re about to embark on a VMware vSphere based hyper-converged solution, then Xtravirt can help. We have considerable experience in this area and can help with advisory, design and implementation services to create the right solution for your organisation. Contact us and we’d be happy to use our wealth of knowledge and experience to assist you.

 About the author

Curtis Brown is a Lead Consultant at Xtravirt.   His specialist areas include End User Compute solutions and Virtual Infrastructure design and implementation with particular strength in VDI, storage integration, backup and Disaster Recovery design/implementation. He was awarded VMware vExpert 2018 and is a graduate of the VMware Advanced Architecture Course 2018.

 About Xtravirt

Xtravirt is an independent cloud consulting business. We believe in empowering enterprises to innovate and thrive in an ever-changing digital world. We are experts in digital transformation and our portfolio of services cover digital infrastructure, digital workspace, automation, networking and security.

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Do I essential a graphic designing degree? 5 assistance that say “yes”

Albeit a few designers “make it” in the graphic design industry without a degree, most of us aren’t brought into the world with that unique parity of ability and good fortune. Regardless of your ability level, getting your instruction is something that will profit you significantly and surely won’t go unnoticed in the activity advertise. Regardless of whether you are hoping to wind up a consultant, customers trust somebody with a legitimate degree as a genuine professional to make or deal with their business picture (and their cash!) over somebody who seems to have just transformed an energetic side interest into a wellspring of pay. Here’s the reason

1-Certainty:

When you consider design at a respectable school, you gain a careful comprehension of graphic design programming, techniques, and wording utilized every day by professionals. To have the capacity to stroll into an imaginative gathering or take a seat before a potential boss and “talk shop” is a great and looked for after quality. It doesn’t hurt to have a remarkable portfolio either

2-Portfolio:

Your portfolio will be the most profitable special apparatus you claim. In a degree program, you will make numerous noteworthy portfolio pieces and build up your design style under the mentorship of educators that know precisely what bosses and customers are searching for. An assessment of your portfolio toward the finish of the program will give you a last audit with valuable input to ensure you are set up for the professional world.

3-Experience:

It’s a dependable fact that individuals with more experience find better occupations. Learning design with the most breakthrough industry programming and executing the most present techniques will give you the high ground in the industry. Your hands-on undertakings are an opportunity to increase certifiable experience, again with productive help from industry professionals.

4-Professional Network:

Regardless of whatever treachery it might speak to, the expression, “It’s not what you know, it’s WHO you know” can in some cases be valid. In spite of the fact that it is as yet essential to back up your professional associations with specialized learning, going to school will open the conduits for systems administration openings. By associating with different understudies, taking advantage of graduated class occasions, and notwithstanding speaking with your educators you can fabricate your system of design professionals for future vocation openings.

5-Certification: