Your top 6 questions about vehicle and equipment loans answered
Your top 6 questions about vehicle and equipment loans answered
If you're a business owner or self-employed, then chances are you will need to purchase a vehicle or equipment at some stage, even if it's just a new computer or phone.
When it comes to financing for vehicles and equipment, the types of loans available are different from your typical home loan mortgage, so we've answered the top six questions most commonly asked for you.
1.What types of vehicle and equipment finance are there?
 - Finance Lease
 - Commercial Hire Purchase (also known as Hire Purchase or CHP)
 - Chattel Mortgage (also known as Commercial Loan or Equipment Loan)
 - Novated Lease
Finance Lease
A finance lease provides 100% finance for the assets. In this situation, the lender or bank owns the asset and you lease it from them. Most assets that can be depreciated can be financed. Often there is a minimum finance lease amount of $10,000.
Commercial Hire Purchase
A hire purchase arrangement is an agreement to purchase vehicles, plant or equipment subject to payment terms. During the term of the agreement, the lender owns the goods. Ownership will be transferred across once the final payment is made.
Chattel Mortgage
A chattel mortgage is a loan agreement where you borrow funds to acquire an asset. You provide security for the loan through a mortgage to the lender. You generally do not need a deposit for a chattel mortgage and you retain ownership of the asset throughout the term of the loan.
Novated lease
Novated leasing from the financier provides a flexible, portable and convenient way to acquire a car as part of an employee's salary package. Employees can then lease a motor vehicle of their choice and while they remain employed, their employer agrees to pay the rentals directly from the employee's gross salary.
2. What is the loan term for vehicle and equipment?
Generally, most loans will be between 12 months to 5 years.
3. What's a balloon or residual payment?
A balloon payment or residual payment is an amount due at the end of the loan term. It's used to help lower monthly repayments and assist with cash flow, but it does mean you will have a lump sum to pay out at the end.
Be careful not to set your balloon value too high so that you don't end up in a negative equity position.
4. What's the difference between Commercial Hire Purchase and Chattel Mortgage?
The main difference is that with a commercial hire purchase the owner of the asset is the lender, whereas the chattel mortgage is owned by the customer. A chattel mortgage also attracts additional upfront costs such as stamp duty and ASIC fees. However, both types allow you to borrow up to 100% of the loan.
5. What assets can I finance?
Anything that can be depreciated for business purposes, however, different lenders will have slightly different policies on this.
6. Does it cost more to use a broker than go direct through a car yard?
No. A broker, such as Sunshine Coast Financial Solutions, will source the best vehicle and equipment finance options for you by looking over all your needs and then tailoring the right finance option to suit your business and cash flow.
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Animal Transport
What is an Animal Transport?
Animal transport is the commercial transport of live animals using motor vehicles. This also applies to the movement of animals in Germany as defined by the German Animal Welfare Transport Ordinance. The animal transportation involves the movement of livestock.
The conditions under which the animals may be transported are legally regulated in the European Regulation on the Protection of Animals during Transport. This regulation has been in force for all member states since January 2007. In Germany, the European requirements are implemented by means of a national animal welfare transport ordinance.
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The transportation of animals is the act of moving animals by transport.
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SET ANSI Command
Specifies whether to pad a shorter string with spaces when making a SQL string comparison or binary expression with zero (0) bytes when making a binary expression comparison in SQL commands using the equal sign operator (=).
In the Visual FoxPro OLE DB Provider, you cannot query the value of ANSI using the SET command though SET ANSI is supported.
Pads the shorter string or binary expression with spaces or zero (0) bytes needed, respectively, to make it equal to the length of the longer string or expression. When SET ANSI is set to ON, the two strings or expressions are compared character for character for their entire lengths.
Specifies that the shorter string not be padded with spaces or binary expression not be padded with zero (0) bytes. (Default)
When SET ANSI is set to OFF, the two strings are compared character for character until the end of the shorter string is reached.
SET ANSI has no effect on the double equal sign (==) operator. When you use the == operator, the shorter string or binary expression is always padded with spaces or zero (0) bytes, respectively, for the comparison. For more information, see Relational Operators.
SET ANSI is scoped to the current data session.
SET ANSI and the Query Designer Visual FoxPro builds a SELECT - SQL command in the Query Designer when you create a query. When creating Join and Filter conditions, if you choose the Equal or Exactly Like options, the = or == operator is included in the generated SELECT. The SET ANSI setting can affect the results of queries you create and perform in the Query Designer.
String Order In SQL commands, the left-to-right order of the two strings in a comparison is irrelevant — switching a string from one side of the = or == operator to the other doesn't affect the result of the comparison.
The following example creates a cursor with one record and then demonstrates how SET ANSI affects query results. When SET ANSI is set to OFF, the result is one because the strings are compared based on the shortest. 'Tommy' becomes 'Tom', and the strings 'Tom' and 'Tom' do match character for character.
When SET ANSI is set to ON, the result is zero because the strings are compared based on the shortest padded with spaces. 'Tom' becomes 'Tom ', and the strings 'Tom'and 'Tommy' do not match character for character:
CLEAR CREATE CURSOR Dummy (name c(10)) INSERT INTO Dummy VALUES ("Tommy") SET ANSI OFF SELECT * FROM Dummy WHERE name="Tom" INTO CURSOR result?"With ANSI",SET("Ansi"),_tally && shows 1 SET ANSI ON SELECT * FROM Dummy WHERE name="Tom" INTO CURSOR result?"With ANSI",SET("Ansi"),_tally && shows 0

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CET's flagship program for entrepreneurs, Square One (SQ1), is a hands-on training program designed to provide support to early-stage and first-time business owners in the St. Louis region actively engaged in the development of a bioscience, information technology or advanced manufacturing/consumer product enterprise.
SQ1 offers two training options: SQ1 Ignite is a 4-week program created to help founders quick-start their business model validation process. With emphasis on the business model canvas, this process introduces entrepreneurs to the local ecosystem of support, challenges them to form and test the assumptions about their business idea, connects them with mentors, and helps them identify the crucial next steps in launching their business.
SQ1 Boot Camp is an in-depth 10-week, 50-hour program that combines formal instruction with hands-on learning, networking, and mentoring. The program's structured curriculum seeks to instill in entrepreneurs the confidence and skills needed to succeed in high-growth industries. Sector experts lead the bioscience, information technology, and advanced manufacturing tracks, respectively. Participants work on specific deliverables such as a business model canvas, financial statements, pitch deck, 2-minute elevator pitch, and planning checklist.

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Hormones play a significant role in murine Taenia crassiceps cysticercosis, and they may also participate in the susceptibility to Taenia solium cysticercosis. In the present study, in vitro effects are reported for human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) on the larval stages of T. crassiceps (WFU strain) and T. solium. Our results reveal the presence of receptors for hCG in different developmental phases of both cultured parasites. On day 30, both taeniid species had the highest percentage of receptors in the neck, strobila, and suckers, but these receptors decreased by day 60, delimiting the segments and the exterior of the developing proglottids in T. solium. At the same time, there was a large number of hCG receptors in the area of the presumptive cirrus organ and in calcareous corpuscles within the parenchyma. This is the first report detecting receptors for hCG on different larval stages of T. crassiceps and T. solium. A direct effect of hCG could be recognized by the cysticerci as a factor contributing to the growth and development of T. crassiceps and T. solium cysticerci, respectively.
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The Environmental Benefits of Meal Kits
environmental benefits of meal kits
Have you considered using home delivery meal kits but thought that, due to the individually wrapping ingredients, it's worse for the environment?
According to research meal kits may actually be better for the environment than your average supermarket shop.
The food system is estimated to comprise 19–29% of global man-made greenhouse gas emissions. Over the recent years we have seen the emergence of home delivery meal kits such as Riverford and Gousto, who have tapped into a rising trend. As a society our lives are getting busier, these services offer to save consumers time by delivering the needed ingredients for home cooked meals. This eliminates time spent on planning meals and purchasing ingredients.
Despite their ease, how environmentally friendly are these helpful kits?
Comparing Emissions From Meal Kits Vs. a Supermarket Shop
A study in the Resources, Conservation and Recycling journal delved into this topic when they compared the greenhouse gas emissions of supplying a meal as a meal kit (from Blue Apron), to supplying the same meal through a traditional supermarket shop.
How a Traditional Supermarket Shop Produces More Emissions
emissions associated with a supermarket shop
Many people perceive meal kits as worse due to the packaging of pre-portioned ingredients. However, the study found that, when considering the full life cycle, supermarket meals exceeded meal kits' emissions by 33% (6.1 kg CO2e/meal vs 8.1 kg CO2e/meal).
There were a few reasons for this:
 1. The meal kits' direct-to-consumer model presents large emissions savings (1.35 kg CO2e/meal) as supermarkets' brick-and-mortar model results in food waste from non-purchased products.
 2. A supermarket's food waste has higher emissions than meal kit's processing waste, as it is further down the supply chain. Meaning whilst food from meal kits may be wasted when packaging the food in the factories, the food thrown away by supermarkets includes transportation and refrigeration emissions.
 3. Traditional supermarket shopping produces a greater amount of emissions through consumer food waste, exceeding meal kits by an average of 0.86 kg CO2e/meal. The difference can be attributed to the pre-portioned ingredients meaning less is thrown away.
 4. Meal kits use refrigeration packs to store the food, which produce less greenhouse gas emissions than retail refrigeration. However, the emissions produced by refrigeration packs is dependent on the type used, as water-based refrigerant packs produce much less than chemical-based refrigerants. Moreover, supermarket refrigeration has the potential to improve in the future and reduce emissions.
 5. Last-mile emissions (the transport to the consumer's home) are 0.45 kg CO2e/meal greater for supermarket meals than for meal kits. This is due to it being a round trip made by an individual consumer with variance in vehicle type, distance, and number of meals transported per trip. On the other hand, meal kits are delivered by a package or mail service via a truck on an optimised route. This finding supports previous findings that food delivery services produce less greenhouse gas emissions than consumers' individual trips to the supermarket.
Instances Where Meal Kits Produce Higher Emissions
packaging associated with meal kits
Aside from this, meal kits had higher emissions than supermarket meals in two instances:
 1. Meal kits had higher end-of-life emissions associated with the packaging that ended up in landfill. As a result, recycling packaging resulted in a 14% decrease in emissions for meal kits and 4% for supermarket meals.
 2. Packaging emissions for meal kits exceed supermarkets by an average increase of 0.17 kg CO2e/meal.
Total food waste comprises an estimated 2% of the U.S.' national greenhouse gas emissions (Venkat, 2011). Thus, even if meal kits do increase the ratio of packaging-to-product they reduce food waste, which can result in a net environmental benefit. The study's results supported a 2017 study which also found that meal kits yield lower food waste, higher packaging, and lower last-mile transportation emissions, with an average overall reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 4% (Fenton, 2017).
How Supermarkets Can Decrease Emissions
It is still important to note that there are ways to decrease supermarkets' emissions without the increase in packaging that comes with meal kits. This includes:
 - Retailers recovering supermarkets' food waste to provide socioeconomically disadvantaged groups with food.
 - Improving the use of analytics to predict customer shopping behaviour to avoid overstocking.
 - Engaging with customers to implement regimes such as meal planning to reduce consumer food waste.
Overall, it seems that meal kits can not only benefit your lifestyle but also the environment. Especially for busier people who struggle to put time aside for meal planning, opting into these home delivery services could seriously help you reduce your carbon footprint by reducing your food waste. However, there is still a lot of packaging waste associated with these meal kits so we recommend opting for ones who are more environmentally conscious.
Check out our recommendations on which meal kits to go for here.
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Academic Catalog
APPR 154: GAS & WATER SUPPLY
Foothill College Course Outline of Record
Foothill College Course Outline of Record
Heading Value
Effective Term: Summer 2021
Units: 5
Hours: 37 lecture, 86 laboratory per quarter (123 total per quarter)
Prerequisite: Per California Code of Regulations, this course is limited to students admitted to the Plumbing Apprenticeship Program.
Degree & Credit Status: Degree-Applicable Credit Course
Foothill GE: Non-GE
Transferable: None
Grade Type: Letter Grade (Request for Pass/No Pass)
Repeatability: Not Repeatable
Student Learning Outcomes
 - 1- Properly size a building domestic water supply system.
 - 2- Properly size a building natural gas supply system.
Description
Third-year course of the Plumber & Pipefitting Apprentice Program. Provides the student with a working knowledge of the supply and treatment of potable water, as well as the design and construction of potable water conveyance systems. This course also offers instruction in the use of natural gas and liquid propane gas systems as they apply to the piping industry.
Course Objectives
The student will be able to:
A. Explain the importance of water treatment and purification
B. Demonstrate a working knowledge of municipal water distribution systems
C. Demonstrate a working knowledge of building water supply systems
D. Demonstrate a working knowledge of the principles of domestic hot water systems
E. Explain the properties of gas and combustion process
F. Explain the materials, components and accepted engineering practices associated with gas piping systems
Course Content
A. Water treatment and purification
1. Purification through the natural water cycle
2. Treatment of raw water and removal of impurities
B. Municipal water distribution systems
1. Types of distribution systems
2. Water mains and services
3. Safety procedures when working in trenches
C. Building water supply systems
1. Design
2. Layout
3. Installation
D. Hot water
1. Thermal expansion and pressure control
2. Water heaters and boilers
3. Safety devices and accessories
E. Property of gas
1. Commonly used fuel gases
2. Natural gas conveyance
3. Specific gratuity of fuel gases
4. Air-gas mixtures
F. Components and materials
1. Gas piping systems
2. Orifice sizing
3. Air supply and venting
4. Valves and regulators
5. Electrical systems and controls
6. Appliances
Lab Content
Students will work individually and in teams on concepts, design, installation and accepted engineering practices as they pertain to water supply and gas installations, which will include:
A. Trench and excavation safety
B. Water demand
C. Flow charts and water velocity
D. Friction loss and pressure loss
E. Water system sizing requirements
F. Support of piping
G. Gas combustion efficiency
H. Gas pipe sizing requirements
I. Ignition temperatures
J. Appliance BTU ratings and load factors
K. Vents and vent connections
Special Facilities and/or Equipment
A. Lecture and laboratory classrooms with chalkboard
B. Audio-visual equipment (slide, video, and overhead projectors)
C. Plumbing tools and examples of water distribution and fuel gas components
Method(s) of Evaluation
Hands-on demonstrations
Classroom participation
Completion of chapter assignments
Written examination
Method(s) of Instruction
Lecture
Classroom discussion
Hands-on demonstrations
Representative Text(s) and Other Materials
International Pipe Trades Joint Apprenticeship Committee. Gas Installations for UA Journeyworkers and Apprentices. 2003.
International Pipe Trades Joint Apprenticeship Committee. Water Supply for UA Journeyworkers and Apprentices. 2004.
These are the standard Plumbing textbooks/workbooks used for this course. Although one or more may not be within 5 years of the required published date, they are the most current books used when teaching this course. We will adopt the next edition of each text, as it is published.
Types and/or Examples of Required Reading, Writing, and Outside of Class Assignments
A. Readings from Water Supply text:
1. Chapter 1, "Water Treatment"
2. Appendix A-15, "Pressure loss in water meters"
B. Readings from Gas Installations manual:
1. Chapter 5, "Valves and Regulators"
2. Appendix B, "Firing and appliance"
C. Writing assignments include:
1. Chapter 1, "Water Treatment" worksheet
2. Water sizing exercises
3. Friction loss in gas piping worksheet
4. Fuel gas pipe sizing diagram
Discipline(s)
Plumbing


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Effective January 1, 2022, the federal Budget 2021 announced the government's plans to implement a national, annual one-per-cent tax on the value of non-resident, non-Canadian owned residential real estate that's vacant or underused.
The government is finalizing draft legislation for the proposed underused housing tax (UHT). They're releasing a draft later this year and will include the final legislation in a bill introduced in Parliament sometime in 2022.
Who would pay the UHT?
If passed, the UHT will apply to an owner of residential property in Canada as of December 31 of the calendar year if:
- the owner is required to file an annual declaration for the calendar year; and
- the owner doesn't qualify for an exemption.
Calculating the tax
The UHT is calculated by multiplying the specified value of the property by the one-per-cent rate of the UHT.
An owner would be liable for the UHT in proportion to their "interest" in the property.
What's residential property under the UHT?
Residential property would include:
- detached homes, duplexes, and triplexes;
- semi-detached homes, row-house units, residential condominium units, and other similar premises that is, or is intended to be, a separate parcel or other division of real property owned, or intended to be owned, apart from any other unit in a building; and
- together with any common areas and other appurtenances and the subjacent and immediately contiguous land reasonably necessary for the use and enjoyment as a place of residence for individuals.
Who's an owner of residential property under the UHT?
If a residential property has a single owner, the owner pays the tax.
If a residential property has multiple owners:
- if property is held by owners as joint tenants, each owner will have an equal interest in the property; and
- if the property is held by owners as tenants-in-common:
-if each owner's interest is specified on any instrument evidencing ownership, each owner would be regarded as having that specified interest, and
-otherwise, each owner would be regarded as having an equal interest in the property.
Every owner of a residential property, other than an excluded owner, would be required to file an annual declaration with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) for each residential property they own on or before April 30 of the following calendar year.
An owner's declaration for the 2022 calendar year would be required to be filed on or before April 30, 2023.
To file a declaration with the CRA, certain owners may need to pre-register with the CRA in advance of filing their declaration.
Excluded owners include, as of December 31 of the calendar year:
- an individual who is a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada, except where the individual holds an interest in property.
-as a partner of a partnership, or
-as a trustee of a trust, but not including a personal representative of a deceased individual or the estate of a deceased individual;
- a corporation incorporated under the laws of Canada or a province and the shares of which are listed on a Canadian stock exchange;
- a registered charity;
- a cooperative housing corporation;
- an Indigenous governing body or a corporation owned by an Indigenous governing body;
- a municipality or a corporation owned by a municipality;
- the government of Canada or an agent of the Government of Canada;
- the government of a province or an agent of the government of a province; and
- other public service bodies such as universities, public colleges, school authorities, and hospital authorities.
An owner of a residential property must report in their declaration:
- the calendar year to which the declaration relates;
- the civic address of the property and other property-related information;
- the legal name of the owner;
- contact information of the owner;
- the type of owner (individual other than as a partner of a partnership or trustee of a trust, corporation, partner of a partnership, trustee of a trust;
- the owner's interest in the property (as a percentage), and if the interest is less than 100 per cent:
- the form of ownership (i.e., joint tenants, tenants-in-common), and
- the names of any other owners of the property having an interest in the property of 10 per cent or more;
- the residential property type (detached, semi-detached, row-house, condominium unit, duplex, triplex;
- the value of the property and how it was determined; and
- any exemptions and information related to any exemptions.
There are exemptions for:
- an owner or a qualifying occupant who occupies the home in periods of at least one month that total at least six months of the year. A qualifying occupant includes the owner's spouse, child or parent;
- held by a partner of specified Canadian partnership;
- held by a trustee of specified Canadian trust;
- property not suitable for year-round use;
- property uninhabitable due to a disaster or hazardous conditions;
- property undergoing major renovations;
- for the year of acquisition of an interest in a property;
- for an owner with at least a 25 per cent interest in the property who dies, for the calendar year in which the death occurs;
- newly constructed property in the calendar year of construction; and
- new property held by a developer as inventory for sale.
Payment due date
Payment will be remitted to the CRA on or before April 30 of the following calendar year.
An owner of residential property required to file a declaration, who fails to file by April 30 of the following calendar year will face a penalty of:
- $5,000, if the owner is an individual; or
- $10,000 if the owner is not an individual.
Learn more about this federal tax.


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Effects of Interaction of Static Load and Frost on Damage Mechanism of Concrete Elements
Keywords:concrete, cyclic freezing and thawing, scaling, bending, fracture mechanics, interaction
AbstractFrost damage is typical material deterioration in concrete structures subjected to external environmental conditions. However, the weather conditions do not make the sufficient factor causing the worsening of the concrete properties. Concrete structures with frost damage in service are subjected to loadings. The investigation was carried out with the primary objective to assess the influence of interaction of mechanical load and freeze-thaw cycles on damage process of concrete. The salt scaling process was observed for beam specimens subjected to cyclic freezing and thawing in third-point loading condition. The damage development due to internal cracking was monitored using fracture mechanics parameters.


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Over the past few years, wireless sensor networks received tremendous attention for monitoring physical phenomena, such as the temperature field in a given region. Applying conventional kernel regression methods for functional learning such as support vector machines is inappropriate for sensor networks, since the order of the resulting model and its computational complexity scales badly with the number of available sensors, which tends to be large. In order to circumvent this drawback, we propose in this paper a reduced-order model approach. To this end, we take advantage of recent developments in sparse representation literature, and show the natural link between reducing the model order and the topology of the deployed sensors. To learn this model, we derive a gradient descent scheme and show its efficiency for wireless sensor networks. We illustrate the proposed approach through simulations involving the estimation of a spatial temperature distribution.


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Journal title : 2020 4th International Conference on Electronics, Communication and Aerospace Technology (ICECA)
Publisher : IEEE
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Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) owing to their very open characteristics are being very attractive and adaptive. With the openness comes security issues to be dealt. The most usual attack in mobile ad-hoc network is the black-hole attack. It advertises false path as shortest and newest to the destined node. On gathering packets containing data will drop them and does not send it to the destination. This paper proposes an algorithm to overcome such an attack under Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol in MANETs. The proposal aims to detect and avoid black-hole attack by using the parameters of AODV routing protocol in its enhanced form of route recovery. The proposed algorithm has two different scenarios, where first comes the detection then the avoidance. The simulation results are obtained from NS -2 to authenticate the effectiveness of proposed technique in comparison with the existing protocols in the existence of black-hole attack with respect to change in simulation end time and active number of attackers. The implementation is assessed based on delay, delivery ratio, drop, overhead, throughput and packet forwarding ratio. The results obtained from network simulator are mapped to form a dataset, which is then validated on a modelled fuzzy inference system using MatLab software.
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Places of Interest nearby
Location address: Deutschland, Wittenberg
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The Melanchthonhaus is a townhouse in the German town of Lutherstadt Wittenberg. It is a Renaissance building with late Gothic arched windows and the broad-tiered gables. It includes the study of the Protestant Reformer Philipp Melanchthon, who lived there with his family. In 1954 the house became a museum on Melanchthon's life and work displaying paintings, prints and manuscripts by him and his contemporaries. It became a World Heritage Site in 1996.


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Bringing down the risks of crop failure by using IoT technology
Example of riot7 dashboard
Farmers are discovering how to bring down the risks of crop failure by using IoT technology to reveal hidden secrets on their farms. riot7 are making it easy for farmers to do this everyday.
UK crop yields have been affected by adverse weather in recent years. Technology can't change the weather, but it can provide a dashboard to reveal how crops, soil and livestock environments are performing. In some cases, having this information can make the difference between crop failure or preventative action. Introducing riot7, a company whose founders have been working for three years on making this technology accessible to UK farmers, and who are now offering affordable and easy to use solutions to provide farmers with the intelligence they need to make better management decisions.
riot7 farming solutions enable this intelligence by offering a range of wireless sensors to measure things of interest to a farmer; soil temperature, moisture levels, humidity, rainfall, ambient temperature and more. The sensors send data using a wireless technology that's been used by military and space agencies for decades. Using this technology, a sensor can take measurements every twenty minutes, send data up to five miles away, and can operate on a single battery for up to ten years.
The sensors communicate with a gateway, installed on the farm, which relays the sensor data to riot7 where it is stored and made available to the farmer through a dashboard. Using the dashboard, a farmer can access information; for example,
- Alerts when temperature and humidity levels mean that conditions are ripe for a crop disease outbreak
- Track 'Growing Degree Days' to more accurately predict the stages of crop development and pest life cycles
- Monitor the conditions in barns and poultry units to ensure the temperature and humidity levels are within a specified range
The riot7 team have been working with this technology for farming customers and agritech innovation centres for three years. During that time they have repeatedly observed two challenges, which they believe have restricted the uptake of this type of technology. Firstly, where farmers have attempted to build these solutions themselves, sometimes part funded by government grants, they generally don't have the IT knowledge to connect everything together in order to realise any value. Secondly, although there are a number of niche IoT solutions already on the market place, it seems that farmers could easily end up with several costly contracts to manage and several different dashboards and apps to use if they want to extend beyond the limits of one solution.
riot7 solutions are provided as fully configured solutions, which means that the sensors and gateways are already configured to send data to riot7 servers. The sensors just need to be positioned in suitable locations on the farm; they don't need to be configured. The dashboards will display this data as soon as the sensors are positioned. Once up and running, riot7 keep watch to ensure everything is operating correctly.
riot7 solutions are extensible, which means a farmer may opt to start with just one or two sensors but can add additional sensors as the need arises, without having to sign up for another contract or use an additional dashboard. For example a farm may decide to start with soil sensors to monitor soil conditions, and then extend the solution to monitor conditions in a barn or poultry unit.
Future Space Guest Blog: Jack Thompson, Founder of Ginkgo Business Development
Jack joined the advisory_space programme earlier this year as our virtual in-residence Business Development and Sales specialist, providing expert advice and support to the Future Space community. We asked Jack why having a good network is so important for businesses.
An interview with Thanh Quan-Nicholls, Lead for the Digital Innovation Fund at UWE
Lead for the Digital Innovation Fund at the University of the West of England (UWE), Thanh caught up with us recently to talk about her role, some of the work the team do to support start-ups and SMEs, and their plans to expand the business support offering in 2021.
Future Space businesses joining the B Corp movement
Five weeks ago, three Future Space businesses joined the B Corp Business Impact Assessment (BIA) cohort with Andy Hawkins. They set out on a 10-week programme to complete their BIA, the first step on the journey to becoming a B Corp certified company. We caught up with Andy Hawkins (Chief Purpose Officer, Business On Purpose) to see how the first half of the programme has progressed.


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Remus/Setup Remus for Backlogging
The following Tutorial will show you how to setup a fresh install of Remus to use as a backlog for Links and Notes. At the end you'll have a configured instance which can be used for backlogging your links notes and source-code snippets that are immediately shared.
NOTE All screenshots are made with the Remus Standalone Build (RCP) if you use Remus in your Eclipse IDE the appearance will be slightly different. Some actions are different
Step 1: Installing the required information units
Therefore open the Eclipse marketplace and install the information types "Link" and "Text" (see picture). This will install 4 new information types (LINKS, Unformatted Text, Formatted Text, SourceCode).
After the installation you'll be asked to restart the application.
Step 2: Setup the Webshot-Functionality (Optional)
An important feature for backlogging links to have a visual representation of the link. A webshot (a screenshot of the webpage) is optimal for this need. There a few free handy tools doing webshotting but unfortunately a distribution is not possible due to Licensing issues, you have to download the items for your own. To setup the webshotting open the Preferences at Remus->Information types->Links. Remus supports for each platform at least one webshotting tool.
- Select with the pulldown the tool for your operating system
- Click on the download link. You'll be redirected to the official page of the provider of the tool
- Download and unzip the tool into any location
- Enter the location to the recently extracted executable (for Mac: the location of the script) in the text field.
The following picture shows IECapt (Windows). The IECapt.exe is extracted into C:\
The setup of webshotting is optional and can be done also if you already have created information units in your workspace.
If you minimize Remus the desktop-panel will appear. By default it will have three desktop-sections.
- A search input field
- The Drop-Section with a borders area where you can drop things or a Paste-Button to forward the input of your clipboard to Remus.
- The notifications
The most important section is for us the Drop-Section. With this section you drop anything you want into the application (alternatively the content of your clipboard). To convert the data into a data-structure that is readable by Remus and makes sense for you, you can write rules. Rules are triggered on several events, e.g. if you drop text content into this section. Remus gives you a selection of possible relevant rules, you select a rule and the rule is executed. In the most cases the result of this execution is a new information unit is Remus. The most important thing is that you don't have to click through dozens of dialogs you can create a new information without any user-interaction.
By default no rules are installed (excepting the rules to install rules). For installing new rules Remus eats its own dogfood. At first we try to install a simple rule. Therefore select link section below and either drop it into the drop-section.
Drop this link into the Remus drop section
If you have no possibility to drag a link, open the link and drag or copy-past the contained content.
After the drop you'll see a new popup which gives you the choice of relevant rules to execute. Click on the "Install" Rule, select the Rule to install and press okay. Now what happened? The following image describes the workflow
- We have dropped the link to the Section. The rule engine will check if there is one or multiple rules that could deal with the data you have dropped
- You get a popup
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Robot - MetamorphicThis is a robot whose design is so flexible it can change into 2 or more forms, each possessing different Physical Abilities and Physical Powers. Most Metamorphs have a dual nature. The primary form is a human-shape; the secondary form may be a vehicle or usuform. Both forms weigh the same, but may be different sizes. A Metamorph can change into a form that is up to 3X's larger than the smaller form. If the metamorph possesses size-altering Powers, this limit is replaced by that Power's limit.
Note: The player must generate separate Physical abilities for each form and assign Powers to either or both forms.Metamorphs have a minimum of 2 forms. In the creation process, additional forms can be gained at a cost of -1CS to all Primary Abilities for each additional form gained.
Body Armor: Their Material Strength acts as Body Armor.
Self-Healing: Player character robots possess self-repair facilities that simulate normal Healing.
Note: There is Karma loss if a hero purposely destroys a sentient robot. Robots are people too. Non-sentient robots are cannon fodder.These Robots roll their Abilities on Column 4 of the Random Ranks Table.


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After-Hours / Urgent Care
PAD Dallas is open on Saturdays until 12N and Sundays until 2PM. There may be times when your child needs in-office assistance when our office is closed. Please consider the following when deciding between an After-Hours / Urgent Care Facility and an Emergency Room visit:
Benefits of Urgent Care:
- Primarily staffed by pediatricians
- Equipped to handle non-life-threatening situations
- Fast and cost-effective alternative to the emergency department.
Comparing Urgent Care and the Emergency Department:
Time: Urgent care visits average 30 minutes vs. 2+ hours for the Emergency Department
Cost: Urgent care visits average $50 – $150 vs. $1,233 at the emergency department.
For patients with insurance, a co-payment will almost always be higher for emergency department visits than for urgent care visits.
PAD recommends the following Pediatric Urgent Care clinics in the Metroplex: (click on links for location options)
Pediatric Emergency Rooms:
The emergency department is meant for the following:
- Life-threatening situations
- Serious and sudden medical conditions
If you or a loved one is experiencing a life-threatening emergency, call 9-1-1 or find safe transportation to the emergency department near you.
- Medical City Dallas Hospital
- Children's Medical Center in Dallas
- Children's Medical Center at Legacy in Plano


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Bucket Fruit 2
by Alexander Fishel
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Bucket Fruit 2 - Sort berry fruit and vegetables in their basket.
For children - distribute fruits vegetables and berries in their baskets.
Just move your finger with the item to the desired its basket.
Middle level: with a limited number of lives.
Expert level: same as the middle level, plus time limit.
Bucket Fruit - fun, free, catch items game for Kids,preschooler and toddler.
* It helps to you or your child learn to distinguish between different fruits, berries and vegetables.
* Based on visual perception and intuitive perception of items.
* Develop motor skills.
"Bucket Fruit 2" game is extension of previously released game "Bucket Fruit" with an altered view of visual perception.
The child himself must decide to which basket to put the emerging fruit or vegetable by dragging and dropping it in the right basket.
If a child makes a mistake, the object is returned to its original position.
The game has 3 levels of difficulty:
* For Beginners:with a constant velocity of falling items.
* Normal: with the accelerating rate of the falling item.
* Expert: with variable speed and a few items.
- Each level stores its score separately.
- Contain following items:
* fruits: apple, pear, orange, banana, pineapple
* vegetables: cucumber, tomato, zucchini, carrots, peppers;
* berries: blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, grape.
- The ability to compete with your friends through Google Account.
- The ability to share the result Google+.
- Supports phones and tablets
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Meander is a noun that refers to a bend in a sinuous or winding river. Wikipedia notes,
...in Classical Greece the name of the river had become a common noun meaning anything convoluted and winding, such as decorative patterns or speech and ideas [...] Strabo said: "... its course is so exceedingly winding that everything winding is called meandering."
Thus, one might refer to a route as a meander, although the adjectival form meandering is more frequently heard.
Some related adjectives include circuitous, roundabout, tortuous, winding, serpentine, crooked, sinuous, snaky. Some of these are also used as nouns; for example, serpentine meanings include "coiled distillation tube". One might plausibly call a winding route a serpent.
One could also say, "It's rather an excursion" to indicate that a route is unnecessarily roundabout.

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¬C) are true. The law of excluded middle is the thesis that for all propositions p, p ∨ ¬p is true. If the Uniqueness Assumption is true, then for every antecedent A, there is a uniquely closest world where A is true. If the law of excluded middle is true, any consequent C is either true or false at that world where A is true. So for every counterfactual A > C, either A > C or A > ¬C is true. This is called conditional excluded middle (CEM). Consider the following example:
- (1) If the coin had been flipped, it would have landed heads.
- (2) If the coin had been flipped, it would have landed tails (i.e. not heads).
On Stalnaker's analysis, there is a closest world where the coin mentioned in (1) and (2) is flipped and at that world either it lands heads or it lands tails. So either (1) is true and (2) is false or (1) is false and (2) true. On Lewis's analysis, however, both (1) and (2) are false, for the worlds where the coin lands heads are no more or less close than the worlds where they land tails. For Lewis, 'If the coin had been flipped, it would have landed heads or tails' is true, but this does not entail that 'If the coin had been flipped, it would have landed heads, or: If the coin had been flipped it would have landed tails.'
Other accounts
Counterfactual conditionals may also be evaluated using the so-called Ramsey test: A > B holds if and only if the addition of A to the current body of knowledge has B as a consequence. This condition relates counterfactual conditionals to belief revision, as the evaluation of A > B can be done by first revising the current knowledge with A and then checking whether B is true in what results. Revising is easy when A is consistent with the current beliefs, but can be hard otherwise. Every semantics for belief revision can be used for evaluating conditional statements. Conversely, every method for evaluating conditionals can be seen as a way for performing revision.
Ginsberg (1986) has proposed a semantics for conditionals which assumes that the current beliefs form a set of propositional formulae, considering the maximal sets of these formulae that are consistent with A, and adding A to each. The rationale is that each of these maximal sets represents a possible state of belief in which A is true that is as similar as possible to the original one. The conditional statement A > B therefore holds if and only if B is true in all such sets.
Within empirical testing
The counterfactual conditional is the basis of experimental methods for establishing causality in the natural and social sciences, e.g., whether taking antibiotics helps cure bacterial infection. For every individual, u, there is a function that specifies the state of u's infection under two hypothetical conditions: had u taken antibiotic and had u not taken antibiotic. Only one of these states can be observed in any instance, since they are mutually exclusive. The overall effect of antibiotic on infection is defined as the difference between these two states, averaged over the entire population. If the treatment and control groups are selected at random, the effect of antibiotic can be estimated by comparing the rates of recovery in the two groups.
The tight connection between causal and counterfactual relations has prompted Judea Pearl (2000) to reject both the possible world semantics and those of Ramsey and Ginsberg. The latter was rejected because causal information cannot be encoded as a set of beliefs, and the former because it is difficult to fine-tune Lewis's similarity measure to match causal intuition. Pearl defines counterfactuals directly in terms of a "structural equation model" -- a set of equations, in which each variable is assigned a value that is an explicit function of other variables in the system. Given such a model, the sentence "Y would be y had X been x" (formally, X = x > Y = y ) is defined as the assertion: If we replace the equation currently determining X with a constant X = x, and solve the set of equations for variable Y, the solution obtained will be Y = y. This definition has been shown to be compatible with the axioms of possible world semantics and forms the basis for causal inference in the natural and social sciences, since each structural equation in those domains corresponds to a familiar causal mechanism that can be meaningfully reasoned about by investigators.
See also
- English conditional sentences
- Indicative conditional
- Irrealis moods
- Logical consequence
- Material conditional
- Optative mood
- Principle of explosion
- Subjunctive mood
- Thought experiment
- Possible world semantics
- Bennett, Jonathan. (2003). A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals. Oxford University Press.
- Bonevac, D. (2003). Deduction, Introductory Symbolic Logic. 2nd ed. Blackwell Publishers.
- Byrne, R.M.J. (2005). The rational imagination: how people create alternatives to reality. Cambridge, M.A.: MIT Press.
- Byrne, R.M.J. & Tasso, A. (1999). Deductive reasoning with factual, possible, and counterfactual conditionals. Memory & Cognition. 27, 726-740.
- De Vega, M., Urrutia, M., Riffo, B. (2007). Canceling updating in the comprehension of counterfactuals embedded in narrative. Memory & Cognition, 35, _PHONE_.
- Edgington, Dorothy. (2001). "Conditionals". In Goble, Lou, ed., The Blackwell Guide to Philosophical Logic. Blackwell.
- Edgington, Dorothy. (2006). "Conditionals". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward Zalta (ed.).
- Ferguson, H.J. and Sanford, A.J. (2008) Anomalies in real and counterfactual worlds: an eye-movement investigation. J. Mem. Lang. 58, 609-626.
- Fillenbaum, S. (1974). Information amplified: memory for counterfactual conditionals. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 102, 44-49.
- Johnson-Laird, P.N. and Byrne, R.M.J. (1991). Deduction. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
- Morgan, Stephen L. and Christopher Winship. (2007). " Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles of Social Research". Cambridge Eprint.
- Ginsberg, M. L. (1986). "Counterfactuals". Artificial Intelligence, 30: 35-79.
- Lewis, David. (1973). Counterfactuals. Blackwell Publishers. ISBN 0-631-22425-4
- Santamaria, C., Espino, O. and Byrne, R.M.J. (2005). Counterfactual and semifactual conditionals prime alternative possibilities. Journal of Experimental Psychology:Learning, Memory and Cognition. 31, 1149–1154
- Thompson, V. and Byrne, R.M.J. (2002). Reasoning about things that didn't happen. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 28, _PHONE_.


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Boolean operator noun definition in Computer programming topic from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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Returns the k-th largest value in a given range in all worksheets in a workbook.
For example, you can use LARGE3D to return the highest, runner-up, or third-place score in a given range in the whole workbook. You just need to specify a range, and LARGE3D will go through the same range in all worksheets in the workbook and find out the answer for you.
LARGE3D is very similar to the LARGE function of Microsoft Excel. The main difference is that LARGE3D considers all worksheets, while the original LARGE function doesn't.
Syntax
LARGE3D(range_input, k, include_current)
range_input - is the range for which you want to determine the k-th largest value.
k - is the position (from the largest) in the array or cell range of data to return.
include_current - Optional. Boolean argument , either TRUE or FALSE. Decides whether the current worksheet is included in the function's consideration. TRUE means the current worksheet will be considered, and vice versa.
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ACLU: Police Brutality and Suppression of First Amendment Rights in Puerto Rico
Under the Constitution, Puerto Ricans are entitled to the same fundamental rights and protections as all U.S. citizens. But, over the last few years, police brutality and limitations on freedom of assembly and expression in Puerto Rico have escalated at an alarming rate.
First documented by the ACLU in 2004, instances of police brutality have increased both in their frequency and intensity since 2008. Since Governor Luis Fortuño came into power two years ago, peacefully protesting University of Puerto Rico students have been subjected to violent attacks and arrest, while female students have been inappropriately touched by police officers during their arrests. Legislative sessions have been closed to the public, and protesters at the legislature have been pepper sprayed, beaten and shot at with rubber bullets by police. Low-income, black and Dominican communities have suffered ongoing police brutality - including the use of lethal force - for years and rarely see abusive officers punished.


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Theoretical Emission Spectra of Atmospheres of Hot Rocky Super-Earths
Ito et al
Motivated by recent detection of transiting high-density super-Earths, we explore the detectability of hot rocky super-Earths orbiting very close to their host stars. In the environment hot enough for their rocky surfaces to be molten, they would have the atmosphere composed of gas species from the magma oceans. In this study, we investigate the radiative properties of the atmosphere that is in the gas/melt equilibrium with the underlying magma ocean. Our equilibrium calculations yield Na, K, Fe, Si, SiO, O, and O2 as the major atmospheric species. We compile the radiative-absorption line data of those species available in literature, and calculate their absorption opacities in the wavelength region of 0.1--100~μm. Using them, we integrate the thermal structure of the atmosphere. Then, we find that thermal inversion occurs in the atmosphere because of the UV absorption by SiO. In addition, we calculate the ratio of the planetary to stellar emission fluxes during secondary eclipse, and find prominent emission features induced by SiO at 4~μm detectable by Spitzer, and those at 10 and 100~μm detectable by near-future space telescopes.


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Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 – 1927), was born in Walsall and moved to London with his family when he was still a young boy. His unusual middle name was from a Hungarian friend of his father. Jerome left school at fourteen, after his the death of his mother. This was not unusual in those days in poor families and Jerome's family was certainly poor. Jerome started work as a railway clerk but had an artistic nature and soon spent time acting with various theatre companies – as well as reading in the British Museum library. His stage experiences led to his first book On the Stage – and Off and to his determination to make a living as a writer. Three Men in a Boat, published in 1889, brought him success and worldwide fame. The critics didn't like Jerome's humour and easy-going style but the public did. The book was a huge bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic. Sales of the American edition reached a million copies, even though it was being sold there illegally! The qualities the critics disliked have now made the book a timeless classic. Three Men in a Boat is a fictional, and hugely exaggerated, version of an actual boat trip up the River Thames that Jerome took with two friends. After this book's success Jerome worked as a novelist, playwright and editor. He made lecture tours, especially in the USA and caused a scandal by publicly criticising the racism in the Southern States. Three Men in a Boat was his only best-seller. It was so popular in Germany that clubs were started for people to make their own boating trips in the style of the trip taken by Jerome and his friends.Présentation de l'éditeur :
Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat. Are you looking for one of the best books of all time to read? Then you've come to the right spot! Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome is one of the best works of all time. Don't miss out on this great classic - read Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome today!
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\begin{equation} \label{more-algebra-equation-beta} \text{d}(\beta ^{p, s}) = \text{d}_ M(\beta ^{p, s}) -(-1)^ n\text{d}_ L(\beta ^{p, s}) + (-1)^{p + 1}\text{d}_ K(\beta ^{p, s}) \end{equation}
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calcRDI - Calculate repertoire distances
Calculate repertoire distances from a matrix of vdjCounts
calcRDI(vdjCounts, distMethod = c("euclidean", "cor"), subsample = TRUE, nIter = 100, constScale = TRUE, units = c("lfc", "pct"),...)
- a matrix of repertoire counts, as created by calcVDJCounts
- one of c("euclidean","cor") determining how to calculate the distance from the matrix of vdj counts. See Details.
- logical; if true, all repertoires are subsampled to be equal size.
- value defining how many times the subsampling should be repeated. Only used if subsample is TRUE.
- logical; if
TRUE, vdjCounts will be scaled such that the sum of each column will be equal to 500 counts (an arbitrary constant). Otherwise, the columns will be scaled to the average count of all the columns.
- One of "lfc" or "pct". This determines the method used for transforming the repertoire counts. See Details.
- additional parameters; these are ignored by this function.
A dissimilarity structure containing distances between repertoires, averaged across each subsampe run. In addition to the standard attributes in a dist object, three additional attributes are defined as follows:
|integers, the number of genes in each column of "genes" that were included in at least one repertoire.|
| integer, the number of sequences used after subsampling
the repertoires. If
There are two options for distance methods, "euclidean" and "cor". Euclidean refers to
standard euclidean distance, and is the standard for the RDI measure described in
(Bolen et al. Bioinformatics 2016). In contrast, cor refers to a correlation-based
distance metric, where the distance is defined as
(1-correlation) between each
column of vdjCounts.
units parameter is used to determine the transformation function for the
repertoire counts. If
units='lfc' (default), then the arcsinh transformation
is applied to the count matrix, resulting in a distance metric which
will scale with the average log fold change of each gene. In contrast,
units='pct' will result in no transformation of the count matrix, and distances
will be proportional to the average percent change of each gene, instead. Note that
"units" is a bit of a misnomer, as the distance metric doesn't actually represent the
true log-fold or percent change in the repertoires. In order to actually estimate
these parameters, refer to the rdiModel and convertRDI
_TAG_ genes genes = sample(letters, 10000, replace=TRUE) _TAG_ sequence annotations seqAnnot = data.frame(donor = sample(1:4, 10000, replace=TRUE), cellType = sample(c("B","T"), 10000, replace=TRUE) ) ##generate repertoire counts cts = calcVDJcounts(genes,seqAnnot) ##calculate RDI d = calcRDI(cts) ##calculate RDI in percent space d_pct = calcRDI(cts,units="pct") ##convert RDI to actual 'lfc' estimates and compare dtrue = convertRDI(d)$pred plot(d, dtrue)


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Why Do Cats Eat Grass?
Science Magazine recently published some interesting findings on why cats eat grass…
According to Science Magazine, scientists think they may finally have an answer for why our feline friends have a tendency to gobble up grass, only to regurgitate it again shortly after.
More than 1,000 cat owners were surveyed, all of whom spent at least 3 hours a day observing their pet. As you may have suspected, eating plants and greenery was revealed to be a common occurrence, with only 11% of owners failing to notice their cat doing it.
It's a common belief that cats eat grass precisely because it makes them throw up, but the study mentioned above revealed that only a quarter of greenery-gobbling cats were actually sick afterwards. Also, 91% of the owners surveyed revealed that their cats didn't display any symptoms associated with being unwell before they went on to ingest plants.
So why exactly do they do it?
The prevalent theory is that cats, just like many other wild animals including chimps, ingest grass because it – at one time, at least – helps to get rid of intestinal parasites. It does this by increasing the muscle activity in their intestinal tract.
Although the parasite in question is no longer a threat to our feline friends, it seems to be the case that cats picked up this strategy from a distant ancestor and that's it's simply innate behaviour.
Read more by visiting the Science Magazine website.
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Alabama Smith in the Quest of Fate is a hidden-object game that was first released in 2009. It is one of the games in the Alabama Smith series. Alabama Smith is an archaeologist who gets to visit different scenes in the past in order to solve different kinds of mysteries. This is possible through the use of a magical amulet. Items that need to be found are located at the bottom part of the main window. Tasks that players must complete are located at the bottom right. In this game, Alabama and his girlfriend are on a mission to find the Crystals of Fortune.
Aside from the hidden object aspect of the game, players also get the chance to solve different kinds of puzzles. Players must also find items that will be added to their inventory. These items will be useful throughout the game. Whenever players are stuck looking for an item in the game, players can use the hint feature. There is no limit to the amount of hints that the player can use, but players need to wait for the hint to recharge before using it again. The game also features several endings, so players can replay the game and get a totally different result.


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Character 2: Step up 24
seed = seed - 2 = 22
Character 3: Step down 22
seed = seed + 3 = 25
Character 4: Step up 25
Now with a seed of 23 will be encoded to Even given the base code key and the seed, this takes a few minutes to decode by hand. If the third party is missing either one of those pieces of information (or any understanding of the rules we are applying), they have very little hope.
If you do not believe it, try this encoded email address with the above base coding string and no seed: Clue: I expect eventually someone will get it using educated guesswork and verification.
This is the algorithm incorporated by the NoSpamEmailHyperlink.
Visible Addresses
In addition to scanning hyperlink href attributes, most email harvesters will pick up an address from the general flow of text. If it sees anything in the format user@domain then the harvester software will pick it up.
Say, for example, your Email Hyperlink should read as follows:


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- The statue of liberty was a gift to people of America from which country?
- Pinpoint the world's oldest democratic country
- The World's largest natural gas deposits are in:
- Which country's Parliament is called mother of parliaments
- Which country has the largest resources of crude oil:
- The Bolshevik revolution is associated with
- MOSAD is a secret agency of
- The status of Liberty was presented to the united states by the people :
- The largest producer of solar energy in the world is:
- Pinpoint the world's oldest democratic country:
- Pope Benedict, the religious leader of Roman Catholic church belongs to:
- Which country's Parliament is called mother of all parliaments
- "Reuters"is the famous news agency of:
- After US, the largest number of Atomic Reactors are in:
- The World's largest copper producer is:
- Which is the second largest oil producer country in the world?
- Which country's Parliament has the largest membership
- Which country suffered the Maximum in the World War II?
- Which of the following countries has the largest area in the world?
- Which country is the 2nd largest oil producer in the world?


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In this Intro to AutoCAD class, you'll learn basic drawing and modifying techniques for drafting and technical drawing, using AutoCAD to create drawings that can be used to build real objects both mechanical and architectural. This is the first day of our Beginner AutoCAD 3-day class.
Layers, plotting (printing), properties, measurements, text, and other subjects will be covered in day two and day three of Beginner AutoCAD class.
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IZA DP No. 4057: The Impact of Education on the Subjective Discount Rate in Ugandan Villages
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2010, 58 (4), 643–669
Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to decrease with education. We examine this correlation further by testing the causal effect of education and exploit two different sources of its variation: school frequency across villages and the number of the respondents' school-going years that overlap with the era of the dictator Idi Amin's rule. For men, we find that education has a significant impact on their discount rate, similar in magnitude for both types of instruments and robust to observable characteristics. This finding highlights the importance of education in development.


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Yann Leguay (BE)
location: different locations
Rock engravings are among the oldest traces of human culture. To store information in a lasting way always was an urge of civilisation. By the time of their creation the engraved patterns, symbols and figures had some meaning and function, today this can be often only guessed or decoded with the knowledge of the historical context. 'Hardware' is a series of hand-sculpted stones, different sizes of rocks with technological objects and symbols engraved. For Tuned City this series will be extended by local stones, collected during walks around Mavromati and engraved with several symbols of sound media and their players of the younger history. 'Hardware' produces an archaeological contradiction, confronting notions of time, technology and memory.


Scroll, Refraction and Shader Effects in Three.js and React
Discover how to use react-three-fiber and combine some common techniques to create a Three.js powered layout with shader effects.
Featured image for the tutorial Scroll, Refraction and Shader Effects with Three.js and React
In this tutorial I will show you how to take a couple of established techniques (like tying things to the scroll-offset), and cast them into re-usable components. Composition will be our primary focus.
In this tutorial we will:
 - build a declarative scroll rig
 - mix HTML and canvas
 - handle async assets and loading screens via React.Suspense
 - add shader effects and tie them to scroll
 - and as a bonus: add an instanced variant of Jesper Vos multiside refraction shader
Setting up
We are using React, hooks, Three.js and react-three-fiber. The latter is a renderer for Three.js which allows us to declare the scene graph by breaking up tasks into self-contained components. However, you still need to know a bit of Three.js. All there is to know about react-three-fiber you can find on the GitHub repo's readme. Check out the tutorial on, which goes into the why and how.
We don't emulate a scroll bar, which would take away browser semantics. A real scroll-area in front of the canvas with a set height and a listener is all we need.
I decided to divide the content into:
 - virtual content sections
 - and pages, each 100vh long, this defines how long the scroll area is
function App() {
 const scrollArea = useRef()
 const onScroll = e => ( =
 useEffect(() => void onScroll({ target: scrollArea.current }), [])
 return (
 {/* Contents... */}

scrollTop is written into a reference because it will be picked up by the render-loop, which is carrying out the animations. Re-rendering for often occurring state doesn't make sense.
A first-run effect synchronizes the local scrollTop with the actual one, which may not be zero.
Building a declarative scroll rig
There are many ways to go about it, but generally it would be nice if we could distribute content across the number of sections in a declarative way while the number of pages defines how long we have to scroll. Each content-block should have:
 - an offset, which is the section index, given 3 sections, 0 means start, 2 means end, 1 means in between
 - a factor, which gets added to the offset position and subtracted using scrollTop, it will control the blocks speed and direction
Blocks should also be nestable, so that sub-blocks know their parents' offset and can scroll along.
const offsetContext = createContext(0)
function Block({ children, offset, factor,...props }) {
 const ref = useRef()
 // Fetch parent offset and the height of a single section
 const { offset: parentOffset, sectionHeight } = useBlock()
 offset = offset!== undefined? offset : parentOffset
 // Runs every frame and lerps the inner block into its place
 useFrame(() => {
 const curY = ref.current.position.y
 const curTop =
 ref.current.position.y = lerp(curY, (curTop / state.zoom) * factor, 0.1)
 return (

 {children}
This is a block-component. Above all, it wraps the offset that it is given into a context provider so that nested blocks and components can read it out. Without an offset it falls back to the parent offset.
It defines two groups. The first is for the target position, which is the height of one section multiplied by the offset and the factor. The second, inner group is animated and cancels out the factor. When the user scrolls to the given section offset, the block will be centered.
We use that along with a custom hook which allows any component to access block-specific data. This is how any component gets to react to scroll.
function useBlock() {
 const { viewport } = useThree()
 const offset = useContext(offsetContext)
 const canvasWidth = viewport.width / zoom
 const canvasHeight = viewport.height / zoom
 const sectionHeight = canvasHeight * ((pages - 1) / (sections - 1))
 //...
 return { offset, canvasWidth, canvasHeight, sectionHeight }
We can now compose and nest blocks conveniently:

Anything can read from block-data and react to it (like that spinning cross):
function Cross() {
 const ref = useRef()
 const { viewportHeight } = useBlock()
 useFrame(() => {
 const curTop =
 const nextY = (curTop / ((state.pages - 1) * viewportHeight)) * Math.PI
 ref.current.rotation.z = lerp(ref.current.rotation.z, nextY, 0.1)
 return (

Mixing HTML and canvas, and dealing with assets
Keeping HTML in sync with the 3D world
We want to keep layout and text-related things in the DOM. However, keeping it in sync is a bit of a bummer in Three.js, messing with createElement and camera calculations is no fun.
In three-fiber all you need is the helper (_USER_ atm). Throw this into the canvas and add declarative HTML. This is all it takes for it to move along with its parents' world-matrix.
If we strictly divide between layout and visuals, supporting a11y is possible. Dom elements can be behind the canvas (via the prepend prop), or in front of it. Make sure to place them in front if you need them to be accessible.
Responsiveness, media-queries, etc.
While the DOM fragments can rely on CSS, their positioning overall relies on the scene graph. Canvas elements on the other hand know nothing of the sort, so making it all work on smaller screens can be a bit of a challenge.
Fortunately, three-fiber has auto-resize inbuilt. Any component requesting size data will be automatically informed of changes.
You get:
 - viewport, the size of the canvas in its own units, must be divided by camera.zoom for orthographic cameras
 - size, the size of the screen in pixels
const { viewport, size } = useThree()
Most of the relevant calculations for margins, maxWidth and so on have been made in useBlock.
Handling async assets and loading screens via React.Suspense
Concerning assets, Reacts Suspense allows us to control loading and caching, when components should show up, in what order, fallbacks, and how errors are handled. It makes something like a loading screen, or a start-up animation almost too easy.
The following will suspend all contents until each and every component, even nested ones, have their async data ready. Meanwhile it will show a fallback. When everything is there, the component will render along with everything else.
}>

In three-fiber you can suspend a component with the useLoader hook, which takes any Three.js loader, then loads (and caches) assets with it.
function Image() {
 const texture = useLoader(THREE.TextureLoader, "/texture.png")
 // It will only get here if the texture has been loaded
 return (

Adding shader effects and tying them to scroll
The custom shader in this demo is a Frankenstein based on the Three.js MeshBasicMaterial, plus:
The relevant portion of code in which we feed the shader block-specific scroll data is this one:
material.current.scale =
 lerp(material.current.scale, offsetFactor - top / ((pages - 1) * viewportHeight), 0.1)
material.current.shift =
 lerp(material.current.shift, (top - last) / 150, 0.1)
Adding Diamonds
The technique is explained in full detail in the article Real-time Multiside Refraction in Three Steps by Jesper Vos. I placed Jesper's code into a re-usable component, so that it can be mounted and unmounted, taking care of all the render logic. I also changed the shader slightly to enable instancing, which now allows us to draw dozens of these onto the screen without hitting a performance snag anytime soon.
The component reads out block-data like everything else. The diamonds are put into place according to the scroll offset by distributing the instanced meshes. This is a relatively new feature in Three.js.
Wrapping up
This tutorial may give you a general idea, but there are many things that are possible beyond the generic parallax; you can tie anything to scroll. Above all, being able to compose and re-use components goes a long way and is so much easier than dealing with a soup of code fragments whose implicit contracts span the codebase.
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Example Design
You should make sure to install any required packages. The example design uses systemfit as well as DeclareDesign.
install.packages("systemfit")
install.packages("DeclareDesign")
install.packages("knitr")
install.packages("RCurl")
Load the packages:
library(systemfit)
library(DeclareDesign)
library(knitr)
library(RCurl)
Here is one way to load external data for use in the design:
online_data <- read.csv(file = "_URL_
 header = TRUE)
rho <- with(online_data, rho)
tau_A <- with(online_data, tau_A)
tau_B <- with(online_data, tau_B)
Design Declaration
You may want to give an overview of the design, and provide any background info.
 - Model:
 We have two untreated potential outcomes, \(Y_A(0)\) and \(Y_B(0)\) that are distributed standard normally and correlated with each other at \(\rho = .2\). We have \(Y_A(1) = Y_A(0) + \tau_A\) and \(Y_B(1) = Y_B(0) + \tau_B\).
 - Inquiry:
 We want to know the value of \(E[Y_A(1) - Y_A(0)]\).
 - Data strategy:
 Half the units are assigned to a treatment, \(Z_A\), that only affects \(Y_A\). Units are also independently assigned to \(Z_B\), a treatment that only affects \(Y_B\).
 - Answer strategy:
 We compare two strategies: in one we simply regress \(Y_A\) on an indicator for \(Z_A\), and in the other we use include in our system of seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) a second equation for \(Y_B\) on \(Z_B\).
Design code
Very often, designs require custom functions and data cleaning. You may want to do that separately from your design declaration. Here we make a custom sur() function to use the seemingly unrelated regression estimator in systemfit::systemfit.
sur <- function(data){
 fit <- data.frame(summary(systemfit(formula = list(YA ~ ZA,
 YB ~ ZB),
 data = data,
 method = "SUR"))$coefficients)
 names(fit) <- c("estimate","std.error","statistic","p.value")
 fit$conf.low <- with(fit, estimate - 1.96 * std.error)
 fit$conf.high <- with(fit, estimate + 1.96 * std.error)
 fit <- cbind(estimator_label = "SUR",
 term = row.names(fit),
 fit,
 df = NA,
 outcome = "YA",
 estimand_label = "ate_YA")
 row.names(fit) <- NULL
 fit <- subset(fit, term == "eq1_ZA")
 return(fit)
}
Now we declare the design in code.
my_design <-
 # Model
 declare_population(N = 100,
 YA_0 = rnorm(N),
 YB_0 = rnorm(N, YA_0 * rho, sqrt(1 - rho^2))) +
 declare_potential_outcomes(YA ~ YA_0 + ZA * tau_A,
 assignment_variable = "ZA") +
 declare_potential_outcomes(YB ~ YB_0 + ZB * tau_B,
 assignment_variable = "ZB") +
 # Inquiry
 declare_estimand(ate_YA = mean(YA_ZA_1 - YA_ZA_0)) +
 # Data Strategy
 declare_assignment(m = 50, assignment_variable = "ZA") +
 declare_assignment(m = 50, assignment_variable = "ZB") +
 declare_reveal(YA,ZA) +
 declare_reveal(YB,ZB) +
 # Answer Strategy
 declare_estimator(YA ~ ZA, model = lm_robust,
 estimand = "ate_YA", label = "lm_robust") +
 declare_estimator(handler = sur)
Design diagnosis
You may want to display features of the design here.
my_design_cor <- redesign(design = my_design, rho = .8)
diagnosis <- diagnose_design(my_design, my_design_cor)
kable(reshape_diagnosis(diagnosis), digits = 2)
We see that the SUR approach exhibits much lower variance in estimates and much higher power when \(\rho\) is high.


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At the joint Fraunhofer stand devoted to Adaptronics (D24/1) in Hall 2 of the Hannover Messe (April 16 to 20), they will be presenting the Quiet Car project, which demonstrates to the industrial world what adaptronic systems are capable of achieving. It's every driver's nightmare – a tire burst when you're traveling at maximum speed along the freeway. In theory, any car owner can reckon on having to change a burst tire after driving between 100,000 and 150,000 kilometers. This explains why the leading auto magazines and tire manufacturers recommend twice-monthly tire checks. So-called run-flat tires are a safer option, for they serve as a normal tire and spare tire rolled into one. They allow the driver to continue driving for a certain distance with a burst tire, thanks to an additional rubber lining that prevents the damaged tire from totally deflating. Run-flat tires have been available on the market since 2001, but they have been slow to attract customers because they are more expensive than standard tires and also generate more noise. This is where the adaptronics solutions developed by Fraunhofer researchers could provide help, for instance by reducing the noise level inside the vehicle by actively damping the propagation of vibration-induced noise. "In a factory, noise is generated by the metal cladding of the machines, machine tools generate vibrations, and power generators and motors use oscillating frequencies that create a noise disturbance for workers and interfere with other equipment: there is a direct correlation between technological progress, lightweight construction, vibration, reliability and noise," explains Tobias Melz of the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF in Darmstadt, who also manages the business activities of the Fraunhofer Adaptronics Alliance. "Active adaptronic structures help to reduce the vibrations caused by machines and vehicles – and hence the noise they produce. Manufacturers of run-flat tires are not the only ones to benefit from the advantages of adaptronics. Manufacturing processes can be run more efficiently when the machines operate with greater precision. This opens up a whole range of new possibilities, especially for components and products used in lightweight construction. In general terms, adaptronics is capable of furnishing more comfort, functionality and safety in all areas of engineering." In the Fraunhofer Adaptronics Alliance, project teams from different Fraunhofer Institutes are developing solutions for mechanical structures, covering all stages of the engineering process, from materials science to system reliability. "Our project results are improving all the time in terms of quality, speed and costs, and we have now reached the stage of working on pre-production manufacturing processes," reports Professor Holger Hanselka, director of the LBF and spokesman for the Alliance. The researchers' method of reducing vibrations involves combining sensor and actuator functions with electronic feedback control circuits. The sensors and actuators are designed to respond in a defined way to parametric changes in their operating environment. An object's mechanical properties, such as damping capacity or stiffness, can be synthetically modified by software. This makes it possible to reduce vibration, cut down noise, or even regulate the shape of certain components. This capacity of adaptronic devices to adapt in a defined way to their environment sometimes earns them the label of being "intelligent". In the Quiet Car project, two adaptronics solutions have been integrated in a compact-class car. The researchers have equipped a Volkswagen Lupo with four active mounting units in the rear part of the chassis, and are testing its road behavior. At the same time, they are elaborating an active damping mechanism for the "firewall" that separates the passenger and engine compartments. Later this spring, the vehicle will undergo trials on a test circuit operated by the Fraunhofer LBF and Technische Universität Darmstadt at the disused airfield in Griesheim. The research objective of the Quiet Car project is to answer questions related to system integration in a complex engineering context. It also provides an opportunity for the engineers to publicize the new technology, given that they are obliged to keep much of their everyday research and development work under strict confidentiality.
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Library and Archive at Lambeth PalaceLondon
"The Church Commissioners for England have most successfully brought together and conserved the constituent parts of Lambeth Palace Library in this striking new landmark building for the use of scholars and the enjoyment of the public alike."
Rolfe Kentish, Architecture Today
A significant new addition to London's civic architecture, Lambeth Palace Library is the first new building on the site for 185 years and hosts the Church of England's archive – the most important collection of religious books, manuscripts and archives in Europe, after the Vatican. A period of acclimatisation and phased transfer of the collection will follow, with the official opening anticipated to be in early 2021. The building is a sensitive yet distinctly modern architectural addition to the site of the Grade I listed Palace. Nestling in amongst mature trees at the north end of the garden at Lambeth Palace, the building sits on the south bank of the Thames, opposite Parliament. The location preserves the collection's historic link to the Palace, while increasing public accessibility to the Library. In the new building the historic collections of Lambeth Palace Library – founded in 1610 and one of the earliest public libraries in the UK - and the records of the Church of England will be brought together, replacing inadequate facilities in a warehouse in Bermondsey, that risked the future of the collection.
The contemporary redbrick building has four and five-storey wings, rising to a nine-storey central tower, crowned by a viewing platform that will be periodically open to the public. The central tower is designed to register on London's skyline, aligning it with historical architectural commissions by Archbishops of Canterbury over the centuries, and reflecting the national significance of the collection. In tandem, the viewing platform, which has direct sight lines across the Thames to the Palace of Westminster, reinforces the connection between the Church and the State embodied in the collection.