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Gamma World Weapons in MCC & DCC
by Ted Tschopp
Posted 2018-10-14 17:37:12 -0700 about 9 months ago late in the afternoon, on Sunday, October 14th
Updated: 2018-10-14 16:44:34 -0700 late in the afternoon on Sunday, October 14th
Catagories: Role Playing Games, Gamma World, MCC, and Draft
https://www.tedt.org/2018/10/14/Gamma-World-Weapons-in-MCC-DCC/
"Hunters Alien Weapons and Devices" by Seth Justus
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Mark V Blaster Pistol
Mark VII Blaster Rifle
Mark XII Blaster Pistol
Black Ray
Black Ray Pistol
Black Ray Rifle
Black Ray Cannon
Harmonic Disruptor
Drone Weaver
Flying Blades
Lamprey Disk
Neural Bite
Popper Pellet
Smart Dart
Slither Helix
Stinger Crystal
Trek Bomb
Trek Gun
Weapons that are Vehicles
Warbot
Death Machines
AATAAV
The following rules are based on my play testing of running Gamma World in MCC. I want to make sure the feel and flavor of Gamma World's weapons is available to people who want it in MCC.
Rate of Fire
Pistol Mark V Blaster 5 6 80/160/240 N/A 5D8* C-Cell 6 1 N/A 5kg 9,000Ð 1,500
Rifle Mark VII Blaster 5 6 130/260/390 N/A 5D10* 2xC-Cell 6 1 N/A 6kg Priceless Rank
Rifle Mark XII Blaster 6 6 400 N/A 8D10* F pack 6 1 N/A 6kg Priceless 2 x Rank
This unusual weapon's ray weakens the nuclear force binding the the nuclei of atoms. All things touched by the beam disintegrate cleanly without dust or odor. This creates light, intense heat, and very little noise, and leaves an impressive 10cm hole in the target. Even the air is affected, making the beam visible as a white, near instantaneous streak.
This is a larger more effective version of the Mark V that fits into the form factor of a rifle that weakens the nuclear force binding the the nuclei of atoms. All things touched by the beam disintegrate cleanly without dust or odor. This creates light, intense heat, and very little noise, and leaves an impressive 10cm hole in the target. Even the air is affected, making the beam visible as a white, near instantaneous streak.
The Mark XII Blaster is an experimental weapon built right before the great disaster It is the favored weapon of the Knights of Genetic Purity. The Purists use this ultra-powerful beamed weapon to annihilate any visibly mutated human on sight or keep their armies of slaves in line.
Pistol Black Ray Pistol 7 7 100 N/A Fortitude Save vs. Death C - Cell 4 1 N/A 1/2kg priceless Rank
Rifle Black Ray Rifle 7 7 500 N/A Fortitude Save vs. Death 2xC - Cell 4 1 N/A 3kg Priceless 2 x Rank
Siege Black Ray Cannon 7 7 650 N/A Fortitude Save vs. Death F - Pack 6 1 N/A 250kg Priceless 4 x Rank
The ultimate hand-held weapon, it is powered by a Chemical Energy Cell good for 4 shots. Fortunately, few Black Ray Pistols are available. They instantly kill an organic target not protected by a Force Field, but have no effect on inorganic or dead organic matter or on those inside a Force Field.
This looks like a clear plastic gun stock holding a black crystal 1 foot lozenge as the barrel. Energy is channeled from the energy cell through the crystal. The crystal is charged if a black liquid smoke movement is seen within the crystal. If there is no movement within the crystal, or the crystal is shattered, it needs to be replaced.
The ultimate hand-held weapon, it is powered by 2 Chemical Energy Cell good for 4 shots (total). Fortunately, very few Black Ray Rifles are available. They instantly kill an organic target not protected by a Force Field, but have no effect on inorganic or dead organic matter or on those inside a Force Field.
This looks like a clear plastic rifle stock holding a black crystal 2 foot lozenge as the barrel. Energy is channeled from the energy cell through the crystal. The crystal is charged if a black liquid smoke movement is seen within the crystal. If there is no movement within the crystal, or the crystal is shattered, it needs to be replaced.
This dangerous piece of 24th century direct fire field gun is similar to those usually found on Warbots. It causes instant death to living targets not protected by force field. It does no damage to inanimate (non-living) targets, or targets protected by a force field.
Awesomely lethal, it is almost never seen on a mobile platform, but rather as a fixed direct fire gun piece, usually supplied with Nuclear power and controlled by an automated system (cybernetic installation, think tank, etc…) or operated manually from a nearby bunker. In this configuration, the weapon has unlimited power available for firing. The black ray cannon is only very rarely seen as a field piece, mounted on a wheeled or anti-grav base that can be towed behind a vehicle.
This looks like a black crystal 3 foot lozenge as the barrel. Energy is channeled from the energy cell through the crystal. The crystal is charged if a black liquid smoke movement is seen within the crystal. If there is no movement within the crystal, or the crystal is shattered, it needs to be replaced.
Siege Harmonic Disruptor 7 - 100 N/A See Rules 3xSolar 10 1 N/A 100kg priceless 4 x Rank
The Harmonic Disruptor is a highly fragile and ancient artifact. Less than 20 are known to exist, and many a skirmish has been fought to possess one. Unfortunately, these battles often end in the destruction of this rare and powerful relic.
The disruptor looks like a 5 meter tall cluster of violet crystals held in a PlastiSteel case with many glass covered dials and finger controls of various colors. When activated, it sends out waves of harmonious sonic vibrations that cause damage to everything within its 100 meter range.
All targets within the damage radius receive 4d6 points of damage until either the harmonic disruptor is disables, deactivated, turned off, or until the victim leaves the 100 meter radius. All items of glass, hard metal, pottery, hard plastic, and plaster within the radius take one point of structural damage per Action Turn. Once the item loses all its hit points, it shatters from the harmonic stresses, and becomes permanently useless.
Range Drone Weaver 7 - 1/3 mile See Rules 1xSolar N/A N/A N/A 100kg priceless Rank
There are two types of Drone Weavers known in existence. The Sphere and the Strand. The Strand looks like a multicolored bead on the end of a 3 foot long braided strand of spun crystal. The Sphere is a small metal sphere, 10 centimeters in diameter, has a small control panel under a flush hatch. There is a 12-button keyboard and LED readout underneath the hatch. The Strand drones are controlled via Holo-controls via a qualified ID Bracelet. The user specifies a trigger condition of elapsed time or motion detected (by size). He then specifies a traveling distance (0 to 500 meters) and direction. The drone weaver can lie dormant for decades without reducing its effectiveness. Once triggered, the drone rises 1 meter off the ground and floats away at a speed of 5 meters per round. When it has traveled its specified distance, it begins to wander randomly and broadcast subsonic sound waves. These cause all creatures within range to make a MS check at -3. Those that fail must flee until they can no longer hear the noise. The subsonic can be heard up to 100 meters away.
Range Flying Blades 7 5 165 N/A 1d8 1xSolar or 1xC N/A 1 N/A 100kg 750 Ð 600
This strange weapon is designed to distract and injure opponents while causing minimal harm to their equipment. It looks like a thick, circular saw blade. It has a single recessed switch in the center of one side that activates it. The reverse side has a covered socket for a power cell. Thrown like a Frisbee toward the target, the flying blade begins spinning at a high speed and flies on at 20 meters per round, searching for living heat sources. It is able to distinguish the intense heat of an engine from the lower level heat of a living creature. It moves straight ahead for 10 rounds searching for targets. If it doesn't find one, it falls to the ground, drained of energy. The initial to-hit roll is only used to determine if it is thrown in the general direction desired by the character.
Once it has locked onto a target, it splits into three separate blades, each attacking with +6 to-hit, doing 1d8 points of damage with each pass. Each blade can make one pass per round. After five rounds of fighting, the blades fall to the ground. Only chemical or solar power cells can be used in this device.
Melee Lamprey 6 5 See Below N/A See Below N/A N/A See Below N/A 1kg 3000 Ð 1500
This is a metal disk about the size of a normal human hand. One side is strongly magnetized and will adhere to any steel surface with a strength of 8. A switch on the same surface turns the disk on or off. The switch is not accessible when the disk is stuck on a surface. When turned on, the disk absorbs magnetic and electrical fields within 3 feet. It can drain a chemical power cell in one round, a hydrogen cell in 10 rounds, and an atomic power cell in 20 minutes. Quantum cells are drained of all stored energy but will build up a charge when removed from the Lamprey field. Any powered equipment affected by the disk, including robots, operates at half power. Weapons do half damage, robots and vehicles move at half speed, robots get half as many attacks per round, etc.
Melee Neural Bite Mark I 5 3 Melee Stun N/A 8 1 N/A 1/2kg 1,200 Ð 600
Range Neural Bite Mark II 7 3 50 Stun Nx1 4 1 N/A 1kg Priceless Rank
There are two weapons with the name Neural Bite. The first one is an actual whip with poison. The second one is a ranged version of this weapon that was inspired by the Neural Bite wip.
Mark I: The neural bite looks much like an ordinary whip, but the last 20 centimeters (8") of this 3-meter-long lash bristle with small metal barbs. The barbs are unable to penetrate armor that provides an AC of 5 or less. If the barbs do penetrate, a nerve drug is injected into the opponent, dramatically altering his nervous system. This potent substance, intensity 18, acts like a paralytic poison, but results of paralyzed or worse means loss of free will (this drug cannot kill). The result is a mindless slave, who follows any orders he or she is given. The drug is injected into the neural bite with a syringe through a small rubber aperture, ringed in red, near the hilt. The weapon can hold up to eight doses at once.
Mark II: This looks like a silver metal ring, 1 foot in diameter, and bears a variety of multicolored beads along its perimeter. When activated, it oscillates in the air and flies at its target using its base range. Each turn it may attack a different target that is within melee range with a spark of energy that ignores the effects of armor and force fields. The victim must make a save (Will Power) or call under the domination of the Neural Bite's controller.
Range Popper Pellet 6 3 Thrown See Below N/A 1 1 N/A 5g 250 Ð 25
The popper pellet is an ocher kernel about the size of a large marble. To activate the item, the user throws it into an activated force field. Once it makes contact with a force field of any kind (excluding Mutational Force Fields), the popper pellet instantly gains the necessary power it needs from the field. Once attached, the popper pellet cloaks itself from IR, UV, and visible light, making it invisible to most individuals and sensors. It travels to the highest point of the force field (above the head for most powered armors and above the turret for tanks or robots).
While attached, the popper pellet lessens the effectiveness of the force field by five points (needed for the popper pellet's own operations). If five points are not available, the popper pellet is unable to attach itself, and falls to the ground deactivated. The popper pellet also deactivates and falls if the force field drops for any reason.
When a popper pellet is thrown at a force field, the individual sees the popper pellet suddenly disappear as it comes into contact with the force field. In response, the force field generator beeps and blinks a warning stating the field strength has been reduced.
Range Smart Dart 6 6 Thrown + 40 30' 3d6 Electrical Chemical 1 1 N/A 1kg Priceless Rank
This looks like a double-sized flint arrowhead with iridescent edges. When activated or flung at a target it homes in on the targets form and aura. The victim must make a Reflex save each turn to avoid the dart, but the dart continues to attack the target until it strikes something. When it hits it erupts in a flashing ball of electricity, harming all within 30 feet.
Once the Smart Dart is discharged it falls to the ground needing to be recharged again. It will take plug into a standard chemical battery and recharge over the span of 1 hour. It can only hold 1 charge at a time.
Range Slither Helix 6 6 Thrown + 30 1d3 Progressive +1d 1xSolar 1 1 N/A 1kg Priceless Rank
This looks like a rainbow-colored ribbon 10' long. When activated it animates and slithers after its target, attacking with its energized touch. If struck a victim may make a REF Save to avoid being wrapped up in the Helix. The victim takes progressive damage (save vs. Fortitude) each each turn it misses the Fortitude save. The Slither Helix has 25 hit points. It can only be harmed by physical damage.
Range Stinger Crystal 7 6 30 1d6 1xSolar 1 1 N/A 1kg Priceless Rank
Stinger Crystal This diamond shaped arrow is multicolored. when activated it springs into the air, hovering and spinning at the users shoulder. It can be used either to strike a foe with a melee attack or block a physical or energy attack. When blocking, the Crystal has 50 hit points.
Range Trek bomb 6 10 N/A 200' See Below N/A 1 1 N/A 25kg Priceless 1,800
A 25-centimeter square black plastic box weighing 25 kilograms. Disintegrates everything within 60 meters not protected by a Force Field. Does 30 points of damage to characters protected by Force Fields (that may be absorbed by the field if it is strong enough). After detonation, the ground surrounding the Trek Bomb's former location is disintregrated as well, leaving a perfectly symmetrical 2–'' crater.
Range Trek Gun 6 8 650 See Below 1xNuclear 5 1 N/A 225kg Priceless Rank
This gun releases a concentrated blast of antimatter the same as a Trek Bomb. Any target not protected by a force field is disintegrated. Any force field hit takes 30 points of damage. This weapon is usually seen on Death Machines. Occasionally, this weapon was also mounted on tanks or on a mobile base as a field piece. It is also sometimes seen in a stationary emplacement, connected to a Nuclear Power Plant and controlled by a Cybernetic Installation or Think Tank. In this configuration it has unlimited power for continuous firing.
This vaguely turtle-shaped unit is 9 meters long by 6 meters wide by 3 meters tall. It has 4 Micro-missile Launchers, 6 Torc Grenade Launchers (500 meter range and 5d20 Torc Grenades), 4 Black Ray Guns (200 meter range), 8 Mark VII Blaster Batteries of 3 guns each, 1 Matter Bomb Launcher 1200 meter range and 6d6 Matter Bombs) and 6 Laser Batteries of 5 guns each (1500-meter range and 15d6 damage per battery). All Warbots have a 200 Hit Point Energy Screen. They can use all weapons simultaneously.
Usually building-sized units, Think Tanks have only one purpose - to plan for all possible contingencies and answer questions about the information they correlate. They were located only in very high-security areas such as space ports, secret military bases etc. Each is defended by its own permanent cybernetic installation regardless of the existence of another such installation which runs the base on which the think tank is located. Persons with Stage IV and V I.D.'s can communicate with (not control) a think tank, as can supervisory borgs and permanent cybernetic installations.
Each Think Tank was individually designed and built, so no two are exactly alike. In general, they were powered by 2 or more nuclear power plants, including backup systems. In practice, most of them will still operate limited to one power plant. Think Tanks depend on the organic "brains" that power the bulk of their cognitive abilities. If the Think Tank is totally without power for any amount of time, these "brains" will die and the Think Tank will be rendered useless. In many cases, still-functioning Think Tanks have developed severe personality quirks and some are outright insane due to lack of regular maintenance or spare parts (i.e. new "brains").
This 15 meter long, 9 meter wide, 3 meter high killing machine is covered with knobby projections housing sensors and weapons. Its main weapons are 2 Blaster Cannons that do 25d6 damage at a 1500 meter range. For close defense it has 6 Black Ray Guns with a 300-meter range. 4 Trek Guns that do the same damage as Trek Bombs and have a range of 180 meters, and 16 Mark VII Blaster Batteries of 4 guns each. These weapons can all fire at the same time. Other weapons include 8 Laser Batteries 15 guns each) that do 20d6 damage per Battery at a 1500 meter range and can fire simultaneously, 6 Mini-missile Launchers with 5d20 missiles fired individually and a Fusion Bomb Launcher with 5d10 Fusion Bombs. Both the missiles and the Fusion Bombs have a 3000 meter range. An Energy Damping Field fuses the circuits of Robots coming within 60 meters of the Death Machine and does 200 points of damage to all Energy Screens except its own within that range. The Death Machine's own Energy Screen can take 400 points of damage. Death Machines are very rare and will only be found near CI's that they are assigned to defend and from which they take orders. They almost always attack those who can't show Stage V I.D.
The AATAAV is a gigantic, manlike war machine, standing 90 m tall and 36 m wide. The body is composed of energy-resistant CollaPlastic with a duralloy under-base. It must be piloted by a trained driver/gunner with a Stage V I.D.; the pilot controls all functions of the vehicle, including flight, hover, and walking capabilities, and all gunnery. Intensive training is necessary to operate the device at full efficiency, and such training is only available from certain military bases controlled by certain Cryptic Alliances.
The AATAAV has standard, infrared, and ultraviolet sensors effective out to 10 km, and has radar good out to 200 km. It can walk over light terrain at 25 kph, or use its hover thrusters to move over all terrain at twice that speed, for 120 minutes every 24-hour period (being limited by power and cooling considerations). For long-range travel, the AATAAV can reconfigure itself into a more aerodynamic form and fly normally, using anti-gravity pods and jet engines. The reconfiguration process takes only one minute, but during that time the machine's weapons cannot be operated. In full flight con- figuration, the vehicle can reach speeds of up to 830 kph. Stream- lining is provided by shaping the force field around the vehicle. Because of the force field, no weapons can be used while the vehicle is in flight.
The AATAAV has a force-field energy screen capable of absorbing 300 points of damage. A high-intensity floodlight mounted on the vehicle's head has a 1km range and projects a 30° cone-shaped beam. The floodlight will cause temporary blindness in most light-sensitive or nocturnal creatures within 300 m of the beam's source.
Two smoke-screen projectors, mounted just below the visual sensors, are together capable of creating a cylindrical cloud of smoke or gas 30 m wide and 250 m long within 10 seconds. The smoke negates all laser attacks, ruins line-of-sight optical and infrared sensing, and can be mixed with a poison gas (intensity 3-18, as desired) useful against ground troops.
The AATAAV is heavily equipped and was intended for use as a shock force against massed troop concentrations. Two black-ray batteries, each holding six black-ray guns with a 600-m range, are mounted on the left and right hips of the vehicle. Each battery has a firing arc of 180° to its respective side. Each shin of the vehicle has a mortar, concealed internally but hanging out for firing. The left mortar is usually rigged for firing negation bombs, and the right one launches matter bombs (type beta). Each mortar has a 2-km range and may fire two bombs per action turn, with a supply of 40 bombs for the matter-bomb mortar and 80 for the negation-bomb mortar. The AATAAVs' arms are each able to present a universal firing arc, quickly directing attacks in any direction. Each arm mounts three blaster cannon, doing 20d6 damage each at a 2km range. These guns are mounted around a massive central plasma-gun battery, with eight plasma guns per arm. The plasma weapons cannot be removed from the vehicle's arms without destroying them. Because the plasma weapons use so much power, the AATAAV cannot do anything else while these weapons fire and must stand perfectly still. Finally, four standard Mark VII blasters rifles are mounted under the vehicle's chin. These weapons have standard ranges and powers, and have a 90° firing arc to the AATAAV's front.
The AATAAV is powered by a fusion power plant with a ten-year life span.The machine is rigged to automatically self-destruct (regardless of the pilot's wishes) from a remote location, usually
A Military Installation. (This is an excellent way of keeping these devices out of the hands of the players.) However, the self-destruct mechanism and circuitry are considered secret knowledge, and no pilots are aware that these devices have been implanted in their vehicles. Because of the on-board guidance and fire-control systems, it is impossible for the pilot of a AATAAV to accidentally shoot his own vehicle in combat. An AATAAV will always remain upright unless it is depowered or purposefully made to sit down. Very few AATAAVs are in service, perhaps less than ten; only three to six of them would be in operation in North America. AATAAVs usually travel in small groups to provide fire support to one another.
The Aquabot was designed to attack and destroy military installations along coasts or underwater. Twelve Aquabot were originally produced, and one industrial complex (location undisclosed) was designed to mass-produce them. It is a 3-man unit with 2 operators in the forward control room and one aft in the support fighter.
The Aquabot is equipped with an array of weapons systems. Four batteries of missile/torpedo tubes (6 in each shoulder, 2 in the chest) fire either underwater torpedoes (range 10km) or airborne missiles (range 200km). These are explosive, armor piercing Action Turns which cause 50d10 damage in a 300m radius. Each battery normally carries 50 missiles & 50 torpedoes. 2 Batteries of 7 rocket launchers are mounted in the units forearms. These rockets have a range of 100km (underwater) or 1,000km (air). Each causes 10d10 damage in a 150m radius. Each battery normally carries 150 rockets. Also mounted in each hand are 3 heavy beam cannons. Each cannon has a range of 2km (underwater) or 10km (air). These cannons cause 50d10 damage to structural targets or 10d10 to soft targets. Finally, the Aquabot carries 2 batteries of 4 light beam cannons. These have a range of 1km in any terrain. They cause 10d10 damage to structural targets or 5d10 versus soft targets.
Mounted in two hard-points on the units chest are defensive shield projectors which absorb 500 points of damage each, and can completely renew themselves every 20 minutes. These projectors are also linked to a defensive bubble system which allows the shields to envelope the unit underwater and allow it to move absolutely undetected by all known sensory equipment.
In the event that the unit suffers extreme damage, the control head functions as a detachable pod and may move away from the field of battle. The pod may only detach when all other systems have been destroyed. The pod may automatically detach if control personnel are incapacitated for any reason.
Docked at the tail of the Aquabot is an independently maneuverable support fighter for land-based warfare. When detached the support fighter mounts 8 small beam-cannons and has 100 Hit Points. It is equipped with a 50-point shield generator which renews itself every 40 minutes.


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This post is part of the Enigma.js example series. Prior to the server setup, please complete the Enigma.js Applicaiton-ReactJS-Client-Setup.
It assumes that the node JS is already installed. If not, please download the nodejs. I will use windows 10 OS.
Create a folder server in the main app folder.
For now, we will install the following dependencies. Since we have no database need at this point, we do not install any. But incase a need arises, we will use mongoDB with mongoose.
Once the node JS dependedncy installed, run the following command to install the enigma.js and ws (websocket) modules.
We create one controller to act on each components in qlik sense environment. To begin with, wee create a controller for the engine level data and call it qengine.ctrl.js and place the following code. We will get into the details of enigma.js later in the series. But for now, the focus is in getting basic code structure for the server module.
You must get the below output, which means that the server structure is complete and we are good to advance into creating working enigma.js application using Node js and React js.
Our folder structure looks like below.


Just how sharp are your claws? Whether you prefer to purr like a cat or sting like a bee, this hot yellow and black latex suit is perfect for all your fetish play. Along with the matching black patent leather shoes, the box contains 17 items of clothing! You can mix and match layers and designs almost endlessly!


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NewsRace to the Regions
Race to the Regions
news, race-to-the-regions,
Ballarat real estate agents believe a lack of housing stock is driving growth in the city's real estate market with the latest Real Estate Institute of Victoria figures showing an almost five per cent increase on the last quarter. The median house price in the City of Ballarat is now $475,000, up 4.6 per cent from $454,000 in the March 2021 quarter, a staggering 14.5 per cent from the June 2020 quarter, and ahead of the regional Victorian average of $560,000. Regional Victoria's median house price alone grew by 10.5 per cent over the last quarter and almost 20 per cent over June 2020. Some of Ballarat's most popular suburbs have seen even greater rises, with Ballarat Central increasing from $550,000 to $593,000 and Ballarat North increasing from $445,000 to $480,000. Harcourts Ballarat director Peter Ludbrook said while more people were coming to regional Victoria, creating more competition for property in Ballarat, the majority of properties were still being bought by local buyers. "Even though there's been a lot of talk about out of town activity, people coming from the Melbourne and that has certainly helped our market, the reality is the majority of sales are still happening between local buyers," he said. "It's simply that those buyers now have to pay more in order to compete with the external buyers. It is a bit of a fallacy that all the properties are being sold to Melbourne people. That's just not true. The bulk of sales are still happening between people who already live in Ballarat." Mr Ludbrook said prices were increasing faster in the inner suburbs than new development areas. "I think we've almost got two markets now in Ballarat. We've almost got the inner-city market, or old market, if you like, and then we've got that new market in the growth zones," he said. "While everything has gone up, the greatest price rises have been in what I'd call the old market because there is, within reason, a never-ending supply in that new market. "There is new land being released, even though it might be a little bit slow at times. If you miss out on that one, you can always go for the next one. Whereas in the inner city market, it's a finite resource. There is no more." Tara Stone recently bought a Ballarat East property with her parents, but demand is so great that it took six months for them to find something and even that only happened after driving past on the day it went on the market and making an offer on the spot. "I started looking at the houses in about January and the price increase between January and June was actually really interesting. It definitely increased just in those six months," she said. "At one of the houses in Mount Clear, we spoke to a real estate agent who was saying that there were 1000 less houses on the market for this time than there was last year, but there were at least 20 or 30 couples or people looking at that place when we were there." READ MORE RACE TO THE REGIONS: Ms Stone said she was moving from Elwood, in Melbourne's inner-east, while her parents were moving from Avoca. "I think being locked down in Melbourne for a very long time last year made me realise that I don't need to be in Melbourne to be close to work, I've been work from home since March last year," she said. "The other thing is that my family are Ballarat and Greendale and out that way and the appeal of just getting out of that fast-paced lifestyle was there and to have some space, I'm in a one-bedroom apartment with two dogs, so the idea of just having a bit of breathing space was nice. "Avoca was a bit too remote for my parents. There's no shopping centre and all the things they were used to when they lived in Melbourne. Moving towards the town is appealing for that as well. "They were two and a half hours away from where I was and from my sister who has kids, they were an hour and a half away so we're centralising." REIV president Leah Calnan said another driver of the market growth was the ability for a better work-life balance in regional Victoria. "I've been saying for a while, it's almost become a life-work balance so you can potentially reduce the size of your mortgage, have a larger parcel of land, have a larger house, work a couple of days from home and still be able to enjoy your metro employment," she said. "I've said for a little while that regional areas would outstrip metro with their growth in 2021 and it's certainly trending that way and there are certainly no signs of it changing."
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July 20 2021 - 9:33AM
Ballarat house prices hit record high, climbing by 14.5 per cent
Jackson Russell
Ballarat real estate agents believe a lack of housing stock is driving growth in the city's real estate market with the latest Real Estate Institute of Victoria figures showing an almost five per cent increase on the last quarter.
The median house price in the City of Ballarat is now $475,000, up 4.6 per cent from $454,000 in the March 2021 quarter, a staggering 14.5 per cent from the June 2020 quarter, and ahead of the regional Victorian average of $560,000.
Regional Victoria's median house price alone grew by 10.5 per cent over the last quarter and almost 20 per cent over June 2020.
Some of Ballarat's most popular suburbs have seen even greater rises, with Ballarat Central increasing from $550,000 to $593,000 and Ballarat North increasing from $445,000 to $480,000.
Harcourts Ballarat director Peter Ludbrook said while more people were coming to regional Victoria, creating more competition for property in Ballarat, the majority of properties were still being bought by local buyers.
"Even though there's been a lot of talk about out of town activity, people coming from the Melbourne and that has certainly helped our market, the reality is the majority of sales are still happening between local buyers," he said.
"It's simply that those buyers now have to pay more in order to compete with the external buyers. It is a bit of a fallacy that all the properties are being sold to Melbourne people. That's just not true. The bulk of sales are still happening between people who already live in Ballarat."
Mr Ludbrook said prices were increasing faster in the inner suburbs than new development areas.
"I think we've almost got two markets now in Ballarat. We've almost got the inner-city market, or old market, if you like, and then we've got that new market in the growth zones," he said.
"While everything has gone up, the greatest price rises have been in what I'd call the old market because there is, within reason, a never-ending supply in that new market.
"There is new land being released, even though it might be a little bit slow at times. If you miss out on that one, you can always go for the next one. Whereas in the inner city market, it's a finite resource. There is no more."
Tara Stone recently bought a Ballarat East property with her parents, but demand is so great that it took six months for them to find something and even that only happened after driving past on the day it went on the market and making an offer on the spot.
"I started looking at the houses in about January and the price increase between January and June was actually really interesting. It definitely increased just in those six months," she said.
"At one of the houses in Mount Clear, we spoke to a real estate agent who was saying that there were 1000 less houses on the market for this time than there was last year, but there were at least 20 or 30 couples or people looking at that place when we were there."
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Ms Stone said she was moving from Elwood, in Melbourne's inner-east, while her parents were moving from Avoca.
"I think being locked down in Melbourne for a very long time last year made me realise that I don't need to be in Melbourne to be close to work, I've been work from home since March last year," she said.
"The other thing is that my family are Ballarat and Greendale and out that way and the appeal of just getting out of that fast-paced lifestyle was there and to have some space, I'm in a one-bedroom apartment with two dogs, so the idea of just having a bit of breathing space was nice.
"Avoca was a bit too remote for my parents. There's no shopping centre and all the things they were used to when they lived in Melbourne. Moving towards the town is appealing for that as well.
"They were two and a half hours away from where I was and from my sister who has kids, they were an hour and a half away so we're centralising."
REIV president Leah Calnan said another driver of the market growth was the ability for a better work-life balance in regional Victoria.
"I've been saying for a while, it's almost become a life-work balance so you can potentially reduce the size of your mortgage, have a larger parcel of land, have a larger house, work a couple of days from home and still be able to enjoy your metro employment," she said.
"I've said for a little while that regional areas would outstrip metro with their growth in 2021 and it's certainly trending that way and there are certainly no signs of it changing."
This story This Victorian town's house prices have hit record highs first appeared on The Courier.

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The Cultural Divide
Klaus Desmet, Romain Wacziarg
Issued in May 2018
NBER Program(s):Political Economy
This paper conducts a systematic quantitative study of cultural convergence and divergence in the United States over time. Using the General Social Survey (1972-2016), we assess whether cultural values have grown more or less heterogeneous, both overall and between groups. Groups are defined according to 11 identity cleavages such as gender, religion, ethnic origin, family income quintiles, geographic region, education levels, etc. We find some evidence of greater overall heterogeneity after 1993 when averaging over all available values, yet on many issues heterogeneity changes little. The level of between-group heterogeneity is extremely small: the United States is very pluralistic in terms of cultural attitudes and values, but this diversity is not primarily the result of cultural divides between groups. On average across cleavages and values, we find evidence of falling between-group heterogeneity from 1972 to the late 1990s, and growing divides thereafter. We interpret these findings in light of a model of cultural change where intergenerational transmission and forces of social influence determine the distribution of cultural traits in society.
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Q: Open .webm files with VLC automatically on Safari Currently on Safari I can copy the address of a .webm video file and play it in VLC by opening it with the "Open Network" option. If I open a .webm file on a page alone it defaults to downloading the file. How can I make it so that opening a .webm file opens VLC and loads the file from that URL?
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Q: Why does the previous page link appears in my address bar in MVC3 Razor application? I am using MVC3/Razor. But I don't understand why the previous page url appears when i redirecToAction.
Scenario: Once the user clicks on Signup from home page like "Account/Signup", the he would get RedirectToAction("AcceptCondition") so once the use accepts the condition and post then the user would get RedirectToAction("Signup") where i will check if he is coming from "AcceptCondition" page then he can proceed otherwise user will go back to "AcceptCondition" page. So when I redirect user from Signup page to AcceptCondition page the url in the address bar appears like "http://localhost:55104/Account/Signup" instead of "http://localhost:55104/Account/AcceptCondition"
I know that i can send user directly to "Account/AcceptCondition" when he click on the signup but I just followed upper scenario.
public ActionResult Signup(string ru)
{
    if ((ru == "/Account/AcceptCondition") || (ru == "/Account/Signup"))
    {
        return View();
    }
    else
    {
        return RedirectToAction("AcceptCondition");
    }
}

[HttpGet]
public ActionResult AcceptCondition()
{
    return View();
}

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult AcceptCondition(AcceptConditionViewModel acceptCondiViewModel)
{
    if (acceptCondiViewModel.TermAndCondi == true)
    {
        return RedirectToAction("Signup",
                                "Account",
                                new { ru = "/Account/AcceptCondition" });
    }
    else
    {
        return View();
    }
}

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*Signup GET checks refers, if not AcceptCondition, then redirects to AcceptCondition
IF it is AcceptCondition, then render the normal signup view.

*AcceptCondition GET renders the AcceptCondition view

*AcceptCondition POST does RedirectToAction("SIGNUP")

*Signup POST creates the user (Assuming) then goes?

Sounds like the referrer check isn't right so /account/signup is rendered again?
Whats your code look like.

A: It appears that you are passing a parameter of 'returnUrl' in your first function, but reference it as 'ru' in both the function body and in your RedrectToAction call in the third function. Be sure you are staying consistent with your parameter names as this could be a cause of faulty logic and bad/not working redirects.


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Logitech's HomeKit-Enabled Circle 2 Cameras Gain Notification Snapshots and Subscription Discounts
Wednesday January 31, 2018 2:55 PM PST by Juli Clover
Logitech today announced the launch of new features for its HomeKit-compatible Circle 2 security cameras via an update to the Logi Circle app.
Notification Snapshots, a new in-app feature, are designed to provide a visual "snapshot" notification of an event whenever motion is detected by the Circle 2 camera.
With this option, you'll get a visual representation of exactly what triggered the motion detection feature rather than a simple text-based notification that lets you know motion was detected. Snapshots will be sent via push notification and should let you react more quickly to incoming motion detection alerts.
For customers who also subscribe to Logitech's Circle Safe premium service, Notification Snapshots offer up a zoomed-in view of the object or person that triggered the motion detection based on the Circle's Person Detection feature.
Enabling Notification Snapshots on existing Circle 2 cameras will require you to download the updated Logi Circle app from the App Store and install a new firmware update from within the app.
Along with new notification features, Logitech is also introducing new Circle Safe Home subscription plans designed for customers with multiple cameras.
Circle Safe pricing starts at $3.99 per month for the basic subscription for a single camera and goes up to $9.99 per month (or $99.99 per year) for the premium subscription, but customers with multiple cameras can now get discounted prices.
For up to five cameras, Circle Safe Basic starts at $6.99 per month or $69 per year, while Circle Safe Premium starts at $17.99 per month or $179 per year.
Circle Safe Basic and Circle Safe Premium allow you to store video in the cloud for a longer period of time and access premium features. Logitech's cameras, available from Logitech and Amazon for $180, can be used sans subscription, but only 24 hours of video footage is stored in the cloud.
Tags: HomeKit Guide, Logitech, Circle 2
These rich notifications were already possible via the Home app but I guess it's good the native app is catching up. Yikes, those subscription costs are expensive. Much happier with my Omna after returning the Circle 2.
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How is motion zones a premium feature? Netgear Arlo offers it for free (not to mention 7 days of storing motion clips for free too). I get that cloud storage costs money, but motion zones is purely an in-device processing feature and totally unrelated to cloud costs.
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Stay away from this product. $10/month is ridiculous. You can't set motion zones without paying that so enjoy "snapshots" of every car that passes without it. Wish I would have bought a Ring or something.
Craiger
It's been great for me as a living room security camera. I paired it with an iHome switch so that the power is cut to it when I'm home. I also have a few things happen when it senses motion to hopefully scare off intruders.
Homekit only sends me notifications if a person is in the room. My dog triggers recordings but no notification.
This is with the free plan.
tzm41
Bought Omna at full $200 when it came out. I have had no issue with it or its HomeKit integration. Sounds like a better choice than this.
ersan191
Yeah I've been using the Home app and assumed everyone else was too, I read this article on 9to5mac first and was confused because this isn't a new feature if you use HomeKit which is better than the Circle app anyway.
The one thing it does have going for it is you don't need a hub (Apple TV or iPad and soon to be HomePod) for it to work while you're not home.


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Q: Why can I bind a reference to a member of a struct defined using #pragma pack, but not __attribute__(packed))? Let's say I declare two of essentially the same structure, one using #pragma pack(1) and another using __attribute__((packed)), like so:
#pragma pack(push, 1)
struct S
{
  int a, b;
};
#pragma pack(pop)

struct __attribute__((packed)) T
{
  int a, b;
};

As far as I understand these should have equivalent semantics.  However, if I do
S s;

std::cin >> s.a >> s.b;

then this compiles just fine, whereas if I do
T t;

std::cin >> t.a >> t.b;

then I get a compiler error
error: cannot bind packed field 't.T::a' to 'int&'

This error on its own I guess makes sense, even if it's annoying to have to work around on a platform where there is actually no problem with this sort of addressing.  But why don't I get the same error with S?


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Mississippi Lottery Corporation announces first transfer to the state
The Mississippi Lottery Corporation has announced its first transfer of net proceeds to the state.
In a news release, the MLC stated that the first transfer of�$7,621,232.37 was made to the 'Lottery Proceeds Fund' in the Mississippi State Treasury on January 17.
Lottery sales began on November 25, 2019, with the introduction of four instant scratch-off games. Sales through the first eight weeks of sales ending January 18, 2020, have exceeded $80.7 million. So far, players have claimed more than $44 million in prizes.
�We are very pleased with these early results,� said MLC President Tom Shaheen. �Retailer and player support have been fantastic in our collective efforts to raise money for roads, bridges and education needs for the state of Mississippi.�
The Mississippi Department of Transportation recently�designated the first $30 million of lottery proceeds for pavement restoration projects. Until 2028, the first $80 million of revenue from the lottery each year will be put toward infrastructure, and anything further will be placed in the state's 'Education Enhancement Fund'.
Shaheen stated that as the number of available lottery games grows, so will the number of retailers across the state.
�Retailers have earned more than $4.8 million in commission through January 18,� he continued. �As of January 21, 2020, the MLC has more than 1,400 active selling retailers. We anticipate having approximately 1,500 retailers by the time Powerball� and Mega Millions� go on sale on January 30.�
The MLC is required to transfer net proceeds within 20 days following the close of each calendar month.
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Soft sensors, also known as virtual sensors, surrogate sensors or proxy sensors, are computer models that calculate estimates of physical sensor measurements or lab measurements, based on other variables that can be more easily and/or more frequently measured.
When is it a good idea to use soft sensing?
Are some of the physical sensors in your production process (sometimes) unreliable?
Do you need to make frequently expensive and/or time consuming lab measurements?
Does it take long before you can evaluate certain quality aspects of the produced products, leading to a too high fraction of second-quality production?
Do you need to put production on hold while maintaining or fixing certain expensive physical sensors?
Do you want to have a continuous estimation of a quantity for which no (affordable) physical sensors exist?
In all these cases, virtual sensing may be the right solution for you. In such circumstances our soft sensor projects typically have short earn-back times, often shorter than a year.
Soft sensor development and integration requires skilled professionals supported by powerful tools. That is why we offer soft sensor development as a service to our customers. That is also why we have created the YASENSE product family to make that service efficient and effective.
process inputs: input flows to the production process like raw material properties and volume, as well as process characteristics like pressure, speed, temperature etc. measurements.
process outputs that are more easily measured like certain product properties.
The process outputs are easier to measure on-line are often called secondary process outputs, wheres the hard to measure process outputs of interest are called the primary process outputs.
In a soft sensor development project, we can build so called "white box" models, as well as "black box" models or a mixture of the two (non-surprisingly called "grey box" models). In white box modelling, the model is created based on a physical/chemical understanding of the process and the translation of that in mathematical formulas that are calculated by the computer. In black box modelling on the other hand, our machine learning algorithms learn the model from historical data.
We always need some historical data, even in the case of white box modelling: at the very least to evaluate the performance of the soft sensor.
A project to create a soft sensor and integrate it into a production management system or into a process control system follows a number of typical steps as illustrated in the figure.
Because a production process evolves over time, it can start to behave differently than at the time the original soft sensor was created. This is the reason why we recommend to deploy our YASENSE soft sensor monitoring tool that will continuously observe the performance of the soft sensor and the characteristics of its inputs, and will produce a configurable alert if something appears to go wrong.
The moisture content of paper produced in a paper machine is a very important product characteristic that has to lie within well defined band.
The moisture content is measured by a measurement device (typically based on infrared measurements) that scans back and forth over the produced paper. It is a well known issue that in the first few minutes after start-up of the machine, that scanner produces unreliable measurements. A typical reason for that is water that has condensed on the device during stand-still. Despite all efforts to fix that issue mechanically/physically, it is still an often occurring problem in pulp and paper industry.
Our solution has been to create a soft sensor that has learned the relation between tens of on-line measured paper and machine characteristics (speeds, steam pressures,...), and the moisture content when measured by a well functioning scanner (in regime operation). Now, in the first few minutes after start-up, the steam to dry the paper is controlled based on the moisture estimate of our soft sensor, instead of based on the physical moisture scanner, resulting in less second-quality paper.
A figure illustrating the accuracy of the moisture estimate made by our soft sensor ("predicted"). The line "actual" shows the moisture measurement by the physical moisture scanner. This plot is taken during regime operation, when the physical moisture scanner is known to produce accurate measurements.


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Sky Atlantic have scheduled the new Errol Morris documentary The Unknown Known to show on the channel this week. It will broadcast on Tuesday night at 9pm.
The film is the latest in a series of documentaries created by the American filmmaker in which he interviews a famous political figure. The most famous documentary he has made was the Oscar winning The Fog Of War in which he grilled the former US Secretary Of Defence Robert S. McNamara who played an integral part in waging the Vietnam War.
The film is famous because Errol Morris, who is renowned for his hardened interviewing style, managed to extract a lot of information from Mr. McNamara that he had not previously divulged before. He even admitted to feeling like he was responsible for war crimes in killing 100,000 civilians during a firebombing of Tokyo as a young officer.
The Unknown Known follows the same format, but this time he will interview the controversial Secretary Of Defence Donald Rumsfeld who served in the Bush administration. It will see Errol Morris question him about the Iraq War, September 11th and much more.
Errol Morris has developed relationships with many of the subjects of his interviews including Joyce McKinney – a former American beauty queen he interviewed for Tabloid who was arrested in the 1970s for abduction – and convicted murder David Harris who was arrested after his interview with Morris revealed new information about a killing in his film The Thin Blue Line.
However, Errol Morris says Donald Rumsfeld was a different case on The Unknown Known. "I don't want to say I don't like him," Morris said. "I feel guilty. He gave me so much of his time. He could be unbelievably charming. But the policies really are a stumbling block for me. I did not like them to start with; I like them less now."
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Kandy Powers AsiaInfo's New Communications Platform-as-a-Service Offering in China
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San Francisco, CA and Beijing, China, December 15, 2015 . GENBAND, a leading provider of real-time communications solutions, today announced that AsiaInfo, a leading provider of internet-based systems and software to the telecommunications industry, is leveraging GENBAND's Kandy™ communications Platform-as-a-Service (cPaaS) and fring ™ white-label OTT offering to deliver advanced real-time multimedia communications to its extensive customer base.
"Deploying Kandy and fring via our Contact Center, OTT and PaaS solutions enables us to deliver truly innovative options to our customers as they transform their businesses," said Zhao Hui, Vice President of AsiaInfo Group. "In addition to offering the most flexible, advanced embedded communications capabilities available today, Kandy is backed by GENBAND's carrier-grade technology and state of the art support, providing a comprehensive offering within the highly competitive Chinese market."
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Q: wxpython: centering text within a panel within a sizer It seems to me that the following code should display text right in the centre of the window; that is, in the centre of the inner panel. It doesn't however, and I'm wondering why not. If you run the code, you'll see a white panel in the middle of the frame, 150px by 150px. I do not want this area to change in size at all, but when I go about adding some text (uncommenting the txt variable in the middle of the snippet)the panel invariably shrinks to fit the text. Even specifying the size of the StaticText to match the panel isn't a solution because the text doesn't then centre-align.
import wx

class MyFrame(wx.Frame):
    def __init__(self, parent, id, title):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, id, title)

        self.rootPanel = wx.Panel(self)

        innerPanel = wx.Panel(self.rootPanel,-1, size=(150,150), style=wx.ALIGN_CENTER)
        innerPanel.SetBackgroundColour('WHITE')
        hbox = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL)
        vbox = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)

        # I want this line visible in the CENTRE of the inner panel
        #txt = wx.StaticText(innerPanel, id=-1, label="TEXT HERE",style=wx.ALIGN_CENTER, name="")

        hbox.Add(innerPanel, 0, wx.ALL|wx.ALIGN_CENTER)
        vbox.Add(hbox, 1, wx.ALL|wx.ALIGN_CENTER, 5)

        self.rootPanel.SetSizer(vbox)
        vbox.Fit(self)

class MyApp(wx.App):
    def OnInit(self):
        frame = MyFrame(None, -1, 'wxBoxSizer.py')
        frame.Show(True)
        frame.Center()
        return True

app = MyApp(0)
app.MainLoop()

A: You just need to add a couple spacers to make it work.
import wx

class MyFrame(wx.Frame):
    def __init__(self, parent, id, title):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, id, title)

        self.rootPanel = wx.Panel(self)

        innerPanel = wx.Panel(self.rootPanel,-1, size=(150,150), style=wx.ALIGN_CENTER)
        innerPanel.SetBackgroundColour('WHITE')
        hbox = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL)
        vbox = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
        innerBox = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)

        # I want this line visible in the CENTRE of the inner panel
        txt = wx.StaticText(innerPanel, id=-1, label="TEXT HERE",style=wx.ALIGN_CENTER, name="")
        innerBox.AddSpacer((150,75))
        innerBox.Add(txt, 0, wx.CENTER)
        innerBox.AddSpacer((150,75))
        innerPanel.SetSizer(innerBox)

        hbox.Add(innerPanel, 0, wx.ALL|wx.ALIGN_CENTER)
        vbox.Add(hbox, 1, wx.ALL|wx.ALIGN_CENTER, 5)

        self.rootPanel.SetSizer(vbox)
        vbox.Fit(self)

class MyApp(wx.App):
    def OnInit(self):
        frame = MyFrame(None, -1, 'wxBoxSizer.py')
        frame.Show(True)
        frame.Center()
        return True

app = MyApp(0)
app.MainLoop()


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Paul Maguire is Professor of Plasmas and Nanofabrication within the School of Engineering, Ulster University. His main research focus is on the science and engineering of microplasmas at atmospheric pressure with particular interest in novel applications. Recently he has developed systems for studying the interaction of low temperature plasmas with liquid droplets leading to interesting discoveries in microreactor chemistry for high synthesis rate growth of monosized nanoparticles. Plasma – droplet interactions have enabled the creation of highly charged micron-sized droplets which are proving to be an invaluable tool for the study of ultra-low energy electrons (< 1 eV) and short-lived radicals directly interacting with living cells. The design and integration of microplasmas with microfluidics and microfabrication is now opening up opportunities for developing new clinical and environmental lab on chip devices. Examples include real-time airborne pathogen detection and remote deep-ocean CO2 chemical analysis. Atmospheric pressure plasma synthesis of nanomaterials and/or atomic scale surface engineering offers opportunities for new nanomaterials, surfactant and ligand free synthesis, new delivery mechanisms to substrate, device or biological tissue.Paulreceived his Ph.D. degree from Faculty of Applied Science, Queens University Belfast in 1986. He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Chartered Engineer. He has published over 90 scientific publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, holds a number of patents and has attracted funding from Research Council (EPSRC_Maguire_Grants-details) in collaboration with colleagues at Ulster, Glasgow, Cambridge and St Andrews. His ocean lab on chip work has been funded by NSF through the US-Ireland programme in collaboration with NUI Galway and Scripps Institute, UC San Diego. Other industry-related collaborations have included funded projects with e.g. TFX-Medical, Seagate Ltd and AVX Ltd.
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Amorphous carbon Engineering & Materials Science 100%
Carbon films Engineering & Materials Science 63%
Amorphous Material Chemistry 48%
Amorphous films Engineering & Materials Science 46%
Liquid Film Chemistry 43%
Silicon Engineering & Materials Science 41%
Carbon Atom Chemistry 40%
Research output per year 1991 2000 2001 2004 2006 2008 2009 2011 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Generation and delivery of free hydroxyl radicals using a remote plasma
McQuaid, H. N., Rutherford, D., Mariotti, D. & Maguire, P. D., 24 Jan 2023, In: Plasma Sources Science and Technology. 32, 1, p. 1-13 13 p., 015005.
Classification of Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Sendai Virus Using Portable Near-infrared Spectroscopy and Chemometrics
Song, W., Wang, H., Power, U., Rahman, E., Barabas, J., Huang, J., McLaughlin, J., Nugent, C. D. & Maguire, P., 6 Oct 2022, (Published online) In: IEEE Sensors Journal. p. 1-8 8 p.
Near infrared spectroscopy 100%
viruses 87%
infrared spectroscopy 65%
Cross sections and transport coefficients for electrons in C2H6O and its mixtures with Ar and Ne
Petrović, Z., Šašić, O., Dupljanin, S. & Maguire, P., 9 Feb 2022, (Published online) In: European Physical Journal D: Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics. 76, 2, 12 p., 25.
transport properties 100%
ionization coefficients 84%
cross sections 73%
electrons 53%
direct current 49%
High degree of N-functionalization in macroscopically assembled carbon nanotubes
McGlynn, R. J., Brunet, P., Chakrabarti, S., Boies, A., Maguire, P. & Mariotti, D., 31 Jul 2022, In: Journal of Materials Science. 57, 28, p. 13314-13325 12 p.
Carbon nanotubes 100%
Carbon Nanotube 68%
Plasmas 29%
Ethylenediamine 19%
Hybrid Plasma−Liquid Functionalisation for the Enhanced Stability of CNT Nanofluids for Application in Solar Energy Conversion
McGlynn, R. J., Moghaieb, H. S., Brunet, P., Chakrabarti, S., Maguire, P. & Mariotti, D., 6 Aug 2022, In: Nanomaterials. 12, 15, e2705.
Energy conversion 96%
Solar energy 85%
Electrochemistry 66%
ACS-Crystal Growth & Design, Chengsheng-MOx synthesis
Mariotti, D. (Creator), Padmanaban, D. (Contributor), Maguire, P. (Contributor) & Ni, C. (Contributor), Ulster University, 6 Aug 2019
DOI: 10.21251/e68b2fef-5e72-41fe-b93e-7295422c138a
Charge carrier localised in zero-dimensional (CH3NH3)3Bi2I9 clusters (dataset)
Ni, C. (Creator), Hedley, G. J. (Contributor), Payne, J. L. (Contributor), Svrcek, V. (Contributor), Mc Donald, C. (Contributor), Jagadamma, L. K. (Contributor), Edwards, P. (Contributor), Martin, R. (Contributor), Jain, G. (Contributor), Carolan, D. (Contributor), Mariotti, D. (Contributor), Maguire, P. (Contributor), Samuel, I. D. W. (Contributor) & Irvine, J. T. S. (Owner), University of St Andrews, 1 Aug 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17630/b8144269-6d3d-4a2a-afe2-e68fc51f962e


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having it dry cleaned might clean it through and degrease it which might be enough or will at least make it ready to accept a dye to darken the colour so as it looks nice again.
I read it as guilt originally. No suggestions about either really.
Thank you. I keep meaning to take some quilts and get some advice from Jen Jones. I've already had a conversation about preserving a silk one (painstaking and expensive work). I might just try it myself with this one, nothing to lose as it's not attractive as it is.
Yes, probably I wondered about paint on dye? It was one of the layers in the princess and the pea bed, between a horsehair mattress and a sheet of plywood.
Oh that was only one of them. Successive generations had decided to solve the saggy bed problem by adding a mattress or three, quilts, sheets of wood. I am 5'6" and needed a chair in order to get on the bed. It was in interesting experience and guests still miss it. The horse hair mattress was donated to the local museum. I think someone on here suggested it. Useful downsizer.
If all else fails, local dogs home? Usually on the lookout for bedding.
the deep litter method for people bedding ,wow.
i bought a house where the deep litter system of newspapers lino,papers, carpet, lino, carpet etc ran from 1897 to 1946 in roughly 5 yr stages and i had to tack 2" strips of timber to the door bottoms when i replaced the worm eaten floorboards.
The wallpaper layer here is interesting. You take off the only layer and your back to something slightly odd from the Victorian period covering the horsehair rich plaster.
In our first house, built in the 1870s, we had a cupboard that had layers of wallpaper dating all the way back. We also had paintwork that had all the layers too, and that was less fun as the bottom layer was scrimmel and a pain to shift. If you tried to burn it off, it went sticky and if you scraped it off it went to a sticky powder. What with that and having to take the plaster off the downstairs walls for injection damp proofing, it is no surprise that I was washing my hair with washing up liquid at the time as it was the only thing that would shift the dirt.


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By Elie Smith
Editor's Note: On Saturday March 19th the Ministry of the Interior of the Congo ordered telecommunications companies to cut all mobile phone, text message, and Internet service for at least 48 hours in order to prevent "illegal" reporting of election results.
The people of the Republic of Congo will be going to the polls on the 20th of March to elect a new president. This presidential campaign has propelled Congo into the digital world, full throttle. Indeed, it could be first time in Congo's democratic history that a presidential outcome could be dictated by social media. This may be an opportunity for the world to see, with the help of social media of course, the degree of electoral fraud that may be orchestrated by the regime.
The Central African state is one where there is currently no independent press. Most media outlets are either controlled by the president of the republic, his family members, or people close to his inner circle. Recently the government has severely mistreated both members of the press and foreigners, especially people from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The heavy hand on the press and citizens of the DRC was in prelude to the controversial October 25th referendum, which has enabled President Denis Sassou Nguesso to seek a third mandate. In the Republic of Congo, journalists have either been expelled, as I was, or have lost their lives, simply for doing their job. Yet, while the situation may seem bleak, the increasing use of social media may be slightly expanding the media and information landscape.
Social media was not a major factor in either of the last two elections in 2002 and 2009. In the upcoming presidential election, however, it appears to be playing a major role. In fact, almost all presidential candidates are using at least one of the popular social media platforms in the country such as Facebook, Twitter, Viber, WhatsApp, and Instagram. The most widely used in Congo is Facebook. Some candidates also have blogs and websites. Interestingly, the only candidate who is present on almost all social media platforms is the incumbent Denis Sassou Nguesso. Sassou Nguesso has been in office since 1997 and was last re-elected in 2009 when the opposition boycotted the elections which they considered fraudulent. Nonetheless, in this presidential campaign his use of social media demonstrates that the current president understands the power that social media is having in framing the electoral process.
Mobile Phones are Key to Citizen Outreach
According to OAfrica, an online mobile telephony tracking magazine, mobile phone penetration in Congo stands at 98 percent. However, the former minister of Post and Telecommunications and Digital Technology, Thierry Moungalla puts mobile phone usage at an around 80 percent in urban areas, while only around 60 percent in rural ones. These mobile phones, in most cases, provide some form of Internet access. In an interview I did for MNTV in Congo in 2014, Martin Che, an executive of UBA Bank Congo, said many Congolese have at least two sim-cards or two mobile phones from different operators. And according to mobile phone companies operating in the Republic of Congo, their clients are primarly based in the cities and towns of Brazzaville, Pointe Noire, Dolisie, Nkayi, Sibiti, Owando, Oyo, Boundji Gamboma, Impfondo, Ouesso, and Mossaka. These localities possess almost 90 percent of the Congolese population. This is why mobile phones are now one of the primary technologies used by candidates to reach voter and spread their messages.
Political parties mindful of the high penetration of mobile phone culture in Congolese are using two methods to reach out to their supporters–images and text. Reaching out using images, which requires more Internet bandwidth, has it limits because it is accessible to mostly young people who reside in the cities of Pointe Noire and Brazzaville, and to a limited degree, those in more remote towns such as Dolisie, Nkayi, and Impfondo. Because of this text messages (SMS) are still widely used. Importantly, text messages are accessible to both those who have smart phones as well as those with standard cell phones, hence they are able to receive campaign messages from all the 9 candidates in the race. And while most messages are in the form of SMS text messages, video messages are being used for the first time now too for electoral purposes.
Social Media Used to Create Public and International Pressure
The public pressure that social media can help create has had a real impact in the Republic of Congo. For example, the government has backed down on its attempts to arrest retired General Jean Marie Michel Mokoko, Sassou Nguesso's main challenger in the March 20th elections. This was because the information of his imminent arrest went viral online before it happened, and the government, not wanting to upset the international community, decided not to jail Mokoko, who had become quite popular on social media. And more recently, when two opposition candidates, Charles Zacherie Bowao and Andre Okombi Salissa were blocked by government forces at the Brazzaville international airport from boarding a plane to campaign in remote regions, a message sent on Facebook and synchronized on Twitter by Zacharie Bowao quickly went viral. That message on social media mobilized supporters to go to Maya-maya airport in Brazzaville and to the Imphondo airports to support the two men. The crowds defied government orders to disperse. This defiant public posture by the population forced the government to back down and eventually both candidates were allowed to travel–and it all started on social media.
Social media is playing a crucial role as an aide to activists on the ground, but it will not singlehandedly stop the government from rigging or committing abuses. At least government leaders now know that there are witnesses to the things they are trying to get away with. This has emboldened activists on the ground who know that, whatever the outcome, the world will be able to see what is going on.
The government does have one more trick it could use to limit the power of social media; its capacity to cut off all Internet traffic and suspend telecommunications networks as they did last October with the help of Chinese experts and technology. However, activists have a response. They have a proprietary software called FireChat that can be used to create mesh networks to connect mobile devices even when connection to the global Internet is suspended. According to one activist I consulted, in order for FireChat to work and to be able to circumvent the government ban, it must at least have 200,000 users in the country. Hence there is a current call by pro-democracy activists via Facebook for social media for users in the Republic of Congo to download FireChat.
While the government certainly is digitally savvy, as the president's social media presence attests, it may not be able to overcome the overwhelming popular rejection after years of corruption and misrule in the oil rich country. Whether social media can spur an opening up of the media space in the country is something that has yet to be seen, but may come soon depending on the outcome of Sunday's election.
Elie Smith currently a visiting fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy. He is a Cameroonian journalist, reporter, and translator who has worked with a number of Central African and French media outlets, including Télésud, France 24, Canal France International, and Radio France International. He served most recently as director of the MNTV television station in Congo-Brazzaville, where he encouraged the practice of investigative journalism and helped promote free speech by providing a safe space for politicians and civil society activists to express their views.
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Q: Groupy Pandas dataframe by multiple columns to find percentage change from previous month I want to group by multiple columns and find a percent change from the previous month
Company   Prod     Month-Year    Counts
 Comp A   gold      2019-05       20
 Comp A   gold      2019-04       5
 Comp A   gold      2019-03       10
 Comp B   silver    2019-06       18
 Comp B   silver    2019-05       36
 Comp B   silver    2019-04       50
 Comp C   black     2019-07       100
 Comp C   black     2019-06       50
 Comp C   black     2019-05       5
 Comp C   black     2019-04       2

I have tried:
df.groupby(['Company','Prod','Month-Year'])['Counts'].pct_change() + 1

but I end up getting all nans
df.groupby(['Company'])['Counts'].pct_change() + 1

when I try the above it doesn't give me the correct % changes, it gives the the percentage change from the first record within the company and prod groupby.
Desired output:
Company   Prod     Month-Year    Counts  %-Change
 Comp A   gold      2019-05       20       400%
 Comp A   gold      2019-04       5        -50%
 Comp A   gold      2019-03       10        -
 Comp B   silver    2019-06       18       -50%
 Comp B   silver    2019-05       36       -28%
 Comp B   silver    2019-04       50        -
 Comp C   black     2019-07       100       100%
 Comp C   black     2019-06       50        900%
 Comp C   black     2019-05       5         150%
 Comp C   black     2019-04       2         -

A: First thing, make sure your df is sorted properly (by company and Month year):
df.sort_values(by=['Company','Month-Year'], inplace=True)

second, you can use lambda and apply such that:
df['%-Change']=df.groupby(['Company'])['Counts'].apply(lambda x: x/x.shift(1)-1).fillna(0)*100

Lastly, if you wish to sort it as presented in your question:
df.sort_values(by=['Company','Month-Year'],  ascending=[True, False])

desired result:

Note: you can group by (['Company']) or (['Company', 'Prod']) (depends on the request)

A: You should do
df['pct']=df.sort_values('Month-Year').groupby(['Company','Prod'])['Counts'].pct_change()+1


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