Many companies developing their software solutions or hiring external parties for the job make the common mistake in underestimating the importance of research and development (R&D) preceding the very production process. In some cases, the research phase lasts throughout the project's lifecycle and supplements the development workflow. A good business idea is essential, but without proper research, you cannot be sure your software would hit the target you're aiming at. Despite the relevance of the detailed product specifications and development team expertise, it would never result in more than your best. Setting aside the technological background and team competence, R&D is the crucial prerequisite of creating a truly unique and unprecedented product. If you do not care much about uniqueness, think in terms of long-term financial gain that can be brought by increased product durability and no user risk.
Major factors predefining the success of every software product are the level of innovativeness, quality, and technology. Of course, these factors must be observed in compliance with the timeline, allocated budget, and available skills capacities. Your product must pursue future needs and market tendencies; it has to be adaptable and directed at your target audience. The idea underlying your product must be perceptible visually through user-oriented design solutions and intuitively through the message communicated to your market niche, the niche of tomorrow. This is where R&D comes in handy. When research serves as a basis for the upcoming product development or refinement, it ensures the effective strategic planning and influence critical in product decisions undertaken along the way.
While R&D selects product technology through a row of experiments with ideas and their technological implementation, SD works with specific prescribed features for a given product.
R&D endeavors to find a new remedy from the existing social problem and its outcome can hardly be predicted. SD deals with a specific customer's problem, and the result must necessarily bring an effective working solution.
The most distinct and tangible difference is the end result: RD brings research results and SD brings a working product.
R&D is valid for all-sized companies, bearing different meaning for different companies depending on their attributes, such as the size and customer base. SD works with a specific company's size and proceeds from its current needs and requirements.
R&D can hardly be put in a box as the research phase might take years. SD is always limited in time, with fixed deadlines to be met for each project's milestone.
The examples of R&D include such still developing areas as self-driven vehicles, augmented reality, and virtual reality. However, do not get into thinking that R&D can be applied to space research and AI-driven applications only. Many established consumer brands spend lots of money on their existing product improvements, such as Volkswagen, Samsung, Microsoft, and many more.
SD products are more tangible, presented by numerous web applications for various fields, such as pharmacies, sports, and the automobile business.
Like any other fields of activity, research and development has its strengths and weaknesses. Not every company needs it; not every service provider company can adequately do it. However, let's not jump to conclusions and review its "black and white" features.
Putting aside the high costs involved in the implementation of long-term R&D, the unpredictable outcomes, although taken as a given, might cause significant financial losses, with especially critical damages to the young, small companies.
Today, time is a luxury and not every company is ready to wait for years for a possibly successful product. When taken in duet, time and a probability of failure represent a doubtful venture not everyone should even try.
If the result turns to be a success, there is a high risk of its copying by other companies. Like keeping a pig in a pock, the great challenge of keeping the corporate secret at least for a while might be overwhelming for many small companies, or their employees. Sometimes, big companies go so far as to "swallow" smaller companies to acquire rights for their product or technology and protect themselves from possible trademark infringement claims.
Inability to control the constantly changing market conditions raises the question of product relevance and its effectiveness in the new market conditions. Moreover, if competitors outstrip you even for a little bit and come up with a similar product first, the time and funds would be wasted for nothing.
The benefits of using research and development services would partially repeat the overall approach description but with a focus on the related perspectives. However, please note the listed pros are valid provided for the successful development outcome.
For someone, the product uniqueness might seem like merely a target for public appraisal of company's individualistic development approach. On the second thought, it opens broad financial perspectives build upon the patent obtainment. In practice, it may turn into a separate business line: the simplest option is to sell the patent once it gets enough publicity to ensure the profitable price; the most gainful way is in licensing user rights for your product; the most difficult way would be to market and promote your product yourself (no external fees included, but your revenues would be considerably cut by the legal expenses, start-up, and accounting costs).
The higher competitive edge triggered by the innovativeness of produced solutions ensures the company's longevity in the tough market conditions. Innovativeness often serves as a foundation for trend-setting capacities of a company, enabling it to control a user's response to some extent.
A product's increased durability minimizes collateral waste throughout its lifecycle and supports a steady long-term level of income.
The ongoing research for the live product optimizes the efforts made for its refinement in a cost-effective and time-saving manner. The available up-to-date research data ensures only needed changes.
Brand awareness and improved company's reputation are the welcomed side effects accompanying the introduction of the new product to the market. By carefully leveraging the marketing tools, the companies can fix the solid position within its field and drive the additional profit.
Putting all pros and cons on the scales, we understand there are no simple yes and no answers. The decision to get involved with R&D or follow a more trodden path is always conditional. If you're able to bear the risks of significant financial losses and ready to engage yourself with time-consuming patent obtainment, if your idea is so great and unparalleled you're practically sure of its paramount importance, then yes, give it a try.
If you're limited either in time or finance and if your idea is doubtful with no space for practical refinement, then think twice and then think twice again.
When the risks are clear, another fundamental question for consideration: What services exactly do research and development companies provide? What expertise underlies them?
The whole package would be an extremely pricey investment, involving all kinds of staff. By separating the services, the company makes them more affordable and less resource-intensive.
Not every customer necessarily needs everything the company has to offer. The required services hinge on the product peculiarities, its target audience, the scale of operations, and many more variables.
The field of application varies for every product, and since big research and development companies tend to have dedicated employees for every field, there is a sense in serving each niche individually.
These are the brightest examples of R&D application domains, but in fact, this approach can be implemented to any other developing or developed field.
Marketing and loyalty management services cover market research operations and user acquisition campaigns, including but not limited to initiation of loyalty programs, user engagement, business intelligence, marketing campaigns, and social mining.
Data operations address existing data issues using of master data management, b2b networking solutions, and customized data protection techniques.
Information and communication technologies operate within fields of information security and data protection, IT risks, and general data regulations.
Computer-aided design (CAD) exploits computer systems in streamlining the product and process design creation and optimization.
Ergonomic design employs the theory of human needs to design software and tools improving users' well-being, experience, and performance.
Modeling establishes the conceptual representations advancing design, product analysis, and forecasts accuracy as to the probable products and processes responses.
Simulation services test the product or process durability for refinement and calibration purposes.
R&D services are practically countless: product/system/industrial/packaging design, basic scientific research, social sciences research, and automotive/electronics developments. Today, nanotechnology and biotechnology top the list of the most promising fields for research and development companies.
Deliberating on the subject of R&D services, we cannot skip the question of the services providers' professional competence. Who are these super-skilled professionals able to uprise all industries with their deep knowledge and predicting talents?
Every company would probably have its own answer. However, in a perfect world, R&D companies bank on employees with extensive postsecondary education. Most of the staff have bachelor's or graduate level degrees at a minimum. A bachelor's degree is satisfactory for the majority of research development, apart from life sciences, but a master's degree is also a standard case. A PhD is usually required for occupying the senior roles within research teams. Some fields, though, like basic research, might demand a PhD degree even for junior workers.
The necessary condition for professional advancement within employees' field of knowledge is the constant training and skills upgrade. While other industries can bear with the solid immutable professional level, research is the area where you either develop or fade. It can be a formal training period or on-the-job training; you can attend specialized conferences, seminars, courses, or field societies.
Technician staff might be employed without a bachelor's degree, but they will start working under the supervision of a scientist or senior technician. Further on, they can grow into working with less supervision or pursue additional academic education.
The most experienced and educated employees eventually get promoted to the managerial or senior researcher positions. The technician layer can develop into working in another more complicated, creative field of development.
The listed companies alone have brought $186.4 billion to the R&D industry. You can still have your doubts, but it seems like the big world has already decided on the yes or no question.


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Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery
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The gallery will be closed due to safety measures for public health.
February 6 − March 8, 2014
Margarita Myrogianni / Provisions
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Eleftheria Tseliou gallery is happy to present Margarita Myrogianni's photography solo show 'Provisions'. The show opens on Thursday, February 6 and will be on display until the 8th of March 2014.
In her latest work, Margarita Myrogianni presents a series of staged photographs, each one operating as a still life where the objects and architectural elements have a central role. These photos differentiate themselves from the usual photographic perception and indicate an intense psychological action. Through carefully arrangeable elements of her compositions Margarita Myrogianni creates the circumstances under which time and space are seemingly under her control.
Margarita Myrogianni was born in Athens in 1974. She lives and works in Athens. She studied at Vakalo College S.A, as well as at the University of Barcelona Faculty of Fine Arts (UB) at the School of Fine Arts and at U.C.L in London. Her work was presented among others in exhibitions such as Illumination, the Service Point Building, Manchester, Sinning, DIVUS gallery, London, Reflections on the passing of a spectacular event, Wolstenh Projects, Liverpool. Wohniador, Friedrichshain, Berlin, The Voice and Nothing More, Woburn Research Centre, London, Setting the scene, Gallery Bafa Foto, Geneva, Henji 痕迹 Sanhe Museum, Hangzhou, China, Petrosphere, ReMap 3, Athens, The Newspaper Show, The Breeder gallery, Athens, Petrospherell Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Glasgow, as Avil, The Greek Pavillon at Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
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Baptiste Brossard
Why Do We Hurt Ourselves?
Understanding Self-Harm in Social Life
Indiana University Press 2019
Why does an estimated 5% of the general population intentionally and repeatedly hurt themselves? What are the reasons certain people resort to self-injury as a way to manage their daily lives? In Why Do We Hurt Ourselves? Understanding Self-Harm in Social Life (Indiana University Press, 2018), sociologist Baptiste Brossard draws on a five-year survey of self-injurers and suggests that the answers can be traced to social, more than personal, causes. Self-injury is not a matter of disturbed individuals resorting to hurting themselves in the face of individual weaknesses and difficulties. Rather, self-injury is the reaction of individuals to the tensions that compose, day after day, the tumultuousness of their social life and position. Self-harm is a practice that people use to self-control and maintain order—to calm down, or to avoid "going haywire" or "breaking everything." More broadly, through this research Brossard works to develop a perspective on the contemporary social world at large, exploring quests for self-control in modern Western societies. In this interview, Dr. Brossard and I discuss how he came to study self-injury, managing the stigma of self-injury, how people use online forums for community, the discrete nature of self-injury, and the role of gender. I recommend this book for people interested in mental health, stigma, deviant behavior, and qualitative methods. Dr. Baptiste Brossard, (@BaptistBrossard) a French sociologist, is a lecturer at the Australian National University. He received his PhD in sociology at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (2011). His primary areas of research are mental health, sociological theory, qualitative methods and utopian studies.
Krystina Millar is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Indiana University. Her research interests include gender, sociology of the body, and sexuality. You can find her on Twitter at @KrystinaMillar.
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When I saw the image on this post, one think came immediately to my mind: this is Peter Sloterjick's prediction fulfilled.
In his 1989 book «Eurotaoismus. Zur Kritik der politischen Kinetik» (Eurotaoism - for a critique of politic kinetics - that is still not translated in English) he speaks that political though is trying to get away from the old forms of ideology: right and left. But it did not created new ones: all that seems to matter is just to go forward.
This made him conclude that in the contemporary world «movement» has taken the place of «thought». More important than to think it would be to keep on going further, and preferentially, faster.


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Sir Brad's final race in the Paris-Roubaix certainly shows no mercy, just what is in store this year?
He's one of Britain's best road cyclists in recent times, and now it seems Sir Bradley Wiggins is preparing to write a new chapter in his career story after this weekend's Paris-Roubaix.
The 2013 Tour de France winner is set to leave Team Sky after the next race and forge a career in an outfit baring his own name.
Having claimed Tours, Olympic gold medals and World Championships, there is no doubting the London man's exploits in the Team Sky finery, but he's certainly picked a tough race to bow out on.
Nicknamed The Hell of the North, Paris-Roubaix's cobbles have found many a great cyclist out, with several commenting on the difficulty of one of cycling's 'Monuments'.
Even winners have complained about the stress it put on their bodies with 1981 victor Bernard Hinault succinctly remarking; "Paris-Roubaix is bullsh*t".
But it is not just those famous cobbles that could catch Wiggins out as he bids to bow out in style for his current team, with some rather unusual hazards causing anarchy in the past.
No, not a rogue deer, or a brave rabbit as the peloton thunder through the countryside, but a rather inquisitive golden retriever.


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Don't Fear the Reaper by Dahlia Rose #DarkFantasy #PNR #interracial @changelingpress
Posted on May 24, 2019 by jessicacoultersmith
Publisher: Changeling Press
Cover Artist: Bryan Keller
Calliope thought she knew death. She sees it every day in her job and feels it around her. Who knew when she called to that presence it would appear in the form of Arius?
The connection they make is almost instantaneous. She kisses him on impulse, but she falls in love with him because that's how her heart works. Teaching a reaper about life might seem strange to others, but Calliope accepts the responsibility willingly. But at the end of their time, he will leave, and Calliope will be forever changed.
Arius's destiny is to take the scythe of his father and become the Angel of Death. But the woman who can feel his presence piques his interest, and he gives in to curiosity. He thought he knew his purpose — that he was created to be a caretaker of the souls who cross over, and nothing more.
Being with Calliope changes everything and tips his world on its axis. Now he questions his destiny, especially when he longs to be with her. The short time they have together might not be enough, for when the bell tolls, the new Angel of Death must answer.
Copyright ©2019 Dahlia Rose
Calliope slept well knowing that she helped others on their journey, and she'd found her calling in life. She was intuitive, one of the gifts she'd honed growing up. She had gifts for empathy and healing, but nothing she knew could save her patients. When Calliope was at home, she knew in this world she was very alone.
But lately, she'd sensed something more, a change in the ether when one of her patients passed. There was a presence in the room, one she'd never felt before. It didn't scare her. Far from it — Calliope was more curious than anything else.
That was, until she felt that same presence at her home. Now she was almost hesitant to open the door of her little flourmill house in McAddenville, Georgia. Usually when she got home she would eat and watch some television before taking care of her online class work. It was her way to de-stress and think about something other than death — and at night, she would sleep deeply until her sixth sense prodded her awake. That was when she knew something watched her in her house. Sage didn't help, and neither did crystals at the door. None of the methods her aunt had taught her to keep her home cleansed did anything.
Either way, she followed her routine — shower, food, TV while her laptop sat in her lap — and tried not to think. Finally, the nightshift buzz wore down and she yawned. After setting things aside, she went to her bedroom and made sure no light would come through the shades. Thank God I'm off for the next two days, she thought as she climbed under her soft covers. Her weighted blanket was like a secure hug that made her feel comforted. From the time her head hit the pillow, Calliope was asleep.
And just like clockwork, a few hours later, her eyes popped open, sleep instantly gone. The presence was there. She could feel it ripple through the ether of the room. The air was thick with it, even as her central air ran silently.
Enough is enough, Calliope thought angrily, and she sat up in bed. "Show yourself. Why are you here?"
Silence. But still she felt it. Calliope closed her eyes, opened her senses and reached out. The quiet only irritated her more. Her sleep pattern was being affected and by God, she would have her answers.
"I feel you," Calliope said as gently as possible as she got out of bed, hoping the new tactic would lead to results. "I don't want to harm you. I just need to know why you're here in my house."
Zippo.
Calliope stomped her foot. "Answer me right now or I swear to all that is holy that I will get a herd of priests in here to exorcise your ass."
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw movement. The dimness of the room didn't matter. It was there, close to the window. The air seemed to shimmer and fold in soft waves while Calliope held her breath. Did she really want to see what would appear in her bedroom? Her mind screamed run, but her feet wouldn't move. She saw a body form from the feet to the shoulders, slowly. Calliope moved away and the backs of her knees hit the footboard of her bed. There was a head now and, hell, trying to run wasn't an option for something that could appear at will. Instead, she scrambled back into bed until her back slammed against the headboard.
A man stood by her doorway now, and his dark eyes assessed her. He didn't smile. His mouth was a firm line on a rugged jaw line that held a hint of stubble. He had dark curls that fell to the collar of his shirt. He wore all black down to the silk tie around his neck. Everything about him was dark including the look on his face, and her heart raced in fright and excitement all at once. She wasn't crazy; there was someone… something there.
"Who are you?" Calliope asked.
"I thought you knew me. You sensed me, requested my presence, for your patients," he answered. The tone was deep but soft and held a note of curiosity. "How is it that you can sense me?"
Calliope shrugged. "I can sense lots of things; it depends on who you are. I don't recall you as a patient of mine."
A small smile and then it was gone. "No, not a patient, but I have seen you with them."
"A family member?" she asked.
"No." He stood with his hands clasped behind his back.
"Then who?" Calliope asked in frustration "And how are you dead and talking to me?"
"Because I am death itself," he answered. "Or one of them."
She furrowed her brow. "You're… you're a grim reaper?"
"A reaper is fine," he answered. "I don't understand why grim was ever added to the title. To some, death is a blessing."
"Holy shit," Calliope breathed out.
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USA Today Best Selling author Dahlia Rose writes contemporary and paranormal romance with a hint of Caribbean spice. She was born and raised on a Caribbean island and now currently lives in Charlotte, NC with her five kids who she affectionately nicknamed "The children of the corn" and her biggest supporter/long time love. She has a love of erotica, dark fantasy, Sci-fi and the things that go bump in the night. Books and writing are her biggest passion and she hopes to open your imagination to the unknown between the pages of her books.
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Its time to get right behind the Crows as they make the final push for premiership glory! Cheer the boys on with the Adelaide Crows men's SANFL Heritage T-shirt. This navy tee features the clubs heritage logo with the Crow's year of formation est.1990.


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Russian forces defeat Ukrainian troops as they go on offensive
30.08.2022 13:23 (Updated: 31.08.2022 00:17)
Russian troops have defeated the offensive of the Ukrainian troops, which was carried out on the personal instructions from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The enemy has suffered large-scale losses as a result of the operation, the Russian Ministry of Defense told reporters.
The department indicated that the enemy suffered large-scale losses.
Earlier, representatives of the ministry said that the Russian forces destroyed more than 200 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Kharkiv area.
Russian forces destroy over 100 Kraken fighters
The Russian Armed Forces have destroyed more than a hundred soldiers of the Kraken formation and foreign mercenaries of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), official representative of the Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, told reporters.
He clarified that mercenaries and fighters of the Kraken formation were stationed near the village of Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
Russian troops destroy 128th separate mountain assault brigade
Russian troops have also defeated the 128th separate mountain assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on August 30.
"When repelling the enemy's offensive, Russian troops have defeated units of the 128th separate mountain assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed from Western Ukraine to participate in the operation from Western Ukraine," the defense department said.
Five servicemen of the brigade laid down their arms and surrendered.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed an attempt of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to go on offensive in Mykolaiv and Kherson regions in three directions. However, the offensive failed, the ministry said.


AZ Rev Stat § 42-5061 (2016) What's This?
1. Professional or personal service occupations or businesses that involve sales or transfers of tangible personal property only as inconsequential elements.
2. Services rendered in addition to selling tangible personal property at retail.
3. Sales of warranty or service contracts. The storage, use or consumption of tangible personal property provided under the conditions of such contracts is subject to tax under section 42-5156.
4. Sales of tangible personal property by any nonprofit organization organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes and recognized by the United States internal revenue service under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code.
5. Sales to persons engaged in business classified under the restaurant classification of articles used by human beings for food, drink or condiment, whether simple, mixed or compounded.
6. Business activity that is properly included in any other business classification that is taxable under this article.
7. The sale of stocks and bonds.
8. Drugs and medical oxygen, including delivery hose, mask or tent, regulator and tank, on the prescription of a member of the medical, dental or veterinarian profession who is licensed by law to administer such substances.
9. Prosthetic appliances as defined in section 23-501 and as prescribed or recommended by a health professional who is licensed pursuant to title 32, chapter 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 or 29.
10. Insulin, insulin syringes and glucose test strips.
11. Prescription eyeglasses or contact lenses.
12. Hearing aids as defined in section 36-1901.
13. Durable medical equipment that has a centers for medicare and medicaid services common procedure code, is designated reimbursable by medicare, is prescribed by a person who is licensed under title 32, chapter 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 17 or 29, can withstand repeated use, is primarily and customarily used to serve a medical purpose, is generally not useful to a person in the absence of illness or injury and is appropriate for use in the home.
14. Sales of motor vehicles to nonresidents of this state for use outside this state if the motor vehicle dealer ships or delivers the motor vehicle to a destination out of this state.
15. Food, as provided in and subject to the conditions of article 3 of this chapter and section 42-5074.
16. Items purchased with United States department of agriculture food stamp coupons issued under the food stamp act of 1977 (P.L. 95-113; 91 Stat. 958) or food instruments issued under section 17 of the child nutrition act (P.L. 95-627; 92 Stat. 3603; P.L. 99-661, section 4302; 42 United States Code section 1786).
17. Textbooks by any bookstore that are required by any state university or community college.
18. Food and drink to a person that is engaged in a business that is classified under the restaurant classification and that provides such food and drink without monetary charge to its employees for their own consumption on the premises during the employees' hours of employment.
19. Articles of food, drink or condiment and accessory tangible personal property to a school district or charter school if such articles and accessory tangible personal property are to be prepared and served to persons for consumption on the premises of a public school within the district or on the premises of the charter school during school hours.
20. Lottery tickets or shares pursuant to title 5, chapter 5.1, article 1.
(i) Items or intangibles that are sold to one or more persons, through which a value is not denominated in money.
(ii) Prepaid calling cards or prepaid authorization numbers for telecommunications services made taxable by subsection P of this section.
(b) " Monetized bullion" means coins and other forms of money that are manufactured from gold, silver or other metals and that have been or are used as a medium of exchange in this or another state, the United States or a foreign nation.
(c) " Precious metal bullion" means precious metal, including gold, silver, platinum, rhodium and palladium, that has been smelted or refined so that its value depends on its contents and not on its form.
22. Motor vehicle fuel and use fuel that are subject to a tax imposed under title 28, chapter 16, article 1, sales of use fuel to a holder of a valid single trip use fuel tax permit issued under section 28-5739, sales of aviation fuel that are subject to the tax imposed under section 28-8344 and sales of jet fuel that are subject to the tax imposed under article 8 of this chapter.
23. Tangible personal property sold to a person engaged in the business of leasing or renting such property under the personal property rental classification if such property is to be leased or rented by such person.
24. Tangible personal property sold in interstate or foreign commerce if prohibited from being so taxed by the constitution of the United States or the constitution of this state.
(a) A qualifying hospital as defined in section 42-5001.
(b) A qualifying health care organization as defined in section 42-5001 if the tangible personal property is used by the organization solely to provide health and medical related educational and charitable services.
(c) A qualifying health care organization as defined in section 42-5001 if the organization is dedicated to providing educational, therapeutic, rehabilitative and family medical education training for blind and visually impaired children and children with multiple disabilities from the time of birth to age twenty-one.
(d) A qualifying community health center as defined in section 42-5001.
(e) A nonprofit charitable organization that has qualified under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code and that regularly serves meals to the needy and indigent on a continuing basis at no cost.
(f) For taxable periods beginning from and after June 30, 2001, a nonprofit charitable organization that has qualified under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code and that provides residential apartment housing for low income persons over sixty-two years of age in a facility that qualifies for a federal housing subsidy, if the tangible personal property is used by the organization solely to provide residential apartment housing for low income persons over sixty-two years of age in a facility that qualifies for a federal housing subsidy.
(g) A qualifying health sciences educational institution as defined in section 42-5001.
(h) Any person representing or working on behalf of another person described in subdivisions (a) through (g) of this paragraph if the tangible personal property is incorporated or fabricated into a project described in section 42-5075, subsection O.
26. Magazines or other periodicals or other publications by this state to encourage tourist travel.
(i) Incorporated or fabricated by the person into any real property, structure, project, development or improvement as part of the business.
(ii) Incorporated or fabricated by the person into any project described in section 42-5075, subsection O.
(iii) Used in environmental response or remediation activities under section 42-5075, subsection B, paragraph 6.
(b) A person that is not subject to tax under section 42-5075 and that has been provided a copy of a certificate under section 42-5009, subsection L, if the property so sold is incorporated or fabricated by the person into the real property, structure, project, development or improvement described in the certificate.
(a) A nonresident of this state if the purchaser's state of residence does not allow a corresponding use tax exemption to the tax imposed by article 1 of this chapter and if the nonresident has secured a special ninety day nonresident registration permit for the vehicle as prescribed by sections 28-2154 and 28-2154.01.
(b) An enrolled member of an Indian tribe who resides on the Indian reservation established for that tribe.
29. Tangible personal property purchased in this state by a nonprofit charitable organization that has qualified under section 501(c)(3) of the United States internal revenue code and that engages in and uses such property exclusively in programs for persons with mental or physical disabilities if the programs are exclusively for training, job placement, rehabilitation or testing.
30. Sales of tangible personal property by a nonprofit organization that is exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4) or 501(c)(6) of the internal revenue code if the organization is associated with a major league baseball team or a national touring professional golfing association and no part of the organization's net earnings inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.
31. Sales of commodities, as defined by title 7 United States Code section 2, that are consigned for resale in a warehouse in this state in or from which the commodity is deliverable on a contract for future delivery subject to the rules of a commodity market regulated by the United States commodity futures trading commission.
32. Sales of tangible personal property by a nonprofit organization that is exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), 501(c)(6), 501(c)(7) or 501(c)(8) of the internal revenue code if the organization sponsors or operates a rodeo featuring primarily farm and ranch animals and no part of the organization's net earnings inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.
33. Sales of seeds, seedlings, roots, bulbs, cuttings and other propagative material to persons who use those items to commercially produce agricultural, horticultural, viticultural or floricultural crops in this state.
34. Machinery, equipment, technology or related supplies that are only useful to assist a person with a physical disability as defined in section 46-191 or a person who has a developmental disability as defined in section 36-551 or has a head injury as defined in section 41-3201 to be more independent and functional.
35. Sales of natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas used to propel a motor vehicle.
36. Paper machine clothing, such as forming fabrics and dryer felts, sold to a paper manufacturer and directly used or consumed in paper manufacturing.
37. Coal, petroleum, coke, natural gas, virgin fuel oil and electricity sold to a qualified environmental technology manufacturer, producer or processor as defined in section 41-1514.02 and directly used or consumed in the generation or provision of on-site power or energy solely for environmental technology manufacturing, producing or processing or environmental protection. This paragraph shall apply for twenty full consecutive calendar or fiscal years from the date the first paper manufacturing machine is placed in service. In the case of an environmental technology manufacturer, producer or processor who does not manufacture paper, the time period shall begin with the date the first manufacturing, processing or production equipment is placed in service.
38. Sales of liquid, solid or gaseous chemicals used in manufacturing, processing, fabricating, mining, refining, metallurgical operations, research and development and, beginning on January 1, 1999, printing, if using or consuming the chemicals, alone or as part of an integrated system of chemicals, involves direct contact with the materials from which the product is produced for the purpose of causing or permitting a chemical or physical change to occur in the materials as part of the production process. This paragraph does not include chemicals that are used or consumed in activities such as packaging, storage or transportation but does not affect any deduction for such chemicals that is otherwise provided by this section. For the purposes of this paragraph, " printing" means a commercial printing operation and includes job printing, engraving, embossing, copying and bookbinding.
(a) " Personal property liquidation transaction" means a sale of personal property made by a personal property liquidator acting solely on behalf of the owner of the personal property sold at the dwelling of the owner or on the death of any owner, on behalf of the surviving spouse, if any, any devisee or heir or the personal representative of the estate of the deceased, if one has been appointed.
(b) " Personal property liquidator" means a person who is retained to conduct a sale in a personal property liquidation transaction.
40. Sales of food, drink and condiment for consumption within the premises of any prison, jail or other institution under the jurisdiction of the state department of corrections, the department of public safety, the department of juvenile corrections or a county sheriff.
41. A motor vehicle and any repair and replacement parts and tangible personal property becoming a part of such motor vehicle sold to a motor carrier who is subject to a fee prescribed in title 28, chapter 16, article 4 and who is engaged in the business of leasing or renting such property.
(a) Livestock and poultry to persons engaging in the businesses of farming, ranching or producing livestock or poultry.
(b) Livestock and poultry feed, salts, vitamins and other additives for livestock or poultry consumption that are sold to persons for use or consumption by their own livestock or poultry, for use or consumption in the businesses of farming, ranching and producing or feeding livestock, poultry, or livestock or poultry products or for use or consumption in noncommercial boarding of livestock. For the purposes of this paragraph, " poultry" includes ratites.
43. Sales of implants used as growth promotants and injectable medicines, not already exempt under paragraph 8 of this subsection, for livestock or poultry owned by or in possession of persons who are engaged in producing livestock, poultry, or livestock or poultry products or who are engaged in feeding livestock or poultry commercially. For the purposes of this paragraph, " poultry" includes ratites.
44. Sales of motor vehicles at auction to nonresidents of this state for use outside this state if the vehicles are shipped or delivered out of this state, regardless of where title to the motor vehicles passes or its free on board point.
45. Tangible personal property sold to a person engaged in business and subject to tax under the transient lodging classification if the tangible personal property is a personal hygiene item or articles used by human beings for food, drink or condiment, except alcoholic beverages, that are furnished without additional charge to and intended to be consumed by the transient during the transient's occupancy.
46. Sales of alternative fuel, as defined in section 1-215, to a used oil fuel burner who has received a permit to burn used oil or used oil fuel under section 49-426 or 49-480.
(a) Printed or photographic materials, beginning August 7, 1985.
(b) Electronic or digital media materials, beginning July 17, 1994.
48. Tangible personal property sold to a commercial airline and consisting of food, beverages and condiments and accessories used for serving the food and beverages, if those items are to be provided without additional charge to passengers for consumption in flight. For the purposes of this paragraph, " commercial airline" means a person holding a federal certificate of public convenience and necessity or foreign air carrier permit for air transportation to transport persons, property or United States mail in intrastate, interstate or foreign commerce.
49. Sales of alternative fuel vehicles if the vehicle was manufactured as a diesel fuel vehicle and converted to operate on alternative fuel and equipment that is installed in a conventional diesel fuel motor vehicle to convert the vehicle to operate on an alternative fuel, as defined in section 1-215.
50. Sales of any spirituous, vinous or malt liquor by a person that is licensed in this state as a wholesaler by the department of liquor licenses and control pursuant to title 4, chapter 2, article 1.
51. Sales of tangible personal property to be incorporated or installed as part of environmental response or remediation activities under section 42-5075, subsection B, paragraph 6.
52. Sales of tangible personal property by a nonprofit organization that is exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(6) of the internal revenue code if the organization produces, organizes or promotes cultural or civic related festivals or events and no part of the organization's net earnings inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.
(a) " Application services" means software applications provided remotely using hypertext transfer protocol or another network protocol.
(b) " Curriculum design or enhancement" means planning, implementing or reporting on courses of study, lessons, assignments or other learning activities.
54. Sales of motor vehicle fuel and use fuel to a qualified business under section 41-1516 for off-road use in harvesting, processing or transporting qualifying forest products removed from qualifying projects as defined in section 41-1516.
55. Sales of repair parts installed in equipment used directly by a qualified business under section 41-1516 in harvesting, processing or transporting qualifying forest products removed from qualifying projects as defined in section 41-1516.
56. Sales or other transfers of renewable energy credits or any other unit created to track energy derived from renewable energy resources. For the purposes of this paragraph, " renewable energy credit" means a unit created administratively by the corporation commission or governing body of a public power utility to track kilowatt hours of electricity derived from a renewable energy resource or the kilowatt hour equivalent of conventional energy resources displaced by distributed renewable energy resources.
57. Computer data center equipment sold to the owner, operator or qualified colocation tenant of a computer data center that is certified by the Arizona commerce authority under section 41-1519 or an authorized agent of the owner, operator or qualified colocation tenant during the qualification period for use in the qualified computer data center. For the purposes of this paragraph, " computer data center" , " computer data center equipment" , " qualification period" and " qualified colocation tenant" have the same meanings prescribed in section 41-1519.
58. Orthodontic devices dispensed by a dental professional who is licensed under title 32, chapter 11 to a patient as part of the practice of dentistry.
(a) " Affiliated Indian" means an individual native American Indian who is duly registered on the tribal rolls of the Indian tribe for whose benefit the Indian reservation was established.
(b) " Indian reservation" means all lands that are within the limits of areas set aside by the United States for the exclusive use and occupancy of an Indian tribe by treaty, law or executive order and that are recognized as Indian reservations by the United States department of the interior.
(c) " Indian tribe" means any organized nation, tribe, band or community that is recognized as an Indian tribe by the United States department of the interior and includes any entity formed under the laws of the Indian tribe.
60. Sales of works of fine art, as defined in section 44-1771, at an art auction or gallery in this state to nonresidents of this state for use outside this state if the vendor ships or delivers the work of fine art to a destination outside this state.
1. Machinery, or equipment, used directly in manufacturing, processing, fabricating, job printing, refining or metallurgical operations. The terms " manufacturing" , " processing" , " fabricating" , " job printing" , " refining" and " metallurgical" as used in this paragraph refer to and include those operations commonly understood within their ordinary meaning. " Metallurgical operations" includes leaching, milling, precipitating, smelting and refining.
2. Mining machinery, or equipment, used directly in the process of extracting ores or minerals from the earth for commercial purposes, including equipment required to prepare the materials for extraction and handling, loading or transporting such extracted material to the surface. " Mining" includes underground, surface and open pit operations for extracting ores and minerals.
3. Tangible personal property sold to persons engaged in business classified under the telecommunications classification, including a person representing or working on behalf of such a person in a manner described in section 42-5075, subsection O, and consisting of central office switching equipment, switchboards, private branch exchange equipment, microwave radio equipment and carrier equipment including optical fiber, coaxial cable and other transmission media that are components of carrier systems.
4. Machinery, equipment or transmission lines used directly in producing or transmitting electrical power, but not including distribution. Transformers and control equipment used at transmission substation sites constitute equipment used in producing or transmitting electrical power.
5. Neat animals, horses, asses, sheep, ratites, swine or goats used or to be used as breeding or production stock, including sales of breedings or ownership shares in such animals used for breeding or production.
6. Pipes or valves four inches in diameter or larger used to transport oil, natural gas, artificial gas, water or coal slurry, including compressor units, regulators, machinery and equipment, fittings, seals and any other part that is used in operating the pipes or valves.
(a) A person holding a federal certificate of public convenience and necessity, a supplemental air carrier certificate under federal aviation regulations (14 Code of Federal Regulations part 121) or a foreign air carrier permit for air transportation for use as or in conjunction with or becoming a part of aircraft to be used to transport persons, property or United States mail in intrastate, interstate or foreign commerce.
(c) Persons who are not residents of this state and who will not use such property in this state other than in removing such property from this state. This subdivision also applies to corporations that are not incorporated in this state, regardless of maintaining a place of business in this state, if the principal corporate office is located outside this state and the property will not be used in this state other than in removing the property from this state.
8. Machinery, tools, equipment and related supplies used or consumed directly in repairing, remodeling or maintaining aircraft, aircraft engines or aircraft component parts by or on behalf of a certificated or licensed carrier of persons or property.
9. Railroad rolling stock, rails, ties and signal control equipment used directly to transport persons or property.
10. Machinery or equipment used directly to drill for oil or gas or used directly in the process of extracting oil or gas from the earth for commercial purposes.
11. Buses or other urban mass transit vehicles that are used directly to transport persons or property for hire or pursuant to a governmentally adopted and controlled urban mass transportation program and that are sold to bus companies holding a federal certificate of convenience and necessity or operated by any city, town or other governmental entity or by any person contracting with such governmental entity as part of a governmentally adopted and controlled program to provide urban mass transportation.
12. Groundwater measuring devices required under section 45-604.
(a) " New machinery and equipment" means machinery and equipment that have never been sold at retail except pursuant to leases or rentals that do not total two years or more.
(b) " Self-powered implements" includes machinery and equipment that are electric-powered.
14. Machinery or equipment used in research and development. For the purposes of this paragraph, " research and development" means basic and applied research in the sciences and engineering, and designing, developing or testing prototypes, processes or new products, including research and development of computer software that is embedded in or an integral part of the prototype or new product or that is required for machinery or equipment otherwise exempt under this section to function effectively. Research and development do not include manufacturing quality control, routine consumer product testing, market research, sales promotion, sales service, research in social sciences or psychology, computer software research that is not included in the definition of research and development, or other nontechnological activities or technical services.
(a) Any direct broadcast satellite television or data transmission service that operates pursuant to 47 Code of Federal Regulations part 25.
(i) Over two-thirds of the transmissions, measured in megabytes, transmitted by the facility during the test period were transmitted to or on behalf of one or more direct broadcast satellite television or data transmission services that operate pursuant to 47 Code of Federal Regulations part 25.
(ii) Over two-thirds of the transmissions, measured in megabytes, transmitted by or on behalf of those direct broadcast television or data transmission services during the test period were transmitted by the facility to or on behalf of those services.
For the purposes of subdivision (b) of this paragraph, " test period" means the three hundred sixty-five day period beginning on the later of the date on which the tangible personal property is purchased or the date on which the direct broadcast satellite television or data transmission service first transmits information to its customers.
(a) Includes the integrated systems, fixtures, piping, movable partitions, lighting and all property that is necessary or adapted to reduce contamination or to control airflow, temperature, humidity, chemical purity or other environmental conditions or manufacturing tolerances, as well as the production machinery and equipment operating in conjunction with the clean room environment.
(b) Does not include the building or other permanent, nonremovable component of the building that houses the clean room environment.
17. Machinery and equipment used directly in the feeding of poultry, the environmental control of housing for poultry, the movement of eggs within a production and packaging facility or the sorting or cooling of eggs. This exemption does not apply to vehicles used for transporting eggs.
18. Machinery or equipment, including related structural components, that is employed in connection with manufacturing, processing, fabricating, job printing, refining, mining, natural gas pipelines, metallurgical operations, telecommunications, producing or transmitting electricity or research and development and that is used directly to meet or exceed rules or regulations adopted by the federal energy regulatory commission, the United States environmental protection agency, the United States nuclear regulatory commission, the Arizona department of environmental quality or a political subdivision of this state to prevent, monitor, control or reduce land, water or air pollution.
19. Machinery and equipment that are sold to a person engaged in the commercial production of livestock, livestock products or agricultural, horticultural, viticultural or floricultural crops or products in this state, including a person representing or working on behalf of such a person in a manner described in section 42-5075, subsection O, if the machinery and equipment are used directly and primarily to prevent, monitor, control or reduce air, water or land pollution.
(a) Repair or replacement parts purchased for the machinery or equipment described in this paragraph.
(b) Machinery or equipment purchased to replace machinery or equipment for which an exemption was previously claimed and taken under this paragraph.
(c) Any machinery or equipment purchased after the television station has ceased analog broadcasting, or purchased after November 1, 2009, whichever occurs first.
21. Qualifying equipment that is purchased from and after June 30, 2004 through June 30, 2024 by a qualified business under section 41-1516 for harvesting or processing qualifying forest products removed from qualifying projects as defined in section 41-1516. To qualify for this deduction, the qualified business at the time of purchase must present its certification approved by the department.
1. Expendable materials. For the purposes of this paragraph, expendable materials do not include any of the categories of tangible personal property specified in subsection B of this section regardless of the cost or useful life of that property.
2. Janitorial equipment and hand tools.
3. Office equipment, furniture and supplies.
4. Tangible personal property used in selling or distributing activities, other than the telecommunications transmissions described in subsection B, paragraph 15 of this section.
5. Motor vehicles required to be licensed by this state, except buses or other urban mass transit vehicles specifically exempted pursuant to subsection B, paragraph 11 of this section, without regard to the use of such motor vehicles.
6. Shops, buildings, docks, depots and all other materials of whatever kind or character not specifically included as exempt.
7. Motors and pumps used in drip irrigation systems.
8. Machinery and equipment or other tangible personal property used by a contractor in the performance of a contract.
D. In addition to the deductions from the tax base prescribed by subsection A of this section, there shall be deducted from the tax base the gross proceeds of sales or gross income derived from sales of machinery, equipment, materials and other tangible personal property used directly and predominantly to construct a qualified environmental technology manufacturing, producing or processing facility as described in section 41-1514.02. This subsection applies for ten full consecutive calendar or fiscal years after the start of initial construction.
E. In computing the tax base, gross proceeds of sales or gross income from retail sales of heavy trucks and trailers does not include any amount attributable to federal excise taxes imposed by 26 United States Code section 4051.
F. If a person is engaged in an occupation or business to which subsection A of this section applies, the person's books shall be kept so as to show separately the gross proceeds of sales of tangible personal property and the gross income from sales of services, and if not so kept the tax shall be imposed on the total of the person's gross proceeds of sales of tangible personal property and gross income from services.
G. If a person is engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property at both wholesale and retail, the tax under this section applies only to the gross proceeds of the sales made other than at wholesale if the person's books are kept so as to show separately the gross proceeds of sales of each class, and if the books are not so kept, the tax under this section applies to the gross proceeds of every sale so made.
1. Agricultural producers who are owners, proprietors or tenants of agricultural lands, orchards, farms or gardens where agricultural products are grown, raised or prepared for market and who are marketing their own agricultural products.
(e) Private car line classification.
1. Sales made directly to the United States government or its departments or agencies by a manufacturer, modifier, assembler or repairer.
2. Sales made directly to a manufacturer, modifier, assembler or repairer if such sales are of any ingredient or component part of products sold directly to the United States government or its departments or agencies by the manufacturer, modifier, assembler or repairer.
3. Overhead materials or other tangible personal property that is used in performing a contract between the United States government and a manufacturer, modifier, assembler or repairer, including property used in performing a subcontract with a government contractor who is a manufacturer, modifier, assembler or repairer, to which title passes to the government under the terms of the contract or subcontract.
4. Sales of overhead materials or other tangible personal property to a manufacturer, modifier, assembler or repairer if the gross proceeds of sales or gross income derived from the property by the manufacturer, modifier, assembler or repairer will be exempt under paragraph 3 of this subsection.
J. There shall be deducted from the tax base fifty percent of the gross proceeds or gross income from any sale of tangible personal property made directly to the United States government or its departments or agencies that is not deducted under subsection I of this section.
K. The department shall require every person claiming a deduction provided by subsection I or J of this section to file on forms prescribed by the department at such times as the department directs a sworn statement disclosing the name of the purchaser and the exact amount of sales on which the exclusion or deduction is claimed.
1. A manufacturer's cash rebate on the sales price of a motor vehicle if the buyer assigns the buyer's right in the rebate to the retailer.
2. The waste tire disposal fee imposed pursuant to section 44-1302.
M. There shall be deducted from the tax base the amount received from sales of solar energy devices. The retailer shall register with the department as a solar energy retailer. By registering, the retailer acknowledges that it will make its books and records relating to sales of solar energy devices available to the department for examination.
N. In computing the tax base in the case of the sale or transfer of wireless telecommunications equipment as an inducement to a customer to enter into or continue a contract for telecommunications services that are taxable under section 42-5064, gross proceeds of sales or gross income does not include any sales commissions or other compensation received by the retailer as a result of the customer entering into or continuing a contract for the telecommunications services.
O. For the purposes of this section, a sale of wireless telecommunications equipment to a person who holds the equipment for sale or transfer to a customer as an inducement to enter into or continue a contract for telecommunications services that are taxable under section 42-5064 is considered to be a sale for resale in the regular course of business.
P. Retail sales of prepaid calling cards or prepaid authorization numbers for telecommunications services, including sales of reauthorization of a prepaid card or authorization number, are subject to tax under this section.
1. Operating a natural or artificial gas pipeline, for the sole purpose of fueling compressor equipment to pressurize the pipeline, is not a sale of the gas to the operator of the pipeline.
2. Converting natural gas into liquefied natural gas, for the sole purpose of fueling compressor equipment used in the conversion process, is not a sale of gas to the operator of the compressor equipment.
1. The transfer of title or possession of the coal is for the purpose of refining the coal.
2. The title or possession of the coal is transferred back to the owner or operator of the power plant after completion of the coal refining process. For the purposes of this paragraph, " coal refining process"
means the application of a coal additive system that aids in the reduction of power plant emissions during the combustion of coal and the treatment of flue gas.
S. If a seller is entitled to a deduction pursuant to subsection B, paragraph 15, subdivision (b) of this section, the department may require the purchaser to establish that the requirements of subsection B, paragraph 15, subdivision (b) of this section have been satisfied. If the purchaser cannot establish that the requirements of subsection B, paragraph 15, subdivision (b) of this section have been satisfied, the purchaser is liable in an amount equal to any tax, penalty and interest that the seller would have been required to pay under article 1 of this chapter if the seller had not made a deduction pursuant to subsection B, paragraph 15, subdivision (b) of this section. Payment of the amount under this subsection exempts the purchaser from liability for any tax imposed under article 4 of this chapter and related to the tangible personal property purchased. The amount shall be treated as transaction privilege tax to the purchaser and as tax revenues collected from the seller to designate the distribution base pursuant to section 42-5029.
1. On the premises of a multipurpose facility that is owned, leased or operated by the tourism and sports authority pursuant to title 5, chapter 8.
2. At professional football contests that are held in a stadium located on the campus of an institution under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents.
U. In computing the tax base for the sale of a motor vehicle to a nonresident of this state, if the purchaser's state of residence allows a corresponding use tax exemption to the tax imposed by article 1 of this chapter and the rate of the tax in the purchaser's state of residence is lower than the rate prescribed in article 1 of this chapter or if the purchaser's state of residence does not impose an excise tax, and the nonresident has secured a special ninety day nonresident registration permit for the vehicle as prescribed by sections 28-2154 and 28-2154.01, there shall be deducted from the tax base a portion of the gross proceeds or gross income from the sale so that the amount of transaction privilege tax that is paid in this state is equal to the excise tax that is imposed by the purchaser's state of residence on the nonexempt sale or use of the motor vehicle.
1. " Agricultural aircraft" means an aircraft that is built for agricultural use for the aerial application of pesticides or fertilizer or for aerial seeding.
(a) An airplane flight simulator that is approved by the federal aviation administration for use as a phase II or higher flight simulator under appendix H, 14 Code of Federal Regulations part 121.
(b) Tangible personal property that is permanently affixed or attached as a component part of an aircraft that is owned or operated by a certificated or licensed carrier of persons or property.
3. " Other accessories and related equipment" includes aircraft accessories and equipment such as ground service equipment that physically contact aircraft at some point during the overall carrier operation.
4. " Selling at retail" means a sale for any purpose other than for resale in the regular course of business in the form of tangible personal property, but transfer of possession, lease and rental as used in the definition of sale mean only such transactions as are found on investigation to be in lieu of sales as defined without the words lease or rental.
1. " Assembler" means a person who unites or combines products, wares or articles of manufacture so as to produce a change in form or substance without changing or altering the component parts.
2. " Manufacturer" means a person who is principally engaged in the fabrication, production or manufacture of products, wares or articles for use from raw or prepared materials, imparting to those materials new forms, qualities, properties and combinations.
3. " Modifier" means a person who reworks, changes or adds to products, wares or articles of manufacture.
4. " Overhead materials" means tangible personal property, the gross proceeds of sales or gross income derived from that would otherwise be included in the retail classification, and that are used or consumed in the performance of a contract, the cost of which is charged to an overhead expense account and allocated to various contracts based on generally accepted accounting principles and consistent with government contract accounting standards.
5. " Repairer" means a person who restores or renews products, wares or articles of manufacture.
6. " Subcontract" means an agreement between a contractor and any person who is not an employee of the contractor for furnishing of supplies or services that, in whole or in part, are necessary to the performance of one or more government contracts, or under which any portion of the contractor's obligation under one or more government contracts is performed, undertaken or assumed and that includes provisions causing title to overhead materials or other tangible personal property used in the performance of the subcontract to pass to the government or that includes provisions incorporating such title passing clauses in a government contract into the subcontract.


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Terms & Conditions - AISWA LMS
The Association of Independent Schools of Western Australia (AISWA) Learning Management System (LMS) provides its Users with a variety of eLearning activities and courses comprised of interactive content on a range of topics. These Terms and Conditions govern the use of AISWA's LMS. Users are requested to read these Terms and Conditions carefully before use. Users are also advised to review AISWA's Privacy Policy for more details on safeguarding information provided by AISWA and collected from the User.
In these Terms and Conditions, the term "User" or "Users" refers to the entity or person / entities or persons using the LMS and its Services.
2.0 Acceptance of Agreement
2.1 The LMS and its Services are owned and operated by AISWA. Certain terminologies and expressions used in the Terms & Conditions have the meanings and definitions set out in the Glossary (refer Section 7.0).
2.2 AISWA reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove these Terms & Conditions outlined at any time and without notice. Users are advised to periodically check for changes. Continued use of the LMS or Services after any modifications constitutes binding acceptance of such changes.
2.3 Use of the Services is subject to and conditional upon acceptance and compliance with the terms, conditions, policies, notices and disclaimers contained in these Terms of Conditions.
2.4 Use of the Services for or on behalf of a company, other legal entity or organisation, represents agreement on behalf of the represented company, other legal entity or organisation, and that all provisions of the Agreement will bind that company, other legal entity or organisation.
2.5 AISWA has the right over all information incorporated and / or created by the User during use of the services. This includes registration, login, & information details, and course activity notes, chats and messages created by the User within the LMS.
3.0 License to use AISWA's LMS
3.1 Users are permitted to use AISWA's LMS for the following purposes:
3.1.1 Enrol in an applicable course: Users are permitted to enrol and use the content of the course that they have paid for.
3.1.2 View and read course materials.
3.1.3 Update the calendar.
3.1.4 Use the discussion board (chat) following the necessary conditions put forth as per each course.
3.1.5 Complete allocated activities.
3.2 The following Account Terms shall be maintained by the User:
3.2.1 Users must be a human. Accounts registered by "Bots" or other automated methods are not permitted.
3.2.2 Users must provide a legal full name, valid email address, organisation name and any other information requested in order to complete the signup process.
3.2.3 Logins may only be used by one person and not shared.
3.2.4 Users are responsible for maintaining account and password security. AISWA cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage from failure to comply with security obligations.
3.3 Use of the Service prohibits users from violating or attempting to violate the security of the LMS, including but not limited to:
3.3.1 Accessing data not intended for use or logging into a server or account which the user is not authorised to access.
3.3.2 Attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorisation.
3.3.3 Attempting to interfere with Service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to this LMS, overloading, "flooding", "spamming", "mailbombing" or "crashing".
3.3.4 Forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting. Violations of network security may result in penalties. AISWA may investigate occurrences of such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting offending users.
4.0 Conditions of Use
4.1 The following shall not be carried out under any circumstances by past, present or future Users:
4.1.1 Republish material from the LMS.
4.1.2 Sell, rent or sub-license material from the LMS (material cannot be copied or modified for re-disruption without written approval from AISWA).
4.1.3 Display or demonstrate any material from the LMS in public without prior consultation with AISWA.
4.1.4 Reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on the LMS for a commercial purpose.
4.1.5 Edit or otherwise modify any material on the LMS.
4.1.6 Redistribute material from the LMS [except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution].
4.1.7 Distribute or post spam, unsolicited or bulk electronic communications, chain letters, pyramid schemes, distribute viruses or any other technologies that may harm AISWA's LMS or any of the Services.
4.1.8 Gain, or attempt to gain, unauthorised access to any areas of the LMS, other accounts, systems, networks or infrastructure used by or connected to AISWA's LMS.
4.2 Failure to comply, may result in penalties and / or any legal action that would be deemed fit based on the offence carried out by the User or their respective User account.
5.0 Statement of Data Breach
A data breach occurs when information held by AISWA is subjected to unauthorised access, modification, disclosure and / or misuse of the data. Additionally, where the data breach is considered an eligible data breech by the following:
5.1 Unauthorised access.
5.2 The breach is likely to cause serious harm.
5.3 AISWA has been unable to prevent the likely risk of serious harm and remedial action, then the breach will become a notifiable data breach requiring notice to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC).
6.0 General Conditions
6.1 Use of the Service is at the Users own risk.
6.2 The Service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.
6.3 Users must not transmit any worms, viruses or any code of a destructive nature.
6.4 The length of the courses may be varied, revised and / or discontinued as determined by AISWA.
6.5 Each course will remain active for a set time. The lifespan of courses will vary, and users are advised to keep a track of course end dates.
6.6 The LMS and courses stored on the platform may contain links to external data sets and websites for which AISWA has no control over. AISWA holds no liability if Users encounter any issues related to accessing external links and / or third-party content. Additionally, AISWA cannot be held responsible for the availability, security and integrity of the external content.
7.1 Bot: a computer-generated or autonomous program signing-up on the LMS
7.2 Course: an educational, training. other information or instructional-based course, program or module offered through the Services
7.3 LMS: Learning Management System, a software application used to deliver educational courses, training or learning & development programs and modules
7.4 Services: everything that is included in the LMS provided & created by AISWA; the intellectual owner of the AISWA Online content
7.5 TCP / IP: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol is a set of communications protocols used in the Internet and computer networks to specify the terms to packet, transfer and receive data.
7.6 User / Users: any person visiting, accessing or using the Services, that includes the company, other legal entity or organisation as set out in clauses 1.0 and 2.0.
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The Day Zero That Didn't Come
by Will Truman · September 11, 2018
But did touch off a lot of concerns:
The prediction had been that after years of an intense drought, Cape Town's dams would be so depleted and local reservoirs so bone-dry that one day in the autumn of 2018—between March and May in the Southern Hemisphere—the city would cut off the water flowing to taps. That date, the "Day Zero" in question, captured the attention of Western press. Photographs of the brown, cracked mud flats where drinking water once flowed abounded. Papers wrote breathlessly about the doomsday scenario of mobilizing military assets to secure water distribution points, fearing the possibility of violent clashes over resources.
Day Zero didn't happen—and as Wolski told me, it may have never been in the cards. But, over the course of a year, the idea really did deeply change the city all the same. Water scarcity, and the potential for a catastrophe, spurred upheaval and anxiety. During that time, a local government pushed a water-conservation agenda more ambitious than just about anything the world had seen. Cape Town faced political fallout and experienced widespread protests. Divisions between the haves and the have-nots in one of the most unequal cities on Earth became the center of discourse. The racial wounds of a post-apartheid country opened once more.
In its march to slash water consumption drastically, this metropolis of 4 million people also became a harbinger of how water will constrain global cities in the future, and how climate change will bring turmoil and a new slate of challenges to places where class and racial divides are deep. Day Zero is still hypothetical, but Cape Town's reality will soon impact many global cities, where water will become a constant concern, and democracy will become contingent upon the taps.
Israel offered to help with desalination technology. It's technology that cannot come fast enough.
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Absent a couple of years of record-breaking snowfall, Day 1075* is going to hit Lake Mead in the next couple of years. I don't remember the details of the order in which the Colorado River lower basin states take their cuts, but there will be ugly stuff between the farmers who use the large majority of the river water and the cities and power plants who extract enormously more value from their share. Although there's a possibility that the federal Bureau of Reclamation will decide on its own to let enough water out of the Glen Canyon Dam to keep the lower basin states going full bore at the expense of the upper basin states (my reading of the agreements is that such a decision would be illegal, but the time to drag it through the courts would buy the lower basin states time for a possible miracle).
* The water level in Lake Mead dropping below 1075 feet above sea level is the trigger for a lower basin water emergency.Report
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