Sure, you can use Somfy's gadgets without a hub, but that just means you get remote-controlled shades. So Somfy wins the price category, right? Not exactly. That might seem like a small point, but for 12 Lutron Shades, I had to buy nearly $200 worth of batteries. Oh, you'll also have to get batteries for both shades - AA for Somfy and D for Lutron. So if you purchase Somfy Motorized Shades, you can potentially get a more affordable price. Lutron designs the motors and all the shade styles. Lutron by contrast sells through its own website, with prices starting at about $350, plus an $80 bridge. That puts the most affordable Somfy Motorized Shade package at just over $300. Practically, when it comes to ordering, consumers buy shades through a local retailer, and elect to add Somfy motors for about $270 each. First, Somfy produces motors and control systems, but you use them in combination with shades designed by other companies. ![]() It's difficult to compare Lutron's and Somfy's pricing for a couple reasons. Lutron wins by a landslide when it comes to control, thanks to more out-of-the-box options. While Somfy has quite a few options for control, all of them require extra hubs or bridges. Both shades can be used with Amazon Echo with a little extra setup time (and in the case of Somfy, an extra expense). Lutron works with HomeKit, meaning you can command your shades with Siri. Remotes aside, both devices allow for app control - although they both also rely on a hub for that control (see next section for pricing). Lutron's remote is smaller, and thus easier to lose, but it has one-touch OPEN and CLOSE buttons, as well as up and down buttons to find the perfect setting. Somfy's remote looks fine, but only has three buttons - Open, Close and a personalized My setting. You can also control them manually, either via a dedicated remote control, a mobile app, or even using voice commands.īoth Somfy and Lutron shades include a remote control. By getting your shades online and linking them to your phone, you can set them all to move according to a schedule, to the weather, or in some cases to the temperature in your home. The raison d'être of of smart shades is automation. Of course, for the roller shades I was using, I had to drill holes through the mounting plate - yes, you read that right - which took more time, tools, and cleanup than I would've liked.įor installation, Somfy and Lutron are both inconvenient - so we'll call it a tie. Lutron has batteries in the body of the shade itself, which makes it much more standard to install. On many windows, the shade and battery tube just won't fit. Somfy's battery tube is separate from the shade itself, requiring you to secure it to the molding of the window behind the shade fixture. I opted for the battery packs for both shades, because power cords are inconvenient and often look tacky.īattery packs have a problem, too: they make the shades heavier and require extra space. ![]() Unlike standard shades, automated ones have battery packs or power cords. Shades are easy to set up if you have the time and tools, but both Somfy's and Lutron's products have design features that make installing them a pain. If you've got the cash and you want the shades, the question is: Which ones should you buy? To help with the decision, I conducted a head-to-head comparison between Somfy's motorized shades and Lutron's Serena Shades - two popular contenders in today's market. If you're really ambitious, you can even control home temperature more economically, by scheduling the shades to open and close at specific times. Opening the shades is more efficient - especially when you can just issue Siri a voice command to operate them. I use the shades at the CNET Smart Home more than any light switch. Besides being a great gadget to show off for friends, smart shades can change how you interact with your home's natural light. After matching their style to the décor of your home, and buying enough units for a whole space, you can expect to pay thousands of dollars for a full set of smart shades.īut they aren't just expensive decorations. Let's get one thing straight right away: smart shades are luxury items. What are the options? Which ones are the best? They might be cool, but how much is "cool" worth? Unlike devices with higher visibility, such as the newest smartphone or tablet, connected shades can be difficult to learn about.
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![]() This Video Game contains the following tropes: The Shin'Hare dislike the individualist nature of Coyotle society but are even more embarrassed by their previous failure to conquer them. Shin'Hare have the ability to generate immense quantities of weak troops and then either do mass buffs or sacrifice them for a benefit. This race of anthropomorphic bunnies plays the role of the immense empire with a We Have Reserves attitude and a Feudal Japanese aesthetic. ![]() The Shin'Hare: Represented with Blood and Wild cards.The Vennen find the orcs religion abhorrent but they find living orc bodies to make excellent egg incubators. Whenever these eggs are revealed they turn into spider troops which the Vennen have immense synergy with. ![]() The characteristic approach of the Vennen and Vennen decks is to stuff their adversaries deck full of 'spider eggs' and then milling their enemies decks. A race of spider men fanatically devoted to their theocracy. The Vennen: Represented with Sapphire and Blood cards.Dwarves regard elves as silly and don't seem to understand why they'd be upset by having half their forest burned down. The 'plans' artifacts are artifacts that can tap dwarves/robots to accumulate construction counters and turn into cards of much greater value than their original cost once they're accumulated enough. Dwarves have the most artifact synergy of any race and in particular have synergy with 'robot' artifacts. A single gender race of small men made out of stone driven by technical curiosity and a technocracy. The Dwarves: Represented primarily with Sapphire and Ruby cards.Their natural enemies are the Humans whom are both their supply of new recruits and 'irrationally' upset about their existence. The 'Shift' ability is associated with them and allows their troops to transfer their abilities to other troops. In terms of gameplay, Necromtic have immense flexibility in how they're used. Individual Necrotic do not seem to be reanimated versions of the former user of the corpse but apparently their power is somewhat determined by it (hence human kings are in particular demand). They are a race of sentient creatures created by inserting magic gems into human corpses. The Necrotic: The Necrotic are represented with all colors except Wild normally but have the strongest presence in Diamond and Blood.The Coyotle find the Shin'Hare to be an evil imperialistic menace and a threat to their lifestyle. Coyotle also feature the most troops that can be played as a reaction allowing them to ambush enemies. Coyotle have a strong emphasis on improving the cards in their deck and hand (frequently with the 'Prophecy' ability) with a secondary emphasis on reusing cards after they've been improved. The Coyotle are a nomadic race of coyote people (in case you couldn't guess by the name) with a Native American motif. The Coyotle: Represented primarily Diamond, Sapphire, and Wild cards.The fact that Vennon like using (living) orcs to incubate their eggs certainly doesn't help. Orcs consider Vennen their arch enemies as they are similarly religious but with an opposing paradigm. In terms of gameplay, orcs tend to be glass cannons with an Attack! Attack! Attack! mentality who grow stronger as they attack. Orcs are definitely Proud Warrior Race Guys and have Mayan/Aztec motifs to go with their combat centered religion. The Orcs: Primarily represented with Ruby and Blood cards.Elves VS Dwarves is in effect with the elves regarding the dwarves as heartless tree murderers. Many elf or elf related cards sport some extra effect based around playing cards that cost at least 5 mana or having troops that cost at least 5 mana in play. Elves sport the ability to quickly gain both temporary and permanent mana to allow them to get larger threats out quicker. In terms of society, Elves are hedonistic with shades of Genius Ditz but are certainly no less warlike than the other races. The Elves: Primarily represented with Wild and Ruby Cards. ![]() They usually have a nice mix of deals and coupons during Black Friday sale and also promo codes will be released when the sales get here. The Victoria's Secret Black Friday Sale is a great sale to find some awesome bra and panty deals, beauty deals and also tote offers. ![]() The Victoria's Secret Black Friday sale is always the top sale of the year from Victoria's Secret. Not only that either, during the Fall sale you can expect awesome Beauty buys as well as free VS gear with purchase that we'll be sharing as soon as the Fall Sale deals go live. Though there are always some type of great deals and sale offers at Victoria's Secret, the Victoria Secret Fall Sale is offers some great deals on Bra and Panty Bundles site-wide. 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Basically that's the inverse of the matrix product of a predefined matrix *X* and its transpose (^T), multiplied by its transpose and then multiplied by another vector y. Z is supposed to be a 4x1 vector that equals ( X^T X)^-1 X^T y. So I tried deleting that and I ran into a non-conformable arguments error. The Structure of an R Markdown File Screenshot of a new R Markdown document in RStudio. from R Markdown, you specify the beamerpresentation output format in the YAML. Next, let’s break down the structure of an R Markdown file. It points out lines 1 and 4, which are the title headers (title : "" author: "" etc. After reading the Beamer User Guide, we learned a couple of new things. a pdf-file (because that is easy to read and grade when you upload that to. I don't really know what this error means. what is R Markdown what is an YAML header what happens when I press knit. Parser error: while parsing a block mapping at line 1, column 1 did not find expected key at line 4, column 3Ĭalls. Description Read a YAML document from a file and create an R object from it Usage readyaml (file, fileEncoding 'UTF-8', text, error.label, readLines. We're going to be using the YAML header to define the parameters or options used by R Markdown, R Package to render the final document. But for this course we'll always have some information contained and defined within the YAML header. All my code chunks run fine, except when I try to knit to HTML, this error appears: Error in yaml::yaml.load(., eval.expr = TRUE) : Technically, it is possible to create an R Markdown file without a YAML header. I'm doing an RMarkdown assignment on vectors and matrices for uni class. ![]() ) I haven't done much on this device, so I basically left it on idle and top utility reported its load average was about 2.80 (pretty high for a small device like this, especially on idle). 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Table 1 lists a sampling of water footprints for the manufacturing of some common consumer goods. Hidden water is water that is not felt or seen and it is required for almost every step in the production processes for many raw materials and finished products. Hidden Water: How the Water Footprints of Consumer Goods are Calculated Knowing how much water it takes to make the raw materials and products we all use and consume is an important first step towards water conservation and using water more productively. Manufacturing everyday materials like paper, plastic, metal and fabric takes water – a lot of it. It may not be visible, but millions of gallons of virtual water go into making the consumer goods Americans buy, use and throw away. Click on hide all first and then click on the options to view them on the map.Hidden water is an important part of water use. For example, you want to know the spawn location of Weapon Box or Loose Loot. 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The Westside of Woods Map is the best zone to be, it has five extraction points. With two extraction points, the South East and East region of Escape from Tarkov Woods can turn into a tough place to survive. You will need to use the map multiple times to locate the Extraction points as they do not actually have any great landmarks around.įollowing the roads, to the East end, you will find East Gate and a further above ZB-014. They are ZB-016, West Border, Cliff Descent, and South V-Ex. South West of Woods Map has additional four extraction points. All are attached to the roads but are distant away from each other. They are Rauf Roadblock, Factory Gate, UN Roadblock, and Old Station. The North West region of Woods map has four extraction point. The student’s scores are reflective of our educational institution’s success. The statewide history exams are given to ninth-grade students towards the end of every school year to measure their material retention. I’m reaching out to all ninth-grade teachers in the history department at John Graves High School to get a progress update on their class’ preparedness for the statewide exams. Subject Line: Progress of ninth-grade history students To: All ninth-grade teachers in the history department at John Graves High Schoolįrom: Ryan Boyce, Education Administrator, John Graves High School This is done by sending a confirmation memo to the parties involved.Ī confirmation memo acts as a record of communication or plans for a meeting, in case either party needs to refer back to the details. It’s recommended to send a confirmation after discussing any professional decision or having a business meeting. A memo is a great way to solicit progress updates because it’s direct.Ĭonfirmation. If an organization handles long-term projects, they request periodic updates from its employees regarding their progress. This is a call-to-action memo – whether to stop a certain behavior, implement a new company-wide policy, or request attendance at an event. The purpose of a business memo is often to ask the receivers to do something. ![]() Sending a short memo is an effective way to gather information from various branches.Ī call to action. Everyone who works within a company serves a specific role they know the most about. A popular reason for sending a memo out to a professional team is to request information. Below are a few examples of the types of memos to send depending on the situation: The type of memo used in a professional exchange depends on the goal it’s attempting to achieve. If your memo comes with additional resources or documents that recipients need to consult, be sure to attach them alongside the memo for convenience. A memo asking the recipients to do something gives them all the resources they need to complete the task.Īttachment(s). Also, include relevant contact information, such as your title, email, and phone number. End an office memo using a traditional closing with your name and contact details or a final call to action. Usually, the body of a memo won’t exceed a paragraph or two.Ĭlose professionally. Be detailed in describing the situation or request, but still keep it as short as possible. The most important portion of a memo is the body because it describes the matter at hand that requires attention. A professional greeting isn’t necessary for a memo, so get right to the purpose of the correspondence. ![]() Start a memo as you would start any business email by introducing the topic you’ll be discussing in the body paragraphs. Also, include a direct subject line that gives the reader a brief overview of the information to follow. The more official it is, the more important including a date is for official record-keeping. It’s up to you whether to date your memo or not. If you need someone else to see the memo, but they’re not specifically addressed in the “To:” section, CCing them on the document is a wise decisision.įill in the date and subject line. There are distinct formatting rules to follow when writing a business email or letter that aren’t required when constructing a memo, such as salutations.Ī memo is less restrictive in structure because the goal of a memo is to get right to the main points.įrom: Laura Jones, Northeast Director of SalesĪdditional recipients. If there’s a situation that only concerns one or a few people within the company, a simple business email is sent to these individuals instead of a widespread memo.Ī professional memo differs from an email in its length and formality. ![]() Since memos are sent out to alert an entire group of staff, it only handles information useful to multiple parties or a whole division. ![]() It is a declaration that informs people working within a company and often requires the receiver of the memo to take some kind of action. Usually, memos are sent out to multiple people to bring mass awareness to a specific reminder, event, or policy update. The best way to keep your message short and direct is to use bullet points for all of your information.Īn office memorandum, often shortened to memo, is a method of communicating basic information and alerts to co-workers or employees within a company. Your memo should be kept to a paragraph or two and the information should be direct and straightforward. We will go over what a memo is, how to format it, and provide examples so your next memo can be perfect. Most people have heard the term “memo” before but are unsure of the formatting this professional exchange requires. One technique that many companies use to communicate internally is writing memos. Communication propels a business’ productivity. ![]() The Tribes are split up and need someone powerful enough to bring them together or bring them all down…Ī Storyteller tells you about each step of your journey through the world, but it’s your actions and decisions that will determine how your story of survival ends. A plague is destroying the land, and the roots of the Tree of Life are bleeding death. Your actions are a big part of how the story of End coming to the New World plays out. In this bright and colorful world, there are lots of things to find, mysteries to solve, creatures to fight, and strange people to meet. Explore the dying wilderness, the tunnels and bunker networks of the underworld, and find your way up the mountains or out to the archipelago. You are free to explore the world and what’s underneath it on foot, by mech, jet ski, air balloon, or other mounts that are specific to the area. If you want to fight bio-contaminated creatures, you can get protective gear. If you want to go into cryonic areas, you can get clothes that can withstand the cold. The player can combine the power of multiple weapons by switching between. If you want to explore the Dead Zones, you can get a gas mask and an oxygen tank. Biomutant is an action role-playing game developed by Swedish developer Experiment 101 and. Not just when you choose which weapons you made, but also when you choose what kind of gear you wear. You have complete freedom over what your character wears. You’ll also meet people who can make cool things for you, like bionic wings, a jump pack, or even changes to your scrap-toy sidekick, the Automaton. You can use revolvers, rifles, and shotguns, and bio-contaminated sludge vials can be modified with corkscrews and battery-powered chainsaw modules to add to your combat arsenal. You can make your own unique 1H or 2H slash and crush weapons by mixing and matching parts. When making weapons, you have complete freedom. Exposure to radioactivity in bunkers from the old world will affect your mind and give you psi-mutations like telekinesis, levitation, and more. Exposure to biocontamination in the world will give you mutations like the Turtleform and Mucus Bubble. ![]() You’ll be able to change how you look and play by re-coding your genes. This will give you more options and make sure that fighting never gets boring. As you get better at Wung-Fu and meet new masters, you’ll learn new ways to fight. It gives you a lot of room to move and lets you mix shooting, melee, and powers from your mutations. The combat system is based on martial arts. Key Features: A New Take on Third-Person Combat Will you be its savior or lead it to a fate that is even worse? Explore a world that is in chaos and decide what will happen to it. The land is being destroyed by a disease, and the Tree-of-ĭeath seeps into life from its roots. About BiomutantīIOMUTANT is an open-world, post-apocalyptic Kung-Fu fable RPG with a unique martial arts-style combat system that lets you mix melee, shooting, and mutant ability action. Even though the game hasn’t been confirmed for the Nintendo Switch yet, its publisher, THQ Nordic, is a big fan of Nintendo’s current platform. The 25th of October, 2022 is listed as the date when Biomutant will come out. Biomutant is priced at €55 and comes with box art in the new listing. However, neither controller works at all the game simply. The game has a settings option to switch between xbox or dualshock 4 prompts. I’m not a tech wiz so any advice would be appreciated. It works with every other game on my PC but not Biomutant. Of course, these store listings have not been officially confirmed by THQ themselves, so are still to be taken with just a pinch of salt.A Portuguese video game store recently put up a listing for Biomutant on the Nintendo Switch. I want to play Biomutant on PC with a controller but it doesn’t work or something. The Deathinitive Edition – previously released for PS4, PC and Xbox One – features upgraded visuals and other tweaks, along with all previous DLC content.īiomutant for Switch is listed for March 2020, while Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition is listed for August 30 of this year. Funnily enough, this story also involves the Tree of Life. It is the tale of Death, on a mission to absolve his brother War, who is accused of the crime of wiping out humanity. Adaptation is key, with players able to alter the protagonist as they see fit, changing up its offensive and defensive options via attachments scavenged from battle.ĭarksiders II: Deathinitive Edition is a remastered version of the 2012 action-RPG. Video game retailer EB Games Canada has recently updated its online store, which appears to include new Nintendo Switch listings for THQ Nordic titles Biomutant and Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition.īiomutant – which was first revealed back in the summer of 2017 – is an open-world adventure which sees an anthropomorphic raccoon go on a zen-like quest to save its land via the fabled Tree of Life. ![]() ![]() Some remains of more partial and fragmented sauropod dinosaurs may have exceeded Argentinosaurus in length, however it is difficult to say for certain. Still, several well-preserved sauropod remains have been found, and from their proportions scientists can make reasonable estimates of fragmentary and partial remains.Ī mounted skeleton of Argentinosaurus at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History next to a skeloton of Giganotosaurus. They were also quite large, so preservation by normal means before any large predators were able to scavenge the carcass and perhaps destroy parts of the skeleton would be unlikely. ![]() Some groups, like the diplodocids, had long, thin tails that preserve poorly. This being said, large adult sauropod dinosaurs are hard to measure due to the frequently partial state of their fossilized remains. It would have lived alongside smaller sauropods, mid-to-small sized abelisaurid carnivores like Skorpiovenator, and the 40 foot carnivore (12.5m) Mapusaurus, a member of the carcharodontosaur family of theropods. 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Big predators would need to prey upon larger and more dangerous prey animals, while big herbivores would need to eat their own weight in foliage to stay alive. Huge amphibians would face similar problems, their lack of robust lungs and reliance on their skin for respiration would make it difficult for them to oxygenate all of their tissues while also retaining moisture. Giant arthropods of the past would possibly have difficulty breathing in today’s atmosphere, with the slightly lower concentration of oxygen in the air today than in the past, although some periods with lower oxygen concentration than today still had giant arthropods, so this is not definitely known. Larger animals need more oxygen than smaller animals, and need to eat much more to maintain homeostasis. For other animals, respiration and nutrition become issues. It also takes much longer for huge animals to reach their adult size, and when a major anti-predation adaptation is size, it can be dangerous and difficult for the young of such creatures to survive without supervision. Large animals have a harder time changing their internal body temperature, and are often subject to small parasites that they have difficulty ridding themselves of. Large mammals can’t reach the same sizes as the titan dinosaurs because they push comparatively more energy into carrying and gestating their offspring than reptiles. Large predators can subdue prey with their bulk and stride farther than smaller ones. Large sizes can be particularly advantageous, a large animal will have little in the way of predators, and can control a larger territory with little effort compared to its smaller contemporaries. In the modern world, relative to much of the rest of the animal kingdom, human beings themselves are inordinately large animals, with most primates being only about half of our average size.īut why did so many of the largest animals that have ever lived go extinct? Why do the largest mammals not reach the same sizes as the massive dinosaurs that preceded them? And of every animal to ever live, which one holds the crown for most massive of all? Many adaptations and evolutionary trends dictate size. Indeed, size itself is a relative concept. Many dinosaurs that scientists consider “medium-sized” approach the “giant” sizes we attribute to much of today’s megafauna. But most of the largest animals that have ever lived are now extinct, known only from the fossil record. From huge rhinos to giant elephants and towering giraffes, human beings are enamored with massive megafauna. 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