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For the birds' sake, home gardeners need to take it easy with the pruning shears and mowers in the spring and early summer.
Yards provide major nesting habitats for many nesting birds in the late winter through early summer, according to Dan Edge and John Loegering, wildlife biologists with the Oregon State University Extension Service.
Resident birds, such as owls start nesting in the late winter.
"Birds of prey begin nesting in winter and their young typically do not fledge, or leave the nest until midto late summer," said Edge.
Migratory birds, including hummingbirds, start to come back from their winter holidays in February and usually begin nesting efforts in the early spring.
"Depending on the food supply, most songbirds will attempt to nest two, three or even more times during the nesting season," said Edge. "Birds can be nesting until midto late summer."
To avoid destroying bird nests and nesting habitat, Edge recommends that home gardeners consider the following:
-Wait until midto late summer or early fall to have trees limbed or trimmed, as dead or thick branches provide great nesting habitat.
-Hold off major pruning of shrubs until nesting season is over.
-Leave tall grass in less traveled areas for ground nesting birds. Or before you mow, carefully check for well-hidden bird nests.
"Nests are very well camouflaged," said Loegering. "The best way to tell if there are any nests is to watch for birds that flush out of the tall grass or out of a shrub. Then check the place where the bird flew from--there may be a nest."
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For those of you who've ever put a cut on a tree's trunk would have noticed a sticky and gooey liquid coming out of the cut. This is sap and does the same job for plants and trees as blood does for humans and animals. While humans and animals need blood to survive, we can also say that trees need sap for their survival.
Mainly there are three different types of sap available in plants – sap, xylem sap and phloem sap. While sap mostly consists of water, xylem sap is a watery solution of hormones, minerals and other nutrients. On the other hand, Phloem sap is made up of water, sugar, hormones and other minerals.
Just like blood carries essential nutrients to all parts of our body, sap carries minerals, sugar and water to all parts of a tree. Further, sap also protects the tree from freezing during extremely cold conditions and keeps them alive during the winters. Moreover, without the sap being flowing through the tree, it would be difficult for trees to disseminate the food and survive.
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January 10, 2012
On December 7, 2011, Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted:
Need a distraction today? Not only does 12+1=11+2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two"
Mitchell Perilstein forwarded that tweet to me and suggested that it would form the basis of an exercise for Programming Praxis.
Your task is to write a program that finds equations similar to Tyson's that form anagrams both in their symbols and in their letters. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
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Reviews for Division Made Easy
Horn Book Guide Reviews 2006 Spring
Though these books, illustrated with cartoon art, may not teach the uninitiated as well as they claim in their introductions, they clearly reinforce the basic principles of mathematics. Each book (except Word) lists key terms (e.g., factor, dividend). Reading list, websites. Ind. [Review covers these Making Math Easy titles: Addition Made Easy, Division Made Easy, Fractions and Decimals Made Easy, Multiplication Made Easy, Subtraction Made Easy, and Word Problems Made Easy.] Copyright 2006 Horn Book Guide Reviews.
School Library Journal Reviews 2006 January
Gr 1-4 -Each title includes plentiful color illustrations, sample problems that are highlighted by color print, and boxes with hints and suggestions to make problem-solving easier. The two-page chapters include clear explanations and easy-to-follow examples. The Internet sites are active and may be of further help to struggling math students. While children may not pick up these books on their own, they may be of benefit to homeschoolers or youngsters who need a little extra help.-Deanna Romriell, Salt Lake City Library, UT [Page 124]. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.


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Real Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Extradimensional (undetermined realm) magic user
Occupation: Would be conqueror of all dimensions
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Utilized a Hydra, several elementals, and an army of trained monkeys (or perhaps people transformed into monkeys)
EnemiesCaledonia, Dione, Fantastic Four, Marvel Girl (Valeria Richards), Puppy, Franklin Richards, Sinbad
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: An unnamed city, on an undetermined planet, in an unspecified extradimensional realm
First Appearance: The Fantastic 4th Voyage of Sinbad (September, 2001)
Powers/Abilities: Jihad is approximately 25' tall and possesses superhuman strength (Class 25?) and durability. He has a variety of magical powers, including interdimensional travel, teleportation across space, physical transformation transforming others into inanimate wood (and possibly other materials), breathing magical flame, levitation, formation of shields, and casting various spells.
Height: 25'
Weight: 10 tons
History: Jihad's origins are unknown.
(The Fantastic 4th Voyage of Sinbad (fb) - BTS) - Jihad conquered an unnamed city, the premier metropolis of its world, taking over the former palace of its caliph and enslaving its people, breaking their spirits.
(The Fantastic 4th Voyage of Sinbad (fb) - BTS) - Jihad sought to obtain four magical items--the All-Seeing Eye, Crystal Casque, Gauntlet of Forever, and Mallet of Destiny--which he could use in a spell to grant himself great magical power so that he could conquer all of reality. He enlisted/coerced countless heroes over an undetermined span of time to obtain these items, but each met with failure.
(The Fantastic 4th Voyage of Sinbad (fb) - BTS) - Under unspecified circumstances, Jihad defeated the legendary adventurer Sinbad and took his daughter Dione prisoner. Jihad transformed them both into wood and mounted Sinbad as the figurehead on his own ship. Still maintaining sentience, Sinbad learned from an oracle of the existence of the Fantastic Four on Earth-616, and he used his own mystical powers to influence Jihad's mind so he would seek out and recruit them, hoping that they could assist in Jihad's defeat.
(The Fantastic 4th Voyage of Sinbad) - Jihad sent four elementals against the Fantastic Four (Human Torch, Invisible Woman, Mr. Fantastic, Thing), but the heroes managed to destroy them. However, they then realized that Jihad has also sent another agent, a powerful giant hydra to capture the F4's family and friends--Caledonia, Franklin Richards, the teenage Valeria, and their Puppy. The Four attacked the hydra to no avail, and Jihad then appeared, subduing the entire group and transporting them aboard Sinbad's ship--actually a transformed Jihad. Translating notes on the ship, they learned that they were to obtain the four items of power, which they did in order to play along, see what developed, and hopefully take advantage on any opportunity that might present itself.
 A series of adventures led the FF to successfully collect the items, at which point Jihad revealed himself, transforming back from ship form, and revealing Caledonia, Franklin, and Valeria to be his captives, trapped in wooden form. As Jihad taunted them that they must continue to aid him if they wished to see their friends and family alive again, Sinbad influenced the Thing to snatch his wooden form from Jihad, restoring Sinbad to normal. Jihad vanished, taking the other statues with him, and returning to the city he held as his base, where he began to make preparations to cast the spell and gain his long sought power.
 Sinbad led the FF to ensnare a Rukh (Roc, a giant bird) and force it to bring them to Jihad, who was in mid-spell, having drawn out the life essence of his captives and utilized the magic items in their proper preparation. Just as Jihad prepared to strike the Crystal Casque with the Mallet of Destiny to unleash the power, Puppy transported Sue to Jihad's side, and she protected the Casque with a force field. The others then assaulted Jihad, keeping him off balance and preventing him from focusing his power on Sue. When Ben smashed Jihad into the sea, Sinbad took the short time they were granted to guide the FF to use the four items of power to return the souls of Caledonia, Dione, Franklin, and Valeria. As Jihad reached to destroy them all, Ben used the Mallet to shatter the Casque, and the energies, lacking the proper preparation or the souls to contain them, were unleashed upon Jihad, banishing him from the mortal plane.
Comments: Created by Chris Claremont, Pascual Ferry, and Scott Hanna
 If you want me to add tons of info about Sinbad to this profile...don't bother. Wait until Sinbad gets his own profile. At any rate, though Sinbad is apparently of extradimensional origin (or at least dwells in an extradimensional realm currently), he did have some adventures on Earth-616 in the past.
 Jihad means a fanatical campaign for or against an idea; crusade. It is most often referred to with reference to Moslems against unbelievers or the enemies of Islam, carried out as a religious duty. That's what Webster says, anyway.
Webster is right and wrong to a certain extent. From an western point of view, a jihad is a fanatical campaign or a crusade, but it literally means "striving" or "struggle," though it is used by most people to mean a religious/political holy war of sorts. However, it's true definition is not political at all and is more of a personal struggle and much more in a person's mind than in the physical world. The truer meaning of Jihad would be a war to better oneself, while the western view of the word would be an external war with opposite sides fighting. In fact, a internal and external war are called the greater and lesser Jihad respectively. --Stunner
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With the continuous development of modern science and technology, the consumption of mineral resources is increasing, the requirements for the comprehensive utilization of mineral resources are gradually increasing, and the rapid development of mineral processing technology is promoted, and it is possible to economically treat low-grade ore. Design stress maps reduce investment and production costs for greater economic efficiency. China's concentrating plant design and technological progress is also very significant.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, thousands of various types of moving mines have been designed and constructed. The largest design and construction scale has reached 50 million tons/a of raw ore. Each modern and large-scale concentrator reflects the progress of the design technology of the concentrator, mainly in the following aspects: (1) large-scale Flotation Equipment, (2) flotation machine renewal and new process application (3) production inspection of the mineral processing process, Control and automation (4) Emphasis on environmental protection (5) Emphasis on technical safety and labor security measures. In particular, technological advances in the scale of flotation machine are very large and obvious. With the increasing consumption of mineral resources, the grade of ore is getting lower and lower, which has led to an increasing scale of processing of ore processing plants.
Therefore, it is necessary to have corresponding large-scale flotation machine to adapt to the large-scale construction scale of the concentrator. In the large-scale concentrator of contemporary design, the selection of mineral processing flotation machine is based on the principle of large-scale, advanced, high-efficiency, low energy consumption, which is suitable for the construction scale of the concentrator, so that the concentrating plant has a higher mechanization level. Designed. When the crusher and the grinding machine are enlarged, the flotation machine is also enlarged. Since most of the domestic concentrators are non-ferrous metal ore dressing plants, the flotation process is often used for the selection process of non-ferrous metal mines. Flotation operations are used in almost 80% of the country's concentrators, and flotation machines are used. Therefore, the development speed of flotation machines is much faster than that of crushers and grinding machines.


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This is that time of year, it's deer mating season. It runs from October to late January. In fact, statistics show that the number of deer/auto collisions in November is nearly twice as many as those in October.
"Deer-related crashes can result in serious injuries or death," said Transportation Secretary, Bill Nighbert. He said motorists need to be a lot more cautious this time of year.
Here are some tips from the Transportation Department.
Always wear your seatbelt.
Drive defensively, constantly scanning the roadside.
If you spot a deer on the edge of the road, blow your horn. Use a long steady blast to get the deer's attention.
If a deer freezes in your headlights, flick the beams on and off to break the deer's concentration. That may cause the deer to move.
Slow down immediately. Proceed slowly until you are past the point where the deer have crossed.
Don't swerve. Stay in your lane. Most fatalities stemming from deer-related accidents involve drivers swerving, in an effort to miss the deer, and hitting a stationary object.
If the worst happens, keep both hands on the wheel and brake down steadily.
Report any deer collision, even if the damage is minor.
There are about 500,000 deer wrecks in the U.S each year, with an average of $2,000 of damage per car.


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The replicates used in BRR are set up by repeatedly selecting just one of the two psus per stratum. The selection is not entirely at random – the approach sets up replicates against an orthogonal matrix of 1s and 0s which is designed to give a 'balanced' set of replicates. The balancing is a means of dealing with the interdependence in the replicates because they contain common units.
Jackknife estimation
For jackknife estimation replicates are created by removing one PSU from the dataset at a time and then weighting up the other psus from the same stratum to adjust for the removal. In this way each replicate gives an unbiased estimate of the population mean, and the variance between the replicate means gives an estimate of the true sampling variance. Jackknife estimation is not restricted to a particular sample design so, in that sense, is more flexible than BRR.
Advantages of using replication methods
 - They can adjust properly for InfoButtonpost-stratification and include the uncertainty due to the estimation of nonresponse rates. But the R survey package implements a generalised calibration method that seems to work just as well.
 - Once the replicate weights are calculated they can be distributed with the data set and used by any user. This means that that PSU's do not have to be identified on the data set, which can overcome problems with disclosure.
4.4 The practicalities of replication methods
Replication methods are usually carried out in two stages:
 - Calculate a set of replicate weights from the design features of a survey
 - Use this set of weights to analyse any of the variables in the survey.
These two stages can be quite separate. Once a set of replicate weights are available the analysts don't need to know anything about the design of the survey. All they need to have is the set of weights and some information about what kinds of weights they are (e.g.BRR, Jackknife ) This means that they don't need to know the details of the sampling (e.g. PSUs, STRATA) so disclosure may be less of a problem.
Replicate weights
The idea of a replication method is that the survey analysis can be repeated on modifications of the data and the variability between the different results obtained allows the standard errors of the estimates to be calculated.
Each replication of a survey can be represented by a replicate weight that is calculated for every respondent. For example, for a modification that drops all the respondents in one PSU, one simply sets the weights for all respondents in that PSU to zero.
A complete set of replicate weights can be calculated and these are then distributed along with the survey. All the survey users can then make use of them to calculate the standard errors of their estimates.
How replication methods can allow for InfoButtonpost-stratification
Once a set of replicate weights are calculated, each set of weights can be post-stratified so that the sum of the weights matches the population totals to which the survey is to be matched. When InfoButtonraking, or other more complicated non-response adjustment is used the weights are adjusted so that each set of weights matches both the population totals.Section on non-response gives details.
4.5 How does the design affect standard errors?
Aspects of the design such as weighting clustering, startification and InfoButtonpost-stratification all influence the design effects and design factors and standard errors for surveys. These are discussed in detail in the relevant sections of this site
It is standard practice for large-scale surveys to be published with tables of design factors for key means and percentages, and you could be forgiven for concluding that survey design affects the standard errors for point estimates alone. But in reality survey design affects all survey statistics, including t-tests, chi-squared tests, and regression coefficients. The basic rules are:
 - All statistical tests (and that includes standard t-tests and chi-squared tests) are based on sampling variance and so have a design effect associated with them. It is often the case that the design effect for tests of differences between sub-groups will be smaller than the design effects associated with point estimates, especially if much of the design effect is attributable to clustering of the data. But you should not assume that the design factor is close enough to 1 to be ignorable.
 - For surveys that are weighted because disproportionate stratification has been used, the design factor should be considerably smaller for sub-group estimates where the sub-groups are the same or closely related to the survey strata.
 - For surveys that are clustered, the standard error for a difference between two groups should have a smaller design factor than the design factors for the two groups themselves as long as the sub-groups cut across each cluster. The design factor may still be fairly large however if the survey data is weighted. The same should apply to the design factor for the standard error of a regression co-efficient.
 - The standard errors for regression coefficients have design effects. As with tests for differences these effects will often be smaller than the design effects for means and percentages, but they should not be assumed to be ignorable.
All of the software packages we are illustrating on this web site will calculate the correct survey - adjusted standard errors. In most cases they will also calculate and print design effects for each estimate.
4.6 Chi squared tests for survey data
Adjusted chi-squared tests
Significance tests such as chi-squared tests also need to be adjusted for the
survey design. Methods for this are illustrated in exemplar 2 and in exemplar4. It is based on similiar principles to the approximate method described below. There are several variants of the survey-adjusted test but the one you are most likely to come accross, and considered to be the most useful is the Rao-Scott adjusted chi-square. This (confusingly) is not usually expressed as a chi-squared test statistic, but as an F statistic. But all the packages we are illustrating give the p-values for the test.
Approximate methods using design effects
design factors for key means and percentages. These can give you some indication of the likely design factors for other variables, and a fairly good rule of thumb is that using a design factor close to the top of the range for those published and applying this to simple random sample standard errors will safe-guard you (in the sense that the most likely error you will make will be to over-estimate the standard error rather than to under-estimate it).
In a similar way it is possible to use this'maximum design factor' to adjust statistical tests so that more conservative p-values are generated. For instance a t-statistic (from a t-test) might be divided by the'max deft' and a chi-squared statistic might be divided by the'max design effect', although this is often extremely conservative. If making use of these types of rule of thumb it is worth being aware of a few general principles: (but it is better to use the software we are illlustrating on this website)
You can check this out with exemplar 2 to see if it is true.
4.7 Misspecification effects
Some software packages (e.g. Stata) provide misspecification effects and misspecification factors as well as design effects and design factors (see above for the latter two). They may appear similar and sometimes (but not always) their values will be similar, but they are really quite different concepts.
The differences between the two types of effect are the following
 - Design effects and factors relate to how well your design is performing compared to a design that is a simple random sample with no clustering, no stratification and no weighting.
 - Misspecification effects and factors are the ratios of variances and standard errors of estimates for your design, compared to the wrong answer you would have got if you had ignored all the design features.
 - Design effects and factors are what you need to evaluate the efficiency of a design
 - Misspecification effects and factors give you how a factor for how wrong you would be if you used the variances and standard errors from an analysis that ignored all the design features, compared to a correct analysis.
Of course you would never dream of doing an incorrect analysis, would you? You are learning from this site after all. But you might have to advise someone without access to appropriate software. So are misspecification effects just what you want to tell people if they should worry about all the complications of design-based analysis? Sadly this is not quite true. The reason for this is weighting. Weighting not only changes the variance of estimates, it also can have large effects on the estimates themselves. So an unweighted analysis will be biassed. The MEFFs and MEFFTs don't tell you about biases.
If you had to advise someone without survey software on whether it was safe to proceed the appropriate advice would be to suggest that they use a weighted analysis with weights scaled to add to the sample size (see section 3.1 on scaling of weights). This gives answers that are bias-adjusted and the standard errors are at least approximately correct. The MEFFs and MEFFTs don't give you the comparison with this analysis. Where unequal weighting changes the precision using MEFFTS will give too big an adjustment to the standard errors.
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Integration into Research Teams
Case Study - Integrating Research Users into Research Teams
KE can benefit from avoiding preconceptions about the role stakeholders should play. Professor Alister Scott outlines how an initiative within the Rural Economy and Land Use (Relu) Programme achieved success by creating a 'soup' that deliberately blurred boundaries between researchers and research users.
The aim of the Managing Environmental Change at the Fringe project was to pinpoint better ways of managing places where the town meets the countryside. Historically, the rural-urban fringe has suffered from the chaos of unrelated decisions, largely because it's a frontier zone not just in a physical sense but also between natural and social sciences, between the natural and built environment, between spatial planning system and ecosystem-led approaches, and between researchers and policy-makers/practitioners.
We needed to break down these barriers and bring together parties who think in very different ways and generally don't communicate with each other very effectively. For instance, many environmental scientists don't really understand the planning process and many planners haven't even heard of the ecosystem approach. Above all, we wanted to avoid the usual way of operating whereby stakeholders are simply brought together at various milestones within the project for a token discussion of the findings.
Embedded from the word go, our philosophy was that there should be a single project team embracing both researchers and stakeholders, where everyone was equal.
This wasn't going to be an initiative where academics worked in splendid isolation. Academia, policy and practice all had something important to contribute and something to learn, so everyone was a researcher and research user. As such, all participants received remuneration for their time.
While it was challenging to find people willing to work outside their comfort zones, this approach gave us a unique chance to integrate different outlooks.
Team members benefited from the opportunity to incorporate others' perspectives into their own work and to identify areas of common ground. Adopting this novel way of working meant we didn't just recycle existing knowledge, which might have happened if everyone had stayed inside the 'bubble' of their own niche interest. Instead, the creative fusion generated innovative tools for day-to-day use, such as video policy briefs and 'RUFopoly' – a giant board-game exploring rural-urban fringe issues and already used by Government, schools and voluntary groups.
Other projects are already harnessing the unique capacity we built – for instance, members of our group are involved in the follow-on phase of the National Ecosystem Assessment.


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State board regulations regarding protection from bloodborne pathogens states the ideal temperature for pathogens or bacterial growth is between 40–140°F. However, to ensure you are killing any potential viruses or bacterias, your products should be sterilized at a temperature exceeding 212°F. Obviously, 212°F is quite hot, and if your wax pot is set at that ideal sterilization temperature, you may very well be compromising the integrity of your clients' skin.
So what's the best way to ensure sterilization without burning clients? Testing the wax on your wrist before you apply it to the client's skin helps ensure it's at a comfortable temperature, as well as engaging the client by testing it on her wrist so she will be aware of the temperature. However, using multiple spatulas is really the only way to ensure a truly sanitary hair removal experience.
Double-dipping, or using the same spatula to dip wax from pot more than once, continues to be an area of concern in depilation. Unless you test your wax each and every time you use it, there is no way to be certain your product hasn't been contaminated with infected bloodborne pathogens. And if your wax had been contaminated, it significantly increases the risk of cross-contamination if you double-dip. Typically, switching to a new spatula each time you dip into the wax eliminates this risk, so why not do it? Though its true supply costs can add up, many vendors and suppliers are willing to work with spas to provide such supplies at minimal—and sometimes even no—cost. So when supplies are available at such a reduced cost, why take the risk?
It may also be a good idea to conduct a sterilization experiment on your own: Submit a tin of your wax, some tools or other hair removal implements for bacteria and infectious matter testing. This is a service available through the CDC, and it gives you a good idea of how effective you are being with your sanitation, disinfection and sterilization efforts.
However, to really create the best environment for hair removal services, spa professionals need to work together. If everyone in the industry bans together in requesting sterilization standardizations from their state boards, OSHA and the CDC, it's possible the still-unanswered questions of sterilization temperatures and other techniques will finally be settled.


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Software design involves translating a set of task requirements into a structured description of a computer program that will perform the task. A software designer can use design schema, collaborative design knowledge, or can reuse design artifacts. Very little has been done to include reuse of design artifacts in the software development life cycle, despite tremendous promises of reuse. As a result, this technique has not seen widespread use, possibly due to a lack of cognitive understanding of the reuse process. This research explores the role of a specific cognitive aspect, opportunism, in demand-side software reuse. We propose a cognitive model based on opportunism that describes the software design process with reuse. Protocol analysis verifies that the software design with reuse is indeed opportunistic and reveals that some software designers employ certain tasks of the reuse process frequently. Based on these findings, we propose a reuse support system that incorporates blackboard technology and existing reuse library management system
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Understanding Fractals
Fractals are repeating geometric patterns, present all around us in the form of repeating geometry. In markets, a repeating geometry can be observed on charts in various magnitudes. While most view charts as the price of a commodity or security being affected by buying and selling. It is important to acknowledge that the buying and selling is the result of market participants.
Market participants are a combination of human and quantitative efforts- "algorithms". Humans are creatures of habit, and one can make the argument that quants are less predictable. But it is no doubt that the cumulative combination of efforts result in quantifiable repeating outcomes. In a sense all chart formations and technical tools are based off the probability of repeating outcomes due to the involvement of habitual participants.
To summarize fractals and put matters into perspective, a fractal is a pattern previously observed on a chart that can be characterized by shape, dimension, phases, and is quantifiable. Once that pattern starts repeating itself in similar market conditions, with the similar quantifiable data sets and parameters, it is safe to assume that market participants are experiencing a similar type of habitual market engagement.
State of Affairs
On 8/14 our team called for a short squeeze on Bitcoin, and since then we observed the chart rally +24%, only to pullback some -15% for good reason.
Technically speaking our team observed a Rising Wedge formation combined with both RSI and MFI divergences. Hence a pullback was expected and short positions where hedged at the top of the run for a staggering 800% return on equity.
A brief overview of our margin activities.
The short squeeze that was called for occurred, but not at the magnitude we anticipated. Still, our long position from $6,040 to $7,000 was extremely profitable and so was the short play from $7,350 to $6,300. But it is not over yet.
We have reason to believe the real short squeeze is still brewing, based on a key fractal from the previous squeeze earlier year occurring in April.
The Fractal
Repeating geometry we say? Absolutely,
Quantifiable, with 6 phases, similar market conditions, and Fibonacci correlation.
The above chart demonstrates our fractal, the nature of it was labeled as a "fulcrum bottom" by infamous classical trader Peter Brandt. Let's study the Fulcrum, it's phases and then proceed to the current construct.
Phase 1
Swing low, followed by an initial peak.
(swing low) (initial Peak),
Phase 2
Initial peak to Higher Low, (HL)
Once again labeled on the chart.
Phase 3
C for channel, 1 for being the first channel in this fractal, (C1)
in this case C1 formed a rising wedge, that peaked at 61.8% fib labeled (LH), Hence, LH,C1.
Phase 4
The Knife
A pullback from LH, C1, to form Higher Low 2, (HL2) at 23.6% fib level.
Phase 5
Channel 2, the rise from HL2
In the form of a secondary Channel, forming a new lower high to the 50% fib level. (LH,C2)
Phase 6
Final Shakeout, another sudden drop in the form of a smaller knife.
From LH,C2, down to fibo 38.2%
And then finally the squeeze. A big move that took Bitcoin price up to 1.618% Fibo, which also resulted in the entire market cap rallying for 30+ days.
The current state of Bitcoin and market conditions resembled April.
BTCUSDSHORTS, aka short selling, is once again climbing back to all time highs. If that was the only resemblance, we wouldn't be writing this publication.
We observed and quantified our previous fractal, in the form of a "fulcrum bottom" developing.
Having identified our phases in the previous section, let's fast forward and stick to the relevancy. Phases 1, 2, 3, and 4 have been completed. Fibonacci levels match, and the nature of the geometry is quantitatively identical.
What's the difference? Magnitude.
Everything else being relatively the same, this current geometry is taking much longer to develop, but on a grander scale. Bigger swings, more volatility, and longer time frame.
April's fractal in terms of duration and phases, it took BTC 7 days from the beginning of Phase 1 to the end of Phase 4. Current fractal has taken 73 days.
And in terms of volatility, by just studying Phase 1, from Swing Low to Initial Peak, BTC rallied %17 back in April. Current fractal formation, during that same Phase, BTC has rallied %45.
Currently Bitcoin is forming HL2, the beginning of Phase 5.
So long as HL2 holds as a higher low, and BTC doesn't experience a lower low than previous HL, our team is confident that this fractal play is on track.
Next we'd like to observe price move into a form of a channel, to from LH,C2. at Fibo 50%, to complete phase 5.
1.618 fib level coincides with $10,000.
"Why is the market doing this?" is a valid question. "Efficiency" is the most reasonable explanation we can come up with.
The previous minor squeeze that we traded on 8/14 proved profitable, as we traded it both ways and we were able to make great profits, and so was our trading community. But was this minor squeeze sufficient for a head turn on Bitcoin?
Absolutely not, as Bitcoin's previous highs couldn't be breached, so the market resorted to a previously identifiable pattern, that has proven to be efficient.
We expect this developing Phase 5, to increase the amount of BTCUSDSHORTS, and other short sellers to a new all time high, for a more efficient and violent squeeze.
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Lift Requirements for Flats and Tower Blocks
A helpful guide on specifying lifts for multi-storey housing developments, from fire fighting lifts to refurbishing existing lifts in a block of flats, the choices are endless, so read on to find out what the options and considerations are...
Tower block lifts – a fascinating history
Multi-storey housing developments were generally restricted to seven storeys before the days of elevators. Wealthy people lived on the ground floor and the poorest people lived on the top floor and so had to climb the most stairs. Social standing reversed with the advent of lifts, the penthouse being reserved for the wealthiest occupants.
High-rise housing became the order of the day post-war and many of these developments still exist, refurbished, today. Adding lifts to communal areas were key in the development of modern high rise buildings as without them moving to high floors by staircases would have been too arduous. Today, lifts continue to play an important part in a growing requirement for public and private housing.
When does a modern housing development require a lift?
For managed housing over two floors or more, to ensure the housing is suitable for all occupants, including people with restricted mobility, a vertical lift should be provided. If there are thirty or more individual units (flats) above the ground floor of the building then two lifts to support access to into flats should always be considered. This is particularly important in larger blocks of flats where a lift being out-of-action can cause serious disruption to residents. As a lift company with over 150 years experience, Stannah would always recommend the installation of at least two lifts as best practice for multi-storey housing developments.
What types of lifts for housing developments might be applicable?
Every passenger lift and platform lift we manufacture and supply to the housing sector has the latest standards and will accommodate a person using a wheelchair, a parent and child with a buggy or several standing people.
Platform lifts can be supplied and installed in low-rise housing, where they are to be used infrequently by a small number of people, and increasingly as an individual solution in a private dwelling.
Part M of the Building Regulations recommends passenger lifts should always be a first choice. For taller or larger residential buildings, one or more passenger lifts should play the main role in moving people vertically, typically these are 8 person or larger in line with building regulations and the people moving requirements.
As part of this, the type of passenger lift requires careful consideration, for example some lifts may also be used for fire fighting and evacuation purposes.
There is also rise in the installation of goods lifts, used to aid underground storage of bikes/bins in residential buildings - driven by a desire for Local Authorities to outline how waste is handled in their areas by waste management plans.
Specifying passenger lifts for multi-storey residential housing
Below are some of the key questions to enable you to decide which type of passenger lift you require:
1. How many lifts and in what configuration do you require?
Design guidelines recommend two lifts for any building in accordance with BS8300 - Design of an accessible and inclusive built environment - Part 2: Buildings — Code of practice, this helps to enable access provision for all in the event to downtime due to servicing and maintenance or in the unlikely event of a lift failure. Depending on the number of floors this may mean there is also a requirement for one of the lifts to be a fire-fighting lift.
2. Do you require a vandal resistant finish?
Lifts should reflect the building they are situated in. For some housing projects there is a more robust requirement, in these circumstances vandal-resistant finishes or vandal resistant lifts can play their part. There are two categories of vandal resistant lifts that are covered by the British Standard EN81-71: Vandal resistant lifts. This standard defines the testing methodology and the classification of lifts in terms of vandal resistance.
For any lift requiring a vandal resistant element, be it category 1 or category 2 primarily the lift has more vandal resistant elements than a traditional passenger lift. These elements include (but are not limited to) the following: vandal resistant and reinforced car and landing doors, finishing the lift car in vandal-resistant heavy-duty stainless steel cladding patterns such as 5WL, leather or linen, vandal resistant lighting and car roofs built to resist more than 150kg, IP54 push buttons, vandal resistant displays and car operating panels.
Vandal resistant lifts category 2 provide twice as much effort to control crushing, shearing, cutting, trapping, impact hazard, electrical and thermal hazard in a lift where there may be occurrences of vandal resistance than a category 1 lift.
Passenger Lifts vandal resistant
For example at St John's Hill Peabody Housing Estate the lifts have been specified to match the heavy duty demand of this environment, with the nine 8-person lifts are fitted with higher-grade stainless steel lift cars and Dewhurst push-button controls and mix of Cat 1 and Cat 2 vandal resistant lifts (image above).
3. Do you require a luxury or bespoke finish?
Alternatively, do you require bespoke finishes and car sizes for a high-end housing project to ensure the lift properly reflects the investment of interior design? Here a luxury or bespoke finish, either in the form of a bare lift car clad to match the rest of the building, or glass, marble or wood-effect, helps add to overall sale value.
Here the specifying consideration is ensuring your chose finish conforms with fire resistance guidelines. It's worth noting that a heavy floor or wall finish can affect the lifting weight of the passenger lift car, e.g. marble floor so it's always worth discussing this with your chosen lift supplier and the early planning stages of a project.
Below is an example of jade-green gloss perspex panels and carpeted floors, flowing through from the landings to ensure the lift interior reflects thdevelopment's design aesthetic at King Edward VII private housing project (shown below).
Bespoke lift for private housing
4. Do you require a fire fighting lift?
As a default, all new passenger lifts are equipped to conform to British Standard EN81-73: Behaviour of lifts in the event of fire. This standard means the lift is connected to the fire alarm system and in the event of a fire the lift travels to the ground floor, the doors remain open and no further calls are taken. This enables all passengers of the lift to evacuate the building and fire fighters to ensure there is no one trapped in the lift car.
This is very different to a fire fighting lift. Fire fighting lifts are lifts designed to have additional protection, with controls that enable it to be used under the direct control of the fire and rescue service in fighting a fire. For housing, a fire fighting lift is required if the building has a floor more than 18m above, or more than 10m below fire service vehicle access level.
British Standard EN81-72 compliant firefighter lifts feature trap doors and ladders for rescue operations, additionally electrical components in the shaft and on the car are protected against splashing water. Fire fighting lifts have very specific safety requirements and the presence of fire fighting controls within a lift does not necessarily mean that it is a fire fighting lift.
In some circumstances a fire fighting lift may be provided as part of a management plan for evacuating people, in such cases, the lift installation may need to be appropriately located, protected and also contain a number of safety features that are intended to ensure that the lift remains usable for evacuation purposes during the fire.
5. Are you planning to use the lift as part of your evacuation plans?
In general, it isn't appropriate to use lifts when there is a fire in the building because there's always the danger of people being trapped in a lift that has become immobilised due to the fire, hence why the British Standard EN81-73 is in place.
However, in some circumstances, a lift can be provided as part of a management plan for evacuating people and studies have shown they can cut evacuation times by up to 40%. Guidance on the design and use of evacuation lifts is given in BS EN81-76: Evacuation of disabled persons using lifts and where a fire fighting lift has been provided, this can be utilised as part of a management plan for evacuating disabled people.
6. Do you require a lift to aid the transportation of waste?
There is a rise in the installation of goods lifts, used to aid underground storage of bikes/bins in residential buildings. Local council guidelines for waste management often state the goods lift must be large enough to accommodate a person as well as at least one waste container, this is where an attended goods lift or passenger and goods lifts can play a part.
Your chosen lift supplier will be able to advise you of all the types of lifts available for your building based on the questions above - helping you to create the perfect passenger lift specification after careful analysis of your building users, frequency of travel and budget.
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Whatever the lift requirement, we can be certain that the pressure for more housing will increase with our population and the solution found vertically, increasing the requirement for lifts. We will continue to meet the needs for accessibility for everyone in the entire built environment, with housing at the forefront of our market areas.
We work in both private and public housing, forming strong relationships with leading contractors for design and build tenders, working with architects and clients in traditional procurement routes, and liaising directly with Housing Associations to provide lifts based on the needs of the tenants.
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It was in Alma-Ata (now Almaty in Kazakhstan) where Almagul Menlibaeva began her career as a painter, occasionally using felt as a resource. Though felt, a material par excellence in nomadic cultures, can never be limited to any ordinary medium. Being traditionally crafted by women, it unleashes a lyrical sensibility and dramatic tension in this Kazakh artist.
In the video that marks her artistic maturity, it is obvious where Almagul's imagination finds its power, which could not have been anywhere other than the steppe. As a place of visual minimalism par excellence with its flat configuration, deprived of any vertical presence, it becomes a 'Baroque Steppe' when fired by her wild imagination. Inhabited by 'Snow-Women' or women as old as the world, it emerges as a magic space depicting an eternal symmetry of eroticism. Almagul's works are fairy tales besieged by history in action, and even her most realistic video, set in a labyrinthic and rainy Alma-Ata, portrays the ultimate female fairytale archetype, the bride; essentially still a virgin escaping the violations which, from Duchamp onwards, she has been subject to.
Baroque and symmetrical, Almagul's visual world was established in the wake of the crisis and later the collapse of the 'East-Soviet Empire' (1991). In an era of overwhelming changes, it regains both modernity and its ancestral origins. The characteristic naked body at the core of her work challenges the formalism belonging to a long history of Soviet art. Beauty and violence are continuously aestheticizing one another. However, the process is paradoxically ideological in the sense that it appropriates values such as the avant-garde and shamanism, which were forbidden in the Soviet era and are still very unfavourable to the new regimes in Central Asia. This young Kazakh artist makes such values pulsate with life through an unrestrained vitality that constantly clashes with the reality of a post-Soviet disaster. In a recent work (the video 'On the Road') the steppe is burning around a Sufi-shaman artist; an old, naked and unkempt man, who is in reality the artist Moldakul, a protagonist in the Kizil Traktor Group; the first post-Soviet avant-garde in the Golden Horde (1994). Alongside the man, two young, also naked, women dance and embrace each other, while the landscape is so extremely rectilinear and torrid that escape appears impossible.
In an earlier video-cycle of photographs entitled 'Wagon', the recurrent theme of naked bodies is set between the geometric power of an iron carcass that was once a railway carriage and a vast and imminent steppe. Almagul instils drama in the relationship between an eternal steppe and the ruins of a Soviet iron age, which seem more archaic than cities like Sairam, distroyed from Mongols in XIII century and whittled away by the wind.
In the 'Baroque Steppe' trilogy, which afforded her international attention, she plays with refractions and symmetries portrayed against the backdrop of an Islamic cemetery, as captivating as a fairytale castle. Dionysius and Apollo, primal chaos and pure formal organization, here meet in an absolute realm on the Central Asian steppe.
In an ideological return to her origins, Almagul seems intent on overcoming that Islamism which never made much headway among the nomadic peoples of Central Asia, or at best wants to seize it in – as Valeria Ibraeva describes referring to the best Kazakh art – 'a wild and deviant Sufi figure'. Yet in front of the great mausoleum of Saint (Khodja) Yasawi in Turkestan (a masterpiece of Timurid architecture), the artist looks beautiful and elegant in a multicoloured Ikat; above all she covers herself and aims a non-reconciliatory look. The title of this work is 'Jihad'.


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Drag queening for the birds say Spanish boffins
Priscilla, Queen of the Raptors
Fetch out the sequins: Spanish biologists working in western France have explained a curious characteristic of a bird called the marsh harrier: some males "dress" as females in their permanent plumage to win chicks and territory.
The boffins, led by Audrey Sternalski of the Instituto de Investigacion en Recursos Cingeticos in Ciudad Real, say that the female-coloured male harriers are able to avoid copping the aggression that's typical of males defending their territory.
The researchers set up decoy birds with three plumage styles: the grey of the male, the brown-and-white of the female, and the imperfect mimicked plumage of the "she-male". They found that aggressive males focused on attacking decoys that were typically male, making less effort to try and drive the other two off their territory.
This, they argue in a paper published in the Royal Society's Biology Letters, gives the males-in-female-plumage a chance to cozy up to females without being driven away by jealous males. It also means they can seek out new feeding territories with less chance of having to do battle with the incumbent.
They also found that the "drag queen" marsh harriers would take their act to extremes, even attacking the female decoys rather than the males.
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In Greek mythology, the Limnads /ˈlɪmnədz/ or /ˈlɪmˌnædz/ (Λιμνάδες) or Leimenids /ˈlmɨnɨdz/ (Λειμενίδες) were a type of Naiad. They lived in freshwater lakes. Their parents were river or lake gods.
The number of Limnades includes but is not limited to:[1]
 1. The Astakides (αι Ἀστακίδες), nymphs of the Lake Astakos in Bithynia[2]
 2. Bolbe (Βόλβη), nymph of a Thessalian lake of the same name, also classed as an Oceanid due to her parentage (daughter of Oceanus and Tethys)
 3. Limnaee (Λιμναία), daughter of the Indian river god Ganges, one of the reputed mothers of Athis[3]
 4. Pallas (Παλλάς, genitive Παλλάδος)[4]
 5. Tritonis (Τριτονίς), nymph of the homonymous salt-water lake in Libya, mother of Nasamon and Caphaurus (or Cephalion) by Amphithemis,[5][6] and, according to an archaic version of the myth, also of Athena by Poseidon.[7]
 1. ^ Theoi Project – List of Nymphs and types of Nymphs
 2. ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 15.370 ff
 3. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.47 ff
 4. ^ Bibliotheca 3. 144
 5. ^ Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4. 1493 ff
 6. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 14
 7. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 14. 6


NCA Rural Canada Policy Statement
The National Citizens Alliance's agenda is Canadians First, and this agenda includes the promotion and enhancement of traditional Canada.
The NCA views rural Canada from coast to coast as the heart and soul of traditional Canada. Therefore, the NCA prioritizes the promotion of rural Canada consistent with its traditional identity, heritage, cultural norms, and values.
The NCA rejects the importation of third world migrants and any cultural norms that are inconsistent with the values and principles of rural Canada as we saw occur in Brooks, Alberta. The NCA rejects globalist trade deals like TPP and FIPPA that undermine independence and sovereignty of rural Canada, and rural entrepreneurship and small businesses. The NCA rejects the political correctness and progressive gender identity politics being pushed on rural Canada.
The NCA stands fully behind rural Canada and its prosperity and security, and we are 100 percent committed to the following:
- Lower federal taxation on rural Canada through implementation of personal and business flat-taxes and immediate end to federal carbon taxation and any other levy on human caused carbon emissions.
- Justice reform with major focus on access to justice and accountability of all those individuals and groups who work within the justice system.
- Rural business development though removing unnecessary regulations and increasing the loans available to rural entrepreneurs and small business owners, including grants for non-renewable energy such as wind and solar power and sustainable agricultural practices such as poly-culture agriculture, beekeeping, and pesticide-free agriculture.
- Establish a national bee pollinator recovery program that focuses on the systemic causes of the bee population decline, and concrete solutions such as poly-culture and pesticide-free agriculture, protection of ideal bee habitat, and incentives for sustainable beekeeping. The NCA moratorium on immigration followed by 50,000 or less will help significantly reduce habitat loss.
- Require power corporations to compensate fairly and accurately for any and all excess energy put into power grids by rural households and businesses.
- Moratorium on immigration that includes a review of immigration intake numbers from the standpoint of economic, environmental, and societal considerations.
- Protection of Canadian industries and businesses from foreign governments flooding the Canadian market with subsidized and inferior product, while ensuring fair treatment of all industries and businesses regardless of what province they are.
The National Citizens Alliance prioritizes rural Canada and its prosperity and security as the heart and soul of traditional Canada. Therefore, a NCA government will do everything in its power to promote and enhance rural Canada. Canadians First.
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E-CLIL Games for Students
The student site holds all the games that a teacher wants a student to use.The teacher will select these games either by:
- Selecting from all the previously created, available games on the platform (teacher site)
- Creating new games for the student (by the teacher on the teacher site).
E-CLIL is European Union funded project to develop and build resources and a resource centre for the use of Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). It focuses on language learning, learning strategies, multilingualism and multiculturalism. CLIL is dual-focused instruction during which language is taught at the same time as content from a different school subject. It has already been established as a valuable approach to both teaching foreign languages and specific subjects. The project is being completed over 3 years and includes partners with a wide-experience of how to create CLIL content and the issues around CLIL.
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E-CLIL Resource Centre for teachers
The ECLIL resource centre is designed to link to two types of web resources:
- CLIL Resource Sites that either have more information on the use of CLIL or further links to more CLIL resources
- Specific CLIL resources that can be used by teachers in the classroomSome of these resources have been further divided by language. The individual resources are categorised by subject area.
The UWS e-CLIL Games Engine has been developed to provide teachers of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) with an easy-to-use tool that will allow them to create simple educational games in one or more languages that their students can play online. Games created by teachers are freely available for other teachers to use and adapt to suit their own teaching purposes. Teachers can select the games that they want their students to play from the growing list of games that the platform will support.
The teacher site allows teachers to create their own games that suite the particular needs of the curriculum or select from existing games on the platform. The teacher can then assign or take away any game for the use of their students (created or available).


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How can the DLCA be used for planning new development?20 June 2016
New development needs to take full account of its relationship with the landscape. Understanding the landscape context of development is an essential first step of the design process. The DLCA helps developers to understand the characteristics of different areas of landscape and of the impacts of potential development. This helps in the identification of sites that are suitable for different types of development. When a development site has been identified, the key characteristics of the landscape can inform the design and layout of new development.


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The confusing name "Chontal"
Oaxaca Chontal and Tabasco Chontal
Two languages are called Chontal. The Chontal spoken in the state of Oaxaca is thought to be part of the Hokan stock, whereas the Chontal spoken in the state of Tabasco is Mayan. The traditional homelands of these languages are indicated on the following map.
Map for languages called Chontal
Oaxaca Chontal, in its highland and lowland varieties (ISO codes clo and chd, respectively), is the last surviving representative of the Tequistlatecan family. Although this family is considered part of the Hokan stock, its relationship to the other Hokan languages (the Yuman languages, perhaps Seri) is so distant that some even doubt whether it should be included in that stock, or should be considered a linguistic isolate.
Tabasco Chontal (ISO code chf) is a language of the Mayan family, spoken in the state of Tabasco by about 45,000 people. It forms a sub-family together with Ch'ol, Tzeltal and Tzotzil (spoken in Chiapas) and Chortí, which is spoken in Guatemala.
The etymology of "Chontal"
The Nahuatl word chontalli (whose root is chontal) means 'foreigner'. The fact that both the Chontales of Oaxaca and those of Tabasco were foreigners to the Nahuatl-speakers explains both why these two languages could be called by the same name, and why the enormous linguistic differences between them could be ignored in so doing. The wonder is that there are not more languages called Chontal today, since all the non-Nahuatl languages would have been as good candidates as these two.


The Nernst Equation
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The use of standard reduction potentials to predict the course of a reaction is somewhat limited, in that they are only valid under standard conditions. However, they can be used to predict the course of redox reactions under nonstandard conditions.
This process of extrapolation of the properties of a reaction under one set of conditions to those under another set of conditions uses the Nernst equation.
The Nernst Equation
If we know the Gibbs free energy of reaction at under one set of conditions, it can be used to predict the Gibbs free energy of reaction, and from that the reduction potential, under a new set of conditions.
Derivation of the Nernst equation
Consider the reaction:
The Gibbs free reaction energy can be related to the standard Gibbs free reaction energy:
Q is the reaction quotient:
The reduction potentials may be related to the free energies of reaction:
Therefore, the Nernst equation is the result:
The Nernst equation relates the non-equilibrium properties of a reaction to those at equilibrium. At equilibrium, the reaction free energy, and hence the potential for the reaction, is zero, and the reaction quotient, Q, is the equilibrium constant, K. We can therefore calculate the equilibrium constant from the standard reduction potential.
The exponential dependence of the equilibrium constant on the reaction potential means that a change in reaction potential of one volt results in a change in the equilibrium constant of seventeen orders of magnitude: hence, E* = +2 V means K = 1034, E* = 0 V means K = 1, and E* = -2 V means K = 10-34.
When we introduced half-reactions, we saw that we could split up the overall potential for a cell into contributions from the oxidant and the reductant. We can also do this for the Nernst equation, and therefore write a similar expression for each of the reduction couples.
pH dependence of reduction potentials
The Nernst equation can be used to determine the pH dependence of the potential for a given reaction.
Consider the reaction:
The Nernst equation gives the potential:
But, E* is the reduction potential for the Ox/Red couple, E*(Ox/Red), as the standard reduction potential for the H+/H2 couple is zero, and [H2] is given by the partial pressure of H2, which is 1 under standard conditions, and the number of electrons transferred is 2.
The Nernst equation becomes:
The definition of pH: pH = -log10[H+]
So the reduction potential is related to the pH:
In general this equation should be adapted for the number of electrons transferred.
Stability Fields: Water
The values of the reduction potentials for the H+/H2 and O2,H+/H2O redox couples, and their pH dependences, can be used to predict where a given species may be stable in aqueous solution. This stability can be expressed in terms of the stability field (aka Pourbaix diagram).
The Stability Field of Water
When a reducing agent that can reduce water to H2, or an oxidizing agent which can oxidize water to O2, is placed in water, the reduction or oxidation reaction will take place, and the species will decompose, and hence it is unstable. A species is therefore stable if its reduction potential lies in the range 0 < E < +1.23 V, 0 V being E*(H+/H2) and +1.23 V being E*(O2,H+/O2). However, the reduction potentials change with pH, and so the range of stable reduction potentials also changes.
The variation of stable reduction potentials with pH is shown in the stability field plot, and in water, the stable species are those which have reduction potentials lying between the solid black lines.
If the effects of kinetic control are taken into account, the need for the presence of the overpotential predicts stability for those species with reduction potentials in the range between the dashed black lines.
The vertical lines on the diagram have been added to show the range of pH values commonly found in lakes and streams, pH values between 4 and 9. Hence the area in the middle of the diagram represents the area of stability in natural waters.
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Sridhar Acharya (c. 870, India – c. 930 India) was an Indian mathematician, Sanskrit pundit and philosopher. He was born in Bhurishresti (Bhurisristi or Bhurshut) village in South Radha (at present Hughli) in the 10th Century AD. His father's name was Baladev Acharya and mother's name was Acchoka. His father was also a Sanskrit pundit.
He was known for two treatises: Trisatika (sometimes called the Patiganitasara) and the Patiganita. His major work Patiganitasara was named Trisatika because it was written in three hundred slokas. The book discusses counting of numbers, measures, natural number, multiplication, division, zero, squares, cubes, fraction, rule of three, interest-calculation, joint business or partnership and mensuration.
 - He gave an exposition on zero. He has written, "If 0(zero) is added to any number,the sum is the same number; If 0(zero) is subtracted from any number,the number remains unchanged; If 0(zero) is multiplied by any number,the product is 0(zero)". He has said nothing about division of any number by 0(zero).
 - In the case of dividing a fraction he has found out the method of multiplying the fraction by the reciprocal of the divisor.
 - He wrote on practical applications of algebra separated algebra from arithmetic
 - He was one of the first to give a formula for solving quadratic equations.
 - He found the formula :-
ax^2 + bx + c = 0
 4a^2x^2 + 4abx + 4ac = 0 (Multiply by 4a)
Sridhara is now believed to have lived in the ninth and tenth centuries. However, there has been much dispute over his date and in different works the dates of the life of Sridhara have been placed from the seventh century to the eleventh century. The best present estimate is that he wrote around 900 AD, a date which is deduced from seeing which other pieces of mathematics he was familiar with and also seeing which later mathematicians were familiar with his work. Some historians give Bengal as the place of his birth while other historians believe that Sridhara was born in southern India.
Sridhara is known as the author of two mathematical treatises, namely the Trisatika (sometimes called the Patiganitasara ) and the Patiganita. However at least three other works have been attributed to him, namely the Bijaganita, Navasati, and Brhatpati. Information about these books was given the works of Bhaskara II (writing around 1150), Makkibhatta (writing in 1377), and Raghavabhatta (writing in 1493).
K.S. Shukla examined Sridhara's method for finding rational solutions of Nx^2 \pm\ 1 = y^2, 1 - Nx^2 = y^2, Nx^2 \pm\ C = y^2, C - Nx^2 = y^2which Sridhara gives in the Patiganita. Shukla states that the rules given there are different from those given by other Hindu mathematicians.
Sridhara was one of the first mathematicians to give a rule to solve a quadratic equation. Unfortunately, as indicated above, the original is lost and we have to rely on a quotation of Sridhara's rule from Bhaskara II:-
Multiply both sides of the equation by a known quantity equal to four times the coefficient of the square of the unknown; add to both sides a known quantity equal to the square of the coefficient of the unknown; then take the square root.
Proof of the Sridhar Acharya Formula,
let us consider,
ax^2 + bx + c = 0
 - Multipling both sides by 4a,
4a^2x^2 + 4abx + 4ac = 0
 - Substracting 4ac from both sides,
4a^2x^2 + 4abx = -4ac
 - Then adding b^2 to both sides,
4a^2x^2 + 4abx + b^2= - 4ac + b^2
 - We know that,
 - Using it in the equation,
 - Taking square roots,
 - Hence, dividing by 2a get
x=\frac{-b\pm\sqrt{b^2-4ac\ }}{2a}.
In this way, he found the proof of 2 roots.


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For instance, it's the best place to read about the curious case of M. El Naschie, who's published 322 of his own papers in the journal he edits for Elsevier.
More substantively: Tom Leinster has a beautiful pair of posts (part I, part II) about varying notions of "diversity" in population biology, and a way to capture all these notions as special cases of a general mathematical construction.
Drastic oversimplification: you might start by defining the diversity of an island beetle population to be the number of different species of beetles living there. But that misses something — a population with three equinumerous beetle species is more diverse than one where a single dominant species accounts for 98% of the beetles, with the remainder split evenly between the other two species. Part I of Leinster's post is devoted to various measures that capture this behavior. In particular, he'll explain why on the former island the effective number of species is 3 (just as you'd expect) while on the latter the "number" of species is not 3, but about 1.12 — in other words, the second island is very close to having just one kind of beetle.
In part II, Leinster discusses what happens when you take into account that some pairs of species are more similar than others.
An island with three species of beetles and no other animal life ought to be rated less diverse than an island with one kind of mammal, one kind of beetle, and one kind of bird. The set of species can be thought of as a finite metric space, in which the distance between any two species is a measure of the biological "difference" between them. Leinster has developed an interesting notion of the "cardinality" of a metric space. Here's how it works when the metric space has just two points, separated by distance d:
If A has two points, distance d apart, then
So when d=0 we have ∣A∣=1; think of this as saying 'there
is effectively only one point'. As the points move further apart,
∣A| increases, until when d=∞ we have ∣A∣ =2; think of this as saying
'there are two completely distinguished points'. More generally, if A is an n-point space with d_ij=∞ whenever i≠j, then ∣A∣ MS=n. You can think of cardinality as the 'effective number of points'.
The real fun comes when we try to write down a measure of diversity that keeps track of both of the above features; that some pairs of species are more similar than others, and some species occur more frequently than others. In other words, if P is a probability distribution on a finite metric space, is there a good notion of "cardinality" |P|? Leinster explains how to construct such a notion; and reveals that this (almost) agrees with a definition already given by the population biologists Ricotta and Szeidl in 2006.
The notion of cardinality of a metric space, by the way, is an outgrowth of Leinster's earlier work defining a cardinality (or, better, an Euler characteristic) for certain categories. This is something you've grappled with before, even if you're not a category theorist. For example: suppose you want to count the isomorphism classes of quadratic forms in a given genus. You quickly realize that's not actually what you want to count — rather, you want to count the number of isomorphism classes of quadratic forms Q, where each form is counted with weight 1/|Aut(Q)|. And when you do that, you get a very clean answer from the Siegel mass formula.
What's going on? The point is that the quadratic forms in the genus shouldn't be thought of as a set, but as a category — in fact, a groupoid — whose objects are quadratic forms and whose morphisms are isomorphisms. (If you know the definition of a stack you know very well the terrible danger of thinking of a category as a mere set.) And the cardinality of this groupoid, in Leinster's sense, is precisely the sum over isomorphism classes of 1/|Aut(Q)| — what number theorists would call the "total mass."
From this point of view, you instantly derive the amusing fact that the "number" of finite sets is e, and that the a finite set chosen from the "uniform distribution" on the category of finite sets has cardinality n with probability e^(-1)/n!; in other words, the cardinality of a random finite set obeys the Poisson distribution with mean 1.


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From laptops to smartphones, having many portable devices at our fingertips makes daily life easy to manage. We can perform various business operations, expand our entertainment options, keep track of different schedules, and find the answers to almost any question instantly.
We can do these things from almost anywhere, thanks to broader wireless network coverage. However, the devices that we take with us run on special batteries. Like any electronic unit that does not have its power source, the battery is a crucial part that maintains its functionality, especially when we are on the go.
Nowadays, power banks fill a void between simple battery use and main power from dedicated outlets. Thanks to these accessories, we can recharge the batteries on our devices without access to a primary power source.
Some people might wonder about the mechanics and makeup of power banks, and we will try to answer some of the uncommon questions they might have in our article below.
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Why Do Power Banks Have Two Ports?
Once you purchase a power bank, you may notice its dual ports. It contrasts with many other accessories that only use a single port. Of course, various manufacturers make different models of power banks to their specifications, but all such products on the market should have at least two ports.
When we talk about the different ports this way, we usually skip over the minor input port you might see. As the name suggests, the input port is the one you will use when you need to plug in the power bank itself to top up the internal power pack that stores the energy it gives out. However, you may notice at least two USB ports on any power bank you purchase.
You can use the different ports on your power bank to charge two devices simultaneously at their most basic level. Although it is the quickest way to get your devices running again, your power bank will use more energy.
However, you might also notice that the different USB ports with your charger display different wattages when you look at the headings the manufacturer prints alongside the ports. Although these readouts have other numbers, they still deliver the same wattage. We can use hypothetical numbers such as 12 and 18 watts to illustrate this point.
In most cases, manufacturers will convert the wattage numbers you see on your power bank into amp values. Therefore, higher base numbers will produce a more significant number of amps. With more amps, you should be able to charge your devices faster than you would otherwise.
However, it is a good idea to remember that some devices may have hardware limitations that slow down their charging capacity. It is true even if you switch the unit to a port with a higher value.
For some power banks, the ports may list amp values. For example, some power banks indicate that they have 1A and 2A outputs, respectively. You can use these numbers as a guide to figure out which port you might need. Some devices may only need the one with a smaller value. If this is the case, it will not affect how fast the bank charges the device. It is true even if you plug your device into the faster port.
Do Portable Chargers Come Fully Charged?
Generally, most power banks you purchase won't have a full charge when you take them out of the box. However, it is not uncommon for them to have at least some of the charge. That's because manufacturers charge these devices before shipment.
Even if the power banks have a full charge based on the manufacturer's preferences, the internal supply could be less than its full capacity if it has been sitting on a shelf waiting for someone to purchase it.
Whatever the case, many companies will recommend that users take the time to charge their new power banks up to their full capacity before using them.
Why Do Power Banks Have Flashlights?
Some power banks come with functional flashlights. Although there could be a few reasons for this additional feature, one of the most common is power outages. During a power outage, you won't be able to charge any of your devices. Therefore, fully charging your electronics is crucial for such situations. In addition, it helps you stay in touch with others or call for help.
A power bank is beneficial during this time, but you don't want to lose it in the dark. The flashlight helps you keep the bank in sight. Additionally, you can use it to find your way around a dark house when you are searching for your other devices. Keeping the light on allows you to see things like a phone or tablet. Furthermore, the accessory is excellent for helping you find the ports you need on both units to make a solid connection between them for charging.
Can a Portable Charger Charge Itself?
Technically, a power bank can charge itself. It is due to the difference between the voltage of its internal cell and its output. While true for some power banks, it is not meaningful or practical for the average user to try this.
The conversion rates and charging factors that a bank like this would use will not be the total capacity necessary for proper charging. In short, even if you could set a power bank with itself, the device would draw more power than it can put back into itself.
If your goal is to refill the power bank's capacity, these limits make doing so in this way entirely pointless. It may be more accurate to say that, while a power bank could charge itself, its discharge rate will always be greater than its charge rate.
Why Does My Power Bank Automatically Turn Off?
There are a couple of possibilities why your power bank seems to turn off by itself. First, we have the legitimate feature of fully charging the device you attach to the power bank.
Most manufacturers build their power banks in ways that allow the units to sense when the devices you might connect to them charge up fully. Once the banks fill the batteries, they detect that the units connected to them no longer draw power. So the power banks will turn off automatically to conserve their remaining energy.
If you leave your device connected to a power bank, it may discharge a tiny bit of its energy over time. When this happens, the power bank will probably switch on again to top up the battery in the device.
Secondly, you may find that some power banks shut off automatically after only a few minutes of use. It can be true even if you know the device you connect to has not reached its full charge.
In this scenario, you could be dealing with a faulty product you need to replace. Otherwise, you may have an old power bank on your hands. If your power bank is new, it is worth checking if you got it from a reputable brand.
Some lesser-known brands may use inferior parts that hold a fraction of the capacities they might list on the label. Always try to go with power bank brands that the community knows and trusts.
Keeping the batteries on your favorite devices topped up to their maximum can be crucial, particularly when you are not near reliable power sources. Portable power banks fulfill this need nicely, and even the largest ones are usually compact enough to be relatively mobile. If you're new to the world of power banks, you can find answers to common questions about them here.


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Term of the Week: Primary Market
What is it?
The market segment that a company considers to be the most important to their objectives and, therefore, their main focus.
Why is it important?
Companies segment their markets to help them devise the most effective go-to-market strategy for each segment. Content and localization strategies will be different for primary, secondary, and tertiary markets.
Why does a technical communicator need to know this?
Primary markets (which typically, although not always, translate as Tier-1 languages in localization) benefit from higher budgets, the ability to localize more content, and in-country staff that localization teams ideally can collaborate with to discuss terminology, develop style guides, and fine-tune the messaging for higher impact with the target audience.
Target market segmentation requires a very good understanding of customer needs, pain points, and priorities[Ilan 2016]. Localizers armed with information on the customer personas that the content was created for, the needs that the content is trying to address, and the strategy that will be used to ensure it reaches its audience, are better placed to deliver quality localized content that will help the brand achieve its goals. If the content requires transcreation or when creating original content for different languages, customer and market information becomes even more important.
In addition, localization, marketing, and in-country teams can collaborate to decide how to address potential differences in the content required for each primary market, including:
 - Customer personas: for example, differences in income level, age, or level of seniority[Kusinitz 2018].
 - Culture: for example, differences in payment methods or the structure of online forms.
 - Regulatory/legal: for example, differences in regulations for email marketing in Europe vs. the US (Europe requires active consent (opt in), the US doesn't).
 - Relevance: for example, it is better to re-create customer testimonials using customers from each target market, rather than translating from the primary market (unless the customer is well known in the target markets)[Bias 2011].
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Esther Curiel has been helping brands create great user experiences across global markets for over 15 years. She is currently an International Operations Manager with Indeed, where she leads their Content Effectiveness team.
Over the past few years, Esther's interest has been focused on integrating developments from the content marketing world into localization processes. She believes that by collaborating more closely together, localization and marketing can help brands achieve international growth objectives much more effectively. Her mission is to facilitate such collaboration.
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Noun1.order Dictyoptera - in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsumed under a much broader order Orthoptera
animal order - the order of animals
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Blattaria, Blattodea, suborder Blattaria, suborder Blattodea - cockroaches; in some classifications considered an order
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What does the term processed food mean? It can be confusing when reading information online. Definitions seem to vary here & there. Processed food defines any food that has been changed in order to preserve it. This can include freezing, drying, baking and canning. Meat is considered processed if it is smoked, has preservatives, salted and cured. See more below!
By that definition most of us are probably consuming way more processed foods than we think. They are not necessarily bad food but they can contain a high amount of salt, fat, and sugar.
Examples of processed foods:
Canned fruit & vegetables
Fast food choices
Prepackaged food at grocery store (cereal, crackers, bread, cookies, baked goods)
A way to reduce the amount of processed foods is to cook at home. However, even that method can still use a high amount of food that is processed. Most store bought prepackaged foods are considered processed.
Another way to reduce processed foods is to read food labels. That information explains if the food is a highly processed food.
The following are guidelines to gauge the information shown on food labels.
High sodium content: above 1g sodium/100g
Low sodium content: below 0.3g sodium /100g
High saturated fat content: above 5g saturated fat/100g
Low saturated fat content: below 1g saturated fat/100g
High fat content: above 17g fat/100g
Low fat content: below 3g fat/100g
High sugar content: above 22g sugar/100g
Low sugar content: below 5g sugar/100g


runs, you could create a file called, for example, /usr/local/etc/no-yum-update.conf, which contains a list of dates not to update on. What dates go in this file is up to you to decide (vacations, holidays, etc). The dates would be in the format YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. 2005-03-31). Then create a /etc/cron.daily/yum-update.cron script something like the following:
today=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
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[ "$today" == "$banned" ] && exit 0
done < /usr/local/etc/no-yum-update.conf
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Yet another thing to consider if not using automatic updates is to provide your machine with some other forms of protection to help defend any attacks that might occur before updates are in place. This might include an external firewall, a host-based firewall (like iptables, ipchains, and/or tcp wrappers), not performing dangerous tasks on the computer (like browsing the web, reading e-mail, etc), and monitoring the system for instrusions (with system log checkers, IDS systems, authentication or login monitoring, etc).


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