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Warning Bells – "וְנִשְׁמַע קוֹלוֹ... וְלֹא יָמוּת"
Shemot 28 issues the instructions for the making of the priestly garments, beginning with the three articles of clothing worn exclusively by the High Priest, the vest or apron ("אֵפֹד"), breastplate ("חֹשֶׁן"), and robe ("מְעִיל").1 Upon the completion of the command regarding the weaving of the robe and the placement of the golden bells and pomegranates on its fringes, an enigmatic summation verse (Shemot 28:35) appears:
וְהָיָה עַל אַהֲרֹן לְשָׁרֵת וְנִשְׁמַע קוֹלוֹ בְּבֹאוֹ אֶל הַקֹּדֶשׁ לִפְנֵי ה' וּבְצֵאתוֹ וְלֹא יָמוּת.
And it shall be on Aharon to serve, and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the sanctuary in front of Hashem and when he comes out and he won't die.
The verse speaks of preventing a fatality ("וְלֹא יָמוּת"), but many of the details are unclear:
- Who might have potentially died? Is Hashem worried about Aharon who is the subject of the verse, or about a bystander who might be somehow affected by Aharon's conduct?
- Why would this person have died? Is this death a potential punishment, or is the verse trying to prevent a fatal accident? What crime or accident is the verse alluding to?
- What action serves to avert the danger and how? Is it Aharon's wearing of the robe or the ringing of its bells which might help; how and why might either of these serve to prevent a fatality?
"הַקֹּדֶשׁ" – Holy or Holy of Holies?
The above cited verse contains yet another significant ambiguity, the word "הַקֹּדֶשׁ", into which Aharon is commanded to enter wearing his robe and other special garments of the High Priest. A priori, there are two possible locations to which this term could refer – the innermost sanctum of the Holy of Holies ("קֹדֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁים"), or the outer chamber of the Tabernacle ("אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד" or היכל). Each option, though, poses certain difficulties. If "הַקֹּדֶשׁ" refers to the outer chamber,2 why would the command apply only to the High Priest Aharon; did not the common priests also perform the service in the outer chamber? On the other hand, if the word refers to the Holy of Holies,3, is not Aharon instructed to enter the inner sanctum wearing only pure white vestments4 while foregoing his robe and other golden garments?
On Pain of Death
Our verse is only one of many in the Torah which warn of the potential dangers inherent in the Tabernacle, and these parallel verses may illuminate ours. The final verses of Shemot 28 caution the priests to be properly dressed while performing their service and speak of the fatal consequences of not adhering to these rules:
(מב) וַעֲשֵׂה לָהֶם מִכְנְסֵי בָד לְכַסּוֹת בְּשַׂר עֶרְוָה מִמָּתְנַיִם וְעַד יְרֵכַיִם יִהְיוּ. (מג) וְהָיוּ עַל אַהֲרֹן וְעַל בָּנָיו בְּבֹאָם אֶל אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד אוֹ בְגִשְׁתָּם אֶל הַמִּזְבֵּחַ לְשָׁרֵת בַּקֹּדֶשׁ וְלֹא יִשְׂאוּ עָוֹן וָמֵתוּ חֻקַּת עוֹלָם לוֹ וּלְזַרְעוֹ אַחֲרָיו.
(42) And you shall make them linen pants to cover their nakedness, from the waists to the thighs they should be. (43) And they shall be upon Aharon and his sons when they go into the Mishkan or when they come near the altar to serve in the holy place, and they won't bear a sin and die; it shall be a law forever for him and his descendants after him.
The similar terminology employed in the two verses is quite striking and is highlighted in the following table:
|(ל"ה)||וְהָיָה עַל אַהֲרֹן||לְשָׁרֵת||בְּבֹאוֹ אֶל הַקֹּדֶשׁ||וְלֹא יָמוּת|
|(מ"ג)||וְהָיוּ עַל אַהֲרֹן וְעַל בָּנָיו||בְּבֹאָם אֶל אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד||לְשָׁרֵת||וְלֹא יִשְׂאוּ עָוֹן וָמֵתוּ|
|(35)||And it shall be on Aharon||to serve||when he goes into the sanctuary||and he won't die|
|(43)||And they shall be on Aharon and his sons||when they go into the Tent of Meeting||to serve||and they will not bear iniquity and die|
Additionally, Vayikra 16:17 warns against the presence in the sanctuary of anybody else besides the High Priest while the purification rites are being performed (this verse, like ours, speaks of "בְּבֹאוֹ" and "צֵאתוֹ"):
וְכָל אָדָם לֹא יִהְיֶה בְּאֹהֶל מוֹעֵד בְּבֹאוֹ לְכַפֵּר בַּקֹּדֶשׁ עַד צֵאתוֹ וְכִפֶּר בַּעֲדוֹ וּבְעַד בֵּיתוֹ וּבְעַד כָּל קְהַל יִשְׂרָאֵל.
And no man shall be in the Mishkan when he goes to make an atonement in the holy place until he comes out, and he shall make atonement for himself, his house, and the whole congregation of Israel.
In Approaches, we will examine how various commentators used these supplementary verses to inform their interpretations of our main verse above.

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You're Hired!® helps students learn important skills in the job search process, especially filling out applications and interviewing. Players in the game play the role of the employer. They evaluate job applications and interview the job candidates. In order to win the game, players have to think critically and evaluate each candidate's strengths and limitations in relation to the demands of the job.
In the process of making these decisions, players will look for and find positive actions, as well as problems and mistakes that applicants make, both in filling out the application and in the interview. The players will then reject the applicants who have made the mistakes or who have serious limitations. In the post-game discussion, the teacher encourages the students to explain why they hired or rejected the various applicants. In this way the students come up with the important points. The students realize that if they, as employers, wouldn't hire someone for a certain reason, then they are likely not to be hired if they, themselves, make the same mistake! You're Hired!® is a great opportunity for students to learn important concepts for themselves. It is an effective and cost efficient way to learn vital job search skills, and it's FUN.
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2. Learn some commonly used terms in business and applying for a job.
3. Develop insight into how the applications affect the chances of being asked for an interview.
4. Develop insight into how the answers to interview questions affect the chances of being hired for a job.
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Rivelin Dam, Peak District National Park
Rivelin Lower Dam is used to supply water to the nearby treatment works. The upstream face is protected with stone pitching which has weathered over the years and more recently suffered from some vandalism. A long-term solution was required to strengthen the upstream face and which was acceptable to the Peak Park Planning Authority.
Yorkshire Water proposed Open Stone Asphalt or repairs to the stone pitching. Although there were initially concerns over the visual impact of OSA, we proposed to surface-dress the layer of OSA with a gravel which helped the revetment blend in with the natural stone wave wall.
Other Safety & Environmental benefits of OSA over pitching repairs included a quicker installation time, longer life-expectancy, and majority machine-work rather than hand-work.
Lean Sand Asphalt was used to fill voids in the pitching before a layer of 150mm OSA was placed over the upstream face.
- 1,500 m2 of upstream face protected.
- Lean Sand Asphalt placed to fill voids between stone pitching
- Minimum of 150mm Open Stone Asphalt placed over upstream face.
- Crest trench for OSA used to provide additional stability due to steep slopes up to 1 in 1.5
- Non-limestone aggregate used due to acidic water
- Gravel surface dressing applied to OSA surface to reduce visual impact of work.

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Additional file 1).
Tradeoff between noise filtering and response speed
Each noise-filtering strategy improved the accuracy and extent of polarization in the presence of spatial noise, but at what cost? From systems theory one expects a tradeoff with the speed of the system because a slower frequency response profile would cutoff the higher frequency noise [41, 42]. We wished to examine this tradeoff in greater detail.
To assess response speed, we performed simulations in which we applied the gradient without noise and measured the time for the output to settle to within 5% of the steady-state value, and then we switched the gradient direction and measured the settling time for the directional change. A slower response resulted in a longer settling time t s after both the initial and switched gradient.
Indeed, each of the noise-filtering strategies resulted in a slower response time (Figure 3A). Time-averaging is achieved by slowing the system down which will slow the response. The positive feedback system (PF, t s = 26.1 s) was slower than the system without positive feedback system (NPF, t s = 3.2 s). Adding an additional stage to create a two-module cascade resulted in a summation of the response times. Interestingly, adding an NPF module in front of a PF module resulted in a big improvement in polarization in the presence of spatial input noise (Figure 2B) with the cost of a relatively modest increase in the response time (NPF + PF, t s = 28.8 s) compared to PF alone.
Figure 3
Tradeoff between polarization and response time. (A) The black solid line describes time evolution of a f, value of a at the front; the gray dashed line represents the evolution of a b, value of a at the back. We measured the response time to an initial gradient and then switched the gradient direction. Response time is defined as the time it takes the simulation to settle to within 95% of the steady-state value. The initial gradient was applied and then after reaching steady-state, the gradient direction was switched 180o (L mid = 1 and L slp = 0.01 μm-1). Results for the NPF (left), PF (middle), and NPF+PF (right) models are shown along with the response times. The calculated settling time t s is the average of the initial and switched response times. (B) A comparison of different model architectures in terms of polarization ( a f n o r m ) and response time (t s ). For the NPF models, a larger signal-to-noise (SNR) was needed to observe polarization. In the slow versions of the models, the parameters were scaled 10-fold lower. Two-stage models are indicated by the "+" between the stages. (C) Simulations of yeast model at different speeds for the heterotrimeric G-protein cycle. The speed was normal (wild-type parameter values), 10-fold faster, and 10-fold slower. At least 20 simulations were performed and the mean value of active Cdc42 in the simulations are plotted against the angle of the cell (θ = 0 is the direction of the gradient). The mean ± SEM of cos(θ) is shown above the plot.
We then explored these tradeoffs in greater quantitative detail. We investigated different speeds for the models, compared two stages versus one stage, and examined the filter-amplifier structure of the NPF+PF model. A common feature of the noise-filtering strategies was that an improvement in polarization resulted in a slower system response, although the nature of this tradeoff varied. The positive feedback model exhibited superior polarization but was slower than the no positive feedback model containing similar parameter values (Figure 3B, NPF versus PF); a two-stage system performed better but was slower than a one-stage system (Figure 3B, NPF versus NPF+NPF or PF versus NPF+PF); and taking a model and scaling the parameters to a slower speed resulted in much improved polarization (Figure 3B, NPF+PF versus NPF(slow)+PF(slow)). From these simulations, we observed that the best combination was the NPF filter followed by the positive feedback because the filter did not add too much time delay while removing a significant amount of noise. As a result, the NPF+PF filter-amplifier model produced good polarization at low SNR with a response time in the same range as the single-stage model structures.
Modeling the yeast polarization response to gradient noise
We previously [11, 12] constructed a spatial model of yeast cell polarization (Additional file 1). Here, we tested the ability of this model to filter input noise and polarize in the correct direction. The model contains many features described for the generic model that would help filter noise. First, the system consists of two stages: The heterotrimeric G-protein cycle represents the first stage which then feeds into the Cdc42 cycle, the second stage. Second, there are two positive feedback loops, an inner fast loop involving the scaffold protein Bem1 and the small G-protein Cdc42, and an outer slower loop involving polarized synthesis of receptor [23, 24]. Finally, the system is slow compared to other G-protein systems such as visual phototransduction [43]. The model is presented below:
[ R ] t = D s 2 [ R ] - k R L [ L ] [ R ] + k R L m [ RL ] - k R d 0 [ R ] + p s k R s
[ RL ] t = D s 2 [ RL ] + k R L [ L ] [ R ] - k R L m [ RL ] - k R d 1 [ RL ]
[ G ] t = D s 2 [ G ] - k G a [ RL ] [ G ] + k G 1 [ Gd ] [ Gbg ]
[ Ga ] t = D s 2 [ Ga ] + k G a [ RL ] [ G ] - k G d [ Ga ]
[ Gbg ] t = D s 2 [ Gbg ] + k G a [ RL ] [ G ] - k G 1 [ Gd ] [ Gbg ]
[ Gd ] t = D s 2 [ Gd ] + k G d [ Ga ] - k G 1 [ Gd ] [ Gbg]
[ C 24 m ] d t = D s 2 [ C 24 m ] + k 24 c m 0 ( Gbg n * ) [ C 24 c ] + k 24 c m 1 ( B 1 * ) [ C 24 c ] - k 24 m c [ C 24 m ] - k 24 d [ Cla 4 a ] [ C 24 m ]
[ C 42 ] d t = D s 2 [ C 42 ] - k 42 a [ C 24 m ] [ C 42 ] + k 42 d [ C 42 a ]
[ C 42 a ] d t = D s 2 [ C 42 a ] + k 42 a [ C 24 m ] [ C 42 ] - k 42 d [ C 42 a ]
[ B 1 m ] d t = D s 2 [ B 1 m ] + k B 1 c m [ C 42 a ] [ B 1 c ] - k B 1 m c [ B 1 m ]
d [ C 1 a 4 a ] d t = k C l a 4 a ( C 42 a t * ) - k C l a 4 d [ Cla 4 a ]
Equations 2-1 to 2-6 represent the heterotrimeric G-protein cycle (first stage). Receptor (R) binds ligand (L) to form the activated receptor-ligand complex (RL). This complex catalyzes the production of active G-protein, both Gα-GTP (Ga) and free Gβγ (Gbg). Equations 2-7 to 2-11 represent the Cdc42 cycle (second stage). The inner positive feedback loop is mediated by Bem1-Cdc24-Cdc42 in Equations 2-7 to 2-10: Cdc24 is the activator of Cdc42, and active Cdc42 (C42a) binds the scaffold protein Bem1 on the membrane (B1m), which recruits more Cdc24 (C24m) to a particular location. There is a second slower outer positive feedback loop in which active Cdc42 organizes the actin cytoskeleton to direct transport of new proteins to the mating projection. The key protein affected by this polarized transport is receptor which is endocytosed and exocytosed during the pheromone treatment. Thus, we represented the outer positive feedback loop by the polarized synthesis term p s, which depends on the fractional activation of Cdc42 (i.e. active Cdc42 at position x over the spatial average of active Cdc42) at different positions on the membrane:
p s = [ C42a] C 42 a t *, if C 42 a t * > 0, else p s = 1
More detailed justifications for the model equations and parameters are provided in Additional file 1.
We wished to estimate the noise variance σ 2 for the ligand α-factor in simulations of this model. Yeast cells contain approximately 10,000 receptors evenly distributed over the surface of a sphere with radius 2 μm [44]. In the simulations, each grid point at which


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How to configure replication in orientdb?
How to configure replication in orientdb, featured image
Start by downloading orientdb on the servers, where replication is to be configured. It can be gotten from orientdb, or for example by using wget, as in :
$ wget
Next extract orientdb, by using tar, as in tar -xzf orientdb-version.tar.gz, and go into the bin directory of the extracted folder, which is more or less related to orientdb execution, by using the cd command, as in cd orientdb-3.1.10/bin, and execute./.
The script, starts orientdb in distributed mode. The reason that this script is first ran, is for orientdb to generate a password, and a name for each node, where the script is to be ran. Choose meaningful name, as in location1, location2...
| WARNING: FIRST RUN CONFIGURATION |
| This is the first time the server is running. Please type a |
| password of your choice for the 'root' user or leave it blank |
| to auto-generate it. |
| |
| To avoid this message set the environment variable or JVM |
| setting ORIENTDB_ROOT_PASSWORD to the root password to use. |
Root password [BLANK=auto generate it]: ***********
Please confirm the root password: ***********
| This is the first time that the server is running as |
| distributed. Please type the name you want to assign to the |
| current server node. |
| |
| To avoid this message set the environment variable or JVM |
| setting ORIENTDB_NODE_NAME to the server node name to use. |
Node name [BLANK=auto generate it]: development
# You can after that hit ctrl-c to stop
# orientdb, or you can also execute the
# script ./ in orientdb
# bin directory, to shut down
# orientdb.
Orientdb recommends 4 GB of ram, for the distributed mode, but if memory is an issue, it can be configured by editing the script orientdb-version/bin/, for example by using nano and ctrl-w, to search for the memory settings, which should be as follows :
# Excerpt from bin/
# ORIENTDB memory options, default to 4GB of heap.
if [ -z "$ORIENTDB_OPTS_MEMORY" ] ; then
# Xms is the start memory, and Xmx is the
# max memory.
# Replace 4G for example by 512M, which means
# 512 megabytes.
# If using nano, hit ctrl-x, followed by the
# y character, followed by an enter to exit
# editing, and save the done work.
Now it is time to configure nodes' clustering. To do that the OHazelcastPlugin must be configured in config/orientdb-server-config.xml, to specify if it is enabled, and where the default configuration file for distributed database, for example default-distributed-db-config.json is, and where the file used to configure cluster membership and protocol, for example, hazelcast.xml is. The default configuration in orientdb-server-config.xml is sufficient.

To configure the replication protocol, edit orientdb-server-config.xml, for each server.
 xsi:schemaLocation="...>
 false
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The group name and password, are the cluster's name and password. Make sure to change them, and to choose a secure password.
The network is the network protocol to be used. auto-increment is disabled, if enabled and the port specified is already bound, then the next port is tried.
The network protocol can be set to multicast, like if on the local network, or on the same PC, in such a case, nothing is to be configured, just make sure that multicast is enabled, as in, enabled="true". Only one network setting can be enabled, as in tcp-ip or multicast.
If like on different or remote networks, or for any other reasons, the network protocol can be set to tcp-ip. For tcp-ip, you can specify the IP address or host name, with optionally a port number, as in. For each server, that is to be part of the group, just add its details using the member tag.
Having configured the network protocol, it is time to configure database replication, which can be done in default-distributed-db-config.json. This file is copied, and updated as distributed-config.json, to each database folder in orientdb-version/databases.
// The config/default-distributed-db-config.json file.
 "autoDeploy": true,
 "executionMode": "undefined",
 "readQuorum": 1,
 "writeQuorum": "majority",
 "readYourWrites": true,
 "newNodeStrategy": "static",
 "servers": {
 "production": "master"
 "development": "replica",
 "clusters": {
 "internal": {
 "*": {
 "servers": [""]
autoDeploy : Means automatically deploy the database to nodes, which
 do not have it.
executionMode : Default is undefined, to let the client decide.
 If set to Asynchronous, then an operation is first
 executed on the the local node, before being
 replicated.
readQuorum : Number of responses that must be coherent, before
 replying to a read operation.
writeQuorum : Number of responses that must be coherent, before
 replying to a write operation.
 If set to all, means all responses must be coherent,
 if set to majority, this means that n/2 + 1
 responses must be coherent, and if set to 1, it
 is as if it is disabled .
readYourWrites : The write quorum is only satisfied, if the local
 node has responded.
newNodeStrategy : Can be set to static or dynamic, if static a new
 node is registered as static, if dynamic a new
 node is managed as dynamic. When a node is
 unreachable, and the node strategy is dynamic it
 does not count into the quorum.
servers : What is the role of each server, for example the server which
 was given the name of production is a master, and the one
 given the name of development is replica.
 "servers":{"*"":master}, can be used to state that all servers
 are masters.
 More than one master can be configured, a replica server is just a
 replica, it does not count into voting in writeQuorum.
clusters : The term cluster in orientdb, also means a way of grouping
 records of a certain type, or by a specific value.
 A class is orientdb way of modeling, so it is the model, it
 stores its data into records.
 Each class can have multiple clusters, as in to group records
 which it has and which are similar.
 A cluster can be a physical one, as storage on disk, or
 temporal as an in memory cluster.
 So this setting is used to configure clusters.
 As seen, in the provided excerpt the internal cluster is not
 replicated. All other clusters are replicated.
 servers has as a value an array, which is the list of
 servers where cluster records are saved. The special
 value means auto add new nodes. An
 example of using specific node values is :
 ["location1", "location2"].
 Cluster configuration inherits database configuration,
 readQuorum, writeQuorum, readYourWrites, and can
 override them.
 Additionally owner can be used to specify the owner of the
 cluster , as in "owner": "location1", this is called
 static assignment, even if the node is down, a static
 owner is not changed. If not done statically, an owner is
 chosen at runtime dynamically.*/
In the previous example, two nodes were specified, one as being a master, and the second one as being a replica, other configuration options, are explained in the preceding code, as in having all nodes to be masters, which is the default.
That is it for configuring replication using orientdb, the servers can be started using./. Start the replica, after the master.
To check if everything is working correctly, a database can be created as in create database remote:localhost/nameOfDb root thePassword, on the master server, using the console, which can be launched from the bin folder, and using the console in the replica server, and after issuing the command connect remote:localhost/ root thePassword, the command List databases can be run to verify that the created database has been replicated.
If multiple instances of orientdb are run on the same PC, different ports must be configured for each running instance, for example in orientdb-server


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Market structure and disempowering regulatory intermediaries: Insights from U.S. trade surveillance
Miles Kellerman, DPhil student, has published a new article presenting the 'Marketing Structure Hypothesis'.
Public agencies outsource a wide variety of tasks to nonstate actors, or what can be referred to as regulatory intermediaries. In certain circumstances, these agencies may seek to disempower those regulatory intermediaries by reclaiming, duplicating, or transferring the outsourced task. When will these disempowerment attempts be successful? This article presents the Market Structure Hypothesis, which contends that the level of competition between regulatory intermediaries will, all things equal, determine whether disempowerment attempts succeed. To test this hypothesis, this article examines the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's attempts to acquire the independent capacity to conduct nationwide trade surveillance in the 1980s (Market Oversight Surveillance System) and 2010s (Consolidated Audit Trail). Evidence derives from archival materials, a Freedom of Information Act Request, and 60 interviews in Oxford, London, Toronto, New York City, and Washington, DC. The empirical results corroborate the hypothesis' expectations, contributing to our understanding of public‐private partnerships and shedding new empirical light on an understudied topic of securities regulation.


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Normative Definition: A Sikh is someone born to Sikh parents. A person may also convert to the Sikh faith, and feel himself/herself a Sikh, if accepted by the Sikh Panth. Such a person must change his or her name by deed poll to Singh or Kaur as the second or last name. If desired such a convert may accept Amrit and join the Khalsa Panth as defined in Sikh Rehat Maryada. Sikh faith does not encourage conversions. It is not a proselytising religion. All religions are equal in Sikh ideology.
In Sikh faith, Hinduism, Islam and Christianity, the religion of the father decides the automatic faith of the offspring, but a Sikh mother may decide to bring the child as a Sikh and follow the naming ritual as in Sikh faith. The Sikh Panth will readily accept such a child as a Sikh.
The Sikh Courier, volume 56 No 108, page 11
Since I became a Sikh I read many articles on the definition of a Sikh. Most people taking part in these discussions agreed that being a Sikh is not about being born into a Sikh family, being a Sikh is about beliefs and behaviour.
The controversy in the discussions was the status of the Khande Di Pahul initiation ceremony, about being a Mona, Keshdhari or Amritdhari. It is clear that the above 'normative definition' is wrong, is against gurmat.
The Sikh Guru speaks to all, regardless of caste, creed, race or nationality, the Sikh Guru does not favour people with certain names over those with other names, the Sikh Guru does not favour uncut hair over shaven heads.
The definition of a Sikh in the Rehat Maryada could do with some more clarity but it does have the basics right. It talks about believing in One God, believing in the ten Gurus and the Guru Granth Sahib and about believing in the Khande Di Pahul of Guru Gobind Singh.
Anybody is welcome in the Gurdwara, anybody can be a sikh, a student of the Wonderful Bringer of Light into darkness, and you do not have to change your name to be such a sikh.
I heard Guru's call, and wanted to give my head. I changed my name, I adopted the 5 Ks and the turban and I seriously try to follow Guru's teachings in my daily life. I am a Khalsa.
I think that we should admit that 'sikh' as used by Guru is a general term which applies to all who are true 'students' of The One. We could introduce three different terms: sikh, Sikh and Khalsa. The sikh is anybody who follows the general principles laid down in the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh is somebody who is working towards undergoing Khande di Pahul, and the Khalsa are those that have undergone Khande di Pahul.


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HORSE, JOHN (ca. _PHONE_)
Black Seminole leader John Horse was born in Florida circa 1812. A Seminole slave of African American, American Indian, and Spanish descent, he became a subchief during the Second Seminole War (1835-42) and participated in negotiations with the U.S. Army. Horse capitulated in 1838 and thereafter acted as an army guide and interpreter. He convinced many Seminole to surrender and assisted in their removal west. He relocated to the Indian Territory (present Oklahoma) in 1842 and received his freedom in 1843.
Horse accompanied a Seminole delegation to Washington, D.C., in 1844, resulting in his near assassination. Some Seminole considered Horse a meddler or held him responsible for their removal. For his protection Horse resided at Fort Gibson, where he served as an interpreter. In spring 1849 he helped found a Black Seminole settlement near present Wewoka in Seminole County.
In autumn 1849 Horse and approximately twenty Black Seminole families followed Seminole chief Wild Cat (Coacoochee) and his band to Mexico. Granted land in the state of Coahuila, the immigrants fought for Mexico against the Apache, the Comanche, and Texas filibusters. For his service Horse, whom Mexican officials knew as Juan Caballo and recognized as chief of the Black Seminole, was named a captain in the Mexican army. (John Horse was known by several names, including Gopher John, John Cowaya, John Cavallo, and John Coheia.)
In 1870 Horse resided at Laguna de Parras in Coahuila. He subsequently moved to Fort Duncan, Texas, where many Black Seminole had become U.S. Army scouts. Although he did not enlist, Horse served the army as an interpreter and negotiator. When the U.S. government failed to help the Black Seminole relocate to the Seminole Nation in the Indian Territory, John Horse returned to Mexico, where he died in 1882.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., Africans and Seminoles: From Removal to Emancipation (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977). Edwin C. McReynolds, The Seminoles (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957). Kenneth W. Porter, "Seminole in Mexico, _PHONE_," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 29 (Summer 1951). Kenneth W. Porter, The Negro on the American Frontier (New York: Arno Press, 1971). E. Douglas Sivad, "Juan Caballo," in The New Handbook of Texas (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996).
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The Guggenheim New York is a series of mechanically produced sculptures. A machine takes models of canonical building and dips these into paint, over and over again. On one hand, I am interested in how the process of additive subtraction --- the layering of paint, over a highly described form --- archives the decay of form while leading to a new formal language. On the other hand, I am searching for the moment when an object changes its medium condition – the point when architecture becomes art. At the same time, all of these works problematize the issue of scale. As models, the pieces exist on a 1:200 scale. Yet as objects, they also exist in a 1:1 scale; the material properties of the paint together with the physical resistance of gravity, room temperature and humidity etc. make the process un-scalable bound to the 1:1. The pieces thus collapse from being distinctly in the realm of architecture and art into a mutual medium condition - a 1:200 : 1:1 scale that superimposes the representational with the actual object nature within one thing.
dimensions: each ~ 6" x 3.75" x 4"


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Background: Chronic stroke patients (i.e., > six months since the onset of stroke) continue to experience persistent gait complications. Once formal physical therapy concludes, exercise professionals can implement exercise interventions designed to improve quality of life and reduce risk of secondary stroke. This systematic review aimed to evaluate whether lower-body aerobic exercise transferred to gait improvements in chronic unilateral stroke. Methods: An electronic search of the following databases were undertaken: MEDLINE, CINHAL, Ovid, and SPORTdiscus. Two independent reviewers selected articles using predetermined inclusion criteria: adults (i.e., >18 years old) who suffered from a chronic unilateral stroke. Additionally, all included studies were longitudinal exercise interventions (i.e., > four weeks) of lower-body aerobic training with preand postintervention assessments of gait (e.g., field and laboratory measures). Results: A total of 19 studies were included. The three most common field measures utilized by researchers were six-minute walk test (68%), 10-meter walk test (42%), and Timed Up and Go (TUG) (31%). Treadmill intervention (n=12) improved gait field testing from 23.68% to 31.73%, while elliptical interventions (n=1) improved from 0.88% to 11.56% and cycling intervention(n=5) improved from 6.13% to 24.44%. The aquatic intervention (n=1) only performed the TUG with a 51.14% average improvement. Discussion: The results suggest that not all aerobic training modalities elicit the same improvements in gait field assessments. Conclusion: Gait improvements can occur following aerobic training; however, treadmill interventions produced greater averages of improvements in chronic unilateral stroke.
Brown, Jordan N., "Current Recommendations for Lower Body Aerobic Exercise in Chronic Unilateral Stroke - A Systematic Review" (2021). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2235.
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Microstructure and kinetics of Cu/Y2O3-doped MgB2
Cu/Y 2O 3-doped MgB 2 samples with different Y 2O 3 content were prepared by traditional solid-state sintering method. The microstructure and phase composition of the material were analyzed by SEM and X-ray diffraction. The results show that layered structure only appeares in Cu/5%Y 2O 3-doped sample. The solid-solid reaction of this system is further investigated by kinetics analysis in terms of thermal analysis curves. Finally, the most appropriate mechanism function is ascertained to be Avrami-Erofeev, n=2, which means random nucleation followed by instantaneous growth of nuclei. The activation energy (E) and the pre-exponential factor (A) both trend to be stable at early stage and decrease at final stage.


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Plan of Action—Using the Evidence-based Approach to Design a Plan of Action to Address a Specific Public Health Problem
This week's readings have demonstrated the desirability of EBPH, definitions of EBPH, the scientific factors to consider when determining whether some type of public health action is warranted, tools for measuring impact of EBPH practice and conducting a community assessment to identify issues within a community, prioritizing these issues, developing interventions to address these issues based on a review of what has worked effectively in other places, and evaluating the process, impact, and outcome of intervention efforts.
Now, the Internet readings, and references to search, evaluate, and retrieve relevant evidence-based public health literature.
Then, use the evidence-based techniques learned so far and design a model, plan, or approach to tackle the public health problem, issue, situation, or concern you identified in Week 1 Project. (Attached)
While developing the plan, do the following:
 1. Use scientific evidence to assess or review the public health problem selected. Which information from research studies will be utilized in your assessment? Will you use:
 1. Etiologic studies
 2. Studies used to develop methods for measuring or modifying behavior
 3. Studies used to identify the factors that influence the behavior
 4. Studies used to determine whether public health interventions are successful in meeting their stated objectives for risk reduction
 2. Evaluate and identify which analytical tool(s) is most appropriate to apply or assess your public health problem. Of the different types of analytical tools, which will you use to assess your public health problem:
 1. Analytic tools for measuring intervention impact and effectiveness. For example, systematic reviews, meta-analysis, etc.
 2. Economic evaluation, a set of methods for comparing benefits and costs by using the cost-benefit analysis, cost-effective analysis, cost-utility analysis.
 3. Analyze and list the necessary steps and procedures that would be appropriate to apply as you conduct a community assessment of your public health problem.
 1. Justify why a community assessment is necessary.
 2. Discuss the range of partnership or stakeholders that might be useful in conducting community assessments.
 3. Outline who in the community will be assessed, what to assess, and how to conduct assessments.
 4. Describe how to disseminate the community assessment findings.
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Happy Holi..Everyone..!Better late than never…!😋
Gujiya is a snack specially prepared during the Holi festival. Towards the north of India, it is known as gujiya whereas towards the South, it is called as Ada.
- All purpose flour: 1 cup
- Wheat flour: 1/4 cup
- Salt: 1 tspn
- Water as required
- Vegetable oil to deep fry
For the filling:
- Coconut: 1/2 cup, grated
- Ghee: 2 tspn
- Cashew nut: 4-5 broken
- Peanut butter: 1 tbspn
- Banana: 1 chopped
- In a bowl, mix the flour and salt.
- Add water as required, and knead it with hand until it has a consistency of a roti or puri dough.
- Let it rest for a while(until the filling is prepared).
- Filling: In a pan, add ghee and roast the cashews.Add the rest of the ingredients for the filling and saute well.Keep it aside and let it cool.
- Make small balls of the dough. Spread it with hand or a rolling pin. Cut it with a round cookies cutter. Place one spoonful filling onto it and fold and press the edges.
- Make a design by pinching and twisting all along the sealed edges or use a dumpling mould.
- Similarly, repeat the same with the other balls.
- In a kadai, pour vegetable oil as required to deep fry the gujiyas.
- Once the oil is hot, fry them until it turns golden brown all over.
- Place it on a kitchen tissue paper.
- Serve it hot with chocolate syrup.
Usually, once deep fried, gujiya is dipped in sugar syrup and then served. (Why not a twist with chocolate syrup in gujiya..😋)


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The elements and compounds found in greens powders are generally extracted and dried, and ground into a fine powder, making them perfect for juices, smoothies, and even putting a scoop into your favorite soup. Super greens powders are low in calories yet high in essential vitamins, minerals, and trace minerals and provide the body with nutrients that you may not be getting in your usual daily diet.
Vitamins and minerals such as selenium, Vitamin C and A, Vitamin B-12 are just a few of the many nutrients included in an excellent high-quality, pure, and well-sourced super greens supplement.
Greens powders have many benefits, and over the years, with the continued research, development, and discovery of new nutrients, their benefits have continued to grow; this has led to an all-time high in popularity for greens powders supplements. Greens powders may be responsible for preventing disease due to their high antioxidant properties, lessening inflammation.
In a study with 10 participants over four weeks, blood levels of oxidation causing damage to cells was decreased by 30 %. The participants were given 2 scoops of greens powders daily. These results are significant because it shows the value greens powders have played in the supplementation industry and the real-world results shown in these studies.
Some of the better high-quality greens powders, such as SuperGreen Tonik, may be responsible for boosting energy and productivity. In one 90 day study of 63 women, participants who took daily servings of greens powders reported increased energy instead of the placebo group, who reported no significant improvement or change.
Other benefits are detoxification, which makes the body more alkaline; basically, this means you have a higher reading on the pH scale from 0-14. Daily consumption of greens supplements will not affect your blood pH, which is a significant positive benefit.
When your liver detoxifies, certain compounds are produced, some of them harmful; one of those compounds produced are free radicals. Super greens powders are incredibly high in antioxidant properties, which in turn help scavenge and destroy these damaging free radicals.
Mixing SuperGreen TONIK powder
Final Words
Reviewing this content makes it easy to see the tremendous benefits of consuming super greens powders and how far they have come in the last decade. From the first vitamin being discovered less than 100 years ago to today, where we have access to cutting edge greens supplementation.
Super greens powders are handy and provide incredibly high amounts of antibacterial properties, fiber, vitamins, and minerals, making greens powders' implementation into the diet a critical one.
We've seen the vital role the FDA plays in the greens supplements industry and the recommended dietary allowances (RDAs) they have put forward into policy.
Although supplementation provides various health benefits, it should be understood that supplementation, in general, must not be solely utilized but integrated into a sound nutritional plan with consistent daily exercise.
With the increasingly fast pace of our lifestyles, supplements can help bridge the gap and plug any nutrient deficiencies.
Recognizing supplementation and its purpose is critically essential for your fitness and longevity. Misinformation is out there, so it's imperative to take your time researching and interpret fact from fiction.
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- Power off the V.ALRT by pressing and holding the button for 30 seconds. Once you hear two beeps and two flashing red lights the device will be turned off. (Tip: Wait the full 30 seconds until you hear the two beeps before releasing)
- Open the V.ALRT application on the phone and go to device manager.
- Click on the minus sign to remove the device from the application.
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New Zealand's universities risk slipping further down the international rankings if the Government doesn't urgently address its misplaced spending priorities, National's Tertiary Education Spokesperson Paula Bennett says.
"For the first time in nearly two decades universities in New Zealand have received no increase in Government funding, not even to keep up with inflation, instead directing $2.8 billion into the failed policy to increase student numbers.
"This means that universities are being forced to make cuts to staffing, with the anticipation that there will be more to come. These cuts will negatively impact the ratio of staff to students and jeopardise the quality of tertiary education delivered in New Zealand.
"If our universities are unable to maintain the number of staff they have had as a result of a lack of Government funding they will continue to slide down the international rankings. This will make it harder for them to attract staff, which will cause the quality to drop even further.
"The Government needs to consider what is really important here, participation numbers or the quality of our tertiary education.
"We can be sure that if we don't maintain the quality of our tertiary education institutions, the best and brightest students will just take their enrolments overseas.
"The Minister has put all his eggs in a misplaced basket with his badly targeted $2.8 billion fees free policy and hasn't considered the funding needs of the tertiary education sector.
"National is committed to ensuring quality education is delivered in New Zealand and our tertiary education system is supplying the skills we need to support our growing economy."


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TLDR; When used inside of a filter context, CALCULATE performs context transition, transforming the current row context into a filter context. We explore how context transition conditions the output of calculated columns in tables, and how measures and relationships interact with it.
So far in our Evaluation Contexts in DAX series we have learned about the row and filter contexts, how these affect the output of our DAX code, and how they interact with different types of relationships between tables in our data model. In this third and final part of this series, we learn about how
CALCULATE performs Context Transition when used inside of a filter context.
What happens when we don't use
Let's revisit once more our example with a data model containing data on the sales of certain products from a store. The two tables we will be using are the Product table, containing details on the products available in the store, and the Sales table, containing details on the sales made.
Let's see what happens when Context Transition doesn't happen.
The following DAX formula will display the sum of all the unit prices in the Product table visible in the current filter context.
Total Unit Price = SUM ( 'Product'[Unit Price] )
One easy mistake to make is to expect the Total Unit Price column to be equal to the Unit Price column. It is true that when we create a calculated column in a table, there is an automatic row context for the product table. However, what
SUM does is aggregate all the values in the current filter context and display their sum. Because the filter context is empty, no filters are being applied to the table The Total Unit Price calculated column returns the sum of all cells in the Unit Price column, showing the same value in all cells of the column.
How CALCULATE introduces Context Transition
CALCULATE performs context transition, meaning it transforms the row context into a filter context.
CALCULATE is used inside of a row context, like in a calculated column, it turns the current row context into a filter context, deleting the current row context. Anything inside of
CALCULATE will be computed in a filter context containing only one row. Let's see how this works.
Let's create a new calculated column like before, except this time we will wrap our
SUM inside of
Total Unit Price CALCULATE = CALCULATE ( SUM ( 'Product'[Unit Price] ) )
Note that the output of our new calculated column using
CALCULATE is identical to the Unit Price column. This is because as the row context iterates through the rows of the table, that row context becomes a filter context. As we have seen before,
SUM aggregates all the values in the current filter context and sums them. This time, the filter context contains only one row at a time, so the sum will be the value itself.
CALCULATE and Measures
One important thing to understand about measures is that they are automatically surrounded by
CALCULATE. In our previous example this would mean that if we created a calculated column where Total Unit Price is a measure, this column would yield the same result as our Total Unit Price
In order to see this in action, let's first create a measure that calculates the sum of the Unit Price column in the Product table.
Total_Unit_Price = SUM ('Product'[Unit Price] )
This is the same formula as in the Total Unit Price calculated column we had before, only this is a measure now.
Now, we create a calculated column from this measure.
Total Unit Price Measure = 'Product'[Total_Unit_Price]
We see how the new calculated column is identical to the one computed using
CALCULATE (and to the original Unit Price column, for that matter), because
CALCULATE is implied when a measure is used inside of a calculated column.
Context Transition and Table Relationships
In our last post, we explained how different types of relationships between tables in the data model affect the output of our DAX code. So how does context transition interact with relationships? The answer is just as you would expect.
Here's a little reminder of how evaluation contexts propagate through relationships:
- Row contexts never propagate through relationships.
- Filter contexts do propagate through relationships, but only from the one side to the many side of the relationship.
In our data model, the Product table is on the many side of a one-to-many relationship with the Sales table. This means the only the filter context is propagated from the Product to the Sales table.
Our aim is to investigate whether context transition happens between tables.
In the Product table, let's add a column that computes the sum of the Sales Amount in the Sales table.
Total Sales Amount = SUM ( Sales[Sales Amount] )
This will give the sum of all rows in the Sales Amount column visible in the current filter context. We know also that the row context does not propagate through relationships. So, because the filter context is currently empty, all the cells in the new calculated column will display the same value – the sum of all the rows in the Sales Amount column.
Just like we did before, let's surround our formula with
CALCULATE. We now create a new calculated column with the following formula:
Total Sales Amount CALCULATE = CALCULATE ( SUM ( Sales[Sales Amount] ) )
And, yes, you guessed it.
CALCULATE performs context transition between relationships as well. Why is that? Because filter contexts propagate through relationships, from the one side to the many side. Here, every time
CALCULATE iterates through the row context in the Product table, this row context is transformed into a filter context, which is then propagated onto the Sales table. The Sales table is then only going to show the rows corresponding to the one row visible at that point in the Product table. All the cells visible in that filter context in the Sales Amount column are added and the result shows in the Product table.
Context Transition is a powerful feature of
CALCULATE, but it can create confusion sometimes. The two main things to remember are:
- When used inside of a row context,
CALCULATEwill transform that row context into a filter context.
- Measures are automatically surrounded by
After that, knowing the rules about how filter contexts work and propagate through relationships, it becomes easier to understand and predict the result of our DAX code.


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Students investigate physical education by reading a children's book. In this jump rope instructional activity, students read the book Jump, Jump and discuss their own physical activities and identify the characters, settings and plot. Students answer study questions regarding the book and define a list of challenging vocabulary terms.
Jump rope! Jump with both feet. Jump on your left foot. Jump on your right foot. In pairs, count for your partner how many jumps they can do in a row. Do each type of jump three times. Take the data collected back to math class and find the mean, mode, and median. Great details for a very basic jump rope lesson.
Fourth graders develop jump roping skills which include hand and foot coordination. In this health lesson, 4th graders practice good sportsmanship. Students cooperate with other classmates during this activity. Students learn how to develop strength in both their lungs and heart. Students are assessed by teacher observations during the jump rope activity.
Students participate in a district American Heart Association Jump Rope event. They meet students in their age from other schools in a social setting. Students come to the High School gym on a Saturday morning in February. They are given a t-shirt, snacks and drinks for participating.
Students jump over a twirling jump rope as well as twirl a jump rope. Students demonstrate what a \"front door\" and what a \"back door\" is related to entering a jump rope while twirling. They demonstrate and maintain continuous activity with a long jump rope. Finally, they are introduced to Chinese jump rope and Double Dutch jump rope.


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|Little Hangleton graveyard|
The Little Hangleton graveyard was the final resting place of the Riddle Family of Little Hangleton. The three Riddles, Thomas, Mary, and their son Tom, were all laid to rest in this graveyard shortly after being murdered by their teenage son, Tom Marvolo Riddle (who would grow up to become the infamous Dark Wizard Lord Voldemort).
The graveyard was located in the valley county side outside the village of Little Hangleton. Like the village, both the graveyard and its church, were clearly visible from the hillside above the valley. The graveyard was bordered by a stone wall and sat next to the grounds of the vast Riddle estate and the Riddle House was clearly visible from the graveyard. Frank Bryce, the Riddle's groundskeeper, lived in a cottage on the grounds which was located right next to the graveyard and was separated from it by the stone wall. One set of the cottage's kitchen windows faced the graveyard. The grave yard was placed in an uneven area which resulted in it having high and low burial ranges nged from wide open to narrow and cramped. There was also a small wooden area filled with yew and other bare trees.
In previous years, the Little Hangleton graveyard was a fine resting place for the citizens of the Little Hangleton. However by 1994 the graveyard had become overgrown. Many of the graves had become covered by ivy and moss. Many of the names written on them had become faded. Several grave stones had become tilted and sunken into the ground. A number of stone steps had also recessed into the ground and partly hidden. The Riddle House can be seen in the distance.
GravesAs well as having normal graves, the graveyard also had above ground mausoleums and a series of below ground vaults and catacombs. While most of those buried had simple head stones to mark their graves, there were several other monuments that were grander. Several were marked by stone obelisks and angels. Near the mausoleum and vaults were a number of stone sarcophaguses. Several of these were placed on top of each other. The most opulent of the graves belonged to the Riddle family. The Riddle grave was marked by a large marble headstone that bore the names of Thomas Riddle, Mary Riddle and Tom Riddle Sr.. The most striking feature of the grave was the large stone statue of the Angel of Death. The angel bore a raised scythe in its right hand and featured a skull face and skeletal hands.
The Riddle murders
In 1943, Tom Marvolo Riddle (the future Lord Voldemort) came to Little Hangleton to seek out his family and travelled to the Gaunt shack, the former home of his mother Merope Gaunt. There, he found his half-crazed uncle, Morfin Gaunt, living in deplorable conditions. Gaunt (who had no idea that this boy was his nephew) immediately mistook Riddle for "that Muggle that married my (Morfin's) sister,". Morfin went on to tell his sister Merope's tragic tale, and how she was abandoned by her husband many years ago. Riddle was enraged by what he considered the tale of his father causing his mother's death and condemning him to a miserable life in a Muggle orphanage.
After Morfin finished his story, Riddle temporarily incapacitated his uncle, and took his wand. He then proceeded to the "big house over the way" Morfin had told him about, the Riddle House. Once there, Riddle used the Killing Curse upon his father and his Muggle grandparents, Thomas Riddle and Mary Riddle. Riddle returned to the Gaunt shack and replaced Morfin's wand on his person and altered his memory so that he would confess to killing the Riddles and there would be no further investigation into the matter.
The Riddle's gardener, Frank Bryce, was accused of the murders on the Muggle end of the investigation. Though, the baffled Great Hangleton Police were forced to release Bryce for lack of evidence, as the cause of death could not be determined, Bryce's life was mired in rumour and speculation. Morfin, meanwhile, proudly confessed to killing the Riddles to the Ministry of Magic (which recognised it as a wizard's murder instantly), and was taken away to Azkaban Prison to serve a life sentence for the murder of the Riddle family. Thus, two men paid for the crimes of the future Lord Voldemort while Riddle escaped with Marvolo Gaunt's Ring, stolen from his uncle Morfin. The three Riddles were laid to rest in a prepared family grave in the Little Hangleton Graveyard, where their remains would remain undisturbed for over fifty years.
Plot against Harry Potter
Many years later, the adult Lord Voldemort hatched a plot to regain his body and murder his greatest enemy, Harry Potter. The potion he devised required three ingredients: bone of the father unwillingly given, flesh of the servant willingly sacrificed, and blood of the enemy forcibly taken. Lord Voldemort returned to the site of his first murder, the Riddle House, with his servant Peter Pettigrew in August of 1994. Frank Bryce, now an old man, saw a light in the windows of the Riddle House and went to investigate. Inside, he overheard part of Lord Voldemort's plan to capture and kill Harry Potter but was discovered by Nagini, who reported his presence to Voldemort. After a brief confrontation between Bryce and the Dark Lord, Voldemort performed the same curse upon Bryce that he performed on the Riddle Family more than half a century ago in that very same house, killing Bryce instantly.
Return of the Dark Lord and the graveyard duel
On the night of the Third Task of the Triwizard Tournament (which had been grossly manipulated by Lord Voldemort through his servant, Barty Crouch Jr.), 24 June 1995, Harry Potter entered the Triwizard Maze in search of the Triwizard Cup. Unbeknownst to Harry or anyone else involved in the Tournament, Crouch had turned the Triwizard Cup into a Portkey to the Little Hangleton Graveyard. Harry and Cedric Diggory arrived at the cup at the same time, and having helped each other several times throughout the course of the Tournament, agreed to take the cup together and tie for first place. Upon touching the cup, the pair was transported to the resting place of the Riddle Family, the Little Hangleton Graveyard, where the Dark Lord was awaiting Harry with Peter Pettigrew. Pettigrew murdered Cedric using Voldemort's wand, then proceeded to concocted a potion using Harry's blood, Tom Riddle Sr.'s bones, and Pettigrew's own hand.
The Dark Lord, restored to physical form, briefly duelled Harry, who was forced to hide and dodge behind tombstones to avoid Voldemort's curses. Finally, Harry fired a Disarming Charm at Voldemort at the same moment Voldemort attempted a Killing Curse on Harry. The spells collided and formed a golden thread that connected the two wands. This rare effect, the Priori Incantatem, occurred due to the wands' "twin cores:" feathers from the same phoenix. Harry's courage overpowered Voldemort's destructive will, and his wand forced the Dark Lord's wand to regurgitate "echoes" of the spells it had previously cast, in reverse order. First came an "echo" of Cedric Diggory, followed by Frank Bryce, Bertha Jorkins, Harry's mother, Lily, and finally Harry's father, James Potter. They instructed Harry to break the connection when he was ready and to grab the Triwizard Cup to return to Hogwarts, as they would be able to momentarily hold Voldemort at bay. Cedric Diggory requested that Harry take his body back to Hogwarts, to his family, which Harry agreed to do in honour of his fallen classmate and fellow Champion. Harry broke the connection, and while the apparitions held Voldemort off, he was able to grab Cedric's body, summon the Triwizard Cup to him and escape from the Little Hangleton Graveyard.
Known buried people
- Tom Riddle Sr. (killed by Lord Voldemort)
- Thomas Riddle (killed by Lord Voldemort)
- Mary Riddle (killed by Lord Voldemort)
- Becca Ramsea (unknown death)
- Eddi Stoddy (unknown death)
- Charles Epanel (unknown death)
- Charles Pikal (unknown death)
- Gulray (unknown death)
- Rebecca R. (unknown death)
Behind the scenes
- According to production designer Stuart Craig, the inspriation for the graveyard was Highgate Cemetry in North London which had been reclaimed by nature.
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film), Wormtail trapped Harry in the arms of the Angel of Death statue while in the novel, Wormtail ties Harry to the Riddle Headstone with conjured cords.
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mentioned as "graveyard")
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Appears in flashback(s))
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Appears in flashback(s))
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) (Flashback on Disc 2)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Appears in flashback(s))
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As the current plan goes, the move of an aging Titan 1 ICBM from its current location at NASA ARC to its new home next to Building 596 starts around 7:30 AM PST on 18 March 2010. This Titan 1 was brought to ARC in 1969 and was used in a variety of tests to study buffeting of launch vehicles during atmospheric ascent. The rocket has been sitting outside since the early 1980s as an exhibit next to the (former) Ames visitor's center.
A team has been assembled that will restore this rocket and upgrade it to serve as an educational tool as well as a smallsat payload integration testbed - much in keeping with its original appearance at Ames 41 years ago. This project will be undertaken at NASA Ames Research Center at Building 596 aka "McMoons" where the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) has been under way for 2 years.
The Titan 1 team includes SpaceRef Interactive Inc., SkyCorp Inc, and the Challenger Center for Space Science Education. The intent is to involve a wide range of local groups and citizens of all ages in this project in a crowd-sourced, participatory exploration format.


Why do my email and attachments appear badly formatted?
When reading documents sent by e-mail, they regularly have only one word per line, or alot of wasted space in the document. How can I "reformat" the document to elimate extra lines/ mostly blank lines?
Often email documents and attachments are created by various software and word processing products on the senders side When you receive them they appear in a different format then when they were sent It can be possible to reformat these messages if your software is compatible with the senders software For instance you receive an email document that was created in Word 97 on the senders computer You save it on your side then open it in Word 97 on your computer, oftentimes you may need to edit with word wrap or other formatting tools to make it easier to deal with.Also remember the following concerning opening email and attachments:
Email messages and attachments must be:
1 in a format your computer knows
2 needs to have the correct software in your computer linked to the three dot extension such as.doc in your computer
3 you need to know the extension to set up the link
An analogy for this would be that you are receiving an email in spanish, so your computer must use the spanish translator to make it comprehensible to you and you do this by:
First open Explorer To do this find the icon named MyComputer on your desktop ( this is assuming that you haven't changed the name of MyComputer to something else ) Right click on the icon and select "Explore" from the pop-up menu A window with the title "Exploring" will open To make it easier to identify files extensions, click on "View" at the top of the "Exploring" window and select "Options" In the "Options" window that opens, uncheck the box beside the words "Hide MS-DOS file extensions for file types that are registered" by clicking in the box (If there isn't a check in the box than do nothing) Click on OK Go to a folder that contains the email or attachment file you want to open Now hold down the "Shift" key and right click on the file you want to open In the pop-up menu select "Open with" This will open a window called "Open With" Use the scroll bar to scroll down until you see the program you wish to use to open this file and select it with the mouse If you want to change the File Association so that this program will always open up this type of file (i.e.,.jpg extensions), check the box beside "Always use this program to open this type of file" and click on the OK button If you leave the box unchecked, then only in this instance will the file be opened by the program you selected.
p.s If you don't usually like to see the file extensions when using "Explorer" just go back to "View" - "Options" and check the "Hide MS-DOS file extensions..." box again
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It would not be wrong to describe the Fort Peck spillway as mammoth. At the same time, however, it is stately, a gracefully dominating concrete structure which stands tall and boldly defiant, like a row of sentinels. Designed to discharge 250,000 cubic feet per second, the spillway is wedged between the edges of a man-made valley which came to exist when 14 million cubic yards of the dry, lumpy terrain was sliced up and hauled away. More than 800 feet wide with 16 monstrous steel gates, the spillway's mile-long, concrete chute tapers to a width of 120 feet at the bottom of a 5.23 percent grade. The great stoney gates are 25 feet by 40 feet and weigh 80 tons each. Some 54,000 cubic yards of concrete and 26,500 tons of steel went into the spillway structures. If it seems odd that the spillway is located 3 miles east of the dam, the reasoning is sound. Engineers of that era weren't too keen on running a spillway over a 240-foot-high earthfill dam. The terrain at the present site was deemed most suitable, and the large quantity of floodwater it was designed to discharge was another factor in determining its location.


Please, if you think this question is too broad, tell me if there's a name for this kind of problem in order to google it.
I've been developing and maintaining a web application for a couple of years and I've come up with scalability problems, specificly on how to save data from a data model.
To simplify, let's suppose the web application is a database of novel writers. Initially the model was very simple and updating information was easy: a form was displayed and the user could enter the author's name and biography and then click on the "Save" button to store the information into the DB.
Now, let's suppose I want to add a "Book List" in the author's page so I can add the books the author has written so far. How is the application supposed to work now? Should I keep a list of books in a Javascript array (for example) and then send everything (name, biography, books) to the server when I clicked on the "Save" button? Or should I just update the book list separately from the author's basic info (i.e. when the user adds/updates/removes a book from the list). In such case, wouldn't the "Save" button be confusing for the user?
The Javascript comment above is just an example to explain my case. By "scattered" I mean "spread". Books are actually a piece of information that belongs to an author, but one could even attach more information to an author as the application scales (via add-ons for example). Let's assume books and other future stuff related to an author is not independent of the author entity. As the amount of information grows a single "Save" button can be resource consuming (e.g: biography should not be updated if we just added a book to an author). My problem focuses the way data belonging to an entity must be committed to the server: should all information be saved at a time when the user clicks "Save" or should every piece of information be saved independently (perhaps with independent save buttons)? Think about Microsoft Windows vs Macintosh OS X control panel: whereas in Windows you have a "Accept/Cancel" paradigm, in Mac OS X changes are applied when you change each setting (there's only a "go back" or "close" button).
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 Implementation details (Javascript) is not the concern of usability. It's about what you implement, not how you implement it. I want to know whether in this example system you mentioned, are books separate entities on their own, or are they merely additional data in the author entity? And what exactly do you mean by "scattered mode"? – ADTC Nov 18 '14 at 18:03
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 Something to keep in mind is the amount of data you're sending. If this is an application that will be heavily used, then it might be a good idea to only send up what you need to persist changes. This will also help with network traffic for users who don't have a lot of bandwidth to throw around. – Andrew Nov 18 '14 at 18:17
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 Indeed what ADTC said is important to consider, are the books separate entities or just flat information. On top of that, what would your user expect if there is a co-writer who also exists in the system. Would you confuse your users when books are added and the book doesn't show up at the co-writer's page? – dirk Nov 18 '14 at 21:09
 - Thx for your comments. I've just updated the question. – Claudix Nov 18 '14 at 21:35
The problem seems to be related to the (third form of) database normalisation. Each rerasonably disjunct set of data (like information about a book) should/could be editable on its own without the user's need to touch any other set of data (like the author page)
In general you want to decide what information belong together and make it visible to the user that they edit all of them at once or only a single data.
For your example you could have an author with a list of his books (title, release date,..) and make the book fields editable as well as adding a button to edit this book
the button could open another window with only the book details, these data would then be transferred to the original form and the user still has the option to save or discard the changes.
A setup where you could change and save data inside a form meant to change and save data is confusing.
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Time: approx. 3 min., or extend the game
Size of group: playable with a few teammates
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Material: Table tennis ball, cling wrap
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Divide the group into several teams each of 5 kids. They are sitting in a line, one behind the other. Now the team leader puts a bucket in front of the first player. Next, the kids unroll a cling wrap above their heads. Another player or the team leader stands behind the last player and put a table tennis ball on top of the cling wrap. The objective for the team is to roll the ball carefully overhead of all players and straight into the bucket. Every time they succeed, they score a point. How many points can you collect in a pre-determined time?
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Click on how earthquakes cause whale beaching at the top of the right column to read more about how seaquakes cause whales to beach.
On 31 December 2010, a whale mother and male calf were found dead on Opape Beach in the Bay of Plenty at the north end New Zealand's North Island. The sea gulls had already pecked their eyes out by the time the park rangers arrived.
Although clearly in the beaked whale family—the most mysterious marine mammal family—scientists thought the pair were relatively well-known Gray's beaked whales. That is until DNA findings told a shocking story: the mother and calf were actually spade-toothed beaked whales (Mesoplodon traversii), a species no one had ever seen before.
Scientists have known of the spade-toothed beaked whale for over 140 years. Scientifically known as Mesoplodon traversii, the species was named after Henry H. Travers, a New Zealand naturalist who collected a partial jawbone that was found on Pitt Island in 1872.
Pitt Island is part of the Chatham Islands group situated about 800 miles downstream from the Bay of Plenty.A damaged skull was also found on White Island in the 1950s. This island is inside the Bay of Plenty, 30 miles north from where the two spade-toothed whales beached in 2010. In other words, this rarest of all whales must hang out somewhere not far from the Bay of Plenty.
The big question is why did this mother and son beach themselves. Where there any whale-dangerous earthquakes nearby? The answer is YES... there were 7 undersea quakes that might have cause this beaching. The problem is trying to sort out which one was the most likely.
When a whale, or a pod of whales, is exposed to a series of excessive pressure changes, the volume of air in their sinuses expands and contracts on average 7-8 times per second, for up a minute or more. These changes in volume of the air inside whale's head damages the membranes surrounding the sinuses, air sacs, and middle-ear air chambers and allows air to leak into the surrounding tissues. The air is not only used to generate biosonar clicks, but also used to isolate the two inner ears and to reflect and channel returning echoes in such a fashion to enable the workings of biosonar. Thus, a pressure related injury by an earthquake (sonar, airgun, or explosion) will instantly knock out their biosonar system. Many whales recovery after a week or two on the surface; a few don't.
Toothed whales use biosonar to navigate; therefore, a whale suffering biosonar failure due to barotrauma caused by an earthquake encounter is as lost at sea as a blind man set adrift in a row boat without a compass.
Since water is 700 times more dense than air, resistance to swimming upstream will turn any lost whales and point them downstream in the path of least drag. It's a simply matter of physics; everything in the ocean without a sense of direction, dead or alive, will always travel along with the flow of the surface currents. Thus, the job in picking the right event involves gathering data on the possible earthquakes, determining the distance from the epicenter to the beach for each quake, determining if the surface currents flow from the epicenter to the stranding beach, and then matching the timing of the stranding with the flow of the currents and the distances traveled.
2010 11 22 161843.44 -33.62 -178.92 2 5.9 MwGS
2010 11 24 013426.41 -33.79 -178.42 10 4.9 mbGS
2010 12 05 135707.10 -30.97 -177.66 35 4.9 mbGS
2010 12 08 091847.61 -32.26 -179.53 36 5.4 MwGCMT
2010 12 08 110924.86 -30.99 -177.78 26 5.0 MwGCMT
2010 12 12 175036.82 -28.10 -177.11 10 5.3 MwGCMT
2010 12 14 011618.82 -32.34 -179.57 12 5.3 MwGCMT
Each above 7 quakes might have been responsible. The one that best fits is the more potent event on 22 November mostly because this 5.8 mag quake was extremely shallow at 2 km below the surface. Since the focus is much closer to the rock/water interface, more seismic energy is delivered into water.
 As you can tell by the beach balls in the graphic above, the movement in the seafloor was vertical. View complete summary of the quake.
As a note... the danger to any diving whales nearby would depend more on the SPEED of the vertical jerking and not on the magnitude of the quake because during thrusting earthquakes the rocky seabed acts like a giant piston, pushing and pulling and pumping at the water column, generating intense waves of alternating water pressure that move up from the seafloor at 1,500 meters per second. This series of powerful low frequency seismoacoustic pressure waves are called seaquakes by mariners who have reported encounters with thousands of these extremely frightening events.
For example, the oil tanker Ida Knudsen was declared a total loss after she encountered a shock wave from nasty undersea earthquake. You might also like to read hundreds of other examples of ships knock about by undersea earthquakes.
Remember that rapid and excessive changes in the surrounding water pressure is every diving mammals worse nightmare come true, especially whales returning to the surface after a deep dive, and supersaturated with nitrogen. In fact, the Deafwhale Society has traced over 200 whale beachings over the last 30 years, each of these strandings occurred on average 26 days after, and 2,700 miles downstream, from a shallow undersea earthquake.
The surface currents near the epicenter flow west as a counter current between two steams of current flowing east. The lower stream in the charts below is known as the East Auckland Current (EAC). The way it looks, the injured whales first swam west with the counter flow into the Tasman sea. The westward current slowed on 16 December (see second chart). The whales then turned south for a short while and were picked up by the EAC and carried back to the Bay of Plenty. A strong southern wind north of 25S shifted the EAC south and created a meander of the eastern flow that dipped into the Bay of Plenty and washed the spade-toothed whales into shallow water and they beached.
I would not be surprised by the condition of the carcasses to learn that they actually beach 2-3 days sooner.
Several permanent or nearly-permanent eddies (circular currents) have been identified around New Zealand, such as the North Cape and East Cape eddies and the Wairarapa Eddy. Permanent eddies tend to arise where the sea floor forces currents to make large changes in direction. These
eddies make the job of picking the right quake to match the stranding difficult.
Could the area
near this quake be a feeding grounds for the world's rarest beaked whales? A partial jawbone that was found on Pitt Island in 1872. Pitt Island is part of the Chatham Islands, about 800 miles down current from the Bay of Plenty. If the two whales had not beached in the Bay of Plenty, chances are good that they might have ended up in the Chatham Islands. A damaged skull was also found on White Island in the 1950s. This island, pictured below, is also inside the Bay of Plenty, 30 miles north from where the spade-toothed whales beached in 2010.
Thus, we have a cluster of spade-toothed beached whales beaching themselves downstream from the high seismic activity found along the Kermadec Trench north of East Point.
This would be a great place to start trying to photograph a live spade-toothed whale.
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Portuguese Traditional Bakers
This documentary is about the traditional bakers of Portugal. In some Portuguese villages bread is still prepared as it was prepared many centuries ago, with knowledge transmitted from generation to generation, from grandparents to parents, from parents to children.
Many older people still go to the traditional bakery to chat with the other villagers while they wait for the bread to bake. Formerly, on long winter nights, traditional bakeries were the places where the villagers met and chatted all night while they warmed. They were true social centres of the village. Often the villagers would bring their pots to the bakery so that the baker could cook the food in the bread oven.
These ovens were called the "people's oven" because they belonged to all the villagers of the village. In the past, it was up to each villager to light the oven, there was a list to announce who had the task.
Nowadays it is still possible to see these ovens of the people working, it is often the bakers themselves who activate them to show the new generations how bread was made in grandparents' time. These bakers today own modern bakeries, but they like to once in a while activate the old oven of the people.
These photographs were taken in villages in northern Portugal.
Villages : Pitões das Junias, Provesende and Favaios, Portugal
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"More music to more people." In order to meet this goal, a major digital music streaming service set out to revamp their entire content effort. They needed a robust content strategy, and Portent got to work.
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This digital music streaming company was having serious difficulty engaging their audiences. The content they had been publishing was infrequent and without clear goals, and as a result, they were failing to attract, engage, and retain listeners. In order to revitalize their entire content effort to better connect with their audience, they needed to better understand their audience segments and develop a crystal-clear strategy.
Portent developed a strategy that focused first on top-of-funnel improvements, and then driving audiences through the decision-making journey with content that served to inform, answer, and educate, depending on where a customer is in the funnel. Our efforts included:
 - Developing user journeys and personas for three main audience groups
 - Creating a strategic plan and specific content types to target each audience
 - Designing multi-month editorial calendar, theme and topic guide, specific recommendations for content production
 - Creating workflow, training writers on personas, training internal content team on workflow process
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While this music streaming service would unfortunately go on to be acquired too quickly to implement the content strategy outlined here, the feedback from all stakeholders on the impact of the content strategy work was glowing.
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text: Explanation: Please wait while one of the largest mobile machines in the world crosses the road. The machine pictured above is a bucket-wheel excavator used in modern surface mining. Machines like this have given humanity the ability to mine minerals and change the face of planet Earth in new and dramatic ways. Some open pit mines, for example, are visible from orbit. The largest excavators are over 200 meters long and 100 meters high, now dwarfing the huge NASA Crawler that transports space shuttles to the launch pads. Bucket-wheel excavators can dig a hole the length of a football field to over 25 meters deep in a single day. They may take a while to cross a road, though, with a top speed under one kilometer per hour.


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Name Judge William Logan
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Birth? 8 December 1776 Harrodsburg, Kentucky
Alt Birth? 8 DEC 1776 Virginia
Marriage 28 JAN 1802 Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginiato Pricilla Christian Wallace
Death? 9 August 1822 Shelby County, Kentucky
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William Logan (December 8, 1776August 8, 1822) was a United States Senator from Kentucky.
Born within the fort at Harrodsburg, Logan spent his early childhood in St. Asaphs Fort, receiving private instruction from his parents and tutors. He moved to Shelby County about 1798. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced. He was delegate to Kentucky's constitutional convention in 1799 and worked as a state commissioner in siting the new Barren County's seat of government (at Glasgow, a new settlement probably named for the Scottish hometown of Logan's father) the same year.
Logan was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1803 to 1806 and again in 1808, and served as speaker two terms. He was a judge of the court of appeals from 1808 to 1812. He was also a presidential elector in 1808, 1812, and 1816. Logan was elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1819 to May 28, 1820 when he resigned to run for Governor in 1820. (He did not succeed, instead serving as a commissioner of the Kentucky River Company.) Logan died at his residence in Shelby County and was interred in the Logan family burial ground near Shelbyville. He was the first male child to be born in Kentucky. Daniel Boone's daughter was the first child born.
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Curved shear wall design, United Kingdom
The design of such elements usually involves a lot of assumptions, engineering judgment, and a combination of hand calculations with dedicated software that would still not provide complete insight and code compliance. With IDEA StatiCa RCS, you can have a complete solution and design easily any cross-section with extensive code checks.
Preparing the model
The customer has modeled & analyzed this project in SCIA Engineer, and although the curved walls do not pose a problem from a modeling perspective, in terms of design it is not as straightforward as it would be with typical 1D & 2D members. In this situation, it is necessary to use an integration strip (which essentially integrates 2D stress components and produces equivalent 1D member ones). This allows the designer to comply with the checks of the relevant code provisions.
After the analysis in SCIA Engineer, the results are presented in a tabulated format and can be directly exported to Excel or other software. In the image below, the critical components (in bold font), their locations and their combination are presented. Designing against multiple combinations is important as the section forces are not maximized simultaneously, allowing a more accurate, safe and economical solution to the problem. Moreover, when Serviceability checks are involved, it is very important to classify theses combinations as such to perform the relevant checks.
Top view with designed wall
Design process with IDEA StatiCa RCS
After exporting the results, we are moving to IDEA StatiCa RCS and recreate the curved cross-section geometry. To save time, we can simply import the geometry of the curved wall through a DFX file. Then, with the reinforcement tools of RCS, all rebars are placed in their exact location.
The effective cross-section for biaxial shear
The next step is to import the section forces via a simple copy/paste procedure from the related table in SCIA Engineer. In this particular case, the ULS forces are imported, but, as can be seen in the table, there are multiple tabs allowing the definition of Accidental and other load combinations (Characteristic and Quasi-Static).
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Finally, the user can choose the checks that need to be conducted, from a multitude of options covering even specialist cases (prestressed members, bridge-related, container vessels, fire resistance, and fatigue). Once this is done, the user can examine a summary of the results for the chosen checks in the form of tables and failure modes and modify their appearance. Obviously, the user can export and present the results as documents with the press of a button.


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Pipistrel Vertical Solutions had finalized the PMCD (Power Management, Control and Delivery) module software specifications in cooperation with the University of Ulm. A PMCD module is used to efficiently manage the power flow between different components in the drivetrain. In order to achieve this goal, a combination of switches, diodes, and fuses are used to connect the power generation components to the power consumption components. The main software functions of the PMCD are to regulate DC link voltage, control the power flow, CAN bus communication to the hardware interfaces, detect failures, in case of malfunctions (e.g.: battery failure) adapt a new power routing, report errors and warning conditions to HMI, and communicate and receive inputs from HMI (e.g. required power). There are additional software functions considered to optimize the module performance like monitoring of H2 tank/fuel tank, status of the fuel cell, status of the battery, inverter and motor, coolant temperature and ICE supervision. A PMCD module is now, with its state of the art power management strategy, capable of optimizing usage of different aircraft power sources, such as internal combustion engine, batteries and fuel cells.
The PMCD algorithm will also monitor the states of the components and take certain mitigation actions in case of a failure or warning state in one or more of the powertrain components. The mitigation actions will depend on the type of failure. For example, during a minor critical state such as reaching a low battery state of charge while in hybrid mode, the PMCD will send a caution signal to the pilot through the human-machine interface (HMI) screen. On the other hand, a major failure such as losing communication with the battery system while on hybrid mode, is treated by the PMCD disconnecting the battery and send a warning signal to the pilot in order to reduce the power demand.
The aim of the MAHEPA project is to show that flying hybrid is possible, sustainable and safe. PMCD module connects all these objectives by managing power sources most efficiently, thus having the capability of detecting and managing every power train failure.


text: One cannot examine the development of either Jewish or Christian faith without considering the greatest hero of the Jewish nation, King David. The Life of David, by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, presents a philosophical and at times poetic journey through the life of David. In this entry from the new Jewish Encounters series, Pinsky explores both the historic David as well as the mythic and religious impact of his life. Using the Biblical account as his guide, Pinsky focuses not only on who David was, but what he meant to the Hebrew people, both during his own lifetime and today. Shepherd boy, kingmaker's protÅ½gÅ½, legendary hero, poet, musician, rebel, traitor, friend, tyrant, father, adulterer, murderer and a man after God's own heart. All these descriptions can be applied to David, and Pinsky skillfully examines what they tell us about David, his world, his people and their mutual faith.


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Analogous to a riverbed channelling water, one can entrench some systemic praxis in organisations through facilitating the design of systemic structures. This includes systemic structures for each organisational function (i.e. systemic process and supply chain design) as well as the coordination of the organisation as a whole through a three-dimensional
However, a riverbed could channel clear or dirty water in the same manner. Likewise, the information within systemically conceived structures could be processed systemically (i.e. synergistically) or conventionally. Put differently, planning and decision-making could involve systemic methodologies to yield synergistic outcomes or not, even if the structures are systemic.
Thus, both structures and praxis need to be systemic, in order to create a systemic learning organisation. As pointed out above, different systems approaches deal with structures and processes somewhat differently and therefore benchmarking can be misleading.
Derived from the Biomatrix meta-systems theory, the Biomatrix Organisational Development Programme is designed to create systemic structures, practices and organisational culture that cohere with each other and are systemic. Organisations applying the programme in its entirety could be subjected to benchmarking. However, since establishing a systemically structured learning organisation can take a couple of years (depending on its size) and different organisations take a different path to get there (due to a modular design depending on the specific needs and realities of the organisation), benchmarking them may also be challenging.


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A profanity search method. Returns the number of profane words found and a list of the profane words. If the text is clean 0 (zero) is returned.
- Your API application key.
- The text you want checked for profanity.
- The 2 letter language code for the text you are submitting.
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- Treat email addresses like profanity. set = 1
- Treat phone numbers like profanity. set = 1
- Treat urls like profanity. set = 1
- To include our response time in the result. set = 1
- Response format: xml or json. Defaults to xml.
- Set equal to 1 to wrap the listed words in
Use this if you plan on passing strings that may break XML (ie "<" and "&").
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102: API Key was not included in request
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