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There are numerous opportunities for student leadership at Prospect Ridge Academy. Our commitment to creating academic, social, and ethical leaders means that providing ample opportunities for our students to become effective leaders is a significant part of a PRA education.
Prospect Ridge Academy students help to create the school's culture and its sense of community and achievement. PRA is a welcoming and inclusive place, where individual abilities and personalities are celebrated from Kindergarten through the 12th grade, and where lifelong memories are made. Students experience and practice leadership in the classroom, and continue to develop leadership skills in groups outside of the classroom.
Beginning in 5th grade, students have the opportunity to take on leadership roles in the Elementary, Middle and High School student council. Each division has an elected student council which provides leadership at the school and encourages student involvement in maintaining and improving the school climate; and also sponsors social events and community service projects.
We encourage students in each division to participate in the many student activities, clubs, and organizations offered at Prospect Ridge Academy. New clubs and groups are formed each year, depending on student interest and initiative.


Maximum memory maps configuration
This topic details how to modify the limit for the number memory maps a process can have on your system so that it meets Vertica requirements.
This topic details how to modify the limit for the number memory maps a process can have on your system so that it meets Vertica requirements. The installer reports this issue with the identifier: S0130.
The installer automatically configures the correct setting if the default value does not meet system requirements. If an issue occurs when setting this value, or you use the --no-system-configuration argument to the installer and the current setting is incorrect, then the installer reports this as an issue.
Vertica uses a lot of memory while processing and can approach the default limit for memory maps per process.
The recommended value is at least the amount of memory on the system in KB / 16, but not less than 65536.
All systems
To manually set the memory map limit:
 1. Run /sbin/sysctl vm.max_map_count to determine the current limit.
 2. If the limit is not 65536 or the amount of system memory in KB / 16 (whichever is higher), then edit/add the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf. Replace 65536 with the value for your system.

 # The following 1 line added by Vertica tools. 2014-03-07 13:20:31

 vm.max_map_count=65536

 3. Run sysctl -p to apply the changes in sysctl.conf immediately.


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Gove questioned on Scottish agriculture after Brexit
4 June 2019
In the final session of its inquiry into the future of Scottish agriculture, the Scottish Affairs Committee will question the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Rt Hon Michael Gove MP on Wednesday 5 June.
- Watch Parliament TV: The future of Scottish agriculture post-Brexit
- Inquiry: The future of Scottish agriculture post-Brexit
- Scottish Affairs Committee
Balancing common frameworks
After the UK leaves the EU, it will cease to be part of EU-wide agricultural policy known as the Common Agricultural Policy or CAP. A new UK wide framework agreement will need to be created to manage agricultural policy in the UK and the devolved nations. The Scottish Affairs Committee has been examining the implications of powers returning from Brussels and the future of Scottish agriculture after Brexit. In this final session, the Committee will question the Secretary of State on the UK Government's approach to balancing common frameworks between the UK and devolved Governments with providing flexibility for Scotland's agricultural priorities.
Topics likely to be covered in the session include the funding formula for agricultural support, providing enough labour for Scottish farms – particularly during the harvesting season – and advancing Scottish agriculture through increasing use of innovative technologies.
This is the final session of the Committee's inquiry. In earlier sessions the Committee has heard from academics with expertise in agriculture, farmers and growers, environmental groups, the operators of the UK Government's agricultural seasonal workers pilot scheme and the Scottish Government Minister for the Rural Economy.
Wednesday 5 June 2019, Committee Room 8
- Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Guy Horsington, Deputy Director for Future Farming Policy and the Agriculture Bill, Defra

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The thematic corner depicts the Maternity Hospital where children learn about the whole process from fertilization to birth, learn about the needs of mothers and (unborn) children, both in terms of nursing, eating, sleeping and feeding nutrients. Since not only a baby is born, but a whole lot of specific obligations, the parents and siblings learn about all the important aspects when they come home, which change with the child's age - sleeping and eating habits, the need for play, care and socialization.


How to Find the Best Studio Monitor Placement
Optimize your listening environment with proper studio monitor placement. This guide will help you find the best spot for your monitors and listening position.
Focal studio monitors and mixing desk
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Why is Studio Monitor Placement Important?
Building an optimal listening environment is crucial. Proper studio monitor placement is essential for creating mixes that translate on different speaker systems. It also ensures you're hearing your music accurately. Conversely, incorrect studio monitor placement will cause problems in the frequency response of your room. A poor listening environment will also affect how you hear your music which leads to bad mix decisions.
This guide outlines five best practices to follow when setting up your studio monitors. However, these best practices may not work in every studio. But, these tips should provide a good starting point for setting up your listening environment.
1. Finding a Room's Sweet Spot
The first step is to pick the best position for your workstation and studio monitors. Here are some general guidelines:
Place Your Monitors Away from the Walls
Sound waves that bounce off walls and other surfaces can either cancel each other out or multiply. Phase cancellation and frequency buildup are serious problems! Place your monitors eight or more inches away from walls to reduce sound wave reflection issues.
Center Your Monitors and Listening Position
Center your monitors and listening position between the sidewalls to achieve a balanced stereo image. This position ensures equal frequency reflections. A listening position too far left or right will create a buildup of frequencies on that side. While the area further away will have a dip in the frequency response. These two issues will give you an unbalanced representation of your mix.
Also, if your room is small and narrow, try centering the monitors along the widest wall. This position reduces side wall reflections.
Avoid Sitting in the Exact Center of the Room
Placing your monitors and listening position in the center of the room creates various problems. For example, some frequencies that bounce to the center simultaneously can cancel each other out. It also creates a null that causes a dip in the bass response.
Keep Your Listening Position Away from Corners
Avoid placing your studio desk in a corner. Keeping your monitors away from corners will help prevent bass buildup. Low frequencies build up where two reflective surfaces meet. This problem affects how you perceive the low end of your mix.
Positioning Monitors in Large Rectangular Rooms
Consider positioning the monitors along the shorter wall if you have a large rectangular room. The further away your listening position is from the back wall, the better. This position allows sound waves that reflect off the rear wall time to dissipate before reaching you. However, place your monitors on the widest wall if your room is small and the shorter wall is narrow to reduce side wall reflections.
The 38 Percent Rule
Try the 38% rule. For example, if your room is 10 feet long, position your monitors 3.8 feet from the front wall. This distance is a good starting point when finding the sweet spot.
2. The Equilateral Triangle Position
Position your studio monitors to form an equilateral triangle with your listening position. This studio monitor placement will put you in the sweet spot and give you an accurate stereo image.
For example, your listening position should be five feet from the monitors if your monitors are five feet apart. Keeping an equal distance between your monitors and your head is the ideal position.
Also, aim the monitors toward your ears at a 60-degree angle for best results. This position ensures you hear high frequencies accurately.
3. Position Your Studio Monitors at Ear Level
Position the monitor tweeters at ear level. High-frequency content is more directional than low-frequency content. So, directing the tweeters at your ears will allow you to hear higher frequencies more accurately. You can also tilt monitors down to direct the tweeters towards your ears if they are too high.
4. Keep Your Studio Monitors Upright
For best sound reproduction, position the monitors vertically. Don't turn your monitors on their side unless the design allows it. Keeping monitors upright will also place you in the sweet spot and give you accurate sound reproduction.
Moreover, read the manual for your monitors. Some monitors can lay horizontal or vertical. Also, if you place your monitors on their side, position the tweeters toward the outside for best results.
5. Invest in Studio Monitor Stands
Placing monitors directly on your studio desk can cause several problems. For example, sound waves that reflect off your desk will not give you a clear and balanced stereo image. Monitors also transmit their vibrations to any surface they are resting on which could produce unwanted noise. Setting monitors on a desk may also place them below ear level, which is not ideal.
Studio monitor stands are an essential piece of studio equipment worth considering. There are a variety of studio monitor stands. Choose the type that best fits your needs. The three main types are:
Floor stands decouple your monitors from the surface. They allow you to place monitors behind your workstation on secure stands. They also isolate your monitors which prevents surface reflections and vibration.
Desk stands raise the monitors closer to ear level. They also help prevent reflections from interfering with your listening environment. Many are also cushioned to reduce surface vibration.
Isolation pads are foam or rubber stands that lift your monitors off the desk. They provide a cushion to reduce surface vibrations and reflections. Isolation pads are also the most cost-effective studio stand.
Calibrate Your Listening Environment
There is room correction software that measures and calibrates the frequency response of your monitoring. For example, Sonar Reference 4 uses a microphone to measure the frequency response of your room. It then creates an EQ curve that corrects any tonal imbalances. Monitoring through this custom curve will help you hear a more accurate representation of your mix. This method leads to better mixing decisions. It also makes it easier to achieve quality mixes that translate on different speakers.
Knowing the frequency response of your studio will also help you calibrate your monitors. Most studio monitors provide a set of controls on the back to adjust optimal settings.
There are exceptions to every rule. Use your ears to decide what the best studio monitor placement is for your room. Also, consider treating your studio with acoustic treatment. A combination of absorbers, diffusers, and bass traps will create an optimal listening environment.
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Aggression is a difficult and sometimes devastating symptom that occurs in children for varied reasons—some known and some unknown.
The correlation between food and behavior intrigued me 20 years ago, and sparked my career as a nutrition researcher and clinician.
And aggression is one of the areas parents are most concerned with, when their child has it. I feel for all of them – the children when they can express it later on often feel terrible about it and trapped by this uncontrollable response. And parents worry so much about what this might mean for their child's future.
It's a difficult area to study for many reasons, especially for children and adults with autism that cannot speak. Causes and triggers of aggression are difficult for any child to understand and describe (autism or not).
So when can aggression be caused by food and/or improved by dietary choices?
Pain (often gastrointestinal) can cause people to injure themselves or others. We know this because parents and doctors report that when serious GI disorders are addressed, aggression has been known to disappear. Supporting the gut with a special diet can be very beneficial.
Additionally, an imbalance of neurotransmitters or hormones can cause aggression, this can be caused by many things including puberty or microbial pathogens but can also be caused by food reactions, or nutrient deficiencies.
Potential causes of aggression we'll cover in depth include:
- Gluten, dairy, soy and food allergies
- Phenols and salicylates
- Amines and glutamate
- Nutrient deficiencies
Certainly, aggression can happen from the frustration or anger associated with a child being denied food. For the purpose of this article though, we will focus on foods that can trigger/cause aggression from consumption.
Gluten, Dairy and Food Allergens
There is much support for the notion that gluten and dairy can lead to aggression – including published articles and case studies, and a myriad of online anecdotes.
Gluten and dairy can cause aggression in several ways. While not all of the mechanisms have been identified as yet, I do have some theories. If you are eating these foods and your body is creating opiates, opiates themselves can cause mood changes. Additionally, opiates peak and drop, these "withdrawals" from these opiate-compounds can cause irritability and aggression. Also, pain from these foods could cause aggression. Regardless of the underlying mechanism in each case, aggression can improve with a gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free diet.
Other food allergens can also cause aggression. Doris Rapp, M.D., explains in her book, Is this Your Child, how aggression can be a symptom of food allergy and describes a variety of child case studies where a food allergen (specific to that individual) caused aggressive behavior (1). It could be wheat, dairy, corn, soy, oranges, or other foods. In these cases, they are associated with allergy or intolerance in the individual.
A gluten-free, casein-free (dairy-free), soy-free, and allergen-free diet (specific to the individual's BioIndividual Nutrition needs) is often a great place to start with dietary changes.
Have you been to a toddler's birthday party and watch (almost in unison) as the kids come down from the "sugar high" and the crying ensues? When they consume excess sugar, one result is poor behavior, mood changes, and yes, even aggression!
Maybe you have experienced this yourself, indulging in a sugary treat only to become short tempered or irritable after. Our children (especially those who are nonverbal and cannot explain what they are feeling) can react even more drastically.
Sugar itself can cause aggression. Research shows that high sugar intake and high fructose corn syrup increases the risk of aggression, as well as ADHD (2).
Also, the after effects of sugar can cause low blood sugar levels which have also been shown to cause aggression. (3)
So sugar can cause aggression by two mechanisms, the sugar itself and the aftermath of the low blood sugar levels it can cause.
Reducing refined sugars can be a simple way to support stable blood sugar and mood. I have many resources on my site related to lower-sugar treat options and even recipes with lower sugar or using alternative sweeteners like dates, stevia, or honey.
Phenols and Salicylates
In my one-on-one nutrition practice, I've found that phenols, salicylates, and amines are the foods that are (by far) the greatest instigators of aggressive behavior.
Artificial food additives such as artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives are phenol compounds that can trigger irritability, sleeping problems, ADHD, hyperactivity and aggression. Food additives are a well-known cause of aggression—Dr. Ben Feingold and others have been studying this and publishing papers for decades. Dr. Feingold stated in his paper, "Dietary Management of Juvenile Delinquency" that he had 60-70% success with an additive-free diet "for control of behavior."
In addition to "artificial phenols" there are "natural phenols" in the form called salicylates. Salicylates have a phenolic structure, or aromatic chemical ring, that occur naturally in fruits, vegetables, nuts, herbs and spices, and other plant foods. These foods are rich in wonderful nutrients, but if your body has trouble "detoxifying" the salicylates, they can be a big problem for a child causing significant aggression, hyperactivity, and many other symptoms.
High Salicylate Foods
- Tomato sauce and ketchup
- Herbs and Spices: Cinnamon, cumin, turmeric, rosemary and more
One of my client's children, a boy 10 years old, had daily aggression toward his family and therapists. It would happen dozens of times per day, seemingly out of the blue. People were getting hurt and it was a scary situation for everyone involved. I suspected salicylates as the culprit, and after a dietary trial removing them, his aggression virtually disappeared—it went from 50 times per day to one time a month (and likely that was an accidental exposure)!
Amines and Glutamates
Amines are a different natural food chemical that is processed by the same detoxification pathway, and therefore, often create similar reactions, and people with salicylate sensitivity are more likely to have amine or glutamate intolerance. Amines and glutamates are found in fermented foods including sauerkraut and yogurt, salami, smoked meats and fish, bacon, canned fish, and broths. Sometimes I find it is amines, not salicylates, that is the main culprit.
Glutamate, also comes in the additive-form of MSG (monosodium glutamate). One client I worked with was a teenager—he was very aggressive and only wanted to eat certain things. When I looked to see what they all had in common, it was MSG as an ingredient. For him, removing both MSG and a food sensitivity made a huge improvement and his aggression diminished dramatically.
For children with aggression, I always explore the possible role of salicylates, amines, and glutamates for causing or contributing to the reaction, as I have seen many times in my practice that removing these foods reduces aggression for those that don't tolerate them.
Before we wrap up this conversation about food and aggression, let's discuss how not only food reactions can cause aggression, but nutrient deficiencies as well.
Nutrients are important for building neurotransmitters, as well as hundreds, if not, thousands of functions in the body and brain. And certain deficiencies have been associated with aggression.
Serotonin is the feel good brain chemical that when in low supply not only can cause depression but aggression as well. The amino acid tryptophan converts to serotonin, and low levels of tryptophan are associated with aggression in rat-mouse studies (4).
Also, vitamin B6, zinc, magnesium, and iron are all important for the production of serotonin – and all of these vitamins and minerals have been showing in studies to cause aggression when low.
Lithium is another important mineral. A well known study showed how areas with little to no lithium in their drinking water had significantly higher rates of violent crime than those with more adequate levels. (5) contains lithium (in low doses) is beneficial. And I've heard Dr. James Greenblatt speak on the benefits of low dose lithium at the Integrative Medicine for Mental Health conference and the benefits are quite amazing. (6)
There are more nutrients as well that can be helpful with aggression such as vitamins B1, B3, B5, niacin, and vitamin C.
A healthy nutrient dense diet and a multivitamin/mineral formula can help supply the nutrients we need for many everyday functions, including more stable mood.
World of Difference
Aggression can have so many various causes, and food is not the cause for everyone. However, what is clear is that if foods are triggering aggression for a child, removal of those foods can make a world of difference in decreasing aggression, and huge improvements in the quality of everyone's life.
For more on common reactions and symptoms from these foods, when and how to implement these special diets, lists of foods containing salicylates, amines, and glutamates, and how to create a personalized nutrition plan for your child, check out my nutrition program for parents, Nourishing Hope for Healing Kids.

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The post office in Steinbach is 70 years old now, and Steinbach City Councillor Bill Hiebert thought it would be interesting to take a step back in time to look at the origin of mail service in Steinbach.
He looks all the way back to 1874. He says that when Steinbach was settled, we had no post office, so the methods of mail delivery were different than they are today.
Mail used to be picked up by horse and wagon in Winnipeg.
"It took a three day journey. One day to Winnipeg, second day arranging business in the city, the third day back to Steinbach."
Hiebert says that in the year 1900, the Canadian National Railway built a railroad from Winnipeg to Fort Francis, Ontario, which passed through Giroux.
As a result, Giroux became known as Steinbach Station.
"Mail came by rail to Giroux, and many Steinbach residents also caught the train to Winnipeg in Giroux."
He says things changed in 1940, when motor vehicle freight and mail delivery came directly from Winnipeg.
Steinbach's very first post office was opened in 1884 by the Dominion of Canada Post Office.
It was located on Main Street, and A.S. Friesen was appointed as postmaster.
Hiebert says the position was considered prestigious, and Friesen served for 22 years.
In 1908, Peter Gunther was appointed and served for nine years. Then was Peter Wiebe, who served for three.
Hiebert says that by 1920, the qualifications to become postmaster had risen substantially.
"Cornelius F. Barkman was selected and served Steinbach for the next 35 years."
He says Barkman was born in Steinbach, and was a well known citizen to the community. He took elementary school in Steinbach, and received his secondary education at Gretna Collegiate.
"Following his education, Mr. Barkman taught school in Clearspring and Steinbach, ending his career as the principal of one of Steinbach's schools."
In 1920, there was a petition that requested that Mr. Barkman become the next postmaster. The petition was signed by several prominent citizens, and he was given the title.
During Mr. Barkman's years as postmaster, the post office was on the corner of Friesen and Main, which is the parking lot at Main Bread and Butter right now.
"It measured 16 feet by 28 feet, only 448 square feet. It housed 350 post office boxes and a bookstore."
In 1938, the Public Works Department of the Federal Government built an attractive new brick building where TD Bank stands today.
Then in 1953, the present post office was opened and built at a cost of $142,222. The two-story building housed both the post office and the local RCMP detachment.
"From my understanding, the former post office became the town hall, and was that till our current City Hall was constructed in 1966," he says. "It's too bad that the building was destroyed because it would have made a spectacular heritage site."
In 1955, Mr. Barkman resigned and Mr. Neil Friesen was appointed postmaster.
Hiebert says that during Mr. Friesen's tenure, the town of Steinbach had tremendous growth.
"The RCMP station moved to a new location on Brant Street, and 1970 saw another addition to the post office expanding to become the distribution center for southeastern Manitoba, serving 2000 plus mailboxes and employing 10 full-time employees."
Hiebert says that in chatting with Brian Reimer, who directed Steinbach's post office after Mr. Friesen, he found out that management of the office has changed.
"We no longer have the title postmaster in Steinbach, today we have area managers, directors, and lead hands."
In present day, Steinbach is served mostly by mail delivery to neighborhood post boxes, as well as businesses done by private contractors.
People who live in rural surrounding areas still pick up their mail at the post office. And the post office also has a secondary warehouse located in Steinbach to accommodate distribution.


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Why Reincarnation?
Why Reincarnation?
Exploring the mystical underpinnings of this misunderstood concept.
The topic of reincarnation sparks many questions and strong reactions. Sometimes the question is simply, "Is reincarnation really a Jewish concept?"
For many, reincarnation seems to be an idea that belongs to other religions, particularly those from the East, not Judaism.
One reason for this is because you do not see the idea of reincarnation showing up in many mainstream Torah texts over the generations, such as Chumash, Mishnah, and Talmud. One would think that if reincarnation is such a mainstream Jewish concept there would be at least a few references to it in such sources and others like them.
Then again, unlike other religions, Judaism prefers not to mix everyday topics together with its more mystical elements. Though Kabbalah is as mainstream as any other area of Torah knowledge,1 even alluded to in the Talmud (Chagigah 14b), it is as helpful to introduce Kabbalah into everyday Torah learning as it is to discuss details of Quantum Theory with ninth grade physics students.
For the person, however, who has graduated from Chumash to Mishnah to Talmud, and then to the Zohar,2 he will find, among countless other topics, a very detailed discussion about reincarnation, particularly in the Zohar's commentary on Parashas Mishpatim, what reincarnation is, how it works, and why it is necessary in the first place.
For clarification of the Zohar's teachings, the person can turn to Shaar HaGilgulim, or Gate of Reincarnations, or Sefer HaGilgulim, Order of Reincarnations. Both works are the teachings of the greatest Kabbalist of the last 500 years, Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, or "Arizal" for short whose teachings are considered to be authoritative.
Reincarnation is a Jewish concept with a very long Jewish tradition.
So, yes, reincarnation is a Jewish concept, with a very long Jewish tradition. But why the fascination with the topic in the first place?
Sometimes it seems to have to do with staying in touch, at least emotionally, with loved ones who are already gone. People want to know that wherever they are they are doing fine, and might even come back again in another life. They want to know that though they have left this world that life can still go on for them, somewhere else, perhaps. The idea of reincarnation reassures them of that.
For others it has to do more with understanding inexplicable personal tendencies, or curious natures of family members or friends. Sometimes lifes experiences fall short when it comes to explaining unusual events or personality anomalies. Reincarnation can explain a lot of that as well, as we'll see in the next essay.
And yet for others, it is just a general fascination with mystical subjects, a category to which the topic of reincarnation certainly belongs. Who doesn't want to believe that there is more to life than we can see or sense? Who doesn't want to believe that we can have a second chance, and maybe even more, to make amends for past mistakes?
Why is there Reincarnation?
Why is there reincarnation in the first place? Life itself is not unlike the way education works, which is about moving up from level to level as one matures and becomes more intelligent. The educational process that most go through in life is meant to enhance a person's ability to function in the world, to help people to make most of their lives, and to enhance their appreciation of the need to become responsible members of society.
Likewise as a person grows up, his or her spiritual capability also increases and matures, though not automatically. Just as the more one puts into an education the more one gets out of it, similarly the more one "puts" into spiritual growth the more one grows spiritually—the more spiritually empowered the person becomes.
How does that actually work?
The first thing a person needs to know is that Judaism teaches that though we all have one unique soul, each soul is actually comprised of five parts,3 each of which has a specific name: Nefesh, Ruach, Neshamah, Chayah, and Yechidah, loosely translated as: Rest, Spirit, Breath, Life, and Single, names that mean little until one understands how they got them. What matters for now, though, is that they represent the path to spiritual completion, because each level up provides increasingly greater access to higher levels of spiritual capacity.
A good analogy for how this works is computer software. Very often when a person acquires software for his computer he can do so cheaply, or even for free. But there's a catch: upon opening the newly installed software and using it for the first time he may notice that some of the listed functions are grayed-out, indicating that they are not yet available to him. To access those functions he has to pay for the upgrade.
If the person chooses to take the financial plunge and invest more money into the program, very often all he receives back in addition is a numeric key to complete the registration. However, after keying it in, almost magically, the previously grayed-in functions blacken indicating accessibility, instantly making the program more powerful.
But how does only a keyed-in number deliver so much more additional software to its user?
It doesn't. What really happens is that all of the functions, the accessible and the inaccessible ones, are delivered to the computer during the first download. The program, however, was written in such a way as to only make certain functions available to the user until additional information, in this case, a paid-for numeric key, has been provided.
This way the user can see what he is missing and be tempted to pay for the rest of the program. Once he does, and he properly registers the program, permission is then granted, though the computer, to utilize the rest of the software's functions.
At birth every individual has all five levels of soul. We have to if we're going to continuously receive Divine light to keep us going, since the five levels of soul connect us up to the light of God which nourishes our souls and, in turn, keep our bodies alive.4 To be missing a level of soul would be to break the connection between a person and the Source of Life.
Even the Talmud states that, prior to a child's birth, an angel teaches it the entire Torah. The only problem is, the Talmud continues, is that the angel causes the child to forget what he learned right before birth (Niddah 30b). Seems pointless, no?
Not really. There is a big difference between learning something new and only having to recall what was once learned. The Talmud is telling us that education, at least when it comes to Torah, is a process of bringing to the conscious mind what already exists on the level of the subconscious. The learning of Torah gives a person access to higher levels of understanding, and really, and as we'll see later, higher levels of soul.
We are created in God's image to achieve great spiritual accomplishments.
Because at birth, a person only needs the least of the five levels of the soul, the Nefesh, to remain alive and function. There is very little a baby is required to do other than eat and sleep, and for that the Nefesh is sufficient. Indeed, a person could, and many do, live the rest of his or her life on the level of Nefesh alone, though they wouldn't really amount to very much spiritually.
God didn't make man in His image for nothing.5 He did it to allow man to achieve great spiritual accomplishments, to become the very best human being he or she can become, to achieve ultimate fulfillment, in this world, and in the World-to-Come.
Life is about doing exactly this, and ideally, in one lifetime.
It's All about the Journey
Mankind may be capable of great spiritual feats, but life is not always supportive of his efforts to achieve them, and on many occasions, that may be an understatement.
The culprit? It is what we call in Hebrew the yetzer hara, the evil inclination. In the Garden of Eden the yetzer hara was embodied in the snake, the one which convinced Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil against God's command. Until that time, humans were free of an internal evil inclination and remained perfectly balanced between good and evil.6
That didn't last long, though. As a result of the sin man absorbed the yetzer hara into his being until it became a part of him, the result of which is succinctly summed up by the Torah in the following way:
The intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. (Bereishis 8:21)
Without question, it was a game changer. The yetzer hara, it seems, has its own agenda, seemingly more interested in having a good time materially than becoming more perfect. It doesn't buy into this whole spiritual development thing, and it seems to try to sabotage any attempts to do so every chance it gets.
The yetzer hara can interfere with our ability to climb the soul ladder.
As spiritually troublesome and burdensome as that can be for the person on a quest for personal greatness, it is not accidental. It is the way we are meant to be because that is the way to make sure that any spiritual growth we achieve is the result of choices we make, not automatic or accidental. We were given the gift


returning either F_RDLCK, F_WRLCK, or F_UNLCK, indicating, respectively, a read lease , a write lease, or no lease. arg is ignored.
When a process (the "lease breaker") performs an open(2) or truncate(2) that conflicts with a lease established via F_SETLEASE, the system call is blocked by the kernel and the kernel notifies the lease holder by sending it a signal (SIGIO by default). The lease holder should respond to receipt of this signal by doing whatever cleanup is required in preparation for the file to be accessed by another process (e.g., flushing cached buffers) and then either remove or downgrade its lease. A lease is removed by performing an F_SETLEASE command specifying arg as F_UNLCK. If the lease holder currently holds a write lease on the file, and the lease breaker is opening the file for reading, then it is sufficient for the lease holder to downgrade the lease to a read lease. This is done by performing an F_SETLEASE command specifying arg as F_RDLCK.
If the lease holder fails to downgrade or remove the lease within the number of seconds specified in /proc/sys/fs/lease-break-time, then the kernel forcibly removes or downgrades the lease holder's lease.
Once a lease break has been initiated, F_GETLEASE returns the target lease type (either F_RDLCK or F_UNLCK, depending on what would be compatible with the lease breaker) until the lease holder voluntarily downgrades or removes the lease or the kernel forcibly does so after the lease break timer expires.
Once the lease has been voluntarily or forcibly removed or downgraded, and assuming the lease breaker has not unblocked its system call, the kernel permits the lease breaker's system call to proceed.
If the lease breaker's blocked open(2) or truncate(2) is interrupted by a signal handler, then the system call fails with the error EINTR, but the other steps still occur as described above. If the lease breaker is killed by a signal while blocked in open(2) or truncate(2), then the other steps still occur as described above. If the lease breaker specifies the O_NONBLOCK flag when calling open(2), then the call immediately fails with the error EWOULDBLOCK, but the other steps still occur as described above.
The default signal used to notify the lease holder is SIGIO, but this can be changed using the F_SETSIG command to fcntl(). If a F_SETSIG command is performed (even one specifying SIGIO), and the signal handler is established using SA_SIGINFO, then the handler will receive a siginfo_t structure as its second argument, and the si_fd field of this argument will hold the descriptor of the leased file that has been accessed by another process. (This is useful if the caller holds leases against multiple files).
File and directory change notification (dnotify)
F_NOTIFY (int)
(Linux 2.4 onward) Provide notification when the directory referred to by fd or any of the files that it contains is changed. The events to be notified are specified in arg, which is a bit mask specified by ORing together zero or more of the following bits:
DN_ACCESS
A file was accessed (read(2), pread(2), readv(2), and similar)
DN_MODIFY
A file was modified (write(2), pwrite(2), writev(2), truncate(2), ftruncate(2), and similar).
DN_CREATE
A file was created (open(2), creat(2), mknod(2), mkdir(2), link(2), symlink(2), rename(2) into this directory).
DN_DELETE
A file was unlinked (unlink(2), rename(2) to another directory, rmdir(2)).
DN_RENAME
A file was renamed within this directory (rename(2)).
DN_ATTRIB
The attributes of a file were changed (chown(2), chmod(2), utime(2), utimensat(2), and similar).
(In order to obtain these definitions, the _GNU_SOURCE feature test macro must be defined before including any header files.)
Directory notifications are normally "one-shot", and the application must reregister to receive further notifications. Alternatively, if DN_MULTISHOT is included in arg, then notification will remain in effect until explicitly removed.
A series of F_NOTIFY requests is cumulative, with the events in arg being added to the set already monitored. To disable notification of all events, make an F_NOTIFY call specifying arg as 0.
Notification occurs via delivery of a signal. The default signal is SIGIO, but this can be changed using the F_SETSIG command to fcntl(). (Note that SIGIO is one of the nonqueuing standard signals; switching to the use of a real-time signal means that multiple notifications can be queued to the process.) In the latter case, the signal handler receives a siginfo_t structure as its second argument (if the handler was established using SA_SIGINFO) and the si_fd field of this structure contains the file descriptor which generated the notification (useful when establishing notification on multiple directories).
Especially when using DN_MULTISHOT, a real time signal should be used for notification, so that multiple notifications can be queued.
NOTE: New applications should use the inotify interface (available since kernel 2.6.13), which provides a much superior interface for obtaining notifications of filesystem events. See inotify(7).

Changing the capacity of a pipe
F_SETPIPE_SZ (int; since Linux 2.6.35)
Change the capacity of the pipe referred to by fd to be at least arg bytes. An unprivileged process can adjust the pipe capacity to any value between the system page size and the limit defined in /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size (see proc(5)). Attempts to set the pipe capacity below the page size are silently rounded up to the page size. Attempts by an unprivileged process to set the pipe capacity above the limit in /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size yield the error EPERM; a privileged process (CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) can override the limit. When allocating the buffer for the pipe, the kernel may use a capacity larger than arg, if that is convenient for the implementation. The actual capacity that is set is returned as the function result. Attempting to set the pipe capacity smaller than the amount of buffer space currently used to store data produces the error EBUSY.
F_GETPIPE_SZ (void; since Linux 2.6.35)
Return (as the function result) the capacity of the pipe referred to by fd.

File Sealing
File seals limit the set of allowed operations on a given file. For each seal that is set on a file, a specific set of operations will fail with EPERM on this file from now on. The file is said to be sealed. The default set of seals depends on the type of the underlying file and filesystem. For an overview of file sealing, a discussion of its purpose, and some code examples, see memfd_create(2).
Currently, only the tmpfs filesystem supports sealing. On other filesystems, all fcntl(2) operations that operate on seals will return EINVAL.
Seals are a property of an inode. Thus, all open file descriptors referring to the same inode share the same set of seals. Furthermore, seals can never be removed, only added.
F_ADD_SEALS (int; since Linux 3.17)
Add the seals given in the bit-mask argument arg to the set of seals of the inode referred to by the file descriptor fd. Seals cannot be removed again. Once this call succeeds, the seals are enforced by the kernel immediately. If the current set of seals includes F_SEAL_SEAL (see below), then this call will be rejected with EPERM. Adding a seal that is already set is a no-op, in case F_SEAL_SEAL is not set already. In order to place a seal, the file descriptor fd must be writable.
F_GET_SEALS (void; since Linux 3.17)
Return (as the function result) the current set of seals of the inode referred to by fd. If no seals are set, 0 is returned. If the file does not support sealing, -1 is returned and errno is set to EINVAL.
The following seals are available:
F_SEAL_SEAL
If this seal is set, any further call to fcntl(2) with F_ADD_SEALS will fail with EPERM. Therefore, this seal prevents any modifications to the set of seals itself. If the initial set of seals of


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How to make playdough
by: Jorja Wolfe
Playdough is fun to make with friends. There are a lot of different kinds of play dough, you can buy it or make it yourself. It can be much more reasonable in your price and more fun to make on your own. If you decide to make it at home you will need materials, decide a color, directions, and important information about playdough.
There are certain materials that you will need in order to make playdough. Most people will have these materials around their house. However, if you don't you can easily find them at your local store. You will need 1 cup of water, 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, food coloring, sauce pan,and 1 cup of flavor.Lastly you will need ½ cup of salt and 1 tablespoon of cream and tartar sauce.
combine water,oil,salt,cream and tartar sauce,and food coloring in the saucepan and heat until it is warm.
2.Remove from heat and add flower.
3.Stir then knead till smooth.The cream and tartar sauce makes the dough last 6 months or longer.So reset the temptation to omit this ingredient if you don't have it on hand.
4.Store this dough in an airtight container or a ziploc freezer bag.
These will be the directions to making the play dough.
If you are making play dough you might want to have a color because if you don't you will have boring play dough.You can color it by using kool aid and you can also use food coloring.
important information about playdough
play dough is not good for children under three years old.If you are allergic to any of these ingredients Id recommend not playing with it or making it. vegetable oil,salt,cream and tartar,and also food coloring.The cream and tartar sauce make the play dough last longer.Keep away from dogs and other pets.play dough smells like people food but contains lots of salt,and a hungry dog can eat enough to cause a dangers salt imbalance.
Now you have learned everything you need to know about how to make play dough.You have learned the materials,directions,The color and lastly important information about playdough.Now all you need to do is have fun with your play dough.


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Eugene Ionesco (1909 - 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright, and one the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theater.
Ionesco was born in 1912 in Romania of a French mother and Romanian father; his formative years were spent in France. In 1925 he returned to Romania when he learnt the "native" language. He subsequently taught French. Does a perfect knowledge of two languages enrich one's appreciation of language in general?
"Bilingualism involves a sort of intellectual acrobatics. I think that it is indispensable for my work as a writer. But I don't believe that different languages represent totally different visions of life, nor that nationality is an isolating factor. From my experience as a bilingual speaker, I would say that there can be an exact translation from on language to another, because there is a commonly shared structure which is permanent and universal. Although children learn a different language depending on where they were born, nevertheless the process is the same in all cases. For we all have the same anxieties and ask the same questions; and nationality, like politics, is secondary to the central problem of man's existential condition."


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Hidden Field Equations
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Hidden Fields Equations (HFE) is a public key cryptosystem which was introduced at Eurocrypt in 1996 and proposed by (French) Jacques Patarin following the idea of the Matsumoto and Imai system. HFE is also known as HFE trapdoor function. It is based on polynomials over finite fields of different size to disguise the relationship between the private key and public key. HFE is in fact a family which consists of basic HFE and combinatorial versions of HFE. The HFE family of cryptosystems is based on the hardness of the problem of finding solutions to a system of multivariate quadratic equations (the so called MQ problem) since it uses private affine transformations to hide the extension field and the private polynomials. Hidden Field Equations also have been used to construct digital signature schemes, e.g. Quartz and Sflash.
One of the central notions to understand how Hidden Field Equations work is to see that for two extension fields over the same base field one can interpret a system of multivariate polynomials in variables over as a function by using a suitable basis of over. In almost all applications the polynomials are quadratic, i.e. they have degree 2. We start with the simplest kind of polynomials, namely monomials, and show how they lead to quadratic systems of equations.
Let us consider a finite field, where is a power of 2, and an extension field. Let to be a basis of as an vector space. Let such that for some and gcd and take a random element. We represent with respect to the basis as. Define by
The condition gcd is equivalent to requiring that the map on is one to one and its inverse is the map where is the multiplicative inverse of. Choose two secret affine transformation, i.e. two invertible matrices and with entries in and two vectors and of length over and define and via:
Let be the matrix of linear transformation in the basis such that
for. Write all products of basis elements in terms of the basis, i.e.:
for each. The system of equations which is explicit in the and quadratic in the can be obtain by expanding (1) and equating to zero the coefficients of the. By using the affine relations in (2) to replace the with, the system of equations is linear in the and of degree 2 in the. Applying linear algebra it will give explicit equations, one for each as polynomials of degree 2 in the.
The basic idea of the HFE family of using this as a multivariate cryptosystem is to build the secret key starting from a polynomial in one unknown over some finite field (normally value is used). This polynomial can be easily inverted over, i.e. it is feasible to find any solutions to the equation when such solution exist. The secret transformation either decryption and/or signature is based on this inversion. As explained above can be identified with a system of equations using a fixed basis. To build a cryptosystem the polynomial must be transformed so that the public information hides the original structure and prevents inversion. This is done by viewing the finite fields as a vector space over and by choosing two linear affine transformations and. The triplet constitute the private key. The private polynomial is defined over. The public key is. Below is the diagram for MQ-trapdoor in HFE
The private polynomial with degree over is an element of. If the terms of polynomial have at most quadratic terms over then it will keep the public polynomial small. The case that consists of monomials of the form, i.e. with 2 powers of in the exponent is the basic version of HFE, i.e. is chosen as
The degree of the polynomial is also known as security parameter and the bigger its value the better for security since the resulting set of quadratic equations resembles a randomly chosen set of quadratic equations. On the other side large slows down the deciphering. Since is a polynomial of degree at most the inverse of, denoted by can be computed in operations.
Encryption and decryption
The public key is given by the multivariate polynomials over. It is thus necessary to transfer the message from in order to encrypt it, i.e. we assume that is a vector. To encrypt message we evaluate each at. The ciphertext is.
To understand decryption let us express encryption in terms of. Note that these are not available to the sender. By evaluating the at the message we first apply, resulting in. At this point is transferred from so we can apply the private polynomial which is over and this result is denoted by. Once again, is transferred to the vector and the transformation is applied and the final output is produced from.
To decrypt, the above steps are done in reverse order. This is possible if the private key is known. The crucial step in the deciphering is not the inversion of and but rather the computations of the solution of. Since is not necessary a bijection, one may find more than one solution to this inversion (there exist at most d different solutions since is a polynomial of degree d). The redundancy denoted as is added at the first step to the message in order to select the right from the set of solutions. The diagram below shows the basic HFE for encryption.
Hidden Field Equations has four basic variations namely +,-,v and f and it is possible to combine them in various way. The basic principle is the following:
- 01. The + sign consists of linearity mixing of the public equations with some random equations.
- 02. The - sign is due to Adi Shamir and intends to remove the redundancy 'r' of the public equations.
- 03. The f sign consists of fixing some input variables of the public key.
- 04. The v sign is defined as a construction and sometimes quite complex such that the inverse of the function can be found only if some v of the variables called vinegar variables are fixed. This idea is due to Jacques Patarin.
The operations above preserve to some extent the trapdoor solvability of the function.
HFEand HFEv are very useful in signature schemes as they prevent from slowing down the signature generation and also enhance the overall security of HFE whereas for encryption both HFEand HFEv will lead to a rather slow decryption process so neither too many equations can be removed (HFE-) nor too many variables should be added (HFEv). Both HFEand HFEv were used to obtain Quartz.
There are two famous recent attacks on HFE:
01. Shamir-Kipnis: Recover the Private Key.
The key point of this attack is to recover the private key as sparse univariate polynomials over the extension field. The attack only works for basic HFE and fails for all its variations.
02. Faugere: Fast Gröbner Bases.
The idea of Faugere's attacks is to use fast algorithm to compute a Gröbner basis of the system of polynomial equations. Faugere broke the HFE challenge 1 in 96 hours in 2002 and in 2003 Faugere and Joux worked together on the security of HFE.
- Christopher Wolf and Bart Preneel, Asymmetric Cryptography: Hidden Field Equations
- Nicolas T. Courtois On Multivariate Signature-only public key cryptosystems
- Ilia Toli Hidden Polynomial Cryptosystems
- Jean Charles Faugere and Antoine Joux, Algebraic Cryptanalysis of Hidden Field Equations (HFE) Cryptosystems Using Grobner Bases
- Nicolas T. Courtois, "The Security of Hidden Field Equations"
- Jacques Patarin, Hidden Field Equations (HFE) and Isomorphic Polynomial (IP): two new families of asymmetric algorithm
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The paper looks at a combination of systems theory, cybernetics, and sociological theory in search of a tool for inquiring into contemporary social forms. The idea of observing networks, drawing on Heinz von Foerster's and Niklas Luhmann's notion of observing systems and Harrison C. White's network calculus of identity and control, is outlined to enable basic sociological intuitions about social forms to be integrated with an understanding of both complexity and recursivity organizing our perspective on the human condition in a precarious world. Social forms are shown to gain robustness not from substantial identity but from relational ambiguity. Observing networks, or so the hypothesis goes, combine bodies, minds, society, and – soon perhaps – intelligent machines. The paper looks at how an understanding of complexity, recursivity, system, form, and network may help flesh out the calculus of our human condition.
The paper compares social systems theory and social network theory in terms of what it is they respectively seek to elucidate. Whereas systems theory focuses on problems of difference and reproduction, network theory deals with problems of identity and control, the former privileging communication and the latter action. To understand their different foci, it may help to keep in mind that systems theory is a child of computing's formative years, whereas the more recent success of network theory, despite its roots in a far older tradition, accompanies the advent of the Internet. The paper goes on to compare the two theories with respect to questions of mathematical modeling, culture, and self-reference, which interestingly are closely related. It proposes a mathematical modeling of culture, which uses Spencer-Brown's notion of form to combine variables of communication, consciousness, and life into one network relying on three systems capable of reproducing themselves. The paper is relevant for constructivist approaches because it shows how systems are constructed relying on networks within their own interpretation as culture.
The paper deals with Aristotelian logic as the special case of more general epistemology and sociology of both science and common sense. The Aristotelian principles of identity, of noncontradiction, and of excluded middle are to be supplemented by the secondorder cybernetic, or cybernEthic principles of paradox, of ambivalence, and of control. In this paper we collect some ideas on how to evaluate the scope of Aristotelian logic with respect to the laws of thought they tried to determine and to do so within the historical moment of the impact of the invention of writing possibly triggering this determination. We look at some modern doubts concerning these laws and discovering an understanding of complexity that is not to be resumed under any principle of identity. The invention of sociology, epistemology, and the mathematics of communication follow suit in focusing not only on the observer but more importantly on the distinction between observers to further contextualize any talk of identities and operationalize both talk and fact of contradiction, paradox, and ambivalence.
The concept of "autonomy," once at the core of the original enactivist proposal in The Embodied Mind (Varela et al. in The embodied mind: cognitive science and human experience. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1991), is nowadays ignored or neglected by some of the most prominent contemporary enactivists approaches. Theories of autonomy, however, come to fill a theoretical gap that sensorimotor accounts of cognition cannot ignore: they provide a naturalized account of normativity and the resources to ground the identity of a cognitive subject in its specific mode of organization. There are, however, good reasons for the contemporary neglect of autonomy as a relevant concept for enactivism. On the one hand, the concept of autonomy has too often been assimilated into autopoiesis (or basic autonomy in the molecular or biological realm) and the implications are not always clear for a dynamical sensorimotor approach to cognitive science. On the other hand, the foundational enactivist proposal displays a metaphysical tension between the concept of operational closure (autonomy), deployed as constitutive, and that of structural coupling (sensorimotor dynamics); making it hard to reconcile with the claim that experience is sensorimotorly constituted. This tension is particularly apparent when Varela et al. propose Bittorio (a 1D cellular automata) as a model of the operational closure of the nervous system as it fails to satisfy the required conditions for a sensorimotor constitution of experience. It is, however, possible to solve these problems by re-considering autonomy at the level of sensorimotor neurodynamics. Two recent robotic simulation models are used for this task, illustrating the notion of strong sensorimotor dependency of neurodynamic patterns, and their networked intertwinement. The concept of habit is proposed as an enactivist building block for cognitive theorizing, re-conceptualizing mental life as a habit ecology, tied within an agent's behaviour generating mechanism in coordination with its environment. Norms can be naturalized in terms of dynamic, interactively self-sustaining, coherentism. This conception of autonomous sensorimotor agency is put in contrast with those enactive approaches that reject autonomy or neglect the theoretical resources it has to offer for the project of naturalizing minds.
Open peer commentary on the article "Never Mind the Gap: Neurophenomenology, Radical Enactivism, and the Hard Problem of Consciousness" by Michael D. Kirchhoff & Daniel D. Hutto. Upshot: I strongly agree with Kirchhoff and Hutto that consciousness and embodied action are one and the same, but I disagree when they say this identity cannot be fully explained and must simply be posited. Here I attempt to sketch the outlines of just such an explanation.
Context: The discipline of knowledge management (KM) begins to understand a) that it should move towards a user-centred, socialized KM and b) which business objectives provide motivation to do so. However, it lacks ideas on how to reach the objective that it suggests and justifies. We contend in this paper that this change requires a more viable understanding of knowledge combined with a suitable model of social interaction, otherwise it will fail. Problem: The problem to be solved is to find a way to blend a model of social interaction and a suitable understanding of knowledge so that together they can contribute to the objective of implementing a "user-centred KM." In this paper we show a solution articulated in several conceptual and experimental components and phases. Method: We use a systemic and cybernetic approach: systemic analysis of the problem, conception of a cybernetic approach, design of a systemic solution, and its evaluation in an experiment. The main methods used are systems engineering, cybernetic modelling, and knowledge engineering. Results: We propose seven interrelated results: 1. A defect analysis of KM; 2. The concept of knowledge as the "Logic of Experience"; 3. A set of five KM design principles; 4. The principle of "Knowledge Identity"; 5. The model of "Knowledge Cooperation"; 6. The architecture of a user-centred KM system; and 7. Insights from a KM experiment. Implications: Our results are useful for any stakeholder in today's knowledge economy when they need to understand, design, build, nurture and support an organization's capacity to learn and innovate for the benefit not only of the company's financial owners but also of the individuals who work in it. Future research should urgently address the issues of "knowledge identity" and the "knowledge contract" and KM practice should design its next steps for moving towards a user-centred KM in conformity with the principle of "knowledge identity." The paper links explicitly to radical constructivism and argues in favour of a radical constructivist foundation for KM in which knowledge is seen as the "Logic of Experience." It also shows how this KM foundation can be extended with a social perspective and by that allow the individual and the social to be conceived of as complementary elements in one single KM system.
Context: In his work on neurophenomenology, the late Francisco Varela overtly tackled the well-known "hard problem" of the (physical) origin of phenomenal consciousness. Problem: Did he have a theory for solving this problem? No, he declared, only a "remedy." Yet this declaration has been overlooked: Varela has been considered (successively or simultaneously) as an idealist, a dualist, or an identity theorist. Results: These primarily theoretical characterizations of Varela's position are first shown to be incorrect. Then it is argued that there exists a stance (let's call it the Varelian stance) in which the problem of the physical origin of primary consciousness, or pure experience, does not even arise. Implications: The nature of the "hard problem" of consciousness is changed from an intellectual puzzle to an existential option. Constructivist content: The role of ontological prejudice about what the world is made of (a prejudice that determines the very form of the "hard problem" as the issue of the origin of consciousness out of a pre-existing material organization) is downplayed, and methodologies and attitudes are put to the fore.
The enactive turn in cognitive science fundamentally changes how questions about experience and behaviour are addressed. We propose that there exists a suite of core concepts within enaction that are suited to the characterisation of many kinds of intentional subjects, including and especially animals, plants, collectivities and artefacts. We summarise some basic concerns of enactive theory and show how the common illustration of the single cell ascending a chemotactic gradient serves as a focus point for discussion of important topics such as identity, perspective, value, agency and life-mind continuity. We also highlight two important deficits of this example: the cell is ahistorical and asocial. Historicity and sociality are defining characteristics of living beings and are addressed within enactive theory by the concepts of structural


This is a continuation of the series Re Imaging SharePoint VMs on the fly.
Once you have finished with the task of preparing the virtual machine, it's time to create a Windows Image File (WIM) for re-use at a later stage.
Navigate to the folder where you have imagex.exe
Run this command
D:\Virtualisation\imagex.exe /capture m: d:\justsharepoint.wim "NKR"
Figure here under explains the command
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/capture m: = the virtual hard drive where we have installed and configured Windows Server 2008R2, Active Directory,SQL Server 2008 R2 etc. as per the previous post.
Capturing an image is a memory intensive process!
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Of course nothing like taking a snapshot, it is slow to capture but then you get bare metal power!
This image took 22 minutes and 24 seconds.
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That's it!
Next post in the series will show you how this can be applied to another partition on the drive or another virtual hard drive.
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People also ask
What are the best books for kids to read about constellations?
鈥?Once Upon a Starry Night: A Book of Constellations by Jacqueline Mitton (Ages 6-9) 鈥?The Sky Is Full of Stars by Franklyn Branley (Ages 6-9) 鈥?The Stars: A New Way to See Them by HA Rey (Ages 9-12) 鈥?Wishing on a Star: Constellation Stories and Stargazing Activities for Kids by Fran Lee (Ages 6-9)
What is the structure of the book the constellation finder?
But the main structure of the book revolves around presenting a new constellation on each spread. For each constellation, the book provides the story that goes along with the animal or character as well as information about the stars that make up the constellation and how to find them.
Is the Stars and constellations by Henry Neely a good book?
Overall, however, this fine book should make the task of a beginner to locate all the stars and constellations noted in this text quite easy and, as Henry Neely himself would like it to be, most enjoyable.
What is a constellation?
A group of stars in the night sky forming patterns that look like animals, objects, or characters. There are 88 official constellations. At different times of the year and in different hemispheres, different constellations can be seen in the sky.


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Credits: 2 PDU's/CDU's
This two-hour webcast gets right to the point and covers the essential steps of a practical process for writing business use cases. It is all based on industry best practices and employs IAG's proven experience and techniques for practical requirements definition. This webinar will explain what Business Use Cases are and how to document them. Using the business case of an innovative iPhone application, the course will follow a simple seven-step process for writing Use Cases as well as provide strategies for dealing with the common challenges of defining them. Participants will learn use-case documentation and modeling techniques using standard templates, worksheets and checklists. It will provide Project Managers and Business Analysts with a clear understanding of what they need to know, and what they need to do, to easily identify and write the use cases they need for their next project.
1. Business Use Cases and Business Requirements
2. Use Cases, the Application Life Cycle, and the Project Management Process
3. The Components of a Use Case
4. The Different Forms of Use Cases
5. The Seven Steps to Writing a Business Use Case
6. Detailed Use Case Modeling
7. Tips for Eliciting Use Cases
8. Use Cases and Business Rules
9. Use Cases and User Stories in an Agile Approach
10. Next Steps – What do you do when you're done?


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- Recycled Water Project
- Project includes construction of up to 17,500 ft of Title 22 tertiary treated recycled water per year to meet landscape irrigation demands of existing potable and non-potable water customers including the Roddy Ranch Golf Course and two 4 million gallon recycled water storage tanks, and additional pumps and valves for these facilities. In addition to the golf course, the majority of the additional recycled water demands (1,267 of the 1,750 acre-ft) would be from residential and commercial land uses in the City that currently uses potable water for landscape irrigation. The purpose of the project is to increase the use of recycled water from the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), and thereby conserve freshwater resources, increase water supply reliability, and facilitate compliance with the chloride objectives in the permit for the WWTP effluent discharge to Marsh Creek (National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Permit No. CA0085201). The increased use of recycled water would result in corresponding reduction in the discharge of treated wastewater effluent from the WWTP to Marsh Creek, primarily during the months of April through Sept., which is the seasonal period of peak water demand for landscape irrigation.
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Critical Slowing Down
I realize that it's been a long while since I've written a post, so the topic of this one, while unintentionally so, is quite apt.
Among the more universal themes in studying phase transitions is the notion of critical slowing down. Most students are introduced to this idea in the context of second order phase transitions, but it has turned out to be a useful concept in a wide range of systems beyond this narrow framework and into subjects well outside the purview of the average condensed matter physicist.
Stated simply, critical slowing down refers to the phenomenon observed near phase transitions where a slight perturbation or disturbance away from equilibrium takes a really long time to decay back to equilibrium. Why is this the case?
The main idea can be explained within the Landau theory of phase transitions, and I'll take that approach here since it's quite intuitive. As you can see in the images below, when the Landau potential is far from T_c, the potential well can be approximated by a parabolic form. However, this is not possible for the potential near T_c.
Mathematically, this can be explained by considering a simple form of the Landau potential:
V(\phi) = \alpha (T-T_c) x^2 + \beta x^4
Near T_c, the parabolic term vanishes, and we are left with only the quartic one. Although it's clear from the images why the dynamics slow down near T_c, it helps to spell out the math a little.
Firstly, imagine that the potential is filled with some sort of viscous fluid, something akin to honey, and that the dynamics of the ball represents that of the order parameter. This puts us in the "overdamped" limit, where the order parameter reaches the equilibrium point without executing any sort of oscillatory motion. Far from T_c, as aforementioned, we can approximate the dynamics with a parabolic form of the potential (using the equation for the overdamped limit, \dot{x} = -dV/dx):
\dot{x} = -\gamma(T) x
The solution to this differential equation is of exponential form, i.e. x(t) = x(0)e^{-\gamma(T) t}, and the relaxation back to equilibrium is therefore characterized by a temperature-dependent timescale \tau =1/\gamma(T).
However, near T_c, the parabolic approximation breaks down, as the parabolic term gets very small, and we have to take into consideration the quartic term. The order parameter dynamics then get described by:
\dot{x} = -\beta x^3,
which has a solution of the form x(t) \sim 1/\sqrt{\beta t}. Noticeably, the dynamics of the order parameter obey a much slower power law decay near T_c, as illustrated below:
At this point, one would naively think, "okay, so this is some weird thing that happens near a critical point at a phase transition…so what?"
Well, it turns out that critical slowing down can actually serve as a precursor of an oncoming phase transition in all sorts of contexts, and can even be predictive! Here are a pair of illuminating papers which show that critical slowing down occurs near a population collapse in microbial communities (from the Scheffer group and from the Gore group). As an aside, the Gore group used the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae in their experiments, which is the yeast used in most beers (I wonder if their lab has tasting parties, and if so, can I get an invitation?).
Here is another recent paper showing critical slowing down in a snap-through instability of an elastic rod. I could go on and on listing the different contexts where critical slowing down has been observed, but I think it's better that I cite this review article.
Surprisingly, critical slowing down has been observed at continuous, first-order and far-from-equilibrium phase transitions! As a consequence of this generality, the observation of critical slowing down can therefore be predictive. If the appropriate measurements could be made, one may be able to see how close the earth's climate is to a "tipping point" from which it will be very difficult to return (due to hysteresic effects) (see this paper which shows some form of critical slowing down in previous climatic changes in the earth's history). But for now, it's just interesting to look for critical slowing down in other contexts that are a little easier to predict and where perhaps the consequences aren't as dire.
*Thanks to Alfred Zong who introduced me to many of the above papers
**Also, a shout out to Brian Skinner who caught repeated noise patterns in a recent preprint on room temperature superconductivity. Great courage and good job!


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Andy Clark of element14 has designed and built a simple robot that can warn him before posting an unkind comment to an online forum.
To accomplish this, Clark connected a USB keyboard to an FTDI host module. This passes serial data to an Arduino MKR Zero, which performs a sentiment analysis. The Arduino then simultaneously passes the unaltered keyboard input to a host computer (by itself acting as a USB keyboard), and controls a servo (based on the sentiment analysis) that causes the robot to either smile or frown.
The robot itself is a wood cut-out of a face with large googly eyes. Hidden behind are 3D printed gears turned by the servo that cause the "mouth" to change appearance. If you see a frown, you may want to reconsider what you have just written before clicking "submit."
The sentiment analysis algorithm was developed in a Google Colab notebook. A tiny (less than 300 parameter) neural network was developed and trained. The notebook exported C language code representing the trained model that was then transferred to the Arduino IDE.
Depending on your perspective, the final result is either a helpful robot friend keeping you from future regrets, or a nosy nanny watching and criticizing your every move. Either way, it is a fun and fairly easy build for anyone looking for a weekend project. Get all the details in the following video from element14.


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Social Media and Advocacy Campaign – Commit to Inclusion Africa.
International Campaign on Physical Activities for Children with Disabilities in Africa is spearheaded by Integrated Youth Volunteer Foundation (IYVF).
1) that the rights of children and adolescents with disabilities to physical activity, PE and sport are recognized across the UN system,
2) that there is global recognition that 'enough is enough' and NOW is the time to make physical activity, PE and sport inclusive for ALL children and adolescents. The first is about ensuring key frameworks coming out of the UN system, namely from UNESCO on PE, WHO on health and disability, and the post-2015 agenda acknowledge the rights of children with disabilities in these domains. The timeline is on-going as we have to wait and see when critical discussions and decisions will take place.
The second result is based on the fact that we have appropriate policies in place – e.g. CRPD Article 30.5 – but they are not being realized and thus we want to remind key decision-makers that they exist and we will provide examples of how they can and are being achieved. Since the Task Force is made up of volunteers, we will be leveraging existing platforms and resources to launch a social media and advocacy campaign in Africa to achieve the second result.
Our Vision, Mission,Strategy Identity
Commit to Inclusion Africa, is a coalition of, not-for-profit, African organization working with Children with Disabilities on PhysicalActivities to meet the sustainable development goal supported by Commit to Inclusion.
Commit to Inclusion Africa aims to:
Commit to Inclusion Africa objectives:
Our work is inspired by universal values, informed by global experiences and knowledge, and guided by the needs and conditions of Commit to Inclusion _URL_. Above all, in partnership with other rights-based organizations in Africa and around the world, we aspire to contribute to the effort to make an 'Africa fit for children with disabilities '.
Our vision is that every African child with disability will be able to lead a healthy life and contribute to the emergence of a peaceful, democratic and prosperous continent that can overcome marginalization in a globalized world.
Commit to Inclusion Africa mission is to put African children with Disabilities on the public agenda, through the promotion of physical activity, PE and sport inclusive for ALL children and adolescents.
Our Programmes and Projects
Guided by Commit to Inclusion Programmes of Work document, Towards an Era of Accountability for children with disabilities in Africa 2015, Commit to Inclusion Africa pursues its work in the following strategic areas:
-Monitoring government performance and child with disability wellbeing
-Promoting legal justice and access to children with disability.
-Strengthening the families with children with disabilities and social protection mechanisms.


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Published on January 17, 2013 by Amy
The Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians are a federally recognized tribe of Luiseño Indians who live on the Rincon Indian Reservation in the Valley Center CDP, San Diego County, California. It is a federally recognized Indian tribe. They are considered one of the groups of the Mission Indians. Harrah's Rincon Casino and Resort is located on the reservation. The tribe is a member of the Indian Health Council which runs a health clinic adjacent to the reservation.
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Rincon Indian Reservation lies in northeastern San Diego County, along the San Luis Rey River, south of California State Route 76. The total area of the reservation is 4,275 acres. The population on the reservation is around 1,500, but only 188 people self-identified as Native Americans in the Valley Center CDP in the 2010 census, although tribal enrollment is about 651.


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Everything you need to know about customising your accessories
Pump Pressure Vs Hose Length
How does it affect?
A plunger pump works by using a reciprocating plunger to move water through the pump and into the outlet hose. The pressure at the outlet of the pump is determined by the amount of force the plunger can generate, and this force can be affected by the length of the outlet hose.
Your length matters
When a plunger pump is pumping water through a longer hose, there is more resistance to the flow of water, which can cause a decrease in the pressure at the outlet. This is due to the frictional losses in the hose, which increase as the length of the hose increases. The pump must work harder to overcome the resistance created by the longer hose, which can result in a lower pressure output.
In addition, the diameter of the hose can also affect the pressure. A smaller diameter hose will have a greater resistance to flow than a larger diameter hose, which can cause a drop in pressure.
So, to maintain a specific pump pressure, it's important to consider the length and diameter of the hose being used. A shorter and wider diameter hose will cause less resistance and maintain a higher pump pressure, while a longer and narrower diameter hose will cause more resistance and result in a lower pump pressure.


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A "magic" herb, Carissa Edulis, that drew thousands of people to a remote Loliondo village in Tanzania was identified by Kenyan scientists a few years ago as a cure for a drug-resistant strain of a sexually transmitted disease, gonorrhoea. This herb also is believed to cure many other diseases besides gonorrhoea. The Kamba refer to as mukawa or mutote and use it for chest pains, while the Nandi boil the leaves and bark to treat breast cancer, headache and chest pains.
Researchers discovered the plant could be used for the treatment of the herpes virus. Led by Dr Festus M Tolo of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri), the team from the University of Nairobi and the National Museums of Kenya found the herb could provide an alternative remedy for herpes infections.
"An extract preparation from the roots of Carissa edulis, a medicinal plant locally growing in Kenya, has exhibited remarkable anti-herpes virus activity for both wild type and drug resistant strains," they reported in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology.


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A dolos (plural: dolosse) is a large prefabricated pre-cast concrete element. In extensive coastal engineering projects large numbers of them are typically interlocked to form breakwaters – barriers that protect shorelines from the impact of waves. BREAKWATER brings together these infrastructural elements and gives them a colorful coating and a soft rubber base to make a playable 'social infrastructure.'
Our project salvages four of these seven-ton elements, which were originally fabricated for an Army Corps of Engineers project on Lake Erie, and places them in the context of the city.
This allows the infrastructural scale and utilitarian nature to be decontextualized, and for the sculptural shape of the dolos to be appropriated for human-scaled uses. Using the form of the elements in different orientations creates an unusual sculptural arrangement that references maritime imagery as much as formal qualities of minimalist artworks.
Blurring the lines between playground and sculpture, leads to a productive ambiguity that allows users and passersby to interpret the installation in their own way. The play on the juxtaposition of mass-produced, large-scale elements with the world of the pedestrian and the child in particular creates a playful friction. Unlike conventional playground equipment, the forms of the dolosse are unfamiliar and non-didactic and can be appropriated and used according to the will of the occupants, including sitting, climbing, sliding, lounging and playing hide-and-seek, among other activities.
To encourage interaction with and occupation of these forms by people, and children in particular, the dolosse were given a colourful polyurea coating, which provides both a tactile surface, a consistent appearance and helps make the project low-maintenance. The arrangement is placed on an EPDM rubber surface, acting both as fall-protection and a unifying colourful base.
BREAKWATER emphasizes the role of playspaces as an amenity, as a right, and as essential infrastructure, and is therefore a 'social infrastructure.'


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People of Salum learn about marine conservation
11 April 2008 | News story
The Salum area is part of the western Mediterranean coastal region of Egypt, extending 600 km between Alexandria in the east to the Libyan border in the west. This area, including the Gulf of Salum, has been identified by Egypt as the most appropriate site to establish a protected area in order to maximize conservation of a representative cross section of the region's natural resources.
The region around Salum is of urgent conservation priority because of its high natural value, and also because it is the only section of the western Mediterranean coast of Egypt which is still fairly intact and undeveloped. The conservation of natural coastlines, unique habitats and wildlife will help make these resources a significant asset for future generations and for the tourism industry.
To give an understanding of their fragile marine resource, 370 students of Salum in the age of 12 to 13 years were invited to an education outdoor event on the 17th February, 2008. This "Nature Day" gave the students the opportunity to approach open-air their natural environment and its issues in a dynamic and hands-on manner. For the first time, twenty-three teachers and the school board faced an innovative concept of outdoor, nature-based learning.
On the 27th January, 2008, a workshop to introduce Marine Protected Areas and the need to protect natural resources, and to enhance discussions between different stakeholders was organized. Seventy people of Salum attended it. The event brought together representatives from the local and regional government, of the coast guard, of the national security, as well as Bedouin chiefs, resource users and influential citizens.
These two events were part of a public awareness and information dissemination campaign implemented by Nature Conservation Egypt (NCE), a local NGO, in partnership with the Nature Conservation Sector (NCS) of Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) and the Wadi Educational Centre. The aim of this campaign was to sensitize the local community and the relevant authorities of Salum to the issues and the potential importance of marine protected areas. These initiatives were very well received by the participants and the authorities. Important steps were identified for the future such as the analysis of the potential of a community management mechanism for the administration of Salum's intended marine protected area and the coordination of a teacher training programme in Salum' dealing with outdoor education.
This campaign was part of the project titled "Supporting Egypt in Developing Marine Protected Areas on the Mediterranean Coast: Salum as a Potential Site for Marine Protected Area Designation", initiated in 2006 by the IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation in collaboration with the EEAA, the University of Cairo, and National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries.
For more information:
Please contact Marina Gomei _EMAIL_


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Static model tests on mechanical behavior of assembled multi-step cantilever wallsZhaoying Li, Shiguo Xiao
- Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
Assembled multi-step cantilever retaining walls is a new type of light retaining structure, which can be quickly installed in situ and suitable for high fill earthworks. In order to investigate its mechanical behaviors fully to support practical analysis and design of the novel wall, a series of laboratory model tests are conducted for three-step cantilever walls retaining cohesionless filling under various strip surcharges on the top of the backfill. Test results indicate that lateral earth pressure on the highest-step wall member increases with the depth on the upper two-thirds segment of the wall stem, whereas it presents multi-step polyline distribution mode on the lower two steps. Except for the highest-step wall member, the earth pressure on the upper part of each member stem shows some reduction effect due to shielding action of the upper heel plate inserted in the backfill. The lateral earth pressure on the wall obtained by numerical simulation via FLAC3D is consistent with the measured one in terms of the whole variation tendency. Horizontal displacement of the whole wall takes on a unimodal profile with relatively higher values at the middle height of the wall. Increasing the bench width is helpful to reduce the lateral earth pressure on the wall stems and setting up shear key beneath the footing plate of the lowest-step member can reduce the wall displacement by up to 51%.


What are Channel Banks?
Shannon Kietzman
Channel banks are communication devices used within the telecommunications field. Their purpose is to connect multiple voice channels, which is achieved through voice digitization and multiplexing. Therefore, they are important devices when it comes to transmitting digital communication.
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The multiplexing of voice grade channel banks can be performed on both analog and digital carriers. This takes place through the conversion of a person's voice to a kilobits per second (kbps) or megabits per second (mbps) signal. They can be grouped into high bit-rate digital channel banks, or they can easily be decreased to individual ones. These devices received their name because of the equipment's ability to contain a sufficient amount of power to convert a bank of 24 individual channels from an analog to a digital format. In essence, they "bank" the power to be reused later.
There are quite a few different types of channel banks for a user to choose from. Each of these is capable of telling the user what type of formatting is required in order to receive the desired results. Types include the T1 circuit, which is made up of 24 channels, and the D4 channel bank, which should always contain a DS-1 signal. This signal is meant to ensure the data is properly formatted in accordance with the D4 format.
The D2, D3, and digital carrier trunk (DCT) are other types of channel banks. The majority of telephone companies use them. D1 channel banks, which are also known as D1A, were first introduced in 1962. Other versions included D1B and D1C.
The first D1A, B, and C channel banks all utilized close to seven bits of voice sample each, with one bit in each being in code word. These bits of information were used for transmitting signals, such as the sound of the telephone ringing and the sound heard when the phone is off the hook.
D2 channel banks now utilize eight bits of time slot for encoding analog signals. In addition, they have increased density to 96 channels. D1 banks, on the other hand, hold 72 channels. Both D3 and D4 can allow up to 144 channels within their packages in just one single bay.
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Part of speech: noun
Origin: French, mid-17th century
A small or minor literary or musical work.
Examples of Opuscule in a sentence
"While this book could be considered an opuscule, it means a lot to me personally."
"The opuscule doesn't even sound like it was written by the famous poet."
This noun originally comes from the Latin word "opusculum," a dimunutive of the word that means "work." If you are working on a project, no matter how big or small it is, you can refer to it as your "opus."
Did you Know?
A magnum opus is the complete opposite of an opuscule work. The former term refers to the most important work of an artist's career, often one that they are most recognized for.


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Is Fiber Optic Networking Technology More Secure Than Copper?
August 19, 2020Download PDF
Fiber optic cabling is commonly perceived as a solid choice for mitigating network security concerns. Because optical connections transmit data using light, they don't radiate signals that can be intercepted. Security for traditional copper Ethernet connections can now be significantly enhanced, however, thanks to end-to-end encryption standards.
The MACsec IEEE standard (IEEE 802.1AE) enhances security on networks by providing point-to-point, Layer 2 encryption between devices on a virtual or physical local area network (LAN). This eliminates the need for a dedicated security device, in some instances. Though MACsec was introduced in 2006, its adoption has been gaining traction recently after support was added to the mainline Linux® kernel. As a result, modern MACsec-enabled network switches and computing hardware can now deliver enhanced security for LANs, regardless of network media. This reduces the security advantage fiber optics had over copper.
In addition to providing data confidentiality through Layer 2 encryption, MACsec defines a security infrastructure to provide data origin authentication, data integrity, and replay protection. The protocol authenticates nodes through a secure exchange of randomly generated keys, ensuring data can only be transmitted and received by MACsec-configured nodes. This prevents disruption or data loss from transmission or reception by unauthorized devices. In addition, each MAC frame carries a data integrity check value to ensure accuracy and consistency throughout transmission. That means all frames copied from the LAN cannot be resent into the LAN without detection.
When it comes to security, MACsec's strong encryption capabilities have given traditional twisted-pair (copper) networking stronger network security legs to stand on. This has positioned copper wiring for some applications where fiber optic cabling was formerly the sole contender.
For more information about copper and fiber optic cabling, download the white paper Copper or Fiber for Military and Aerospace Networks? Clearing up the Misconceptions about Copper Cabling and Fiber Optics


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A company manufactures teddy bears.They have total fixed costs of $232,548.996 in the production of bears. The selling price of each bear is $19.16.The variable cost per bear is $15.15. What is the break even point in number of bears?
a.60,100 b.61,233 c.32,455 d.57,993 e.not given
This type of problem is vey easy. The break even point is where the total cost (Fixed cost + Variable cost) is equal to the total...
A break-even point is calculated. The solution is detailed.


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District Judges undertake most of the civil work of the courts, and fall into two catagories: those that sit in the County Courts (and were previously known as County Court Registrars), and those that sit in the Magistrates' Courts (and were previously known as Stipendiary Magistrates). The senior District Judge is also known as the Chief Magistrate.
How to Address a District Judge
The recommended judicial and social styles of address are as follows:
|Beginning of letter||Dear Judge or Dear Sir/Madam
|End of letter||Yours faithfully|
||District Judge Phllips
|Envelope (if a knight)||District Judge Sir John Phillips (formal)|
|Envelope (if a Dame)||District Judge Dame Elizabeth Phllips (formal)|
|Envelope (social)||District Judge Phllips|
|Verbal address (on the Bench)||Sir/Madam|
|Verbal address (social)||Judge Phllips or according to title
On retirement, District Judges are not referred to by any
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Current methods for topology optimization primarily represent the interface between solid and void implicitly on fixed grids. In contrast, shape optimization methods represent the interface explicitly, but do not allow for any topological changes to the structure. Using an explicit interface representation has a number of advantages as described below. Consequently, we propose to use the Deformable Simplicial Complex (DSC) method which represents the interface explicitly as one or more closed piecewise linear curves in 2D. As opposed to pure shape optimization methods, the DSC method is able to handle topology changes. It does so by discretizing the entire design domain into an irregular adaptive triangle mesh and thereby explicitly representing both the structure and the embedding space. In other words, the entire design domain is divided into triangles, where the interface is represented as piecewise linear curves between void and non-void triangles. Another advantage of the DSC method is that we can exploit the triangle mesh for the FEM computations used in the optimization procedure. The non-void elements define the structure and their deformation is described by second order shape functions. To increase performance, degrees of freedom associated with void triangles are eliminated from the FE equation. Using the triangle mesh for computations is possible since the DSC method ensures a mesh with no degenerate elements. If the mesh contained degenerate or close to degenerate elements the FEM computations would break down and the results would no longer be valid. The DSC method solves this issue by a series of mesh operations which keeps the mesh ever well-formed. Put another way, the consequence of using a well-formed adaptive mesh is that the representation for the FEM calculations and the shape of the structure can be one and the same. In addition to unifying calculations and representation of the structure, the approach also unifies shape and topology optimization into a single framework. Furthermore, it combines the two in a simultaneous optimization strategy. Here, the shape is optimized on the basis of the gradient based optimization algorithm Method of Moving Asymptotes whereas holes are introduced using topological derivatives. Since we combine these methods, and since FEM calculations are performed only on non-void triangles and gradients are calculated only for the interface nodes, the presented approach is efficient. An explicit representation is not just useful when considering simplicity and performance. In many cases, the explicitly represented interface is necessary to be able to model a problem. For example for ow or electromagnetic problems with localized boundary effects. Furthermore, control of boundary smoothness is simple to implement and can e.g. be used to control fillet radius at corners. The method also opens up for the opportunity to apply other local constraints, such as min/max length scale of the structure. Finally, the explicit interface is in all cases necessary when interpreting the final design. The status of the work is that the method has been developed and is showing promising results. For instance, the cantilever beam problem has been solved to a high precision using a fine discretization by evaluating the objective function approximately 500 times. This took around 100 seconds on an ordinary laptop utilizing a single thread. In addition, a coarse solution to the same problem has been obtained in approximately 10 seconds.
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10th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2013


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Edit workflow enactment permissions
To edit the enactment permissions of a workflow, double click the process shape and edit the enactment permissions from the properties panel.
Enactment permissions can be defined against a workflow to control which groups and (by membership of these groups) agents are able to enact the workflow on a ticket. If the workflow has enactment permissions, then the current agent must be a member of one of the groups defined by these enactment permissions. If the agent is not in an enactment permission group, then the Flowset assistant app will be disabled and the agent will not be able to transition the ticket through this workflow.
Edit enactment permission
Click the enactment permission add (or edit if permissions already exist) button to edit the permissions. A modal is displayed showing a list of all the groups defined in Zendesk. Select each group whose members are allowed to enact this workflow on a ticket. If there are no enactment permission groups selected, then any agent can enact the workflow. It is possible to define enactment permissions at a transition or activity level. If these lower level permissions are defined then they override those defined at the workflow level.