#bdhp

[vulnonapix1234]

Last year I drew my Fankids Ophelia and Poppy for the first time, said that I would do more with them and then never talked about them again.

Sorry.

So I decided to finally draw the older twin again with a few headcanons this time.

-Poppy is the older twin and Bede is her father.

-this leads to her having an really strong resting bitch face.

-Hop named her, cause she was their first born. Hence the flower name

-she is more on the silent side like her mom and fights with anxiety.

- she is really good at acting, due to her sisters 'antics' and cause Bede used to take her to his practice when she was younger.

-but she wants to become a nurse, so she can help her Papa.

- she uses normal type pokemon and her starter was an shiny dubwool.

#Poppy #Oc #pokemon fankids #Fankid #wyndonshipping #Cheeryfairyshipping #Marnie x Hop x bede #marnie x hop #marnie x bede #Bede x hop #Bdhpmr #Bdhp

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[the-potatwa]

Here, Take this internet ❤

I have no idea why I made this lmao

#pokemonswsh #pokemon sword #pokemon shield #bede x hop #bede pokemon #hop x bede #hop pokemon #trainer bede #trainer hop #i love themmmm #shins #shinkami #pokemon ship #hpbd #bdhp

[geehosaphat]

Wizard’s Welcome || HP Mess

Professor Martin Ambrosius’ brows had lifted high upon his head when he had been informed that he was to be the Welcome Wagon for the newest Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. He was hardly a socialite, though his parents wished that he were. It would certainly help them if their son took any interest in the ways of Polite Society rather than spending all of his time with his nose in a book or rambling away about the Soap Blizzard of 1378. He didn’t argue, however, as it wasn’t in his nature to do so and spun on his shaky heel to go greet the newest addition to the staff at the front gates.

He’d read about Jessica Rabbit, of course, always taking an interest in whoever took up the risky role. She was famous in her own right as a performer, a rather good one if his brief dip into her records were any indication. He had spent his afternoon writing lesson plans the previous day with it on loop to have some noise on in the background. It was relaxing, he had to admit.

As he reached the gates after his long stroll in the warmth of a fading summer, Martin leaned against the post to wait. She’d show up, there really weren’t that many pathways out of Hogsmeade for one to get lost. Besides, she had gone to Hogwarts, she’d made the trek before. If she was going to survive the year she would have to be competent, right?

@notbad-justsungthatway

#ah yes my vast knowledge from the hp wiki has come to be useful in this disney rp #swyntask #bdhp #[ ft. jessica ] #[ t. wizard's welcome ]

[alittleweirdd]

Star Butterfly -- Yule Ball Attire

Enchanted element: the design on her dress "sparkle" and "shine" as if they're coming off of the dress itself every time she takes a step.

#star butterfly #bdhpevent #bdhp #bdhp Yule Ball

[imnot-yourangel]

Task 1 || Angel&O’Malley

As soon as Angel got the Calming Draught into the unicorn’s mouth, things started to go crazy. 

The unicorn jerked away, and O’Malley yanked the rope tight around its forelegs, preventing it from rearing up. Unfortunately, they had underestimated quite how strong the unicorn was, and it managed to jerk the rope away from O’Malley, stumbling off into the forest.  Cursing, Angel took the Invigoration Draught, hoping that they would at least be able to catch up to the drugged unicorn enough to stun it. “Stupefy! Fucking hell... Stupefy!” That didn’t seem to be doing the trick, whether they were just missing or whether the unicorn was just not responding was up for interpretation. They pushed faster, though, and tried again with a jinx that would hopefully solve the problem. “Petrificus Totalus!”

That did it, surprisingly enough, and the unicorn dropped to the ground, forced to be still. Angel wished they didn’t have to resort to methods like this - or catch a unicorn at all - but here they were. Time to get it over with.  When O’Malley finally caught up with them, he was huffing and Angel saw that he was holding his hands funny. Passing him the Murtlap Essence, they gestured at the paralyzed unicorn. “Drink up. We don’t have long.”

Between the two of them, they used Wingardium Leviosa in order to carry the unicorn back toward the finish line, thoroughly exhausted by the end of it. 

#c: Angel Milano #c: DeLacey O'Malley #p: Task 1 #bhp #bdhp #bhptask

[lupinepublishers]

Lupine Publishers| The Adsorption of Organic Pollutants by Gemini Surfactant-Modified Montmorillonite from Water

Lupine Publishers| Journal of Oceanography and petrochemical sciences

Mini Review

Water is a very important resource to human life and the development of society. But large amounts of natural and anthropogenic organic substances are constantly discharged to water bodies. The serious problem of water pollution has been raising a global concern. These typical organic contaminants in water environment include but not limited to dyes, pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), phenols and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Most of those compounds are toxic to aquatic biota and human beings [1]. Therefore, removal of this organic matter from water is a great subject of research nowadays. Off all the removal methods, adsorption is an effective technique which is widely used. Various adsorbents have been studied that include materials based on carbon, clay minerals, polymers, silica, and so on [1]. Clay minerals are considered as low cost and easily available adsorbents. Montmorillonite, a 2:1 layered dioctahedral aluminosilicate of smectite group clay, is one of the most investigated clay minerals for removing organic pollutants because of its versatility and facile modification of its porosity, acidity, hydrophilicity, and so on [2]. But natural montmorillonite is not a suitable and effective adsorbent, so it is necessary to modify the surface of montmorillonite to improve its physico-chemical properties and value in use. Organic surface modification is one of the most extensive technologies among those modifying methods, and the modifiers are usually conventional surfactants.

Gemini surfactants are a new generation of surfactant which possess at least two hydrophobic chains and two ionic or polar groups, and a great deal of variation exists in the nature of spacers [3]. Comparing to conventional surfactants, Gemini surfactants have many good properties, such as lower critical micelle concentration (CMC), higher efficiency in reducing the oil/ water interfacial tension, better wetting, Solubilizing, foaming, and antibacterial activities [4]. Recently, Gemini surfactant have gained much attention as modifier of montmorillonite. It has been found that organo-montmorillonite modified with Gemini surfactants exhibited better efficacy in removing organic contaminants from water in comparison to its monomer-modified montmorillonite [4]. This article attempts to give a brief review of removal of various organic pollutants by Gemini surfactant modified montmorillonite.

Removal of dyes from aqueous solutions

Preparation of organo-montmorillonites by using three novel Gemini cationic surfactants (Gemini 12-2-12, 12-3-12 and 18-3-18) under microwave irradiation were reported by Liu B, et al. [5]. Adsorption efficiency of methyl orange dye on montmorillonites and three kinds of organo-montmorillonites was also evaluated by Liu B, et al. [5]. The results show that all organo- montmorillonites displayed more excellent adsorption capacities than montmorillonites. Gu Z, et al. [6]. Prepared another Gemini surfactant modified montmorillonite (BDHP-Mt). Batch adsorption experiments were performed to remove methyl orange and Congo red from aqueous solutions using BDHP-Mt. The results indicated that BDHP-Mt exhibited much higher adsorption capacities than active carbon, which implied that BDHP-Mt could be used as an alternative adsorbent of active carbon or other common adsorption materials for removing dyes from effluents [6]. Modification of montmorillonite by using Gemini surfactants with different spacer chain length and different alkyl chain length were investigated by Luo Z, et al. [7] and Ren HP, et al. [2], respectively. The adsorption behavior of methyl orange from aqueous solution onto organ clays was determined. The results indicated that the adsorption capacity of the organ clays was in the order: 16-4-16-Mt>16-8-16-Mt>16- 6-16-Mt (different spacer chain length) [7] and 16-2-16-Mt>18-2- 18-Mt>12-2-12-Mt (different alkyl chain length) [2]. These works provide a deep insight into the interaction of Gemini-modified montmorillonites and methyl orange.

Removal of phenols from aqueous solutions

The adsorption of a series of Gemini surfactants, [CnH2n+1N+(CH3)2-CH2CH2]2•2Br-, where n=10, 12, 14 and 16, on Na-montmorillonite and this adsorption on the removal of 2-naphthol and 4-chlorophenol have been studied by Li F, Rosen MJ, et al. [8,9]. The results of these two pollutants onto Na- montmorillonite treated by either the Gemini or the conventional surfactants show that the former are more efficient and more effective at removing 2-naphthol and 4-chlorophenol from the aqueous solutions. Later, Yang S, et al. [4,10] used different Gemini surfactants (include a novel aromatic-containing Gemini surfactant) to modify Na-montmorillonite. And the comparative study for the adsorption of 2-naphthol and phenol from aqueous solution was performed. The results also suggested that the adsorption amount of 2-naphthnol was much higher than that of phenol under the same condition, which may be attributed to the stronger hydrophobicity of 2-naphthnol and its higher delocalized n-electron density. The removal of p-nitro phenol using Gemini surfactants modified montmorillonites from aqueous solutions was studied by Xue G, et al. [11]. The results revealed that the adsorption of p-nitro phenol increases with an increase in pH and adsorbent mass.

Removal of Antimicrobials from Aqueous Solutions

Different ester-containing Gemini surfactant-modified montmorillonites (EMMT) were prepared under microwave irradiation by Liu B, et al. [12]. His study systematically discussed the adsorption properties of EMMT by assessing the adsorption is other for triclosan (a kind of antimicrobial agent). The result showed that Langmuir isothermal adsorption model could describe the adsorption behavior better; the adsorption behavior of triclosan on EMMT was confirmed to a surface monolayer adsorption. In 2014, Lu L, et al. [13] also confirmed that a kind of Gemini surfactant- modified montmorillonites (BHDAP-Mt) could effectively remove sulfamethoxazole (SMX, a kind of antimicrobials) from aqueous solutions. Results showed that the adsorption capacity increased with the initial SMX concentration and contact time but decreased with increasing solution ionic strength. Equilibrium data were best represented by the Langmuir model.

Conclusion

In this review, the adsorption of different organic pollutants (include organic dyes, phenols and antimicrobials) by different Gemini surfactant-modified montmorillonite have been summarized. From literatures, we can see that montmorillonites modified with Gemini surfactants show better efficacy in removing organic contaminants from water in comparison to its monomer- modified montmorillonite. Undoubtedly, Gemini surfactant- modified montmorillonite will be used as an alternative adsorbent of activated carbon or other common adsorbents for removal of organic pollutants from water.

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[suzanneelizabethanderson]

Pastor Charlie Brumbaugh blessing Henry at the Blessing of the Animals #exploresummit #newfoundlanddog #bdhp #brecklife #breckdaily (at The Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist, Breckenridge)

#brecklife #exploresummit #bdhp #newfoundlanddog #breckdaily

[vulnonapix1234]

Hop, laying awake at 3 am: you didn't become my friend because of Leon, right?

Bede tired and confused: we are married?

Hop, looking bede straight in the face: yeah, but -

Bede, slowly waking up: we have a child together!

Hop:

Bede:

Hop, about to start crying: you aren't saying no-

Bede rolling on top of Hop: come here you stupid idiot! I show you how I think about you!

(he ended up kissing hop all over the face)

#pokemon hop #rival hop #pokemon sword #hop pokemon #professor hop #hop #bedehop #rival bede #pokemon bede #bede #bede pkmn #Bdhp #cheeryfairyshipping

[nvbibliophile]

Happy fourth wedding anniversary to my husband. I’m so grateful for the home we’ve created. And I also want more of our delicious wedding cake. #anniversary #husbands #weddingcake #sentimental (at Cogwick Estates) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJwl-P-BDHp/?igshid=g5jaymbpirzi

#anniversary #husbands #weddingcake #sentimental

[carlosraulpy]

Paraguay, Argentina y Brasil https://www.instagram.com/p/CHnxY-BDHp-/?igshid=1850ikk5kzjum

[deepwriter]

#deepwriter01 https://www.instagram.com/p/CEBsY8-BDhP/?igshid=xtm4mmdbmzze

#deepwriter01

[marioevon]

T.G.I.F. 📷: @krysieluv https://www.instagram.com/p/B5dRql-BdHp/?igshid=c05ekn1g72im

[alittleweirdd]

Star Butterfly-->Harry Potter AU Event Profile

Name: Star Aurealia Butterfly Blood Status: Halfblood School: Ilvermorny House: Pukwudgie Year: 7th Title(s) if any: Pukwudgie team beater Wand: 11.5  inches slightly springy, Thunderbird feather core and made of hawthorne Patronus (5th plus): A barn owl  Pet: A large, white barn owl named Dusk Three Best: Divination, potions and reading ancient runes                                    Three Worst: Transfiguration, Muggle Studies and Herbology                                Hogwarts, a Personal History: 

Her mother was young when she moved to the United States. Originally hailing from a long line of Pureblood royalty in Wales. Her mother was head girl and excelled in every subject in Hogwarts since she had arrived. But upon graduation, her mother left behind her Ravenclaw robes and left for America. Which was where she met her father; River, who happened to be a muggle. They were young and in love from the moment they met. Marrying as soon as they could and it didn't take long for them to conceive Star. Of course, they decided to raise her in the states and once she was old enough Star was accepted into Ilvermorny School of Wtchcraft and Wizardy. Here was where her mother thought she would be just like her. Only a Horned Serpent instead of Ravenclaw. After all, she had trained Star on magic since she was very young.

When Star was only three, she began showing signs of magic. Which was all very hush hush in the United States. Moon tried her hardest to keep her daughter's magic concealed and hidden. But Star was too powerful and her magic would cause outbursts throughout her childhood. Upon being accepted in Ilvermorny, it was thought that she would be just like her mother and finally excel in every subject. But she was quite the opposite. Star struggled in her studies that involved her wand and actual magic making. Only really excelling in the areas that she could use her hands and be physical with. Potions being her number one subject. While her father was proud of her no matter what she did, her mother refused to speak to her very often and often referred to her as a mistake, a hiccup and a failure.

While most children this would crush, it only served to push Star even harder in her studies. Wanting to finally prove her mother wrong and make her proud. Which was why she entered into the Magical Melee. Once she was chosen as champion it was over from there. Now was her time to shine. And shine she would.

#bdhptask #bdhpevent #event #star butterfly #bdhp #it's finally letting me post it hopefully

[imnot-yourangel]

Name: Angel

Blood Status: Unknown

School: Hogwarts

House: Slytherin

Year: 6th

Title(s) if any: Chaser on the Slytherin Quidditch Team, Member of Champions for Magical Creatures

Wand: Apple wood; Dragon Heartstring core; 12 ½” ; Supple

Patronus (5th plus): Raven

Pet: Barn Owl

Three Best (max)/Three Worst Classes (min): Care of Magical Creatures, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Potions / Transfiguration, Astronomy, History of Magic, Arithmancy

Hogwarts, a Personal History: Angel didn’t know their blood status, and, in the system, you found that it didn’t really matter. Everyone was on equal ground there, and it wasn’t great. Angel’s popularity wasn’t exactly helped by the fact they were a legilimens. People’s thoughts would project to them like part of a conversation, and sometimes they answered before they could help themselves. Of course, there were plenty of things that people didn’t want the whole room knowing, and so Angel eventually learned just to keep their mouth shut. It didn’t help their popularity either, but indifference was better than hatred.

For the most part, wizarding families didn’t seem to lean toward adoption. Hearing about people actually getting a family was rare. Occasionally, though, families would take in a foster kid for charity points or whatever, particularly pureblood families. It never lasted long, though, a year at the most. And now Angel knew things. Who were blood supremacists, who had gotten their money illegally, who abused their biological kids. They didn’t need to be a legilimens to learn about that one. But they never said anything, just kept a notebook of who did what. It could come in handy one day, even if they weren’t sure for what.

When they got their Hogwarts letter, they were thrilled. Less time in shitty foster homes. Less time in the orphanage. More time actually learning the magic they saw in practice all the time. And maybe they could learn how to control more of their abilities. Keep it from getting in the way of so much. Thus far, though, no such luck, and they don’t have long left. The thing about staying quiet is that people don’t tend to notice you, especially if you don’t have a recognizable family background. Maybe, now that they’ve been chosen for champion, they will actually get somewhere.

#bdhpprofile #bdhp #bdhp slytherin #c: Angel Milano #bdrp

[thousandmaths]

Through the Cryptographer’s Looking Glass, and what Alice Found There

This talk was an invited address given by Alice Silverberg at the 2017 Joint Meetings.

It divides pretty smoothly into a “technical” and a “nontechnical” part.

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The basis of this talk is the Diffie-Hellman key exchange; if you’ve seen any cryptography in a formal setting, you certainly have heard about this at some point: it’s basically the first “public key” system invented. If that doesn’t describe you, or if it’s been a while, here’s a quick overview:

Alice and Bob want to share a secret. However, their only method of communication is insecure, and so the attacker (usually called Eve, but Silverberg called them the Jabberwock) can hear anything that they communicate. The goal is, therefore, for them to mutually obtain some information— with which they can encrypt the secret they want to share— but only in such a way that the Jabberwock can’t also obtain that information.

Alice and Bob agree on a (large) finite cyclic group and a generator $g$ [so the Jabberwock knows $g$]. Alice and Bob choose their private keys, natural numbers $a$ and $b$. Alice then tells Bob [and the Jabberwock] $g^a$, and Bob tells Alice [and the Jabberwock] $g^b$.

Now, both Alice and Bob can compute $g^{ab}$, but the Jabberwock can’t:

Alice takes Bob’s message $g^b$ and uses her own private key on it: $(g^b)^a = g^{ab}$

Similarly, Bob takes Alice’s message $g^a$ and uses his private key on it: $(g^b)^a = g^{ab}$.

However, the Jabberwock only knows $g$ and $g^a$ and $g^b$; not enough information to easily obtain $g^{ab}$.

Therefore, if the Jabberwock really wants to listen in, it can try to solve the Diffie-Helman problem:

Problem (DHP). Given a finite cyclic group, a generator $g$, and the elements $g^a$ and $g^b$, compute $g^{ab}$.

This problem is widely believed to be hard to solve; after decades of scrutiny nobody has published a solution. However, we don’t actually know for certain if this problem can be solved in reasonable time.

However, there are cases where this problem is known to be easy. If the group has a natural “bilinear pairing” $\varphi$ (a map $G\times G\to H$ which is linear in each argument) satisfying a natural multiplicative property— $\varphi(g^x, g^y)=\phi(g,g)^{xy}$— then the DHP for $G$ turns out to be no harder than the DHP for $H$.

This, Silverberg remarks, shows that bilinear maps can have a sort of “destructive” influence for cryptographic purposes. But recently we’ve discovered that they can have constructive influence as well.

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If instead of sharing a secret between two people, we want to share it between three people, we can use $\varphi$ to do this: Alice broadcasts $g^a$, Bob broadcasts $g^b$, and Charlie broadcasts $g^c$. Then all three know $\varphi(g,g)^{abc}$:

Alice takes the other two broadcasts and computes $[\varphi(g^b,g^c)]^a$; by the multiplicative property this is $[\varphi(g,g)^{bc}]^a$, i.e. $\varphi(g,g)^{abc}$

The other two arrive at this answer similarly.

but the Jabberwock does not, unless the Bilinear Diffie-Hellman Problem turns out to be easy:

Problem (BDHP). Given a finite cyclic group with an appropriate map $\varphi$, a generator $g$, and the elements $g^a$ and $g^b$ and $g^c$, compute $\varphi(g,g)^{abc}$.

This can be extended: if the map is trilinear, we can share between four people, quadralinear, we can share between five people, and so on. Each of these encryption schemes comes with its own flavor of the Diffie-Hellman problem, none of which are known to be hard.

In 2003, Silverberg together with Boneh had some pessimistic news: if these multilinear maps come from a place which is “natural” in an algebro-geometric sense, then they don’t create a secure encryption. However, it turns out that the cryptograph community had had some of these multilinear maps lying around, and these were not “natural” in the appropriate sense. So the Boneh–Silverberg result doesn’t discredit the schemes arising from these maps.

However, there is still a lot of work to be done in terms of scrutinizing the relevant problems. In particular, one can show that certain schemes can be cracked by solving only a “decisional” multilinear DHP. That’s a huge red flag, because the decisional (ordinary) DHP is actually not hard. It has an effective algorithm to determine the answer, and therefore any scheme base on it is insecure.

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The non-technical part is captured in the title by “and what Alice found there”. It’s a cute pun, since there’s Alice in Wonderland, Alice form the cryptography setting, and her own name is also Alice :)

So what did Alice find there? It was a message to the mathematical community; we should...

... practice deep listening. That means: have an open mind, pay attention, don’t think about what you’re saying next, don’t interrupt, and ask “What can I learn from this?”.

... recognize that communication is key. We can’t read minds, and so we shouldn’t pretend we can; moreover we shouldn’t expect others to. “Be curious, not furious”

... recognize that relationships are not ultimatums, they are negotiations.

... be kind. To students, to teachers, to referees, to authors whose papers we’re rejecting, to those who aren’t kind to you (aka grace!). In particular, we need to recognize that kindness isn’t a “reward” to be gifted to “good people”; we need to do it because it’s the right thing to do.

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