Verb Foldable!
In class, we are studying verbs and their tenses. Easy enough...well unless you start talking about irregular verbs, then all sort of uneasiness starts occurring. But that isn't really the point of this post....back to the topic....
The standards in 5th grade specifically mention that the students know the difference between some commonly misused verbs....the dreaded lay-lie, rise-raise, and sit-set!
These words seriously give *me* a run for my money. So today, we created a foldable that seemed to work in at least getting the students to see the difference between the words.
On the right, I had the students write the words that involve HUMANS (in some way). Lie, sit, raise. Then on the left side, they wrote the words that involve OBJECTS (in some way). Lay, set, rise.
When they opened the flap, I wanted them to be able to see the word, a definition, and its use, so I organized it with the information not underneath the flap of the actual word, but underneath the opposite word. That way, they would be able to see the actual word there plain as day, with the actual information they need to know. (that totally makes sense in my if the explanation didn't quite translate, I am is a picture to help you see it ;) )
Tomorrow we will add the conjugations of the verbs on the outside of the foldable in their notebook, but for today, this was our end product!
Incidentally, Dinah Zike is the creator of Foldables and has some AMAZING books with all the different Foldables in them. Here are just a few of her books.
 1. This is a great idea! I like how the kids can organize the info and draw the picture to go with it to help them remember!
 2. I'm pretty sure I need the one for lay/lie! My boyfriend makes fun of me constantly because I always use "lay". I just tell him it's a regional thing. :)
 3. This is cool! I am in to using interactive notebooks now so the foldable idea is definitely on my brain!! What else do you use foldables for? I saw the link for the resource book on foldables, Im going to check it out.


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Tunnel of Oppression
In the fall of 2005, students in Dr. Eunsook Hyun's Educational Administration course, Multicultural Diversity in Higher Education, sent a proposal to the Diversity Committee for funding to support a project they called the "Tunnel of Oppression."
The proposal read, in part:
[We wish] to generate cultural and societal awareness on the campus of Kent State University. We wish to create, promote, and coordinate a Tunnel of Oppression program as a part of the course learning experience.... The purpose of this activity is to pull people out of their comfort zone and push them to the realization that discrimination, acts of hate, and other controversial issues are not just ignorant events of the past but are still very prevalent in our society today. Students, faculty, staff, and administration at Kent State University will b e invited and encouraged to walk through our Tunnel of Oppression at their own pace discovering visions such as racism, lookism, ageism, sexism, classism, and other societal disparities.
Diversity and Multicultural Programs (2012, Fall)
Dr. Iverson taught a section of the HIED graduate course, Administration of Diversity and Multicultural Programs. In this course, students select an issue related to diversity about which they want to take action. This project involves not only learning more about an issue and assessing what efforts are already underway related to this issue, but also to 'do something' or 'take action' related to an identified problem or concern. Students' work culminates in an exhibition of their projects, meaning they must visually represent their work, i.e. through a poster, or slide show, or other medium. Students engaged various aspects of diversity involving race, gender, sexuality, religion, and their projects range from international student engagement, low level of participation by student of color in leader program, taking action on educating student service leaders challenging their own privilege and the disability status at KSU. Some projects involved Kent's campus, while others were at area colleges, such as Case Western reserve University.
The Status of Women in Higher Education (2011, Fall)
Dr. Iverson taught a section of the HIED graduate course, "the status of women in higher education." In this course, students selected an issue related to gender (in)equity about which they want to take action. This project involved not only learning more about an issue and assessing what efforts are already underway related to this issue, but also to "do something or take action " related to an identified problem or concern. Students addressed topics including sexual assault, body image, voting, and the intersections of race with gender; and some projects involved an exploration of perceptions of women studies and feminism held by women students; the efforts to implement programming aimed to address violence against women for first-year women in the residence halls; developing sexual assault programming in Greek communities; and efforts designed to increase involvement of African American women in student leadership. Some projects were completed on Kent's campus, while others were at area colleges, such as Ashland, CIA, Case, among others.

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We are a national alliance of professional science communicators in all media.
Our mission is to cultivate excellence in science writing and science journalism.
Our goal is to increase public awareness of science in Canadian culture.
Specific Goals and Objectives:
- to promote and reward balanced and accurate science reporting in Canada
- to create opportunities for members to meet and exchange ideas
- to initiate educational and training opportunities for science communicators in all regions of Canada
- to encourage communication between scientists and journalists
- to encourage greater awareness among editors, producers and other gatekeepers of the need for science coverage
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Meshwerks was contracted to scan and model an experimental small-scale research power plant built by the US Department of Energy and Iowa State University/Ames Labs to be used in virtual simulations.
The Simulation, Modeling, and Decision Science program (SMDS) at Ames Laboratory focuses on the development of the computational tools, algorithms, understandings, and strategies needed to analyze, understand, create, design, and build complex engineered, natural, or human systems.
An in-simulation scene of the 3D content created by Meshwerks as used in the simulation system developed by the Virtual Engineering Research Laboratory within the Virtual Reality Applications Center at Iowa State University.
The Virtual Engineering Research Laboratory focuses on integration of information technologies and cognition into the engineering process to support decision making for, and the realization of, complex systems. The right hand side of this image is a photograph of the actual power plant.


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Video Transcript: Hydrogen Hot Spots on Vesta
The animation from NASA's Dawn mission shows
abundances of hydrogen in a wide swath around
the equator of the giant asteroid Vesta.
The hydrogen probably exists in the form of hydroxyl
or water bound to minerals in Vesta's surface.
Red indicates the greatest abundances of hydrogen and gray the lowest,
as measured by Dawn's gamma ray and neutron detector.
The hydrogen data were superimposed on a mosaic of
images and 3-D model of Vesta created from
Dawn framing camera data.


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This website's aim is to trace the development of Australian democracy through the key documents directing the constitutional paths taken so far. The eight State and Territory government archives planned and produced this website in partnership with the support of Australia's National Council for the Centenary of Federation. Collected on this website are the sets of documents which tell the story of Australia's democracy.


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1. High in Unsaturated Fats
Camel milk is high in unsaturated fatty acids, which help reduce cholesterol and maintain a healthy heart. Its high vitamin C content (3 to 5 times higher than cow's milk) makes it an excellent immunity booster
2. Great for kids!
Camel milk is close in composition to human milk, making it nutritionally beneficial for babies and children
3. A healthy gut
Camel milk is a natural probiotic, which aids in maintaining a healthy gut
4. Healing powers
Camel milk has been found to have positive effects for patients that suffer from diabetes, hepatitis C and autoimmune diseases
5. Cow's milk alternative
Unlike traditional cow's milk, camel milk is easier for the body to digest, which is great news for those who suffer from lactose intolerance. There are also no known allergies to camel milk so it's a great substitute for people who are allergic to cow's milk.
So how do I use it?
Camel milk has a very similar taste profile to that of cow's milk – the only noticeable difference is that camel milk is slightly saltier. It can be used to make yoghurt, paneer, ghee, ice cream and even chocolate. Simply use camel milk exactly as you would use cow's milk in baking or cooking!


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Kill Loose-Leafs. Use Wikis. by David Whelan Susannah Tredwell's post at Slaw.ca about the future of loose-leafs has gotten me thinking more about that expensive mainstay of the law library collection. For those of you who do not know what a loose-leaf is, think of a binder (usually multiple volumes) that gets updated periodically. They initially met a need for keeping information current between full releases of an edition of a given law book. The benefit to the legal researcher is currency. The benefit to the publisher can be revenue, since many publishers charge for each release. In some cases, the releases are weekly.
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You can read Susannah's post here.
Secondary Materials Are Underutilized
The problem with loose-leaf publications is that there are electronic databases. Some legal publishers have migrated their loose-leaf texts into their database offerings but they don't seem to be very effective. Usage of online databases in Ontario law libraries seems to be heavily focused on primary law (no surprise) but secondary content makes up a small minority (10-15%) of all usage.
There remains an ongoing discussion about why lawyers do not seem to use secondary materials. We're taught to use them as a starting point in law school but somewhere between learning and practicing, lawyers appear to shift their focus. Librarians continue to harp on the need to train, as if we had some holy insight into the problem. I could be wrong (surprise surprise) but my guess would be that lawyers know the secondary materials are available and they generally don't find them to be useful. As the practice of law becomes specialized, lawyers are probably less likely to find themselves in unknown territory.
Paper Looseleafs Are Poor Resources
Other legal publishers have not even made the transition, so they continue to churn out new pages for library staff to file. Some problems with this ongoing collection method:
- The cost per page of staff time is probably not recoverable in the value that the supplemental pages actual provide;
- Loose-leafs enable publishers to hide behind the unknown of changes in the law. If there are significant changes in the middle of the year, you may find a sudden flurry of updates. These have obvious budgetary implications where the legal publisher has chosen to charge per release, rather than all you can eat like CCH Canadian does. If libraries have reputational problems with their organizations, it's in part because we cannot say, we will spend $X this year. At the start of the year, you have no idea what your print loose-leaf activity is going to be.
- Theoretically, new content for loose-leafs is generated in an electronic format (word processor, whatever). It should then be uploaded to its online home. It is also printed, packaged, sorted, and shipped to a library. It seems crazy to pay for a product that has this sort of delay if an electronic equivalent is available online.
- A constant concern, sometimes confirmed, is that these updates do not actually reflect any new commentary. Instead, they cause repagination of the valuable commentary with additional citations to cases, legislation, or other information. Much of this is accessible electronically and would appear to anyone researching primary law. Other than creating make work for library staff and extra revenue for the publisher, it probably does not have any substantive value to a researcher.
Drop the Format, Grab the Content
Few people would argue that the content created by authors of these volumes is not valuable. But it's time to drop the loose-leaf, print and binder format. If I was to think of a current online analog to the loose-leaf, it would be the wiki. It enables content consumption a section at a time, it can be organized in a hierarchical way so that it can be browsed, and it can be searched.
It can even replicate some of the serendipity that books provide, where related links or taxonomic metadata can enable aggregation of information from beyond adjacent pages.
If a loose-leaf was truly read like a book, rather than harvested for a section or a chapter by itself, this might not make sense. But that doesn't seem to be the future of the secondary text, if it was ever the past. Which is not to say that authors don't need to write in a linear way or with some coherent form, as the comments to this post by Gary Rodrigues, also on Slaw, suggest. But just because it is created that way doesn't mean that it will be consumed that.
Using wikis does not even mean that the publisher needs to create a resource segmented apart from its other legal research databases or services. If a publisher can aggregate content from multiple sources in response to a search query, or to enable browsing of aggregate resources, the wiki should be able to fit within this environment.
A wiki can also provide the necessary break from trying to replicate, often poorly, the linear path of a secondary text in an online format. Again, it's not that the content cannot be read linearly, but that doesn't appear to be how lawyers actually use it. So why emulate an environment that doesn't enhance use of the content?
My ideal future for loose-leafs would be to see them go away. LexisNexis (US) has already started selling some of its multi-volume loose-leafs in cheaper, perfect bound editions. As Susannah's posting suggests, many libraries have started going to annual contents, which is essentially to buy a single copy of the loose-leaf, skip updates, and then buy a new edition in the future. If that's the pattern, then publishers may want to convert these loose-leafs into permanent volumes. Leave the updating to electronic resources that enable the content to stay in its original format, can reduce overall operating costs (and hopefully operating expenses for libraries). Even better, ditch the print entirely for thes
e texts and find a better way to provide them online. Look at how they are being consumed, not just how they have to be created.


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New research shows that dolphins can stay awake for at least 15 days in a row without experiencing fatigue, or other negative side effects.
To put this in perspective, human research subjects have been able to stay awake for only eight to 10 days, and all experienced progressive deterioration in concentration, motivation, perception and other mental processes as the period of sleep deprivation increased.
Dolphins can stay awake for this long because they sleep with only half of their brain at a time. This process, called unihemispheric sleep, was thought to have evolved as a way to allow dolphins to continue breathing at the surface while resting.
Brian Branstetter from the National Marine Mammal Foundation and colleagues studied two bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), one male and one female, and found that they could use echolocation with "near-perfect accuracy" for up to 15 days. Both dolphins showed no signs of fatigue for five days, and the female continued other tasks for 10 additional days.
"These majestic beasts are true unwavering sentinels of the sea. The demands of ocean life on air breathing dolphins have led to incredible capabilities, one of which is the ability to continuously, perhaps indefinitely, maintain vigilant behavior through echolocation" said Branstetter.
The research was published in the journal PLoS ONE on October 17: Dolphins Can Maintain Vigilant Behavior through Echolocation for 15 Days without Interruption or Cognitive Impairment.
Copyright © 2012 by Marine Science Today, a publication of Marine Science Today LLC.


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Front Controller
A controller that handles all requests for a Web site.
For a full description see P of EAA page 344
In a complex Web site there are many similar things you need to do when handling a request. These things include security, internationalization, and providing particular views for certain users. If the input controller behavior is scattered across multiple objects, much of this behavior can end up duplicated. Also, it's difficult to change behavior at runtime.
The Front Controller consolidates all request handling by channeling requests through a single handler object. This object can carry out common behavior, which can be modified at runtime with decorators. The handler then dispatches to command objects for behavior particular to a request.


Flamingo nXt
easy rendering for Rhino in Windows
Product Materials and Lights
This tutorial shows how to render a Rhino model using nXt. The model includes some images that will be used as decals and a material library.
Support files for this tutorial can be downloaded here...
The tutorial covers:
 - Inserting materials from a library
 - Adding a decal to the rendering
 - Adding a spotlight to the rendering
To begin:
 1. Open the model Rackmount Start.
 2. Renderthe model.
 This model is setup to add materials out of a material library.
 3. To activate the material library press on the Material Tab and the Folderbutton:
 This opens the location of the Material Libraries for NXT. Each material is a separate file in a series of standard directories on your hard-drive. Navigate to the folder called Stereo Materials that you downloaded with the Rhino model.
 Unlike previous versions of Flamingo, once a material is assigned to a model, it is stored within the model. In this model we will assign the materials to separate layers. Do this by Opening the layer control and then dragging the materials to the layer.
 4. Render the model.
 The result should look like this:
To add a decal:
While this is a good start, the face of the rack unit would benefit from decal graphics that mark the controls.
A decal is a way to apply a single bitmap to an object. It can be used to apply labels and images to objects in the scene.
 1. Select the face of the stereo.
 2. On the Properties dialog, change the dropdown to Flamingo nXt Decals.
 3. On the Properties dialog, Flamingo nXt Decals press the Addbutton.
 4. Select the bitmap Label.png.
 5. On the Decal Properties dialog, make sure the Projection is Planar, and then press the Placebutton.
 6. Place the decal by snapping to the Lower Left Endpoint, then the Lower Right Endpoint, and the Upper Left Endpoint on the front of the face, the press Enter.
 This will place the label correctly on the face of the rack unit.
 7. Render the model.
 The result should look like this:
To add a ground plane:
Next step in the tutorial is to add a ground plane for the unit to sit on.
 1. To do this, go to the Environment tab, Ground plane section, check Enabled.
 2. Press the Material button and select Reflective Base for the ground plane material.
 3. Render the model.
 The result should look like this:
To add a spotlight:
A next step might be to add a spotlight on the rack system to vary the lighting a little. The lighting in studio mode is controlled by an HDRI file, but we can also add another spotlight to the rendering.
 1. Insert a Spotlight that highlights the face of the stereo.
 2. Render the model.
 The spotlight draws attention and interest to the front of the unit.
To depth of field:
For small studio objects it is sometimes nice to add depth of field to accentuate the depth of the object.
 1. To do this, go to the Render tab, Depth of field section, check Enabled.
 2. Set the Focal distance by pressing the button, and snap to one of the LED lights. This will set the point in the scene that is in focus. The Strength slider adjusts the focus in front of and behind the focal point.
 3. Render the model.
 Depth of field can take a few passes to resolve. The first few passes might be rough in appearance. The final image should look like this:
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Student writing
Case for DC Charter Schools
More than 47,000 students attend charter schools in DC, or 46 percent of public school students, from age 3 to adulthood. The families who choose a charter school for their children's public education do so for different reasons, but they all want a school dedicated to their children's success in school and in life.
Students learning
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Child at school
DC charters are a diverse community that includes homegrown, single-site charter schools and nationally recognized models. Each charter school provides unique educational models and experiences; they work together as a sector to ensure public schools have the necessary resources to provide a quality education. Charter schools make a promise to their communities to deliver a quality education, whether that is a school focused on social justice, a school that offers instruction in multiple languages, a Montessori-based curriculum, inquiry-based learning, or another learning approach.
With more than a decade of academic growth, DC charter schools are building the public education system that our families deserve.
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Using a new technology usually carries some advantages and disadvantages. The advantages of multicast are -I thinkclear. The main disadvantage is that hundreds of hosts and, specially, routers don't support it yet. As a consequence, people who started working on multicast, bought new equipment, modified their operating systems, and built multicast islands in their local places. Then they discovered that it was difficult to communicate with people doing similar things because if only one of the routers between them didn't support multicast there was nothing to do...
The solution was clear: they decided to build a virtual multicast network in the top of the Internet. That is: sites with multicast routers between them could communicate directly. But sites joined across unicast routers would send their island's multicast traffic encapsulated in unicast packets to other multicast islands. Routers in the middle would not have problems, as they would be dealing with unicast traffic. Finally, in the receiving site, traffic would be de-encapsulated, and sent to the island in the original multicast way. Two ends converting from multicast to unicast, and then again to multicast define what is called a multicast tunnel.
The MBone or Multicast Backbone is that virtual multicast network based on multicast islands connected by multicast tunnels.
Several activities take place in the MBone daily, but it deserves to be remarked the profusion of tele-conferences with real time audio and video taking place across the whole Internet. As an example, it was recently transmitted (live) the talk Linus Torvalds gave to the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group.
For more information on the MBone, see:


Process and Plant Tips
Before we start a project for you, we first begin with the Design and Consultation process. It consists of getting all the necessary information about the client and project in order to develop a design successfully.
Research is conclusive that plants have extremely positive effects on the health, wellness, and inspiration of indoor spaces and the people that inhabit them.
However, one underestimated benefit and use of plants indoors is linked to its biophilic impact and the ability to accentuate or improve the design and aesthetic of the space. There have been a number of recent studies done to measure the connection between plants and our feeling of comfort (biophilia). Humanity's natural habitat includes plants and the synthetic environments in which we work can seem alien, uncomfortable and sterile to us, thus reducing productivity, creativity, and increasing illness.
The strategic inclusion of plants in your indoor space can create a biophilic impact that will have positive effects on the people that spend time in your space. Additionally, many buildings have unattractive facets and aspects whereby plants can be used to hide or accentuate these. Plants have also been used to highlight key areas, frame walkways and contribute to the overall design of the space.
The Plant People Ltd. is working with customers interested in having plants indoors to maximise the design benefits that plants can have.


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Is giving birth to a baby through a coin-sized hole more painful than the crippling pain of being kicked in the groin?
Nociceptors are nerve cells that send pain signals to the spinal cord and brain. These sensory neurons fire once a certain threshold has been crossed, and the frequency of that firing determines the intensity of the pain. Both the agony of childbirth and getting kicked in the balls ramp-up that neural firing.
So which then is more painful: childbirth or getting kicked in the balls? AsapSCIENCE provides a scientific breakdown of this burning question.


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Personality Differentiation, Effectiveness of Personality Integration, and Mood in Female College Students.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1981, Vol. 41, 348 - 356
Female undergraduate students, U.S.A., 198?
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Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
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Selfreport on 16 questions, repeated three times a day during at least 33 successive days (experience sampling)
How I feel now:
A Fullness vs. Emptiness of life ( how emotionally satisfying,
 abundant or empty, your life felt today )
B Receptivity towards and Stimulation by the World ( how
 interested and responsive you feel to what was going on
 around you)
C Social Respect vs. Social Contempt ( how you feel about
 other people regard you, or feel about you, today)
D Personal Freedom vs. External Constraint ( how much you
 feel you are free or not free to do as you want)
E Harmony vs. Anger ( how well got along with, or how angry
 you feel toward, other people )
F Sociability vs. Withdrawal (how socially outgoing or
 withdrawn you feel now )
G Companionship vs. Being Isolated ( the extent to which
 you feel emotionally accepted by, or isolated from other
 people )
H Love and Sex ( the extent to which you feel loving and
 tender or sexually frustrated and unloving )
I Present Work ( how satisfied or dissatisfied you are with
 your work )
J Thought Processes ( how readily your ideas come and how
 valuable they seem )
K Tranquility vs. Anxiety ( how calm or troubled you feel )
 Impulse Expression vs. Self-restraint ( how expressive and
 impulsive or internally restrained and controlled, you feel )
M Personal Moral Judgment (how self-approving or how
 guilty, you feel )
N Self-confidence vs. feeling of Inadequacy ( how selfassured and adequate or helpless and inadequate you
 feel )
O Energy vs. Fatigue ( how energetic or tired and weary you
 feel )
P Elation vs. Depression ( how elated or depressed, happy
 or unhappy, you feel now )
Scoring: all items scored on 0 - 9. (Rating scales not reported).
Summation: average
Name: Wessman & Rick's 'Personal Feelings Scale'
Author's label:
Mood level
Correlational Findings
Author's label Subject Description Finding Personality differentiation Personality differentiation
Field independence
Effectiness of Personality ubtegration Personality integration


Kingdom of God? Guna Pictured in Lotus, Conch & Paired Fish
The lotus is South Asia's iconic flower. The lotus flower was a prominent symbol in ancient history, remaining so today. Lotus plants possess a unique structure in their leaves which provide a self-cleaning ability, allowing the flowers to emerge from mud untarnished. This natural trait created symbolic references of the flower as rising out of the mud, untouched by filth. The Rgveda first mentions the lotus in a metaphor (RV 5.LXVIII.7-9) where it seems to describe a wish for the safe birth of a child.
When Vishnu was the dwarf Vamana, his consort Lakshmi appeared from a lotus in the great churning sea as Padma, or Kamala, both of which mean "Lotus". Lakshmi maintains a close connection with the lotus, having her abode within the flowers themselves.
A Shankha is a Conch shell of ritual and religious importance. The Shankha is the shell of a large sea snail but in mythology the Shankha is the emblem of Vishnu and is often used as a trumpet.
The Lotus and the Shankha are two of the eight Ashtamangala (auspicious signs) teaching tools. They serve as illustrations or symbols for timeless qualities or gunas. Numerous texts discuss the concept of gunas, innate natural forces that together transform and keep changing the world. The three gunas in Samkhya thinking are: sattva (goodness, constructive, harmonious), rajas (passion, active, confused), and tamas (darkness, destructive, chaotic). Nyaya and Vaisheshika schools of thought allow for more gunas. How about the Kingdom of God as a guna?
The Lotus Flower illustrating Sattva, Rajas, Tamas Gunas in Samkhya thinking
Jesus saw the Kingdom of God as an operating quality, a guna, since it is organically changing and overcoming the world. He taught that we are invited into the Kingdom of God, but also needing Dvija to do so. He then gave a series of stories (called parables) on the nature or guna of the Kingdom of God using plants, Shankhas and paired fish (Ashtamangala signs) as his teaching tools to help us understand the guna of the Kingdom of God. Here are his parables of the Kingdom.
Parable of the Sower and the Four Soils
Matthew 13:1-9
Lotus seeds have a life force causing them to germinate
What did this parable mean? We do not have to guess, since he gave the meaning to those who asked:
Matthew 13:18-19
But these seeds cannot germinate on a trodden path
Matthew 13:20-21
The sun's heat can kill the life from the seed
Matthew 13:22
Other plants can hinder the growth of the Lotus flower
Matthew 13:23
In the right soil the Lotus plant will grow and multiply into beauty
There are four responses to the message of God's Kingdom. The first has no 'understanding' and so evil takes the message away from their hearts. The remaining three responses are all initially very positive and they receive the message with joy. But this message must grow in our hearts through difficult times. Mental acknowledgement without affecting our lives is insufficient. So two of these responses, though they initially received the message, did not allow it to grow in their heart. Only the fourth heart, who 'hears the word and understands it' would truly receive it in the way that God was looking for.
Jesus taught this parable so we would ask ourselves: 'Which of these soils am I?'
The Parable of the Weeds
After explaining this parable Jesus taught a parable using weeds.
28 "'An enemy did this,' he replied.
Matthew 13:24-30)
Wheat & Tares: Before ripening wheat and tares look the same
Here he explains this parable.
Matthew 13: 36-43
Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast
Jesus also taught some very brief parables with illustrations from other common plants.
Matthew 13:31-33
The Mustard seed is small.
Mustard plants grow lush and big
The Kingdom of God would start small and insignificant in this world but would grow throughout the world like yeast working through the dough and like a small seed growing into a large plant. It does not happen by force, or all at once, its growth is invisible but everywhere and unstoppable.
Parables of the Hidden Treasure and Pearl of Great Value
Matthew 13: 44 -46
Conch shells can contain great treasure but they are not seen
Inside some conch shells are pink pearls
Pink pearls are very valuable
These parables focus on the value of the Kingdom of God. Think of a treasure hidden in a field. Being hid everyone passing by the field thinks the field is of little value and thus they have no interest in it. But someone realizes there is a treasure there making the field very valuable – valuable enough to sell everything in order to buy it and obtain the treasure. So it is with the Kingdom of God – a value unnoticed by most, but the few that see its worth will gain great value.
The Parable of the Net
Kingdom of God will sort people as these fishermen at Goa
Jesus used another of the Ashtamangala – the pair of fish to teach about the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God will separate people into two groups as fishermen separate fish into two groups. This will happen on Judgment day.
The Kingdom of God grows mysteriously, like yeast in dough; with great value hidden from most; and it arouses diverse responses among people. It also separates people between those that understand and those that do not. After teaching these parables Jesus then asked his listeners this question.
"Have you understood all these things?" Jesus asked.
"Yes," they replied.
Matthew 13:51
What about you? If the Kingdom of God is understood as a Guna moving through the world it still is of no benefit to you unless it can move through you too. But how?
Jesus explains in his parable of Living Water like a Ganga Tirtha.


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Atlas has been described by its creator Boston Dynamics as "the world's most dynamic humanoid robot" and pushed the robotics research platform from its first introduction in 2013. Originally measuring about 2 meters long (over 6 feet) and weighing about 150 kilograms (330 pounds), the atlas was created for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DRPA) to use the company's robotics challenge. At the time, Atlas was one of the most advanced humanoid robots ever built. Nearly a decade later, bilateral powerhouses have perpetuated our unusual valley fantasies.
Atlas is back in 2019, this time as a liquid 10-point gymnast, comfortably stretched out his arms, bald, and driven with ease and compassion as he settles down a bit on the path to glory. Although this little split-kick is "Weave" At the end though Nowadays, the Atlas is made of 3D-printed parts weighing only 80 kg (1 just 6 pounds) and has a "power-to-weight ratio" that allows it to jump and somersault like an Olympian with a speed of 1.5 meters (5 feet) per second. Atlas also dynamic AF.
In a new introduction to mobility driving, the makers of Atlas first used an optimization algorithm to convert high-level descriptions of movement into the speed that were "dynamic-potential" for robots. Atlas then tracked the motion using a model predictive controller that allowed each movement to blend seamlessly into the next. Boston Dynamics says the approach could result in a "significantly faster" routine than before with an 80 percent success rate.


achieve a compromise, but if not, the industry will likely remain a hotbed of conflict.
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How to Find Your Own Visual Studio Theme and How to Make a New One for Microsoft Visual Studio 2018
Visual Studio is a suite of tools that enables developers to build, debug, and deploy software using Visual Studio.
To help make this easier, Microsoft has developed a visual editor called Visual Studio Visual Studio (VSV).
VSV is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
When you open VSV, you'll see a few icons.
These icons allow you to customize the appearance of the editor and its properties, such as font sizes, the size of the menu bar, and how the menu appears on the desktop.
You can also adjust the number of lines of code that can be displayed in the editor.
Once you've installed VSV on your computer, you can add a new Visual Studio project to it and start developing.
VSV lets you create projects with one click and then import them into Visual Studio with the click of a button.
When creating a new project, you may also add or remove additional features, such a plugin, extensions, and templates.
You'll find a list of features in the "Features" section.
For example, you might want to add a color palette to your project and create a toolbar that will be used to highlight and control the toolbar and add buttons.
If you've added a feature to a project, then the editor will automatically import the feature into your project, along with the new project.
This feature is known as a "plugin."
When you add a plugin to a Visual Studio plugin, it'll be loaded and activated when you create a new VSV project.
To add a VSV plugin to your Visual Studio workspace, click File > New Project.
In the window that opens, click "New Visual Studio Project."
In the dialog box that opens that allows you to create a project using VSV and click Next.
Click Next again, and then select the Visual Studio version you want to use as the editor of the new VSI project.
Click Finish to create the project.
When the project is created, you should see a list on the right of the Visual Editor that contains the plugins you added to your VSV workspace.
The list includes the name of the project, the name and version of the plugin, and the name, version, and version history of the VSI plugin.
For the VisualStudio version you selected, right-click on the project and select "Edit Project Version."
The name of each plugin in the VisualEditor should appear.
For this example, the plugin named "Bamboo" should be highlighted in green.
If the name doesn't appear, click on the "Show Plugin Details" button to display the plugin's properties.
The properties of each of the plugins in the project can be edited by dragging and dropping them on the toolbar at the top of the window.
You may also drag and drop the plugin from the toolbar into the Visual Tools area of the left-most toolbar of the workspace.
Selecting the plugin to edit the toolbar should take you to a new window that displays a new dialog box.
Click the "File" icon in the toolbar to open a new file and select the file you want.
In this example I've created a new Windows project called "BuddhistPants" and selected the "Visual Studio 2018" project as the project's Editor.
The next time you run VSV to create or import a new new Visual Editor project, VSV will prompt you to set the "Project Type" and "Project Options" for the new Visual editor project.
Choose "Windows" for Project Type and "Linux" for Projects Options.
When VSV creates a new VSO project, it will also show you a new toolbar on the left of the dialog window that allows the user to add and remove plugins, extensions and templates that have been installed on the user's computer.
Once the user adds or removes an extension or template, VSVC will automatically create a corresponding VSO extension or a VSO template for the extension or the template.
The extension or Template will also appear in the extensions menu on the top-right of the toolbar.
When a new extension or templates is added to a VSI project, they will appear in that project's extensions menu as well.
For more information on how to add extensions and the Visual Runtime to your Windows and Linux projects, see Creating and Using Visual Studio Extension and Template Libraries.
Once a new extensions or templates are added, you will also see a new folder that contains all of the extension and template folders that are available in the user profile.
For a more detailed look at what extension and templates you can create in VSV by adding or removing them, see Extensions and Templates.
Once your new Visual Projects are created, they'll appear in a new section of the Project Manager window.
If a project contains extensions or template files that have not yet been installed, VSVS will automatically add them to the project if they are present.
You will be prompted to
How to use a visual argument to get your food to your taste
Visual argument is a clever way to make your food taste better by using a combination of visual effects.
If you've never heard of visual argument, it's probably because the term "visual argument" has become a thing of the past.
In fact, it has become so widespread that it even has its own subreddit – /r/visualargument.
But that doesn't mean it's a bad way to use visual argument.
To make it simple for you to understand, here are five visual argument tricks that you can use to get more of your food at a better price.
The trick to using visual argument When using visual arguments to get food at the best price, you should always ask yourself if the food is worth the money.
If it's not, then you should look for cheaper alternatives.
For example, if you're shopping at a supermarket and you're looking for something cheap, look for items that are low in cost.
That way, you can see what the best deals are.
But you should also be careful when buying cheap food.
If the price tag says, "this is expensive", look out for items with low price tags, like pasta.
And be careful about items that say, "free shipping" or "no minimum purchase".
These are the sorts of things that could cost you money, and could be deceptive.
That's why it's important to always ask whether a product is really worth buying, rather than the cost of the item.
For instance, do you want to buy a large, large steak for a $40.99 price tag?
Or do you really want to go for something smaller, like a loaf of bread?
And if the item says, it will cost you $3.99 for a larger, smaller steak?
That way you can pick a great deal.
But don't buy things that look cheap or look expensive.
That can be misleading.
Here are five other things to keep in mind: Be mindful of the price tags on items You can find a great range of cheap and expensive products on Amazon.
The more you look for similar products, the more likely you are to find cheaper alternatives, and vice versa.
Use common sense when buying food If you're considering buying food, it helps to make an educated decision on what you're going to get.
For many people, it may seem reasonable to just go for a meal and buy food at home.
However, it can be quite hard to find a good meal that's cheaper than what you would normally pay.
So if you've ever eaten at a restaurant and wondered if the meal was worth the cost, look at the price of the meal as well.
A meal that costs more than what your bill will be will probably not be worth the price you paid.
That means you'll have to find something cheaper, but it's likely to be a better meal.
You might be tempted to just stick to the usual menu of cheap food and just eat out.
But, that won't work because you're only buying a small portion of the same meal.
So when you think about the full menu, ask yourself, do I really want this portion of food?
Or, am I going to make a big meal out of this meal?
Try to keep a close eye on what's being served and how much is left over You can check how much food is left after you have finished the meal by using the "left over" menu option in the menu bar.
That will show you the amount of food that's left over and will help you to know whether you're wasting money or saving money.
This can be useful when it comes to choosing the most nutritious food to buy next.
Be wary of low-quality ingredients If you have a meal plan and are paying for the meal on a regular basis, then it's unlikely that you'll want to get high-quality food, like fresh vegetables or fresh fish.
So look out on what ingredients you're eating, whether it's cheap produce or ingredients that are really high in sugar and salt.
It's better to stick to healthy, low-sugar, low salt, low fat foods.
Avoid foods that are unhealthy or have high calorie content Avoid the following foods: fruits and vegetables, fruit juices, sweetened drinks, sweets, dairy, nuts, grains, and oils, all of which can cause high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes.
The best way to avoid these foods is to avoid buying food with these ingredients in it.
You can also look out when you're ordering food online to see if it's going to be available on the menu.
If not, look out if you can get the product on the


text: Our first goal was to understand the relationship between primary productivity and species richness for several groups of freshwater organisms. By species richness, we mean the number of species observed in a lake over a number of years. It is useful to have several years of observations because the number of species observed varies from year to year. We chose the total list of species (the asymptote of the collectors curve) as our index of species richness. The lakes studied as part of the U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program are particularly valuable because they have been studied for two decades, and complete species lists exist for many kinds of organisms in these systems. LTER lake sites occur in northern and southern Wisconsin and northern Alaska (Toolik Lake). However, because there are fewer than 15 LTER lakes (and only seven with measured rates of primary productivity), we increased sample size by including data from additional well-studied lakes of similar size, but which span a greater range of primary productivity (see Table 1). These lakes have been studied for several years, and estimates of annual primary productivity exist for each lake. Some well-studied lakes were not included, such as those which lacked much of the crucial data, or lakes that were unusually turbid or saline. For example, Lake Okeechobee (Florida, USA) is turbid and exhibits a wide range of productivity levels, depending on the part of the lake sampled, while Marion Lake (British Columbia, Canada) has a flushing rate of only a few days (W. E. Neill, personal communication). Sampling design and protocol are not standardized among studies of lakes. For example, species identifications were done by different people, sampling period was quite variable, and the number of samples per lake was variable. Such heterogeneity reduces the accuracy and precision of relationships between productivity and species richness.Primary productivity.—Pelagic primary productivity (PPR) can be measured by the 14C method (Vollenweider 1974). This method gives a close approximation to gross primary productivity (GPP), but because some of the fixed carbon is respired quickly, the value obtained is less than GPP (Fee et al.1982). Point values of PPR are then integrated by depth and area to produce estimates of whole-lake annual primary productivity per cubic meter or square meter.Lake primary productivity is fundamentally different than productivity measured in other biomes (e.g., grasslands, forests). The 14C method measures available (gross) primary productivity more than utilized (net) production, which is what is normally measured in terrestrial systems. The 14C method is also a fairly direct measure of productivity, compared to the proxy methods (e.g., nutrient loading, biomass, climate, soil fertility) used in many studies.Sampling protocols for aquatic organisms.—Sampling protocols differed among taxonomic groups and lakes (e.g., Downing and Rigler 1984). For example, phytoplankton samples are taken by capturing (at most) a few liters of lake water, either from a specific depth or with a sampler that integrates water across a range of depths. Zooplankton are usually sampled by vertical tows (i.e., raising a net through the water column). Both zooplankton and phytoplankton samples are typically taken from the center of the lake, although replicate samples at different locations may be taken from larger lakes. Planktonic organisms are much smaller than the sampling device, and hundreds to hundreds of thousands of organisms are typically captured in a single sample. In contrast, aquatic macrophytes are sampled using quadrats and rake samples, or simply based on a walk around the lake, while fish are sampled using a variety of nets andoror electroshocking equipment. Criteria for species lists.—Species lists for fish, macrophytes, and pelagic phytoplankton, rotifers, cladocerans, and copepods were obtained from the literature and from unpublished data. We avoided lists restricted to only dominant or common species, and thus included only lists that were exhaustive. Few lakes had species lists for all six groups of organisms. However, we included any lake that had an estimate of the average annual primary productivity and had lists for at least three taxa.We standardized this database by developing criteria for inclusion of species in analyses. Phytoplankton lists included all prokaryotic and eukaryotic photosynthetic phytoplankton for which there were abundances of more than one organism per milliliter (a criterion also used by Lewis 1979). We included all nonsessile species caught in open water as pelagic rotifers. For the crustacean zooplankton (cladocerans and copepods), we followed the criteria of Dodson (1992). Species lists of macrophytes included all submerged, floating, or emergent species of flowering plants, including Typha, sedges, grasses, and duck weed. We did not include Isoetes or macroalgae such as Chara and Nitella as macrophytes. The fish list included all species reported from the lake, including introduced taxa. Fish species reported to occur in the watershed, but not in the lake (as in Pearse1920) were not considered part of the lakes biota.


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Functionalization of Long Chain Olefins and Fatty Acid Derivatives via Boron Intermediates
23 March 2018
UAntwerpen, Campus Hoboken, Aula Marcel Lanneer, Building B, ground floor - Salesianenlaan 90 - 2660 Hoboken
Prof Serge M.F. Tavernier, Prof ir. Kourosch Abbaspour Tehrani
PhD defence Lukasz Pazdur - Faculty of Applied Engineering
The chemical (related) industry is one of the largest industries in the world. At this moment this industry is mainly petrochemically based. Due to a rising shortage of petroleum and the stress between its function as fuel (source of energy) and its function as raw material (source of chemical building blocks), new strategies are deployed with respect to alternative raw materials that could lead to chemical building blocks.
Oleochemistry (centered on carbon containing molecules from natural oils and fats) seems an interesting way to obtain valuable chemical building blocks. A very interesting point is that it is a natural source of desirable long carbon-chain molecules, which can be further derivatized. The oleochemical approach has however also some disadvantages. A first important issue is the food versus fuel and/or food versus raw material discussion. The second issue is that there is a lack of long chain multifunctional, more specifically long chain α,ω-bifunctional molecules occurring in nature. Yet, such molecules can be used in high-value applications such as biopolymers and biolubricants.
As long chain bifunctional compounds, like α,ω-dicarboxylic acids are not provided by nature in sufficient amounts, it is important to develop a process to obtain these compounds in an environmentally friendly and economically viable way. It is important to design a process with an environmentally friendly catalyst and to optimize the process in such a way that not only edible clean fats/oils are used as starting material but also inedible fats/oils and maybe used oils/fats (used cooking oil).
This PhD work contributes to the valorization of unsaturated renewable materials into industrially relevant products. More specifically, the goal of this PhD work was to realize a sustainable method for the preparation of long carbon chain α,ω-bifunctionalized molecules starting from unsaturated long chain fatty acids and/or their derivatives. Two different methods to produce α – ω long chain building blocks were investigated: (1) the shift of mid-chain double bonds in derivatives of unsaturated (free) fatty acid esters by means of hydroboration-isomerization and (2) the synthesis and derivatization of long chain unsaturated dialkyl ethers.
The largest application of α,ω-bifunctional compounds (short as well as long type) can be situated in the production of biopolymers. Most of said biopolymers are based on polycondensation reactions (polyamides, polyesters,...). Depending on the chain length of the α,ω-bifunctional compound the amount of polarity can be controlled in the biopolymer that has a polar repeating unit (e.g. ester group) that will be "diluted" with the long apolar hydrocarbon chain. At the moment a lot of apolar (petro)polymers are used that are not biodegradable (PE, PP, etc.). From literature it is found that most of all produced apolar (petro)polymers are not recovered and thus induce environmental pressure. In case long chain α,ω-bifunctional molecules with a high number of –CH2- groups in the chain could be produced, polymers could be made that could mimic the apolar (petro)polymers. This polyester type "Pseudo-PE" would be degradable and hence will give raise to less environmental pressure.


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Today at a Borderwork(s) lunch gathering with Macrina Cardenas Alarcon (of the Mexican Solidarity Network), one of the professors of the Humanities Lab mentioned that on the North Korea/South Korea border lies some of the most rare and beautiful wildlife in the world.
An article online at the Bankok Post explains:
"The DMZ is a buffer strip extending for two kilometres (1.25 miles) each side of the actual borderline between North and South. But the area is also home to animals including musk deer, elk, wild boar, and rare birds.
The edge of the zone is fenced and heavily fortified but the DMZ itself has been largely untouched by humankind since the 1950-53 war.
As a result, it is home to some 2,716 species of plants and animals including many endangered species, the ministry said in a statement.
("S. Korea seeks wildlife listing for tense border area". Bankok Post. 23 September 2011. _URL_
This statement intrigued me. I found it somewhat baffling that a border that has been the location of so much violence and a cause of grief and despair to so many people could be one of the world's most precious wildlife resources. However, as my thesis director Robin Kirk pointed out, this situation is replicated in uninhabited borderlands all over the world. In fact, this summer in N. Ireland, our group of a handful of Duke students climbed Cave Hill, one of the small country's most prized places of natural beauty. As in the case of the North Korea/South Korea border, the reason that Cave Hill is so pristine is that is was largely unoccupied by the local people over a long period of time because of political struggles (in the case of Cave Hill, the area was a British army base).
I'm not sure how this aspect of borderlands will show up in my work, but I know that as I continue my reading and writing, I'll be thinking about this possibility of finding beauty in even the most desolate of borders and keeping an eye out for additional examples.


Cambodia-Singapore, 55 and Beyond
In a unique collaboration, Cambodian artist Fonki and I created this mural to celebrate 55 years of diplomatic ties between Cambodia and Singapore. It is a symbolic portrayal of the longstanding relations between the two countries, and the warm friendship between the two peoples.
Fonki's bold abstract neo-expressionist brushstrokes and my detailing through intricate brushstrokes are a harmonious contrast of our styles.
Fonki rendered the majestic imageries of the Khmer Lion from the Angkorian era – the Khmer symbol of peace and prosperity, royalty, strength and courage; and the Merlion – the national symbol of Singapore, the Lion City. The Angkorian lion with the missing head symbolises the resilience of the Khmer people; that despite years of wars and battles, and tragic attempts to eradicate their culture and people, the rebuilding of Cambodia with the support of close friends, has culminated in the Khmer Renaissance of a rich heritage and a bright future. Alongside each Angkorian lion is a Merlion, a symbol of the steadfast friendship and constructive partnership that bind the two nations and peoples together. Fonki said "You can try to cut the head of the lion, but the soul will always remain".
The four lions tower over a miniature city in the centre of the mural, a surreal depiction of the capital city of Phnom Penh and the island city state of Singapore. At a glance, the scenes are distinctly Cambodian or Singaporean, but on closer look, they are as similar as they are distinct. The juxtapose of modern skyscrapers and historic buildings tell of the challenges in retaining the heritage and identity amidst the pursuit of modernity and development.
The Vattanac Capital Towers in the foreground, an iconic landmark of modern Phnom Penh, and Singapore's own postcard icons of the Marina Bay Sands and Gardens by the Bay in the background, are featured on either sides of a fast flowing river thriving with commerce and industry, represent the success, prosperity and dreams of the two countries and their peoples.
The playful scenes of everyday life and common architecture styles represent the shared lifestyle and aspirations of the two peoples. The pair of Angkorian Lion and Merlion sculptures in the bottom left-of-centre of the mural and the Naga-Merlion bridge in the bottom centre which connects the two sections of the metropolis represent the many more successful collaborations between Cambodia and Singapore and their peoples in the years ahead
Photo courtesy of Kevin Cam
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text: What are genitive word forms? Back when star maps were first being drawn by European astronomers, Latin was the language of Science. And in Latin grammar, the possessive form of a word seems more complicated than its counterpart in English. For example, the star named alpha Canes Veneticorum is also known to us as "the alpha star of Canes Venetici." This star also has the common name Cor Caroli. When you look at astronomical literature and star maps, either paper or electronic, you will often see star names given as "beta Lyrae" or "omicron Ceti." Think of your favorite sports star. Stanley Frank Musial is also known as "Stan the Man."


Künneth theorem
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In mathematics, especially in homological algebra and algebraic topology, a Künneth theorem, also called a Künneth formula, is a statement relating the homology of two objects to the homology of their product. The classical statement of the Künneth theorem relates the singular homology of two topological spaces X and Y and their product space X × Y. In the simplest possible case the relationship is that of a tensor product, but for applications it is very often necessary to apply certain tools of homological algebra to express the answer.
A Künneth theorem or Künneth formula is true in many different homology and cohomology theories, and the name has become generic. These many results are named for the German mathematician Hermann Künneth.
Singular homology with coefficients in a field[edit]
Let X and Y be two topological spaces. In general one uses singular homology; but if X and Y happen to be CW complexes, then this can be replaced by cellular homology, because that is isomorphic to singular homology. The simplest case is when the coefficient ring for homology is a field F. In this situation, the Künneth theorem (for singular homology) states that for any integer k,
\bigoplus_{i + j = k} H_i(X; F) \otimes H_j(Y; F) \cong H_k(X \times Y; F).
Furthermore, the isomorphism is a natural isomorphism. The map from the sum to the homology group of the product is called the cross product. More precisely, there is a cross product operation by which an i-cycle on X and a j-cycle on Y can be combined to create an (i+j)-cycle on X × Y; so that there is an explicit linear mapping defined from the direct sum to Hk(X × Y).
A consequence of this result is that the Betti numbers, the dimensions of the homology with Q coefficients, of X × Y can be determined from those of X and Y. If pZ(t) is the generating function of the sequence of Betti numbers bk(Z) of a space Z, then
p_{X \times Y}(t) = p_X(t) p_Y(t).
Here when there are finitely many Betti numbers of X and Y, each of which is a natural number rather than ∞, this reads as an identity on Poincaré polynomials. In the general case these are formal power series with possibly infinite coefficients, and have to be interpreted accordingly. Furthermore, the above statement holds not only for the Betti numbers but also for the generating functions of the dimensions of the homology over any field. (If the integer homology is not torsion-free then these numbers may differ from the standard Betti numbers.)
Singular homology with coefficients in a principal ideal domain[edit]
The above formula is simple because vector spaces over a field have very restricted behavior. As the coefficient ring becomes more general, the relationship becomes more complicated. The next simplest case is the case when the coefficient ring is a principal ideal domain. This case is particularly important because the integers Z are a PID.
In this case the equation above is no longer always true. A correction factor appears to account for the possibility of torsion phenomena. This correction factor is expressed in terms of the Tor functor, the first derived functor of the tensor product.
When R is a PID, then the correct statement of the Künneth theorem is that for any topological spaces X and Y there are natural short exact sequences
0 \to \bigoplus_{i + j = k} H_i(X; R) \otimes_R H_j(Y; R) \to H_k(X \times Y; R) \to \bigoplus_{i + j = k-1} \mathrm{Tor}_1^R(H_i(X; R), H_j(Y; R)) \to 0.
Furthermore these sequences split, but not canonically.
The short exact sequences just described can easily be used to compute the homology groups with integer coefficients of the product P2(R) × P2(R) of two real projective planes, in other words Hk(P2(R) × P2(R); Z). These spaces are CW complexes. Denoting the homology group Hi(P2(R); Z) by hi for brevity's sake, one knows from a simple calculation with cellular homology that
hi = 0 for all other values of i.
The only non-zero Tor group (torsion product) which can be formed from these values of hi is
\mathrm{Tor}^{\mathbf{Z}}_1(h_1, h_1) \cong \mathrm{Tor}^{\mathbf{Z}}_1(\mathbf{Z}/(2),\mathbf{Z}/(2))\cong \mathbf{Z}/(2).
Therefore the Künneth short exact sequence reduces in every degree to an isomorphism, because there is a zero group in each case on either the left or the right side in the sequence. The result is
H_0 \left (\mathbf{P}^2(\mathbf{R}) \times \mathbf{P}^2(\mathbf{R});\mathbf{Z} \right )\; &\cong \;h_0 \otimes h_0 \;\cong \;\mathbf{Z} \\
H_1 \left (\mathbf{P}^2(\mathbf{R}) \times \mathbf{P}^2(\mathbf{R});\mathbf{Z} \right )\; &\cong \; h_0 \otimes h_1 \; \oplus \; h_1 \otimes h_0 \;\cong \;\mathbf{Z}/(2)\oplus \mathbf{Z}/(2) \\
H_2 \left (\mathbf{P}^2(\mathbf{R}) \times \mathbf{P}^2(\mathbf{R});\mathbf{Z} \right )\; &\cong \;h_1 \otimes h_1 \;\cong \;\mathbf{Z}/(2) \\
H_3 \left (\mathbf{P}^2(\mathbf{R}) \times \mathbf{P}^2(\mathbf{R});\mathbf{Z} \right )\; &\cong \;\mathrm{Tor}^{\mathbf{Z}}_1(h_1,h_1) \;\cong \;\mathbf{Z}/(2) \\
and all the other homology groups are zero.
The Künneth spectral sequence[edit]
For a general commutative ring R, the homology of X and Y is related to the homology of their product by a Künneth spectral sequence
E_{pq}^2 = \bigoplus_{q_1 + q_2 = q} \mathrm{Tor}^R_p(H_{q_1}(X; R), H_{q_2}(Y; R)) \Rightarrow H_{p+q}(X \times Y; R).
In the cases described above, this spectral sequence collapses to give an isomorphism or a short exact sequence.
Relation with homological algebra, and idea of proof[edit]
The chain complex of the space X × Y is related to the chain complexes of X and Y by a natural quasi-isomorphism
C_*(X \times Y) \cong C_*(X) \otimes C_*(Y).
For singular chains this is the theorem of Eilenberg and Zilber. For cellular chains on CW complexes, it is a straightforward isomorphism. Then the homology of the tensor product on the right is given by the spectral Künneth formula of homological algebra.[1]
The freeness of the chain modules means that in this geometric case it is not necessary to use any hyperhomology or total derived tensor product.
There are analogues of the above statements for singular cohomology and sheaf cohomology. For sheaf cohomology on an algebraic variety, Grothendieck found six spectral sequences relating the possible hyperhomology groups of two chain complexes of sheaves and the hyperhomology groups of their tensor product.[2]
Künneth theorems in generalized homology and cohomology theories[edit]
There are many generalized or extraordinary homology and cohomology theories for topological spaces. K-theory and cobordism are the best-known. Their striking common feature (not their definition) is that they do not arise from ordinary chain complexes. Thus Künneth theorems can not be obtained by the above methods of homological algebra. Nevertheless Künneth theorems in just the same form have been proved in very many cases by various other methods. The first were Atiyah's Künneth theorem for complex K-theory and Conner and Floyd's result in cobordism.[3][4] A general method of proof emerged, based upon a homotopical theory of modules over highly structured ring spectra.[5] The homotopy category of such modules closely resembles the derived categories of homological algebra.
 1. ^ See final chapter of Mac Lane, Saunders (1963), Homology, Berlin: Springer, ISBN 0-387-038


What are the different freight shipping modes?
The transportation services give their service to move the freight from one place to another. It is a necessary operation that grows different businesses globally. In fact, the e-commerce business majorly depends on freight shipping services. Many companies act as a service provider who takes the responsibility of transporting the goods to their destination. Freight people are one of the best group of the freight service provider who delivers the goods with safety and the cost of delivering commodities are reasonable. The cost of shipping prices depends on many factors.
The total distance is taken to reach the destination, increase in fuel prices, type of goods, etc. affects the shipping price. The transportation industry is very vast. It uses the routes of roads, rails, air, and water. A large number of people get employment in this industry and it contributes a lot to a country's economy. Freight shipping plays an important role in business extension. For a company that takes the facility of shipping from freight service providers, have many advantages.
The freight service providers delivered the goods safely to their destination without any damage. They are cost-effective in many ways. The business owner only needs to give them a definite amount and then get rid of all worries. Freight service providers deliver the goods on time. How much the weight of the goods is or what is its size, for service provider it only matters in deciding the cost of shipping while they can deliver any size item anywhere. There are many modes of freight shipping used for transportation.
 1. Less than Truckload: It is called LTL. It is the most famous freight shipment mode which is cost-effective and reliable in all ways. LTL allows the combined shipment of much business so that nobody has to pay for the whole truckload.
 2. Full truckload freight: It is generally used when goods need more space or any special conditions. It is also used when packages need to deliver soon at their destination.
 3. Airfreight: It is the fastest shipping freight around the world. They are used to delivering the logistics of small packages. Air freight is much expensive than other modes.
 4. Ocean Freight: It is one of the most cost-effective shipment services that can deliver the goods globally through ocean routes.
 5. Expedited Freight: It is also known by the name hotshot service that permits other kinds of freight to deliver the goods at a high speed.
Conclusion: Freight services are one of the most important parts of a country's economy and business growth. There are six modes of freight shipping services exists that help in delivering the goods from one place to another safely.
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- god (n.)
- Old English god "supreme being, deity; the Christian God; image of a god; godlike person," from Proto-Germanic *guthan (cf. Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch god, Old High German got, German Gott, Old Norse guð, Gothic guþ), from PIE *ghut- "that which is invoked" (cf. Old Church Slavonic zovo "to call," Sanskrit huta- "invoked," an epithet of Indra), from root *gheu(e)- "to call, invoke."
But some trace it to PIE *ghu-to- "poured," from root *gheu- "to pour, pour a libation" (source of Greek khein "to pour," also in the phrase khute gaia "poured earth," referring to a burial mound; see found (v.2)). "Given the Greek facts, the Germanic form may have referred in the first instance to the spirit immanent in a burial mound" [Watkins]. Cf. also Zeus.
Not related to good. Originally a neuter noun in Germanic, the gender shifted to masculine after the coming of Christianity. Old English god probably was closer in sense to Latin numen. A better word to translate deus might have been Proto-Germanic *ansuz, but this was used only of the highest deities in the Germanic religion, and not of foreign gods, and it was never used of the Christian God. It survives in English mainly in the personal names beginning in Os-.
I want my lawyer, my tailor, my servants, even my wife to believe in God, because it means that I shall be cheated and robbed and cuckolded less often.... If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. [Voltaire]
God bless you after someone sneezes is credited to St. Gregory the Great, but the pagan Romans (Absit omen) and Greeks had similar customs.


12 Times That People Asked Questions That Absolutely Needed To Be Asked
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There are always questions that absolutely need to be asked. It is not always the appropriate time to ask those sorts of questions, but they still need to be asked. Sometimes, it takes a pretty brave person to ask a particular question.
Here are thirteen interesting and amusing examples of questions that absolutely needed to be asked, so they were.
1. The Person Who Had a Little Too Much Fun on Valentine's Day
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Sadly, this teenager did not have the sort of fun most of us really want to have on Valentine's Day. I did not know that heart attacks could happen because of that. I am not surprised, frankly, that they can; however, I am surprised that that number is achievable. It seems impossible.
The question posed, however, is a very good one. Who was keeping track, precisely? The activity that allegedly led to the death is generally a solo activity.
I suppose the deceased could have been trying to set some sort of record and therefore needed proof. Why would he be attempting the record on Valentine's Day, though? It all just seems very curious.
While Valentine's Day dates back to the time of the Roman Empire, it only really became associated with romance in the 14th century, and it really did not become a popular holiday until the 18th century.
2. The Question About the Goat
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It is scary, really, when you think about how often people buy pet animals impulsively. If people did so less frequently, animals in general would probably be a lot better off.
It is sort of normal, though, to randomly adopt a dog if you think it is particularly cute or friendly. It is not normal, however, to randomly adopt a goat. Not many people know how to take care of a goat. If you decide to adopt a baby goat, you probably need to ask a lot of questions about how to take care of it. I would imagine that finding a veterinarian for the creature could be tough.
Also, if you randomly buy a goat, your friends need to ask questions about whether or not you have completely lost your mind. That is their right when you tell them you have bought a goat.
They are not the most traditional pets, but goats can actually be pretty endearing companion animals. They do tend to form very close bonds with the people who own them.
Billy, the goat in this image, is adorable. You can sort of understand why someone would impulsively purchase him.
It was not a wise decision, true, but it was an understandable one.
3. The Question About the Ugly Pet
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To be honest, this particular feline is sort of unattractive. I know that is not something you are supposed to say about people's pets, but sometimes it is true.
I am guessing it was cute when it was a kitten. However, it looks like the kitten days ended about a decade ago.
I don't even know what it is about the animal that creeps me out so much. Is it the size of the nose? There is something about the nose that seems off. It also looks like an actor, but I can't name the particular actor. There is just a lot to be disturbed by.
4. The Art History Class Question
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If there is one thing all good liars know, it is that you should only lie when there is little chance of getting caught. If you are going to get caught, there's no reason to bother coming up with a lie. You might as well just tell the truth.
In this case, someone told a lie over social media, and it was a bad one. The person that called the liar out asked a question that really needed to be asked.
Why would anyone lie about being great at art history? I love art, and I also love history, but being knowledgeable in regard to art history is like being good at using Windows 95. Admittedly, the skill probably has some value somewhere, but it isn't worth lying about.
5. The One About the Concept
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This might be an example of a question that really did not need to be asked, honestly.
Spock, of course, is a character from "Star Trek". The character was primarily portrayed by actor Leonard Nimoy, who died in February of 2015.
Nimoy is best known for his portrayal of Spock, but he did other things. For example, he starred in the "Mission: Impossible" series for a couple of seasons. He was also the narrator of the video game "Civilization IV". He was also a private pilot and owned his own airplane. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
NImoy's death was reported to be related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; he had been a cigarette smoker, but he gave the habit up decades before his death.
6. The Question About the Pizza
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Someone here has a really good point. If you buy a product that advertises itself as "not delivery" because you tend to buy it in a grocery store more often than not, but you then order it in a way in which it will actually be delivered to you, what exactly is going on? Did the universe break?
DiGiorno pizzas, really, are delicious. If you are not familiar with the brand, it is pretty popular in the United States. People have been eating the frozen pizzas for over a couple of decades now. Well over 200,000 DiGiorno pizzas are made every day for customers in the United States.
Pizza is, of course, one of the more popular foods in the world. In the United States, there is a National Pizza Month—it is held in October. The pizza market is currently worth over $100 billion worldwide.
7. The Question About Zelda
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Any video game lover will agree that this is a question that needed to be asked. After all, every video game lover knows that "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" first came out for the Nintendo 64 in November in 1998.
It was never available for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). That would have been great, really, but it just did not happen.
"The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" is still, decades later, considered one of the better video games of all time. Critical reception, at the time, was remarkable. It was considered the game of the year by more than one organization.
Well over seven million copies of the game were sold worldwide. There was a direct sequel to the game, and "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" has been re-released several times since its initial release. A remake for the Nintendo 3DS was released in 2011.
8. The Dogs That May Be Kissing
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Frankly, at first glance, I didn't see anything weird about this guy. His overall look is sort of strange, I guess. Personally, I am not a fan, but that's just me and my tastes.
Then, the person that goes by Locker just had to point out that the moustache looks like dogs kissing, and I can't unsee that. I personally think they look like terriers, but that may just be me.
It is funny, really, how facial hair can vary from person to person. You would think it'd be a somewhat consistent thing, but that just isn't the case.
Also, what is with that guy's hairstyle? That's just not a good look.
The Metallica shirt is cool, though. There are a lot of great reasons to love Metallica. The heavy metal band has been entertaining people since the early 1980s. Over 50 million albums have been sold in the United States alone, and it is considered one of the most commercially successful groups of all time.
9. The Sun In the Eyes
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There is not really a great question here, but there is a valid point being made.
Actually, I take that back, as I have a somewhat decent question. Why would this be anyone's favorite picture? I have a couple favorite pictures of myself, true, but that is because they all feature my incredibly adorable dog and my hair looks good.
There is no adorable dog in this picture; furthermore, the kid's hair is decent—at best.
The shorts don't really work with the socks, and I personally would not want to wear that shirt. The background is drab.
What, in this person's mind, is so great about the posted picture?
10. The Mom and the Baby
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This is a great image. It is truly touching. However, you really do have to ask a question or two, don't you?
How does someone who apparently just had a baby look that good? Frankly, it does not seem possible. You would think that her skin would be blotchy or something like that, but she looks fantastic. Her makeup is also perfectly applied. Now that is impressive.
Frankly, the baby looks pretty good considering it was just born.
These people have good genes, obviously, and we should all be very jealous of those genes.
Hopefully, the new mom and her adorable baby are still doing well.
11. The Knives and the Books
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I can't figure this one out. It is definitely pretty cool, but I do not get the point. Knife blocks can be expensive, I suppose, but there are inexpensive models.
I'm guessing that the owner of this "knife block" is a big lover of


What is the difference between Wallet Synchronization and Daemon Synchronization, in case of using either of local node or remote node?
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Daemon status is how synced it's blockchain is. Wallet status is how many blocks are scanned.
A daemon syncs blocks, a wallet scans blocks for incoming transfers.
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Quick Answer: Are Potatoes Good For Your Stomach?
What food makes your stomach feel better?
What are potatoes good for?
Potatoes are rich in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, which make them very healthy. Studies have linked potatoes and their nutrients to a variety of impressive health benefits, including improved blood sugar control, reduced heart disease risk and higher immunity.
How long does it take to digest a potato?
Root vegetables, excluding potatoes, like beetroot, carrot and parsnip digest in 50 minutes. Starchy vegetables such as butternut, corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes and chestnuts digest in 60 minutes.
What are the side effects of eating potatoes?
It is LIKELY UNSAFE to eat damaged potatoes, green potatoes, and sprouts. These can contain poisonous chemicals that cannot be destroyed by cooking. These poisonous chemicals can cause sweating, headache, flushing, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, thirst, restlessness, and even death.
Do potatoes make you poop?
Potato Salad Cooled potatoes have fiber and a lot of something called "resistant starch." This "resists" digestion, and some of it ends up in your large intestine, where it helps good bacteria grow.
What food takes the longest to digest?
Meat and fish can take as long as 2 days to fully digest. The proteins and fats they contain are complex molecules that take longer for your body to pull apart. By contrast, fruits and vegetables, which are high in fiber, can move through your system in less than a day.
Is salad hard to digest?
Can potatoes cause stomach problems?
Is chicken noodle soup good for an upset stomach?
What drink helps an upset stomach?
How can I speed up digestion?
From Fuel to Stool: 5 Tips to Speed Up DigestionExercise for 30 minutes a day. Food and digested material is moved through the body by a series of muscle contractions. … Eat more fiber. … Eat yogurt. … Eat less meat. … Drink more water.
What fruits are good for the stomach?


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A search for flavor-changing neutral currents (FCNC) in events with the top quark and the Higgs boson is presented. The Higgs boson decay to a pair of b quarks is considered. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of√35.9 fb−1 recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV. Two channels are considered: single top quark FCNC production in association with the Higgs boson (pp → tH), and top quark pair production with FCNC decay of the top quark (t → qH). Final states with one isolated lepton and at least three reconstructed jets, among which at least two are associated with b quarks, are studied. No significant deviation is observed from the predicted background. Observed (expected) upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the branching fractions of top quark decays, B(t → uH) < 0.47% (0.34%) and B(t → cH) < 0.47% (0.44%), assuming a single nonzero FCNC coupling.
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AMF and AHS leaders address migraine community, answer their questions about COVID-19
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it's important to remember that the community is here to support one another and provide accurate information to navigate these unprecedented times. On Wednesday, March 23, 2020, the American Migraine Foundation collaborated with the American Headache Society to film a webinar featuring AMF Chair Dr. David Dodick, AHS President Dr. Kathleen Digre and AMF Executive Director Nim Lalvani who gathered to address the patient community and answer questions about migraine and COVID-19.
During the discussion, Dr. Dodick provided an overview of COVID-19, how it is transmitted and the importance of flattening the curve. Dr. Digre focused on addressing the migraine community's risk compared to the general population.
"Every patient has a risk to get COVID-19 but people with migraine are not at greater risk," she said.
She did note, however, that COVID-19 could impact people living with migraine by limiting their access to migraine care, as the healthcare system is under strain and resources like urgent care centers become riskier. Dr. Dodick and Dr. Digre also discussed the implementation of telemedicine to help patients access the care they need.
"It's incredible to me how quickly institutions and practices are developing the technological capacity to provide these virtual visits, but it's also surprising to me how savvy patients actually are," said Dr. Dodick. "They're bringing themselves up to speed very quickly because of the need."
Nim Lalvani asked both participants to share tips for patients using telemedicine for the first time. Dr. Digre recommended patients come prepared by writing their questions down ahead of the appointment. They should also have notes about the medications they take and their doses. Dr. Dodick shared the 3 F's that he asks patients to remember for appointments:
- Frequency – how many headache days the patient is experiencing in a given month.
- Functional impairment — on how many of those headache days impairs the patient's functioning.
- Frequency – how frequently patients are taking acute medicines and how they're working.
Other topics discussed during the webinar include keeping a 90-day medicine supply, using rescue medications at home to avoid going to urgent care centers or emergency rooms and dealing with stress during this time. The doctors also answered questions submitted by our community. They covered topics ranging from migraine treatment's effect on the immune system and the definition of a medically necessary procedure.
In the coming weeks, the American Migraine Foundation will be hosting a weekly Facebook Live event as part of a series dedicated to wellness during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The American Migraine Foundation and the American Headache Society are here to support the patient community. We will continue to develop resources and empower you with accurate, credible, and timely resources.


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Controlling The Transfer Of Wealth To The Next Generation
One of the things a person's death will generally lead to is a transfer of wealth. Specifically, this is the transfer of wealth from the person's estate to their beneficiaries, whoever they happen to be.
Research indicates that, with the baby boomers getting older, we are nearing a time period that will see a lot of transfers of wealth. This research estimates that around $30 trillion will be transferred from baby boomers to their beneficiaries during the course of the next few decades. It further predicted that the country will be seeing as much as 10 percent of its overall wealth being transferred every five years over the period going from 2031 to 2045.
What will be controlling where all this transferred wealth will go? It depends on what baby boomers do when it comes to estate planning.
When a person has no estate plan, state intestacy laws will typically dictate what happens with their wealth. There are many reasons why a person might not want the transfer of their wealth being controlled by such laws. For one, these laws may lead to their wealth going a very different place than they would want. Second, these laws are rather inflexible in their application and thus are not really built to handle diverse circumstances, and could leave many important goals a person had unaddressed.
On the other hand, if a person does engage in estate planning, it is their estate planning documents that will generally control what happens with the transfer of their wealth. Now, what kinds of transfers they can do and what goals they are best suited to address vary greatly among the various types of estate planning devices, like wills, trusts and assets passed by beneficiary designations. So, when a person wants to take control of what will happen with their wealth when they are gone, they may want to have a detailed discussion with a skilled attorney on their wealth transfer goals and how to set up an estate plan aimed towards these goals.
Source: The Washington Post, "Think now about what you will leave behind," Michelle Singletary, Oct. 8, 2016


Why Is My Cat Panting?
What does it mean if my cat is panting?
A cat's normal breathing rhythm should be smooth and unlaboured. Panting is usually a sign that something isn't right with your cat. Cats only breathe hard with their mouths open when they are very stressed, extremely hot, or a disease process is occurring.
There are plenty of senior cat conditions that could bring on a sudden bout of laborious panting.
But panting isn't confined to old age. According to Dr Catheryn Walsh from Greencross Vets Robina Village, serious medical conditions that can bring on panting include heart failure, asthma, cancer, fluid build-up in and around the lungs, bronchitis, pneumonia, or a tumour.
Regardless of the cause, if your cat is panting, it's important you visit your local Greencross Vets immediately. Tests may include blood evaluation to check for heartworm, infections, anaemia and diabetes. A chest ultrasound or X-rays may be carried out to check for fluid around the heart and lungs.
In the meantime…
There isn't a whole lot you can do at home for a panting cat, although Dr Walsh recommends the following quick tips while preparing to go to the vet.
 - keep both the cat and yourself calm
 - if you think your cat has overheated, moisten the feet and ears with a cool, wet towel
 - do not give your cat any food or water by mouth
Always consult your local Greencross Vets if you are worried about symptoms in your pet.
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Problems Showering with Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
A morning shower -- it helps you start the day invigorated and refreshed, right? Um, no, not so much for many of us. A shower seems like a basic, simple thing, but it can pose major problems for someone with fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome.
I've seen a lot of comments here about how exhausting a shower can be. Why would a shower make us tired, sometimes even wiping us out for the rest of the day? Several of our physiological abnormalities could be playing into it.
 1. Exertion: Especially for those with chronic fatigue syndrome, even small amounts of exertion can be too much. A shower takes more energy than we tend to recognize -- you're standing the whole time, doing a fair amount of bending, stretching and reaching, and vigorously lathering up your head and body. When you consider that we often have to start an "exercise" routine with 2 repetitions of a simple movement, you can see how much work showering can be.
 2. Relaxation: The hot water of a shower can be relaxing, which is great in some ways. However, for those of us who deal with profound fatigue, it's probably not the best thing for us early in the day, when we're still fighting to wake up.
 3. Temperature Sensitivities: While the hot water may feel good, it can also get our temperature sensitivity going and throw off homeostasis. Our bodies have a hard time keeping us at the right temperature, so when we get heated up like that, it's a lot of work to cool us back down to normal. Some of us get so over heated that we sweat profusely after a shower.
 4. Dizziness: We're prone to dizziness, and the heat of the shower combined with the motions of washing can have your body working overtime to keep your sense of balance. I've had frightening dizzy spells in a hot shower -- very scary!
 5. Heightened Nerve Response: Especially in fibromyalgia, the pressure of the water hitting your skin can get your nerves riled up. It might not hurt while you're in there, but the stimulation on our over-reactive nerves could put them closer to the point of sending erroneous pain signals and making you hurt all over.
Some ways to deal with the showering problem include taking a shower at night, so the exhaustion is welcomed, or taking baths instead. Baths do pose some of the same problems, but you're sitting and not reaching or stretching as much, so they can be less taxing. A bath also tends to steam up the bathroom less, so you may have an easier time cooling off when you get out.
While I haven't had an extreme problem with showering like some people have, when I've been at my sickest I've relied at times on cleansing wipes. I buy them for my face, but they work well for this, too. Unscented baby wipes also aren't bad. I can use them to freshen up quickly and easily, especially on days that I'm not leaving the house anyway. It's not a daily solution, but they can put off a shower when you're just not up to it. For me, feeling greasy is a sure way to make me feel bad about myself.
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When you load a Haskell source module into GHCi, it is
normally converted to byte-code and run using the interpreter.
However, interpreted code can also run alongside compiled code in
GHCi; indeed, normally when GHCi starts, it loads up a compiled
copy of the
base package, which contains the
Why should we want to run compiled code? Well, compiled code is roughly 10x faster than interpreted code, but takes about 2x longer to produce (perhaps longer if optimisation is on). So it pays to compile the parts of a program that aren't changing very often, and use the interpreter for the code being actively developed.
When loading up source files with
GHCi looks for any corresponding compiled object files, and will
use one in preference to interpreting the source if possible. For
example, suppose we have a 4-module program consisting of modules
A, B, C, and D. Modules B and C both import D only,
and A imports both B & C:
A / \ B C \ / D
We can compile D, then load the whole program, like this:
Prelude> :! ghc -c D.hs Prelude> :load A Skipping D ( D.hs, D.o ) Compiling C ( C.hs, interpreted ) Compiling B ( B.hs, interpreted ) Compiling A ( A.hs, interpreted ) Ok, modules loaded: A, B, C, D. *Main>
In the messages from the compiler, we see that it skipped D,
and used the object file
D.o. The message
indicates that compilation for
isn't necessary, because the source and everything it depends on
is unchanged since the last compilation.
At any time you can use the command
to get a list of the modules currently loaded
*Main> :show modules D ( D.hs, D.o ) C ( C.hs, interpreted ) B ( B.hs, interpreted ) A ( A.hs, interpreted ) *Main>
If we now modify the source of D (or pretend to: using Unix
touch on the source file is handy for
this), the compiler will no longer be able to use the object file,
because it might be out of date:
*Main> :! touch D.hs *Main> :reload Compiling D ( D.hs, interpreted ) Skipping C ( C.hs, interpreted ) Skipping B ( B.hs, interpreted ) Skipping A ( A.hs, interpreted ) Ok, modules loaded: A, B, C, D. *Main>
Note that module D was compiled, but in this instance because its source hadn't really changed, its interface remained the same, and the recompilation checker determined that A, B and C didn't need to be recompiled.
So let's try compiling one of the other modules:
*Main> :! ghc -c C.hs *Main> :load A Compiling D ( D.hs, interpreted ) Compiling C ( C.hs, interpreted ) Compiling B ( B.hs, interpreted ) Compiling A ( A.hs, interpreted ) Ok, modules loaded: A, B, C, D.
We didn't get the compiled version of C! What happened? Well, in GHCi a compiled module may only depend on other compiled modules, and in this case C depends on D, which doesn't have an object file, so GHCi also rejected C's object file. Ok, so let's also compile D:
*Main> :! ghc -c D.hs *Main> :reload Ok, modules loaded: A, B, C, D.
Nothing happened! Here's another lesson: newly compiled
modules aren't picked up by
*Main> :load A Skipping D ( D.hs, D.o ) Skipping C ( C.hs, C.o ) Compiling B ( B.hs, interpreted ) Compiling A ( A.hs, interpreted ) Ok, modules loaded: A, B, C, D.
HINT: since GHCi will only use a compiled object file if it
can sure that the compiled version is up-to-date, a good technique
when working on a large program is to occasionally run
ghc ––make to compile the whole project (say
before you go for lunch :-), then continue working in the
interpreter. As you modify code, the new modules will be
interpreted, but the rest of the project will remain


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This is a rigorous mathematical theory of the operation of the flying-adder (FA) frequency synthesizer (also called direct digital period synthesizer). The paper consists of two parts. Part I presents a detailed mathematical model of the FA synthesizer, capturing the relationships between the properties of the FA's output and internal signals and the FA's parameters. The counting of the rising edges in the FA's multiplexer's output establishes a discrete-time index that is used to analytically derive the fundamental discrete-time periods of all the FA's signals. The continuous-time intervals between the rising edges are calculated and used to derive the fundamental continuous-time periods of the signals from the corresponding discrete-time ones. It is shown that the FA behaves differently within different ranges of the frequency word, and the practically useful range is identified. The FA's output average frequency, along with its maximum and minimum values, is analytically derived by calculating the number of cycles in the output signal within a fundamental continuous-time period of it. The relationship between the average and the fundamental output frequencies is also established, indicating the potential frequencies and density of output spurious frequency components. Part II of the paper characterizes the timing structure of the output signal, providing analytical expressions of the pulses' locations, analytical strict bounds of the timing irregularities, and exact analytical expressions of several standard jitter metrics. Spectral properties of the output waveform are presented, including the dominance of the frequency component at the average frequency, and analytical expressions of the dc value and average power of the output signal are derived. The FA has been implemented in a Xilinx Spartan-3E field-programmable gate array, and spectral measurements are presented, confirming the theoretical results. Extensive MATLAB simulation has also been used to g- - enerate numerous examples, illustrating the developed theory.
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The Metabo Law – Japan – Nathanael Carton
The Japanese government approved a few years ago the "Metabo Law" in order to prevent the risk of a general obesity increase. This law refers to a set of guidelines requiring local governments and employers to conduct mandatory annual examinations and affect people between 40 and 74. If they exceed the maximum waistline measurements (85cm for men, 90cm for women), they are directed towards counselling. The fixed goal is the 25% obesity reduction by 2015.