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package org.apache.shindig.config;

import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet;
import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
import com.google.common.collect.Sets;

import org.apache.shindig.common.JsonSerializer;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.WeakHashMap;

/**
 * Basic container configuration class, without expression support.
 *
 * We use a cascading model, so you only have to specify attributes in your
 * config that you actually want to change.
 *
 * Configurations can be added/modified/removed using transactions. The
 * configuration is protected with a read/write lock.
 */
public class BasicContainerConfig implements ContainerConfig {

  protected final Set<ConfigObserver> observers =
      Sets.newSetFromMap(new WeakHashMap<ConfigObserver, Boolean>());
  protected Map<String, Map<String, Object>> config = Maps.newHashMap();

  public Collection<String> getContainers() {
    return Collections.unmodifiableSet(config.keySet());
  }

  public Map<String, Object> getProperties(String container) {
    return config.get(container);
  }

  public Object getProperty(String container, String name) {
    Map<String, Object> containerData = config.get(container);
    if (containerData == null) {
      return null;
    }
    return containerData.get(name);
  }

  public String getString(String container, String property) {
    Object value = getProperty(container, property);
    if (value == null) {
      return null;
    }
    return value.toString();
  }

  public int getInt(String container, String property) {
    Object value = getProperty(container, property);
    if (value instanceof Number) {
      return ((Number) value).intValue();
    } else if (value instanceof String) {
      try {
        return Integer.parseInt((String) value);
      } catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
        return 0;
      }
    }
    return 0;
  }

  public boolean getBool(String container, String property) {
    Object value = getProperty(container, property);
    if (value instanceof Boolean) {
      return ((Boolean) value).booleanValue();
    } else if (value instanceof String) {
      return "true".equalsIgnoreCase((String) value);
    }
    return false;
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  public <T> List<T> getList(String container, String property) {
    Object value = getProperty(container, property);
    if (value instanceof List) {
      return (List<T>) value;
    }
    return Collections.emptyList();
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  public <T> Map<String, T> getMap(String container, String property) {
    Object value = getProperty(container, property);
    if (value instanceof Map) {
      return (Map<String, T>) value;
    }
    return Collections.emptyMap();
  }

  public void addConfigObserver(ConfigObserver observer, boolean notifyNow) {
    observers.add(observer);
    if (notifyNow) {
      notifyObservers(getContainers(), ImmutableSet.<String>of());
    }
  }

  public Transaction newTransaction() {
    return new BasicTransaction();
  }

  /**
   * Notifies the configuration observers that some containers' configurations
   * have been changed.
   *
   * @param changed The names of the containers that have been added or changed.
   * @param removed The names of the containers that have been removed.
   */
  protected void notifyObservers(Collection<String> changed, Collection<String> removed) {
    for (ConfigObserver observer : observers) {
      observer.containersChanged(this, changed, removed);
    }
  }

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return JsonSerializer.serialize(config);
  }

  protected class BasicTransaction implements Transaction {
    protected boolean clear = false;
    protected Map<String, Map<String, Object>> setContainers = Maps.newHashMap();
    protected Set<String> removeContainers = Sets.newHashSet();
    protected ContainerConfigException throwException = null;

    public Transaction clearContainers() {
      clear = true;
      return this;
    }

    public Transaction addContainer(Map<String, Object> container) {
      Object names = container.get(CONTAINER_KEY);
      if (names instanceof Collection<?>) {
        for (Object name : (Collection<?>) names) {
          setContainers.put(name.toString(), container);
        }
      } else if (names != null) {
        setContainers.put(names.toString(), container);
      } else {
        throwException = new ContainerConfigException(
            "A container configuration doesn't have the " + CONTAINER_KEY + " property");
      }
      return this;
    }

    public Transaction removeContainer(String name) {
      removeContainers.add(name);
      return this;
    }

    public void commit() throws ContainerConfigException {
      if (throwException != null) {
        throw throwException;
      }
      Set<String> removed = Sets.newHashSet();
      Set<String> changed = Sets.newHashSet();
      synchronized (BasicContainerConfig.this) {
        BasicContainerConfig tmpConfig = getTemporaryConfig(!clear);
        changeContainersInConfig(tmpConfig, setContainers, removeContainers);
        // This point will not be reached if an exception was thrown.
        diffConfiguration(tmpConfig, changed, removed);
        setNewConfig(tmpConfig);
      }
      notifyObservers(changed, removed);
    }

    /**
     * Creates a temporary ContainerConfig object that optionally contains a
     * copy of the current configuration.
     *
     * If you subclass {@link BasicContainerConfig} and you change its
     * internals, you must generally override this method to generate an object
     * of the same type as your subclass, and to fill its contents correctly.
     *
     * @param copyValues Whether the current configuration should be copied.
     * @return A new ContainerConfig object of the appropriate type.
     */
    protected BasicContainerConfig getTemporaryConfig(boolean copyValues) {
      BasicContainerConfig tmp = new BasicContainerConfig();
      if (copyValues) {
        tmp.config = deepCopyConfig(config);
      }
      return tmp;
    }

    /**
     * Applies the requested changes in a container configuration.
     *
     * @param newConfig The container configuration object to modify.
     * @param setContainers A map from container name to container to
     *        add/modify.
     * @param removeContainers A set of names of containers to remove.
     * @throws ContainerConfigException If there was a problem setting the new
     *         configuration.
     */
    protected void changeContainersInConfig(BasicContainerConfig newConfig,
        Map<String, Map<String, Object>> setContainers, Set<String> removeContainers)
        throws ContainerConfigException {
      newConfig.config.putAll(setContainers);
      for (String container : removeContainers) {
        newConfig.config.remove(container);
      }
      for (String container : newConfig.config.keySet()) {
        newConfig.config.put(container, mergeParents(container, newConfig.config));
      }
    }

    /**
     * Replaces the old configuration with the new configuration.
     *
     * @param newConfig The map that contains the new configuration.
     */
    protected void setNewConfig(BasicContainerConfig newConfig) {
      config = newConfig.config;
    }

    /**
     * Recursively merge values from parent containers in the prototype chain.
     *
     * For example, for the following two containers:
     * { 'gadgets.container': ['default'],
     *   'base': '/gadgets/foo',
     *   'user': 'peter',
     *   'map': { 'latitude': 42, 'longitude': -8 },
     *   'data': [ 'foo', 'bar' ] }
     * { 'gadgets.container': ['new'],
     *   'user': 'anne',
     *   'colour': 'green',
     *   'map': { 'longitude': 130 },
     *   'data': null }
     *
     * It would result in a merged "new" container that looks like this:
     * { 'gadgets.container': ['new'],
     *   'base': '/gadgets/foo',
     *   'user': 'anne',
     *   'colour': 'green',
     *   'map': { 'latitude': 42, 'longitude': 130 },
     *   'data': null }
     *
     * @return The container merged with all parents.
     * @throws ContainerConfigException If there is an invalid parent parameter
     *         in the prototype chain.
     */
    protected Map<String, Object> mergeParents(String name, Map<String, Map<String, Object>> config)
        throws ContainerConfigException {
      Map<String, Object> container = config.get(name);
      if (ContainerConfig.DEFAULT_CONTAINER.equals(name)) {
        return container;
      }

      String parent = container.get(PARENT_KEY) != null
          ? container.get(PARENT_KEY).toString() : ContainerConfig.DEFAULT_CONTAINER;
      if (!config.containsKey(parent)) {
        throw new ContainerConfigException(
            "Unable to locate parent '" + parent + "' required by " + container.get(CONTAINER_KEY));
      }
      return mergeObjects(mergeParents(parent, config), container);
    }

    /**
     * Merges two container configurations together (recursively), adding values
     * from "parentValues" into "container" if "container" doesn't already
     * define them.
     *
     * @param parentValues The values that will be added if absent.
     * @param container The container to merge the values into.
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    private Map<String, Object> mergeObjects(
        Map<String, Object> parentValues, Map<String, Object> container) {
      // Clone the object with the parent values
      Map<String, Object> clone = Maps.newHashMap(parentValues);
      // Walk parameter list for the container and merge recursively.
      for (Map.Entry<String, Object> entry : container.entrySet()) {
        String field = entry.getKey();
        Object fromParents = clone.get(field);
        Object fromContainer = entry.getValue();
        // Merge if object type is Map
        if (fromContainer instanceof Map<?, ?> && fromParents instanceof Map<?, ?>) {
          clone.put(field, mergeObjects(
              (Map<String, Object>) fromParents, (Map<String, Object>) fromContainer));
        } else {
          // Otherwise we just overwrite it.
          clone.put(field, fromContainer);
        }
      }
      return clone;
    }

    /**
     * Calculates the difference between the current and new configurations.
     *
     * @param newConfig The object containing the new configuration.
     * @param changed A set that will be populated with the names of the
     *        added/modified containers.
     * @param removed A set that will be populated with the names of the removed
     *        containers.
     */
    private void diffConfiguration(
        BasicContainerConfig newConfig, Set<String> changed, Set<String> removed) {
      removed.addAll(Sets.difference(config.keySet(), newConfig.config.keySet()));
      for (String container : newConfig.config.keySet()) {
        if (!newConfig.config.get(container).equals(config.get(container))) {
          changed.add(container);
        }
      }
    }

    /**
     * Returns a deep copy of a configuration object.
     *
     * @param config The configuration object to copy.
     * @return A copy of the configuration object.
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    protected Map<String, Map<String, Object>> deepCopyConfig(
        Map<String, Map<String, Object>> config) {
      return (Map<String, Map<String, Object>>) deepCopyObject(config);
    }

    private Object deepCopyObject(Object obj) {
      if (obj instanceof Map<?, ?>) {
        Map<?, ?> objMap = (Map<?, ?>) obj;
        Map<Object, Object> map = Maps.newHashMap();
        for (Entry<?, ?> entry : objMap.entrySet()) {
          map.put(entry.getKey(), deepCopyObject(entry.getValue()));
        }
        return map;
      } else if (obj instanceof List<?>) {
        List<?> objList = (List<?>) obj;
        List<Object> list = Lists.newArrayList();
        for (Object elem : objList) {
          list.add(deepCopyObject(elem));
        }
        return list;
      } else {
        return obj;
      }
    }
  }
}


Vegetarian Montreal: Healthy and Tasty!
1. Melt the butter in a saucepan and fry the vegetables until a little tender.
2. Heat the vegetable broth in a cooking pot and add the vegetables. Cook over medium heat until the vegetables are soft. Add the parsely on top.
1. Heat 2 T ghee and 3 T oil in a pot, then stir fry the onions until slightly browned.
2. Clean and wash the Freekeh add to the fried onions and stir together until all the Freekeh is well coated with the oils, and then add the boiled broth, season with salt and pepper and cover. Let it boil for 10 minutes then simmer for 1 hour, checking continuously to stir and add boiled water if necessary.
3. Heat the rest of the ghee and oil in a frying pan and fry the almonds and pine nuts. Remove and keep aside.
4. Transfer the Freekeh to a serving dish, and decorate with almonds and pine nuts.


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Hillary Clinton lead over Donald Trump continues to shrink, down to just 2 points
By Meg Wagner
Oct 29, 2016 | 9:25 AM
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at NewBo City Market in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Friday. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
Hillary Clinton's lead over Donald Trump is down to a measly two points, according to one poll.
Of likely voters, 47% said they plan to cast their ballots for the Democrat, while 46% are backing the GOP nominee, the new Washington Post-ABC News tracking poll showed.
On Sunday, the same poll showed the former Secretary of State with a whopping 12-point lead over the New York businessman. By Friday, her lead narrowed to just four points.
The new poll — which was conducted Monday through Thursday and released Saturday — does not include any voter reaction from Friday's announcement that the FBI will reopen its probe into Clinton's use of a private server for her emails.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump appears at a campaign event in Geneva, Ohio, Thursday. (CARLO ALLEGRI/REUTERS)
Polls vary widely, and some still show Clinton with a more substantial lead over Trump. A Saturday IBD/TIPP Tracking poll reported that 45% of likely voters are backing Clinton and 41% plan to vote for Trump.
Yet others — such as the Friday Rasmussen Reports — showed the candidates in a tie. Saturday's LA Times/USC tracking poll had Trump with a two-point lead over Clinton.
The week of up-and-down polling comes as Trump continues to insist that the surveys are "rigged" against him.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton face off during US presidential debates
"I have no doubt about it," he told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly Thursday when asked about the possibility of "rigged" polls.
"I'm winning in certain polls and then in other polls, the dirty polls we call them, I was losing by numbers that were ridiculous," he said. "I think we're winning, but Bill, you look at some of these polls it's absolutely ridiculous."
Trump has repeatedly claimed the yet-to-be-held election is "rigged" against him, too. He has refused to say if he'll accept the results.
Senate set to approve Trump impeachment trial plan without evidence assurances after unexpected McConnell...

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Corn (Old-crop futures): The July contract closed 6.50cts lower at $3.75 1/2. Despite Friday's sharp sell-off, technical indicators continue to show the secondary (intermediate-term) trend is up. The contract did see its minor (short-term) trend turn down after testing secondary resistance at $4.11 1/4 (last week's high was $4.07 1/4). Next minor support is pegged at $3.70, the 67% retracement level of the uptrend from $3.51 1/4 through last week's high.
Corn (New-crop futures): The December 2016 contract closed at $3.81, down 7 1/4 cents for the week. Despite the lower weekly close, technical indicators show the secondary (inte4rmediate-term) trend to be up. The contract posted a new 4-week high of $4.09 before falling sharply late in the week. This had the contract within striking distance of initial resistance at $4.13. Minor (short-term) support is at $3.79, then the contract low of $3.64.
Soybeans (Cash): The DTN National Soybean Index (NSI.X, national average cash price) closed at $9.22 1/4, up 26 1/4 cents for the week. The NSI.X is a contradiction of signals as of last Friday's settlement. After posting a new 4-week high ($9.54), the late week sell-off led to a bearish crossover by weekly stochastics well above the overbought level of 80%. This would suggest the secondary (intermediate-term) trend has turned down.
Soybeans (Old-crop futures): The July contract closed at $9.96 1/4, up 32 cents for the week. Despite the higher weekly close, and the establishment of a new 4-week high ($10.43 3/4), last week's late sell-off created a bearish crossover by weekly stochastics above the overbought level of 80%. This would imply that the secondary (intermediate-term) trend has turned down. If so initial support is at $8.92 1/2, the 33% retracement level of the previous uptrend from $8.59 1/2 through last week's high. The 50% retracement level is down at $9.51 1/2.
Soybeans (New-crop futures): The November 2016 contract closed at $9.83, up 16 1/2 cents for the week. An early week rally saw the contract post a new 4-week high of $10.23 1/2, a test of resistance at $10.07 1/2. This price marks the 50% retracement level of the previous secondary downtrend. However, the contract then saw a sharp late week sell-off that created a bearish crossover by weekly stochastics above the 80% level. This would suggest the secondary (intermediate-term) trend has turned down. Initial support is at $9.65 3/4, the 33% retracement level of the previous uptrend, with the 50% mark down at $9.36 3/4.
SRW Wheat (Cash): The DTN SRW Wheat National Index (SR.X, national average cash price) closed at $4.25 1/2, up 7 cents for the week. The SR.X remains a mix of signals, with the end result being the secondary (intermediate-term) trend remains sideways. After posting a new 4-week high of $4.63, a test of initial resistance at $4.54 1/2, the SR.X saw a sharp sell-off to end the week creating a bearish crossover by stochastics below the overbought level of 80%. Support remains at the major (long-term) low of $4.02 1/4.
SRW Wheat (New-crop futures): The July 2016 Chicago contract closed at $4.74, up 6 1/2 cents for the week. Similar to the above mentioned SR.X, July Chicago is a mix of signals with the end result being the secondary (intermediate-term) trend remains sideways. After posting a new 4-week high of $5.18 1/2, a test of initial resistance at $5.16 1/4, the contract saw a sharp sell-off to end the week. Support remains at the major (long-term) low of $4.49 1/2.
HRW Wheat (Cash): The DTN HRW Wheat National Index (HW.X, national average cash price) closed at $3.96 1/4, up 4 cents for the week. The secondary (intermediate-term) trend remains sideways between last week's high of $4.29 and the major (long-term) low of $3.78 1/4.
HRW Wheat (New-crop futures): The July 2016 Kansas City contract closed at $4.73 1/2, up 5 1/4 cents for the week. The secondary (intermediate-term) trend remains sideways between last week's high of $5.09 1/4 and the contract low of $4.52 3/4.
HRS Wheat (Cash): The DTN HRS Wheat National Index (SW.X, national average cash price) closed at $4.75, up 3/4 cent for the week. The SW.X remains a mix of signals, with the end result being the secondary (intermediate-term) trend looks to be sideways. After posting a new 4-week high of $5.01 1/4, a test of initial resistance at $4.97, the SW.X saw a sharp sell-off to end the week creating a bearish crossover by stochastics below the overbought level of 80%. Support remains at the major (long-term) low of $4.44 1/4.
HRS Wheat (New-crop futures): The September 2016 Minneapolis contract closed at $5.42 1/2, up 6 1/4 cents for the week. The secondary (intermediate-term) term trend has finally turned sideways, the uptrend acquiescing to continued resistance between $5.38 3/4 and $5.53 1/2. These prices mark the 23.6% and 33% retracement levels of the previous downtrend. Initial support is at the 4-week low of $5.27 3/4.


In ver 0.3.0, you can pitch some breaking balls!
In order to pitch them, you should name a Ball to specific name defined in config.yml.
In ver 0.2.3, Balls will not hit to (and sometimes they will avoid) torches,tripwires,and some.
When Balls hit to iron fence or vines, their bounce will be much weaker than that with other blocks.
Change the amount of balls in crafting at a time.
I felt the crafting-cost of the Ball is a bit too expensive, so I changed the amount of balls in crafting at a time.
In this version, you can get four balls every time you craft.
Sorry, in ver. 0.2.0, version-number in plugin.yml is wrong.
so I fixed it and add a effect of swinging when you swing Bat powerfully.
New Feature: Four other balls (that has various repulsion in being hit them by a Bat) added!
New Feature: Added four other ball, which has various repulsion in being hit by Bat.They has different recipe.
If normal-ball fly 100 meters, under the same condition, the "highest-repulsion-ball" will fly 140, higher one will fly 120, lower one will fly 80, and lowest one will fly 60 meters.
I added them to adapt this plugin to the various size of ballpark built in your server.
New Feature: Now you can use Brewing-stands as batting tees!
In 0.1.0, I added a new feature and fixed a bug.
Fixed: throwing "Ball" by off-hand didn't work.
Previous versions had a bug:when Ball landed on thin-blocks(for example, carpet), bounce of Ball didn't work well.
Sorry, I found that I forgot to delete some lines to output debug logs in my 0.0.4 code.
For not dirtying your server log, I recommended to update to this version.
Added TAB-completions, Changed the recipe of "Ball".
In version 0.0.4, you can get a full statement by tapping TAB when you are inputting SnowballGame's commands.
And I changed the recipe of Ball, new one requires Leather * 4, String * 4, and Snowball * 1.
Improve some points to get closer to real-baseball.
Improve ball speed(when slugged by Bat) and ball bound.
Maybe now you can play ball game in actual-sized ballparks that you made in your world.


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func (p *Parser) infiniteParsingLoop() {
	defer close(p.Done)
	expressions := make([]Sexp, 0, SliceDefaultCap)
	for {
		expr, err := p.parseExpression(0)
		if err != nil || expr == SexpEnd {
			if err == ParserHaltRequested {
				return
			}
			// expr == SexpEnd means that parserExpression
			// couldn't read another token, so a call to
			// getMoreInput() is required.

			// provide accumulated expressions
			// back to the client here
			err = p.getMoreInput(expressions, err)
			if err == ParserHaltRequested {
				return
			}

			// getMoreInput() will have delivered
			// expressions to the client. Reset expressions since we
			// don't own that memory any more.
			expressions = make([]Sexp, 0, SliceDefaultCap)
		} else {
			// INVAR: err == nil && expr is not SexpEnd
			expressions = append(expressions, expr)
		}
	}
}

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text:
FROM centurylink/ca-certs
ENV GOMAXPROCS 4
EXPOSE 8080
COPY pr0gramm-meta-rest /
ENTRYPOINT ["/pr0gramm-meta-rest"]


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Newcastle's new $200m multi-modal transport interchange officially opens
Written by Urbanalyst
NSW Transport and Infrastructure Minister Andrew Constance last week opened the $200 million Newcastle Interchange, which provides a fully accessible, multi-modal transport interchange that will link trains, buses, taxis, kiss and ride facilities, and from early 2019, Newcastle Light Rail.
Mr Constance said the new interchange also includes new train stabling and turn-back facilities to the east of Hamilton Station, signalling work, a new pedestrian bridge and staff facilities. Other features include new customer toilets, undercover bicycle storage, a food and drink outlet, and weather protection canopies on platforms, the concourse and Station Street.
Above: Newcastle Interchange / Revitalising Newcastle.
The interchange – located at Wickham, west of Stewart Avenue – is a major component of the $650 million-plus Revitalising Newcastle program, which is a multi-agency NSW Government program tasked with delivering a suite of transport and urban transformation projects in the city centre.
"The target opening date for the Newcastle Interchange was November 2017. A combination of good planning, dry weather and the cooperation of the surrounding community has allowed us to open the interchange a few weeks ahead of schedule," Mr Constance said.
Another key component of the Revitalising Newcastle program is Newcastle Light Rail, which consists of a 2.7-kilometre line from Newcastle Interchange to Pacific Park in Newcastle East and will provide high-frequency services every 7.5 minutes during peak times. It is due to open in 2019.
Copyright © 2009 - 2015 Urbanalyst. All Rights Reserved.


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(Opens in a new tab) Season Stats
(Opens in a new tab) History & Records
(Opens in a new tab) NCEA Official Site
One Wood Farm
Horse Donation Information
(Opens in a new tab) Instagram
Kelsey Urban
position Horsemanship
Hometown East Hampton, Conn.
High school East Hampton
Kelsey Urban Bio
2015-2016: 1-0 record… Won a horsemanship exhibition over No. 8 TCU on Oct. 2, beating her opponent, 69.5-67… Competed in a horsemanship on the road against No. 6 Texas A&M on Oct. 29… Opened the spring semester with a 72.5-72 victory over UT-Martin on Jan. 30 as part of a 5-0 sweep for the horsemanship team… Competed in a horsemanship exhibition in the Senior Day meet against No. 3 Texas A&M on Feb. 20.
2014-2015: 6-6-1 record in horsemanship with two MVPs … Competed in the season opener at No. 6 Kansas State on Sept. 19… Won her first point of the season on Oct. 31 against No. 9 Texas A&M, knocking off her opponent, 74.5-73.5 to win her first MVP of the season… Held her Fresno State opponent to a 74-74 tie on Nov. 7… In the fall finale at No. 8 Oklahoma State on Nov. 21, she won her point, 71.5-65.5… In the neutral site victory over Delaware State at the UGA Equestrian Complex on Feb. 7, she beat her Hornet opponent, 76-69.5… On Feb. 21 at Texas A&M, she knocked off her Aggie opponent, 75-73… In the Senior Day victory over No. 4 Auburn on Feb. 28, she won her second MVP of the season, winning her point, 76.5-74.5… Competed at the SEC Championship… In the semifinal meet against Texas A&M on March 27, she beat her opponent, 143-133.5.
2013-2014: 3-4 record in horsemanship… Competed in the season opener vs. No. 5 Kansas State on Sept. 20… Won her first point of the season on Oct. 4 in a road meet at Delaware State, defeating her opponent, 71-70… Closed out the fall with a 71.5-70 win at Auburn on Nov. 9… In the win at Georgia on Feb. 8, she picked up a 75.5-74 win over her Bulldog opponent… In the senior day victory over Auburn on March 1, she performed a demonstration ride, scoring 69.5… Second-year letter winner.
2012-2013: 2013 SEC Co-Freshman Horsemanship Rider of the Year… 2013 SEC All-Freshman Equestrian Team (Horsemanship)… 6-4-2 overall record in Horsemanship with one MVP… 6-4 regular season record in Horsemanship with one MVP… 0-0-2 postseason record… Competed in her first ride as a Gamecock on Oct. 4 against No. 3 Auburn… Picked up her first win as a Gamecock and her first MVP as a Gamecock on Nov. 1 in the upset win at No. 1 Georgia, as she defeated her opponent 76-72.5, with her score of 76 being the event-high… Won her second straight point on Nov. 16 at No. 4 Texas A&M, dropping her opponent, 75-70.5… Won her third straight point of the season and third road point of the season a day later on Nov. 17 at No. 8 Baylor, as she defeated her opponent, 75.5-73. Was named Rider of the Month in Horsemanship by the Southeastern Conference for the month of November, becoming the first Gamecock Western rider to be named the SEC's Rider of the Month… Improved to 4-2 on the season when she won her fourth consecutive road point on Feb. 14 at No. 2 Auburn, 79.5-76.5… Picked up her fist home win on March 1 against Delaware State, defeating her opponent 72.5-62.5 as part of a 5-0 sweep for the Horsemanship team… Won her fifth road point on March 9 in the regular season finale at No. 3 Oklahoma State, defeating her opponent, 72-71… Competed at SEC's, going 0-0-2… In the opening round meet vs. No. 1 Georgia, she held her Bulldog opponent to a 138.5-138.5 tie… In the SEC Championship meet vs. No. 2 Auburn, she held her Tiger opponent to a 145-145 tie… Fall 2012 Dean's List… Fall 2012 Athletic Director's Honor Roll…Spring 2013 Dean's List… Spring 2013 Athletic Director's Honor Roll… Voted Most Outstanding Freshman at the team banquet… First-year letter winner.
Season Event Meets MVP Win Loss Tie SEC
2015-16 Horsemanship 1 0 1 0 0 0-0
2014-15 Horsemanship 13 2 6 6 1 3-3
Career Horsemanship 33 3 16 14 3 5-5


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Ever since Guns N' Roses and Tesla made it cool for hard rockers and metalheads to mess around with acoustic guitars – with G'N'R Lies and Five Man Acoustical Jam respectively some 20+ years ago – it seems every band has flirted with the unplugged concept. Hell, at press time Mpire Of Evil had kicked off their first ever Japan tour with an in-store featuring a set of acoustic Venom classics (!). So, when word got out a few years ago that Stratovarius frontman Timo Kotipelto and ex-Sonata Arctica guitarist Jani Liimatainen had teamed up for a dynamic duo acoustic tour through their native Finland it wasn't an earthshattering surprise. Their respective fanbases went suitably mad searching for footage on YouTube, of course, and the resulting requests, demands and yammering over the years for an album's worth of acoustic material from the pair have finally been answered. Working under the Kotipelto & Liimatainen moniker, they've put together a collection of bare bones covers on Blackoustic, an album made for the fans rather than trying to cash in on a still-popular musical format.
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La Lagonda 11.9 è un'automobile prodotta dalla casa automobilistica britannica Lagonda dal 1918 al 1923 in 4.025 esemplari. Sostituì la Lagonda 11.1 e venne sostituita dalla Lagonda 12/24.

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Il modello rappresentò la versione aggiornata e più potente della Lagonda 11.1, di cui incarnava un'evoluzione. La Lagonda 11.9, questo il suo nome, era dotata di un motore da 1.421 cm³ di cilindrata a quattro cilindri, cilindrata superiore rispetto a quella del propulsore della 11.1, che era invece 1.099 cm³. La Lagonda 11.9, che aveva un passo superiore rispetto a quello della 11.1, è stato il terzo modello in assoluto e il secondo da strada prodotto dalla Lagonda.

Il telaio e la carrozzeria della 11.9, come quanto fatto sulla 11.1, avevano un accoppiamento unitario, e ciò rendeva questa soluzione particolare e rivoluzionaria, soprattutto considerando i canoni tecnici dell'epoca. Fu realizzata il 4.025 esemplari; ciò rappresentò un salto produttivo di rilievo per la Lagonda, visto che il modello precedente, la 11.1, venne prodotta in 745 esemplari. Venne sostituita dalla Lagonda 12/24.

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Mercedes Helnwein wins an award in my book. Her drawings remind me of Alfred Hitchcock movies. Don't ask. They just do.
Check out her website for more of her work.
they remind me of cindy sherman's work. creepy!!
ahh the photog. wow, i don't know why i haven't written about her. lol. i like creepy. thanks sofe baby.


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Making Seattle Proud: INFINITI Donates Over 1 Million to Various Charities Through NCAA Partnership
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It's been a big year for Nissan's luxury brand, and true to character, they're giving back — in more ways than one. Outside of creating premier vehicles that cater to Washington drivers' needs, INFINITI has donated more than $8 million to various charities through their partnership with the NCAA. During the 2018 season alone, the company has dispersed $1.1 million to a multitude of philanthropic organizations.
In collaboration with the National Association of Basketball Coaches, Phil O'Connor, the director of Marketing Communications and Media at INFINITI Americas proudly presented two notable checks last week. The first one awarded $774,180 to the American Cancer Society, which has helped to increase the number of survivors to 15 million strong.
Additionally, through the organization's sponsored Coaches Challenge and CBS Round-by-Round Bracket tournament, they also raised $349,000 to be distributed among a conglomerate of viable foundations, as chosen by participant winners of the event. For example, Dave Rose, head coach at Brigham Young University was the 2018 champ of the CCC and decided to allocate $100,000 to benefit the Simmons Center for Cancer Research at BYU.
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As part of my (3 year!) probation as a lecturer at Birmingham, there is a substantial compulsory teaching course. A part of that course is to write a teaching blog; I've always seen blogs as a way to promote research, advertise positions/yourself, or describe some fun science, so this is a rather new experience to me.
I can't imagine anyone particularly wants to hear my opinions about teaching (others are more erudite and motivated), and I'm not really one for introspection – I find it rather counter-productive when there is so much to enjoy, experience, and study – so I thought I'd use the opportunity to discuss one of the more fun/interesting topics that I taught in my 4th-year (Masters) lecture course in Mathematical Biology, and why I think I my students weren't interested.
Transport processes are fundamental to all life – feeding, growing, breeding, avoiding death always involves transport in every species, from bacteria, to humans, to trees. We transport blood/oxygen around our body, trees transport water from root to leaf, bacteria transport themselves, and so on. Two fundamental methods of transport are advection and diffusion. Advection is an active pumping via fluid flow (as Oxygen in the bloodstream is transported to tissue), while diffusion is a passive process relying on random "spreading out" motion of molecules. Advection requires input of energy, whereas diffusion does not.
Whether or not a natural system has evolved to exploit advection, diffusion, or a combination of the two, turns out to depend on a parameter known as the Péclet number Pe of the system (after 19th century physicist Jean Claude Eugène Péclet), which can be thought of as the ratio of advective to diffusive transport rates. Thus, calculating the Péclet number for a system can help us understand its design.
For a given system, Pe = vL/D for a typical velocity v, length scale L, and molecular diffusivity D. We are interested in how Oxygen gets into our blood, so we need D = diffusivity of oxygen in air = 0.2 squared cm per second. The typical length scale is very roughly 1-2 cm at the top of the trachea (its diameter), and 0.02 cm at an alveolus, where the oxygen ends up.
At this point, it would be easy to think that Pe changes by a factor of 100 from top to bottom, but in fact air slows down a lot between the top and bottom of our lungs. Estimating this slow down is the tricky part. Our lung capacity is about half a litre, and we can breath-in in about a second. So 500 cubic cm of air passes through the top of the trachea – an area of about 2 squared cm – in a second, giving a typical velocity of v = 500/2 = 250 cm/s (about 5 miles an hour in old money). So the Péclet number at the top of our trachea is about 2×250/0.2 = 2500, which is much bigger than 1 – so advection is the dominant process.
But the area per alveolus through which this same flow passes is more like 0.02×0.02 = 0.0004 squared cm. There are around 700 million alveoli in typical adult lungs, so a total area of 0.0004×700,000,000 = 280,000 squared cm, so a typical velocity of flow entering an alveolus is 500/280,000 = 0.0018 cm/s – very slow. The Péclet number is then Pe = 0.00018, much less than 1, and diffusion dominates.
The point is, diffusion is required in order to selectively exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide between our blood and the air, but diffusion is a painfully slow process over large distances and small surface areas, so the branching structure of our lungs has evolved to draw in a large amount of air quickly into a massive number of very small spaces, and slow it down so diffusion can take over.
Insects don't have this, by the way – they have an open network of trachea delivering oxygen via diffusion directly to their tissues. Because of the limits of diffusion, this means that insects can't grow too large (which is good). I've gone on too long, this was supposed to be 500 words.
I think my students didn't like this exercise because they haven't really done much in their course to prepare them for this kind of open-ended question (that can be understood through fairly simple mathematics). I don't think it's a bad exercise (it is testing a different skill), but next time I think I need to execute it differently – ease them into it more somehow – or perhaps set it as part of a formative assignment. Either way, I'm not quite done with the experiment of bringing my research to my teaching.


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I just used my Halloween Cookie Cutters to trace and cut out Halloween Shapes.
This year, I did the same thing and then took it a step further.
I taped Popsicle sticks to the back of the shapes.
I also used an X-ACTO knife to cut a face into the pumpkin.
We took a flashlight into a dark bedroom and had some fun!
It was the perfect activity for a rainy fall day.
Follow this simple tutorial to make your own sewn on paper flower!
Have you ever used your sewing machine to sew on paper?
The first time I realized you could was when Cali and Holly did it in THIS POST.
I was also inspired to do this project by this Valentine Card Tutorial.


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ATS1261 - Understanding human behaviour - 2017
Associate Professor Kerry O'Brien
First semester 2017 (Day)
The unit introduces students to cognitive-behavioural, psychodynamic and social understandings of human behaviour. This multi-disciplinary orientation, including studies of the human mind, consciousness, emotion, and normal and abnormal behaviours, provides students with a broad and detailed introduction to understanding human behaviour.
Upon successful completion of this unit students will be able to demonstrate:
an appropriate level of understanding of a range of theoretical orientations to human behaviour
the ability to discriminate between evidence, interpretation, opinion and fact in evaluating these theories and concepts
an ability to communicate, orally and in a written form, their understanding of these theories and concepts.
Within semester assessment: 100%
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
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El brandy Luis Felipe es un brandy producido en las Bodegas Rubio de la localidad onubense de La Palma del Condado, en el corazón de esta comarca, el Condado de Huelva, famosa por la calidad de sus caldos y su antigua tradición vitivinícola.

La Bodega Rubio compró en 1965 las soleras del Brandy Luis Felipe a la bodega de los hijos de Carlos Morales, de la misma localidad, que cerró por falta de descendencia.
Salió al mercado entre 1989 y 1990 y desde entonces las ventas han evolucionado muy favorablemente, debido a las críticas favorables a la calidad del producto.

Parte de la producción se destina a la exportación a países de todo el mundo como Portugal, Alemania, Suiza e incluso Japón.

Producción anual

Brandy Gran Reserva Luis Felipe, de 60 años: 10 000 botellas.
Brandy Gran Reserva Rey Luis Felipe, de 75 años: 300 botellas.
Brandy Gran Reserva Cien Años: 60 botellas.

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Licores de España
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Last Friday they were discussing sandwiches on WYPR's Midday with Dan Rodricks and it got me thinking about sandwiches I have known. I put in my two cents by recommending the po' boys from my friend Don's restaurant Cajun Kate's in the Booth's Corner Farmers' Market in Boothwyn, PA, because it's one of my current favorites (especially the brisket, fried oyster, and soft shell crab versions), but that's not the only sandwich that has struck my fancy over the years.
When I was quite young, my maternal grandmother had a stroke. During her recovery, we ate lunch together every day, and every day it was the same thing - an imported deli ham sandwich with iceberg lettuce and Kraft thousand island dressing on seeded rye bread from Levin's bakery, with a side of Funyuns. I don't know the origin of the sandwich, but I suspect it was my mother's invention, as I have never seen it elsewhere. Occasionally, when I'm feeling particularly nostalgic, I have a ham on rye with lettuce and thousand island for lunch. It never fails to take me back to age 3, when being cute and entertaining came far more easily.
Another sandwich I enjoyed in my youth, but not nearly as often, is the Baltimore classic, pit beef. It seemed that I only ate them in the first weekend of October, when the Fells Point Festival was in full swing. We lived on the 500 block of Ann Street at the time. Dad and I always walked down together in search of a pit beef sandwich, which Dad would order well-done, with burnt ends, to which we'd add mayonnaise and enough horseradish to make our noses run. Oddly, we always had to share the sandwich (Dad's rule, not mine), so I tend to feel a little greedy that now, as an adult, I get to have my own.
When I like something a lot, I try to eat it often, but not often enough to tire of it. Back in the heyday of Harborplace, there was a little Greek stand on the second floor of the Light Street pavilion. After a morning of desultorily shuffling from shop to shop with my college buddies Leslie and Wanda, we'd occasionally grab lunch there. My personal favorite was a veggie pita, basically a gyro without the meat. If I remember correctly, a warm and fluffy Greek pita was piled high with a combo of lettuce, tomato, raw onion, and cucumber and glopped with tzatziki and feta before being wrapped in aluminum foil to make the messy sandwich easier to handle. So simple, but so good, and something I could eat once a week without getting bored.
I'm also quite fond of a good chicken salad sandwich, and by "good," I mean chicken salad made with a mix of white and dark meat, chopped into fairly small pieces, a generous but not overwhelming amount of mayonnaise, and bits of minced onion. The seasoning can be simple salt and pepper, or something fancier like curry powder and mango chutney. The bread can be rye or a nice artisan loaf. Chicken salad sandwiches I am currently fond of include, believe it or not, the ones found at the University of Maryland Medical Center's Aramark-run cafeteria. The sandwich ladies are not skimpy with the scoops of salad, and they carefully remove the tough part of whole romaine leaves before arranging them carefully on your sandwich. And it's a steal at about $4. Mary Mervis, in the Lexington Market, also makes a fine chicken salad sammie. I like to make it a Chicken Smith by requesting a salty addition of a slice of Smithfield ham. This sometimes confuses the sandwich makers, so tell them to slice and weigh the ham and add the price to the sandwich.


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Following my WalesLab week Ella (my 11 year old daughter) and I will be presenting a dance work in progress at Sherman Cymru. The work is part of a family program within Wales Dance Platform. Fathers and daughters are particularly encouraged to attend.The performance is preceded by a Family Dance Workshop at 1pm led by Aleksandra Jones with Tanja Raman and Lara Ward.
The Family Program includes works by dance artists Louise Suller and Zosia Jo of Joon Dance.
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On MDsave, the cost of a Bone Density DXA Extremity in Santa Cruz, California, is $151. Those on high deductible health plans or without insurance can shop, compare prices and save. Read more about how it works.


Tipton Community School is a public elementary school located in Tipton, KS in the Waconda School District. It enrolls 44 students in grades 1st through 12th. Tipton Community School is the 744th largest public school in Kansas and the 54,930th largest nationally. It has 8.3 students to every teacher.
The form below lets you find Tipton Community School alumni info and Tipton Community School students.
Out of 753 ranked schools in Kansas, Tipton Community School is ranked 753rd for total students on lunch assistance.
The percentage of Tipton Community School students on free and reduced lunch assistance (15.9%) is significantly lower than the state average of 51.7%. This may indicate that the area has a lower level of poverty than the state average.


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https://doi.org/10.17093/alphanumeric.1041138
Teaching the Median with Terms of Absolute Value, Differentiability, and Optimization
Mehmet Hakan Satman, Ph.D.
Prof., Department of Econometrics, Faculty of Economics
Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, mhsatman@istanbul.edu.tr
The verbal definition of the sample median sounds a bit strange in the early Statistics courses in the context of being non-mathematical or non-functional. It is also interesting that estimators based on an analytical calculation such as the sample mean are equally strange, but not seen as strange by the students as the median estimator. In this study, we have expanded the studies on teaching the sample median with its optimization definitions. We have also shown that such definitions provide a natural way of understanding the sample median in multivariate case and regression analysis. Seeing that statistical estimators, from the simplest to the most complex, are obtained as a solution to an optimization problem can pave the way for other types of insights.
Keywords: Absolute Value, Median, Optimization, Statistics, Teaching
Jel Classification: C01
Satman, MH. (2022). Teaching the Median with Terms of Absolute Value, Differentiability, and Optimization. Alphanumeric Journal, 10(1), 41-50. https://doi.org/10.17093/alphanumeric.1041138
H. Fritz, P. Filzmoser, & C. Croux. A comparison of algorithms for the multivariate L 1-median. Computational Statistics, 27-3 (2012): 393-410.
J.P. Paolino. "Teaching univariate measures of location‐using loss functions." Teaching Statistics 40.1 (2018): 16-23.
R Core Team (2021). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. URL https://www.R-project.org/.
P. Rousseeuw. "Least median of squares regression." Journal of the American statistical association 79.388 (1984): 871-880.
A. Tali. "Minimizing the Sum of Absolute Deviations." Teaching Statistics 7.3 (1985): 88-89.
L. Yong, L. Sanyang, and Z. Shemin. "Smoothing Newton method for absolute value equations based on aggregate function." International Journal of Physical Sciences 6.23 (2011): 5399-5405.
Chen, K., Ying, Z., Zhang, H., & Zhao, L. (2008). Analysis of least absolute deviation. Biometrika, 95(1), 107-122.
Charnes, A., Cooper, W. W., & Ferguson, R. O. (1955). Optimal estimation of executive compensation by linear programming. Management science, 1(2), 138-151.
Ronkainen, Tommi, Hannu Oja, and Pekka Orponen. "Computation of the multivariate Oja median." Developments in robust statistics. Physica, Heidelberg, 2003. 344-359.
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Acer saccharum Marshall - syn.Acer barbatum auct. - Sapindaceae - sugar maple, Zucker-Ahorn
Deciduous tree, up tp 25-35m tall, native to the eastern North America; leaves up to 20cm long, with 3-5 palmate lobes; flowers in corymbs of five to 10 together, yellow-green, without petals; fruit a double samara with two winged seeds, the seeds are globose, 7-10mm in diameter, the wing 2-3cm long.
"This tree is a main component of the Eastern U.S. hardwood forest and is one of the trees which is most responsible for giving New England its reputation for spectacular fall color."
http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=h240
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_saccharum
"…by the time European settlers arrived in North America, native Americans had already learned to slash the bark of maple trees in late winter or early spring, collect the near-clear sap that came out, and boil the sap into a thick, sweet product… of the thirteen species of the genus Acer in North America, the sugar maple (A. saccharum), the black maple (A. nigrum), and the red maple (A. rubrum) provide most of the sap for syrup production. There are two reasons for this. First, the sugar content of their sap is typically higher than other species, at 2.0-2.5%. Second, the annual growth spurt of these species occurs later in the spring than other maple species, increasing the length of the sap-collecting season… it takes the combustion of 65 L of natural gas to generate about 20 mL of syrup - about 1.5 tablespoons. Clearly, the production of significant volumes of syrup is an energy-intensive process."
[The chemical composition of maple syrup. Ball DW, Journal of Chemical Education, Vol.84(10), 2007, 1647]
http://chefcristysrawfoods.com/images/maple73.pdf
"Portions of a distinctively flavored commercial maple sirup were heated by autoclaving at 15 psig (250°F) for 1.5 and 4 hr. A GLC flavor profile of the treated and untreated sirups showed that 25 components in their flavor fractions changed in relative amounts. In the light colored original sirup, acetol and compounds related to lignin (vanillin, syringaldehyde, dihydroconiferyl alcohol) predominated. As the sirup was heated, carbohydrate breakdown products began to appear and then to predominate (acetol, furanones, cyclotene, and HMF). As the carbohydrate degradation products increased the sirup darkened in color and became acrid in flavor; at this point vanillin began to decrease."
[Effect of heat on the flavoring components of maple sirup. Underwood, J. C., Journal of food science Vol.36(2), 1971, 228-230]
furaneol
sugar furanone (sotolon)
guaiacol
"A base syrup formulation containing nonvolatile flavor compounds was used to systematically evaluate the sensory contributions of selected volatile compounds (furaneol, 2,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-3(2H)-furanone; sugar furanone, 4,5-dimethyl-3-hydroxy-2(5H)-furanone; guaiacol, 2-methoxy phenol; vanillin, 4-hydroxy-3-methoxy-benzaldehyde) to maple syrup flavor. Descriptive sensory panels showed that all compounds contributed to maple flavor intensity, but sugar furanone was an exceptionally important determinant. Medium and dark amber syrups contained generally higher concentrations of the selected flavor compounds than the light amber syrup. 5′-Inosine monophosphate was tentatively identified in maple syrup by HPLC analysis, and was found to contribute important taste characteristics to maple syrup. Consumer studies showed that more flavorful, darker grade A syrups were preferred over light amber grade A syrup."
[Contributions of selected flavor compounds to the sensory properties of maple syrup. Belford, A. L., R. C. Lindsay, and S. C. Ridley., Journal of sensory studies Vol.6(2), 1991, 101-118]
Sargent, C.S., The Silva of North America, vol.2, t.91 (1898) [C.E.Faxon]
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@ AAT we were pretty blown away with the February 2013 cover of Advantage Magazine.
The concept was driven by Durban's Conversation LAB who collaborated with Olivia Villet, a well-known illustrator.
So, we simply HAD to get our own copy and Conversation LAB kindly printed us a big version to display in our offices.


HB Opera House fire clean up.
Police believe a fire was deliberately lit in Hawke's Bay Opera House earlier this week. Firefighters contained the fire to the loading bay at the back of the Hastings building. Some electrical wiring has been damaged along with historic posters on the walls. Smoke entered the stage area but was stopped going further by a fire screen.


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Gender is a polite word for sex, isn't it? Yes and no. The short answer is that sex is about the bodies we have, while gender is about how we feel or are perceived by others.
Sex: either of the two categories (male and female) into which humans and most other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions.
Gender: societal or cultural expectations and norms for males and females, often expressed in terms of masculinity and femininity, largely culturally determined.
It's true that gender is often used in place of sex, perhaps to avoid the awkwardness of sex also being a shorthand for sexual intercourse. Application forms will ask, what is your gender, male or female? That clearly means sex, since there are only two options. We also know that, unlike clownfish, humans cannot change sex. Using gender to mean sex is commonplace and mostly harmless, as long as we all agree it really means biological sex, either male or female, as determined in utero and observed at birth or before.
But that is now contested, not by scientists or medics, but by trans activists who assert that gender exists as an inner sense independent of sex. Gender ideology holds that everyone has a gender identity which they can feel. This "gender identity" may not match up with the observed sex of their body and, we are told, may not be merely male or female in any case.
Fair Play for Women has no issue with people claiming a gender identity, choosing their gender or gender expression or anything else, as long as the protections in law for females as a sex are maintained.
How many genders are there?
If by gender you mean sex, the answer is two. If you mean some inner sense of something, then it's harder to say, since gender identity is said to be an inner feeling. If so, it cannot be verified. Who knows whether one person's feelings are the same as another's?
Activist groups list many gender options. These include the possibility of a person being non-binary, meaning neither male nor female, or having aspects of both. One can, their theory goes, also be gender-fluid, meaning your gender changes over time, or even from day to day, like the London banker Philip Bunce aka Pips Bunce. This is how the BBC can issue a teaching resource for primary school children which says there are over 100 genders, and perhaps more.
Most common, however, is that a person of one sex feels they should be, or are, the other sex. A male who declares himself to feel like, and hence to be, a woman, is a transwoman or transgender woman. A female who declares herself a man is a transman or transgender man. How a man knows how a woman feels remains unexplained. Such people will normally signal their gender identity by dressing in the stereotypical clothes of the other sex, adopting cultural norms (like long hair and make-up to signal womanhood), and perhaps having hormone treatment and/or surgery to make their faces and bodies appear more like those of the other sex.
So what is gender if it's not another word for sex?
If gender is not synonymous with sex, then what is it? The best available explanation is that it is the typical outward expression of our sex: the way we dress, wear our hair, even the jobs we do and behaviours we exhibit. Nowadays, women wear trousers and flat shoes but men rarely wear high heels or dresses (kilts and sarongs notwithstanding). Progress in women's long fight against sexism means it is no longer acceptable to say that men are courageous and aggressive while women are caring and sensitive, but those claiming a gender identity of female will often seek to demonstrate what they believe are female (or perhaps we should say feminine) personality traits and behaviours.
So gender is the societal or cultural expectations and norms for males and females, often expressed in terms of masculinity and femininity, and largely culturally determined. It is often called sex-based stereotypes, though some aspects of gender are merely one culture's traditions or forms of social organisation, and are not necessarily seen as problematic. It is perhaps less of a value judgement to call them sex-based norms.
Gender, or sex-based norms, are not fixed. Many aspects of gender vary over time and across societies. It is common to find that work is divided into men's work and women's work, but something that is men's work in one society, say, weaving or basket-making, may be women's work in another. The myth that women gather berries and men hunt for meat has also been dispelled. Now we know that the division of labour was never that simple. However, there is some consistency across cultures. While both males and females may hunt for food, males tend to do the work that risks life and limb, whether that is going to sea to fish, or fighting with other tribes. Dr Heather Heying, an evolutionary biologist, talks about this here at 21 minutes in.
What about intersex people?
Sex is usually observed at birth or before. A quick look at a baby's genitals normally reveal whether they're male or female, but even in rare cases of a disorder or variation of sex development (DSD, VSD, or intersex condition), modern medicine can determine chromosomal sex through blood tests and can thus ensure a baby's medical condition is diagnosed and treatment given. This is important because some DSDs bring health problems. For example, CAH, a condition affecting females, can cause life-threatening kidney problems that need to be treated as soon as possible. The term "intersex" is misleading because no one is between sexes. DSDs are sex-specific: conditions that occur in males are different from those which can occur in females, described in this post. While genitals can be atypical in appearance, almost every person with a DSD appears unambiguously male or female, especially after puberty when the differences in outward appearance of males and females become much more pronounced.
Is sex assigned at birth?
Gender ideologists promote the idea that sex is assigned at birth but that gender identity will later emerge. The term "assigned at birth" comes from the historical practice of deciding whether a baby with ambiguous genitals should be declared boy or girl. This occurs in less than 0.02% of live births. Nowadays it is quickly resolved by a chromosomal blood test, although this is not always readily available in some countries. For the other 99.98% of babies, sex is observed at birth, and often before by a scan.
Sex vs gender in UK law
In the UK Equality Act 2010, sex is a protected characteristic, and "woman" is defined as "a human female of any age".
Gender reassignment is also a protected characteristic in the Equality Act. Its purpose is to protect transgender people from discrimination. This applies regardless of whether they have a Gender Recognition Certificate, or whether they have undergone any transition of any kind. The Equality Act defines those protected by gender reassignment as "A person has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if the person is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person's sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex." The law does not say that such people should be treated as their desired sex. The widespread belief that this is so comes from guidance issued by the EHRC (the legitimacy of which is contested because it goes beyond the EA), but even this contested guidance is clear that there are exceptions to this, because there are situations where biological sex matters.
The single-sex exemptions or exceptions in the Equality Act are the cases in which sex segregation, and even what looks like discrimination, is permissible in law. These can mean excluding men from female-only services, usually for reasons of privacy, safety or fairness. It also permits the exclusion of women from male-only services where this is necessary for effective provision of the service.
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Q: Tree Node Menu Structure in Windows Forms I am new to using Windows forms and am looking for help on creating a Tree Node Menu Structure in Windows Forms. I have tried reading the documentation on Microsoft docs and testing out the examples still with no clear understanding of how to create a tree node menu structure. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am just learning Windows Forms.
Here is an example of how I would like the structure (the menu items should be tabs):
Node: Customers
-Child node: Add Customers
-Child Node: Add Customer Part

A: Not 100% sure if this is what you are looking for, but basically define your context menu (assuming a right click here)
nodeMenu As ContextMenuStrip

Build your items and a  menu handler, then when your node is selected, define which items of the menu will be available along these lines:
if node.Text.Equals("Customers") then
    nodeMenu.Items("Add Customers").Enabled = True
    nodeMenu.Items("Add Customer Part").Enabled = True
Else
   'do something else
End If

but that is to add a menu to a node.
I think what you want is add nodes under a specfic node, if that is the case, I believe what you are after is more likely the answer here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/9963900/1946036

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25, of White Lake, N.Y.; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.; died March 9 at COP Chergataw, Afghanistan, from wounds sustained when a suicide bomber attacked his unit. Also killed was Sgt. Jonathan J. Richardson.
The Defense Defense announced March 11 the deaths of two 101st Airborne Division soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
They died March 9 in Khowst province, Afghanistan, from wounds suffered when a suicide bomber attacked his unit.
They were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team.
Killed were Sgt. Jonathan J. Richardson, 24, of Bald Knob, Ark., and Pfc. Jason M. Kropat, 25, of White Lake, N.Y., DoD said in a news release.
Richardson was a fire support specialist assigned to C Company. He joined the Army in June 2006 and arrived at Fort Campbell in January 2007, according to a news release from post.
His awards and decorations include: Army Commendation Medal; Army Good Conduct Medal; National Defense Service Medal; Iraq Campaign Medal; Global War on Terrorism Service Medal; Noncommissioned Officers Professional Development Ribbon; Army Service Ribbon; Overseas Ribbon; and Weapons Qualification, M4, expert.
Richardson is survived by his wife, Rachel Richardson, of Clarksville; mother Sharon Dunigan, of Bridgeport, W.Va.; and father, Jeffery Richardson, of Germany.
Kropat was an infantryman assigned to C Company. He joined the Army in November 2008 and arrived at Fort Campbell in March 2009, according to a news release from post.
His awards and decorations include: Army Commendation Medal; Army Good Conduct Medal; National Defense Service Medal; Afghanistan Campaign Medal; Global War on Terrorism Service Medal; Army Service Ribbon; and Weapons Qualification, M4, expert.
Kropat is survived by his parents, Kathleen and Glenn Kropat, of Fredericksburg, Texas.
A memorial service for the fallen soldiers will be held in Afghanistan.
Kropat and Richardson were killed March 11 in Khost province, Afghanistan, when a suicide bomber attacked his unit.
Both were members of C Company, 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team.
First Lt. John Limauro, the company's executive officer, said Kropat was "an excellent soldier in every capacity," and was the first to cheer up his fellow soldiers.
"Jason was always quick with a joke when everyone was down and the situation was undesirable," Limauro said.
Limauro said Kropat, who came to Fort Campbell in March 2009, was also proactive in his efforts to spread the cheer.
Limauro said Richardson, as a noncommissoned officer, was an example for the rest of his comrades.
"His professionalism and appearance set the standard for others to follow," he said.
Richardson died after being medevaced from the scene.
Richardson's and Kropat's deaths are the second and third for the Rakkasans, who took over their area of operations late last month.
Jason Kropat loved the outdoors. Many of the activities he did outside centered on White Lake, which flows alongside the New York hamlet of the same name where Kropat lived.
His fishing skills were chronicled in the local newspaper two years ago — a photo of him proudly displaying a 22-inch trout.
Kropat enlisted in the Army in November 2008, partly to prove that he could succeed there, Kinne said. He was deployed to Afghanistan in January and was killed in combat March 9. He died in Khowst province after an attack on his unit. He was assigned to Fort Campbell.
"He understood the cause. He believed in what he was fighting for," said his sister, Kimberley.
Kropat attended Monticello High School and later earned his GED.
Other survivors include his parents, Glenn and Kathleen Kropat, and sisters Kristina and Courtney.


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Cave shelter of Le Moustier and restoration of Le Moustier Homo neanderthalensis by Charles R. Knight
Geographical range
Africa and Eurasia
Middle Paleolithic
c. 160,000 – 40,000 BP[1]
Type site
Le Moustier
Major sites
Creswell Crags, Lynford Quarry, Arcy-sur-Cure, Vindija Cave, Atapuerca Mountains, Zafarraya, Gorham's Cave, Devil's Tower, Haua Fteah, Jebel Irhoud
Acheulean, Micoquien, Clactonian
Châtelperronian, Emiran, Baradostian, Aterian
The Mousterian (or Mode III) is a techno-complex (archaeological industry) of flint lithic tools associated primarily with the Neanderthals in Europe, and to a lesser extent the earliest anatomically modern humans in North Africa and West Asia. The Mousterian largely defines the latter part of the Middle Paleolithic, the middle of the West Eurasian Old Stone Age. It lasted roughly from 160,000 to 40,000 BP. If its predecessor, known as Levallois or "Levallois-Mousterian" is included, the range is extended to as early as c. 300,000–200,000 BP.[2] The main following period is the Aurignacian (c.43,000–28,000 BP) of Homo sapiens.
1 Naming
Naming[edit]
The culture was named after the type site of Le Moustier, three superimposed rock shelters in the Dordogne region of France.[3] Similar flintwork has been found all over unglaciated Europe and also the Near East and North Africa. Handaxes, racloirs and points constitute the industry; sometimes a Levallois technique or another prepared-core technique was employed in making the flint flakes.[4]
Characteristics[edit]
Le Moustier remains
Le Moustier 1 Neanderthal skull today in Neues Museum Berlin.[5]
Mousterian point
Production of points & spearheads from a flint stone core, Levallois technique, Mousterian culture, Tabun Cave, Israel, 250,000-50,000 BP. Israel Museum
Distribution of Homo neanderthalensis, and main sites. Mousterian industries have been found outside this range (e.g., Jordan, Saudi Arabia).
Cave entrance of Raqefet Cave, were Mousterian remains have been found.
The European Mousterian is the product of Neanderthals. It existed roughly from 160,000 to 40,000 BP.[6] Some assemblages, namely those from Pech de l'Aze, include exceptionally small points prepared using the Levallois technique among other prepared core types, causing some researchers to suggest that these flakes take advantage of greater grip strength possessed by Neanderthals.[7]
In North Africa and the Near East, Mousterian tools were produced by anatomically modern humans. In the Levant, for example, assemblages produced by Neanderthals are indistinguishable from those made by Qafzeh type modern humans.[8] The Mousterian industry in North Africa is estimated to be 315,000 years old.[2]
Possible variants are Denticulate, Charentian (Ferrassie & Quina) named after the Charente region,[9] Typical and the Acheulean Tradition (MTA) - Type-A and Type-B.[10] The industry continued alongside the new Châtelperronian industry during the 45,000-40,000 BP period.[11]
Mousterian artifacts have been found in Haua Fteah in Cyrenaica and other sites in Northwest Africa,[12] as well as in Bambata cave, Zimbabwe, in Southern Africa.[13]
Contained within a cave in the Syria region, along with a Neanderthaloid skeleton.[12]
Located in the Haibak valley of Afghanistan.[12]
Zagros and Central Iran
The archaeological site of Atapuerca, Spain, contains Mousterian objects.
Gorham's Cave in Gibraltar contains Mousterian objects.
Uzbekistan has sites of Mousterian culture, including Teshik-Tash.[12]
Turkmenistan also has Mousterian relics.[12]
Siberia has many sites with Mousterian style implements, eg Denisova Cave.[12]
Israel is one of the places where remains of both Neandertals and Homo sapiens sapiens have been found in association with Mousterian artifacts.[14]
Lynford Quarry near near Mundford, Norfolk, England has yielded Mousterian tools
The archaeological cave site of Azykh contains Mousterian relics in the overlying strata. In this cave a lower jaw of a hominid named "Azykhantrop" has been found. It is supposed that this finding belongs to a "pre-neanderthal" species[15][16]
Artistic impression of the head of a Homo neanderthalensis male. Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Stone scrapers for cleaning and working leather, Mousterian Culture, Israel, 250,000-50,000 BP
Restoration of Le Moustier Homo neanderthalensis by Charles R. Knight
Le Moustier Neanderthal skull reconstitution, Neues Museum Berlin[17]
Levallois points
Mousterian Culture and Late Stone Age Stone Tools. Notch for sharpening wood, and denticulate for sawing wood and bone. Rosh En Mor and En Aqev. 250,000-22,000 BP. Israel
Mousterian & Aurignacian Cultures, Stone Burins used for incising stone and wood, Qafzeh, Hayonim, el-Wad Cave, 250,000-22,000 BP Israel
Mousterian Culture, stone spearheads, 250,000-50,000. Israel Museum
The Paleolithic
↑ Pliocene (before Homo)
Lower Paleolithic
(c. 3.3 Ma – 300 ka)
Oldowan (2.6–1.7 Ma)
Madrasian culture (1.5 Ma)
Soanian (0.5–0.13 Ma)
Acheulean (1.76–0.1 Ma)
Clactonian (0.3–0.2 Ma)
Acheulo-Yabrudian complex (400-200 bp)
(300–45 ka)
Mousterian (160–35-30 ka)
Aterian (c. 145,000–c. 20,000 bp)
Micoquien (130–70 ka)
Sangoan (130-10 bp)
Upper Paleolithic
(50–10 ka)
Emiran (50,000–40,000 bp)
Bohunician (~48,000 bp)
Ahmarian (46,000-42,000 bp)
Châtelperronian (~44,500 – 36,000 bp)
Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician (43-32 ka)
Aurignacian (46-43,000 – c. 26,000 bp)
Khormusan (42,000-18,000 bp)
Baradostian (36-18 ka)
Levantine Aurignacian (35–29 bp)
Périgordian (35–20 ka)
Gravettian (33–24 ka)
Mal'ta–Buret' culture (24,000 - 15,000 bp)
Solutrean (22–17 ka)
Halfan culture (22,000-14,000)
Afontova Gora (21,000-12,000}
Epigravettian (20-10 ka)
Zarzian culture (20,000-10,000 bp)
Iberomaurusian (~25/23,000-11,000 cal bp)
Kebaran (18,000 – 12,500 bp)
Magdalenian (17–12 ka)
Trialetian (16,000-8,000 bp)
Hamburg (15,500-13,100 bp)
Eburran industry (15,000-5,000 bp)
Qadan culture (15,000 BP — 11,000 bp)
Sebilian (15,000 -11,000 bp)
Natufian culture (14,500–11,500 bp)
Federmesser (14–13 ka)
Azilian (14–10 bp)
Ahrensburg (13–12 ka)
Khiamian (12,200 and 10,800 bp)
Swiderian (11–8 ka)
↓ Mesolithic
Neanderthal extinction hypotheses
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Q: Formulae for Catalan's constant. Some years ago, someone had shown me the formula (1).
I have searched for its origin and for a proof.
I wasn't able to get true origin of this formula but I was able to find out an elementary proof for it.
Since then, I'm interested in different approaches to find more formulae as (1).
What other formulas similar to ($1$) are known?
Two days ago, reading the book of Lewin "Polylogarithms and Associated Functions" I was able to find out formula (2).
$\displaystyle \dfrac{1}{3}C=\int_0^1 \dfrac{1}{x}\arctan\left(\dfrac{x(1-x)}{2-x}\right)dx\tag1$
$\displaystyle \dfrac{2}{5}C=\int_0^1 \dfrac{1}{x}\arctan\left(\dfrac{\sqrt{5}x(1-x)}{1+\sqrt{5}-\sqrt{5}x}\right)dx-\int_0^1 \dfrac{1}{x}\arctan\left(\dfrac{x(1-x)}{3+\sqrt{5}-x}\right)dx\tag2$
$C$ being the Catalan's constant.
I have a proof for both of these formulae.
My approach relies on the following identity:
For all real $x>1$,
$\displaystyle \int_0^1 \dfrac{1}{t} \arctan \left (\dfrac{t(1-t)}{\frac{x+1}{2}-t}\right) dt=\int_1^{\frac{\sqrt{x}+1}{\sqrt{x}-1}}\dfrac{\log(t)}{1+t^2}dt$

A: For all $x\in [0,1]$ and $\alpha>1$,
$\displaystyle \arctan\left(\dfrac{x(1-x)}{\tfrac{1+\alpha^2}{(1-\alpha)^2}-x}\right)=\arctan\left(\dfrac{x}{\tfrac{1+\alpha^2}{\alpha(\alpha-1)}+\tfrac{1}{\alpha}x}\right)+\arctan\left(\dfrac{x}{\tfrac{1+\alpha^2}{1-\alpha}+\alpha x}\right)$
For all $\alpha>1$,
$\displaystyle J(\alpha)=\int_0^1\dfrac{1}{x}\arctan\left(\dfrac{x(1-x)}{\tfrac{1+\alpha^2}{(1+\alpha)^2}-x}\right)dx=\int_0^{\tfrac{\alpha-1}{\alpha+1}} \dfrac{\arctan x}{x\left(1-\tfrac{1}{\alpha}x\right)}dx-\int_0^{\tfrac{\alpha-1}{\alpha+1}} \dfrac{\arctan x}{x(1+\alpha x)}dx$
For $x \in ]0,1]$,
$\dfrac{1}{x\left(1-\tfrac{1}{\alpha}x\right)}-\dfrac{1}{x\left(1+\alpha x\right)}=\dfrac{1}{\alpha-x}+\dfrac{\alpha}{1+\alpha x}$
Thus, one obtains,
$\displaystyle J(\alpha)=\int_0^{\tfrac{\alpha-1}{\alpha+1}}\dfrac{\arctan x}{\alpha-x}dx+\int_0^{\tfrac{\alpha-1}{\alpha+1}}\dfrac{\alpha \arctan x}{1+\alpha x}dx$
$\displaystyle J(\alpha)=\Big[-\log(\alpha-x)\arctan x\Big]_0^{\tfrac{\alpha-1}{\alpha+1}}+\int_0^{\tfrac{\alpha-1}{\alpha+1}}\dfrac{\log(\alpha-x)}{1+x^2}dx+\Big[\log(1+\alpha x)\arctan x\Big]_0^{\tfrac{\alpha-1}{\alpha+1}}-\int_0^{\tfrac{\alpha-1}{\alpha+1}}\dfrac{\log(1+\alpha x)}{1+x^2}dx$
$\displaystyle J(\alpha)=\int_0^{\tfrac{\alpha-1}{\alpha+1}}\dfrac{\log\left(\tfrac{\alpha-x}{1+\alpha x}\right)}{1+x^2}dx$
Using change of variable $y=\dfrac{\alpha-x}{1+\alpha x}$ ,
$\displaystyle J(\alpha)=\int_1^{\alpha} \dfrac{\log x}{1+x^2}dx$
If $\alpha=\dfrac{\sqrt{x}+1}{\sqrt{x}-1}$, one obtains,
For all $x>1$,
$\displaystyle \int_0^1 \dfrac{1}{t} \arctan \left (\dfrac{t(1-t)}{\tfrac{x+1}{2}-t}\right) dt=\int_1^{\tfrac{\sqrt{x}+1}{\sqrt{x}-1}}\dfrac{\log(t)}{1+t^2}dt$
when $x=3$, one obtains,
$\displaystyle \int_0^1 \dfrac{1}{t} \arctan \left (\dfrac{t(1-t)}{2-t}\right) dt=\int_1^{\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{3}-1}}\dfrac{\log(t)}{1+t^2}dt=\int_1^{2+\sqrt{3}}\dfrac{\log(t)}{1+t^2}dt$
It's well known that:
$\displaystyle \int_1^{2+\sqrt{3}}\dfrac{\log(t)}{1+t^2}dt=\int_1^{2-\sqrt{3}}\dfrac{\log(t)}{1+t^2}dt=\dfrac{C}{3}$
(recall that, $\tan\left(\dfrac{\pi}{12}\right)=2-\sqrt{3}$ and see Integral: $\int_0^{\pi/12} \ln(\tan x)\,dx$ )

A: There is a large multitude of different representations of the Catalan constant. See the following links for some of them:

*

*http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~adamchik/articles/catalan/catalan.htm

*http://functions.wolfram.com/Constants/Catalan/07/ShowAll.html

*http://functions.wolfram.com/Constants/Catalan/06/ShowAll.html

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan%27s_constant

*http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CatalansConstant.html

*Representations of Catalan's Constant

*Ten New Representations Of Catalan's Constant

A: A more natural proof.
\begin{align}
\beta&=\sqrt{3}-1\\
J&=\int_0^1 \frac{\arctan\left(\frac{x(1-x)}{2-x}\right)}{x}dx\\
&\overset{\text{IBP}}=\left[\arctan\left(\frac{x(1-x)}{2-x}\right)\ln x\right]_0^1-\int_0^1 \frac{(x^2-4x+2)\ln x}{(x^2+\beta x+2)(x^2-(\beta+2)x+2)}dx\\
&=-\int_0^1 \frac{(x^2-4x+2)\ln x}{(x^2+\beta x+2)(x^2-(\beta+2)x+2)}dx\\
&=\int_0^1 \frac{\beta\ln x}{2(x^2-(2+\beta) x+2)}-\int_0^1 \frac{(2+\beta)\ln x}{2(x^2+\beta x+2)}\\
&=\underbrace{\int_0^1 \frac{2\ln x}{\beta\left(\left(\frac{2x-2-\beta}{\beta}\right)^2+1\right)}dx}_{y=\frac{\beta}{2+\beta-2x}}-\underbrace{\int_0^1 \frac{2\ln x}{(2+\beta)\left(\left(\frac{2x+\beta}{2+\beta}\right)^2+1\right)}dx}_{y=\frac{2x+\beta}{2+\beta}}\\
&=-\int_{\frac{\beta}{\beta+2}}^1 \frac{\ln y}{1+y^2}dy\\
&\overset{y=\tan \theta}=-\int_{\frac{\pi}{12}}^{\frac{\pi}{4}}\ln\left(\tan \theta\right)d\theta\\
&=-\int_{0}^{\frac{\pi}{4}}\ln\left(\tan \theta\right)d\theta+\int_0^{\frac{\pi}{12}}\ln\left(\tan \theta\right)d\theta\\
&=\text{G}-\frac{2}{3}\text{G}\\
&=\boxed{\dfrac{1}{3}\text{G}}
\end{align}
NB: For the latter integral see Integral: $\int_0^{\pi/12} \ln(\tan x)\,dx$


The idea for "watchless Monday" came up a few days ago on Twitter when David (@runningbecause) started talking about going on a run just for the sheer joy of running. No GPS, no watch, just you and the road. So simple. And yet many of us get so caught up with our training, and worrying about pace and distance and time, that we don't do it as often as we probably should.
Pretty quickly, several of us (myself, @262milejourney, and @suzistorm) chimed in that we need to go watchless more often, and just enjoy our runs. And thus watchless Monday was born. The idea is simple: on your first run each week (it doesn't necessarily have to be Monday), commit to going watchless. For at least that one run per week, don't worry about your pace or your time. Just run and enjoy yourself.
While it's not a requirement for watchless Monday, I'm going to take it one step farther myself, and run completely "naked", meaning no watch, no GPS, no music. I don't always listen to music on my runs anyways, but I'm going to at least commit myself to going without once per week.
Will you join us? We'll be using the #watchlessmonday tag on Twitter to chat about our watchless runs, so you can follow along and join us. We hope to see you there!
I'll be "naked" too. Taking the watch off is a huge step for a lot of people though. Looking forward to getting the masses to take part!
This is a brilliant idea, you so got me into running sans headphones last year, now without the Garmin?! Once the snow goes away!


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I watch my children watching me as I tread cautiously down the stairs, holding tightly onto the banister. They walk in front of me in case I should fall, concern evident in their furtive backward glances. Slight unsteadiness has gradually crept into my new reality, and I no longer remember how it felt to scurry down the stairs.
My future was carved out by the arrival, over ten years ago, of Parkinson's disease, a degenerative brain disorder which leads to muscle rigidity, tremor and slowing of movement. Many people with advanced disease have impaired balance, a stiff facial expression, shuffling gait, muffled speech, and small, cramped handwriting. Some experience memory loss, others struggle with disease-induced depression.
My memories of D-Day ("Diagnosis Day") remain vivid. "You have garden-variety Parkinson's Disease," announced the neurologist casually, leaving me fighting back tears as I tried to maintain a dignified front. "Garden variety Parkinson's disease?" I repeated to myself then, and for months after, as I tried in vain to deny my new reality. I devoured copious bits of information in the hope that knowledge would empower me. Instead, it filled my mind with images of a future truncated by rapidly spiraling physical and mental deterioration. I was utterly devastated.
As the initial shock began to wear off I resolved to fight this strong adversary with every fiber of my being, and to uphold my joyful disposition, despite the challenges ahead.
Taking charge of my couch potato self I hired a personal trainer. Wonderful! I lost weight and felt energized, such that I enthusiastically began to scour travel magazines for adventure-style vacations. But my formidable opponent sneaked in and tempered my newly acquired agility.
… Until I look around at some of my fellow participants and catch a glimpse of my future. I allow my imagination to run free as I weave stories about the people behind the expressionless masks and unblinking eyes that identify the individual with more advanced Parkinson's. This one might have been a university professor … that one an aeronautical engineer … another a classical guitarist. The expression of dazed simplicity conceals their emotional and intellectual depth as the mask freezes their once-automatic facial expressiveness.
And the Parkinson's Shuffle is still the most popular dance step amongst this crowd.
Hoping to delay the inevitable for as long as possible, I ingest an impressive array of medications. I remember how I used to watch little old ladies fishing for their pillboxes in their crammed purses. I am now one of them - except that I am neither little (unfortunately!); nor am I old (though I hope to get there!).
My movements have become slow and deliberate and my fingers clumsy. My handwriting is now illegible, even to me, and I scratch my head in bewilderment as I try to decipher what I've written.
It helps to be able to laugh at myself. How else can I deal with being called "Sir" on the telephone because my voice has become deeper and softer … or being relegated to the male section of the choir?
I may be joyful, but I am also human. There are feelings and fears that drift in and out of my psyche ... the trepidation that permeates my being when I picture myself with advanced disease … the sadness that pervades when I remind myself that my beloved grandchildren will never remember the person I was … the anger I try to suppress each time my body betrays me … the shame I experience when passers-by assume that I'm stealing a handicapped parking spot … the embarrassment of holding up the line in the grocery store as I fumble in my wallet … and the terror I have of developing dementia.
From time to time, when frustration builds and I need a good cry – but I have a loving husband and good friends whose open arms soothe my soul. Until recently I had shared very little of my inner world with my five children, despite the close relationships we enjoy. In part, I did not want to burden them, but a less altruistic reason was that I wanted to be viewed as strong … brave … uncomplaining. But then I realized how this was preventing us from achieving the intimacy that emanates from openness and authenticity. And - to be fair - there was a part of me that wanted my children to know and understand my experience.
Despite the many challenges in my path, I feel extremely fortunate that – after so many years – I am still able to pursue activities that I enjoy (albeit with some accommodations and within the boundaries imposed by this condition). I write, I do woodcarving and I volunteer at Hospice. And – always - a visit with my wonderful grandchildren guarantees unadulterated joy.
And so we laugh together and cry together … and I quietly thank my lucky stars for the many wonderful people in my life who walk this road with me and give me every reason to be joyful.