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Q: Functions intersection approximation Let f1 and f2 be two functions in the range of [a, b], and maxerr the required approximation. They both differentiable and continuous in this range. I should return an iterable of approximate intersection Xs, such that:
∀x∈Xs, |f_1(x) - f_2(x)| < maxerr.
The signature of the function for example should be:
def intersection(self, f1: callable, f2: callable, a: float, b: float, maxerr=0.001) -> callable:

What is the most profficient way to do that without using a library method that finds the intersection directly?
Notes:

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*Python 3.7

*Forbidden build-in functions: finding roots and intersections of functions, interpolation, integration, matrix decomposition, eigenvectors and solving linear systems.

Right now my code is as the following:
def intersection_recursive(f1, f2, a, b, maxerr, X, start_time, timeout, side_flag):
  f = f1 - f2
    startX = a
    endX = b
    while not f(startX) * f(endX) < 0 and time.time() < start_time + timeout:
        startX = random.uniform(a, b)
        endX = random.uniform(startX, b)
    mid = (startX + endX) / 2
    while not abs(f(mid)) < maxerr and time.time() < start_time + timeout:
        if f(startX) * f(mid) < -1:
            endX = mid
        else:
            startX = mid
        mid = (startX + endX) / 2
    if abs(f(mid)) < maxerr:
        X.append(mid)
    else:
        return X
    if side_flag:
        return intersection_recursive(f1, f2, a, mid, maxerr, X, start_time, timeout, not side_flag)
    else:
        return intersection_recursive(f1, f2, mid, b, maxerr, X, start_time, timeout, not side_flag)

def intersection(self, f1: callable, f2: callable, a: float, b: float, maxerr=0.001) -> callable:
   timeout = 10
   X = []
   start_time = time.time()
   intersection_recursive(f1, f2, a, b, maxerr, X, start_time, timeout, True)
   return X

A: The below answer is to the original question, where no assumptions about the functions are made...

Without any additional information about the functions the no free lunch theorem applies and any search strategy is as valid as any other.
That said, a simple quasirandom sequence covers all of [a, b] uniformly at every detail level, given enough time.
I don't think your function signature is correct by the way, it should return an iterable.
from typing import Callable, Iterable

def intersection(f1: Callable[[float], float],
                 f2: Callable[[float], float],
                 a: float, b: float,
                 maxerr: float=0.001) -> Iterable[float]:
   a, b = sorted([a, b])
   invphi = 2 / (1 + 5**0.5)
   t = 0.5
   while True:
       x = a + (b-a)*t
       if abs(f1(x) - f2(x)) < maxerr:
           yield x
       t = (t + invphi) % 1.0


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To commemorate the death of Francis Crick on this day in 2004, here's a reprint of the article I published in the Houston Chronicle a few days after his passing.
Francis Crick, one of the premier biologists of the 20th century, passed away July 28, 2004, in San Diego. On his 88th birthday, I brought him chocolates and spent the day with him in his home in La Jolla.
As with all our meetings, he jumped straight into a discussion of theories about brain function. He was increasingly frail, his hair had thinned from chemotherapy, and he wobbled on his cane unsteadily. But intellectually, he was still the dominating leviathan of biology.
From the obituaries, most people know that Francis Crick, with his colleague James Watson, uncovered the structure of what sits in the middle of every cell of every animal on the planet: DNA. The double helix they deduced led quickly to an unraveling of all the secrets of the genetic code.
It had long been known that you inherit traits from your parents – but no one had any good idea how your father's nose shape and your mother's eye color were encoded in invisibly small molecules. By the 1960s, thanks largely to the work of Francis Crick and his circle of friends, the molecular basis of inheritance was worked out.
For the DNA work, he and Watson won the Nobel Prize in 1962. As the biologist Jacque Monod said of him, "one man dominates intellectually the whole field [of molecular biology], because he knows the most and understands the most."
The popular media offered depictions they assumed the public would appreciate, declaring, for example, that the work of Dr. Crick laid the groundwork for genetically engineered tomatoes. While such tomatoes can plausibly trace distant roots to Crick's discoveries, the journalists were digging in the wrong place: Crick cared about the deeper questions, the questions about life itself. In molecular biology, he blazed trails and laid the groundwork for everything that would happen over the next half-century. Having pretty well answered what he set out to answer, he turned his voracious intellectual appetite to his second scientific goal: an understanding of the brain. In 1977, he moved to the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.
James Watson famously commenced his book The Double Helix with the line, "I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood." I have yet to find a more incorrect opening line. Francis Crick was always in a modest mood. He was one of the few people always willing to criticize his own ideas. He never filtered beliefs through his own ego and never hesitated to applaud other people's theories. He laughed freely and often. When asked about Watson's meaning in the opening line, Crick smiled and said it must have reflected that he (Crick) always wanted to get to the bottom of things.Specifically, he wanted to know how the brain produces consciousness. In the field of neuroscience, consciousness was forbidden territory. It took someone with the gravitas of Francis Crick to establish consciousness as a real scientific problem. It feels like something to have pain. It feels like something to see the color indigo. Somehow, these conscious perceptions are underpinned by neural activity – but how, where, what? By asking penetrating questions, rallying others to perform experiments, and inspiring thousands, he opened up new directions in brain research. He even published on dream sleep and the origin of life on Earth. Nothing was outside his intellectual ken. He once remarked to me that the dangerous man is the one with only one theory, because he'll fight to the death for it.
I cannot escape the feeling that those who discover life's secrets should be immune to life's fatality. But in the end, Francis Crick was made only of the molecules he illuminated. He was the victim of uncontrolled cell division. He was consumed by the microscopic scales of which he was composed. The molecules he discovered were the sewn-in seeds of his own destruction.
This description would appeal to Francis. His crusade was to teach that we are a vastly sophisticated network of trillions of cells; a tour de force of biological sophistication with no other magic in the machine. Some people worry that scientific understanding somehow diminishes the beauty of nature. To this Francis once answered, "It seems to me that what you lose in mystery you gain in awe." What we have lost in Francis we gain in inspiration.
I first met Francis when I moved to the Salk Institute in 1999. He was quite a bit taller than I had expected. Beneath a head of silver hair he had sparkling eyes and an impish smile and the most impressively winged eyebrows I have ever seen. The first time I saw him in the auditorium during a talk, he sat alone in the front row. As the talk went on, his head began to sink and his eyes began to close. I felt the sad intuition that senescence was taking its toll on a great mind. But then the speaker made some seemingly innocuous interpretation of his results, and a small smile grew on the corner of Francis' lip. He leisurely raised his hand, and in a rapid-fire Cambridge-accented karate-chop analysis, the speaker was re-educated. I came to recognize this as a regular occurrence. Francis was never mean-spirited, just incisive. He detected microscopic flaws in logic. In a room full of smart scientists, Francis continually re-earned his position as the heavyweight champ.
One of the finest things in my life has been his friendship and tutelage. Francis Crick influenced me in the way that only a young person near the beginning of his career can be influenced by someone near the end of theirs. I was born 18 years (to the day) after Watson and Crick published the double-helix structure on the pages of Nature, a journal where I would come to publish my own work 51 years later. Arriving on the planet so long afterward, I was inestimably fortunate to have shared orbits with him for the past six years. His influence on me was deep, and his loss marks the passing of an era for many people in the field.
He was an inspiration to all who knew him, a brainstorming intellectual powerhouse with a mischievous smile. He listened carefully, engaged ideas, sought robust debates, and hunted for the tough problems. At the age of 88, he continued to work every day on important unsolved problems. He continued to publish major papers and read all the journals in the field at an age when most people are playing bridge and intellectually melting away. He was working on a manuscript the day he died.
As a scientist, thinker, author, mentor, friend, and colleague, one would be hard pressed to find someone who could outshine the twinkly-eyed Francis Crick. It will be some time before the world sees another like him.
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A wide range of new traffic safety measures has been agreed by the German parliament as part of an update to the country's traffic law.
Drivers who park in cycle lanes or follow emergency vehicles through an emergency corridor will now face higher fines, and, for the latter, the possibility of a driving ban. Read more
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VOLVO -Tower
Oh, those crazy men and women in Gothenburg, Sweden is at it again. The folks at Volvo Trucks have a new promotional video to rival the ones they have made in the past … and that takes some doing.
Keep in mind, this is the same company that gave the world action star Jean-Claude Van Damme doing the splits with one foot each on two moving trucks.
The company explains the video this way: Read more
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Nine EU countries voice opposition to EU 'Mobility Package'
The number of countries opposing the EU mobility package grew from six to nine on Tuesday (18 February) when the transport ministers of Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Cyprus, Malta and Estonia made their positions clear in Brussels.
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European Commission welcomes Stockholm Declaration on Road Safety
18/02/2020 /in News & Info /by uicr.org
This week government delegates from more than 80 countries are discussing how to step up ambition and improve global road safety in the next decade.
During the 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Stockholm, Swedish Minister for Infrastructure Tomas Eneroth presented the Stockholm Declaration, stressing the need for continued, ambition in particular by working towards a new global fatality reduction target, as the current target expires this year.
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Call for applications for the selection of members of the sub-groups "Road markings & road signs" and "Methodology on road safety assessments & safety ratings"
Register of Commission expert groups and other similar entities: Calls for applications
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How Electric Vehicles Are Changing Our Transport Models
The internal combustion engine has its origins in a burst of invention and innovation that began more than two centuries ago, and it still drives much of our transport. But this energy system – in cars, trucks, ships and aeroplanes – is now facing a serious rival in electric motors. And as electric vehicles become more and more widely used, they are changing the very nature of our transport models. Read more
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I downloaded three Barcelona applications for my trip, and this one was by far the most useful. The ability to save favorite spots on the offline maps, access their details with a single touch, and obtain turn-by-turn directions from my current location were incredibly helpful as I explored the city.
Offline Maps are "off da hook"
I'm not sure how it works but its amazing... The offline map know exactly where you are and gives you directions to anyplace you like... I am a believer.
A big help in Barcelona!
Used this app on a recent trip to Barcelona, and loved it. The offline maps were terrific. Plus the app recommended a restaurant that turned out to be one of the highlights of the trip. Lots of good info, easy to use. Would give it 5 stars but my one problem with it was that the turn by turn navigation was confusing.
Great app, perfect replacement for a book, good chance for user input!
Useful information on lodging, restaurants, sights, history, culture and more. Love the navigation tools for directions and the sharing of photos, reviews and more through integration with Fscebook.
Very helpful got us where we needed to be without any Internet connection!
Great app. Thanks. The navigation service works like a charm. Like a personal planner the itinerary was great. It would be nice to improve the restaurant selection(e.g add Michelin rated or zagat rated). For people who don't eat ham Spain is a challenging place to find food.
We used this app while in Barcelona and it was very helpful in setting our itinerary. The descriptions of attractions were excellent and directions also very good. The only issue was that sometimes it was difficult to follow the directions in the alleys and streets of the Gothic Quarter.


U.S. exploration and production companies drilled 9,056 wells in Q4. That is a lot of holes and very few of them were dry.
However, production only increased from 7.784 mbpd to 8.044 mbpd. That is an increase of only 260,000 bpd for the quarter. Since there are currently 351 active gas rigs and 1,416 active oil rigs we can assume that 25% of those wells drilled were gas wells and 75% were oil. Obviously some wells produce both but we are going to go with the averages.
That means 6,792 wells or 75% combined to increase production by 260,000 bpd or an average of 38.3 bpd each.
Before everyone starts screaming that is wrong I will admit that you can't use simple math to determine the average production rate of a new well. The average new well produced from several hundred to several thousand barrels per day.
However, that is not my point here. My point is that it took 6,792 wells to increase production by 260,000 bpd because of the rapid decline of all the other wells previously drilled.
In Q3 there were 9,075 new wells drilled and production increased from 7.267 mbpd to 7.784 mbpd or an increase of 517,000 bpd.
I am sure you noticed that production increased almost double in Q3 compared to Q4. There are multiple reasons for that. Completions are harder in Q4 because of the severe weather. The wells are drilled but fewer wells were completed and hooked up to a pipeline. This Q4 production will show up in Q1 as the weather improves and completions are accelerated.
Let's take this analogy one step further. Let's calculate it for the entire year and that will encompass all the various weather delays for all of 2013.
As of December 28th, 2012 production was 6.985 mbpd. As of December 31st, 2013 production was 8.044. Production increased 1.059 mbpd. I don't have the well counts for Q1 and Q2 and we know more wells are drilled in the summer months so let's use an average of 9,075 per quarter or 36,300 wells for all of 2013.
Using the same math of 75% of the wells are oil that gives us 27,225 oil wells in 2013. Guess what? That gives us almost the same 38.8 bpd increase for every new well.
That should give you some idea about the pace of decline in the previously drilled wells. If we have to drill 27,225 new wells to boost production by 1.059 mbpd we are running as hard as we can just to stay even.
Let's assume every new well only produces 367 bpd in real life. There will be some less than that and the majority more than that but I need a starting place for this discussion.
That calculation (27,225 * 367) gives us a total new production rate of 10,000,000 barrels per day.
Think about that for a minute. If we increase new production by 10.0 mbpd but the NET production gain is only 1.059 bpd then nearly 9.0 mbpd is being eaten up by decline rates in previously drilled wells. I know most readers are choking on that number.
The problem is that we can't assume that every new well will produce that 367 bpd for the entire year. If a well comes online on January 1st at 367 bpd it may be 300 bpd by April 1st, 250 bpd by July 1st, 200 bpd by Oct 1st and 150 bpd by year end. Remember, shale wells have a monster decline curve. I am reprinting the chart below based on the Eagle Ford.
The chart shows the anticipated peaking of production in 2015 with about 9,000 wells drilled. However, the number of wells drilled, red line, keeps climbing even though the production, green line, falls off sharply starting in 2016. More wells does not mean more oil. More wells simply slow the decline rate of the field.
To make my point above about having to drill progressively more and more wells just to stay even I am reprinting the decline chart for the Bakken. If a Bakken well comes online at 500 bpd on January 1st it will typically decline -69% (-345 bpd) by year end to produce roughly 150 bpd at the start of the second year. By the middle of the fifth year it will be barely producing.
I get a lot of kick back from readers on this topic. People see the factoid that the U.S. increased production by 1.059 mbpd in 2013 and we are on our way to energy independence and they don't have enough facts to know the truth. Using the numbers above in order to continue increasing oil production we would need to increase the number of wells drilled by a factor of about 10% per year.
We drilled more than 36,000 in 2013. That would need to grow to nearly 40,000 in 2014, 44,000 in 2015, 49,000 in 2016, etc. Obviously that is not going to happen. We are pretty well maxed out at 36,000 without a significant increase in the price of oil. Exploration companies are maxed out on their capex budgets and they are facing the same math as I just explained. Their prior wells are in decline and not producing as much cash as in prior years. This limits the number of new wells they can drill unless they start selling off assets to raise cash and that only works for a limited time.
The second part of this puzzle is the available well locations. Drilling 36,000 new wells a year will max out the available well locations several years from now. The prime spots will all be drilled out and the lesser quality locations don't produce enough oil up front to justify an $8 million dollar well.
Mark my words that the tone of conversation coming out of the energy sector five years from now will be entirely different. We have already seen a significant number of E&P companies report slowing production growth over the last two quarters. This trend will continue for those without prime leases in the various shale plays. The trend will be for smaller wells at a lower cost.
I know I have preached about this before but from the emails I get I know there is still very little understanding of the topic. Spread the word!
The markets rebounded for two days to close just under strong resistance and we are now at the point where investors will have to make a conscious decision to buy or sell rather than just cover shorts or continue being long from a trading bounce.
The markets were oversold. Now they are not. Resistance could be strong ahead of the Yellen testimony to the House Financial Committee on Tuesday. Economics are weakening.


We are excited to welcome the new generation of legislators who will surely bring new energy to the Legislative Council.
As to Hong Kong Television chairman Ricky Wong Wai-kay, we can only say, better luck next time.
The naughty boy of the telecom sector, who campaigned on the promise of kicking out Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying in next year's election, lost to Tanya Chan Suk-chong of the Civic Party, who took the last seat in the Hong Kong Island constituency.
Call it destiny. Hong Kong Island has seen the number of its seats reduced to six from seven.
Compared with other districts, it is regarded as a bailiwick of pan-democrats, and many residents of Taikoo Shing had to line up until 2 a.m. of the following day to be able to cast their ballots in view of the huge turnout and diminished number of polling stations.
That should have been a good omen for the pan-democrats, but the competition even among themselves was fierce.
Cyd Ho Sau-lan of the Labour Party failed in her bid for re-election, along with fellow democrats Lee Cheuk-yan, Frederick Fung Kin-kee and Raymond Wong Yuk-man.
Like it or not, the old warriors had to pass the baton to the new generation of democrats, the post-'80s and post-'90s set.
This new breed of politicos include Nathan Law Kung-chung, a veteran of the 2014 Occupy protests who at 23 will be the youngest Legco member and second only in the number of votes garnered on the Island to the almighty Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee.
Law, along with Yau Wai-ching, Kwong Chun-yu and several other yellow umbrella wielders, steps up to answer the call of what promises to be one of the most interesting chapters in Hong Kong's post-handover political saga.
Election complaints are pouring, and this is understandable; those who lost outnumber the winners.
But this time around, we can't help but feel glad for the new legislators, especially the young guns who have graduated from the raging streets of protest into the august halls of Legco.
For Ricky Wong, this is just another setback.
His company's share price fell as much as 10 percent on Monday morning after surging 10 percent last Friday amid high expectations that he would win, which could have meant a bigger chance for him to get a TV license.
Wong has blamed CY Leung for blocking his business. That is why he campaigned for ABC – Anyone But CY – to ride on the public's growing disaffection with the chief executive.
Unfortunately, his strategy did not work well, although very few candidates voiced their support for a second term for Leung for fear of upsetting their own voters.
The voters are not stupid, either. If Leung did not get a second term, what would Wong do for the rest of his term in Legco with his mission already accomplished?
Nice to see Hong Kong Island voters are not stupid.


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Once upon a time there was a land torn to pieces…
Welcome to the Ophi's Quest website, we are glad you are here! This is an introduction page to our project, made to answer any questions you might have about the story or the team, first of all: Who is Ophi and how did this project came to fruition? Well, if you are curious to know more about our pervy overlord bunny and how her story came to be, please continue reading, otherwise if you are a returning customer or just want to skip ahead to the juicy bits, please click one of the links below.
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Ophi's Quest is a joint project between two Brazilian creators, Carnivate, the artist and the one who originally idealized the project and the writer James La Bella. With an art style that is the perfect mix of cute and sexy, Carn's work was, from the onset, a great fit for the cute, funny and extremely tongue-in-cheek parody that Ophi's quest is supposed to be. With a variety of quirky and likeable characters, we're sure you'll find something to love about our story, and, in case you don't, let us know, we'll do our best to accommodate your suggestions!
With the input of Hunter, our own one-man marketing department, this project spent months being cooked in Carn's mind before he finally decided to look for help. When I joined the project, all he needed was for me to give him that last little push to put the project on track.
Other important members of our team are Lace, who's been making beautiful isometric assets for us for a while, and the illustrious Judge Heath from the famous game Cloud Meadow, who has been offering us his consultation services as we grow into our own ideals.
We'd also like to thank the voice actors who agreed to work in our project, to whom we've made a page with their contact information in case any of you want to know more about them, or hire them for your own projects! But, without further ado, here's what Ophi's Quest is all about:
Lily the Machinist, Egor the Roaming Wizard, Ceres the Overlord's Right Hand
Making fun of all the usual tropes commonly found in RPG and popular video games, Ophi's quest is a NSFW mixture of a webcomic and a choose your own adventure story with some mini-games planned for the future. It takes inspiration from several different places, such as Kingdom Death: Monster, which you can clearly see in the "armors" worn by our characters, and games such as Rance, for the overall "gameplay" and narrative.
By giving us input on each post, you help us decide the course of the story, telling us what you think the characters should do next to achieve their goals and overcome their challenges. Together we'll shape the journey of Ophi, our main character, as she becomes the lewdest evil overlord in the history of the world! With plenty of comedy, bouncing breasts, and epic battles to be had with the enemies and the help of the companions Ophi meets along the way, we hope to create a fun story that we can all enjoy.
Patrons of the project will also get access to special polls that allow them to help us choose the next NSFW scenes to be drawn, or even add their own characters to cameo in the story and/or be picked for the NSFW scenes. Those scenes will cover fetishes from the usual vanilla content to extremely niche fetishes, and will be clearly tagged in case you want to avoid any of those.
Another thing worth noting is, as the Patreon grows, more and more features will be added to the game. Our current goal being the development of a collection game where viewers will be able to register to the site, which will enable them to own control of Ophi's followers — randomly generated girls representing the population of the world that come to live in the Hearth of Sin. The options for each body part will increase as time goes on, but the chances of two characters having the exact same appearance are already minimal. Followers will become more capable as time goes on, increasing her stats and maybe even gaining new outfits as they progress through a massive class tree!
You can check the current progress of the character generator here (Refresh the page to regenerate the character and skills!)
About the Story
As the intro video tells us, Lucernia is a land made of small islands orbiting a sun, which is a divine machine called "The Beacon", which keeps the darkness away. It was once a massive piece of land, but it was shattered by the goddesses as a last resort to stop a terrible overlord from conquering it. Ophi's quest has a bit of a steampunk aesthetic, derived from systems such as Iron Kingdoms, it has aspires to have the same brass and leather colors that are common in steampunk art, but with some adaptations to suit Carn's more colorful art style. The technology in it is a mixture of common steampunk tropes such as gears and steam, but instead powered by magic crystals, I personally like to call it Magitek.
Our main character Ophelia is a regular denizen of Lucernia. Through a series of unfortunate events, Ophi, as we call her, is brought to a mysterious cave, where her feelings of powerlessness regarding her own life are felt by the soul of the overlord who was sealed there centuries ago and left to be forgotten in the ruins of his own fortress. The power of the overlord calls to Ophi and brings her to the dais holding the orb where it was trapped. The seal, weakened after centuries of being left to its own devices, is broken under Ophi's touch. The result, however, was interesting. Larahmal's physical body didn't leave the orb, and instead became part of his old living armor, that now clad Ophi's body.
And that is how Ophelia's adventures as the future Overlord of Lucernia begin.
Involved fetishes
Below are the general fetishes that are planned to be in the story so far. Most NSFW scenes will be separate from the story, especially the non-vanilla ones, and as such you can safely enjoy the story without having to see any of that.
Keep in mind that since the project updates will be done weekly, and the "facilities" for each kind of scene need to be "unlocked", it may take a long time before most of those fetishes are actually done.
Double/Triple Penetration and variants
BDSM related
Bondage/Hanging/Rope Play
"Niche" Fetishes
Anthro/Furry
Belly Bulge/Large Penetrations
Cum Inflation
Lactation / Milking Machines
A side quest
Recap episode… kinda
360 no scope
Silent deadly mountains
New people, new problems
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Queen Hatshepsut Temple
Queen Hatshepsut temple Story Beyond the Mesmerizing
Short Description About Queen Hatshepsut Reign
Hatshepsut Temple Location
The Design of Hatshepsut Temple
The Historical Influence of Hatshepsut Temple
Things You Can See at Hatshepsut Temple
Queen Hatshepsut is also known as Djeser-Djeseru that was built for the Eighteenth Dynasty "Pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut". It is one of the incomparable temples of ancient Egypt that is considered to be the greatest ancient Egyptian achievements. It is dedicated to Hatshepsut and Amun. The Egyptian monarch had the duties to honor their gods and pharaohs and preserve their memory until eternity through the construction of tombs and temples. Queen Hatshepsut was always aware of the ways to elevate her public image and immortalize her name, the Mortuary temple achieved both ends. She was the daughter of a very powerful god in Egypt and that's why she ruled as a man would. She ruled for about two decades.
Queen Hatshepsut was the daughter of King Thutmose I and his wife Ahmose. Thutmose I got through his secondary marriage from Mutnofret a son who is called "Thutmose II". Following the tradition, Hatshepsut married Thutmose II before she was 20 years old. Queen Hatshepsut was elevated to the great position of the wife of god Amun, which is the higher position a woman can get in Egypt that provides her with a great political position. Her husband died and his son was still a child, so she controlled the affairs of the state until she was crowned Pharaoh of Egypt.
Her reign period was the most peaceful and prosperous in the history of Egypt. She is characterized by successful trade, economy, and her many public works projects which provided jobs for laborers from across the nation.
Queen Hatshepsut temple is located in Upper Egypt beneath the cliffs of "Deir El-Bahari", a name that derives from the former monastery built during the Coptic era, about 17 miles northwest of Luxor on the west bank of the river in western Thebes, the great capital of Egypt during Egypt New Kingdom. It is sited next to the Mortuary Temple of Mentuhotep II. It marks the entrance of the Valley of the Kings that is you can visit during your luxury Egypt tours.
Queen Hatshepsut gave the order to built this magnificent temple in 1479 B.C. She built the temple to tell the story of her life, whose construction took about fifteen years. The temple was designed by Hatshepsut's organizer; Senenmut. He designed it carefully based on the Temple of Mentuhotep II but he made every single aspect larger. The temple has three levels and the three of them reflect accurately featured colonnade.
On The Ground Level, there was a garden with exotic trees from Hatshepsut's expeditions to punt but unfortunately, there is no garden now. Behind the courtyard, there were colonnades with square pillars. There are decorations include Tuthmosis III dancing in front of Amun, and some scenes depicting the marshes of Lower Egypt. You can go through archways that can lead you to the second level.
The Second Level, there were two reflecting pools and sphinxes, which were lining the pathway to another ramp. It contains one of the first pictorial documentation of a trade expedition. There is also a shrine for the Goddess Hathor, who is depicted with a woman's face and a cow's ears, holding a musical instrument. The Birth colonnade is located on the right side of the ramp and it tells the story of Hatshepsut's creation with Amun, and the punt colonnade, which is on the left side of the ramp and reveals her glorious expedition to the mysterious 'Land of the Gods', which the Egyptians had not visited in centuries. There are also Hathor Chapel that contains a hypostyle hall with twelve beautiful Hathor-headed columns and Anubis Chapel, which has a hypostyle hall with twelve fluted columns and an astronomical ceiling.
The Third Level houses a portico with double rows of columns that face the front. All images of Queen Hatshepsut have been destroyed and replaced with images of King Tutmosis III. There is also the sanctuary of Amun that lies behind the courtyard. It was rebuilt during the Ptolemaic period and rededicated to Imhotep.
This terrific temple is considered to be the closest to ancient Egyptian history. It aggrandizes the pharaoh and includes sanctuaries to honor the gods relevant to her afterlife. The construction of this temple is mirrored on the following temples of the new kingdom.
Although some elements of this superb historic structure were damaged from vandalism, many travelers during their Egypt tours packages said that this site is well-preserved and worthy of a visit. This astonishing temple rises on three enormous terraces connected by ramps. It is open daily from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. There is a bazaar (or marketplace with various goods) sits just outside of the property's entrance. Inside this outstanding temple, you can see the Birth colonnade & the Punt colonnade, Hathor chapel & Anubis chapel, and the sanctuary of Amun.
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Halakist and liturgical poet; flourished at Rome in the first half of the eleventh century. Of his halakic decisions only a few fragments are extant. After Solomon ha-Babli he was the first Hebrew poet of Rome; his poems for Pesaḥ are in the Roman Maḥzor (in manuscript); one of them, with his name in acrostic, begins "An'im ḥiddushe shirim." His "seliḥot" also are extant in manuscript. One of them, beginning "Re'eh ẓoneka," has been translated by Zunz ("S. P." p. 202). His sons Moses and Kalonymus are likewise known as liturgical poets (see Jew. Encyc. vii. 429). Shabbethai was president of the Jewish congregation.
idem, notes to Asher's ed. of Benjamin of Tudela, ii. 20-21.


[ Litigation ] [ Regulatory & Policy ] : This film is relevant because, "Erin Brockovich runs across some files on a pro bono case involving medical records in real-estate files and PG&E offering to purchase the home of Hinkley, California resident Donna Jensen. Erin begins digging into the particulars of the case. After investigation, she discovers a systematic cover-up of the industrial poisoning (hexavalent chromium) of the town of Hinkley's water supply that threatens the health of an entire community. She finds that PG&E is responsible for the extensive illnesses that the residents of Hinkley have been diagnosed with and fights to bring the company to justice" (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Brockovich_(film)).


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Home Fiction Tijani
Tijani
IfeOluwa Nihinlola
Hawkers, hustlers and beggars pressed their weary, weather-worn faces against the car's tinted windows as Tijani told his madam the triplets could be bought and offered to a charity. Earlier, as they snailed along in the traffic jam near Magboro junction, the madam had said, "Tijani, look at that woman, just look."
He had turned to look at the one-eyed woman sitting on the side of the road with triplets spread, their bodies arranged in alternate head to toe directions, on an Ankara wrapper in front of her. "Ah! Look at what some people are praying to God for. This life ehn… What can be done to help her?" Madam had said.
Later, reflecting on that moment, Tijani blamed the Gbenga Adeboye comedy he was listening to on his phone for his false attempt at a joke. Gbenga, with his stories about crazy landlords and farting bus passengers, is the kind of comedian who makes even tedious men believe they are capable of cracking glued mouths open in laughter. After he mentioned the buying option, madam went quiet as if she had forgotten the matter, only to speak up minutes later.
"That is true o, Tijani. I have a number of nursing homes I donate to annually, and they will be more than eager to take those kids once I promise more donations." Tijani did not know how to respond. His suggestion was supposed to be too ridiculous to be considered valid. "Thank you so much for that suggestion. I will see what I can do about it," she added.
No, woman! No! He wanted to scream at her. He wanted to tell her normal people didn't go around thinking about how to buy people's children. But Tijani worried about his job, and did not want to become unemployed because of a bad joke. So, he kept his mouth shut and focused on navigating the crazy city roads.
The rest of that day passed without further mention of the woman and her babies. They attended an owambe, returned home, and Tijani, again, thought that was the end of the issue. He returned to work the following morning and met madam sleeping on the couch in the sitting room. When he reached for the car keys that were on the hanger behind the door, she stirred and rubbed her eyes with the back of her wrists as Tijani greeted her. She had that focused, slightly-crazed look Tijani recognised as the signal of the start of new charity projects. Her gold-framed eyeglasses hung from the neckline of her sleeping gown. There was a pen stuck in her brown hairnet and she clutched a diary with shell embossed on its cover to her chest.
She yawned and stuck her feet in red flip-flops. "Tijani, good morning. Hope you had a pleasant night?"
"Yes I did madam."
"When you are done warming the cars, please come and wake me. I want to explain the plan we will use to help that woman and her kids to you. But first, I need to sleep."
"Madam, we?"
"Yes now. Since you came up with the idea, it would be unfair to go on with the plan without you. There is great reward in helping people, you know? And I don't want to deprive you of yours."
That morning, Tijani did not just warm the cars, he also washed them—an activity reserved for weekends or after long trips on dusty days. He washed madam's two cars and her husband's Toyota Prado that had not been used since the man went on a trip to Paris.
Madam's husband spent most of his time jaunting around the world. Tijani knew he loved his wife and would do anything to please her, because any argument they had in the car usually ended with the man doing her wish and smiling as he agreed with her, even when he had the better opinion—only people in love did that. It was almost as though he was making up for being away all the time by indulging her when he was around. But then, the man would travel and her face would start shining like a teenager whose parents were away for the weekend. And it wasn't that she was the kind of person who loved owanbes. Whenever Tijani took her to parties with her friends, she was always the first to leave, eager to return to her house and move around the rooms alone, singing to herself. But once her husband's trip lasted longer than one or two weeks, her mood would wilt like vegetables after the market day. On the day Tijani and his Madam drove past the one-eyed woman, her husband had been away in Paris for five weeks.
After five hours of scrubbing the bodies and insides of the cars like newborn babies, Tijani went into the house and saw madam on the sofa, again. This time, her glasses were on and the diary had dropped from her hands. Tijani backtracked, closed the door carefully to avoid rousing her and spent the rest of the afternoon talking to the security guard.
Just as their discussion moved from weather and politics to soccer— Tijani's favourite—madam stepped out of the house, dressed in a plain blue t-shirt and black jeans skirt. She looked average without the jewellery that usually adorned her neck and wrists.
"Tijani! Tijani! I thought I asked you to come and wake me up."
"I came ma, but you were sleeping."
"So you couldn't wake me up abi? Oya bring out the BMW, we are going to see the woman. I'll explain the plan along the way."
As they journeyed from the calm, silent, posh atmosphere of the estate to the rowdy outskirts of the city where they had seen the one-eyed woman and her children, Tijani prayed that the woman would have left Magboro junction. Madam, on the other hand, bombarded his ears with her plan.
"First of all, we will make friends with the woman by offering her basic things and a little money," she said. Tijani kept his eyes on the road and didn't talk.
"Tijani can you hear me?"
"Yes madam." "Good. Then we can increase the money small small, use that to gain her trust. Sebi that makes sense to you?"
"Yes madam." It didn't, but who was he to question her.
"After that, we will stop the money suddenly, and disappear for a while." Tijani looked in the rear-view mirror to be sure it was her voice he was truly hearing. How do you tell a woman who thinks she has the power to save others, he wondered as he flicked on the turn signal, that she's not even powerful enough to save herself?
"Finally, we show up later and promise her more money if she can let go of two of her triplets and allow them to be taken care of by a nursing home." She closed her diary and breathed in and out. "Tijani, I worked hard in coming up with this plan o. That woman and her kids must be helped at all costs, even if she doesn't know she how much she needs it."
Tijani sighed. Good God, the woman was just too rich. Plain stupid rich with too much time on her hands. They got to the junction and went past it well into Magboro, but they didn't find the woman. Tijani whispered Alhamdulillah, and was scouting for the appropriate place to make a U-turn when madam shouted, "There Tijani, slow down, there she is."
He slowed the car down, parked beside the road, opened the car locks and was about to recline his car seats and resume his usual waiting position when madam said, "Oya now. Come down. Remember I said we're doing this together." As they approached the one-eyed woman and her triplets, she stood up and held her hands out to them with her face bowed.
Madam greeted her and said she wanted to offer her good help. At the word help, the one-eyed woman raised her head and stared at the two of them, Tijani and his madam, through her good eye. The other was glazed over, grey, with a tiny black spot in the middle. Her washed out buba had many stains that had become permanent with time and the veins in her arms were small earthworms running across her skin. Her fingernails, though dirty, were neatly clipped and her hands looked smooth and delicate.
"Iya Ibeta," madam said, "we just want to offer you and your triplets a better life by giving you a stipend every other week as long as God gives us power." The woman continued to stare and madam took this as a cue to continue.
"Tijani here is my driver who I trust very much, and he will be the one to bring you the stipend. He's a good man and has been working with me for a long time. Also, I would like him to know your place so that when you're not here, he can bring the things to you at home."
As she said this last part, she opened her purse and counted out five hundred naira notes. "This is just little to show we are serious about this. Tijani will come back with more, and take time to know your place."
The woman knelt down as she collected the money from madam. "Thank you ma. Thank you. God will bless you."
"We should thank God. He's the one who keeps us alive and has given us these children as gifts. I'm sure it is so they can be taken care of that he has also gives some of us money."
She turned to Tijani. "Once we get home, you will park the car, return here and follow her to her place." "Thank you. Thank you ma." The woman repeated, as Tijani and his madam walked back to the car.
Tijani started a fresh round of prayers as he sat in the bus on his way to Magboro. He hoped his madam's creepiness would have scared her off, but he had no such luck. When he alighted, the woman was ready to leave for the day. She had tied one of the triplets to her back with the Ankara she laid them on, and carried the other two on each arm. She took one look at him, turned and started the walk without uttering a word.
They continued in silence for about twenty minutes, weaving in and out of pathways carved between fences and beside gutters that filled the slum with a foul stench. The stench hung in the air, stale, unmoving and so strong that Tijani thought it possible for a blindfolded person to identify the place just by the smell.
The woman's house was a bungalow with a long dark corridor lined with doors on both sides. She stopped at the main door, turned around and talked to Tijani for the first time. "Na here we dey live." She pointed into the building, indicating no particular room as if they lived down the open yard at the end of the corridor.
Tijani's madam had asked him to give the woman five thousand Naira and to instruct her to stay off the streets, but after the long walk and the stench he had inhaled, Tijani decided to keep a thousand naira as compensation. He knew the woman was lucky he was madam's driver and not one of his friends with their red eyes and quick fingers. As he handed four thousand naira to her, he reminded himself that any other person would have taken all the money and lied to the madam. He was a good person .
Tijani had been working as madam's driver for half a decade. He'd started a year after he earned a higher national diploma in food technology. After a year spent roaming the streets in faded shirts and slim ties, clutching a transparent folder containing his documents, enduring rejection after rejection, he'd responded to a call for an educated driver.
In the five years since he'd started working with madam, she had only increased his salary once— from fifteen thousand to twenty thousand after his probation period—yet, he had witnessed her throw money at people whose only claim to it was that they were helpless. Every time he brought up the issue of his low salary among his friends, many of whom were unemployed, they always told him the same thing: "You better keep quiet and thank God that you even have a job at all. Or you can just tell us when you plan to complain so we can take your place when she kicks you out."
But he couldn't be grateful. The woman was paying him just enough to eat well and save a stipend every month to pay the yearly rent of his one-room self-contained apartment. His budget was so lean that any over-spending would put him in danger of starving or squatting with his friends—five of them—who shared a room. When madam increased Iya Ibeta's stipend to ten thousand naira, he took four. When she increased it to twenty, he took ten. But he did not touch any of the baby food, milk and cocoa the madam sent with the money. He believed there must be a special hell for people who can steal milk from babies.
Five months after the first contact with Iya Ibeta, madam initiated the third step in the plan. She took a onemonth trip to Dubai and instructed Tijani not to visit the woman or even drive through that part of town.
"I know you're a good man," she said as he dropped her off at the airport, "and might want to go and give her money out of your salary, but please don't. To make this plan work, you must stick to it to the letter."
The day after her arrival from Dubai in the middle of June, madam instructed Tijani to drive her to the woman's house. They went in the evening, just before the residents of the slum returned from their hustles. Madam chose a knee length black dress for the trip and accessorised with a gold necklace and matching bangles. She wore heels and looked as if she was heading for a business meeting. They met the one-eyed woman in the corridor of her house, cooking stew that was devoid of meat or fish or onions. It smelt of pepper—just pepper. "Ah! Madam, good evening ma."
She knelt in front of madam and stopped just short of bowing and touching her heels with her head. "Long time no see ma." "Oh my dear, don't mind me. I travelled and forgot to leave instructions with Tijani about what to get to you."
"No problem madam. But you for no come o. Only oga Tijani dey enough." She looked at him and smiled a smile that had been absent in all the times he had delivered her stipend.
"I wanted to see the triplets myself. How have they been?"
"We dey fine madam. All of us dey fine."
"Your children, how have they been?" Madam squeezed her face, trying and failing to hide her discomfort from the pervading stench of the slum. "One of them dey cough and the other one get craw-craw for body, but them dey fine."
"Cough? Craw-craw? Let me see them for myself." The woman wiped her hands off her wrapper and opened the door. She opened the room's sole wooden window and the stench rushed in to fill the room. There was a bed on the floor and an old threadbare sofa just by the door. Beside the bed were Ghana-mustgo bags that contained clothing and opposite those, by the chair, were blackened pots, buckets, a rusted, out-of-commission stove and other curiosities.
The triplets were asleep on the bed, naked, with their bodies turned upwards. They were all girls. Their mother lifted the one with heat rash and placed her in madam's outstretched arms. Madam turned her this way and that way, inspecting the armpits, the space behind the ears, the gap between her thighs and every hidden crevice like the baby were part of her china collection.
"Why didn't you take them to the hospital?"
"No money madam."
"Really? Eeyah. Anyway, that is part of why we've come here today." She returned the baby to the mother who placed her carefully on the bed. She looked up at Tijani as though seeking approval to continue, but he just stared ahead. Then she cleared her throat, placed both hands together on her laps, and started to talk.
"Iya Ibeta, you know how we told you when we saw you at Magboro that we want to help you raise your children properly."
"Yes ma."
"And that is what we still want to do, but—" At the sound of the but, Iya Ibeta turned her attention away from her children, whose legs she had been fiddling with, and looked from Madam to Tijani and back to Madam.
"No o, it's not like we want to stop. We just think that we've found the very best way to take care of these children and give you a life too, one that will empower you and give you the opportunity to leave this place."
"Yes ma," Iya Ibeta replied, anxiety draining away from her face, but her body still stiff like she was bracing herself for bad news.
"Now, what we want to do is this: there's this nursing home that has offered to take two of your triplets in, not all of them o, just two so that you can have all the time to take care of one of them and also have time to work. I will also give you money to start a business, any business you want, so that you can begin to make your own money to take care of your daughter."
Iya Ibeta stared at madam, her mouth slightly agape. Madam adjusted her skirt, crossed her legs and turned out the heel of her shoe. She looked at Tijani again, and continued.
"You know how we say that rather than have a thousand small plants I would prefer one mighty tree, that's the way I want you to think of this issue. There is more value in one healthy child than three diseased, or god forbid, dead ones." At this point, Iya Ibeta's body had slackened and sunk into the mattress. She tucked between her arms and sobbed quietly. But Madam continued. "It is the best thing in the world to raise strong and powerful children who will help us in our old age. Just look at the street, look at many of these children who behave like they have nobody, it's not because their parents did not want to help them, but because they had more than they could handle. If we do this, the one with you keep, and the ones we take to the nursing homes, will all be healthy. I guarantee you this. And you will see that in the future, all your children will be proud of what you've done for them.
Tijani looked at the woman's oval face with her high cheekbones, and thought, that if it were possible to give her one of his madam's eyes in exchange for the bad one, they would be equals in beauty. In that moment, he wanted to stuff something—rag, rocks, handkerchief, anything—into his madam's mouth to stop her from torturing the poor woman.
"So what do you think?" Madam said at the end of her speech.
Outside the window, the slum was already rumbling with the sounds of returning school children and workers. The air was still the same, foul and hot, but it did not bother Tijani as much again, and even though his madam had brought out her handkerchief, she did not cover her nose with but placed it on top of her skirt in a perfect triangle. The woman was silent, her head still between her legs and her body rocking gently. And after a few minutes of maintaining this position she lifted her head, wiped the tears and said, "I dey come. Make I check the stew on top fire."
While she was gone, madam adjusted her skirt again and looked at Tijani, raising her eyebrows and shoulders simultaneously as though asking, How did it go? Tijani did not respond. He shifted his gaze to the triplets who were sleeping on the floor, their tiny bodies rising and falling in unison like objects buoyed by a sea wave.
"How much will I get?" the woman asked when she returned to the room.
"I'll give you one hundred thousand naira at first, and then put enough money in an account for you to be paid ten thousand naira every month for the next ten years.
During that period, I will try and find a good job for you."
The woman went silent again. "But I can't give you the babies now. You have to give me one night to decide which one to keep and which ones to give away."
"Ermmm. Okay. That sounds good. In that case, I will give you two hundred thousand naira now and the rest will be given to you when you hand over the babies."
She opened her bag and held out a pack of hundred one-thousand naira notes. The notes still had that fresh-mint smell on them. "Thank you madam." The woman knelt. "I'm very grateful. God will continue to prosper you."
"I know this will be difficult for you, but you have to think of what you can do for the child you will be left with. How much her life and yours will be better because you are making this right choice."
Madam stood up. "Tijani will be here tomorrow with the car to pick them up."
The woman placed the bills in one of the pots, closed the lid and led them out of the room. As they entered the corridor, a tall full-bearded man stumbled into view. The woman rushed to meet him and knelt immediately.
"Welcome sah."
"Ehen? Wh…wh…who are these people." He strained his eyes in the dark and wagged his finger at Tijani and his madam.
"They are the ones who have been giving us baby food all this while."
"Ehen. Okay. I hope my food is ready?"
He staggered into the room and slammed the door without waiting for an answer. Panic crept into Madam's face as she watched the woman and her husband. "Oh my God! Oh my God! Why didn't you tell us about the children's father? Oh my God!"
"Ah madam, don't worry about that yeye man o. Even if the girls them die today, god forbid o, but if them die, he no go know anything. He go don drink belle-full before him come house and na early momo he dey comot. He no give the children name. Na me dey call them wetin I like. No just worry about him case."
"Okay. Okay." Madam breathed out. "That's good."
"Once oga Tijani come tomorrow, I go give am two of the babies."
On the trip back home, madam did not stop chiding herself for not thinking about the woman's husband.
"Tijani, how did we miss this? How did we miss this woman's husband?" There is no we in this matter, he wanted to tell her.
"Is our plan not going to fail like this?"
He was tempted to crack a Gbenga Adeboye joke at that moment, but decided against it. "No ma, it will not fail, insha allah," he said instead. "God is on your side; it will not fail."
The next morning, he parked the BMW at a filling station close to the slum. As he turned the corner that led to the woman's house, he saw a crowd gathered: men and women talking, with arms on their waists or on their heads. A tall, full-bearded man stood in the middle of the crowd, shouting.
"I saw them yesterday before sleeping. I just woke up and they were gone. All the clothes, gone. Everything, gone. Please help me."
Tijani stopped midstride, kept his eyes on the crowd and walked back slowly, careful not to call attention to himself. Just as he was about to turn the corner, the man shouted, "That is him, he was here yesterday with the rich woman. He is one of the people who kidnapped my wife and children."
Tijani ran. The crowd gave chase. He jumped over gutters and brushed past women and men on their way to work. Stones flew over his head as he fled, and some of the people chasing him started to hit the slum's wooden shacks with sticks to call the attention of everyone. People on the street who had no idea what caused of the furore joined the chase.
"Thief, thief," they shouted.
"What did he steal?"
"Babies. Triplets."
"Ewooo! Triplets! These people are wicked. Oya chase him. Catch him."
The mob caught up with him just in front of the filling station where he'd parked Madam's car. They pummeled him with everything in sight: sticks, stones, crowbars, hammers, screwdrivers. The tools of their trades became instruments of justice. They dug into their minds, brought out the well-kept anger about the things they'd lost to pickpockets and handbag snatchers, highway robbers and petty thieves. They heaped the rage on him, driving it in with each blow they delivered. He was the sacrificial lamb chosen to bear the sins of the city's criminals.
As the mob worked their frustration into his battered body, he heard Gbenga Adeboye's voice. It was narrating a story about how Laisi Abesupile was once mocked on the street. People taunted him about his inability to bring the doom he had pronounced on them to pass. As they were talking, a lorry lost its brakes and crushed all of them, stopping just before it could touch Laisi. Laisi, of course, thanked God for protecting him and shaming his enemies. As Tijani listened to Gbenga narrate this story, he sank into the voice that had made him laugh many times while sat in the BMW, waiting for madam. He imagined that he had Laisi's powers, that at any moment he could laugh and command his attackers to perish. He looked up, through bloodied eyes, at the people battering him, and his lips curved into a smile.
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We went for a dwarf wall conservatory with white frames and grey aluminium bifold doors to add a nice contrast. I always knew I wanted bifold doors, they look stunning when fully opened and give the room a real sense of space.
The roof we chose looks similar to a UPVC roof lantern and again makes the room look more spacious, whilst letting in plenty of natural light.
I like to keep things simple when it comes to decor. I wanted to keep the light and airy feel of the conservatory so I knew I needed to pick the paint carefully. I ended up going for a very light shade of grey for the walls, with contrasting white to go round the top. It's a very subtle shade but it suits the room perfectly.
Sticking with the grey theme we went for wood effect grey flooring, with hints of natural brown tones running through it to give it a more natural look.
Last up was the fun part – picking the finishing touches that make a house a home. The main use of the room will be for dining and entertaining friends and family, so we got this beautiful chrome and marble effect extendable dining table. When fully extended it seats 8 people which is a perfect size. Add to that a tripod lamp and feature armchair and all the big purchases were done.
To break up the grey theme (that I clearly have an obsession with!) I decided to add in some copper accessories. So far I've managed to bag a few photo frames and little plant pots from John Lewis, but it seems not many high street stores have picked up on the latest copper craze so I think I'll be turning online to get my last few bits, so the debit card is going to take one last thrashing – just don't tell my husband!
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María Abel Diéguez (born 24 October 1974) is a Spanish long-distance runner. She competed in the women's marathon at the 2004 Summer Olympics in which she came 26th out of 82 runners with a time of 2:40:13.

Abel's personal best in the Marathon is 2:26:58 set in Frankfurt, Germany on 27 October 2002.

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1974 births
Living people
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Spanish female long-distance runners
Spanish female marathon runners
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The software that calculates the Flat Track Stats ratings includes many factors in an attempt to provide an assessment of the relative skills of roller derby teams. Roller Derby in its current state is a very difficult sport to rank. The sport continues to evolve rapidly and presents a very disparate playing field. In addition, each team only plays a few bouts in a season, so the relative sample size can be small. However, through comprehensive back-testing, we have found that a relatively few factors can provide an accurate gauge of a team's skill – we found that our current algorithm would have correctly predicted the winner in more than 82% of all bouts since 2008.
In the new system, the final score of each bout is compared to our algorithm's prediction. If a team performs better than the prediction, then it's rating will go up, if it performs worse, it's rating will go down. Please note, that this means a team can win, but still have its rating go down if it did not win by as much as we predicted. Similarly, a losing team can have its rating go up if it performed better than expected. The predictions are based on the following inputs:
The Current Ratings of the Teams. This is by far the most significant input. The difference in the ratings of the two teams provides the expectation for the result in the bout.
Home vs. Away. We found that there was a slight historical bias in favor of the home teams, so we adjust the prediction to take that into account.
Regular or Tournament Bout. We found that the Home/Away bias is different depending on whether the bout was played at a normal venue vs. if it was played as part of a ranked tournament or an invitational tournament.
Each team is given an initial rating after it plays its first WFTDA sanctioned bout. Then its rating is adjusted after every bout. The current rating is therefore a compilation of the entire history of the team. This does not imply, however, that a team can rest on past performance. If a team's performance changes radically, through player loss or other significant turmoil, the rating adjustments are large enough that only two or three bouts are necessary to readjust their rating to the proper place relative to the rest of the WFTDA teams.
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