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The Dinner Date
Johnny is told to appreciate Sara
Johnny did very well in school the last semester. There were two main reasons for it. The first reason was that his parents had bought him an expensive bike but he would have had to pay for it if he did not get an average above 85%. The second, and perhaps more important reason was that Sara, his girlfriend of two years used his interest in the bike to make him a Trig whiz.
Johnny's mom liked Sara and told him to do something to show his appreciation of his smart girlfriend. His mom was persistent and asked him what he was going to do. She hoped it was something special for the girl who helped him so much. Johnny didn't see it as a big deal that his girlfriend hung around with him, and in the process helped him with Trig. Mom insisted that he should do something – may be take Sara on a date or a romantic trip. She even offered that he could borrow her car.
Finally, Johnny talked to Sara about their going for a trip to a romantic place. Sara told him that her Nana would let her go only for a day trip – no overnight stay even though she knew that they'd been seeing each other for two years.
Where to go for a dinner date?
Then, Johnny and Sara had to decide where to go. It had to be a decent drive. Maybe they could have dinner and spend some time together, but where? They started looking for restaurants. There were all kinds of eateries with different types of foods. It was difficult to choose one. Suddenly, Sara made a silly face.
Sara: This is weird. I don't believe that there is this restaurant called Johnny and Sara's Place. The place is named after us. That's romantic enough. It has to be good although there are no reviews. It's on a dead end on McLinton Road. It should be a short drive from here. When do you want to go?
Johnny: That sounds romantic – a restaurant named after us.
Johnny checked with his mom to see when he could borrow her car and then asked Sara if the next day was okay. Sara agreed. They decided that he would pick up Sara from her home at 5 pm the next day.
The next day, Johnny drove to Sara's home and met her Nana. After that, they drove away. Sara had a new smart phone in her hand. Her dad had given it to her as a reward for her achievement in the last semester. Sara's average was 98 %.
Sara: I brought this cell phone because it has a GPS in it. We can monitor all our movements with it – just like you could do with your bike. I know your mom's car has a GPS. I still brought this because with this I can save our co-ordinates and send the data to my laptop.
Soon they turned onto McLinton Road and kept going. Sara touched the phone screen several times to record the GPS co-ordinates.
Johnny and Sara's Place
At the end of the road there was a small restaurant with a sign that said 'Johnny and Sara's Place'. Johnny parked the car and they went in. The place was tiny. It had four tables to seat a maximum of 16 people.
They sat down and a lady came with the menus. She said, "Welcome to Johnny and Sara's Place. I am Sara and I will be happy to take your orders."
In subsequent conversation the waitress said, "When I finished high school, my boyfriend Johnny and I opened this restaurant. I attend the front and Johnny cooks. We like the slow paced life as the restaurant never gets too busy."
The menu listed mostly burgers, sandwiches and soup of the day. They ordered the soup and two burgers. The food was delicious. They chatted away and ate. The waitress came to tell them about the desserts.
Waitress: Johnny makes a very good apple strudel.
Sara: Thanks, we'll take it. We also want some tea. By the way, I am Sara and this is my boyfriend Johnny. We were looking for a short romantic rendezvous and found out about this place. What could be more romantic than Johnny and Sara going to Johnny and Sara's Place.
Waitress: Gee, that's beautiful.
The strudel's on the house
The waitress brought the dessert and the tea. She also brought the cook who was her husband and introduced him by saying, "Johnny, these are Johnny and Sara. They came here because this is Johnny and Sara's place." The cook welcomed them and urged them to come again as it was their place.
Johnny and Sara enjoyed this date. Johnny took Sara home. They kissed each other goodnight and Sara said she would come by the next day.
GPS data of the car movement
As promised, Sara came over to Johnny's place the next day. This time she had her laptop with her. She had recorded the GPS data at every major intersection that had a traffic light. The graph showed how many kilometers they had travelled towards West and towards North (Fig.C1.1).
Johnny: Sara this looks like what we did with the bike. Are you trying to teach me Trig again?
Sara: No. Doesn't McLinton Road look nice? It goes more West than North at the start but at the end it goes mostly North without going much towards West.
Johnny: Why didn't you draw a continuous line connecting the dots to show the road?
Sara: The road was not continuous. There were lots of bends at different places. You can't see them in this small map.
Sara got the map of the road from the Internet, enlarged small parts of it and then showed it to Johnny.
Sara: See, there are lot of bends in the road. There is no continuity.
Johnny: But nobody is going to fall or even hit anything just because of the small bends.
Sara: For practical purposes you are right but to describe the shape of the North-West movement relationship by a continuous function, there cannot be any bends or breaks.
Johnny: If someone were to smoothen over the bends, can you write it as a continuous function?
Sara: I suppose for now we can say that the function is continuous but we should read about this concept carefully.
What function did the movement fit?
Johnny: What would the North-West relationship be if West movement was x and the North movement was y?
Sara: I struggled with it myself. Then my mom helped me. She figured out the best function to fit this x-y pair relationship. See the picture (Fig.C1.2).
Johnny: You took out the dots. Is this because now we are calling it a continuous function described by the equation y = x2/10?
Johnny's mom came in asking about their date. After listening to their visit to that small and inexpensive restaurant, she was not impressed. She had forgotten that a long time ago, she dreamed of having a place of her own along with Johnny's dad. May be that's why she didn't see the romantic angle of their date.
Sara had a lot of time on her hands. She had a volunteer job to help refugee children with their language and social skills but that would start in about two weeks. Until then, what could be better than visiting her boyfriend more often? So she did just that. This time she had her laptop again.
Sara: Johnny, remember the graph I showed you yesterday. It followed the function y = x2/10. I did one more thing with the GPS readings we had.
Johnny: What's that?
The derivative – slope of the function
Sara: First, tell me if the curve was y = x2 and our car moved a teeny-weeny bit in the direction of x, what will be our ratio of y to x movement?
Johnny: How much are we moving?
Sara: Say, the length of an ant. Let's call it a for the ant. We were at x and now we are at x + a, right. The function remains y = x2.
Johnny: So y would now be at (x+a)2 instead x2. So the change in y will be (x+a)2 minus x2. If you divide this by a, you will get the slope.
Sara: Is it okay if I write x2 +2ax + a2 instead of (x+a)2 ?
Johnny: Of course then the y movement will be x2 +2ax + a2 – x2. The plus and minus x2 will cancel out and we will have 2ax + a2 as the difference. We divide it by 'a' which is the movement in the x direction. So the slope will be 2x + a, right? But if the value of x is 10 kilometers, can`t we just forget about the length of the ant (which is really miniscule compared to 10 km) and just say the slope is 2x.
Sara: No. In Math you can't ignore the length unless it is zero. If we had used the example of a grain of sand which is smaller than the ant, still we could not ignore it. It comes back to the continuity issue. If the function is continuous, we could assume the increment in x to reach to zero and then say that the slope is 2x. The length of an ant or a grain of sand can't be zero. In fact any length that you can measure is not zero. In book terms we could have written the change in y as δy and change in x as δx.
Then δy/δx = ((x+ δx)2-x2)/ δx
and we get δy/δx = 2x + δx
Then we could say that when δx approaches zero, he limit of δy/δx becomes dy/dx = 2x.
That 's how we define the slope of a continuous function in Calculus and you call it a differential or a derivative of y with respect to x or dy/dx. That's what Calculus is all about; rise divided by fall which is the slope of any variable with respect to another.
Johnny: But we said that McLinton Road followed the function y = x2/10, not y = x2.
Sara: We could do the calculation for y = x2 times a constant and see what happens. I could write δy/δx = ((x+ δx)2-x2)/ δx x c and then get the slope to be (2x + δx) x c and dy/dx to be 2x x c.
Here c =1/10 so the slope would be 2x/10. This is what I drew for dy/dx at different values of x. Its instantaneous slope at any given value of x is 2x/10 or x/5.
Johnny: This is getting confusing. This graph is a straight line.
Sara: Yes. It is a straight line in which the North/West slope increases with the increasing distance towards West. It is what I said before," Look at how McLinton Road goes more West than North at the start but at the end it goes mostly North without going much towards West." The function describing McLinton Road was y = x2/10, its first derivative was x/5. The slope of this line at any given point is x/5. That's the same value you got when you did the calculation for dy/dx.
The second derivative
Johnny: So we are done with the derivate of y = x2/10. Okay. I suppose, we could also get the derivative of y = x/5.
Sara: Remember that y = x/5 graph is a straight line. The slope of a straight line does not change with x. It's constant. In this case you can see that it will be 1/5.
Johnny: What do you call the slope of a slope of a function?
Sara: It is called the second derivative or d2y/d2x.
Johnny: That means d2y/d2x = 1/5 which is a line without any slope or you can say with a slope of zero. Does that mean for the McLinton Road curve y = x2/10, the slope of the slope of the slope or third derivative d3y/d3x will be zero? Wow, that's neat.
Johnny paused for a while as if to digest it all but then fired more questions.
Johnny: What if the function was a sum of expressions, how would you determine the derivatives? Like in Algebra we learned the quadratic equation y = ax2 + bx + c.
Sara: That's simple. We can take the derivative of each part and then sum them. dy/dx for ax2 is 2ax, for bx it is b and dy/dx for c is zero. We can sum up the derivatives of each of the three components to get dy/dx = 2ax + b + 0.
Johnny: What is the derivative of y = x3 ?
Sara looked in the book and said: For any value of n, the derivative of y = xn is nxn-1. Here is a interesting one, the book says that dex/dx = ex.
Johnny: What, is e the Eurler's constant here?
Sara: We could prove it using e as an the sum of an infinite series but let us leave it for now.
Sara thought that Johnny was impressed but seemed somewhat lost about the meaning of all the derivatives. She thought for a few minutes before saying anything.
What do the derivatives mean?
Sara: Remember when we go in a car, we read the distance traveled on the odometer. Then we also talk about the speed of the car which is the distance traveled per hour or the first derivative of the distance traveled with respect to time. The second derivative is acceleration which is the rate at which your speed increases. Some car companies advertise how fast they can increase their acceleration. That would be the third derivative.
Johnny: Now, that makes sense. Otherwise, you had me lost.
Sara: Here is a joke I read on the internet about derivatives.
"U.S. President Richard Nixon, when campaigning for a second term in office, announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing, which has been noted as "the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for re-election."
Johnny: That's funny. The guy was a crook. Now that you mentioned the third derivative, I read in the newspaper today, "The decline in the pace of home sales in the Vancouver region appears to have sped up significantly…".
Johnny's car is parked. When he starts it and pushes on the gas paddle, after time t it would have covered the distance (d) given by d = 0.5 at2 where a is 3 meters/sec2. The speed of the car after time t is given by the first derivative (ds/dt). How fast will the car be moving 10 sec after it is started?
Solution: d = 0.5 at2. Therefore, ds/dt = 0.5 a x 2 t = at
With a = 3 meters/sec2 and t = 10 sec, ds/dt = 30 meters/sec which is 108 km/hour.


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Q: Using Jquery to display JSON data from API - showing undefined I'm using jquery and a json array to display the current moon phase and sunrise/set times on a website. This works fine for sunrise/set but for moon phases I've encountered a problem.
When the "closestphase" is on the same day that the data is requested 2 other fields are removed - "currentphase" and "fracillum". This means I can't display the phase or current illumination 4 times per month...
For example the link below shows fracillum and current phase:
http://api.usno.navy.mil/rstt/oneday?date=today&coords=54.97N,1.61W&tz=0
but is omitted from this data:
http://api.usno.navy.mil/rstt/oneday?date=01/28/2017&coords=54.97N,1.61W&tz=0
I've written the code below to say if curphase and fracillum is undefined and the clostestphase is "New Moon" or "Full Moon" then display fracillum of "0% or "100%" respectively.
Please can someone identify what I'm doing wrong?
$(document).ready(function(){
  $.get("http://api.usno.navy.mil/rstt/oneday?date=01/28/2017&coords=54.97N,1.61W&tz=0", function(data){
    checkPhase(data);
  });
});
$(document).ready(function(){
  $("#suntimes").click(function(){
    $("#sun").toggle("slide");
  });
});
$(document).ready(function(){
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});
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Sunset: " + data.sundata[3].time + " PM
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Moon Phase: " + data.curphase + "
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A: If you want to check for an undefined value you shoud use value === undefined instead of value === "undefined", because you checking if curphase is the string "undefined".
Also you don't assign a value to data.fracillum because a comparison (data.fracillum == "0%";) instead of an assignment (data.fracillum = "0%";).
Your condition should look like this:
if (data.curphase === undefined && data.closestphase.phase === "New Moon") {
  data.fracillum = "0%";
} else if (data.curphase === undefined && data.closestphase.phase === "Full Moon") {
  data.fracillum = "100%";
}

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BET Wire: Obama and Holder Keep on Keeping On
Cory Booker and Miss America are running for Congress.
In Case You Missed It - The trio of controversies plaguing the Obama administration are still front-page news, but the president and Attorney General Eric Holder are going about their business; Cory Booker and Miss America 2013 are running for Congress – and more. — Joyce Jones
Filibuster This - An emboldened Obama announced his picks to fill three vacant spots on the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals. Obama pretty much dared Senate Republicans to try to block their nominations. "When a Republican was president, 11 judges on the D.C. Circuit Court made complete sense. Now that a Democrat is president, it apparently doesn't. Eight is suddenly enough," he said, which is a "blatantly political move." (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Not Going Anywhere - Republican lawmakers may be calling for Holder's resignation, but he has no plans to oblige them. Bloomberg reports that last week Holder "gathered his top aides last week to deliver a message: He was fine, and they all needed to stay focused and get their work done."(Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Dude, Cool It! - Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa went a bit far on CNN's State of the Union when he called White House spokesman Jay Carney a "paid liar." House Republican leaders later sent a message to the California lawmaker: "Cool it." A senior Republican told Politico that Issa "has made this personal" and "added an unnecessary element to the news cycle." (Photo: State of the Union with Candy Crowley via CNN)
Still Talking - Failed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has weighed in on U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice's rise to national security adviser. He called the choice "disappointing" and accused her of "seriously misleading" the nation about the fatal attacks in Benghazi. (Photo: CNN)
Consequences - Two IRS employees have been placed on administrative leave for accepting $1,000 worth of free food and other items while attending a training conference in 2012. Each works in the IRS division overseeing implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the Associated Press reports. (Photo: AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
What a Waste - "I swear to God, I have looked at that [Star Trek] video over and over again," said Rep. Elijah Cummings during remarks at a House Oversight hearing on wasteful spending by the IRS. The agency spent $50 million to hold 220 employee conferences that included a Star Trek-themed training video and expensive hotel-room upgrades. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Room for Doubt - The IRS scandal has caused a majority of voters to question the Obama administration's honesty and integrity. In an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on June 4, 55 percent say the targeting of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status raises doubts. (Photos from left: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak,Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)
Teflon Obama - The IRS scandal is not having an impact on the president's approval ratings. In the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released June 4, his 48 percent job-approval rating was unchanged from April. Just 41 percent said he's responsible for the Benghazi attack, 31 percent placed the blame for the Justice Department's subpoena of reporters' phone records; and 33 percent blamed him for the IRS scandal.(Photo: Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)
Good to Go - Newark Mayor Cory Booker's U.S. Senate bid is now on the fast track due to the June 4 death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg. "For several months now, Mayor Booker has been taking the steps necessary to run, but he will make an official announcement at the appropriate time," said Booker's office in a statement, Buzzfeed reports. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)
Cowan's Got Booker's Back - Massachusetts Sen. Mo Cowan, who will soon leave the U.S. Senate, is predicting that Cory Booker is headed to Congress. "As I vacate the hallowed halls of Congress, perhaps he'll come in not too late after me and continue what I hope is a very popular trend in the Congress, particular in the Senate, which is to continue to show representation of all people," Cowan said. (Photo: Darren McCollester/Getty Images)
Victory for Lumumba - Chokwe Lumumba, longtime Black nationalist and attorney, was elected mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, on June 4. [We're] about to make some advances and some strides in the development of human rights and the protection of human rights that I think have not been seen in other parts of the country," he said of his plans to solve the city's problems.(Photo: Courtesy of the Chokwe Lumumba Campaign)
Here She Comes, Miss America - Erika Harold, crowned Miss America in 2003, launched a bid for Congress on June 4. "Our lives are defined not by the titles we earn but rather by the service we render," the Harvard-trained lawyer and Republican said in a campaign video. Harold hopes to unseat Illinois incumbent and first-term congressman Rodney Davis.(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
True Colors - Freshman Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Texas) has denounced a tea party activist's assertion that Republicans don't want Blacks to vote if they're going to vote for Democrats. "Battlefield Dallas and its tea party ilk have shown their true colors and now it's time to hold them accountable," the lawmaker said. (Photo: Ron T. Ennis/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/MCT/LANDOV)
Hate Speech - Rep. Jeff Bridenstine (R-Oklahoma) said that Obama is a vengeful liar during remarks made on the House floor on June 3. "The president's dishonesty, incompetence, vengefulness and lack of moral compass lead many to suggest that he is not fit to lead," Bridenstine said. "The only problem is that his vice president is equally unfit and even more embarrassing." (Photo: Courtesy C-SPAN)
God Saved John Boehner's Life - The trouble House Speaker John Boehner has wrangling his raucous Republican caucus is not news. According to a Washington Post report, several members were prepared to stage a coup in January. But in the end, "the cabal quickly fell apart when several Republicans, after a night of prayer, said God told them to spare the speaker." (Photo: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
A Woman's Place Is in the Home - Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant blames America's educational problems on working moms. "I think both parents started working. And the mom is in the work place," he said in response to a question about the nation's "mediocre outcomes." (Photo: Courtesy Governor Phil Bryant)


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'Her Man': A Relic of a Bygone Hollywood, Now Restored
Now streaming, this mildly racy romance, from 1930, arrived before the censorious Production Code. What really sets the film apart is its incredible tracking shots.
By J. Hoberman
"Her Man," a snappy bit of hokum inspired by the venerable crime-of-passion ballad "Frankie and Johnny," was well received when it arrived in 1930. Decades later, the mildly racy romance, with lightly disguised hookers and pimps, would become a bone of contention between critics conversant with classic Hollywood.
Periodically rediscovered, the movie is streaming in a crisp new digital restoration via the Museum of Modern Art's Virtual Cinema. Although opinions vary on the American director Tay Garnett's auteur status, his high-spirited lowlife drama is well worth a look.
Garnett (1894-1977) broke into movies writing slapstick comedies for Mack Sennett and Hal Roach. "Her Man," released four years before the censorious Production Code, is set in a roomy Havana "dance hall" named the Thalia, catering to (and robbing from) drunken American sailors. The tale is full of comic roughhouse. In his indispensable history "The American Cinema," the critic Andrew Sarris characterized Garnett as a "rowdy vaudevillian" and "an artist with the kind of rough edges that cause the overcivilized French sensibility to swoon in sheer physical frustration."
Be that as it may, "Her Man" was a favorite of Henri Langlois, the founder of the Cinémathèque Française. John Ashbery evidently saw the movie in Paris and cites it in his poem in praise of Helen Twelvetrees, the fragile Brooklyn-born actress who plays the teenage "bar-girl" Frankie.
Twelvetrees, who committed suicide in 1958, was best known for starring in lachrymose melodramas. She's spunkier here, caught between her shiv-wielding "protector" Johnnie (Ricardo Cortez, né Jacob Krantz) and a Sir Galahad figure, the sweet-singing American sailor Dan (Phillips Holmes, described in Ashbery's poem as "awkwardly handsome"). "You're just a dame and a pretty regular little dame at that," Dan tells her on a date that winds up at a mission on St. Patrick's Day.
As befits an early talkie, "Her Man" is intermittently stagy, most often when the Broadway diva Marjorie Rambeau, emphatically playing an aging hooker with alcohol issues and a maternal interest in Frankie, is on set. But it's also enlivened by a number of spirited secondary players. Thelma Todd, a comic beauty in several Marx Brothers movies, appears in a black wig with spit curls as the other woman, Nelly. Franklin Pangborn, a specialist in high-strung roles, is surprisingly bellicose, repeatedly mixing it up with Danny's sailor pals (James Gleason and Harry Sweet). Their idiotic ongoing struggle for possession of a bowler hat evokes Garnett's work with Laurel and Hardy.
There's an abundance of running gags, but what really sets "Her Man" apart is its fluidity. Garnett orchestrates several extended dolly shots through Havana's red-light district — the camera navigating crowds, horse carts and fistfights. The accompanying sound mix is no less swoon-worthy. The movie, which often seems like one long barroom brawl, ends with the destruction of the Thalia set. (Evidently, Garnett hired a number of college football players and former boxers as extras.)
"Her Man" is a period piece in more ways than one. The cavalcade of drunken antics is a reminder that while the Production Code didn't fully exist in 1930, Prohibition was still in effect.
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It seems that after many attempts taken by smartphone manufacturers to hide the selfie camera from sticking out, Chinese phonemaker Oppo has finally found a solution. In its recent patent filing, Oppo has suggested that it will be masking the camera hole in the display with an icon. Seen to be the camera app icon (from Oppo's patent images), the icon will stay in its place while a swipe on the display will see only other icons moving.
In recent times, smartphone manufacturers have been wracking their brains to ensure that the selfie camera stays hidden for they want to make use of the phone's size to maximise screen size, including reducing the bezel. The patent images show that the punch hole camera will be hidden by placing the camera app icon in such a way that the camera hole forms a part of the icon, even showing the lens arrangement in real-time.
However, there seems to be a flaw as the implementation works for as long as the user stays in the homescreen. If for instance a user decides to watch a video or browse social media apps (which they will), the camera hole will be visible. Oppo had already tried the full motorised camera housing method on the Find X in its aim to cover the selfie camera from sight.
Sister company Vivo is rumoured to bring the pop-up camera mechanism to its mainstream V series smartphones as it went for a pop-up camera on the Nex and a dual-display setup for the Nex Dual Display. Vivo even got rid of the selfie camera in the Apex 2019 concept, to achieve a perfect fullscreen display. OnePlus is rumoured to go for the slider display technology for the next-gen OnePlus 7, while Xiaomi and Huawei have gone for the same already. Samsung is said to be trying, literally, to hide the camera underneath the display. Manufacturers state that as experienced earlier with smartphones such as Samsung Galaxy A8, the selfie camera can gather much attention as well as occupying space in the notification bar.


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By By Timothy B. Wheeler and The Baltimore Sun
The Maryland Senate approved a bill Tuesday that would prohibit discrimination against transgender people.
The Fairness for All Marylanders Act, which passed the Senate, 32-15, now goes to the House of Delegates. The measure would expand Maryland's anti-discrimination laws to protect transgender people in employment, housing, access to credit and public accommodations.
Four localities — Baltimore City and Baltimore, Howard and Montgomery counties — already bar discrimination based on gender identity, but there is not a state law against it.
"I think we're ready to move ahead and be progressive," said Sen. Delores G. Kelly, a Baltimore County Democrat, who argued that transgender civil rights ought to be protected statewide.
There was no debate, though Sen. Bryan W. Simonaire, an Anne Arundel County Republican, questioned how the bill would affect access to bathrooms in a "mom-and-pop" restaurant or a school. Critics have attacked the measure as enabling "cross-dressers" to infiltrate women's bathrooms, but supporters say the bill was drafted to avoid abuse and that there have been no problems in those localities that already ensure transgender rights.
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Voting on the bill split nearly along party lines. Three Democrats, Sens. John C. Astle of Anne Arundel County, Roy P. Dyson of Southern Maryland and James N. Mathias Jr. of the lower Eastern Shore, sided with GOP opponents.
But Sen. Allan H. Kittleman, a Howard County Republican, spoke out in support, noting that there have been no complaints over the county's anti-discrimination law.
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"I know people think these terrible things are happening, when they really aren't," he said.
Advocates praised the Senate passage.
"With their vote, 32 senators stood up to say no one should be denied the opportunity to work for a living, secure housing or eat lunch at a restaurant just because of their gender identity," said Carrie Evans of Equality Maryland.
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If approved by the House, the legislation would make Maryland the 18th state to protect the rights of transgender people. A hearing on a House version of the bill is set for Wednesday in the Health and Government Operations Committee.
Opponents were seeking to rouse public sentiment against the measure as an invasion of privacy and potential threat to women and children. Del. Neil Parrott, a Washington County Republican, is circulating an online petition, saying the bill would "radically change our society and put our families and children at risk."
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16 July 2013, Lagos – Kaztec Engineering Ltd, KEL, a member of the Chrome Group, has won a $84.5 million for the engineering procurement and construction, EPC contract of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCo's Trans-Niger Pipeline, TNP.
The signing of the contractual agreements for the project, which took place at the SPDC Office, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, is valid for one year, according to a statement from the company.
The General Manager, Offshore and Shallow Water Projects, Mr Toyin Olagunju, and the Contracting and Procurement Lead Pipeline Projects, Mrs Chioma Ogunuka, signed for SNEPCo, while the Executive Chairman, Mr Emeka Offor, and the Chief Operating Officer, COO, Mr Ikechukwu Okpala, signed for Kaztec.
The statement also said that this is the first major pipeline project to be executed by Kaztec for Shell, saying: "The objective of the project is to construct a 3-inch, 58-kilometre loop line from the Ogale manifold to Bonny Terminal, in the South-South region of Nigeria. SNEPCO had been experiencing challenges with the current Trans-Niger Project."
It added that SNEPCO and the National Petroleum Investment Management Services, NAPIMS, consider the project as an emergency, which was why it was divided into three phases
The statement said Kaztec Engineering is to undertake the first package of the contract, for which it was chosen based on the strength of its recent track record of project delivery in the oil and gas sector.
Speaking, Offor assured SNEPCO of his company's commitment to deliver on, and even surpass all expectations from the project. He expressed delight for Kaztec joining the Shell family, and looked forward to a productive partnership in the years to come.
Okpala also reassured SNEPCO of KEL's delivery of the project on time and of good quality, as a taste of the "KAZTEC Magic".
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These had most to give, also known as Youth or May Eternal Light Shine upon Them, is a 1922 life-size bronze statue of a naked male youth that has stood in the garden outside the Scott Polar Research Institute on Lensfield Road in Cambridge since the building opened in 1934.  It was made by the British sculptor Kathleen Scott, after whose husband Robert Falcon Scott the institute is named.  It stands a memorial to her husband and the others who died on the British Antarctic Expedition 1911–1912.

The sculpture was modelled on A. W. Lawrence.  Kathleen Scott's diary records her sculpting his brother T. E. Lawrence in 1921, and then A. W. Lawrence in 1922, when he was aged 22.  A.W. Lawrence had studied classics at Oxford, graduating in 1921.  He was later Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge.

The work depicts a slim young man, modelled naturalistically, standing naked on a square bronze plinth, with legs together, arms spread wide, and head tipped back.

It was originally intended to become a war memorial.  Scott said in 1927 that it was "expressive of sacrifice, of absolute surrender to ideas, and I intended it to typify the holocaust of youth during the war."  Scott exhibited the complete full-size sculpture at Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1923, under the title "Offering" and subtitle "1914-1918. These had most to give".  It was also exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery, and at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924, and won a bronze medal at the Paris Salon in 1925.  Despite Scott's intentions, the sculpture was not selected for a war memorial, and remained on display in Scott's garden in London until 1934.

The sculpture was exhibited at the Fine Art Society in October 1934 under the title "These had most to give", alongside a small bronze model, .  It is believed that the model was acquired by Lord Fairhaven at this exhibition in 1934, and it is now held by the National Trust at Anglesey Abbey.  The plinth of the model retains the original inscription "THESE HAD / MOST TO GIVE / 1914-1918".

In 1934, Scott offered the full-size sculpture as a gift for the new building of the Scott Polar Research Institute.  Some members of the institutes management committee wished to reject the gift, as being too evocative of death, martyrdom and tragedy, rather than scientific research and discovery, but the building's architect Herbert Baker was in favour.  Scott's bronze statue of A. W. Lawrence was mounted on a stone base in the garden outside the building when it was officially opened on 20 November 1934.  The inscription on the plinth was changed to read: "LUX / PERPETUA / LUCEAT EIS" ("may eternal light shine upon them"), a Latin phrase from the Requiem Mass.

The statue was for many years concealed from casual view behind a high hedge.  Renovations to the building in the 1990s, including a much lower hedge, has revealed the statue to passers-by.

References
 About the Museum, Scott Polar Research Institute
 May Eternal Light Shine upon Them, Kathleen Scott (1878–1947), Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Art UK
 "'These had most to give': Kathleen Scott's sculpture at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge", Mark Stocker (2015). Polar Record, 51(1), 49–57. doi:10.1017/S0032247413000570
 "Let Light Perpetual Shine", Alison Jolley, The T. E. Lawrence Society Newsletter,  No.97, 2nd Quarter 2011
 'These had most to give',  National Trust Collections

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From Luxor to Thebes: Journey to Ancient Egypt
wall like an egyptian
Engravings with egyptian religious motifs on one of the sandy walls of the temple of Karnak. The sun god Ra, is on the right.
Aurora over Luxor
The architectural amalgamation of the temple of Karnak, pink with dawn.
on the way to the mausoleum
Visitors to the Valley of the Kings walk along the boulevard that leads to the mortuary rooms of Pharaoh Hatshepsut, the most imposing building in the Valley of the Kings and Queens.
shadows of time
A worker from the temples of Luxor walks through a column-lined atrium.
Avenue of Sphinxes
Dozens of ram sphinxes make up the Avenue of Sphinxes that connects the Temple of Karnak to that of Luxor.
above nile
Cruzeiro stops at one of the various sluices that regulate the height of the waters of the Nile River.
Egyptian conversation up to date
Egyptian Guardians of the Temple of Karnak converse in the dawn sun.
karnak x 2
Cistern reflects part of the vast temple of Karnak.
vegetable column
A palm tree clashes with the order of columns prevailing in the Temple of Karnak
Thebes was raised as the new supreme capital of the Egyptian Empire, the seat of Amon, the God of Gods. Modern Luxor inherited the Temple of Karnak and its sumptuousness. Between one and the other flow the sacred Nile and millennia of dazzling history.
"In my time, we would have built this all in the studio. Is better!" shot Bette Davis. The insinuating-eyed actress was filming "Death on the Nile," the Hollywood version of Agatha Christie's police classic.
To be fair to him, at the time, Luxor was not like the majestic Thebes that dazzled Alexander the Great and troubled successive Roman emperors and generals. It didn't compare to the current city either. The homonymous temple, for example, was lost among crowded bazaars and the unruly development of the center had resulted in chaos.
Faced with the importance of the area, however considered the largest open-air museum in the world, the UNESCO validated the drastic solution that followed without ceremony. Suddenly, the local governor ordered the demolition of hundreds of houses and shops to restore the place to its historic purity.
The heart of the complex became the Temple of Luxor, admirable from any perspective, extending to the Avenue of the Sphinxes. The works sacrificed the lives of the residents who could do little against the ridiculous amounts they received in compensation.
They also horrified the archaeologists who saw bulldozers "take care of" the excavation of the sphinxes. And they were precariously interrupted at the time of the Egyptian Spring Revolution. Agatha Christie could no longer narrate any of these crimes.
Even taking all the cares into account, Luxor is Luxor. Anyone who calls himself a traveler and even the most disinterested tourist knows that, on Earth, there is no equal.
Discovering Ancient Egypt at Luxor
We landed at the city airport with enthusiasm to match. We install ourselves aboard one of the cruises that sails up the Nile and the Nile down.
The next day, the sun was still resting in the east, we were already walking along the lane lined with sheep sphinxes and then in front of the Karnak temple, ready for the moment when their uncompromising guardians in turban and jilaba would allow us entrance. .
Gradually, the sun's rays filtered by the morning mist hit the tangle of columns, small sub-temples, pestles and other elements that form what is considered the second largest ancient religious site in the world, surpassed only by Angkor Wat, in Cambodia.
The complex was built between the Middle Egyptian Empire until the Ptolemeic period. It arose in the center of the former Ipet-Isut "The Highest of Places", place of worship of the triad of gods consisting of Amon, his consort Mut (the replacement of the previous half of Amon, Amonet) and Khonsun, their son .
During the XNUMXth, XNUMXth and XNUMXth dynasties, around thirty pharaohs continued the work.
At the same time, they made Thebes a vast, diverse and supreme capital unique in ancient Egypt, scattered across the desert on both banks of the Nile: most of the city and the temples of Karnak and Luxor to the east.
A huge necropolis formed by private and royal cemeteries in the west.
Luxor's Reason for Being
The function of the temple at Luxor was quite different from that of Karnak. It was not erected in honor of a god. It served the divine rejuvenation of royalty and it is very likely that it welcomed the coronation of various pharaohs of Egypt, always validated by the divine triad.
The Egyptians still considered it the "Southern Harem". It is believed that, with the Nile flooding in full, the Optet festival entered the scene. In a first phase, the effigies of Amon, Mut and Khonsun will have been carried along the Avenue of Sphinxes from the Temple of Karnak to that of Luxor.
Along the way, they stopped in chapels erected for the event and filled with offerings. At the end of the ceremony, they returned by boat.
Later, they also started to make the outward journey on the Nile, in a kind of river marital celebration in which a small fleet of barges escorted the sacred barge.
This celebration will have admitted several days of popular debauchery in Egyptian fashion.
The Temples of Luxor and the Prolific Cosmogony of Egypt
The ancient imaginary of the Egyptian cosmogony has always proved inexhaustible. It changed and enriched itself in such a way that, at least, for a period equal to that of its formation, archaeologists will have new tombs and secrets to unravel.
Two opposing axes regulated the life of ancient Egypt: the flow of the Nile, from south to north, through the Sahara Desert. Above, the sky in which the crucial movements of life took place. The one of the Sun that ascended from one direction in the desert and plunged in the other, towards the rival sands, today, Libya.
During his journey, there was a nocturnal journey through the unknown and uncertainty. The reappearance of the sun represented the renewal of life. Long imbued in the population's mind and always urgent, this notion made each day something very special.
The paths of the Nile and the sun were regular and ubiquitous. For this reason, all works of art and monuments are related to them in some way. The Nile floods fed the nation.
Its long stream united the inhabitants of Upper and Lower Egypt, otherwise self-enclosed.
The Existential Threshold of the Nile in Thebes
In Thebes, the Nile still separated life from afterlife. We soon crossed it to the west and found the place that most contrasted with the Temple of Luxor. If this celebrated the renewal of earthly life, the Valley of the Kings and Queens was excavated and sealed in order to guarantee the preservation of the bodies of the pharaohs.
Their souls were supposed to revive to meet the Gods in the next life.
The Valley of the Kings was inaugurated by Pharaoh Thutmose I. It is said that he was well aware that the fact that their backgrounds were buried in great pyramids made their tombs and treasures easy targets for profaners.
We do not comment on the encounter with the gods. We and dozens of lucky visitors came across Tutankhamun and other iconic pharaohs of Egypt. For a mere ten minutes, it has to be said, and no photo rights.
The suitors are so many that the authorities control the number of people and the time inside the tombs.
Valley of the Kings and the Mysterious Tomb of Tutankhamun
We are still far from summer in these remote parts of Africa. Even so, the heat that roasts us as we climb the dusty trails of Vale dos Reis is death and the dryness of the air worthy of Sara. The desert's aridity has always favored the conservation of sphinxes.
As we have been able to see, Tutankhamun, the boy king who ruled from nine to nineteen until he perished for reasons as or more debated than the finding of his tomb, still has his abode here.
As for the controversy, on the one hand, there are apologists that the 3200-year-old discoverer of the tomb, the British archaeologist Howard Carter, deceived the Egyptian authorities, misappropriated a good part of the riches and simulated the previous desecrations of the tomb, the the first of which he claims took place shortly after Pharaoh's funeral, followed by a second fifteen years later.
On the other side are defenders that, as claimed by Carter, the tomb had already been stolen several times before the archaeologist's find, considered the greatest archaeological triumph of all time.
The Unlikely Egyptian Tomb Hunt Napoleon Bonaparte
In large part, the mentor of the fever of Egyptian tombs and treasures was Napoleon Bonaparte.
After the conquest of Italy, the rulers of the Directory of the empire, began to pressure for France to invade England. Napoleon objected. With the support of Foreign Minister Talleyrand, he managed to impose a campaign across Egypt to affect the prolific English trade routes with his Crown Jewel, India.
By that time, Egypt was under the control of the Egyptian Mamelukos. In 1798, Napoleon's forces managed to avoid Admiral Nelson's armada, land on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, and win several decisive battles, including the Battle of the Pyramids.
But, furious that the French armada had escaped him, Lord Nelson did not rest until he corrected the flaw. It finally detected the 400 enemy ships and destroyed them at the Battle of Aboukir. This action left Napoleon's forces "stranded" in Egypt.
Napoleon: From Conqueror to Obsessed with Egyptian History
The Emperor tried to make the best of his unexpected situation. It was rumored that the Turkish army was preparing to attack him. Napoleon tried to stop him by attacking the Ottomans in what is now Syria and Palestine.
Only he found himself surrounded in the British-controlled city of Acre.
A few months later, he was forced to return to Egypt with his forces weakened. In the meantime, the war had spread to Europe and France found itself increasingly vulnerable.
Napoleon decided to return. He again avoided Nelson's armada and focused his efforts on removing the administration he considered "a bunch of lawyers." It was not long before he replaced it with a Consulate of three consuls of which he himself became the leader.
Napoleonic troops surrendered to the British in September 1801. In the three years he spent in Egypt, the French Emperor became obsessed with the nation's millenary history and culture.
It encouraged around 150 scientists, mathematicians, engineers and artists to study ancient monuments, terrain, flora and fauna as well as society and various other aspects of Egyptian civilization. The result of their work was a huge illustrated compendium called "Description of L'Égypte".
Howard Carter: The Famous English Tomb Hunter
This work generated an almost insane Egyptology that would last for at least another two hundred years. It also simplified the studies and searches of explorers who joined the movement. Howard Carter was just one of the explorers who gave himself to him.
In 1922 – the year in which Egypt declared independence from the United Kingdom and in which Carter found the tomb of Tutankhamun – a law came into force in which Egypt sought to defend itself from this new fever. The law dictated that any archaeological find of an intact treasure would have to stay in Egypt while if the treasure was already violated, it could be divided between Egypt and whoever found it.
Every time an object appears on the face of the Earth that Egyptologists are certain belongs to Tutankhamun's treasure, the strife re-emerges. Who finally opened the tomb for the first time? Whether or not Carter was able to transport the treasures out of Egypt.
In any case, in the end, the Egyptian authorities, anxious for emancipation from the British settlers, refused to divide the spoils.
There remains, on the sidelines, the prolific theme of Tutankhamun's curse, covered in countless documentaries, movies, books, computer games and a little bit of everything else, and with a growing list of victims from various countries and walks of life.
Distinguished notorious pharaohs are Tutankhamun's neighbors, including nine Ramses. These days, the deceased member of Egyptian royalty with the most sumptuous mortuary halls is by far Pharaoh Hatshepsut, the second regent in the history of Egypt and one of the "great women in history that we are aware of" as described by the Egyptologist James Henry Breasted.
The Sumptuous Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
To celebrate it, we join dozens of other curious people from Egypt and walk along the long lane that leads to the almost vertical cliffs of Deir el Bahari. From flat, the boulevard slopes towards the blue sky.
He points to the top of the colonnaded terraces that we reach almost thirty meters high.
The temple's axis appears to have been purposefully aligned with the position of the sunrise on the winter solstice (December 21 or 22) when sunlight falls on one of the statues of Osiris on either side of the entrance to the second chamber.
Scholars have further noted that a light box placed to reveal how the light moves away from the central axis and illuminates the statue of the god Amon-Ra (however, the Egyptians merged the deity of Amun with that of the sun god Ra), the pharaoh Thutmose III and then the god of the Nile Hapi.
On the Path of the Controversial Colossus of Memnon
We left that hyperbolic mortuary temple with the sun still high. From there, we returned closer to the irrigated banks of the river in search of the Colossus of Memnon.
Erected in 1500 BC as guardians of the tomb of Pharaoh Amenhoep III, the statues are XNUMX meters tall and show the Egyptian king seated with his hands on his knees.
We thus find them effortlessly even though they were displaced after superlative floods from the Nile destroyed one of Egypt's largest and most opulent pharaonic complexes and successor monarchs began to use their stone blocks in other constructions. Although portentous and intimidating, the statues also did not avoid the colossal misunderstanding of their baptism.
In 27 BC, an earthquake destroyed the colossus north of the ancient temple. This statue started to make a strange sound. It usually happened early in the morning, it is now said that due to the sudden increase in temperature and the evaporation of dew in the crevices of the monument.
Now, the phenomenal sound became so famous that it attracted Roman tourists (including emperors) and Greeks of the time who took the trouble to travel for days to reach the place and to inscribe at their base whether or not they had heard the sound. They had no idea it was a statue of Amenhoep III.
The Greeks, in particular, began to attribute the sound to the laments of King Memnon's mother.
Memnon was a king of Ethiopia who led his army up Africa towards Asia Minor to help defend Troy from attack by the Greeks. Despite his bravery, he was killed by Achilles. It would not have served as a great compensation, but, when he died, he conquered the status of a hero among the Greeks.
In 20 BC, the historian Strabo, who lived in Asia Minor, arrived better informed than his Hellenic countrymen and described the sound as a kind of coup. To the traveler and geographer Pausanias, a lyre string broke. Still others narrated it as a blow on copper or an unusual whistle.
To be honest, we didn't hear anything and didn't have time to wait. In a few hours, the cruise on which we embarked would start the navigation up the Nile, closer to Aswan.
We had much more of the Nile and Ancient Egypt to unravel so we left Memnon and the colossus that was never his handed down to history.
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Big Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe, Endless Mystery
Between the 1500th and XNUMXth centuries, Bantu peoples built what became the largest medieval city in sub-Saharan Africa. From XNUMX onwards, with the passage of the first Portuguese explorers arriving from Mozambique, the city was already in decline. Its ruins, which inspired the name of the present-day Zimbabwean nation, have many unanswered questions.
The Most Caribbean of the Mayan Ruins
Built by the sea as an exceptional outpost decisive for the prosperity of the Mayan nation, Tulum was one of its last cities to succumb to Hispanic occupation. At the end of the XNUMXth century, its inhabitants abandoned it to time and to an impeccable coastline of the Yucatan peninsula.
The City Lost in the Mystery of the Incas
As we wander around Machu Picchu, we find meaning in the most accepted explanations for its foundation and abandonment. But whenever the complex is closed, the ruins are left to their enigmas.
Rapa Nui - Easter Island, Chile
Under the Moais Watchful Eye
Rapa Nui was discovered by Europeans on Easter Day 1722. But if the Christian name Easter Island makes sense, the civilization that colonized it by observant moais remains shrouded in mystery.
Closer to God
Three thousand years of history as mystical as it is troubled come to life in Jerusalem. Worshiped by Christians, Jews and Muslims, this city radiates controversy but attracts believers from all over the world.
Annapurna 10th Circuit: Manang to Yak Kharka, Nepal,
On the way to the Annapurnas Even Higher Lands
After an acclimatization break in the near-urban civilization of Manang (3519 m), we made progress again in the ascent to the zenith of Thorong La (5416 m). On that day, we reached the hamlet of Yak Kharka, at 4018 m, a good starting point for the camps at the base of the great canyon.
An Overcrowded Malta
At the turn of the 8.000th century, Senglea housed 0.2 inhabitants in 2 km3.000, a European record, today, it has "only" XNUMX neighborhood Christians. It is the smallest, most overcrowded and genuine of the Maltese cities.
PN Canaima, Venezuela
Kerepakupai, Salto Angel: The River that Falls from Heaven
In 1937, Jimmy Angel landed a light aircraft on a plateau lost in the Venezuelan jungle. The American adventurer did not find gold but he conquered the baptism of the longest waterfall on the face of the Earth
Shillong, India
A Christmas Selfiestan at an India Christian Stronghold
December arrives. With a largely Christian population, the state of Meghalaya synchronizes its Nativity with that of the West and clashes with the overcrowded Hindu and Muslim subcontinent. Shillong, the capital, shines with faith, happiness, jingle bells and bright lighting. To dazzle Indian holidaymakers from other parts and creeds.
Birgu, Malta
To the Conquest of the Victorious City
Vittoriosa is the oldest of the Three Cities of Malta, headquarters of the Knights Hospitaller and, from 1530 to 1571, its capital. The resistance he offered to the Ottomans in the Great Siege of Malta kept the island Christian. Even if, later, Valletta took over the administrative and political role, the old Birgu shines with historic glory.
A Matchmaking Sanctuary
Tokyo's Meiji Temple was erected to honor the deified spirits of one of the most influential couples in Japanese history. Over time, it specialized in celebrating traditional weddings.
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
The Dominican Home Silver
Puerto Plata resulted from the abandonment of La Isabela, the second attempt at a Hispanic colony in the Americas. Almost half a millennium after Columbus's landing, it inaugurated the nation's inexorable tourist phenomenon. In a lightning passage through the province, we see how the sea, the mountains, the people and the Caribbean sun keep it shining.
Nha Trang-Doc Let, Vietnam
The Salt of the Vietnamese Land
In search of attractive coastlines in old Indochina, we become disillusioned with the roughness of Nha Trang's bathing area. And it is in the feminine and exotic work of the Hon Khoi salt flats that we find a more pleasant Vietnam.
life outside
Ogimashi, Japan
A Village Faithful to the A
Ogimashi reveals a fascinating heritage of Japanese adaptability. Located in one of the most snowy places on Earth, this village has perfected houses with real anti-collapse structures.
Martinique, French Antilles
The Armpit Baguette Caribbean
We move around Martinique as freely as the Euro and the tricolor flags fly supreme. But this piece of France is volcanic and lush. Lies in the insular heart of the Americas and has a delicious taste of Africa.
From the Finnish Lapland to the Arctic. A Visit to the Land of Santa
Fed up with waiting for the bearded old man to descend down the chimney, we reverse the story. We took advantage of a trip to Finnish Lapland and passed through its furtive home.
On the Trail of "Crime and Punishment"
In St. Petersburg, we cannot resist investigating the inspiration for the base characters in Fyodor Dostoevsky's most famous novel: his own pities and the miseries of certain fellow citizens.
Jökursarlón Lagoon, Vatnajökull Glacier, Iceland
The Faltering of Europe's King Glacier
Only in Greenland and Antarctica are glaciers comparable to Vatnajökull, the supreme glacier of the old continent. And yet, even this colossus that gives more meaning to the term ice land is surrendering to the relentless siege of global warming.
Sheki, Azerbaijan
autumn in the caucasus
Lost among the snowy mountains that separate Europe from Asia, Sheki is one of Azerbaijan's most iconic towns. Its largely silky history includes periods of great harshness. When we visited it, autumn pastels added color to a peculiar post-Soviet and Muslim life.
Salta and Jujuy, Argentina
Through the Highlands of Deep Argentina
A tour through the provinces of Salta and Jujuy takes us to discover a country with no sign of the pampas. Vanished in the Andean vastness, these ends of the Northwest of Argentina have also been lost in time.
Praslin, Seychelles
The Eden of the Enigmatic Coco-de-Mer
For centuries, Arab and European sailors believed that the largest seed in the world, which they found on the coasts of the Indian Ocean in the shape of a woman's voluptuous hips, came from a mythical tree at the bottom of the oceans. The sensual island that always generated them left us ecstatic.
Saint Petersburg e Mikhaylovkoe, Russia
The Writer Who Succumbed to His Own Plot
Alexander Pushkin is hailed by many as the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. But Pushkin also dictated an almost tragicomic epilogue to his prolific life.
Samaná PeninsulaLos Haitises National Park Dominican Republic
From the Samaná Peninsula to the Dominican Haitises
In the northeast corner of the Dominican Republic, where Caribbean nature still triumphs, we face an Atlantic much more vigorous than expected in these parts. There we ride on a communal basis to the famous Limón waterfall, cross the bay of Samaná and penetrate the remote and exuberant "land of the mountains" that encloses it.
Mtskheta, Georgia
The Holy City of Georgia
If Tbilisi is the contemporary capital, Mtskheta was the city that made Christianity official in the kingdom of Iberia, predecessor of Georgia, and one that spread the religion throughout the Caucasus. Those who visit see how, after almost two millennia, it is Christianity that governs life there.
San Francisco Cable Cars: A Life of Highs and Lows
A macabre wagon accident inspired the San Francisco cable car saga. Today, these relics work as a charm operation in the city of fog, but they also have their risks.
Little India, Singapore
The Sari Singapore of Little India
There are thousands of inhabitants instead of the 1.3 billion of the mother country, but Little India, a neighborhood in tiny Singapore, does not lack soul. No soul, no smell of Bollywood curry and music.
Enxame Mozambique
Mozambican Fashion Service Area
It is repeated at almost all stops in towns of Mozambique worthy of appearing on maps. The machimbombo (bus) stops and is surrounded by a crowd of eager "businessmen". The products offered can be universal such as water or biscuits or typical of the area. In this region, a few kilometers from Nampula, fruit sales suceeded, in each and every case, quite intense.
PN Hwange, Zimbabwe
The Legacy of the Late Cecil Lion
On July 1, 2015, Walter Palmer, a dentist and trophy hunter from Minnesota killed Cecil, Zimbabwe's most famous lion. The slaughter generated a viral wave of outrage. As we saw in PN Hwange, nearly two years later, Cecil's descendants thrive.
napali coast, Hawaii
Hawaii's Dazzling Wrinkles
Kauai is the greenest and rainiest island in the Hawaiian archipelago. It is also the oldest. As we explore its Napalo Coast by land, sea and air, we are amazed to see how the passage of millennia has only favored it.


Following the emergence of a previous leak, Respawn Entertainment has officially confirmed that new character Octane is indeed on the way to Apex Legends. Accompanying the confirmation was a new trailer, highlighting he daredevil's crazy skills and providing him an equally insane backstory.
Seen below, the array of Octane's abilities is seen in action, all of them focused around the speed demon's relentless maneuverability. The character, real name "Octavio Silva," has the ability to regenerate in combat with his Swift Mend ability, as well as zip around the field with a never-ending supply of Stim. We also get a look at Octane's signature Launch Pad, which allows him to bounce exceedingly high into the air, instantly granting the all-important high ground in battle. Check out the video below.
On top of this, Apex Legends has also introduced a nifty new bio for Octane, providing backstory regarding the "Adrenaline Junkie." Revealed are the origins of the character's bionic legs and how his thirst for death-defying stunts eventually landed him in the Apex Games. Check it out below.


One Inch Punch Productions and Whole Village Moving Pictures began life 40 years ago as the seeds in a young man's brain. Through the various twist and turns in life, those seeds finally sprouted in 2007 with a writing binge and some quality time on sets, big budget and zero budget, both giving great insight, education and desire for me to pursue my passion for storytelling.
I am so grateful to those who helped in my Film education and always pay it forward. It is not only out of obligation but from gratitude, the desire to collaborate, create and present original stories with a passion that helps inspire others.
One Inch Punch Productions and Whole Village Moving Pictures went into business in 2013 and since then we have produced award winning Short Films, a Feature Film, Music Videos, Commercials and Demo Reels. We are an enthusiastic, open minded, creative and hard working company. We do this for every project we undertake and we work with smiles on our faces and the task on point.
We have enjoyed working with several talented and hard working Production Companies and have developed great relationship with all of them. The future looks awesome with a T.V. Pilot pitch, multiple Film's in development and several Films on the Festival circuit for 2018.
"Life is short, live it!"


Understanding what's not covered on your insurance policy lets you know what other insurance coverage you might need. Here are some of the BIG Exclusions.
Not everything is covered. That's the bottom-line. Something's we can find coverage for, while for other things, we are just out of luck. That said, regardless of whether you buy a special policy or not, you need to understand the exclusions, in order to truly understand your policy. Here are some of the most important exclusions found in section one… Why do I say it that way? Because there is a whole other section, just for exclusions. I know, not easy.
Land – insurance doesn't cover land. Why? 'Cause you can't hurt, dirt. This is an important point when you get into the idea of how to value your home.
Ordinance or Law – So, if your local elected officials decide that every new building has to have a statue of Big Bird, but old buildings don't, and your rental property burns to the ground and you have to rebuild… Guess what? You have to get that statue of Big Bird. Guess what else? The insurance company won't pay for that. While no one requires Big Bird statues, there are other things, like sprinkler systems, where this happens all the time.
Earth Movement – Now, depending on the state, you may or may not find earthquake coverage available. Even when earthquake coverage is available, things like, landslide, mine cave-ins, mudflow, sinkholes, etc. may not be covered. Can you get this coverage? You can in some states with a separate policy. Learn more about our catastrophic coverage policy here.
Water – We all know Flood, tidal waves, etc. are not covered. What about overflows from drains, sump-pumps or sewers? Nope. Water is a tough one.
Intentional Loss – For investors, this is big. It means there is no coverage for damage your tenants cause…. Which means it's important to screen your tenants, so as to hopefully avoid the tenant that steals the copper and skates.
There are more, but these are the most important ones, in MY opinion. So, read the policy and find out what else might be important.


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Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has been exposed for marrying her brother, engaging in immigration fraud, violating federal law and being as anti-American as you can get, as well as her father and other Somali war criminals living illegally in the US. Now, we're finding out that there is more reporting that is pointing out
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant," and, "The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth." -then chairman of the designated terror group Council on American-Islamic Relations Omar
On Thursday, the Chico's FAS Campus was placed on lockdown due to unconfirmed reports of an active shooter. However, when the sheriff's office showed up, they determined that there was no shooter. Apparently, a security guard phoned in a report stating there was an active shooter around 11 am, then
A maximum security prison rife with unchecked jihad activity — clearly British authorities want Tommy Robinson dead, and they don't care who knows it. They have set their nation on the path to suicide, and they're bent on keeping it there. "Tommy Robinson Reportedly Transferred to Prison Described as 'Jihadi
Connecting The Dots Of The United Nations' Agendas To A Totalitarian State
The biggest mess that the united States has gotten into comes through the ties we've had with the anti-American, anti-Christian United Nations. Trillions of dollars have been spent at the expense of Americans to fund the organization that is doing everything it can to undermine American sovereignty, dumb down our
Seth Rich Bombshell: Lawsuit Indicates Seth Rich & Brother Were Leakers Of DNC Emails To Wikileaks
Despite the nonsense the mainstream media wants to report regarding Seth Rich, DNC email leaks, Wikileaks and the Mueller Report, along with accomplices at fake fact-checkers like Newsguard, a new lawsuit is out and it's a bombshell in naming that the source of the Seth Rich leak story did not
Marvel's New Comic: The Punisher Gives "Beatdown" to Cops Who Keep Using Him as an Icon
As TFTP reported earlier this year, the man behind the comic book anti-hero, The Punisher, gave an interview to SyFy.com in which he put police on blast for continuing to use his skull logo. Gerry Conway, who has been writing for both Marvel and DC for decades did not mince words when he called out
It appears that not only is Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar under the microscope for marrying her brother, engaging in immigration fraud, violating federal law and being as anti-American as you can get, but now her father has come into the picture. And it isn't pretty. According to a recent report,
Maryland: Activists & Angry Parents Expose Drag Queen For Running Sex-Oriented Business, Posting Porn Photos Of Nude Men Online – Wants To Read To Children
Activists and angry parents in Maryland have not only begun to expose a graphically degenerate man who dresses as a "drag queen" and wants to read to their children, but they are also giving an earful to their local County Commission about his public conduct. On Tuesday, July 9, angry
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In another WWE moment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was briefly banned from speaking on the House floor on Tuesday after she referred to President Donald Trump's behavior as "racist." Following Trump's tweets on Sunday blasting anti-American Democrat congresswomen, Pelosi not only referred to Trump as "racist," but also "xenophobic."


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Have it with Grilled chicken breast, Shrimp, or fish. Wrapped in cabbage cups, topped with fresh jalapenos, fresh cilantro, lime juice, onion, guacamole, tomato, corn, pineapples and Salsa Verde.
Your choice of Fish or Shrimp wrapped in cabbage cups. Topped of with coleslaw, fresh jalapenos, fresh cilantro, lime juice, onion, guacamole, Creamy Chilli Verdeand chipotle mayo. Comes in 3 pieces.


We're almost more excited about the Academy Awards' hosts than the race for Best Picture. Two of Hollywood's most talented, diverse and charming actors--Anne Hathaway and James France--will host Sunday's show.
According to producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer, Franco and Hathaway "personify the next generation of Hollywood icons - fresh, exciting and multi-talented." The actors--Franco is nominated in the Best Actor category--may seem like an unlikely duo, but we bet they'll surprise everyone.
Beyond the fashion and the actual awards, keep an eye out for an addition to the show: this year, producers resurrected the live performances from the Best Original Song nominees. Stay tuned for performances from Gwyneth Paltrow (Country Strong), Mandy Moore (Tangled) and Celine Dion. Watch the whole show on ABC on Sunday at 8 p.m.!
Are you excited for the Oscars?


apparently I lost a day somewhere. I don't always know when I am working every day. at the end here I say it is Sunday the 27th but of course it is the 28th.
I have video from yesterday but never did get it posted. so it goes.
highlights here- dug up and moved the madder. I could see that if I left it where it was that by the time I return from Japan it would be a problem. it's growing so fast.
I also did another cutting of the indigo. it's now dried and stored. I'm going to have to replant the indigo when I return.
it really wants to flower and go to seed already! so maybe some more early seed for those that need some in late June. we'll see.
and the new fermentation vat! wow!
now that I have mastered the year round vat temp issue I really can't imagine keeping a chem vat around.
maybe some prereduced just for certain occasions and of course for traveling workshops.
raining here, off and on. adjusting to the weather as usual here. it has given the garden a good soak though so I don't mind-that and it's also fairly warm.
heading to the airport soon!
a little more from the other day of hemming. only with the old kimono silk lining scraps.


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While Niagara Falls Train Station remains empty, Dyster goes to Buffalo to teach them how to build a train station
Niagara Falls	October 6, 2016 at 2:00 pm
NIagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster and Senior Planner Tom DeSantis are expected to headline a discussion hosted by Citizens for Regional Transit at their quarterly meeting scheduled for October 19th, promoting the group's call to construct a new metropolitan mass transit station in downtown Buffalo. Among the advocates participating will beRead More
Chaos in the Middle East in 2011 and its Culprits
Uncategorized	October 6, 2016 at 11:29 am
By Jim Ostrowski This is an excerpt from the new book, The Impeachment of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for High Crimes in Syria and Libya, by Michael Ostrowski and James Ostrowski (2016). The American interventions into Libya and Syria happened in a troubled part of the world with numerous and seeminglyRead More
Niagara County Corruption Obvious Even to a Woman in Great Britain
By Alison Menage My sister is very much involved on the periphery of local politics and county politics in the area. She and her friends are fighting a long, hard fight against the corruption and abuse of patronage. It is so very bad in Niagara County, it seems totally endemic. Read More
The Right Side
Columns	October 6, 2016 at 11:19 am
By J Gary DiLaura Retired FBI Agent Offers Apology From 'Silenced' FBI Agents To America for Current FBI Director It seems that certain people are worried that Donald Trump will become President! They are worried for different yet similar reasons and are going all out to stop him! Barack Obama, HillaryRead More
Rolling in that "spin off" from Seneca Casino
Niagara Falls	October 6, 2016 at 11:18 am
by Matt Ricchiazzi The administration of Mayor Paul Dyster is advancing a redevelopment project at the corner of Niagara and 7th – directly across the street from the Seneca Niagara Casino. The project is causing controversy because the Dyster administration is seeking $1 million in state capital for the project, before issuingRead More
Hefty Pay Raises in Dyster Budget Come Under Attack
Mayor Paul Dyster's $91 million proposed budget for 2017 includes some hefty raises for several staffers, including his own secretary, and is coming under fire from from a former city economic development chief who called the proposed salary hikes "a slap in the face" to the taxpayers of the cityRead More
West River Road Resident Gives Her Side of Bike Path Story
Erie County	October 6, 2016 at 11:16 am
Invites Public to "Come and Enjoy" the Glorious Eight Miles of West River By Bonnie Fitzgerald West River Rd. Resident Grand Island NY — In connection with the debate raging about the proposed West River Parkway bike path, we believe that the recent article entitled "The Great Nimby" was writtenRead More
Grand Island Bike Trail Plan to be Examined by West River Road Residents at meeting this evening
If all goes according to schedule, opponents of the West River Greenway Connector Trail, the $2.5 million state and federally-funded initiative to close the West River Parkway and convert it into a bike trail, will meet tonight at 7 p.m at Grand Island High School, 1100 Ransom Road, in the main auditorium.Read More
Suspicious Developer Seeks Background on Hotel Niagara RFP
So what's up with the state acquisition of the historic Hotel Niagara, the legendary Niagara Falls hotel at 210 Rainbow Blvd. in Niagara Falls? USA Niagara, one of the state's development agencies under Empire State Development, which played a big role in the state-backed Hamister Hotel project, acquired the once-grandRead More


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Le principe de désignation du matériel moteur (hors Shinkansen), établi en 1928 et révisé en 1987, utilise deux lettres suivies du numéro de classe du matériel, puis du numéro de série. Ces deux lettres sont d'ailleurs écrites en caractères latins sur les matériels.
La première lettre indique la motorisation : D pour diesel ou moteur thermique, E pour électrique, H pour hybride.
La seconde lettre indique, par son rang dans l'alphabet latin, le nombre d'essieux moteurs du matériel (et non les essieux simplement porteurs) : B pour 2 essieux moteurs, C pour 3, etc. Cette désignation ne donne pas d'indication sur la répartition en bogies.

Le numéro de classe était jusqu'à 1987 attribué en fonction de la vitesse maximale du matériel : de 1 à 49 pour une vitesse inférieure à 85 km/h et au-delà de 50 pour une vitesse maximale supérieure à 85 km/h.

Le numéro de série correspond généralement aux derniers chiffres, la  machine de la classe ayant le numéro 1, la  le numéro 2, ... , la  le 100 et ainsi de suite. Un matériel ayant un numéro de série commençant par un 9 est un prototype en règle générale.

Locomotives à vapeur

Première catégorie (principe de désignation par chiffres)
Pour le matériel à vapeur de première catégorie, le numéro de classe distingue l'emplacement des réserves d'eau et de combustible et le nombre d'essieux moteurs. Il est formé par les chiffres de la centaine et du millier.
 00XX–09XX - locomotives-tender à 2 essieux moteurs
 10XX–39XX - locomotives-tender à 3 essieux moteurs
 40XX–49XX - locomotives-tender à 4 essieux moteurs
 50XX–69XX - locomotives avec tender tracté à 2 essieux moteurs
 70XX–89XX - locomotives avec tender tracté à 3 essieux moteurs
 90XX–99XX - locomotives avec tender tracté à 4 essieux moteurs

Les chiffres de l'unité, de la dizaine et de la dizaine de milliers correspondent au numéro de série de la locomotive.
  machine de la classe : XX00
  machine de la classe : XX01
  machine de la classe : XX99
  machine de la classe : 1XX00

Exemple :

 79618 désigne la  à vapeur de la classe 9600. Il s'agit d'une locomotive avec tender tracté.

Deuxième catégorie (principe de désignation par lettres et chiffres)
Pour les locomotives, il n'y a qu'une seule lettre dans le numéro d'identification. Elle correspond au nombre d'essieux moteurs du matériel.

Pour le matériel à vapeur de deuxième catégorie, le numéro de classe distingue l'emplacement des réserves d'eau et de combustible, ainsi que la répartition des essieux moteurs et porteurs.
 10–49 - locomotives-tender
 50–59 - locomotives avec tender tracté (2-8-2 en classification Whyte; 1D1 en classification UIC)
 60–62 - locomotives avec tender tracté (2-8-4 en classification Whyte; 1D2 en classification UIC)

Exemple :

 D51498 désigne la  locomotive à vapeur de la classe D51. Il s'agit d'une locomotive à 4 essieux moteurs avec tender tracté, et dont la disposition des essieux est 2-8-2 en classification Whyte.

Locomotives électriques

Avant la privatisation de la JNR en 1987
Pour le matériel électrique E de la JNR, le numéro de classe distingue le type de courant utilisé.
 10–29 - locomotives à courant continu de vmax < 85 km/h
 30–39 - locomotives universelles de vmax < 85 km/h
 40–49 - locomotives à courant alternatif de vmax < 85 km/h
 50–69 - locomotives à courant continu de vmax > 85 km/h
 70–79 - locomotives à courant alternatif de vmax > 85 km/h
 80–89 - locomotives universelles de vmax > 85 km/h
 90–99 - prototypes

Exemple :

EF5861 désigne la  locomotive électrique de la classe EF58. Il s'agit d'une locomotive à courant continu (DC) à 6 essieux moteurs (ils sont répartis sur 2 bogies de trois essieux pour cette classe de locomotive) dont la vitesse maximale est supérieure à 85 km/h.

Après la création de JR Freight en 1987
Pour le matériel électrique E de la JR Freight, le numéro de classe distingue le type de locomotive et le type de transmission.
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| rowspan="3" |Universelle
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| rowspan="3" |Courant alternatif
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Exemple :

 EH500-901 désigne la  locomotive prototype de la classe EH500. Il s'agit d'une locomotive prototype universelle (AC/DC) à 8 essieux moteurs et à transmission à moteurs alternatifs.

Locomotives diesel

Avant la privatisation de la JNR en 1987
Pour le matériel diesel D de la JNR, le numéro de classe distingue la vitesse maximale.
10–39 - locomotives de vmax < 85 km/h
 40–49 - locomotives prototypes de vmax < 85 km/h
 50–89 - locomotives de vmax > 85 km/h
 90–99 - locomotives prototypes de vmax > 85 km/h

Exemple :

 DD51-548 désigne la  locomotive de la classe DD51. Il s'agit d'une locomotive à 4 essieux moteurs ayant une vitesse maximale supérieure à 85 km/h.

Après la création de JR Freight en 1987
Pour le matériel diesel D de la JR Freight, le numéro de classe distingue le type de locomotive et le type de transmission.
 100–199 - locomotives diesel-électriques à transmission à moteurs continus
 200–299 - locomotives diesel-électriques à transmission à moteurs alternatifs
 300–399 - autres locomotives diesel-électriques
 500–799 - locomotives diesel-hydrauliques

Exemple :

DF200-102 désigne la  locomotive diesel-électrique de la classe DF200. Il s'agit d'une locomotive à 6 essieux à moteurs alternatifs.

Locomotives hybrides
Depuis 2010, le parc comporte un certain nombre de locomotives hybrides dédiées aux manœuvres. La première série est nommée HD300.
 H pour hybride
 D pour 4 essieux moteurs
 300 pour diesel-électrique

Autres matériels
Les rames automotrices, très nombreuses au Japon, suivent une règle de désignation différente. Comme le reste du matériel remorqué, la désignation se fait par deux caractères katakana suivi d'un numéro de type puis du numéro de série dans le type.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

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                [ngModelOptions]="{standalone: true}" (click)="setDirty(true)">
            <mat-hint align="end">Number of invalid login attempts, after
                which the users account will be locked.</mat-hint>
        </mat-form-field>
        <mat-label>Account Lockout Interval (Seconds)</mat-label>
        <mat-form-field appearance="outline">
            <input matInput type="number" [(ngModel)]="strategy.settings.accountLock.interval"
                [ngModelOptions]="{standalone: true}" (click)="setDirty(true)">
            <mat-hint align="end">Amount of time in seconds a users account
                will remain locked after reaching number of invalid login
                attempts.</mat-hint>
        </mat-form-field>
        <mat-label>Enable Max Lockout</mat-label>
        <mat-form-field appearance="outline">
            <mat-select [(ngModel)]="maxLock.enabled" [ngModelOptions]="{standalone: true}"
                (selectionChange)="setDirty(true)">
                <mat-option *ngFor="let maxLockChoice of maxLockChoices" [value]="maxLockChoice.value">
                    {{maxLockChoice.title}}
                </mat-option>
            </mat-select>
            <mat-hint align="end">MAGE can disable user accounts if a user
                locks their account a certain number of times.</mat-hint>
        </mat-form-field>

            <mat-label>>Max Lockout Threshold</mat-label>
            <mat-form-field appearance="outline">
                <input matInput type="number" [(ngModel)]="strategy.settings.accountLock.max"
                    [ngModelOptions]="{standalone: true}" (click)="setDirty(true)">
                <mat-hint align="end">Number of times a user account can be
                    locked before it is disabled.
                    Disabled accounts must be re-enabled by an admin. If
                    left blank this feature is disabled.
                </mat-hint>
            </mat-form-field>

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