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Close finishes: List of Tied T20 Internationals
In cricket, a T20 is tied if the match ends with each team having scored exactly the same number of runs and with the side batting second having completed its innings with all 10 batsmen being out or the pre-determined number of overs having been completed. In a rain-affected match, the match is tied if the Duckworth-Lewis method indicates that the second team exactly meets but does not exceed the par score. There are also some instances where the scores ended level, but one side was declared the winner, because it lost fewer wickets. There are the rules to break this tie and at present, the super over is the option chosen. Let's discuss about this Tied T20 matches.
New Zealand vs. West Indies: Eden Park in Auckland in Feb, 2006. New Zealand won the toss and chose to bowl first.
Daren Ganga and Chris Gayle opened the innings for West Indies. They managed to score 126 runs which could not be said high score or low score. Shane Bond bowled well in that innings and managed to strike down two wicket with 3.75 economy rate. Styris and Patel also got wicket in that match but went for runs but somehow they managed to hold Caribbean at 126.
Lou Vincent and Stephen Fleming opened the Kiwi innings, Vincent played a responsible innings in that match and scored 42 runs off 37 balls. The kiwi team played not upto their mark but managed to score the same run as Caribbean team that is 126 runs at the end of 20th over.
The match tied but New Zealand won the bowl out.
India vs. Pakistan: Kingsmead, Durban in September 2007. Pakistan won the toss and chose to field first.
Gambhir and Sehwag opened the account for India. Robin Uthappa, MS Dhoni , Irfan Pathan were the highest three run scorers from Indian team. Robin scored 50off 39 balls, Dhoni scored 33 off 31 balls and Pathan Scored 20 off 15 balls. India scored 141 run at the end of the 20th over.
Misbah –ul- Haq played brilliantly in that match. He scored 53 off 35 balls. Pakistan managed to score 141 same as India and credit goes to Misbah –ul-Haq.
The match tied and India won the bowl out.
Canada vs. Zimbabwe: October, 2008.
Canada played an average innings and managed to score 135 on the scoreboard. Zimbabwe players did not bowl well though restricted the oppositions under 140 runs. Masakadza and Zhuwao opened the account of Zimbabwe innings. Taibu and Chigumbura performed well. Their innings boosted the team score and helped it to reach at 135. Osinde ,Cheema , Baidwan bowled well for Canada in that match.
As match ended tied, bowl-out occurred and Zimbabwe won the bowl-out.
New Zealand vs. West Indies: Eden Park, Auckland.
The Kiwis won the toss and decided to bat first. They scored 155 at the end of the 20th over. West Indies bowlers comprised loads of runs. In the 2nd innings of the match Caribbean took the revenge of 1st innings and scored 155 run and the match tied. West Indies won the match winning the one over eliminator.
New Zealand vs. Australia: AMI stadium, Christchurch in 2010. New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat first.
Brendon McCullum played a devastating innings of 116 runs. His innings boosted the team score to the 214 runs on the board. Australians are good at chasing all of us know that. They proved it again in that match and tied the match scoring 214 runs. Australia batting line up performed well equally.
New Zealand won the match winning the one over eliminator.
Australia vs. Pakistan: Dubai Cricket International Stadium in 2012. Pakistan won the toss and selected to bat first.
They managed to score 151 on the base of Hafeez ,Akmal,JAmshed's innings. Australian Strong batting line up did not manage to win the match but they scored as much as the Pakistan scored and consequence was match tied.
Pakistan won the match winning the one over eliminator.
Sri Lanka vs. New Zealand: Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in September,2012.
New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat first. Kiwi batting line up clicked totally and managed to score 174 runs at the end of 20th over. Jayawardane and Dilshan played performed well and took their team to the door of winning. But they did not get success and tied the match scoring 174 runs.
Sri Lanka won the match winning the one over eliminator.
New Zealand and West Indies: Again this pair of team positioned in the list. The match occurred at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in October, 2012. Kiwis won the toss and elected to field first.
Chris Gayle boosted the Caribbean score and West Indies managed to score 139 runs.
Key Player Ross Taylor of New Zealand plated a innings of 66 runs that made their score 139runs .the match tied.
West Indies won the match winning the one over eliminator.
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New data is presented for five evolved, low-Ti lunar mare basalt meteorites from the LaPaz Icefield, Antarctica, LAP 02205, LAP 02224, LAP 02226, LAP 02436, and LAP 03632. These basalts have nearly identical mineralogies, textures, and geochemical compositions, and are therefore considered to be paired. The LaPaz basalts contain olivine (Fo(64-2)) and pyroxene (Fs(32)Wo(8)En(60) to Fs(84-86)Wo(15)En(2-0)) crystals that record extreme chemical fractionation to Fe-enrichment at the rims, and evidence for silicate liquid immiscibility and incompatible element enrichment in the mesostasis. The basalts also contain FeNi metals with unusually high Co and Ni contents, similar to some Apollo 12 basalts, and a single-phase network of melt veins and fusion crusts. The fusion crust has similar chemical characteristics to the whole rock for the LaPaz basalts, whereas the melt veins represent localized melting of the basalt and have an endogenous origin. The crystallization conditions and evolved nature of the LaPaz basalts are consistent with fractionation of olivine and chromite from a parental liquid similar in composition to some olivine-phyric Apollo 12 and Apollo 15 basalts or lunar low-Ti pyroclastic glasses. However, the young reported ages for the LaPaz mare basalts (similar to 2.9 Ga) and their relative incompatible element enrichment compared to Apollo mare basalts and pyroclastic glasses indicate they cannot be directly related. Instead, the LaPaz mare basalts may represent fractionated melts from a magmatic system fed by similar degrees of partial melting of a mantle source similar to that of the low-Ti Apollo mare basalts or pyroclastic glasses, but which possessed greater incompatible element enrichment. Despite textural differences, the LaPaz basalts and mare basalt meteorite NWA 032 have similar ages and compositions and may originate from the same magmatic system on the Moon. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Snail Mail vs. Email Film
Asking random people in San Francisco how they feel about email versus handwritten letters. This video was created to help promote the Snail Mail My Email project and its 2013 annual event.
NPR "A great chance to send some mail without all the pesky stamp licking."
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Britain's Barratt Developments will cut nearly a fifth of its workforce to cope with the housing market downturn, joining other builders taking similar measures, and will not pay a final dividend for 2007-08.
Barratt also said with its house sales running at half the level of a year ago it expected prices to fall 10 percent from their peak.
As a result, it will write down the value of its land holdings by about 85 million pounds ($168 million).
The comment came before the Bank of England kept interest rates on hold at 5 percent and after nearly 4,000 job cuts by UK housebuilders in the past two weeks.
Barratt, which is cutting 1,200 jobs, said on Thursday it had agreed more relaxed covenants with its bankers for a new 400 million pound loan "as an appropriate, prudent response to current market conditions".
"Specifically, under this agreement, the interest cover covenant is replaced with a cashflow covenant and the gearing and minimum tangible net worth covenants are relaxed."
Barratt shares, which peaked at 1,310 pence in February 2007, rose 24.1 percent to a two-week high at 67 pounds, valuing the company at around 134 million pounds.
Cazenove analysts said news of the new financing "will steady some nerves.
However, the forward order book has declined 50 percent year-on-year and the group remains extremely operationally and financially geared".
Housebuilders' share prices have collapsed this year, partly on fears of big writedowns on land bought at the peak of the housing market.
A 10-year boom in Britain's housing market began slowing last summer before the global credit crunch choked off the supply of cheap and easy money that had helped triple prices in a decade.
The "collapse" in residential construction, and a contraction in the United States, forced Austria's Wienerberger, the world's largest brickmaker, to issue a profit warning on Thursday.
House prices have fallen for several months as competition in the mortgage market all but disappeared and availability dried up.
Halifax, Britain's biggest mortgage lender, said on Thursday house prices fell 2.0 percent in June to be 6.1 percent lower year-on-year in the second quarter.
It said the market continued to be underpinned by sound fundamentals.
The Bank of England said on Wednesday the cost of a two-year fixed-rate mortgage rose 0.37 percentage point in June to 6.63 percent, the highest since February 2000.
Barratt, reporting on full-year trading, said its total completed sales rose 8.3 percent to 18,588 in the year to end-June.
Private sales were 3.3 percent higher at 14,803, while social housing completions rose a third to 3,785.
Chief Executive Mark Clare said at the current sales rate, 2008-09 volume would drop close to 14,000.
Barratt's jobs cuts, which will take its headcount to 5,500 from 6,700, will cost 15 million pounds and lead to about 40 million pounds of annual savings.


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What Does Your Desk Drawer Say About You?
I guess we've all seen that famous Life magazine photo of Albert Einstein's messy desktop (a real one, made of wood, long before the advent of the PC). One can only imagine how haphazard the drawers might have been -- but it's proof that a disorganized workspace doesn't necessarily reflect a disorganized workplace.
Take a look at photos and anecdotes we collected, showing the different styles of working people from all walks of life -- from marketing to management -- and how they keep their everyday items in check.
How does your drawer compare?
Danica Bergagnini
Principal, Unnaturally Geisha Studios, Inc.
I am a graphic and Web designer and co-own a multimedia design studio. From the contents of my drawer, it is obvious that I work with computers; my most used item is definitely the flash drive. If you need to move around files on a regular basis, I strongly suggest it -- it is definitely a prerequisite for meetings so you can get or give files as you are discussing them.
The most useless and slightly embarrassing items are all the old and broken iPods, cameras and phones. I should just get rid of them already but they hide in the drawer and I forget about them.
Here is what's in my drawer:
- various camera battery chargers
- Disneyland lanyard
- can of dust remover
- CD envelopes
- broken camera
- 2 broken iPods
- iPod charger
- iPod cables
- replacement halogen bulb
- old cell phone
- extra phone battery
- various cable adapters
- screen cleaner
- dust remover cloth
- CD Stomper
- sewing tape measure
- flash drive
Carrie L. Lundgren
Fiscal support specialist, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Desk drawers are wonderful, but in the real world they expand to this... (see pic) Which is always full of the larger extras -- dusters, discs, personal girlie products for the wayward student and boo-boo strips.
- Envelope moistener! Best stuff ever invented.
- Ibuprofen
- Gum for the breath
- A small screwdriver with interchangeable heads and a small flashlight
- A tape measure
- Cortisone for paper cuts.
Wish: Rubber fingertips that fit and weren't so ugly. (Why don't they make pretty ones?)
Brian Collier
Store manager
Crucial contents of any desk drawer are an overabundance of pens (they seem to disappear like socks in a dryer), staple remover (because using your fingernail starts hurting) and Post It note pads (just because they look cool hanging up and they make you feel organized and important).
My drawer, unfortunately is devoid of two important items: a Magic 8 Ball for making all-important and vital decisions, and a bottle of extra strength aspirin for when you and your ball make wrong decisions (in extreme cases, razor blades). Another drawer in my file cabinet holds innocuous plastic forks and spoons, packets of ketchup and mustard, and Snickers as rewards when you and your ball make a commanding decision.
Dinah McLean
Principal, Click Communications
- Calculator -- I still have my old TI-81 from high school
- Sticky notes -- mine are extra pretty with birds on them
- Glue stick -- you never know
- Tissues, Tylenol, floss, vitamins -- little mini medicine cabinet
- Pencil sharpener
- Extra staples
- Stress ball w/ pink skull & crossbones
- Extra pens & sharpies
- Rubber bands
- Matches
- Tape
- A wallet with extra/old membership cards, credit cards, gift cards. Just in case. Probably I could (and should) throw most of them out
- Lint roller
- Extra lip gloss
Keith Olexa
Freelance writer-editor, Starlog Magazine and Fangoria
Desk essentials: pencils, pens, markers, highlighters, staples, tape, paper clips, and flash drives (not a total Luddite here!)
My missing desk tool? A label maker!
What's essential, handy, fits in a drawer? Pens, pencils, of course, and an encrypted USB flash drive that contains all one's passwords and registration codes. Why? C'mon, we've all done it at one time or another... scrabbled around our files trying to find the codes for a program we have to re-install. Keep up with all of it in one safe place, a place that's also arm's length away.
Mac McLean
Principal, Click Communications
Always be prepared!
OK, so my drawer is more of a nest. Since we work from home and my desk is somewhat portable, I decided to put everything in an easy-to-move dinner tray. And the laptop stand created a nice four-compartment storage area for my stuff!
Office supplies
- Pens (all of them)
- Scissors (normal and 10-blade shredders)
- Sticky notes (from 'Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion')
- Paper clips
- Rubber bands
- Krazy Glue (always handy!)
- Letter openers
- Business card nook
- iPhone cable
- Flash drives (at least three)
- USB speakers
- Batteries (wireless keyboard)
- Leatherman's tool
- Flashlight
- Box cutter
Cleaning supplies
- Static screen cloth
- iPhone screen cloth
- Dirt Rags keyboard and mouse cleaner
Mini drugstore
- Tylenol
- Sudafed
- Chapstick
- Nail clippers
- Tums
- Wrist brace
- Maker's Mark (in case of emergency)
- Clif bars
- Chewing gum
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2016 Taste of Northeast Iowa Local Food and Farm Crawl
Twelve independent food and farm businesses, all within an easy drive of each other in beautiful northeast Iowa, are jointly hosting open houses. Enjoy a leisurely autumn day "crawling" from farm to farm in this part of the Driftless Region. (Okay, you don't actually crawl, you drive yourself between farms).
The tours are free and open to families. (Please leave pets at home). Delicious local food products will be available to sample and purchase on site. Click here to download the map and flyer.
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Brian Taylor's Pine River Capital reported 2,432,837 shares in Walter Investment Management Corp (WAC) on October 20th, representing an 8.7% passive stake. According to the firm's 13F filing, in the second quarter Pine River Capital had 715 thousand shares in WAC, or 2.56% stake ownership. So this is a 340% expansion in its position. WAC has a comparatively strong path in the third quarter. The stock showed positive recoveries against economic events and has returned nearly 40% year to date. Since WAC's daily trading volume is usually below 200K, Pine River Capital might entered in late September at about $23. Now WAC is trading at $24.80, and Pine River Capital may have already gained 8% from the transaction.
Except Pine River Capital, in the second quarter ten other hedge funds in our list reported shares in WAC, and several of them adjusted their positions like crazy. Sigma Capital Management increased its position by 380% to 960 thousand shares. Steven Cohen's Sac Capital Advisors reported an increase of 369% and possessed 879 thousand shares. Dmitry Balyasny's Balyasny Asset Management had 277 thousand shares, after a 122% increase.
Pine River Capital was founded in early 2002 by Brian Taylor. Brian began his value trading experience in late 1980s and founded Pine River to pursue opportunities in global relative value trading. He had several former colleagues as his managers. In 2007, Pine River outgrew its headquarters and relocated to Minnetonka, Minnesota. The firm had research and trading offices in London, Hong Kong, San Francisco, New York, and Beijing.
Walter Investment Management Corp is a mortgage servicer and mortgage portfolio owner. The company together with its subsidiaries engages in providing subprime, non-conforming and other residential loans in the southeastern United States. The company operates four subsidiaries: Hanover Capital, Walter Mortgage Company (WMC), Walter Investment Reinsurance Co. (WIRC) and Best Insurors, Inc. (Best). The Company operates as an internally managed, publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT). In November 2010, the company purchased Marix Servicing LLC, and in July 2011 it acquired GTCS Holdings LLC.


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Last week Charlie Banana introduced a 2-in-1 Swim Diaper and Training pant for toddlers. These training pants are suppose to help toddlers who are potty training during the summer, and parents cut down costs. No need to buy training pants and swim diapers. These training pants/swim diapers come in fun colors and the inside is organic cotton.
My question is: Would you use them even if it's not the summer?
Here is what Charlie Banana says about them, "As many parents have experienced, using disposable baby swim diapers are a waste. They do not retain anything, are bulky and very difficult to remove at all! Using a reusable waterproof swim suit is the perfect solution. Charlie Banana® offers multiple prints to make your little one a fashion sensation at the pool or the beach. Charlie Banana® 2-in-1 Swim Diaper & Training pants have a waterproof, outer layer and a soft organic cotton interior lining, which is gentle against your baby's skin. They make an ideal training pant when potty training a child because of the trim fit, easy removal and they are truly absorbent!"
Even the stars are trying to be more eco-friendly. Celebrity new moms January Jones, Jenna Fischer, Denise Richards, Victoria Beckham, Paul and Erin Stanley, Evangeline Lilly, Emily Deschanel, Selma Blair, Kimberly Stewart, Alicia Silverstone, Ali Landry, Tori Spelling, Tia Mowry and Mary McCormack are among the first to receive and test the Charlie Banana(R) Fashion Collection.


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I am highly proficient in teaching all forms and aspects of English Language (Phonics, Grammar, Reading, Spelling, etc)
My name is Anthonia .C. I am a graduate of Applied Biochemistry from Enugu State University of Science and Technology.
My position at my present work place enables me to provide my pupils with the proficient skills they require in mastering subject concepts. My student-teacher experience allows me the opportunity to assume all the responsibilities of an elementary teacher at multiple grade levels. I feel confident and qualified to take on the challenges that teaching offers as I am always eager to demonstrate my talent and teaching skills and I am also committed to improving the high standards in the education of every child I come across.
I require the very best from all my students, because I do believe all children can learn. I welcome the new opportunities and challenges every student presents.I am very passionate about teaching and I have the ability to share my knowledge and skills with the help of my students to ensure they attain the best they can.
Above all as a teacher, I am highly challenged to be creative, nurturing and patient.
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Ms Anthonia has been a very effective teacher for my daughter. She is patient and understanding. I am pleased with her and intend for her to prepare my daughter for all her entrance examinations this session.


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Should I lease or buy my next new vehicle?
The question of buy vs lease arises for many people when they are thinking about getting a new car or van. This needs careful consideration whether you are looking for a company vehicle, opting out of your company car scheme, or looking for a private vehicle.
If you have purchased your vehicles in the past, you will probably be aware of how much they depreciate over time. In fact, most cars will have lost at least half their value by the time they are three years old.
If you lease a car, you do not need to worry about depreciation as, with most lease contracts, you do not own the vehicle and can simply hand it back at the end of the term. You can find out more about your End of Contract Options at our Car Leasing Guide website, along with many other useful car leasing tips.
The main benefits of Car Leasing are easy budgeting of your motoring costs, low initial outlay and monthly payments compared to purchasing a vehicle, easily change your car every two or three years, and no further commitment when the lease ends. In addition, businesses benefit from improved cashflow, tax advantages and VAT relief.
To help you answer the lease versus buy dilemma, leasing a vehicle would probably suit you if:-
- You want to know exactly how much your motoring will cost you every month
- You don't want any surprise bills for repairs, routine maintenance or MOTs
- You like to drive a new car every 2 or 3 years
- You don't want to worry about how fast your car is depreciating
- You only want a low initial outlay to acquire your new vehicle
- You have a good idea of how many miles you drive each year
- You tend to look after the car you drive, as lease cars are subject to a Fair Wear & Tear policy
- You don't enjoy the ordeal of part-exchange or disposing of your old vehicle
- You like the idea of having end of contract options – you can simply hand the car back with no further commitment, extend the lease, or maybe even purchase the vehicle if you wish
I hope this helps resolve the lease vs buy issue. Our next post will discuss in more detail the main car leasing benefits of business contract hire and personal car leasing, as well as the disadvantages. So look out for that next week!
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Friday, December 21, 2012
made with love
are you ready to see our handmade christmas card for 2012? well, i'm finally ready to share it! =)
mike was such an awesome assistant this year. like always, and like i mentioned the other day, i can procrastinate like no other. i can plan well, but the execution is always a fail. or a delayed success. (i mean, the thought of making 60 cards is intimidating, so that's what scares me into nothingness until the last possible minute.)
(yes, i make 60 cards. yes, i am crazy.)
but, despite waiting until the last minute to put together my little snowman cards, they turned out great, dontcha think?
i have a circle paper cutter which made this year's design so much easier. i just set the diameter and cut out 60 circles in each size out of white cardstock. i bought some more blank cards, some sheets of the blue, snowy paper for the background and the rick rack for the scarves (and other 'scarf'-type pom-pom string that was lime green so there would be a variety), but everything else i had on hand! i had glue, brown paper for the arms, orange paper for the carrot, and black paint for the coal. i even had little adhesive squares that are about 1/4" thick to create the 3-d effect of the snowman on the card.
i started by cutting everything out. i find that creating a little assembly line is the best way to work...kinda like prepping everything in the kitchen for a big recipe...it's easier when it's all ready to put together. so, i started with the blue, snowy paper as the background and glued them to the cards. then i worked on the circles: figuring out my three sizes and getting busy cutting 180 circles out of white cardstock.
then i got to work with the paint. i used black (matte) puffy paint and a q-tip and carefully created little faces on the small circles and small buttons on the medium circles. the paint dried pretty quickly, and once i was done cutting out the carrot noses out of my (had on hand) orange paper, i just glued 'em on!
i used the brown paper (that i had on hand from helping my best friend with her wedding programs in 2007...holding onto things can be handy!) and cut out some 'sticks' to use for arms. if you follow me on instagram (i'm mykindaperfect), you saw this misleading picture of the 'arms':
then i glued 'em to the under side of the medium circles that made the bodies!
mike helped by gluing the big circles onto the cards (on the blue, snowy paper) while i trimmed my rick rack and pom pom strands into little 'scarves'. then i used my trusty hot glue gun to stick the scarves on the under side of the small circles.
then we used the 1/4" thick adhesive squares to put the little snowmen together! mike put the 'body' on the bottom and i stuck the heads on!
so cute, right? i couldn't help myself but choose two types of scarves! hey, i like variety in my crafts! =)
then i wrote my little 'merry christmas' message in each card, signed for mike, myself, franny, and leo!
then mike stuffed 'em and sealed 'em while i addressed 60 envelopes to go to texas, pennsylvania, wyoming, virginia, vermont, new york, new jersey, maine, connecticut, montana, and new hampshire! our little handmade cards make their way all around america!
do you send christmas cards? do you ever make cards? i love getting all kinds of cards, but there's something about a handmade card (or anything else for that matter) that melts my heart.
speaking of melting my heart, i got a little visit at work yesterday from my dear friend jen (you know, my friend who choreographed clara's dream) and her two-year-old daughter, hannah. hannah loves visiting auntie at work...she knows where my sticker stash is and she isn't afraid of getting in my desk for markers to color. she even gets her own paper from the copier behind my desk.
so, while jen and i were chatting, hannah was doodling. after scribbling out three terrific pictures of two-year-old-awesomesauce, she declared she wanted to draw something "for mike!" (hearing this was an exciting surprise because she gets really shy around mike.)
so, i asked if she wanted me to draw something for her to color in, which sounded like a good idea to her. "how about a car?" i said, sitting in the showroom of the dealership i work at, it only seemed fitting. "yeah!" hannah replied.
so, i got my doodle on, and hannah got her scribble on. and i love her creation!
doesn't it just make your heart melt when a child wants to make something for you? it wasn't even for me and i absolutely love it! and, of course, mike does too! (and i laminated it so we could keep it forever. yup, i'm that auntie.)
are you all ready for christmas? i am not. i cannot lie. you know i'm a procrastinator, so i can't help but wait until the last minute for a few things. but after tomorrow and sunday, i should be all set! (except for a few handmade things for friends that will most likely wait until after the holiday to finish up! oops.)
happy friday!
=) andrea
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your cards are awesome. I'm impressed.ReplyDelete
Hannah sounds like a sweetie!
- AnonymousJanuary 9, 2013 at 8:06 PM
this is really really cute!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 17, 2013 at 12:35 AM
Andrea this is the cutest! I really like the way it turned out...and pretty easy too! I am looking for ideas for my cards...you'd think I'd have done that a little sooner than 4 weeks before the day!? Oh well I will do it! Anyway...thanks for sharing and I will be making this one for sure! Have a great Thanksgiving and a very Merry Christmas too! Charlotte from AZReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2014 at 7:08 PM
I make 40-45 cards each year for Christmas, and love this idea. But I am going to use it for the 10 January birthday cards I have to send this year!ReplyDelete
Awesome!! These are so adorable. Making these with one of the families I nanny for, he's 11. I'll make sure to publish what we come up with and of course link to your site. Creative stuff, love it. Art On!!ReplyDelete


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The 2017-2018 recipient of the Nina Brekelmans Memorial Endowed Scholarship is Ghadeer Awwad. Congratulations Ghadeer!
About Ghadeer
Ms. Ghadeer Awwad is the 2017-2018 Recipient of the Nina Brekelmans Endowed Memorial Scholarship at Georgetown's Master of Arts in Arab Studies (MAAS) program. Ghadeer is originally from Nablus, Palestine and graduated from Earlham College in 2016. Her research interests at MAAS include women's empowerment, conflict resolution, peacebuilding and human rights, and Palestinian society under Israeli occupation.
At the age of sixteen, Ghadeer Awwad was selected to represent her home country of Palestine at Pearson United World College in Canada, a two-year, pre-university school for students from over 100 countries who live, study and learn together while pursuing the International Baccalaureate. Leaving home at a young age allowed Ghadeer to expand her horizons and develop her identity as a Palestinian Arab woman. After graduating from Pearson College, Ghadeer joined the Union of Palestinian Women Committees as a member and volunteer in Nablus, Palestine. Being part of UPWC provided Ghadeer the opportunity to work closely with women from her own society and to contribute in the national struggle to establish an independent Palestinian State. In addition, hearing women voice their experiences showed Ghadeer the need to take a more critical approach to addressing gender issues in her community.
Following her work in Palestine, Ghadeer returned to North America to attend Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. At Earlham, Ghadeer double-majored in International Studies and Human Development, a combination that enabled her to study public policy with an eye toward issues of social justice. Ghadeer focused her academic research on truth recovery and transitional justice in post-conflict societies and on Palestinian women's engagement in national resistance movements. During her undergraduate career Ghadeer took a gap semester to work with the Drama, Diversity, and Development project (DDD), which uses culture to promote diversity and challenge discrimination against minorities in the MENA region. Working with DDD provided Ghadeer with further opportunities to engage with women activists and civil-society experts fighting for equality in the MENA region.
Ghadeer aspires to work in the advocacy field and to continue working alongside disadvantaged women in areas affected by war and conflict, such as her native Palestine. To achieve this goal, Ghadeer plans to concentrate her graduate work in the MAAS program on women and development in the MENA region.
Thank you to everyone that made this possible!
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Art Appreciation
Formal Analysis
Function of Art
Artist Report
Formal Analysis
Golden Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol, 1962. 211 x 144 cm. Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas, from Warhol's Marilyns.
SUBJECT: Personal Function--Religious/Spiritual and Psychological
SUBJECT MATTER: A golden painted canvas with a painting of Marilyn Monroe in the center--created soon after her death (believed to be suicide).
FORM: Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 211 cm x 144 cm. Gold background that fills most of the painting, face in the middle with few details.
CONTENT: Very detailed hair, but face has just the basics. Skin is shown as basically flawless (a trait of Warhol's celebrity paintings). You can see a bit of Marilyn's shirt collar which is shown as the same color as her eye shadow. The gold background, filling most of the painting, along with the shadows by her face, really help to make the face pop out at you.
Andy Warhol is said to have used a gold background to portray her as a sort of "God" in the celebrity world. I saw something similar to that when I looked at it, but not exactly that same way. I see this painting as mostly Psychological because while I see the gold representing her being some sort of "God", I also see it as a glamour symbol.
Most people back then (and now) saw Marilyn Monroe as a pure glamour symbol. But her committing suicide, in my opinion, showed that she wasn't so happy with that lifestyle that she had. I look at the smile on her face in the painting, and I just see sadness. Andy seemed to be painting an illusion of Marilyn, showing her as happy when she really didn't seem to be.
"Art is what you can get away with."--Andy Warhol


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- CMS has made a final coverage determination regarding an additional cervical cancer screening benefit under Medicare for beneficiaries ages 30 to 65.
- CMS will allow asymptomatic women the option of screening once every five years with HPV testing in conjunction with a Pap smear.
- The agency's action came after the AAFP's formal request in 2014 for CMS to initiate a national coverage analysis for the screening.


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Documents of Interest
Based on feedback from farmers, the following resources have been useful. If there are other recommended documents or resources you think could be added to this collection, please email them to us here at Southern SAWG.
Links to Resources
Cornell University Market Channels Study
University of Wisconsin Grower to Grower Study
Farm Credit Council CSA Benchmarks
ATTRA Organic Market Farm Documentation Forms
Iowa State University Breakeven Pricing, Revenue and Units
Iowa State University Breakeven Sales Volume Exercise


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Ames Morison is the winemaker and founding partner of Medlock Ames winery. A Virginian native, Ames graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans with a degree in Ancient History before working as a teacher in New York. His agricultural career began with the Peace Corps in Guatemala as an agricultural edicuator. During this three-year period, he was tasked with encouraging local people to use
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Here is a list of things to do before you travel. Have a great vacation!
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Charge everything.
Pick up needed cash including $1 for tips.
Pay bills.
Check weather.
Choose what you will pack for you trip in.
Pick up necessary items.
Get pet ready for sitters.
Stop mail.
Call credit card companies.
Remember to pack passports if needed.
Take out garbage.
Turn heating system to correct temperature.
Forward Travel Information to friends or family.
Renew medication if needed.
Take photos of important documents and medications.
Auto-response your email.
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Our Story
Elgin is the home of roadworks.org – the local and national communications hub for live and planned roadworks, road closures and traffic disruptions.
Elgin started life as a Jacobs Engineering e-Government project in 2004, dedicated to fulfilling the requirements of the 2004 Traffic Management Act and creating a comprehensive roadworks map.
By 2010 coverage had extended across a small portion of England. Central government felt unable to support the investment needed to complete the national picture and fulfil the wider vision of a traffic disruptions hub.
In 2011 Elgin re-launched and since then the roadworks.org platform has expanded not just in terms of coverage, but also in its scope and vision. roadworks.org has achieved national coverage (England and Wales) and has become a core part of the national data infrastructure and is one of the best examples of cost saving across local government using a shared service.
Elgin, through roadworks.org, is dedicated to improving traffic conditions and traffic flow. We enable Highway Authorities, utility companies and works contractors to plan, manage and communicate better, helping the economy to grow and improving the daily lives of the travelling public.
Our Vision
Our vision is simple. About 3 million roadworks take place every year. Using roadworks.org on a daily basis, traffic management and Streetworks professionals plan their works more efficiently, reduce costs and communicate disruptions effectively to road users, businesses and residents.
Over 300 official bodies share their information on roadworks.org, spanning motorways, trunk routes and local roads. Our integrated suite of professional tools are used to support a wide range of activities, from planning traffic management such as closures and diversions, to monitoring the live impact of roadworks on congestion. By putting all of this information in one place, we make it easy to access and simple to understand, enabling better coordination and collaboration between authorities, utilities and works contractors.
At the heart of Elgin's vision is communication. There are nearly 20 million 'hits' (hover overs, tool-tip look-ups & deep click-throughs) on roadworks self-served in the past 12 months via roadworks.org and rising. Information is syndicated to hundreds of other websites, local and national media, social media and sat-nav providers.
Elgin's national dataset powers a wide range of intelligent transport solutions and we are working with some of the world's most influential tech and navigation companies – including TomTom and Google – to make real-time communication of traffic disruptions a reality.
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In getting my books, I have always been solicitous of an ample margin; this is not so much through any love of the thing in itself, however agreeable, as for the facility it affords me of penciling in suggested thoughts, agreements, and differences of opinion, or brief critical comments in general.
– Edgar Allan Poe, on his own inclinations for marginalia, 1844
Dr. Raymond Dart's personal papers at the University of Witwatersrand are full of curiosities. Sketches, letters, newspaper clippings, back issues of scientific publications. A family photo or two. A copy of a congratulatory telegraph from Dr. Ales Hrlicka on the discovery of the Taung Child fossil. Most unexpected, however, is an undated, unsigned carbon copy of an unpublished manuscript.
This manuscript, The Fantasy of the Missing Link, reads like a young adult novella of paleoanthropological mystery and intrigue. Its fifty-six pages explore the story of a "monkey-like" fossil found by good ol' Ginger (a ruffian employee) after a shock blast in the Buxton Limeworks Quarry in the Taung region of South Africa. Gentleman Joe, a Limeworks employee with some university training, notes that the fossil is "clearly a human ancestor" and proposes sending the fossil to "Professor Daye" for examination.
Characters in The Fantasy of the Missing Link are given only the thinly-veiled nom de plumes, and these pseudonyms have been doodled in, presumably by Dart, himself. (My graphology skills are rudimentary, at best.) Professor Elliot Smith is Professor Elland Swift and Sir Arthur Keith is shielded as Sir Andrew Kelly. The annotations speak to distancing, editorial comments, a sense of keeping the story in the realm of fiction – to say nothing of avoiding libel.
While, perhaps, not Newberry material, The Fantasy offers an intriguing participation in the public life of the Taung Child. There is a sense that the story of Dart's discovery (and subsequent dismissal by the academic establishment) was the stuff of theater. There's also the sense that Dart's perspective "ought" to be championed as the manuscript is signed "A Loyalist."


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Virginia Beach Attractions
Home to craft beer, wine, music and art festivals and the well-attended Hampton Roads International Auto Show, Virginia Beach keeps residents entertained all year long. Spend a quiet day touring the Virginia Air & Space Center, and set aside time to see the majestic undersea creatures at the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center. The city also has amusement parks, fine restaurants and golf courses. For a night out, get tickets to one of the many big-name music acts that play at venues like Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater.
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Virginia Beach Neighborhoods
Deciding where to rent an apartment in Virginia Beach? Choose the oceanfront district in downtown Virginia Beach to wake up to the sun rising over the Atlantic Ocean every morning, or head inland to the area around Virginia Beach Town Center for convenience to grocery stores, shopping and movie theaters. Neighborhoods like Kempsville and Little Neck strike a compromise by providing both easy beach access and short commutes to Norfolk.
Virginia Beach for Pets
If your four-legged family member needs an opportunity to let loose, head to one of these top dog parks in Virginia Beach: Red Wing Park, Bayville Farms Park and Woodstock Park. Before you go, be sure to purchase a Virginia Beach dog park pass at any Virginia Beach Recreation Center.
Free Things to Do in Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach keeps more money in your pocket with a variety of free things to do, including the most popular attraction of all--the beach! After a day of sand and surf, listen to the upbeat rhythms of live music, see street performers breathe fire and admire nautically themed sculptures on the Virginia Beach Boardwalk.
Virginia Beach for Families with Kids
Families love Virginia Beach for its focus on kid-friendly fun, with activities ranging from building sand castles on the beach to taking a pirate-themed boat tour. Kids Cove Playground provides hours of fun for smaller kids, and roller coasters like Tempesto deliver thrills for bigger kids at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, about 60 miles away.
For the best school districts in Virginia Beach, search for an apartment in neighborhoods like Bayfront and Red Hill Farm. Virginia Beach is also home to exceptional schools for academically and artistically gifted students.
Virginia Beach Natural Beauty
The oceanfront of Virginia Beach draws the crowds, but there is more to do than swimming and sunbathing. Head to the local fishing pier, go horseback riding, or charter a boat to enjoy sport fishing, dolphin watching and spectacular views. To escape from modern life for a bit, visit False Cape State Park, offering primitive camping, kayaking and unspoiled views of the great outdoors. The Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge and the Great Dismal Swamp also offer scenic hiking and biking opportunities.
Watersports in Virginia Beach
Surfing, kiteboarding and kayaking form a trifecta of water-sports fun every summer in Virginia Beach, but the area is also well known as a hangout for serious fishers. Go whale watching in winter, or save up to try a new summer sport, like parasailing or stand-up paddleboarding.
Nearby Beaches and Fun Getaways from Virginia Beach
If you're in the mood for a road trip, Virginia is a dream destination for history buffs. Drive about an hour north to visit historic sites like Jamestown and Williamsburg, or make the journey to Washington, D.C. in about four hours. You can also enjoy big-city dining and entertainment options in Richmond, a distance of about 100 miles from Virginia Beach.
Whether you love the high-energy beach in front of the boardwalk or secluded spots with only the sounds of the sea, you can find what you're looking for in Virginia Beach. Here are our top picks for the best beaches near Virginia Beach:
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Online. To avoid the crowds (especially at stores like Forever21….those fitting room lines make me seriously contemplate trying on clothes right where I stand. Really, I've got nothing
good to hide.)
Anyway, here are a few things I'm
drooling mulling over (I hate Forever21's return policies by the way; that and their extremely cheap clothing – but that still doesn't stop me!)
1. Athletic Jacket plus skirt
2. Workout Top
3. Leopard Scarf
4. Polka Dot Hi-Lo Top
5. Lace Top
6. Stripe Peter Pan Collar Top
7. Stripe Jacket
What are your thoughts? Cheap and trendy for the summer?


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Links to all SAR State, District and International websites
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SAR Members Database (password required)
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In most cases, each chapter not only services the county it is in, but also surrounding counties. To get more details, contact the chapter directly by clicking on the chapter name.
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The telco has deployed narrow-band LTE network on its 1800 MHz spectrum for launching its 4G service in the city. It is offering ultra-affordable 4G plans for its customers, according to TelecomTalk.
Till date, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, Idea Cellular, Aircel, and Tikona have commercially launched 4G services in the country. Reliance Jio, the country's pan-India 4G telco, is likely to launch commercial services soon.
The report said that Telenor has priced 1GB 4G data at just Rs 149 and 2GB 4G data at Rs 219 with 28 days validity.Under the pack, customers will also get reduced call rate of 25 p/min for local calls and 30 p/min for STD calls on recharging with these 4G packs.
Telenor is also offering two trail packs priced at Rs 11 and Rs 22 offering 100MB and 250MB of 4G data respectively with a 1 day validity.


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Yewande Zaccheaus
Yewande graduated in Law from University of Lagos 1982 and thereafter obtained an LL.M from Cambridge University, England in 1984. She began her career as a legal officer in the Nigerian-American Merchant Bank and after a brief stint in private practice joined Ecobank Nigeria plc in 1989 as the pioneer Company Secretary and Legal Adviser. She resigned in 2002 at Deputy General Manager Level, to establish her own business, Eventful Limited, an events management company. Eventful has established itself as the pacesetter and market leader in corporate and retail events as well as venue management. An alumnus of the Lagos Business School, Yewande sits on the Board of Women in Management and Business (WIMBIZ) and was recently appointed to the Board of Fortress Microfinance Bank and Corporate Leisure Limited and Zacchi & Chrome Limited. Yewande is the author of three inspirational books – "God's Waiting Room 1, 2 & 3" which were written as a result of her personal testimony, to encourage women experiencing delay in childbearing. Yewande recently received an award from the foremost lifestyle magazine TW for her contribution to the events industry in Nigeria. She is also the 2011 recipient of the prestigious International Women's Entrepreneurship Challenge Award, an initiative of the Chambers of Comemrce of Manhattan, Barcelona and the foundation of Indian Chambers of Commerce. Yewande is happily married to Teni Zaccheaus and they are blessed with two children.


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I've been watching Lost - Season 3 on DVD - I actually bought it! It's crazy wonderful. Last night I stayed up too last watching the season finale - both parts.
Remember: Jack's life is falling apart? He's addicted to Oxycodone? Stealing from the hospital meds? It's a flash-forward! Then there's Locke - threatening Jack with a gun? Remember? Kate has to get back to "him?" Who's him? Somebody died? Nobody came to the memorial?
Looking at the TV Guide website it appears that the finale (or part of it - it's 2 hours) is on on Wednesday night. There's also a special re-cap show on Thursday. Then, finally, it happens! Let's just say that I can't wait for Thursday night!
Spoiler? I use a question mark because I'm just not totally sure - Charlie isn't dead!
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Not Penny's Boat
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- Pennies In My Pocket said...
I'm so lost when it comes to LOST. I feel left out and sad because everyone gibber jabbers all about it and I'm all, 'what are they talking about???' lol
- January 30, 2008 at 2:58 PM
- Roxanne said...
Hey. . .just in case you haven't seen them, at ABC.com on the Lost section there are some clips called "Missing Pieces" that are parts of the show they couldn't fit. They are pretty cool. I've only seen four or five and there are THIRTEEN. . .so I will watch the rest tonight.
- February 5, 2008 at 7:42 PM
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The Construction Statistics Division is one of the divisions of the Directorate of Economic Surveys. It supervises the implementation of surveys and statistical activities of the construction sector. The annual survey of contractors, the complementary survey of buildings, and the census of building licenses in the Kingdom are considered the most important of these surveys.
The Division provides detailed data on the construction sector mainly to the National Accounts Directorate to extract indicators and main results of this sector. It also provides data to all interested parties in this sector (planners, researchers and policy makers).
The Department of Statistics (DoS) carries out a comprehensive listing of all construction licenses issued by the official licensing parties on a monthly basis in the Kingdom and publishes the results monthly, quarterly and annually. This Census provides data on the number of construction licenses and licensed areas in the Kingdom periodically as well as data on the occupancy purposes of licensed buildings (residential, non-residential).
The enumerators visit all licensing parties every month in the Kingdom and the (DoS) provides the results to data users monthly, quarterly and annually.
The licensing parties are:
- Greater Amman Municipality's regions numbering 27.
- Municipalities: All municipalities distributed all over the Kingdom's governorates numbering 94.
- Joint district committees: They issue licenses outside the boundaries of organized regions in the municipalities.
- Special zones: such as the Petra Region Authority and the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA).
2 – Objectives of Construction Licenses' Listing
This process aims at providing the following:
- Data on the number of construction licenses and licensed areas in the Kingdom periodically (monthly, quarterly, annually).
- Data on the occupancy purposes of the licensed buildings (residential, non-residential).
- Data on the licenses by building type and governorate.
- Periodic indicators to assist in evaluating the construction activity in the Kingdom.
3 – Listing Coverage
This census is carried out monthly, where data on the new licenses issued by the authorities in charge of licensing (whether municipality or otherwise) are collected during the specified period.
4 – Sample Design
The Department of Statistics (DoS) collects data monthly on the new construction licenses issued by all municipalities and institutions in charge of licensing the buildings totaling (158) municipalities and licensing parties.
5 – Preparatory Stage
5 – 1: Survey's main documents
These documents include the survey questionnaires, instruction booklet for the field staff, office and electronic edit rules and the coding booklets. Find below a summary of these documents:
5 -1 – 1: The Construction Licenses Questionnaire: It includes the following data:
- Area and type of construction use and ownership.
- Construction site.
- Identification data concerning location of the plot on which the construction will be built.
5 -1 – 2: The Construction Licenses Questionnaire: It includes the following data:
5 – 2: Survey's main documents
This booklet includes definitions, concepts in use and instructions for field staff at supervisory and executive levels. It also includes detailed explanation of all the questions of the questionnaire and how to complete its data to ensure the highest possible accuracy. The booklet also includes the basic edit rules that the enumerators and edit staff must follow during questionnaires checking. It also includes the duties of the survey staff (supervisors, controllers, enumerators and edit staff).
5 – 3: Survey's main documents
When designing the questionnaires, all the items contained therein must have predefined symbols. A special guide belonging to the Construction Statistics Division is also used for municipalities and licensing parties.
6 – Definitions and Classification of the Construction Licensing Listing
- Statistical Unit: It means the construction license issued by the municipality or the institution concerned.
- Status of the Construction to be licensed: The construction license is issued in three cases: to construct a new building or to construct an annex or an addition to an existing building or to license a building that has already been constructed without a license.
- Occupancy Type of the Building: Either it is a residential building (if more than half of its area is designated for housing purposes), or non-residential (if more than half of its area is for non-residential purposes) …the construction could be a wall.
- Ownership of the Building: It should be one of the following cases:
– Governmental: It is owned by the central government, public institutions or local authorities.
– Private: owned by individuals or enterprises of the private sector.
– Cooperative: Owned by various kinds of the cooperative societies.
– Other: Owned by other bodies such as foreign bodies, professional associations, religious communities and others.
- Predominant Construction Material of the Outer Walls: It is the main building material, which constitutes more than half the area of the external walls of the building such as stone, brick or reinforced concrete. The finishing materials such as plaster, paint ….etc. are not considered as among these materials.
7- Organization of the Survey Staff
The staff consists of the Surveys Administration, which is entrusted with all administrative, technical and supervisory functions in addition to the office preparation staff consisting of edit and coding employees. AS for field staff, it consists of controllers, edit staff and enumerators. The Field staff works under supervision of the Field Supervisor.
7 – 1: Selection and Training of the Enumerators
The workers in these surveys are selected according to criteria related to the work nature, where emphasis is placed on the quality of workers in terms of educational level and specialization in order to accomplish the assigned task whenever possible. A training program is held for all surveys' employees, including the definition of the surveys' objectives, method of data collection and manner of dealing with the establishments. It also provides a detailed explanation of all questions in the questionnaire. At the end of the training, a written test is conducted to determine their comprehension levels of the concepts and instructions of the questionnaires.
8 – Contractors' Data Collection Stage
8.1 – Organization of field work
Trained enumerators who are selected under supervision of the controllers carry out the field work. They are divided into teams consisting of two or three enumerators, a controller and an edit employee. The Field Supervisor supervises the field work.
8.2- Data Collection Method for the Licenses
Construction licenses' data are collected from all the official licensing parties in the Kingdom, whether the municipalities, Greater Amman Municipality or the regional authorities or the Joint District Committees through a visit by the enumerators to these entities. They complete the questionnaires of the construction licenses' listing from the records and licenses available to them on monthly basis. The present report contains the results of this census after its data were merged to represent the results at the general level.
8.3 – Field Edit
The field edit process was assigned to the field controller, who checked a sample of the questionnaires for each of his enumerators and alerted them to their mistakes (if any) to ensure that they are not repeated.
- Data preparation stage
9.1 – Office preparation
The completed questionnaires were fully checked by the office preparation staff after delivering them to the Construction Statistics Division. In case of any error in the questionnaires during the edit process, they used to be sent to the Division Head or his assistant for taking the appropriate decision. The error used to be rectified depending on its type, either by directly contacting the concerned person in the enterprise to verify correctness of the information or by returning the questionnaire to the field so that the enumerator would visit the enterprise again and rectify the error. Then the questionnaires would be coded before sending them to the Information Technology Directorate for data entry.
9.2 – Electronic preparation
After completing the edit and coding process of the questionnaire, they are sent to the Data Entry Division in the IT Directorate for being entered according to the pre-set entry program. The errors of the questionnaires or the data entry errors used to be immediately corrected during the data entry process through the automated edit software. The programmer produces lists of the preliminary results by using the pre-set rounding factors in order to edit and verify the validity of the results.
9.3 – Tabulation and dissemination of results
The final tables included in this report were extracted after checking the preliminary results and verifying their validity in terms of form and data consistency within the same table and with other tables. These results were also loaded on the web page of the Department of Statistics (DoS).
- Number of granted construction licenses.
- Total licensed areas by building occupancy.
- Number of new licensed housing units.
The press release is published monthly as of the thirteenth day of each month.
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Construction Statistics 2015
The Department of Statistics (DoS) takes the pleasure in presenting the Annual Report of the Construction Surveys 2015 and Licenses Census carried out in 2016. This report includes the results of two surveys and a census. The first survey is the Contractors Survey, which covers contracting establishments registered with the Jordan Contractors Association (JCA). The second is the Constructions Complementary Survey, which supplements the basic data pertaining to the construction activity. This survey covers the unorganized construction activity which includes buildings constructed by the owners using skilled labor or contractors not registered with the Jordan Contractors Association. The Census covers all building licenses issued by licensing authorities. The Census provides a complete frame for the purposes of the Constructions Complementary Survey.


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I've been following Robert Gonzalez's blog for awhile now, I think I came across him originally through the good ol' QuakerQuaker . He is a Quaker who lives in San Gabriel, and I really enjoy and appreciate his voice and ideas. For the next two weeks he will be sharing his life as a part of Barclay Pres's Daily Journals – go check him out. Barclay Press – Conversation Cafe
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...is the William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. Wess has a Ph.D. in Intercultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary, served as a "released minister" at Camas Friends Church, and is the father of three. He enjoys sketchnoting, sharing conversation over coffee with friends, listening to vinyl and writing creative nonfiction. View all posts by Wess


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Easyjet sent this email recently:
Far from being freaked out that the company still held this data, I thought fondly of that Easyjet flight, which cost just £10.
Flights on budget airlines aren't typically things you get nostalgic and dewy-eyed over, but this one was different.
I was making my way to the university of my dreams and I also met one of my best friends on that flight, Julia.
Julia was a visiting student from Canada. We were assigned to the same hall of residence. After we landed in Edinburgh we boarded a university-bound bus. On the way to our hall, our luggage got lost.
Julia and I had to go to our first formal event that evening (dress code: black tie) in Birkenstocks and flip flops, respectively.
One of my favourite memories was at an Ancient Greek-themed ball, instead of dressing up as a toga-clad goddess, which is what every other girl did, she went as Medusa. She wore a brown dress, Birkenstock sandals and clipped long rubber snakes into her hair. It was so weird and so funny.
The day before she returned to Canada, she gave me Birthday Letters, a collection of poems about Sylvia Plath by Ted Hughes (I like Sylvia Plath) I think it had just been released and I hadn't read it yet. It was really thoughtful.
The message on the inside cover of the book had a summary of our greatest times and a quote by R.L. Stephenson.
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."


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For more years than I can count I've wanted to make it to Oaxaca Mexico for the week long Day of the Dead celebration but it falls at a busy time of the year and I'm usually booked or teaching and before you know it the years fly past. Lucky for me Oaxaca is one of those magical places that changes slowly and the culture is strong enough to survive the onslaught of tourists.
This year I was determined to make it so I called my editor at Getty Images and they were excited about the story so off I went! As luck had it my buddy and world's best photographer Bob Krist was going to be in town as well as amazing photographer Ian Lloyd. With all that high caliber talent wandering around I had to be on my best game. The three of us piled into the tiny car of our fixer/translator Susan McGlynn and dashed around the beautiful countryside of Oaxaca enjoying one of the most authentic events in the world.
There were simply too many pictures to post in one blog so I will feature the best from each of the 7 days one post at a time. Enjoy!


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Edited on March 18 to clarify results of mean predictor approach. Thanks to Dogus Cubuk for suggesting the change.
In my previous post, I talked about getting materials data ready for training machine learning-based models. Here, I will take the next step and actually use the dataset we built previously to create predictive models.
Feature Engineering
Let's examine the top few band gaps in our dataset:
LiH,2.981 BeH2,5.326 B9H11,2.9118 B2H5,6.3448 BH3,5.3234 B5H7,3.5551 H34C19,5.4526 H3N,4.3287 H2O,5.5175 HF,6.7187
Our goal now is to construct a set of input features that a machine learning model could use to predict these band gaps. The features should contain patterns that a machine learning algorithm could identify, if provided with several thousand training examples of how changes in those features influence band gap. For example, what is it about the alkali hydride LiH that causes its band gap to be about 3 eV, whereas the alkaline earth hydride BeH2 has a much wider gap of over 5 eV? Feature engineering is precisely where our expertise and intuition as materials scientists enters the modeling process.
These features must be characteristics we either know or can compute for any material whose band gap we wish to predict. This statement implies some important constraints: For example, we might wish to use another property such as formation energy to predict band gap, but we only know formation energies for a relatively small number of compounds. Likewise, crystal structure is extraordinarily important in governing materials behavior, but if we want to use crystal structure features in our model, we can only model materials whose crystal structures are known a priori. We could imagine using machine learning or another approach to first predict crystal structure, and then use the predicted crystal structure as input for a band gap model. Here, rather than daisy-chaining models, we will keep things simple and attempt to simply map a chemical formula (e.g., NaCl) directly to a value for band gap.
Let us begin with an extremely simple and naive representation of a chemical compound for our band gap model, which we will later improve upon by injecting some physical insight. We will define a material using a vector wherein the nth component of the vector represents the atomic fraction of the element having atomic number n+1 in the material. Thus, pure H would be:
[1, 0, 0, 0, …]
Beryllium hydride (BeH2) would be:
[0.67, 0, 0, 0.33, 0, 0, …]
This representation has the advantage of simplicity, but the disadvantage that it is a rather "bloated" way to express a chemical compound. Clearly, for most materials, the vast majority of the components of the composition vector will be 0. However, this approach is good enough to illustrate next steps.
from pymatgen import Composition, Element from numpy import zeros, mean # Training file containing band gaps extracted from Materials Project # created in previous blog post and linked here trainFile = open("bandgapDFT.csv","r").readlines() # Input: pymatgen Composition object # Output: length-100 vector representing any chemical formula def naiveVectorize(composition): vector = zeros((MAX_Z)) for element in composition: fraction = composition.get_atomic_fraction(element) vector[element.Z - 1] = fraction return(vector) # Extract materials and band gaps into lists, and construct naive feature set materials = [] bandgaps = [] naiveFeatures = [] MAX_Z = 100 # maximum length of vector to hold naive feature set for line in trainFile: split = str.split(line, ',') material = Composition(split[0]) materials.append(material) #store chemical formulas naiveFeatures.append(naiveVectorize(material)) #create features from chemical formula bandgaps.append(float(split[1])) #store numerical values of band gaps
Model Building
We now have a (naive) way of converting each material in our training set into a vector for our machine learning model to crunch, and equivalently we can express any new chemical formula with this representation for the purposes of making predictions. Time for the fun part!
You're probably salivating with anticipation as to which amazing machine learning algorithm we are going to use to model band gap. I have some anti-climactic news: Unless you work at Google and are training machine vision systems to autonomously recognize cats in millions of images, don't worry too much about using the latest and greatest algorithms. While you may be on the cutting edge of materials informatics, you are likely not on the cutting edge of machine learning (nor should you be; you're a materials scientist!).
Before we construct any real models, let us establish a baseline for accuracy with a trivial approach: simply guessing the mean of the band gap distribution.
# Establish baseline accuracy by "guessing the average" of the band gap set # A good model should never do worse. baselineError = mean(abs(mean(bandgaps) - bandgaps)) print("The MAE of always guessing the average band gap is: " + str(round(baselineError, 3)) + " eV")
The mean predictor gives the following result:The MAE of always guessing the average band gap is: 0.728 eV
A sophisticated model should absolutely never do worse than this, or something is very, very wrong! With that in mind, we will start our real modeling effort with a straightforward approach; after all, in the words of Einstein, everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Let's begin by attacking our data with a linear ridge regression model. Yes, you read that correctly: We are starting off with a linear model. Before we throw the kitchen sink at the problem and turn to more complex models, we should evaluate the efficacy of a basic approach. Indeed, linear techniques such as logistic regression can--despite their simplicity--perform strikingly well in comparison to more sophisticated algorithms, and offer the advantages of speed and interpretability.
Let's see how a linear ridge regressor does in modeling band gaps using our naive feature set:
# Train linear ridge regression model using naive feature set from sklearn import linear_model, cross_validation, metrics, ensemble #alpha is a tuning parameter affecting how regression deals with collinear inputs linear = linear_model.Ridge(alpha = 0.5) cv = cross_validation.ShuffleSplit(len(bandgaps),\ n_iter=10, test_size=0.1, random_state=0) scores = cross_validation.cross_val_score(linear, naiveFeatures,\ bandgaps, cv=cv, scoring='mean_absolute_error') print("The MAE of the linear ridge regression band gap model using the naive feature set is: "\ + str(round(abs(mean(scores)), 3)) + " eV")
You will see from the code that we are using an approach called tenfold cross-validation to determine the quality of our model. One of the most fundamental tenets of statistics and machine learning is that one cannot evaluate the quality of a model by examining the error it achieves on the data to which it was fitted. A simple way to understand this concept is to consider the fact that a polynomial regression with enough terms can perfectly fit any training data. However, the question then would be, what happens if we introduce new data and would like such an overfitted model to generalize? A polynomial regression with too many terms will almost certainly fail such a test. In this respect, machine learning models are no different.
Cross-validation is a rigorous approach to avoiding overfitting. In n-fold cross validation (in this case, n=10), we partition our training data into n equally-sized chunks, fit our model to the data in n-1 of those chunks, and use the resulting model to predict the held-out nth chunk. We perform this procedure n times and average the resulting error on the held-out data, reporting a chosen error statistic such as mean squared error or mean absolute error (our choice here). An overfitted model will perform poorly in cross-validation, as it will tend to give very large errors on the held-out data.
When we perform this cross-validation procedure using our linear ridge regression model, the linear model manages to outperform our guess-the-mean approach from above:The MAE of the linear ridge regression band gap model using the naive feature set is: 0.47 eV
Let's also take a look at the fitted regression coefficients (just a few of the 100 total are shown here):
# Let's see which features are most important for the linear model print("Below are the fitted linear ridge regression coefficients for each feature (i.e., element) in our naive feature set") linear.fit(naiveFeatures, bandgaps) # fit to the whole data set; we're not doing CV here print("element: coefficient") for i in range(MAX_Z): element = Element.from_Z(i + 1) print(element.symbol + ': ' + str(linear.coef_[i]))
Running the script gives the following output (excerpted):O: 2.28865291048 F: 3.95035733949 Cl: 2.81918301294 Ti: -0.675957059589 V: -0.704965141051
Examining these coefficients reveals an intuitively satisfying result: electronegative elements such as O, Cl, and F tend to strongly increase compounds' band gaps, whereas metallic elements such as V and Cr are generally associated with smaller band gaps.
Feature Engineering Revisited
We were honest with ourselves by calling our first approach to feature engineering naive; we can probably do better than an unwieldy 100-component vector for representing materials' compositions. Let us now construct an alternative feature set, which builds some basic chemical concepts into the resulting model. This feature set will be far more compact than our 100-component composition vector. In particular, we will:
Order the two elements in the binary compound according to their atomic fraction abundance in the compound
Express the stoichiometry of a binary compound simply by the ratio of the more abundant element to the less abundant element
Calculate the difference in electronegativity between the two elements in the binary
Include the periodic table group numbers of each element in the binary
Within this feature space, BeH2 now becomes [ratio, electronegativity_difference, more_abundant_element_group, less_abundant_element_group]:
[2.0, 0.63, 1.0, 2.0]
Here is the code to create these features for each material in our training data:
# Create alternative feature set that is more physically-motivated physicalFeatures = [] for material in materials: theseFeatures = [] fraction = [] atomicNo = [] eneg = [] group = [] for element in material: fraction.append(material.get_atomic_fraction(element)) atomicNo.append(float(element.Z)) eneg.append(element.X) group.append(float(element.group)) # We want to sort this feature set # according to which element in the binary compound is more abundant mustReverse = False if fraction[1] > fraction[0]: mustReverse = True for features in [fraction, atomicNo, eneg, group]: if mustReverse: features.reverse() theseFeatures.append(fraction[0] / fraction[1]) theseFeatures.append(eneg[0] - eneg[1]) theseFeatures.append(group[0]) theseFeatures.append(group[1]) physicalFeatures.append(theseFeatures)
We have thus "compressed" our previous representation by a factor of 25. Let's see how well this new feature set works with our same linear ridge regression from before:The MAE of the linear ridge regression band gap model using the naive feature set is: 0.47 eV The MAE of the linear ridge regression band gap model using the physical feature set is: 0.664 eV
Our cross-validation MAE actually increased! How can this be? Well, we have changed from a linear regression with 100 coefficients to a linear regression with only four coefficients. It appears that five degrees of freedom (four coefficients plus a constant) are too few to reasonably model band gaps with a linear model. This outcome invites the obvious next step...
Going Beyond a Linear Model: Black-Box Machine Learning
As of yet, it is not clear whether our clever new feature set is actually an improvement over the naive composition vector. Indeed, the cross-validated MAE of our linear ridge regression got worse with the much smaller, physically-motivated feature vector. However, a major change in approach remains untested: switching to a nonlinear model that in fact has no functional form.
For the purposes of this exercise, we are going to construct a random forest--an ensemble of decision trees. It turns out that, while a single decision tree is often a poor classifier, a collection of many decision trees trained on different subsets of data can be very powerful for modeling data. Random forests have a number of tuning parameters (as with most machine learning algorithms, unfortunately), but here we highlight only the number of trees in the forest; we will choose 10 for computational expediency. Our code will thus construct 10 independent decision trees and average the band gap predictions from each of them. The code to do so is very simple:
rfr = ensemble.RandomForestRegressor(n_estimators=10) #try 10 trees in the forest
Here is the performance of a random forest-based band gap model:The MAE of the nonlinear random forest band gap model using the naive feature set is: 0.366 eV The MAE of the nonlinear random forest band gap model using the physical feature set is: 0.265 eV
We observe that a random forest-based approach outperforms linear ridge regression with both feature sets, and the physically-motivated four-feature vector outperforms the naive 100-component composition vector. The random forest trained on the physical features is actually decent at estimating band gaps of materials!
At the conclusion of this exercise, we have created a random forest-based model that can predict the band gaps of binary compounds with a cross-validated MAE of under 0.3 eV. Not too shabby! From here, the two main levers we have to further enhance our model are: (1) adding more training data (read: email Materials Project and tell them to do more DFT calculations!) and (2) further feature engineering. Probably our simple four-feature approach is not yet optimized. Again, this is where your background as a materials scientist is essential!
We should also put our results here in context. Machine learning is indeed a potent tool for analyzing materials data; when used properly, it can produce powerful, original insights. But it is just that: another tool in the materials scientist's toolbox. Machine learning (or any other computational technique) is not a substitute for scientific judgment or common sense. As with all computational models, garbage in equals garbage out. However, with a combination of robust training data and insightful features, you can build very fast and very effective models of materials behavior--without a supercomputer, and without a computer science degree.
Have a new machine learning or statistics-based model of materials? Developed a great feature or descriptor for modeling a particular property? Found a useful materials data set for model-building purposes? Let us know—we'd love to host it on our platform, and reference it back to you!


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The sport depends on teamwork and by teaming up with an adventure racing team your products and or services will be publicised worldwide. Adventure racing is a fast growing sport and the expedition type races in which we compete are featured on both terrestrial and satellite television as well as on the Internet, in books, magazines and newspapers. You can Support us at three levels:
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At this level your company logos will be applied to race clothing and equipment used during racing and training and team members will work with you and put on team building/motivations seminars. Space will be provided on team website with links to your website. Team will race under sponsors name.
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Space provided on teams website together with links to sponsors website. Logos on equipment supplied Acknowledgement in Press releases etc.
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Space provided on teams website together with links to sponsors website. Acknowledgement in race reports.
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A Champion for Environmental Justice
Building community wealth is more than just more money in people's pockets (although that does help, too). We cannot call ourselves a prosperous community if the air we breathe and the environment around us continues to make us sick. It is unacceptable that North Minneapolis has the highest concentration of asthma and lead poisoning.
Decision-makers have put the health of people of color and low income workers at risk by allowing North Minneapolis to be the dumping grounds for the rest of the city. This is extremely unjust.
I will be a different kind of leader. I will bring to the center of the conversation the experiences of communities like ours in North Minneapolis who have been forced to bear the brunt of environmental racism. I will fight for direct investments in improving the health and life experience of Northsiders who have been negatively impacted.
We must move towards long-term sustainability through 100% renewable electricity and energy. I support creating a new dedicated funding source for investing in clean energy and energy efficiency, starting with those who need the most assistance: low income people, renters, and small businesses. The roadmaps are there: the Climate Action Plan, the City's adopted Energy Vision, and work that was led by City staff and Siemens on the City Performance Tool.
That last initiative shows that our 80% goal is achievable, but only if the City takes aggressive action to transform the way we heat and cool buildings, reach 100% renewable energy throughout our city, electrify transportation and move more trips from cars to transit, walking and biking.
The current Ward 4 Council Member has not led on any of these issues and has actively opposed some of them. She was one of only two votes against a resolution divesting City's funds from fossil fuel industries, in addition to the steps she took to undermine the Clean Energy Partnership.
We rely on the environment for our survival and I believe it deserves the protections of personhood. We must protect both it and the community.
As the Councilmember for the 4th Ward, I will be a champion for environmental justice by:
Incorporating long-term environmental sustainability into decision-making as our city grows
Working with City Departments to get out into the community to engage Northsiders in efforts to reduce our waste stream
Collaborating with Minnesota Commerce Department to increase the amount of weatherized single-family homes
Increase the Northside's biodiversity and wildlife habitats in partnership with Minneapolis Parks
Decreasing pollution through increasing community gardens and green spaces to lower rainwater runoff that pollutes the Mississippi River.


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