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(Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) - Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE: FIC), the leading provider of analytics and decision management technology, announced today that analyst firm IDC has recognized Fair Isaac as the worldwide revenue leader in the Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) software market for the second consecutive year.
The new IDC report "Worldwide Business Rules Management Systems 2007-2011 Forecast and 2006 Vendor Shares" (IDC #208989, October 2007) ranks Fair Isaac as the worldwide BRMS market leader in 2006 with revenues of $53.5 million, compared with revenues of $45.1 million in 2005. IDC credits Fair Isaac's 18.7 percent growth and 23.6 percent market share to the company's continuing success with its Blaze Advisor™ business rules management system in the North American market. Fair Isaac's revenue in North America was $45.1 million, compared to $24.4 million for the closest competitor.
According to the IDC report, the worldwide BRMS market witnessed double-digit growth in 2006 with revenues of $226.8 million, and is projected to grow to $530.8 million in 2011.1
"Advances elsewhere in the application development and deployment markets are helping set the stage for even higher BRMS growth as the industry retools its approach to application development around deployment, support of standards, ease of construction, maintainability, and extensibility," said Stephen D. Hendrick, group vice president forIDC's Application Development and Deployment research group. "Business rules engines are expected to become key development elements of the application infrastructure stack."
IDC defines business rules management systems as tools that centralize the definition, discovery, storage, and submission of the vast quantity of rules used in business operations to provide organizations with greater automation, more responsiveness to change, and less expensive distribution and maintenance of their business activities.2
"The continued success of Blaze Advisor is really a testament to our customers worldwide who use it every day to manage their critical business rules and support smart decisions," said William Waid, vice president, Enterprise Decision Management Technologies, at Fair Isaac. "Being named the clear market leader by IDC for the second straight year also demonstrates our continued investment in and commitment to Blaze Advisor as a cornerstone of our Enterprise Decision Management suite of software and services."
Fair Isaac's industry-leading Blaze Advisor business rules management system allows non-programmers to design, deploy, execute and maintain business rules and policies as part of an automated business application. The software incorporates the advanced Rete III inference engine that helps organizations manage large amounts of data and execute rules faster with complex enterprise-class deployments and more efficiently than other rules management systems. It is the first rules engine to support Java, .NET and COBOL deployment of the same rules. The multi-platform solution supports Web Services and SOA, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platforms, Microsoft .NET and COBOL for z/OS mainframes.
About Fair IsaacFair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC) combines trusted advice, world-class analytics and innovative applications to help businesses make smarter decisions. Fair Isaac's solutions and technologies for Enterprise Decision Management turn strategy into action and elevate business performance by giving organizations the power to automate more decisions, improve the quality of their decisions, and connect decisions across their business. Clients in 80 countries work with Fair Isaac to increase customer loyalty and profitability, cut fraud losses, manage credit risk, meet regulatory and competitive demands, and rapidly build market share. Fair Isaac also helps millions of individuals manage their credit health through the www.myFICO.com website.
Statement Concerning Forward-Looking InformationExcept for historical information contained herein, the statements contained in this press release that relate to Fair Isaac, including statements regarding its Blaze Advisor product offering, and the benefits to be derived from this offering, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including any unforeseen technical difficulties related to the implementation, use and functionality of the offering, the risks that customers will not perceive material benefits from the offering, failure of the product to deliver the expected results, the possibility of errors or defects in the offering, regulatory changes applicable to the use of consumer credit and other data, and other risks described from time to time in Fair Isaac's SEC reports, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2007. Forward-looking statements should be considered with caution. If any of these risks or uncertainties materializes or any of these assumptions proves incorrect, Fair Isaac's results could differ materially from Fair Isaac's expectations in these statements. Fair Isaac disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
Notes:1 IDC, "Worldwide Business Rules Management Systems 2007-2011 Forecast and 2006 Vendor Shares," Doc # 208989, October 2007.2 IDC, "Worldwide Business Rules Management Systems 2007-2011 Forecast and 2006 Vendor Shares," Doc # 208989, October 2007.
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text: This article explains in simple terms the purpose of statistical theory and gives an overview of how it is used. Statistics is a branch of mathematics composed of two aspects: descriptive statistics and statistical inference. Descriptive statistic can be assimilated to a language used to summarize data. For instance, mean and average are words from the descriptive statistics lexicon. Statistical inference is the clever part of statistics: when we are interested in some feature of a large population we usually can't examine every member of the population, so we take a random sample and use this incomplete information to make reasonable guesses about the population. The whole purpose of the theory is to quantify what reasonable guesses are and under what circumstances they hold. Statistical inference: sample data ⟹ probability model Statistics are often confused with probability theory or machine learning. Check out my article on the topic: Differences between statistics, probability and machine learning We may at once admit that any inference from the particular to the general must be attended with some degree of uncertainty, but this is not the same as to admit that such inference cannot be absolutely rigorous, for the nature and degree of the uncertainty may itself be capable of rigorous expression. – Ronald A. Fisher Non-technical overview I will now illustrate how we can use statistical inference to gain knowledge about a population. I removed most technical developments from the exposition. Also, I deliberately used some statistical terms such as sample and parameter so that this example serves as a first introduction to the statistical lexicon. You should pay attention to the mathematical letters such as To illustrate the process, suppose that you have a general population P. For instance, this population can be the heights of all US citizens, which is set of number. Suppose we want to gain knowledge about a population parameter. For instance, the mean of those heights. Since we can't measure everyone in America, we will restrict ourselves to a random sample, which means we randomly choose a given number (note this number sample. As a shorthand, I will use the notation: Statistics uses several approaches and tools to learn about the population parameter from our sample point estimates; confidence intervals; hypothesis testing. Actually, point 1 and 2 are very similar so there really only two approaches. A distinction without a difference has been introduced by certain writers who distinguish "Point estimation", meaning some process of arriving at an estimate without regard to its precision, from "Interval estimation" in which the precision of the estimate is to some extent taken into account. – R. A. Fisher (1956) 1. Point estimates We can estimate the parameter by its statistical counterpart in the sample. Thus, for instance, we would estimate the population mean sample mean population mean is because we can't measure everyone, but we can compute the mean of our sample The question is: how are the population mean sample mean A priori, nothing tells us that they should be equal. Maybe our sample mean will be very different from the total population mean. If you have trouble visualising this, imagine that our random sample yields the heights of 100 US-citizens aged between 2 and 5 years old… Your sample mean is likely to be well under the population mean. Comics by dilbert Notice that if we took a number of different samples, each of size population, we would get a different sample mean population? The key insight is that even though the values of the statistic are likely to differ from sample to sample, they will follow a pattern. This pattern is called the sampling distribution. In formal terms, the sampling distribution of a statistic is the probability distribution for the set of possible values that can be assumed by the statistic. If you don't know what a distribution is, read my dedicated article: Introduction to data distributions (to be redacted). So, in order to know if our estimator is a good, we focus our study on the distribution of the estimator accross different sample. If we took many samples, would their means average out to the true population mean population mean sample mean In statistical terms, both questions are about the sampling distribution of our estimator Where is the sampling distribution of How does the variability of population? In the well studied case of means, statistical theory answers yes to the first question. The sample means average out to the population mean sampling distribution is centered at the population mean estimator is unbiased. As a side note, remark that we could very well use an element from the sample as our estimator, instead of the whole sample's mean. In that case, we can show that this new estimator is unbiased too. But it's less interesting because the confidence interval that we can attach to it is less precise than that of the mean estimator, because it fails to take additional information into account as the size of the sample grows. See below to learn about confidence intervals. Regarding the second question, theory also tells us that the bigger our sample size, the closer to the population mean sample mean sample size grows we incorporate more and more information from the population. So far, we know that we can estimate the population mean using our sample mean, and we know that the bigger the sample, the more precise our estimation will be. But how precise exactly? 2. Confidence intervals We can use the sampling distribution once again to establish confidence intervals. It is a statement such as: The average height of males in the US is 175cm +/- 6.2cm What does it mean? And how do we compute the interval? What is a confidence interval? Since confidence intervals are used everywhere (on the news, on the internet, etc.), we will take the time to clearly define what they mean. If we have 95% confidence interval for a population parameter, this means that 95% of all possible random samples will yield data for which the interval contains the population parameter. The remaining 5% of the random samples will yield data for which it doesn't. So, once the random sample is chosen, there are no probabilities: either the sample yields an interval that contains the parameter, or it doesn't. Confidence intervals qualify the sampling process. You have 95% chance to choose a sample yielding a confidence interval that actually contains the parameter. And you have 5% chance to choose a sample that doesn't. For instance, if the 95% confidence interval is +/-6.2cm, then we have 95% chance to choose a sample such that the mean height population satisfies: \[\bar{X} - 6.2cm \leq \bar{P} \leq \bar{X} + 6.2cm\] Where sample mean as previously defined. How do we compute confidence intervals? to be continued

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text: Emerging Tech Alberta gets new system for pensions administration Lindsay Bruce @itworldca Published: March 20th, 2003IBM Systems Ltd. and CPAS Systems Inc. have come together with the Alberta Pensions Administration Corporation (APA) to implement software used to administer pension plans.APEX, a system that will allow for online administration of the plans, will improve service delivery to clients, and result in both a higher ease-of-use for APA employees, and faster turnaround on pension calculation.APA Corporation and IBM's Business Consulting Services using tools from CPAS, a supplier of retirement systems technology, jointly implemented the new system that will facilitate the expansion of APA's product and service offerings.The implementation accounted for the most complex components of APA Corporations pension administration business, which resulted in extensive planning testing and customization of the software to ensure a smooth transition to the new system.The public sector pension plan and the management employee pension plan -supporting 45,000 members in total – were selected as the primary users of this new software.The new pension plans are currently online, and plans to bring the remaining plans onto the new platform and deploy advanced Web access services, are in the works. The APA can be found online at www.apaco.ab.ca. Emerging Tech platform


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The consensus is clear: U.S. healthcare costs are unsustainable, and national health outcomes—lower than those in developed countries that spend much less—must be improved. Consumers, employers, the government, and other stakeholders are spurring the industry to meet the challenge of making healthcare more affordable, while improving its quality and access.
This is not business as usual, involving incremental change. Financial realities—lower revenue and nonstop expense, consumer, regulatory, and competitive pressures—demand a new way of providing care. To meet community needs under healthcare's new business imperatives, and to participate as a "provider of choice" in narrow networks developing nationwide, organizations must have a strong value proposition and a cost position that is significantly lower than competitors.


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The Grants Programme is intended to support projects which address the immediate and long-term needs of Staff, Volunteers and patients in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Investing In Health Grants Programme
Investing in Health is a grants programme funded by Forth Valley Giving, the official registered charity of NHS Forth Valley that is open to all Wards, Departments & Services as well as external not-for-profit organisations. Forth Valley Giving provides support for charitable activities and services that are intended to supplement and enhance the services provided by the Health Board.
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The Small Grants Programme supports projects with an individual cost of less than £5,000 and is subject to the availability of funds. Application forms and guidance notes are available for download below:
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The Large Grants Programme supports projects with an individual cost of greater than £5,000 however applications are not being considered at this time.


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Studio Voltaire was initiated in 1994 by a collective of twelve artists who set up a studio space in a disused tram shed on Voltaire Road, Clapham. In 1999 the organisation moved to its current location on Nelson's Row, close to Clapham High Street and grew to become a registered charity in 2001. Through an ambitious public programme of exhibitions, commissions, live events and offsite projects, they play a key role in supporting emerging practices and ideas, often giving artists their first solo exhibition in London.
Studio Voltaire currently houses over 45 London-based artists. This includes internationally recognised practitioners to recent graduates and two groups supporting artists with learning difficulties: Actionspace and Intoart.


text: The credit crunch is affecting new vehicle orders by the rental car companies. Rental companies are having trouble getting financing for inventories, and franchise dealers are finding it difficult to get financing to buy used rental vehicles. This is troubling for the Detroit-3 who typically sell 15% of their new cars and trucks to rental companies.


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Consider yourself blessed and privileged to live at all.
Enjoy your days the best you can. I will help.
Do the work I give you to do.
Take the comfort I give and be grateful.
You will have enough of whatever you need.
Don't put your desire into earthly riches or pleasures.
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Above all, put us: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit first.
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Statistics can show hard data on the numbers of fatalities that happened on the roadways. The reason this will be difficult is because of the nature of the data behind mobile numbers. Mobile web accessibility has a very promising and a bright future ahead. However, mobile web accessibility is currently facing several usability issues, and that is mainly because of the lack of interoperability between computers and cellular devices. An important step to connect the devices is known as pairing. In fact, web enabled cellular devices are increasingly becoming more and more common. Although most of these accident cases sustain relatively minor damages, some injuries are sure to be very traumatic and severe that often leads to visits with area hospitals and even the city morgue. Complex legal matters involving city bus drivers, road maintenance claims of negligence will require an accomplished car accident lawyer in Riverdale to help you swift through the red tape found in these bureaucracies. Buses, yellow cabs that prowl everywhere, flashy SUVs that that block your view and then there are the rest of us racing to and from city streets and crowded interstates. They are there to clear cases or get convictions. Now that you have been driving for a time, it is easy to get there, as well as to pass it up.
Anyone can now find out the identity of the owner of unlisted number or wireless number. If you don't open a mobile app, you can manage custom alerts via WatchOS 5. This helps to improve the user experience. This idea of the application is something that grew with the popular AI-powered editing app, Prisma. Researchers found a staggering number of security vulnerabilities among apps such as KidControll GPS Tracker, My Family GPS Tracker, Family Locator, Couple Tracker App, Phone Tracker Pro and others. However there are some (British Telecom is one example) that will deliver a text message as a phone call using text to speech technology. In order to stay safe on the road, there are a few safety tips that you should brush up on every once in a while. When driving, keep your focus where it should be so you and everyone else can stay safe. The truth is that many drivers, as they get more and more comfortable driving, start to become reckless. The most popular one certainly is the fact that you get to carry your Internet access with you wherever and whenever you go.
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Friday, 21 November 2014
Friday Smile
I'm a bit late with my Friday Smile post for Annie at A Stitch In Time but just had to share this. I've just recently discovered Simon's Cat and enjoy these little cartoons so much ... all the more because I'm sure he must know The Boss very well, not to mention the arachnophobe that is me!
Have a wonderful weekend.
9 comments:
- Annie said...
I love Simon's Cat but this one is a new one to me....another arachnophobe! Love it.
Annie x
- 21 November 2014 at 21:02
- Bleubeard and Elizabeth said...
I've never heard of Simon's Cat before, but this was absolutely hilarious. Gotta love our "kids," don't we Elizabeth.
- 21 November 2014 at 21:50
- Sandra H said...
lol............l loved the video Elizabeth x
- 22 November 2014 at 16:19
- Sally H said...
Simon's cat is brilliant! Thanks for sharing x
- 22 November 2014 at 18:52
- Robyn Oliver said...
Hi Elizabeth...yes I have to agree...Simon's Cat is brilliant. Enjoy your weekend Robyn
- 23 November 2014 at 07:38
- Julia Dunnit said...
Loved it. Specially the very end when cat paws the spider just one last time!!!!
- 23 November 2014 at 09:49
- Brenda B said...
Brilliant! I've never seen these before, they're hilarious!
- 23 November 2014 at 15:47
- cuilliesocks said...
Hi Elizabeth, I just love Simon's Cat, but never seen them in video form. This was fab, so funny, all the more so beacuse Teallach was playing with a spider earlier on today. Hugs Kate x
- 23 November 2014 at 16:29
- Shaz in Oz.CalligraphyCards said...
thanks for sharing Elizabeth.. will honest cant see the video as my flash is playing up ... not to worry will go check some cards out instead :D
love Shaz.x
PS ... might check in when on my mobile for peek later :D
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Performing in a musical is an experience that young people will remember for the rest of their lives, and it is truly our pleasure to work with your child on this exciting project. We want everyone involved to understand both the benefits and responsibilities that go along with being in a musical, so we have detailed some of the basics here.
There are a number of great benefits to being in a musical, including:
Active Participation in the Arts: Participating in the arts provides young people with a chance to explore their creativity and imagination in a structured and safe environment. Musical theatre is specifically remarkable because it is the only art form that combines all areas of the fine arts: acting, singing, dancing, music, and visual arts.
Improving Literacy Skills: From reading scripts to memorizing lines to learning to tell a story, young people continually improve their literacy skills while rehearsing and performing in a musical.
Becoming a Confident Public Speaker: It takes a lot of guts to stand up and sing or dance in front of your family, peers, and what may seem like the entire community. Experience with public speaking at a young age gives students confidence that will be important to them for the rest of their lives.
Gaining Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving Skills: Putting on a musical is a group effort, and every member of the team must work together to make it happen. Throughout the rehearsal process, the students will learn to solve challenges as they arise. Students will learn to trust and depend on themselves and their castmates.


text: Local/State News Pirates Days continues in Alex Bay August 13, 2019 ALEXANDRIA BAY, NY — We had a grrrreat first Pirate's Weekend here in Alexandria Bay. Friday night kicked off the event with a fantastic performance from Doc Yukon. During the performance it was invaded by Bill Johnston himself with a band of pirates and Kate Johnston (Riley Willix). The pirate rallied for the children's parade through downtown Alexandria Bay and once again invaded our shores at Scenic View Park on Saturday afternoon that was attended by more than 1,000 people! Pirate Palooza at Thousand Islands Winery took place from 2pm to 5pm and was attended by our gang of Pirates and their ship. Families dressed up to take photos with the motley crew. Festivities continue throughout this week with animal exhibits, pirate skits and more. Friday night's block dance features a crowd favorite Tough Luck. Saturday, Aug. 17, holds children's crafts, children's parade and tall ship invasion. Sunday is our final day with the Grand Parade at 2 p.m. For more information and full schedule call the Chamber of Commerce at 315-482-9531 or visit www.visitalexbay.org or our Facebook page Alexandria Bay Chamber of Commerce.


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Late on Thursday, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health announced that its officials will take legal action against a Saudi national who launched a racist rant at a Sudanese doctor because the latter refused to give him a fake sick leave letter.
A two-minute audio of the rant, which was allegedly recorded on a mobile phone, is now widely spreading on social media.
In it, the racist Saudi man can be heard verbally abusing the doctor, calling him a 'black slave' and a 'filthy animal.'
In their statement on the matter, Saudi's Ministry of Health said that authorities have identified the attacker and he will be prosecuted.
Officials added that the person who recorded and shared the audio will soon be identified and will also be charged.
In the few hours after the audio went viral, Saudi Arabia's Health Minister, Dr. Tawfiq Al Rabia, released a statement thanking the expat doctor for his adamance on applying the ministry's rules.
Al Rabia also added that attacks of this nature will never be tolerated by anyone in the kingdom.
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The offensive rant hasn't only angered authorities in the kingdom, it also sparked outrage among people on social media.
As soon as the recorded audio began to make the rounds online, thousands took to Twitter, responding to it via the now-viral hashtag: 'A racist man attacks a doctor.'
Authorities take action and meet attacked doctor
Soon after Health Minister Dr. Tawfiq Al Rabia issued a statement condemning the racist attack, he also met with the Sudanese doctor in his office, reiterating his stand on the matter.
In a video that is now circulating on social media, Al Rabia is seen praising the doctor for the way he handled the entire situation, promising him that proper action will be taken against the perpetrator of the attack.
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In some stories Holmes is recommended by someone to the client. The client mentions he has heard of Holmes. This emphasizing that Holmes is very popular and is well respected especially for his work. In The Speckled Band a friend recommends Holmes as being somebody who can help her-this is portraying that Holmes has been checked out. The Dancing Men-"they told me that you were fond of queer mysteries and I don't think you can find a queerer one than that"-this is emphasizing that Holmes has been checked out.
Although in two of the stories Holmes has been checked out but there is no indication of Holmes being checked out in A Scandal In Bohemia. The three clients tell us totally different stories and have very different problems and backgrounds they are all unique. After the clients have told Holmes the problem he gives them different advice. In The Speckled Band he tells Helen that he will stay a night at her house. But in the Dancing Men he tells Hilton Cubitt to return to Norfolk and keep a look out and to get a copy of any new dancing men.
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In all three stories Holmes goes the wrong way of solving the problem, he makes mistakes just like any human being. But Holmes realises his mistakes and learns from them and as a result he is able to solve the problem. The exploration in all three stories has many similarities and differences. There are many similarities I notified in the exploration of these stories, one of which is how Holmes picks up minor clues to help him solve the problem, for example, The Speckled Band the murder of Helen's sister the clue's lead to this were, spots around the wrist, spots on forehead (headband) and the gypsies.
A Scandal In Bohemia when Holmes throws a smoke bomb in Irene's house she runs to see if something is still there -from this he realises she still has the photograph and he knows where she has put it. The Dancing Men Holmes does some research finds out what the childish drawings of the dancing men represent finally he figures out what the messages say and sends a message back from where they come from saying to come to the Cubitts house. The methods uses in all three stories are very smart. In the Speckled Band and The Dancing Men Holmes uses the same problem he is sent to solve the problem.
For example Helen's stepfather is killed by the same snake her sister was killed by (through the ventilator) and in The Dancing Men Holmes figures out the code to the dancing and sends a letter back to whom he thinks is sending them using the dancing men code. Also in all the detective stories Watson is always alongside Holmes and is informed of what Holmes has found out. Holmes's methods of problem solving are very similar. Minor things such as scratches, sounds, clues and logic all tell him a lot. In all three stories there is always tension towards the point of solving the problem.
For example In The Speckled Band the tension that is created is when the lights go out in Helen's house, also when Holmes and Watson make their way through the ground and climb into the bedroom through the shutters. The created here is what if Dr Roylott woke up duo to the noise made by Watson and Holmes. Also when Watson sees Holmes hitting something on the bell with his cane. This creates tension because the reader becomes anxious to know what will happen next. The tension, which is created in the dancing men, is when Holmes sends a letter back asking to meet at the Cubitts house.
This creates tension because the readers wants to know whether the guy will actually come or not and what will happen if he does come. The tension created In A Scandal In Bohemia is when Holmes tells Watson, to throw the smoke bomb into Irene Adler's house. This creates an atmosphere of tension because we as the readers probably think that Holmes will go and get the photograph or perhaps what if Irene saw Watson throwing the smoke bomb or what if the smoke bomb didn't go off and the method failed. In all three stories a lot of tension is created just before the problem is to be solved.
However good of a detective Holmes is he takes a lot of risks to solve the problem. This just shows how determined and inspirational Holmes's detective work is. Overall after having read and studied these stories, I think that the methods used by Holmes were extraordinary, indeed they were down to earth and very clear. His ideas (methods) were very human but astounding. At the end the cases were all solved. Holmes then tells Watson how he reached his conclusions. Another similarity is that he learns something from each case and realizes his mistakes. For example in A Scandal In Bohemia he learns that sometimes he's out smarted.
In The Dancing Men he finds out that those childish drawings are more than they seem to be and finally The Speckled Band he learns jumping to conclusion is not the right thing. Even though Holmes's makes mistakes everything seems to fit in at the end. This is shown in The Dancing Men where he is too late and again in The Speckled Band when he first suspects the gipsies but soon realizes that cannot be. The difference in the resolution is that they end in different ways since they have different plots. Holmes learns a number of different things from each case and he also makes different mistakes.
I have learnt that Arthur Conan Doyle had a certain structure to his stories. The stories had many similarities duo to two main characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Because the stories are from a series I think we can expect for there to be similarities. I think Arthur Conan Doyle did try to make every story as unique and different as possible. If the stories were all the same I think they would get really boring but because the stories are different they are very interesting. Because they are detective stories we should expect similarities between them. I really enjoyed reading and studying these stories.


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It was a tropical, airless June evening when the high priests of the Trump administration assembled to toast Sarah Huckabee Sanders stepping down as press secretary after more than two years in the White House. Drinks flowed beneath sparkling chandeliers as Sanders's predecessor, Sean Spicer, mugged for the camera in the presence of eight current cabinet members, a couple dozen White House staffers, and a few congressional leaders to raise a glass to Sanders. The 100-plus attendees were also, of course, paying tribute to the venue's owner, Donald Trump, who has refused to divest his stake in the Trump International Hotel or his other businesses. As the president gave a brief speech honoring his outgoing staffer, an estimated $5,000 to $7,000 made its way to his hotel's coffers. (A person with knowledge of the event thought Sanders and her husband picked up the tab.) Nearby, the president's daughter, Ivanka Trump, smiled. With a 7.425% stake in the hotel, she has reported more than $7.8 million in income over the past two years from the Trump DC property alone.
During the Clinton years, farewell parties had always been held in the White House, according to a former official, and they were "always nonextravagant." But this is the new normal in Washington. Nearly three years after Trump's election and the subsequent hand-wringing over the president's eagerness to accept money from, well, anybody, his Pennsylvania Avenue hotel is so ensconced as a DC power hot spot that it might as well have been part of Pierre Charles L'Enfant's original plan for the city. For an endless stream of lobbyists, GOP operatives, far right media personalities, tourists, and foreign officials, the Trump International Hotel is the epicenter of the MAGA universe. The favor trading and payola may be more brazen than ever. And yet the whiff of scandal is off. Legal attempts to brand Trump's command of the hotel as emoluments violations seem unlikely to be resolved during this term, and it's rare to see a protest outside the hotel other than projecting phrases like "felons welcome here" across the façade. The day after the Sanders party, Playbook reported on the event like any other social gathering. ("SPOTTED...President Donald Trump (who stopped by after a fundraiser to offer a brief toast), Ivanka Trump, Energy Secretary Rick Perry...")
But of course, the Trump DC hotel is no regular hot spot. For the past two years, I have been staking out the Old Post Office Building, sometimes in person, often on social media, for my newsletter, 1100 Pennsylvania, in which I track who is pouring money into the president's coffers. The night of Sanders's send-off, for example, Spicer also posed in the lobby for a photo with a Nigerian dignitary, Dr. Christian Nwachukwu. A few days later, Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo would also appear at the hotel, conducting an interview from a signature suite, following in the footsteps of the former Nigerian vice president, Atiku Abubakar, who also stopped by in the homestretch of his campaign for president. Abubakar lost, but claimed election fraud and hired U.S. lobbyists to get the Trump administration to become involved. While it hasn't contested the results, the U.S. State Department did slap visa restrictions on unnamed Nigerian politicians "believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining democracy." Abubakar, in turn, said those sanctions vindicated his allegations.
Nigeria isn't alone in patronizing Trump properties. Joining Osinbajo and Abubakar have been Romania's president and prime minister, Kenya's second lady, Malaysia's since-indicted former prime minister, and embassies for Kuwait and the Philippines. The Washington Post reported that Saudi-funded lobbyists booked an estimated 500 nights there, over a period of three months, at a cost of more than $270,000. In DC, as part of a delegation to discuss bilateral trade with the president at the White House, Pakistan's minister for maritime affairs also attended meetings on trade at Trump's hotel. Facing lawsuits for emoluments violations, the Trump Organization has donated more than $340,000 to the U.S. Treasury over the past two years, which it claims are its profits from business with foreign governments. But its explanation for how it calculates the figure acknowledges it's flawed, in part by requiring guests to self-report if they are with a foreign government. And the Trump Org hasn't revealed if that figure is independently audited, nor has it shared the receipts.


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What I will avoid are the tracks heard regularly on classic rock and oldies radio. I'll tend toward more or less obscure artists, occasionally throwing in less known tracks by well known artists or maybe sometimes live versions of well-known songs.
Addiss & Crofut were never big stars and are forgotten now. I have found a little information about their lives after their career as a duo for both Stephen Addiss and the late Bill Crofut. There is more information about both in the lengthy liner notes for their Folkways Records release.
Simple Gifts is the first song on their 1967 Columbia Records debut album. (The entire album is available through that link.) It was written in 1848 by Shaker leader Joseph Brackett and has been recorded by many artists since Aaron Copland reintroduced it to the world.
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It's impossible to have a unified "take" (hot or otherwise) on the Emmy nominations. Anyone who says differently is lying or deluded. This year's nominations are not only good or only bad, only surprising or only disappointing. Some of the biggest "disappointments" can be read as disappointments only if you expected the Academy would radically alter its modus operandi this year. Some of the biggest pleasant surprises are probably more accidental than intentional. As with every year, the Emmy nominations are a list to be plundered, commented upon, regarded from a safe distance and with a reasonable proportion of salt grains.
With that perspective in mind, here's a list of my thoughts on the Emmy nominations, in no particular order and with varying degrees of sophistication and seriousness. (And here's my list from yesterday of wish-list nominees. A few made it to the actual list!)
1. Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Honourable Woman is righteous. I haven't seen the five other nominees in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries category, but I'm pulling for her unfairly anyway.
2. Just when you think the Emmys have no interest in nominating new people: three new Best Actor in a Comedy contenders (Anthony Anderson, Will Forte and Jeffrey Tambor); three new Best Actress in a Comedy contenders (Lily Tomlin, Amy Schumer and Lisa Kudrow); and three new Best Actress in a Drama contenders (Taraji P. Henson, Viola Davis, Tatiana Maslany). (The Best Actor in a Drama field also has three new contenders, but that's by design – Bryan Cranston, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson all dropped out of contention this year.) That's a lot of turnover.
3. Related to that: no one's talking about the fact that only two of the six Modern Family supporting actors were nominated. Both of them – Ty Burrell and Julie Bowen – have won already. For the sake of everyone else, nominated or spectating, I hope they don't repeat.
4. The Outstanding Drama Series category makes me roll my eyes. House of Cards, Downton Abbey and Homeland are all ridiculous choices for different reasons, especially with The Americans, Masters of Sex, Justified, Rectify and Empire waiting in the wings. (Some of those are much further into the wings than others.)
5. The Outstanding Comedy Series category, on the other hand, is delightful. It's much easier to swallow the Emmys' blind adoration of Modern Family when it's recognized alongside the varied delights of Louie, Parks and Recreation, Silicon Valley, Veep, Transparent and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
(Note: I haven't watched Modern Family in at least two years. Whenever I rail against it in these Emmys discussions, I do so with the understanding that I'm an outside observer. But it's hard for me to imagine that the show has suddenly become radically different, and therefore worthy of renewed acclaim, with each passing season, especially at the expense of newer and more daring shows.)
6. I didn't expect Gaby Hoffmann to get nominated for her excellent work in Transparent, but I certainly won't say no, even if it means that the glories of Judith Light went unrecognized this year. Hoffmann was also nominated for guest-starring on Girls. Playing the kid in Sleepless in Seattle gets you places!
7. Another note on that category: quite a lot of ties! It's rare to see seven nominees in a field designed to be six deep, but eight nominees is almost unheard of.
8. Checking in on Saturday Night Live: lots of love for the anniversary special, including a truly spectacular list of credited writers. Louis C.K. and Bill Hader are this year's beneficiaries of the rule that allows hosts to be nominated for Guest Actor in a Comedy. And Kate McKinnon gets her second consecutive richly deserved nod. Next year at this time, she'll be doing press for her impending leap to big-screen stardom in the Ghostbusters reboot.
9. Speaking of Guest Actor in a Comedy, what a wonderfully odd cross-section of contenders. C.K. and Hader are up against Bradley Whitford's wonderfully subtle turn as Maura's cross-dressing friend Mark/Marcy on Transparent; Mel Brooks playing himself on FX's The Comedians; Paul Giamatti for starring in Amy Schumer's 12 Angry Men reboot; and Jon Hamm's triumphant turn as Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne (that name alone!) on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. I'm not the first to point out the possible irony of Hamm winning for this but losing one last time for Don Draper. But that's irony at its finest and harshest.
10. A random omission that disapponts me: Hugh Laurie for Veep. Though it's possible he may be a victim of the rule that requires guest actors be in less than half of a show's season. On the bright side, Anna Chlumsky and Tony Hale, both previous winners for these roles, are in the running once again. If only Timothy Simons, Kevin Dunn, Diedrich Bader, Gary Cole or Sam Richardson had joined them.
11. Veep's Armando Iannucci got proper attention for the marvelous feat of its format-busting episode "Testimony." The nomination is also a nice parting gift for Iannucci, who is moving on from showrunner duties after four seasons. A win for Outstanding Comedy Series would be an even better parting gift, of course. But it's unwise to bet against Modern Family.
12. It's also unwise to point out a racially diverse group of nominees and then add "Problem solved!" So I'll do the former, not the latter. This year's nomination pool is far more diverse than last year's, reflecting a stated commitment to increased diversity from several of the broadcast networks this year. Last year, only four nonwhite actors appeared in the Lead and Supporting categories for Drama and Comedy. This year, that number rose to ten. More stats like that, please. And better ones too!
13. Wonderful shows without a single nomination from the Academy: Togetherness, Broad City, Rectify. Wonderful shows with only one nomination: Jane the Virgin. Wonderful shows with only two nominations: The Americans. And one of those nominations is for Margo Martindale, who appeared in one episode this season and did nothing notable enough to merit recognition. Was it too much to ask for any of Matthew Rhys, Keri Russell, Noah Emmerich, Annet Mahendru, Lois Smith or Frank Langella to get a nod? Yes, it was. Silver lining: "Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?" got a writing nod, which means there's an Emmy-nominated episode of television entitled "Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?" And that's priceless.
14. The category for Comedy Series directing might have my favorite list of contenders. For one thing, the list includes Han Solo spinoff directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller for their excellent work on the pilot of Last Man on Earth. As mentioned above, Iannucci was recognized for Veep. Jill Soloway is nominated for directing my favorite episode of Transparent, the hallucinatory, flashback-heavy "Best New Girl." Mike Judge absolutely deserves recognition for his work on Silicon Valley, even though I'm partial to Alec Berg's work on "Two Days of the Condor," the breathtaking season finale. And reliable nominee Louis C.K. rounds out the category with "Sleepover," which aired on my birthday.
16. Drama series directing is not nearly as interesting for me, because I haven't seen any of the nominated episodes. It is nice to see retired filmmaker Steven Soderbergh recognized for his television-making on The Knick. But I'm baffled by the omission of Mad Men here. It would have been nice to see previous acting nominee Jared Harris recognized for directing the superb "Time & Life."
17. I'll defer to Amy Poehler for a reaction to two nominations for the excellent final season of Parks and Recreation.
I asked for Amy Poehler's reaction to today's Emmy nods for Parks and Recreation, and was told the following: pic.twitter.com/tcu9qIsGy8
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) July 16, 2015
18. It would have been nice to see lots of things that aren't on this list. But an Emmy list that reflects my tastes wouldn't necessarily reflect yours. It's not the Emmys' job to tell you how to think, and it's not your job to agree with everything it tells you. These lists are fun to talk about, and they often bring greater recognition to shows both on and off the list, but the conversation should start, not stop, with the Emmy nominations. Like what you like, and if the Emmys agree, great. If not, agree to disagree, and move on.


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Voters in Nashville will head to the polls May 1 to consider a ballot measure that would increase four taxes to pay for a multibillion-dollar mass transit proposal. The referendum was made possible by Tennessee's 2017 transportation funding legislation, known as the IMPROVE Act, which in addition to increasing gas and diesel taxes and registration fees also allowed voters in the state's largest counties and four largest cities to consider local tax increases that would be dedicated to transit projects. The Nashville referendum is perhaps the most significant transportation-related initiative on the ballot in the 2018 primaries and is being touted as Music City's best opportunity to keep mounting traffic woes at bay in the years ahead.
With many legislatures wrapping up sessions this month or already adjourned sine die, it seems like a good time to check in on efforts to seek additional transportation revenues. This year appears to be holding true to form as an even-number election year when votes for gas tax increases and other measures are a bit harder to come by. Still, some states have experienced limited success in moving measures while others remain hopeful for action this year on the transportation funding front.
Following a nationwide search for a place in which to locate its second headquarters, Amazon is expected to announce a winner perhaps soon from among a group of 20 finalists announced in January. As I noted in a post last Fall, the heated competition for HQ2 has not only demonstrated the growing importance of ecommerce and logistics to the nation's economy but also allowed communities to tout existing infrastructure assets or proposed infrastructure improvements as part of their bids to attract the project. As the finalists have tried to shore up their bids in recent weeks and those that failed to make the list have begun to examine what went wrong, transportation and infrastructure issues have come into play in a variety of ways.
A variety of states are taking steps this year to consider tolling as they seek to generate revenues for transportation, relieve congestion and perhaps qualify for federal transportation funding, which could be more difficult to come by in the future. I have updates on expanded tolling legislation in Utah, tolling studies in Iowa and Minnesota and the failure of a congestion pricing plan in New York. Plus, details on how to attend one of the nation's premier conferences on public-private partnerships this June.
A March 18 fatal accident involving a self-driving Volvo SUV operated by Uber in Arizona continued to produce reactions and ramifications across the autonomous vehicle policy community this week. Here are some of the latest updates on what policymakers are doing in the wake of the crash, what the crash tells us about autonomous vehicle technology and what it means for Uber and others.


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The Essentials of Essential Oils
We have recently started including aromatherapy using essential oils as part of our monthly massages and we both love it. In this episode of the Vegetarian Podcast, we discuss the basics of essential oils–what they as well as some benefits and risks associated with their use.
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Here's what we mention in this episode:
InnoGear Upgraded 150ml Aromatherapy Essential Oil Diffuser
Using Essential Oils Around Your Pet (includes infographic mentioned in the episode)
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Recipe of the Week
Question: Do you use aromatherapy? If so, what is your favorite oil or combination of oils?
Thanks for listening!
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Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - July 26, 2019) - UGE International Ltd. (TSXV: UGE) (OTCQB: UGEIF) (the "Company" or "UGE"), a leader in solar solutions for the commercial and industrial sector, is pleased to announce that it has signed a contract with new client, Primepack Technologies, to deploy a financed 310kW rooftop solar project.
Primepack is a leading provider of plastic packaging products for the electronics, data storage, semiconductor, automotive and medical industries, based in Laguna, Philippines. This project is on their newest building, completed earlier this year.
By adopting solar, Primepack is anticipated to save approximately 40% off their current grid rates. Primepack operations manager, Mr. Leo Tanlimco, noted: "in addition to maximizing savings, we are an environmentally conscious company that wants to be known as an earth friendly establishment. We are excited to go solar with UGE."
The 310kW project is expected to be built over the next six months and will contribute over $300,000 of revenue to UGE. As with UGE's other financed projects in the Philippines, UGE's unique finance structure combines loan and service agreements for the client, providing the client with a tailor-made solution that will save them money throughout the system's lifetime, not unlike a power purchase agreement, while complying with the country's regulatory environment.
With the contract, UGE Philippines now has 12 new projects in or entering deployment, which are expected to drive revenue growth in the market throughout the end of 2019 and into 2020.
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With one of the world's largest populations, India has a remarkably low level of packaging consumption. Despite being included as one of the top consumers of packaging materials, their per capita consumption rate is one of the lowest in the world. The average person in Germany consumes 10 times more packaging products than the average person in India.
As income levels rise in the country, there has been a greater desire to have food products which are packaged properly. The packaging industry provides protection for food, meets its specific needs, and provides a level of tampering resistance which preserves values along the distribution chain.
The industry is just beginning to embrace plastics. Some statistics resources still do not include plastics packaging within their reported revenue figures. Because the industry relies heavily on small-to-medium manufacturers, there is a high level of fragmentation within the industry, which has limited the amount of information being reported up through 2018.
Impressive Indian Packaging Industry Statistics
#1. The Indian packaging industry has a current estimated value of $14 billion. The annual rate of growth for the industry is more than 15%. (Indian Packaging Institute)
#2. Laminated products, which include tubes, tetra packs, and form-fill-seal pouches, is a segment within the industry that has been growing at a rate of 30% per year. (Indian Packaging Institute)
#3. There are currently about 700 packaging manufacturers located in India. 95% of them are classified as being a small- to medium-sized operation. (Indian Packaging Institute)
#4. Machinery imports to the Indian packaging industry total an average of $125 million per year. (Indian Packaging Institute)
#5. The average per capita domestic consumption rate in India for packaging materials is less than $15. The global average for consumption is almost $100. (Indian Packaging Institute)
#6. Paper is the fastest-growing segment within the Indian packaging industry, experiencing a demand of 6 million tons each year. About 40% of the paper which is consumed in India goes through the packaging industry. (Indian Packaging Institute)
#7. When plastics packaging is included within the Indian packaging industry figures, the industry has a total value of $32 billion. Almost 1 million people are directly employed because of the activities of this industry. (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry – FICCI)
#8. There are currently more than 10,000 firms currently working on plastics manufacturing within India. (FICCI)
#9. The Indian packaging industry currently provides about 4% of the total value available within the global packaging industry. (FICCI)
#10. Plastics comprise about 40% of the packaging produced in the Indian packaging industry today, combining flexible and rigid plastics into the same category. Cardboard products make up another 31% of the industry. (FICCI)
#11. One-third of the plastic products used by the packaging industry is composed of polyethylene. Another 29% of the products are polypropylene. 17% of the industry produces PET. (FICCI)
#12. Most of the technical components used by the Indian packaging industry are imported from Japan, Europe, or the United States. Imports of these components carry a 7.5% customs duty, which generates high levels of industry loss in research and development. (FICCI)
#13. Rigid packaging products dominate the industry right now, providing an 80% market share to the Indian packaging industry. (India Brand Equity Foundation)
#14. The flexible packaging industry in India is a segment valued at nearly $1 billion. It has been growing at an average rate of 20% since 2010. (India Brand Equity Foundation)
#15. Food-based products account for 38% of the consumption of flexible packaging for the industry. Chewing tobacco accounts for 32% of flexible packaging, while non-food items account for 30%. (India Brand Equity Foundation)
#16. Snacks, biscuits, food staples, and confectionery items all provide a respective 6% of the flexible packaging consumption experienced in India each year, accounting for 24% of food packaging needs. Tea products account for another 3% of industry packaging needs. (India Brand Equity Foundation)
#17. In 2007, the consumption of biodegradable plastics by the Indian packaging industry was 0.36 million tons. In 2020, the anticipated consumption of bio-based plastics is expected to reach 3.46 million tons. (India Brand Equity Foundation)
#18. Although rigid plastics have been replacing metals and glass within the packaging industry, glass bottles still account for 10% of consumer packaging. Metal cans still account for 7% of the industry. (Madras Consultancy Group)
#19. The manufacturing of caps and closures accounts for 4% of the Indian packaging industry. (Madras Consultancy Group)
#20. When it comes to international demand, India, along with Brazil, Russia, and China account for 30% of the global demand for packaging materials. The global consumer industry is valued at $500 billion if industrial end-markets are included with the revenue figures. (Ernst and Young)
#21. The greatest area of growth for the Indian packaging industry is within the food sector. The global packaging industry generates 51% of its revenues from food packaging needs, compared to the 38% of revenues generated within India. (Ernst and Young)
#22. 37% of the packaging machinery found within the Indian packaging industry produces beverage units. This is followed by frozen food units (22%), confectionary units (11%), and bakery units (10%). (InnoPack)
Indian Packaging Industry Trends and Analysis
The government of India is focused on increasing domestic consumption of packaging materials while reducing international influences on the industry. There is a "Made in India" campaign which is focused on improving the manufacturing centers already present in the country. Special Economic Zones, tax-friendly policies, and extended supports from other various sectors help the industry continue to see strong growth.
There is also strong growth in the pharmaceutical, food, and beverage industries in India. These industries are seeing growth rates of 15-25%, which then trickles down into the packaging industry for added growth and value as well.
India is also experiencing a growing trend in consumerism as a middle class is being established within the society. As income levels continue to improve, expect more demand from the packaging industry.
It would be a low-end estimate to expect the industry to grow at a CAGR of 8% over the next 10-year forecast period. On the high end of the estimate, the industry could experience a CAGR of more than 15%.
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A young girl about to go on a 1st date with her boyfriend Trouble Chaser, she has been tutored by her grandmother. "He will try to kiss you, allow him"
"He will try to cuddle you, allow him."
"He will try to lay you down and get on top of you, don't allow him"
The girl asked : grandmother, why?. Grandmother said : "because if you do that, you have allowed him to disgrace you and all your family". Girl said : "okay" and she left on her date. Several hours later she returned and grandmother asked "how did it go?". Girl : "exactly as you said except when he laid me down and tried to disgrace our family, I turned him over, got on top of him and disgraced his family"
Grandmother fainted.
One word for this girl?.
A Sotho man, a Zulu man and a Venda man were lost in a forest and then captured by cannibals. The king of the cannibals told the prisoners that they could live if they pass a trial. The first step was to go deep into the forest and get ten pieces of the same kind of fruits.
The three men went their separate ways to gather fruits.
The Zulu man came back and said to the king, "I brought 10 apples." Then the king explained the trial to him, "You have to swallow the fruits without any expression on your face or you will be killed. The first apple went in, but on the second one, he winced out in pain, so he was killed.
The sotho man arrived and showed the king ten berries. When the king explained the trial to him, he thought to himself that this should be easy….1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and on the ninth berry, he burst out in laughter and was killed.
The Sotho man and Zulu man met in heaven and the Zulu man asked, "Why did you laugh? You almost got away with the trial."
The Sotho man replied, "I couldn't help it, when I saw the Venda man coming with Watermelons!" Hahahahahahahahaha
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All acupuncturists at Honour Health are registered with the Chinese Medicine of Board of Australia.
All acupuncturists at Honour Health are registered with the Chinese Medicine of Board of Australia.
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Vicki has been involved in the complementary medicine industry since 1994, where a passion for using nature to heal spread across a path of nutrition, massage, naturopathy, acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine.
Having practiced these modalities in different regions around Australia and the world, Vicki has gained insight into a wider variety of environmental factors and influences that can interrupt our health and well-being.
Vicki continues to stay on top of treatment methods by attending many seminars and conferences each year to bring you the best of what can be offered.
Vicki's career began with massage and as a nutrition and supplement consultant in the early 90's and progressed into the Chinese Medicine sphere after completing a Bachelor of Health Science, majoring in Acupuncture. Vicki has spent a year in China working in hospitals and studying with Professors and was lucky enough to study Tibetan Medicine in India.
After practicing for some time, Vicki realised that in order for Chinese Medicine to be both accessible and acceptable within the western world, a research base from which to communicate Chinese therapies effectiveness was necessary. This led her to complete Masters studies at the University of Western Sydney, in which she specialised in Women's Health and Stress Disorders.
"My treatment approach is non-judgmental and realistic, drawing from all modalities. I believe that for illness to be corrected, the entire body needs to be addressed, not simply the presenting signs and symptoms, although presenting symptoms are always addressed so you can feel a change after the treatment. The focus is on wellness. I believe that given the right conditions, the body will return to wellbeing. I provide the tools and you provide the necessary changes to your lifestyle and together we can improve your health".
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Donna began her studies in 1997 in the Natural Medicine field after experiencing her own health concerns. She proudly graduated from Australian College of Natural Medicine in 2004 after completing studies in Acupuncture together with Massage and Bush Flower Essences. She obtained her Bachelor of Health Science (Acupuncture) as well as her Certificate 4 in TCM Remedial Therapy (Tuina) in the same year.
She completed further studies in Swedish Massage, Deep Tissue Massage, Hot Stone Massage, Acupressure and Shiatsu together with Bush Flower Essences and Reiki after graduating.
After completing her Acupuncture studies Donna opened a practice Bangalow in the Byron Bay Hinterland which operated from 2004 to 2017. During this time she also managed an Acupuncture clinic in Brunswick Heads region.
Owing to her daughters illness, Donna left her Bangalow clinic and moved to the Gold Coast to be near her and worked as an Acupuncturist in the Gold Coast region in a multi-modality clinic. Donna has always enjoyed working with other qualified therapists to gain others perspectives on treatments that would benefit clients.
Completing further studies yearly to improve her knowledge in the Acupuncture field is an aspect of her work that she finds very rewarding but also necessary in the further growth of her as an Acupuncturist.
Assisting clients on their journey to good health brings Donna so much joy and happiness. Connecting mind, body and spirit together with balancing energies is always her aim in all treatments. She utilizes all her tools to help get you on track.
Donna has a passion for working with the elderly, people suffering disability and people suffering from mental health issues, and has found that acupuncture, acupressure and massage can bring great benefit here.
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The Sakura Gelly Roll Mixed Set of 24 contains a variety of Gelly Roll Pens in many bright colours. Available in a handy reusable pack, these fantastic Gel Pens are ideal for use for writing, drawing, journaling, colouring and crafting. All Gelly Roll pens are water-based and fade resistant, with archival quality lightfast ink. Also available in single pens as well as a range of other sets.
This set contains the following pens:
50- White
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Schedules & Routines
Brick Wall, Jellyfish, or Backbone: What Type of Parent Are You?
Is your parenting style authoritarian, permissive, or authoritative? One provides too much control, one too little, and the third just the right amount. Figure out your caregiver style, and see if it needs to change.
If there is one universally accepted maxim, it's this: Kids with ADHD need consistency and reliable structures in their daily life. Still, many parents struggle to find a healthy balance between routine and fun, schedule and independence. The struggle, in many cases, traces back to parenting style.
Researchers at the Institute of Human Development, at the University of California, Berkeley, have identified three primary parenting styles. They are:
- Brick Wall: Authoritarian parenting style. Parenting expert Barbara Coloroso identified this type of family as having dictatorial parents who demand blind obedience from their kids. Such families combine high expectations, robotic consistency, and high control with low levels of warmth and communication.
- Jellyfish: Permissive parenting style. These parents are the opposite of authoritarians. They project high warmth and communication but take little control, tolerate inconsistent daily routines, and provide few clear expectations for their kids.
- Backbone: Authoritative parenting style. This parenting approach combines the best aspects of the first two patterns. These parents provide clear and consistent rules and expectations within the context of a caring and loving family.
Consistent Rules and a Loving Family
Research suggests that children who are raised in backbone families show the most independence, leadership, social responsibility, originality, self-confidence, and achievement. Kids from brick wall families, on the other hand, tend to be obedient but less independent and confident of themselves. Children in jellyfish families are the worst off of all: They lack social responsibility, are particularly dependent, are low in self-confidence, and have high anxiety.
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All children need limits and boundaries, and children who are inconsistent in their behaviors need them even more. If a child who feels like a cue ball caroming around on a pool table has to live in a family where meals are haphazard, rules are inconsistently enforced, and events arise without warning, she's likely to bounce off the table.
A primary responsibility for parents and teachers of kids who have behavior difficulties is to provide a safe and protected space at home and at school, an environment with consistent rules, regular routines, and efficient transitions to clear a steady path through the day.
If your child's life has been unsettled, and/or rules have been inconsistently enforced, she may initially respond to "new consistency" with irritation or anger. However, when consistency is accompanied by respect and caring for your child, you're providing her with the backbone she'll need to make her way in the world as an adult.
Structure to Live By
1. See that your child gets up about the same time every morning, has regularly scheduled meals, and goes to bed about the same time every evening.
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2. Create a daily and/or weekly calendar with your child, on which he writes or draws in events that are coming up. Keep the calendar in the child's bedroom, where he can see it. A number of computer apps—Cozi and HomeRoutines—are available to do this for you and your child.
3. When unpredictable events come up, prepare your child with a few words: "Today, when I pick you up at school, we won't be going home. We're going to the airport to welcome Grandma for a visit." It might be helpful to suggest that your child visualize the new event, so that when it comes, it won't be upsetting to his daily routine.
[Free Resource: 13 Parenting Strategies for Kids with ADHD]
Adapted from The Myth of the ADHD Child: 101 Ways to Improve Your Child's Behavior and Attention Span without Drugs, Labels, or Coercion, Revised Edition, by Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D., published by TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright © 1995, 2017 by Thomas Armstrong.
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Gerry Comerford Drilling offer a range of other services as well as being easy access water well drilling specialists. We will happily provide our services to residential, commercial and agricultural clients across Kilkenny and surrounding counties in the South East.
Our additional services are designed for our client's convenience. With over 20 years' experience in the well drilling industry, we pride ourselves on going above and beyond to leave each client a satisfied one.
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Heather Nauert
Department Press Briefing
Washington, DC
July 11, 2017
QUESTION: Thank you. This is Jahanzaib Ali from ARY News TV Pakistan. I just want to ask a question about some Afghanistan. As we all know that you are going to announce, the current administration is going to announce, the new Afghan policy. So what kind of designation you are giving to the Afghan Taliban in that policy, because the Obama administration, in this last two or three tenure, they stopped calling Afghan Taliban as terrorists. So what kind of designation you are giving to the Taliban in the new Afghan policy?
MS NAUERT: Well, our Afghan policy review is still underway. That has not been announced just yet. So they are looking at – our officials who are involved in that Afghan policy review, which goes from the State Department to the Department of Defense to the National Security Advisor and his team, and plenty others, I'm sure, that I'm just not mentioning right now. So that review is underway. That review continues. I'm not going to get ahead of what's in that review. We'll just have to wait and see what comes out of it.
QUESTION: But are they terrorists or not – the Afghan Taliban?
MS NAUERT: Sir, we're going to wait for that review to take place, okay? Okay. Sir, I —
QUESTION: Is there any update on kidnapped American citizens in Afghanistan?
MS NAUERT: And who exactly are you referring to?
QUESTION: Reffing to? I don't understand what you're saying.
MS NAUERT: Okay. So you asked me about – about who kidnapped?
QUESTION: Yeah, American citizens kidnapped in Afghanistan. Is there any update on that?
MS NAUERT: Let me get back with you on that and let me see what I have, okay?
QUESTION: Can we go to Turkey?
QUESTION: Mm-hmm. I have a few more question if you allow me.
MS NAUERT: Pardon me, sir?


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Introduction: Mini Paint Shaker
Shaking paint by hand is no fun anymore. When I was younger it was kind of cool to smack the bottle repeatedly against the heel of my palm, as my father did, in his model building days. After one day smacking my hand numb, I came up with this little beauty of a paint shaker. It works really good, and I hope that if someone puts one together, it works as well for them as it does for me, and that they too giggle with delight, having been freed from the drudgery of shaking long unused paints. Seriously, this thing will completely mix totally separated "thought they were beyond hope" bottles. I prop it up on a pillow in the other room, drop a bottle in and let it run. I didn't have any paints that took more than a couple minutes, but I have forgotten, and left bottles in for hours with no ill effects. Save your strength and muscle control for painting, don't waste it on shaking! Build this drone!
Step 1: What Works, Works!
1. The first incarnation of this was a pouch made entirely of clear packing tape. It was ugly, but it proved the concept. That a pouch, taped to the head of a shoulder massager, was a good paint shaker. The paints not only vibrate at a high rate, but bounce as well. The new one I made out of plain white poster board, it's $1 a sheet at dollarmart, and clear packing tape.
Step 2: Basic Pattern
2. Pretty basic, a circle, some slits toward the center, some tape, some more tape, a little more tape. Tape the inside too, when you go to cut out the paint hole slot you will be glad you did.
Step 3: All Taped Together
3. Here it is taped together, and with the paint hole slot cut out.
Step 4: Alternate Angle
4. Just trying to provide a clear view from another angle. Your massager may be larger or smaller or of a different design or model, you may have to make some adjustments as you proceed.
Step 5: Pouch Meets Massager
4b. Tape pouch to head of massager. I used really sticky construction tape from Lewe's, but the packing tape will work ok.
Step 6: No More Hands Shakey From Paint Shakey!
5. Prop it up on a pillow or towel, drop a bottle in and let er rip. Mine has two speeds, I use the low speed, but your end design may favor the high speed. It's a little noisy, but not THAT noisy, plastic bottles of folk are quieter than the little glass bottles of enamel paint for models, which is mostly what I use, and boy do thay rattle around in there, (one at a time) but it sure beats whap whap whap whap whap whap whap whap....
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Autumn is really one of my favorite seasons, the bright colors, the cozy evenings, tea and biscuits... and it's also one of the craftiest seasons of the year, with christmas approaching!
This project was sitting in my apartment for a while, until I realized that soon there will be no more leaves to collect! So hurry up, put a scarf around your neck and go leaf hunting!
I am lucky to have an enormous fig tree in our back yard (surrounded by concrete, but still...). If you have no such luck, don't worry, there are a lot of leaves that will turn out great as a bowl!
For this project you'll need:
- leaves
- self-curing clay
- copper spray
- cutter
- aluminium foil
- rolling pin
- sheet of baking paper
- sandpaper (optional)
- big cardboard/underlay for spraying
- gloves
Roll out the clay until about 1-0.5cm thick. My friend Sarah brought me a rolling pin from Kopenhagen, so I used my old one for this. I am not so sure if the clay can be removed residue-free from the pin.
Place your leaf on the clay and using the rolling pin, transfer your texture onto it.
First I wanted to keep the stem, but then decided against it as I thought it would turn out too fragile in the end.
Cut out the leaf, Either you put an effort into removing all the little bits of clay on the edges of the leaf, or you use sandpaper to get rid of them when the piece has dried.
To bring your bowl into shape, make a ring out of aluminium foil and place the leaf on top. Let it dry thoroughly. My leaves took about 1,5 days to hard-dry.
Once the clay has dried you can head for the spraying part. Here is some advide on using spray cans:
- go outside
- wear old clothes & gloves
- figure out where the wind is coming from before you start spraying!
Apart from that, follow the instruction on your spray can and let the color dry completely. You even might want to leave the bowls outside of your apartment a little longer, as spray color has a rather penetrant smell.
These bowls might also be a good christmas gift for your mother/aunt/granny!
I hope you liked this nice little autumn project!
Have a wonderful rest of the week,
lots of love, Anne


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Autonics Sensors – Compact Photoelectric Sensor
BEN Series is built-in amplifier type in a compact size. This type has an indicator to allow users to identify operation status of sensors from a long distance.
* Small and power supply built-in type
* Easy installation with LED indicators on product
* Light ON/Dark ON operation mode switch
* Status and output LED indication
* Built-in IC photo diode for disturbing light and electrical noise
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Directors Corey Landis and Roger Lay, Jr. had no idea what they were getting into when they sought out the origins of their favorite childhood action figure, He-Man of the popular "Masters of the Universe" animated TV series. As this amusing documentary reveals through numerous interviews, credit for the billion-dollar, multimedia franchise remains in dispute 30 years after its launch.
Virtually every moral taboo is shattered in this highly controversial Christmas slasher shocker, which drew the outrage of parents, critics and its distributor upon release. As a boy, Billy witnessed his parents' murder at the hands of a man dressed as St. Nick; forced to don a Santa suit for his job at a toy store years later, he goes on a psychotic rampage. You don't want to be on this Santa's "naughty" list!


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Driver sentenced in death crash
PUBLISHED: 14:40 18 August 2010
A CARELESS driver who caused a collision which killed a mother-of-three when he fumbled for a dropped cigarette has been handed a sentence of 100 hours community service.
A driver who caused the death of a mother of three has been given 100 hours community service.
Deborah Lawson, of High View, Vigo was killed when Daniel Wellard lost concentration fumbling for his ciggaretes and smashed headlong into her car on October 22 last year.
Appearing at Maidstone magistrates Court on August 13 Wellard, of Sheerness, pleaded guilty to causing the death of the 48-year-old nurse by dangerous driving.
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Published on the 22/11/2019 | Written by Heather Wright
Moving to higher order services to reap the cloud gains…
Two new reports suggesting businesses are still struggling to reap the benefits of cloud come as no surprise to James Valentine, CTO for A/NZ IT provider Fronde.
"A lot of organisations think some sort of magic is going to happen just by virtue of moving from an existing data centre and up to the cloud," says Valentine, who has been helping customers migrate to cloud for 12+ years. "But for many people it's your mess for less on the cloud – and unfortunately the reality is it's often not even less."
His comments are backed by recent reports from both Unisys and Nutanix, showing cloud isn't living up to expectation for many businesses across Australia and New Zealand – and globally.
"That's the missing piece."
The first Unisys Cloud Success Barometer shows that while 72 percent of business leaders across Asia Pacific agree the benefits of cloud outweigh the barriers, 41 percent failed to see improved organisational effectiveness from moving to the cloud. Of the 13 counties surveyed, New Zealand organisations were least likely to report that organisational effectiveness had improved thanks to cloud computing.
Meanwhile Vanson Bourne research, conducted on behalf of Nutanix, found 73 percent of respondents were moving some application off the public cloud and back on-prem as companies realise that one size cloud strategies don't fit all use cases.
"For example, while applications with unpredictable usage may be best suited to the public clouds offering elastic IT resources, workloads with more predictable characteristics can often run on-premises at a lower cost than public cloud," Nutanix says.
While Nutanix is touting its report as proof that hybrid is the way to go, Unisys' take is that companies need to make cloud part of their core strategy, integrating cloud into broader business transformation strategies.
Leon Sayers, Unisys Asia Pacific regional consulting lead, says rather than a lift and shift approach, successful cloud implementations require the right framework in place at the outset, with continual innovation and updates over time.
Valentine also highlights the prominence of lift and shift moves to the cloud as a deciding factor in the lack of cloud success in hitting business' expectations, saying companies will struggle to get 'these magical benefits people talk about' from simply picking up workloads and moving them to cloud, more or less how they were in their on-prem configuration.
"There are some really important steps around optimisation and making applications ready for the cloud, taking advantage of what the cloud platforms can offer and that's the missing piece," Valentine says.
"Where we see the opportunity for organisations is to take moving to cloud as a way to start taking advantage of some of the higher order services that cloud platforms offer.
Those 'higher order services' include serverless computing – something Valentine believes will be the new pattern for business.
Serverless computing is the emerging layer on top of infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service. It's essentially an architecture where code execution is managed by the cloud provider, enabling developers to focus purely on the individual functions in their application code and freeing them from the hassle of managing, provisioning and maintaining servers.
"The cloud provider is taking responsibility for basically everything and all we're dropping in is our bits of code into AWS Lambda Functions or Google Cloud Functions or running these functions as a service," Valentine says. "Or the cloud provider is fully running the database for us, like a NoSQL database, and managing everything. All we do is talk with an API and we don't have to worry about any of the other underlying management or operation of the platform. We simply use the platform for what we want to use it for."
It's not a new technology – AWS unveiled their Lambda offering back in 2014 and since then cloud service providers have been quick to jump on board and offer their own versions of serverless.
Valentine says serverless has several key benefits, including some 'amazing cost benefits', and, more importantly, removing the operational burden of traditional infrastructure.
"Serverless capabilities are more or less infinitely scalable," Valentine says. "They'll sit and idle and do nothing and then when a thousand events or a million events come in, the infrastructure seamlessly scales to handle these surges of demand."
For companies with spiky sets of requests – think an ecommerce site on Black Friday – Valentine says serverless can be a boon.
"Traditionally you'd have to provision a whole lot of infrastructure to handle that whereas now the cloud provider will just scale those functions and fully managed databases up without you having to touch a thing. You get the automatic scaling, a lot of the non-functional requirements around isolation, security, are that much easier to obtain because there's less you have to worry about."
It's leading to some interesting architectures with more event driven architecture, he says.
"Developers can build things faster because they can focus on a particular function, so they don't have to worry about as many different things. So the code being deployed is smaller, almost like microservices.
"Once deployed it's fully managed so the operators have much less to worry about when it comes to devops and managing the applications."
The most common entry point to serverless for many A/NZ businesses is in exposing APIs to the world.
"People using things like API Gateway from AWS who are, say, launching a new mobile app or deploying a new website will want to have a really scalable reliable API that those consumer services connect into," Valentine says.
For customers taking hundreds of thousands of requests a day on their API Gateway, processing it though serverless functions into legacy backends can have a significant economic payoff, with Valentine putting the costs in the dollars a day, rather than hundreds of dollars a day compared to the cost of traditional running of an API Gateway.
Startups building SaaS software offerings are another key market Fronde is seeing emerge for serverless, as is any company that has applications with very sporadic usage.
"With a serverless platform, when it's not being used you're not paying for it."
For larger organisations, it can also be an opportunity to introduce some automation.
"We're seeing organisations of all sizes starting to think about what are the events that are happening in my application and could I use serverless functions to consume those events and start to react intelligently to them."
He cites the example of one customer who has an application that occasionally has a 'hiccup'.
"They've been able to consume the events coming off that particular application stack and using a serverless function as those events come off the function runs, looks at the event payload, realises it's an anomaly and runs a remedial script to fix up the problem.
"If you're stuck with some traditional infrastructure it is a great way to start introducing automation into the stack and that's a pretty popular area for smaller organisations trying to lower the operational burden of running in the cloud."
Says Valentine: "Serverless is going to become the new pattern. Customers will expect cloud providers to do so much more for them and they'll focus on what makes them different and great, which is the applications they're deploying and the business processes they're trying to execute across."


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