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Commentary 9 July 2015 9 July 2015
Becoming Bishan: Heritage Exhibition
This article and its photographs was first written by the organisers of Becoming Bishan, and was first published at Bukit Brown's website.
What is Bishan? A concrete jungle of million-dollar HDB flats? The futuristic, award-winning architecture of SkyHabitat and Bishan Library? Or even the bustling activity of Junction 8? These are the conventional perceptions of the young, vibrant town of Bishan – an ex-cemetery transformed into a heartland showpiece.
Our team, however, felt that there just had to be more to this rising area. Whether we were lifelong residents of the district or saw it as a mere part of our daily commute to school, we became increasingly curious about how this place came to be. Why was there even a cemetery in Bishan in the first place? Did people live in Bishan before the HDB flats were built? What was Bishan's place in the Singapore Story?
Driven by overwhelming curiosity, we, in conjunction with the Raffles Archives and Museum, embarked upon the Becoming Bishan Project, hoping that the outcomes of our research would be able to provide a poignant contribution to our country's jubilee celebrations.
Our first step was to analyse the development of Bishan through maps. One of our members, Yilun, is an avid map enthusiast with an especial interest in urban redevelopment. With gusto, he surfaced many old maps of the area, the oldest dating back to 1924. Through painstaking effort, he managed to highlight the stark changes in the landscape of the area, as well as match old landmarks of the area to more familiar present-day ones. The topographical studies revealed many details about the geography of the Bishan area. Today, the land that makes up Bishan is rather flat. However, the contours of old maps suggest that pre-redevelopment, Bishan was covered by rolling hills. Many photographs also show the grave-covered hills with the HDB flats of Toa Payoh in the background. This explains the how the name "Bishan" ("Jade Hills" in Mandarin) came about. One of our interviewees even compared the view from a Toa Payoh flat to a green dragon, because of the undulating hills and the scale-like tombs on them.
The highlight is a series of maps of Bishan tracing the landscape of changes from 1924 to the present .
There were several kampongs within the cemetery, the most notable one being Kampong San Teng, whose kampong association members still meet regularly today. Interviews with the old residents revealed a rather self-sufficient community, with a school, farms, a teahouse and a market. There was also a cinema, Nam Kok cinema, in the Bishan area that screened Chinese and Western films. A worker in the KPT coffee shop in Bishan North told us of how he used to work there, proudly showing us his old posters of Elvis Presley and actors from Hong Kong. But when we asked about people's impressions of Bishan before redevelopment, the greatest fears were not ghosts and spirits, but secret society activity.
We also made several exciting discoveries along our research journey. One was that Bishan was once a World War II battlesite! Jon Cooper, who also runs the Bukit Brown battlefield tours, managed to surface the battalion diaries and hand-drawn maps of the Second Cambridgeshire Regiment. These documented the action at Braddell Road in the dying days of the Battle for Singapore (1942). Further research revealed that the battle positions occupied by the British troops are the present-day locations of Junction 8 shopping mall, Bishan Library and Raffles Institution. This story was corroborated by many residents, who recalled the sounds of gunfire through the rolling hills of Bishan. Another revelation we made was that the philanthropist Wong Ah Fook was once buried in the Peck San Theng cemetery and his ashes now lie in the columbarium, something that even those running the columbarium had been unaware of.
A RI volunteer explaining the WW2 history of Bishan.
Along the way, our team has also met and befriended many diverse characters, who each have their own personal stake in Bishan. From the intriguing Mr. Molay, a Cantonese-speaking Indian man whose father once owned a hundred cows in Bishan, to the unabashed Mr. Loh, who once ate human flesh to survive the deprivation of the Japanese Occupation, it is the stories of these people who make the Bishan Story come alive. We thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to talk to these individuals and learn more about the almost-foreign land that is the past. Later, we also spoke to current residents who told us about their thoughts and memories about this place. Though it is hard to say that the HDB dwellers of today have the same community spirit as kampong residents did, it was interesting to note how people develop, or fail to develop, attachments to Bishan.
Visitors to the exhibition have a chance to listen in on their memories of Bishan as a cemetery and its social community life then.
We feel immensely privileged to have had the experience of exploring Bishan's story and curating this exhibition, and hope that you might find meaning of your own in our fruits of labour and love.
The Becoming Bishan Exhbition now at Bishan Library.
The Becoming Bishan exhibition will be officially launched on 11 July (Saturday), from 9 am – 12 noon, at the Bishan Community Library. This event will be graced by Senior Minister of State Josephine Teo. The exhibition will run at the Bishan Community Library from 1 July to 23 August, Ang Mo Kio Public Library from 24 August to 30 September and Toa Payoh Public Library from 1 to 31 October.
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### Recursive approach

```elixir
defmodule BracketPush do

  # NOTE: As written, this program only supports single-character delimiters.
  @opening_delimiters ["[", "{", "("]
  @closing_delimiters [")", "}", "]"]

  @doc """
  Checks that all the brackets and braces in the string are matched correctly, and nested correctly.
  """
  @spec check_brackets(String.t()) :: boolean
  def check_brackets(str) do
    case seek_start(str) do
      {:error, _} -> false
      _ -> true
    end
  end

  ###########################################################################
  # Use cases as we traverse a string looking for starting delimiter:
  ###########################################################################
  # End of string!
  defp seek_start(""), do: ""

  # opening blocks --> seek closing
  defp seek_start("[" <> tail), do: seek_end("]", tail)
  defp seek_start("{" <> tail), do: seek_end("}", tail)
  defp seek_start("(" <> tail), do: seek_end(")", tail)

  # Unexpected closing delimiter
  defp seek_start(<<h :: binary - size(1), _ :: binary>>) when h in @closing_delimiters,
       do: {:error, "Unexpected closing delimiter: '#{h}'"}

  # Filler character: shift and keep seeking
  defp seek_start(<<_ :: binary - size(1), tail :: binary>>), do: seek_start(tail)

  ###########################################################################
  # Use Cases as we look for the ending delimiter:
  ###########################################################################
  # End of string! --> fail
  defp seek_end(_, ""), do: {:error, "Closing delimiter not found"}

  # Another opening delimiter found! --> permutation! Down the wormhole!  seek_start()
  defp seek_end(_, <<h :: binary - size(1), _ :: binary>> = str) when h in @opening_delimiters, do: seek_start(str)

  # Matching Closing tag found! --> return whatever is left of the string
  defp seek_end(closing_delimiter, <<h :: binary - size(1), tail :: binary>>) when closing_delimiter == h, do: tail

  # Unmatched closing delimiter
  defp seek_end(_, <<h :: binary - size(1), _ :: binary>>) when h in @closing_delimiters,
       do: {:error, "Unmatched closing delimiter: '#{h}'"}

  # Filler character --> shift and keep seeking
  defp seek_end(closing_delimiter, <<_ :: binary - size(1), tail :: binary>>),
       do: seek_end(closing_delimiter, tail)

end
```

### Stack-based approach

```elixir
defmodule MatchingBrackets do
  @doc """
  Checks that all the brackets and braces in the string are matched correctly, and nested correctly
  """
  @spec check_brackets(String.t()) :: boolean
  def check_brackets(str), do: do_check_brackets(str, [])

  defp do_check_brackets(<<char, rest::binary>>, brackets_list) when char in [?(, ?[, ?{] do
    do_check_brackets(rest, [char | brackets_list])
  end

  defp do_check_brackets(<<char, rest::binary>>, brackets_list) when char in [?), ?], ?}] do
    {head, tail} = List.pop_at(brackets_list, 0)
    brackets_match?(head, char) && do_check_brackets(rest, tail)
  end

  defp do_check_brackets(<<_char, rest::binary>>, brackets_list) do
    do_check_brackets(rest, brackets_list)
  end

  defp do_check_brackets("", []), do: true
  defp do_check_brackets("", [_head | _tail]), do: false

  defp brackets_match?(?(, ?)), do: true
  defp brackets_match?(?[, ?]), do: true
  defp brackets_match?(?{, ?}), do: true
  defp brackets_match?(_left, _right), do: false
end
```

## Concepts

The big concept here is the `[head | tail]` traversal pattern (just like a parser): i.e. how do we traverse the string once and avoid having to use regular expressions?

- recursion `[head | tail]`
- naming
- modules
- module attributes
  - @doc
    - documentation
  - @spec
    - types
    - String.t()
    - boolean
- pattern matching
  - on function signature
- guards
  - when
- standard library modules
  - Kernel
    - in/2
- types
  - binaries
    - special forms `<< >>` syntax
  - string
  - lists
    - head and tail notation forms

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Claudia Wells Interview: 'Back to the Future' Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Actress Claudia Wells is probably best known for originating the role of Jennifer Parker (Marty McFly's girlfriend) in the 1985 top box-office smash Back to the Future. Unable to appear in the two sequels, Wells was replaced by Elisabeth Shue.
The science fiction comedy film was directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale, produced by Steven Spielberg, and starred Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, and Crispin Glover.
"There was a lot of stuff going on at home, my mom was diagnosed with fourth stage cancer and that was right before Back to the Future II and Back to the Future III were to be filmed so I backed out of those films to deal with the turmoil at home."
In addition to Back to the Future, Wells starred in six ABC and CBS television series, numerous movies of the week, and schoolbreak specials. The forty-four year old Malaysian native has also owned a high-end men's resale shop in Studio City, California, called Armani Wells since 1991.
Back to the Future celebrates its 25th anniversary this year with the October 26 release of the DVD film trilogy (Back to the Future, Back to the Future II, and Back to the Future III) on Blu-ray. To further commemorate the occasion there will be a "We're Going Back" reunion to be held in Los Angeles November 5-12, 2010 where fans will be able to meet the cast and crew, visit original filming locations, ride a hoverboard, and enjoy an "enchantment under the sea" dance.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Claudia, thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedule to speak with me.
Back to the Future Reunion - Appearing at the Reunion, held during The George Lindsey UNA Film Festival in March of 2010, from L to R: Bob Gale, Danny Vinson, Claudia Wells and James Tolkan (Photo by Marc Parker)
Claudia Wells: Yes, I've been attending Back to the Future and Kids in The Spotlight events.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): What is Kids in The Spotlight?
Claudia Wells: It's a wonderful charity and I'm on the Board of Directors. We bring a ten-week program to foster kids and at risk inner city youths so they can learn to write, cast, and star in their own 10-minute short film. The Writer's Guild gives them certificates for the film.
The event culminates in an award ceremony film festival fund raiser which was held this year on October 30 at Raleigh Studios. They had a red carpet, the kids got awards, and all of their films were shown. It was our first fundraiser with celebrity presenters and was hosted by Sherri Shepherd and Harry J. Lennix. All the proceeds from the event went toward helping more inner city and foster kids.
This gives them such hope and joy and a sense of accomplishment. It's time for the kids to build their self-esteem and have the knowledge that they can channel their energy and their lives into something positive and creative.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): That sounds like a great alternative to drugs and violence.
Claudia Wells: It really is. They get to take all of their angst, hopes, and dreams and focus them into a short film that they write. We produce and direct them, we have posters for the films, and they are available on DVD.
If the kids didn't have this outlet, their natural inclination considering their circumstances, would be violence or drugs as opposed to making changes and stopping those generational things that have been going on in their lives.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): The huge Back to the Future convention is November 5-12 in Los Angeles.
Claudia Wells: That's definitely a big deal, yeah. I will be there and several cast members will be there also. They will have a gala on November 12 and it's an "enchantment under the sea" dance. They're doing things at the different locations where the movie was filmed. Dean Cundey, the Director of Photography, James Tolkan (Principal Strickland), writer producer Bob Gale, and many more will be there.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Do you know if Michael J. Fox will be there?
Claudia Wells: I hear rumors. He hasn't confirmed or declined and that's always a good sign.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): I'm sure you've been asked a million times to tell a memorable Back to the Future story. Is there one you haven't shared lately?
Claudia Wells: That's an awesome question. I've been interviewed so much recently that I've probably told all the stories. I just loved working with Michael, Christopher Lloyd, Bob Gale, and Bob Zemeckis. Everyone was really wonderful. I worked with Eric Stoltz who was originally cast as Marty McFly before Michael J. Fox joined the film.
One story many people don't know, is that when I originally got the part I had just done a pilot for ABC with Ed Asner and Eileen Brennan called Off the Rack. Spielberg's people talked with the network to see if it was going to be picked up or not. If it got picked up it would be shooting at the same time as Back to the Future. ABC said they loved the pilot but didn't think it was going to be picked up so I was able to accept the role of Jennifer Parker.
I found out later that ABC did pick up the series for six episodes and they wouldn't let me get out of my contract to do Back to the Future nor would they share me. I actually had to release myself from the role of Jennifer Parker because Off the Rack came first for me. They shot five weeks with Eric Stoltz on Back to the Future and I did my six episodes on Off the Rack so they recast my role. But the girl they cast as Jennifer Parker was too tall (according to some of the women on the set) so I was able to get my part back. That's a story that not a lot of people know.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Elisabeth Shue played Jennifer Parker in the two sequels of Back to the Future. Did she ever ask you for advice since you originated the role?
Claudia Wells: What's so funny is that I have yet to meet Elisabeth Shue! I told Bob Gale when we were in Alabama this past March (George Lindsey UNA Film Festival) that I'd love to meet her and he told me that could be arranged, but she never contacted me.
It's funny, too, because I actually screen tested for her part she got in Adventures in Babysitting so I guess we're similar types. I'd love to meet her one day.
Claudia Wells (Courtesy of Claudia Wells)
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Why do you think these three films have endured the test of time and are so loved even 25 years later?
Claudia Wells: I did a few Q&A sessions for the AMC screenings of Back to the Future a couple of weeks ago and signed posters for throngs of people. One of the guys said, "It's so amazing. I saw this movie when it first came out and I love seeing it now just as much as ever. My kids love it and my grand kids love it."
Even though the films were shot in the 1980s there's nothing about them that doesn't still completely work today. The storyline still holds strong and the sci-fi effects are still current. It was a groundbreaking movie in terms of effects. The story is so timeless.
Who doesn't want to see their parents when they were teenagers or be able to have a say in how the future of their lives and their parent's lives could have gone or to have a machine that would take you anywhere in time? I'm so boggled by and so pleasantly blessed that everyone still thinks it's a great big deal. They did such a brilliant job of writing and producing it and all the actors were perfectly cast.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): You were born in Malaysia, Claudia?
Claudia Wells: Actually I was only there for six weeks so I don't remember it. I've met fans that are Malaysian and they get so excited to meet me. There were two Malaysians I met recently and one of them who got my autograph was dressed like Marty and he called himself Marty "McFry" (laughs). I thought that was great.
This little nine-year-old kid said, "Why were you born in Malaysia?" I said, "Well, my parents lived there and nine months before I was born there was this really nice night and …." I just say whatever I'm thinking, I really do (laughs).
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): The family moved from Malaysia to San Francisco?
Claudia Wells: Yes. My parents lived in Malaysia for two and a half years because my father was a parasitologist. He researches tropical diseases and is a brilliant guy. They lived there for two and a half years while he was doing a project until I was old enough to travel (six or seven weeks). They moved back to San Francisco where I lived until I convinced my mom to move to LA before I was 14 so I could be an actress.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): That was my next question. You always wanted to be an actress?
Claudia Wells: Since I was two years old, the time I could first watch television, I would cry. My mom would ask, "Why are you crying?" I'd say, "Because I'll never be tiny enough to be on TV." Yeah, I was literally born knowing what I wanted to do.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): You thought you had to be little to fit into that small television?
Claudia Wells: Yes, I thought I had to shrink (laughs). When I watched Mister Rogers Neighborhood I thought he was talking to me and that he could see me through the TV so I would hide my pacifier and my blankie because I didn't want him seeing me. I was a big girl of three and didn't want him seeing my pacifier and blanket nearby. When I was growing up the fact that my friends didn't have their whole lives planned out since they were born astounded me because I always knew exactly what I was going to do.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): If acting was your life's ambition, why did you leave it?
Claudia Wells: There was a lot of stuff going on at home, my mom was diagnosed with fourth stage cancer and that was right before Back to the Future II and Back to the Future III were to be filmed so I backed out of those films to deal with the turmoil at home. My mom eventually passed away and went to heaven. I traveled and had my kid 15 years ago.
I opened my store called Armani Wells 19 years ago in Studio City. It's a high-end designer resale clothing store for men only. I sell very high-end expensive clothing at rock bottom prices. It's like celebrity clothing that have only been worn once or they have been photographed in it and can't wear it again. Everything is dry-cleaned. It's current styles from jeans to tuxedos with accessories.
What costs $3,000 for an Armani or Versace suit new, you spend $300 or $400 on that same suit in my store. I ship clothes to people all over the world. I receive all of the emails and customers can make a personal appointment with me so I can style them. I'm absolutely brilliant at making guys look gorgeous and the price is right.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Since you're so involved with Armani Wells, are you still interested in acting?
Claudia Wells: I'm totally interested in getting back into acting. I actually miss it and that dream is still inside of me. I'm so busy with my store and raising my son I haven't had a chance to go out there and pursue it again. But I'm praying that God brings it to me wrapped up in a pretty package with a bow on top.
I still love acting. Had I not known how much I love acting I would've thought that my store would be the all time most wonderful life experience I could ever have. I'll always have my store no matter what happens, but acting is my first dream.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Would you like to make more feature films?
Claudia Wells: Either movies or television, it doesn't matter. I starred in six television series, several schoolbreak specials, movies of the week, and commercials. Back to the Future is sort of what I'm always known for because it was such a big hit, but I love the fast pace of television and doing ten pages a day.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): You starred in the short-lived 1981 television series Fast Times with Patrick Dempsey which was inspired by the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Claudia Wells: Yes, Dr. McDreamy!
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Did you ever think during that time Patrick would be so successful on television (Grey's Anatomy)?
Claudia Wells: You know, I didn't think about it. It was interesting because everyone in that cast either had already made it big or most everyone would eventually make it big. That was Courtney Thorne-Smith's first TV series. I was an old pro because that was my sixth one. She ended up doing Melrose Place, Ally McBeal, and According to Jim.
Ray Walston from My Favorite Martian was in the show and he was also in the original film, as was Vincent Schiavelli. Amy Heckerling wrote and directed most of the episodes. James Hardini who played Brad recently got in touch with me and he has a rock band now. Dean Cameron also has a rock band so everyone made it from that series.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): It appears that you like interacting with people on Facebook.
Claudia Wells: Oh, I love it!
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): You post many religious sayings. Were you raised in a Christian household?
Claudia Wells: No, I wasn't raised as a Christian. I didn't even find out I was … I was raised to go to church Christmas and Easter, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. When I was 15 and I starred in Herbie, the Love Bug (TV series) with Dean Jones, he chose me to sit down with as opposed to the other two kids on the series.
All he did was talk to me about God and about filling that hole in your heart with God, otherwise it's going to be filled with men, drugs, and alcohol. Dean used to talk to me about discernment. Every Sunday he and his wife Lory would take my mom and me to The Church On The Way in Van Nuys, then we'd go to brunch. Through him I became born again and that has been my spiritual path ever since no matter what has been going on, good or bad in my life.
I've known that God always had His hand on me. He's always sent people to help me and walk with me. I started going to Pastor Frank Wilson's Christian Entertainer's Fellowship when I was 18 and for the last 6 years I have attended his church called New Dawn Christian Village. I was in the choir for two and a half years and went to Bishop Blake's West Angeles Church so God and Jesus are in my life.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Is your son, Sebastian, interested in the entertainment industry?
Claudia Wells: No, but he was for a minute when he was growing up. He was the cutest baby you ever did see and actually looked like the Gerber baby so everyone wanted me to put him in the business, but I absolutely refused. He's now into debate and is going to Vegas with his school, Notre Dame, to do a debate competition.
A couple of weeks ago he went to Fullerton University with his school to do a debate tournament. He got to the octo level and won a trip. He also plays tenor sax in the school band and is, like my dad, an intellectual guy who's actually not interested in the creative bent of life.
Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Claudia, do you have time for a social life of your own?
Claudia Wells: My social life is kind of everything I do. When you walk into my store it's like walking into my home for a dinner party. I know everyone by name. Once they come in they all become regulars. Even if they live out of state or out of the country they make a point of always coming back when they're in town.
I don't have a specific social life, but I'm a really busy girl and a single mommy so I don't really differentiate between my work life and my night life. Everything is my life. People have told me it's an event to come to my store. It's a destination point and always this fabulous experience so I get fulfilled in every area of my life. It's lovely.
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Melissa, I really enjoyed reading your interview with Claudia Wells. I am happy that you and Marc are doing so well with your business. You go girl!
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NOTE: We do not bottle any product intended for internal or oral use. We believe that essential oils should only be used externally unless prescribed by a healthcare professional – this protects us and you. This does not mean that our essential oils are of any less quality than any other essential oils. It just means that in almost all cases, we think that using essential oils internally is not the best choice. We often say to our customers that the word "aroma" is in "aromatherapy" for a reason.
Custom Products (if you can imagine it, we can create it for you as long as it is natural, plant based, safe, effective, ethical & contains no synthetics). Again, all formulation, bottling, labeling and shipping are done in our shop in North Carolina, USA (NOT China).
Short 1 minute video below and more info on Essential Oil Private labeling below that.
We are all about quality, not price. Cheap essential oils are often of low-quality and diluted or mixed with synthetic oils or fragrances, sometimes doing more harm than good. We personally select each essential oil in our inventory of over 150 essential oils to insure that we provide our customers with only the best quality possible. And, at the same time, we try to keep our prices as reasonable as possible while still maintaining the highest standards. For Essential Oil Private Labeling, your prices will be approximately half off (50%) our retail prices, and more for very large orders. Here's a link to our: Retail Catalog PDF (download).
We are very proud of the quality of our Artisan Aromatics brand of Essential Oils. We source, bottle and sell only the finest essential oils available anywhere and we will do the same for you. If we Private Label Essential Oils for you, they will be of the very same high quality that we bottle under our Artisan Aromatics Brand.
Please note: We do not sell oils that are intended for ingestion. Internal use of essential oils is simply not a good idea no matter what some sales representative or MLM agent might tell you. Read more about the Safe and Effective Use of Essential Oils..
More Info on Essential Oil Private Labeling Below (Contact Form at Bottom of Page).
Roller Bottles, Spray Bottles and Flip Top Bottles are also available for "ready-to-use" products like Massage Oils.
We also carry a limited number of cobalt blue bottles in some of the sizes listed above. Optional caps are available in white instead of black for most of the above bottles. You can also provide your own bottles and caps by shipping them to us.
Design your own labels, have them printed and send them to us. We will apply the labels to the bottles.
We help you design and print your labels.
If you do not yet have a label design, we will design your label for a one time setup fee. We generally begin with the same format as our own label using your logo and background color/pattern.
There is a one-time $250 setup fee for label design. We will continue to update your labels free of charge.
We bottle pure essential oils or "ready-to-use" essential oil blends that have been diluted to the proper proportions. You can select blends from our Private Label Catalog (download), and rename them to suit your brand. We can also make blends using your formulas, as long as they meet our safety guidelines. If you would like us to create your blend formula, our clinical consultant Dr. Joie Power, director of the Highlands School of Natural Healing, can work with you to create your custom blends at an extra fee.
It depends how prepared you are to move forward with the project. It generally takes about one week to create the label and finalize your order, one week for bottling, and one week for shipping. If the quantity of oil is not in stock, allow one to two more weeks. If your order is larger (1,000 items or more), allow one to two weeks extra. Reorders can usually be filled within three to five days.
Prices for Private Labeling are marked down 50% from retail for most items. The discount for very expensive essential oils, kits and diffusers is 30%, since our margin is much smaller on these items. Additional discounts are available for large orders.
Private Label pricing includes oils, bottles, caps and labor. There are no hidden charges here. Shipping is actual shipping cost, no handling fees or convenience charges.
For your first order, we ask that the minimum order is 15 of each product amounting to at least $1,000 total (not $1000 for each oil). $100 minimum for subsequent orders although $250 to $500 is much preferred. We know the needs of each of our private labeling customers are different, and we try to meet the needs of all of our customers.
We pack per customer requirements. Additional fees may apply for putting individual bottles in bags, boxes or other containers. We can ship to you, your store, Amazon or any other destination. All shipping fees are additional. We charge exactly what the shipping provider charges us – no handling or convenience fees. We are located in North Carolina and ship anywhere in the US and worldwide.
We do not drop ship. But, we can refer you to a company that specializes in drop shipping. We like ShipBob for this and can ship to them and then they can ship to your customers when you make a sale. Speak to your project manager about this.
Some of our customers sell the products that we create for them on Amazon. But, this is EXTREMELY difficult to do UNLESS, you are already selling other products on Amazon. If your goal is to sell essential oils on Amazon, contact the folks at Amazon FIRST and make sure that you can sell your product on Amazon and also find out all the details that you need to pass on to us, like special label requirements, bar codes, special packing requirements, etc.
To get started, fill out the contact form below. You will receive an email with a brief questionnaire. Please fill out as much information as you can, and send it back to us. Even if you're not sure about your order, it helps to give us get a sense of your project.
As an alternative to private labeling, you can buy our essential oils and aromatherapy products at Wholesale or Bulk prices, and sell them under our brand name (Artisan Aromatics) for no set-up fee. If you are interested in creating a Wholesale account or placing a Bulk order, please contact us. Your account specialist can help you determine which type of order is right for you.


It's summer here in Australia which means lots of hot, burning sun. And it also means to wear sunblock practically every day. I don't like putting normal sunblock on because it leaves my skin feeling all greasy and clocked. I googled a bit and there are alternatives, physical sunblocks rather than chemical ones. I'm not talking about hats, clothing and sunglasses but rather the stuff you put on your exposed skin, sunblock.
Let me elaborate: the sunblocks you typically get from your supermarket or pharmacy are chemical sunblocks which means they contain a number of chemicals which filter the harmful UV raditation and block it from entering your deeper skin levels. A physical sunblock is something that sits on top of your skin, much like clothing. There are two different minerals which are said to block UV-A and UV-B radiation respectively: Zinc and Titanium. Zinc cream is pretty popular among surfers in Australia and it leaves a thick layer, often coloured to look extra cool. Zinc cream is ironically also often used as nappy cream to protect skin from dampness and to support any healing of broken skin. So, zinc cream is nothing unusual for our skin. Plus, zinc is an essential mineral in our diet.
Titanium is a metal commonly used in outer space and we have it in the shape of camping equipment. However, titanium is also used in the food industry and is added to baked goods and sweets. As an additive in skin care titanium is sometimes added as a whitener (much like zinc). Both elements, zinc and titanium, are added to physical sunblock in a powered form as zinc oxide and titanium oxide. I can get these powders as non-nano powders from my oils and butters supplier and I got Zinc a while back.
Last week my mother-in-law asked to make her a face cream with sunblock so I used zinc powder for the second time ever in a face cream. It's not easy working with it. I ended up stirring the melted oils and butters with the zinc powder for about 30 minutes and I still ended up with a thick paste of powder at the bottom of my jar. Not ideal when you're trying to get the zinc evenly distributed through your cream. So I went back to do some more research and it seems I'm not the only one with that problem. In fact, home-made sunblock seems extremely difficult to make. One source pointed out that any homemade sunscreen with zinc is unlikely to offer consistent sun protection. There might be patches with high and some with low sun protection in it. You will further never be able to rely on any sun protection factor (SPF) for your cream.
This got me thinking about homemade versus stored bought again. I still don't like the sunscreen from the store and I much rather use my own. But I'm also not willing to risk getting burnt because I don't like the feeling of a certain product. My solution is something like this: whenever I'm out for a short period of time I make sure to wear a hat and my own sunscreen; whenever I go to the beach and can expect long periods of time in the sun I use commercial sunscreen and just 'handle the jandal'. I don't want to get burnt after all. My kids, growing up in Australia, have already gotten used to commercial sunscreen at their daycares. I keep them out of the sun as much as possible or I use a store-bought spray-on version of sunscreen. It's not really my choice but something I feel I need to do.
My research around the sunscreen-making at home did come back with something I don't know how to place yet: there are certain oils and butters which contain (or act as?) sunblock. Among the ones I use coconut oil and shea butter seem to be the most useful ones. I haven't tried them as a sole sunblock yet and I only find hearsay about their properties so far but I'll continue my search for a home-made sunscreen.
Yes! We do jot like sun cream at all!! We use ones that are zinc based as much as possible, and or organic ones. I'd love to learn more!
Great choice! I've been trying a lot of different store-bought physical sunblocks. And Weleda is usually really good but also very pricey.


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Tampering? Does Maddon-to-Cubs deal feel icky? Deal with it
Ken Rosenthal @ken_rosenthal
Oct 31, 2014 at 4:00p ET
Yeah, it's a little dirty. Baseball is a little dirty. Life is a little dirty.
But rest assured, most will quickly move on from the sordid details of L'Affaire Maddon. Only those personally affected are likely to carry a grudge, and they, too, will need to bury their resentment if baseball cannot prove that the Cubs violated rules on tampering.
On Monday, the Cubs will introduce Joe Maddon as their new manager. His former team, the Tampa Bay Rays, is convinced that the Cubs brazenly tampered with Maddon while he was still under contract, according to major-league sources. Others in baseball are appalled that Maddon forced the firing on Friday of one of his peers, Rick Renteria.
The Rays probably are right. The people bothered by Maddon's conduct definitely are right. But while I have sympathy for both the Rays and Renteria, this is the way baseball operates. Actually, it's the way most large businesses operate. The end justifies the means, however unseemly those means might be.
Which isn't to say that baseball should just congratulate the Cubs on a great hire and act like nothing ever happened. Baseball appointed Bryan Seeley as the new head of its department of investigations in September. If you're going to have a DOI — and rules for a DOI to enforce — then you damn well had better put the DOI to work.
Yes, tampering is common in baseball, almost to the point of being comical. But if baseball could bring Alex Rodriguez and others to justice in the Biogenesis scandal, one would think that it could at least establish that contact occurred between the Cubs and Maddon's agent, Alan Nero, before Maddon opted out of his contract one week ago — and that the contact was less than innocent.
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As one prominent agent likes to say, "There are no coincidences in baseball." Sure, it's possible that Maddon opted out blindly with the confidence that some team would want him, even a team with a manager under contract. But at the time, the Twins were the only team with an opening.
If I were Maddon, I would have asked Nero to at least quietly explore the landscape, even if it meant skirting the rules. That's how the world works. And in the words of one executive, "Nobody takes a leap into a giant abyss without knowing where their next paycheck is coming from."
Yet, even if baseball could prove that tampering occurred, what type of penalty would even be appropriate? This is where it gets interesting. The Rays could claim that the Cubs' actions caused Maddon to opt out — and demand a player as compensation. A good player, too, considering that the Cubs value Maddon enough to give him what is certain to be a monster contract. Think Javier Baez. Or Addison Russell.
Maddon, remember, had said publicly that he was happy with the Rays, even after general manager Andrew Friedman left for the Dodgers. The Rays had wanted to make him one of the top five highest-paid managers in baseball, according to major-league sources. Maddon had just bought a house in the area and was planning to open a restaurant. Why would he opt out unless he was being tempted?
Cubs president Theo Epstein, in announcing the firing of Renteria, laid out a timeline for how the team proceeded with Maddon, clearly stating that the Cubs did not tamper without actually using the word.
"Last Thursday, we learned that Joe Maddon — who may be as well suited as anyone in the industry to manage the challenges that lie ahead of us — had become a free agent," Epstein said.
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"We confirmed the news with Major League Baseball, and it became public knowledge the next day. We saw it as a unique opportunity and faced a clear dilemma: be loyal to Rick or be loyal to the organization. In this business of trying to win a world championship for the first time in 107 years, the organization has priority over any one individual. We decided to pursue Joe."
OK, baseball, your turn. Did the Cubs tamper or not? And if they did, would they receive more than token punishment?
If the Cubs were fined for hiring Maddon — the more likely outcome, perhaps, for a tampering offense — they would regard the penalty as little more than the price of doing business. They would end up with Maddon, right? And their fans would love that Epstein and Jed Hoyer played a little rough to get their man.
Ah, but even then, it's not quite that simple.
Maddon's reputation already has taken something of a hit — he forced the removal of another manager, Renteria. Think back to Maddon's first year with the Rays in 2006, when the team lost 101 games. How would he have felt if a more experienced manager pulled the same fast one on him that he is pulling on Renteria?
Maddon addressed this issue last week, telling me, "For me, it's not my responsibility to think of other organizations. I'm controlling what I can. I had this two-week window of opportunity (to decide whether to opt out). It's about myself, my family, my charities. At the end of the day, I would never ask or tell an organization what to do. That's not my business."
The truth is, Renteria never figured to be more than a transitional figure, and the Cubs will pay him off for the final two years of his contract, which one rival manager estimates in the range of $800,000 per season. If Maddon wasn't replacing Renteria, some other manager would have. And Maddon is correct when he says that this is not his decision. None of this would be happening if the Cubs did not want it to happen.
In the end, Maddon will get a fat new contract and a chance to lead the Cubs to their first World Series title since 1908. The Cubs, meanwhile, will get one of the game's best communicators, a perfect fit for their emerging young roster at a time when the franchise is becoming relevant again.
Yeah, it's a little dirty. These things usually are.
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Q: how to trim a string using special character as start point I want to trim a string using $ as starting point means my string contains 2 $ signs i want to trim and remove the whole string before second $.
example strings are below
first string:
1 max CPC change(s)
time warner cable: Max CPC decreased from $2.25 to $1.50

this is my string i want to trim it to get only "$1.50"
second string
 Mobile Highend: Platform bid adjustment changed from +0% to +15%

trim to get only +15%
 change = source[4]

this is where it is filling my model property. how should i trim it here in c#

A: Regex will handle both results:
var result = from Match match in Regex.Matches(line, ".*to (.*)")
             select match.ToString();

1 max CPC change(s)
time warner cable: Max CPC decreased from $2.25 to $1.50

Results in $1.50

Mobile Highend: Platform bid adjustment changed from +0% to +15%

Results in +15%

A: first string use LastIndexOf("$") and second string use LastIndexOf("+")

A: Use:
        var str = "1 max CPC change(s)\ntime warner cable: Max CPC decreased from $2.25 to $1.50";
        var str1 = str.Substring(str.IndexOf("$") + 1);
        var str2 = str1.Substring(str1.IndexOf("$"));
        Console.WriteLine(str2);

        var str10 = "Mobile Highend: Platform bid adjustment changed from +0% to +15%";
        var str11 = str10.Substring(str10.IndexOf("%"));
        var str12 = str11.Substring(5);
        Console.WriteLine(str12);

A: Without going into overkill with Regex, you can use LastIndexOf quite easily:
string s = "time warner cable: Max CPC decreased from $2.25 to $1.50";
int index = s.LastIndexOf("$");
if (index > 0)
{
    s = s.Substring(index);
}
Console.WriteLine(s); // $1.50

A: Have a look at the following methods
String.SubString()
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.substring.aspx
String.LastIndexOf()
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0w96zd3d.aspx
String.IndexOf()
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.indexof.aspx

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>Ukip Training To Milk The EU For Holidays – Kirsten Farage
>GUEST POST On Ukip Training its personnel To Milk The EU Tax payers For Holidays – Where Kirsten Farage blocked the media from entry to try to prevent exposing the corruption!
here is a GUEST POST
Ukip Team Up With Travel Agent To Milk EU Taxpayers
The wife of Nigel Farage yesterday barred The Telegraph from a Ukip fringe meeting instructing MEPs how to secure taxpayer-funded holidays for their friends and supporters.
Kirsten Farage asked this newspaper to leave a fringe meeting outlining an EU scheme that subsidises holidays for political activists to Brussels and Strasbourg.
The European Union spends £25 million on the subsidies for tours arranged through Euro-MPs' offices.
Under the scheme, holiday makers are handed a subsidy of up to £200 in cash if they include a short visit to the European Parliamentary in their itinerary. That money can then be used to pay for hotel rooms, meals and transport.
Ukip's use of the scheme comes despite Mr Farage's party being ostensibly opposed to wasteful spending in Brussels.Mrs Farage helped organise the briefing for the party's new MEPs, which was held in a suite overlooking the track at Doncaster Racecourse at the party's conference.
"Oh dear," she said as The Telegraph arrived at the event, which had been advertised in the conference schedule handed to delegates. "We didn't really want the press."
"I'd much rather not have any press here. It's an internal event.
"I'm afraid I'm going to have to send you away." She said the meeting was to instruct new MEPs of the "logistics" of booking trips.
Asked about the scheme, she said: "Every MEP is allowed to take visitors' groups over from their constituency or region, or councillors, or business groups they are supporting, or supporting them. It's an EU scheme."
She added: "It's a nice thing to do."
One five-day package advertised on a stand at Ukip conference, organised by a private tour operator, included a visit to the castles of Koblenz, a tour of Strasbourg Cathedral and a boat trip along the Rhine. The visit to the Parliament in Strasbourg lasts two and a half hours. After the EU subsidy, the holiday costs £389 a head.
Another seven-day Ukip tour takes in Verona, Lake Garda, an excursion to Venice and a tour of Vicenza, known as the City of Gold, before driving on to Strasbourg for a short visit to the Parliament.
Other taxpayer-subsidised tours incorporate visits to the tapestry at Bayeux and Monet's garden in Giverny before visiting the European Parliament in Brussels.
Here is The Telegraph's take on the story:
Nigel Farage's wife bars Press from EU junkets meeting
Ukip MEPs were given a briefing on how to secure EU-funded holidays for supporters – but Mrs Farage made clear the Press were not welcome
Kirsten Farage Photo: NEWS SYNDICATION
By Matthew Holehouse, Political Correspondent
11:42AM BST 28 Sep 2014
Ukip's use of the scheme comes despite Mr Farage's party being ostensibly opposed to wasteful spending in Brussels.
EU hands out free holidays18 Dec 2011
Mrs Farage helped organise the briefing for the party's new MEPs, which was held in a suite overlooking the track at Doncaster Racecourse at the party's conference.
A colleague added: "We are not doing anything clandestine."
The European Parliament says the scheme allows voters to see their elected representatives at work regardless of wealth.
A Ukip spokesman said the party bans its MEPs from taking party in fact-finding trips organised by the European Parliament to exotic destinations and said they are not in it for "personal gain."
"Information trips to Brussels for members of the public are open to and used by every political party," he added.
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One Response to ">Ukip Training To Milk The EU For Holidays – Kirsten Farage"
geoffbastin said
I'm not sure why there is any comment about these trips unless you can't find one to go on. They are informative and you soon realise what a massive waste of money this EU institution is and why we need to rescind our membership. And why should we not take advantage of the discount offered by the EU for after all it is our net contributions that keeps the whole grisly business going. My advice is to get yourself booked on one of these excursions and enjoy the experience before it's too late.


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June Kaiser poll of the public looking at health topics – main takeaways for me is that the public support Zika funding (while Congress remains impressively unable to act) and that the ACA continues to be split by partisanship in terms of interest, with Democrats largely supporting it and Republicans continuing to disapprove.
Long but important piece that discusses the difficulties of development NGOs pairing with corporations for funding, and whether the bias this potentially introduces into programs (and the whitewash this can provide for the subset of corporations that intent to use this more as PR than true good deed) is outweighed by the additional funding stream.


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The world of transportation is changing. Due to increasing mobility demand, challenges like financing, dealing with emissions and volatile oil prices are accentuated. Decision-makers in the areas of policy and planning have to address these challenges and have tried to develop a transportation system capable of meeting the future needs of society and the economy. Thus there is a need for conceptions of the future system as guidelines for decisions. Besides developing new mobility solutions, adapting to a changed world of energy dependencies and addressing social developments will be the main tasks for decision-makers. Research shows the results of future-oriented research based on the qualitative analysis of mega-trends, which were used to describe the main trends setting the direction for future development in transportation and their likely effects. Based on the question of whether there is a transformation - a process of actively supporting change in the transportation system according to trends and changes in frame conditions - going on, analysis of current policies provide a different conclusion.
The change in transportation appears as a process of substitution within the boundaries of the fossil-fueled world rather than as transformation in the sense of a fundamental change. Finding alternative development paths would require a perception of transformation as a process of actively shaping and redirecting the system by anticipating and addressing future challenges. Starting points and impulses in this context are rare and to be found in strategies of China, in other parts of Asia and in Europe. The approach of using recent, established, and prospective, uncertain, mega-trends with their potential impact as a basis to provide a future perspective on change processes turned out to be an appropriate way to identify starting points for further research, which should integrate quantitative analysis. Furthermore, additional future- oriented research on mega-trends would be needed to accommodate the complexity of the systemic perspective.
In support of our agenda for change in transportation as a key component to agriculture development in developing countries, please consider the following information from:
https://www.brookings.edu/research/driving-sustainable-development-through-better-infrastructure-key... The agendas of accelerating sustainable development and eradicating poverty and that of climate change are deeply intertwined. Growth strategies that fail to tackle poverty and/or climate change will prove to be unsustainable, and vice versa. A common denominator to the success of both agendas is infrastructure development. Infrastructure is an essential component of growth, development, poverty reduction, and environmental sustainability. The world is in the midst of a historic structural transformation, with developing countries becoming the major drivers of global savings, investment, and growth, and with it driving the largest wave of urbanization in world history. At the same time, the next 15 years will also be crucial for arresting the growing carbon footprint of the global economy and its impact on the climate system. A major expansion of investment in modern, clean, and efficient infrastructure will be essential to attaining the growth and sustainable development objectives that the world is setting for itself. Over the coming 15 years, the world will need to invest around $90 trillion in sustainable infrastructure assets, more than twice the current stock of global public capital. Unlike the past century the bulk of these investment needs will be in the developing world and, unlike the past two decades, the biggest increment will be in countries other than China. Getting these investments right will be critical to whether or not the world locks itself into a high- or low-carbon growth trajectory over the next 15 years. There is powerful evidence that investing in low-carbon growth can lead to greater prosperity than a high-carbon pathway. At present, however, the world is not investing what is needed to bridge the infrastructure gap and the investments that are being made are often not sustainable. The world appears to be caught in a vicious cycle of low investment and low growth and there is a persistence of infrastructure deficits despite an enormous available pool of global savings. At the same time, the underlying growth trajectories are not consistent with a 2 degree climate target. And climate change is already having a significant impact, especially on vulnerable countries and populations. In addition, we will like to here interject with our view on "How" and "How Much' transportation elements should change.
First on our agenda will be the transformation of Class 8 Transportation: On January 21, 2016, David Friedman, the Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy said in a statement before the United States Senate' Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, "...I am pleased to be here today and look forward to working with Congress, and this Committee in particular, to talk about how we can advance sustainable transportation technologies as a tool to help address our Nation's energy challenges. My statement today will discuss the progress made under DOE's Sustainable Transportation programs, how the impact of our work has been trans-formative and can be seen in the vehicles on showroom floors across the United States today, and to highlight research and development activities that will spur the next generation of innovative technologies in the transportation sector.... DOE's Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) initiated the SuperTruck program in 2009 with the goal of increasing the freight efficiency of long-haul trucks by 50% in 2015 compared to a 2009 baseline. The technologies that enable these significant fuel efficiency improvements are actually a suite of innovations that, in aggregate, result in big impacts. Modifications to the trailer that improve aerodynamics and low rolling resistance tires can be easily paired with existing trucks to achieve up to 27% fuel savings. One incredibly simple but effective example is the "skirts" that are now often observed below the side and between the wheels of the trailer to reduce drag. Prototype designs for new engine platforms are emerging from the SuperTruck program, and these are targeted to be up to 15% more efficient than 2009 models. Engine technologies will include advanced powertrain electronics that will deliver gains in fuel economy through optimization and precise control of combustion, fuel injection, air handling, reductions in friction and devices that recover energy losses. SuperTruck partners have already introduced other technologies developed and demonstrated under the program, including engine downspeeding, automated manual transmissions, optimized intelligent torque management, optimized gear ratios for downspeed engines, 6x2 axles, and aluminum wheels and driveshafts, to name a few. Taken as a whole, a number of SuperTruck technologies could achieve significant market penetration in the near term and could result in a cumulative savings of nearly 290 million barrels of oil by 2020. Lowered costs and increased performance of batteries to make plug- in electric vehicles more affordable with longer range. Between 1992 and 2012, DOE invested $1 billion dollars in battery R&D, which accelerated the deployment of technology and created $ 3.5 billion worth of economic value. EERE's R&D efforts in this area helped bring hybrid-electric vehicles into the market during this period, which have now reached significant market penetration. Our R&D efforts also helped usher in the first and second generation of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in the United States, and we have continued to further improve performance and reduce costs of these vehicles". The Global Agriculture Development BT plans to expand upon these facts and bring a totally new approach to moving the vast amounts of freight which will be necessary to realize our vast objectives. Among these approaches will be revitalizing the Freight Train Systems, revolutionizing the trucking industry, and integrating a highway and rail system which will provide a "Year 2050 and Beyond" focus for goals and ambitions.
"There is a transport gap," explained Chris Daniels, Hybrid Air Vehicles' head of communications. "Even road vehicles need roads, and trains need tracks. Ships need water. Even airplanes need airports, and the more rugged cross-country vehicles struggle with some surfaces and aren't amphibious, either. We need something that can land and take-off vertically, be robust enough to land on many surfaces, and have the range and affordability to travel long distances."
The Airlander—all 44,000 pounds if it—was designed, from the bottom up, to fill this void. With a full tank of gas, it is expected to stay airborne and operational for as long as three weeks. To boot, the company also says the airship—easily the world's largest aircraft—uses 80 percent less fuel compared to conventional airplanes and helicopters, which should appease the environmentally-conscious set to some degree. This is made possible partly due to the ship's lightweight and semi-rigid hull, which is comprised of special leathery Kevlar material that's flexible, yet strong enough to withstand the impact of a shotgun bullet, Daniels says. (Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-an-airship-the-size-of-a-football-field-could-revolutionize-air-travel-180950007/#dPPqM40XUimKgspQ.99 Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! http://bit.ly/1cGUiGv Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter) The GADBT has plans to use these technologies in its operations
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The Gustave Roussy Ambulatory Medicine Department comprises three units: the Outpatient Unit, the Emergency Department and the Coordination of Outpatient Care (CSE) Unit.
Zone 1: thyroid disease, endocrinology, nuclear medicine, interventional radiology and brachytherapy.
Zone 2: medical outpatients (chest disease, urology, bone disease and sarcomas) and phase 1 clinical trials.
Zone 3: gynaecology and gastroenterology outpatients.
Zone 4: dermatology and haematology outpatients.
Zone 5: surgical and anaesthetic outpatients.
Zone 6: ENT and dental outpatients.
Zone 7: breast disease and breast imaging (mammography, ultrasound etc.).
A variety of types of visit is available according to the patient's requirements and care pathway. This includes initial visits (including initial whole day visits), visits for discussion of the diagnosis and/or treatment and follow-up attendances, as well as radiotherapy, anaesthetic, surgery, oncogenetic and specialist nurse consultations.
The Department also has four theatres for « minor » day surgery and four meeting rooms.
This department receives the full spectrum of emergencies (medical and surgical) for patients managed at the Gustave Roussy Institute and guarantees twenty-four hour access.
The CSE team is tasked with organising the return of patients with complex care requirements to their homes and enabling them to remain there. This is done by establishing links with primary care health professionals outside the Institute (family doctors, nurses in the private sector and dispensing pharmacists). Thus, by virtue of its network of health care professionals and service providers, this unit is able to coordinate the domiciliary care of patients throughout France. The CSE also liaises with Hospital at Home services (HAD).


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Q: How can I build a bubble chart in Plotly with bubble size based on how large an intersection is? So I'm trying to visualize intersections of a bunch of columns with a bubble chart. I began with a simple scatter plot, but realized I was missing how prevalent any given intersection is in the data. Scatter plot only tells that there is an intersection. I'll use pseudo boolean columns as a simple example, but this applies to any categorical data:
import pandas as pd
import plotly.express as px
data_temp = pd.DataFrame({'bool_col_1': [1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1],
                          'bool_col_2': [1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1]})
fig = px.scatter(data_temp, x='bool_col_1', y='bool_col_2')
fig.show()

This outputs something that looks like this.
As you can probably tell, this scatter plot doesn't tell me how much of the data intersects at the point where, for example, both values are '1', it only tells me that there's at least one row in the dataframe where that's the case.
I want to build a bubble chart that would dynamically  determine the size of every dot in the plot based on how prevalent is the intersection of the data that a dot represents. So far I haven't been able to find a way to to that in Plotly's express or graph_objects modules (and it has to be Plotly). Every guide out there only covers how to determine bubble size based on one certain column.

A: *

*this is effectively a histogram.

*in pandas value_counts() generates the counts

*in plotly size parameter references column from pandas

*have changed both axis to be categorical

px.scatter(
    data_temp.value_counts().reset_index(), x="bool_col_1", y="bool_col_2", size=0
).update_layout({ax:{"type": "category"} for ax in ["xaxis","yaxis"]})


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Jan Post (Luxwoude, 1944) is een Nederlandse auteur en amateurhistoricus die schrijft over geschiedkundige onderwerpen gerelateerd aan Friesland.

Werkzaamheden
Post deed de lerarenopleiding aan de Rijkskweekschool voor onderwijzers in Drachten. Toen hij 20 jaar oud was ging hij als amateur-archeoloog samen met een vriend op zoek naar resten van het verdwenen dorp Rijp in de buurt van Tijnje. Zij vonden enkele scherven van potten, de oudste uit het jaar 800, en concludeerden de locatie van het verdwenen dorp ongeveer te hebben gevonden.

Post was de oprichter van het kwartaalblad 'De Neitiid' over Friese geschiedkundige onderwerpen dat tussen 1987 en 1992 bestond. Daarnaast schreef Post diverse boeken over onder meer de prijsgeschiedenis van melkvee, de Middeleeuwse muntslag in de Nederlandse Gewesten, de geschiedenis van dijken en de Littera hybrida.

Post deed ook onderzoek naar de geschiedenis van de plaats Tijnje. Hij bracht door middel van tekeningen de voorgevels van diverse huizen en gebouwen in Tijnje in kaart. Daarbij verzamelde hij ook de gegevens van de bewoners.

Publicaties
 Rottevalle, een vaart vrij Frank en veerdich.

 Houtigehage: Vroeger is later niet mooier.

 Nova Terra; vijf wetsteksten uit het Groningse Westerkwartier.

 De Kolonisatie van de Friese Wouden.

 Lex Frisionum; Een wet tegen de Friezen.

 De Waarde van een Koe; prijsgeschiedenis 1200 - 2001

 Op zilver gemunt; de middeleeuwse  muntslag in de gewesten.

 Naar naam en Faam; Fries muntboekje.

 Um des Willen dat al deese Landen een sullen zijn; De rol van Focko Ukena in de totstandkoming van de Friese Codices.

 Een doolhof op echte wegen: Ging Von Richthofens onderzoek de verkeerde kant op?

 Een Mythe ontmanteld, chronologie van de Friese oorkondes en mythen in de Friese geschiedenis.

 Nieuw licht op de 17 Keuren.
 Een Friese inkunabel uit Keulen. Over de Oude Druk.

 Zoden aan de dijk./ Seadden oan de dyk

 Een onvermoed succes. - de eerste door Friezen zelf geschreven teksten.

 Troch de Tynster tiid.  Dorpsgeschiedenis van de Tynje 1716 -2002
 Met Simy Sevenster: de Transcriptie van het KerckeboecK van Wier (1567 - 1618)

 B. Stenekes; Auteur en J. Post uitgever: De hoge Zijde. Huizengeschiedenis van de dorpsstraat op Vlieland.

Nederlands historicus

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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Q: PHP: Is there an path specification convention? One problem I see all over the place is the big question: "must I put an / in front of a path, or must I not?"
Sorry if this appears subjective, but for my framework it's an important question:
Do you think that it's more logical to put a "/" in front of every path when specifying one, or do you think the "/" prefix should be avoided?
Or should I check if the first char is "/" and if not, add that automatically?
Context: Framework functions that take paths.

A: If you put a / in front of every path, then those paths are absolute. Without it, they are relative. Not sure what you're after, but that's what the / at the beginning is for.
For example, if your current directory is /var/www/html/ and you give your path as foo/bar/, the path becomes /var/www/html/foo/bar/.
If you give your path as /foo/bar/, then the path is just that, with nothing prepended.
So the forward slash is just a matter of where you're looking the files from, and if you're using the paths as a argument to a function, you probably want to pass them as relative (to the framework directory).

A: The best convention is whether or not you intend the path to be relative or absolute.  Generally, a leading '/' specifies an absolute path, from the root of a file system, or the root of a website.
Take an example CSS file, located at at mysite.com/files/css/info.css
...
background-image:url('/bg.png'); /* absolute - use mysite.com/bg.png */
background-image:url('bg.png');  /* relative to info.css - use mysite.com/files/css/bg.png */
...

In your own code, when you have an option of ommitting or including a leading slash, you can follow a similar convention:
<?php

// $uri - the relative/absolute uri to link to, ie /posts or 'show/id'
// $text - the text link
function link_to($uri, $text) {

  if ($uri[0] == '/') {
    // assume absolute
    $href = $uri;
  } else {
    // assume relative to current uri; remove last segment and replace
    $uri_segments = get_uri_segments();
    array_pop($uri_segments);
    array_push($uri_segments, $uri);
    $href = implode('/', $uri_segments);
  }

  return "$text";
}

//
// elsewhere, assuming current URL is 'myself.com/users'
//

// relative link to 'create'
link_to("create", "Show User"); // mysite.com/users/create

// absolute link to '/products'
link_to("/products", "Products"); // mysite.com/products

?>

A: I like to have it because it makes it easier to add on files and it avoids confusion to always have it. For example:
http://example.com/ + file.php IS http://example.com/file.php = path
http://example.com + file.php IS http://example.comfile.php = error


New Zealand insurers are bracing for claims and damage has been reported from as far north as Hawke's Bay.
A spokesman for New Zealand's biggest insurer, IAG, said claim numbers were expected to climb in the next few days and inquiries had already been made about Hawke's Bay swimming pools.
"In terms of the geographic spread of claims it seems the energy of the earthquake really did get sent north with reports from our assessors of damage to some pools in the Hawkes Bay region from water movement," he said.
"Our consumer claims teams assisting customers of AMI and State insurance received several thousand calls through the day," he said of yesterday's activity.
A Tower spokesman said the next two days were expected be busy.
"Day three and four, it will pick up," he said, identifying later this week for more claim inquiries.
IAG, whose brands include NZI, State and AMI, studied yesterday's call volumes and identified its busiest period.
"Understandably, there was a big spike in the morning from 9am 11am as people were able to first assess damage in the light of day. Call volumes dropped back a bit through the day although there was a lift late in the afternoon, possibly as some people from outside the hardest hit areas found time to consider the damage after returning from work and other commitments - including helping others with the immediate response," the spokesman said.
IAG is now expecting a big lift in calls from the worst hit area as lines of communication re-open and people move from dealing with immediate safety issues.
"We haven't heard much further north than the Hawke's Bay, but that is likely due to the nature of damage much beyond the Wellington/Hawkes Bay region being more of the type that would fall within EQC provisions," the IAG spokesman said.


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