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I read a really great post last night from Tim Dyson, CEO of Next Fifteen about the need for true innovation in the PR industry through great design. Innovation of the Henry Ford game changing variety, the car – not just the incremental change that we currently see i.e. a faster horse.
By coincidence I had been talking about a specific example of this earlier yesterday at the Social Media World Forum – my topic the Social Media News Release (SMNR).
In my presentation (below) I also highlighted the need for design* where PR content was concerned and that as of now the best attempt to date has been the Social Media News Release (hattip Mr Todd Defren). But like Tim I concluded that despite being one of the first to implement the template, it still only represents an incremental improvement over the press release – evolution not revolution.
The PR community (including us) needs to find even better ways to design our content and its packaging to suit a world that has many different audiences/communities, is increasingly accessing content across mobile platforms and is suffering from an overload of messages.
We, RealWire, also announced yesterday the results of research into the extent to which multimedia content is used to enhance press releases. The research found that of a sample of almost 3,000 press releases across six newswires only 13 per cent included any kind of "multimedia" (if you ignore company logos) and that in fact for the vast majority this was just a picture. Only 3 per cent included any other form of content e.g. audio/video etc and only 2 per cent included content that was hosted on social media platforms. You can hear me talking about these findings in more detail here. (For information RealWire's comparative figures were 46 per cent, 11 per cent and 7 per cent respectively).
The research suggests that a substantial proportion of the PR community is not yet even making full use of the incremental innovations such as the SMNR, as well as the generic social media platforms. Given this lack of adoption of these new tools what do people think is the game changing solution that will get us to take our driving tests?
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Blue and Gold exploded for a 32-point fourth quarter to stave off Johnson & Wales University in the Corsairs' 81-58 victory at the Wildcat Center on Tuesday evening. With the victory, UMass Dartmouth improved its record to 8-1 while the Wildcats slipped to 1-8.
The two sides battled to an even draw midway through the opening period, quarreling to a score of eight apiece with 4:41 remaining. Wildcat junior Tiondra Hands (Boyton Beach, Fla.) drilled a three-pointer to give her squad the lead, which would hold up through the first horn (13-12).
UMass Dartmouth ignited an extended 16-5 run through the first 4:47, with senior Jess Korzec (West Brookfield, Mass.) contributing six via a trio of layups. Freshman Jordan Moretti (Johnston, R.I.) felt right back at home in The Ocean State, recording four points, three steals, and three assists in just over five minutes. The sparkplug helped pace the Corsairs to a 30-18 advantage before Wildcat juniot Britney Gallagher (New City, N.Y.) made good on a pair from the charity stripe to bring the match within single digits. The points were among the first of seven straight for Johnson & Wales, who cut the deficit to just five (32-27) on freshman guard Dede Stevenson's (Hartford, Conn.) straightaway triple that banked off the glass.
The hosts came out hot after the break, rapidly closing the gap on another Hands trifecta from just in front of her own bench to tie things up at 36. She encored her shooting display with another from downtown, earning Johnson & Wales a 39-38 advantage. The guard showdown continued with just under four minutes to go, when Moretti picked the pocket of her counterpart and got out for an easy fast break layup to knot the affair back up at 43. After knocking down the second of her two tries at the line, UMass Dartmouth took a 49-47 lead into the final frame.
After a series of missed layups two minutes into the action, Blue and Gold guard Danyel Gonzalez (Pawtucket, R.I.) corralled an offensive board and finished her bid off the glass plus the foul to extend the difference to four. The crucial put back swung the momentum in the Corsairs' favor as the visitors penned the game's next 10 points, with Gonzalez swiping a pair of passes and Korzec scoring or assisting on all but two scores in the span (61-49).
The Corsairs did not let up on offense, making the best of their trips to the free throw line to ultimately outscore the Wildcats by a 32-11 margin in the final 10 minutes of play.
UMass Dartmouth's point guard unit of Moretti and Gonzalez each registered four steals.
The affair featured eight lead changes and seven ties, with UMass Dartmouth leading for 24 minutes.
Corsair senior Nakira Examond (New Bedford, Mass.) collected her sixth double-double this year with 22 points and 13 caroms, hitting 10 of her 12 tries at the stripe.
The Blue and Gold flexed down low, posting 52 points in the paint.
UMass Dartmouth reserves chipped in 20 to the Wildcats' seven.
The visitors were clicking on all cylinders in the final frame, shooting 58.8% (10-17) while holding the opposition to 23.1% (3-13).
The Wildcats face a quick turnaround, travelling to UMass Boston on Thursday for a 5:30 p.m. non-league clash. UMass Dartmouth next competes in the Babson Pearson Memorial Tournament hosted by Babson College, taking on St. Lawrence in the First Round on Dec. 30 at 3 p.m.


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«Usually I don't sing. My voice has not been trained for this fine art. But, as a pianist, I realise that the favourite pieces of my repertoire are compositions created to be entrusted to a voice; at the same time when I write I always encounter a song that materializes under my fingers. You could say perhaps that all of this is due to the fact that I'm Italian: they say that it's very natural for Italians to express themselves via song. Perhaps.
A very different take on the oft-recorded jazz standard mode – as this time around, the standards are all Italian – which makes most of them pretty unfamiliar to our ears! But even the few that we know take on a new sort of life in the hands of pianist Luigi Martindale – a player who mixes lyrical flights with these deep, round currents that are mighty nice – balancing the sonic range beautifully to really illuminate the tunes! The group also features round, warm bass from Stefano Risso – and a gentle crackle in the drums from Paolo Franciscone – both musicians who often allow the piano to dominate, but always seem to encourage its light. Titles include "Caruso", "Una Domenica Bestiale", "Almeno Tu Nell'Universo", "Senza Fine", "Estate", and "In Cerca Di Te". © 1996-2017, Dusty Groove, Inc.


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1800. Disbound. Persian manuscript with gouache on paper, likely from the epic poem The Shanameh. Some wear and age toning, minor stains; quite attractive overall. Undated but ca. early 19th century. 12" x 8 3/8"
1950. Hardcover. Red boards, tape reinforcement to spine. Recipes in a single hand throughout, tear to first page with loss to text, some minor adhesions in the gutter, a few slight dampstains, otherwise clean and unmarked with scattered minor stains. 78 pages with blank sections between the used pages.
Paris: Roret, 1835. Sixth Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Leather backed marbled boards. Modest scattered foxing and browning, spine a touch rubbed. 280pp, 1 folding plate.
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Another Dark Lord Is Getting a Big-Screen Origin Story
Little Gold Men
Why Ryan Gosling Had to Wear an Ugly Wig to Explain the Financial Crisis
Inside the Hollywood Frenzy Around Jennifer Lawrence's Theranos Movie
Bill Hader Isn't Letting Barry's 17 Emmy Nominations Go to His Head
Sonia Saraiya
Adam McKay Is Taking on Dick Cheney, Theranos—and Donald Trump
"I don't want to say the shit hit the fan, because that's not bad enough. The truck filled with rotten fish hit the wall."
Will Harris
Adam McKay at the 66th Annual ACE Eddie Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, January 29, 2016.By Amanda Edwards/WireImage.
Adam McKay got his first big break as a writer on NBC's Saturday Night Live and went on to build a successful career as a writer-director with such films as Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Step Brothers, The Other Guys, and—most recently—The Big Short, which won McKay an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay.
But for all his work on the big screen, McKay isn't generally known for his contributions to the world of music—which is why it's surprising to see his name come up in the credits for a new, politically minded EP by the group Blak English. McKay hopped on the phone with Vanity Fair to discuss his unexpected musical endeavor—and to offer an update on his Theranos movie, Bad Blood; tease the Dick Cheney script he's constructing; muse on the state of comedy in the Trump era; and contemplate if the world does indeed need a sequel to Step Brothers.
Vanity Fair: How did this collaboration happen in the first place?
Adam McKay: I had done a thing called ProtestTunes.com with some friends of mine, and it was a similar idea: "Let's have a place for protest music, and we'll record some stuff with some cool people and post it all, and it'll all be public domain." We got something like 25,000 downloads on our main song, and a bunch of people posted stuff. And even though stuff was still pretty crazy, everything definitely kind of cooled down a little bit, and then we sort of let it go.
And then when I heard Jill [Sobule] was doing [protest music hub] My Song Is My Weapon, I was, like, "Oh, well, now is the time, and who better to do it than Jill?" So the same group that I had that had done ProtestTunes.com—this guy Kevin Hoetger and this group from Austin called English Teeth—we contacted Jill and just said, "Hey, we're in! Here's a bunch of music, feel free to put it on your site, but more importantly, let's record some stuff!"
You're featured on "The Sh#t Show," an anti-Trump song with lyrics like "Doesn't read or question, just knows he's right / Facebookin' all day, tweetin' all night." The first thing I thought when I saw the cover for Behold the Sh#t Show, the EP on which this song appears, was, "This looks like a Bad Religion cover."
[Laughs] I'll take that!
So what was the collaborative process like?
Well, Blak English were e-mailing me some beats, and . . . I'm no musician in any sense of the word, but I can, like, do kind of C-plus rap on occasion, and I certainly have political opinions, so they started sending me these beats, and I thought, Well, these are pretty cool. So I started goofing around with some subjects for them, and then they flew up, and Jill knew somebody who had a cool little recording studio in Echo Park, so we spent two days over there and just kind of goofed around together. We were kind of just doing what you do: you're there, you have an idea, and then when you have cool people around you, they throw in new ideas, and they make it better. And we walked out with three tracks where we went, "Hey, these are pretty good!"
And as you say, if ever there was a time for protest music, it's now.
Oh, yeah. Everyone's feeling like, "Let's do everything we can." That's kind of the base of all of this. And I thought, Hey, anything I can do to help!
So I'm guessing you're not a Trump supporter.
Uh, no. [Laughs] Although what's funny is that amidst his shotgun blast of policies that he threw up—because, you know, he was really just kind of saying anything—there were one or two things where I was, like, "Well, if he does that, that'd be O.K." And, of course, now those things have completely faded away, and now it's just the bad stuff that's left. So, no, I'm not a fan of the way the new administration is conducting itself. There's a full-on attack on the arts, which we kind of knew was coming. It's tricky, too, because people will just say "Trump" for shorthand, but a lot of this is Paul Ryan. His dream of how America can be is now being realized. That guy's been wanting to cut taxes for the rich and cut the government since he was born, so he's a big part of this as well.
Though these goings-on are ripe for comedy, all things considered, I think I'd rather sacrifice the comedy to not have to deal with all of this.
You know, it's funny—the comedy world's a little confused with this, because he's already such a cartoon. And the whole thing is so off the rails—the flagrant lies, a lot of times incompetency on a level we've never seen before, ridiculous statements—that it's been interesting. I always check out The Onion just to see what they're doing with it, and I can kind of sense they're struggling with it. It's, like, "How do you address this?" The straight-up impression on S.N.L. with [Alec] Baldwin seems to be the most successful so far, but it's almost like there's no room for satire. It's like doing satire about being attacked by a dog. [Laughs] Who cares? It's more like triage comedy that we're witnessing.
Has there been any forward motion on Bad Blood, the Theranos movie that you're writing and that Jennifer Lawrence has been attached to?
John Carreyrou is writing the book right now, so I've got some early chapters, and I'm kind of putting it together in my head. But mainly the last couple of months—God, more like the last six or seven months—I've been working on this Dick Cheney script that I'm trying to get going, which is pretty ambitious and pretty big. So that's the one I'm kind of focused on now. But then I'm gearing up to jump into Bad Blood as well, and I can't wait to get into that story.
Can you say much about the Dick Cheney script at the moment?
He's a very secretive guy, so one of the big things with this script has been to really read every single thing that's out there. I compare it to radio teloscopy, where you kind of look at the gravitational pull on one star and go, "Wait a minute, there must be something there that's causing that. . ." It's really like detective work. He's so secretive. So there's just been a lot of minutiae and details that we're constantly sifting through to try and put this story together. We know a lot about him, but there's a lot most people don't know, and it's pretty jaw-dropping. It's an incredible story.
Between this and The Big Short, I wouldn't have guessed that you had an inner Oliver Stone. Not only do you have it, but it seems to have leaped to the forefront.
[Laughs] Well, you know, I think what happened was, for awhile we were doing the comedies and making little comments in the comedies about how crazy things were getting, and then finally the car hit the wall. I don't want to say the shit hit the fan, because that's not bad enough. The truck filled with rotten fish hit the wall. The sly comments just don't seem appropriate for where we are now, so I just started straight-up digging into the heart of it. My belief is that it's entertaining as hell as well as being eye-opening. This is the stuff we're told is supposed to be boring, but it's really the most interesting stuff. So, yeah, I definitely started going down that direction a little bit. I'll still at some point go back to doing comedies. I still like to laugh like a goof, so I can't imagine that won't happen.
Well, just to put it out there, Mary Steenburgen said last year, "If I got that call that we were doing Step Brothers 2, that would pretty much be the best thing that ever happened to me."
I love Mary Steenburgen so much. She's the best. We've kicked it around. We have ideas. I mean, at one point I was saying, "No, no more sequels," but I realized with that idea you really can't say no, because in 10 years it could be very funny to see those guys in their late 50s. So who knows? But it's not planned for anytime soon.
How about that big-screen reboot of Manimal that you were reportedly producing?
God, that was a really good script, and for some reason it stalled. We're still kicking that around. It was a very funny script. I'm surprised that thing stalled. In fact, you just reminded me that I need to call about that again. I'd love to see it happen. Anytime you have a human being turn into some sort of berserk animal, that's fun right away.
Lastly: you actually started your career in the world of improv. Do you ever have the temptation to go back?
What's funny is that I just did a show about a week and a half ago over at iO West. The woman who owns it is Charna Halpern, who I came up with—the first improv I ever did was with her and Del Close. So myself and Ian Roberts—both of us helped start the Upright Citizens Brigade—we went there and did a show the other night. So I don't do a lot of it, but maybe once or twice a year I'll jump up and do something. But you know, it's amazing; it's a form where you really have to stay on your game. You get rusty very quickly. So I'm competent when I go back and do it, but you really have to work it and work it. When you see the people who are really committed to it day in and day out, it's so impressive to watch them. So I still love it, I still support it, and I still think some of the best talent is coming from it, but . . . I don't know that anybody needs to see me onstage on any kind of regular basis!
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Can Boris's roadmap survive the Indian variant?
Katy Balls
The roadmap out of lockdown is the signature document of Boris Johnson's new team in No. 10. It's intended to be cautious, detailed and based on a new mantra of under-promising and over-delivering. It's meant to strike a contrast with the chaos that came in the early stage of the pandemic by projecting an image of competence and calm.
So far, so good. Each stage — including Monday's easing — has proceeded as planned. The vaccine rollout has been the fastest in Europe (although the Prime Minister still complains, in private, that it could have gone faster) and is now credited by ministers as a large part of the reason the party made so many gains in the local elections. But with only one stage of the roadmap left, it now risks being derailed by the so-called Indian variant.
Downing Street had hoped to confirm next week that the final unlocking of 21 June would go ahead as planned. Preparations were under way for a big bang end to restrictions, and a timetable was being thrashed out for the announcement. But the presence of the Indian variant in parts of the north-west, including Bolton, means that plans have been put on hold. 'Uncertainty is back — just as we thought we had finally got rid of it,' laments one government aide.
As things stand, Johnson is unpersuaded, and thinks some of the gloom has been overdone. But even he now won't say whether 21 June will go ahead — and the outcome of the government's social distancing review has been moved from this month to next. Meanwhile, ministers have had to spend the week fielding questions about why it took so long to place India on the travel red list.
A familiar dance is being performed. The Prime Minister thinks scientists might be overly worried. But they think he will not dare do anything that defies their public advice. So we see the usual pattern of Sage scientists taking to the airwaves and anonymous briefings that the chances of all restrictions being lifted next month are 'close to nil'. It hasn't landed well with ministers. 'Anyone who tells you they know what is going to happen doesn't know,' says one peeved government figure.
Concerned Tory MPs have been making their opposition to any delay known to the whips. 'It would mean we snatched defeat from the jaws of victory,' says one. 'It would be a total balls-up,' another puts it more bluntly. They sense not a lack of prime ministerial resolve, but an inability to control the pro-lockdown forces around him. 'We have a Prime Minister who given half a chance would lift restrictions on everything,' notes a minister.
Old Covid divisions have returned to the fore. 'Everyone is using the variant to get their favourite political argument over the line — whether it's keeping social distancing, border control or vaccine passports,' says one official. Ministers are back to debating Covid measures and questioning the current travel rules. Even the Prime Minister's estranged former top aide Dominic Cummings has popped up to twist the knife — declaring the government's border policy a 'joke'. He's due to give evidence in parliament next week.
At this week's cabinet, attendees were given a Covid presentation by the deputy chief medical officer, Jonathan Van-Tam, which suggested that the data had not got significantly worse since Friday. Downing Street hope that in a week or so they will have a clearer sense of how much of a problem the Indian variant is — most crucially, how transmissible it is. The current understanding in No. 10 is that it's a little more contagious, but not as bad as originally feared.
As long as the vaccines work (there's no reason yet to doubt that they do), any extension of lockdown measures will be a hard sell to Tory MPs. 'There is a strong sense of relief among the public that the crisis is over, we can't go back there,' says a minister. While the Treasury had already extended Covid support measures to September in preparation for any blips, talk of local lockdowns in the worst affected areas are worrying MPs in the north-west. They complain their constituents have already suffered the longest lockdowns in the country.
The government's claim that many in hospital with Covid in Bolton were eligible for the vaccine but chose not to take it is also having consequences — introducing the notion of shaming (or at least blaming) the vaccine-hesitant. 'Colleagues are questioning whether we can really ask people to not see their friends and families again, and to risk their livelihoods and businesses, for the sake of people who chose not to get vaccinated,' says one Tory MP.
Others worry it could stir racial tensions, given vaccine hesitancy in certain ethnic minority groups. Among the over-fifties, 93 per cent of whites have had a first jab. But this falls to 82 per cent among South Asians and 66 per cent among the black community. These figures have barely changed for six weeks. This underlines concerns over Michael Gove's 'vaccine passport' review. Ministers have indicated to industry that Covid identification is now likely to be needed for mass events — with lateral flow tests the most likely option for the unvaccinated. This presupposes that the idea would be approved by parliament.
With Johnson under fire for delaying the decision to place India on the red list ahead of his own (cancelled) trip there, ministers and MPs are now pushing for more travel restrictions. At cabinet, Matt Hancock linked a tightening of international travel rules to greater domestic freedom. 'I can't think of a single Tory MP who would oppose it right now, other than those with constituencies next to airports,' says a minister.
This month's elections showed that Covid hasn't drastically harmed Boris Johnson's political standing; the success of the vaccine programme has crowded out memories of the government's earlier mistakes. If the 21 June target is hit, that sense will be reinforced. But the Tory strategist Isaac Levido has repeatedly warned Johnson and his ministers that while the public have been forgiving of errors made on the way into the pandemic, they are unlikely to be so forgiving of errors made on the way out. That includes Tory MPs.
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Frederik August (Oldenburg, 16 november 1852 – aldaar, 24 februari 1931) was van 1900 tot 1918 de laatste groothertog van Oldenburg.

Hij werd geboren als zoon van groothertog Peter II en Elisabeth van Saksen-Altenburg, dochter van Jozef van Saksen-Altenburg. Op 18 februari 1878 huwde hij Elisabeth Anne van Pruisen (1857-1895), een dochter van prins Frederik Karel, bij wie hij twee dochters verwekte. In 1896 hertrouwde hij met Elisabeth Alexandrine van Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1869-1955), dochter van Frederik Frans II. Bij haar verwekte hij vijf kinderen. Door zijn vrouw en zoon was Frederik August verwant aan het Huis Oranje-Nassau, zodat de koninginnen Emma en Wilhelmina en prins Hendrik hem in Oldenburg dan ook vaak bezochten.

Hij volgde in 1900 zijn vader op als groothertog. Als typisch vertegenwoordiger van het wilhelminisme toonde hij zich zeer geïnteresseerd in economische en technische kwesties. Op het gebied van zeevaart en marine gold hij als een kenner en hij stimuleerde de scheepvaart en industrie in zijn land. Wilhelm II benoemde hem, als enige Duitse vorst, tot Admiraal in de Keizerlijke Marine.

Daar hij slechts één zoon had, Nicolaas, en zijn broer George Lodewijk ongehuwd was werd in 1904 voor het geval het geslacht zou uitsterven het erfrecht herzien, dat nadat tsaar Nicolaas II van zijn Oldenburgse rechten had afgezien toekwam aan hertog Frederik Ferdinand van Sleeswijk-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg en zijn nazaten.

Frederik August zette op politiek gebied de conservatieve koers van zijn vader voort. Gedurende de Pruisisch-Oostenrijkse Oorlog steunde hij de Klein-Duitse richting. Zo bleef Oldenburg, anders dan Hannover, zelfstandig.

In 1914 werd Oldenburg partij in de Eerste Wereldoorlog. De vorst stichtte voor zijn troepen een Friedrich August-Kruis voor dapperheid. De behoudende vorst verzette zich niet tegen de Novemberrevolutie en trok zich na zijn abdicatie op 11 november 1918 terug in Rastede.

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Frederik August kreeg met Elisabeth Anne van Pruisen twee kinderen:

 Sophie Charlotte (1879-1964), gehuwd met Eitel Frederik, zoon van keizer Wilhelm II
 Margaretha (1881-1882)

Uit zijn huwelijk met Elisabeth Alexandrine van Mecklenburg-Schwerin werden nog vijf kinderen geboren:

 Nicolaas Frederik Willem (1897-1970), gehuwd met Helena (1899-1948), dochter van Frederik van Waldeck-Pyrmont
 Alexandrine en Frederik August (25 maart 1900 - 26 maart 1900)
 Ingeborg (1901-1996), gehuwd met Stephan Alexander Victor (1891-1965), zoon van George van Schaumburg-Lippe
 Altburg Marie Mathilde Olga (1903-2001), gehuwd met Jozias, zoon van Frederik van Waldeck-Pyrmont

Via de families Waldeck-Pyrmont en Mecklenburg-Schwerin is het huis Oldenburg verwant aan het Nederlandse koningshuis. Tot aan de Tweede Wereldoorlog waren er nauwe contacten.

Vorst in het Duitse Rijk
Hertog van Oldenburg
Huis Holstein-Gottorp (Duitsland)

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel found the contentious Group of Seven summit with U.S. President Donald Trump a "sobering" and "depressing" experience but said European leaders won't be "taken advantage of" on trade.
She conceded in an interview on German public television Sunday that the meeting's outcome "wasn't a great thing."
"I have spoken of a sobering experience, which for me is a lot," she added.
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She said the European Union would "act" against the U.S. trade measures, which European leaders regard as going against the rules of the World Trade Organization.


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Q: qtip tooltip for Bigcommerce Stencil I am trying to create this tooltip in my bigcommerce cornerstone theme.
I have followed all the steps. But the image itself does not appear on my site.
It is displayed in my content
[INFO TO BE SHOWN WITH THE TOOLTIP]

I use
`<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js"></script>`

`<script type="text/javascript" src="/content/jquery.qtip-1.0.0-rc3.js"></script>`

This is the tooltips.js

This is my HTML:

        Service Time:

            Required

        Event Name:

            Required

[INFO TO BE SHOWN WITH THE TOOLTIP]

why isn't it working?

A: It looks like there are some syntax errors in your js, and some issues still with the class selectors. Try this:
    $(document).ready(function() {

$(".form-field").each(function() {

var optionLabel = $(this).children('.form-label');
var optionLabelText = optionLabel.text();

if($("img", this).length < 1) {
$(this).children('.form-label.form-label--alternate.form-label--inlineSmall').append("

");
}

});

  $('.help_div').each(function() {

    var slug = slugify($("img", this).prop('alt'));
    console.log(slug);
    var html = $("#" + slug).html();
    var titleq = $("img", this).prop('alt').replace(/[^-a-zA-Z0-9,&\s]+/ig, '');
    titleq = "" + titleq + "
"
    if (!html) html = "Description not available yet."

    $(this).qtip({
      content: titleq + html,
      position: {
        corner: {
          tooltip: 'topRight',
          target: 'bottomLeft'
        }
      },
      style: {
        tip: {
          corner: 'rightTop',
          color: '#6699CC',
          size: {
            x: 15,
            y: 9
          }
        },
        background: '#6699CC',
        color: '#FFFFFF',
        border: {
          color: '#6699CC',
        }
      }
    });

  });

  function slugify(text) {
    text = text.replace(/[^-a-zA-Z0-9,&\s]+/ig, '');
    text = text.replace(/-/gi, "_");
    text = text.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "");
    text = text.replace(/\s/gi, "-");
    text = text.toLowerCase();
    return text;
  }

  });

I was able to get this working using the code above and the tutorial you mentioned, but a couple of notes that might help:

*

*The version of the qtip plugin you're using (1.0.0) is deprecated, and it's not compatible with jQuery 1.9x and above. I had to use jQuery 1.6x to avoid errors from $.browser. See: http://qtip2.com/guides

*Make sure you're referencing your scripts in this order:

*

*jQuery library

*qtip plugin

*tooltip.js

The console log statement will print the slug variable as it loops through each option, which is what you need to set as the span ID to specify the message for each option.
Hope this helps!

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Creamy in texture and buttery in flavor, cauliflower soup makes an elegant beginning to a holiday feast. If you wish, garnish the soup with homemade croutons, which are simple to prepare: Toss small cubes of day-old bread with a little extra-virgin olive oil, salt and freshly ground pepper. Arrange them on a baking sheet in a single layer and bake in a 300°F oven until golden and crisp, 15 to 20 minutes. Cool to room temperature, then store in an airtight container until ready to serve.
In a large soup pot over medium heat, warm the olive oil. Add the leeks and sauté, stirring constantly, until tender, about 5 minutes. Add the cauliflower and sauté for about 5 minutes. Add the stock, cream, bay leaf and coriander, bring to a simmer and reduce the heat to medium-low. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until the cauliflower is very tender, about 45 minutes. Remove the bay leaf.
Using a stick blender, puree the soup directly in the pot until it is very smooth and creamy. Alternatively, using a food processor, puree the soup in batches. Press the soup through a chinois or other fine-mesh sieve set over a clean saucepan or soup pot. Season with salt and white pepper. Keep the soup warm over low heat until ready to serve.
Ladle the soup into warmed individual bowls, put hard boiled egg and garnish with a herbs. Serve immediately.
Hi Yelena! Wow! Your photos are incredible. Sharp, clearand professional lighting. But the vest thing is the soup. This one looks so delicious. I love the Fall. To me, Autumn is Soup Season. Soups of all kinds. And Fall has finally graced us here in northern California.
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This sounds decadent. and I love topping it with egg, very different. I shall try that soon!
Ibet the photos look as good as the soup!


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text: Q: If reflection of light can move an object as Compton scattering can the same do light refraction? If reflection of light can move an object as Compton scattering can the same do light refraction? Should a miniature prism move due to refraction causing momentum exchange in the example on the picture?


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Q: PHP Debugging. White page after inserting this code <?php
    if(!isset($_SESSION['user_name'])){
        echo ' LogIn LogIn to System';
    elseif(isset($_SESSION['user_name'])){
        echo '' . $_SESSION['user_name'] . 'it is you';
    }
?>

It's a bit of simple question. Can someone help me with debugging this part of code?
Then I introduce it in my php file, the page is blank. No content is displayed.
It's just white page, without any content. After removing this, I can see the content without problem.

A: change:
elseif(isset($_SESSION['user_name'])){

to:
}elseif(isset($_SESSION['user_name'])){

See the "}"

A: As others have stated, you are missing a closing curly bracket (}).
Here's my suggestion, loose the brackets if you have only one instruction per if-statement, as such:
<?php
if(!isset($_SESSION['user_name']))
    echo ' LogIn LogIn to System';
elseif(isset($_SESSION['user_name']))
    echo '' . $_SESSION['user_name'] . 'it is you';

Of course, you will have to put the brackets back if you plan on adding other instructions (eg. lines) to your statements.
Your code could also be shortened by:
<?php
if(isset($_SESSION['user_name']))
    echo '' . $_SESSION['user_name'] . 'it is you';
else
    echo ' LogIn LogIn to System';

Finally, you can also use ternary expression:
<?php
echo '';
echo isset($_SESSION['user_name']) ? $_SESSION['user_name'].'it is you' : 'LogInLogIn to System';
echo '';


This opus of a mosaic is a verisimilitude in depicting a battle between Alexander the Great and the Persian King Darius, probably the Battle of the Issus River, which occurred in November of 333 BC.
With over one and a half million tesserae, none larger than 4 mm., using the four colors of white, yellow, red, and black. The minuteness of the tesserae enabled incredibly fine detail and painterly effects, including remarkable portraits of Alexander the Great and King Darius.
The border of this huge mosaic consists of large stones in a dentate pattern. In the corners are rosettes. Within the border along the bottom of the picture is a blank brown stripe, which some consider to be part of the picture, balancing the white expanse of sky at the top, while others argue that it is simply part of the frame.
The composition of the mosaic is dominated by the two protagonists. On the left is Alexander the Great and on the right is King Darius.
With Alexander appear his helmeted Macedonian soldiers, although little remains of them due to damage of the left side of the mosaic.
Wearing a Persian cap, is King Darius and the expression on his face is very interesting. King Darius is seen stretching out his hand to his wounded defender.
There are many details which emphasize the terror and confusion of the battle, along with violence associated with war. For example, Alexander the Great, with his head uncovered, rushes forward on his horse Bucephalus. He holds a spear with which he has skewered a Persian soldier.
The hapless Peresian soldier has rushed to the defense of Darius and the horse of the Persian defender of Darius collapses beneath him, while he writhes in agony on Alexander's spear. One Persian, however, to the right of the dying defender of Darius, is intent upon Alexander, and holds his sword in his hand, ready to attack.
Below Darius in his chariot, another Persian soldier is staring in horror at this scene whike he attempts to hold a rearing horse. To the right, while being crushed under the wheels of Darius' chariot is another Persian soldier. His face is reflected in the shield which he holds.
The charioteer for Darius whips the horses to flee, seeking to carry his King to safety. His expression is as determined as is his effort to escape.
To the right is another unfortunate Persian defender and he is on the ground being trampled upon by the terrified horses of Darius' chariot team.
There are also other Persian soldiers, who are milling in confusion in the background with their faces filled with fear and desperation.
The composition of the mosaic is dominated by diagonals. The center is dominated by the intersecting diagonals of the Persian speared by Alexander and the Persian restraining the rearing horse. Two other sets of intersecting diagonals are provided by the figures of Darius and his charioteer and by Alexander and the wounded Persian. The lances in the background of the picture also carry on the diagonal motif.
The setting of the battle is very stylized. In the background appears a tree with bare twisted limbs whose diagonals continue the unifying compositional motif of the mosaic. The tree also serves as a formal vertical counterweight to the Persian king and his charioteer, who rise above the battle fray. In the foreground are discarded weapons, and rocks, which serve to define the space between the viewer and the battle scene.


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The Troubled Teen Industry »
Drug Treatment Counselor in Perth Amboy Charged With Extortion
Author Topic: Drug Treatment Counselor in Perth Amboy Charged With Extortion (Read 2596 times)
Inculcated
MCPO: Howell Man Extorted Cash in Exchange For Favorable Reports on "Client"
ARTICLE | JANUARY 14, 2017 - 6:44PM | BY CHARLIE KRATOVIL
PERTH AMBOY, NJ—A 54-year-old man from Howell Township was charged with second-degree "theft by extortion" in connection with his work as a drug treatment counsellor at a Perth Amboy clinic called "Journey to Wellness."
Anthony Trimble, who also earns $63,470 working for the state performing a similar function at the Special Treatment Unit of East Jersey State Prison in Avenel, according to NJ.com's Craig McCarthy.
According to the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office (MCPO), Trimble "demanded [an] undisclosed sum on December 14, 2016 after the victim failed a drug test."
Trimble faces five to ten years in state prison if convicted of doing so but, at least for now, he is a free man. Having been released on his own recognizance, Trimble did not spend any time as an inmate in jail and did not have to pay any bail to be released.
The victim was someone, whose identity prosecutors did not disclose, who had been sentenced to three years on probation, and was required to report to Trimble. The man's attorney allegedly alerted authorities.
The private company, which is apparently working with the state's criminal justice system, told McCarthy that they fired Trimble after learning of the accusations from detectives.
But the status of his job with the State of New Jersey is still not clear, more than three weeks after the arrest.
Ellen Lovejoy, a spokesperson for the NJ Department of Human Services, did not respond to an inquiry about whether or not Trimble was being paid during his suspension. McCarthy's report noted that, "It was unclear if Trimble was still being paid by the state while suspended."
The charges have raised also concerns about privatization within the criminal justice system, where small--and sometimes questionable--companies get put in charge of serious responsibilities.
"With 1 in 5 positive tests being a false positive and retesting at the discretion of the counselor and a positive test result impacting probation or child visitation the incentive is great for the clients to pay off the counselors," noted one commenter on the December 23 NJ.com article.
"Private drug rehabs not investigated closely enough," the comment concluded.
In addition to the Market Street location where Trimble worked, Journey to Wellness also has a "self-help" facility in Toms River, one that is listed on a state website.
Their Perth Amboy facility appears to operate out of a small, nondescript building that has not been marked on the outside by anything more than a modest company banner that has since come down.
Journey to Wellness' low-tech website includes a pitch for people to consider applying for a job there:
Come join our professional and friendly substance abuse counseling team!
We have openings for applicants with a degree in psychology, social work, counseling, or a related field AND a CADC or LCADC to provide substance abuse counseling services to men, women, adolescents and their families.
Bilingual candidates are welcome! We are also accepting interns pursuing the CADC or the LCADC who speak Spanish fluently.
We offers the following six points about the job on its hacked website:
1. Flexible hours
2. Per diem hours
3. A highly competitive hourly rate
4. Your caseload is determined by you
5. On-the-job training and support
6. A family-friendly working environment
In the days following the news of Trimble's arrest, the site displayed a message indicating it had been hacked.
"I wanted to inform you that the site is vulnerable to any type of attack, your files are not safe from attack," read the message from the hacker, who apparently went by the name "REV."
Hacked by REV* I am a good hacker. i belong to the "whitehat"
I wanted to inform you that this site is vulnerable to any type of attack, your files are not safe from attack. Admin, repairs the
vulnerability before someone with malevolent intentions takes hold of your site.
Group whitehat.
-Rev
With an increasing number of alleged offenders taking deals that require them to submit to urine testing in order to avoid jail, probation and other diversionary programs find themselves increasingly relying on urinalysis.
Drug testing is sometimes left to private companies like Journey to Wellness, but even in cases where the government is in charge, similar problems still arise.
Trimble's situation mirrors a charge leveled against a Middlesex County Court employee who worked in the county's "drug court."
Rhonda Battle, another state employee who worked in the courtroom of Judge Lorraine Pullen at the Middlesex County Courthouse is still facing an indictment on charges she took $200 bribes throughout 2014 in exchange for clean test results.
Judge Pullen abruptly retired shortly thereafter, but she is now back on the bench in Superior Court. Battle's case is still pending, and has been moved to her home county--Union--to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.
The investigation is being conducted by MCPO Detective Kevin Schroeck, and is characterized as "active" and "continuing." Anyone with information is Schroeck at (732) 745-3300.
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James Corden looks like he's definitely having the most fun on late-night TV.
On Tuesday, the British song-and-dance man welcomed Paula Abdul, and the two flawlessly recreated her 1989 pop single "Opposites Attract," complete with Corden in full MC Skat Kat costume.
Abdul hasn't lost a step, and Corden proved he can keep up, despite his ridiculous garb. There is no way this video doesn't put a smile on your face today.
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M.A.C.H. 3 was a somewhat rare laserdisc arcade game released in the USA (1983) under the Mylstar brand. The game's name was meant to be a play on words, referring to both high speed and "Military Air Command Hunter". In the game, the player controlled a fast jet in one of two missions. There was a face forward mission where the pilot flew a fighter jet plane straight ahead, and a bombing mission where the player played from a top down perspective flying a bomber. In the fighter mission, the player could choose whether or not to battle ground or sky targets. Similar to the laserdisc game Firefox, M.A.C.H. 3 provided the user with digitized jets over live action footage.
Some of you may recall that in later stages of the game, you have to fly around nuclear fallout. All in the all, if the player was successful in playing the game, total playing time was 15 minutes, at which time they player would land at an airport.
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Q: Coding Enigma algorithm, can encrypt but not decrypt I have to code the enigma algorithm used by Nazi-Germany to encrypt messages sent over radio, you can read how it works right here
As of right now i am only coding the rotors, i didn't code the Plugboard or the rotor initial position yet, since i seem to have problems with this already.
This is what i wrote:
    for (int i=0; i<strlen(sentence);i++){

        sentence[i]=toupper(sentence[i]);

        temp=rs1[0];
        for(int s=0;s<26-1;s++)
        {
            rs1[s]=rs1[s+1];
        }
        rs1[26-1]=temp;
        j++;

        if (j==26){

            j=0;
            temp=rs2[0];
            for(int s=0;s<26-1;s++)
            {
                rs2[s]=rs2[s+1];
            }
            rs2[26-1]=temp;
            z++;

        }

        if (z==26){

            z=0;
            temp=rs2[0];
            for(int s=0;s<26-1;s++)
            {
                rs2[s]=rs2[s+1];
            }
            rs2[26-1]=temp;

        }

        q=(sentence[i]-65);

        //this cant decrypt

        sentence[i]=encrypt(sentence[i],rs1);
        //printf("%s\n",sentence);
        sentence[i]=encrypt(sentence[i],rs2);
        //printf("%s\n",sentence);
        sentence[i]=encrypt(sentence[i],rs3);
        //printf("%s\n",sentence);
        sentence[i]=reflect(sentence[i]);
        //printf("%s\n",sentence);
        sentence[i]=encrypt(sentence[i],rs3);
        //printf("%s\n",sentence);
        sentence[i]=encrypt(sentence[i],rs2);
        //printf("%s\n",sentence);
        sentence[i]=encrypt(sentence[i],rs1);
        //printf("%s\n",sentence);

    }

the functions are:
char encrypt(char c, char r[]){

int num=(int)c-65;
char newc;

newc=r[num];

return newc;
}

char relfect(char c){

char reflector[27]={'A','Q','W','S','E','D','R','F','T','G','Y','H','U','J','O','K','I','L','P','Z','V','C','X','B','N','M'};
int num=(int)c-65;
char newc;

newc=reflector[num];

return newc;
}

When I compile and execute my code I manage to encrypt the word i input, but when I reset the program and insert the encrypted word it doesnt decrypt it, which seems odd.
EXAMPLE:
If I input Hello I get QOBAJ but in I restart the program and enter QOBAJ I get MWCJC instead of Hello and i can't figure out why.
The rotors i use are:
1-  EKMFLGDQVZNTOWYHXUSPAIBRCJ
2-  AJDKSIRUXBLHWTMCQGZNPYFVOE
3-  BDFHJLCPRTXVZNYEIWGAKMUSQO
Thank you for helping me.
Lorenzo.

A: First of all, I don't see where you initialize the variables j or z and you never use the variable q after assigning a value to it. Assuming that you do initialize everything, that you don't need the variable q and that your code is otherwise correct then the problem is here:
if (z==26){
    z=0;
    temp=rs2[0];
    for(int s=0;s<26-1;s++)
    {
        rs2[s]=rs2[s+1];
    }
    rs2[26-1]=temp;
}

In this block of code you should be working with rs3 not rs2. It looks like you did a copy and paste but did not change all of the names.
EDIT:
You must reverse the lookup mechanism for decryption and you do not need a reflect function. Replace
sentence[i]=reflect(sentence[i]);

with:
sentence[i]=encrypt(sentence[i],reflector);

The decrypt function will look like this:
char decrypt(char c, char r[])
{
    for ( int num = 0; num < 26; ++num )
    {
        if ( r[num] == c )
        {
            return((char)(65 + num));
        }
    }
    return(c); // Should never get here
}

Then to perform decryption, call decrypt instead of encrypt.


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Nick Butler: Disinvestment gets the headlines but redirected investment would be much more constructive. The proposal from Norway's sovereign wealth fund to sell off its investments in companies that explore for oil and natural gas has been welcomed by some of the environmental lobby groups campaigning for disinvestment from the hydrocarbon-based economy. But according to the official statement from the Norwegian authorities this month, the move is designed to avoid potentially risky over-investment in commodities that are reasonably likely over time to see a fall in value. The fund already receives income from the country's oil and gas production – some 3,371tn krone (£297bn) to date – and with the market having turned in the past few years from scarcity to plenty the government's view is that it should not be overweight in the sector. The move is simply one of prudent portfolio management. Indeed, it would have been even more prudent if it had been extended to the integrated oil and gas majors such as Royal Dutch Shell and France's Total. If the decision is ratified by the Norwegian parliament, the fund will sell only some $7.5bn of its $37bn holdings in the sector. The signal from Norway's action is that the days when investors could assume prices would inexorably rise have gone. These are now volume businesses and the winners will be those who can find and develop resources most cheaply. The logic behind the fund's decision should disappoint environmentalists because it reflects that opinion of the market. The transition away from oil and gas will be gradual and has barely begun. What a pity, therefore, that in pruning their oil and gas portfolio the Norwegian fund is not taking the opportunity to create – by itself or with others – a series of companies that can bring low-carbon energy to the market.
BRITAIN will face power cuts unless the government steps up plans to build more nuclear energy plants, Labour has warned. Three planned giant generating stations which would have powered 17 million homes have been axed in the last six months. And MPs fear a looming electricity shortage in the next few years unless the government fills the gap. Official figures reveal that major infrastructure projects cancelled or blocked by the Tories would have generated enough energy to power three-quarters of British households.
Labour's energy spokesperson, Rebecca Long-Bailey, having previously pledged to put renewable energy on top of the energy agenda has now relegated it far below nuclear power. They have done this with a pledge to take partial state ownership of new nuclear power projects and saying they will do this for nuclear projects that have been abandoned. But giving state priority to these projects, far from keeping the lights on will actually ruin the chances of aspiring renewable energy generators. The figures speak for themselves. Bailey pledges to reverse what she calls the Government's 'cancellations' of new nuclear projects (Moorside, Oldbury, Wylfa) (factcheck; it was the developers who cancelled them despite being promised tens of billions of state aid). If these projects are brought on line (in addition to the existing Sizewell B and still-not-cancelled projects of Hinkley C and Sizewell C) then nuclear generation will climb to at least 35 per cent of current generation – and even that does not count the Chinese led project at Bradwell. Meanwhile renewable energy generated 33% of UK electricity in 2018, a figure that, with the recently announced 'sector deal' for offshore wind, will increase to around 65% by 2030 even without any more onshore wind and solar pv which the Labour Party claims to support. It doesn't need a mathematical genius to work out that with 35% coming from nuclear power, there simply will not be any market space for any more renewable energy. Yet renewable energy, as we have discussed is cheap, becoming cheaper, and needs little or no public subsidy – a big contrast with nuclear, which despite all the promised support, high consumer subsidies, public guarantees of loan funding (none of which is available for new renewable schemes) has failed so far to generate a single kWh. And it will not until at least 2026 even if EDF's schedules for Hinkley C construction prove (miraculously in the light of recent nuclear construction history) to be achievable.


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News > Medscape Medical News > Conference News > PAINWeek 2015
Opioid Switch to Buccal Buprenorphine May Limit Withdrawal
Pauline Anderson
LAS VEGAS — Patients taking morphine or oxycodone for pain can be safely switched to buprenorphine buccal film without the need for tapering and without causing significant withdrawal or undertreatment of their pain, a new randomized trial suggests.
Buprenorphine HCl buccal film is a new transmucosal form of buprenorphine delivered using a small patch placed on the mucosa of the inner cheek. The delivery system technology is called BEMA (BioErodible MucoAdhesive, Biodelivery Sciences).
Because an opioid rotation is potentially dangerous, prescribers are always searching for safer analgesics for patients with chronic pain, said lead study author Lynn Webster, MD, vice president of Scientific Affairs at PRA Health Sciences, Salt Lake City, Utah. "This may be an effective alternative to other opioids for many patients."
The research was presented here during PAINWeek 2015.
Buprenorphine has been used clinically for more than 40 years. Depending on the dose, it has several uses, including treating opioid addiction, controlling moderate acute pain, and managing moderate chronic pain. A transdermal buprenorphine product (Butrans, Purdue Pharma) is already approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for pain severe enough to require daily, round-the-clock, long-term opioid treatment and for which alternative treatment options are inadequate.
Buprenorphine buccal film is a new delivery system for buprenorphine. With this type of delivery, the drug can be used for chronic as well as acute pain in an ambulatory setting. Because it's a partial agonist, it isn't as potent as other opioids, Dr Webster said.
This could be an advantage, he noted. Because buprenorphine is only a partial agonist, it doesn't produce the same amount of respiratory depression as other opioids that are pure mu agonists.
"This might make it a safer opioid, although it may not be as efficacious for severe pain," said Dr Webster.
As it binds more tightly to the opioid receptor, buprenorphine has the potential to displace a pure mu agonist opioid such as morphine, oxycodone, hydrocodone, fentanyl, or even heroin, he said. On the other hand, if it displaces an opioid in someone who has become physically dependent, it could induce withdrawal.
The current analysis included adult opioid-dependent patients who had been receiving long-term opioid therapy for more than 28 days. They were separated into two groups based on their daily opioid dose: Group 1 (n = 33) received 80 to 160 mg morphine equivalents (ME) of morphine or oxycodone, and group 2 (n = 6) received 161 to 240 mg ME of morphine or oxycodone.
Patients were randomly assigned to receive BEMA or 50% of their normal opioid dose.
Researchers assessed withdrawal using the Clinical Opioid Withdrawal Scale (COWS), level of pain relief using the numeric rating scale (NRS), and safety with the number of adverse events during the 24 hours after dosing. Patients returned to the clinic in 7 to 14 days to undergo the crossover treatment and a second monitoring period.
Of the 35 patients, one patient receiving buccal buprenorphine and two receiving the full agonist experienced significant withdrawal. No patient had a COWS total score of 13 or greater up to 6 hours after dosing, indicating no difference between groups.
There were also no between-treatment differences in changes from baseline in NRS pain scores during the 24-hour study periods for group 1 (80 to 160 mg ME). The sample size for group 2 (161 to 220 mg ME) was too small to analyze.
In group 1, 20 patients (60.6%) had at least one treatment emergent adverse event. In group 2, one patient (16.7%) had such an event. The most common adverse events were nausea and vomiting, which are usual adverse events with opioids.
Because the study showed only a successful switch from oxycodone or morphine to BEMA within a specified dose range, a switch from other opioids or at other doses will need to be evaluated, said Dr Webster.
Clinicians themselves would have to determine which patients should be switched to this therapy. "But in general, when a pure mu agonist appears to be ineffective or the dose is creating more risk than harm, buprenorphine could be an option," said Dr Webster.
But because buprenorphine is an opioid, there's still a potential for abuse. "Patients who may divert the drug or who clearly cannot be compliant are not candidates," said Dr Webster.
Abuse Potential
Asked to comment, Scott Novak, PhD, senior developmental epidemiologist, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, whose research interests include prescription drug abuse, said this therapy approach could be "revolutionary" in terms of weaning patients off opioids while possibly avoiding withdrawal or long-term addiction.
"What happens is that patients are put on chronic opioid therapy for an extended period of time — many, many months to many, many years — and their body builds up a tolerance. The moment the doctor starts tapering the patient down, the patient starts to feel very uncomfortable."
Although not life-threatening, withdrawal symptoms can be extremely uncomfortable and can include sleep and cognitive disturbances. Such symptoms are often the reason pain patients continue to take opioids.
"The patient continues using the opioid not because he likes the high; he needs to keep using to feel normal," said Dr Novak.
Patients in his research groups often tell him that their first exposure to opioids was from a legitimate prescription. They then lie to their doctor about having stopped the opioid and the doctor never drug tests them.
"There is a huge role for this in terms of population public health," said Dr Novak of the new drug delivery technology. "This is one potentially very important tool that could be used in the fight against addiction."
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc provided financial support for this research and for the editorial services of Complete Healthcare Communications Inc. Dr Novak has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
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Cite this: Opioid Switch to Buccal Buprenorphine May Limit Withdrawal - Medscape - Sep 11, 2015.
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Packers Take on Giants in Last Game of the Season at Lambeau
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The Green Bay Packers ran the table to close the 2016 regular season. Their newest challenge involves a shorter win streak, but against tougher competition.
The Packers begin the postseason at Lambeau Field Sunday afternoon against the New York Giants at 3:40 PM. Three wins in a row would put Green Bay in its sixth Super Bowl, and four in a row would bring the Lombardi Trophy back to Titletown.
But before the Packers can think about subsequent rounds, they have to get past a Giants team that has a better record than Green Bay despite being a wild card team. The Giants finished 11-5, including two impressive wins over NFC top seed Dallas.
The Giants have also had a successful playoff run at Lambeau Field of late, ending Brett Favre's Packers career in the 2008 NFC Championship Game and finishing off the 2011 Packers' 15-1 regular season after just one playoff game.
Aaron Rodgers' 2016 season has been one of his most impressive in several ways. Rodgers has not thrown an interception in his last seven games after struggling at times during the first half of the season. In November, with Green Bay sitting at 4-6 and their playoff chances on life support, Rodgers said he felt the Packers could still "run the table" - winning their last six games in a row - and win the NFC North title. They did exactly that, capping off the six-game streak with a win at a Detroit on Sunday Night Football to capture the division title and earn a home playoff game.
The Packers continue to find new heroes in clutch situations. Aaron Ripkowski ran for 61 yards against the Lions Sunday night, while Geronimo Allison totaled 91 yards receiving and a touchdown. Still, Jordy Nelson and Davante Adams have been Green Bay's top two receiving options, each reaching double-digits in touchdown catches. They'll go against the Giants secondary Sunday, while Odell Beckham Jr. leads the Giants receivers against the Pack's banged up secondary. Quinten Rollins is the latest cornerback to deal with injury in a group so depleted that the Packers activated receiver-turned-cornerback Herb Waters for Sunday's game.
These same two teams played at Lambeau Field in October, with the Packers edging New York 23-16 thanks to 81 yards on the ground from Eddie Lacy and 108 yards receiving from Randall Cobb. The Packers scored 17 points in the first half of that game, but could only muster two field goals after halftime.
A Packers win Sunday would send them to Dallas for a Divisional Round matchup with the NFC's top-seeded Cowboys.


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Victim of the Fury
Carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind
Why I Blog
Black Sabbath, Blackmore's Night, Blue Öyster Cult, Death, hard rock, Heaven & Hell, heavy metal, Joe Lynn Turner, music, Pat Travers Band, Rainbow, Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio
Missing Ronnie James: Cult Blessing, Rainbow Heaven, and Fate's Cold Hell
The Metal Glory of Ronnie James Dio (from theguardian.com)
The first time I missed Ronnie James Dio was on 22 August 1980. My long-lost buddy Philip and I had tickets to see the "Black and Blue" tour featuring co-headliners Black Sabbath and Blue Öyster Cult at the Bonneville Raceway, located just outside Salt Lake City and not to be confused with the nearby Bonneville Salt Flats of land speed records fame. Black Sabbath with new singer Ronnie James was touring the group's first post-Ozzy album Heaven and Hell while BÖC was promoting the also recently-released Cultösaurus Erectus. I had gotten both releases on cassette and thought them outstanding. I had seen a few other excellent shows in that year of my live music cherry-popping – to include The Who and Robin Trower – but the Black and Blue tour was set to be my first gig attendance based on pre-existing love of the performing groups and their then current songs. I could not have been more excited as we pulled into the parking area in Philip's souped-up Ford Ranchero with stereo blaring.
Having chosen to play my cassettes to set the mood for the show vice listening to the radio during the hour-long drive to the venue, we had no idea in those pre-internet days that Black Sabbath had cancelled their Salt Lake City stop until we arrived at the raceway and heard murmuring from our fellow concert-goers. The gossip that night was that Sabbath drummer Bill Ward had overdosed on something the previous day and therefore the Sabs could not go on. Official histories belie the OD story but do indicate that Ward was plagued with drug problems and had left the band to go into rehab following a show just three nights before in Los Angeles. Black Sabbath ended up missing only 2-3 shows before inserting drummer Vinny Appice into the line-up to continue the tour. (They would also subsequently record the band's next album, Mob Rules, with Appice behind the kit). Talk about fickle fate; had Ward's drug-addled departure occurred just one week earlier or later, I'd have witnessed Sabbath's live glory. At the time I couldn't help but wonder whether it was all a conspiracy by town elders and angels to rob us Mormon kids of a little netherworld stimulus.
I still hold a grudge against Bill Ward for this. I must admit to feeling a twinge of spiteful pleasure at the fact that he was excluded from the reunited original Ozzy-fronted Black Sabbath's awesome, commercially successful 2013 album "13" and subsequent highly lucrative concert tour. Karma's a real bitch, eh Bill? Guess maybe you should have held on for a couple more shows back in '80 before going off the rails…
(from chaskelley.wordpress.com)
While bummed over Sabbath's no-show, I became a life-long super fan of BÖC that night when they came out following a short set by the unremarkable opening band — the all-but-forgotten French hard rockers Shakin' Street — and announced that they would lengthen their performance to make up for their co-headliner's absence. Ignoring strong winds and blowing sand at the outdoor desert venue, the Öysters proceeded to play a blistering extended show, offering up two full sets broken up by a short intermission. The first set incorporated multiple cracking new songs from Cultösaurus Erectus, plus fan favorites "Godzilla," "(Don't Fear) The Reaper," "Cities on Flame," and "ME 262," among many others. Apologizing for non-existent deficiencies resulting from a lack of rehearsal, singer Eric Bloom then introduced a second set that included inter alia my personal faves "Then Came the Last Days of May" and "Transmaniacon MC," as well as a cover of the Beatles' "I Want You (She's So Heavy)." The ad hoc nature of the second set was proven as the band appeared to decide what to play on the fly, with Bloom offering up long explanations of where individual songs came from and how long it had been since they'd been regularly played live.
My BÖC dedication continues to this day; I type this just two weeks before planned attendance at a 31 January 2015 show by the band's current incarnation — which includes only Bloom and guitarist extraordinaire Buck Dharma from the 1980 line-up — at the tiny Tally Ho Theater in Leesburg, Virginia. I can't wait!
My next successful missing of Ronnie James followed a few months later, although this time I was actually years behind the curve as opposed to the few days of the "Black and Blue" miscarriage of cosmic justice. I saw the band Rainbow at Salt Lake City's Salt Palace on 29 March 1981 on a bill that also included the Pat Travers Band (from which, on theme, co-lead guitarist Pat Thrall sadly had departed a few months prior). While Rainbow was touring on the back of their then-new album Difficult to Cure, which boasted the talents of vocalist Joe Lynn Turner, the only Rainbow LP I owned at the time was a used copy picked up on the cheap from the Deseret Industries Thrift Store of the live double album On Stage, which had been recorded in 1976 when Ronnie James was in the band. Rainbow played only three Dio-era songs during the concert I saw, but I was pleased that two of them, "Man on the Silver Mountain" and "Catch the Rainbow," also appeared on On Stage.
In hindsight, I wish I could say I spent the evening pining for Dio's honeyed tones, but the truth is I was there to see guitar hero Ritchie Blackmore and was relatively unconcerned about who accompanied him. I do remember being impressed with Turner and a couple of solos played by keyboardist Don Airey — whose name meant nothing to me at the time — but for the most part my attention was firmly on the guitar god at right side of the stage. He was dressed in black and seemed moody that night, thus awesomely living up to his legend. I am somewhat embarrassed to admit complete obliviousness to the presence of then former Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover, although I vaguely remember a bass solo.
Rainbow in concert circa 1982 (from webdj.co)
Besides the Dio-era tunes, highlights of what I recall as a too-short set by Rainbow included a cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Fire," an extended encore performance of Purple's "Smoke on the Water," and the instrumental workout "Difficult to Cure," Blackmore's cranked-up take on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The whole show was fantastic, although as it turned out I think I actually came away slightly more impressed by Pat Travers and company. I undeniably ignored the importance of Ronnie James to Rainbow during my enjoyment of that 1981 show, although I would note in my defense that I subsequently owned all the Dio-era Rainbow albums at least a decade before adding any of the band's post-Dio recordings to my stacks.
An aside for an obligatory full-disclosure disclaimer: I do not mind — and could even be correctly described as "liking" — Blackmore's Night, Ritchie's current Renaissance Fair-style medieval folk rock outfit with his multi-instrumentalist/vocalist spouse Candace Night.
It would be another 28 years before my third "missing" of Ronnie James Dio. On 1 August 2009, my son and I saw Big Elf, Zappa Plays Zappa, Queensrÿche, and Dream Theater at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. It was to be my last show with my boy before our lives would evolve considerably with him heading off to college and my departing for a one-year unaccompanied (i.e. without family) assignment in Afghanistan. The concert was fantastic and we were hyped as we walked back to the car afterwards to find under the windshield wiper a flyer for an upcoming show featuring Maryland's own Kix opening for Judas Priest and the Dio-fronted version of Black Sabbath reunited under the legally-allowable moniker Heaven & Hell. Much to our chagrin however, the concert was to occur on 22 August, roughly two weeks after my scheduled departure for South Asia. Lamenting the bad luck on timing, we consoled ourselves with the knowledge that there would certainly be future opportunities to see Heaven & Hell following my return home in August 2010. Cold fate intervened however as Ronnie James Dio succumbed to cancer — a truly uncaring, undifferentiating satanic evil — on 6 May 2010, dooming all of us to miss him continually forevermore.
So, in the end, drugs, creative differences, terrorism, and death all contrived together for the sole purpose of blocking me, VotF, personally from ever experiencing the glory of Ronnie James Dio live. How freaking rock and roll is that?!?
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mikeladano permalink
"Cancer – a truly uncaring, undifferentiating satanic evil"
Amen to that, brother.
As for Bill, I knew he had drug issues at that time (that's documented) but I didn't know about the OD. So basically, you missed them right at they were changing drummers?
Victim of the Fury permalink
Yeah, just my luck, eh? A quick internet search suggests us in Salt Lake and fellow poor buggers in Denver ended up the dumb-luck losers from Mr. Ward's thoughtlessness. As for the "overdose," that was the telephone tag story being told among the Utah concert-goers that night. Whether it was an actual OD or just general druggedoutedness, I can't claim any firsthand knowledge.
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Really enjoyed this post, as always. Remind me never to go see any variation of Black Sabbath with you!
It's not me, man, it's them, it's all of them …
Heavy Metal Overload permalink
I'm feeling a bit guilty… I've seen Dio four times! But I've never seen Blackmore (my favorite guitarist) or BOC so maybe that makes up for it?
Unless your secret identity is Bill Ward or you have unexercised superpowers to reverse cancer, no need for guilt. I mean, I temporarily hate you a little of course, but hey man, this is the internet so it's all good!
Funnily enough, I am and I do. Which is why humanity is doomed! Dooommmmeeddd…
80smetalman permalink
I feel even guiltier than HMO, I've seen Dio five times and it would have been a 6th at 2010 Bloodstock Festival if tragedy hadn't struck. It's little consolation for you but I've never seen BOC and I do feel a bit sad about that.
Ok, five times is a little over the top what with folks like me going without. Gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins, you know. Nurture that nascent BÖC sadness though; nothing like a tiny twinge of mitigating reciprocal feeling of superiority to salve my emotional wound.
LOL 🙂
Vinyl Connection permalink
A story of misses. The breaking news, Sabs, Pat Thrall, everybody but bored Blackmore, a son and home… But at least you saw Queensrÿche.
You are right, Sir… at least I saw Queensrÿche! Change the perspective, change the view (smile).
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