If you live and work in Brooklyn as a freelancer and rely on public transportation for getting to work on time, then you know how unreliable and frustrating it can be! Yes, what a needless headache, and not an ideal way to start your day.
But there's an answer to your problem. Why not bike to work? Prosper Gowork, an awesome workspace for busy people on the go, such as the independent contractor, has made it that much more convenient and affordable to cycle to its facility.
In addition to the mere $99 a month fee for the use of its beautiful, prime space, with numerous amenities (Wi-Fi, 24-hour access, free coffee, conference rooms, phone booths and meeting pods), Prosper Gowork is installing bike storage for $20 bucks per month at its Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, location.
Riding a bike can be a fantastic way to commute to your next gig as it serves many purposes.
First, it eliminates the guess work of when your bus or subway, or both, will arrive. All you have to do is figure out how long it will take to get to your destination and leave at the appropriate time. No train delays, bus break downs, or cranky in-your-face commuters. Well, you might encounter some angry drivers, but you'll be moving fast enough to ignore them!
Next, let's face it: who can't use a little more daily physical exercise in their life? Pedaling your way on your trusty bike to work is a terrific way to start your day of endless texts, emails, phone calls, and writing or designing.
Your heart rate will be elevated for the right reasons this time, you'll be moving major muscle groups in unison, and you'll burn those excess calories you didn't need in the first place.
Thirdly, if saving money is something you desire, you'll be pocketing approximately 120 per month on that MetroCard fee.
All your need is a bike pump, helmet, a directional app, and the willingness to enjoy the fresh breeze as it hits your face on a beautiful day.
Have you ever watched a dog with its cute little face hanging outside a car window? Well, then you get my point.
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package org.bouncycastle.pqc.crypto.rainbow;

import org.bouncycastle.crypto.AsymmetricCipherKeyPair;
import org.bouncycastle.crypto.AsymmetricCipherKeyPairGenerator;
import org.bouncycastle.crypto.KeyGenerationParameters;

public class RainbowKeyPairGenerator
    implements AsymmetricCipherKeyPairGenerator
{
    private RainbowKeyComputation rkc;
    private Version version;

    private void initialize(KeyGenerationParameters param)
    {
        RainbowParameters rainbowParams = ((RainbowKeyGenerationParameters)param).getParameters();
        this.rkc = new RainbowKeyComputation(rainbowParams, param.getRandom());
        this.version = rainbowParams.getVersion();
    }

    public void init(KeyGenerationParameters param)
    {
        this.initialize(param);
    }

    public AsymmetricCipherKeyPair generateKeyPair()
    {
        switch (this.version)
        {
        case CLASSIC:
            return this.rkc.genKeyPairClassical();
        case CIRCUMZENITHAL:
            return this.rkc.genKeyPairCircumzenithal();
        case COMPRESSED:
            return this.rkc.genKeyPairCompressed();
        default:
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                "No valid version. Please choose one of the following: classic, circumzenithal, compressed");
        }
    }
}

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The report was based on an inspection done by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General in November 2016. Some legitimate issues were identified in the report and were quickly addressed. Many of the other issues raised were inaccurate and can be refuted. In an effort to provide the public with transparency and a more accurate account of our operations, I have itemized the concerns raised in the report and provided our response (see below).
It is important to note that all Orange County facilities are inspected on a regular basis by multiple government agencies and independent oversight authorities. Our facilities that are used to house ICE detainees receive two- to-four formal inspections each year, with dedicated ICE personnel who also perform other inspections on a near-daily basis. With such oversight and scrutiny, the public must know that their jail facilities are operated in accordance with all state and federal standards. I remain proud of the work the men and women of the Sheriff's Department do to operate our custody facilities in a way that provides for the safety of both the public and inmates.
We disagree with the comments regarding our food handling and quality of product.
Within an hour of inspection, OCSD staff responded to the walk-in refrigerator at the Theo Lacy Facility and determined the meat was being stored at the correct temperature and was acceptable in terms of color, texture and smell. A supervisor took the OIG's allegation a step further by trying the meat himself and reporting it was not spoiled.
There were several uncovered containers of individually wrapped lunch meat and some containers without the proper labels that the OIG pointed out in the inspection. Staff immediately put lids on the containers and properly labeled them.
All food products, including frozen meat that was put in the walk-in fridge so it could safely thaw for an upcoming meal, strictly adhere to USDA guidelines and the food service industry's National Restaurant Association "ServSafe" standards.
The Theo Lacy kitchen is inspected thoroughly and often by several agencies including Homeland Security, ICE and the Orange County Health Care Agency.
Immigration detainees are responsible for the cleanliness of their own cells and are issued cleaning supplies to do so. This requirement is included in a handbook that every detainee must sign. It is also posted in each dayroom and is summarized daily in an orientation video.
Detainees who fail to clean their cells are subject to disciplinary sanctions, starting with a verbal warning and counseling on how to avoid disciplinary sanctions.
Showers are also cleaned by work crews and in January we implemented a more intensive cleaning schedule to address the OIG's concerns.
Phones at the Theo Lacy facility have a full-time technician who responds to requests for service. Most repairs are completed same-day.
Where a detainee is housed is based on an assessment performed by OCSD Classification staff, which takes into account several factors including criminal history, past in-custody history and current in-custody behavior and incidents.
This classification system is for the safety of all detainees, our staff and our facility. Detainees are placed with other detainees within one risk level of their own, as required by ICE.
Detainees have access to a shared law library, the deputy station to ask questions and a mailbox to send letters or submit grievances. These common areas are monitored by a deputy to ensure detainees are not gaining access to areas they are not allowed in.
A housing change is not a disciplinary measure. There is no ICE requirement for a detainee to appeal housing decisions or a right to appeal housing decisions, however a detainee can submit a grievance regarding any condition of confinement, including housing location.
Disciplinary segregation is rare and reserved for egregious and/or recurrent wrong-doing. If a detainee is placed in disciplinary segregation, it is simply because less restrictive measures of discipline were unsuccessful to attain compliance with jail rules. This is done for the safety of the facility, staff and detainees.
In 2016, 30 detainees were subject to disciplinary segregation. Bed days spent in disciplinary segregation represented .27 percent of the facility's total bed days.
While in disciplinary segregation, detainees are still given access to the law library, religious practices, emergency and legal telephone calls and official visits. They also have access to recreation and non-official visits, which is in compliance with ICE regulations.
The average stay in disciplinary segregation is 12 days.
This simply is false. The grievance system is detailed in the Local Supplement to the National Detainee Handbook. Depending on which level the grievance was handled on, there are up to three levels of appeal available. Most grievances are submitted to sergeants, so most detainees would have two levels of appeal available.


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Q: How to include RSI and Volume in the same chart? First of all i want to embed RSI plugin with the highstock chart,
(i.e) RSI, Volume in the same chart. i tried it with using  Highstock
(Two panes, candlestick and volume )
http://www.highcharts.com/stock/demo/candlestick-and-volume

and the RSI indicator plugin
http://jsfiddle.net/BlackLabel/RE7sS/

Any ideas to get it done??

A: To add RSI to any Highstock demo, you need to include required files. In RSI case files are:

*

*indicators.js (base)

*ema.js (required for RSI)

*rsi.js (RSI plugin)

And example for you: http://jsfiddle.net/jLpbL1db/
Note:
Don't forget to add indicator in options, with link to series.id:
        indicators: [{
            id: "AAPL",
            type: "rsi"
        }],

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Q: How can I know user has in-app purchases item in store? Hello guys, I'm try to check user has a in-app purchase item. But I couldn't figured out this function what it does ? Am I need that or another function ı have to implemented I am so confused. Please someone explain clearly what is going on here
extension IAPService: SKProductsRequestDelegate {

   func productsRequest(_ request: SKProductsRequest, didReceive response: SKProductsResponse)    {

    self.products = response.products
    if response.products.count == 0 {

}

    }
    }

A: To see what products the user has purchased you have to check the receipt file. The function you shared is to fetch all the products available for purchase from the App Store.
The receipt file contains all the info you need, but there's no direct system APIs to see it's contents. There are various ways to check a receipt file for purchased products and it is usually a tradeoff between security and development complexity. In an ideal scenario you have a server unpacks the receipt securely and saves the correct purchase info on the user.
Here's a blog post that covers the receipt file in more detail: Dissecting an App Store Receipt


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Use of e-cigarettes and alternative tobacco products may lead to increased tobacco use
The increasing use of alternative tobacco products, such as water pipes and e-cigarettes, by children under the age of 18 is a burgeoning public health crisis, researchers from NYU Langone Medical Center write in a commentary in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
"Alternative tobacco products represent a new challenge in the 75-year-old war against tobacco," says commentary co-author Michael Weitzman, MD, a professor of Pediatrics and of Environmental Medicine at NYU Langone. "With the increasing numbers of young adults using alternative tobacco products, we have every reason to be concerned."
In "Alternative Tobacco Products as a Second Front in the War on Tobacco," Dr. Weitzman and Stephen M. Amrock, MD, a former NYU Langone medical student who is now an intern in internal medicine at the University of Oregon, highlight research on the use of alternative tobacco products by young adults published earlier this year in JAMA Pediatrics by Brian A. Primack, MD, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. That paper reported the results of a longitudinal study of 1596 young adults ranging in age from 15 to 23, including 1048 who had never smoked prior to the study. The study authors showed that use of water pipes, also known as hookahs, and other alternative tobacco products is associated with a 2.5 times increase in later cigarette use.
"The findings in the JAMA Pediatrics paper corroborate what many of us in the public health field are tremendously worried about," says Dr. Weitzman.
Public health specialists consider cigarette smoking to be a pediatric disease since nine out of 10 adult smokers started smoking as children. Although cigarette use overall has decreased by 33 percent in the past decade in the United States, the use of alternative tobacco products such as hookahs has increased an alarming 123 percent, with nearly 20 percent of high school seniors smoking hookahs. Dr. Weitzman says this increase can be attributed, in part, to a general unawareness of the dangers of alternative tobacco products by the public, the medical community, and the media.
There is a misperception that alternative tobacco products are safer than cigarettes, but the evidence says otherwise. "Other researchers have demonstrated that a typical 45 minute hookah session is equivalent to smoking as many as five packs of cigarettes," Dr. Weitzman says. In a study published last year in the journal Tobacco Control, Dr. Weitzman and colleagues discovered potentially hazardous levels of second hand smoke and other air pollutants, as well as evidence of nicotine, in New York City hookah bars. And water pipes in particular, Dr. Weitzman says, "are a terrible mechanism for spreading infectious diseases."
The increasing popularity of alternative tobacco products threatens to undermine the gains seen in the last several years with the decline in cigarette use. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposes extending its tobacco authority to additional tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and hookahs, not already under the FDA's authority. Dr. Weitzman argues that the same tactics used to decrease cigarette smoking in the United States--taxation, education, and restrictions on advertising and sales to minors--need to be applied to alternative tobacco products. And, he says, more research needs to be done to determine what is being burned and inhaled with these products.
"Nicotine is the most addictive substance," Dr. Weitzman says. "The use of alternative tobacco products by children can be the beginning of an addiction that can lead to later cigarette use. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death worldwide, causing more deaths than HIV, tuberculosis and malaria combined."
NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine
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Nearly half of women who stop smoking during pregnancy go back to smoking soon after baby is born
A major new review published today by the scientific journal Addiction reveals that in studies testing the effectiveness of stop-smoking support for pregnant women, nearly half (43 percent) of the women who managed to stay off cigarettes during the pregnancy went back to smoking within six months of the birth.
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Smokers who try to cut down the amount they smoke before stopping are less likely to quit than those who choose to quit all in one go, Oxford University researchers have found.
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The most robust evidence yet, published today in the Cochrane Library, suggests that national smoking legislation does reduce the harms of passive smoking, and particularly risks from heart disease.
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Henry Ford Hospital pulmonologist Daniel Ouellette, M.D., who during his 31-year career in medicine has seen the harmful effects of smoking on his patients, advocates for raising the smoking age to 21.
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Smokeless tobacco and, more recently, e-cigarettes have been promoted as a harm reduction strategy for smokers who are 'unable or unwilling to quit.' The strategy, embraced by both industry and some public health advocates, is based on the assumption that as smoking declines overall, only those who cannot quit will remain.
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Children whose parents smoked when they were toddlers are likely to have a wider waist and a higher BMI by time they reach ten years of age, reveal researchers at the University of Montreal and its affiliated CHU Sainte Justine Research Centre.
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Quitting smoking when you have angioplasty is associated with better quality of life and less chest pain.
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Home >>Search Speakers >> Adam Hartung
Adam Hartung
Disruptive Innovation Expert
Business Author
Adam Hartung's remarkably consistent track record is built on applying his two proprietary frameworks for predicting business success; The Phoenix Principle and the Status Quo Risk Management Playbook. His keynote presentations and workshops make trends clear and help audiences chart a successful course to a more profitable future in our fast changing world.
Adam has been the No. 1 Leadership columnist for Forbes.com since 2009, written a quarterly column for CIO Magazine since 2010 and been a contributing editor for the International Journal of Innovation Science since its founding in 2008. His columns have boldly predicted highly unexpected declines for market leaders such as Tribune, Sears, and Research in Motion years before anyone else.
For two decades, Adam's accurate forecasts about market shifting trends and his predictions for industry leading corporations has made him a frequent press interviewee regarding Apple, Microsoft, HP and other tech companies, as well as the automobile, media and retail industries. His insight to business growth and overcoming organizational obstacles have been featured in Inc, Adweek, Washington Times and on BBC television.
Since 2004, Adam has been CEO and Managing Partner of Spark Partners, a strategy and transformation consultancy. In 2010, Adam became the founding CEO of Soparfilm Energy, a corporation that invested early in fracking for oil and gas production. Additionally, Adam has been on the Board of Directors at several successful privately held companies, including Crosfield Electronics and Benchmark Technologies in the U.K., Biometric Access Corp. and Apex Interactive and in the U.S. Adam provides board advisory services and is a certified Fellow in the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) where he is a regular speaker on risk management.
Adam was formerly an executive with PepsiCo and DuPont and is a Boston Consulting Group alumni. Adam received his MBA from the Harvard Business School with Distinction. He now travels the globe giving keynotes and leading risk management workshops sharing his insights to how companies and executives can succeed."
Through a rich collection of case studies and stories, Adam keeps his presentation relevant and focused on your industry, your business, your marketplace. He reveals four steps to innovation that have been proven successful over and over again in a wide variety of industries. Your team and your employees will understand what it takes to turn an organization in a new direction and seize the opportunities in a turbulent market in order to launch new growth and innovation.
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The four steps to innovation management, implementation, growth and success post-2009.
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Visible Minorities in the Newsroom
In the same way that Canadian news reporting does not reflect Canada's multiculturalism, racial diversity 'behind the scenes' of news media is similarly disproportionate. In 2006, fewer than 6 per cent of CBC employees were visible minorities. [1] A 2000 study from the University of Laval suggests that more than 97 per cent of Canadian journalists are White. [2]
Diversity in Media, Journalism & News, Religion, Stereotyping
Media Portrayals of Religion: Judaism
Anti-Semitism is experiencing a modern revival in popular media, not only in Canada but worldwide. While Canada, with the fourth largest Jewish population in the world, is not among the nations where anti-Semitism has increased most dramatically, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has nonetheless acknowledged violence against Jewish people as a significant problem in this country [1]. Awareness of media stereotypes and misrepresentations faced by the Jewish community is fundamental in countering this anti-Semitist resurgence with tolerance and acceptance.
Diversity in Media, Religion, Stereotyping
Media Portrayals of Religion: Islam
Media coverage of Islam-related issues has changed dramatically since the beginning of the new millennium, both in quantity and quality. The events of September 11, 2001, thrust Islam into the global media forefront: not only did coverage of Islam drastically increase, particularly in news and entertainment media, but the way in which Islam was framed by the media changed as well.
Media Portrayals of Religion: Introduction
Canada is a culturally diverse country that is home to many different religions. These religions, however, are not always equally represented in Canadian media, where portrayals of religion are often stereotyped and disempowering.
Media Portrayals of Religion: Christianity
Christian religions form the largest religious group in Canada today, with more than 70 per cent of the population identifying with a Christian denomination. The widespread popularity of Christianity in Canada, however, does not mean that media treatment of Christianity is always accurate or informed.
Media Portrayals of Religion: Overview
Since the 1990s, media educators Anita Day and Guy Golan have identified increased tension between people of faith and media outlets [1]. Media and religion are two concepts that can be challenging to partner: religion is frequently misrepresented in media for a wide variety of reasons, whether as a result of mistakenly held beliefs or by dramatizing religion to sell newspapers or attract viewers.
Cyber Security: Special Issues for Teens
Teens use the Internet as much, and in similar ways, as adults. But they also often engage in risky behaviour such as downloading illegal copies of movies and music. Popular social networking sites, like Facebook, can also expose teens to a variety of security risks.
Cyber Security, Digital Citizenship, Internet & Mobile
Media Portrayals of Persons with Disabilities: Introduction
Persons with disabilities might best be described, in the media at least, as an invisible minority: though a large segment of the population has a physical or mental disability they have been almost entirely absent from the mass media until recent years. Moreover, when persons with disabilities appear they almost always do so in stereotyped roles.
Diversity in Media, Persons with Disabilities, Stereotyping
Media Portrayals of Persons with Disabilites: Solutions
Media producers have recognized that they must make efforts to better represent persons with disabilities.
Cyber Security: Software Threats
Software threats are malicious pieces of computer code and applications that can damage your computer, as well as steal your personal or financial information. For this reason, these dangerous programs are often called malware (short for "malicious software.")
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can be as high as 4% of the fat-free mass, but this is probably the maximum stress cyclically tolerable.
Some authors maintain that the observed fluctuations may be regarded as an acceptable physiological response to energy imbalance or even a successful adaptive response. Indeed, having a maximum body weight at the beginning of the heavy work season may be more advantageous than keeping a constant body weight, because this minimizes the farm storage losses.
However, in some subgroups of the population living in seasonally prone areas such compensatory mechanisms may irreversibly affect other physiological functions such as reproductive performance and growth. While men have time to recover after the seasonal imbalance of energy, women are permanently undergoing stress and a greater impact on health, well being, and function should be expected. Furthermore, women's seasonal stress also has an impact on the early growth and development of young children, such that seasonal cycling may be considered as one of the factors responsible for the intergenerational cycle of malnutrition (Figure 5).
Young children suffer a double seasonal burden: the one imposed on themselves by disease and the one imposed on their mothers. Seasonal changes in children's weight and height velocity have also been observed in more developed societies. However, in high seasonal areas of LDC the periods of retarded growth in the youngest age groups are not followed by periods of adequate catch-up growth, such that height-for-age decreases progressively. Therefore, we suggest that stunting is listed among the functional consequences of seasonality, along with its correlates of impaired cognitive function, impaired metabolic function, and decreased productivity. The impact is going to be highest in younger children, and we may arbitrarily take the age of 5 years as a limit for increased seasonal vulnerability.
Approximately one billion people live in areas of moderate and severe seasonality. Taking into consideration the BMI distribution of those populations, it is possible to calculate that 65% of the adults living in rural areas, i.e., 408 million people, are at risk of severe stress, most of whom are in Asia (90%) and the remaining 10% in sub-Saharan Africa.
Pregnant women and young children should, however, be added to this count. A rough calculation indicates that in those areas, the number of children under 5 years is about 500 million and the number of pregnant women approximately 20 million. They should also be included among the victims of seasonal climatic changes in LDC, thus bringing the estimate to about a billion people.
Nutrition interventions aimed at accelerating growth rates should then preferably be carried out at the time of the highest seasonal stress in these vulnerable population groups, particularly in younger children, in order to achieve the maximum long-term benefit.
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Whenever you use one of the asset rendering methods, like css(), js(), and image(), it will search in each of those folders (as well as a folder named by the asset type under those folders, ie. 'css') in the order listed above. Note that it only looks within the module if it was added via add_module_css() or add_module_js().
If you need to, you can customize the folders that your assets are located in via settings in the /application/config/application.php configuration file.
To change the primary folder that all of your assets are located in, you can set the 'base' key in the assets.directories setting.
Note that this is not recommended as it may cause instability in the application.
Testing has not been done to ensure that this is a viable option at the moment.
Within the base folder (above), each asset is organized by asset type.
By default, the folders are named js, css, and images.
This can be changed in the assets.directories setting in the application config file.
Again, though this has not been tested to ensure this works.
Changing this value might render your site unusable.
Stylesheets can be hosted with the application or on other servers.
However, when it comes time to tweak your site's front-end performance, only those files that are hosted locally with the site can be combined and minified successfully.
It is recommended that you always use the raw stylesheets (not minified) to take full advantage of the minification abilities, as minifying a CSS file twice might corrupt the styles.
This method provides a simple way to render all of your CSS links in one method call.
It can be used in two different fashions: to output a single link tag, or to output link tags to all stylesheets that it knows about.
Whenever a relative path is provided, it is assumed to be relative to either the main folder being searched in (i.e. /public/assets) or the type-specific folder (e.g. /public/assets/css).
When called with no parameters, the css() method will create links for all stylesheets that have been added to it via either the add_css() or add_module_css() methods, below.
You can specify the media type for your CSS to render, by passing it as the second parameter.
The default value is 'screen'.
Bonfire's Assets system is designed with a Parent/Child theme framework in mind.
That means that you can quickly build a new theme that inherits all of a default (or parent) theme and only changing the files that need to be changed.
This applies to both assets and layout files.
If you're using a theme that you've created called 'darthvader', it will look for files of the same name in both the darthvader theme and the default theme.
If you do not want it to look for and include these files, you can pass in TRUE as the third parameter.
A couple of different files will automatically appear within your styles, without you needing to do any work.
The Assets library will search for a file within your theme for a file named the same as the media that you're currently rendering.
By default, this is the public/themes/my_theme/screen.css file.
It will also look for any stylesheets within your theme that match the name of the controller that is active.
So, if the blog controller is currently running, it will look for a file at public/themes/my_theme/blog.css.
When you just want to output a link to a single CSS file, you can use the css() method with a single parameter that is the name of the file to link to.
The link can be either relative or absolute.
If you want to render multiple links to CSS files, you can pass an array of stylesheets.
These stylesheets will be merged with any styles that have been previously added via either add_css() or add_module_css().
Adds additional file(s) to the links that are output with the css() method.
The first parameters is the name of the file to be linked to.
It should be relative to one of the paths described above.
The second, optional, parameter is the media type.
Adds a stylesheet that is part of a module to the styles to be output with the css() method.
The first parameter is the name of the module.
The second is the name of the file to be linked to.
The third, optional, parameter is the media type this file belongs to.
Because module files are often inaccessible via a web browser, all module files are combined and cached in the public/assets/cache folder.
The above blog/posts.css file would be in a file named default_blog_blog_mod.css.
Script files can be hosted with the application or on other servers.
It is recommended that you always use the raw scripts (not minified) to take full advantage of the minification abilities, as minifying a JS file twice might corrupt the script.
Inline scripts are scripts that are intended to be written out as part of the page's HTML. You may include a file as inline for performance reasons or simply because it only affects a single page on your site and including it in a larger external file does not make sense.
Module scripts are scripts that are part of a module within Bonfire. Because of security reasons, you often will not be to access the module files from the browser so these scripts are always combined and cached in the main assets/ folder.
This method provides a single call to render all external, module, or inline script tags.
Whenever a relative path is provided, it is assumed to be relative to either the main folder being searched in (i.e. /public/assets) or the type-specific folder (e.g. /public/assets/js).
When called with no parameters, the js() method will create links/inline-code for all scripts that it knows about.
Notice that the inline scripts are automatically wrapped with customizable open and close strings.
In this case, it produced an appropriate wrapper for use with jQuery.
This can be changed in the application/config/application.php file.
If you pass the name of a script file as the first parameter, then it will output a link to only that file.
Note that if it cannot find the script in any of the standard locations, it will not create a link for it.
You can pass an array of script files as the first parameter of the script and they will be added to the scripts to be linked to.
The function will then proceedd as if you had not passed any parameters in, creating links for all external, inline, and module scripts, including the ones that you did actually pass in.
This method creates the links for all external scripts that it knows about.
This is called automatically by the js() method and does not need to be called again if you are using that method.
You can pass either an array of scripts or a single script as the first parameter and only those script files will have links created for them.
If you are using a JS loader, like head.js, you might need a list of files instead of links created.
You can get this by passing true as the second parameter.
By default, the Assets library will ensure that all files have a .js file extension.
If you have some files have a different extension, you can pass false as the third parameter.
Handles the inline script creation for the js() method.
You do not need to call this script by itself when using that method.
Returns a link to a combined file that includes any scripts added with the add_module_js() method, below.
When this method is called, all files are combined into a single file that is cached in the primary public/assets/cache folder.
You can affect how the file is named as well as minification of the new file, via options that are discussed in Section 5, below.
With mobile/desktop development becoming so prevalent, you often need a simple method to get an image that is only as big as you need it to be, smaller for mobile browsers and larger for desktops.
With responsive design, you can fine-tune the bandwidth that your site's images are consuming even further based on the width of the browser window.
Bonfire's image controller provides simple, on-the-fly creation of resized images.
To return a square thumbnail of a large photo, you can choose to let the images library automatically crop the photo for you, while creating a thumbnail image.
Pass along a size parameter that will define how wide and how tall the image should be.
If you prefer to set a specific height and width, in pixels, for the image, you can use the height and width params to the url.
You can also simply pass a width or height params to intelligently resize the image.
Whichever param is passed will determine which is the "master" param.
ex. If height is passed, the image will resize to a height of 60 and whatever width maintains aspect-ratio.
By default, Bonfire will scale your image to fit within the new image size.
To resize the image and disregard aspect-ratio, pass along a ratio=no parameter.
Bonfire will look for the images within the public/assets/images folder in your web root.
If you need to pull files from a different folder, you can use the assets parameter and pass in a folder relative to the webroot.
If you have images stored in a specific module you can access those images by passing the module name to the module parameter.
Large strides have been made over the last few years in recognizing techniques to help boost your client-side performance, or apparent performance to make it feel to the user like your site is loading faster.
Bonfire provides a couple of different tools to help you with that.
You can turn on combining files in your application/config/application.php configuration file.
It is recommended to turn off combining in your development environment but turn it on in testing and production environments.
This will create 2 files that are cached within the public/assets/cache folder.
The first file combines all external files that are hosted within this site into a single file.
The second file contains all of your module-specific files.
This is the same file that is always generated for module js and css files.
You can turn on minizing files in your application/config/application.php configuration file.
It is recommended to turn off minimizing in your development environment but turn it on in testing and production environments.
While not a performance booster, those more security-conscious developers might dislike the typical naming convention of your cached asset files which display limited amount of information about the controller and module running.
To obscure this information you can turn on file name encryption.
This creates an md5 hash of the normal file name to cache the file as.
You can delete all of your asset's cached files by calling the clear_cache() method.
ALL cached assets will be deleted.
Three helper functions are provided to help create manual links to assets within your view files.
This returns a full URI to the main asset folder.
This returns a full URI to the CSS folder.
This returns a full URI to the scripts folder.
This returns a full URI to the images folder.


In a context of increasing concentration and multinationalisation of olive oil supply, Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) represents an increasingly important strategy for competitiveness. Based on a survey of 400 olive growers in Andalusia, the leading olive producing region in the world, this paper investigates 1) the factors related to characteristics of olive farmers and farms, which have conditioned the adoption of PDO; and 2) the environmental, economic and agronomic goodness of PDO farming practices. A further diffusion of PDO would require highlighting PDO as a medium- to long-term quality strategy especially for non-highly productive farmers, promoting membership of agricultural associations and the use of external sources of information about innovations, and making growers aware of the importance of respect for the environment when producing. PDO farmers seem to be targeting quality whereas other attributes, such as respect for the environment, are neglected to some extent. Therefore, most practices could be improved. A further greening of PDO practices would represent added value in the eyes of local but also international consumers and would be in line with CAP 2014-2020 trends. The role of public administrations in promoting the adoption of PDO and training in the use of more sustainable farming practices should be further strengthened.


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Anti-vaxxers have blood on their hands, health secretary Matt Hancock says
Figures released last week showed that more than half a million UK children were unvaccinated against measles from 2010-2017.
Monday 6 May 2019 10:08, UK
Image: Matt Hancock said he is ready to 'consider all options'
The health secretary has revealed he will not rule out making immunisations mandatory, saying that anti-vaxxers "have blood on their hands".
Matt Hancock said he was ready to "consider all options", and although he does not want to impose mandatory jabs for diseases like measles, he did not rule it out.
His comments came after figures released by Unicef last week showed that more than half a million children in the UK were unvaccinated against measles between 2010 and 2017.
Image: Matt Hancock called those who have promoted the anti-vaccination myth 'morally reprehensible'
Mr Hancock told Sky News that the "science on vaccination is absolutely solid and very clear - which is that it is safe and it is right to get your children vaccinated".
He said that while immunisation is "good for (children), it's also good for the rest of the community and for your neighbours".
He earlier told The Times that those who have "promoted the anti-vaccination myth are morally reprehensible, deeply irresponsible and have blood on their hands".
Meet the doctor waging Twitter war against anti-vaxxers
An Italian doctor has become an unlikely social media celebrity for fighting anti-vaxxers online
Asked by Sky News about potential solutions, he said: "I don't want to see compulsory vaccination and I don't think we're there yet, but we rule nothing out because vaccination saves lives and the fall in the rates of vaccination has to stop."
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He admitted he was "very worried about the impact of social media on the rates of vaccination".
He said: "I've met with the social media companies about this. Some of them have already taken some action to remove lies and misinformation about vaccines from their sites, and there's more to do."
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Earlier this week, a Labour MP said the government should look at making failure to immunise children a "criminal offence".
During a debate in the Commons to mark World Immunisation Week, Paul Sweeney warned that the "creeping cynicism" around the safety of vaccinations was a "real national emergency".


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Davenport Welcomes New Recreation Space To Downtown
Connor Kenney
Connor Kenney Published: September 16, 2021
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There is a new space for people who frequent downtown Davenport or people visiting the area. Kaiserslautern Square is an outdoor recreation space the sits across from the Adler Theatre. The official opening of Kaiserslautern Square, which includes a ribbon-cutting with city leaders and officials, is happening Friday but we snuck down to take photos of Davenport's newest addition to the downtown area.
On Thursday, the City of Davenport and community partners announced that they will gather in downtown Davenport for the official ribbon cutting of Kaiserslautern Square, a newly renovated outdoor recreation space located across from the Adler Theater. The ribbon-cutting will happen Friday, September 17 at 7:30 p.m.
Kaiserslautern Square is being named after Davenport's Sister City, Kaiserslautern, Germany. Kaiserslautern and Davenport became Sister Cities on June 10, 1960. Kaiserslautern was chosen as Davenport's sister city because of its close resemblance to Davenport in demographics, economics, and geography. Kaiserslautern's name came, in part, from the wealth of water and forest which are very much a part of the city. Kaiserslautern is a modern city with many remnants of the past, but as those who have been there can attest, its greatest asset is like Davenport's, its people.
Attending Friday's ribbon-cutting event includes Mayor Mike Matson, Davenport Alderman At-Larget, Kyle Gripp, Assistant Public Works Director, Clay Merritt, Chair of Davenport Sisters Cities, Molly Otting Carlson, and Executive Director of the Downtown Davenport Partnership, Kyle Carter.
Partnerships initiatives and cultural exchanges include but isn't limited to:
Community development projects like the new and improved K-Square and Lady Germania in downtown Davenport and the Davenport Plaza on Kaiserslautern's University campus
High school youth exchange hosting international experiences for hundreds of Davenport and Kaiserslautern youth since the late 1970s the most recent being 2018 for a technological competition with West High School
Saint Ambrose University professional exchange with Kaiserslautern University of Technology
A Kaiserslautern exhibit at the German American Heritage Center in partnership with the Kaiserslautern Municipal Museum
Faith-based exchange between Davenport First Presbyterian Church and Dietrich Bonhoeffer Kirche in Kaiserslautern
The creation of Christkindlmarkt is held at the Freight House each December. This year's event is scheduled for December 3-5 at the Freight House and will feature kid's activities as well as gifts and gluhwein! It is held in the traditional manner of a typical German outdoor market.
Kaiserslautern Square in Downtown Davenport
The City of Davenport has opened up its new recreation space in the heart of downtown. It's called Kaiserslautern Square. It's named after Kaiserslautern, Germany, the Sister City of Davenport. Kaiserslautern and Davenport became Sister Cities on June 10, 1960.
Hotel Davenport Demolition
The Hotel Davenport is located at 5202 Brady St. and was reportedly built in the early 1970s. Earlier this year it was decided that this hotel was no longer set to have guests.
According to the Quad Cities times, the Davenport hotel has faced a number of fires, along with safety and health code violations. This has led to the call for its demolition. I've driven past it many times and have seen that the building had clearly began to deteriorate.
It was scheduled for demolition earlier this year, and said demolition began in April. Many involved in this project are excited to see what the future holds for this lot in Davenport.
I drive past this spot every day for work, and over the last month have snagged some pictures of the demolition.
See 20 Ways America Has Changed Since 9/11
For those of us who lived through 9/11, the day's events will forever be emblazoned on our consciousnesses, a terrible tragedy we can't, and won't, forget. Now, two decades on, Stacker reflects back on the events of 9/11 and many of the ways the world has changed since then. Using information from news reports, government sources, and research centers, this is a list of 20 aspects of American life that were forever altered by the events of that day. From language to air travel to our handling of immigration and foreign policy, read on to see just how much life in the United States was affected by 9/11.
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Operation: Heal Our Heroes Returning To "The End" For 2nd Annual "Survivor Series: Montauk"
Participants may compete as an individual or as a team of five. (Courtesy Photo)
On Saturday, August 5, Operation: Heal Our Heroes (HOH) is presenting its 2nd annual fundraiser, Survivor Series: Montauk.
"Montauk is the perfect location for our 2nd annual Survivor Series because it's such a close-knit community that has always had a lot of passion for supporting the troops," noted Everett Weston, HOH Co-Founder and former Army Captain. "By raising awareness of the importance of mental health, particularly related to Post Traumatic Stress, HOH has been able to help veterans and their families feel more comfortable addressing those issues."
Participants will partake in a scenic run through the woods of Edward Ecker County Park,and once the 5K is completed, HOH will host a morning of competitive team-building activities that revolve around fitness and community involvement. Montauk local and former Marine Sergeant John Behan, who lost both his legs during the Vietnam War, will serve as the honorary race starter. Additionally, Telsa vehicles will be on site for guests to demo.
Every $5,000 raised at Survivor Series: Montauk allows HOH, a 501(c)3 non-profit veteran's organization, to provide one veteran with unlimited access to private mental healthcare services and support for the rest of their life through the Weil Cornell Medical Center, provided through The Headstrong Project. HOH hopes to raise $50,000 at this year's 5K.
Every $5,000 raised at Survivor Series: Montauk allows HOH to provide one veteran with unlimited access to private mental healthcare services and support. (Courtesy Photo)
"We lose one veteran to suicide every 72 minutes and that staggering statistic needs to be curtailed," Weston stressed. "All funds raised from our events help fund private mental health care programs to ensure veterans get the help they need to make a successful transition home."
HOH's mission is "to raise awareness and resources to help end the suicide epidemic taking the lives of nearly 20 veterans each day due to their suffering from service-related Post Traumatic Stress (PTS)."
Later in the evening, participants are invited to stop by Ruschmeyer's (161 2nd House Road, Montauk) for an open bar from 6 to 9 p.m.
Registration starts at 8:30 a.m., and the 5K starts at 10 a.m. Participants may compete as an individual or as a team of five by taking the HOH team pledge.
Eddie Ecker County Park is located at Navy Road in Montauk. For more information, visit www.operationhoh.com.
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Alfred Forrester Bolding Snr
Alf Bolding Snr was born in 1866 in Bethnal Green, the son of Richard and Mary Bolding. Richard was a German silversmith, German silver being the 19c name for nickel silver. Alf is also referred to in one photograph as 'Dick', probably a reference back to his father.
Alf started with the Company in 1880 as an apprentice scalemaker, working in the basement of 6 & 7 West Smithfield.
In 1891 he married Amelia Sarah Dowden, and their first child, also christened Alfred Forrester Bolding, was born later that year.
Alf retired in 1933 after 53 years' service, and died in 1944.
His son Alf also worked for the Company for 55 years and when he himself retired in 1961, the BBC 6 o'clock news of Friday 28th July carried a news item about the 108 years of combined service of the two Boldings.


For physiotherapists, nurses and other healthcare professionals working with stroke patients. It contains information on positioning, stabilising, transfers and treatment.
Also includes information about helper's hand positions, pressure splints and equipment, for example, walking aids. It allows the therapist to provide patients and carers with a precise, well-illustrated document of exercise and handling instructions which can be referred back to in the absence of the therapist.
Based on Margaret Johnstone's book 'Home Care for the Stroke Patient: Living in a Pattern', published by Elsevier Churchill Livingstone.


We are often asked if it is possible to double glaze existing sash windows and generally the answer is yes.
Traditional sashes are single glazed, with the glass on the outside, they don't easily convert to having a double glazed unit installed, with the glass rebated on the inside.
We find that in most instances, it is better to start again with the actual sashes.
We build quality copies that match the original windows, but are designed to take double glazed units.
Double glazed and draft proofed timber sash windows, made to measure and installed from £899.99 per window plus VAT.
Starting price for windows up to 1.3m tall.
For larger windows, please contact uscontact us to discuss your requirements.
This includes two new wooden double glazed sashes, additional weights to counterbalance, a draught proofing service and installation.
Once the remainder of the frames have been brought up to gloss by your decorator, your sash window will look like new.
Is double glazing the right solution?
When thinking about double glazing, we need to keep in mind the historic nature of properties.
In many instances, double glazing is not appropriate. Indeed in most listed buildings you will not be given permission to double glaze the sash windows.
However there are other options. Combinations of blinds, lined curtains, shutters and secondary glazing, along with our cost-effective draught proofing servicedraught proofing service can achieve the same - and in some instances better - heat and sound control.
We will do our best to give you all the information you need to make an informed decision.
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Figlia di Alessandro D'Afflisio Moreri, fu l'esponente più nota di una famiglia di attori di origine napoletana attiva tra il Seicento e il Settecento e comprendente, fra i molti, anche il nipote Bartolomeo.

Donna astuta e suadente, iniziò molto presto a recitare, alternando alla prosa la danza, il canto e l'acrobatica. Entrò a far parte della compagnia di Giuseppe Imer al Teatro San Samuele di Venezia come amorosa e canterina. Il poeta della Compagnia era all'epoca il grande commediografo veneziano Carlo Goldoni: i due divennero amanti, ma lei lo tradì con l'attore Antonio Vitalba. Goldoni si vendicò obbligandola a recitare la parte di Elisa, la pastorella infedele di Don Giovanni Tenorio (1735).

Il giudizio di Goldoni sulla sua abilità di interprete è contraddittorio: nei Mémoires prima la critica duramente (la sua voce era falsa, monotona la maniera, ingrata la fisonomia), ma in seguito la definisce giovane spiritosissima, che faceva tutto passabilmente e niente perfettamente. Cantava, ballava, recitava in serio e in giocoso, tirava di spada, giocava la bandiera, parlava vari linguaggi, era passabile nella parte della Servetta e suppliva passabilmente negli intermezzi..

La tresca tra Goldoni e la D'Afflisio suscitò molto scalpore e l'attrice uscì danneggiata dalla vicenda: divenuto direttore della compagnia, Goldoni la sostituì per il canto e gli intermezzi, lasciandole unicamente il ruolo di serva, e occasionalmente di seconda donna, e si liberò del Vitalba che passò a recitare al Teatro San Luca, dove poco dopo anche lei si trasferì. Successivamente, passata ad altre compagnie (recitò anche nell'Italia meridionale e in Sicilia), fu vittima di una brutta caduta che la costrinse a ritirarsi dalle scene.

Tornò a recitare nel 1749 con una compagnia propria, prima al Teatro Farnese di Parma, quindi a Mantova, al Palazzo Ducale. Si ridusse infine a far parte di piccole compagnie girovaghe: dopo aver peregrinato con scarsa fortuna nei teatri minori della Lombardia, si ritirò definitivamente dalle scene e trascorse in miseria gli ultimi anni in provincia di Modena, a Finale Emilia.

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Hey hey hey! Are you excited about this weeks link party!? So many fun ideas to take a look at!
How is your week going? Are you joining in on the Living Well Spending Zero Challenge this month with me?
Let me just say that it is going way better then I thought it was going to. My favorite part so far is that I can feel myself breaking the habit of automatically buying something because it's easier. I have been making a lot of homemade snacks and breads. Y-um!
I also have been "making do" a lot more. One example is that I have been working on refinishing an old secretary desk that had like a bazillion layers of paint on it. My original plan was to just get rid of the hardware and buy new. But since we are doing a zero spend month I used a sandblaster and got a lot of the paint of and will be reusing the original hardware. Beautiful!
Now who is ready to party! Make sure to check out this weeks featured posts!
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A collection of bits for my Raspberry-Pi-powered alarm clock.

This would be primarily Puppet config but I'm currently having unpleasant experiences running Puppet on the Pi, so optimistic Python and Bash it is.


Synopsis: Set amidst the Latin Catholic Community in Chellanam, Kochi, in Kerala, Ee. Maa. Yove revolves around the death of Vavachan, a master mason. The story unfolds as his son Eesy tries to ensure that his father receives a grand burial. However, his wishes are met with unpredictable obstacles and unseemly reactions from different quarters.


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Take This Article with a Grain of Salt
Posted byAspen Moore October 11, 2021 Posted inidioms, Rome and GreeceTags:English, grain of salt, idioms, latin, mithridates, rome
Why do we take something uncertain "with a grain of salt"? The answer involves a universal antidote to poison, Bible commentary, and some questionable photos of Ireland.
To take something with a grain of salt means to understand that something may not be completely accurate, to interpret something skeptically because it may be unverified or uncertain. For example, if you were relating an interesting fact about panda bears that you heard from a tourist at the zoo, you could tell your friends to "take it with a grain of salt" since you aren't sure whether the source of information is trustworthy.
Outside the United States, other English-speaking countries use the phrase "take it with a pinch of salt" to mean the same thing.
But why a grain or pinch of salt? Why not a twist of lime or a drizzle of olive oil?
The Roman Cure
King Mithridates VI (135–63 BCE), ruler of the Hellenistic Kingdom of Pontus, was continually in conflict with the Roman Republic for decades. His relentless attempts to build an empire made him one of Rome's most formidable opponents and one of the most celebrated rulers of Pontus. In addition to his military endeavors, he has gone down in history as "The Poison King."
Portrait of the king of Pontus Mithridates VI as Heracles. Marble, Roman imperial period (1st century).
Image by Sting, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
Mithridates was obsessed with toxicology and paranoid that his enemies were planning to poison him. His fear over real and imagined assassination attempts led him to research all known toxins and their remedies, experimenting on prisoners of war to understand the effects of various substances. He attempted to make himself immune to poison, Princess Bride-style, by ingesting small doses and gradually increasing the amount to build up tolerance. Later scholars including Pliny the Elder (CE 23–79) claimed that Mithridates developed and regularly ingested a universal antidote for all known poisons, known as mithridate or mithridatium. Pliny wrote that Mithridates' panacea contained over 50 different ingredients, including small amounts of various poisons, that were ground into power and mixed with honey. The original recipe, however, has been lost to history. Historians today believe that Mithridates likely did not actually have such an antidote, but continued to fund research while publicly bragging that he already had it to fend off potential assassination attempts.
Three jars used to hold the semi-mythical drug mithridatum,
By Wellcome Images, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Pliny, a Roman author and natural philosopher, amassed a great body of knowledge from studying and investigating natural and geographic phenomena. He wrote the Naturalis Historia, which claimed to cover all ancient knowledge and became an editorial model for later encyclopedias.
Plinywrote in the Naturalis Historia that after the Roman general Pompey (106–48 BCE) defeated Mithridates, he found in Mithridates' private cabinet the following recipe for an antidote in Mithridates' own handwriting:
Take two dried walnuts, two figs and twenty leaves of rue; pound them all together, with the addition of a grain of salt; if a person takes this mixture fasting, he will be proof against all poisons for that day.
The Latin phrase addito salis grano literally means "after having added a grain of salt," but it was translated as "with a grain of salt" (cum grano salis in Latin) to more closely match the grammar of modern Romance languages. The idea here is that a poison or an unsavory medical cure is more easily swallowed with a small amount of salt.
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The implication that a grain of salt can mediate the effect of poison did not take on a metaphorical slant until much later, influenced by scholarly study of classical Latin texts. In 1647, the English religious commentator John Trapp wrote, "This is to be taken with a grain of salt." No one is exactly sure what he meant, and it's possible that this expression did not convey the same meaning it holds today. Perhaps a particular piece of commentary on the Bible was a little hard to swallow, for whatever reason.
The phrase didn't really gain traction until the early twentieth century. It did not surface again until the August 1908 edition of The Athenæum, a U.S. literary journal. The journal included this text:
Our reasons for not accepting the author's pictures of early Ireland without many grains of salt . . .
Apparently, the photographer's work did not meet the editorial guidelines of the journal. By this time, it seems that the metaphor was already common enough that readers understood the meaning even when it was slightly altered for rhetorical effect.
From here, the saying "with a grain of salt"—based on the idea of using salt to make something unpalatable easier to swallow—began to catch on as a metaphor for adding a little skepticism when consuming potentially doubtful information.
The UK caught on later in the century. The earliest printed citation comes from the 1948 book Cicero & the Roman Republic:
A more critical spirit slowly developed, so that Cicero and his friends took more than the proverbial pinch of salt before swallowing everything written by these earlier authors.
This quote itself provides a good lesson on studying etymology and language change—use good judgment, vet your sources, and take things with a grain of salt when it seems that there are gaps in the historical narrative.
Just ask Salt Bae, who became an internet meme in 2017.
Corwell, F. H. Cicero & the Roman Republic. Pelican Book, 1948.
Hall-Geisel, Kristen. "What Does It Mean to 'Take It with a Grain of Salt'?" How Stuff Works, June 30, 2020. https://people.howstuffworks.com/grain-of-salt.htm.
Hyden, Mark. "Mithridates' Poison Elixir: Fact or Fiction?" World History Encyclopedia, June 2, 2016. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/906/mithridates-poison-elixir-fact-or-fiction/.
Gutoskey, Ellen. "Why Do We Tell People to Take Something 'With a Grain of Salt'?" Mental Floss, September 22, 2021, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/648536/take-it-grain-salt-meaning-and-origins.
Martin, Gary. "The Meaning and Origin of the Expression: Take with a Grain of Salt." The Phrase Finder. Retrieved October 11, 2021, from https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/take-with-a-grain-of-salt.html.
The Idioms. "Take with a grain of salt." https://www.theidioms.com/take-with-a-grain-of-salt/.
Wikipedia. "Pliny the Elder." Retrieved October 11, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder.
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The RCIA is for individuals who are new to the Catholic faith, or who are returning Catholics, and wish to learn the basic beliefs and tenets of the faith. This program lasts several months and is held in numerous parishes in the diocese.
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The Need for Change in Retail Marketing Strategy
By Jeff Weidauer
Finding success in retail has never been an easy task. Success breeds competition, which drives innovation and so on through the cycle. It seems that as the world has become more connected things are tougher than ever.
For example, price has always been a major component in consumers' decision process. In the world of food retail, just about every chain has touted its low price message to varying degrees. Terms like "low price leader" and "low prices everyday" were always empty promises to shoppers, but couldn't really be proven one way or the other.
Today's world is a transparent one. Shoppers can search for price information while in-store and find another price locally or order online — all with nothing more than a smartphone and the appropriate app. Clearly competing on price, while only partially effective 20 years ago, is an exercise in futility today.
This necessitates a change in strategy, but to what? For retailers who have focused almost exclusively on price, what are the steps to creating a differentiated offering that allows them to compete effectively in this new world?
There are three basic steps to creating a new go-to-market strategy. Consider this a "three-step program to success":
Find yourself. What's your unique or hard-to-copy offering? This may take a little detective work; you might have to go back to the early days and figure it out. The point is that few companies were started with the intent of competing solely on price. Therefore, some ability to deliver "more, better, faster" is in your company's DNA somewhere.
Develop your differentiators. Once you've determined what your unique value is to consumers, focus on making those the best they can be. If it's service, then make that the focal point for every associate, from the CEO to the newest hire. Your differentiator must be valuable to your target audience.
Deliver. Every day. No matter what. And when you don't, own up to the error, make it right and fix the problem. These sound like simple ideas, and they are. But bringing these simple ideas to life to build a path to success is anything but easy. Getting there takes commitment, focus and a resistance to reverting back to old habits.
The greatest challenge to making large-scale changes, especially in the area of strategy, is inertia. Old habits are hard to break, and when the benefit of changing those habits isn't immediate — as in the case of building a new strategy — it's all too easy to revert to that comfortable process that you don't have to think too hard about.
J.C. Penney is a good, if extreme, example of a company in the midst of reinvention, shifting its focus from price only (via coupons and sales) to a more transparent pricing policy. CEO Ron Johnson, who has gotten a lot of press as the guy who made the Apple retail stores what they are, has a lot more work to do. Right now there are lots of eyes on Johnson and his "Fair and Square" pricing program. Changing the go-to-market, while risky, was the easy part.
Next comes the hard part: getting the 156,000 employees at the chain's 1,100 stores to buy into the new strategy and live it with customers. It's clear that Johnson has a vision. What isn't clear is how accepting current employees will be of the changes coming, and how long it will take to truly transform J.C. Penney.
While the J.C. Penney example may be an extreme one, it's readily apparent that shifting from a "low price" strategy to anything else takes vision, tenacity and commitment over the long term. In short, it's not easy, but in the new world of price transparency, not changing really isn't an option.
Jeff Weidauer is vice president of marketing and strategy for Vestcom International, a Little Rock, Ark.-based provider of integrated shopper marketing solutions. Jeff can be reached at jweidauer@vestcom.com.
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Consider using a weightlifting belt, not so much to lend support for your spine as to enforce the tenets of proper posture and form while lifting.
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Eve is making her return to scripted TV. The rapper/actress is reportedly set to star in an upcoming ABC pilot called Queens with Naturi Naughton of Power fame.
According to Variety, the project is to be scripted by Zahir McGhee, who has previously worked on Scandal and Slumptown; and will be about a the members of a successful rap group called The Nasty Bitches, who suddenly reunite in their 40s.
Eve will star as group leader Brianna and Naughton will play founder Jill, who is now a devout Catholic living the quiet life with her husband.
Naughton first rose to fame as a member of the early 2000s girl group 3LW; and co-starred as Lil Kim in the 2008 Notorious B.I.G. biopic Notorious before landing her most famous role as Tasha St. Patrick on the 50 Cent-produced STARZ hit Power.
Of course, this isn't Eve's first go-round starring on a network show. She headlined her own sitcom from 2003 to 2005.
She's also made countless guest appearances on the small screen, including Empire, Jane The Virgin, Feel Good, and Kidding. She's also famously appeared in hit movies like The Cookout, XXX, and the popular Barbershop series.
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When you consider the fact that knives are man's oldest tool, then you need to recognize that fixed blades were the first form of them. Even today, many moons later, fixed blade knives are the most widely adopted blade variant across the world. From the hunting knife to the kitchen knife, it's probably safe to say that you've probably got one of each, if not multiples of each in your home. But with all of the variants available in the market today – from blade shape to steel type – it's never easy knowing which one will be right for you. Once we're done testing those blades, we know exactly what they can and cannot do – and that should narrow down your list of final contestants to just a handful.
As it has been for the past few years, tactical and hunting knives – which generally become hybridized within their classifications – are the most popular of fixed blade knives. You're most likely going to carry a fixed blade knife on your belt which means size isn't really an overall factor – so the current trend in the market is to go bigger and thicker. This subcategory is known as a "camp knife" and though its numbers don't come close to a classic hunting knife or skinner in terms of what's available in them out on the market, they have the ability to replace a hatchet or even a shovel – so they're appealing to survivalists and folks who spend a considerable amount of time out in the outdoor world trying to figure life out.
That said, the leader of the pack – in terms of fixed blade knives – is still generally under 4" in blade length, features a drop point style blade, and resembles something your grandfather or father may have carried back in their day. This is a generalization of course, but the old adage still rings true – if it isn't broken, don't fix it. Though blade and handle materials have changed, and more blade shapes slowly slip through the cracks every few years, why bother reinventing the wheel when it already rolls so well?
The Helle Utvær is a phenomenal representation of what a modern survival knife should be. Hundreds of years ago, there were people out "in it" really trying to survive and they had knives very similar to the design of this one. But do not be mistaken, the Utvaer is not an homage to the past but a resurrection for the future. There was a lot of thought that went into its design and composition, and it was an honor using and abusing it!


A rapid, simple, specific and precise high-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC) method was developed for the simultaneous estimation of sitagliptin (STG) and metformin (MET) content in a fixed dose pharmaceutical formulation and also in bulk drug. In the developed method, aluminium backed silica gel 60 F254 HPTLC plates were employed as stationary phase with BuOH, CHCl3, MeOH, (CH3CH2)2NH2 and HCOOH in a ratio of 4:0.5:2.5:1.5:0.06 (v/v) as a mobile phase, and chromatograms were scanned densitometrically at 206 nm. For STG and MET, Rf values were found to be 0.76 and 0.27, respectively. The linearity curve for the drugs was obtained in the concentration range of 2 - 7 μg per band and 20 - 70 μg per band, respectively. Correlation coefficients for STG and MET were 0.999 and 0.997, respectively. The developed method was confirmed by validating it as per the ICH guidelines. The limits of detection (LOD) and limits of quantification (LOQ) for STG and MET were found to be 0.014 & 0.042, and 0.013 & 0.040 μg per band, respectively. The developed method was found to be precise, accurate (mean recovery was within the range of 98 - 102%), specific and robust. Therefore, the method can be used for the simultaneous quality control analysis of the STG and MET in bulk drugs and pharmaceutical formulations.


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Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Patent Pools
Michael Mattioli, Indiana University Maurer School of LawFollow
Robert P. Merges, University of California - Berkeley
78 Ohio State Law Journal 281 (2017)
This Article addresses a policy question that has challenged scholars and lawmakers since the 1850s: Do the transaction cost benefits of patent pools outweigh their potential for consumer harm? This question has special importance today. Patent pools are on the increase, due to large numbers of patents in critical industries such as software and mobile phones. In this Article, we present the first empirically-based estimate of the transaction costs savings engendered by patent pools. Drawing on interviews with administrators of prominent pools, we document the costs of assembling and administering a functioning pool. We then estimate the transaction costs that would result if the pool were never formed. This means estimating the costs of large-scale bilateral licensing of all patents included in the pool. We include an estimate, again based on empirical data, of the cost of occasional litigation when bilateral negotiations break down. Comparing the cost of running a pool with the counterfactual cost of licensing (plus probabilistic litigation) in the absence of a pool, we estimate empirically the transaction cost savings from pooling patents. The numbers are impressive: many pools save hundreds of millions of dollars in transaction costs.
Next, we tackle consumer welfare losses. Antitrust regulators and scholars identify two chief costs: lost substitutes and lowered incentives to invent improvements. Substitutes may be lost when a pool combines patents on two technologies that perform the same function. This has the potential to increase consumer prices. We present a method for estimating social welfare losses from combining substitutes. Through case studies, we apply this method to estimate the welfare losses (in dollars) caused by specific patent pools. We present a second method for estimating the consumer welfare losses represented by lowered incentives to innovate. The chief feature of pools that affects future incentives is the "grantback clause," under which members agree to license future members into the pool. Again drawing from real-world case studies, we apply our method to estimate the potential losses in dollars that flow from grantbacks. This phase of the analysis draws on cutting-edge patent portfolio mapping techniques to estimate future lost substitutes due to grantback clauses.
When the welfare loss estimates are compared to the transaction cost savings, one arrives at a comprehensive methodology for evaluating patent pools. The systematic approach presented here allows a regulator to say, for example, that society could tolerate a certain number of lost substitutes, given the cost savings of a pool. And it allows a regulator to estimate the future substitutes, lost due to grantback provisions, that can be tolerated given the pool's cost savings. Thus we present a comprehensive, reproducible, and rigorous framework for evaluating the net effects of any proposed patent pool.
In sum, this Article contributes two important "firsts" to the patent pooling debate: (1) We quantify the benefits (transaction cost savings) of patent pools, and (2) we quantify the consumer welfare costs from (a) lost substitutes, and (b) pool grantback clauses. The bottom line is a rigorous empirical approach to a policy question that has, until now, been carried along solely by theory and conjecture.
Mattioli, Michael and Merges, Robert P., "Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Patent Pools" (2017). Articles by Maurer Faculty. 2643.
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Q: Header refresh not working with jquery mobile I'm updating my site to a more mobile friendly responsive design using jquerymobile.  Usually I have the user login and after checking the details are correct it will refresh them onto a new page.
However, I can't get this working with jquerymobile. Presumably this is because of the Ajax override features? Ajax is currently foreign to me :)
The abridged script is like below:
else
//else, all ok proceed with login
{
if(isset($_GET['redirect']))
{header ("Refresh: 0; URL=" . $_GET['redirect'] . "");}
else{header ("Refresh: 0; URL=cohome.php");
echo "Your login was successful, you are being redirected in one second
";
echo "(If your browser doesn't support this, click here)";}
}

many thanks
Actually, to simplify things. I have the same problem with my logout button.

which leads to
<?php
session_start();
// make double sure that logged out.
$_SESSION['logged'] = "0";
session_destroy();
header("Refresh: 0; URL=index.php");

echo "You have been logged out.
";
echo "You are being redirected to the homepage!
";
echo "(If your browser doesn't support this, click here)";
?>

Unfortunately, no redirect occurs.  It works fine on my standard site, only since starting to change over to jquery mobile.

A: Ah ok. It seems to work fine if I turn off ajax, using "data-ajax=false".
<form name="login" id="login" action="<?php echo "processCoLogin.php?".$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; ?>" data-ajax=false method="post">

or
Log out

But I'd prefer a solution where I didn't have to turn off ajax & could redirect using header(location) still.

A: A header with a refresh of 0 makes not much sense. Consider using
header('location:' . $_GET['redirect']);

instead. Or, if you wish to display the redirect message, increase the refresh time. Last, but not least, you could also echo a refresh:
echo "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='3; url=" . $_GET['redirect']) . "'>";

However, using meta-refresh is not recommended. But if you are using JS and rely on it, you could also use a JS redirection:
echo "setTimeout(\"location.href = '" . $_GET['redirect']) . "';\", 3000);";

There are several ways, but a PHP refresh with 0 seconds isn't the best idea in my opinion.