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What is the difference between Windows Update and Upgrade
When it comes to Windows OS, Update and Upgrade terms may be confusing to some. Every time Microsoft rolls out a set of new features, many of us think its an upgrade while it could have been an update only.
Simply speaking:
Update: Fix Performance issues, Security holes, fix bugs & known issue, add hardware support and introduce minor features or changes in the OS. It does not change the version of Windows.
Upgrade: It introduces major new features including UI changes. It changes the version of Windows.
The same applies to Windows 10 as well. Let's get into the details.
Difference between Update & Upgrade in Windows OS
When Microsoft rolls out a major version of Windows, then its called an Upgrade. This usually happens when there a jump from one version to another. Windows 8 was an upgrade to Windows 7. The same happened with Windows 10 rollout. It became an upgrade to Windows 8.1 and Windows 8. Microsoft not only added new features but also revamped the UI and so on. Now in Windows 10, they are referred to as v 1809, v1803, and so on.
Windows Upgrades is usually rolled out through the Windows Update/Upgrade Assistant. It makes sure that your computer is compatible with the next major update.
Windows Update, on the contrary, is a minor update. It can bring small new features which were not there in the first release of a major version – but it doesn't change anything on a larger scale. Do note that when I say "minor", I don't mean that update is very small; it is smaller compared to a major upgrade.
For Windows 10, Microsoft rolls out Feature Updates. They are typically released twice per year. They include new functions, capabilities as well as potential fixes and security updates. A Feature update can be further split into categories, which includes security, service pack, and so on. Microsoft rolls these updates to the device through Windows Update Service.
Windows 10 v1511, v1803, v1809, etc. are Feature Updates. In Windows 10 they can be considered as 'Upgrades'.
Read: Different types of Windows Updates.
There will be no new 'version' of Windows in future
There will be no new version of Windows. That is there will be no Windows 11. Microsoft has adopted the path of a continuous update. This means that you get an improved Windows with new features every 6 months instead of waiting for 3+ years for the next version. This became possible through the Windows Insider Program. A lot of people share feedback and help in shaping Windows 10.
Microsoft is slowly moving towards Windows 10 as a Service model. While it makes existing consumers don't have to pay for Windows anymore, and new customers just buy it once. Especially with Microsoft account tied to Windows 10 License.
However, when the time comes, Microsoft may start charging for some features, and that can become a revenue model for them. Since there is no more paying for Windows 10, once you buy it, and keep using it, you become part of the ecosystem. This helps Microsoft in long-term as people stay onboard. Later, if the in-app purchase model rolls out, then customers will be free to buy what is useful and skip rest.
Hope this clarifies the difference between Update and Upgrade in Windows.
Date: December 12, 2018 Tags: Windows Updates
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.class Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/i;
.super Ljava/lang/Object;

# interfaces
.implements Landroid/widget/AdapterView$OnItemClickListener;

# instance fields
.field final synthetic a:Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;

# direct methods
.method constructor <init>(Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;)V
    .locals 0

    iput-object p1, p0, Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/i;->a:Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;

    invoke-direct {p0}, Ljava/lang/Object;-><init>()V

    return-void
.end method

# virtual methods
.method public onItemClick(Landroid/widget/AdapterView;Landroid/view/View;IJ)V
    .locals 5
    .annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/Signature;
        value = {
            "(",
            "Landroid/widget/AdapterView",
            "<*>;",
            "Landroid/view/View;",
            "IJ)V"
        }
    .end annotation

    const-string v0, "AlarmRepeatActivity"

    new-instance v1, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    invoke-direct {v1}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;-><init>()V

    const-string v2, "onItemClick: "

    invoke-virtual {v1, v2}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-virtual {v1, p3}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(I)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-static {v0, v1}, Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/Debug;->i(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)V

    sget-object v0, Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/model/AlarmClockItem;->WEEK_MASK:[I

    aget v0, v0, p3

    const/4 v1, 0x1

    shl-int/2addr v1, p3

    iget-object v2, p0, Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/i;->a:Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;

    invoke-static {v2}, Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;->a(Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;)I

    move-result v2

    and-int/2addr v1, v2

    shr-int/2addr v1, p3

    const-string v2, "AlarmRepeatActivity"

    new-instance v3, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    invoke-direct {v3}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;-><init>()V

    const-string v4, "thebit at position: "

    invoke-virtual {v3, v4}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v3

    invoke-virtual {v3, p3}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(I)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v3

    const-string v4, ", thebit="

    invoke-virtual {v3, v4}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v3

    invoke-virtual {v3, v1}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(I)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v3

    invoke-virtual {v3}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v3

    invoke-static {v2, v3}, Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/Debug;->i(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)V

    iget-object v2, p0, Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/i;->a:Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;

    if-nez v1, :cond_0

    iget-object v1, p0, Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/i;->a:Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;

    invoke-static {v1}, Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;->a(Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;)I

    move-result v1

    or-int/2addr v0, v1

    :goto_0
    invoke-static {v2, v0}, Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;->a(Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;I)I

    iget-object v0, p0, Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/i;->a:Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;

    invoke-static {v0}, Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;->b(Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;)Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/view/SelectDaysView;

    move-result-object v0

    iget-object v1, p0, Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/i;->a:Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;

    invoke-static {v1}, Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;->a(Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;)I

    move-result v1

    invoke-virtual {v0, v1}, Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/view/SelectDaysView;->setDays(I)V

    iget-object v0, p0, Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/i;->a:Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;

    invoke-static {v0}, Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;->c(Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;)V

    return-void

    :cond_0
    iget-object v1, p0, Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/i;->a:Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;

    invoke-static {v1}, Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;->a(Lcn/com/smartdevices/bracelet/ui/AlarmRepeatActivity;)I

    move-result v1

    xor-int/lit8 v0, v0, -0x1

    and-int/2addr v0, v1

    goto :goto_0
.end method

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Overactive bladder (OAB) can be extremely stressful when symptoms are high. Even when symptoms are low, the anticipation of your future symptoms leaves you uncomfortable and anxious. At this point, OAB equals stress, and you want less of it.
When OAB is in your life, you look for every possible measure to feel better and keep your symptoms well controlled. What you need is support.
Supports come in many different shapes, sizes, and methods of delivery. What they have in common is the ability to improve your OAB symptoms and overall happiness in life.
People with high levels of stress often spend a significant amount of their resources trying to lower stress. This strategy is sound, but some stressors cannot be removed or resolved.
Because of this, working to improve your supports is the most efficient use of your time and limited abilities. If you can build your supports enough, they will offset the power of your stressors, and life will improve.
The type of support that is usually synonymous with the term is social support. This level of support encapsulates all of the people you have positive relationships with, even if you do not interact with them on a daily basis.
Friends, family, teammates, roommates, bandmates, and coworkers all fit into this category. Even the last person on your social media friend list is a support, as long as they do not actively trigger stress.
Of course, pets can provide meaningful support, but like with all supports, a diverse social support group will yield the best payout.
Financial support may not receive much attention, but this support is an important one. If you are constantly in a financial crisis, your life will feel very stressful.
Financial support can be measured by your financial security based on income versus expenses.
When you have a significant medical condition like OAB, you need medical supports. These supports will be comprised of your medical treatment team.
They will include your primary care physician and specialists like urologists, gynecologists, urogynecologists, and others. These people will support with information, education, and treatment options that reduce levels of stress.
OAB is a physical condition with a strong link to mental health. It is possible that depression and anxiety can lead to increased symptoms of OAB, and OAB can lead to increased symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Seeking out mental health supports can be an overlooked but vital step in your treatment. Psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, and social workers are all wonderful options to add to your team of supports. Each will have a number of available strategies to lower your stress and boost your functioning.
For many, spiritual health is a vital aspect of their overall wellbeing. These people benefit greatly from a form of spiritual support that fits with their belief system.
Meetings with religious leaders, attending religious services, meeting with others who have similar values, and prayers are a few methods to gain spiritual support. Even people without a strong religious affiliation can do well to find some sense of spiritual fulfillment as a support.
Supports are varied, but all supports help your situation. Some people look at their life to find a lack of benefit from supports.
Assessing your supports accurately. Just because someone has been in your life for a long time does not mean they are a support.
Making modifications. If your support is poor and you are doing everything in your power to improve it, it may be time abandon that support. Before you do, though, focus on finding a replacement that can surpass the benefit of its predecessor.
Adding new. You must be willing to take extra measures to acquire new supports. This can be done by declaring your intentions to your current supports or find new avenues of contact like social media.
You may take your supports for granted, or you may have given up on the idea of having supports completely. For anyone, supports are critically important to your health and wellbeing.
OAB zaps your resources as it adds stress. Combat these influences with the power of supports. The OAB will not disappear, but as your supports grow, your symptoms will seem to shrivel by comparison.
Some of the foods you eat, drinks you consume, and your daily habits could be contributing to your symptomd and acting as overactive bladder triggers.


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Q: error checking at the controller level making fields required I have a VF page with a lot of fields. the requirement is that all the error messages on the fields need to be listed together at the top of the page and have field level error messages. Currently, we have something like this:
<apex:inputField value = 'f1' />
<apex:inputField value = 'f2' />

When the user clicks submit, at the controller level,  I check if either of the fields are blank, and if they are, i return an aggregated error. but i don't know how to render the red required bar since all this is happening at the controller level
Basically, the requirement is

*

*for the required fields have a red bar

*if the fields are not filled in, display field level errors

*For all the field level errors, display a message at the top of the page saying the user needs to enter in these values

A: You can use (Required="true") attribute. This attribute is of apex:inputField tag. This attribute will give you field level error. you dont need to do coding in controller.
And for all field level errors, you have to add one VF tag <apex:pagemessages />. this tag will show you all error messages together.

A: If you want to take it a step further and add errors for business logic rather than just empty fields, take a look at the addError() functionality within APEX code.
http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/An_Introduction_to_Exception_Handling

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Graves' disease (GD) is an autoimmune disorder caused by the presence of thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins (TSI) that bind to the TSH receptor on the thyroid cells and stimulate the uncontrolled production of thyroid hormones. Detecting the presence of TSI in the blood is a powerful diagnostic tool for the differential diagnosis of GD.
TSI measurements are also used to monitor the response to GD therapy and prediction of remission or relapse, confirming Graves' ophthalmopathy, and for predicting neonatal thyroid hyperthyroidism.1,2 Incorporating the TSI assay into existing diagnostic algorithms has been shown to reduce overall direct costs of GD diagnosis by up to 43%, with the net cost of avoiding misdiagnosis reduced by up to 85%.3
The IMMULITE® 2000/2000 XPi TSI assay is the first automated and quantitative TSI assay available today. TSH receptor antibody (TRAb) assays detect both thyroid blocking and stimulating antibodies. However, blocking antibodies inhibit TSH stimulation of thyroid cells and lead to hypothyroidism. The IMMULITE 2000/2000 XPi TSI assay detects thyroid stimulating antibodies, the specific cause of GD pathology, with a clinical sensitivity and specificity of 98.6% and 98.5% respectively. With a 65-minute total assay time and ready-to-use, stable reagents, the use of this assay can make the differential diagnosis of GD faster and easier, allowing patients to be diagnosed and treated sooner.
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Understanding Graves' Disease
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Graves' disease is an autoimmune disorder that leads to overactivity of the thyroid gland – hyperthyroidism. It is caused by an abnormal immune system response that causes the thyroid gland to produce too much thyroid hormone. The thyroid gland is a butterfly-shaped organ that lies flat against the windpipe in the throat. It produces the hormones thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) and plays an important role in controlling the body's metabolism.4
What are the symptoms of Graves' disease?5
People with Graves' disease may have common symptoms of hyperthyroidism such as
nervousness or irritability
fatigue or muscle weakness
heat intolerance
rapid and irregular heartbeat
frequent bowel movements or diarrhea
goiter, which is an enlarged thyroid that may cause the neck to look swollen and can interfere with normal breathing and swallowing
In addition, the eyes of people with Graves' disease may appear enlarged because their eyelids are retracted—seem pulled back into the eye sockets—and their eyes bulge out from the eye sockets. This condition is called Graves' ophthalmopathy.5
Who is likely to develop Graves' disease?
Graves' disease usually occurs in people younger than age 40 and is seven to eight times more common in women than men.5 Women are most often affected between ages 30 and 60.5
According to the National Women's Health Information Center, Graves' disease affects about 2% of women at some time in their lives.
Read more about women and thyroid disease
Factors such as age, sex, heredity, and emotional and environmental stress are likely involved in Graves' disease. And a person's chance of developing Graves' disease increases if other family members have the disease. Researchers have not been able to find a specific gene that causes the disease to be passed from parent to child. While scientists know some people inherit an immune system that can make antibodies against healthy cells, predicting who will be affected is difficult. 5
Laboratory testing is essential to verify the diagnosis, help estimate the severity of, monitoring, and assisting in planning therapy for Graves' disease patients.
To detect thyroid dysfunction, testing may begin with:
TSH — typically low in Graves' disease
Total or free T4 — usually elevated
Total or free T3 — often elevated
The above tests may also be ordered periodically to monitor thyroid function and hormone production.
Laboratory tests used to help diagnose Graves' disease and distinguish it from other autoimmune conditions may include one or more tests used to detect the presence of thyroid antibodies:4
Thyroid stimulating immunoglobulin (TSI) — the presence of this antibody is diagnostic for Graves' disease.
Thyroid stimulating hormone receptor antibody (TRAb) — less specific than TSI
Anti-thyroid peroxidase antibody (anti-TPO) — this autoantibody is found in most people with Graves' disease, as well as in Hashimoto thyroiditis.
Predicting the progression of autoimmune disorders – insights into Graves' Disease
Dr. S.M. Hossein Sadrzadeh discusses his work developing markers for Graves' disease.
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1Gupta, Manjula K. Thyrotropin-receptor antibodies in thyroid diseases: advances in detection techniques and clinical applications. Clinica Chimica Acta. 2000;293:1-29
2M.R. Bjorgaas, H. Farstad, S.C. Christiansen, H-G.K. Blaas. Impact of thyrotrophin receptor antibody levels on fetal development in two successive pregnancies in a woman with Graves' disease. Horm, res. Paediatr. 79:39-43, 2012.
3McKee A., Peyerl, F. TSI assay utilization: impact on costs of Graves' hyperthyroidism diagnosis. AJMC. 2012; 18(1):1-15.
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5http://www.endocrine.niddk.nih.gov/pubs/graves/
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Elliot looking out on the Amalfi Coast in 1991
On December 20th, Elliot was delusional, falling out of bed, and not himself. Anne correctly admitted him to Casey House, where he was administered pain medication and sedation. She called me, Jacob Davenport, that morning to tell me that he might just have hours left, so I rushed over. Over the next four days, his friends, coworkers, and family visited him to say goodbye. We played his favorite music, talked with him and about how much he meant to us. On the few occasions that he regained a little consciousness, he was clearly in pain and discomfort, and the nurses were quick to give him more medication. On Christmas Eve at 4:30am, Elliot died, attended by his wife, his parents, and me. We were all relieved that he was no longer in pain, but we were all profoundly sad to lose him.
I met Elliot sometime in 1987. His circles of friends overlapped mine, and he was the only bridge-playing friend whom I did not teach the game to, since he already knew a bit of it. He was an easy person to be friends with, social glue to pull together many good people.
When Elliot was about 19, his then girlfriend Amber, whom Elliot adored, broke up with him. I remember the night well, how shocked and sad he looked, and how I felt terrible for him, but I didn't know what to do. I wanted him to sit down and pushed his shoulder, and he collapsed. I sat with him and was sad, but I didn't know what to say.
When I was 20, my then girlfriend Stacey, whom I adored and had known for seven years, broke up with me. I was living in England for a semester abroad, where Elliot had come as well, and he came to see me as soon as he heard. He knew exactly what to say and what to do. He said that it was OK to be sad, that crying would make me feel a little better, and that sometimes he'd listen to sad music to let the feelings come. This wisdom was not what I would expect most 20 year old men to have and to share, but I grew to expect it from Elliot.
The picture above is a few months later, when Elliot and I toured around France and Italy for a month. We also spent time that spring in Wales and Ireland. While I was sometimes sad at the loss of the future I'd never have with Stacey, I greatly enjoyed the time Elliot and I spent visiting these old countries, seeing their natural beauty, fantastic ruins, and even modern attractions. To be fair to both Amber and Stacey, they were not the best matches for us, although it would take years to figure that out for both of us. We talked about love lost, about the cities and towns we walked through, and Elliot sang many songs to me.
He patiently taught me the Subterranian Homesick Blues, he sang me all of Les Miserables, and all of Jesus Christ Superstar (and discussed the differences between the film and the theater album). We sang several Paul Simon songs together. I sang several songs I knew or had created to him. I sing badly. I have three notes, and they are all off-key. Elliot never teased me for it.
I have a healthy ego, being very confident in many of my areas of expertise and skill. I liked spending time with Elliot as a reminder that I'm not all that, and because he was never arrogant about his exceeding intelligence and experience and cultural knowledge. Instead, he enjoyed sharing what he knew when he had a receptive audience, and did not press when he did not. I remain a person who is occasionally accused of being pompus and dismissive of people, but I try to be inspired by Elliot's example of tolerance, respect, and kindness.
I have many people in my life who are as kind as Elliot, and I consider myself extordinarily lucky for it. But while Elliot was kind, he did not allow mean or demoralizing people into his life. His kindness did not lead him to take in social parasites, as can happen to the kind and tolerant, and his group of friends remain some of my favorite people. He kept those connections alive, and while I knew Elliot for 30 years, I was not his oldest friend.
After college, I lived with Elliot and four other people (Vicky, Matt, Peter, and Sheila) in Manhattan. When three of them returned for their final year of college, Elliot, Matt, and I moved into a brownstone in Brooklyn near Prospect Park. While there, Elliot and I were invited out to see a film (True Lies, I think) and dinner with Elliot's coworker Jackie, and her roommate Anne. Apparently Jackie was trying to set me up with Anne, but I was still dating Vicky. Since Jackie and I are the extraordinary extroverts, we did nearly all the talking, and since I still did not have that much social grace, I'm sure I was annoying. Later I asked Elliot what he thought of Anne, and he said, "she's not that interesting." Oh my! I didn't realize how taken he was with her until then. Elliot never says a bad word about anyone, so I knew immediately he was besotted. When Anne asked him out for a date a few days later, I made a mental note that they would marry.
After Elliot and Anne moved in together, I remember sitting and talking with Elliot in his kitchen and I asked, "so, when are you going to marry this girl?" He said he had been thinking about it, and I believe he proposed soon after that conversation. I think it was one of the best decisions he ever made. He was the first of our friends to get married, the first to buy a house, and the first to move back to the DC area. I stayed in Brooklyn with Matt, living in the brownstone that Anne and Elliot had lived in before. When I came back to DC for a visit after a long time away, I saw my friends Johnny and Elliot and realized that I was in the wrong city. Matt and I moved back to Maryland a few months later. It was the best decision I have ever made. I returned on March 4th, 1996.
While in Manhattan, Elliot, Matt, Peter, and I started to develop a bridge bidding system. Bridge is a game with fairly simple rules (and annoying scoring) in which you and your partner are only allowed to communicate through very limited bids and the cards you play. There are dozens of well respected bidding systems, and we decided we wanted to create our own. When I returned to DC, Elliot and I experimented with that system in earnest and fleshed it out for the next twenty years. We played bridge once or twice a week together, reading and sharing bridge books, discussing nearly every hand we played and what we could learn from it, and enjoying each other's company. Some bridge partners get angry at each other, because bridge is a game where there are so many decisions and avoiding mistakes is nearly impossible. Elliot always had great patience with me, which I returned in kind. We played at bridge clubs and finally earned enough master points to become life masters, and there were many times that he and I had syncronicity and teamwork that I enjoyed more than any other game I've ever played.
I remember Elliot telling me in the start of 2016 how he was feeling itchy for reasons he did not understand. We soon learned he had pancreatic cancer, which I knew was a killer. I changed our schedule so we could hit the best bridge games, so we could spend his limited time together doing things we enjoyed. I spent many hours with him at the hospital, losing to him in Schnapsen, and discussing how much cancer sucks. I shared some wonderful meals with him while he was still able to enjoy them. I told him many times that I loved him and that I would miss him. We both agreed that we both had lived full lives and that we would not feel cheated out of life to die in our forties. We wanted more life, of course, but we both looked back on all the good people and experinces we had with satisfaction. He said that as long as he was enjoying life, he wanted to keep going.
Two weeks before he died, Elliot said he was done. He was in too much pain, too much nausea, and could not focus on anything else. While at Casey House, we held his hands, we waited with him and listened to each breath, and we were very sad. And as Elliot told me 27 years before, it's OK to cry.
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Q: I want to use %b.caret as the text of an anchor Using haml I am trying to generate following HTML
Account

I have tried the following:
%a.dropdown-toggle{ href: "#", data: { toggle: "dropdown" } } Account %b.caret

But that just renders the verbatim text => Account %b.caret
I also tried
%a.dropdown-toggle{ href: "#", data: { toggle: "dropdown" } } Account
%b.caret

but that generates

also when I indent %b it doesn't work, I get an error message.
The only thing that is working is:
%a.dropdown-toggle{ href: "#", data: { toggle: "dropdown" } } Account

But that puts html with class info into the source and I am using haml to avoid that, aren't I?
How can I get this thing to work in haml?

A: Set it up like this:
%a.dropdown-toggle{ href: "#", data: { toggle: "dropdown" } }
  Account
  %b.caret

You can either have content on the same line as the container element, or you can nest content on the next line. You just can't do both. Moving Account down and nesting it and %b.caret should do the trick.


HENRICO COUNTY, VA - Virginia State Police closed lanes along I-95 south Monday morning due to a serious crash that involved two tractor trailers. The crash happened around 3:30 a.m., near the Parham Road exit (mile marker 83), according to police.
"The driver of a 2008 Freightliner tractor with a car hauler was traveling in the right lane and was having difficulty maintaining speed. A tractor hauling a Perdue trailer then struck the car hauler in the rear," Virginia State Police spokesperson Sgt. Keeli Hill said. "The driver of the car hauler was transported to the hospital for the treatment of minor to serious injuries. The driver of the Perdue truck had to be extracted from the cab of the truck and was transported to the hospital for serious injuries."
Cleanup on the interstate was expected to taken "an extended period of time."


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Jacobus Flori, aussi Jacobus Florii, né à Maastricht vers 1550 (?) et actif entre 1571 et 1588, est un compositeur de l'école des polyphonistes néerlandais.

Vie et œuvre
Jacobus, fils présumé de Francesco Flori l'Ancien (ou Franciscus Florius), aurait été élevé par son père, qui travailla de 1557 à 1588 à Munich, où, en 1556, était également actif le compositeur Orlando di Lasso.  Flori se présente au début de la préface de son recueil  :

 « Puisque le proverbe nous exhorte à juste titre "[q]ue chacun pratique l'art qu'il a appris", je n'ai manifestement pas agi de façon irresponsable chaque fois que j'ai investi mon attention, mon temps, mes efforts et mon zèle dans cet art où j'ai été nourri assidûment comme par le lait maternel, depuis le début de ma vie, même dès l'enfance (comme on dit) ; et cela sous ce maître indubitablement considéré parmi tous les musiciens plus âgés comme certainement le meilleur, Orlando di Lasso, directeur et maître de la musique vocale de l'illustre duc de Bavière. »

Il travailla de 1572 à 1574 comme bascontre au service de l'Illustre Confrérie de Notre-Dame à Bois-le-Duc, la ville où il fit connaissance avec Balthasar de Bont, à qui il dédia le recueil , que ce chanoine avait sans doute soutenu financièrement en tant que mécène.  On retrouve Flori ensuite à Stuttgart et à Hechingen.  Il fut temporairement attaché à la chapelle de la cour d'Innsbruck.  En 1575, il revint passagèrement aux Pays-Bas.  Son recueil de 13 motets et de 8 s, paru en 1599, fut dédié à l'évêque de Salzbourg, qui l'avait engagé comme maître de chapelle, mais qui rejeta l'hommage que le compositeur lui avait rendu, après quoi Flori revint aux Pays-Bas.  Une source munichoise mentionne un certain Jacob Flori, qui aurait reçu douze florins pour une messe, sans doute la .  En outre, Jacobus composa les messes St, st, st non pii dormir et .

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Le recueil à trois voix , publié auprès de Petrus Phalesius à Louvain en 1573, contient, à part 9 motets latins (musique religieuse), surtout 24 chansons néerlandaises, dont 15 à thèmes « sages » et scripturaires (chansons spirituelles), 6 chansons d'amour et 3 chansons « folles » (narrant des histoires rocambolesques), par lesquelles il peut être considéré comme un des compositeurs les plus prolifiques de son temps de pièces musicales sur des paroles néerlandaises.  À l'époque, la musique sur des paroles néerlandaises n'était plus, comme jadis, un produit d'exportation.  Huit textes ont sans doute été empruntés aux chansons de Noé Faignient.  C'est de la musique de chambre par excellence, destinée à un public d'amateurs qui font de la musique au sein du foyer familial.  En dehors de cette source unique, aucune autre chanson néerlandaise de Flori n'est conservée.

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  Bonda, Jan Willem.   [Les chansons polyphoniques néerlandaises des  et  siècles], Hilversum, Verloren, 1996 .
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Compositeur allemand de la Renaissance
Compositeur autrichien de la Renaissance
Naissance à Maastricht
Naissance dans le duché de Brabant
Compositeur allemand du XVIe siècle

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By integrating MAIO with the Kx database platform, (the world's fastest in-memory time series database), it will allow consumers of industrial data to quickly generate actionable insights for agile and strategic business decisions. Smartia deliver production ready AI and Machine Learning solutions that can be deployed at scale.
Companies are now starting to recognise that there is huge value in the data they create and hold allowing them to start planning on how to capitalise on that value as quickly as possible. The manufacturing and engineering sectors are one of the largest producers of data and it stems from production equipment, machines, sensors and other operational data sources.
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Mitch Albom Was "Phony Sweet" And Other Highlights Of PTI's Accidentally Released Behind-The-Scenes Audio
Timothy Burke
Filed to:Espn
ESPN helpfully publishes an audio podcast of its popular Pardon The Interruption program daily for viewers who can't find their way to a television at 5:30 p.m. Eastern. Yesterday, though, we received numerous emails alerting us to the bizarre nature of yesterday's podcast. For one, it was more than three and a half hours long instead of the usual 22 minutes; for another, it started with audio of a man talking about brining turkeys and continued with sometimes inaudible, bizarre chatter. (Nine minutes of an Al-Jazeera broadcast and an advertisement for computer security also make an appearance.)
For reasons we're still trying to figure out, that chatter is from the Washington, D.C. studio where ESPN tapes Around The Horn and broadcasts PTI. It allows the listener not only to eavesdrop on what hosts Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon talk about during commercial breaks, but to observe how the production of the program comes together—from debating which side of an argument each co-host will take, to the clever editing of pre-taped interview segments (in this case, with Peter King) to excise anything ESPN doesn't want on-air. At one point, Wilbon drops a "goddamn" and "bullshit."
As of this writing, the full audio file is still in its place and pretending to be the podcast of yesterday's episode. But to save you the hassle of listening to a very, very long audio file, we've broken it down into its best, and occasionally profane or suggestive, moments. Listening to the whole recording is somewhat like those bootlegged tapes from the Beatles' Get Back sessions: long periods of silence punctuated by people saying things that may or may not be interesting. Here's the interesting stuff.
0:00:00-0:13:49: This is audio from The Chew, an ABC cooking show. It's followed by a lot of creepy noises and footsteps that sound like one of those CDs you play outside your house to scare trick-or-treaters.
0:36:00: A female (producer?) remarks on Mitch Albom's having appeared on the network earlier in the day, and calls him "phony sweet."
0:41:33: Kornheiser discusses his upcoming trip to Florida, and complains about the hotel rates at The Breakers.
0:42:30: Peter King and Kornheiser discuss the latter's recent knee surgery.
0:52:50: In the pre-taped "Five Good Minutes" segment, Peter King discusses Jon Gruden's future and remarks that ESPN would be unhappy if he were to leave, having just kicked Ron Jaworski out of the booth. This was edited out of the broadcast on television.
0:55:17: Wilbon rants about how "goddamn offensive players" aren't held responsible during helmet-to-helmet hits for lowering their head, and asks, "What kind of bullshit is that?"
1:09:00: Tony Kornheiser discusses his drinking preferences, and states, "You can drink the cheap stuff so long as you drink the good stuff first."
1:24:45: Tony Reali praises Wilbon's performance during a soccer discussion, to which Wilbon responds, "Soccer blows."
1:34:25: Kornheiser elaborates on hot actresses and plastic surgery, specifically Marlo Thomas.
1:46:30: Reali names some actresses he'd like to see on pay cable, i.e., naked.
There's about 50 minutes of silence after that, followed by nine minutes of Al-Jazeera. After that, 40 more minutes of silence before the Carbonite ad that closes the program.
Less provocative, but interesting, moments include Kornheiser discussing which side he'd take during the Ed Reed debate (revealing the not-so-shocking news that the show's hosts aren't always speaking their actual opinions on the program) and Reali recording what sounds like a patch-in edit for Around The Horn to address the news that Reed's suspension had been lifted—news that arrived after the show was taped, but before it aired. ESPN's been airing its sausage production inadvertently a lot lately, but we can't figure out for the life of us how this file came to be yesterday's podcast episode. If you know anything, drop us a line.
ESPN Camera Catches Rick Reilly Ordering Stu Scott To Credit His Twitter Feed
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Last Saturday, after a fun, sunny, late January ride on the Ridgeline trail in the Tortolita Mountains (this is Tucson after all), Rudi and I had the pleasure of stopping by Catalina Brewing Company and visiting with Hank and Brian. The brewery is not open yet, but they plan to open later in February, i.e. this month. What a great place! Cyclists are going to love the decor, the atmosphere, and the brew. Hank and Brian have gone to great lengths for you to discover cycling items everywhere you look, e.g. the epoxied counter with all sorts of bike parts entombed within, shelves supported by cut bike rims, a bike route sign, and so much more. What more could a cycling enthusiast ask for? Beer. Glorious beer.
Bike stuff all around + Beer = Fun.
Part of our excitement, at Rudi Cycling Art, is that Hank and Brian want Rudi's images to be a significant part of what they are hanging on the walls at Catalina Brewing Company. What a great gesture by Hank and Brian. With the allure of empty walls, we've been off making our plans and hoping to break some new ground along the way. This is an opportunity to show Rudi's work, up close and personal, to a larger audience. I've always thought that when you are seeing an image on the internet, that it's difficult to imagine what it would look like framed and on your wall. But if you see it at a street fair (or maybe a brewery), there's a better connection. The Brewery will also act as a place we can experiment and learn, so that we can offer all of you more items on our Rudi Cycling Art site.
So if you wish, keep some tabs on Catalina Brewing Company to find out when they are opening or having events. All you Facers can look them up by name on Facebook. And start to think about an old friend you don't see much anymore and how you can entice them to come have a beer with you at this neat, new place.
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14-й чемпионат мира по лёгкой атлетике среди юниоров проходил с 10 по 15 июля 2012 года на Олимпийском стадионе в городе Барселона (Испания). В соревнованиях, согласно правилам, могли принимать участие спортсмены 1993 года рождения и моложе.

На старт в 44 дисциплинах чемпионата вышли 1566 легкоатлетов из 171 страны мира, из них 856 мужчин и 710 женщин.

Призёры
Сокращения: WJR — мировой рекорд среди юниоров | AJR — континентальный рекорд среди юниоров | NJR — национальный рекорд среди юниоров | CR — рекорд чемпионата
Курсивом выделены участники, выступавшие за эстафетные команды только в предварительных забегах

Юниоры

 22 марта 2019 года Всероссийская федерация лёгкой атлетики сообщила о дисквалификации на 3 года российского ходока Александра Иванова. Решение было принято на основании отклонений в биологическом паспорте спортсмена, которые указывали на применение допинга. Все результаты Иванова с 9 июля 2012 года по 17 августа 2014 года были аннулированы, в том числе второе место на юниорском чемпионате мира — 2012 в ходьбе на 10 000 м с результатом 40.12,90.

Юниорки

Медальный зачёт
Медали в 44 дисциплинах лёгкой атлетики завоевали представители 43 стран-участниц.

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Чемпионаты мира по лёгкой атлетике среди юниоров
Июль 2012 года
Спорт в Испании в 2012 году
2012 год в лёгкой атлетике
Международные спортивные соревнования в Барселоне
Международные соревнования по лёгкой атлетике в Испании
Чемпионаты мира в Испании


A house is one of the best investments that you can ever have. In fact, a lot of people consider this as one of their life goals. After all, a house is the one thing that will provide you with the comfort that you are looking for. The good news is that with so many offers from different companies nowadays, having your own house will be a lot easier. Top that with the fact that building houses nowadays are cheaper due to technology, then you will really see that comfort within the next few years is possible.
Basically, a buyer's agent is your own personal real estate agent. Most of the times, the real estate companies selling the properties are the ones who are providing the agent. This is not really the best thing to do since the agent from that particular company will just offer you the properties being sold by the company, and with a higher price compared to other things that you might see outside. Your own agent can look for properties that may be cheaper than the ones from the companies but are still worth more than that. All you have to do is to look for the top real estate agents in the industry.
One of the best things about a buyer's agent is the fact that they can look at all the properties for sale in the market. They can also compare each one and find out which will have a higher value in the coming years. These agents can look for the cheapest possible properties that are usually set for a higher price. Of course, you will have to pay the agent who is helping you out but with all the service that they can provide, this will definitely be worth it.


with what cake I had not in my hand under my arm (ginger bread) I went all over the city, so to speak, at least a large share of it. It is finely built. I think a larger share of fine buildings than in St. Louis, judging from the travel in the streets is busy now too. You can go nowhere without seeing soldiers, both infantry & cavalry on horse & foot, drunk & sober. The Levee is covered with them some watering horses some looking on while the usual amount of drays, carriages, hucksters. etc. make it look lively. I went into a store and asked the man there which side he was on. He said Union for ever. Had quite a talk with him. Went into another saloon & bought some cake & pie to take along, and went to a point of a high bluff above the levee where our boat lay (very high at that) and looked around. There was a butternut gentleman standing there & I asked him if he saw the naval fight here, he said yes that he was standing where we were the whole time, and showed me where it commenced up the river. where this or that boat got shipped, where those lay that sank, except one which is clear under water & showed me where two shots that were accidental struck a large brick ice house. He said it was grand, said he was an unconditional Seseshionist & that if they could ever get the city back they would make the Unionists skedaddle I told him it would be biting off the nose to spite the face, for before they got it Sherman would burn it. Said he expected so or it would have been tried.


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Giving a Voice to Students & Early Career Researchers in International Science Policy and Diplomacy in the Post-Truth Era
Gary W. Kerr and JC Mauduit, UCS Science Network, UCS | September 11, 2019, 11:36 am EST
Science increasingly underpins many of the global challenges the world is facing today. In turn, the ever-changing global political landscape also has a significant influence on our ability to pursue science needed to tackle these challenges. And in our interconnected 21st century, domestic policies set in one country inevitably have global repercussions.
With the United Kingdom set to leave the European Union on 31st October 2019 (Brexit), it is unclear what impact this will have on the UK's research and innovation capacity. Indeed, the UK is one of the largest recipients of EU research funding, receiving €8.8 billion out of the EU's total €107 billion spending on research, innovation and development between 2007 and 2013. Exiting the EU, possibly without a deal, means that UK's STEM professionals, diplomats and policy makers need to find strategies to mitigate any potential negative impacts of Brexit on the sector. Acknowledging that the problem is about more than cash-flow of research funding, early career researchers set up the Scientists for EU movement: a campaign by scientists to keep the UK in the EU. Scientists for EU are concerned about the UK no longer being able to collaborate on research projects with other European nations, and the negative impact this could have on the overall advancement of much needed scientific knowledge and technological breakthroughs.
The emergence of the so-called post-truth era has motivated students, early career researchers and policy fellows across the world to move out of the labs and onto the streets to stand up for science. The President of the USA, Donald Trump, called global warming "bullshit" and a "Chinese hoax", and the UK's former Environment Secretary, now Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Michael Gove has said that the British people have "had enough of experts". Consequently, the 'March for Science' movement first took place on Earth Day (22 April) in 2017 and saw scientists from over 600 cities across the world march through their cities, stand up for scientists, and call for evidence-based policy in political decision-making.
JSPG contributions to science policy and diplomacy
These actions are much needed in this aberrant context, but early career researchers and policy fellows also have a vital role to play in providing evidence-based recommendations and policy analyses, and in engaging with politicians and decision-makers to protect scientific research. After all, it is students and early career researchers who are most affected by a trajectory towards the rejection of scientific knowledge in favour of political point-scoring.
The Journal of Science Policy and Governance (JSPG) is an international forum that provides students, early career researchers, and policy fellows with a platform to publish policy-related pieces of work across a wide range of science, technology, and innovation policy areas, from all STEM disciplines to social science perspectives on STEM. Formats include policy memos, technical reports, book reviews, workshop reports and policy analyses. JSPG is a registered 501(c)(3) charity in the USA but it has a global reach and receives submissions from every corner of the world.
Since its formation in 2012, JSPG has received and published submissions that tackle such global science, technology & innovation policy issues, including
A policy analysis that explores the challenges that NASA faces in collaborating with China as a rising power in the exploration of space (Hester, 2016).
A policy analysis that explores the lessons from Kenyan modern biotechnology processes and the controversies surrounding the use of biotechnology in agricultural productivity and production (Kingiri & Ayele, 2012).
A policy memo that urges India's Ministry for New and Renewable Energy to provide financial incentives for the dairy industry to help maximise biogas production at industrial level (Naryan, Li & Timmons, 2018).
The proposals put forward to the Governor of Ulaanbaatar to introduce policies such as a car allowance rebate system and incentives for pairing electric vehicle charging infrastructure with on-site renewable energy in order to combat unsafe levels of particulate matter smog in the Ulaanbaatar district of Mongolia (Zegas & Zegas, 2018)
A policy memo addressed to India's Minister for Health and Family Welfare that addresses the problems of antimicrobial resistance and provides a series of recommendations to implement the National Action Plan and tackle the misuse of antibiotics (Chatterjee, Rabbani & Sandford, 2017).
We actively encourage more international young scholars to submit articles on domestic or global science policy and governance issues and to make their voice heard, whilst helping develop their professional skills and credibility in global science policy and diplomacy. We hope that JSPG can become an international voice for science.
JSPG's efforts are global, and we are always actively seeking international partners and collaborators. If you would like to get in touch with us to discuss collaborations and partnerships, please email us at international@sciencepolicyjournal.org. Also consider joining our mailing list, and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin. Together, we will address the most topical issues in global science, technology and innovation policy by encouraging students, early career researchers and policy fellows from across the world to share their ideas on how we can solve global challenges of the day.
Gary W. Kerr is Lecturer in Festival & Event Management at Edinburgh Napier University and a science communication and science events specialist. Gary's research is focused on the role of science festivals and public engagement events. He is the Chief International & Operations Officer at JSPG, having previously served as Director of Operations and International Outreach, Editor-in-Chief, and before that as an Associate Editor. Gary is a former Science Policy Fellow at the Scottish Parliament.
JC Mauduit is Lecturer in Science Diplomacy at University College London and he was previously a Visiting Scholar at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. He currently acts as Director of International Engagement for JSPG where he also volunteered as an Associate Editor. He also has a former career as a researcher in Astrophysics and worked for the International Astronomical Union.
Science Network Voices gives Equation readers access to the depth of expertise and broad perspective on current issues that our Science Network members bring to UCS. The views expressed in Science Network posts are those of the author alone.
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I've been crazy for the name Alice lately. No clue why, as it's not a family name and not a usual favorite. I've been finding Tom Waits' album of the same name in every record store in the Philadelphia area, and it seems to be a sign. (By the way, I found it on vinyl. WANT.) You can listen to the eponymous song from the album here. It's a lovely song, if sad, as most of his tend to be, at least a little bit.
Anyway, I just love Alice's sound and girlish yet grown up sound, along with its healthy dose of Victorian feel. Sometimes I feel it's too much Alice's Diner and not enough Alice in Wonderland, but those episodes are usually mercifully brief, and I come back to it now and again. It's been on my lists for a very long time, and seems to be in between upswings in popularity, sitting at 346. Of course, by the time I have kids, it will be Top 100, I just know it. 😛 That seems to be the way it works; everything I love gets popular!
Seems as though I like a endings after Alice. I think they add a lot of bounce in a combo, if you know what I mean. I could add some more, but maybe later or another day. What are your thoughts on Alice? What do you think of my combos? (Remember they're a work in progress!) What are your own Alice combos? Thanks for stopping by!


Will ShippingEasy work for a company that has multiple warehouses and/or locations?
If you have multiple warehouses and/or locations, ShippingEasy can work for your shipping needs by offering a solution to add multiple addresses to your account. We currently do not support inventory management for multiple warehouses.
Navigate to SETTINGS >> SHIP FROM ADDRESSES. Then simply follow these steps to Add New addresses and Save.
Once the addresses have been saved within ShippingEasy, Ship From addresses can be assigned to orders in many ways.
For more information on how to set-up each of these options, check out this article.
What does it mean if I have multiple users?


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Sarah Palin's Potential Future Lovers, Ranked
July 8, 2020 July 7, 2020 by Brandon Andreasen
According to court documents, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her husband of 33 years, Todd, finalized their divorce earlier this spring. Todd initially filed for divorce last year, on his birthday, which is a pretty baller move all things considered. At the end of last year, Sarah admitted that they were going to counseling in an effort to revitalize their marriage. The couple raised five maverick children together after eloping after meeting in high school.
We at Fancy Boys Club wish Todd the best of luck in his gentlemanly pursuits of shooting at endangered animals out of helicopters and snow mobiles.
But that's not why we are here. Sarah Palin, even at 56, can still get it! She is due for a real "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" moment. Just because she made Dan Quayle look like Neil Degrasse Tyson, doesn't mean she doesn't deserve to have herself a sexual awakening. And as free spirits here at FBC, we are here to help Sarah find herself some lovin'.
Here are the potential future lovers of Sarah Palin, ranked…
1: GLEN RICE
As many 50 point games as Reggie Miller, but one more vice presidential candidate in his belt loop.
Let's start at the most obvious spot. Remember High Fidelity? After a particularly tough breakup, John Cusack's character goes through his ex girlfriend rolodex to figure out where it all went wrong with his exes. It's insanely self serving and he finds himself wanting to project himself back into old relationships.
Well, this is by far Sarah Palin's most iconic past love. In 15 NBA seasons, Glen Rice averaged 18 points per game and shot 40 percent for his career from three point range. He was a three time All Star with the Charlotte Hornets and picked up a championship ring with the Los Angeles Lakers. But his biggest victory was off the court.
In a 2011 autobiography about Palin, Rice admitted that he was very taken by her and how gorgeous she was. He also said they spoke right up until the time she got married. They met in the late 80's at a basketball tournament in Anchorage, Alaska when Rice was playing for the University of Michigan and Palin was a reporter at a local tv station who was going through, as the biography put it, a "black guy phase."
While Rice is currently married, true love could trump all here. Speaking of Trump…
2: DONALD TRUMP
Sarah Palin is the architect behind the "so batshit crazy Republican, it just might work." She went up, said incredibly dumb things, and in the process became infinitely more popular than her running mate, who survived a POW camp before spending decades in congress and trying to run for president. She was a gun toting, moose hunting, snowmobile riding loon who captured the imagination of the political right because…well to be goddamn honest, I don't know why that is such popular trait for a politician to some people.
Donald Trump, though…man, he is the G.O.A.T. of inciting the bottom feeders of society. He has elicited such loyalty from racists, white nationalists, and nazis that you would swear that his vice presidential running mate was Adolph Hitler's skull.
Palin is now single. And Trump has very obviously never given a damn about the actual commitment to marriage. Fucking porn stars right after your wife has a child kind of throws that out the window.
In canon, Sarah Palin was Star Wars: A New Hope. Absolutely insane and a capstone moment in history, but destined to be eclipsed by others in the franchise. Donald Trump is Empire Strikes Back. The bad guys win. You get left numb at the end. The characters feel hopeful for the future but in the present, you can't help but feel somewhat hopeless as you watch.
Also in canon, the next person on the list is Jar Jar Binks.
3: BEN SHAPIRO
Seen here at the 2016 Republican National Convention
Maybe Sarah Palin wants to go full on cougar. Maybe she wants to spend a night with a tiny, pathetic man who she knows she can break mentally and leave in a full on wrecked state. Maybe she just wants to hook up with someone she can throw around, like a Wrestle Buddy. Palin is 5'5, while Shapiro is a stately 3'11.
That being said, if she wanted to hook up with a loud mouth who really loves the sound of his own voice, she can do better, such as…
4: TED NUGENT
Seen here, contemplating adopting a 14 year old to marry
It's worth noting that Ted Nugent is a complete and utter dirt bag. Among his offenses, firing flaming arrows at cardboard cutouts of Barack Obama is relatively benign. To avoid getting drafted into the Army, ol' Wango Tango pooped his pants for a week straight to "come off like a hippy" and fail the mental portion of the physical exam. Also, because he wanted to fuck a 17 year old (he was 30 at this point) and couldn't do it legally otherwise, he had the brilliant idea to talk her parents into letting him be her legal guardian. Oh yea, you better believe the Great White Buffalo adopted a teenager just so he could fuck her, which, I mean that also feels illegal pretty much everywhere except Alabama.
That being said, they do have shared interests, mostly the outdoors and killing animals. Maybe the Motor City Madman can win her over with a day of shooting at fish in a barrel, followed by eating a bevy of gout inducing meats, followed by a wild night of love making in which The Nuge will pretend she is 40 years younger.
5: SCOTT BAIO
Seen here waiting to accept a Nickelodeon Award for Least Likable Father Figure
Over the past 25 years, the only things of consequence that Baio has done were a couple episodes of Diagnosis Murder, an episode of Touched By An Angel, and his run as Bob Loblaw on Arrested Development. This Dollar General dumpster of an IMDB page somehow makes Chachi one of the five most famous Republican actors.
That said, in the early 80's, Scott was very popular. In fact, his popularity might have dove tailed pretty well with Palin just starting to get into boys. She might have even had a Scott Baio poster on her wall from Tiger Beat, or Bob Dole's short lived publication, Dole's Dreamboats. Everyone always wants to have sex with their idols. It's why I hope I never have to choose between my wife or Idris Elba. But with Palin very single, and Baio very desperate for attention, this could work!
6: ZOMBIE RONALD REAGAN
MAGA'ing from beyond the grave
Look, i've already attempted to resurrect Scott Baio's career. I might as well try to bring Dutch back from the dead. The Gipper and Baberaham Lincoln: Moose Hunter would make a legendary duo. This would also be the moment that made people who follow Qanon's heads collectively explode. Could you imagine, Ronnie coming back from the dead and shacking up with Sarah Palin? Now that's what i call a Super PAC! She would feed him jelly beans. He'd eat her brain. It would be perfect.
7: TED CRUZ
A beard is just a government mullet
Mostly just because nothing would excite Ted more than to get Zombie Ronald Reagan's sloppy seconds. Cruz has shown before that he would do anything to get people to like him. That beard, for example. Hell, he supports Donald Trump and Trump said that Cruz was the Zodiac Killer. Can you imagine kissing the ass of a guy who said you might be a serial killer? Well, when you look like as much of a chronic masturbator as Ted Cruz does, you are just happy anyone is paying attention to you.
If Palin makes the mistake of making eye contact with Cruz at the Republican National Convention, it will be game on…at least for Ted, it would.
8: THE STATUE OF HARRY CARAY OUTSIDE OF WRIGLEY FIELD
Just trying to get to ten here, folks. But Holy Cow, this would be remarkably on brand for Chicago Cubs ownership.
9: NICHOLAS CAGE FROM CON AIR
We are completely off the rails here, but hear me out. You wouldn't be into Nick Cage from this era? And beyond that, Sarah Palin was running for Vice President just over a decade ago. If there is time traveling technology, she has to be at least somewhat aware of it. The current president probably uses the technology already to get reelection advice from Benito Mussolini, so he probably wouldn't lose any sleep if Palin wanted to use it to go back in time to have sex with Cage.
Also, come on. When you think of Sarah Palin and movies she might like, this is definitely one of the first four or five movies that would pop into your mind. You know for a fact that she has seen this movie a bunch. Alaska isn't exactly a hub of pop culture. They kept Blockbuster going 15 years after Netflix should have ran it out of business. I'm willing to bet that at some point, the Palin family paid overdue fees on a VHS copy of this movie.
10: TUCKER CARLSON
Just kidding. Tucker Carlson has no penis.
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you seem to be jealous of her.


A wide variety of continuing patent application options exists at the USPTO, including Continuation Applications, Continuation–in–part Applications and Divisional Applications. As typical in many other jurisdictions, filing any of these continuing patent application needs to be done while a parent application is still pending. Since fees are moderate in the US and renewal fees become due only after the patent issues US Applicants typically make ample use of the option to file continuing patent applications. Apart from pursuing different scopes of protection or different subject matter from the original disclosure, one objective is also to keep options open by keeping at least one patent application in the chain pending. In many instances, filing continuation applications may be spared with by making the best use of requesting After Final Consideration or Continued Examination. Specifically since the costs for filing continuation applications are moderate and the first renewal fees only becomes due 3 ½ years after the Continuation Application has issued as a patent and specifically since no accrued renewal fees need to be paid for a Divisional Application, it is often recommendable to file a Continuation Applications shortly before the parent application is scheduled to issue as a patent, just to keep an application pending and therefore have the flexibility of pursuing different claims than allowed in the parent application. Specifically non-US Applicants coming from systems that are less liberal as to filing continuing patent applications tend to underuse this valuable option.
The only continuing patent application option offered by the EPO is filing one or more Divisional Applications as provided by under Article 76 EPC. Although such Divisional Applications may be filed at any time during the pendency of a parent application, the same fees already paid for the parent application including accrued renewal fees are due for filing a Divisional Application. Since a Divisional Application is just a type of an EP direct application claiming the benefit of the filing date and priority date of the parent application, examination fees only need to be paid after the search has been conducted. Further, if the claims of the Divisional Application are to some extent similar to the parent application, the EPO may pay a partial or a full refund of the search fee. The claims of a Divisional Application need to distinguish from the claims of the parent application to some extent for avoiding double patenting but the required level of difference is relatively low, that is the EPO takes to that extent a relatively lenient approach on admissibility of Divisional Applications. Specifically when filing Divisional Applications based on older parent applications, as to the costs the biggest factor may be the accrued renewal fees counting from the end of the second year from filing the parent application. This payment cannot be deferred but needs to be made with filing the Divisional Application.


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import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSArray;
import org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSBase;
import org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDictionary;
import org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSName;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.documentnavigation.destination.PDDestination;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.documentnavigation.destination.PDPageDestination;

/**
 * This represents a go-to action that can be executed in a PDF document.
 *
 * @author Ben Litchfield
 * @author Panagiotis Toumasis
 */
public class PDActionGoTo extends PDAction
{
    /**
     * This type of action this object represents.
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    public static final String SUB_TYPE = "GoTo";

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     * Default constructor.
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    {
        super();
        setSubType( SUB_TYPE );
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    {
        super( a );
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    /**
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     *
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     *
     * @throws IOException If there is an error creating the destination.
     */
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        return PDDestination.create(getCOSObject().getDictionaryObject(COSName.D));
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    /**
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     */
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            PDPageDestination pageDest = (PDPageDestination) d;
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                {
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Johnson & Johnson Expects To Bank $2.5B On COVID Vaccine Despite Efficacy Questions
By Dawn Geske
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) anticipates that it will sell $2.5 billion in COVID vaccines this year despite concerns that have mounted over the shot since its rollout.
The company made the announcement as it released its second-quarter earning report early Wednesday morning.
Johnson & Johnson reported a sales growth of 27.1% to $23.2 billion for the quarter with an operational growth of 23% for the quarter with an earnings per share increase of 72.8% to $2.35. Revenue for the company was $22.21 billion.
Global sales of the COVID vaccine for the quarter reached $164 million.
Premarket trading of Johnson & Johnson's shares was up nearly 1%.
The earnings report came just a day after the release of a new study, which has not been peer-reviewed, that suggests the company's vaccine is not as effective against the Delta and Lambda variants as previously thought. Researchers of the study recommend a booster dose for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine recipients.
However, Johnson & Johnson has released its own data that indicates that the vaccine is effective against the Delta variant, specifically against severe disease and hospitalizations for up to eight months after receiving the shot.
The highly-contagious Delta variant is sweeping the U.S. and has been identified in all 50 states of the nation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that it now accounts for an estimated 83% of new COVID infections in the U.S.
Johnson & Johnson's COVID vaccine was also temporarily halted for use in April by the Food and Drug Administration as it was reviewed for a link to blood clots in a series of vaccine recipients. The FDA added a warning to the vaccine.
Another warning of Guillain-Barre syndrome risk was added to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in mid-July after 100 cases of the rare condition were reported.
Shares of Johnson & Johnson stock were trading at $170.00 as of premarket trading on Wednesday, up $1.55, or 0.92%.
Vials of a COVID-19 Vaccine are pictured with the logo of US pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson on November 17, 2020. Photo: Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images
Delta Variant Infects, Hospitalizes Fully Vaccinated People
FDA Wants 60M Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Doses Dumped


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Maurice Eugene Willis (born December 4, 1984), who goes by the stage name Jimi Cravity, is an American Christian musician, who primarily plays a style Christian pop, EDM, R&B, and hip hop music. He has released two musical works, both being extended plays, and Maverick (2012) and Heaven (2017) with Sparrow Records and Six Steps Records. The Heaven EP charted on two Billboard magazine charts.

Early life and background
Maurice Eugene Willis was born on December 4, 1984, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Music career
His music recording career started in 2012, with the extended play, Maverick, while it was released on May 20, 2012, independently. He released, Heaven, another extended play, on January 6, 2017, with Sparrow Records and Six Steps Records. This extended play charted on two Billboard magazine charts, while it placed on both the Christian Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts, where it peaked at Nos. 15 and 11, correspondingly.

Personal life
Cravity is married.

Discography
EPs

Singles

References

External links

1984 births
Living people
American performers of Christian music
Musicians from Atlanta
Songwriters from Georgia (U.S. state)
Sparrow Records artists
Sixstepsrecords artists


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fight.boredom
Fight.Boredom features design critiques, creative industry editorials, media and product reviews, interactive features, and the latest news from the Cloudjammer Creative Network. We're always looking for good and bad design everywhere – logos, websites, music, marketing, film, and literature – ready to editorialize and critique matters of like, dislike, and general obsession to better equip you for the battle against boredom.
A Year of Fighting Boredom
We've been battling boredom for a year now.
And in that year we've gotten some great feedback from our readers. We've been told that "this is a great e-zine! Very simple, great writing. Good job!!" and that it "is first class. Absolutely excellent."
We certainly like to think so. Thanks!
We even had a reader (who obviously didn't have enough to do) run our articles from the 2002.10 issue through a grade level proficiency system (something we try to avoid at all costs). The results? See for yourself:
CRITIQUE. A New Rosetta Stone 10.8 grade level
OPINION. Democracy in Action 9.3 grade level
REVIEW. Crack TV 7.9 grade level
In all fairness, our critic ran his own email through the system: 5.9 grade level.
And we've had some feedback from the subjects of our articles as well. IDEO responded to us about their book review and Virginia Velleca of the Defoor Centre contacted us in regards to our 2002.07 review: "This site is really beautiful and your review of us most complimentary and appreciated ... I'd like to mention it and include it when we are talking to other people about what we are trying to do here. Thank you very much for your kind words and exceptional images."
Readership grew steadily though the first year of Fight.Boredom as people found the site (most of them, through Google) and added themselves to our monthly announcement mailing list. To date, our most viewed issue was 2003.02 with almost 9,500 hits and our most linked to article, "A Brand Battle Smack Down".
Some of our most read articles were those involving video media ("The Perfect Fusion of Audio and Video" and "Volkswagen & Mr. Blue Sky") while our most lauded articles dealt with real world issues and the critical design issues surrounding them ("What The..." and "Visual Communication of Grief"). We also had a number of very confused readers respond to our April Fool's Day homepage...
And, last but not least, a few new Cloudjammer clients have found their way to us through Fight.Boredom or juxtaposed the e-zine against our portfolio. We're glad they liked what they saw.
But this first year of Fight.Boredom hasn't been without its problems. Despite best efforts, monthly publication dates have varied wildly across the calendar (for instance, the August and September 2002 issues were published only a week apart). 2003 brought a commitment to publication in the first week of each month...this issue exempted, apparently.
And we've had a few articles that drew less favorable comments. While everyone we've heard feedback from agreed with our opinion in the article "Two (More) Reasons to Hate Verisign", several readers have asked us about personal anger management and legal representation in regards to the Internet security giant.
But it has been a great year...and a lot of fun for both the writers and the readers (if their feedback is to be believed). Hopefully another year of the battle against boredom will be just as successful and even more widely read.
'Till then...keep fighting! fb
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She is speaking to us as the ITV sitcom transfers from the screen to the stage and visits Milton Keynes Theatre from Monday to Saturday October 15 to 20.
"I do get people asking me to tone it down, and it's not me, it's the writer of the show.
But these minor niggles aside, she is enjoying a lot about taking the show on to the stage.
"One of the nicest things is that we have an audience for the show, so we get the immediate reaction to the joke which is lovely to hear.
"When we are doing the television show we didn't have the audience so it was only much later that we got to find people liked it.
"Although there have been moments when we have been waiting to deliver lines after a big joke and the audience is laughing for a long time. Then you wait and then a second wave of laughter comes as people have been laughing.
Janine is joined by a number of other regulars for the tour of Benidorm who appeared in the sitcom including Jake Canuso, Tony Maudsley and Sherrie Hewson.
She said: "The tour is a long one and I did wonder if I had the stamina to do it but we all know each other so well and get on that we are constantly in touch. We always try and find somewhere to go, be it a castle or a nice restaurant in all the different places we see.
One of Janine's first big roles was in Abigail's Party which was later filmed for television.
And prior to Benidorm, she was famous for another popular sitcom, playing the next door neighbour Pippa Trench in One Foot in the Grave.
"It was lovely to do that job," said Janine. "Because we had the audience there as we were filming it. We knew it worked straight away. The writing on that show was superb.
Tickets for Benidorm can be booked by calling the box office on 0844 871 7652 or visit www.atgtickets.co.uk/miltonkeynes.


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Novaclad offers users the choice between vertical, angled and horizontal applications.
This attractive cladding panel gives a distinguished look and neat appeal.
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At Novaproducts quality is not simply catching defects before shipment to customers. It's an orientation that builds quality into every step of the process.
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If you are facing slow connections and slow browsing experience, then you can speed up your browsing by a small factor by caching your DNS queries locally and using it.
But before you go ahead the first question that would surely pop up in your mind is what is this DNS? And what does it do? To answer the first question I would take a simple example of your mobile phone, when you want to call your friends, you first find their name in the contacts and click on dial. You could have directly entered their number and dialled, but remembering a few numbers is possible but not all, hence you store them as contacts in your phone.
In the Internet too we have the same concept each site has an IP address which is nothing but a set of numbers, but it would be very difficult to remember the numbers for each site, so we have a DNS server which basically takes the site name and gives back the IP address for the site.
But why cache it locally? The answer is simple, there are a set of sites you would visit regularly and it takes a few milliseconds to get the IP address, so why not store it the first time it is got and use that the next time you visit the same site again. A few milliseconds may not seem a long time, but when on a slow connection it does make a difference and ultimately result in faster browsing experience.
So in Linux we have a simple light weight program 'dnsmasq'. The steps mention here are applicable to all Linux Distributions, the only exception being the first step to install the software for which you can use your distributions software installed to install the program. I am using Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu so the steps are specific to it.
Search for 'prepend domain-name-servers' in the opened file, and change it to below and remove any '#' character if present at the start of the line.
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 65232 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;kamaths.org.	IN	A ;; ANSWER SECTION: kamaths.org.	937	IN	A	118.139.186.1 ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Sat Sep 17 22:28:03 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 45 If you are still facing any issue, let me know by leaving a comment below.
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I tried the above guide but with no effect on dig query time.
Of note, there was no dhcp3 directory in my system but instead just dhcp. Everything else is same.
Will appreciate your input on that.
@Ravi, unfortunately my desktop machine is dead and I do not have a spare machine where I can try and suggest you. Sorry.
Just figured out that I have to comment out "dns=dnsmasq" line in NetworkManager.conf.
Did that and it works great now.
@Ravi: Just saw this comment later, good to know you were able to resolve the issue. Thanks for coming back and posting the issue.


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Home Lakers Rumors: Kobe Bryant Denies Steering Dwight Howard Away From L.A.
Lakers Rumors: Kobe Bryant Denies Steering Dwight Howard Away From L.A.
Lakers News: Kobe Bryant Declares Desire to Finish Career in Los Angeles
Daniel Buerge
Last week Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard stated that he is no longer interested in signing an extension with the Los Angeles Lakers. When asked why Howard stated, "Kobe messed it up."
Now Bryant is denying the report that he was less-than-convincing when speaking to Howard about coming to L.A. According to Peter Vecsey of the New York Post Bryant didn't exactly sell Howard on being a star in Hollywood.
"Come here and be the third offensive option behind me and Pau Gasol and be our "Tyson Chandler.""
I find it hard to believe that Bryant would compare Howard to a player that has averaged 8.4 points per game for his entire career. As good of a player as Chandler is, he's nowhere near Dwight Howard's level of physicality or athleticism.
Still, when pressed about the issue Bryant denied the report to Vescey.
"It's not true," Kobe said.
Regardless of whether it's true or not, it appears that, for the moment anyways, the Howard to Los Angeles deal is on indefinite hold.
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