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Q: Is it possible to run a .Net UWP Class Library on Azure? I thought up an idea for a website that would involve some video editing happening on the web server.   Microsoft UWP has a library that does the video editing functions I'm looking to perform...  Amazing!!
My problem is I don't know if it's possible to get my website to run UWP code on Azure. Web Jobs seem like what I'd prefer to use to kick off this code, but web jobs don't appear to be able to run UWP code and without UWP code I don't see a library that can perform the video editing I'd like to do.  Does anybody know if it's possible to run UWP code on Azure?   If so, how?

A: I don't think WebJobs are especially suited for this scenario. They are part of the WebApp platform as a service offering that abstracts the underlying operating system for you to be able to focus on building the code itself and deploy as easily as possible.
UWP on the other hand is a Windows-specific app platform which has many requirements including running on Windows 10. Because you don't know which concrete operating system the web app will run on, it is not easy to say if the APIs would work.
That said, you could theoretically use UWP APIs in a web app as well, because there is a UwpDesktop NuGet package that allows it mainly targeted for desktop apps. It is a long shot but you can certainly try it.
As a preferable solution, I would still look to find another library that suits your needs, as the choice on NuGet is pretty broad and one of those should be sufficient.

A: I would suggest taking a look at azure functions
These have about the same working as webjobs, however expand beyond the limitations of webjobs. These are also more versatile in what they can do and how they can be created.
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Sharapova Slammed By Cibulkova In Wake Of Doping Scandal
Losing 2014 Australian Open finalist Dominika Cibulkova has slammed former rival Maria Sharapova in an interview with a Slovakian magazine.
In March, the former world No.1 told a news conference in Los Angeles that she failed a drug test at the 2016 Australian Open. Sharapova admitted she had been taking Mildronate [Meldonium] for the past 10 years. Meldonium is used to treat diabetes and low magnesium and improve blood flow, among other things. Sharapova was provisionally suspended by the International Tennis Federation, pending determination of the case.
Meldonium was added to the list of banned substances on January 1, 2016. Since then, many high-profile Russian athletes, including Olympic swimmer Yulia Efimova, tennis star Maria Sharapova, speedskaters Semyon Yelistratov and Pavel Kulizhnikov have all admitted to testing positive for it.
Dominika, the current world number 54, did not mince her words when discussing the fallen star. Known for her quick and aggressive style of play, the professional Slovak tennis player said she was surprised that most of the reactions were so diplomatic because the opinion of everyone is actually totally different. Dominika said she did not made any statement as she did not wanted to be the only person to openly say what they think about this Meldonium doping scandal. The Slovakian said she will only say that she does not feel sorry at all for Maria Sharapova and does not miss her on the tour.
The losing 2014 Australian Open finalist said Maria is arrogant, cold, and conceited and did not even bother to greet her when she sat beside her in the locker room. The comments of Dominika backs up recent comments from 18-time Grand Slam champion and ESPN analyst Chris Evert who remarked Maria Sharapova has always isolated herself from the rest of the tennis world, from the players. Evert had remarked she doesn't have a lot of close friendships on the tour. A former coach of a top 10 player also recently anonymously told the New York Post that the Russian tennis player definitely doesn't seem to have any friends on tour. The strength coach said her camp (coaches, trainers, assistants) and even (now-ex-boyfriend tennis pro) Grigor Dimitrov would be chatting with everyone, and when Maria Sharapova would walk in, Grigor and her coach would make eye contact and know to stop socializing and it became a joke among everyone in professional tennis.
Sharapova was hardly ever popular in the locker room. In 2013, Maria herself even declared that she is not really close to many players and she thinks just because you are in the same sport does not mean that you have to be friends with everyone.
A United States resident since 1994, Maria Sharapova earned silver for Russia in women's singles at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. In March 2012, she was named one of the "100 Greatest of All Time" by Tennis Channel. Maria Sharapova has been named by Forbes as the highest paid female athlete in the world for 11 consecutive years.
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For my first post I thought about talk about my training for my half marathon coming up soon. I'm currently on week 4 of 12 and training has been pretty smooth so far. This is my first half, but I have been running for a while so I don't consider myself to be a "beginner" but not quiet intermediate either. So I am following the Novice 2 program by Hal Higdon, but I've made a few adjustments to fit my schedule better.
My BIG goal is to run it under 2 hours but I'm not sure if I'm completely in over my head on that one. My B goal is to run under 2:10 and C goal is to just FINISH. On my long run today I was able to keep a steady 9:20-ish pace without it being super hard, which is pretty good for me right now.
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Bad news for Tencent, with about 400 million monthly users China's Social Media giant: the government imposed new rules that aim at all instant messaging services, however, given Tencent's WeChat popularity it will hurt Tencent the most. The new regulation aims at curbing anonymous postings as well as unapproved political comments. Tencent remains rather relaxed in its official statement according to a report in the New York Times, although they are not quite sure how to enforce the new rules.
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US airmen welcomed home after helping with Afghanistan evacuations
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US airmen return from deployment assisting Afghan evacuations
Airmen from the 58th and 66th Rescue Squadrons and 855th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron were welcomed home at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada on Sept. 7, 2021.
LAS VEGAS - Members of the U.S. Air Force were greeted as they returned home to Nevada this week after assisting with the massive evacuation effort of Afghan nationals and their families amid the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban's takeover.
Airmen from the 58th and 66th Rescue Squadrons and 855th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron returned from their deployment on Sept. 7 to Nellis Air Force Base in southern Nevada, officials said. They had been located in the Middle East as part of Operation Allies Refuge, which aimed to airlift certain at-risk Afghan civilians, their families and others eligible for U.S. Special Immigrant Visas (SIV).
Technical Sgt. Alexandre Montes recorded footage showing the family reunions on the tarmac.
Nellis Air Force Base welcomed the airmen home in a post on Twitter, writing in part: "We're glad to have you home. Thank you for your #service!"
U.S. and NATO forces officially left Afghanistan at the end of August in a fraught end to America's two-decade war. The final days of the American airlift evacuated over 100,000 people amid the Taliban's swift takeover of the country. But the effort also was accompanied by scenes of chaos with many desperate to flee — including Afghans plunging to their deaths from the sides of military aircraft on takeoff.
A suicide bombing outside Kabul's airport killed 169 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members.
Airmen from the 58th and 66th Rescue Squadrons and 855th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron were welcomed home at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada on Sept. 7, 2021. (Credit: Tech. Sgt. Alexandre Montes via Storyful)
Other service members were welcomed back to the U.S. this week, including soldiers who helped during evacuations in Kabul and returned home on Monday to Fort Drum, New York. Video shared of the ceremony showed the "Polar Bears" of the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry, filing into a building as friends and family applauded and cheered.
The commander of the 10th Mountain Division, Maj. Gen. Milford H. Beagle commended the soldiers' leadership and thanked them for their service in Afghanistan.
"Thank you for doing your duty, which your nation asked you to do. Thank you all for making every single one of us proud of every one of you standing in this formation," he said.
Meanwhile, some 200 foreigners, including Americans, left Afghanistan on a commercial flight out of Kabul on Thursday, the first such large-scale departure since the frantic Aug. 31 withdrawal.
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Burna Boy releases music video for YE
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Afro-fusion Nigerian singer, Damini Ogulu a.k.a Burna Boy, has released the much anticipated visuals for his hit ''ye''.
He made the announcement on his Instagram handle @burnaboygram "ye video out''.
The song "Ye" off the album "Outside'' which was earlier released in the year clinched a bit of global fame after American rapper Kanye West released his album with same name.
"Ye" had topped music chat globally and kept up the attention of media.
The video showed the 27-year-old singer waving a flag with the face of late Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Abami Eda who's Sorrow, Blood and tears was an inspiration for the record.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the video, which was directed by Clearance Peters, shows the unwavering nature of Nigerians.
In 2012, Burna Boy released a single title "Like to party'' which saw his rise to prominence and he released the video same year.
In 2013, the "Yawa Dey'' crooner won The Best Act of the Year at the Nigeria Entertainment Awards and also nominated for Next Rated Awards at the Headies.
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Senate Bill 1953, a state law passed in 1994, requires that all hospital buildings be retrofitted by 2030 in order to withstand major earthquakes. The Ashby campus of the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center — which is owned by Sutter Health — has been declared seismically unfit and therefore its services will be relocated to Oakland, said spokesperson Jill Antonides in an email.
Sutter Health determined that it would be more practical to move Alta Bates to Oakland than to completely renovate the campus, Antonides said in an email. She added that a complete renovation would result in loss of care to the community for a decade.
The potential changes to the Alta Bates Ashby campus were discussed March 29 at a Berkeley City Council meeting, which passed an item calling for the Disaster and Fire Safety and Community Health Commissions to evaluate potential community impacts resulting from the move.
Dave Brannigan — assistant chief of special operations at the Berkeley Fire Department and secretary of the Disaster and Fire Safety Commission — stated that the move of these emergency services would require patients to be transported to Oakland for treatment.
Alta Bates does provide occasional ambulance services to patients; however, the health center often forwards emergencies to Berkeley Fire Department, stated Brannigan. After the move, Brannigan said the fire department ambulances' trip to the Oakland facility would be 24 minutes longer.
Antonides said in an email, however, that the Summit campus in Oakland is in close proximity to the Berkeley campus, as it is less than three miles away.
The Sutter Health Board of Directors approved $190 million in funding to expand the Oakland facility to include a number of services — including the emergency department — and begin the transition of all time-sensitive care services, explained Antonides.
Antonides emphasized that Sutter Health intends to utilize Berkeley as a hub for ambulatory, or outpatient, care.
"Sutter Health is committed to keeping a strong medical presence in Berkeley," Antonides said in an email.
The surrounding neighborhood is concerned about the future use of the Alta Bates site and how it will impact the neighborhood regarding traffic, parking and noise, said Lucy Smallsreed, president of the Bateman Neighborhood Association. She added that these concerns have been "an ongoing problem" with the current facility.
Both Brannigan and Arreguin said that the ideal scenario would be for Sutter Health to keep emergency services open in Berkeley.


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The critical role white parents play in shaping racism — and eradicating it
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Clarification: This report stated that the majority of Americans who have died of COVID-19 have been identified as African American. The CDC reports that more white Americans have died of coronavirus, but race/ethnicity was available for only 42.3 percent of those tracked. A recent study by the nonpartisan APM Research Lab shows that the latest overall COVID-19 mortality rate for black Americans is 2.4 times as high as the rate for whites and 2.2 times as high as the rate for Asians and Latinos. A second national study by the AIDS research group amfAR found that half of all COVID-19 cases and nearly 60 percent of deaths due to the disease were in counties that are disproportionately black.
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Structural racism is now sharing the American cultural spotlight with COVID-19. While solutions to racial disparities in police treatment, health care and education will likely require policy changes, some experts say decisions at the family and individual levels matter just as much. Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault talks to Margaret Hagerman of Mississippi State University.
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While the COVID-19 pandemic continues, what some are calling a different virus, structural racism, is now front and center.
We turn to special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault for the latest in our Race Matters series, looking at solutions to racism.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault:
More than 100,000 Americans have died from the COVID-19 pandemic, the vast majority of them African-Americans.
But studies also show that this group, especially black men and boys, face the highest risk of being killed by police, three times higher than whites. As cities nationwide boil over in protest over these twin epidemics, one expert says solutions lie not only with systemic reform, but with individual families.
She is Margaret Hagerman, assistant professor of sociology at Mississippi State University, and the author of "White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America."
She spent two years embedded with white families in a Midwestern town, looking into the relationship between white privilege and racism, even in families that view themselves as progressive.
Maggie Hagerman, thank you so much for joining us.
Margaret Hagerman:
Thank you so much for having me.
It was after grad school that you embedded yourself in an all-white community somewhere in the Midwest that remains anonymous, understandably.
How did you present yourself? I mean, did you say, I'm here to study why you're a racist?
No, I did not approach participants with that.
When I would approach families, I would present this project as one that is exploring how parents prepare their children to participate in a diverse democracy. That was the language that I used.
It was interesting, because many of the white families that I invited to participate would often refer me to their friends of color, so, like, their black friend, their black neighbor, you know, their Latino co-worker. And I thought that was interesting, that they believed, even before I started collecting data, that their children would not have anything to say about race, but that the black and brown children in their community would.
But what were some of the most surprising things and maybe some of the most important things that you learned during this three years, right?
So, one of the great things about being an ethnographer and embedding myself in this community is that I was able to really document all of the different ways that children, in my research, learned about race.
And so that included things their parents said. But what I found even more important was what their parents did. So, the choices that their parents made about where to live or what school to send their children to or which extracurricular activities to enroll their kids in, where to travel, what kinds of, you know, media they consumed, all of these choices have really significant impacts on how children were interpreting their social environment.
And so, certainly for the kids that were living in that suburban community, they — I mean, they never came into contact with a person of color, ever. Even their knowledge about racial difference or about race in America came from things like TV shows and movies, which was interesting.
And so I absolutely think that parents are shaping this process.
Now, you spoke about some of the more integrated communities, but, in those predominantly white communities in the schools, were they teaching African-American history?
They were not receiving as critical of an education on the history of racism in America, or African-American history, certainly.
And this was apparent, based on the things that they said. One of the quotes in the very beginning of the book is from a child who tells me that: "Since Martin Luther King and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how she went on the bus, and she was African-American and sat on the white part, after the 1920s and all that, things changed."
And so I thought that was a really compelling quote, because it demonstrates, you know, just her lack of knowledge. And then her mother was sitting there when she said it. And she was like, yes, tell her. You know, tell her what you know.
So, I thought that was interesting also.
You know, this COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a lot of information that people may not have been aware of. And that is that, at the moment, the majority of people who are getting infected by the virus and who are dying are people of color, primarily black people.
Do you think that the attention that's been paid to that is going to make people look at African-Americans and people of color differently?
You know, on the one hand, perhaps yes. Perhaps people will see that these — these numbers, and just the tremendous trauma that the black community in particular is facing in this moment, and perhaps that will make them take racial health disparities more seriously.
On the other hand, I think that there's evidence that, you know, people have known about racial health disparities for a very long time.
Linda Villarosa had an article in "The New York Times Magazine," and in that, she reminds us that W.E.B. Du Bois talked about, you know, the social conditions that lead to racial health inequality in 1899. And so this isn't something new.
So, based on your research, though, and your interaction with people who obviously became very comfortable with you, in your presence, do you have any solutions that you can offer for people to deal with racism in a more positive way?
Well, I think that one of the patterns that I see is, a lot of white parents believe that simply talking to their kids about racism will somehow ensure that their child will not reproduce racial inequality in their own life.
And I always see these articles that come out. I have seen a lot recently that have come out, in light of George Floyd, for example, where, you know, parents are being called to talk to their kids.
And what my research shows is that talk is only part of the answer. And, in fact, I think that parents, especially those like the ones in my studies, who are white and affluent and have a number of different kinds of privileges, when those parents use those privileges to give their own child advantages, that ultimately reproduces forms of inequality that are, you know, part of the problem, too.
But how do you change that? Because you can't tell people, stop making money or stop being, you know, well-off.
Every parent that I have spoken to has told me that they want their kid to be happy.
And I think that trying to get your child an upper hand and an advantage at every turn and using the symbolic capital of whiteness, as well as your economic privilege to do that, is ultimately not going to lead to the kind of future that is good for all children or all people that live in this society.
And I think that the most important thing that white parents can do is embrace the idea that all children are worthy of their consideration and that we should care about our community. We should think about the collective good. We should focus on how we can help everyone, rather than just focusing on our own child.
And, finally, let me ask you this. How important is it for people who are in leadership positions to say the right things about race? And does that really matter?
Yes, I absolutely think it — think that it matters.
It's important that people who are in leadership positions and in positions of authority take the realities of racism, the legacy of racism, the data and the facts that we have about racism seriously, and include those in not only what they say, but also what they do, in terms of their policies and how they move forward as a leader.
Well, Maggie Hagerman, thank you so much for joining us. I know that this is going to be very instructive to a lot of people.
And please join us Friday night for "Race Matters: America in Crisis," a "PBS NewsHour" prime-time special.
That will be at the end of this difficult week. We will explore this critical moment and how we move ahead.
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Vibration Therapy May Help Body, Mind in People With MS
THURSDAY, Nov. 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Multiple sclerosis patients might be able to think more clearly and move more easily if they regularly undergo whole-body vibration training, a new pilot study reports.
A small group of MS patients who experienced vibration training showed improvements in decision making, information processing, attention and memory, according to findings recently published in the International Journal of MS Care.
They were also able to walk faster and reported improved quality of life both physically and mentally after the therapy.
Vibration training involves standing on a rapidly shaking platform. The fast-paced vibrations force your muscles to contract and relax dozens of times each second, even though it seems you're passively standing there.
"The mechanical stimulation is very tiny. You can barely feel it because the movement is very small, 1 to 2 millimeters, but it moves very fast," said lead researcher Feng Yang. He is an associate professor of kinesiology and health at Georgia State University, in Atlanta.
It's being examined as a potentially useful physical therapy for MS patients, stroke victims and people with spinal cord injuries or other movement disorders, said Yang and Kathy Zackowski, associate vice president of research with the National MS Society.
"This idea of using a vibrating platform for therapy has been around for at least 10 years, but the evidence behind it has been really slowly coming," said Zackowski, who was not involved with the study.
Studies have shown that vibration therapy can improve strength, balance and flexibility in people with MS, Yang said.
But in those physical studies, the researchers thought they saw some improvement in the patients' mental abilities as well.
To test that possibility, Yang and his colleagues drafted 18 adults with MS and randomly assigned half to take vibration training three times a week for six weeks.
By the end of the study period, the patients showed an average 16% improvement on information processing and attention tests, a 13% improvement in planning and organizing tests, and a 45% improvement in memory.
The researchers aren't sure why a physical therapy would help mental ability, but Yang suspects it's because exercise has long been linked to brain power.
"There are so many studies that have reported that regular exercise training or regular physical activity can preserve or can even improve cognition," Yang said. "We are thinking that vibration training as a type of exercise training can also improve cognition."
Yang and his team are planning larger trials, which will be needed to verify these early findings.
Zackowski said, "This paper is really showing that it's feasible and safe to do this, and there were some improvements in cognition. That's good, but the research is in its infancy."
At this point, you're more likely to find a vibration therapy platform at a gym or fitness center than in a hospital or rehabilitation clinic, Yang said.
The platforms aren't that expensive, running between $250 and $400 for a home unit.
However, at this early stage it's doubtful that insurance covers vibration therapy, Yang and Zackowski said.
Vibration therapy has mainly been tested in MS patients who can walk either on their own or with the assistance of a crutch or walker, Yang said.
"We haven't tried this training with those who cannot walk," he said. "If they cannot walk, they cannot stand and so they cannot do the training, because to do the training you need to be able to stand on the platform."
Results from other studies indicate that vibration therapy might be more helpful to people with MS who have more advanced disability, so researchers are looking into ways to adapt the platform to support people who can't stand on their own, Yang said.
Zackowski sees no harm in vibration therapy, but she's concerned that people might pursue this unproven option instead of digging into the hard work of rehab.
"We want a quick fix. Something like a pill is so much more appealing, because it's less work. Rehabilitation is a lot of work. To do your exercises every day is a lot of effort and time," Zackowski said. "Using a tool like this, with its novelty and it's a little more passive in that you really are just standing on it, you're not having to do much. That's appealing to lots of people."
Zackowski is of two minds about the therapy.
"The holistic rehabilitation therapist in me is saying this is a terrible idea, but the practical clinician in me is like, I can see why this is appealing and it's not hurting them, so it's a totally viable option if we can show there are benefits to it," she concluded.
The Mayo Clinic has more on whole-body vibration.
SOURCES: Feng Yang, PhD, associate professor, kinesiology and health, Georgia State University, Atlanta; Kathy Zackowski, PhD, associate vice president, research, National MS Society;International Journal of MS Care, Aug. 2, 2021
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Kakku pagodas in southern Shan State damaged after strong winds. Photo by Myanmar Army Commander-in-Chief Office / Facebook. Photo taken from The Irrawaddy, content partner of Global Voices.
A rare hailstorm recently hit several provinces of Myanmar, at a time when the whole country is experiencing a prolonged drought caused by rising temperatures. Strong winds struck Mandalay, Sagaing and the states of Shan and Chin, while hailstones as big as golf balls rained down on these regions.
More than 1,700 pagodas and 7,500 houses were damaged across the country. Authorities described the freak hailstorm as the worst in 50 years.
Many residents were surprised to see hailstones in the middle of summer. Currently, Myanmar is struggling to cope from the harsh impact of the El Niño weather phenomenon. Water shortages are affecting both urban and rural residents, especially farmers who are dependent on rain for the cultivation of their crops. According to hospitals, heat stroke cases are on the rise because of the hot weather.
Meteorologists said the extreme weather events are related to the "atmospheric instability" in the region.


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US Army Chief Talks Up War With Russia, Insists US Will Win
US Army Chief Talks Up War With Russia, Insists US Will Win by Jason Ditz, October 24, 2016, http://antiwar.com/ With some Obama Administration officials openly advocating starting a war with Russia over Syria, it is noteworthy that a lot of top Pentagon officials are treating the conflict as all but inevitable. Army Chief of Staff Gen. …
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Q: Whats the difference in Rails when a class is in quotes I've noticed a couple examples in Rspec and FactoryGirl where some people put the class name in quotes, and some don't.
Example rspec:
describe "User" do
...specs...
end

describe User do
...specs...
end

Example FactoryGirl
factory :high_school_account, class: "Account" do
  Name "Test Account Name"
  AccountTypeId 1
end

factory :high_school_account, class: Account do
  Name "Test Account Name"
  AccountTypeId 1
end

I thought I read somewhere it had to do when the class is loaded into the ruby environment, but I might be completely making that up.
Is there a difference between the quoted and non-quoted versions?

A: From the factory_girl source code:
module FactoryGirl
  class Factory
    # ...
    def build_class
      @build_class ||= if class_name.is_a? Class
        class_name
      else
        class_name.to_s.camelize.constantize
      end
    end
  end
end

So no, in this context there is no difference - both are accepted. A String is simply converted to the class. Even a symbol would work.

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Q: pass selected record id to href I want to use href to call a controller and then display the data in a view. I tested following href and it worked:
Add Sample/a>

However, the id I need to pass is a selected record id that I can get by using Ajax method:
var id = $('[name="RadioRequest"]:checked').prop('id');

The problem is that I can not pass the id to href since the id is not view-level variable.
The question is then: what is the syntax to express this selected (radio button) id inside the href?  I tried to copy and paste $('[name="RadioRequest"]:checked').prop('id') into the href to get:
Add Sample/a>.

It did not work.

A: Try escaping the double quotes around "RadioRequest"
Add Sample/a>

A: Im pretty certain this has been answered several times on SO, but just for lulz ill provide some answers.
First, you wont be able to embed javascript in to the href. Unless you use javascript to change the href attribute, its going to remain static.
The easiest thing to do is wrap this in a form. It may or may not be semantically correct in your context, but if you wrap this in a form, it will automatically provide your form fields (including the value of the selected radio button.
Here is a sample of submitting it as a form. You will have to make apply it to your code.

    <form name="form1" action="" method="get">
      <input type="radio" name="rad" value="1"/>

      Submit
   </form>

Essentially you just give the radio buttons the same name. The value provided will be whatever is selected (value could be your id). The action attribute is the uri you want to send it to, and method="get" ensures that it is provided in the querystring. The Anchor tag doesn't have a url, it just performs a submit on the form.
If you want to do it strictly in javascript, there are a few routes you could take.
For one, you could have an event handler for onclick of the radio buttons that changes the href attribute of the anchor tag when you select it.

   <input type="radio" name="rad" onclick="ChangeUrl(1)"/>
   <input type="radio" name="rad" onclick="ChangeUrl(2)"/>

   Submit

Again you will need to put some thought in to how you do it in your code, but this is a general idea.


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After two close losses against St. Stephens and Cokeville, Encampment's Lady Tigers left the Wyoming 1A Regional Tournament with a sense of improvement over the 2013-14 basketball season.
The girls may have lost 45-49 in their first game against St. Stephens' Lady Eagles, but they bounced back and stayed in the tourney after a 45-35 win over Farson-Eden. However, the Cokeville game blew Encampment's chance for state, with the Lady Tigers losing 27-32 their last day in Lander.


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Supporting the bereaved
Remember that how we support the bereaved can bring glory to God.
JUBILEE CENTRE 06 MAY 2019 13:00 h GMT+1
Photo: Mayron Oliveira. Unsplash (CC0).
At the end of February Theresa May announced that she would belatedly create a Child Funeral Fund to pay the costs of all children's funerals in England.
This comes 11 months after she made the initial promise, following a campaign by MP Carolyn Harris.
Child funerals are already free in Wales. The costs of burials or cremations in England will now be undertaken by the government and this will put an end to what for many has been a great injustice: struggling to pay for their child's funeral whilst already grieving their loss.
The renewed promise of the fund, due by the end of July, is welcome news and a step towards better support for bereaved parents. It prompts us to ask, however, how good we are as a society at supporting grieving parents and bereaved families in general.
Responses at the personal level
Scripture contains several instances of parents losing their children and some of them – in God's mercy – were brought back to life. Examples include Elijah raising the widow's son in 1 Kings 17:17-24 and Jesus raising Jairus's daughter in Mark 5:21-43 (also found in Matthew and Luke's gospels).
The clearest exposition of supporting a bereaved family, however, is not found with a child's death but with the death of Lazarus, Jesus's close friend in John 11:1-44. Jesus is told of Lazarus' serious illness when he is two days' journey from Bethany, where Lazarus and his sisters lived.
His first reaction on hearing the news is to proclaim that it will not end in death and that it will be for God's glory. That's the first principle we can take from this passage as we seek to support the bereaved: remember that how we support them can bring glory to God.
We can also learn something from the many friends, family and acquaintances of Mary, Martha and Lazarus who come to comfort them (v. 19). These mourners show by their presence that they care for Mary and Martha and, indeed, Lazarus.
This is our second principle: show up. By attending the loved one's funeral and showing support at the six month, one year and two year anniversaries, we show the grieving person that we have not forgotten their loved one and give them a chance to talk about them and express both their sorrow and their joy at the memories they shared.
Thirdly, we learn from Jesus how to share the sorrows of the grieving. When Jesus sees the sorrow of Mary and the mourners in verse 33, he is deeply moved in spirit and troubled.
When told to follow the mourners to the tomb, he wept (v. 35). The watching crowd see this as confirmation of Jesus's love for Lazarus (v.36). By expressing his grief, he shows to Mary and the mourners that he deeply valued Lazarus.
By suffering with them, he affirms that it is right to mourn the loss of a loved one. We must be willing to show our grief at the loss of another's loved one. By doing so we give both them and ourselves an opportunity to grieve and to release the pent-up emotion at the loss.
Responses at the societal level
What does supporting the bereaved look like on a societal level? The clearest answer is that we must prevent a loved one's death resulting in financial hardship for their surviving family members.
The Child Funeral Fund aims to do this by waiving the local authority costs for funerals. But how big a problem is not being able to afford to pay for a loved one's funeral, so-called 'funeral poverty'?
Though councils provide paupers' funerals when no suitable arrangements have been made for a deceased person, debt counselling charity Christians Against Poverty found in 2016 that one in ten of their clients incurred debt paying for a loved one's funeral.
It cannot be right that those who are already suffering the loss of a loved one should suffer the further loss of financial hardship.
2 Kings 4:1-7 tells the story of a widow who has inherited her husband's debts, and who the prophet Elisha then saves from having her sons taken into slavery.
Though the debt is not incurred through the funeral costs of the deceased husband, this account shows us how those who are bereaved and in debt are incredibly vulnerable.
The gracious help Elisha provides, through a miraculous supply of oil which she sells to pay off her debts, is an example of helping the bereaved financially. Though we may not be able to perform miracles like Elisha, we – as Christians and as society as a whole – must show solidarity with bereaved people in debt.
Whether this happens through charities supporting indebted grieving families financially or on a public policy level, as with the Child Funeral Fund, we must protect these vulnerable members of society and enable them to flourish in the future.
Our society has much, then, to learn from the Bible about how to support the bereaved.
On a policy level it is essential that the promised Child Funeral Fund is delivered and that the government creates the conditions for charities to support those grieving a loved one.
But on a more personal level we have learned several key principles for supporting grieving families: that we can glorify God in how we support them, that we must show up and that we must share with them in their sorrows.
Peter Redmayne is a participant on Jubilee Centre's SAGE Graduate Programme. He graduated from Durham University with a BA in Modern Languages.
This article first appeared on the Jubilee Centre website and was republished with permission.
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