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Pukekohe's largest Motel is conveniently located for business or leisure travellers being close enough to Auckland Airport and Auckland City, yet just out of the city rush. Featuring 26 quality smoke free units, including studio units, one bedroom units and a two bedroom unit. All one and two…
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…apartments situated on Paihia's waterfront. Just a stone's throw from restaurants, cafes and shops. Walk to the Waitangi Treaty grounds or catch a ferry across to Russell. Cross the road to the beach or relax on our private pool deck. Self-contained apartment accommodation in Paihia, Bay of Islands.
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…and exploring the beautiful Bay of Islands on a day or overnight Vigilant Yacht Charter. With countless beaches and coves at which to stop off, you may decide to spend your afternoon strolling along the sandy, white shoreline, relaxing on the beach or, if you choose, taking your pick of the water…
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Located in Kerikeri, Bay of Islands, our 5-star health retreat provides various healthy packages and fitness holidays. Do you want to learn how to get healthy/lose weight and detox/relax and de-stress/get fitter? Looking for the ultimate active holiday? - perhaps cycling the Twin Coast Cycle Trail…
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…friendly Homestay hospitality. Our home is set in 1.6ha/4acres of native bush and gardens on the Waitangi River. Conveniently located just outside Paihia on the way to Kerikeri - a great place from which to explore The Bay of Islands and the rest of Northland. Meet our alpacas, chickens and cat.
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…secluded, newly renovated motel in a quiet, elevated, traffic-noise-free location overlooking the bay. Only a three-minute drive to the beach and four-minute drive to Paihia town centre. Most units have stunning ocean and coastal views and all have cooking facilities. Totally smoke-free property,…
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A classically elegant hotel in Russell with superb dining and accommodation for travellers, wedding parties, coach tours or smaller, intimate conferences and gatherings. A beautiful environment in which to relax and unwind. One of New Zealand's most delightful areas.
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Come to the beautiful Bay of Islands, one of New Zealand's most picturesque destinations. It attracts visitors from all over the world. We offer a full selection of accommodation styles that will suit most people and groups. We manage all aspects of your stay - a stress free experience for you.
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…time. Accommodation is provided in two suites in the guest cottage. Facilities in the cottage include tea/coffee making facilities, microwave, TV/DVD, wireless internet etc. Fully renovated to offer the highest quality accommodation each with en-suite. Choice of continental or full cooked breakfast.
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text: Karl Lagerfeld's French fans will be treated to another documentary about the designer, to be screened by France 5 in October. The 52-minute-long work, directed by Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai, is one of a series of profiles by the TV channel on personalities in France, dubbed "Empreintes," or "Impressions." Featuring in-depth interviews with Lagerfeld, as well as footage of the designer in action, the film explores his life story, starting with his childhood in Germany. Sharing memories of his mother, Lagerfeld recounts: "When I asked her to tell me stories, she would say, 'Learn to read.' And when I wanted to tell her one, she would come back with: 'You may be four years old, but I am not.'" Personalities already profiled by France 5 include Brigitte Bardot and the soccer star Michel Platini.

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|Pool Float: Urban Outfitters || Phone Case: ebay || Bodysuit: Forever 21 || T-shirt: Forever 21
Let's be real, every girl is looking for that hot bikini bod and ends up trying to starve herself the week before going on vacation. I happen to be one of those girls - don't worry, I'm not actually starving myself - but I have been trying to eat less junk food, eat healthier and workout more. It. Sucks. I've never really been one to crave sweets, but unfortunately college has changed that… I want candy ALL. THE. TIME. If you ask anyone who knows me what my favorite food is, without hesitation, they will respond with donuts. My life would be incomplete without them - not kidding. Luckily, putting donuts on merchandise is becoming a real thing! The bad part is the whole "diet" situation… I'm failing miserably thanks to these delicious, round pieces of heaven.
With all of that being said, I'm here to tell you ladies that you aren't the only ones having five cheat days a week… but we should probably cut back a little bit. I would rather have people think I had never touched a donut before in my life as I float down a lazy river in a donut tube, than have people think I bought two donut tubes but ate one of them before I got in the water with the other. Bottom line, I've sadly cut back on my donut intake, but I've seen progress! If there is something you love to eat but in no way is it helping you slim down, either cut it out completely or eat it on your ONE cheat day!
Confession: I actually own the donut phone case, and you would be surprised at how many compliments it gets!
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Great British Bike Racks - Made in Pendle, Great Britain.
This is a special version of our wheel support rack that is designed for heavier bikes such as downhill, free ride or electric bikes.
Capacity: 2 BikesLoad Weight: 25kgRack Weight: 19kgLight Unit: IncludedSecuring Straps: Included
Check your vehicle's nose weight – the combined weight of the rack and bikes must not exceed this.
Vehicles with external spare wheels may need extended support poles to suit the external spare wheel. Please contact for further info.
Retractable Tow Bars - If using with a retractable swan neck tow bar, you may not be able to retract and stow the tow ball with the 'On the Ball' mounting block fitted.
The light unit is fitted with a 7-pin plug, we also sell a 13-7 Pin Adaptor for vehicles fitted with 13 pin sockets.
Note on use with motorhomes – We do not recommend using 'On the Ball' mounting racks with motorhomes. We recommend checking with the manufacturer of the tow bar as to the suitability for use with a 'Behind the Ball' bike rack.
Standard UK delivery is £2.95 for orders less than £50.00, or FREE if your order is over £50.00 (excluding trailers).
Standard delivery is usually made within 5 working days of your order being placed.
Deliveries will be made between 7am and 6pm Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays). Deliveries will be made within 48 hours of despatch. Despatch is subject to availability, but we do not allow products to be purchased unless there is sufficient stock to ensure prompt despatch. Delivery will be made to the address of the registered debit/ credit card holder used to place the order (or another nominated delivery address) and must be a UK address only. Despite our best efforts, we cannot guarantee delivery dates and times as these may be affected by circumstances outside our control. We will do our best to contact you if we are forewarned of delays. For this reason we are unable to accept responsibility for lost working time and recommend goods are ordered well in advance of any planned usage dates.
We offer two different types of mounting block so our racks can be used with any type of towbar. The appropriate mounting block for you depends on the type of tow bar you have and whether you wish to tow whilst having a rack in place. Order your rack with one of these mounts.
Ball Mounting
Will fit: Swan neck, detachable and Mounting standard 2 bolt flange tow bars.
A universal mount that fits around the tow ball and consists of two parts which are bolted securely together – the first part contains the sockets which the bike rack arms fit into and the second part is a back plate so the two components sandwich around the tow ball. Both parts are moulded inside to the shape of a tow ball to give a perfectly sturdy, secure fit. Due to the way this fits around the ball you will be unable to tow when the mounting is in place.
Please note Ball Mounting option is not available in Higher Racks.
Behind-the-ball Mounting
Will fit: Standard 2 bolt flange tow bars only.
A standard mount that fits securely between the tow ball and towing bracket of standard 2 bolt flange tow bars. Ideal for people wanting to tow while carrying their bikes. Please read individual rack descriptions, as not all racks are suitable for towing. When towing with a Pendle Bike Rack we advise that a maximum of two bikes are carried and that individuals check their towing set-up and turning circles with the rack and bikes fitted, before setting off on their journey.


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Terra Cognita has some new thoughts…
L. Ron Hubbard and Family
I came across this quote in a recent Scientology promo piece:
"A family is simply a group for the purpose of sexual pleasure and the rearing of children and mutual economic advantages amongst ourselves. You know, it's a small group. Therefore, we have this actual group. The race wouldn't be anywhere without the family."
— L. Ron Hubbard, Classic Lecture, On the Second Dynamic—Sex, Children & the Family (6 April 1955).
Mind Stun
It boggles my mind that LRH:
One: Defined the family as "…simply a group for the purpose of sexual pleasure and the rearing of children and mutual economic advantages…"
Two: Scientologists accept these words as truth.
And three: The organization is promoting this quote as an example of LRH's supreme wisdom.
Wow. Wow. Wow.
Red Lights
Take away the part about "the rearing of children," and he might as well have been talking about a brothel. On second thought, knowing what I now know about the man, we should leave that phrase right where it is and get those little bastards working to bring in new clients.
"What's love got to do, got to do with it…"
I never considered that families were formed "simply" as a means of pleasuring oneself sexually, rearing children, and fostering economic advantage. I always imagined that quaint concepts such as play, creativity, common interests, help, friendship, romance, and love were part of the equation.
I always imagined that with families came feelings and emotional impact. If you don't think so, talk to someone who's lost a loved one. Ask them if their deceased parent, spouse, or child was simply a means for sexual pleasure and economic advantage.
Then again…don't.
Last Words
I love my family.
Still not Declared,
Terra Cognita


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(Methyl sulphonyl methane) is an organic form of sulphur; high levels of sulphur are found in the muscles, skin and bones as well as concentrated amounts in the hair and nails. Sulphur is a component of keratin, the main protein of hair and nails and is vital for the formation of keratin, collagen and elastin which provides flexibility, tone and strength to muscles, bones, joints, skin, hair and nails.
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I recently read a classic Mary Balogh (I won't mention which one because I want to discuss the ending, but you can email me [Magdalen (at) MagdalenBraden.com] if you just have to know the title) where there were two things keeping the hero and heroine apart: a rather flimsy confusion about what "in love" means and the fact that he had a commitment to another female.
This is a Regency romance, so the commitment was rather of the "I've spoken to her father about possibly at a later date seeking his permission to approach her on the question of whether she might like to marry me" combined with "my mother and her grandparents are certain it will be a great match." Which is hardly grounds for a breach of contract suit, but that's not the point.
The point is that the young woman in question Has Expectations and if the hero reneges on those Expectations, he will be a cad and she might be heartbroken. So the fact that he's wildly attracted to, and might be in love with, another woman is irrelevant.
I could discuss whether it's ever a good idea to marry a woman when you love another, but that's actually a morally debatable matter and much more subtle than the pretty obvious point I want to make here. But if you're interested in that subtler issue, I recommend Pamela Morsi's The Bikini Car Wash, which has a nice subplot on this topic.
Here's what irked me about the Mary Balogh book -- the hero and heroine couldn't be together until the young woman to whom the hero had an attenuated commitment was safely paired off with her convenient secret love. The whole business was absurd to the point of lunacy: Young Woman just happens to have feelings for her second cousin who just happens to be the Heir Presumptive to her maternal grandfather's title and estate and who just happens to have feelings for Young Woman. Seriously? In any rational scenario, the grandparents would have had these two married off as soon as Young Woman was of age. (Downton Abbey, anyone?)
But because these poor secondary characters have to keep our hero and heroine apart by any means possible, the entire denouement takes FOREVER and strains credulity to a breaking point.
Whew! Glad I got that off my chest.
I don't understand the compulsion for authors to ensure that every "other woman" short of a true villainess is happily paired off by the end of the book.
Betty Neels often let her heroes make the mistake of assuming that they had to marry someone, and that beanpole female wearing an orange lamé jumpsuit that's cut too low to suit her flat bosom seemed just the ticket. These engagements, as well as indicting the hero's intelligence, could only end with the Veronica (the The Uncrushable Jersey Dress name for the generic other woman, as per Archie Comics) happily paired off with some distasteful academic or rich American. (Exceptions were made where a specific Veronica had attempted a felony, such as engineering an accident to befall the heroine...those Veronicas could be banished sans happy ending.)
I doubt authors do this because they love all their female characters equally. In the Mary Balogh, the Young Woman is a bit of a wet blanket, mopey and not fun to be around. Betty Neels' Veronicas are universally unpleasant, either thoughtlessly or purposefully rude to the heroine.
At least in the Mary Balogh romance, the hero has a cultural expectation of being faithful to Young Woman although it wouldn't have been hard for him to suggest to YW's grandfather that now that they'd spent some time together maybe YW would be happier with ... that Heir Apparent standing over there! Betty Neels' heroes are often actually engaged to the Veronica, but modern-day engagements can be broken rather more easily. Still, each of her heroes seems to wait until some other guy shows up to take the Veronica off his hands.
Here's my rhetorical question: Why can't these books conclude with a mildly disappointed Other Woman at the end?
In real life, there's an alchemy to romance that can allow for person A to dump B, a perfectly lovely person, for C, a similarly lovely person simply because the A+C romance is "better" than the A+B romance was. We feel for B, who did nothing wrong, and maybe it even sours us to the resulting A+C romance. (Woody Allen, anyone?)
But in romance novels with a Hero-Heroine-Veronica triangle there's always a contrast between the nicer, funnier, more compassionate Heroine and the Veronica. As readers, we see why Hero prefers Heroine; it's really no contest. Our sympathies aren't engaged by the Veronica, not the way they are by the Heroine.
Plus, doesn't this equation: A-B
⇒ A+C rather insult the intelligence, grace, and independence of B? Balogh's Young Woman wasn't stupid. She could have sorted her own life out on her own, and as no official announcement had been made, she didn't even have to pretend she was the one who ended the not-quite-an-engagement. Neels' Veronicas are so unpleasant that we really don't care about them, but as they managed to get their hooks into the hero, they can presumably replicate that result with some other guy.
Finally, the aspect of these triangular plots that I find the most distasteful is the lengths to which the hero will go to honor a bad or misguided arrangement with the Other Woman. Mary Balogh's hero seemed perfectly prepared to walk down the aisle with Young Woman -- all because his mother and her grandparents thought it would be a good idea? Lunacy. The Neels heroes -- well, they play their cards close to their vests so who knows for sure but in several books it certainly appears as though the hero might well marry the Veronica just because. In other words, they're willing to martyr themselves.
I hate martyrs.


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And now that another woman — a 61-year-old woman, who, when she was 21 (not as young as 13), murdered his long-ago wife and his never-born child — has died, that other world seems impossibly distant and deceased. His victimizer Susan Atkins is dead, and the woman he victimized, Samantha Geimer, has settled with him. It might be part of the secret settlement, but Geimer does not want the old criminal charges pursued.
Nonetheless, the Swiss police arrested Roman Polanski when he touched down in Zurich to pick up another prize. Why did that happen?
"There was a valid arrest request and we knew when he was coming," ministry spokesman Guido Balmer told The Associated Press. "That's why he was taken into custody."Oh! There is memory, and there is law, and you cannot rise above it, not by extreme suffering or extreme old age, not by great fame or great accomplishment, and not by profuse reconciliation with the victim.
Roman Polanski has been called to account at long last.


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Preserving and restoring an activity's UI state in a timely fashion across system-initiated activity or application destruction is a crucial part of the user experience. In these cases the user expects the UI state to remain the same, but the system destroys the activity and any state stored in it.
To bridge the gap between user expectation and system behavior, use a
combination of ViewModel
objects, the
onSaveInstanceState() method,
and/or local storage to persist the UI state across such application and
activity instance transitions. Deciding how to combine these options depends on
the complexity of your UI data, use cases for your app, and consideration of
speed of retrieval versus memory usage.
Regardless of which approach you take, you should ensure your app meets users expectations with respect to to their UI state, and provides a smooth, snappy UI (avoids lag time in loading data into the UI, especially after frequently occurring configuration changes, like rotation). In most cases you should use both ViewModel and onSaveInstanceState().
This page discusses user expectations about UI state, options available for preserving state, the tradeoffs and limitations of each.
User expectations and system behavior
Depending upon the action a user takes, they either expect that activity state to be cleared or the state to be preserved. In some cases the system automatically does what is expected by the user. In other cases the system does the opposite of what the user expects.
User-initiated UI state dismissal
The user expects that when they start an activity, the transient UI state of that activity will remain the same until the user completely dismisses the activity. The user can completely dismiss an activity by:
- pressing the back button
- swiping the activity off of the Overview (Recents) screen
- navigating up from the activity
- killing the app from Settings screen
- completing some sort of "finishing" activity (which is backed by Activity.finish())
The user's assumption in these complete dismissal cases is that they have permanently navigated away from the activity, and if they re-open the activity they expect the activity to start from a clean state. The underlying system behavior for these dismissal scenarios matches the user expectation - the activity instance will get destroyed and removed from memory, along with any state stored in it and any saved instance state record associated with the activity.
There are some exceptions to this rule about complete dismissal -- for example a user might expect a browser to take them to the exact webpage they were looking at before they exited the browser using the back button.
System-initiated UI state dismissal
A user expects an activity's UI state to remain the same throughout a configuration change, such as rotation or switching into multi-window mode. However, by default the system destroys the activity when such a configuration change occurs, wiping away any UI state stored in the activity instance. To learn more about device configurations, see the Configuration reference page. Note, it is possible (though not recommended) to override the default behavior for configuration changes. See Handling the Configuration Change Yourself for more details.
A user also expects your activity's UI state to remain the same if they temporarily switch to a different app and then come back to your app later. For example, the user performs a search in your search activity and then presses the home button or answers a phone call - when they return to the search activity they expect to find the search keyword and results still there, exactly as before.
In this scenario, your app is placed in the background the system does its best to keep your app process in memory. However, the system may destroy the application process while the user is away interacting with other apps. In such a case, the activity instance is destroyed, along with any state stored in it. When the user relaunches the app, the activity is unexpectedly in a clean state. To learn more about process death, see Processes and Application Lifecycle.
Options for preserving UI state
When the user's expectations about UI state do not match default system behavior, you must save and restore the user's UI state to ensure that the system-initiated destruction is transparent to the user.
Each of the options for preserving UI state vary along the following dimensions that impact the user experience:
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|Storage location
|in memory
|serialized to disk
|on disk or network
|Survives configuration change
|Survives system-initiated process death
|Survives user complete activity dismissal/onFinish()
|Data limitations
|complex objects are fine, but space is limited by available memory
|only for primitive types and simple, small objects such as String
|only limited by disk space or cost / time of retrieval from the network resource
|Read/write time
|quick (memory access only)
|slow (requires serialization/deserialization and disk access)
|slow (requires disk access or network transaction)
Use ViewModel to handle configuration changes
ViewModel is ideal for storing and managing UI-related data while the user is actively using the application. It allows quick access to UI data and helps you avoid refetching data from network or disk across rotation, window resizing, and other commonly occurring configuration changes. To learn how to implement a ViewModel, see the ViewModel guide.
ViewModel retains the data in memory, which means it is cheaper to retrieve than data from the disk or the network. A ViewModel is associated with an activity (or some other lifecycle owner) - it stays in memory during a configuration change and the system automatically associates the ViewModel with the new activity instance that results from the configuration change.
ViewModels are automatically destroyed by the system when your user backs out of your activity or fragment or if you call finish(), which means the state will be cleared as the user expects in these scenarios.
Unlike saved instance state, ViewModels are destroyed during a system-initiated process death. This is why you should use ViewModel objects in combination with onSaveInstanceState() (or some other disk persistence), stashing identifiers in savedInstanceState to help view models reload the data after system death.
If you already have an in-memory solution in place for storing your UI state across configuration changes, you may not need to use ViewModel.
Use onSaveInstanceState() as backup to handle system-initiated process death
callback stores data needed to reload the state of a UI controller, such
as an activity or a fragment, if the system destroys and later recreates that
controller. To learn how to implement saved instance state, see Saving and
restoring activity state in the
Activity Lifecycle guide.
Saved instance state bundles persist both configuration changes and process death, but are limited by amount of storage and speed because onSavedInstanceState() serializes data to disk. Serialization can consume a lot of memory if the objects being serialized are complicated. Because this process happens on the main thread during a configuration change, serialization can cause dropped frames and visual stutter if it takes too long.
Do not use store onSavedInstanceState() to store large amounts of data, such as bitmaps, nor complex data structures that require lengthy serialization or deserialization. Instead, store only primitive types and simple, small objects such as String. As such, use onSaveInstanceState() to store a minimal amount of data necessary, such as an ID, to re-create the data necessary to restore the UI back to its previous state should the other persistence mechanisms fail. Most apps should implement onSaveInstanceState() to handle system-initiated process death.
Depending on your app's uses cases, you might not need to use
onSaveInstanceState() at all.
For example, a browser might take the user back to the exact webpage they were
looking at before they exited the browser. If your activity behaves this way,
you can forego using
onSaveInstanceState() and instead persist everything locally.
Additionally, when you open an activity from an intent, the bundle of extras is delivered to the activity both when the configuration changes and when the system restores the activity. If a piece of UI state data, such as a search query, were passed in as an intent extra when the activity was launched, you could use the extras bundle instead of the onSaveInstanceState() bundle. To learn more about intent extras, see Intent and Intent Filters.
In either of these scenarios, you should still use a
to avoid wasting cycles reloading data from the database during a configuration
In cases where the UI data to preserve is simple and lightweight, you might use
onSaveInstanceState() alone to
preserve your state data.
Note: You can now provide access to a saved
state in
ViewModel objects with the
Saved State module for ViewModel
(currently in Alpha).
This saved state is accessible via an object called
You can see how it is used in the
Android lifecycle-aware components codelab.
Use local persistence to handle process death for complex or large data
Persistent local storage, such as a database or shared preferences, will survive for as long as your application is installed on the user's device (unless the user clears the data for your app). While such local storage survives system-initiated activity and application process death, it can be expensive to retrieve because it will have to be read from local storage in to memory. Often this persistent local storage may already be a part of your application architecture to store all data you don't want to lose if you open and close the activity.
Neither ViewModel nor saved instance state are long-term storage solutions and thus are not replacements for local storage, such as a database. Instead you should use these mechanisms for temporarily storing transient UI state only and use persistent storage for other app data. See Guide to App Architecture for more details about how to leverage local storage to persist your app model data long term (e.g. across restarts of the device).
Managing UI state: divide and conquer
You can efficiently save and restore UI state by dividing the work among the various types of persistence mechanisms. In most cases, each of these mechanisms should store a different type of data used in the activity, based on the tradeoffs of data complexity, access speed, and lifetime:
- Local persistence: Stores all data you don't want to lose if you open and
close the activity.
- Example: A collection of song objects, which could include audio files and metadata.
ViewModel: Stores in memory all the data needed to display the associated UI Controller.
- Example: The song objects of the most recent search and the most recent search query.
onSaveInstanceState(): Stores a small amount of data needed to easily reload activity state if the system stops and then recreates the UI Controller. Instead of storing complex objects here, persist the complex objects in local storage and store a unique ID for these objects in
- Example: Storing the most recent search query.
As an example, consider an activity that allows you to search through your library of songs. Here's how different events should be handled:
When the user adds a song, the
ViewModel immediately delegates persisting
this data locally. If this newly added song is something that should be shown
in the UI, you should also update the data in the
ViewModel object to reflect
the addition of the song. Remember to do all database inserts off of the main
When the user searches for a song, whatever complex song data you load from the
database for the UI Controller should be immediately stored in the
object. You should also save the search query itself in the
ViewModel object.
When the activity goes into the background,
the system calls
onSaveInstanceState(). You
should save the search query in the
onSaveInstanceState() bundle.
This small amount of data is easy to save. It's also all the information you
need to get the activity back into its current state.
Restoring complex states: reassembling the pieces
When it is time for the user to return to the activity, there are two possible scenarios for recreating the activity:
- The activity is recreated after having been stopped by the system. The
activity has the query saved in an
onSaveInstanceState()bundle, and should pass the query to the
ViewModel. The
ViewModelsees that it has no search results cached, and delegates loading the search results, using the given search query.
- The activity is created after a configuration change. The activity has
the query saved in an
onSaveInstanceState()bundle, and the
ViewModelalready has the search results cached. You pass the query from the
onSaveInstanceState()bundle to the
ViewModel, which determines that it already has loaded the necessary data and that it does not need to re-query the database.
Note: When an activity is initially created,
onSaveInstanceState() bundle
contains no data, and the
ViewModel object is empty. When you create the
ViewModel object, you pass an empty query, which tells the
ViewModel object
that there's no data to load yet. Therefore, the activity starts in an empty
Additional resources
To learn more about saving UI states, consult the following resources.


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Police in Las Vegas have begun investigating the discovery of a bag of the deadly poison ricin in n Extended Stay hotel. After a guest brought the bag to the front desk, he and several employees had to go through a decontamination process. Police also found castor beans, the source of ricin, in the same room:
Authorities were called to an Extended Stay America hotel around 3 p.m. after a man brought a bag holding a small container to the manager's office. The man said he found it while retrieving items from a hotel room.
It's "100 percent ricin," said Capt. Joe Lombardo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. "We don't know who (the ricin) belongs to or why it would be here at this time."
Three hotel employees and a fourth person who came to the room to retrieve some items were taken to the hospital as a precaution, Officer Ramon Dendy told CNN. Three police officers who went into the room are also being watched at the hospital. None of the seven have shown symptoms of ricin poisoning, which can include anything from difficulty breathing, fever, cough, nausea and sweating to severe vomiting and dehydration.
"We did have enough ricin to be of concern," Lombardo said. "At this point, it has been contained and processed where it's not a threat to anybody."
Ricin has been used in the past. Suspected Bulgarian assassins shot dissident Georgi Markov with a ricin-loaded pellet from an umbrella gun, and he died four days later. The White House discovered ricin in its mail in 2003, and in the same year a South Carolina mail processing center also found a ricin-laced envelope. In 2006, two other incidents involving ricin occurred at the University of Texas and in Richmond, Virginia. The latter case involved a domestic dispute and an alleged murder plot, but not terrorism.
One would expect a ricin attack in Las Vegas to target a more high-profile hotel than an Extended Stay. The presence of castor beans could indicate that the person who produced the ricin intended to use the hotel as a base of operations for the attack. Why it got left behind without any action is anyone's guess, but the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI will be looking for the answers.
I'll update this as more information arises. (via Instapundit)


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There has always been a strict no "fer sail" policy on this forum. Yet, there is a new Forum...things "fer sail" by Graflex.org...to which I'm not allowed to post. I know this isn't a democracy here...the good old boys who invented this site have total control...but shucks...why can't we list things fer sail to other members without going to that "we pay" site where nobody knows nuthin' about cameras. I'd love to be able to trade...barter...buy and sell...or whatever.....amongst guys who know an f stop from a distance scale. Fred.
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As unfair as it may seem to you, Fred, the fact is this is Leigh's baby - lock, stock and barrel. He is the ONLY "good old boy" that makes decisions here. Just ask Les. There's got to be costs involved with this endeavor, and, if you know the history here, without Leigh, this forum would have folded long ago.
If he wants to market some items here, its his choice. For a time, he offered services on the main page. I'm content to accept it the way it is, since there are other places besides ebay to offer items. Nobody should be under any illusion that life is fair - far from it.
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I didn't mean to imply it is unfair. I was merely wondering if there may not be a way whereby the registered users of this site could engage in trading, etc., without it clogging the forum with every Tom, Dick, and Harry with something to sell. For example, users who have been registered for at least six months...genuine Graflex owners and users... could post items they're willing to trade...and items they're seeking...in a special forum. Guess the screening, etc., would be complicated. Just a thought. Fred.
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:28 pm
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On 2004-01-20 05:12, clnfrd wrote:
I didn't mean to imply it is unfair. I was merely wondering if there may not be a way whereby the registered users of this site could engage in trading, etc., without it clogging the forum with every Tom, Dick, and Harry with something to sell. For example, users who have been registered for at least six months...genuine Graflex owners and users... could post items they're willing to trade...and items they're seeking...in a special forum. Guess the screening, etc., would be complicated. Just a thought. Fred.
Fred, I like Graflex.org but it is really a poor venue for selling. Not enough people come here. eBay is a much better place for selling because it has greater reach.
That said, graflex.org seems a reasonable place to post wants for graflex and related equipment. eBay doesn't allow wants, and some of the people who come here regularly have tons of stuff ...
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I concur about the desirability of a "wanted" bulletin board. If necessary, you could forbid "wants" invoving 3-cell flashguns (or whatever). But I'm sure that most of us who have been scrounging Graflex stuff out of corrugated cartons in now-defunct camera stores for years and years now have more of something and less of something else than we'd like. Some swapping or buying would even things out.
I also agree that this is not an attractive marketplace for sellers, which is a very good thing too!
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I purchased the View II that I traded for a Sinar F1 and the side RF Pacemaker that got me to this board at the same store that Koltz got his stuff. Maybe I'll see him there one day and say HI and Thanks for the site.
Most members who need or have items that they cannot find or dispose of via the regular trade venues are capable of carefull wording that does not offend and the exchange can be handled via private communications. And, yes, all of my Graflex equipement is available for the right $$$$ but I'm not looking to par fail it here. If someone were to donate another machine, programming and pay the power bill to run it then maybe it could be interconnected to provide a trade bored.
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 5:31 pm
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The point is very well taken. The retailers who continue to deal in used Graflex gear deserve our support, and the Internet does provide some remedy to the market forces that are steadily eliminating traditional full-service "brick-and-mortar" camera stores.
At the same time, there are many small accessories and gadgets that it is worth no one's while to list. One of the lost pleasures of getting to know a long-established photographic retailer was that he would show you the contents of the shallow drawers behind the counter, in the hope that you would offer him money for something unsalable for the past fifteen years: mechanical synchronizers, odd-size adapter rings, "Graphic" viewfinder masks and "Focuscopes" and small enigmatic fixtures and fittings, and so on and on.
This is the sort of clutter I think could be publicized to advantage by some kind of swap-or-buy BBS. If it were text-only, it wouldn't hog a lot of bandwidth, and I think it would be educational too.
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I for one would like to see some sort of mechanism for the exchange of Graflex/LF related items; I do support my local dealers (I have picked them clean of Graflex stuff as fast as it appears) but cannot find everything I would like. Dealing with the people at this site would allow us to deal with counterparts that probably understand what they are dealing with better than most of the mail order outfits, especially if we are looking for some odd widgit.
I also appreciate that this sort of thing can get out of hand, and may be a significant maintenance problem for the site operators. The first priority is to allow them to continue to provide the great support we enjoy on this site, without adding a swap forum that causes problems. Thus any proposal needs to be kept as simple as possible.
So, with an eye to keeping it simple, how about a swap forum that only registered users could post to after having been registered for at least six months, with the content restricted to Graflex or large format items. The response traffic would be by private messages or direct email to the poster, and the messages would be automatically deleted after a set number of days to clean out the old traffic. Hopefully the system could be set up to enforce these rules, and eliminate as much of the maintenance as possible.
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disemjg....Well said. Fred.
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This is a group on MSN I started just to have a place to post camera pics. It could be used for this purpose as well. It's free to join, and then you could post your stuff under messages.
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I would be happy to donate the time, the effort and I have the server space and software already for a barter, trade and even if we needed the dreaded ******* stuff, if this is of interest, I can get it set up and already for anyone to use, as I am in the web design and hosting business with my own servers, I have the capibilities to do it with no problems at all, it would just be a suplement to this site for those looking for a venue, the one condition would be that it would have to be used, I don't want to go to the trouble to set it all up, only to not be used.
Just let me know, by a personal message or a show of hands on the board here.
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Forgot to add, it would have the ability to post pictures as well, and anybody who registed would be able to post want ad's plus. I would be happy to do as I am a pure 100% camera and photography freak, just ask my wife!
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I, for one, appreciate that offer. Sorry so slow to respond...computer problems.
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I'll be glad to see "looking for" and "want-to-sell" items. Nice of you to offer. I admit to buying clamps and other odd bits out of "shallow drawers behind counters" too.
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Family Radio's Harold Camping says that the Lord has ceased using the corporate church to evangelize; namely, the corporate church is now dead and true believers should leave their churches or congregations. While I have learned much from Mr. Camping over the years, and while I have no doubt that the corporate church by and large has become apostate, I think that Mr. Camping has been a stumbling block to many believers, especially since his "1994" book and now his "end of the church age" position. What do you think?
You are quite right. Harold Camping had no Scriptural authority in trying to set a date for the Lord's return, and his latest passion is also without Scriptural support. The Church is variously pictured in the book of Revelation, but not as set aside.
His present direction seems to say that he is heading toward becoming a cult leader. I must not judge his heart before God. Just the same, how can he dismiss "the institutional church" with a stroke of the pen?
Were not the seven churches of Asia minor not institutional churches? And Christ commended some of them and warned others. They were institutional ruled by sinful men, and the church on earth will remain institutional till the Lord comes. It's the marvel of the ages that Jesus can accomplish the salvation of all His elect through the labors of sinners!
New Horizons, a magazine published by the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, has included at various times material about Harold Camping. The following items are available on this site:
"1994: The Year of Christ's Return?" by Tremper Longman III (December 1993)
"Harold Camping and the Church Today" by the session of Franklin Square OPC (December 2001)
"Harold Camping's Kingdom Hall" by Jason Wallace (February 2002)
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Pittsburgh CLO Announces YOU SAY TOMATO, I SAY SHUT UP Cast
Pittsburgh CLO has announced the cast for the Pittsburgh Premiere of You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up!, which will run January 31 through May 5 at the CLO Cabaret. Tickets can now be purchased at CLOCabaret.com, by calling 412-456-6666 or by visiting the Box Office at Theater Square.
Cast and Creative Team
Robin Abramson (Annabelle) was last seen in Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre's production of The School for Lies by David Ives. Pittsburgh City Theatre credits include Jordan Harrison's Maple and Vine, Time Stands Still, Outlying Islands and her work in Mary's Wedding (Mary) and Blackbird earned her 2009 Pittsburgh Post Gazette's performer of the year. She also participated in Eugene Pack's comedy hit Celebrity Autobiography performed at City Theatre. Quantum Theatre: Electric Baby, Twelfth Night and When the Rain Stops Falling. Some of her favorites are Maura in Tammy Ryan's FBI Girl (Playhouse Rep) and Kathy in No Name Players' production of Orange Flower Water.
Michael Greer (Understudy/Assistant Stage Manager) returns to Pittsburgh CLO where he was last seen in Jesus Christ Superstar. Additional Pittsburgh CLO credits include Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, Joseph..., Copacabana, The Full Monty & A Musical Christmas Carol. Favorite credits include Beauty & the Beast (Gaston), Footloose (Willard) with Pittsburgh Musical Theater and Jesus Christ Superstar with Kansas City Starlight. Mr. Greer is a graduate of Point Park University, where he earned his BFA in Musical Theater.
Gregory Johnstone (Jeff) returns to the CLO Cabaret after playing Eddie Lawrence in Shear Madness. Previous credits include Man in Golden Dragon with Quantum Theatre, Skinny Luke in Mojo with The REP at Point Park, Rosenthal in Grey Zone with barebones productions, and William in the premiere of 13th of Paris at City Theatre. He studied with Terry Schreiber in New York City and currently resides in the Northside of Pittsburgh.
Kristiann Menotiades (Understudy) returns for her ninth show at the CLO Cabaret. Favorites include: A Grand Night for Singing, Shear Madness, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, My Way: A Tribute to Frank Sinatra and Ruthless! The Musical. Other credits include Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Alice Miller in My Favorite Year, Yonah in Children of Eden and Madge in the new work play Enlightenment at The City Theater. Ms. Menotiades is also an instructor at the Pittsburgh CLO Academy and the director of Fox Chapel High School's fall play.
Van Kaplan (Director/Pittsburgh CLO Executive Producer) returns to direct at the CLO Cabaret after directing the critically-acclaimed production of Ruthless! The Musical. He made his Pittsburgh CLO directing debut in 2002 with Guys and Dolls at the Benedum Center, and has since directed She Loves Me and West Side Story for Pittsburgh CLO at the Benedum Center. He is the producer and director each year for The Jimmy Awards at Broadway's Minskoff Theatre and serves as the program's president. His other directorial credits include Kopit and Yeston's Phantom at North Shore Musical Theater, On the Town, Shear Madness, Sweeney Todd with Candy Buckley, Nunsense starring Jo Anne Worley, Guys and Dolls starring Georgia Engel and South Pacific starring Cathy Rigby. Mr. Kaplan has worked with such celebrities as Betty Buckley, Tony Bennett, Bill Cosby, Natalie Cole, Carol Channing, Jerry Seinfeld, Johnny Mathis and Debbie Reynolds. As a producer, he has produced the Broadway productions of The Addams Family, Catch Me If You Can, Come Fly Away and the recent production of Evita, as well as over 100 regional Theater Productions and tours.
Mr. Kaplan is a consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts, a former Theatre Panel chair for the Texas Commission on the Arts, and has served as adjunct professor for Carnegie Mellon's Masters of Arts
Management Program. He has been a Tony Awards voter for 20 years, is on the Board of The Broadway League, he serves on the Executive Committee of the Independent Presenters Network (IPN) and is past
president of The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT), of which Pittsburgh CLO is a founding member.
Tim Brady (Production Stage Manager) returns for his 8th season as PSM at the CLO Cabaret. As an actor, he has appeared in 11 productions of Pittsburgh CLO's A Musical Christmas Carol and various summer season productions. Other local theaters that Mr. Brady has performed with include The Pittsburgh Pops, Starlight Productions, The New Pittsburgh Jewish Theatre, Stage Right and The Theater Factory. Mr. Brady was also the managing director of the Conley Inn Dinner Theater in Irwin for 17 years.
Tony Ferrieri (Scenic Designer) returns to design for CLO Cabaret after designing A Grand Night for Singing and Girls Only - The Secret Comedy of Women. Awards include "2008 New Works Festival Lifetime Achievement Award," "Designer of the Year" by Pittsburgh City Paper, Post-Gazette and Tribune Review, "2005 Frankel Award," "2004 Fred Kelly Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts," "2001 Harry Schwalb Excellence in the Arts Award for Theater" from Pittsburgh Magazine and WQED, three time nominee for "Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Creative Achievement Award for EstablishEd Pittsburgh Artist." Regional designs include: City Theatre, Quantum Theatre; Milieu Theatrics NY; Jewish Theatre of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre; Carrnivale Theatrics; Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre; The Emelin Theatre NY; Northlight Theatre in Chicago; barebones productions; Madison Repertory Theatre; TheatreWorks in Harford; 1812 Productions in Philadelphia ; Pittsburgh Playhouse Repertory Company; Pittsburgh Playhouse Conservatory Company; Tuesday Musical Club; Unseam'd Shakespeare Company; Theatre at Hartwood; Gargaro Productions; Physical Theatre Project; Spur of the Moment Theatre; Pittsburgh Opera, Chatham College, University of Pittsburgh, Development Dimensions International, and Saltworks Theatre.
Andy Ostrowski (Lighting Designer) recently designed A Grand Night for Singing and the Gene Kelly Awards for Pittsburgh CLO, Bolero for PSO, PNME's summer season, August Osage County for The Rep at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, Rigoletto for Pittsburgh Opera and City Theatre's POP. National credits include: The Asolo, Virginia Stage Company, North Shore Music Theatre, Merrimack Repertory, Arden Theatre, Spoleto Festival USA, Dallas Summer Musicals, Theater of the Stars, Madison Opera and others. International: productions in Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, France, and touring all of Western Europe.


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February 20, 2014
To the Fitbit Force Community,
I co-founded Fitbit in 2007 to help people lead healthier, more active lives. We have been thrilled by your response to our products, and are committed to customer satisfaction. Late last year, we began selling Fitbit Force, our most advanced activity tracker. Recently, some Force users have reported skin irritation. While only 1.7% of Force users have reported any type of skin irritation, we care about every one of our customers. On behalf of the entire Fitbit team, I want to apologize to anyone affected.
From the beginning, we have taken this matter very seriously. We hired independent labs and medical experts to conduct a thorough investigation. Here's what we know:
- Independent test results have not found any issues with the battery or electrical systems.
- Test results show that users are likely experiencing allergic contact dermatitis.
- All Force materials are commonly used in consumer products. However, some users may be reacting to the nickel present in the surgical grade stainless steel used in the device. Other users are likely experiencing an allergic reaction to the materials used in the strap or the adhesives used to assemble the product.
We have now learned enough to take further action. We have stopped selling Force and have decided to conduct a voluntary recall. We are offering a refund directly to consumers for full retail price. For additional information related to the recall, we have set up a dedicated page on our website and a call center at 888-656-6381.
To our Force community, rest assured we're working on our next-generation tracker and will announce news about it soon.
Thank you for your continued loyalty and support.
James Park
CEO & Co-Founder
January 14, 2014
Dear Fitbit Customer:
I am the CEO of Fitbit, and I'd like to apologize on behalf of the entire company for the skin irritation that some of our customers have experienced. While this has affected only a very limited number of customers, Fitbit's mission is to create products that make our customers healthier, so we're taking every case seriously and are dedicated to making it right.
We at Fitbit are continuing to work hard to identify the cause. Multiple tests conducted by an independent lab have eliminated the possibility of a problem with the mechanical or electrical functioning of the device. We have also consulted with medical professionals whose assessments are that these irritations are most likely common allergic reactions to nickel, a component of the surgical-grade steel used in the Fitbit Force. If you would like to find out more information about nickel allergies, you can visit a public health site such as Mayo Clinic.
While this issue seems to be impacting a very limited number of our customers, I know that is of little comfort if you're one of them.
While we continue to look for the cause of the problem and research ways to modify the device so that everyone can wear it comfortably, we've created this website to help you find answers to frequently asked questions as well as information for those who would like to request a replacement or refund of their Fitbit Force.
If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at email@example.com or call 877-941-2411, both of which have been set up specifically to address your questions on this issue.
Thank you for being a Fitbit customer and for your patience and understanding.
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Earlier today, Rocket News 24, a Japanese news site, uploaded photos of an arcade machine spotted in Myanmar. The arcade machine at first glance looks pretty much like every cheap arcade game out there—however, upon closer inspection, one can see that it's horribly racist. Towards the Japanese.
The arcade machine in question, PK918, isn't a Myanmar made machine at all, but a Chinese import. The game is made in Guangdong province by Dragonwin Animation. How it ended up in Myanmar, no one knows. Dragonwin Animation wasn't available for comment by post time.
PK918 is a simple shooting game—think the duck game at the local fair. Put in a coin, pick up the gun and aim at the targets. Westerners would immediately recognize the cartoony caricatures of Japanese soldiers, but to Asians, these caricatures are far more sinister.
The title of the game, PK918, is in itself a clue as to the meaning behind the game. The letters PK, meaning Player Kill, and the numbers 918 equate to a slogan of sorts in China. 918 in Chinese represents the date September 18, 1931. The day of the Manchurian Invasion, a day that lives in infamy in China.
Some Chinese whom I've spoken to about PK918 say that the machine isn't so terrible, it's just a means to vent out some frustration against the Japanese. These people I spoke to are in their mid 20s. A friend of mine who works for Sina explained it as such: "During this time when domestically produced media is so anti-Japan, it's only natural for it to flow down to the area of video games."
Now PK918 is by no means the first game of its kind in China. In fact, there is a whole genre of games in China called "Red Games" that glorify the Chinese (mostly the communists) and vilify the invading Japanese. There have also been arcade machines that have subject matter. Most recently Red Games have also popped up on mobile devices. These Red Games, to repeat what was written previously, are mostly flash and no substance; they are anti-Japanese to draw attention.
【ショック】ミャンマーのゲーセンに日本人を撃ち殺すシューティングゲームがあった [Rocket News 24]
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Presidential authority to examine impact of terrorism attacks on Bush's leadership, Nov. 13
Fred Greenstein, professor emeritus of politics and chair of the Program in Leadership Studies at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, will discuss "The Political Leadership of George W. Bush: What a Difference Sept. 11 Made" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
A recognized authority on the American presidency, Greenstein has written or edited eight books on the subject, including his most recent, "The Presidential Difference: Leadership Styles from FDR to Clinton." The book examines the leadership qualities of modern presidents and rates their performance in categories ranging from communication skills to leadership styles.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs' Office of External Affairs.


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WTP Development Status Meeting
Remember, any committer can add an agenda item. Typically, short announcements or news items go in the "Announcements" section at the beginning. Longer items or issues requiring discussion should go in the "Other business" section at end.
Announcements And Special Reports
Indigo is here!! - Congrats everyone.... Java EE EPP download page stats: 43,505 @ 11:30 EST (6/23) #1 by far!
WTP Calendar
(Weekly Google Calendar updated through June, 2011)
For Indigo/Helios overall dates, see a Simultaneous Release Calendar
Focus on Quality (Neil)
- Focus Item:
- Untargeted severity "Major" and higher bugs opened before June 1st, 2011 (This week - 24; Last week - 27)
- Options:
- Target to a specific release or "future" if planning to fix but not in the next release
- Adjust severity as appropriate
- Untargeted bugs and enhancements with patches attached over 1 year old (This week - 15; Last week - 15)
- Untargeted bugs and enhancements with patches attached (This week - 29; Last week - 26)
- Build delayed, and restarted - Smoketest deadline moved to Friday at noon, and hopefully declare shortly after.
- latest build
- Projects should notify Chuck / David if it is known week to week they will not be participating, so smoke report template can be changed
3.2.5 Schedule
- 6/17 M build
- ...
- Regular weekly M builds
- ...
- 9/30 M build
- 10/7 M build (after this build, begin PMC-review ramp-down (+1 begins))
- 10/14 M build (after this build, begin +2)
- 10/21 M build (after this build, begin +3)
- 10/28 M build final build (with one week of buffer following this week, quiet week, until 11/4 (re-spin would require +3))
See "references" [1] for detailed explanation of what these dates mean.
3.2.5 Bug Review
- Thanks for a great release!
- Final Stable download link
- Projects can release separate announcements - any more?
- Still to do:
- Vacation!
- releng maps tagged and branched
- SR1 Builds to start shortly no build this week....
- Schedule? (SR1 GA 9-23-2011)
Bug Review
- Open bugs targeted to WTP 3.3.0 good work triaging!
Other business
- Proposing David Carver for project lead of wtp-incubator project - please vote.
- Enjoy your vacation!
- ↑ Our plan dates are on 'Friday' of the week. But, we produce and test the build on Thursday of the week, and ideally declare on Thursday. The dates in the Google Web Tools group calendar are for 'Thursdays' since that's a calendar for committers. We give ourselves the buffer to Friday, as our "public" date, that others can pick up our build, just in case a regression is found on Thursday and we have to respin and retest. [Technically, some might say, we still have till the following Tuesday or Wednesday for some "Simultaneous Release" due dates ... but it's hard to do much in that window, without disrupting everyone ... so we'll not use that buffer, except for the worst emergencies.]
- ↑ Hotbug Policy
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Missed chances cost Marlins in extra-innings loss
Cishek roughed up in 10th, as sweep opportunity goes by the board
MIAMI -- These aren't April's Marlins, but they still have room to grow.
The Nationals avoided a three-game sweep against the Marlins with a 5-2 extra-innings victory on Sunday in front of 19,766 at Marlins Park.
Miami closer Steve Cishek surrendered Washington's three go-ahead runs in the 10th inning.
"It was a tough game," Marlins manager Mike Redmond said. "We battled. But overall, I think the way we've battled after the first couple of months, I'm very pleased with not only the effort, but the way these guys have continued to grind it out through a lot of adversity, at times.
"We've had some tough games, some tough losses. I think we preached that things would get better, and things would improve. I think we saw that."
Despite dropping their final game of the first half, the Marlins enter the All-Star break with a 22-17 record since May 31, tied for the second best in the National League during that span.
"Feels much better than last year going into the break," Giancarlo Stanton said. "I don't know the record difference, but we're playing well -- and we're never really getting blown out. That's the thing. It's not like we play six or seven, and we're just getting at-bats for ourselves. Every one counts now. They've been counting."
Big plays and new faces have made the difference for Miami during its recent surge, and clutch performances on Sunday nearly delivered yet another win.
Stanton threw out two baserunners in the fourth to keep Washington from building on an early 1-0 lead. Stanton is only the third Marlin to record two outfield assists in one inning, joining Mark Kotsay (2000) and Joe Orsulak (1996).
Stanton made the first throw from his knees to retire Jayson Werth at second. Werth was attempting to stretch a single into a double, after Stanton failed to catch the ball on a diving play.
The second assist came on a single by opposing pitcher Taylor Jordan with two outs. Stanton charged the ball and gunned down Ian Desmond at home for the third out.
"They were perfect throws and actually killed a few rallies that they had going, so it killed their momentum," starter Henderson Alvarez said through his translator.
Stanton's heroics set the stage for Derek Dietrich, who put Miami ahead, 2-1, with a two-run homer in the fourth.
The big plays by Stanton and Dietrich helped hand Alvarez an advantage, which he maintained until the seventh. Nursing a 2-1 lead, Alvarez issued a two-out walk to Bryce Harper. Anthony Rendon made him pay for the mistake, doubling home the tying run. A.J. Ramos replaced Alvarez and, after walking Ryan Zimmerman and Adam LaRoche, got Werth to fly out to center to keep the game tied at 2.
Alvarez allowed two runs on nine hits over a season-high 6 2/3 innings.
The Marlins' offense failed to capitalize on opportunities at a few points during the game.
After falling behind, 1-0, in the second, Miami botched some early chances.
Marcell Ozuna led off the second with a single and advanced to third on what looked like a double by Dietrich down the first-base line. However, the umpiring crew ruled the ball foul following a quick meeting, and the second baseman eventually struck out.
Adeiny Hechavarria singled to keep the rally going, but Greg Dobbs grounded into the Marlins' Major League-leading 37th double play with runners in scoring position.
Miami threatened again in the third. With two outs and runners on first and second, Stanton singled to left field with what looked like a game-tying RBI single. However, a miscommunication between third-base coach Joe Espada and baserunners Jeff Mathis and Placido Polanco spelled trouble.
Espada signaled for Mathis to stop at third, but Polanco did not expect to be held up at second -- resulting in both runners ending up at the hot corner when the cutoff throw came in from left field. Mathis was tagged out in the ensuing rundown.
"I think with two outs, [Polanco] just anticipated that [Espada] was going to wave Mathis there," said Redmond. "I think probably in any circumstance other than with Harper out there in left field, he would have. Harp has a great arm out there.
"He was just at third base when Harper was getting the ball, it would have been dicey there at home."
Another potential Miami rally also came up short in the seventh. After putting two runners on with one out and the game tied at 2, Juan Pierre flew out to left and Polanco struck out swinging to end the threat.
The failed rallies proved costly in the 10th, when Cishek gave up back-to-back two-out hits to Denard Span and Wilson Ramos to plate a pair of runs. The outing ended Cishek's streak of consecutive scoreless innings at 17 2/3. After Dan Jennings relieved Cishek, he gave up an RBI double to pinch-hitter Chad Tracy, with the run charged to the Marlins' closer.
"I really wanted to finish on a strong note for the first half, especially for the team. Sweeping the Nationals would have been great," Cishek said. "I realize it was a tie game, but I still put all of that on me. I really wanted to finish strong in the first half and to have gained some momentum going into the second half."
Despite entering the All-Star break with the worst record in the NL, the Marlins are confident, given their recent play. However, the club is certainly not complacent.
"By no means are we satisfied with where we are at," Redmond said. "We know we can get better. We know we can continue to improve. We'll go out there in the second half, and hopefully have a great second half and finish strong."


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XAMPP was working fine before but now something happened and I can't figure out what's wrong. There are two processes started and port numbers are not stable. I think it's searching for the port 80 starting from 1 and increasing. When apache is first started the port number is 80 but then it starts to change. What might be the possible reasons? Here is the screenshot of the control panel:
XAMPP version is 1.8.0. The server is Windows Server 2008. If port is changed to 8080, it's working. I checked the port 80 and here's the result:


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There is nothing quite like the smell of fresh cut grass, the sound of the crack of a baseball bat striking the ball, or the sight of a pitcher winding up to throw the baseball to the batter. Yes, baseball is a true American tradition that goes back to even before the Civil War. In the Hamptons it has always been a popular sport with many farm boys tossing the ball around on the open land. Some local boys have made it into the Major Leagues, such as Hall of Famer Carl Yastremski of Bridgehampton, A.J Pierzynski of Bridgehampton, who currently is catcher for the Chicago White Sox and made his debut with the Minnesota Twins (1998-2003). Wade Rowden (Riverhead) played from 1984 to 1988 for the Cincinnati Reds then one year with the Chicago Cubs and the Baltimore Orioles. Paul Gibson (of Southampton) pitched from 1988 to 1996, first for the Detroit Tigers, then The Mets and Yankees. East Hamptonite Ross Gload is still active, and has played for the Kansas City Royals, the White Sox, Cubs, and Phillies.
For area baseball fans, there is the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League, which was founded in 2007 by longtime Montauk resident Rusty Leaver. Initially, the organization had one franchise—Hampton Whalers. Now it is a five-team division, also known as the Hampton Division, which is part of the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League, consisting of the Sag Harbor Whalers, Southampton Breakers, Westhampton Aviators, North Fork Ospreys, and Riverhead Tomcats [expand]
This local league has produced some major league draft choices. In 2009, Riverhead Tomcats right-hander Nick Tropeano (Stony Brook University) led the ACBL in wins and strikeouts on his way to earning Pitcher of the Year honors. He will now get the chance to prove himself at the professional level having been drafted in the fifth round (160th overall) by the Astros, becoming the third Hamptons Collegiate Baseball alum to be taken in this year's draft. The others are Andrew Cain of the University of North Carolina Wilmington, who became the first player in the history of the North Fork Ospreys to be drafted, going in the 12th round (371st overall) to the Milwaukee Brewers, and Riverhead Tomcats Justin Echevarria, a 40th-round selection by the Padres last year.
State Assemblyman Fred Thiele, who played a huge role in launching the league, said, "The Hamptons Collegiate Baseball league is attempting to duplicate the success of the Cape Cod League."
Having attended a few games myself, I agree with Thiele's assessment that "the collegiate league provides an inexpensive form of entertainment for local families and visitors, alike." He goes on to explain, "It's a throwback to the days when Bridgehampton and Sag Harbor had town teams, yielding the likes of Carl Yastremski. Proof that there is a lot more to the Hamptons than just the rich and famous. Further, it is good quality baseball with some of the best college players in the country. It provides these future stars the opportunity to display and develop their talent in a great place."
I asked about the wonderful field that the Southampton Breakers use on the campus of SUNY Southampton and he said, "The state's role has been to provide one of the venues for games at the college in Southampton. In addition, former Assemblyman Marc Alessi and I were able to obtain some start-up money for the league at a time when funds were needed to make capital improvements for the ball fields in order to get started." At the field dedication in July 2009, Stony Brook Southampton's then dean, Mary C. Pearl, said, "I was pleased when Rusty [Leaver] told me that not only are we going to have a wonderfully improved field for our sports and baseball clinics for our students, but it's all going to be done in the spirit of our campus, which is to say only organic materials are going to be used as fertilizer in the grass. Every effort is going to be made to make sure that this field is maintained in an environmentally respectful manner."
And three years later I can say it has been, with a major league standard mound and bullpen area. The grass is superb and there is no admission charge. For scheduled games visit www.hamptonsbaseball.org and go see some of tomorrow's stars today for free.
By the way, I must mention that Fred Thiele, who was a left-handed pitcher for Southampton College back in the day, said, "I'm a big baseball fan. METS." [/expand]


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Philadelphia, Pa. (November 12, 2012) For elderly patients receiving home healthcare after a hospital stay, "social environmental factors"particularly care provided by a family member or other informal caregiverhave a significant impact on the risk of repeated hospital admissions, reports a study in the October-December issue of Advances in Nursing Science. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part ofWolters Kluwer Health.
"Understanding how social environmental factors contribute to home healthcare patients being rehospitalized would be assist in improving care for patients and in helping agencies deliver more cost-effective care while at the same time managing Medicare spending," according to the report by Hong Tao, RN, PhD, of University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and colleagues.
Social Environmental Factors Affect Functional Abilities
The study looked at factors affecting the risk of repeated hospital admissions among 1,268 elderly patients receiving home healthcare. Using data from routine, Medicare-required assessments, the researchers focused on the importance of social environmental factors: such as whether the patient lived alone or with others, whether he or she had a primary informal caregiver, and the type and frequency of informal care provided.
Overall, nearly 21 percent of patients in the study were rehospitalized, most within the first 20 days of being discharged from the hospital to home healthcare. Rehospitalizationsdefined as readmission to the hospital within 60 days after being released from the hospital to home careare an important indicator of the quality of care.
The study found some significant associations between social environmental factors, and suggested some pathways by which these effects occur. Patients' functional abilitytheir ability to take care of themselveswas influenced by their living arrangements and by the type and frequency of informal care they received.
The greater the difference between the patients' clinical condition and functional status, the greater the risk of rehospitalization. Social environmental factors contributed to the risk of repeated hospital admission by altering the balance between the patient's need for and ability to provide self-care.
With 'Self-Care Deficit' Leading to Repeat Hospitalizations
Changes in clinical condition placed increased demands on the patient's ability to care for himself or herself, while at the same time making it more difficult to provide self-care. Consistent with a central nursing theory, the resulting "self-care deficit" was linked to an increased risk of rehospitalization.
The amount of care and assistance received from informal caregivers had an important impact on self-care ability and rehospitalization risk. Other patient characteristics linked to self-care deficit included obesity and cognitive (intellectual) ability. Patients living alone were less likely to be rehospitalizedperhaps because those choosing to live alone were better able to functional independently and care for themselves.
Few previous studies have looked at how social environmental factors in general, and informal caregivers in particular, affect patient outcomes. Rehospitalization is considered a "major adverse event" in home care. "Rehospitalizations are costly and in many cases preventable," Dr Tao and colleagues explain. One recent study found that 20 percent of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted within 30 days, with costs accounting for one-sixth of the total Medicare budget.
Dr Tao and colleagues believe their study has implications for strategies to reduce unnecessary rehospitalizations and improve the quality of home healthcare. "[Our] findings may help home healthcare nurses to recognize those patients who are in need of certain services that may reduce hospitalization, such as those that lack the support of the patient's family or assistance from paid informal caregivers," they write. Patients with good social environmental support are "more likely to have a higher functional ability and thus remain in their homes, the first choice of most patients."
The study also reaffirms the important role of informal caregivers in maintaining home healthcare patients. The authors add, "Informal caregivers are part of the solution in preventing unnecessary hospitalizations and more attention needs to be given to how these caregivers are supported in their roles."
|Contact: Connie Hughes
Wolters Kluwer Health


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