Which one is correct?         It is my friend's, Adam's birthday.   It is my friend, Adam's birthday.       Does the word 'friend' need an apostrophe to show possession?
I would like to say something like     The boy, Adam's, favorite toy was a bike.   What is the proper way to say this?
The spell Armor of Agathys states:      You gain 5 temporary hit points for the duration. If a creature hits you with a melee attack while you have these hit points, the creature takes 5 cold damage.   Now, assume my buddy uses Inspiring Leader to give me 10 temporary hit points — does the effect end? How to get the list of properties of a class? Decision boundaries and Gaussian density functions Is Canon 60D still a decent camera? I have a Canon 60D, bought it back in 2013. Use it quite a while, but in past two-three years, I lost interest in photography. I will be going on a long trip this summer and would like to take a decent camera with me. Is Canon 60D still a decent one or I will be missing on features and upgrades comparing to the latest versions?  In terms of lenses I own Tamron 24-70 2.8 And Canon 100 2.8 Macro. Rules for the usage of "me" VS. "myself"? What are general guidelines for the use of "me" and "myself"?     Did I describe me or did I describe Maria?   OR     Did I describe myself or did I describe Maria? I can use my mobile broadband to access Internet with Firefox but when I want to install any package from terminal or make 'apt-get update' command I got the following error:  got 'NODATA' (does the network require authentication?)   apt-get update output:  Get:1 extras.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease [213 B] 98% [1 InRelease gpgv 213 B] [Connecting to archive.ubuntu.com] Splitting up /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/extras.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_InRelease into data Ign extras.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease E: GPG error: extras.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease: Clearsigned file isn't valid, got 'NODATA' (does the network require authentication?)    output of `cat /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/extras.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_InRelease  &lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"&gt; &lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt;404&lt;/title&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache"/&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;p&gt; Not Found &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt;   output of wget:  wget -O - http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/InRelease  --2014-06-01 09:23:35--  http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/InRelease Resolving extras.ubuntu.com (extras.ubuntu.com)... 91.189.92.152 Connecting to extras.ubuntu.com (extras.ubuntu.com)|91.189.92.152|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 213 [text/html] Saving to: ‘STDOUT’   0% [                                       ] 0           --.-K/s              &lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"&gt; &lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt;404&lt;/title&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache"/&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;p&gt; Not Found  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; What is meant by a continuous-time white noise process? How to explain the different forms of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation? In Arnold's Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics, he derives the Hamilton-Jacobi equation (HJE) using a generating function $S_1(Q, q)$ to get  $$ H\left(\frac{\partial S_1(Q, q)}{\partial q}, q, t \right) ~=~ K(Q, t). $$  However, this is different from what I've seen in other physics texts. For example, Goldstein uses the generating function $S_2(q, P, t)$ to get the equation  $$ H\left(\frac{\partial S_2(q, P, t)}{\partial q}, q, t\right) ~=~ - \frac{\partial S_2(q, P, t)}{\partial t}. $$  Why is there this difference? Are the two equations saying the same thing? Version of the app: 1.0.51. (It is up to date at the time of writing according to Google Play.)  This started happening after the network problem that happened earlier this morning. Both my tablet and my phone are popping up notifications for events (comments, and probably edits too) that happened prior to the network issue. I had received notifications for these events already and had already cleared them before the network issue happened.  The repeated notifications do not show up in the bar displayed at the top of the Stack Exchange sites. In other words, I get notified again in Android but do not get notified again on the SE web sites. What is this rhetorical scheme or literary device called? I can't recall the name of the rhetorical scheme or literary device involved with using the same word more than once within the same sentence but with different meanings:  "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."    fear - verb fear - noun   "Turn right right here."   right - adv. directional right - adv. in this place   "My feet are but feet away."   feet - noun lower appendage feet - noun distance This question might be wrong, I am not sure about it. Because I am not clear on this.  I know add_action it is used to to hook our function to the specified function. For example add_action('wp_head'.'myfunc'); now what ever code in myfunc will be executed in the wp_head(). This is clear but i am having doubt in do_action what it does?  I think it is used to create our own hook like already available hooks(wp_head,wp_footer,..etc) If i am correct can anyone show me a simple understandable answer with simple example.  I have tried the difference in internet but all are pointing to difference between add_action and add_filter. I don't want to go there because first i want to clarify this and then I’ll move there.  Can anybody help me?  EDIT after Question POST  function custom_register() {     echo '&lt;script&gt;jQuery(document).ready(function(){alert("Learning Hooks");});&lt;/script&gt;';  } do_action('custom');  add_action('custom','custom_register');   I tried this in plugin but i didn't get the alert message.  But when i hook the same function with wp_head then it is working fine  /******************working****************/ add_action('wp_head','custom_register'); I'm new to Delphi, and I've been running some tests to see what object variables and stack variables are initialized to by default:  TInstanceVariables = class   fBoolean: boolean; // always starts off as false   fInteger: integer; // always starts off as zero   fObject: TObject; // always starts off as nil end;   This is the behaviour I'm used to from other languages, but I'm wondering if it's safe to rely on it in Delphi?  For example, I'm wondering if it might depend on a compiler setting, or perhaps work differently on different machines.  Is it normal to rely on default initialized values for objects, or do you explicitly set all instance variables in the constructor?  As for stack (procedure-level) variables, my tests are showing that unitialized booleans are true, unitialized integers are 2129993264, and uninialized objects are just invalid pointers (i.e. not nil).  I'm guessing the norm is to always set procedure-level variables before accessing them? Coloring a black and white PDF graphic What is a word to describe inefficient communication? Example 1 - When reviewing résumés I don't want someone to use 1.5 pages to describe one job.   Example 2 - When a person uses excessive description to answer a simple question. What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for? In Windows you have a C-drive. Everything labeled beyond that is with the following letter.   So your second drive is D, your DVD is E and if you put in a USB stick it becomes F and the following drive G. And so on and so forth.  But then, what and where are A and B-drives? Should I use a canonical link which refers to the current URL with pagination? 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Answers to this question should identify:   Possible methods to do this (perhaps one answer per method) and adequately describe how to use it (as opposed to merely stating it); Ways of finding the identified fonts, if possible (free or not); and Any prerequisites associated with the method used, if required (for example, "In order to use method X, your document has to be in format Y").   This question is meant as an FAQ, based on an . Its aim is to facilitate the community with the general procedures involved in font identification. Similar cases are solved on a per-usage basis on 's  tag. Order of the Rubik's cube group