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|Patrick Patterson, PF Shot Chart 22 MIN | 2-6 FG | 0-0 FT | 6 REB | 1 AST | 2 STL | 1 BLK | 1 TO | 5 PTS | -12A painful reminder of how desperate we are to get Amir back healthy in the starting five. Did an OK job, all things considered, but he really isn't that guy to battle with the Bulls front court. Boozer owned him the entire time he was on the floor, and he didn't fair much better with Gibson. Played sparingly in the 2nd half in favour of Hansbrough and Amir.
|Terrence Ross, SF Shot Chart 26 MIN | 4-9 FG | 1-1 FT | 1 REB | 1 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 9 PTS | -3Did a poor job of drawing contact on his jumpers, and in fact, seemed oblivious to the fact that Butler was running him down and blocking him from behind every time. Played some really solid defense, especially his perimeter rotations, but yea, forgettable night on the whole.
|Jonas Valanciunas, C Shot Chart 22 MIN | 1-3 FG | 0-0 FT | 2 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 1 BLK | 0 TO | 2 PTS | -13Quite possibly the worst game of the season for JV. Was out-classed by Noah, which is understandable, but to get out-muscled? How many times did we see Noah will his way to a rebound on either end of the floor? These sorts of showings aren't acceptable, and frankly, are quite disappointing.
|Kyle Lowry, PG Shot Chart 34 MIN | 4-13 FG | 7-7 FT | 5 REB | 7 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 16 PTS | +8Was a non-factor stretches through the game thanks to foul trouble and fatigue. Legs weren't there on his jumpers. No explosiveness off the bounce. Made a couple ballsy plays in the 4th quarter after picking up his 5th foul, but considering he had to deal with Hinrich and Augustin for the night, I expected much better; in fact, you could argue that both Bulls PG's got the better of him. That three with a minute and a half left in the game came out of nowhere and energized the team, but it was a little too late.
|DeMar DeRozan, SG Shot Chart 42 MIN | 11-25 FG | 10-11 FT | 5 REB | 1 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 32 PTS | 0Didn't settle for jumpers, and in fact, attacked the paint relentlessly off the dribble. This is the sort of thing that All-Stars do on the second night of a back-to-back against a stifling defense. Single-handedly kept the Raptors in the game in the 4th, but just didn't have the support from the rest of the guys to take it home. That last pay against Butler could have used a bit more creativity, but I'm just nit-picking at this point.
|Tyler Hansbrough, PF Shot Chart 25 MIN | 4-7 FG | 0-1 FT | 7 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 1 BLK | 1 TO | 8 PTS | +9Went toe-to-toe with the Bulls front court and didn't give up an inch. That 2nd quarter is exactly the type effort that was needed in this game, and without it, the game wouldn't have come down to the wire. The stat-line wasn't impressive, but the effort spoke for itself.
|Amir Johnson, PF Shot Chart 27 MIN | 4-6 FG | 1-3 FT | 3 REB | 4 AST | 2 STL | 1 BLK | 2 TO | 9 PTS | +12I'm good with easing him back into things (if you can call 27 minutes off the bench easing things in) to ensure his health for the stretch run and playoffs, but we really need him back in the starting lineup. There is no good look for the front court with Amir hobbled. Gave a big spark to the team off the bench, but we needed more out of him.
|John Salmons, SF Shot Chart 24 MIN | 2-6 FG | 0-0 FT | 2 REB | 2 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 4 PTS | -1Did what was expected, but was pretty invisible throughout the game. Had to go back to my notes for something to say, and noticed I didn't write a word about him. A C sound safe.
|Greivis Vasquez, PG Shot Chart 17 MIN | 3-8 FG | 0-0 FT | 2 REB | 0 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 7 PTS | -10So the good news is that he can get that running floater off at will; the bad news is that he has trouble making is stick. Provided a bit of scoring cover in relief of Ross, but when Hinrich is beating you off the dribble, things aren't going well for you.
|Dwane Casey
Played a tight 9-man rotation, and for the most part had the right guys on the court at the right considering injuries and what not. On three occasions made a proper timeout call to squash a Bulls run. Had no problem with his game management until that last play of the game, where an ISO was called for DeRozan without an attempt to get him free off a screen or something.
Five Things We Saw
- The Bulls ball-movement was world-class. They hit every cutter and open shooter they possibly could. I stopped counting after three of them, but they embarrassed the Raptors defense by sticking those back-door cuts with surgical precision. 25 assists on 36 made field goals for 50% from the field from a team that has a hard time scoring is impressive.
- JV and 2Pat is one of the worst front-courts the Raptors could have trotted out against the Bulls. If there was any knock on Casey, and I should have docked him for this, it's that Hansbrough only played 25 minutes in a game that was tailor made for him. I'm wondering what a healthy Amir + Hansbrough with 2Pat off the bench could have done to help tonight.
- Might sound crazy, but that third quarter was what did the raptors in. The Bulls opened the quarter on a 20-12 run, and while the the Raptors outscored the Bulls 39-24 the rest of the game, they were coming from behind and just didn't have any gas at the tank when they needed to be creative with the game on the line.
- The refs needed to call this game more on feel and less by the book. A combined 48 personal fouls and 7 technicals did nothing but destabilize things. Even worse were the makeup calls.
- It was a hard fought game, that saw the Raptors scratch, claw, and grind there way to a one possession loss to one of the best defensive teams in the league. On the second night of a back-to-back, you really couldn't ask for that level of intensity and effort. The Raptors can hold their heads up after that one.


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What configuration option would remove our Novell client/server dependency on PIM Dense Mode?
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I am part of the network group (not server team) for our company. We make use of PIM Dense Mode multicast groups (126.96.36.199 and 126.96.36.199) with regards to SLP in our IPv4 internal network. We would like to remove our Novell (client/server) dependency on PIM Dense Mode from the network. What Novell client/server configuration option would you suggest we try? We currently have Novell 4.91 SP2.
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Thank you for your question. You basically have two options to configure your clients for their SLP services. One is what you are actually doing by letting them discover it through multicast. In this case you will need PIM if the services are not on the link. The other option is to configure them for their DA, which you can do either through manual configuration or through DHCP. It really depends on your overall design. I would choose to go to a design which lets all services be discovered through the DA and then configure the DA for all clients and services.
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A north Northumberland church is looking to move into a new home to cope with an expanding congregation.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has submitted a planning application to Northumberland County Council for a change of use from business to place of worship for a unit at Cawledge Business Park.
And the president of the Alnwick branch, Bishop Paul West, explained that it's a case of keeping up with the growth of the church.
"As it grows in size numerically, it reduces the size of its congregations geographically," he said.
The Alnwick branch, which covers Amble, Rothbury and all the way up to Berwick, used to be part of Ashington and before that it was all part of a congregation at North Shields.
North Shields has a purpose-built chapel and as it grew, Northumberland was separated off to Ashington and as that congregation grew it was split again to form the Alnwick branch, covering north Northumberland.
Currently the church rents the Lindisfarne Centre on Sunday and during the week it rents the Mechanics Institute for youth activities and business meetings.
Bishop West said: "We would like something a little more permanent so we can use it on other days than are currently available to us.
"What we are looking for is something we can use during the week.
"It would be permanent in the short-term and as the church grows, our intention is to have a purpose-built chapel somewhere in north Northumberland.
"Looking into the future, I would see a point where the area is split again because north Northumberland is a big area geographically, and we would have somewhere further north.
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It's Independence Day in Argentina, and I thought I'd celebrate from afar by re-posting the story of one of my all-time favorite Buenos Aires taxi adventures. I've been back to Albamonte many times since taxista Antonio dropped us off here, and I've never been disappointed.Read More »
Buenos Aires Dispatch: In the beginning, there was Parrilla Peña
On this day in 2007, I attempted my very first taxi adventure in Buenos Aires. I never imagined where it would eventually lead...Read More »
Update: Dreaming of Choripán
Good news for choripán aficionados in Buenos Aires: Taxi Gourmet reader Rodrigo Varela Perarnau recently paid a visit to Mi Sueño, my favorite sausage sandwich stand on the Costanera Sur, and it turns out their choripán is as glorious as ever.Read More »
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July 9 is independence day in Argentina, and I wanted to celebrate by re-sharing the story of a taxi adventure that led to what became one of my favorite things to eat in Buenos Aires.Read More »
Last Taxi in Buenos Aires
If I'd held a casting call for the ideal cabbie to drive my last taxi adventure in Buenos Aires, I couldn't have found anyone to play the part more convincingly than Julio Verón. After 18 years driving a bus and 26 years as a taxista, the sweater-vested sixty-something oozed urban ...Read More »
The Spanish Corner
"I don't have very sophisticated food tastes," the taxi driver said, "I really like eating at the Coto food court in Ciudadela." When I explained that we were looking for something a little more soulful than a superstore cafeteria, the taxista radioed his fellow cabbies for help. No one responded. ...Read More »
The Golden Gnocchi
Buenos Aires, 1955. An Italian immigrant named Luigi opens a nondescript cantina on the corner of Billinghurst and Valentín Gomez in Almagro. Musicians and singers – including tango-singing legend Roberto Goyeneche – begin to gather there. Soccer stars, poets and painters follow. Don Carlos flourishes, but Luigi grows tired of ...Read More »
Post-Crisis Pizza
If the Judeo-Christian world divides history between the periods before and after the birth of Christ, I'd venture that many Argentine taxi drivers divide their lives between the time before and after the country's 2001 economic crisis. Marcelo, the blue-eyed taxista with a Tasmanian Devil suction-cupped to his windshield, counts ...Read More »
Cantina Gone Bust
From time to time, my pursuit of all food that's taxi-related goes bust, as was the case on today's failed mission to La Cantina de los Taxistas. For weeks, I've been fantasizing about paying a visit to this cabbie-friendly restaurant, hoping to taste some authentic Italo-Argentine food (they're allegedly famous ...Read More »
A Taxi Adventure Marathon with The Guardian
A few Saturdays ago, The Guardian travel writer Vicky Baker and I embarked on a taxi adventure marathon in Buenos Aires. True to the spirit of the taxi adventures to date, we met three remarkable cabbies who showed us three excellent restaurants far off the city's tourist circuit: El Viejo ...Read More »


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Elisabetta Canalis, ex-girlfriend to both George Clooney and "Jackass" star Steve-O, engaged in a little hanky panky with "Borat" star Sacha Baron Cohen, that is, until she was "killed" and tossed overboard.
If you haven't already guessed by now, the whole fiasco was a publicity stunt for the actor's upcoming comedy "The Dictator", which opens in the States today (May 16th). Cohen, in-character as the titular leader, seemed to be enjoying drinks with Canalis, who was wearing nothing more than a skimpy hot pink bikini. As the festivities became increasingly risque and Cohen's clothes began to come off, things got a bit interesting.
After getting a look at the weaponry in Cohen's underwear and having a good laugh about it, the two eventually came to blows. After kicking her companion in a very sensitive area, Canalis complained to the guards about the dictator's behavior. The result: She is effectively killed, placed inside a body bag, and tossed into the sea.
Fear not, Canalis devotees -- the shapely lass is still alive and well.
The stunt was designed to drum up some interest in "The Dictator", which is scheduled to screen at this year's Cannes Film Festival. If you'd like to have a look at the scenario described above, the Daily Mail has a host of exclusive images featuring Cohen, Canalis, and her teeny, tiny bikini. You know you want to look.
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A man driving a stolen vehicle crashed head-on into a Federal Way patrol car early this morning at the end of a pursuit, police said.
An officer noticed the stolen car driving on 21st Avenue Southwest near Southwest 320th Street about 4:30 a.m. and began following it into the Twin Lakes neighborhood. As the driver accelerated and tried to get away, department spokeswoman Cathy Schrock said the officer started chasing him.
As the driver turned east from SW 342nd Street, he lost control, jumped the curb and collided with a patrol car. Schrock said the officer was not injured but the patrol car suffered minor damage to the front bumper and push bar.
A 27-year-old Kirkland man was arrested on suspicion of eluding and possessing a stolen vehicle. His passenger, a 25-year-old Federal Way woman, was released.


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It is already the nature of most people to imitate what they see on TV especially when it comes to taking care of the body, making it look a lot better. One good example is the use of anal bleaching products. Back in the days, only the strippers and celebrities were the top customers of such whitening techniques. But nowadays, you can see that more and more individuals are lining up to avail of the best genital lightening products.
If you are also interested in using the best genital lightening products, you can check this site so you will have a better understanding of how the process is.
Out of all the whitening techniques for the most intimate areas, anal bleaching creams are probably the most sought after these days. The main reason for this is it is much cheaper to bleach the anus using creams or ointments rather than going to a salon and pay for every session. With the best genital lightening products, you will be able to save more cash in your back pocket. You won't have to worry about letting a stranger make the application since you can already do the procedure yourself in your bedroom.
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Other people's journals are fascinating if we are given access to them, as we gain insight into who they are and how they tick. In this book Jo Swinney a young, busy mum, shares her 'diary of spiritual discovery' with us, and by the end you feel you know her quite well. But her purpose in writing is for the reader to join with her in her quest. She sets herself to explore one spiritual discipline per month and invites us to join the hunt for God through ... prayer, fasting, Bible study, worship, solitude and simplicity. I found her honesty refreshing and helpful. She isn't doing this as a gimmick: she really does want to know God better in the midst of a hectic schedule. She longs to 'stop paddling on the shore and wade into deep waters until I am out of my depth.' And this longing for a close encounter with God is infectious. I finished this book more than ever determined to keep on seeking God.
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Amazing Mirror Maze Hours and Admission Prices
Discover a world of mystery, where endless hallways lit by colorful neon lights reflect off of thousands of mirrors, at the Amazing Mirror Maze. Located in San Antonio's Alamo Plaza, the Amazing Mirror Maze is the largest mirror maze in Texas that offers up plenty of mind-bending adventure.
Try not to get lost in infinite loops and dead ends as you wander through each of the three distinct mazes. The Mirror Maze takes you through shadowy hallways, while the Infinity Maze surrounds you in mirrors. Finally, the Video Maze bombards your eyes with moving images that will alter your perceptions.
That's not all, though. Amazing Mirror Maze is also home to The Vault Laser Challenge, where you can try to avoid all the lasers in a record time. Complete your adventure with something tasty from River Sweets Candy, which offers gummy bears, jawbreakers, and all sorts of chocolates right outside the mazes. A full candy shop, on top of the amazing mazes, makes this an attraction in San Antonio that the whole family can enjoy.
Planning to visit the Amazing Mirror Maze? Check out the hours and admission prices below so you'll know everything you need to before making the trip here.
Amazing Mirror Maze Hours
Memorial Day – Labor Day
Sunday – Thursday: 10 AM – 10 PM
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Amazing Mirror Maze Admission Prices
All Day Pass: $13.99
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Making quick and easy family dinners is a great way of teaching your teen a responsibility. Giving teens jobs around the house not only helps a busy family get daily activities accomplished, it builds a sense of responsibility and accomplishment in teens, which thereby adds to a healthy self-esteem.

When you first have your teen make dinner, you should start slow. Having your teen begin making the meal and you finish it is the most popular way I've known for parent to get their teens to cook and like it. Or you could both work together through the process, just be sure to hand the real responsibility of the meal over to your teen in order to get the full positive results.

As time goes by, allow your teen to take over the entire meal preparation process. A word of caution, do not expect your teen to do this every night. While you may need the help to start the meal more often, being responsible for the meal once or twice a week is antiquate for teaching responsibility to your teen.

Easy Dinner Recipes: Main Course Ideas

Meatloaf for Dinner Recipes

Meatloaf is easy enough for teens to make and a great family meal. One teen girl who I taught how to make meatloaf used many different variations on basic meatloaf over the years. None where ever so bad that we couldn't eat it.

Easy Cheesy Salsa Meatloaf Recipe

Chicken for Dinner Recipes

Chicken pieces have to be one of the easiest meats to cook. Shake and bake them or douse them with barbeque sauce - either way they go in the oven, cook and taste good. Instant happiness all around.

Spaghetti for Dinner Recipes

Spaghetti and meat sauce is a little more challenging. Your teen needs to brown and drain the meat, add sauce and simmer. Then he needs to cook the spaghetti, which can be difficult. Do this dinner recipe idea with your teen the first and possibly the second time, until he gets the hang of it.

Hot Dogs for Dinner Recipes

Hot dogs are simple to make and fun to eat. Your teen can try some different recipes for hot dogs as he gets more accustomed to the kitchen.

Pizza for Dinner

Pizzas, whether frozen or homemade, are the teen favorite. Find a good choice on our Kids Recipes: Pizza Index.

Easy Dinner Recipes: Side Dish Ideas

Salads for Dinner Recipes

Salads are a non-cook healthy recipe for a dinner side dish. Just chop all of the fixings and toss in a bowl. Your teen can do this. Frozen vegetables can be made in a microwave. This is the perfect side dish for the kitchen-challenged teen.

How to Make Healthy Salads for Dinner

French Fries with Dinner

French fries are a very simple dinner recipe favorite among teens. They go with just about everything and they are very hard for your teen to mess up.

One Final Note About Actually Eating Dinner

Teaching your teen to cook may result in a dinner that is not edible. Have a back up meal planned. While your teen isn't going to be happy that he messed up making dinner no matter what, you still have to deal with everyone being hungry. My weekly dinner plan goes like this: Wednesday, a teen cooks; Thursday, we have a meal that does not need cooking, like hoagies or club sandwiches. If Wednesday's meal gets ruined, I pulled out Thursday's meal. Then we try again next week.


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Announced at the Build 2015 event, Microsoft has been launched a desktop code editor application called Visual Studio Code, Thanks to Microsoft for release a cross-platform code editor that runs on Linux (also with Windows and Mac OS X).
In this post we will take a quick look what is Visual Studio Code and how to install it in Ubuntu, Mint, and Elementary OS.
What's in Visual Studio Code ?
Visual Studio Code has been built with a mix of open-source and web-based technologies, like GitHub Electron app framework and Chromium. The tool is not a fully fledged IDE (Integrated Development Environment).
Visual Studio Code supports full syntax coloring and highlighting, bracket matching and linting, keyboard bindings and keyboard snippets.
It also have GitHub Integration and IntelliSense Support powered by open-source projects for faster working.
Programming languages that currently supported by Visual Studio Code are:
- Markdown
- Python
- Java
- JavaScript
Keep in mind this Visual Studio Code is on alpha status, so keep an eye for every updates for new features.
How to Install Visual Studio Code in Ubuntu
Visual Studio Code is currently in preview, so possibly buggy, error features, missing features, but if you want to it's available to Download for free on Linux, Windows and Mac.
For Linux its only provided 64-bit binary and it runs from it's own folder.
Download Visual Studio Code (64-bit only)
Visual Studio Code also available to install using Ubuntu Make, a handy set of CLI tools for quickly installing the IDEs. To install Visual Studio Code through Ubuntu Make, you need to run the following commands:
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What do you do when someone sins against you? How do you forgive in a complete way when you don't even feel like forgiving yet? Karen Rabbitt, an award winning author, a psychotherapist with 20 years experience and the author of Trading Fathers, speaks on the biblical process of forgiveness.
John was a BFF of Christ and yet was the pastor of a relatively small church. His strong message is punctuated by the need for the "beloved children" to continue to have a heart that seeks forgiveness from God as we walk and mature in Christ.


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Pidgin 2.5.3
Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time.
Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems.
Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It can support many more with plugins.
Pidgin supports many features of these chat networks, such as file transfers, away messages, buddy icons, custom smilies, and typing notifications. Numerous plugins also extend Pidgin's functionality above and beyond the standard features.
Pidgin integrates with the system tray on Windows.
* The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer prints duplicate
notifications when the same buddy is in multiple groups. (Florian
* The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer turns JID's, MSN
Passport ID's, etc. into links. (Florian Quèze)
* purple-remote now has a "getstatusmessage" command to retrieve
the text of the current status message.
* Various fixes to the nullprpl. (Paul Aurich)
* Fix a crash when accessing the roomlist for an account that's not
connected. (Paul Aurich)
* Fix a crash in purple_accounts_delete that happens when this
function is called before the buddy list is initialized.
(Florian Quèze)
* Fix use of av_len in perl bindings to fix some off-by-one bugs
(Paul Aurich)
* On ICQ, advertise the ICQ 6 typing capability. This should fix
the reports of typing notifications not working with third-party
clients. (JaromÃr KarmazÃn)
* Many QQ fixes and improvements, including the ability to connect
using QQ2008 protocol and sending/receiving of long messages.
The recommended version to use is still QQ2005.
* Fix a crash with DNS SRV lookups. (Florian Quèze)
* Fix a crash caused by authorization requests. (Florian Quèze)
* Add support for IM images. (Adam Strzelecki)
* Gadu-Gadu now checks that UID's are valid. (Adam Strzelecki)
* Gadu-Gadu now does proper charset translations where needed. (Adam
* Fix an error with offline messages by shipping the *new*
"Microsoft Secure Server Authority" and the "Microsoft Internet
Authority" certificates. These are now always installed even when
using --with-system-ssl-certs because most systems don't ship
those intermediate certificates.
* The Games and Office media can now be set and displayed (in
addition to the previous Music media). The Media status text now
shows the album, if possible.
* Messages sent from a mobile device while you were offline are now
correctly received.
* Server transfers after you've been connected for a long time
should now be handled correctly.
* Many improvements to handling of "federated" buddies, such as those
on the Yahoo network.
* Several known crashes have been resolved.
* Many other fixes and code cleanup.
* Respect your privacy settings set using the official MySpace client.
* Add support for blocking buddies.
* Fix a bug where buddies didn't appear in their correct groups the
first time you sign into your account.
* Properly disconnect and sign out of the service when logging off.
* Support for foreground and background font colors in outgoing IMs.
* Support for background font colors in incoming IMs.
* Many other fixes and code cleanup.
* Fix insanely long idle times for Sametime 7.5 buddies by assuming
0 idle time if the idle timestamp is in the future. (Laurent
* Fix a crash that can occur on login. (Raiko Nitzsche)
* Fix a crash when a malformed message is received.
* Don't allow connecting accounts if no server name has been
specified. (Florian Quèze)
* Fix the namespace URL we look for in PEP reply stanzas to match
the URL used in the 'get' requests (Paul Aurich)
* Resources can be set to the local machine's hostname by using
__HOSTNAME__ as the resource string. (Jonathan Sailor)
* Resources can now be left blank, causing the server to generate a
resource for us where supported. (Jonathan Sailor)
* Resources now default to no value, but "Home" is used if the
server refuses to provide a resource.
* Quit trying to get user info for MUC's. (Paul Aurich)
* Send "client-accepts-full-bind-result" attribute during SASL
login. This will fix Google Talk login failures if the user
configures the wrong domain for his/her account.
* Support new
Avatar. (Paul Aurich)
* Fix SHA1 avatar checksum errors that occur when one of the bytes
in a checksum begins with 0. (Paul Aurich)
* Fix a problem with duplicate buddies. (Paul Aurich)
* Corrected maximum message lengths for Yahoo!
* Fix file transfers with older Yahoo protocol versions.
* Enable auto-reply, to emulate 'zaway.' (Toby Schaffer)
* Fix a crash when an account is configured to use tzc but tzc is
not installed or the configured tzc command is invalid. (Michael
* Fix a 10 second delay waiting on tzc if it is not installed or the
configured command is invalid. (Michael Terry)
* On GTK+ 2.14 and higher, we're using the gtk-tooltip-delay setting
instead of our own (hidden) tooltip_delay pref. If you had
previously changed that pref, add a line like this to
~/.purple/gtkrc-2.0 (where 500 is the timeout (in ms) you want):
gtk-tooltip-timeout = 500
To completely disable tooltips (e.g. if you had an old
tooltip_delay of zero), add this to ~/.purple/gtkrc-2.0:
gtk-enable-tooltips = 0
* Moved the release notification dialog to a mini-dialog in the
buddylist. (Casey Ho)
* Fix a crash when closing an authorization minidialog with the X
then immediately going offline. (Paul Aurich)
* Fix a crash cleaning up custom smileys when Pidgin is closed.
* Fix adding a custom smiley using the context menu in a conversation
if no custom smilies have previously been added using the smiley
* Improved support for some message formatting in conversations.
* Allow focusing the coversation history or userlist with F6.
* Fixed the Send Button plugin to avoid duplicate buttons in a single
* Double-clicking a saved status will now activate it and close the
saved status manager, rather than edit the status.
* Allow binding meta+arrow keys for actions.
* Added default meta+erase binding for delete previous word.
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Nicola Langlands passed away on the 02/12/13.
She left behind a huge legacy with Look Beyond the Heart. We are pleased to
announce that we will be continuing the charity in her name. We are currently in
the process of registering the charity which is one of Nicola's massive
We have lots of new events happening this
year so please keep checking our events page to stay up to date. (Events Page)
We would like to invite people to contact
us if they would like to get involved or if they have someone they would like
to refer to us for help and support.
Look beyond the heart is a group that I set up many years ago, and it has taken me a while to get where am today. There has been lots of crying and lots of laughter while I have been working on this support group. However, I would of not of had it any other way and I knew very soon after my transplant I so needed support as I was finding many issues hard to deal with. Sadly not enough people were willing to listen or help, so I thought if you want something done then you have to do it yourself, so that's what I've done. Without the support from my family and friends I would not have come this far, and I would like to THANK all those who have helped me and really believe in me .
Deep down I know that the aftercare was as important as the transplant itself, as it affected not only the person who has the transplant but their family too. It is not easy and the journey can take its toll on everyone. Sadly some people don't like to talk about it and I particularly find transplant patients don't like to talk about it, as they feel they have failed or may be looked upon as be ungrateful. It not that at all, as they just need a bit of support and help when it is needed.
It's ok to say please HELP me or please Talk to me I don't understand why I feel like this, because at the end of the day all transplant recipients have been through such a traumatic experience that not only do they not fully understand all the possible outcomes of their transplant, but their bodies also have suffered a trauma, and if they don't get the right help to help them deal with these issues it may cause more issues later on.
I've had to deal with my Heart and Lung transplant for 24 years, and it has been a hard but challenging physically ,mentally and spiritual journey. I was the 12th child ever in the Uk to have a transplant, and it was all very new to the NHS doctors. The medication was more toxic then it is now, there was a lot less you could do then tacking infection and rejection , and I was just sent home and told to live life normally, as the as the transplant was not a quick fix, because it may only give me an extra five years. That was in 1989, and I'm still here after 24 years on.
I do think the doctors have learnt so much more now and science has moved on so much, the medication is lot different, the side effects are not so debilitating and transplants are performed in such a different way, enabling patients to get home quicker. Infections are a lot less, but I'm not saying there are still no problems because there are.
Each transplant journey is different, but many have the same problems, so that is why we need to support and talk.
Transplant aftercare is not really supported by the hospitals all over the world, as I feel it is not really understood or has not been really well researched, which is a shame. If it could only just be rearched more, I believe patients and there families could cope, and maybe have some idea of what is to come.
So what I would now like to do myself is put an aftercare plan into place after a transplant, thereby offering physiotherapy, hydrotherapy counselling and supporting a healthy diet. But most of all I would like to build a link group, where people can talk make friends and support each other in a time in their life when it is so needed.
It ok to say please HELP me or please Talk to me I don't understand why I feel like this .
I've had with dealing with my Heart and Lung transplant 23 year ago and it been a hard but challenging physically ,mentally and spiritual and as I was the 12th child ever in the UK to have a transplant it was all very new such as the medication was more toxic.


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Sportfishing on Cape Cod
For a Day to Remember...
Come to Chatham, on Cape Cod and go fishing on the Headhunter
Striped Bass * Bluefish* Tuna
Come to Chatham, Massachusetts on Cape Cod and experience the thrill of sportfishing on the HEADHUNTER. The action is fast and exciting.
Leaving from Stage Harbor in Chatham, we have the shortest and most interesting trip to the fishing grounds. Fishing around Monomoy Island and south to Nantucket Island offers the best fishing opportunities in the area. Striped Bass and Bluefish move into the area in May and stay through October feeding in our abundant waters, providing us with the most consistent sportfishing on Cape Cod.
The HEADHUNTER also offers offshore trips in search of Bluefin Tuna. Whales and porpoises are a common sight in these rich offshore waters.
Whether you prefer Big Game Fishing trips east of Cape Cod or shorter Striped Bass and Bluefish trips around Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, the HEADHUNTER is the best choice. The HEADHUNTER is a custom built 35' Duffy. HEADHUNTER is state of the art, from the diesel engine to the electronics we navigate with. HEADHUNTER is fast and stable, giving you the best fishing opportunities available. Your Guide and Captain has been Licensed by the USCG for over 30 years and will provide a safe and exciting trip.
All tackle is provided. If you prefer to fish with light tackle or saltwater fly fishing gear, feel free to bring it along.
Treat your friends and family, or business associates to a memorable private charter with personal attention. This will be the best day of your Cape Cod vacation!


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2007 Nobel Peace Prize
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The observed changes are broadly consistent with scientific understanding of the circulation of the global oceans. The North Atlantic and antarctic regions, where the oceans ventilate the deep waters over short time scales (<50 years), show strong evidence of change over the instrumental record. For example, the North Atlantic shows evidence of a deep warming and freshening. There is evidence of change in the Southern Ocean bottom waters consistent with the sinking of fresher antarctic shelf waters. Deep waters that are far from the North Atlantic and Antarctic, remote from interaction with the atmosphere, and with replenishment rates that are long compared with the instrumental record, typically show no significant changes. Mode waters, key global water masses found in every ocean basin equatorward of major oceanic frontal systems or separated boundary currents, have a relatively rapid formation and ventilation rate (<20 years) and provide a pathway for heat (and salinity) to be transported into the main subtropical gyres of the global oceans as observed.


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Thermalogic Weathermate Mansfield Curtains - 80x63", Grommet-Top, Insulated
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Closeouts. Patterned in a distinguished plaid, Thermalogic's Weathermate Mansfield curtains are also insulated to keep your home warmer in winter and cooler in summer.
- White backing meets condominium requirements
- Insulated fabric minimizes drafts, prevents sun fade and darkens rooms for improved sleep
- Protects furniture and home decor from sun fade
- Grommet-top style
- Fits rods: Up to 1-1/2"
- Grommet hole: 1-5/8"
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- Fabric: Cotton with acrylic backing
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As you've read here at Best in Show Daily over the past week, in our stories about the great Crufts event, the "world's largest dog show" has been beloved by British dog fanciers and by the average man and woman on the street in the U.K. for decades. The Crufts organizers and the Kennel Club in the U.K. have long done an admirable job of welcoming not only the serious purebred kennel owner to its audience, but also households who have one show dog or even one pet dog.
Indeed the show has been so popular among the citizenry that the British Broadcasting Corporation, better known as the BBC, for many years aired not only the four nights of the dog show, but leading up to Crufts each year included a preview program the weekend before the festivities began. Along with conformation judging, Crufts hosts many activities that celebrate the dog, and the citizens of the U.K. love their dogs. Millions of people watched the Crufts broadcast on the BBC every year and it is estimated that as many as 160,000 visit in person.
Among the offerings during Crufts week are "Friends for Life," a program much like the AKC's Awards for Canine Excellence presentation, which honors five dogs that through their support, companionship or brave actions have "truly earned the title of man's best friend." The huge International Junior Showmanship competition has also been part of Crufts for decades and the Young Kennel Club further encourages young people ages 6 to 24, whether they have purebred or crossbreed dogs, to be part of the dog world.
Crufts also offers competition in agility, Heelwork to Music, obedience, flyball and Gamekeepers classes. Breeders' Competition classes are offered for exhibition of multiple generations of a breeding program. Breed rescue groups have stands at Crufts so they can interact with the thousands of spectators. Perhaps most importantly from a public relations standpoint, Crufts and the Kennel Club encourage those who own crossbreed dogs to visit and enjoy the dog show, and to participate in select events, just as enthusiastically as they do purebred dog owners.
But in August of 2008 a program was aired on BBC that changed some elements of the Crufts dog show forever. Taking a very narrow, one-sided view, "Pedigree Dogs Exposed" delivered an alarming message that the majority of purebred dogs are riddled with health problems that prevent them from living normal lives, and further, that the Kennel Club and most breeders associated with dog shows know this and yet continue without reservation to breed these dogs.
The program took more than two years to make, perhaps because it took that long to find and interview a small handful of people who breed and show purebred dogs who, in conversation with a reporter, inexplicably seem to say that a dog's physical characteristics—such as spots on a Dalmatian, the flat face on a Pug, or the ridge on a Rhodesian Ridgeback—are as important as whether or not the dog can hear, see, breathe or fight infection. Never once during the hour-long program was it mentioned that many people who breed and show dogs also live with and love them, and the majority are often surprised and terribly devastated by the problems cropping up in various breeds.
Within a very short period of time following the airing of the program, the purebred dog world was vilified in the British press, and the Kennel Club along with it.
In the immediate aftermath of the crisis several things occurred that at the time may have seemed insurmountable, but of course Crufts has gone on in spite of them. Various sponsors and trade exhibitors withdrew their participation of the show and other Kennel Club events, and perhaps most surprisingly, the BBC—after broadcasting Crufts for 42 years—withdrew its television coverage for 2009. They have not chosen to renew since then.
As with almost any given situation, there was, however, an up-side to the broadcast of what was obviously a distorted representation of the truth. The truth is that many hobby breeders are deeply devoted to producing only the healthiest possible puppies and doing everything they can to help eradicate genetic disorders in their breeds. As devastating as was the damage to the image of the purebred dog world, changes that came about as a result of "Pedigree Dogs Exposed" were positive, and over the long term will in fact help conscientious breeders in the U.K., and force those who are less so, to breed healthier dogs.
The Kennel Club made numerous changes in its practices and implemented new programs in an effort to staunch the tide of criticism aimed at purebred dogs. Individual breed clubs were asked to appoint health committees to monitor all health concerns in each breed. The breed standard of every KC-recognized breed has been studied and necessary changes made to assure that breeders are not encouraged to breed for qualities that might compromise the health and well being of a dog.
The Kennel Club's "Assured Breeders Scheme," established in 2004 to support responsible breeders, continues to be part of the KC response to the program. The Kennel Club Genetics Centre at the Animal Health Trust was established to help scientists research inherited disease and develop DNA tests, so that breeders can screen dogs for heritable conditions before they breed them. Health test results for Kennel Club-registered dogs are displayed on the Kennel Club website.
At the Crufts show itself, the "Breeding for the Future" zone is now in operation, where breeders and owners can talk to veterinarians, geneticists, scientists and breed specialists about topics of concern to them as well as health initiatives implemented by the Kennel Club. A list of the initiatives adopted and continued by the Kennel Club is a long one.
Among the interesting implementations that will take place at Crufts 2012 is the requirement that 15 "high profile breeds" will be required to undergo a veterinary examination before they are allowed to compete in the Group competition. These new veterinary checks will also take place at subsequent General and Group Championship shows. In a statement, the Kennel Club explained the establishment of this program thus: "The decision to implement these checks was taken by the General Committee on the advice of the Kennel Club's Dog Health Group, in order to ensure that the fifteen high profile breeds, some of which suffer from health issues, do not bring the whole hobby of dog showing into disrepute."
Note that the Crufts 2012 Best in Show judge, Frank Kane, serves on the KC General Committee and also on the Breed Standards and Stud Book Committee. Kane has been deeply involved in helping deter criticism of purebred dogs following the "Pedigree Dogs Exposed" program.
A high profile breed is defined by the KC as "requiring particular monitoring by reason of visible condition which may cause health or welfare concerns." A list of those breeds is regularly reviewed and updated. Dogs that are selected Best of Breed at Crufts 2012 and subsequent shows "will need to be given a clean bill of health by the show veterinary surgeon before their Best of Breed award is confirmed and before they are allowed to continue to compete in the final stages of the show involved," according to the Kennel Club.
The KC posts this information on its website regarding what the veterinary surgeons will be looking for: "The vet will be checking for obvious signs of ill health and especially for signs of eye discomfort or inflammation, lameness, respiratory difficulty and skin inflammation." They further state that, "no special diagnostic aids will be used … so all of these signs of ill health would be noticeable by the judge. Championship level judges have a minimum of 7 years judging experience as well as significant experience as exhibitors and breeders; therefore, the Kennel Club is confident that judges are able to recognise visible conditions which may cause health and welfare concerns, i.e. lameness, painful, sore eyes, skin irritations and obvious respiratory problems."
The breeds that will undergo this intense scrutiny this year are the Basset Hound, Bloodhound, Bulldog, Chinese Crested, Chow Chow, Clumber Spaniel, Dogue De Bordeaux, French Bulldog, German Shepherd Dog, Mastiff, Neapolitan Mastiff, Pekingese, Pug, St. Bernard and Shar Pei.
Best in Show Daily will report on the aftermath of these examinations regarding whether any of the Best of Breed winners fail to get through to the Group judging. The hope is that, with so much scrutiny aimed at the purebred dog world today, breeders and fanciers are more diligent than ever about breeding for and exhibiting only the fittest, healthiest dogs. It is hoped as well that in due course the American Kennel Club will begin to address this issue as seriously as do the Kennel Club and other foreign purebred dog registries.


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Hines Ward has a stressful situation in front of him. A woman by the name of Melanie Smith filed a case against him in Georgia recently, claiming that he is the father of her one-year-old daughter and she is demanding that he take a paternity test to prove it. According to the documents, if the test results come back positive, she will then seek child support payments from Ward. Sounds like an episode of The Maury Show.
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So, I just had a new pattern come out in the September issue of Soft Dolls and Animals Magazine and I had promised to get the directions up on my blog to dye the cotton sweatshirt fleece that I used for the Polliwog pattern for those who don't know how to do it. I apologize, time got away from me!
Here are the directions, it's very simple really!
1. Wash your cotton sweatshirt fleece in a mild detergent to get the sizing out, but don't let it spin. Hand squeeze the excess water out– but you do want it to be pretty wet.
2. Fill a pot (make sure it is a pot you will NOT cook in EVER again! Find one at a garage sale or the Family Dollar Store, and relegate it to dyeing!) with luke warm water about 3/4 of the way full. For a yard of fleece I use a 3 gallon pot.
3. For a nice peachy color I use "Sunshine Orange" Rit Dye and a bit of "Petal Rose" Rit Dye, in the liquid dye form (not the powdered). Using the cap as a measuring tool, pour the orange dye into the cap, until about the ridge that sticks out inside the cap. Pour into pot and stir (again, using a spoon you will NEVER use with food!). Now add the rose, about 1/3 of what you added for the orange. Stir.
4.Place your wet fabric into the pot and stir, make sure you have gloves on. The color will take hold quickly. Pull the fabric out and make sure there are no folds in it that the dye couldn't get to. If you like the shade it is, let it sit for about 5 to 10 minutes. If you'd like the color to be a little darker, let it sit longer, or add more dye.
5.When you are happy with the color, rinse the fabric in cool water. I then rewash the fabric and dry it. You can choose to use the fuzzy, comfy side out or the smoother side if you are going to paint features onto your doll.


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Bob Thomas showcases wetlands and Katrina recovery to Canadian consulate
September 21, 2012
|From left: Consul General of Canada to the South Central United States Paula Caldwell, Bob Thomas and the Hon. Peter Kent, minister of the environment for Canada.
Bob Thomas, Ph.D., professor, director and chair of Environmental Communication at Loyola University New Orleans, recently met with the Minister of the Environment for Canada the Hon. Peter Kent who was in town for a meeting of the governments of the United States, Mexico and Canada.
Senior environment officials from the countries met in New Orleans in July to be briefed on environmental concerns facing homeland communities. The Commission for Environmental Cooperation acts as a clearinghouse for efforts to coordinate environmental regulation between the three North American nations and sponsors research projects aimed at identifying innovative ways to deal with environmental problems.
Thomas took Kent and other meeting attendees, including Pat Denechaud, the honorary consul for Canada in New Orleans, on a tour of select coastal wetland areas and discussed their loss and endangerment. He also highlighted the recovery of the Lower 9th Ward and other nearby neighborhoods hit hard by Katrina during a tour of those areas.
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CU International is here to help you. For starters, you can view our contact information, refer to our etiquette guide, or go to the websites for ISSS and OIE.
Contact Information
CU International maintains a list of mentors who are available to help support and advise international students. If unexpected problems arise during your stay, or if you're having trouble adapting to life in the US and want someone to talk to, drop us an e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com and a member of our team will get back to you.
Is your organization interested in collaborating with CU International or sponsoring some of our activities? Are you a student who wants to get involved with our team? Get in touch with us at email@example.com.
Etiquette Tips
At most restaurants, you will receive a bill that looks something like this:
Burger $6.99
Fries $1.99
Soda $0.99
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Sub-Total $9.97
Tax (8%) $0.80
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Total $10.77
At the top, each item you ordered will be listed with a price. After all items, a sub-total is given which is the base cost of all your items. Tax of 8-10% is added to the sub-total to give the final total. The bottom total is the amount you need to pay, though see below for rules about tipping.
If you walked up to a counter to order your food, the total at the bottom of your bill is all you need to pay. If you're feeling generous, or the person who took your order was really nice, there's usually a jar marked "tips" nearby and you can leave up to a dollar or two in the jar.
If a waiter came up to you to take your order, as is typical in most sit-down restaurants, tipping at least 15-20% is expected. This amount is calculated off of the pre-tax sub-total of your items. So in the example above, the pre-tax sub-total was almost $10, so you should be adding $1.50-$2.00 to your total. For the bill above, a safe bet would be to leave an even $13.
Tipping in the US is not really optional like it is in many other countries because at sit-down restaurants in the US, businesses are allowed to (and do) pay their servers less than the minmum wage. It is assumed that the servers will make up the difference in tips. Currently, businesses can pay servers as little as $2.13/hour, while the minimum wage is $5.85! In Colorado, things are a bit better, but servers can still earn as little as $3.83, while the minimum wage is $6.85. Thus if you don't leave a reasonable tip, it can really be a big deal!
When you go out to a sit-down restaurant with friends, you'll often receive only one bill for everyone. (You can sometimes ask for separate bills, but this can be a lot of extra work for your server, and a few places don't allow it.) If you do receive a single bill, here are some guidelines on how to split it:
- Each person should add up the base prices for the items they ordered.
- Remember that tax is only calculated on top of the sub-total, so tax has not been added to your individual item prices. That means you need to add an additional 8-10% to the prices of your items to cover tax.
- Add 15-20% to cover the tip.
A safe bet is to add up the base prices of all the items you ordered and then add 30%.
Using the 30% rule will cover both the tax and the tip for your food. As an example, consider two people that went out for dinner. one had a $6.99 burger, and one had $1.99 fries and a $0.99 soda. The burger person should add:
$7 * 3 / 10 = $2.10
The fries-and-drink person should add:
$3 * 3 / 10 = $0.90
That means the burger person should pay a total of $9.09 which most people would round to $9. The fries-and-drink person should pay a total of $3.88 which most people would round to $4. Note that this results in paying $13 on the bill, the same amount calculated for the bill in the single-person Tipping section above.
There are differences in tipping behavior in different social groups. If you spend time with regular CU International members, most people will follow the 30% rule above. In other social groups, people may tip more or less. If you're uncertain, just ask!


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The acclaimed actress and dedicated activist shares her personal journey of discovery and destroys outdated ideas about partnership, love, and family that will resonate with anyone in an unconventional life situation.
Actress and activist Maria Bello made waves with her essay "Coming Out as a Modern Family" in the New York Times' popular "Modern Love" column, in which she recalled telling her son that she had fallen in love with her best friend, a woman - and her relief at his easy and immediate acceptance with the phrase, "Whatever, Mom, love is love." She made a compelling argument about the fluidity of partnerships and how families today come in a myriad of designs.
In her first book, Bello broadens her insights as she examines the idea of partnership in every woman's life and her own. She examines the myths that so many of us believe about partnership - that the partnership begins when the sex begins, that partnerships are static, that you have to love yourself before you can be loved - and turns them on their heads. Bello explores how many different relationships - romantic, platonic, spiritual, familial, educational - helped define her life. She encourages women to realize that the only labels we have are the ones we put on ourselves, and the best, happiest partnerships are the ones that make your life better, even if they don't fit the mold of "typical".
Throughout this powerful and engaging read, Bello shares intimate stories and lessons on how she has come to discover her happiest self, accept who she is, and live honestly and freely and tells the stories of those who came to her after her Times columns, grateful that someone gave voice to their life choices.
Whatever...Love Is Love is not a memoir about an actress. It is a frank, raw, and honest audiobook about the way every woman questions the roles she plays in love, work, and life, filled with wisdom, questions, and insights relevant to us all.
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"Inspiring and wonderful"
This is truly an inspiration. I loved how Maria Bello questioned some of the big issues that at some point everyone questions too and how she shares her thoughts about them. The acting of course is great. This is such a personal book but somehow it is related to the reader's life as well at least to mine. Great book!
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Integrate Microsoft identity and the Microsoft Graph into a Xamarin forms app using MSAL
This is a simple Xamarin Forms app showcasing how to use MSAL to authenticate MSA and Azure AD via the converged MSA and Azure AD authentication endpoints, and access the Microsoft Graph with the resulting token.
For more information about how the protocols work in this scenario and other scenarios, see Authentication Scenarios for Azure AD. For more information about Microsoft Graph, please visit the Microsoft Graph homepage.
How To Run This Sample
To run this sample you will need: - Visual Studio 2017 - An Internet connection - At least one of the following accounts: - A Microsoft Account - An Azure AD account
You can get a Microsoft Account for free by choosing the Sign up option while visiting https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-com/. You can get an Office365 office subscription, which will give you an Azure AD account, at https://products.office.com/en-us/try.
Step 1: Clone or download this repository
From your shell or command line:
git clone https://github.com/Azure-Samples/active-directory-xamarin-native-v2.git
[OPTIONAL] Step 2: Register the sample on the app registration portal
You can run the sample as is with its current settings, or you can optionally register it as a new application under your own developer account. Create a new app at apps.dev.microsoft.com, or follow these detailed steps. Make sure to:
- Copy down the Application Id assigned to your app, you'll need it in the next optional step.
- Add the Mobile platform for your app.
[OPTIONAL] Step 3: Configure the Visual Studio project with your app coordinates
- Open the solution in Visual Studio 2017.
- Open the
- Find the assignment for
public static string ClientIDand replace the value with the Application ID from the app registration portal, again in Step 2.
[OPTIONAL] Step 3a: Configure the iOS project with your apps' return URI
- Open the
- Locate the
App.PCA.RedirectUriassignment, and change it to assign the string
"msal<Application Id>://auth"where
<Application Id>is the identifier you copied in step 2
- Open the
UserDetailsClient.iOS\info.plistfile in a text editor (opening it in Visual Studio won't work for this step as you need to edit the text)
In the URL types, section, add an entry for the authorization schema used in your redirectUri.
<key>CFBundleURLTypes</key> <array> <dict> <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key> <string>Editor</string> <key>CFBundleURLName</key> <string>com.yourcompany.UserDetailsClient</string> <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key> <array> <string>msala[APPLICATIONID]</string> </array> </dict> </array>where
[APPLICATIONID]is the identifier you copied in step 2. Save the file.
[OPTIONAL] Step 3b: Configure the Android project with your return URI
Open the
Locate the
App.PCA.RedirectUriassignment, and change it to assign the string
"msal<Application Id>://auth"where
<Application Id>is the identifier you copied in step 2
Open the
Add or modify the
<application>element as in the following
<application> <activity android:name="microsoft.identity.client.BrowserTabActivity"> <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" /> <data android:scheme="msal[APPLICATIONID]" android:host="auth" /> </intent-filter> </activity> </application>where
[APPLICATIONID]is the identifier you copied in step 2. Save the file.
Step 4: Run the sample
Choose the platform you want to work on by setting the startup project in the Solution Explorer. Make sure that your platform of choice is marked for build and deploy in the Configuration Manager. Clean the solution, rebuild the solution, and run it. Click the sign-in button at the bottom of the application screen. On the sign-in screen, enter the name and password of a personal Microsoft account or a work/school account. The sample works exactly in the same way regardless of the account type you choose, apart from some visual differences in the authentication and consent experience.During the sign in process, you will be prompted to grant various permissions.
Upon successful sign in and consent, the application screen will list some basic profile info for the authenticated user. Also, the button at the bottom of the screen will turn into a Sign out button. Close the application and reopen it. You will see that the app retains access to the API and retrieves the user info right away, without the need to sign in again. Sign out by clicking the Sign out button and confirm that you lose access to the API until the enxt interactive sign in.
Running in an Android Emulator
MSAL in Android requires support for Chrome Custom Tabs for displaying authentication prompts. Not every emulator image comes with Chrome on board: please refer to this document for instructions on how to ensure that your emulator supports the features required by MSAL.
About the code
The structure of the solution is straightforward. All the application logic and UX reside in UserDetailsClient (portable). MSAL's main primitive for native clients,
PublicClientApplication, is initialized as a static variable in App.cs. At application startup, the main page attempts to get a token without showing any UX - just in case a suitable token is already present in the cache from previous sessions. This is the code performing that logic: ``` protected override async void OnAppearing() { // let's see if we have a user in our belly already try { AuthenticationResult ar = await App.PCA.AcquireTokenSilentAsync(App.Scopes, App.PCA.Users.FirstOrDefault()); RefreshUserData(ar.AccessToken); btnSignInSignOut.Text = "Sign out"; } catch { // doesn't matter, we go in interactive more btnSignInSignOut.Text = "Sign in"; } }
If the attempt to obtain a token silently fails, we do nothing and display the screen with the sign in button.
When the sign in button is pressed, we execute the same logic - but using a method that shows interactive UX:
AuthenticationResult ar = await App.PCA.AcquireTokenAsync(App.Scopes, App.UiParent); ``
parameter indicates the permissions the application needs to gain access to the data requested throuhg subsequent web API call (in this sample, encapsulated inRefreshUserData`). The UiParent is used in Android to tie the authentication flow to the current activity, and is ignored on all other platforms. For more platform specific considerations, please see below.
The sign out logic is very simple. In this sample we have just one user, however we are demonstrating a more generic sign out logic that you can apply if you have multiple concurrent users and you want to clear up the entire cache.
foreach (var user in App.PCA.Users)
Android specific considerations
The platform specific projects require only a couple of extra lines to accommodate for individual platform differences.
UserDetailsClient.Droid requires one two extra lines in the
MainActivity.cs file. In
OnActivityResult, we need to add
AuthenticationContinuationHelper.SetAuthenticationContinuationEventArgs(requestCode, resultCode, data);
That line ensures that the control goes back to MSAL once the interactive portion of the authentication flow ended.
OnCreate, we need to add the following assignment:
App.UiParent = new UIParent(Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Context as Activity);
That code ensures that the authentication flows occur in the context of the current activity.
iOS specific considerations
UserDetailsClient.iOS only requires one extra line, in AppDelegate.cs. You need to ensure that the OpenUrl handler looks as ine snippet below:
public override bool OpenUrl(UIApplication app, NSUrl url, NSDictionary options)
AuthenticationContinuationHelper.SetAuthenticationContinuationEventArgs(url, "");
return true;
Once again, this logic is meant to ensure that once the interactive portion of the authentication flow is concluded, the flow goes back to MSAL.
More information
For more information, please visit the new documentation homepage for Microsoft identity.


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Photographing birds in Peru.
Once in a while you come across bird photography that is so jaw-dropping that you simply want to throw your camera to the floor in dispair and scream "I need a new camera with a longer lens, more megapixels and a flash as strong as sunlight". Then you buy a new camera only to realize that the results are still not what you wanted. The simple truth is of course that you suck as a bird photographer.
Glenn Bartley is a professional photographer, who just returned from a 3 month trip in Peru, and has produced the best set of photos from Peru I have ever seen. Not only of common species, but some that are rarely photographed. The Long-whiskered Owlet for example at the top of this post, is of a species so rare that it has only been documented with some shaky video and a few half decent shots. I have only seen the bird once, and then it was a dark object flying from one perch to another without actually seeing the bird sitting. That is all, after some 5-6 tries for the species.
Fortunately, for those of us who suck, Glenn organizes bird photography workshop in the Neotropics. I was fortunate enough to get Glenn to agree on an interview for Birdingblogs and I am allowed to share some of his amazing photos from Peru. Sit back and enjoy.
Who is Glenn Bartley?
I am a professional nature photographer who focuses on capturing images of wild birds in their natural surroundings. I live in Canada but my travels take me all over the new world tropics. I have fallen in love with the birds of tropical america and plan to spend many years devoted to photographing them. I publish my work in all of the major magazines and have published a few books myself (Birds of Ecuador, Birds of Vancouver Island).
I also lead instructional photo workshops to Ecuador, Costa Rica and pretty soon will be adding Peru to that list. To find out more about me and my work visit my website.
Nikon or Canon – and why?
I shoot with Canon gear. But to be honest I am really not biased towards either. Both companies make such good cameras these days that either platform will be great for any photographer.
Some bird photographers I have met don't like using flash, yet I guess many of your photos are taken with flash. How do you avoid the pitfalls of unreal colors, eye reflection and strange shadows, and yet make the birds look natural?
If you don't want to use flash in the tropics you are better off staying home! Learning to use flash successfully is one of the most important aspects of tropical photography and a topic that we cover extensively on my workshops. From using one flash in the field to using up to 6 flashes at multi-flash set-ups artificial lighting is a must in the tropics. To start with make sure you have your flash on a bracket and up off of the camera. Secondly make sure you know how to control the power of the flash output. That will get you started anyway…
What infrastructure is important for you when you chose a lodge for photography and in what aspects ought the infrastructure for bird photographers improve in Peru?
It would be great to see some more hummingbird feeders and fruit feeders in Peru. Good trails are vital too.
I for one believe the greatest recruitment of birders will be through bird photography. Maybe the birding clubs loosing members and worrying about regeneration of young birders should embrace bird photography more? What is your experience? How did you get into birds?
I definitely think more and more birders are heading in to the field with a camera these days. Being able to bring home images of the beautiful birds that we see and share them with friends is a huge plus that I think will make more people excited about birding and nature. I got in to birds about 12 years ago. Coincidentally this was right around the time I got my first camera!
How did you get into offering bird photography workshops in South America? What would you teach us on such a trip?
Over the past few years I have spent about 16 months in the new world tropics and have really gained a lot of experience in knowing how to photograph the birds down there. I think that a lot of people want to visit these places and there simply aren't that many qualified photography leaders. Birding tours are not the answer for anyone who is really serious about photography. All you will get will be record shots and a lot of frustration.
My workshops are kept small so that I can address the needs of each participant. Some folks show up and are already quite talented photographers. perhaps they just need a few pointers on the best strategies for an individual species. Others may be relatively new to photography and need more help with exposure, flash and technique. We always work on post processing in the evenings and I can pretty much guarantee that everyone who signs up comes away a better photographer. We have a lot of fun too!
My company Kolibri Expeditions have started offering birding trips specifically for photographers, such as this trip to the Marvelous Spatuletail over 9 days in January, visiting some of the same areas as you visited on your trip. I was pleasantly surprised how fast this trip has practically filled-up. It goes to show, that there is a great need of trips directed towards bird photographers. Of course, our trip is not a workshop, but for photographers who already know their equipment well enough. What are the difficulties the experienced bird photographers new to the tropics may encounter? Any particular warnings or tips?
Try to find some flowers that the birds are visiting regularly and focus your efforts there. Around the feeders will be very difficult for the spatuletail.
Name your 5 favorite birds in Peru you have photographed?
Wow…that is always a tough question…But I will try:
1. Long-whiskered Owlet
2. Marvelous Spatuletail
3. Yellow-scarfed Tanager
4. Agami Heron
Rufous-crested Coquette
Truly marvelous pictures, Glenn! What is missing? What 3 birds in Peru you really want to photograph someday?
1. Golden-backed Mountain Tanager
2. Andean Condor
3. White-plumed Antbird
And I hear the pelagics are great too 😉
Funny with your wanted list of birds to photograph, since two of them I have a special relationship. The Golden-backed Mountain-Tanager is one of the few I actually have taken a half decent photo of – decent enough to make it to a couple of articles. That was pure luck during a filming expedition for Prom Peru which can be seen on YouTube with the Golden-backed Mountain-Tanager occurring at 11.35.
I was there with my camera of course and just happening to be where the bird was, which helps.
Another one on your want list, the Andean Condor, occurs in Santa Eulalia Canyon only 3 hours from Lima. There is a municipality there – Huachupampa – which bets on eco-tourism. There is, for Andean villages, a quite OK hotel, with private bath and hot water. From Huachupampa it is only some 7km to the overnight cliffs where condors are usually seen, albeit distantly. I have been talking with the municipality to create a feeding station for condors here, with blinds for photography. Have you any experience of such set ups with other raptors? Any tips you can think of?
No experience there. But I'm sure if you plunk a dead cow out there the vultures and condors will come.
Enjoy some more of Glenn Bartley's great photos from Peru.
If you want to see more of Glenn's work in Peru, here are his Peru gallery and his blog.
Here is an excerpt from his blog regarding the Long-whiskered Owlet:
The Long-whiskered Owlet is an enigma. The bird was only discovered in 1976 and was then not seen again until 2002! Even to this day very few people have had good looks at it.
At just 5 inches this bird is the smallest species of Owl in the world. It is so unique that upon discovery ornithologists immediately put it in to its own genus "Xenoglaux" which means "strange owl".
That evening I trekked down a muddy trail into the elfin cloud forest and I waited patiently to hopefully hear the birds call. Before long, to my delight, I heard what I believed to be an Owlet calling in the distance. I began to use the birds call to try to lure him in towards me.
I'm sure you can all imagine the adrenaline and excitement that I was feeling when I realized that it was working and the bird was coming closer. I stood motionless. I didn't dare fiddle with my equipment. I didn't dare check to see what insects were crawling up my leg. Heck…I didn't dare breathe!!
And then…I saw a flash of movement in front of me. The moon was nearly full and there was enough light to just make out the movement. I shone my flashlight in the direction of the fluttering object and there he was not even 20 feet away on an open branch staring right at me – The Owlet!
As I walked back up the hill after photographing this incredible bird I could hardly believe what had just happened. I think that there are moments in our lives as photographers that I think we will never forget. For me this was most definitely one of them.
Also check out the testimonial of Glenn Bartley's workshops.
Thanks Glenn for sharing with us here. I am sure now everyone wants to come to Peru to see and photograph these birds! Lets finish with one of my favorite photos. This Common Potoo.
For accomplished photographers that need logistics and a guide to find the birds to photograph, Kolibri Expeditions run a series of tours concentrating on Bird Photography in Peru.


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ARLINGTON, Texas- The UT Arlington baseball team held its first official team practice for the 2009 season on Sunday afternoon at Clay Gould Ballpark. The Mavericks, who return 26 lettermen from last season, enjoyed 68-degree weather on Sunday during their first official day of team practice.
It is the second year that the NCAA has required baseball teams to start spring practice on February 1. The 2009 regular season officially begins with teams holding their season openers on Feb. 20.
UT Arlington will open its season hosting the 16th Annual UT Arlington/Hilton Invitational at Clay Gould Ballpark. The Mavericks will welcome Arkansas State, Texas State and Siena for the four-day, eight game invitational.
The Mavericks welcome back 13 pitchers from a year ago, which combined to win all of the Mavericks 26 games in 2008. UT Arlington also returns seven starting position players from last season, including sophomore center fielder Michael Choice who batted .376 with seven home runs and 51 RBI as a freshman.
Choice, the reigning Southland Conference Freshman of the Year, was named a preseason first team All-SLC selection.
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A Strategy to Recapture International Long Distance Subscribers and Revenues
Subscribers at stake are those in the United States who make international long distance (ILD) calls and spend billions of dollars every year in the process. Leading MVNOs realize that if they ignore this market segment, they are voluntarily handing market share and revenues to their competitors.
- 20 million people, or 21 percent of United States adults who own a smartphone, make international calls
- Nearly 60 million people in the United States, or one out of every four adults, makes international calls, with just over half of these callers using landlines or VoIP platforms
Rather than permitting OTT providers to use network bandwidth to earn revenues, mobile operators understandably want to use that bandwidth to generate revenues for themselves. NetworkIP can help mobile operators with a cloud-based solution for offering their own branded international long distance products, including unlimited calling.