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First up for today, I have a few more photos from yesterday:
On our other boundaries the hedges are higher.
ABOVE: Dante loves this, Archer, not so much.
ABOVE: This is Chris, Bex's brother. He's a nice guy.
ABOVE: Wee Archer chillaxing on Griffin. I doubt 'chillaxing' is a bona fide word, but too bad.
ABOVE: Awwwww.... too cute.
ABOVE: Dante was upset because I wouldn't let him dig in the lawn with his TINY spoon!
ABOVE: So Grandma (that would be me), gave him the garden trowel and let him dig in the unplanted end of this garden.
He was thrilled and dug a great big hole.
NOW.... I am finally allowed to talk about the social event coming up... the reason I had to buy a new dress...
We are thrilled to bits of course.
Bex decided to crochet herself a lovely shrug to wear over her dress...
1.19 pm: I have had the most awesome shopping expedition today!
The very first shop I looked in for shoes, and Lacy spotted the PERFECT matching shoes for my wedding outfit!
ABOVE: THE SHOES... Not only are they the right colour, but even the pattern matches the dress!!!
Meant to be obviously. I am just so happy to have found the perfect outfit for the wedding.
Originally I hadn't planned on buying anything new, and just wear some tights and a nice top. But then I was told I had to get something NICE, as I am the 'Mother of The Groom'.
So glad I listened.
After the shoes shopping, we went to Chartwell Square for a quick lunch, then I took Lacy back to her flat, and then I came home.
It's getting warmer again... so I stripped off me winter clothes and am now in a lovely summer maxi dress.
10.59 PM: Well it's been an awesome day...but now it's time to head off to bed after, a cosy evening indoors.

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Hotter, drier, wetter. Face the future. World Meteorological Day - 23 March 2016 Our climate is changing. This is not just a future scenario. It is happening now. The climate...
Publish Date: 21 March 2016
WMO welcomed its new Secretary-General, Petteri Taalas, on 1 January. He came to the Organization following a tenure as Director of the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) from 2002 to 2015, which was interrupted from 2005 – 2007 when he served as Director of the WMO Development and Regional Activities Department.
Publish Date: 3 November 2016
Those who question the importance of climate change sometimes claim that reducing carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions into the atmosphere will have a very limited effect, because water vapour is the most dominant greenhouse gas. If that is the case, they wonder why bother so much about CO 2 and other greenhouse gases? Observations by the WMO Global Atmosphere Watch programme have helped to investigate this in some detail.
Publish Date: 1 November 2016
One certainty about sustainable development is that it will not be possible without taking climate change into account. And if there is a certainty about climate change, it is that humanity will not adapt to it without taking into account water resources management. In September 2015 when 193 countries at the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) these two certainties so greatly influenced decision-making that goal #6 was dedicated to water. SDG #6 is not only about the urgent need for clean water and sanitation for...
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"Investments made in women and girls are great multipliers of development progress," said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas, who recently joined the ranks of the Geneva Gender Champions with a commitment...
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Hydro-climate services are essential because water lies at the heart of climate change adaptation. Improved water management will provide better adaptation possibilities in the food security, health, energy, disaster risk reduction and energy sectors.
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WMO and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) have launched the Global Hydrometry Support Facility and Innovation Hub (GHSF). It brings together the World Hydrological Cycle Observing System...
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The theme of the 2016 World Meteorological Day, on 23 March, is Hotter, Drier, Wetter. Face the Future.
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WMO joins the international community in celebrating World Water Day 22 March. The theme this year is Water and Jobs Roughly 40% of the world's jobs are directly linked to water. Together with the jobs that depend on water indirectly, about 80% of the world's economic activity is water related. Water is a major job creator, but at the same time, the absence of water of good quality is a major threat to jobs.


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Add some energy to your practices with Coach Layton's 'fresh takes 'on these recognizable, familiar drills!
with Terry Layton,Nike Scout and International Consultant for Latin America;300+ Wins at the High School, Junior College and College level (in the U.S.);300+ wins at the International level; NikeTalent Scout for Latin America; International work with Athletes in Action
The utilization of the Cutthroat drill in basketball practice has become a staple in NBA and FIBA basketball. This 4-on-4 drill has been used primarily as a critical defensive drill. Latin America Nike talent scout and longtime coach Terry Layton uses this drill as the cornerstone to his approach to coaching basketball.
Derived from basic Shell drill, Cutthroat has been long used to develop a sound defensive unit. In this video, Layton shows how this drill can be used in additional ways to maximize practice time by also working on offensive concepts and defensive fundamentals.
Setting Up the Cutthroat Drill
This drill incorporates three teams of four in its traditional sense. However, to make Cutthroat a more effective drill, offensive concepts are explained and taught as a means of improving the drill. By improving offensive play, Cutthroat becomes more of a challenge, requiring defense to be even more sound.
Coach Layton's offensive teachings for Cutthroat work on basic maneuvers that a team can see in a game, as well as varying formations. In addition to the traditional 2-2 formation, Layton shows how the offense can also operate from a 1-2-1 alignment, one that teams tend to use more frequently than the traditional 2-2 formation.
Defensive Basics
Layton breaks down defensive fundamentals; first with proper defensive closeouts. With a four-line closeout drill, he teaches to close out with feet parallel and pointed at the ball to create a wall that prevents dribble penetration. From here, reaction to pivot actions by offensive players is taught.
Once closeouts are understood, live 4-on-4 is introduced. The drill starts with the ball being passed out to an offensive player on the perimeter with the defensive players then touching hands before closing out to guard. From here, the offense looks to attack the defense in a live situation.
Offensive Concepts
Offensive Cutthroat concepts include creating movement, stepping toward pass, cutting, and communication. This version of Cutthroat has more energy and movement than a normal standstill passing drill. The transition portion maintains spacing and running the floor. You'll appreciate the simulation of a fast-paced nature in a controlled environment.
Incorporating Players on the Side
No coach wants to have players standing around while a drill is in progress. To rectify this, Layton uses a variety of ways to keep as many players active and engaged as possible. For him, it's essential to have 75 to 100 percent of his players active at all times during practice.
While on the side and not in the drill, sidelined players can work on conditioning or passing fundamentals. With two balls and four players on the side, Layton places emphasis on improving closing out on the ball and tracing it with the defender's hands. This allows for defensive skill and technique to be improved with extra time before getting into the flow of the drill.
Coach Layton teaches what every coach should want: a competitive environment to keep players moving and getting better. Your players will learn to move toward the basketball to receive passes, step towards their passes, and cut or screen depending on situation. This is a fantastic video that will have a lasting impact on your everyday basketball practices!
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om is doing better; she was discharged a couple of days ago, and seems to be doing ok. We'll see what happens when she starts regulating her own medications. Now that she is doing better and seems to be out of the woods, I guess I can return to life as normal:work, sleep, work, sleep, check email every four or five days, work, sleep.
I'm applying for a promotion at work. No real raise attatched, and it would be a lot more work, but it would mean a different shift. Possibly even a better shift for going back to school. I'm still trying to get together the tuition, so we'll see if that comes together. But Brandon is so great. He basically said, see when your tuition is due and we'll work the overtime to make it happen. What other guy in the world who has no material attatchment to a woman would actually work himself to the bone to allow her to go back to school? Now if only he would ask me to marry him 🙂 Or perhaps we might hear the pitter patter of little feet (and I don't mean my cats).
All in due time, I suppose. Thank you for your good wishes this past week. My mother has certainly felt your prayers and good wishes at work in her life. Until my next update, blessed be and happy Commercially-marketed Holiday!


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The new Romantic Country magazine arrived in the letter (bill) box today.....since it's my favourite magazine ever and with only four copies a year, it's a bit of a big deal when it get's here. l made a cup of green tea (yep, that's right ladies- livin' on the edge:-) and sat in the papasan in the garden room where the light's better (easier on the old lady eyes :-)and had a squiz through.....it mightn't sound like much, but all those pages of pretty made me core happy:-)
A few days ago Mum celebrated her 77th birthday, she asked that we not make too much hooha (which we're inclined to do) so we all just went out for afternoon tea, (which was delish by the way:-)....She's been hugely brave in choosing to go back into chemotherapy and this week despite having to sit in hospital for the best part of three days she's holding up really well, so hopefully we'll be celebrating a few more Birthday's yet:-)
l know l'm late getting this post up..... the photos were taken about 2 weeks ago so l should have posted sooner, and l would have.....but it's such a struggle for me to figure out what to write about...and l don't want to just post pictures since to me a blog should have a bit of a story, (otherwise we'd just use pinterest or instagram) but blog stories don't just pop into my head....Geez if ONLY!!
Anyway it's so lovely of you to stop by my blog, thank you....have a lovely rest of your week.
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There are three crimes that fall under the heading of DUI.
Today, there are three crimes which may fall under the heading of "Drunk Driving," "Driving Under the Influence" (DUI), or "Driving While Intoxicated" (DWI). The traditional crime of drunk driving has as its corpus delicti (body of the crime), the following three elements: (1) driving a motor vehicle, (2) on a road, public way, or highway, (3) while under the influence of a drug or alcohol or combination of the two.
As it relates to alcohol, the traditional crime has been coupled with, or in some cases, complemented by, two other crimes: the crime of driving while impaired and the crime of having a particular blood, breath, or urine alcohol concentration while driving or within a specified period of time after driving. In Pennsylvania, one can be cited for driving under the influence if their blood alcohol content is .08% or higher within 2 hours of driving, in most instances. There are lower threshold standards for CDL drivers and those under 21 years of age.
All states, including Pennsylvania, make it illegal per se to drive with a particular bodily alcohol content (BAC). These states usually provide that anyone who drives with a BAC of .08% or more of alcohol in 100 mL of blood, is guilty of a crime. It is also unlawful in Pennsylvania and all states to drive while under the influence of drugs. This area of law is less settled than it is with alcohol, particularly as it pertains to per se drug limits. Many states, like PA, have opted for a zero tolerance for driving with the presence of specified category of unlawful drugs, such as a schedule I drug, like marijuana.


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Over Coming The Fear Of Getting Pregnant
Getting Pregnant
Once you have tied the knot, you would agree that your priorities change. There are many important decisions that need to be made. You need to adjust with a new partner in a new family. The decision of having babies and adding a new member to your family is a very important decision that is not to be taken easily. You would need a lot of delicate handling which many newly wed couples are not ready for. Before making this important decision in your life it is very important that the couple creates a good understanding among themselves. They need to tighten their relationship to the extent they do not move irrespective of whatever is thrown at them. Once the relationship has stabilized it is seen that many women still fears with the thought of pregnancy. If we look at these fears in detail we can dispel them easily.
- There are many women who are scared of losing their freedom and do not wish to be get tied up with responsibility. In fact if you look at it the other way having a child makes you look at everything again for the first time, because they are always seeing things for the first time and it is incredible to watch your baby do that and experience it with them. This offers much greater freedom as we tend to do things which we have other wise not done. You can enjoy the simple things so much more and change the perspective.
- There are many other women who do not wish to have a baby as they are scared that they may lose their good figure and are not confident of getting back into shape. There are many ways to look in shape when you are pregnant and lose the excess weight quickly. When you are pregnant make sure that you get all the necessary vitamins and minerals that are needed which will keep you away from cravings. You can keep exercising with the consent of your doctor. After your delivery you can easily lose weight by running after the baby. You need to be patient for six months and you will be back in shape.
- There are many women who fear that they will not be good at being pregnant. You need to remember that the baby grows as it is meant to, you need to only take care of your health, eat healthy food, have proper vitamins and other minerals and exercise. If you still lose the baby because it was not forming properly, it is better to have a loss in the earlier stage than later. It is very important that you have only positive thoughts regardless of what has happened earlier. You should stay calm and good spirited as your emotions will directly affect the baby.
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Little did I know when I started this pest control blog that I'd have such good fodder from my own life.
It was supposed to be a fluke.
The bat I found in my house recently (see the 4/22/2005 post, "Slightly batty") was just a wayward creature who flew in through the side door off the kitchen as I was taking my trash out one night. At least, that's the story I devised to help me sleep better in my house after the bat sighting. Neighbors around me, confirming the fluke theory, had never heard of anyone on our street with a bat problem.
No such luck. It was no fluke.
Saturday night I arrived home just before 9 p.m. -- right at dusk. I had returned from a two-and-a-half day road trip to Seattle for work and fun. Entering my house, I turned on the lights and walked into the dining room. As my cat Heathcliff was coming to greet me, something else did too. A black, winged thing zoomed past my head. I turned to see it circling my living room twice and then flying toward me.
Had I not dealt with the bat in my house at the beginning of the month, I would have thought this was a small bird. After all, I had one get in my house once, through the chimney. But it took only a split second for my brain to register that this was indeed another bat. I screamed and ran for the nearest exit: the kitchen door. Muttering "not again," along with some other choice words, I headed next door to Dale and Rhonda's.
This time, I was not as frantic... just irritated, and tired from my five-hour drive. So when Dale came to the door and I told him what happened, he didn't believe me at first. I assured him this was no joke.
Since the bat was flying this time, Dale knew he needed backup. Jason from across the street was just the man for the job, having dealt with many bats in his native Austin, Texas. Armed with a big broom and a pair of work gloves between them, they went inside the house and eventually found the bat in a back room. After a few minutes, they emerged with Dale holding the bat in his gloved, cupped hands.
I called a good friend to verbally process this whole ordeal, and she offered to have me stay at her place. But I really wanted to be in my home after being gone for two nights. So I had her and two other friends come up and sit with me in the living room while I tried to get comfortable being in my own house. It worked somewhat, but I still needed to sleep with my light on.
Morning came, and I went downstairs to get the paper and feed the cats. I sat down in the living room and prepared to peruse the paper when I noticed that one of my touch-sensitive wall sconces was on, which was odd. As I went to turn it off, I happened to look upward toward my box-beam ceiling.
I screamed again and, near tears, ran to get Dale and Jason. Since the bat was sleeping, Jason was able to get on a ladder and grab it (with the gloves on, of course).
The immediate problem was once again solved, but sorrow set in for me. I wondered, do I have a colony living in my house? The very thought made me fearful to go back inside.
Grabbing the Yellow Pages, I looked up the pest control operators in the area. The one I called first was the only one to call himself a bat removal specialist, under the company name "Skunkworks." Of course, this being Sunday and Memorial Day weekend, I had to leave messages with Skunkworks and everyone else. Expecting to wait until Tuesday for a call-back, I plotted my course of action in the meantime, which was to pack a bag and stay with friends.
Later that evening, Matt from Skunkworks called me back. He is meeting me Wednesday morning for an inspection at the house. If anyone can solve this problem, he can -- he's been doing this for 16 years.
Is it irrational for me to leave the house? Probably. Bats don't attack humans -- they are as frightened of us as we are of them. And if they have taken up residence in the house, they would be sleeping during the day and leaving it at night. But I simply can't relax in my own house. I enter each room with hesitation and tension, expecting to see another bat hanging upside down or, even worse, swooping down towards me. I can't live like that.
Stay tuned Wednesday for the Skunkworks diagnosis... Dare I say it, "Same bat time, same bat channel."
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A Little Teaser!
On Saturday I opened my molds! Now, no matter how hard I try to get the air out of the concrete I just don't have the tools needed to vibrate the mold so there were some blow holes. Since I only had about three hours in which to work I quickly applied a slurry to my pieces to fill some of the holes and let the slurry cure over night. Generally the slurry is the last thing to apply, according to THE BOOK. After making the kitchen counter tops though, I have found that the slurry shrinks when it hardens, so applying it before grinding reduces the appearance of shrinkage in the voids.
On Sunday I got to grind my concrete pieces. This creates more holes of course, but holes are good because they actually allow you to alter the appearance of the concrete. You can also fill them with a slurry of a completely different color or even colored epoxy. I am way too traditional to put bright colors in my voids, besides, I am trying to make my pieces look more like polished stone. So today I was able to grind all my pieces to 800 grit with the diamond polishing pads and slurry my pieces to darken the color of the concrete. The fireplace hearth went from this
To this with an almost black slurry on all the pieces.
I gave up on the plum color on the central piece and went for black and blue marbleized look but the acrylic paint weakens the bond and integrity of the cement due to how much I had to use to get the color. The book actually states this so it was no surprise. The slurry helped to level the surface and as a result reduced the amount of blue in the piece. That grey streak is the hardest section of this piece. Here are close-ups.
These pieces are wet so that you can see how they should appear when polished and waxed.
After much grinding the counter looked like this.
I put a dark grey slurry on this to fill the voids around the glass chips and not make such a drastic color change to the concrete. On Wednesday I will grind again with the 800 grit disk and melt the wax slithers and any polypropylene fibers on the surface of the concrete with the butane torch and then slurry with a black mixture. I also have to grind about 1/8 inch of the front notch of the sink hole so the sink sits flush. I was using a tile saw today to make a series of grooves that I can take a cold chisle to on Wednesday. Here is a close up before the slurry was applied, the final color will be darker though.
Stay tuned, the final finish won't be until next weekend. I wonder if Elizabeth's hair will stay up that long? It might if we don' t wash it!


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Today's hen production was really excellent, with an egg from each of the 15 laying hens and also from each of the 2 bantams. I have noticed that, even though I light the chicken coop in winter (I'm not lighting it now), production has increased further recently, as the days lengthen. So we have lots of eggs available for sale at our gate.
I mentioned in the video in my previous post that I had to separate the bantam cock from the other cocks, as they were giving him a hard time. He and his two bantams seem quite happy in their new smaller coop and the hens' production is very satisfactory at the moment. So a happy hen is a good layer!
Readers will also have seen in the previous video post that the ducks are very protective on the nest. All three are sitting on nests, but I continue to lose eggs. Sometimes I think this is caused by crows and sometimes I think the ducks break them themselves. If any reader can suggest a possible answer, I'd like to hear it so please leave a comment below. One of the ducks does not even have any eggs under her and she is the most vicious of all in defence of the nest. Strange behaviour.
I'm not sure if I will actually get any ducklings from the other birds. I can see that there is something developing in the eggs but they seem to be taking forever to hatch, if they are going to. Maybe I should have used an egg incubator but I was anxious to let the ducks hatch the eggs naturally, and they certainly seem to like doing it that way. Between the two ducks, there are only about six eggs left, of which about four are showing signs of development. They are certainly going over the 28 days, but if I actually get little ducklings, I will post a video.
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This post originally appeared on my Guardian Higher Education blog.
Though we academics are often maligned for our perceived stuffiness, academia is in fact teeming with humour, wit, and general oddness. This blog, which I have every intention of publishing every two weeks (lest it perish), is my attempt to collate some of this oddity for your Friday procrastination and amusement.
This first post hails the progenitor of much academic obscurity, the Ig Nobel prizes. The Igs, which recognise research that "first makes people laugh then makes them think", recently celebrated its 24th first annual award ceremony.
The ceremony has been described as "a collection of, like, actual Nobel Prize winners giving away prizes to real scientists for doing f'd-up things… it's awesome". Indeed, one scientist, the flamboyant Andre Geim, has won both an Ig and a real Nobel; the former for levitating a frog using really strong magnets and the latter for the development of graphene. (Geim also co-authored a paper with his pet hamster, Tisha.)
My favourites from this year include:
A study finding that dogs align their body axis with Earth's north-south geomagnetic field lines while they are "doing their business". This necessitated the rigorous scientific observation of no fewer than 1,893 defecations.
- A study measuring the frictional forces at play when a person steps on a banana skin.
- A study entitled, 'Seeing Jesus in Toast'. It's about seeing Jesus in toast.
- A medical report documenting the stemming of severe nosebleeds by stuffing strips of cured pork up the nostrils (you literally couldn't make this stuff up).
- A study in which researchers play dress up to see how reindeer react to humans disguised as polar bears. The authors shirked the usual convention of publishing in the most appropriate journal available by choosing not to publish in the ultra-specific Rangifer: Research, Management and Husbandry of Reindeer and Other Northern Ungulates.
For the sacrilegious academics who slipped away from academia, there are still opportunities to win: the economics prize went to the Italian government's National Institute of Statistics. They admittedly don't sound like such a fun bunch, but when the meddling powers at the EU mandated that each member increase the size of its economy, the Institute took the lead by counting a range of "innovative" revenues in its accounts, including those from prostitution, illegal drug sales, smuggling, and other unlawful financial transactions.
The Igs are almost as popular as the real Nobels these days. Marc Abrahams, the organiser, reckons that many want to follow in Geim's footsteps, conducting studies with the sole aim of netting an Ig. About 10-20% of the 9,000 nominations received each year are self-nominations from self-appointed academic-comedians (academedians?!).
The Igs spawned an accompanying journal, the Annals of Improbable Research, in turn no doubt inspiring the Journal of Universal Rejection, which rejects every submission received, and the recently launched Proceedings of the Natural Institute of Science, whose acronym (PNIS) speaks for itself.
And so it is that this humble blog reaches you, merely the latest in a long line of academics trying to prove their unstuffiness. We hope you enjoy it!
The best thing I've seen this week
The hashtag #AcademicInsults was trending this week, proving that academics can be as cruel as they can be funny. The most withering and sharp-tongued offerings concern poorly written papers ("Some journal with a low impact factor will be happy to take that"), viva pep talk ("Don't worry, you can still get a job as a sales rep"), and your general lack of worth in the field to which you have dedicated your life ("Oh sorry, I'm not aware of your work").
Overheard on Twitter
So there's a dead headless #seal on the shore in front of my lab. Anybody has a clue if that needs to be reported to in Northern Ireland? :/
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I'm implementing the facebook login but when calling the login action I get this error:
Cannot assign a JavaScript object with value [object Object] to an output parameter of type Text Check the JavaScript node 'Login' of the action 'FacebookLogin'.
Can someone help?
When u implementing facebook did you check auth n token key because it is very imp.
Please clearify more about your problem, I'll try to help u
I found the javascript issue, login through facebook is failing and the issue is on $parameters.ErrorMessage = msg; I did the replace by $parameters.ErrorMessage = JSON.stringify(msg); and the error no longer appears.
But the message returned on function failure is: [object Object]
How do I identify the error message?
I also got this error, but not for all mobile devices, but for some like motorala, xiomi devices, etc. It is working fine for iOS, samsung S7, etc..
Can some one please tell on how to fix this ?
Also I noticed from the above reply, Rajat mentioned about auth n token key, but we do not set auth and token key, it is automatically taken care by the plugin, we only set the app id in the configurations. It doesn't ask for secret key also. Some one correct me if I am wrong in this.
Any help guys?
Kartick Srinivas wrote:
Hi Pedro,
I unstalled the app and installed it again in xiomi Mi, it worked fine. Please try doing the same, also please check the facebook app id in the configurations of FacebookLogin plug in,
Pedro Coelho wrote:
Hi Pedro,
I've pushed a new version. It has your JSON.serialize fix there, thank you. I'm also interested in the condition under which the error occurs.
Did you solve the issue? Can you replicate it? On which device? What are your configurations?
Kind Regards,
João Grazina
I'm getting the same error, I changed the app Id from the configuration file, but I'm still getting the error on OnePlus 3 and Samsung S6.Im leaving the permissions empty and they are being filled with the default permissions.As mentioned before the app secret is never mentioned in the application.
fixed it
I had to Generate the app again after changing the configuration file
I'm having this same problem and didn't found a solution for it.
Using an Aquaris U phone (Android 7.1.1) for the tests.
Any help?
Works with this in the Login node (FaceBookLogin action)
facebookConnectPlugin.login(JSON.parse($parameters.Permissions), function (userData) { //console.log(JSON.stringify(userData)); $parameters.Success = true; $parameters.ErrorMessage = ""; $parameters.ResultObject = JSON.stringify(userData); $resolve(); }, function (msg) { //console.log(msg); $parameters.Success = false; $parameters.ErrorMessage = JSON.stringify(msg); $parameters.ResultObject = ""; $resolve(); });
Also remember to fill in the app id in the configuration file and to re-generate and re-install the application
"fill in the app id in the configuration file" is this done in the client app or in the FacebookPlugin Module? I think maybe I've missed this part.
Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
In the FaceBook Plugin Module - extensibility configuration
{ "plugin": { "url": "https://github.com/OutSystemsExperts/cordova-plugin-facebook4#OS.0.11.0", "variables": [{ "name": "APP_ID", "value": "345011912529327" <---------- This here },{ "name": "APP_NAME", "value": "OutSystems Test" <---------- And this }] }}
Thanks DontPoke!
DontPoke wrote:
One more question.
How should I do the configuration if this module will be used by different apps in development?
Since you will map the facebook users in the UserFacebook Entity, you will need a facebookModule for every different app.
Thanks again for all your help DontPoke!
Hello guys,
Glad the solution was provided.
I'm considering going in the same path as Google Login Plugin, having the consumer applications define the actual Extensibility settings, instead of having it in the Plugin and requiring a clone to be able to use across different applications within the same environment.
Next version!


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Top summer events in London
Summer in London may not be too summery – it still rains a lot, and the weather isn't that hot. But the locals love outdoors activities, and there are so many summer events in London that are worth going to.
Summer events in London for the whole family
We have selected a few of the best summer events in London so you can enjoy your trip with the whole family. Take good note of them!
- Dodgeballdayer: Music, street food… And funny costumes! It's the biggest Dodgeball tournament in the United Kingdom, and the fun is guaranteed. Saturday 6th of August in the Wimbledon Rugby Football Club. All the profits will be donated to charity.
- Splash Fest: A great amusement park of water attractions, ideal for your kids to have some refreshing fun! The Splash Fest is located in the Battersea Park and divided into five different areas: water slides, bubbles, challenges and games for all the family. It will be celebrated on Sunday 7th of August.
- The Great British Beer Festival: Not all the summer events in London are recommended with kids, though, and the Great British Beer Festival is one of them. It is a massive celebration (more than 60.000 people attend every year) where more than 350 breweries of the United Kingdom are featured. Don't try them all! There will also be games, live music and all sorts of entertainment options. From the 9th to the 13th of August in the Olympia London.
- Pop Up Screens: A great outdoors cinema festival that will show modern classics such as Jurassic Park and Back to the Future. Of course, food, drinks and entertainment will have their place. 19th, 20th and 21st of August in Ravenscourt Park.
- Foodies Festival Alexandra Palace: And we end our list of summer events in London with our absolute favourite… A yummy food festival! This deliciousness will take place the 27th, 28th and 29th of August in the Alexandra Palace.
Are you planning on going to any of these summer events in London? Is there any other recommendation you would like to share with other fellow travellers? Tell us in the comments!


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Unfortunately for Twitter, a great media platform isn't necessarily a hugely profitable one
The bad news for Twitter after today's quarterly earnings announcement, the first since its headline grabbing IPO, is that you can have the best product in the world and it still doesn't guarantee you a ton of profit.
Throughout this afternoon's hour-long earnings call, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo leaned heavily on product evangelism. "It's the best real time product in the world," Costolo gushed. "It's the consummate second screen."
And there were numbers released today that Costolo was understandably enthusiastic about, which reflect back at him his hopes for the company he runs. Quarter four revenue was $243 million and the full year take for 2013 was $665 million, up 116 and 110 percent on the figures a year previous and better than analysts had projected. User interaction was up, direct messaging was 25 percent higher and use of search spiked 120 percent. Of its 241 million monthly active users, three-quarters of them are on mobile, which means it is well placed to run with the current mass migration away from the desktop.
It's no secret that Twitter's most active users love the product, but that's not enough for it to be a financial powerhouse. Today's rosier news came twisted around more cumbersome realities, the most pressing being around its anemic user growth.
In the US - where the company makes most of its money - Twitter added just one million monthly active users last quarter, representing growth of less than two percent on the quarter before it. Globally, it added only eight million active users, for a little less than four percent growth. Timeline views also fell by seven percent, a troubling indicator that wasn't fully explained.
Trying to draw credible long term conclusions from this announcement is futile. Twitter's future remains opaque. Objectively, it has a growth issue. Placed side-by-side with Facebook at the relevant stages in company histories, its expansion is flat compared with the explosion in user base Facebook enjoyed for many years.
Put another way, Twitter has a mom problem. My mom uses Facebook earnestly and in high amounts and uses it lurk covertly and spy on her children. She knows what Twitter is and is conversant about the medium, but I'd put long odds on her ever signing up.
Costolo didn't lay down any specific projections or goals for bringing more people on to Twitter and making it broadly accessible, aside from saying that Twitter was "doubling down to accelerate the growth of our core user base." The use of more rich media in the timeline and arranging Tweets by subject as well as chronology, will help this along, he said.
But he had no specific answer for just how Twitter plans to make itself accessible to users who aren't so much interested in a real time media platform as a slower, less hyperactive and more social one.
"We don't need to change any characteristics of our platform, we simply need to make Twitter a better Twitter," Costolo said. But if the slow growth in users indicates that Twitter is hitting up against the sides of its natural market niche, can Costolo popularize the site without changing up the whole ballgame?
It doesn't spell doom for Twitter and we should all learn from our collective predictions of Facebook's demise after its early struggles adapting to mobile. But whereas Facebook's problems were a single fix - make more money on mobile - Twitter's aren't.
Twitter made about half as much money as it spent last quarter but even if the growth we're seeing now is the growth its stuck with, the company still has a lot of room to make more money off each of its users. It made $1.49 per thousand timeline views in quarter four, 76 percent higher than the same quarter in 2012. It's revenue per user is around 70 cents. It might never get to a Facebook-sized captive audience, but as with all social media, as it becomes better at delivering ads, each ad becomes more valuable.
And Twitter has made good moves in this direction. It bought MoPub, giving it mobile retargeting capabilities, it expanded its self-serve advertising platform to the UK, Ireland and Canada, it has given advertisers the chance to target conversations, tailored audience, track conversions and promote accounts and is making movements into mobile commerce. Its users are highly engaged, it is habitually used as a second screen and it's disruptive potential as an advertiser and live test audience is yet to be fully tapped into.
Leading into the stock announcement Twitter's stock was trading at $66, more than twice what the Wall Street consensus was of its true value. The only guarantee following on from this announcement is a slump in stock price and a greater volume of panicky analysis around growth. These doubts may be fair, but the company's future is still staked on questions that haven't been answered yet.
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Kristen Stewart has made it clear that she's pretty much over acting (for a while, at least). She'd rather direct music videos; she wants to take a break; she wants to "make things with her hands." But yesterday she received an honor so huge that we're thinking maybe she shouldn't give up her day job just yet. K. Stew has been nominated for a César Award (a.k.a. a French Oscar), and she is the first American actress in 30 years to do so.
Stewart earned the nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the lesser-known indie flick Clouds of Sils Maria, which was released over the summer and also stars Juliette Binoche.
The first and last American actress to receive a César nomination before Stewart was Julia Migenes, who got a nod for her turn in 1984's Carmen. (Adrien Brody was the last American actor to get a nomination, when he won for The Pianist in 2003.)
Now, admittedly, the first thing we thought when we heard this news was, "She even beat Meryl Streep at something?!" But funnily enough, this is only half-true: Meryl Streep technically won a César in 2003, when she received an honorary Lifetime Achievement Award. (To which we can only say, mais bien sûr.) But still, a nomination is a nomination, and it's a huge testament to Stewart's talent. Big congrats!
Update: Even bigger congrats are due! Kristen Stewart has won that César Award, Variety reports, becoming the first American actress to do so. Makes you hope she doesn't abandon the craft for too long, huh?


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The Process
After years of working towards getting a collection of poems published, I've finally made it, and I am very pleased with the result, both in terms of the poems I chose for it, and the excellent job the publishers, Oversteps Books, have made of the book. It looks beautiful to my eyes, and I hope it will find readers who will like it too.
So I am pleased with myself, sitting back on my laurels, taking pleasure in having arrived at my destination, revelling in a moment's relaxation. But with just a fraction of my mind, wondering how long I can get away with living in this state, knowing that in some dark mental corner lurks the question--what next?
I don't like using words like 'inspiration' in connection with writing, because in too many minds this word has an almost magical significance, and I don't believe in magic. As the artist Edward Atkinson Hornel said 'The real mood of inspiration comes oftener through work than by waiting'. This quote has often been responsible for getting me back to work.
It's better to write something, even if it falls short of what you wanted, than to sit around waiting for an unspecified magic to produce 'would be' perfect words. There are, of course, those subconscious promptings, which may be what people mean by inspiration, but they don't come without the hard work of thinking about what you are seeing and doing. That is where the words really come from. If you don't do that, the unseen part of your mind doesn't supply the prompts that I could--but won't--call inspiration.
In the same way that I try not to use words like inspiration, I prefer using utilitarian words where possible. Our species frequently likes to imagine itself superior to other forms of life, happy to ignore our rather obvious failings, while casually demoting the significance of other living things, both sentient and insentient. We don't need much encouraging to use words that confer a special status to our existence, so I try not to make things worse. Meanwhile, it's unlikely that the universe notices, or cares about, our tiny specks crawling all over just one small planet in a cast of billions.
My word for life is the functional word 'process'. I see life as a process that continues on its way whether we take an interest in it or not. My idea of being alive is to engage with that process, to interact with it as best I can, rather than to passively accept, without comment, what happens around me. The significance of an art is that it takes the raw material of the world, whether its physical reality, or the imagining of it, and reassembles existence in a personal realisation of its significance, that at its best may have some universal value. I would argue that this is far better than living life 'off the peg', as consumers not creators.
As I suggested at the beginning of this piece, the question 'what next' lurks momentarily unacknowledged in my mind, but in actual fact I am already halfway through a collection provisionally entitled Consciousness. I'm sure I won't be able to say anything especially new about the subject, but I might be able to supply a personal insight into what it feels like to be conscious, and I am willing to try. Failure is a distinct possibility, but it wouldn't be so worth trying if failure wasn't a real risk. What was actually loitering in my thoughts was what do when that is finished, which, at my age, is the nearest I come to optimism.
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Working in the Heated Greenhouse
1st Dec 2004
There is always some work to be getting on with in a warm greenhouse at this time of year with the blanch and pot leeks probably in need of some attention. The large onions that you kept back from the shows this year should now be planted back in some compost if you would like the fun and challenge of producing your own seed, or even pips from them.
It's also time to get your order for exhibition shallots in, don"t forget the old saying, plant them on the shortest day and harvest on the longest. Before you plant your shallots it's imperative that each bulb is thoroughly checked over to make sure that they are sound. Take particular note around the shoulder and if any appear to be soft, don't bother planting them as they could well be diseased. I never post my shallots out to customers until later on this month to make sure that if any are going to suffer with fungal disease I can destroy them. It equally applies to any that have prematurely thrown up some green shoots, from my experience they never do well and usually collapse after potting them up.
Pot them up initially in some 3˝" pots using a good quality compost such as Levington M2 coupled with some good quality sieved top soil, a ratio of two parts M2 to 1 part soil would be ideal. They don't want too much heat, just sufficient to keep off the frost and very quickly they develop a strong root system. In fact I have often been deceived by just looking at the tops, they may well be showing just an inch or so of green shoots but the roots would have been well wrapped around the pot and often overdue for potting on. At this point they need moving on into a 6" pot and for this mixture I introduce a little more soil to prepare them for the bed that they will be eventually planted in. For this potting, mix 1 part of Levington M3 and 1 part of sieved soil.
Seed Saving
Saving your own seed off any vegetable is particularly rewarding, you feel when you later plant them, that you have actually created them yourself!. In my opinion the large exhibition onion is such a vegetable and any time from now is fine to be re planting the best onions that you had last year. From the point at which you lifted the onions, they do need a period of storage so that the bulb can prepare itself for re generation by way of throwing up a seed head.
As with the shallots it's important to pot up only healthy sound bulbs and any that show a really soft shoulder might as well be discarded as they will only collapse later on. If however the outer skin has a bruise or two, then remove a few layers of skin and the bulb will root perfectly. In fact I have often found that by planting a perfectly harvested solid onion with the brown skin still attached, some of the emerging roots have a habit of going upwards between the layers of skin, particularly if the root plate has been trimmed hard back. Removing a few layers of skin off all the onions exposes a cleaner surface area on the root plate from where the new roots will emerge. Pot each onion up into a 4 litre pot using any compost on par with Levington M3, the compost needs to have sufficient nutrients to maintain good growth through to next Summer.
It's important that the onions have a good start in the pots and I place mine on the propagating bench as the bottom heat seems to induce the roots downwards. Don't leave them here too long though, just enough for the roots to appear through the bottom of the pot. They can then be moved to a cooler environment as you don't want the onion flower heads to appear too soon, unless you are prepared to pollinate the flowers by hand.
Some exhibitors grow excellent quality onions from pips, these are basically small baby onions that form on the flower head. These pips, as with leeks, will be an exact replica of the parent onion as they are all clones from the same head. Ronnie Jackson from Cumbria had some excellent specimens this year and was very unlucky to not have a card at the Welsh Branch Championships with them.
More growers should try growing these pips as the one fabulous merit that they have is uniformity, each onion will be the same shape as each other. Don't listen when they tell you that it's impossible to have size on them, Ronnie's were about 23 inches around and you don't want onions for showing much bigger than that. For the heavy onion classes though, the ones from seed will certainly have more vigour and right strain of those are definitely the ones to grow for that class. Some seasons a few onion heads will throw out plenty of pips on their own accord, indeed one year I had them at least an inch long and nearly the size of some pickling shallots. If they don't throw up any pips, deal with them as we do for leeks, trim off all the flower heads and that should induce the bulb to throw some pips.
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This 27-year-old Oscar winner is either your imaginary bestie or your free pass. We don't blame you. Now, she's taking on her most seductive role yet – that of a seductive secret agent in the spy thriller Red Sparrow.
MANIFESTO: What is Red Sparrow about?
JENNIFER LAWRENCE: Red Sparrow is about Dominika Egorova, a dancer in the Bolshoi Ballet who was drafted against her will to become a "sparrow," a trained seductress in the Russian security service. Dominika learns to use her body as a weapon, but struggles to maintain her sense of self during the dehumanising training process. Finding her power in an unfair system, she emerges as one of the program's strongest assets. Her first target is Nate Nash (Joel Edgerton), a CIA officer who handles the agency's most sensitive infiltration of Russian intelligence. The two young operatives fall into a spiral of attraction and deception, which threatens their careers, allegiances, and the security of both countries.
M: What drew you to this project?
JL: I first heard about Red Sparrow on the press tour of the last Hunger Games movie. It was a book that (director) Francis [Lawrence] had been reading, and he thought it would be an interesting movie. Then, when I finally had the opportunity to read the script, it was an easy yes. It's a smart, sexy, and intense thriller about a secret programme that trains young agents in the psychological art of seduction.
M: How did you prepare to play this role? Was it physically demanding to train to play a ballerina who becomes a spy?
JL: There was a lot of physical preparation that went into this film for me. For the ballet scenes, I did a lot of training for three months every day, four hours, just really, really intense ballet training. It taught me posture and transformed my body. I also learnt a lot about the discipline of the art. And the level of discipline so many years of their lives it comes to play in everything that they do. The way they carry themselves, the way they handle themselves, and the way they work. So it was something that was constantly on my mind, even after we had wrapped all of the dancing sequences. I also worked closely with a dialect coach, with Tim Monich, who's a genius and helped me craft the Russian accent.
M: In what ways can women relate to your character?
JL: I think that all women can relate to having – being treated differently than men our whole lives. We've always had to find different ways and angles of getting what we want and becoming successful professionally.
M: What was it like working with Francis Lawrence again after you guys made The Hunger Games movies together?
JL: I love working with Francis and think he is an incredibly giving and collaborative director. After working on three films previously, we have a short hand. I don't know if I would have taken this film had he not been on board to direct it. He has amazing taste, and I know the pressure is off me personally when he's directing the movie, because there is a trust and he's truly a visionary.
M: What do you think audiences can expect from this film when they see it?
JL: I mean you can definitely expect to be taken on a dark adventure where you do not know what is about to happen next. There are so many twists and turns. It's a really smart thriller, and exciting.
M: Tell us more about the recent shootings.
JL: It was amazing as always. I love working with different photographers and seeing their interpretation of the clothes. Working on location at Paramount is always fun because, weirdly, I have never shot a movie at a studio in Los Angeles but have done a couple photoshoots there, and it always feels like you're creating something very cinematic. Norman [Jean Roy] is an amazing photographer and a lovely person. He shoots quickly and confidently, and I had fun creating scenarios with him for the story.
M: You're also known, of course, for your association with Christian Dior. How does it feel to be the face of such a storied house?
JL: Being the face of Dior is a tremendous honour, and to be able to be a part of a house with a rich history is something I don't take for granted.
M: Maria Grazia Chiuri (Christian Dior's womenswear creative director) opened her last spring-summer ready-to-wear shows with a statement T-shirt. Her contribution to female empowerment in fashion and encouragement of women of future generations were highly acclaimed by press and women all over the world. What do you think about her vision?
JL: She's an inspiration to us all. Beyond designing beautiful clothes by a woman for a woman, she is redefining glamour.
M: According to you, what does it mean to be a feminist today? Would you consider yourself as a feminist?
JL: Yes, being a feminist literally means equality of the sexes.
M: What's your favourite piece of Dior that you own?
JL: I really love all the bags and shoes from the last collection. I think I might have every bag and pair of shoes that they made. I also really love a black leather jacket with the moon tarot sign on the back of it.
M: What's your signature look: private life versus red carpet? Did your personal fashion style evolve since you started working with a fashion house?
JL: My personal life style is pretty casual, and my red carpet style has definitely evolved as I have gotten older, and inevitably that probably has to do with Dior and having the opportunity to be dressed in the best clothes.
M: At least one major movie once a year: between filming, touring, there is not a lot of free time left. How do you spend it?
JL: I have been on a real work break for a couple months now, and it has been nice. Obviously, I spent much of the fall promoting Mother!, and now we're on to Red Sparrow, but I am taking my time to choose the next film I want to do. I've been reading a lot and meeting directors that I want to collaborate with. And I've been able to spend time with friends and just take it easy which, surprisingly, has been nice.
Photography: Norman Jean Roy
Styling: Jill Lincoln & Jordan Johnson
Hair: Jenny Cho
Make-up: Jilian Dempsey, using Dior Makeup


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Prosecutors meet Matthew Badger, attorney about Shippan fire
STAMFORD -- The father of three girls killed in the Christmas morning fire on Shippan Avenue and his attorney met with prosecutors Wednesday afternoon at state Superior Court in Stamford as authorities consider whether to file criminal charges related to the fatal blaze.
Richard Emery, the Manhattan attorney representing Matthew Badger, whose 7-year-old twin girls and 9-year-old daughter died in the raging fire, declined to comment as he left the courthouse with Badger.
State's Attorney David Cohen also declined to comment about the investigation of the fire.
"We're not going to say anything at this point," Emery said.
The meeting comes three weeks after Badger filed papers to become administrator of his daughters' estates, a prerequisite before filing a potential wrongful death lawsuit over the fatal inferno.
Emery has said he hired private investigators to conduct an independent probe of the fire, which began after contractor Michael Borcina emptied out smoldering embers from a fireplace inside Badger's estranged wife's home. Borcina put the embers in a bag and left them either inside or directly outside a mudroom, Stamford investigators have said.
Stamford police investigators handed over their reports to Cohen last week, leaving him to decide whether criminal charges should be filed in the fire.
Borcina was staying at the Shippan Avenue home when the fire ripped through the house, killing Matthew and Madonna Badger's three daughters and her parents early Christmas morning. Borcina and Madonna Badger escaped the fire. The intense heat pushed firefighters from the house during several rescue attempts.
Police and fire officials described the blaze as accidental and said no criminal charges were anticipated. An initial investigation revealed Borcina cleaned out the fireplace shortly after 3 a.m. and placed the embers in a bag and left them inside a newly constructed mudroom or just outside in an enclosed trash bin.
Madonna and Matthew Badger buried their three girls on Jan. 5 following a funeral at a Manhattan church.
Her parents, Lomer and Pauline Johnson, were also killed in the fire. Pauline Johnson and the girls died from smoke inhalation, according to the state medical examiner. Lomer Johnson died from blunt head and neck trauma as he fell out of a window while trying to help one of the girls escape.
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I'm Learning
At the end of 2015, I made a promise to myself. That promise was to learn as many new skills as I could in 2016…
I've (obviously) always been into food and being able to photograph and style food well is a dream of mine. I have so many talented food photographer/stylist friends and I've always been envious of their skills. So I borrowed my mom's camera, went prop shopping and started shooting. My first few photographs were bad. Like, really bad. I had no clue what I was doing and just kept shooting until I had a passable image. I got lucky with some shots and my confidence started growing.
Along with a few YouTube tutorials and this incredible food/photography online course I bought on Creative Live, I started to understand the photography part a bit more. Food styling is quite easy if you understand composition, textures, colour and so on. More on that in another post.
Next, I needed a camera of my own. My photog friends suggested the Canon EOS 1200D, which is an entry level camera. At this stage, I didn't thinking spending more than R10,000 on a camera was a good idea. Smarter to ease into it! They all insisted that food photography is all in the lens and that the Canon 50mm f/1.8 was the best option. I trusted their advice and went ahead and bought the camera and lens.
YOU GUYS. That lens. That lens is EVERYTHING. The 50mm is basically a macro lens and the f/1.8 is amazing because it creates the best depth of field ever. (This is my very technical explanation of the lens.) You can basically blur out the background almost completely and focus entirely on the foreground. Best. It has made such a difference!
When I got the camera, I was shooting in AV and playing around with the settings, trying to understand more about the technical aspect of photography. Today, I plucked up the courage and switched over to manual. I'm kind of in love with it! I still have SO much to learn and am playing around a lot to understand the settings. I completely understand f-stop now – that's the depth of field. The lower the setting, the more blurred the background will be. Easy. I'm now playing around with shutter speeds and so on, and am slowly getting the hang of it.
From what I have learnt, the most important part of shooting food is the light. I'm lucky enough to have a massive window in my dining room that allows for natural light to shine through onto my dining room table. It's just a matter of finding the right angle. I do love a moodier shot sometimes, but lighter shots are beautiful too.
I shot the images below on manual. This first one was to test the light and prop setup.
And then, I added some Mexican chicken…
Looking at the avo, I probably could've used a higher f-stop, so it wasn't so blurry. But I don't mind this shot! I love the composition.
The next shot was photographed from a different angle, so the light was completely different.
I think my hands were a bit shaky and the focus is a bit off centre, but not a bad attempt. I like the textures in this one.
And this…
Which I love.
My last shot refuses to upload into WordPress, because WordPress hates me. Anyway, it's pretty cool.
I have a long way to go and a lot more YouTube tutorials to watch before I am 100% confident with my shots. I'm lucky enough to have a client who is confident in my ability and is allowing me to shoot their stuff; and I am so happy that I am improving every week. It's also pretty fun to have cool stuff to shoot quite often.
I'm building up my prop cupboard and my surfaces, so the shots won't all have the same look and feel. I'm a lover of textured wood and buggered up enamel/steel things. But I'll try and move away from these often.
So yay for learning something new already this year! Next, I want to learn how to flood and decorate cookies properly. Most because that looks f*ck off hard.


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Captain Obama
A downloadable game for Windows
Does our hero manage to defend the White House from the looming threats and keep the peace?
How play: The game supports touch, pressing on the black arrows to move and fire button to shoot. In place of touch, you can use the up and down arrow keys to move and the Z button to shoot. For extra life, being hit by the Red Cross
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Install instructions
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May 13, 2010
Recovery from Addiction Is a Choice
I have railed since day one when clinicians started calling bad choices and bad habits "diseases."The good news about calling alcohol and drug abuses "diseases" is that clinicians and others can reap financial rewards by charging insurance for their "medical" intervention.The bad news about calling substance abuse a "disease" is that the individual is robbed of his real ability to exercise choice and self-control , and such labeling puts the onus on society to give that individual a "pass" on taking responsibility for the consequences of the addiction.There is considerable proof that addiction is a choice: the book "Addiction: A Disorder of Choice," by Gene M. Heyman, Harvard University Press, demonstrates many of them. For example: in 1970, it was determined that between 10% and 25% of enlisted Army men were addicted to high-grade Vietnamese heroin and opium. When they were told they couldn't come home without being drug-free, the vast majority stopped using narcotics as the word of the new directive spread. The vast minority who were detained for detoxification programs were clean when given a second chance. Only 12% of soldiers who were dependent on opiate narcotics in Vietnam became re-addicted at some point in the next three years.The point is that calling alcohol or drug abuse a "disease" takes away from the individual the respect for his or her ability to choose. Every behavior we have is somehow tied to genetics and the brain. That doesn't make it a disease unless the individual has no choice . Alzheimer 's disease gives you no choice. Multiple sclerosis gives you no choice. Alcohol abuse is a choice.Addicts are drawn to drug abuse to salve depression, anxiety, boredom, and self-loathing. At the start of their addiction, they feel great, short-term, and they start giving up the joy in work, hobbies, family and friends. After a while, they need the drug to salve psychic pain (which is now increasing with the collapse of other factors in their lives), suppress withdrawal symptoms, and eliminate the craving. At some point, when these benefits come to be outweighed by the adverse fallout the balance shifts, and the addict chooses recovery.The concept of disease includes the obliteration of choice-making ability . Fortunately, addicts can make a choice, and congratulations are in order to those who do!
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Society For Enterprise Ethics
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Everyone loves gifts, and cheerleaders are no exception. For decades, girls have adorned their rooms with posters of their favorite movie stars, rock stars, athletes and cheerleaders. Most girls played with dolls when they were young and some have collected them over the years. Colorful cheerleader dolls can be a special part of their collection as they continue to fill their room with the things they love.
Great Gift Ideas for Special Cheerleaders
Viewing cheerleading as a sport; all cheerleaders have a special love – the love of the sport. Cheering teaches so much. So naturally we gravitate to gifts that remind us of the sport of cheerleading. Whether cheering is something in the future, or from the past the love of cheerleading is strong. Cheerleading gifts can be purchased for special occasions like birthdays or Christmas, for end-of-season parties or just to say "Great job, I'm proud of you."
Don't forget the Cheerleading Coaches, and the Cheer Moms and Dads
A cheerleading gift can range from something small, like a piece of jewelry or a lanyard, to something larger like a throw or afghan. Cheerleader coaches love cheer keyrings, lanyards and jewelry. And everyone loves t-shirts, so why not give them as gifts to those supportive and dedicated cheer moms and cheer dads. T-shirts can be given as cheerleading coaches gifts too. Cheerleader t-shirts and coordinating shorts are a popular way to acknowledge that they have achieved the elite status of cheerleader. Matching t-shirts are also a great way to build team spirit before sending your young cheerleaders off to cheerleading camp for kids.
Tips for Buying Cheerleaders Gifts
Picture frames and photo albums make great keepsakes. What fun to have your cheerleading pictures displayed creatively! Show how great you looked in your cheerleading uniform alone with your fellow cheerleaders. When buying gifts for cheerleaders remember they like to know that whoever purchased the gift was thoughtful enough to take the time to search for the perfect item – something that was selected just for them.
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