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The factional leader of the Boko Haram loyal to Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA) Mamman Nur has been killed by his fighters who rebelled against him, sources with ample knowledge of the group told the Daily Trust.
Nur, the brain behind the ties between Boko Haram and the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi led Islamic State, was reportedly killed by his closest lieutenants on August 21. He had in 2014 led the rebellion against Abubakar Shekau, which saw the emergence of Abu Mus'ab Al-Barnawy faction of the group.
The breakaway faction which moved to shores of Lake Chad region in Northern Borno was later recognised by the Al-Baghdadi.
The new leader Al-Barnawy, whose real name is Habib, is the son of Boko Haram founder Mohammed Yusuf, who was killed in 2009.
One of our sources said, "Mamman Nur, who was killed on August 21, is the actual leader of the Boko Haram faction after they parted ways with Shekau. He (Nur) only put Habib in the front as shadow leader because of his father (Mohammed Yusuf).
"The name Al-Barnawy is only being heard as symbolic leader; he was meant to lead so that followers would remain committed to the cause championed by his late father but he (Nur) is the major link of the faction with the Islamic State; the chief strategist around Lake Chad, including their cells in Nigeria, Niger and Chad," he said.


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The city, incorporated in 2012, set money aside for a big smart-city initiative before competing needs could scarf up every line item in the budget.
Being the new kid on the block can have its advantages. While many municipalities struggle to fund innovative smart-city technologies out of already-established budgets, Peachtree Corners, Ga., found it had an edge.
"Cities that are older can have a lot of budget constraints," said Finance Director Brandon Branham. "For us, a lot of those structural expenses are not in place yet, the money is not yet pre-dedicated."
Incorporated in 2012, this city of about 40,000 leveraged that flexibility straight out of the box, setting aside money for a big smart-city initiative before competing needs could scarf up every line item in the budget.
This city invested $267,000 to generate lidar maps of its rights-of-way, building a comprehensive database of street lights, utility poles, storm drains and other infrastructure. While it may not have the glamour appeal of some other smart cities efforts, city leaders say the lidar mapping will drive everything from cost savings to community development in the coming years.
Lidar — Light Detection and Ranging technology — uses laser pulses to measure distances from surfaces that can provide a return signal, in order to generate visual maps. In Peachtree Corners, it arrived in the form of a Ford F250 loaded with an imaging system. Operators paced the city's entire 224 center lane miles in spring 2016, feeding information back to the county's geographic information system (GIS).
Gwinnett County had tallied these assets back in the 1990s, taking an inventory by visual count, but the city has grown by about 25 percent since then, making that data obsolete. The lidar effort identified 35,000 assets — twice as many as were on the existing inventory.
While city planners see a range of possible uses for this information, the first order of business is an effort to improve lighting throughout the city.
"The lidar capture of the utility features showed the existing lighting coverage and showed existing poles in place that did not have lighting attached," said Director of Public Works Gregory Ramsey, adding that the picture was very clear in those areas where lighting gaps existed.
"We determined that we could very efficiently and effectively improve on those areas where existing utility poles and power access was in place by simply adding a light to those poles," he continued. "There is zero upfront cost associated with that process, so the return on investment will be significant."
While the local utility will shoulder the cost of putting lights on existing poles, the City Council has earmarked $500,000 over the next five years to pay for operation of the new lights. Based on the lidar mapping, the council approved 25 new lights this spring, and in August was on track for approval of 100 more in the near future. Eventually the maps could lead to placement of 900 new lights.
That's the kind of baseline civic improvement that helps to justify smart city investing. "Cataloging your assets, getting them onto your map, is an important first step," said Jesse Berst, chairman of the Smart Cities Council. "You need to know where everything is."
In addition to boosting the overall quantity of lighting in the city, the map also could serve as a resource during power outages, helping responders to prioritize their efforts. "When you can see it on the map," he said, "then you can figure out which houses are affected, which crews are closest. But first you have to get it on the map."
City planners say they see an ever wider potential for these lidar databases.
A GIS overlay of sewer covers and storm drains might not sound like a driver of economic development, but Branham said there is a direct connection.
"Community development focuses on growth: What is our city going to look like 20 or 30 years from now?" he said. "You can take this same data that you use in public works, and you can apply that to capital improvement planning."
The maps also should help keep city budgets in line, since having a more accurate inventory will allow planners to better manage things like routine-maintenance schedules.
Lidar mapping could drive environmental quality improvements too.
"This is a very wooded city, we are right along the river, so when we plan for growth we want to be able to look at that visually," Branham said. "If we put this here, will that cut off the deer population? Do we need to look at alternative solutions because of that?"
More abstract, perhaps, but not less significant, is the possibility that a lidar right-of-way inventory could ultimately enhance the quality of civic engagement.
"We all want sidewalks to make the city walkable. Now community developers can lay out maps at a public meeting and say: Show us where you want a trail or a sidewalk to connect the city," said Branham. "We will know exactly where the public assets are, so when the citizens draw their ideas on that map, they can have a clearer visual understanding of how that works. It gets them a little more closely involved."
In the smart cities vision, Berst said, this kind of enhanced citizen involvement is a chief goal of any technology implementation. "We have found that mapping is one of the most powerful tools for both citizen engagement and interdepartmental collaboration," he said. "When people can see stuff on a map, suddenly it is tangible, suddenly they can see the interrelationships."
Being a "new" city gave Peachtree Corners the flexibility it needed to incorporate a big smart city investment in the budget early on. It helped, too, that the city had outside guidance from a team already versed in smart city technologies.
In addition to serving as the city's finance director, Branham wears another hat: He is a project manager with CH2M Hill, the consulting firm that actually runs this town. Yes, Peachtree Corners government operations are entirely outsourced. Public works, planning and zoning, revenue collection, code enforcement, courts — all of it is farmed out to this outside firm on a contract that originally ran through 2017 and has since been extended through 2020.
Access to smart city technology is one advantage to this approach.
"With CH2M being a global company, we can reach out across other countries, other places, and that was how we came across the lidar. We actually saw it being used first in the London highway system," Branham said. "Having that global reach, we get exposed to different ideas. We find that having those outside connections can be very beneficial when cities are looking to push to that next level."

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Darkwood is available on consolesby Acid Wizard
Darkwood releases on all consoles this week! Check out our launch trailer produced in-house by the same people that made Darkwood look and sound as you love it!
Acid Wizard Studio is a small indie game dev studio from Poland. We are currently working on our first game, Darkwood.
Darkwood releases on all consoles this week! Check out our launch trailer produced in-house by the same people that made Darkwood look and sound as you love it!
We have prepared 20 Darkwood Steam keys for those of you who are interested in getting the game and 3 special, physical packages with awesome goodies!
The packages include: a hand made, boxed edition of Darkwood with a DVD copy and a CD soundtrack, an art book, strategy guide, poster and a t-shirt. Here's a peek:
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Good luck,
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After more than 4 years of development, Darkwood is finally complete. Thank you for being with us.
Early Access has helped this project tremendously, and even though we have stayed in development for way longer than we anticipated, thanks to your feedback Darkwood has grown in scope and complexity in ways we have never imagined possible.
We put our heart and soul into this project. We hope you like it.
Here's the relase trailer, showing a glimpse of what you may expect in the game:
Once again, thank you for your amazing support and patience,
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Hear ye, hear ye!
The time has come for us to unleash the beta unto you! This update features a huge amount of little changes and bugfixes.
The Epilogue is finally finished! It took us a long time, but we can say it's really badass. Too bad you will have to wait for the final release to play it, as it won't be available during beta! 😀
What comes next? During the beta phase, we will focus on polishing the existing content, bug fixes, balancing and filling in new content where needed. The main storyline is pretty much done, and won't be changed much.
We don't expect to sit long in beta, so if you haven't played Darkwood yet, we urge you to wait a bit more until the final release!
I won't be posting a changelog this time, as it would take way too much time, and most of the changes are pretty small. The most notable changes are:
– We're dropping 32-bit Linux support. I'm not sure if there is anyone out there affected by this change, as the Steam hardware survey does not even mention any 32-bit users out there. I'd like to support as much hardware as possible, unfortunately fighting memory issues on OSX and Linux has been a nightmare before each new version and has taken a considerable chunk of development time, which could have been used on adding cool new features instead. OSX and Linux builds will now be 64-bit, which will make for a more stable and better performing experience.
– The journal has been cleaned up, and we've removed some of the unused tabs. We originally planned for the protagonist to keep track of the notable enemies, locations etc. he encounters, but we've decided that it would be best if these things would be interpreted by the player only.
Happy playing,
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Unity College is America's Environmental College. Our natural location opens the world for exploration and study. Unity's beautiful campus is located in a peaceful, wooded setting, yet it offers a centralized location within the state of Maine, less than an hour from the ocean, Belfast, Augusta, Waterville, Bangor, and the mountains.
Unity is surrounded by the beautiful natural resources of Maine's woodlands, rolling fields, and lakes, including our own Lake Winnecook. Hiking trails and bird watching are favorite area activities. The village of Unity is a vibrant, diverse, and engaged community nestled among the farms, woodlands, and waterways of central Maine. Check out the many business establishments in our area.


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This thesis deals with different applications of organocatalysis, where amino acid derivatives and small peptides are applied as catalysts. First, the development of environmentally friendly aldol reactions, carried out in aqueous media is illustrated. The corresponding β-hydroxy ketones are formed with ee´s up to 99%. Chapter 3 describes the ability of β3-amino acids to selectively catalyze Mannich-type reactions and govern the formation of products with high anti-selectivity (up to >19:1) and ee´s up to 99%. In the following chapter, an amino acid-catalyzed one-pot three component Mannich reaction between dihydroxyacetone and PMP-protected imines, is presented. The corresponding a,a'-dihydroxy-b-aminoketones are obtained in high yields and with 82-95% ee. Next, an aza-Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction was investigated where L-proline is the catalyst. The reaction proceeds with excellent chemo- and enantioselectivity to give the corresponding compounds in good yields and with 97-99% ee. Finally, the last part describes development of a proline-catalyzed Mannich reation between N-acyl imines and protected α-hydroxyaldehyes, providing access to different α-hydroxy-β-amino acids in good yields and high enantioselctivity (92-99% ee). The obtained amino acids were further applied in the semisynthesis of paclitaxel and docetaxel derivatives.
The ability of a primary amine containing acyclic beta(3)-amino acids to catalyze direct asymmetric anti-selective Mannich-type reactions is presented. The reactions are generally highly diastereo- and enantioselective to give the corresponding Mannich products with up to >19:1 dr (anti/syn) and 88-99% ee.
Highly enantioselective, amino acid-catalyzed, one-pot three-component asymmetric Mannich reactions between dihydroxyacetone, p-anisidine, and aldehydes are presented. The reactions proceeded with high chemo- and stereoselectivity and furnished the corresponding α,α′-dihydroxy-β-aminoketones in high yields with 82–95% ee.
Highly enantioselective catalytic routes to Boc protected aza-Morita-Baylis-Hiliman-type products are presented. The organocatalytic asymmetric reactions between unmodified alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehydes and N-Boc protected aryl imines proceed with excellent chemo- and enantioselectivity to give the corresponding compounds in good yields with 97-99% ee
A highly enantioselective catalytic route to protected β-amino-α-hydroxy acids, such as the side chain of Taxotere, is presented. The organocatalytic asymmetric reactions between unmodified protected α-oxyaldehydes and N-Boc-protected aryl imines give the corresponding compound with up to >19:1 dr and 99–99% ee.


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In the last few months we've added almost 1400 new (old) songs to the "Traditional Folk" music library!
If you haven't tuned in lately, you will greatly enjoy this foray into the nether regions of traditional music.
Tons of great fiddle music, lots of blues, bluegrass, old-time country, cajun, and obscure little mini-features randomly sprinkled throughout the show. One of the cool new things is the "Worst Country Song Of All Time" candidate each Sunday night around 10pm… there are some real corkers in this category! Tune in and be surprised, or email your favorite "worst" country song to email@example.com, and I'll try to dig it up.
We're adding more all the time, running the gamut from about 1925 to 1970. I've been having a lot of fun playing these tunes, and you'will too! It's all about fun music, though you may learn a factoid or two along the way! Join me each Sunday night from 9PM to Midnite for a very cool corner of "Traditional Folk". See you then!
-Jon Gersh.


text: (Adds economist comments, details) TORONTO, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Canada's annual inflation rate in December firmed to 2.0 percent from 1.7 percent in November, on the back of rising air transportation and telephone service costs which offset lower energy prices, Statistics Canada said on Friday. But the stronger-than-expected inflation reading was unlikely to encourage Bank of Canada to immediately raise interest rates, economists said. "There is no urgency whatsoever for the Bank to move," Doug Porter, chief economist at BMO Capital Markets said. "We've been looking for two rate hikes later this year, and I stress the word 'later'. We've got them going in July and December." The Canadian dollar got a mild boost from the inflation data, edging up to touch 1.3241 to the U.S. dollar. The median forecast of analysts surveyed by Reuters was for the consumer price index to be -0.4 percent for the month, and annual inflation of 1.7 percent in December. "I wouldn't read too much into it," said Andrew Kelvin, senior rates strategist at TD Securities. "There was a big boost from air travel again, so that's something we would expect to unwind in the coming months. What's more important is that the core inflation metrics were stable and we did have a bit of a downward revision to the median core CPI metric." Last week, the Bank of Canada held rates steady as expected but said more increases would be necessary even though low oil prices and a weak housing market will harm the economy in the short term. The central bank cut its near-term growth forecasts to reflect the impact of crude prices but said the slowdown should be temporary and predicted the economy would post above-potential growth in 2020. The bank has raised rates five times since July 2017 and as recently as last month said the pace of tightening could be sped up depending on economic data. The bank noted that much of the economy was operating close to capacity but said consumption spending and housing investment had been weaker than expected as housing markets adjusted to tougher mortgage rules and higher interest rates. Percent changes Month-on-month Year-on-year Dec Nov Dec Nov CPI - all items -0.1 -0.4 +2.0 +1.7 CPI - common n/a n/a +1.9 +1.9 CPI - trim n/a n/a +1.9 +1.9 CPI - median n/a n/a +1.8 +1.8 Bank of Canada core -0.2 -0.2 +1.7 +1.5 All items ex food/energy +0.1 -0.3 +2.3 +1.7 Goods -0.7 -0.7 +0.2 +0.5 Services +0.5 -0.1 +3.5 +2.7 Energy -3.7 -4.8 -3.7 -1.3 Seasonally adjusted -0.2 -0.1 n/a n/a Bank of Canada core seasonally adjusted +0.2 +0.1 n/a n/a NOTE: None of the figures except those in the last two lines are seasonally adjusted. The median prediction of analysts surveyed by Reuters was for the consumer price index to be -0.4 percent for the month, and annual inflation of 1.7 percent in December. (Reporting by Denny Thomas Editing by Susan Thomas)


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The problem with internet piracy is not so much with the people downloading stuff – which isn't stealing, it's accepting stolen goods – but the people who upload stuff. I mean, why do they do it? It's not out of selfless generosity is it?
No. It's all an ego-trip. A way for someone who has no talent of their own to feel important. To feel they are sticking one over on 'the man' (a mythical figure who works mainly for the government but who occasionally moonlights for the recording industry). That somehow they are being a little bit clever, a little bit rock'n'roll. You can read their petty self-justifications all over the internet.
I don't think calling it 'piracy' helps. Piracy summons up images of guys with Cornish accents who like to get into cutlass fights despite suffering a shortfall in the hands/legs/eyes/ears/noses/teeth department.
I suggest a different name. 'Littledicking'. Let's all start calling it that. There is far too much littledicking on the internet. Torrent sites are full of littledickers. The reason why indies are going the way of the pig-footed bandicoot is due to all the littledicks. The reason why labels don't invest more in non-mainstream music is because, what with all the littledickage that's going on, it's not worth it.
FWIW. I'm talking about littledicking in the sense of people who upload CDs (or whatever) the day they're commercially released (or before). That's the real problem. With regard to, say, people downloading TV shows from other territories, it's more a matter of TV distributors and channels not getting their arses together so that shows are legitimately available everywhere at the same time. In those cases – where there is no available commercial option – I suppose it's okay if people want to leech off any littledicks that are sticking up.
Monday, 16 February 2009
Pirate Aggro
Posted by Jonny Morris at 09:58
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Interesting. You seen this?ReplyDelete
You're right, it was interesting. And the thing is, while a few years ago it was only artists and media companies who were worried about copyright protection, now everyone has copyrights they want to protect; after all, if it's okay for someone to distribute the latest Britney Spears CD online without her record comapny's permission, then it's equally okay for them to distribute all the photos you're stuck up on Facebook without your permission...ReplyDelete
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A Pottery Field Trip is not complete without seeing a Potter throwing his clay. Jon centers a five- kilo clay between his hands. The clay gets centered so quickly. He applies the right amount of strength on the different parts of his hands. He pushes the clay gently. He releases the pressure when he needs to. The earthy material follows every control Jon gives it. You know when a Potter has mastered control over the clay, when vessels are starting to form effortlessly right before you very eyes. Jon handles his clay with so much skill, grace, comfort, and peace.
He forms his clay like magic. Having our eyes looking directly to his hands and the pots he forms, we fall in love with making pottery even more. We want it, we think about it, we crave for it
The hands of a Potter must be free from any kind of tension or stress to be able to create pots. After firing the Anagama kiln for almost three days, and have not gotten enough rest from all the hard work, Jon has proven that his skill is not determined by his strength nor weakness. His skill is a part of him. It is like having an additional function in his physical body. This is how close pottery making is to this man.
Jon chokes the neck of the pot. Choking the clay is needed to form narrow necks and rims.
He brings out the biggest wooden rib I have ever seen. He presses it gently onto his centered bowl. He starts applying pressure from the center of the bowl moving upward to the rim.
Jon continues to make more pots for us. He lifts the wall up of this cylinder like there is no wet clay spinning between his hands. Watching him play with clay is not only fun but very relaxing too!
Jon wires off from the bat, the last piece, he created for us.
The more I watch how Jon throws his clay, I realize that I have not seen other Potters, handle their clay the way Jon does. It's not because he has been doing it for decades now, a part of it plays a big role, sure. I pay attention to how he moves around his pottery studio, how he carries each pot, how he hits on his chair, how he manipulates the speed of the wheel, and how he shapes each piece between his hands. All his actions say, "This is my life. I have followed my passion. I have succeeded, but I have failed too. I have gone through a lot of troubleshooting, and I continue to learn from them. This is my life. It has always been and it will always be. I share this life with my wife, who also forms clay between her hands. We work together. We work individually. Our masterpieces are never the same, but we never forget that our lives keep moving forward, because we share the same passion for working with clay."
After the pottery demo, my students and I can't wait to form our own pieces with Hand Building or Wheel Throwing. Watching Jon educates us even more to create better bots. I am expecting to see more tea pots made at Clay Ave very soon, students! This goes for me too : )


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Bringing CLR's Power to non .NET languages - Part 1
The .NET Framework helps developer boost their productivity by giving them a set of tools and libraries they need to quickly start implementing the core of their software without loosing time on details. The idea behind the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) is to allow programming languages to interoperate by sharing code through libraries.
To take advantage of these libraries, a lot of languages got their .NET implementation counterparts, with for example: IronPython, IronRuby, or IronScheme. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CLI_languages#CLI_languages for more implementations.
Most of these languages when interpreted are implemented in .NET languages and can easily interact with the underlying platform. For compiled languages they generate IL and the result is a .NET assembly.
In the same way you can dynamically load symbols from a shared library, there are times you would like to be able to interact with the .NET Framework from non .NET languages such as C, C++, Java, Perl or PHP.
Through a short series of articles I am going to show you how to achieve this goal and get the power of .NET in all your favorite languages in less than 500 lines of code.
Back to the origin…
Like for software components at a higher level, the best way to make programming languages interoperate with each other is to define some kind of interfaces. If we look what has been done in the past with native languages we can consider as part of this interface: the processor architecture and its instruction set, the binary format with the way symbols are exported, the type sizes and the conventions to call code.
Assuming that your binaries respect this same interface they can freely share symbols. We are going to respect this interface in order to build a bridge library between the native and the .NET worlds. This native library would be then accessible from non .NET languages.
Did I already tell you how much I like C++? (cf. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/doriancorompt/archive/2012/04/25/6-sequences-being-lazy-is-allowed.aspx)
But don't worry I have good news for you, a nice version of C++ exists in this world! It is C++/CLI! As you probably guessed this version of C++ is targeting the Common Language Infrastructure. Besides the fact it fills some C++ lacks such as automatic memory management and boilerplate code generation for data member accessors, one of the good thing is that it provides you a seamless and simple way to mix native and managed code. Moreover once compiled the binary has both native and managed sections and can export native symbols such as functions using CLR objects.
As a solution for our problem I then suggest to use C++/CLI to build an interoperability DLL, whose functions are dynamically loadable by non .NET languages and which will allow us to use the .NET Framework.
Bridge the two worlds
Exporting the API
To export our DLL symbols we define a macro CLR_API:
Notice that we use extern "C" to avoid C++ symbol names mangling.
Mapping primitive types
First let's make some typdefs for primitive types. We do so to ensure that primitive types conserve the same size between architectures. For example a long size is 32 bits on a 32 bits architecture while being 64 bits on a 64 bits architecture. A long long is however always 64 bits which matches the CLR long type alias to Int64.
Note that t_decimal, t_char, and t_string don't match their CLR counterparts, but exists only for the native to native interoperability interface. Bytes strings are used to ensure that languages that don't support Unicode can still use the interface. The null macro gives C++ a C# flavor, however C++/CLI null pointer is not 0 but the special value nullptr.
Release dynamically allocated memory
C++/CLI will automatically to the marshaling necessary to map our primitive types however we need to handle the case of CLR object references. In C++/CLI CLR object references are accessed through handles. Our native interface to be exported has to hide these CLR object references. The best way to do it is to wrap CLR object handles within plain native C++ objects. Doing so brings a little complexity, since while CLR object are released by the CLR garbage collector, dynamically allocated native objects have to be released manually through the use of the delete operator.
We don't know when the language using our library will need to release our objects so one of the best solution here, is to use an object reference tracking method such as reference counting used by COM objects. The class below defines the C++ methods needed for our reference counting.
We define two functions to use these references in our interface:
Wrapping CLR objects
Ok we can have a solution for references, we now need to find a way to wrap CLR objects into a native type inheriting from CLRReference. This is done thanks to the use of the following C++ class template:
CLRWrapper<T> wraps the CLR object handle in its private data member value. The gcroot<T> class template provided by C++/CLI allows us to use CLR object as members for native classes by pinning the handle and preventing the garbage collector to play with our reference in memory. As an example of use CLRWrapper<System::Object>* is a wrapper pointer to a the CLR Object type, and the GetValue getter method can be used to get the wrapped CLR object value.
Boxing/Unboxing primitive types
As you will see in a few paragraph to be generic our interface is going to rely on the fact that all CLR objects inherit from the Object class, and boxing and unboxing will be necessary for primitive types, so let define converter functions to do so:
Catch exceptions
While working within the CLR world exceptions might occur, we need a way to represent and handle possible exceptions in our interface, this is done thanks to the template CLRResult<T> class below which inherits from CLRWrapper<T>:
We define two functions in our interface to work with this class instances:
If the C function CLRResultIsSuccess returns true, no exception occurred and the internal exception wrapper pointer will be null, the latter value available otherwise.
Calling code in
In programming everything is basically code executed thanks to processor instructions, or data located in some memory. In the previous sections I mainly wrote about data with primitive types and objects, it is now time to talk about code.
The main purpose is to be able to call CLR methods on CLR objects from a native interface. There are several way of doing this, I chose the solution which gave me the best performances. This solution consists in generating on the fly a delegate, which captures a call to the target method. Once this delegate created it can be cached, and reuse as much as you want without needing to resolve the method on the type again. Therefore once cached the performance are really good and the time needed to call the delegate is nearly the same as if you were calling it directly from .NET! The on the fly generation is possible thanks to the System::Reflection::Emit namespace classes.
Let's have a look at the interface we are going to implement:
The first function CLRMethodGet is doing the job of resolving the method on a particular type with the specified name and accepting the given parameter types then it generates a delegate of type Method invoking this particular method. Notice that it returns a CLRResult<T> instance since an exception might occur if no method matching the prototype is found on type.
The second function invokes the delegate of type Method given an instance object and a list of arguments, the result of the call is then returned a possible exception might have occurred during the call and can be checked.
To handle all possibilities with these two functions the rules are:
For CLRGetMethod the target method name should be:
- .ctor for a constructor.
- get_<name> for a property getter.
- set_<name> for a property setter.
- add_<name> for an event adder.
- remove_<name> for an event remover.
For CLRInvoke the instance object may be null for static methods.
Calling code out
The above sections explains how to call .NET methods from a native interface. What about calling native functions from the .NET world? I mean let say we want one of our target language function to be an event handler to some .NET object events.
For this purpose we declare the following function in the interface:
It creates a delegate with the given type from the specified native function pointer.
We are almost done !
As you perhaps noticed we are close to the end, we are however still missing something, the function GetMethod needs Type and Array of Types wrappers as arguments, and CLRInvoke needs an Array of Objects wrappers as argument. Where are we getting CLR type from? From assemblies of course. So we need a way to load assemblies, get type from them based on their names and a way to create and populate CLR arrays.
Done! With these about 40 native C functions we are able to interoperate with the .NET Framework! And some of them could have been defined in term of CLRGetMethod and CLRInvoke within the target language rather than C++/CLI.
End of part 1
I am going to publish the complete sources as soon as possible on Codeplex.
Although this interface can be used directly from C or C++. My next article will show an example of use of this interface from a non .NET exotic language: Racket.
Thank you for reading !


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NYC Artist Returns to Gallery Where she Gave Birth
Marni Kotak gave the performance of her life when she gave birth to baby Ajax in a New York City art gallery turned home birthing center last week. Now they're back.
"It's exactly how I wanted it to be," Kotak said in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, her first since giving birth. "Most of the people hung around for hours holding the baby, talking about the experience together and getting food and other supplies that we needed" until she went home.
The 36-year-old performance artist delivered the healthy nine-pound, two-ounce baby boy at the Microscope Gallery on Oct. 25 in a performance she described as the "highest form of art."
The birth was the climax to an installation that began on Oct. 8. It saw Kotak talking to visitors in a bedroom setting surrounded by her most treasured objects: Her grandmother's bed, where baby Ajax was conceived; a bright green chair in which she was rocked as a baby; videos and photos of her other performance pieces, including re-enactments of her grandfather's funeral and her own birth.
It wasn't weird to give birth in front of the respectful and quiet gallery visitors, she said.
"I had met them all ahead of time and got to know them a little through our conversations in the gallery," she said. "They were sincerely interested in the project and really supportive of the process."
Kotak, an artist whose performances focus on everyday life experiences, said she had been in and out of the gallery in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood between Friday and Saturday, then returned Monday to continue being part of her exhibit. She and the baby will be there daily until the installation closes on November 7.
She said she is being visited by about 20 people a day, the same number who came to see her deliver Ajax in a birthing pool.
Gallery curator Elle Burchill said new features include the birth video and a large artwork by Kotak's husband, Jason Robert Bell. Kotak said the finished work incorporates the placenta, umbilical cord, and blood tissue.
Blood-stained pillows and sheets are now also part of the installation.
For her next project, Kotak plans to write a memoir of her first year as a mother that she may later present in an installation-type exhibition.
She said she was surprised by all the media attention her "Birth of Baby X" project got but happy with people's positive response to it.
Kotak said she and Bell will share the details of the birth with their child "over time as an organic process," communicating that by being born in an art gallery they were telling the world his life is a precious work of art.


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The One Nation Conservatives spearheaded by Benjamin Disraeli in the Victorian era "would be turning in their graves if they could hear the nasty, divisive, small-minded rhetoric of the leader of their once great party.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Patient Quote of the Day (and an insite to doctor farting)
Me: "Yes sir, what can I do for you."
Him: "Hey Doc, can you get me some air freshener?"
Me: "Huh? No we don't carry air freshener in the ER. Why?" (Astounded look on my face b/c I just coded 2 people and this guy is asking me for air freshener??)
Him: "Oh. I just have to fart and I didn't want anyone to smell it."
With a pissed off look on my face, I told him to just let it rip, and then let one rip myself as I walked out of his room.
I know plenty of docs, maybe even myself at times, who choose patient rooms to fart in. Usually we get to hit the can maybe once in a 10 hour shift, so definitely don't have time to go to the bathroom to pass gas every time the cafeteria food makes its way down the colon. We usually choose either unconscious or altered patients rooms, homeless patients rooms (b/c they smell themselves), or really obese patients rooms (b/c they will be the prime suspects).
-ER Doc
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Pahahahahahahaaa so effing true. I would add the rooms of hearing impaired elderly patients to the list. They didn't hear the 15 walking farts they just unleashed so they certainly aren't going to hear you. Not that I would know this from personal experience. Of course.
- July 15, 2010 at 4:46 PM
- Whitecoat said...
Crop dusting is key - letting it go slowly while walking down the hall.
- July 15, 2010 at 6:45 PM
- ERP said...
Or at the nursing station - just make sure it is a silent but deadly.
- July 15, 2010 at 7:06 PM
- Reds Kevin said...
is cafeteria food that bad?
- July 16, 2010 at 3:05 AM
- cardiogirl said...
(Mouth hangs open) So if it's another conscious patient and it's just the two of you, you're not embarrassed? Since the patient is going to know it was you.
- July 16, 2010 at 5:16 AM
- SerenityNow said...
No we wouldn't do it in a conscious patient's room...that's why we room pick
- July 16, 2010 at 9:00 AM
- Fordo said...
For some reason, this struck me as very sad and somewhat callous. I didn't find it the least bit funny. You deliberate choose the rooms of the homeless or obese to fart in? And you think that makes you smart and funny? People get used to their own smells. Its quite possible that while you didn't notice a difference when you diliberately farted in their presence, they did. You're essentially saying, "you mean less than anyone else here in the ER. I will expose you to my noxious smell because you probably can't tell the difference."
I couldn't have been more disappointed in this post.
- July 16, 2010 at 9:01 AM
I agree with Fordo.
Also, I lost 100lbs and have kept it off for over 2 years, and I fart more now, then when I was obese.
But since you are talking about things coming out your butt, it's clear as day, you also talk out your ass.
- July 16, 2010 at 6:52 PM
- SerenityNow said...
Tuti fruti, did u loose ur weight from surgery? If so then you didn't loose it. And #2 if that's how u had the surgery that's why u fart more
- July 16, 2010 at 7:24 PM
- Unknown said...
"Doctor," with all due respect: Go back to school, learn how to spell simple English words ("lose," anyone?), then find yourself a nice, deep lake to jump in. You are a callous, sociopathic creep.
- July 16, 2010 at 11:45 PM
- Jennifer said...
How funny! School is where one learns to fart surreptitiously. The workplace is where one perfects the art. Trade secrets are fascinating, thank you.
- July 17, 2010 at 12:05 AM
The two that didn't find this funny are obviously not in the medical profession... and if they are, you need to find a new job cause you're not going to last. one of the only ways that we all make it through codes, traumas, GI bleeds and every other horrible thing that would make a normal person loose there lunch, is having a horribly sick sense of humor. so i say SUCK IT UP and un-bunch your panties! Those of you that are able .. keep doin what you're doin!
- July 17, 2010 at 8:19 AM
- kds said...
This is soo funny! For those of you that didn't laugh, I agree with EMTED Tech. For such a demanding and stressful profession, humor is a way of relief... Next time you are in the hospital, make sure you let your doctor know he can fart in front of you to save the other poor souls that don't deserve it.
- July 17, 2010 at 11:21 AM
I do this all the time in the psych ER. The smells of stinky feet and charcoal-induced vomit on the hospital gown cover up whatever vile stench can eminate from my ass.
Look, I have 2 choices. Fart in a closed fishbowl with my attending and 3 nurses, or let it rip in its natural environment.
-psych doc
p.s. the next person who bitches about our spelling, stop reading. you are pissing me off.
- July 17, 2010 at 7:17 PM
- TDB said...
Soem of the nurses at my hospital are even worse... they use the enclosed medication room so whoever walks in there next passes out. We keep airfreshner around for patients rooms though.
P.S. Spelling errors make you human.
- July 17, 2010 at 9:18 PM
I lost 100 lbs, without surgery, and I am obese. I have had a personal trainer for 2 years, eat well, row on the water three hours a week on a TEAM, work out at the gym another 4-5 days weekly. And, no doubt, people will think I am lying.
So, when people see an obese person, they think adipose tissue=flatulence? Yikes. I'll make a mental note to add that to my self image.
I think weight bias is disgusting in general but in the area of medicine it speaks to a need for more education for professionals. Fit but fat really does exist.
I'm not saying dark humour is bad because, frankly, so many professions require that kind of humour for stress relief. But re: obesity, do we really need to go there?
Btw, I am a fan of your blog.
- July 18, 2010 at 1:35 PM
there is no such things as fat but fit. fat is fat, not fit. fat clogs your arteries, causes high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, etc. congrats on loosing your weight normally, but dont say doctors need more education on fat people. thats the majority of our profession. just don't be naive on what fat really is
- July 18, 2010 at 9:12 PM
hell ya fat = flatulance. i have never disrobed a fat person in the hospital and them NOT smell. yeast and sweat in fat rolls. they cant wipe their ass as well so there is always way more streaks in the cheeks and dry shit smell. and they seem to have to poop a lot more. looser too. probably from all the fatty foods that make them fat. i dunno, im just a nurse but thats my experience
- July 18, 2010 at 9:14 PM
- tracy said...
Sometimes....ya just got to be HUNGRY people. Who eats three meals a day and snacks anyway?? Normal people, i guess.
Ha, the fart post was funny! Especially when one is visiting elderly parents who let 'em rip all the time! :)
- July 19, 2010 at 1:44 PM
- Medical Mojave said...
The fat bashing in the post and in the comments is disappointing and juvenile.
Humor is fine, but the problem is you guys aren't really being funny, you truly believe the obese are less worthy.
- July 19, 2010 at 5:11 PM
- tracy said...
Like i said...ya just have to be hungry sometimes.....sorries....just do it! You can get used to it.....
Sometimes hungry feels good.
- July 19, 2010 at 11:45 PM
My point, anonymous, was that you can't judge lifestyle by appearance. I carry fat but I carry it to the gym and rowing, etc. and am capable of doing more than most of my 'thin' friends.
I do, in fact, understand what fat can do; but we're not all eating fast food, watching TV, drinking soda, eating chips, etc. which, by the way, is exactly what an OB/GYN thought I was doing and promptly lectured me about making better choices! If she had taken the time to ask me and believe my answers, she would have had a patient. Also, a clinic referred my normal-weighted daughter to a doctor for fear that I would be passing on bad eating habits -- and my doctor assured me it was due to my appearance and nothing else.
- July 20, 2010 at 4:06 AM
Every time I see racial stereotypes in this blog, I think about what ER doctors might be saying about my me (English proficient) and my extended family (not so much) during an emergency.
Then again, we're Asian, so we're quiet and polite, right? My BS meter is off the charts
I guess I'll just hope for StorytellER or Shadowfax in the event of an emergency.
- July 20, 2010 at 11:43 AM
RE Anon
Yes, if you want the warm and fuzzy type, you should go to storytell's er. He sounds very nice and spells better. Me and my co-bloggers treat our patient's nice and all the same and deliver great medical care. We just tell you what people really are thinking and what is going on. Get a life
-ER Doc
Oh and we haven't even bashed on asians yet. But maybe we should considering your whining ass has hurt feeligs.
- July 20, 2010 at 12:13 PM
I noticed a lot of doctor bloggers have bad spelling, whatever. They need that brain space to remember all the zillions of medications there are these days and all the symptoms of all the stuff that can go wrong with us.
- July 20, 2010 at 11:53 PM
- ERP said...
Now you have learned the lesson of making a slightly off-colour joke about the obese. You get flamed. I learned that the hard way about two years ago...
- July 23, 2010 at 11:04 AM
I think the author of this blog is just like his post... Full of shit. Quite frankly, after reading many of his/her posts, it's became more clear that the blog is the made up stories from a persons mind.
Next time, try blogging about something that's real vs in your imagination.
- July 24, 2010 at 5:08 PM
- Unknown said...
Dirty service room!
I did once fart in a room because the guy was a verbally abusive felon who tried to smack me.
- July 29, 2010 at 9:04 PM
What a tool!
Just because you are one of the Millions doctors in the country serving to diverse populations,dealing with sickly things, doesn't give you a right to abuse or flame patients based on their condition or race. There are several other doctors in this country and they do their job without whining like you do. And if you think farting in 'select room's is humorous, thats not dark humor, it's EPIC FAIL humor.
I have been reading this blog for several years and I can't believe the way some of the posts are posted with apparent bigotry and whining in it, and all the blog post responder bashing who didn't agree with you. No doubt I will be honored with an equally BS post from you with more spelling errors and asking me to 'get a life'.
Just because you deliver 'great' medical care, it doesn't give you the right to post like an idiot and be a tool. You are entitled to respect, not flagrant fart ripping in rooms with people who you THINK can barely notice it. and Then laugh about it and post it on a blog, because apparently you aren't meting out enough 'great medical care' to fill this blog.
- August 5, 2010 at 7:33 PM
Guys... it's just a couple of farts. They're not that bad. The smell dissipates after about a minute; leaving it in a patient's room isn't "abusive" or anything. It's just not that bad of a thing to do.
For the record, I don't think most people associate obesity with farts. Personally, fiber gives me gas and probably helps me stay thin, so I'm more likely to associate seemingly-healthy-eaters with farts.
- March 20, 2011 at 11:18 PM
All this over farts. Like they've never crop dusted in public. But when a DOCTOR does it, unacceptable. You have no respect for humankind! You make me sick! You are supposed to be a robotic charity worker without emotions or bodily functions. Gosh.
It is so true about the medication room farts. I have walked into some horrendous smells. And if someone else walks in you get the blame.
- March 2, 2013 at 11:07 PM
- Unknown said...
I know this is an old post, but reading it and all the comments is making me laugh like crazy! I'm a nurse so I always hear the other nurses talking about how they accidentally "fotted" while stooping down & emptying a catheter... or standing in an empty room and just letting it rip. I never even thought about the doctors and their natural bowel activities. I think I'd actually feel more comfortable around the "strict" docs if I heard them rip one! This is hilarious.
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Pound on course for strongest week since early November
LONDON: The British pound was on course for its best week in seven on Friday after recent heavy falls, although trading was quiet in the run-up to the holiday period and a parliamentary vote in January on the prime minister's Brexit deal.
Sterling has strengthened for most of this week, largely on the back of broad dollar weakness but also on signs that the British economy is holding up relatively well ahead of Brexit.
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Dual grade GSW206 red beam rotary laser level, self leveling in both horizontal and vertical postion. Side mounting support enables vertical partition straight on the floor or tripod.
Now DLD100 digital receiver is included for even more bargain.
Laser level is calibrated before shipping.
- Vertical and horizontal levelling, X, Y axis
- Plumb laser beam
- Remote control operation
- 500m diameter working range with included detector
- Auto/manual levelling mode switch
- Manual grading function
- Rechargeable battery or option of 4xC battery
- Tough carry case
- Wavelength: 635nm
- Working range: up to 500M diameter
- Laser class: II (<1mw)
- Auto-levelling range: ±4°
- Accuracy: Horizontal/Vertical ±0.1mm/m
- Remote range: approx 20m
- Water/dustproof: IP54
- Power: Ni-MH rechargeable battery or optional C battery
- Working time: up to 16 hours
- Dimensions: 220(L)x180(W)x220(H)mm
- Working temperature: -10° ~ 45°C
- Weight: 2.2kg
DLD100 digital receiver:
- Leveling accuracy(high): 1mm
- Leveling accuracy(normal): 2mm
- Leveling accuracy(low): 5mm
- Leveling accuracy(lowest): 10mm
- Laser reception window width: 127mm
- Working radius(laser dependent): ≥300m
- Bubble vial accuracy: 30'/2mm
- IP rating: IP66
Complete Kit:
Laser unit, DLD100 laser detector and clamp, remote control, rechargeable batteries, charger, user manual, target, glasses, quality carry case


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• The Leading Graduate School of Communication
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At the core of everything we do is the desire to make a measurable impact on people's lives through learning and training.
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Kelly Ayotte lawsuit defense fund.
Inbox X
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firstname.lastname@example.com -- In the Civil Rights Justice system there are two sets of people: Those who are haters and those who fight back. These are their stories. Blink-Blink.
Movies: KingCast.net and KingCast65 YouTube -- A NENPA member news and information journal.
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I wouldn't dream of covering a free press story like this without contacting all parties.
That is what professional journalists do.
Instead now I am looking at a one-sided hatchet job that contains material inaccuracies, doesn't detail any of the lawsuit, and even characterizes the "GOP Fundraiser" as just that, with no mention of the fact that all the media were invited via newspaper advertisements.
And of course it fails to mention the other two events, a FB invite party by Kelly Ayotte and a VFW rally with John McCain at which I RSVP'd as noted by the Nashua Telegraph.
She threw me out of there under threat of arrest, same way John McCain expelled Stephen Price, the sole black reporter at one of his functions. Price was currently working for a large daily and I used to work for a large daily, whatever.
Point is, this was a half-assed story and I'm not going to take any of it.
They talk about "bloggers" as if we are the cause of poor journalism when more often -- or at least in my case -- I am the antidote for it.
Just ask the Boston Herald in Marinova v. Boston Herald et al., Suffolk County 2010-CV-1316, I helped Ms. Marinova select her lawyers for that.
And I took a Democratic Governor to task as well, so to hell with this "left-leaning" spin crap, I call it as I see it and wrong is wrong regardless of affiliation. I criticize POTUS too but none of them lock me out or threaten to arrest me, and that's a fact. Look through my photo galleries and you'll see.
Who the hell are these guys and what on earth passes for "journalism" back in the NE? They would be crucified for this in San Francisco...keep fighting, sir!!
Who the hell are these clowns and what on earth passes for "due diligence" in "journalism" in the NE? This "news" organization's combination of yawning laziness and then petulant hubris when you called them out is damning in the extreme. BRING IT, Chris King!! They will rue the day....
Monsieur Trent, oui, oui, alors!!!!
Quand-tu vas au Boston cet ete???
-Ton Frere.
PS: I'll get you a sidecar for the Triumph LOL.
I am the metaphysical reductionist.
When you cut to the chase, Roll Call basically served as a mouthpiece to a Senator with a horrible record on Consumer Fraud.
As a so-called blogger (the correct term is online journalist) if the principal of any story ever writes or calls me I note it for the record and provide some commentary because I'm not going to be anybody's mouthpiece, I didn't earn a law degree to be anyone's tool, later with that noise; FTDS.
The Roll Call's excuse that it is a 4 day old story is weak because unlike a newspaper that you throw away, this story remains on the Internet for an indeterminate amount of time.
Stay tuned.
-The KingCaster.


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Veristicraft Resource Pack 1.11.2/1.10.2/1.9.4 Minecraft
Veristicraft Resource Pack 1.11.2/1.10.2/1.9.4 is a versatile pack which brings an enormous amount of texture quality into your game. It has a great look in both night time and the day time as well. The pack provide a simple yet elegant technique from which it distinguishes itself from the other packs. The smoothness, brightness, shiny blocks, sun, moon and grass will provide can't explain in words but only experienced.
There are two news related to this pack. The one is that its released with the newest Minecraft version and other one is that its not 100 complete. The development till date is more than 60% and currently in the phase. The resolution is currently 128×128 and more can be seen in the future.
Veristicraft Resource Pack 1.11.2/1.10.2/1.9.4 for Minecraft:
For 1.9.4 (Mediafire) – Veristicraft_pack_1.9.zip |File size: 5.04 MB|
For 1.8.9 (Adfly) – Veristicraft_pack_1.8.zip |File Size: 17.32 MB|
For 1.8.9 (Mediafire) – Veristicraft_pack_1.8.zip |File Size: 17.32 MB|
In any case, we do not appreciated the distribution of fake or broken links. Although we respect all the developers and provide their links to support them. But if you find anything malicious in those links then please let us know through comments.


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Enjoy the best of both worlds:
The sea portion
The new 120' Cayman Aggressor V has 7 crew. There are 3 twin and 5 deluxe cabins and 2 balcony suites, each with individual air conditioning, en suite facilities and hairdryer.
The Salon is also HUGE
There is plenty of room to relax with your computer and look at your photos, assemble cameras, or just read. Cathy meets with those who need to solve problems, share ideas, or just chat. There are no rules except to be polite.
More areas to relax
Between dives nap in the shade on the sun deck, or on cushioned lounges in the sun, or even in a Jacuzzi!
Every day starts with a cooked to order breakfast then a buffet lunch. Dinner is served with elegant table-side service featuring salads, vegetables, seafood, beef or chicken with a fresh homemade dessert.
Fresh produce is readily available and their menu includes variety to suit all tastes and diets.
Now for the important parts--The underwater photography opportunities!!
Diving starts in Grand Cayman
Our first dives in Grand Cayman will start with a long three-hour shallow macro dive. You can relax and let the creative ideas flow and spend enough time to get the subject just right and to get your buoyancy and camera systems fine tuned. On the second day we will do a wall dive for the unique photos available at Orange Canyon or NW point or even Big Tunnel.
In Little Cayman, the wall starts shallow and you can stay there for a long time, or drop down into deeper water and explore the sheer vertical drop-off. No where else is there diving just like the Bloody Bay Wall of Little Cayman! It is easy, plentiful, and gorgeous. Bring your wide angle lens for scenic photos and your macro too, and your medium lens for fish and your video for the groupers, and your big memory cards and extra batteries for quick change between dives and your Nitrox card! Every one must be Nitrox certified so you can enjoy more leisurely diving and less fatigue.
Photography trips with Cathy Church
The best reason to join Cathy on a dive trip is because she brings along EXTRA back-up camera gear in case YOU have a breakdown! The best insurance policy ever! She will contact each guest in advance to find out exactly what you are bringing, and will ask you to send a photo of the assembled system (unless she has already known your system from earlier classes and trips). She can then plan her back-up systems accordingly.
Cathy will be available throughout this trip to answer questions, help with problems, critique as needed to troubleshoot or just to admire your photos. If you have topics in particular that you would like Cathy to do a presentation on, Cathy is quite happy to do that on the boat. However, sometimes the best learning is one-on-one at your computer discussing your photos.
And one more advantage, Cathy is there to make sure that you are getting the care you need, the dives you want, and the services above and underwater that you are expecting. Cathy is also there in case another guest is making you feel uncomfortable or is disrupting your ability to enjoy the trip. Fortunately, Cathy has been called upon to do this only about three times in her more than 50 trips, but Cathy has nipped several issues in the bud before anyone even knew about it.
Cost for this Cayman Islands adventure at Sunset House and aboard the Cayman Aggressor V depends on your room choices. Here are three sample packages, but any combination of room choice is available on a first come, first serve basis.
Package One: Courtyard room at Sunset House and a Twin room aboard the Cayman Aggressor V: $4470.00 double occupancy.
Package Two: Ocean View room at Sunset House and a Deluxe room on Aggressor: $4910.00 double occupancy.
Package Three: Suite at both Sunset House and Aggressor: $5154.00 double occupancy.
These prices include:
• Three nights at Sunset House.
• Pizza Party/orientation dinner on arrival night hosted at the photo centre
• Daily breakfast at Sea Harvest Restaurant at Sunset House
• Two morning two (or three tank) boat dives and unlimited shore and shore night diving with Sunset Divers, with tanks, weights & weight belts.
• Nitrox.
• Instruction and coaching with two instructors plus Cathy from noon to 6 pm on arrival day, 7:30 am to 6:00 pm on the 25th and 26th and 9 am to 3 pm on the 27th. Private classes on earlier days or other hours are available and billed by the hour.
• Transfer from Airport to Sunset House and transfer from Sunset House to the Aggressor. You are on your own to get from the Aggressor back to the airport.
• Seven nights accommodations aboard the Aggressor, (per person, based on double occupancy) boarding mid afternoon of the 27th, disembarking on the morning of July 4.
• All meals, snacks and beverages on the Aggressor up to the mid day meal on the July 3. Dinner at Casanova restaurant on the 3rd is not included by Aggressor but is included in your package with Cathy and includes beer and wine and a set menu with several choices.
• All diving activities.
• Nitrox
• $95.00 port fee.
• Coaching/lectures/critique/troubleshooting/back-up equipment from 7 am to 9 pm available to the group from Cathy above water. Limited assistance underwater as Cathy will be taking her own camera into the water.
Not included:
• Airfare to Grand Cayman
• Gratuities for photo instructors, Sunset dive staff and Aggressor staff
• Travel insurance is always important for an overseas dive trip,
• Diver insurance is required and mandatory. We STRONGLY recommend adequate travel insurance.
Reservation information
To reserve please send a cheque to Cathy Church Photo Center, Sunset House, 390 South Church Street, Grand Cayman, KY1-1106 Cayman Islands or call (345) 949-7415 for our Cayman number, or


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My First Home Renovation Tips
3 Tips To Make Your Renovation Successful
A home renovation can be extremely stressful and costly, especially if you have never renovated before.
We have come up with a rundown of tips on how to manage your first renovation.
3 tips to a successful first renovation
Focus on smaller projects
Unless you really need to overhaul the entire house out of necessity, why not keep it small and renovate room by room?
- Does your kitchen need an upgrade?
- Do you need a bigger bedroom or a more spacious bathroom?
- Would simply painting some rooms make all the difference you need?
In this way, your project becomes more manageable and you can also control your budget better.
Talk to a builder, architect or interior designer about the layout and improvements to focus on.
Bottom line is, start small, think of your essential must-haves and stick to the budget.
Be functional and stick to budget
Whilst it can be easy enough to get carried away with a renovation, you could end up blowing your budget big-time in the process especially when it comes to the more discretionary spending areas like quality of finishes.
Ask yourself – Do I really need that $20,000 granite kitchen benchtop or will the $7,000 one still give my kitchen that new edgy look?
Aesthetics are certainly important, but functionality (and budget) should come first.
Minor additions like a new cabinet for extra space or a wider benchtop can enhance the functionality of your space without punching a hole on your pocket.
Check around your neighborhood
A good way to understand what renovation projects could be relevant is to check your surrounding location and see how other locals are renovating.
Pop in and have a look at recently completed jobs!
Your neighbours may also be able to tell you what is "hot" in the local area at the present moment. This may give you a great inspiration for your own project and could be extremely profitable if you are planning on selling your house some time after completing your renovation.
Looking for local tradesmen and builders?
Why not contact our free tradesmen concierge service and see how we can help make your renovation a success.
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Escort in Barnet
Barnet is a borough located in the North-West part of London, around 16 km from the city center. It is a place of huge historical significance, whose history dates back to the Roman times. This suburban borough can be characterized by a picturesque landscape, peaceful vibe and a multitude of attractions, which draw the attention of locals, as well as the people coming to London in search of entertainment. For instance, we can recommend the Barnet escort agencies, which are praised for their very professional services and beautiful girls who will keep you amused.
The first traces of settlement in today's Barnet date back to around the 1st century B.C. – surely the Romans had been here. The name of the town itself, in the form pretty much unchanged since the medieval times, comes from an Old English word linked to burning out the forests. To this day you can appreciate the 12th century St. John the Baptist Church. Another interesting historical monument is the tomb of Thomas Ravenscroft. And if you will grow tired of the historical aspect of Barnet or you will simply want to relax, visit one of the escort agencies to leave the stress and professional issues behind.
While staying in Barnet, you can also go to the local football club's game – F.C. Barnet, or visit one of the pubs and inns, where local cuisine, excellent beer and many more await you. Make sure to spend your time there in the company of a nice call girl, who will take care of your well-being and save you from a lonely evening.
Barnet is well linked with the rest of the city and the region. There is a major bus station here – Barnet Hill, from where around 150 buses depart daily. What is more, you can take the Northern Tube line – you will find two stations in Barnet, from which you will easily reach every corner of the borough. The charming character of Barnet, the local escort agency as well as many nightlife attractions, will make your stay in this North-West borough of London unforgettable. Drop by at your nearest convenience.


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July 11, 2016 in Utilities (E)
[prMac.com] Fehraltorf, Switzerland - Bachmann Engineering (short B-Eng) is proud to announce the release of System Info 1.1.1, an update to their popular security and system info app developed for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. System Info delivers insight in both hardware and software of iOS devices it is installed on. Furthermore it allows the user to check for anomalies on their device like viruses and other applications that may harm the devices security.
Tapping the "Report" button starts a check routine, which at the end either tells the customer that no threats were found or recommends specific actions to solve the issue. The recommended actions vary from simply rebooting the device to re-installing the complete iOS, while specific steps to locate the harnful applications are outlined.
"Threats in the digital world do not stop at the door of specific devices or OS, cyber crime is meanwhile present everywhere. Adequate countermeasures are therefore a must. We took a unique approach that ensure that the System Info app is an important and helpful tool for this purpose." states Christian Schaffner, General Manager at B-Eng.
The System Info app presents several screens that display< CPU load in real time, memory use, disk use, a list with detailed device informations and the main screen with condensed informations from all the other screens. The main screen also contains the buttons for the kernel where you have access to findings if your OS is compromised and the report button which starts a check routine for the free diskspace, the battery and the filesystem. If an error is found during this check, the screen will turn red and recommmended actions are listed.
Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
* Requires iOS 7.0 or later
Pricing and Availability:
System Info 1.1.1 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Utilities category.
Located in Fehraltorf, Switzerland, Bachmann Engineering (or B-Eng) is an independant swiss company, specialized in custom electronis and software. Founded in 2003 by Harry Bachmann, the company is very strong in development of custom algorithms for special purposes, adaptive software and prototype design. All Material and Software (C) 2006-2016 B-Eng / All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPod, the iPod logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.


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Hey everyone. I'm a first-time PC builder and I thought this would be a nice upgrade from my old laptop and to accompany my plans to ditch consoles. So far it's been working great. I can run games at good settings and framerates. Not the biggest video editor though.
Also, I'm really sorry about how the images are rotated. I tried fixing it but when I uploaded it it just went back to normal. My apologies! I suppose you'll have to turn your head a bit to see.
And now for those benchmarks... They're all in 1080p, of course. These are just the games that I play.
Grand Theft Auto V: "Very High" No AA. -Overall I'm satisfied with the performance. When I'm not doing much, it stays above 60. When I'm driving, it dips to the 50's and 40's. This sometimes happens with intense shootouts too.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive: Maxed. 4x AA. -Runs over 130 no matter what, and even though I don't have a 144hz monitor, I'm happy with the outcome.
Minecraft Sonic Ether Ultra Motion Blur Shader: Fancy. Smooth Lighting Maximum 100% -Runs over 50 all the time, which is good. This shader looks AMAZING. Spices up the game a lot.
League of Legends. Maxed. AA. Locked 60FPS no matter what. Not surprised.
Left 4 Dead 2: Maxed 4x AA. Locked 60FPS like LoL. Not surprised once again. This game is pretty old and runs on Source.
In conclusion....
I'm really glad to be a part of the great PC community. I'm not completely leaving consoles forever, but I fell in love with PC gaming, and the whole thing with PC building and the community is just mindblowing.
Not a perfect build, but I'm proud of it.
Part Reviews
Packs a real punch. Don't underestimate the Dual-Core! Working fine for me, and runs games great, but I'll probably upgrade to an i5-4460 later.
-Not DOA -No USB 3.0 header -It works
It's RAM. DDR3. 1600. It works. Yup that's about it!
It's a 1TB HDD and it's perfectly fine. No room for an SSD in my budget, but that's OK. Anyways, this guy gets the job done.
Video Card
Let me start off by saying that I overpayed for this. I paid 170$. And as of 3/20/16 it's on sale (including rebate) for 125 DOLLARS WHAT. That's an absolute steal.
This card is PERFECT for what I play, and I'm loving it. Kicks *** but honestly it doesn't look that great, but I can get past that. Temps are good too. Overall I'd recommend this card for anyone that wants a GeForce brand GPU. Although, if you want to spend 170 for a 950, you might as well spend some extra dough on an R9 380.
No cable management options. Or hard drive cages. Honestly I don't like it all that much.
Power Supply
500W was plenty of juice for my system, and I've been having no issues. Not modular, but this is a more low-end unit. Sooo.... yeah.
It's a membrane keyboard. Cheap. Works. Not complaining.
For a budget mouse this ain't all that bad. It's just a placeholder for something a bit better for now, but this is a nice value!
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