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The must have bundle for WordPress developers has been updated for 3.2 to include some rad features and UI updates. A feature I may be using more now is the function definitions, placing the carat inside a function and hitting command+shift+H will pop up an attractive and useful dialog box with information on the function. Handy.
You can read a bit more on the bundle here and then head over to its github page to download it.
The easiest way I know of to install or update the bundle is to download the master zip from github, unzip the file, then change the name on the resulting folder to delete the alphanumeric string and leave an extension of .tmbundle this will magically make a double-clickable icon to install or update the WordPress bundle.
Do you work with Shopify at all? If so you should really check out the bundle for TextMate that lets you interact with assets from the comfort of your text editor.
You will be able to add your Shopify API key and store name to TextMates variables and edit your stores theme file locally. I definitely need to find a reason to open a store now.
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Mailchimp is an awesome email newsletter provider, and has become more awesome thanks to this new TextMate bundle to integrate with it.
The bundle is API based allowing you to create and edit templates and campaigns from your favorite text editor.
Thanks to @meeech for pointing this out!
A handy wallpaper of all those shortcuts you probably dont have memorized!
Big thanks to Preston Badeer for submitting this!
Developer Ron Devera dropped the JSLintMate bundle, with option to run the friendlier JSHint as well. It sports a sleek UI and plenty of power.
It supports both JSLint and JSHint, has a simple, shiny UI, and its quick to install all dependencies are already built into OS X. Advanced users can even configure JSLint/JSHint flags via a config file, globally, or for individual files.
Yes, I had to post this from a tweet I just got about a new bundle for a programming language called Monkey that I had not heard of, sweet. Thanks to @gingerbeardman for the link!
Bring JSHint into your TextMate.
Found this article by the same dude who wrote the awesome TextMate book.
A question came up wondering what bundles I use in my TextMate daily life, so I figured why not make it a community show and tell!
Along with some of the awesome bundles that are already pre-built into TextMate, here are some of the major ones I use during my web development routine.
The CodeIgniter bundle can be found in this nettuts article. I actually found it by accident when I first started learning CodeIgniter, and am glad I did, as it is full of goodies. Check it out.
GitHub is a social code repository type sharing place thingy. I have only recently begun to use it, and this is a nice add on bundle for TextMate. You can grab it here.
I dont have to explain this one right?
First off, shutup. No flame wars. I use Joomla for some projects and when I do I employ this terrific bundle to remember some of the powerful features.
Yes, I also use WordPress! So there. A superb bundle for the platform you can grab from Yoast.
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Q: Unexpected vertices from the ouput of ArcGIS union tool I have found some unexpected behavior of ArcGIS union tool. My assumption was that this tool will never add any new vertex to the output layer, but this was not the case.
I have run the ArcGIS union tool on only one layer GADM (world admn01) and found that in output layer there are around 866 new vertices. I think this tool make tiles of data and then process. After processing there are extra vertices which are basically created because of tiles are not completely deleted.
Is there anybody else with the same problem/experience?
I am using ArcGIS 10.0 on Windows7 64bit

A: You are spot on, this is called "tiled processing of large datasets", as explained here

To improve the performance and scalability of feature overlay tools
  such as Union and Intersect, operational logic called adaptive
  subdivision processing is used. The use of this logic is triggered
  when data cannot be processed within the available amount of physical
  memory. To stay in the bounds of physical memory, which greatly
  improves performance, processing is done incrementally on subdivisions
  of the original extent. Features that straddle the edges of these
  subdivisions (also called tiles) are split at the edge of the tile and
  reassembled into a single feature during the last stage of processing.
  The vertices introduced at these tile edges will remain in the output
features. Tile boundaries also may be left in the output feature class
  when a feature being processed is so large the subdivision process is
  unable to put the feature back to its original state using the
  available memory.

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Crypto Oasis releases Web3 Ecosystem Report.
October 10, 2022- Dubai: Crypto Oasis, the fastest growing Web3 ecosystem in the world, announced that it had identified more than 1,450 active Web3 organisations in the UAE at the end Q3 2022. The research also identified more than 7,000 individuals working in the industry.
● Research suggests that more than 7,000 individuals work in organisations in the Crypto, Blockchain, Metaverse and Web3 Ecosystem of the UAE
● native organisations account for 65 percent (950 organisations) of the total number and non-native organisations are 35 percent (500 organisations)
● The Report is broken down into 6 parts which identify the main elements of the Ecosystem: Governments & Associations, Startups & Projects, Investors & Collectors, Service Providers, Corporates and, Education & Research
● The Report was created in partnership with Roland Berger, one of the leading strategy consulting companies with a dedicated crypto economy and web3 team
The report is the most detailed account of the Fastest Growing Blockchain Ecosystem in the World and was launched at the opening of the Future Blockchain Summit 2022
The organizations that are active in the Blockchain space are broken down into native and non-native according to their dependency on this emerging technology. native organisations which only exist because of this technology account for 65 percent of the total number identified and non-native organisations are at 35 percent. Dubai Multi Commodities Centre(DMCC) has registered more than 460 native organisations which is more than 50% of all native Blockchain organisations in Dubai. Out of the 7,000+ individuals working in the Web3 industry, approximately 77 percent work in Blockchain native organisations and 23 percent work in non-native organisations.
The Crypto Oasis Ecosystem Report is a periodic report which is now on its inaugural edition and was created in partnership with Roland Berger, one of the first top-tier strategy consulting firms to have entered the world of Blockchain and is steering their global Crypto Economy advisory out of the UAE. The Report focuses on market development and emerging technologies such as Crypto, Blockchain, Metaverse and Web3. It establishes the first quantitative and qualitative ecosystem study of the Crypto Oasis Ecosystem and identifies its various stakeholders. It includes, a deepdive into the opportunity that Web3 represents for the region, has exclusive content such as the insights on one the largest greenfield mining sites in the world being carried out by Phoenix in Abu Dhabi, as well as survey results by Roland Berger, that assesses the state of the global Crypto Economy for which they collected insights from over 150 C-level executives and innovators across 10 industries. "We strongly believe in the transition towards a crypto economy and see this reflected in the top C-Level executive agendas. The UAE is accelerating its global position as a Crypto and Web3 hub, also thanks to prime ecosystem developers like Crypto Oasis" says Pierre Samaties, Partner and global co-head of the firm's Crypto economy team.
The UAE is uniquely positioned to play a leading role in the global innovation economy. The growth of the Crypto Oasis Ecosystem will continue in the coming months and already witness how regulators in the region are welcoming innovation and disruption, making it simpler for Blockchain-related companies to secure licenses and operate. Ralf Glabischnig, Founder of the Crypto Oasis said "We are pleased to see the UAE supporting forward-thinking organisations such as startups, service providers, investors, as well as science and research institutions in the Web3 space. We also have industry leading stakeholders like ADGM, DIFC, DMCC, Simmons and Simmons, State Street featured in our report which will provide the audience with a deeper insight into industry trends as well as educate and inform the reader of this ever growing and evolving ecosystem. Through the report, you are provided with a snapshot of the Ecosystem, which will help set the baseline from which growth can be identified in the following years as the Crypto Oasis becomes a centre of Blockchain excellence."
Crypto Oasis catalyses the growth of organisations in the Crypto space and brings together Investors, Start-ups, Corporates, Researchers, Service Provider, and Government entities. It aims to advance the digital economy in the Middle East and bring distributed ledger technologies to the mainstream. Faisal Zaidi, Co-founder and CMO of the Crypto Oasis stated "Our role is to curate the Crypto Oasis Ecosystem and our goal is to bring all stakeholders together on one playing field to assert the region as the leading global player in Web3."
He added "The Crypto Oasis Directory and the parallely launched report, are tools that we have developed and created inhouse and published, in order to create transparency and awareness of this emerging region."
The report also contains insightful thought leadership articles from major players in the industry like 4ARTechnologies, Pulse, Ripple, Securrency, Singularity DAO, TDEFI, Tokengate, Virtua to name a few.
Report Link: https://cryptooasis.ae/ecosystem-report-2022/
Directory Link: https://cryptooasis.ae/directory/
About Crypto Oasis
The Crypto Oasis is a Middle East focused Blockchain Ecosystem supported by initiators of Crypto Valley Switzerland. The core elements needed for its growth are Talent, Capital, and Infrastructure. The Ecosystems stakeholders include Investors & Collectors, Start-Ups & Projects, Corporates, Science & Research Institutions, Service Providers and Government Entities & Associations. Crypto Oasis' vision is to be one of the leading Blockchain Ecosystems in the world. Today it is the fastest growing, with more than 1,450 organisations identified in the UAE alone. www.cryptooasis.ae
About Roland Berger
Roland Berger is the only management consultancy of European heritage with a strong international footprint. As an independent firm, solely owned by partners and operates 51 offices in all major markets. 2,700 employees offer a unique combination of an analytical approach and an empathic attitude. Driven by values of entrepreneurship, excellence and empathy, Roland Berger are convinced that the world needs a new sustainable paradigm that takes the entire value cycle into account. Working in cross-competence teams across all relevant industries and business functions and provide the best expertise to meet the profound challenges of today and tomorrow. www.rolandberger.com
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I wonder if the changes in the weather in the past week mean summer has come to an end, even though we have only reached the August bank holiday. Yet travel writers are talking about chaos on this the busiest weekend for European airports handling tourists and package holidays.
In some airports, intensified passport controls mean that there have been three and four-hour queues and delays in some airports for families setting off on their holidays, and for families returning from their holidays.
If the sun is shining in the rest of Europe, then these queues and these delays must have taken the shine off many a holiday.
At airports this summer, I have noticed how we find ourselves stuck in three moments in time: coming from somewhere in the past, either from a holiday or getting away from work; on our way to the future, that holiday or back to work; and in that moment in chaos where we find ourselves in a present filled with angst –am I going to get away, am I going to be stuck here on the ground, am I going to get back?
Whether you see July or August as the appropriate or traditional month for summer holidays, this weekend acts as the bridge weekend. Maybe later today or tomorrow I may see for myself how crowded are the beaches at Ballybunion or Kilkee – and how crowded the roads are – as people try to enjoy the main holiday weekend of this summer.
The Feast of the Transfiguration [6 August] comes not just in the middle of the holiday season, but in the middle of what the Church Calendar knows as Ordinary Time. In Ordinary Time, that long time after Pentecost, we are learning to keep our feet on the ground, to know what it is to be the Church in the world, to be putting the joys of our faith into practice.
In today's worldly ways, in our culture today, we may find it difficult to come to terms culturally with apocalyptic visions, and think they are only for people who have their heads in the clouds. But this morning's Old Testament reading (Daniel 7: 9-10, 13-14) and our Gospel story (Luke 9: 28-36) offer two visions that pull us in different directions.
(Revd Canon Professor) Patrick Comerford is Priest-in-Charge, the Rathkeale and Kilnaughtin Group of Parishes. This sermon was prepared for Sunday 6 August 2017.
9.30 a.m.: Saint Mary's Church, Askeation, Co Limerick, the Parish Eucharist.


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Adams Stepner Attorney, Claire E. Parsons, a member of the Local Government, School Law, and Civil Litigation practice groups, was named President-Elect of the Kentucky Defense Counsel, Inc. at the Fall Seminar on November 9, 2018. KDC is a state-level defense organization affiliated with the national defense organization, Defense Research Institute. Claire and several other Adams Stepner attorneys have been active members of both DRI and KDC. Claire previously served on the Board of Directors, as Secretary-Treasurer, and as Vice-President for KDC. She is committed to promoting the defense bar and enhancing professionalism and collegiality among her fellow attorneys and so looks forward to her new role as President-Elect. You can view KDC's announcement about all the new officers here.


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"Graphical Variations": MY RED HEAVEN by Lance Olsen, an historical experimental novel from Dzanc Books, reviewed by Daniel Green
Heavy Feather March 25, 2020 May 11, 2021 Reviews & Criticism
In a career that now includes 14 novels and four collections of short fiction (as well as seven works of nonfiction), Lance Olsen has produced an admirable variety of experimental fictions, no one of which seems merely a repetition of any of the others. There are identifiable tendencies and gestures in his work, to be sure, all of which are designed to redirect our attention to the page itself, to the graphic embodiment of language, rather than to the "story" or "content" to which language is presumed to be pointing by many (if not most) readers of fiction, even so-called literary fiction. But the strategies by which Olsen accomplishes this larger goal are multifarious, especially in the context of such an abundant and still-accumulating body of work.
Of course, such variety is almost certain to result in some books that are less successful than others, a phenomenon unsurprising in what is after all "experimental" fiction. If not all experiments succeed, books as resolutely unconventional as Olsen's, dedicated to sounding out alternatives to those practices that presume "form" in fiction to be synonymous with narrative, should be valued simply for their efforts to provide such alternatives to "exhausted" presumptions, as John Barth might put it. Still, the reading experiences afforded by Olsen's novels and story collections themselves vary in the degree to which they manage to both effect an inventive formal strategy and to make that strategy an engrossing substitute for conventional narrative. Achieving this sort of synthesis of sheer technique and aesthetic gratification (not an easy task, to be sure) seems to me the fundamental accomplishment of the best experimental fiction, since a work that merely signals a break with traditional practices but doesn't use such a rupture as an opportunity to then offer the reader a fulfilling reading experience, one that renews the aesthetic possibilities of fiction as more than "a story," will surely not survive as much more than a literary curiosity. An honorable effort, perhaps, but ultimately indeed a failure.
Olsen actually began his career as an academic critic; most prominently, perhaps, as the author of Circus of the Mind in Motion: Postmodernism and the Comic Vision, but also books on "postmodern fantasy" and the science fiction writer William Gibson. His earliest novels are themselves most categorizable as fantasy and science fiction, although they could also be described simply as punkish provocation (with titles like Tonguing the Zeitgeist and Freaknest). These books rely more on extreme situations than on formal experiment per se, and, given the genre, are also more dependent on narrative than Olsen's later novels would be. They are not without a certain kind of cheeky interest, but they aren't likely to retain much future interest apart from their place in Lance Olsen's development as a writer of unorthodox fiction.
With Girl Imagined by Chance (2002) and 10:01 (2005), Olsen began writing more straightforwardly experimental fiction, although each of these novels in their own way retain more connections to established narrative practices than will his subsequent even more adventurous work. Girl Imagined by Chance, while incorporating photographs as a structural device, tells an unusual story—a married couple pretend to have a baby in order to satisfy friends and family pressuring them to have children—but it relates the story in a relatively linear way, and the novel would probably remain accessible to readers not otherwise accustomed to experimental fiction. 10:01 is a highly fragmented novel that is held together by the conceit provided by its setting—a movie theater in the Mall of America. We are given a montage of sorts tracing the passing thoughts of a large group of people waiting in line for the next show. The result is essentially an exercise in "psychological realism," a shifting set of vignettes that evoke the Mall of America as a metaphorical container of consciousness.
Nietzsche's Kisses (2006) really marks the emergence of motifs, situations, and procedures that together have now come to seem Lance Olsen's signature approach. Here and in the following books, Olsen takes historical figures, primarily writers and artists, as subjects, thereby making writing (language more generally) and artistic creation a central focus of attention. By and large, the depiction of such figures—Nietzsche, Kafka, Vincent Van Gogh—is accurate to the historical reality in most particulars, but Olsen fills in gaps, speculates about states of mind, uses these figures as quasi-allegorical characters illustrating the precarious position of art and intellect in the world at large. He does not employ these characters merely as subjects of historical or biographical re-creation: they are in a sense the vehicle for Olsen's formal transformations and typographical pyrotechnics, which almost unavoidably become the point of interest, although at their best in these later novels character and event are revealed through form, and vice versa. The primary structural device in most of these novels is collage, but this relatively familiar method is itself further disrupted by the frequent unfastening of the text's language from its accustomed place in the linear flow of the printed page through spacing or the unusual placement of words.
While experiment in Olsen's fiction is quite apparent in the liberties taken with the traditional protocols of reading, a significant element in his audacious challenge to narrative-as-usual is less conspicuous although just as important in its effect. Olsen's attention to form goes beyond merely devising some altered species of narrative, but involves replacing narrative with formal arrangements that are often more spatial than chronological. Collage itself in Olsen's novels work spatially through juxtaposition and suggestion, frequently moving freely back and forth in time, as in Nietzsche' Kisses and 2009's Head in Flames (the latter moving from passages about Van Gogh to episodes concerning Theo Van Gogh, great-grandson of Vincent's brother, and the man who ultimately assassinates him). Calendar of Regrets (2010) seems to invoke a chronological structure, but it too moves both forward and backward—its separate strands, set in disparate times and places, moves first forward through the calendar year and then back again—and Olsen has said that at the most general level he was trying to closely echo the layout of an Hieronymus Bosch painting. (Bosch is the subject of one of the narrative strands.) Theories of Forgetting (2014) similarly echoes Robert Smithson's earthwork sculpture Spiral Jetty, about which one of the novel's characters is attempting (or was attempting, since we discover she is now dead) to make a film. Designs of Debris (2017), a surrealist retelling of the Minotaur myth, uses the monster's labyrinth as its underlying architectural principle, again an attempt to bring form and subject into a kind of aesthetic equilibrium.
My Red Heaven is the most intricately formalist, and also most successful, of Olsen's novels to date. A kind of panoramic tour of Berlin, Germany in 1927, its fixed time and place creates more unity among its episodes and perspectives than in, say, Calendar of Regrets, where the variety of narrative strands (and the novel's length) can at times make the text seem overly diffuse. If the audacious manipulation of the printed page is somewhat less insistent than in Theories of Forgetting, My Red Heaven nevertheless displays the sort of verbal and discursive heterogeneity (including the use of photos) we would expect in a Lance Olsen novel. In this case, however, Olsen has fully enlisted his graphical variations as a kind of representational device as well, working to evoke the historical and cultural degeneration that this moment in the life of Belin (at least retrospectively) portends.
As we might expect from the previous novels, many (not all) of the characters in My Red Heaven are artists, writers, and other intellectual figures prominent in Germany in 1927 (as well as one deceased famous figure—Rosa Luxemburg—now reincarnated as a butterfly). The novel weaves portrayals of these characters and their actions throughout the 24-hour period it records, usually through transitional markers that put one character in the proximity of the next or that otherwise associate the two. The gallery of characters shows Berlin in the 1920s to be a culturally dynamic place (characters include the artist Otto Dix, émigré writers Robert Musil and Vladimir Nabokov, as well as Walter Benjamin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the physicist Werner Heisenberg), although the novel also features the underside of Berlin life, the drug addiction, violence, and poverty that made this "modern" German society so vulnerable to the predations of the Nazis, who also make their appearance, including Hitler himself.
While the primary structural device in My Red Heaven again appears to be collage, this surface feature is actually secondary to the novel's controlling formal scheme. The novel's title echoes that of the painting by the abstractionist painter Otto Freundlich. The painting is designed as irregular blocks of color (black, white, shades of gray, blue, green, and red), all of which are used as section names in Olsen's novel, presumably linking in some way the episodes included to the color's corresponding contribution to the painting's overall aesthetic effect. Further, the painting's colors are assembled in a grid-like assortment of rectilinear cells. The novel's collage method, then, ultimately seems to be a progressive filling-in of these cells as rendered into literary form. This procedure is never intrusive, but it gives the novel an implicit shape that again governs "content." The verbal mosaic that emerges in the depiction of 1927 Berlin is the product of form's inherent artifice, but the depiction is no less vivid and no less faithful to the historical circumstances obtaining in Germany (and by extension European culture in general) during this between-wars interregnum.
In what is in part clearly an homage to 20th century modernism (including brief interchapters very close to the "newsreel" sections of Dos Passos's USA trilogy), My Red Heaven both provides an historical panorama capturing the tenor of the period, while also embodying in its own departures from convention an extension of the modernist exploration of alternative styles and strategies. Although it might be tempting to think of a text such as My Red Heaven as a pastiche of modernism, and arguably more appropriately categorized as postmodern, neither this novel nor most of Olsen's previous work seem accurately described as postmodern, except in the sense that Olsen is now about a century removed from the era of high modernism. Indeed, in Circus of the Mind in Motion, Olsen himself posits that postmodernism—which Olsen closely associates with a type of iconoclastic humor—was relatively short-lived and began to be replaced with a less radical kind of fiction after 1980. The radicalism of Olsen's fiction might then be seen less as an attempt to revive postmodernism and more to validate the original experimental impulse animating modernism, which was also the inspiration, after all, for the postmodernists themselves.
Regardless of the label we might want to assign it, My Red Heaven fulfills the promise of experimental fiction: it challenges complacent reading habits, and at the same time it also offers to renew the conceptual resources upon which fiction might draw, to engage us in new and myriad ways. Although Nietzsche's Kisses and Head in Flames also employ an unorthodox approach to effectively integrate method and matter, My Red Heaven might be the sort of book that convinces skeptical readers experimental fiction can be compelling reading even if it does not complacently fall back on the most comfortable modes of storytelling.
My Red Heaven, by Lance Olsen. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Dzanc Books, January 2020. 200 pages. $16.95, paper.
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Daniel Green is a literary critic whose essays and reviews have appeared in a variety of publications, both online and in print. He maintains the literary blog, The Reading Experience, and is the author of Beyond the Blurb: On Critics and Criticism (Cow Eye Press).
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Natasha Sky "I can't even spell!"
by Rew MitchellPosted on January 13, 2014 May 18, 2020
An interview with Natasha Sky:
Natasha Sky is a Muay Thai fighter from Australia, and over the last twelve months has been spending more and more of her free time working on her blog, Muay Tash, in which she predominantly interviews female Muay Thai fighters from around the world. It is for this blog that Natasha was voted Journalist of the Year in the Awakening Female Muay Thai 2013 Awards, you should definitely check it out if female Muay Thai gossip is your bag!
Hi Tash, and congratulations! We saw how happy you were when you announced it on facebook, and it was a really great thing to witness. For the benefit of those that missed your touching outbursts, can we get you to repeat yourself? What were your first thoughts on finding out you had won?
"I never expected to win, I didn't think that many people would have voted for me as there were actually real Journalists in the nominations haha… plus I can't even spell or use proper grammar."
Yes we know.. We think it's endearing! We're sure you'll agree, the category was completely stacked - there are lots of female Muay Thai blogs that have been around a while and continue to intrigue audiences. What is it about female written Muay Thai blogs that makes them grow in popularity?
"Yeah for sure! There are so many popping up now and I try to like and follow all of them. I think they make female fighters feel like they have some support. A lot of the time you might be the only female fighter in the gym and it's really hard to explain things you are maybe going through to your trainer or your male training partners. I think that the female fighter blogs can help you relate to the things other female fighters go through and realise that you're not a freak haha… it happens to a lot of other female fighters too."
And were you inspired by any particular fighters or blogs before you decided to start your own?
"I was always telling stories of experiences I'd had being a female fighter and so many people would tell me I could write a book because of some or the crazy things I had been through. I never really thought anyone would be interested in hearing about it. Plus people in Muay Thai in Australia could be a bit funny about that sort of thing. I didn't want to offend people or make them think I was big noting or making excuses for losing fights as some of my stories were pretty unbelievable. I started talking to Sylvie (8limbs.us blog) & her husband Kevin who encouraged me to start a blog. Kevin set it all up for me over the internet and helped me so much at the start while I was getting used to it, then away I went. Writing my own stories wasn't enough because I had come across so many inspiring women. I wanted people to know who they were as well, and to read even just the most basic bit of information about someone can be comforting to a female fighter that may have no other females around to talk to. So that's where the interviews came in."
Let's take a look back at your 2013 interviews, how many did you do? And which ones are you most proud of?
"I surprised myself here, I didn't actually realise how many I had done until I looked it up at the end of the year. I had done 27 female fighter interviews. I don't have any in particular that I'm proud of because I'm proud of them all! I'm proud to have been able to help girls with one fight and girls with 50 fights get out there and have their say and time in the spot light. I like to make everyone feel like they are a part of the sport whether they are well known or not.
And how do you decide on the next fighter to interview?
"I normally try to keep an eye out for names I see comment on posts on facebook or that pop up in places on the net. Maybe I see a young girl fight at a show that no one really knows about so I'll try to get and interview from her to get her name out there. I like to try to find girls from around the world that people don't hear much about too. It's very interesting to see the different views from female fighters around the world, but at the same time see how similar we all are. I would love to be able to interview some Thai Girls but it's hard when they can't speak or write English."
Yes we're in the same boat with the Thai girls, looking for a way to get them represented on here. Are there any fighters that you've had your writing sights set on for some time? ..and who do you have coming up in the near future?
"Not really, it's all pretty random but like I said it would be great to be able to interview someone like Sawsing if they could write back to me in English. Maybe when I get back to Thailand I can get someone to help translate."
Going back to the awards briefly, what is your opinion of the Awakening Female Muay Thai Awards?
"I think it is and awesome idea I'm really grateful to Awakening for putting in the hard work. Some days I get down because I feel like I do a lot of hard work, fighting and with my blog and no one really cares but having the awards has shown me that people do appreciate the effort I put in. I think the awards will only get better with each year!!"
Thank you in return, we're sure that things will only get better each year too... and the last question, or rather, some air time for you to give some thanks or shout outs to anyone….GO!
"Ok well first Thank you to everyone at Awakening for your hard work, putting the awards together and your faith in female fighters. Thank you to Sylvie and Kevin - I wouldn't have a blog if it wasn't for the encouragement and all the help they gave me to get started. Thank you to Rosy for always sharing my posts on the Female Muay Thai on Facebook Group. Thank you to all the female fighters who let me interview them throughout the year, keep on banging ladies! Thank you to all my opponents, trainers, gyms, haters without you I would have nothing to write about. Thank you to my sponsors PUNCH, Dominatress Apparel and The Vault Toowoomba. Thank you to all my readers for putting up with my bad spelling, grammar and weird wording and for voting for me and showing the love… And thank you to my Mum and Dad for having such an awesome ginger ninja me! haha"
Well thanks a lot for taking the time out to speak to us Tash, and we look forward to continue following your fight career as well as your writing!
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Q: InternalsVisibleTo not working for Managed C++ InternalsVisibleTo is not working for my managed C++ projects, but it is for my C# projects. Any help would be appreciated. Here is a simplified layout.
Project A - C#, has an internal property I want to access from B/C.
Project B - Managed C++. References A.
Project C - C#, references A.
All projects are signed with the same key. Looking at the compiled assemblies with ILDASM or Reflector show that they are all signed correctly (when I comment out the internal property usage).
In AssemblyInfo.cs in Project A, I have the following InternalsVisibleTo;
[assembly: InternalsVisibleTo( "B, " +
   "PublicKey=00240000048000009400000006020000002400005253413100040000010001007" +
   "50098646D1C04C2A041FAAF801521A769535DE9A04CD3B4DEDCCBF73D1A6456BF4FE5881451" +
   "0E84983C72D0460B8BA85C52A9CACDC4A0785A08E247C335884C2049ECFE6B2C5E20A18FE4B" +
   "9BFF009ADA232E980D220B3C9586C9C5EE29C29AEE8853DB7BB90CF5A4C704F5244E1A1085C" +
   "4306008535049A0EBB00FE47E78DCB" )]

[assembly: InternalsVisibleTo( "C, " +
   "PublicKey=00240000048000009400000006020000002400005253413100040000010001007" +
   "50098646D1C04C2A041FAAF801521A769535DE9A04CD3B4DEDCCBF73D1A6456BF4FE5881451" +
   "0E84983C72D0460B8BA85C52A9CACDC4A0785A08E247C335884C2049ECFE6B2C5E20A18FE4B" +
   "9BFF009ADA232E980D220B3C9586C9C5EE29C29AEE8853DB7BB90CF5A4C704F5244E1A1085C" +
   "4306008535049A0EBB00FE47E78DCB" )]

The keys are cut'n'pasted, so I know they are correct.
When I try to compile, A & C compile fine, but project B fails with
Error 1 error C3767: 'A::MyClass::MyProperty::get': candidate function(s) not accessible c:\Users\<snip>\CppClass.cpp 201 B

The MSDN docs say this works with C++. Is there a bug or something else I need to do?
Is there another way that I can protect a property so that it can only be used by assemblies signed by me? I know I can protect all of my assembly, but can I do it on a granular level like this?
EDIT
Based on comments in MSDN, I changed the attribute to the following, but that still doesn't work.
[assembly: InternalsVisibleTo( "B, " +
   "PublicKey=00240000048000009400000006020000002400005253413100040000010001007" +
   "50098646D1C04C2A041FAAF801521A769535DE9A04CD3B4DEDCCBF73D1A6456BF4FE5881451" +
   "0E84983C72D0460B8BA85C52A9CACDC4A0785A08E247C335884C2049ECFE6B2C5E20A18FE4B" +
   "9BFF009ADA232E980D220B3C9586C9C5EE29C29AEE8853DB7BB90CF5A4C704F5244E1A1085C" +
   "4306008535049A0EBB00FE47E78DCB" ),
InternalsVisibleTo( "C, " +
   "PublicKey=00240000048000009400000006020000002400005253413100040000010001007" +
   "50098646D1C04C2A041FAAF801521A769535DE9A04CD3B4DEDCCBF73D1A6456BF4FE5881451" +
   "0E84983C72D0460B8BA85C52A9CACDC4A0785A08E247C335884C2049ECFE6B2C5E20A18FE4B" +
   "9BFF009ADA232E980D220B3C9586C9C5EE29C29AEE8853DB7BB90CF5A4C704F5244E1A1085C" +
   "4306008535049A0EBB00FE47E78DCB" )]

A: I found the answer to this. C++ works differently than the other languages. In addition to the InternalsVisibleTo, you must reference assembly A with the as_friend keyword. Since as_friend is not an option in the Add References dialog, you cannot add a project reference, instead, you need to add a reference in each CPP file that you needs it.
#using <A.dll> as_friend

You then also need to change your assembly search path to include the build directory of project A.
IMHO, this is broken and typical of managed C++ being a second class language. Without the ability to do project references, you end up referencing the assembly in the build debug or release directory. This breaks dependencies and the only way you can get it to reference the correct DLL when you change your configuration from debug to release is with ugly #IFDEF DEBUG and relative paths for the #using.
I was also disappointed that this wasn't mentioned in the InternalsVisibleToAttribute documentation. I needed to dig around in the C++ documentation to find the information.
Edit: The documentation for InternalsVisisbleTo has since been updated with a link to the Friend Assemblies (C++) document.

A: Note:
Maybe for someone will help to NOT ADD REFERENCE by hand to the library which is being included by " #using  as_friend ", because if it stays in references like that, it may not be compiled.
Let .NET mechanics by itself decide what to do with this library after the #using directive.
And yes, add the library to the list in Properties -> C/C++ -> General -> AdditionalUsingDirectories.


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The Edinburgh Mela is an annual multi-cultural festival held in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is one of the 12 festivals that make up the Edinburgh Festival.  The first mela, a Sanskrit word meaning "gathering" or "to meet", was held in 1995 at Meadowbank Stadium, and was organised by members of the city's minority ethnic communities. The festival moved to Pilrig Park in 2000, and to Leith Links in 2010. Running over three days in September, the event attracts around  20 to 25,000 people each year.

History

Origins of the Mela
Melas are south Asian events which have spread around the world from the south Asian subcontinent. Mela means 'gathering' and can describe festival, market, trade event, religious gathering and more. Melas are celebrated with music, dance, theatre, fashion, food and stalls. Melas are distinguished by their bringing together of south Asian cultures and those of other countries when promoted by south Asian Diasporas abroad. Melas first came to Britain in the late eighties.

Mela in Edinburgh
In 1995 people from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and other traditions of the sub-continent established a mela in Edinburgh. Chinese, African, and other groups were also involved. The first festival was held in Meadowbank Stadium, London Road, Edinburgh. The Edinburgh Mela Company formed in 1996.

The Board of Directors
Sir Geoff Palmer (Chair)
Foysol Choudhury MBE
Shami Khan
Rajnish Singh
Graham Clark
Azra Sharif-Qayyum
Saad Nazir
Jessica Yang
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Sonia Aksi

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Locations
Leith Links 2010 – present
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Ocean Terminal 2008
Meadowbank Stadium 1995-1999

Music Stages
One of the main attractions of this festival is its concerts and shows. There are 3 main stages: 2 are outdoors, offering headline shows like music and dance performances.

Food

Bars
Most of the food tents offers drinks too, but there are also dedicated bars serving beers, spirits, and soft drinks throughout the day.

Shopping
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Kidzone
The kids' area is divided in two. On one side attractions often include trampolines and bouncy castles. On the other, free activities for children.

References

Mela
1995 establishments in Scotland
Recurring events established in 1995
Festivals of multiculturalism
Cultural festivals in Scotland
Arts festivals in Scotland
Festivals in Edinburgh
Theatre in Scotland

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The Thad Jones Mel Lewis Orchestra In Europe is a compilation of live recordings made by the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra in Poland and Germany in October 1978.

Release history
All tracks were previously released on one of two WestWind Jazz releases, A Touch of Class and Body and Soul.

Track listing
Disc 1:
 "Samba Con Get Chu" (Brookmeyer) – 13:05
 "Quietude" – 7:36
 "Cecilia Is Love" (Foster) – 6:28
 "I Love You" (Porter) – 5:55
 "And I Love You So" (McLean) – 7:31
 "That's Freedom" (H. Jones) – 9:04
 "The Second Race" – 10:31
 "Willow Weep for Me" – 9:19

Disc 2:
 "Sixty First and Richard" – 12:00
 "Body and Soul" – 7:32
 "Don't Get Sassy" – 11:07
 "Child Is Born" – 10:17
 "Fingers"  – 15:38
 "Intimacy of the Blues" (Strayhorn) – 18:31
All songs composed by Thad Jones except as noted.

Personnel
 Thad Jones – flugelhorn
 Mel Lewis – drums
 Jim McNeely – piano
 Jasper Lundgaard – bass
 Dick Oatts – alto saxophone
 Steve Coleman – alto saxophone
 Rick Perry – tenor saxophone
 Robert Rockwell – tenor saxophone
 Charles Davis – baritone saxophone
 Ron Tooley – trumpet
 Simo Salminin – trumpet
 Irvin Stokes – trumpet
 Larry Moss – trumpet
 John Mosca – trombone
 Doug Purviance – trombone
 Lolly Bienenfeld – trombone
 Lu Robertson – trombone

References

 ...In Europe (ITM 920004) at allmusic.com

External links
 A Touch of Class (West Wind Jazz WW 2402) at allmusic.com
 Body & Soul (West Wind Jazz WW 2407) at allmusic.com

2007 compilation albums
2007 live albums
The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra live albums