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From Design Thinking to Design Living: Re-imagine Your Today
In this Inbound Speaks interview, we chat with Ibrahim Ayub about re-imagining your day and transforming from design thinking to design living.
We chat about who should be at his INBOUND 2020 session and why. He shares a tip, hurdle, and myth that needs to be busted along the way.
My Cheat Sheet: From Design Thinking to Design Living: Re-imagine Your "Today"
Products, services, experiences - they're all designed. From the apps on your phone to the layout of this conference. But who's designing your day? While we can't control all our obligations, we have more power than we realize over the routines and mindsets that drive our daily experience. When it comes to our lives, we are the user, designer, and product.
This session will introduce a fresh approach to re-frame well-being through a design lens and an empowered view.
Ibrahim Ayub
Ibrahim Ayub is an experience strategist and design consultant based in New York, advising a wide range of clients on how to empathize and understand their users to create new meaningful products, services, and experiences. He works at the intersection of strategy, design, and technology. He's driven to address individual and social problems through collaborative design methodologies. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an executive degree in Social Innovation Design, an MSE in Systems Engineering, and a BSE in Computer Science. He also holds certifications in User Experience, Cultural Ethnography, and behavioral-based coaching.
Website: www.ibrahimayub.com | Blog: medium.com/@ibrahimayub
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George Thomas 0:00
Alright, inbound attendees you know, it's your boy George B. Thomas from sprocket talk.com back with another inbound speaks episode where we talk about inbound speakers who speak at inbound or we speak to inbound speak Anyway, you know, I always like to go micro. That's my answer. But without further ado, because this time, I know I always say it, but I am really excited. So let's hit that bumper and get into the good stuff. All right, so today, I gotta be honest, I'm a little bit of a nerd. I'm a designer and I like design. I like life. I also like to reimagine things, which makes this one very interesting. But before we get started, why don't you kind of explain to the inbound attendees who you are, and maybe a little bit about, like, what makes you tick?
Ibrahim Ayub 0:47
Yeah, definitely. Thanks, George. I'm Ebrahimi you. I'm based in Brooklyn, New York. I by day, do UX and design consulting. So I work with a lot of companies, nonprofits, individuals, on really understanding who our users What are they looking for? And how do we design better products services to kind of meet their needs? So a lot of a lot of interviews, a lot of observation of understanding, really, from each of us as people, what are we looking for? And then how can we make the things that we're interacting with more meaningful and relevant for our living each day? So that's been kind of overall the day job in terms of what makes me tick, I think, you know, especially when I think about design that really, everything in this world is by design, right? A lot of times, it's not intentionally done, but if you take it from that perspective of the way things are, our habits are a function of how we are living our day. So like if we can kind of take that more of a designer to think about what can I change? What can I potentially, you know, mess around with to make that day to day a little bit better. And then and then I guess, as someone who lived in New York for five years, so the subway, I have a little Love hate relationships. So anytime someone says, what makes me tick, I'd say the MTA in New York is also up on our list.
People are going through the agenda, they're trying to figure out what sessions they should go to. There's just a lot of content at inbound always, especially in inbound 20. Why and who or maybe better yet, who should attend your session? And why should they attend your session?
I think two major kind of buckets of people are that people. One people who work in design in some capacity and are kind of familiar familiar around. things around design, design thinking and how we're using that for products can be very well versed, right? Like we can make a very useful app, but can taking those approaches and applying it for you as an individual is then ultimately very, we can design better our overall day. And then second, regardless of your experience with design, I think for really anyone who's been thinking about Are they operating on a day to day basis right now and think especially right now everyone's life is kind of turned upside down and in a lot of ways that people who are trying to think about Okay, what is my just the way that I'm operating on a day to day basis? And then is there opportunities to take more control or more drive the day in a way that's useful for me. I would recommend this session as well for them as something that's, you know, gives the the approach and the mindset but then also get really tactical around, you know, now, the only time we have is is the Now Is today, let's start doing things immediately. So it's not, you're not meant to be just kind of theoretical or conceptual, but really things that we can start implementing right now.
Yeah, I love it. So your session again, is my cheat sheet, from design thinking to design living reimagine year today, so maybe and again, without giving away the whole farm here. Give us a little kind of understanding of what do you mean from design thinking to design living? reimagining like today, like, where what journey are we going on during this session?
Yeah. So it's maybe might be helpful, I can give a little context to about how this kind of came about. So I, you know, personally had my own journey around personal development and well being and that just felt like I wasn't really living the way that I wanted to. And a lot of that was like mind and then just my overall approach and the things that I was doing. And then I noticed the more that I was doing this design work for, you know, corporate clients with fortune 500, whatever types of organizations that we went through, it's very methodical approach of, there's this product or service that is supposed to be for certain users. So let's take this, this approach to make sure that it's designed for them really well. I realized that like kind of a way that I was going through my own iterations of improving how I was living each day, we were doing something very similar with companies like this design thinking, let's take that from You know, here's the strategies to what's kind of embody it. So that's really what what I talked about, but it's the what are the the principles of design thinking? Not kind of going through all of the detail, but what are the mindsets that we want to be thinking about on a day to day basis? And then how do we start embedding more intention on the way that we live on our kind of day to day schedule? And and based off of kind of where we are right now? Or what is my current schedule look like? And what type of interventions or things that I could do thinking stemming from, you know, behavioral science, design and all those elements around really making something tactical around, not just what you want to do today, but how do you want to kind of be so that's, that's kind of what the what the session is about.
So, um, let's go down this journey. And again, we will keep it succinct one, maybe two, what tips or principles you used to word principles in that last segment, that people can actually See kind of leverage or harness to help them move forward in this reimagining, today type mindset, I would say the first
thing is, as well as concept around choice architecture, right, that we all have, the choices that we make are a function of the environment around us. And that if and this is usually done a lot of studies around how we're we're designing cafeterias or physical environments, but we can think about the choices that we're making on a day to day basis. What is the architecture in which you're making it right now? So like, for thinking about even your workspace, like if you're someone who's very distracted, what Where are those distractions, right? Like, what's Let's forget willpower, like we're not focusing on willpower motivation, we're thinking about just Are you going to be more likely to do something or less likely to do something based off of how you have your environment kind of set up? I got a specific tips. Another thing we can think of is like you add friction to things that you want to stop doing and then you add Remove friction and things you want to start doing more. So even another I guess I do get I don't give too much. But another kind of quick tactical example is apps on your phone. And this is one thing, like people are always on their phone, usually under their thumb. So what are the apps that you have in that bottom right corner? And are there certain things that you want to be doing more, checking more putting those there versus like clearing the home page of all the kind of things you're distracted about? Even right to like, add a little bit more friction. If you have to go through you know, swipe three times, then go into a folder to check Instagram, something, you can still check it but you're just you're creating more, be more intentional around like the choices that you're making. To get to add, add or remove friction where it makes sense.
I love this so much because keeping the things that you want to do close to you and the things that you want to stay away from far from you is a very simple process. I'll tell you one of things Personally is leaving my cell phone down in my office versus my cell phone ever making it upstairs for me, right? When it's bedtime, it's bedtime, just like from a human standpoint. But also I want to drink a lot more water. So keeping bottles of water closer to me where I can just kind of grab them and go. These are simple things right in there. They're just normal things. But even what Abraham is talking about here, these are things that we can kind of lean into. So it's funny because I get where you're going. And I'm so glad you're like, I don't want to give you everything cuz folks, you're watching this because you're trying to figure out if you should go to the session, but literally teasing you as we're doing this interview. I know this is definitely one that I want to be part of I want to engage with so I will for sure be there. Here's the thing though, because I know people when you start to talk about this, like reimagining and designing and it always ends up in this creative mindset. Which it doesn't necessarily have to be. So what do you what have you seen that has been like a hurdle for most folks, when they're trying to do this thing that you're talking about that you could use a couple minutes, just be like, yo, let's eradicate that right now. In between now and my inbound session, here's what I want you to start to think in this direction versus this hurdle that I've seen kind of in place before.
Yeah, so I think there's kind of three things that I've seen and they're all kind of interconnected. But the first one which I would want people to kind of think about first is like, start here like where you are, right? Like, again, like we're thinking about today, nothing about like what you used to do in college, which is like before or like, it's really if we're we start the design process of days, not based off of something that we had been doing in the past, but basically what what is your schedule look like today? Right like it to start their baseline and, and then we have that kind of grounding, and that's obviously it's familiar To us, right, because that's kind of what you're doing. But I think the big, the big kind of challenge is initial just reframing around like our relationship with a well being and as our personal development of it's much more around routines over the results. And it's like we're not really focused on even, I want to lose 10 pounds or something like that, that can be a moving target. But what are the daily routines that would help us enable to get to those results, but the results are really the byproduct. But it's like, we want to just focus on what's creating a system that is getting rooted in today. And that helps us get to the place where we want to go Oracle vows will help us get somewhere where we need to think about but just by the nature of creating this kind of system, it lets you you'll kind of move in that direction. And then the third I would also say is that it's never it's not done, right. Like you don't design the day and then it's like okay, I've designed my day I you know With this, like our identity, our priorities are in a constant state of evolution. So any type of designer things that we're doing, also should be in this constant state of iterations, right? And something that could be really useful for me for a month. Next month, maybe it's like, my priorities change. Like, I'm just like, kind of sick of that thing. And that's totally fine, right? Because like you're designing for yourself, like you in this situation. It's like this magic situation where you're You are the user designer and product of this kind of relationship, right? So that you have full control. And you can, it should be aligned to what you're looking for. And it's totally fine for things to change. It's really just about being intentional and focusing on those routines. And what's in your control.
George Thomas 11:50
So much good right there. I mean, really so much good. I would say that's the rewind point, I would rewind and listen to that section again, because I can tell you there have been Things that have changed dramatically in my life, that it all comes down to sure I wanted to do this thing, but I only got there or I'm on the journey of getting there because of these little micro pieces of a system that are in place that that honestly, it makes you consistent. And it's just this rhythm that you can get into anyway, I don't want to go too esoteric on this interview. So here's the thing. Um, historically what I would ask and the way I would ask this, I would say okay, the audience stands up, they give you a raving round of applause. Well, that ain't happening this year, because it's digital, will be hitting the applause button that we buy off amazon.com after our session goes live in inbound, but still my curiosity is what is the big takeaway? What's the one thing that you hope after the inbound attendees, watch your session or attend your session? What's the big thing that you hope that they take away with them as they move forward in their life?
Ibrahim Ayub 13:00
I think the the biggest takeaway is that you, we have more control over our day to day experience when we realize and we can be in the driver's seat, and however much we put ourselves there will can have huge just compounding changes to our day to day and overall our life. It's how you spend your day. It's how you spend your life. So I would say that's, that's kind of the takeaway, I would want people to go away with that feeling empowered and that this is something that I can, again be designing my day. Regardless of how crazy our days may look like or may, may feel out of our control that there's much more we have much more influence and say over over our spending that
I can't say it any better how you spend your day, is how you spend your life and I hope in between now and the session at inbound 2020 they You are actually focused on designing that day. Because in that you'll be designing your life and while you're designing your life and your day will be here waiting for you in the next episode
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Q: How to return multiple types of data in C# I do return different instances of service depending on a enum in my application:
public (????) CurrentService
{
    get
    {
        switch (CurrentServiceEnum)
        {
            case ServiceType.ServiceA:
                return IoC.ServiceA;
            case ServiceType.ServiceB:
                return IoC.ServiceB;
            case ServiceType.ServiceC:
                return IoC.ServiceC;
        }
    }
}

Each of that service has it's own implementation of RemoveAccount method, taking different type argument.
internal class ServiceA_AccountDataModel { [..] }
internal class ServiceB_AccountDataModel { [..] }
internal class ServiceC_AccountDataModel { [..] }

public class ServiceA {
    public void RemoveAccount(ServiceA_AccountDataModel model) { [...] }
}
public class ServiceB {
    public void RemoveAccount(ServiceB_AccountDataModel model) { [...] }
}
public class ServiceC {
    public void RemoveAccount(ServiceC_AccountDataModel model) { [...] }
}

What I want to achieve here, is to be able to call a RemoveAccount method apart of the current service returned so that while passing the account of ServiceC_AccountDataModel is should automatically resolve to IoC.ServiceC.
// account is an instance of ServiceC_AccountDataModel so it should assume that CurrentService is the instance of ServiceC
CurrentService.RemoveAccount(account);

Is there a way to achieve something like that in C#?

A: One way to achieve this is for all the services to implement a common interface:
public interface IAccountRemovalService<T>
{
    void RemoveAccount<T>(T model);
}

public class ServiceA : IAccountRemovalService<ServiceA_AccountDataModel>
{
    public void RemoveAccount<ServiceA_AccountDataModel>(ServiceA_AccountDataModel model)
    {
    }
}

public class ServiceB : IAccountRemovalService<ServiceB_AccountDataModel>
{
    public void RemoveAccount<ServiceB_AccountDataModel>(ServiceA_AccountDataModel model)
    {
    }
}

In order for this to work, you do need there to be something in common between each of your model types, such as a base class like AccountModelDataBase:
public class ServiceA_AccountDataModel : AccountDataModelBase {}

public class AccountDataModelBase {}

Once you've got that, it becomes possible to re-write your CurrentService property along these lines:
public IAccountRemovalService<AccountDataModelBase> CurrentService
{
    get
    {
        IAccountRemovalService<AccountDataModelBase> returnedValue = null;
        switch (CurrentServiceEnum)
        {
            case ServiceType.ServiceA:
                returnedValue = IoC.ServiceA as IAccountRemovalService<AccountDataModelBase>;
                break;
            case ServiceType.ServiceB:
                returnedValue = IoC.ServiceB as IAccountRemovalService<AccountDataModelBase>;
                break;
            case ServiceType.ServiceC:
                returnedValue = IoC.ServiceC as IAccountRemovalService<AccountDataModelBase>;
                break;
        }
        return returnedValue;
    }
}

This does involve quite a few changes to your code, adding the interface and the base class, but it does give you a bit of an advantage as now you can ensure (by virtue of adding new members to IAccountRemovalService) that all your implementations of a service that have the RemoveAccount method remain in lock-step with regards to methods that they implement.
One small side note, having the property that you're switching on called CurrentServiceEnum doesn't quite sit right because of the Enum suffix on it, that'd probably be something to consider removing - but that's just my opnion! =)

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UPDATE: I'm not pursuing this any further, but if anyone has ideas I'd be interested in hearing how this is possible.
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Transgender-ism, R.I.P.
by Herb Guerry | Mar 12, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
"Fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind." — Paul of Tarsus
The sincerely uttered statements, "I am a man trapped in a woman's body" and "I am a woman trapped in a man's body" have the same fantastic ring about them as does, "I am the only person who was killed, cooked, and eaten by cannibals and lived to tell about it." People making such claims live in self-made worlds. This seems to follow (by implication) from, among other things, research summarized in a new book, The XX Brain, by Lisa Mosconi, a professor at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York city, and director of the Women's Brain Initiative. I don't know if Prof. Mosconi would agree with this post or not. The argument below is mine, not hers.
A recent Wall Street Journal review of her book gives a summary of scientific research by Professor Mosconi and others that indicates that the brain activity of men and women is indeed different — not surprising in itself, but surprising, sometimes, in surprising ways, namely:
Women's brains age differently from men's, especially after menopause.
Research has shown that certain parts of women's brains are better connected than men's which makes multitasking easier.
Women have a better verbal memory than men (– just recall your last disagreement with your spouse about who said what to whom at a cocktail party).
Anxiety and depression are more common in women.
Women have more migraines and headaches than men.
Women are more prone to autoimmune disorders.
Women are more likely to die of a stroke when they have a stroke.
Women are more likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
That's what the WSJ review says.
The problem that this presents for transgender people is that claiming that you are in the wrong body will not change any of these eight things, although you may, of course, act and look the part of your alleged "real" sex. Popular culture, in large part, and scientific research agree that (a) sex-change surgery and hormone therapy cannot really accomplish a sex change, (b) one's DNA does not change, and (c) it is rather "obvious" that men and women are mentally different. Science and popular opinion aside, there are also other reasons to admit that the claims of transgender people are at least suspect, if not flatly absurd. The main reason is that if a person, despite all the evidence, claims that he or she is justified in acting in accord with a self-made world, that person also must accept numerous additional claims as true. the acceptance of which appears to damage severely the credibility to the transgender person's claim.
Examples of such additional claims are numerous: a person who believes that she is made of glass; a person who believes that he is the reincarnation of Cleopatra ,or Jack the Ripper, or God; a person who believes that he or she is really a talking dog in a human body; a person who is paranoid; a person who firmly believes that he or she is physically well when not; a hypochondriac; and so on. Such people incorrectly create (consciously or not) their own reality. "Thinking makes it so" for them, yet all the evidence says that they are wrong. So, to be consistent, people who, despite the evidence, see themselves as being in the wrong sexual body and act accordingly, ought to allow the same license to the person who thinks that he is the reincarnation of Jack the Ripper and allow him to act accordingly. Why should only people with baseless conceptions of themselves be seen as correct while people with standard views be deemed mistaken about the views of the people with mistaken ideas? Moreover, if thinking really makes it so, and you believe you are morally obliged to act as if you were given the wrong body and I believe you are not morally obliged to act that way, why should your opinion be true and mine false? Such are the results of ignoring objective moral and physical standards.
In Christian terms, these self-made worlds the result of "fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind."

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Without Context we are Lost, or Why Poems Need Footnotes
What if poetry were as recognizable to the general public as commercial jingles (The best part of waking up, is Folger's in your cup), pop music, or celebrities? I don't mean the handful of poems most people know from high school English classes—Two roads diverged in a yellow wood; I sound my barbaric yawp…—but the myriad poets and poems whose lyrics have the power to transform the reader and, in turn, society and the world. What if, in short, more of us dove headfirst into poetry in times of difficulty as well as of joy: to celebrate, to mourn, to feel, to bridge the gap between who we are and who we wish to be?
Ask a person on the street if they like poetry, and chances are they'll respond with some variation of, "Not really. I just don't get it." In Why Poetry, Matthew Zapruder attributes this response to the fact that "so many of us have been taught to read poetry as if its words mean something other than what they actually mean," as if poems "were designed to communicate messages, albeit in a confusing way" and "the student's job [were] to discover" the message and write about it in an essay.[1] But while I agree with his diagnosis, in blaming the education system, Zapruder, and far too many poets, miss another basic barrier to the enjoyment of poetry: simply orienting oneself in a poem, understanding its context. We poets are also at fault.
Consider Break, Break, Break by Tennyson, a poem that explores themes of nostalgia, loss, and the passage of time, and that was inspired by the death of a close friend of the poet. Had Tennyson written a footnote that read, "RIP Arthur Hallam, 1842" (or something along those lines), the reader would have been able to establish a more intimate connection with the poet, for knowing that one is writing about a specific loss is more powerful than reading about loss in general. Further, her focus could have been entirely placed on the words, rather than being distracted by the "Why" of the piece ("Is this about the passage of time? Did someone die? Is the poet just having a bad day? Is it a dream? Help!")
This focus on the language is, according to Zapruder, how poetry should be read: "So many people assume that what is difficult about poetry is that its meaning is hidden," but really any "meaningful experience with poetry begins with first reading literally, more literally than we do any other kind of writing."[2] But how is one to read the words literally if they don't know the context? Tennyson isn't hiding that his friend has died, but he is withholding from us the reason for his choosing to pick up his pen on a particular day and write about a particular topic. Absent that understanding, the first reading of the poem is made more complicated, more distracting to the reader. As a result, she struggles to "experience the true difficulty—and reward—of poetry," which is "reading what is actually on the page…and allowing one's imagination to adjust to the strangeness of what is there."[3] Giving someone a map does not prevent them from an awe-inspiring journey, but without a map they risk getting lost and turning back.
Footnotes are not the only way to give the reader context and create a more intimate connection between her and the poet. One of the best examples of this is Audre Lorde's Power. We know the poem is about a police shooting because in the poem itself she writes, "A policeman who shot down a ten-year-old in Queens / stood over the boy…" And later on, "Today that 37-year-old white man / with 13 years of police forcing / was set free."[4] Here we don't need to know the exact shooting she's referring to, for we have enough to situate ourselves in the poem and understand what's behind it. Thus, in our first reading we can read "what is actually on the page" without scratching our heads, wondering if the poem is about police brutality, racism, nostalgia, a bad dream, or something else. The context gives space for the content to shine through with ultimate clarity; in this space, we can explore the link between the poem and our lives, which is, in the end, why we read poetry—because it is about us, our lives, our world, our truth.
Another great example is move by Lucille Clifton. She opens the poem with a brief introduction that could have also worked as a footnote. In it, she explains the history behind the piece: a 1985 bombing in Philadelphia that killed eleven people and in which "sixty-one homes in [the city] were destroyed."[5] While this is an extreme example of a poem whose meaning would be nearly impossible to grasp without context—if one doesn't know that the group's name was move, neither the title nor the poem itself would make much sense—it demonstrates that the better prepared we are for the impact of the work, the more likely we are to be impacted.
Of course, not all poems deal with an event or a specific experience. Regardless, they can either welcome the reader or needlessly make her run a gauntlet. In The Language of the Brag, Sharon Olds powerfully speaks of her experience as a woman in a society that values those who "achieve something at the centre of a crowd." It is clear in the poem that Olds is a mother, but she is not writing about giving birth or motherhood; rather, the piece deals with questions of what it means to be a woman in a male-dominated, achievement-oriented country. Yet the context is clear, even without footnotes (though it could have been interesting to include a footnote about, say, the percentage of African American women that die in childbirth, or the pay discrepancy between men and women): "I have lain down and sweated and shaken / and passed blood and feces and water and / slowly alone in the center of a circle I have / passed the new person out…"[6] The reader can stop worrying about understanding the poem and, instead, be like a harried passenger who has caught the train and now ponders the country as it streams past her window, being taken to places that, familiar or not, are nevertheless new to her each time.
That poets often elide the context speaks to the fear of delivering a poem that reads as a pre-opened gift: we fear the banal, the trite, the too-obvious. Sometimes we confuse accessibility with a lack of profundity; sometimes we interpret the political and the topical—a poem about a natural disaster, a police shooting, or even tax policy—as being inherently dull, beneath the artform. But as Carl Phillips writes in Foliage, poetry is "the transformation of experience, not the transcription."[7] There is no reason why revealing the event or experience or feeling undergirding a poem would degrade the reader's experience; the question is whether or not the poet is able to transform rather than transcribe. A reader can intuit the difference between prose masquerading as poetry and authentic poetry; it is incumbent on us to trust them to make that determination.
It also the poet's responsibility to write something that, first, people will want to take the time to read, and second, that will not only transport the reader but also hold their attention long enough for the transportation to take place. Let's face it: in the age of social media, same-day shipping, and all manner of information and entertainment available to us at the click of a button, we are less and less able to sit down and focus. If poetry is as powerful as we claim, we are doing ourselves and the reading public a disservice if we don't open the door to our magical world just a crack. Not only does this not cheapen the poetic experience, it strengthens it, welcomes the reader in, and gives them the chance to settle down on the couch and journey with us to a place of beauty, horror, pain, sadness and, if we're lucky, Truth. The footnote is a phenomenally simple and effective tool (though not the only one, to be sure) for opening that door.
Perhaps over time poets will invite in enough people that we will elbow our way from the subconscious—distant figures to whom we occasionally turn for inspiration—into the front and center of our minds and lives, making room for poetry amidst the crowded shelves of commerce, celebrity culture, bad music, and mind-numbing entertainment that keeps us drowsy in the midst of the grandeur of the world.
[1] Zapruder, Matthew. Why Poetry. Ecco, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018.
[4] Lorde, Audre. "Power." Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53918/power-56d233adafeb3.
[5] Strand, Mark, and Eavan Boland. The Making of a Poem: a Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms. W.W. Norton & Company, 2005. Page 279
[6] Olds, Sharon. Satan Says. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995.
[7] Phillips, Carl. "Foliage." The Kenyon Review, 1 Jan. 2014, https://www.jstor.org/stable/24242232?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents.
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Allowing a burn time of up to 30 seconds for each trainee, the chip pan fire simulator provides hands-on experience of what to do in the event of a fire. Incorrect use of an extinguisher on a chip pan fire can have a dangerous effect, and so it is important to know what fire fighting equipment can be used on a class F type fire. The chip pan simulator is to be used in conjunction with fire instructor training equipment, and must be operated by qualified personnel.
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11th Battalion Canadian Railway Troops [textual record]
Sous-série
R611-412-1-E, RG9-III-C-7
Documents textuels
Canadian Expeditionary Force sous-fonds
Canadian Railway Troops in France historical records
11th Battalion Canadian Railway Troops
Sous-série comprend :
14 description(s) de niveau inférieur
Voir description(s) de niveau inférieur
Équivalent bilingue :
Étendue :
Langue du document :
Portée et contenu :
Sub-series consists of records created and/or maintained by the 11th Battalion Canadian Railway Troops in France (formerly the 3rd Canadian Labour Battalion), and document many aspects of its activities.
Nom(s) additionnel(s) :
Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Railway Troops. Battalion, 11th
Biographie/Histoire administrative :
Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Railway Troops. Battalion, 11th : The 3rd Canadian Labour Battalion, predecessor of the 11th Battalion Canadian Railway Troops (CRT), was organized at Bramshott in January 1917 under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel W.A. Munro. The majority of its officers and other ranks were from Manitoba. The battalion arrived in France on 10-11 February 1917. It was redesignated as the 11th Battalion Canadian Railway Troops on 29 November 1917. Its authorization was published in General Order 63 of 15 June 1917. The battalion demobilized at Winnipeg and was disbanded by General Order 196 of 1 November 1920.
Instrument de recherche :
Textual records (Électronique) The finding aid's file level descriptions can be accessed through the consists of fields in the MIKAN record. A paper copy is also available in the Reference room. 9-41-34 (90: Ouvert)
Source du titre :
Title is based on the contents of the sub-series.
Versements complémentaires :
No further accruals are expected.
Ancien no de référence archivistique :
RG9-III-C-7
Volume [RG 9 III-C-7] 4492--4494
Copyright belongs to the Crown.


Professor Albrecht's enduring message. In this 1950s-era film Albrecht explains the high cost of inadequate and imbalanced soil fertility. DVD format for U.S.
Professor William A. Albrecht's enduring message preserved and presented for future generations. In this 1950s-era film, with introductory and closing remarks by Acres U.S.A. founder Charles Walters, Prof. Albrecht explains the high cost of inadequate and imbalanced soil fertility and how that "dumb animal," the cow, always knows which plant is the healthier, even though we humans don't see a difference with our eyes. A period film and is dated in style but timeless in message. Perfect for your group gathering. Copyright 1996, DVD, 26 minutes.


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Q: Exception created : java.lang.OutOfMemoryError I have made some modification in a code of an existing application. While testing i am getting  Exception created : java.lang.OutOfMemoryError. But the error occurs only once in a while. Below the is the code snippet where the error occurs
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The error i am gettting is in the line
m_mobileq2List.add(m_mobileq2value);

Also attaching the JVM logs ----
exception created in one of the service methods of the servlet MailSend in application interact_assorted_intapp7. Exception created : java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
        at java.util.ArrayList.newElementArray(ArrayList.java:94)
        at java.util.ArrayList.growAtEnd(ArrayList.java:375)
        at java.util.ArrayList.add(ArrayList.java:158)
        at com.international.servlets.MailSend.doPost(MailSend.java:473)

    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:738)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:831)

I went through a few related post but did not get any proper results.Also Increase of HeapSize is out of scope.

A: while (m_tokenizer2.hasMoreTokens()){
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You are never moving your tokenizer pointer forward, so when this condition is met, it is infinitely adding the first token to your list. Try
while (m_tokenizer2.hasMoreTokens()){
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A: If you are running out of memory and you can't increase the heap size then all you can do is try and use less memory.
Attach a profiler of some kind to your application (most IDEs have one built in) and look at where the memory is going and what you can do to reduce it, or remove any potential resource leaks you may have.
It's also worth running findbugs against your project and seeing if that finds anything. Again it's available as a plugin for most IDEs.

A: Issue in your code is infinite while loop.change your code to
 m_mobileq2List.add(m_tokenizer2.nextToken());

Also make null all your Strings after use.Go for StringBuffer,StringBuilder instead of Strings whenever possible.If you are using any Input/Output Stream close them after use and make them null.Making large objects null saves lot of memory.


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Effect of ambient environmental conditions on the level of infestation by pulse beetle on different legumes
Chakraborty, S. and Mondal, P.
Pulses (grain legumes) are the second most important group of crops worldwide. Globally, 840 million people are under nourished mainly on account of inadequate intake of proteins, vitamins and minerals in their diets. Under stored conditions , pulses suffer maximum grain loss due to dreaded stored grain bruchid pests. Studies on the biology of pulse beetle Callosobruchus chinensis (Linn) (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) on the stored pulses revealed multi climatic factors particularly temperature can extend or reduce the life cycle of insects and thermal thresh hold influence the insects cycle stage, growth or some internal metabolic activities. In addition to temperature insects also respond to a-biotic factors like humidity, light and food etc. in different ways. The damage caused by the insect differ depending upon the seasons. Infestation was higher during the rainy season and lowest during the winter. The average number of eggs laid per female was found to be maximum when insect were reared at 30˚C and minimum number of eggs was observed at 15˚C in all host pulses. The highest number of eggs were noted laid on kidney bean (175.35) at 30˚C. The most favorable humidity level for adult emergence was found 75±5 per cent, at which maximum adult emergence of 121.32 occurred from cow pea. The combined effect of relative humidity and temperature showed that maximum grain weight loss at 30˚C and 85±5 per cent relative humidity while minimum weight loss at 15˚C and 65±5 per cent relative humidity. Thus, fundamental to insect growth, however, are environmental factors of temperature, relative humidity and moisture content of food materials. When a combination of favorable factors leads to increased insect development there is a co-related increase in the damage to materials through eating, despoiling, burrowing and other activities.


We are currently seeking a Designer/Architect to grow with our Ventura County, California architectural firm.
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This is a full time position for candidates able to locate in the Ventura County, California area.


Salesforce.org, the charitable arm of a cloud-computing company based in San Francisco, has been in a philanthropic relationship with two Bay Area school districts for five years now. This year, the combined $15.5 million donations put their contributions over $50 million.
San Francisco Unified School District will be receiving $8 million, and the slightly smaller Oakland Unified School District will get $7.5 million. The money is earmarked for STEM support, teacher training, and mindfulness projects.
Mindfulness, while something of a workplace buzzword, is a big focus for Salesforce's charity organization. They want to promote education that takes into account a student's whole life, a "whole child," approach.
"Because we know that what happens outside of the classroom impacts what happens inside the classroom," explained Ebony Frelix, the executive vice president and chief philanthropy officer of Salesforce.org. Putting their money where their mouth is, the organization also donated $2 million towards fighting youth homelessness, announced in the same breath on September 25, by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.
London Breed, current Mayor of San Francisco, lauded the philanthropic organization.
Oakland Unified School District, which will receive $7.5 million, has formed a "Principal's Innovation Fund," where the money can be used at the individual school level. So far, they have used past donations to create a makerspace, support students who are refugees, and incorporate mental health services, all of which increase the ways in which students can access their education. More of the funds have also gone into training teachers to more effectively teach and use technology, and to make computer science education more available.


Katie and Ben Masters in Spring Creek Basin.
The "Unbranded" crew may not have ridden through Colorado, but ahead of Telluride's Mountainfilm festival last weekend, Ben Masters and his very lovely wife, Katie, came to Spring Creek Basin to see our "beautiful" mustangs.
We talked about wild horses and wild burros and public lands and challenges and solutions. As you might imagine, Ben's mustangs, partners in his and friends' trip of a lifetime, have made him a mustang advocate. "Unbranded" has catapulted him into a unique position of being respected by a variety of disparate interests.
Ben checks out the NMA/CO sign on the water catchment in Spring Creek Basin with Katie.
One does not travel from Mexico to Canada with mustangs and friends alone. It requires preparation and support from numerous people along the way. When traveling across public lands with a pack string and a camera man (at least one), one needs permits from the government: the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service. Observant travelers notice the tread of others on those lands, and Ben and Ben and Thomas and Jonny were no different. To say they made the most of their observations and appreciation of America's remarkable public lands is a huge understatement.
Katie and Ben enjoy a wonderful visit with beautiful mustangs in the basin.
"Unbranded" is a journey story, and like all good journeys, it includes challenges and obstacles and perseverance and education. While their physical journey may have ended at the Canada border, their education is ongoing, and their search for solutions for America's wild horses and burros likewise is ongoing.
Ben was pretty stoked by his visit with our mustangs!
Not surprisingly to the sold-out crowds fortunate enough to see "Unbranded" in Telluride (350 people in line were turned away from the Saturday showing after the theater filled), the film won the Audience Award.
This was the second film festival for "Unbranded"; it was the second Audience Award. Ahhhhhhhhhh-mazing!
Ben … mustangs … a wide-open place.
We were so fortunate to meet Ben and Katie Masters and some of the rest of the "Unbranded" crew. What an amazing film. They're carrying an important message, as Ben says, to show the worth of America's mustangs.
A picture is worth a thousand gold coins – a leprechaun's treasure – eh? 🙂 Tesora seems to be searching for the elusive end of the arch.
Golden rain brings the green, but we're not wet enough deep in the soil to make it collect in ponds. Interesting weather patterns this spring, and the moisture – any at all! – is beyond welcome!
His coat gleams like burnished copper as he walks through an island of light in a little pinon-juniper forest.
Just a quiet moment of comfort between wild horses in Spring Creek Basin. There are so many of these moments … so many more of these than of strife.
Something for which to strive.
The late-afternoon sunlight was too perfect to resist – so pretty Kestrel didn't.
Naps = good – for every age!
Oh, the boyish toss of the forelock. It must drive the girls wild!


Hey guys, so it feels like it's been forever since I've done a "beauty inspired" blog post. Actually, it's been a long time since I picked up my camera for a blog only basis. I've felt a bit "blah" about blogging, One reason is that I am in desperate need for a new blog design, I don't like how my blog looks when I write posts. I will hopefully get in contact with someone at the end of this month to sort it out.
Anyways on to the actual post.
I have been experimenting with more springy makeup looks, and found a few products I love that are quick and easy to use. I do shift work, and so I need long lasting makeup that looks pretty but simple.
I'd like to apologize about the pinkish hue to the picture, I have a purple room, with purple blinds and it always seems to reflect off into pictures (unless I photograph at night).
You will see that I don't use many products at all!
I have re fallen in love with Chanel Vitaluminere Aqua. It's a foundation like no other one I've tried. I was getting sick of my foundation going patchy on me. It seems to happen a lot because of my weird work patterns. This foundation is so lightweight, I never feel it on my skin. I have done a review of it on this blog.
I have found A new favourite mascara by maybeline. I forgot which one this is, so look for the greeny packaging, but it gives me the "spider leg" lashes. If you don't like that look then avoid ;) I also have added a new lipstick to my spring look this is the perfect coral for my skin tone (the photo doesnt do it justice) #Iminlove.
What are you favourite makeup items at the moment?
Your make-up looks beautiful, you look super healthy and glowy!
I'm absolutely dying to try that foundation, maybe have a sneaky purchase soon haha!
I love the colours of your lipsticks!
looks great! I wanna try that foundation, gotta get my hands on that.
Great post. I haven't tried any of these, really interested in the naked palette. let me know if you would like to follow each other.
Love this look on you, looks great!
That Chanel foundation sounds intriguing - I've been wanting to have a change from my normal one.
I love this! The blush is so pretty on you!


352 Media Group, the award-winning Web design, Web application development, CD and DVD production and motion graphics projects development company, today announced that the company has achieved status as a Microsoft Certified Partner. This designation represents a high degree of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies, which 352 Media earned in the area of Custom Development Solutions.
Requirements for earning this status include having multiple Microsoft Certified Professionals on staff, attending certain training events, and receiving references from clients for whom Microsoft tools have been used for development.
The Custom Development Solutions status which 352 Media has earned is described by Microsoft as 'designed for technology partners who provide custom-developed solutions to customers who require value-added capabilities to optimize business and operational effectiveness.' The designation is for Microsoft partners who develop with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio Tools for Office, SQL Server, Windows Server 2003, BizTalk, Windows XP, and Microsoft Office 2003. Areas of specialization for this competency are Application Server Environment Development, Smart Client Development and Web Development.


Darke County Center for the Arts (DCCA) has been selected to receive funding from Arts Midwest Touring Fund, a program of Arts Midwest, generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts with additional contributions from the Ohio Arts Council and the Crane Group.
Arts Midwest Touring Fund engages people in meaningful experiences with the fine arts of dance, music, theater, and other performing arts forms. Inter-state touring and the engagement of professional artists is central to the work of Arts Midwest.
Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience Band will perform "Creole For Kidz" for fourth through sixth grade students at all local public schools from October 23 through October 27; these performances are free and open to the public. "Without the assistance of Arts Midwest, DCCA could not bring internationally-acclaimed artists like Terrance Simien to our underserved rural community," Ms. Jordan explained. "DCCA greatly appreciates their commitment to enabling presentations that inspire creativity and joy, and help shape our nation's culture in positive and affirming ways," she concluded.
Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience Band will also perform at Greenville's Bistro Off Broadway on Thursday, October 26 as part of DCCA's Coffeehouse Series, the show starts at 7 p.m. and tickets are $10.
Based in Minneapolis, Arts Midwest is one of six nonprofit regional arts organizations in the United States. Its mission is to promote creativity, nurture cultural leadership, and engage people in meaningful arts experiences, bringing vitality to Midwest communities and enriching people's lives. Since its establishment more than 30 years ago, Arts Midwest has been serving audiences, arts organizations, and artists throughout the nine states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and beyond. For more information on Arts Midwest please visit www.artsmidwest.org.
The National Endowment for the Arts is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts, both new and established; bringing the arts to all Americans; and providing leadership in arts education. Established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government, the Endowment is the nation's largest annual funder of the arts, bringing great art to all 50 states, including rural areas, inner cities, and military bases.
Darke County Center for the Arts presents and promotes performing and fine arts encouraging cultural enrichment. For more information on their 2017-2018 ARTS COUNT season and to purchase tickets, contact the DCCA Office at (937) 547-0908 or visit their website at www.CenterForArts.net.


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Elvis — второй альбом американского певца Элвиса Пресли. Он был выпущен на лейбле RCA Victor 19 октября 1956 года. Сессии записи состоялись 1, 2 и 3 сентября в студии Radio Recorders в Голливуде, с одним треком, оставшимся от сессий для дебютного альбома Пресли в студии RCA Victor recording studios 30 января в Нью-Йорке. В том году он провел четыре недели на 1-м месте в чарте Billboard 200, что сделало Пресли первым певцом, у которого оба альбома сразу заняли первое место в том же году. В общей сложности он провел бы 5 недель на первом месте. 17 февраля 1960 года он был сертифицирован Американской ассоциацией звукозаписывающих компаний как золотой, а 10 августа 2011 года — как платиновый. Первоначально он был выпущен в Великобритании в 1957 году под названием Elvis Presley No. 2 с другой обложкой. Он также был занесен в каталог как Rock 'n' Roll No. 2. Оригинальный релиз в США положил начало практике (применявшейся непоследовательно в течение первых нескольких лет, но обычно впоследствии) упоминания Пресли только по имени на обложках альбомов, хотя его полное имя продолжало использоваться на лейблах.

Грампластинка вышла в монофоническом звучании и была, согласно практике того времени, продублирована тремя мини-альбомами, содержащими по четыре песни: «Elvis» (Volume 1, 2; 1956) и «Strictly Elvis» (1957). Поздние версии альбома на компакт-дисках (издания 1999, 2005 гг.) включают дополнительно песни с разных синглов, записанных примерно в то же время, что и альбом.

История

Продюсер RCA Victor Стив Шоулз заказал две новые песни для этой серии сессий: «Paralyzed» Отиса Блэквелла и «Love Me» Джерри Лейбера и Майка Столлера, авторов летнего хита Пресли 1956 года «Hound Dog», первой записи, возглавившей все три сингла Billboard существовавшие тогда чарты: Pop, R&B и C&W. Пресли выбрал три кавера на Литтл Ричарда и выбрал три новые кантри-баллады от постоянного автора Everly Brothers Будло Брайанта и гитариста Чета Аткинса, штатного музыканта Sun и инженеров Стэна Кеслера, Аарона Шредера и Бена Вайсмана. Последние два, заключившие контракт с Hill and Range, издательской компанией менеджера Пресли, полковника Тома Паркера, напишут десятки песен для Пресли в течение 1960-х годов. Также была включена песня, с которой Пресли получил второй приз на ярмарке в Тьюпело, когда ему было десять лет, кантри-песня Рэда Фоули 1941 года «Old Shep».

Поскольку все треки на альбоме, кроме одного, были записаны за один набор сессий в течение трех дней в сентябре, Пресли и его гастролирующая группа в составе Скотти Мура, Билла Блэка и Ди Джея Фонтаны вместе с The Jordanaires сумели воссоздать раскованную атмосферу студийных дней Sun, смешав ритм-энд-блюз и кантри, элементы западного репертуара, как это было на всех его синглах Sun. Они усилили этот эффект, включив материал, перекликающийся с его самой первой пластинкой Sun «That's All Right (Mama)» и песню, записанную Биллом Монро, «When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again». На сеансах присутствовали несколько посторонних, а именно его тогдашняя подруга, актриса Натали Вуд и актер Ник Адамс, оба из которых снялись в «Бунтаре без причины», любимом фильме Пресли о Джеймсе Дине. Стив Шоулз был представителем RCA на сессии и занимался бумажной работой и тому подобным, но Элвис сам выбирал песни и вел сессию.

Пианист на этом альбоме не зарегистрирован в официальных архивах RCA Victor, за исключением песни «So Glad You're Mine», которая была вырезана на предыдущей сессии в Нью-Йорке. В интервью 1984 года, проведенном Яном-Эриком Кьесетом, Гордон Стокер из The Jordanaires заявил, что он был пианистом в большинстве песен альбома. В статье, написанной Кьесет для журнала Flaming Star, утверждалось, что пианистом в песнях «Love Me», «Old Shep» и «How's the World Treating You» был сам Элвис. Эрнст Йоргенсен, автор книги «Элвис Пресли - Исследование музыки», похоже, придерживается того же мнения. Кьесет также утверждает, что Элвис играл на пианино в сингле с этой сессии «Playing for Keeps». Опять же, Йоргенсен, похоже, придерживается того же мнения. Гордон Стокер играл на пианино в песнях «Rip it Up» и «Anyplace is Paradise».

Обложка

На лицевой стороне обложки альбома помещена фотография, сделанная в Голливуде в августе 1956 года.

Список композиций

Оригинальный выпуск

Выпуск 1999 года

Участники записи
 Элвис Пресли — вокал, ритм-гитара, пианино
 The Jordanaires — подпевки
 Скотти Мур — лидер-гитара
 Билл Блэк — контрабас

Чарты

Сертификации

Примечания

Ссылки
 Elvis на discogs.com

Альбомы Элвиса Пресли
Альбомы 1956 года
Альбомы RCA Victor


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HomeNewsFinance and fundingMore than 600 GP practices in England could be lost by 2022 without investment
More than 600 GP practices in England could be lost by 2022 without investment
Analysis by the British Medical Association (BMA) reveals that more than 600 GP practices could be lost by 2022 without additional investment
Based on the rate of practice closures and mergers, over both the last six years and between 2016-2017, the BMA has produced two projections which estimate that England is set to lose between 618 and 777 GP practices over the next four years.
Figures published by NHS Digital reveal that there were 166 fewer practices in 2017 (7,361) than in 2016 (7,527) and that the total has fallen by 963 since 2010 when there were 8,324 GP practices in England.
While this decrease in numbers will in part be as a result of mergers, the BMA says that many will have forced to merge or have closed as a result of continued pressure on general practice – the result of a decade of underinvestment and it is now calling on Prime Minister Theresa May to address underfunding in general practice – as part of her pledge to produce a long-term funding plan for the NHS.
The General Practice Forward View: Two Years On
These projections are part of the BMA's analysis of NHS England's GP Forward View (GPFV) – which committed an extra £2.4bn a year to support general practice by 2020/21 and included a package of measures aimed at improvements in five key areas: investment, workload, care redesign, practice infrastructure and workforce.
While progress has been made with some initiatives, the BMA said, the organisations latest report – The General Practice Forward View: Two Years On – highlights a number of areas in which it is falling short. These include:
It is not clear whether recurrent GPFV funding is on track, and it also remains unclear whether funding from additional resources from CCGs is being delivered.
Current funding for general practice falls £3.7 billion short of the BMA's target of 11 per cent of the NHS budget. Although additional funding for the NHS was committed in the Autumn Budget 2017, the amount going to general practice in real terms has not increased.
While more GPs appear to be entering training, GP recruitment still falls short of the annual recruitment target initially set in 2015/16 and remains well short of the number needed to replace those GPs leaving the profession.
A number of workforce initiatives – including the Targeted Recruitment Scheme, the GP Retention Scheme, and the Induction and Refresher Scheme – are having some positive impact, but processes need to be streamlined and funding made recurrent.
Securing funding to enable improvements to practice premises has been difficult, with many infrastructure schemes delayed.
Funding to enable online consultations has not been reaching enough practices.
Overall, GPFV is struggling to deliver on its commitments. Across general practice, there is a widespread view that it does not go "far enough, fast enough" and after two years it still does not have the confidence of GPs.
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Commenting on the report and it's findings, Dr Richard Vautrey, BMA GP committee chair, said:
"We have seen the devastating effect of practice closures over the last few years, with more than a million patients displaced since 2013, and now this analysis paints an even bleaker picture for the future.
"Patients already face unacceptably long waits for appointments, and without urgent government action and significantly more investment this will only get worse as millions more are left without a practice and struggling to find a new one.
"As GPs face the mounting pressures of increased demand, unmanageable workloads and lack of resources, more and more are leaving the profession or handing back their contracts. At the same time, too many medical school graduates are seeing the situation unfold in general practice and understandably choosing other specialities.
"The latest workforce figures speak for themselves, and just yesterday, the Health Secretary finally admitted that his pledge to hire an extra 5,000 GPs by 2020 was unreachable.
"In 2016 NHS England published its GP Forward View (GPFV), outlining a number of measures aimed at improving primary care provision and the working lives of doctors, but two years on, it's clear that it is struggling to deliver on its promises, leaving most of the profession unconvinced that the plan will make a material difference to their workload pressures.
"While progress has been made in a number of areas, GPFV has failed to make a big enough impact on the recruitment and retention crisis and has been unable, so far, to make any significant inroad into the unmanageable daily workload within general practice. Furthermore, despite frequent requests from the BMA, NHS England is yet to clarify whether its spending promises are on track.
"Overall, our research provides further evidence that general practice remains in critical condition.
"It does not have to be that way, however. The Prime Minister has pledged to lay out a long-term funding plan for the NHS later this year, and she must use this opportunity to tackle the decade of underinvestment in general practice. The future of primary care must be central to the discussions around the Prime Minister's plans and any announcements later this year.
"With proper investment that goes directly to practices and not blocked by time-consuming bureaucracy, a package of fully-resourced measures like those set out in the BMA's Saving General Practice4 report could have a real impact on the ground for GPs, practice teams and most importantly, their patients.
"General practice has been the foundation of the NHS for the last 70 years. It's time the government takes urgent action to guarantee its future for the next 70 years and more."
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The PP of Macael re-elects Guillermo Casquet to achieve a stronger party and a stronger town.
Casquet has been re-elected with the unanimous support of the militancy in a local congress in which the president of the PP of Almería, Javier A. García, has participated.
Partido Popular (PP) has elected a new executive in Macael. Guillermo Casquet has been re-elected president of the PP in this municipality in an act that has gathered more than 200 neighbours and that has counted with the participation of the President of the PP of Almería, Javier A. García, the Mayor of Macael, Raúl Martínez, and the president of NNGG Macael, Francisco Cruz.
Javier A. García highlighted the strength of the PP of Macael and its union: "The PP is not a sum of personal interests, it is a means to change and improve the lives of the people. The more strength the PP has, the better and bigger the municipality will be. To be a good member of the Partido Popular, you have to put general interests before personal interests", he added.
Similarly, the provincial president of the PP has highlighted the value of Guillermo and Raúl: "We learn from them every day, because their success is their work in favour of their neighbours. If election after election the PP wins, it is because your project represents the Macaeleros, identifies them and supports them".
For his part, Guillermo Casquet made a phrase of Díaz Ayuso his own and expanded on it: "You get out of socialism, but not only do you get out of it, but without it you achieve progress. For this reason, in our town we have the support of people of different ideologies, because they know that we govern for everyone. Macael is all of us and united we are the best", he assured.
Likewise, the re-elected president thanked the unanimous support of the militancy and assured that he will work together with Raúl to "make Macael and the PP bigger" and will continue to "unite Macael society" because "the sum of all makes Macael". "We will reward your support with effort, dedication and work".
Raúl Martínez assured that "Macael will work tirelessly so that Juanma Moreno becomes president of the Junta de Andalucía again and can continue to unblock projects that have been paralysed for decades by the PSOE".
He also took stock of his ten years at the head of Macael and explained his way of working: "We have worked our hearts out to improve our town. If our town improves, so do we. The only thing we want from the PP is to leave our children and yours the best town possible".
Francisco Cruz highlighted the enthusiasm that the PP transmits to young people through New Generations and the important initiatives that the Town Council is promoting for the young people of the municipality. He also thanked NNGG Almería for the support they receive in all their activities and proposals.
The new members of the Board of Directors have been renewed and people of different ages have been added, forming an executive that is a true reflection of the Macaelera society.
This is the only vermouth in the world that is macerated with seaweed.
Huércal-Overa prepares to experience the Magic of Christmas and enjoy it with the whole family


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Helge Detlef Risch (* 1962 oder 1963) ist ein Flottillenadmiral der Deutschen Marine und seit dem 1. September 2020 Militärattaché in der deutschen Botschaft Peking, Volksrepublik China, mit Nebenakkreditierung in der Mongolei.

Militärische Laufbahn
Im Jahr 2001 war Risch für ein Jahr als Erster Offizier im Dienstgrad Korvettenkapitän auf dem Segelschulschiff Gorch Fock. Später diente Risch im Führungsstab der Marine in Bonn. Am 29. September 2006 übernahm er bis 2008 das Kommando über die Fregatte Hamburg von Rainer Engelbert. Nachfolgend diente er in Norfolk/Virginia (Vereinigte Staaten) als Verbindungsoffizier und Militärattaché.

Am 24. August 2012 wurde Risch Kommandant der Gorch Fock. Nach knapp zwei Jahren übergab Risch am 28. Juni 2014 das Kommando über die Gorch Fock an seinen Nachfolger Nils Brandt.

Vor seiner Versetzung nach Peking als Militärattaché und Nachfolger von Jürgen Karl Uchtmann wurde Risch im Rahmen seiner Ausbildung zum Verteidigungsattaché im Streitkräfteamt in Bonn im temporären Dienstgrad (TR, temporary rank) Flottillenadmiral eingesetzt.

In China dient er mit dem Militärattachéstab an der deutschen Botschaft als Ansprechpartner für das Bundesministerium der Verteidigung und die Bundeswehr für Angelegenheiten in China.

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Shoveled into the net from behind, and the Buffalo Sabres have managed to come back and tie this game, and they wanted the guy to get it, and the guy who got it was the fellow who was just signed into the NHL for a season early in the day confirmed, Mikhail Grigorenko!
We'll absolutely give the Poet of the Pressbox the benefit of the doubt on his mouth-diarrhea, given his recent illness and general awesomeness. He'll make up for it, folks.
And frankly, it kinda fits. I think all our brains went a little fizzy when our latest Buffalo Sports Savior notched his first goal. I think we all went a little giddy and goofy, and that's a good thing.
Foligno just took hockey hugs to a new level. Pretty sure he's going to have to marry Grigorenko now.
Good thing Mike Weber got in there to spray them with snow and cool them off before things got serious.
Spray the rookie down hells yea!
And then this guy and his blade.
Next up: the Boston Bruins. And things get serious. Don't forget to enjoy the great moments like this one along the way.


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package com.dongle.screenshare;

import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;

public class BootReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {

    @Override
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        String action = intent.getAction();
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            intent.setClass(context, ScreenShareService.class);
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Q: AngularJs - `$http` works But `$resource` not working - how to apply `$http` params to `$resource` I am trying to post the image informations to back-end. I tried with $resource but not working. But when i tried with $http it seems that works. But i have added some of additiona params to $http - but i don't know how i can apply those params to $resource any one help me please?
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            console.log( response ); //nothing works!

         })

        //this is works!

         var base = _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + '/_vti_bin/CPMD.WEBSERVICE/ProjectInfoService.svc/UploadImage/';

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A: try this. That is after $resource definition, call post() with form data.
$scope.photoData = function (photoData) {

  console.log( "photo data", photoData ); //consoles properly

  var fd = new FormData();
  fd.append("photoData", photoData[0]);

  var fileASHXPath =   _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + '/_vti_bin/CPMD.WEBSERVICE/ProjectInfoService.svc/UploadImage/';

  $resource(fileASHXPath, {}, {
      post: {
        method: 'POST',
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        headers: { 'Content-Type': undefined }
      }
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    ).post({}, fd).$promise.then(function ( response ) {

      console.log( "response is", response );

  });
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A: Try invoking the resource. That is after $resource definition, call post().
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        post:{
            method:"POST",
            isArray:false,
            headers:{'Content-Type':'undefined'}
        }

    }).post().$promise.then(function ( response ) {

        console.log( "response is", response );

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Why Brit's would try CBD to navigate life's stresses
Ah, work-life balance is it an urban myth?
Eos Scientific, has commissioned nationally representative research across a sample of more than 2000 UK adults to find out how work-life balance in the UK is affecting our health.
21% of British people currently in employment, representing 6,578,126, said they worked longer than a 50-hour work week.
In a time where millennial burnout and competition for careers is at its peak, many companies are boasting of a commitment to work-life balance. Some are even going as far as to offer a four-day week.
What we do know, from both Eos Scientific's research and from case studies, is that millions of people in employment experience an unhealthy amount of stress and anxiety.
CBD for mental health
This deterioration is most prominent in those aged 18-34, the demographic in which 42% said that the last five years has negatively affected their mental health.
38% of Brits – more than 17.4 million – would use CBD oil to manage their mental health.
Seemingly most affected by the rise in anxiety and depression diagnoses, millennials are the group most willing to use CBD oil to manage stress, anxiety and depression. 50% would use CBD products for this and don't see any pitfalls or obstacles in the CBD glow up.
Natural alternative for city workers
Simon Manthorpe, CEO of Eos Scientific, comments:
"Our research is identifying a worrying trend in the UK's workforce – one that sees millions of people experience unhealthy levels of stress and anxiety as a result of increased working hours, less time for recreational activities and a financial squeeze on everyone."
Stay calm and CBD
The number of UK users of CBD oil has almost doubled in the last year, with many claiming the cannabis-based products are a more natural and easily accessible way to manage their mental health.
CBD Oil For Anxiety – Side Effects, Research, Uses and Risks
"While prescribed medicine will always be the recommendation of medical professionals, we are seeing increasing numbers of people turning to more alternative remedies, not just for their mental health but for any number of ailments."
April is Stress Awareness Month, a period in which experts and medical professionals aim to highlight the effect of stress on our bodies and minds. We think every month should have designated stress awareness time. If there are measures and tools that are helping you navigate life's grey fog, and CBD is one of them, shout it from the rooftops. In any month, time or moment, you could be helping a fellow sufferer. Stress shouldn't have to ruin your life or your health. Let's be kind to one another. Always.
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As the cable industry prepares to meet at Cable-Tec Expo* 2018, Intel continues to invest in end-end broadband solutions to deliver more bandwidth and lower latency. According to a Cisco report, fixed internet traffic is expected to have a compound annual growth rate of 23% through 2021. In order to meet this growing demand, various providers are utilizing existing cable infrastructure.
At Intel, we believe software defined network infrastructure will vastly improve resource management and allow MSOs to offer the bandwidth and lower latencies required for the new and exciting services they will offer their consumers.
With network requirements and delivery models evolving, MSOs need to deploy a mix of access technologies. Today's hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) nodes are purpose-built and cannot be easily changed after installation, leading to high deployment, inventory, and maintenance costs. Intel, Charter, and others in the industry are pioneering a new concept to address this challenge with the Generic Access Platform (GAP) reference architecture.
Intel has developed a GAP proof-of-concept compute module using the Intel® Xeon® D-2100 processor and Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA to consolidate wired and wireless access technologies on a shared, software-configurable platform. The module can run a wide range of network functions and new services within stringent power, space, and cost constraints. Intel plans to work with ecosystem partners to develop a GAP reference architecture that employs Intel® processors and an Intel-based remote PHY platform to create commercial compute modules based on the most recent GAP specification from SCTE (Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers). Using the tenets of NFVI, GAP nodes can be architected to also extend intelligence to the network's edge.
For more information about the GAP reference architecture, please read the recently published solution brief and join us for an Innovation Theatre presentation at Cable-Tec Expo 2018 entitled: The 'Cable Node' of the future is intelligent, modular and scalable on Thursday, Oct. 25th at 11:00 a.m. ET.
By virtualizing their networks and leveraging the latest data center technologies, MSOs can create an agile, software programmable network that can scale to meet the demands of today and the future. One immediate virtualization opportunity is at the edge of the fixed wireline network, where flexible and scalable virtual Converged Cable Access Platforms (vCCAP) and vCMTS (virtual Cable Modem Termination Systems) are beginning to be deployed. At Cable-Tec Expo 2018, Intel will show how a solution that adds intelligent orchestration and automation frameworks to the NFVI can autonomously determine opportunities to consolidate the vCCAP (or other VNF workloads) onto the fewest number of servers possible, reducing power usage by nearly 60% on average.
At the expo on Monday, we will have our Principle Engineers speaking at the Virtualizing the CMTS: Who's Doing What in vCMTS-ville session discussing this state of the art research and development and its impact on the industry. In addition we invite you to check out our recently published whitepapers on how virtualization, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI) are being utilized to usher in a new era of intelligence and optimization for today's rapidly changing networks.
GAP, virtualization, and AI are all ways for cable networks to help keep pace with increasing demands for bandwidth. Together, they can transform the business. Looking to the future, MSOs will look to leverage existing HFC networks to participate in the coming 5G era which will bring exciting new means of connectivity and use cases. Now's the time to start planning. It's an invigorating time in the industry, and I hope you can join us for conversations, demos, and panels happening at this year's Cable-Tec Expo.
For more information about Intel's investments in network technology for the cable industry, visit intel.com/cable.


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January, February, March, and April are dominated by trade shows, such as the International Boat and Automobile shows, Metro Home Show, Outdoor Adventure Sport Show, and more. For information, call Tourism Toronto (tel. 800/499-2514 or 416/203-2600; www.torontotourism.com).
For an exhaustive list of events beyond those listed here, check http://events.frommers.com, where you'll find a searchable, up-to-the-minute roster of what's happening in cities all over the world.
Interior Design Show, Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Since 1999 design aficionados have been visiting this 3-day convention, which celebrates design and architecture with fascinating exhibits and interesting speakers. Mid-January.
Winterlicious, citywide. Baby, it's cold outside, but Toronto's restaurants really know how to heat things up. Roughly 220 of the city's finest eateries offer prix-fixe lunch ($23–$33) and dinner menus ($33–$53). Late January through early February. Note: Bookings open early January; spots fill up fast at such hot-ticket restaurants as Canoe.
Canadian International AutoShow, Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Every year, almost 300,000 auto fanatics pilgrim here for a 10-day automobile show to ogle the futuristic alternative energy vehicles and souped-up exotics on display.
Kuumba Festival, Harbourfront Centre. One of Toronto's longest-running festivals celebrating black history and the black community, Kuumba brings photographers, comedians, speakers and performers together.
Lunar New Year Celebrations, various sites in the city. Festivities include traditional and contemporary performances of Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese opera, dancing, music, and more. Harbourfront often has excellent performances throughout the 2-week fete. For more information on the lineup, visit www.harbourfrontcentre.com.
Rhubarb Festival, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Canada's longest-running new works festival has been putting Canada's most boundary-pushing theater in front of audiences for the past 4 decades.
Blue Jays Season Opener, Rogers Centre. Turn out to root for your home-away-from-home team. For tickets, visit https://www.mlb.com/bluejays. Late March to early April.
Canada Blooms, Enercare Centre. At this time of year, any glimpse of greenery is welcome. Canada Blooms treats visitors to a sprawling series of indoor gardens and flower displays, seminars with green-thumb experts, and competitions. Second or third week of March.
One-of-a-Kind Craft Show, Enercare Centre. More than 500 crafts artists from across Canada display their unique wares at this craft show. Late March to early April; check for exact dates.
St. Patrick's Day Parade, downtown. Toronto's own version of the classic Irish celebration. Call 416/487-1566 or visit www.stpatrickstoronto.com. March 17. Some years held on different days.
Toronto ComiCon, Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Locals know that this 3-day fete has taken over the Convention Centre when X-Men, Pokemon, and Sailor Scouts are seen riding the streetcars next to the regular nine-to-fivers in suits. Anime lovers and fantasy geeks flock to Toronto for this event, which brings in celebs for panel discussions and fan meet-and-greets. Mid-March; check for dates.
Toronto Festival of Storytelling, various venues. This event celebrates international folklore with almost 100 storytellers imparting legends and fables from around the world. Go to www.torontofestivalofstorytelling.ca. Late March to early April; check for dates.
Hot Docs Film Festival, citywide. North America's largest documentary festival has grown from a modest celebration to a 10-day extravaganza showcasing more than 240 films from some 40 countries. Late April to early May.
Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. This festival presents the plays of George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, as well as modern works, too. Early April through first weekend of December.
Total Health Show, Metro Convention Centre. Founded in 1975, this 3-day event organizes panels and events with medical professionals, authors, alternative practitioners, organic farmers, and local chefs to talk about public and personal health issues. Mid-April.
Canadian Music Week, citywide. Over the course of this 2-week music fest, more than 1,000 bands from Canada and abroad descend on the city to perform at 60 different venues. There's also an industry conference with workshops and talks. Mid-May.
CONTACT Photography Festival, citywide. This annual month-long event shows the work of more than 500 Canadian and international photographers. May 1 to 31.
Doors Open Toronto, citywide. Hugely popular, this weekend event invites city residents and visitors alike to tour some of Toronto's architectural marvels. Some of the more than 150 participating buildings aren't normally open to the public, and all are free of charge. Late May.
Inside Out, citywide. This 9-day LGBT film festival has nurtured plenty of new talent and supported many established artists. Late May through early June.
The Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario. Featuring a wide range of contemporary and classic plays, this festival always includes several works by Shakespeare. Late April through early November.
Pedestrian Sundays, Kensington Market. Throughout the warmer months, Toronto's colorful Kensington Market is closed to cars. There are impromptu parades, buskers, snack vendors, and artists roaming the streets where cars once parked. Late May through to the end of October.
Luminato, citywide. First launched in 2007, this 9-day arts festival has quickly become a highlight on the city's calendar. Featuring music, dance, theater, art, and educational programs, it really does offer something for the whole family. Early to mid-June.
North by Northeast Festival, citywide. Known in the music biz as NXNE, this hot event features rock and indie bands at multiple venues around town.
TD Toronto Jazz Festival, citywide. Jazz legends, ingénues, and up-and-comers perform at venues big and small. Recently, the 4-decade-old music fest centered around Yorkville, with pop-up stages and concerts taking place in funky bars and elegant halls such as Koerner Hall. Late June/early July; dates vary.
Toronto International Dragon Boat Race Festival, Centre Island. More than 180 teams of dragon-boaters compete in the 2-day event, which commemorates the death of the Chinese philosopher and poet Qu Yuan. Mid-June.
Pride Toronto, citywide. Celebrating Toronto's queer community, Pride features events, performances, symposiums, and parties. It culminates in an extravagant Sunday parade, one of the biggest in North America. Late June.
Toronto Fringe Festival, citywide. More than 100 troupes participate in this 11-day grassroots theater festival. Family-friendly works are presented under the FringeKinds! banner. Late June to early July.
Beaches International Jazz Festival, Queen Street East, east of Woodbine. Both local and international jazz artists turn out for this annual festival, which plays out over the month of July. All of the performances are free. Late July.
Canada Day Celebrations, citywide. Street parties, fireworks, and other special events commemorate the day. For information, visit the Tourism Toronto website at www.seetorontonow.com. July 1.
Caribbean Carnival, citywide. Toronto's version of Carnival, colloquially referred to as Caribana, transforms the city for an entire month. It's complete with traditional foods from the Caribbean and Latin America, ferry cruises, picnics, children's events, and concerts, and culminates with an epic parade. Early July through early August.
Honda Indy, the Exhibition Place Street circuit. Formerly known as the Molson Indy, this is one of Canada's major races on the IndyCar circuit. Away from the track, you'll find live music and beer gardens. Second weekend in July.
RBC Canadian Open, Hamilton Golf & Country Club, Hamilton. Formerly called the PGA Tour Canadian Open, Canada's national golf tournament has featured the likes of Greg Norman and Tiger Woods. Early July.
Salsa In Toronto, citywide. This 3-week Latino festival culminates with Salsa on St. Clair, a riotous 2-day street party with dancing, vendors, and live music. Early July; dates vary.
Summerlicious, citywide. It's just like January's Winterlicious event, except that you can dine alfresco. The prix-fixe menus are some of the best deals around. See www.toronto.ca for details and a complete list of participating restaurants. First 2 weeks of July.
Toronto Summer Music Festival, various venues in Toronto. Whether you're bonkers about baroque or ravished by the Russian composers, this celebration of classical music is sure to delight. There are concerts, master classes, lectures and more, all on a classic note, of course. Mid-July through early August.
BuskerFest, Woodbine Park. Jugglers, acrobats, mimes, magicians, musicians, and other street entertainers swarm this east end park for a 4-day stretch. Late August.
Canadian National Exhibition, Exhibition Place. It's an old-style touring amusement fair. One of the world's largest exhibitions, this 18-day extravaganza features midway rides, display buildings, free shows, and grandstand performers. The 3-day Canadian International Air Show (first staged in 1878) is a bonus. Mid-August through Labor Day.
Rogers Cup, Aviva Centre at York University. This international tennis championship is an important stop on the pro tennis tour. Early August.
Taste of the Danforth, Danforth Avenue, starting at Broadview Avenue. Toronto's Hellenic neighborhood puts on a weekend-long party in August. The major thoroughfare is transformed into a street party fueled by gyros, loukoumades, spanakopita, live music, and ouzo. Opa! Early August.
JFL42, citywide. This offshoot of the successful Montréal-based comedy festival Just for Laughs brings to town the world's top comics, alongside emerging talent. Late September.
Toronto International Film Festival, citywide. The stars come out for one of the largest film festivals in the world. Almost 400 films from 80-plus countries are shown over 10 days. Outside of red-carpet season, award-winning artsy flicks are screened year-round at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. For information, go to www.tiff.net. Mid-September.
Word on the Street, Harbourfront Centre. This literati-loved event celebrates the written word with readings, discounted books and magazines, and children's events. Other major Canadian cities hold similar events throughout September. Last weekend in September.
International Festival of Authors, Harbourfront. Founded in 1980, this renowned 10-day literary festival is arguably the most prestigious in Canada. It draws the absolute top writers from around the world and at home, and has also proven to be an important stage for discovering new talent. Among the literary luminaries who have appeared are Salman Rushdie, Margaret Drabble, Thomas Kenneally, Joyce Carol Oates, A. S. Byatt, and Margaret Atwood. For information, visit www.readings.org. Late October through early November.
Nuit Blanche, citywide. Art takes over the street for this all-night art party. Installations pepper the town, and bars stay open until nearly dawn. For details, visit www.toronto.ca. Early October; some years late September.
Oktoberfest, Kitchener–Waterloo, about 1 hour from Toronto. This famed 9-day drinkfest features cultural events, plus a pageant and parade. Mid-October.
Toronto Maple Leafs Opening Night, Scotiabank Arena. Torontonians love their hockey team, and opening night is always a big event. For tickets, visit www.nhl.com/mapleleafs/tickets. October.
Cavalcade of Lights, Nathan Phillips Square. This holiday celebration brings to life the skating rink at City Hall with a fantastic light show, performances, parties, and fireworks. Visit www.toronto.ca for more information. Late November through late December.
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, Exhibition Place. The 12-day show is the largest indoor agricultural and equestrian competition in the world. Displays include giant vegetables and fruits, homey crafts, farm machinery, livestock, and more. A member of the British royal family traditionally attends the horse show; in 2010, Prince Charles and Camilla cut the ribbon. Mid-November.
Santa Claus Parade, downtown. A favorite with kids since 1905, it features marching bands, floats, clowns, and jolly St. Nick. American visitors are usually surprised that the parade's in November, but it's better than watching Santa try to slide through slush. Third Sunday of November.
Toronto Christmas Market, Distillery District. Toronto's pedestrian-only, redbrick Victorian neighborhood is transformed into a winter wonderland with a giant tree, singing elves, and a European-styled Christmas market, with vendors selling everything from pies to ornaments and slippers. Mid-November until late December.
New Year's Eve at City Hall. In Nathan Phillips Square and in Mel Lastman Square in North York, concerts begin at around 10pm to usher in the countdown to the New Year. Visit www.toronto.ca for more information. December 31.
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Sine is an unfinished remake of Asteroids that I've made using C++ and [SFML](https://github.com/SFML/SFML).

## Screenshots

| In-game                                                | High score entry                                                                                |
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| ![Firing at some asteroids in Sine](Media/In-game.png) | ![Entering initials on the high score screen after beating a score](Media/High-score-entry.png) |

## Download

Releases for Windows and [TempleOS](https://github.com/slx7R4GDZM/Sine/tree/HolyC) can be found [here](https://github.com/slx7R4GDZM/Sine/releases).

## Default controls

| Action         | Key              |
|----------------|------------------|
| 1 Player Start | 1     |
| 2 Player Start | 2     |
| Rotate Left    | A     |
| Rotate Right   | D     |
| Thrust         | W     |
| Fire Photon    | E     |
| Hyperspace     | Space |
| Left Coin      | 🡨     |
| Center Coin    | 🡫     |
| Right Coin     | 🡪     |
| Fullscreen     | F11   |
| Exit           | Esc   |

## Compiling

See [Building.md](Build/Building.md) for build instructions.

## What's with the strange constants?

The vector and text constants were made with [Sine Toolkit](https://github.com/slx7R4GDZM/Sine-Toolkit).

## License information

This project is licensed under the terms of the [MIT License](License.txt).\
SFML is licensed under the terms of the [zlib/png license](https://www.sfml-dev.org/license.php).