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The Canadian province of Saskatchewan is geographically located in the Mountain Time Zone (GMT−07:00).  However, most of the province observes Central Standard Time (CST) (GMT−06:00) year-round. As a result, it is effectively on daylight saving time (DST) year-round, as clocks are not turned back an hour in autumn when most jurisdictions return to standard time.

The city of Lloydminster and several small communities around Lloydminster are the only exceptions to this arrangement.  Located partly in Saskatchewan and partly in Alberta, Lloydminster observes Mountain Time year-round, and it changes its clocks forward to Mountain Daylight Time each summer. The smaller communities around the city that also change time include Marsden, Neilburg, Marshall, Lashburn and Maidstone.  Because of this, the time in Saskatchewan is the same in all parts of the province during summer months only.

During the summer, clocks in the entire province match those of Calgary, Edmonton and Denver.  During the winter, clocks in most of the province outside Lloydminster match those of Winnipeg and Chicago.

History
In 1912, the first law was passed that called for the use of standard time. This law left the choice of time zone up to the municipal government.  The result was a patchwork of towns following either of the two neighbouring time zones—Mountain Standard Time (MST) or Central Standard Time—with or without daylight saving time.

During World War I and World War II, all municipalities were forced to adopt daylight saving time to save on fuel, but they were not forced to adopt the same time zone.

In 1966, the Saskatchewan provincial government sought the help of a professional astronomer living in the province.  The Milton Study (Earl R.V. Milton – A submission to the Government of Saskatchewan regarding time zones in Saskatchewan, 1966) a) concluded that Saskatchewan is in the Mountain Standard Time Zone, and b) suggested that the three prairie provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) covered too much area to share a single time zone.

In 1966, based on the Milton Study, the Saskatchewan government passed Chapter 85, to be known as the Time Act, 1966 (Statutes of Saskatchewan, 1966). The key points of this act were:
The eastern part of Saskatchewan will permanently be one hour ahead of Mountain Standard Time (the equivalent of Central Standard Time).
In the western part of Saskatchewan (i.e., all points west of Saskatoon), municipal governments will still be able to choose what time zone to follow.

The only cities that chose not to match the rest of Saskatchewan's time zone were in the southwest, in the areas around Lloydminster and Swift Current.  Part of Lloydminster spills into Alberta, which mandates the use of daylight saving time.  In order to keep clocks synchronised throughout the city, Lloydminster chose to follow Alberta's practice of observing daylight saving time—effectively placing Lloydminster and the surrounding area on Mountain Time year-round. Swift Current and surrounding communities also observed Mountain Time until April 30, 1972, when they changed to match the rest of the province.

With respect to some province-wide matters, such as provincial elections, Central Standard Time is effectively used province-wide.   This means that during any provincial general election held when Daylight Saving Time is not in effect in Lloydminster, polls in that city will open and close an hour earlier local time compared to the rest of the province.  For other matters (for example, liquor laws), the local time is always the effective time in Lloydminster.

The town of Creighton which is across the border from the larger community of Flin Flon, Manitoba unofficially observes Central Daylight Time (CDT) with the rest of Manitoba.  Unlike Lloydminster, Creighton's use of Central Daylight Time has no legal sanction at the provincial level.  This has some interesting side effects—for example, liquor establishments in Creighton are able to stay open one hour later than establishments in Flin Flon whilst Central Daylight Time is in effect since a liquor establishment in Creighton can only be bound to observe Central Standard Time by provincial law.

In the early part of the 21st century, discussion was renewed over whether Saskatchewan should change its clocks seasonally to be synchronised with other provinces' practice.  By extension, the question was raised whether to return to the Mountain Time Zone (which would set clocks backward an hour in winter from their current observation), or to remain in the Central Time Zone (which would set clocks forward an hour in summer from their current observation, effectively enacting double Daylight Saving Time).  Premier Brad Wall had pledged to hold a referendum in the 2011 provincial election, but he later decided against it, saying it would be a waste of money since polls consistently showed a strong majority favoured the status quo.

Saskatchewan Time Zone
Due to these discrepancies, many computer programs and major operating systems offer a distinct "Saskatchewan" option when listing time zone options that automatically disables seasonal clock changes for Daylight Saving. In the tz database, both the America/Regina and America/Swift_Current entries result in Saskatchewan time.

The current wording of the Time Act dictates "Central standard time shall be used and observed throughout the year", which is defined to be "the time that is six hours behind Greenwich time".  With respect to mean solar time, however, this translates into Saskatchewan effectively being on Daylight Saving Time year-round. In the map above, Saskatchewan is the rectangle of Central Standard Time protruding into Mountain Standard Time in Canada, visually displaying that geographically, Saskatchewan is in the Mountain Time Zone.

See also
 Time in Canada
 Time in Arizona

References

 The Saskatchewan Time System Saskatchewan Ministry of Municipal Affairs

Daylight saving time in Canada
Time in Canada

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This creative project provided portfolio work samples from a project-based upper level Apparel Merchandising and Product Development course. Photographs were taken during the Futuristic Floral Fashion Show in April 2017; photos were edited and distributed to students for portfolio use. It is recommended that final garment photography become an annual part of the AMPD programs annual fashion show. Also, early emphasis on portfolio building paired with formal portfolio building through course work is essential for creative majors.
Lauer, Zoë, "Importance of Portfolio Building for University Students" (2018). Apparel Merchandising and Product Development Undergraduate Honors Theses. 5.


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ERA Franchise Systems LLC launched its European expansion in 1993 with the opening of ERA France. Today, ERA Europe is one of the fastest growing residential real estate networks in Europe with 1,108+ offices in year 2016 operating in 13 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey.
ERA Franchise Systems, LLC is a global leader in the residential real estate industry with more than 40 years experience in developing consumer-oriented products and services. The ERA network includes more than 33,000 brokers and sales associates and approximately 2,390 offices throughout the United States and over 35 other countries and territories. Each office is independently owned and operated.
The real estate industry is continually evolving and at lightning speed. We know that no single individual or company can effectively keep up with this whirlwind of constant change.
In Europe, each culture, each economy has a history and business cycle all its own. At ERA Real Estate we focus on keeping one step ahead, on learning from our successes and mistakes; using our global resources to understand what cultural adjustments are needed, to ensure methods, tools and systems are seamlessly integrated. The ERA management team enjoys decades of expertise from developing businesses in many diverse markets; we are proficient at sifting through what works, what does not; are keen listeners who thoughtfully adapt the ERA Systems to ensure maximum potential and benefit for our partners. This is a significant added-value when joining the ERA Real Estate Network. It is our desire to share this expertise, to help your business thrive.
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Yamaha Marine Announces Marine Plastics Initiative in Support of Save Our Seas Act
Kennesaw, Ga. – July 30, 2018 – Yamaha Marine Group today announced a new marine plastics removal program in support of the Save Our Seas Act (S. 756), which was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on July 25, 2018. The bill aims to strengthen research and international coordination of anti-debris efforts to protect America's oceans, coastlines, and inland waterways. The Yamaha Marine Plastics Initiative not only endorses the bill, but aims to raise awareness and advocacy for the issue of ocean plastics and for further legislation.
The bipartisan Save Our Seas Act was introduced in the U.S. Senate by Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) in 2017. It passed the Senate in August of 2017, but was stalled in the House until this summer.
"Yamaha Marine has supported the Save Our Seas Act from its inception, by raising awareness for the bill and encouraging advocacy," said Ben Speciale, Yamaha Marine Group President. "It is crucial to support our oceans so that we can continue to enjoy our fisheries, our resources and creating memories out on the water."
A Yamaha Marine team traveled to Washington, D.C. last week to present ideas for the Yamaha Marine Plastics Initiative with the offices of Senators Sullivan and Booker and Representative Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) In addition, they met with Representatives Charles Crist (D-Fla.) and Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.), to discuss and refine the program and gauge interest in additional legislation to mitigate ocean plastics.
"We want to maintain the momentum of the Save Our Seas Act, which speaks to the heart of marine conservation," said Martin Peters, Senior Manager, Government Relations, Yamaha Marine Group. "The Yamaha Marine Plastics Initiative will continue to raise awareness among consumers for the problem of ocean plastics, encourage further bipartisan legislative action, and support a plastics removal program that all boaters and anglers can take part in."
The Save Our Seas Act now awaits action in the Senate after having been amended by the House. Yamaha encourages boaters and anglers to continue to send prewritten letters of support to their legislators through BassforSalt.com.
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The Shield • April 6, 2017 • https://usishield.com/25334/news/senior-claims-top-honor/
Senior claims top honor
Evan Stieler crowns fellow homecoming court member Virgilio Paulino at the PAC. Stieler was the 2015-2016 homecoming king.
Evan Stieler said during the college search he wanted to go somewhere that would let him play basketball.
"I think I was in that mindset of the high school athlete like 'oh I have to keep playing,'" he said.
Stieler, a senior biology major, will be awarded the President's Medal at commencement April 29. The recipient of the award is chosen by the Student Affairs Committee of the Faculty Senate.
Originally from Newburgh, Stieler said he has fallen in love with the community and the opportunities he has been granted have led to a lot of personal growth.
"I was very honored to be able to represent the senior class," he said. "Some of these people I have really gotten to know over the past four years. It's the perfect close to my undergraduate experience. It's been a lot of fun and I've learned a lot."
Of the long list of organizations Stieler is involved with, which includes Student Ambassadors, SGA and Board of Trustees, he said he had the most fun being a Resident Assistant for the Honors Living Learning Community.
"Getting close to 30 freshmen every year and really being their connection to the university at first and helping them form their own experiences is so rewarding," he said. "Seeing some of these residents go from when they enter as a nervous freshman and when they leave going into their sophomore year, they are a completely changed person. To be able to witness that I believe is the essence of college."
Stieler said getting involved on campus was what made him feel at home.
"It really plugged me in. I learned so much about the university and its history and its mission," he said.
Stieler said he plans to attend medical school next year, but is unsure of where. He said the faculty has been a huge help in advising him.
"They even gave me their personal cell phone numbers so throughout the whole medical school process I could just text them with any questions," he said. "Them willing to take their time really meant a lot to me, and it really showed me how much they care about the students here. I think it's a testament to the quality of our faculty here."
Assistant Professor of Biology Kimberly Delaney is one of the faculty members advising Stieler on options next year.
Delaney said Stieler has matured both socially and intellectually in the classroom.
"Evan has all of the intellectual capabilities to meet the rigor of medical school, and I think his level of involvement here on campus has made it clear that he can manage to balance that classroom pressure very well," she said.
Delaney said Stieler is one of the brightest students she has taught during her time at the university because he is fun to teach and he is a leader among his peers.
"If he's having a good time in the classroom, there's a good chance other people are having a good time in the classroom and that means something," she said. "When you have 38 people staring back at you on a topic they're not interested in, you want them to be relaxed, you want them to be enjoying themselves and Evan really contributes to that more than a lot of students have ever seen."
Delaney said Stieler's peers recognize him as a natural leader, and she believes this is his greatest feature.
"I sat at a table with some current presidential scholars who were trying to get current high school students to come here and they said 'oh you have to live in the Honors Living Learning Community' and they didn't say that because it had better rooms, it was because of Evan," she said. "He was a reason to pick a dorm."


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Q: Getting value from an abstract class So I'm trying to get value of Speed from class Players and transfer it to variable newSpeed in Class Player1.However Iam still unable make Speed from Players pass the value to newSpeed of class Player1. The value of newspeed should have been 2 but it stil remains as 0. I have been stuck at it for more than 2 hours. I really need help.
P/S: I did not include my Driver class because i belive the problem lies somewhere here. However i can still include them here if u need it
Class Players:
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   protected static int speed=2;
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This is what i have tried.

A: Change the Player2 as below to get expected result
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In the Player2 Constructor you were setting the instance value to super instance value, so you have to change the condition to get expected result

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Speaking of Dr. Bauman's appointment, Chief Executive of Walden, Dr. Kathleen O'Brien said "Sam has been a friend of Walden for years and a valued colleague. We are excited that he has joined "Team Walden".
Dr. Bauman is the recipient of multiple awards including: the Maryland Association of Psycho-Social Rehabilitation Programs Project of the Year for Youth Rehabilitation (1988); the Mental Health Association of Charles County Outstanding Community Service Award (1995); the Maryland Senate Official Citation for Service with Youth and Families Friends of the Family Award (2000); and the City of Alexandria Outstanding Employee Service Award (2005 & 2006).


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Q: API naming convention when fetching single resource list from collection resource Let's think that we need endpoint which returns address of users. User ids 1,2,3 and we want to get those users' address. So, when designing api, how should be our route? Normally, when we want to get single user's address we should use:
Get Request -> https://example.com/users/1/address
So, what about with multiple users' address scenario? Scenarios comes to my mind are:
1.Get Request -> https://example.com/users/1,2,3/address (Actually i think that this is not proper way)
2.Get Request -> https://example.com/users/address?user-id=1,2,3
3.Get Request -> https://example.com/users/address?user-id=1&user-id=2&user-id=3


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Кривоносове () — село у Розсошанському районі Воронезької області Російської Федерації.

Населення становить 988 осіб. Входить до складу муніципального утворення Кривоносовське сільське поселення.

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Населений пункт розташований у межах українського краю Східної Слобожанщини.

Від 1928 року належить до Розсошанського району, спочатку у складі Центрально-Чорноземної області, а від 1934 року Воронезької області.

Згідно із законом від 15 жовтня 2004 року входить до складу муніципального утворення Кривоносовське сільське поселення.

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Archive for the 'Iyer, Lars' Category
Spurious, by Lars Iyer
Purchased at Chapters.ca
A novel that shares its title with the author's blog — you have to appreciate the implicit sense of humor. Not just that, Lars Iyer's playfulness promises an encore — the back cover of this recently-issued debut announces that a "sequel" is coming, with Spurious to be followed in 2012 by Dogma.
Lars Iyer is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. And while Spurious certainly reflects his day-job and abilities there, I would have to say that even more it reflects an ability to turn a pleasantly critical (maybe sardonic would be a better description) eye on the author himself.
I have a fondness for novels that are centred on "spaces" where the author defines the surrounding parameters but leaves the space itself undescribed — the joy for the reader lies in filling in those voids himself. Examples on this blog would included the novellas of Jean Echenoz (reviews of four can be found here, so maybe it is more than simply a fondness) and Cynthia Ozick's most recent work, Foreign Bodies.
Spurious is the dialectic pole of those books — the narrative is about the neutral, transitional spaces with the reader left to figure out just what are the circumstances around them. Consider this example from early in the book:
'Something inside you always knew, didn't it?' W. says. 'Didn't your teachers say as much on your report card: Lars has a stutter, but it doesn't seem to both him'? Buy why was I unbothered?, W. wonders. Did I imagine that my shame should end with the sign of my shame? I wasn't ashamed of my shame, that's the point, W. says. My shame didn't prompt me to thought and reflection. It didn't make me change my ways.
It's all down to my non-Catholicism and non-Judaism, W. says. Only for a Jew and Catholic like himself (W.'s family are converts), is it possible to feel shame about shame.
There is a before and after to shame and they are what exists in reality; "shame" is merely the vehicle. But Iyer offers only hints about the before and afters; his interest is in the point of transition. Here is another example, which follows directly in the novel from the previous quote:
W. dreams of serious conversation. Not that it would have serious topics, you understand, he says — that it would be concerned, for example, with the great topics of the day. — 'Speech itself would be serious', he says with great vehemence. That's what he found with the real thinkers he's known. Everything they say is serious; they're incapable of being unserious.
The quotes introduce the characters of the book. Both W. and Iyer are philosophy lecturers and both want to develop a "thought" that would give theme credence in the world of philosophy. Alas, they are spinning mental wheels on the way to that goal, caught in the mire of their trade — real achievement for them amounts to being asked to present lectures at conferences that feature better gin. One more quote to illustrate their focus on that "space" between wanting to create a real "thought" and what they actually do produce:
W. says I didn't even read the chapters he sent to me. He could tell: my remarks were too general. I did read them, I tell him, well, nearly all of them. — 'You didn't read chapter five,' says W., 'with the dog'. He was very proud of his pages on his dog, even though he doesn't own a dog. 'You should always include a dog in your books', says W.
It's a bit like his imaginery children in his previous book, W. says. — 'Do you remember the passages on children?' Even W. wept. He weeps now to think of them. He's very moved by his own imaginery examples, he says.
He wants to work a nun into his next book, he says. An imaginery nun, the kindest and most gentle person in the world.
Not surprisingly, W. and Iyer are isolated in their concerns and have only each other on whom to bounce their unformed ideas — that too has a geographical dialectic to it, with W. isolated in Plymouth and Iyer up in the northeast. W. finds Iyer both lazy and, frankly, stupid, but he is still dependent on him as a listening post.
The two have looked for leaders in the real world whom they could adopt and follow. They have even discovered three, but the results have always been the same:
But then the disaster happened, W. remembers. We told him, didn't we? We told him he was our leader. We told him what we hoped he'd make us become. We told him of our hopes and fears … That's where it all went wrong, we agree. We scared him off. After that, we resolved never to tell our leaders that they were our leaders, but we couldn't help it.
The two do have a historical example for their aspirations — Max Brod, Kafka's friend, biographer and literary executor (again, it is no surprise that the two consider Kafka their "spiritual leader"). While Brod himself never achieved a "thought", he was essential to Kafka's thoughts receiving attention since he ignored the author's instructions to destroy all his works, publishing them instead.
The real world also intrudes in another thread of the novel, in a literally pervasive sense. Iyer's northeast cottage is subject to the intrusion of a "damp" that is confounding all the experts — despite constant efforts to halt it, they are only successful in the moment and the damp eventually creeps back. It is destroying the entire structure.
Leo Benedictus might think The Afterparty is "a new kind of novel" that inaugurates a world of post-post-modernism. It isn't — as a commentor here observed, reading it is the literary equivalent of scanning the tabloids at the supermarket checkout counter. Lars Iyer, on the other hand, has actually produced one.
Despite that judgment, I have to confess that my response to Spurious was more one of intrigued curiosity than being taken on a voyage into serious contemplation — it reminded me of philosophy department parties in my university student days when I listened to complex conversations that pretty much befuddled me, not sure whether it was the drink (affecting both speakers and listener) or the thoughts that produced the befuddlement.
When Spurious first arrived, the exceptional cover (which is an excellent visual version of the dilemma developed in the written book) immediately reminded me of Lee Rourke's The Canal. Lo and behold, who should be blurbing this book on the back cover but Rourke ("a beguiling, philosophical exploration of humour and ideas […] at once fresh, hilarious and touching"), a fair enough assessment and Rourke's novel does have comparison points with this one. If the cover appeals to you as much as it did to me, you will find that Iyer does deliver on that promise. I may even give Spurious a reread before taking on Dogma.
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May 24, 2019 | By Stand for Israel | IFCJ in the News | Israel | Video
As wildfires threaten many areas of the Holy Land, our hearts were broken to hear of the loss of an entire village. The Times of Israel tells us about how nearly all of the homes in Moshav Mevo Modiim were lost, but that those who call the village home have vowed that they will rebuild:
A community founded by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach has been almost completely destroyed by fire, local authorities said Thursday, as a rash of wildifres ravaged the area.
Mevo Modiim, a community of some 250 people nestled into the Ben Shemen forest east of Tel Aviv, was one of several communities completely evacuated Thursday, as homeowners attempted to get out of the way of the raging flames.
Some 40 of the 50 homes in the town were damaged by the fire, according to the Ynet news site. Firefighters only managed to get the blaze there and in other areas around the forest under control late Thursday, according to reports.
Pictures of the small town showed homes and cars completely destroyed by the fire, which swept through the area aided by stifling temperatures and stiff winds.
Authorities shut Route 443, a main artery connecting Jerusalem and Tel Aviv that runs near the community, as flames licked brush near the highway.
"Most people are just thankful that nobody was hurt," a local government source told the Haaretz daily. "This is a tough night. The community needs to be rebuilt from scratch…"
Please continue to pray for God's hand of protection over those in the path of these wildfires, for those who are risking their lives to save the lives of others, and learn how you can Stand for Israel in her time of need.
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The Holy Nature team travels by boat to a 'secret' island and explore it's ancient castle. Afterward they visit Konstantin, a life-long Naturist like the generations before him, and his talented daughter Julia, a professional gymnast with world class talent. Julia performs rhythmic gymnastic routines, accompanied by Russian music. A dramatic and spiritually uplifting video.


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This beautiful city began as a trading post in the 1800s and has grown in size while still retaining its small-town charm. Kissimmee hugs the northwest shore of Lake Tohopekaliga (also known as Lake Toho), the seventh largest lake in the state. Location means everything in this Florida town with its proximity to a diverse range of activities, from the splashy nearby Orlando attractions to the retro Old Town entertainment complex and local river boat tours. This cozy city will have you wishing you lived here (unless, of course, you do). More highlights include:
Kissimmee Lakefront Park. This site offers a gorgeous view of Lake Toho, and visitors can enjoy walking paths, pavilions, picnic areas, a playground, splash pad, farmers market, and a lighthouse.
The Kissimmee Air Museum and Warbird Adventures. You'll find 22 aircraft on display, including a 1928 Arrow Sport and a North American P-51 XR Mustang, as well as an engine and gun collection, and WWII artifacts. You can also take flight with an instructor in a North American T-6 Texan through the Warbird Adventures flying school.
The Monument of States. This towering structure was completed in 1943 and contains a rock from each of the states. Instigated by Charles W. Bressler-Pettis, a retired physician and President of the All States Tourist Club, the beautiful monument weighs 100,000 pounds and contains 1500 stones and objects from around the world.
It's interesting to note that Lake Kissimmee is actually located in Lake Wales, Florida, which is further south of the city.
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Q: Take values from a buffer C++ I want to take the first 8 bytes (64 bits) from a buffer and combine them into a large number to use later on in the program. I am getting the info in the buffer from a HDD and I want to use it.  I'm using Visual C++ 2012.

A: if you have a char* buffer, and you want to store 64 bits, the simplest way would be:
char *buffer = "this is a test";
long long stored = *reinterpret_cast<long long *>(buffer);

and if you want to get your bytes back:
char *retrieved = reinterpret_cast<char*>(&stored);

A: There are two obvious ways you can do this. The first is mathematically:
const unsigned char* buffer;
unsigned __int64 iValue;

iValue = buffer[0]
     | ( buffer[1] << 8 )
     | ( buffer[2] << 16 )
     | ( buffer[3] << 24 )
     | ( static_cast<unsigned __int64>(buffer[4]) << 32 )
     | ( static_cast<unsigned __int64>(buffer[5]) << 40 )
     | ( static_cast<unsigned __int64>(buffer[6]) << 48 )
     | ( static_cast<unsigned __int64>(buffer[7]) << 56 );

You'd swap the bytes if you needed to convert the endianness of the data.
The other way is to copy the bytes directly - you can do it using a reinterpret_cast as shown in the other answer, but a "better" way is to use memcpy, e.g.:
memcpy(&iValue, buffer, sizeof(iValue));


Nottingham Forest winger Joe Lolley could be set to win the Championship Fans' Player of the Month award for the second time in consecutive months.
According to the club's official website, the 26-year-old has been nominated once again for the personal accolade, following a superb month on the pitch.
Lolley netted The Reds' second goal during a 2-0 win over Hull City, before following it up with a sensational long-range effort in the epic 5-5 draw with Aston Villa.
The ex-Huddersfield man was a standout performer during the month as the Reds jumped into the play-off places in the second tier.
It was perhaps his overall performance in the game at Villa Park that caught the eye; against his boyhood club he netted and also laid claim to four assists in a breathtaking contest.
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Q: 1990s Aliens crash land in woods and enters family house I saw this show in the 90's of aliens crashing near the woods. The family is recording them with a camera. They eventually make it into the house. I believe it was on KCOP-TV. It was most likely a TV movie. Any help would be great! Thanks

A: If it's in "found footage" style, it might be this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_Abduction_(film)
And the film itself:

I haven't watched it, but the contents sound similar, so it's worth to take a look.


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Developed by: GrizzlyGames
Released: April 4, 2019
This high-score based city builder sans city management game turned into a nice little exercise in world-building for me.
It started when I decided to name the islands. This one is called White Cliff Isle.
The Arch was always there. The first of them saw it from the sea as they approached. They aspired to meet it, and so they practiced masonry.
The people began working the stone the day they got there. Though they've discovered other resources, rocks are their foundation.
Workers live in Alabash upon the western mesa. The younger ones worry what will happen when the stone is gone. Must they build a new island?
The upper class living in Voussoir place their faith in the Keystone. Even if the rest of the island crumbles, surely it will deliver them.
All the while, the watchful fishermen keep to their huts, their eyes fixed on the sea, backs turned to bickering over bedrock.
Developed by: Cardboard Computer
Released (initially): January 7, 2013
Screenshot: Cardboard Computer / Me
I played the first two acts of this elegy for those who have faced the ravages of capitalism. The magical realism was captivating, but it was a hard game to want to return to as the year went on. It will still be hard to return to it, but I know that I'll have to at some point.
Titanfall 2
Developed by: Respawn Entertainment
Playing this game ultimately led me to drag my friends back to Apex Legends. A momentum-driven shooter with great gimmicks and level design.
Developed by: William Chyr Studio
Satisfying Escher-esque puzzle game, which is a type of game that tends to show up every couple of years. I'd like to eventually play one of these that doesn't just end with you becoming one with the universe, or whatever.
Kirby's Dreamland 3
Developed by: HAL Laboratory
I played this for like 5 minutes while I was waiting for something else to happen and never got back to it.
Developed by: Tequila Works
This game wants to meet you at the midpoint between a Fumito Ueda puzzle platformer in a Studio Ghibli world, and it doesn't quite reach either aspiration. I appreciated how personal the story felt, though the music does a lot of the emotional work.
Released: February 4, 2019
This game still rules. I tried a lot more of the characters throughout this year and always had fun jumping in.
They finally made Mirage better, too.
Donut County
Developed by: Ben Esposito
A puzzle game about controlling a hole and swallowing stuff. I was neither terribly impressed or amused by this one. The puzzles were pretty simple, and it felt like they ran out of jokes quickly.
Developed by: The Game Kitchen
Screenshot: The Game Kitchen / Me
A Metroidvania game that takes cues from Dark Souls while draping itself in the overbearing ornamentation of Spanish Catholic fervor. Quite a gnarly game, I recommend it.
Developed by: Nintendo
If you didn't play this game this year, you knew everyone else was busy playing it, especially during peak lockdown. I figured I might as well be one of the people playing it.
Developed by: Square Enix
When I loaded this game for the first time, I sat on the main menu listening to "The Prelude" for about 10 minutes, in disbelief that I was actually about to play it. I loved every second of my first playthrough, and while a second one exposed some cracks and chipped paint, it's still stuck with me throughout the year.
Golf With Friends
Developed by: Blacklight Interactive
Irritating jank.
Golf on Mars
Developed by: Captain Games
Released: June 19, 2020
A good "no thoughts, head empty" game for right before bed.
Paper Mario: The Origami King
Developed by: Intelligent Systems
One of my favorite games this year despite a combat system that needed a few more complications. It's the paperiest a Paper Mario has ever felt, and the story delivers some emotional knockout blows.
Developed by: Codeglue
You know that frustrating feeling some games give you where you don't feel totally in control of your character? This is an obstacle course game designed around that feeling that hopes you will laugh at it instead of uninstalling it.
CARRION
Developed by: Phobia Game Studio
You get to be a horrible mass of meat and teeth that just wants to consume all the biomass unfortunate enough to exist in your vicinity. Top shelf game.
Developed by: Blizzard Entertainment
My squad's annual return to Overwatch lasted a couple of months this time, in large part because the Destiny expansion got delayed to November. We got really into the replay feature this time around, and I feel like film review helped me make some solid strides in all three roles.
Developed by: Landfall Games
Fun for approximately 20 minutes.
Good Sudoku
Developed by: Zach Gage
Released: July 2020
What it says on the tin. I didn't realize sudoku was bad before, but I can't go back now.
I played this a couple of times while waiting for an Overwatch queue to pop. The feel of this game is way more slippery than I remember.
Developed by: Sucker Punch Productions
Screenshot: Suckerpunch / Me
Satisfying combat and one of the prettiest games I've ever played, but it felt like it ran out of new things to say on the gameplay front after the second of three acts. Some good character work in the beginning, too. The story never bored me.
Blood and Bacon
Developed by: Big Corporation
Developed by: Mediatonic
You know that frustrating feeling some games give you where you don't feel totally in control of your character? This is an obstacle course game designed around that feeling that also has enough polish to make you laugh while playing it.
Developed by: Hopoo Games
I hadn't really played Rogue-like games prior to this year. Games where you start, build up your character, and then have to start all over when you die. This one is pretty fun with friends, in a zen sort of way. Just drop in, shoot stuff, and grab items. I hit a point where I couldn't see much reason to keep playing, though. There was stuff to do, but I didn't know why I should do any of it.
There's never gonna be another Super Mario 64 for me. The first time a game shows you what video games can be — what video games will become — that experience can't be replicated. It's not to say that Nintendo or anyone else is even trying to replicate it. Odyssey is fun, though, and it made for good comfort food this year.
Developed by: Supergiant Games
September came and everyone was talking about Hades. It just got its 1.0 release after about two years of being playable in early access, but there are a lot more people who are willing to wait for a game to be done than are willing to volunteer their time for QA. Based on what all those people were saying, I knew I wanted to play it, but I needed to finish my Supergiant Games pedigree first.
I played Bastion long enough ago that I don't remember it terribly well, but playing Transistor dredged up memories of the feelings of playing that game. It reminded me of the sensibilities of the studio behind it. Strong narrative voice. Immaculate art direction. Motivated music. And some of the snappiest gameplay you're likely to encounter.
The story presented in Transistor, by its nature, will stick with me in ways that Bastion's did not, but I'll also remember it for the way it got me to constantly change up how I played. Abilities in Transistor can be used in three different ways, and each ability also has associated lore entries that can only be unlocked by using it each of those ways. If you know me, you know I've gotta have that lore, so I was changing up my build at every access point. I had more fun approaching each encounter differently than I probably would have if I'd found an overpowered setup and run with it through the whole game. It turns out that's pretty important for vibing with the Supergiant oeuvre.
The creators have described the format of this game as "wizard basketball plus reading," and I don't want to say much more except that it's one of my favorite games now.
Man I don't know where this game has been all my life, but I'm pretty glad it showed up this year. It's a game that feels great to play in the moment-to-moment combat thanks to the sheer variety of weapons and abilities you can roll with, and that would be enough to carry a good game. Hades is great because the characters and the vision of the Underworld depicted here are so engrossing.
In this game, Hell is your shitty job, it's your family that you can't see eye to eye with, it's your ex, it's other people, it's your fucking ennui, it's the Fates, it's this demented world we've all wound up in, and sometimes you have to fight through legions of the dead and damned just for a chance to get away from all of that. Even if it's just a 10 minute walk out in the snow, each step a stolen moment of relief while you wait for the Styx to take you again. There is no escape, but there is respite, and you have to take that where you can.
Also you can date the incarnation of Death, and he's hot, and that pleases my inner goth.
Developed by: FromSoftware
We wrapped up our long-running co-op run of Bloodborne earlier this year, so now my friends and I are dipping into the next best thing while we wait for Elden Ring to never release.
Destiny 2 Beyond Light
Developed by: Bungie
Screenshot: Bungie / Me
It's always fun to have new toys, and Beyond Light gave us cosmic ice powers. Europa is breathtaking, too. That's good enough for me for a while.
Developed by: Sora Ltd.
Released: December 7, 2018
They put Sephiroth in this game, are you kidding me?
no problem #SephirothChallenge pic.twitter.com/JjzZsqGbwy
— William Heathcote (@subjunctivitis) December 18, 2020
I'll take it.
Developed by: Extremely OK Games
Screenshot: Matt Makes Games / Me
I owe a lot to this game for helping me reach out and talk to someone about my depression and anxiety. Now I've come back to it with an eye for completion, finding all the secrets and beating all the bonus levels I skipped over the first time. There are some sections in this game where I finally pull off a jump and I know, I know that I've successfully renewed my Good at Video Games card.
Developed by: id Software
Screenshot: id Tech 7 / Me
This game feels like it was made by a completely different team than the one that made DOOM (2016). It's not that it's not fun, it's just that it's not what I think I wanted from a sequel. More damning, I've played a couple of hours and the only music I can actually remember is a track that was reused from the previous game.
I guess it only makes sense to end this year with disappointment.
Updated 12/31/2021 with developer and release info for each game.
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Poland, Maine facts for kids
Poland, Maine
The Poland Spring House (1876-1975)
Location of Poland (in yellow) in Androscoggin County and the state of Maine
Coordinates: 44°2′57″N 70°23′27″W / 44.04917°N 70.39083°W / 44.04917; -70.39083
Androscoggin
East Poland
Hackett Mills
Moussam
Poland Spring
South Poland
West Poland
47.19 sq mi (122.22 km2)
4.96 sq mi (12.85 km2)
Poland is a town in Androscoggin County, Maine, United States. The population was 5,376 at the 2010 census. Set among rolling hills and numerous lakes, the town is home to Range Ponds State Park, which includes hiking trails and a pristine freshwater beach. Poland is also a historic resort area. It is included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan statistical area, which itself is part of the Greater Portland-Lewiston Combined Statistical Area.
1978 P-3 Orion crash
Tripp Pond
Land was granted by the Massachusetts General Court in 1765 to officers and soldiers who served with Sir William Phipps in the 1690 Battle of Quebec. It replaced a 1736 grant made to them called Bakerstown (now Salisbury, New Hampshire) which was ruled invalid in 1741 at the separation of New Hampshire from Massachusetts. The new plantation was also called Bakerstown (after Captain Thomas Baker), and included present-day Poland, Minot, Mechanic Falls and the greater part of Auburn.
Settled in 1767 by Nathaniel Bailey and Daniel Lane, Bakerstown Plantation would be incorporated as Poland on February 17, 1795.
At the beginning, Poland was an agricultural town, with 600 acres (2.4 km2) of the best land farmed by the Shakers who settled at Poland Hill, north of the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester. Called the North Family of Shakers, the village was founded by members who moved from Gorham in 1819. The village lasted until 1887.
Industry was attracted to Poland's water power sites. In 1859, when the population was 2,660, it had 4 sawmills, a gristmill, a tannery and a carriage factory. The St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad passed through the northeastern corner of the town, spurring development and bringing tourists drawn to its scenic ponds and gentle hills. By 1893, when Mechanic Falls was set off as a separate town, Poland had evolved into a Gilded Age resort town.
In 1797, The Wentworth Ricker Inn in South Poland opened at the homestead Jabez Ricker, acquired from a 1794 land swap with the Alfred Shaker Village in Alfred. But when the railroad replaced stage travel, patronage declined and the inn closed. Then a grandson, Hiram Ricker, began proclaiming that the mineral spring on his family's property had cured his dyspepsia. People began arriving to sample the spring's curative waters, which flow 8 gallons a minute. Reopened in 1861, the inn was enlarged and renamed The Mansion House. But even that property could not handle the crowds of tourists, so in 1875 the family expanded the property, build an extravagant house that was dubbed 'Ricker's Folly,' due to skepticism that such a large property would be successful.
On July 4, 1876, The Poland Spring House opened atop Ricker's Hill, an elevation of 800 feet (244 m) above sea level with magnificent views to the White Mountains. The hotel would be augmented over the years by architects John Calvin Stevens, Albert Winslow Cobb and Harry Wilkerson. It became a self-contained and exclusive spa, with guards at gatehouses instructed to turn away sightseers. With luxurious accommodations for 450 guests, the hotel attracted the rich and famous. Patrons included Gen. Benjamin Butler, Sen. James G. Blaine, Joan Crawford, Jimmy Durante, Jack Paar and Robert Goulet. But following World War II, the era of grand hotels waned. When the Rickers sold The Poland Spring House, its new owners allowed the sprawling facilities to deteriorate. Apollo Industries purchased the hotel in 1963 and converted it to the largest Women's Job Corps facility in the United States. The Job Corps dormitory was vacated in 1969, and was destroyed by a spectacular fire on July 3, 1975.
Today, the famous water is bottled and sold as Poland Spring water by Nestlé Waters North America, a subsidiary of Nestlé.
View of Poland, looking north, c. 1905
Home of Gov. Fernald c. 1910
The Mansion House in 1915
P-3 Orion similar to the one which fell on Tripp Corner.
Poland was the site of one of the last major accidents involving aircraft from Maine's Cold War air bases. A United States Navy patrol bomber from Naval Air Station Brunswick Patrol Squadron 8 (VP-8) disintegrated over Poland on September 22, 1978. An over-pressurized fuel tank caused the port wing of the Lockheed P-3 Orion to separate at the outboard engine. The detached wing sheared off part of the tail; and aerodynamic forces caused the remaining engines and starboard wing to detach from the fuselage. Debris rained down over a wide area near the Tripp Corner intersection on Route 11 shortly after noon. No homes were hit, but an explosive fuel-air fire following impact broke some windows. There were no survivors from the plane's eight-man crew.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 47.19 square miles (122.22 km2), of which 42.23 square miles (109.38 km2) is land and 4.96 square miles (12.85 km2) is water. Poland is drained by the Little Androscoggin River.
The town is crossed by state routes 11, 26 and 122. It is bordered by the towns of Mechanic Falls to the north, Minot to the northeast, Auburn to the east, New Gloucester to the southeast, Casco and Raymond to the southwest, and Otisfield and Oxford to the northwest.
44°03′N 70°26′W / 44.050°N 70.433°W / 44.050; -70.433
2.6 mi (4.2 km)
735 acres (297 ha)
Max. depth
36 feet (11 m)
Water volume
9,237 acre⋅ft (11,394,000 m3)
Tripp Pond is on the west side of Maine State Route 11, which provides shoulder parking for public access to the east shore of the pond. There is a ramp for trailered boats at the south end of the pond. Summer water temperatures are too high for trout, but the pond provides good habitat for white perch and largemouth bass. The north end of the pond overflows through a series of shallow ponds to the Little Androscoggin River near Welchville in the town of Oxford, Maine 5 miles (8.0 km) to the north.
This climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. According to the Köppen climate classification system, Poland has a humid continental climate, Dfb on climate maps.
1800 2,125 —
1810 850 −60.0%
1820 1,353 59.2%
1860 2,746 3.2%
1870 2,436 −11.3%
1940 1,441 −4.1%
2014 (est.) 5,517 2.6%
As of the census of 2010, there were 5,376 people, 2,140 households, and 1,581 families living in the town. The population density was 127.3 inhabitants per square mile (49.2/km2). There were 2,679 housing units at an average density of 63.4 per square mile (24.5/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 97.4% White, 0.4% African American, 0.3% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 0.2% from other races, and 1.3% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.6% of the population.
There were 2,140 households, of which 31.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.6% were married couples living together, 8.9% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.4% had a male householder with no wife present, and 26.1% were non-families. 18.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.49 and the average family size was 2.81.
The median age in the town was 43.4 years. 22.2% of residents were under the age of 18; 5.8% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24.7% were from 25 to 44; 35% were from 45 to 64; and 12.2% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the town was 50.0% male and 50.0% female.
Two episodes of the popular 1960s television series Route 66 were filmed in Poland: "Come out, Come out, Wherever you are" (1963) starring Lon Chaney, Jr.; and "Same Picture, Different Frame" (1963) starring Joan Crawford, Tom Bosley, and Patrick O'Neal.
The Town of Poland is a member of Regional School Unit 16 (RSU 16). Poland Regional High School (PRHS) serves as the district high school of RSU 16 and is open to all high school–age students of Poland, Mechanic Falls, and Minot, Maine. Students from Raymond, Maine, as well, attend PRHS on a tuition basis. The school's athletic teams compete in Maine class "B" athletics. The school's mascot is the knight and the school colors are blue and silver. Connected to the high school is Bruce M. Whittier Middle School. This school serves all three towns' 7th and 8th grade students (as of 2010). Both schools opened in 1999. Poland Community School, last expanded in 2002, serves Poland's K-6 students.
Bert M. Fernald, US senator and 47th governor of Maine
John Nevins Andrews, minister, missionary, writer, editor and scholar
Irving Gilman Davis, economist and educator
Moncena Dunn, bookkeeper and army officer
Jabez K. Walker, Wisconsin assemblyman
Amos Whitney, founder of Pratt and Whitney
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