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Q: C++ using default-initialized iterators to create an empty std::string Is the following code valid and well-defined?
auto start = std::string::const_iterator();
auto end = std::string::const_iterator();

auto output = std::string(start, end);

(The expected output being an empty string.)

A: According to cppreference.com, a random access iterator, of which a string iterator is one, meets all requirements of a bidirectional iterator.
Furthermore, a bidirectional iterator meets all requirements of a forward iterator.
Finally, since C++14, a forward iterator can be value-initialized, and will compare equal to all other value-initialized forward iterators of the same type:

A value-initialized LegacyForwardIterator behaves like the
  past-the-end iterator of some unspecified empty container: it compares
  equal to all value-initialized LegacyForwardIterators of the same
  type.

Based on that, I believe this is well-defined at least as of C++14.

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Born on November 23, 1945, to James E. Doyle Sr. and Ruth Bachhuber Doyle, James Doyle and his three sisters grew up in Madison. Doyle is married to Jessica Laird Doyle and they have two adult sons, Gus and Gabe.
His parents were founding members of the modern Democratic Party in Wisconsin and he credits them for instilling in him the belief that politics and government are honorable professions, and that public service is a way to improve people's lives.
Former Governor Doyle attended Stanford University for three years, then finished his senior year at UW-Madison. He is a 1972 graduate of Harvard Law School.
Inspired by John F. Kennedy's call to public service, after college Jim and his wife worked for two years as teachers in Tunisia, Africa in the Peace Corps. After he graduated from law school, he and Jessica moved to the Navajo Indian Reservation in Chinle, Arizona to work as an attorney and teacher, respectively.
In 1976, Doyle was elected Dane County District Attorney and served three terms from 1977-82. When he left that office, he spent eight years building his own private law practice until he was elected Wisconsin Attorney General in 1990. He was reelected as Attorney General in 1994 and 1998.
Doyle was elected as Wisconsin's Governor in 2002 and reelected in 2006 with more votes than any candidate for Governor in Wisconsin history.


Lignocellulose biorefineries seek the integral use of plant biomass to produce chemicals, fuels and materials. A significant percentage of this biomass is represented by lignin, an aromatic polymer whose valorization is essential for the viability of these biorefineries. Chemical methods currently used for lignin depolymerization are not suitable for production of added value compounds and it is necessary to develop new processes to transform this polymer. Ligninolytic fungi are a good alternative to chemical methods because of their ability to depolymerize lignin in nature. To do this, they use oxidoreductases (peroxidases and laccases).
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Mélanie Smith, Maria Elena, 2019, 24 mn
« Maria Elena » is a small mining town in the Atacama desert, in Chile, founded in the 1920's and developed by the Guggenheim's to produce saltpeter, used for both fertilizers and explosives. The film explores an ongoing interest in the application and obsolescence of industrial modernity. It also traces the impact of the British in the region, who were heavily involved in the extraction processes of nitrates incorporating it into a satellite of an economic global system. The narrative threads a tale of contradicting montage, whereby crystals become stars, a horse's ear a mountain and enormous beds of nitrate appear as informel abstract paintings, exposing the geological terror of the past and future.
Melanie Smith moved from the United Kingdom to Mexico in 1989 and in the following years became a key protagonist within the Mexican art scene of the nineties. She relocated from the political and economic tensions of Thatcher's Britain to Mexico City, where she witnessed the impact of capitalist modernisation, neoliberal globalisation and hyper-consumerism, the development of an informal economy alongside traditional forms of manufacture and what she refers to as the idiosyncratic manifestations of modernity in Mexico. The two contexts – Mexico, or more broadly Latin America, and Britain, or a wider Anglo-Saxon or Eurocentric culture – are therefore central to her work.
For the past three decades, then, Smith has been based in Mexico where she has developed her work across a range of media, including assemblage, video, painting, photography and installation, but with a particular investment in the relation between the filmed and the painted image. While Smith's work is persistently informed by her reference to painting, she does not describe herself as a painter.

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To foster learning outside of the classroom, I have developed a software package called Mentor that enables a teacher to quickly create interactive educational Web sites. The Mentor program runs on a Web Server, from where it dishes out pages of information that can contain pictures, movies and questions. If students answer the questions incorrectly, then Mentor will provide some feedback to educate the student, as if the teacher was standing by their side.
I have also worked with Dr. Shirley Wright, to create the S.E.M. Sight - A web site that introduces students to the use of the scanning electron microscope.
Raskin, D. M., D. J. Wright, and S. J. Wright. (1997). "Sea urchin sperm nuclear enlargement and shape transformations are differentially regulated in vitro." J. Exp. Zool. 277: 401-416.
Horobin, R.W., P.O. Gerrits, and D.J. Wright (1992) "Staining sections of water-miscible resins." 2. "Effects of staining-reagent lipophilicity on the staining of glycol-methacrylate-embedded tissues." J. Microsc. 166, 199-205.
Wright, D.J., T.C. Ritchie, and J.D. Coulter (1991) "Distribution and developmental expression of the nerve terminal protein NT75 in the rat cerebellum." J. Comp. Neurol. 304, 530-543.
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Wright, D. J. (1998). "Mentor 98-1 Program Suite for Creating Interactive Web Sites." http://mentor.udayton.edu.
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PREVIEW: Kosmostage 2015
Stewart Smith , July 13th, 2015 14:31
Stewart Smith previews the upcoming second edition of Berlin's Kosmostage which this year features Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal among its line-up
Curated by the Berlin-based Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra, Kosmostage is a genre-dissolving festival of 'universal music', bringing together jazz, improv, 11th century choral works, contemporary composition and electronic music. The Berlin festival's second edition takes place from July 17-18 in Radialsystem V, a water treatment plant turned arts venue by the river Spree.
Special guest is Brazilian maverick Hermeto Pascoal, a composer and multi-instrumentalist perhaps best known in the West for his contributions to Miles Davis's Live Evil, but a remarkable figure in his own right. Emerging in the mid-60s alongside frequent collaborator Airto Moreira, Pascoal helped push Brazilian jazz in new directions, incorporating elements of Brazilian folk, fusion, classical music and the avant-garde. In addition to playing saxophone, flute, accordion, keyboard, melodica and guitar, o Bruxo (the sorcerer) often uses everyday objects in his music (teapots, toys), as well as the human body and the natural world. Música da Lagoa sees Pascoal and his band joyfully blowing bubbles in a lagoon, while Misterios de Corpo is a solo extravaganza of taps aff percussion and body noises. Far from being wacky japes, the results are beguiling and genuinely inventive. It's hard not to warm to an artist who adds the grunts and squeals of a live pig to the intricate mesh of acoustic guitars, Afro-Brazilian percussion and Magma-esque choral chanting that is Slaves Mass. At Kosmostage, Pascoal will be peforming new arrangements of his work with Andromeda Express Mega Orchestra, vocalist Aline Morena and percussionist Fabio Pascoal.
Other highlights include sets from German-Icelandic contemporary music ensemble Adapter, Burkina Faso's Layana and the Belgian vibraphonist Els Vandeweyer, who is performing solo and in a duo with saxophonist Johannes Schleiermacher. Based in Berlin, Vandeweyer has brought her innovative style to a range of improv and jazz projects, including Quat, her excellent group with European free jazz legends Fred Van Hove, Paul Lovens and Martin Blume.
The medieval choral music of Oferi Consort appears alongside modern works by Giacinto Scelsi, Charles Ives, John Cage and Ligeti. All this and a closing DJ set by veteran Berlin electronic duo Mouse on Mars. For the full line-up and ticket information, head here.
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Misfit Vapor X Review: Forget the fuss
By Andy Boxall September 29, 2019
DT Recommended Product
"The Misfit Vapor X's unfussy, good-looking design hides a high-performance smartwatch that's incredibly easy to live with."
Strong performance from Snapdragon 3100
Easily gives all-day battery life
Software experience can still be frustrating
Strap quality disappoints
The Misfit Vapor X smartwatch is one of the best Wear OS by Google smartwatches I've used in a while. It's a watch I've worn consistently throughout my review (even when I could have chosen a beloved G-Shock) because it fit into my life so well without blighting it with those notorious smartwatch problems, like terrible battery life or annoying software.
Minimalist design, small screen
Performance and battery life
Features and fitness tracking
Price, warranty, and availability
Are there any better alternatives?
It doesn't have a loud design either, with Misfit preferring an understated look that ensures it goes with everything, especially in the stealthy black color. With so many smartwatches disappointing due to little irritations, the Misfit Vapor X proves not all Wear OS smartwatches are born equal.
Misfit does minimalism better than most, and the Vapor X is one of its best. The design is effortlessly cool and simple without lacking identity, and although Misfit is a sports brand, the Vapor X doesn't look too sporty. It looks great with whatever I wear, fitting comfortably whether I was at the gym or at a cafe typing on my laptop, and the colors available mean I can go for a stealthy look or embrace something much brighter.
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Sensibly, Misfit has abandoned the multiple model approach from the Vapor 2 and made just one Vapor X. It's lightweight at 43 grams and the 42mm wide, 12mm thick case is compact enough that you never notice it on your wrist. The circular screen has a subtle curve around the edge that catches the light and enhances tactility when swiping across it. Character comes from the oversized crown, which is both a button and an interactive scroll wheel, and the size and texture mean it's easy to use. It's a lot less gimmicky than the touch-sensitive bezel on the first Misfit Vapor. Smooth buttons flank the crown, ready to activate Google Pay and Google Fit, but you can customize what each button triggers.
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The straight lugs attach to a simple 20mm silicone strap that does attract lint when under a shirt sleeve. It's pliant and has channels on the underside to stop you sweating, and they really work. The clasp is metal and quite thin, and when I was removing the watch to charge it, it did separate from the strap itself. Refitting it was easy, but the pin holding it on is a little small. I had to slightly bend the clasp arm to make sure it wouldn't come off again.
The 1.2-inch AMOLED screen is bright but tiny, and the bezel around the edge is sizable — it definitely looks better when you use a black background on the watch faces. When you don't, the bezel is noticeable to the point of being distracting. I never had any problems seeing the face outside, so sunlight visibility is great. I used the always-on screen throughout my review, and paired with the right watch face it's perfectly legible.
The Misfit Vapor X never looks out of place, too big, or too flashy either.
Suitable for all wrist sizes, for men and women, the Misfit Vapor X never looks out of place, too big, or too flashy either. It strikes the right balance between style and usability and doesn't ignore the fact some people want a colorful model and not just a black one. I've not set the Vapor X aside at the weekend or on an evening out in favor of another watch because it looks excellent, and that's serious praise for a smartwatch.
Inside is a Snapdragon 3100 processor, 512MB of RAM, and 4GB of storage space. This means it's identical to the Fossil Sport, but doesn't get the enhancements made by Fossil for its 5th generation platform. Having recently struggled though life with the Diesel On Full Guard 2.5, which desperately needed more power, the Vapor X has been a joy to live with.
I'm seeing smoother scrolling, shorter wait times, and less frustration with the Vapor X. Yes, the smartwatch still has to lean on your phone to complete certain tasks — anything that requires a data connection — and this results in some pauses, but they're more excusable when it's not the 10th such pause in succession.
Smooth, quick, and relatively seamless performance is essential to making the watch easy to live with, and key in my decisions to wear it instead of swapping to another watch. I was getting value from its existence, rather than avoiding using it because it's annoying. This is then backed up by the battery life. On most days, even with a Google Fit tracking session and a steady stream of notifications, I'd end a full day — about 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. — with between 30 and 40% remaining after starting out with a full charge. Charging it back up is quick, taking a little more than hour.
You'll still charge it every day, but there's a good chance it won't die on you when you're out and about. Exactly what I want.
The Vapor X has GPS on board, a variety of sensors including an altimeter and a gyroscope, NFC, a small microphone, plus there's a heart rate sensor on the back. Misfit does not make a special app for the Vapor X, and it's not listed in the existing (and rather out of date) Misfit fitness tracking app available in the Play Store. Google's Wear OS software is installed and I have used it paired with an Android phone, but the Vapor X will also work with an iPhone, although you'll miss out on a few features.
Fitness tracking is taken care of by Google Fit, which is neatly integrated with Wear OS. A quick swipe to the left, or a press of a button, opens Fit, where there are a variety of tracking modes. Setting it up isn't difficult, and tracking a workout session is quick to activate. The data can be called back on the watch, or greater detail can be found in the app on your phone. Heart rate data is also recorded here.
I find Google Fit perfectly acceptable, although if you're expecting extremely detailed reports or in-depth fitness tracking for highly specific sports, it may not be enough. Fit still has great features though, and I especially like it monitoring goals and adjusting them based on activity and the likelihood of meeting them. There's more motivation in this than trying to meet goals that are impossible. GPS works really well, and Google Maps is a more fluid experience than on previous Wear OS watches.
Outside of this, the Misfit Vapor X is free of special apps that serve no particular purpose, no fancy features you'll never use, and only a smattering of Misfit watch faces. Rather than be a negative point, this is another positive aspect of the watch — it channels everything into performing the necessary functions, in a slick manner, that we want from a smartwatch. No nonsense, no fuss, and no annoyance.
It's Google's Wear OS onboard, and before you run away with your hands waving in the air, it has been reliable, useful, and surprisingly speedy on the Vapor X. It should always be this way, but on some smartwatches, it's not. The Snapdragon 3100 undoubtedly helps the software perform well, and the lack of flashy watch faces and power-hungry apps stops the unnecessary energy drain.
Google Assistant can be called up with a long press of the crown, or by swiping right on the screen. There is an always-listening mode, and even surrounded by the ambient noise of a cafe, the Assistant recognized my voice when I raised my wrist. I didn't need to shout either and could start navigation and send WhatsApp messages without touching my phone. It's solid, but Assistant is not always reliable, and I still feel self-conscious speaking to my watch in public.
Wear OS rarely benefits from being stuffed full of apps.
Most problems arise with waiting around for Wear OS to connect through your phone. Use the Play Store, and the experience is ponderous. It's faster and less annoying to just get out your phone. Installing apps and watch faces is still a long and often complicated process, and Wear OS rarely benefits from being stuffed full of apps. Use it as Misfit intends — with limited bloat — and it's a great smartwatch. Give it too much to do, and it becomes less enjoyable to own and use.
Notifications from my Android phone came through in a timely fashion, but often repeated themselves if I didn't look straight away, almost like the watch was nagging me. This happened mostly with emails. Also, if you didn't check the message, on the following vibration alert the screen would not show the new message, but instead focus on the old one. Annoying. Wear OS continues to be a mixed bag. It's better on the Misfit Vapor X than other smartwatches I've worn, but it's still not up to WatchOS' standards on the Apple Watch, or even Tizen on Samsung's Galaxy watches.
The Misfit Vapor X costs $280 and comes in all-black, rose gold with a grey strap, champagne with a lavender strap, gunmetal with a green strap, and stainless steel with a navy blue strap. Misfit also sells a variety of alternative straps, including a metal link bracelet, plus nylon and NATO-style straps.
It's available through Misfit's own website, and it's covered by a two-year warranty. It does not cover the bracelet, battery, or normal wear and tear.
The Misfit Vapor X does everything I want a smartwatch to do — deliver notifications, track my activity, and not be a burden due to pathetic battery life — in an understated design that doesn't lack character. I've worn it for a couple of weeks, and never once felt the need to swap it for something else.
Better alternatives? The $200 Apple Watch Series 3 and almost certainly the $400 Apple Watch Series 5 are the best smartwatches you can buy, and if you own an iPhone, it's really the only option to consider. If you have an Android phone, the Vapor X competes with the $255 Fossil Sport, and if you want to spend a little less, Mobvoi's $160 Ticwatch E2.
Don't forget the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2. It uses Samsung's Tizen software, which is more user-friendly than Wear OS, and we like the design and features too. If design doesn't matter as much as fitness features, then consider Fitbit's $200 Versa 2, and if you want way more detailed running metrics, take a look at the $400 Garmin Forerunner 645.
Provided you're happy with the functionality and don't think you'll suddenly want a more fitness-orientated smartwatch, the Misfit Vapor X will last for two years if not a little more. Don't expect many software updates during that time, at least based on Google's current Wear OS update schedule, but when new software is released it always arrives in a timely fashion.
The watch is water-resistant to 50 meters, and the aluminum body should resist light knocks, but this isn't an overly tough model. I'm slightly concerned about how easily the strap clasp came away too, and the need for my modification, which involved a pair of pliers to tighten the clasp's grip on the pin.
Yes. No-fuss, no major annoyances, and a design that will suit most people and situations, the Misfit Vapor X proves not all Wear OS smartwatches are born equal.
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What Does Your Plate Look Like?
by Horizon Family Medical Group | Mar 15, 2016 | 2016 March
About 33% of adults in the U.S. are obese. And about 17% of kids aged 2 to 19 are obese. That means 1 in 3 adults are at higher risk for hypertension, diabetes, and other health problems.
The good news is that, with the help of your family here at Horizon Family Medical Group, you can make changes to your nutrition, combined with exercise, and watch as these risks drop while your overall health rises. We have the expertise and resources to help you every step of the way.
What does my plate look like?
ChooseMyPlate.gov has a bunch of great resources for kids, adults, and professionals. On the site, they show the five food groups (i.e., fruits, grains, vegetables, protein, dairy) you should eat, along with the proportions. Take a look at this graphic:
How much should I eat?
As you can see from the graphic above, your diet should consist of more grains and vegetables. Protein, fruits, and dairy should be included, but in smaller proportions.
How can I track my nutrition intake?
A variety of programs and phone apps enable you to track what you're eating, the calories of those foods, and the exercise you're getting. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has a tool they call SuperTracker. It helps you track your food, activity, weight, and provides other resources for reaching your weight goals.
It's sometime hard to lose weight without support. Don't go it alone. Contact your primary care provider at Horizon Family Medical Group to get help setting up reasonable and simple goals you can conquer one step at a time. Together, we can beat the scale and win the race to better health.
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My Version of the Lofthouse Frosted Cookie | Tasty Kitchen: A Happy Recipe Community!
Soft, sweet and addictive. You're welcome.
½ envelopes Dream Whip Mix, About 3/4 Oz.
Mix the dry cake mix and flour then add the eggs, oil, sour cream and extract. Mix well with a handmixer or Kitchen Aid.
The dough will be fairly stiff, enough to roll into 1″ balls with flour dusted hands. I placed them on a Silpat type baking sheet, these are lovely to keep your cookies from getting too brown. If you don't have a Silpat or silicone baking sheet, put your dough in the fridge and go get one!
Gosh, I'm bossy! But, seriously, they can be easily overbaked if you don't have one.
Flatten the balls with the heel of your hand to about 1/2″ thick. Bake these at 350F for about 10-12 minutes, depending on how big you made your cookies. You will know they are done when they feel somewhat firm in the center. Do not over bake these! If you over bake, you'll lose that soft cake-like texture, and that would be a shame.
Your oven may be cooler or hotter than mine, so your cooking time may vary. You want the cookie set but not gooey. You don't want the bottoms brown, we're talking pasty white almost, but set. This is why the silicone baking mats are so nice, they protect the cookies from browning too fast.
Take them out of the oven and let them sit for a minute to cool off a bit and firm up. Transfer to a sheet of foil to cool completely. While they cool, start the icing.
Beat Crisco and butter until smooth and blended. Add the salt, milk and extract. Beat for a minute then add the meringue powder, Dream Whip powder and sugar, and mix well. Then, carefully beat on medium-high for about a minute or until the frosting is light and fluffy.
As soon as the cookies are room temperature, frost them. You can either pipe on with a pastry bag or schmear on with a spatula. At this point, you MUST use sprinkles… If you don't, the sugar cookie faeries will come and take your cookies away, because you don't deserve them.
Here is the secret!! Shhh….
Store the cookies in a Tupperware type container or lay them flat on a cookie sheet and cover with plastic wrap after icing. The cookies will get that dense, cake-like texture after being stored overnight or for a few hours.
The icing will set a thin crust and be soft underneath.
Any suggestions for finding meringue powder that doesn't cost $23???? I would love to make these cookies.
These cookies look incredible! Thanks for the recipe.
Hum, I'm really interested in making these but I don't do boxed cake mixes anymore. Must find a good alternative to try!
but there's got to be some recipes online somewhere?
does Dream Whip still have a website?
I made these for grandkids Easter baskets. I can't believe how good and easy they are. I made them a little bigger than 1″ and got 2 dozen. I had lots of icing left. Great recipe!
These are so good! My boys made the entire batch disappear within 24hrs!
The cookies are incredible!! I would advise rolling them into larger balls because a 1 inch ball yields a very small cookie. We like big cookies so I used approx. 1 1/2″ to 2″ ball and then flattened.


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Joe Biden Is the Oldest President Ever. Will He Really Run in 2024?
Harrison Kass
President Joe Biden appears to be on the upswing. Gas prices are dropping, Democrats won multiple legislative victories, GOP Senator Lindsay Graham is working to implement a nationwide ban on abortion after 15-weeks – which is deeply unpopular – and as a result: Biden's poll numbers are steadily improving (up to 44 percent). Frankly, there wasn't anywhere else to really go but up; Biden's summer poll numbers were lower than any president's in the modern era – lower than either Trump or Carter, who were each ousted after one-term in office. But unlike Trump or Carter, Biden has not confirmed that he will be running for a second term yet.
"First lady Jill Biden said in an interview with NBC's "Today" that she has not yet discussed whether the president will run for reelection in 2024," The Hill reported.
"Not yet," Jill Biden said, "we've been a little too busy, but I'm sure it'll be a discussion."
While Biden has maintained that he plans to run for reelection, he has not declared his candidacy, and increasingly, analysts are questioning whether the octogenarian incumbent has another run in him.
"It's not death that's the worrying thing about a second Biden term," Robert Reich wrote. "It's the dwindling capacities that go with aging." Reich, who is 76-years-old himself, speaks with some authority on the matter. "I'm sure the president is experiencing some diminution in the memory department. I know I am."
Reich was also quick to point out that it's not "ageism" to criticize Biden's age. "I don't think this reflects an "ageist" prejudice against those who have reached such withering heights so much as an understanding that people in their late 70s and 80s wither," Reich wrote.
Biden, who turns 80 this year, would be 86 at the end of a second term. He is already, right now today, the oldest president ever. A presidential term lasting through an 86th birthday is difficult to comprehend. How functional could an 86-year-old president possibly be? And although Reich isn't particularly concerned with Biden dying in office, the US life expectancy is 76 years old. Granted, Biden receives the best healthcare in the world – and all reports indicate he is healthy – but he exceeded the US life expectancy two years ago. A second term would take Biden nearly a decade past life expectancy. Electing a president so old seems somewhat reckless. And one thing is certain: Biden's second-term vice president would be the most important VP pick ever.
Representative Tim Ryan, a Democrat from Ohio, recently cast shade on a Biden reelection bid. "My hunch is that we need new leadership across the board – Democrats, Republicans – I think it's time for a generational move," Ryan said. "The President said from the very beginning he was going to be a bridge to the next generation, which is basically what I was saying."
Ryan is correct: Biden did refer to himself as a "bridge."
"Look, I view myself as a bridge, not as anything else," Biden said from the campaign trail. "There's an entire generation of leaders you saw stand behind me. They are the future of this country." What Biden failed to clarify then, and in his two years as president, is whether that bridge was intended to span one term or two.
That Biden would walk away from the presidency – a job he has sought his entire professional life – seems somewhat unlikely. Perhaps he should; it may be the most responsible course of action for an eighty-something year old. But incumbent presidents with remaining eligibility aren't in the habit of walking away. No one has opted out of a reelection run since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968.
President Joe Biden delivers remarks to Department of Defense personnel, with Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Feb. 10, 2021. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando)
If Biden withdrew from the 2024 race, it would create a mad dash for the Democratic Party nomination. Whether or how Biden might attempt to manage the fallout is difficult to say. Would he promote his vice president, Kamala Harris, as his successor? That might be the cleanest solution, but nothing is certain. After the midterm elections, hopefully, Jill and Joe can have that discussion, and we'll have some clarity on the 2024 election.
Harrison Kass is the Senior Defense Editor at 19FortyFive. An attorney, pilot, guitarist, and minor pro hockey player, he joined the US Air Force as a Pilot Trainee but was medically discharged. Harrison holds a BA from Lake Forest College, a JD from the University of Oregon, and an MA from New York University. He lives in Oregon and listens to Dokken. Follow him on Twitter @harrison_kass.
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Harrison Kass is a Senior Defense Editor at 19FortyFive. An attorney, pilot, guitarist, and minor pro hockey player, he joined the US Air Force as a Pilot Trainee but was medically discharged. Harrison has degrees from Lake Forest College, the University of Oregon School of Law, and New York University's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. He lives in Oregon and regularly listens to Dokken.
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Beyond the disorienting concrete roundabout, the derelict hollow hallways of the doomed Heygate Estate and the few Colombian restaurants I've been to on numerous occasions (La Bodeguita and Leños & Carbón), I admit I don't know too much about the Elephant and Castle.
I was invited on a walking tour of the area last week with blue badge guide Sophie Campbell. She lead us first to the Cuming Museum on Walworth Road, a tiny place with an odd selection of objects.
I'm not a museum person, but it did have some interesting stuff. Bear grease imported from Russia, used to smooth men's hair in the Victorian days. Information about Southwark's connection to the slave trade.
We stopped into London's oldest apothecary G Baldwin & Co. Poked our noses around the glass jars with interesting labels and the very old sets of catalogue drawers.
The rain started to spit down, as it has been doing incessantly this summer, but we made our way down to Amelia Street, a fascinating little piece of history, Victorian terraces with open front doorways backing onto Pullens Yard.
This is a fabulous little cobbled alleyway, quietly inviting, lined with artist studios, most of which are still used for their original purpose.
100 years ago or so, these red-door studios included everything from industrial clog makers for the Fire Service, manufacturers of x-ray machinery, bookbinders and furniture restorers.
There was even a ceremonial swords maker to the Lord Mayor of London.
Now, in Pullens Yard, you will find ceramicists, jewellers, graphic designers, web-designers, furniture designers, film makers, photographers, writers and film-costume makers to name a few.
Many of the doors are open. Twice a year, the artists hold open studios for the public.
At the end of Pullen's Yard, we came to the Electric Elephant cafe, where a kind woman brought us cupcakes with elephants on them.
The address for the Electric Elephant is 86a Crampton Street, Walworth, London SE17 3BF. If you mention my blog until July 31st, you'll get a free coffee.
We chatted about the controversial plans for regeneration of Elephant and Castle, the street art of Leake Street and the very interesting history of the original building that now houses the Cinema Museum.
It used to be a workhouse where families who were poor would be sent to work.
The men separate from the women and the kids send down to a school in another area of the city. Charlie Chaplin spent some time there as a child.
At this point, we headed up to the Imperial War Museum and I skipped out on the second half of the tour to run back to work.
There is a very interesting mixture of architecture.
And buried in it, tons of stories.
Parts of it have that fun Latino vibe and a great place to pick up food from South America.
The shopping centre with its dodgy characters hanging about the traffic jammed road system really don't do much for offering a first impression.
I have a few friends who lived there for ages and they just adore the area.
I don't often go on tours in London, but it made me realise that although it still feels like a dodgy part of town, there's plenty to explore and a whole lot of history in the old Elephant and Castle. It's definitely a colourful place.
My aunt sent me a few paperback books she found in a thrift shop a few months ago. They were part of a project by the London College of Communication's photojournalism students to track the re-development of Elephant & Castle over the next decade. She sent me the first two photo books called Home and Community. Many of the documentary style photos in these books focus on the famous Heygate Estate and the people who once inhabited this massive building that is about to be demolished.
The Heygate, which once held 1,200 families, is nearly fully empty now, the residents forced out, some who had lived their entire lives in that building. It's reputation for crime, poverty and dilapidation has been sited as a main reason for the regeneration. After looking at the LCC books, I wanted to go explore myself. It was nearly empty and easy to find my way into the building, but most of the corridors were fully sealed off already.


A breeze blew against General Kron's face, carrying with it the mouldy smell of the grave. His stoic visage remained unchanged, unflustered as he took in the sight of the skeletons filling the plains in front of him. A veritable sea of bone.
There were birds, beasts and human skeletons in various stages of incompleteness – millennia of death unearthed to challenge the living. In the face of the undead army that spanned horizons, General Kron's countenance remained frozen in the same grim mask he always wore – an anchor for the morale of the soldiers under his command. It appeared as though even if the heavens themselves shattered, the General would still face it with that same stoic determination. In the care of such a commander, all they needed to do was follow their orders and victory was sure to come.
If only they knew that the reason General Kron stood atop the walls in full sight of them wasn't to raise their morale. He was simply waiting for the stiff breeze to dry his pants. As to why he didn't use magic… he was an earth mage and water had always been a difficult adversary for earth.
'We are going to die,' observed the pessimistic part of his mind calmly. 'We are going to die miserably,' agreed the optimistic part.
General Kron didn't reply, he simply couldn't, as the owners of the hand and the voice walked past him. He didn't move as the frail old man, supported by the arm by a female of extreme beauty, stepped off the edge of the rampart and nonchalantly walked down the vertical wall as though the laws of the world simply didn't hold true for them. He didn't move as the two of them reached the bottom of the wall and disappeared into the bone sea.
Then he shivered from head to toe. If the skeleton army had scared him by virtue of an imminent death, then the touch of the woman and the voice of the man had been a brush with Death incarnate.
To make matters worse his freshly dried pants had been moistened again.
His rambling thoughts ground to a screeching halt as the entire world began to tilt.
Slight tremors rippled through the wall he was standing on, growing more and more pronounced as, impossibly, the entire plain in front of him began to tilt upwards. Steadying himself against the railings, he rubbed his eyes to assure himself of what he was seeing.
As the ground slanted further and further upwards, the skeleton army began to lose their footing and slip down the now inclined plain. The edge of the slab of earth rose higher and higher until it was on par with the General's eye-level as he stood atop the highest point on the wall.
His eyes nearly bugged out of his head as he noticed the figures of the old man and the woman floating above the slab, rising as it rose. While the woman remained as graceful as always, the old man had shrugged of his shirt, revealing corded muscles that wrapped his wiry frame.
Blue veins popped out all over his body, his muscles bulging as he squatted in the horse stance while afloat, posing like he was lifting an extremely heavy weight. His face was flushed and his teeth were clenched. His sparse white hair and equally white goatee fluttered in the wind as he strained.
As General Kron was busy panicking, the gigantic slab of rock tilted further and further until it was nearly vertical, casting a deep shadow upon the entire army stationed on the wall. Except for the rattle of soil and rocks as they cascaded off the massive chunk of earth, there was utter silence.
Then an extremely loud voice rippled across the battlefield, snapping everyone out of their shock.
Then with a rumble, the mind-bogglingly large slab of earth was simply flipped over. With a crash that rattled all their bones and sent fissures spidering up the wall, the earth slammed into the ground, raising a dense cloud of dust that obscured the entire battlefield.
Then the strong winds generated by the air displaced by the falling earth ripped apart the cloud of dust and sent it radiating away as a dust-storm.
General Kron activated his Domain, the stone walls of the rampart bending to his will and shaping themselves around his body, wrapping him up in a shell of stone. The whistling gale slammed into his defences and split, flowing on both sides of him. Sealed away in the darkness of his self-imposed stone prison, the General breathed rapidly, trying to calm down.
He only had two good traits. The first was his extraordinary magical talent, the second, the fact that he was a born thespian. His talent had given him his cultivation base while his acting had brought him his status. It had allowed him to keep the fact that he was a coward at his core a secret from the entire world. Even from his wife of many years. Fake it till you make it, he always exhorted himself before putting on his mask of stoicism and stepping out to command his soldiers. His mask had never threatened to slip as many times in his entire life as it had in this hour alone.
Finally, bringing his breathing under control, he diverged his stone shell and took in the altered state of the battlefield.
Nothing. There was absolutely nothing there. Where the plain had been teeming with the terrifying undead regiment a few short minutes ago, now there was only barren earth.
The undead had been buried.
He looked up, squinting against the noon sun to make out the two tiny silhouettes that floated above their handiwork. An old man and a beautiful woman. Demigods.


Jeogori made of yellow fabric were worn by brides and young women, generally. If they were small like this one, the woman would have been very young, perhaps thirteen years of age. Brides wore yellow or green jeogori and red skirts ("chima"). Shirts with relatively long sides were worn from 1900. Before that time they were shorter, and the sleeves were narrower. Generally, the ones of this type were worn by rich middle-class women. Those worn by upper-class women had additional coloured panels under the arms and were called "sam-hwae-jang". Later, prostitutes also liked to wear "sam-hwae-jang", as they were considered to be beautiful. Modern jeogori would have a neck facing of paper covered with cotton, and an inner burgundy neck band corresponding to that on the outside. The upturned lower edge is characteristic and relates to other graceful curves favoured in Korea, such as the lines of roofs.
The yellow colour indicates that this was worn by a bride.
The fabric was dyed with natural dyes. The jacket is entirely hand-sewn, with all sewing invisible from the outside and all edges concealed. The layers were sewn together with long stitches that are tiny on the outer surface, and pasted together to hold the shape of the jacket. Korea.
Short shirt of yellow fine silk with outer front facings and wrist bands made of burgundy silk, fastened with ties of red silk, doubled and sewn on the inside. The left side laps over the right side to tie. Ties are attached with coarse stitches of green thread. Lining and neck facing are fine white ramie.


Year after year, there is at least one smartphone feature that trends and sets to become the norm for almost all mobile brands. This year, it is the wide display with 18:9 aspect ratio, and most brands, both local and international ones, adapted it. Vivo is one of them, and the result is the Vivo V7+.
The Vivo V7+ is the first handset from the Chinese manufacturer that has 18:9 display, which they aptly called FullView. Vivo put pride in it, and markets it as one of the highlights the V7 Plus has to offer. Moreover, it is the first time that Vivo made its display the front runner in billboards and all sorts of signage. Of course, they still put weight on its selfie camera.
But, it is not just about the display and camera, Vivo brags that it comes with tons of other unique features, and this review is about to check all of those things. So, let's start!
The Vivo V7 Plus is a well-built phone that is nice to hold and look at. At a distance, its back looks like made of metal, but in reality, it is just made of plastic. But, do not get me wrong here, it still feels premium to touch, and the plastic nature adds to a comfortable grip, not to mention makes it lighter. Speaking of which, it weighs only 160 grams despite of having a huge display, for comparison sake, the Huawei Nova 2i ticks 164 grams on the scale. It measures 155.9mm x 75.8mm x 7.7mm, it is about 0.4mm slimmer than the LG Q6, but around 0.2mm thicker than the Nova 2i.
One thing I notice though is that the face of the phone is not completely submerged in its frame, meaning there is a small step around the edges of the screen going to the frame. In addition, the main camera is not in-line with the back, it is slightly raised, and might get scratched over time when you use the phone without a case.
Moving on, the front is mainly occupied by its 5.99-inch display made from an IPS panel. As mentioned earlier, it has an aspect ratio of 18:9, which give it more screen estate and wider display than traditional 16:9, as per Vivo, that's 12.5% more. It also has 1440x720 pixels or HD+ resolution for easier memory recall, it sounds not much on paper, which is why many of our readers downplay its display. But, in real-life, it is not bad at all, images and all things the screen project still looks good. Yes, it is not sharp as FHD+, but the difference is hardly noticeable, especially if you are not intentionally comparing the two.
Going back to the display, it has an automatic brightness feature, has Eye Protection mode to reduce visual fatigue, which you can set manually or automatically via a pre-defined period of time. Moreover, it has sufficient brightness, good viewing angles, highly legible even under direct sunlight, and supports up to 10-point touch. In addition, it has Corning Gorilla Glass on top plus a pre-installed plastic film for added protection.
Users can also scale the apps to follow the 18:9 aspect ratio instead of the default 16:9. There is also an option to show or hide the on-screen navigation keys, by default, it is hidden in favor of sliding gesture, which in my opinion is much pleasing to the eyes. The sliding gesture allows users to mimic the navigation keys by swiping from the bottom of the display.
The phone this big usually designed to be used with both hands, but one-handed operation is still possible, especially if you are just browsing and reading texts. And yes, there is a 'one-handed' mode that makes the interface smaller. By the way, all the buttons as well as the fingerprint scanner are all within reach, and do not feel awkward when reaching them.
In terms of security, it has facial recognition that works impressively well, even with or without my eyeglasses, and at different angles. Moreover, it cannot be faked with pictures or images, whether printed or not. On top of that, it still has fingerprint sensor that works quite fast and accurately.
To learn more about how the Vivo V7+ looks like and to know what are the items included in the retail package, you can watch the above video unboxing. By the way, there is a notification light located at the left side of the front camera.
The Vivo V7+ runs on Android 7.1.2 Nougat with Funtouch OS 3.2 on top. Just like before, and its ColorOS cousin, it remained to be inspired by Apple's iOS, even some of the pre-installed apps sound like it, such as iMusic, iTheme and iManager. It still has a single layer interface, which means that all apps are lined up in the home screens, and the only way to organize them is to create folders. To view the notifications, you need to swipe down from the top, while sliding from the lower left going up reveals the quick setting toggles.
As a forked version of Android, it has several tricks of its own, such as Smart Split that lets you use two apps at the same time, App Clone that lets users create two independent identical apps, and Super Screenshot to capture different kind of screenshot as well as to perform screen recording. If you do not know what to do on each feature, there is a built-in instruction to help you go along.
There are other things that a step backward than the stock Android, and some pre-installed applications that have the same functions with the likes of UC Browser, Browser and Chrome. But, overall, the Funtouch OS 3.2 works OK, although, there is a small learning curve to know most functions and features.
The Vivo V7 Plus is a mid-range device powered by the top of the line entry-level chipset from Qualcomm, that is Snapdragon 450. It has an octa core Cortex-A53 processors clocked up to 1.8GHz each bundled with Adreno 506 graphics. It also has 4GB of RAM to handle multiple tasks easily, and 64GB of on board storage for apps and files. Moreover, the storage space can be expanded with the use of a micro SD card, and one thing worth noting is that it has a dedicated slot for it, which means no need to choose between dual SIM functionality or more storage.
On our favorite benchmark applications, it scored far better than the OPPO A57 that has Snapdragon 435 chip, and very close to the ASUS ZenFone 3 ZE552KL that has Snapdragon 625. In addition, the results are higher than the LG Stylus 3 and OPPO F3 that are powered by MediaTek MT6750 and MT6750T respectively.
In actual usage, we did not encounter any performance issue, navigating the interface is smooth, and it handles simultaneous tasks pretty well. Users will also be glad that playing games with heavy graphics like Dead Trigger 2, NBA 2K17 and even Asphalt 8 works just fine, although loading times are a bit slower when compared to devices with higher chipset. Of course, if you push it too hard like running multiple heavy apps and games at the same time, you will definitely encounter slow down or hiccups. Remember Snapdragon 450 maybe the top end of SD 400 series, but it is still an entry-level silicon from Qualcomm.
By the way, Vivo also equipped it with HiFi audio chip, an Asahi Kasei Microdevices AK4376A, which makes the sound output better than usual plus the ability to decode high resolution audio files.
The camera interface of Vivo V7+ is almost identical to that of other Vivo devices like the Vivo Y55 and Vivo V5s, even if the latter runs on Funtouch OS 3.0 based on Android Marshmallow. The UI offers intuitive experience with lots of shooting modes and added features. For those who love to tweak the settings deeper, there is a Professional Mode to play with, which allows users to the E/V value, ISO, Shutter Speed and more. We will not go deeper with the camera UI as it is something that was just carried forward.
As a selfie-centric handset, it has a 24MP front-facing camera that has an f-stop of f/2.0 and with its very own softlight flash. However, the Snapdragon 450 chipset supports only up to 21MP resolution, so more likely than not, the 24MP is achieved using software interpolation.
We took several shots using it, and we can say that it produces superb images when the lighting conditions are good. Shots taken at night or on the dim environment are still good, although not as natural looking as when compared to pictures captured during broad daylight. Moreover, despite having a single lens, it still has Portrait Mode for that bokeh-effect, the downside though is you cannot adjust the depth. In addition, it does not have an auto focus mechanism, so shots taken against the light usually turn out to be overexposed.
The main camera on its rear does not pack as much resolution as the front-facing one, it only has 16-megapixel, but that it is enough for the V7 Plus to produce great output. It has phase-detection auto focus that picks up the right target quickly. The dynamic range is good too, noise level is kept to a minimum, and color reproduction is near accurate. As mentioned earlier, there is also Professional Mode that allows advanced users to capture any given subject to a new heights, especially during night time or low-light situations when auto mode output is less than stellar.
The Vivo V7+ can accommodate dual Nano SIM cards, and can provide high-speed mobile internet via LTE connectivity. If you have no data plan, or just want to save those precious data, WiFi is the way to go, however, please do note that it only supports single band, that is 2.4GHz. It still has 3.5mm audio jack, and in the same manner, still uses micro USB 2.0 instead of the newer Type-C, thankfully it has OTG function.
Inside the Vivo V7 Plus is a non-removable 3225mAh power source, this sounds pretty normal for today's smartphones, but in PC Mark Batter Life Test, it performed extraordinary. It scored amazingly high, 16 hours and 16 minutes to be exact, which as far as I can recall is the highest result we got from any phones that we reviewed. The score is even higher than the ASUS ZenFone 3 Max ZC553KL's 4100mAh battery that only got 15 hours and 19 minutes, and OPPO F3 Plus' 11 hours and 42 minutes that has a 4000mAh battery.
In real-life, it usually survives more than a day easily when my usage does not involve long periods of heavy gaming or watching videos. But even doing so, it would still last through the day without the need to look for a charger or power bank. Of course, it varies per user, but with the score mentioned above, you already have the idea how long it will last daily with normal usage.
The Vivo V7+ is indeed the best phone Vivo has to offer today. It has a very reliable overall performance, thanks to the octa core Qualcomm chipset and 4GB of RAM. The front camera offers great selfies, while its main shooter takes decent shots. It also has a nice and huge 18:9 6-inch display, and superb battery life that goes a long way. Moreover, it comes with lots of add-on too, one of which is the facial unlock that works pretty well.
However, there are things that we hoped it has, such as Quick Charge 3.0, USB type-C port, and auto focus selfie camera or perhaps dual front cameras.


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Espinosa de Cervera es una villa y un municipio situado en la provincia de Burgos, comunidad autónoma de Castilla y León (España), comarca de Arlanza, partido judicial de Salas de los Infantes, cabecera del ayuntamiento de su nombre.

Geografía

Forma parte de la Mancomunidad de La Yecla, con sede en Santa María del Mercadillo. Dista 66 km de la capital, en la falda sur de la Peña Cervera, en el Espacio Natural de los Sabinares del Arlanza. Al sur del municipio comienza la Ribera del Duero, mientras que al norte se extiende la Sierra de la Demanda. Administrativamente pertenece al partido judicial de Salas de los Infantes.

Varios arroyos que discurren por el término municipal alimentan el curso alto del río Esgueva.

Naturaleza
El 31 % de su término (923,88 hectáreas) queda afectado por la ZEPA Sabinares del Arlanza, donde destacan las siguientes especies: Buitre Leonado (Gyps fulvus); y Alimoche (Neophron percnopterus).

Historia
En el Censo de Vecindarios de la Corona de Castilla realizado en 1591 se denominada Espinossa de Ceruera, pertenecía al Partido de los Arauces, incluida en la provincia de Burgos. El partido contaba con 876 vecinos pecheros.

Villa perteneciente a la Jurisdicción de Los Arauzos, de realengo, en el partido de Aranda de Duero,  con Alcalde Ordinario.

Patrimonio
Su principal monumento es la Iglesia parroquial de San Millán, con su torre y ábside románicos. También destaca la fuente románica.

La localidad se encuentra en el Camino del Cid.

Véase también

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Ayuntamiento de Espinosa de Cervera

Municipios de la provincia de Burgos
Localidades de la provincia de Burgos
Partido judicial de Salas de los Infantes
Arlanza
Los Arauzos


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Sign up for this year's Carers' Thames Walk and raise money for carers
Calendar icon 25 Mar 2019
The Carers' Thames Walk has become a firm fixture in the calendar, taking walkers along a spectacular route including the banks of the Thames and some of London's most historic streets around Borough Market, Southwark Cathedral and London Bridge.
Starting and finishing at Southwark Cathedral, the walk enables carers and the people they care for to raise funds for their local carers centre. It also raises the profile of carers and their tireless unpaid work to care for family and friends with long-term illnesses, disabilities and mental health problems. And for those taking part it's a really fun day out and a chance to meet and talk to other carers and the people they care for.
Taking part is easy. There are three different walks of varying lengths to suit all levels of fitness. There is a short route of 2.8 miles, a medium walk of 4.8 miles and a long route of 8.9 miles. There are also routes for wheelchair users.
So why not find out more and register your place via the Carers Thames Walk website?
There is a special discounted rate for those registering before 1st May, and you can also register on the day!
Sarah Duncan is the Chair of the Board of Trustees at Wandsworth Carers Centre. Looking forward to her ninth Carers Thames Walk this May, she said:
"I look forward to the Carers' Thames Walk every year, this will be my 9th! It is the most fantastic opportunity to raise funds for our centres whilst having fun, making new friends, keeping fit and learning new things about London. All in one day!
"At Wandsworth Carers Centre we always get a team of walkers together which comprises of Carers and those that they care for, staff, volunteers, trustees and friends and family of all of the above!
"The funds that we raise are unrestricted and can be used in the way that we choose. At WCC we use this invaluable resource to fund our annual outing for Carers and perhaps you might like to do something like this too?"
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Young carer from Suffolk receives award from Prime Minister
The Prime Minister has recognised a young carer with an award today for his voluntary work to raise awareness of young carers and the challenges they face on a daily basis.
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Princess Royal helps Carers Trust raise £120,000 for UK carers at Ascot Racecourse fundraiser
Carers Trust has raised more than £120,000 for its work supporting unpaid carers right across the UK.
Blackpool garden project helps carers 'escape from worries and stress at home'
A group of carers from Blackpool are lovingly transforming a patch of old wasteground into a communal garden where they can grow their own vegetables as well as beautiful scented flowers.
Mental health and carers
During Mental Health Awareness Week, 13–19 May 2019, we are asking you to stop and take a moment to think about the impact that providing unpaid care has on the mental health and wellbeing of carers. How can you help reduce this?


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St Petersburg University is one of the best places to find talented employees.
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Edgeverve, an Infosys-owned company which develops cloud-based software applications, has taken a step towards negating human bias in process automation with the launch of a new enterprise tool.
The company said in a statement that AssistEdge Discover can boost the success of automation implementation by reducing the need for human intervention.
Edgeverve will launch the product at the OPEX Week: Business Transformation World Summit which is currently underway at Florida in the US.
The product keeps a tab of user keystrokes and uses sophisticated neural network algorithms to create an automation blueprint.
The robotic process automation tool can provide recommendations through four methods.
One way is through data capture, wherein the mouse and keystrokes of employees are monitored and recorded.
The second process is by giving administrators the power to decide the frequency and type of data that can be captured from specific machines and users.
Edgeverve also emphasised that no business or user-sensitive data will be recorded.
The third method includes the usage of AI algorithms and neural networks to create a visual process map that is rich in data. Edgeverve says that the map can produce common paths, as well as alternate variations of the same path.
The fourth process includes actionable insights that are derived from automated recommendations. The recommendations identify automation opportunities and collate the same onto a dashboard that can be used to make an informed decision.
"The empirical approach to automation through process discovery makes the whole process transparent and amplifies the hidden values of automation impacting ROI [return on investment]," said Atul Soneja, global head, Edge Products & Infosys Nia, EdgeVerve.
The company said that AssistEdge can simplify the automation journey for enterprises that require fast insights to drive success. The tool was built to be platform-agnostic and work alongside other RPA tools, enabling enterprises to better manage processes across multiple systems seamlessly.
According to market research firm Forrester, the RPA industry set to grow to a $2.9 billion market by 2021.
"RPA and AI will join forces to create digital workers for more than 40% of enterprises. There is a need to combine process mining data with traditional RPA desktop analytics to create heat maps to guide bot design and bot behaviour," said Craig Le Clair, vice president, principal analyst serving enterprise architecture professionals at Forrester.
Although the Forrester research stated that RPA will have a big role to play in digital transformation, more than half of current enterprise automation implementations have failed when business processes are not deciphered properly, it added.


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Spotlight Series 3 – Interview with Oliver Mutanga
Welcome to our latest Education TG Spotlight interview 3, with Dr Oliver Mutanga. Dr Mutanga is an experienced researcher with a demonstrated history of exploring Disability, Education and Health issues. He was awarded a scholarship at the University of the Free State in South Africa to pursue doctoral studies (2013-2016). In 2015, he was awarded a CICOPS Fellowship by the University of Pavia, Italy. In 2017, he was awarded a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oslo, Norway. This was followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the UCL Institute of Education (IOE) in 2019. Prior to his PhD research, Oliver worked as a researcher in Zimbabwe, Botswana, and South Africa. Currently he is an Expert Evaluator for the European Commission. He is also a Guest Research Fellow at the University of South Africa and a Guest Research Fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway. In this interview he shares his experiences and future ideas in relation to education and development.
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The Education Thematic Group is excited to share the 2nd Spotlight Series interview with Professor Sandra Boni. Professor Boni is a professor at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain) and a deputy Director of INGENIO (CSIC-UOV). She is an honorary professor at the University of the Free State in South Africa and adjunct professor at the Universidad de Ibagué. Her research interests focus on human development, higher education, global citizenship and transformative innovation. She is an active member of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium. Professor Boni is also one of the editors of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. In this interview she shares more about her work.
Use of Primary Data for Measuring and Operationalisation of the Capability Approach
This webinar is the third and the final one in our series on Operationalisation and Measurement of the Capability Approach using various types of data. In this webinar, we discuss the dynamics and the challenges involved in operationalising the primary data. While collection of primary data entails greater autonomy in collection of data, the sample size becomes a limitation and issues regarding representativeness of the data are more acute. Our speakers discuss the frameworks they employed and how they attained balance between the two concerns. With one study being based on households with children in Rome and the other focusing on women in Sri Lanka, the webinar offers interesting comparisons on the notions of subjective well being and deprivation.
Dr. Paolo Raciti, Researcher (Social Inclusion Structure), National Institute for the Analysis of Public Policies (INAPP)
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Children´s Participation in the 21st Century in Different Regions and in Times of Pandemic
This webinar is dedicated to the analysis of the different ways of seeing the participation of boys and girls in different regions of the planet during the time of the pandemic. The first presentation conducts a review of the participation of children in South America from the perspective of the CA, considering that in the history of South America participation plays a major role trying to resolve injustice and inequalities. The second presentation suggest that the CA would benefit from integrating a concept of participation as presented in the work of Freire and that in turn the CA can be a framework for the elaboration of methodologies and approaches in line with such concept. The third presentation explores the ways in which the CA used in combination with critical pedagogy can enable children from high poverty neighborhoods in Scotland to engage in deep thinking and active involvement on shaping the policy decisions and social programs that concern them. The fourth presentation reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, where all schools and universities were closed and distance learning was adopted; preliminary results show that the drastic reduction in relational capabilities has severely impacted on children´s mental health and capabilities to participate.
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Limitations and Frontiers: Concepts, Measures, and Applications of the Capability Approach
Speaker: Sabina Alkire Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), a research centre within the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford.
Since HDCA was launched in 2004, applications of well-being and multidimensional poverty have gained ground, including applications drawing from the Capability Approach. It has been a period of intense reflection, experimentation, hope, competition, and learning. In parallel, the data environment and availability of qualitative, quantitative, and participatory data has bounded forward, as has policy interest in topics central to the capability approach. This has truly been a fertile period. This talk reviews a few advances, then focuses on and calls for creative investment in some high priority gaps.
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Knowledge Politics: Multidimensional wellbeing indicators as policy instruments
Presenter: Dr. Karen Scott, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Exeter University
The conceptualisation and measurement of wellbeing has become a significant policy concern over the last two decades. Many local, national, supranational and international governance bodies have engaged intensively in research to develop wellbeing indicators. Slower, however, has been the transition to using these wellbeing indicators for policy development and implementation, with there being significant critique of how governance bodies have approached this agenda. In this webinar, Dr. Scott will cover the main critiques and challenges in using wellbeing indicators as policy instruments based on her interest in knowledge politics and epistemic justice. By drawing on her own research and experience of local and central government in the UK and New Zealand, she will argue for more democratic and context-based research, as well as systematic reviews of qualitative evidence on wellbeing, to inform policy.
Taking a Relational Approach to Multidimensional Wellbeing
Sarah C. White & Shreya Jha, Co-founders of the Relational Wellbeing (RWB) Collaborative
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The Capability Approach has long taken a person-centred approach to wellbeing, emphasising what people can in practice do and be, and to some extent how they think and feel. Relational Wellbeing aligns with this, but stresses the relational character of human being, such that people's relationships with others critically affect the opportunities they have and the choices they make. Linking personal, societal and ecological change, Relational Wellbeing looks beyond individual psychology or behaviour to the underlying conditions that promote healthy environments and happy lives. While many models of wellbeing rely on the notion of domains to represent its multidimensional character, Relational Wellbeing draws attention instead to the flows, connections and obstructions between different aspects of life, and between the diverse factors that help to generate or undermine wellbeing.
In this seminar we introduce the relational approach to wellbeing and describe how we are applying it in development practice. We look forward to a lively discussion concerning its similarities to and differences from the Capability Approach, and its implications for multidimensional wellbeing measurement.
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Measuring Deprivation in Social Participation
Presentation: Dr. Nicolai Suppa, Research Associate, OPHI and Juan de la Cierva Research Fellow, the Centre for Demographic Studies (Barcelona)
Commentators: Prof. Suman Seth (University of Leeds) and Prof. Flavio Comim (HDCA founding member and Ramon Llull University)
This webinar engages with the aspects of measurement of deprivations in social participation, an important but so far neglected dimension of human well-being. Operationalization and empirical implementation of the capability approach are essential to advance in the quantitative understanding of the new challenges of the field. Using high-quality survey data for Germany, we discuss in-depth axioms on poverty and deprivations and social participation.
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The Development and Application of Multidimensional Well-being Measures
This webinar features a panel discussion on developing multidimensional wellbeing measures in varied contexts and with diverse data sources. Panelists: Jaya Krishnakumar, Professor of Econometrics at the University of Geneva, Switzerland; Giulia Greco, Assistant Professor in Health Economics in the Department for Global Health and Development at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; and Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Pavia.


• Similarities with Vardebukta Formation in Svalbard (Hochuli et al., 1989; Mangerud and Konieczny 1991,1993), with the lower Bjorne and Blind Fiord formations in the Sverdrup Basin (Fisher, 1979; Utting, 1985, 1989, pers. comm., 1993) and similar to the Wordie Creek Formation in East Greenland (Balme, 1980) and to the Toad/Grayling Formation in western Canada (Jansonius, 1962).
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here is the message of a recent piece of research: we are extracting too much water from rivers, streams and lakes. The implication is significant: unless there is enough water in the world's rivers to maintain freshwater ecosystems, many economies would collapse, affecting over 1.4 billion people who live in river basins.
The study was conducted by the International Water Management Institute (iwmi), South Africa; the World Resources Institute, usa ; Center for Environmental Systems Research of Kassel University, Germany; and the World Conservation Union (iucn) , Switzerland. It demonstrates that a balanced water allocation policy is needed, one that provides sufficient water to the environment, as well as to humans. It is for the first time that researchers have assessed the impacts of water use on freshwater species. According to the 2003 iucn Red List of threatened species, 3,011 freshwater species are listed as threatened, endangered or extinct due to human activities.
Across the globe there are examples of over-exploitation. In both the Murray-Darling basin of Australia and the Huang Ho basin of China, more water is extracted than is available for human use -- a water stress indicator greater than one; extraction in the Orange river basin in southern Africa is close to using the maximum amount available -- a water stress indicator of 0.8 to 0.9.
Climate change has made the scenario worse. In the case of the Huang Ho basin, for instance, the duration of the low-flow period has increased from 40 days in the early 1990s to 200 days in 1997. Such changes are alarming -- river flow is a must for the survival of freshwater species. A good example is the peril aquatic life is in the Pangani river basin, shared by Kenya and Tanzania. Its river flow has dropped from over 300 cubic metres per second to less than 40. Communities of the region now find it difficult to get fish even for consumption.
The researchers found that ecosystems in river basins with extreme hydrological regimes need a lower proportion of natural run-off to maintain their functions because aquatic life has adapted to extended periods of limited or no flow. The aquatic life in basins where river flows are relatively steady, however, is more sensitive to water scarcity and requires a larger proportion of natural run-off. The level of 'stable flow' throughout the year plays a crucial role in deciding the environmental water requirement of such basins.
According to the researchers, at present the environmental water requirements is 20 to 50 per cent of the total water available worldwide. "Allocation of water for environment should not be considered a waste. The study will enable communities to judiciously use their water resources," says David Molden, a researcher at iwmi.


(1) I have none of these means to produce scent, but it doesn't mean we are without distinct smell.(2) In philosophy, individuals are defined as entities that are distinct in space and time.(3) I could smell her distinct perfume, my lungs feeling renewed with a part of heaven.(4) There are two separate and distinct conditions for the exercise of the discretion created by that provision.(5) You forget that blood has this special, distinct metallic smell to it.(6) Notice the full mass on each of these muscles and how each is rock solid with distinct separation.(7) What they worry about most is that with two coaching teams, two separate and distinct teams will emerge on tour.(8) Using the traditional means of extending religious influence leaves us at a distinct disadvantage.(9) We use the logical framework provided by this dendrogram to group the SC and MC in functionally distinct clusters.(10) She pulled her blanket to her chin, wrinkling her nose at its distinct mildew smell, then yanking it down to her feet.(11) Burkhard prints his own work and the end result is somewhat grainy with a distinct sense of texture.(12) Hestor can make out Jody and Morgan, who remain distinct in the throng.(13) The distinct smell of alcohol mixed with perfume made Sol's nostrils flare angrily.(14) My immediate concern was to get everyone out of the van because there was a distinct smell of smoke.(15) Is this not part of what makes them culturally distinct ?(16) One distinct advantage that Streisand had was William Wyler as her director on the film.
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While we have put our reputations on the line already and announced that as far as we are concerned Ricardo is locked in for the World Tour in 2019. The WSL will not announce confirmation as it is still mathematically possible that 26 surfers can pass Ric on the ratings.
So we thought we'd break this down for you!
24 would have to make the final or better.. and considering there are only 4 spots in the final. This means if Leonardo Fioravanti and Jadson Andre make the quarters and semi respectively or better.. then there are technically only 6 surfers that can pass Ric on points.
Currently Ric sits 7th the top 10 qualify. Yet Kanoa Igarashi is 100% already re-qualified through the World Tour, so therefore Ric sits 6th on the WQS qualifier spots.. and has a 4 place buffer. If Griffin Colapinto qualifies via the World Tour at Pipe Ric will have a 5 place buffer..
So yes while it is mathematically possible, the odds of Ric not qualifying would be far more remarkable than the Oracle turnaround from an 8-1 hiding to win 9-8. And in that case there were only two teams involved not a field of 100+ duking it out in massive Sunset Beach.
All these above scenarios are only effective if Ric finishes 4th in his round 3 heat. If he finishes 3rd he will increase his overall score slightly and make it harder for 1-2 guys, and if he progresses through his heat into Round 4 he has 100% carved his qualification in stone for 2019.
Here are the placings that each surfer able to overtake Ric need at Sunset. Throw in the injection of big name locals and World Tour Surfers at this event.. and there's NO WAY that this scenario can occur! Buckle up for one hell of a week!!


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Music I Listen To: Classic Rock/Metal
The musical odyssey continues! Don't forget about Part 1 and Part 2.
This is another wide category, but I've chosen to differentiate it from Pop/Modern Rock via both age and intensity.
Seemingly the gold standard for what counts as Good Music™. It's what "kids these days" don't appreciate, myself apparently excluded. Like with Modern Rock yesterday, it would be a bit tough to listen to all the bands and artists I like. I listen to a lot of The Fox locally. But my favorite band has to be Queen.
The guys in my immediate family seem to have a tendency to fixate on one band for some reason or another. For my dad, it was The Beatles. For my brother, U2. For me, it's Queen. I'll admit that Wayne's World had something to do with me becoming aware of Queen's music. But since then, they've become a mainstay of my album rotation. Even if it does occasionally get me weird looks from some of my coworkers.
DEATH TO ALL BUT METAL! Okay, not really. But the song, while crude, is amusing. I'll admit that there's a lot of overlap between this genre and the previous. But I happen to like a lot of classic heavy metal and hair metal. Iron Maiden. Scorpions. Quiet Riot. Metallica. Queensryche. Dethklok You get the idea.
Honestly, this section is feeling pretty short because it overlaps so much with the one above and below.
This is definitely a sub-genre of metal, but one I listen to quite a bit. It tends to be a bit more symphonic or melodic, often incorporating fantasy or sci-fi themes. I came across this genre while in France, as it's much more popular in Europe than it is in the States. Some bands include Kamelot (I did get to see them in concert), Blind Guardian (they have a concept album about The Silmarillion), Epica, Nightwish, Sabaton, and more.
For me, it fills the niche of something harder but still understandable (both in melody and lyrics). When I was still doing Taekwondo, I had to put together a creative form set to music for my 3rd degree black belt test. I ended up using "The Bridge of Khazad Dum" from The Lord of the Rings because I wanted something unique that wasn't techno (this was the early 2000s) but still had a powerful beat. If I had known about Power Metal back then, I probably would have used something more akin to this.
This entry was posted in Entertainment, Personal on March 5, 2014 by Joshua.
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Two Russian Cosmonauts to Go For Six-hour Spacewalk to Check Hole in Soyuz Spacecraft Docked to ISS
The samples and images will provide additional information that will aid the investigation into the cause of the pressure leak, NASA said.
Published: December 10, 2018 1:51 PM IST
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Washington: Two Russian cosmonauts will go for a six-hour-long spacewalk on Tuesday to check a hole in the external hull of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft currently docked to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev of Russian space agency Roscosmos are scheduled to begin their spacewalk at 11 am EST, NASA said.
While this will be the fourth spacewalk in Kononenko's career, Prokopyev will be out on his second.
In late August, a pressure leak occurred on the space station that was traced to the Soyuz.
Within hours after finding the source of the leak, the Expedition 56 crew sealed the hole and the station has since maintained a steady pressure.
Now the cosmonauts will take samples of any residue found on the hull and take digital images of the area before placing a new thermal blanket over it.
The spacewalk was initially planned for November 15 and Prokopyev was set to perform it alongside Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, Sputnik news agency reported.
However, the latter did not make it to the ISS due to a failure of the Soyuz-FG booster carrying the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft with Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague on board in October, the report added.
The spacecraft that Kononenko and Prokopyev will check on Tuesday are scheduled to return Prokopyev, NASA astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Alexander Gerst from the space station to Earth on December 19 (US time).
The three will return home after a six-and-half-month mission.
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Skiathos is an island blessed with exquisite beaches and beautiful natural landscape. Although it gets very crowded, Skiathos remains a true Greek Island and one of the premier resorts in Greece with a great variety of hotels, restaurants and intense nightlife. If you are a bit more curious than enjoying the sun and the partying, you can discover picturesque churches and even secluded beaches.
Skiathos spans an area of 49,8 sq. km. with a total population of 6.160 residents. Skiathos is located close to Magnesia mainland region and Mount Pelion on the west and the island of Skopelos on the east.
Skiathos played a role in the Persian Wars as it seems to have fought against Persians. Skiathos joins the Delian League and gets destroyed by Macedonians, falls in Roman hands and later in 12th century goes under Venetians. Barbarossa sieges the island and Skiathos falls under Ottoman Rule. Venetians claimed back for a few years but the island remained in the Turks till the Greek War of Independence. Skiathos joined the Greek State in 1830.
Chora is the most visited place as the crowds of tourists come here to wander around the white houses with the red roofs, eat at the traditional taverns and have fun in the clubs and bars. The medieval town of Kastro offers a breathtaking view really worth to be seen. The film Mamma Mia was filmed on Skiathos so if you seek for that awesome beach you saw, here it is! The famous beaches are: Koukounaries, Megali Ammos, Achladias, Kanapitsa, Troullos and Lalaria with the impressive rocks.
There are some wine varieties cultivated here producing Muscat wine and the local dark red Skiathian wine.
By air from Athens International Airport or by ferry or catamaran boats departing from Agios Konstantinos Port, Volos Port or Thessalonica.
From May till October. Skiathos gets crowded in July and August.


The Starfinder Alien Archive 2 Pawn Box, a Starfinder Pawns boxed set, is expected to be released on February 11, 2019. It contains more than 300 numbered chipboard pawns printed with full-color artwork.
This pawn collection has been announced but has not yet been released.
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Plans for 20 MW China PV plant underway
LDK Solar and Datang International Power Generation are to install a 20 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic plant in China.
August 10, 2011 Becky Beetz
LDK has signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract with Datang to develop the project in China's Qinghai province.
According to a statement released, work on the first 10 MW will begin this month, while the entire project is scheduled for completion by the end of September.
"We are pleased to partner with an industry leader such as Datang on this PV project," commented Xiaofeng Peng, chairman and CEO of LDK Solar. "This contract expands LDK's presence within China's growing PV market."
The news comes just over a week after it was announced that China is to introduce its first feed-in tariff for photovoltaic projects.


The loss of refrigerant from a system due to a leak is a very common problem. It is normally an easy problem to diagnose; however, locating the source of the leak and repairing it may be difficult and frustrating at times.
It is always best to find and repair the source of the leak. But depending on the size of the system and the size and location of the refrigerant leak, it may not be an easy or inexpensive repair. Depending on the amount of refrigerant contained in the system, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may require the source of the leak be located and repaired.
Currently, the EPA requires refrigeration systems containing 50 pounds of refrigerant or more and having an annual leak rate of 35 percent or more be repaired within 30 days from the date the leak was discovered. If replacement is required, a plan must be developed within 30 days to retrofit or retire the equipment, and the actions under that plan must be completed within one year. The EPA is changing the annual leak rate on Jan. 1, 2019, to 30 percent for industrial process refrigeration and 20 percent for commercial refrigeration. For systems containing less than 50 pounds of refrigerant, the EPA recommends the leak be repaired, which, again, is best for the customer, technician, and environment.
On some systems, especially on fractional horsepower systems, locating small leaks may be quite difficult — not impossible, but quite time-consuming and perhaps at a great expense to the customer. Many years ago, it was quite common for technicians to simply top off systems with refrigerant and not even look for the leak. Of course, this was when refrigerant was inexpensive and the EPA had no guidelines. Today, the practice is still used, but it is not common because the cost of refrigerant does not make it as practical as in the past.
Technicians often use refrigerant sealants to repair many small system leaks. These sealants can be a viable solution but should be used wisely and not as the first attempt at repairing a leak. Technicians should first strive to find the source of the leak by using standard industry procedures. Using a sealant as a first attempt can be problematic because, depending on the size and location of the leak, the sealant may not be effective. If the refrigerant leaks out again in a relatively short amount of time, the initial repair will generally be a waste of time for both the customer and the technician. The use of a sealant can be a great option, but only after it is confirmed that the leak is very small and difficult to locate.
A good first step in locating a leak is a simple visual inspection. As refrigerant leaks from a system, so does a portion of the refrigeration oil. The oil will normally stain the area surrounding the location. An easy way to search for a leak is to visually inspect the lines and fittings of the system for signs of oil. There are several different methods a technician can use to find these leaks, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Some may work well to locate a leak on one system and not as well on another. Technicians should have available, and be able to use, more than one leak detection method. If one method is not working well, they can switch to an alternate one. Also, it is often beneficial for technicians to employ two methods while searching for a leak: one to locate the general area of the suspected leak and the other to pinpoint its specific location.
It is always best to find and repair a system leak rather than simply topping off a system or using a refrigerant sealant as a first attempt. It is definitely a more time-consuming repair but most likely better for the customer in the long term.