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Samsung Galaxy A8s Announced: Here is the interesting feature of this Smartphone
Samsung has finally announced its new device which has the in display camera hole for the first time in any smartphone. Recently, Samsung showed different possibilities for the Front Camera placement. Now the brand came up with the first device with an in-display camera hole.
Samsung Galaxy A8s is just announced today and We have covered everything that you need to know about the device. The particular name that Samsung has given to this design is 'Infinity-O'. The device's front camera is placed in one of the top corners and is also completely different from other devices.
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Honor View 20 is probably going to be the second device to come up with this design. As Samsung has already announced there new smartphone, A8s in China. However, there is no confirmation about the Global/India launch of the device as of now. But, We are expecting the device to launch in other countries as well.
Samsung Galaxy A8s: Specifications
Talking about the display, Samsung Galaxy A8s comes with 6.4-inch display with the resolution of 1080×2340 pixels. This device has covered the Aspect ratio of about 19.5:9. The device has got the triple cameras at the back and as mentioned earlier, front camera placed in the hole.
This device is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 and comes in two RAM variants in China. The RAM options available for this device are 6GB and 8GB paired with 128GB storage. Although, the storage on the device is expandable up to 512GB through microSD card slot on the device.
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Coming to the back, This device has got a triple camera setup along with Flashlight and a fingerprint scanner. Talking about the cameras, the Primary sensor on the device is a 24MP sensor with F/1.7 aperture. Along with that, it comes with a 10MP telephoto lens with F/2.4 aperture. Additionally, it has 5MP Depth Sensing lens with F/2.2 aperture.
The Front camera on the device is also a 24MP sensor. It comes with 3,400 mAh battery which can be charged through the USB Type-C port on the device. The device runs on Android 8.1 Oreo and may probably be updated to Android Pie as well.
Samsung Galaxy A8s: Price & Availability
Talking about availability, Samsung Galaxy A8s is available to pre-order until 21st December in China. However, there is no confirmed report about the availability, pricing of the device. Follow TechDefinite to get the latest update about Samsung Galaxy A8s and other devices as well.
Thinking about the design of this device, It kinda makes this device little bit ugly. If you have noticed the device, Doesn't it seems that the Camera adds another level of bulk to the device? However, Notch was okay when it had some space which made things clear about the design.
Thinking about the design of this device, The Camera is already showing its presence in the device. Yeah, the front camera is grabbing a lot of attention when you look randomly on the device. It would have been better if this was kept on the topmost space of the device.
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Also, Samsung has not clarified anything about the Screen on the Galaxy A8s. It is not clear that the Samsung Galaxy A8s has an AMOLED panel or an LCD panel on the screen. It can only be cleared by the Company officials themselves.
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Installing Geosupport + nyc-batch-geocoder
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# Background
These are the installation instructions for getting [Geosupport](http://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/data-maps/open-data/dwn-gde-home.page) + nyc-batch-geocoder to work on a bog-standard Ubuntu 16.04 (LTS).

The underlying code for Geosupport is **not open source**, but rather a packaged binary for Linux. I presume it is compiled for an x86_64, processor, though this hasn't been confirmed. It will not run on an ARM system (e.g. Raspberry Pi), nor any other processor architecture. If running this on a Raspberry Pi is something you're interested in, bug Colin Reilly, the Senior Director for GIS at NYC DOITT, [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/ColinReillyNY). (Thank you Colin!)

These instructions should be effectively identical to those implemented in this repository's [Dockerfile](Dockerfile) and these instructions should update to reflect changes made there. Feel free to [yell at me in the Github Issues](https://github.com/riordan/crazy-fast-nyc-batch-geocoder/issues) should that not be the case or the instructions break.

These installation instruction are derived from:
* [Noah Veltman's](https://github.com/veltman) original [Geocoding 10,000 addresses a second with NYC's Geosupport library and Node FFI](https://gist.github.com/veltman/2c79458b2226466920dbd601bf94551f)

# Instructions
## First Steps

Update system & install unzip, curl, nodejs, and npm (if necessary)
```bash
sudo apt-get update --yes
sudo apt-get upgrade --yes
sudo apt-get install --yes unzip, curl, nodejs, npm
```

Default installation of Nodejs on Ubuntu has an [issue with clashing programs named node](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18130164/nodejs-vs-node-on-ubuntu-12-04#18130296), so you'll have to do this extra step to make sure it responds to `node`, not just `nodejs`.
```bash
sudo ln -s `which nodejs` /usr/bin/node
```

## installing nyc-batch-geocoder node package
_Note: Installation of `nyc-batch-geocoder` node package and Geosupport library are performed in the opposite order in the Dockerfile. This should have no discernable effect on the outcome._

Download / clone / obtain the codebase
```bash
curl -LOk "https://github.com/riordan/nyc-batch-geocoder/archive/master.zip"
unzip master.zip
mv nyc-batch-geocoder-master nyc-batch-geocoder
rm master.zip
cd nyc-batch-geocoder
```

Install node dependencies:
```bash
npm install
```

## Install Geosupport
Download Geosupport and unzip archive into folder
```bash
curl -LOk "http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/zip/data-maps/open-data/gdelx_16d.zip"
unzip gdelx_16d.zip
rm gdelx_16d.zip # Delete the zip file; you don't need it any more
```

**NOTE:** _At time of writing (November 28, 2016), the latest version of Geosupport is: [16d](http://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/data-maps/open-data/dwn-gde-home.page). This was released some time after August, 2016, as indicated by the release date of version 16C on the [Geosupport Archive Page](http://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/data-maps/open-data/geosupport-archive.page). I will attempt to keep this URL as up to date as possible with future releases, but cannot make any guarantees._

Set environment variables:
```bash
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$(pwd)/version-16d_16.4/lib/"
export GEOFILES="$(pwd)/version-16d_16.4/fls/"
export GEOSUPPORT_LIBGEO="$(pwd)/version-16d_16.4/lib/libgeo.so"
```

_If you want this to persist across reboots, you'll want to add these to your .profile (usually a `.bash_profile`). This is done with something like:_

```bash
echo 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(pwd)/version-16d_16.4/lib/' >>~/.bash_profile
echo 'export GEOFILES=$(pwd)/version-16d_16.4/fls/' >>~/.bash_profile
echo 'export GEOSUPPORT_LIBGEO=$(pwd)/version-16d_16.4/lib/libgeo.so' >>~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile
```

Rejoice at the installation of Geosupport.

Run a test of the application from the `nyc-batch-geocoder/` directory:
```bash
node src/index.js
```

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Why we're opening a Big Picture Learning school in the UK
David Jackson	in Education, Innovation, Uncategorized	 September 25, 2018 November 10, 2018 1,893 Words
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The UK system has a problem
It isn't very much discussed, but the UK schooling system has a big problem.
There is a huge amount of talk about raising attainment levels and improving schools; about better teacher recruitment and retention, or richer preparation and induction; about wellbeing and resilience programmes for those with mental health challenges or the disaffected and disenfranchised; about tougher tests (more tests, too) and better test preparation. And that's the problem. Right there.
What we don't talk about is the fact that our model of schooling and learning is now more than a hundred years old and way out of date. It is inappropriate for our times in that it doesn't prepare young people well for their future life and work and citizenship roles. It is also, particularly in secondary schools, extremely dull – research statistics on student disengagement tell a stark tale. But most of all, it is profoundly wasteful. The model doesn't optimise achievement and it is now obvious that it never will. Put more bluntly, it has had more than a hundred years to stake its claim that it can succeed with all students and it has failed miserably for all those hundred plus years. (Yet it took the Open University, by the way, about a decade to demonstrate that all engaged learners could succeed at degree level study – most of whom had been written off by their schooling experience.)
It didn't so much matter when we thought it was a part of social destiny that most of the well-off succeeded and most of the poor failed. When the schooling system fed our class system and we had public (private) schools, grammar schools and secondary modern schools, just in case anybody had missed the point. But now it does matter, and it matters hugely. Partly because the world needs all our educated young to become economically and socially contributing citizens; partly because equality of opportunity and socially just outcomes are now seen as a human right. Mostly, though, because there is now evidence and there are examples that show success for all can be achieved.
So that's the big problem. We are hell-bent on trying to squeeze a bit more performance out of a model that is inappropriate to the times and inappropriate to the task we have set it – to achieve success with all students; to tackle the equity issue; to generate socially aware and contributing citizens; to save the planet, even. Instead, we need mindful and intentional endeavours to redesign the model of schooling and learning.
Believe it or not, the US is better
This should be interesting to American readers, because in many ways our systems share similar problems. However, since the late 1980s, academics, policy-makers, corporate entities and philanthropists have all – with varied levels of alignment and success, it is true – combined in an effort to do something about it. Put another way, there is an innovation history in the US of supporting new school designs.
The first stake in the ground was arguably the Coalition of Essential Schools, set up in the wake of Ted Sizer's book 'Horace's Compromise'. It was an initiative led by academics and educationalists, a genuinely groundswell movement. CES grew to be a steady-state voice for change, still functioning with more than 600 schools identifying and connecting under the banner of 'common principles for uncommon schools'.
The coalition's core principles haven't changed much. They still hold up, and they still don't feature very prominently in most of our schools! However, in one form or another they have informed the design principles of most new school models. For example, take these four:
Less is more – depth over coverage
Personalisation – built on profound knowledge of learners
Student-as-worker, teacher-as-coach
Assessment based on demonstration of mastery and real tasks (not tests).
The genesis for the New American Schools initiative in the early 1990s was different. Informed by policy it was taken up by corporate finance. In response to President Bush's major education initiative, CEOs from a number of large corporations established New American Schools, or NAS, as a privately funded, non-profit organization devoted to supporting the design and dissemination of "whole school reform" models. The New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC) founders envisioned a complete overhaul of American education stimulated by the spread of these innovative designs. It was intended to break free of that mindset mentioned earlier of simply improving the existing model, or bolting onto it new programmes, or of innovation being merely seen as new ways of delivering subject-based one hour lessons! NAS supported school design teams (educators, business people, researchers) to create potentially transformative new school designs with the potential to be scaled. Were all of them successful? Of course not. But the best have proved to be powerfully influential.
By the early 2000s it was to be philanthropic funding driving the agenda. Most notably, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation resolved to break up large high schools and turn them into 'small schools' – small learning communities of around 350 students – frequently incorporating design principles inherited from the Coalition and designs from NAS. Improved graduation-rates and achievement levels, especially among minority students, would be achieved through learners being profoundly well known. Relationships mattered.
More than 2,500 small schools were created across the US. New York City alone has more than 200, with high schools devoted to such themes as leadership, the sports professions, technology, health professions, the media, diversity, peace and social justice. Bill Gates believed that small schools could also make everything more 'relevant', through hands-on activities and new pedagogical approaches.
Were all these successful? Of course they weren't. However, the small high schools programme funded the growth of Expeditionary Learning, where Ron Berger is the CEO, and Big Picture high schools, founded by Dennis Littky and Elliot Washor. These small, personalised high schools, for example, started for school drop-outs, graduate 92 percent of their students on time.
The high schools in these two design networks – and others – have evidenced that they work. Students in these schools consistently outperform teenagers in conventionally sized, conventionally structured high schools with comparable demographics. And the system is learning to learn from them. The networks create their own scaling energy (note the ELC National Conference and The Big Bang), and diffusion organisations are growing around the work.
Circling back for a moment to where it all started – the Coalition of Essential Schools – there are some common design features across all these models which echo the founding beliefs:
All include project-based or real-world learning approaches, an engaging and empowering pedagogical model requiring teachers to collaborate as designers of learning
All focus on the centrality of relationships – have 'advisory' (where advisory is the soul of the school, symbolising support of students before teaching curriculum)
All have powerful and sustained collegial adult learning norms
All have pervasive cultural identity and school-level ownership of what matters, including what is assessed and how and by whom it is assessed.
So, we have a strategy!
For the UK, the point of fixing on this range of US examples is simple. Healthy systems have to have innovation capacity – a self-conscious attempt to design, implement and evaluate potentially paradigm-shifting new models of practice. It's either that or we stagnate – or (it seems) instead policy-makers focus on disruptive and energy-sapping structural changes that shake up the administration and governance of the system whilst leaving the educational core substantially unchanged.
A few years ago, Innovation Unit supported the iZone 360 initiative in New York, led at that time by John White. It was a privilege. There we worked alongside some great schools with inspirational leaders – City As School, NYC Lab School for Collaborative Studies, iSchool, Hudson High, Young Women's Leadership School, Bronx Compass and many more. Each was seeking to redesign school on behalf of the system (or, as Joel Klein put it: "What might happen if we allowed our most renegade school leaders – those who normally keep their heads below the parapet, break all our regulations, and get the best outcomes – to come out in the open and to innovate on behalf of the system?"). Each 360 school also had a design partner – New Tech Network, Big Picture Learning, Apple, CSSR etc. There we experienced – worked alongside – the power and potential and liberating energy of new school designs.
So, we plan to introduce one of those designs into the UK system. XP Trust in Doncaster has already created XP School (and opened a second this year) based on Expeditionary Learning design principles. We propose to open (in January 2019) the UK's first Big Picture Learning school in Doncaster. Big Picture Learning UK has been established through a partnership with Innovation Unit and, over time, we hope there will be many schools across the UK adopting the Big Picture Learning approach.
…and there is a burning platform
It is not as though we don't know that things need to change. Increasingly in the UK patterns of disengagement and disaffection are not well hidden. This summer has seen something of an awakening to the problem of exclusion from school in England, with story after story revealing the vast difference in fixed term and permanent exclusions between different localities and different education providers. The number of permanent exclusions nationally rose by 1,000 between 2016 and 2017, now equating to 40 young people expelled from school each day. You don't have to be a Foucauldian to recognize that poor behaviour in schools is just the most visible manifestation of disengagement and an unwillingness or inability to conform to the embedded norms of schooling. Many of these students end up in Pupil Referral Units (PRUs): locally run institutions for students who have been excluded from mainstream schools. One PRU told us that 100% of the children coming to them from local schools had an undiagnosed learning or speech and language or mental health need – most had a combination. It seems they have to behave poorly in order to qualify for a personalised education.
That is one trend. Another is that homeschooling numbers have risen 40% in the last three years. This is not because vast numbers of parents have caught the home-schooling bug. It is because they are despairing about their children's experience in schools. Many more, of course, don't present in exclusion or opt-out statistics. They endure. Many more still, the passively disengaged, comply. And all the while the learning outcomes from our schooling system continue to under-serve those, the historically under-served, for whom we should most want to succeed.
So, we have a choice: we can fund intensive treatment centres for poorly behaved kids, or we can provide a real alternative: schools in which knowing young people deeply is core to the professional roles of staff, in which the interests, aspirations and dreams of young people are the building blocks of curriculum, where learning and the application of that learning has tangible relevance to the real world, and where assessment recognises the knowledge, skills and capabilities that our modern world (and education) should value.
Those are the hallmarks of the school designs we have mentioned in this post, and it is why we will be opening the UK's first Big Picture Learning school in January.
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David Jackson I'm a Senior Associate at the Innovation Unit. I've been a secondary school teacher and headteacher most of my career. Subsequently was a director at the National College for School Leadership, where we ran the Networked Learning Communities programme, partnered by IU. I have worked on transformation programmes in America, Australia and South Africa as well as the UK. In times when external control and accountability feel to be constraining and regressive forces, I am passionate about the possibilities to do astonishing work. Schooling and learning need reimagining. We know enough to be able to do that!
Published September 25, 2018 November 10, 2018
2 thoughts on "Why we're opening a Big Picture Learning school in the UK"
Simon rushton says:
Great initiative but why are academic results and entry rates to HE the yardsticks by which the quality of the innovative schools you refer to is assessed? Is that not symptomatic of the 'inappropriate ' system?
Totally agree. These are not the way that they judge themselves,but extrapolated statistics that help the world to understand that something special is happening. BPL would judge itself on relationships (subjective), work contributions (less so, but both exhibitions of learning, and community internship success is hard to translate) and progression pathways (about which they don't have a view regarding whether College, university or work is more virtuous). So, they publicise 'graduation rate' – which in the US means finishing school and progressing – because that allows comparison with the wider system. High Tech High defined 'college qualified' as their single success criteria, because they believed that every young person (a) has the potential to progress and (b) has an entitlement to choices. Whether students choose to progress to College is not the issue – the HTH school(s) equip 97% of a comprehensive intake of learners with that choice – using personalised and project-based pedagogies.


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If it weren't for the lady and the panda, the world might never have fallen in love with the lovable black and white bears. In the early 1930s, pandas were as much myth as reality outside of China. Few westerners had ever seen one of the animals alive; they were known primarily from a few trophies taken by big game hunters, including Theodore Roosevelt in 1929.
Ruth Harkness went on an expedition to China. Roosevelt's prize, however, helped spark several expeditions to capture a live baby panda and return it to the United States. One of the adventurers was the independently wealthy William Harkness, who had made a name for himself capturing Komodo dragons — giant lizards — in the Dutch East Indies. In 1936, Harkness set off for China, promising to bring a panda baby back alive. Before his adventure could begin, however, he fell ill in Shanghai and died. Back in the U.S., Ruth Harkness, his recent bride, learned that she was a widow. Within days, according to WASHINGTON POST MAGAZINE reporter Vicki Croke, Ruth "declared that she had 'inherited an expedition.'"
Ruth Harkness went on an expedition to China.
"More in the spirit of a Hollywood romp than of a scientific endeavor, Harkness set sail from New York City on April 17, 1936," Croke noted in a March 4, 2001 story, "hosting a cocktail party in her stateroom, with dozens of swells juggling highball glasses and cigarettes and teasing her about her far-fetched mission."
The socialite adventurer proved up to the task. After an arduous trip into the mountains, and some controversy over the methods used to capture the baby panda (another expedition said it was "their" animal), Harkness returned to the U.S. in December 1936 carrying the first live panda to set paw on American soil. The result, as headline writers put it, was "panda-monium." Chicago's Brookfield Zoo, which eventually bought Su Lin, as the panda was named, had its biggest visitation day ever when it went on display.
Soon, zoos around the world were scrambling to obtain their own animals. Between 1936 and 1946, according to the World Wildlife Fund, 14 pandas were taken from China by foreigners, leading to a ban on the captures. Soon, however, China began to use pandas as goodwill ambassadors, giving pairs to Russia, the United States, Mexico, Germany, and others. Two dozen pandas were given away between 1957 and 1983.
As for Harkness, she would return to China several times and even come back to the U.S. with another panda. She would eventually write a well-received book, THE LADY AND THE PANDA, about her experiences.
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Zelenikovo (in macedone Зелениково) è un comune urbano della Repubblica di Macedonia. Il comune confina con Studeničani a ovest, Petrovec a nord-est, Čaška a sud e Veles a sud-est.

Società

Evoluzione demografica

Secondo il censimento nazionale del 2002, Zelenikovo conta 4.077 abitanti. I principali gruppi etnici sono:

Elenco località
Il comune è formato dalle seguenti località:
Vražale (Вражале)
Gradovci (Градовци)
Gumalevo (Гумалево)
Dejkovec (Дејковец)
Dobrino (Добрино)
Smesnica (Смесница)
Orešani (Орешани)
Pakoševo (Пакошево)
Paligrad (Палиград)
Novo Selo (Zelenikovo)(Ново Село)
Strahodjadica (Страхојадица)
Taor (Таор)
Tisovica (Тисовица)
Zelenikovo (Зелениково), sede della municipalità

Note

Altri progetti

Comuni della Macedonia del Nord

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Fishing Monthly Magazines : 64 kilometres of bream "
After a very warm January and a fair bit of boat traffic on the river, the fishing is now on the improve. Bream have once again been consistent, with good fishing throughout the system.
Hot spots have been around Pritchards Landing and above, which is 42.5km from the mouth. I have had reports of fish as high as Holmes Shack, which is around 64km up!
These upper reaches is quite accessible by boat. Above Holmes it is quite snaggy, but is still OK for smaller boats. Good old scrubworm or whitebait is all you need, and I'm certain the soft plastic and lure brigade would have a ball too.
Boat launching facilities at Pritchards is second to none, and, for the light tinnie brigade, Pines landing is OK – but a good map is needed to find the right track. The Glenelg here is a lot narrower, and both banks are an easy cast from the middle. There are plenty of snags, reeds and overhanging scrub to search.
At the other end of the river, the estuary is providing great sport on the bream. Dion Vale was here in January and had his best day's fishing ever. He hit the estuary with Ecogear SX-40 lures in the 337 colour, Towadi surface lures, and the shallow running Lake Police Flats Fry, all on 3lb leader. With the SX-40's he ripped them hard, letting them drop off near some old logs and rocks, as well as sandy drop-offs. With the Towadi surface lures, he used a twitching retrieve action, and with the Lake Police Flats Fry a fairly moderate retrieve.
Byron Blain and son Jared shared the trip with Dion, and they got on to the bream as well. They used Gulp Sandworms in camo colour rgged on a fair size jig-head, then simply let the current do the work with great results. They agreed that the slack between tides was the best bite time. Their best bream was 43 cm long and on one day alone Dion caught over 30 bream over 32 cm. Thankfully he is great believer of catch and release.
Byron and Jared fished their secret snag again for a couple of good perch. Perch reports are coming in from Nelson up to Lasletts Landing, 17km upstream.
Mulloway have been disappointing, more so in size than numbers. The most consistent reports are coming from around Princess Margaret Rose Caves, 14.6km upstream, and the odd ones either 5-7km either side.
Along the coast from here to Port MacDonnell, there has been has been good fishing for snapper, gummy sharks, thresher sharks, snook, salmon and mulloway. Offshore in 100m there are teraki, knife-jaw, flathead, gummies, mako sharks and some fantastic Tasmanian trumpeter to 5kg. Best baits have been pilchard, octopus and fresh fish strips. Often a cocktail of each will help pick up your strike rate.
Tuna gossip has started already, with the sighting of a school off from Beachport in South Australia, and another sighting near Portland. We are taking bookings for accommodation from March and April. Nelson is a good spot to be based as it gives you an easy 40–60 minute drive to either Port MacDonnell or Portland.
To find out what's going on, call us at the pub on 08 8738 4011, or email us at the address above.
Dion Vale with two of the many bream he caught on lures in the Glenelg River. Bream fishing has been very consistent and should remain that way in February.


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Q: boost::split pushes an empty string to the vector even with token_compress_on When the input string is blank, boost::split returns a vector with one empty string in it.
Is it possible to have boost::split return an empty vector instead?
MCVE:
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>

int main() {
    std::vector<std::string> result;
    boost::split(result, "", boost::is_any_of(","), boost::algorithm::token_compress_on);
    std::cout << result.size();
}

Output:
1

Desired output:
0

A: Compression compresses adjacent delimiters, it does not avoid empty tokens.
If you consider the following, you can see why this works consistently:
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#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <vector>

int main() {
    for (std::string const& test : {
            "", "token",
            ",", "token,", ",token",
            ",,", ",token,", ",,token", "token,,"
        })
    {
        std::vector<std::string> result;
        boost::split(result, test, boost::is_any_of(","), boost::algorithm::token_compress_on);
        std::cout << "\n=== TEST: " << std::left << std::setw(8) << test << " === ";
        for (auto& tok : result)
            std::cout << std::quoted(tok, '\'') << " ";
    }
}

Prints
=== TEST:          === ''
=== TEST: token    === 'token'
=== TEST: ,        === '' ''
=== TEST: token,   === 'token' ''
=== TEST: ,token   === '' 'token'
=== TEST: ,,       === '' ''
=== TEST: ,token,  === '' 'token' ''
=== TEST: ,,token  === '' 'token'
=== TEST: token,,  === 'token' ''

So, you might fix it by trimming delimiters from front and end and checking that the remaining input is non-empty:
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#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>
#include <boost/utility/string_view.hpp>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <vector>

int main() {
    auto const delim = boost::is_any_of(",");

    for (std::string test : {
            "", "token",
            ",", "token,", ",token",
            ",,", ",token,", ",,token", "token,,"
        })
    {
        std::cout << "\n=== TEST: " << std::left << std::setw(8) << test << " === ";

        std::vector<std::string> result;

        boost::trim_if(test, delim);
        if (!test.empty())
            boost::split(result, test, delim, boost::algorithm::token_compress_on);

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Debris containing pressure-treated lumber could leach toxic metal into groundwater
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An incredible 72 million m3 of debris was created when Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc in Louisiana and Mississippi in 2005. A survey of this debris now reveals that an estimated 1,740 metric tons of arsenic could leach into groundwater from unlined landfills where the materials are being disposed (Environ. Sci. Technol., DOI: 10.1021/es0622812).
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POINT AND SHOOT Dubey uses handheld X-ray fluorescence device to analyze hurricane debris for arsenic.
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What is an inertial navigation systems?
An inertial navigation systems center is a navigation system that provides the orientation of a mobile in a 3D space. Also known as the inertial unit, this technology is sometimes referred to as the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) or the Inertial Navigation System (INS).
Depending on the version, the calculated data are roll, pitch, yaw and pounding (wave measurement). Position, speed and heading are measured through the integration of an internal GNSS receiver.
How does an inertial navigation systems work?
An inertial navigation system is designed to provide accurate (from 1° to 0.001°) and time-stable, real-time orientation measurements for any type of application.
The orientation, speed and position measurements, described above, will particularly help navigation and correct the movements of the mobile in a global acquisition chain (applications: bathymetry, photogrammetry, etc.).
Discover our ranges of inertial navigation systems
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Different versions of inertial navigation systems
Inertial navigation systems with intern GNSS receiver
Some inertial navigation systems are equipped with an internal GNSS receiver to reinforce the inertial orientation calculation by adding the GNSS position and velocity measurements.
In some cases, especially when signals are lost by the internal or external GNSS receiver (when passing under a bridge, at the foot of a dock or a large infrastructure), an inertial navigation unit takes over from the GNSS* system to maintain a RTK GNSS position. This principle is called "dead reckoning" or "esteemed navigation".
What is the difference between an inertial attitude center and an inertial navigation center?
An inertial navigation unit has an internal or external GNSS receiver to obtain navigation and speed data in addition to orientation measurements. It uses gyroscopes and accelerometers, while an inertial centre of heading or attitude delivers only the information of roll, pitch, yaw and sometimes the pounding.
Inertial navigation systems with MEMS technology
The term MEMS is an acronym for "Micro Electro Mechanical Systems".
An inertial navigation unit based on MEMS technology (gyroscopes, accelerometers, magnetometers) facilitates the manufacture of miniature inertial navigation systems in large quantities, thus getting easier their integration into the most compact systems: watch, video game controller, helmet, drone, camera, etc. The ranges of Xsens and SBG Systems inertial power plants use this MEMS technology.
What does an inertial navigation systems include?
The inertial navigation unit is a sensor that includes a 3-axis measuring unit consisting of 3 accelerometers, 3 gyrometers and a computer to deliver orientation information.
There are 3 accelerometers, 3 gyroscopes and 3 magnetometers (when a heading is required) distributed on the 3 axes X in the entry-level inertial power plants based on MEMS technology, Y and Z. The high-end versions incorporate more precise accelerometer and gyroscope technologies, so as to avoid magnetometers.
The combination of these different sensors determines the position and orientation of a device precisely and quickly with little drift over time.
In addition to the aforementioned components, an inertial center integrates a calculator with more or less advanced algorithms, the Kalman filter (or extended Kalman filter – EKF); this one helps to estimate an orientation thanks to its algorithms, specific for each manufacturer, applied to acceleration, gyration and even magnetism measurements from the inertial power plant.
What does AHRS means?
AHRS is an acronym for "Attitude and Heading Reference System". This version provides attitude and heading information.
What does VRU means?
VRU is an acronym for "Vertical Reference Unit". This inertial navigation unit version mainly provides roll and pitch information, as well as yaw information from gyroscopes.
What does IMU means?
IMU is an acronym for the "Inertial Measurement Unit". This inertial navigation unit version only provides raw data, and temperature calibrated data.
What is a gyrocompass?
The gyrocompass is a navigation instrument incorporating a gyroscope and equipping low-speed systems, mainly ships. Similar to the compass, this sensor indicates the geographical north independently of the Earth's magnetic field, by an accurate measurement of the earth's rotation.
The example of the spinning-top
Sometimes called "Northern Researcher", gyrocompas calculate a geographical heading without the help of a GNSS receiver, and only of a gyroscope of mechanical, electromechanical technology (MEMS, resonant hemispherical gyro…), optics (laser gyro, fiber optic gyro).
They provide accurate True Cape data at a tenth of a degree, regardless of the complexity of the environment (on water, underwater, underground, etc.) and dynamics (multiple applications: AUV, support ship, all-terrain vehicle, etc.).
Gyrocompass is found in our iXblue, Safran and Sonardyne ranges of inertial navigation systems.
What is a gyroscope?
The gyroscope is a sensor that measures the speed of rotation on an axis. This rate of turn evolves according to the movements of the inertial unit.
The most powerful versions are able to measure the Earth's rotation, to deduce a heading information.
To obtain a three-dimensional measurement, a set of 3 gyroscopes forming a triaxial gyrometer is used.
What is an accelerometer?
As its name suggests, the accelerometer is a sensor measuring the nongravitational linear acceleration of the mobile on which it is attached, that is, the acceleration of movement.
This information is useful to obtain data on the speed, displacement, vibration and shock of the device, regardless of its size.
After the piezoelectric accelerometer it is now the MEMS accelerometer that is the most used nowadays.
To obtain a three-dimensional measurement, a set of 3 accelerometers forming a triaxial accelerometer is used.
What is a magnetometer?
A magnetometer is used to measure the direction and intensity of the Earth's magnetic field. The use of several magnetometers contributes to the calculation of a magnetic heading. The latter is different from the geographical heading, or true heading, of a few degrees (magnetic declination), the Earth's magnetic North moving regularly on the Earth's surface. Note that magnetometers can be disturbed by metal masses, current, magnets, etc.
What is the installation include an inertial navigation system?
In a global data acquisition system, the installation varies according to the type of application, however most are equipped with an inertial control unit, a GNSS system and complementary sensors:
Lidar for 3D cartography/mobile mapping and obstacle detection
Single and multibeam echosounder for hydrography and bathymetry
Side sonars for acoustic imaging
The installation of an inertial navigation systems in a global data acquisition system requires a fine calibration of the sensor, taking into account the position of each measuring point on the mobile (measurement of lever arms, position relative to the reference point of the vessel, etc.)
In which type of application should an inertial navigation system be used?
Whatever the type of inertial navigation systems, it is used in marine, underwater, land and air applications.
UAV (aerial drone) ou here USV (marinedrone)
Hydrography / bathymetry
Antenna pointing - ©nasa
Inertial navigation systems are more relevant for marine and underwater applications, some are available in a waterproof version so as to measure the orientation as close as possible to the sensors (SBG Systems Ekinox and Apogee navigation inertial power plants; iXblue Octans, Phins and Hydrins inertial power plants; Sonardyne Lodestar and Sprint inertial power plants).
See our inertial navigation systems
*GNSS: acronym representing a satellite positioning system combining all the GPS constellations (American), GLONASS (Russian), Beidou (Chinese), Galileo (European).
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Mismanaged VA project stumbles along, officials remain silent
The Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) healthcare facility and cemetery project at Alameda Point still has not broken ground, a decade after the first round of Congressional funding. Public officials appear to look away.
The latest setback comes with the VA having to re-do the contract for constructing the wetland mitigation plan. For unknown reasons, in November 2020, less than four months after the VA hired a company to perform the wetland work for $2.37 million, that company is out of the picture. The VA is now trying to find other companies with the same engineering skillset. The actual competitive bidding process will follow. The VA estimates the wetland project could now cost between $5 million and $10 million. Continue reading "Mismanaged VA project stumbles along, officials remain silent"
Author richard94501Posted on February 18, 2021 Categories Dept. of Veterans Affairs ProjectTags Alameda Point, clinic, Department of Veterans Affairs, VA, wetlandLeave a comment on Mismanaged VA project stumbles along, officials remain silent
One-third of the wetland impacts of the VA project will not be offset at Alameda Point. The Corps of Engineers will purchase credits in the San Francisco Bay Wetland Mitigation Bank for 3.6 acres of impacts. The mitigation bank manages a wetland restoration project in Redwood City funded by Bay Area projects that impact wetlands. The credit purchase detail is not mentioned in the news release. Continue reading "Wetland contract awarded for Alameda Point"
Author richard94501Posted on August 28, 2020 Categories Dept. of Veterans Affairs Project, Wetlands, Wildlife Refuge - Nature ReserveTags Adanta, Alameda Point, clinic, Department of Veterans Affairs, DePave Park, tidal marsh, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, VA, wetlands4 Comments on Wetland contract awarded for Alameda Point
Delays of VA Project tied to Trump Administration
Observations by former Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) David Shulkin may shed light on why the VA Project at Alameda Point continues to be delayed and why the health clinic may never be built. Constructing a new clinic conflicts with the Trump Administration's goal of privatizing VA healthcare services.
In his book "It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country – Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans" (Public Affairs Books, October 2019), Shulkin recounts his experiences after being appointed to head the VA by President Trump in January 2017, and then fired by Tweet 15 months later. Shulkin asserts he was fired because he would not go along with efforts of White House insiders to privatize VA healthcare. Continue reading "Delays of VA Project tied to Trump Administration"
Author richard94501Posted on January 13, 2020 Categories Dept. of Veterans Affairs ProjectTags Alameda Point, clinic, David Shulkin, Dept. of Veterans Affairs Project, Trump, VA, wetlands5 Comments on Delays of VA Project tied to Trump Administration
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The City of Alameda announced on February 22 that it will be preparing an environmental impact report (EIR) on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) project for a health clinic and columbarium cemetery at Alameda Point. The VA completed its environmental review for the project in 2013. The deadline for commenting on what the city should evaluate is March 22.
The belated environmental review was triggered by California regulations requiring a state EIR in order for the Regional Water Quality Control Board to approve the VA's wetland mitigation plan.
An EIR is also required for City of Alameda approvals. "Although construction of federal facilities by federal agencies is typically exempt from local land use regulations and review," said city planner Andrew Thomas, "in this case, the VA plans to construct an access utility/road on approximately 6-acres of city land to the east of the VA Transfer Parcel and two new storm drains across city-owned land to the north of the VA property, which will require approval of easements from the city, which are discretionary actions subject to CEQA [California Environmental Quality Act]."
Revisiting the project's environmental impacts six years after the VA completed its review presents an opportunity to evaluate the potential environmental benefits of locating the medical clinic and benefits offices in the business "Enterprise District" rather than in the open space on the former airfield. Continue reading "Unexpected Environmental Review of VA Project"
Author richard94501Posted on March 21, 2019 Categories Dept. of Veterans Affairs ProjectTags Alameda Point, clinic, sea level rise, transit, VA, Veterans Affairs, wetlands1 Comment on Unexpected Environmental Review of VA Project
Veterans clinic, columbarium stalled in Congress
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has still not received its 2016 budget allocation of $70 million to build new facilities at Alameda Point, nine months after the federal budget was signed into law on December 18, 2015. Efforts in the House and Senate to authorize getting the VA's money released were hindered in July when Senate Republicans attached a bill to fund stopping the spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus to the VA construction bill.
The Zika bill included restrictions that do not allow the use of Zika funds at Planned Parenthood clinics and a waiver on following Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidelines for pesticide spraying to kill mosquitoes. Senate Democrats prevented passage of the Zika/VA bill by voting against it, due to the Planned Parenthood and EPA clauses. Both parties are pointing fingers.
Alameda Point Veterans Affairs facility. Oakland Estuary in background. Columbarium will be to the left.
Continue reading "Veterans clinic, columbarium stalled in Congress"
Author richard94501Posted on September 24, 2016 September 24, 2016 Categories Dept. of Veterans Affairs ProjectTags Alameda Point, Barbara Lee, clinic, columbarium, VA, Veterans AffairsLeave a comment on Veterans clinic, columbarium stalled in Congress


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Achille de Harlay de Sancy (Paris, 1581 — Saint-Malo, 26 de novembro de 1646) foi um clérigo, diplomata, linguista, orientalista e intelectual francês. Filho de Nicolas de Harlay, senhor de Sancy, foi bispo de Saint-Malo.

Biografia
Harlay de Sancy foi educado para uma carreira dentro da Igreja Católica, mas, apesar de ter permanecido um amigo ao seu companheiro de estudos Armand-Jean du Plessis, que tornou-se mais tarde Cardeal Richelieu, renunciou à sua vocação para tornar-se soldado após a morte de seu irmão mais velho em 1601. Durante sete anos, de 1610 a 1619, foi o embaixador francês para o Império Otomano, onde acumulou uma fortuna de cerca de 16.000 libras esterlinas por meio duvidoso, e foi encarcerado por ordem do sultão otomano Mustafá I devido a essas fraudes. Um de seus secretários, M. Lefevre, escreveu o manuscrito Voyage de M. de Sancy , ambassadeur pour le Roi en Levant, fait par terre depuis Raguse jusques à Constantinople l'an 1611.

Harlay de Sancy aproveitou suas oportunidades para adquirir uma valiosa coleção de manuscritos hebraicos, muitos dos quais, posteriormente doados aos oratorianos, em 1796 e à Biblioteca Nacional da França em Paris.

Em seu retorno à França, Harlay ingressou na Ordem de São Filipe Néri, e quando François de Bassompierre foi enviado à Inglaterra em 1627 para regular as diferenças entre Henriqueta Maria e seu marido Carlos I, Harlay de Sancy juntou-se à comitiva eclesiástica da rainha, mas Carlos I providenciou a sua demissão. Tornou-se bispo de Saint-Malo, em 1632.

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NGC 1662 (другое обозначение — OCL 470) — рассеянное скопление в созвездии Ориона.

Этот объект входит в число перечисленных в оригинальной редакции «Нового общего каталога».

Самая голубая звезда скопления относится к спектральному классу A, что говорит о том, что все более горячие звёзды с более короткой продолжительностью жизни в NGC 1662 уже проэволюционировали. Возраст скопления составляет менее 400 миллионов лет.

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Орион (созвездие)
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