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Aspect Capable website has more information on a Australian initiative and the video shows how autistic people can achieve in the workplace.
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# Custom Numpy Operators

In this tutorial, we will learn how to build custom operators with numpy in python. We will go through two examples:
- Custom operator without any `Parameter`s
- Custom operator with `Parameter`s

Custom operator in python is easy to develop and good for prototyping, but may hurt performance. If you find it to be a bottleneck, please consider moving to a C++ based implementation in the backend.

```{.python .input}
import numpy as np
import mxnet as mx
from mxnet import gluon, autograd
import os
```

## Parameter-less operators

This operator implements the standard sigmoid activation function. This is only for illustration purposes, in real life you would use the built-in operator `mx.nd.relu`.

### Forward & backward implementation

First we implement the forward and backward computation by sub-classing `mx.operator.CustomOp`:

```{.python .input}
class Sigmoid(mx.operator.CustomOp):
    def forward(self, is_train, req, in_data, out_data, aux):
        """Implements forward computation.

        is_train : bool, whether forwarding for training or testing.
        req : list of {'null', 'write', 'inplace', 'add'}, how to assign to out_data. 'null' means skip assignment, etc.
        in_data : list of NDArray, input data.
        out_data : list of NDArray, pre-allocated output buffers.
        aux : list of NDArray, mutable auxiliary states. Usually not used.
        """
        x = in_data[0].asnumpy()
        y = 1.0 / (1.0 + np.exp(-x))
        self.assign(out_data[0], req[0], mx.nd.array(y))

    def backward(self, req, out_grad, in_data, out_data, in_grad, aux):
        """Implements backward computation

        req : list of {'null', 'write', 'inplace', 'add'}, how to assign to in_grad
        out_grad : list of NDArray, gradient w.r.t. output data.
        in_grad : list of NDArray, gradient w.r.t. input data. This is the output buffer.
        """
        y = out_data[0].asnumpy()
        dy = out_grad[0].asnumpy()
        dx = dy*(1.0 - y)*y
        self.assign(in_grad[0], req[0], mx.nd.array(dx))
```

### Register custom operator

Then we need to register the custom op and describe it's properties like input and output shapes so that mxnet can recognize it. This is done by sub-classing `mx.operator.CustomOpProp`:

```{.python .input}
@mx.operator.register("sigmoid")  # register with name "sigmoid"
class SigmoidProp(mx.operator.CustomOpProp):
    def __init__(self):
        super(SigmoidProp, self).__init__(True)

    def list_arguments(self):
        #  this can be omitted if you only have 1 input.
        return ['data']

    def list_outputs(self):
        #  this can be omitted if you only have 1 output.
        return ['output']

    def infer_shape(self, in_shapes):
        """Calculate output shapes from input shapes. This can be
        omited if all your inputs and outputs have the same shape.

        in_shapes : list of shape. Shape is described by a tuple of int.
        """
        data_shape = in_shapes[0]
        output_shape = data_shape
        # return 3 lists representing inputs shapes, outputs shapes, and aux data shapes.
        return (data_shape,), (output_shape,), ()

    def create_operator(self, ctx, in_shapes, in_dtypes):
        #  create and return the CustomOp class.
        return Sigmoid()
```

### Example Usage

We can now use this operator by calling `mx.nd.Custom`:

```{.python .input}
x = mx.nd.array([0, 1, 2, 3])
# attach gradient buffer to x for autograd
x.attach_grad()
# forward in a record() section to save computation graph for backward
# see autograd tutorial to learn more.
with autograd.record():
    y = mx.nd.Custom(x, op_type='sigmoid')
print(y)
```

```{.python .input}
# call backward computation
y.backward()
# gradient is now saved to the grad buffer we attached previously
print(x.grad)
```

## Parametrized Operator

In the second use case we implement an operator with learnable weights. We implement the dense (or fully connected) layer that has one input, one output, and two learnable parameters: weight and bias.

The dense operator performs a dot product between data and weight, then add bias to it.

### Forward & backward implementation

```{.python .input}
class Dense(mx.operator.CustomOp):
    def __init__(self, bias):
        self._bias = bias

    def forward(self, is_train, req, in_data, out_data, aux):
        x = in_data[0].asnumpy()
        weight = in_data[1].asnumpy()
        y = x.dot(weight.T) + self._bias
        self.assign(out_data[0], req[0], mx.nd.array(y))

    def backward(self, req, out_grad, in_data, out_data, in_grad, aux):
        x = in_data[0].asnumpy()
        dy = out_grad[0].asnumpy()
        dx = dy.T.dot(x)
        self.assign(in_grad[0], req[0], mx.nd.array(dx))
```

### Registration

```{.python .input}
@mx.operator.register("dense")  # register with name "sigmoid"
class DenseProp(mx.operator.CustomOpProp):
    def __init__(self, bias):
        super(DenseProp, self).__init__(True)
        # we use constant bias here to illustrate how to pass arguments
        # to operators. All arguments are in string format so you need
        # to convert them back to the type you want.
        self._bias = float(bias)

    def list_arguments(self):
        return ['data', 'weight']

    def list_outputs(self):
        #  this can be omitted if you only have 1 output.
        return ['output']

    def infer_shape(self, in_shapes):
        data_shape = in_shapes[0]
        weight_shape = in_shapes[1]
        output_shape = (data_shape[0], weight_shape[0])
        # return 3 lists representing inputs shapes, outputs shapes, and aux data shapes.
        return (data_shape, weight_shape), (output_shape,), ()

    def create_operator(self, ctx, in_shapes, in_dtypes):
        #  create and return the CustomOp class.
        return Dense(self._bias)
```

### Use CustomOp together with Block

Parameterized CustomOp are usually used together with Blocks, which holds the parameter.

```{.python .input}
class DenseBlock(mx.gluon.Block):
    def __init__(self, in_channels, channels, bias, **kwargs):
        super(DenseBlock, self).__init__(**kwargs)
        self._bias = bias
        self.weight = gluon.Parameter('weight', shape=(channels, in_channels))

    def forward(self, x):
        ctx = x.context
        return mx.nd.Custom(x, self.weight.data(ctx), bias=self._bias, op_type='dense')
```

### Example usage

```{.python .input}
dense = DenseBlock(3, 5, 0.1)
dense.initialize()
x = mx.nd.uniform(shape=(4, 3))
y = dense(x)
print(y)
```

## Using custom operators with fork
In Linux systems, the default method in multiprocessing to create process is by using fork. If there are unfinished async custom operations when forking, the program will be blocked because of python GIL. Always use sync calls like `wait_to_read` or `waitall` before calling fork.

```{.python .input}
x = mx.nd.array([0, 1, 2, 3])
y = mx.nd.Custom(x, op_type='sigmoid')
# unfinished async sigmoid operation will cause blocking
os.fork()
```

Correctly handling this will make mxnet depend upon libpython, so the workaround now is to ensure that all custom operations are executed before forking process.

```{.python .input}
x = mx.nd.array([0, 1, 2, 3])
y = mx.nd.Custom(x, op_type='sigmoid')
# force execution by reading y
print(y.asnumpy())
os.fork()
```


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Simca 1300 і Simca 1500 — були великими сімейними автомобілями, які вироблялися французьким автовиробником Simca на його заводі в Пуассі з 1963 по 1966 рік і між 1966 і 1976 роками в оновлених версіях, як Simca 1301 і 1501.

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По суті, це були версії одного і того ж автомобіля, оснащеного 1,3-літровим або 1,5-літровим двигуном, звідки й пішли назви моделей.

Simca 1300 і Simca 1500 були ідентичними моделями, крім двигунів, елементів стилю та обладнання.

Решітка 1300 складалася з дев'яти горизонтальних і трьох вертикальних смуг, тоді як решітка 1500 мала лише одинадцять горизонтальних смуг. Ця модельна серія прийшла на зміну популярному довготривалому Simca Aronde і спочатку була доступна лише з 4-дверним кузовом седан, але в 1964 році 1500 отримав версію універсал (1300 універсал представили у 1965 році).

Варіанти універсал мали деякі цікаві особливості. Усі мали роздільні двері багажника – заднє лобове скло опускалося в нижню частину, яку потім можна було скласти. З одного боку, це дозволило отримати доступ до вантажного відсіку, не відкриваючи повністю двері багажника. З іншого боку, це означало, що обігрівач заднього скла ніколи не можна було встановити в універсалах. Крім того, вантажна підлога у версії 1500 GL, яка одночасно служила кришкою для запасного колеса (в горизонтальному положенні), могла бути знята та, завдяки чотирьом складаним ніжкам, перетворена на столик для пікніка. Версія 1500 Familial мала два дитячих сидіння (один навпроти одного) у вантажному відсіку та багажник на даху.

Будучи досить популярними, особливо у Франції та Німеччині, ці Simca можна запам'ятати деякими примхами щодо обох серій. 1300/1500 поставлявся зі зсувом колонок для ринків з лівостороннім кермом, але версії з правим кермом були перетворені на перемикання підлоги. Переобладнання чомусь призвело до «дзеркального» перемикання: перша і друга передачі були ближче до водія, а третя і четверта ліворуч.

Крім того, модель 1500 GLA, яка спочатку була єдиною в асортименті з автоматичною трансмісією, спочатку була доступна лише в коричневому металевому кольорі. Подібна ситуація стосувалася внутрішніх килимів, які мали насичений червоний колір незалежно від зовнішнього кольору.

Виробництво з 1963 по 1966 рік (разом моделі 1300 і 1500): 712 239 одиниць.

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1301/1501

У жовтні 1966 року відбувся фейсліфтинг, моделі тепер називалися 1301 і 1501. Вони були на 7 см довшими спереду і на 13,5 см ззаду. Багажник став більшим, капот витягнутий вперед, змінилася решітка радіатора, замість круглих задні ліхтарі стали плоскі, прямокутні. Всередині автомобілі отримали іншу панель приладів. Високий, круглий центральний прилад, який Simca запозичив від моделей Aronde, поступився місцем горизонтальному дисплею зі стрічковим спідометром, який тепер оточений імітацією дерева, відповідно до смаку того часу. Крім того, була вдосконалена система опалення та вентиляції. Simca пропонувала серію 1301/1501 у варіантах оснащення Luxe Super, Grand Luxe і Grand Luxe Super, а також універсали Tourisme LS і GLS. З весни 1969 року всі моделі поставлялися з радіальними шинами, а також був представлений 1501 Speciale потужністю 81 к.с.

Модернізація
На початку 1970 року були представлені переглянуті моделі 1301/1501 і 1301/1501 Tourisme. Всі моделі серії отримали нову панель приладів з трьома або чотирма круглими приладами, нову решітку радіатора і монограму Chrysler. 31 серпня 1971 року Simca стала "Chrysler France".

На початку 1972 року моделі 1301 і 1301 Tourisme отримали решітку радіатора 1501. Через рік моделі були оснащені новою коробкою передач і новими гальмами. Вже навесні 1974 року 1501 і 1501 Tourisme були знову доступні через низькі продажі Chrysler 160/180, які пропонувалися в той же час.

Восени 1975 року Chrysler представив Chrysler-Simca 1307 і 1308 на Паризькому салоні. Навесні 1976 року виробництво 1301 і 1501 припинилося.

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This article is the second article in a series entitled "How to Get the Most out of Your Tech Support Calls," and aims to provide information to help you have the best conversation you can with your technicians, so that you can get your problem solved right the first time. Click here to read the first article in the series, How to Get the Most out of Your Tech Support Calls: Part One, Basic Self-Troubleshooting.
Imagine this. It's still Monday afternoon, and you still can't open that important report you need to finish. You've already tried your self-troubleshooting steps, which didn't really help, so you've determined that you really do need to call tech support.
However, it's still not time to pick up the phone. Before you even think about talking to anyone, you should spend a few moments gathering your thoughts, and other important information, so that you don't have to go digging for it later when you actually have the tech on the line.
Here are some items you should gather (depending on your particular problem) before you call support.
Gather any model numbers, serial numbers, service tags, or any other special codes that you may have to give to tech support or type into the phone system before you're connected.
Whether you're talking about your operating system, browser, or another piece of software, know which version you're using. Problems are often version specific, and having this information can help guide your tech to locating the right solution.
Is your problem producing a particular error message? If yes, take a screen shot (pressing print screen and pasting the image into Word or an email often works well), or write down the message, so that you can tell the tech the exact wording of the error.
Having the exact message on hand isn't simply a nicety, it's a requirement. Many times error messages contain codes or other pieces of information which identify the exact problem, and having this information on hand can not only help your tech know which way to proceed, but it will also save you a lot of time on the phone.
Before you call, it helps to think about and formulate your issue, so that you know how to communicate the problem to the technician.
When did your problem start? Did it just start happening today, or has it been happening for a week, and you're just now getting around to calling?
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able to print when your email program is not responding. It is these little pieces of information that help ensure entire problem is fixed, not just one small portion.
What Troubleshooting Have You Already Done?
Aside from explaining the problem to the technician, you should also tell them what troubleshooting you have already done. This serves two purposes. First, it saves you time by not having you repeat steps you've already taken to resolve the problem. Secondly, it can also help the tech further understand the problem.
While you're gathering your information, make a brief list of the points you want to discuss with the tech, including the items listed above. Remember to also write down any other issues or questions you would like to discuss. Having a plan like this will allow you to get the most out of your tech support call, and will save you from having to call again because you forgot to bring up an important point the first time around.
Once you have performed these information gathering steps, it is finally time to call tech support and have your problem resolved. Looking for tips for actually talking to tech support? Stay tuned for How to Get the Most Out of Your Tech Support Calls, Part Three: Clear Communication.
Julie Strier is a freelance writer who likes to help you get the most out of your tech support calls. Email: julie@mybusinesswriter.com. Website:www.mybusinesswriter.com.


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Pope Francis' plans will 'destroy' contemplative life: Franciscan friar
The chaplain insists that it is not only the traditional Latin Mass Carmelite nuns who are on the radar: contemplative life in the entire Church is at stake.
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FAIRFIELD, Pennsylvania (LifeSiteNews) — A plan by Pope Francis 'to overhaul' the communities of cloistered nuns is threatening their way of life.
LifeSite has published today an interview with Father Maximilian Mary Dean, a former Franciscan Friar of the Immaculate and the chaplain to the discalced Carmelite nuns of Fairfield, Pennsylvania, who received an Apostolic Visitation last week. In light of this development, Father Maximilian described to LifeSite's Jim Hale the recent history of the visitation to these nuns, and how there now exists a plan to "overhaul cloistered women's communities."
As LifeSite reported earlier, these Carmelite nuns live with the traditional Latin Mass and altogether desire to live the traditional rule of life as prescribed by St. Theresa of Avila. From September 25-29, they received an Apostolic Visitation. It was not clear at the time what the purpose of this visitation really was. In Fairfield, there is a thriving community of 25 nuns. Valparaiso, Nebraska is their motherhouse.
However, as their chaplain, Father Maximilian, now tells Jim Hale, the Congregation for Religious under Cardinal JoãoBraz de Aviz aims at reforming the Carmelite charism altogether. This development goes back to 2016, says the priest. At that time, Pope Francis published a document [Vultum Dei quaerere ] "basically announcing that he was going to overhaul cloistered women's communities," Father Maximilian explains. In May of the following year, 2017, the Father General of all the Discalced Carmelites in the U.S., Father Saverio Cannistrà, then met with 162 Carmelite nuns in St. Louis, Missouri from May 25-29, explaining to them the meaning of the papal document. (Important to mention here is that two years later, Father Saverio was made a member of Braz de Aviz' Congregation by Pope Francis.)
Father Maximilian describes what then happened. At that Missouri meeting, representatives of the Carmelites of Valparaiso and of Fairfield were present, as well. These cloistered nuns, who usually never leave their cloisters "had to leave, under obedience," which was "kind of shocking." And then they had to "stay in hotels, not even a seminary or a monastery," Father explains. "It's bizarre."
Father went on to tell Jim Hale that he later received several reports of what had happened during that meeting with Father General. Father General told these nuns "that the times have changed and that they, contemplative, cloistered nuns, need to adapt to the times… that they can't live the way they were living before," the priest recounted.
Father General told these nuns, according to Father Maxilimilian, that "they had to get rid of the grates, the turn, the grill, even that they needed to start teaching." These elements here mentioned – the turn, or the grate – are each elements that keep the Carmelite nuns reverently separate from the world. One may usually only speak with these nuns through a wooden grate, or grill, never in direct contact.
Father shows his indignation with these novelties and insists that "these are cloistered Carmelite nuns. They're called to be a hidden heart, love in the Church." He describes the nuns' "charism, you know, to be love in the heart of the church. So he [Father General] is telling them that they have to get with the times," Father Maximilian continued.
Father General essentially told the Carmelite nuns of the entire U.S. that they had to give up their Carmelite charism and specific identity and way of life.
Some of the nuns at that 2017 meeting, Father reveals, "were just in tears." They were "no longer allowed to live their charism."
Father Maximilian tied this development with the publication of Pope Francis' document Cor Orans which demanded from all autonomous female monasteries that they join an association of monasteries, thereby joining a mixed collective entity.
It is here that the story of the Carmelite nuns of Fairfield and Valparaiso begins: they had been asked by the two elderly nuns remaining in the Philadelphia monastery that first brought the devotion to St. Therese of Lisieux to the United States to help them out and give them some of their own young nuns. However, as Father Maximilian recounts in his interview with Jim Hale, that Philadelphia monastery had already joined an association of monasteries, and they would not let these younger nuns live their Carmelite life with the traditional Latin Mass and their traditional customs, as they had been previously promised by then-Archbishop Charles Chaput (by now retired). Not only the Father General, but also the archdiocese of Philadelphia under Archbishop Nelson Perez, were "forcing" these nuns "to be part of this association," and the traditional nuns from Fairfield and Valparaiso were not willing to accept this. Fairfield and Valparaiso "realized that they went after their daughters," and so they decided to call back their own nuns. That there was already then talk about a possible Apostolic Visitation to Philadelphia influenced their decision. The young nuns thus left Philadelphia on April 9, with tears, but also joy.
"Essentially, they were not permitted to live the life that they came to live," the priest explains. But these Fairfield and Valparaiso monasteries, once they called back their younger nuns from Philadelphia, knew that "they were now on the radar" of Rome and that "there might be consequences."
"And now what's playing out is that last week they received the news that the Vatican has decided to run an Apostolic Visitation of Philadelphia," Father Maximilian explains to Jim Hale.
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However, as sources have told LifeSite, that short visitation to Philadelphia was merely a small, friendly visit, since the last survivor had already had handed over her monastery to be used other purposes. (LifeSite will have soon a separate report on how the birthplace of the American veneration of St. Therese of Lisieux was essentially closed to cloistered nuns, and is soon to be turned into a museum and a retreat center. The Archdiocese chose to discourage the traditional nuns of Fairfield and Valparaiso from staying there, and rather turned the entire building in something other than a house of prayers, a place for love in the heart of the Church.)
Father Maximilian makes it clear that any announcement of an Apostolic Visitation in our days means that the Vatican desires to take over and reform a monastery or order. He speaks here based on his own earlier experience, since he is a former member of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate (FFI), whose original charism was destroyed under the pontificate of Pope Francis, also with the help of an assigned Apostolic Commissioner.
"But basically today, from what we've seen consistently over and over again, an Apostolic Visitation means that the Vatican has decided you have a problem," Father Maximilian states.
"So the apostolic visitation is just to confirm that there is a problem. Whatever that problem is. And then the next step from there is to assign a new superior, and that's what's called an Apostolic Commission."
This also means that someone from outside the monastery or religious community is made superior of that community.
Father Maximilian calls this method "terrorism, because of how it is done."
As an example, this priest describes how the FFI was dismantled. The order was taken over by another priest, Father Fidenzio Volpi, who then ordered that the rector of their seminary be replaced. That replacement took place when the new rector simply showed up at the seminary with a letter in his hand stating that he was to take over the seminary with immediate effect.
From his own experience, Father Maximilian knows that the Vatican will always seize any opportunity to foment division in religious orders they deem problematic. The Vatican then uses these internal conflicts, to start a visitation and "interview the individual sister" to see whether there exist divisions, he explained. These nuns who are being interviewed by the visitors are then "not allowed to talk to anybody else in the community about the interview."
Some of these rules were once meant to protect the privacy of each nun, but under the current regime in Rome, they are used as a weapon against a community.
As another specific example, the current chaplain of the Fairfield nuns then brings up the Poor Clares of Hanceville, Alabama, the monastery of the late Mother Angelica. They too received a commissioner, in their case after some internal conflicts, and that woman religious made sure that all nuns with inclinations toward the traditional Latin Mass were "sent home," as the commissioner herself explained to Father in 2014. "We sent all those women home," she told him. "They were fine women, but none of them had a vocation."
"It sounds like a hiss from hell," Father Maximilian comments.
That Alabama monastery of Poor Clares had – before that visitation and before they were commissioned in 2010 – about 45 nuns, but it had only 13 when Father visited them in 2014. Subsequently, they had to shut down one of their foundations in 2018, upon order of the Holy See.
LifeSiteNew's own research shows that Mother Angelica's own monastery – which she founded as well as the Catholic TV channel EWTN – now displays on its website a quote from the pro-LGBT Dominican priest, Fr. Timothy Radcliffe. Because of his presence at a conference in 2014, EWTN chose not to be present at the event. But now Mother Angelica's own monastery quotes Fr. Radcliffe on their website. This, indeed, is a very symbolic sign of how much that community has been changed after the Apostolic Visitation.
Father Maximilian now recounts these stories for us so that we may be alerted and warned, able to understand what some Carmelite nuns may decide to do in the very near future. But he also does so in order to warn other orders and religious communities about the looming dangers.
The priest admits that, before the dismantlement of his flourishing FFI community, which had 400 friars, he himself was "naive." He thought "Oh, Holy Mother Church is coming to help us," when he learned about the visitation of the FFI. There had been just five disgruntled friars, and that was enough for the Vatican to enter into the order and to destroy its charism. They removed the founder of the FFI, Father Stefano Manelli, without warning. Manelli had served at Saint Padre Pio's Masses as an altar boy over 1,000 times.
Father Maximilian also reveals that the Fairfield community had received warnings that Vatican people were trying to get to their donors and thereby reduce their funding. They also sent two spies to take photos of their monastic property, who, when discovered, drove off in their car. Another warning the Fairfield nuns received is that the Vatican aims at removing Father Maximilian as their chaplain.
Thus, Father Maximilian's interview with LifeSiteNews aims also at protecting himself. He insists that he is not suicidal, so should he come to any harm, this should not be seen as an accident.
Moreover, Father Maximilian points out that a religious community cannot necessarily rely on the kindness of their local bishop, since he had witnessed the removal of at least two bishops – early retirement after a sudden strange scandal – after they had tried to rescue some of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate.
Further defending the traditional American Carmelites, this chaplain further reveals in his interview with LifeSiteNews that the new archbishop of Philadelphia, Nelson J. Perez, has been telling other bishops at the USCCB that "the nuns in Valparaiso and Fairfield are a cult and that these women who are just trying to live a hidden life of love in the heart of the church are a cult."
These visitors, he explains, have no interest "in dialogue;" they are coming "with a desired outcome." So if you let these visitations in, Father Maximilian continues, "they're just going to destroy the vocations and the way of life."
But the good chaplain also insists that it is not only the traditional Latin Mass Carmelite nuns who are on the radar. The contemplative life in the entire Church is at stake. That is why he quotes the expression of St. Therese of Avila: "If the contemplative fails, the battle is lost." And Father is determined that the contemplative will not fail.
"We are not going to lose," he says. "The Church is not going to lose the battle because we're compromising our life [which we are not intending to do]. We are going to be faithful to the end."
One might see here that a final battle is approaching. Will Our Lord allow the Heart of His Church to be pierced through an attack on the contemplative orders of the Church? And, if so, will then not also come soon her recovery and "resurrection"? Faithful Catholics are called to resist and to stand by these innocent and prayerful nuns who are indispensable for the Church.
UPDATE, Oct. 6, 2021: The Poor Clares' website has removed the quote from Fr. Radcliffe! Here's a screenshot of the previous website:
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Preparing to Sound the Alarm by ebony artist Thomas Blackshear depicts a female African American angel holding a shofar as she waits on God's command to be revealed to her. She will blow the horn (trump) and gather all of the angelic warriors together for battle, thus ushering in the Day of the Lord as mentioned in Joel 2:1.
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Budget-Cut Decisions Loom. Here Are First Steps
School & District Management Opinion
Research suggests schools in poor neighborhoods, effective teachers should get protection
By Nora Gordon, Susanna Loeb, Marguerite Roza & Eric Taylor — June 30, 2020 5 min read
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Nora Gordon is an economist and an associate professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy. She is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonresident fellow of the Urban Institute, and a member of the FutureEd Advisory Board. Susanna Loeb is a professor of education and of public affairs at Brown University and the director of the university's Annenberg Institute for School Reform. She studies education policy, and her interests include social inequality. Marguerite Roza is a research professor and the director of the Edunomics Lab, a research center focused on exploring and modeling education finance policy and practice, at Georgetown University. She leads the McCourt School of Public Policy's Certificate in Education Finance program. Eric Taylor is an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and studies the economics of education, with an interest in employer-employee interactions between schools and teachers.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the outlook for school district budgets is bleak. Many states have announced shortfalls for the fiscal year that is just ending in most places and for the new fiscal year as well. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities projects that states will have $615 billion less over the three fiscal years starting with 2020 than budgeted for in better times.
Unlike the federal government, almost all states have laws that require them to balance their budgets, virtually guaranteeing that governors and state lawmakers will make cuts this fiscal year or the subsequent one in 2021-2022. Policymakers will not be able to spread the economic shock over longer periods of time.
Schools that are heavily dependent on state funds are likely to be particularly vulnerable to budget shortfalls, as they were during the Great Recession. Federal aid is offsetting some losses but so far not a lot, and we don't yet know what future aid will look like. As of today, federal aid directed to schools for the COVID-19 crisis has been only a small fraction of the aid provided in the 2007-2009 recession.
Simultaneously, schools and districts are facing increased needs. As they ramped up virtual learning, technology costs increased, including those for internet access, laptops, software licenses, and professional development to upgrade teachers' technology skills. As we look ahead to when school buildings are again in use, health monitoring and social distancing could dramatically affect operations and costs. Then there is attending to learning loss caused by pandemic disruptions. Adding 20 days to the school year (roughly 10 percent more time) in response could cost approximately $36 billion, according to the Learning Policy Institute's estimate.
Without a focus on equity, inequality will increase."
Although many states have not set the guidance that districts and schools could use to plan for the coming year, research provides some insights into useful next steps.
First, immediate action can save resources. For example, delaying pay raises or furloughing nonworking staff now can reduce future layoffs. Reduction-in-force notices have negative effects beyond actual layoffs by creating stress for teachers and leading them to leave voluntarily. Even before districts have a sense of the magnitude of the reductions needed, they can draft budgets and better understand the implications for students of possible trade-offs.
Second, the new context means the traditional priorities—particularly the typical mixes of services and spending outside of classrooms—may not be what is best now for students. Before the pandemic, for example, technology and student supports may have seemed like appealing places to cut because they often operate independently of the core functions of schools. However, technology has clearly been critical for schools during school-building closures, and the need to balance in-person and online instruction is likely to last into the new school year, especially if the virus spikes again this coming winter. Mental- and physical-health supports may also be even more important than they have been in the past. Many students will return to school having experienced trauma related to either direct or indirect effects of the pandemic or the killings of Black men and women at the hands of police.
Third, because salaries and benefits typically account for more than 80 percent of district expenditures, the need for substantial cuts means reducing labor costs. But that does not necessarily dictate substantial layoffs. Salary freezes and reductions, furloughs (fewer hours or days), and benefit cuts are alternative ways to save. Reductions in salaries for teachers can make it more difficult to compete for employees with other sectors, true, but in some districts, salary cuts may still be preferable to layoffs. Layoffs can ultimately force losses to instructional time or larger class sizes, which may be greater evils, for instance, than lesser pay increases.
This essay is the 11th in a series that aims to put the pieces of research together so that education decisionmakers can evaluate which policies and practices to implement.
The conveners of this project—Susanna Loeb, the director of Brown University's Annenberg Institute for School Reform, and Harvard education professor Heather Hill—have received grant support from the Annenberg Institute for this series.
To suggest other topics for this series or join in the conversation, use #EdResearchtoPractice on Twitter.
Read the full series here.
If layoffs are necessary, last-in, first-out (LIFO) approaches to choosing which teachers will be let go do not minimize the negative effects for students. LIFO leads to losing effective teachers while less-effective teachers remain because experience explains only a little of the difference in effectiveness. Research provides some evidence that legislation limiting use of LIFO improved graduation rates.
State laws and collective bargaining agreements do place restrictions on the layoff process, but many states have flexibility, and within that, many collective bargaining agreements have some leeway as well. For example, the Spokane, Wash., school district was able last month to announce a possible change in staff workloads related to budget woes. Moreover, contracts need not be set in stone. Given the way the pandemic and its consequences have shifted priorities, it may be worth revisiting bargained contracts.
Fourth, without a focus on equity, inequality will increase. School resources are particularly important for students with the greatest needs. Heavy job losses linked to the pandemic, for instance, can hurt students' mental health and academic performance. Students in a hard-hit district or area will require more support not to fall (or fall further) behind their peers in other communities.
For students to have equal chances to learn, districts need to know how budget cuts will affect individual schools and work to reduce the impact on the schools with the most children in need. Cutting support services, leaving certain positions unfilled, or creating other positions may affect some schools' spending more than others.
Equally important to take into account, LIFO approaches to layoffs tend to remove more teachers in the most difficult-to-staff schools because the teachers there are often less experienced. While districts can move more-experienced staff members in, the churn of teachers creates disruptions that hurt student learning. LIFO will also likely result in the loss of teachers of color since many teachers of color were recently recruited into the field. These teachers are particularly beneficial for students of color, and districts can protect them and their students.
Research shows that during the Great Recession, revenue cuts negatively affected students, especially ones in poor neighborhoods. The impact of cuts at a time of increased costs for schools and greater stress on families will likely be worse. A substantial influx of federal funds for schools is the best bet to fill in budgets but is not anticipated anytime soon.
Meanwhile, education leaders have important choices to make in reducing spending. Taking action immediately, carefully considering trade-offs, and focusing on equity will help leaders minimize the worst effects of the revenue losses that are so unfortunately coming their way.
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The National Interest (USA): why Russia is turning the Arctic region into an economic disaster
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Spill 20 thousand tons of diesel fuel, which occurred last week in the Russian city of Norilsk, located above the Arctic circle, is one of the greatest environmental, humanitarian and economic catastrophes, with which Russia will not be able to cope on their own. This disaster has two sides, because one of the storage tanks of diesel fuel were damaged due to the melting of the permafrost soil, which in itself is a separate issue. Diesel fuel flowed for a distance of 12 kilometers from the place of storage, resulting in a local river acquired blood-red hue. Although this spill of diesel fuel can not compare with the catastrophe of 1989, when there was a major oil spill from the tanker "Exxon Valdez" (Exxon Valdez), he concealed the true reason causing far more anxiety. And because it involves large-scale long-term environmental problems of the Arctic region, it inevitably becomes a transnational political issue.
Of course, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin has declared a state of emergency at the Federal level, ordered the arrest of the Director of the Norilsk CHP and expressed a lot of discontent. However, this situation is not surprising. Environmental disaster in the Russian Arctic has happened before: in 2016, following the release of the reagent, resulting from the fit of a slurry pipeline in the same plant, the contamination had affected other river. Norilsk is the worst of the worst cities, and the Russian authorities have officially recognized it as the most environmentally polluted city in the country. It was built in Soviet times, the plants annually emit 2 million tons of gas, and according to NASA, this city with a population of just 180 thousand people accounted for 1% of global sulfur dioxide emissions. In the surrounding territories, whose area is twice the area of Rhode island, trees do not grow at all — because of the constant acid rain and smog. The average life expectancy of residents of Norilsk is ten years less than in Moscow, and the incidence of cancer was two times higher than the average level in Russia. Norilsk was a zone of ecological disaster long before the permafrost ground beneath him began to melt.
Norilsk is one of the many Russian cities, located in the Arctic zone, which was on the front line of climate change. Other cities such as Vorkuta, Tiksi, Magadan and Murmansk, also suffer from damage to the infrastructure, a pronounced reduction in population, environmental pollution, lack of investment in infrastructure and isolation, as the locals say, from "mainland" Russia, as well as from a lack of hope that the "Soviet" attitude to the so-called "company towns" will ever change.
Norilsk is a good example of all the problems facing the Russian Arctic. It is a region very rich in resources, which is characterized by the world's largest deposits of Nickel and palladium, as well as large deposits of copper, cobalt, platinum and coal. However, this area is the heritage of the Gulag, built in the 1930-ies. Norilsk is also a "closed" city — an echo of the Soviet era, when dozens of cities across the country were considered strategically important due to the fact that there were military bases or industrial enterprise. Today to explain the "closeness" of this city is quite difficult, especially when you consider that the only enterprise of the city, Norilsk Nickel was privatized in 1997.
Norilsk, like many other towns in the Arctic circle, was constructed on permafrost soil. Almost 60% of the buildings in Norilsk are gradually destroyed due to the melting and softening of the permafrost soil, and 10% of the buildings have already been deemed uninhabitable. In this sense, Norilsk is not alone. In the Arctic zone of Russia, the annual economic damage from destruction of buildings caused by thawing permafrost, is estimated at $ 2 billion. Even when environmental damage from the spill of diesel fuel will be eliminated, a much more serious threat from thawing permafrost — the threat that entails a lot much more complex problems will persist.
Europeans are already used to deal with the environmental problems caused by Russia. Since 1990-ies Norway without fanfare, helping Russia safely dispose of spent nuclear fuel from built in the Soviet era submarines, using its own technology to develop a plan for the disposal of 22 thousand spent fuel elements of a nuclear reactor and thousands of cubic meters of solid and liquid radioactive wastes, some of which are stored under the open sky in rusty containers. Italy paid a special vessel. This year, when Russia announced the shortage of funds, Norway has started to pay the bills, trying to convince himself that this will allow her to better study the process of final elimination of hazardous waste by rail are transported to the processing plant to the East of the Ural mountains.
It is likely that Russia prefers to pay attention exclusively on optimistic economic Outlook, which opens it in front of melting glaciers in the Arctic ocean, and to develop the Northern sea route and the LNG terminals, the construction of which is financed mostly by China. In addition, she tries to put the buildup of its military capabilities in the Arctic in the triumphal Patriotic light. Why is it necessary to solve complex environmental problems, if you can easily refute the legend of the strong "returning to Russia"? And why do I need to help a country that is rude and hostile?
The answer to these questions boils down to the fact that environmental problems often transcend the boundaries of one state and that their decision depends on the actions of the community of Arctic countries, which includes United States. Such cooperation has precedents. The disaster at Chernobyl in 1986 has forced the international community to create a forum that allowed the countries together to solve the environmental problems of the Arctic region. Finland, alarmed over the damage that its Northern forests, attacked Soviet steel mills, has assumed the role of leader. The forum is gradually transformed into the Arctic Council is a unique body, which includes all eight Arctic States, including Russia.
The Arctic Council is one of the few places, which did not affect the sanctions imposed against Russia after the annexation of Crimea and its invasion of Eastern Ukraine in 2014. There are also smaller and more specialized groups dealing with Arctic issues, and another environmental disaster points to the need to keep the channels of communication in times of crises. The next spill could damage the banks, which will no longer belong to Russia. Undoubtedly, you need to debug all mechanisms up to the occurrence of the next crisis.
The main lessons, of course, must learn Russian. To cope with the consequences of a spill of diesel fuel in Norilsk will be very difficult. River, and where was this fuel, small, and around there are no roads, which would help workers to arrive in the region to help — due to a small population of this district, and because of the entrenched energy status of "closed" cities. The whole world (and Putin himself) learned about the spill from the social networks after the company's management attempted to deal with it on their own. In Russia have long time to increase the level of transparency, corporate responsibility and attention to the fragile ecosystems of the Arctic.
Melting glaciers in the Arctic ocean and melting permafrost in the Arctic zone give rise to issues that are common to all Arctic States. Russia is a country which has the biggest population in the Arctic zone, which has the worst infrastructure in the region and which will lose more than all others due to climate warming. Almost half of the Russian oil and gas fields are located in areas where the gradual melting of the permafrost soil will cause enormous damage to buildings, roads and industry. Now one thing is clear: this spill will not be the last in a series of environmental disasters in the Russian Arctic zone.
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From the main road, you can take a walk up to Kaka Point Lookout for views over the whole of Kaiteriteri in one direction and towards Marahau and the Abel Tasman in the other direction. There's also a big area of grass and picnic tables here if you're sick of sand! Use the sign to check out how far you are from different cities in the world.
Address: beach access is down the path on Kaiteriteri-Sandy Bay Road by the first bend in the road as you're going north towards Marahau. Look out for the white fence and the 'no dogs' sign. Parking is either at the main beach or try at the lookout point.


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The Historical And Ongoing Struggle For Women's Civil Rights In The US
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Roughly half the population of the US is female, yet the evolution of women's rights here has been slow, and it still involves serious issues. Here is a brief history and update on US civil rights for women.
American History and Women's Rights
Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote a Declaration of Sentiments in the mid 1800's that outlined the women's civil rights issues of the day, in which she cleverly co-opted much of the language of the Declaration of Independence, as she discussed these points:
Women were not allowed to vote.
Laws that women had to follow were enacted solely by men in congress.
Once a woman married, any property and money the wife earned could legally be controlled by her husband.
The inequality of wages between men and women.
Women had to pay taxes to support a government that gave them no voice.
The mores and laws of the time prevented women from entering many lucrative and fulfilling professions.
Divorce and child custody laws were clearly favorable to males and discriminatory towards females.
Higher Education was denied to females; colleges refused to admit them.
At the first women's rights convention that was held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, 32 men and 68 women signed this declaration which outlined the agenda for equal civil rights for women in the following years.
It took 71 years for the federal woman suffrage amendment to be passed in congress, allowing women the right to vote in 1919.
In 1916, Margaret Sanger was arrested for opening a birth control clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y. This event brought to the forefront issues about reproductive health rights to contraception and education for women. Although she was able to open another clinic in 1923, Sanger and other women faced an uphill battle for helping women control what goes on with their own bodies, and with respect to childbearing.
Women and the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s
Being a woman of color means fighting both sexism and racism, but there were some effective female fighters in the civil rights movement that began in the 1950s and 1960s (for racial equality). Unfortunately, many of their names and accomplishments are not fully appreciated in the history of this movement due to sexism, religious beliefs, and some reluctance for receiving fanfare.
In this movement women:
Did a lot of the grunt work and volunteering.
Raised significant amounts of money to fund the events and causes.
Supported their husbands who were taking the lead, including Coretta Scott King, Myrlie Evers Williams and Betty Shabazz.
Still, some women did make names for themselves at the time. Rosa Parks, long depicted as merely a tired worker who refused to give up her seat on a bus, was actually very active in the movement and calculated her actions to aid in publicity for it. Ella Baker, Septima Poinsette Clark, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Vivian Malone Jones are all names to know for their tireless work to gain racial equality, equal education, and governmental regulation to protect those rights.
Two of the notable things the movement accomplished was the verdict in Brown v. The Board of Education (which banned school segregation) and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which banned racial discrimination in public accommodations and services offered by hotels and restaurants. The most important thing the Civil Rights Act did though, was to guarantee equal opportunities in education and employment regardless of race.
Modern Civil Rights Issues for Women
In this century, women still face discrimination in employment and wages. In a court case in 2006, Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., it was brought to light that women working there were statistically making 20% (80 cents on the dollar) less than the male employees. Congress subsequently passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009, so women can have more legal power to fight economic discrimination.
Serious women's employment and economic issues include:
40% of U.S. single parent family households are headed by female wage earners.
Women work 2/3s of the labor-intensive minimum wage jobs (which may provide little or no benefits) in this country.
Many women still have to make the "impossible choice between family care" and keeping their jobs. "Nationwide paid family leave and paid sick day policies" are very much needed to address this.
70% of the nation's poor are women and their children.
Reproductive rights issues are still a hot topic in the US due to attempts to constrict women's rights through legislation. These include:
Extensive availability of preventive methods of contraception.
Fair and legal abortions and emergency contraception for rape victims.
Reproductive health services and education.
Invasive medical health procedures being foisted on women in many states.
Other contemporary women's civil rights issues include: social security and pension reform, violence towards women, racial and LGBT rights, and obtaining the controversial and elusive equal rights amendment to the constitution. (For more information on civil rights, contact a lawyer such as Marie A. Mattox, P.A.)


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This image shows a steam train approaching Holly Bush Lane Bridge in the early 1950s.
According to the Harpenden and District Local History Society, the Midland main line was steam operated right until 1960 when diesel services were introduced.
It says much of the "old character" of the lines was lost when the London St Pancras International to Bedford route became electrified, with bridges and buildings torn down to be replaced with modern equipment.
This snapshot is from the collection of John Cooper, an author who pens pictorial history books about Harpenden.
He has written A postcard from Harpenden, Harpenden Through Time, Harpenden: The Postcard Collection, and Harpenden: A Village in Wartime, which was published on October 15 last year.


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What's the farthest point humans have explored?
By using powerful telescopes on land and space, what's the farthest point humans have explored or viewed?
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$\begingroup$ Does this answer your question? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… $\endgroup$
– planetmaker
$\begingroup$ The CMB is yet more far away, although it is not viewed by telescopes. $\endgroup$
– peterh
$\begingroup$ Can you add some more details? $\endgroup$
– fasterthanlight
$\begingroup$ @fasterthanlight sometimes a new user asking their first question on a challenging topic like this simply can't add further details. Instead, a short answer can help put things into perspective. $\endgroup$
– uhoh
$\begingroup$ @planetmaker there is no process by which a Stack Exchange question can be closed as duplicate of a Wikipedia article. The whole idea here is to cite sources within answers. "Does this answer your question?" mimics the message that close-as-duplicate voting generates, so we should try use other words if possible, and avoid confusing rhetorical questions especially immediately under the first question asked by a new user. $\endgroup$
This is a really interesting question to many and it deserves an answer post even if folks close it.
In Wikipedia's List of the most distant astronomical objects we can see that the distances that the light travelled to get to us are all around 13 giga light years, and it's no coincidence that the age of the universe is also about 13 billion years.
We can't really call that the actual distance to the object because the size of the universe is changing and the size of the observable universe is changing as well.
So while we like to say we are seeing really really far away, we should really think about it as seeing really really far back in time, because on the scale of the universe the speed of light is actually incredibly slow :-)
No matter how big of a telescope we build with unbelievable light gathering power, we'll never be able to see "farther" than a certain distance. There's a currently unknowably larger universe out there whose light and gravity has not and probably never will reach us
It's almost certainly based on current understanding, but that's subject to change of course ;-)
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$\begingroup$ +1 there is no "farthest" in universe. $\endgroup$
– Nilay Ghosh
$\begingroup$ In the spirit of quoting rather than linking it is maybe worth saying that the Wikipedia page you link gives a galaxy called GN-z11 as the most distant object actually imaged. It has its own wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GN-z11 $\endgroup$
– Steve Linton
$\begingroup$ @SteveLinton Thanks! I'm amenable to you adding that as a new answer or just going ahead and adding it to this one. Your answers are always great so the former is better in my opinion, but I also always welcome helpful edits to my posts. $\endgroup$
Supplementary to @uhoh's answer:
According to the wikipedia page he links, the most distant imaged object is a galaxy classed GN-z11.
GN-z11 is a high-redshift galaxy found in the constellation Ursa Major. The discovery was published in a paper headed by P.A. Oesch and Gabriel Brammer (Cosmic Dawn Center). GN-z11 is currently the oldest and most distant known galaxy in the observable universe. GN-z11 has a spectroscopic redshift of z = 11.09, which corresponds to a proper distance of approximately 32 billion light-years (9.8 billion parsecs). The object's name is derived from its location in the GOODS-North field of galaxies and its high cosmological redshift number (GN + z11). GN-z11 is observed as it existed 13.4 billion years ago, just 400 million years after the Big Bang; as a result, GN-z11's distance is sometimes inappropriately reported as 13.4 billion light-years, its light-travel distance measurement.
Beyond that distance (or, as it usually more helpful to think of it, further back in time) as @RobJeffries observes, we detect the cosmic microwave background and we can "explore" its exact spectrum and distribution around the sky, but we can't yet detect any specific objects beyond GN-z11.
Steve LintonSteve Linton
$\begingroup$ Well, there aren't any objects in the material that emitted the CMB, just atoms, and perhaps the occasional small molecule. $\endgroup$
– PM 2Ring
Distance in astronomy is equivalent to looking back in time, because of the finite speed of light.
If it's an object you're interested in, then Which galaxy is receding from the Milky Way the fastest? What is known of the mechanism behind its recession? covers it. There are various high redshift objects around $z=11$ which are being seen a few hundred million years after the big bang and whose light took more than 13 billion years to reach us.
However, direct exploration by telescopes takes us back to the cosmic microwave background, formed 400,000 years after the big bang. The light from this has been travelling for 13.7 billion years.
If we want to see further, the CMB provides an impenetrable fog from which no more distant electromagnetic waves can emerge. However, there are opportunities to study the cosmic neutrino and gravitational backgrounds from earlier (and more distant, though not by much) epochs.
Arguably we have "explored" some of these most distant regions by using telescopes to investigate the "primordial" chemical abundances of helium, deuterium and lithium, which tell us about conditions in the first seconds to minutes after the big bang.
If one accepts this indirect exploration, then the fact we observe a matter filled universe is exploring the conditions less than $10^{-12}$s after the big bang.
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Q: Is shared_future a legitimate replacement for a condition_variable? Josuttis states ["Standard Library", 2nd ed, pg 1003]:

Futures allow you to block until data by another thread is provided or another thread is done. However, a future can pass data from one thread to another only once. In fact, a future's major purpose is to deal with return values or exceptions of threads.

On the other hand, a shared_future<void> can be used by multiple threads, to identify when another thread has done its job.
Also, in general, high-level concurrency features (such as futures) should be preferred to low-level ones (such as condition_variables).
Therefore, I'd like to ask: Is there any situation (requiring synchronization of multiple threads) in which a shared_future<void> won't suffice and a condition_variable is essential?

A: As already pointed out in the comments by @T.C. and @hlt, the use of futures/shared_futures is mostly limited in the sense that they can only be used once. So for every communication task you have to have a new future. The pros and cons are nicely explained by Scott Meyers in:

Item 39: Consider void futures for one-shot event
communication.
Scott Meyers: Effective Modern C++ (emphasis mine)

His conclusion is that using promise/future pairs dodges many of the problems with the use of condidition_variables, providing a nicer way of communicating one-shot events. The price to pay is that you are using dynamically allocated memory for the shared states and more importantly, that you have to have one promise/future pair for every event that you want to communicate.

A: While the notion of using high-level abstracts instead of low-level abstract is laudable, there is a misconception here. std::future is not a high-level replacement for std::conditional_variable. Instead, it is a specific high-level construct build for a specific use-case of std::condition_variable - namely, a one-time return of the value.
Obviously, not all uses of condition variable is for this scenario. For example, an message queue can not be implemented with std::future, no matter how much you try. Such a thread is another high-level construct built on low-level building block. So yes, shoot for high-level constructs, but do not expect a one-to-one map mapping between high and low level.

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