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Q: What is the normative rule in the current draft rules that a template parameter pack which does not participate in deduction is deduced to empty template<typename ...T, typename U>
void fun(U){}
int main(){
   fun(0);
}

This snippet code is accepted by both GCC and Clang. The template parameter pack T does not participate in the template argument deduction in the context of function call, as per the following rules:
[temp.deduct.call]

Template argument deduction is done by comparing each function template parameter type (call it P) that contains template-parameters that participate in template argument deduction with the type of the corresponding argument of the call (call it A) as described below.

The pack T is contained by any function template parameter. If there were no other special rules specify, the deduction would fail according to:
[temp.deduct.type#2]

if any template argument remains neither deduced nor explicitly specified, template argument deduction fails.

However, such a case is ruled by the following rule in the current standard, that is:
[temp.arg.explicit#4]

A trailing template parameter pack ([temp.variadic]) not otherwise deduced will be deduced as an empty sequence of template arguments.

So, the above case can be considered to deduce successfully which leaves the pack T with an empty set of template arguments.
However, the special rule in temp.arg.explicit#4 has been changed to a note in the current draft
[temp.arg.explicit#note-1]

[Note 1: A trailing template parameter pack ([temp.variadic]) not otherwise deduced will be deduced as an empty sequence of template arguments. — end note]

So, I wonder Is there any alternative normative rule in the current draft states that the pack T not otherwise deduced  will be deduced to an empty set of template arguments?

A: The previously normative section of [temp.arg.explicit]/4

[...] A trailing template parameter pack ([temp.variadic]) not otherwise deduced will be deduced as an empty sequence of template arguments. [...]

was made into a non-normative note as part of P1787R6.
As you've pointed out, as per [temp.deduct.type]/2 [emphasis mine]:

Type deduction is done independently for each P/A pair [...], if any template argument remains neither deduced nor explicitly specified, template argument deduction fails.

[temp.arg.general] describes that a template parameter that is a template parameter pack may correspond to zero template arguments:

[...] When the parameter declared by the template is a template parameter pack, it will correspond to zero or more template-arguments.

and [temp.variadic]/1 explicitly mention that a template parameter pack may accept zero arguments:

A template parameter pack is a template parameter that accepts zero or more template arguments.

followed by a non-normative example of an empty argument list for an entity templated over a parameter pack template parameter:

template<class ... Types> struct Tuple { };
Tuple<> t0;  // Types contains no arguments

Now, returning to [temp.arg.explicit]/4:

If all of the template arguments can be deduced, they may all be omitted; in this case, the empty template argument list <> itself may also be omitted.

Meaning the Tuple example above is can likewise omit the empty argument list

Tuple t0;  // Also OK: Types contains no arguments

but where the key is that, as per [temp.arg.general] above, that a template parameter list may correspond to zero arguments, in which case there are no template arguments needed to be deduced.
If you look at your own example:

template<typename ...T, typename U>
void fun(U){}
int main(){
   fun(0);  // #1
}

you could likewise invoke #1 as:
fun<>(0);  // argument list for parameter pack is empty
           // -> no argument (beyond that for `U`) to deduce

highlighting that the deducible argument corresponding to the template parameter U can be omitted from the explicit template-arguments, whereas the remaining template-arguments are none; namely, the argument list for the template parameter that is a template parameter pack is empty, and there are thus no remaining template arguments that needs to be deduced.
Thus

A trailing template parameter pack ([temp.variadic]) not otherwise deduced will be deduced as an empty sequence of template arguments.

is non-normative/redundant, explaining why it was wrapped into a [Note - [...] - end note].

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A northbridge or host bridge is one of the two chips in the core logic chipset architecture on a PC motherboard, the other being the southbridge. Unlike the southbridge, northbridge is connected directly to the CPU via the front-side bus (FSB) and is thus responsible for tasks that require the highest performance. The northbridge is usually paired with a southbridge, also known as I/O controller hub. In systems where they are included, these two chips manage communications between the CPU and other parts of the motherboard, and constitute the core logic chipset of the PC motherboard.
On older Intel based PCs, the northbridge was also named external memory controller hub (MCH) or graphics and memory controller hub (GMCH) if equipped with integrated graphics. Increasingly these functions became integrated into the CPU chip itself, beginning with memory and graphics controllers. For Intel Sandy Bridge and AMD Accelerated Processing Unit processors introduced in 2011, all of the functions of the northbridge reside on the CPU, while AMD FX CPUs still require external northbridge and southbridge chips.
Separating the different functions into the CPU, northbridge, and southbridge chips was due to the difficulty of integrating all components onto a single chip. In some instances, the northbridge and southbridge functions have been combined onto one die when design complexity and fabrication processes permitted it; for example, the Nvidia GeForce 320M in the 2010 MacBook Air is a northbridge/southbridge/GPU combo chip.
As CPU speeds increased over time, a bottleneck eventually emerged between the processor and the motherboard, due to limitations caused by data transmission between the CPU and its support chipset. Accordingly, starting with the AMD Athlon64 series CPUs (based on the Opteron), a new architecture was used where some functions of the north- and southbridge chips were moved to the CPU. Modern Intel Core processors have the northbridge integrated on the CPU die, where it is known as the uncore or system agent.
The northbridge typically handles communications among the CPU, in some cases RAM, and PCI Express (or AGP) video cards, and the southbridge. Some northbridges also contain integrated video controllers, also known as a Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (GMCH) in Intel systems. Because different processors and RAM require different signaling, a given northbridge will typically work with only one or two classes of CPUs and generally only one type of RAM.
The name is derived from drawing the architecture in the fashion of a map. The CPU would be at the top of the map comparable to due north on most general purpose geographical maps. The CPU would be connected to the chipset via a fast bridge (the northbridge) located north of other system devices as drawn. The northbridge would then be connected to the rest of the chipset via a slow bridge (the southbridge) located south of other system devices as drawn.
The northbridge plays an important part in how far a computer can be overclocked, as its frequency is commonly used as a baseline for the CPU to establish its own operating frequency. This chip typically gets hotter as processor speed becomes faster, requiring more cooling. There is a limit to CPU overclocking, as digital circuits are limited by physical factors such as slew rate of operational amplifiers, parasitic capacitance, and propagation delay, which increases with (among other factors) operating temperature; consequently most overclocking applications have software-imposed limits on the multiplier and external clock setting. Additionally, heat is a major limiting factor, as higher voltages are needed to properly activate field effect transistors inside CPUs and this higher voltage produces larger amounts of heat, requiring greater thermal solutions on the die.
The overall trend in processor design has been to integrate more functions onto fewer components, which decreases overall motherboard cost and improves performance. The memory controller, which handles communication between the CPU and RAM, was moved onto the processor die by AMD beginning with their AMD64 processors and by Intel with their Nehalem processors. One of the advantages of having the memory controller integrated on the CPU die is to reduce latency from the CPU to memory.
Another example of this kind of change is Nvidia's nForce3 for AMD64 systems. It combines all of the features of a normal southbridge with an Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) port and connects directly to the CPU. On nForce4 boards it was marketed as a media communications processor (MCP).
AMD Accelerated Processing Unit processors feature full integration of northbridge functions onto the CPU chip, along with processor cores, memory controller and graphics processing unit (GPU). This was an evolution of the AMD64, since the memory controller was integrated on the CPU die in the AMD64.
The northbridge was replaced by the system agent introduced by the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture in 2011, which essentially handles all previous Northbridge functions. Intel's Sandy Bridge processors feature full integration of northbridge functions onto the CPU chip, along with processor cores, memory controller and graphics processing unit (GPU). This was a further evolution of the Westmere architecture, which also featured a CPU and GPU in the same package.
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This is a fabulous resource for anyone who has been purchasing herbs by the pot at the LGS, thinking they could never grow their own. He'll get you to the point where you can pick up one thyme plant at a nursery and envision it turning into a border, rather than trying to figure out how you'll be able to afford 10 thyme plants and still purchase anything else. Once you start propagating, your collection of various herbs & cultivars may grow rather rapidly!
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That sounds interesting. After you've used it for a while, I'd love to hear how you like it.
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This is one of those growing seasons that feels like death by a thousand cuts. Now every year we have crops that don't do well or fail completely and others that are magnificent and make up for the short falls, that is what being diversified is all about. You hear farmers say something like "this year I lost money but we had a couple of good years in a row there, we have another bad one and we might lose the farm". For twenty three straight years we had always made more money than the year before, in the early years that was easy to do as we were so pitiful at the beginning the only way we could go was up. The later years we were still figuring things out, building the business, settling on markets and crops to grow with lots of room for improvement. Now that trick gets harder as we have pretty much settled in to a routine, so when one crop fails, there is not a new one in the wings to surprise us. For the last few years we have done well but not better than the previous best year, the thousand cuts are more of a psychological issue than a serious financial one. They just begin to weigh on you, especially as it gets hotter and as I tell the staff "I begin to lose my sense of humor".
The list of nicks is already long this year, the freeze took the blueberries and affected other crops in strange ways. The unusually cold spring affected germination of many of the early direct seeded vegetables and flowers, we had to replant the first Zinnia planting when it didn't come up, an eighth of an acre! The drought in May made it hard to get crops established and others slow to grow. No turkeys or asparagus this year either. Then lately the varmit eating tomatoes and melon issue. The most recent discoveries are that half the red onions are not what we had ordered (they will still eat well, just not what we wanted) and the 400 poblano plants that were looking so good appear to not be poblanos, but some kind of bell pepper instead!!!! This too will change and the other summer crops look great. The lisianthus may be even more fantastic than last years incredible crop. We picked the first good batch of tomatoes out of the big planting Monday and they look good too. The rest of the peppers are right on schedule and even the onions are bigger than last year (even if some of them are the wrong variety). This adversity is what drives some people out of farming, they can't take the unknowns and set backs, no matter how great the rest of the rewards are. For us this is the challenge that keeps us getting up in the morning, trying to figure out how to solve a problem or learn yet more about how nature works. Some days I just wish the box of band aids wasn't out on the counter.
It did rain enough to get the summer cover crop up! Cowpeas with the daisies.


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The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has allowed a limited number of fans to attend the HBL PSL 2020 matches, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Thursday.
According to the announcement, 20 percent of crowds will attend the HBL Pakistan Super League 2021, which will be played in Karachi and Lahore from 20 February to 22 March.
As per the decision, 7,500 ticketed spectators will be allowed access inside the National Stadium per match day, while around 5,500 will be able to attend each match day at the Gaddafi Stadium.
Furthermore, during the discourse of the event, NCOC and PCB will continue to work together and monitor the situation before a decision to increase crowd numbers for the three playoffs and the final is made.
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The decision was made by NCOC after receiving the detailed and comprehensive briefing by the PCB officials
The event organisers and the PCB, both have given surety to strictly follow government COVID-19 Standard Operating Procedures, including social distancing.
PCB Chairman Ehsan Mani in a statement said: "I am thankful to the NCOC for trusting the PCB and allowing limited fans to watch the live action of the HBL Pakistan Super League 2021. This is an endorsement that the PCB is an institution, which is capable of planning and then successfully implementing Covid-19 SOPs during its marquee event being staged in Pakistan for the second successive year.
"Fans are the PCB's biggest asset and we are delighted that no matter a small number, but some will be able to have access to the matches. Their presence will add flavour and excitement to one of the biggest and most challenging leagues in the cricket calendar. We understand not everyone will get an opportunity to watch the matches due to the limited number of seats, but these are baby-steps, and considering that most of the sports events are being played in empty stadiums, this is a positive achievement and step in the right direction.
"I am optimistic that if we can maintain strict protocols during the HBL PSL 2021 matches we will have a strong case for more fans in the 2021-22 season in which we have to host high-profile international teams such as New Zealand, England, and the West Indies as well as quality domestic events, including the National T20 Cup, Quaid-e-Azam Trophy and the Pakistan Cup."
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Published: 04:12 Wednesday - July 12, 2017
Citadel of Ho Dynasty (also called Tay Do castle or Tay Giai castle) is a citadel in Vietnam, constructed by the Ho Dynasty (1400-1407). It is located in Tay Giai commune, Vinh Loc District, Thanh Hoa Province. The citadel buildings represent an outstanding example of a new style of Southeast Asian imperial city with a combination between the Vietnamese architecture and the unique building techniques of Viet Nam, Southeast Asia and Eastern Asia. It was inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage Sites on June 27, 2011.
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The Citadel of Ho dynasty is located in the west of Vinh Loc District, Thanh Hoa province, between Ma river and Buoi river, border with 7 communes (Vinh Tien, Vinh Thanh, Vinh Long, Vinh Yen, Vinh Quang, Vinh Ninh, Vinh Khang) , Vinh Loc Town, a part of Vinh Phuc commune (Vinh Loc district) and a part of Thach Long commune (Thach Thanh district).
It is rectangular in shape. The north-south side is 870.5 m (2,856 ft) in length and its east-west side is 883.5 m (2,899 ft) in length. There are four gates: one at the south (fore gate), one at the north (back gate), one at the east (left gate), and one at the west (right gate). The southern gate is 9.5 m (31 ft) high and 15.17 m (49.8 ft) wide.
Surrounding the Citadel are a lot of relics like exhibition house, Nang Cave and An Ton Mountain, temples of Binh Khuong, Giang pagoda, Ho Cong cave, Dong Mon Communal house and so on. Inside the citadel are Thanh Noi (Inner citadel), Hao Thanh, La Thanh and Nam Giao Alter.
- Thanh Noi (Inner Citadel): Thanh Noi is the main architectural work of the citadel, also known as Imperial Citadel with the remains of the royal palaces and temples inside. It is fairly square with about 870.5m long north and south sides, 883.5m long east and west side.. Thanh Noi has four domed gates called the South, North, West and East (or also known as the Front, Back, Left and Right gates), each located at the centre of each side. The Front Gate in the south is the most important and has three entrances.
According to the documents, there were palaces in the Thanh Noi such as Hoang Nguyen, Nhan Tho, Phu Cuc, Dong Cung, Dong Thai Mieu, Tay Thai Mieu, Diem Canh… However, now Thanh Noi remains some relics such as a part of the citadel's wall and four gates, vestiges of lakes, a couple of stone dragons with sophisticated carving features, foundation of Thanh Noi architecture, Hoa Nhai marble-paved road, stone balls, stone bullets, pottery, the Southern gate precinct and valuable objects with specific characteristics of Tran - Ho dynasties culture.
- Hao Thanh: Hao Thanh is the system of water trench surrounded the Thanh Noi and connected with Buoi River through a canal at the southeast corner of the citadel.
- La Thanh: the outer wall of the citadel built to protect the Thanh Noi was home to residents in the citadel. It was approximately 10km in perimeter and its construction based on the natural terrain.
- Nam Giao Altar: It is located in the southwest of Don Son Mountain, on the spiritual pathway directly connected with the South gate of Thanh Noi, about 2.5km away from the citadel of the Ho Dynasty to the southeast. This is the place to sacrifice to the heaven; pray for harmonious rain and wind, peaceful country and happy people, prosperous and everlasting dynasty.
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Italian photographer Stefano Sbrulli documented the difficulties of blind and visually impaired people as they adapt to a world of social distancing.
Italy faced one of the strictest and longest-running Covid-19 lockdowns in Europe.
Those with visual disabilities often need companions or assistance services to go about their day-to-day lives, which can make social distancing a challenge.
Here are some of Sbrulli's portraits and stories, gathered between March and June.
Lucilla, 55, Rome
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Lucilla is an art history teacher and sculptor. She lost her sight due to a degenerative illness.
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"I often count the steps to get to a place, [so] if you change something on the way, I get lost.
"I haven't gone shopping yet. I usually take the Metro C but in San Giovanni they changed everything, and this limits my exits and makes it more difficult".
Twins Lorenzo and Francesco, 13, Rome
Lorenzo likes to play drums and Francesco loves to sing, but during quarantine the courses they were enrolled on stopped.
They are twins, both blind, and often enjoy playing and singing on the porch until sunset.
The teaching activity at their middle school also stopped and the support teacher couldn't assist them at home.
Instead, their mother and grandmother support them, with considerable effort.
They are unable to lead an independent life, and social distancing risks isolating them.
"They should be the first in a society, not the last," says Grandma Anna.
Simona, 35, Rome
Simona has always led an independent life; she'd go out, go to work and meet friends with ease.
However, she hasn't gone for a walk in months.
"I have to say that the idea of leaving the house gives me some anxiety," she says.
"I live in Lucio Sestio and I often use the subway, but now I know that the exits and the entrances have changed to facilitate the distancing of people, [so] I'm afraid of feeling lost.
"There is also no tactile path that can help me maintain orientation".
Ettore, 50, Rome
Ettore is visually impaired and is totally autonomous; he works and travels a lot, dealing with care services for people with his own disability.
During the lockdown, apart from a slight feeling of isolation, he coped well.
Now he's struggling when he goes shopping – he needs time to figure out what he's buying, read the expiration dates and prices.
But he fears the intolerance of others and feels the pressure to do things faster. His face mask fogs up his glasses and the use of gloves complicates things.
Marco, 31, Rome
Marco took the bus every day to reach the offices of the Bank of Italy, where he works.
He lives with his parents and two brothers in a small house.
The lockdown made everything more complicated, because working from home forced him into a confined space for too long.
The important thing for him is to be able to go back to the office.
Matteo, 32, Rome
Matteo is partially sighted and works for a public office.
He is also a sportsman and was chosen to represent Italy in adaptive surfing at the California World Championships, but the pandemic prevented him from participating.
He leads an independent life, with the help of his guide dog.
During part of the lockdown he could not take his dog to the park for exercise.
"A guide dog must always be at the top, because if he is sick he cannot help me," he says.
Camilla, 35, Rome
Camilla takes care of the paths inside museums for the City of Rome.
She is visually impaired, and despite leading a semi-autonomous life, is very afraid to go out at this time.
There are a lot more electric bikes and scooters around – and she's afraid of getting run over.
"We should rethink metropolitan mobility, taking into account the visually impaired, especially in this period," she says.
One of the biggest difficulties she encountered during the lockdown, and continues to face, is the lack of care services.
"The civil service has stopped and we still do not know when it will start again".
Angelina 90, Santa Marinella
Angelina lives in a care home.
Visits from her relatives make her happy, but they stopped during lockdown and now there can only be a limited number of people visiting for a shortened period of time.
She was excited when photographer Sbrulli offered to take her out for an ice cream.
But her voice became sad when they were told that she could not leave because of safety restrictions.
Arianna, 31, and Stefano, 45, Salerno
Arianna is blind and Stefano, her husband, is visually impaired. They always hold hands and Julie, their guide dog, wags her tail at their side.
They live in Perugia, but as soon as it was possible to travel they moved to be with Arianna's mother in Salerno.
"Perhaps now, for fear of contagion, people will be more attentive to us; they will be careful not to stumble on the stick and avoid caressing Julie as she accompanies me to work," says Arianna.
"It may seem absurd, but if the dog gets distracted, I completely lose orientation."
Antony, 31, Rome
Antony has been blind for nine years. He misses spending time with his girlfriend, who lives on the other side of the city.
He is very skilled with his stick and still manages to maintain safe distances from people.
"But if I need help, or I have to lean on a companion, things get complicated," he explains.
He hopes that the people he meets during his daily activities are understanding.
All photographs by Stefano Sbrulli
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Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum
The Core Sponsors of the Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum are AECOM, Burges Salmon, and Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum - AECOM
AECOM is built to deliver a better world. We design, build, finance and operate infrastructure assets for governments, businesses and organizations. As a fully integrated firm, we connect knowledge and experience across our global network of experts to help clients solve their most complex challenges. From high-performance buildings and infrastructure, to resilient communities and environments, to stable and secure nations, our work is transformative, differentiated and vital. A Fortune 500 firm, AECOM had revenue of approximately $20.2 billion during fiscal year 2018. See how we deliver what others can only imagine at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum - Burges Salmon
Burges Salmon is the independent UK law firm which delivers the best mix of advice, service and value.
Everything the firm does is driven by the needs of its clients. By focusing on the markets and areas of expertise where the firm has extensive knowledge and experience, Burges Salmon is able to achieve the best outcomes for clients, who range from large organisations, entrepreneurial businesses and public sector bodies to private individuals and families. The firm provides these sophisticated clients with a wide range of services, often at critical moments when astute legal advice and commercial guidance is needed. Working collaboratively, in partnership with clients, Burges Salmon forms its thinking around their needs to ensure delivery of the right solutions when it matters.
We understand the legal and commercial challenges inherent in any project and are renowned for our creative approach to problem solving. We combine market-leading experience and legal expertise to help clients overcome the challenges of their sectors, particularly in the delivery of energy, environment and transport infrastructure projects in complex regulatory environments.
Drawing on a pool of expertise from across the firm, our collaborative approach allows us to build the right team for each client. Our team of specialist lawyers is one of the largest and most diverse in the UK, providing a seamless service throughout all stages of the project life cycle - from financing, planning and real estate through to construction and operation.
We are known for ground-breaking work in the energy sector and understand the opportunities, technologies and challenges that the sector presents.
The energy sector moves quickly. Our clients need advisers who understand not only where the sector is today, but also where it will be tomorrow. Our award-winning energy lawyers innovate and deliver creative solutions. From ground-breaking infrastructure projects to unparalleled regulatory insight, we provide the very best advice on all aspects of energy law. We work at the cutting edge of the sector. Our reputation is built upon first-of-a-kind projects and deals, and we provide expert advice throughout the project/plant life cycle.
Our environment team is nationally recognised, operating across natural resources and the built environment.
We work with the full spectrum of clients, from government and regulators to private sector funders, developers and infrastructure service providers. We are well known for our expertise across utilities, water, waste management, urban regeneration and social infrastructure.
We combine specialist expertise in energy efficiency, carbon law, water law, environmental risk management and compliance with award-winning real estate, projects, corporate and construction procurement teams. This has made us the firm of choice for complex, groundbreaking projects across the fast-changing natural resources and built environment sectors.
With decades of experience in the sector, we offer in-depth legal expertise across all modes of transport and transport infrastructure.
The transport sector remains vital to the country's economic health and there are ambitious plans in place that will continue to enhance the UK's passenger and freight systems in the years ahead. Our industry-leading transport lawyers have deep insight into the sector and unparalleled expertise in transport law. Our advice covers all aspects of transport law from the development of cutting-edge autonomous vehicles to more traditional transport infrastructure, road and rail, airports and ports.
Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum - Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Founded in 1847 in Birmingham, our original statement of our purpose was "To give an impulse to invention likely to be useful to the world", which is not so different from our present mission statement to "Improving the world through engineering".
Today, working hard to support our 120,000 members, the Institution is the market leader among professional engineering bodies. It is the go-to organization with the global reach that truly represents and reflects breadth of the profession: encouraging professional registration and long-term career development.
As a global community of mechanical engineers represented in over 140 countries, the Institution is the largest network of mechanical engineering knowledge, skill and opportunity in the world. With an ever growing membership based outside the UK, we develop and maintain key partnerships with leading multi-national employers to ensure their technical workforces are trained to the highest standard. By equipping engineers with the right skills, knowledge and experience to help them develop, we contribute to strengthening the world's leading companies.
We encourage high profile education initiatives which inspire the next generation to work in engineering, and get engineers featured in the global media and heard by government.
We are committed to ensuring that the views of engineers are well represented in the public domain. Thanks to its internationally recognised thought leadership around energy, climate change and future transport, the global press trusts the Institution as a source of expert opinion. With a proven track record for understanding the needs of government, our well respected expert knowledge is sought by politicians to shape policy.
The Core Sponsors of the Westminster eForum are Arqiva, BBC, BT CityFibre and KPMG.
Westminster eForum - Arqiva
Arqiva is a leading UK communications infrastructure company enabling a vibrant digital economy. We are behind the scenes and central to millions of vital connections. We are pioneers in an always on, always connected world.
Every day our infrastructure and associated services enable millions of people and machines to connect wherever they are through TV, radio, mobile and the Internet of Things (IoT).
We are an independent provider of telecom towers, with around 8,000 active licensed sites, and the only national provider of terrestrial television and radio broadcasting.
Our technology enables us to work with everyone from mobile network operators, such as BT-EE, Vodafone, O2 and Three to independent radio groups and major broadcasters, such as the BBC, ITV, Sky, Turner and CANAL+ to utility companies such as Thames Water.
We provide digital and satellite services and distribution for international clients in Europe, the U.S., the Far East and Australia, including Turner and Canal+ and the Al Jazeera Network.
At Arqiva, we are investing to ensure that the UK has the communications infrastructure it needs to thrive in an increasingly connected world. From carrying the BBC's first television broadcast in 1936 to launching the UK's national DAB radio and digital terrestrial television networks in the 2000s, we strive to continuously find ingenious and smarter ways to support our customers.
Westminster eForum - BBC
The BBC's mission has remained the same for almost 100 years; to enrich people's lives with great programmes and services that inform, educate and entertain. Its vision is to be the most creative, trusted organisation in the world.
The BBC provides a wide range of distinctive programmes and services for everyone, free of commercial interests and political bias. They include television, radio, national, local, childrens', educational, language and other services for key groups. The BBC also runs orchestras, actively develops new talent, and supports training and production skills for the British broadcasting, music, drama and film industries.
BBC services are used by 91% of UK adults each week and BBC News is the source people are most likely to turn to for news they trust and for impartial, accurate coverage.
The Corporation is funded through a television licence fee and 95% of it's controllable spend is focused on content and delivery with just 5% spent on running the organisation.
The current Royal Charter, which started on 1st January 2017 sets out five purposes for the BBC. They are:
To provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them.
To support learning for people of all ages.
To show the most creative, highest quality and distinctive output and services.
To reflect, represent and serve the diverse communities of all of the United Kingdom's nations and regions and, in doing so, support the creative economy across the United Kingdom.
-	To reflect the United Kingdom, its culture and values to the world.
The BBC word mark and logo are trade marks of the British Broadcasting Corporation and are used under licence. BBC logo © BBC 1996
Westminster eForum - BT
An introduction to BT:
BT is one of the world's leading communications companies. We provide the essential backbone for fixed telephone services, mobile network operators and much of the UK's terrestrial TV distribution.
BT's organisation:
BT is organised into a number of separate businesses:-
BT Retail – provides services to small and medium sized businesses and to residential customers. It also runs the UK's largest internet business as well as BT Vision – BT's on-demand internet television service. It provides around 19 million fixed and 5 million broadband lines.
BT Wholesale - supports the UK's fixed and mobile communications industry with a range of products and managed services including, for example, major network capacity to the UK's mobile companies, the transmission capacity for much of the UK television network, and 'white label' broadband, fixed line and other services for some of the biggest names in the competitive UK market. It also manages other operators' networks on their behalf on an outsource basis.
BT Global Services – provides services to large businesses, to multi-site organisations in the UK and across the world, and operates in over 170 countries worldwide.
Openreach - looks after the 'first mile' of network, from the exchange through to homes and businesses. Its customers are not end users but the companies who supply their telecommunications services to them. It treats all its customers on an equal basis and thus provides the essential ingredients for the vibrant, competitive retail market in the UK. Is also the engine for BT's extensive fibre rollout programme.
BT Innovate and Design - is responsible for BT's research and innovation – with BT being a top investor in R&D.
The UK and BT in context:
The UK has the world's most competitive communications market in the world, with unrivalled broadband availability, take-up and prices.
BT invests billions of pounds each year in infrastructure to boost productivity, create jobs, bring communities together and enrich peoples' lives.
Telecoms prices in the UK are down in real terms by 54% since 1990.
More than 60% of UK homes now have broadband – up from 12% in 2003 and a higher rate than Italy, Spain, Germany, France and the USA.
We are investing £1.5bn in providing fibre-based services to up to 10m homes by 2012 (40% UK households). Assuming an acceptable environment for investment, we plan to add a further £1bn by 2015, taking coverage to around 66% of the UK.
Key policy principles:
Competition is better than regulation for protecting the interests of customers.
Where there is regulation, it should promote competition.
Markets worldwide should be open, with state authorities acting to promote competition, encourage innovation and challenge vested interests.
Financial and social stability will be underpinned by sustainable digital economies.
Investment in the communications infrastructures of such economies requires regulatory stability, technological neutrality, and appropriate financial rewards.
Westminster eForum - CityFibre
CityFibre is the UK's leading alternative provider of full fibre broadband infrastructure, with wholesale open-access full fibre networks in over 50 towns across the UK, delivering reliable, gigabit-capable full fibre connections to consumers in the public sector, business community, mobile operators and residential markets.
Full fibre connectivity is revered for its gigabit speeds, near unlimited bandwidth and consistent reliability. CityFibre is making significant investments in towns and cities across the UK as we look to rapidly expand the number of homes and businesses which have access to full fibre.
As part of our £2.5 billion investment programme, we are bringing full fibre to one million UK homes and businesses by 2021 and 5 million by 2025 - leading the drive to build the digital infrastructure needed to support the UK's communities, businesses and wider economy.
Westminster eForum - KPMG
KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership operates from 22 offices across the UK with over 16,000 professionals led by 630 partners. KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax, and Advisory services. We operate in 148 countries and have more than 200,000 professionals working in member firms around the world. The independent member firms of the KPMG network are affiliated with KPMG International, a Swiss cooperative.
Within KPMG's Technology, Media and Telecommunications practice we focus on the most pressing issues faced by our sector clients in this period of unprecedented change. The mass-adoption of over-the-top (OTT) video platforms is sending shockwaves through the television and film business. Social media and online search continue to take revenues away from traditional ad-funded media. News and information publishers seek to diversify through digital subscriptions, e-commerce and live events. Mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic partnerships are becoming more prominent by the day as market participants seek to gain scale and acquire complementary capabilities.
The upcoming launch of 5G networks and accompanying gigabit wireless speeds and ultra-low latency promises further redefinition of the boundaries between linear, online and live entertainment. Cloud gaming and e-sports, IOT-enabled devices, AR/VR applications, HD mobile video are just some of the emerging services and use cases that will compete for consumers' attention and share of wallet. Media executives are striving to develop sustainable business models balancing short term financial goals with long term ambitions.
KPMG has a 360-understanding of these hot issues and the specific threats faced by each of the media segments – television and radio broadcasting, advertising, music, film and news publishing. Our collaborative approach across key international hubs such as London, Silicon Valley, New York, Shanghai and Tel Aviv brings to our clients a powerful lens and repository of insights to help tackle the strategic and operational challenges ahead.
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KPMG International's Trademarks are the sole property of KPMG International and their use does not imply auditing by or endorsement of KPMG International or any of its member firms.
The Core Sponsors of the Westminster Media Forum are Arqiva, BBC, BT CityFibre and KPMG.
Westminster Media Forum - Arqiva
Westminster Media Forum - BBC
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The Core Sponsor of the Westminster Health Forum is Boehringer Ingelheim .
Westminster Health Forum - Boehringer Ingelheim
Improving the health of humans and animals is the goal of the research-driven pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim. The focus in doing so is on diseases for which no satisfactory treatment option exists to date. The company therefore concentrates on developing innovative therapies that can extend patients' lives. In animal health, Boehringer Ingelheim stands for advanced prevention.
Family-owned since it was established in 1885, Boehringer Ingelheim is one of the pharmaceutical industry's top 20 companies. Some 50,000 employees create value through innovation daily for the three business areas human pharmaceuticals, animal health and biopharmaceuticals.
As a family-owned company, Boehringer Ingelheim plans in generations and focuses on long-term success. The company therefore aims at organic growth from its own resources with simultaneous openness to partnerships and strategic alliances in research. In everything it does, Boehringer Ingelheim naturally adopts responsibility towards mankind and the environment.
More information about Boehringer Ingelheim can be found on www.boehringer-ingelheim.com or in our annual report: http://annualreport.boehringer-ingelheim.com.
The Core Sponsor of the Westminster Business Forum is Economic Insight .
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The largest U.S. trading partner in sub-Saharan Africa, petroleum-rich Nigeria exports half its daily oil production to the United States. Like many African nations with natural resources coveted by the world's superpowers, the country has been shaped by foreign investment and intervention, conflicts among hundreds of ethnic and religious groups, and greed. Polio has boomed along with petroleum, small villages face off with giant oil companies, and scooter drivers run their own ministates. The oil-rich Niger Delta region at the heart of it all is a trouble spot as hot as the local pepper soup.
Blending vivid reportage, history, and investigative journalism, in A Swamp Full of Dollars journalist Michael Peel tells the story of this extraordinary country, which grows ever more wild and lawless by the day as its refined petroleum pumps through our cities. Through a host of colorful characters--from the Area Boy gangsters of Lagos to a corrupt state governor who stashed money in his London penthouse, from the militants in their swamp forest hideouts to oil company executives--Peel makes the connection between Western energy consumption and the breakdown of the Nigerian state, where the corruption of the haves is matched only by the determination and ingenuity of the have-nots. What has happened to Nigeria is a stark warning to the United States and other economic powers as they grow increasingly frantic in their search for new oil sources: unbridled plunder eventually rebounds on those who have done the taking.


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King Richard all set for marathon move
Four-time Dutch outdoor 1500m champion Richard Douma is optimistic signing with the NN Running Team will reap rewards in his quest to fulfill his marathon ambitions. The 28-year-old athlete, who in 2016 finished fourth in the 1500m at the European Championships, boasts an accomplished middle-distance career but is now poised to take the next step in his running development with the world's number one road running team.
"This is a great opportunity for me to join so many great athletes and staff, which will help make my move to the road easier," explains Richard. "Without a doubt, I think the team can make me better. In the future, I will have the opportunity to train at camps in Kenya and Uganda and I'm also excited to join a great Dutch brand."
Raised in the town of Zaandam near Amsterdam, Richard played a range of sports as a youngster including ice hockey to judo but after running 39:50 in a local 10km race at the age of 16, running quickly became his primary sporting focus.
Joining his local club – AV Zaanland – he connected with Louis Dam, who still coaches Richard today, and the Dutch athlete says the pair have forged a special bond.
I've twice changed coaches over the past 12 years but that didn't work out well and twice I've gone back to Louis. He is an open coach who always wants the best for his athletes.
Possessing an impressive combination of speed and endurance, Richard slowly established himself as a 1500m specialist and in 2013 the Dutch athlete enjoyed a breakthrough year competing at the European U23 Championships in Tampere.
There he placed 12th in the final only to return to the same event in Tallinn two years later and improve his finishing position by four places.
His career, however, was to make a significant advance in 2016 hacking almost four seconds from his 1500m during the course of the season down to a sharp 3:35.77. He just missed out on a spot at the Rio Olympics but impressed at the European Championships in Amsterdam placing fourth in the 1500m – just 0.14 behind bronze medallist Henrik Ingebrigtsen, older brother of Olympic champion Jakob.
"Amsterdam is not my home town but it is pretty close and during the race during I felt tactically very strong," recalls Richard. "I made all the right moves, perhaps the only thing I did wrong was I accelerated too quickly with 150m to go. If I had waited 30m or 50m later I maybe could have won a medal.
I was disappointed to finish fourth, it was also satisfying because the goal had been to make the final and I was pretty close to a medal.
In 2017 he made the World Championship 1500m semi-finals and the following year landed the first of his four successive national 1500m outdoor titles, although over time he has gradually placed more emphasis on the road. In 2019 he set a 10km road PB of 29:00 in Hole, Norway, and the following year he scalped nearly a minute from that mark to run 28:08 for 12th in Valencia.
Richard revealed more signs of his ability to make a real impact the roads in 2021. In windy conditions in Monaco he ran a handy 13:27 over 5km to place fifth - finishing 14 adrift of NN Running Team superstar and Olympic 5000m champion Joshua Cheptegei. He claimed victory in two of his four 10km road races – in Dresden and Hern – and equalled his lifetime best of 28:08 when fifth in Berlin.
Meanwhile, he also paced the 2:10 group for the first 27km of the NN Mission Marathon in Enschede – a memory he recalls with fondness.
"It was a really nice experience running in the airfield at Enschede," he explains. "I love the technology of the airplanes and I felt to good during the race. I thought about finishing the race but I had not drunk enough, so decided to preserve my energy for the track season."
Last summer he went on to deliver a fourth successive national 1500m title in Breda but now has set his heart on the marathon.
So what convinces the Dutchman his future lies over the 42.2km distance?
"I am strong and fast, I just know I need to invest more in the endurance runs," he explains. "Although I'm not as strong as the Ingebrigtsens I would say I'm a similar type of runner. But with the move to the marathon, I'm looking forward to the new challenge. I like that sense of fulfillment of completing the longer runs and I'm also excited at the thought of pushing my body into those grey areas because you don't know what will happen after 35km into a marathon."
Hoping to make his eagerly awaited marathon debut in 2022 – what are his personal expectations when he finally first tackles the 42.2km distance?
"I just want to give the marathon a go and enjoy a good feeling going into my next marathon.
For the future, however, the Dutch athlete holds some greater ambitions.
I'd like to win medals. I'd just like to get the most out of my body, compete at the Olympic Games and I'd love to run a good marathon in Holland.
With the NN Running Team on his side, anything is possible.
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Aculab VoiSentry will allow developers to add voice authentication to any business application.
Aculab, a provider of telephony application programming interfaces for the global communications market, is set to release VoiSentry, a biometric speaker verification software option.
VoiSentry will enable developers to add voice authentication solutions to any business application, whether on premises, hosted, or cloud-based.
"Regardless of the customer interaction channel, users want an unobtrusive and intuitive customer experience without having to compromise on security. At the same time, across all market sectors, businesses have to compete in terms of that interaction while fulfilling an overarching obligation to provide the highest levels of security of access to user data, accounts, and services. With such compelling imperatives, businesses have never been more in need of solutions that proactively enable them to tackle the issues," said David Samuel, managing director of Aculab, in a statement.
"VoiSentry is designed as a lightweight speaker verification engine that is simple to install and integrate," said Ian Colville, product manager at Aculab, in a statement. "It's provided as a VM image that can be deployed on the developer's platform of choice, be that on a server, in a data center, or in a cloud-based environment. Interaction with Aculab's engine is abstracted to web-centric interfaces, which means it's straightforward to integrate with any IVR, self-service, or contact center solution. The application interface is light-touch, with the engine being engaged for enrollment and verification, leaving the developer, and hence the application, with full control and scope in catering to the individual business' needs. That means they can readily enable unique services to be provided on a per-client basis, which is the essence of cloud-based services provision."
VoiSentry will be available in the second quarter of the year.


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Pokémon Ranger: Trazos de Luz (en inglés: Pokemon Ranger: Guardian Signs), conocido en Japón como , es un videojuego RPG de acción, aventura y estrategia desarrollado por Creatures Inc., una compañía filial de Nintendo, y su lanzamiento fue en el año 2010 para la plataforma Nintendo DS. Corresponde a un spin-off de Pokémon y es la secuela de Pokémon Ranger: Sombras de Almia.

Argumento
El juego se da en la región ficticia de Oblivia, la cual es un archipiélago. Verán y Brisa son unos Rangers con algo de experiencia, a los cuales se les encomienda la misión de proteger a los Pokémon de los malvados Pokémon Nappers.

Personajes
Estos son los personajes principales del juego:
 Verán, el protagonista masculino del juego.
 Brisa, la protagonista femenina del juego.
 Pichu Kelele, un Pichu que lleva un ukelele y que acompaña al protagonista en la aventura.
 Profesor Gobios, director de la Unión Ranger. Es quien encomienda la misión del juego.
 Los Pokémon Nappers, enemigos de la historia.

Recepción

Críticas
El juego recibió generalmente críticas mixtas a positivas.

Ventas
Fue el juego más vendido en Japón en la semana del 1 de marzo al 7 de marzo, vendiendo 161 000 copias. Se mantuvo a la cabeza la siguiente semana, vendiendo 65 000 copias. El juego vendió 360 000 copias en su primer mes de lanzamiento.

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Videojuegos de 2010
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Q: mongoDB aggregate query returning results in reverse order My aggregation pipeline on mongoDB is like.
db.assets.aggregate([{"$match":{"$or":[{"albums":{"$elemMatch":{"id":"78c72b85944e5085a4a3be77a2d175fe","order":{"$gt":"C2"}}}},{"albums":{"$elemMatch":{"id":"18f292072b7555965e0f61a0331a3a43","order":{"$gt":"C2"}}}}]}}
,{"$unwind":"$albums"},
{"$sort":{"albums.order":1,"created":1}},
{"$group":{"_id":"$albums.id","assets":{"$push":"$$ROOT"}}},
{"$project":{"assets":{"$slice":["$assets",6]}}}])

my asset collection having entries like.
{
    "_id": "8ed6dc473e331d895ecbdea7f9bbd55e",
    "created": 1479463428837247,
    "updated": 1479463428837247,
    "catalog_id": "4b5ce056175151e3f0aa1741eedb7f12",
    "albums": {
      "id": "18f292072b7555965e0f61a0331a3a43",
      "order": "D1"
    }
  },
  {
    "_id": "aec701d23dfe5f3a100d678e1a04f716",
    "created": 1479463428902155,
    "updated": 1479463428902155,
    "catalog_id": "4b5ce056175151e3f0aa1741eedb7f12",
    "albums": {
      "id": "18f292072b7555965e0f61a0331a3a43",
     "order": "D2"
    }
  },
  {
    "_id": "b2fe8f9dcf8f3f92f6396cfa574ef71c",
    "created": 1479463428971650,
    "updated": 1479463428971650,
    "catalog_id": "4b5ce056175151e3f0aa1741eedb7f12",
    "albums": {
      "id": "18f292072b7555965e0f61a0331a3a43",
      "order": "E1"
    }
  },
  {
    "_id": "050b550fb23bf780f93eec43cbc667f1",
    "created": 1479463428065297,
    "updated": 1479463428065297,
    "catalog_id": "4b5ce056175151e3f0aa1741eedb7f12",
    "albums": {
      "id": "78c72b85944e5085a4a3be77a2d175fe",
      "order": "D1"
    }
  },
  {
    "_id": "dc54279bc0318f41808b65d1fe7142b2",
    "created": 1479463428134560,
    "updated": 1479463428134560,
    "catalog_id": "4b5ce056175151e3f0aa1741eedb7f12",
    "albums": {
      "id": "78c72b85944e5085a4a3be77a2d175fe",
      "order": "D2"
    }
  }

my result returned is something like.
[
  {
    '_id': '18f292072b7555965e0f61a0331a3a43',
    assets: [
      {
        "_id": "8ed6dc473e331d895ecbdea7f9bbd55e",
        "created": 1479463428837247,
        "updated": 1479463428837247,
        "catalog_id": "4b5ce056175151e3f0aa1741eedb7f12",
        "albums": {
          "id": "18f292072b7555965e0f61a0331a3a43",
          "order": "D1"
        }
      },
      {
        "_id": "aec701d23dfe5f3a100d678e1a04f716",
        "created": 1479463428902155,
        "updated": 1479463428902155,
        "catalog_id": "4b5ce056175151e3f0aa1741eedb7f12",
        "albums": {
          "id": "18f292072b7555965e0f61a0331a3a43",
          "order": "D2"
        }
      },
      {
        "_id": "b2fe8f9dcf8f3f92f6396cfa574ef71c",
        "created": 1479463428971650,
        "updated": 1479463428971650,
        "catalog_id": "4b5ce056175151e3f0aa1741eedb7f12",
        "albums": {
          "id": "18f292072b7555965e0f61a0331a3a43",
          "order": "E1"
        }
      }
    ],
    {
      "_id": "78c72b85944e5085a4a3be77a2d175fe",
      "assets": [
        {
          "_id": "050b550fb23bf780f93eec43cbc667f1",
          "created": 1479463428065297,
          "updated": 1479463428065297,
          "catalog_id": "4b5ce056175151e3f0aa1741eedb7f12",
          "albums": {
            "id": "78c72b85944e5085a4a3be77a2d175fe",
            "order": "D1"
          }
        },
        {
          "_id": "dc54279bc0318f41808b65d1fe7142b2",
          "created": 1479463428134560,
          "updated": 1479463428134560,
          "catalog_id": "4b5ce056175151e3f0aa1741eedb7f12",
          "albums": {
            "id": "78c72b85944e5085a4a3be77a2d175fe",
            "order": "D2"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]

result is not in the same order for album as passed in the match query with or. 78c72b85944e5085a4a3be77a2d175fe is coming after 18f292072b7555965e0f61a0331a3a43. ideally it should be in the same order it is passed to the query. Any idea

A: I know this is really late but I found this looking it up myself and went through around 25 stack overflow questions so I figured I would post. Here is what I did (its for a chatroom so if you want to paginate you want to in reverse order.
                        Group.find({ name: { $regex : new RegExp(name, "i") } })
                            .skip(pageOptions.page*pageOptions.limit)
                            .limit(pageOptions.limit)
                            .sort( '-createdAt' )
                            .populate("sender")
                            .exec((err, result) => {
                                result.reverse();
                                callback(err, result);
                            });

The key was:
result.reverse();

Hope this can help someone.


Mambisas: Rebel Women in Nineteenth Century Cuba. By Teresa Prados-Torreira. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.
The story of the Cuban War for Independence is, like most revolutions, deeply layered, multi-threaded, and constantly evolving. In the last decade, it is a story that has been revisited in new and meaningful ways, as scholars have sought to break the silences around untold and hidden narratives. However, in all of the English-language scholarship that has emerged on this first Cuban Revolution, Mambisas is the first to unequivocally center women as historical agents. As such, Prados-Torreira opens up a critical new dimension for the study of Cuba's struggle for independence.
Prados-Torreira chose to follow this history by weaving together multiple women's stories; in this braided narrative, she explores how such women became involved in anticolonial struggle, and what Cuba libre meant to them. These stories form the backbone of a larger narrative that explores the gendered dimensions of the independence movement, and the way in which women helped to fashion it on multiple levels.
Delving into the elite world of colonial Cuba, the author shows how those women steeped in nineteenth-century cultures of modesty, proper domesticity, and refinement began actively seeking out - or found themselves swept up in - a new life of insurgent activity. The eruption of the Ten Years War, with its chaos and its new nationalist energy, loosened many traditional confines of womanly behavior, rendered the boundaries of permissible femininity more elastic and porous, and generally ushered in a decisive shift all that was known and comfortable. Small women-run rebel communities in the mountains of eastern Cuba became critical to the survival of the insurgency, and women of diverse backgrounds raised food there, cared for the wounded, and stored weapons and ammunition. Women who could wrote treatises and condemning letters, gathered money, and fled into hiding; others slipped food and weapons across enemy lines, bore children in rugged terrain, acted as spies and couriers, and took up arms for rebel combat. Still others engaged in those many invisible, but crucial war-time labors — sewing bandages and clothes, mending flags, cooking food, maintaining families, and opening their homes to strangers.
Whether rebel Cuban women were formerly enslaved black women, free women of color, white peasant women, Taína women, or elite white women, all of them made sacrifices. Revolution has always been a messy, bloody, and terrifying endeavor, and in the course of this thirty-year struggle, Cuban women of all races and classes women actively engaged this resistance in various ways. Many were imprisoned - and one can only imagine what transpired there - or driven into exile in foreign lands. Their husbands were killed or driven underground, often leaving the women to endure crumbling marriages, fatherless homes, and outside lovers. All in some way compromised their personal safety, comfort, time, money, labor, reputations, and loved ones for the sake of the war. But the aim of Mambisas is not to simply "find and insert the women," but rather to illustrate the ways in which Cuba's anti-colonial movement fundamentally relied on female participation, and was irrevocably shaped by it.