Awnings over decks, doors and windows have been commonplace in Europe for many years. High energy costs for air-conditioning is a major factor in their popularity. As well, European homes often incorporate outdoor living spaces which are greatly improved with awnings.
Retractable awnings are becoming increasingly popular in North America. Home and business owners are learning that awnings can have a significant return on investment. Air-conditioning costs can be dramatically reduced and outdoor living spaces can be much more comfortable. Both outdoor and indoor furniture will last much longer shaded from the sun. Retractable awnings have a much longer lifespan than stationary awnings, as they can be retracted and protected when not being used. As well, they provide the convenience and flexibility of being there only when you want.
With the expansion of the awning market in North America, consumers find they must navigate through a lot of options when trying to decide which awning best suits their needs.
The two main research criteria are product quality and service.
Judge the product quality carefully. While many awning providers will come to your home to help you choose, it is also worth the time to go to the provider's showroom and see their products in action. Ask about product and manufacturing certifications such as TÜV.
Current inspection certifications can be produced upon request. Look for customer testimonials on the company's website or social media pages as well as third party sites. You can also ask the company representative to put you in touch with other customers. Find out how long the company has been in business.
The importance of quality increases with the size of the awning. It is critical that large awnings are built to exceptional standards. A large awning, when open, is a significant 'sail' and wind can create pressure on moving parts and points connecting to the structure – your house. If you are looking for a smaller awning, consider the manufacturers of larger awnings. If the manufacturer has the expertise to produce large awnings, they will produce quality smaller ones as well.
Entry level awnings, while economical, will have few options and will come in standard sizes. They will be constructed with lighter, less durable materials. Quality awnings will be built to custom size and will have a variety of models and options to ensure you get exactly what is needed. They are of robust design and construction, and because Europeans have been enjoying awnings for so long, they are experts! European parts and manufacturing processes set the standard of quality awning products.
While Sunbrella is a standard choice for awnings, Sattler (of Austria) and Para (of Italy), are major producers of elite fabrics. These fabrics are made from 100% solution-dyed acrylic fibers. The fabric breathes, therefore dries quickly, and doesn't trap heat. Colours are long lasting and the material is resistant to mold. Vinyl and plastic awnings are less resilient and have a 'cheap' look.
For motorized awnings, Somfy motors set the standard. These motors will bring years of maintenance and worry free operation of your awning.
Customer Service Begins with First Impressions.
Your impression of the company starts with first contact. Is their website easy to navigate, visually appealing and informative? Does a live person answer the phone? Is that first call informative? When you meet the sales representative at the showroom, or at your home, is he or she professional? Does he or she seem interested in finding what works for your home? A good sales rep will be someone you can trust to guide you through the various options, making sure you are getting the best product for your home or business: the focus being on the solution, not the product.
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Kelsea Ballerini Opens Up About Holding on to the Fan Side of Herself
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Kelsea Ballerini may be a country star on the rise, but first and foremost she's a music fan. And she never wants to lose that side of herself. In a recent interview with Teen Vogue, the 24-year-old chatted about
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Kenny Chesney Breaks Another Attendance Record
Kenny Chesney's Trip Around the Sun Tour is one record-breaking trip. The country superstar took the trek to his hometown of Nashville on Saturday (August 11) and broke the attendance record at the city's Nissan Stadium. Kenny packed 55,182 people
Brad Paisley Gave A Guitar To A Young Boy Mid-Show: See His Touching Post
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Figure 1. IPM Pipe Southern Corn Rust Advisory for August 21, 2014.
I have spent the last several days rating and scouting corn and soybeans in the southern tier of Wisconsin. There are a few active diseases out there to keep track of.
In field corn we have found a few fields with low levels of northern corn leaf blight (NCLB). Levels of NCLB seem to be a bit higher in southwestern Wisconsin. Severity on lower leaves in field corn was in the 10 – 15% range, with no damage apparent on ear leaves. Around the Arlington, WI area, NCLB is very limited with only a few lesions evident every 100 ft. or so.
Eyespot is becoming more evident in field corn. In fields with corn debris from a previous crop, the severity levels are in the 25-30% range on lower leaves and 10-15% on ear leaves.
Low levels of common rust (less than 5%) can also be found on some field corn hybrids in Southern Wisconsin.
Southern rust has been reported as far north as east-central Nebraska. The southern rust epidemic is being monitored closely in the Midwest. No southern rust has been found or reported in Wisconsin (Fig. 1).
For more information about corn diseases in Wisconsin, see my previous article by clicking here.
Several fields with severe epidemics of NCLB on sweet corn have been reported. These were late-planted fields. Sweet corn is generally more susceptible to NCLB than field corn. Common rust and eyespot can also be found at varying levels on sweet corn in the central and southern portion of Wisconsin.
In research plots at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station, sweet corn planted on June 25th is beginning to tassel. Levels of NCLB are currently low in this field, but common rust is increasing rapidly. Some leaves have 20-25% severity. Any late-planted and/or susceptible varieties of sweet corn should be monitored closely for foliar disease and any decision to spray fungicide should be made by the tasseling/R1 growth stage.
The most widespread disease on soybean that we have observed is Septoria brown spot. Overall levels of Septoria brown spot are low, and can mostly only be found on lower leaves, which is typical for this disease. In many cases a fungicide specifically for this disease is not warranted in Wisconsin, unless there are factors that might lead to increased levels of severity, including continuous soybean rotation, very susceptible varieties, or extremely conducive weather. Most soybean fields are past the R3 growth stage , when a fungicide application might be beneficial for control of foliar diseases. However, this disease should be monitored in fields that were planted late.
Downy mildew has also been observed on soybean in various areas from central to southern Wisconsin. Fungicide application for control of this disease has not proven beneficial in university research trials. Therefore, fungicide application is not recommended for this disease under most circumstances. In soybean fields that are irrigated, the frequency between irrigation events should be lengthened in order to reduce the levels of downy mildew. Warmer, dry weather will also further reduce the level of downy mildew.
Figure 2. Damage from white mold in a soybean field under irrigation.
Active white mold has been found in fields in the central and southern portions of Wisconsin. Severity levels vary greatly depending on the fields and level of previous infestation by the white mold fungus. We have observed levels ranging from a few plants in spotty areas of a field to widespread damage with plant mortality across the entire field. The latter case was in a field with a history of white mold and frequent overhead irrigation (Figure 2). Application of fungicide for control of white mold is not recommended after the R3 growth stage. However, fields should be scouted and damage noted to facilitate future planting and management decision in that field. Fields with white mold should be harvested after fields that do not have white mold. The black survival structures (sclerotia; resemble rat droppings) of the white mold fungus can be easily spread on combines from one field to the next. If harvesting white mold infested fields last is not feasible, care should be taken to thoroughly clean combine mechanisms where soybean trash and debris can be trapped, between fields. For more information about white mold and management of the disease, click here. To watch a short video about white mold you can click here.
Other diseases such as brown stem rot, sudden death syndrome, and stem canker have been found at extremely low levels in soybean fields in Wisconsin this season. This situation should be monitored closely as soybeans approach the R6 and R7 growth stages. These two diseases may become more apparent at that time. Again, good record keeping of where these diseases are found can facilitate future management decisions for those fields.


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The prioritization of inequality over poverty is attributed to envy in some cases but more often to a violation of some sense of fairness. But just as we should care not the think of the poor as a single entity, we should be even more cautious not to group the rich or even the super-rich as a single faceless group. Some of the super wealthy have benefited us all, and some have abused the system to their advantage while providing little value. We should distinguish between the rent seekers and the rich who have improved our lives.
Entitlements for the Non Poor
"The data reveal just how far entitlements have departed from their original purpose of providing a measure of security from economic destitution among the elderly, the disabled, and the unemployed and to alleviate poverty among the general population. In 2015, 62 percent of recipient households, encompassing over 100 million U.S. residents, had incomes that were above the poverty line prior to the receipt of assistance. "
Work and Poverty
The left is unable or unwilling to articulate any limitation of the welfare state and unable or unwilling to acknowledge the social costs of long term dependency. Moves to push the recipients to work must recognize and correct the policy…
A Restructuring of Incentives
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Success Measured by Intentions Rather Than Results
William McGurn writes The Poverty Preening of Professor Obama in The Wall Street Journal: Excerpt: Now, leave aside the argument of whether poverty owes more to a lack of government spending or to family structure and other social breakdowns. Truth…
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Compassion without Results
From the October 2014 issue of Hillsdale's Imprimis, William Voegeli writes The Case Against Liberal Compassion Excerpt: It follows, then, that the answer to the question of how liberals who profess to be anguished about other people's suffering can be so…
The Inevitable Failure of Political Solutions
From the Editors of National Review, The Fifty Year War. Excerpts: Trillions of dollars have been spent, and the number of Americans living in poverty is higher today than it was in 1964, while the poverty rate has held steady…
The Poverty Industry
Charles Martin writes in Pajamas Media, The End of Poverty in America: In any case, though, this seems to be a solution in search of a problem, because there is no poverty in America, and I can prove it. According…
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Why Poverty Persists
Ralph Reiland writes A Key Economic Lesson in American Spectator, 1/2/13 Excerpts: In 2012, "the federal government will spend more than $668 billion on at least 126 different programs to fight poverty," in addition to "welfare spending by state and…
Envy vs Freedom
Victor Davis Hanson writes Ripples from the Election in The National Review, 12/11/12. Excerpt: In the new climate of "fat cats," "corporate jet owners," "pay your fair share," "you didn't build that," and "1 percent," the more Americans have, the more…
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The dead pigs kill tons of fish in Saigon River.
Viet Phuoc company in the southern province of Binh Phuoc will be fined VND290 million ($13,000) for polluting the biggest river in Ho Chi Minh City with dead pigs, local police said in a statement Saturday.
The agricultural company was caught throwing hundreds of dead pigs near the upstream of Saigon River, resulting in the death of about two tons of fish.
Water samples taken by the police have shown a number of pollution parameters exceeding regulatory standards. A pig breeding facility of Viet Phuoc has been subsequently suspended for four and a half months, the police said.
The company must also address the pollution within three months and pay VND8 million for collection of waste samples for analysis.
Viet Phuoc's action has triggered serious public concern as environmental issues have been at the center stage of public discourse in Vietnam, especially after the mass fish deaths caused by Taiwanese steel company Formosa in April.
Earlier on July 6, local people in Binh Phuoc discovered an estimated two tons of dead fish upstream of Saigon River. The following week, Binh Phuoc's Police Department and Natural Resources and Environment Department launched an investigation into the cause of the incident.
It's not the first time Viet Phuoc was penalized for polluting the environment. Just last year, the company was fined VND300 million for discharging untreated wastewater down to Saigon River.
Saigon River, 256 km long, is one of the main tributaries of Dong Nai River, flowing into Dong Nai River in Nha Be District. It starts in hill areas of Binh Phuoc Province's Loc Ninh District, which borders Cambodia.
It is the city's main source of water supply, main waterway that facilitates a lot of trade and commerce, and hosts important facilities, including the Saigon Port, a busy container port network, and Thu Thiem Tunnel, one of the longest cross-tunnels in Southeast Asia.


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A warm Small Business event introduction leads to hot contracting success! When Jim DuPont, owner of RescUSA, first was introduced to a PTAC (Procurement Technical Assistance Center), he was attending the Midwest Small Business Government Contracting Symposium. Like every good small business owner, Jim was in attendance to discover new opportunities, make valuable business connections, and grow his overall knowledge. After a brief conversation with Donald Pellico from the Small Business Administration (SBA), Don knew right away that Jim needed to talk to his local PTAC. Since many of the Chicagoland area PTAC's were in attendance, it was not hard for Don to find someone to work with Jim. Jim began working with Amber Gardner and the IL PTAC at College of DuPage at the conference that day, and continues to today.
On their own, RescUSA had already worked on relationships with a few National Guard Bureaus. Contract transactions had been kept small and the company mostly found success in the micro-purchase ($3,500 or less) and SAP thresholds. Once Jim started asking about larger contracts, he was told he needed to be in SAM (the federal government's vendor registration system), but wasn't given much guidance on what to do -enter the need to seek out guidance from someone like the IL PTAC at COD.
Jim had figured a few things out for himself, but there were a few areas where he could use a little assistance. The IL PTAC at COD has walked him through various vendor registrations, gave him tips to help him stand out, and provided solicitation reviews to help him quickly work on submitting proposals for work he felt confident that RescUSA could tackle. After a few proposal submissions and lots of persistence and demonstration of RescUSA's amazing expertise, contract dollars started to come in more steadily. Not everything has gone perfectly, but Jim has the spirit of someone who refuses to give up; something that is a must with contracting and successfully running a small business in general.
Most recently, there was an opportunity in Tel Aviv, Israel to represent Illinois as a DOD (Department of Defense) contractor at the International Defense and HLS Exhibition. There was a rigorous application process and only a few spots available, which Jim applied for with the expert guidance of Zach Person from the IL ITC at COD. Though we would like to brag and say that RescUSA got in, unfortunately, the competition was too fierce and Jim was turned down. Always seeking out ways to improve his company, Jim took the rejection in stride and viewed it as a valuable learning opportunity. Who knows, perhaps this experience will lead to further contract success in the near future. We are certainly rooting for him!
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Historic Women Performers: Alma Rosé, part 2
How Alma Rosé's passion for music and sheer strength of character helped to save many of her fellow musicians in Auschwitz
By Alessandra Barabaschi November 21, 2018
During her time in The Netherlands Alma performed solo or in quartet as much as possible. Anything that she could earn found its way to London, to her father (see part 1). She had been granted permission to leave England for five months and was supposed to return by May 1940 but, encouraged by her success, she let the permit expire. Then on May 15 The Netherlands capitulated to Germany and by the end of June France had also surrendered. Alfred tried to get both Alma and Arnold to the US, but by then quotas had been introduced. Alma was stuck.
By 1941 Alma was facing increasing problems. Not only was it a risk to help a Jew, but she was sometimes difficult to handle and occasionally she seemed not to understand how dangerous her situation was and what sacrifices were made to help her. [1] Marie Anne Tellegen, a member of an eminent Dutch family and a resistance fighter, took Alma under her wing and convinced her that marrying an Aryan was her last chance to get papers to emigrate. The choice fell upon Constant August van Leeuwen Boomkamp, brother of the cellist Jan Carel. [2] The ceremony took place on March 4, 1942, but it was too late – within a couple of months Jews were forbidden to leave the country.
Alma Rosé in around 1941 (left) and an undated picture of her performing. Photos: Gustav Mahler–Alfred Rosé Collection, Music Library, Western University, London, Canada
Alma was arrested in August 1942 and although the prompt intervention of Tellegen got her out of prison within a few hours, the experience appears to have made her realize the gravity of her position. Accordingly, she wrote a brief will in November 1942: 'I direct that my husband will not inherit any of my possessions. I name Miss Marie Anne Tellegen in Utrecht (upon her death or default, Doctor Leonard Barend Willem Jongkees) to arrange my funeral and dispose of my possessions.' [3] (Jongkees was the latest man in her life, a Dutch ENT specialist whom she had met in the summer of 1941.)
On December 13 Alma left her beloved Guadagnini in Jongkees' care and attempted to escape to Switzerland. There are several versions of her journey. According to the most plausible, she left with another Jew at dawn. [4] To keep the route and the people involved safe from infiltrators, Alma and her companion were given one address or the name of a contact at a time. A smuggler helped them to cross the Belgian-Dutch border and after several days of walking they reached Dijon, where they bought false papers to enter Switzerland. But they never managed to leave France. They were arrested on the train to Switzerland and taken to the Gestapo headquarters. It was December 19, 1942.
Alma's friends only found out about her arrest weeks later. Tellegen immediately hired a lawyer to rescue her, but it was too late. On July 18, 1943, Alma and another 999 prisoners boarded Convoy 57 destined for Auschwitz. By the end of the war, only 59 of them would survive. [5] Upon arrival, Convoy 57 went through a Selektion. The ones who passed were admitted to the camp and a number was tattooed on their arms before they were referred to their blocks. Alma received number 50381 and was sent to the infamous Block 10, a kind of guinea-pig lab run by the SS doctor Carl Clauberg. [6] At this point, she apparently asked to play the violin as a last wish. Messages were sent and authorizations requested, while the news spread that she was a famous violinist and the wife of Váša Příhoda. She was given a violin and a chance to play for her life. [7]
The 'Alma Rosé' Guadagnini, 1757 (see history below)
The concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau had two orchestras. Simon Laks, conductor of the men's orchestra, recalled that the deputy commander of the women's camp, Maria Mandl, and that of the men's camp, Johann Schwarzhuber, shared 'a serious but loyal rivalry. Everyone praised the merits of his own camp chapel to the skies.' [8] The members of the women's orchestra lived in Block 12, close to the gas chamber. The band consisted of approximately 20 women of very mixed musical abilities. When Alma was first introduced to the orchestra, the players immediately realized that she could make something good out of them. Mandl promoted her not only to conductor, but surprisingly also to Kapo, a leading position among the prisoners that was rarely given to Jews.
It became essential to Alma that both the inmates and the SS officers should hold 'her' orchestra in high regard. According to her nature, this could only be achieved through discipline and hard work. The Women's Orchestra had two official tasks: firstly, they played a march twice a day to accompany the inmates on their way to and from work, and secondly they held concerts on Sundays. Unofficially they also had to perform for any commander who turned up in their barrack at any time and with any possible musical wish. Alma introduced a strict regime and demanded only the best of her musicians. Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a surviving member of the orchestra recalled: 'We were more afraid of Alma Rosé than of the gas chambers. This forced us to focus on something different, otherwise we would have looked outside and seen the smoke from the crematoria. Instead, we just concentrated on music and were terrified of Alma.' [9]
'I don't think Alma ever realized where she was in Auschwitz. She just kept going making music. She was very strict with us. But now we are very grateful to her' – Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Another inmate, Dr Margita Švalbova, a Slovakian prisoner–physician, described her isolation: 'Alma lived quietly, unnoticed, starving more than the others, saddened. The lifestyle of the camp and its mentality remained alien to her. Alma never fully understood the camp. She lived in another world.' [10] Lasker-Wallfisch shared this view: 'I don't think Alma ever realized where she was in Auschwitz. She just kept going making music. She was very strict with us. But now we are very grateful to her.' [11]
Alma pressured Mandl to make concessions for the orchestra. On her request an iron stove and a piano were brought into the Music Block. Alma's musicians were not forced to work outside the camp like the other inmates, but were allowed to play in their barrack the whole day. She even manage to have them granted a short rest in the afternoon. These were huge privileges.
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch before the war
With Alma as conductor, the repertoire of the orchestra broadened considerably. Besides the usual military marches, chamber music and Viennese waltzes, opera, operetta, foxtrots, Gypsy songs, hits and 'German jazz' were played. The orchestra reached nearly 50 members and Alma tried to save additional lives by recruiting women as copyists or providing them with other tasks related to the orchestra. On more than one occasion, she rescued members of her orchestra who were ill and due to face another Selektion. [12] Alma was proud of her work. She spoke often of her father and made the women promise that whoever survived should visit him in London and tell him about the orchestra. [13] Anita Lasker-Wallfisch kept her promise.
On April 2, 1944, Alma was summoned to the SS office and told that she was soon going to be released from the camp to play for the soldiers at the front. [14] That same evening she attended a birthday celebration for Frau Schmidt, another Kapo. A few hours later she was back 'complaining of a terrible headache and dizziness and suffering shaking seizures.' [15] Mandl arrived with an SS doctor, and Švalbova and several other prisoner–doctors visited her, but none could come up with a diagnosis. Meanwhile, Alma had lost consciousness and her temperature had dropped. A spinal tap to confirm a possible case of meningitis was performed, but the result was negative. Alma finally died on April 5. As no autopsy was performed on her body, the cause of her death is unknown. Over the years several theories spread, [16] but the most plausible is Newman's suggestion that it was botulism resulting from spoiled food, particularly as Frau Schmidt had also been taken ill after the party. [17]
The 'Viotti, Rosé' Stradivari, 1718 (see history below). Photos: Jan Röhrmann courtesy OeNB collection of string instruments
After Alma's death it became clear that she had been not only the conductor but also the soul of the orchestra. A new conductor was appointed, Sonya Winogradowa, but shortly afterwards the Sunday concerts were canceled and the women were given extra work in addition to their orchestra duties. The orchestra was disbanded in October 1944, when the Jewish women were sent to Bergen-Belsen and the non-Jewish to the main camp at Auschwitz.
Alfred was informed of his sister's death on June 22, 1945. He in turn communicated it to his father. The 82-year-old Arnold never recovered from the news. He sold his Stradivari violin before the end of the year and died in August 1946.
When the book Playing for Time by Fania Fénelon, [18] a member of Alma's Auschwitz orchestra, was released and later turned into a movie, several other survivors challenged it. [19] Fénelon portrayed Alma as weak woman, servile towards the SS and senselessly cruel towards the players. Unfortunately, the success of both book and movie contributed to a distorted image of Alma Rosé for several decades and it was only with the publication of Newman's biography in 2000 that a more nuanced picture has emerged of her life and extraordinary character.
Alessandra Barabaschi is an Italian art historian and has authored several books including the four-volume 'Antonius Stradivarius'.
The 'Viotti, Arnold Rosé' Stradivari violin, 1718
This violin is one of a few that belonged to the Italian violinist and composer Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755–1824). Later on, it joined the collection of the English Earl of Crawford until it was presented to Arnold Josef Rosé (1863–1946) by a group of admirers led by Countess Mysa Wydenbruck Esterházy and Princess Pauline Metternich on the occasion of his 50th birthday in 1913. Touched by the gesture, Arnold Rosé gave the violin the name 'Mysa'. [20]
After Rosé sought refuge in England (see part 1), his daughter Alma grew worried that he would consider selling the violin. For this reason, she took the certificates with her when she went to The Netherlands in 1939 and, once she realised that she was trapped there, she sent them to her brother Alfred in the US. After the war Arnold Rosé decided to sell the violin to enable him to join Alfred in America. He played it for the last time on October 2, 1945. The violin reached Emil Herrmann's New York shop around 1947 and was later purchased by the American collector Louis E. Brooks of Marshall, Illinois, who retained possession of it until his death in 1958. The Chicago dealers Kenneth Warren & Son administered the sale of the late Brook's collection and the instrument came then into the possession of L.E. Cooper, [21] before being sold to Robert Mann of the Juilliard Quartet in the 1970s. In 1986 he passed the violin to his son, the violinist Nicholas Mann, founding member of the Mendelssohn Quartet.
In the 1990s Jacques Français sold the instrument for $1 million to a Japanese Bank, who in turn lent it to Anne Akiko Meyers. [22] It is currently part of the collection belonging to the OeNB, Oesterreichische Nationalbank of Vienna, Austria.
The 'Alma Rosé' Guadagnini violin, 1757
Arnold Rosé purchased this violin during one of his tours of The Netherlands in 1924 [23] and passed it on to his daughter Alma. She consigned it to the care of friends when she attempted to flee in 1942 (see above). After her death, Marie Anne Tellegen sent the instrument back to Arnold in London, who sold it after a short time to Hugh Gough, a 'wealthy hotelier […], who had taken violin lessons from Arnold in England.' [24]
Gough sold the violin to Felix Eyle (1899–1988), who had been a fellow student of Alma at the Vienna State Academy of Music and was a former pupil of Arnold Rosé. According to Oestreich, Eyle 'acquired the instrument in 1947, just before becoming a concertmaster at the Metropolitan Opera, where he played until he retired in 1970. "The sound is so heavenly, so gorgeous and powerful, that it goes through anything," Eyle once said of the violin.' [25] Eyle gave the instrument Alma's name. Following his death, his son Nicholas decided to sell the instrument in 2001.
The violin currently belongs to a private owner.
[1] Newman, Richard, Kirtley, Karen, Alma Rosé – Vienna to Auschwitz, Amadeus Press, Portland, 2000, p. 165.
[2] Haas, Michael, From Crossover Star to Survivalist – The Unexpected Transformation of Alma Rosé, Forbidden Music Blog, January 23, 2018.
[3] Newman, Richard, Kirtley, Karen, op. cit., p. 125.
[4] Ibid, pp. 190–195
[5] Ibid, p. 211
[6] Aly, Götz; Heim, Susanne, Vordenker der Vernichtung, Fischer, Frankfurt, 1991, reprint 2013, p. 390.
[7] Instruments of all kinds were available at Auschwitz, as Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a member of the women's orchestra, explained: 'Auschwitz was one of the richest places in the world. All the people who were deported there had only been able to take with them in a hurry what they most cared for. Well, a musician takes his instrument with him. But as soon as they got there, everything was taken away from them.' Doerry, Martin, Nirgendwo und überall zu Haus, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich, 2006, p. 167.
[8] Laks, Simon, Musik in Auschwitz, Boosey & Hawkes, Berlin, 1998, reprint 2014, p. 102.
[9] Herwig, Malte, Der Holocaust war in der Familie nie Thema, interview with Lasker-Wallfisch, Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 21, 2015, pp. 54–61.
[10] Švalbova, Margita, Elf Frauen. Leben in Wahrheit. Eine Ärztin berichtet aus Auschwitz-Birkenau 1942–1945, Plöger Verlag, Annweiler/Essen, 1994, p. 42.
[11] Gessler, Philipp, Musizieren, um zu leben, interview with Lasker-Wallfisch, TAZ, May 25, 2011.
[12] Newman, Richard, Kirtley, Karen, op. cit., pp. 236, 257.
[13] Lasker-Wallfisch, Anita, Ihr sollt die Wahrheit erben, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Hamburg, 2000, reprint 2002, p. 131.
[14] Fénelon, Fania, Das Mädchenorchester in Auschwitz, dtv, Munich, 1981, reprint 1982, p. 231.
[15] Newman, Richard, Kirtley, Karen, op. cit., p. 299.
[16] These included meningitis (Lasker-Wallfisch, Anita, op. cit., p. 140.), typhus (Laks, Simon, op. cit., p. 103.), poisoning (Fénelon, Fania, op. cit., p. 237) and even suicide (Švalbova, Margita, op. cit., p. 52.).
[17] Newman, Richard, Kirtley, Karen, op. cit., pp. 305–306.
[18] Fénelon, Fania, Playing For Time, Syracuse University Press, new edition, 1997.
[19] Bejarano, Esther, Erinnerungen, Laika Verlag, Hamburg, 2013, p. 69; Lasker-Wallfisch, Anita, op. cit., p. 140.
[20] Newman, Richard, Kirtley, Karen, op. cit., p. 43.
[21] Goodkind, Herbert K., Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644–1737, Larchmont, New York, 1972, p. 734.
[22] '# 3085', Jacques Français Stringed Instruments Photo Archive, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington.
[24] Ibid, p. 325.
[25] Oestreich, James R., A Violinist Is Enhanced By a Violin With a History, The New York Times, New York, December 5, 2000.


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Listen: Demarcus Cousins, NBA And Kvant Looney discussed on High Noon
"To get to this point. But I'm healthy enough. Demarcus cousins, so Boesch the warriors put them right back into the rotation when the NBA finals kicks off on Thursday. I mean it depends on what you mean by putting them into the rotation. Like you're not going to ask him to do this Andrew bogut thing where you throw them in there. He plays three minutes, and then he comes out. Kvant looney has actually been playing pretty well for them. They've been pretty good with him on the floor. Are they going to be good? With cousins on the floor. They're gonna be better than they've been going to make them worse. But if you don't put a man who's gonna wanna tell them it ain't gonna be meat. That's the painful part of this is that the markets cousins has been very public about how much this means to him. And there is the part where he says, it'll take an army and a navy Hobie down from playing in this series. But there's the other part two, which is the guy just signed a one year contract and his up on the free agent market immediately after this. So who conveys the message to boogie that you're not gonna play that is dangerous? But I guess, to degree he has to understand that this is what it is. I think he's got to come to some level of terms with this, but we have not seen him play with them long. Enough to have a great answer to the question of whether they're better with him on the floor in the playoffs. It was kinda great. And there were times where he was out there you're like no they need to keep him out of the game at the same time. He's so damn talented even after all of these injuries is hard to think even if the number spell it out that there's not someplace or some role for that guy on any team. My understanding is that he's actually fairly healthy, and you might get some of the old boogie back it simply that the conditions that there. Well, Steve Kerr was talking about how he can't really run up and down the floor. Bo. So if you're the warriors, are you really that confident where you can rehab guy during the NBA final? Also you talking about him coming back in the old boogie. All this talk about your democracy and how you love all the ball movement. How's that worked with the markets, even like when he came back for them during the regular season? He was back out there like thirty plus usage rate that right? I don't really know how to be just another dude on the floor. No, I would be extremely concerned that what he represented what he brings his really add. Memorable and really fun to have around except it's not right now. Not right now man, I'm sorry. Not right now. Give me thing going here. Kevin Durant right now looking at you like it. I just don't bury scared of them scare well. One of one of his scared whoa champion. Queen Mother got us. Those"
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In its edition of September 26 2014, The Cameroonian newspaper Le Quotidien de l'Economie, reported that Viettel's request for an extension of its exclusivity on the provision of 3G services until 2016 has been turned down by the Cameroonian Government. The Agence de régulation des télécommunications (ART) has reportedly authorised MTN Cameroon and Orange Cameroon to offer 3G services from 2015, indicating that Viettel's application to extend its monopoly was rejected.
Granted in 2012, the monopoly over 3G infrastructure and services was put in place to allow the new player to catch up with its competitors in the broadband market, Viettel failed to deploy the 3G infrastructure and asked the Presidency for an extension of its monopoly until 2016. The regulated monopoly over 3G services had created a regulatory barrier for the development of fast and affordable broadband services in the country by the incumbent operators. For consumers, the widespread use of 3G to all operators can only be beneficial. The quality of services will evolve and prices will certainly decline due to a competitive market. In Central Africa, Cameroon will join the group of countries such as Chad and Gabon where 3G is already effective.
Fear over the extended monopoly over 3G infrastructures and services was raised in the June 2014 policy brief on broadband prices and performance in Cameroon by Research ICT Africa. It brought to the Cameroonian Presidency's attention that the growth of affordable and real broadband services were impeded by poor policy decisions in the country. RIA found out that in comparison to most African countries, Cameroon lagged behind in the deployment of 3G services due to protectionist policies, which granted Viettel a monopoly over 3G infrastructure and services and prevented the two other operators MTN Cameroon and Orange Cameroon from providing efficient mobile broadband services. RIA research established that the policy outcome of the regulated monopoly over 3G services was not only high prices of mobile data but also the lowest throughput on the African continent, which did not go beyond 2.5G speeds. RIA policy brief recommended to the Agence de régulation des télécommunications (ART) the need to license the two incumbent mobile operators to provide 3G services in order to remedy this outcome.


This Shiraz based blend is deep ruby red in colour, with aromas of plum, blackberry and spice, along with subtle hints of typical earthiness and leather on the nose. A smooth texture on the balanced palate and a pleasant finish.
Fratelli means 'brothers' in Italian and three sets of brothers from Italy and India have combined their passion and desire to produce wines made in India, following Italian traditions. Their passion, love and hard work have resulted in the creation of Fratelli Wines, a modern winery located in Akluj in the Solapur district. The winery holds 58 tanks of varying capacities in which they make the wines from their own estate. The estate vineyards cover 97 hectares, across three different sites at Motewadi, Garwad and Nimgaon. The vineyards have been planted with 13 different grape varieties imported from France. The viticultural and winemaking expertise has been provided by Piero Masi, a master winemaker from Tuscany and creator of the famous 'Chianti Classico Casa Sola'. The rest of the world is now invited to taste the resulting wines.
The grapes for this wine come from Plot E and B in Garwar. The vineyard is located at 548 metres above sea level and sits on rocky, sandy soils that are alkaline in composition. Trained according to the Vertical Shoot Positioning (VSP) system, the vines are planted to a density of 4000 plants per hectare, with a north-south orientation. The grapes are carefully harvested by hand in the mornings between 7am and 11am, before the heat of the day, to retain the natural freshness in the berries.
The two varieties were fermented separately at controlled temperatures of between 20 and 25°C in stainless steel for between 10 to 15 days. Once the fermentation had completed, the two wines were blended and then aged in stainless steel tanks for a period of six months, preserving the fruity characteristics of the blend.
Ideal with Indian spicy dishes such a Lamb biryani, a Thai beef stir-fry or an Aubergine Parmigiana.


I had the thought that today's blog could be titled "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" because of the strange juxtaposition of radiation news (and the tale of deformed dandelions), with the enlightening We Are All Fukushima report, the praying mantis story, and words of wisdom from Abraham….
"I am a retired biologist who used to work in radiation biology. Just wanted to share with you what we've been doing lately. We live in the mid-Atlantic area of the U.S. We have a Geiger counter and have been testing daily for radiation (am and pm) since the Fukushima incident. Since March 11, our numbers normally are 25-30 cpm inside and 31-35 cpm outside (Geiger counter sits at an open window). This is within background radiation numbers. When it rains, the numbers rise to about 35 cpm for inside and 40 cpm for outside. Our grass reads around 50 cpm. I noticed today after I did some weeding (sunny day) and washing my hands that they read around 50 cpm. I had to wash them 3-4 times before the reading went down.
"Also noticed a couple of dandelions looking abnormal (their stems were twice as thick as others and heads were joined). Never saw that before.
"We had ordered kelp granules from the company Maine Coast three weeks ago. We typically use kelp in our foods, and this was a bigger order than usual because of the nuclear incident. Just got the shipment today! We tested the bags of kelp for radiation and they tested 182 cpm! We called the company but they had their answering machine on, stating that they won't be open until April 25th because they're doing inventory. We plan to return the kelp! Noticed the expiration date is April 16, 2013, which makes us wonder if they filled the order after the Fukushima incident (maybe April 16, 2011?).
It does a good job of giving an expanded overview of current society, the world situation, and the cultural and spiritual causes of the Fukushima disaster.
# 3 – Here's a sweet little parable in the form of a bushman story, by way of Bocarus….
Once upon a time a praying mantis had a dream. When she woke up she wondered how she could make her dream come true. The next night the praying mantis again had the same dream. When she woke up she again wondered how she could make her dream come true.
This went on night after night and day after day. Eventually one day she decided to ask all the praying mantises to dream the same dream. That night all the praying mantises indeed dreamed the same dream. When they woke up, lo and behold! Their dream had come true. The praying mantis learned that for a dream to come true, it must be a collective dream.
May we together dream a new world into being.
We practice the Art of Allowing. Which means reaching for the thought that feels best, not the thought that is the real thought, not the thought that is telling it like it is. Telling it like it is only holds you where it is: "Damn it, I'm going to tell it like it is. I'm going to tell it like it is, because everybody wants me to tell it like it is." Tell it like it is if you like it like it is. But if you don't like it like it is, then don't tell it like it is—tell it like you want it to be. If you tell it like you want it to be long enough, you will begin to feel it like you want it to be. And when you feel it like you want it to be, it be's like you want it to be.
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Success in the Assisted Living Industry relies on your ability to meet the diverse health care needs of your residents. It demands that you address medical and functional needs as unique and varied as the individuals themselves. Understanding the depth of this challenge is why The Marden Companies, a leader in ancillary health care services, developed Marden Solutions™ for the Assisted Living Industry.
With Marden Solutions™, your assisted living business gains the marketing and service attributes of a Medicare Certified, total service, single-source health care provider and staffing agency. You will never again face a piecemeal approach to managing the needs of your residents and business, and you will gain significant cost, marketing and administrative advantages.
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Franklin is een plaats (city) in de Amerikaanse staat Ohio, en valt bestuurlijk gezien onder Warren County.

Demografie
Bij de volkstelling in 2000 werd het aantal inwoners vastgesteld op 11.396.
In 2006 is het aantal inwoners door het United States Census Bureau geschat op 12.695, een stijging van 1299 (11.4%).

Geografie
Volgens het United States Census Bureau beslaat de plaats een oppervlakte van
24,2 km², waarvan 23,6 km² land en 0,6 km² water. Franklin ligt op ongeveer 213 m boven zeeniveau.

Plaatsen in de nabije omgeving
De onderstaande figuur toont nabijgelegen plaatsen in een straal van 12 km rond Franklin.

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Our group is exploring applications of optical microcavities in the fields of solid state quantum optics, optical sensing, microscopy, spectroscopy, and optomechanics.
One of the central goals is to enhance light-matter interactions to realize efficient light-matter interfaces at the single quantum level, and to enable novel schemes for spectroscopy and sensing. We employ and further develop fiber-based Fabry-Perot microcavities, which combine microscopic mode volumes with exceptionally high quality factors, and at the same time offer open access for a variety of samples.
We investigate cavity-enhanced optical readout of a single rare earth ion spin.
Rare earth ions provide exceptional optical and hyperfine coherence, which makes them promising candidates for quantum information applications, ranging from quantum memories and quantum computing nodes to quantum-nonlinear optics. However, the dipole-forbidden nature of the narrow transitions results in ultra-low emission rates, limiting most experiments to macroscopic ensembles. We want to gain efficient access to individual ions and small ensembles by coupling them to a high finesse optical microcavity. Purcell enhancement can boost the emission rate by several orders of magnitude, thereby making the weak transitions bright and enabling efficient state readout. We use microcavities based on laser-machined optical fibers as mirror substrates, which combine high finesse with small mode cross sections and full tunability.
The fiber-opposing planar mirror incorporates the rare-earth ion doped nanocrystals in the cavity (Fig.1). Addressing of individual ions is achieved in the spectral domain via a stabilized, narrowband laser. This scheme makes use of the large ratio between the broad inhomogeneous crystal linewidth versus a narrow homogeneous single ion linewidth (Fig.2) opening up the possibility to have efficient access to possibly thousands of qubits contained in one cavity mode.
Building a long distance quantum network is one of the big challenges in the field of quantum communication, which requires the development of a quantum repeater. A crucial component of this is an efficient, coherent spin photon interface, and coupling single color centers in diamond to a microcavity is a promising approach therefore. In our experiments, we integrate a diamond membrane to an open access fiber-based Fabry-Perot microcavity [Heupel et al., Micromachines 2020] to attain emission enhancement into a single well-collectable mode as well as spectral filtering. Simulations predict the feasibility of a strong enhancement of the Zero-Phonon-Line (ZPL) emission efficiency, reaching values of up to 80%. We have performed spatially resolved characterizations of different coupled cavity-membrane devices and observed significant effects of the diamond membrane on the cavity mode properties [Körber et al]. We have also integrated such devices in a cryogenic environment and achieved highest mechanical stability for operation under resonance conditions [in preparation].
The detection and characterization of individual non-fluorescent nanosystems with high temporal resolution could provide new insights into their intrinsic properties and dynamics. To achieve the high sensitivity required for studying individual unlabelled nanosystems in solution, we use signal enhancement in a fiber-based Fabry-Perot microcavity with high finesse (F~105 ), which is integrated into a microfluidic channel. The presence and dynamics of a nanoobject in the tight focus of the cavity mode (w0 ~1μm) can be detected via the induced frequency shift and decrease of amplitude of the resonant cavity transmission signal, resulting from the excess polarizability of the object. For smaller nanoobjects, the sensitivity can be increased by the active stabilization of the cavity length and the interferometric measurement of the phase shift induced by the nanoparticle (homodyne detection). Shifting the signal to a higher frequency (heterodyne detection) leads to a further increase of the sensitivity.
Besides the determination of the size and the refractive index of the nannoobject, also their position can be tracked by changing the cavity length at high frequency and measuring the resonance frequency and linewidth of several transverse modes of the cavity. Due to the different radial shape of cavity transverse modes, this yields information about the spatial position of the nanoobjects, allowing us to track the position with high temporal resolution. [Kohler et al., Nature Commun. (2021)]
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) offer an intriguing combination of optical, electronic, and mechanical properties. We develop different techniques of cavity-enhanced spectroscopy to characterize individual CNTs. The figure shows exemplary spatially resolved, cavity-enhanced Raman spectroscopy to obtain spatial maps of molecular-fingerprint information (right image). At the same time, cavity-enhanced absorption microscopy allows us to quantitatively determine the extinction cross section (left image). Investigation of the details of Raman modes gives insight into electronic and structural properties. (Hümmer et al., Nature Commun. (2016)). In a different direction, localized excitons in CNTs can be useful as quantum light source. We work on the Purcell enhancement of telecom single photon emission from chemically functionalized CNTs.
We study strong light-matter coupling of excitons in transition metal dichalcogenides placed in a tunable microcavity
Atomically thin crystals of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) host excitons with strong binding energies and sizable light-matter interactions. Coupled to optical cavities, monolayer TMDs routinely reach the regime of strong light-matter coupling, where excitons and photons admix coherently to form quasiparticles known as polaritons up to room temperature. We explore the two-dimensional nature of TMD polaritons with cavity-assisted hyperspectral imaging. We record a spatial map of polariton properties of extended WS2 monolayers coupled to a tunable micro cavity in the strong coupling regime, and correlate it with maps of exciton extinction and fluorescence taken from the same flake with the cavity. We find a high level of homogeneity, and show that polariton splitting variations are correlated with intrinsic exciton properties such as oscillator strength and linewidth. Moreover, we observe a deviation from thermal equilibrium in the resonant polariton population, which we ascribe to non-Markovian polariton-phonon coupling. Our measurements reveal a promisingly consistent polariton landscape, and highlight the importance of phonons for future polaritonic devices. [Gebhardt et al., Sci. Rep. (2019)]
Analogous concepts for hybrid light-matter systems employing spatially indirect excitons with a permanent electric dipole moment in heterobilayer crystals promise realizations of exciton-polariton gases and condensates with inherent dipolar interactions. Here, we implement cavity-control of interlayer excitons in vertical MoSe2-WSe2 heterostructures. Our experiments demonstrate the Purcell effect for heterobilayer emission in cavity-modified photonic environments, and quantify the light-matter coupling strength of interlayer excitons. The results will facilitate further developments of dipolar exciton-polariton gases and condensates in hybrid cavity – van der Waals heterostructure systems. [Förg et al., Nature Commun. (2019)]
Improving the sensitivity of optical microscopy could give access to the optical properties of a large class of interesting nanoscale systems on a single particle level. To boost sensitivity, we are developing a novel scanning microscopy technique that harnesses multiple interactions of probe light with an object. This is realized by placing the sample inside a high-finesse optical microcavity, which provides a signal enhancement on the order of the cavity Finesse (104 – 105). Raster-scanning the sample through the cavity mode enables us to obtain spatial maps of sample absorption, dispersion, and birefringence of individual nanoparticles.
The method should enable e.g. the spectroscopic characterization of individual nanoparticles, dispersive sensing with high spatial resolution, and the detection of non-fluorescent single molecules. [Mader et al., Nature Commun (2015), Hümmer et al., Nature Commun. (2016), Mader et al., ACS Photonics (2022)].


Baker, L.R.; Muir, J.W.; Sharman, V.L.; Abrams, S.M.; Greenwood, R.N.; Cattell, W.R.; Goodwin, F.J.; Marsh, F.P.; Adami, S.; Hately, W.
We report on a 5-year, prospective, double-blind trial of 1,25 dihydroxycholecalciferol (calcitriol) versus placebo in 76 hemodialysis patients without biochemical or radiological evidence of bone disease. Calcitriol, 1 microgram daily, regularly induced hypercalcemia. Doses of 0.25 microgram daily or less proved satisfactory in most patients. During calcitriol treatment, plasma calcium concentration was significantly higher and serum parathyroid hormone concentration significantly lower than on placebo. There was no difference in the rates of development or of progression of vascular calcification in the two groups. Significantly more patients on placebo (17 vs. 6, p less than 0.05) developed a sustained elevation of plasma alkaline phosphatase concentration. Calcitriol appeared to protect against the development of histological evidence of osteitis fibrosa but not of osteomalacia, but accumulation of aluminum in bone occurred during the study. We conclude that calcitriol delays and may prevent the development of osteitis fibrosa in patients receiving regular hemodialysis and may reasonably be prescribed routinely in hemodialysis patients without biochemical or radiological abnormality, unless there is a substantial prospect of early renal transplantation.


Sounds delicious.....Gourmet Chocolate holds chocolates and gifts online.
Thanks for the shout out. When are you gonna get on the food blog as an honourary member?
Send me an email (kibabin@gmail.com) and i will invite you.
All the dishes sound so good. Indian restaurants here don't come close at least not the ones in the suburbs.
Haven't had good Rabri for so long.
@ sig: Thanks! Yes, the Chengdu Claypot Chiken is awesome!
@sandeepa: Yeah, this is probably the only place I find great rabdi now; for those who didn't get it, "matir bhar" is bengali for earthern bowls, and called "kullad" in Hindi.
@velverse: Welcome to my blog!
Mainland China in Delhi: Wow!
I don't know much about Pune, but those cookies! Damn I could eat one right now!
Hey, thanks for the meme! This will be my first one - can't wait to participate!!
Shantanu,is it possible for you to fwd me ur email address, needed some advice(if that's not too much trouble)???
Thanks for the meme, sorry I'm late in returning the favor!
So I finally got to it and finished the meme. Thanks again!
Just visited Pune for first time, and took your recommendation for Sigree - great meal and atmosphere, many thanks!! Will check out some other recommendatiosn over time as i will be here a lot over next few months. Any more "basic" recommendations?
@allank: You are welcome! Pune's food options are growing every day. For Indian food, Chingari at the Le Meridian is expensive but good. Whispering Bamboo at the Taj Blue Diamond is great for Chinese food. Koregaon Park has a lot of smaller restaurants and lounges/bars for the evenings (Malaka Spice for South-east Asian cuisine, Arther's Theme for Frnch food with a twist, High Spirits for and Indyaki for drinks).
All these wonderful options are not doing any good to my waistline!!!
Hi SG, Thanks for the info about Bombay Brasserie. Till now I have trusted Sigri and Kwality for north indian food. Yes, Sigri but never ventured into Bombay Brasserie! but I wonder why the table layout in Bombay Brasserie looks so similar to Sigri.
@windchill: Heh! Unfair isn't it?
The writer of www.shantanughosh.com has written a superior article. I got your point and there is nothing to argue about. It is like the following universal truth that you can not disagree with: Nothing is ever as simple as it first appears I will be back.


Evaluating individuals' personality traits and intelligence from their faces plays a crucial role in interpersonal relationship and important social events such as elections and court sentences.To assess the possible correlations between personality traits (also measured intelligence) and face images,we first construct a dataset consisting of face photographs,personality measurements,and intelligence measurements.Then,we build an end-to-end convolutional neural network for prediction of personality traits and intelligence to investigate whether self-reported personality traits and intelligence can be predicted reliably from a face image.To our knowledge,it is the first work where deep learning is applied to this problem.Experimental results show the following three points:1)"Rule-consciousness" and "Tension" can be reliably predicted from face images.2) It is difficult,if not impossible,to predict intelligence from face images,a finding in accord with previous studies.3) Convolutional neural network (CNN) features outperform traditional handcrafted features in predicting traits.
GB/T 7714 Zhang, Ting,Qin, Rizhen,Dong, Qiulei,et al. Physiognomy: Personality Traits Prediction by Learning[J]. International Journal of Automation and Computing,2017,14(4):386-395.
APA Zhang, Ting,Qin, Rizhen,Dong, Qiulei,Gao, Wei,Xu, Huarong,&Hu, Zhanyi.(2017).Physiognomy: Personality Traits Prediction by Learning.International Journal of Automation and Computing,14(4),386-395.
MLA Zhang, Ting,et al."Physiognomy: Personality Traits Prediction by Learning".International Journal of Automation and Computing 14.4(2017):386-395.


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Q: error: cannot convert const string to const char* for argument 1 to size_t strlen(const char*) I'm pretty new to C++ and am very confused as to what is happening here. The error is the line int len = strlen(strin);. Any suggestions how to fix this would be much appreciated.
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A: strlen knows nothing about std::string. It is a C function that returns the length of a null-terminated string.
Fortunately std::string knows its own length. Try this instead:
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Light and spacious office/studios, with good natural light. This is a newly refurbished character building with a great atmosphere and feel-good factor. The space is converted from a traditional East London warehouse, with high eaves and trusses. The refurbishment is to a very high standard. Features include high speed Broadband, door entry system and CCTV.
Location is Kingsland Road E8, Hackney just 10 minutes from Liverpool Street station, less than 1 minute walk to Haggerston station (Overground) East London LineTesco, cash point, and bus stops.


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Borders Close To Bankruptcy
Posted by Jack Getze on February 2, 2011 at 1:31pm in The Main Bar
The struggling bookstore chain Borders Group Inc. may file for bankruptcy as early as next week, Bloomberg News and other reports said on Tuesday.
Citing three unnamed sources close to the matter, the Bloomberg report also said that of its 500 namesake book stores and 175 Waldenbooks stores, Borders will close about 150 of its locations.
Last week, Borders, which is the second-largest bookstore chain in the US after competitor Barnes & Noble, received $550 million in financing from General Electric Capital and announced it would put off payments to certain debtors in an attempt to stay afloat ahead of a potential bankruptcy filing.
Experts have pointed to Borders' late adoption of electronic books and the bookstore chain's reluctance to embrace technological changes as reasons for the company's struggles.
Permalink Reply by Robin Jarossi on February 12, 2011 at 10:12pm
I was not a big fan of Borders in the UK, but was still sorry to see it close. All that is left now is Waterstone's, which I find a terrible shop, only selling the most heavily marketed new books around. If you want an Alistair MacLean or Len Deighton novel, forget it. As far as Waterstone's is concerned, they don't exist.
Mark is right. If you want anything cultish or just from the 90s or 80s, the mega-chain doesn't have it. The joy of wandering into a bookshop and discovering a novel is disappearing. Perhaps the best last hope of doing that is Foyle's in London. They still have a very good crime section.
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Permalink Reply by Jack Getze on February 12, 2011 at 11:40pm
The WSJ reports Borders will file chapter 11 bankrupcy ion Monday.
Someone will buy the chain and close many stores, but most will stay up under a new reorganization. They could even call it Borders again. Who knows?
When I was a kid in the late 50s and 60s, every town had a record shop. We would go down on the weekend and buy rock and roll records, maybe even meet some touring star like Johnny Cash.
I have a hunch book stores are going the same way as the record store.
Permalink Reply by Frank Gates on February 13, 2011 at 12:47pm
This was quoted in the Japanese newspaper yesterday. My wife used to be a manager of Whitcoulls which owns Borders in NZ. Both chains are struggling to get sales.
Permalink Reply by EDWARD C MORGAN on February 14, 2011 at 11:25am
Yes, but like "record shops", there will be some bookstores with owners who are creative, hard-working, and manage to carve out a niche. Heck, here in Nashville, there are two "record shops" that sell vinyl only! Don't know how well they do, but they've been there for eons.


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Microphyt Raises €28.5 Million to Develop Its Portfolio of Microalgae-based Natural Solutions for Nutrition and Well-being
BAILLARGUES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 9, 2019--
Microphyt, a leading company in microalgae-based natural solutions for nutrition and well-being, announced a fundraising of €28.5 million (US$32 million). This investment was co-led by Sofinnova Partners and BPI France via the SPI fund ("Sociétés de projets industriels") managed as part of the "Programme d'investissements d'avenir", together with IXO-Private Equity and Sofilaro. The existing investors, Supernova Invest, Demeter Partners and Irdi Soridec, renew their confidence in the company by participating in this new round. The funds will be used to accelerate the development of the product portfolio, expand sales network globally, as well as to increase production capacity of Microphyt's industrial platform.
In nutrition and wellbeing, consumer demand for natural, effective, safe and sustainably produced solutions is booming. The world market for ingredients for these markets, represents more than US$ 70 billion with a share of natural ingredients (US$ 5 billion) that shows the strongest growth (8% per year). Among the natural ingredients, microalgae best meet consumer expectations thanks to their natural diversity, offering richness of molecules that can be produced in a close-controlled and sustainable way.
Since 2009, Microphyt has developed a proprietary production technology that makes it possible to access this diversity while guaranteeing a high level of control and standardization. This patented process, developed in-house, solves the usual drawbacks of microalgae production. It is based on 5,000-litre tubular photobioreactors, which offer both high differentiation potential (access to a new diversity of species) and the ability to supply natural active ingredients in an industrial and standardized way. This technology, operated within an industrial production platform, has already made it possible to establish several commercial partnerships with key players in the sector.
Microphyt has also launched the development of new products that contribute to improving the well-being of the elderly, preventing certain metabolic disorders, facilitating an active lifestyle and protecting the skin from various stresses. A portfolio of 10 nutritional active ingredients and 20 cosmetic active and functional ingredients is being developed. To achieve this, Microphyt will strengthen its team and will significantly increase its ingredient production capacity over the next 18 months.
"This new round is a major milestone in our development and we are pleased that recognized investors in the sector such as Sofinnova Partners and Bpifrance are joining us alongside our existing investors to accelerate our development and internationalization," said Vincent Usache, CEO of Microphyt . "For several years now, Microphyt was actively committed to unlocking the full potential of microalgae amazing diversity through our unique technology platform. With this funding, we will speed up the development and supply of novel natural products that solve the key challenges of Nutrition & Well-being".
"Microphyt is exactly the type of company that Sofinnova Partners is looking for as a pioneering investor in industrial biotechnology: thanks to its proprietary technology platform and unique production capacity that allows access to the exceptional biodiversity of microalgae, the company is in an ideal position to become one of the world leaders in natural ingredients dedicated to nutrition and well-being," says Denis Lucquin, Managing Partner of Sofinnova Partners .
"Microphyt's innovations are also based on an innovative industrial project," explains Jean Philippe Richard, Investment Director of the SPI Fund of Bpifrance . "We share this ambition to develop a leading industrial production site in France and to create a European leader with a global vocation. The site will offer multi-product production with high added value while implementing environmentally friendly processes.
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University of Central Florida student Josh Green was swimming alone at Cocoa Beach last Thursday, May 7, when a shark grabbed onto his leg and immediately received a rapid succession of swift, accurate and powerful punches to its shark face.
The incident happened at around 3 p.m.
According to Green, it is believed the shark was a 4- or 5-foot blacktip shark.
"I didn't realize it was a shark until I punched it, thinking it was someone messing with me and then felt the face," Green told Knight News. "Everybody wanted to tan so I just went out by myself. I was riding with the waves and body surfing when out of nowhere I feel something grab my leg and yank," Green said.
Green unloaded a series of punches into the shark's face, swam himself to shore and later received a total of 18 stitches in his calf, foot and ankle. He's expected to fully recover.


Paul Needham's Blog: a too big digg?
As Forbes reports, the uber-cool techie news site digg.com, is really taking off. If you're unfamiliar with it, check it out. There is plenty of chatter about digg.com in the blogosphere.
Will digg survive its popularity, or be a victim of its own success? digg users are asking themselves this very question, as the community undergoes some growing pains. Indeed, Yahoo!'s new darling, del.icio.us was down this morning, some suspect due to its very popularity.
digg need not remain the exclusive domain of the techno elite. digg's innovative social system for finding and sorting useful information (news in particular) can and should be extended to a broader audience. After all, there are "elite" in every domain of knowledge and digg's system of inviting users to submit, and more importantly, rate incoming content is an idea that transports nicely.
digg's users are their own editors - and most agree that the wisdom of the crowd is working pretty well.
Yet digg seems pretty narrowly focused on its current community - not a bad thing. It may be difficult for them to move into very many other content areas. So, if digg won't put all the world's newspaper editors out of work, who will?
Judging from the comments on digg.com, some people are quite concerned that the community will be co-opted. And rightly so. Marketers are always dreaming up new ways to inject themselves into otherwise authentic communication.
Forbes, however, is NOT an uber-cool tech site! Daniel Lyons (writer for Forbes) attacks Groklaw at every opportunity in any article that's related (or unrelated) to it.. he also authored an article called "Attack of the Blogs" in an attempt to discredit them in general.
I quote: "Web logs are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective. "


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6 (1) For the purpose of enabling national action to be carried out and taking cooperative action in matters affecting the environment and for the purpose of avoiding duplication in regulatory activity among governments, the Minister shall establish a National Advisory Committee
(a) to advise the Ministers on regulations proposed to be made under subsection 93(1);
(b) to advise the Minister on a cooperative, coordinated intergovernmental approach for the management of toxic substances; and
(c) to advise the Minister on other environmental matters that are of mutual interest to the Government of Canada and other governments and to which this Act relates.
Marginal note:Precautionary principle
(1.1) In giving its advice and recommendations, the Committee shall use the precautionary principle.
Marginal note:Composition of Committee
(2) The Committee shall consist of the following members:
(a) one representative for each of the Ministers;
(b) one representative of the government of each of the provinces; and
(c) subject to subsection (3), not more than six representatives of aboriginal governments, to be selected on the following regional basis,
(i) one representative for all aboriginal governments, except Inuit, in Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick,
(ii) one representative for all aboriginal governments, except Inuit, in Quebec,
(iii) one representative for all aboriginal governments, except Inuit, in Ontario,
(iv) one representative for all aboriginal governments, except Inuit, in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut,
(v) one representative for all aboriginal governments, except Inuit, in British Columbia and Yukon, and
(vi) one representative for all Inuit aboriginal governments.
Marginal note:Provincial representatives
(2.1) The representative of a provincial government shall be selected by that government.
Marginal note:Aboriginal representatives
(2.2) Subject to subsection (3), the representative of aboriginal governments shall be selected by the aboriginal governments he or she represents.
Marginal note:Inuit aboriginal representatives
(2.3) Subject to subsection (3), the representative of Inuit aboriginal governments shall be selected by those governments.
Marginal note:Absence of aboriginal government
(3) Where there is no Inuit aboriginal government or aboriginal government for a region referred to in any of subparagraphs (2)(c)(i) to (v), the representative of the Inuit or of aboriginal people for the region, as the case may be, may be selected in accordance with regulations made under subsection (4).
Marginal note:Regulations
(4) The Minister may make regulations respecting the manner of selecting a representative under subsection (3).
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Overview of EPCRA regulations, including Tier I/II and TRI reporting requirements.
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Why: Reps can control who can access which email templates and how, based on the settings of the email template folder.
To change the sharing settings, click Share on the Email Templates page or while editing a folder.
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Natalia Porras
Natalia is a junior from California. At Georgetown, she is majoring in linguistics; minoring in education, inquiry, and justice; and throwing 175 grams of plastic with the women's ultimate team.
Georgetown gutted, falls to Santa Clara in second round of NCAA tournament
After a season with so much promise, Georgetown women's soccer fell to Santa Clara 2-1 in overtime on Friday.
By Natalia Porras	November 19, 2021
WNBA star and Georgetown legend Sugar Rodgers comes home to the Hilltop
Hoya Sugar Rodgers brings a wealth of personal and professional experience to her new role as assistant coach of the women's basketball team.
By Hayley Salvatore and Natalia Porras	November 6, 2021
This Week in Soccer: October 4 – October 10
Another good week for the Hoyas, as both teams remain undefeated. Defense was the key, as both teams recorded shutouts and Sydney Cummings, Allie Augur, and Will Sands won weekly awards.
By Natalia Porras	October 12, 2021
When soccer and disaster collide
On March 17, 2011, a record 9.0 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered a tsunami that led to the biggest nuclear meltdown since Chernobyl. Months later, the unlikely... Read more
By Natalia Porras	September 10, 2021
On the defensive: Women's soccer brings experience, joy to the pitch
Only three months after the conclusion of last season, the Georgetown women's soccer team is back on the field. They return as defending Big East Conference champions and Sweet 16... Read more
By Natalia Porras	August 19, 2021
Georgetown Women's Soccer Wins Big East Title in Overtime Against Butler
The Georgetown women's soccer team (11-0-1, 8-0-1 Big East) won the Big East Tournament championship against Butler University (10-2-0, 6-2-0 Big East), 2-1 in overtime. The teams met Sunday on... Read more
By Natalia Porras	April 18, 2021
Georgetown Wins in Overtime Against Connecticut
Georgetown women's soccer (7-0-0, 5-0-0 Big East) continued their winning season against the University of Connecticut (4-2-1, 2-2-1 Big East) on Shaw Field in rainy conditions on Thursday. Senior Jenna... Read more
By Natalia Porras	March 18, 2021
America Ferrera to add to the growing selection of US Latinx coming-of-age films
Coming-of-age movies have long been a staple of Hollywood; however, they are dominated by White people on both sides of the camera. Girls of all backgrounds deserve to see themselves... Read more
By Natalia Porras	March 5, 2021
Georgetown Women's Soccer Beats Seton Hall in Big East Opener
The Georgetown University women's soccer team (3-0-0, 1-0-0 Big East) beat Seton Hall University (1-0-1, 0-0-1 Big East) 4-0 at Shaw Field on Thursday. The match, which marked the start... Read more
Georgetown scores resounding win against George Washington
The Georgetown women's soccer team (2-0-0, 0-0-0 Big East) was dominant in their 4-0 win against George Washington University (0-0-1, 0-0-0 Atlantic 10) on Sunday despite wet conditions. The Hoyas... Read more


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IISS Launches North Korea Nuke Study
4 Jun 2011 By WENDELL MINNICK DefenseNews
SINGAPORE - North Korea's third nuclear test will likely be a highly enriched uranium (HEU) bomb, and neither China nor the United States can stop or reverse Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.
These are the conclusions of a new study by Jonathan Pollack, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, at a book launch at the Shangri-La Dialogue on June 3 in Singapore.
"No Exit: North Korea, Nuclear Weapons and International Security" looks at how North Korea has staked its future on the development of nuclear weapons and why the hermit nation will never surrender them.
Organized by the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), the book launch is part of the 10th Asia Security Summit, dubbed The Shangri-La Dialogue, being held June 3-5 in Singapore. The book is part of IISS Adelphi book series that looks at international defense and security issues.
North Korea conducted two underground plutonium bomb tests in 2006 and 2009, and has been developing advanced long-range ballistic missile capabilities that could someday threaten the continental U.S.
Pollack looks at why North Korea disregards United Nations censure and openly circumvents sanctions by selling weapons and technology to other pariah nations to fund its nuclear program.
North Korea is more of a traditional Korean dynasty and not a communist state, Pollack said. The Kim family has successfully ignored efforts by China and the U.S. to influence it to abandon its nuclear program and adopt capitalist reforms. Instead, the Kim family has created an "impregnable fortress" that protects the family dynasty.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and China's push towards improved relations with South Korea during the 1980s and 1990s, North Korea became concerned that its traditional protectors would abandon it. The only course of action was to create a mechanism that guaranteed its survivability. Nuclear weapons have clearly served that purpose well, he said.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton once referred to North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons as a "small child seeking attention." Pollack does not believe this is the correct analogy. "This is a system of old men who have made the pursuit of these capabilities their life time work." He pointed out that North Korea made a conscious decision to begin a nuclear program in the 1970s, as ties between Beijing and Washington began improving.
Despite the fact that North Korea occasionally "drops hints" the nuclear program is a "bargaining chip" that can be exchanged for rice and oil, the reality is that Pyongyang has no intention of surrendering the capability.
The best course of action, Pollack said, is to continue sanctions and other pressure that slows further development, especially efforts by the North to miniaturize a nuclear warhead for fitting on a ballistic missile.
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Time of delivery and neonatal morbidity and mortality
Aaron B. Caughey, Adam C. Urato, Kathryn A. Lee, Mari Paule Thiet, A. Eugene Washington, Russell K. Laros
Objective: The objective of the study was to examine the association between time of delivery and neonatal outcomes in term deliveries. Study Design: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of all term pregnancies delivered at an academic institution with 24-hour in-house obstetric and anesthesia coverage. Time of delivery was categorized as day (7 am to 6 pm), evening (6 pm to 12 midnight), and late night (12 midnight to 7 am). Outcomes included 5-minute Apgar less than 7, umbilical artery pH less than 7.0, base excess less than -12, admission to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and neonatal death. We excluded patients delivered via cesarean delivery not in labor. We had greater than 80% power to detect a 25% difference in Apgar score, base excess, and admission to the NICU and 80% power to detect a 50% difference in umbilical artery pH less than 7.0. Results: Among the 34,424 deliveries meeting inclusion criteria, 15,664 were during the day, 8495 were during the evening, and 10,265 were during the night. In univariate comparisons, there were no statistically significant differences in neonatal outcomes. For example, the rate of pH less than 7.0 was 0.7% during the day, 1.0% in the evening, and 0.6% at night (P = .12). Admissions to the NICU were 3.6% during the day, 3.7% in the evening, and 3.5% at night (P = .81). When we controlled for obstetric history, demographic factors, and labor characteristics, there were still no differences in rates of either neonatal morbidity or mortality by time of delivery. Conclusion: At our institution, we could not demonstrate any significant differences in neonatal morbidity or mortality by time of day among neonates delivered at term. These data can be used to counsel patients and families concerned about differences in time of delivery and potential impact on their infant's health. Future research should include time of delivery in relation to maternal and neonatal outcomes in various types of inpatient settings.
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Caughey, A. B., Urato, A. C., Lee, K. A., Thiet, M. P., Washington, A. E., & Laros, R. K. (2008). Time of delivery and neonatal morbidity and mortality. American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, 199(5), 496.e1-496.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2008.03.046
Time of delivery and neonatal morbidity and mortality. / Caughey, Aaron B.; Urato, Adam C.; Lee, Kathryn A. et al.
In: American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, Vol. 199, No. 5, 11.2008, p. 496.e1-496.e5.
Caughey, AB, Urato, AC, Lee, KA, Thiet, MP, Washington, AE & Laros, RK 2008, 'Time of delivery and neonatal morbidity and mortality', American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, vol. 199, no. 5, pp. 496.e1-496.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2008.03.046
Caughey AB, Urato AC, Lee KA, Thiet MP, Washington AE, Laros RK. Time of delivery and neonatal morbidity and mortality. American journal of obstetrics and gynecology. 2008 Nov;199(5):496.e1-496.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2008.03.046
Caughey, Aaron B. ; Urato, Adam C. ; Lee, Kathryn A. et al. / Time of delivery and neonatal morbidity and mortality. In: American journal of obstetrics and gynecology. 2008 ; Vol. 199, No. 5. pp. 496.e1-496.e5.
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