November 27, 1935: Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann is born in Stuttgart, the son of Ernst Lachenmann, a Protestant pastor, and Gertrud Zeller.
March 12, 1958: Rondo for two pianos, four hands by Helmut Lachenmann (22) is performed for the first time, in the Musikhochschule, Stuttgart by Gunilde Cramer and the composer.
April 13, 1962: Fünf Strophen for nine instruments by Helmut Lachenmann (26) is performed for the first time, in Teatro La Fenice, Venice.
July 18, 1962: Echo Andante for piano by Helmut Lachenmann (26) is performed for the first time, in Darmstadt by the composer.
April 1, 1964: Wiegenmusik for piano by Helmut Lachenmann (28) is performed for the first time, in Darmstadt by the composer.
June 20, 1965: Scenario for electronic sound generators by Helmut Lachenmann (29) is performed for the first time, over the airwaves of Radio belge BRT 3.
February 23, 1966: Introversion II for chamber ensemble by Helmut Lachenmann (30) is performed for the first time, in Munich. The composer plays harmonium.
March 29, 1966: String Trio no.1 by Helmut Lachenmann (30) is performed for the first time, in Ghent, Belgium.
August 14, 1967: Intérieur I for percussion by Helmut Lachenmann (31) is performed for the first time, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
March 5, 1968: Trio Fluido for clarinet, viola, and percussion by Helmut Lachenmann (32) is performed for the first time, in Munich.
May 3, 1968: Consolation I for chorus and percussion by Helmut Lachenmann (32), to words of Toller, is performed for the first time, in Bremen.
February 19, 1969: TemA for flute, mezzo-soprano, and cello by Helmut Lachenmann (33) is performed for the first time, in Stuttgart.
April 25, 1969: Notturno for cello and chamber orchestra by Helmut Lachenmann (33) is performed for the first time, in Brussels.
June 15, 1969: Consolation II for chorus by Helmut Lachenmann (33) is performed for the first time, in Basel.
September 1, 1969: Air for percussion and orchestra by Helmut Lachenmann (33) is performed for the first time, in Frankfurt, directed by Lukas Foss (47).
June 4, 1970: Dal niente (Intérieur III) for clarinet by Helmut Lachenmann (34) is performed for the first time, in Nuremberg.
September 30, 1970: Pression for cello by Helmut Lachenmann (34) is performed for the first time, in Como, Italy.
December 1, 1970: Guero for piano by Helmut Lachenmann (35) is performed for the first time, in Hamburg.
January 26, 1971: Montage for clarinet, piano, and cello by Helmut Lachenmann (35) is performed for the first time, in Frankfurt.
April 23, 1971: Kontrakadenz for orchestra by Helmut Lachenmann (35) is performed for the first time, in Stuttgart.
May 6, 1972: Gran Torso for string quartet by Helmut Lachenmann (36) is performed for the first time, in Bremen.
December 20, 1972: Klangschatten-mein Saitenspiel for string orchestra and three pianos by Helmut Lachenmann (37) is performed for the first time, in Hamburg.
September 22, 1973: Fassade for orchestra and tape by Helmut Lachenmann (37) is performed for the first time, in the Beethovenhalle, Bonn.
October 17, 1975: Schwankungen am Rand for brass and strings by Helmut Lachenmann (39) is performed for the first time, in Donaueschingen.
May 30, 1976: Accanto for clarinet and orchestra by Helmut Lachenmann (40) is performed for the first time, in Saarbrücken.
December 3, 1977: Salut für Caudwell for two guitars by Helmut Lachenmann (42) is performed for the first time, in Baden-Baden.
August 10, 1978: Les Consolations for chorus, orchestra, and tape by Helmut Lachenmann (42), to words of Andersen, is performed for the first time, in Darmstadt.
October 18, 1980: Tanzsuite mit Deutschlandlied for string quartet and orchestra by Helmut Lachenmann (44) is performed for the first time, in Donaueschingen.
September 2, 1981: Ein Kinderspiel for piano by Helmut Lachenmann (45) is performed for the first time.
February 17, 1982: Child's Play, Seven little pieces for piano by Helmut Lachenmann (46) is performed for the first time, in Toronto.
May 15, 1983: Harmonica for tuba and orchestra by Helmut Lachenmann (47) is performed for the first time, in Saarbrücken.
November 12, 1984: Mouvement (-vor der Erstarrung) for 14 players by Helmut Lachenmann (48) is performed for the first time, in Théâtre du Rond-Point, Paris.
April 18, 1986: Ausklang for piano and orchestra by Helmut Lachenmann (50) is performed for the first time, in Cologne.
December 19, 1987: Staub for orchestra by Helmut Lachenmann (52) is performed for the first time, in Saarbrücken.
May 20, 1988: Toccatina for violin by Helmut Lachenmann (52) is performed for the first time, in Stuttgart.
June 4, 1989: Tableau for orchestra by Helmut Lachenmann (53) is performed for the first time, in Hamburg.
September 28, 1989: Reigen seliger Geister for string quartet by Helmut Lachenmann (53) is performed for the first time, in Paris.
December 3, 1989: Allegro sostenuto for clarinet, piano, and cello by Helmut Lachenmann (54) is performed for the first time, in Cologne.
October 9, 1992: Zwei Gefühle, Musik mit Leonardo for two speakers and chamber ensemble by Helmut Lachenmann (56) is performed for the first time, in Stuttgart.
November 11, 1994: Souvenir for 41 instruments by Helmut Lachenmann (58) is performed for the first time, in Stuttgart, 35 years after it was composed.
January 26, 1997: Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern, a "Musik mit Bildern" for two sopranos, chorus, and tape by Helmut Lachenmann (61) to words of Andersen, da Vinci, and Ensslin, is performed for the first time, in the Hamburg Staatsoper.
October 20, 1999: Nun for flute, trombone, chorus, and orchestra by Helmut Lachenmann (63) is performed for the first time, in Cologne.
February 13, 2000: Serynade for piano by Helmut Lachenmann (64) is performed for the first time, in Stuttgart.
February 18, 2001: Sakura-Variationen for saxophone, percussion, and piano by Helmut Lachenmann (65) is performed for the first time, in Cologne.
November 2, 2001: Grido for string quartet by Helmut Lachenmann (65) is performed for the first time, in Melbourne, Australia.
December 4, 2003: Schreiben for orchestra by Helmut Lachenmann (68) is performed for the first time, in Suntory Hall, Tokyo.
August 23, 2005: Concertini for large ensemble by Helmut Lachenmann (69) is performed for the first time, in Lucerne.
September 5, 2005: Double (Grido II) for string orchestra by Helmut Lachenmann (69) is performed for the first time, in Lucerne.
April 25, 2008: GOT LOST (Sarah's Song) for soprano and piano by Helmut Lachenmann (72) is performed for the first time, in Munich.
June 17, 2017: Marche fatale for piano by Helmut Lachenmann (81) is performed for the first time, in the Art Tower, Mito, Japan.
January 1, 2018: Marche fatale for orchestra by Helmut Lachenmann (82) is performed for the first time, in the Stuttgart Opera House.
1997: Inder Kumar Gujral replaces HD Deve Gowda as Prime Minister of India.


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Thousands of NHS posts lie vacant
Thousands of NHS nursing and doctor posts lie vacant
By Dominic Hughes and Vanessa Clarke
From the section Health
More than two-thirds of trusts and health boards in the UK are actively trying to recruit from abroad as they struggle to cope with a shortage of qualified staff, figures reveal.
Tens of thousands of NHS nursing and doctor posts are vacant.
The statistics, obtained by the BBC, show the scale of the NHS recruitment crisis.
Health unions blame poor workforce planning, but officials say the NHS has more staff than ever before.
Data from a BBC Freedom of Information request shows that on 1 December 2015, the NHS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland had more than 23,443 nursing vacancies – equivalent to 9% of the workforce.
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In comparison, the average vacancy rate across the UK economy from November to January 2016 was 2.7%, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The figures – which include 106 out of 166 trusts and health boards in England, Wales and Northern Ireland – also revealed:
Between 2013 and 2015, there has been a 50% increase in nursing vacancies, from 12,513 to 18,714.
For doctors, the number of vacancies went from 2,907 to 4,669 – an increase of roughly 60%.
In England and Wales, there were 1,265 vacancies for registered nurses in emergency departments – about 11% of the total.
For consultants in emergency medicine there were 243 vacancies – again 11% of the total.
Paediatric consultants – specialists in the care of babies, children and young people – were also hard to recruit, with 221 vacancies – about 7% of the total.
Analysis: Dominic Hughes, health correspondent
There are many reasons for the large number of vacancies in nursing and doctor posts on hospitals in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. One simple reason is that more posts now exist, but the number of trainees has not kept up. In the wake of the 2008 financial crash, nursing places were cut, although they are now on the way back up. The BMA suggests it takes around 15 years between a medical student starting out at university and becoming a consultant so planning the NHS workforce supply and demand is a complicated process with a long lead-in time.
But there are also increasing pressures on the health service right across the UK which the NHS is having to respond to – a growing population that is older and sicker, with more complex health needs. In plain language "complex health needs" means more than one thing going on at a time, so an elderly person might be having to cope with arthritis, diabetes and heart problems. But one other important factor is the "Francis effect" – the report by Sir Robert Francis into the scandal at Stafford Hospital identified a shortage of nurses as a key factor in the poor care of patients. Trusts in England in particular have been under pressure to recruit more staff. But when there is a shortage of qualified nurses they have resorted to expensive agency staff and that in turn has led to a growing financial crisis.
Vacancy rates in Scotland are published quarterly and so comparable figures are not yet available.
In England, many hospitals are having to rely on expensive agency workers to make up the shortfall in staff.
That has been identified as a key factor driving a growing financial crisis within the health service.
NHS recruitment crisis
of UK trusts are actively recruiting abroad for doctors or nurses
23,443 nursing vacancies in England, Wales & Northern Ireland
9% vacancy rate for nurses
6,207 doctor vacancies
7% vacancy rate for doctors
Source: BBC Freedom of Information request
One solution to the staff shortage adopted by many trusts is employing doctors and nurses from overseas.
The BBC also asked trusts and health boards across the UK whether they were actively recruiting staff from abroad, and in this case Scottish hospitals were also able to answer.
The figures show more than two-thirds – 69% – of all NHS trusts and health boards are seeking staff overseas.
And in just England and Wales, the figure is nearly three-quarters of all trusts and health boards – 74%.
Some are travelling from as far afield as India and the Philippines.
'No opportunities back home'
Maca Fernandez Carro said she liked working for the NHS
Maca Fernandez Carro is a nurse who is originally from Bilbao in Spain, but has worked at Royal Bolton Hospital since 2014.
She told BBC Radio 5 live: "There was no opportunities for us back home. The options were having a three-month contract [in Spain], or coming here with a permanent position.
"Nursing is so different back home. When we qualify [in Spain] we are expected to do all the techniques that over here you'd need extra training [for].
"So we do a four-year degree, instead of a three-year one, so we have an extra year in which we train the technical part of nursing.
"Even though we are really under pressure, and really, really stressed – I like working for the NHS."
Matthew Hopkins, who is the chief executive of Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that employing more agency workers compromised patient safety and care.
"The difficulty with running a relatively high vacancy rate is it does inhibit the ability to provide the best care for our patients," he said.
"We have to supplement our staff with agency workers who are not part of the team on a regular basis and therefore the quality of teamwork, which we know has the biggest impact on patient care and patient safety, is compromised."
Ian Cummings, the chief executive Health Education England, told the same programme the nursing shortage in the NHS had been partly caused by "quality failings" – such as the Mid Staffs scandal.
Media captionDominic Hughes explains how the recruitment process works
"The quality failings in the NHS have caused our regulators and hospitals to look very carefully at how many nurses they need to deliver safe and high quality care.
"So the hospitals, for roughly the same number of beds compared to three years ago, now have a need for 24,000 more qualified nurses," he said.
Meanwhile, the Royal College of Nursing and the British Medical Association blame poor workforce planning for the problems hospitals are having in finding qualified staff.
Janet Davies, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, said: "Nursing posts are often the first target when savings need to be made, leading the NHS to find itself dangerously short and having to spend more on agency staff and recruitment from other countries."
Doctors and nurses are in demand in the NHS
A spokesman for the doctor's union the BMA – which is currently locked in a dispute with the government in England over a new contract for junior doctors – said: "Poor workforce planning means we aren't producing enough doctors and sending them to the right areas," he said.
However, in a statement, the Department of Health in England said: "Staffing is a priority — that's why there are already over 29,600 extra clinical staff, including more than 10,600 additional doctors and more than 10,600 additional nurses on our wards since May 2010."
But the statement also acknowledged that "much more needs to be done", and said the government was "changing student nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals funding to create up to 10,000 more training places by the end of this Parliament."
A Welsh Government spokesperson said: "There are now more doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics and dental staff working in the Welsh NHS today than there were 10 years ago.
"We will continue to do all we can to support recruitment initiatives proposed by health boards and trusts and to address recruitment and retention at a national level."
Viewers in England can see more on this story on Inside Out on BBC One at 19:30 GMT.
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Shopping and leisure complex on the banks of the Weser with over 80 shops (including Germany's first Primark), 17 restaurants and cafés and a multiplex cinema with a 3D screen.
Always worth a visit. The Waterfront is a shopping and leisure centre on the banks of the Weser. With shops, restaurants, films and events, this riverside complex offers something new all year round.
There are 90 shops in all, where you will find an excellent range of clothes, shoes, sportswear, accessories and beauty products. It boasts many brand shops such as Tommy Hilfiger, G-Star Raw and Desigual, as well as PRIMARK, Quiksilver and One Green Elephant. Another highlight is the large food court with a choice of 15 different places to eat.
At the Waterfront, you will also find the ultramodern CINESPACE multiplex cinema with eleven screens, and next door is the four-star Innside Bremen hotel. The complex has 4,000 free car-parking spaces on site.


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Building collapse forces Animal Pantry in Ozone Park to close
A rear wall at Animal Pantry Ozone Park collapsed last week.
On the eve of Small Business Saturday, Animal Pantry Ozone Park, a mom-and-pop pet supply store, was issued a vacate order by the city's Department of Buildings after a part of the facility collapsed, according to City Councilman Eric Ulrich.
Animal Pantry Ozone Park — located at 137-20 Cross Bay Blvd. — offers pet apparel, aquatic pets, pet grooming services and pet food, according to its Facebook page.
There were no pets or people injured during the Nov. 23 collapse, according to Animal Pantry's Facebook page, but the family-owned business is closed for the foreseeable future.
"It is with a heavy heart that we are announcing Animal Pantry will be closed until further notice. Due to construction behind our store, our foundation was ripped out from under us, causing our back wall to collapse," according to a post on Animal Pantry's Facebook page.
The FDNY requested a structural stability inspection by the DOB on Nov. 23 due to cracks on the wall and the danger of it falling some more, according to the Department of Buildings.
The DOB inspected the collapse area and made comments about the rear wall of the Animal Pantry being exposed and its potential for further collapse the same day, according to nyc.gov.
Animal Pantry credited the rescue of all their animals on Nov. 25 to Ulrich, who — after learning of the situation, got in touch with an Emergency Response Team and representatives of the DOB for the rapid assessment of the building. The Buildings Department allowed for the retrieval of the animals, according to the pet supply store.
"I was glad to assist the owners of Pet Pantry safely remove all the animals that were trapped in the building. I'd like to thank the Department of Buildings for their collaborative effort and their swift action," said Ulrich.
"Thank you to everyone for your concern. We will now deal with the rest of this mess, our building is still collapsing," according to a Facebook post by Animal Pantry.
Animal Pantry Ozone Park does not have any plans to open again anytime soon at its current location due to the severity of the damage to its building, according to a Facebook post. Several members of the local community have since flooded Ulrich's social media pages and Animal Pantry's Facebook page offering to care for any displaced animal.
Reach reporter Naeisha Rose by e-mail at nrose@cnglocal.com or by phone at (718) 260–4573.


The property was built in the early 1970's and measures just approximately 1018 sq. ft. The ground floor accommodation comprises of a porch, suitable for coat and boot storage, which opens to the entrance hall with stairs to the first floor. The living room is a good size with a large window to the front aspect, there is a gas fireplace with Adam style surround and raised marble hearth. The study has space for two desks and there is a door opening to the side aspect. There is an open-plan kitchen/dining room with a comprehensive range of base and eyelevel storage cupboards and drawers, a sink unit with mixer tap, tiled splashbacks, eye-level oven with microwave above, breakfast bar, space for a washing machine and dishwasher, window to the rear aspect with delightful views to the rear garden. The dining room holds a large table and chairs and has built-in base level storage. Off the study is a family room/bedroom four, which would fit a double bed with a window to the rear aspect. Completing the ground floor accommodation is a cloakroom, including a WC and wash hand basin.
The first floor accommodation comprises a landing with airing cupboard and three bedrooms, two of which are doubles. There are built-in storage cupboards in all three bedrooms. Bedrooms one and three have views to the front aspect; bedroom two has views to the rear garden. The family bathroom has a white suite including a WC, wash hand basin and panelled bath. There is a separate shower room with enclosed shower cubicle.
Outside, the property is set back from the road behind a neat green area, lawned and with mature trees. There is a compact front garden, laid to lawn with a neat hedge boundary. To the rear, the enclosed garden benefits from a high degree of privacy, divided into two sections by established hedging. There is a large patio area with shrub borders and towards the foot of the garden is a lawned area, surrounded by mature shrubs, hedging and trees. There is a gated walkway at the end of the garden leading to the garage in a nearby block with an up-and-over door.
Histon is widely acknowledged as being one of the most soughtafter villages north of Cambridge. It's particularly convenient location, just 3 miles from the city centre, adds to its popularity and communications are first class, the A14 and M11 being within a few minute's drive. The village boasts many local facilities including excellent schooling for all ages from preschool to sixth form. Good local shopping is available in the village and there is a regular bus service to Cambridge. Histon is served by Cambridgeshire County Council's Guided Busway with an estimated journey time to the Science Park of approximately 3 minute's. Cambridge North Railway Station opened in May 2017, located in Chesterton, close to Cambridge Science Park, connecting to the Guided Busway and providing an interchange with Park & Ride and local bus services. Pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders also benefit from a bridleway running all the way from Cambridge Science Park to St. Ives along the route of the Guided Busway. Girton Golf Club is also within a few minute's drive.
A bright three/four bedroom, semi-detached, house with established gardens, parking and garage, in a nearby block, located within easy reach of the village amenities.


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Optimizing communications for DevOps teams
Agile and DevOps methodologies speed up the continuous development and delivery of workable software, and verbal communication is critical for these processes.
Optimizing communications for DevOps teams working together in the same space
Agile and DevOps methodologies speed up the continuous development and delivery of workable software, and verbal communication is critical for these processes. But verbal communication alone is not sufficient. These methodologies also need to be supported by robust communication and collaboration tools. Let's look at how and why Unified Communication and Collaboration (UCC) is crucial to success.
Why DevOps?
Rapid prototyping through events like hackathons, design jams and maker labs—gatherings designed to foster fast-paced group creativity in design—are being seen not just as effective problem solving, but as a way to engage citizenry differently, and to transform commercial organisations for the better. The ultimate manifestation of lean business, they are being used to prove to organisations that agile development (a collaborative, self-organizing development approach) and DevOps practice (a software engineering practice that unifies software development and software operation) should be used in every organisation, all the time, to maximise productivity.
These are all forms of iterative development, which happens over very short sprints of production and generates minimum viable products, meaning sites or software with enough features to appeal to early adopters that can be tested and improved over subsequent sprints. This means you have a product that is ready for market in just a few weeks, rather than the months of ponderous progress that is typical in traditional research and development (R&D) environments.
It can all sound too good to be true, and here's the thing: most of the time it is too good to be true.
That's because most of the time, products created and pitched in agile, rapidly developed conditions will fail. And that's actually intended. That's the point. According to Fortune.com, the ratio of innovations that meet market expectations and projections is about one in ten. Harvard Business Review says that even forward-thinking companies aren't likely to ever get much better than 40% to 50% success rates for their innovative products and services.
But that doesn't necessarily mean that agile and DevOps processes don't have value. Quite the contrary; if you can improve your innovation success rate, you have the opportunity to dramatically improve both competitive positioning and profitability. So, if you can churn through the failures quickly, and still get out profitable products within regular business cycles, you are likely to be in a much better place than your competitors, and survive the rapidly changing commercial climate in which we operate.
The challenge, then, is to determine how best to support agile and DevOps approaches so that the innovation success rate can be improved.
The DevOps Weak Spot
For all the advances in technology we have experienced in the digital age, improved communication still reigns supreme in terms of improving productivity and the likelihood of success for agile and DevOps projects.
DevOps requires robust development reporting, issue escalation and collaborative problem-solving in order to be efficient. There's no point coming to a daily standing meeting with a problem that needed to be solved ten minutes after the previous day's meeting. It needs to be addressed on the fly. Otherwise, you lose a day's work. To be efficient in DevOps, you need to respond to changes as they happen, and you need the infrastructure to support that design process. As such, unified communication and collaboration (UCC) tools are the lifeblood of DevOps; they're even more crucial here than for agile processes.
But the implementation of UCC is just as subject to failure. Teams need to be appropriately trained on platforms and follow a ritual of checking reporting systems to ensure that their tasks are being properly monitored and resolved on an hourly basis. If that doesn't happen the risk is that rapid deployment strategies may be compromised, and a deployment might actually break the network—precisely what DevOps processes are supposed to prevent.
Pikkarainen et al (2008) note that agile development processes can actually increase the chasm between the actors in software development, and that the ensuing lack of communication can result in project failure. While verbal communication is still apparently the most successful means of solving problems in agile teams, we still need to support direct meetings between collocated teams (meaning teams that work together in the same physical space) by creating a record of interactions and issues on collaborative platforms. This hybridisation of engagement processes makes it possible to communicate more efficiently in face-to-face meetings.
How to Hack DevOps
The fundamental mechanism to improve DevOps, then, is to improve communication across collocated teams. But it's not enough just to provide them with communications technology and think that's going to solve the problem. You have to use such communication platforms intelligently.
Seeding content on UCC platforms can help drive adoption, as well as training users to use UCC systems for regular reporting activities, such as announcing that a milestone has been achieved or recording the problems and solutions explored during agile development activities. Further, engaging actors outside the scope of the software development team (involving clients, user experience teams, supply chain representatives and so on) can further add value to the implementation, both inspiring better product development and ensuring that experts are on hand to respond to problems as they arise.
UCC can also be used as a performance management tracking tool, where the actors' execution of activities in an agile project can be measured against anticipated delivery plans. It can also log the speed of problem solving and encourage effective engagement with stakeholders.
Finally, UCC can be used to communicate about core business production to inspire productivity. Where agile projects are designed to augment core business activities or create new markets, the economic and productivity performance of core business activities can in turn reinforce the need for agile projects to be implemented. While such content needs to be put in context (usually showing the projected business productivity improvement that will arise from completing the agile project), this kind of inspiration helps communicate the shared value of the team and galvanize problem-solving efforts.
The basic value of DevOps and rapid prototyping is in reducing the cycle time of innovation production and increasing its volume. But while these approaches may generate value of their own accord, it makes sense to think about the design of DevOps environments, and their supporting infrastructure, to maximise that value.
George Bernard Shaw once said, "the single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." If you don't support communication for DevOps projects, even, and sometimes particularly, among collocated teams, then the value of your agile innovation program may also be an illusion. But it doesn't have to be. Strong and well-supported communication, both in person and via UCC, can make the difference between failure and success.
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Q: Vector of Vectors created with the vec! macro contain different capacities I have a vectormatrix_a, which contains 3 vectors, and it is initialized with the vec! macro.
Every vector should have a capacity of 3, due to Vec::with_capacity(dim), but only the last vector has a capacity of 3. The other vectors have a capacity of 0.
Can someone explain why that is?
fn main() {
    let dim = 3;
    let matrix_a: Vec<Vec<i32>> = vec![Vec::with_capacity(dim); dim];

    for vector in matrix_a{
        println!("Capacity of vector: {}", vector.capacity());
    }
}

Output:
Capacity of vector: 0
Capacity of vector: 0
Capacity of vector: 3

A: According to the documentation, vec! is defined as:
macro_rules! vec {
    ( $ elem : expr ; $ n : expr ) => (
        $ crate:: vec:: from_elem ( $ elem , $ n )
    );
    ( $ ( $ x : expr ) , * ) => (
        < [ _ ] > :: into_vec (
            $ crate:: boxed:: Box:: new ( [ $ ( $ x ) , * ] )
        )
    );
    ( $ ( $ x : expr , ) * ) => ( vec ! [ $ ( $ x ) , * ] )
}

In your case, it means that:
vec![Vec::with_capacity(dim); dim]

is expanded into:
std::vec::from_elem(Vec::with_capacity(dim), dim)

The definition of Vec::from_elem is hidden in the documentation, but can be found in the source:
pub fn from_elem<T: Clone>(elem: T, n: usize) -> Vec<T> {
    unsafe {
        let mut v = Vec::with_capacity(n);
        let mut ptr = v.as_mut_ptr();

        // Write all elements except the last one
        for i in 1..n {
            ptr::write(ptr, Clone::clone(&elem));
            ptr = ptr.offset(1);
            v.set_len(i); // Increment the length in every step in case Clone::clone() panics
        }

        if n > 0 {
            // We can write the last element directly without cloning needlessly
            ptr::write(ptr, elem);
            v.set_len(n);
        }

        v
    }
}

And this where the heart of the mystery is solved:

*

*the element is cloned n - 1 times, for the n - 1 first elements of the vector, and then moved into the n-th slot.

*cloning a vector does not clone its capacity, only its elements.

Thus the result you get is exactly as intended, if not as expected.

A: As stated, this is because vec![x; y] clones the value. To avoid this, you can instead collect your vector:
let matrix_a: Vec<Vec<i32>> = (0..dim).map(|_| Vec::with_capacity(dim)).collect();

This seperately initializes each element, giving you complete allocations.

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Q: How do I stop the Development Server starting during Unit Testing? I have a Visual Studio 2008 solution that contains around 30 projects. Some of these are web services / WCF services / ASP.NET MVC applications.
When I run all unit tests (Ctr+R, A) it insists on spinning up all the Development Servers for these various projects. This means that it takes far too long to run the tests and, actually, none of my unit tests require these frameworks.
So, how do I stop Visual Studio doing this?

A: Click on the projects in your solution and bring up the properties window (F4).
Change Always start when debugging to false.

A: If you're running the tests, not debugging, then the "Always start when debugging" setting will have no effect.
Instead, have a look at the test settings that you're using to run the tests. (Find which settings you're using by going Test > Select Active Test Settings. You can then edit the test settings by going Test > Edit Test Settings and selecting your active test settings)
I have found the following test settings can force the ASP.NET development server to start up, although there could be more!

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*Non-default test host: In the edit test settings window, choose the "Hosts" section. Host type should be set to "Default", not "ASP.NET"

*Code Coverage: In the edit test settings window, choose the "Data and Diagnostics" section. Select "Code Coverage" and click "Configure". The development server will start for each service that is selected here for ASP.NET Code Coverage. (Normal code coverage is identified by an icon of a blank page with two gears on top of it. ASP.NET code coverage is identified by an icon of a globe with two pages on top of it.) To change from ASP.NET code coverage to normal code coverage, deselect the ASP.NET code coverage, then choose "Add Assembly...". Browse to the bin folder of your web service project and choose the dll of the web service.


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Johnson is part of Girls Rock Fort Worth, a weeklong summer camp that uses music education and workshops to help girls ages 8-17 find their voices.
Before organizing the Fort Worth camp in 2016, Reagan, a singer-songwriter, volunteered for Girls Rock Dallas. She designed and led a workshop called Rock Your Awesome, which encouraged 8- to 11-year-olds to celebrate their uniqueness.
Although Girls Rock Dallas is taking a break this year, Reagan says the two camps still share resources, such as gear and instruments.
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"Stay rad," one of them read.
The youths are taught how to express their feelings about world events through art, poetry and songwriting, Reagan says. Older campers can also choose from electives such as advanced songwriting, branding and podcasting.
A volunteer with messy, indigo-colored hair stood nearby as two of the campers tested their skills amid a row of metallic red drums lined up on the gym floor. Reagan says many of the volunteers are musicians, teachers or previous campers. Most are women.
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RDGA 5 Financial Pain and a Spiritual Home.
Leaving Col de la Madeleine behind, we spooled downhill through comfortable lacettes, the French name for hairpins until reaching the ski station of Saint François-Longchamp 1650.
Then the road changes, it gets wider and the bends get more generous; the old ski-station effect again and on Harls I wasn't complaining!
I pulled over in La Chambre and went to use an auto-teller machine at the Credit Agricole bank.
When I'm on my road trips in Europe I make extensive use of pre-load currency cards. That's the sort where you shift money from your bank account and either withdraw when abroad or just use it as a charge card. I find that these cards work well for me; the exchange rates are normally very competitive, commission free, plus they don't levy any foreign currency transaction fee as many credit cards and banks do and as my cards are Mastercard branded they are widely accepted.
There's only one problem and it was about to give me a moment of stomach sinking near panic!
In France, when you use a bank card to purchase fuel at a supermarket service station it is normal practice for the seller to over-charge the card until the funds are released by the owning bank. Cheeky, but not unusual and perfectly legal. Normally then I don't use my currency cards to purchase fuel, but for some reason I had forgotten in the early part of this trip.
I walked into the small ATM lobby, popped my card in the slot, entered my pin and asked for €500.
Then it dawned on me, supermarket service stations, dammit!
I could have easily stuck a bank-card or credit-card in the ATM and made a withdrawal that way, but I didn't want to give money to a bank for no reason, I'm mean like that! Thankfully there was a strong 4G signal and it only took a minute to transfer some funds from one account to my currency card, but curse those supermarkets!
The day was glorious. After a bit of low cloud and dullness on Madeleine we had ridden into wonderful warm sunshine. The day was still young, we didn't really have far to go and the Alps were our playground; it would be rude not to enjoy them, actually no, it would be complete madness not to enjoy them!
La Chambre lies at the Northern foot of two iconic alpine cols, Col du Glandon and Col de la Croix de Fer. I had topped both previously, but as ever there was a route that I hadn't tried…no prizes for guessing that I was on a mission.
We trundled seven miles East along the valley to St Jean de Maurienne and turned right onto one of the most delightful alpine roads that I have ever ridden.
Col de la Croix de Fer is a brute of a climb and I'm glad that I ride a motorbike, not a pedal cycle, even so it's tough, very tough…but oh so impressively beautiful. The road climbs skywards and the bends come relentlessly; it's almost impossible to get into any rhythm: bend, straight, bend, bend, straight, bend, climb, short straight, bend, long straight, drop, straight, bend…and so on! The shoulders start to get sore, tense, tired…. this is tough, very tough, but I wouldn't be anywhere else in the world!
Col de la Croix de Fer is legendary. It's been on the Tour de France itinerary since 1947 when Italian Fermo Camellini won the climb over the summit. On the side that we were climbing, following the D926, it was 22.7 km at an average gradient of 7.0%, we growled skywards and Harls loved it as much as me!
On such a beautiful day the Col was busy with families who had climbed by car from the easy Grenoble side; I didn't begrudge them, if they wanted to drink in the beauty of the mountains, then that was cool with me. We paused at the Col, safe in the knowledge that we were 2067metres/6781feet above sea level, the air was still and pure and even though the sun beat down mercilessly, there was a distinct chill in the air.
From Croix de Fer the road drops for about a mile and then we took a right for the short climb to our next target, Col du Glandon. 1,924m/6,312 ft.
Poor old Glandon, overshadowed by its higher more glamorous neighbour with it's iconic cross of iron and stunning views, but in it's own way Glandon has a certain understated class. The col lies in a high natural bowl with buttresses of rocky mountain standing sentinel above. It lacks the far-reaching views of Croix de Fer, but it's a solid place on a bare mountain; though not somewhere to be trifled with in bad weather when high winds whip across its bare slopes.
We descended on the D927 to St Etienne de Cuines. Another tough road, with relentless corners and a habit lower down of popping in and out of dense forest, it's impossible to get into much of a rhythm, but a good excuse to stop and enjoy a picnic lunch!
Back in the valley we enjoyed a happy sprint to St Michel de Maurienne and turned onto our spiritual highway the D902.
That moment, turning right onto the D902, the "proper" Route des Grande Alpes, was special; this was the road to Col du Galibier!
I have a love affair, because that's exactly what it is, with the mythical Galibier.
The last of the winter snow was evident everywhere, in fact the pass road was only opened a week ago. I was thankful for my crash helmet's built in sun visor as the glare was, at times, very bright.
Over the last kilometre, tears were welling in my eyes; no I lie, they weren't, they were running down my cheeks! And Harls? She had a little moment too, was that a bit of high altitude carburetor icing that made her catch her breath and cough or was she feeling the moment as well?
Harls and I were coming back to our spiritual home…. again.
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Looks like a beautiful ride. Very nice.
It certainly was a lovely ride.
I'm sure all of us motorcyclists have had feelings like that toward special places we have been. I know I have. Glad to know I'm not the only one who has a blub in the helmet from time to time!
Only for special places Bob, only for special places.
You are very kind about my writing and as for the photos, well, with such a lovely subject it's hard to get it wrong!
Watch out for the next instalment, hopefully by next weekend.
Can't believe it took me this long to read this post! I do understand finding one special place and wanting to go back again and again. It's a mystical thing that is better left as something to be felt rather than understood. I love going with your on your journeys Dookes!
….and I love reading your comments and having you along for the ride AGMA!