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Haggis Stuffed Onions
January 25, 2012 /2 Comments/in experimental, Favourites, Good value, Local, Recipes, Savoury, Seasonal /by Miss South
I love Burns' Night. Not only is it a welcome night of revelry in the grey gloom of January, it's an excuse to enjoy the delights of haggis (and mash). Seen as plain food by some, I associate it with excitement and glamour thanks to childhood memories of our parents hosting Burns' Suppers for friends. They'd dress up, the table would get laid with the good plates and the house would be full of laughter and clinking glasses and everyone having a good time. That association and the comedy flying haggis that sat on the mantlepiece all year round has given me a huge soft spot for the humble haggis.
I do try and eat it each January, but I've never cooked it for myself before as its usually too much for one person and I feel I'd be treading on Scottish toes to host a supper myself. So imagine my glee when on a recent trip to Walters Butchers in Herne Hill I espied a teeny tiny perfectly portioned haggis for sale. Feeling slightly in need of indulgence since it's a dry January, I brought it home and plotted doing something slightly different to the normal haggis, neeps and tatties.
And unsurprisingly, I got the urge to stuff something with the haggis. But since I've already tried squid and cabbage leaves and tomatoes and a marrow and probably more I've forgotten, it seemed like I'd run out of things to stuff. Until I espied a big bag of onions in the farmers' market. I've heard of such things as a stuffed onion but never eaten them. I decided they would be a good challenge.
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Hello deer… Venison Pasty
October 12, 2010 /2 Comments/in Favourites, Local, Seasonal /by Mister North
Hurray! It's game season again… a chance to cook a broader range of foodstuffs. As the range of seasonal veg decreases, the blackboard at my local butcher's is filling up with a wonderful selection of goodies. Recently venison and grouse caught my eye, so I snapped some up at Stansfields when I saw it.
I bought a few hundred grams of diced venison without a clear idea of what I wanted to make with it, but I started to entertain a growing desire to make a pasty. I love a well-made pasty, but where I live is pie country so it's relatively rare to find a genuine, glorious example of the crust-encased pocket of goodness. I've made game pie before, but not pasties, so research and experimentation was called for…
Diligent homework threw up a lot of passionate and divisive opinion about pasties in general, and the Cornish pasty in particular. It was clear that under a strict interpretation of the rules this could not be seen as a true Cornish pasty: that requires beef, swede (turnip as we'd call it back home), and if you're particularly strict, it needs to be made in Cornwall. It was becoming obvious I couldn't label this as anything but a venison pasty. At least I was in good company: Shakespeare mentions venison pasties in the Merry Wives of Windsor.
So this was a posh imposter (with a heritage, admittedly), with a spread of ingredients which no traditionalist would entertain, but it sounded mouthwateringly good with the venison, and butternut squash as a substitute for turnip. In homage to 'proper' pasty making I followed the instructions on the Cornish Pasty Association website, and discounted my original idea of adding a shiitake mushroom and butter reduction over the top of the mix, as I'd read 'proper' pasties don't have any pre-cooked ingredients in them.
As I was in the middle of making the shortcrust pastry for this I remember think I should've left baking to Miss South… it's definitely her forté. I gave it a good go, but only after I'd mixed up the flour, egg (I used one double yolker duck egg), butter, baking soda and salt did I realise I'd have to hand-mix and rub the mix… I only have a hand-held food processor and it was starting to protest strongly at working the dough as vigourously as it needed. Still, I managed to manually get the pastry mix looking biscuity, as it was meant to, and then rolled it into a ball and bunged it into the fridge for an hour or so in some clingfilm to rise up.
To make 3 (rather large and overfilled) pasties I used around 330g venison, 200g of shallots and red onions in roughly equal measure, 300g of butternut squash, and slightly less potato. Ah well, I've never been a stickler for measurements anyway. I diced everything fairly small, mixed it all up with the seasoning, and a splash of oil so the flavours would mingle gently. Miss South suggested I supplement the normal seasoning with a pinch of mace: something which proved to be an inspired choice in adding warmth and old-fashioned flavour, redolent of big country house kitchens. It was only after putting the finished pasties in the oven I realised I should really've used up the flat-leaf parsley I'd meant to put in. Oh well…
I did over-fill the pasties (perhaps I should've made larger pastry circles, or doled 4 fillings out rather than the 3 I managed) so this made the distended pockets rather hard to seal (using a little egg to moisten the edges) and crimp (perhaps crimping should be left to the experts… the CPA, or The Mighty Boosh). I was amused that when I checked various references online crimping was described as a technique one couldn't easily explain. My induction into this ancient art was somewhat therefore ignominious; and did allow more leakage than it probably should've, as the photos testify. I then baked the three of them at a medium heated oven for around 40 minutes, slowly being driven to distraction by the aroma filling the kitchen.
As mentioned my baking skills are not as fully honed as my sister, so in hindsight I wish I'd placed these on a better-greased tray, or even onto a wire shelf to cook. This did absolutely nothing to impact on the flavour though… these pasties were rich, warming and absolutely delicious. Autumnal heaven! Now I've lost my pasty cherry I'm going to make more of these with a variety of fillings… perfect for the lunchbox as a self-contained delight.
Flour and eggs
Biscuity mix
Diced venison
Seasoning for the mix
Meat and squash
The full range of ingredients
Dough for rolling
Overly filled…
Before going into the oven…
… and afterwards…
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January 24, 2010 /3 Comments/in Eating in, Favourites, Savoury, Seasonal, Sweet /by Mister North
Two chieftains o' the pudding-race
Last night I had the pleasure of hosting a Burns' Supper for a couple of friends. It was a very last-minute affair, and was never intended as a faithful rendition of the rituals associated with celebrating the bard. More an excuse to get together with some mates and enjoy some good malts with a side order of offal and tubers… Read more
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VWAP (Volume-Weighted Average Price) Cost is a widely used measure for execution quality. However, many have criticized the VWAP Cost measure. One of the most frequent criticisms is that VWAP Cost includes the trader or institutional investor's own trades in the benchmark price. This article clarifies related issues by deriving a simple mathematical relation between VWAP Cost including versus excluding own trades. This result enables computation of VWAP Cost excluding own trades without having to explicitly identify the trader's own trades in intraday market data. This is useful in practice because it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to identify a particular trader's trades in intraday market data (e.g., the NYSE TAQ).


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By Chairman Omali Yeshitela
Editor's Note: The following is a transcription of Chairman Omali Yeshitela's summation of the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, during the January 5 episode of Omali Taught Me.
Soleimani was an important force in the Iranian government and a prominent leader of the Iranian military.
He played a primary role in organizing the push back to the Islamic State in the area characterized as "The Levant," including Syria and Iraq.
As a general, Soleimani led and developed militia forces, including inside Iraq.
What the U.S. and other bourgeois media are claiming is that he organized militias of murderers and terrorists but the militias that he created were at one point appreciated by the U.S. government because they became integrated with the military strategy of the Iraqi defense forces combating the Islamic State, which the U.S. was also targeting.
Targeted assasination by the U.S. is not unusual, but the rare open acknowledgement by the U.S. government has elicited disappointment from some sectors of the bourgeoisie who have expressed tactical differences with the Trump administration's decision to kill Soleimani in such an open fashion.
Nonetheless, they are all in agreement that Soleimani deserved to be killed.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published what they called a "brief history of rising tensions" in the Persian Gulf.
It includes a summary of the U.S. withdrawing from the nuclear deal with Iran and imposing sanctions on the Iranian economy, attacking oil revenues in Iran by cancelling waivers on other countries who were involved in trade with them.
As the WSJ puts it, the "tensions escalated" when Iran shot down a U.S. drone on a spy mission in June of 2019, and a month later the U.S. shot down an Iranian drone alleged to have been spotted near a U.S. warship.
Soon after, rockets were fired at an Iraqi base, killing an American contractor.
Trump blamed Iran.
Thousands of Iraqis rose up against the occupation in Baghdad, storming the U.S. embassy there.
This is how the bourgeois Wall Street Journal is summing it up, but as usual, they don't say where all of this began.
In 1953 the U.S. government overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, a man named Mohammad Mossadegh.
At the time the British were heavily involved in the Iranian oil industry, and the U.S. wanted to break up the Anglo monopoly on petroleum.
Meanwhile, Mossadegh was moving to nationalize the Iranian oil.
Under the British monopoly on their oil industry, the Iranians were only getting 16 percent of the value of their own oil.
The U.S., using the CIA, went into Iran and staged a coup, overthrowing Mossadegh and installing a tyrannical puppet leader named Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was known as the Shah.
The U.S. exercised influence throughout the region through its embassy in the Shah's Iran.
This represented a key strategic geopolitical significance for U.S. imperialism and its access to the resources of the region.
Nearly a third of the petroleum in that region has to pass through the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.
Therefore, Iran has the capacity to block the passage of huge amounts of oil.
By installing the Shah in power, Iran became a military outpost for U.S. imperialism in the region.
It was important as a military anchor in that area as well as in North Africa.
The U.S. put an array of sophisticated arms into the hands of the Shah.
The African People's Socialist Party worked with Iranian students exiled in the U.S. during that time period.
They were extremely active on campuses and elsewhere.
When they demonstrated against the Shah's regime, they had to wear sacks over their heads to conceal their identities because if their faces were photographed by the press and identified by the SAVAK, the neocolonial Iranian intelligence organization shaped and influenced by the U.S. and Israel, their family members back in Iran would be tortured and often killed.
The Shah was a horrible entity.
People inside and outside of Iran had been struggling against the Shah forever, including at least two Marxist organizations, as well as many Islamic organizations.
One of the most important Islamic forces was led from a leader in exile, named Khomeini.
Khomeini exerted tremendous ideological influence on the movement in Iran against the Shah.
Cassette tapes of his speeches would be played in Islamic mosques in Iran, broadcasting his criticisms of the Shah.
Crisis began to emerge inside Iran. Protests inside and outside the country forced the Shah out of power.
Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile as the Shah and U.S. were being kicked out of Iran in 1979.
After the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the new government was in possession of all of the military arms leftover from the U.S. support of the Shah, weapons which were now in the hands of a fiercely anti-imperialist and anti-American regime.
This is the context we have to understand.
The targeted assassination of Soleimani cannot be attributed simply to the Trump administration.
It's not a Trump thing.
The U.S. has been making war against Iran for decades. This fact gets covered over by the bleeding hearts like The New York Times who disagree with Trump's decisions but still maintain that Soleimani was a terrorist who will be mourned by none.
They call Soleimani a terrorist while the U.S. government holds the entire world under nuclear threat and starves and quarantines peoples and nations everywhere.
The U.S. has been involved in an ongoing process of trying to contain the influence of the Iranian government.
They've been doing this since 1979 when they operated with the assumption that Iran had been weakened after the revolution.
The U.S. manipulated and sparked a war between Iran and Iraq, playing both sides and providing coordinates to either military on the location of their supposed enemy.
Over 800,000 people died in the Iraq-Iran war.
The U.S. wanted to destroy Iran, where revolutionary fervor was alive, but they fought Saddam Hussein to a standstill.
The U.S. was not concerned with Iraq's losses because they wanted Iraq weak too.
The U.S. wanted to be the hegemon in the region and would prefer to share power with nobody.
This is the latest act of aggression in this longstanding war by the U.S.
They've been kidnapping Iranian scientists. Iranian systems have been sabotaged. This is nothing new.
The U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003.
Iraq is a majority Shia country.
The U.S. inflamed and manufactured tensions between Shia and Sunni Muslims.
They created false tensions in Iran in an effort to turn the people against the government, just like they have tried to do in Syria.
Then they portrayed a narrative where this false internal opposition in Iran was being suppressed by an unjust government. They wanted to create a Syria-type situation in Iran, but the Iranians crushed it.
The whole of imperialism rests on the colonial oppression and exploitation of the world's peoples.
It's not about Trump.
The disagreements from liberal bourgeois elements with Trump's assassination of Soleimani have more to do with tactics.
Our opposition is to the entire imperialist system and what it is doing in Iran and around the world.
Objectively, the Iranian government disrupts the imperial project.
In 1899 a white man in England named Rudyard Kipling, who was considered the "bard of imperialism," wrote a poem entitled the "White Man's Burden" during the Spanish-American War.
It was an ode to empire.
The poem called on the Americans, who were at war in the Philippines, to adopt the burden of the white man, the burden of "civilizing the savages" through colonialism and imperialism.
Kipling urged on the Americans despite the fact that colonizing the world was, as he put it, a "thankless burden," one for which the colonized peoples would have no gratitude.
This poem reflected a growing recognition in the white world of the United States as the rising imperial force.
Theodore Roosevelt, considered by some to be the premier leader of the imperialist venture (although we question this designation, considering that the birth of the U.S. was the result of an imperialist venture), said that the poem made the point.
It is no coincidence that it was Theodore's son, Kermit Roosevelt, who oversaw the coup in Iran in 1953.

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Q: Different results for the same division in C I'm writing a program in ANSI-C.
Given these values:
static long long int QList[12] = { 0, 2, 6, 30, 210, 2310, 30030, 510510, 9699690, 223092870, 6469693230, 200560490130 };
static long long int phiList[12] = { 0, 1, 2, 8, 48, 480, 5760, 92160, 1658880, 36495360, 1021870080, 30656102400 };
static int hList[12] = { 0, 1, 2, 4, 12, 60, 60, 120, 360, 3960, 27720, 27720 };

I use them in a loop like this:
double alfa;
static double Log2 = log(2.);

for(k=3; k<8; k++){
    alfa = QList[k]/phiList[k]/ hList[k]/ Log2;
    [.........]
}

If written so, alfa = 0.0000000000000000000 for every "k".
Instead, if i write:
double alfa;
static double Log2 = log(2.);

for(k=3; k<8; k++){
    alfa = QList[k];
    alfa= alfa/ phiList[k];
    alfa = alfa / hList[k];
    alfa = alfa / Log2;
    [.........]
}

Alfa assumes the right values (different from zero).
The problem seems to be the division for "hList[k]".
Why?

A: Division is performed left to right, so your first cases uses integer division for the first two divisions, dropping any remainder.
You can force it  to use doubles all the way by casting to double:
alfa = ((double)QList[k])/phiList[k]/ hList[k]/ Log2;

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TMC got just a little more colorful on Saturday, Dec. 1 when Color Vibe came to town! TMC hosted this unique event with a two-mile circuit of its campus totaling 3.1 miles (a 5K run/walk). At strategic locations throughout the course, participants were pummeled with "magical color powder" made from food grade quality cornstarch using an advanced manufacturing process that has been custom developed for the Color Vibe Race Series. It is non-toxic, 100% safe, and also biodegradable. As with any substance, you will want to keep it out of your eyes and lungs.
More than 3,000 Tucsonans of all ages showed up for this first-for-Tucson event ready for fun, decked out in tutus, fairy wings, colorful socks and more. When the day was done, they were a bit fitter and a lot more colorful than when they started.
The event wasn't just fun and games. Color Vibe donated over $6,000 to Girls on the Run of Southern Arizona.
Special thanks to Michael Rausch for the fabulous photos included in this blog. Mike is a long-time friend of TMC who moved out-of-state several years ago. He was visiting for the weekend and shot these amazing photos.


Katelyn is a designer based in the DC area and is a lifelong learner. She loves to prototype anything she can and is excited to work on improving digital experiences in the government space. She also teaches yoga, runs a design book club called District UX, and brews her own kombucha/beer at home.


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Q: Java pseudocode to code I'm about to build a program written in Java. I've already done its pseudocode, but I'm stuck on the code and I don't know what to do exactly. Well this is my progress so far:
pseudocode:
class Customer
    Print out "Enter costumer's name" (Pop up to answer)
    Random boolean
    If True
      print membership type
      print current date and time
class Visit
    Print out "Have you bought anything?" (Pop up to answer)
    if the answer is "no"
        print "Have a nice day!"
        exit program
    if else the answer is "yes"
        continue
    if else the answer is not "no" nor "yes"
        ask again
class Discount
    Print "Enter Price of Item:" (Pop up to price)
        if customer's membership type is "Premium"
            the discount to the price will be 20%
        else if customer's membership type is "Gold"
            the discount to the price will be 15%
        else if customer's membership type is "Silver"
            the discount to the price will be 10%
        else if customer's membership type "simple"
            the discount to the price will be 10%
class Main
  Variables: customer, visit, discount
  customer = new object
  Customer visit = new object
Visit discount = new object Discount
  do work with customer
  do work with visit
  do work with discount
    Print customer.name, customer.surname, discount.price, discount.final_price

code:
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Discount
{

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        String cust_name;
        String cust_surname;
        String answer;
        String answer2;

        float firstPrice, rate_1, D_rate, discount, final_price, prem_disc;
        prem_disc = 0;
        final_price = 0;
        discount = 0;

        Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);

        System.out.println("Enter Costumer's Name:");
        cust_name = in.next();
        cust_surname = in.next();

        System.out.println("Have you bought anything?");
        answer = in.next();
        if (answer.equals("no"))
        {
            System.out.println("Have a good day!");
            System.exit(0);
        } else if (!answer.equals("no"))

            System.out.println("Enter Price of Item:");
        firstPrice = in.nextFloat();

        System.out
                .println("What type of membership do you have? Premium, Gold, Silver or simple?");
        answer2 = in.next();
        if (answer2.equals("Premium"))
        {
            prem_disc = 20;
            discount = (firstPrice * 20 / 100);
            final_price = (firstPrice - discount);
        } else if (answer2.equals("Gold"))
        {
            prem_disc = 15;
            discount = (firstPrice * 15 / 100);
            final_price = (firstPrice - discount);
        } else if (answer2.equals("Silver"))
        {
            prem_disc = 10;
            discount = (firstPrice * 10 / 100);
            final_price = (firstPrice - discount);
        } else if (answer2.equals("simple"))
        {
            prem_disc = 10;
            discount = (firstPrice * 10 / 100);
            final_price = (firstPrice - discount);
        }

        System.out.println("Costumer Name:" + cust_name + " " + cust_surname
                + "\n" + "Discount Rate:" + prem_disc + "\n"
                + "Discounted Price:" + final_price + "\n");

    }
}

It's working, but there are many things that are missing. :/

A: Just take one step at a time, and when that step completely works, proceed to the next step.
An example:
Here's your pseudo-code (which, by the way, is a great way to start):
class Visit
   Print out "Have you bought anything?" (Pop up to answer)
   if the answer is "no"
       print "Have a nice day!"
       exit program
   if else the answer is "yes"
       continue
   if else the answer is not "no" nor "yes"
       ask again

Let's just implement and test the "is the answer yes-or-no" functionality:
/**
   <P>{@code java MyHomeworkMainClass}</P>
 **/
public class MyHomeworkMainClass  {
   public static final void main(String[] ignored)  {
      System.out.println("Visit.isUserInputYesNo(null)=" + Visit.isUserInputYesNo(null));
      System.out.println("Visit.isUserInputYesNo(\"gibberish\")=" + Visit.isUserInputYesNo("gibberish"));
      System.out.println("Visit.isUserInputYesNo(\"yes\")=" + Visit.isUserInputYesNo("yes"));
      System.out.println("Visit.isUserInputYesNo(\"no\")=" + Visit.isUserInputYesNo("no"));
   }
}
 class Visit  {
   public static final boolean isUserInputYesNo(String input)  {
      return  (input != null  &&
         (input.equals("yes")  ||  input.equals("no")));
   }
}

Now run it and see if it does what you want:
[C:\java_code\]java MyHomeworkMainClass
Visit.isUserInputYesNo(null)=false
Visit.isUserInputYesNo("gibberish")=false
Visit.isUserInputYesNo("yes")=true
Visit.isUserInputYesNo("no")=true

It does. Now add something else small to this and just keep going until you're done. For particularly difficult parts, it may be beneficial to create a completely separate class, with its own testing class. Then at the end, merge it all together. And never get rid of your testing functions, which will always be there for diagnosing future problems.
Good luck!


German tech institute ushers self replicating robots into reality.
Genetic algorithms, of various shapes and sizes, abound in a number of design fields, most prominently in architecture. The Fraunhofer Institute has now incorporated them into everyday life through the power of 3D printing, by using these algorithms to create specialized robots, which is a potentially game changing moment in design.
The 3D printed robots are the outcome of a genetic algorithmic reasoning process, which factors in the tasks expected of the robots and the terrain they will operate within, and subsequently selects the best robot for the job. Humans have been completely removed from the design and production process. These robots that are primarily used in the automotive, exploration, transportation and service industries, are constructed out of a series of ball and socket joints and connecting tubes whose shape can be easily modified, depending on the robot's task and terrain.


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From Mánes to modernity: Prague Castle unveils 200 years of Czech Portraits
Brian Kenety
An exhibition marking 200 years of portraiture in the Czech lands gets underway at Prague Castle today. The curators have brought together exquisite works by the nation's most celebrated painters, covering all major genres and movements up to the present day. I went along for a special tour ahead of the official opening.
Robert Guttmann: painter, globetrotting Zionist, and "most caricatured man" of 20th century Prague
The early 20th century naïve painter and sketch artist Robert Guttmann, in whose honour the exhibition gallery of the Jewish Museum in Prague is named, was famous in his day. Mainly due to his striking appearance, eccentric manner and extensive travels – often on foot – in promotion of the nascent Zionist movement. A fixture in Prague cafés and bars, where he sold his art for pocket change, "the Professor", as he was known, was among the most photographed and caricatured personalities in Czechoslovakia. Yet few know his story today.
Toyen's oil-on-canvas Black Paradise sells for 31.6 million crowns
Toyen's oil-on-canvas Black Paradise from 1925 sold to an anonymous bidder for 31.6 million crowns in an auction at the Kodl art gallery in Prague on Sunday. The starting price was 18 million crowns.
It is the second highest sum paid for a Toyen painting after the author's Twilight in Rainforest which sold for 36 million two years ago. Other works auctioned off included Antonín Procházka's Tray, Josef Čapek's Red Motorcycle and Mikuláš Medek's Thirsty Angel.
Prague's revamped Lennon Wall becomes open-air gallery
Tom McEnchroe
Prague's Lennon Wall has a new face and will newly serve as an open-air gallery. The famous tourist attraction, which before the Velvet Revolution served as a symbolic location of unofficial anti-communist protest, underwent a month-long revamp after being vandalised with vulgar graffiti. Prague authorities vowed to officially designate the Lennon Wall as a memorial site. Its new look was unveiled to the public on Thursday afternoon.
Kupka painting auctioned for 16 million crowns
A painting by František Kupka, a pioneer of the abstraction movement and master of symbolism, sold at auction in Prague on Saturday for 16 million crowns, Miloš Svoboda of the European Arts auction told the Czech News Agency.
The 1907 oil on canvas, called Pískaři na Seině (Sand Workers on the Seine), complete with the auction house's fee will cost the new owner a total of nearly 20 million crowns.
Kupka's paintings have been one of the most expensive to be auctioned in Prague for several years now.
Auction of Kokoschka painting sets new Czech record
An oil painting by Oscar Kokoschka entitled Prague – View from the Monastery of the Knights of the Cross with a Red Star was auctioned off for 78.5 million crowns (approximately 3 million euros or 3.4 million US dollars) on Sunday, the most paid for any single painting in a Czech auction.
Kokoscka's View from the Monastery of the Knights of the Cross with a Red Star sells for record 78.5 million crowns
An oil painting by Oscar Kokoschka entitled Prague – View from the Monastery of the Knights of the Cross with a Red Star was auctioned off for 78.5 million crowns on Sunday, the most paid for any single painting in auction, according to Alena Havlíková from the Adolf Loos Apartment and Gallery.
Kokoschka painted the oil on canvas in the late summer of 1934 and it is considered the best of his Prague views. His depiction of Charles Bridge (1934) is in the National Gallery in Prague, while his Hradčany and Petřín (1936) are part of the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C.
The works of one of the most important painters of the 20th century rarely appear at auctions, so its appearance at a Prague auction was a rare opportunity for art collectors.
Karel Gott's Mona Lisa to be put up for auction
As tributes to the late Czech singer Karel Gott pour in from at home and abroad following news of his death on Wednesday, the Kodl Art Gallery in Prague has announced it is putting one of the singer's paintings up for action. Although Karel Gott was an amateur, self-taught painter interest in it is expected to be huge.
Peter Sis: In September 1989 I led fleeing East Germans through Malá Strana
Peter Sis's On Flying and Other Dreams is one of the exhibitions of the year in Prague. It places in a fresh context five books focused on freedom by the US-based author and illustrator, including The Wall – Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain, The Three Golden Keys and Robinson. The show was conceived by the team of Michaela Šilpochová, Leoš Válka, Ivana Brádková at venue DOX, and at the opening I asked Sis what he had made of their approach.
Art collector Meda Mládková turns 100
The Czech cultural scene is celebrating the 100th birthday of art collector and philanthropist Meda Mládková.
Mládková spent more than half of her life in exile, mostly in the United States. In 1968 she and her husband Jan established a collection of Czech and Central European art which she brought to the US from behind the Iron Curtain.
After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Meda Mládková returned to Czechoslovakia and donated her entire collection to the country. In 1999 she started a foundation which acquired Sovovy Mlýny, a historic building a few hundred meters from Charles Bridge in Prague, and transformed the building into a thriving art museum.
The celebrations of her 100th birthday started in June with the premiere of a film about her life and the public can now view an exhibition called Ambassador of Art showing her personal belongings and memorabilia from her home in Washington, which was a frequent meeting place of politicians, intellectuals and artists.


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Dr. Larry Kessler, an Board Certified Emergency Physician explains how insurance, law, and DTC (Direct to Consumer) advertising have shaped our medical experience. He demonstrates how technology combines with culture to create the false notion of a zero-failure rate. Medical malpractice, regulatory boards, and excess testing are vividly described in stories showing real life consequences.
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Mahoning County farmers fight eminent domain for bike trail
By Rachel Wagoner -
Mike Cameron stands on an old railroad bed on his Mahoning County farm that could be turned into a paved bike path. Youngstown's Mill Creek MetroParks is using eminent domain to get access to the railroad bed.
SALEM, Ohio — Mike and Barb Cameron's farm is far from everything and can't be seen from any road. That's just how they like it.
Their home, where they raise beef cattle and grow field crops, is nestled on a slope above Cherry Valley Run and an old railroad bed.
That old railroad bed is pitting the Camerons and other farmers against Youngstown's Mill Creek MetroParks — a dispute that is already disturbing the peace and quiet the Camerons have long enjoyed on the farm.
Planned bike trail
Mill Creek MetroParks wants to put a paved bike path on the railroad to extend its 11-mile rails-to-trails bikeway by 6.4 miles to the south, and it is using eminent domain to get access to the land it needs.
"The train came through here, but it never came up off the tracks," Mike Cameron said. "We never had trouble with the train. With people, you have trouble."
The Camerons are among nearly a dozen landowners in Mahoning County to have an eminent domain lawsuit filed against them since November 2018 in the Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas to secure permanent easements for the land for phase three of the Mill Creek MetroParks Bikeway.
The extension is part of a larger project to create the 100-mile Great Ohio Lake-to-River Greenway, a system of county trails that would connect Lake Erie to the Ohio River.
Legislative help
The landowners may get help from a new piece of state legislation. Ohio State Rep. Don Manning, R-New Middletown, introduced a bill June 18 that would revise state law to prevent the government from using eminent domain for a recreational trail, like a bike trail. House Bill 288 had 10 cosponsors on the day it was introduced.
The Ohio Farm Bureau supports the legislation, said Ty Higgins, Ohio Farm Bureau director of media relations.
Manning told Farm and Dairy that after he was made aware of the issue, he met with Mill Creek officials to discuss the situation and see if a compromise could be reached.
"I was told point blank that 'The time for talking is over. We're taking this property,'" he said. "I didn't like that answer at all. It's a prime example of government overreach."
Manning attached an emergency clause that will put it ahead of other legislation and put it into effect as soon as Gov. Mike DeWine signs it, should it get to his desk. The bill was referred to the civil justice committee on June 25.
The bill is the only hope they have to keep their land intact, Mike Cameron said. They're fighting the lawsuit, but he's been told that the only thing they can do is argue over land price.
The park offered the Camerons $35,700 for rights to their 6.5-acre property, according to the lawsuit. The Camerons would still own the land, pay taxes on it and be responsible for any damage done to the bike path while operating the farm.
Until two years ago, the Camerons operated a dairy farm, milking between 80 and 100 cows.
They have run the farm for the last 25 years, but the land has been in Mike Cameron's family for four generations. He spent summers on the farm when his grandparents owned it, eventually moving there when he turned 16. Back then, the railroad was still running.
"You learned as a young boy before you let the cows across to listen for the train," Mike Cameron said.
The old railroad bed sits about 300 feet from the Camerons' house and barn, separating them from much of their pasture and fields on the other side.
Mike Cameron has a lot of questions about how he'll run his farm if the trail goes in. New fence will be needed to keep his cows off the bike path. And he wonders how he will run equipment and animals from one side of the trail to the other.
"If we damage it when we cross it, we have to repair it," he said. "I still have a lot of pasture on that side. I need to get back and forth."
More people, more trouble
They also wonder about liability and safety issues. That's something other neighbors are worried about as well.
David and Gerry Roller, who live north of the Camerons, are concerned about people going onto the former strip mine they own that sits along the old railroad tracks.
The property is across the road from their farm, and the railroad bed runs the length of it. Just up a steep, shale-covered hill from the tracks are two lakes, both about 30 feet deep.
"If you fell in, you'd be in trouble," David Roller said.
Gerry Roller said they've had trouble over the years with people going to fish or hang out there, thinking it's public land. They've posted the property, but the signs have been torn or shot down, she said.
The Rollers worry it will only get worse with the bike path running next to the lakes.
The idea for a bikeway that follows the old railroad corridor began nearly 30 years ago.
The railroad was constructed in the 1860s as the Niles & Lisbon Branch of the Erie Railroad. Service on the line, however, was discontinued and the tracks and ties were removed in the 1980s.
Steve Avery, park planning and operations director, said Mill Creek went through a planning process in 1990, shortly after it was formed as a county-based agency. The plan recommended converting the abandoned rail line to a bike trail.
The first two phases of the bikeway were built and opened to the public in 2000 and 2001. A feasibility study was done and recommended the third phase of the trail continue to follow the railroad, Avery said.
Other route options were considered, but following the railroad impacted fewer property owners and made the trail accessible to more users than just bicyclists, he said.
Putting the trail on Washingtonville Road, a north-south road to the east of the proposed trail extension, would require installing a dedicated bike lane on the road, Avery said. This would mean buying property along the fronts of dozens of properties to widen the road.
Using the railroad impacts 13 property owners, he said.
"There are a lot of considerations that went into the preferred alignment, like safety, the amount of users." Avery said.
Avery said they held two public meetings — in 2012 and 2016 — about the extension and offered to meet with property owners individually around the times of those meetings.
Construction for the path is projected to cost $3.5 million, with 80% of that coming from a Federal Highway Administration grant. Avery said construction could begin as soon as July 1, 2020, after the federal funding becomes available.
From lake to river
The contested bikeway is considered a key part of the proposed 100-mile Great Ohio Lake-to-River Greenway, which would link Lake Erie to the Ohio River.
The existing Mill Creek bikeway is a 10-foot-wide paved path that begins at the line of Trumbull and Mahoning counties, near County Line Road, where it connects with the 4-mile-long Niles Greenway trail.
From the county line, it continues south to Western Reserve Road. The proposed extension goes to High Street, near Route 14, in Washingtonville. The trail will then connect to the Little Beaver Creek Greenway trail.
More than 75 miles of lake to river trail has already been built in Mahoning, Columbiana, Trumbull and Ashtabula counties.
Who has the power?
The park already owns 1.8 miles of the rail line on the proposed new section. The board of commissioners voted in September 2018 to acquire the property for the remaining 4.6 miles, through eminent domain if necessary.
The Ohio Revised Code gives a park board power to acquire land for "forest reserves and for the conservation of the natural resources of the state including streams, lakes, submerged lands and swampland, and to those ends may create parks, parkways, forest reservations and other reservations."
In the lawsuits, Mill Creek said it is acquiring the land for "public transportation and recreation purposes."
Diane Less, who is one of the defendants, is contesting how the organization is defining the use of eminent domain. She said she was offered $13,000 for the easement for 2 acres. A bike path would cut off access to a 6-acre lot on her farm.
Less argued in a motion to dismiss that the board does not have the power to take land for public transportation or create a bikeway, under the portion of the law. Her motion will be considered July 31 by Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge John Durkin.
"Eminent domain has a true purpose," Less told Farm and Dairy. "You have to have highways. You have to have hospitals. But a bike trail to benefit a handful of people?"
(Reporter Rachel Wagoner can be contacted at 800-837-3419 or rachel@farmanddairy.com.)
Eminent domain explained
What is eminent domain?
It is the power of the federal, state and local governments to take private property for public use.
What is public use defined as?
Utility facilities, roads, sewers, water lines, public schools, public and private higher education facilities, public parks, government buildings, port authority transportation facilities, projects by public utilities, similar facilities and uses of the land.
The government must deliver a "notice of intent to acquire" the property and a "good faith offer" to purchase the property, based on its fair market value.
If after 30 days the state and property owner can't agree on a price for the property, a jury decides. The state can file an appropriation lawsuit and a jury trial will decide the price.
Where does the government get this power from anyway?
The U.S. Constitution, in the Fifth Amendment, and the Ohio Constitution, in Article 1, Section 19.
The Ohio Revised Code, or the book of state laws, specifically gives various government agencies power to take land for certain uses.
Sources: Ohio Attorney General's Office, Ohio Revised Code
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Rachel is a reporter with Farm and Dairy and a graduate of Clarion University of Pennsylvania. She married a fourth-generation beef and sheep farmer and settled down in her hometown in Beaver County. Before coming to Farm and Dairy, she worked at several daily and weekly newspapers throughout Western Pennsylvania covering everything from education and community news to police and courts.
Front Porch Anarchast July 9, 2019 at 12:31 pm
Taking land from someone who doesn't want it taken is theft. It doesn't matter if the thief is a person, a company, or a government. Shame on these busy bodies who would steal land. And shame on those of you who elected such people. Shame on those of you who support a system that steals land from people. Maybe they'll steal yours next.
Julie July 9, 2019 at 3:52 pm
I would fight back and hard. They are taking much more than what they are proposing. Basically the land owners will be denied access to their property on the other side. In other words they're being ripped off by the city. They aren't being paid nearly enough for having to take on the liability and maintenance for something they are being forced into.
As well, since it's being demanded that they assume liability
does that include personal injury? If a biker or runner is injured on their section of the path will they be left open to be sued? Afterall, the city is Taking the land but denying that they have any responsibility for anything.
This could be a very bad thing as it'll bring bike and foot traffic into an area where it was never meant to be. Especially with the neighboring property with the old mine and lakes. There is alot of personal liability and they're being set up for lawsuits and could possibly lose everything they've ever worked for.
Resident July 10, 2019 at 8:41 am
The bike path is a good thing for the region and will provide all important access to the OH river. The RR bed is a ROW already established; the landowners new this was coming and will have access to the other parts of their land and can negotiate for more cash to put up fences, etc. People who will use the path are just normal people.
Scott L July 10, 2019 at 12:46 pm
If "Resident" wants access to the Ohio river, use the road as impacting someone's life and their making a living for "convenience of a few" is immoral. This is government over-reach, plain and simple and does not pass the litmus test.
Janna Swanson July 11, 2019 at 10:42 am
People without land do not understand this issue but imagine that the government gave people the right to use your bathroom any time of the day or night. Our land is not just our home, it is often our businesses as well. The definition of "public use" as an excuse to use eminent domain is getting way too broad. Remember Kelo vs. New London.
Frank m. Kalan July 12, 2019 at 10:56 am
S C O T U S ruled it goes through the federal courts now which is harder to justify eminent domain.


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Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings and a Funeral – Flyer
Series name Production: Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings and a Funeral
This is a postcard size flyer of the April 2001 production of 'Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings and a Funeral' performed at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith in London. The cast featured several new members from the original 1998 production. The performance ran from 19 September to 3 November 2001 and was adapted for stage from the1994 Rajshri Production's Bollywood blockbuster, 'Hum Aapke Hain Koun' by Sudha Buchar and Kristine Landon-Smith.
Date of Creation / Publication 2001
Creator Tamasha Theatre Company
Associated Person/ Organisation Buchar, Sudha
Collection and Reference Number Tamasha Theatre Company (GB 2661 TT)
Catalogue Number TT/PRO/FS/6
Access to originals The originals are located at Tamasha Theatre Company http:www.tamasha.org.uk
Series notes Fourteen Songs,Two Weddings and a Funeral', is a musical love story adapted by Sudha Buchar and Kristine Landon-Smith and directed and choreographed by Kristine Landon-Smith. The play was adapted from the 1994 Rajshri Productions world-wide blockbuster Bollywood film 'Hum Aapke Hain Koun...!'.
Tamasha's 1998 production premiered at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith on 11 November then toured to Bristol. 'Fourteen Songs,Two Weddings and a Funeral' has won two awards, the BBC Asia Award for Achievement in the Arts, and the Barclay Theatre Award for the best musical in 1999. It was brought back by popular demand in 2001 and played at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith from 14 February - 3 March, Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham, Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, The Lowry, Manchester, Bristol Old Vic, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford and Birmingham Repertory Theatre between 5 March and 9 April 2001. Co-adapter of the play and Tamasha's co-founder, Sudha Buchar said,"The heritage of Bollywood is an inspiration to us as artists. The show paved the way for Bollywood to go mainstream. We portrayed a true representation of Bollywood on stage and made it more accessible to a culturally diverse British audience." (see http://www.newsindia-times.com/2002/05/03/tow33-top.html)
The cast of 'Fourteen Songs,Two Weddings and a Funeral' include Rajesh Bedi, Ajay Chhabra, Meneka Das, Shiv Grewal, Raza Jaffrey, Shobu Kapoor, Pravesh Kumar, Parminder Nagra, Rehan Sheikh and Sameena Zehra. The 2001 re-runs of the production featured four new members of cast Pushpinder Chani replacing Pravesh Kumar, Mala Ghedia replacing Parminder Nagra, Shammi Aulakh replacing Raza Jaffrey and Archie Lal played the role of the Professor.
Collection notes The Tamasha Theatre collection consists of digitised material which relate to their productions and include items such as flyers, programmes, scripts, photographs, and stage and costume drawings.


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L'Ulster Rugby è una franchigia rugbistica professionistica con sede a Belfast, che disputa la Celtic League e l'European Rugby Champions Cup. La squadra rappresenta anche la Irish Rugby Football Union Ulster Branch, che è una delle quattro principali sezioni della IRFU ed è responsabile dell'organizzazione e diffusione del rugby a 15 nella provincia irlandese dell'Ulster, che comprende sei contee dell'Irlanda del Nord e tre della Repubblica d'Irlanda.

La sezione provinciale è stata fondata nel 1879. Lo stadio della squadra è il Ravenhill Stadium di Belfast, che ha una capienza di circa 12.300 spettatori. Tradizionalmente l'Ulster Rugby era la selezione della provincia irlandese ma dal 1995, quando il rugby a 15 è diventato uno sport professionistico, l'Ulster ha assunto tale status.

L'Ulster gestisce molte formazioni giovanili oltre alla Phoenix Ulster Academy, che serve a cercare di sviluppare i giovani talenti.

Storia

Il periodo del dilettantismo
La sezione Ulster della IRFU è stata fondata nel 1879. Da allora l'Ulster è stata quella delle quattro provincie ad ottenere il maggior numero di successi, avendo vinto il campionato interprovinciale per 26 volte. In tempi più recenti tuttavia ha ottenuto risultati inferiori a quelli delle due principali rivali, Leinster e Munster, che hanno conseguito vari successi sia in Irlanda che in ambito internazionale.

Durante l'epoca del dilettantismo L'Ulster ha affrontato regolarmente squadre dell'emisfero meridionale in tour in Europa; la sua prestazione migliore risale alla stagione 1984-1985, quando riuscì a battere l'Australia. Fu una delle sole quattro sconfitte dell'Australia in un tour che la vide battere Irlanda, Galles, Scozia e Inghilterra.

L'epoca professionistica
Nella stagione 1998-99 L'Ulster diventò la prima provincia irlandese a riuscire a vincere l'Heineken Cup, battendo per 21-6, nella finale giocata a Lansdowne Road, il Colomiers. Nella squadra militavano ancora diversi giocatori semi-professionisti due dei quali, Andy Matchett e Stephen McKinty partirono nella formazione titolare della finale.

Dal 2001 al 2004, periodo in cui il club effettuo definitivamente il passaggio al professionismo, l'Ulster fu allenato dal sudafricano Alan Solomons, ex viceallenatore degli Springboks e capo allenatore di Stormers e Western Province. Sotto la sua guida la squadra rimase imbattuta in casa in Heineken Cup per tre anni consecutivi e nella stagione 2003/04 arrivò seconda in Celtic League, superata solo all'ultimo dagli Scarlets.

Dopo il passaggio di Solomon ai Northampton Saints la guida della squadra fu presa da Mark McCall che nonostante un avvio difficile riuscì a mantenere l'imbattibilità interna in campo internazionale per il quarto anno di fila. Nel 2005-2006 L'Ulster guidò il campionato per la maggior parte della stagione, tuttavia uno scadimento di forma nel finale consentì al Leinster di rimontare. All'ultima giornata entrambe le squadre potevano vincere il titolo che l'Ulster riuscì a conquistare solo grazie ad un calcio segnato all'ultimo minuto da David Humphreys contro gli Ospreys.

La stagione successiva la squadra non ottenne buoni risultati venendo presto eliminata dall'Heineken Cup e terminando la Celtic League al quinto posto. Il 2007/2008 andò anche peggio e dopo le dimissioni di McCall a metà novembre la squadra, affidata prima al vice Steve Williams e poi a Matt Williams, chiuse la lega al nono posto su dieci partecipanti, davanti al solo Connacht.

Nel maggio 2009, chiusa la nuova stagione di Celtic League con un ottavo posto finale, Matt Williams diede le dimissioni e fu sostituito da Brian McLaughlin. Nonostante i propositi bellicosi della dirigenza e un buon inizio di stagione l'Ulster dopo il periodo natalizio non riuscì più ad ottenere buoni risultati, chiudendo la stagione nuovamente all'ottavo posto.

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 2005-06

 2003-04

Giocatori

Giocatori che hanno vestito la maglia dei Lions
I giocatori che seguono hanno vestito in almeno un'occasione la maglia dei British and Irish Lions.

 Tommy Smyth: 1910
 Robert Alexander: 1938
 Paddy Mayne: 1938
 Jack Kyle: 1950
 Robin Thompson: 1955
 Raymond Hunter: 1962
 Willie John McBride:1962 1966, 1968, 1971, 1974
 Syd Millar: 1962, 1968
 Mike Gibson: 1966, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1977
 Roger Young: 1966, 1968
 Stewart McKinney: 1974
 Colin Patterson: 1980
 David Irwin: 1983
 Trevor Ringland: 1983
 Steve Smith: 1989
 Eric Miller: 1997
 Jeremy Davidson: 1997,
 Tyrone Howe: 2001
 Stephen Ferris: 2009
 Tommy Bowe: 2013
 Rory Best: 2013, 2017
 Tom Court: 2013
 Iain Henderson: 2017
 Jared Payne: 2017

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Collegamenti esterni

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David Gilchrist has received research funding from a number of Not-for-profit industry groups as well as state and Commonwealth government agencies.
Additionally, it can place government's own policy agenda at risk. These advocacy bodies often assist government by providing much-needed information which increases the opportunity for policy realisation.
This happened again in March this year when the Senate Committee on Economics Legislation issued a report that supported the government's intention to decommission the Corporations And Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC).
Despite its very modest budget and a number of successes — which have triggered considerable support amongst those with an interest in this area — CAMAC is to be decommissioned. According to the Committee's majority report, the recommendation was made as a way of cutting costs and reducing red tape.
However, the Senate Committee's recommendation flies in the face of the almost unanimous tenor of the submissions to the committee which all (save one) supported the retention of what has been a very cheap but very valuable source of credible and, importantly, independent advice for the government.
Perhaps the origin of this antipathy toward CAMAC came out of the CAMAC's 2013 report into the administration of charitable trusts and its 2014 report into Crowd Sourced Equity Funding. Both reports recommended regulatory frameworks and increased transparency, and it is likely this is advice that the government did not want to hear.
The CAMAC example is not unusual. There are many examples where significant community objections as well as hard evidence have been subordinated to government intentions. The now delayed proposed removal of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC), the cuts to Legal Aid programs and the cuts to key peak bodies are all examples where the Commonwealth government has ignored informed opinion and also, somewhat strangely, undermined its own policy objectives.
However, it is the definition of red tape that becomes critical because one person's red tape is another person's protective shield. Government can inadvertently do harm — to itself and to the community — by pursuing budget cuts without balancing the advice being offered with its ideological objectives.
This feedback can assist government in achieving its stated policy intentions. For instance, the government recently announced that it aims to increase work participation rates of people with disability. This is laudable but, at the same time, funding for a number of related and important programs has been cut significantly thus reducing the government's likelihood of success.
The removal of effective information, advisory and advocacy arrangements is not red-tape reduction, but avoidance of alternate opinions. Just because something is uncomfortable for government to hear, doesn't mean it's wrong or that advocates are malicious.
The government's recent back-flips attest to the need for it to listen well and listen early. It doesn't own all the right answers.


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Today, the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on (and pass) HR 5771– the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014. This will be Congress' first solid step in some time toward passage of tax extenders. HOWEVER, in its current form the bill's provisions fall short of expectations.
HR 5771 provides for a ONE-YEAR retroactive extension. That means that if the bill were also passed by the Senate without amendment, WOTC and other tax extenders would expire again on December 31, 2014 – just 28 days from now.
Fortunately, the Senate already has shown broad bipartisan support for the EXPIRE Act, which provides a 2-year retroactive extension. The EXPIRE Act additionally would expand WOTC eligibility to include workers who have been unemployed long-term.
The WOTC Coalition, is urging coalition members and other interested parties to lobby their Senators. Ask them to amend HR 5771 with the language of the EXPIRE Act when the bill arrives from the House.


Chalmers scientists have built the fastest hydrogen sensor in the world.
According to the scientists, the plastic encapsulated sensor is said to meet all future performance targets pertaining to hydrogen-powered vehicles.
The sensor works based on an optical phenomenon – a plasmon – which occurs when metal nanoparticles are illuminated and capture visible light.
This allows it to simply change color when the amount of hydrogen in the environment changes.
According to the scientists, the plastic around the tiny sensor is not just for protection but also functions as a key component.
It increases the sensor's response time by accelerating the uptake of the hydrogen gas molecules into the metal particles where they can be detected.
It further acts as an effective barrier to the environment, preventing any other molecules from entering and deactivating the sensor.
This enables the sensor to work both highly efficiently and undisturbed, enabling it to meet the rigorous demands of the automotive industry – to be able to detect 0.1 percent hydrogen in the air in less than a second.
"We have not only developed the world's fastest hydrogen sensor, but also a sensor that is stable over time and does not deactivate," says physics researcher Ferry Nugroho.
Detecting hydrogen is challenging in many ways. The gas is invisible and odourless, but also volatile and extremely flammable.
It requires only four percent hydrogen in the air to produce oxyhydrogen gas, sometimes known as knallgas, which ignites at the smallest spark.
In order for hydrogen cars and the associated infrastructure of the future to be sufficiently safe, sensors have to detect extremely small amounts of hydrogen in the air.
They also need to be quick enough to detect leaks before a fire occurs.


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Router Freedom achieved in Finland, as the most fair and efficient practice
Finland recognises Router Freedom as a digital right, setting an example for the EU. Net neutrality is ensured by EU Regulation. Net neutrality means that users have the right to use terminal equipment of their choice, such as a phone or modem. For Finland, this is clear. Traficom, the national agency dealing with transportation, communications, and networks, has a noteworthy stance on the issue, protecting the rights of end-users.
We interviewed Klaus Nieminen, Chief Specialist of Traficom. In his view, Router Freedom benefits end-users, fosters competition in the telecommunications terminal equipment markets, and complies with the Open Internet Regulation 2015/2120 of the EU. He shares that there is no technological necessity to justify limiting end-users' rights to choose their own equipment. Traficom arrived at this conclusion after an objective assessment. Finally, he explains that in Finland Router Freedom also applies to new technologies such as 5G.
This is the first time since the launch of the Software Freedom Podcast that a FSFE staff member gives an interview in our podcast series. Max Mehl, FSFE Programme Manager, has been with the FSFE since 2011 and has worked on numerous campaigns. With this episode Bonnie Mehring and Max Mehl provide a nice and easy entrance to the very complex world of software licensing.
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Early programmers deserve a spotlight too. From kids to teenagers, the FSFE welcomes early programmers and all beginners in its community.
Teaching Free Software to children
In Kreuzlingen, a city in northern Switzerland, five children had the chance to participate in a 4-day course on Free Software development. The course was free of charge, and it was offered thanks to the creativity and pedagogical skills of FSFE supporter Peter Bittner. The kids had no prior experience using Linux, so the course started with booting GNU/LINUX from a USB stick, and quickly advanced to working in the terminal using Bash commands and coding Python.
'We need our kids to know what school doesn't teach them' says Peter in his blog about this course. 'Pupils are being taught "products" of the technology giants ("Safari", "Word", "Excel", "PowerPoint") instead of information technology concepts (web browser, text processor, spreadsheet, presentations)'.
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So do not miss to starting early and get one of our fork T-shirts. They are available for ages 5 to 12, as well as in a bib for babies!
This autumn, the FSFE will launch a new activity for teenagers. Our goal is to share the values of Free Software with young developers. So if you are a young person experimenting with software development, or if you know one, stay tuned.
On Wednesday August 4th, we are organising an online workshop (DE) to prepare the promotion of our 'Public Money? Public Code!' campaign during the last weeks until the German elections. We need your support to spread our message. If you would like to be involved in this process, please register and join our workshop for in-person discussions.
What we have done:
On June 23rd, Max Mehl, Programme Manager at the FSFE, presented REUSE in the "Leveraging Open Source Responsibly" session at OW2con'21. In his presentation, he explained how REUSE makes it easier for developers to declare the licensing and copyright situation for their code. The presentation is available on Peertube. This session is part of a long-term effort by OW2 to promote best practices and good citizenship in open source governance.
On July 6th and 7th, Bonnie Mehring and Alexander Sander presented our German federal election campaign to the local groups of Nordhessen and Frankfurt. If you are interested in participating in such a workshop check our upcoming event.
On July 22nd, Bonnie Mehring presented our 'Public Money? Public Code!' campaign in the FSFE women monthly meeting. Also, they discussed what the plans are with respect to the upcoming election campaign of the federal parliament in Germany 2021. The FSFE women group is open to all women who are interested in Free Software and technology; meetings take place online.
On July 24th, translators met online to get to know each other and learn valuable tools for their work, such as the webpreview tool, the translation wiki, and Git. The meeting was hosted by Bonnie Mehring, coordinator of the FSFE translator group team, and Luca Bonissi, who has created the webpreview tool.
Alexander Sander, our Policy Consultant, contributed to a report on the use of Free Software in local administrations which was released by the German association for municipal government. The association, 'Kommunale Gemeinschaftsstelle für Verwaltungsmanagement (KGSt)', published the report [DE] titled 'Open Source in Kommunen – Ein Baustein für mehr Digitale Souveränität.'
Legal and Licensing Workshop 2021
On July 14th, the Online Legal and Licensing Workshop 2021 was completed. The FSFE's Free Software Legal and Licensing Workshop (LLW) has been held annually for the FSFE's Legal Network since 2008, and serves as a conference for legal experts in the field of Free Software to debate issues and share best practices surrounding Free Software licenses. Instead of a one-time conference, this year LLW offered online presentations, discussion panels, and workshops continuously from March to July.
We are very happy to have put up an online edition of the LLW, and we are also looking forward to organizing next year's edition of the LLW, to be held hopefully in person, to continue building a robust Free Software legal community.
Get active for the Federal election in Germany
On 26 September, a new Bundestag will be elected in Germany. We are engaged around the election and want to ensure with our activities that "Public Money? Public Code!" plays an important role for the next government. Therefore we want to make sure that our "Public Money? Public Code!" demands will be included in the coalition agreement of Germany's next government. To achieve this we need your help and support. We created an activity package [DE] for you and will also present it during a workshop on 4 August 2021. If you want to participate, register now.
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April's Little Family: Year of the Mom.
Ok, so I tried to write this post once before, but it became about the kids and the family. As things are wont to do when you're a Mom. But this time. This time, it's about Mom. Sort-of.
The year 2009 will be 'The Year of the Mom'. Really. (Well, I'm hoping.) I mean, what's more mom-like than having kids? As those of you who follow my tweets know, we've been trying to get pregnant again for the last several months. Yesterday was another let down.
But I've decided to take it in stride. Clearly, the universe is telling me I am not prepared for another baby. So, I cooked one hundred Southwest Eggrolls for the freezer. I added it to my twelve loaves of French Bread and three meals of Italian Beef. Next week I will make enough Green Bean Chicken Casserole and Spinach Artichoke Dip to feed the Duggars. Because, not having to worry about dinner is about the best gift you can give a Mom. So, I'm gifting it to myself. Thank you, Self.
By the way, Self? If I'm prepared by next month, may I have another baby?
Oh yeh. And I'm going to paint my toenails at least once a week. Because painted toenails are awesome and they make me feel pretty.
p.s. Remember how I said you could win one of my scarves?
If your freezer's full... there's plenty of room in mine! Keep on trying. Practice makes perfect, right?
Sounds like a wonderful year to me... and that freezer... oh that sounds pretty wonderful as well!!!! It'll be a great year, and maybe we'll both be a mom, again.
You'll get there, don't worry. That picture is fantastic, by the way.
Amazing pictures through out your entire blog! What kind of camera do you use?
@ anonymous: Thanks! I usually use the Sony Cybershot, but some (including the one in this post) were taken with my sister's Canon Rebel. Both cameras are listed in the right column of my blog if you're interested!
April, sending you baby vibes! I've been there, so I know it's hard. I checked out the recipe.......wowza 100 of those little suckers, you are industrious! The sound good!
holy crap that is a lot of food. are you expecting something bad or just love to have a freezer full.
I think that year of the mom is a great idea. I really need to take some time for myself.
Aww I had no idea you were trying for another one! I'm sorry that this was a let down. It will happen. :) Believe me it will. It took Cole and I... a while.
April - give yourself a break cos your littlest dude is still very little. It'll happen when you least expect it. All my kids were unexpected blessings but I was back to work etc when I fell preggers for the 3rd time. There is a 2.5 year gap between by two oldest (natural breastfeeding gap) but a jump of 5 years between the 2 boys which probably was a bit much but it gave me time with the other two and they were also independent by the time I had no. 3. So relax enjoy and it will happen again.
Reading your blog not only makes me hungry, but I'm pretty sure my kids are somewhere drooling too.


Most folks agree that effective processes and tools are needed to govern the stages, assignments and ultimately the output of your project. They are truly critical to the success of every endeavor. This includes setting and tracking goals, compiling and organizing important project assets, and managing the day-to-day workflow of both client and agency team members.
Timelines, tasks, important milestones and due dates are what come to mind for most people when discussing project management. There's no doubt these items are important and must be considered and tracked effectively, but I'd argue they are not the most important aspects of any project really. In a way, these are the simplest elements of every project. I've found that it's the more intangible items that have the most impact, up or down, on both the project success and the relationship between our team and yours.
Let's define the intangible here. It's the communication between the milestones, the emails, the scheduled calls and the ad-hoc calls. It's in the way information is collected, organized and shared with team members. It's also the struggles and speed bumps we hit along the way, most of which is traditionally hidden from the Client team versus shared openly and honestly... for fear of negatively impacting the confidence in, or competency of the Agency team. These items come with many challenges.
When critical details are shared over the phone, things are easily misunderstood. Minor misunderstandings today typically evolve into an irritating and costly course correction down the road. And there's also a little issue of onus probandi. It's important in business to have a record of critical communications and agreements, and barring recording these sort of conversations, this is simply impossible to do over the phone.
When project communications and updates are sent via email, inevitably some folks are left off the string, creating misalignment and confusion across team members working on the same task. And when that information needs to be reviewed later down the line, a search via email becomes a frustrating and ineffective process. Was that email titled "Our Customers," "Audience Profiles" or "Take a look at this when you can" – your guess is a good as mine.
Don't misunderstand, we've tried just about everything that anyone thought would work to accommodate the above activities. Sending recap digests after every call, syncing emails into the PMS, and even copying and pasting emails at one point, just for the record. And more, so much more. None of these efforts truly solved the problem, there were still too many cracks. But what it did accomplish is inflating the PM hours required to deliver for our clients beyond what is acceptable to any of us.
And we've tried just about every Project Management Solution you've heard of, including Harvest, Basecamp, Daylight, Workamajig, To Do, Google Tasks, and others. Most of which still take a straight PMS approach, with a cool UI and a few bells and whistles for sure. But in each case, we found that our Clients were still compelled to use email regularly, send disparate documents, and still require numerous phone calls to make sure we're on the same page. Our team felt that this should not, and could not, be the bar here.
Finally, we found Asana. Created by Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook, and ex-Google-and-Facebook engineer Justin Rosenstein, Asana is a project management solution like many others. It includes those tried and true features that are damn near critical for every single project. Task management available in a waterfall or kanban layout, of which we use both; Gantt Timeline and Calendar views for our more marketing-minded folks. It has document management and reporting features, and integrates with other tools like Slack and Harvest. But you really don't need those additional integrations if you figure out what Asana is all about and go all in.
The critical difference is that Asana at its very core was designed to improve team collaboration. And this is most evident in the team's approach to communication across the platform.
To replace email, there is Conversations. For any communications that are not task specific, you simply jump in, add a subject line and start typing, just as you would in email. There are no extra steps. However, the beneficial difference with Conversations is that you don't need to think about who should be included, as both agency and client team settings have been determined at the beginning of the project. You can always ensure that the correct folks are seeing the communication, they get notified in their Asana inbox and on their mobile devices via push notifications, courtesy of the Asana mobile app. And for those that choose to keep one foot in email, you can receive email notifications as well. All the bases are covered.
There is a special section for Status Updates, separate from simple Conversations. It is here that bi-weekly status updates are sent out across all projects to all team members. Updates include color status-indicators to quickly determine if the project is on track, or if something is impeding forward progress.
While no one, and I mean no one, ever truly wants to learn a new technology tool, I can assure you that this one is worth the very minimal effort required. It just makes common sense, so it's easy to adopt. Asana provides very helpful information to aid in this education, and our team is always available to answer any and all questions we can for our clients.
It's not for everyone, however. If you are someone that prefers the ambiguity of phone calls, likes the disorganization of managing critical communications via email, or perhaps you're just simply stuck in the old way of doing things and don't want to change lanes, then Asana isn't for you. But, and I say this with kindness, neither is Interstellar.


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GP recruitment set to rise
Health Minister John Denham today welcomed latest figures showing that it has become easier to recruit GPs in England.
In 1999, 86% of senior GP vacancies were filled within 12 months. This year the figure has risen to 91%. Although there was no overall vacancy rate figure in last year's survey, this year's figures show that 89% of all GP vacancies were filled within six months.
Speaking last week to an audience of GPs and other primary care professionals Mr Denham announced a Government review of the numbers of staff in GP surgeries and other primary care services, and of the way they work. The aim is to break down barriers between different groups of staff and ensure their skills are being used in the most effective way.
Mr Denham said:
"This survey clearly shows that being a GP is a popular option amongst doctors. But we want to make sure that primary care continues not only to thrive but to develop in response to changing demands from patients and the need to provide faster, more convenient services."
"That's why we've announced a thorough review of primary care staffing - not just of the numbers of staff, but also the way they work with each other and with other parts of the NHS. Use of the new Personal Medical Services contract by GPs is already bringing a wide range of benefits. It has been used to develop new services for specific populations such as ethnic minority communities and to attract doctors and nurses to work in deprived areas."
"By 2004 we want to see an extra 2,000 GPs in the health service an extra 450 in training. And those figures represent the floor not the ceiling. They are just the start of a wider expansion in primary care. Our workforce review will form the basis for further expansion beyond 2004."


Prism Health Advocates' new health advocacy service for business has the power to lower a company's healthcare spending by reducing employee healthcare costs without sacrificing quality. Prism accomplishes this goal through a Trident of Care: improving access to and quality of healthcare, educating employees about how to cost-effectively use their insurance benefits and guaranteeing a reduction in costs.
Self-insured companies appreciate the cost-savings that a health advocate can garner through price shopping for medical procedures and negotiating down the cost of medical bills. Businesses that use private insurance also benefit from lower healthcare expenditures because it helps them negotiate lower premiums with health insurance companies.
A health advocate assists his or her patients by comparing pricing on medical procedures, researching specialists, laying out treatment options in plain English, negotiating down the cost of medical bills and setting up payment plans with healthcare providers. This range of services cuts down on healthcare costs and lightens an employee's burden. With a health advocate on their side, employees can focus on doing their jobs as opposed to struggling with complicated insurance forms and costly healthcare providers.
Prism also offers a service to help cut down on expensive Emergency Room stays. Prism's company-specific ER Triage System puts a Prism health advocate on-call to provide employees with emergency medical advice. Every Prism health advocate is a registered nurse who can advise a patient about how to best seek out treatment for his or her health problem.
Through the use of education programs, Prism can teach a company's workforce about preventative medicine, body mechanics, nutrition, exercise and sleep hygiene. A health advocate can also provide additional information to high-cost employees suffering from chronic illnesses like diabetes, heart disease or asthma about affordable treatment options for their diseases.
Prism Health Advocates will be sponsoring an event hosted by the Women's Business Development Council of Florida (WBDC) entitled "How to Cut Business and Personal Healthcare Costs." The event will take place the evening of Aug. 22 at the Centre Club in Tampa. Please visit the Facebook event page to RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/1992393531070972/.
Prism Health Advocates is a privately owned health advocacy firm that helps individuals and organizations navigate through the difficult process of researching doctors, comparing pricing on procedures, negotiating medical bills and setting-up payment plans for medical expenses. Debbie Bain, the founder of Prism, is a former trauma nurse who grew tired of seeing patients struggle with the high cost of healthcare and the knowledge barriers put up by the U.S. healthcare system. So, she decided to start her own firm to advocate for patients' physical health and financial well-being. Prism has experience serving the health advocacy needs of families, seniors, veterans, uninsured people and individuals with disabilities. The company also works with organizations to reduce health insurance costs using a combination of educational programs and health advocacy services. For more information, please visit https://www.prismhealthadvocates.com/.


is a rock band from Colchester, Essex, England, in 1977. The founders of the band were, Robbie Grey (vocals), Gary McDowell (guitar player and vocals), Michael Conroy (bass player and vocals). Soon Richard Brown (drum player), and Stephen Walker (keyboard player) was added to the group. The band was originally known as the Lepers. And even later, Ted Mason and Matthew Shippley was also added to the group. The group released their debut single called, Drowning Man, in 1980 with the Limp Records label. Their album called, Mesh & Lace, was released the following year by the 4AD Records label. Their style of music was the gloom rock sound which was used by bands such as Joy Division. The groups next release was, After the Snow, and it was a minor success. From the album came the hit, I Melt With You. The album was well received in the U. S. and the band moved to New York to better expose their talents. Their next release, which was called, Ricochet Days and from it came two hits, Ricochet Days and also Hands Across the Sea. In 1986, they released the album, Stop Start, with the Sire Records label. By this time, Walker and Brown left the group and Aaron Davidson (keyboard and guitar player), joined the group. The band was pushed too hard by the record producers. Grey went back to England and formed a new band. He reunited with Modern English members Davidson and Conroy, in 1990. They released the record called, Pillow Lips, with the TVT label, and the record sold over 300,000 copies.
Robbie Grey and Ted Mason co-wrote their material for the second release for TVT, with live strings and multiple harmonies. The recording received very little attention from TVT. The group had a contract with TVT so Grey put the band on hold for a while to study and travel and Mason took care of the legal issues to get the group out of their contract with TVT. In 1995 the band, with Matthew Shippley (0n the keyboard), Ted Mason (playing guitar and vocals), and John Solomon (on the drums), recorded the record called, Everything's Mad with the Imago label. As of today, Robbie Grey continues to tour on the U. S. Circuit and in 2001 he signed a recording contract with A. P. G. Music label. Everything Mad was repackaged and remastered in 2007 and released for the Mi5 Recordings label and distributed by Caroline/EMI. There is a Modern English album with unreleased material on it that is due to be released in late 2007. The band has sold over 4 million records worldwide during their music career. They have released a total of 7 main albums and 1 compilation.


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A beekeeper's paradise in NDG – Montreal
Watch above: Matt Trowell has been taking care of Jardin Rencontres in NDG for almost ten years now and he's hoping to create a bee sanctuary there by adding his own hive. Rachel Lau tells you what the buzz is all about.
MONTREAL – Matt Trowell has been taking care of Jardin Rencontres in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG) for almost ten years.
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Now, he wants to start something a little different.
"They have a sanctuary here and there are countless people creating a kind of arc or sanctuary or refuge here in the city for the bees," he said.
Bees thrive in what keepers call an urban jungle.
In fact, there are already hives in about 250 locations across the island. Trowell hopes to add his own.
"There's a huge trend in urban agriculture in Montreal," explained Alexandre McLean, the co-founder of Alveole urban agriculture.
"[The trend] uses unused spaces such as rooftops or balconies that we don't really use on a daily basis to start growing our own vegetables and become a little more independent with our food source."
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According to Trowell, there are no actual bylaws stopping him from keeping bees, but he does have to keep in touch with his borough every step of the way.
"I'm doing the best I can," he said.
"I've consulted as many people as I can find and we've all done our research and an overwhelming majority of the gardeners are in favour of this project."
NDG City Councillor Peter McQueen points out he's in favour of any project that enhances Montreal sustainability.
"Both the borough and our party, Projet Montreal at city hall, we support urban agriculture strongly including the beehives, which is of course key to urban agriculture," said McQueen.
He wants to do what he can to help Trowell's beekeeping dream come true.
"The more vegetation we have, the more greenery we have, the more planted matter we have in Montreal the better off we'll be," said Trowell.
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Most of the gardeners on the plot say they're looking forward to sharing their space – 39 of the 40 gardeners have already approved the project.
"We think it's a wonderful idea," said Elliot Singerman.
"I think it's great," agreed Jeannette Singerman. "Very excited about it."
The beehive in Jardin Rencontres in NDG.
Matt Trowell
The project is also an effort to demystify some of the misconceptions about urban beekeeping.
"We're keeping bees on rooftops and we don't wear any protection when we open the hives because they're very, very docile," said McLean.
"They won't attack you, they won't sting you if you don't harm them."
There's still a lot to do before this hive will come to life, but Trowell says he's ready to take on the challenge.
"It's be not afraid, be sweet, be free," he said.
"That's how I feel. It's a joy. For me it's a joy."
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NGC 2753-1 is een elliptisch sterrenstelsel in het sterrenbeeld Kreeft. Het bevindt zich in de buurt van NGC 2753-2.

Synoniemen
 MCG 4-22-15
 ZWG 121.20
 KCPG 187
 PGC 25603

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Lijst van NGC-objecten

Externe links
  NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
  SIMBAD Astronomical Database
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NGC-object in Kreeft
Sterrenstelsel in Kreeft


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The Institute of Radical Chemistry ICR is a Joint Research Unit under the tutorship of the University of Aix-Marseille and the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Created on the 1st of January, 2012, ICR is attached to the Institute of Chemistry (INC) of the CNRS. From a scientific point of view, the creation of the UMR is the result of a strong will to bring together the complementary skills of research teams specialized in radical chemistry and to combine the expertise of two teams, focused on modeling methods (MQ and MM) and molecular or macromolecular characterization respectively.
Prof. Dr Hon. Causa Sylvain Marque
Sylvain Marque is the leader of the chemistry team which is in charge of the preparation of shift-nitroxides, the chemical corner stone of the project
Sylvain Marque defended his Ph.D. degree in 1996. He was appointed as Professor in Chemistry at Aix-Marseille University in 2008. From 2015 to 2018, he was leader of research group at Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry (SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia). Since several years, he promotes the concept of smart alkoxyamines for applications in Material Sciences and Biology. He co-authored more than 170 articles and was leader of national and international projects, and received Doctor Honoris Causa awards in 2018.
Prof. Gérard Audran
Gérard Audran is involved in organic chemist for the chemistry team in charge of the preparation of specific nitroxides, required for the project.
Gérard Audran defended his Ph.D. degree in 1995. He was appointed as Professor in Chemistry at Aix-Marseille University in 2009. Since 2015, he is the leader of CRAB team, which is involved in the synthesis of smart compounds for therapeutic and diagnostic applications. He develops the use of alkoxyamines as new radical drugs avoiding the drug resistance in malaria, in gliome cancer and bacteria disease and new nitroxide probes for imaging to detect early different diseases. Recently, he was involved in plasmon-assisted nitroxide-mediated polymerization (NMP).
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Enzo Vaiedelich PhD (MESRI grant), Stanislav Lozovsky post-doc (PhD at the Federal University of Saint-Petersbourg, Russie), and Jean-Patrick Joly post-doct (PhD at the University of Nice).
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