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Structuring lectures in massive open online courses (MOOCs) for efficient learning by linking similar sections and predicting prerequisites
Shen S.-S.,National Taiwan University |
Lee H.-Y.,National Taiwan University |
Li S.-W.,MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory |
Zue V.,MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory |
Lee L.-S.,National Taiwan University
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH | Year: 2015
The increasing popularity of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has resulted in huge number of courses available over the Internet. Typically, a learner can type a search query into the look-up window of a MOOC platform and receive a set of course suggestions. But it is difficult for the learner to select lectures out of those suggested courses and learn the desired information efficiently. In this paper, we propose to structure the lectures of the various suggested courses into a map (graph) for each query entered by the learner, indicating the lectures with very similar content and reasonable sequence order of learning. In this way the learner can define his own learning path on the map based on his interests and backgrounds, and learn the desired information from lectures in different courses without too much difficulties in minimum time. We propose a series of approaches for linking lectures of very similar content and predicting the prerequisites for this purpose. Preliminary results show that the proposed approaches have the potential to achieve the above goal. Copyright © 2015 ISCA. Source
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According to Forbes magazine, their fifth annual 30 Under 30 lists showcase "America's most important young entrepreneurs, creative leaders and brightest stars" who are less than than 30 years old. Twenty-five MIT students, researchers, and alumni made the 2016 lists. Some 600 selections covering 20 categories were whittled down from an initial screening of more than 15,000 nominations. Following are the MIT affiliates who were selected. Peter Bailis (Enterprise Tech) Postdoc in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory "26-year-old Bailis finished his PhD in computer science at Berkeley and accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in Stanford's computer science department, starting in fall 2016. He wrote his PhD thesis on large-scale data management and is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship." Sampriti Bhattacharyya (Manufacturing and Industry) Grad student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and founder of Hydroswarm "Bhattacharyya has developed underwater drones that are capable of scanning the ocean for lost planes, or measure oil spills or radiation under the sea." "Chief operating officer of bank's U.S. credit trading group, managing 100 bankers trading investment grade, high yield and distressed debt." "Accion is working to commercialize ion propulsion technology for small satellites using a liquid ionic propellant that is non-toxic and non-explosive." "Chhabra published his first paper in high school. He's now pursuing his PhD, and his most recent thesis is focused on building a "liver on a chip" — a miniaturized liver model scientists hope could one day replace the use of animals for disease research." Abe Davis (Science) Grad student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science "Davis is best known for the subject of his TED Talk, in which he showed that he could capture information from video based on vibrations in the room." "Elmachtoub's research is focused on using data science and optimizing algorithms to make businesses more efficient." "EverVest provides advanced software for analyzing, valuing, and financing renewable energy projects." "This MIT PhD has put this technique to work making genetic alterations to cells to find proteins that can be hit with new drugs." "While studying computer science and physics at MIT, Grinich wrote his thesis on the fundamental tools for syncing email. He founded Nylas (formerly known as Inbox), with fellow MIT alumna Spang in 2013 … Spang, who wrote the core mail synchronization engine, runs its platform team, while Grinich is CEO." "Harvatine aims to catch concussions as they happen. His sensor can be attached to anything on the head — headband, helmet, hair clip — and sends feedback to smartphones in real time." Noel Hollingsworth '13, MEng '14 (Sports) Director of data at Second Spectrum "Hollingsworth won the 2014 Best Research Award at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Almost all NBA championship contenders use his work to gain an edge." Steven Keating SM '12 (Healthcare) Grad student in the department of Mechanical Engineering "Keating found out that he had brain cancer after volunteering for an MRI experiment … the MIT researcher wants to know: why can my doctors see my tumor genome and not me?" "Heads one of Wall Street's biggest VIX and structured volatility market making desks." Andrej Lenert SM '10, PhD '14 (Science) Postdoc at the University of Michigan "One avenue of his research was to develop a hybrid solar power system, combining the best of photovoltaic and solar thermal systems without their drawbacks." "Formlabs' printers are designed to allow for more precise parts to be created for more complicated 3-D printing projects." "Schoellhammer, a student of MIT professors Daniel Blankschtein and Robert Langer, invented a pill that can inject drugs directly into the gastrointestinal tract. The gadget helped him win the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Student Prize." Harbaljit Sohal (Science) Postdoc at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT "Sohal's research focus is on building neural implants for the treatment of brain disorders, disability and immunodisorders. He's developed microfabrication technologies that are capable of creating small, flexible electrodes and other devices that can be more easily integrated into the body." "Van Lehn's research is focused on chemically engineered nanoparticles and studying how they interact with cell membranes." "Weinstein is now behind Workflow, an app that won Apple's Most Innovative App award for 2015 and which generates task recipes across iPad, iPhone or Watch." "Wickramasekara has created a digital version of every scientist's Bible: The lab notebook. The system helps researchers contextualize and collaborate on genome engineering data." Natasha Wright SM '14 (Energy) Grad student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering "Wright's approach to removing salt from groundwater in rural India uses electrodialysis to extract the salt out of the water, and can run on solar power." "Kamcord's mobile application allows users to record, share and watch the games they play on their phones."
Perry J.,MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory |
Ousterhout A.,MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory |
Balakrishnan H.,MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory |
Shah D.,MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory |
Fugal H.,Facebook
Computer Communication Review | Year: 2015
An ideal datacenter network should provide several properties, including low median and tail latency, high utilization (throughput), fair allocation of network resources between users or applications, deadline-aware scheduling, and congestion (loss) avoidance. Current datacenter networks inherit the principles that went into the design of the Internet, where packet transmission and path selection decisions are distributed among the endpoints and routers. Instead, we propose that each sender should delegate control-to a centralized arbiter-of when each packet should be transmitted and what path it should follow. This paper describes Fastpass, a datacenter network architecture built using this principle. Fastpass incorporates two fast algorithms: the first determines the time at which each packet should be transmitted, while the second determines the path to use for that packet. In addition, Fastpass uses an efficient protocol between the endpoints and the arbiter and an arbiter replication strategy for fault-tolerant failover. We deployed and evaluated Fastpass in a portion of Facebook's datacenter network. Our results show that Fastpass achieves high throughput comparable to current networks at a 240× reduction is queue lengths (4.35 Mbytes reducing to 18 Kbytes), achieves much fairer and consistent flow throughputs than the baseline TCP (5200× reduction in the standard deviation of per-flow throughput with five concurrent connections), scalability from 1 to 8 cores in the arbiter implementation with the ability to schedule 2.21 Terabits/s of traffic in software on eight cores, and a 2.5× reduction in the number of TCP retransmissions in a latency-sensitive service at Facebook. Source


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for FY 2016 $4.4 billion
- Enterprise strategy implementation
- Cybersecurity plan and execution
- Customer focus
LaVerne Council is using her successes from 2015 as "stepping stones" to her plans for 2016, she told staff recently.
"Every day we're taking new steps to implement the IT Enterprise Strategy, a guidepost directly aligned to our business partners' strategies," she wrote in an end-of-year email. "Each accomplishment is another step forward in placing the Veteran in the center of everything we do on our quest to enable the world-class care and services they deserve."
To achieve that, Council's team, within a few months last year, introduced an enterprise cybersecurity plan and an enterprise program management office, and began laying the groundwork for an IT account management team, which "will provide invested, real-time strategic leadership on issues like portfolio balancing and service delivery, providing a unifying force between our business partners and our [program management office] team," she wrote.
"We've unified as a team behind the IT Enterprise Strategy," Council's email says. "Now we must execute to completion to eliminate our material weakness."
Finally — and most importantly, she wrote — her office is shifting its focus from operations back to the customer's — the veteran's — needs.
"We've begun to create the cultural shift that removes the focus from us – the OI&T team – and places it where it belongs, on the Veteran," the email reads. "Every week I see or hear about IT employees embodying these key characteristics or living with the Veteran at the center of their work."


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The Danish government consists of a constitutional monarchy, where Queen Margrethe II is the royal head of state. She has no ruling authority, since royal power was handed over to the parliament / Folketing in 1901 by the king. The head of the Folketing is the prime minister, who is from Helen Thorning Schmidt from the Social Democratic party.
Queen Margrethe holds the throne and is the official ruler of Denmark. Her position is mostly ceremonial, but her signature is required to pass new legislation. She has sat on the throne since 1972 and is a very beloved figure in Denmark. Rarely do you hear people saying anything negative about her. Her birthday is a very special day in Denmark and is celebrated throughout the land.
People swarm to Amalianborg Palace on her birthday (April 16th) and wave flags and greet the Queen. It's a very unique experience and something you should participate in if you get a chance. See the video below for an insight into the Royal Family.
Danish government is run by a single chamber parliament called the Folketing. The Prime Minister leads the government and the Prime Minister is Helle Thorning-Schmidt from the Social Democratic party. She took over from Lars Loekke Rasmussen of the Venstre (liberal) party, which had been in power for the past 10 years.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt makes history as the first female prime minister of Denmark. She won the election on September 15, 2011 and has promised to make some changes in the government. She has held the post since October 2011.
The Danish Parliament has its seat at Christiansborg, which is located in the heart of Copenhagen.
The Danish government consists of 8 major political parties and they are aligned in two alliances: The Central Left Party and the Central Right Party.
If you look at the above posters you will see a letter on each poster: A, B, C, F, I, K, O, V and Ø, which represent each party. See below for more info.
After the 2011 election, they broke down like this. (the next election will be in 2015)
Central Left Party
Central Right Party
Since the Central Left Alliance has more seats, they are the ruling party. And the party with the majority of seats, which is the Social Democrats, their leader holds the office of Prime Minister.
The Social Democrats are now the leading party and hold the most power in the Folketing.
The Danes are very active in politics, and the voting rate is quite high compared to countries like the US and Britain. The voting age is 18 and many young people are very active in politics.
It is not uncommon to find protesters in the streets, peaceful marches and banners being displayed trying to convey their political views or to make changes to the way the government is run. The Danes are very vocal in their political beliefs and Danes are expected to be politically active - which they are!
Here, you can learn more about the Danish Government.
The Danish government is broken down into 3 governing bodies, which each handle a different aspect of government.
You can learn more interesting things about Denmark here.
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Since june 2015 there is a central right government led by Lars Løkke Rasmussen of the Venstre party (Liberals).
Oct 18, 16 10:41 AM
How about actually showing web links to the site where you can pay online fines for the metro and the S-tog?
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Hi I am a U.K. Resident and I was fined for having an invalid ticket. I followed the normal process by complaining to 'Metro Kundeservice' who upheld
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Perhaps also worth mentioning that a referendum was held in 2000 to replace the Krone with Euro, but it was voted away by 53% of the population.


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October 19, 2011
UNITED STATES, THE STATES OF CALIFORNIA, DELAWARE, FLORIDA, ILLINOIS, INDIANA, NEVADA, NEW MEXICO, NEW YORK, AND TENNESSEE, THE COMMONWEALTHS OF MASSACHUSETTS AND VIRGINIA, AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA EX REL. JOHN HENDRIX, PLAINTIFFS,v.J-M MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC. D/B/A JM EAGLE, A DELAWARE CORPORATION, AND FORMOSA PLASTICS CORPORATION, U.S.A., A DELAWARE CORPORATION, DEFENDANTS.
Assigned to Hon. George H. Wu
PROTECTIVE ORDER [Joint Stipulation Regarding Protective Order Filed Concurrently]
Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26, and the stipulation of the Plaintiffs*fn1 (collectively, "Plaintiffs") and Defendants J-M Manufacturing Company, Inc., d/b/a JM Eagle ("JM Eagle") and Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A. ("FPCUSA") (collectively, "Defendants") (each a "Party" and collectively, "the Parties"), the Court hereby orders the parties to abide by this Protective Order. Unless modified pursuant to the terms contained in this Order, this Order shall remain in effect through conclusion of this action and survive termination of this action.
Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be warranted.
2.1 Challenging Party: a Party that challenges the designation of information or items under this Order.
2.2 "CONFIDENTIAL" Information or Items: information whether generated, stored or maintained on paper, as electronically stored information ("ESI") or stored in or as tangible things that constitute or reveal these private company Defendants' trade secrets, proprietary research and development, specifications and formulations for materials and products, contracts and communications with vendors, contracts and communications with customers other than Plaintiffs; internal testing and quality assurance procedures, results and reports; communications with testing laboratories and standards certifying organizations, financial statements and supporting accounting records, bank statements, communications between defendants and with financial institutions regarding procedures and records for receipts, disbursements, funds management, borrowing and investments; invoices and communications with vendors or with customers other than Plaintiffs, accounting and cash management records, internal engineering communications, and personnel records of present and former employees, as well as (in the case of information produced by public entities) information concerning critical infrastructure the disclosure of which is limited by applicable law, and other information qualifying for protection under F. R. C. P. 26(c)(G).
2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as their support staff).
2.4 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items contained in disclosures or in responses to discovery as "CONFIDENTIAL."
2.5 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter.
2.6 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as an expert consultant in this action.
2.7 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party to this action and attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who act as regular outside counsel to a Party and who are advising that Party with respect to this action. "House Counsel" does not include Outside Counsel of Record.
2.8 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity that is not a Party. For purposes of this Order, a Real Party is a Non-Party.
2.9 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party to this action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have appeared in this action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm that has appeared on behalf of that party.
2.10 Party (without qualifier): any Plaintiff or Defendant in this action, including the Relator, John Hendrix.
2.11 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery Material in this action.
2.12 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and subcontractors.
2.13 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as "CONFIDENTIAL."
2.14 Real Party: a government entity that is specifically named as a real party in interest in the Relator's operative Complaint or the exhibits thereto and on whose behalf Relator is pursuing claims but that has not intervened or been permitted to intervene in this action. The Parties disagree on the timing of identification of Real Parties; nothing in this paragraph withstanding, no Parties waive, and all Parties reserve, their rights to argue or object to the timing or procedure for identification of Real Parties in the litigation for purposes other than protecting the confidentiality of documents as addressed in this Protective Order.
2.15 Receiving Party: any Party to which a Producing Party produces or serves Disclosure or Discovery Material.
The protections conferred by this Order cover not only Protected Material (as defined above) but also: (a) any information copied or extracted from Protected Material; (b) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected Material; and (c) any testimony, conversations, or presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. However, the protections conferred by this Order do not cover any information that (a) is already in the public domain at the time of disclosure; (b) becomes part of the public domain at any time, unless as a result of (i) action or failure to act where there is a duty to act on the part of the Receiving Party; or (ii) any breach of duty by any third party; (c) is already in the possession of the Receiving Party at the time of disclosure and was not acquired under (i) assurance of confidentiality directly or indirectly from the Producing or Designating Party or (ii) breach of duty by any third party; or (d) is made available to the Receiving Party by a third party who obtained the same by legal means and without any obligation of confidence to the Producing or Designating Party. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by a separate agreement or order. This Protective Order shall not apply to the production of any documents by Defendant J-M to any government entity prior to February 1, 2010; it shall apply to any production of the same documents by any Party subsequent to the entry of this Protective Order. In the event of conflict between this Order and any Protective Order previously entered in this action, the Parties agree to meet and confer in a good faith attempt to resolve such conflict before seeking resolution from the Court. For the purposes of this section, a "conflict" arises only when a Party's compliance with this Order will preclude it from complying with any Protective Order previously entered in this action.
Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a Court order otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of: (a) dismissal of all claims and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; or (b) final judgment herein after the completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this action, including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to applicable law.
The provisions of this Order shall apply to all Parties in this action, including, in the case of Parties other than individuals, their officers, directors, employees, and agents, their law firms and their employees, and consultants and expert witnesses, as well as any other Producing Party or Receiving Party in this action.
6.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Except as provided below, each Party or Non-Party that designates information or items for CONFIDENTIAL protection under this Order shall take care to limit any such designation to only those portions of paper documents, ESI or tangible materials that contain or reveal CONFIDENTIAL information. The Parties agree to exercise all reasonable efforts to avoid indiscriminate, CONFIDENTIAL designations.
Prior to designating information or items for protection under this Protective Order, each Party agrees to a review of non-ESI documents, under attorney supervision, of the information proposed to be Protected Information.
If it comes to a Designating Party's attention that information or items that it designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must promptly notify all other Parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation.
6.2 ESI Presumed Confidential. Notwithstanding any of the above provisions, all ESI shall be presumed CONFIDENTIAL, and each Producing Party may designate ESI as CONFIDENTIAL without prior review.
6.3 Method of Designation. A Producing Party shall designate documents and other tangible materials, including ESI, as CONFIDENTIAL at the time of production and/or inspection in a matter that is mutually acceptable and agreed to by the Parties.
6.4 Designation of Documents and Other Tangible Materials Produced by a Non-Party Other than a Real Party. Any Party may designate as CONFIDENTIAL documents and other materials, including ESI, produced by a Non-Party other than a Real Party that (i) falls within the definition in paragraph 2.2, and (ii) contains information provided to the Non-Party by or at the direction of the Party that seeks to make the designation or is derived from such information. Notwithstanding any of the above provisions, documents and other tangible materials, including ESI, produced by a Non-Party other than a Real Party pursuant to Rule 45 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure shall be deemed CONFIDENTIAL for a period of fifteen
(15) business days from the date of production.
6.5 Designation of Oral Testimony. A Party or Non-Party shall have ten (10) business days from the date of receipt from the court reporter of a final copy of a deposition or other transcript (the "designation period") in which to designate all or portions of the testimony as "CONFIDENTIAL." Such designation shall be made by sending written notice identifying the information to be so designated by page and line numbers to all counsel of record and the witness's counsel within the designation period. During the designation period, all information disclosed in the testimony shall be deemed "CONFIDENTIAL" subject to the terms of this Order. After the designation period has expired, any testimony not so designated shall no longer be deemed "CONFIDENTIAL."
6.6 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. With the exception of testimony under Section 6.5 above, an inadvertent failure to designate Protected Material as such does not, by itself, waive the Designating Party's right to secure protection under this Order for such material. Upon correction of a designation, the Receiving Party must make all reasonable efforts to assure that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order.
7.1 Timing and Nature of Challenges. Any Party may challenge a designation of confidentiality based on a good faith belief that disclosure of a document is necessary to the Party's prosecution or defense of this action and either
(i) the document does not meet the definition set forth in Section 2.2, or (ii) no good cause exists to deem the document "Protected Material." Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party's confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic burdens, or a significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after receiving the document.
7.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution process by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing the basis for each challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the written notice must recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with this specific paragraph of the Order. The Parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in good faith and must begin the process by conferring within ten business (10) days of the date of service of notice. In conferring, the Challenging Party must explain the basis for its belief that the confidentiality designation was not proper and must give the Designating Party an opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen designation. A Challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if it has engaged in this meet and confer process first, unless the Designating Party has refused to meet and confer. For the purposes of this section, failure on the part of the Designating Party to (i) respond to the Challenging Party's notice of a challenge within five business (5) days of service thereof, or (ii) participate in a meet and confer conference within ten business (10) days of service thereof after being given reasonable opportunity to do so, constitutes a refusal to meet and confer.
7.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties are unable to resolve a challenge through the meet and confer process described above, they may seek Court intervention by preparing and filing a joint stipulation. The joint stipulation shall contain each designation in dispute and, with respect to each such designation, the contentions, points and authorities, and supporting evidence of each Party. The joint stipulation shall be initiated by the Designating Party and prepared as follows:
(a) Within the earlier of thirty-three (33) days after the initial notice of challenge or fourteen (14) days after the Parties agree that the meet and confer process will not resolve their dispute, the Designating Party, as the moving party, must serve its portion of the joint stipulation, including evidence and exhibits in support thereof, on the Challenging Party.
(b) Within ten (10) days of receiving the Designating Party's portion of the joint stipulation, the Challenging Party shall serve its portion, including evidence and exhibits in support thereof, on the Designating Party.
(c) After receiving the Challenging Party's portion, the Designating Party shall assemble the complete joint stipulation and send it to the Challenging Party, who shall sign it (electronically or otherwise) and return it to the Designating Party, by no later than the end of the next business day for filing by the Designating Party by no later than the following business day.
The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating Party. Failure by the Designating Party to timely initiate the joint stipulation process as set forth in Section 7.3(a) above, or as amended by the Parties, shall automatically waive the confidentiality designation for each challenged designation. Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality designation, all parties shall continue to afford the material in question the protection to which it is entitled under the Designating Party's designation until the Court rules on the challenge. Nothing in this Section shall abrogate the provisions set forth in Paragraph 13.3 herein.
7.4 Provisional Limitation on Challenges. Each side is initially limited to one hundred (100) challenges of documents designated as CONFIDENTIAL by any Party, and a further one hundred (100) challenges of documents designated as CONFIDENTIAL by any Non-Party, subject to the following: (a) challenges to multiple substantially identical documents (i.e., documents that contain the same data fields, such as identically formatted invoices or sales reports, and, for the sake of judicial economy, should be treated as a single document) will only count as a single challenge; and (b) the Parties further agree that in the event either side reaches its 100 challenge limit for documents registered CONFIDENTIAL by Parties, or its 100 challenge limit for documents registered CONFIDENTIAL by Non-Parties, before the conclusion of the case, they will promptly meet and confer in good faith to determine how to proceed thereafter.
8.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is disclosed or produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this case only for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When the litigation has been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 14 below (FINAL DISPOSITION).
Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order.
8.2 Disclosure of "CONFIDENTIAL" Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated "CONFIDENTIAL" only to:
(a) the Receiving Party's Outside Counsel of Record in this action, as well as employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this litigation and who have signed the "Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound" that is attached hereto as Attachment A;
(b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel), of the Receiving Party (including the government entity with supervisory authority over any Receiving Party) to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the "Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound" (Attachment A);
(c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the "Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound" (Attachment A);
(d) the Court and its personnel;
(e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, all of whom must have signed the "Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound" (Attachment A);
(f) in preparation for and during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary and to whom a copy of the Protective Order is simultaneously provided. Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material must be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this Order;
(g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian or other person who (i) otherwise possessed or knew the information, (ii) obtained that information through legitimate means, and (iii) has signed the "Acknowledgement and Agreement to be Bound" (Attachment A);
(h) outside counsel and House counsel for, and the employee with supervisory authority for the action on behalf of, a Real Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, all of whom must have signed the "Acknowledgement and Agreement to be Bound" (Attachment A);
(i) the Relator, John Hendrix. 8.3 Deposition Procedures.
Any Party or deponent shall have the right to exclude from attendance at a deposition or portion of a deposition where that Party's Protected Material is discussed any person other than the deponent, the deponent's attorney, and persons described in Section 8.2(b) (with a limitation of one employee per Party in attendance).
If a Receiving Party is served with a subpoena, court order, or public records request made pursuant to state or federal statute that compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this action by another Party or Non-Party as "CONFIDENTIAL," that Receiving Party must:
(a) transmit a copy of the subpoena, court order, or public records request to the Designating Party within three (3) business days of its receipt;
(b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena, court order, or public records request to issue that some or all of the material covered by the request is subject to this Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Order; and
(c) cooperate in good faith with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.
(d) Upon notice from the Designating Party that it intends to seek a Protective Order, the Receiving Party served with the subpoena, court order, or public records request shall not produce any information designated in this action as "CONFIDENTIAL" before a determination by the court from which the subpoena or order issued, unless the Receiving Party has obtained the Designating Party's permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in that court of its confidential material, and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this action to disobey a lawful directive from another court.
(e) Notwithstanding any of the above provisions, nothing in paragraph 9 should be construed as requiring a government entity that receives a public records request to act in contravention of the applicable public records statute; provided, however, that the government entity must assert all relevant objections to the request for disclosure of a Designating Party's personnel records, corporate financial records, corporate proprietary information, and/or trade secrets as provided, for example, in Sections 6254(b) and 6254.15 of the California Government Code, and non-California equivalents.
The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a Non-Party in this action and designated as "CONFIDENTIAL." Such information produced by Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections.
If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Order, the Receiving Party must promptly: (a) notify in writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized disclosure, including all pertinent facts related to such disclosure; (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected Material; (c) inform the person or persons to whom the unauthorized disclosure was made of all the terms of this Order; and (d) request such person or persons to execute the "Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound" that is attached hereto as Attachment A. Nothing in these provisions should be construed as prohibiting a Designating Party or Producing Party from seeking judicial relief from any Party or Non-Party for injuries arising from a violation of this Order.
Any Party or Non-Party producing documents, electronically stored information, or things under this Order are entitled to the full protection of, and are subject to the restrictions imposed by, Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and (e) and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B), which are hereby incorporated by reference in this Order. The Parties further hereby incorporate by reference the provisions of the Stipulated Order Regarding Inadvertent Production of Privileged Materials.
13.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges (a) the right of any person to seek its modification by the Court in the future, or (b) any right, privilege, or protection available to any person under applicable law except as specifically set forth in the Protective Order.
13.2 No Waiver. Neither the taking of any action in accordance with the provisions of this Order, nor the failure to object hereto, shall be construed as a waiver of any claim or defense in this action. This Order shall not be construed as a waiver of any right to object to the furnishing of information in response to discovery and, except as expressly provided, shall not relieve any Party or Non-Party of the obligation to produce information properly sought in the course of discovery. Nothing herein shall be construed to affect in any way the admissibility of any document, testimony, or other evidence at trial of this action. Nothing contained in this Order or any declaration of confidentiality or restriction hereunder shall be used or characterized by any Party as an "admission" by a Party opponent. The failure of a Party to object to or to challenge a designation by another Party of Protected Material shall not constitute an admission that the materials so designated are in fact entitled to such designation or are entitled to any legal protection.
13.3 Filing Protected Material. A Party or Non-Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected Material must comply with Local Rule 79-5. A Party or Non-Party may not attach Protected Material to, or incorporate it in, an unsealed Court filing unless it notifies the Designating Party of its intent to file the Protected Material at least five (5) days prior to the anticipated filing date so that the Designating Party may seek an Order from the Court sealing the Protected Material. No Party or Non-Party (who is bound by this Order) may attach Protected Material to, or incorporate it in, an unsealed Court filing while a petition to seal the Protected Material is pending.
13.4 Inconsistent Designations. In the event a Producing Party produces two or more substantially identical copies of a document and one such copy is designated as Protected Material and other such copies are not, all such substantially identical documents shall be treated in accordance with the most restrictive designation on any copy once the inconsistent designation is known. The Producing Party shall be responsible for informing the Receiving Party(ies) of the inconsistent designation and promptly replacing with the correct designation any materials it produced without such a designation. If a Receiving Party has actual knowledge of the inconsistent designation of Protected Information, it shall treat all copies as if designated as Protective Information.
Within sixty (60) days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 4, each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. As used in this subdivision, "all Protected Material" includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Whether the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the sixty (60) day deadline that: (a) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed, and (b) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, law firms that are Outside Counsel of Record are entitled to retain one archival copy of all pleadings (exclusive of exhibits), motion papers (other than declarations), trial and hearing transcripts (exclusive of exhibits), legal memoranda, correspondence, and attorney work product, even if such materials incidentally contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 (DURATION).
A. Defendants
Defendants represent that good cause exists for the entry of this Order, and the protection of materials designated CONFIDENTIAL in accordance herewith, for the following reasons:
15.1 Defendants Participate in Competitive Markets. JM Eagle competes in the global market for PVC piping products. FPC-USA competes in the global market for plastic resins and petrochemicals.
15.2 Proprietary Research and Development. Defendants allocate significant time and resources to researching and developing new and/or improved products for their respective markets. Because they gain a competitive advantage from research and development, Defendants maintain all materials related to research and development, including communications by and between research and development engineers, in strict confidence. If Defendants' competitors were to gain access to Defendants' research and development materials, Defendants would suffer specific and irreparable harm in the form of lost competitive advantage. For example, a competitor could exploit Defendants' research and development efforts to improve its own competitive products or to introduce a new competitive product to the market that would reduce Defendants' market share.
15.3 Specifications and Formulations for Materials and Products. Defendants maintain their manufacturing specifications and standard operating procedures, including communications by and between production engineers, in strict confidence because they gain competitive advantage and increased profit margin from these materials, which, for example, enable them to reduce costs through increased productivity and elimination of waste. If Defendants' competitors were to gain access to Defendants' manufacturing specifications and/or standard operating procedures, Defendants would suffer specific irreparable harm in the form of lost competitive advantage and lost profit. For example, a competitor could exploit Defendants' manufacturing specifications and/or standard operating procedures to reduce its own costs and neutralize Defendants' price advantage in the market.
Likewise, JM Eagle maintains the formulations for the PVC compounds it uses to manufacture piping products in strict confidence. In the context of PVC compound, a proprietary formulation is analogous to a "secret recipe." JM Eagle gains a competitive advantage from keeping its competitors ignorant as to the exact ingredients, and the amounts thereof, that it uses in its PVC compound. If a competitor were to obtain JM Eagle's proprietary formulation for PVC compound, JM Eagle would suffer specific, irreparable harm in the form of lost competitive advantage.
15.4 Contracts and Communications with Vendors. To minimize costs, and thereby lower their prices to consumers and/or increase profit margin, Defendants negotiate agreements to purchase vendors' goods and services at discounted rates. These discounted rates are kept confidential so that the vendors do not lose business, for example, by charging Defendants less (or more) than they charge other customers. If Defendants' negotiated rates are made public, vendors may refuse to offer further discounts to Defendants. Accordingly, Defendants will suffer specific, irreparable harm if their vendor contracts and associated communications are not kept confidential.
15.5 Contracts and Communications with Customers Other than Plaintiffs. A major component of Defendants' sales cycle is responding to requests for bids received from customers. Bid pricing depends on multiple factors. Defendants may offer some customers lower prices than others. Maintaining the confidentiality of bids permits Defendants to be flexible in terms of pricing and thereby close sales. Further, Defendants use "most favored nation" status to reward the loyalty of its top customers. If Defendants' contracts with customers, and associated communications are made public, Defendants will suffer specific irreparable harm in the form of lost opportunity to maximize the value of sales. For example, if Defendants' "most favored nation" rates become public, all of Defendants' customers will demand "most favored nation" status.
15.6 Internal Testing and Quality Assurance Procedures, Results, and Reports. Defendants have invested significant time and resources in developing proprietary quality assurance systems. An element of these quality assurance systems is testing equipment that is integrated into Defendants' production lines and generates reports that are intended for Defendants' sole use. Defendants derive a competitive advantage from their quality assurance systems because they enable Defendants to quickly identify and remedy potential problems in the production line, thereby maximizing productivity and minimizing waste. Defendants maintain materials related to their quality assurance systems under strict confidence to protect the competitive advantage they provide. In addition, Defendants do not publicize the results of quality assurance testing to prevent their competitors from exploiting the research and production-line improvement data that can be gleaned there from. For example, if an adjustment to a production parameter causes a quality assurance test failure, Defendants gain value from keeping such data to themselves. Accordingly, if information related to their proprietary quality assurance systems is publicly disclosed, Defendants will suffer specific, irreparable harm in the form of lost competitive advantage.
15.7 Communications with Testing Laboratories and Standards Certifying Organizations. Defendants routinely share information with testing laboratories and standards certifying organizations that is subject to confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements. Some of the information is related to Defendants' research and development efforts and is confidential for the reasons discussed in Paragraph
15.2 above. Other information is related to the certification of Defendants' products and production facilities, and includes materials from which a competitor could readily glean Defendants' proprietary product specifications and formulations. For the reasons discussed in Paragraph 15.3 above, Defendants' product specifications and formulations must be kept confidential.
15.8 Financial Statements and Supporting Accounting Records. Defendants are private companies that, subject to Paragraph 15.9 below, are not required to, and in fact do not, publicly disclose their financial statements or supporting accounting and cash management records. Defendants maintain such materials confidential in part because they incorporate and reflect the value of the Defendants' negotiated deals with vendors and customers, and therefore provide Defendants with a competitive advantage for the reasons discussed in Paragraphs 15.4 and 15.5. In addition, such materials provide details about the management and strategic direction of Defendants, which information will lose its intrinsic value if disclosed to Defendants' competitors. For example, Defendants' accounting records, including expense reports, may reveal Defendants' efforts to assess a valuable business opportunity not known to the rest of the market.
15.9 Communications Between Defendants and with Financial Institutions Regarding Procedures and Records for Receipts, Records, Funds Management, Borrowing, and Investments. Defendants make some limited disclosures of the information described in Paragraph 15.8 to financial institutions in connection with certain lines of credit. These disclosures are made subject to confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements. Such materials are confidential for the reasons set forth in Paragraph 15.8 and their publication will cause specific, irreparable harm to Defendants in the form of lost competitive advantage, lost profit, and lost business opportunity.
15.10 Personnel Records. As recognized in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2, individuals have a right to prevent the unnecessary disclosure of their private information. Since Defendants' employees are not parties to this lawsuit, there would appear to be no justification to publicize otherwise private personnel records including home contact information, health insurance records, salary, performance reviews, discipline records and the like. Disclosure of this information will cause specific harm to Defendants' employees in the form of embarrassment, potentially diminished earning capacity and job prospects, and the mental duress that accompanies an invasion of privacy.
B. Plaintiffs
Plaintiffs represent that good cause exists for the protection under this Order of the following category of materials:
15.11 Critical Infrastructure. In the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. and state governments passed laws and enacted regulations governing the protection of so-called "critical infrastructure," i.e., physical and virtual assets deemed vital to the nation and the incapacity or destruction of which would have a debilitating impact on national security, public health, and/or public safety. See generally 42 U.S.C. § 5195(c); U.S. Department of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7: Critical Infrastructure Identification, Prioritization, and Protection; Virginia Code 2.2-3705.2 (describing exclusions from disclosure under public records act of documents implicating critical infrastructure). Plaintiffs have in their possession -- and defendants are likely to request in discovery -- certain categories of information that are exempt from public disclosure under applicable law because of the sensitive nature of the data contained therein. For example, geographic and geophysical information and data contained on so-called "GIS" mapping systems could show the specific location of essential water and sewer pipes and would, accordingly, be deemed part of the nation's "critical infrastructure." Such information should not be publicly disclosed as it could be useful to a person planning an attack on such critical infrastructure. This information should therefore be designated CONFIDENTIAL.
I, ___________________ [print or type full name], of _______________ __________________________________________ [print or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for the Central District of California on ___________________, 2011 in the case of United States, The States of California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, and Tennessee, The Commonwealths of Massachusetts and Virginia, and the District of Columbia ex rel. John Hendrix v. J-M Manufacturing Company, Inc., d/b/a JM Eagle, and Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A., Case No. ED CV06-0055-GW. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions of this Order.
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Idk if its genetically or not and he was anemic so i figured hed get a complete blood work to check if hes fine with his vitamins. . Dr did want to check anything. . Im just a worried mother and want my kids healthy .
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Typically they won't do blood work unless they're trying to diagnose a problem. They didn't have to be so rude about it though, they could have explained that to you rather than ripping a strip off you. I'd switch doctors, not to find one that will do the blood work, but because no health care professional should get away with that kind of disrespect.
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And there is something to lose, blood draws on kids are very invasive and scary. Doing blood work on an adult is very different than doing it on a screaming, squirmy, terrified toddler. There are risks for doctors and nurses too, like if the needle were to break off under the skin or if they got stuck by the needle. There are too many cons to doing it when there is no suitable reason. If your son isn't displaying any concerning signs or symptoms, you can rest assure that his levels are just fine. If there was something wrong, you'd know.
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This week FootyMad's match preview focuses on the game between Bristol City and Portsmouth at 15:00 on 20th August 2011 in the Championship.
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The secondaries market is one of the private equity industry's biggest sources of interest this year, as investors struggle to meet funding obligations and suffer from imbalanced portfolios.
The need for investors to sell commitments to private equity funds valued the secondaries market at an estimated $140bn (€100bn) at December and discounts to net asset values, already commonly 60%, look set to fall further.
Last week, two deals emphasised the strength of bidders in Europe's deal market – private equity company 3i Group's venture portfolio, which attracted lower-than-expected bids, and the £68m (€78m) lossmaking sale of assets by a listed fund run by private equity fund manager Pantheon Ventures.
The deals highlighted the widening gap between seller and buyer expectations, which has so far meant the deal activity in the secondaries market has not lived up to the hype about great opportunities. Elly Livingstone, a partner and head of the secondaries team at Pantheon, said deal activity was lower in the last six months than in the early part of last year because of the lack of visibility in the market.
He said: "We want more information about how portfolio companies are performing and we want that information for post October 2008. Fourth quarter of 2008 isn't going to tell you enough."
The wave of sellers has also created an imbalance between supply and demand, which Pantheon estimated at $100bn, with $40bn available from secondary funds on the road as of February this year.
Several sources in the private equity and secondaries industries said there had been isolated cases of fund commitments trading at negative values since the credit crisis, meaning desperate sellers have offered to pay buyers to take the commitments off their hands.
Livingstone said such deals previously happened after the dotcom bubble burst. He said this time around, the sellers were likely to be distressed high net worth individuals who had been tempted by private equity's unusually high returns in 2006 and 2007, not institutional investors.
Mathieu Dréan, a managing partner at private equity adviser Triago, said: "I have seen some buyers propose it because they heard others would do it but I haven't seen it happen. Most LPs would prefer to default."
In February, secondaries investors warned commitments bought at the height of the market faced writedowns of about two thirds due to the high premiums paid.
Hanspeter Bader, managing director and head of private equity at Swiss alternatives manager Unigestion, warned: "If you bought anything at up to 50%, you would probably write off two thirds of your purchase price because it seems, specifically in buyout funds, fourth-quarter valuations will drop by between 30% and 40%."
Julian Mash, founder and chief executive of direct secondaries company Vision Capital, said: "Anybody who bought anything last year is probably regretting it. Mercifully, we did not buy anything last year."
Elaine Small, a partner and managing director of the secondaries team at alternatives company Paul Capital, said: "Anyone who bought secondary private equity at a premium to NAV in 2006 to 2007 is probably hurting.
During these heady times premiums were, in particular, paid for top-tier mega-buyout funds, and usually in broad auctions. But 'hurting' could mean a temporary mark-to-market phenomenon or long-term asset impairment. The mega-buyouts are most likely the worst in terms of the latter."
Livingstone said: "You can argue that some deals could have been bought today at a lower price but some assets weren't available. Did you pay the right price? It's too early to tell. A big discount for poor assets can be the wrong price; par or a small premium for quality can be the right price."
Small said the best time to buy private equity is not a matter of big discounts. She said companies must consider factors such as asset quality, general partner quality, refinancing risk and time to exit. She expected NAVs – based on quarterly or half-yearly results and therefore quickly out of date – to fall further throughout the year, perhaps at a slower pace.
One secondaries adviser said buyers who behaved rationally have succeeded in doing deals but added: "There are probably a number of buyers no longer very welcome to investment committees with deals after the acquisitions they made a few months back."
Dréan said: "Since September, there were probably two periods – Q4 was mostly characterised by agitation; there was a lot of perceived volume and a lot of talk… and when the dust settled in early January, everybody ended up telling you 'we have been busy but closed one or two deals'."


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Protest organizers said their passion remains strong even though President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are skipping their convention speeches because of Hurricane Gustav.
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Why do I hear a whining sound when I turn my steering wheel ?
When I park my car and have to turn my steering wheel and make a sharp turn I hear a whining sound. Today it did this and while sitting in the car after I parked it I kept turning the steering wheel from side to side and it would make the sound while the car was sitting still.
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Just a guess without more information.Sounds like a low fluid noise,or a pump pressure problem which may be a bad pump.
Check fluid level if low add some Lucas Power Steering Fluid Stop Leak. If fluid is full and still making noise remove some fluid and add the Lucas.
Check the fluid, if full turn the steering wheel from lock to lock several times with the engine running (this removes air from the system). If it still makes noise I would suspect the power steering pump has a problem.
It could be all of the above or possibly a clogged filter or screen in the fluid reservoir/system.
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Beautiful gallery, in a recently renovated palace. Especially interesting are the works of native artists (sculptors and painters).
The building is very impressive and unusual in Ljubljana. Some of the art works were nicely representing Slovenian art, but other than that not much to see. We expected for more.
The whole thing is very chic and pretty and the art displayed very good. It collects the best works from all of the best Slovenian painters (and they were pretty good!). Now they also added a great coffee/dessert shop at the end of it for a nice refreshment before heading out to explore some more of the city.
In many ways it is a typical Western European gallery and all the usual suspects are there. Portraits, religious paintings, landscapes, genre pictures and the rest, but look a little more closely and they are often a tad disappointing. Some of the early ones are modern copies, while some of the statues are casts. Unless you are a really serious...
It is a museum with an old part - beautiful staircase and an addition, very modern, but fits exactly to the old part. There are some excellent art works, specially the four great sloven impressionist painter works are remarkable. A must visit.
As an art historian it is refreshing to see something new! The large collection is amazing! The building complements the collection beautifully. I was so sad that I didn't have time to admire it well but I managed to see the whole collection. With every room you have information on the period and how art was effected. The Impressionists are...
It's a very fine building, and a fitting setting in which to display some intriguing and high quality paintings. Everyone will have their favourites, but do not miss The Artist's Mother by Janez Subic, and Double Self-Portrait by Ivan Vavpotic.
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