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These crass, opportunistic politicians in Pennsylvania are at it again this mid-term election cycle. In an attempt to curry favor from the Fraternal Order of Police (F.O.P.) and conservative voters, Pennsylvania's Governor Tom Corbett, Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams and the majority of state legislators — all of whom have sworn to uphold and protect the Constitution — have removed Mumia Abu-Jamal's right to free speech from the Pennsylvania and United States Constitutions in order to permanently gag him.
On October 5th, world famous commentator and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal gave the commencement speech at his alma mater, Goddard College in Vermont, at the invitation of the students and with the backing of the administration. This infuriated the F.O.P.
The F.O.P. immediately sought to silence Mumia by enlisting State Representative Mike Vereb to sponsor Senate Bill 508, the Revictimization Relief Act (also known as the "Mumia Gag Law" by activists) which became the text of House Bill 2533. The Mumia Gag Bill was fast-tracked through the Pennsylvania General Assembly and passed on October 16th, 11 days after Mumia's recorded commencement speech at Goddard College, and just 19 days before mid-term elections.
On October 21st, in a last-ditch effort to win votes and be re-elected, Governor Corbett, who was nicknamed "One-Term Tom" by a majority of Pennsylvania citizens, signed the "Mumia Gag Bill"while campaigning in Philly. It was a "Hail Mary Pass" that didn't score, as Gov Corbett lost his re-election bid on November 4th, becoming Pennsylvania's first one-term governor in nearly 50 years!
The Mumia Gag is an ambiguous law that allows the district attorney or state attorney general to file a civil action complaint on behalf of a victim against an inmate or former offender for injunctive or other relief, for conduct which perpetuates the continuing effect of the crime on the victim on the basis of causing a temporary or permanent state of mental anguish.
Although the Mumia Gag Law was enacted principally to silence Mumia Abu-Jamal, it also will silence other well-known Pennsylvania prisoner activists Kerry "Shakaboona" Marshall, Robert"Saleem" Holbrook, political prisoner Russell "Maroon" Shoats, and any corporation that facilitates their free speech, such as Prison Radio, the Human Rights Coalition, Decarcerate Radio and Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Consequently, the Mumia Gag Law is facially unconstitutional (illegal) as it blatantly violates the First Amendment right of free speech of incarcerated citizens and of corporations that facilitate their free speech. This illegal Mumia Gag Law will not go unchallenged.
I am Kerry "Shakaboona" Marshall, Co-founder and Editor of The Movement magazine, founding member of the Human Rights Coalition, Prison Radio correspondent, and can be reached at: SCI-Rockview, Box-A, #BE7826, Bellefonte, PA 16823.

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Q: HTML Table data not updating in model I have a ViewModel that contains two lists of Conditions - BuyConditions and SellConditions - plus a couple of attributes - Name etc.  The lists are displayed using tables in the view.  jQuery allows the tables to be manipulated - adding Conditions to the tables (from Buy Condition / Sell Condition DDL's) and removing Conditions from the tables.
My problem is that the Condition lists are not updated in the model when it is posted back to the controller.
Something that may point to the issue is that when the model is returned to the view (due to ModelStat.IsValid failing), the data in the Markets DDL still exists, but the data in the Buy and Sell Condition DDL's doesn't.
I can't find an example on the net to figure out where I'm going wrong.  Anyone done this before?
ViewModel:
public class StrategyViewModel
{
    public string ID { get; set; }

    [Display(Name = "Strategy Name")]
    public string StrategyName { get; set; }

    [Display(Name = "Market")]
    public string SelectedMarketID { get; set; }

    [Display(Name = "Asset Type")]
    public string SelectedShareTypeID { get; set; }

    [Display(Name = "Share")]
    public string SelectedShareID { get; set; }

    public bool Active { get; set; }

    public IEnumerable<Market> Markets { get; set; }              // top level of three cascading DDL's - the other two populated via JQuery
    public IEnumerable<Condition> BuyConditionList { get; set; }  // used to populate DDL
    public IEnumerable<Condition> SellConditionList { get; set; } // used to populate DDL
    public List<BuyCondition> BuyConditions { get; set; }         // list of Buy Conditions
    public List<SellCondition> SellConditions { get; set; }       // list of Sell Conditions

    AppRepository repository = new AppRepository();

    public StrategyViewModel()
    {
        // populate lists
        Markets = ListUtils.AddDefaultOptionToMarketList( repository.GetMarkets(), -1, "Select a Market" ).AsEnumerable();
        BuyConditionList = repository.GetConditions();
        SellConditionList = repository.GetConditions();
        BuyConditions = new List<BuyCondition>();
        SellConditions = new List<SellCondition>();
    }
}

Controller:
 public ActionResult Create()
    {
        StrategyViewModel model = new StrategyViewModel();

        return View(model);
    }

    [HttpPost]
    [ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
    [Authorize(Roles = "User, Admin")]
    public ActionResult Create(StrategyViewModel model)
    {

        // for debugging
        var errorList = ModelState.Values.SelectMany(v => v.Errors);

        if (ModelState.IsValid)
        {

            var user = repository.GetCurrentUser(User.Identity.GetUserId());
            var strategy = new Strategy();

            strategy.StrategyName = model.StrategyName;
            strategy.ShareID = Convert.ToInt32(model.SelectedShareID);
            strategy.BuyConditions = model.BuyConditions.ToList();
            strategy.SellConditions = model.SellConditions.ToList();
            strategy.Active = model.Active;

            int strategyID = repository.AddStrategy(user, strategy);

            return RedirectToAction("Index");

        }

        return View(model);
    }

View:
@model ShareTrigger.Models.StrategyViewModel

@{
ViewBag.Title = "Create";
}

@{Html.EnableUnobtrusiveJavaScript(true);}

Create Strategy

@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
@Html.AntiForgeryToken()

    @Html.ValidationSummary(true)

        @Html.LabelFor(model => model.StrategyName, new { @class = "control-label col-md-2" })

            @Html.EditorFor(model => model.StrategyName)
            @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.StrategyName)

        @Html.LabelFor(model => model.SelectedMarketID, new { @class = "control-label col-md-2" })

            @Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.SelectedMarketID, new SelectList(Model.Markets, "MarketId", "MarketCode"))

        @Html.LabelFor(model => model.SelectedShareTypeID, new { @class = "control-label col-md-2" })

            @Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.SelectedShareTypeID, Enumerable.Empty<SelectListItem>(), "Select an Asset Type")

        @Html.LabelFor(model => model.SelectedMarketID, new { @class = "control-label col-md-2" })

            @Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.SelectedShareID, Enumerable.Empty<SelectListItem>(), "Select a Share")

                    @Html.DisplayName("Buy Conditions")

            @foreach (var item in Model.BuyConditions)
            {

                        @Html.HiddenFor(modelItem => item.ConditionID)
                        @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.ConditionName)

            }

                    <button id="AddBuyCondition" type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-xs">

                    </button>

                    @Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.BuyConditionList, new SelectList(Model.BuyConditionList, "ConditionID", "ConditionName"))

                    @Html.DisplayName("Sell Conditions")

            @foreach (var item in Model.SellConditions)
            {

                        @Html.HiddenFor(modelItem => item.ConditionID)
                        @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.ConditionName)

            }

                    <button id="AddSellCondition" type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-xs">

                    </button>
                    @Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.SellConditionList, new SelectList(Model.SellConditionList, "ConditionID", "ConditionName"))

            <input type="submit" value="Create" class="btn btn-default" />

}

@section Scripts {
@Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jquery")
@Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jqueryval")
}

A: The reason you're getting BuyConditions and SellConditions empty because of the following code
@Html.HiddenFor(modelItem => item.ConditionID)

This will render ALL as
<input type="hidden" id="item_ConditionID" name="item.ConditionID" />

It can't be resolved in the controller action Create due to the wrong naming.
Instead, it should have been
@Html.HiddenFor(x => x.SellConditions[index].ConditionID)

This will render the control as (if index is 0)
<input type="hidden" id="SellConditions_0__ConditionID" name="SellConditions[0].ConditionID" />

Therefore, the foreach block should be as follow
@foreach (int index = 0; index < Model.SellConditions.Count; index++)
   {

                @Html.HiddenFor(x => x.SellConditions[index].ConditionID)
                @Html.DisplayFor(x => x.SellConditions[index].ConditionName)

   }

And the same rule for BuyConditions too.

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The Portuguese Galleon Madre de Deus contained 425 tonnes of pepper, 45 tonnes of cloves, 35 tonnes of cinnamon, 3 tonnes of mace and 3 tonnes of nutmeg when captured by English pirates in 1592 and valued at half the English Treasury.
In 1595 and 1601 respectively, the first Dutch and English trading expeditions rounded the Cape of Good Hope and the trading monopoly of the Portuguese Crown was being challenged by the United Dutch East India Company (VOC) and then the English East India Company, the world's first joint stock and multinational trading companies.
In the chapters on Banda, Rhun and Ambon, East Indies documents the events leading up to the Dutch and English signing the 1667 Treaty of Breda and 2017 marks the 350th anniversary of this Treaty. Named after the Dutch city where it was signed on 31 July 1667, it ended the Second Anglo-Dutch war (1665–1667) during which England and the Netherlands had fought over maritime hegemony and world trade. Through the signing of the Treaty of Breda, the Dutch accepted English rule over what is now New York (New Amsterdam), while the English accepted Dutch rule over the valuable nutmeg island of Rhun, in what turned out to be the real estate deal of the millenium.
The struggle for trade supremacy between the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the English ranged across the Eastern Seas and in the settlements of Goa, Malacca, Ambon, Macao, Canton, Nagasaki, Batavia, Macassar and Johor. Until by the end of the 19th century the Portuguese had almost vanished from the Eastern Seas, and the Dutch and the English East India Companies had been transformed from trading companies into colonial powers ruling over millions of people and vast territories in Indonesia, India and Malaya.
After the British East India Company defeated the Nawab of Bengal at the Battle of Plassey in 1757, they gave themselves a monopoly over the production of opium and saltpetre (the prime ingredient for gunpowder).
East Indies follows the trade winds, the trade routes and the port cities across the East Indies and the Orient. Beginning in Malacca which was one of the world's largest trading ports in the 16th century, it describes the founding of Batavia (Jakarta) in the 17th century and concludes with the founding of Singapore and Hong Kong which became some of the world's largest trading ports in the 19th century.
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East Indies vs East India. this page uses 'East Indies' an amazing a lot. You will have no doubt consulted about a difference between the two notions, if any, to sort that out once and for all. You translate VOC to Un'td East India Company, which clearly is not a reference to the east coast/eastern part of what we now call India. You also did not call it the Un'td East Indies' Company or the Un'td East Indian Company. How does that hang together? (never mind what others have done).


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What Is The State Income Tax Rate In Massachusetts?
For tax year 2020, Massachusetts has a 5.0% tax on both earned (salaries, wages, tips, commissions) and unearned (interest, dividends, and capital gains) income. Certain capital gains are taxed at 12%.
Massachusetts income tax rate
The income tax rate in Massachusetts is 5.10%. That rate applies equally to all taxable income. Unlike with the federal income tax, there are no tax brackets in Massachusetts.
Is Massachusetts income tax high?
Massachusetts ranked 21st among states with the highest tax burden. Its total tax burden was 12.79%. Hawaii came in second with 12.19%. Other New England states ranked higher than Massachusetts as well, including Vermont at 10.75%; Maine at 10.50%; Connecticut at 10.44% and Rhode Island at 9.69%.
What is Massachusetts taxable income?
Your Massachusetts taxable income is your Massachusetts adjusted gross income minus the following deductions: Massachusetts deductions on Form 1 (Lines 11-14) and Form 1-NR/PY (Lines 11-16): Childcare expenses for child under age 13 or disabled dependent or spouse.
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MA taxes its residents on all their income, no matter where it is earned (so do other states with income taxes). If you had to pay CA and NY taxes on the income you earned in those states, MA will give you a credit (against MA taxes) for what you paid to those states.
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Carlos Furche Guajardo (born 24 September 1950) is a Chilean agricultural engineer and politician who served as minister during the second government of Michelle Bachelet (2014−2018).

During his professional career, Furche has provided different international services specialized in agricultural trade negotiations and the management of the free trade agreements of Chile. By the other hand, he worked for the Ministry of Agriculture from 1994 to 2004, where he served as the national director of the Office Agrarian Studies and Policies (ODEPA). From 2004 to 2010, he was director of the International Economic Relations.

He has provided services for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) advising the Republic of Georgia. In 2011, he worked as an advisor to the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia.

Early life
Born in Punta Arenas, he is the son of Carlos Domingo Furche Fernández and Julia Guajardo Gómez, an agricultural engineer by profession. Then, in 1973, Furche married with the matron Olga María Veloso Yáñez, with whom he has two children. Nevertheless, they divorced in 2013.

Furche studied agronomic engineering with a major in agrarian economics at the Austral University in Valdivia. Likewise, he has a master's degree in sociology for the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO).

Political career
In his youth, he was a member of Christian Left and later of the Socialist Party (PS).

In January 2014, he was appointed by President-elect Michelle Bachelet as Minister of Agriculture in her second government. He took office on 11 March, remaining in office until the end of the government in March 2018.

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The algorithms eliminate the need to manually select views, choose the best clips, and manipulate them for quantification, which is often noted as a particularly time-consuming and highly variable process. This information is passed on to radiologists to make accurate clinical decisions, decreasing the number of incorrect diagnoses in high-risk environments. Integration into the health industry is simple and won't require significant IT time and with additional hardware not required, it's a simple resource that can be set up and maintained remotely. With a solution to assist workflow optimizations and increase the number of correct and high-quality scans, the demand for this AI-enabled technology is expected to be huge. Over 75 percent of all patient care involving cardiovascular diseases, the workload on radiologists is massive.
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By examining data patterns, AI technologies can help healthcare organizations make the most of their data, assets and resources, increasing efficiency and improving performance of clinical and operational workflows, processes, and financial operations. Director of Data Science & Analytics at WellframeEmily is an expert in AI for both medical imaging and translational digital healthcare. She holds a PhD from Harvard-MIT's Health Sciences & Technology division and founded her own digital health company in the opioid space. This includes policies such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the European General Data Protection Regulation . The GDPR pertains to patients within the EU and details the consent requirements for patient data use when entities collect patient healthcare data.
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The artificial intelligence technologies becoming ever present in modern business and everyday life is also steadily being applied to healthcare. The use of artificial intelligence in healthcare has the potential to assist healthcare providers in many aspects of patient care and administrative processes, helping them improve upon existing solutions and overcome challenges faster. Most AI and healthcare technologies have strong relevance to the healthcare field, but the tactics they support can vary significantly between hospitals and other healthcare organizations.
Use Cases for AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences
With a lack of reasoning can come a lack of confidence within the decision, potentially rendering the technology as unreliable or untrustworthy by both patients and professionals. Ultimately, the adoption of AI will attract stakeholders who will invest in AI and successful case studies need to be highlighted and presented for future encouragement. These case studies will require some early adopters of healthcare companies to kickstart the process. Drug discovery is another great place for AI to slip in with pharma companies able to include cutting-edge technology into the expensive and lengthy process of drug discovery. With startups combining the world of AI and healthcare, there's more choice for older and larger companies to acquire information, systems and even the people responsible for leaps and bounds in technology. The time saved and the conditions diagnosed are vital in an industry where the time taken and decisions made can be life-altering for patients.
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Learn more about our most recent developments from Google's health-related research and initiatives. Due to varying update cycles, statistics can display more up-to-date data than referenced in the text. Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel® microprocessors. Made possible by Intel's partner ecosystem, these end-to-end IoT solutions are optimized for data-intensive workloads. As a proof of concept, Akara developed an autonomous virus-killing robot prototype to disinfect contaminated surfaces in hospitals using UV light.
In July 2020, it was reported that an AI algorithm developed by the University of Pittsburgh achieves the highest accuracy to date in identifying prostate cancer, with 98% sensitivity and 97% specificity. Specifically, AI is the ability of computer algorithms to approximate conclusions based solely on input data. Although rule-based systems incorporated within EHR systems are widely used, including at the NHS,11 they lack the precision of more algorithmic systems based on machine learning.
The European Union has implemented the General Data Protection Regulation to protect citizens' personal data, which applies to the use of AI in healthcare.
With MRI brain interpretation used to decrease error in clinical diagnosis, the company is well on the way to changing the way that abnormalities are discovered within the brain.
The product can be integrated with any medical unit system structure, accessed from any communication workstation or device in the network, and upgraded without affecting the daily activity of the medical unit.
Over 75 percent of all patient care involving cardiovascular diseases, the workload on radiologists is massive.
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Here, it has been applied for early prediction of neurodegenerative diseases and the assessment of accelerated aging. However, there is very little research on abdominal age prediction which estimates the age of a person based on abdominal organs . In 2015, during the West African Ebola virus outbreak, Atomwise partnered with IBM and the University of Toronto to screen the top compounds capable of binding to a glycoprotein that prevented Ebola virus penetration into cells in an in vivo test. From the tested compounds, the one selected was chosen because it acted on other viruses with a similar mechanism of cell penetration. This AI analysis occurred in less than a day, a process that would have usually taken months or years, enabling the development of a treatment for the Ebola virus.
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The watch can take a user's blood pressure on the go while interpreting blood pressure data to provide actionable insights to users on a daily basis. The Apple Watch Series 4 is the very first direct-to-consumer product that enables users to get a electrocardiogram directly from their wrist. The app that permits the readings provides vital data to physicians that may otherwise be missed. Despite some setbacks and limitations, Artificial Intelligence in healthcare are virtually announced every day.
Consider chronic kidney disease, for example, a common, serious, costly and often preventable disease. However, many people in the early stages of the disease don't even realize they have it because patients typically exhibit few symptoms in the early going. Ultimately, the goal is to establish cause-effect relationships between multiple variables to determine how they interact and affect people with COVID-19.


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The Economist Launches "The Economist Executive Education"
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The Economist announced this week the launch of "The Economist Executive Education," an online executive education program to assist business executives in their careers.
Designed for senior leaders and executives in wide-ranging industries, the online courses will cover topics relevant to all sectors, including business, finance, technology, nonprofit and government, professional services, and public policy. The first six-week course, The New Global Order: How Politics, Business and Technology are Changing, begins in May and will offer an advanced view of today's world order.
Created in collaboration with GetSmarter, a brand of global education technology leader 2U, Inc., this first course covers the following topics:
* From Cold War to US-China rivalry
* The decline of US dominance
* The Chinese century
* The role of technology
* Disruptors, inbetweeners, and game changers
* Goodbye globalization?
Bob Cohn, president, The Economist, says, "The Economist's executive education program will bring the rigor and intelligence we apply to our journalism to the growing world of online education. The courses, conceived and written by our reporters and editors, will deliver practical insights and stimulating analysis on the most-pressing topics and themes." A course on writing is scheduled for fall of 2021.
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ABS 001-07 is specific for a conformation-dependent neoepitope that is expressed in activated protein C upon complex-formation with α1-antitrypsin. No reaction is seen to non-complexed α1-antitrypsin and only very little cross reaction to protein C zymogen. Note that specificity is calcium dependent.
ABS 001-07 is specific for a conformation-dependent neoepitope that is expressed in activated protein C upon complex-formation with α1-antitrypsin.
Protein C is a vitamin K-dependent serine protease produced in the liver and made up of 2 polypeptide chains. The 62kDa proenzyme is activated by thrombin and the active enzyme cleaves factor Va and VIIIa and thus inhibits blood coagulation. The molecular weight of the active enzyme is 55kDa and the normal concentrations in human plasma is approximately 1-3 ng/ml because of the very fast turnover, the proenzyme concentration is approximately 3 µg/ml. The activated protein C (APC) is inhibited by members of the serine protease inhibitor (serpin) family, of which α1-antitrypsin (AAT) and protein C inhibitor (PCI) are the most important.
ABS 001-07 reacts strongly with APC-AAT complexes in ELISA. It can be used in sandwich ELISA in combination with a polyclonal anti-protein C antiserum. Note, that the conformational neoepitope expressed in the APC-AAT complex can also be expressed in APC coated directly onto a high-binding microtiter plate.


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Bank of Russia Official: Still Too Early to Gauge Blockchain's Potential
A senior official at Russia's central bank has said blockchain technology is immature but may have industrial-scale applications.
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Russia's Central Bank
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A senior official at Russia's central bank has argued that time is still needed to understand the full benefits of blockchain technology.
Speaking in a discussion at the annual SPIEF conference in St. Petersburg, Bank of Russia deputy governor Olga Skorobogatova said blockchain requires improvements in terms of security and scalability, adding that it is still "not mature."
According to a report translated from Russian, she said:
"In the world, there is still no big industrial solution on distributed ledgers, except for bitcoins ... This is mainly due not to the fact that the technology is not mature enough."
Skorobogatova added that the lack of large-scale adoption is partly due to the fact that enterprise executives do not yet understand the value of the technology.
Still, there are two different areas in which the technology that might be of benefit, she argued, where one is well suited for online operations such as electronic letters of credit – she provided the examples of Ripple and R3's Corda platform – and the other involves working offline and with smart contracts – Ethereum and Hyperledger were cited in this case.
But technology for technology's sake is "pointless," the offical continued, predicting that, this year, the world will come to a greater understanding of blockchain and can then come to better anticipate how the technology will be of use within industrial-scale applications.
Despite Skorobogatova's comments, the Bank of Russia has already built a regulatory platform that aims to make sales of cryptographic tokens, or initial coin offerings (ICOs), more transparent and secure for traditional investors. Just last week, it was announced that the country's National Settlement Depository and Sberbank CIB, the bank's corporate and investment banking arm, would carry out a trial ICO issuance over the platform.
The central bank is also mulling the use its ethereum-based Masterchain software to communicate financial messaging across the Eurasian Economic Union, as per an April report.
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Johannes (John/Johnny) Mieremet (10 May 1960 – 2 November 2005) was a Dutch underworld figure associated with the Willem Endstra extortion and assassination. Born in Amsterdam, Mieremet was murdered at the age of 45, while conducting business in Pattaya, Thailand at around 10:00 a.m. local time. He had survived several earlier assassination attempts; one in 2002, and another on 26 February 2005, when he was shot in the leg and stomach by two perpetrators on a motorcycle.

Mieremet's former lawyer Evert Hingst had been gunned down two days earlier, on Monday 31 October 2005. Hingst's murder was one of several in a string of three related underworld liquidations during late October and early November 2005 and one in a longer series of liquidations that has started in 2000.

Background
Mieremet was widely feared in the Amsterdam underground. He was considered to be a regular business partner of  who was himself assassinated in October 2000. The duo was known as Spic and Span due to the supposedly efficient, effective and undetectable manner in which they got rid of their opponents. No criminal investigation directed at Mieremet was currently being conducted. Just as Klepper he seemed to be invincible to the authorities' efforts. Another famous partner of the duo was Klaas Bruinsma.

"Let them get rid of each other. Great." This was Mieremet's reaction when he heard about the murder of Evert Hingst. Just a few days before his own demise, on the evening of Hingst's murder Mieremet gave a telephone interview to crime reporter John van den Heuvel for his new television programme. "They all know too much about each other and now they are messing around amongst themselves. They don't trust each other anymore, fun huh?".

"This actually makes me happy. I know that I survived Evert. That's one thing that's sure. He belonged between the garbage where he was lying on Monday evening."

The obviously gleeful statements probably relate to the fact that Mieremet accused Hingst of being involved in the nearly-successful assassination attempt on his life in Amsterdam. In 2002, while leaving Hingst's office, who at the time was one of his lawyers, Mieremet was targeted by a gunman and was seriously wounded. After his recovery he openly talked about the connections between the real-estate business and the underworld in an interview given to the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf. He named Willem Endstra, who himself was assassinated in 2004, as the 'underworld banker'. He suspected Endstra to be one of the instigators of the attempt on his life.

Murder
When he was killed, Mieremet was busy working on a real estate project in Pattaya. The tourist resort is growing fast and is therefore highly popular among project developers. Mieremet arrived there about one year before his death. Officially he lived in the Belgian town of Neerpelt.

According to local Thai media, Mieremet was shot at 10:00 a.m. in his office in Pattaya, a beach resort in Chonburi Province. A Pattaya People journalist stated that the gunman arrived on the back of a moped and walked into Mieremet's office. Inside the two spoke, possibly in Dutch. At that time the gunman pulled his gun and shot Mieremet in the head. The shooter was described as a 'rather large man wearing a helmet'. The shooter kept on firing while retreating from the office. After the murder he slowly walked outside, stepped on his moped and disappeared. The tall height of the murderer has led to a suggestion that the murderer was not Thai. Mieremet's bodyguard managed to duck for cover just in time, avoiding being shot at all.

There is no exact cause for the assassination that is easy to pinpoint. One of the many theories is that of a conflict between Dutch and Yugoslav criminals about a shipment of drugs. This has supposedly led to a string of liquidations in past years. It seems unlikely, however that this one single incident has led to such a long streak of liquidations. It is more likely that it has been caused by a series of lesser incidents.

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I love the look of hand-lettered prints on photo paper, so I'll often upload the file to a nearby photo lab (CVS, Walgreens, Costco, etc) and have them printed there instead of at home. It's inexpensive but high quality. I personally prefer matte paper (or lustre if you're printing at Costco), but if you prefer a more shiny look, glossy paper can look great as well.
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There exist numerous examples of power and authority throughout American history. Be they institutions like government in general, mega cap corporations in the business and the financial world like Amazon or Bank of America and then of course individuals themselves. It is this latter category of individuals, in fact a very specific and unique group of individuals that I would argue wielded a level of power that was unprecedented and unrivaled in American history.
In 1860 a year before the outbreak of the American Civil War the states that would eventually leave the Union and make up the Confederate States of America were collectively the fourth richest country in the world. The large planters, those southerners that made up roughly 1% of the population were among America's wealthiest, if not the wealthiest. Large planters were defined as those that had 1,000 or more acres under cultivation and owned at least 50 slaves. They were a unique and distinct class. At this time the South had a population of roughly 10 million in 1860; 4 million slaves and 6 million free. 75% of whites were non-slaveholding. 3% of the free population were African-Americans or free blacks.
Like the feudal Middle Ages power and status were based on land ownership. But unlike the Middle Ages power was also based on a racially-driven system of slavery. A system that permeated and stretched to all aspects of Southern society whether one was part of the wealthiest 1% or the 75% that did not own any slaves. Even poor white yeomen farmers could always say to themselves no matter how bad their situation got "Well, at least I am not a slave." Consequently, to be white in the Antebellum South was to be very fortunate, to be a white male was even more so, and to be a white male of the 1% was to be a living god.
In his book A History of the American People historian Paul Johnson makes the point that the environment that resulted from society based on slavery was in many ways anti-capitalistic; meaning it did not cultivate the energies that are necessary to maintain a thriving free enterprise system. Slavery spurned efficiency, free-labor production, innovation and technological progress. Said Tocqueville in Democracy in America "Slavery. . .dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the power of the mind and benumbs the activity of man." The "Thomas Jeffersons" of the planter class that were deeply interested in nature, science, architecture and the likes were therefore the exceptions to the rule.
Life was designed instead to be easy and comfortable. And it was. Nearly every trade or skill would have a slave assigned to it- cooking, carpentry, blacksmithing, tailoring, just to name a few. Moreover, most of the planter class had overseers or managers that handled the day to day activities of the plantation. These men could literally choose to do nothing and their power status would not be compromised. Remarkable really, but such was the way society was set up. Rockefeller, Vanderbilt and Carnegie certainly ascertained a tremendous amount of power however that power was not a birthright- it was in fact achieved.
Another example of unfettered power in American history was that of the Catholic parish priest during the first half of the last century. America's cities were growing exponentially as a result of our country's extraordinary economic growth. Immigrants since the 1840s were coming from all over the world to America's shores for various motivations including opportunity and to have a future. A very large demographic were Catholic immigrants mostly from Europe. The local church became a salvation, an oasis, a comfortable familiarity for many immigrants dealing with a total new environment and society. The church served as gathering center for all in the community and its leader, the local priest was very influential.
Over time these immigrants of course had children and they then had children, yet the role of the local church within these communities remained powerful. How powerful? Well consider this: even today, in 2018, Vatican City, the Papacy is an absolute monarchy. Nothing like it anywhere else in the world. One needs to also consider that the period I am referring to was very much pre 2nd Vatican. A time when mass was said in Latin, when weekly and even daily attendance rates at mass were significantly larger in comparison to today and modern reforms had not yet been implemented. Priests were viewed as agents of God on earth and although canon law maintained they were fallible, in the eyes of their congregations they were very much infallible. To challenge the authority or the opinion of a priest was akin to challenging God.
I can remember growing up in the 80s and going to a Catholic parish grammar school. At the end of each quarter would be report card day. Four times a year. Each student would receive their report card and it was the parish priest that handed out report cards in front of the entire class. We would all be called one by one after he did a look over. Standing beside him in front of our peers he would give his opinion on what subjects we needed to improve upon if need be. It was awful. I can remember even at a young age that this seemed kind of like a dry run for when you die- judgement day! Fortunately for me I did well in school however for others I am sure it was a moment of great trepidation and anxiety.
In many ways we seem to identify this priestly power associated with the Catholic Church as something in the distant past- during the time of Medieval Europe and/or The Crusades and that is certainly true, but really one does not need to look too far back in history to showcase this power. We are not that far removed. And of course the exertion of such power played a very large role in the recent child abuse scandals that have plagued the Church.
American history is full of examples of unrivaled power. But when it comes to individual power I do not think there exist two better examples.


On Thanksgiving, I will be showing "Jus Passin' Through" and "The Courtship Of Miles Sandwich" to my guests, both of course, included on "Becoming Charley Chase". (This will doubtless be their first exposure to Thanksgiving comedy beyond "Planes, Trains, & Automobiles".) My question, and this is really the only place it could get answered, is this: Are there other silent comedies dealing with, or taking place at Thanksgiving? While I'm posting this query, I may as well extend that to include Christmas. (I'd like to extend my program beyond "Good Cheer" and "Big Business".) If any come to mind, I'd be grateful for the info.
Joe Migliore wrote: On Thanksgiving, I will be showing "Jus Passin' Through" and "The Courtship Of Miles Sandwich" to my guests, both of course, included on "Becoming Charley Chase". (This will doubtless be their first exposure to Thanksgiving comedy beyond "Planes, Trains, & Automobiles".) My question, and this is really the only place it could get answered, is this: Are there other silent comedies dealing with, or taking place at Thanksgiving? While I'm posting this query, I may as well extend that to include Christmas. (I'd like to extend my program beyond "Good Cheer" and "Big Business".) If any come to mind, I'd be grateful for the info.
Thanksgiving comedies are indeed scarce (as are Thanksgiving tunes, apart from Gene Autry's "Guffy the Goofy Gobbler"), but two other Christmas shorts that always work are Charley Chase's THERE AIN'T NO SANTA CLAUS (1926) and the Edgar Kennedy RKO short POISONED IVORY (1936).
I guess you could use Max Davidson's PASS THE GRAVY(1928) for Thanksgiving, although it's a chicken, not a turkey, or the Keystone short A BIRDS A BIRD (1915) with Chester Conklin.
Thanks for the Christmas titles, too. It's impressive how many times Chase's name pops up when we're looking for reliably good comedies.
I guess we can add WON BY A FOWL (1917) to the list of Thanksgiving shorts.


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Donald Trump Jan 12
'A Dangerous Game of Chicken': Iran Sets Up Challenge for Biden With Nuclear Ramp-Up
A recent law passed by Iran's hawkish Parliament mandates that Iran ramp up its nuclear program on multiple fronts.
politics Jan 6
End of Qatar Blockade Is 'a Win for the Region,' Saudi Foreign Minister Says
The Al-Ula declaration resolves all of the outstanding issues that Qatar and other Arab nations had, said Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, Saudi's foreign minister.
energy Jan 6
Saudi Arabia and Its Allies Restore Diplomatic Ties With Qatar After Three-Year Rift
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt had imposed a diplomatic, trade and travel blockade on Qatar, accusing it of supporting terrorism.
coronavirus Dec 23, 2020
Dubai Is Offering the Pfizer Vaccine to Residents for Free in Addition to China's Sinopharm Shot
The emirate's first batch of the Pfizer vaccines landed at Dubai International Airport late Tuesday night from Brussels.
Economy Dec 17, 2020
Expo 2020: Dubai's New Megacity Takes Shape, But Tourists Aren't Guaranteed
Organizers expect 25 million visitors to attend over the course of the six-month event, despite concerns about the pandemic's impact on travel and tourism.
politics Dec 9, 2020
Saudi Arabia Says It's Ready to End Gulf Crisis With Qatar Ahead of Biden Presidency — But It's Not a Breakthrough Yet
Several previous attempts to reach a solution have failed over contentious sticking points between the Gulf monarchies.
Israel Dec 6, 2020
Middle East Facing 'Cyber Pandemic' as Covid Exposes Security Vulnerabilities, Cyber Chief Says
The UAE has seen an "at least 250% increase" in cyberattacks this year, the UAE's top cyber security chief told CNBC.
Donald Trump Nov 26, 2020
A Biden Administration Wants the Iran Nuclear Deal Back. That Could Be Much Harder and Riskier Now
While a Biden administration will likely try to restart talks with Iran, the main obstacle may be whether Iran is willing to negotiate — and at what price.
Veterans Sep 16, 2020
From Service to Sick: The Effects of Veterans' Exposure to Burn Pits
Tens of thousands of veterans and service members stationed at military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan say exposure to trash fires or "burn pits" has left them with breathing problems and other chronic illnesses, including cancer. They are fighting for health benefits, but say the United States Department of Veterans Affairs is turning its back on them. Veterans say everything...
Middle East Sep 12, 2020
Bahrain Becomes Latest Arab Nation to Recognize Israel
Bahrain is the latest Arab nation to agree to normalize ties with Israel
Middle East Aug 15, 2020
Iran Threatens 'Dangerous Future' for UAE After Israel Deal
Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard has vowed that there will be dangerous consequences for the United Arab Emirates after it announced a historic deal with Israel to open up full diplomatic relations
UAE and Israel to Establish Full Diplomatic Ties
Israel and the United Arab Emirates say they are establishing full diplomatic relations in a U.S.-brokered deal that required Israel to halt its contentious plan to annex occupied West Bank land sought by the Palestinians
Trump Announces Diplomatic Deal Between Israel, UAE
President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Israel and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to normalize relations between the two nations after decades of tension. The countries are expected to exchange embassies and ambassadors in the coming weeks.
Lebanon Mar 19, 2020
2 Americans Imprisoned in Iran, Lebanon Released
Two Americans imprisoned in the Middle East have been released
Middle East Feb 24, 2020
Shaky Truce Appears to Take Hold in Israel-Gaza Fighting
A shaky cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad appears to be taking hold, ending a two-day round of violence that had threatened to disrupt next week's Israeli national elections
pope francis Feb 23, 2020
Pope Cautions Against 'Unfair' Middle East Peace Plans
Pope Francis has cautioned against "unfair" solutions aimed at ending the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians
Middle East Feb 4, 2020
In Blessing West Bank Annexation, Trump Erodes an International Norm
President Donald Trump's plan to solve the Mideast conflict allows Israel to unilaterally annex large parts of the West Bank, war-won lands the Palestinians and the international community view as occupied territory
coronavirus Jan 29, 2020
UAE Confirms 4 Cases of Coronavirus, First in Mideast
The United Arab Emirates is confirming the first cases of the new Chinese virus that causes flu-like symptoms in the Mideast
ISIS Jan 26, 2020
General: US Committed to Syria Fight; Missions Up Against ISIS
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Raining dogs and cats
The Tompkins County SPCA's Hanshaw Road facility is bulging with dogs and cats in need of homes. Built for 38 dogs, they now have 54, as well as 291 cats. The usual fall drop-off in occupancy hasn't happened this year, and it's a great time to consider getting a new pet, and the Journal has pictures of four to consider.
Cathy Wakeman's Dryden Town Talk covers lots of ground this week:
The Etna Community Church will be having a Fall Festival this Saturday from 1:00pm to 3:00pm.
The Dryden Town Historical Society Pie and Bread Sale will be next Saturday, November 5th, from 9:00am to sold out at the First National Bank of Dryden. The article says "usually by 11 a.m.", but I'd recommend getting there sooner.
Illusionist Toby Travis will be having a show at the Reach Out for Christ Church on November 9th at 7:00pm.
Local Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts will be collecting funds for hurricane relief through the Salvation Army at Clark's Food Mart.
The opinion page - actually opinion pages - has lots of county and Dryden opinion. Nicholas Nicastro of Dryden leads a list of writers asking the Journal to review local books. Herb Engman of Ithaca writes in support of County Legislator Martha Robertson, while Raymond and Rita Harris write of Mike Lane that:
Mr. Lane has been an effective legislator who is always eager to hear the concern of his constituents and to carefully consider their views. His record is one of fiscal integrity and a common sense approach to issues. His goal to change the current annual property assessment plan to provide for re-assessment every three years should provide a level of property tax relief for the citizens of Tompkins County.
There's also a letter from Kenneth Taylor challenging Lane and calling for Mike Hattery's re-election, but I'm afraid I can't resist pointing out how he's carefully chosen dates - despite claiming to "compare apples to apples" - to make Lane look bad and Hattery look good:
Over the last four years, under this vice chair's stewardship, the Tompkins County actual tax rate has risen 26 percent while the actual tax levy has risen approximately 31 percent. Note: During two of these four years, a double-digit increase in both the tax rate and tax levy occurred.
Meanwhile back in the Town of Dryden, over this same four-year period, the Town's tax rate went down 12.94 percent while the tax levy rose approximately 2 percent. Note: District 14 legislative candidate opponent Mike Hattery was involved during the last two years as a Dryden town councilman.
Taylor carefully omits noting that the last two budgets, the two in which Mike Hattery has been directly involved, as I just wrote earlier, had town property tax levy increases of 4.8% and 7.9%, both greater than the county's 0% and 6.5% increases in the same period.
It may be fun to attempt to give Mike Hattery credit for tax decreases that took place under a Democratic Supervisor before he was on the board, and to be sure to count the two years when the county was under the heaviest pressure from state increases in pension and Medicare mandates against his opponent, but it doesn't stand up to careful examination, and it very definitely isn't "apples to apples."
There's also another round of columns from incumbent District Attorney George Dentes and challenger Gwen Wilkinson, this time discussing their qualifications. Unfortunately, Dentes manages to claim once again that the Rockefeller Drug Laws have been repealed, when they very clearly have only been reformed, lightly.
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Júlia Ventura, née le  à Lisbonne est une artiste peintre et photographe portugaise.

Biographie
Júlia Ventura étudie la peinture à la faculté des beaux-arts de Lisbonne avant de développer un intérêt pour la photographie.

En 1972, elle réalise Les Textes, une série de photographies avec des textes comme objets principaux, en grande partie composés des extraits du Plaisir du texte par Roland Barthes (1972).

Les Gestes sans origines, sont des autoportraits photographiques pris pendant la première moitié des années 1980. Les enjeux conceptuels de ce travail sont centrés autour du concept d'objectivité de l'artiste.

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Photographe portugais du XXe siècle
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Alexis Belessiotis
Research Project: State of the art characterisation of tissue engineering contstructs
Supervisors: Giuseppe Battaglia (UCL), Molly Stevens, David Payne (Imperial)
Alexis graduated from Imperial College London with an MEng in Materials Science & Engineering in 2016. His final year project was performed within the Stevens Group at Imperial where he was working on cartilage tissue engineering scaffolds. Alexis is remaining with the same group for his PhD research which involves exploiting novel characterisation techniques to understand how cells interact with nanotextured devices and how successful they are in delivering cargo into the cytoplasm.
Ryan Bower
Research Project: Growth, characterisation and nanolithography of alternative plasmonic materials
Supervisors: Ed Romans (UCL), Peter Petrov (Imperial)
Ryan graduated from Oxford University with a Masters in Chemistry in 2014. For his final year research project Ryan worked in the Hayward group investigating the synthesis and characterisation of novel transition metal oxides. After living in Australia for 18 months Ryan returned to the UK to begin his PhD at Imperial under the supervision of Peter Petrov in the Thin Film Technology Laboratory. Ryan's research will focus on the growth and characterisation of plasmonic materials.
Jay Bullen
Research Project: The removal of arsenic from groundwater
Supervisors: Dominik Weiss (Imperial), Ramon Vilar (Imperial)
Jay received a First-Class Honours degree (MSci) in Chemistry from University College London, with a master's project using DFT calculations to model carbon nitride polymers as a material in lithium-ion energy device anodes. After working as a Chemistry teacher in South Korea Jay is now studying for a PhD, where his research investigates the use of novel photocatalyst-sorbent composite materials for the removal of arsenic from contaminated drinking water in countries such as Bangladesh and India. Currently researching mesoporous titania-hematite composites, Jay is modelling surface adsorption through determination of surface charge (potentiometric titration), surface complexation constants (batch experiments, ICP-MS, ICP-AES) and physical characterisation with LEIS and BET analysis. The next part of this work will involve determining rate constants for the UV catalysed oxidation of As(III) to As(V) in different aqueous media. In these experiments arsenic speciation is determined by Anodic Stripping Voltammetry. Characterisation techniques used so far include XRD, SEM-EDS, TEM, LEIS, and BET analysis.
Procopios Constantinou
Research Project: Studying and manipulating the quantum properties of atomic-scale defects in silicon for future device applications
Supervisors: Steven Schofield (UCL), Gabriel Aeppli (PSI)
Procopios recently graduated from Cardiff University with an MPhys in Physics. His research interests have always been broadly associated with condensed matter physics, with his most recent work focussing on modelling convergent beam low-energy electron diffraction (CBLEED) to simulate the different surface phase transitions of Si(001). This work was performed at Cardiff University under the supervision of Professor Jesson. Further to this work, Procopios has become intrigued in the methods used to fabricate and study novel structures based on Si for their potential use in future devices. His work in the CDT-ACM involves the exploitation of defects in Si to fabricate and study quantum systems with novel electronic, optical and magnetic properties. Using the scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) hydrogen resist technique, small quantum defect structures from dopant atoms will be buried below a Si surface by exploiting arrays of 1D and 2D dangling bonds on the depassivated regions of silicon. The atomic scale interactions taking place within these structures will then be investigated by using scanning tunnelling spectroscopy (STS) and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements in the hope of developing new routes for nanoscale device fabrication on Si.
Eleanor Crane
Research Project: Single atom devices with controllable electrical and optical properties
Supervisors: Neil Curson (UCL), Steven Schofield (UCL)
Eleanor is using cryogenic scanning tunneling microscopy to isolate electrons for making qubits (quantum bits) for a quantum computer. This is why the ACM CDT should give Eleanor a head start, because she will learn about many other important techniques used in research labs worldwide. Having first completed an Electrical Engineering Master's in Paris, Eleanor came to UCL to do a MSc in Nanotechnology last year. She was then motivated to look for the right PhD in experimental quantum physics to continue her research. A phosphorous atom has one more electron than a silicon one, so if a phosphorous atom is put inside a silicon lattice, there is an extra electron in the structure. This extra electron can have either an up or a down spin and can therefore be used to make a qubit (quantum bit). Eleanor's PhD looks at ways of putting this single atom inside the silicon and keeping track of where it is.
Felicity Dear
Research Project: Fundamental mechanisms in titanium
Supervisors: David Dye (Imperial), Vassili Vorontsov (Imperial)
Felicity received her MSci from the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge in 2016. Her Masters research project looked at the oxidation behaviours of new nickel-base superalloys. During her summer breaks, Felicity also undertook research projects in graphite intercalation compounds for hydrogen storage (based at UCL and ISIS Neutron Source), and in cobalt-base superalloy development with the Engineering Alloys group at Imperial College. She started her PhD with the same group at Imperial in 2016, after a research trip to look at titanium alloy samples in Berkeley, California. This work will feed into her PhD investigating fundamental mechanisms in titanium alloys to improve their performance as aerospace materials.
Troy Dion
Research Project: GHz spin excitation and detection of artificial nano-magnets
Supervisors: Hidekazu Kurebayashi (UCL), Will Branford (Imperial)
Troy graduated from the University of Leeds with an MSc in Physics. Troy specialised in condensed matter, and his final year project investigated Skyrmions. After graduation Troy lived in Hamburg for nine months working in a cafe and improving his German. He then worked at Nature Scientific Reports for a year as a publishing assistant before beginning his PhD research at UCL.
Jennifer Hack
Research Project: Multi-scale characterisation of polymer electrolyte fuel cells
Supervisors: Dan Brett and Paul Shearing (UCL), Nigel Brandon (Imperial)
Jen graduated from Durham University with an MChem in Chemistry (International Route). Jen carried out her final year research project at the University of Würzburg, Germany, where she explored the synthesis and characterisation of luminescent coordination compounds. During her studies, Jen spent a summer at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France, where she used computational chemistry to elucidate oxygen ion migration in solid oxide fuel cells.
Jen's PhD research project aims to elucidate the degradation processes occurring in polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs), by correlating their electrochemical performance to structural changes that arise. Using a multiscale approach, information about PEFCs from the stack‑ to the nanoparticle‑level can be obtained. X‑ray computed tomography (X‑ray CT) is a technique that is particularly well suited to imaging across the length scales and has the further advantage that imaging is carried out in 3‑dimensions without any damage to the sample. Jen will also be using techniques such as scanning electron microscopy, electrochemical characterisation including cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy to assist with her research.
Philip Haynes
Research Project: Advanced atomic force microscopy of DNA minicircles
Supervisors: Bart Hoogenboom (UCL), Ramon Vilar Compte (Imperial)
Philip completed a Master's degree in Physics at the University of Exeter. Whilst there he built a microelectrophoresis system and investigated the feasibility of a novel Millikan style set-up to measure the surface charge of human erythrocytes (RBCs). As part of his PhD Philip will be studying the formation and dynamics of non-canonical DNA structures using AFM and FRET. In particular, G-quadruplex DNA has been shown to regulate oncogene expression and is a promising target for anti-cancer therapies. With the construction of a native model system, assays of G-quadruplex binders will be carried out with implications for drug development. Further to this, AFM and other fluorescence based techniques will be used elucidate mechanisms behnind genome organisation. Philip aims to futher improve AFM resolution (spatial and temporal) as past of a close collaboration with Bruker in Santa Barbara, California.
Emily Hofmann
Research Project: Electronic and structural properties of germanium-tin nanostructures for future optoelectronics
Supervisors: Neil Curson (UCL) and Thomas Schroeder (IHP)
Emily graduated from RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany with a MSc in Physics for which she won the "Nachwuchspreis der Freunde des IHP" award. Her PhD research at UCL and IHP is focused on the fundamental study of germanium-tin alloys, a new material for novel applications of modern electronics. By scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy she studies the electronic and structural properties of germanium-tin alloys starting with only one atomic layer of tin on germanium. Coupled with further characterization methods the insight gained should aid in optimizing germanium-tin alloys for application in current technology.
Epameinondas Skountzos
Research Project: Understanding the electrochemical behaviour of stainless steels in bromide containing solutions
Supervisors: Kyra Sedransk Campbell (Imperial) and Mary Ryan (Imperial)
Minos graduated with an MSc in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering from Imperial College London after completing his MEng in Chemical Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). Currently, as a member of the Centre for Doctoral Training in the Advanced Characterisation of Materials, he studying for a PhD under the supervision of Dr Kyra Sedransk Campbell and Prof Mary Ryan. His PhD project, funded by BP-ICAM, aims to improve the understanding of stainless steel behaviour in corrosive environments and specifically bromide containing solutions.
Jamie Thompson
Research Project: Development and characterisation of photoelectrocatalytic devices for artificial photosynthesis and solar fuel production
Supervisors: James Durrant (Imperial), Bin Chen (NASA)
After graduating with a Chemistry degree from the University of Southampton, Jamie spent almost two years working at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, in close collaboration with Xerox PARC. His work now focuses on characterization and development of materials for performing artificial photosynthesis (conversion of carbon dioxide into oxygen and solar fuels), as part of an ongoing collaboration with NASA and PARC. He is working under the supervision of Professor James Durrant and hopes to develop aspects of printable life support systems for both terrestrial and off-planet applications. Jamie has specialist training in Transient Absorption Spectroscopy, Gas Chromatography, Raman Spectroscopy, Various Microscopy Techniques as well as vast experience in, 3D Printing, Inkjet Printing, and Rapid Prototyping.
Chen-yu Tsai
Research Project: Evaluation of layered oxide composites as co-electrolysis anodes
Supervisors: Stephen Skinner (Imperial), Ainara Aguadero (Imperial)
Chen-Yu graduated with a Masters in Engineering (Chemical) from the University of Melbourne. As part of his Masters degree, Chen-Yu worked with HRL Limited to undertake a literature review and engineering assessment with the topic of "Generating synthesis gas using Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells". In addition, Chen-Yu undertook a one year study exchange at Imperial in 2014/2015 which inspired him to apply for the PhD programme at the university. His PhD research will focus on synthesising and characterising new layered oxide materials for the application of solid oxide electrolysis cell anodes.
Elena Watts
Research Project: Flexible nanomaterials for pressure sensing at the screen/human interface
Supervisors: Jason Riley (Imperial)
Elena is working on the project 'Flexible and transparent piezoresistors for pressure sensing at the machine/human interface'. The movement towards flexible and transparent electronics demands functional components with appropriate material properties. Elena is working on novel ways to create pressure sensors that have both transparency and flexibility using a range of conductive nanomaterials. A multi-step fabrication procedure for an optically transparent piezoresistive material has been developed using a collection of techniques such as metal sputtering, lithography and electrochemical deposition. With her remaining time at Imperial, Elena hopes to study the associated piezoresistive mechanism by conducting in-situ characterisation experiments.
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Remember my post on Sunday that said Amanda and Melissa were out picking apples?!? Well… Amanda brought me some of the fruits of her labor today! Talk about psyched! There is just nothing better than fresh fruits and vegetables. And I do mean "fresh" – not the stuff that passes for fresh in the grocery store… Picked way before its time in some faraway place. Fresh. As in you picked it yourself or know exactly when and where it was grown and harvested. The difference in flavor is just unbelievable.
I had puff pastry and was toying with the idea of apple turnovers when Victor said "Can I make an Apple Pie?" I immediately said YES!!!
So… as I write this, a fabulous-looking apple pie is in the oven.


When we have a healthy respect and reverence for the Lord, we will learn to watch what we say. "Like golden apples in setting of silver" (Proverbs 25:11) are words carefully chosen and spoken accurately and at the right time. So many of us experience responsibilities that can weigh heavily on our minds and on our spirits. It is easy to rush into speech without considering what we are saying.
We have all heard the saying, "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." Often, what we allow to come out of our mouths are examples of extreme foolishness! We must train ourselves to think before speaking and always give serious consideration to the outcome and the effect of our words. Rushing into speech is unwise, and "small talk" can cause big problems. Random ramblings can be dangerous and lead to foolish conversation.
Lady Bird Johnson is quoted as saying, "I regret often that I have spoken, never that I have been silent." That is a good statement to remember. King David prayed and asked the Lord to keep watch over his mouth. He said "set a guard over my mouth, O Lord, keep a watch over the door of my lips." Also, in Psalm 139:23-24, he said, "Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." This should be our daily prayer.
We can and we should ask God for wisdom and articulation. He can cause us to be a blessing and also to be effective for the Kingdom of Heaven. In this troubled world, the only way to successfully walk in the peace of God with the "mind of Christ" is to renew our spirits daily with prayer asking for God's help and guidance, and looking to His word for direction. His presence washes away the stain of sin and the cares of life. Even in the middle of intense stress, He will bring to us comfort, strength and His peace, if we will trust Him for help.