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Jean-Roger Thorelle, né en 1913 à Paris et mort pour la France en 1944 à Fresnes, est un commerçant et résistant français.

Biographie

Jean-Roger Thorelle tient avec son épouse une crèmerie à l'enseigne d'À la ferme de Rambouillet au 90, Grande-Rue à Bourg-la-Reine. Le couple a trois filles. Il livre le lait de bon matin aux Réginaburgiens.

Caporal des FFI, il est arrêté le  rue Angot (actuelle rue de la République) à Bourg-la-Reine avec , lequel est abattu sur place. Il est conduit à la prison de Fresnes, torturé et exécuté quelques heures avant l'attaque de la prison par capitaine de Witasse de la  blindée du général Leclerc, . Il est le dernier fusillé de la prison de Fresnes.

La municipalité apprend la nouvelle au lendemain de l'attaque de la prison et lui organise le  des funérailles solennelles et son inhumation au cimetière de Bourg-la-Reine.

Hommages
 La Ville de Bourg-la-Reine a donné son nom à l'ancienne rue de la Madeleine le .

Notes et références

Notes

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Bibliographie
 Xavier Lenormand, Étienne Thieulin, À travers notre ville, l'histoire des rues de Bourg-la-Reine, Orléans, Imprimerie Nouvelle, 1994,  .

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Naissance à Paris
Décès en août 1944
Décès à Fresnes (Val-de-Marne)
Décès à 30 ans
Mort pour la France
Personne fusillée en France
Personnalité exécutée par le Troisième Reich
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Algorithms for Narrative Generation on Social Media
PI: Pete Grindrod
Department: Mathematical Institute
Citizens are increasingly relying upon social media to source and broadcast information about events.
The algorithmic toolset developed by Prof Grindrod's group will support the monitoring of social media for events occurring in the public sphere, particularly in public spaces. By accessing "real-time" narratives created by spontaneous, changing groups of people ("crowds"), the tools will provide a targeted conduit for information analysis, decision making and advice. This exploits the spontaneously generated social media data resources in real-time to create a time-stamped unfolding narrative.
This algorithmic approach to narrative generation offers a novel and state-of-the-art method to understanding events as they unfold and the technology developed in this project will be of interest to a wide number of SMEs across a number of sectors (including defence, marketing, and politics). Through collaborator Dr Dave Sloggett (Behavioural Dynamics Institute) Prof Grindrod is already in talks with police forces across the UK who have identified the need for such a technology during marauding terrorist attacks in public spaces. During these attacks there is often great confusion as to the number and location of attackers as well as of any civilians who may be at risk. There is however often a plethora of images and statuses posted on social media which provide valuable intelligence for the first-responders (police, medics, and fire service). By working with two SMEs with the relevant technical expertise (Bloom Agency and CountingLab), Prof Grindrod's team will produce a prototype implementation of their algorithms which will have demonstrable social benefit (saving lives) and will also showcase the project for other potential end users. In addition to this, other EPSRC funded research from the University of Bath will be incorporated in human-computer interaction to understand the best ways to communicate the dynamic narrative.

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December 10, 2010 — Parker College of Chiropractic presented sponsor scholarships to four students during an all-school assembly. The student recipients were awarded for their leadership and contributions to the college.
Jarrett Browning, tri-three, was awarded with a three thousand dollar memorial scholarship in memory of the late Dr. Matthew Cacka. Dr. Cacka graduated from Parker in 2007. After graduation, he established a practice in Oregon. Dr. Cacka's family and several of his classmates were in attendance during the scholarship presentation where they watched a special video tribute to Dr. Cacka.
Browning, elected as student body vice president, has served as president on the student senate for tri's one and two. He was also a delegate for the World Congress of Chiropractic Students (WCCS) conference. He participates as a member of both Student American Chiropractic Association (SACA) and the Student Texas Chiropractic Association (STCA). He serves as a tour guide at Parker and volunteers during Parker Seminars as a session monitor.
Standard Process Inc., a nutritional food supplement manufacturer, presented the two thousand dollar Standard Process Student Scholarship to tri-three student, Lauren Jessup. Involved in numerous clubs and organizations at Parker, Jessup created a student body committee that provides awareness about developments at Parker.
A standout student, Jessup was awarded with a second scholarship, receiving an additional one thousand dollars from the Drucker Labs Student Scholarship.
Matt Rayner, tri-six, was presented with the Dr. Gilles Lamarche Student Scholarship awarding him one thousand dollars. Rayner is a dedicated member of the Pediatric Club and the Carrick Neurology Diplomate program. He serves as captain for Parker's intramural volleyball. Rayner also volunteers with hockey teams in the North Texas area.
Jonnathan Camacho, tri-seven, received a one thousand dollar scholarship from Chiro One Wellness Centers. Camacho is active in the Parker Military Association and Parker's Puerto Rico Recruiting Team. He's also a member of SACA.
"This scholarship is a huge relief at the end of this trimester when scholarship funds start to dwindle," said Camacho.


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Q: jQuery Parse date - '2013-12-29T18:30:00.000Z in format of dd/mm/yy I have getting date in format as I specify above but I want to parse date into dd/mm/yy. I used $.datepicker to parse date like
searchVal = $.datepicker.formatDate('dd/mm/yyyy', $.datepicker.parseDate('yy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.tttZ', searchVal));

The error reported from jquery-ui.min.js is: Missing number at position 0
Does anyone know how to do this???

A: Looking at the jquery Datepicker docs, there is no yyyy format token (only y or yy). For a four digit year you'll want the "yy" option. example:
$.datepicker.parseDate( "yy-mm-dd", "2007-01-26" );

If after fixing that it still gives you an error, I'd start with a simpler format (maybe yy-mm-dd) for the parseDate and add to it until I reach the problematic part.
As a side note, if your using the datepicker just for date manipulation and parsing you might want to take a look at moments.js (It's very good):
http://momentjs.com/

A: From the datepicker widget documentation:
$.datepicker.formatDate( "yy-mm-dd", new Date( 2007, 1 - 1, 26 ) );

Maybe you should change the javascript into the following:
searchVal = $.datepicker.formatDate('dd/MM/yyyy', new Date('2013-12-29T18:30:00.000Z')));

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Until a few years ago, it was possible to use Facebook on mobile devices through browser without having to download any apps. On the mobile version of the website, a user was able to do pretty much everything they could do on the desktop version of it.
However, Facebook began insisting on downloading its Messenger app to use the messages. First, it would show the user a reminder to download the app when he or she navigates to the messages. However, the user still had a choice to dismiss the reminder and proceed to the messages.
Eventually, you could no longer just dismiss the prompt. Facebook would not allow you to use manage your messages without downloading the app.
Although the app is easy to use, there are many legitimate reasons why somebody wouldn't want it. It takes up storage space and uses up your data, while the website only uses the data while you are looking at it. Also, the app requires many fairly intrusive permissions, such as access to your media and contacts.
Although I personally trust that Facebook would not use the data for malicious purposes, many people wouldn't be so comfortable with it. Last but not least, I, as many people out there, don't like being forced to accept something I don't want.
Luckily, it is very easy to avoid downloading the app and carrying on using Facebook through the browser. Both Chrome and Safari browsers allow you to open any site in desktop mode. On Chrome, "request desktop site" is available when you click on three dots in the top-right corner. On Safari, the option is available when you tap and hold the refresh button.
The page will look exactly the same as before. The only difference is that you can now access your messages with no hassle. And there is not much Facebook could do to close this loophole.
When you request a web page in desktop mode, your browser sends a request that looks the same as what would have been sent if the request was made from a desktop; therefore the server that hosts the website believes that it's communicating with a desktop computer and sends the corresponding content back.
This hack also works for any other websites that are forcefully offering you to download yet another app. However, there don't seem to be too many other websites that are as forceful as Facebook. Most of the websites have a relatively polite offer of an app, which can be very easily dismissed.
Access unlimited content on subscription websites without subscription
There are many websites out there that allow you to read a limited number of articles or view a limited number of videos before you have to register and pay for subscription. The good news is, that in most of such cases, you can get over this limit without much effort at all.
Although there are some websites out there that handle the demo content properly, most of the websites rely purely on cookies to find out how many articles or videos you have already viewed. Therefore, clearing your browser's cookies resets the counter to zero and allows you to do it all over again.
People behind such websites are probably aware of this loophole. However, as only relatively few people know about this little hack and, of those who do, many aren't prepared to do it on the ground of ethical believes, the owners of the websites probably don't consider this to be a problem worth investing into.
Also, many of such websites have more streams of revenue than subscription fees. For example, many display adverts on their pages. Therefore, implementing simple solutions, such as requiring everyone to register before they can view anything at all, would probably cut their revenue instead of improving it.
Block the ads on video sites that force you to disable AdBlock
Many people these days are aware of AdBlock, a browser plugin that hides most of the adverts on the websites. As well as being effective at hiding embedded ads on the pages, the plugin also stops video ads from showing. At the time of writing, it works perfectly well on YouTube.
However, there are many video websites out there that took notice of this and have dedicated whole teams of software developers to prevent users from using any ad blocking plugins. Unfortunately, these are usually the websites with the highest density of the most annoying adverts per video, such as on-demand catch-up TV channels. In such cases, when AdBlock is on, instead of a video, a user would see a full-screen instruction to disable the plugin.
Fortunately, there is a work-around even for this. This is, however, a loophole that may be closed by software engineers quite easily, so it is not guaranteed to work on every video website out there.
Normally, the script to check whether your browser has ad blocking plugin enabled only runs at the beginning of the video when the first advert is shown and no script would run afterwards. Therefore, the solution would be to disable the AdBlock, let the first advert to finish playing and then re-enable the plugin. You can now enjoy the rest of the video without any ads.
Viewing content that is not available in your country
Different countries have different laws and, because of this, there are some content that is available in some countries, but not the others. For example, Russia has recently banned pretty much half of the web content. However, even in democratic Western countries, sometimes things get banned for very obscure reasons.
The good news is that the web allows you to pretend that you are not located in the country that you are actually located in. In this article, we have already covered 3 ways of doing so: VPN's, proxies and Tor browser.
Tor browser is probably not the best solution if all you want is just to watch a YouTube video that your friend from across the world has shared on Facebook, as it is relatively slow and it doesn't provide a guarantee which country your final request will be sent from. It well may be another country where this video is banned.
Proxies and VPN's grant you control over which country you are pretending to be from. An example of proxies can be found on this page, however clicking on any of the links is solely your responsibility, as we don't guarantee that none of them are malicious.
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Evert Miedema (Kralingen, 10 september 1887 – Utrecht, 19 september 1979) was een Nederlands fotograaf, zanger, beeldhouwer en schilder.

Leven en werk
Evert Miedema was een zoon van Simon Miedema en Dirkje de Jong. Hij kwam uit een kunstzinnige familie, zijn vader was beeldhouwer, zijn grootvader Rein en oom Johan Miedema waren schilders. Op advies van zijn vader ging Evert naar de Academie van Beeldende Kunsten en Technische Wetenschappen in Rotterdam, waar hij les kreeg van zijn vader, Alexander van Maasdijk, Ferdinand Oldewelt en J.G. Heijberg. Miedema wilde fotograaf worden, hij ging daarom na de academie in de leer bij fotograaf C.A.G. Leyenaar. In 1910 opende hij zijn eigen zaak aan de Oostzeedijk in Rotterdam.

Zanger
Omdat hij in huiselijke kring geregeld positief commentaar kreeg op zijn zang, nam hij zanglessen bij Jacoba de Bijl. Twee jaar later klopte hij aan bij de Haagse zangpedagoge Cornélie van Zanten, die zijn potentie zag en hem aannam als leerling. In 1916 debuteerde de tenor in Das  Lied  von  der  Glocke van Romberg en een jaar later zong hij in zijn eerste opera. Miedema doekte zijn zaak op, om een carrière als beroepszanger te gaan volgen. Hij vertrok naar Londen, waar hij in een aantal films meespeelde. Hij kwam er in aanraking met sir Henry van den Bergh, telg uit de familie van margarinefabrikanten. Hij woonde een jaar in diens huis in Hyde Park en gaf er huisconcerten. Van den Bergh huurde voor hem het theater Wigmore Hall af, waarna zijn carrière een sprong nam.
In 1922 verbond hij zich aan de Nationale Opera, een jaar later werd hij eerste lyrische tenor bij het Stadttheater van Aussig. Later was hij verbonden aan het Landestheater in Braunschweig en aan de opera in München-Gladbach. Miedema trad op met bekende orkesten, was geregeld op de radio te horen en speelde onder andere mee in stukken als Parsifal (1919), Tannhäuser (1922 en De doge van Venetië (1932). Eind jaren 20 maakte Miedema deel uit van het Jo Vincent Kwartet of Haagsch Vocaal Kwartet, met Jo Vincent (sopraan), Dora Versteegh (alt) en Willem Ravelli (bas), waarmee hij optrad en diverse plaatopnames maakte. In de jaren 30 zong hij met het Van Zantenkwartet, vernoemd naar zijn oud-lerares, met Ankie van Wickevoort Crommelin (sopraan), Jo van de Meent (alt) en Bas de Groot (bariton). Zijn laatste rol, de mannelijke hoofdrol in Wagners Lohengrin, speelde Miedema bij de Vlaamse Opera. Nadat hij na een optreden een hartinfarct kreeg, moest hij op doktersadvies stoppen. In 1934 werd hij docent aan het Rotterdams Conservatorium.

Fotograaf
Miedema pakte na zijn zangcarrière de fotografie weer op en opende in 1938 een zaak aan de Nieuwegracht in Utrecht. Hij richtte zich op portretfotografie en kleurfotografie. Hij sloot zich aan bij het Utrechts Genootschap Kunstliefde. In de jaren 60 sloot hij zijn winkel. Hij trok vervolgens het land door met zijn klankbeelden, waarbij hij dia's vertoonde begeleid door zijn eigen commentaar, muziek en declamaties. Onderwerpen van de klankbeelden waren onder meer 'De vier jaargetijden' en 'De Vecht', zijn laatste klankbeeld 'De gouden draad' vertelde het levensverhaal van Evert Miedema, zijn vader en grootvader. Pas na zijn tachtigste is hij zich intensief met schilderen en beeldhouwen gaan bezighouden.

Evert Miedema overleed kort na zijn 92e verjaardag.

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Dorian Nakamoto wasn't Satoshi Nakamoto in 2014 and yet, to all intents and purposes, that's effectively what he's become. Being identified as the creator of bitcoin, despite the scrutiny it invites, can also be lucrative, as Craig Wright, "the other Satoshi" can attest. Despite Wright's claims to have invented bitcoin being disproved, the Australian seems to have had no trouble securing funding since then for his work on blockchain scaling. Few would begrudge Dorian Nakamoto, "the original Satoshi", a chance to cash in on his e-fame and have a little fun in the process. Even without the elderly man's say-so, he's become the face of bitcoin, his "Nope" reaction face having been memed hard and purposed for everything from Telegram stickers to t-shirts.
At Bitconf, Dorian S. Nakamoto spoke of his discomfort at being doxxed as Satoshi and the protracted legal battle that ensued. Unemployed and strapped for cash, Dorian confessed: "I had to make a big decision. Should I fight Newsweek or not? And finally I said no." The former teacher hasn't warmed to the publication in the years since, but the bitcoin community has warmed to Dorian – and the occasionally cantankerous grandfather has reciprocated. It's a happy end to an unhappy story. For conspiracy theorists, the sight of Dorian Nakamoto rubbing shoulders with the likes of Nick Szabo at bitcoin conferences is evidence that perhaps Newsweek were onto something after all. Could Dorian have found a way to become the face of his creation, whilst dissuading attempts to steal his multi-billion dollar fortune? If so, it would have to go down as Satoshi's smartest trick yet. We will likely never know the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, who now may rank among the 50 richest people in the world. In his absence, substitute teacher Dorian S. Nakamoto seems a fitting choice to become the substitute face of bitcoin. Do you think Dorian Nakamoto has been treated harshly by the press? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Илья Челокаев: Челокаев, Илья Васильевич — Георгиевский кавалер; прапорщик; 7 ноября 1916 (посмертно).
 Челокаев, Илья Заалович — русский генерал, герой русско-турецкой войны 1877—1878 гг.


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1 National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20 Myasnitskaya Str., Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation
Binding force of contracts: views of XVI th century school of Salamanca
2011. No. 2. P. 39–50 [issue contents]
Poldnikov Dmitriy - Associate Professor of the Department of Theory of Law and Comparative Law, Law Faculty, National Research University Higher School of Economics, PhD (history). E-mail: dpoldnikov@hse.ru
Address: National Research University — Higher School of Economics, 20, Myasnitskaya str., Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation.
This article presents the view of the School of Salamanca of the late medieval scholastics (16th century) on the binding force of contracts – a key problem of contractual theory. The legal theory of binding contracts of the School of Salamanca is represented as a requisite chain between the medieval civil law and contractual doctrines of the followers of natural law promoted in the Modern Age. The lack of the binding principle of all the legal agreements in Roman law until the 16th century was in line with the view of medieval civil law scholars to defy the rule promises must be kept (pacta sunt servanda) from canon law. The representatives of the School of Salamanca gave a rationale to the rule in all the legal systems of Continental Western Europe. The contractual theories of the school were being formed in Spain's golden age – the period of cultural, political and economic rise, caused by the political unification of the country, colonial conquests and the leading role of the Spanish monarchs in Western Europe. Being influenced by the new trends, Spanish theologians and legal scholars of the 16th century legal scholars (Domingo se Soto, Francisco Suárez, Luis de Molina, Leonardus Lessius etc. got engaged with the reform of medieval legal doctrines ius commune on the basis of moral theology, the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas and canon law. The development of contractual law resulted in an original theologian and legal theory well represented in the treatises entitled collectively De iustitia et iure. The typical features of the theory were a successive description from the general to the particular, distinguishing common principles of contract law and rules for certain contracts. One of the provisions was represented with the principle of the binding authority of all promises both mutually beneficial and gratuitous except they are given on an actual basis (causa) and accepted by the creditor. When formulating the principle, the representatives of the School relied on the concept of promise in canon law, Catholic theory on Christian virtues and views of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas as to the nature of contractual relations. On the basis of the obligation of a contract, later scholars determined the order of concluding a contract on the basis of offer and acceptance and discussed the binding force of unaccepted promises. The significance of the theories of late scholars of the School of Salamanca is seen not only in their own interpretation of the ius commune principle but the influence on the theory of promise developed by Hugo Grotius in De jure belli ac pacis libri tres (1625)and some other scholars of the Modern Age.
Citation: Poldnikov Dmitry Jurevich (2011) Problema obiazatel'nosti dogovorov: vzgliad Salamankskoi shkoly XVI veka [Binding force of contracts: views of XVI th century school of Salamanca ] Pravo. Zhurnal Vysshei shkoly ekonomiki, 2, pp. 39-50 (in Russian)
Keywords: contractual theory; late scholastics; school of Salamanca; ius commune; binding force of contracts,; natural law
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HealthStart, India's healthcare focused incubator, has partnered with HITLAB to organize HITLAB WorldCup,India 2015. HITLAB is a New York based healthcare innovation lab focused on helping its partners ideate, create, evaluate and diffuse healthcare technology. HITLAB World Cup is a global healthcare innovation challenge annually organized to promote the rapid diffusion of technology based healthcare startups that will improve global public health. This year HITLAB and HealthStart have joined forces to provide greater access to investments, acceleration and mentoring opportunities for the winners of the India challenge.
"HITLAB World Cup in collaboration with HealthStart is a unique partnership aimed at providing promising healthcare innovations in India a global diffusion platform," says Dr. Nishita Rai, Executive Director, HITLAB. The HITLAB World Cup India is to be held at IIT Delhi on 7th August.
HealthStart Accelerator 2015 program will feature start-ups chosen from the HITLAB World Cup India applicant pool. In partnership, HealthStart and HITLAB unite the best of India and global expertise, networks and programs to offer a unique opportunity for healthcare start-ups in the country.
HealthStart Accelerator 2015 is a one of its kind accelerator focused on supporting healthcare startups exclusively. All HealthStart Accelerator companies not only receive funding but will have access to all support services and access to global networks and mentors. Additionally, one selected start-up from the program will get an opportunity to make a presentation at the Global HITLAB World Cup in New York.
It seems like a good avenue for healthcare startups to raise funding as well as tai guidance.
Applications are now open for the first cohort in the healthcare space. Interested entrepreneurs can submit applications at www.hitlabsummit.com . The deadline for applying to the program is July 17th, 2015.


An image provided by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on March 23, 2019 shows a Syrian patient receiving treatment after a chemical attack by militants in the province of Hama on the same day.
Foreign-backed militants in Syria have launched a chemical attack on Hama province. The Syrian army says terrorists shelled al-Rasif village in Hama's northern countryside. They used toxic gasses in their attack. At least 21 civilians have been injured so far. Doctors say most of those admitted to hospitals have breathing problems and blurred vision. In the past several years, militants have launched dozens of chemical attacks in Syria. Damascus has called on the United Nations to take action in this regard.
The Venezuelan president has accused the United States of orchestrating and opposition leader Juan Guaido of directing an assassination plot to take his life. Maduro said Washington used frozen Venezuelan funds to bankroll mercenaries for carrying out the operation. He warned the US against meddling in Venezuela's politics and internal affairs. Maduro made the remarks in an address to thousands of his supporters in the capital Caracas. The Latin American country has been engulfed in political turmoil for months amid a power struggle between Maduro and self-declared interim president Juan Guaido. On Thursday, Venezuela's security forces arrested Guaido's chief of staff for heading a terrorist cell. The government said the top aide was planning attacks against the country's high-level figures.
Hundreds of Algerian lawyers have staged a protest rally in the capital Algiers to demand President Abdelaziz Bouteflika immediately step down. The protesters shouted anti-government slogans including "regime out" and "we are fed up with this regime". They also carried signs that read "respect the will of the people" and "no to foreign interference".
Voting is underway in Thailand's first general election since the military ousted an elected government in a 2014 coup. More than seven million Thais are eligible to cast their ballots. The voters' turnout is expected to be high since the last time people participated in a poll was in 2011. They will elect 500 members for the lower house of parliament. Under the constitution, a 250-seat senate or upper house is appointed by the military. For years, Thailand has been struggling with political instability. This election is tipped as a contest between pro-military parties and allies of former premier, Thaksin Shinawatra who was also ousted in 2006.
The death toll from cyclone Idai that has ravaged parts of southern Africa continues to climb. The latest figure stands at 732. Over 400 people have died in Mozambique, while nearly 260 others perished in Zimbabwe. In Malawi 56 people lost their lives in heavy rains ahead of the cyclone. The category-2 storm made landfall last Thursday, triggering heavy flooding and trapping people on rooftops and trees. Rescue missions are still underway for possible survivors. Aid agencies have rushed to help as food and drinking water remain scarce. Officials are warning about more flooding in the coming days.
A young Palestinian man has succumbed to injuries he had sustained in Israeli fire on protesters in the Gaza Strip. According to the Gaza health ministry, 24-year-old Habib al-Mesri died in a hospital. He was among three protesters injured on Saturday night. Israeli forces have killed over 260 Palestinians since Gazans launched their weekly protests as part of a campaign, dubbed the Great March of Return, in March last year. The protesters demand an end to the Israeli occupation and the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland. Meanwhile, the Israeli military says its warplanes hit Gaza early on Sunday, targeting a position of the resistance group, Hamas. It says the attack was in response to the launching of inflammable balloons toward Israel.
The US military has carried out fresh airstrikes in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz. Nearly a dozen civilians were killed in the airstrikes, which targeted residential areas in Taloka district. Eyewitnesses say women were among the dead. The US confirmed the deadly air raid, and said it was carried out following a suspected case of insider attack. Stricken by frequent militant attacks, Afghanistan has been the scene of deadly ground and air strikes by foreign forces. Civilian casualties have been a controversial issue ever since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
Moroccan police have clashed with teachers staging a protest rally in the capital, Rabat, to demand better work conditions. Police used water cannon to disperse the demonstrators, who had gathered outside parliament. Protesters planned to spend the night there before staging a bigger demonstration called by leftist opposition parties, unions and civil society groups. However, police in anti-riot gear moved into action after they refused to leave the area. Teachers were chanting "liberty, dignity, social justice." Some demonstrators said they were protesting against temporary contracts on which they had been hired. They were all demanding full benefits and pensions like regular public servants.
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Roger Anghis April 8, 2018 April 7, 2018
Since the November 8th election of Donald Trump, the exposing of the communist roots of the Democrat Party has grown exponentially. The absolute hatred for anything and anyone conservative has become accepted behavior by left wing media and virtually every elected Democrat.
Some refuse to believe that the Democrats have gone full blown communist but look at Bernie Sanders. He is an Independent but caucuses with the Democrats. He's a full-blown socialist. He wants free college, free healthcare, 90% tax and total gun control. New York City's mayor, DeBlasio, is an admitted communist. He even has come against private property: It shouldn't come as surprise that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who campaigned on fighting income inequality and wants to tax the rich to pay for public transit improvements, has a fairly dim view of private property rights. But "dim" is apparently a bit of an understatement. De Blasio flat out does not believe in the right to private property.
That's highlighted in its starkest terms in a New York piece out this week. Here is de Blasio's response when asked about efforts to fight income inequality:
What's been hardest is the way our legal system is structured to favor private property. I think people all over this city, of every background, would like to have the city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be. I think there's a socialistic impulse, which I hear every day, in every kind of community, that they would like things to be planned in accordance to their needs. And I would, too. Unfortunately, what stands in the way of that is hundreds of years of history that have elevated property rights and wealth to the point that that's the reality that calls the tune on a lot of development….
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Look, if I had my druthers, the city government would determine every single plot of land, how development would proceed. And there would be very stringent requirements around income levels and rents. That's a world I'd love to see, and I think what we have, in this city at least, are people who would love to have the New Deal back, on one level. They'd love to have a very, very powerful government, including a federal government, involved in directly addressing their day-to-day reality. 1 This mindset is 100% communist.
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Don't even think that this is a modern issue with the Democrat Party. FDR's economic policies were heavy socialist. Eleanor Roosevelt helped push for healthcare as a right even though it is a privilege. The effect is to bolster American support for the principle that healthcare is a human right, a norm accepted by most countries and especially by other advanced democracies, but long ignored in mainstream American political discourse despite its origins in the work of a US President and First Lady.
That healthcare is a human right is in fact a basic principle of international human rights law that emanates from the ideas of Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt. In his 1944 State of the Union Address, President Roosevelt called for an Economic Bill of Rights, including "the right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health."
The 1948 United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, drafted under the leadership of Eleanor Roosevelt, drew on FDR's ideas to include rights to medical care and security in the event of sickness, and codifying these principles into a binding international treaty, the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights established "the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health" 2 This too is 100% communist.
Some will call me a conspiracy nut but look up the communist manifesto and see how many of them are in place in America today. All of them have been implemented by Democrats. If you still doubt me Norman Thomas of the Socialist Party of America ran for president six times stated in a speech on November 20, 1944: "The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But, under the name of 'Liberalism', they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
He went on to say: "I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform." 3 To make the matters worse, he was a Presbyterian minister! How does a so-called minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ embrace communism? The only way that can happen is to be totally ignorant of the Word of God.
American children today know nothing of America's founding. Our school system has made it illegal to teach our history because it is steeped in the Christian faith and you can't 'talk about religion' is public schools, unless it's islam. Many schools seem to target conservative student groups simply because they're conservative. Conservative speakers are cancelled time and time again at colleges across the country: California State University at Los Angeles — Ben Shapiro
Critics slammed the conservative writer and claimed his proposed lecture— about microaggressions, Black Lives Matter, and safe spaces — was not a debate but an attack. The university revoked his invitation, later allowing Shapiro to come to the campus after he threatened legal action.
"These aren't diversity warriors," Shapiro told Breitbart News. "They're jackbooted thugs." 4 Conservative Writer David Horowitz's Talk At UC Berkeley Cancelled Due To Security Concerns. 5 NYU College Republicans cancel gay conservative speaker. 6 DePaul cancels conservative's speech.7
Why are these speakers being cancelled? Students are being taught communist ideologies and that ideology does NOT allow for any other point of view being talked about. Hitler did the same kind of thing in the 1930's. He burned books with view points he disagreed with, imprisoned opposition party members and even executed many of them. We haven't gone that far yet, but we are heading in that direction very quickly. Look at how students react to opposing views. They have to run to a safe place and play with playdough or something else to make them feel 'unthreatened'. These are the people that will be running the country in 20 years! Let that sink in.
This indoctrination is happening in every grade level all the way through college. This is why the right school is so imperative. Homeschool if you have to because your child's future depends on it, the future of our nation depends on it.
https://reason.com/blog/2017/09/08/new-york-mayor-to-property-owners-drop-d
http://www.newsweek.com/americans-have-decided-universal-healthcare-basic-right-652128
https://www.catholicamericanthinker.com/communist-manifesto.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/list-of-disinvited-speakers-at-colleges-2016-7
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/04/11/uc-berkeley-presses-campus-republicans-to-cancel-another-conservative-speaker/
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/18/nyu-college-republicans-cancel-gay-conservative-speaker.html
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/289999-depaul-cancels-conservatives-speech
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Roger Anghis
Mr. Roger Anghis was born and raised in Denver, CO where he still resides. Always a student of history he has always been interested in the history of America. Having been raised in the 1950's and 60's when some of America's real history was still being taught in public schools, he was concerned that when his kids were in school the real history of America was not being taught. Why America was involved in the war of independence was no longer taught. The patriotism of our Founders was not being taught. The religious faith of our Founders was not being taught and that was the foundation for the revolution. So much of the importance of America was not being taught and was actually deemed 'unconstitutional' to be taught by our activist courts that there is a great threat of citizens of America will forget what makes America the greatest nation the world has ever or will ever see. Mr. Anghis has spent years studying the lives of the Founders and the impact their faith, Christianity, had on the development of America and America's style of government, which is unlike any government of any other nation. He wanted to make sure that there is a true record of the real America. So many of the modern history books have eliminated the faith of our Founders which is the foundation of everything that is American. Organizations like the ACLU, American's United for the Separation of Church and State and Freedom From Religion have made the telling of our real history illegal in our public schools and the display of our Christian heritage in the public square illegal. If we forget where we came from, we will not know who we are. We are one generation from being there. Most people are unaware of the strong Christian foundation of our Founding Fathers. The three books written by Reverend Anghis are designed to bring this information to light. We must never forget Who made us the greatest nation on earth. Mr. Anghis has owned a construction company in the Denver metro area for thirty-two years doing all phases of construction but specializes in custom woodworking and custom tile and stone. Books published are Bring America Back To Her Religious Roots: https://www.createspace.com/3647408 . This book has been put into the libraries of Hillsdale College and Oral Roberts University. Defining America's Exceptionalism through WestBow Press, a division of Thomas Nelson Publishing: http://bookstore.westbowpress.com/Products/SKU-000569126/defining-americas-exceptionalism.aspx The third book, Discovering America's Christian Heritage, has been written but has not been put into print as of yet. Mr. Anghis has been a weekly author for NewsWithViews.com since February of 2010 commenting on our history and current events. He has also produced for 11 years a daily email news letter called the American Intelligence Briefing dealing with current events and the threats to our constitutional freedoms. Mr. Anghis has been a guest on numerous radio programs and has been on Day Star and TBN. Website: www.BuildingtheTruth..com. Contact info: Cell: 303-917-5693 Email: roger@buildingthetruth.org
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Become the worst consumer you can be. Don't buy anything superfluous or unnecessary.
Quit going to toxic places like McDouchebaggles, Kentucky Fried MSGville, etc. . . If you're feeling that suicidal there's much faster and cost effective ways to kill yourself without profiting these evil soft-kill operations.
Don't drive unless you have no choice.
Go back to landline. Not only phone, but compooter. EMFs are brain fryers.
Live together, don't get married. I've done both, and the latter is far more cost effective in more ways than one.
Get out of your bloody bank, and go credit union.
Dump the status symbol show into the gutter where it belongs. It does NOTHING for you personal evolution. Same for vanity.
Eat fewer animal products, processed food, and avoid GMO produce. Avoid factory farmed if you can. Yes it's cheaper financially, but at what other price?
And if anyone actually listens to this advice in any number, not that I expect even one to change their ways; they'd kill me.


I'm disappointed from client's payment to me. I thought I can have the payment on this day but it bounced. If there's one thing that I've learned from this sad experience it's the old saying that goes 'Don't count the eggs when it's not hatched yet'. Maybe there's an explanation behind it but I'm worried for the other payments that I'm expecting. I know God will take care of that for me and for my friends.


Requiring high school students to take a personal finance course reduces their likelihood of taking out expensive payday loans down the road.
That's the takeaway from research being released by the FINRA Investor Education Foundation in conjunction with April financial literacy month.
The short-term loans, typically due by your next payday, can come with interest rates as high as 400%, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has found. For comparison, that's more than 10 times the rate on more pricey credit cards. It takes borrowers roughly five months to pay off the loans and costs them an average of $520 in charges, according to Pew Trusts.
"Consumers should use alternative financial services as a last resort," said Melody Harvey, author of the study and a fellow at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Yet younger people may have few other borrowing options, Harvey said. "It's difficult to secure credit by mainstream means if you don't have the sufficient history."
There are more payday lenders in the country than McDonald's or Starbucks.
Young adults who are required to take a personal finance class in order to graduate are 4 percentage points less likely to take out payday loans than peers who weren't required to do so, Harvey found.
That's a significant drop, considering that nearly 20% of people in the U.S. ages 19 to 31 report using the short-term loans.
Harvey compared the behaviors of individuals living in a state with a personal finance education mandate to older counterparts living in the same state and the same-aged counterparts living in a state without a mandate.
In some classrooms — including those in Tennessee and Utah — the risks of payday loans are directly addressed. At other schools across the country, teachers stick to more general topics such as interest rates and debt management. Both forms instill a wariness in students around the loans after they've left the classroom, Harvey said.
Another recent study found that in states where personal finance education is mandated, students go on to make better decisions about how to pay for college. For example, they don't take on as much private debt.
"My goal at looking at payday loans was to speak to the applicability of these courses for situations that students will encounter in the very near future," Harvey said.


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Carl Zeiss Microscopy has incorporated a Q150T coater into their rugged MinSCAN solution - designed for the mining, geosciences and oil & gas sectors.
The ZEISS mining and geosciences applications development group have chosen to use Quorum's Q150T carbon & sputter coater to prepare mineral samples for analysis on their MinSCAN mineralogy laboratory system.
Shaun Graham is part of the applications development team at Carl Zeiss Microscopy based in Cambridge. With a Masters in applied and environmental geology, he works in the geosciences, mining and oil & gas sectors to provide analytical solutions using scanning electron microscopy performed on mineral samples. This includes the provision of sample preparation equipment including a turbo-pumped coater from Quorum Technologies.
One of the main applications of the geosciences business, with its automated mineralogy software, is to provide data on mineral processing plant products from mining companies. It is vital that operating mines are able to track mineralogical and textural variation for processing and recovery optimizations. Recognising variability can save or make huge amounts of money to a company by maximizing yield and quality. The instrumentation has to be rugged and extremely reliable as it will often be located at the mine site itself. This has to be easy-to-use. Operators are not qualified scientists. They just require quick, accurate and actionable data to make informed decisions.
ZEISS supplies a special dedicated package to deliver to these requirements. This comprises sample preparation equipment and a "ruggedized" SEM. The system, known as MinSCAN, has been designed for this challenging environment, a mine-site mineralogy laboratory on wheels! A powerful data system takes the results to enable an increase in profits through greater concentrate quality and reduced losses to tailings (the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction of an ore.). Being able to rapidly troubleshoot recovery issues, optimize plant performance and complement assays gives metallurgists, mine managers and superintendents the confidence to make effective decisions based on reliable, quantitative data.
Key to reproducible sample preparation is a Quorum Q150T providing high resolution carbon and sputter coating. Each 30 mm standard sample requires reproducible, uniform, thin coatings. Carbon coating is used in perhaps 80% of the applications where mineral particles are being investigated. For oil and gas applications, the ability of having a thin coating becomes most important when making porosity measurements. Uniform thinness will greatly reduce imaging artefacts. As Shaun says about the selection of Quorum coaters, "the Q150 series has been chosen based on its proven extremely reliable performance in what is usually a difficult environment far removed from the traditional research bench. The coater has to be available 24/7 as the failure to be able to coat a complete batch of daily samples in a day will risk loss of profit through the lack of actionable data from that days production. This is so important to our users that ZEISS supply, install and train users on all elements of the experimental process."
Technical Director, Bob Morrison, says "Quorum has a long established track record as the preferred supplier of coaters for mining applications. Reliability is extremely important in these situations and we have been able to demonstrate the reliability and performance of the Q150T coater in our dealing with partners like Zeiss over a number of years." The Q150T is available in three formats: sputtering, carbon evaporation or both. Depending upon the selected configuration, the Q150T can be a top-of-the-range sputter coater for high resolution scanning electron microscopy (SEM), a carbon coater suitable for SEM and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), or both - in a single easy-to-use system. Other options include metal evaporation and aperture cleaning.
The Jensen Laboratory at the HHMI, Caltech, incorporates the Quorum Cryo-SEM preparation system in microbial cell biology with electron cryotomography
Alasdair McDowall is the EM Center Director in the Jensen Laboratory at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute located at Caltech. Headed by Professor Grant Jensen, the Lab uses Electron Cryotomography (ECT) to study the molecular architecture of microbial cells and HIV in their native state.
The focus is on the fundamentals of microbial cell biology such as cell division, movement and secretion, as well as the structure of HIV at all stages of its lifecycle. The lab opened its doors in 2002 and continues to push the boundaries of high resolution imaging today. However, the investigation of frozen hydrated whole cells (beam and vacuum sensitive materials) in the electron microscope chamber requires new solutions. The advances in techniques for the preparation of cells by Cryo Focused Ion Beam Milling for structural characterization have recently provided a new insight of these delicate cellular architectures.
Cryo Focused Ion Beam milling (cryo FIB milling) is a cutting-edge method for thinning vitrified biological samples that allows access to intracellular regions of thick specimens (> 1 um) with unprecedented ease and structural preservation. It provides the ability to move beyond imaging only small bacterial cells with electron cryotomography (ECT) and will allow the exploration of eukaryotic cells, tissues and microbial biofilms to the same molecular resolution that the group has achieved with individual bacterial cells for the past decade. In addition, the ability to thin individual bacterial cells before imaging, without perturbing their structure, will provide higher contrast and resolution when necessary, even within already thin bacterial cells. Furthermore, the addition of a cryo-stage to the existing FIB mill at Caltech will allow for further development of much needed methods for correlating fluorescence microscopy and electron tomography for the targeting and identification of specific structures deep within eukaryotic cells, bacteria and tissues.
Dr McDowall uses the Quorum PP3010T cryo sample preparation system. This is a highly automated, easy-to-use, column-mounted, gas-cooled Cryo-SEM preparation system suitable for most makes and models of SEM, FE-SEM and FIB/SEM. The Jensen group uses their prep system with an FEI Versa scanning electron microscope. Dr McDowall says "The Quorum PP3010T is ideal for our vitreous cell transfers when dedicated to maintaining the cryogenic amorphous state during SEM and DualBeam specimen preparation. The PP3010T allows easier and more practical operation for milling cryo preserved specimens for electron tomography. Its design assists the investigation of frozen hydrated cells and tissues by providing a mechanism for hydrated sample transfer, cryogenic cooling and temperature control within the SEM or Small Dual Beam during the milling process. In our operation, the Quorum PP3010T was added to an existing FEI Versa Dual Beam Scanning Electron Microscope in a climate controlled room courtesy of the Greer group, California Institute of Technology."
Experienced electron microscopist, David McCarthy, talks about working with Quorum and his use of their coaters and cryo-SEM preparation instrumentation.
David McCarthy has been working in the world of electron microscopy since the early 70s. In this time, he has seen many changes in instrumentation, techniques and sample preparation methods.
His career started back at the London Hospital Medical School for four and a half years before a move that would see him start and manage the Electron Microscopy Unit at the School of Pharmacy, University College London for thirty eight years. In this time, he has used a number of EMs starting with Philips and JEOL systems. In 1991 he was able to purchase the first fully digital SEM in the UK, a Philips XL20. Then on to larger chamber XL30 and in 2009 he ended up with the FEI Quanta 200 FEG. This gave him a versatile, high resolution low-vacuum FEG SEM to handle really challenging thermally and vacuum sensitive samples and dynamic experiments. In parallel with the microscopes came new and more advanced accessories enabling advanced cryo-imaging. At all times, a high performance vacuum coating system was essential to McCarthy's work.
McCarthy has worked with Quorum over many years. For example, while running the EM Unit at UCL, he acquired a PP3010T cryo-SEM preparation system, a highly automated, column-mounted, gas-cooled sample preparation and transfer system. He also used their Q150T series of sputter and carbon coaters, something he has continued to this day with his contract service business based out in rural Suffolk. DM Microscopy offers McCarthy's extensive experience in electron microscopy to a range of academic and industrial pharmaceutical organisations. His new laboratory uses a Tescan Vega 3 SEM, a reliable high vacuum, turbo-pumped tungsten system. It is used to enable DM Microscopy to provide rapid turnaround imaging services, vital in the world of pharma. His sample coater started life as a Q150 E compact rotary-pumped unit for evaporation applications using carbon coating of specimens. Quorum has recently upgraded the unit to a Q150R ES to provide gold sputtering of samples. McCarthy is particularly impressed with his dealings with Quorum. "They provide excellent service and support on the back of a very versatile coating system. I chose the option of the quartz oscillator film thickness monitor (FTM) as this enables me to lay down very accurate amounts of material, to ensure reproducible sample preparation conditions prior to imaging. Operation is very straightforward via a touch screen. This enables me to store my protocols for ease of setting up and running."
The Agricultural Research Service of the USDA uses a Quorum Cryo-SEM preparation system for the study of mites, ticks and other soft bodied organisms
Dr Gary Bauchan is the Director of the Electron and Confocal Microscopy Unit at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the principal in-house research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture. The Unit is a core facility with the responsibility of providing collaborative assistance to scientists from ARS, Northeast Area and Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) who have microscopy applications that require high resolution imaging. Dr Bauchan's team have produced images using electron microscopes of bacteria, fungi, mites, insects, nematodes and parasites along with plant and animal tissues both healthy and diseased. One of his major collaborations is with Dr Ron Ochoa, the world's expert on plant feeding mites.
Biological specimens require special treatment due to the high water content of the samples. Many of the specimens are in liquid cultures or are very soft-bodied and by using classical preparative techniques will either destroy the specimen or distort the specimen producing artefacts. A cryo-prep system is an ultra-fast method to ready the specimens for observation in a SEM especially a high resolution field emission SEM. Thus, specimens are frozen in time to allow for observation of feeding behaviour, mating behaviour, host/parasite interactions, etc. It preserves the natural orientation of ultrafine structures such as setae, antenna, legs, skin texture, sensory organs, waxy coatings and eggs.
Asked about his experience using a Quorum PP2000 Cryo-SEM preparation system on the Hitachi S-4700 field emission scanning electron microscope, Dr Bauchan said "The Quorum system is easy to use, the set-up for imaging is logical, durable, reliable, and maintains ultra-low temperatures for a long period of time. Holders containing pre-frozen samples are transferred into the cryo-prep chamber where they are etched to remove any surface contamination (condensed water vapour) by raising the temperature of the stage from -130 ºC to -90 °C for 10-15 minutes. Following etching, the temperature inside the chamber was lowered below -130 °C, and the specimens were coated with a 10 nm layer of platinum using a magnetron sputter head equipped with a platinum target. The specimens were transferred to a pre-cooled (-130 °C) cryo-stage in the SEM for observation."
The system has been used in multiple projects by the Unit, many of which have been published with the generation of stunning, colourful images. The use of low temperature SEM has been shown time and again to be the best method for the examination of microscopic biological specimens and their ultrastructure. The work in conjunction with Dr Ochoa has been particularly productive with five papers published this year to date. These have focused on the field of acarology, a branch of zoology dealing with the study of mites and ticks.
Above image: Gary Bauchan, Director, Electron & Confocal Microscopy Unit, USDA-ARS inserts mite specimens into the Quorum PP2000 Cryo-Prep Chamber (photo courtesy of Steve Ausmus, USDA-ARS, d3713-1)
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The Biomedical Imaging Unit at the University of Southampton uses Quorum coating system as a general purpose work station
The Biomedical Imaging Unit (BIU) is a core facility, which provides a diagnostic and research service in high quality/high resolution microscopy. It is a joint facility run for the benefit of, and jointly funded by, the University of Southampton and Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust with eight full time staff.
The microscopes in the Biomedical Imaging Unit are used extensively for research, teaching and diagnostic work by staff and students across the Trust and University with some 100-150 users per year from most science faculties including Medicine, Physics, National Oceanographic Centre, Engineering and Biological Sciences. This nationally important unit is extremely well equipped with two new microscopes to enable it to do 3D microscopy in addition to the existing transmission and scanning electron microscopes, confocal and time lapse light microscopes, image analysis and video microscopes.
The Quorum Q150T ES coater was purchased to replace a very old (1960s vintage) Edwards coating unit. It is being used as a general purpose workstation for carbon coating, sputter coating for high resolution SEM, glow discharging grids, cleaning apertures etc.
Discussing the purchase, Anton Page, Head of the BIU, says, "We looked at various competitive systems but these did not fit our needs nor matched our price constraints. The new coater is ideal. It is a combined system providing both sputtering and carbon coating. The deposition heads can be swapped in seconds and the intelligent system logic automatically recognises which head is in place and displays the appropriate operating settings."
"Furthermore, for us, it is very fast! Our old coating unit took half a day (really!) to pump down before we could use it. The Q150T ES is a turbo pump system and can do the same job in 10 – 15 mins and get a better result. Newer coating units are obviously also much quicker than our old one but this is much more versatile – it has interchangeable head inserts – one for carbon coating and one for sputter coating which prevents cross-contamination of specimens, making cleaning easier too. It is simple to use and so we can teach our users how to coat their specimens instead of doing it for them."
The Quorum Q150T ES is one of a family of coaters designed for applications across the spectrum of electron microscopy. Thousands of Q150 and Q300 coaters are used in EM laboratories around the world - and increasingly for many thin film coating applications.
Patricia Goggin from the University of Southampton working with the Quorum Q150T ES coating system (l). A transmission electron micrograph of immuno-gold labelled amyloid beta fibrils (r) prepared by Savannah Lynn
The Institut Charles Sadron at the CNRS-University of Strasbourg uses the Quorum Cryo-SEM preparation system for research in polymers and self-assembled systems
The Quorum PP3010T's ability to provide stable temperature regulation of samples ensures the facility gets the highest resolution when imaging delicate materials.
The Institute Charles Sadron is a CNRS-Institute located at the University of Strasbourg and performs fundamental and applied research on polymers and self-assembled systems. Dr Marc Schmutz works in the Electron Microscopy facility where he uses a Hitachi SU8010 Ultra High Resolution Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope in conjunction with a PP3010T Cryo-SEM preparation system from Quorum Technologies. It is used to study a broad variety of materials from crystalline polymers to dragonfly wings. It is vital to be able to observe samples in, as close as possible to, their native state, either hydrated or in organic solvents.
Describing his choice of cryo-preparation system, Dr Schmutz says, "We picked the Quorum system because of its stable temperature regulation; each part of the system is independently controlled (cold stages and cryo-shields). This makes sure we will get the highest resolution when imaging our delicate materials."
Examples of this work are shown in a recently published paper in the ACS Journal of Physical Chemistry where the drying mechanisms in plasticised latex films are studied with respect to their horizontal drying fronts. The drying kinetics of latexes with particles made progressively softer by adding increasing amounts of a plasticiser, in relation to speeds of horizontal drying fronts and particle deformation mechanisms are reported. [1] To examine the extent of particle deformation inside the dry films, a special sample holder was designed and built, allowing us to take cryo-SEM images of a cross section. Samples of the film were cut out with a razor blade, then fixed in the holder and rapidly plunged into liquid nitrogen slush (in the Quorum PP3010T PrepDek). After introduction into the preparation chamber, the films were then freeze-fractured at −150 °C with a cooled scalpel blade under high vacuum and coated with a thin layer of platinum. They were subsequently imaged in the SEM.
The PP3010T is a highly automated, easy-to-use, column-mounted, gas-cooled Cryo-SEM preparation system suitable for most makes and models of SEM, FE-SEM and FIB/SEM.
Left: Quorum PP3010T Cryo preparation system (left) mounted on Hitachi SU8010 FE-SEM at ICS-CNRS-unistra.
(Above: Latex film at high water content vitrified with the Quorum PT3010T. Small arrows point to the latex beads and the longer ones to the water area. (unpublished work))
1 Drying Mechanisms in Plasticized Latex Films: Role of Horizontal Drying Fronts, V. Divry, A. Gromer, M. Nassar, C. Lambour, D. Collin, and Y. Holl, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2016, 120 (27), pp 6791–6802. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b03009
The Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge uses Quorum Cryo-SEM preparation system for research in plant biology
The Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) is a new research institute funded by the Gatsby Foundation. The aim of the Laboratory is to elucidate the regulatory systems underlying plant growth and development.
The Laboratory hosts a state-of-the-art advanced imaging facility for scientists working on several aspects of plant developmental biology, including live imaging of developing plant tissues, and high-resolution scanning electron microscopy.The facility currently has four major instruments, two stereo-fluorescence microscopes and several dissecting microscopes.
Dr Raymond Wightman is its Microscopy Core Facility Manager. Studying plants using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was a challenge. Prior to having a Quorum PP3010T Cryo-SEM preparation system, the lab would look at fresh plant samples that dried up and were hard to maintain while doing SEM. There was an urgent requirement for something to enable better imaging of fully hydrated plant tissue.
Asked about his experience using the Quorum PP3010T Cryo-SEM preparation system on the Zeiss EVO HD cryoSEM, Dr Wightman said "We have been impressed with the low maintenance costs and excellent applications support from the Quorum team. The system is now an integral part of the microscopy facility at the Sainsbury lab and because of the superior results we are getting now compared to before, the SEM use has gone up from about 8 hours per month to 64 hours per month. We are also able to process samples that we could not easily do prior to getting the Quorum kit."
The system has been used in multiple projects by the Laboratory. These have included looking at the following: wood ultrastructure and cellulose organisation; observing cellular membranes; making new biocomposites and studying their properties; studying the interactions between a plant pathogen and the plant cell; studying cuticular wax formation; determining how plant cells coordinate their growth across tissues e.g. leaves and flowers. A final project on the development and structure of leaves from alpine plants where 90% of the work was performed on the PP3010T will be published shortly. All of these serve to illustrate the versatility of the Quorum cryo-SEM preparation system.
Dr Ray Wightman loads a biological sample via the Quorum PP3010T Cryo-SEM preparation system mounted on a Zeiss EVO HD cryoSEM. The image above shows yellow broccoli, cryo-prepared and platinum coated (5nm coating). Individual cells are clearly shown. (122x magnification).
The College of New Jersey use the Quorum Cryo-SEM preparation system in a project to study ice crystals in high altitude clouds
A Quorum PP3010T is helping to advance the understanding of the physical role of ice crystals.
Dr Nate Magee is an associate Professor of Physics at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) where he leads a team working to advance the understanding of the physical role of ice crystals in processes with high altitude clouds. Cirrus clouds are primarily composed of ice crystals that interact with solar radiation and IR radiation from the ground, and they play a significant, but still poorly understood role in Earth's climate. The precise shapes and textures of these cirrus ice crystals largely determine how solar radiation interacts with the clouds (i.e. reflection & scattering angles) but the microscale structure is still fairly uncertain. Dr Magee is working with the Quorum PP3010T cryo preparation system to make high-resolution images, 3D reconstructions and statistical measurements of ice crystals that are grown in the lab under cirrus conditions as well as ice crystals that are collected and recovered directly from high altitude cirrus using weather balloons and robotic cryo-capture.
A cryo preparation system is vital to the success of these studies. Describing the work, Dr Magee says, "Keeping ice crystals very cold (sub -150 C) means that their vapour pressure will be sufficiently low that their shape and surface structure can be "locked" in place as we image and analyse the ice particles. Working at Peltier cooling stage temps (maybe to -50 C) would not make this possible. The Quorum PP3010T transfer and interlock setup on our Hitachi SEM (with a few custom modifications on our part) has made it possible to transfer crystals from our lab systems directly into the SEM for imaging without exposing them to warmth or excess water vapour."
So why did Dr Magee select the Quorum cryo-preparation package? "I have used Peltier cooling stages with FEI SEMs, which actually do have a few advantages for some types of in-situ ice growth experiments. However, as I have said, we required sub -150 C temperatures for this study so, after considering what was available, we chose to work with Quorum. Their full cryo temperature range and interlock prep chamber works very well for transfer experiments. We are still working to develop its functionality for in-situ dynamic experiments on growing ice."
This work is being presented in July at the International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation in Manchester.1,2
1 Magee, N.B., K. Boaggio, L. Bancroft, M. Bandamede, and K. Hurler, 2016: Cryo-Scanning Electron Microscopy of Captured Cirrus Ice Particles. Abstract #565, 17th International Conf. on Clouds and Precip. Manchester, UK, July 2016.
2 Bancroft, L., K. Boaggio, K. Hurler, M. Bandamede, and N.B. Magee, 2016: Comparative analysis of lab-grown ice crystals by Cryo-Scanning Electron Microscopy. Abstract #566, 17th International Conf. on Clouds and Precip. Manchester, UK, July 2016.
Diamond Light Source use Quorum Cryo-SEM preparation system in conjunction with a new beamline
Diamond Light Source use a PP3000T cryo preparation system to help align protein crystals prior to X-ray macromolecular crystallography experiments.
Dr Anna Warren is a Senior Support Scientist on VMXm, a new beamline currently under development and construction at Diamond Light Source where it will be used to carry out X-ray macromolecular crystallography experiments. Diamond offers 26 separate beamlines to aid with research groups in the UK and abroad, allowing them to determine the three dimensional structure of matter, such as protein molecules, on the atomic scale. This can help to aid with drug design and to assist in the understanding of how these proteins function. There are several beamlines already running at Diamond which allow the study of protein crystals ranging from 5-100 microns in size. However, as the systems get more complicated, inherently the crystals get smaller, so the beamline currently being built will allow the study of crystals ~500 nm to 5 microns in size.
Due to the small size of these crystals, Dr Warren is using a JEOL SEM to visualise the crystals and align them to the X-ray beam to carry out the experiments. The crystals are very fragile and prone to dehydration. This means they have to be stored, handled and studied at liquid nitrogen temperatures. This is where the Quorum PP3000T cryo-SEM preparation system has been of great use. Dr Warren takes up the story: "It has allowed us to visualise crystals less than a micron in size at cryogenic temperatures. This technique has never been used in our field in this way so we are currently carrying out a lot of research to understand the best ways of handling and preparing samples to obtain the best quality images. This would be impossible without having the Quorum preparation system and cryo-stage as the crystals would deteriorate in quality. Quorum was very helpful when we started looking at systems to purchase, especially as they have an SEM and cryo-SEM set up in Laughton. We were able to test out our samples in advance to get an understanding of whether it would work for us. Since making our purchase decision, we found that the preparation desk/slushing station have become a vital part of our sample preparation and this has been invaluable for our experiments.
The image above illustrates the data quality we get routinely – crystals of cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus (CPV20). The crystals shown here are in the size range 2.5 to 5 µm."
The Quorum PP3000T cryo-SEM prep system mounted on a JEOL SEM at the Diamond Light Source
GloQube update
We are delighted to announce that the first production batch of GloQubes has been dispatched to customers.
The GloQube is a compact, fully automated glow discharge system used for the hydrophilisation (wetting) of TEM grid support films and other applications include the modification of surfaces, for example, for the enhancement of polymer bonding.
In addition to the wetting of TEM grids, the GloQube vapour chamber is designed for hydrophilic/hydrophobic (negative or positive) conversions, typically using reagents such as methanol and alkylamine.
Pictured is our hard working production and final test team, from left to right: Richard, Darren, Adam, Steve and Pete.
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This mountain retreat enjoys a beautiful scenic location near the Great Wall, with rooms located from the base to the top of the hill. The home of the great wall is located uphill close to the first gate to the Great Wall park area. We enjoyed the solitude and the view to the great wall. Don't expect a village with shops etc. its a quiet remote place. We like it because we wanted to be away from the crowed. The staff was friendly and helpful in carrying the luggages and recommending their dinner. We enjoyed the food for dinner very much but the dining room was a bit cold though. There was a kitchen in our room where we could prepare breakfast. We took groceries from Beijing to the hotel for breakfast. Shower was clean.
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Located in Huairou, Yue Tong Farmer House has accommodations with air conditioning and access to a garden. Complimentary WiFi is available. The owners of this farmer house hotel were incredibly warm and accommodating. They made and served delicious food, helped us figure out how to hike to the Great Wall, and made us feel welcome and comfortable.
Huairou Tujia Sweetome Vacation Courtyard - Mu Tian Yu offers accommodations in Huairou District. Each room at this hotel is air conditioned and is fitted with a flat-screen TV.
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Information on this page concerns our fully bespoke manufacturing service. For simple square and rectangular shapes our standard range of powder coated planters may be suitable.
Corten steel planters are extremely long lasting, and require no maintenance. Corten steel [aka 'Weathering Steel'] contains alloys that cause its surface to develop a self-protecting rust when exposed to weather; and this protective surface layer will repair itself immediately if damaged mechanically (a characteristic which makes Corten planters particularly well suited for public realm).
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The reason why some anti-immigration legislation didn't pass this session
According to teabagger Rebecca Frost, the problem was too many Hispanic legislators. This is what she had to say at a rally in Austin yesterday:
There's a lot of wind noise that makes it hard to hear exactly what she's saying, but here's a transcript, provided by the Texas Democratic Party, which presumably had someone at this event:
"If you want to know why we can't pass legislation in Texas it's because we have 37, no 36, Hispanics in the Legislature. All of the states that have passed legislation have a handful and I mean literally, some of them have no Hispanic legislators, well, maybe 3 or 5 or something. So that's, umm, part of our problem and we need to change those numbers.
"Umm, we need to do something about that in fact, during the debate on 'sanctuary cities,' several Hispanic legislators testified that their grandparents and their parents were migrant workers who came over here to work and that they even worked in the fields. And some of them even admitted that they had been here illegally and that they came illegally. So the problem is these Hispanic legislators…is that it's too close to them and they, umm… simply cannot vote their conscience correctly. So that's about all I have to say to you, please come to the hearing, and help us spread this message. Thank you."
The irony is that not two weeks ago, one of those Hispanic legislators was more or less saying the same thing, though his meaning was different.
State Rep. Aaron Peña has spoken with the Guardian about his role in halting 'English-only' bills, why this session is like a cheap vacation, and why his district should vote Republican at the next election.
Peña made his biggest headlines before the session even began. After winning back his seat as a Democrat last November, the Edinburg lawmaker switched parties, becoming the 101st Republican in the Texas House.
Saying he switched parties in part for more influence on key issues, Peña says that his stroke as a Republican paid off as regards anti-immigration legislation. Reform Immigration For Texas (RITA) has pointed out that of the 'anti-immigrant' bills filed, none passed in the regular session. Peña says that it's no coincidence that there were Hispanics in the Republican leadership and such bills being thwarted.
Peña co-founded the Hispanic Republican Conference at the start of the 82nd Legislature. In his interview with the Guardian he declined to say exactly how this caucus blocked legislation such as state Rep. Leo Berman's bill to print state notices in English only. But though some members of the conference offered competing accounts, Peña was insistent that his group had contributed to the bills' failure.
"Those [anti-immigrant bills] didn't pass," said Peña. "There's a reason for that. Now, I don't want to articulate them, but our involvement in the process matters. We were effective in what we were doing."
So there you have it. What Pena fails to mention, of course, is that having fewer Republicans in the Lege would be an even better hedge against this kind of legislation, since nobody on the Democratic side is pushing it. We know that the Republican factions that claim to be queasy about anti-immigrant legislation are completely ineffective at doing anything about it, after all. News Taco has more.
UPDATE: And today the so-called "sanctuary cities" bill passed out of the Senate committee. It's just a matter of time now.
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Prince's Unreleased Album 'Welcome 2 America' Will Be Out This Summer
Jenn Nelson
Jenn Nelson Published: April 9, 2021
I'm a huge Prince fan so I am very excited to hear about the Prince album coming out on July 30th. It's a previously unreleased album that was recorded in 2010 at Prince's Paisley Park Studio. It's called "Welcome 2 America". It documents Prince's , quote, "concerns, hopes, and visions for a shifting society", according to ET. In the title track, Prince rants about social media, reality TV celebrity culture, and corporate monopolies.
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Prince is one of the most talented human beings in my opinion. This will be a real treat for all Prince fans, coming five years after his death. I'm not sure why it was placed in the vault shortly after it was completed. I'm sure there are a ton of treasures in that vault just waiting to be gifted to the artist's many fans.
It was announced on Twitter Thursday morning and now Prince fans are bursting with excitement. The Twitter post read, "Prince's enigmatic and prescient statement album #Welcome2America will be released July 30, 2021, by The Prince Estate and @SonyLegacyRecs. The Deluxe Edition includes the previously unreleased studio album and a full 2011 Prince concert at @TheForum on Blu-ray."
Also on Twitter, "Recorded in 2010 before the Welcome 2 America Tour, the studio album #Welcome2America documents Prince's concerns, hopes, and visions for a shifting society, presciently foreshadowing an era of political division, disinformation, and a renewed fight for racial justice."
The album includes a cover of Soul Asylum's "Stand Up and B Strong", as well as these 11 original Prince songs:
Welcome 2 America
Running Game (Son of a Slave Master)
Born 2 Die
1000 Light Years From Here
Check The Record
Same Page, Different Book
When She Comes
1010 (Rin Tin Tin)
One Day We Will All B Free
This album will give fans music from the icon that has never been heard before. A true gift.
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UFC has announced a new partnership with fitness product manufacturer Dyaco International, beginning in 2018, that will see the firm develop officially licensed training equipment for distribution in the professional and retail worldwide excluding the Chinese market.
Dyaco will manufacture and distribute an expanded collection of UFC branded equipment that includes the official UFC fight gloves used by all UFC athletes during competition at UFC events. Dyaco will also develop products for gym/fitness training (including training mats, resistance bands, weight lifting belts, push-up bars) and weight/strength training accessories (kettlebells, Olympic bars, free weights, speed bags, etc.) that will be available for purchase at UFC events, online and via authorized retail partners around the world.
The product lines will be showcased at ISPO in Munich, Germany January 28-31, followed by Taispo March 7-10 in Taipei, Taiwan and at IHRSA in San Diego, CA March 21-24.
"UFC is the fastest growing combat sports brand in the world and we are delighted that they have chosen Dyaco International to be its global equipment licensee," added Michael Lin, founder and chairman of Dyaco International.


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