and are calling for witnesses to come forward The first explosion occurred shortly after midnight on Saturday The blast caused significant damage to the property another explosion rocked a multi-tenant business complex on Rijksstraatweg in Sassenheim an unexploded device was discovered outside a home on Narcis in Voorhout The Explosives Ordnance Disposal Service (EOD) was dispatched to the scene to safely neutralize the device 12 nearby homes were temporarily evacuated ordered the closure of the affected business complex and two nearby homes for two weeks hours before the explosive was found in Voorhout the mayor had already taken precautionary steps by imposing visible and covert security measures “Cameras will be installed at all three locations,” Breuer said Tuesday afternoon “We are taking all necessary visible and invisible precautions and I can imagine the residents and neighbors are shocked I am in close contact with the police and the Public Prosecution Service and we will do everything we can to minimize risks.” The deputy mayor of Leiden also announced that the house on Schubertlaan will remain closed for at least two weeks This website has been translated using an AI program If there is one place where the South African sun always seems to shine a little This South African pop-up restaurant not only brings the flavours of the Cape to the Netherlands relaxed atmosphere that you know from a long summer evening in Stellenbosch or The concept is simple: South African cosiness and good food And because PAARL is only fifteen minutes from Noordwijk aan Zee dine or chill at the beach after a day of eating sand PAIR At PAARL everything revolves around warmth The coziness starts as soon as you step inside warm lights (we have a soft spot for that) and a laid back atmosphere that feels like a stylish safari tent somewhere far far away in an African bushveld around the corner from Leiden and Noordwijk In the background a mix of African rhythms and funky tunes that will immediately put you in the right mood It can't be a coincidence that it's packed with South Africans from all over In short: a great place to start (or end) the evening with a good glass of wine in your hand One way ticket to South Africa for a taste trip please spicy bobotie and lots of other tasty treats to share And we haven't even talked about the wine list yet.. it's full of top-notch South African wines (want yeah duh) From fresh Chenin Blancs to robust Pinotages that match the dishes perfectly That means a well-filled table and no choice stress Everyone eats what is served and in this case that is an extensive three-course menu to share the dessert (something with caramel cream and cookie crumbs) is worth your full belly.  PAARL is the ultimate place to start the weekend right eat delicious bites and every now and then there is a DJ who plays tasty Amapiano records Classics with a twist and many more South African-inspired creations invites you to start the weekend in a relaxed way In the garden you will find a gigantic fire pit ideal for warming up and also just very cozy Then you can chill next to the foot pool with a movie under the stars in the outdoor cinema Whether you are organizing a company party With a delicious BBQ and all the authentic flavors of South Africa It's no secret that we're big South Africa fans. 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All rights reserved Photo: DutchNews.nlAmsterdam city council is recommending that people travelling to the city park their car as far away as Sassenheim and Almere and continue their journey by public transport – a measure that has irritated councillors in most of the capital’s surrounding towns The city’s website highlights six out of town Park and Ride locations pointing out that they are all free to park in Parking in the city costs €7.76 an hour in the city centre and city transport chief Melanie van der Horst are being accused of dumping the capital’s parking problems on other towns “Sassenheim’s car park is meant for commuters,” local D66 councillor Ruben Kroeze told the Telegraaf The situation is similar in Hoorn – which is at least 31 minutes from Amsterdam by train Local councillor Roger Tonnaer described the situation as “absurd” “Amsterdam should solve its own parking problems,” he said “That is what we do.” Haarlem too is irritated by the Amsterdam move saying the Spaarnwoude P+R is there to “relieve pressure on Haarlem town centre” Haarlemmermeer’s transport chief Marja Ruigrok, however, is pleased with the measures, telling local broadcaster AT5 that “we all want people from outside the ring road to switch to another form of transport” Van der Horst herself blames the shortage of P+R places on the edge of Amsterdam for the situation Several have been closed in recent months because the land is to be used for housing Earlier this month it emerged that Amsterdam is the slowest city in the country to drive around by car – due to council policy and road works officials warned that 2025 threatens to be a “horror year” for motorists in Amsterdam because of a combination of road works and big events such as the city’s 75th birthday celebrations We could not provide the Dutch News service without the generous support of our readers Your donations allow us to report on issues you tell us matter and provide you with a summary of the most important Dutch news each day Many thanks to everyone who has donated to DutchNews.nl in recent days We could not provide this service without you Please help us making DutchNews.nl a better read by taking part in a short survey 25 with his wife of nearly 60 years at his side “Giacinto was a superb scientist and an even better human being,” said Salvatore Torquato Princeton’s Lewis Bernard Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of chemistry and the Princeton Materials Institute “A smile forms on my face recalling the inimitable passion and excited gesticulations he brought to any scientific discussion He was a force of nature and will be greatly missed by his family “Giacinto had the creativity to find important problems that he could make significant progress on,” said Kevin Lehmann a professor of chemistry at Princeton from 1985 to 2005 who published 56 joint papers with Scoles and is now at the University of Virginia “He was always a leader in opening new scientific areas and never one to jump on something because it was popular or because it was well-funded I learned by studying his career that choice of problems is far more important in making an important scientific impact than other skills such as the mathematical and analytical skills that are my own strengths.” Scoles straddled the fields of chemistry and physics a charismatic and influential force in both He made pioneering contributions to the study of intermolecular forces His broad knowledge of molecular beam technology led to his role in the conception and development of an innovative machine called the cryogenic bolometer a universal detector of atomic and molecular beams that Scoles later used to detect the kinetic and internal energy of molecular beams Described by colleagues as both a generous and a demanding scholar Scoles was also known as “an excellent role model for what any scientist should try to become,” according to a special 2007 tribute published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A.  Scoles’ scholarly career spanned six decades across four countries “He was an excellent colleague and a very important person to me.” as she began her career at Princeton. “He was positive and helpful almost fatherly I would say,” Selloni said “My research with him focused on the structure of self-assembled molecular overlayers on metal surfaces Giacinto did the experimental work and had a deep understanding of the physical systems; I did the calculations and tried to learn from him.” “My father enjoyed sparking everyone’s enthusiasm for science and took every opportunity to do so,” said his daughter During a visit during her childhood to her science class at the John Witherspoon Middle School in Princeton “he dipped a red rose into a thermos of liquid nitrogen and then tapped it on the desk at the front of the classroom shattering it into little pieces that scattered in every direction Bebe Telfair (née Elisabeth Schmierer) would recall that event as a ‘core memory’ some 35 years later so it seems he succeeded in exciting young minds about science.” His daughter also remembered him organizing nanotechnology summer schools in Africa “He believed in access to education for all especially for women and people from developing countries,” she said Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia called Scoles “a very close personal friend one of the closest in my entire life.”  Lehmann and five of Scoles’ former students sent a memorial letter to colleagues “Having worked with him meant a lifelong relationship well beyond the submission of a thesis or the move to a different job or university,” they wrote “He held himself and others to the highest intellectual and ethical standards yet had deep empathy for others. He always demanded excellence from his students but all recognized that he deeply cared for them Scoles was the son of a mechanical engineer who worked for the carmaker Fiat He spent his early childhood in a village outside Venice He earned his chemistry degrees from the University of Genoa then began his academic career there. He organized and spearheaded the establishment of the experimental physics laboratory at the University of Trento in Italy; he was a cofounder of the Guelph-Waterloo Center for Graduate Work in Chemistry; and he played a leading role in establishing the Princeton Materials Institute upon his 1987 appointment at Princeton Scoles was elected Fellow to The Royal Society of the United Kingdom in 1997; he was an elected foreign member of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of the Netherlands; he held two honorary doctorates (one in physics and one in science); and he was awarded the 2002 Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry and the 2003 Earle K Scoles transferred to emeritus status in July 2008 after which he held a professorship at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste in conjunction with the Elettra Synchrotron Laboratories View or share comments on a memorial page intended to honor Scoles’ life and legacy Novartis to make Carvykti for Johnson & Johnson and its partner Legend Biotech to meet demand In March 2022 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy Carvykti (ciltacabtagene autoleucel; ciltacel) the multiple myeloma therapy pulled in $72 million in sales J&J’s chief financial officer Joe Wolk said on the earnings call the firm is experiencing “really tremendous demand” for Carvykti To meet this, a securities filings published last week announced Novartis has signed a three-year contract with J&J and its partner Legend Biotech to produce Carvykti and a technology transfer will occur to transfer activities required for Novartis to perform the process for production of Carvykti in order to supplement the partners’ own manufacturing capabilities “We did sign on for additional capacity to scale up some production and increase availability moving forward,” Wolk said during the earnings call “The manufacturing is ramping up to supply markets We have really tremendous demand given some of the data that supports […] Carvykti the CAR-T for Johnson & Johnson And we’re committed to doing everything we can to accelerate our manufacturing abilities to meet that demand.” These projects “continue to progress,” said Wolk adding they “will serve as important parts of our supply chain network for not just this but other cell therapies in the future.” In March 2023 J&J halted the launch of Carvykti in the UK and patient advocacy group Myeloma UK said it believes this is because of supply issues While the firm did not explicitly specify why it has decided to stop the launch as it does not comment on manufacturing capacity a spokesperson told us “There are multiple clinical and logistical factors that can impact the production of cilta-cel which differs from small molecule or biologic oncology therapies Janssen is not currently in a position to progress with the NICE appraisal process.” Johnson & Johnson (J&J) reported worldwide sales of $24.7 billion a 5.6% increase year on year with its pharmaceutical business contributing $13.4 billion of this Journalist covering global biopharmaceutical manufacturing and processing news and host of the Voices of Biotech podcast I am currently living and working in London but I grew up in Lincolnshire (UK) and studied in Newcastle (UK) Got a story? Feel free to email me at [email protected] CSL Seqirus signs pandemic preparedness plan with European Commission Ins & Outs: Biopharma players shuffle c-suite ranks American made: Companies continue to emphasize US manufacturing Transforming Protein Production: Lonza’s Comprehensive Solutions for Therapeutic Innovation Registered in England & Wales with number 01835199 « All Events From Thursday 12 January till Saturday 14 January 2017 the 51st IKF Europa Cup final round korfball event is played in The Netherlands with 10 national champion club teams from Europe Wales 24 and 25 September 2016 the last four participants are known The Royal Dutch Korfball Federation (KNKV) is the 2017 organiser The KNKV agreed with the Dutch Champion in 2016 – TOP/Quoratio – re Which team wins the IKF Europa Cup in 2017 We added the pools and the match schedule of the IKF Europa Cup 2017 15 November 2016 Unfortunately we had to change the match schedule 28 December 2016 due to the very late withdrawal of the Polish champion The full IKF History Booklet of this event with all details on all 50 preceding events is available in the IKF website; CLICK HERE The Unseen Valentino Zagatti Collection is moving from the Netherlands to a new museum in Scotland being developed by Scotch Whisky Investments The collection, amassed over six decades by Zagatti, began as a substitute for spending the money on cigarettes. Zagatti said: “[I wanted] something more interesting and real The first bottle he bought was called “An Italian Passion” approximately a quarter are from either Glenfarclas The collection eventually came to fill his home aside from the master bedroom and bathroom In 2015 (encouraged by his wife and children) to Scotch Whisky Investments and a group of investors Since 2018 it has been on display in the Dutch town of Sassenheim The museum where the collection is destined to go will be housed within Scotch Whisky Investments’ new corporate headquarters built on the site of an old paper bag factory in Falkland There will also be cottages to accommodate visitors In nearby Glenrothes the company has applied for planning permission for four whisky storage warehouses in addition to maintenance and bottling facilities Scotch Whisky Investments director Keith Rennie heralded the arrival of this new chapter in the company’s 15-year history, saying: “Our vision as a company is to showcase and educate people about single malt Scotch whisky as well as promote investment in the commodity and provide new facilities for Falkland” 81% of the collection is single malt Scotch He went on to say: “Through this activity complemented by the expansion of our facilities in Glenrothes considerable employment and tourism opportunities will be delivered not just for Fife The logistical challenge of transporting the Unseen Valentino Zagatti Collection are only heightened by its almost incomprehensible value. 22 of the bottles were distilled in the 19th century, with one being bottled in 1843 and given to Zagatti as a wedding present – the collection website speculates that it is “presumably the oldest unopened bottle of whisky in the world” It also notes that there is just one bottle of Australian whisky You can read ahout the world’s biggest whisky – The Intrepid, which fetched an appropriately large price at auction, here We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings we will not be able to save your preferences This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again Interlux Yacht Finishes Awlgrip North America delivered directly from The Superyacht Group's editors and market analysts Stay at the forefront of the superyacht industry with SuperyachtNewsweek Please select exactly what you would like to receive from us by ticking the boxes below: Create your free account to receive personalised content alerts and Re:action our weekly newsletter of the top chemical science stories handpicked from a range of magazines journals and websites alongside insight and analysis from our expert editorial team Tell us what you think. Take part in our reader survey By 2015-10-02T00:00:00+01:00 2014–15 competition winner Paul Brack reports on AkzoNobel’s colourful collaborations with the Van Gogh Museum  Vincent van Gogh was all too aware that the colours in his work were transient ‘Paintings fade like flowers,’ he wrote in a letter to his brother he comments that because his colours are unstable ‘there is all the more reason to simply use them too brightly – time will tone them down only too much’ conservators at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands are working with scientists at AkzoNobel to reverse the effects of time and reveal Van Gogh’s paintings as they appeared when he first painted them.  a small town about 20 miles south of Amsterdam The beautiful array of colours looks like an art installation but it is in fact AkzoNobel’s outdoor environmental testing area where the durability of new products is assessed Coats of many colours endure the elements at AkzoNobel's Sassenheim site in the Netherlands This testing area is a vital part of Peter Rotteveel’s work He leads the colour infrastructure and processes team and his role is to make sure that when a customer buys a product depending on the lighting conditions; the colour of a paint inside a house under thermoluminescent lighting is not the same as it would be outside in the sun And customers can tell the difference: the human eye can distinguish up to a scarcely believable 3 million different colours Every colour in AkzoNobel’s palette has a standard a visible-region reflectance spectrum is held in the company’s database of 250,000 colours The colour of any product can thus be checked by recording its reflectance spectrum and comparing it to the standards in the database This ensures that the colour the customer picks out for their bedroom on a fan deck is the one they get in the tin of paint they buy But lighting is just one of the variables to consider and the different components of these paints will also affect the colour: emulsion paints use water as a solvent while gloss paints use white spirit as the solvent with alkyd polymers (derived from alcohols and organic acids) as the binder So if I wanted to paint my entire house with ‘Jasmine shimmer’ each with differing formulations (and possibly different pigments depending on their compatibility with other elements of the paint) creating the recipes for each of these paints would have been a rather time-consuming job for a colour scientist who would have worked them out by an iterative process computational tools have enabled paint makers to create bespoke recipes giving people the exact shade of paint they want at the push of a button The reflectance spectrum of a paint can be predicted if the amount of light absorbed (K) and scattered (S) by its components at different wavelengths is known The first stage is to create a database of K and S values for paint ingredients which can be obtained by measuring the reflectance (R) of each separate ingredient mixed with a white standard (for which SS ~ 1 and KS ~ 0) and then using the Kubelka–Munk equation to extract the K and S values for that component (Kp and Sp): The spectrum of any mixture of those components can then be predicted using Duncan’s rule which states that the sum of concentration multiplied by K and its concentration multiplied by S for every component at a given wavelength will give the reflectance value at that particular wavelength Repeating this process for every visible-light wavelength generates a predicted reflectance spectrum and using this the paint’s expected colour can be deduced. One problem with this method is that the Kubelka–Munk theory assumes ideal mixing of the paint ingredients and so the predicted reflectance spectra do not match perfectly with the experimentally obtained spectra Thus the recipes have to be tweaked to try to get as close a match as possible to the desired colour (or at least close enough that our eyes can’t tell) using Kubelka–Munk theory (see box) and the spectral database it’s possible to predict the reflectance spectrum of a paint that would be produced by a particular recipe.  But the reverse is also possible: colour matching software can start with a reflectance spectrum and suggest the ingredients that would produce a paint to match this will ensure that the new paint looks exactly like the old coat.  Original paining courtesy of the Van Gogh Museum (Vincent Van Gogh Foundation) Field with irises near Arles shows blue blooms AkzoNobel used the same process to create a colour palette inspired by the works of Vincent van Gogh a senior global colour designer at Akzo Nobel and her team developed the range by selecting colours they felt most reflected the colours used by Van Gogh from the many provided by the scientists The result is a range of 10 colours from ‘Sunflower yellow’ to ‘Iris blue’ the colours we see today are not necessarily the same ones that he saw which presents an altogether more complicated and exciting challenge: to visualise a Van Gogh painting as it was when he first painted it ‘Iris blue’ was inspired by Field with irises This painting was recently returned to display in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam after a painstaking restoration job led by chief conservator Ella Hendriks which took 18 months to remove a yellowing varnish.  the title flowers form the foreground – blue borders around the fields and trees But in letters documenting his trip to Arles And he writes of red poppies and yellow buttercups neither of which can be found in the painting today This has led experts to suspect that the painting’s pigments may have degraded Researchers have been investigating Van Gogh’s vanishing yellows and reds for a decade Recent work by scientists at Shell on Van Gogh’s The bedroom revealed that the painting’s blue walls may originally have been purple the colour change is the result of degradation of the ‘red lakes’ pigments These pigments are a mixture of xanthene dyes such as eosin and erythrosine Though initially giving a bright red colour over time eosin and erythrosine photodegrade Van Gogh painted them onto a base layer of aluminium hydroxide A digital visualisation of The bedroom as it would have looked the day Van Gogh finished it can now be viewed at the Van Gogh Museum AkzoNobel and their collaborators want to do the same for Field with irises an AkzoNobel colour scientist who is part of the project the first task was to acquire a reflectance spectrum for every single pixel of the painting They are now matching each of these spectra to the AkzoNobel database to work out which pigment is in each pixel This is likely to be difficult: the original pigments may not even exist in the database and so potential candidates will have to be deduced by historians and conservationists based on the likely pigments available to Van Gogh at the time they are using chemical clues from x-ray fluorescence analysis conducted on the painting which reveals the elemental composition of each individual pixel.  The prospective paint mixtures will then be made by AkzoNobel chemists to see if they match and then further work will be required to establish whether these are the original pigments from the 1880s or degradation products Eric and his colleagues are hopeful that this method will eventually return the painting’s lost poppies and buttercups.  It is remarkable that a technology developed for the seemingly mundane task of enabling people to paint their homes and cars in whatever colour they choose is now being used to unlock the secrets of one of the most famous paintings in the world.  Perhaps the next time you walk past that apparently innocuous paint tinting machine at your local DIY store Paul Brack is a PhD student at Loughborough University and is the winner of the 2014–15 science communication competition Site powered by Webvision Cloud Contraband investigationFrench police make Luxembourg tobacco smuggling bustGendarmes 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Twelve prisoners are serving a life sentence. 57 nationalitiesLuxembourg nationals account for 146 of the 611 prisoners In second place are Portuguese citizens with 98 prisoners According to the Justice Minister's figures people of 57 different nationalities are imprisoned in Schrassig Schrassig is Luxembourg’s main penitentiary while Ueschterhaff is used to house suspects who are where convicted criminals serve either short sentences or are housed towards to end of a longer sentence as a re-integration measure (This story was first published in the Luxemburger Wort. 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Translation and editing by Alex Stevensson) WeatherLondon sets heat record as northwest Europe set for warm MayThursday and Friday are hot, with temperatures as high as 29C in Paris, and 27C in Luxembourg and Berlin Emergency servicesLuxembourg firefighters tackle forest fires and field blazesDry conditions have led to a greater risk of fires in rural areas in the Greater Region and Luxembourg SpringtimeSunniest-ever March puts Luxembourg farmers on alertLuxembourg water managers and agricultural sector are concerned, though not alarmed, after record-breaking March Renewable energySolar energy overtakes wind in LuxembourgFor the first time, more solar power was produced last year than by wind turbines Climate changeArctic sea ice shrinks to record winter low as Earth heats upDwindling of sea ice also has geopolitical and security ramifications as it opens up the Arctic to more shipping and potential military uses WeatherArctic air freezes Europe, but warmer weather is on its wayExtreme cold in places will be replaced by unusual warmth before the week is over Renewable energyGlobal warming could be making it less windy in EuropeEven small drops in average wind speeds can translate into major swings in wind power generation WeatherRain, snow, fog: Luxembourg sees wettest January in three decadesThe sun was in hiding for almost half the month with more rainfall and fog than usual