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Leisure business is top of the league after delivering results for Liverpool FC boss
North Wales Guest Correspondent
Photograph By John Powell LFC CEO Peter Moore
AN AWARD-WINNING retailer is top of the league after netting the business of Liverpool FC boss Peter Moore.
The Reds' chief executive is used to a premier playing surface, so when he needed composite decking in time for his wedding, he contacted North Wales-based UK Leisure Living.
The Mochdre and St Asaph firm, which also supplies and repairs high-quality hot tubs, installed around 30 square metres of the product in readiness for the big day at Mr Moore's Wirral home.
UK Leisure Living's managing director Gareth Jones – who picked up two gold UK Pool and Spa Awards in December – said the Anfield supremo was one of the first to contact them after beginning a new marketing campaign for the composite decking side of the company.
"We were delighted to hear from Mr Moore and glad to be able to deliver in time for his wedding day," said Gareth.
"I believe it was a key part of the ceremony as the outside of his home and a marquee played a big part in proceedings, so we were glad to be of assistance.
"Mr Moore was lovely with our team and national sales manager Neil Vaughan Jones and a great customer, so we sent he and his bride a Welsh hamper to mark the occasion."
He added: "The decking side of the business is growing all of the time and complements the hot tub arm of UK Leisure Living, so for us to attract the attention of one of the most powerful men in football was fantastic."
Mr Moore – whose side currently stand top of the Premier League – is a former Corporate Vice-President of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business division, overseeing the Xbox and Xbox 360 games consoles.
He was also president of SEGA of America and head of Electronic Arts' EA Sports division before joining Liverpool FC in 2017.
The club is flying high under the guidance of manager Jurgen Klopp, and Mr Moore says UK Leisure Living is also a winning team.
"I engaged UK Leisure Living for a composite deck to be built at my home and time was of the essence, as the new deck was part of the wedding plans at my home," he said.
"The project was arranged quickly and the team on site worked efficiently to achieve the results.
"We chose a lovely coppered oak board and we are delighted with the results. I would have no hesitation in recommending UK Leisure Living and their range of products."
For more on composite decking from UK Leisure Living, visit www.deckingnorthwales.co.uk
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Nanophotonics (NANO)
The Nanophotonics Committee solicits papers and presentations addressing a broad spectrum of optics at the nanometer scale, covering technology and basic science. Novel optical phenomena and extreme responses of light-matter interactions at nanoscale hold promise for development of photonic technologies that are compact, fast and efficient. Topics of interest and focus but not limited are summarized below:
Basic science of strong light-matter interaction
Optical properties of nanostructures and structured surfaces
Linear, nonlinear and ultrafast spectroscopy at the nanoscale
Quantum dots, nanostructured LEDs and lasers
Photonic bandgap structures
Plasmonics, metamaterials, metasurfaces and metal optics
Nano resonators and apertures
Chiral light-matter interactions
Microscopy and imaging with sub-wavelength resolution
Novel nano-fabrication and nanolithography techniques
Technologies enabled and powered by nanophotonics including high density optical data storage, as well as applications in high-bandwidth communications
Optical nano-biosensors
Topological nanophotonics
Inverse design for nanophotonics
Nanophotonic engineering with strain, thermal, electrical, optical, and mechanical control.
Nanophotonic materials with novel optical, electronic, thermal, mechanical, and spin polarization properties, including the emerging class of 2D materials (graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, black phosphorus, etc.).
Nanostructured solar power generation
Optical Micro / Nano Resonators and Devices (OMND)
The Committee on Optical Micro/Nano Resonators and Devices encourages submission of papers on recent achievements in the field of optical micro/nano resonators, devices, optomechanics, and related phenomena. The committee is especially interested in contributions demonstrating significant advances in the performance, new resonance effects at micro/nano scale, innovative types and configurations, and new applications of optical and plasmonic microresonators.
Semiconductor Lasers and Sources (SLS)
The subcommittee on Semiconductor Lasers and Sources (SLS) solicits papers on recent advances in the growths, computational designs, new theoretical concepts, fabrications, and characterizations of semiconductor lasers and sources. The subcommittee covers the basic sciences, devices, integrated technologies, and system-level implementation of semiconductor lasers and sources. The laser devices, sources, and integrated technologies will cover emission wavelengths from extreme ultraviolet up to terahertz spectral regimes. The specific areas of interest covered by this subcommittee include:
New theoretical and computational methods in semiconductor lasers
New material and engineered nanoscale active regions in semiconductor lasers
High-power lasers and laser arrays
Visible and short-wavelength lasers
Long-wavelength and quantum cascade lasers
Vertical cavity and other surface-emitting lasers
Light-emitting diodes, and solid state lighting
Optical communication lasers and transmitters
On-chip laser sources for photonic integrated circuits
Micro- / nanocavity lasers and related areas of plasmonics
New semiconductor laser designs, materials, and fabrication techniques
Semiconductor lasers in quantum technologies and quantum engineering
Data sciences and machine learning in semiconductor laser designs
Application of semiconductor lasers in cyber-physical systems, resilient infrastructures, internet-of-things, and autonomous systems.
Photodetectors, Sensors and Imaging (PSS)
The subcommittee on Photodetectors, Sensors and Imaging (PSS) solicits papers on all types of photodetectors, imaging, optical and electro-optical sensors, as well as their related materials, devices and systems. Topics of interest include:
Novel photoconductive and photovoltaic materials and devices (including avalanche photodiodes, very high-speed detectors, and photodetectors based on organic materials) for the range of operation in the entire electromagnetic spectrum (gamma-ray, x-ray, UV, visible, near-IR, mid-IR, far-IR, terahertz, microwave and RF).
Detector technologies that exploit novel phenomena to enhance performance, functionality and manufacturability including CMOS-compatible germanium detectors, plasmonic and metamaterial devices, microwave-photonic devices, nanoscale quantum structures (dots/wires/wells), superlattices, MCT detectors, MEMS-based wavelength-tunable sensors, quantum sensors, and bioinspired sensors.
Novel photovoltaic devices and energy harvesting systems.
Integrated detectors for silicon photonics.
Devices, techniques and systems for single-photon detection.
Imaging systems including high operating-temperature focal-plane arrays (FPAs) for thermal imaging, active CMOS imagers, multicolor and tunable FPAs for spectral imaging, hyperspectral imaging, polarization imagers, novel readout circuits, and smart-pixel FPAs.
Methods for 3D imaging, visualization and recognition.
Adaptive-optics systems for imaging and display.
Holographic-based and incoherent-holographic-based imaging and sensing systems.
Novel optical microsystems, optofluidic devices and fiber-optic sensors.
Novel approaches for microobject manipulation, imaging and tracking in microfluidic environment.
Advanced microscopes based on spatial light modulators, quantitative phase-contrast, super-resolution and computational imaging techniques.
Compressive sensing and multichannel and multimodal data acquisition and imaging.
Infrastructures for virtual laboratories and remote metrology.
Nonlinear and Ultrafast Optics (NLUO)
The subcommittee on Nonlinear and Ultrafast Optics solicits papers on recent discoveries, advances, and developments in the field of nonlinear optical interactions with materials and in the science and technology of ultrafast electronics, photonics, and optoelectronics. Topics of interest include new concepts and their implementations as well as significant advances are summarized in the following:
Fundamental nonlinear optical physics and material properties including nonlinear materials, metamaterials and plasmonic materials
Nonlinear frequency conversion processes and devices including parametric amplification and oscillation
Spontaneous parametric down-conversion for applications in quantum optics
Optical frequency combs and applications
Nonlinear integrated devices and circuits
Intense field phenomena
Spontaneous and stimulated Raman scattering
Guided waves and solitons
Applications of nonlinear optics in laser and optical light amplification
THz generation and propagation, photonics, devices, and applications
Switching, modulation, and communication
Optical storage
Attosecond physics and applications
Novel ultrafast and fiber sources
Broadband and supercontinuum sources
Propagation, measurement, processing, and detection of ultrashort optical and electronic pulses
Ultrafast optical, electronic and optoelectronic materials, components, devices, and systems
Novel applications of ultrafast technology in the investigation of transient phenomena in physics, electrical engineering, and material science
X-ray generation using ultrafast laser pulses
Photonic Materials, Processes, Integration and Packaging (PPIP)
Papers are solicited on the topic of photonic materials, processes, components, integration and packaging. Materials and processes cover all aspects of photonic materials, including materials science and technology, material growth and synthesis, monolithic and heterogeneous integration, material characterization; photonic devices include active and passive components; integration and packaging include innovations to assemable those devices to form photonic circuits on wafer or chip level for applications in high-speed communication, precision metrology, sensing, quantum and neuromporhic computing, etc. The subcommittee welcomes submissions in, but not limited to, the following areas:
Materials with novel electronic, optical, thermal, mechanical, and spin polarization and new properties, including the tradiational solid-state materials and emerging class of 2D materials (graphene, MoS2, black phosphorus, etc.).
Material processing techniques: formation and processing of bulk and low-dimensional photonic materials and novel synthesis techniques for optical materials.
Structured and engineered materials systems: periodic and aperiodic structures, photonic crystals, plasmonics, metamaterials, and metasurfaces, etc.
Components and devices: lasers, modulators, detectors, reflectors, filters, couplers, (de)multiplexers and sensors, etc.
Monolithic and heterogeneous integrations: blank and selective epitaxy, impurity disordering, organic/inorganic integration, nanomembrane and thin film stacking, dielectric/metallic integration.
Novel substrate integration/packaging techniques, including conventional semiconductors (III-Vs, Si, sapphire, etc), glass, plastics, conformal and flexible substrates.
Packaging techniques: optical interposer, electronic, optical, mechanical device co-integration, 3D integration, fiber-to-chip attachment, polymer waveguides and waveguide arrays, housings and systems on chip, recent advances in manufacturing and packaging facilities supporting non-telecom photonics platforms.
Optical Communications and Networks (OCN)
This sub-committee solicits papers on analysis, modeling, demonstration, and implementation of digital optical networks and systems, ranging from telecom and datacom applications to radio-over-fiber and free-space. The topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
Optical Fiber Transmission Systems and Subsystems
Optical modulation, detection, coding, and digital signal processing in single mode fibers and spatial division multiplexing systems
Impairments specific to digital optical fiber communication systems (e.g., fiber nonlinearity, dispersion, concatenated filtering, multi-path interference, linear and nonlinear crosstalk of WDM channels, cores, or modes)
Optical and electronic mitigation of impairments in digital optical fiber communication systems
Machine learning methods for signal processing and network planning and design
All-optical signal processing
Design, performance and control of network elements and nodes
Core and Metro Optical Networks
Optical network architectures, design and performance evaluation
Traffic modelling, routing algorithms and protocols
Bandwidth allocation algorithms and protocols
Optical performance monitoring for transport networks
Energy efficient/green optical networks
Optical network security
Elastic networks and networking
Transport network demonstrations, test-beds, and field trials
Access Optical Networks and Systems
High-speed optical access system technologies and applications
WDM-PON, TDM-PON, TWDM-PON and other multiple access PON technologies
PON virtualization and network function virtualization applied to optical access
Energy efficient optical access networks
FTTx and next-generation passive optical networks
Access network demonstrations, test-beds, and field trials
Datacom and Computercom Networks and Systems
Optical interconnect technologies (WDM/CWDM interconnects for integrated optics and parallel modules)
Parallel optical coupling between fibers, chips and modules
Optical interconnection network interfaces, protocols, arbitration and flow control
Optical switching devices, architectures, and control schemes for data centers
On-chip optical networks and integrated computer architectures
Interconnection network architectures for datacenters
Radio-over-Fiber and Free Space Optical Systems
Radio-over-fiber and free-space optical systems, which are concerned with the development and improvement of broadband wireless communication systems and networks.
Radio-over-fiber (RoF) systems including analog and digital transport
Hybrid wireless-optical systems
Visible and IR free-space optical communication systems, including visible light communications (VLC) and under-water communications.
Optical Fiber Technology (OFT)
The subcommittee on Optical Fiber Technology encompasses all aspects of optical fiber technology. This includes designs, materials, processing, measurements, propagation properties, coatings, cables and connectors, passive devices and components, amplifiers and lasers and active components, specialty- (both silica and non-silica based), micro- and nano-fibers, sensors, and probes. Burgeoning applications, such as, the use of few- and multi-mode and multi-core optical fibers for space division multiplexing, endoscopic imaging, and encryption, the use of conventional and low loss optical fibers for quantum communication, and Rayleigh, Brillouin, and Raman based distributed acoustic, strain, and temperature sensing are welcome.
Optical fiber designs, materials and processing
Optical fiber measurements and propagation properties
Optical fiber coatings
Optical fiber cables and connectors
Passive optical fiber devices and components
Fiber amplifiers and lasers and active fiber components
Specialty fiber (both silica and non-silica based)
Micro and nano-fibers
Fiber optic probes
New applications of optical fibers
Optical Interconnects (OI)
The optical interconnects (OI) technical area is concerned with technical advances pertaining to the design and/or realization of components, devices, and architectures motivated to support high-speed optical communication at all levels – from digital to analogue, from intra-chip, chip-to-chip, board-to-board, to module-to-module technologies. The OI subcommittee solicits papers in the following topic areas:
Optics for the datacenter and RF communications (e.g. silicon photonics, VCSELs, etc.)
Passive components (e.g. waveguides, WDM components, optical I/O, etc.)
Active components (e.g. lasers, switches, modulators, and photodetectors for high speed/bandwidth interconnection)
Integration and packaging solutions
Advanced modulation or signaling schemes
Advanced multiplexing schemes
Switching and signal routing technologies
Transceiver and module technologies
Other emerging or novel interconnection solutions (e.g. free-space, underwater, etc.)
Quantum Photonic Information Technologies (QPIT)
The topic focuses is on photonic engineering solutions and technologies for quantum information science. These encompass complex systems such communication links, high capacity quantum channels, optical networks and photonic processing circuits as well as components comprising such systems, such as quantum gates and memories, quantum encoders and transducers. We are interested in on-chip hybrid quantum photonic integration technologies and novel light-matter interactions paradigms as well as methods and approaches to creation, manipulation, storage, control and transmission of entangled quantum states. Novel applications of optical quantum processors and networks as well as technologies that enable these applications and functionalities in communication, sensing, metrology, distributed computing and quantum information processing.
Microwave Photonics & Avionics / Vehicle Fiber-Optics & Photonics (MWP-AVFOP)
In recent years there has been substantial progress in the field of fiber optic, free-space optical (FSO), and microwave photonic systems on a variety of commercial, mobile, and military platforms. With the advances in high-speed optical components, subsystems and photonic integration architectures, these trends are expected to increase. As applications expand, it is critical for the community to assess the opportunities and challenges associated with deploying microwave photonic and FSO systems in the field and on platforms while requiring operation in challenging and sometimes harsh environments. The AVFOP technical subcommittee solicits papers on recent advances in this multidisciplinary field, including:
Components for analog systems (including low noise lasers, modulators, and photodetectors for microwave, millimeter wave, and terahertz frequencies)
Novel modeling / simulation and demonstrations of microwave photonic (MWP) and FSO components and systems, including monolithic, heterogeneous, and hybrid MWP integrated platforms
Photonic signal generation and characterization for microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz applications
RF Photonic Transport / RF over Fiber Systems
LADAR/LiDAR systems and applications
FSO communication links for air and ground vehicles
Qualification and packaging of photonic components, systems, and standards for field and platform applications in harsh environments
MWP subsystems and integration of photonic-electronic platforms, including photonic filtering, conversion between analog and digital signals, and manipulation of microwave amplitude and phase in the optical domain
Vehicle optical network architectures, wavelength division multiplexing, and components
Operation and maintenance of fielded photonic systems
Biophotonics and Optics (BIPO)
Biophotonics and biomedical optics describes the interaction of light with biological molecules, cells, and tissues. It covers diagnostic sensing and imaging applications as well as therapeutic uses of light. The Biophotonics subcommittee is soliciting papers in this multi-disciplinary field, covering the development, or refinement, of instruments and methods involving optics and photonics technology for applications in life sciences and biomedicine. The conference focuses on the technical and engineering aspects of new technologies and innovative approaches for sensing, imaging, signal and image processing, optical actuation, and therapy, rather than translation of biophotonics to biological and medical applications.
Specific topics of interest include instruments, devices, methods, algorithms, and materials for:
Imaging of cells and tissues:
Microscopy, including high-throughput, high-speed and super-resolution strategies
Optical tomography, including optical coherence tomography, photoacoustic imaging, and diffuse optical tomography
Spatial frequency domain and spectroscopic imaging
Dynamic light scattering techniques including diffusing wave spectroscopy and diffuse correlation spectroscopy
Endoscopy and other guided-wave implementations of imaging, such as catheters and needles
Biomedical spectroscopy, including Raman, fluorescence, and other techniques
Wavefront engineering for biomedical imaging, such as adaptive optics, light-sheet imaging, and imaging through scattering media
Computational imaging and computation and modeling in imaging and sensing
Materials (nano-, meta-, plasmonic) to enable emerging biophotonics applications
Biosensors, such as point-of-care devices, fiber sensors, and lab-on-chip, including micro- and opto-fluidics
Light and photonics-based techniques and procedures in biological manipulation, including optical trapping and actuation
Therapeutic uses of light and photonics-based technology

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Veronika Kyrylenko – The right to vote is a cornerstone right that is essential to a well-functioning democracy. This idea was enshrined both in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution and is protected by five separate amendments.
But every single right comes with responsibilities, and the greater the right, the greater the responsibilities. The outcomes of elections shape a political course for the nation and fundamentally affect the lives of every American. That is why it is so troubling to hear Democrats' fallacious propositions to alter voting rights.
Their main idea is to expand voting rights to new population groups. Recently, they proposed to grant voting rights to 16-year-olds. "I myself have always been for lowering the voting age to 16," speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said. "I think it's really important to capture kids when they're in high school, when they're interested in all of this, when they're learning about government, to be able to vote." Oh, sure, Nancy — you would like to capture them, all right.
Have you ever wondered what the reason is for a long list of age-related legal restrictions? All of them are based on the stages of physical and psychological development of a person, including the natural development of the human brain. Undoubtedly, there are lots of smart teenagers out there scoring sky-high on SATs and ACTs. The fact is, it doesn't matter when it comes to good judgment — it is something they can't excel in yet, because the rational part of the brain isn't fully developed until age 25 or so.
Also, recent research has found that adult and teen brains work differently. Adults think with the prefrontal cortex, the brain's rational part. This is the part of the brain that responds to situations with awareness of long-term consequences.
Teens process information with the amygdala, which is the emotional part responsible for immediate reactions, including fear and aggression. All of these facts are from the realm of science — something Democrats seem to have declared war on. But I honestly believe that the top Democrats are extremely intelligent people and know exactly what they are doing.
The other group that clearly should be refused voting rights — at least for those who have their prefrontal cortex fully developed — are non-citizens. For if a person does not owe any allegiance to a country, why should he decide on that country's course? Isn't it also obvious that letting non-citizens and illegal aliens to vote encourages them not to legalize their status and stimulates others to come to this oh, so liberal country to take advantage of its generosity?
Again, it is somehow hard to imagine that all of those Democratic U.S. representatives who opposed a legislative measure condemning voting in U.S. elections by illegal aliens do not understand the consequences of non-citizens executing voting rights.
They say illegal aliens are a "part of our community" and therefore should have their say. Nice. So if my neighbors decide to live on my backyard, should I invite them to decide on my family budget, or should I call the police? Should 11 million illegals cast their vote just as law-abiding citizens, enjoying the rights and benefits of being Americans — without any obligations and duties to the countries? How fair is that? It certainly seems fair to the House Democrats — as long as they get those votes blue.
In a continuation of the perverted logic "the lives of illegals are affected by the results of elections, and therefore they should participate" may be stretched to absolute nonsense, and it already has been. "America should allow other countries to vote in the 2020 elections," runs the Independent. "This is a country which calls itself 'leader of the Free World' and has huge global influence in terms of foreign policy and economics.
Now that Trump won't acknowledge basic things like climate change, it's time other countries had a say," claims the author. As absurd as it sounds, the globalized world order without borders, governed by the supranational institutions, where state sovereignty goes obsolete, is a fundamental leftist belief. It is nothing but a slightly transformed idea of a stateless communism conceptualized by Karl Marx. All of this has nothing to do with the people's true interests, but only aims at the absolute power.
One of the provisions of the so-called "For the People Act," a bill proposed by the House Democrats, is luckily not as radical as the one that has been just voiced by Bernie. It would allow felons to vote only after they leave prison. It is not the first desperate attempt of the Democrats to swing elections in their favor at the cost of felons' votes. In dramatic 2016, Virginia's Governor Terry McAuliffe took executive action to restore voting rights to at least 173,000 ex-felons. At the same time, New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order to restore voting rights to felons on parole.
Now, I'm not arguing that the voting rights of those who have already served their time should not be redeemed at all. Restoring voting rights is one of the mechanisms of reintegration of inmates back into society. Here, the Democrats are doing a good deed for bad reasons.
Overall, the Democrats' attempts to expand their voter base by introducing new legal groups of voters instead of re-engaging with the existing ones indicate their inability to promote their agenda in the "era of Trump," as they call it. When the policy that finally "puts America first" bears fruit, when economy is on the rise, and people can actually experience the benefits of it, what can you possibly offer in its place? Nothing rational, of course — rather, lies and deception while searching for supporters.


Group banking is a plan offered by banks that generally provides incentives for groups, such as employees at a company, if the group establishes a banking relationship with the institution. For example, a bank may offer loans or other banking products to all employees of an organization through a promotion. Or, a bank might offer employees of a large employer special perks if they open a checking account with direct deposit, lower rates on home-equity loans or mortgages, or higher interest rates on CDs.
Potential incentives for group banking can include lower interest rates, lower fees and discounts. Members of a group banking arrangement will usually have access to better perks than they would otherwise be able to obtain on their own. Employees are usually able to choose the account types and financial products that meet their individual needs. Some banks may offer group banking members reward points that can be redeemed for travel, gift cards, cash or merchandise.
Some other benefits of group banking plans include a single point of contact for the group, and a bank contact who is generally more knowledgeable of the group's plan and needs. This leads to a more personalized banking experience for all members of the group. Banks may offer group members seminars on personal finance topics, or one-on-one financial advice to help them reach their financial goals.
Employers benefit from offering their employees group banking plans because many employees consider group banking an employment benefit on a par with paid time off, sick leave, health insurance and retirement savings plans. Therefore, partnering with a bank to offer group banking can help businesses attract and retain high-quality talent. Group banking plans can allow employers to expand their employee benefits package for minimal additional cost.
Employees are usually not required to sign up for group banking benefits offered by an employer, but in many cases, the perks of signing up for group banking are sufficient to compel many employees to take advantage of it. Group banking provides banks with a pool of customers they do not have to actively recruit, and reduces costs associated with transactions like direct deposit of paychecks. Group banking also gives banks access to more capital via the money deposited by group members.
Members of a group banking plan do not have to be employees of the same company; members of any organization or cooperative may be able to take advantage of a group banking plan. Group banking plan members may be members of the same church, HOA or other organization.
A bankers' bank is a specific type of bank that a group of larger, more established banks create.


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Q: Apache cxf SOAP call not timing out I am using Apache cxf to create a proxy to call a SOAP web service. My application uses Camel. The flow is the following: A camel executor thread gets the data from a SEDA queue, then makes the call with Apache cxf. Timeout is set correctly. I can see the Outbound Message of the soap request, but Inbound message never arrives and timeout is also ignored.
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Local authorities on California murder suspect capture
By Lauren Reid and FOX 7 Austin
AUSTIN, Texas - A murder suspect out of Los Angeles is in the Travis County Jail. He was arrested in Pflugerville over the weekend after a nearly six-hour standoff.
Now we're learning from authorities on how it came to an end.
Cell phone video shows part of a nearly six-hour SWAT standoff in Pflugerville Saturday. Neighbors waking up in fear.
"I was a little bit scared...if maybe someone tried to shoot from inside to the cops or there may be a fight," says Amat Maan, neighbor.
It ended with the arrest of 55-year-old Kevin Dickson wanted for murder. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says he's accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend there last week in a church parking lot. He fled the state hours later, ending up in Pflugerville. That's when the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force got the call.
"The first key was to establish surveillance surround the house; we would call out anybody and everybody in the house. We also evacuated other residents in the area as a precaution because we didn't know what Mr. Dickson was doing in there. He's wanted for murder out of California, we don't know if he has weapons, we don't know what he's doing in there," says Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Darren Sartin, Lone Star Fugitive Task Force
Authorities beleve the address in Pflugerville might have been to a family member or close associate to Dickson. After not responding to commands to surrender, task force members called in the Austin Police Department SWAT team.
"He refused for hours and eventually, they did make entry and were able to make the arrest," says Sartin.
Dickson was not armed and booked into the Travis County Jail. Sartin says about 50 law enforcement personnel were on scene that day, hoping for the best-case scenario.
"Communication is the key. With multiple agencies, we make sure we're all on the same radio frequency because we never want to get a law enforcement on law enforcement type situation. A command post is established, we have personnel from the task force in the command post with the SWAT personnel, that way everyone's on the same communication page so that there's not any unknowns out there," says Sartin.
The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force says they were able to accomplish all of this with the help of other agencies, including the Austin Police Department SWAT team and the Travis County Sheriff's Office. The suspect was booked in on the murder charge on Saturday. He'll go through the judicial process, and then go through extradition to LA County.


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Creating Balance: The Mission of Economic Policy
Lecture | November 13 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Speaker: Laszlo Gyorgy, Minister of State for Economic Strategy and Regulation, Ministry for Innovation and Technology in Hungary
Sponsor: Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)
Hungary's economic policy is currently in the process of restoring balance to a critical imbalance generated in the four decades between 1970 and 2010. Hungary can be considered a laboratory, where a conundrum is being resolved, step by step. Not all measures are equally successful or easy to implement, but the negative trends have reversed. Hungary, a country of 10 million people, broke away from the policy advice of international lending institutions fostering austerity measures after 2010 and followed its own unorthodox policies since then, decreasing its state debt by 10 percentage points, halving foreign indebtedness, creating close to 1 million jobs, increasing real wages by more than 40 percent, becoming one of the most attractive locations for FDI to create high value-added jobs, and growing 2 percentage points faster than the EU average since 2012. Many other developing countries find themselves in a similar plight and it is hoped that the experience of Hungary will be helpful in charting their own unique course of recovery.
László György is the Minister of State for Economic Strategy and Regulation at the Ministry for Innovation and Technology in Hungary. Previously, he was the Chief Economist at Századvég Group and the director of Pallas Athéné Domus Mentis Foundation, the public endowment fund of the John von Neumann University. György lectures on economic policy and international relations theory at the John von Neumann University and Eötvös Lóránd University. He earned an international Master's degree at Hochschule St. Gallen, Switzerland (2004) in the framework of the Community of European Management Schools program, and MBA (2008) and PhD (2013) degrees at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
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Cothen is een dorp in de Nederlandse provincie Utrecht. Sinds de middeleeuwen was het in bezit van de domproosdij van Utrecht. In 1795 kwam er een einde aan de heerschappij van de domproost. Na een aantal administratieve veranderingen werden uiteindelijk op 1 januari 1812 de voormalige gerechten Cothen en Dwarsdijk verenigd tot de gemeente Cothen. Op 1 januari 1996 werd de gemeente samengevoegd met Wijk bij Duurstede en Langbroek tot de gemeente Wijk bij Duurstede.

Ligging en geschiedenis
Cothen is met zijn ligging aan de Kromme Rijn van oudsher een pittoresk boerendorp. In de negentiende eeuw vormde die rivier ook de belangrijkste verbinding met de buitenwereld; "Krommerijnsche schuiten" zorgden voor vrachtvervoer tussen het dorpje en de stad Utrecht. Rond 1900 bedroeg het inwoneraantal 745. Het is een typisch Kromme Rijndorp en vertoont qua structuur overeenkomsten met Werkhoven, Odijk en Bunnik. Alle dorpen liggen op de stroomrug van de Kromme Rijn. De bouwlanden sluiten op de nederzetting aan. De Brink en de Meent zijn kenmerkende elementen van deze dorpen. De Kromme Rijn was vroeger een belangrijke route voor goederentransport. Het is van oorsprong een plattelandsgemeente bestaande uit de nederzettingen Cothen en Dwarsdijk. Na 1945 zijn er enkele nieuwbouwwijken bijgebouwd, waardoor het accent is komen te liggen op de woonfunctie van het dorp. Vanouds speelde de landbouw qua economische activiteit een belangrijke rol. Rond de eeuwwisseling verschoof het accent van akkerbouw naar veeteelt en fruitteelt. De laatste jaren zien we een verdere specialisatie, waarbij boeren óf vee houden, óf fruit telen. In 1885 kwam het dorp uit haar isolement doordat de tramlijn Doorn-Wijk bij Duurstede werd geopend. De lijn sloot aan op de tramverbinding Zeist-Rhenen, die op haar beurt weer aansloot op het spoorwegnet. Concurrentie van onder andere de vrachtauto en de bus kondigde de sluiting van deze verbinding in 1932 aan. Na de oorlog zijn er woonwijken bijgebouwd, en het dorp had in 2003 zo'n 2500 inwoners.

Bezienswaardig in Cothen zijn de omgeving van de Brink en de boomgaard aan het Ambachtspad, die is aangewezen als beschermd dorpsgezicht. Daarnaast staat in het oude gedeelte van het dorp de uit de 13e eeuw stammende protestantse Agneskerk. Tegen de dorpskern aan, aan de overzijde van de Kromme Rijn, bevindt zich kasteel Rhijnestein (13e eeuw) met het karakteristieke poortgebouw. Overige bijzonderheden zijn de tramwachterswoning en het brughoofd. Van buitenaf wordt het dorpsaanzicht gedomineerd door de stellingkorenmolen Oog in 't Zeil en de slanke kerktoren van de Sint-Petrus en Pauluskerk uit 1905, ontworpen door Wolter te Riele.

Voorzieningen
De plaats heeft een aantal sportverenigingen, op het gebied van gymnastiek, volleybal en handbal en ook op gebied van sportvissen. Er is ook een voetbalvereniging, SVF Cothen. Verder is er in Cothen één eetcafé, slagerij, Spar supermarkt, cafetaria en een restaurant plus twee basisscholen en is er een ontmoetingscentrum met een huisartsenpost.

Bekende (ex)inwoners in Cothen
 Mans Middelweerd (1920-2010), wethouder en burgemeester
 Koen Raymaekers (1980), langeafstandsloper

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Zie ook
 Lijst van burgemeesters van Cothen
 Lijst van rijksmonumenten in Cothen
 Lijst van gemeentelijke monumenten in Cothen

Externe link
 Informatie over Cothen

Geografie van Wijk bij Duurstede
Plaats in Utrecht
Voormalige gemeente in Utrecht

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Huddersfield man charged with Batley murder
A HUDDERSFIELD man has been charged with the murder of a Batley man.
Neil Atkinson
Richard O'Keefe, 39, has been remanded in custody charged with killing Mr Stephen Beaumont.
Mr Beaumont, 58, of Springfield Avenue, Batley, died on Monday, September 29, 2008.
Officers went to the house at 9.20pm that night and found Mr Beaumont.
Three men aged 48, 39 and 35 were arrested within days in connection with the incident but were all released pending further investigations.
O'Keefe was re-arrested last Friday and appeared before Dewsbury magistrates over the weekend.


Wow! You're a cheerleader? How about jazzing up your look by checking out some cool ponytail hairstyles pitched in this write-up?
Every weekend, towns and suburbs in the United States root for their passion for sports, and gather in stadiums and amphitheaters. While the center stage is a battleground of the players, the sidelines have a horde of the smashing American sight; cheerleaders.
Lost in their own world, cheerleaders are no less than fashion icons, and from the poms to the megaphones to the booty-shaking and the funky ponytails, cheerleaders are always hopping from one corner to another, adding that funkiness all around. So, if you're a cheerleader, surely you're doing a great job!
Today, for the very aim of this story, let's talk about the importance of keeping your hair out of your eyes as a safety precaution. Many a time, while performing, obstructed vision may pose harm to a cheerleader, or may simply be irritating.
So, the glam dolls need a little homework on how to create different hairstyles so that neither they have to deal with unmanageable layers flowing all over their face, nor do they have to compromise with the glamor quotient. Have a look for ideas on some chic and cute ponytail hairstyles for cheerleaders.
Hell no! A single pony is such a boring idea! Yes, of course. Not everyone loves a single, mundane ponytail, and therefore, are always on a constant lookout for some newness in their hairstyle. Perhaps, the following could help you out. Have a look.
Yeah! Even they can be boring! But what if we tell you that you could add jazz to your look by cutting short bangs above the eye level, so that you not only look younger than before, but look adorably cute too?
When you comb your bangs in the downward direction, and tie two ponies, one left and one right, you're sure to look adorable. Even better, try braiding your hair, and then tie two ponies. They will add creativity to your look, and will set you apart from the crowd.
To add that oomph to your look, try a high side ponytail by pulling all your hair up towards the right, and tie them. This hairstyle works the best for those who are blessed with straight hair.
To add some creativity to your look, cut short bangs above the eye level, and take them out. Along with front bangs, take out some layers on the sides too, and if it suits you, curl them up a bit. Note that, if not carefully done, you could end up looking like a kid or a female from the 80's.
Hence, to save yourself from making a mockery of yourself, you could also do away with a low side ponytail as it looks cute too.
Wanna stick to a ponytail, but in an all new manner? Well, create long braids on your hair, and tie them all together. If you don't know how to braid your own hair, take help from someone who know.
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Another cool addition hairstyles is the half ponytail which is extremely easy to do for those who don't wish to tie all hair into a pony. All you've got to do is, part your hair from the center, and tie the upper section of hair into a ponytail, while leaving the lower section hair open.
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Cou-cou
Not to be confused with couscous.
Cou-cou, coo-coo (as it is known in the Windward Islands), or fungi (as it is known in the Leeward Islands and Dominica) makes up part of the national dishes of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, British Virgin Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It consists mainly of cornmeal (corn flour) and okra (ochroes).[1] Cornmeal, which comes readily packaged and is available at supermarkets islandwide, and okra, which can be found at supermarkets, vegetable markets and home gardens, are very inexpensive ingredients. Because these main components are inexpensive, the dish became common for many residents in Barbados' early colonial history. Cou-cou derives from the island's African ancestry and was a regular meal for those slaves who were brought over from Africa to Barbados. In Ghana, a similar meal of fermented corn or maize flour eaten with okra stew and fish is known as banku, a favourite dish of the Ga tribe in Accra.
A unique cooking utensil called a "cou-cou stick", or "fungi stick", is used in its preparation. A cou-cou stick is made of wood, and has a long, flat rectangular shape like a 1-foot-long (30 cm) miniature cricket bat. It is believed by Barbadians to be essential in stirring the cou-cou, as the dish takes on a firm texture and the cou-cou stick makes it easier to stir in a large pot.
Flying fish prepared fried or steamed is a usual complement to cou-cou. Cou-cou and flying fish has become Barbados' national dish. Corned beef, or just beef stew, is also a common accompaniment to cou-cou. Traditionally, cou-cou is served on Fridays at homes across Barbados and local food establishments. Cou-cou can also be prepared using breadfruit instead of cornmeal.
In Trinidad and Tobago cou-cou (or coo-coo) is often prepared alongside callaloo and either stewed or fried fish.
In some islands, e.g. Barbados, Antigua, or the Virgin Islands, cou-cou may be cooked without okra, and goes by the name fengi, fungie, or fungi.
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Shag is back and more beautiful than ever. Get shagged (or at least watch the very revealing video again)!
Shag Rugs are Handwoven Rugs made from differents kinds of yarns. Dense and plush, all shag rugs are prepared using wool or polyester depending on the designs. Shag area rugs make a fun addition to any fashionable space by incorporating texture to the room.
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Visual discrimination is the ability to accurately compare and contrast visual forms (e.g. shapes, symbols, colors, numbers, objects). Children should be exposed to an array of developmentally appropriate activities that encourage them to discern the similarities and differences between visual forms.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Stobart (STOB.L) investor Neil Woodford on Monday said Chairman Iain Ferguson should resign and reiterated his preference that English businessman Philip Day be elected to the board.
Disagreements among the infrastructure and support services group's board have already seen director and former chief executive Andrew Tinkler sacked, and investors including Woodford seek to elect Day to the board.
Woodford, the second-biggest investor in Stobart according to Thomson Reuters data, said a new chairman was needed to restore stability and "ensure that shareholder value creation continues in the manner that we have become accustomed to".
Day had "extensive experience managing and leading diverse businesses in challenging environments whilst delivering excellent returns to shareholders", Woodford said in a statement.


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Marion Zimmer Bradley, Deborah J. Ross, . . DAW, $24.95 (448pp) ISBN 978-0-7564-0034-7
Fans of Darkover, Bradley's popular series of the planet of the Bloody Sun, rejoice. As Bradley's health was declining, she and Ross sketched the new Clingfire Trilogy, set in the aftermath of the Ages of Chaos when the Hundred Kingdoms used vicious telepathic laran weaponry to annihilate their neighbors. This solid opener, like others in Bradley's canon, centers on the coming-of-age of a laran-gifted youngster, Coryn Leynier, who becomes under-Keeper at Neskaya Tower, a powerful hub of the psi Tower network, and eventually finds himself pitted against both evil human foes in battle and black psionic wizardry in the Overworld. Ross has fleshed out Bradley's encyclopedic vision of the Darkovian Dark Ages into a competent, fast-paced narrative congruent with the late author's familiar 1960s theme: "make various kinds of love, but not nuclear war." Ross also seems to have mastered the familiar Darkovian vocabulary, though perhaps not injecting it so frequently, as well as Bradley's absorbing minutiae of life under the Bloody Sun—copper butterfly hairclips and all. With ancient Neskaya Tower crumbled in the cataclysmic conflict between Coryn Leynier and his enemies and Bradley now gone, the next two volumes of the Clingfire Trilogy should showcase Ross's literary strength—her sensitivity to human needs and talents—even more clearly. (July 10)
FYI:Bradley also collaborated with Diana L. Paxson on a final sequel to The Mists of Avalon, Priestess of Avalon (Forecasts, Apr. 30).
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'Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking.
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'Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling' Greta Thunberg, addressing MPs in Westminster.
The words of Greta Thunberg, the reports from the UK's Committee on Climate Change and the UN's Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity are all telling us that our world is on notice to make the changes required to avoid irreversible harm to life on earth. This will requires action at every level, from the global to the personal. We in the Salisbury Cathedral community are anxious to play our full part.
In 2018 the Cathedral received a Silver Award as part of the Eco Church scheme created by A Rocha UK. This unique scheme allows churches to gauge their contribution to the environment and society. The Eco Church survey covers topics as diverse as Worship and Teaching, Management of Church Buildings and Land, Community and Global Engagement and Lifestyle. In other words, everything from how the Cathedral worships and what food it serves to the energy it uses, the wildlife that lives in and around the Close, and even the water that flushes from the loos. Our ambition is to go for the Gold Award in 2021.
Canon Treasurer, Robert Titley says: "The Cathedral is a work-in-progress as far as the Eco Church is concerned. We are keen not just to maintain current standards but to keep improving. In 2019 we completed an audit of the wildlife in the Cathedral Close (thanks to great work by the Close residents), while 2020 saw us install solar panels on the cloister roof. Our Eco Survey, produced by the Cathedral Community Forum, will help us all do better in terms of our personal lifestyles."
Please complete the downloadable Eco Survey below and drop it off at the Cathedral Vestry or post it to:
Salisbury Cathedral Eco Church Survey, 65 Wyndham House, Salisbury SP1 2EN
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If you would like to know more about Eco Church, follow this link ecochurch.arocha.org.uk. If you would like to hear more about our progress in greening the Cathedral, contact Canon Robert Titley.
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NBN the key to power after Australia's dead-heat election
Written by Tony Brown
When Australia's Labor Party-led government announced in April 2009 that it was planning to build a National Broadband Network – at a time when the party was still massively favored to win re-election this year – party members could scarcely have dreamt that the NBN would end up being the slender thread that might just help them retain power.
But that's exactly how things have turned out after an extraordinary drop in public support for the government saw the August 21 federal election result in a hung parliament, with the Labor and Coalition parties tied with 73 seats each and needing to win support from four independents MPs – three of whom are from rural constituencies – to secure a working majority.
There are numerous reasons for the collapse in public support for the Labor government over the past six months, but two of the biggest criticisms leveled at it have been that it lacked the political courage to make major decisions and that it had no core convictions around which it formulated policies. These were most obviously illustrated by the dumping of its planned emissions-trading program in April, a move that caused fury among environmentally focused voters and triggered the collapse in support for former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd that ultimately saw him replaced by Julia Gillard in June.
How ironic, then, that the government's only piece of genuinely visionary and bold politics – the creation of a A$43bn ($38m) NBN, offering FTTH connections to 93 per cent of the country's homes – might prove to be the policy that enables it to fight a second term, albeit as a minority government.
The cliffhanger changes it all
So, how did the NBN suddenly become the central issue in a country where telecommunications policy has never before appeared even remotely on the main agenda of either major party at election time?
First, the "rush to the middle" of the Labor Party and the opposition Coalition parties left few substantial policy differences between the two parties on the key issues, such as the economy, immigration and education. As a result, the rollout of the NBN was one of the few policy areas where clear blue water existed between the parties, and it therefore attracted far more media interest than any telecoms issue had ever received in a federal election campaign.
Then, of course, there was the result of the election itself, which means that both major parties need to somehow persuade the three independent MPs from regional areas – Tony Windsor from New England, New South Wales; Rob Oakeshott from Lyne, New South Wales; and Bob Katter from Kennedy, Queensland – to help them form a majority.
All three independent MPs have long been huge critics of the existing telecommunications infrastructure in their electorates and rural Australia in general, claiming that the quality of rural telecommunications has plummeted since Telstra's privatization forced it to focus on profits rather than quality of service.
As a result, all three independent MPs have been enthusiastic backers of the NBN project, with the maverick Katter – although socially conservative – viscerally opposed to allowing the "privatization" of rural telecoms services to continue.
Abbott left in a nasty wedge
All of which leaves Coalition leader Tony Abbott in a parlous position, given that he ran much of his campaign pledging to "end Labor's waste and debt" and scoffed at the creation of the NBN.
During the campaign, Abbott not only doubted the government's ability to successfully roll out the network but also described the NBN as a "white elephant" project that would be superseded by superior wireless technologies.
In its place, Abbott proposed a A$6bn broadband plan that would provide a government-built fiber-optic trunk network to serve metropolitan areas, enabling private operators to build their own last-mile FTTH/B connections, and would use wireless broadband to serve regional and rural areas.
The Coalition plan was immediately denounced as a complete turkey by many local industry analysts, who pointed out that it did not address the crucial problem of last-mile fixed-line access because it left Telstra in place as a monopoly network operator. The plan also did not provide details about what spectrum would be used for the planned mobile broadband services, what technology would be used to provide the services and how many transmission towers would need to be built – and by whom – to facilitate the rural mobile broadband service.
Abbott himself hardly helped matters by putting on a cringe-worthy performance on the influential 7.30 Report in prime time on ABC TV, where he struggled to explain the technical details of the Coalition plan. At one stage, interviewer Kerry O'Brien even had to explain the concept of peak download speeds, with Abbott eventually pleading: "I am no Bill Gates. And I don't claim to be any kind of techhead."
However, now that there are three rural independents to be wooed, Abbott has had to suddenly readdress the issue and concede that he would be willing to negotiate with the independents on the issue of rural broadband.
It's either the whole pie or none at all
The problem is that having so vigorously attacked the NBN as a huge waste of taxpayers' money and even – mind-bogglingly – claiming that FTTH would soon be an "outdated technology," Abbott will find it difficult to reach a compromise deal with the three independent MPs.
The key attraction of the NBN – and one that helped Labor retain several regional seats, such as the traditional bellwether Eden-Monaro, New South Wales – is that it is the first piece of genuine national infrastructure that does not short-change regional areas. The NBN will offer the same 100Mbps connectivity to the city slicker in Bondi Beach, Sydney, or Toorak, Melbourne, that it does to the small farming towns in New South Wales and Queensland that are represented by the three independent MPs.
As a result, it is hard to envision how the Coalition can offer anything short of the full NBN that will keep these independents happy, not least because the NBN – no matter its flaws – represents a concrete plan and commitment to providing rural areas with high-speed broadband.
By comparison, the Coalition plan is really no more than a vague list of policy preferences that leaves much of the heavy lifting to private players, which have little commercial interest in providing rural telecoms services. And it is hard to see how the Coalition can put together a serious plan in the weeks before the new government will be formed.
Moreover, although Oakeshott and Windsor have made public comments about potentially working on a new NBN plan that incorporated a greater wireless segment in order to lower the overall cost of rollout to rural areas, both MPs will be aware that diluting the NBN in such a way would be hugely dangerous from a political perspective. The NBN would provide equal access to households, and rural and regional voters will simply not accept funding a network that provides high-quality FTTH connections to urban areas – already served by HFC/DSL – but provides them with wireless broadband services offering variable quality.
As a result, the three independents – although serving notionally conservative electorates – will find it difficult to return home with a deal that dilutes the NBN with a significantly increased portion of wireless connectivity, because rural voters have already been promised FTTH connectivity and will not be happy if it is replaced by a wireless offering that remains more theoretic than actual.
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Jack McCaw	03/09/2010 @ 4:31 am
Armidale gets its NBN from Sept 7 – no matter who holds power.
Thank you Tony Windsor and the Labor party! Roll on!
I am soooo glad that the Liberals are going to have to pay attention to Armidale now – and the NBN is only the Start.
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Dismiss Lalpura as NCM head for interfering in religious affairs: SAD
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Chandigarh: The SAD on Wednesday requested the President to dismiss National Commission for Minorities (NCM) chairman Iqbal Singh Lalpura from his post immediately for allegedly interfering in the religious affairs of the Sikh community by trying to break the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC).
SAD leaders Daljit Singh Cheema and Maheshinder Singh Grewal said Lalpura held a constitutional post and was supposed to protect the interest of minorities. "However, it seems Lalpura is only working to protect the interests of the BJP in his dual role as member of its parliamentary board as well as the national executive. The President should sack him immediately as this is a clear case of conflict of interest and he is working against the interests of minorities, particularly the Sikh community," said Cheema.
They claimed that Lalpura was calling up SGPC members and asking them to support the candidature of Jagir Kaur as Sikh body president in the upcoming elections. "The Sikh community will never tolerate the handing over of the management of its gurdwaras to the BJP and the RSS," added Cheema.
The SAD leadership said that efforts were afoot to break the SGPC and run it with the help of stooges. They added that the recent activities of the minorities commission chairman were in line with steps taken by the Centre and BJP state governments to subvert Sikh institutions. They pointed out that the management of Takht Sri Hazur Sahib was taken into government hands by nominating government nominees, the Delhi Gurdwara Management Committee was taken over by the BJP and a separate gurdwara management committee was formed for Haryana. "Now, an effort is being made to break the SGPC in its present form and the first step towards this task is to divide the community for facilitating the election of a stooge to the top post," said Cheema.
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Wiiflo is the latest USB loader and it's quite nice atleast the user interface is.
I have noticed that some games have issues launching where as the older USB loader doesn't. Older USB loader does not have such a nice user friendly interface as wiiflo does.
Am I gonna go back to the older one? yes & no I am just leaving both installed on my Wii atleast for now anyhow.
I choose to install Wiiflo on an SDcard with a forwarder channel that I installed using Wad manager.
Using the Sdcard requires me to have the SDcard in at all times for Wiiflo to work.
It allows cover downloads via the Wii so no need to grab covers yourself the old USB loader also did this and also had CD covers as well as case covers.
There are multiple options for installing Wiiflo either to the SDcard or the External Harddrive or Installing through priiloader this option is the better because you can set the Wii to boot directly to Wiiflo instead of getting the Black Warning screen and Push A to continue.
Using your external HDD would be problematic if you already have it formatted to WBFS with games on it. If this is the case you will either format the drive losing all your installed games or have to move the games to your PC then format and partition your drive then add the games back on…Then install Wiiflo to the empty partition.
Here's a video of Wiiflo in action it is pretty nice no doubt.
Got alan Wake the video game for the Xbox360 system a few weeks back.
What a cool game it's a Adventure,Action,Survival horror story and done quite well.
It doesn't have monsters that have fangs or creepy disfigured manifestations like Silent Hill does it's just a creepy story with Hillbilly madmen that attack you with axes in the dark.
And a flash light is your best friend and your enemies most feared weapon.
I really prefer adventure games over any other they contain story and puzzles this to me makes a game worth playing.
Last Adventure/Action game I played that I enjoyed this much on a console was Heavy Rain on the Playstation 3.And Dreamfall & Indigo Prophecy on the PC.
Both Alan Wake & Heavy Rain were supposed to be on PC as well but M$ grabbed up the publishing rights for Alan Wake and Sony bought up Publishing rights for Heavy Rain leaving the PC without these much needed adventure games where they all started in the 1st place.


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2014 Chertkov Fellow: Jane Mcalevey
Jane McAlevey is a lifelong organizer for environmental and labor justice. Early in her career, she worked at the Earth Island Institute, Highlander Research and Education Center, and the Veatch Foundation. She was later recruited to work on the Geographic Organizing Project with the AFL-CIO in Stamford, Connecticut. The project was an experimental multi-union campaign, and Jane's first foray into social movement unionism.
From the AFL-CIO she was recruited as the national deputy director for strategic campaigns of the Healthcare division of the SEIU, and later appointed the Executive Director of SEIU's Nevada local. Under Jane's leadership, the Nevada local reached the highest membership level in a Right to Work state in the history of SEIU.
Jane's success in the labor movement is in no doubt a direct result of her steadfast belief in what she calls "whole-worker organizing" and social movement unionism. She writes in depth about her organizing in Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting For the Labor Movement (2012), co-authored with Bob Ostertag. Jane maintains an uncompromising faith in the power potential of a well-organized work force at a time when much of the left has lost faith in the labor movement's capacity to organize the rank and file, much less mobilize for social change.
While at Blue Mountain Center, Jane was pursuing a PhD in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center in addition to consulting with unions and community organizations and regularly contributing to various news publications. Jane was able to pen five significant pieces during her residency, including "Labor's Only Real Choice," published in The Nation and widely reprinted; "Forging New Class Solidarities: Organizing Hospital Workers" published in The Socialist Register, AlterNet and Truthout; and "Harris vs. Quinn - Separate and Not Equal," which appeared in Waging Non-Violence.


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Cellular Rejuvenation Therapy Safely Reverses Epigenetic Signs of Aging in Mice
Researchers at Salk Institute safely and effectively reverse signs of the aging process in middle-aged and elderly mice by partially resetting their cells to more youthful states.
Older adults (or animals) exhibit different patterns of chemicals along their DNA that are known as epigenetic markers.
Adding four molecules (Oct4, Sox2, Klf4 and cMyc — also known as "Yamanaka factors") to older cells resets these epigenetic marks to their original, youthful patterns.
However, Yamanaka factors have previously shown some negative effects, like carcinogenesis.
In this study, mice received Yamanaka factors for up to 10 months (reflecting ~35 human years) found no signs of carcinogenesis, neurological changes, or blood cell alterations.
Further, the Yamanaka mice showed "younger" epigenetics in their kidneys and skin. The youthfulness was only observed in mice treated for 7-10 months, not those just treated for one month.
This article was posted on EurekAlert.org:
Age may be just a number, but it's a number that often carries unwanted side effects, from brittle bones and weaker muscles to increased risks of cardiovascular disease and cancer. Now, scientists at the Salk Institute, in collaboration with Genentech, a member of the Roche group, have shown that they can safely and effectively reverse the aging process in middle-aged and elderly mice by partially resetting their cells to more youthful states.
"We are elated that we can use this approach across the life span to slow down aging in normal animals. The technique is both safe and effective in mice," says Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, co-corresponding author and a professor in Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory. "In addition to tackling age-related diseases, this approach may provide the biomedical community with a new tool to restore tissue and organismal health by improving cell function and resilience in different disease situations."
As organisms age, it is not just their outward appearances and health that change; every cell in their bodies carries a molecular clock that records the passage of time. Cells isolated from older people or animals have different patterns of chemicals along their DNA—called epigenetic markers—compared to younger people or animals. Scientists know that adding a mixture of four reprogramming molecules—Oct4, Sox2, Klf4 and cMyc, also known as "Yamanaka factors"—to cells can reset these epigenetic marks to their original patterns. This approach is how researchers can dial back adult cells, developmentally speaking, into stem cells.
In 2016, Izpisua Belmonte's lab reported for the first time that they could use the Yamanaka factors to counter the signs of aging and increase life span in mice with a premature aging disease. More recently, the team found that, even in young mice, the Yamanaka factors can accelerate muscle regeneration. Following these initial observations, other scientists have used the same approach to improve the function of other tissues like the heart, brain and optic nerve, which is involved in vision.
In the new study, Izpisua Belmonte and his colleagues tested variations of the cellular rejuvenation approach in healthy animals as they aged. One group of mice received regular doses of the Yamanaka factors from the time they were 15 months old until 22 months, approximately equivalent to age 50 through 70 in humans. Another group was treated from 12 through 22 months, approximately age 35 to 70 in humans. And a third group was treated for just one month at age 25 months, similar to age 80 in humans.
"What we really wanted to establish was that using this approach for a longer time span is safe," says Pradeep Reddy, a Salk staff scientist and co-first author of the new paper. "Indeed, we did not see any negative effects on the health, behavior or body weight of these animals."
Compared to control animals, there were no blood cell alterations or neurological changes in the mice that had received the Yamanaka factors. Moreover, the team found no [carcinogenesis] in any of the groups of animals.
When the researchers looked at normal signs of aging in the animals that had undergone the treatment, they found that the mice, in many ways, resembled younger animals. In both the kidneys and skin, the epigenetics of treated animals more closely resembled epigenetic patterns seen in younger animals. When injured, the skin cells of treated animals had a greater ability to proliferate and were less likely to form permanent scars—older animals usually show less skin cell proliferation and more scarring. Moreover, metabolic molecules in the blood of treated animals did not show normal age-related changes.
This youthfulness was observed in the animals treated for seven or 10 months with the Yamanaka factors, but not the animals treated for just one month. What's more, when the treated animals were analyzed midway through their treatment, the effects were not yet as evident. This suggests that the treatment is not simply pausing aging, but actively turning it backwards—although more research is needed to differentiate between the two.
The team is now planning future research to analyze how specific molecules and genes are changed by long-term treatment with the Yamanaka factors. They are also developing new ways of delivering the factors.
"At the end of the day, we want to bring resilience and function back to older cells so that they are more resistant to stress, injury and disease," says Reddy. "This study shows that, at least in mice, there's a path forward to achieving that."
Belmonte is currently an Institute Director at Altos Labs, Inc., in addition to being a professor at the Salk Institute.
Other authors included Mako Yamamoto, Isabel Guillen Guillen, Sanjeeb Sahu, Chao Wang, Yosu Luque, Javier Prieto, Lei Shi, Kensaku Shojima, Tomoaki Hishida and Concepcion Rodriguez Esteban of Salk; Kristen Browder, Zijuan Lai, Qingling Li, Feroza Choudhury, Weng Wong, Yuxin Liang, Dewakar Sangaraju, Wendy Sandoval, Michal Pawlak, Jason Vander Heiden and Heinrich Jasper of Genentech, Inc.; Amin Haghani and Steve Horvath of UCLA; Estrella Nuñez Delicado of Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia; and Pedro Guillen Garcia of Clínica CEMTRO.
The study was supported by Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM), and Fundación Dr. Pedro Guillén.
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