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"With deep sorrow, we regret to inform of the untimely death of Ajita Kamal. Ajita is the founder of Nirmuka and was a great champion of freethought in India. He died in an incident in his home town in Tamil Nadu, the details of which are unknown at this moment. We are in contact with his family for further details.
A formal note of his demise and a brief bio will be posted on Nirmukta.com in the next few days."
-Nirmukta team
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My condolences on your loss. With India now censuring free speech on religion his efforts will be missed.
This is unbelievable, and very tragic.A great loss for the Indian atheist community.
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Welcome to Castletown House
When it was built in the 1720s, Castletown set a radical precedent and it is an extraordinary part of our cultural inheritance. Now, as the OPW breathes contemporary life into Ireland's earliest and finest Palladian house, it is trailblazing once more. We hope you enjoy your visit.
Castletown House is open 7 days a week from 10am to 6pm (last entry 5pm).
Access is by Guided Tour only.
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The grounds are open daily all year round, and are free to enter and explore.
Please download the Code of Conduct for Dog Owners at this link. Guidelines for suitable food for the ducks in our pond can be found here.
Castletown Experience now open!
Open from 10am to 5pm every day until the end of August and weekends in September, The Castletown Experience is the perfect place to entertain children during the summer holidays.
Come and see 'Tales from the Attic', the vintage dollhouse and toy exhibition, Maperath Pet Farm at weekends, our play area, fairy wood and playroom.
Adults: €6
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Or you can buy a Family Summer Pass which allows unlimited access to the Garden and Castletown Experience for the 2019 season for €40.
Tickets available from Castletown House reception (just inside the house front door) or from the ticket office in the West (cafe) courtyard.
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Be inspired by this video to explore Ireland's rich and diverse history in 2018, the European Year of Cultural Heritage. From our Unesco World Heritage site Newgrange in Ireland's Ancient East to Skellig Michael on the Wild Atlantic Way, from Dublin Castle to the Swiss Cottage, from Céide Fields to the Phoenix Park – whatever your fancy or destination, plan your visit with us here. We would love to welcome you soon!
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When Jay Su got into cryptocurrency in October last year, he rejected the popular Bitcoin in favour of a lesser-known alternative, Litecoin.
Bitcoin was on the rise that month, gaining mainstream attention and with one unit at a high of more than US$200, while one litecoin was at a low of US$1.11.
But the underrated aspect of the second-most popular cryptocurrency was exactly what appealed to Su.
"It's lucky I did that because Litecoin did go up to $50 a coin," he said over the phone from Richmond, B.C.
"Even though the value has gone down to a single digit recently... there's definitely potential there. It's not going to go away."
Su, who started a Litecoin online currency exchange in March, is part of a growing group involved in minting cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin.
There are two ways to obtain cryptocurrency: to buy them with cash, as in traditional currency, or to generate them for free through a process called "mining."
People who mine use programs to solve cryptographic puzzles — a process which also verifies the currency's transactions — and are rewarded with coins when the puzzles are solved.
The Litecoin mined by Su is one of hundreds of alternative currencies, dubbed "altcoins." They form less than 10 per cent of the cryptocurrency market, but their daily exchange volume is already valued in the millions.
Not only do some have more room for appreciation, Su said, they are also easier to produce than Bitcoin, whose popularity is making the process harder.
Anthony Di Iorio, executive director of the Bitcoin Alliance of Canada, said mining gets harder with more participants, so much so that generating Bitcoin is now impossible without expensive, specialized equipment.
"It's really like an arms race right now," he said.
"It's whoever can come up with the fastest machine — until those become obsolete and new technology replaces them." he said.
Di Iorio added that a lot of people use their old machines on other cryptocurrencies when that happens.
Su, who spent about $2,000 on a graphics-card-based Litecoin mining rig, did so at a time when such systems were already deemed too slow for Bitcoin.
According to a Bank of Canada working paper earlier this month, the popularity of the alternative currencies has risen.
The paper studied changes in exchange values of the currencies, which it says are a "good measure of changes in demand."
Between October last year and February this year, Bitcoin's value dropped against three currencies: Litecoin, Peercoin and Namecoin. The one with the highest increase, Peercoin, nearly tripled its value at the end of September.
The paper, however, attributed the rise of the coins to trader and user activity — not the mining community.
Yuri Takhteyev, a technology researcher affiliated with the University of Toronto, said currency derives power from those who put faith in it and use it — not the miners, whose numbers matter little.
He said the number of bitcoins released at a given time is constant, so fewer miners would still generate the same number of coins.
"People are not normally expected to get Bitcoin by mining. If you want to get some Canadian currency, you don't go to print it," he said.
"If I want to use Bitcoin today, I can just walk down to a Bitcoin ATM and put $20 in."
Takhteyev said while alternative cryptocurrencies are gaining ground, Bitcoin has an advantage simply because it's the first one and the best-known.
If a cryptocurrency will break the Bitcoin domination, he said, it'll likely be something completely different from Bitcoin — something not yet available — as current alternatives are merely derivatives.
"If you look at Dogecoin versus Bitcoin — what's the difference?" he said. "It has a dog as its logo. That's the extent of the difference."
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With so many choices in the West end area it is important to find the right Osteopathy clinic that understands your personal situation and can treat you with the right therapies.
Osteopathy in the hands of well trained professional is an art. It is a skill which focuses on total body healthcare with a strong emphasis on strengthening your core musculoskeletal framework.
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I'm a huge Broadway fan, so I'm always excited to hear about a new show coming into Columbus! These shows usually come to one of my two favorite theaters downtown – the Ohio Theatre and the Palace Theatre. If you're a Broadway aficionado – or if you've never seen a show before in your life – you should definitely check out the line-up at these theaters. I'm sure you'll find something of interest!
This week I went to see Million Dollar Quartet. This musical is set on one night – December 4, 1956 – when four music legends were all together for a recording session. These musicians were Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley. This would be the only time these artists, who all debuted with Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, were all together. The show featured memorable songs such as "Hound Dog," "Blue Suede Shoes," "Great Balls of Fire," and "Walk the Line." The actors did a fantastic job and took the audience members back to the '50's for this session.
My favorite of the artists portrayed in this musical is Johnny Cash. My freshman year at Ohio State, I had the privilege of taking a seminar course solely focused on Johnny Cash and his songwriting. Each class session, we would listen to a couple of his songs and discuss what we thought the lyrics meant to Johnny and what they meant to us. Some of my favorites of Johnny's were actually covers – not his original lyrics – and many were spirituals. In the Sweet By and By and Hurt were two in particular that I enjoyed, although I also love his most famous original songs like Folsom Prison Blues, Walk the Line, and Ring of Fire.
I would highly recommend this show – or any off-Broadway shows – that stop by in Columbus for a week or two. Ohio State's theater department also puts on shows throughout the year, so you might check out their line-up for the spring. Even if Broadway isn't your thing, it's definitely important to get away from campus for a few hours a week and do something that takes your mind off of classwork. You have plenty of time to spend in class and working on projects, so be sure to take a break and explore Columbus!


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Brookhaven, GA, April 2, 2013 – Brookhaven Mayor J. Max Davis announced Gary Yandura Tuesday as the city's first police chief.
Yandura, a 38-year veteran law enforcement officer, will be tasked with building Brookhaven's new police department, city leaders announced Tuesday.
"Today is a historic day because it is the start of Brookhaven becoming a safer community," Davis said. "Chief Yandura's record of reducing crime, building community partnerships and leading with integrity is exactly what Brookhaven needs for us to meet this goal."
Yandura previously served as chief of police in Hiram and College Park. During his tenure in College Park, he managed 160 employees and a $12 million annual budget. He is credited with reducing crime drastically during his first tenure as College Park's chief.
Yandura started his law enforcement career in Lake Forest, Ill., where he spent 24 years.
Yandura is a graduate of the FBI Academy and certified by the Georgia Police Officers Standards and Training Council. He has a master's in public administration from Roosevelt University in Chicago and a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from the University of Illinois.
City Manager Marie L. Garrett selected Yandura after reviewing 98 applications from around the nation and interviewing 10 finalists. The Brookhaven charter specifies that the city manager has sole discretion on the chief appointment.
"I am excited to have Chief Yandura join our team," Garrett said. "We received a lot of interest from experienced candidates, but Yandura was the right person to help build a new police department from the ground up."
In addition to staffing, the new chief will be tasked with establishing an organizational structure, developing policies and procedures, helping set up a police station, creating an annual budget and managing daily operations.
"I am honored to help build a new police department that Brookhaven residents and businesses can be proud of," Yandura said. "My first task will be to assess the community's needs and determine the number of officers needed to protect and serve the city. I will work closely with city staff to hire the best officers to patrol Brookhaven."
Yandura's first day is April 15.
Brookhaven currently has an intergovernmental agreement with DeKalb County to provide police services. The goal is to have Brookhaven officers on the road by the end of the summer.


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New Thought Leader for Agilent
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- Published: Nov 21, 2017
- Author: separationsNOW
- Source: Agilent Technologies
- Suppliers: Agilent Technologies
- Channels: Ion Chromatography / Sample Preparation / HPLC / Detectors / Laboratory Informatics / Electrophoresis / Gas Chromatography / Proteomics & Genomics / X-ray Spectrometry / MRI Spectroscopy / Atomic / Chemometrics & Informatics / Proteomics / Infrared Spectroscopy / Raman / NMR Knowledge Base / UV/Vis Spectroscopy / Base Peak
Agilent Technologies has presented its latest Thought Leader Award to Jiandong Jiang, director of the Institute of Materia Medica (IMM), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) and Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) in Beijing, China, in support of his studies on cancer stem cells differentiation induced by natural products. Agilent's Thought Leader program promotes fundamental scientific advances by contributing financial support, products and expertise to the research of influential thought leaders in the life sciences and chemical analysis.
"Cancer is a chronic disease generated by multiple factors. Our research is focused on the treatment of cancers with new concepts or principles, using cutting-edge techniques," said Jiang, who is also the vice-chairman of the China Pharmaceutical Innovation and Research Development Association (PhIRDA). Jiang's research focuses on antimicrobial drugs, including viruses and bacteria, anticancer drugs, and the development of treatments for metabolic syndrome.
The Agilent Thought Leader Award will allow Jiang's team to implement metabolite flux analyses, metabolism analyses and integrated biology approaches to characterize the anti-tumor activity of natural products. In addition to Agilent mass spectrometry solutions, Jiang's lab will also make extensive use of Agilent Seahorse XF technology, and Agilent MassHunter and VistaFlux software. The project will also include a collaboration with Wenbin Li from the Beijing Shijitan Hospital, Capital Medical University, to perform clinical-related research.
"Agilent is proud to continue its support of cancer research with the use of our mass spectrometry systems, bioinformatics software, and metabolic analysis tools to facilitate the identification and characterization of cancer drugs," said Victor Chan, Agilent vice president, and general manager of laboratory solutions for Agilent Greater China.
(Photo of Jiandong Jiang courtesy of the Institute of Materia Medica.)
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Description: Photograph of Louis and Frayda Klivitsky outside their store, 1702 Seventh Street, NW. An "EAT MORNING STAR BREAD" advertisement is across the top of the display window, 1918
Background: The Klivitzkys left Russia for Baltimore in the first years of the 20th century. They moved to Washington, D.C., and ran a grocery and kosher butcher shop on Seventh Street, NW, for decades. The business was one of many that carried Morning Star bread.
The owners of Morning Star Bakery, like the Klivitzkys, were European immigrants who first lived in Baltimore and then relocated to Washington. After operating a few small bakeries in different parts of the city, they settled on 4-½ Street, SW, one of D.C.'s Jewish neighborhoods. The Morgensteins' bakery and retail shop took up the first floor of the building at 613 4-½ Street and the family lived upstairs.
The bakery's name, Morning Star, held special meaning. When Harry's oldest brother arrived in Baltimore from Austria, the Immigration official mistook the penultimate letter of the family name, Morgenstern, which means "morning star", changing the family name to Morgenstein. All Morgenstern brothers who followed to the United States took on the new name.
In 1924, the Morgensteins expanded and renovated the bakery. Then, under rabbinical supervision, Morning Star began using an oven for Passover cakes and macaroons. The Jewish community previously had to import Passover foods from Baltimore and New York.
Much of the bread used by the Jewish Foster Home in Georgetown and the Hebrew Home for the Aged, then on Spring Road, NW, was donated by Morning Star. During the Depression, the bakery contributed much of its sliced white bread to food lines and various institutions throughout the city.
By 1934 when the Morgensteins sold the bakery, the business included several trucks delivering bakery goods to many Jewish butcher shops, delicatessens, grocery stores, and even private homes.
Do you have materials you would like to donate to the archives that document a local Jewish-owned business? Please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com or (202) 789-0900.
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Explore Our Hotel
A modern hotel in Edinburgh's Old Town, with free WiFi and breakfast included
The Holiday Inn Express® Edinburgh - Royal Mile hotel places you in the heart of Edinburgh's Old Town. A 15-minute walk takes you to Edinburgh Castle, as well as shopping on Princes Street, where you can catch a tram to the New Town and Edinburgh Airport. Edinburgh Waverley train station, a 10-minute walk away, is served by direct trains to Glasgow and London. Edinburgh Bus Station is 14 minutes away by foot.
You can learn about Scotland's industry and natural history at the National Museum of Scotland, an eight-minute walk from the hotel. Take a tour of the 16th-century Holyrood Palace to view the antique-furnished rooms of the official Scottish residence of the Queen. It's just a 15-minute stroll to the city's main shopping areas of Princes Street and George Street.
You can host events for up to 30 people in the hotel's flexible, air-conditioned meeting room. State-of-the-art AV equipment and free WiFi helps your presentation go well. Discounted parking is available at the nearby NCP car park.
Begin your day with the inclusive Express Start Breakfast, featuring hot sausages, scrambled eggs, baked beans and continental items. In the lobby lounge bar, you can order hot snacks or unwind with friends over a chilled glass of wine or a cold pint.
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Location: Edinburgh city centre Royal Mile
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May 17th, 2013
Oracle Broomfield Campus
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Question please e-mail Heidi at email@example.com Or call 303.948.1786
$15 visitor fee
7:30 am – 8:15 am Continental Breakfast
8:15 am – 9:15 am XML Processing with Oracle 11g
8:15 am – 9:00 am A Leap of Faith: Upgrading a Hyperion Environment at Catholic Health Initiatives
9:25 am – 10:25 am Three Types of Table Compression
9:10 am – 9:55 am Using EIS and EAS to dynamically refresh Essbase cubes
10:05 am – 10:50 am Hyperion Tips & Tricks for Maintaining a Steady and Proficient Environment
10:35 am – 11:35 am The new 12c kid on the block
11:00 am – 11:45 am OBIEE and Essbase Jointed at the Hip
11:45 am – 12:45 pm WIT Session: "The Imposter Syndrome- When Successful Women Feel Like Frauds"
11:55 am – 12:40 pm Implementing EPM and Tri-State Generation and Transmission
Lunch to introduce the WIT members 11:45 am during Kellyn's session
12:45pm 1: 55pm Board Meeting (open to all members), Board Elections and Annual Membership
8:15 am – 9:15 am
XML Processing with Oracle 11g
Don Schaefer, Ingenix, Senior Software Engineer
With the introduction of Oracle 11g, Oracle has released new versions of three applications utilized for XML Processing: Oracle XML Developer Kit 11g, Oracle XML DB 11g and JDeveloper 11g.
Specifics for the presentation.
- Oracle XML Developer Kit 11g Release 2. XML Parsers using industry standard DOM and SAX interfaces. Java, C++ and the Java API for XML processing. XSL Processor. XML SQL Utitlity
- Oracle XML DB 11g Release 2. Oracle XMLtype Datatype, XMLQuery, XMLTable, Full Text Search over XML Data.
- Processing XML Documents with Oracle JDeveloper 11g Release 2
8:15 am – 9:00 am
A Leap of Faith: Upgrading a Hyperion Environment at Catholic Health Initiatives
Ross B Kimball, Manager, Financial Systems Integration, Catholic Health Initiatives
The challenges of upgrading from 9.3.1 to 188.8.131.52 are many, but there are none that can't be overcome. Some of the challenges are substantial, such as the migration from EAS to Calc Manager, or the migration of the user community to the new SmartView. And some challenges are more subtle such as the migration of Planning forms and Financial Reports. My presentation will guide users through some of our key lessons learned during the upgrade, and detail out what I consider to be best practices for any Hyperion upgrade.
9:25 am – 10:25 am
Three Types of Table Compression
Tim Gorman, Independent Consultant, Evergreen Database Technologies, Inc.
There are several types of table compression in Oracle database, and so the question must arise: which are most appropriate, based on what requirements? Why are there different methods, which ones work for what situation, and why?
We will discuss all the different types of table data compression in Oracle database (i.e. basic/advanced de-duplication compression and hybrid-columnar compression), as well as some older often-forgotten techniques for fitting more data into less space. The presentation will begin with a brief review of data compression in general, followed by a review of the formats used for storage in database blocks and rows, the latter supported by block dumps. All leads to a knowledgeable discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of each type of table compression in Oracle. At the end, we get to the subject of the talk, which is a form of compression which has always existed within Oracle database, but which can only be exploited when you know how data is stored internally.
9:10 am – 9:55 am
Using EIS and EAS to dynamically refresh Essbase cubes
Qingchen Chen, Hyperion Applications Analyst, Berry Petroleum Company
Berry Petroleum Company uses Essbase cubes for reporting on Financial, Capital Spending and Production data. We need to refresh all 3 BSO cubes automatically each night. EIS (Essbase Integration Services) is used to refresh Essbase outlines from Oracle source. Load rule is used to load data to Essbase via SQL interface. Automation is scheduled via MAXL scripting.
10:05 am – 10:50 am
Hyperion Tips & Tricks for Maintaining a Steady and Proficient Environment
Lester Trough, Senior Consultant Manager of IT and Support, Abeam Consulting
With the complex nature of Hyperion come a variety of issues which often lead to poor performance which will plaguing your Hyperion environment, along with your end users and IT department. In this presentation we will show you a few key tips & tricks which you will be able to implement within your Hyperion environment to enhance performance.
10:35 am – 11:35 am
The new 12c kid on the block
Peter Sharman, Oracle, Principal Product Manager
This presentation introduces the new Oracle Database 12c functionality
11:00 am – 11:45 am
OBIEE and Essbase Jointed at the Hip
Sohel Jeelani, Sr. Sales Consultant, Oracle
OBIEE has been supporting Oracle Essbase as a physical data source since the early 10g versions but now the integration between the two has become seamless. Going forward Oracle intends to tie them together even tighter so that BI content that can be deployed to a broad user audience through Oracle BI Dashboards, Analyses.
11:45 am – 12:45 pm
WIT Session: "The Imposter Syndrome- When Successful Women Feel Like Frauds"
Kellyn Pot'Vin, Enkitec, Senior Technical Consultant
What is Imposter or Fraud Syndrome? Why people feel this way, (source of the feelings). How to deal with situations to ensure fraud syndrome doesn't impede a women from her goals.
The popular and successful actress Tina Fey, Facebook COO and author Sheryl Sandberg, among others, have all admitted to experiencing this. Research has shown, men often judge themselves consistently as performing better than their actual performance and women do the opposite. Georgia University psychologists, Pauline Rose Clance and Sue Imes started to use the term "Imposter Syndrome" back in 1978 when referring to those that were susceptible to this, but recognized women suffered from it more often. Why do highly successful women feel like imposters or frauds? This session will discuss how women can overcome and deal with the feelings involved with this phenomenon to keep it from holding them back in their goals.
11:55 am – 12:40 pm
Implementing EPM and Tri-State Generation and Transmission
Marisa Gregorio, IT Applications Development Manager, Tri-State Generation and Transmission
Tri-State, a long-time customer of Hyperion Pillar, discusses the evolution from an annual budgeting process, to a monthly forecasting model. Hear about the why the company moved to a 20-month forecast, the challenges in implementing such a change, and the future direction this utility company is heading with its EPM solutions.
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Some people have other fantasies, but I dream of a yard filled with every species of butterfly native to this part of Virginia, and possibly a few strays from the areas farther south and nearer the coast! Of course, that means I have to plant to attract them. With only a half acre plot of ground, half of which is heavily shaded by Norway maples and other non-native plantings, the realistic part of my mind tells me this isn't likely to happen, at least not in my lifetime. Even so, I keep on dreaming and trying new plants, which often seem to attract the deer and rabits before they ever grow large enough to attract butterflies.
Now that our first (and probably the last) significant snowfall of this season has melted into the ground my thoughts are rapidly turning to plans for my garden. Memories of past years remind me that plans don't always mature into what my imagination had painted! My potential garden area is small, and has to provide food for human consumption as well as for butterflies, so planning is important. I have learned, over the years, that it is possible to combine the two purposes if one is willing to share with a few caterpillars., and also place smaller plantings of suitable butterfly attractants in other parts of the yard--even in pots on the porch.
That brings me to the main task in creating a butterfly garden. Too many people think that a butterfly bush or two is a butterfly garden. For butterflies to increase in any area, though, the needs of the larvae of these butterflies must be met. That means that the specific plants preferred by the kinds of butterflies you want to attract must be available. The plants will draw the butterflies, which will lay their eggs on those leaves. Caterpillars can be quite picky about their food. In fact, many will only eat one or two kinds of leaves. I have had the sad experience of watching spicebush swallowtail caterpillars starve to death on a plant that I had bought as spicebush, but which was only a somewhat similar, but unrelated, plant to the Lindera benzoin which they required. It should not be any surprise that most of the plants used by butterflies are plants native to the same areas to which the butterflies are also native. The female butterfly just tastes the exotic plant she landed on and says "you're not from around here, are you?" Then she flies off in search of better baby food. Incidentally, she tastes the leaf with her feet! Isn't that cool? I never tire of learning more about the amazing things God has designed into the tiniest parts of His creation, and love to share the information with others.
So, now, if you have really decided to share your garden with a few hungry caterpillars in exchange for the pleasure of seeing the winged beauties they will become, I do have a few practical suggestions. A number of the required ("host") plants can grow quite large, but can be kept more compact by regular pruning. As examples, I suggest wild cherry, either black or choke cherry, and the spicebush previously named. These should attract tiger and spicebush swallowtails. Be sure to tuck some parsley in between the flowers for the black swallowtails. Plant enough varieties of echinacea to feed the silvery checkerspots and still leave some folliage for your flower arrangements. Passion vine, also called maypop, is loved by variegated fritillaries, but needs something to climb on. A patch of violets will feed several varieties of fritillary, and don't forget to plant milkweeds for the monarchs. Asclepias tuberosa and Asclepias incarnata have gorgeous blossoms which provide nectar for many butterfly species and are the most readily available milkweed varieties. Although I do have a few buddleia ("butterfly bush") these are not native plants and only attract the adult butterflies. A native plant, buttonbush, has attractive, and sweet scented, blossoms that are very attractive to butterflies and also serve as food for over a dozen species of butterfly and moth caterpillars. Now, if I have whetted your appetite a bit, and you want to learn more, I recommend two books as excellent sources. These are: "Bringing Nature Home", by Douglas W. Tallamy, and "Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants" by Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
One last bit of advice should be obvious, but here it is, anyway, You can't use insecticides in the butterfly garden! After all, butterflies are insects. In fact, when you buy plants for your garden, be sure they haven't been sprayed. Yes, you will probably see some chewed leaves, but what a small price to pay for the privilege of seeing "flying flowers" in your garden. You may even find yourself beginning to find caterpillars attractive in their own way. After all, they are simply a vital part of God's perfect, and perfectly beautiful, plan for the world He created.
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TitleLaser bombardment yields energy milestone
BodyThe event was over in a fraction of a scintilla of a blink of an eye and released a burst of energy that's not particularly impressive by most standards. But it's being hailed as a milestone in a decades-long quest to harness the power of nuclear fusion, the same process that powers the sun. For the first time, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California say they produced more energy from a reaction in their fuel source than they put into the fuel, said Omar Hurricane, the physicist who led the experiment. "You're not going to power a car with it. You're not going to power a house with it," Hurricane told CNN. "It'll be a while before we address all the needed scientific challenges and then the engineering challenges to make it more practical, but we're excited. It's a great step forward scientifically." There is a bit of fine print. The implosion of a tiny pellet holding two hydrogen isotopes did produce more energy than it took to cause it -- about 17,000 joules, which Hurricane compared to the force of a downhill skier doing about 36 mph. However, the pellet received only about 1% of the total energy expended in the experiments, he said. But the reaction also produced a heating effect that appeared to boost the energy output -- a process dubbed "bootstrapping" by Hurricane's team at Livermore's laser fusion research center, the National Ignition Facility. And that may point scientists toward their ultimate goal of a controlled, sustainable fusion reaction that would provide abundant, safe power, he said. "We've assembled that stick of dynamite and we've gotten the fuse to light," he said. "If we can get that fuse to burn all the way to the dynamite, it's going to pack a wallop." The findings were published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature. While humans have been producing uncontrolled fusion reactions since the 1950s through hydrogen bombs, harnessing nuclear fusion in a controlled setting has eluded scientists for decades. Solar lasers, ocean power and volcanoes: unusual energy sources of the future In a series of tests conducted at the NIF from September through November, scientists used a battery of 192 high-powered lasers to bombard a tiny pellet inside a gold chamber less than an inch long. Inside the pellet was a hair-thin layer of two hydrogen isotopes, deuterium and tritium, chilled to a temperature more than 400 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. The gold converts the laser light into a bath of X-rays, which cause the surface of the capsule to explode. That drives the capsule inward onto itself, an implosion that builds up pressure on the hydrogen isotopes. The pressure compresses the deuterium-tritium mix to a density more than double that found in the center of the sun, Hurricane said. Then the deuterium and tritium fuse into one, releasing neutrons and alpha particles -- helium atoms without the electrons circling them. And in a seventh of a billionth of a second, it's over. However, the most recent experiments produced more helium nuclei, which increased the reaction rate, which produced more alpha particles, Hurricane said. It's that "bootstrapping" that he said may lead scientists to eventually produce a reaction that yields more energy than it consumes. "It sounds very modest, and it is," he said. "But this is kind of closer than anyone's gotten before, and it is very unique to finally get as much energy out of the fuel as was put into the fuel."
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Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill Discuss 'The Wolf of Wall Street'
Five-time collaborators Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio have teamed up with actor Jonah Hill to film the most audacious movie about Wall Street ever made
THE FIRST COUPLE DAYS of rehearsal were extremely, extremely intimidating," says the actor Jonah Hill of working on set with director Martin Scorsese and costar Leonardo DiCaprio for The Wolf of Wall Street. "I definitely felt like I was invading somebody else's space. To watch a director and an actor have the connection that Marty and Leo have is unlike anything I've ever seen."
In theaters next month, the glitzy, audacious blockbuster is based on real-life rogue trader Jordan Belfort 's memoir of his 1990s pump-and-dump flameout, during which he launched the infamous Stratton Oakmont "boiler room" brokerage, inflicted over $200 million of losses on investors and sunk a 167-foot yacht—all on his way to a federal indictment for securities fraud and money laundering and 22 months in prison. (Belfort is currently working toward building a career as a motivational speaker and paying $110 million back to investors.) The film will be the fifth collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio, following Gangs of New York, The Departed, The Aviator and Shutter Island. And by all accounts, filming it was an act of deep mutual trust: their most adult, debauched project to date. "[Our relationship has] evolved in the sense that with every new picture, we get to know each other a little better, trust each other a little more and go a little further," says Scorsese.
"It's gotten better and better as the years have gone by," says DiCaprio, who notes that the film is their most improvisatory, "simply because the trust level's there."
Ben Younger 's tightly focused 2000 drama Boiler Room covered a sliver of Belfort's story, but if that low-budget film was a penny stock, The Wolf of Wall Street is pure blue chip. To capture the criminal spectacle of the era, the duo aimed to make a film every bit as excessive as Belfort's ego. However, it takes money to make movies about money: vintage Lamborghinis, sprawling casts and Manhattan locations don't come cheap. "It was a very difficult movie to finance," says DiCaprio. "It's an R-rated film, and it needed to have a certain amount of scale and scope."
Arguably Hollywood's most bankable star, DiCaprio spent over five years developing the film—and, somewhat ironically, convincing Wall Street financiers to fund what he sees as a portrait of "the real epitome of American greed." The long development period may have actually improved the film, since it allowed DiCaprio to spend more time with Belfort, who was "incredibly open about his life, especially the most embarrassing parts," says DiCaprio. "I spent a long time with Jordan. I interviewed him incessantly and tried to pull out every detail I possibly could. We incorporated a lot of other stories that weren't even in the book into the movie."
" "I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids." "
DiCaprio says he tried to pick up the kinds of details that might slip off the printed page: "The attitude, the lingo, the type of music he listened to, the drugs he took, how he took those drugs, the effects that it had on his mind and his psyche." Asked for an example of this research, DiCaprio describes a large-scale scene, in which Belfort throws a wild party to celebrate his firm's success: "We reach our monthly quota, and I make it a big celebration," says DiCaprio. "A gigantic marching band and a bunch of naked strippers come into the salesroom." Production managers booked trained horses, hired scores of extras and midgets who would be dressed in Velcro suits and thrown at targets, per Belfort's memoir. Then, just days before the shoot, DiCaprio remembered something crucial from his conversations with Belfort and sought out Scorsese: "I said, 'Jordan also mentioned that he had a chimpanzee on roller skates in a diaper that was handing out tickets to all the stockbrokers.' And Marty's like, 'That's great, how do we get a chimpanzee?' And I said, 'I don't know.' And he's like, 'All right, somebody get on it.' "
Scorsese's longtime producer Emma Tillinger laughs. "The party scene was choreographed to the T," she says. "We'd auditioned marching bands, hired the animals, then Marty calls. I'm like, 'Well, there's a chimpanzee who can roller-skate, but it's in Florida.' "
"Next thing you know," DiCaprio continues, chuckling, "there's a chimpanzee, and I'm toting him around the salesroom."
Below, Scorsese, DiCaprio and Hill talk more about the monkey business of filming The Wolf of Wall Street, opening November 15.
Martin Scorsese
"Gordon Gekko [in Oliver Stone 's Wall Street] is a figurehead, an established figure, a representative businessman. The salesmen in [ David Mamet 's Glengarry Glen Ross ] are guys at the bottom, trying anything to make their sales, earn their commissions and keep their heads above water. Mark Zuckerberg [in The Social Network] is a single-minded guy with a plan. Jordan is something else. He has no plan, other than making as much money as possible as quickly as possible. He enters this world, masters it brilliantly, has a great time and spins out of control. Jordan was a guy who got around every obstacle and every regulation and then, because of drugs and the sheer addiction to wealth and what it brings, couldn't bring himself to stop. Jordan risks a lot, but he does it because that's part of the enjoyment—he's so brilliant that he always tests the limits. 'I got away with this, so how about trying to get away with that?' And then he got caught.
"I was interested in the canvas itself—the sheer span of the action, the ground covered, the many different activities, the places and the interactions. And then, there's the side area, the no-man's land where you shift into genuinely criminal behavior that results in great harm to many, many other people, without necessarily realizing it. It's a rise-and-fall story. You see it in many novels and movies, particularly in gangster movies; the critic Robert Warshow wrote about it in his famous essay 'The Gangster as Tragic Hero.' Is it particular to this country? I'm not so sure. But it is a narrative that keeps playing out here, again and again and again.
"I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism—where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs—is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema."
Leonardo DiCaprio
"We did realize that there were films that had been done about this subject: Boiler Room, having to do with the brokerage in this film, and Wall Street. But we immediately knew that this was a much different animal. This movie epitomizes the corruption of the American dream, and it's done with a great sense of sadistic humor. For us, it was just so incredibly outrageous in a different way than anything we had ever read or seen that it became something fresh and exciting.
"There's an ease in working with somebody that you trust this implicitly, but I think it's gotten better and better as the years have gone by, simply because the trust level's there, especially on this film. There was more improvising than we'd ever done before. We had a lot more freedom, specifically because this is a generation I understand. I lived through it. I was in New York in the '90s, and I met people like this, and the music was of my generation. I had an ease for just diving into it and trying to document a certain time period that I very much understood. So if anyone came up with any insane suggestion, as long as it was in the context of that world, we just did it.
"Jonah Hill is probably one of the greatest improvisers I've ever worked with. He's completely fearless standing in front of a group of people, coming up with incredibly spontaneous, brilliant dialogue. There were multiple occasions when the scene became something absolutely different just because he would bring up some hilarious subject, and we would just riff on it until the film canister ran out, and Marty would let us do it all over again from a different angle, and we'd keep riffing. We didn't feel like we were taking on holy subject matter, you know, or that we'd be scrutinized by historians. We had this man [Belfort] at the center of it all who was completely open and willing to divulge every embarrassing aspect of his life saying, 'Please, just, you know, go for it.' So we did."
Jonah Hill
"I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will ever compare to it, except for maybe having kids one day or something.
"Marty is my actual hero, so to get to work with him was six months of feeling like I'd won the lottery in life. Let alone to play this kind of insane character. [Hill plays a fictional character with some similarities to Belfort's business partner, Danny Porush, who chose not to collaborate on the film.] Martin told me that he thinks of Goodfellas as a comedy, and I think it's the funniest movie ever made. The humor is dark—and in this film, the humor comes from really awful places. I've done some pretty wild scenes. I'm not shy, but I would be shocked at what we were doing every day. I have big fake teeth, I'm wearing crazy '80s suits. We would be on a yacht filled with people, and the yacht would sink. I was driving a purple Bentley, and Leo was driving a Lamborghini. The whole movie is about decadence.
"I couldn't find anything I liked about my fictional character. He was coming from an animal's perspective: consume drugs, women, money. You watch Taxi Driver or Casino or The King of Comedy, and there are people doing some pretty awful things who you still love.
"Leo and I would joke around a lot. We'd be doing a scene that would involve a lot of despicable actions, and I remember us vividly talking about how if I was 14 and saw this movie, I would not see any of the bad stuff. I'd only see that this looks like the most exciting lifestyle on the planet. I grew up on hip-hop music, and I was totally one of those kids who was like, That's what I want. It's not what I've grown into, but I know when I was younger, if me and my friends went to go see this on a Friday night, which we would have, we would've walked out going, 'Ahh! Let's become stockbrokers!' "
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Medically Retired Captain Takes Gold at Invictus Games Track Events
By Shannon Collins
DoD News, Defense Media Activity
ORLANDO, Fla., May 12, 2016 USA Team captain medically retired Army Capt. Will Reynolds earned multiple medals during the 2016 Invictus Games held this week at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World here.
Throughout the week, more than 500 wounded, ill and injured service members from 14 nations have been competing in 10 sporting events as thousands of family members, friends and spectators cheered them on.
*Earning Gold, Silver Medals*
During cycling, Reynolds earned a silver medal in the time trial in the mens upright in his disability category and took fifth in the criterium. During track and field, he earned gold medals in the 100-meter and 1,500-meter races and silver medals in the 200-meter and 400-meter events.
Reynolds said he was especially excited about the 100-meter race.
I was able to beat the Frenchman who beat me in 2014 and actually win the race overall, so there was a lot of excitement, he said. For the 200, I went against one of the Brits who had beaten me in 2014. He ran a personal record, and he was about a tenth of a second away from a world record, so he had a good 20 meters on me. I finished second, but I was really happy even being close to an almost-world-record holder.
Reynolds said the 400-meter was the last race of the day, so he was feeling a little tired.
The Brit I beat in the 100 came back, and had a great last 150 meters and was able to just pull by me, so I got second in that, he said. In the 1,500-meter, it was an all-American field, so we all went out there and said we were going to run easy, but we were running a personal record pace. Two of us ran sub-six minutes, which weve never done before in a 1,500. The other one ran a sub-seven minute, which he had never done before. We swept the podium.
Reynolds said the USA team had representation on the podium after almost every race. It was a very strong performance day for the team, he added. It was pretty unbelievable.
Reynolds said he is honored to be the U.S. team captain and is proud of his team.
Im super proud of the team; theyve been performing at the highest level. Weve been holding our own, he said. We are neck and neck and are probably going to make it into the finals in most of the team sports coming up.
*Injury and Recovery*
Reynolds served in the Army for six years as an infantry officer and rifle platoon leader. In 2004, while performing a dismounted patrol during a reconnaissance mission in southwest Baghdad, he was injured when a remote-detonated improvised explosive devise went off.
He underwent 26 surgeries as the doctors tried to salvage his left leg from November 2004 to December 2006. The doctors eventually amputated his left leg at the knee.
When his mother first saw him, it was hard to internalize where he would be years later, said his wife, Cassandra. At that point, it seemed like he was going to be bed-ridden for an indefinite amount of time, and he needed help with everything; eating, going to the bathroom, everything. The doctors were pretty uncertain in terms of what his ability would be to walk normally, let alone run. To see where hes come, where hes started from and where hes come to now, its just been incredible. With the right kind of support and therapy he was able to do all the things he wanted to do, essentially.
Cassandra said their son, Malachi, who is now 7 years old, had a lot of questions regarding what happened to his daddys leg when Reynolds first returned home.
One day, Malachi was at preschool, and they said, Your daddy only has one leg. His response was, Actually, he has five [prosthetics], she said with a laugh. We handled it on an age-appropriate level.
Reynolds said Malachi was interested in how the different prosthetics worked and seeing the different parts. He likes to help daddy put it on, so he had to be part of the process, his wife added. He would go get the leg for him or charge it.
Having his family interested in his therapy and recovery process and wanting to get back to his children -- Malachi, Gabrielle, Genevieve and Evangeline -- were the motivating factors to accelerate his recovery, Rerynolds said.
*Family Support*
Reynolds said his family has been with him at every surgery and through every part of the recovery process. So having them here at a more successful and joyful event is great, he said. Having family and friends cheering you on gives you that extra push to perform that much better so its pretty awesome.
Cassandra watched him compete in London two years ago and here this week.
Seeing Will compete on home soil and also as the captain of the team was great, she said. The opening ceremony was absolutely moving; it had us teary-eyed. It had us really reflecting back on his whole journey, and it was just really great to see him have success.
Cassandra said she doesnt hope for medals, but that hes happy and that he just comes out here to do what he came out here to do, which is to captain the team and be a good example for all of us.
Malachi joked that hes faster than his dad, and said track and field is his favorite sport. He said, My dads great. He also said he was looking forward to seeing his dad cross the finish line and to visiting Walt Disney World.
The team captains mother, Evelyn, said she was proud of her son.
Im so proud that hes really recovered and put everything behind him, and hes just moving on, she said. He doesnt consider [himself as] handicapped. Im very proud. Im at the brink of tears. Theyre happy tears.
Related Links
2016 Invictus Games [ http://invictusgames2016.org/?source=GovDelivery ]
Special Report: 2016 Invictus Games [ http://www.defense.gov/News/Special-Reports/0516_invictus-games?source=GovDelivery ]
Special Report: Warrior Care [ http://www.defense.gov/News/Special-Reports/1015_warriorcare?source=GovDelivery ]


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Presidential runner Mohammad Shafiq Gul Agha Sherzai formally announced support for frontrunner hopeful Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on 3 May 2014.
Jamil Karzai, a close relative of President Hamid Karzai and former member of the parliament on Wednesday endorsed Abdullah Abdullah for the second round of election.(20140521)
Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah says two bombs struck his convoy near Ariana Kabul Hotel in Kot-e Sangi as it was leaving a campaign event at a wedding hall in Kabul where the Hezb-e Wahdat-e Milli Islami Afghanistan party endorsed Dr. Abdullah in the June 14 presidential runoff. (20140606)
Wahidullah Shahrani, Qayoum Karzai's First Vice President, was perhaps the most high-profile individual to endorse Abdullah on 20140606.
The Ahmad Shah Massoud Foundation endorsed front-running presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah in Kabul. Speaking at an event was head of the Massoud Foundation, Ahmad Wali Massoud, who said that the foundation will work with Dr. Abdullah and his team to improve the situation of Afghanistan.(20140609)
Sources close to Abdullah say that he has already begun his work, based out of the Presidential Palace. Reportedly, a separate residence on the palace grounds has been re-purposed for the Chief Executive Office. Space for Abdullah's two deputies has been made in the Marmarin Palace.(20140930)
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The final preliminary results of the Presidential Election of 05 April 2014 are as follows:
Abdullah: 2,973,707 (44.94%)
Ghani: 2,082,417 (31.47%)
Rassul: 759,540 (11.48%)
Sayyaf: 468,340 (7.08%)
Helal: 180,859 (2.73%)
Sherzai: 106,673 (1.61%)
Sultanzoi: 30,737 (0.46%)
Arsala: 15.394 (0.23%)
Assets and Properties of Abdullah Abdullah:
The High Office of Anti-Corruption of Afghanistan on 20151128 declared a list of properties in possession of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah.
The list was declared in a report by published by state-run Anis Daily newspaper as part of a practice to announce the properties and belongings of high level government officials.
CEO Abdullah was born in 1960 and holds a degree in medical field, according to a report by BBC Persian, citing the report published by Anis Daily.
He initially started serving as Foreign Affairs Minister in late 2002 and later started work as Secretary General of Ahmad Shah Masood Foundation, opposition leader and Chief Executive Officer in national unity government.
According to the report, CEO Abdullah's wife and his four children currently reside in India and their academic expenses include $460 to $530 each on annual basis.
They are paying $1,500 in home rent and their living expenses include $930 on monthly basis which include expenses for water and electricity as well.
The report by the High Office of Anti-Corruption also covers total properties which is equivalent to over $153,000 and he owns $7,000 in Bank Al-Falah branch in Kabul.
Regarding the jewels CEO Abdullah is currently possessing includes a watchcase worth $6,700 and another watchcase worth $4,600 and he has received both of them as present.
CEO Abdullah's wife is also having a gold watch worth $7,400, the report said, adding that his fleet of vehicles include an armored car worth $100,000, another car worth $20,000 but the values of each vehicle have depreciated to $60,000 and $8,000.
The report also added that CEO Abdullah's wife has a car which was bought for 1.3 million Indian rupees but it's value has depreciated to 800,000 Indian rupees now.
His other properties include a house in Kart-e-Parwan acre of Kabul city and one acre of land in Paghman district of Kabul which are both registered in his wife's name (Fakhria) and the properties registered in his own name include a garden in Paghman district and guesthouse in Panjshir province.
He has also declared that his current earning include AFN 298,000 as monthly salary and AFN 100,000 as monthly expenses from the government and has no other income, according to the report.
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JEFFERSON CITY - One local motor vehicle and license office will remain under the guidance of its current agent while another office will have new management. The winning proposals for both offices were chosen as part of a reformed, competitive bidding process for all of Missouri's local license offices.
Alternative Opportunities, Inc. will continue to be the agent for the Joplin office, which is located at 1110 E. 7th St. The Springfield not-for-profit corporation provides a variety of services for youth, veterans and the physically challenged, and it has been the Joplin office agent since August of 2009.
The winning bid for the Joplin office was one of three submitted. The contract with the state is good for one year, and the state has the right to renew the contract for three additional one-year periods. According to figures from Fiscal Year 2009, an estimated 148,916 transactions were conducted at the office during that year, and $505,833 in contract agent processing fees were generated.
The Joplin License Office is one of 10 offices initially awarded in 2009 that are being re-bid at the request of the Missouri Department of Revenue because of incomplete information provided by the winning bidder during the first round of bidding. Four of the 10 offices have been re-awarded.
The Linn License Office has been awarded for the first time under the competitive bidding process. The winning bid, which was one of two submitted, was provided by the City of Linn. The new office will be located at 1200 E. Main St. (City Hall). An estimated 14,552 transactions were conducted at the office in FY 2009, and $49,031 in agent fees were processed.
Bidders have the option of returning a portion of an office's revenues to the state. Alternative Opportunities' winning bid included a 7 percent ($35,408) annual return to the state. No return to state was included in the winning bid for the Linn office. More than $1 million is estimated to be returned to the state in the first full year of operations from the 182 license offices that have been awarded so far under the reformed bidding process. There are 183 offices statewide.
Details about changes in office operations, if any, will be announced by the agents.
Although Gov. Jay Nixon authorized the Department of Revenue to implement the new bidding system in January of 2009, it didn't become part of state law until legislation was signed by the Governor in July of 2009. The new law was overwhelmingly approved by both Republican and Democratic members of the Missouri Legislature.
Alana M. Barragán-Scott, director of the Department of Revenue, noted that the benefits of the competitive bidding process are especially apparent in Linn.
"The City of Linn really stepped up, and I was thankful that its bid and the other bid were submitted for the local office," she said. "Among the improvements in the winning bid is the opening of a new and larger location, so the customers in the Osage County area will be the main beneficiaries of this change."
All local license offices provide services that are overseen by the Department of Revenue, but each office is operated by an independent contractor. Transactions that are conducted at these offices include the issuance and renewal of driver licenses, issuance of titles for motor vehicles, and the issuance and renewal of registration for motor vehicles, boats and outboard motors.
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A man wanted for his involvement in a homicide in Green Level last month was arrested after he turned himself in to police Wednesday afternoon.
Assistant Chief Allen Byrd of the Mebane Police Department said Rontel Vincae Royster, 24, 108 Torain St., Hillsborough, showed up at the police department sometime after 2 p.m.
�We�ve dealt with him before, and he basically just walked into the front door and gave our telecommunicator his ID and indicated he was here to turn himself in,� Byrd said.
Byrd said Mebane police have previously arrested Royster on other charges.
Officers took Royster into custody and contacted the Alamance County Sheriff�s Office, which had obtained warrants for Royster�s arrest. Deputies picked up Royster in Mebane and served the warrants on him.
He was charged with accessory after the fact to second-degree murder and trafficking cocaine, and was held under a $1 million bond in the Alamance County jail.
The sheriff�s office said Royster is the second suspect arrested in connection with a kidnapping Dec. 28 that resulted in a fatal shooting Dec. 29, allegedly stemming from a drug deal Royster and Demarcus Lamont Cates, 23, of Durham made with several Hispanic men who are possibly involved with the Sinaloa cartel, an alleged drug-trafficking organization based in Mexico. The Hispanic suspects kidnapped Royster�s father, Ronald Royster, of Grace Avenue in Burlington after Cates and Rontel Royster apparently failed to pay for the cocaine they received, according to the sheriff�s office.
Upon going to retrieve Ronald Royster from the Otter Creek Mobile Home Park in Green Level, Cates allegedly shot Leopoldo Reyes-Villalobos, 32, of Sinaloa, Mexico, who also was known to have lived in Nevada, Arizona and Texas. Reyes-Villalobos was previously identified by the sheriff�s office as being 24-year-old Humberto Flores-Reyes, which authorities discovered was an alias he used.
Randy Jones, public information officer for the sheriff�s office, said the victim had an identification card on him that appeared to be issued from Mexico, though apparently it was fraudulent. He said upon receiving the victim�s fingerprint after an autopsy, the sheriff�s office discovered the identity Reyes-Villalobos had used was actually an alias.
�We ran the fingerprint through a database, and it got a hit from (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) on who he really is,� Jones said.
According to ICE, in 2011 Reyes-Villalobos was deported out of Texas, and has never been encountered by ICE in North Carolina.
Jones previously said authorities believe Rontel Royster was driving a getaway car when he and Cates fled the scene after the shooting.
Arrest warrants were issued for Cates, who will be charged with second-degree murder and trafficking cocaine.
The sheriff�s office previously arrested Humberto Rafael Anzaldo, 18, of 4531 Tangle Ridge Trail in Burlington, who was charged with first-degree kidnapping and trafficking cocaine.
They have obtained warrants also for the arrest of Hector Manuel Lopez Jr., 19, of 4457 Tangle Ridge Trail in Burlington and Luis Armando Perez, 23, of 1629 Elm St. in Burlington, who face the same charges of first-degree kidnapping and trafficking cocaine.
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Designed to create direct contact between veterans and local employers, Warrior For Life provides the forum for veterans to get hired. Hosted once a month at Masraff's in the Galleria, veterans have a chance to market themselves in a professional, yet personal environment. The Lone Star Veterans Association has coordinated with local employers to emphasize a veteran hiring initiative and to introduce Warrior For Life as a resource for potential employees.
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"Dude, that gun shop is causing this traffic jam" is a sentence I'd never uttered before last Saturday afternoon, but then, just a few miles down the road from our house, our family got stuck behind a Wal-Mart-sized crowd trying to squeeze into the little gun shop with three parking spots out front.
I almost beeped at one of the cars in front of me as it crawled through the gauntlet of shoulder-parked vehicles, looking for the least illegal place to park, but then I remembered that cars don't cause traffic jams. People do. Well, now that I think about it, people and cars together cause traffic jams. You really need both of them.
My first thought was to jump out of our car and join the crowd, since the zombies were clearly going to be upon us any minute. But then I realized that these people were not scared of zombies descending upon us. It was worse. The sensible gun regulations were coming. Possibly.
Ever since the shootings that still make us cry if we think about them too much, guns have been everywhere, if not backing up traffic on our street, then dominating the discussion on Facebook. The topic touched a nerve with me enough that I dabbled in a few Facebook arguments, something I'd never tried before and never will again. Arguing on Facebook is fun for a few minutes but ultimately unfulfilling, like eating caramel corn for lunch and doing so while a high school acquaintance's second cousin is calling you ignorant.
Nobody in a Facebook argument is ever going to say, "Wow, I see it differently now. Thanks for changing my opinion."
Your time would be much better spent sledding with your kid or plucking nose hairs. I understand that gun ownership is an important right and that without guns, we'd have a national crisis of figuring out what the dads in country music lyrics should brandish to threaten their daughters' suitors. Pitchforks just don't have the same cachet.
But I can't understand why so many people think that anything we do to keep the most dangerous weapons away from the most dangerous people means that we're sliding down the slippery slope towards government thugs coming in the night to confiscate Ralphie's Red Ryder.
I don't begrudge anyone their regular old house-protecting, deer-dropping firearms; really, nobody outside of the nearest drum circle does. (After all, you never know when some sneaky, lowlife deer will try to kidnap your children.) But if we can't agree that it's not a good idea for civilians to have access to military-style weapons, I may have to get my own Predator drone to follow me around all day, ready to rain down Hellfire missiles if things get out of hand. That makes just as much sense since Hellfire missiles don't kill people. People using Hellfire missiles for their intended purpose kill people.
Among the many illuminations I've received from Facebook, one recurring theme seems to be that a gun-toting populace helps to keep our government in check. In theory, this sort of makes sense, but things get a little murkier when I think about what this would mean in practice. Whom exactly are we trying to intimidate? If you've attracted the government to your house, say, in the form of a SWAT team, no offense, but there's a 99.9% chance I'm rooting for the government. I reserve the 1% in case you're Bruce Willis, in which case you're probably just a misunderstood good guy.
If you're interested in doing pretty much anything that you're legally allowed to do with a gun, seems like you could do it with a gun that shoots, say, six or 10 bullets before requiring a little breather. But that, somehow, is a controversial opinion, and one that sends mobs fleeing into the little gun shop down the street. I hope those people feel safer now. I don't.


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Rather than going though every sequence on here I thought I would do a firmware update hoping it would correct everything but I can't seem to do it on my pc. I have downloaded the firmware update and then I unzip them it tells me 3 items unzipped and then done nothing so have given up on that.... on the how to on here is talks about a sneuprog which I don't have...... To be honest they could do with an idiots guide to this lol
Is there a list somewhere what all the test sequences are and I will manually input them?
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There are times when Stephen King novels work on both big and small screens. The author admitted that "Shawshank Redemption," "Misery," "Stand By Me," "The Mist," "Cujo" and "Storm of the Century" are his favourite adaptations, but cringed to reporters he met with in Wilmington, N.C., when "Maximum Overdrive" was mentioned (he even covered his face in not-so-pretend shame when the 1986 movie -- based on his '73 short story "Trucks" -- is applauded by some of the lucky residents of the coastal town who attended the red-carpet premiere).
That's because "Maximum Overdrive" (somewhere, King is shuddering) was filmed in Wilmington, as is his latest offering, "Under the Dome." But King "is comfortable" with what's being done to it because it works well as both a miniseries and a long-running drama, even calling the cast the best he's ever worked with. A bold statement coming from the writing legend, but the CBS and Global show, which was developed for TV by Brian K. Vaughan ("Lost"), definitely lives up to its promise. It will freak your freak -- in a good way. "Under the Dome," which counts Vaughan, fellow "Lost" alum Jack Bender, Neal Baer ("Law & Order: SVU") and Steven Spielberg among its executive producers, is not only one of the best suspense series around, but it remains mysterious because even if you've read the 1,074-page tome, it's very different than what will be unveiled on-screen.
If you don't know what "Under the Dome" is about, then, well, have you been living under a dome? Nutshell: the sleepy town of Chester's Mill is enclosed by an invisible, energized dome separating itself from the rest of society. It raises many questions, first and foremost -- why? Is it a social experiment? Something more alien? Whatever it is, the dome dropped on the right village, because what happens becomes a certain kind of hell for those trapped inside. Not only because they're left with meager resources, but those who are cut off from the world are no longer innocent townsfolk. They've got secrets -- and when those secrets start catching up to them, things get creepy (well, creepier) under there.
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DANVILLE, Ky.—Birmingham-Southern returned to action after a week off and rolled past Centre, 45-14, on the road in Danville, Ky., on Saturday.
BSC moves to 6-3 on the season and 2-1 in the Southern Athletic Association with its first-ever win against the Colonels. The Panthers now stand at second place in the SAA standings behind Millsaps, who is 3-0. BSC and the Majors will face off next weekend in Jackson, Miss., for the SAA crown.
Centre also falls to 6-3 overall and is tied for third in the standings with a 1-2 conference mark.
The Panthers scored the first two touchdowns of today's game, beginning with a 45-yard pass from senior quarterback Jimmy Stainback to sophomore receiver Michael Cowan at the 12:36 mark of the first quarter. BSC found the end zone again at the 2:02 mark on a seven-yard dash by junior tailback Joseph Moultrie. Junior kickers Grant Talbert and Ryan Laughlin made each of the extra points giving BSC a 14-0 lead.
Centre got on the board with 49 seconds left in the first quarter on a 50-yard run by Harry Meisner, cutting it to 14-7, but the Panthers answered at the 10:53 mark of the second quarter with a 20-yard field goal by Laughlin to go up 17-7.
BSC scored again with 3:58 left in the half when junior halfback Matt Hansard made a two-yard run into the end zone. Laughlin's extra point was on the mark to put the Panthers up 24-7. The Colonels would score once more at the 1:30 mark before halftime on a 37-yard pass from Heath Haden to Austin Jones, cutting it to 24-14.
The Panthers scored the lone goal of the third quarter on a 61-yard pass from Stainback to Moultrie at the 3:42 mark. BSC scored again at the 13:02 mark of the fourth quarter, this time on a 78-yard pass from Stainback to junior receiver Tyler Johnson, and senior tailback Shawn Morris capped off the scoring with 4:18 left in the game on a 14-yard rush. Laughlin made all three of the extra points after each touchdown, and the Panthers won 45-14.
Stainback was 11-15 with three touchdowns and 313 yards. Morris had 187 yards on 27 carries, and Johnson led the receivers with 78 yards on his one catch. Laughlin was 5-of-5 on extra points with one field goal, good for eight total points.
Sophomore linebacker Austin Hansard led the BSC defense with 12 total tackles (six solo, six assists), including 2.5 tackles-for-losses of seven yards. Senior linebacker Nick Gordon had a sack, and the Panther defense had three interceptions. The picks were by senior safety Andrew Shannon, junior defensive back Anderson Porter, and sophomore defensive back Devante Smith. Shannon also had two pass break-ups.
BSC put together a season high total of 600 yards of total offense today, including a season-high 313 passing yards. The three interceptions were also a season single-game high.
The Panthers travel to Jackson, Miss., next weekend to cap off the regular season, facing Millsaps at 1 p.m. Central.


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After the death of Joseph Smith, the church he founded split into several organizations. Those who sided with Brigham Young followed him to the Salt Lake basin in Utah, where today the LDS church is the largest of those who still regard Joseph a true prophet.
Members are called "Latter-day Saints" (LDS) or "Mormons", after the Book of Mormon, which purports to be "another testament of Jesus Christ". LDS and Mormon are used interchangeably throughout the handbook.
The Mormon church claims to be the only true Christian church today. Mormons believe that the original church founded by Jesus Christ went into apostasy soon after his apostles died, and was restored in 1830 by their prophet Joseph Smith. Mormons believe that the Bible and true doctrine were corrupted during this span, and believe that today's LDS church is nearly identical to the original church.
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