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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Most inadequate yearly progress: Nine public schools flunk No Child Left Behind Act standards. In Albemarle, Agnor-Hurt and Greer Elementary schools, and all the county's middle schools– Burley, Henley, Jouett, and Walton– fail to meet federal benchmarks. In the city, last year's schools that didn't make adequate yearly progress– Charlottesville High and Clark Elementary– rebounded, but Buford Middle School, Walker Upper Elementary, and Burnley-Moran Elementary didn't make the AYP cut this year. Both city and county school systems are appealing their grades.
Most coke busts: Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement Task Force seizes 70 grams of crack cocaine at the 2600 block of Barracks Road and arrests Brian Lamont Robinson August 27. The 2400 block of Fontaine Avenue is where Tremain Versale Turner, 29, of Dillwyn, and Maurice Renaldo Lewis, 26, of Madison are arrested August 25 with approximately 115 grams of crack cocaine, 70 grams of powder cocaine, and $1,500 in cash.
Most missing water: Albemarle County Service Authority reveals at its August 21 meeting that it's lost 500 million gallons over the past year, the discrepancy coming from records of what it buys from Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority and what ACSA sells its customers, Charlottesville Tomorrow reports.
Thirstiest: The well system supplying Earlysville Forest subdivision runs out of water August 23 for its 195 homes on the heels of Albemarle's warning to well owners that groundwater levels are seriously depleted. Scott Shenk has the story in the Daily Progress.
Cleanest books: The City of Charlottesville receives the gold medal of the Government Finance Officers Association– the coveted Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting.
Biggest Stonewalling: Charlottesville City Council holds its 2008 retreat September 3-4 in Staunton at the recently swanked-out Stonewall Jackson Hotel, according to Charlottesville Tomorrow.
Biggest pot bust: One thousand marijuana plants are found in the George Washington National Forest, and two brothers, Jackson David Shifflett, Jr., 51, of Natural Bridge, and 46-year-old Michael Jay Shifflett of Glasgow are indicted on conspiracy, distribution and possession charges.
Most bearish: Redfields subdivision, where two cubs and a mother black bear have been spotted recently, according to another Shenk story.
Worst cousinicide: Jerome Mallory is charged with second-degree murder for the death of his cousin Charles Houchens, who died after a week at UVA Medical Center and whose injuries are described by Louisa County Sheriff's Office Major Donald Lowe as a "severe beat down" and "as bad as I've ever seen," according to NBC29's account.
Best time to visit Monticello: Local residents can tour Jefferson's home for $10 in September or free if they bring a full-price-paying out of towner.
Newest Virginia poet laureate: UVA/UNC-Greensboro grad Claudia Emerson, now a University of Mary Washington prof, is named the commonwealth's laureate. Her book of poetry, Late Wife, won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize.
Most ready for Christmas: Labor Day weekend, Charlottesville puts out the call for a perfect, free Christmas tree under 25 feet tall and easily accessible to go on the Downtown Mall. Donors get recognized for their generous gift of evergreen at the tree lighting.
Most diverse reactions over Senator John McCain's VP choice: "Brilliant" comes from the Center for Politics' Paul Freedman over little-known Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, and his colleague Lynn Sanders thinks it's "really hard to see a downside to it," the Progress reports. However, James Madison University political analyst Bob Roberts tells NBC29 he's "shocked" by the choice, and that it could be a "risky move" for the Republicans. [See what Paul Gaston says in the back page essay.]


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Thursday, October 20, 2005
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What you see in this picture?
You think just a modernism design?
Okie! First Copy and save it in your computer , then zoom out this photo to nearly thumbnail. Take a look at that from at least 3 feets away. You will find what is the different. I love this design too much.
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is a 17th century Country Inn, situated in the heart of Cropredy, a rural village just 4 miles north of Banbury, Oxfordshire. Originally three cottages, it was converted into a Public House in the late 17th century.
The pub was built on land purchased from the Brasenose college, hence the Brasenose Arms, which makes it the only pub in the country with this name. The name is thought to be a corruption of the words brasenhuis or brewhouse, the college having been built on the site of an ancient brewery. The most likely explanation is that it refers to a brazen (brass or bronze) door knocker in the shape of a nose. For over 550 years the original nose was at Stamford, because in the time of Edward III the students in search of religious liberty migrated there, taking the knocker with them. They were soon recalled but the nose knocker remained at the Stamford property until 1890 when the property was bought by the college and the nose was returned to Oxford and now hangs over the high table in the college hall.Cropredy lies on the west bank of the River Cherwell. Over 350 years ago, Cropredy Bridge was the site of a major battle during the English Civil War in 1644.
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Coachella 2013: Big guitars with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Stone Roses
INDIO -- The primary story out of Coachella in 2012 was dance music, the handiwork of oxygen-gobbling sets by superstar DJs such as David Guetta and Swedish House Mafia. And electronic beats are definitely a part of the mix at this year's festival. Witness the addition of a brand-new dance-music tent, Yuma, and the expansion of the Sahara, where Moby and Benny Benassi are scheduled to perform Saturday.
But on Coachella's flagship main stage Friday night, guitars made a comeback in the music of Modest Mouse and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, scrappy indie-rock bands gone big. And they figured prominently in performances by the evening's headliners, beat-friendly Brit-pop giants Blur and the Stone Roses. The smaller Outdoor Theatre was full of guitars, too, with Divine Fits, Local Natives and Band of Horses flashing back to an era before four-on-the-floor beats.
Re-emerging after a bit of time out of the spotlight -- the Washington band's last studio album came out in 2007 -- Modest Mouse emphasized its gritty textures and discursive song structures, the members hunching over their instruments like lumberjacks brandishing heavy axes. At its best, as in "King Rat" and "Paper Thin Walls," the group channeled some live-wire energy. But at other points Modest Mouse sounded more ragged than frontman Isaac Brock might've intended.
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And when it stretched its 2004 hit "Float On" beyond the band's alotted time onstage, it suddenly found itself without amplification. Coachella had a schedule to keep and appeared to be enforcing a zero-tolerance policy toward stragglers.
New York's Yeah Yeah Yeahs were more immediate: They took the stage with a gospel choir to do "Sacrilege," the lead single from a new record due out Tuesday. As she did in a performance last month at South by Southwest, frontwoman Karen O bounced around the stage in a series of wild outfits, donning a miner's headlamp and a black leather jacket emblazoned with a "KO."
But once the gospel choir split, the band kept its punky garage rock relatively lean, powering through "Zero," "Gold Lion" and "Heads Will Roll" like the Empire Polo Club was a super-sized dive.
The Stone Roses pulled off a similar feat, though for a different reason: Halfway through its headlining set, the once-important Manchester four-piece -- playing in the U.S. for the first time since a 2011 reunion -- was performing in front of what amounted to a club-sized audience, Coachella's masses having drifted off to take in other amusements.
The exodus was justified. Exercising an extremely casual relationship with pitch, singer Ian Brown led the band through long, tediously jammy versions of songs from its influential 1989 debut, including "I Wanna Be Adored" and "I Am the Resurrection." Guitarist John Squire played well enough, but the music had no charge or charisma; it was aggressively bad. Perhaps a drum machine would've helped.
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So as not to get off topic I'll bring it back round to the nuke hoax:
Did Aeby get cancer? No. Born 1923, died 2015 aged 91."In the early 1940s Jack Aeby was a technician working with Emilio Segrè's research group at Los Alamos, USA. They, and other groups, were working in secret to develop an awesome weapon, dreadful enough, it was reasoned, to bring the war with Japan to an end. On Monday 16th July, 1945, Aeby was given permission to take a camera out into the New Mexico desert where the new weapon was to be detonated; the test was code-named Trinity."
"At 5.29am the bomb was detonated. In the instant before the balloons and their detectors were destroyed they flashed their data back to recording instruments. Aeby was about 9 kilometres from ground zero."
Wow, "witnessed" 100 nuclear detonations and no sign of exposure to any radiation despite only being about 5 miles from the Trinity blast. Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "Teflon man".Aeby joined the Manhattan Project in 1942 and through his work with the Los Alamos National Laboratory witnessed nearly 100 nuclear explosions.


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How do we conceive of our old selves? Do we shed them like snakeskins and move on with our lives? Or do we honor them by integrating their best parts into the new us? My preference, as you can tell from my tone, is to do the latter. My psyche is permanently bound up with my past, and while I understand why some transsexuals choose to jettison their past, I think it's sheer folly for me to pretend that George doesn't exist and never existed.
I wrote a few months ago about the appropriate ritual for a transsexual's journey and concluded that neither a funeral nor a welcome-home party was up to the task, but that graduation might come close. I have been thinking about this topic on and off during the spring, and in an exchange with JackyV in the comments to "Round the Clock," I stumbled across another, perhaps much better, metaphor — retirement.
Rather than seeing this transition as a clean break from George, I see this process as the ultimate gift to him. It frees him from his toil, much of which was clueless, but a lot of which involved covering up my existence. He's a good-hearted man who I hope did all right by family and friends and I genuinely like him. But he's earned his retirement. I give him permission to stand down, to lay down his arms, to drop his ever-cautious guard that made him reserved and lonely. I want him to get a good night's sleep and lounge by the pool and live a playful retirement.
But I also want him to write me postcards from his travels from time to time, to impart his wisdom and patience to me, to even share some of his caution and skepticism with me. I want to write him on the cruise that never ends and tell him I'm sorry for causing him so much pain and that I think we're going to make it. I want to send him pictures of the family he built and let him know that he's always in our hearts and minds. He may not be present, but he is fully integrated into our family and into my being.
I know family and friends are worried that in sending George into retirement, I will lose my values, my scholarly and administrative skills, and my very being, but that prospect seems unlikely. Sure, I'm going to do things a little differently, present myself in a changed way, emphasize different things in my interactions with others — but my values are ultimately George's values, even though they may be wrapped up in a different package. I certainly don't want to let him or his legacy down.
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Today we are releasing SubTool Master, a new ZBrush plugin that gives you greater control over your SubTools.
SubTool Master allows you to mirror, duplicate, merge, export all your subtools at once, fill all your subtools with color and/or materials and many other things!
Installation Instructions:
The zip contains:
- Download SubTool Master to hard drive
- Unzip the zip file to your ZBrush3\ZStartup\ZPlugs folder.
- Make sure that your unzipping program preserves the folder structure of the plugin otherwise it will not work. (In Winzip this is the 'use folder names' option. In WinRar check 'use relative paths' in the Advanced options.)
Launch (or restart) ZBrush. You should now have a SubTool Master subpalette in the ZPlugin palette, containing the SubTool Master button and the Save ZTool button.
- SubToolMaster.zsc - the plugin file
- SubToolMaster_readme.txt - a text file version of these instructions
- SubToolMasterData - the plugin data folder which contains:
- ZFileUtils.dll - the dll file
- UILeft.txt - rename this file if you want the UI on the righthand side of the canvas
- File|SubTM-button.psd - the plugin button icon
- File|ButnPic.psd - the popup button icon + 18 jpg image files
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BrieAnn is a 9-year-old from Milton, Wis., who's living with a progressive colonic pseudo disorder. She loves to run, ride her bike, play with her brother, swim and look for sea shells.
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Stupak: View From the House
Bart Stupak Fights Abortion Mandates in Health-Care Reform Bills
Rep. Bart Stupak spoke with Register correspondent Joan Frawley Desmond Sept. 23 as the Senate Finance Committee took up legislation on health-care reform.
Stupak, 57, is a Catholic and a pro-life Democrat. Elected in 1992 to serve Michigan's First District (consisting of the state's upper peninsula and northern counties of the lower peninsula), he is a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
During the week of Sept. 14, Stupak vowed to vote against the House health-care reform bill (H.R. 3200) if he is not allowed to offer a "more explicit" ban on federal funding for plans that cover abortion services.
You promised to oppose the House bill if it doesn't contain a "more explicit" ban on federal funding for abortion coverage. Where does the legislative process stand now?
Rep. Bart Stupak: I spoke to President Obama last week. Since we've been back this week, I've spoken with the House leadership and those who support abortion in the public option. They all want to talk now. We do see some movement, but there has been no change in the language.
How would you assess the U.S. bishops' effort to advance pro-life concerns in the legislative process?
The USCCB has been very effective. We have worked together to bring this to the forefront. If we reach a resolution that includes an explicit ban on an abortion mandate and federal funding, and the bishops are able to come out in favor of health-care reform, that will help members of Congress and the public understand the need for health-care benefits in this country. I would hope the bishops would bring some clarity to the debate on end-of-life issues and help seniors realize that preventive testing will be 100% covered.
The Church has subtle ways for bringing forth support for legislation that is outside the scope of politicians like myself. My pastor in Michigan had a scriptural reflection in the parish bulletin that brought a different perspective to health-care reform. ... The rich thought they were more deserving, but Jesus spent time feeding the poor and healing the sick. We are all God's children, and when we talk about health care, we have to ask: "Are we taking care of our own concerns, or are we looking at the poor and the sick, our brothers and sisters who don't enjoy the same benefits?"
You knew it would be a tough fight to keep abortion benefits and financing out of health-reform legislation. What has been your strategy?
I knew the energy and commerce committee vote [on federal funding for abortion] would be close. In appropriations bills, we have had the Mexico City language and the Dornan language in place for a number of years. But this year, when we tried to put the right-to-life amendments in the appropriation bills, we lost every time.
Normally, when we go to the Rules Committee, we'd have a vote on the House floor. This is the first year the Rules Committee hasn't allowed us any pro-life amendment.
If it becomes law, H.R. 3200 [as it is now written] will be the health policy for the United States. The policy regarding public funding for abortion will no longer be found in annual appropriations bills, but in H.R. 3200. That means public funding for abortion will be allowed — and under public options: At least one dollar of your money will go to supplement reproductive rights or abortion services.
Are you still hopeful that the right language can be inserted into the bill?
We still have to go to the House Rules Committee. There we will ask that the Hyde Amendment be put into the health-care bill. Since none of the right-to-life amendments have been allowed, I don't have much hope this will happen.
President Obama has repeatedly insisted that he opposes any federal funding of abortion as part of health-care reform legislation. What role is he likely to play now?
When the president spoke to the nation on health care, he said that in "my legislation" there will be no public funding of abortions. The problem is the president hasn't submitted a plan.
The way the health-care legislative process has been developed, neither the Senate nor the House bill will go anywhere without the approval of the president. He will insert his demands into the process. The final bill is really the bill we have to worry about. When I talked to the president the other day on this issue, he assured me that when he spoke to the American people he was expressing his plan that there will be no abortion funding — if Congress cannot resolve it before it reaches him.
What the president wants me to do is to continue to work with his legislative team. The Democrats in the House should work this out, so he's not making a final decision. I have meetings with the Catholic bishops and other Catholic groups to see if there is some avenue we can still explore.
What kind of support have you received from Senate Democrats?
There are a number of right-to-life senators, including Sen. Ben Nelson [of Nebraska], who are also working on this. But we're in the early stages; this is where the intense negotiations take place. Last week, 30 of us in the House said, "Give us the Hyde Amendment or we're voting against the rule." We believe we have enough members, even pro-choice members, who feel we need the Hyde Amendment. They do not think we should use public money. We're early in the process, but we're keeping the pressure on to make sure there is no public funding and an abortion mandate.
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I was minding my own business out on AR15.com when I stumbled on this and wasn't even aware. I grew up in Illinois but man am I glad that I live in Missouri now. Quinn strikes again… Read more in the article below:
Link to Article: http://news.yahoo.com/illinois-expands-background-checks-gun-purchases-015848692.html
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"Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a gun-control measure into law on Sunday that expands background checks to cover all firearms purchases in the state, closing what he said was a loophole that exempted gun sales between private parties.
The new law also requires all gun owners to report any lost or stolen firearms to local police within 72 hours."
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Courtesy of USA Today
What started as casual conversations between friends has turned into an eye-opening move for the Detroit Pistons.
The Pistons announced Thursday night that coaching great Phil Jackson has agreed to advise president of basketball operations Joe Dumars during the Pistons' coaching search.
And Platinum Equity spokesman Mark Barnhill told the Detroit Free Press that the agreement is short-term and the result of Pistons owner Tom Gores' friendship with Jackson.
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PHIL: Also close with new Raptors boss
LAKERS: Angry fans want Jackson back
Barnhill said Gores and Jackson discussed the Pistons frequently and Gores asked him aboard in a formal role.
"The more conversations evolved, Tom realized he would be a good resource in an advisory capacity," Barnhill said.
In a story at Pistons.com, Dumars said, "Tom and I discussed using a consultant as part of our decision-making process in our search for a head coach and we feel that Phil Jackson is a great resource to use. I look forward to talking with Phil next week."
Gores added, "Phil Jackson is a friend and one of the best minds in the business. We are thrilled to have him as an adviser as we make some very important decisions for this franchise. Joe (Dumars) and I discussed this and he and I are in full agreement that this is a great opportunity."
Jackson is a certain Hall of Famer by virtue of his 11 championship rings earned while coaching the Bulls and Lakers.
Jackson will be in town next week while the Pistons interview candidates to replace Lawrence Frank, who was fired after two seasons. Barnhill stressed the role is short-term for Jackson.


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W&M Primatology Network
We anthropologists often study social networks in action, and one of my greatest pleasures as I approach 25 years of teaching at the College is watching the W&M Primatology Network develop and thrive. Okay, truth be told, I've made that name up. But the Anthro alums who've gone into primate studies are making distinguished careers for themselves—and often they do provide advice or direct help to W&M students just coming along in the field.
Four alums and one current undergrad have provided updates on what they're doing now. Being proud of them all, I can't resist adding updates in italics after each person's submission.
From Peter Fashing '91
I attended W&M from 1988-1991, earning a B.A. in Anthropology and Biology. Courses taken with Barbara King and Rita Wright piqued my interest in the nonhuman primates at W&M, and I carried out a project on captive woolly monkey play behavior for my senior research project.
After completing my Ph.D. at Columbia University, carrying out postdoctoral research with the Wildlife Conservation Society, and working as a research scientist for the Pittsburgh Zoo, I began my current position as a faculty member in the Anthropology Department at California State University in Fullerton, CA in 2008.
Most of my current research efforts focus on a long-term study of the behavior, ecology, and conservation of the gelada, a little-known monkey found only in the Ethiopian Highlands, on a large, ecologically-intact montane grassland at Guassa, Ethiopia. For more details about my research, please visit http://anthro.fullerton.edu/pfashing/ and http://anthro.fullerton.edu/gelada/
BJK: Peter, who has returned to W&M several times to lecture in my classes and speak informally with my students, is now a tenured Professor at Fullerton.
From Scott Suarez '91
I attended William and Mary from 1987 to 1991. I had entered college expecting to pursue a field in archaeology. But early in my college career, I took a course in biological anthropology , then an advanced course on primate communication. From there I was hooked on primatology. I finished by taking primate behavior. The bug took a stronger hold when I did my senior research project on non-verbal communication among a captive group of spider monkeys at the Norfolk Zoo.
After three years working on the effects of environmental enrichment among captive rhesus monkeys at a biomedical research facility, I was admitted to a doctoral program in primate behavior at SUNY Stony Brook. I conducted my doctoral dissertation research on the use of cognition in the foraging of white-bellied spider monkeys in the Amazon of Ecuador, spending nearly two years conducting field research. After I received my PhD in 2003, I was hired as a post-doctoral research assistant to study the diet and ranging behavior of Phayre's leaf monkeys in Thailand. After two years there, my wife Pia and I came back to the United States and I began a teaching position in the anthropology department at Miami University.
Currently my research is still centered around the theme of the use of cognition in foraging decisions. I am working with undergraduates and faculty in the Computer Sciences and Software Engineering department to design simulation models against which to compare the behavior of wild monkeys. The first publication from this venture was recently accepted for publication, and we have just begun a new project to model energy-efficient traveling in a geologically complex environment. I have also recently returned to Ecuador with students to study the ranging patterns of squirrel monkeys. It is my hope to continue field research in the Ecuadorean Amazon, brining students, and eventually my two boys, Elliott and Oliver to the field with me.
BJK: Here Scott is pictured in Ecuador, photographing spider monkeys.
From Christy Hoffman '03:
Since graduating with double majors in Anthropology and Biological Psychology (now called Neuroscience at W&M), I have had a number of exciting research experiences. My master's and PhD research at the University of Chicago focused on free-ranging rhesus macaque behavior and physiology. The monkeys I studied live on Cayo Santiago, which is an island in the Caribbean that is part of Puerto Rico. I actually began studying this population as an undergraduate research assistant during the summer of 2002.
Oddly enough, that experience living in Puerto Rico and studying inspired my current research interests. During that summer, I became aware that people's attitudes regarding dogs vary widely, and my fascination with anthrozoology, a burgeoning field of inquiry focused on human-animal interactions, developed. During a two-year post-doc, my research became very anthrozoological, as I focused on the effects of pets (dogs, primarily) on child psychological develop. This research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, which is very exciting because it signals that even the federal government has noted the potential benefits associated with pet ownership.
As a brand new assistant professor in the departments of Anthrozoology and Animal Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY, I am continuing my collaboration with my post-doc adviser and am preparing to launch new research projects examining factors that make the human-dog relationship successful. That is, I want to know what factors enable both species in the relationship to benefit and what those benefits are. Fortunately, one of the best animal shelters in the country is right here in the Buffalo area, and I plan to partner with that shelter as my research develops.
BJK: Congratulations to Christy, who is in her first semester of tenure-track teaching and research at Canisius!
From Brittany Fallon '11
How I miss the W&M family! I graduated from W&M in Anthropology/Linguistics, and will receive my M.Sc. in Comparative & Evolutionary Cognition at the University of St Andrews this fall. My thesis examined gestural communication in wild chimpanzees in the Budongo Forest of Uganda, specifically the gestures that males use to communicate sexual interest to females. A bit X-rated for sharing work with Mom, but extremely interesting from a cognitive standpoint! Males can use very simple courtship displays, perhaps a single 'come hither' gesture; however, they can also use a combination of gestures with varying degrees of audibility or emphasis.
I've finished all formal requirements for the M.Sc., and will now continue to work on a similar topic for my Ph.D. with Dr. Klaus Zuberbüler at Université Neuchâtel and Dr. Richard W. Byrne at the University of St Andrews.
I'm in Uganda from September 2012-March 2013 on fieldwork. W&M alums should start a log of who's going to which conferences; those of us who are new might appreciate a W&M alum to attach themselves to.
BJK: While at W&M, Brittany carried out a fabulous enrichment project to boost the welfare of chimpanzees at the Metro Richmond Zoo, based on her volunteer work at the fabulous Save the Chimps Sanctuary in Florida.
From Mitch Caudill '14
I'm a junior, anticipating graduation in the Spring of 2014. Currently, I am drafting a proposal for consideration to carry out an Honors Thesis in Anthropology next year, based on fieldwork at a chimpanzee field site in Cameroon that I will carry out this coming summer. For the past two summers, I have conducted primate behavior research at the Smithsonian National Zoo and the San Diego Zoo.
When not spending summers doing primate research, I work in Professor Dan Cristol's Biology lab studying zebra finches. After graduation I hope to attend veterinary school, and pursue medical and behavioral research aimed at improving the welfare of primates and other animals in the wild and captivity.
BJK note: Mitch's internship at the San Diego Zoo in summer '12 was a funded one, and prestigious!


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Question 1:
if I define a cubic Bézier segment as a path, I need to use the following vgHardwareQuery function to check whether it can be accelerated in hardware. The return value will be VG_HARDWARE_ACCELERATED or VG_HARDWARE_UNACCELERATED. Correct?
VGHardwareQueryResult vgHardwareQuery(VGHardwareQueryType key, VGint setting)
Is there any hardware that can return VG_HARDWARE_ACCELERATED? or is there any hardware can support bezier-based acceleration?
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OpenVG provides hardware acceleration for Bezier-based graphics for the first time to provide fluidly interactive performance at very low power levels.
Does this mean that all previous libraries,like OpenGL…, does not support bezier-based acceleration??


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BizBrief: New mutual fund helps charities
Wall Street's reputation has taken a hit recently thanks to diabolical money managers like Bernie Madoff, but a new fund aims to prove that investing your money can be good for the world. The Davlin Fund launched in June promising to donate 30 percent of all fees to a charity approved by the fund and chosen by the investor. (Of approximately 370 approved charities, radio station WNRN is the only Charlottesville nonprofit currently on the list.) "It's tapping a massive revenue stream and directing it to nonprofits instead of into the pockets of the fund manager," says Fax Ayres, who is heading up marketing and communications for the Wayland, Massachusetts-based fund. Ayres (best known locally as the owner of Splendora's Gelato) says he and fund founder Bill Davlin–- who is currently taking no salary–- dream of growing the fund to $5 billion. "You're talking 55 million dollars in brand new philanthropic contributions every year," says Ayres.
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what's the roi% been since june?
bill bob: Here are some performance figures for you for the Davlin Philanthropic Fund (as of 3/5/2009)...
Year to Date Performance % Change
Davlin Philanthropic Fund -13.46 %
Russell 2000* -30.03 %
S&P 500 Index* -24.43 %
History to Date Performance
(June 11, 2008 - Mar. 3, 2009) % Change
Davlin Philanthropic Fund -24.19 %
Russell 2000* -52.30 %
S&P 500 Index* -49.75 %
Fund effective date June 11, 2008
* Return does not include reinvestment of dividends.
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Almost every morning, the first thing I do is make a cup of coffee and draw or paint something. I spend about 30-45 minutes making quick sketches. It's a routine I've been practicing for many years. I like the quiet of morning, sipping my coffee, and surprising myself with the morning sketch.
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What's the Anna Wintour policy on Vogue international covers? How long must the gap be between a Vogue cover in China and the cover of US Vogue? Victoria Beckham covers the August issue of China Vogue. The US Vogue September cover already belongs to Jennifer Lawrence. That leaves 3 months if Posh is to make her life's dream. It seems unlikely if there is a required gap, and there should be. Have we passed another year without Posh realising her big goal?
Oh but what does it matter? The big money is in China and not America. Chinese consumers are the ones who'll spend and spend and spend and spend on her clothes and bags and sunglasses. As I wrote in my last post about China and the Beckhams – click here for a refresher -- China is the life support for the luxury goods industry. My people cannot get enough of their name brands: Chanel, Prada, Gucci…Beckham?
That's the idea. Which is why Mrs Beckham is working so hard to court the Chinese market, telling China Vogue that:
"I love China. The women really understand fashion and I can honestly say the women who come to my events are some of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. They have remarkable bodies and are happy and positive and I love that. I think they know what looks good, how to accessorise and have beautiful hair and flawless skin."
China has been experiencing a really interesting cultural adjustment over the last decade or so. We are an old, old civilisation with deeply rooted philosophies – Confucius, etc – and many within China are worried that our ancient customs and traditions are being abandoned in favour of hysterical materialism and out-of-control consumerism as the Communist government continues to relax its policies … but, really, only for the privileged. Is that ironic?
So now there's an entire generation of young Chinese less devoted to filial piety than it is obsessed with fashion and beauty. One of my favourite, favourite Chinese television moments in recent years happened on one of their many matchmaker programs. I was watching with my ma, the Chinese Squawking Chicken, who was providing translation as I don't understand Mandarin. This actually enhances my experience. Because, well, she has her own way of interpreting their participant comments. Anyway, the women who show up on these programmes are very, very honest about their intentions: money, not love. And they all look the same now because the plastic surgery over there is epidemic. So this one girl, considered a mega catch by their standards, gets up and declares something to the effect of (remember, this is my ma translating):
"It would be better to be in a BMW, catching my own tears, than to have to sit behind a man on his shabby bicycle, and smile."
Please. We here in North America are getting the shaft by the Bachelor. THIS, from China, is the reality television you should be watching.
My point is that Victoria Beckham is the exact role model women like Miss BMW > Bicycle are looking for. And why not? Her profundity is inspiring:
"I have been in the limelight for over 20 years. I am not on an ego trip, empowering women and making them feel sexy and great when they wear my clothes means more than thousands of people clapping. Empowering women is what makes me feel good."
You get that? Victoria Beckham is empowering women.
Here's a question about empowering women. Posh says she feels guilty about working:
"When you are successful the hardest thing is maintaining that level of success, so you work harder to maintain what you have achieved. It's a huge juggling act, when you are a working mother and looking after your family, millions and millions of women around the world are doing this every day. But it's not easy and yes, you feel guilty every time you walk out of the door to go to work!'
I'm with her right up to the point when she brings up the guilt. Because, well, you don't hear men talking about how they feel guilty about having a job when they're fathers. So is giving in to the feeling of guilt almost like acknowledging that mothers actually HAVE something to feel guilty about? Am I a stupid c-nt who should shut up because I have no kids? Fine. Let's talk about her clothes instead.
Victoria wore Louis Vuitton to Wimbledon yesterday to watch the men's final. Andy Murray's girlfriend wore Victoria Beckham. Strategic move? Let the client wear her designs instead? You know, Posh has worked so hard the last few years to kill the chav that swathed her for so many years. She downsized her chest. She stopped wearing daisy dukes. She goes easier on the hair extensions now. But in spite of all that, it's like, even when she doesn't have a French manicure, I still imagine her with one, you know?


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I don't believe for one minute that he's "pro pipeline".
You probably wouldn't believe it if it hit you in the face.
There's more than one way to take that, Altair. I think he plays you and those like minded like a violin, or Pavlov's dogs. He got you all drinking the cool aid and barking on command at every turn. I don't believe for one minute that he's "pro pipeline".
The next time he impresses me will be the first. But do carry on enjoying the Kool-aid
I don't think he's trying to impress you. Neither am I.
yet 3 pipelines will be built under trudeau.
Will they? Maybe, maybe not.If they are built during his blighted reign, it will not be because of him. It will be because somebody in his government or party with more brains and spine than him forces his hand.He will do as little as possible for as long as possible rather than do anything that will jeopardize the adoration of his fan club.
he's been talking about the need to build pipelines since he was named leader of the liberal party
He also has a reputation for saying different things to different audiences.
And not delivering or backing off as he did with Veterans...Electoral Reform, for example.
Actions speak louder than words.
However, off the top of my head, when he became liberal leader, he went to alberta and spoke about the need for pipelines.
What actions do you realisticly expect the federal government to undertake right now? BC hasn't actually done anything yet.
Environmentalists and some native groups seem to have heard different messages.Liberals don't get many votes in Alberta anyway...
I'm beginning to believe that you would rather he did back off and kill the pipelines so you can be right about that than you would he dig in and get it done and you have go give him any credit.
...and the World heard that "Canada is back" when it comes to peacekeeping...
I'd rather he went back to being a drama teacher.
I'd rather he went back to being a drama teacher.At any rate, my examples are just two where he reneged on promises. There will be more, l am sure.


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ESA Test Centre shaker simulates Galileo launch
Paving the way for 2011's first launch of Galileo navigation satellites, ESA's technical base in the Netherlands is testing an essential device that will secure the paired satellites in place during launch and then release them into orbit.
Next year the first two Galileo In-Orbit Validation (IOV) satellites in Europe's global navigation system will share a flight on a Soyuz launcher from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
The 'dispenser' supporting structure will hold the twin satellites firmly in place under the Soyuz fairing during launch, having already provided connection to power and data links during the pre-launch phases on the ground.
The dispenser will help the satellites endure the loads and vibrations of launch. Then, some four hours into flight at an altitude of 23 000 km, the dispenser will deploy the satellites into orbit by firing a pyrotechnic separation system. A distancing system ensures their release in opposing directions from the dispenser.
This month the Test Centre at ESTEC, ESA's technical centre at Noordwijk, the Netherlands, is hosting vibration and shock tests of the dispenser, as part of the qualification process needed for before new hardware can launch.
The ESTEC Test Centre is a unique European facility that combines a complete portfolio of space simulation facilities under a single roof.
"This dispenser has been specifically developed for Galileo," said Miguel Mendoza Hauptmann, overseeing dispenser testing for ESA.
"It has been developed by RUAG Space of Sweden on behalf of launch service provider Arianespace, with RUAG in Switzerland responsible for the structure and EADS CASA in Spain overseeing the hold-down and release system, which is also a new development for Galileo.
"The dispenser design had to comply with very stringent mass and volume requirements. Although designed for the initial IOV launches, this dispenser is actually also the baseline for the follow-up full operational capability flights on Soyuz."
The dual dispenser configuration was driven by a requirement for the satellites to be additionally compatible with a multiple launch on top of an Ariane 5.
In order to gather representative results during this test, a qualification model of the flight dispenser, built to the same standard as the flight model, is being tested in conjunction with a pair of engineering models of Galileo IOV satellites, respectively the Structural Model (SM) and Structural and Thermal Model (STM).
The combined dispenser and Galileo satellite stack is subjected to launch vibrations using the QUAD shaker. Connected to a quartet of four electrodynamic shakers, each capable of producing 160 kilonewtons of force, the QUAD can simulate accelerations of up to 20 g.
"Our testing on the QUAD has proceeded very well," Mr Mendoza Hauptmann added. "Afterwards, the stack will be tested in the lateral direction on a second shaker, the dual electrodynamic shaker system.
"And later this month, we plan to perform a shock test based on simulating a satellite's separation from the dispenser, in order to validate this process and to gather accurate data on the generated shock levels."
These results will then be applied to tests scheduled of one of the first Galileo IOV satellites – the Protoflight Model – that is due to arrive at ESTEC for vibration testing early in 2011.
In parallel, the shock test allows the validation of the real release test employing the IOV PFM and dispenser flight model, which will be performed during January 2011.
This process has also served to validate all combined operations of the satellites and dispenser that will be performed during launch preparation at Europe's Spaceport, since this has been the first time that these structures have been put together.


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text: KABUL (AFP) - Britain's Prince Harry, who compared shooting insurgents in Afghanistan to playing video games, "has probably developed a mental problem", the Taliban said on Tuesday."There are 49 countries with their powerful military failing in the fight against the Mujahideen, and now this Prince comes and compares this war with his games, PlayStation or whatever he calls it," Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told AFP.Harry, third in line to the throne, said he had killed Taliban insurgents during a 20-week posting flying scores of missions over the restive southern province of Helmand in an Apache attack helicopter. As co-pilot, Harry was in charge of the weapons systems in a two-man cockpit, firing Hellfire air-to-surface missiles, rockets and a 30-millimetre gun."This is a serious war, a historic war, resistance for us, for our people," Mujahid told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location."But we don't take his comments very seriously, as we have all seen and heard that many foreign soldiers, occupiers who come to Afghanistan, develop some kind of mental problems on their way out." Asked by Britain's Press Association if he had killed from the cockpit, Harry said: "Yeah, so lots of people have.""Take a life to save a life," he shrugged. "If there's people trying to do bad stuff to our guys, then we'll take them out of the game." The Taliban have been waging an insurgency in Afghanistan for 11 years since being ousted from power for harbouring al-Qaeda chief Osama bin laden after the 9/11 attacks on the United States.


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We've heard a lot about Microsoft's next move for Windows, including a possible return of the Start button and the addition of more core functions to the operating system's modern side.
Now, Microsoft is promising to reveal a lot more next month, when it'll release a preview of the software, codenamed Windows Blue. In a blog post, Microsoft's Julie Larson-Green says the preview will arrive in late June, timed with the company's Build conference:
We know people choose Windows because it's important to their lives and their businesses. They trust and rely on Windows for serious productivity and more and more serious fun. We are proud to keep evolving Windows in way that brings forward over 25 years of computing and create the platform for tomorrow. As with every radical change, learning is a process. We are getting smarter every day about how to help people learn and make the most of their devices. From work in Windows, to online content, as well materials and demos at retail we are constantly improving and moving forward.
Ed Bott observes that the letter has an "almost apologetic tone." It also hints that Microsoft wants to beef up the modern side of Windows 8 while making changes that are more accommodating to desktop users. All the whispers we've heard about Blue so far strengthen that notion. It won't be long until we know for sure.


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April 19, 2012 (ATLANTA) - Nationwide, women's lifespans are improving at a much slower pace than men, and in hundreds of counties women are living shorter lives today than they did two decades ago, according to new county-by-county estimates of life expectancy released today by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
The new data also show that life expectancy for black Americans – both men and women – is improving at a faster rate than for white Americans, especially in large urban areas in New York and California.
Nationwide, whether urban or rural, the gaps in health outcomes are growing, Dr. Ali Mokdad, the head of IHME's US County Performance research team, told a crowd of health reporters and researchers at the Association of Health Care Journalists conference.
"It's tragic that in a country as wealthy as the United States and with all the medical expertise we have that so many girls will live shorter lives than their mothers," Mokdad said.
IHME analyzed new mortality data by age, sex, and county for the US from 1989 to 2009. Across US counties, life expectancy in 2009 ranged from 66.1 to 81.6 years for men and 73.5 to 86.0 years for women. From 1989 to 2009, life expectancy for men improved by 4.6 years on average but only by 2.7 years for women. And throughout the country, women were more likely than men to have no progress in life expectancy or to have their lifespans get shorter over time.
In 661 counties, life expectancy stopped dead or went backwards for women since 1999. By comparison, life expectancy for men stopped or reversed in 166 counties. This troubling trend is occurring in 84% of Oklahoma counties, 58% of Tennessee counties, and 33% of Georgia counties.
The gap between women living the longest lives and those living the shortest lives is growing, too. In Collier, Florida, women live 85.8 years on average. In McDowell, West Virginia, they live to be 74.1. That's an 11.7-year gap. In 1989, the gap was 8.7 years. For men, the gap is larger – 15.5 years – but it has grown by less than a year since 1989. Men live the longest in Marin, California, at 81.6 years. They live the shortest lives on average in Quitman and Tunica, Mississippi, at 66.1.
The range of life expectancies is so broad that in some counties, such as Stearns, Minnesota, lifespans rival some of the places where people live the longest – Japan, Hong Kong, and France – while in other counties, life expectancies are lower than places that spend far less on health care – Egypt, Indonesia, and Colombia. Even within states, there are large disparities. Women in Fairfax, Virginia, have among the best life expectancies in the world at 84.1 years, while in Sussex, Virginia, they have among the worst at 75.9 years.
At the same time, the life expectancy gap between black Americans and white Americans is closing. In 1989, black men could expect to live to be 63.8 on average, while white men had an average lifespan of 72.5, a difference of 8.7 years. In 2009, black male life expectancy improved by nearly a decade to 71.2 years, and white male life expectancy improved at a slower rate to 76.7 years, a 5.5-year gap. The gap between black women and white women is even narrower: 3.6 years. Black women on average in 2009 had a life expectancy of 77.9 years, compared to 81.5 years for white women.
IHME's research shows that the biggest drivers of health disparities nationwide are preventable causes of death, including tobacco, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, and alcohol. IHME found that a larger percentage of women than men had inadequately treated high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Researchers also found differences in the way preventable risk factors for early mortality affected the sexes. An estimated 54,000 women's lives could be saved annually by simply reducing salt consumption.
In order to better target local solutions to health disparities, IHME is pioneering new methods of harnessing existing data and gathering new data in a partnership with Public Health - Seattle & King County. The Monitoring Disparities in Chronic Conditions Study, one of the largest population surveillance projects in modern history, tracks disparities in diabetes, heart disease, and other conditions at the local level.
The study captures socioeconomic and health risk factors and the resulting hospitalizations, outpatient visits, and adherence to treatments. "What makes the difference is getting the right medication at the right dose," Mokdad said. "We screen people for diseases but don't always follow through to manage the diseases."
The county-level estimates of life expectancy are part of IHME's broader effort to provide researchers and policymakers with more accurate analysis of mortality and disease burden globally, nationally, and locally. IHME is the lead institution on the ambitious Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2010 Study (GBD), which will provide the first comprehensive assessment of health status internationally since the original GBD publication in 1996.
"Life expectancy by county is just one of the many factors we're going to be able to map and track with the tools we have developed for GBD," said Dr. Christopher Murray, IHME Director. "We will be able to go into countries and examine at the very local level why some people are so much healthier than others."
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent global health research center at the University of Washington that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. IHME makes this information freely available so that policymakers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health.
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Examining the Risks and Benefits from Benzodiazepines - Part 1
Examining the Risks and Benefits from Benzodiazepines - Part 1
Rakesh Jain, MD, MPH
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Saundra Jain, MD, MPH, MA, PsyD, LPC
School of Nursing, University of Texas at Austin
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- Examine pharmacologic withdrawal and tapering schedules for patients where the risks of benzodiazepine use outweigh the benefits.
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NACCME planners and staff include Kristin Ciszeski, Raquel Gaerlan, Chris Bolwell, Jennifer Ilcyn, Nimma Ovwori, Doug Edwards, Horacio Rodriguez, and Randy Robbin.
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Lots of people are aware that they should write a Will at some point in their lives, but often put it off as something they won't have to think about until they are older. However, writing a Will – especially if you have children, a partner or other family members that you would like to support after your death – is important to do no matter your age.
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About 40% of people don't write a Will. This means that when they die their assets will be distributed by a law which was made many years ago, which doesn't always work the way people want it to. This is especially the case when people are not married but live together, have second families, or want to give some of their money or assets to charity. By writing a Will, you can set out your wishes about who you want to benefit from your estate.
While you may have written a Will in the past, it won't necessarily reflect your wishes today. Births, deaths and changing assets can all change who you wish to benefit from your Will.
It is always recommended that you seek professional legal advice to make sure that your Will follows all the formalities required and it is completely clear what you want to happen to your estate after you die. With the Trust's free Will service, you can get your Will written by a solicitor for free through one of our providers: the National Free Will Network or Co-op Legal Services. All Wills are written under the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Including a gift in your Will means we can plan for the future. In fact, gifts in Wills make up around 10% of our income, and allow us to invest in cutting-edge research, promote the highest standards of care and campaign hard on the issues that matter. Whatever size, in the long-term your gift will help us make a life unlimited a reality.
A lot of people think they don't have anything to give, but most people have more than they think. We can supply you with a handy estate pack to help you review your assets and liabilities.
People choose to give to the Trust in all sorts of ways. One generous supporter who died in 2016 kindly left us his collection of vintage tractors. These included a tractor used in ploughing competitions, as well as other tractors, ploughs and a trailer. These will be sold at auction, to achieve the best price and ensure an appropriate buyer is sought, and the money will be used to help continue our fight against cystic fibrosis, as the supporter would have wanted.
Another supporter, who died in 2013, left a share of his estate to the Trust. The estate was made up of different properties, all in the same vicinity and many in the same village. This included the village pub, which trades serving food and drink, and is let to a tenant. The pub continues to trade and draws rentable income for the long-term benefit of the Trust and other charitable beneficiaries.
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Anti-government citizen militia groups want to 'secure the border' in Texas
SAN ANTONIO - A slew of anti-government groups -- many of which participated in the standoff at Cliven Bundy's Nevada ranch -- are recruiting armed volunteers to travel to the Texas-Mexico border as a citizen militia to participate in "Operation Secure Our Border," which aims to stop the surge of immigrants into the country.
The groups, who identify themselves as "Patriots," "Oathkeepers" and "Three Percenters," are using social media, blogs and a 24-hour hotline to recruit and mobilize volunteers that will travel to Laredo, carry firearms and attempt to assist law enforcement agencies on the border.
However, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said they do not "endorse or support any private group or organization from taking matters into their own hands as it could have disastrous personal and public safety consequences."
Chris Davis, a 37-year-old truck driver listed as commander for the militia group, told the San Antonio Express-News he believes law enforcement agencies welcome the help.
"Everybody realizes something has to be done and we are here to look out for our fellow man while ensuring our national sovereignty," said Davis, who served in the Army and National Guard and has been involved in Open Carry Texas events including last year's rally at the Alamo.
Davis, who lives near San Antonio, said the militia group is in preliminary stages of recruiting and training volunteers and will move to Laredo "in a few weeks" when they have "enough trained manpower" but declined to estimate a number.
The group will secure the border in a "legal and lawful manner," Davis said. However, a 21-minute YouTube video of Davis, which was first reported by the McAllen Monitor, suggests otherwise.
"How?" Davis asked on the video. "You see an illegal. You point your gun dead at him, right between his eyes, and you say, 'Get back across the border or you will be shot.'"
Davis said he removed the video Monday because it was taken out of context "by a newspaper that supports amnesty."
"If we come across a family that may have made it across the border, we will give them water and food and make contact with ICE or Border Patrol and tell them we have these people here," Davis told the San Antonio Express-News.
Davis said he will be spreading the word about the militia Monday night in an interview on FOX News. The group is circulating a "call to action" that includes supplies needed, mission, timeline and headquarters location.
"These missions are all a GO mission. We need Boots on the ground on all missions. I for one do not understand why our Militias and lll% Groups and Patriots are not there filling the borders. We need at least 20 thousand troops there too secure the border. We need to save America. Look to the future. Step up NOW!!," the call to action circulating Facebook and websites reads, adding that 20,000 "troops" are needed.
Volunteers are being vetted through criminal background checks, Davis said.
A call to the "Patriot Hotline", which said there are already "boots on the ground" in Laredo, was met with a request for a name to perform a "criminal background check to make sure you don't have any felonies", but it is unclear what documentation is required.
Many of the groups sharing the call to action use anti-federal government rhetoric similar to that used by tea party groups in their posts.
"We at 2 Million Bikers to D.C. believe in God, Country, our Constitution and ALL our Bill of Rights as written by our Founding Fathers. We will work to peacefully oppose any and all who wish to fundamentally transform our country from our founding Father's original intent," the group's Facebook page reads.
Some volunteers have posted videos to YouTube describing their motive for joining the militia group.
"We're tired of those SOB's in Washington D.C. bringing all these illegals into our country and just spreading 'em out with all their diseases all over the place," said YouTube user 1HellonHeels, explaining why she is joining "Operation Secure Our Border", which uses the hashtag #OpSOB on Facebook.
Davis said the "influx of illegal immigrants is bringing bad elements" to the country such as "sickness."
On Sunday, Governor Rick Perry suggested that President Barack Obama could be leading a conspiracy to bring immigrants into the country.
"We either have an incredibly inept administration, or they're in on this somehow," Perry said in an interview with ABC. "I mean, I hate to be conspiratorial, but I mean, how do you move that many people from Central America across Mexico and then into the United States without there being a fairly coordinated effort?"
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JPMorgan Chase to buy back its stock againNovember 8, 2012: 6:11 PM ET
JPMorgan Chase (JPM) is restarting its plan to buy back its stock in yet another sign that the bank is shaking off troubles with regulators stemming from its London Whale trading loss.
In an SEC filing, the bank said it would buy back up to $3 billion of stock during the first quarter of 2013. The bank's initial plans -- to buy back up to $15 billion in stock, which was announced in early 2012 -- sputtered in May when the bank disclosed a loss from an errant trade that ballooned to $6.2 billion.
JPMorgan's stock closed slightly lower Thursday, following a dip in the broader stock market.
Yet analysts applauded the bank's announcement as yet another sign of CEO Jamie Dimon's improving credibility which had been damaged in the wake of the London Whale trading debacle. On a recent conference call, Dimon said he expected these buybacks to resume in early 2013.
Related: JPMorgan Chase posts record profits
"My first and biggest reaction was that management is delivering on what it's promised," said Dan Marchon, a research associate at Raymond James. "In the last several times the company has made announcements, the theme has been blunt honesty and clarity."
The bank is also continuing to make deals to shed its financial crisis-era liabilities. The bank said it had reached an agreement with the SEC to settle its role and that of Bear Stearns, which it purchased in 2008, in bundling troubled mortgages and selling them to investors. JPMorgan warned shareholders that the agreement was still subject to SEC and court approval.
This SEC agreement removes just one of many outstanding legal issues for JPMorgan. In early October, New York's attorney general filed a civil lawsuit the bank over Bear Stearns' mortgage practices.


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During the first weekend of our Basic Keelboat series students will work on building a solid foundation of sailing techniques. They will learn water safety, sailing terminology, sail trim, boat handling, and will get an introduction to the physics of sailing. Classroom time is devoted to understanding how a sailboat is propelled upwind. Other classroom topics include terminology, points of sail, and efficient sailing. Our goal is to get you out on the water as soon as possible.
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Not required, but highly recommended that students sign up for consecutive weekends of the Basic Keelboat course in order to get the most out of your experience. Skills are progressive in nature and take time to master. Register for Weekend 1 before Weekend 2.
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