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'This Week' Transcript: After the Tragedy
Transcript: After the Tragedy
WASHINGTON, Jan 16, 2011 -- AMANPOUR: We thank the congregation of St Odilia for hosting us... It is the home parish to two of those lost in the shooting. 9 Year old Christina Taylor Green had her first communion here...and Judge John Roll grew up in the parish as well.
What I want to ask all of you first is, by a show of hands, to tell me how many of you were either involved at that fateful place at the Safeway, or whether you were involved at the hospital afterwards, or in the immediate aftermath, or whether you know anybody who was involved in that tragic shooting. Show me by a show of hands. So practically the whole room. This whole community has been so touched.
And I think I want to ask you, Bill Heilman, what is the lasting impression that you will take away from that day your wife had brought 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green.
HEILMAN: Indeed, she had. She wanted to show a little girl something that she felt had not been possible in her generation by introducing her to Gabby, and let her know that that opportunity was there for her, too. And it was just a perfect event for that, to do that.
AMANPOUR: And how is your wife coping?
HEILMAN: The emotional side of what's occurred is still sinking in. The extent of the tragedy only really seems to get addressed in very Quiet moments when there aren't audiences around. We had our first psych consult yesterday to start dealing with the ramifications of this, and we feel very well supported and appreciative of the hug that America is giving my wife.
AMANPOUR: Daniel Hernandez, you rushed to Congresswoman Giffords as she was lying bleeding. And by all accounts, you really set the stage for saving her life. And a week later, do you think about what it took for you to run towards her even as there was gunfire?
HERNANDEZ: No, because I think, really, had it been someone else, I would have done the same thing. Although Gabby is someone who I've admired for years and I consider her a friend, I think at this point, anyone would have done the same thing for anyone, because it's a human being, and you need to make sure that you help those in need.
AMANPOUR: Patricia Maisch, you knocked the magazine out of the gunman's hand, out of Jared Lee Loughner's hand.
PATRICIA MAISCH, HELPED RETRIEVE WEAPON: That's a little bit of misinformation.
AMANPOUR: You prevented him from reloading.
MAISCH: I managed to grab the magazine.
AMANPOUR: What do you remember? What is your lasting memory?
MAISCH: That first shot. And I knew -- I'm not a gun person, but I knew it was a gunshot. And just that tiny, tiny space between the first shot and the rest of the shots, just in my head. And then deciding to drop to the ground instead of running, expecting to be shot because the woman next to me was the last one to get shot. And instead, having Bill and Roger, my guardian angels, knock the guy down right in front of me. You know, I owe them my life.
AMANPOUR: Colonel Badger --
COL. WILLIAM BADGER (RET.), WRESTLED GUNMAN TO GROUND: Yes?
AMANPOUR: You've got your arm around Patricia. You did something amazing that day, leaping and tackling him and getting him down so that he couldn't get up again.
BADGER: Well, you know, the thing that I get out of this is the fact that -- how quick everybody bonded, and just like Patricia and myself bonded as a result of this. But it will be something that will haunt me the rest of my life.
AMANPOUR: I'd like to go to Mrs. Bowman and Dr. Bowman in the front row, here. You were just in the area, in the Safeway, and you heard the shots. And your reaction was to rush out to them instead of stay hidden. What did you do and what will you remember?
BOWMAN: We had just passed Congresswoman Giffords and gone into the produce aisle, which is not my favorite section, and had not been in more than two to three minutes when the shots rang out, very quickly, all of them. It was over with probably less than three, four seconds, and just done, it seemed. As I got to the front door, a couple people ran in, one gal screaming, they're shot her, they've shot Congressman Giffords! And she had blood on herself running into the store. So, I stepped through and stopped behind a pillar.
There were no more gun shots, an old' badger had already done his thing by the time I looked around the corner and I - the first thing I saw was Daniel with Congresswoman Giffords and that's, sort of, where go in automatic mode started.
And I looked back after just two or three minutes and realized I had left my wing man, she wasn't there. She hadn't heard me. And they sort of swept her to the back of the store and she came out very quickly. I looked back and she was working with Judge Roll and that was the first time I felt calm, maybe. Because somebody showed up and was helping and the more I looked, everyone was helping everyone.
AMANPOUR: And you were barking out orders, weren't you? You came and really got into the first aid the triage and were giving orders who somebody who you didn't even know, who's not even a medical professional.
NANCY BOWMAN: Well he was the one barking out the most of the orders. He went from the very beginning of the line, all the way to the end, assessing everybody one by one. Those that he felt could be saved and had to come to terms with those that couldn't be saved. I came out and immediately started CPR on Judge Roll.
And as I was doing CPR, a bystander, a stranger to me, steps up and says, I can help. Tell me what to do. And, I guess, that's when the barking started. I told her to start to take over the chest compressions that I was doing. I started mouth to mouth on Judge Roll and then David came back to us after he had made his initial assessment of everyone and said, Nancy, you need to stop. There's nothing that can be done. So, I just looked at Judge Roll, and I said, I'm so, so sorry. And David said, you need to go over and take care of this woman over here, she's awake, she's conscious, she's breathing, she needs your help.
AMANPOUR: When we return, we'll hear from the woman at Gabby Giffords' bedside when she opened her eyes and a husband who became a human shield to protect his wife from a hail of bullets. Amazing stories of survival and hope as our American conversation continues
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AMANPOUR: Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, you are a good friend of Gabby Giffords. And, in fact, you were down here, this week. You came when the President came. What is your lasting impression of what happened?
REP. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (D), ARIZONA: My lasting impression is that out of an evil act, we have had an opportunity to see the overwhelming goodness that exists in this country. And as horrific as this act and tragedy has been, the opportunity that we have had, this week, to see how many incredible people there are in our country. And having been here a number of times to campaign for Gabby and having talked to Gabby about the pride that she has in representing Tucson and the Eighth Congressional District, every ounce of that pride was evident and warranted, this week.
AMANPOUR: How is she doing? You're going to see her, again. You've seen her once.
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Yes, yes. You know, she's doing better every day. Wednesday was just a miracle to witness, myself and our good friend Senator Gellibrand and Leader Nancy Pelosi were able to be by her side with Mark and her parents and have her open her eyes, you know, just in our - as a result of, we hope are urging her on to come back to us and rejoin the activities that girlfriends do together.
AMANPOUR: some of these incredible people here saved, not only other people's lives but your friend's life, as well, and we've heard a lot from them, that they feel they were doing what they had to do as people and they don't feel they were heroes. Do you think they're heroes?
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: There's no question that they are heroes. (applause) And, I think, every one of us hopes that our immediate reaction would be the selfless response would be to spring into action to help someone else. But, I guess, you really never know until you're faced with that opportunity.
AMANPOUR: Dr. Bowman, I know that you're not comfortable with the idea of being called a hero.
BOWMAN: That's correct. And I don't think any of us are including Daniel, I think there were --
DANIEL: I agree.
BOWMAN: I think that there were maybe heroic things done by normal people. That means we're human beings and I think that's, to me, one of the most lasting impressions is to see what people were doing for someone else. Injured people helping someone else more injured. Not concerned about themselves and not screaming and not yelling, "Medic! Medic!" Helping the person next to them.
It gives you a lot of hope that we're doing it the right way somehow.
AMANPOUR: But nonetheless, if I might, I -- I've covered a lot of war, a lot of tragedy and certainly, I know that one tries to hide and -- and tries to get out of the bombing situation or shooting situation.
And you did run towards it. You did -- Patricia, you did what you had to do in that circumstance. And yet you're uncomfortable with the idea of having the hero label attached to you.
MAISCH: I am. This is the hero. He's -- if I'm a hero, he's a super hero. My son says that I should just say thank you, that the community needs heroes right now. But it's still hard to do.
BADGER: I did what anybody else would do.And I'm just so glad that I had the opportunity to do what I did because after seeing the people killed, you know, right there beside me. If he'd have got another clip in that gun, why, it would have been disastrous. At the time I did not know that he was reloading his gun when he went by right in front of me. But when I responded, why, there was an opportunity there because somebody picked up a folding chair and came down on the back of the gunsman's (sic) head and that gave me the opportunity to grab his arm, you know, come up like this and push him down. I got a choke hold on him. Roger had his knee on the back of his neck. And every time he would move, I would tighten my grip and Roger would push down more on his face. He was laying like this, you know....
AMANPOUR:: You gave the shooter a black eye, didn't you?
BOWMAN: Well, when he hit the pavement, why, we were holding him down and -- and he was -- he was saying, "Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!" And I -- I -- I, of course, I didn't know Roger before this happened but I said, "Roger, let up a little bit." And Roger says, "I don't care."And --
BOWMAN: --and he -- he put more pressure on him.
AMANPOUR: And you, yourself, were grazed -- grazed by a bullet.
BOWMAN: I heard, you know, the first shot and I looked but then, I could see the people falling, you know, or they -- sitting in chairs but they were just slumping forward.
Then everybody was trying to get out of the way and get to the ground. And I did the same thing. I felt the bullet hit the back of my head. And it was just a stinging, burning sensation. When the shooting stopped, I stood up. And when I stood up I did not know that that was the gunman right in front of me. And it's, you know, it's just instant reaction is what it amounts to.But when I saw the chair hit him, I knew that must be the man.
BOWMAN: And that's when I -- and I had an opportunity and that's what I did what I think anybody under the circumstances would have done the same thing.
AMANPOUR: Just go to my colleague David Muir---- you have people who you want to talk to there. Tell us their stories.
DAVID MUIR, ABC NEWS: Well, Christiane, we hear about these ordinary people doing extraordinary things. The first responders at the scene -- and I wanted to bring in Dr. Bellal Joseph. -- if you could stand. And I'm curious what you've learned as someone who's trained in this by the so-called ordinary people who really did the groundwork for you.
DR. BELLAL JOSEPH: You know, we do this every day. And that morning, you know, when I walked into the emergency room and saw so many people. The same echoes that come from the first responders at the scene was echoed in the hospital. And I can tell you, people were coming in who didn't need to be there. I think that it was a controlled chaos that just became harmony here.
MUIR: Christiane?
AMANPOUR: I just want to go to Ken Dorushka who was there that day and tell me what happened because you really saved your wife's life and she's sitting right next to you. And certainly, to her, you are a hero.
KEN DORUSHKA: Well, I'm not sure about that. But when we came to visit with the Congresswoman who signed in with Daniel on the clip board. We were eighth in line. As I turned to walk back towards her -- and now I'm only a few feet away from my wife -- what I thought were firecrackers went off. And I turned over my shoulder and I saw it wasn't firecrackers. He was there with a gun and just coming towards me and firing randomly, it looked like.
I immediately -- I got to her. I took her and threw her down rather forcefully. I'm kind of a big guy and I think I injured her pretty hard. But I threw her down on the ground and got -- and put my arm over her head and just as he walked up, at this point in time, he was firing. And we were at the feet of -- of some people that were in chairs that were hit and my arm was hit with a bullet.
And I felt that pain and I kept her down. And I just waited for the next one because I really thought that was going to be it -- that I was on my way out.
AMANPOUR: You thought you were going to die.
DORUSHKA: Well I thought there was a -- yes. Because after the first shot, I thought the second one was going to be the final one. Because as I looked up I saw a sight that I see every night and it was a lot of blood. A lot of -- I mean, Carol was just covered with blood from head to foot from the people that were sitting in chairs.
AMANPOUR: You -- you say you see it every night. Do you have flashbacks?
DORUSHKA: Oh yeah. Yeah. That's what. The physical healing, you know, will take a little time but it'll be fine. It's the emotional healing that's going to take time. That's going to be the hard part.
AMANPOUR: I'd like to ask Anna Ballis, you were also there that day, that moment. How are you coping with it after what you did? Tell me a little bit about what you did that day
ANNA BALLIS, RESIDENT: Well, I never quite made it in the Safeway. It was quite the different trip going to a grocery store.
I had shown up at the -- I did not go there for the event. When I got out of my vehicle, I was actually going to go into the other entrance to the store, but saw that there was a crowd gathering and thought I would go over and check it out and see what was going on.
So as I was walking into the store, I did not know it at the time, but Ron Barber had reached his hand out to me and said, "Please come back and see us." He says, "I would love to have you meet her.
AMANPOUR: This was -- come back and meet the congresswoman?
BALLIS: Yes. I do remember looking over and seeing Christina, and she was quite excited about meeting the congresswoman, jumping up and down. And, unfortunately, she never made it.
AMANPOUR: Did you try to help?
BALLIS: I was not close enough to her. When the gunfire started, I leaned up against a concrete pillar to basically save my own life, went to the ground and got under a table, and just covered up my head.
I looked up, and the first person closest to me was Ron. And I had noticed that he had been shot twice. And he -- when I did crawl out from underneath the table and got over to him, he was more concerned about everybody else. He didn't care about himself.
I do not truly believe he knew the extent of his injuries at that time. And like others have said, you don't think about what you're going to do, you just do it. So I was able to pretty much apply pressure to the wound that he had in his groin area and just stayed there with him and told him he'd be OK.
AMANPOUR: Bill, Christina Taylor Green is such an elemental part of this story. You say you're looking forward to having a private meeting with her parents to grieve together. What will that conversation be like?
HEILMAN: The conversations that I've had with John on the telephone -- I've only spoken with John -- we basically barely get started and we both devolve into tears. Excuse me.
We are very fond of one another. Roxanna, the morning after this event, despite having to be at the lowest depth that a human can experience in this life, took time to e-mail Suzie and assure her of their love for our family, of their appreciation for the relationship that Suzie and Christina had forged, and that we had all their best wishes for Suzie's full recovery.
They have demonstrated gracefulness that is extraordinary under the circumstances. We'll be bonded forever by this tragedy. I just feel the need to share with them. I can't imagine what they're going through, and I don't begin to predict what it's going to be like to get together. I feel the need to share grief with them.
AMANPOUR: And does Suzie talk about Christina even though she's trying to heel physically? Does she talk about her?
HEILMAN: Suzie has had Christina on her mind from the moment she woke up. I sensed that once she did finally lose consciousness, she had described right before that their hands still being held, being on the ground, absolutely eyeball to eyeball with Christina. And that is the image that was in her head until she woke up after her surgery.
We haven't wanted to initiate a conversation on the topic, but much has come forth from her in bits and pieces. She has initially demonstrated a good deal of anger over the fact of what's happened. That kind of -- I mean, obviously, is more than justified. It's almost helpful to hear.
All she wanted to do was to give a little girl a chance to see what she herself could become someday in a way that Suzie and her generation felt she never could. And so that's driving the anger.
She's a strong woman, and she knows rationally that there's no blame to be apportioned. But the fact of the matter is, she took a little neighbor's girl away that morning and was unable to bring her home.
AMANPOUR: And when we return, madmen in our midst. How can we stop someone with violent tendencies before they strike? The conversation continues.
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AMANPOUR: Chief Rick Kastigar, can you tell us where the investigation is right now?
AMANPOUR: Is the shooter cooperating?
KASTIGAR: He did not. He, immediately - the day we took custody of him, invoked his rights, and we kept him in custody. Spoke to him no further, other than to deal with his personal needs. But from an investigative standpoint, and I have to be very honest with you, our interaction with him was really only a matter of seven, eight, nine hours and he was turned over to the FBI. But he has not spoken to our organization.
AMANPOUR: And do you know that he's spoke to theirs?
KASTIGAR: To my knowledge, he has not, really, given the FBI much information at all.
AMANPOUR: Campus police at the community college that Jared Lee Loughner attended, were deputed to go out and -- and say that, you know, he looked a little bit like he needed some help. There were worries on campus about his demeanor. Why is it that it did not trigger further investigation?
KASTIGAR: Well -- and that has been a very controversial issue this past week. And a lot of folks have suggested that there were clues to his mental stability. But we're governed by laws And the laws allow us to do certain things, and restrict us from doing other things.
And I don't necessarily as a police professional question those. As a person I might. But we're bound by those laws. Those contacts that Jared Loughner had over the past couple of years were -- actually there were several, but each one was relatively benign. In their totality as viewed by law enforcement, they would not rise to the level of causing us to be necessarily concerned about him committing a violent act.
Because none of the acts were necessarily violent. He was disruptive in a Pima College classroom. And I personally don't want a police state where anybody who's perhaps has an opinion, or stands out in their classroom, or does something goofy in their classroom, gets arrested and then put in some kind of a mental rehab system. I'm not necessarily a proponent of that.
But I'm a little bit defensive. Perhaps you can tell that by my tone. That there are others out there -- there are criticisms that says, "Why didn't cops arrest this guy before?" Again, we're bound by the law. And the totality of those issues didn't rise to the level that would allow law enforcement to take action.
AMANPOUR: Well, let me go to David who's there with a friend of Jared Lee Loughner.
(MUIR): Stephen Cates, if I could ask you to stand up that would be great. And I know that you were in a poetry class with him, and we've heard a little bit about that -- the trademark pink hair this week. But you have been such a valued voice, because you were witness to him. You were in the same classroom with him. Were there warning signs that were missed?
CATES: Warning signs for violence? No. You know, in -- in the class that I had with him, he made people uncomfortable his -- the way he carried himself. People felt eerie around that, but there -- he didn't behave aggressively. I mean, even his poems were far from aggressive. And so it's hard to draw a line between someone being weird and standing out, you know, and --
MUIR: Tuscon loves you as we've learned from this event
CATES: And if you're going to try to police that somehow because, you know, again as the sheriff said, he didn't do anything that would merit police action or any kind of institutional intervention.
MUIR: It seemed like he was a very troubled young man and that there were people, even his math professor who said, this is a troubled student of mine. Did you seethat trouble?
CATES: You could see a lack of stability. Trouble -- it's -- that's perspective and so that's hard to really gauge when you're not in their head. But that's -- again, that's not something that can be measured because it's all perspective and that's all from whoever's looking at it and you can't -- you can't draw lines around something that's built on perspective.
MUIR: Thank you for your honest voice this week. And I wanted to go back to Lynn who lives across the street from the Loughner family. I know it's been a very difficult week for you --
RIACH: Yes, it has.
MUIR: -- and this is the first time you're talking and we do appreciate it. I wonder -- living across the street and with that vantage point, if you now look back and say there were signs.
RIACH: I wish that I would have had more courage to have said more to his parents to help him better because he did kind of walk around our neighbor without acknowledging anyone.
MUIR: One of the things that struck me. You spoke of the music. You said there was once beautiful music coming from that house.
RIACH: Yes, there was. About four years ago and a couple of years before that, Jared played in a jazz band and I just loved sitting in my house listening to that music come out of the house. And something changed.
MUIR: And there was a change, you said. The family --
RIACH: There was a change.
MUIR: -- stopped talking to the neighbors and you tried to find out if it was something you or the neighbors had done. And when you asked the family, what was the answer?
RIACH: There was no answer. I was just glared at and turned a back on.
AMANPOUR: Dr. Laura Nelson's with you, David.
MUIR: And I suppose the next question would be for those who did know of the law, how easy is it to pick up that phone and is this a lesson for us all to take advantage of one of the safeguards that we've now learned is, in fact, in place?
DR. LAURA NELSON: Yes, it's absolutely a lesson for all of us. You talked about you wished you had had the courage. You recognized years ago that something had changed. And I think that's what we need to be focusing on now as a state and really as a country that there are opportunities to recognize signs and symptoms much earlier to the extent that you don't need to pull in law enforcement or necessarily call out a crisis team.
If we can engage the community into recognizing that mental illness is just like any other chronic physical condition, like diabetes or emphysema. It doesn't happen overnight. It is a gradual, progressive process and the earlier we identify those signs and symptoms, we engage this individual in communication and discuss what the options are, the better opportunities we have to get them into treatment voluntarily to get assistance and get help that they need.
MUIR: Christiane?
AMANPOUR: Let me turn to you, Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz/Is there something state leadership, national leadership can do about this mental health issue.
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: There is, absolutely. This is not a gap in law enforcement. We have a tremendous gap in coverage for mental health care.
And, you know, as we turn in the next week back to the debate over health care reform -- Tuesday and Wednesday there will be a debate in the House over the proposal to repeal health care reform. And one of the things that we have an opportunity to discuss and debate, which has been highlighted as a result of this tragedy, is that in the health care reform law there is a provision that would develop a mental health basic benefit as part of the minimum benefits that everyone would have covered in their health care insurance plan.
Involuntary commitment in my state is called the Baker Act. I don't know what the involuntary commitment law is in Arizona, but it only allows for involuntary commitment for three days. You can involuntarily commit someone for three days, have them evaluated, they can be held and then they have to be released. And it is only the system that will -- that exists or lack thereof that we have to rely on in terms of when they're released, whether they're going to get the kind of follow-up treatment that they need.
AMANPOUR: When we return, the difficult question of keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. Stay with us.
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AMANPOUR: one of the thorniest most difficult issues to raise, is the issue of guns. How did somebody like Jared Lee Loughner, how was he able to buy a gun? Interestingly, the people who sold Mr. Loughner the gun have told, in interviews, that they knew he was a little bit strange. But, by law, they felt that they could not refuse to sell him that Glock pistol.
So, the question is Chief Kastigar, how did that happen? How was he able to buy a gun? Should the gun owners - well, the gun shop - should the gun shop owners have called law enforcement? Should they have tried to delay, even though they were legally able and obligated to sell a gun to him?
KASTIGAR We are governed by those laws that those, in our legislature and the state, deem appropriate for the citizens of this state and this country. //I don't like the fact that very soon, we may allow teachers and students to carry guns in schools. And that's concerning, to me, because, I think, people who aren't mature enough to own a weapon, and deal with it, are the ones that are, likely, to cause the greatest problem in this society. We saw that happen just a week ago by some guy who got a gun within the confines of the law.
AMANPOUR: Well, let's me all of you. Everybody knows that there's a second amendment in this country. There is the right to bear arms. And, of course, Arizona is a state which is very fond of their guns and how many of you, here, actually, own guns? By a show of hands? Not even half. Maybe a quarter of this room.
Let me go to David Muir because this issue is, obviously, one that is very controversial. And what we're trying to figure out is not whether guns should be allowed, but whether, in certain instances, there are real grounds for controlling them.
MUIR: And we could point out that the Congressman, herself, Congressman Giffords, was a proud gun owner and talked openly about it while campaigning and as the Congresswoman here in this district.
And I wanted to bring in Geri Hills, you're gun control advocate. And I know it's dear to your heart. You lost someone, yourself, in a very similar situation.
GERI HILLS: Yes, standing here, today, brings me back to my beginning of this journey 16 years ago when my younger brother, Officer Adam Hills, was shot and killed in similar circumstances. He was off duty. And the shooter involved had a long history of mental health. He, also, used a semi-automatic weapon with an expanded clip. And, now, we're here 16 years later, and we're still talking about expanded clips, and mental health issues, and the right to bear arms. And I just wonder how many more of these do I have to attend? You ask what our takeaway is?
My takeaway is I pray I never have to come to another meeting like this, again. I have sat over the last 15 years my own experience. I have sat with families in Columbine, and Virginia Tech, and Otis Smith, here in Arizona, who lost her beautiful daughter Shannon, who we pat Shannon's Law in memory of. And it's time for this country to have a serious conversation and forget about being a Democrat or a Republican or a gun owner or a non-gun owner. As the President called us to on Wednesday, we need to do better. We can do better. And we can find common ground to stop this from happening.
AMANPOUR: Let -- let me ask you, Ken Badger about your -- you tackled the gunman. You also own a gun, yourself.
BADGER: My wife who's sitting right over here when our son, who is now 21 was born, she made me get rid of my .38. I do have a shotgun and -- and I do support, you know, that we need to have guns.
AMANPOUR: You say we need to have guns. That's -- that's the right. But what I want to know is have you changed your opinion in terms of who should be able to have them and whether there should be more rigorous control over who's able to get them in the wake of this incident that you are so --
BADGER: Yes. I definitely have. Because I was one that said, you know, I don't understand how an individual like this who applies to get in the military and is turned down from getting into the military, he can go purchase a gun.
I mean, there's something wrong with our laws and I think that's where we need to look at the -- at the laws.
AMANPOUR: Congressman, the lady back there told David Muir that it's time to have an honest debate in this community and perhaps in the country about this. Is that possible on this issue?
REP. RAUL GRIJALVA: I think we have to have this debate. This should be possible. As painful as that debate might be to some, it is essential. We have to talk about the issue of access. And that's not undercutting the second amendment at all, but who? And then we have to talk about, I think, munitions, the magazine, the caliber. These are all fair discussions to have now. MUIR: Christiane, Trent Humphries is a Tea Party member and I'm curious, Trent, if you could stand for just a moment.
The Congresswoman supported the second amendment. She had a gun. And I'm curious when you hear this that there needs to be debate from democrats and republicans in the room where you see this heading forward?
TRENT HUMPHRIES: Well, I mean, we talk about the other things too is we talk about how come nobody could be aware this man had a medical history of -- of that. But HIPAA laws would prevent that. It's not just gun laws that are standing in the way of this happening.
There are all kinds of laws that Congress needs to look at and -- and I think there is a time for this debate. But for what we saw and felt right now, I'm not sure that applause and things going on are appropriate right now until we've had actually, maybe had the funerals finished for the people that have --that were (sic) suffered and died.
My neighbor is one of those people. And -- and I loved that man. And -- and I want to see -- I want to see some introspection maybe from the people before the national debate happens. You know, and those -- and -- and it's very well to have those things. But something's going to have to happen with -- with everybody.
And -- and I just -- I mean, it's -- it's something that where as a country, we talk about political discourse and what's appropriate and what's not. I think that -- that applies to everybody including the media who's -- who's -- you know, and not in this -- this -- this has been a very, very cathartic thing for everybody.
Immediately after the shooting to see people jump to political angles. I just don't want to see that right now and I'm a very political person. So I -- I would ask that maybe we -- we have that discussion and it's a larger discussion and that -- and that we have that just a little bit later.
AMANPOUR: Up next, a time for healing. How Tucson and the country can learn from the tragedy, as our American conversation continues.
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AMANPOUR: I would like to ask some of the political leaders who we've invited, Representative Kolbe, Congresswoman Giffords ran for your seat when you retired in 2006, and she won. You, a Republican representative. What can Tucson and this community learn from what happened?
KOLBE: One hopes that from all of this there will come a more sensible, rational discourse on the topics -- the subjects that face this country. I -- I personally don't think that was responsible for this lone act of this very deranged young man. But I hope that out of it something good can come, and that would be if we can have a more civil, reasonable discourse on some of the subjects -- topics that we face.
But Gabby Giffords was doing the -- what all of us who are -- have been in Congress or in public office have done. That's get out there and meet with our constituents. And I don't think that that's going to change. I think members of Congress are going to continue to want to do that. And it's one of the risks we face.
AMANPOUR: Mayor Walkup, you've been a long time friend of -- of Gabby Giffords. You're a Republican. She's a Democrat. Do you think that the whole public politicking can continue -- the Congress on your corners showing the kind of connection between elected representatives and their constituents?
WALKUP Well, we have to. I don't know that I -- Gabby and I ever talked about that she's a Democrat and I'm a Republican. We always talked about what is the right thing for our people. What's the right thing for this community. And that drove her. And frankly, she brought all of us into that -- that feeling. And it's -- it's a deep feeling. But it -- it makes this job a great job.
AMANPOUR: My colleague, David Muir, there in the audience. And you have also some people who want to talk about the political situation here.
MUIR: Yes. I wanted to bring in Jason Rose, long time Arizona political consultant. I'm curious where you see this headed -- the discourse, and this talk of greater civility.
ROSE: Well, it's a -- it's a challenge to talk of politics at a time like this. But my observation would be this. There was a tragic shooting elsewhere in Southern Arizona a year ago. And it created a wilder west. I think the affect of this is going to be this tragedy in Tucson, a milder west. So I think the effect is going to have a moderating effect on the cauldron that has been Arizona.
AMANPOUR: Congresswoman?
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: It is absolutely critical that we lead by example. That we take this opportunity to -- going forward -- not shrink from vigorously advocating our views, but stop treating our opponents like the enemy. And try to push the reset button on a more civil discourse because that's what Gabby was a leader on. That's what -- that's what her hopes were for the future.
AMANPOUR: Daniel?
HERNANDEZ: I think what we've seen is this big sense of the community coming together. Not just the Tucson, Arizona. But the national community. And we need to utilize this to have a more constructive, instead of destructive, political discourse in the future.Gabby has always been a proponent of getting work done by working constructively instead of trying to attack the other side for the beliefs that they hold. So I think that's what I take away.
BADGER: I totally support what Daniel just said, -- yes. But I think when you have an event as tragic as this why something good has to come out of it. And I -- and what I've seen so far, you know, as we forget about politics, and everybody in Tucson, and the people who are closely involved in this, just want to pull together and make sure that we do whatever is necessary so this never happens again.
AMANPOUR: Thank you so much. Thank you all of you
AMANPOUR: When we come back, a final note and an unexpected ending to our town hall.
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AMANPOUR: We've heard you grieve, we've heard you offer solutions and we've even heard you laugh. And that is something very, very, very important. Because it means, I think, that the human spirit remains alive even through tragedy.
From David Muir and from me, Christiane Amanpour, and all of us in Tucson, thanks for sharing part of your Sunday with us. We'll see you next week.
AMANPOUR: As our town hall concluded, one of the victims of the shooting, who was in our audience because agitated and was detained by security. James Eric Fuller, who was shot twice last Saturday, took offices at what another audience member had said and mumbled what seemed to be a threat. He was charged with a misdemeanor and involuntarily committed according to the Pima County Sheriff's office.
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It was a Thursday morning in late June and I was at the administrative assistant job I hated, feeling extra antsy because I was so close to realizing my biggest creative dream—my first novel was coming out in 12 days! The only good thing about my job was that I'd accrued a bunch of vacation time, so I'd taken off most of the following month to celebrate my book release with a mini-book tour of the West Coast. I was pondering quitting the job upon my return, so I was researching how expensive it would be to buy my own health insurance when this message popped up in Gchat:
10:16 AM elizabeth: hey steph
will you call me when you get a chance
it's important
Elizabeth* was one of my best friends from high school, like an older sister to me really, but we'd only recently gotten back in touch. I was a hard person to handle in my late teens—angry, depressed, erratic, drunk—and it had cost me a couple of my dearest friends. Elizabeth and I were working it out, though, and I was planning to stay with her during my West Coast trip. In fact, I was afraid that this "important" thing was her canceling on me.
Since I worked in a cube in the center of the office that completely lacked privacy, I went into my vacationing co-worker's office to call Elizabeth. Even though I remember everything leading up to the phone call—the taste of my strawberry breakfast bar, clicking back and forth between my work email and my covert insurance search every time someone walked by my desk—I don't remember the conversation with Elizabeth. What she told me didn't hit me until I called my best friend, Acacia, to pass it on, mainly because Acacia made me keep repeating it.
"You should sit down," I'd told her when she answered. Maybe Elizabeth had told me that. Maybe it was just what people always said on TV.
"I don't want to sit down. I'm not sitting down," she told me, defiant as ever.
"OK, but you should because…I just talked to Elizabeth. Marcel's been on a road trip on his motorcycle. Last night he was driving through Montana, and there was an accident….Acacia, Marcel is dead."
She was silent and then she said, "Marcel is what?"
"Marcel was in an accident. He's dead."
More silence. "Who's dead?"
"Marcel," I sobbed.
Silence. "Marcel is what?"
This fucked-up version of "Who's on First?" went on for at least three more rounds. Acacia, the strongest person in my world, was broken by this news, and that broke me. Eventually I screamed at her, "Stop making me say it! Please, please stop!"
"I'm sorry," she said, finally snapping out of it. "I just can't believe it."
"I know." A world without Marcel seemed impossible.
We had geometry class together sophomore year. One day, Marcel burst out in laughter over nothing so loud and hard that our teacher made him leave. Our classmates stared at him in shock, but I laughed with him. So began our friendship.
I'd known who he was before that because you couldn't miss him—he stood over six feet tall with bushy brown hair, and the hint of a smile that made you think he knew the world's deepest secrets and its funniest jokes. He was an enigma. We both hung out at Scoville Park, where the punk-rock and indie kids gathered to smoke cigarettes and wallow in/savor our boredom and Marcel went to climb trees and statues like a monkey.
That year I was dating Greg, an emotionally abusive dickhead who wouldn't let me be friends with any of his friends—except Marcel, because no one, not even abusive dickheads, could come up with a good reason not to be friends with Marcel. One day I came to geometry class wearing a silver ring on a chain around my neck. Greg had given it to me, saying he'd found it in his basement. As it turned out Marcel had left it there, which shouldn't have surprised me since the ring was so big it wouldn't even stay on my thumb. When Marcel explained that the ring was a gift from his mother, I started to take it off even though I knew I'd catch hell from Greg for giving away something he'd given me. Marcel, who had a knack for reading people like no one I've ever known, must have seen all of this in my eyes, because he told me I could keep it.
Several months later, after Greg and I had broken up, I tried to give the ring back, but Marcel said, "You still need it, and you should keep it as long as you do. "
As soon as he said that, the ring was no longer an ill-gotten gift from a despicable person; it contained the strength and wisdom of the boy who acted as my therapist whenever we were alone in my car.
I held on to that ring through my turbulent late teens and early 20s. Then I went to visit Marcel at his new place in St. Louis. We stayed up until five in the morning talking about books, the ones we'd read and the ones I was writing—a path he told me he was proud of me for pursuing. He also gave me advice about patching things up with my old friends, like Elizabeth. When I gave him his ring that morning, he accepted it.
Even though we lived busy lives in different cities, I was certain we would cross paths again, because we always did. Marcel would always be there. He was my compass. He was sewn into the fabric of the universe, permanent as the constellations I'd spent all my life gazing upon.
So what do you do when the biggest tree in your world is felled and takes the sky down with it?
I walked for three miles, shielding my fresh tattoo from the summer sun that still had nerve to shine, listening to Automatic for the People by R.E.M. over and over again because I had such a vivid picture in my mind of Marcel in that T-shirt. I cried as I walked, especially when "Try Not to Breathe" came on, because I couldn't breathe. There was this gaping hole in my chest, and even though I hadn't smoked in six years, I bought cigarettes because I needed something to fill it.
Without planning it, Acacia and I met at Scoville Park under the tree where Marcel had talked the two of us out of running away when we were 16 and broken and angry. No one else could talk sense into us, but of course Marcel did, using some cryptic metaphor about ducks. We sat and smoked until she had to go back to work and I had to go to a book event that I felt like I couldn't cancel.
I nearly broke down while reading at that event, because I realized that my main character's father—a soft-spoken, intuitive, kindest-soul-in-the-world character who is tall with wavy brown hair—was subconsciously inspired by Marcel. I was comforted for a moment that a piece of his spirit lived in my book, but the absence of him in my life was still too fresh to appreciate that.

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Homes outside Loop 610 draw 8 out of 10 buyers
Affordable prices, helped by migrating business districts, are luring more than 8 out of 10 homebuyers in the area to the far-off suburbs
In Houston's real estate market, the Inner Loop gets a lot of the attention. But when it comes to where most of the people live, the action is far from the city's center.
More than 80 percent of the homes that sold last year were outside of Beltway 8, according to a study commissioned by the Houston Chronicle. Compare that to just 6 percent inside Loop 610 and 12.8 percent between the Loop and the Beltway.
What draws people to these far-off suburbs, sometimes 30 miles from downtown? Homeowners cite a multitude of reasons, like schools, shopping and affordable housing. Another big draw is jobs.
Houston's outlying areas are home to major business districts.
"You keep seeing oil companies and major employers locating outside of downtown. They locate along the West Belt. They're moving up to The Woodlands," said Evert Crawford of Crawford Realty Advisors and the Institute for Regional Forecasting at the University of Houston's C.T. Bauer College of Business.
"A lot of people don't work downtown anymore," said Crawford, who conducted the study.
For years now, energy companies have been setting up shop on the west side. Conoco Phillips, BP and Shell employ thousands of workers in an area along Interstate 10 that's become known as the Energy Corridor.
Sugar Land is a growing corporate hub, as is The Woodlands and areas nearby.
Exxon Mobil Corp. is moving 10,000 employees to a new campus it's building west of Interstate 45 at the Hardy Toll Road.
As a result of the jobs, areas far beyond the city limits are flourishing.
'Felt like home'
After renting a house in the close-in Timbergrove neighborhood for about five years, Jim and Sissy Black recently bought a four-bedroom, single-story home in Firethorne, about a mile south of Interstate 10 between Katy and Fulshear, an old farming town.
The empty-nest couple raised their children in Cinco Ranch and were used to the suburban lifestyle.
"We were very familiar with the west side. It just felt like home," said Sissy Black. "We felt like we got a great value and the amenities are a plus for us."
Black, who works part time staging homes for a real estate agent, likes being able to use the community's fitness center whenever she wants, and the pool is something she didn't have when she lived close to town.
Still, there are trade-offs when living in outlying regions.
Commuting can be a drawback, but many are willing to drive for a more affordable home.
A four-bedroom house with 2,500 square feet in Missouri City can be had for around $200,000, said Courtney Johnson Rose, a Realtor in that area.
"To get a four-bedroom home inside the Loop, you're probably looking at $400,000-plus," she said.
The median price per square foot for a home outside the Beltway was $72.98 last year, according to the housing data. That was up 3.7 percent from 2011, but still less than half of the Inner Loop value of $178.09 per square foot.
Working from home
Maurice Chimah, a 33-year-old Nigerian who just moved here from Northern Virginia, closed last month on a four-bedroom, 2,700-square-foot home in the Aliana community in Fort Bend County. The house was listed for $276,000.
He transferred here with his company, a large consulting firm, because he hopes to work with more oil and gas clients.
While his office is downtown, Chimah won't be making long commutes every day. He travels quite a bit for his job, and his company allows employees to work from home.
He bought in Aliana because he has friends and family in the area.
He also saw a master-planned community, which isn't as common in Virginia, as a bonus.
"I'm single right now, but it's a place where I could have a family and grow," he said.


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What an astonishing thing a book is…
Ramblings… nonsensical ramblings… wildly nonsensical ramblings…
Via Brent Simmons:
Both Douglas Adams and Monty Python have been noted for their sense of the absurdity of life. The difference is that for Adams there is always an answer — and even a question — underneath all the absurdity. It's hidden and it may be deeply strange, but it's ultimately knowable.
But for Monty Python it's absurd all the way down.
If we geeks had theological debates, I think this would be our debate.
In his own words, spoken like a true Buddhist and Visionary:
…And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
And for a little context, here is a quote from President Obama about Steve Jobs giving him an iPad2, "Steve Jobs actually gave it to me, a little bit early. Yeah, it was cool. I got it directly from him."
From wallpaper4me.
Karl Popper believed that even scientific knowledge does not qualify as the ultimate truth. Rather, scientific theories should be accepted as provisionally true as no amount of corroborating evidence can rule out the possibility that some contradictory evidence will turn up in the future.
Great quote, though I forgot where I found it…
I just love this retro poster…
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Stock exodus continues as investors yank $5.1 billion outOctober 4, 2012: 12:45 PM ET
The stock market keeps going up, and investors keep cashing out.
Mutual fund investors pulled $5.1 billion out of U.S. stock mutual funds for the week ended Sept. 26. The prior week, investors removed $4.8 billion from these funds, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.
The exodus from the stock market has picked up speed since the Federal Reserve announced another round of quantitative easing, or QE3.
By buying more bonds, the Federal Reserve is hoping to push investors into riskier investments like stocks. This has succeeded on one front by boosting stock prices, but investors continue to flee the stock market.
All three major stock indexes have seen double-digit growth this year, and the S&P 500 (SPX) has gained 16%.
Related: Individual investors miss the rally again
The total 2012 outflow from U.S. mutual funds is roughly $93 billion. By comparison, those funds lost around $67 billion during the first nine months of 2010, and $83 billion during the first nine months of 2011.
While bailing out of stocks, investors continue to plow into bonds.
Bond funds raked in $8.8 billion during the week ended Sept. 26, up from $8 billion the previous week.
Meanwhile, the ICI data showed that hybrid funds, which invest in both stocks and bonds, also saw an exodus of $377 million. Investors had been increasing their hybrid holdings during the previous weeks.
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During the weekend, even Ars takes an occasional break from redesigning an entire website or reflecting on our mutant selves. Weekend Ar(t)s is a chance to share what we're watching/listening/reading or otherwise consuming this week.
Man comes up with idea, man registers domain. It happens every day. In fact, it happens hundreds of thousands of times each day. Overwhelmingly, these become blips on the radar. But when generic "man" gets replaced by George Lucas and the domain includes the phrase "Star Wars," all bets are off.
Fusible broke the news that LucasFilms registered a total of eight domains last week, all related to a concept speculated to be called Star Wars: 1313. As with anything related to the galaxy far, far away, interpretations ran rampant. Some believed this was the Boba Fett movie that director Joe Johnston (Captain America: The First Avenger) told ScreenRant he was pushing Lucas to make. Worth noting, that interview was nearly a year old at this point. But in the dark recesses of the Star Wars universe, there was a small puzzle piece to find. The only reference to "1313" appeared to be a fake identity Boba Fett once used to deceive a clone trooper. Not exactly a Fez level payoff to code cracking, but still a potential stretch to make.
Fusible came back just four days later with an update. LucasFilms had now applied for a trademark on "Star Wars 1313" and it included a laundry list of goods and services (with popular speculation shifting from film to video game—stay tuned to E3 next week).
"Goods and services." This is where the excitement dies and the brace for frustration should begin.
LucasFilms has an ugly history of rehashing and repurposing the original trilogy—err, hexology—in order to resell fans on all things Star Wars. This includes the somewhat defensible (seemingly endless museum tours of props, spin-off fiction) and the utterly shameful (Kinect Star Wars aka Han Solo meets DDR).
In the post-Jar Jar Binks world, any talk of new Star Wars narratives needs to be put in this context. Is Lucas potentially creating a new entity because there's an idea to truly explore, or because Boba Fett pencil sharpeners and Pez dispensers (seriously, read the trademark application) present yet another opportunity to milk a diehard community for cash? Entire films have been dedicated to this question and Lucas-likeness figurines don't exactly quell skeptics.
No one denies that a truly new Star Wars story would be exciting. Fans deserve that much after some of the shortcuts the second trilogy took (hope you saw the Phantom Menace 3D to remind yourself, they even left a certain someone off the poster). But until the studio proves its goal is once again compelling fiction and not corporate finance, let's treat starwars1313.com as just another man, registering another domain.


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Autopano-sift-C Compiling OSX
Building environment
Important note: before you begin, a little note of warning. Be advised that even if the procedures described here are all (somehow) verified, nobody can assure you that everything will go fine, especially that the compiled software will behave perfectly, since it's an in-development version.
The very first thing you'll have to do is to set up the environment. Please follow the order in which items are presented:
- Make sure you have Xcode installed: go to the Finder and type Apple+Shift+G (the shortcut for "go to folder..."). In the the dialog insert "/Developer/" (without the quotes).
If the folder Developer opens, Xcode is already installed on your system (it's in Developer/Applications/) and you can proceed to the next step.
If not, look for the installation DVD of that system version and install Xcode.
If that option isn't available, download and install the Xcode Tools version for the operating system on the machine that you will use for the building job. A free registration is required. Be warned that the download is huge (>1 GB).
- If you already use Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) you can skip this step, otherwise download and install subversion (latest stable). Follow the suggestions of the Readme file and tell your system to have a look at /usr/local/bin. If you don't know how to use terminal to edit these files directly just use TextWrangler. In TextWrangler, make sure you selected "Install Command Line Tools..." from the Menu: TextWrangler. Back in terminal type
edit /etc/profileThe file will now open in TextWrangler. Look for the line that starts with PATH and make sure it contains the string ":/usr/local/bin" (without the quotes). Save and close the file, and do the same with /etc/csh.login, i.e. type
edit /etc/csh.loginin the terminal. Save and restart the Mac. Again back in terminal to test the installation, type
svn cat http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/READMEThis should show the README file directly from subversions server.
- Download and install MacPorts from the appropriate .dmg from those listed at the top.
Getting the dependencies
Open a terminal window (you can find terminal.app inside Applications/utilities)
- First we'll update the ports (you will be asked for your password)
sudo port -d sync
- Then we make macports fetch, compile and install all the necessary stuff for libpano/autopano.
sudo port install cmake libtool jpeg tiff libpng
This is gonna take a while, so grab a book and wait for macports to finish.
Building libpano
If you did everything right, the following should go smoothly:
cd /usr/ mkdir src cd src svn co https://panotools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/panotools/trunk/libpano libpano13 cd libpano13 ./bootstrap ./configure make sudo make install
Building autopano-sift-c
Now we can finally build autopano
cd /usr/src/ svn co https://hugin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hugin/autopano-sift-C/trunk/ autopano-sift-C cd autopano-sift-C cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local make sudo make install


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Geology is broadly defined as the study of the Earth as it is the science that investigates the various parts of our planet. Geologists study the composition, structure, physical properties, dynamics, and history of Earth materials, its climates, landscapes, oceans, and the organisms that inhabit them. Geoscientists also work to understand the processes by which each of these are formed, moved, and changed through time.
Geology is also important for mapping, locating, and extracting various natural resources including rocks and minerals. In addition, they also work to understand natural hazards to provide for hazard mitigation, improved engineering standards, and environmental safety. Geologists are also involved in the investigation of the processes and patterns of environmental change in the past and present, and use these studies to understand the future of environmental change and its impact on organisms.
Here at Shippensburg University, students interested in geology can take a range of geoscience courses toward a Geoenvironmental Studies Major and/or as part of the Earth Space Science Education Major. In addition, students who major in other disciplines may also take a minor in the Department of Geography and Earth Science with a concentration in the geosciences. Numerous opportunities exist for student-faculty research in the geosciences and interested students are encouraged to contact a faculty member or their advisor to discuss potential projects (see below).
- Dr. Mike Applegarth
- Dr. Sean Cornell
- Dr. Scott Drzyzga
- Dr. Thomas Feeney
- Dr. Christopher Woltemade
- Dr. Joseph Zume
Earth Science Courses (ESS)
ESS 110 Introduction to Geology
Examines and analyzes the geological processes and elements involved in the mobile earth, with emphasis on earth materials, external and internal processes, and earth history. Attention is given to human interaction with the geological environment. Topographic maps, fossils, minerals, and rocks are used to enhance understanding and student involvement. Lab/lecture.
ESS 210 Physical Geology
Deals with basic principles of mineralogy, petrology, earth structures, and surficial processes. Comprehensive analysis of the Plate Tectonic Theory. Lab/lecture.
ESS 212 Historical Geology
Deals with origin and evolution of the geological and biological earth. Major areas include principles of historical geology, the significance of sedimentary rocks, fossil records, and history of the Earth. Lab/lecture. Suggested prerequisite: ESS110 or ESS210.
ESS 214 Geology of National Parks
Presents a broad overview and basic geology in limited detail of the North American continent and Hawaii, particularly as represented by the National Parks. Classroom discussion supplemented by demonstration/laboratory exercises with earth materials, models, maps, and stereo photos.
ESS 220 Oceanography
A comprehensive study of the ocean and surroundings. Main topics include the origin of the ocean basins; water of the sea; physiography of the seafloor; plate tectonics; marine sediments; chemical properties of the sea; ocean circulation; waves, tides, beach, and shoreline processes; estuaries and life of the ocean. Prerequisite: ESS110 or ESS111 or CHM103 or permission of instructor.
ESS 413 Mineral and Rock Resources
Deals with metallic ore deposits such as iron, ferroalloys and nonferrous metals, mineral fuels, and other selected minerals of economic significance. Emphasis on geologic occurrence and mode of origin, geographical distribution, and importance to humans.
ESS 442 Environmental Geology
Deals with relationships between man and the geological habitat. Concerned with problems people have in using the earth and the reaction of the earth to that use in both a rural and urban setting. The stress placed on developing problem-solving skills in collecting, recording, and interpreting data through field investigations and simulation techniques. Prerequisite: ESS110.
ESS 494 Selected Topics: Sedimentary Geology & PaleoenvironmentsThis course deals with the concepts and principles of sedimentology, and the methods for analyzing and interpreting ancient environments for the purposes of understanding how earth systems (hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, etc.) have changed through time, understanding how rock, mineral, and other resources are distributed and located, and for understanding mechanisms of change that will impact earth systems for the future. Significant emphasis is placed on the investigation of surface processes and their impact on organisms and sediment, the range of depositional environments and their physical parameters as recorded in rocks, and various research methods used in deciphering the rock record.
Geography Courses (GEO)
GEO 224 Soils
Studies geoenvironmental aspects of soils: their nature and properties, classification and distribution, interpretation of soil surveys, and factors affecting land-use decisions. Local soil types, surveys, management and conservation practices, and problems of environmental quality studied. Prerequisite: ESS110 or permission of the instructor.
GEO 226 Hydrology
Presents basic concepts of hydrology with emphasis on the relationship of water to natural and human systems. Major topics include the dynamics of surface water flow, hydrogeology, water pollution, and water resources analysis.
GEO 301 Introduction to Biogeography
Basic concepts and factors which are important in understanding the processes and influences involved in studying the distribution of terrestrial organisms over the earth will be presented. Some topics of importance include biodiversity; past and present patterns of the distribution of terrestrial organisms; the abiotic, biotic and human influences on those patterns; and a variety of factors related to the various time scales at which organisms can be studied.
GEO 306 Geomorphology
Studies physical and chemical processes that have in the past and are presently forming the landscape. Description and classification of landforms and the theoretical and dynamic aspects of landform evolution are studied. Geomorphic techniques of quantitative analysis, advanced interpretation of topographic maps and air photographs, and fieldwork are stressed. Two hours lecture and two hours lab/week. Prerequisite: ESS110.
GEO 404 Groundwater and Hydrogeology
Examines the fundamental concepts of groundwater and hydrogeology in the context of real-world applications on the foundations of the theory. Emphasis on the principles of groundwater flow, well installation, field data collection, and the analysis of physical and water chemistry as they relate to professional groundwater investigations. Grades based on exams and application-oriented assignments (problem sets). Required field trip(s) will supplement classroom material (field trip dates and times will be determined during class). Prerequisites: One or more of the following courses are suggested prior to enrolling in GEO404: ESS110 or ESS210, and GEO226 or permission of instructor.
GEO 440 Field Techniques
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PROJECT RUNWAY – 9:00PM (Lifetime) After Michael Kors and Nina Garcia hijacked the end of last season and crowned the horrible Gretchen Jones winner over the adorable Mondo, Lifetime wisely put this show on the shelf for a good long while until everyone simmered down. But now that show is back and I'm flashing back to Gretchen winning and YOU WILL ANSWER FOR THIS, KORS! Anyway, watch tonight as Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn try and make up for that tragedy with a whole new season of wackjob designers vying for a hundred grand. The first challenge involves the contestants making dresses out of their pajamas. What grown person wears pajamas? That's just crazy. ANTICIPATION: PJ'S!
DEREK JETER 3K – 9:00PM (HBO) Because Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter doesn't get enough adulation as is, tonight HBO offers you this hourlong puffpiece chronicling to quest to get 3,000 hits. Expect lots of people talking about how awesome Derek Jeter is. If he has ANY fault, it's that he cares too much! ANTICIPATION: JETER!
LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN – 11:30PM (CBS) Louis CK, who is the greatest talk show guest in the universe, once told an interviewer that he thought David Letterman had blacklisted him from his show. But Letterman's people denied the claim, and so here's Louie on Dave tonight. But he's the second guest behind… Kirstie Alley? Really? You guys are gonna make Louie pay his dues by waiting behind Kirstie Alley? That's messed up. ANTICIPATION: POWER PLAY!
SERVING LIFE – 9:00PM (OWN) The latest new show from Oprah's network features hospice volunteers at Louisiana's infamous Angola prison, caring for dying inmates. Wow, prison AND death! Sounds like the feel-good show of the year! ANTICIPATION: SAD!
BLACK TIDE: VOICES FROM THE GULF – 9:00PM (Animal Planet) Animal Planet heads to the Gulf Coast to see how people and animals are recovering from the 2010 BP oil spill disaster. They fixed all that, right? I just assume it all came to pass. ANTICIPATION: OILY!
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TORONTO, ONTARIO, Apr 24, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Burger King Restaurants of Canada, Inc. is excited to announce the first Canadian WHOPPER(TM) Bar restaurant is now open in the Calgary International Airport. The location highlights the new BK(R) 20/20 global restaurant design and offers guests and travellers alike an innovative, premium restaurant experience and customizable menu as part of the signature HAVE IT YOUR WAY(R) brand offering.
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Multiple Paralympic champion Dame Sarah Storey gives you some tips to help your riding in her monthly blog for Cycling Weekly…
"What is the best fuel for 90 miles as I am running a bit short in the last 15 miles?"
In my last blog we talked about how to increase cadence and making your pedalling style more efficient. So as we progress, don't forget to go back and re-visit those hints and tips from time to time. As a rider, you have to focus on so many things and it's easy to forget the little things that make a big difference.
What to eat and drink is a subject that many sportive riders get concerned about and if you get your nutrition strategy wrong then your whole ride can be ruined. Fuelling for a long ride takes good planning and should start the day before.
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Make sure you keep your glycogen stores topped up and don't go hungry, especially the night before a long ride. Most importantly, eat plenty of carbohydrates that are released slowly into the blood stream (pasta, rice, etc).
On the morning of a long ride make sure you have a good breakfast, such as porridge or another slow-release carbohydrate cereal. Then, ensure you have plenty of food for your ride or alternatively know where you can stop to buy good quality fuel to minimise your load.
On a long ride you can never start eating too soon. Start nibbling from the first half hour and make sure you don't go longer than 30 minutes without taking at least a small snack. Some of my favourites are brioche with jam, cereal bars, bananas and specially formulated energy bars.
Energy bars are very effective and there are lots on the market for you to choose from. Your fluid intake is also very important and it should contain some carbohydrate too. Keep eating and drinking throughout your ride with the general rule of thumb to be that you need to do so before you feel hungry or thirsty.
Finally, try out different nutrition strategies in training because everybody reacts differently so what others swear by may not suit you. Once you've found a strategy that works stick to it and do not change it on the day of your event. This will make sure you're full of confidence and able to concentrate on reaching the finish line rather than worrying about running out of fuel.
Look forward to giving you more thoughts next month.
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Last week, 1,200 of my colleagues and I attended the 37th annual ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education -- sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education, or SIGCSE -- in Houston, Texas. I have been attending SIGCSE for the past several years, both to disseminate my research in computer science education and to better understand the issues faced by computing educators.Sessions on Women in Computing
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Last week, the ACM Job Migration Task Force released a report on Globalization and the Offshoring of Software. The report did not explicitly discuss the impact of offshoring on women in developed countries who were already pursuing IT careers or were considering study for an IT career. Nevertheless, it is straightforward to see some of the implications of the report for these women.
Take a look at this! What you are looking at – currently under construction – is the ATLAS Center, soon to be home to most of the core staff of the National Center for Women & Information Technology. In fact, the NCWIT "cluster" is directly inside the center and right curved second story windows that you see in the bottom left portion of the image, just to the left of the small balcony.
I wanted to hear about "Saving the World with a CS Degree." I eagerly anticipated this talk because someone was going to tell undergraduates about the link between computing and helping people. A former student would describe his experiences with creating information technology to serve humanity. He had lived in several third world countries, worked to build a system that contributed to Tsunami reconstruction, and provided data entry skills and jobs to the formerly unemployed.
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Several months ago I asked my friendly congressman whether he thought the middle of America's bell curve realizes that the U.S. ranks below average for 21 industrialized countries in math and science education.
He looked rather startled, so I went on: even when our advanced students are compared to those of 15 other countries, 11 countries outperform us and no country scores significantly below us.
It's not often that my husband insists on turning on the TV at a particular time. Sports events - that's about it. But he recently stumbled onto a new show Beauty and the Geek and he's become a born again TV fan. Last night, he couldn't wait until the show came on again and insisted I come watch it. We both had to giggle a lot about it, at least on the surface of things. Beautiful and seemingly dumb women. Smart and VERY GEEKY men. Men so geeky, they can't even stay in the same room with a gorgeous woman, but rather go and stand in a closet.
Lucy Sanders, CEO of NCWIT, and I spent a wonderful day in New York City in December 2005. Two things stand out in my mind about the day (before we even met on Central Park South). One, it just happened to be the coldest day of the year so far. And two, it was my son's birthday and he was surprised to learn that Mom would be spending it with Lucy, not him!
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According to the GitHub project page describing this "tampering" proxy server, "Siri Proxy is a proxy server for Apple's Siri assistant. The idea is to allow for the creation of custom handlers for different actions. This can allow developers to easily add functionality to Siri. The main example I provide is a plugin to control my thermostat with Siri. It responds to commands such as, 'What's the status of the thermostat?', or 'Set the thermostat to 68 degrees', or even 'What's the inside temperature?'"
The result of this project may well prove interesting to developers who are looking at hacking Siri to work on iPhone versions prior to 4S, upon which Siri currently ships. This also represents a potential opportunity for hackers to try and extend the functionality of Siri itself into third-party applications, something that is not currently possible given that Apple has not released a Siri SDK.
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JUPITER, Fla. -- In an effort to try and squeeze more production from the No. 9 spot in the batting order, the Cardinals are having their pitchers work on their hitting earlier this spring than in previous camps run by manager Mike Matheny.
St. Louis ranked 11th among the 15 National League teams with a .126 pitchers' batting average in 2013. Not since 1986 had the Cardinals' pitching staff posted a lower collective average.
"We're going to be a better offensive hitting group of pitchers this year," Matheny said. "These other guys, they do so much talking about how athletic they are that I think they weren't very content with what they were able to do last year. It's a little edge if we can get our guys to do some things to help them maximize their opportunities."
The league average for pitchers average last season was .135; the Cardinals had three pitchers -- Adam Wainwright (.211), Jake Westbrook (.176) and Joe Kelly (.152) -- hit better than that NL mean. Wainwright's batting average ranked 10th in the NL among all pitchers with at least 25 plate appearances.
It isn't just overall average that Matheny hopes to see improved. He is also seeking a drop in strikeouts. The Cardinals' pitchers struck out 139 times in 2013, one fewer than the league-most total posted by both Pittsburgh and New York.
Lance Lynn (.074) and Shelby Miller (.075) had particular trouble handling the bat last season. The two combined to strike out 59 times in 107 at-bats. Both are expected to be back in the rotation this year.
"There are some things out there telling us that part of it is an approach deal," Matheny said. "Every time they get on base, we're rolling that order over and bringing up guys who have the potential to do some damage."
The athleticism that the Cardinals hope will translate into improved results at the plate also should help the club improve defensively, Matheny said. The organization has worked to improve the attention to detail in spring pitchers fielding practice for this purpose.