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Undocumented Student Denied Diversity Position at Texas A&M
Texas A&M's Student Senate declined to confirm undocumented student José Luis Zelaya as vice president of student diversity, citing concerns over his immigration status. Read the full article here.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – In a dark hall outside of the student ballroom, friends surrounded José Luis Zelaya to console him.
An undocumented graduate student at Texas A&M, Zelaya was denied confirmation as Vice President of Diversity to the student Senate on Tuesday night, his immigration status cited as a main concern of those who voted against him.
"It's hard," said Zelaya, holding back tears. "I was just told by my family that I don't belong here, that no matter how hard I work, how American I want to be, that I will never be good enough."
Zelaya, who emigrated from Honduras at age 14, left a life of violence to join his mother in Houston in 1999. In 2012, he joins an estimated 300 undocumented students at Texas A&M. Earlier in the year, he attracted national media attention when he ran for student body president, a position never before held by an undocumented student. Though he eventually lost to John Claybrook, the newly elected president nominated him to the vice president of diversity position believing that there was no one more qualified.
Last week, after Zelaya's confirmation was denied with his immigration status listed as a concern by several Senators, students and organizations leapt to his defense.
Texas A&M's student newspaper, The Battalion, ran a front page editorial on Tuesday asking the student senate to change its decision in the second and final confirmation attempt. "On Wednesday (the 25th), senators voted against their organization's best candidate to reach minority groups," it read. "Tuesday night, they can rectify this mistake."
Support for Zelaya at the confirmation hearing was visible.
"Our values have been violated," said sophomore Marshall Rinker, attending his first senate meeting to voice his support for Zelaya.
"Immigration is not an Aggie issue, it's a federal issue," he continued. "If you have a problem with it, call your Congressman."
There are so many undocumented students who want to serve and are told 'no', but we don't need a title to make a difference."
- Jose Luis Zelaya
Zachary Wooldridge, on the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets, urged his fellow senators to look past Zelaya's immigration status.
"He's an Aggie. He's got that ring," Wooldridge said, as senators hit the tables in applause. "That's good enough for me."
President Claybrook echoed the sentiment. "What makes A&M great is that Aggies are taught values needed to succeed in and outside of the classroom," he continued. "I think embracing diversity would only further deepens our values."
Although similar comments were met with applause, several senators remained skeptical.
"I'm not going to be politically correct here," said senator Cary Cheshire, a member of Texas Aggie Conservatives. "Zelaya's status is a problem for me…I think that it's a huge liability for Texas A&M to bring in somebody who, depending on the presidential race, could be deported next year."
Other senators consider Zelaya in violation of university rules. "Policy states that you must be in accordance with local, state, and federal law to hold a position," said Thomas McNutt, a student senator.
"Is he in accordance with local law? I don't know. Is he in accordance with state law? I don't know," McNutt said. "Is he in accordance with federal law? I do know that one."
Although most of the student senators supported Zelaya's bid, the 30 to 26 vote fell short of the two-thirds needed for confirmation.
The Hispanic President's Council is concerned with the message that the Senate's action sends to the student population.
"A lot of Hispanics might feel that there is still a barrier at A&M that needs to be addressed," said Joséph Puente, the Council's director of marketing.
"The old line that A&M is a conservative school is no longer the case," Puente continued. "It is a much more diverse campus than it used to be."
Texas HB 1403, also known as the Texas Dream Act, was introduced by then-Representative Rick Noriega in 2001. According to Lee Teran, an immigration lawyer at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, "the legislation treats these students as residents for purposes of education, given that they have lived in the state for three years prior to high school graduation," Teran said.
"This is a student position, not a political position," Teran said. "There's no Act anywhere that says he can't hold that position."
With no options left to him, Zelaya remains undaunted. "There are so many undocumented students who want to serve and are told 'no'," he said. "But we don't need a title to make a difference."
Eva Hershaw is a freelance journalist currently pursuing two master's degrees in Journalism and Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
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I have heard within IT that "good" web solutions are actually MORE secure than dial-up lines, but no one has been able to define conclusively what a "good" solution looks like. I looked for a standard (FDIC, SEC, etc?) that I could share with my Finance officer, & he could then ask potential web-partners if they met that standard --- but haven't found any such thing. The best thing I've been able to find is "look for the little lock symbol at the bottom of the screen," but that doesn't feel like a professional IT response I'd want to give to Finance.
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By Nick Carey
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (Reuters) - Ohio's Senate race has become one of the most expensive in the country in the 2012 election campaign, as money pours into the state to help a young Republican challenger come within striking distance of Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown.
Ohio, a key prize in the race for the White House, also could decide which party controls the U.S. Senate.
Republicans need a net gain of four seats to have an outright majority in the Senate, and would have effective control with a gain of three seats if presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, are elected.
Much of the $27 million in outside money flowing into Ohio has come from conservative and business interest groups seeking to elect Josh Mandel, the 35-year-old state treasurer dubbed the "boy wonder" by Republican Governor John Kasich.
"The outside money has enabled Josh Mandel to run a competitive race," said Grant Neeley, a political science professor at the University of Dayton. "He didn't have name recognition before. The political ads have allowed him to build that name recognition and get his name out there."
Recent polls show Mandel gaining ground but still an average of 5.2 percentage points behind Brown, 59, a gravelly-voiced senator first elected in 2006 and who has touted his backing for the 2008 auto bailout.
Ohio has the second largest auto industry presence after Michigan, supporting an estimated 850,000 jobs.
Mandel, a Marine veteran who began his Senate run three months after taking office in 2011, is getting strong support from the fiscally conservative Tea Party movement, which was a major force in the 2010 congressional elections.
"I would vote for you for president," Edward Ryan, who teaches criminal investigation and police science, told Mandel during the candidate's recent visit to a vocational college in Chillicothe in southern Ohio.
"I like that Mandel is fiscally responsible and not afraid to call out either side over spending," Ryan said afterward.
Brown, for his part, is getting support from organized labor, partly due to the auto bailout issue.
"Ohioans are common-sense people who vote with their paychecks, so I think they'll back Sherrod," Dorsey Hager, a union member, said at a Brown campaign event last week.
Although Ohio's 7 percent unemployment rate is below the national rate of 7.8 percent, the health of the state's economy is a top issue for voters here, Neeley said.
"Unemployment has come down, it's still a big deal for Ohioans to talk about the economy," he said. "And how Ohioans view the economy will matter on election day."
Mandel's political career began while he was still in the Marines, where he served two tours in Iraq. Serving first as a councilman in Lyndhurst, a Cleveland suburb, from 2003 and then as a state representative from 2006, before campaigning extensively for state treasurer in 2010.
Brian Rothenberg, executive director of the left-leaning non-profit group ProgressOhio, has known Mandel for years and says he started out as a moderate before moving to the right.
Mandel's major supporters include Republican strategist Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS, which has spent $4.6 million on advertising in the race, plus the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has spent $4.3 million and the National Federation of Independent Business ($1 million), according to federal regulatory filings.
Conservatives see Brown as far too liberal, which adds to the appeal of unseating him.
On the other side, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has spent $3.4 million backing Brown, while Majority PAC has spent $3.1 million in his behalf and the Service Employees International Union has spent $750,000.
Separately, Brown has raised more than $16.5 million and Mandel has raised more than $14.5 million.
Michael McTeague, a political scientist at Ohio University, said that Mandel's youth may be a disadvantage, while the feeling that the Obama administration has been waging a "war on coal" is a negative for Brown in coal-rich southeastern Ohio.
Cities like Cleveland and Columbus favor Brown, while Mandel appears to be strong in rural areas.
"People around here realize it's not enough just to send Mitt (Romney) to Washington because we need a conservative Senate too," said Geoffrey Phillips, the Republican treasurer in Clinton County in southern Ohio, who attended a Mandel event last week. "Voters here know that if you send Mitt, you've got to send Josh too."
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Power-tool Joinery: Beaded Face Frames
Discover how to join rails and stiles when you just can't cope.
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Sticking is the profile cut on the edge of a frame's rails and stiles. These days, we generally cut such profiles on the router table, and most often they embellish a frame-and-panel assembly. Frame-and-panel constructions are primarily cope and stick, produced either on the router table or shaper.
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Sep 29, 2015
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Always easy and perfect, thanks again
Oct 05, 2015
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Always well and perfect for a eays booking and confirmation Prozess.
Feb 13, 2015
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As usual great easy and with a great price quality ratio..
Oct 07, 2014
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Roger Vogel
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Aug 04, 2014
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Efficient & helpful staff especially the reception manageress. Villa 107 great with good size pool could not fault.Restruant, buffet breakfast enough variety, only downside 1 cook 1 frypan to cook eggs to your liking, we were there on low season, so OK, but I think in high season would be a problem. Beach is a big disappointment, you cannot swim there, for at least 1000 Mtrs only comes up to your chest at High Tide. Sunday Buffet Brunch GREAT VALUE approx. $40 Aus,(if you don t have breakfast) but everything you could wish to eat & more
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Efficient & Prompt. Would recommend, and you will find on most resorts their prices very competitive, if not the best, with a very good website on each resort
Aug 07, 2014
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Cynthia Billington
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Jul 27, 2014
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vert enjoyable ,, excellent staff .. could not fault anything
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robert dennis donovan
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Mar 23, 2014
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Just the best! Everthing so right! Lliving, food, staff. Excellent!
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Just great!
Mar 25, 2014
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Sven Lindahl
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We would like to thank all the staff at the beach republic for making our holiday an experience of a lifetime, we have never had a better holiday and we have all of you to thank for that. Special thankyou to Apple, Christina, clair,julie,than and many more. We highly recommend the beach republic for any ones holiday catering for all ages, from relaxation to enjoying excellent music, food and an ambience to remember for ever. kind regards from the pruuls northern NSW Australia
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excellent and very helpful after booking with inquiries
Jan 30, 2014
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kathy pruul
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I was a bit skeptical before arriving because all the reviews were so incredibly positive, so our expectations were quite large. And now we ve just arrived home after our 14 days stay over Christmas at The Beach Republic – and what a great stay! All the staff members are incredible nice, polite and helpful no matter what you ask for, you really feel they are there for you - with a huge smile. The rooms we stayed in, Club suite (we had 4 rooms in total for the family, age 17-74) was spacious, modern, clean, bright and well equipped and with a nice balcony that was big enough to seat at least 6 people. The bed was the best hotel bed I have slept in ever. There were quilts, not blankets, and they even had a special pillow menu so you can choose a pillow that fits especially for you. Every night the turndown service delivered Todays Manifest and a treat to the room – brilliant idea! From the room we went on a little walkway down to the restaurant, pool and beach area - all clean and beautifully kept. The location was perfect to us. After our last visit to Koh Samui, we were very sure that we didn t want the noise in the center of Chaweng and Lamai. So we chose The Beach Republic because of the location, a bit out side, but still easy accessible by a 10 min walk (Lamai), free shuttle, taxi or by songtaew. It feels like The Beach Republic has its own little beach. The beach is not as shallow as Chaweng and central Lamai, and the waves are not as powerful, so it s possible to swim there. I do not understand they who complain about the beach, I think it is nicer than central Chaweng and Lamai! The pool area (two pools) is also very nice and surrounded by various sun beds. From the sun bed you can press a button and then comes the pool staff serving you drinks, food, towels etc. And through out the day the DJ played relaxed music while we dozing in the sun. They also have an excellent restaurant serving delicious breakfast (loved the breakfast that had plenty to choose from, you must be quite spoilt if you have complaint about that!), lunch, dinner or a snack. They serve all from traditional Thai to international and all with great sucsess. I think my daughter ate chocolate fondant every day for 2 weeks .... And Sunday Brunch is a must! Even if you are not staying at the hotel, take a trip to try it - remember to book a table in advance. And not to forget the Christmas Day Traditional Dinner Carvery – excellent food, drinks and nice music from the DJ and the saxophone player. If I have to come up with anything negative about the The Beach Republic , i think it must be that the gym/fitness room that could do with an upgrade. But for me, the whole stay was a great pleasure and I can recommend anyone to stay at The Beach Republic. Thank you for making our holiday such a great experience – keep up the good work!
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Very good!
Jan 03, 2014
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M. Krogstad
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Jan 17, 2013
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One of the best place to be on the island. I look forward to check in again.... For sure !!
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Jan 21, 2013
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Roger Vogel
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Sep 12, 2012
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I loved this location! I went on holiday with my boyfriend. The hotel was beautiful & was a fantastic value for the location & beautiful room. HOWEVER, my one gripe was service. The following may seem minor to some, but felt like a huge insult to me. The hotel was booked under my name and paid all under my card. However, ALL Communications were addressed to Mr.(insert my boyfriends name here) . My boyfriend was not the person paying for the room nor were the charges going onto his card. So why were communications addressed to him and not to me? I worked very hard to pay for my vacation & I would have liked the courtesy of acknowledging my existance & not the assumption that my male companion was the person in charge of all funding (of which he was NOT). Additionally, when we ordered room service, my boyfriend found a staple in his pizza (weird & a clear oversight from kitchen prep). Other than these things, Beach Republic was a beautiful.
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Sep 17, 2012
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Apr 12, 2012
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Penthouse is the best.
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Apr 17, 2012
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Jacqueline Boyce
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Apr 11, 2012
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Great place enjoyed every minute. Need to catch cabs everywhere except beach
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Beach Republic The Residences
invites you to relax in your choice of our deluxe one, two or four bedroom villas, a stunning penthouse, and spacious suites. The villas and the penthouse each have a private chemical and salt water-free pool, and all units are afforded the comforts of home.
Guests at The Residences are afforded easy access to it's premier Ocean Club & Restaurant, featuring fine dining, superb wines, fitness room, and the Beach Republic Asian Fusion Spa. Live life as a first class citizen at Beach Republic The Residences.
:: Club Suite (55 sq.m.) - 18 Rooms ::
The spacious studio is over 55 sq. m. in area, and incorporates high ceilings and contemporary design with garden view balcony. The double bed features signature Beach Republic Presidential Pillow Top mattress and luxury cotton bedding. Shower room incorporates spacious walk-in rain shower. The ideal Samui base, whether you are out exploring the island or lounging by the pool at the adjacent Beach Republic Ocean Club.
:: One Bedroom Superior Suite (110 sq.m.) - 5 Rooms ::
A taste of superior comfort. Enjoy spacious and gracious indoors living with a large balcony. The Superior Suite incorporates high ceilings, a full kitchen, separate living room and a contemporary design, making it an ideal base, whether you are out exploring the island or lounging by the pool at the adjacent Beach Republic Ocean Club.
:: One Bedroom Modern Pool Villa (150 sq.m.) - 2 Villas ::
Ideal for couples and honeymooners, this villa affords privacy and comfort in true tropical island fashion. Master bedroom and living room (indoors) open directly to the chemical free infinity edge pool. Each one storey villa features contemporary interior décor, kitchen, open air shower, indoor bathroom with bath tub, spacious terrace and garden, and a second floor sun deck. Perfect for 2 adults.
:: One Bedroom Private Pool Penthouse (118 sq.m.) - 2 Rooms ::
The ultimate one bedroom suite. Enjoy spacious and gracious indoors living in contemporary design, together with a large balcony complete with private chlorine-free infinity pool and sweeping views of Lamai Bay. Incorporates high ceilings, a full kitchen with Porsche appliances, personal espresso machine, spacious living room plus a separate bedroom boasting king sized bed with signature Beach Republic Presidential Pillow Top mattress and luxury cotton bedding. The deluxe bathroom incorporates a spacious walk-in rain shower, Jacuzzi bathtub, plus the latest Japanese computerized Toto Washlet bidet seats.
:: Two Bedroom Deluxe Apartment (115 sq.m.) - 2 Rooms ::
Enjoy spacious and gracious indoors living, with contemporary design plus a large balcony. Incorporates two bedrooms, one with king size bed, one with two single beds, all boasting signature Beach Republic Presidential Pillow Top mattress and luxury cotton bedding. One bath room and one shower room incorporating spacious walk-in rain shower. High ceilings, a spacious kitchen area, personal espresso machine, separate living room and a contemporary design make it an ideal base, whether you are out exploring the island or lounging by the pool at the adjacent Beach Republic Ocean Club.
:: Two Bedroom Modern Pool Villa (195 sq.m.) - 2 Villas ::
Identical to the One Bedroom, but with a second bedroom and private bathroom upstairs.
:: Two Bedroom Tropical Pool Villa - 4 Villas ::
With an emphasis on tropical living, this villa incorporates a spacious outdoor living and dining area in addition to an outdoor kitchen, all surrounding a private chemical free infinity edge pool. The downstairs bathroom and rain shower are also open air and built around tropical gardens. Upstairs is a second bedroom and shower room. Boasting signature Beach Republic Presidential Pillow Top mattress and luxury cotton bedding. Flat panel TV, DVD player and iPod dock provide the finishing touches. Perfect for those looking to get back to nature. (Due to the location of bedrooms on separate floors, not recommend for children 9 and under).
:: Two Bedroom Private Pool Penthouse (240 sq.m.) - 3 Rooms ::
The ultimate in luxury. A full 260 sq. m. of living space including large balcony with private chemical free infinity edge pool and a separate private sun deck. Spacious living room, kitchen, and dining room. This spectacular living space is accompanied by sweeping views of the picturesque Lamai Bay. In true Beach Republic fashion, the penthouse offers a sophisticated yet informal living environment.
:: Four Bedroom Presidential Pool Villa - 1 Villa ::
Located directly adjacent to Beach Republic Ocean Club, the Presidential Pool Villa is great for extended families and groups of friends looking to get away from it all and live the tropical island lifestyle. An outdoor kitchen equipped with personal espresso machine and spacious dining area meet the super large chemical free infinity edge pool. The two well appointed bedrooms downstairs each connect to an outdoor bathroom with private shower. Upstairs, two additional bedrooms each have access to their own en suite shower rooms. Each room boasts king sized bed, with signature Beach Republic Presidential Pillow Top mattress and luxury cotton bedding. Flat screen TVs, DVD, iPod docks provide the finishing touches.
:: Relax in style explore Samui ::
The attractions of Samui are within easy reach of Beach Republic The Residence. The spectacular 18 hole Santiburi golf course is located on the hills behind nearby Maenam, offering some of the best views and golfing in Asia. There are many temples, ancient and modern, including the famous Wat Phra Yai Big Buddha. The markets of Chaweng, Lamai and Nathon offer goods from all over Thailand, including silks and handicrafts. The island provides a wide range of water sports, including diving, snorkeling, fishing, wake-boarding, kayaking and sailing.
Chaweng and Lamai have an extensive selection of bars, cabaret shows and nightclubs and Samui offers a superb variety of destination restaurants offering many different cuisines.
Whether you want to undertake a detox programmed at the nearby world renowned Spa Samui, write a book, stroll down the beach at sunset, or head into Chaweng or Lamai town to sample Samui's superb restaurants and vibrant nightlife, Beach Republic The Residence provides your home away from home. We look forward to your arrival.
:: Services and Facilities ::
All bookings for Beach Republic The Residence will include breakfast for all guests listed with the booking. The Breakfast is a self service western style breakfast and i s to be cooked by the guest. Beach Republic The Residence's staff will deliver the breakfast to the guest at the guest's preferred time each morning which will be confirmed upon check-in.
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Beach Republic is located at the North end of i Beach - just minutes from the extensive shopping, diverse restaurants and vibrant nightlife of Lamai Town and about 30 minutes from Samui Airport. Traveling from Chaweng, turn left about 200 meters past the Samui IT. Complex. Coming from Lamai, turn right about 200 meters past Buddy Boutique Hotel.
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This article resolves the issue with the Intel video driver being unable to update to version A12 after using the A03 CAB file to install drivers on the Latitude E7440.
When using Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to image the Latitude E7440 with Windows 7 32-bit Enterprise Edition, you may experience an issue updating the Intel video driver to version A12. This issue occurs if version A03 of the Windows7 Driver Cab, available from Dell, is used to install the drivers with the image.
If you attempt to update the Intel video driver to version A12 after imaging the system, the following error message appears:
The latest version A06 (released 01/13/2015) of the Latitude E7440 Windows 7 Driver CAB includes the Intel A12 video drivers. Use this version of the CAB file when imaging the Latitude E7440 with the Windows 7 Enterprise Edition operating system.
The file is available for download at the following location: Latitude E7440 Windows 7 Driver CAB.
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University of Vermont
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Chemistry (Master of Science)
An M.S. degree in chemistry prepares students for careers in chemical sciences, biomedical sciences, catalysis, energy, environment, or materials science as well as other professional fields that apply strong research skills or basic chemical understanding. Because of the research-intensive graduate education at UVM, a description of research by classic chemical subdivision follows.
Analytical chemistry involves developing and applying instrumentation and chemical methods to solve problems across a range of chemistries and scientific disciplines. One focus is in electroanalytical chemistry studying redox processes of organometallic compounds, including electrocatalysis relevant to the environmental and biological applications. Another area focuses on the development of innovative methods and instruments to study the formation and chemistry of organic aerosols in the atmosphere. This work bridges the gap between analytical chemistry and atmospheric science, contributing to our understanding of the impact of aerosols on global climate through direct scattering of solar radiation and the formation of ice and water clouds. The third area develops mass spectrometry instrumentation and chemistries for addressing current problems in the biomedical sciences. Key foci are development of methods for advancing the rapidly growing field of proteomics and application of stable isotopically labeled tracers to answer questions of metabolism and metabolic diseases in humans.
Inorganic chemistry at UVM involves the study of main-group elements and transition metals in a variety of contexts, with applications in catalysis, energy, environment, and medicine. One example is the synthesis and characterization of inorganic particles, which can be functionalized for broad applications in heterogeneous catalysis, targeted drug delivery, and biological imaging. Another area of interest is spectroscopic and biochemical studies of metalloproteins, with the goal of using a detailed understanding of their structures to explain reaction patterns. Finally, a third example is the design of metal-based catalysts for chemical bond formation, which can be applied to the preparation of useful small molecules and novel polymeric materials.
Current research in organic chemistry includes the development of novel synthetic methodologies to prepare oxygen- and nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds, new ring fragmentation reactions and their applications in synthesis, development of efficient and stereoselective tandem/cascade reaction sequences, target-directed total synthesis of medicinally valuable natural products including macrolides, alkaloids, and terpenoids, biomimetic natural product synthesis, mechanistic studies of organic chemical reactions, development of 1,3-diaza-Claisen rearrangements and applications toward the synthesis of guanidine-containing natural products, and studies in bioorganic chemistry.
Physical chemistry research areas include three major areas of focus. The first is thermodynamics/kinetics of hydrogen absorption by metals, alloys, and intermetallic compounds with a view toward storage of hydrogen as a fuel. The second is utilization of TGA, IR, solid-state NMR, and powder X-ray diffraction in determining the structural features of layered zirconium phosphonates containing a mix of chromophores as pendant groups in the interlayer region. Subsequently, photophysics of the interlayer chromophores is explored via UV-vis and fluorescence spectroscopy. Third is the development of Co-59 NMR as a probe of metal tetrapyrrole electronic structure, and using NMR/MCD spectroscopies to elucidate tetrapyrrole-containing enzyme binding sites.
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Requirements for Admission to Graduate Studies for the Degree of Master of Science
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Alejandra and David Cruz have lived in their home for seven years. But because of a glitch on the PNC Bank's auto-billing system they have fallen into foreclosure despite being willing and able to pay their mortgage. Since then, Occupy Homes MN turned the house into a social center to protest the unfair eviction and Alejandra Cruz has put together a petition to negotiate the foreclosure, garnering more than 200,000 signatures already.
The fight against unjust evictions just got fiercer as the national Occupy movement joins forces with community anti-foreclosure groups.
Closing down banks and holding up families, the fight against unjust foreclosures takes off.
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1. Re: Isolation levelsGalder Zamarreño May 1, 2012 4:38 AM (in response to Dushyant Tiwari)1 of 1 people found this helpful
The difference is simple:
With read committed, if between two consecutive read calls on the same key, the key has been updated by another transaction, the second read will return the new updated value:
1. Thread1: tx.begin()
2. Thread1: cache.get(k) returns v
3. Thread2: tx.begin()
4. Thread2: cache.get(k) returns v
5. Thread2: cache.put(k, v2)
6. Thread2: tx.commit()
7. Thread1: cache.get(k) returns v2!
With repeteable read, step 7 will still return v. So, the idea is that if you retrieve the same key multiple times within a transaction, you should use repeteable read.
2. Re: Isolation levelsGalder Zamarreño May 1, 2012 4:41 AM (in response to Galder Zamarreño)
Btw, as always, we have tests in the Infinispan code base that show this in action:
3. Re: Isolation levelsDushyant Tiwari May 2, 2012 4:42 AM (in response to Galder Zamarreño)
Thanks Galder for the respone.
i think the concept is different from what we have in case of relational databases where locks are aquired even when we read stuff.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A dozen New York police officers worked for two hours on Wednesday to hoist a 255-pound piece of wreckage suspected to be from an airplane involved in the September 11, 2001, attacks and move it to Brooklyn from where it was found in Manhattan.
The five-foot long metal piece, identified as part of the wing of a Boeing 767 jet, was discovered last week wedged between an apartment complex and a building at 51 Park Place in lower Manhattan, the site of a proposed mosque and Islamic Community Center, three blocks from Ground Zero.
"It's a piece of history, and we tried to preserve it as best we could," New York Police Deputy Chief William Aubry, who was overseeing the removal work, said. "Tried not to cut it, we were able to do that."
The plane piece was lifted over a wall into a courtyard area, then moved into a basement and onto a dolly, the police department's chief spokesman, Paul Browne, said.
The debris was then loaded onto a pickup truck to be taken to the NYPD property clerk's office in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
No definite decision has been made about what to do with the wreckage, but Aubry said it could be turned over to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
The removal of the wreckage came after the New York City medical examiner said no human remains had been found near the plane wreckage. Nearly 12 years after two commercial airliners smashed into the World Trade Center's twin towers, destroying them and killing nearly 3,000 people, city officials continue to turn up debris from the attack and to identify human remains.
Aubry described the work as emotional. "Pretty weird feeling 11 years later and here we are at a mosque. So it's tough," he said.
Police said they have not yet determined whether the part came from American Airlines Flight 11, which hit the North Tower first, or United Flight 175, which then hit the South Tower. Both were 767s made by Boeing Co.
(Reporting by Lisa Barron; Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Leslie Adler)


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The business opportunities for global helicopter operators in supporting the offshore wind farm power generation market, especially within Europe, are set to expand rapidly over the next couple of decades. In fact the growth has already begun and there are now plans for offshore farms containing over 1,000 turbines covering a large area of sea.
Within the United Kingdom, Bond Air Services has already been awarded the first helicopter contract to service the Greater Gabbard wind farm in the North Sea and competitor Bristow has also announced its intent to compete in Europe with a range of flexible services. Danish helicopter operator UniFly services the Horns Rev I and II wind farms off the Danish coast transporting technicians for maintenance and occasionally types of cargo, especially when the sea is to rough for boat transits. Back in 2002, UniFly was awarded a contract for hoist operations at the Horns Rev 1 offshore wind farm. UniFly uses the Eurocopter EC135 and in 2009 Bond Air Services also bought one of the same aircraft to serve the Greater Gabbard field. UniFly claims to have been the first helicopter operator to begin hoisting people onto wind turbines. In 2009, DONG Energy brought its Horns Rev wind farm online with a mere 91 turbines (generating 2.3MW each), yet at the time was the largest wind farm in the world. Siemens supplied the turbines, which stand 114.5 meters tall with another 30-40 meters under the surface of the sea. The diameter of each rotor is 93 meters and the area covered by the field is around 35km².
The power created by wind energy in Europe is set to triple by 2020, according the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) Pure Power report published in July. The EWEA's policy director, Justin Wilkes, revealed that "€194 billion will be invested in European onshore and offshore wind farms in this decade."
Later this year the European Union will be publishing its long-term prediction for wind energy, the European Commission's Energy Roadmap 2050. Europe has grasped wind energy, with many countries seeing it as a "green" alternative to fossil fuel fired power stations.
According to the figures wind power produced electricity should increase from 182 Terawatt hours (TWh) or 5.5 percent of the total EU demand in 2010, to 581 TWh or 15.7 percent of the total demand in 2020. The prediction from the EWEA is that "by 2020 the electricity production from wind energy will be equivalent to the total electricity consumption of all households in France, Germany, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom together."
Denmark is leading in terms overall wind power provision for its own energy needs, not only in the EU but worldwide, meeting 26 percent of its energy consumption in 2010. Spain and Portugal derive around 15 percent of their national requirements from wind energy with Germany achieving 8 percent and the UK only 3.7 percent.
In fact, by 2030, 28 percent of the total European requirement (1,154 TWh) would be generated through wind power, which the EWEA says is more than the 241 million private households are expected to need that same year. Today the figure is closer to 50 million households, indicating a huge increase in just under two decades.
In offshore terms, 2.9 GW was installed at the end of 2010 accounting for 3.5 percent of installed EU wind energy, a rise from 2.7 percent in 2009 and representing 9.5 percent of new annual capacity.
In 2010 offshore wind accounted for 20.5 percent (€2.6 billion) of the total EU investment generating 883 MW.
Although Denmark has been the leader in offshore wind power development, in 2010 it was overtaken by the United Kingdom, which exceeded a capacity of 1 GW.
Eight EU countries together with Norway now have installed offshore capacity.
Research and development into generator capacity and the increase in size of the wind turbine rotors over the last two decades have been responsible for a relatively dramatic growth in average turbine capacity.
In 1991 it was around 200kW onshore and 450 kW offshore in 1991. By 2010 this had risen more than 1,700 kW onshore and 2,800 kW offshore.
During the late summer the EWEA released its key trends and statistics review for the first half of 2011 regarding offshore installations. These showed a 4.5 percent increase in installations compared with the first half in 2010, with 101 offshore wind turbines being installed that could generate around 348.1 MW. These sites belonged to the UK, Germany and Norway. In total 11 offshore wind farms are under construction and when finished will supply 2,844 MW.
The number crunching statistics alone make for impressive reading:
• There were 1,247 offshore wind turbines on June 30 in 49 wind farms over nine different national areas. The turbine wind farms were in the following areas: Greater Gabbard and Walney 1 in the UK; Baltic 1 and BARD Offshore 1 in Germany; and the fourth prototype floating turbine in Bergen, Norway,
• 129 foundations were installed in seven offshore areas: Thornton Bank 2 in Belgium; Walney 2, lincs, London Array and Sheringham Shoal in the UK; BARD 1 in Germany and the Norwegian floating prototype,
• 108 turbines were installed, and
• finally, preliminary work was carried out at Gwynt y Mor and Teesside in the UK; Raahe and Thornton Bank 3 in Belgium.
There are two main turbine manufacturers supplying wind turbines to this EU area. By far the largest is Siemens with an 84 percent share of the grid connection against BARD Emden Energy, whose share is 16 percent. A third turbine manufacturer is SWAY but to date has only been responsible for the floating turbine at Bergen, Norway.
Financing in this sector is becoming stronger. Germany's largest offshore find farm project looks to have secured the €1.2 billion investment it requires when construction begins in 2013.
The Meerwind Sür and Meerwind Ost offshore wind farms, owned by German company WindMW, will be sited in the German Bight around 23km north of Helgoland island. With 80 wind turbines, the Meerwind site is expected to generate around 288 MW. Power will be fed into an internal transformer platform sited within the wind farm, which will in turn be connected to the German national grid. The site will be supported and maintained from nearby Helgoland and construction is expected to begin within the next two years and completed by the end of 2013.
EWEA says the trends are good for offshore wind farm financing. Banks are now more willing to look at offshore wind power generation in a new light, and there have been positive moves forward in Germany, Denmark and in the UK. However, there is a final cautionary word from Christian Kjaer, chief executive officer of EWEA: "While I see several positive trends for the European offshore wind power industry, we are not home and dry yet," he says. "The sector is coming out of the financial crisis but is still facing a potential worsening of the general economic crisis. The number of banks providing capital for offshore wind farm investments is steadily growing, although there is a continued need for attracting an increasing number of large institutional investors to offshore wind farms—presently the largest construction projects going on in Europe."


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The scene is a devastated Japan, August 1945, as "Emperor," the new historical drama starring Matthew Fox and Tommy Lee Jones, begins. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are little more than smoking rubble and stone-faced survivors. Emperor Hirohito has officially surrendered but remains protected behind palace walls.
Into the morass strides World War II hero Gen. Douglas MacArthur (Jones). He has exactly 10 days to decide whether to put the emperor on trial for war crimes and a cultural expert in Gen. Bonner Fellers (Fox) at his side to run the assessment.
Japan's postwar future and MacArthur's dreams of the presidency hang in the balance, while power plays on both sides threaten. Storm clouds loom, tense times.
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If we can trust history, MacArthur made the right call — Hirohito was exonerated and a reconstructed Japan became an international powerhouse. Regrettably, "Emperor" does not match MacArthur's vigor, or mine his legacy. Instead, the movie is Fellers' tale and dryly told.


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Jeanette Sukraw, 71 - May 31, 2014Jeanette Marie (Helberg) Sukraw, 71, passed away Saturday, May 31, 2014, at Gothenburg Memorial Hospital, surrounded by family members.
A family memorial celebration will take place at a later date. Cremation had been chosen with no public services at this time per Sukraw's request.
Sukraw was born April 16, 1943, at North Platte to Roland R. and Beulah L. (Miller) Helberg. Because her father was stationed with the U.S. Army in California, her first home was with her mother and grandparents, Benton and Estella Mae (Pitts) Miller of Maxwell. Father and daughter first met when he was on furlough and she was 3 months old.
After her father's discharge in 1944, the family farmed on Tallin Table north of Gothenburg until 1956, and then moved to a farm south of Maxwell.
She graduated from Maxwell High School in 1961. After attending Chadron State College, she taught for a year at a rural school south of Maxwell. She then took business courses at Kearney State College and worked at McDonald State Bank in North Platte.
On Oct. 26, 1963, she married Morris R. Sukraw at Maxwell. The couple resided at Gothenburg, where her husband was a parts man at Larson Chevrolet, and she was employed with the Dawson County Extension Agency's family nutrition program.
Beginning in 1968, she and her husband operated Gothenburg Genuine Parts, and went on to co-own the business from 1982 to 1999. The parts store was a kind of second home where their four children spent many after school and summer hours, and where her father worked during his retirement.
Sukraw had a deep knowledge of Christian scripture and an abiding commitment to social equality, participating with the Box Project, an exchange program with African-American families living in poverty in Mississippi. She lived a ministry of hospitality and created a warm and happy family home where everyone was accepted and welcome, family members said.
She loved music of all kinds, ragtime and blues, and especially old gospel hymns, as she played the organ and guitar, according to family members. She also taught her children to play the piano.
As a great-granddaughter of Nebraska homesteaders, she carried farm heritage forward on the family's acreage on the north edge of Gothenburg, gardening, raising chickens and milk goats, keeping bees, passing along her forebears' homemaking crafts, family members said. She loved gardening and growing flowers.
?Sukraw was a voracious reader and life-long learner. She taught adult education classes, sharing her expertise in bread making, sewing and weaving. For 10 years, in the 1990s, she owned and operated her own Gothenburg shop, The Yarn Shop-Prairie Child, devoted to fiber arts, framing and children's wear. She loved coming to know people through the community life of her shop, the family said.
In her retirement, she continued to express her artistry through piecework quilting. She also worked at Gothenburg's Pony Express Station and enjoyed welcoming visitors to the town and state she so loved.
She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Gothenburg and participated in book and Bible study groups.
Sukraw was preceded in death by: her parents, Roland and Beulah; her parents-in-law, Jarold and Inez (Solomon) Sukraw; a sister-in-law, Carol (Sukraw) Kieselhorst; brothers-in-law—Loren Sukraw and Kenneth Kieselhorst.
Survivors include: her husband, Morris; her children—Ann (Kevin) Sukraw-Lutz of Grand Island, Tracy Sukraw of Cambridge, MA, Jason Sukraw of Omaha and Nathan (Dayna) Sukraw of Sidney; six grandchildren—Alexander (Mikala) Lutz of Omaha, Audrey, Elizabeth and Ivy Lutz of Grand Island, Jaidon Hollingsworth of Omaha and Khalil Sukraw of Sidney; a brother, Roland L. (Deanna) Helberg of Maxwell; an aunt, Marjorie (Miller) Gamble of North Platte; uncle, Calvin (Mary Lou) Miller of Gothenburg; step-uncle, Morris Devine of Gothenburg; three sisters-in-law—Marilyn (Stephen) Morton and Cathy Sukraw of North Platte, and Sharon (Jack) Wyttenbach of Sauk City, WI; a beloved cousin, Pam (Nelson) Slack; numerous cousins, nieces and nephews.
Memorials are suggested to the Nebraska Children's Home Society, 4939 S. 118th St., Omaha, NE 68137 (www.nchs.org).
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No worries. I only bought two DP-2 batteries by accident from B&H when I bought my DP-2"M". Man, did I feel stupid Happy shooting!- N.
I, too, was interested in the DP-2, ordered it over the weekend and received it Wednesday. My first impressions were much along the same lines as earlier posts, with a couple of differences. Having spent a couple of hours in a favorite local location taking photographs, I believe that the the DP-2 is much slower than my Canon DSLR's. Over the last 10 years, I've taken over 2000 images in this location, averaging around 70 per trip. Today, I got less than 30. Fumbling with controls, the use of manual focus and waiting for the camera to be ready for the next image were major contributors to this result.I exhausted the first battery in getting the camera set-up to meet my way of working, like finding how to set the date, setting RAW only, Aperture priority, power-off times and a number of other settings, and taking 41 images. I imagine that the next batteries will last a little longer.Sigma Photo Pro has a number of major annoyances, it seems to remember settings I'd rather it not remember and forgets settings I'd rather it would remember. It seems to be useful only for setting white balance. Luckily, almost all of today's images were sunlight WB, so setting it was easy. All of the images were then adjusted in LR4. The results were excellent, when viewed on the monitor. I sure wish that LR4 supported the camera's raw data. I would suggest that, while you a waiting, that you download SPP, search the net for sample raw images, and develop your workflow. That was a great help in dealing with today's work.
New SPP software update, and firmware update for both DP2M and DP1MFirmware: http://www.sigma-photo.co.jp/english/new/new_topic.php?id=323SPP software: http://www.sigma-photo.co.jp/english/new/new_topic.php?id=324Rand
If only Phase or Hasselblad would licence the Foveon sensor technology fopr digital MF, and make a full frame 645 sensor in the quality, it would blow everyone's socks off, all over again.
Thank God. I got rid of my DP2M - took it back to B&H, because of the endlessly crashing software in Windows. I mean didn't anyone test it before they released it? Its a truly horrible piece of work, even if they have got it stable.
narikin-That's strange, I suspect that your computer is at fault. I have been using SPP and the numerous iterations for years with a number of different Sigma cameras and it hasn't crashed on me once. This has been on three different computers...
New to this site and forum. I was vaguely interested in the DP-2, and read nearly every post in this board with relish, then ordered a DP-2 Merrill on sale from B&H. Can't wait to receive it, although I fear my wife will snatch it up and hide it away from me until Christmas. Such valuable and rich information here....Thanks to all.MezzoduomoScottsdale, AZ USA
I am glad you posted these photos. I have been dealing with a lot of aliasing as is apparent with the railings and ropes and straight lines in these photos. For those of you who don't know, aliasing is the stair stepping look you see on the horizontal and vertical lines in these photos. This is the price you pay for not having a blur filter or AA like bayer sensors have....you get much sharper pics but this can be an issue for certain targets. I have expiermented with several anti-aliasing plug-ins and have found some relief. When printed at size like 17x20 the aliasing is not as noticebable as it is with digital representation. When zoomed in at 100% on digital displays the aliasing is very minimized....How are you all dealing with this pre-agreed to phenomenon due the the absence of AA filtering???
There has to be a story behind that car. That's an attention-getting image. Thanks.Bernard... I came across this in other readings today.Seems that car is getting a bit of attention!http://jalopnik.com/5965028/wheres-the-worlds-most-expensive-parking-space?post=54863863scroll to see the comment.


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December 19. 2012 10:07AM
NH gun dealer seeing uptick, but Conn. killings only a part of the reason
By JOHN DiSTASO
Senior Political Reporter
As key state lawmakers consider possible action in the wake of last week's tragic school shootings in Connecticut, one of New Hampshire's oldest gun shops is experiencing an uptick in sales, its owner says.
But Ralph Demicco, owner of Riley's Gun Shop in Hooksett, said Tuesday his business had an earlier "surge" in business after President Barack Obama was reelected because, he said, gun buyers believed even then that the President will push for "some sort of legislation" to tighten restrictions on firearms.
"In addition to that, it's Christmas time and things are generally busy. And then this heinous thing that happened
in Connecticut, there has been somewhat of another bump in sales," Demicco said in an interview.
"To what degree that is the cause of it, it's hard to say because things are already operating at pretty full capacity as it is," said Demicco.
Other firearms dealers in the area refused to discuss sales following the Connecticut massacre.
Spokesmen at Sig Sauer's headquarters in Exeter and its new academy in Epping did not return calls and Carey McLoud at the new Shooters Outpost in Hooksett said it "would not be appropriate" to discuss sales at the current time.
But the "Personal Protection in the Home" course offered by the Manchester Firing Line Range, also owned by the owners of the Shooters Outpost, is full until February, according to the range's web site.
Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc., announced on Tuesday it has suspended the sale of "modern sporting rifles" in all of its stores. At the State House, Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro, said lawmakers are "sickened by the tragedy," but he was not aware of any particular bill filed in response to it, yet.
"We need to make sure we are doing everything we can to enforce existing law, and I think the intersection of mental health issues and the Second Amendment needs careful attention," Bradley said. "That's where the discussion should start, at least. I think we can reach a broad consensus on it. "We're all going to have to act like adults here and that's a good starting point," said Bradley.
Senate Democratic Leader Sylvia Larsen, of Concord, said all related laws will be reviewed.
She said there may be an effort to review the current so-called "stand-you-ground" law passed in 2011.
"And I believe there will be another discussion of allowing guns in the State House," she said.
"You can't have guns in the court houses, so it wouldn't be unheard of to reinstate the policy that had been in place for many years," banning guns from the State House, said Larsen.
But she said that "with the ease with which people pass borders, you have to rely on the federal level. It's difficult to have any state-by-state anything."
Larsen said Democratic senators met on Monday, "and had a quick discussion but there will be more. We need to review where we are."
"Obviously people respect Second Amendment rights, but there are also the rights of private citizens to feel safe," she said.
Veteran Sen. Lou D'Allesandro, D-Manchester, said, "We really have to think about how we deal with the mentally ill. We know that hospitals have done away with psychiatric wards and the State Hospital is jammed.
"The fact that something has to be done along those lines was a foregone conclusion even before this tragedy," D'Allesandro said.
Demicco, who has owned Riley's for 39 years, said purchasers are not generally bringing up the Connecticut shootings when they buy firearms.
"If there is any comment made, it's something to the effect that this is certainly going to spur the discussion of some kind of proposed legislation, and they're just not sure, and they're just not going to take chances," he said.
"When the perception is that something is going to happen, then the product becomes impossible to get," he said.
He said ammunition has been "at an all-time shortage for the last three or four years, since the President was elected the first time.
"We all have ammunition to sell but we don't have all the ammunition we would want to buy," said Demicco. "Ammunition companies are operating a full tilt and people are stocking up on ammunition not knowing what potential legislation may be in the offing.
"There is tremendous fear of the unknown," he said.
Demicco said semi-automatic rifles, also referred to as "assault weapons" and "modern sporting rifles," have always had "steady and strong" sales, "and they continue to.
"Are they selling more now? Maybe slightly, but people are not stripping the shelves."
Demicco said he has "strong feelings" about how such tragedies may be at least somewhat deterred in the future.
"The common denominator I see is mentally unstable people victimizing the defenseless, and it's universal," he said.
"Every firearm purchaser is subject to a NICS (National Instant Check System) check and run through a series of data bases, and most of those data bases do not contain information on mental disabilities, problems leading to having them committed.
"Is this the next frontier we have to look at?" he asked. "I don't know.
"The big roadblock will be: Who gets to classify and what are the criteria?"
Demicco also said that while opposes censorship in general, "What I do find objectionable is these young kids playing video games, which are incredibly violent."
He said young people who are already "reclusive" and "lock themselves in their room playing these games become socially desensitized. Life becomes a game. "They can go out and actuate this behavior in real life, and it doesn't have the impact it would have on most people."
Demicco said that while there may be many areas to address in the wake of the tragedy, "I'll tell you one thing: more than ever people need to be able to have a means to defend themselves."
He said calls for a ban on socalled assault weapons by three members of the state's congressional delegation "is the easiest position for them to take. It takes the least amount of effort and thinking."


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The outdoor subway tracks were especially windy this past Tuesday at the Van Siclen Avenue stop. A mother standing with a baby in a stroller walked toward the bench where her other three children were waiting for the train and in an instant a strong gust of wind blew the stroller with the baby inside onto the tracks. Onlooker Khalima Ansari recounted to NBC New York, " All I see is her turn around real quick and run towards the tracks."
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COLUMBIA - The state transportation department and CSX Transportation, Inc., have won a legal victory against a young woman who suffered a traumatic brain injury when the car she was riding in collided with a train eight years ago.
The S.C. Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed a trial court's decision that Lillian Colvin's guardian at litem had appealed. Her negligence suit arose from the 2004 wreck in which the car driven by her mother, Tonia Colvin, was struck while crossing a train track maintained by CSX in Hampton County. Lillian Colvin was 12 at the time of the crash at the Hill Road crossing.
In South Carolina, trains are required by law to start blowing their horn continuously no closer than 1,500 feet from the road. But in the case of the crash, the train's event recorder showed the engineer hit the horn when the train was only 1,161 feet from the crossing. Lillian Colvin's attorney also argued that CSX failed to remove trees and vegetation near the crossing, which prevented Lillian's mother from seeing the approaching train, despite stopping at the stop sign.
S.C. DOT was also targeted because Colvin's lawsuit alleged the state hadn't properly inspected the crossing and put the stop sign and stop line in the wrong place.
At the time of the crash, Tonia Colvin's boyfriend was also in the car. All three were injured.
Wednesday's decision included Judge Paul Short's dissent, in which he said the trial court had committed various missteps.
"On behalf of Lillian Colvin, we are disappointed in the court's opinion," said Johnny Parker, an attorney with a Hampton firm representing Willie Homer Stephens, the representative for the injured youth.
The decision detailed Lillian Colvin's injuries, which led doctors to place her in a one-month, medically induced coma and drill a hole in her skull to relieve pressure on her brain. Four years after the accident, she "continued to suffer from severe intellectual, behavioral and physical impairments," according to the "facts" section of the court decision.
"We agree with Judge Short's dissent and believe that certain errors which occurred during the trial warranted a new trial," said Parker, reacting after the decision.
He said they would appeal to the S.C. Supreme Court.
A Columbia attorney for the S.C. DOT did not respond to questions.


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Why do we protect endangered animals?
Why do we protect endangered animals?
In theory, protecting endangered species is considered as against nature, as that you are fighting against natural selection.
however, sending a sick child to hospital and have an operation to correct some inherited disease is pretty much the same thing, I guess im not go into that.
However, I do like to ask - Why do we protect endangered animals?
This is not like protecting the rainforest, I mean protecting rainforest have positive impact on our life, so we get more oxygen and those craps. However, an endangered specie that is completely useless towards us in every single way - why protecting them?
Like the Giant Panda - these animals stoped evolving minions of years ago due to small changes in their habitat, I consider them lucky enough to live to this very day. Their specie is weak, and without the minions of money every year from outside aids and the government, the giant panda gonna die in a blink. We spent fortunes to maintain the existence of a neglected specie of nature. Why?
In comparison, if those money were sent to the children of where Panda lives (Szechuan Mountain area is still a poverty zone, and peoples life quality were still like pre-modern time, no electricity, gas, or running water, no road for many villages, travel up to 24 hours to reach hospital, walk 3 miles for school etc etc) , for education, transport, medical attention and food aids (many children still suffers from malnutrition especially in protein, and this have devastating effect as that most Szechuanese girls have no boobs and boys possibly have small penis, which I dont care, small penis wont affect my visual happiness). The life quality of the people would greatly improve which have way better actual impact on our society.
Which would you prefer, few dumb bears (despite they are not quiet in bear family) or millions of people gets electricity, running water, good road for transport, education, medical services, food aid, prettier women, etc etc
Im sure anyone would agree to money to the people. However, humanity is so stupid, that actually most of the world would prefer to save the fcking panda. I mean, why?
Easy - Pandas are cute, they are furry and they are cute (yes, but have you seen when panda hunt people? You give a cuddly image to panda but in reality they still hunt other animal and will attack people to take a juicy bite. dont forgot, they still bears... of some kind)
So, this is the awnser of humanity, rather save some fluffy animal than your fellow homo-sapiens race.
I mean what impact does the Giant Panda really do on our life? You just gonna say, oooh, they cute, and thats it... (except Chinese Government sell them to foreign zoo for fortune ofc...)
12-04-2012, 04:47 AM (This post was last modified: 12-04-2012 07:11 AM by Lilith Pride.)
RE: Why do we protect endangered animals?
The endangered species protection acts began because humans were directly involved in endangering pecies. Animals like your giant panda were later added in by people in the field of endangered species protection. Some of the earlier animals to be protected for instance were wolves. Wolves were nearly wiped out in the US due to their image of being detrimental to farmers. It took a while before people saw the use in having wolves in forests. The basic reasoning of it is that what started as a way to fix their own mistake, became a humanitarian effort to prevent loss of life.
You should've mentioned the tazmanian devil who is actually being studied in an attempt to prevent their species from being wiped out. There has been a lot of research done in attempting to find a devil whose genetic immunities include a horrible face virus. It's a species who became rather genetically homogulous due to their isolated location. Definitely not the type of animal most people would really want to save.
I'm not a non believer, I believe in the possibility of anything. I just don't let the actuality of something be determined by a 3rd party.
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12-04-2012, 07:32 AM (This post was last modified: 12-04-2012 07:36 AM by Dom.)
RE: Why do we protect endangered animals?
It is us who are displacing most animals and plants. By doing so, it is us who are disturbing the eco system, the way nature works together.
Eventually, this will come back to bite us. There is a natural system that has evolved for a very long time and it is fine tuned. Every missing link will affect the whole structure. It is one thing for a species to run out of food because of weather conditions, that is natural selection.
It is another for them to run out of food because we used it for something else or we paved the place where it grew.
Humans are a plague on the planet, they breed like rats and behave like rats and eventually will become totally dependent on synthetic food and materials because we wipe everything natural out.
Used to be the human population was controlled by periodic transmitted diseases that would wipe out vast numbers of the population. But we have conquered nature to a point, enough to make us the worst plague that ever hit the earth.
The problem is that we are getting good at evading natural selection and the rest of life on the planet is not able to compete. So we are slowly but surely destroying ourselves along with our planet.
Perhaps once we are done new species will come and populate the earth and this will start from scratch.
Or, we could evolve and stop breeding like rats and behaving like rats and the human species could continue to live on the planet and so could everything else that is part of the eco system.
Perhaps we will manage to support ourselves without nature, control all aspects we need and discard the rest.
The problem with that is that we make mistakes, we do not know the half of it.
Look for instance at things we did decide to subject totally to human "creation", such as having enough food for all.
Most younger people today do not even know what a tomato tastes like. The tomatoes you can buy commercially (and that even extends to varieties sold in stores to plant in your garden to grow yourself, although they do have more flavor that way) were bred to grow faster, be harder so they don't get injured during picking and mass shipments, respond to artificial application of color (they are red but unripe), grow on bushes rather than vines so space requirements are reduced, are loosely attached to their bush so picking is easy, are resistant to various diseases etc.
What they are not selected for is flavor and nutrition and for the most part people don't even notice anymore, younger people grew up with "card board tomatoes".
If you want to taste an actual tomato, and get the nutrition it provides, you have to buy heirloom seeds that have not been altered and grow them yourself. And, damn are they good!
This hold true for most things. Pork has become flavorless, as have all the other meats. Won't be long and you won't be able to taste the difference between pork and beef. Fruit are flavorless. Most fruit and veggies are naturally sweet - which makes other flavor characteristics that are caused by nutrients palatable. But the way they are mass produced doesn't allow for the sugars to build, and they don't taste good anymore.
Like I said, these are all things we have lost for long enough now so that the younger population is unaware of it.
With the elimination of nature, more and more such losses will sneek into our lives, your children and their children will not know many things that give you pleasure now. The masses will live on flavorless, packaged, enriched foods that are lacking many things that we do not understand now. "Real" food will sell at a prime and be limited to the wealthy. It's already heading that way....
To destroy nature means to give up on many pleasures it provides. Species preservation and living green are feeble attempts at controlling this. What needs to be controlled is procreation, if we stop overrunning the planet like rats then the planet will continue to yield what we need without our having to tinker with everything. Let's face it, we have learned a lot but we don't even understand the simplest things about ourselves, like nutrition.
Science is the process we've designed to be responsible for generating our best guess as to what the fuck is going on. Girly Man
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RE: Why do we protect endangered animals?
I suppose because we wipe them out much faster than non human causes.
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."
-Mark Twain
12-04-2012, 08:41 AM (This post was last modified: 13-04-2012 09:02 PM by Hamata k.)
RE: Why do we protect endangered animals?
We protect them in the hopes that the population grows large enough that we can begin to eat them again.
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RE: Why do we protect endangered animals?
In my opinion, it's more of the "let our future descendants see such beautiful animals" notion that drives this campaign on. The thought of cute fluffy pandas and majestic tigers vanishing from the planet is scary to some. Conservation allows the species to be protected, a good short term measure, but detrimental in the long run. Human intervention has sometimes led to various species being highly dependent on humans to survive, such as corn and toy dogs.
I agree with you one point. People talk about saving the world when in the first place they cannot even manage care for one another. Here's a relevant George Carlin video:
Welcome to science. You're gonna like it here - Phil Plait
Have you ever tried taking a comfort blanket away from a small child? - DLJ
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RE: Why do we protect endangered animals?
(12-04-2012 07:32 AM)Dom Wrote: It is us who are displacing most animals and plants. By doing so, it is us who are disturbing the eco system, the way nature works together.This is a very long post and Im gonna argue with it a bit by bit
Quote:[[[[[It is us who are displacing most animals and plants. By doing so, it isYes, indeed, the Eco-system is very complex however it is not delicate. When one minority under populated specie disappear, it will have no influence at all. Other animal will simply take over its place by expanding their population on the minority specie's food resources, as well as natural predator, which will begin to eat other species rather than the disappeared specie. The missing link in foodchain made a hole in the eco-system, and is now automatically fixed by nature
Now, lets look at the animal went extinct in the last 150 years - How many of them actually caused any influence in the eco-system, or, in a even less likely influence, how many of them actually influenced our way of life?
natural selection does not means it have to be entirely natural causes. It also applies to pressure from other competitive organism. One example of how evolution cope this, is immune system. As a larger organism we all vulnerable towards small organism, such as bacteria or parasitoid (not to be confused with parasite) ; host on us and use our body as nutrient sources or for their reproduction system. So, natural selection let the ones who developed immunity live, where the ones without natural selection dies.
or, a more common example. When the NA squirrel invaded UK, they soon quickly take over the local red squirrel, causing the red squirrel in UK mainland to extinct. Now, only the Wright Island still have the precious red squirrel.
Natural competition between animals happens. We are animal too!
Quote:t is another for them to run out of food because we used it for something else or we paved the place where it grew.Unrelated. I assume you confused this with another topic about eating pork.
Quote:With the elimination of nature, more and more such losses will sneekAgain, unrelated. I am talking about why spend so much money on endangered specie who fails at reproduce, and were abandoned by natural selection. Do not confuse this with ideas like mass destruction of rainforest blah blah blah.
Its 2 complete different ideas. destroy rainforest is like the destruction of an entire eco-system from heads to tail, but yet again, I can still argue its all part of nature. Some animals (like us) is capable of changing the entire eco-system, and have done so in the past - and.... what? Nothing have changed! Nature will find its way to adapt themselves, and the ones that did not adapt will become extinct - this is natural selection -
One good example is the savanna grassland (unconfirmed though, I only heard about this theory but I haven't confirmed it yet) - Why grassland? its because African elephant went rampage on this land, knocking out all the trees, which destroyed the original habitat of rainforest, so instead, a new eco-system called grassland formed.
Same with desert - if there is no desert then there would be no desert eco-system - the only reason why we brainwash our kids to think desert is a death zone is because it is deadly to US - human. Desert species would love to see their eco-system to expand im sure for certain.
well, this is out of topic - My original idea was - why keep so much money to keep certain animal that SHOULD extinct, such as the giant panda - to stay alive?
RE: Why do we protect endangered animals?
Hey, 4B.
I agree with you on one thing. Pandas are used to gain sympathy because they're cute. No one would give a shit if they were asked to save some nasty looking bug. But this is a marketing issue, not an importance issue. They all need to be saved.
An ecosystem is a system. The difference between a system and a heap is that you can divide a heap in two and nothing happens. You can remove pieces from a heap and nothing happens. If you do either of those to a system, the system doesn't work. This is because the pieces of a system are INTERDEPENDENT.
Evolution is not a solitary process. Every other species, every rock formation, every weather pattern, affects everything else in the system. We wouldn't have an oxygen balanced atmosphere without worms and we wouldn't have fewer rats in cities without cats and, well, the list of interdependencies is astronomically long.
It's true that sometimes, a species goes extinct and the effect on the ecosystem is negligible. But it's equally true that sometimes the disappearance of a single species is catastrophic. These species are called KEYSTONE SPECIES. The premise of keystone is best illustrated with this commercial for Jenga. We can never predict which piece is the keystone piece but once it's removed, the system collapses. We only know about it AFTER THE FACT.
In evolutionary science, this is known as PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM. It means that the system is largely stable for long periods of time, but that stability is punctuated by periods of massive change, like the Jenga tower collapsing.
There are ALWAYS species going extinct. It happens all the time and yes, it's the product of natural selection. This is called the BACKGROUND EXTINCTION RATE. The problem today is that as a direct result of human activity, we are at about 2 500 times the background rate. We're losing, depending on who you ask, between 50 to 200 species EVERY DAY. It's being the Holocene Extinction and in terms of species loss, it's right up there with the second worst mass extinction in the history of this planet; the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 65.5 million years ago - the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. That's the scale of species loss we're dealing with. And it's due entirely to human activity.
Ecosystems can be looked at locally, a swamp say, or globally, the biosphere. It's systems within systems. You mention the rain forest. The biosphere entire benefits from that local ecosystem. So here's the thing. If we're wiping out dozens of species every day and we have NO IDEA which species are keystone species, we're playing Jenga with the biosphere.
So when we say things like, "stupid pandas are dying because they're not fit", it's true in the sense that they are not fit for the habitat we are leaving them with, but had we left them alone, they would have done just fine. It's like saying, "stupid family deserved to die because they weren't suited for their house," right after we lit their house on fire. I suggest HIGHLY that you read The Future of Life by EO Wilson. It explains all of this in far better detail than I can. He goes into great detail about HIPPO; the five factors of human activity that threaten biodiversity: Habitat destruction, Invasive species, Population, Pollution, Overharvesting. I also WHOLEHEARTEDLY recommend Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.
The problem with the Homo genus is that it's not diverse. There's only one species of Homo; Homo sapiens. It is entirely possible that we can collapse the biosphere in such a way that the earth will no longer be hospitable for humans; we will no longer be fit - like what happened to the dinosaurs. This is a problem. When we look at pandas, it doesn't seem like one could lead to the other but that's not the point. The point is that we have an obligation to ourselves to protect diversity because diversity is what keeps ecosystems, the biosphere included, healthy and robust. Diversity diminishes the odds of punctuated change, or ecosystem collapse. Human material needs are not the only consideration, not because they're not important, but it's like saying, "why would someone want to breathe when there's food to eat" It's not a question of either or, it's a matter of making sure both happen because we need both to live long lives. The current production model of just going in like a bull in a china shop and clearcutting and strip mining and monocropping is a flawed model because it is costing us dozens if not hundreds of species per day. We simply based our production model on the axiom of UNLIMITED GROWTH because when we began this civilisation thing 5 000 years ago, it seemed like there were unlimited resources. Now, with the entire planet mapped and laid claim to, it's clear that our resources are in fact FINITE and that our model simply cannot be sustained. The species that are disappearing every day is nothing more than DEFICIT SPENDING. It's not that we cannot produce, it's that we have to have a model that includes the importance of habitat and species diversity and that replaces unlimited growth with limited or sustainable growth, if not replacing the growth model entirely; perhaps a model that incorporates BOOM AND BUST cycles. Otherwise, we're engineering our own extinction. If pandas are the poster boys for a global effort to alter our production model and to be conscious of the fact that we have an absolute need to protect biodiversity, so be it.
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16-04-2012, 01:24 PM (This post was last modified: 16-04-2012 05:21 PM by Logica Humano.)
RE: Why do we protect endangered animals?
I personally believe it is in our best interest to protect and help endangered animals recover for the simple maintenance of the world's ecobalance. Of course, I am sure people like you would rather put the money that would save the world to more important products, like the iPad3.
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RE: Why do we protect endangered animals?
I haven't read through all the responses so I apologize in advance. I will read through later on when I have more time.
In short, Humans have the power to directly affect the "natural" order of the eco-system. No other species has this power. We could go completely against nature by destroying this planet with nukes. This is not "natural". I keep quoting "natural" because one can philosophy the meaning, but that's another debate.
You speak of minority species, but you have to realize that in the natural world without humans, extinction is a very slow process. Slow enough for nature to adjust the balance accordingly. We humans are rapidly causing the extinction of animals. This gives nature little to no time to adjust. Every single species of living thing, no matter how innocuous they seem, is part of the circle of life. Bees pollinating flowers, ants ridding the ground of natural trash like carcasses, ants being the food source for animals like the ant-eater, etc...
This is why there are people devoted to preserving the species of animals that we had a direct hand in endangering.
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