Fertilizer plant explodes near Waco, Texas

[rubato]

The center for adaptive optics at UC Santa Cruz designed the largest telescopes in the world, the Keck telescope and its twin in S. America. They are part of a group using their adaptive optics technology to make 30 METER telescopes. http://cfao.ucolick.org/ao/

The Predatory Bird Research Group at UCSC brought the peregrine falcon back from 2 breeding pairs in California to 250 so they could be removed from the endangered species list and is helping to restore the Harris hawk. http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg/

Harry Noller's group has discovered the entire structure of the ribosome: http://mcd.ucsc.edu/faculty/noller.html


UCSC researchers track behavior of pumas:
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http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/04/puma-study.html

Puma tracking in Santa Cruz Mountains reveals impact of habitat fragmentation

UCSC researchers document influences on physiology, behavior, ecology, conservation

April 17, 2013

By Guy Lasnier
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7F, an approximately 7-year-old mother is treed by trailing hounds so researchers can replace her collar before the batteries fail. 7F lives in the mountains above Los Gatos and has had three litters of kittens in the four years since she was first collared. (Photo by Paul Houghtaling)
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16M, an approximately 6-year-old adult male roamed a territory that crossed Highway 17 for about a year and a half. He has a fresh wound on his right hip and thigh after being hit by a car while crossing the highway in November 2010. His collar fell off shortly afterwards. The photo was taken with a motion-sensing trail camera at Loch Lomond Recreation Area December 23, 2010. (Photo by UC Santa Cruz Puma Project)

In the first published results of more than three years of tracking mountain lions in the Santa Cruz Mountains, UC Santa Cruz researchers document how human development affects the predators' habits.

In findings published today (April 17) in the online journal PLOS ONE, UCSC associate professor of environmental studies Chris Wilmers and colleagues with the UC Santa Cruz Puma Project describe tracking 20 lions over 6,600 square miles for three years. Researchers are trying to understand how habitat fragmentation influences the physiology, behavior, ecology, and conservation of pumas in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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yrs,
rubato

[Jarlaxle]

Which is TOTALLY irrelevant to the topic, rube.

[Grim Reaper]

Here's a picture of what's left of the fertilizer plant.

The destroyed row of buildings on the left side used to be an apartment complex. Also, the article I posted at the start has been updated with more pictures and videos of the aftermath.

[rubato]

Which is TOTALLY irrelevant to the topic, rube.

I agree, but I did not change the subject to Santa Cruz. Someone else did.


I don't count your cognitive failures against you. Your lack of perspective and objectivity only fit you better for the flock you fly with.


yrs,
rubato

[Jarlaxle]

More projection from the rube. SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP, KID!

[rubato]

Try reading and then being able to remember posts? Age and alcohol work against you, but do try.

LJ changed the topic.

yrs,
rubato

[Sean]

Don't you lot even care about the pumas dagnammit?

[Grim Reaper]

LJ changed the topic.

Even if that were true, nobody was forcing you to follow him even farther off topic.

[Jarlaxle]

Try reading and then being able to remember posts? Age and alcohol work against you, but do try.

LJ changed the topic.

yrs,
rubato

I'd bet I'm younger than you and I don't drink. Are you sloshed, child?

[Lord Jim]

Actually, what happened here is that rube decided to (as he frequently does) use a thread about a tragedy to sneer at and look down his nose at people he considers himself to be superior to...(in this case Texans)

That made it fair game to point out that there are ways in which the people he looks down at enjoy a better quality of living than folks do where he lives....

He then chose to respond by prattling on about the accomplishments of UC Santa Cruz, rather than about the town of Santa Cruz, which is where he actually lives....(There's a good reason for why he did that...)

[Guinevere]

So why do *any* of you give him the time of day? If he got no reactions, perhaps he'd stop. Instead, we have the same old ridiculous sneering and flaming being played out, in thread after thread. Again. Really, aren't you all bored with yourselves yet. I know I am (and yes, I'm bored with myself for even saying this again ----- but its been a lovely celebratory weekend up in here in VT with my swede, and checking in and finding many of you engaged in the crap once more has made me crabby).

[Joe Guy]

.....and checking in and finding many of you engaged in the crap once more has made me crabby).

[rubato]

Don't you lot even care about the pumas dagnammit?

A great deal. They are our neighbors and provide a valuable service in keeping the deer population down. Like the best neighbors they are quiet, unobtrusive, and self reliant.


yrs,
rubato

[rubato]

The consistently poor record of Texas in industrial accidents and chemical spills is due to lack of effective regulation and lack of enforcement. The recent accident at a Bay Area refinery has been conclusively linked to ineffective regulation. The fact that Texas is so much worse than everyone else is an artifact of failed government which is caused by a "let the chemical industry regulate themselves" ideology. California will clamp down and fix the problem. Texas will kick the can down the road and act like China "making money is too important to care about saving lives".

These are important facts which it would be good to learn from if some could pull their heads far enough out of their asses to notice it.

The "hate rubato" bullshit makes you stupid.

yrs,
rubato

[dales]

I don't HATE you rube.

Even after starting early yesterday with this:

Remember Mediator?

Talk about a transparent racist idiot over at the CSB.

What an f'n buffoon!

Your area of especial expertise.

yrs,
rubato

This little shit bomb of yours came out of nowhere, it was tossed to stir up trouble.

No rube, I don't HATE you, I pity you.

[Joe Guy]

I certainly don't hate rubato. He adds something to the BBS.

Most often he adds the BS that follows the B.

[rubato]

I don't HATE you rube.

Even after starting early yesterday with this:

Remember Mediator?

Talk about a transparent racist idiot over at the CSB.

What an f'n buffoon!

Your area of especial expertise.

yrs,
rubato

This little shit bomb of yours came out of nowhere, it was tossed to stir up trouble.

No rube, I don't HATE you, I pity you.

You threw a pointless shitbomb at someone no longer present.

Take responsibility for your own actions. Asshole.

I don't pity you, I don't actually have to care about you at all.


yrs,
rubato

[Jarlaxle]

I certainly don't hate rubato. He adds something to the BBS.

Most often he adds the BS that follows the B.

[rubato]

The interesting thing is that the only meaningful point of this whole thread is'how do we regulate the chemical industry to prevent this kind of tragedy'? But to the morons its always some personal grudge which is more important.

Jackasses.

This is the point:

The consistently poor record of Texas in industrial accidents and chemical spills is due to lack of effective regulation and lack of enforcement. The recent accident at a Bay Area refinery has been conclusively linked to ineffective regulation. The fact that Texas is so much worse than everyone else is an artifact of failed government which is caused by a "let the chemical industry regulate themselves" ideology. California will clamp down and fix the problem. Texas will kick the can down the road and act like China "making money is too important to care about saving lives".

These are important facts which it would be good to learn from if some could pull their heads far enough out of their asses to notice it.

The "hate rubato" bullshit makes you stupid.

yrs,
rubato

Pull your heads out of your asses just briefly.

yrs,
rubato

[dales]

I don't pity you, I don't actually have to care about you at all.


yrs,
rubato

Good, perhaps you'll cease with the unprovoked attacks against me.

(But I somehow doubt it)