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The latest gun bill from Republican lawmakers would require business owners to allow concealed-carry permit holders to pack heat or else provide one security officer for every 50 customers and face increased liability.
Sen. Kent Lambert of Colorado Springs said his bill, expected to be introduced Wednesday, is aimed at public-access private property, such as a mall. He mentioned the shooting inside an Aurora movie theater in July where 12 people died and 70 were injured.
"If businesses don't allow people to defend themselves it puts the onus on them to provide security for their customers," he said.
Rep. Beth McCann, D-Denver, said she hasn't seen the bill but is surprised by the concept.
"Normally we see a pro-business approach from Republicans," she said. "I don't think it's fair to make businesses carry this kind of burden."
Lambert said there is no burden to businesses that allow customers to defend themselves.
The measure, sponsored in the House by Rep. Lori Saine, R-Dacono, is one of a slew of gun bills that Colorado lawmakers in both parties will hear this legislative session.
The debate mirrors a national discussion, prompted by the shooting in Aurora and the death of 20 children at a Newtown, Conn., school last month.
The gun debate in Colorado has been impacted by the November election when Democrats regained control of the state House and kept control of the Senate. During the past two years, gun bills that passed one chamber typically died in the next.
This time around, Republican gun bills are likely to face resistance, while Democratic measures will have an easier time.
But even if Republican gun bills die, it's important to introduce them, said Rep. Justin Everett, R-Littleton, who is carrying the "Make My Day Better" bill, which has failed seven years in a row.
"As Republicans, we need to show we're not just the loyal opposition voting 'no' on all the anti-gun bills," he said. "We need to put forward some good legislation that will protect our citizens."
His measure, House Bill 1048, would allow workplace employees to use deadly force if necessary.
Another Republican measure, Senate Bill 9, allows school boards to adopt a written policy to allow employees with valid concealed-carry cards to have a handgun on school grounds.
Lynn Bartels: 303-954-5327, lbartels@denverpost.com or twitter.com/lynn_bartels
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Jan. 15, 2013 ? Safety fears about carbon nanotubes, due to their structural similarity to asbestos, have been alleviated following research showing that reducing their length removes their toxic properties, experts say.
In a new study, published January 15 in the journal Angewandte Chemie, evidence is provided that the asbestos-like reactivity and pathogenicity reported for long, pristine nanotubes can be completely alleviated if their surface is modified and their effective length is reduced as a result of chemical treatment.
First atomically described in the 1990s, carbon nanotubes are sheets of carbon atoms rolled up into hollow tubes just a few nanometres in diameter. Engineered carbon nanotubes can be chemically modified, with the addition of chemotherapeutic drugs, fluorescent tags or nucleic acids -- opening up applications in cancer and gene therapy.
Furthermore, these chemically modified carbon nanotubes can pierce the cell membrane, acting as a kind of 'nano-needle', allowing the possibility of efficient transport of therapeutic and diagnostic agents directly into the cytoplasm of cells.
Among their downsides however, have been concerns about their safety profile. One of the most serious concerns, highlighted in 2008, involves the carcinogenic risk from the exposure and persistence of such fibres in the body. Some studies indicate that when long untreated carbon nanotubes are injected to the abdominal cavity of mice they can induce unwanted responses resembling those associated with exposure to certain asbestos fibres.
In this paper, the authors describe two different reactions which ask if any chemical modification can render the nanotubes non-toxic. They conclude that not all chemical treatments alleviate the toxicity risks associated with the material. Only those reactions that are able to render carbon nanotubes short and stably suspended in biological fluids without aggregation are able to result in safe, risk-free material.
Professor Kostas Kostarelos, Chair of Nanomedicine at the UCL School of Pharmacy who led the research with his long term collaborators Doctor Alberto Bianco of the CNRS in Strasbourg, France and Professor Maurizio Prato of the University of Trieste, Italy, said: "The apparent structural similarity between carbon nanotubes and asbestos fibres has generated serious concerns about their safety profile and has resulted in many unreasonable proposals of a halt in the use of these materials even in well-controlled and strictly regulated applications, such as biomedical ones. What we show for the first time is that in order to design risk-free carbon nanotubes both chemical treatment and shortening are needed."
He added: "Creative strategies to identify the characteristics that nanoparticles should possess in order to be rendered 'safe-for-use', and the ways to achieve that, are essential as nanotechnology and its tools are maturing into applications and becoming part of our everyday lives."
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Some of Oklahoma's Own are representing the state at the Presidential Inauguration.
Union's Junior Air Force ROTC is the nation's only high school group marching in the parade, but before they head to Washington, the cadets need money.
This Veterans Day Parade in Tulsa was an audition for Washington.
The cadets of Union High School's Junior Air Force ROTC are now marching their way to the 2013 Presidential Inauguration.
"Our kids have worked extremely hard through the years to do events like this, to make it happen, and this is kind of a reward for all their hard work," said instructor Lt. Col. Ron McCool.
The group found out two and a half weeks ago that they're going to the inauguration.
They're now hustling to raise $40,000 for the trip.
"We promised the kids that, one way or another, we're going to go," McCool said.
1/2/2013 Related Story: Union Jr. ROTC Chosen Again To March In Presidential Inaugural Parade
McAlister's Deli on 91st and Memorial is donating 10 percent of its sales to the ROTC.
Cadets are passing out fliers, trying to spread the word and hopefully earn an extra buck or two towards their trip.
"I think we're going to be able to do it and, even if we don't get up there with donations, we can still ask the parents to chip in a little bit," said freshman cadet David Sawyer.
For most of the 80 students, this is their first time going to D.C.
"I'm kind of nervous about it, but then again I've done some parades, so I know what it's like to be in the formation and march down the street," said sophomore cadet Zachary Hager.
And even though the purpose is to march for the President, many are also looking forward to touring the nation's capitol.
"Definitely the Washington Monument probably, would be a nice thing if we can go. Looking forward to that or possibly a tour of the Pentagon," Hager said.
"I'm really looking forward to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers," Sawyer said. "That's something that I'm greatly excited about."
The ROTC still needs $13,000 before they load the bus on Thursday.
There are other opportunities to help Union's Junior ROTC raise the funds coming up.
On Tuesday, if 1,000 people buy a milkshake at Chick-Fil-A - either the Woodland Hills Mall location or the location at 71st and Garnett - the group will get $500 and they'll get their departure meal catered.
And if you eat at CiCi's Pizza on 91st and Memorial on Wednesday, from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., you can mention the Union Junior ROTC and the restaurant will donate 10 percent of your tab.
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Stocks were mixed on Wall Street, with the Standard & Poor's 500 sliding further below a five-year high it reached last week. Apple tumbled on concern that demand for the iPhone 5 is waning.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 11 points to 13,499 as of midday Monday, having fallen as much as 29 points at the start of the day. The S&P 500 fell 3 points to 1,469. The Nasdaq composite index fell 14 points to 3,111.
The Standard and Poor's 500 closed at a five-year high of 1,472 on Thursday, following a solid start to the fourth-quarter earnings reporting period and amid optimism that the outlook for global growth is brightening.
Apple's stock, which accounts for 10.3 percent of the Nasdaq index, slid $16 to $504.10 after The Wall Street Journal reported that the company has cut its orders for iPhone 5 components due to weak demand. Apple slipped below $500 a share for the first time in nearly a year in early trading. The stock has slumped 28 percent since closing at a record $702.10 in September.
Earnings reporting will pick up this week with many big U.S. banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America releasing results.
"The market is definitely in wait and see mode," said Brian Gendreau, a market strategist at Cetera Financial Group.
Investors will be scrutinizing revenues, to assess whether the drawn-out debate over the "fiscal cliff" had an impact on consumer spending. A series of tax hikes and spending cuts, due to come into effect Jan. 1 were only averted by a last-minute deal.
Investors will also follow a speech about monetary policy from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. He is expected to speak in a question-and-answer session in Ann Arbor, Michigan beginning at 4 p.m. ET, just as the stock market closes.
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans, an alternate member of the Fed's Open Market Committee, said Monday in a speech in Hong Kong that central banks should help create conditions to foster "robust demand growth," as the U.S. and other advanced economies try and reduce debt.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to its price, fell 1 basis point to 1.85 percent.
Among other stocks making big moves:
? Health Management Associates fell 8 cents to $9.04 after the hospital operator said late Sunday that its preliminary earnings reflect tough economic conditions. The Naples, Fla., company said it expects to earn 19 cents to 21 cents per share on revenue of $1.48 billion, less than analysts had forecast.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/stocks-mixed-wall-street-apple-slides-163708492--finance.html
IT hiring in 2013 will focus on jobs involving cloud computing, mobile technology and business intelligence, said staffing professionals.
But cloud computing jobs for on-site infrastructure support and software management are likely to be increasingly handled by service providers. And software developers should take note that while there will be ample programming positions open this year, companies increasingly want business-savvy developers.
Enterprises are using SaaS (software as a service) products from a variety of vendors, but the developers, consultants and overall workforce necessary to support the technology haven?t developed quickly enough, said Eric Berridge, co-founder of IT consulting and resources firm?Bluewolf. He noted that Bluewolf clients are especially interested in staff who have experience with software from Salesforce.com, Marketo and Eloqua, which Oracle purchased in December. There is less demand for skills dealing with ?more traditional technologies like the Oracles and SAPs of the world.?
At technology job site?Dice.com, managing director Alice Hill noted that ?everybody in almost every industry we?ve looked at in terms of the job description has some sort of mobile project or mobile angle as well as stand-alone mobile apps.? This demand is reflected in Dice.com?s?2013 hiring professional staffing priority report, which ranked mobile developer as second. Job postings referencing Google?s Android OS have eclipsed those for Apple?s iOS and ?both platforms are very healthy in terms of the demand,? she said.
The booming mobile space makes finding candidates challenging since mobile development may require a team approach, a point some companies miss, said Berridge.
?Someone who thinks they can just hire someone to develop a mobile application is missing out on the fact that you need multiple skills sets that come from different people,? he said. ?There?s not a one-size-fits-all from a skills set perspective.?
In addition to the standard development skills, backgrounds in security, using mobile as a platform and user interface development are in demand. Berridge noted that designing interfaces for business-to-business applications is particularly important as more companies develop mobile products for their staffs. Most mobile applications have focused on business-to-consumer use, and with a business application ?it?s really about knowing how to make a business user more productive.?
More reliance on cloud and mobile technologies will create a need for staff who can integrate the two with other technologies, said David Boone, CEO of IT services company?Paranet. Systems analysts, support specialists and workers who can examine a system and understand how it all works together will fill these roles, he said.
?As people are more removed from the application they?re depending on, there?s a greater need for support to make those things work,? Boone said.
The buzz surrounding data analytics won?t subside any time soon and companies will continue to need employees who can find business value in massive data stores. Data analyst ranked fourth in Dice.com?s survey, appearing in the top five for the first time, said Hill, adding that the category grew 335 percent compared to last year.
At Bluewolf, Berridge has seen a consistent demand for business intelligence and database workers, but hasn?t been asked for employees with big data backgrounds. Still, he won?t rule out future needs in that regard.
?That may change as some of those big data products become more prevalent,? he said. ?There is certainly a lot of talk around big data.?
Such products, according to Boone, will come via cloud computing, which allows data to flow freely and cheaply. This translates into a need for workers who can connect, study and move data. The?need for data workers?will be so acute that he recommends new IT workers consider careers in big data and forgo jobs supporting legacy software packages, like CRM (customer relationship management) systems.
?I?d focus on how do I become very adept at moving data around, how to organise databases, how to analyse and make sense of big data, and how to make data available on mobile devices.?
Software support positions will decrease with more companies turning to?SaaS models?for application maintenance and customisation, he said.
Berridge also sees IT departments needing more employees with specific backgrounds, with fewer support and maintenance positions as cloud vendors handle those tasks.
?If you truly go with a cloud-based approach you decrease your need for meat-and-potato skills sets,? he said. ?Newer technologies come with a self-service approach when it comes to user support. The shift is moving toward innovation and away from how to keep the lights on.?
Hiring professionals mentioned software development as another in-demand profession for 2013, but cautioned against being a one-dimensional developer. Failing to collaborate and an inability to think with a business mindset won?t win over hiring managers.
?If your only skill is to develop code and you don?t have the ability to work in a team environment there?s a great risk that your skill set can be outsourced,? said Berridge. ?They have to think as business people. There?s a commodity approach to how some organisations treat software development.?
Developers with Java and .Net backgrounds will be especially sought after, according to Dice.com?s survey, which ranked finding staff who know those languages as enterprises? first and third staffing priorities, respectively. Overall software development came in fifth.
Source: http://www.cnmeonline.com/news/cloud-mobile-and-bi-skills-to-lead-technology-hiring-in-2013/
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