17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Sanford, Florida. The shooter was George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old white man. Zimmerman admits killing Martin, but claims he was acting in self-defense. Three weeks after Martin's death, no arrests have been made and Zimmerman remains free.

In the past few months the excessive, unjust, and unreasonable banning going on in the popular role playing game Feral Heart is getting out of control.In the months prior to its shut down these complaints were minimal but now it seems they are running rampant throughout the community.There have been several situations of unexplained banning, excessive banning, and other instances of unfair or unjust treatment. People have found themselves to be banned randomly upon log in or banned for several months for extremely insignificant causes, we find these to be ridiculous and to only cause more problems instead of making Feral Heart a great place for everyone. The generally rule abiding players of this game are having serious issues with this and many find that things are getting extremely out of hand. We would for the most part love to continue playing and supporting this game but if these actions continue we may be forced to go another route.

Treyvon"s death should not be over looked what if he was a white boy justice will be forfilled for him, so what about Treyvon I know he deserves the same.

This petiton is a list of grievances from the Maine People to Governor Paul LePage. Maine people need a better representation of their tax dollar. Stop the greed. Protect the general welfare of all Maine People.

The Hawai‘i Undersea Research Laboratory is the only U.S. deep submergence facility in the Pacific Rim tasked with supporting undersea research necessary to fulfill the mission, goals, and objectives of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), along with other national interests of importance. Over 30 years of submersible operations have resulted in nearly 1900 dives representing 9300 hours underwater, and a benthic ecology database derived from in-house video record logging of over 125,000 entries based on 1100 unique deep-sea animal identifications in the Hawaiian Archipelago. With emerging interest in marine resources of the Pacific and renewable energy from the sea, HURL's contributions will continue to play an essential role in scientific research and advanced technology. HURL was established by Cooperative Agreement in 1980 between NOAA and the University of Hawai‘i, at which point it became a Regional Center in NOAA's Undersea Research Program (NURP). In 2009, President Obama signed Public Law 111-11 authorizing both NURP and Ocean Exploration (OE), and their administration under a merged program called the Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER). The Center supports highly-rated, peer-reviewed proposals to conduct undersea research in offshore and nearshore waters of the main and Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and waters of the central, southern, and western Pacific, including the new marine national monuments. In addition, HURL accepts funded requests from private, state, or federal agencies and participates in international collaborative research projects. As of March, 2012, NOAA has zeroed out funding for the Undersea Research Program (NURP) for FY13 beginning Oct 1, 2012, and put all the centers on life support funding (or less) for the current year. Many other NOAA programs, mostly extramural ones, have been cut to some level, though it appears only NURP and another have had their funding zeroed out completely. From NOAA’s 2013 OAR budget description: "National Undersea Research Program (NURP): NOAA requests a decrease of $3,985,000 and 6 FTEs to terminate the NURP component of OER. NOAA determined that NURP was a lower-priority function within its portfolio of research activities, particularly given that other avenues of Federal funding for such activities might be pursued. NOAA will continue to support the Ocean Exploration program, which delineates the Extended Continental Shelf and produces significant discoveries in deep sea research. Competitive grants for related activity will continue to be offered through NOAA and other Federal programs." As of right now, there is no known other funding to maintain the manned submersible capability that HURL provides. Hawai‘i is home to two of only eight human occupied submersibles of their kind. Pisces IV and Pisces V are three-person, battery-powered, one-atmosphere submersibles with a maximum operating depth of 2000 m. They offer scientists direct observation through view ports, HD video cameras, sample collecting, instrument placement, and environmental monitoring. Over the past 30 years HURL's accomplishments include long-term studies of Lo‘ihi submarine volcano and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Notable discoveries include an historically significant Japanese midget submarine and deep-sea corals that are some of the oldest living organisms on Earth. Work in the newest U.S. marine national monuments led to an international five-month investigation throughout the central and southwestern Pacific that involved 58 scientists from 12 research entities and included the first submersible dives on 13 different undersea volcanoes. A new 6000-m capable ROV will further enable exploration of NOAA’s four new Marine National Monuments in the Pacific. For a relatively small ~$3 million per year, this type of work can continue. It will cost far more to recreate this capability in the future than to support it now and let it evolve to meet the NOAA missions and National interests of the future. We are calling on Congress to appropriate adequate money so that the U.S. can be a world leader in deep-sea research via a submersible-based scientific program presence in the Pacific region. NOAA as a whole does really good work; let us help it continue.

Tax deduction of student loan interest and payments no matter what your income. Stop compounding student loan interest Ability to renegotiate loan interest rates as they drop similar to a mortgage to take advantage of better rates and have the same rate as new borrowers

I would like to ban smoking around children in the car or house or any place that’s a safe haven for children. Every day a child is getting sick and possible chance of cancer or some other illness. Please support my cause and back me and think would you want your child to smoke at young age even if you smoke doesn’t mean your child should have too also or anyone else.

This petition is for a skatepark in Andover, Ohio. This is a small community, and there isn't much for kids to do. A skatepark could change that around and bring people together.

Erroll Davis, the superintendent for APS plans to close 13 schools. He came up with this proposal after parents of Mary Lin protested not to merge with a neighboring school. The cost will be 15 million to renovate Mary Lin, but he wants to close 13 schools which only costs 6.5 million to keep open. Why risk 13 schools for only ONE!!! This is classism and racism...Brown vs Board of Education.

If you were asked to name popular social networking websites, what would you say? Facebook, Twitter, YouTube? Those are all good, but what about Fanpop? "What the heck is that?" you're probably saying. It's a website that's similar to Facebook, but is more, or at least just as, awesome. You can have fans (just like friends on Facebook), you have a wall (just like Facebook), and there are fan clubs (just like pages on Facebook). If you want a better description, go here. http://www.fanpop.com

Creating a new type of bank that will perform it's duties more fairly in the interest of their clients. The goal is to create a bank type that will replace the culture of preditory and profiteering practices with one of guaridanship and fairness.

Q. How do speculators drive up oil prices? A. Speculators are able to drive up crude oil prices today because they're allowed to trade in the U.S. in futures markets not overseen by U.S. regulators.