The Fatherhood Champions Of The World | April | 2013 Articles

Written by Sam Sheppard on Saturday, 27 April 2013 17:55.

(Angel Garcia, yelling about something, as his son Danny looks on)

Remember the days when you used to wish that you?d one day grow up to be as big and tough as your dad? Remember trying to practice after he taught you how to throw a punch, only to get bored after a couple of minutes and forget about it? Well the sons of these guys don?t. They stand as a tribute to the value of instilling discipline -- or the complete lack thereof -- and an indomitable will to win deep inside your children. This is a tribute to boxing?s rich paternal tapestry through a look at the best, worst, and just straight-up weirdest father figures in the sport.

Four of these fathers, in fact, are "in action" over the next two weekends.

THE GOOD

Julio Cesar Chavez, Sr.: We love Julio around here, not only for what he did in the ring, but also for the fact that he can keep a straight face while his son eats cereal and shows off his hot pink short shorts for the HBO cameras. Now I like watching Junior fight, but he?s the epitome of a knucklehead. This is a man who resorted to training for the Sergio Martinez fight in his living room because he couldn?t be bothered to leave the house. That?s some next level short-sightedness right there.

By all accounts, however, he does listen to his father. For that, I?ve got to give it up for El Gran Campeon. It?s one thing to go 87 fights unbeaten, but it?s quite another to maintain the respect and discipline of your 6'1" monster of a son when he?s been financially set since birth and you?re only 5'7". Imagine if you found yourself on the wrong side of a beating in the schoolyard and returned home to Chavez, Sr.? He?d most likely get you working the heavy bag into the small hours, before tying a red ribbon round your head and sending you back to wreak brutal revenge on both your contemporaries and the gym teacher.

Hector Camacho, Sr.: What more can we say about Macho that wasn?t covered by the innumerable euologies following his tragic death in 2012? He fought everyone, rarely got knocked down, and wore his hair in a way that would have made Prince blush. He also once got arrested for having sex with his girlfriend while driving down the freeway. Yes, that?s right, whilst he was behind the wheel. Now that?s something that would require both dexterity and some serious forethought, so it?s made all the more impressive when you consider that Hector wasn?t exactly renowned for being the most fastidious man.?

You know how you eventually learn to accept the fact that your parents were once as young and nubile as you? Hector would have been the sort of dad who would have got you to embrace the more carnal side of your parentage, long before you were biologically or mentally able. ?Macho time begins at birth!? as they probably say in Spanish Harlem... perhaps.

Antonio Margarito, Sr.: I?ve only ever seen one picture of the man who fathered the Tijuana Tornado. It was a blurry polaroid taken when he Tony was a little boy and aired during the build up for his first fight with Miguel Cotto. I?ve never watched an interview with him Senor Margarito, or even seen him at ringside. I have, however, seen his son fight. In fact, I?ve seen his son do extraordinary things in the ring.

I?ve seen him shave years off his own career and permanently damage his vision by insisting on seeing out the final rounds of a fight he had no way of winning again Manny Pacquiao. I?ve seen his son fix his opponents with that dead-eyed, drug-dealer?s gaze and beg them to get up after they?ve hit the canvas in order for the punishment to continue. I may not know much, but there?s only one place he could have got that stare from, and for that alone his dad makes the list. His son may not have an impeccable character, but you can?t put a price on those soulless, Mexican eyes.

Jack Mosley: Jack?s not quite deified in coaching circles just yet, despite a Trainer of the Year award from 2000, but he makes it onto the list for one incident alone. This is the man who managed to shut Floyd Mayweather, Sr. up, albeit temporarily. Legend has it that at the weigh-ins for Oscar De La Hoya vs. Shane Mosley, Floyd Sr. decided not to move after observing Shane tipping the scales. Seeing as he was prevented from seeing his son?s opponent weigh-in, Jack decided to take matters into his own hands and, as he recalls it, "picked him up and set him to the side."

Having deposited Mayweather somewhere off in the cloisters, the latter is alleged to have remained rooted to the spot in silence. They?ve got on well since this humbling event and Floyd has rarely even mentioned his name, which adds further credence to the story because he?s launched verbal assaults on just about everyone else on planet earth during that time. Well, I suppose he did threaten to knock him out back in 2010, but coming from a Mayweather that hardly counts as a major indiscretion...

THE BAD

Chris Eubank, Sr. (above, with son): You may think it would be cool to have a dude who drives around England?s south coast in a Peterbilt 379 as a dad? I mean, come on. It?s the largest truck available in Europe! Well, I guess you should know that he probably won't let you ride in it with him. And that in reality he only drives it through central London at less than 5 miles an hour, desperately sniffing around for anyone with even a passing interest in an autograph. But still, it?s pretty sweet right? ...Right?

Yoel Judah: If there?s an easy way to make it into the ?bad? section of this list then it?s by enabling your son to act like a moron. When we come to look back on Zab Judah?s career, it will likely be summed up in one word: underachievement. It could also be summed up in one fight, against Floyd Mayweather in 2006 when he famously lost control and pugilistically "opted out of the bout." Needless to say, his father Yoel didn?t exactly restrain his son in the aftermath of the low blow and subsequently received a one-year ban.

However, in the interests of balance, it has to be said that Judah, Sr. had mellowed since. He doesn?t throw his fists as he once did, having famously refused to condemn the questionable shots Cotto inflicted on Zab during their fight in 2007, and he?s even cooled down on the smack talking -- although the latter reluctance might be seen as having come back to bite him, given Angel Garcia?s spirited vocal performance during the build-up to his son Danny?s fight with Zab this month. It?s hard to think that the Yoel from a decade ago would have let him get away with mouthing off like that...

Angel Garcia: I actually watched a video featuring Papa Garcia right before I came to write this section. Yep, you guessed it. He was ranting about being from Philly and claiming he?s all about the mean streets. Nothing new there, right? I guess it?s white noise to most boxing fans by now, but I can still recall the first time I witnessed his faux-gangster posturing in the build up to his son?s fight with Amir Khan last year. I must admit I hadn?t taken much notice of Danny before that, having been monumentally turned off by the Kendall Holt snooze-fest, but his dad?s bizarre tirades drew me in. The process started with eye-rolling and slight annoyance, before quickly escalating to the point where I wondered whether it would be Khan or his own child who?d be the first to shut him up. I never thought he was racist, even after the whole ?I never met a Pakistani who could fight? thing.? He just came across as straight up dumb.

The guy?s built up an impressive rap-sheet in a short space of time since then, including browbeating his son into getting the same haircut as him. Yet when it comes down to it I?m almost reluctant to rip into Angel too much on the basis that it?s clear he genuinely cares about his family. What?s more, I?ve never seen Danny object to his behaviour. He seems to laugh it off in the same way you would when a drunk friend drops a Wii remote into the toilet at a house party. I suppose that?s how I see Papa Garcia, really -- the guy mumbling away to himself at the end of the bar, aiming furtive glances at the groups of women lining up to ride the mechanical bull, occasionally attempting to finish a frame of pool with a hapless tourist while calling him ?dog? and making inordinate references to Philly pride.

Floyd Mayweather, Sr.: Where would an article on boxing genealogy be without a mention of the venerable old patriarch of the Mayweather clan? To be honest, there?s not much I can say that hasn?t been said a thousand times over by almost everyone associated with the sport. The guy?s an idiot. He makes his brother Roger look like a gentleman, and Roger certainly isn?t one of those. He also made Ricky Hatton look wise and sensible. And Hatton certainly isn?t... blah blah blah. You get the point.

Despite the fact that he was a fighter, and a decent one at that, he comes across as almost as much of a poser as Mr. Garcia above. I?ve never seen a guy shrink so visibly once his son?s entered the room. You can switch on any HBO 24/7 episode on Mayweather and marvel at how his dad likes nothing more than running his mouth when his son?s out of earshot, only to visibly whither when he approaches and resort to the role of geriatric hype man. It?s pathetic.? Plus his diet is notoriously terrible, which is probably where Floyd, Jr. got his love for Popeye?s Chicken from.? It?ll catch up to them both one day! Oh wait...

THE UGLY

Adrien Broner?s dad: Firstly, the absence of a real name isn?t due to a lack of research on my part. Do a quick scan of Google and you?ll see that no one knows the guy?s name. Seriously, click on any Boxing news site and you?ll see him listed simply as ?Adrien Broner?s dad.?

Has the guy?s chronic lack of self-respect finally resulted in him legally changing his name to better reflect his ongoing servitude to his title-holding son? We always said it would be a slippery slope once he started brushing his namesake?s hair in the ring. I guess soon he?ll be applying the mouthwash after Broner gets home from the strip club. A truly noble calling.

Ruben Guerrero: Mr ?30-0 from the barrio? is no looker, let?s make that clear. He has facial hair that would have impressed the crew of the Queen Anne?s Revenge. And he?s also become involved in a rather nasty war of words with Mayweather, Sr. over recent weeks, with various asses being in danger of knockouts if you take either party literally. In fact, Ruben?s gone as far as to film himself doing one-armed pushups in the parking lot, presumably while someone else was worrying about training his son, Robert, for the biggest fight of his career.

It must be said, though, that Robert Guerrero?s one of the genuine nice guys of the sport, so it?s hard to see his dad as much of a bad apple even if he came suspiciously close to boasting about his spells in prison on one of the Showtime All Access shows earlier this month. I guess the likelihood is that he?s trying to deflect attention away from his son and build hype for the fight at the same time. Also he?s a pretty good chef, so I?ll give him the benefit of the doubt.

John Fury: Father of Tyson Fury, the 6'9" monster who forearmed his way to victory against Steve Cunningham recently, he used to fight around Southern England in the early 80s under the name Gypsy John Fury. He wasn?t an especially impressive boxer, never managing to score a knockout against any of his 14 opponents. Still, you wouldn?t want to bump into him in a dark alley.?

I?ve only ever seen a mugshot of him, mainly because he?s currently serving an 11-year jail term for gouging out another man?s eye during a street fight in 2011. He?s clearly a very dangerous individual, one that it would be extremely unwise to upset. Actually, thinking about it, I probably shouldn?t be filing him under the "ugly" section.? Forget I said any of this...

Sam Sheppard is a freelance copyeditor and aspiring boxing writer from the U.K. ?He lives in London and has recently finished his first novel. Follow him on Twitter @sonofduran.

Source: http://www.queensberry-rules.com/2013-articles/april/the-fatherhood-champions-of-the-world.html

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Scientists show how a hot, steamy afternoon kills the chill on a beer can

A video from the University of Washington explains how condensation heats up frosty cans more quickly.

By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News

Droplets of condensation may make a cold can of beer look more appealing on a hot day, but they're also making that frosty brew warm up faster. So here's some news you can use: If it's hot and humid, put a cover over your can of cold beverage. And if you want to warm up a frozen can quickly, don't bake it. Steam it.

That's exactly what University of Washington researchers did in a series of experiments to show how the warming power of condensation applies to issues ranging from colder beer to hotter climates.

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The beer-can study, published in the April issue of Physics Today, began a couple of years ago when UW atmospheric scientist Dale Durran was looking for a way to explain how condensation produced heat as the flip side of evaporative cooling. The cooling effect is well-known?? we feel it when sweat evaporates to cool us off in the summer time, or when we turn on a mist cooler. But the flip side of the effect is less widely understood.

Durran figured out that the condensation on a cold aluminum can might serve as a handy illustration. He did a quick back-of-the-napkin calculation, and found that the heat released by water just 100 microns (four thousandths of an inch) thick should heat its contents by 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius).

"I was surprised to think that such a tiny film of water would cause that much warming," Durran said in a UW news release.

He recruited a fellow atmospheric scientist at UW, Dargan Frierson, to conduct the initial experiment ... in Frierson's basement bathroom. First, they set a can of beverage on the toilet tank and warmed it up with a space heater. Then they took another can, turned on the shower and let the bathroom get nice and steamy. Each time they ran the experiment, the researchers stuck a thermometer through the can's pop-top opening and watched the temperature rise over the course of 15 minutes.

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Droplets of condensation on a chilly can are a signal that the temperature inside is rising.

Frierson said conditions got a little sticky in the steamed-up bathroom. "I think that's the most uncomfortable my research has ever made me ? but it's all for science," he told NBC News.

Even though the air temperature was the same in both cases, the liquid in the steamed-up can warmed up twice as fast. The researchers followed up on the basement-bathroom findings with more rigorous lab experiments. Every time, the cans warmed up more quickly in more humid conditions.

The researchers even charted how quickly 12-ounce aluminum cans of chilled liquid should warm up, depending on different levels of temperature and humidity. For example, in five minutes, the can should get 6 degrees F (3 degrees C) warmer due to condensation amid New Orleans' typical summer conditions. The equivalent warm-up factor would be 3.5 degrees F (2 degrees C) in New York, and 2 degrees F (1 degree C) in Seattle. But in Dhahran, a Saudi city that ranks among the hottest, stickiest places in the world, the can would get about 14 degrees F (8 degrees C) warmer in five minutes.

That's why covering a cold can is a such a good idea on a steamy-hot summer day. "Probably the most important thing a beer koozie does is not simply insulate the can, but keep condensation from forming on the outside of it," Durran said.

The effects of condensation and evaporation are well-known to climatologists, but Durran and Frierson say the beer-can experiments can give the general public a better understanding of atmospheric dynamics.

"Condensation as a heat source is just tremendously important," Frierson said. "It's really like the?gasoline that powers hurricanes, thunderstorms and tornadoes."

Some climate models suggest that there could be 25 percent more humidity in the atmosphere by the end of the 21st century, and that could lead to more bouts of extreme weather in the decades to come.

"We want people to appreciate how powerful this effect is," Durran told NBC News. "A very thin film around the can makes a big difference in the temperature of its contents, and that just makes you appreciate the importance of that same heating effect in our atmosphere."

Here's how to run the experiment described in the YouTube video from University of Washington Department of Atmospheric Sciences Outreach:

1. Freeze two cans of your favorite beverage. This should take roughly seven hours, depending on your freezer.
2. Fifteen minutes before taking out the cans, preheat oven to 250 degrees F and start boiling water in a pot. Place a cookie rack on top of pot.
3. Take the cans out of freezer. Place one in the preheated oven. and one over the boiling pot.?
4. Start timer for 10 minutes.?
5. After 10 minutes, carefully remove cans from oven and pot.
6. Crack open both cans and pour into separate glasses.
7. Take a photo/video of the two cans and glasses, go to the UW YouTube page, and post a video response.

More beer-can science:

Update for 9:30 p.m. ET April 26:?Would wiping off the drops of condensation keep your drink cooler? Sorry, says UW spokeswoman Hannah Hickey. "That will only make your drink even warmer," she writes in a Twitter update.

Update for 2:25 p.m. ET April 27: Some commenters are wondering why there's so much fuss over a relatively simple concept. The point of the exercise wasn't really to break new ground in atmospheric physics (or in summertime beverage consumption), but "to improve our intuition about the power of condensational heating"?? which is a huge factor in climate dynamics. Durran explained further in a comment below, and I'm providing an extended version of his comments here to give them a little more visibility:

"In my class, students definitely need to know how condensation causes heating. Here's how. There are bonds that link water molecules together into a crystal lattice to form ice. It takes heat (energy) to break a few of those bonds and turn ice to liquid water. To evaporate the liquid water, the rest of the bonds between molecules need to be broken, which takes a lot more heat. Once all the bonds are broken, the liquid is converted to water vapor, an invisible gas.

"This processes reverses when water vapor is cooled enough to condense as liquid water. Bonds between molecules re-form, and the heat it took to originally break them is released into the surroundings.

"The reason we make a big deal about the power of condensational heating is that it does amazing things in the atmosphere, such as powering the updrafts in thunderstorms. The rising cloud-filled updrafts in the video linked below ascend like hot-air balloons because they are warmed, not by burning a fuel like propane, but by the heat released as water vapor condenses.

"Here's the video link:?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVIwDoogncQ

"Such a visualization might help people understand some of the applications. (Only the last half of the Physics Today article was about the beer can heating.)"

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Durran and Frierson are the authors of "Condensation, Atmospheric Motion, and Cold Beer"?in Physics Today. Supplemental experiments are described in "An Experiment Uses Cold Beverages to Demonstrate the Warming Power of Latent Heat."?Lab?experiments were performed by Stella Choi and Steven Brey. Galen Richards and Jaycyl Golding, high school students serving as Pacific Science Center Discovery Corps interns, worked on earlier versions of the experiments. Instrument makers Allen Hart and Steven Domonkos built experimental apparatuses. Funding was provided by National Science Foundation grants AGS-0846641 and AGS-1138977.

Alan Boyle is NBCNews.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's?Facebook page, following?@b0yle on Twitter?and adding the?Cosmic Log page?to your Google+ presence. To keep up with Cosmic Log as well as NBCNews.com's other stories about science and space, sign up for the Tech & Science newsletter, delivered to your email in-box every weekday. You can also check out?"The Case for Pluto,"?my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.

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Obama and Bush, distinct men with policy overlaps

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Despite vast differences with President George W. Bush on ideology, style and temperament, President Barack Obama has stuck with Bush policies or aspirations on a number of fronts, from counterterrorism to immigration, from war strategy to the global fight against AIDS.

Even on tax policy, where Bush advocated lower tax rates for all and Obama pushed for higher rates on the rich, Bush's tax cuts for the middle class not only have survived under Obama, they have become permanent.

Obama inherited from his predecessor two military conflicts, a war on terror and a financial crisis. He also inherited, and in time embraced, the means with which to confront them.

On Thursday, Obama will attend the dedication of Bush's presidential library in Texas, a tableau that will draw attention to two distinct men ? a Republican and a Democrat from different ends of the political spectrum, political foils with polarized constituencies.

Indeed, Obama ran for president in 2008 as the anti-Bush, critical of the war against Iraq and of the economic policies of the preceding eight years.

But in his more than four years of governing, Obama has also adopted or let stand a series of Bush initiatives, illustrating how the policies of one administration can take hold and how the realities of governing often limit solutions.

Bush's signature education plan, No Child Left Behind, remains the law of the land, though the Obama administration has granted states waivers to give them flexibility in meeting performance targets. A Bush Medicare prescription drug plan, criticized for its cost, is now popular with beneficiaries, and Obama has sought to improve it by providing relief for seniors with high bills. Obama continued the unpopular bank bailouts and expanded the auto industry rescue that Bush initiated in 2008.

Bush authorized a military surge in Iraq in an effort to tame the conflict there. Obama completed the withdrawal of troops from Iraq but also authorized a military surge in Afghanistan before beginning a drawdown of troops that is expected to be completed at the end of 2014.

"The responsibilities of office drive presidents toward pragmatism," said Joshua Bolten, a former Bush chief of staff. Where those policies are effective, he added, "the successor has good reason to adopt them."

Obama, like Bush during his presidency, is seeking an overhaul of immigration laws that give 11 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally a chance to get on a path toward citizenship. Bush came up short in 2007, but Bolten believes that six years later the nation and its politicians are in a different place.

"President Bush was just ahead of his time and his party in recognizing both the importance of reaching some sort of bipartisan accommodation and on what the elements of that might reasonably be," he said.

Bruce Buchanan, a government professor at the University of Texas at Austin who specializes on the presidency, says it's not uncommon for presidents to hand off their agendas to another. Even measures or issues that were unpopular under one president can appear different with the passage of time and under the direction of a new occupant in the White House.

"While the names of the problems are the same, the stage of development is usually very different and the public stance of the president dealing with them is often very different," he said. "You have to be sensitive to those things lest you create the false impression that they are mirror images of one another, which I don't think would be accurate."

On no front are the similarities more striking than on counterterrorism. Obama did vow to end the harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding that had been employed during the Bush administration, and he issued an executive order upon becoming president declaring that the United States would not engage in torture.

But other practices continued and, in some case, expanded under Obama.

"The basic similarity is these are the only two presidents that have governed in a post-9/11 era, where the principal threat to the United States comes from terrorism," said Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser. "President Obama believes that we're at war with al-Qaida and its affiliated groups, has continued to take direct action against al-Qaida networks overseas and has continued to pursue very aggressive intelligence, law enforcement and homeland security measures that have been developed since 9/11."

Jack Goldsmith, who was an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel during Bush's first term, says Obama's use of warrantless surveillance, military detentions without trial and increased drone strikes has received less pushback than it would under a Republican president.

Goldsmith, now a law professor at Harvard Law School, argued in a blog post after Obama's election that the public "generally trust the former constitutional law professor and civil liberties champion more than a Republican president to carry out these policies."

He added that "many on the left (in Congress and the NGO community, and perhaps the press) who might otherwise be uncomfortable with these policies will give President Obama a freer hand than they would a Republican president."

Still, Rhodes sees significant differences in Obama's national security approach.

Bush, Rhodes said, had defined the broad conflict as a war on terrorism and included Iraq as part of that war.

"We redefined the war as something more narrow, which was a war against al-Qaida and its affiliates, not against other states, not against nonaffiliated terrorist groups," Rhodes said.

Republican Sen. John McCain has a unique perch to assess both presidents. He ran against both ? in 2000 against Bush for the Republican nomination and in 2008 against Obama. He allied himself with both men on immigration and called on them to increase troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan. An early opponent of waterboarding, he has applauded Obama's continued use of other counterterrorism measures.

"I think they both had an appreciation for the threat that we face," he said of the two presidents.

But he faults Obama for not leaving a residual force in Iraq and for creating uncertainty about what the U.S. presence will be in Afghanistan after 2014.

And he distinguishes between the presidents. Under Bush, he said the United States became a nation "that was ready to pursue our enemies."

"Obviously, President Obama viewed this as a time to withdraw and not to make military commitments overseas."

Rhodes makes a similar point, though differently.

"The trajectory under the previous administration was an increased military presence overseas," he said. "President Obama would like his legacy to be the reduction of military presence overseas and having, ideally, zero troops in harm's way."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-bush-distinct-men-policy-overlaps-073045083--politics.html

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Mellowest State Has Obama Connection

Apr 24, 2013 3:54pm

If your nerves are a bit frazzled chances are you live in West Virginia. According to the new Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index released earlier today, residents of this state are the most stressed out in the nation.

Gallup has been tracking the daily stress levels of Americans since 2008. To find out how much the average citizen feels emotional and psychological stress and enjoys life on a daily basis, they polled more than 350,000 people by phone ? despite the fact that numerous studies show increased phone usage can increase anxiety.

Besides West Virginians, more people who live in Rhode Island, Kentucky, Utah and Massachusetts reported a case of frayed nerves the previous day. In all those states over 40 percent of those surveyed admitted they felt some level of stress the day before being interviewed.

West Virginia is ranked the most stressed state in the nation. Photo credit: Getty Images.

And more people from Rhode Island, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, and West Virginia seem to be having a miserable time. Nearly 20 percent of people in those states told interviewers they did not enjoy themselves the day before.

Hawaiians, on the other hand, are mellow compared with those who live in the lower 48. For the second year in a row, they seemed to be the most immune to emotional stress and more likely to feel enjoyment. A mere 32 percent of Hawaiians reported feeling stressed out and nearly 90 percent said they were enjoying life. (President Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.)

Other states with the fewest anxious residents included Louisiana, Iowa, Mississippi and Wyoming. After Hawaii, the states with the highest reported enjoyment levels were Wyoming, Utah, North Dakota and Idaho.

The researchers aren?t clear what the association is between stress and enjoyment but many of the states with the highest stress levels were also states where people seemed to be having the least fun. And rankings have remained fairly consistent, with stress levels in all states remaining statistically unchanged in 2012 compared with 2011.

For example, Hawaii has ranked as the state with the lowest percentage of residents reporting stress on the prior day all five years the survey has been conducted. West Virginia, Kentucky, and Utah, have each ranked within the top five most stressed states for the past five years. West Virginia ranked as the most stressed state in 2012, Kentucky was the top state for stress in 2008 and 2011, and Utah was the top state for stress in 2009 and 2010.

Residents in other high-stress states, Kentucky and West Virginia, were also among the least likely to experience enjoyment. Both of these states have appeared among the bottom five states for experiencing enjoyment at least three times since Gallup began reporting this measure, including last year?s poll.

Regionally, states with stress levels at or above 42 percent were clustered in the Northeast and Midwest, but also included Utah, Oregon, and Washington. Utah is unique in that it routinely ranks among both the highest stress and highest enjoyment states. The researchers said they believed this underscores the complex relationship between stress and other emotions.

On average, 40.6 percent of Americans reported feeling stressed ?yesterday? in this year?s survey and almost 85 percent reported feeling enjoyment ?yesterday.? To see where your state ranked, click here.

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Source: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/04/24/the-mellowest-state-has-obama-connection/

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Team Alpha Male fighters take huge leap forward at UFC on Fox 7 with Duane Ludwig?s help

At UFC on Fox 7, Chad Mendes knocked out Darren Elkins in 1:08. Joseph Benavidez finished off a blistering performance against Darren Uyenoyama with a TKO ate the end of the second round. T.J. Dillashaw won with a TKO over Hugo Viana in the first round.

What do these fighters have in common? They all fight for Team Alpha Male, the camp headed by UFC veteran and former WEC champ Urijah Faber. Throw in that Faber has two submission wins in two months, and 2013 has been very good to the Team Alpha Males.

But what is it that has pushed these men to such a win streak? Take a look in their corner. The newest addition is UFC veteran Duane Ludwig, who is recovering from a knee injury and a tough, three-loss run in the UFC. He started with Team Alpha Male early this year, and has clearly made a difference.

Dillashaw said Ludwig's role of head trainer has helped develop the talent that was already in their camp.

"I believe we had the talent already in our gym ? we had all the talent in the world," Dillashaw told MMAjunkie.com. "(Ludwig) just came in and kind of perfected it. He changed some small things and is just kind of staying on us."

Team Alpha Male has long had a reputation for taking wrestlers and turning them into fighters. Mendes, Faber and Dillashaw were all Division I wrestlers for California schools. Benavidez wrestled in high school and for a year in college. Under Faber's tutelage, this band of fighters were good enough to earn title shots, but they didn't fare well in those fights.

At UFC 149, Faber lost to Renan Barao in an interim men's bantamweight title fight. Jose Aldo knocked out Chad Mendes when they fought for the featherweight title at UFC 142. Benavidez has dropped a title bout at bantamweight and most recently, against Demetrious Johnson at UFC 152 at flyweight.

Ludwig's next task will be helping his fighters come up with a way to win those title fights. Mendes has had three, first-round knockout wins since losing to Aldo and is back in the title picture. Benavidez's two wins since losing to Johnson have him on the path back to another title shot.

Will Ludwig help his fighters get that elusive belt? Speak up in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/team-alpha-male-fighters-huge-leap-forward-ufc-191716430--mma.html

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Portable ATMs, phone-charging in China quake zone

LUSHAN, China (AP) ? The tent village that sprang up in two days to house quake survivors in mountain-flanked Lushan is no ordinary refugee camp. China's full range of disaster response is on display: trucks with X-ray equipment, phone-charging stations, bank tellers-on-wheels ? even a tent for insurance claims.

The efforts under way in mountainous Sichuan province after a quake Saturday that killed at least 192 people showed that the government has continued to hone its disaster reaction ? long considered a crucial leadership test in China ? since a much more devastating earthquake in 2008, also in Sichuan, and another one in 2010 in the western region of Yushu.

"Lushan was so heavily hit and my family's house toppled. It has been such a disaster for us," said Yue Hejun, 28, as he waited to recharge his family's three mobile phones at a charging stall, volunteered by a communications company and coordinated by the government in a new addition to the arsenal of services after natural disasters. "If we can charge our phones, we are at least able to keep in touch with our family members outside and that helps to set our minds at ease."

At a mini-clinic with two green cots in the open air and a small tent for doctors to sleep, a doctor said Monday the government has learned the importance of fast coordination since the Yushu quake, which killed more than 2,600 people. Much of the initial relief in that disaster came from Buddhist monks and other non-government volunteers, partly because of the remoteness of much of the affected areas.

"After 24 hours or 48 hours in Yushu, things were not so orderly or settled in," said the doctor, who like many government officials would give only her surname, Luo. "The government's quick, organized response is very important. It's no use to blindly come here and try to save people."

Helicopters have been an obvious presence in the latest rescue efforts, used to reach outlying communities, unlike in 2008 when bad weather hampered their use in the critical first 36 hours. This time, better use of helicopters for reconnaissance ? with remote sensing technology ? and for the distribution of aid has allowed help to get out more quickly to where it is needed, said Teng Wuxiao, director of the Institute of Urban Public Security at Fudan University in Shanghai.

Still, complaints were common among the survivors of the latest quake, especially in the more hard-to-reach areas. While aid was being delivered, it was not getting out to all who need it. Yue said family members in his remote mountain village had received no help with shelter and were living under tarpaulins.

Huang Mingxian, 47, who was camped out with seven family members in a government-issued blue tent in a small public square, said the government's efforts were appreciated but that supplies were not always distributed fairly.

"This morning is the first time in three days that we have gotten instant noodles," Huang said, waving a pair of long chopsticks she was using to stir the noodles in a wok over a gas canister-powered mobile stove. "Other areas have electricity and water, what about us?"

Earlier Monday, about two dozen residents briefly gathered on a street corner near a camp area, shouting that they had not been given food in two days. A half-hour later, a large truck rolled up and dozens of evacuees ran up to it, jostling as the supplies were being handed out.

The death toll in Saturday's quake ? measured at magnitude 7.0 by Chinese authorities and at magnitude 6.6 by monitors in the U.S. ? may continue to tick upward, with about two dozen people still missing.

The state Xinhua News Agency, quoting provincial emergency officials, said Tuesday that 192 people were killed, 23 left missing and 11,470 wounded.

Central authorities' ability to respond to natural disasters has been seen as tests of legitimacy for centuries. Chinese emperors put state resources into controlling floods, and earthquakes and other disasters were believed to be signs that a dynasty was losing the "mandate of heaven."

The state-run tabloid Global Times boasted in an editorial of China's communal "disaster-relief" culture, and its "more mature" response to the latest quake, comparing it favorably to those overseas. "In its ability to mobilize people and in other indicators, China's disaster relief comes ahead of the United States, Japan and other developed countries," the newspaper said.

The Foreign Ministry said that Beijing is turning away foreign offers of assistance, saying China is capable of handling it on its own.

Emergency teams in orange jumpsuits and helmets have fanned out in the affected communities in rescue efforts. In Lushan county's town, where many of the buildings are unsafe for use, the grounds of schools, hospitals, a gymnasium and other government buildings have been converted into evacuee camps. Quake survivors formed long lines in front of trucks and stalls to receive instant noodles, bottled water and other supplies.

Beyond the bare necessities, there are also stalls for survivors to make insurance claims, a large vehicle that converts into a bank and ATM-on-wheels, and tents sponsored by Chinese telecoms companies providing numerous electrical extension cords for residents to recharge their electrical gadgets.

High school seniors in the disaster area will be moved this week to the provincial capital, Chengdu, along with 30 teachers so that they can continue classes and take the all-important university entrance exam, Xinhua reported.

As typically happens after disasters, Chinese with cars were packing them with supplies and heading to the disaster area. Anticipating traffic congestion that could hamper emergency teams, the government was asking volunteers, tourists and others not trained as rescuers to stay out of the disaster area.

However, authorities were letting motorcyclists through.

Peng Song, 28, an outdoor equipment retailer who biked to Lushan from the provincial capital of Chengdu, had his motorcycle packed with tents and bottled water and was riding with 14 other bikers-turned-volunteers out to remote communities.

"Those in the disaster area need help. We just want to offer a hand to them, that's all," Peng said.

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Life in India: Girl vanishes. Police are called. Nothing happens.

NEW DELHI (AP) ? A child disappears. Police are called. Nothing happens.

Child rights activists say the rape last week of a 5-year-old girl is just the latest case in which Indian police failed to take urgent action on a report of a missing child. Three days after the attack, the girl was found alone in locked room in the same New Delhi building where her family lives.

More than 90,000 children go missing in India each year; more than 34,000 are never found. Some parents say they lost crucial time because police wrongly dismissed their missing children as runaways, refused to file reports or treated the cases as nuisances.

The parents of the 5-year-old said that after their daughter disappeared, they repeatedly begged police to register a complaint and begin a search, but they were rejected.

Three days later, neighbors heard the sound of a child crying from a locked room in the tenement. They broke down the door and rushed the brutalized girl to the police station.

The parents said the police response was to offer the couple 2,000 rupees ($37) to keep quiet about what had happened.

"They just wanted us to go away. They didn't want to register a case even after they saw how badly our daughter was injured," said the girl's father, who cannot be identified because Indian law requires a rape victim's identity be kept secret.

Delhi's Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar admitted Monday that local police had erred in handling the case.

"There have been shortfalls, so the station house officer and his deputy have been suspended," Kumar told reporters.

Other poor parents of missing children say they also have found police reluctant to help them.

In 2010, police took 15 days to register a missing-persons case for 14-year-old Pankaj Singh. His mother is still waiting for him to come home.

"Every day my husband and my father would go wait at the police station, but they would shoo them away," Pravesh Kumari Singh said as she sat on her son's bed, surrounded by his pictures and books.

One morning in March 2010, she fed her son a breakfast of fried pancakes and spicy potatoes, then left for a community health training program.

"He told me he would have a bath and settle down to study for his exams," said Singh, clutching the boy's photograph to her heart.

When she returned, he was gone. "The neighbors said some boys had called him out. We searched everywhere, went to the police, but they refused to believe that something had happened to our son."

The police insisted he had run off with friends and would return, she said.

"They said we must have scolded him or beaten him, which is why he had run away from home," she said.

Formal police complaints were registered in only one-sixth of missing child cases in 2011, said Bhuwan Ribhu, a lawyer with Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or the Save the Childhood Movement. He said police resist registering cases because they want to keep crime figures low, and that parents are often too poor to bribe them to reconsider.

Ribhu said the first few hours after a child goes missing are the most crucial. "The police can cordon off nearby areas, issue alerts at railway and bus stations, and step up vigilance to catch the kidnappers," he said.

Activists say delays let traffickers move children to neighboring states, where the police don't have jurisdiction. There is no national database of missing children that state police can reference.

Police have insisted that most of missing children are runways fleeing grinding poverty.

"It's easy enough to blame the police for not finding the children. Some of the parents do not even possess a photograph of the child. Or they will come up with a years-old picture. It becomes difficult when there's not even a photograph to work with," Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said last month when asked about complaints on police inaction in investigating case of missing children.

Many cases involved poor migrant construction workers who move from site to site around the city, Bhagat said.

"The children are unfamiliar with the place and once they lose their way, they wouldn't know how to return," he said.

India's Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath told Parliament last month that the problem of missing children had assumed "alarming" proportions. The National Crime Records Bureau reported that 34,406 missing children were never found in 2011, up from 18,166 in 2009.

Activists say some children are trafficked and forced to beg on the streets. Some work on farms or factories as forced labor and others have their organs harvested and sold. The activists say young girls are pushed into the sex trade or sold for marriage.

"The government is just not ready to confront the issue of trafficking or missing children. And this gets reflected in the apathy of the police in dealing with cases of missing children," said Ribhu, the lawyer.

In 2006, the Central Bureau of Investigation said at least 815 criminal gangs were kidnapping children for begging, prostitution or ransom.

The Save the Childhood Movement said police have not cracked a single one of those syndicates.

"Despite our providing the police with all the details of where a child was picked up from, where he was taken, the police are simply not willing to act," said Ribhu.

Two streets away from Singh, in a tiny windowless room crammed with clothes, bedding and a stove, Pinky Devi keeps a prized possession locked away in a drawer: a faded color photograph of her son Ravi Shankar.

One afternoon in November 2011, she says, the 11-year-old went off with other children to a neighborhood fair. He never returned.

Devi said the police visited her home a couple of times and spoke to her neighbors, but their interest soon wore out.

"I'm sure if we had money to spend on them, the police would have been more active in tracing my son," said Devi, her two younger sons and infant daughter clinging to her sari in their one-room tenement in southeast Delhi.

Shantha Sinha, who heads the government's National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, acknowledged that much remained to be done to make police take cases of missing children seriously.

"There has to be a strong message that in every incident of a missing child, a criminal case has to be registered and the case is properly investigated," Sinha said.

Kunwar Pal, a construction worker, fears police indifference crushed his efforts to find his son Ravi Kumar.

Since the 12-year-old disappeared three years ago, the distraught father has cycled across India's sprawling capital, visiting police and railway stations, children's homes and hospitals, handing out posters and photographs of his missing son. Every time he hears of a child found anywhere in the city, he cycles to the police station, hoping it's Ravi.

Pal, a lean 45-year-old with haunted eyes, refuses to think the worst. He believes Ravi was taken by a childless couple who wanted a child of their own.

"If they were to let me know somehow that my son is alive, I would be happy," said Pal, his spare frame wracked by dry heaves. "They can keep him. Just let me see his shadow. Just let me know he's safe."

He also believes police would have worked harder if he had not been poor.

"If I were rich, my son would have been found by now. If I had money, the police would have taken the case more seriously," he said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/indian-girls-rape-highlights-police-apathy-103156990.html

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Winklevoss twins try to buy up bitcoin market

The Winklevoss twins have bought one percent of all bitcoins, the virtual currency. After a week of peaking and crashing, the bitcoin market seems to have stabilized.?

By Aimee Ortiz / April 12, 2013

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss pose at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston in this 2010 photo. The Winklevoss twins are expected to walk away with between $250 million and $350 million when Facebook goes public.

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The Winklevoss twins (two major characters Facebook creation story) are back in the news, this time making headlines with their $11 million purchase of one percent of all bitcoins, the virtual currency.?

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As of Thursday morning, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss own approximately 108,000 bitcoins. The virtual currency has had a volatile week. Bitcoins were trading for as high as $266 each on Wednesday. However, it crashed that same day and sent the online money plummeting down to $105. It eventually stabilized around $150.

So, what is bitcoin? It?s a virtual currency that was created in 2009 by an anonymous person (or people) under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoins work on a peer-to-peer computer network. They are not backed by any government. They are worth only what people are willing to pay for them.?

Bitcoins are known for being favorites among hackers and, most notably, as the method of payment on Silk Road ? a website where narcotics can be bought and sold. So, what would prompt the Olympic-rowing twins to invest in virtual money?

The New York Times Dealbook states that the Winklevoss brothers believe that the bitcoin will become the next gold.

?People really don?t want to take it seriously. At some point that narrative will shift to ?virtual currencies are here to stay.? We?re in the early days,? Cameron Winklevoss told the Times.

The twins also told the Times that the fluctuations are simply the ?growing pains? for the bitcoin.

The brothers became known for their antagonistic roles in the movie "The Social Network." The film shows the real-life lawsuit the brothers had against Mark Facebook founder Zuckerberg, claiming that he had stolen their idea for Facebook. The pair settled for $45 million and Facebook stock.

For more tech news follow Aimee on?Twitter,?@aimee_ortiz?

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Alum open College Hunks Hauling Junk and College Hunk Moving Franchises in Founding City

Miami, FL (PRWEB) April 11, 2013 - Two University of Miami alumni are following in the footsteps of the College Hunks Hauling Junk founders, opening a franchise in Miami 10 years after the franchise network was born there.

Christopher Poore and Ron Rick graduated from the University of Miami in 2012 with degrees in Entrepreneurship. As part of an Entrepreneurial Consulting class, the duo spent a semester studying College Hunks Hauling Junk to determine the viability of a Miami-based franchise.

?After countless hours of research, we decided that the Miami location was more than viable, and we jumped in with both feet,? said Christopher.

Poore and Rick?s entrepreneurial jump mirrors the company?s founding a decade ago. In 2003, founder and CEO Omar Soliman, while a senior at the University of Miami, submitted his business plan for College Hunks Hauling Junk to the University?s business plan competition. Omar won first place and $10,000 for his business concept. He went on to found College Hunks Hauling Junk with long-time friend Nick Friedman and a cargo van he borrowed from his mother.

What started with two college guys trying to earn extra money has grown into a junk removal and moving company with a national presence. Miami is the 46th franchise in College Hunks Hauling Junk?s network and the fifth location in Florida.

Christopher and Ron will continue the company?s tradition of hiring college students, doing their part to make College Hunks Hauling Junk?s vision a reality. ?We hope to be the number-one employer of college students,? explained Christopher. And, they?re already putting miles on the company?s signature orange and green trucks.

?Miami will always hold a special place in our heart,? said Omar Soliman, Co-founder and CEO. ?Now with a franchise operating out of the area, we can once again call it home.? The Miami location?s grand opening is April 11 and will be attended by both founders and C.J., the official mascot of College Hunks Hauling Junk.

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College Hunks Hauling Junk and College Hunks Moving is a national junk-removal, labor services and moving company, with franchises serving 45 markets in 25 states, including areas such as Central PA, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Northern NJ, Tampa Bay, Washington DC and now Miami. For more information on moving or junk removal services, please visit http://www.collegehunkshaulingjunk.com. To schedule services with the Miami College Hunks Hauling Junk or any location nationwide, call 1-800-586-5872.

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Is North Korea on a 'collision' course with vow to restart nuclear reactor?

Kim Jong-un announced that North Korea will restart its nuclear facility, making the country's nuclear program a source of deep concern for the international community.

By Robert Marquand,?Staff writer / April 2, 2013

In this June 2008 image taken from television, the 60-foot-tall cooling tower is seen before its demolition at the main Nyongbyon reactor complex in Nyongbyon, also known as Yongbyon, North Korea. North Korea vowed Tuesday, to restart a nuclear reactor that can make one bomb's worth of plutonium a year, escalating tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea.

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In response, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the former foreign minister of South Korea, today described the North as on ?a collision course with the international community? ? even as some Korea watchers call it all bluster and bellicosity.

Experts say it could take as little as three months to a year for scientists to restart the Yongbyon nuclear facility. The facility?was closed most recently in 2012 with the promise of food aid from the US ? though that so-called "food for nukes" deal fell through with the North's third nuclear test in February. ?

It is quite unclear whether young leader Kim Jung-un ? whose recent bone-jarring threats of war and attack are considered part of his consolidation of power inside Pyongyang and among the North Korean people ? will go ahead with an expensive project of plutonium reprocessing and enriching uranium, or use these to extract aid and talks.

A nuclear weapon or capability has long been the No. 1 prize sought by the Kim family dynasty in Pyongyang, dating to Kim?s grandfather Kim Il-sung, as the ultimate bargaining chip both for its own security and as a means to gain international attention and aid. In February, the North successfully tested a device, that resulted in UN sanctions that the North has protested are undeserved.

The reclusive state declared a ?state of war? exists between the two Koreas last weekend, and last month vowed to target Hawaii and Guam with its rockets, though they are not currently thought capable of reaching US bases, nor are they nuclear-tipped.

The Associated Press writes today that:

A spokesman for the North's General Department of Atomic Energy said scientists will quickly begin work "readjusting and restarting" a uranium enrichment plant and a graphite-moderated, 5-megawatt reactor that could produce a bomb's worth of plutonium each year.

AP also quotes North Korean expert Hwang Jihwan at the University of Seoul, South Korea, who argues that Pyongyang?s recent behavior aims at?"keeping tension and crisis alive to raise stakes ahead of possible future talks with the United States."

Essentially, reports the AP, "North Korea is asking the world, `What are you going to do about this?' "

Complicating matters is the fact that Kim Jong-un was considered by Western officials a relative unknown until he took over from his father, ?Dear Leader? Kim Jong-il last spring. And still, not much is known about him.

Bluster or not, the North?s belligerence has put the Korean peninsula on high alert. Kim Jong-un has scratched the armistice signed after the Korean War, cut military hotlines, brought new South Korean president Park Geun-hye to say that the South will retaliate over any provocations, and caused the US military, which has 28,000 troops in the South, to relocate sensitive radars and to send B-2 Stealth bombers in fly overs.

Yet, the Los Angeles Times today points out:

After the declaration of a "state of war" over the weekend, the White House said no major troop movements were detected in North Korea. White House officials have said the Pyongyang regime has shown no "action to back up the rhetoric."

The?U.S. Navy, however, is moving a sea-based radar platform closer to North Korea to track possible missile launches, a?Pentagon?official said Monday. The support is the latest step to deter the North and reassure South Korea and Japan that the U.S. is committed to their defense.

In one sense, Korea watchers say, the new regime is simply rehashing and upping the volume of an ideology and a language that the North and the Kim family have used for many years to remain in power and keep people unified by the threat of an enemy.?

Being taken seriously by the outside world is an important verification of the Kim regime, which feeds edited broadcasts of world media to its people, whose sources of information are carefully controlled.

Some analysts think officials in Pyongyang are beside themselves with the kind of attention they are now achieving, largely through verbal threats backed up by the nuclear test.

In a theater song performance broadcast to the nation in February, reminiscent of the kind of ?ballet? the Chinese used to perform during the Cultural Revolution, a stage backdrop contained the phrase,?"Let's strike the imperialists mercilessly with the same success we had carrying out the 3rd nuclear test."

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The Texas Senate Committee on Business & Commerce held a hearing on Wednesday to discuss the legalization of casinos in the state. SJR 64 creates a gaming commission that will award licenses for up to 21 gaming facilities across the state. Included are casinos for the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe, the Tigua Tribe and the Kickapoo Tribe. ?We are not asking for any handouts, but we are looking to improve our lives,? Alabama-Coushatta Vice Chairman Clint Poncho told the committee, Scripps Texas Newspapers reported. The state commission would be authorized to enter into Class III gaming compacts with the tribes. The bill calls for revenue sharing. If lawmakers approve SJR 64, it would go before voters in the form of a constitutional amendment. Get the Story: Legislature holds gaming hearing (Scripps Texas Newspapers 4/11) Gambling bill might have better luck in a special session (The Austin American-Statesman 4/11) Testimony expected on casinos in Texas (AP 4/10) Related Stories: Editorial: Some optimism for reopening of Tigua Tribe's casino (4/10)

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Texas college attack: 'Seek shelter now'

A stabbing victim is loaded into a helicopter on the Lone Star College Cy-Fair campus. (Reuters)

At least 14 people were wounded in an apparent mass stabbing at Lone Star College's CyFair campus in Cypress, Texas, on Tuesday morning.

The suspect, a white male armed with what one witness described as an X-Acto knife, was detained, police said. The suspect, believed to be 21, was enrolled at the school.

Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia said police received a 911 call at 11:12 a.m. local time reporting a white male "on the loose stabbing people."

The school was placed on lockdown.

"Seek shelter now," Lone Star College's Twitter feed warned Tuesday afternoon. "If away, stay away."

The incident occurred near and around the school's Health Science Center and remains an active crime scene, Garcia said.

"Buildings are still being searched," he added.

Four victims were transported by helicopter with serious injuries "consistent with laceration," a spokesman for the Harris County Sheriff's Office said. Two others were taken by ambulance to a local trauma center.

Two of those victims are in critical condition, he said. Four are in fair condition. Others victims treated for minor injuries and two refused treatment, Garcia said.

One witness told CNN that the suspect was hearing impaired.

An announcement was made over loud speakers warning students to seek shelter. "This is an emergency," the announcement said, according to KHOU-TV. "Everybody stay inside of your rooms. Do not leave your rooms."

An alert issued on the school's website indicated that "another suspect may possibly be at large." But Garcia said surveillance video reviewed by police indicated there was one "and only one" suspect.

An Instagram user who claimed he helped apprehend the suspect posted a photo of a man face down on the ground with a backpack:

F--- this mothaf---er stabbed 5 people. 2 girls in the cheek. Everyone ran the other way I said f--- that. Me and this kid got em #lonestarstabbing #f---thiskid #copsaretooslow

Police would not confirm the exact weapon used by the suspect, but said no firearms were found at the scene.

The campus was evacuated, vice chancellor Randy Key told reporters, and the college will remain closed for the remainder of the day.

In January, three people were wounded in a shooting at Lone Star College's North Harris campus near Houston. More than 90,000 students attend classes across the Lone Star College system's six campuses.

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A ghostly green bubble

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Stars the size of the Sun end their lives as tiny and faint white dwarf stars. But as they make the final transition into retirement their atmospheres are blown away into space. For a few tens of thousands of years they are surrounded by the spectacular and colourful glowing clouds of ionised gas known as planetary nebulae.

This new image from the VLT shows the planetary nebula IC 1295, which lies in the constellation of Scutum (The Shield). It has the unusual feature of being surrounded by multiple shells that make it resemble a micro-organism seen under a microscope, with many layers corresponding to the membranes of a cell.

These bubbles are made out of gas that used to be the star's atmosphere. This gas has been expelled by unstable fusion reactions in the star's core that generated sudden releases of energy, like huge thermonuclear belches. The gas is bathed in strong ultraviolet radiation from the aging star, which makes the gas glow. Different chemical elements glow with different colours and the ghostly green shade that is prominent in IC 1295 comes from ionised oxygen.

At the centre of the image, you can see the burnt-out remnant of the star's core as a bright blue-white spot at the heart of the nebula. The central star will become a very faint white dwarf and slowly cool down over many billions of years.

Stars with masses like the Sun and up to eight times that of the Sun, will form planetary nebulae as they enter the final phase of their existence. The Sun is 4.6 billion years old and it will likely live another four billion years.

Despite the name, planetary nebulae have nothing to do with planets. This descriptive term was applied to some early discoveries because of the visual similarity of these unusual objects to the outer planets Uranus and Neptune, when viewed through early telescopes, and it has been catchy enough to survive. These objects were shown to be glowing gas by early spectroscopic observations in the nineteenth century.

This image was captured by ESO's Very Large Telescope, located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, using the FORS instrument (FOcal Reducer Spectrograph). Exposures taken through three different filters that passed blue light (coloured blue), visible light (coloured green), and red light (coloured red) have been combined to make this picture.

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US Expected to Increase Aid to Syrian Rebels

The Obama administration's next step in aid to Syrian rebels is expected to be a broader package of nonlethal assistance, but expanding from food and medical supplies to body armor and night-vision goggles, as the U.S. grapples for ways to stem the bloodshed from Syria's civil war.

However, President Barack Obama has not given final approval on any new package and an announcement is not imminent, a senior administration official said. The U.S. continues to oppose directly arming the Syrian rebels, in part out of fear that the weapons could fall into the hands of rebels like those who have allied themselves with al-Qaida in Iraq.

Secretary of State John Kerry hinted at the new nonlethal aid package this week, saying the administration had been holding intense talks on how to boost assistance to the rebels fighting forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad.

"Those efforts have been very much front and center in our discussions in the last week in Washington," Kerry said Tuesday, a day before meeting with Syrian opposition leaders in London. "I'm not sure what the schedule is, but I do believe that it's important for us to try to continue to put the pressure on President Assad and to try to change his calculation."

During Wednesday's meeting, the Syrian opposition leaders asked Kerry and other top Western diplomats specifically for military equipment, according to a senior State Department official who was present.

Kerry told them that the U.S. was looking at different options to help the rebels, but made no promises about any specific types of future aid, said the official, who wasn't authorized to speak publicly on the meeting and demanded anonymity.

Kerry also urged the opposition to organize itself better and said he'd attend a meeting April 20 in Istanbul bringing together the Syrian opposition's big donor nations from Europe and the Arab world.

The United Nations estimates more than 70,000 people have been killed during more than two years of fighting between rebels and government forces.

Britain and France have already been shipping armor, night-vision goggles and other military-style equipment to the rebels.

Earlier this year, the U.S. announced a $60 million nonlethal assistance package for Syria that includes meals and medical supplies for the armed opposition. The aid package marked the first direct American assistance to the opposition forces trying to overthrow Assad. It was greeted unenthusiastically by some rebel leaders, who said it did far too little.

While the Obama administration continues to resist arming the rebels, the U.S. has said it would not stand in the way of other nations that decide to take that step.

Senior officials from the White House, State Department and Pentagon held a high-level meeting Friday that focused on Syria.

Among those who attended Kerry's meeting in London Wednesday were the Syrian opposition's interim prime minister, Hassan Hitto; Vice Presidents Suheir Atassi and George Sabra; Secretary-General Najib Ghadbian and the opposition's envoys to the United States and Britain.

Kerry then met one-on-one with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for talks on the Syrian civil war. The U.S. and Russia have frequently been at odds over the conflict in Syria, with Moscow opposing action at the U.N. Security Council that would increase pressure on Assad.

The State Department official said Russia offered no indication that it was softening its position on Syria. Kerry reiterated the U.S. preference for a political solution that includes Assad leaving power, the official said, and agreed to continuing discussing the situation in Syria with Lavrov and other top diplomats during an evening meeting of the Group of Eight industrialized nations.

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Klapper reported from London.

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Student debt is housing's $1 trillion challenge

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Isaac and Stephanie Adams live in Richmond, Va., and are expecting a baby in June. Last year they decided to buy a house. With home prices and mortgage rates both at historic lows, it seemed the perfect time. Unfortunately, student loans stood in their way.

"We were looking at the market going, 'Oh my gosh, the market is awesome right now. We can get some great house that our payments will be, our loan will be great to set us up financially well for our growing family, and we just weren't able to do it, take advantage of that,'" Stephanie said.

Between the two of them, the Adams' student loan debt tops $100,000. They pay $1,100 a month for the loans, and that, coupled with the fact that Isaac was working a contract job, was enough to disqualify them from getting a mortgage.

Read More: How the Student Loan Crisis Drags Down Home Prices

Their story is getting ever more common. Total student loan balances nearly tripled between 2004 and 2012, according to a new survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Now $1 trillion in collective student loan debt is directly affecting the housing recovery.

"Short term, you see a decrease in the number of first-time home buyers," said Brian Coester of Coester Valuation Management. "You're going to see somebody who would have been able to afford a more expensive house maybe go for the lower version or the downgraded version."

First-time home buyers usually make up over 40 percent of the home buying population, but their share has hovered at or below 30 percent during this recovery, according to the National Association of Realtors. The student debt burden has forced many potential buyers to rent or to move back in with their parents.

"Without the student loan debt, a year and a half, two years earlier would have been the time I could have afforded to buy a house, and probably something a little bit bigger," Sophia Chaale said.

Chaale is facing $60,000 in student loans from graduate and undergraduate schools. She is paying $320 a month on a 30-year loan. Only after living at home for two years was she able to apply for a mortgage and put a down payment on a home. She is scheduled to close at the end of April.

"I consider myself lucky that I had a place where I could save, but what about other people who aren't originally from this area, who have to pay an extra $1500 a month in rent, and that rent money is not going to savings. How are they going to be able to save up or even to make that transition from renting to owning, in addition to all the student loan debt?" Chaale wondered.

The answer is that many won't. Adding to the burden is the fact that one-third of student loan borrowers are delinquent on their debts, according to the Federal Reserve report. That directly affects their credit rating and, in today's strict credit environment, will keep them out of the mortgage market for years to come.

"Long term it's going to really affect especially the upper end, because people aren't going to have the excess income to buy the jumbo property or buy that high end property," said Coester. "It' s going to affect home prices as a negative, as more of a cap, because it's really debt that they are servicing."

TheAdams had to delay their home purchase for a year, while they reorganized their student loan debt and while Isaac found permanent employment. They now have a contract on a house, but they feel like they got in just under the wire, as home prices are suddenly moving up rapidly.

"As long as this house closes, I don't think we missed out," said Isaac. "Rates are still fairly low, but I do believe as this year progresses, things will change."

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