One person critical, two others in hospital after Texas college shooting

HOUSTON (Reuters) - One person was in critical condition and two others were taken to hospital with injuries after a shooting broke out between two people on the campus of Lone Star College near Houston on Tuesday, an official with an ambulance dispatch company said.

"We did transport three patients from the scene," said Mark Smith, an official with Harris county Emergency Corps which dispatches ambulances in that area.

"The patients were described as one critical, two as urgent. My understanding is that at least one of the patients had heart issues, not gunshots," he said.

Smith said he had been told that the shooting took place in the school library, which is near the center of the campus.

Sheriff's Office spokesman Armando Tello said, "We do have, we believe, 3 people injured at this time. We also have a person of interest that's being detained." He gave no further details.

A second shooter fled the campus, according to college spokesman Jed Young. Neither police nor Young said whether the second shooter had been apprehended, and it was not clear if the two people involved in the shooting were students.

The shooting took place on the North Harris campus of the community college system. The campus was evacuated and closed for the day, officials said.

The campus is covered with pine trees and local media reported that authorities were searching a wooded area for the second shooter.

Police were stopping traffic at every intersection on the campus. Some vehicles and some pedestrians were allowed to pass but others were turned away.

Four schools in the Aldine district near Lone Star College were locked down, said Leticia Fehling, a spokeswoman for the district. Officials have closed several roads near the college and school buses were not able to enter the area, she said.

Student Amanda Vasquez said she was waiting for an English class to start in a campus building when she heard shots.

"I heard about 6 shots ... Kids started rushing down the hallway. It really happened so fast," she told CNN news.

Vasquez said people in the classroom closed the door, turned off the lights and put a table against the door.

The shooting occurred just over a month after a gunman killed 20 students and six staff at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.

The Lone Star College System is the largest institution of higher education in the Houston area, according to its website. Student enrollment is 90,000 and there are six colleges in the system.

There have been three separate shootings at schools and colleges in the United States in the past two weeks.

On January 10, a student armed with a shotgun opened fire at a California high school, wounding a fellow student. A second student also received minor injures at Taft Union High School in Taft, California, about 30 miles southwest of Bakersfield.

On January 15, a student armed with a pistol opened fire at Stevens Institute of business & Arts in downtown St. Louis, shooting a school employee and then turning the gun on himself.

Also on January 15, two people were killed and a third wounded when gunfire broke out in the parking lot of a community college in eastern Kentucky. Authorities said that shooting was a result of a domestic conflict.

(This story corrects paragraph 5 spelling to Armando instead of Amando. The error first occurred in Update 4.)

(Reporting by Erwin Seba; Additional reporting by Corrie MacLaggan, Jim Forsyth, Mary Wisniewski and Bill Trott; Editing by Greg McCune)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/two-students-struck-gunfire-texas-college-official-195804814.html

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Best Parenting Tweets: What Moms And Dads Said On Twitter This Week

It finally happened. After weeks of shopping and decorating and cooking and wrapping, Christmas came and went, leaving only a trail of new toys in its wake -- and parents on Twitter grappling with the aftermath. Kristen Chase summed up the phenomenon of doting nanas and papas gifting toys that kids like and parents hate, tweeting: "'Oh look, no 'off' button and it takes 400 watch batteries, PERFECT!' -All Grandparents everywhere." And Tanis Miller warned of the dangers of asking kids to name their favorite presents, explaining, "You'll taste the bitterness of defeat when you realize it wasn't a gift you bought." Oof.

Of course, with the kids home from school (surrounded by treats aplenty), moms and dads had much to say on Twitter about all aspects of parenting. From musings on the micro-management of art projects to how many gadgets are required to get through one flight, here are this week's most entertaining parenting tweets.

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Two Republican senators and a congressman questioned the purchase of a Chinese company of the bankrupt battery manufacturer A123 System. Wanxiang Group Corp. won the auction conducted under the supervision of the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The Chinese company will buy some of A123?s assets for $256.6 million.

A123?s government business was bought by Navitas Systems. US Representative Bill Huizenga said that Wanxiang?s acquisition of A123 raised some concerns even if the defense operations were sold to another entity.

Johnson Controls was expected to buy A123?s automotive unit but Wanxiang interceded and provided bankruptcy financing. The Republicans were concerned about the $249 million grant that the US Department of Energy gave to A123 in order to increase its manufacturing capacity. Now the Chinese company owns the capacity.

Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa and John Thune of South Dakota repeated their concerns they have raised before. Thune called President Barack Obama?s energy policy a win-win for China and lose-lose situation for the taxpayers.

Of the $249 million grant, $133 million was already forwarded to A123. The remaining balance would not be given to Wanxiang, even if it manages to clear the final obstacles in acquiring the batter company. The money was used on facilities and equipment to be used in the United States and the government expects those assets to remain in Michigan and anywhere else in the country.

According to Energy Department spokesman Bill Gibbons, the department worked through the bankruptcy process to make sure that the equipment and plants that were partially paid for by the Recovery Act would stay in Michigan and give American workers more job opportunities.

It has been reported that a court hearing to grant approval for the sale is set for Tuesday. The Committee for Foreign Investment in the US will also review the Wanxiang deal.

Source: http://www.paydayloansmag.com/republican-lawmakers-question-wanxiang-group-purchase-of-a123-systems/

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DNA study finds many genetic mutations are rare and recent

Human DNA contains myriad individual differences that influence a host of traits, be they eye color or the ability to digest milk. Now a study shows that most of those tiny genetic variations are rare ? and they arose in the very recent history of our species.

Joshua Akey, a geneticist at the University of Washington in Seattle, led a consortium of scientists who examined the DNA of 4,298 European Americans and 2,217 African Americans. Limiting their analysis to the parts of the genome that contain instructions for making proteins, the study authors found more than 1 million sites where the building blocks of DNA ? the nucleotides known by the letters A, C, G and T ? varied in at least one of the subjects.

Most of those individual variants were rare, with each one found in fewer than 0.5% of the people in the sample. In nearly half of the cases of mutations, each variant was detected in only one person, according to their report last month in the journal Nature.

This meant that the genetic changes must have cropped up very recently, because otherwise there would have been ample time for them to spread through generations of people and show up in many more of the study participants, the authors said.

The scientists were even able to estimate the age of variations based on how rare or common they were ? and found that about 73% of the mutations had occurred in the last 5,000 to 10,000 years.

The percentage of rare ? and therefore recent ? mutations was greater in European Americans than African Americans, the team reported. That fits with the history of Homo sapiens: The ancestors of Europeans went through explosive population growth when they left their homeland in Africa tens of thousands of years ago.

The scientists also tried to gauge the likelihood that these mutations would influence someone's risk for disease and other traits. If a gene region had exactly the same structure in humans, apes and other vertebrates, they reasoned, it must be important; any changes there would thus be more likely to harm. So would any mutation that would alter the properties of a protein.

These mutations were even more likely to be recent: Fully 86% of them arose within the last 5,000 to 10,000 years.

It's not really surprising that the more-likely-to-be-harmful mutations would be rare and recent, Akey said. Any mutation that was truly toxic would quickly be weeded out from a population, and even those that were merely damaging would reduce a person's chances of passing on their genes, so they would disappear eventually too.

The results give a sense of just how quickly the human population has expanded in the last 10,000 years ? and how that has affected our genetic makeup, said Shamil Sunyaev, a computational geneticist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston who wasn't involved in the study. Without that population explosion, there would have been fewer chances for mutations to occur and the proportion of recent mutations would not have been so high.

There is a practical lesson as well, Akey added. In recent years, medical researchers have been working hard to find patterns of common genetic mutations that are linked to common diseases. Maybe they need to focus more attention on the rare mutations instead, he said.

The study is "really the first to get at this in a fashion you'd like to see ? with large data sets and lots and lots of people," said Stanford University geneticist Michael Snyder, who wasn't involved in the study.

Snyder added that you can see such mutations accruing in recent studies that have shown, in families with autistic children, for example, that many affected children carry brand-new DNA changes that arose spontaneously in a parent.

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Source: http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/hA3Dfyr48Ww/la-sci-human-genetic-variation-20121210,0,812992.story

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Prostate Cancer UK & UK Cycling Events Join Forces - Sportive Scene

Posted Monday 26th November 2012 -

Prostate Cancer UK has today (Monday 26th November) launched its partnership with national event organiser, UK Cycling Events, becoming its official charity partner for 2013. Prostate Cancer UK will benefit from the Wiggle Super Series 2013, which is organised by UK Cycling Events, and consists of 35 events around the UK. Cyclists taking part in these events will be encouraged to raise funds to help tackle the most common cancer in men.

With over 30,000 riders taking part in the Wiggle Super Series this year, and participant numbers expected to rise in 2013, the partnership is set to raise both awareness of the disease and funds for Prostate Cancer UK through sponsorship. Prostate Cancer UK is also aiming to recruit over 4000 cyclists to its existing army of supporters within the charity?s cycling team.

Mark Bishop, Director of Fundraising at Prostate Cancer UK, said: ?We are incredibly excited to be teaming up with the biggest cycling event organiser in the UK. The partnership will provide an opportunity to raise essential funds that will help us support more men with prostate cancer, provide vital information and find answers by funding research into causes and treatments.

?It is also a fantastic opportunity to engage with new supporters and raise awareness of the most common cancer in men, a disease which kills 10,000 every year in the UK. That?s one man every hour.?

Martin Barden, Director of UK Cycling Events, said: ?We are delighted to be supporting Prostate Cancer UK in 2013. This fantastic charity is highly relevant in cycling, and we hope riders will use our events and the challenge they provide to fundraise vital funds?.

The first event in the 2013 Wiggle Super Series is the Wiggle Southern Rough Ride on the 3rd of March.

For more information on how to get involved visit www.ukcyclingevents.co.uk

Source: http://www.sportivescene.co.uk/prostate-cancer-uk-uk-cycling-events-join-forces/

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Uzbek court overturns ruling to seize MTS assets

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) ? Russia's largest mobile telecommunications company said Friday that a court in Uzbekistan has reversed a September ruling to seize assets belonging to its subsidiary in the Central Asian nation but also slapped it with a fine.

MTS said in an emailed statement that an appeals court in the capital, Tashkent, imposed a $600 million penalty to compensate for alleged tax evasion and embezzlement at the Moscow-based company's subsidiary, Uzdunrobita.

Uzdunrobita, which operates under the brand name MTS Uzbekistan, had suspended operations in mid-July at the request of Uzbek authorities, denying service to around 9.5 million customers, around two-fifths of the entire population.

The high-profile case has threated to derail attempts by Uzbekistan to attract international investors to the ex-Soviet nation, which has seen multiple state-led seizures of private businesses.

MTS said the Tashkent City Court appeals board ordered Thursday that it pay the $600 million penalty over eight months.

"We are satisfied that MTS's position was heard during the judicial process and that the company's demands have in part been met," MTS chief executive Andrei Dubovskov said in the statement.

Tashkent Criminal Court's order in September to confiscate Uzdunrobita's assets came in conjunction with the sentencing of four company managers to 2 ? in jail for embezzlement.

MTS said the verdict against the Uzdunrobita managers remains in force.

MTS says it has invested around $1.1 billion into its Uzbek business since buying a 74 percent stake in Uzdunrobita in 2004. It acquired the remaining stake in successive years.

Uzdunrobita was formerly owned by Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov.

Karimova sold the company to MTS in 2004 at what market watchers said was an above-market price.

Former Uzdunrobita business partner, Sanjar Umarov, has claimed Karimova pushed him out of the company.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uzbek-court-overturns-ruling-seize-mts-assets-074002984--finance.html

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