Saturday, July 20, 2013

Rick Perry?s Texas Legacy is Secure


Written By : Matt Mackowiak
July 20, 2013

July 8, 2013 marked the beginning of the end of the Rick Perry era in Texas.

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Middle school children have never known another Texas governor in their lifetime.

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Anyone in office 14 years will have good and bad in their record. Unquestionably, Gov. Perry is viewed in partisan terms in Texas. From my perspective, his legacy is bifurcated.

The Texas legacy is basically two things: longevity and the strong economy. The rest is short term white noise that will be mostly forgotten.

Let?s take these two issues separately:

First, Perry?s longevity is staggering, and it?s a testament to his stamina, focus, drive and desire to serve the public. He could have left the Governor?s Mansion in 2006 or 2010 and cashed in with speaking gigs and corporate boards earning millions. He didn?t do that. He chose to continue, longer than any governor in our history, because he thought Texas was worth it and the job wasn?t done. I do not believe his record of 14 years as governor will ever be broken ? certainly not in my lifetime.

Second, the Texas economy is the envy of the nation. It?s that simple. We are blessed to have inherited advantages, like rich natural resources, but our state continues to succeed because we choose to be an attractive climate for businesses to move here and for innovators to start businesses. Texas sells itself, and under Perry, not only have we not messed that up, we?ve improved it.

Challenges remain: an unacceptable high school dropout rate, a high uninsured rate, and significant infrastructure challenges. Some of this comes from illegal immigration due to our lengthy our border with Mexico, but our explosive growth rate also means government can be slow to react.

That said, the Texas legacy is solid.

The national legacy, as of now, has undoubtedly damaged Perry, given the way his campaign unraveled and the underperforming nature of it. He got in too late, back surgery impacted him, and ?Oops? happened. That history cannot be changed.

But should he run for president in 2016, he has an opportunity to change the perception. He can now ramp up toward running, prepare, travel the world, travel the country, think deeply about what policies the country needs and how he could put the Texas model to work for America.

For me personally, I have evolved on Perry quite a bit. I was initially agnostic, then quite critical while working for then-U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, later a supporter of his presidential campaign and now an admirer.

What changed for me was seeing the goodness in Rick Perry that I had not known before.

Perry has an intensely loyal band of former and current aides, a sign that he is a good boss and unfailingly loyal to his team. This is not always true in politics, and it speaks volumes about his character.

During the unpleasant presidential campaign in 2011-2012, Gov. Perry had any number of opportunities to lash out amid what must have been a somewhat miserable experience. He didn?t.

I attended four televised primary debates, many fundraisers and several major speeches. I was present both when he announced in Charleston and when he ended his campaign just before the South Carolina primary. I saw a lot of it up close.

What really impacted me were two things I personally witnessed in 2012 in Iowa.

The night before the Iowa caucuses, the Perry campaign held their final rally in tiny Perry, Iowa. For Perry, it must have felt like he was at his own funeral. The place was stacked with so many friends and supporters. The governors of Kansas and Louisiana were there, along with dozens of former staffers and most of the campaign team. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst was there to demonstrate his loyalty and support. It was an impressive showing of people who stood by him.

The morning of the Iowa caucuses, Perry and Texas first lady Anita Perry held an early-morning thank-you reception with all of the supporters who had traveled to Iowa to help them campaign. It was heartfelt. They must have been tired and anxious. They didn?t have to be there. But it meant a great deal to all of us who traveled there at our own expense and made thousands of calls for them.

There are reasonable criticisms of Rick Perry. But he deserves credit for a lifetime of public service, a booming Texas economy, and for the goodness in him that some of us have had the fortune to know.

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Obama says 'Trayvon Martin could have been me, 35 years ago'

By Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday jumped into the debate over the acquittal of the man who killed black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, declaring that Martin "could have been me, 35 years ago," and urging Americans to understand the pain that African-Americans feel over the case.

Obama came into the White House press briefing room to offer his thoughts on the case involving George Zimmerman, the Florida man who was found not guilty of murder on Saturday after shooting 17-year-old Martin during a struggle.

The Zimmerman case has brought matters of race into the American conversation once again, between those who feel Zimmerman was acting in self defense and others who believe there was no need for him to shoot the unarmed teenager.

Without saying so specifically, Obama clearly sided with the argument that the shooting need not have happened, expressing sympathy to the Martin family and praising family members for the "incredible grace and dignity with which they've dealt with the entire situation."

He said the case was properly handled in the Florida court and the fact that the jury found reasonable doubt in the prosecution's case against Zimmerman was relevant. And yet, he added, it is important that Americans understand the context from the black perspective.

"You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me, 35 years ago," he said somberly.

Obama, 51, recalled his own encounters with racism as a way of explaining the pain that the black community has expressed over the case.

"There are very few African-American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me," he said.

He said he has heard the clicks of car doors locking when he walked across the street in his younger days.

"There are very few African-Americans who haven't had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. That happens often," he said.

While he said he believes younger generations have fewer issues with racism, Americans need to do some "soul searching" on whether they harbor prejudice.

They should consider, "Am I judging people as much as I can based on not the color of their skin, but the content of their character?" he said.

Noting racial disparities in the application of U.S. criminal laws on everything from the death penalty to enforcement of drug laws, Obama had a number of recommendations.

He urged the Justice Department work with local governments about state and local training to reduce mistrust in the system and that states should examine laws to see if they are designed in such a way that may encourage altercations.

Obama specifically mentioned Florida's "stand your ground" law that was central to Zimmerman's argument that he acted in self defense and shot Martin during their altercation. The law was not cited as part of Zimmerman's defense but one juror cited it in acquitting him.

"I just ask people to consider, if Trayvon Martin was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk? And do we actually think that he would have been justified in shooting Mr. Zimmerman, who had followed him in a car, because he felt threatened? And if the answer to that question is at least ambiguous, then it seems to me that we might want to examine those kinds of laws," said Obama.

(Editing by Christopher Wilson and Jackie Frank)

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Friday, July 19, 2013

Daniel Cormier and Roy Nelson show signed ?fight contract? for UFC 166 bout

Daniel Cormier beat Frank Mir in April. Since then, he's been pushing for a new fight, and wants Roy Nelson. The two had a war of words after Nelson called Cormier an "Uncle Tom," and they both have been pushing for a fight.

The only problem? Nelson's loss to Stipe Miocic was the last bout on his UFC contract. He has reportedly been negotiating for a new contract, but hasn't yet signed on the dotted line.

Cormier wants to fight Nelson at UFC 166, where his teammate Cain Velasquez will fight Junior dos Santos in a title bout. Instead of continuing to wait to for word from Nelson or the UFC, Cormier pulled out a sheet of loose leaf paper and drew up his own contract. He tweeted it to Nelson, who returned it "signed."

If only it were that simple. Hopefully, the UFC and Nelson can come to an agreement on the contract because it could be a fun bout. Nelson had a terrible showing in a decision loss to Miocic. Before that, he had three straight knockout wins. Cormier, a two-time Olympic wrestler, is 12-0. He won the Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix, and then won his UFC debut with a decision over Mir.

Is this a fight you want to see? Speak up on Facebook or Twitter.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/daniel-cormier-roy-nelson-show-signed-fight-contract-201115771.html

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Cancer centre appoints Aboriginal lead

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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Changing View on Viruses: Not So Small After All

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Microsoft says they will discuss their indie strat. soon.

Can't wait for this announcement because it's guaranteed to correlate with the Windows 8 app compatibility teasers from the Build Conference.

I can't wait for the Xbox to become the house computer. With Kinect + connected standby, there are many things you could control with your voice without needing any screen output (the television doesn't need to be turned on)

"Xbox, house alarm on"
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"Xbox, flush toilet" ;)

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Relatives of missing in India floods maintain hope

LUCKNOW, India (AP) ? A day after the government said it would treat more than 5,700 people missing in floods in north India last month as presumed dead, relatives say they still held out hope that their loved ones survived.

The provisional death toll would make the Uttarakhand floods the worst natural disaster in India since more than 10,000 people were killed here in the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.

Officials said some of the missing still could turn up alive.

The toll was worsened by the presence of tens of thousands of Hindu pilgrims visiting the state's temples and the many vacationers who head to its cool hills to escape the summer heat.

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Watch the Gymnast Bot Land a Quadruple Backflip

We've seen this bot before. Just this past March, we witnessed it stick a near impossible landing. And now it's stuck a quadruple backflip, which by all accounts appears to be it sixteenth feat of heroism. What can't this little guy do? Nothing.

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Trainer says he is "scapegoat" for Powell, Simpson

FILE - In this Saturday, May 19, 2013 file photo, Asafa Powell of Jamaica, center, competes with Nesta Carter of Jamaica, left, and Kim Collins of Saint Kitts, right, during the men's 100 meter at the Diamond League track and field competition in Shanghai, China. Former 100-meter world-record holder Asafa Powell and Jamaican teammate Sherone Simpson have each tested positive for banned stimulants, according to their agent. Paul Doyle told The Associated Press on Sunday, July 14, 2013 that they tested positive for the stimulant oxilofrine at the Jamaican championships and were just recently notified. The news came the same day that American 100-meter record holder Tyson Gay revealed that he also failed a drug test. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

FILE - In this Saturday, May 19, 2013 file photo, Asafa Powell of Jamaica, center, competes with Nesta Carter of Jamaica, left, and Kim Collins of Saint Kitts, right, during the men's 100 meter at the Diamond League track and field competition in Shanghai, China. Former 100-meter world-record holder Asafa Powell and Jamaican teammate Sherone Simpson have each tested positive for banned stimulants, according to their agent. Paul Doyle told The Associated Press on Sunday, July 14, 2013 that they tested positive for the stimulant oxilofrine at the Jamaican championships and were just recently notified. The news came the same day that American 100-meter record holder Tyson Gay revealed that he also failed a drug test. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

FILE - In this June 10, 2010, file photo, Jamaica's Asafa Powell runs to win the men's 100 meter event during the IAAF Diamond League Golden Gala athletics meeting at Rome's Olympic stadium. Former 100-meter world-record holder Powell and Jamaican teammate Sherone Simpson have each tested positive for banned stimulants, according to their agent. Paul Doyle told The Associated Press on Sunday, July 14, 2013, that they tested positive for the stimulant oxilofrine at the Jamaican championships and were just recently notified. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2010, file photo, Sherone Simpson, of Jamaica, runs to win the women's 100-meter event during the ISTAF Athletics Meeting in Berlin. Former 100-meter world-record holder Asafa Powell and teammate Simpson have each tested positive for banned stimulants, according to their agent. Paul Doyle told The Associated Press on Sunday, July 14, 2013, that they tested positive for the stimulant oxilofrine at the Jamaican championships and were just recently notified. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

The trainer for Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson insisted Tuesday he didn't give the sprinters performance-enhancing drugs and suggested it's time for them to take "responsibility for their doping instead of looking around for a scapegoat."

In a statement The Associated Press received from one of two email accounts for Chris Xuereb, the trainer is quoted as saying he has done nothing wrong since the Jamaicans hired him in May to provide massage therapy and nutritional help.

Powell, the former 100-meter record holder, and Simpson, a three-time Olympic medalist, tested positive for the stimulant oxilofrine at the Jamaican championships last month. Their agent, Paul Doyle, contends something in the new supplements the sprinters were taking caused it and "Chris is the one that provided those."

The email quotes Xuereb as saying he was disappointed the athletes are blaming him for their violations.

"It is time the athletes took responsibility for their doping instead of looking around for a scapegoat, whether that person is their therapist, bartender or anyone else," says the 500-word email, which details Xuereb's relationship with the sprinters. "Athletes keep using the same story, which is to blame the scapegoat for their own wrongdoing."

Earlier Tuesday, Italian police formally placed Powell, Simpson and Xuereb under criminal investigation for violating the country's doping laws. The move came a day after Italian police confiscated unidentified substances in a raid on the hotel where the three were staying in the northeastern town of Lignano Sabbiadoro, following the athletes' positive tests.

Police told the AP the raids were executed after a tip from the World Anti-Doping Agency. Doyle said he and the sprinters worked in conjunction with WADA on the raid after becoming suspicious that Xuereb might have given them supplements laced with a banned substance. Doyle also said Powell and Simpson were aware of the impending raid, but Xuereb was kept out of the loop.

"Asafa and Sherone have been tested more than 100 times each through their career ... and never turned in a positive test," Doyle told the AP in a phone interview. "Now they change their supplements and the first time they get tested, they have a positive test? It has to be something in those new supplements that has caused it. Chris is the one that provided those.

"We're not saying he did anything deliberate, but it's in those supplements."

In the email statement from Xuereb's account, he is quoted as saying he "did not provide any banned or illegal substances to Asafa Powell or Sherone Simpson."

The statement says all the vitamins Xuereb provided to the sprinters were found to be legal by Italian police.

"I do not know what these athletes were taking in addition to what I suggested to them," the statement said. "Although I suggested certain vitamins to these athletes, it is ultimately the athlete's responsibility to accept or reject my suggestion.

"Unfortunately, it appears that these athletes were not solely following my suggestions or WADA's guidelines. These guidelines are in place so all athletes can have a clean sport. Both athletes are clearly looking for a scapegoat. I am confident, and I have also spoken to researchers and the police, that I have done nothing wrong."

Doyle said that while the sprinters had been led to believe everything they were taking was untainted, he and the athletes should have been more responsible about which supplements they used.

"In hindsight, we should've been given a list, made sure we got a list," Doyle said. "The extent of what I did, I said to (Xuereb) in a text message, that all supplements have to be cleared by me first. He never cleared them with me. He did send them in an invoice that had the names of supplements in there that he had purchased. But that was it. I didn't have the ingredient list."

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AP Sports Writers Andrew Dampf in Rome, Eddie Pells in Denver and Stephen Wilson in London contributed to this report.

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    Monday, July 15, 2013

    Wash. Times: Democrats want to probe IG who started IRS scandal; question GOP bias

    As Republicans press their investigation into the Internal Revenue Service, Democrats are trying to turn the focus to the Republican ties of the agency?s chief investigator, Inspector General J. Russell George, whose May audit ignited the firestorm.

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    ?The committee has obtained new documents that raise serious questions about the inspector general?s report, his testimony before Congress, and his subsequent assertions in letters to members of Congress,? Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Democrat, said Friday in a letter to committee Chairman Darrel E. Issa, California Republican, demanding that Republicans call Mr. George to reappear before the panel.

    The moves put more scrutiny on Mr. George, whose official title is Treasury inspector general for tax administration. He served as an aide to Sen. Bob Dole, Kansas Republican, and President George H.W. Bush before President George W. Bush tapped him in 2002 to serve as inspector general of the Corporation for National and Community Service and to his current post in 2004.

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    How would you change Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon?

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    Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon is such a beautiful piece of hardware that we're having trouble concentrating. With that carbon fiber chassis, the Ultrabook is thin, light and classily understated. Even packing Ivy Bridge internals, it still managed to crank out five hours of battery life and, aside from its slightly weak display, stands head and shoulders above other skinny carbon laptops we could mention. But what about you high-rollers who splashed out upwards of $1400 on one of these things? Here's the time for you to share your experiences and tell us what you would change.

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    19th-Century Baseball Entertains In Easton

    EASTON, Conn. ? Children and adults gathered at Veterans Park in Easton on Saturday got a glimpse of how baseball was played back in the 1860s as the Nutmeg Base Ball Club took on Billy Barnie?s Blue Boys in two exhibition games.

    The teams ? named after historic teams that played in Hartford ??are part of the Coltsville Vintage Base Ball League, which is headed by the Friends of Vintage Base Ball, a Hartford-based re-enactment group.?

    Each team in the league uses period-appropriate uniforms, equipment, customs and rules.?

    ?It?s definitely more entertaining? than playing modern-day baseball, said Blue Boy team member Mark Wigglesworth, known on the field as Scrappy.

    Saturday?s first game followed 1865 rules, while the second was based on 1861 rules. Compared with modern rules, some of the differences are small. For example, the pitcher stood closer to the batter and threw the ball underhand.

    Other changes are more noticeable. Back then, players used their bare hands to catch balls ? not gloves. Also, umpires did not award walks. Instead, batters took as many pitches as necessary until they hit a ball in play or struck out.

    The event raised funds for the Easton Historical Society and was co-sponsored by the Easton Parks and Recreation Department.

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    GALEX decommissioned: What happens to abandoned space probes?

    NASA's earth-orbiting GALEX was shut down Friday, meaning that the spacecraft will join a long line of space probes sacrificed to the universe.

    By Elizabeth Barber,?Contributor / July 1, 2013

    This NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) mosaic of ultraviolet images obtained from December 2003 shows the large galaxy in Andromeda, Messier 31.

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    The pink slip was delivered at 3:09 p.m. EDT on Friday in Dulles, Vermont. The order: decommission Galaxy Evolution Explorer.

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    And so, after about a decade of use, the power was flicked off on GALEX.

    The Earth-orbiting spacecraft ? which had been cut from NASA?s budget in February 2011 and had survived off funds from the California Institute of Technology ? had racked up a sizable roster of discoveries?during its mission, observing the teenage-stage of galaxy growth, a black hole consuming a star, the presence of new stars around dead galaxies, and?insights into the nature of dark energy.

    The spacecraft will remain in orbit for at least another 65 years, floating glumly and uselessly around the Earth. Then it will fall back toward the planet, burning up as it re-enters the atmosphere, doing one last service as a ?shooting star? on which a celestial-looking child might make a wish ? just as writer Ray Bradbury, in his 1951 story Kaleidoscope, imagined an unlucky, falling astronaut as the object on which a small Illinois boy pins all his hopes.?

    GALEX?s sad, lonely end is typical. Few objects launched into space have hope of seeing Earth again. Unless, of course, there are people on board, that brave object is designed not to come back to us, but to serve its mission and then remain out there as a teeny record of human ingenuity and curiosity floating through an impassive universe.

    Some of these explorers, like GALEX, will meet a sudden end. Our space record is packed with casualties ? spacecraft that made fatal landings and the dust of which has been received neatly into the universe. There was Russia?s Venera 3, a Venus-bound probe that crashed into the planet in 1966. And there?s the US?s Mars Climate Orbiter, which in 1998 made a faulty entry into the planet?s orbit and fizzled up in the unfriendly atmosphere.

    But for other spacecraft, the end is more uncertain, more a long wait for something, anything, to happen. Other Venera probes (Russia launched some 16 of them) are presumably still somewhere on Venus, their batteries shot. And on Mars, NASA's Spirit Rover stopped communicating in 2010; since then it has lingered hopelessly there in the Martian desert. Opportunity, its twin rover, is still chugging along, sending back new information as it waits for something to go wrong. ?Every day is a gift,? said John Callas, of NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, of that rover, earlier this month.

    Curiosity rover ? which landed on Mars last summer ? has a mission of one Mars year, or some 687 Earth days. Perhaps it will outlast its warranty. But eventually it will join the other decommissioned, powerless rovers on the Red Planet, waiting dully for something to happen to it, ever so slowly eroding and gathering Martian dust.

    Perhaps the loneliest of ends is reserved for the most far-flung objects, which quietly, without complaint, recede into the universe.

    In Bradbury?s Kaleidoscope, a spacecraft splinters midflight and sends its human cargo floating through the terrible emptiness, waiting for something that will put an end to it all. And so they fall with ?vague acceptance,? with ?varying degrees of terror and resignation,? with the knowledge that ?nothing could bring them back.?

    The falling astronauts in that story enjoy the benefit of a reasonably short lifespan. But for the (mercifully non-sentient) space probes, the wait is much longer, possibly forever.

    Voyager 1, which is now at the outskirts of our solar system and preparing to depart for the rest of our galaxy, and Voyager 2 will run out of fuel in about 2020. After that, the siblings will drift through space, waiting, "each going to a separate and irrevocable fate."

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    ZEN & TECH 55: Parenting; Keeping kids safe on social

    ZEN & TECH is our mobile lifestyle podcast, focusing not just on our phones, tablets, and gadgets, but how we can use technology to help us live better, richer, happier lives. It's how we center our inner geeks! On today's show, Georgia and Rene tie into Talk Mobile 2013 and, as part of our ongoing parenting series, look at how we can handle kids going online and onto social networks, from when they're very young, to when they're legally adults.

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    Wednesday, July 3, 2013

    Unofficial Tesla app for Google Glass lets Model S owners find, charge and unlock their car

    Unofficial Tesla app for Google Glass lets Model S owners find, charge and unlock their car

    We may still be looking for excuses to wear Google Glass in the office, but the headset's peripheral display is becoming more and more appealing in the garage: someone just made a Tesla Model S Glass app. The simply named GlassTesla is an unofficial suite of headgear accessible controls for the electric sedan, allowing users to start and stop charging, check battery levels, remotely lock doors and monitor and adjust the vehicle's temperature controls. More features are on the way too -- Sahas Katta, the app's creator, told Engadget that he's working on voice control ("ok glass, unlock my car"), charge completion notification and real-time vehicle tracking. Not bad, if you happen to own both a Tesla Model S and Google Glass. All three of you can find the app at the source link below.

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    Portable shelters couldn't save 19 firefighters

    Joanne Barringer, right, comforts her husband Dave Barringer, of Las Vegas, after hanging a T-shirt on the fence outside the Granite Mountain Interagency Hot Shot Crew fire station, Monday, July 1, 2013 in Prescott, Ariz. Barringer, who said he works as a wild land firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service said he was friends with many of the 19 Hotshots who were killed Sunday when an out-of-control blaze overtook the elite group near Yarnell, Ariz. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

    Joanne Barringer, right, comforts her husband Dave Barringer, of Las Vegas, after hanging a T-shirt on the fence outside the Granite Mountain Interagency Hot Shot Crew fire station, Monday, July 1, 2013 in Prescott, Ariz. Barringer, who said he works as a wild land firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service said he was friends with many of the 19 Hotshots who were killed Sunday when an out-of-control blaze overtook the elite group near Yarnell, Ariz. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

    Unidentified members of the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew from Prescott, Ariz., pose together in this undated photo provided by the City of Prescott. Some of the men in this photograph were among the 19 firefighters killed while battling an out-of-control wildfire near Yarnell, Ariz., on Sunday, June 30, 2013, according to Prescott Fire Chief Dan Fraijo. It was the nation's biggest loss of firefighters in a wildfire in 80 years. (AP Photo/City of Prescott)

    Families gather at the fire station Monday, July 1, 2013, in Prescott, Ariz., where an elite team of firefighters was based. Nineteen of the 20 members of the team were killed Sunday when a wildfire suddenly swept toward them in Yarnell, Ariz. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Patrick Breen)

    This undated photo courtesy of the the Woyjeck family shows firefighter, Kevin Woyjeck, right, and his father, Los Angeles County Fire Capt. Joe Woyjeck. Kevin Woyjeck of Seal Beach, Calif., was one of the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshot Crew, who was killed Sunday evening above the town of Yarnell, northwest of Phoenix in the nation's biggest loss of firefighters in a wildfire in 80 years. (AP Photo/Woyjeck Family)

    An aerial tanker drops fire retardant on a wildfires threatening homes near Yarnell, Ariz., Monday, July 1, 2013. An elite crew of firefighters was overtaken by the out-of-control blaze on Sunday, killing 19 members as they tried to protect themselves from the flames under fire-resistant shields. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

    (AP) ? Trapped by a wildfire that exploded tenfold in a matter of hours, a crack team of firefighting "Hotshots" broke out their portable emergency shelters and rushed to climb into the foil-lined, heat-resistant bags before the flames swept over them.

    By the time the blaze had passed, 19 men lay dead in the nation's biggest loss of firefighters in a wildfire in 80 years.

    The tragedy Sunday evening all but wiped out the 20-member Granite Mountain Hotshots, a unit based at Prescott, authorities said Monday as the last of the bodies were retrieved from the mountain in the town of Yarnell. Only one member survived, and that was because he was moving the unit's truck at the time.

    The deaths plunged the two small towns into mourning as the wildfire continued to threaten one of them, Yarnell. Arizona's governor called it "as dark a day as I can remember" and ordered flags flown at half-staff. In a heartbreaking sight, a line of white vans carried the bodies to Phoenix for autopsies.

    "I know that it is unbearable for many of you, but it also is unbearable for me. I know the pain that everyone is trying to overcome and deal with today," said Gov. Jan Brewer, her voice catching several times as she addressed reporters and residents at Prescott High School in the town of 40,000.

    The lightning-sparked fire ? which spread to 13 square miles by Monday morning ? destroyed about 50 homes and threatened 250 others in and around Yarnell, a town of 700 people in the mountains about 85 miles northwest of Phoenix, the Yavapai County Sheriff's Department said.

    About 200 more firefighters joined the battle Monday, bringing the total to 400. Among them were several other Hotshot teams, elite groups of firefighters sent in from around the country to battle the nation's fiercest wildfires.

    Residents huddled in shelters and restaurants, watching their homes burn on TV as flames lit up the night sky in the forest above the town.

    It was unclear exactly how the firefighters became trapped, and state officials were investigating.

    Brewer said the blaze "exploded into a firestorm" that overran the crew.

    Brian Klimowski, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Flagstaff, said there was a sudden increase and shift in wind around the time of the tragedy. The blaze grew from 200 acres to about 2,000 in a matter of hours.

    Southwest incident team leader Clay Templin said the crew and its commanders were following safety protocols, and it appears the fire's erratic nature simply overwhelmed them.

    The Hotshot team had spent recent weeks fighting fires in New Mexico and Prescott before being called to Yarnell, entering the smoky wilderness over the weekend with backpacks, chainsaws and other heavy gear to remove brush and trees as a heat wave across the Southwest sent temperatures into the triple digits.

    Arizona Forestry Division spokesman Mike Reichling said all 19 victims had deployed their emergency shelters as they were trained to do. When there is no way out, firefighters are supposed to step into them, lie face down on the ground and pull the fire-resistant fabric completely over themselves.

    "It'll protect you, but only for a short amount of time. If the fire quickly burns over you, you'll probably survive that," said Prescott Fire Capt. Jeff Knotek. But "if it burns intensely for any amount of time while you're in that thing, there's nothing that's going to save you from that."

    Autopsies were scheduled to determine exactly how the firefighters died.

    President Barack Obama offered his administration's help in investigating the tragedy and predicted it will force government leaders to answer broader questions about how they handle increasingly destructive and deadly wildfires.

    "We are heartbroken about what happened," he said while on a visit to Africa.

    The U.S. has 110 Hotshot crews, according to the U.S. Forest Service website. They typically have about 20 members each and go through specialized training.

    Many of those killed were graduates of Prescott High, including Clayton Whitted, who would work out as firefighter on the same campus where he played football for the Prescott Badgers from 2000 to 2004.

    The school's football coach, Lou Beneitone, said Whitted was the type of athlete who "worked his fanny off."

    "He wasn't a big kid, and many times in the game, he was overpowered by big men, and he still got after it. He knew, 'This man in front of me is a lot bigger and stronger than me,' but he'd try it and he'd smile trying it," Beneitone said.

    He and Whitted had talked a few months ago about how this year's fire season could be a "rough one."

    "I shook his hand, gave him a hug, and said, 'Be safe out there,'" Beneitone recalled. "He said, 'I will, Coach.'"

    Hundreds of people were evacuated from the Yarnell area. In addition to the flames, downed power lines and exploding propane tanks continued to threaten what was left of the town, said fire information officer Steve Skurja.

    "It's a very hazardous situation right now," Skurja said.

    Arizona is in the midst of a historic drought that has left large parts of the state highly flammable.

    "Until we get a significant showing of the monsoons, it's showtime, and it's dangerous, really dangerous," incident commander Roy Hall said.

    The National Fire Protection Association website lists the last wildfire to kill more firefighters as the 1933 Griffith Park blaze in Los Angeles, which killed 29. The biggest loss of firefighters in U.S. history was 343, killed in the 9/11 attack on New York.

    In 1994, the Storm King Fire near Glenwood Springs, Colo., killed 14 firefighters who were overtaken by an explosion of flames.

    A makeshift memorial of flower bouquets and American flags formed at the Prescott fire station where the crew was based.

    Prescott resident Keith Gustafson showed up and placed 19 water bottles in the shape of a heart.

    "When I heard about this, it just hit me hard," he said. "It hit me like a ton of bricks."

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    Associated Press writers Bob Christie in Phoenix, Brian Skoloff in Yarnell, Tami Abdollah in Prescott, and Martin Di Caro in Washington contributed to this report.

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    I have muscles and you can only see them when i flex them. Are there any supplements or medication that can let my muscles become like a black man, their muscles are big without flexing while mine just look like fat and skinny.
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    I think low body-fat% and dark skin are the main factors that contribute to good muscle tone/definition, so using a tanning bed would probably help along with doing some cardio after lifting weights. Steroids obviously build muscle while burning body-fat at the same time which is why they give such good muscle tone/definition although I don't recommend them.
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    When a muscle becomes big enough it can be seen without flexing - black or white. I am (lovingly) called she - hulk by my boyfriend.. why? Because I have bigger muscles than him because I have had nerve damage in my spine that has caused my muscles to be in a constant micro flexing and over many years my muscles have built up. Having a tan may help.. but I also think it has to do with how your muscles are worked out. Look up weight training sites that can tell you how to exercise a muscle to give definition. Look into isometric exercise.. my boyfriend does those and he has muscles build pretty quick.. his arms look great!

    But I believe part of being on the spectrum is low muscle tone. So you may have to work extra hard to build them up.

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