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Solid Advice To Help You Reach Your Health And Fitness Goals ...
The following advice will teach you what you need to know about becoming more physically fit. If you want to avoid hurting yourself or wasting your time, it's important that you have some knowledge beforehand. Spend some time researching fitness before starting your workouts.
A great tip to assist with bench presses is to try to squeeze the weight bar inward as you execute the repetitions. Squeezing the bar will help you get a better chest workout. However if you are targeting your triceps, you should squeeze the bar outwards.
You can energize your confidence and re-focus on your fitness goals by purchasing an attractive piece of clothing to wear in your workouts. Even a small change to your workout wardrobe can mean a new piece of clothing to show off, which means a reason to get out and going to the gym.
Before running a sprint race you should prepare by working on a faster stride. To help with this, your feet should always land under your body rather than in front. Use the toes of your rear foot to push yourself forward. Practice this and your running stride speed will gradually increase.
To help reshape your body and build lean muscle mass you need to do strength training. If you have strength training as part of your exercise routine, it will help increase metabolism, muscle mass, and burn off excess calories, even while resting. Try your best to give your muscles a rest for a day at least before going back at it.
When working out, it is crucial that you wear shoes that fit properly. You should buy the shoes you're going to exercise in at the end of the day. Your feet swell over the course of the day, and they will do the same when you work out. There should be at least a half of an inch at the end of your shoe, between it and your large toe. Make sure that you can wiggle all your toes in your new shoes.
Yogurt is a great addition to a healthy diet plan. Eating yogurt will benefit your body by improving the health of your digestive system. A food that is rich in protein and calcium is yogurt. Studies have shown that those who consume dairy regularly tend to be healthier, so get dairy products into your diet.
Anyone can improve their fitness levels, but it takes a committed person to dedicate themselves to continually tweaking their routine for even greater success. Using the fitness information provided here, you make a weight loss plan and get fit.
Source: http://weightlossand-fitness.blogspot.com/2013/07/solid-advice-to-help-you-reach-your.html
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Booksellers furious that Obama is giving jobs speech from Amazon warehouse
Obama is giving a jobs speech Tuesday at Amazon?s warehouse in Chattanooga, Tenn. ? infuriating booksellers and publishers, who see this as evidence that the Obama administration is in the tank for Amazon (especially following the Department of Justice?s win over Apple in the ebook pricing case).
?No American monopoly has ever been so cozy with the government,? Dennis Johnson, the founder of independent publisher Melville House, wrote on his company?s blog.
Book trade publication Shelf Awareness cites angry letters from the publishing industry. In one, sales rep Bruce Joshua Miller cites Amazon?s alleged mistreatment of workers at a Pennsylvania warehouse with no air conditioning?and writes, ?This visit comes at a time when Amazon, despite losing money in the most recent quarter, is attempting to further damage brick-and-mortar stores by lowering discounts to unprecedented levels.?
Publishers Lunch sensibly points out (paywall) that ?Obama has also visited independent bookstores the last two Small Business Saturdays, and for years has been photographed on multiple shopping trips to local bookstores.?
White House deputy press secretary Amy Brundge explained Obama?s visit to the Chattanooga Free Times Press:??The Amazon facility in Chattanooga is a perfect example of the company that is investing in American workers and creating good, high-wage jobs.?What the president wants to do is to highlight Amazon and the Chattanooga facility as an example of a company that is spurring job growth and keeping our country competitive.?
Amazon announced Monday that it?s hiring over 5,000 full-time workers at its U.S. warehouses. In total, those warehouses employ over 20,000 people full-time, and the company said in its most recent earnings report that hiring was up 40 percent year on year, to a total of 97,000 full- and part-time employees internationally as of June 30.
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'Engaging Youth in Community Technology Initiatives: Free webinar ...
Posted by: Ann Treacy | July 29, 2013
Next week, the Blandin Broadband Community project is hosting a webinar on Engaging Youth in Community Technology Initiatives. All are welcome to attend. Here?s the agenda?
?Computers for our Community? ? a partnership of schools and workforce development to address digital inclusion in Thief River Falls. Betty Halvorson, Inter County Community Council
?Tech Savvy Seniors? ? an initiative of the Dawson Boyd School District to spur technology skills of high school seniors and to benefit the community. Lori Sieg, Dawson Boyd High School Teacher
?Thomson Reuters Youth Technology Initiatives? ? an effort to increase the interest and skills of middle school students in computers and technology with two courses: Computer programming led Alice Gilbert and Girls and Technology led by Kirat?Sekhon
You can register?online. The webinar takes place from 3:00-4:00 next Thursday, August 8.
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Carjacking goes digital, 'white hat' hackers demonstrate?
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Car hacking is not a new field, but its secrets have long been closely guarded. That is about to change, thanks to two well-known computer software hackers who got bored finding bugs in software from Microsoft and Apple.
Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek say they will publish detailed blueprints of techniques for attacking critical systems in the Toyota Prius and Ford Escape in a 100-page white paper, following several months of research they conducted with a grant from the U.S. government.
The two "white hats" ? hackers who try to uncover software vulnerabilities before criminals can exploit them ? will also release the software they built for hacking the cars at the Def Con hacking convention in Las Vegas this week.
They said they devised ways to force a Toyota Prius to brake suddenly at 80 miles an hour, jerk its steering wheel, or accelerate the engine. They also say they can disable the brakes of a Ford Escape traveling at very slow speeds, so that the car keeps moving no matter how hard the driver presses the pedal.
"Imagine what would happen if you were near a crowd," said Valasek, director of security intelligence at consulting firm IOActive, known for finding bugs in Microsoft's Windows software.
But it is not as scary as it may sound at first blush.
They were sitting inside the cars using laptops connected directly to the vehicles' computer networks when they did their work. So they will not be providing information on how to hack remotely into a car network, which is what would typically be needed to launch a real-world attack.
The two say they hope the data they publish will encourage other white-hat hackers to uncover more security flaws in autos so they can be fixed.
"I trust the eyes of 100 security researchers more than the eyes that are in Ford and Toyota," said Miller, a Twitter security engineer known for his research on hacking Apple's App Store.
Toyota spokesman John Hanson said the company was reviewing the work. He said the carmaker had invested heavily in electronic security, but that bugs remained ? as they do in cars of other manufacturers.
"It's entirely possible to do," Hanson said, referring to the newly exposed hacks. "Absolutely we take it seriously."
Ford spokesman Craig Daitch said the company takes seriously the electronic security of its vehicles. He said the fact that Miller's and Valasek's hacking methods required them to be inside the vehicle they were trying to manipulate mitigated the risk.
"This particular attack was not performed remotely over the air, but as a highly aggressive direct physical manipulation of one vehicle over an elongated period of time, which would not be a risk to customers and any mass level," Daitch said.
'Time to shore up defenses'
Miller and Valasek said they did not research remote attacks because that had already been done.
A group of academics described ways to infect cars using Bluetooth systems and wireless networks in 2011. But unlike Miller and Valasek, the academics have kept the details of their work a closely guarded secret, refusing even to identify the make of the car they hacked.
Their work got the attention of the U.S. government. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has begun an auto cybersecurity research program.
"While increased use of electronic controls and connectivity is enhancing transportation safety and efficiency, it brings a new challenge of safeguarding against potential vulnerabilities," the agency said in a statement. It said it knew of no consumer incident where a vehicle was hacked.
Still, some experts believe malicious hackers may already have the ability to launch attacks.
"It's time to shore up the defenses," said Tiffany Strauchs Rad, a researcher with Kaspersky Lab, who previously worked for an auto security research center.
A group of European computer scientists had been scheduled to present research on hacking the locks of luxury vehicles, including Porsches, Audis, Bentleys and Lamborghinis, at a conference in Washington in mid-August.
But Volkswagen obtained a restraining order from a British high court prohibiting discussion of the research by Flavio D. Garcia of the University of Birmingham, and Roel Verdult and Baris Ege of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
A spokeswoman for the three scientists said they would pull out of the prestigious Usenix conference because of the restraining order. Both universities said they would hold off on publishing the paper, pending the resolution of litigation.
Volkswagen declined to comment.
(Reporting by Jim Finkle in Boston; Additional reporting by Joseph Lichterman in Detroit and Christine Murray in London; Editing by Tiffany Wu and Peter Cooney)
Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.
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Monday, July 29, 2013
Party in Tunisian ruling coalition demands new government
By Tarek Amara
TUNIS (Reuters) - Pro- and anti-government demonstrators clashed in two Tunisian cities on Monday, witnesses said, as tensions rose over opposition efforts to oust the Islamist-led government.
Angry opposition protesters tried to storm municipal offices in Sidi Bouzid and stop employees there from working, residents said, sparking clashes between them and supporters of the Islamist Ennahda party, which leads the transitional government.
The army intervened to protect the offices and police fired tear gas, but residents said thousands of demonstrators were still gathering in the southern city, the cradle of the revolt that overthrew President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.
"Now many of the protesters are coming in carrying batons and it looks like the situation is going to escalate because both sides are standing firm," one resident, Mahdi al-Hurshani, told Reuters by telephone.
Tunisians fear they may be plunging into one of the worst crises in their political transition since Ben Ali was forced to flee by an uprising that inspired unrest across the Arab world.
Opposition leaders say they might set up a rival "salvation government", an idea they will discuss later on Monday.
The secular opposition, angered by the second assassination in its ranks in six months and emboldened by the Egyptian army's ousting of an Islamist president this month, is now rejecting all concessions and reconciliation efforts by the government.
The unrest has erupted just weeks before the transitional Constituent Assembly was set to complete a draft of a new constitution. The opposition now demands that the 217-member body be dissolved. Seventy lawmakers have left it and set up a sit-in outside the Assembly offices in Tunis's Bardo square.
Cabinet ministers will meet on Monday to discuss the growing political crisis, a government official said, and a message from the prime minister to the nation is expected soon.
In Bardo square, rival protesters threw rocks at each other and police intervened to disperse them. Opposition sources said security forces beat one of the 70 lawmakers who had quit the Constituent Assembly. He was taken to hospital.
"The prime minister will be held accountable for any drop of blood spilled in the Bardo sit-in," opposition figure Manji Rahawi said.
Tunisia's powerful labour unions were also set to meet on Monday to discuss more strike action. On Friday, the unions shut down much of the country for a strike to mourn leftist politician Mohamed Brahmi who was assassinated last week.
The government says Brahmi's assailants used the same weapon that killed another secular leader, Chokri Belaid, on February 6.
Its critics say it has not done enough to investigate or stop the attacks it has blamed on hardline Salafist militants.
Many joining the swelling street protests cite anger with the instability in Tunisia as well as economic stagnation.
Others are frustrated that a constitution, promised one year after the 2011 uprising, has yet to be completed and are suspicious of the Islamist-led transitional government.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tensions-rise-tunisia-rival-protesters-clash-101455915.html
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Pop quiz time: How much do you know about student debt?
On July 1, interest rates on Stafford student loans doubled from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent because Congress could not come to an agreement before the July 1 deadline.
According to a New York Times editorial, "This increase in costs comes at a time when college debt has already reached record levels, damaging the economy and hobbling young graduates. It also draws attention to the fact that the federal government is making quite a lot of money from the loan program. An analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the new, higher rate would earn the government about $184 billion over the next decade, after taking into account program costs, including potential defaults."
But Wednesday, by an 81-18 vote, the Senate approved a bill to tie federal college loan rates to financial markets and offer borrowers lower rates this fall, essentially rolling back the July 1 interest rate hike. The bill is expected to gain approval from both the GOP-controlled House and President Obama.
So how much do you know about the state of student loan debt in the U.S.?
Take this quiz and find out.
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Amazon Adding 5,000 Full-Time Jobs in Jeffersonville and Other Distribution Sites
The company says it will add 5,000 full-time jobs at its U.S. distribution centers, which currently employ about 20,000 workers who pack and ship customer orders.
The world's largest online retailer has been spending heavily on order fulfillment, a strategy meant to help the business grow, but one that has also weighed on profits.?Amazon?said last week it lost money in the second quarter even as revenue increased.
Warehouse jobs are available in Arizona, Delaware, California, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
Here's a list of cities from an Amazon news release:
? Breinigsville, Pa.
? Middletown, Del.
? Chattanooga, Tenn.
? Murfreesboro, Tenn.
? Charleston, S.C.
? Patterson, Calif.
? Chester, Va.
? Phoenix, Ariz.
? Coppell, Texas
? San Antonio, Texas
? Haslet, Texas
? San Bernardino, Calif.
? Hebron, Ky.
? Spartanburg, S.C.
? Indianapolis, Ind.
? Tracy, Calif.
? Jeffersonville, Ind.
The company is also adding 2,000 customer service jobs, including full-time, part-time and seasonal, in Kentucky, North Dakota, Washington and West Virginia. Work from home positions are available in Oregon, Washington and Arizona.
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bird cleared of spying for Israel in Turkey
Zionist sharks, Zionist seals, Zionist eagles.. the Arabs regularly seem to think that Israel has mobilized the animal kingdom to work on its behalf. Now they caught a Kestrel they suspected of being a Zionist spy.
A Kestrel is a type of bird from the Falcon family.
This small kestrel flew into Turkish airspace and was picked up by enraged Turks. They suspected it of being an Israeli spy because it was tagged with a metal band with the words "24311 Tel Avivunia Israel". The bird was immediately arrested.
According to some Turkish newspaper, authorities conducted x-rays to determine if the bird was carrying any secret microchips. After no microchips were discovered, the bird was cleared of any crime and was set free.
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A Kestrel is a type of bird from the Falcon family.
This small kestrel flew into Turkish airspace and was picked up by enraged Turks. They suspected it of being an Israeli spy because it was tagged with a metal band with the words "24311 Tel Avivunia Israel". The bird was immediately arrested.
According to some Turkish newspaper, authorities conducted x-rays to determine if the bird was carrying any secret microchips. After no microchips were discovered, the bird was cleared of any crime and was set free.
Turkish authorities have cleared a renegade bird captured in the A??n district of the eastern province of Elaz?? of suspicions of working for Israel's state-of-the-art intelligence agency.The big question is if they are going to try to start convincing all sorts of animals to avoid Israel as part of the BDS movement.
Residents of Alt?navya village became suspicious that the little kestrel could be more than a bird that lost its way when they found it wore a metallic ring stamped with the words "24311 Tel Avivunia Israel," and delivered it to the district governorate.?
Local authorities submitted the bird to careful medical examinations to ensure that it did not carry microchips. An X-ray test carried out at F?rat University in Elaz?? finally convinced the authorities that the bird was just a simple specimen of Israeli wildlife. However, the X-ray showed the initial degree of suspicion, as the bird had been registered under the name "Israeli spy" by medical personnel.
Tagging birds is a common practice in ornithology as it helps scientists track bird migration routes.
Following the tests, the authorities decided not to press official charges and the falsely accused bird was free to fly away.
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Source: http://en.paperblog.com/bird-cleared-of-spying-for-israel-in-turkey-602250/
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London Mayor Warns of Energy Scarcity; an American Revolution Offers a Solution
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Recently the Mayor of London wrote that within two years, energy scarcity will ?force some industries not to operate at peak times? in the city. His solution is to bring hydraulic fracturing to the country; he said, ?We should leave no stone unturned, or unfracked, in the cause of keeping the lights on.?
Britain, Europe?s largest consumer of natural gas, does possess abundant energy potential in the form of raw materials. Beneath the ground lies (among other things) the Bowland shale, which the British government estimates to hold decades of energy in the form of shale gas. The technology and expertise to develop this potential could be imported from North America.
However, unlike in the United States, where the shale gas that fueled the fracking revolution was largely on private land, where property rights were largely protected and businessmen were free to take risks and seek profits, the shale is Britain is on ?public? land controlled by the government, which is motivated not by profits but by politics. Bureaucrats who lack both the incentive and the talent to get oil from rocks will not get oil from rocks. And businessmen who are throttled by ?public? interests and political considerations will not get much oil from rocks either.
If the British want the kind of fruit that real and unshackled businessmen can reap from the Bowland shale or the like, they will have to convince their government to sell the property to the private sector, and to protect the rights of the private owners and the businessmen with whom they contract to develop it for profit.
The mayor of London has said ?We should leave no stone unturned, or unfracked, in the cause of keeping the lights on.? One stone the Brits must not leave unturned is the producer?s stone, under which they will find the unassailable primaries of private property rights and the profit motive. When it comes to fracking, these are king. Hence the American Energy Revolution.
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Saturday, July 27, 2013
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Protesters try to disrupt Lithuania gay pride
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) ? A group of protesters tried to disrupt Lithuania's second gay pride parade ever on Saturday, defying an enormous police presence by throwing eggs at marchers and attempting to storm a stage.
Several hundred gay rights activists took to the grand main street of Vilnius to show their pride, waving Lithuanian and rainbow-colored flags, with some standing on top of buses decked out in colorful balloons.
They were met by hundreds of unruly protesters, 28 of whom were detained, police said. Among them was Petras Grazulis, an anti-gay lawmaker who rallied protesters with a bullhorn. He was thrown face-down on the ground and carried off in handcuffs by police, though the lawmaker soon reappeared at the protest after being released from police custody.
About 50 protesters tried to storm a concert stage where activists were to speak, but police forced them off. Protesters also threw eggs, hitting Lithuanian lawmaker Giedre Purvaneckiene and Sweden's European Union Affairs Minister Birgitta Ohlsson, who were standing at the front of the parade along with other dignitaries.
"It shows that we need to march until eggs aren't thrown anymore and people can march freely and without fear," said Purvaneckiene, who was not injured.
The parade, dubbed "the March for Equality," is only the second such event for Lithuania, a predominantly Catholic nation of 3 million people that activists say has not done enough to ensure gay, lesbian, and transgender rights.
Large segments of the population in Lithuania, along with other areas of the former Soviet Union, are opposed to the idea of equal rights for gay people.
In Russia, an unsanctioned gay rights rally in May resulted in clashes, with police detaining some 30 people, while Ukraine held its first-ever gay pride march amid a large police contingent needed to protect the small group of activists.
Many feel the unrest in Lithuania, which is currently heading the EU's rotating presidency, is particularly troubling since the Baltic state, along with neighbors Latvia and Estonia, continues to discriminate against gays and lesbians despite having undergone intense political and economic integration with Western Europe over the past two decades.
Authorities in Vilnius initially refused to allocate the busy downtown avenue to the activists but were overruled by a local court.
Police said one officer was injured in the day's event.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/protesters-try-disrupt-lithuania-gay-pride-124248921.html
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Friday, July 26, 2013
Where There's Oil There's Greenhouse Gas
New Report Released on Impact of Proposed Santa Maria Energy?Project
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Santa Barbara decision makers now enjoy a significantly broader menu of choices when confronting the 88,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases Santa Maria Energy?s proposed new onshore oil development is expected to generate during peak production, thanks to an expanded environmental impact report just released last week. The new analysis was prepared after county planning commissioners expressed concern earlier this year that their options regarding greenhouse-gas mitigation was too restricted. At that point, county staff had proposed giving the 126-well project a thumbs up, assuming it could reduce greenhouse-gas emissions 26 percent below 1990 levels. On the table now are options to reduce emissions by 50 percent and by 90 percent through the year?2050.
In deference to climate-change legislation, Santa Barbara officials have insisted on a threshold of 10,000 metric tons, but because that limit is not written into county rules or regulations, decision makers enjoy some latitude. ?It really gets down to an issue of fairness,? said county energy planner Kevin Drude. ?How much can we expect one applicant to shoulder the burden of dealing with our cumulative responsibility as a society for greenhouse gases?? he asked. According to the new analysis, all of the greenhouse-gas-reduction scenarios have been deemed feasible, though the more restrictive are considerably more expensive. All scenarios rely upon the existence of a statewide cap-and-trade system to achieve their?objectives.
Attorney Nathan Alley with the Environmental Defense Center argued in favor of the 90 percent reduction target, insisting it?s consistent with past county practices and also with former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger?s executive decree on how the state should respond to the threat of climate change. A 90 percent reduction, he pointed out, is the only option that would get the proposed oil and gas plant?s greenhouse gas emissions below the 10,000 metric tons threshold. Drude and other planners have noted that Santa Barbara County generates a relatively small amount of greenhouse gases compared to other counties, and that traffic?????both in the county and statewide?????is the biggest producer. Even so, insisted Alley, projects like Santa Maria Energy need to be mitigated to the maximum extent. ?Greenhouse gases are a global problem,? he said. ?We have to be able to say our relative contribution to California and the rest of the world is as small as?possible.?
Santa Maria Energy is proposing to build 126 new onshore wells that will extract oil loosened from their deposits deep within diatomaceous earth by means of intense steam injection. The two steam generators, powered by gas, are responsible for most of the greenhouse gases the project would create. The County Planning Commission is scheduled to revisit the issue later in August, but no matter the result, it?s all but inevitable the matter will be decided by the county supervisors. Already supervisors Salud Carbajal and Janet Wolf have jumped in, lodging conflict-of-interest charges against a Santa Maria Energy public relations contractor?????Andrea Costa?????who also happened to serve on the Air Pollution Control District. Although Costa, who also sits on the Lompoc City Council, insisted there was no conflict of interest, she announced last week that she?s leaving Santa Maria Energy to take a job?elsewhere.
Source: http://www.independent.com/news/2013/jul/25/where-theres-oil-theres-greenhouse-gas/
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
NCAA seeks dismissal of Paterno family suit
Updated: July 23, 2013, 8:29 PM ET
Associated PressSTATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- The NCAA asked a Pennsylvania court Tuesday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the family of the late coach Joe Paterno that seeks to overturn the sanctions against Penn State for the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
Some trustees, former players and coaches and current faculty members are also taking part in the same lawsuit, which the NCAA said was flawed and contained "various significant legal deficiencies."
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College sports' governing body said in the filing in Centre County court late Tuesday that the civil suit must be dismissed in part because the university itself isn't part of the suit. The sanctions handed down in July 2012 were agreed to by the NCAA and the university president.
The NCAA also firmly denied a claim that it had conspired with former FBI director Louis Freeh's team in formulating the sanctions. Freeh led the school's internal investigation into the scandal, and the Paterno family and three former school officials have vehemently denied Freeh's scathing allegations of a cover-up.
"Their suit complains primarily about the conclusions of the Freeh Report, conducted at the behest of the Penn State Board, and the university's acceptance of its findings," NCAA chief legal officer Donald Remy said in a statement outlining the organization's arguments. "The NCAA did not commission the Freeh Report nor had any role in it."
It was the NCAA's first response to the case since the lawsuit was filed in late May. The NCAA also asked for related complaints against NCAA president Mark Emmert and Oregon State president Ed Ray to be dismissed for lack of merit. Ray was chair of the NCAA executive committee when the penalties were announced.
"Universities must be free to manage their own affairs, including their membership in the NCAA, without interference by disappointed or disgruntled individuals," Remy said. "While the plaintiffs may be unhappy with the conclusions and university's acceptance of the Freeh Report, the plaintiffs in this case were not sanctioned by the NCAA and have no legal basis to sue."
Paul Kelly, a lawyer representing the plaintiffs other than the Paterno family, said Tuesday he had not a chance yet to review the NCAA's lengthy response.
The landmark sanctions were announced a year ago Tuesday, on July 23, 2012. They included a four-year bowl ban, steep scholarship cuts and a $60 million fine.
The penalties, and the NCAA's handling of the Penn State case, remain the subject of scrutiny among some alumni, area residents and Pennsylvania politicians, as well as in the courts.
Earlier Tuesday, three trustees who took seats earlier this month offered support for the five board colleagues involved in the litigation. The suit said that the NCAA bypassed the organization's own rules in levying penalties against the football program with uncharacteristic speed.
The lawsuit also attacks Freeh's handling of the internal investigation, along with how and why the NCAA used Freeh's report as a basis for sanctions. "We firmly believe that truth and justice should never fear an open hearing and review -- whether in the courts or before the Board of Trustees," trustees Ted Brown, Barbara Doran and William Oldsey said in their joint statement.
The alumni-elected trustees elected this spring were endorsed by an alumni watchdog group that has been critical of the decisions of board leaders after the scandal began with Sandusky's arrest in November 2011, including Paterno's firing.
The NCAA filing came on the same day that Penn State issued a statement on bowl revenue. The school's nearly $2.3 million share of bowl revenue has been divided among the Big Ten's 12 member schools, including Penn State, to distribute for causes focused on child protection or advocacy. The school said the individual share for each school amounted to more than $188,000.
The Nittany Lions finished the 2012 season bowl-eligible at 8-4, but were banned from the postseason as part of NCAA sanctions for the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. The $2.3 million represents Penn State's share of conference bowl revenue had the school been allowed to play in the postseason.
Penn State said its portion of the carved-up bowl share would be funneled through the Centre County United Way with instructions to split the money between the Stewards of Children program and the Children's Advocacy Center.
Coach Bill O'Brien and three players are scheduled to take part in Big Ten media days beginning Wednesday in Chicago.
Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press
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Business Messaging Startup Moped Adds Mac Desktop App To Its ...
Moped, a startup based out of Berlin, is an app and platform that lets you send IM-like private messages which allows for photos, maps, you name it. It?s simpler than using an app like GroupMe for privately sharing in groups. It?s also integrated with Dropbox. The startup has now pivoted towards the business/enterprise and today launches ? alongside it?s iOS and Android apps ? a Mac desktop app you can download here.
This makes sense because while consumers are mobile, workers spend a a lot of time in the office. The mac desktop app simplifies the experience down to focus on private individual or group messaging. It also integrates Dropbox?s file chooser directly into the apps so you can access all your stuff from within Moped. (iPhone only today, coming to our other apps soon.)
You can now browse your entire Dropbox from inside Moped?s iPhone app, so no more copying and pasting file links into an SMS or email. Moped is also integrated with IFTTT to create Moped friendly recipes.
Given that in the ?productivity/enterprise space,? you?ve got Files (Dropbox, Box), Tasks (Wunderlist, Any.do), Notes (Evernote), messaging hash?t really been addressed. Plus, ?Team chat? products are too much about internal communication, but files often require sharing externally. Those are the sweet spots Moped is going after.
The Berlin-based startup has $1 million from SV Angel (Ron Conway), Lerer Ventures, Betaworks and Earlybird Capital.
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Novel nanometer scaffolds regulate the biological behaviors of neural stem cells
[unable to retrieve full-text content]The surface characteristics of nanoscaffolds made by nanotechnology are more similar to the three-dimensional topological structure of the extracellular matrix and the effects on the biological behaviors of cells and tissue repair are more beneficial.
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Video: Boeing's beat & the growing middle class
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Samsung GALAXY Tab 2 10.1 16GB 3G $348 Pick up
Samsung rep told me that Galaxy Tab 3 is coming out in 2 weeks and the price is quite low, only about $100-150 difference with the Tab 2 series. Besides, the problem with Tab 2 is that web browsing can be very very slow so if anyone is considering just because it's Samsung then you might be disappointed this time.
Anyway I'm gonna wait and see for now :)
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Video: Sarah Wild Discusses the Little-known History of Astronomy in South Africa
One of the most surprising and interesting things that Sarah Wild found, while doing research for her book on the Square Kilometre Array, Searching African Skies, was ?just how long the history of astronomy is in South Africa?.
Since the 1600?s, Wild explains in a video interview with Aerodrome, the stars have been used by sailors to navigate their way to the southern tip of Africa and when the 1820 settlers arrived from England, they had an astronomer aboard.
Now this history ?has culminating in us sharing the biggest scientific astronomical project in the world,? Wild says, referring to the SKA.
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Oil stays under $107 after US home sales fall
BANGKOK -- Oil marked time below $107 a barrel Tuesday after U.S. sales of previously occupied homes fell and traders awaited a weekly report on America's inventories of crude.
Benchmark crude for September delivery was down 19 cents at $106.75 a barrel at midafternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Oil slid $1.14 on Monday after the government said sales of previously occupied homes in the U.S. slipped 1.2 percent in June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.08 million. Any sign that the U.S. economic recovery is slowing can cause the oil price to fall.
Wednesday's report on U.S. crude and fuel stockpiles from the Energy Information Administration will be watched for confirmation that the recent trend of falling inventories, which suggests stronger demand, is continuing.
Sharp drops in U.S. crude supplies for the past three weeks have helped propel oil to its highest in about 16 months.
Brent crude, which is traded on the ICE Futures exchange in London, rose 28 cents to $108.43 a barrel.
In other energy futures trading on the Nymex:
? Wholesale gasoline added 2.7 cents to $3.021 a gallon.
? Heating oil was almost unchanged at $3.069 a gallon.
? Natural gas gained 2.1 cents to $3.698 per 1,000 cubic feet.
Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/23/3515543/oil-stays-under-107-after-us-home.html
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Geochemical 'fingerprints' leave evidence that megafloods eroded steep gorge
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The Yarlung-Tsangpo River in southern Asia drops rapidly through the Himalaya Mountains on its way to the Bay of Bengal, losing about 7,000 feet of elevation through the precipitously steep Tsangpo Gorge.
For the first time, scientists have direct geochemical evidence that the 150-mile long gorge, possibly the world's deepest, was the conduit by which megafloods from glacial lakes, perhaps half the volume of Lake Erie, drained suddenly and catastrophically through the Himalayas when their ice dams failed at times during the last 2 million years.
"You would expect that if a three-day long flood occurred, there would be some pretty significant impacts downstream," said Karl Lang, a University of Washington doctoral candidate in Earth and space sciences.
In this case, the water moved rapidly through bedrock gorge, carving away the base of slopes so steep they already were near the failure threshold. Because the riverbed through the Tsangpo Gorge is essentially bedrock and the slope is so steep and narrow, the deep flood waters could build enormous speed and erosive power.
As the base of the slopes eroded, areas higher on the bedrock hillsides tumbled into the channel, freeing microscopic grains of zircon that were carried out of the gorge by the fast-moving water and deposited downstream.
Uranium-bearing zircon grains carry a sort of geochemical signature for the place where they originated, so grains found downstream can be traced back to the rocks from which they eroded. Lang found that normal annual river flow carries about 40 percent of the grains from the Tsangpo Gorge downstream. But grains from the gorge found in prehistoric megaflood deposits make up as much as 80 percent of the total.
He is the lead author of a paper documenting the work published in the September edition of Geology. Co-authors are Katharine Huntington and David Montgomery, both UW faculty members in Earth and space sciences.
The Yarlung-Tsangpo is the highest major river in the world. It begins on the Tibetan Plateau at about 14,500 feet, or more than 2.5 miles, above sea level. It travels more than 1,700 miles, crossing the plateau and plunging through the Himalayas before reaching India's Assam Valley, where it becomes the Brahmaputra River. From there it continues its course to the Ganges River delta and the Bay of Bengal.
At the head of the Tsangpo Gorge, the river makes a sharp bend around Namche Barwa, a 25,500-foot peak that is the eastern anchor of the Himalayas. Evidence indicates that giant lakes were impounded behind glacial dams farther inland from Namche Barwa at various times during the last 2.5 million years ago.
Lang matched zircons in the megaflood deposits far downstream with zircons known to come only from Namche Barwa, and those signature zircons turned up in the flood deposits at a much greater proportion than they would in sediments from normal river flows. Finding the zircons in deposits so far downstream is evidence for the prehistoric megafloods and their role in forming the gorge.
Lang noted that a huge landslide in early 2000 created a giant dam on the Yiggong River, a tributary of the main river just upstream from the Gorge. The dam failed catastrophically in June 2000, triggering a flood that caused numerous fatalities and much property damage downstream.
That provided a vivid, though much smaller, illustration of what likely occurred when large ice dams failed millions of years ago, he said. It also shows the potential danger if humans decide to build dams in that area for hydroelectric generation.
"We are interested in it scientifically, but there is certainly a societal element to it," Lang said. "This takes us a step beyond speculating what those ancient floods did. There is circumstantial evidence that, yes, they did do a lot of damage."
The process in the Tsangpo Gorge is similar to what happened with Lake Missoula in Western Montana 12,000 to 15,000 years ago. That lake was more than 10,000 feet lower in elevation than lakes associated with the Tsangpo Gorge, though its water discharge was 10 times greater. Evidence suggests that Lake Missoula's ice dam failed numerous times, unleashing a torrent equal to half the volume of Lake Michigan across eastern Washington, where it carved the Channeled Scablands before continuing down the Columbia River basin.
"This is a geomorphic process that we know shapes the landscape, and we can look to eastern Washington to see that," Lang said.
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The work was funded by the National Science Foundation and the UW Quaternary Research Center.
For more information, contact Lang at 843-485-1012 or karllang@uw.edu.
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Share ] Contact: Vince Stricherz
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206-543-2580
University of Washington
The Yarlung-Tsangpo River in southern Asia drops rapidly through the Himalaya Mountains on its way to the Bay of Bengal, losing about 7,000 feet of elevation through the precipitously steep Tsangpo Gorge.
For the first time, scientists have direct geochemical evidence that the 150-mile long gorge, possibly the world's deepest, was the conduit by which megafloods from glacial lakes, perhaps half the volume of Lake Erie, drained suddenly and catastrophically through the Himalayas when their ice dams failed at times during the last 2 million years.
"You would expect that if a three-day long flood occurred, there would be some pretty significant impacts downstream," said Karl Lang, a University of Washington doctoral candidate in Earth and space sciences.
In this case, the water moved rapidly through bedrock gorge, carving away the base of slopes so steep they already were near the failure threshold. Because the riverbed through the Tsangpo Gorge is essentially bedrock and the slope is so steep and narrow, the deep flood waters could build enormous speed and erosive power.
As the base of the slopes eroded, areas higher on the bedrock hillsides tumbled into the channel, freeing microscopic grains of zircon that were carried out of the gorge by the fast-moving water and deposited downstream.
Uranium-bearing zircon grains carry a sort of geochemical signature for the place where they originated, so grains found downstream can be traced back to the rocks from which they eroded. Lang found that normal annual river flow carries about 40 percent of the grains from the Tsangpo Gorge downstream. But grains from the gorge found in prehistoric megaflood deposits make up as much as 80 percent of the total.
He is the lead author of a paper documenting the work published in the September edition of Geology. Co-authors are Katharine Huntington and David Montgomery, both UW faculty members in Earth and space sciences.
The Yarlung-Tsangpo is the highest major river in the world. It begins on the Tibetan Plateau at about 14,500 feet, or more than 2.5 miles, above sea level. It travels more than 1,700 miles, crossing the plateau and plunging through the Himalayas before reaching India's Assam Valley, where it becomes the Brahmaputra River. From there it continues its course to the Ganges River delta and the Bay of Bengal.
At the head of the Tsangpo Gorge, the river makes a sharp bend around Namche Barwa, a 25,500-foot peak that is the eastern anchor of the Himalayas. Evidence indicates that giant lakes were impounded behind glacial dams farther inland from Namche Barwa at various times during the last 2.5 million years ago.
Lang matched zircons in the megaflood deposits far downstream with zircons known to come only from Namche Barwa, and those signature zircons turned up in the flood deposits at a much greater proportion than they would in sediments from normal river flows. Finding the zircons in deposits so far downstream is evidence for the prehistoric megafloods and their role in forming the gorge.
Lang noted that a huge landslide in early 2000 created a giant dam on the Yiggong River, a tributary of the main river just upstream from the Gorge. The dam failed catastrophically in June 2000, triggering a flood that caused numerous fatalities and much property damage downstream.
That provided a vivid, though much smaller, illustration of what likely occurred when large ice dams failed millions of years ago, he said. It also shows the potential danger if humans decide to build dams in that area for hydroelectric generation.
"We are interested in it scientifically, but there is certainly a societal element to it," Lang said. "This takes us a step beyond speculating what those ancient floods did. There is circumstantial evidence that, yes, they did do a lot of damage."
The process in the Tsangpo Gorge is similar to what happened with Lake Missoula in Western Montana 12,000 to 15,000 years ago. That lake was more than 10,000 feet lower in elevation than lakes associated with the Tsangpo Gorge, though its water discharge was 10 times greater. Evidence suggests that Lake Missoula's ice dam failed numerous times, unleashing a torrent equal to half the volume of Lake Michigan across eastern Washington, where it carved the Channeled Scablands before continuing down the Columbia River basin.
"This is a geomorphic process that we know shapes the landscape, and we can look to eastern Washington to see that," Lang said.
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The work was funded by the National Science Foundation and the UW Quaternary Research Center.
For more information, contact Lang at 843-485-1012 or karllang@uw.edu.
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Christie's announces online-only sale of Gentlemen's Luxury ...
LONDON.- Christie?s announced the online-only auction, Gentlemen?s Luxury Accessories: Barware, Sports, Travel and Leisure, which opened for bidding on 19 July and run until 29 July. Featuring works by prestigious international makers such as Tiffany, Herm?s, Cartier, Asprey, Bulgari, Dunhill, Fortnum & Mason amongst others, this collection comprises refined and playful vintage objects that are much coveted luxury items for men of all ages, including cocktail shakers, jiggers, hip flasks and ice buckets, humidors and cigarette cases, gaming boxes, clocks, car mascots and aviation models. The selection of elegant home d?cor is highlighted by an art deco cigar box by Asprey & co, London, 1927 (estimate: ?8,000-12,000); a large and unusual `bi-plane' desk companion by F. Reichenberg, 1920s (estimate: ?8,000-12,000); and a zeppelin airship travelling cocktail shaker set, by J.A. Henckels (estimate: ?6,000-8,000). With over 64 lots ranging from ?200 to ?20,000, the entre sale is expected to realise in the region of ?190,000.
The Gentlemen?s Study
The online auction provides discerning collectors with the opportunity to acquire stunning items to decorate their study, including: a `President' briefcase in the classic `Monogramme' canvas, by Louis Vuitton (estimate: ?2,000-3,000); a rotating cube desk compendium, Dunhill & co, 1950s (estimate: ?3,000-5,000); a `Spitfire' cigarette case, Birmingham, 1945 (estimate: ?2,000-3,000; a leaping horse car mascot, by Casimir Brau, retailed by Hermes, circa 1925 (estimate: ?4,000-6,000).
The Gentleman's Bar
The sale also offers a strong selection of unusual barware, with some visually striking cocktail shakers such as a dumbbell cocktail shaker, circa 1935 (estimate: ?1,500-2,000); a lady's leg cocktail shaker, circa 1935, from the West Virginian Specialty Glass Company, (estimate: ?2,000-3,000); an Art Deco cocktail shaker, probably Czechoslovakian circa 1930, (estimate:?1,000-1,500), and a silver coloured cocktail set, comprising a shaker, six cups and a circular tray, each piece engraved with a plain circular cartouche intended to be engraved for initials, possibly Chinese, circa 1935.
The Gentlemen at Play
A selection of playful gentlemen?s accessories is highlighted by: a fine hunting drinks/cocktail set, London, 1925 and later (estimate: ?20,000-30,000); An unusual French `traffic lights' desk compendium by Herm?s ( estimate: ?3000-5,000); an American gaming chip carousel from the first quarter of the 20th century (estimate: ?2,000-3,000) and a golf bag by Louis Vuitton from the 1960s (estimate: ?2,500 ? 3,000).
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Florida?s head of juvenile justice meets with protestors
TALLAHASSEE -- The head of Florida?s juvenile justice department cleared her calendar Monday to meet with the young activists camped outside Gov. Rick Scott?s office.
Juvenile Justice Secretary Wansley Walters spent the morning and early afternoon fielding questions from the group ? and discussing the steps her agency is taking to prevent young people from entering the criminal justice system.
But the activists, known as the Dream Defenders, held firm on their pledge to stay in the Capitol until Scott convenes a special session of the Florida Legislature.
They want lawmakers to create a Trayvon Martin Civil Rights Act, which would repeal the controversial Stand Your Ground law, end racial profiling and remove zero tolerance policies from schools.
?We?re happy to engage in dialogue,? Dream Defenders co-founder Gabriel Pendas told Walters. ?But we don?t need any more talk. We need action.?
The Dream Defenders also blasted the governor for not holding a public event Sunday, despite calling for a statewide day of prayer and unity.
?It seems like the day of prayer was just lip service,? spokesman Steven Pargett said.
But Melissa Sellers, a spokeswoman for Scott, said the governor spent Sunday morning at Bible Based Church in Tallahassee.
?It was his personal time of worship,? she said.
Sellers said Scott participated in a conference call with 35 faith-based leaders on Friday.
He asked each to include a call for peace and unity in their Sunday sermons.
The Dream Defenders, a coalition of college students and young professionals from around the state, have spent the past seven days and six nights outside Scott?s office. Their sit-in demonstration is a response to George Zimmerman?s recent acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager.
Scott has made it clear that he will not convene a special session.
He directed Walters to speak with the group on Monday.
During an informal meeting outside Scott?s office, the student activists told Walters that ?zero tolerance? policies in schools were leading to too many suspensions and arrests.
Young people, they said, deserve second chances ? especially when one mistake might cause them to get tied up in the criminal justice system.
?I am not a supporter of zero tolerance,? Walters replied. ?I think when you work with kids, things should be handled on a case-by-case basis.?
The young activists also spoke out against incarcerating adults and children in the same facility.
?We need to change the culture,? Pendas said.
Walters said her department was working on solutions. ?Every day, we are working on the issues you are all talking about,? she said. ?I?d venture to say we?ve made more strides than any other state in the union.?
But the Dream Defenders wanted concrete action plans. So late Monday, they hunkered down for another night in the Capitol.
Kathleen McGrory can be reached at kmcgrory@MiamiHerald.com.
Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/22/3514766/floridas-head-of-juvenile-justice.html
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Monday, July 22, 2013
To Save the Sumatran Rhino, Zoo Will Attempt to Mate Brother and Sister
Sometimes you just get desperate. In a last-ditch effort to help save the Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) from extinction, the Cincinnati Zoo has gathered together the last two members of the species in North America and will now attempt to get them to mate. There?s just one catch: the rhinos are brother and sister.
Normally zoos wouldn?t even consider captive breeding of related animals. But with the total world population of Sumatran rhinos estimated at fewer than 100, Cincinnati Zoo says the hope they could produce young rhinos outweighs any potential risk. ?No one wants to breed siblings,? Dr. Terri Roth, Vice President of Conservation and Science at Cincinnati Zoo, said in a press release on July 21. ?But when a species drops below 100 individuals, producing more offspring as quickly as possible trumps concerns about genetic diversity. We are down to the last male and female Sumatran rhino on the continent, and I am not willing to sit idle and watch the last of a species go extinct.?
Sumatran rhinos are possibly the most endangered large mammals on the planet. Fifty percent of the population has disappeared in the past two decades, the result of human encroachment on their forest habitat and poaching for their valuable horns. The smallest of the rhino species, Sumatrans rhinos have two horns and a light coat of brown fur. They are the only surviving member of their genus and are closely related to the woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), which went extinct several thousand years ago.
Cincinnati zookeepers hope that Harapan (a.k.a Harry), a six-year-old male, and his older sister Suci, an eight-year-old female, can help reverse their species? population decline. Both rhinos were born at the Cincinnati Zoo, which in 2001 became the first institution to breed Sumatran rhinos in captivity. The zoo, which had two adult rhinos at the time, pioneered techniques to assist the species with captive breeding. They have had three successes to date. The first, a male named Andalas, was born in 2001 and shipped to the Sumatra Rhino Sanctuary in Indonesia in 2007, where he sired his first young last summer. Suci and Harapan were born over the next few years; their parents later died of old age. Harapan has traveled the country since his birth in 2007, first to the White Oak Conservation Center in Florida and then to Los Angeles Zoo, where scientists have also been working to restore the species. He returned to Cincinnati this month with the hope of adding a fourth calf to the zoo?s breeding record.
As Roth explains in the Cincinnati Zoo video below, the fact that Andalas and a few other captive rhinos in Sumatra are breeding is good news, but it remains important to have a second breeding population in case disease or any other disaster strikes either group. She suggests that the wild population is so small sibling rhinos may also be breeding in the forests, but any potential genetic risks could be bred out in further generations.
To increase the chances of successful breeding, zookeepers will monitor Harapan?s testosterone levels and use ultrasound to figure out when Suci is ovulating. The animals?which are solitary by nature?will be kept apart and only introduced to each other during potential breeding windows. ?You can?t just house them together,? Roth explained to the Associated Press. ?The only time you can get a successful breeding is if you just put them together when the female is going to be receptive.?
Captive breeding programs like this have succeeded before, even when they started with small, interrelated populations. All 300 Mexican gray wolves (Canis lupus baileyi) alive today are descended from just five animals brought into a captive breeding program in 1973. Two island fox (Urocyon littoralis) subspecies were each down to their last 15 individuals in the year 2000; today they each number in the hundreds. All of the kakapo (Strigops habroptila) alive today descended from a handful of captive birds. The Vancouver Island marmot (Marmota vancouverensis) has survived several population crashes, sometimes falling as low as 25 animals. Captive breeding saved the California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) from extinction back when the species was down to just 22 birds; conservationists today carefully move eggs from one nest to another to keep the population genetically healthy.? None of the species have completely recovered, and some face potential genetic bottlenecks, but none have disappeared. Hopefully we?ll be able to say the same thing about the Sumatran rhino a few decades from now.
Photos: One of the Sumatran rhinos at Cincinnati Zoo, photographed by Mark Dumont on July 21. Mother Ratu and her un-named calf, sired by Cincinnati Zoo-born Andalas in Indonesia, courtesy of the International Rhino Foundation. Both used under Creative Commons license
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Sunday, July 21, 2013
Geraldo Rivera posts nude selfie to Twitter
Some things you just can't unsee.
Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera took a break from tweeting about the week's biggest news stories early Sunday morning to share a more personal tweet ? a nude selfie.
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"70 is the new 50," he wrote. "Erica and family are going to be so pissed? but at my age?"
Clad only in a white towel around his waist and sporting rose-colored glasses, the newsman appeared to be going for the Ron Burgundy look. The smouldering selfie has already garnered over 700 retweets.
The veteran TV pundit?s overshare was a far cry from his last couple of snapshots, which included scenes from the Trayvon Martin rally in Manhattan attended by Jay Z and Beyonc?.
So far, there?s been no explanation for his proud picture, but perhaps it?s a late celebration. Rivera turned 70 on July 4.
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Golf-Fitzpatrick wins Open silver medal, praise from Couples
GULLANE, Scotland, July 21 |
GULLANE, Scotland, July 21 (Reuters) - Baby-faced teenager Matthew Fitzpatrick rounded off a dream week on Sunday by claiming the silver medal at the British Open as the leading amateur.
The 18-year-old from Sheffield, England finished with a one-over 72 for a 10-over total for his four rounds over a Muirfield course that has separated the men from the boys this week.
After practising with American great Tom Watson on Wednesday, Fitzpatrick signed off after a round with former Masters winner Fred Couples who finished one shot better.
"I couldn't be happier with the way I played out there. It's been a really good day," said Fitzpatrick, who looks so young that he has regularly been asked to show his ID this week, told reporters.
"I will miss it. It's back to reality."
Fitzpatrick, who is about to begin a golf scholarship at Northwestern University in Chicago where former world number one and fellow Briton Luke Donald studied, impressed Couples.
"He's very good. He doesn't miss many shots, hit it straight. As he gets bigger, he'll hit it a little further, but he hits it plenty far," said the American veteran who turned professional 14 years before Fitzpatrick was born.
"He's not like one of these crazy bombers that you see. He's good. At 18 you should putt well. He's a good putter."
By making the cut at Muirfield, Fitzpatrick did far better in his first Open than Donald and world number Rory McIlroy, who both missed the cut, and he finished in front of twice former Open champion Padraig Harrington.
(Reporting by Martyn Herman, editing by Ed Osmond)
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Candidates make final appeal in Japan election
TOKYO -- Candidates made final campaign pushes ahead of Sunday's upper house elections that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition is expected to easily win as the economy picks up steam.
A victory would give Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and junior partner New Komeito control of both houses of parliament ? an elusive goal for the government in recent years ? making it easier to pass legislation at a time when Japan faces huge structural challenges, including a rapidly graying population and bulging national debt.
Reviving the long-stagnant economy is the top priority for voters, and Abe agrees. Aggressive monetary easing and public works spending ? the first two "arrows" of his three-pronged "Abenomics" economic program ? has so far borne some fruit, lifting the stock market, boosting business confidence and easing pressure on Japan's vital exporters by weakening the yen.
Major economic challenges lay ahead, including Abe's promises to carry out economic reforms aimed at increasing Japan's competitiveness ? the third "arrow" ? and a decision this fall on whether to follow through on raising the sales tax next April from 5 percent to 8 percent ? a move some warn will derail the fledgling recovery.
A convincing victory in Sunday's election, where half the 242 seats in the less powerful upper house of parliament are up for grabs, may also embolden Abe and his backers in the LDP to pursue a nationalistic agenda he had abandon his first time in office in 2006-2007.
Abe and others in the increasingly right-wing LDP have said they would like to revise the country's pacifist constitution, drafted by the United States after World War II, to give the Japan's military a larger role and make changes to the education system to instill more patriotism in students.
Under the campaign slogan "Recover Japan," the LDP promises to make Japan a muscular, gentle and proud country. It calls for a strong economy, strategic diplomacy and unshakable national security under the Japan-U.S. alliance, which allows for 50,000 American troops to be stationed in Japan.
That message has resonated with some voters worried about tensions over territorial disputes with China and South Korea and widespread distrust of an increasingly assertive China. A recent survey by Pew Research Center showed that only 5 percent of Japanese have a favorable opinion of China.
Perhaps the most significant revision proposed by the LDP is relaxing the constitution's war-renouncing Article 9, which bans the use of force in international disputes except for self-defense. A revision could open the way for Japan to have full-fledged armed forces and make territorial protection a public duty.
Stepping up nationalistic rhetoric or taking steps to expand the role of Japan's military will likely further strain ties with major trading partners China and South Korea. Abe has already upset both neighbors since taking office in December by saying he wanted to revise Japan's 1995 apology for its wartime aggression and questioning the extent to which Korean, Chinese and other Asian women were coerced to provide sex for Japanese soldiers before and during World War II.
Revising the constitution is a lengthy process that requires two-thirds approval of both houses of parliament and a national referendum. With economic concerns uppermost, it remains to be seen whether Abe and the parliament will be able to devote the considerable time and energy required to tackle such matters.
Surveys show that the public is most concerned about the economy, social security, the sales tax hike and reconstruction after the March 2011 tsunami. Two-and-a-half years after that disaster, very little rebuilding has begun along the battered northeastern coastline.
Public support for changing the constitution ranks lower.
Energy issues such as nuclear power are less important to voters, polls show. Despite considerable public opposition to nuclear power in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster, many voters appear to be willing to support the pro-nuclear LDP because they are attaching a higher priority on economic and security issues.
Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/20/3510413/candidates-make-final-appeal-in.html
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