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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Truman State football picked third in GLVC preseason poll
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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.
Source: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765634916/How-much-do-you-know-about-student-debt.html
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