Press is a Gorgeous Newsreader for Android Phones and Tablets

Android: If you're a fan of Reeder for OS X and iOS, but wish Android had a similar newsreader, congratulations: Press is the app you've been waiting for. The developer takes more than a few design cues from Reeder, and that's a really good thing.

Press connects and syncs with Google Reader. After launching, let it sync, and the app displays all of your feeds as tiles or as a list that you can browse through. Tap a specific feed to read articles from it, or read all of your unread articles at once. In portrait mode, you can swipe from side to side to move from article list to article text, and in landscape mode you can zoom in on article text or images. On tablets, you can see a list of stories on the left, and tap them to change the text on the right.

At any time, you can hit the menu key or button in the upper right to open the article in your browser, share it with friends, mark it as read, star it to read later, and more. The app supports offline reading and lets you control text size and font, so you get the reading experience you want.

Granted, it's not as feature-packed as some of your other favorite newsreaders, and some people report crashing issues with it (which we didn't have when we tested it.) Still, if you're looking for an elegant, gesture-friendly way to get Google Reader onto your Android phone or tablet, it's definitely worth the $1.99 you'll pay to download it.

Press ($1.99) | Google Play via CNET

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Great home improvement projects

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A recent study has shown that more and more women are beginning to take on home improvement projects that typically belonged to the man in the home. The Washington Post recently revealed that women are beginning to outshine men in this typically male-dominated area as women become more economically independent and start fixing things around the hose for themselves. Economically independent women are making more money now than they ever have, and because of that there are twice as many single female homeowners than men. Additionally, the number of women who DIY has increased due to the recession.

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There are tons of power tools that are now being manufactured and marketed directly to women, so this may not be surprising to some. The single women that own homes don?t have a man to rely on to get the job done, so they are taking to addressing home repairs themselves rather than spending money on someone to come fix their issue for them. Additionally, many women believe some of the smaller repairs should be easy for women to do on their own so they don?t have to wait for their husband to get home and fix it. However, it?s not just small repairs ? some women are even taking on bigger projects like repairing roof issues. It is believed that this trend will continue, putting women in the forefront of another typically male-dominated activity.

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CPEhr Releases Annual Report: 2013 Human Resources Updates

Los Angeles, CA, December 28, 2012 ?(PR.com)? Human Resources Outsourcing firm CPEhr announced today the release of their annual report highlighting important employment information that will impact business in 2013. The report, titled ?2013 Human Resources Updates,? covers a wide range of topics that will directly affect employers in the coming year.

Over the past year, dozens of new California employment laws and legislative bills were passed, to go into effect on January 1, 2013. Additional changes affect employers nationwide in the areas of payroll tax limits, workers? compensation insurance, and most significantly, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Health Care Reform.

?2012 was one of the most turbulent years in recent memory in regards to new laws and legislation impacting employers across the country,? says Ari Rosenstein, director of marketing at CPEhr. ?From the looming fiscal cliff, to Health Care Reform, to volatile insurance markets, to new employment regulations, it is no wonder employers are feeling overwhelmed and resisting growth. We hope our annual report will provide some insight into what they can expect in 2013.?

The report draws from CPEhr?s human resources experience on a wide range of employment, payroll, tax and insurance areas. Topics covered in the report include:

> California Labor & Employment Law Updates
> Health Care Reform in 2013
> Other PPACA Updates for 2013
> Workers? Compensation Reform?
> 2013 Workers? Compensation Insurance Rates
> Payroll & Taxes ? 2013 Updates
> Employee Training & Development

?By publishing this annual report, we hope that employers will gain a basic understanding of the new laws and how to prepare for the coming year,? says Rosenstein.

The report can be downloaded from the CPEhr corporate website here: 2013 California Human Resources Updates.

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'Django Unchained': Jamie Foxx Becomes A Superhero

Foxx and co-star Kerry Washington talk to MTV News about Quentin Tarantino's 'epic, cowboy Western.'
By Josh Wigler, with reporting by Josh Horowitz

Jamie Foxx in "Django Unchained"
Photo: The Weinstein Company

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Gun group offers training for Utah teachers

Christine Caldwell, left, receives firearms training with a 9mm Glock from personal defense instructor Jim McCarthy during concealed weapons training for 200 Utah teachers Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Christine Caldwell, left, receives firearms training with a 9mm Glock from personal defense instructor Jim McCarthy during concealed weapons training for 200 Utah teachers Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Clark Aposhian, President of Utah Shooting Sport Council, holds a pistol during concealed weapons training for 200 Utah teachers Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Clark Aposhian, President of Utah Shooting Sport Council, demonstrates with a plastic gun during concealed-weapons training for 200 Utah teachers Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Stephen Pratt, a third grade teacher from Alpine, Utah, is fingerprinted for a gun carry permit during concealed weapons training for 200 Utah teachers Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Bobbi Frampton, a vocational teacher, listens during concealed weapons training for 200 Utah teachers Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) ? Jessica Fiveash sees nothing wrong with arming teachers. She's one herself, and learned Thursday how to safely use her 9 mm Ruger with a laser sight.

"If we have the ability to stop something, we should do it," said the elementary school teacher, who along with nearly 200 other teachers in Utah took six hours of free gun training offered by the state's leading gun lobby.

It is among the latest efforts to arm or train teachers to confront assailants after a gunman killed his mother and then went on a rampage through Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., killing 20 children and six adults before killing himself.

In Ohio, a firearms group said it was launching a test program in tactical firearms training for 24 teachers. In Arizona, the attorney general is proposing a change to state law that would allow an educator in each school to carry a gun.

The moves to train teachers come after the National Rifle Association proposed placing an armed officer at each of the nation's schools, though some schools already have police officers. Parents and educators have questioned how safe the proposal would keep kids and whether it would be economically feasible.

Some educators say it is dangerous to allow guns on campus. Among the potential dangers they point to are teachers being overpowered for their weapons or students getting them and accidentally or purposely shooting classmates.

"It's a terrible idea," said Carol Lear, a chief lawyer for the Utah Office of Education. "It's a horrible, terrible, no-good, rotten idea."

Kristen Rand, the legislative director for the Violence Policy Center, a gun control advocacy organization, said to believe that a "teacher would be successful in stopping someone who has made the decision to engage in a shootout is just not rationale."

"No teacher is ever going to be as effective as a trained law enforcement officer," Rand said. Even trained police officers don't always hit their targets, and arming teachers could put innocent students at risk of crossfire, she said.

Gun-rights advocates say teachers can act more quickly than law enforcement in the critical first few minutes to protect children from the kind of deadly shooting that took place in Connecticut. They emphasized the importance of reacting appropriately under pressure.

"We're not suggesting that teachers roam the halls" looking for an armed intruder, said Clark Aposhian, chairman of the Utah Shooting Sports Council, the state's biggest gun lobby. "They should lock down the classroom. But a gun is one more option if the shooter" breaks into a classroom.

The group waived its $50 fee for the training. Instruction featured plastic guns and emphasized that people facing deadly threats should announce or show their gun and take cover before trying to shoot. They cautioned teachers about the liability that comes with packing a gun in public.

"It's going to be a hassle. It's another responsibility. You can't just leave your gun lying around," Aposhian said. "Not for a minute."

The teachers at the basic gun training applied for a concealed-weapons permit, submitting fingerprints and a mug shot for a criminal background check. The class kicked off as an instructor in the "psychology of mass violence" offered various tactics to disrupt an assailant.

The first, the instructor said, was to start with the command: "Stop right there!"

"I wouldn't hesitate to shoot if the danger was immediate," said Fiveash, adding that her laser sight would make shooting in tight quarters safer.

English teacher Kevin Leatherbarrow said he often felt threatened while working at an inner-city school in Buffalo, N.Y., where he got a license to carry a pistol. He moved less than a year ago to Utah, where he feels safer. But he said gun violence can break out anywhere.

Leatherbarrow said he was highly trained in handling guns ? and was taking criticism from parents who don't appreciate his views on school safety.

"I'm in agreement not everybody should be carrying firearms in school. They're not trained. But for some parents to think we're cowboys, that frustrates me," he said. "I wish parents would understand."

In the U.S., the number of homicides at schools of children, ages 5-18, have been lower year-by-year in the 2000s than they were in the mid- to late-1990s, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics report on school crime released in 2012. At 32 deaths, the 2006-2007 school year was the only one that reached the levels from the 1990s. The manner of death was not listed.

Utah is among a few states that let people carry licensed concealed weapons into public schools without exception, the National Conference of State Legislatures says in a 2012 compendium of state gun laws.

Utah educators say they would ban guns if they could, but legislators left them with no choice. State law forbids schools, districts or college campuses from imposing their own gun restrictions.

Educators say they have no way of knowing how many teachers are armed. Gun-rights advocates estimate 1 percent of Utah teachers, or 240, are licensed to carry concealed weapons. It's not known how many do so at school.

"I never felt threatened in 14 years of teaching, but I don't think you can be too prepared," said Tiffany Parry, a dance teacher in the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy who applied for Thursday for a license to carry a concealed gun. "I think it could come in handy."

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Associated Press writer Brady McCombs in Salt Lake City contributed to this report.

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4 Steps for Sales Managers To Stay Ahead of the Curve in 2013

Sales managers need to provide their team with the tools they need to succeed. Make sure? your small business sales team is managing their sales pipeline with the help of a simple CRM like Base.

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In reflecting on the past year and looking forward towards 2013, I have compiled a quick summary of a few basic actions sales leadership must take to succeed.

Step One: Build an active recruiting plan.

You must know your average transaction value is vs your yearly or monthly sales objectives.

The question you need to answer is: ?Do you have enough salespeople on board to achieve your monthly number of required sales transactions? ? A sales manager must look out 90-120 days knowing your future potential revenue objectives and understand your manpower requirements. ?Recruiting is sales leadership?s marketing campaign for sales leads. Build an ongoing program to ensure you have the right talent in place to exceed your goals.

Step Two: ?Know your pipeline metrics.

You must know the accurate value of the pipeline 90-120 days out (depending upon your sales cycle).

The question you must ask is: ?Do you have enough opportunities both in value and numbers to achieve your upcoming monthly quota?? If not, what can you do to ensure you build up the pipeline values so that you will have enough opportunities to achieve the monthly objective?

Step Three: Is your team trained?

Recently, at one of my new clients, I ?listened in? as two of their salespeople gave a presentation to a major new client sales opportunity. ?It became obvious the salespeople were not professional or even capable of handling the meeting.

It was enlightening and a crucial step towards increasing the need for continued focus on sales training. ?The sales team had been neglecting our recommendations to improve their skills. Now there will be an increased buy in by management and peer levels to focus on sales skills.

Here are some suggestions for your sales team:

• Make more sales calls with your team
• Build in a quarterly salesperson skills evaluation process
• increase more role playing in your sales training meetings
• Build a quarterly sales training programs

Step Four: Improve your professional business acumen.

Implement the following so that you can be a better leader to your sales team:

1. Make sure you read the local business sections in your newspapers, the Wall Street Journal, business magazines, and relevant websites.
2. Read a minimum of 3 business books a year.
3. Join a sales leadership ??peer group? of other sales managers to learn how others are increasing their leadership skills. This step will improve your ability to discuss the business trends of the day with prospects and your sales team, increase your stature within your management team and improve how you manage your team.

Follow these four steps and your odds of staying ahead of the normal 18 month window that most sales leaders live under will improve.

Ken Thoreson, Acumen Management Group, Ltd. president, is a sales leadership professional who ?operationalizes? sales management systems and processes to pull sales results out of the doldrums into the fresh zone of predictable revenue. His blog, Your Sales Management Guru, has been rated in the top 10 sales blogs in the United States. This entry was posted in Featured, Sales and tagged performance, plan, presentation, quota, sales, sales call, sales funnel, sales manager, sales pipeline, sales team, salesperson, selling. Bookmark the permalink.

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Super-Tasting Science: Find Out if You're a Supertaster!

A taste test from Science Buddies

By Science Buddies

To supertasters, the flavors of foods are much stronger than to average tasters. Image: flickr/veteze.com

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Introduction
Have you ever noticed that some people are a lot pickier about the food they eat than other people are? They might be more selective because they are supertasters! To supertasters, the flavors of foods are much stronger than to average tasters. Whether or not someone is a supertaster comes down to the taste buds on his or her tongue, and you can actually investigate a person's supertaster status by looking at this. Are you a supertaster? Find out with this tongue-based activity!
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Background
Do you hate the taste of broccoli? Or think that grapefruit is extremely bitter? If so, you may be able to blame it on your taste buds! Taste buds, located on small bumps on the tongue called fungiform papillae, are each made up of about 50 to 150 taste receptor cells. On the surface of these cells are receptors that bind to small molecules related to flavor. Each receptor is best at sensing a single flavor: sweet, salty, bitter, sour, or umami. The sum total of these sensations is the "taste" of the food.

The number of taste buds varies from person to person. People who have relatively more taste buds are called supertasters. To supertasters, foods may have much stronger flavors, which often leads to supertasters having very strong likes and dislikes for different foods. Supertasters often report that foods like broccoli, cabbage, spinach, grapefruit and coffee taste very bitter. The opposite of supertasters are non-tasters. Non-tasters have very few taste buds and, to them, most food may seem bland and unexciting. The people in the middle are average tasters. Which kind of taster do you think you are? What about your friends and family?

Materials

• Paper-hole reinforcers (one for each volunteer)?or clean wax paper, a standard hole puncher and scissors (instructions below)
• Water and soap
• At least five volunteers (such as friends and family)
• Blue food coloring
• One glass of water for each volunteer
• Magnifying glass
• A bright light or flashlight
• Scrap of paper and a pen or pencil

Preparation

• If you do not have paper-hole reinforcers, wash your hands with soap, take a clean piece of wax paper, and punch one hole in it for each volunteer. Cut out each hole so that you have at least five, small wax paper "rings."

Procedure

• Wash your hands thoroughly with soap.
• Have the first volunteer open his or her mouth. Place a drop of blue food coloring on the tip of his or her tongue. Do not let the tip of the food coloring tube touch the volunteer's tongue.
• Have the volunteer take a mouthful of water, swish it around in his or her mouth, and then spit it out.
• Ask the volunteer to make his or her tongue relatively dry by swallowing a couple of times. The remaining dye should stain all of the tongue blue except for the fungiform papillae, which will look like relatively large, lighter blue or pink bumps (in a sea of dark blue). These papillae are where the taste buds are.
• Put a wax paper ring (that you prepared) or a paper-hole reinforcer on the tip of the volunteer's tongue, in the area that has been dyed.
• Using a magnifying glass under bright light, count the number of papillae within the hole. How many papillae are within the hole? Write this number down along with the volunteer's name. Tip: Don't count the really tiny bumps ? just count the larger ones.
• Your volunteer can now remove the paper ring or paper-hole reinforcer from his or her tongue.
• Repeat the entire procedure with at least four more volunteers. Before testing each volunteer, wash your hands thoroughly with soap, and use a new cup with fresh water for each person. If you want to try this on yourself, have someone else count your papillae, or count them in a mirror.
• How many papillae did most people have? Did people have different amounts of papillae, with some having a lot more than others? Knowing that if a person has more than 30 papillae they are considered a supertaster, were there any supertasters in your volunteer group? If so, how many?
• Extra: Repeat this activity with at least 25 more volunteers, for a total of at least 30 people. What percentage of people in this larger group turns out to be supertasters? What percentage are non-tasters, having fewer than 15 papillae? What percentage has between 15 and 30 papillae, and are average tasters?
• Extra: Try this activity again but this time use an equal number of male and female volunteers, with at least 15 of each. Do males and females have the same likelihood of being a supertaster?
• Extra: Look into how different foods, like spinach and chili peppers, taste to the different types of tasters. Based on this, can you make a taste-test to figure out who is a supertaster? Check how accurate your taste-test is by also counting the papillae for each person.
• Extra: You can use a person's body mass index (BMI, formulas for which can be found online) and their results from this activity to try to figure out if there is a correlation between people's weight and the type of taster they are (supertaster, non-taster, or average taster). Do you find a correlation? Are supertasters more likely to be underweight, average, or above weight?

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New Japan PM: Saving economic crisis top mission

Japan's newly-named Prime Minsiter Shinzo Abe smiles as he waves at the media upon his arrival at the prime minister's official residence following his election at Parliament in Tokyo Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Abe, whose nationalist positions have in the past angered Japan's neighbors, is the country's seventh prime minister in just over six years. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Japan's newly-named Prime Minsiter Shinzo Abe smiles as he waves at the media upon his arrival at the prime minister's official residence following his election at Parliament in Tokyo Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Abe, whose nationalist positions have in the past angered Japan's neighbors, is the country's seventh prime minister in just over six years. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during his first press conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Old-guard veteran Abe was voted back into office as prime minister Wednesday and immediately named a new Cabinet, ending three years of liberal administrations and restoring power to his conservative, pro-big-business party that has run Japan for most of the post-World War II era. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during his first press conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Old-guard veteran Abe was voted back into office as prime minister Wednesday and immediately named a new Cabinet, ending three years of liberal administrations and restoring power to his conservative, pro-big-business party that has run Japan for most of the post-World War II era. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe bows after being named Japan's new prime minister during the plenary session at the lower house of Parliament in Tokyo, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. The rise of Abe, whose nationalist positions have in the past angered Japan's neighbors, ends more than three years at the helm for the left-leaning Democratic Party of Japan and brings back the conservative, pro-big business LDP that governed for most of the post-World War II era. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Japan's newly-named Prime Minsiter Shinzo Abe waves for the media upon his arrival at the prime minister's official residence following his election at Parliament in Tokyo Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Abe, whose nationalist positions have in the past angered Japan's neighbors, is the country's seventh prime minister in just over six years. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

TOKYO (AP) ? Shinzo Abe took office as Japan's seventh prime minister in six years Wednesday and vowed to overcome the deep-rooted economic and diplomatic crises facing his country.

Abe was elected as Japan's leader hours earlier Wednesday, bringing back to power the conservative, pro-business Liberal Democratic Party that governed for most of the post-World War II era. It replaces the liberal-leaning government of the Democratic Party of Japan that lasted three years.

"A strong economy is the source of energy for Japan. Without regaining a strong economy, there is no future for Japan," Abe told his first news conference after becoming prime minister for the second time.

Calling his administration a "crisis breakthrough Cabinet," Abe promised to launch bold economic measures to pull Japan out of deflation. He also vowed to step up an alliance with the United States to stabilize Japan's diplomacy shaken by increasing territorial threats from its neighbors.

Abe, whose nationalist positions have in the past angered Japan's neighbors, was also prime minister in 2006-2007 before resigning for health reasons that he says are no longer an issue.

The outspoken and often hawkish leader has promised to restore growth to an economy that has been struggling for 20 years. His administration also faces souring relations with China and a complex debate over whether resource-poor Japan should wean itself off nuclear energy after last year's earthquake and tsunami caused a meltdown at an atomic power plant.

On top of that, he will have to win over a public that gave his party a lukewarm mandate in elections on Dec. 16, along with keeping at bay a still-powerful opposition in parliament. Though his party and its Buddhist-backed coalition partner is the biggest bloc in the more influential lower house, Abe actually came up short in the first round of voting in the upper house, then won in a runoff.

Capitalizing on voter discontent with the Democratic Party of Japan, Abe has vowed to shore up the economy, deal with a swelling national debt and come up with a fresh recovery plan following last year's tsunami disaster, which set off the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.

Abe promised to launch bold economic measures, and mobile financial steps and strategies to encourage investment.

"We must recover a Japan where hardworking people can feel that there is a better tomorrow," he said.

Abe is expected to push for a 2 percent inflation target designed to fight deflation. Continually dropping prices deaden economic activity, a situation the Japanese economy has been stuck in for two decades.

Finance Minister Taro Aso, another former prime minister who is one of Aso's most-trusted senior lawmaker, said fighting deflation would be a challenge: "We've never dealt with deflation since the end of the war. In fact, nobody in the world has."

Besides generous promises to boost public works spending ? by as much as 10 trillion yen ($119 billion), according to party officials ? Abe is pressuring the central bank to work more closely with the government to reach the inflation target.

In foreign policy, Abe has stressed his desire to make Japan a bigger player on the world stage, a stance that has resonated with many voters who are concerned that their nation is taking a back seat economically and diplomatically to China.

He has said he will support a reinterpretation of Japan's pacifist postwar constitution to loosen the reins on the military, stand up to Beijing over an ongoing territorial dispute and strengthen Tokyo's security alliance with Washington. Beijing has already warned him to tread carefully, and will be watching closely to see if he tones down his positions now that he is in office.

"Japan's national security faces a clear and present danger," Abe said, referring to intensifying territorial disputes around the Japanese seas, and renewed his campaign promise to protect the safety of the people of Japan and its territory.

"Japan must strengthen the Japan-U.S. alliance, the cornerstone of Japan's diplomacy," Abe said. That will be key to re-stabilizing Japan's regional diplomatic relations, he added.

Abe has picked the U.S. as the first destination of his official overseas trip, expressing hopes to hold talks with President Barack Obama as early as January.

The new foreign minister is Fumio Kishida, an expert on the southern island of Okinawa, where many residents upset over crime and overcrowding want a big reduction in the number of U.S. troops they host ? now at about 20,000. The new defense minister is Itsunori Onodera, who was in Abe's previous administration.

The LDP governed Japan for decades after it was founded in 1955. Before it was ousted in 2009, the LDP was hobbled by scandals and problems getting key legislation through a divided parliament.

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AP writer Mari Yamaguchi contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Celebrity Real Estate: Bargains Galore! | ExtraTV.com

This holiday season, some big time homes are being listed at Christmas sale prices -- including Reese Witherspoon's Ojai estate, Bruce Willis' 20-acre ranch, Matthew Perry's Hollywood Hills bachelor pad, and more!

Watch to find out who's selling what, and at how big a discount!

For more pics and information, visit Trulia.com!

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What Is General Maritime Tort Law and How Can It Help Injured ...

Most people who work offshore?on drilling rigs, production platforms, jackups, barges and boats or in submersibles?have heard of laws such as the Jones Act, which exist to protect injured offshore workers and hurt seamen. If there?s a drilling rig explosion, if a boat sinks, if a defective marine crane collapses, the Jones Act can help protect those injured maritime employees because the vessel owner is often liable.

Many maritime workers don?t know that another legal protection, called ?general maritime tort law,? can help when they?ve been injured due to the negligence of a third party?that is, someone besides their employer. Dedicated Louisiana maritime injury lawyer William Gee III has been working to protect injured offshore workers for over twenty years and helps maritime workers understand which offshore injury situations might be covered by general maritime tort law.

An example would be when a seaman is working on a vessel that is owned by someone other than his or her boss and suffers an injury at sea caused by conditions of the vessel itself. General maritime tort law covers several forms of negligence, including:

• When the negligent action or inaction of a third party, who is not the offshore worker?s employer, contributes to the cause of an offshore accident;
• When more than one party is negligent in the offshore or maritime accident injury;

• When an employer is aware of a potentially hazardous condition but fails to address it.

Most general maritime tort cases address the question of whether there was a legal duty to the injured person that was breached. A maritime negligence case examines whether the injury was a foreseeable result of the negligent act or failure to act.

For instance, if drilling rig needed repairs, if a marine crane malfunction was known but hadn?t been fixed or a submersible had a poor maintenance record, the owner of those offshore vessels and equipment could be held liable in the case of a maritime injury. General maritime law also imposes liability on an employer for the negligent and tortuous acts of an employee committed in the course and scope of that employee?s work. If a party?s maritime negligence causes injury, the victim can sue to recover damages for personal injuries, including pain and suffering, as well as certain economic damages, such as loss of future earnings.

If you were injured offshore or lost a loved one due to a wrongful death at sea, call the Law Offices of William Gee III today at 1-800-488-5227 or contact us online. We know maritime law inside and out, and can help you seek justice.

The Law Office of William Gee, III
2014 W. Pinhook Road, Suite 501
Lafayette, Louisiana 70508

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Tree nut research may unexpectedly lead to medical advances

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United States Department of Agriculture - Research, Education and Economics

This press release is available in Spanish.

Prescription drugs that today help patients fight severe fungal infections might tomorrow be even more effective, thanks to unexpected findings from agriculture-based, food-safety-focused studies by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues.

Petri-dish experiments conducted by now-retired USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) research leader Bruce C. Campbell, ARS molecular biologist Jong H. Kim, and their co-investigators suggest that pairing conventional antifungal medicines with natural, edible compounds from plants--such as thymol, extracted from the popular herb thyme--can boost the healing effects of some of these drugs.

Campbell and Kim's work at the ARS Western Regional Research Center in Albany, Calif., with species of Aspergillus mold, for example, has attracted the attention of medical and public health researchers. Found worldwide in air and soil, Aspergillus can infect corn, cotton, pistachios, almonds, and other crops, and can produce aflatoxin, a natural carcinogen.

Aflatoxin-contaminated crops must be identified and removed from the processing stream, at times resulting in large economic losses. Since 2004, Campbell, Kim, and colleagues have carefully built a portfolio of potent, plant-based compounds that kill a target Aspergillus species, A. flavus, or thwart its ability to produce aflatoxin.

Further research and testing might enable tomorrow's growers to team the best of these natural compounds with agricultural fungicides that today are uneconomical to use, according to Kim.

A. flavus and two of its relatives, A. fumigatus and A. terreus, may impact the health of immunocompromised individuals exposed to the fungus in moldy homes. The team reported that thymol, when used in laboratory tests with two systemic antifungal medications, inhibited growth of these fungi at much lower-than-normal doses of the drugs.

A related study provided new evidence to support earlier findings, at Albany and elsewhere, which had suggested that plant compounds such as thymol may sabotage a target fungi's ability to recover from oxidative stress triggered by antifungal drugs.

Using plant-derived compounds to treat fungal infections is not a new idea, nor is that of pairing the compounds with antifungal medicines. But the Albany team's studies have explored some apparently unique pairs, and have provided some of the newest, most detailed information about the mechanisms likely responsible for the impact of powerful combinations of drugs and natural plant compounds.

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Read more about the research in the October 2012 issue of Agricultural Research magazine. http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/oct12/tree1012.htm

ARS is USDA's principal intramural scientific research agency.

USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (866) 632-9992 (Toll-free Customer Service), (800) 877-8339 (Local or Federal relay), (866) 377-8642 (Relay voice users).

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Contact: Marcia Wood
Marcia.wood@ars.usda.gov
301-504-1662
United States Department of Agriculture - Research, Education and Economics

This press release is available in Spanish.

Prescription drugs that today help patients fight severe fungal infections might tomorrow be even more effective, thanks to unexpected findings from agriculture-based, food-safety-focused studies by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues.

Petri-dish experiments conducted by now-retired USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) research leader Bruce C. Campbell, ARS molecular biologist Jong H. Kim, and their co-investigators suggest that pairing conventional antifungal medicines with natural, edible compounds from plants--such as thymol, extracted from the popular herb thyme--can boost the healing effects of some of these drugs.

Campbell and Kim's work at the ARS Western Regional Research Center in Albany, Calif., with species of Aspergillus mold, for example, has attracted the attention of medical and public health researchers. Found worldwide in air and soil, Aspergillus can infect corn, cotton, pistachios, almonds, and other crops, and can produce aflatoxin, a natural carcinogen.

Aflatoxin-contaminated crops must be identified and removed from the processing stream, at times resulting in large economic losses. Since 2004, Campbell, Kim, and colleagues have carefully built a portfolio of potent, plant-based compounds that kill a target Aspergillus species, A. flavus, or thwart its ability to produce aflatoxin.

Further research and testing might enable tomorrow's growers to team the best of these natural compounds with agricultural fungicides that today are uneconomical to use, according to Kim.

A. flavus and two of its relatives, A. fumigatus and A. terreus, may impact the health of immunocompromised individuals exposed to the fungus in moldy homes. The team reported that thymol, when used in laboratory tests with two systemic antifungal medications, inhibited growth of these fungi at much lower-than-normal doses of the drugs.

A related study provided new evidence to support earlier findings, at Albany and elsewhere, which had suggested that plant compounds such as thymol may sabotage a target fungi's ability to recover from oxidative stress triggered by antifungal drugs.

Using plant-derived compounds to treat fungal infections is not a new idea, nor is that of pairing the compounds with antifungal medicines. But the Albany team's studies have explored some apparently unique pairs, and have provided some of the newest, most detailed information about the mechanisms likely responsible for the impact of powerful combinations of drugs and natural plant compounds.

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Read more about the research in the October 2012 issue of Agricultural Research magazine. http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/oct12/tree1012.htm

ARS is USDA's principal intramural scientific research agency.

USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (866) 632-9992 (Toll-free Customer Service), (800) 877-8339 (Local or Federal relay), (866) 377-8642 (Relay voice users).

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YouTube Upgrades Its Automated Copyright Enforcement System ...

From its inception, YouTube?s algorithmic copyright cop, Content ID, has been rife with problems ? at least from the user?s perspective. Overbroad takedowns, a confusing dispute process, and little in the way of accountability turned the ?filter? into an easy censorship tool. On Wednesday, however, YouTube announced several changes that should help users fight back against bogus takedowns, and help prevent those takedowns in the first place.?

The Content ID system works by scanning videos on the site for content matching one or more of the over 10 million registered samples that partners have provided to YouTube. In the case of a match, it follows the "business rules" set by the assigned rightsholder, which can include blocking or "monetizing" the upload. If a rightsholder has requested a block, viewers see the familiar error message that indicates that the video has been pulled for copyright reasons. If the business rules are set to "monetize" the video, YouTube gives the rightsholder a portion of the revenue generated from ads run alongside the video.

Users could always dispute Content ID claims, but the process was confusing and there was no means to challenge a denial. Now, an eligible user (a broad category that appears to include verified users "in good copyright standing") can file an appeal in any situation where Content ID has flagged her video and the rightsholder has rejected her dispute. In the case of an appeal, the copyright holder must either release the claim or file a formal DMCA takedown.

This move helps to address one common criticism of Content ID: that it goes above and beyond the requirements of the DMCA, operating outside of it and rendering users subject to new rules that have neither the accountability nor the appeals process of the actual law. In cases where Content ID system has overreached, this new procedure requires rightsholders to return to the process set out in the DMCA for removing content. In turn, that requires the rightsholders to swear under penalty of perjury that there is an actual infringement, and allows for the video to reappear after a counter-notice.

YouTube also announced a technical change that it's referred to as "smarter claim detection." The video site has acknowledged that Content ID sometimes makes mistakes ? either by misidentifying content, or correctly identifying content but failing to recognize it as a clear fair use ? and has improved its algorithms to help recognize these mistakes. Following this update, some of these possibly mistaken claims will be considered "low-confidence" matches, and rightsholders will have to manually review those matches to confirm that there is actually an infringement.

This change in particular brings Content ID closer to the Fair Use Principles for User Generated Content that we proposed along with other public interest groups. It should also help to address the recent automated takedowns that have generated some unwanted attention for programs like Content ID. In August, a NASA video of the Curiosity landing on Mars was automatically blocked due to a mistaken copyright claim. And last month two separate livestream videos were removed ? one of the annual Hugo awards and one from the Democratic National Convention ? in circumstances also involving automated takedowns. Requiring human intervention in more cases is a big improvement, and will reduce these sorts of situations where copyright bots shoot first and humans ask questions later.

These changes have been a long time coming and we?re glad to see them. Equally pleased, we expect, will be the many users who have want to fight back when a rightsholder decides to play judge, jury, and executioner of their lawful speech.

Source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/youtube-upgrades-its-automated-copyright-enforcement-system

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Samsung posts $7.3 billion third-qurter profit, this quarter will be tougher

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics reported a record quarterly profit of $7.3 billion, nearly double last year's figure, as strong sales of high-end TVs and Galaxy smartphones more than offset reduced orders for chips and screens from Apple Inc, its main rival and leading customer.

Most analysts, however, expect a run of four straight record quarters to end in December as the South Korean group, the world's leading maker of smartphones, TVs and memory chips, ramps up its marketing to counter Apple's new iPhone and other products in a crowded $200 billion global smartphone market.

Samsung may have spent around $2.7 billion on marketing in July-September alone around the London Olympic Games and new Galaxy promotions, Credit Suisse has estimated.

This year's expected record profit of 28 trillion won ($25 billion) will also trigger higher performance related payouts to many of Samsung's 206,000 staff early next year. And Samsung may have to set money aside this quarter if it fails in an appeal to overturn an August 24 U.S. court verdict that awarded more than $1 billion in damages to Apple for patent infringements by Samsung.

"Fourth-quarter profit will be pressured by one-off expenses: performance payouts and some $1 billion in legal provisioning relating to the Apple litigation. Excluding those, core earnings will remain solid and a swing factor is how much Samsung spends on marketing," said Lee Sun-tae, analyst at NH Investment & Securities.

Analysts expect earnings to decline until the second quarter of next year as a slump in computer sales and a weak global economy sap demand for chips and electronics products.

SMARTPHONE HEAVY?

"The biggest risk for Samsung is competitive product line-ups from its rivals such as the iPhone 5. Because handsets drive most of its profits, one misstep in handsets could result in losses for the whole Samsung group," said Byun Han-joon, an analyst at KB Investment & Securities.

Profit at Samsung's mobile division is likely to have more than doubled in July-September to around 5 trillion won - around two thirds of total group profit - as smartphone shipments topped 58 million, including up to 20 million Galaxy S IIIs.

Ahead of full quarterly results due by October 26, Samsung estimated its July-September operating profit jumped 91 percent to 8.1 trillion won from a year ago, beating an average forecast of 7.6 trillion won in a Reuters survey of 16 analysts. That would be more than a fifth higher than the previous record in April-June. The company, valued at around $197 billion, estimated its third-quarter revenue at 52 trillion won, in line with forecasts.

Samsung shares fell 0.5 percent to 1.36 million won ($1,200) on Friday. The stock has risen more than 7 percent since the U.S. patent defeat in August. Apple shares have gained less than 1 percent.

CHEAP AS CHIPS

Strong handset sales made up for reduced profits from its chip business, as prices of its mainstay dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips, used in computers and mobiles, dropped 14 percent in the September quarter. DRAM chips now trade below what it costs most contract manufacturers to make them, and will squeeze near-term earnings, analysts say. Tablets and smartphones, the real growth areas, use far smaller memory storage.

Samsung is expected to invest less in chips next year due to the drop in demand, which could be bad news for semiconductor equipment manufacturers such as ASML. Kwon Oh-hyun, promoted to Samsung CEO in June, said late last month that the group has yet to finalize its 2013 investment plans.

Samsung is beefing up its product line-up, with the latest phone-cum-tablet Galaxy Note expected to go on sale in the United States this month, and its ATIV smartphones that run on Microsoft's new Windows system to compete with Nokia's Lumia series.

TAKING NOTE

Samsung's mobile division chief JK Shin last week predicted Note II sales could be three times higher than those of its predecessor model in the three months after launch - suggesting sales of around 10 million devices by the end of this year.

Some analysts see the Note II, a stripped-out, cheaper version of the Galaxy S III and rising NAND flash memory chip prices helping Samsung deliver higher fourth-quarter profit. Nomura on Friday predicted October-December profit could be up to 10 percent more than the 8.1 trillion won in July-September.

In a note on Friday, Citi analyst Henry Kim predicted strong October-December profits, driven by a recovery in semiconductors, though telecoms operating margins could decline by 5 percentage points to 15 percent as it spends more on marketing. "The semiconductor division will show the strongest momentum," he said.

Despite a bruising series of patent disputes and the reputational risk of the U.S. court defeat in August, Samsung's brand value has surged this year as it shipped more handsets and smartphones than any of its rivals. The value of the Samsung brand has jumped to 9th in the world - up from 17th last year - at $32.9 billion, according to brand consultancy Interbrand. That's more than Toyota Motor, but less than half of second-ranked Apple's $76.6 billion.

($1 = 1112.6500 Korean won)

(Reporting by Miyoung Kim; Editing by Ian Geoghegan)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/samsungs-galaxy-phones-drive-record-7-3-billion-000926289--finance.html

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NHL lockout forces canceled games through Oct. 24

NEW YORK (AP) ? What seemed inevitable for the NHL has now become reality. The league canceled the first two weeks of the regular season on Thursday, the second time games have been lost because of a lockout in seven years.

The initial announcement was made in a two-paragraph statement from the league. It isn't clear if those games will be made up, allowing for a complete 82-game regular season, if a deal can be struck soon with the locked-out players.

Unable to work out how to split up $3 billion in hockey-related revenues with the players' association, the NHL wiped out 82 games from Oct. 11 through Oct. 24 ? beginning with four next Thursday, which would have been the league's opening night.

"We were extremely disappointed to have to make today's announcement," NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said in a statement. "The game deserves better, the fans deserve better, and the people who derive income from their connection to the NHL deserve better.

"We remain committed to doing everything in our power to forge an agreement that is fair to the players, fair to the teams, and good for our fans. This is not about 'winning' or 'losing' a negotiation. This is about finding a solution that preserves the long-term health and stability of the league and the game. We are committed to getting this done."

The union countered Thursday by saying the NHL forced the lockout onto the players instead of letting the season go on as planned.

"The decision to cancel the first two weeks of the NHL season is the unilateral choice of the NHL owners," NHLPA Executive Director Donald Fehr said in a statement. "If the owners truly cared about the game and the fans, they would lift the lockout and allow the season to begin on time while negotiations continue.

"A lockout should be the last resort in bargaining, not the strategy of first resort," he added. "For nearly 20 years, the owners have elected to lock out the players in an effort to secure massive concessions. Nevertheless, the players remain committed to playing hockey while the parties work to reach a deal that is fair for both sides. We hope we will soon have a willing negotiating partner."

Although there have been negotiations between the league and players in recent days ? unlike a three-month break at the start of the 2004-05 lockout that forced the cancellation of the entire season ? the two sides haven't gotten any closer to a deal on core economic issues.

"Obviously, (cancellations) might have been expected but it's also disappointing because we set out to negotiate," New York Rangers goalie Martin Biron said in a telephone interview. "We wanted to get a deal and wanted to avoid a work stoppage or any cancellations.

"We're still working hard to find a solution and find a way to get the core economic stuff figured out with the league and getting a deal that is fair for everybody and lasts."

In the previous lockout, the NHL and the union didn't get together between early September and early December.

Back then, the key words in the negotiations were salary cap, linkage and cost certainty. Commissioner Gary Bettman and the owners were committed to getting a deal that linked team costs to revenues, so each club would know exactly how much it had to spend on payroll and what number it couldn't exceed.

Thus a salary cap was born for the first time in NHL history. The league produced record revenue during the seven years of that deal, which turned out much better for the players than expected.

There are no major philosophical issues this time as there were with the salary cap fight, but the sides are far apart in financial figures. Players received 57 percent of hockey-related revenue in the deal that expired Sept. 15, and the NHL wants to bring that number below 50 percent ? perhaps as low as 47 percent.

The players' association, led by Fehr ? the former baseball union chief ? has rejected that idea.

"The leadership that we have with Don and his team is really trying to look at the big picture and not just a number," Biron said. "We understand that there is some tweaking and some things that have to be fixed in our proposal, but it seems that the owners are on a one-way mission to cut salaries."

The NHL claims the union hasn't done near enough to try to get closer to the league's proposal and appears willing to wait for the NHLPA to come around.

Daly said the league had already lost $100 million in revenues from canceled preseason games. The players will begin feeling the real sting when they don't get their first paychecks of the season Oct. 15.

During the last lockout, Bettman followed through on his vow to cancel the season if a deal wasn't reached by a February deadline. A new collective bargaining agreement wasn't completed until July, long after major damage had been done. It marked the first time a North American professional sport lost an entire season to a labor dispute.

In 2004, Daly announced Sept. 29 that there wouldn't be any hockey in October. New proposals and negotiations in December and January did little to push the sides toward a settlement, and Bettman announced Feb. 16 that the season had been lost. It marked the first time since a flu epidemic in 1919 that the Stanley Cup wasn't awarded.

Earlier this week, U.S. Sens. Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez of New Jersey sent a letter to Bettman and Fehr, urging them to consider the economic impact on their state if the dispute isn't resolved.

The letter warned that the absence of New Jersey Devils' games in Newark could mean millions of dollars in lost economic activity and jobs in especially tough economic times. The Devils advanced to the Stanley Cup finals last season, creating a financial boost to the city just five months ago.

Now, the lockout comes on the heels of the NBA's Nets moving from Newark to Brooklyn, N.Y.

Lautenberg renewed his call for a settlement after the games were called off Thursday.

"This cancellation of regular season hockey games is a blow to businesses and workers in Newark and in hockey towns across the country," he said in a statement. "Local jobs and millions of dollars of economic activity are being placed at risk every day that this dispute continues.

"The NHL should keep in mind communities, workers, and families that are being hurt by its decision to pursue a lockout and cancel these games. Owners and players must find a way to start the season before the economies in Newark and other communities are further damaged."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nhl-lockout-forces-canceled-games-oct-24-182110850--nhl.html

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The 1709 Blog: Colonial copyright: read all about it!

Colonial Copyright: Intellectual Property in Mandate Palestine, by Michael D. Birnhack, has just been published by Oxford University Press. This blogger has not yet seen it, though he is sure that a review copy will soon be available to the same publisher's Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (JIPLP). When this happens, 1709 Blog readers will be alerted so they'll have a good chance of getting their review request accepted. If you don't yet know Michael, he's a Professor of Law, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and a not inconsiderable copyright scholar.

The book is quite unusual, and not a little intriguing. According to the publishers:

"When the British Empire enacted copyright law for its colonies and called it colonial, or Imperial, copyright, it had its own interests in mind. Deconstructing the imperial policy regarding copyright offers a startling glimpse into how this law was received in the colonies themselves. Offering the first in-depth study from the point of view of the colonized, this book suggests a general model of Colonial Copyright as it was understood as the intersection of legal transplants, colonial law, and the particular features of copyright, especially authorship.

Taking as a case study the story of Mandate Palestine (1917-1948), the book details the untold history of the copyright law that became the basis of Israeli law, and still is the law in the Palestinian Authority. It queries the British motivation in enacting copyright law, traces their first, indifferent reaction, and continues with the gradual absorption into the local legal and cultural systems. In the modern era copyright law is at the forefront of globalization but this was no less true when colonial copyright first emerged. By shining a light on the introduction and reception of copyright law in Mandate Palestine, the book illuminates the broader themes of copyright law: the questions surrounding the concept of authorship; the relationship between copyright and the demands of progress; and the complications of globalization".

More details of the book can be found on the publisher's website here.

Source: http://the1709blog.blogspot.com/2012/10/colonial-copyright-read-all-about-it.html

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How Do I Lose Weight Fast ... - Subliminal Self Hypnosis

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People often ask themselves how do I lose weight on a regular basis. Oftentimes, the same people have tried various types of routines with little to no success, with some growing more frustrated with each attempt. Even though this type of journey can be frustrating, tiresome and confusing, it may help to consider some things, which could help you in the end.

Being able to get back into shape can depend on several different factors, in most cases. For instance, it can be highly important to make smart and healthy eating choices. Regardless if you workout several hours a week, you?re not likely to see results that are as effective as you would be eating properly.

The type of exercise that you do and how often you do it may play a major role in your overall success. Therefore, it?s key to choose something that works right for you, rather than doing what you think is popular at the time.

People often become tired of the same routines. This is sometimes because most take on whatever may be the trend at that moment, even if they generally don?t appreciate that type of workout normally. In order to ensure a routine you can stick to, try to get into activities that you enjoy.

These days, there are various routines or activities that you can do. This might include traditional aerobics, dance classes or DVDs, swimming, sports, among other things as well. Also, don?t hesitate to vary what you do. This will help to keep your body challenged, which will keep it working harder.

Speaking to a professional who specialized in the world of fitness can often be beneficial, and they may be able to point you in the right direction, so that you can answer the question to the common question of how do I lose weight fast. This could be anyone from a nutritionist or dietician, down to a fitness expert or health-conscious life coach.

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Video: Final beam on One World Trade

MSNBC?s Tamron Hall takes a look at two workers laboring to put the final beam in One World Trade Center, making it the tallest building in New York City.

>> news. they are placing this final beam that will make world trade center -- one world trade center the tallest building in new york city . these are live pictures. new york city officials are there marking this amazing milestone. there are many people wondering if the progress would be seen at the scene where so many thousands lost their lives. one world trade center becoming the tallest building in new york city . an emotional time. the unfinished building now stands more than 1250 feet high. additional floors are still being built. before the tower reaches its full height, that is expected to be next year. up until today, the empire state building had been the tallest building in new york city . again, workers are putting the steel columns in place that will make the unfinished frame of the building a little more than 1250 feet high. that's just high enough to peak over the roof of the observation deck of the empire state building . it is expected to reach its full height for at least another year. they will have 408 foot tall needle that is expected to be the tallest building in the u.s. and the third tallest in the world. that is the goal with this building. again, counting this 400-foot tall needle that will be placed upon it, it is expected to be the tallest building in the united states and the third tallest in the world. this emotional milestone. it means so much. people who have visited here, who have gone by this site for more than a decade wondering if we would ever look upon this sight and feel the pride and feel the comfort of knowing that the city, the nation recovered from this devastating day. this is one of the milestones we mark together watching this. and while we're seeing two workers labor, this is certainly something that we all feel in our hearts and our soul to see this occasion, to mark this milestone. we'll continue to watch. there's a ceremony. we'll have more live images. we're all watching it together. it now becomes the tallest building in new york. it will go on to be the tallest building in the united states and the third tallest

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