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The Thanksgiving feast is over, and the majority of travelers will be heading back home Sunday. It?s a busy day that could prove challenging if Mother Nature decides to tag along. NBC?s Michelle Franzen reports.
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ? New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he wasn't about to take the bait: a question dealing with that quintessential junk food, Twinkies.
So when asked Friday at a news conference about Twinkies-maker Hostess shutting down, the target of many a fat joke begged off.
The governor quipped: "I know it! You people are the worst! This is a setup! I am not answering questions on Twinkies, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's bad that I even said the word 'Twinkie' from behind this microphone."
Christie has tried for years to lose weight and often jokes about his caloric struggles. He once likened his weight loss efforts to "throwing a couple deck chairs off of the Titanic."
But Friday he said he wouldn't provide more fodder to comedians.
"You know," he said, "I'm on 'Saturday Night Live' enough."
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President Obama visited Staten Island, viewing the damage inflicted by Sandy and promising aid. He also appointed someone familiar with city government to oversee the federal response. YNN's Josh Robin has the story.
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NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. -- The president saw the destruction Hurricane Sandy unleashed on New York. But he says just like homes will rise again, so will spirits.
"I'm very proud of you, New York. You guys are tough. You bounce back, just as America always bounces back. The same is going to be true this time out," Obama said.
It's going to take just not time, but money. He's announcing overseeing it will be Shaun Donovan, his Secretary of Housing and Urban Development who served a similar role for much of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's first two terms.
Obama said, "He's going to be working with the mayor, the governor, the borough presidents, the county officials to make sure that we come up with a strong, effective plan."
A plan that will lots of money. Governor Cuomo already asked for $30 billion. But he apparently ruffled feathers by not coordinating it with New York's congressional delegation first.
"It should be a bipartisan request. And it should be a regional request. We're going to try to work with Governor Christie as well as Governor Cuomo, the delegations from New York and New Jersey, to put together a comprehensive package," said Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
A package that would need Obama?s support and after Thursday, he understands the damage from personally seeing it. He met with the parents of two little boys swept away by the storm before witnessing the torn homes.
The president stopped at the corner of Cedargrove Avenue and Maple Terrace in the New Dorp Beach section. From the air, he also saw other parts of the city damaged by Hurricane Sandy, including the Breezy Point section of Queens that was destroyed by fire.
From a visit last month, Obama knows how New Jersey is suffering. Mayor Bloomberg rebuffed Obama?s offer to see the city then, saying police were better used elsewhere resources.
Today from the air, the mayor could point out ravaged areas, which, despite some progress, remain far from how they were less than three weeks ago.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Flashing some postelection bipartisanship, House Democrats and Republicans joined forces Friday in voting overwhelmingly to end Soviet-era trade restrictions so that American manufacturers and farmers can take advantage of Russia's expanding and more open markets.
The vote to establish permanent normal trade relations with Russia has been a top priority of American businesses concerned that they are being left behind as Europe and China move into Russia's market of 140 million consumers.
Russia joined the World Trade Organization in August, a move that requires it to lower tariffs and take other market-opening measures. But unless Congress voted to eliminate a 1974 trade restriction and establish permanent trade relations. The United States would be alone among 156 WTO members, unable to benefit from those new trade rules.
The legislation stalled before the election as lawmakers shied away from voting for a measure that might appear to be aiding Russia at a time when President Vladimir Putin's government had become increasingly hostile. Many lawmakers have been mollified by the addition to the bill of a measure that punishes Russian officials involved in human rights violations. The bill passed on a 365-43 vote.
The action came on the third anniversary of the passing of Russian lawyer and whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Russian prison after allegedly being tortured. The human rights bill bears his name.
"It is very gratifying that the first item out of the chute after the election is something we will be able to do in a bipartisan way," said Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif., Rules Committee chairman and a strong advocate of free trade.
The legislation, which has the backing of the Obama administration, now goes to the Senate, where the Democratic leadership has indicated it will consider it promptly. Differences remain between the House and the Senate on the human rights part of the bill: the House bill imposes visa and financial restrictions on Russian officials linked to human rights abuses. The pending Senate bill would broaden that to human rights violators around the world.
Numerous House members said they would not have voted for the trade bill without inclusion of the human rights measure. "The issue that concerns me and many members is not trade but human rights," said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
The trade bill, unlike bilateral free trade treaties, requires no concessions from the U.S. side. With passage, U.S. companies and farmers would see lower tariffs, better protections for intellectual property and greater access to Russia's service market and would be able to go to the WTO to resolve disputes.
The administration and economists have predicted that U.S. exports of goods and services, currently at $11 billion, could double in five years if trade relations were normalized.
The bill, the White House said in a statement supporting its passage, "is about providing opportunities for American businesses and workers and creating jobs here at home."
The legislation would also extend permanent normal trade relations to Moldova, another former Soviet state.
At issue is the Jackson-Vanik Amendment to a 1974 trade bill that tied trade with the Soviet Union to greater freedom for Jews and other Soviet minorities seeking to leave the country. Since the 1990s, U.S. presidents have annually waived the now-obsolete requirement, but it still must be eliminated as part of a permanent trade relations accord.
Democrats who normally take a harder look at trade bills were strongly supportive, with many mentioning the addition of the Magnitsky measure.
"It's important to remember that the rule of law in another country is vital, otherwise investment is perilous," said Rep. Sander Levin, top Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee. "The Magnitsky legislation was added here in part in recognition that when you talk about trade, you have to look at a fuller picture," the Michigan congressman said.
But passage of the human rights provision could spike tensions with Moscow at a time when the United States and Russia already are at odds over issues including missile defense, Syria's civil war and Iran's nuclear ambitions. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Friday that Moscow had prepared a "tough" response to the passage of the Magnitsky bill. On Thursday the ministry spokesman said the measure was an "unfriendly, provocative act."
The Obama administration has said that while it does not object to the Magnitsky bill, it would have preferred that the trade legislation be taken up on its own. The White House policy statement on the bill refers generally to the need to promote respect for human rights around the world and says the administration will continue to work with Congress to support those seeking a free and democratic future in Russia.
Associated PressEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.Isaac Redman ran for 147 yards, and scored the winning touchdown from a yard out with 4:02 remaining Sunday as the Pittsburgh Steelers rallied past the New York Giants, 24-20.
The Steelers (5-3) snapped New York's four-game winning streak by overcoming some uncharacteristic sloppiness and dominating the second half.
Temporary relief from the destruction of Superstorm Sandy was what New York's fans sought, and the Giants (6-3) provided it for a while. But they couldn't stop Redman or touchdowns of 51 yards for Mike Wallace and 4 yards for Emmanuel Sanders on passes from Ben Roethlisberger.
The Steelers arrived in New Jersey hours before the game, which might have accounted for their carelessness. They had the fewest giveaways in the NFL entering the game, but were neglectful with the ball and in pass coverage; cornerback Keenan Lewis had 87 yards on two pass interference penalties, and they wasted some great kick returns, too.
COLTS 23, DOLPHINS 20
INDIANAPOLIS
Andrew Luck broke the NFL's single-game rookie record by throwing for 433 yards in leading Indianapolis.
Luck was 30 of 48 with two TDs and broke Cam Newton's previous mark of 422 yards set last season. And it came on the day coach Chuck Pagano returned to Lucas Oil Stadium for the first time since being diagnosed with leukemia.
Indy (5-3) has won three straight.
Miami (4-4) got another strong performance from Ryan Tannehill, too. He went 22 of 38 for 290 yards with one TD.
The rookie quarterbacks traded jabs all day, but Luck's 36-yard TD pass to T.Y. Hilton gave Indy a 20-17 lead, and Adam Vinatieri's 43-yard field goal with 6:03 left broke a 20-20 tie.
BUCCANEERS 42, RAIDERS 32
OAKLAND, Calif.
Rookie Doug Martin rushed for a franchise-record 251 yards and four touchdowns and Ahmad Black intercepted a Carson Palmer pass after Oakland had cut an 18-point deficit to three late in the fourth quarter.
Martin, who was born in Oakland, had a memorable homecoming for the Bucs (4-4) by scoring on runs of 1, 45, 67 and 70 yards in the second half as he gashed what had been an improved run defense for the Raiders (3-5).
Martin, the 31st pick in April out of Boise State, became the first back since at least 1940 to score on three TD runs of at least 45 yards in one game, according to STATS LLC.
PACKERS 31, CARDINALS 17
GREEN BAY, Wis.
Tom Crabtree had a 72-yard touchdown that was Green Bay's longest of the season, and Randall Cobb added two scoring catches.
The Packers (6-3) finished with a season-high 176 yards rushing on 39 carries, the first time in a month they've cracked the century mark.
James Jones also had a touchdown reception, and Green Bay goes into its bye week with a four-game winning streak.
The break comes at a good time for the Packers, who lost Clay Matthews, Jordy Nelson and Bryan Bulaga to injuries.
John Skelton was 23 of 46 for 306 yards, his most passing yardage since last December, but Arizona (4-5) lost its' fifth straight.
TEXANS 21, BILLS 9
HOUSTON
Matt Schaub threw two touchdown passes and Arian Foster ran for 111 yards against Buffalo's NFL-worst rushing defense.
Andre Johnson caught eight passes for 118 yards and Foster scored for the fifth straight game for Houston (7-1).
Mario Williams had a sack and five tackles in his return to Reliant Stadium after he signed with the Bills (3-5) in the offseason. The Texans made Williams the No. 1 pick in the 2006 draft and he's still Houston's career sacks leader (53).
Schaub won for the 10th time in 11 starts. He completed 19 of 27 passes for 268 yards.
PANTHERS 21, REDSKINS 13
LANDOVER, Md.
Cam Newton completed 13 of 23 passes for 201 yards with a touchdown and ran eight times for 37 yards and a score as Carolina snapped a five-game losing streak.
The Panthers (2-6) were in desperate need of a win after a series of close defeats that had players questioning whether the team had any leadership. Newton responded with one of his best games of the season, including a 19-yard touchdown pass to Steve Smith and an 82-yard completion that set up a score.
Robert Griffin III was 23 for 39 for 215 yards, ran 11 times for 53 yards and was sacked four times as the Redskins lost their third straight and fell to 3-6.
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What's the best way to make the massive Samsung Galaxy Note 2?look normal in someone's hands? Get a guy who's six-foot-seven, 260 pounds to show it off. LeBron James is in the latest series of ads for the Galaxy Note 2 and it should give the device a high profile.?
The Samsung Galaxy Note 2 features a massive 5.5-inch display and while we thought that was too large, we were swayed in our review. That size is definitely not for everyone but if you're okay with that large of a phone, the Galaxy Note 2 is an amazing smartphone.
Marc summed it up well,"The Galaxy Note 2 is a great smartphone because its performance is just ridiculous, battery life is great, reading and consuming multimedia content is great. The size is a pain in the rear sometimes and really have to decide if all the benefits of the size outweighs the sacrifices you'll have to make. If you can get over the size, buy it. It's pretty good."
LeBron James is coming off his a champion season and is arguably one of the most well-known athletes in the world. He probably cost a lot of money to get as an endorser, so you can be sure that Samsung wants the Galaxy Note 2 to succeed.?
As a Lakers fan, I can't say I love LeBron but these are some pretty good ads. I've already seen these all over the television, too.
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ScienceDaily (Nov. 1, 2012) ? A gene that is associated with regeneration of injured nerve cells has been identified by scientists at Penn State University and Duke University. The team, led by Melissa Rolls, an assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State, has found that a mutation in a single gene can entirely shut down the process by which axons -- the parts of the nerve cell that are responsible for sending signals to other cells -- regrow themselves after being cut or damaged. "We are hopeful that this discovery will open the door to new research related to spinal-cord and other neurological disorders in humans," Rolls said.
The journal Cell Reports published an early online copy of the paper November 1, and also will include the paper in the monthly issue of the journal, which will be published Nov. 29.
Rolls explained that axons, which form long bundles extending out from nerve cells, ideally survive throughout an animal's lifetime. To be able to survive, nerve cells need to be resilient and, in the event of injury or simple wear and tear, some can repair damage by growing new axons. Earlier research from Rolls and others suggested that microtubules -- the intracellular "highways" along which basic building blocks are transported -- might need to be rebuilt as an important step in this type of repair. "In many ways this idea makes sense. In order to grow a new part of a nerve, raw materials will be needed and the microtubule highways will need to be organized to take the new materials to the site of growth," Rolls said. The Rolls team therefore started to investigate the role of microtubule-remodeling proteins in axon regrowth after injury. In particular, the team members focused on a set of proteins that sever microtubules into small pieces. Out of this set, a protein named spastin emerged as a key player in axon regeneration.
"The fact that the spastin protein plays a critical role in regeneration is particularly intriguing because, in humans, it is encoded by a disease gene called SPG4," Rolls explained. "When one copy of this gene is disrupted, affected individuals develop hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), which is characterized by progressive lower-limb weakness and spasticity as the long-motor axons in the spinal cord degenerate. Thus, identifying a new neuronal function for spastin may help us to understand this disease."
To study the role of spastin, Rolls and her team chose the fruit fly as their model organism. "On the molecular level, many of the processes associated with nerve-cell growth and regrowth are the same in humans as in fruit flies," Rolls said. "And, like all other animals including humans, fruit flies have two copies of every gene -- one from each parent -- so different combinations of each gene can lead to different observable traits." The team members bred three genetically distinct groups of fruit flies in the laboratory to observe how various spastin gene combinations might affect the behavior of nerve cells after injury. The first group of flies had two normal copies of the gene; the second had one normal copy and one mutant copy; while the third had two mutant copies. Then, in all three groups, the scientists cut the axons of the flies' nerve cells and observed the regeneration process.
"In fruit flies with two normal copies of the gene, we observed that severed axons elegantly reassembled themselves. This process is supposed to take place if the fly is to heal from nerve trauma since life events, as well as wear and tear, tend to cause such damage," Rolls said. "But, interestingly, in the other two groups -- the fruit flies with two or even one abnormal spastin gene -- there was simply no regrowth, indicating that what we have here is a dominant problem." Rolls explained that dominant diseases arise when only one copy of a disease gene is disrupted. For example, Huntington's disease in humans is a dominant disease because people who have inherited a normal gene from one parent and an abnormal gene from the other parent still become ill. Meanwhile, cystic fibrosis is a recessive disease: people with at least one normal gene copy do not manifest the disease at all.
The scientists also found that an impaired spastin gene affected only how the axons regrew after being severed. That is, the gene did not seem to play a role in the developmental stage when axons were being assembled for the first time. In addition, the researchers found that, while the gene affected the flies' axons, their dendrites -- the parts of the neuron that receive information from other cells and from the outside world -- continued to function and repair themselves normally.
"Now that we know that spastin plays an important role in axon regeneration and also that this gene is dominant, we have opened up a possible path toward the study of human diseases involving nerve-cell impairment," Rolls said. "In fact, our next step is to probe the link between hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) and axon regeneration." Rolls added that the SPG4 gene that encodes human spastin is only one of the disease genes associated with HSP, so she and her colleagues now are testing whether other disease genes also play a role in nerve-cell regeneration.
In addition to Rolls, other researchers who contributed to this study include Michelle C. Stone, Kavitha Rao, Kyle W. Gheres, Seahee Kim, Juan Tao, Caroline La Rochelle and Christin T. Folker from Penn State; and Nina T. Sherwood from Duke University.
The research was funded by the Spastic Paraplegia Foundation; the National Institutes of Health through its National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and its National Institute of General Medical Sciences; and the Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences.
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PARIS (AP) ? Yasser Arafat's widow says French judges will visit the West Bank town of Ramallah as part of a probe into his death.
The circumstances of the Palestinian leader's death eight years ago in a French military hospital have long aroused suspicion, with a Swiss laboratory recently claiming it had detected radioactive polonium-210 on his clothing.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reluctantly agreed this summer to allow Arafat's remains to be exhumed after the new evidence prompted his widow, Suha Arafat, to seek a criminal investigation in France.
In a statement issued through her French and British lawyers Wednesday, she said three investigating judges in charge of the case from a western Paris suburb say they are arranging a visit to Ramallah.
The statement said French scientific experts will "soon" be able to take samples from Arafat's body, without elaborating.
Associated PressTechnology played a major role in bringing about a change in the attitude towards photography. Today all the mobile phones are equipped with cameras, this made clicking very easy. Digital photography was one of the major breakthroughs from the film photography. It drastically reduced the cost of clicking photographs. Earlier clicking a picture was followed by washing the film which in itself was a costly affair. There was no other way apart from getting a printed copy in order to see the pictures clicked. Today you click as many pictures you want and store them on your computer or an external hard drive; even the mobile memory card can store thousands of pictures at a time.
Sharing photographs earlier meant making an album of hard copies, but today through internet and several social sites you can upload and shares images within seconds. It has not only made things convenient but also entertaining and interactive. Companies like Nikon and Canon which earlier used to manufacture SLR and high end cameras for only professionals, today cater to the amateurs by designing user friendly cameras. You can buy images of the cameras and lens designed by these companies over a period of time. The major difference between digital photography and chemical photography is in processing. A digital picture can be manipulated and edited through various computer based software, whereas chemical photography being done on the film first and later printed on the paper cannot be edited and manipulated if needed.
The increasing use of photography in various fields like journalism, tourism, military surveillance, film making, fashion, wildlife and recreation resulted in the mushrooming of institutions that provide professional guidance. These institutions not only teach the different aspects of photography but also the technicalities involved in the use of camera. The camera consists of various elements like that of lens, aperture, shutter speed, white balance, focal length, light sensitivity, ISO, etc. It is the combination of art and science to use the right settings at an appropriate place in order to seize the moment. There are various books and courses available online from where you can learn the art of photography. You can buy content explaining you the various aspects of camera and its use in order to click a picture of your style.
Every photographer tends to have his own take on reality. What matters in photography is the perspective an individual holds. An original and fresh perspective together with sound knowledge of camera and light can lead to clicking a perfect moment. You can buy news articles and keep updating yourself with the latest technology in lens use and fresh perspectives in order to become a professional photographer. Photography being a form of art has no limitation to what can be captured. From human emotions to natural elements, anything and everything under the sky, and if you have the right gear also, above the sky can be clicked. It is not what you click that matters; it is how you click that makes an ideal photograph.
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