Washington Post puts its building on the block

(Reuters) - The Washington Post is the latest media company contemplating selling its headquarters as it tries to rein in costs.

Katharine Weymouth, the publisher of the Washington Post and part of the Graham family that controls the paper, wrote to employees about the move, according to a memo from Weymouth obtained by Reuters.

"Our preliminary analysis suggests that a move will make good operational and economic sense, however we have not yet decided on where or when," Weymouth wrote.

The paper selected Studley, Inc and JM Zell Partners as its real estate advisers to help locate potential new sites and find buyers.

The building - in the heart of Washington D.C. - has been home to the newspaper since 1950, when the Graham family built a $6 million plant with new presses and equipment. The paper moved the presses out of the building more than 10 years ago.

By no means is the Washington Post the first publisher to mine its real estate holdings for potential money. It's a trend in newspaper industry that has been going on for several years as a way to cope with drastic declines in advertising revenue and staff reductions that have left swaths of empty space.

The Washington Post Co, which operates the newspaper, reported that print advertising revenue fell 14 percent to $160.7 million for the first nine months of 2012.

The owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, for example, sold its headquarter building recently.

(Reporting By Jennifer Saba in New York; Editing by M.D. Golan)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/washington-post-puts-building-block-212636803--finance.html

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U.S. military veteran suicides rise, one dies every 65 minutes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The most extensive study yet by the U.S. government on suicide among military veterans shows more veterans are killing themselves than previously thought, with 22 deaths a day - or one every 65 minutes, on average.

The study released on Friday by the Department of Veterans Affairs covered suicides from 1999 to 2010 and compared with a previous, less precise VA estimate that there were roughly 18 veteran deaths a day in the United States.

More than 69 percent of veteran suicides were among individuals aged 50 years or older, the VA reported.

"This data provides a fuller, more accurate, and sadly, an even more alarming picture of veteran suicide rates," said Democratic Senator Patty Murray of Washington state, who has championed legislation to strengthen mental health care for veterans.

The news came two weeks after the U.S. military acknowledged that suicides hit a record in 2012, outpacing combat deaths, with 349 active-duty suicides - almost one a day.

That was despite sharper focus at the leadership level at the Pentagon and VA on the suicide problem, and came during an overall rise in suicides in the United States. The number of suicides in the United States rose 11 percent from 2007 to 2010, the VA said.

The VA did not provide raw data and acknowledged its national figures were still estimates. The new study was based on data collected from 21 states in which military status is reported on the death certificate. It said more data from more states were being processed.

Reuters last year obtained less-detailed data for the 2005-to-2010 period from 32 states, also showing a significant rise in the number of suicides among the country's 23 million veterans.

The VA said that while the number of veteran suicides had risen, the percentage of all suicides in America identified as "veteran" declined from 1999 to 2003 and had remained relatively constant in recent years.

The VA said the data would help it better identify where at-risk veterans may be located and improve targeting of specific suicide intervention and outreach activities.

"We have more work to do and we will use this data to continue to strengthen our suicide prevention efforts," Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki said in a statement.

(Reporting by Phil Stewart; Editing by Peter Cooney)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-military-veteran-suicides-rise-one-dies-every-000416080.html

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Mac Miller To Donald Trump: 'Let's Be Friends'

i'm not trying to put any negative energy into the world,' Miller tweets a day after Trump called him an 'ungrateful dog.'
By Rob Markman

Mac Miller in his "Donald Trump" video
Photo: Rostrum

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Stress Impacts Prostate Cancer Treatment : Easy Health Options?

If you have prostate cancer and are undergoing treatment, you are understandably experiencing stress and anxiety. There is some good news, however, concerning stress and prostate cancer: If you take steps to manage the stress in your life, you might improve the effectiveness of your prostate cancer treatment.

According to researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, emotional stress not only has an impact on treatment of prostate cancer, but also may speed up the development of the disease. At least that?s what they found when evaluating the impact of stress on prostate cancer in mice. ^[1]

How The Stress Study Worked

Two different mouse models were used to explore the effects of emotional stress on prostate cancer. One group of mice was administered human prostate cancer cells and then given a drug currently in trials for treatment of prostate cancer.

When the mice were exposed to a stressful environment (immobilization), the drug was not effective in killing the cancer cells. However, when the mice were exposed to a peaceful environment, the drug inhibited the growth of prostate cancer tumors.

The second group of mice was genetically modified to develop prostate cancer. When the mice were stressed, again with immobilization, the prostate tumors grew. When the researchers gave the mice a prostate cancer drug called bicalutamide (a type of hormone therapy for prostate cancer), the tumors decreased in size. However, when the mice were exposed to stress while taking the drug, the prostate cancer did not respond well to bicalutamide.

The underlying reason for the increase in prostate cancer growth under stress has to do with a hormone called adrenaline (epinephrine). Stress boosts adrenaline levels, and the hormone causes the eventual breakdown of a process called apoptosis, or cell death. When treating prostate cancer, one goal is to increase or promote apoptosis. Stress gets in the way of this process and, thus, can contribute to the growth of prostate cancer.

The scientists also discovered that when they gave a beta-blocker drug to mice in both groups, stress did not cause the prostate cancer to grow. That?s because beta blockers can stop adrenaline from inhibiting cell death. George Kulik, Ph.D., who led the study, said: ?Providing beta-blockers to prostate cancer patients who had increased epinephrine levels could improve the effectiveness of anticancer therapies.?

How To Reduce Stress

In addition to taking beta blockers, men who have prostate cancer can take other steps to reduce stress. Stress management for prostate cancer can include techniques such as tai chi, yoga, meditation, breathing therapy and biofeedback, all of which have demonstrated an ability to lower stress levels.

In a small study conducted at the University of California, San Diego, investigators examined the impact of a stress reduction effort called mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) along with a plant-based, low-fat, high-fiber diet in men who had undergone prostatectomy for prostate cancer. MBSR consists of a relaxation technique, gentle yoga and meditation.

The results of the four-month program provided evidence that the diet along with stress reduction ?may slow the rate of tumor progression in cases of biochemically recurrent prostate cancer.? ^[2]

Stress can have a significant effect not only on prostate health and overall health, but the progression of prostate cancer and its treatment as well. Daily attention to stress management is important for all men, but especially for those who are facing the challenge of prostate cancer and prostate cancer treatment.

See prostate.net for more information on prostate health and prostate cancer.

Sources

[1] ?Behavioral stress accelerates prostate cancer development in mice.? http://www.jci.org/articles/view/63324

[2] ?Can diet in conjunction with stress reduction affect the rate of increase in prostate specific antigen after biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer?? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11696736

Source: http://easyhealthoptions.com/cancer/stress-impacts-prostate-cancer-treatment/

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Great white shark moves back to northeast

This September 18, 2012, photo provided by OCEARCH shows scientists tagging a great white shark named Mary Lee off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The shark was tracked south to the Florida coast but as of Thursday, January 31, 2013, was again off Long Island, N.Y. OCEARCH, a nonprofit group that studies sharks and other large marine species, says little is known about the migration patterns of great whites. (AP Photo/OCEARCH, Mike Estabrook)

This September 18, 2012, photo provided by OCEARCH shows scientists tagging a great white shark named Mary Lee off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The shark was tracked south to the Florida coast but as of Thursday, January 31, 2013, was again off Long Island, N.Y. OCEARCH, a nonprofit group that studies sharks and other large marine species, says little is known about the migration patterns of great whites. (AP Photo/OCEARCH, Mike Estabrook)

This Sept. 18, 2012, photo provided by OCEARCH shows scientists lifting a great white shark named Mary Lee so it can be tagged off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The shark was tracked south to the Florida coast but as of Thursday, January 31, 2013, was again off Long Island, N.Y. OCEARCH, a nonprofit group that studies sharks and other large marine species, says little is known about the migration patterns of great whites. (AP Photo/OCEARCH, Mike Estabrook)

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) ? It seems Mary Lee's winter vacation in the sunny South is over.

The 3,500-pound great white shark headed north after spending weeks off the Southeast coast. Mary Lee, one of only two great whites ever tagged in the North Atlantic, got as far south as Jacksonville Beach, Fla., several weeks ago. But in recent days, she's made a bee line north.

On Thursday, she was off Long Island, N.Y. Researchers can't really say they are surprised because the habits of the great white are such a mystery.

"Lo and behold, Mary Lee goes down there for a little while and then bugs out and now she's off Long Island and we realize we don't know anything," said Chris Fischer, the founder of OCEARCH, a nonprofit dedicated to studying great whites and other large marine species.

Fischer's group has tagged dozens of great whites off South Africa and in the Pacific. He led the September expedition to tag Mary Lee off Cape Cod, and named the shark after his mother. The group also tagged a second great white, Genie.

"I felt like at the moment, Mary Lee was the most legendary fish caught in history," he said. "We were at the home of 'Jaws,' we were capturing a great white to save it and solve the puzzle of the great white."

"Jaws," the 1975 blockbuster movie directed by Steven Spielberg, was a fictitious tale of a great white causing havoc at a small New England island community.

Capturing a great white weighing upward of 2 tons is no easy feat. The expedition used its 126-foot research vessel, designed with a special lift that can bring up 55,000 pounds.

"We bait the shark and once we are pulling on the shark we walk it back to the ship and over the lift. The lift then pulls it out of the water," Fischer said. While on the boat, a device that relays the shark's position to a satellite is attached to its dorsal fin.

As many as 100,000 people a day are monitoring the position on OCEARCH's website. Traffic got so heavy this winter the organization had to upgrade its servers, Fischer said.

"This is modern day exploration. I wanted the public to be able to see a part of that," he said.

The other great white, Genie, also headed south for the winter. But because she doesn't surface as much, her travels have been harder to track. Genie's last position was recorded Jan. 19 off the South Carolina-Georgia border.

Fischer said it's important to learn more about sharks, which are at the top of the food chain in the ocean but threatened by man. He said 73 million sharks a year are killed just for their fins to make shark fin soup.

In recent years, he added, people have become fascinated by sharks, which will help efforts to understand and protect them.

"It used to be when people were talking about great white sharks you could hear in the background the theme music to 'Jaws' and fear," he said. "Now the conversation is of curiosity. What is Mary Lee doing today? Everyone is involved and the tone of the conversation has changed, which I think is important for the future of sharks."

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Online: http://sharks-ocearch.verite.com/

Associated Press

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Solid Jan. hiring would boost hopes for US economy

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The January employment report is expected to show Friday that job growth remained steady last month even though Americans began receiving smaller paychecks that could keep the economy sluggish.

Economists forecast that the economy added 155,000 jobs in January and that the unemployment rate stayed at 7.8 percent for a third straight month, according to a survey by FactSet.

The Labor Department will release the report at 8:30 a.m. EST.

The economy has averaged about 150,000 additional jobs a month over the past two years, not enough to rapidly reduce still-high unemployment.

Still, even modest hiring would cushion the impact of the higher Social Security taxes that most consumers are paying this year. And it would help the economy resume growing after it shrank at an annual rate of 0.1 percent in the October-December quarter.

Higher Social Security taxes are reducing take-home pay for most Americans. A person earning $50,000 a year will have about $1,000 less to spend in 2013. A household with two high-paid workers will have up to $4,500 less.

Analysts expect the Social Security tax increase to shave about a half-point off economic growth in 2013 given that consumers drive about 70 percent of economic activity.

The hit to consumers is coming at a precarious moment for the economy. It contracted in the fourth quarter for the first time in 3? years. The decline was driven largely by a steep cut in defense spending and a drop in exports. Analysts generally think those factors will prove temporary and that the economy will resume growing.

Still, the contraction last quarter points to what are likely to be key challenges for the economy this year: the prospect of sharp government spending cuts and uncertainty over whether Congress will agree to raise the federal borrowing cap.

Most analysts predict that the economy will grow again in the January-March quarter, though likely at a lackluster annual rate of around 1 percent. They expect the economy to expand about 2 percent for the full year.

Two key drivers of growth improved last quarter: Consumer spending increased at a faster pace. And businesses invested more in equipment and software.

In addition, homebuilders are stepping up construction to meet rising demand. That could generate more construction jobs.

And home prices are rising steadily. That tends to make Americans feel wealthier and more likely to spend. Housing could add as much as 1 percentage point to economic growth this year, some economists estimate.

Auto sales reached their highest level in five years in 2012 and are expected to keep growing this year. That's boosting production and hiring at U.S. automakers and their suppliers.

Some recent signs suggest that the job market is holding steady and may even improve a bit. The average number of people seeking unemployment aid each week in the past month is near a four-year low.

Weekly applications for unemployment benefits were distorted in January by the government's difficulties in seasonally adjusting its figures in January. Even so, applications are gradually ticking down, economists say.

Payroll provider ADP said Wednesday that private U.S. businesses added 192,000 jobs in January, up from 185,000 in December. Most of the gains came from small businesses, the ADP data showed.

The department will revise its estimates of job gains for the past five years on Friday. The changes are expected to show that the economy added more jobs in 2012 than previously thought.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/solid-jan-hiring-boost-hopes-us-economy-052245900--finance.html

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