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Saturday, March 9, 2013
Starbucks balks at NY's ban on sugary drinks
You?ll still be able to get a venti Starbucks mocha in New York City next week.
The coffee giant said Thursday that it doesn?t plan to change its offerings when the city?s ban on large, sugary drinks that is scheduled to go into effect March 12.
?We?re not making any immediate changes,? spokeswoman Linda Mills told NBC News.
Mills said the company doesn?t think its drinks are subject to the new regulations because many of the company?s signature drinks are milk-based, and most are highly customizable.
The company?s interpretation of the new rules is that if the customer can customize the drink by asking for it to be sweetened or not, then it would fall outside the ban, she said. The rules also say that specialty coffee and tea drinks are only subject to the rule if they are less than half milk or milk substitute.
The New York Board of Health voted last fall to ban food service establishments from serving nonalcoholic, sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces, as a way to fight the nation?s obesity epidemic. A venti Starbucks drink is 20 ounces.
The rule applies to sodas and other drinks that contain caloric sweeteners, but it doesn?t apply to diet drinks, 100 percent juice drinks and items that are at least half milk, ice cream or milk substitute.
In a statement, the city's health department said the rules will have no impact on 20-ounce cups of coffee unless more than four packets of sugar are added, and noted that coffee drinkers can add as much sugar themselves as they want.
The plan to ban large, sugary drinks has drawn fierce protests from food service establishments and trade groups such as The American Beverage Association.
The American Beverage Association and others also filed a lawsuit in October alleging that the city?s board of health bypassed proper legislative process and overstepped its bounds by passing the rule.
Starbucks isn?t part of the lawsuit, but Mills said the company also wasn?t planning any immediate changes because it is watching to see what happens with the litigation.
In addition, she said, the company is taking advantage of a three-month grace period before the city starts fining companies for breaking the rules. Mills said the one item on Starbucks? menu that they are looking at during this period is the Frappuccino. The sweet, frozen drink contains a large quantity of milk but also a large quantity of ice, she said.
If the city decides that Starbucks? needs to change it practices, ?then we?ll make the appropriate changes to comply with the regulations,? she said.
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Ligety of US wins World Cup giant slalom title
Ted Ligety, of the United States, right, is flanked by second placed Austria's Marcel Hirscher as he stands on the podium after winning an alpine ski, men's World Cup giant slalom, in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, Saturday, March 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)
Ted Ligety, of the United States, right, is flanked by second placed Austria's Marcel Hirscher as he stands on the podium after winning an alpine ski, men's World Cup giant slalom, in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, Saturday, March 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)
Ted Ligety, of the United States, celebrates after winning an alpine ski, men's World Cup giant slalom, in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, Saturday, March 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)
Ted Ligety, of the United States, center, winner of an alpine ski, men's World Cup giant slalom, celebrates on the podium with second placed Marcel Hirscher, of Austria, left, and France's Alexis Pinturault, third, in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, Saturday, March 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)
Ted Ligety, of the United States, passes a gate during the first run of an alpine ski, men's World Cup giant slalom, in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, Saturday, March 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Shinichiro Tanaka)
Ted Ligety, of the United States, passes a gate during the first run of an alpine ski, men's World Cup giant slalom, in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, Saturday, March 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Shinichiro Tanaka)
KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) ? Ted Ligety of the United States won his fifth giant slalom of the season Saturday to clinch the World Cup discipline title with a race to spare.
It's his fourth GS title after winning in 2008 and 2010-11. He also successfully defended his GS title at the world championships last month.
"To win here again is a super cool feeling," said Ligety, who has won in Kranjska Gora five times and been on the podium every year since 2008. "I am really proud of that."
Ligety held his first-run lead to win in 2 minutes, 35.43 seconds for his 16th career victory, all in GS.
He established an insurmountable 125-point lead over Austria's Marcel Hirscher, who was 0.45 behind in second.
"It's a big weight off my shoulders," Ligety said. "I had an awesome, awesome season but Hirscher was there all the time. Even if I beat him by three seconds, he was still in second place. That makes it tough going for the title. It becomes kind of a head game when he is so close all the time. So I am pretty psyched to have it locked up now."
Ligety has finished on the podium in all seven GS races this season and became the first man to achieve that feat since Michael von Gruenigen of Switzerland in 1995-96.
Alexis Pinturault of France was third, 0.77 behind, and Felix Neureuther of Germany was fourth, 0.81 off Ligety's time. Ligety led Hirscher by 0.60 after the opening run, in which the Austrian placed fourth.
In the overall standings, Hirscher extended his lead to 69 points over Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal, who finished sixth.
Rain made for difficult conditions during the final run on a course that was soft by days of mild temperatures.
"Racing in the rain is not my favorite thing," Ligety said. "I grew up in Park City, Utah, where it's usually warm and sunny. These are totally different conditions."
"The snow is really soft," Ligety said. "It's hard to keep your edge in the snow well. It didn't feel good at all. This is a very difficult course set, especially for how the snow is running. It was tough to have a good feeling."
The course for the first run was set by Austrian slalom coach Michael Pircher. He designed numerous sharp turns, an unusual feature for a GS and one that didn't benefit Hirscher.
"I don't know why it didn't go better," said Hirscher, who beat Ligety for the GS title last season. "My feeling was OK, but obviously it wasn't good. It's hard to tell, it's a mystery to me."
A men's World Cup slalom on the same course is scheduled for Sunday. The last GS of the season is next Saturday at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.
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In response to the increased attention and concern for America's rising rates of obesity and diabetes, the food industry has responded by creating what they often refer to as "better-for-you" foods. These include, among other things: bags of dried fruit slices, organic bars and cookies, yogurts, smoothies, vegetable crisps, and, of course, baked, not fried, potato chips. In turn, these items have begun to replace the more traditional junk food found in our children's school vending machines.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/news-corp-publishing-wing-1-7-billion-cash-135715216--finance.html
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Friday, March 8, 2013
Using human brain cells to make mice smarter
Mar. 7, 2013 ? What happens when human brain cells that surround and support neurons are implanted into the brains of newborn mice? Researchers reporting in the March 7th issue of the Cell Press journal Cell Stem Cell recently found that such mice had enhanced learning and memory when compared with normal mice that hadn't received the transplanted human cells. The findings indicate that these supportive cells, called glia, play an important role in human cognition.
As the human brain evolved, glia became much larger and more varied than those in the brains of rodents. Glia do not conduct electrical impulses like neurons do, but they can modulate neural activity, leading researchers to wonder how these evolutionary changes have benefited humans.
"To assess the species-specific contribution of glia to neural processing and plasticity and the specific advantages, if any, of human glia in cognition, we grafted human glial progenitor cells into the brains of newborn mice and then waited for the mice to grow to adulthood," explains Dr. Steve Goldman, who together with his collaborator Dr. Maiken Nedergaard directs the Center for Translational Neuromedicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center. "We then assessed both neurophysiological and behavioral measures of learning and memory, finding that the engrafted mice exhibited more rapid learning of both conditioned associations and goal-directed tasks." The neuronal connections within their brains also demonstrated characteristics of enhanced learning.
These findings indicate that human glia differ functionally from those of rodents and that they contribute significantly to learning. "As such, our findings suggest that the evolution of human cognition may reflect the development of human-specific glial form and function," says Dr. Goldman.
In a parallel study published in the journal in early February, Dr. Goldman and his team reported that they could efficiently generate glial progenitor cells from human skin cells reprogrammed into induced pluripotent cells. As a result, the researchers can now establish glial progenitor cells on a patient-specific basis from individuals with brain diseases, including a number of neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders that are relatively specific to humans. By implanting these cells into mice as they did in this most recent study, the investigators can assess the role of glial cells in these disorders, as well as test different treatment strategies that target abnormal glial function. They are currently carrying out these experiments with cells from patients with schizophrenia and Huntington's disease.
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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Lion kills worker at California animal park
DUNLAP, Calif. (AP) ? Authorities are trying to determine what provoked a lion at an exotic animal park in Central California to attack and maul to death a 24-year-old woman, who had been on the job as an intern there for just a few weeks.
Authorities said the woman was attacked and killed when she entered the male African lion's enclosure at Cat Haven about 45 miles east of Fresno.
Sheriff's deputies responding to an emergency call from Cat Haven found the woman severely injured and still lying inside the enclosure with the lion nearby, Fresno County sheriff's Lt. Bob Miller said.
Another park worker couldn't lure the lion into another pen, so deputies shot and killed it to safely reach the wounded woman. But she died at the scene, Miller said.
Paul Hanson, a Seattle-area attorney, identified the victim as his daughter Dianna Hanson of Brier, Wash. He said he drove his daughter from her home on New Year's Day, arriving at Cat Haven Jan. 2.
"She was very excited," Hanson told The Associated Press late Wednesday. "It was just a dream job for her."
Hanson said she had been fascinated by big cats from an earlier age.
"She was absolutely fearless," he said.
Cat Haven founder and executive director Dale Anderson was crying as he read a one-sentence statement about the fatal mauling at the private zoo he has operated since 1993.
Investigators were trying to determine why the intern was inside the enclosure and what might have provoked the attack, sheriff's Sgt. Greg Collins said. The facility is normally closed on Wednesdays, and only one other worker was there when the mauling happened, he said.
California Department of Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman Janice Mackey said she was unaware if any state regulations would prohibit an employee from entering an exotic animal's enclosure.
The lion, a 4-year-old male named Cous Cous, had been raised at Cat Haven since it was a cub, said Tanya Osegueda, a spokeswoman for Project Survival, the nonprofit that operates the animal park.
Since the 100-acre facility just west of Kings Canyon National Park opened two decades ago, it has housed numerous big cats, including tigers, leopards and other exotic species. It is permitted to house exotic animals by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and is regulated as a zoo by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Results of the last 13 USDA inspections show no violations dating back to March 2010. The most recent inspection was Feb. 4.
Despite state regulations requiring annual inspections, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife most recently inspected the facility in January 2011, when the inspector found it in "good condition" after checking animal health and features such as enclosures.
"We have to do the best we can with the resources we're provided," said department spokeswoman Jordan Traverso. "Regardless of whether it was inspected, that wouldn't have prevented this from happening."
Cat Haven's current "restricted species" permit, which expires in November, states the park was authorized to house 47 animals but had only 28. The animals must be used for scientific or educational purposes.
Actress Tippi Hedren, who founded the Shambala Preserve in Southern California, home to 53 seized or abandoned exotic pets, expressed dismay over the killing of the lion.
"It wasn't the lion's fault. It's the human's fault always," Hedren said.
Nicole Paquette, vice president of the Humane Society of the United States, said the victim of Wednesday's attack should never have been in the enclosure with the animal.
"These are big cats that are extremely dangerous, and they placed a volunteer in the actual cage with a wild animal," she said. "That should have never happened."
Officials at another big cat sanctuary, Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Fla., told The Associated Press last year that at least 21 people, including five children, have been killed and 246 mauled by exotic cats in the United States since 1990. Over that period, 254 cats escaped and 143 were killed.
In 2007, a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo was killed by police after jumping out of its enclosure and fatally mauling a 17-year-old boy and injuring two other people.
Cat Haven has housed Bengal tigers, jaguars and leopards as well as bobcats native to the area. The facility's website says it promotes conservation and preservation of wild cats in their native habitats and offers visitors tours and educational outreach.
Anderson said Project Survival would investigate to see if the intern and the other worker on-site followed the group's protocols.
"We take every precaution to ensure the safety of our staff, animals and guests," he said in a statement.
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Associated Press writers Kathy McCarthy in Seattle, Garance Burke in San Francisco and Sue Manning in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/volunteer-killed-lion-calif-animal-park-031926536.html
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Lynn-sanity as journeyman Briton excels in U.S.
(Reuters) - European Tour prankster David Lynn is having a whale of a time sharing banter with the fans in the United States this year as he showed when finishing joint fourth at the Honda Classic in Florida last week.
The journeyman Briton, who has only one tournament victory to his name in 18 years as a professional, gained an exemption to the 2013 PGA Tour with a shock second-place finish behind Rory McIlroy at the U.S. PGA Championship in August.
Lynn picked up $865,000 by far his biggest payday, for his display at golf's fourth major and then drove away with a cheque for $226,200 after ending up six strokes behind Honda winner American Michael Thompson at Palm Beach Gardens on Sunday.
"I'm really enjoying the crowds out here. They're a bit more interactive with the players, they like to have a chat and I like that side of things," Lynn told Reuters in a telephone interview as he prepared for this week's WGC-Cadillac Championship in Miami.
"Last week there were four middle-aged women watching me on the practice green. We were all talking for about an hour and we had a great time," added the 39-year-old Englishman.
"They watched me all week in the tournament and at the end of it they said it was the best golf-watching week they had ever had. They said they had got to know me a little bit and were talking about coming to watch me in Miami too.
"One of them was screaming over every shot I played."
Lynn, who describes himself on his Twitter account as a prankster who will probably never grow up, has been having lots of fun with the American galleries this year.
"People generally like to call out to you when you are walking down the fairway," said the world number 50.
"Some have been calling me 'Lynn-sanity'. If you acknowledge people here, give them an autograph and stuff, they like to interact with you.
"It's different to Europe where that sort of thing doesn't seem to happen. I just like being myself with the crowds over here, have a bit of a laugh and a joke with them and give them a bit of attention."
SPECIAL MOMENT
Lynn fulfilled an ambition last week when he played alongside Tiger Woods in Saturday's Honda Classic third round and even managed to outscore the 14-times major winner, carding a 68 against the American's level-par 70.
"It was a special moment to play with a legend," said Lynn. "I was surprised how well I took to it, how calm I was and how much I thoroughly enjoyed the round.
"I had a bit of banter with him as well. He was asking me who my football team was. I asked him if he followed the English Premier League but he said, 'No, not really'.
"I said, 'I suppose you're more into that rounders game you play over here'. I always take the mickey out of people out here by referring to baseball as rounders.
"He didn't know what I was on about... I think he was nervous playing with me," joked Lynn.
The Englishman has a penchant for planking - lying face down in an unusual location with both hands alongside the body - and has tweeted pictures of himself performing the activity on top of a television and also with his head in a washing machine.
"I like to do a bit of daft stuff now and again and stick it on Twitter," said Lynn. "You've got a lot of spare time on your hands as a professional golfer."
The 2004 Dutch Open champion then put his serious hat back on, saying he was keen to make the most of his unexpected golfing opportunities in the U.S.
"I know I'm a rookie out here but I've proved I can play so it's just a case of cracking on like I've done in Europe all these years and grinding out the results week-in, week-out," said Lynn.
"I'm playing at the U.S. Masters next month for the first time and that's going to be another special week. I believe I belong in this company, absolutely."
(Editing by Ken Ferris)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lynn-sanity-journeyman-briton-excels-u-195309429--golf.html
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