Saturday, November 23, 2013

FDA to ban artery-clogging trans fats

aFILE - In this Jan. 18, 2012, file photo, Alexes Garcia makes cinnamon rolls for student's lunch in the kitchen at Kepner Middle School in Denver. The rolls are made using apple sauce instead of trans fats. Heart-clogging trans fats have been slowly disappearing from grocery aisles and restaurant menus in the last decade as nutritionists have criticized them and local governments have banned them. The Food and Drug Administration is now finishing the job as they announce Nov. 7, 2013, that it will require the food industry to gradually phase out trans fats, saying they are a threat to the health of Americans.(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2012, file photo, Alexes Garcia makes cinnamon rolls for student's lunch in the kitchen at Kepner Middle School in Denver. The rolls are made using apple sauce instead of trans fats. Heart-clogging trans fats have been slowly disappearing from grocery aisles and restaurant menus in the last decade as nutritionists have criticized them and local governments have banned them. The Food and Drug Administration is now finishing the job as they announce Nov. 7, 2013, that it will require the food industry to gradually phase out trans fats, saying they are a threat to the health of Americans.(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Heart-clogging trans fats have been slowly disappearing from grocery aisles and restaurant menus in the last decade. Now, the Food and Drug Administration is finishing the job.The FDA announced Thursday it will require the food industry to gradually phase out artificial trans fats, saying they are a threat to people's health. Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said the move could prevent 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths each year.Hamburg said that while the amount of trans fats in the country's diet has declined dramatically in the last decade, they "remain an area of significant public health concern." The trans fats have long been criticized by nutritionists, and New York City and other local governments have banned them.The agency isn't yet setting a timeline for the phase-out, but it will collect comments for two months before officials determine how long it will take. Different foods may have different timelines, depending how easy it is to find a substitute."We want to do it in a way that doesn't unduly disrupt markets," said Michael Taylor, FDA's deputy commissioner for foods. Still, he says, the food "industry has demonstrated that it is, by and large, feasible to do."Though they have been removed from many items, the fats are still found in processed foods, including in some microwave popcorns and frozen pizzas, refrigerated doughs, cookies, biscuits and ready-to-use frostings. They are also sometimes used by restaurants that use the fats for frying. Many larger chains have phased them out, but smaller restaurants may still get food containing trans fats from suppliers.Trans fats are widely considered the worst kind for your heart, even worse than saturated fats, which also can contribute to heart disease. Trans fats are used both in processed food and in restaurants, often to improve the texture, shelf life or flavor of foods. Diners shouldn't be able to detect a taste difference if trans fats are replaced by other fats.To phase them out, the FDA said it had made a preliminary determination that trans fats no longer fall in the agency's "generally recognized as safe" category, which is reserved for thousands of additives that manufacturers can add to foods without FDA review. Once trans fats are off the list, anyone who wants to use them would have to petition the agency for a regulation allowing it, and that would likely not be approved.The fats are created when hydrogen is added to vegetable oil to make it more solid, which is why they are often called partially hydrogenated oils. The FDA is not targeting small amounts of trans fats that occur naturally in some meat and dairy products, because they would be too difficult to remove and aren't considered a major public health threat on their own.Scientists say there are no health benefits to trans fats and say they can raise levels of so-called "bad" cholesterol, increasing the risk of heart disease — the leading cause of death in the United States.Many companies have already phased out trans fats, prompted by new nutrition labels introduced by FDA in 2006 that list trans fats and an by an increasing number of local laws that have banned them. In 2011, Wal Mart pledged to remove all artificial trans fats from the foods the company sells by 2016.As a result of the local and federal efforts and many companies' willingness to remove them, consumers have slowly eaten fewer of the fats. According to the FDA, trans fat intake among American consumers declined from 4.6 grams per day in 2003 to around one gram per day in 2012.Dr. Leon Bruner, chief scientist at the Grocery Manufacturers Association, said in a statement his group estimates that food manufacturers have voluntarily lowered the amount of trans fats in food products by 73 percent.The group, which represents the country's largest food companies, did not speculate on a reasonable timeline or speak to how difficult the move may be for some manufacturers. Bruner said in a statement that "consumers can be confident that their food is safe, and we look forward to working with the FDA to better understand their concerns and how our industry can better serve consumers."FDA officials say they have been working on trans fat issues for around 15 years — the first goal was to label them — and have been collecting data to justify a possible phase-out since just after President Barack Obama came into office in 2009.The advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest first petitioned FDA to ban trans fats nine years ago. The group's director, Michael Jacobson, says the move is "one of the most important lifesaving actions the FDA could take."He says the agency should try to move quickly as it determines a timeline."Six months or a year should be more than enough time, especially considering that companies have had a decade to figure out what to do," Jacobson said.___Follow Mary Clare Jalonick on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mcjalonickAssociated PressSource: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/89ae8247abe8493fae24405546e9a1aa/Article_2013-11-07-FDA-Trans%20Fats/id-26773dba998a47c388bc1d3b1148ceadTags: brett favre   Dancing With the Stars 2013   GTA 5 Cheats   Wrecking Ball   Ncaa Football Scores  
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Friday, November 22, 2013

Cisco, EFF call on Congress to target patent-troll demand letters

aabseil thessaly: Cisco, EFF call on Congress to target patent-troll demand lettersabseil thessalyThursday, November 7, 2013 Cisco, EFF call on Congress to target patent-troll demand lettersThe U.S. Congress should take action to slow a skyrocketing number of “deceptive” patent- infringement demand letters sent from patent-licensing firms to small businesses, witnesses told a Senate committee.During the past 18 months, patent-assertion entities (PAEs), those firms with patent licensing as their primary business model, have been flooding U.S. businesses with letters alleging patent infringement, threatening lawsuits and demanding settlements in the tens of thousands of dollars, witnesses told the consumer protection subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Thursday.In many cases, the patent-demand letters have accused recipients of infringing “every-day technology” such as online shopping carts and Wi-Fi routers, said Julie Samuels, a senior staff attorney at the Electric Frontier Foundation. “These letters really had nothing to do with patent law,” she said. “They merely used the guise of patent law to conduct, frankly, run-of-the-mill extortion.”The PAE demand letters often don’t identity the owner of the patent or the patent the letter recipient is alleged to have infringed, said Mark Chandler, general counsel at Cisco Systems. Some PAEs are “charlatans, dressed up as innovators,” he said.“This is all about fraud,” said Jon Bruning, attorney general in Nebraska. “This is about extortion. This is about fear. For little companies ... it’s their life or death. For some guy who invested his last $100,000, this letter will take him down.”Call for actionChandler called on Congress to take action to rein in PAEs, often called patent trolls. Congress should require PAEs that send more than 10 demand letters to submit those letters to a proposed online registry run by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and lawmakers should require PAEs to identity the alleged infringing technology in the letters, he said.PAEs should also be required to disclose the names of the patent owners and to disclose all previous licensing agreements covering the patents, including any commitments to license the patents on fair and reasonable terms, he said.No PAEs appeared at the hearing, but some committee Republicans and witness Adam Mossoff, an intellectual property professor at the George Mason University School of Law, questioned the need for changes in patent law. Complaints about PAE demand letters are “anecdotal,” Mossoff said, and there’s little evidence of major harms to innovation or to consumers.Not so fastPatent licensing is a legitimate business that’s been around for over a century in a U.S. patent system that has helped create a huge innovation-based economy, Mossoff added. “Systemic changes to the patent system should not be based on rhetoric, anecdotes, invalid studies and incorrect claims about the historical and economic significance of patent licensing,” he said. “If there ever was a case where caution was called for, this is it.”Senators aren’t looking to write a major overhaul of patent law, but instead, to find remedies targeting PAE demand letters, said subcommittee Chairwoman Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat. Without some ways to identify PAE practices, it will be difficult to measure the problem, she said.Without new requirements to publish demand letters and identify patent holders, “how do we get beyond anecdotal?” she said. “How do we get at the problem?”If Congress addresses the issue, it needs to protect small inventors who may have patent licensing as their primary business option, said Senator Kelly Ayotte, a New Hampshire Republican. “How do we make sure we aren’t harming, by trying to address the patent trolls, or decreasing the value of legitimate small innovators,” she said. “These people that start out of a garage and have such great ideas, that’s what America is all about.”Grant Gross, IDG News Service Reporter, IDG News Service Grant Gross covers technology and telecom policy in the U.S. government for The IDG News Service.More by Grant Gross, IDG News ServiceSubscribe to the Best of PCWorld NewsletterThank you for sharing this page.Sorry! There was an error emailing this pageSource: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2062000/cisco-eff-call-on-congress-to-target-patenttroll-demand-letters.html#tk.rss_allTags: Giraffe   pirate bay   bob newhart   Madden 25   Breaking Bad Season 5 Episode 11  Posted byruachoeli05at
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

The UMMS researchers Centennial asks about the 3D structure of mitotic chromosomes







received very good in that. I tell wonderful stories. I also think that, you know, Suri is a child very happy and confident, and has a good sense of itself. "Questions about other situations where he was invited to visit, shared Tom, "things change and there are various agreements, as in any divorce, where you work schedules." It is only a set of different circumstances. That certainly doesn't mean that I have left my daughter." As an interesting note, the high-profile Scientology admitted that Suri not already practicing the controversial religion.Source: http://celebrity-gossip.net/tom-cruise/tom-cruise-talks-relationship-suri-lawsuit-deposition-957521Tags: would New York Marathon when he was the first parachute jump?   Allison Micheletti miley cyrus Dick Van Dyke
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'Guardians Of The Galaxy': Latest On Vin, Bradley And The Scene Everyone's Talking About

aDirector James Gunn gives up a ton of information to MTV News on the red carpet for 'Thor.'By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Josh HorowitzSource: http://www.mtv.comhttp://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1716870/guardians-of-the-galaxy-director-james-gunn.jhtml">http://www.mtv.comhttp://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1716870/guardians-of-the-galaxy-director-james-gunn.jhtmlRelated Topics: happy halloween   world series game 4   chrissy teigen   Niall Horan   Asap Rocky  
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Crown of Venezuelan paramos: A new species from the daisy family, Coespeletia palustris

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received very good in that. I tell wonderful stories. I also think that, you know, Suri is a child very happy and confident, and has a good sense of itself. "Questions about other situations where he was invited to visit, shared Tom, "things change and there are various agreements, as in any divorce, where you work schedules." It is only a set of different circumstances. That certainly doesn't mean that I have left my daughter." As an interesting note, the high-profile Scientology admitted that Suri not already practicing the controversial religion.Source: http://celebrity-gossip.net/tom-cruise/tom-cruise-talks-relationship-suri-lawsuit-deposition-957521Tags: would New York Marathon when he was the first parachute jump?   Allison Micheletti miley cyrus Dick Van Dyke

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Nook GlowLight Review: Pretty Screen, Silly Body

a Back in 2012 Barnes and Noble introduced built-in frontlighting to the ereader world, beating Amazon at its own game—for a few months, anyway Since then, there have been not one but two Kindle Paperwhites, but now B&N is bringing out its follow-up Nook GlowLight. And it almost reclaims the top spot.
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Johnston files petition for custody of son Tripp

aJUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The father of Bristol Palin's son is seeking at least equal custody.Levi Johnston filed a petition for custody last month saying he wants 4-year-old Tripp to be in his mother's and father's lives equally.The couple had agreed in 2010 that Palin would have primary physical custody and the two would share legal custody, according to Thomas Van Flein, Palin's attorney at that time. Johnston was given visitation and had agreed to pay child support.Palin's current attorney, John Tiemessen, said that as of Oct. 15, the Child Support Services Division reported that Johnston owed about $66,000 in back support.Palin and Johnston were thrust into the national spotlight as expectant, unwed teenagers in 2008, when Palin's mother, Sarah Palin, was tapped as the Republican vice presidential candidate.Johnston and Bristol Palin had an on-off relationship before splitting for good. He has since married and has a daughter.Bristol Palin has appeared in several reality series, including one for Lifetime that documented her life as a single mom.Family & RelationshipsCelebritiesBristol PalinLevi JohnstonSarah PalinSource: http://news.yahoo.com/johnston-files-petition-custody-son-tripp-224204344.htmlTags: Prisoners   never forget   september 11   Gareth Bale   robin thicke  
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