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Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. DailyFinance Do ginormous fast-food helpings need warning labels? Nope November 29, 2009 at 8:00 pm Filed under: Company News, Healthcare I'm the first to harangue against chocolate milk marketed as a healthy choice for children. Call me if you want a rant on the terrible health risks associated with modern meat production. Need outrage about deceptively fattening movie theater popcorn? I'm your woman. I've been known to send my children out of the house with a firm reminder never to accept the offer of fast-food hamburgers from strangers, or their own daddy. Hardee's famous 2/3-pound Monster Thickburger is just the sort of delicacy someone like me might fear: It's made of two 1/3-pound beef patties, four strips of bacon and three slices of American cheese on a mayonnaise-coated sesame seed bun. It weighs in at 1,420 calories and 43 grams of saturated fat -- more than double the daily recommendation for an adult. It's obscene. But do I think we need to be protected from Hardee's Monster Thickburger and other foods of its ilk? Continue reading Do ginormous fast-food helpings need warning labels? Nope Do ginormous fast-food helpings need warning labels? Nope originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Media World: NPR's Carl Kasell retiring as voice of reason (but he'll still rhyme) November 29, 2009 at 1:00 pm Filed under: Columns, Economy, Media Carl Kasell's career with National Public Radio almost ended before it started. The newscaster developed vocal polyps about 30 years ago. His doctor recommended surgery. The post-operative therapy of 30-days of total silence was especially difficult for the native of Goldsboro, N.C., to endure, but he had no other choice. "That's when I saw my career flashing before my eyes," Kasell tells DailyFinance, adding that he has maintained his voice because "I have a good ear, nose and throat doctor." Continue reading Media World: NPR's Carl Kasell retiring as voice of reason (but he'll still rhyme) Media World: NPR's Carl Kasell retiring as voice of reason (but he'll still rhyme) originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Emergency Room docs offer inside scoop: How to get treated faster, better November 29, 2009 at 12:00 pm Filed under: Healthcare You accidentally filet your finger with your sharpest kitchen knife. Your daughter breaks her arm at a gymnastics meet. Or the fool who's texting while driving totals your car -- with you in it. At some point in life, chances are you'll be taking a trip to the emergency room. Some 120 million Americans do every year. And it won't be a picnic. Before seeing a doctor, expect to wait more than 55 minutes, the average ER wait time across the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Show up on a busy night or weekend and the wait could drag on for several hours. There are plenty of ER horror stories, like the case of 49-year-old Illinois resident Beatrice Vance who arrived at the hospital complaining of chest pains, only to be found dead two hours later, still in a waiting room chair. But this doesn't happen every day. DailyFinance spoke with emergency-room physicians across the country to find out what moves patients can make to prevent experiencing a horror story of their own. Continue reading Emergency Room docs offer inside scoop: How to get treated faster, better Emergency Room docs offer inside scoop: How to get treated faster, better originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments The glass is half full: Why the U.S. economy will strengthen in 2010 November 29, 2009 at 11:00 am Filed under: Economy It's been hard times for the U.S. economy. The unemployment rate essentially doubled as the economy contracted, making the recession from 2007 to 2009 the longest and worst since the 1930s. But while there are long term and structural factors that are likely to weigh on economic growth in the quarters ahead, the outlook isn't all bad. Investors would be remiss if they did not consider certain "rays of light," or factors that are working in the economy's favor. Here are the major positives heading into 2010: Continue reading The glass is half full: Why the U.S. economy will strengthen in 2010 The glass is half full: Why the U.S. economy will strengthen in 2010 originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments Black Friday: A small step for bricks-and-mortar, a giant leap for online November 29, 2009 at 10:00 am Filed under: Economy How was Black Friday for retailers? It depends on who's counting. ShopperTrack, which tracks store sales, reports that spending on the day after Thanksgiving was up 0.5% to $10.66 billion. The distribution of the improvement around the country was mixed, and some regions did poorly. In the West, sales rose 4.7%, but in the Northeast they were down 4.9%. Continue reading Black Friday: A small step for bricks-and-mortar, a giant leap for online Black Friday: A small step for bricks-and-mortar, a giant leap for online originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments IBM's quest for cognitive computers hits a milestone: Simulating a cat's brain November 29, 2009 at 9:00 am Filed under: Company News, Technology, IBM The brain is an amazing thing. "It consumes less power than a light bulb and occupies less space than a two-liter bottle of soda," writes Dharmendra S. Modha, manager of cognitive computing at IBM (IBM), in his blog. Yet it performs functions no computer can -- many of them quite basic. Think of those blurry, squiggly jumbles of letters and numbers that web sites use to make sure they're dealing with a human being. Your brain can sense, perceive, reason, and coordinate different functions in a constantly changing environment; it can handle ambiguity and abstraction. There's not an app for that -- yet. But computer scientists at IBM have a longterm goal of achieving cognitive computing, a mindlike artificial intelligence, allowing computers to handle far more complex systems, such as finding patterns throughout the Web, the way humans can pick out a face from a crowd. Continue reading IBM's quest for cognitive computers hits a milestone: Simulating a cat's brain IBM's quest for cognitive computers hits a milestone: Simulating a cat's brain originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments   This email was sent to gatdemit001@gmail.com.  Create Your Account Don't want to receive this feed any longer? Unsubscribe here.