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								<![CDATA[ Mama's Boy brings the south to SoNo ]]>
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                            <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Nicole Rivard ]]></dc:creator>
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								<![CDATA[ Women in big floppy hats sipped on Mama's Boy Mojitos, the eatery's take on the mint julep, and sampled comfort cuisine such as fried oysters, deviled eggs, Charleston crab cakes and fried green tomato BLTs, before they cheered on their favorite horses in the Run for the Roses.

Co-owner Greer Fredericks, of Norwalk, said couldn't be happier about the restaurant's reception out of the starting gate.

To make sure the large space at 19 North Water St., across from the Maritime Aquarium, felt homey, the owners refurbished the interior with reclaimed wood from a Florence, S.C., water tower.

Other must-have items on the menu, she says, are the salt and vinegar fried oysters and the Little Yard, which is marinated country fried game hen with fresh made waffle, braised greens and bourbon-infused sorghum. ]]>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 01:41:54 UT</pubDate>
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								<![CDATA[ Yahoo takes big leap with $1.1B deal for Tumblr ]]>
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                            <dc:creator><![CDATA[ By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer ]]></dc:creator>
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								<![CDATA[ Yahoo is paying mostly cash for Tumblr, dipping into what remains of a $7.6 billion windfall reaped last year from selling about half of its stake in Chinese Internet company Alibaba Holdings Group.

To take on the challenge, Mayer ended a highly successful 13-year career at Google, which she helped surpass Yahoo as the Internet's most influential company.

Since coming to Yahoo, Mayer has concentrated on improving employee morale, redesigning services and bringing in more engineering talent through a series of small acquisitions that have collectively cost less than $50 million.

Besides offering one of the top mobile apps, Tumblr also runs one of the world's busiest websites, featuring 75 million daily posts about everything from politics to pets.

Advertising has been a missing ingredient so far as Tumblr, like many online services in their early stages, focused on building a loyal audience before turning its attention to making money.

Yahoo flirted with potential acquisitions of Google and Facebook in those two companies' early days, only to have the talks unravel because Yahoo wasn't prepared to pay asking prices that were far below the current market values of Google ($300 billion) and Facebook ($63 billion).

Yahoo also considered buying YouTube in 2006, only to be outbid by Google, which snapped up the world's leading online service for $1.76 billion — a price that now looks like a bargain.

Tumblr could help Yahoo recapture some of its cachet with teens and adults in their early 20s, a demographic that has become tougher for Yahoo to reach in recent years as it fell behind the technological curve and struggled to develop compelling services.

Tumblr emerged as a trendy online hangout by providing a service that makes it easy to share blog posts, photos, video and other content in an enthralling mosaic.

Having its own social networking service will also give Yahoo more insights into the things that people like — a key to distributing ads to consumers most likely to be interested in a specific products.

Mayer has vowed to bring Yahoo's revenue growth back to at least the level of the overall Internet ad market. ]]>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:12:06 UT</pubDate>
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								<![CDATA[ What do we eat? New food map will tell us ]]>
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                            <dc:creator><![CDATA[ By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press ]]></dc:creator>
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								<![CDATA[ Same goes for soda.

[...] the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has been government data, which can lag behind the rapidly expanding and changing food marketplace.

The researchers led by professor Barry Popkin at the UNC School of Public Health, are figuring out that chocolate milk equation over and over, with every single item in the grocery store.

Aided by supercomputers on campus, Popkin and his team have taken existing commercial databases of food items in stores and people's homes, including the store-based scanner data of 600,000 different foods, and matched that information with the nutrition facts panels on the back of packages and government data on individuals' dietary intake.

The result is an enormous database that has taken almost three years so far to construct and includes more detail than researchers have ever had on grocery store items — their individual nutritional content, who is buying them and their part in consumers' diets.

Government data, long the only source of information about American eating habits, can have a lag of several years and neglect entire categories of new types of products — Greek yogurt or energy drinks, for example.

Steven Gortmaker, director of the Harvard School of Public Health Prevention Research Center, says the data could help researchers figure out how people are eating in certain communities and then how to address problems in those diets that could lead to obesity or disease.

If the project receives continued funding, those foods eventually could be added to the study, a prospect that would be made easier by pending menu labeling regulations that will force chain restaurants to post calories for every item. ]]>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:34:28 UT</pubDate>
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