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Friday, December 2, 2011
Michael Jackson doctor sentenced to 4 years in jail (Reuters)
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? Michael Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, on Tuesday was sentenced to four years in jail and denied probation for his conviction on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the pop star's death.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor gave Murray the maximum sentence and said Murray engaged in "money for medicine madness that is simply not acceptable to me."
Murray, 58, dressed in a gray suit and purple paisley tie, sat emotionless throughout much of his sentencing in the trial that captured the world's attention. Just before he was led out of the courtroom, he blew kisses at a woman who shouted "we love you" to the convicted killer.
"Thriller" singer Jackson, who rose to fame in the late 1960s and '70s as a member of the Jackson Five and had a stellar solo career in the 1980s, died of a drug overdose in June 2009, principally from the use of the surgical anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid. That drug had been obtained and administered to Jackson by Murray at the singer's rented home.
Earlier this month, a jury convicted Murray of involuntary manslaughter, or gross negligence, in his treatment of Jackson after witnesses testified propofol should not be administered at home and, if it is, must be given only with the proper life-monitoring equipment on hand. It was not.
Dr. Murray had agreed to care for Jackson ahead of the singer's comeback concerts in London and had negotiated a salary of $150,000 per month to care for the singer.
NO LENIENCY FOR MURRAY
At the sentencing, which was attended by members of the Jackson family including his mother Katherine and several siblings, Deputy District Attorney David Walgren argued that Murray should not be given any leniency in his sentencing.
Walgren argued, as he did during Murray's six-week trial which ended early this month, that the doctor was negligent from the moment he began to care for Jackson by ordering huge quantities of propofol, administering it at home without the proper equipment, failing to quickly call paramedics when he found Jackson lifeless on June 25, 2009, hiding evidence to coverup the propofol and lying to doctors about its use.
"The defendant was playing Russian roulette with Michael Jackson's life every single night," Walgren said.
Defense attorney Ed Chernoff asked for leniency, saying the crime was Murray's first and the doctor had a long history of quality treatment to patients. He asked the judge to look at Murray's "book of life" and not just the one chapter regarding his treatment of Jackson.
Chernoff said he believed Murray should be asked to work in the community because he would do no good in a jail cell.
"He can do things for the community on probation. Things that he could never do sitting in that room," Chernoff said.
But Judge Pastor disagreed and said Murray engaged in a "pattern of lies" that the judge characterized as a "disgrace to the medical profession."
Murray was ordered to pay some court fees, and another hearing was set for prosecution claims that he may owe more than $100 million in restitution to Jackson's family.
(Writing by Bob Tourtellotte; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
Apple juice can pose a health risk _ from calories
FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2011 photo, an apple and a pitcher of apple juice are posed together in Moreland Hills, Ohio. Despite the government's consideration of new arsenic limits on the juice, the real danger, nutrition experts say, is to waistlines and teeth. Apple juice and other juice-based beverages have relatively few natural nutrients, many calories and more sugar, in many cases, than a can of soda. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2011 photo, an apple and a pitcher of apple juice are posed together in Moreland Hills, Ohio. Despite the government's consideration of new arsenic limits on the juice, the real danger, nutrition experts say, is to waistlines and teeth. Apple juice and other juice-based beverages have relatively few natural nutrients, many calories and more sugar, in many cases, than a can of soda. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
Chart shows per capita consumption of juice
It's true ? apple juice can pose a risk to your health. But not necessarily from the trace amounts of arsenic that people are arguing about.
Despite the government's consideration of new limits on arsenic, nutrition experts say apple juice's real danger is to waistlines and children's teeth. Apple juice has few natural nutrients, lots of calories and, in some cases, more sugar than soda has. It trains a child to like very sweet things, displaces better beverages and foods, and adds to the obesity problem, its critics say.
"It's like sugar water," said Judith Stern, a nutrition professor at the University of California, Davis, who has consulted for candy makers as well as for Weight Watchers. "I won't let my 3-year-old grandson drink apple juice."
Many juices are fortified with vitamins, so they're not just empty calories. But that doesn't appease some nutritionists.
"If it wasn't healthy in the first place, adding vitamins doesn't make it into a health food," and if it causes weight gain, it's not a healthy choice, said Karen Ansel, a registered dietitian in New York and spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association.
The American Academy of Pediatrics says juice can be part of a healthy diet, but its policy is blunt: "Fruit juice offers no nutritional benefit for infants younger than 6 months" and no benefits over whole fruit for older kids.
Kids under 12 consume 28 percent of all juice and juice drinks, according to the academy. Nationwide, apple juice is second only to orange juice in popularity. Americans slurp 267 ounces of apple juice on average each year, according to the Food Institute's Almanac of Juice Products and the Juice Products Association, a trade group. Lots more is consumed as an ingredient in juice drinks and various foods.
Only 17 percent of the apple juice sold in the U.S. is produced here. The rest comes from other countries, mostly China, Argentina, Chile and Brazil, the association says.
Television's Dr. Mehmet Oz made that a key point a few months ago when he raised an alarm ? some say a false alarm ? over arsenic in apple juice, based on tests his show commissioned by a private lab. The Food and Drug Administration said that its own tests disagreed and that apple juice is safe.
However, on Wednesday, after Consumer Reports did its own tests on several juice brands and called along with other consumer groups for stricter standards, the FDA said it will examine whether its restrictions on the amount of arsenic allowed in apple juice are stringent enough.
Some forms of arsenic, such as the type found in pesticides, can be toxic and may pose a cancer risk if consumed at high levels or over a long period.
All juice sold in the United States must be safe and meet U.S. standards, said Pat Faison, technical director for the juice association. As for making good nutrition choices, "a lot of the information that people need about fruit juices is on the label," she said.
So what's on those labels?
Carbohydrates, mostly sugars, in a much higher concentration than in milk. Juice has a small amount of protein and minerals and lacks the fiber in whole fruit, the pediatrics academy notes.
Drinking juice delivers a lot of calories quickly so you don't realize how much you've consumed, whereas you would have to eat a lot of apples to get the same amount, and "you would feel much, much more full from the apples," Ansel said.
"Whole fruits are much better for you," said Dr. Frank Greer, a University of Wisconsin, Madison, professor and former head of the pediatrics academy's nutrition committee.
He noted that the WIC program ? the U.S. Department of Agriculture's nutrition program for Women, Infants and Children ? revised its rules in 2005 to replace juice with baby food fruits and vegetables for children over 6 months. More than half of all infants born in the U.S. are eligible for WIC, and the government "really cut back severely on the ability of mothers to get fruit juices" through the program, Greer said.
If you or your family drinks juice, here is some advice from nutrition experts:
?Choose a juice fortified with calcium and vitamin D-3.
?Give children only pasteurized juice ? that's the only type safe from germs that can cause serious disease.
?Don't give juice before 6 months of age, and never put it in bottles or covered cups that allow babies and children to consume it throughout the day, which can cause tooth decay. For the same reason, don't give infants juice at bedtime.
?Limit juice to 4 to 6 ounces per day for children ages 1 to 6, and 8 to 12 ounces for those ages 7 to 18.
?Encourage kids to eat fruit.
?Don't be swayed by healthy-sounding label claims. "No sugar added" doesn't mean it isn't full of naturally occurring sugar. And "cholesterol-free" is silly ? only animal products contain cholesterol.
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Marilynn Marchione can be followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/MMarchioneAP
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Online:
Academy of Pediatrics on juice: http://tinyurl.com/qtkls
FDA: http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm271394.htm
WIC program advice: http://bit.ly/sYXqAi
Industry: http://www.fruitjuicefacts.org
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'Bourne Legacy' Star Jeremy Renner Talks 'Replacing' Matt Damon
'There's similarities and then there's differences,' Renner says of his character vs. Damon's Jason Bourne.
By Terri Schwartz
Jeremy Renner
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When it comes to up-and-coming action stars, Jeremy Renner is the man to watch. He dabbled in the action genre with films like "The Hurt Locker," "The Town" and "28 Weeks Later," but the Academy Award nominee is going to get pretty hard-core with his next four films. In "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol," Renner plays a supporting role to Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt, but soon he will also have the weight of the "Bourne" franchise on his shoulders.
Renner is currently filming "The Bourne Legacy," the first "Bourne" film in the series that doesn't feature Matt Damon. Despite the fact that he is taking over the franchise from its former leading man, Renner said there are no hard feelings between the two of them. In fact, Damon has been nothing but supportive of the whole process.
"He's always been so complimentary to me from the moment I met him. Such a great guy," Renner said. "I met him from 'The Town,' obviously, 'cause of him and Ben [Affleck] being best buds. I met him first at the Academy Awards, actually, for 'The Hurt Locker.' He sat in front of me, and he saw 'The Town' before I saw it and said he loved it. He's a very, very complimentary, loving dude."
The duo met up recently in New York, where Renner said they did end up talking about the "Bourne" franchise. But instead of trying to convince Damon to make a cameo appearance in "The Bourne Legacy," the two actors ended up discussing how they'd like to work together on a future project.
"I want to work with him, actually. That's what we talked about mostly, just sort of, maybe getting to work together somehow, some way, something," Renner said.
So what would the potential movie be about? Renner was stumped. "I don't know, maybe ... I have no idea what it would be. Transvestite cops? Play some tranny detectives? You want to see me in a onesie and jumpsuit?" he asked with a laugh.
Even though Damon and Renner are friends in real life, don't expect their onscreen characters to be very similar. Renner revealed that his "Bourne" character, Aaron Cross, will have some similarities to Jason Bourne but will also have his own story.
"There's similarities and then there's differences," he said of Cross's relationship to Bourne. "I can't get into what those are because it gives away plot points and I don't want to spoil anything for anybody. But I think the picture will stay congruent enough with the franchise that Matt has been in charge of, and now I hope to make the fans happy and take them on another little road."
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Video: Fitch Affirms U.S. at AAA
Fitch Ratings late Monday maintained its triple-A rating on the United States but lowered its outlook to negative from stable, with David Riley, Fitch group managing director. CNBC's Simon Hobbs, Sue Herera & Amanda Drury also weigh in.
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