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Facebook and the IRS are currently facing off in a billion dispute in U.S. Tax Court.The trial, which got underway on Tuesday, centers on a 2010 transaction in which Facebook transferred some of its intellectual property to a subsidiary in Ireland — a country with an extremely low corporate tax rate. The IRS claims that Facebook undervalued the properties in order to pay less in taxes.While Facebook values the assets transferred at about .5 billion, the IRS claims the value exceeds billion. According to 530

DENVER – Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park remains closed Monday after another round of snow and high winds over the weekend left drifts of up to 5 feet in some places.Rangers 203

Drinking coffee could activate the body's fat-fighting defenses, a discovery that could have potential implications in the battle against obesity and diabetes.In a study published Monday, researchers at the University of Nottingham said that coffee may help stimulate our brown fat reserves, also known as brown adipose tissue, which play a key role in how quickly we can burn calories.There are two forms of fat cells, brown cells and white cells, and each plays a different role in our metabolism.While brown cells help generate heat, white cells are responsible for the storage of fat -- or, energy -- ready for release as needed. Levels of brown fat are known to be high in children but recent findings on the presence of brown fat in adults has restored hope to use them as targets to treat obesity."Brown fat works in a different way to other fat in your body and produces heat by burning sugar and fat, often in response to cold, said professor Michael Symonds, from the School of Medicine at the University of Nottingham, who co-directed the study."Increasing its activity improves blood sugar control as well as improving blood lipid levels and the extra calories burnt help with weight loss. However, until now, no one has found an acceptable way to stimulate its activity in humans."The scientists started by testing out coffee on stem cells to see if it would stimulate brown fat. Once they found the right dose, they moved on to humans to see if the results were similar.The team used a thermal imaging technique on four men and five women to trace the brown fat reserves and see how it produced heat."From our previous work, we knew that brown fat is mainly located in the neck region, so we were able to image someone straight after they had a drink to see if the brown fat got hotter," Symonds said.So will drinking a cup of coffee help you lose weight, as well as get out of bed?The study only involved nine people and the research is still at a very early stage. Scientists say they still need to determine what it is exactly about coffee that busts fat."The results were positive and we now need to ascertain that caffeine as one of the ingredients in the coffee is acting as the stimulus or if there's another component helping with the activation of brown fat," Symonds said."Once we have confirmed which component is responsible for this, it could potentially be used as part of a weight-management regime or as part of glucose regulation program to help prevent diabetes." 2507

Discount chain Fred's is closing 104 more stores by the end of June.The Memphis-based retailer said Thursday the closures are in addition to the 159 stores it 171

COLORADO — Riders on rentable scooters getting them from Point A to Point B around cities in America may not be thinking about something big: The germs.When our reporters talked to folks riding on them, they guessed the handles could be pretty germ-ridden.Our reporters looked at public bikes, too, and did some swab tests, which were taken to a lab. The goal was to find out what bacteria may be found on the scooters.The team tested for stapholococous, E. coli, general bacteria levels, yeast and mold.The results were surprising.“My initial action was surprise,” said Microbiologist Helene Ver Ecke, of Metro State University. She knows all about bacteria."Some were a lot cleaner and some were a lot dirtier,” Ver Ecke said of the tests.One group of scooters had:? 700 bacteria colonies? No E. coli or strep? Lower levels of mold and yeast where presentAnother group showed:? 12,000 bacteria colonies (highest in all of our tests)? Nothing else presentFor perspective, a person’s hand, on average, has about 3,200 bacteria on it."So you are really the walking contaminant and that's why these scooters are being contaminated because people are gripping them with their hands and potentially sweating on them and just.. It's the humans that are dirty,” Ver Ecke said.One group of public bikes showed 3,500 bacteria colonies but were the worst offenders of yeast and mold: 900 colonies.The other tested positive for 5,500 bacteria colonies and had a middle-range number for yeast and mold. "You have normal yeasts and molds on our hands we ingest yeast and mold, that's what makes us bread and beer and all kinds of things. So not all fungus are bad,” Ver Ecke said.The tests make the germ issue seem pretty bad, but there is bacteria everywhere, and it’s not all bad, she said.People were surprised there wasn’t more bacteria.Ver Ecke said it’s because there isn’t food present, which would provide moisture for bacteria to feed on. The bacteria is probably going away pretty quickly, she said."The variation that we've seen may be indicative of how long a time period it was since the last person rode it,” Ver Ecke said.Cleaning it off may be a waste of time, she said. "You can't actually make it sterile. So that's kind of a futile goal." 2262