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International trade in medicinal and pharmaceutical products
From Statistics Explained
- Data from October 2010. Most recent data: Further Eurostat information, Main tables and Database.
The European Union (EU) was by far the major world trader in medicinal and pharmaceutical products (SITC division 54) in 2009, with total trade amounting to EUR 123.3 billion. Exports made up 65 % of this trade. The United States occupied the second position for trade in these products, at some distance, with trade worth EUR 74.9 billion.
Over the period 2000-2009, the United States was the main trading partner for extra-EU (EU-27) exports of these products. Both export and import trade more than doubled over the period and, in 2009, the USA accounted for 35 % of all extra-EU-27 trade.
Switzerland was the main trading partner for imports, with a growth of 174 % over the period 2000-2009. In 2009, Switzerland accounted for more than a fifth of all extra-EU-27 trade in these products.
- 1 Main statistical findings
- 2 Data sources and availability
- 3 Context
- 4 Further Eurostat information
- 5 External links
Main statistical findings
EU-27 trade in medicinal and pharmaceutical products rose by 11 % in 2009, in spite of the global economic crisis
Increases in both exports and imports
In 2009, contrary to global economic trends, extra-EU-27 trade in medicinal and pharmaceutical products grew for both exports and imports. Exports, which had dropped slightly in 2008, rose by 10%, while imports rose by 13 %.
The total value of extra-EU-27 trade in these products more than doubled over the period 2000- 2009 from EUR 52.1 billion in 2000 to EUR 123.3 billion in 2009.
Trade was dominated by exports, which were almost the double of the value of imports for every year from 2000 to 2009. The EU-27 trade surplus in this category varied between EUR 15.3 billion in 2000 and EUR 37.3 billion in 2007.
Increased trade with the United States and Switzerland in 2009
The United States stands out as the EU-27's main trading partner every year over the period 2000-2009.
The value of EU-27 exports to the United States increased by almost 150 % between 2000 and 2007, before dropping slightly in 2008. In 2009, values increased by 10 %.
Switzerland was the second largest EU-27 export partner in 2009, albeit at only about a third of the level of exports to the United States.
In 2009, EU-27 exports of medicines (SITC 542), including veterinary medicines, amounted to EUR 59.6 billion and accounted for 74 % of all EU-27 exports of medicinal and pharmaceutical products. This was made up by a wide variety of medicaments. Exports of medicinal and pharmaceutical products other than medicaments (SITC 541) amounted to EUR 20.5 billion; the largest single product group was antisera, blood fractions, modified immunological products and vaccines (SITC 54163), with 13 % of total exports.
Switzerland and the United States were the largest EU-27 trade partners also on the import side, together accounting for 79 % of the imports of these products in 2009. EU-27 imports from Switzerland increased by 174 % over the period from 2000 to 2009; by 2007 Switzerland had overtaken the United States as the leading import partner.
With 58 %, medicines made up a larger share of imports than other medicinal and pharmaceutical products. However, also for imports the largest single product group was antisera, blood fractions, modified immunological products and vaccines, making up almost 24 % of the imports of these products.
Strong growth for Belgium for both exports and imports
Amongst the EU-27 Member States, the five largest exporters of medicinal and pharmaceutical products together accounted for 72 % of these exports in 2009. The leaders were Germany and Belgium who together accounted for 36 %.
The United States was the most important export partner for all of these five leading Member States in 2009; together, they accounted for 87 % of all extra-EU-27 exports of medicinal and pharmaceutical products to the United States.
For imports, the picture was more differentiated. The six largest EU-27 importers together accounted for three quarters of the extra-EU-27 imports of these products in 2009. Germany was the leading importer among the Member States.
Switzerland was the most important import partner for Germany, France and Italy, while the United States was the most important import partner for Belgium, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Data sources and availability
EU data are compiled according to community guidelines and may therefore differ from national data published by Member States (see International trade data - ESMS file).
Data source: Eurostat's free dissemination database; for non EU-data (Figure 2) United Nations' COMTRADE database. A code (such as 'DS_018995') is inserted as part of the source. This hyperlinked code allows the reader to easily access the most recent data on the Eurostat website. The data on the website is frequently updated and may also be more detailed or have a different measurement unit.
Reporting countries: EU-27: Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Cyprus Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
The "Rotterdam effect": Extra-EU imports of some Member States (e.g. Netherlands), and therefore their trade deficit, are overvalued because of the so-called 'Rotterdam effect'. Goods destined for the rest of the EU arrive in their ports and, according to Community rules, are declared as imports by the Member State where these goods are released for free circulation. This in turn reduces the extra-EU imports to those Member States to which the goods are re-exported, as these shipments are recorded, for Community statistics, as arrivals from the Member State where these goods are released for free circulation, rather than imports from an extra-EU partner.
Commodities classification:
Division 54 'Medicinal and pharmaceutical products' of the Standard international trade classification revision 4 (SITC Rev. 4), is made up of the sub-groups:
- 5411 'Provitamins and vitamins (not put up as medicaments)';
- 5413 'Antibiotics (not put up as medicaments)';
- 5414 'Vegetable alkaloids (not put up as medicaments)';
- 5415 'Hormones, prostaglandins, thromboxanes and leukotrienes';
- 5416 'Glycosides; glands or other organs; antisera, vaccines;
- 5419 'Pharmaceutical goods, other than medicaments';
- 5421 'Medicaments containing antibiotics';
- 5422 'Medicaments containing hormones, etc., but not antibiotics';
- 5423 'Medicaments containing alkaloids, but not containing hormones etc. or antibiotics';
- 5429 'Medicaments not elsewhere specified'.
Pharmaceutical products are among the most important products within the chemicals sector (SITC section 5). Besides machinery and vehicles, the chemicals sector is the only product group where the EU posts a trade surplus. The surplus reached EUR 83.1 billion in 2009.
The pharmaceutical industry is one of the largest sectors in the European Union, accounting for 3.5% of total manufacturing production. Pharmaceutical companies in the EU employ approximately 633,000 employees.
The most common trade impediments faced by pharmaceutical exporters are a range of burdensome and costly registration, licensing and certification procedures. The EU aims to redress these through its bilateral trade agreements or by tackling individual barriers as part of its market access partnership.
Further Eurostat information
- EU-27 trade in medicinal and pharmaceutical products rose by 11% in 2009 in spite of the global economic crisis - Statistics in focus 63/2010
Main tables
- International trade, see:
- International trade detailed data (detail)
- EU trade since 1988 by SITC (DS_018995)
Dedicated section
Methodology / Metadata
- International trade (ESMS file)


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Got a question on rule clarification, comments on rule enforcements or some memorable NHL stories? Kerry Fraser wants to answer your emails at firstname.lastname@example.com!
Hi Kerry,
Big fan of the column...keep up the great insights! Watching the Coyotes and Panthers game last night, there was an unusual play in which the Panthers were awarded a penalty shot in the final minute, when Martin Hanzal knocked the net off while trying to swat the puck away from the net. It did appear as if he intentionally knocked the net off...but I thought the most the referee could call in this case was a delay of game penalty?
Thankfully the ice was in poor condition on that penalty shot! Labarbera got some nice help from the goal line on that shot!
I would also be curious to hear your opinion on hockey in the desert? Do you think it can work?
Thanks and go Coyotes!
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There was certainly enough evidence to convict Martin Hanzal of deliberately knocking the net off the moorings when he took his left hand and pushed and lifted on the crossbar. Normally a minor penalty for delay of game would be assessed under rule 63 unless; "If by reason of insufficient time in the regular playing time or by reason of penalties already imposed, the minor penalty assessed to a player for deliberately displacing his own goal post cannot be served in its entirety within the regular playing time of the game or at any time in overtime, a penalty shot shall be awarded against the offending team."
The correct call was made by referee, Dean Morton and Florida coach, Kevin Dineen was able to select a player that was on the ice at the time of the infraction to take the penalty shot. Stephen Weiss, who is having a great season attacked Phoenix goalkeeper, Jason LaBarbera with speed and slide the puck through the five-hole as many of the 17,711 fans in attendance held their breath. If the puck crossed the line that goal would tie the game with just 25 seconds remaining in regulation time.
In Monday's column I answered Mark Milliere's question about his son Matt, the goaltender who piled snow in his goal crease and was issued a penalty warning from the referee. At least one of you suggested in blog comments that a pile of snow should not stop a shot from going in the net.
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If a pile of snow can stop your shot from going in, you never really deserved to score that goal in the first place, did you?
Well "IGGY" check the 'viz' posted here (video link) on the Weiss shot and you will see that some rough ice and a little buildup of snow caused the puck to make an abrupt stop on goal line. While it wasn't of avalanche proportions the snow kept the puck from crossing the line.
Mike, I truly hope that NHL hockey can survive in a beautiful oasis in the desert but the odds don't look too promising. (You might be holding onto hope that if the market in Phoenix goes totally dry, Saskatoon might just be considered as a relocation site?)
I remember talking with Phil Esposito at the 1990 Stanley Cup Final in Boston where he was pitching an NHL expansion franchise to be placed in Tampa. While my more traditional hockey mentality looked to cold weather markets for guaranteed success, Phil had facts and figures on the number of "Snow Birds" that vacationed, took up residency during the winter or relocated to South Florida that would form the nucleus of fan support.
Phil told me he had major investors from Japan that were willing to bankroll the operation. I was curious why the Japanese businessmen were interested in obtaining an NHL franchise, for of all places Florida, and Espo said he pitched "hockey" and the Japanese thought he said "sake" and they were immediately all in!
Expansion to the State of Florida proved successful in two nontraditional hockey markets when the "rats" took Florida by storm as the Panthers marched to the Cup final in 1996 and lighting struck in game 7 of 2004 with the Stanley Cup presentation by Gary Bettman at center ice in the Tampa Arena.
Phoenix has been described as the Florida of the west and similarly its population swells during the winter months but it is going to take much more than a large influx of cold blooded hockey fans to guarantee success in the desert.
Competition for the family and corporate entertainment dollar has only intensified in our current soft economy. Teams in nontraditional hockey markets have been through some lean years at the box office or ultimately failed and had to be relocated (yeah Winnipeg). Icing a winning and completive team does not always ensure success in this regard as we have seen in Phoenix.
Stability of ownership is where success begins and filters down through team management, its players and into the community. Obviously the NHL and the Coyotes have a big ownership issue to solve before any stability in that market can be hoped for.
Phoenix has an outstanding hockey operations management team in place led by G.M. Don Maloney along with Dave Tippett and staff from behind the bench. Their players compete hard every game and are tough to play against. This group is doing everything they can to survive in the absence of solid ownership.
While they are highly competitive on the ice the fact remains that the Coyotes are dead last in average attendance (10,969 or 64.1 percent of capacity) after 16 home games. These are the kind of numbers that Atlanta struggled with before relocating to a colder, fan frenzy climate.
The Jobing.com Arena in Glendale is really a top notch facility but not easy to get to from Scottsdale. The drive in heavy traffic always reminded me of travelling from downtown Ottawa to Kanata for a Senators game.
There is a distinct difference here however; Ottawa is a traditional hockey market while Phoenix isn't. Loyal fans will drive through a snowstorm on the one road to Kanata to watch their beloved Sens play. Casual fans in Phoenix will generally avoid braving the heavy traffic in sunny weather to watch a team that they are not sure will be there much longer.
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Queensland University of Technology researcher, Rhonda Anderson, surveyed more than 560 south-east Queensland women aged between 51 and 66, asking them questions about their exercise and dietary habits. The study found that while women in their 50s were keen to make healthier exercise and dietary choices, their low self-belief was stopping them in their tracks.
"[Women in their 50s and 60s are at] an age when [their] weight tends to peak," Anderson said. "Self-efficacy is our belief that we can produce the result we want to produce, so a person with high dietary self-efficacy believes they can eat healthily no matter what even when bored, upset, tired, on holiday or at a party."
A person with low self-efficacy, on the other hand, struggles to stick at things and often falters at the first sign of difficulty.
"People with high self-efficacy are motivated and optimistic, [while] people with low self efficacy avoid difficult tasks and when the going gets tough, they're more likely to give up," Anderson added.
High self-belief = weight loss
The study found that while being optimistic (people with high self-efficacy) gave them the motivation to persevere with healthy eating and exercise plans, being overweight or obese was also one of the factors that affected self-efficacy in the first place.
So what can be done to boost our self-belief? According to Anderson, "developing skills, having role models and getting encouragement from others" are important to developing self-efficacy.
"Education is also a factor," Anderson said. "Women with a tertiary education [are] more likely to have high self-efficacy for exercise.
"A lot of women in their 50s were keen to improve their health, and we need to take advantage of that."
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[FONT=Arial]I just signed up on TDH forums a few days ago. I wanted to say hello and give you a brief history of myself and my costumes[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana][FONT=Arial][FONT=Arial]First off I am married [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]I started costuming and going to con's back in 2000. My first Star Wars costume was of course Boba Fett which I made using an old tutorial off the internet (jedi-academy.com) I think. Then it all exploded from there. Stormtrooper, Vader, Biker Scout, Royal Guard, Darth Maul, Jango Fett, Anakin, Luke (ANH/ESB) Chewbacca, R2-D2, C-3PO, Jawa, Yoda[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]I was head of a local Star Wars fan force which ended in May 05 after EPIII. We had a large falling out in our group and it didn't help that what the prequels were really bad (my personal opinion.)[/FONT]
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Food was good but not great, I found it was not as good as our first cruise on Navigator of the seas in 09. NOS Captain was highly concerned about the virus and it was handled well.
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Our cabins we were on deck 8, room 8603, balcony room, great clean room, comfortable bed and quiet location. We were around the corner from the elevators but had no noise from that,we have booked same general area and we will continue to book this area, close to elevators and the internet cafe. I did not pack my own computer but enjoyed a few minutes to check on my family back home from the internet cafe. Speaking of internet is is slow, all ships have slow internet, you just expect that from a ship internet.
The entertainment was a comedian who was very good his name is Scott Record but and an Elvis impersonator, he was talented guy but I do not enjoy a tall skinny Elvis as my headliner entertainment. The ship crew shows were OK, usual show for RCI. We always do the Ice Show, which is excellent, Love and Marriage show (always a blast) and the QUEST!!! A MUST SEE! (for adults ONLY!)
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NASHVILLE (BP) -- When President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark Civil Rights Act in 1964, it codified into law provisions that many Southern Baptists had a reputation for opposing -- bans on racial discrimination in public accommodations and government programs.
But amid the opposition, there were pockets of Southern Baptists working for racial justice and equality. On the legislation's 50th anniversary, Baptist leaders are celebrating the fact that those pockets of activism have blossomed into a convention-wide emphasis on multiethnic cooperation to fulfill the Great Commission.
"The Civil Rights Act helped tear down so many walls that racial prejudice had constructed between members of the human family," Frank S. Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, said. "My passion is to see every man, woman, boy and girl trust in Jesus Christ and become active members of one of our churches ... not because it is politically correct, but because every person matters to the Lord."
Today more than 10,000 of the SBC's 46,000 churches are non-Anglo, comprised of a broad diversity of racial and ethnic members. About 15 percent of presidential appointments to committees were from non-Anglo ethnic and racial groups over the past two years, and nearly 100 members of racial and ethnic minority groups have served in SBC leadership positions.
About 400 North American Mission Board missionaries identify themselves as non-Anglo. Approximately half of SBC church plants are classified as non-Anglo, and nearly 15 percent of churches registered to assist in the Send North America church planting emphasis are from various racial and ethnic subsets of American culture.
All this led Page to call the SBC "one of the most ethnically diverse denominations in America."
A divided convention
Fifty years ago that wasn't the case. The SBC met in Atlantic City, N.J., in May, ahead of President Johnson's July 2 signing of the Civil Rights Act. At the annual meeting, the SBC's Christian Life Commission -- precursor to the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission -- presented a recommendation that the convention pledge its support for civil rights legislation. When time came to vote on the recommendation, a pastor from Louisiana offered a substitute motion that didn't say anything about legislation.
The substitute motion, in a standing vote by messengers, was declared defeated, but the convention took a ballot vote because the margin appeared slim. On the ballot vote, the substitute motion was adopted and the CLC's motion to support civil rights legislation was set aside. When the Civil Rights Act became law, at least three Baptist colleges refused to sign "assurances of compliance."
But not all Southern Baptists were opposed to the new legislation.
The month after the Civil Rights Act became law, the CLC held conferences at the Ridgecrest and Glorieta conference centers addressing "Christianity and Race Relations." Speakers were bold in their advocacy of integration, and attendance outnumbered that at any previous CLC conference. More than 3,000 attended the two conferences, with 1,500 copies of the addresses distributed among Southern Baptists.
CLC executive secretary Foy Valentine believed his commission was in step with America's progressing attitudes about ethnic diversity.
"The fact is that in 1964, there was a new wave of interest in civil rights matters," Valentine said in a 1976 interview. "The civil rights legislation came on strong with the help of Lyndon Johnson and was passed, and it was the most important move forward for blacks in a hundred years. The commission again was at the blue point of the flame, with regard for social concern, because there wasn't anybody else in Southern Baptist life that was doing much open talking about this subject of civil rights and race relations."
Pockets of change
There may have been more open talking than Valentine realized because some pastors and churches were beginning to embrace integration.
In Louisville, Ky., an adjunct professor and a student at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary -- one white and one black -- decided to form an interracial ministry conference to meet monthly and discuss race relations in the city. The student, Emmanuel McCall who was black, and the adjunct professor, John Claypool who was white, each convened six pastors of his own race, and the group of 14 met for four months. McCall and Claypool then helped form the Louisville Baptist Interracial Pastors Conference, which met from 1962 to 1968 and included 800 ministers at its zenith.
McCall told Baptist Press the group's efforts contributed to the relative calm in Louisville regarding racial issues.
"Louisville went through that time without any racial conflict," McCall said. "Except there was one night when some guy who said he represented [civil rights leader] Stokely Carmichael gathered a group of people in the west end. From somewhere they came up with bricks, and they started a little bit of a riot. But it was the ministers' conference that said to the chief of police, 'We don't know this guy. Get him out of town. Arrest him or whatever.' And they did. So that was the only incident of any newsworthy note during that period."
McCall went on to become the first African American on staff at any SBC entity, when he went to work for the Home Mission Board in 1968. Claypool pastored churches in Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas and Mississippi.
Another member of the interracial pastors group, Carlisle Driggers, was pastoring Louisville's 23rd and Broadway Baptist Church in 1964. The congregation was ahead of its time in terms of racial inclusiveness and felt that the Civil Rights Act "substantiated" what it was seeking to do, Driggers told BP.
"I thought it was way past time for America to have legislation like that," Driggers said. "I know that it caused a lot of reaction, a lot of folks unhappy about it. But at the same time, my own personal reaction was that I thought it was very much in order. It needed to be done, and I was grateful to be a citizen of America when that legislation was adopted."
The law "supported what we were attempting to do at that time as a church," Driggers said.
A white congregation, 23rd and Broadway decided to stay in its longtime location even though the community around it was changing racially and culturally, with many blacks moving into the neighborhood. The decision to stay included a commitment to reach everyone around the church regardless of race.
The congregation ministered to hundreds of blacks during weekday programs for the community, and eventually 10 to 20 percent of its Sunday worshippers were African Americans. The church's outreach was so successful that the HMB appointed a missionary to work specifically with 23rd and Broadway -- the first time the board appointed a missionary to an individual church.
Still, when a black worshipper, Brenda Owens, presented herself for membership in 1966, Driggers felt a bit nervous, not knowing how the congregation would react. He received her during the invitation and called for a vote on whether to accept her as a member. After a vote without opposition, a thankful Driggers bowed his head to lead the closing prayer. He says he'll never forget what he saw when he opened his eyes.
"Our people, while I was praying, were getting up out of their seats, and they were lined up all the way from the front of the church to the back door -- lined up to come forward and speak to Brenda. It was a precious, precious moment," Driggers said.
Driggers gained a reputation for his work in interracial ministry, so much so that First Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., brought him on staff in 1969 to help with a tumultuous integration process. He went on to become executive director of the South Carolina Baptist Convention.
Some Southern Baptist institutions were also ahead of their times. All six SBC seminaries accepted black students well before 1964. Southern Seminary and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, both admitted black students in the 1940s, with Garland Offutt becoming the first black graduate of any SBC seminary in 1944 when Southern awarded him a master of theology.
Martin Luther King Jr. preached in Southern Seminary chapel in 1961 to a warm reception by faculty and students -- despite objections from some Southern Baptists and eventually an apology from trustees for "any offense caused by the visit of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., to the campus of the Seminary."
In 1965, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary students and faculty donated funds to help a student travel from the seminary's California campus to the civil rights march in Selma, Ala. The student body also sent pro-civil rights telegrams to King and Alabama Gov. George Wallace.
At Southwestern, ethics professor T.B. Maston was a noted champion of civil rights.
A changing convention
Perhaps shocked into changing by the turmoil in America and perhaps convinced by the consistent appeals of leaders like Valentine and McCall, Southern Baptists broadly began to integrate and embrace interracial cooperation.
In 1968, the convention adopted by a more than 2 to 1 margin a "Statement Concerning the Crisis in Our Nation," with messengers vowing to "personally accept every Christian as a brother beloved in the Lord and welcome to the fellowship of faith and worship every person irrespective of race or class."
Many churches integrated in the 1960s and 1970s, and ethnic churches began to join the convention -- so much so that church growth expert C. Peter Wagner called the SBC the most diverse religious denomination in America in 1970.
Racist elements persisted, but they dwindled to a small minority. In 1995, the convention adopted a resolution apologizing for its racist past, asking African Americans for forgiveness. In 2012, the SBC elected Fred Luter Jr. as its first black president.
The vote "was a genuine, authentic move by this convention that says our doors are open," Luter said following his election. "And the only way [the world] can see that is not just putting up an African American president, but seeing other ethnic groups in other areas of this convention. Time will tell and I'll be a cheerleader promoting that."
Preserving the gains
Kelly Miller Smith Jr., an African American who has pastored National and Southern Baptist churches, told BP he believes Southern Baptists began cooperating with blacks in part because they realized how much Baptists of both races hold in common.
In years past, Southern Baptists "were more concerned with the pigmentation of the skin, and they didn't realize that if they could get beyond what they see in terms of the skin, there are a lot of black Baptists who have very similar kinds of theological perspectives," Smith, pastor of First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill in Nashville, told BP.
Smith added that despite their theological commonalities, white and black Baptists often differ in their social applications of the Gospel. Cooperative ministry in the future will depend on their ability to understand one another's perspectives on issues like poverty, discrimination, employment and healthcare, he said.
Thankfully, black and white Baptists already have begun to cooperate in missions, evangelism, theological education and other areas.
On the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, Smith said it is important for Baptists to preserve the legacy of that legislation in America and continue to break down racial prejudice in the church.
The "landmark legislation" of 1964, Smith said, was "only the beginning stages of things that would have to be further developed."
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So what's behind these feared injuries? Ligaments are tough bands of tissue that connect the bones in your body. Two important ligaments in the knee, the ACL and posterior cruciate ligament (PCL), connect the femur or thigh bone with the tibia, one of the bones of the lower leg. But too much stress on these ligaments can cause them to stretch too far -- or even snap.
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She's the most moral and innocent vamp, so I get why people don't want to see that ruined just for Klaus.My friend who never watches TVD besides the clips I show her online said the exact same thing. She said everyone is so evil and dark and Caroline is the only good and pure vampire so viewers want her to stay that way. It's so funny all my friends who don't watch the show can guess the characterization and motives of the characters right away. I guess TVD is really simple to understand.