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The Bucks' defense left a lot to be desired once again, allowing 52.4% shooting from the floor and 58 points in the paint. A solid second quarter saw the Bucks take the lead and a late bucket by Monta Ellis had the halftime deficit at just 3, but Milwaukee couldn't slow down the Wolves in the second half, getting outscored in the 3rd and 4th quarters.
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In landscapes around the world WWF scientists and field staff are using cameras equipped with infrared triggers, called camera traps, to obtain critical data about wildlife and their habitats. Now you can access the same pictures used by our scientists to study wildlife and their habitats and make important decisions about conservation.
Saola Rediscovered: Rare Photos of Elusive Species from Vietnam
The saola—one of the rarest and most threatened mammals on the planet—was photographed in Vietnam for the first time in 15 years by a camera trap set by WWF and the Vietnamese government's Forest Protection Department.
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While a "camera trap" might sound menacing, it actually does no harm at all to wildlife. The name is derived from the manner in which it "captures" wildlife - on film!
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Due to the moist, hot climate of many of the forest locations WWF is working, the cameras often malfunction, so scientists will be lucky if two-thirds of the pictures are of any animals at all. Scientists can get that rate of return in a dense forest only because they do significant research before placing the cameras in order to determine the most efficient and productive locations. Although infrared sensors allow camera traps to take pictures on their own, WWF scientists and field staff can claim full credit for the amazing images produced by camera traps.
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In 2006, Ecuadorian conservationist Santiago Espinosa received a Russell E. Train Fellowship from WWF's Education for Nature Program (EFN) to conduct research in wildlife ecology. Santiago's research involved spending long periods of time in the Amazonian rainforest. He captured photos that highlight the spectacular wildlife that lives in Yasuní National Park.
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The abundant waters of the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska once teemed with one of the world's largest concentrations of sea lions, fur and harbor seals, and seabirds. Today, intensive industrial trawling in the North Pacific seas is depleting fish populations, harming habitat, and unnecessarily disrupting the ocean web of life. This industrial-scale fishing also takes food away from the ocean's top-of-the-food-chain predators, including the now-endangered Steller sea lion.
"What is happening to the Steller sea lion is an indication of damage to the ecosystem," noted Sue Sabella, Oceans Campaign Director for Greenpeace. "The Steller, other wildlife, the fishing industry, and local communities all depend on this ecosystem, which is being destroyed by over fishing."
Steller sea lion populations have plummeted in the last 30 years, while industrial trawling has skyrocketed. An 85% decline in sea lion and harbor seal populations in certain areas of the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska has coincided closely with a doubling of the pollock, mackerel, and cod catches.
"Declining populations of these marine mammals and seabirds tells us a story about an ailing ecosystem. It's clear that NMFS is managing the North Pacific fisheries with only one goal in mind: maximizing the quantity of fish caught today with little thought of tomorrow or of other species," said Tanya Dobrzynski, Fisheries Coordinator for American Oceans Campaign.
The lawsuit takes NMFS to task for failing to take a comprehensive look at the impacts of commercial groundfish fisheries in Alaska since 1981, despite the dramatic downward changes in the ecosystem.
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Effects of Travoprost on Neovascular Glaucoma
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Prostaglandin analogues have not been used in the treatment of neovascular glaucoma because of suspicious lack of efficacy. This study aims at assessing the effect of travoprost on neovascular glaucoma.
Condition | Intervention |
Neovascular Glaucoma |
Drug: Travoprost |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double-Blind Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Effects of Travoprost on Neovascular Glaucoma |
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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Neovascular glaucoma of known cause
- Older than 18 years
- Previously submitted to retinal photocoagulation
- Under medical treatment to glaucoma
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00441181
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Principal Investigator: | Luiz A Melo Jr, MD | Federal University of São Paulo |
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00441181 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | UNIFESP 2007-02 |
Study First Received: | February 27, 2007 |
Last Updated: | June 21, 2011 |
Health Authority: | Brazil: National Health Surveillance Agency |
Keywords provided by Federal University of São Paulo:
Neovascular glaucoma Travoprost |
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Glaucoma Glaucoma, Neovascular Ocular Hypertension Eye Diseases Travoprost |
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MISSION – After being on hold since April, Mission Parks and Recreation swimming pool projects are getting re-started with a new contractor hired to finish out the projects. The projects include repairs to the swimming pool at Catholic War Veteran's Park located on south Mayberry Rd. and the new natatorium at Bannworth Park located on Shary Rd. The original completion date for the projects was September.
Julian Gonzalez, Parks and Recreation Director, said, even though they are happy with the work done by the previous contractor, the jobs were put on hold around April when the city decided they could not give the contractor more time. The contractor was not able to fulfill timeline restrictions. Gonzalez said the city had been very generous when the contractor would ask for more time. It came to a point they had to stop giving those extensions and find another route to get the job completed.
During last week's city council meeting, the city approved to hire E-Con to finish out the project. The project, which also includes park improvements and new gyms, carries a price tag of $4.3 million.
Gonzalez said the disruption in the construction of the projects would not cost the city any more than the original contracted amount. The previous contractor was paid for his part of the work and E-Con will be paid for the remainder of the work to be done.
Prior to the standstill, the gymnasiums were approximately 95 percent complete and the pools were 85 percent complete. Gonzalez said he looks forward to seeing substantial completion in five to eight weeks. After that, it will be minor details, finishing touches, and going through the locations with their list to make sure everything has been taken care of.
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"The city's very anxious to get these projects completed," he said. "The kids from our community have been waiting for a while."
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A big part of your child's education success is a good relationship between the school and family. Adie Simmons, director of Washington state's Office of the Education Ombudsman, explains more.
What exactly does the office of the education ombudsman do?
We offer free services to parents who are experiencing problems with the school their student attends and have not been able to resolve the situation by any other means. For example, a student has been bullied or harassed and is depressed and doesn't want to go to school anymore or a student has been suspended or expelled and the parent is desperate to get him or her back in school. The parents that I talk to are deeply involved in their children's education and need help to overcome obstacles to getting the best education possible for their children.
We hear so much about "parental involvement in education." How do you define that?
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I like to use the term School-family partnership to describe Family Involvement because it not only implies shared values and goals but also shared responsibility. Both schools and families are responsible for the future of the children they share.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Nineteen years as a pro and 187 events on the PGA Tour, not to mention a tough childhood battling a tough spine disease, steeled Ken Duke for the shot of his life last weekend.
He was in the second hole of a playoff against Chris Stroud in the Travelers Championship in Connecticut, and launched an approach shot to within 21/2 feet of the par-4 18th hole. He tapped in for birdie after Stroud missed a much longer putt.
At age 44, Duke - who'll be teeing it up next week at the Greenbrier Classic - is one of the oldest, most-traveled first-time winners in Tour history. Conversing with him, you sense the steadiness that allowed him to land the perfect shot under pressure after all those years.
"It took a little extra time because the wind was gusting," Duke said. "I just wanted to make sure a gust didn't get me because I missed one earlier in the week, on Friday on a hole that's sort of like that. Just wanted to calm my nerves and just say, 'It's your turn to do it,' and just back it in.
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A graduate of Henderson State in Arkadelphia, Ark., Duke turned pro in 1994 and made the then-Nationwide Tour for the 1995 season. That didn't go so well, as he missed the cut in 16 of 21 events.
The coming years were a whirlwind of multiple tours - Asian, South American, Canadian, any number of mini-tours. He said his last thought about bailing on the sport was about 2001, a lost year in his media guide section.
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Businesses are being encouraged to invest more energy and resources in building links with schools as a way of helping to broaden the horizons of Europe's young people and help them develop the skills they need to be successful in an increasingly competitive job market.
A recent survey of more than 500 business leaders from across Europe found that most (54%) think young people lack 'soft skills' such as confidence, teamwork, self-motivation, networking and presentation skills.
Meanwhile, more than two-thirds believe that their countries' education systems are either not at all successful or not very successful when it comes to developing financial and entrepreneurial skills amongst young people.
The survey was carried out by FreshMinds Research for JA-YE Europe, which is Europe's largest provider of entrepreneurship education programmes bringing together businesses, schools and young people.
Last year JA-YE Europe organised activities that involved more than three million students in 38 countries, but despite these efforts, the majority of young people in Europe are denied access to such programmes.
"According to the European Commission, only about 6% of the young people under the age of 18 in Europe have access to this kind of tripartite, partnership-based education," said Caroline Jenner, CEO of JA-YE Europe.
Expanding young people's horizons
Jenner believes that entrepreneurship education programmes can help to expand young people's horizons by making them aware of the opportunities that exist in the business world and the private sector in general.
However, she regrets that the impact of such schemes is currently limited because most young people are not being offered the chance to take part.
"We're reaching 3.2 million in the school system today, but there's much more to do," said Jenner, who set up her own private language school before getting involved in entrepreneurship education.
"We just don't have enough young people coming into the system to make enough impact, unless we really start investing in making the most of their potential," she adds.
Jenner was speaking at the European Business Summit in Brussels last week (18 May), during a session on 'human capital and the labour market'.
She told the audience of business leaders from across Europe that "young people are really part of the human capital pipeline, and that is the supply chain that we must invest in".
Businesses need to get actively involved
Jenner is convinced that entrepreneurship education programmes can make a positive contribution to the 'Europe 2020' strategy, and in particular the flagship initiatives 'Youth on the Move' and 'New Skills and Jobs' that are being implemented by the European Commission.
What is needed, she said, is for more businesses to get actively involved in supporting the kind of schemes being run by JA-YE, which stands for Junior Achievement – Young Enterprise.
According to Jenner, existing programmes have demonstrated that "this kind of engagement helps young people to be better prepared for the workplace".
"The more inputs they have, the better choices they will make," insisted Jenner.
"If those are inputs from business people and industry, so much the better, because you'll expand their opportunities and they'll make better educational choices."
'Uncool' industries offer interesting jobs
Jenner believes that young people should be given the chance to learn about different career possibilities "when they are still in school, when they're still thinking, when there still worried about what's going to be cool or what's not going to be cool".
Many industries that might be considered 'uncool' by young people offer a wide range of very interesting jobs, said Jenner. Most young people don't think about preparing themselves for such jobs, partly because they have never met people who do them.
"If you can expose the young people to those individuals, you will in fact change a lot of what young people decide to do," she claimed.
Jenner is convinced that increased knowledge of different industries and awareness of related career opportunities should lead to more young people choosing to study more 'difficult' subjects such as maths, science and technology.
At the same time, young people should be given opportunities to develop entrepreneurial skills and other kinds of skills that will help them to make a successful transition from full-time education to entering the labour market.
Jenner explainsed: "You need to have a lot of soft skills and coping skills, and I would say those are very entrepreneurial skills, where you have to deal with a problem in a creative way."


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Dow slumps 313 after Obama's re-election
Investors fear failure to fix the fiscal cliff will lead to recession. European stocks slump after ECB President Draghi says even Germany is weakening. Apple has fallen 20% since September. Bank and energy stocks fall. Oil and gold slip.
A day after President Barack Obama won a second term, stocks suffered their worst beating in nearly a year.
Late selling caused to the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU) to finish down more than 300 points, its largest loss since Nov. 9, 2011. The blue-chip index ended the day below 13,000 for the first time since Aug. 2, and the major U.S. averages were all down at least 2.4%.
Bank stocks were the weakest sector in part because it's likely the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill will remain largely intact. In addition, Elizabeth Warren, a critic of many U.S. banking practices, won a seat in the U.S. Senate. JPMorgan Chase (JPM), a critic of bank regulation, was down $2.32 to $40.56. Health insurance stocks were lower because the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Reform Act -- aka Obamacare -- is likely to stay in place.
Meanwhile, oil prices fell back sharply in part because of worries about global demand. Europe became a worry after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said he expected no change to the weak eurozone economy in the near future. Worse, he said, the weakness has begun to affect Germany. European stocks immediately sold off -- and sharply, too. The dollar rose against the euro and British pound.
The Dow closed down 313 points to 12,933, its lowest close since July 26. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index ($INX) slumped 34 points to 1,395, its first close below 1,400 since Aug. 6. The Nasdaq Composite Index ($COMPX) dropped 75 points to 2,946, its biggest loss since Nov. 9, 2011.
Article continues below.The Nasdaq-100 Index ($NDX) had fallen 68 points to 2,613.
And that brings us to Apple (AAPL), which represents some 17% of the Nasdaq 100's market capitalization and roughly 4% of the value of the S&P 500. The stock is off $22.20 to $558. That's down 20.9% from its intraday peak of $705.07. Selling in the shares accelerated this morning when the stock hit $564 -- 20% below that intraday high.
After the close, however, Qualcomm (QCOM), the big maker of chips used on mobile phones, forecast fiscal first-quarter sales and profit that exceeded analysts' estimates as it increases production of its most expensive chips. Shares were up $4.78, or 8.2%, to $62.90 after hours after falling $2.25 to $58.12 in regular trading.
Crude oil takes a dive
Crude oil (-CL) in New York settled down $4.27 to $84.44 a barrel. Brent crude was off $4.36 to $106.71. One reason for the decline was the decline in coal prices and coal stocks, a reaction to the election.
The national average retail price of gasoline fell to $3.462 a gallon from Tuesday's $3.463, according to AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report.
Gold (-GC) settled down $1 to $1,714 an ounce. Silver (-SI) fell 37 cents to $31.66 an ounce. Copper (-HG) fell 6.5 cents to $3.441 a pound.
Interest rates fell as the dollar moved higher. The 10-year Treasury yield fell to 1.632% from Tuesday's 1.742%.
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Wed. | Thur. | Month chg. | YTD chg. | |||||||||
Crude oil (-CL) | $84.44 | $88.71 | -2.09% | -14.56% | ||||||||
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Heating oil (-HO) | $2.9621 | $3.0529 | -3.27% | 1.64% | ||||||||
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Natural gas (-NG) | $3.5780 | $3.6170 | -3.09% | 19.71% | ||||||||
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Unleaded gasoline (-RB) | $2.5889 | $2.6989 | -1.57% | -2.58% | ||||||||
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Brent crude | $106.82 | $111.07 | 1.08% | -0.52% | ||||||||
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Retail gasoline | $3.4620 | $3.4630 | -1.68% | 5.68% | ||||||||
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A tough road ahead for Obama, Congress
Today's slump is reminiscent of what happened the day after Obama won the 2008 election. The Dow fell 486 points that day and 443 points the next.
The bottom line on the sell-off is Obama will get no honeymoon from his re-election. He and Congress face the potential that doing nothing about the fiscal cliff -- the witch's brew of tax increases and spending cuts due to kick in after the New Year -- will cause the economy to slide back into recession, as many economists claim.
Ratings agency Fitch Investors warned today that the U.S. probably would lose its AAA credit rating if the administration and Congress don't address the problem.
"The economic policy challenge facing the president is to put in place a credible deficit-reduction plan necessary to underpin economic recovery and confidence in the full faith and credit of the U.S.," a company statement said today.
Is a rally forming?
Maybe. It's true that the Dow and the Nasdaq closed the day below their simple moving averages. That's a signal that the market is headed lower, and there was lots of chatter to that end today.
At the same time, the relative strength indexes for the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq are all under 30. When these indicators drop below 30, that suggest the market overall is oversold and could be ripe for a rebound relatively soon.
In late May, the the RSI for the three indexes fell below 10. The market bottomed on June 4, with the Dow jumping about 12.5% up through Oct. 5.
That is, admittedly, is a technical view. What won't help markets are the riots today in Greece at the end of a two-day general strike called to oppose a €13.5bn ($17.2 billion) package of cuts demanded by the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund in return for a financial lifeline to prevent the government running out of money.
Thursday brings the weekly report on jobless claims and the September report on the nation's trade balance. The key earnings report comes after the close from entertainment and media giant Walt Disney (DIS). Also reporting: Wendy's (WEN), Kohl's (KSS), Zipcar (ZIP) and Boingo Wireless (WIFI).
There may be a bounceback rally. Futures suggests the Dow will open 50 points higher, with the S&P 500 up 5 points and the Nasdaq-100 up 9 points.
A big, bad loss
This was a day when stocks that might have done well under a Romney administration were clobbered: defense, coal, oil and gas, health insurers, steel, banks and broker. And everything else seemed to run over with them.One group that did remarkably well: gun makers as investors speculated an Obama administration attempt to regulate gun selling more closely. Sturm Ruger (RGR) jumped $3.04 to $47.68. Smith & Wesson Holding (SWHC) surged 91 cents to $10.37.
All 30 Dow stocks were lower, but 109 points of the index's loss was concentrated in five stocks: Caterpillar (CAT), IBM (IBM), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Chevron (CVX), and JPMorgan Chase.
The best Dow performers, relatively speaking: Walt Disney (DIS), Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ). The biggest percentage losers were Bank of America (BAC), JPMorgan and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ).
Only 28 S&P 500 stocks were higher, led by Tenet Healthcare (THC), JDS Uniphase (JDSU) and Time Warner (TWX). Coal-producer Peabody Energy (BTU), investment bank Morgan Stanley (MS) and health insurer Humana (HUM) were the laggards.
Only six Nasdaq-100 stocks were higher, led by Netflix (NFLX) , News Corp. (NWSA) and medical-equipment wholesaler Henry Schein (HSIC) Research In Motion (RIMM) and for-profit education company Apollo Group (APOL) were the laggards.
Research In Motion fell 82 cents to $8.24 after Pacific Crest Securities analyst James Faucette wrote that the company's BlackBerry 10 operating system would be 'dead on arrival" when it comes to market early 2013.
Short hits from the markets -- New York close | ||||||||||||
Wed. | Thur. | Month chg. | YTD chg. | |||||||||
Treasury yields | ||||||||||||
13-week Treasury bill | 0.0900% | 0.090% | -18.18% | 800.00% | ||||||||
5-year Treasury note | 0.662% | 0.744% | -7.41% | -20.24% | ||||||||
10-year Treasury note | 1.632% | 1.742% | -3.20% | -12.77% | ||||||||
30-year Treasury bond | 2.821% | 2.916% | -1.05% | -2.35% | ||||||||
Currencies | ||||||||||||
U.S. Dollar Index | 80.867 | 80.843 | 1.10% | 0.43% | ||||||||
British pound | 1.5995 | 1.6000 | -0.88% | 2.94% | ||||||||
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U.S. $ in pounds | £0.625 | £0.625 | 0.89% | -2.86% | ||||||||
Euro in dollars | $1.28 | $1.28 | -1.48% | -1.44% | ||||||||
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U.S. $ in euros | € 0.783 | € 0.780 | 1.50% | 1.46% | ||||||||
U.S. $ in yen | 80.13 | 80.39 | 0.41% | 3.93% | ||||||||
U.S. $ in Chinese | 6.27 | 6.24 | 0.52% | -0.95% | ||||||||
yuan | ||||||||||||
Canada dollar | $1.004 | $1.008 | 0.40% | 2.37% | ||||||||
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U.S. dollar | $0.996 | $0.992 | -0.33% | -2.32% | ||||||||
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Gold (-GC) | $1,714.00 | $1,715.000 | -0.30% | 9.39% | ||||||||
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Copper (-HG) | $3.4415 | $3.506 | -2.16% | 0.16% | ||||||||
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Silver (-SI) | $31.661 | $32.034 | -2.03% | 13.42% | ||||||||
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Wheat (-ZW) | $8.940 | $8.770 | 3.41% | 36.96% | ||||||||
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Corn (-ZC) | $7.4425 | $7.410 | -1.52% | 15.12% | ||||||||
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Cotton | $0.6983 | $0.701 | -0.34% | -23.83% | ||||||||
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Coffee | $1.5120 | $1.506 | -2.23% | -34.16% | ||||||||
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Crude oil (-CL) | $84.44 | $88.710 | -2.09% | -14.56% | ||||||||
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Check out the link above. Stocks went down 3.6% a year under Bush, and they went up 20.1% a year under Obama. But hey, why let little things like facts get in the way of your personal opinions.
Nothing worse than sore losers.
When everyone is done with their little hissy fits they'll realize that the government in nearly identical to what it was yesterday and everyone can calm down. The market did great under Obama and it will go back up. The cliff was always there, a last minute deal will get done, it always does.
Does anybody look forward to December 21, 2012??? I do; I am a Christian, not a Financial Advisor...but I can read the Bible, especially "Revelation" and can see the smoke on the horizon; this whole World is gonna burn :(
Don't wanna give you Atheists more bad news...but ya better "get ready"
Pray to the LORD and repent from your Sins; Love Jesus who died for you...GOD BLESS THE USA
OMG are these commentators all related? This is not a result of a president being reelected. This is a result of paranoia and it will destroy ya. But alas, a fool and his money are soon parted. Go ahead, sell now while it's low then buy when it's high. Isn't that the way geniuses? The rich will gladly take your cheap stocks. Paranoia, bigotry, and cowardice stifle creativity. Creativity is what is required for success and progress - be it personal, political or as an influence on our nation. If you are afraid the ship is sinking, then jump off like a coward into the abys. But if you have the courage to be part of the solution then do what you can in any small way. The worst thing you can do is be a complaining cowardly monkey and jump on your captain's back every chance you get. You fearful brainless monkeys are at fault.
How many of you idiots will it take to say something negative in a time of such joy and hopefulness!!
Just sit back and watch as the country recovers. The whole world will reap and realize the fruits of his labor. This is exactly why you should have voted for Obama. This liberty that you enjoy and take for granted should be used the encourage not disgrace our nation. Every American needs to do a self examination. Then take a long look at what is best for this nation "long term" not just while your stocks are tanking. This man is all about long term solutions. And yet most of the post I see here are concerning your inability to short-sell in the market. Please get a life.....get over yourself and become a little concern with the well being of our country, our troops and our recovery! Mr.H
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J. Pers. Med. 2013, 3(1), 14-22; doi:10.3390/jpm3010014
Driving Forces Behind the Past and Future Emergence of Personalized Medicine
Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Christian-Albrechts-Platz 4, 24118 Kiel, Germany
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Received: 23 November 2012; in revised form: 14 January 2013 / Accepted: 14 January 2013 / Published: 17 January 2013
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Abstract: Personalized medicine can be seen as a continuously developing approach to tailoring treatments according to the individual characteristics of a patient. In some way, medicine has always been personalized. During the last decade, however, scientific and technological progress have made truly personalized healthcare increasingly become reality. Today's personalized medicine involves targeted therapies and diagnostic tests. The development of targeted agents represents a major investment opportunity to pharmaceutical companies, which have been facing the need to diversify their business due to an increasingly challenging market place. By investing into the development of personalized therapies, pharmaceutical companies mitigate a major part of the risks posed by factors such as patent expiries or generic competition. Viewing upon personalized medicine from different perspectives points out the multi-causality of its emergence. Research efforts and business diversification have been two main driving forces; they do supplement each other, however, are not jointly exhaustive in explaining the emergence of this approach. Especially in the future, a number of further stakeholders will impact the evolution of personalized medicine.
Keywords: personalized healthcare; diagnostic testing; genomic medicine; business diversification
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Steffen, J.A.; Steffen, J.S. Driving Forces Behind the Past and Future Emergence of Personalized Medicine. J. Pers. Med. 2013, 3, 14-22.
AMA StyleSteffen JA, Steffen JS. Driving Forces Behind the Past and Future Emergence of Personalized Medicine. Journal of Personalized Medicine. 2013; 3(1):14-22.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSteffen, Julius A.; Steffen, Jan S. 2013. "Driving Forces Behind the Past and Future Emergence of Personalized Medicine." J. Pers. Med. 3, no. 1: 14-22.
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The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn
Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice.
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Bring Up the Bodies is one of The New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2012, one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012 and one of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2012
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Hilary Mantel is the bestselling author of ten previous novels, including Wolf Hall, which sold more than 200,000 copies and won the 2009 Man Booker Prize. Her previous works include her novel, A Place of Greater Safety, and her memoir, Giving Up the Ghost. She lives in England with her husband.
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"Mantel knows what to select, how to make her scenes vivid, how to kindle her characters. She seems almost incapable of abstraction or fraudulence; she instinctively grabs for the reachably real...In short, this novelist has the maddeningly unteachable gift of being interesting."—The New Yorker
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"Hilary Mantel made waves in 2009 with her Man Booker Prize-winning page-turner, Wolf Hall…The second in her planned trilogy, Bring Up the Bodies stalks Anne Boleyn and the soap-opera worthy machinations of Cromwell and his evil allies to bring down the powerful wife of the king. Who knew history could be so sexy?"—Vanity Fair
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There would be precedent. Despite gridlock, starting in late 2010, Congress and the White House have been able to inject hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy through payroll tax cuts and unemployment insurance extensions. This helped buffer the U.S economy from the European financial crisis, rising oil prices and the Japanese earthquake.
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