Glenn Close has genes mapped
Glenn Close has genes mapped
Glenn Close has genes mapped
(Reuters) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu has done it. So has genome pioneer Craig Venter.
And now American film actress Glenn Close#x has joinedPrinting a handful of celebrities to have their genome sequenced in the name of science.
Close, who stars in the FX television series "Damages" and is known for movie roles including "Fatal Attraction" and "Dangerous Liaisons," said the offer was too good to pass up.
"For me, anything that can move the science forward is worthwhile,State Flags," Close said in a telephone interview. "It's pretty well publicized that I have mental health issues in my family."
Close, whose family illnesses include bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, Printingis a founder of the nonprofit group BringChange2Mind, which raises awareness about mental illness.
New sequencing technologies through companies like Illumina of San Diego, which did Close's genome, have vastly reduced the cost of producing an entire map of the human genome -- essentially the genetic recipe that makes up an individual.
Whereas the first human genome cost $3 billion and took more than a decade to produce, Illumina charges $48,000 for the kind of sequencing Close got. The company would not say whether it charged her.
Scientists say even newer technology will bring the price down to $1,000 within five years, essentially less than the cost of an advanced type of X-ray called a CT scan.
Scientists #xhope having the entire genetic map of a person's DNA will begin to reveal the genetic causes of common diseases or determine Printinga person's risk for genetic disease.
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Can We Afford to Continue Serving Small Clients?
Can We Afford to Continue Serving Small Clients?
Can We Afford to Continue Serving Small Clients?
In my last post,Buy in Global, I laid out three Traffic barriermain business challenges #xthat I’ll be focusing on over the next few months, and I promised to elaborate on each of them. Today: increasing sales.
When I first started talking about our sales model with my adviser, Jeff Silbert, at Order of Magnitude Group, he forced me to think about my current structure and decide whether our three-year goal of $5 million in sales was realistic. I quickly understood that, with just two salespeople, it is not.
The problem is not my sales team. A salesperson who works hard and brings in several small clients in a month might account for $140,000 a year in new business. Now, don’t get me wrong. We love working with all of our clients, especially the smaller ones, but if we find ourselves spending all of our time helping the small customers get started with our service, we will not be able to grow into a $5 million-a-year business — or even remain profitable.
The fact is, it would take this salesperson only slightly more effort to close bigger clients that might spend, say, $2,500 to $5,000 a month or more. Obviously, we need to add salespeople and to increase the amount of new revenue they close if we’re going to get to our $5 million-a-year goal.
It sounds simple, but what I’m having to come to terms with now Traffic barrieris that the “special sauce” that makes us unique may very well be the thing that holds us back. Here’s what I mean:
Right now, we provide a high level of personalized, proactive support to all clients, whether they are backing up one gigabyte or several terabytes of data. We take care of a range of clients, from small firms to larger companies with more than a thousand employees. We offer clients a solution that protects their data, gives them peace of mind and solves critical compliance issues in a way that cheaper solutions cannot. We like to meet our clients in person and help them work out a disaster-recovery strategy. Every client is assigned a senior-level engineer during the installation process and for daily monitoring and support.
As I said, we do this for every client, and that has helped us earn our reputation for customer service. The problem is that if my sales and support teams focus their time and effort on small clients, we will never grow and reach our goals. When we were smaller, it#x was great to bring on clients of any size, and Traffic barrierwe celebrated every new one.
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Inhalant Abuse a Deadly Middle-School Concern
Inhalant Abuse a Deadly Middle-School Concern
Inhalant Abuse a Deadly Middle-School Concern
THURSDAY, March 11 -- More 12-year-olds have used inhalants to get high than marijuana, #xcocaine and hallucinogens combined,中小企业国际市场开拓资金, a new report finds. Cord embroidery fabric
These potentially deadly inhalants include aerosol computer cleaners, glue, hair sprays, paint solvents and gasoline. They're "huffed" or sniffed and can cause addiction or sudden death from cardiac arrest.
The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reported on statistics from 2006-2008 national surveys. They show that almost seven percent of 12-year-olds report sniffing inhalants, compared to 1.4 percent who say they've used marijuana, 0.7 percent who've used hallucinogens,#x and 0.1 percent who've used cocaine. About five percent reported using prescription drugs for non-medical reasons.
At a press conference held this week on the issue, Cord embroidery fabric17-year-old Ashley Upchurch, a recovering inhalant abuser, said the habit can take a debilitating toll.
"Inhalants were a cheap, legal, and an intense high that would also enhance the feeling I would get from other drugs," she said. "These highs nearly destroyed my life."
More must be done to stem inhalant use nationwide, experts said.
"With data showing that young people often don't perceive the great risk of abusing inhalants, #xwe must redouble our efforts to inform adolescents of the dangers and to encourage parents to be more vigilant in protecting their *****ren from inhalants often present in common household products," said Gil Kerlikowske,Cord embroidery fabric director of national drug control policy, in a statement.
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Three strong earthquakes strike Chile in quick suc
Three strong earthquakes strike Chile in quick succession
Three strong earthquakes strike Chile in quick succession
Three strong earthquakes rocked Chile on Thursday,Fire hose, DVD Rippercausing significant damage in at least one city, #xthe country's newly inaugurated president said Thursday.
A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit at 11:39 a.m. local time (9:39 a.m. ET), followed by a 6.7-magnitude quake 16 minutes later, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. A third, measured at magnitude 6.0, came 27 minutes later.
They were the strongest aftershocks to rattle Chile since a February 27 earthquake on the country's west coast that toppled buildings and spawned a tsunami, killing several hundred people.
Thursday's quakes shook the ground near Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins near the coast just as Chile prepared to inaugurate a new president, Sebastian Pinera.DVD Ripper
The central Chilean city of Rancagua was affected, Pinera said.#x
"There is significant damage in Rancagua," the new president said. "We're going to send the necessary armed forces to guarantee citizens' safety."
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Rancagua Mayor Eduardo Soto said that no fatalities were immediately reported and that the biggest worry was damage to homes, CNN Chile reported.DVD Ripper
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the tech chronicles
the tech chronicles
the tech chronicles
Twitter Inc. on Thursday activated a location-tagging feature that tells the world where you are when you tweet about what you are thinking.
Twitter users are now prompted to activate the "tweet with your location''Diamond blade feature to add latitude and longitude coordinates to tweets. It doesn't display location down to the level of a specific room or a building,#x but for a neighborhood or a city.
The micro-blogging service, located in San Francisco's South of Market district, announced plans for location tagging last August.
At least one firm, GyPSii of The Netherlands, was ready for the launch with its own new geography-tagging iPhone app called Tweetsii.
Not everybody will want to broadcast where they are all the time, #xand privacy advocates will cringe at the implications. Twitter, at least,Military Flags, Diamond bladehas made this an opt-in feature that can also be disabled.
But services like Diamond bladeNew York's FourSquare and Brightkite of Burlingame are showing there are a growing number of mobile device owners who willingly and happily share information about their whereabouts.#x
Even social media giant Facebook is reportedly set to get into the location sharing game next month.
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Yamani or Your Life
Yamani or Your Life
Yamani or Your Life
I have just finished reading one of the most astoundingly stupid and nasty documents ever to have landed on my desk. It consists of a letter from a law firm in Saudi Arabia, #xrun by a man named Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Halogen bulbto a group of newspapers in Scandinavia. I quote directly from its main paragraphs:
Over the past months my law firm has been contacted by several thousand descendants of the Prophet, who have learned about your newspaper's republication of the drawing, depicting their esteemed ancestor as a terrorist suicide bomber with a bomb in his turban.
As descendants of the Prophet,State Flags, these individuals feel personally insulted, emotionally distressed and defamed by your newspaper's re-publication of the drawing. They have therefore retained my law firm and instructed me to approach you …
So that's the stupid part—the idea that people who claim descent from a seventh-century warlord and preacher have standing to sue for hurt feelings. Halogen bulbThe nasty bit comes a few paragraphs later:
[I]t is my belief that your newspaper's fulfillment of the above-mentioned conditions would be perceived as a sign of respect and understanding throughout the Muslim world in general, and your newspaper might thus help resolve the severe conflict, which your re-publication of the drawing has created. #xAs you may be aware, this conflict is still affecting Danish and Arab interests, in particular in the Middle East, where a number of Danish products are still being boycotted.
It is impossible not to notice the element of threat and menace contained in the second extract. It's not difficult to remind Danes of the organized campaign of hysterical retribution, ranging from the burnings of embassies to the mob-killing of civilians, that followed the first publication of some mild caricatures of the prophet Mohammed in 2005. Only a little further backstory is required: In 2008, it was discovered that a cell of eager murderers was planning to kill those who authored the caricatures, and in solidarity a large number of Danish newspapers reprinted the drawings in order to express their support for freedom of speech. Then, on New Year's 2009,#x a Somali fundamentalist chopped his way into the house of 74-year-old cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who was having a sleepover with his granddaughter, and very nearly succeeded in axing them both to death. The apology for all this, however, is supposed to be forthcoming not from the aggressors and inciters but from their victims. Late last month, Halogen bulbCopenhagen newspaper Politiken agreed to make a public apology on the terms dictated by the Yamani law firm.
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Frequent-shopper cards helped pinpoint source of a Salmonella outbreak
Those cards Bee Propolis Softgelyou swipe at grocery stores — sure, #xthey'll shave some money off your bill and give stores all kinds of info about your food and personal-toiletry preferences — well, now they're a public health tool.
With shoppers' permission,Bee Propolis Softgel the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used purchases by people who got sick in a recent Bee Propolis SoftgelSalmonella outbreak to trace the source of contaminated food to salami made in Rhode Island. #xThat allowed them to finger the pepper that was used in the salami.
Here's the Associated Press article about it. #xIt was apparently the first time the CDC ever used such cards Bee Propolis Softgelto figure out the source of a food poisoning outbreak.
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Ron Howard talks about the Heidi Montag and 'SNL'
Ron Howard talks about the Heidi Montag and 'SNL' presidents Funny or Die videos
Ron Howard talks about the Heidi Montag and 'SNL' presidents Funny or Die videos
Oscar-winning director Ron Howard recently made a couple of hilarious videos for Funny or Die starring the SNL presidents and Heidi Montag as a way to help support the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Hydraulic power packHoward talked to EW.com about the brilliant minds behind the videos (embedded after the jump), #xwhat it was like to work with Heidi, why he likes working on the Internet, and what’s going on with that Arrested Development movie.
EW: Where did you get the idea for doing these clips?
RON HOWARD: During the campaign, I did a spot for bringing out the vote and supporting Obama, with Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler. It was this idea I had. I needed a little help and a little infrastructure to get it going. Judd Apatow guided me to Adam McKay and Funnyordie.com. The support was great and really helped me bring that to fruition. And then I happily stepped out of the political frontline. (Laughs)
A couple months ago, I met Elizabeth Warren. We were talking about this Consumer Financial Protection Agency. She made the point that the Consumer Product Safety Agency prevents us from having lead in toys and hairdryers that blow up, and that sort of thing. Our financial well-being needs looking after,Hydraulic power pack as well. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being poured into lobbying efforts to try to prevent this Consumer Financial Protection Agency. She was frustrated by it.
The composer Hans Zimmer, who I work with a lot, is very close with [Simpsons producer James L.] Brooks. We started talking about what we could do. I brought in Adam McKay.#x Jim Brooks brought in Al Jean from The Simpsons.
Quite the brain trust there!
We started cooking up ideas. Brooks kept saying, “We need a direct plea to call the senators and register concern.” So Mike Farrell, one of the producers at Funny or Die,托盘, Hydraulic power packthought of Heidi. It was quickly written. We found out that Heidi wanted to do it. I said that I’d show up and direct it.#x It was fun! She was incredibly well-prepared, she was excited about doing it, and she believed in the idea.
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Mom: Autopsy Finds Corey Haim Suffered Pulmonary C
Mom: Autopsy Finds Corey Haim Suffered Pulmonary Congestion
Mom: Autopsy Finds Corey Haim Suffered Pulmonary Congestion
The official autopsy results for Corey Haim have not been released publicly, #xbut his mother says the coroner called her to disclose the actor suffered pulmonary congestion.
In an interview with Access Hollywood, Construction MachineryJudy Haim says an autopsy also found he had an enlarged heart along with the water in the lungs.
What role those factors played,Metal halide lamps, if any, in Haim's death isn't known. L.A. Coroner Chief Craig Harvey confirms that the autopsy was completed at 11 a.m. Thursday, but notes, "There is no final cause of death at this time."
"The final cause of death has been deferred pending additional tests that have been ordered," he says.
Shortly before his death Wednesday at age 38, Haim complained of flu-like symptoms and had a high fever.#x His former fiancée, Tiffany Shepis, also tells PEOPLE the actor had long suffered from heart problems.
"Every time he would go to a doctor they'd tell him he had really bad arrhythmia, probably due to clogged arteries," she says. "They all said he should have it taken care of. But, Construction Machinerybeing from Canada, his insurance was there, so he never went and got it done."
Shepis, who was engaged to Haim briefly between 2008 and 2009, says he also struggled with addiction. "His problem was with prescription drugs – painkillers and Valium," she says. "His addictions are common knowledge. #xAnd the longer [you] are addicted to something, the harder it is for you to quit.Construction Machinery And that's what he was facing."
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India’s Stocks Fall on Concern Stimulus Program W
India’s Stocks Fall on Concern Stimulus Program Will Be Unwound
India’s Stocks Fall on Concern Stimulus Program Will Be Unwound
Indian stocks fell after the U.S. Federal Reserve increased its discount rate for the first time in more than three years, fueling concern the government may scale back measures to boost the economy in next week’s budget.
DLF Ltd., India’s biggest developer,#x lost 1.6 percent. Hindalco Industries Ltd., Metal halide bulbthe biggest aluminum producer, paced declines among metal producers as prices fell.
“We’re holding cash,” said Manish Sonthalia, a fund manager who helps oversee the equivalent of $190 million of equities at Motilal Oswal Securities Ltd. in Mumbai. “There will be some exit from stimulus in the budget. There will be a tightening bias everywhere, India will be no exception.”
The Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensitive Index, or Sensex, declined for a second day, dropping 137.66, or 0.8 percent, to 16,190.18 at 9:31 a.m. in Mumbai. The slide pared gains this week to 0.2 percent. The S&P CNX Nifty Index on the National Stock Exchange lost 0.9 percent to 4,843.95. #xThe BSE 200 Index retreated 0.8 percent to 2,052.01.
DLF fell 1.6 percent to 298.95 rupees.Metal halide bulb Hindalco slid 1.6 percent to 150.1 rupees. Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd., the largest copper and zinc producer, declined 2.4 percent to 752 rupees. Commodity shares will be the most vulnerable as stimulus is withdrawn, Sonthalia said.
Wind Down Stimulus
India’s government, which last year boosted spending to spur growth, presents its annual spending plan on Feb. 26. The nation must wind down stimulus measures Chakravarthy Rangarajan,Construction Equipment, the Prime Minister’s chief economic adviser, said Feb. 10.
Gross domestic product in the world’s second-fastest growing major economy will probably increase 7.5 percent in the year ending March 31, its first annual expansion since 2007,Metal halide bulb Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Feb. 17. Mukherjee has cut taxes and stepped up government spending to provide stimulus worth more than 3.5 percent of GDP amid a global recession.
The Fed raised the discount rate from 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent effective Feb. 19 and said the move will encourage financial institutions to rely more on money markets,#x rather than the central bank, for short-term loans.
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Lighting audit leads to lighter bills for motor cr
Lighting audit leads to lighter bills for motor cross company Fox Head Inc.
Lighting audit leads to lighter bills for motor cross company Fox Head Inc.
With its products aimed at the adults of tomorrow, #xyouth and motor sports apparel designer and manufacturer Fox Head Inc. has made an investment in its own future — cutting its lighting costs by more than half.Metal halide lamp
Paul McDonald, facilities manager for the family-owned, privately held Fox Head, said company officials looked into energy efficiency by conducting an audit. The company surveyed its 37,000 square feet of headquarters office space in two buildings and 77,000-square-foot warehouse through the RightLights Efficient Lighting Program.
The program is a cooperative effort of Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and Ecology Action of Santa Cruz to help small and medium-size businesses throughout Santa Clara, San Benito,Metal halide lamp Santa Cruz and Monterey counties reduce their lighting bills.
“We met with our PG&E representative to review where we stood with our utility billings,katana,”#x McDonald said. “We had been lighting our warehouse with 400-watt, high-energy metal halide light fixtures.”
By switching out the light bulbs, the company has reduced its lighting costs at that site by 60 percent, or about $32,000 a year. McDonald said the switch-over results in a reduction of 269,000 kilowatt hours of lighting demand. The bulb switch will also decrease the company’s annual output of greenhouse gases by 141,000 pounds.Metal halide lamp
Walk-through saves money
PG&E put McDonald in touch with Ecology Action,#x a nonprofit environmental consulting business based in downtown Santa Cruz. People from the Ecology Action Energy Group conduct walk-through evaluations and issue rebate checks directly to companies that participate in the RightLights program.
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British postman fined for stealing energy-saving l
British postman fined for stealing energy-saving light bulbs
British postman fined for stealing energy-saving light bulbs
Homeowners in the Sheffield area were left in the dark when they awaited light bulb deliveries that never came. The Star reports that postman Paul Hallam, Energy saving lamp56, stole packages including DVDs,Metal halide lamps,#x Baileys liqueur samples and low-energy light bulbs.
Last November, Royal Mail's north east delivery office received notices that packages were not reaching their destination, #xwhich led to an investigation. Energy saving lampA search of Hallam's house revealed that the postman had not only stolen 11 first-class packages, but he had also been accepting money to deliver mobile advertisement flyers.
The thefts are relatively minor, but Hallam faces nearly $1,000 in fines and he will serve 120 hours of unpaid work as community reparation for his crimes.
Unfortunately, light bulb thefts are increasingly common - both in the UK and America. Earlier this year, a maintenance supervisor in Washington County, Ohio was arrested after $40,000 worth of light bulbs were not delivered to locals. Energy saving lamp#xAdditionally, three arrests were made in Indiana for light bulb thefts.
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US Government Presses Health Insurers On Rate Incr
US Government Presses Health Insurers On Rate Increases
US Government Presses Health Insurers On Rate Increases
Health insurers took more heat over rising premiums Monday as U.S. Pearl ringHealth and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called on managed-care companies to publicly justify rate increases and President Barack Obama cited a recent Wall Street conference call #xas evidence that the industry is willing and able to price out some customers.
Following a White House meeting last week with chief executives from several major health insurance companies, Sebelius sent the executives a letter Monday reiterating her request that they justify on their Web sites any individual or small-group rate increases.
The letter went to the four largest publicly traded health insurers--WellPoint Inc.#x (WLP), UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH),中小企业国际市场开拓资金, Aetna Inc. (AET) and Cigna Corp. (CI)--and to customer-owned Health Care Service Corp.
Shares of the four stocks, like those in most of the managed-care industry, fell Monday, Pearl ringwith UnitedHealth being the biggest decliner, down 1.8% in midday trading.
"It's time for these insurance company CEOs to do their part to make the system more transparent for the American people. If insurance companies are going to raise rates, the least they can do is tell us why," the secretary said in a release.
In the letter, she asked the health insurance chief executives to post on their Web sites their estimates on medical cost and utilization increases and the basis for those estimates; reasons for premium increases that outpace medical cost growth; an explanation of company efforts to improve health-care affordability; information on the percentage of premium revenue spent on medical claims, administrative costs, executive salaries and other costs; the number of people whose experience is used to raise rates; and other data.
The health insurance industry has emphasized the need to control soaring medical costs, which they blame for higher rates, and object to the administration's heavy emphasis on insurers. #xThe industry also attributes higher rates to younger, healthier people dropping coverage.
"We agree with the goals outlined by Secretary Sebelius and would participate in a comprehensive program that included all players across the health-care industry, not only in the insurance sector," Pearl ringWellPoint spokesman Kristin Binns said.
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Vanity Fair welcomes Oscar's brightest stars for a
Vanity Fair welcomes Oscar's brightest stars for annual afterparty
Vanity Fair welcomes Oscar's brightest stars for annual afterparty
Although the winners of the 82nd Academy Awards might have been a roll of the dice,Diamond blades Vanity Fair's post-Oscar party is a sure thing. This year was no exception.#x
Held at West Hollywood's Sunset Tower Hotel, nominees, winners and celebrity guests joined VF editor in chief Graydon Carter for the annual exclusive fete.
Young, old, werewolf and human peppered the gathering -- from Joan and Jackie Collins to Taylor Lautner and Zac Efron.
Meryl Streep perched on a couch,Diamond blades chatting up pregnant Amy Adams, while Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard huddled in a corner talking to pal Carey Mulligan. Michael Bay loomed near Jessica Simpson, #xMarc Anthony, Heidi Klum and Harvey Weinstein in the Terrace Room.
Charlize Theron and her mother,DVD Ripper, Gerda, bypassed Ed Norton and Shauna Robertson to mingle with Suzanne Somers, Joe and Nick Jonas, Tyler Perry, Russell Brand and Katy Perry and Sean Penn.
A very formal Giovanni Ribisi spoke at length with a casually dressed Beck; nearby, Oscar producer Adam Shankman talked the telecast with Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt.#x
Sarah Silverman introduced herself to Spike Lee, Diamond bladeswhile Vera Wang danced to Michael Jackson's "PYT" with her Olympic medalist muse, Evan Lysacek.
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McCamey named to All-Big Ten team
McCamey named to All-Big Ten team
McCamey named to All-Big Ten team
Illinois junior guard Demetri McCamey has been named to the All-Big Ten first team, #xthe conference announced on Monday.
McCamey,DVD Ripper, who averaged 14.9 points and 6.8 assists per game for the Illini, Energy saving bulbsjoins Michigan State's Kalin Lucas, Purdue's Robbie Hummel and E'Twaun Moore and Ohio State's Evan Turner in winning All-Big Ten honors.
Turner, who averaged 19.5 points per game, 5.8 assists and 9.4 rebounds, was recognized by coaches and media as the Big Ten Player of the Year. He's a former teammate of McCamey's at St. Joseph's High School in Westchester.
Northwestern forward John Shurna was named to the All-Big Ten second team.Energy saving bulbs
Honorable mention nods went to Illini center Mike Tisdale and Northwetsern guard Michael Thompson.
The coaches named Purdue's Chris Kramer the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year. Rounding out the conference's All-Defensive team are: Northwestern's Jeremy Nash, Ohio State's Dallas Lauderdale, Purdue's JaJuan Johnson and Wisconsin's Trevon Hughes.
Big Ten coaches also chose Illini forward D.J. Richardson as the conference's top freshman, Energy saving bulbswhile the media recognized Northwestern guard Drew Crawford. Both were named to the Big Ten All-Freshman team.
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Durbin: Insurance Company Premiums—And Profits—Soar At Families' Expense
March 8, 2010. Illinoisans are facing up to a 60 percent increase in health insurance premiums this year at the same time that insurance companies are benefiting from some of the highest profits in their history,#x Health foodU.S. Senator Dick Durbin said today a news conference to highlight the need for healthcare reform.
“Families are facing skyrocketing costs,” Durbin said. “Emergency rooms are overflowing. Health centers are struggling to meet the increasing demand. Yet insurance companies continue to raise premiums for hardworking families and, consequently, their profit margins. ”Over the past decade, Americans have seen health insurance premiums increase 131 percent, while wages have increased just 38 percent. In the time since the recession began, an estimated 4,000,000 additional Americans have lost their health insurance. On average, nearly 11,000 workers each day lose their coverage. Health care spending now represents 17.3 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product—a growth of 1.1 percent from 2008. This represents the biggest one-year expansion of health care’s share of the economy since the federal government began keeping records in 1960.
Recent economic data show that profits for the ten largest insurance companies increased 250 percent between 2000 and 2009, ten times faster than inflation. Last year, the five largest health insurance companies—WellPoint, UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, Aetna, and Humana—took in combined profits of $12.2 billion, up 56 percent over 2008.
In Illinois, insurance companies are increasing their premiums at unbelievable rates—up to 60 percent.Health food For people in the individual market—more than 500,000 Illinoisans—base rates will go up from 8.5 percent to more than 60 percent this year. Factors like health status, gender, #xage, place of residence and length of a policy could all raise premiums even further.
Insurance companies claim the premium increases are necessary given the rise in health care costs. However, some of the premium increases requested by insurance companies are 5 to 10 times larger than the growth rate in national health expenditures.
“While there is much we don’t know about what will be included in the final healthcare reform bill, here’s what we do know: unprecedented and unexplained hikes in premiums will be a thing of the past,” Durbin said. “The bill will end insurance company abuses that prevent people from getting the healthcare they need. Insurance companies will no longer be able to deny coverage because of pre-existing conditions or place annual limits on benefits,google优化, rationing care when patients need it most.”
“The bill will extend the protection of health insurance to over 30 million Americans, #xHealth foodincluding people who are self-employed or work for a small business, people who have a pre-existing condition and people who change jobs or lose their jobs. It’s what Americans deserve and we’re too close to let this opportunity pass us by,” Durbin said.
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Specialty may bias doctors' prostate cancer advice
Specialty may bias doctors' prostate cancer advice
Specialty may bias doctors' prostate cancer advice
This is problematic, the study's authors say,Ray Ban sunglasses because none of the options now available for treating localized prostate cancer have been shown to be any better than the others.#x
"The different treatments for prostate cancer...entail different side effects, different recovery profiles, and they require different time commitments," Dr. Thomas L. Jang of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey in New Brunswick, one of the study's authors, told Reuters Health. For this reason, he and his colleagues say, it should be the patient's preferences -- rather than the physician's specialty -- that guides treatment decisions.
Current options available for treating prostate cancer that has not spread include watchful waiting, in which a patient receives no treatment but is monitored closely; hormone therapy; radiation therapy; or surgery to remove the prostate. Radiation and surgery both carry the risk of urinary incontinence and impotence;Ray Ban sunglasses hormone therapy can cause hot flashes, breast tenderness, and loss of sex drive; while watchful waiting may lead to anxiety in men who fear their cancer will spread.
Surveys have suggested that specialists are more likely to recommend the type of treatment they provide,Compact fluorescent lamp; for example, radiation oncologists prefer radiation therapy, while urologists choose surgery.#x
To investigate whether the type of physician a prostate cancer saw would actually influence the type of treatment he got, Jang and his team looked at Medicare data on more than 85,000 men 65 and older diagnosed between 1994 and 2002 with localized prostate cancer. Within nine months of diagnosis, 21 percent had undergone prostate removal; 42 percent had radiation; 17 percent had hormone therapy; and 20 percent watchful waiting. Jang conducted the study, which is published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, while at Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.Ray Ban sunglasses
Half of the men had only seen a urologist, while 44 percent had seen a radiation oncologist and a urologist, 3 percent had seen a urologist and a medical oncologist, and 3 percent had seen all three specialists.
One-third of the men who had only seen a urologist underwent prostate surgery, and surgery was the most common treatment for the men who were 65 to 74 years old and only saw a urologist. However, among men of any age who saw a radiation oncologist as well as a urologist, Ray Ban sunglassesradiation therapy was the most common treatment;#x 83 percent of these men received radiation therapy.
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Which e-book reader best fits your lifestyle?
Which e-book reader best fits your lifestyle?
Which e-book reader best fits your lifestyle?
"I love to read. I like the feel of a Nail Art'real' book and often am reading more than one a time." #x
Get a Kindle. The e-ink screen simulates a real book incredibly well and you can store a library of up to 3000 books.
"I read regularly, usually in bed or while traveling,Military Flags, but I'm not a voracious reader."
It's a toss-up. If you travel more than once a year or tend to read thick hardcovers, consider the Kindle if only for the ease of taking it with you. If you're easily distracted, consider the iPad so you have other entertainment options. If you already carry a lot of technology with you, test drive an e-reader application on your laptop or smartphone (Amazon's Kindle app and Barnes & Noble's nook app are both free).
"I read when I have time or when find a book I'm really interested in. I usually don't read more than a few books a year."
Stick with the real deal. If you're curious about the e-reader experience, consider downloading the free Kindle or Barnes & Noble reader software for your computer or smartphone. If you decide to upgrade to the full reader later, you can take your e-books with you.
"I want an e-reader, but I already have an iPhone/iPod Touch/netbook."
Get an app. Download an e-reader application for your computer or smartphone so you don't have to carry yet another device with you.
"I've been thinking about getting a little netbook computer for traveling or to have as a second machine, but I'm also interested in an e-reader."
Consider the iPad. No sense in getting two devices when one#x will give you everything you are looking for. The only caveat? If you have trouble with eyestrain, the iPad's backlit screen could prove problematic.
"I'm curious about e-readers, but my eyes aren't what they used to be." Nail Art
Get a Kindle. The e-ink screen is as easy on the eyes as the real thing, and you can adjust the font and size to your liking.
"Is all this technology really necessary?"
You're a Kindle sort. It's non-threatening, easy to learn and affordable for most budgets.
"I love magazines and newspapers, but books are too much commitment for me."
Try the iPad. Magazines and newspapers aren't readily available yet in the e-reader formats, and those that are tend to be clunky. Magazines especially suffer without the colorful, large layouts and pictures that appear in their print pages. But with the relatively large, color screen on the iPad and the potential of apps, the iPad could provide a breakthrough.
"I want an e-reader for textbooks or to view PDF files or manuals." #x
iPad or Kindle DX. Nail ArtThe larger screen keeps page layouts and diagrams intact.
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HVP recall poses safety questions
HVP recall poses safety questions
HVP recall poses safety questions
It sounds more like a chemical than a food ingredient Truck Coverand until this week most consumers had probably never heard of hydrolyzed vegetable protein - let alone realized the additive is found in thousands of processed foods.#x
But news that millions of kilograms of the ingredient - which is shipped to food manufacturers across North America to add to flavoured snacks and other pre-packaged foods - is now the subject of a massive salmonella recall has some consumers asking tough questions of the food industry.
In Canada, domestically produced soup mixes, dips, popcorn seasoning and flavoured chips made the recall list this week, which is expected to balloon into what U.S. authorities warn could become one of the largest food recalls in North America.
Additive manufacturers like Basic Food Flavors, Inc., the Nevada-based company at the centre of the HVP recall, start out with vegetable scraps or soy extracts. They are boiled in hydrochloric acid, then neutralized with sodium hydroxide. The acid breaks down the protein into amino acids, their building blocks.
At the end of the process, one of the remaining amino acids is glutamic acid, Truck Covermore commonly known in the form of its sodium salt,NCR parts, monosodium glutamate or MSG.
HVP contains all the amino acids making up the protein, but glutamic acid is the effective flavour enhancer, said Keith Warriner, food science professor at the University of Guelph.#x
"What used to be used is just pure glutamic acid, usually called monosodium glutamate, because that's what gives products that sort of meaty flavour.
"But it's a bit expensive to produce. So what they do is take some high-protein foods, like soy for example, and they'll hydrolyze it by boiling it in acid."
None of this sounds very appetizing to Daniel Raillant-Clark.#x
The Montrealer figured out in his teenage yearsTruck Cover that consuming processed foods with MSG gave him debilitating migraines, knocking him off his feet for two days.
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Sy, Tan join Forbes' list of world billionaires
Sy, Tan join Forbes' list of world billionaires
Sy, Tan join Forbes' list of world billionaires
Only two businessmen from the Philippines made it to Forbes magazine's list of the world's billionaires: Welding HoseHenry Sy and Lucio Tan, Jr.
Published last March 10, Forbes' list#x of "The World's Billionaires" estimated Sy and family's networth at $4.2 billion (est. P192 billion), landing him on the 201st slot.
Tan and family, on the other hand, landed on the 582nd slot with estimated net worth of $1.7 billion (est. P78 billion).
Since the magazine's list of The Philippines' Richest 40 published last August, 2009, Sy's wealth has increased 10% from $3.8 billion. Tan's wealth did not change.
Jaime Zobel de Ayala was the third billionaire from the Philippines in the 2009 list, #xbut he was not included in the 2010 cut-offThe 2010 list named 937 billionaires all over the world, with Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu, 70, beating Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffet as the world wealthiest person on earth for the the first time.
Slim's fortune was estimated at $53.5 billion, Welding Hoseedging out Bill Gates' $53 billion and Buffett's $47 billion. Gates held the title of the world's richest in 14 of the past 15 years.
Asia's richest
Neither Sy nor Tan made it to Asia's top 25 billionaires whose wealth ranged from $29 billion to $7 billion.
Of the 25 richest Asians, businessmen from Indians stood out as the region's richest. India has 10 out of the top 25,beads, Hong Kong and Japan each have 5, while mainland China has just one.
Businessmen from China, however, have passed India in terms of number of billionaires who made it to the global list
Mukesh Ambani ($29 billion) is the richest in Asia and took the 4th slot in the world's#x richest list. Welding HoseHe owns the conglomerate Reliance Industries, India's most valuable company.
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