Archive for January, 2008
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[?]Submitted by Healthy Foods and Eating Healthy Blog
There are two broad quality categories of wine in the European Union: table wine and quality wine. On average, less than five percent of an annual German wine harvest goes into table wine production.
The quality wines from the 13 […]
Today in Biofuels: US Budget to “deal with” Brazilian ethanol tariff; $114 million awarded to four US cellulosic ethanol projects; France may reverse biofuels policy
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[?]Submitted by Biofuels Digest Blog
Top Story:
In Washington, U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman, commenting on the future of the ethanol tariff, said that the Bush Administration “will start to deal with that question” in the 2009 US Budget due in Congress on Monday. The 54-cent tariff, which primarily applies to Brazilian ethanol, […]
Treading Lightly…
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[?]Submitted by My Ambitions as a Trader and Investor
Since everyone and their mother is expecting the Fed to cut rates by half a point, I’ve decided to sit on the sidelines. Although I still have a few holdings (AUXL and IMAX are recent additions), I am not buying anything else until […]
BroadWebAsia Ups the Ante for Linktone
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[?]Submitted By Knobias ClipReport
BroadWebAsia, Inc. (”BWA”) disclosed in a Tuesday press release that it has presented a formal proposal for the investment in, and restructuring of, Linktone Ltd. (NASDAQ: LTON), which it believes offers superior value to a previously announced agreement recently entered into between Linktone and PT Media Nusantara Citra […]
WuXi PharmaTech Puts Squeeze on Suppliers
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[?]Submitted by BioHealth Investor, ChinaBio Today
WuXi PharmaTech (WX) held a conference yesterday with its suppliers. Following a classic good-news/bad-news theme, the Shanghai-based CRO told its suppliers that it expected to increase spending between 50% and 100%, but at the same time, the company asked suppliers for better terms: longer payment periods, […]
Statins - who needs them and why?
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[?]Submitted by PharmaGossip Blog
The NYT’s Tara Parker Pope investigates:
But many statin users don’t have established heart disease; they simply have high cholesterol. For healthy men, for women with or without heart disease and for people over 70, there is little evidence, if any, that taking a statin will make a […]
Homoeopathy - the end is nigh!
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[?]Submitted by PharmaGossip Blog
At long last UK NHS primary care trusts are slashing funding for homoeopathic treatment amid debate about its efficacy and the drive to cuts costs, a study has suggested.
More than a quarter have stopped or cut funding for such services, research by the GP magazine Pulse […]
Floridians say: “So long Rudy”
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[?]Submitted by PharmaGossip Blog
Hat tip: http://ideagrove.com/blog/
FDA - Hear hear!
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[?]Submitted by PharmaGossip Blog
All is not well at the FDA.
Commish Andy had to listen to four hours of “critique”.
“I think we’ve had a cascade of serious warning signs that the levies are leaking,” Garret. FitzGerald of the University of Pennsylvania, a member of the agency’s Science Board, tells the paper. […]
Is Visine Good For Skin Spots?
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[?]Submitted by The Beauty Brains Blog
Leah sees spots: My grandmother always says to put a drop of Visine on spots. I’ve never done it, but was curious as to whether there is any truth in this. And would it damage the skin?
The Right Brain’s red-eyed reply:
Visine reduces red eye because its […]
Penny Stock Picks Submitted By Dr. PennyStock
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[?]Submitted by Dr. PennyStock
Attention to these penny stocks:
DLAV - May try to break the PAR SAR at 0.00436, ADX and MACD with buy signal.
SYDI - Has resistance at 0.0023, in my opinion will break this resistance, next one at 0.00318 (PAR SAR).
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How To Train Yourself To Slow Down Time
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[?]Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
This report from New Scientist basically boils down this - the more aware you are of the passage of time, the faster that time seems to go by. By reducing your perception of how much time is actually ticking by, and by allowing yourself to slow down, […]
Foreclosure Pets, You Can Make a Difference - Call to Action
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[?]Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
If you watch the news, you’ll see more and more stories about these most innocent victims of this financial hell our country seems to be going through; Foreclosure Pets. The headlines ring out; “Foreclosures At An All Time High,” “Foreclosures Leads to […]
Ender’s Video Game
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[?]Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
Orson Scott Card’s novel is now becoming a game:
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My 5 Simple Nutrition Rules
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[?]Submitted by Turbulence Training Blog
I truly believe that nutrition is the biggest, by far, component of a good fat loss program.
There’s a saying in the fitness industry, “you can’t out-train a bad diet”, and that hold’s true almost 100% of the time (and especially as you get older). […]
Guerilla War: a hall-of-shame embarrassment
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[?]Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
I think some time should be taken now to make a note on an atrocity of a game that whitewashed the crimes of a monster who was in truth just that: Che Guevara.
I once found an example of Che Guevara whitewashing on this fansite for […]
Video of Hell Fire
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Prevention Of Hamstring Injuries Is The Best Cure
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[?]Submitted by My Fitness Hut Blog
There are few injuries as bothersome and harder to recover from than hamstring injuries. Prevention of hamstring injuries is the best solution. Similarly, weak hamstrings can lead to other serious injuries. For example, female athletes tend to have weaker hamstrings because they use their quadriceps muscles […]
Nancy Davenport Ennis: Patient Advocate Crusader…
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[?]Submitted by The Stupid Cancer Blog
Long before she took on America’s embattled health-care system, Nancy Davenport-Ennis was riding high. She was a national speaker for the homebuilding and real estate industry, teaching classes at the University of North Carolina and writing a textbook about selling new homes.
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IT’S STILL ALL ABOUT REAL ESTATE
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[?]Submitted by The Capital Spectator
Today’s first guess at fourth-quarter GDP revealed what everyone already knew: the economy slowed sharply in the last three months of 2007 to a 0.6% annual pace in real (inflation-adjusted) terms, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported. That’s a world or two below the third quarter’s 4.9% […]
Stimulus Package Nitwitery
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
There are three ways government can get the money for a stimulus package. It can tax, borrow or inflate the currency by printing money. If government taxes to hand out money, one person is stimulated at the expense of another who pays the tax, who is unstimulated and […]
P.J. O’Rourke on Comedy Central
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
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If Not the Economy, It Might Stimulate Votes?
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The Use and Abuse of Data: Two Excellent Commentaries
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[?]Submitted by A Dash of Insight
In the current issue of Barron’s Mike Santoli has some special insight for those trying to interpret the many historical analogies making the rounds. He writes:
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Caffeine: Why it helps during exercise
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[?]Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
In endurance events, the first cause of fatigue is loss of muscle sugar, so athletes do whatever they can to preserve sugar levels. Caffeine causes the body to produce large amounts of adrenalin, which causes fat to be released from fat cells and […]
