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Pats rout Colts 59-24 but Gronkowski injures arm

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) ? The New England Patriots defense came alive just in time. It may have to make an even bigger contribution with Rob Gronkowski likely out for a while with an arm injury.

The touchdown catches and powerful blocks the tight end is known for will be missing after he was hurt late in the fourth quarter of Sunday' 59-24 win over the Indianapolis Colts.

Gronkowski scored on completions of 4 and 24 yards from Tom Brady, giving him 10 touchdowns and making him the first tight end in NFL history with at least 10 touchdowns in three straight seasons. He finished the game with seven catches for 137 yards and is second on the team with 53 receptions.

"Rob does a great job for us," coach Bill Belichick said after the game, "blocking, receiving, third down, red area. He's a good player."

Belichick didn't mention the injury, which the Patriots identified as affecting his arm without saying which one. Comcast SportsNet New England said Gronkowski broke his forearm while blocking on the extra point after the final touchdown.

The Patriots gave no timetable for his return. They have six games left, starting Thursday night at the New York Jets.

They didn't need Gronkowski's touchdowns on Sunday, not when one of the NFL's worst pass defenses scored on interception returns of 59 yards by newcomer Aqib Talib and 87 yards by rookie Alfonzo Dennard.

Dennard watched himself on the video board as he raced to the end zone. He wanted to see if Andrew Luck, who threw the pass, might catch him.

"I went to the sideline and (safety Devin McCourty) was like, 'If the quarterback would've caught you, you know we would've given you stuff about it," he said.

The Patriots lead the NFL with 35.8 points a game and tied their single-game scoring record on Sunday.

"The coaches want us to play aggressive," said Dennard, whose touchdown made it 45-17. "So that's what I was doing out there."

The first matchup between three-time Super Bowl winner Brady and star rookie Luck was no match. Brady threw three touchdown passes. Luck threw three interceptions.

"They're good enough," Luck said. "They don't need those gifts, but to their credit, they created those and we didn't."

The loss of Gronkowski could be costly. The Patriots other tight end, Aaron Hernandez, has missed the last three games and six overall, after spraining his ankle. That leaves three healthy tight ends ? Daniel Fells, Michael Hoomanawanui and Visanthe Shiancoe ? and they've totaled just four catches.

The Patriots forced four turnovers. Rob Ninkovich's fifth forced fumble of the season ? knocking the ball out of Luck's hand ? set up Gronkowski's second scoring grab on the next play.

"We knew we couldn't come here and turn the football over and have a chance to win," Colts interim coach Bruce Arians said. "We've got a lot of rookies out there so every week is a learning experience. It was a bad learning experience."

The Colts (6-4) had their four-game winning streak stopped. The Patriots (7-3) won their fourth straight game and extended their lead in the AFC East to three games.

Even so, Brady doesn't want the Patriots to start patting themselves on the back.

"I don't think we're anywhere (near) where we need to be at this point," he said.

Julian Edelman scored on a 68-yard punt return three plays before Talib's interception put the Patriots ahead to stay, 21-14.

"I don't think guys panicked" after that one-two punch, Luck said. "Playing hard is not enough, as evidenced tonight."

Brady completed 24 of 35 passes for 331 yards and no interceptions. Luck was 27 for 50 for two touchdowns and 334 yards and set an NFL record as the first rookie with five 300-yard games.

The Colts were competitive for one half. The Patriots led 24-17 heading into the third quarter.

Then the Patriots scored on passes of 2 yards to Edelman and 24 yards to Gronkowski and Dennard's interception return.

Luck followed with a 43-yard scoring pass to T.Y. Hilton, the second of the game to the fellow rookie, but the Patriots responded with touchdown runs of 3 yards by Stevan Ridley and 4 yards by Shane Vereen.

The game began with touchdowns on the first three series: a 1-yard run by Delone Carter of the Colts, a 4-yard pass from Brady to Gronkowski, and a 14-yard pass from Luck to Hilton.

"A lot of plays motivated the defense," said Talib, playing his first game since being obtained from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. "About that third or fourth (Colts) series, we kind of got into it. It was kind of quiet out there early (then) we started talking."

The Patriots obtained him before last Sunday's 37-31 win over Buffalo. But he sat that one out to complete a four-game suspension for violating the NFL policy on performance-enhancing substances.

Notes: The Colts outgained the Patriots 448 yards to 446. ... The 59 points equals the Patriots record set in a 59-0 win over the Tennessee Titans on Oct. 18, 2009. ... The Patriots are 18-0 in the second half of the season starting in 2010. ... Welker stretched his streak to 104 games with at least one reception. ... Reggie Wayne tied Cris Carter's NFL mark with 58 consecutive games with at least three catches.

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The Gilded Age: Lesser Figures Of The Enlightenment

Jean-David Mansuer and Pierre Pluteau

The individual contributions of these French economists are considered marginal, yet they are remembered because of a single incident in 1801. When Pluteau arrived at his favorite restaurant to find Mansuer seated at his regular table, he became enraged, even though several other tables were available. After a lengthy philosophical argument the men fought a duel on the muddy banks of the Seine. Both drowned. A community council was convened to prevent future needless deaths, and today Mansuer and Pluteau are jointly credited with the notion of call-ahead reservations.

To read more, download our new weekly iPad magazine, Huffington, in the iTunes App store. This story appears in Issue 25, available Friday, Nov. 30.

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Olive oil - a fast growing market

On the first 8 months of this year, the olive oil exports in Portugal increased 40 % in comparison with the same time period of the last year. Now, the exportations in the sector are worth 161 million euros: the best result ever and an increase of 88 % in comparison with 2006. Brazil gets from Portugal 40 % of all the olive oil that consumes. Next, the market goes to Spain and Italy. Here Portugal has its?top three olive oil buyers.

About the future of the olive oil sales in foreign countries, the expectations are all about constant growing. In the time period between 2016 and 2020 the predictions say that the growing will be around 30 % more in comparison with 2011-2014. Acushla (picture), aware of the importance of international markets, already exports 80 % of the global production of organic olive oil.

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Report: Steps can reduce preterm births _ a little

Map shows country by country data on premature births

Map shows country by country data on premature births

WASHINGTON (AP) ? For all the miracle stories of tiny preemies who survive, the sad reality is that scientists know far too little about what triggers premature birth and how to prevent it. And despite some recent progress, the U.S. has a far higher rate of preterm births than other similar nations.

On Thursday, an international coalition said there are a handful of proven protections ? and if the U.S. and other developed countries do a better job of using them, together they could keep 58,000 babies a year from being born too soon.

That's a blip in the global epidemic of prematurity: About 15 million preterm babies are born every year, most of them in Africa and parts of Asia where the priority is to improve care of these fragile newborns. More than 1 million premature infants die, mostly in developing countries, and survivors can suffer lifelong disabilities.

But in wealthier countries, where sophisticated medical care already keeps most preemies alive, the focus is shifting to how to prevent these births in the first place. Nearly 1 in 10 births across the developed world are preterm, and about 1 in 8 in the U.S. Only recently have rates begun leveling off or dropping in many of these countries after years of steady increases.

Thursday's report makes clear just how hard additional progress on that front will be ? projecting an average 5 percent drop in preterm birth rates across the highest-income countries by 2015, if they follow the new advice.

"Shockingly, very little reduction is currently possible," specialists with the World Health Organization, Save the Children, U.S. National Institutes of Health, March of Dimes and other groups reported in The Lancet.

But even that improvement would translate into about $3 billion in annuals savings from medical bills and lost productivity, the group calculated. Nearly half that savings would be in the U.S.

The bigger message: It's time for a major scientific push to figure out the causes of preterm birth and find some better ways to intervene.

"I don't think it's hopeless at all," said report co-author Dr. Catherine Spong, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at NIH who points to clues that infections and inflammation affecting the mother play a yet-to-be-understood role.

Because healthier babies grow into healthier adults, "if you could improve pregnancy outcomes, you could improve the health of the nation, quite honestly," she added.

Over half a million U.S. babies are born premature, before completion of the 37th week of pregnancy. That's 11.7 percent of the babies born in 2011, the lowest rate of preterm birth in a decade and down from a peak of 12.8 percent in 2006, the March of Dimes reported earlier this week.

Contrast that with Japan and Sweden, where fewer than 6 percent of births are premature, or Canada and Britain where fewer than 8 percent are.

Last spring, this same international coalition provided the first country-by-country estimates of preterm births and recommended some inexpensive steps that developing countries could take to improve preemie survival. Thursday's follow-up analyzed trends in developed countries, to come up with advice on preventing prematurity.

The report recommends:

?Nearly eliminating the practice of inducing labor and C-sections scheduled much ahead of mom's due date unless they're medically necessary. Much of the recent U.S. improvement comes from reducing elective early deliveries, leading to a drop in "late preemies," babies born a few weeks early.

?Helping women to quit smoking. Smoking at some point during pregnancy varies widely, from 10 percent in Canada to 23 percent in the U.S. and 30 percent in Spain, the report found.

?Providing regular injections of the hormone progesterone to certain women at high risk, largely because of a prior preterm birth. A recent NIH survey of obstetricians found just 21 percent of eligible patients received the shots.

?Putting a stitch into the cervix of certain high-risk women, those who have what's called a short cervix.

?Using just one embryo, not multiples, when in vitro fertilization is used.

The impact would vary. The U.S. could see an 8 percent drop in its preterm birth rate by 2015 if it fully implemented these steps, the report estimated, while countries such as Sweden that already have far fewer preemies would see their rates inch down only slightly more, by about 2 percent.

Having one preemie greatly increases the risk for another. Other risk factors include pregnancy before age 17 or over 40, and the mother's own health conditions, such as being underweight or overweight, or having diabetes or high blood pressure. That's why it's so important for women to have good care, not only early in pregnancy, but before they conceive, said the March of Dimes' Christopher Howson.

But all those factors explain only a portion of preterm birth. NIH's Spong pointed to efforts to understand how vaginal infections and inflammation may help trigger preterm labor.

Another mystery: Why African-American women are at higher risk, with a preterm birth rate of about 17 percent compared to under 11 percent among white women, Howson said.

Still, many women don't know that there are some protections, said Nikki Fleming of suburban Charlotte, N.C., who benefited from two of the steps recommended in Thursday's report and tries to spread the word.

Fleming's first baby, Lauren, was born at 26 weeks, weighing just over 2 pounds and spending her first five months in the hospital. Fortunately Lauren, now a healthy 8-year-old, fared well. But Fleming's next pregnancy ended in a miscarriage.

Her doctor determined that she would benefit from that cervical stitch as well as the progesterone shots. The result: two healthy full-term babies.

"I appreciate that they didn't treat it like an isolated incident," Fleming said.

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What Makes A Great Real Estate Investor - Business Insider

As I watch the election results come in from around the country, it?s hard not to contemplate all of the hard work each of the candidates invested to get to this point.

The thought of organizing a campaign of that magnitude while doing interviews, preparing for debates, managing campaign personnel, strategizing, etc. seems overwhelming for a single candidate.

Most people simply don?t have what it takes to ever legitimately run for elected office.

However, certain individuals have the skill sets, temperament and personality to endeavor to a nationally elected position.

I think the same holds true for real estate investors. There are certain character traits that are inherent in most real estate investors that enable them to be successful in what they aspire to. ?Just last week I was having lunch with an old college roommate who said something that I thought was quite profound.

As much as he was struggling to figure out what his next career move was going to be, he said he knew he wasn?t cut out to run his own business. While he is a very intelligent, hard-working individual, he knew his natural skill set simply doesn?t lend itself to being a business owner.

I think the same could be said about some people when it comes to real estate investing. Some folks simply don?t have the character traits that make a great investor.

Now when most people think about the kinds of adjectives that describe a successful investor, they think of words like creative, tenacious, self-starter, salesman, negotiator, persistent, and I would definitely agree with them.? These are definitely the type of qualities in an individual that will help them be good real estate investors. However, there are three character traits that are rarely discussed, but I would consider extremely valuable as a real estate investor:

The Three Essential Character Traits of Successful Real Estate Investors

Intuition ? Knowing where to buy, what to buy and who to sell to is paramount for any real estate investor. While any smart investor will study existing data carefully before developing an investing strategy, there is certainly an element of intuition involved with any real estate decision. ?Do I accept this offer or wait for another higher one? Do I buy in this neighborhood or do I think it will decline over the next several years?

Making these types of buying and selling decisions can be a lot like playing poker. You never have all of the facts, but you make the best decision based on the information available as well as what your gut is telling you.

Adaptability ? I wrote a blog last week about the speed at which the real estate industry changes. Any investor that wants to stay profitable and relevant needs to continually stay abreast of changing trends and adapt business models to stay current. Having the ability and foresight to make these types of strategic changes midstream is what sets successful investors apart from the rest.

Patience ? While patience is rarely regarded as an important quality in real estate investing circles, I think it is one of the most important ones. Whether it be waiting to buy the right deal or waiting?to get the right price on a sale, learning to be patient with your investments is of utmost importance. Too many investors have purchased bad properties because they weren?t willing to wait for the right ones.

Investing in real estate is not rocket science. It does not even take a college education to be good at it. Some folks are naturally talented while other develop their investing skills over time. Either way, knowing your strengths and weaknesses as an investor is critical to improving your chances at prospering in this business.

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Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/not-everyone-is-a-great-real-estate-investor-2012-11

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Israel's Peres: No intention to run for premier

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