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Following is the full list of nominees for the Golden Globes, to be delivered on Sunday in Beverly Hills, California:

FILM:


Film, drama: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Frost / Nixon," "The Reader," "Revolutionary Road", "Slumdog Millionaire," "The Visitor."

Movie musical or comedy "Burn After Reading," "Happy-Go-Lucky," "In Bruges," "Mamma Mia!", "Vicky Christina Barcelona."


Foreign film: "Baader Meinhof Complex," "Everlasting Moments," "Gomorrah," "I've Loved You So Long," "Waltz With Bashir."

Director: Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire", Stephen Daldry, "The Reader", David Fincher, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", Ron Howard, "Frost / Nixon", Sam Mendes, "Revolutionary Road".


Actor, Drama: Leonardo DiCaprio, "Revolutionary Road" Frank Langella, "Frost / Nixon" Sean Penn, "Milk" Brad Pitt, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler. "

Actress, Drama: Anne Hathaway, "Rachel Getting Married", Angelina Jolie, "Changeling"; Meryl Streep, "Doubt" Kristin Scott Thomas, "I've Loved You So Long", Kate Winslet, "Revolutionary Road".


Actor, Musical or Comedy: Javier Bardem, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona", Colin Farrell, "In Bruges", James Franco, "Pineapple Express", Brendan Gleeson, "In Bruges", Dustin Hoffman, "Last Chance Harvey."

Actress, Musical or Comedy: Rebecca Hall, Vicky Cristina Barcelona ", Sally Hawkins, 'Happy-Go-Lucky"; Frances McDormand, "Burn After Reading", Meryl Streep, "Mamma Mia!" Emma Thompson, "Last Chance Harvey.


Supporting Actor: Tom Cruise, "Tropic Thunder" Robert Downey, Jr., "Tropic Thunder", Ralph Fiennes, "The Duchess" Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Doubt" Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight."

Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, "Doubt", Penelope Cruz, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" Viola Davis "Doubt"; Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler ", Kate Winslet," The Reader. "


Animated movie "Bolt," "Kung Fu Panda", "Wall-E".

Writer: Simon Beaufoy, "Slumdog Millionaire", David Hare, "The Reader" Peter Morgan, "Frost / Nixon"; Eric Roth, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" John Patrick Shanley, "Doubt."


Original Music: Alexandre Desplat, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", Clint Eastwood, "Changeling" James Newton Howard, "Defiance", Hans Zimmer, "Frost / Nixon"; AR Rahman, "Slumdog Millionaire."

Song: "Down to Earth" (played by Peter Gabriel, written by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman), "Wall-E," "Grand Torino" (played by Clint Eastwood), "Gran Torino," "I Thought I Lost You "(played by Miley Cyrus and John Travolta, Miley Cyrus and written by Jeffrey Steele)," Bolt, "" Once in a Lifetime "(played by Beyonce)," Cadillac Records "," The Wrestler "(played by Bruce Springsteen written by Bruce Springsteen), "The Wrestler".


TELEVISION:

Series, drama: "Dexter," "House MD", "In Treatment," "Mad Men," "True Blood."

Actor, drama: Gabriel Byrne, "In Treatment" Michael C. Hall, "Dexter" Jon Hamm, "Mad Men" Hugh Laurie, "House MD" Jonathan Rhys Meyers, The Tudors. "

Actress, Drama: Sally Field, "Brothers & Sisters" Mariska Hargitay, "Law & Order: SVU", January Jones, "Mad Men", Anna Paquin, "True Blood", Kyra Sedgwick, "The Closer."

Series, musical or comedy: "Californication," "Entourage," "The Office", "30 Rock," "Weeds."

Actor, Musical or Comedy: Alec Baldwin, "30 Rock" Steve Carell, "The Office" Kevin Connolly, "Entourage", David Duchovny, "Californication" Tony Shalhoub, "Monk."

Actress, Musical or Comedy: Christina Applegate, "Samantha Who?" America Ferrera, "Ugly Betty", Tina Fey, "30 Rock", Debra Messing, The Starter Wife "Mary-Louise Parker," Weeds. "

Miniseries or movie: "Cranford", "Bernard and Doris," "John Adams", "A Raisin in the Sun", "Recount."

Actress, miniseries or movie: Judi Dench, "Cranford" Laura Linney, "John Adams"; Catherine Keener, "An American Crime", Shirley MacLaine, "Coco Chanel", Susan Sarandon, "Bernard and Doris."

Actor, miniseries or movie: Ralph Fiennes, "Bernard and Doris"; Paul Giammatti, "John Adams" Kevin Spacey, "Recount" Keifer Sutherland, "24: Redemption", Tom Wilkinson, "Recount."

Supporting Actress, Series, miniseries or movie: Eileen Atkins, "Cranford" Laura Dern, "Recount", Melissa George, "In Treatment" Rachel Griffiths, "Brothers & Sisters", Dianne Wiest, "In Treatment."

Supporting Actor, Series, miniseries: Neil Patrick Harris, "How I Met Your Mother", Denis Leary, "Recount", Jeremy Piven, "Entourage", Blair Underwood, "In Treatment", Tom Wilkinson, "John Adams."

CECIL B. DeMille LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Steven Spielberg.

Actor Tony Shalhoub said that while love Adrian Monk, embodying eight years andalusia obsessive-compulsive private investigator are sufficient.

The second half of the seventh season of "Monk" began airing on Friday, and the shooting of the last season will begin in March.


"It's a beautiful role, working with extraordinary people and really enjoy the character, but I think eight years is enough," Shalhoub said in a telephone interview on Thursday. "I think we have explored all aspects, and though I like the program, I really start thinking about the next chapter of my career, whatever."

Shalhoub spoke at an event in support of tax incentives for filmmakers in Wisconsin.


The actor is both a producer of "Monk" and said it wants to produce more after the end of the series.

"I think I want to continue acting, but I want to diversify and produce things that I do not act," he said.


Next month will begin filming his part in the independent film "Feed the Fish."

Shalhoub won three Emmys and a Golden Globe for his work on "Monk," and is nominated for another Golden Globe ceremony broadcast on Sunday.

Israeli forces bombarded on Saturday smuggling tunnels and platforms for launching rockets from Hamas while aircraft left where Israel dropped leaflets warning of an escalation in attacks.

For his part, Palestinian militants fired at least 15 more rockets into Israel and Egypt organized with the goal of ending violence.




We saw smoke and flames rising into the sky over Gaza City. The Israeli threat to launch a "new phase" in its offensive two weeks that has killed more than 800 Palestinians came despite international calls for a ceasefire.

13 Israelis have also died, four of them by the rockets and other militias in battles in the Gaza Strip. Five soldiers were lightly wounded in the fighting on Saturday.


"The IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) carried out the operation of an escalation in the Gaza Strip," the leaflets warned in Arabic. "IDF forces are not working against the people of Gaza, but Hamas and the terrorists. Stay safe by following our orders," they added.

The text urged the residents of Gaza to help and not away from Hamas, the Islamic militia group that governs the strip.


Israel launched an air offensive on December 27 after years of Palestinian rocket attacks against southern Israel. A week later, the campaign was reinforced by ground forces with artillery fire and tanks, which have contributed to an increase in civilian casualties.

The launch of the leaflets appeared to be part of a psychological strategy. The Israeli defense authorities said they are preparing a third phase of the offensive in which ground troops would move more in Gaza, but is still awaiting government approval.


In the bloodiest incident of the day, an Israeli artillery shell fell on a house outside the northern city of Yebaliya, killing nine persons while sitting in his garden.

In a separate, one woman was killed by an Israeli air strike in the southern town of Rafah.


Israeli forces said that more than 15 militiamen were killed Saturday in heavy fighting in the Gaza Strip. Its more than 40 planes bombed targets throughout the country, including 10 rocket launching areas, the storage of weapons smuggling tunnels, anti-aircraft missile launchers and armed groups.

Israel has been severely criticized in the world for the growing number of civilians killed in the fighting. Paramedics said that the nine victims of the attack were from the same clan and included two children and two women.


"The residents brought to the hospital in a civilian car. The all put in the boot because their bodies were very mixed," said manager Adham Hakim. "The identified shortly after a separate their bodies in the morgue."

The Israeli army did not comment immediately, but has repeatedly blamed Hamas militiamen of using residential areas for refuge. In recent days, an Israeli attack at a school in the United Nations left nearly 40 dead.


Both Israel and Palestinian witnesses said that militiamen carried out an attack from the area moments before.

In Cairo, the Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas on Saturday urged Israel and Hamas to accept a truce mediated by Egypt.


After meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Abbas stressed that there was no time to lose to end the bloodshed in the Gaza Strip, where 1.4 million people.

David Beckham does not debut on Sunday in the Italian League against Roma, said the coach Carlo Ancelotti's Milan.

"Beckham is ready to play but has been inactive two months, but it is hard to put in as head match against Roma," said Ancelotti, according to the local news agency Saturday.


Ancelotti stressed that the former England captain, who came on loan for three months of the Los Angeles Galaxy is ready to make a significant contribution "to the team, adding that Milan would be accepted in the case of wanting to stay after the end of the loan .

The former general manager of the Galaxy, Alexi Lalas, speculated that Beckham would leave the Galaxy and stay in Milan. But the English player's spokesman, Simon Oliveira, Beckham said he was ready to return to the Galaxy in March for the start of the MLS season in the United States.


Beckham made his debut for Milan in a friendly match against Hamburg on Tuesday.

At the urging of his fellow Democrats, the president-elect Barack Obama agreed to make modest changes in its proposed tax cuts, then to invite legislators to give ideas to revive an economy that loses jobs at an alarming rate.

Democrats in Congress officials said that Obama advisers had agreed to increase the 10,000 million dollars originally provided tax incentives for energy, although it remained unclear what the final figure.



Two officials said they would be at least 20,000 million dollars, but others indicated that the total would be higher.

There were no details available, but Obama has said on other occasions to increase tax incentives for the production of alternative energy sources such as wind.


The terms of energy taxes represent a small part of the huge economic stimulus initiative, which would reach 800,000 million dollars in two years and that leaders in Congress hope to approve by mid-February.

Given the fact that more than 11 million Americans are unemployed, Obama pressed Congress to take urgent action and said the country goes through "a devastating economic crisis will be more difficult to contain with time."


His warning was emphasized by a government report showed that unemployment in December reached its highest level in 16 years, from 7.2%.

But Democrats in Congress are making it clear they want to make modifications to the plan, despite the inevitable delays that would entail. Some ideas of Obama as a tax credit of $ 3000 to create jobs, could be discarded.


Many Democrats do not love the tax cuts for businesses raised by Obama and regretted that not enough money in the proposed project, such as building roads or water infrastructure. Others argue that the measure should provide tax credits to promote renewable energy.

Beyond the differences that have transcended the opening _y with which many Democrats are criticizing some ideas Obama_ highlights the daunting task of structuring a very complex and controversial plan in just weeks. The insistence of lawmakers for changes could delay the recovery plan beyond the mid-February deadline set by the leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.


At a press conference, Obama sought to play down the importance of differences.

"There is no disagreement on the fact that the economy is in a very precarious situation," he said. "There is no disagreement on the need to create jobs."


Some Democratic leaders said that there is more agreement on the main differences of the recovery plan: to help state governments that need cash, cuts of between 500 and $ 1000 to taxes paid by most workers and marriage working, and a huge expenditure package that combines traditional public works projects to help the poor and the unemployed.

Obama said that he appreciated the views of legislators from both parties.


"If members of Congress have good ideas, if they can help identify a project that creates jobs in an efficient manner, that long-term harm our ability to control our deficit is good for the economy, I will accept it," said the president-elect.

"What we can not do is just keep postponing this when we saw the loss of half a million jobs," he added.

Israeli aircraft and helicopters bombed the Gaza Strip on Friday morning and Hamas responded by launching a barrage of rockets at least two cities as both sides ignored the UN's call for a ceasefire.



Israeli shelling killed two militiamen of the Islamic extremist group Hamas and another unidentified man. Another attack by Israeli aircraft detonated a five-story building in northern Gaza, killing seven people, including a child, said Hamas officials and a hospital. At noon, 19 Palestinians had died.


Before dawn, Israel carried out more than 30 attacks and after sunrise, continuing explosions.

In the afternoon, 23 Palestinians were killed, plus the balance of fatalities to 777 since the conflict began two weeks ago. At least half of them civilians, according to health authorities in Gaza. Thirteen Israelis have been killed during the offensive.


UN humanitarian aid was held in Gaza for the second consecutive day due to the fragile security measures, but the Palestinians who dared to go to aid centers could still get food and medicine. More than half the 1.4 million people living in the territory depend on the UN to eat.

Agency officials later said they plan to resume the delivery of humanitarian aid as soon as possible if the Israeli army says that the UN staff will be protected. A UN agency stopped sending supplies to the besieged Gaza on Thursday after an Israeli tank killed a truck driver transporting food. The Red Cross also reduced its aid operations after one of their drivers was injured in a similar accident.


The World Food Program and UNICEF stressed that still operating in Palestinian territory, where a million people has no electricity and 750,000 have been made due to the lack of running water, according to the UN.

Despite strong criticism from international aid groups, Israel insisted on doing everything possible to facilitate the humanitarian work, citing three hours between breaks of attacks during the past three days, including Friday. Team members for help, however, say that these measures are inadequate.


On Thursday night the UN Security Council resolution approved on a unanimous 14-0, with the abstention of the United States. The resolution urges an immediate ceasefire "after the complete departure of the Israeli army from Gaza."

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said during his first official response to the resolution of the Security Council of the UN that the rockets that fell in Israel on Friday, "only demonstrate that the decision of the UN is not practical and will not be accomplished by Palestinian murderous organizations. "


A spokesman for Hamas, however, said the militia group is "not interested" in the resolution because it was not consulted and because the United Nations failed to take into account their minimum demands.

Israel launched its offensive on December 27 in an attempt to stop years of attacks with rocket launchers from the territory controlled by Hamas.


Despite the devastating attack, Hamas continued to bombard the residents of southern Israel on Friday. The rockets struck the south, including in and around Beersheba and Ashkelon, two cities that, like others, have been stalled since the offensive began. No injuries were reported in the attacks.

In Geneva, High Commissioner for Human Rights called for an independent investigation of the crimes committed in Gaza after reports that the Israeli army shelled a house full of Palestinian civilians, killing 30.

The U.S. dollar rose on Friday, posting its biggest weekly gain in two months against the euro after a government report showed that job losses in December were slightly lower than expected.

Traders sold dollars after a report of private sector jobs released on Wednesday showing a weakness in the U.S. labor market. < p> Many of these bets are pessimistic dollar reversed quickly, triggering a rise in the dollar, when the Labor Department reported 524,000 jobs lost last month, slightly better than Wall Street estimates a cut of 550,000

"The report of the December non-farm payrolls was unequivocally awful, but given that many investors were expecting even worse results, there was some relief after the announcement, "said Meny Gruman, an economist at CIBC World Markets in Toronto.

This" small glimmer of hope "he added, helped push up the dollar temporarily.

The Japanese yen also rose, with traders selling riskier bets in stocks, commodities and currencies with higher yields financed by the low rates of the Japanese unit.

Although report of the non-farm payroll was better than expected, still painted a bleak picture for the world's largest economy and said fears of a deep global recession. < / p> In the operations of the afternoon, the euro fell to 1.3416 dollars, after the employment data in the United States. Traded at 1.3431 at the close, falling 2.1% on the day. The single currency has fallen more than 3% against the dollar, the biggest weekly loss since the last week of October.

The index dó , in particular, a measure of the value of the dollar against six major currencies, rose 1.3% to 82,652. The dollar rose by 2% against the Swiss franc at 1.1147.

Against the yen, the dollar lost 0.8% to 90.36. The strength of the yen has pushed the euro down almost 3%, to 121.37.

Despite the rebound in the dollar, analysts noted that there are more than enough work for the report presage a bad sign for the U.S. economy and its currency.

"No matter how you look, these figures are depressing. The major payroll were slightly better than the consensus forecast, but we had a considerable jump in the unemployment rate, "said Matt Esteve, foreign exchange trader at Tempus Consulting in Washington, DC.

The unemployment rate of 7.2%, for example, was the highest in almost 16 years and the upward revision in November and October pushed the total job losses over the past four months to 1.9 million.

addition, the cuts in 2008 were 2.6 million, the largest decline in 63 years.

"The United States is in recesióny in previous recessions, the job cuts will be extended for at least 15 months, "said Kathy Lien, director of currency research at GFT Forex in New York.

The bank Lloyds TSB agreed to pay a fine of $ 350 million for having helped their clients evade U.S. sanctions on trade with Sudan and Iran.

The London-based bank acknowledged its responsibility for criminal behavior, according to court documents filed before a federal court in Washington.


The Justice Department indicated that in an even date back to 1995, Lloyds falsified involving wire transfers to countries or individuals on the list of U.S. sanctions.

The bank was accused of deliberately removing information from customers _un process to which the employees of Lloyds called "stripped" _, so that the wire transfers to move without being detected through filters in U.S. financial institutions.


"For over 12 years, Lloyds anonymous facilitated movement of hundreds of millions of dollars from nations sanctioned by the United States through our financial system," said Undersecretary of Justice Matthew Friedrich.

To reach agreement on the investigation by the Justice Department and the district attorney of New York, Lloyds agreed to be formally charged, and instead it was agreed that bringing a criminal information document. The company paid 175 million in fines to the U.S. as the New York County, authorities reported.


Tereroristas after the attacks of 2001, the United States intensified its scrutiny of banks that may be moving money linked to terrorists or regimes offenders.

As a result, according to court documents, Lloyds executives decided in 2003 to stop providing "stripped" Iranian banks with branches in England, but continued to do so for four Sudanese banks until January 2007. In 2004 the U.S. withdrew the sanctions applied to Libya.


Most of the money _unos 300 million dólares_ was mobilized on behalf of Iranian banks between 2002 and 2004, according to prosecutors. Lloyds helped move 20 million dollars on behalf of customers of a bank of Sudan, and about 20 million dollars on behalf of a single client Libyan, according to the text in the court.

Last month, Lloyds had assets of $ 700,000 million and more than 67,000 employees.

The Illinois House voted overwhelmingly on Friday in launching a political trial by Governor Rod Blagojevich, an unprecedented step in this state.

The state Senate must try to decide whether Blagojevich should be impeached for corruption and abuse of power when trying to sell to the highest bidder the federal bench vacated Senate President-elect Barack Obama.


The governor responded with the defiant stance he has maintained since a month ago, when he was arrested on federal charges. He accused the state legislature to retaliate against him for trying to help the people of Illinois and hoped it would be "duly acquitted" for a trial before the Senate.

"The cause of the impeachment is that I have fought for the families and have done things for them," said Blagojevich, who gave a press conference in Chicago accompanied by several beneficiaries of its health programs.


Blagojevic added that the decision of the lower house is not surprising because it has been immersed in a dispute with lawmakers since he was reelected in 2006. The reason for the dispute, according to the governor, is that the camera has resisted his efforts to help people, instead of resisting "the lobby groups and those with particular interests."

The governor closed the conference by quoting the poem "Ulysses" by Alfred Tennyson, who said: "To strive, to seek, find and not to yield."


Earlier, Blagojevich was exercised running in your neighborhood in Chicago while the camera gave their vote. To stand trial were politically necessary 60 votes. The final result was 114-1.

The legislators accused the Democratic governor, in his second term, of betraying the people of Illinois to allow their ambition and self guide their decisions.


"It is our duty to clean this issue and stop the outlandish spectacle that has become the government of Illinois," said Democratic Representative Jack Franks.

Governor Blagojevich is the first contested in the political history of Illinois, long and often sordid. It could be just the eighth U.S. governor to be removed by impeachment. The last was Evan Mecham of Arizona in 1988.


Blagojevich was arrested on December 9 on federal charges that included an affidavit from an FBI agent who described the content of the wiretaps, which Blagojevich allegedly bragged it could get for the Senate seat vacated Obama, and also talked about how to pressure people to provide funds for his election campaign and other activities.

Meanwhile, the politician chosen by the governor to fill the Senate seat Obama received good news on Friday.


The Supreme Court of Illinois said the state secretary of State, Jesse White, do not need to sign the appointment of Roland Burris for the U.S. Senate that the appointment is valid. The ruling stressed that no official from Illinois should take any further step to validate the appointment by Blagojevich.

Burris, former Illinois secretary of justice, faces no charges. But this week was denied access to the swearing in of a seat in part because the Democratic leadership insisted that their accreditation papers were incomplete without the signing of White. The Supreme Court clarified that nothing in state law requires that signs the White nomination.


On Friday, Burris said he hopes soon to take his seat.

But Sen. Dick Durbin federal Burris insisted that it will not be accepted without the signature of White, who refuses to do so because of the charges against Blagojevich.


Durbin said that if White did not change his mind on the signature, the Senate will wait to see if Blagojevich was removed after the impeachment.

The chairman of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, announced the launch this week of the experimental version of its new operating system, Windows 7, which will replace Windows Vista, heavily criticized since its premiere.



"We supply the best version of Windows that has never existed before," Ballmer said on Wednesday, following his opening address to the great hall of electronics CES (Consumer Electronics Show) which takes place in Las Vegas (Nevada, West is the United States) of Thursday to Sunday.


Windows 7 "will make life easier and faster," said Ballmer, who met the system as "simple, reliable and fast."

After the words of Ballmer, Microsoft released the beta (experimental) 7 for Windows developers and partners in the group with headquarters in Redmond (Washington state, northwest), while the general public can access it online from Friday, in a version in English only.


"Users can connect to the Internet and test Windows 7 at home. I encourage you to download," Ballmer told thousands of professionals, analysts and journalists gathered in a vast hall of a hotel-casino in the capital of the game.

An employee of Microsoft noted that the final version of the system will be available in January 2010, three years after the departure of Vista.

A few months ago the president of Microsoft in France, Eric Boustouller, had admitted "some disappointment" related to Vista, which nevertheless sold over 180 million copies worldwide since its launch in January 2007.

Microsoft showed in the exhibition the ease with which enables Windows 7 to network computers and other electronic equipment from home, from cameras to video game consoles and music players.

The first full week of 2009 brought no major shocks to Wall Street, but neither gave many investors reason to cheer.

An increase in unemployment on Friday caused a sharp drop on Wall Street, after investors expressed concern that Americans continue to tighten their belts for a while.


According to preliminary calculations, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 143.28 points, 1.64%, to close at 8599.18. During the week, the Dow lost nearly 5%.




The Labor Department report, awaited by investors, showed that employers cut 524,000 jobs in December, a number smaller than expected, which was 550,000. Yet the unemployment rate jumped to 7.2%, its highest level in 16 years, a 7% higher than expected by economists, and exceeded that seen in November from 6.8%.


The loss of jobs did not cause panic on Wall Street, but concern.

"People say to know how the economy is bad, but know what it feels like when the truth comes to your house," said Stu Schweitzer, global markets strategist at the private banking arm of JP Morgan. "There is data, but how they suffer. And it feels terrible to have so many Americans who are losing their jobs, and many more likely to continue in the coming months."


The rising unemployment tends to erode consumer spending, which accounts for more than two thirds of economic activity in the United States. For the whole 2008, the economy has lost 2.6 million jobs, the largest amount since 1945.

Retail companies have reported dismal sales figures during the holiday season, and there is concern on Wall Street on how long the economy will have on the withdrawal of consumer spending.


On Friday, President-elect Barack Obama felt the loss of jobs is "a stark reminder of how urgent it is to take measures" to revive the economy of the nation vapuleada. Obama is planning an economic stimulus package of about 800,000 million dollars, based on tax cuts and other measures to help individuals and businesses.

Indicators broader stock market also lost ground. The Standard & Poor's 500 fell 19.38 points, 2.13%, to 890.35, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 45.42 units, 2.81%, to 1571.59.


The Russell 2000, the barometer of smaller companies listed, had a decrease of 20.71 points, 4.13%, to 481.30.

Shares overcame low 2-1 to advance to the Stock Exchange in New York, where trading volume was light, by 1160 millions of titles.


During the week, the Dow fell 4.8%, the S & P fell 4.5% and the Nasdaq lost 3.7%.

Bond prices rose after investors sought refuge in the gray economic data emerged on Friday. The yield on the Treasury to license 10 years, which moves in the opposite direction to its price, fell to 2.36%, 2.44% observed in respect of the closure on Thursday.


The dollar had a mixed performance against major currencies, while gold fell.

The light oil with low sulfur lost 87 cents, to $ 40.83 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, after falling to $ 39.38 even.


In other markets, the Japanese market's Nikkei average fell 0.45%, the UK FTSE 100 fell 1.26%, the German DAX fell 1.97% and the French CAC-40 lost 0.75%.

Best Buy Co., the largest chain of electronics stores in the United States, on Friday adjusted its forecast for annual earnings, after reporting a fall of 6.5 percent in comparable sales in December, during the worst U.S. holiday season in almost 40 years.

The company said it now expects to earn between 2.5 and $ 2.7 per share in fiscal year 2009, which ends next month, with a drop of 2 to 3 percent in comparable sales at stores open or makes at least 14 months.


This compares with a forecast in November and down from 2.3 to 2.9 U.S. dollars per share, when Best Buy said that the collapse of financial markets had led to changes "seismic" in the behavior of consumers.

Analysts expected a profit of $ 2.59 per paper, according to Reuters Estimates.


Best Buy said total sales for the month ended Jan. 3 rose 4 percent over the same period the previous year to 7,500 million dollars, in line with expectations.

The retail chain has increased its sales of mobile phones and launched the bid to offset growing competition from discount stores like Wal-Mart Stores.


But Best Buy could also benefit in the long term a possible consolidation in the retail industry of electronics.

His rival Circuit City Stores, which aims to exit bankruptcy in the first half, had to liquidate inventories and then close 155 stores in the United States during November and December.

The superstar Cristiano Ronaldo of Manchester United was consecrated as the best footballer in the world for a survey in which 32,000 fans in 185 countries.

The second was the most voted Argentine Leonel Messi of Barcelona, with 17%. Followed two players Liverpool: Steven Gerrard, with 10% and 9% with Fernando Torres.


The results of the Report of Barclays Global Football Fans were announced on Friday, three days before the appointment of the world's best player by FIFA.

Ronaldo received 35% of the votes after scoring 42 goals last season to lead his club to win tournaments in Europe and the English League.


The Portuguese had a less brilliant start this season with 10 goals _The half of those who had at this point in the season but lost anterior_ while convalecía the first month of operation in an ankle.

Ronaldo, who will play the classic against Chelsea on Sunday, no record in the Premier League since November 15.


The coach of Chelsea Luiz Felipe Scolari, who led the football for six years in the selection Portuguese, believes Ronaldo will be proclaimed the best in the world by FIFA in a ceremony on Monday in Zurich.

"Maybe this season there are others who could compete for the prize, but not last season," Scolari said on Friday. "I hope to give the award to Cristiano. In the previous season was the best in the world, by far the best and deserves it."

Just five months after the Beijing Olympics, the Bird Nest, is known as the National Stadium, is a museum for future cavernosum.

The stadium reaped praise for its bold design, a marvel of engineering that borders on sculpture. Now attracts 10,000 tourists a day _in chinos_ mostly paid 70 yuan (about $ 7) to walk on the floor of the stadium and climb through the corridors that go through the expensive seats up to a souvenir shop that evoke pride or opening ceremony three world records set by Jamaican Usain Bolt.


Symbol of growing Chinese power, wake up some doubts that ever comes to recover $ 450 million that the government spent to build it, particularly at a time when the economy declines.

Has not yet attracted top level performances, has no permanent residents and only one event has been announced for this year: the opera "Turandot" by Puccini, directed by Zhang Yimou, will be offered on August 8, the anniversary of the ceremony Inaugural.


The situation worries the company that manages the stadium.

The Consortium Operations CITIC Stadium, part of an investment company owned by the government, said that the stadium could generate annual revenues of 30 million dollars, while acknowledging that it is an optimistic prognosis.


You may worry that the Chinese communist government, but certainly not to the visitors.

"I do not have clear plans for the stadium, but I guess that will host many cultural and sporting events," said Gao Yunfei, wrapped in a cold and windy winter afternoon, after visiting him.


The painting is already hulled in some places inside the stadium and soot obscures the background, details are likely to escape the tourists who come to visit the remarkable structure.

Despite the Christmas decorations that have been installed for a month, the stadium is basically a sad place, particularly in the harshest winter.


"No matter what was spent, the stadium is necessary as a symbol of the country," said Li Bo, a young visitor from the city of Chengdu. "I am sure the government will have ways to deal with any problem."

Most of the temporary headquarters of the 2008 Olympic Games will be demolished. Some of the permanent found new uses, including the headquarters of the swimming and tennis.


The Water Cube, where Michael Phelps won a record eight gold medals, will become a water park and swimming center. The tennis stadium will be open to the Chinese scenario, a lucrative professional tennis tournament men and women.

But the Bird Nest is a special case.


His rent was too expensive to attract the main football club in the city, Guo'an, who gave up playing in the stadium with a capacity for 91,000 spectators. There are plans to reduce its capacity to 80,000. The Chinese Journal of government, recently described him as "a trap for tourists and the elderly have complained that there are no half-price ticket.

Until now, the Puccini opera in August is the only event confirmed by CITIC. The Italian press said the Italian Supercup soccer is played at the Chinese, but has not confirmed CITIC.


The company manager said that it would not accept offers for the right to rename the stadium _potencialmente a lucrative source of ingresos_ because of its symbolic nature. Many Chinese are opposed to the stadium has a name because they consider it a national symbol like the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty.

"Many companies have expressed interest in the right to a name," added the company. "But we do not accept offers by that law, arguing that the Chinese public would be opposed. But it is possible to seek the sponsorship of individual parties, performances or areas within the stadium. These sponsorships not exclude foreign companies."

Nine years later, the New York Knicks are still unable to win at the home of the Dallas Mavericks.

Josh Howard scored 19 points, Jason Kidd added 16, and the Mavericks went ahead despite a discreet German Dirk Nowitzki to win 99-94 on Thursday to the Knicks.


The Mavericks have beaten the Knicks nine times in a row in Dallas. New York has not won at home for the Mavs since 16 December 1999 when it was imposed by 100-93.

At that time, the Mavs were playing about three miles from Reunion Arena, home today.


Nowitzki, the fourth best scorer in the NBA, three successful field of 13 shots and added 10 points, just two above its lowest contribution of the season.

"You have to erase your hard drive and become a scorer," Kidd said about his own performance of the night. "I had a basket that failed, but failed to tell kids not to continue shooting."


Nowitzki said of Kidd: "He made several good shots," and added: "Basically it just stopped all night and encestó some shots for us."

Nowitzki failed to change their last seven shots.


"In the end, did not have a great rhythm to shoot the ball," said "I could do when I was still some assistance."

One of the assists from Nowitzki gave Dallas the ultimate advantage. Kidd found an open shot to 7.3 meters (24 feet) that put the Mavericks ahead 87-86 with 5:44 minutes to play.


Antoine Wright had 13 points, Brandon Bass added 12 and Jason Terry added 10 for the Mavericks.

Also for the cause of the Mavs, the Puerto Rican JJ Barea scored seven points, to hit three of his seven shots in the field. Added two rebounds and three assists in 16:22 minutes.


New York, David Lee added 13 points and 15 rebounds.

The Knicks rightly 25% of their shots in the final quarter. In the last 2:18 minutes, missed his six shots.


"What makes this frustrating is that we are playing very good basketball against some of the best teams in the NBA," said Lee. "Left behind, that's frustrating."

In the other match of the night, Tim Duncan had a bad night but the San Antonio Spurs beat the Los Angeles Clippers.


Frenchman Tony Parker scored 19 points and Argentine Manu Ginóbili added 13 as a reserve for the Spurs crushed by the Clippers 106-84.

The Spurs signed up its ninth victory in the last 10 commitments, while Tim Duncan had a contribution of just eight points.

Ginobili was right four of nine shots in play and made four free in 25:32 minutes of action, which also included four rebounds, five assists and a foul.

The Clippers have lost nine duels in a row, the worst streak in the NBA this season.

Los Angeles had a nine-point advantage in the second quarter and a half for the time, but was overtaken by the Spurs by 31-15 in endorsements in the last period and a total of 63-40 in the second half.

"The defense improved as the game progressed and that prompted the offensive," said Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, whose team recorded 16 points in the last quarter, which reached a lead of 24 points.

"In the second half rightly fired everything," said Eric Gordon. "We have to change the way we do our game, how to play better defense."

San Antonio (24-11), who has won three matches in a row, has an advantage and a half game over New Orleans, the second in the Southwest Division.

Roger Mason added 18 units for the Spurs, Michael Finley added 15 and Matt Bonner scored 11.

Although Duncan did not reach double-digit figures in points or rebounds (four), led the Spurs with nine assists in 32 minutes.

The Clippers (8-27), had contributions of 21 points from Gordon and Al Thornton. Mady Collins added 16.

The Clippers, hit by injuries, have had to do with Baron Davis, Chris Kaman and Zach Randolph. The lack of equipment was left to see the end.

"Playing without some member means you must leave some hurt in the long minutes and I had to do that with some of the guys," coach Mike Dunleavy said. "I just gave back about five minutes remaining."

The antipsychotic drugs that are prescribed to treat aggression in Alzheimer's patients appear to significantly increase their risk of premature death, British researchers reported on Friday.

The results of the first long-term study on the effect of these drugs in people with Alzheimer's disease highlights the need to seek less harmful treatments for many of these patients, the team said Clive Ballard of King's College London.


During its investigation of three years duration, the men and women who received a placebo were 42 percent less likely to die than those who continued taking antipsychotic medication, revealed the study published in the journal Lancet Neurology.

"Our data add further serious concerns about the safety of long-term use of antipsychotics in this population, and physicians should seek to replace them with safer approaches," wrote the authors.


Alzheimer's is an incurable brain disease that worsens over time and is the most common form of dementia. The condition affects 26 million people worldwide, according to the Alzheimer's Association.

The antipsychotic drugs are being used increasingly to treat the personality changes and aggression-related illness, but the new findings suggest that many patients are not worth the risk.


"Our view is that there is still an important but limited to atypical antipsychotics in the treatment of (symptoms), severe (Alzheimer's), particularly aggression," the researchers reported.

"However, security concerns (...) accumulated stress the urgent need to end the protracted and unnecessary prescriptions," they added.


The study, conducted between 2001 and 2004, 128 patients from 67 to 100 years were randomly assigned to continue antipsychotic treatment for 12 months or switch to a placebo therapy.

Among the drugs used were generic treatments thioridazine, chlorpromazine, haloperidol and trifluorperazina and Risperdal, or risperidone, Johnson & Johnson.


After a year, only a few people in the group treated with antipsychotic drugs had died, but at 36 months survival in the placebo cohort was 59 percent, compared to 30 percent among patients receiving the drugs.

The telephone and e-mail helps people to improve the diet and lose weight, according to a Dutch study published on Friday, which reveals what could be a simple but effective tool to combat obesity.

Research on 1400 overweight workers suggests that this type of advice on lifestyle are especially good for people who want a personal counseling to deal with weight problems.


"We found a significant weight loss with the telephone had not been observed in other investigations," said Marieke Van Wier, a researcher at the University Medical Center in Amsterdam who worked on the study.

"If it makes some people lose a modest amount of weight, it can have a major impact on public health," added Van Wier.


Obesity, which increases the risk of diseases such as type 2 diabetes and heart problems, is a growing problem in more people adopting a sedentary lifestyle.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about 400 million people worldwide are obese.


Van Wier's team randomly assigned to the volunteers, all overweight, a control group without counseling, he received a telephone counseling and other assistance by e-mail.

The advice included encouragement to keep in shape and stressed the need to comply with a healthy diet. Not focused on any target of weight loss in particular, Van Wier said in a telephone interview.


After six months, people with telephone counseling lost 1.5 kilograms (kg) more than those in the control group, while volunteers advised by email dropped 0.6 kg more than those who remained without advice, the expert added.

The authors, who published their findings is the journal BioMed Central, believe that such advice may encourage more specific targets for people with overweight.


"This is a modest weight loss, but the key is not pushing people to make big changes," concluded Van Wier.

The U.S. cult rockers Kings of Leon recorded the biggest selling album of 2008 in Australia, according to figures from the Record Industry Association of Australia.


"Only By The Night," the fourth studio album of the group hails from Tennessee, sold over 350,000 copies after four weeks remain in first place in the ranking, said the association.

The singer Pink was second for the third consecutive year, this time with the album "Funhouse." His previous album, "I'm Not Dead", was located in the second position in 2006 and 2007. The pop singer from the United States presented the awards ceremony, MTV Australia Video Music Awards in October.


The first studio album of Australians AC / DC in more than eight years, "Black Ice", won the third in this year's list.

The production of Kings of Leon was also the third biggest selling album in Britain during 2008. In the U.S., the album sold 253,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.


The single "Sex on Fire" during five weeks dominated the list of modern rock radio Billboard.

The actor Leonardo DiCaprio is looking to marry and have children to raise a family, although in his latest film plays the role of a husband crápula that systematically deceived his wife.

"I want to marry and have children," said DiCaprio in the upcoming edition of the German TV magazine "TV Movie", which acknowledges that the character does not support that interpretation has played in the film "Revolutionary Road" directed by Sam Mendes.


"I almost got it wrong systematically deceiving his wife while she awaits the children at home," says the star of "Gangs of New York."

After commenting that the role enganchándole as developed over its history, DiCaprio stresses that "never before had played the role of a man as emotional suffering and something so traumatic."


It also notes that, eleven years after the filming of "Titanic" in addition to Kate Winslet, the "kiss was something strange in the eyes of Sam (Mendes), the current husband of the actress.

"But luckily he was never a jealous in September," reveals the actor, who notes that his personal friendship with Kate Winslet was advantageous at the time of the shooting intimate scenes.


"We're friends for so long and we have no shame, and we can talk about everything," DiCaprio said finally.

Manufacturers of electronic products show their prowess this week in the biggest hall in the sector, Las Vegas, where he exhibited miniature studies DJ, sunglasses and wireless screens that enable deaf people to make a phone call.

The fair electronic CES (Consumer Electronic Show) officially opens on Thursday until Sunday, but on Tuesday several hundred analysts, bloggers and journalists were able to anticipate some of the novelties of this year, a sign that after 40 years of existence draws 2,700 exhibitors, 130,000 professionals and 4,500 reporters, according to organizers.


The shot came out on Wednesday, the chairman of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, who took over following the withdrawal of the group's founder, Bill Gates. Thursday will be the CEO of Ford, Alan Mullaly, who takes the microphone.

Among the most visible on Tuesday included a laptop computer from the Taiwanese MSI, the Netbook with a battery life of up to 12 hours thanks to a hybrid disc that combines an electronic reader with a hard disk. MSI introduced this ultra-portable less than 2 cm thick and ultra-kg -1.3 few hours after the manufacturer gave Apple released its new MacBook, the laptop lighter and thinner in the U.S. brand, with 3 kg and less than 2.5 cm thick.


Meanwhile, the Swedish firm Tonium exhibited a widget, known Pacemaker, presented as a study of music that fits in the palm of your hand. "You can work as a DJ or just enjoy it as an amateur, says an official of the firm, Richard Hernemyr by showing a small device with a circular touch screen from which you can mix, manipulate and synchronize rhythms and melodies. The Pacemaker will cost 550 U.S. dollars when leaving the market in March or April, reported Tonium.

He also exhibited several innovations to facilitate communication for deaf people: a sign language translator developed by the U.S. firm and a Known Manufaturing the size of a photo frame, manufactured by Viable, which can translate the gestures into sign language in a telephone conversation. "I am deaf," said the director of Viable, Glenn Lockhart. "If I'm going to call my mother, for 88 years, I can not talk on the phone, but we can communicate with it."


Meanwhile, TriSpecs presented sunglasses with headphones including Bluetooth and a circuit that allows you to listen to music or talking on a wireless connection to MP3 players or mobile phones.

Other manufacturers were interested in producing lasting batteries at the same time pollute less than conventional models, such as' EnviroMax 'Japanese Fuji, which from April will load the aircraft without cadmium or mercury.

Anthropologist Helen Fisher answered some questions on the subject.

Love at first sight does exist and sex "casual" is not so much. The questions that we often do when we are sexually attracted, or lovers, are answered by the American anthropologist Helen Fisher, who will be visiting Puerto Rico under the Congress on sexuality that will be held on October 4 in Hotel San Juan.


Fisher is a researcher and author of Why We Love, The First Sex, Love and The Anatomy of Sex Contract, books in which, for example, that love is many things to many people.

"I think we have evolved three distinct brain systems for love: the sex drive, romantic love and deep attachment to a companion for a long time. I found that schools of thoughts, feelings and motivation, are activated when we fall in love "he says.



Why the love produces anger, jealousy, sadness and joy?


We are creatures who make a couple of links to raise children. We are in the 3% of mammals that do. For this brain systems for romantic love and the link is so powerful, primary and primary.



Are love and sexual relationships?

Yes, any sexual touch boosts dopamine to the brain, the main chemical reward system that is directly associated with intense feelings of romantic love. Moreover, with orgasm, you receive a flood of oxytocin and vasopressin, chemicals associated with the attachment. Sex also raises testosterone, the main chemical sexual appetite. Therefore, having sex with someone you can shoot any of these three brain systems: more sex, feelings of romantic love and / or feelings of attachment. In short, casual sex is never casual.



Does love at first sight?


It comes from nature. All animals are attracted to some animals and not others, and this attraction can occur instantaneously. It occurs in about 10% of people that the system of the brain dopamine reward can soar instantly.

The actress Ana Ortiz, star of the television series "Ugly Betty" with America Ferrera, is pregnant and expects to give birth in July, today reported the online edition of U.S. magazine People.

Ortiz, 37 years and although born in New York of Puerto Rican origin, is married to the guitarist of the band Half Life, Noah Lebenzon, since 2007.



"They're excited and contentísimos" People told a friend of the couple, who lives in New York.

Ana Ortiz performs in "Ugly Betty," the U.S. version of the hit series "Betty la fea," Hilda, the protagonist's sister, Betty, who gives life actress America Ferrera Honduran origin.


Ortiz, who will meet the next 25 days 38 years, sees his dream come true to have offspring, as confessed in September to People.

The producers of "In the Heights" announced the winner Latino musical recovered its production cost of 10 million dollars in the 10 months that have elapsed since its debut on Broadway.

The show, a celebration of life in a Latino neighborhood of the upper Manhattan, as the stars in New York's Puerto Rican parents Lin-Manuel Miranda, also the author of the music and lyrics.


The production won four Tony Awards last year, including best musical.

"In the Heights" was presented by six months into the off-Broadway theaters smaller. Broadway debut last March at the Richard Rodgers Theater, which recently broke the record when you check for two consecutive weeks gross income exceeding $ 1 million.

John Travolta and his family on Thursday offered a private service in memory of his son 16 years, Jett Travolta, at his home in central Florida.

The actor and his wife, Kelly Preston, live in a house of 8 million dollars in a luxury residential complex with its own airstrip near the city. Jett died last week at the holiday home of the family in the Grand Bahama Island.


More than a dozen reporters and photographers gathered at the gates of the private community Jumbolair Aviation Estates hours before the event, scheduled for the afternoon. Were not allowed to pass the main gate, but suppliers of food, tents and tables did.

A sign at the entrance to the local coffee Saddle Rock, of which Travolta is a regular customer, said: "Condolences to John and Kelly."


It is expected that the service Jett adhere to the principles of the faith of the actor, Scientology, and celebrate the life of a teenager.

It was unclear whether any celebrity would attend the funeral. Travolta, an avid pilot, bought the house on the runway of the community, where visitors can come and go flying without currency by paparazzi, posted for days in the area.


Jett Travolta had a history of seizures and was found unconscious in a bath on Friday.

Doctors in the Bahamas conducted an autopsy but did not reveal the results. An official of a local funeral home said the death certificate cited as cause of death convulsions. The remains were cremated teenagers on Monday and transferred to the United States the same night.


The Travolta have spoken publicly only once since the death of his son.

"We are sobering for our time with him was so short. Remember the times we spent with him for the rest of our lives," said Travolta and Preston on Sunday in a statement.


Tommy Davis, a spokesman for the Church of Scientology International in Los Angeles, said Thursday in the "Early Show" on CBS that he had spoken with the family and they were fine.

"This is a moment for them and their families and friends ... We wish you well and hope you can handle," said Davis.

The film critics spoke, and "Slumdog Millionaire" is the final answer.

The film that tells a story of poverty to affluence on Thursday took the presea for best film among the five who won to lead the winners of the Awards Critics' Choice. "Slumdog" also won awards for director Danny Boyle, screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, the young actor Dev Patel and composer AR Rahman.


Sean Penn won two awards by being named the best actor award and share the division acting for "Milk." The new Batman saga, "The Dark Knight" also won two trophies: best action film and best supporting actor, in this case as luctuosa for Heath Ledger.

The film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" received eight nominations, but did not take any prize.


Kate Winslet was the Best Supporting Actress for "The Reader", while Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway tied as best actress for "Rachel Getting Married" and "Doubt" in that order.

Bruce Springsteen wrote the best song with "The Wrestler" for the work of the same name, "WALL-E" was the best animated film and "Tropic Thunder" was the best comedy.


The 14th annual Awards Critics' Choice, presented by the Film Critics Association and Broadcasting in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, honored excellence in 17 categories. The group, which represents more than 200 critics of television, radio and Internet in the United States and Canada established the Awards Choice Awards in 1995.

As the "horrifying" Tom Cruise describes the sudden death of the son of his friend John Travolta.

Cruise had to make an effort to maintain his composure to speak at the gathering of "The View" on Jett Travolta, 16, who died last week.


"John just loved it, their two children, and Kelly (Preston)," the actor 46 years with the voice. "This is something for which I have no words."

Then a silence fell.


The protagonist of "Valkyrie" also denied that Scientology, the faith that he and Travolta practice, contrary to medical care.

The interview will air on ABC on Friday morning.

With three fatalities as a preliminary figure, more than 200 injured and about 300 tourists in an isolated hotel, the Costa Rican authorities are getting ready to face major consequences on Friday by the strong earthquake that hit 6.1 degrees the Costa Rican capital on Thursday.

President Oscar Arias said that "today is a day of mourning for Costa Rica," confirming that "in addition to millions in losses, and reported the death of two girls and an adult by the quake."


These two sisters, 7 and 11 years of age who died buried by an avalanche while the woman suffered a heart attack.

"Tomorrow (Friday), once we know the consequences of the earthquake in infrastructure and houses have been destroyed, we will sign the emergency decree in question, to ask the state institutions necessary resources to address this situation , "said Arias.


The last report of the National Emergency Commission said that 42 communities were damaged and hundreds of people were held incommunicado by derrumbres on roads between those of about 300 tourists a mountain hotel.

The movement was recorded at 13:21 in the afternoon with the epicenter about 35 kilometers northwest of San Jose, near the Poas Volcano National Park, in Alajuela. Its depth was only six kilometers, which led it to be stronger sense, experts say Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI).


The Commission decided to issue a red alert and prevention in order to facilitate the work, and Arias said that on Friday signed a decree to declare a national emergency situation. The president also said he conducted a tour of affected areas.

After the earthquake, OVSICORI reported over 300 aftershocks.


The emergency applies to the cities of Alajuela and Heredia, where are the affected communities, but also to San José and Cartago. These four cities are known as the Greater Metropolitan Area, and concentrated to about two million people.

At the time of the earthquake in San Jose, which lies a large amount of population and economic activity, people ran from homes, buildings and shopping malls. Hospital Mexico, one of the major medical centers state evacuated as a precaution but later restored services.


An AP reporter who was in the city noted that some women hincaron to pray, and many others who were crying for nervousness in places like parks and plazas football. The cell phone service collapsed in scenes that did remember what happened after the earthquake of 7.6 degrees in 1991, with epicenter in the Caribbean.

In Sector West, where major projects are being built up, the works were suspended. "He was very strong, I was up there and what saved me was the harness," said frightened 7 television channel a young worker who only identified himself as Roger.


In Alajuela, closest to the epicenter, the cross of a church collapsed and many buildings were damaged, but superficial.

In Nicaragua on Thursday also saw three tremors between 3.6 and 4.5 degrees on the Pacific coast. The authorities attributed to local faults.

A surgeon on Long Island has made a little peculiar divorce in which still requires the wife to pay $ 1.5 million for the kidney donated to him in 2001, when her life depended on an organ transplant.

Richard Batista, who works in the medical center at the University of Nassau on Long Island, says that your claim is a result of the conduct of his wife, whom he accuses of having cheated with a physical therapist and do not allow for eight months three daughters, 14, 11 and 8 years they had in their marriage.


"This is my last resort. I do not want to be in the public eye," said Batista media and that the donated organ Downell his wife, a nurse, in an attempt to save her marriage.

"My first priority was to save his life and the second save our marriage," said Batista, 49, who added "there is a pain deeper than being betrayed by the person to whom you have spent your life."


After two failed transplants, finally Batista, who was responsible for looking after his wife donated her kidney after medical tests showed that the compatibility.

The marriage of the couple survived another four years until his wife's filing for divorce in July 2005.

The pastor Whit Hutchinson on Thursday lifted a pen in the air and proclaimed: "This is all that is needed to hold together the families of immigrants."

He said that Barack Obama should use the same day he assumes office as president, Jan. 20, to sign an executive order to halt the deportations of immigrants.


"This is so easy that it might do so in the inaugural parade route to his government," said the pastor of the Wesley United Methodist Church in Washington.

Hutchinson was one of seven religious leaders in a joint presentation to reporters, announced their participation in the campaign for immigrant advocacy groups to revive the debate on immigration reform.


In New York, religious and municipal leaders on Thursday joined a national campaign to require Obama to remove the raids and deportations immediately and return to the reform of immigration laws during the first 100 days of his mandate.

"The Church will not stay silent," he said in New York the Rev. Gabriel Salguero, representing the Confraternity Conciliar Leaders, which has 3,000 member churches. "We hope the commitment of the administration of Barack Obama when he said that there will be changes, we can. So we say 'yes you can' stop the raids until we reform the system."


The Hispanic councilman Melissa Mark-Viverito announced Saturday that hundreds of citizens and legal residents may go to a church in the Latin Quarter of East Harlem to explain the situation of undocumented friends or family members who fear being deported. Their stories will be recorded and documented for more than 50 volunteers and delivered to Congress as Hispanic Nydia Velazquez, who will attend the event and in turn, deliver to the future Obama administration.

"All of us here understand that our immigration system is broken and that existing laws destroy entire families," said Mark-Viverito. "We must fight for this country commitment to human rights and seek justice for the hundreds of thousands of workers and families who suffer discrimination and violence."


Among those present at the ceremony, held at the mayor of New York, was the Rev. Walter Coleman, the Adalberto United Methodist Church in Chicago, who two years ago housed Elvira Arellano, the immigrant refugee who lived in the church to avoid deportation, and that became a symbol of the suffering of the undocumented.

In a separate conference call broadcast in Washington, Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, said that more than 10 million Hispanics voted in elections that gave victory to Obama did so "dissatisfied" with the failed attempts reform.


He said that in the past four years had a 40% increase in racist incidents against Latinos, and many of those killed were involved. "This must stop," he said.

The leaders announced January 21 for a concentration of at least 5,000 people in the southeast Washington to march on the offices of the immigration police and customs, known as ICE.


Rabbi David Shneyer, director of the Sanctuary Kol Am, said the repressive attitude of the authorities against illegal immigrants was inconsistent in a country like the United States than in all their actions, even in words printed on its currency, trust in God.

"The Bible speaks many times about the treatment that should be welcoming to outsiders," he said. "We said that we should not only welcome but we must protect them and treat them as part of God's creation, but in this country we are giving this treatment of compassion and justice."


Leaders of another group of activists met on Wednesday with members of Obama's transition team to discuss the need for reform, and the Senate has included among the 10 priority items of its agenda this year's debate on immigration.

The economy in the euro area has deteriorated, said today the president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Jean-Claude Trichet, suggesting there might be a further decline in the rate of reference within a week.

"It is clear that there has been a significant decline in the real economy," he said in an interview with U.S. magazine Institutional Investor, broadcast on the Web "What amazes me is that the most recent forecasts are also the most pessimistic. And this is happening globally, not only at the level of the euro area, "he added.


In this context, the leaders of the ECB council meets today to decide its next monetary policy. So far, the guardian of the euro remained silent about their intentions. In late December, Trichet suggested that the ECB could pause in rate cuts, to assess the impact of the previous low.

The European institution reduced its benchmark rate at 1.75 percentage point, to 2.50% between October and December.


"In the current circumstances, it is more important than ever that inflation expectations are well founded," Trichet said to Institutional Investor. This is essential to ensure price stability over the medium term and to help prevent the possible threat of deflation, a danger that threatens not for now, he said.

Meanwhile, it was learned today that unemployment in the euro zone affected in November to 7.8% of the workforce, its highest in almost two years, according to the European Statistics Office Eurostat.

President Hugo Chávez dondando continue heating fuel for poor families in the United States, a costly decision that indicates that the Venezuelan president wants to keep his word and support his image, despite the fall in oil prices .

The oil company of Venezuela, Citgo Petroleum Corp., based in Texas, announced on Wednesday that the program will continue, two days after his partner, the nonprofit group Citizens Energy, based in Boston, said that Citgo had suspended deliveries of fuel by the economic crisis.


"Chavez noted that it was a mistake," said Larry Birns, director of the Council of Hemispheric Affairs, based in Washington. He added that representatives of Citgo will probably recommend to the President of the savings initially, but that the impact would not be considered until the president saw the reaction.

Then began to understand that cuts to the program with the United States was very harmful in terms of image, "said Birns.


Birns and other analysts have said that Chavez wants to show that it adheres to its commitments, even before the fall of oil prices that reduce the income of the Venezuelan government. The president faces an important vote on February 15 to abolish the limits for re-election and its previous decisions to be taken carefully with regard to its acceptance.

Chavez fuel supplies to 200,000 households in 23 states through a program that has sparked controversy in the United States. Critics say the program is a ploy to undermine the president's administration of President George W. Bush.


The former representative Joseph Kennedy, son of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy said that the determination to resume the delivery of fuel was taken with the direct involvement of President Chavez. "

When asked whether he had spoken with Chavez, Kennedy replied that "I did what was necessary to continue the operation."


The CEO of Citgo Petroleum, Alejandro Granado, announced in Boston that the company decided to reverse the suspension of the donations to find a way to solve the free fuel.

"This is a great effort," said Granado. "This is a sacrifice."


The announcement was made two days after Kennedy, chairman of Citizens Energy Group, said that Citgo had suspended fuel aid due to low oil prices and the economic crisis in the world.

The optimism of the new year on Thursday gave a harsh reality, since some bad economic data were to fall more than 3 percent to the emerging actions.


However, emerging sovereign bonds recovered slightly after a series of new releases for a total of 4,500 million dollars.

The currencies of emerging economies in Eastern Europe while the weak operating the gas dispute between Ukraine and Russia continued to harm the supply of some parts of Europe.


The benchmark index of the MSCI Emerging shares collapsed 3 percent to 576.79 at 1125 GMT. This accumulated followed by a second day low, after seven consecutive sessions of gains.

On Thursday, some data unfavorable to exports from Germany joined the job cuts in the private sector in the United States published on Wednesday to underline the depth of the global economic slowdown.


Data from developing countries were also ill. Hungary showed a larger than expected drop in industrial production in November from 12.2 percent. Czech Republic recorded an unexpected trade deficit for the same month.

"At the beginning of the year, the market was optimistic, perhaps thinking that all problems disappeared with the New Year," said Murat Toprak, strategist for Societe Generale changes.


"Now we are returning to the fundamentals of the economy. The recession is quite clear in developed markets and it is now obvious that the situation in emerging markets is deteriorating very rapidly," he added.

"Turkey, Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, all these countries are already in recession. The central banks are trying to reduce pressures on the economies by cutting interest rates, but will take some time. There is also an issue of funding, reduction of flows to emerging markets. We have become a reality, "Toprak said.


But the differential risk of emerging debt, measured by the Bond Index Plus Emerging Markets JP Morgan (EMBI +), rose only 2 basis points, a slight improvement from an increase of 6 basis points at its meeting in New York, After a series of new placements of debt of several countries that totaled 4,500 million dollars.

The Bank of England on Thursday cut its benchmark interest rate half a percentage point to 1.5 percent, a historic low, while striving to prevent Britain from falling into a long and deep recession.

With the downturn on Thursday, British rates a cumulative decline of 3.5 percentage points since October last year, as part of attempts by the monetary authorities to revive an economy facing its first recession since 1992.


The rates have never fallen below 2 percent in the history of Britain, even during the Great Depression of the 1930s, which highlighted the magnitude of the current crisis.

After this cut, the British reduced the rates differential of Americans who are in a range of 0 to 0.25 percent.


Economists anticipate a further reduction by the Bank of England next month and believe that rates could fall below 1 percent, perhaps accompanied by signs that indicate that would remain low for a long period of time.

"We still are in a trend of lower rates, but have taken the foot throttle this month," said Alan Clarke, economist at BNP Paribas in the UK.


The pound, which has accumulated depreciation of 15 per cent against the euro since the Bank of England began its campaign of aggressive rate cuts in October, rose after the decision, as many in the markets expecting a sharp reduction after the reduction of one percentage point last month ready.

The central bank gave few signals on the next steps, but he said that while the fall in the pound and the recent tax cuts and boost activity rates this year, there were still risks of inflation falling below its target, unless rates drop from 2 percent.

The Spanish public employment in December exceeded the barrier of 3 million people without work in 2008 after adding about a million newly unemployed.

The Ministry of Labor reported Tuesday that 139,694 registered unemployed in December over an increase of 4.6% over the previous month, and the number of unemployed stood at 3,129,000 people, the worst balance since 1996.


Among the immigrant population, the data returned to alarming levels. The monthly rise in unemployment was 8.25%. In total, more than 410,000 foreigners are registered in employment services.

"We are facing a global situation that is new and unprecedented and the year 2009 will be very difficult, to the extent that unemployment will continue to grow as a result of the collapse of production and consumption," said the secretary general for Employment, Maravillas Rojo.


The impact of the economic crisis in key sectors in the country's growth, such as construction and services, with particular virulence have beaten the labor market.

According to the records of the Ministry, unemployment rose by 46.9% over 2008. In other words, almost one million people lost their jobs.


Among immigrants, about 200,000 were unemployed, an increase of 93.8%.

December was the ninth consecutive month in which unemployment rose. According to the European statistical agency Eurostat, Spain is the EU country with the largest number of unemployed.


Therefore, the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero recently approved a package of measures to stimulate job creation.

Specifically, the plan involves a financial injection of 11,000 million euros (about 15,000 million U.S. dollars) to help sectors such as automobiles and promote various public works to promote the recruitment of unemployed.


Other measures, provide economic incentives to reward companies that hire people with special family.

"There is a reasonable expectation that all measures taken in Europe and the Spanish government have effects (positive) on employment," said Rojo.


Among immigrants, the executive launched in November called for voluntary return plan, an initiative to promote the return of unemployed foreigners to their countries of origin.

The plan provides for the payment of unemployment benefit in advance and includes a commitment not to return to Spain in at least three years. However, in just over a month, less than 800 immigrants have applied for the scheme.


After a decade of tremendous growth, the Spanish economy is on the verge of recession due to the international crisis and the profound stagnation in the property sector.

Salmonellosis is a bacterial infection that usually affects the intestinal tract and occasionally the bloodstream. It is one of the most common causes of gastroenteritis and produces several thousand cases each year in New York. Most cases occur during the summer months and in specific cases, outbreaks can occur.
Who contracted salmonellosis?

While the disease can be contracted by anyone, it is recognized that its incidence is highest among infants and children.
How is salmonella bacteria?

Salmonella is spread through consumption of food or water contaminated by contact with infected people or animals.
What are the symptoms of salmonellosis?

People exposed to salmonella may have mild or severe diarrhea, fever and in some cases, vomiting. Bloodstream infections can be very serious, especially for very young children or the elderly.
How long after exposure symptoms appear?

Symptoms usually appear within one to three days after exposure.
Where is salmonella?

Salmonella can be found easily in our food chain and the environment. The agencies often contaminate eggs, raw meat and dairy products from non-pasteurized cheese. Other sources of exposure may include contact with infected pets such as turtles, chickens, dogs and cats.
How long can an infected person to be carrying the germs of salmonella?

The carrier status varies from a few days to several months. Babies and people who have received treatment with oral antibiotics tend to carry the germ longer than others.
Is it necessary to isolate or exclude from the school or the workplace for those infected?

Because Salmonella is found in feces, it is only necessary to isolate people with active diarrhea that can not control their bowel habits (eg, infants, young children and persons with disabilities). Most infected people may return to work or school if they can control these habits, as long as they wash their hands well after the evacuation. People who handle food, children attending day care and health workers must obtain approval of the local health department or state before returning to their routine activities.
What is the treatment for salmonellosis?

Most people infected with salmonella recover without help or just need fluids to avoid dehydration. Usually, we do not recommend the use of antibiotics or medicines to control diarrhea cases common with intestinal infections.
How can you prevent salmonellosis?

1. Always treat raw meat of poultry, cows and pigs as if it were contaminated and proceed as follows:
Wrap meat in plastic bags in the market to prevent the blood off on the rest of the food.
Refrigerate foods immediately, minimize their stay at room temperature.
Once the counters used for food preparation and cutting boards them, wash them immediately needed to prevent cross-contamination with other foods.
Avoid eating raw or poorly cooked meat.
Make sure that food reaching the internal temperature of cooking, especially when using microwave ovens.

2. Avoid eating raw eggs or foods containing eggs cooked bit raw.

3. Avoid using raw milk.

4. Incentive wash hands thoroughly before and after preparing food.

5. Make sure that children, especially those who play with pets, wash their hands carefully.

6. Do not have reptiles as pets in homes where people living with compromised immune systems or young children.

The odds of dying from an accident with fireworks is one in 954,786. That of being attacked by a shark in an eight million.

Next week when Florida Lottery Powerball incorporate their games, and very difficult odds of winning the lottery multiestatal will be reduced to one in 198 million.

However, despite the difficulties of the economy, experts are betting that the large amounts of money from Powerball thousands of Floridians who will spend their money looking for the opportunity to take the jackpot.

Powerball tickets are sold in Florida from January 4 and 7 will be the first draw from the new offices at Universal Studios Powerball. Sweepstakes moved to Orlando 16 years after West Des Moines, Iowa

The new center is one of several changes that brings the Powerball to Florida, the state number 30 - in addition to the U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia - to participate.

The basis of the draw will increase from $ 15 to $ 20 million, but can go a lot higher. The biggest Powerball prize was $ 365 million, shared by eight people in a meat packing Nebraska in 2006.

The inclusion of players from Florida will give more money, lottery officials said, while it is projected that the average number of prizes will reach $ 141 million, an increase compared with the current figure of $ 96 million. But the odds of winning are lower. At this time are in a 146 million less than in other drawings.

Authorities in Florida Lottery decided in June to join the Powerball to increase the meager income of the state. Although he had previously said it would add the Powerball cannibalize other games, Leo DiBenigno, director of the Florida Lottery, said that now collect millions of dollars for education.

"We are a business and offer the customer what they want'', he said DiBenigno to The Miami Herald.

The money from Powerball tickets to be sold in Florida will stay here and 40 percent will go to education.

Last year, Powerball generated between $ 2500 and $ 3000 million, which was divided between prizes and state funds. It is expected that the addition of Florida's leading annual sales of $ 3000 to $ 3500 million.

Florida voters approved the lottery in 1986 to assist in the financing of education. State games generated about $ 4000 million annually in ticket sales and the figure about $ 1200 million going to education.

Meanwhile, the decline of the economy has also affected Florida Lottery and sales have dropped $ 125 million - about 7.5 percent - since July. At that rate, this year the state would lose about $ 90 million in funds for education.

Other games in Florida have also been affected this year. Bets on the premises parimutuales fell 17 percent between July and October and slot machines fell about 13 percent during the same period, officials reported.

The authorities in the hope that the Powerball lottery is a big boost for the games.

"When people play the lottery to use their discretionary funds''said Connie Barnes, Director of Communications of Florida Lottery." Every time the economy faces difficulties, people spend less. We have experienced a drop in sales''Barnes said, "but we anticipate that the new game will be a success.''

While gas stations and other businesses are prepared to sell Powerball tickets, the lottery run by the state to promote the game and tell the public how to play. The tour will be in the Powerball Sawgrass Mills mall in Broward 4 to 9 pm next Tuesday and in the Dadeland Mall in Miami-Dade 4 to 9 pm on Friday of the week.

However, the players might consider traveling to the area northwest of the state in search of the jackpot.

State Line Store Gift Shop in Walnut Hill - close to the border between Alabama and Florida, not far from Mississippi - had a number of impressive winners. The establishment sold two winning Fantasy 5 tickets early this month, each worth more than $ 120,000, and in November of a Lotto ticket won $ 4600.

Dee Hadley, owner of the business, said it expects to sell Powerball tickets since his shop fortunate. "It will be something wonderful,''Hadley said on Christmas Eve." If we can have a winning Powerball that would give us a great reputation.''

The "metrosexual": a new style of male *

"The typical metrosexual is a young man with money to spend, living in the metropolis, where the best shops, clubs, Gyms and best hairdressers. It may be officially gay, straight or bisexual, but this would not be so important because it takes itself as its object of love and pleasure. They are independent professionals, models, work in the media and producing or pop music, and now also in sports, but love the products of male vanity .... "

-Mark Simpson, "Meet the metrosexual," Salon.com, July 22, 2002

That is the definition of "metrosexual" as is found. The word "metrosexual" was invented in England by Mark Simpson in 1994. Defines a "new man" of the twenty-first century. Basically, this new man is a "narcissistic" that is "out of the closet." The metrosexual is a guy with money, living in the metropolis, he likes to wear loud clothes, paint nails, skin care is, use creams, hair paint. It may be homosexual, heterosexual or bisexual. That's not interested. What matters is that the type is "like" itself and how important that is not afraid to do know. It was generally spend much time in front of the mirror. Although it is starting to leave the closet (closet).

What happens here is that Mark Simpson invented a name to define something that has existed for a long time but now is becoming more common. Men who have no shame in painted nails or hair or use face cream or dressing using Clothing colors that have traditionally been women. Although we all know that this has always existed in some way now appears that many felt "liberated" the image of "male" that has characterized the man for centuries. I read that this new man may come in contact with her female and has no fear in exteriorizarlo. The other day when connecting to the Internet, in the first screen where all the news and post comments saying he had a question: Are you a Metrosexual?

Its leader is the English footballer David Beckham, who despite their nails painted, hair dye, is the son of a hairdresser, and even posing for gay magazines, make the ladies sigh worldwide making clear their masculinity.

"While some prefer to forgo some metro tendencies for fear that the other suspects who are gay, like going to the manicurist or use bright colors, others are consciously appropriated the gay culture as a resource for distinguished men of the pile of gray. The fact that there are other men who question their sexuality is, indeed, part of a game you love to play, "says the New York Times."

They like women, but made part of the gay aesthetic

Those who like strong women, but at the same time, are big consumers of cosmetics, magazines and clothing fashion design, which features more than make him a doubt for their sexual orientation. And it is here where one of the most distinctive features of these "new men": the majority gives them exactly what to think they are gay. One example: the footballer David Beckham, who is painted nails, it is in braids hair and poses for gay magazines, without giving up your profile heterosexual. Some clear so far: using brand jeans, is interested in the design indoor, cook, do yoga. Nor do you mess with cosmetic surgery, have good manners, distinguished from a sheet of good quality that it is not, know what is in and are sensitive.

Another Definition of Metrosexual:
Urban man with an important sense of aesthetics that devotes much of his time and money on his appearance and lifestyle.
They like to be seen as sensitive and romantic.
Being a metrosexual is not conditioned sexual preferences of men, although the term is used for heterosexual men who show this trend for the aesthetics and personal care.

Some examples of men as metro are Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Johnny Deep or David Beckham.

The pancreas plays a major role in the digestive process, essential in producing enzymes to digest food. The other function of the pancreas, which can be described as "control of the fuel," is to produce insulin, which affects people with diabetes. Over 95% of the cells of the pancreas exocrine glands are responsible for producing pancreatic juice, which contains enzymes that break down fats and proteins for food nutrients can be absorbed by the small intestine and used by the agency for tissue repair or to promote growth.

Some conduits called exocrine pancreatic juice to carry the common bile duct and, eventually, to the small intestine. Only a small percentage of cells in the pancreatic endocrine glands are arranged in small groups or clusters called islets of Langerhans. The cells of the islets released three hormones (insulin, glucagon and somatostatin) that enable the body metabolism (breakdown and digest) food. Also regulate the use to which the body makes glucose, which is the energy source for many of the daily activities of all cells.

When the pancreas is functioning normally, the concentration of glucose in the blood varies in response to a wide variety of events, stress or infection, but remains in its normal range.
Causes

Genetic Factor: The changes or mutations that occur in the DNA of individuals indicate that they could be responsible for the cells of the pancreas become cancerous. It is therefore possible that changes in the DNA inherited from one generation to another not only increase the risk to develop this cancer, but even others, as they involve the activation of oncogenes (cancerous) or inactivation of tumor suppressor genes .
Age: The risk of colon cancer increased from 50 years. Most patients are between 60 and 80 years at the time of being diagnosed.
Sex: The likelihood of suffering from this disease is 30 percent higher in men than in women.
Race: The black people are more likely to develop pancreatic cancer that people of Caucasian or Asian.
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Food: A diet rich in meat and fat increases the risk, while fruit, vegetables and fiber-containing foods appear to have a protective effect.
Pancreatic cancer is more common in people with diabetes.
Chronic pancreatitis or persistent inflammation of the pancreas, is also associated with increased risk of developing cancer in the body, the evidence that some families have a tendency to suffer from chronic pancreatitis, which believes that it can be an inherited genetic mutation . Thus, this risk factor linked to the first, giving the possibility that the gene is responsible is responsible for making a digestive enzyme.
The exposure to certain chemicals (pesticides, dyes and chemicals related to gasoline) are considered risk factors can work to develop this cancer.

Symptoms

• Over 90% of patients generally presented the following symptoms:
• Pain in the upper or middle abdomen
• Jaundice (yellowing of skin)
• Weight loss
• Nausea.

Other symptoms may also appear, as the case are:
• Acute pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas)
• Diabetes mellitus
• Weakness
• Diarrhea
• Spasms

Prevention

The best way to prevent pancreatic cancer is to avoid some risk factors like smoking, a diet rich in fats and meat and exposure to certain chemicals (pesticides, dyes and petroleum products). People newly diagnosed with pancreatic cancer tend to react by showing a state of shock and stress. These reactions may hinder the relationship between physician and patient. It is therefore important to use the affected systems (notes written or recorded) to remember the particulars of the doctor and, if necessary, all the questions you want to do. Different ways of tackling the disease may include:

• Having the support of aid groups. It is also advisable for the patient to contact any of the associations devoted to advising and assisting those affected by such diseases.
• Follow a balanced diet can help patients feel better, to have energy to face the treatment and overcome the disease as well as possible.
• Being immersed in a social environment (friends and family) to offer moral support and understanding.

Diagnosis

If you have symptoms, the doctor makes a recognition and ordered tests to see if cancer and determine what should be the treatment. Among the main diagnostic tests are:
• Ultrasound or ultrasound (sound waves are used to detect tumors).
• Computerized tomography (CT): a special type of x-ray with that obtained by computer, an image inside the abdomen.
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), which uses magnetic waves to create an image inside the abdomen, and see if the cancer is only partially blocking the blood flow to an organ was not damaged.
• Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. Is the introduction by the throat a flexible tube through the stomach and reaches the small intestine. The doctor can look through the tube and injecting a dye to the area may be more clearly in an x-ray.
• Biopsy: Introduction of a needle into the pancreas to remove some cells. The cells can be observed later in the microscope.
• The percutaneous cholangiography transhepática: thin needle is inserted into the liver through the right side and inject dye into the bile ducts of the liver so they can see the locks on the radiograph.
• Surgery. The doctor makes a cut in the abdomen and observe the pancreas and surrounding tissues to detect the presence of cancer. If there is a cancer and does not appear to have spread to other tissues, the doctor can remove the tumor.

Treatments

Used four kinds of treatment:

1 .- Surgery. Surgery can be used to remove the tumor. The doctor may remove the cancer through one of the following:
• Whipple's operation, during which he removed the head of the pancreas, small intestine and part of some of the tissues surrounding it. Leave a sufficient portion of the pancreas that the body continues to produce digestive juices and insulin.
• Total pancreatectomy, which is extracted through the entire pancreas, part of the small bowel, the stomach, bile duct, gall bladder, spleen and most of the lymph nodes in the region.
• Distal pancreatectomy, which removed the body and tail of the pancreas. If the cancer has spread and can not be removed, the doctor may operate to relieve symptoms.
• Biliary diversion: If the cancer is blocking the small intestine and bile builds up in the gallbladder, the doctor can divert all or part of the small intestine it. During this operation, cut the gallbladder or bile duct and joins the small intestine.
• You can also radiographic procedures to install a catheter to drain the bile that has accumulated in the area. Through this procedure, the doctor may drain the catheter through an outer tube or catheter can move around the area and blocked drain bile into the small intestine. Moreover, if the cancer is blocking the flow of food from the stomach, the stomach can bind directly to the small intestine so that the patient can continue eating normally.

2. Radioterapia. It uses high-energy radiation to eliminate cancer cells and reduce tumors. The radiation may come from a machine (external radiation therapy), or materials that produce radiation (radioisotopes) introduced through thin plastic tubes in the area where the cancer cells (internal radiation).

3. Quimioterapia. Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to eliminate cancer cells. Can be taken orally or administered through a needle into a vein or muscle. Chemotherapy is considered a systemic treatment because the drug enters the bloodstream, travels through the body and also can eliminate cancer cells outside the pancreas.

4. Biological therapy. This type of therapy aims to establish the differences between cancer cells and normal pancreatic tissue, and then try to make the body fight cancer. It uses material produced by the body or made in a laboratory to boost, direct or restore the body's natural defenses against disease. Some biological therapies are also known as treatments for biological response modifiers or immunotherapy.
The treatment for pancreatic cancer depends on the stage of the disease as the age and general health status of the patient. The patient can follow the standard treatment in patients who participated in previous studies was effective, or choose to participate in a clinical trial that are underway, which are designed to find better ways to treat patients with cancer and are based on the latest information.

Other data

Side effects. The side effects of cancer treatment depends on the type and extent of it, the treatment has been followed and the patient's health status.

Side effects of surgery depend on the extent of the operation:
• Pain during the early days, which can be controlled with medication.
• Weakness or fatigue.
• Digestive problems, which were relieved by following a proper diet.

Side effects of radiation depend on the dose and intensity. Among the most common are:
• Weakness and fatigue.
• Hair loss.
• Itching.
• Digestive problems (diarrhea, vomiting ...).

Side effects of chemotherapy depend on the specific drugs that are taken:
• Digestive problems (vomiting, diarrhea ...).
• Bleeding
• Loss of appetite
• Weakness
• Rashes.

Side effects caused by biological therapy vary with the type of treatment received:
• Fever.
• Nausea and vomiting.
• Diarrhea.
• Weakness.
• Loss of appetite.
• Rashes.
• Purple and swelling.