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AT&T Is the Worst Carrier Again, Says Consumer Reports
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UCI program fights cancer with cancer - The Orange County Register
Military metaphors are hard to avoid when describing the work in Daniela Bota's lab.
Petri dishes become training camps, where cells taken from patients "learn" to attack a patient's brain tumor.
Dr. Daniela Bota is conducting human trials of possible brain-cancer vaccines, an example of a trend known as personalized medicine. She is pictured with images of brain tumors.
MINDY SCHAUER, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Then, they are re-injected into the patient to seek out and destroy the enemy.
Bota, a UC Irvine neuro-oncologist, is conducting three separate human trials of brain tumor vaccines, with a fourth on the horizon.
And all four are potentially significant advances in the rapidly expanding realm of "personalized medicine" ? drafting a patient's own cells in the fight against disease.
"It's the wave of the future," Bota told a recent visitor to her lab, where the brains of laboratory mice bred to grow human tumors are revealing the tumors' secrets ? and their vulnerabilities.
The clinical trial of the training-camp treatment, known as DCVax, is aimed at patients whose brain tumors have been surgically removed.
Parts of the patient's tumor cells mingle in the petri dish with immune cells, known as dendritic cells, strained from the patient's blood.
"We teach the dendritic cells to fight the tumor," Bota said. "They go and interact with the other immune cells. Everybody gets the message."
While follow-up radiation and chemotherapy can extend patients' lives, it typically fails to remove all cancer cells. Beefing up the patient's immune cells just might.
Two other trials target proteins found on the surface of cancer cells. Like a rallying flag, they summon souped-up immune cells to tear the tumor apart.
"Chemotherapy attacks normal cells," Bota said, leading to unwanted side effects, such as memory loss.
Her approach takes sharper aim at tumor cells.
"A majority of patients have almost no side effects," she said. "There's a much better tolerance than (with) traditional therapies."
A fourth trial awaiting approval by the Food and Drug Administration would deploy an even broader arsenal against tumors.
Tumor cells from one patient along with those of three others will be used to arm immune cells with the power to recognize and attack a variety of tumor types ? defeating cancer's ability to mutate rapidly and camouflage itself from the immune system.
Earlier this year, Bota received special permission from the FDA to try out the treatment on a terminally ill patient.
"The median survival was probably two months or less," she said, for patients in his condition.
He was treated in March. And the patient is still alive as 2012 draws to a close, despite the cancer that threatened to end his life when the year was just getting started.
"He's largely out-survived his expected survival," she said.
Bota and her fellow researchers are careful to avoid leaping to conclusions based on results from a single patient.
Still, the man's survival is encouraging, and could bode well for the larger trial to come.
UC Irvine's Comprehensive Brain Tumor Program has been growing steadily in recent years, she says, first with Dr. Mark Linskey and later Bota's research partner, neuro-oncologist Jose Carrillo.
More recently, neurosurgeons Johnny Delashaw and Frank Hsu joined the team.
"We're actually becoming one of the biggest vaccine programs in the whole country for brain tumors," Bota said. "We have three very strong brain-tumor neurosurgeons, definitely moving us forward at the speed of light."
She is seeking brain cancer patients for all three trials now under way, and the studies should remain open for the next one to three years.
"If any of those studies give positive results, we'll hopefully have one more gun in the arsenal to be fighting the tumor," she said.
Bota said she hopes to obtain permission to begin the fourth trial by spring. It would become the first trial of the vaccine, known as ERC 1671, in the United States, although it is already available in Europe.
Contact the writer: 714-796-7865 or pbrennan@ocregister.com.
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Gold Bug Hitting Japan - Chicago Gold and Silver Investing Fan Blog
There is mounting evidence that the gold bug is hitting Japan. According to Profit Confidential :
"I don?t believe it is a coincidence that, ever since the Japanese government reported a budget deficit, the Japanese consumer increased their buying of gold bullion to be at a 15% greater pace than last year (source: Market Watch). That is, the Japanese consumer bought 15% more gold bullion in 2011 than 2010. Thus far in 2012, this trend has shown no signs of slowing down."
The biggest Gold players in Asia are India and China. Smaller countries like the Phillipines and Vietnam are increasing their holdings. Add Japan to the mix and you got the makings of a gold buying frenzy in Asia.
Could it be that these countries central banks are buying gold to diversify their assets in the event of some kind of currency collapse? Could it be that citizens of these countries are waking up to the realities of this world that its citizens are worried about faith in their currency?
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Is Washington Ready For a Carbon Tax?
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Cell phone addiction similar to compulsive buying and credit card misuse, experts say
ScienceDaily (Nov. 28, 2012) ? Cell phone and instant messaging addictions are driven by materialism and impulsiveness and can be compared to consumption pathologies like compulsive buying and credit card misuse, according to a Baylor University study in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions.
"Cell phones are a part of our consumer culture," said study author James Roberts, Ph.D., professor of marketing and the Ben H. Williams Professor of Marketing at Baylor's Hankamer School of Business. "They are not just a consumer tool, but are used as a status symbol. They're also eroding our personal relationships."
Roberts' study, co-authored with Stephen Pirog III, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the department of marketing at Seton Hall University, found that materialism and impulsiveness drive cell phone addiction. Cell phones are used as part of the conspicuous consumption ritual and also act as a pacifier for the impulsive tendencies of the user, according to Roberts. Impulsiveness, he noted, plays an important role in both behavioral and substance addictions.
This study is the first to investigate the role materialism plays in cell phone addiction. According to Roberts, materialism is an important consumer value that impacts many of the decisions we make as consumers. Additionally, cell phone use and over-use have become so common that it is important to have a better understanding of what drives these types of technological addictions.
Previous studies have shown that young adults send an average of 109.5 text messages a day or approximately 3,200 texts each month. They receive an additional 113 text messages and check their cell 60 times in a typical day and on average, college students spend approximately seven hours daily interacting with information and communication technology.
"At first glance, one might have the tendency to dismiss such aberrant cell phone use as merely youthful nonsense -- a passing fad. But an emerging body of literature has given increasing credence to cell phone addiction and similar behavioral addictions," Roberts said.
Data for this study come from self-report surveys of 191 business students at two U.S. universities. Cell phones are used by approximately ninety percent of college students, and said Roberts, "serve more than just a utilitarian purpose." Cell phones are accessible at any time, including during class, and possess an ever-expanding array of functions, which makes their use or over-use increasingly likely. A majority of young people claim that losing their cell phone would be disastrous to their social lives, he said.
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Homo (Sans) Sapiens: Is Dumb and Dumber Our Evolutionary Destiny?
James R. Flynn?s observation that IQ scores experienced dramatic gains from generation to generation throughout the 20th century has been cited so often, even in popular media, that it is becoming a cocktail party talking point. Next stop a New Yorker cartoon. (An article about Flynn and the Flynn effect has already been published in The New Yorker.)
A recent report in Trends in Genetics (part 1 and part 2) takes a bleaker view of our cognitive future?one that foresees the trend line proceeding inexorably downward. Gerald Crabtree, a biologist at Stanford University, has put forward a provocative hypothesis that our cushy modern existence?absent the ceaseless pressures of natural selection experienced during the Paleolithic?makes us susceptible to the slow creep of random genetic mutations in the the 2000 to 5000 genes needed to ensure that our intellectual and emotional makeup remains intact. The implications of this argument are that we as a species of the genus Homo are over many generations slowly losing our sapiens.
The press justifiably had a field day with this one:
Why did Petraeus do it? Maybe humans are evolving to be dumber.
We?re getting, like, dumber
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The really clever part of Crabtree?s argument rests on the contention that a Stone Age Fred Flintstone may have been more of a dynamo in some ways than a 20th century Albert Einstein?our pre-historic forebears performed? the evolutionary heavy lifting that led to the swollen heads that we still avail ourselves of, at least until the inevitable decline predicted by Crabtree sets in.
Expansion of the human frontal cortex and endocranial volume, to which we likely owe our capacity for abstract thought, predominately occurred between 50 000 and 500,000 years ago in our prehistoric African ancestors, well before written language and before we had the modern voice-box to produce sophisticated verbal language, but after the first tools. Thus, the selective pressures that gave us our mental characteristics operated among nonverbal hunter-gatherers living in dispersed bands or villages, nothing like our present-day high-density, supportive societies.
In line with Crabtree?s take, the transition to survival through wiles?in place of speed and physical strength?required adaptations that appeared to rival or outpace the most lofty contemporary intellectual achievements like writing a symphony or cogitating on higher math. One small error in gauging the aerodynamics and gyroscopic stabilization of a spear and one of our would-be ancestors became a canape for a saber-tooth tiger.
Many kinds of modern refined intellectual activity (by which our children are judged) may not necessarily require more innovation, synthesis, or creativity than more ancient forms: inventing the bow-and-arrow, which seems to have occurred only once about 40,000 years ago, was probably as complex an intellectual task as inventing language. Selection could easily have operated on common (but computationally complex) tasks such as building a shelter, and then computationally simple tasks, such as playing chess, became possible as a collateral effect.
Flintstone vs. Einstein smarts are contrasted most starkly by considering the case of artificial intelligence. AI has achieved major strides in emulating certain aspects of intellect: playing chess or Jeopardy and finding patterns in large collections of data, a field dubbed ?deep learning.? But the remaining and still immense challenges AI confronts lie elsewhere, as Crabtree points out:
AI promised household robots that would wash dishes, mow the lawn, and bring us freshly cooked croissants and coffee in the morning. Needless to say we do not have these robots now and none of the readers of this piece will probably ever see them, despite the immense financial impetus to build them.
The things at which AI excels?playing chess, Jeopardy or keeping an airplane on course?are, in fact, a cognitive piece of cake compared to washing dishes and putting them away in the right place. I remember roboticist Rodney Brooks demonstrating this during a talk at MIT in which he simply put his hand in his pocket and pulled out some change, an extraordinarily tough task for the current generation of R2-D2s.
Without the rigors of strong selection in our extended urban conglomerates?no more necessity of getting it right the first time on that spear throw?the slow but relentless decline of those 2,000 to 5,000 cognition-related genes has already begun?as this argument goes. Crabtree begins the first part of? his essay by asserting that the average citizen from Athens circa 1,000 B.C.?or anyone from Africa, India, Asia or the Americas millenia back?would be among the ?brightest and most intellectually alive of our colleagues and companions, with a good memory, a broad range of ideas, and a clear-sighted view of important issues??personal qualities supplemented by an astonishing emotional aplomb. This hyper-fit type would have prevailed even before the rise of civilization:
A hunter?gatherer who did not correctly conceive a solution to providing food or shelter probably died, along with his/her progeny, whereas a modern Wall Street executive that made a similar conceptual mistake would receive a substantial bonus and be a more attractive mate. Clearly, extreme selection is a thing of the past.
Maybe this explains our fascination with post-apocalyptic Mad Max-style fantasies?? But where?s the proof for Crabtree?s musings and what about contradictory evidence?? Crabtree proposes a test of his hypothesis and he also dismisses the Flynn effect that suggests that we have been getting progressively smarter generation after generation. Better IQ scores, Crabtree posits, are not a result of natural selection, but rather may have resulted from getting rid of lead and other heavy metals from gasoline and paint, from elimination of hypothyroidism by putting iodine in salt and from learning how to take tests better. Notwithstanding the Flynn effect, our slow genetic decline continues apace.
And what does the author of the Flynn effect? think about the Crabtree effect?
Crabtree suggests?that our genetic IQ is in?decline and proposes a direct genetic test of his hypothesis. We should await the results without ?sharing his pessimism. ? As he says, the environment that pressures us to perform intellectually is competition with other people, which could be argued to be at its maximum today. He ?fears? it is not enough and that is not a solid foundation foundation for his speculations. ?A much more direct test of trends is reproductive patterns. ?Only recently have the better educated been out-reproduced by the less educated. ?One can imagine events that would reverse this, so it is premature to panic.
Meanwhile, noted British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar questions the premises of any postulated slow slide toward imbecility:
Crabtree?s argument is built on the assumption that the selection pressure for big brains (aka IQ) was solving instrumental problems (how to survive in the world by building better weapons, better tools, etc). In fact, the selection for larger brains across all mammals and birds (and specifically primates) is the complexities of the social world, and this remains at least as complex as it ever was ? in fact, the social world may have even become more complex than it ever was due to a combination of higher population density and urbanization. The ability to build clever tools or novel hunting techniques appears to be a by-product of the [neural] software needed to handle a complex world (they both use the same logic and cognitive processes). So we haven?t in fact lost the selection process that kept the pressure on.
The question, as often happens in evolutionary biology, is how to distinguish assertions like Crabtree?s from a Rudyard Kipling ?just so? story. Crabtree has thought of a test that would sequence whole genomes of carefully selected individuals?ones whose genes could be traced back through an involved analysis to ancestors who lived at different times during the past 5,000 years when the transition from hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture was taking place. The test would look for an increase in mutations for those individuals with genes linked to ancestors who lived more recently along the 5000-year continuum, a confirmation of the gradual decline in intellectual ability.
Finding these people might require more than posting notices on Twitter and Facebook and Crabtree?s? proposal is probably not going to get pegged high on the NIH?s funding priorities for the 2014 federal fiscal year. But the Stanford professor still does not despair. He ends this entropic projection of our evolutionary future on an optimistic and self-deprecatory note. Science, he says, may yet find a way to counteract this trend. ?One does not need to imagine a day when we could no longer comprehend the problem, or counteract the slow decay in the genes underlying our intellectual fitness, or have visions of the world population docilely watching reruns on televisions they can no longer build.?
We may still have a few hundred years before we lose the modifier denoting ?intelligent? in Homo sapiens and science may yet find a way to save us ?by socially and morally acceptable means. In the meantime [Crabtree volunteers], I?m going to have another beer and watch my favorite rerun of Miami CSI (if I can figure out how to work the remote control).?
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Up Close: Using The "News Keywords" Tag For Google News
It?s been about two months since Google launched a ?news keywords? meta tag for news publishers. How?s it going? Why didn?t Google the standard meta keywords tag? The company?s not saying, but it did shed a little more light on how to use the tag.
Google launched the news keywords tag in September, designed as a way for news publishers to work around the fact that often the key terms they want their stories to be found for don?t make it into the story headlines.
The primary reason for this are two-fold. First, it can sometimes be awkward or make a headline lengthy to ensure the most relevant terms someone might search for appear within a headline.
Second, there are plenty of journalists who simply can?t get idea that they are writing for digital, where descriptive headlines are crucial, and instead want to stick with headlines that make more sense when seen in the overall context of a printed page.
Headlines For Print May Not Work For Search
Don?t get me wrong. I love a witty headline. But take this from the New York Post:
?Escrowyou too, judge,? the headline says. If you?re on the site, you can see from the sub-headline that this has something to do with Argentina, and if you read into the lead paragraph, you get that the country is refusing to pay funds into an escrow account over a legal dispute involving bonds.
If you?re finding this story through Google, you do get some of this context, though it?s still harder (in my opinion) to figure out what the story is about:
Getting Ranked In Google & Google News
The bigger issue is whether anyone will find the story at all. Having the key terms that someone is searching for in your HTML title tag ? which is often the text used for a story?s visual headline ? is one of the most important reasons why a page may rank well in Google (see our?Periodic Table Of SEO Ranking Factors?for an overview of the many factors involved).
That?s probably why when searching on Google for a phrase relevant to this story, ?argentina bonds,? the New York Post story doesn?t appear while plenty of others do. Those others use those words in their headlines, increasing the odds they?ll rank well:
Just to complicate things, Google Web Search and Google News have different ranking systems that are used.
With Google News, publishing date can be an important factor, as can be the reputation and authority of a publisher in a particular area.?Our story from last month,?The Publisher?s Guide To Enterprise News SEO, covers some of the specifics involved with Google News ranking.
The News Keywords Tag
This leads to the aforementioned ?news_keywords? tag. It?s designed so that publishers supposedly can have their clever ?Escrowyou? headlines like shown above yet still get found for key terms. In an example from the help page at Google about the tag, it looks like this:
<meta name=?news_keywords? content=?World Cup, Brazil 2014, Spain vs Netherlands, soccer, football?>
So for the Argentina bond story above, the tag might use words like ?argentina? and ?bonds? and ?escrow? like this:
<meta name=?news_keywords? content=?argentina, bonds, escrow?>
Don?t Worry About Too Much Repetition
That leads to one of the age-old questions I hated dealing with for a different meta tag, the meta keywords tag, that had a purpose similar to this new one. How much repetition is allowed? Should you repeat at all? If you want to be found for ?argentina,? ?bonds? and ?argentina bonds,? do you have to use all those variations like this?
<meta name=?news_keywords? content=?argentina, bonds, argentina?bonds?>
I asked this of Google:
What if someone wanted to make sure they were found for both ?world cup? and ?Brazil 2014 world cup? and did this:<meta name=?news_keywords? content=?World Cup, Brazil 2014, Brazil 2014 World Cup, Spain vs Netherlands, soccer, football?>
Bad? Good?
I was told:
We can?t disclose too much about how we match the keywords. In general, it?s good to imagine the keywords/key-phrases as user queries. If a user would use either ?world cup? or ?brazil 2014 world cup? as queries, it?s a good idea to include both.
So, apparently, repeat as you think makes sense.
Don?t Worry If You Go Over 10 Terms
The tag allows for up to 10 terms, with a ?term? being any number or words separated by the other terms by a comma. What if you go over the 10 maximum? Google told me:
The additional terms would be ignored.
Phew. No need to panic if you set your dial accidentally to 11.
Commas Required; Space Optional
Another popular question I hated from the old meta keywords tag days was whether the you needed to have spaces after each comma. Yes, these are the issues that once plagued the minds of SEOs and have returned! Google told me:
The?delimiter?for keywords is comma. So, spaces don?t matter.
Personally, I?d still put spaces after commas, myself.
Usage? No Comment
I also asked Google what type of usage or take-up they?ve seen of the tag by news publishers, but it didn?t disclose any figures.
Google Fail: Not Using Existing Meta Keywords Standard
Finally, I tried to get an answer about why Google didn?t use the long-standing meta keywords tag.?Google has never supported that tag in the past, but conceptually, the new news keyword tag does the same thing. The only difference between the two is the name. The meta keywords tag begins:
<meta name=?keywords?
Google?s new tag begins:
<meta name=?news_keywords?
Everything else is the same with the two. If Google had used the meta keywords tag, then many WordPress plug-ins and other CMS systems out there could have tapped into that tag. Instead, everyone has to come up with a unique solution because of Google?s non-standard approach.
Google told me this about the move:
As far as the raison d?etre, this is really something tailored for news publishers.
Yes, the news keywords tag only works for publishers who are accepted into Google News and only within Google News. But there?s no reason why Google News couldn?t have made use of the existing meta keywords tag, since it could have only recognized it as valid from publishers in Google News.
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Source: http://searchengineland.com/up-close-using-the-news-keywords-tag-for-google-news-140552
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