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New Melanoma Treatment Might Delay Cancer Progression - Drugs ...

SATURDAY Sept. 29, 2012 -- Researchers say they've discovered a two-drug combination that delays treatment resistance in patients with advanced melanoma.

By targeting different points in the same growth-factor pathway, the kinase inhibitor drugs dabrafenib and trametinib postponed the development of drug resistance in patients with BRAF-positive metastatic melanoma, the study authors said.

Melanoma is the most serious, and often deadly, form of skin cancer. In about half of patients with melanoma that has spread, tumor growth is caused by genetic mutations that keep the BRAF protein -- part of the MAPK cell growth pathway -- constantly activated. Drugs that inhibit BRAF activity can rapidly stop and reverse tumor growth in about 90 percent of patients. But the response is temporary in most cases, and tumor growth resumes in six or seven months, the researchers explained.

Previous research suggested that this drug resistance develops because the MAPK pathway gets turned back on through activation of MEK, another protein that is part off the MAPK pathway.

"We investigated this (drug) combination because of research we and others have conducted into the molecular underpinnings of resistance to BRAF inhibitor therapy," study lead author Dr. Keith Flaherty, of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, said in a hospital news release.

The phase 1 and 2 study was sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline, which developed both drugs.

"We found that adding the MEK inhibitor trametinib to BRAF inhibitor dabrafenib clearly delays the emergence of resistance. In fact, the combination was at least twice as effective as BRAF inhibition alone," he said.

One expert agreed that the results were encouraging.

"This study addresses the problem of resistance to the mitogen-activated protein kinase [MAPK] pathway. This study combined dabrafenib [a selective BRAF inhibitor] and trametinib, [a selective MAPK kinase (MEK) inhibitor]. These drugs can be safely combined, and the survival was significantly improved without untoward side effects," said Dr. Michele Green, a dermatologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.

The study was conducted at 14 sites in the United States and Australia and included 162 patients who received different dose combinations of the drugs: two daily 150 milligram (mg) doses of dabrafenib plus one 2 mg dose of trametinib; the same dabrafenib dose with a 1 mg dose of trametinib; or treatment with dabrafenib alone.

Patients who received dabrafenib alone were able to receive the full-dose combination treatment if their cancer resumed progression.

Treatment with both combinations of dabrafenib and trametinib led to a four-month longer delay in drug resistance than treatment with dabrafenib alone. After one year of treatment, 41 percent of patients receiving the full-dose combination treatment had no progression of their melanoma, compared with 9 percent of those receiving dabrafenib alone.

Among patients receiving the combination treatment, the development of side effects such as skin rash and a less dangerous type of skin cancer called squamous cell carcinoma was similar to that typically seen in patients taking only one of the drugs.

The study was scheduled for presentation Saturday at the European Society for Medical Oncology meeting in Vienna and simultaneous publication in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The drug combination is now being tested in a larger phase 3 study, which is required for U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval.

More information

The American Cancer Society has more about melanoma.

Posted: September 2012

Source: http://www.drugs.com/news/new-melanoma-might-delay-cancer-progression-40638.html

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When will computer hardware match the human brain? | Machines ...

This paper describes how the performance of AI machines tends to improve at the same pace that AI researchers get access to faster hardware. The processing power and memory capacity necessary to match general intellectual performance of the human brain are estimated. Based on extrapolation of past trends and on examination of technologies under development, it is predicted that the required hardware will be available in cheap machines in the 2020s.

Computers have far to go to match human strengths, and our estimates will depend on analogy and extrapolation. Fortunately, these are grounded in the first bit of the journey, now behind us. Thirty years of computer vision reveals that 1 MIPS can extract simple features from real-time imagery--tracking a white line or a white spot on a mottled background. 10 MIPS can follow complex gray-scale patches--as smart bombs, cruise missiles and early self-driving vans attest. 100 MIPS can follow moderately unpredictable features like roads--as recent long NAVLAB trips demonstrate. 1,000 MIPS will be adequate for coarse-grained three-dimensional spatial awareness--illustrated by several mid-resolution stereoscopic vision programs, including my own. 10,000 MIPS can find three-dimensional objects in clutter--suggested by several "bin-picking" and high-resolution stereo-vision demonstrations, which accomplish the task in an hour or so at 10 MIPS. The data fades there--research careers are too short, and computer memories too small, for significantly more elaborate experiments.

There are considerations other than sheer scale. At 1 MIPS the best results come from finely hand-crafted programs that distill sensor data with utmost efficiency. 100-MIPS processes weigh their inputs against a wide range of hypotheses, with many parameters, that learning programs adjust better than the overburdened programmers. Learning of all sorts will be increasingly important as computer power and robot programs grow. This effect is evident in related areas. At the close of the 1980s, as widely available computers reached 10 MIPS, good optical character reading (OCR) programs, able to read most printed and typewritten text, began to appear. They used hand-constructed "feature detectors" for parts of letter shapes, with very little learning. As computer power passed 100 MIPS, trainable OCR programs appeared that could learn unusual typestyles from examples, and the latest and best programs learn their entire data sets. Handwriting recognizers, used by the Post Office to sort mail, and in computers, notably Apple's Newton, have followed a similar path. Speech recognition also fits the model. Under the direction of Raj Reddy, who began his research at Stanford in the 1960s, Carnegie Mellon has led in computer transcription of continuous spoken speech. In 1992 Reddy's group demonstrated a program called Sphinx II on a 15-MIPS workstation with 100 MIPS of specialized signal-processing circuitry. Sphinx II was able to deal with arbitrary English speakers using a several-thousand-word vocabulary. The system's word detectors, encoded in statistical structures known as Markov tables, were shaped by an automatic learning process that digested hundreds of hours of spoken examples from thousands of Carnegie Mellon volunteers enticed by rewards of pizza and ice cream. Several practical voice-control and dictation systems are sold for personal computers today, and some heavy users are substituting larynx for wrist damage.

Source: http://machineslikeus.com/news/when-will-computer-hardware-match-human-brain

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Top Reasons Your Fans Are Hitting the 'Unlike' Button | Social ...

Getting a lot of people to like your Facebook page can be gratifying, but losing their loyalty can be equally devastating. You?re usually left thinking ?what did I do wrong, was it something I said?? That?s if you?re keeping track of your fan numbers close enough!

This is the unsettling reality for many companies and independent pages who are struggling to find ways to retain fans after enjoying an initial boost of popularity. So what is causing your fans to hit the infamous unlike button, and what can you do to stop more fans from doing so?

The Human Spam Filter Effect ? Posting Too Frequently

If you?ve ever used an email client before you know about spam filtering ? it?s an automated mechanism that identifies spam-like content and throws it straight into the trash bin. Many Facebook users are so in-tuned with internet browsing that they?ve developed their own built in spam filter and are quick to discard overbearing, unwelcomed, and useless status updates. In fact, people get so aggravated by a high frequency of posts that they don?t even want you having access to their wall anymore, and subsequently they unlike your page.

So how often should you post?

This is no rocket science and there is no magic formula. Each business is different so it's all about A/B testing. Besides, your emphasis should be on quality not quantity. The general rule of thumb is that if you don?t have something great to post, don?t post at all. With that said, if you?re taking the time to research your market and pay attention to the requests, opinions, and interests of fans, you should be able to produce at least 3-5 good status updates per week to start with. Increase the frequency if you see a positive response and increased engagement from your fanbase. Again, test different scenarios and don't be afraid to fail at times...

Lack of Incentive - What Have You Done For Me Lately?

You may have forgotten how you got all of those fans to begin with; you probably offered some type of incentive. Maybe it was a discount, some exclusive content or app, some genuinely helpful information, or some wholesome entertainment that made them come back for more. Whatever it was, you?re obviously not doing it anymore. Keeping fans on Facebook is a lot like keeping fans with any other type of media. If a television show is no longer entertaining, viewers stop watching, ratings decrease, and eventually it gets taken off the air. If you?re noticing a steady decline in fan numbers, you need to take action immediately and reintroduce the incentive-based status update strategy. A good way to let your fans know that they?re appreciated is to use a reveal tab/fan gateway to give them access to exclusive content that only fans can see. This will make your fans feel valued and motivate them to keep following your statuses to avoid missing any upcoming contest or giveaway. It will also encourage non-fans to join your page out of curiosity.

Failed Initial Targeting

Maybe the reason why they?re unliking you is because they were never really your fans to begin with? It could be that in your rush to get as many fans as possible in the beginning, you may have neglected the process of carefully targeting your audience. There are lots of ways to get fans on Facebook, including buying them from marketing gurus that are equipped with all the latest tools and tricks. However, if you don?t make an effort to ensure that your fans are properly targeted you could find a large percentage of them losing interest down the road.

So how do you do a better job of targeting your true fan base?

One of the best "organic" ways to attract fans that are likely to stick with you for the long haul is to advertise your fan page EVERYWHERE you can. Think beyond your website, e.g. email signatures, business cards, flyers, invoices, brochures etc... Another great way to attract targeted fans is do joint ventures with other fan pages in your niche. The concept is simple ? you find already successful fan pages that have a lot fans who would probably be interested in your page, then you contact the page administrators and ask them what it would take for them to post a link to one of your statuses in their next update. However, the most efficient ways to attract laser targeted Facebook fans will require you to put your hand in your pocket: Facebook Ads! Using Facebook Ads you can target people by location, age, sex, marital status and most importantly INTERESTS. This gives you the ability to display your ad only on profiles that are likely to become fans and/or customers. Coupled with a fan-gated contest or giveaway, Facebook Ads is ridiculously efficient! Try different ad rotations and targeting options to ensure you get the best bang for your buck.

Your Posts Just Suck

There really is no better way to say it. Your fans are unliking your page for the simple reason that they are tired of reading substandard posts that lack useful information or entertainment value.

How do you fix this?

In essence, you need to learn how to post status updates that are captivating and share-worthy. Adding a dislike button to each one of your statuses using Status Magic (as explained in the previous link) might be a good way to find out what your fans do not like before they get so sick of your antics that they completely unlike your entire page.

Use media to your advantage.

If you don?t have the resources, time, or skill to create your own quality media content, find it elsewhere on the web and introduce it to your fans. Sometimes being a known resource and sharing content that has already been created is all it takes. You?d be surprised how many people will stick around just because they know you always bring the best of the web to their fingertips. Think of websites like Digg or Reddit to find potential "viral content" that is relevant to your niche.

Use news and trends to your advantage.

Again, you don?t have to be a world-class journalist and conduct interviews or author breaking news. You just need to point out the latest trends and occurrences that your fans are likely to be interested in, and maybe add your own spin or opinion on the matter. Remember that your fans are basically subscribers; keep them up-to-date and involved.

Be interactive and engaging.

When you?re posting a status about an upcoming promotion, recent news, or a popular trend, make sure you pursue the input of your fans. Hold a poll, ask them to leave a comment, and give them the opportunity to engage in open dialect. Getting your fans involved is a good way to keep their mouse cursor away from the unlike button, and it also creates a buzz. If you're running out of ideas on what to post, check out this article.

And finally...Have a personality and be personable!

Don?t be afraid to be funny, witty, and unique. Stand out from the crowd by acting like a human being, and not a status updating advertising robot. There is no preset formula that will make people like you. Facebook is a digital platform but it still operates in the real world; people like other people simply because... they?re likable. What?s the point of starting a page on a social network if you?re just going to be antisocial?

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US Cellular expands its Windows Phone catalog with the ZTE Render for $80

Most Windows Phone enthusiasts have their sights set on large trophy-like targets, but if you have more modest goals in mind, then US Cellular's latest acquisition might be just what the doctor ordered. If the device pictured above looks familiar, that's because it should. Rebranded as the Render, most of you know this handset as the ZTE Orbit, an entry-level device that features a 4-inch 800 x 480 display, a 1GHz Qualcomm processor, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, a 5-megapixel camera and Windows Phone 7.5 Tango. So, if US Cellular is your wireless carrier of choice and you're seriously crushing on Windows Phone, the ZTE Render will run you $80 after a $100 mail-in rebate.

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Katherine Hooker London to Debut Pop-Up Store in New York
September 28, 2012

?British designer Katherine Hooker will debut her latest collection of coats and jackets this October with the opening of a U.S. pop-up shop in New York on Oct. 5. The pop-up store, which will be located in New York's SoHo neighborhood at 436 W. Broadway, will be open through Oct. 14. The shop will be the designer's only bricks-and-mortar retail presence outside of her flagship in London's Chelsea neighborhood. The shop will stock Hooker's jackets, coats, vests, and ready-to-wear.

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Top 8 Debate Zingers

Almost all presidential and vice presidential debates include good lines. But not every debate includes a real zinger: a rejoinder that nails the opponent and sticks in viewers? minds for weeks to come. Here are eight of National Journal?s favorites.

1. ?You are no Jack Kennedy.? Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, cut a dour figure onstage at the 1988 vice presidential debate in Omaha. But that evening he also delivered one of the best put-downs in political debate history, in response to a claim by Sen. Dan Quayle of Indiana?that ?I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.? Speaking slowly and deliberately, Bentsen replied, "Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy.? The audience burst into applause. ?That was really uncalled for, senator,? Quayle said, with a stony face. ?You?re the one who was making the comparison, senator,? Bentsen replied.

?2. ?There you go again.? Here?s a line so well-received that current GOP nominee Mitt Romney has said he?d like to use it against President Obama. It landed at the only televised debate between Ronald Reagan and President Carter. ?Governor Reagan, as a matter of fact, began his political career campaigning around this nation against Medicare,? Carter said; Reagan laughed and shook his head. Carter wrapped up his pitch for a program of national health insurance, and it was Reagan?s turn to reply. ?Governor. There you go again,? Reagan said, and explained that he?d merely been a proponent of a different piece of legislation. It was such a good line that Reagan reprised it in his debate with former Vice President Walter Mondale in 1984.

3. ?Senator Dole has richly earned his reputation as a hatchet man.? A question over President Nixon?s pardon led to a rather dark exchange between Sens. Bob Dole and Walter Mondale during the first-ever vice presidential debate, held in Houston in 1976. Dole said he wouldn?t be addressing Nixon?s pardon because ?it?s not a very good issue??as done and dusted as the wars in Vietnam, Korea, and the two World Wars, which he characterized as ?all Democrat wars.? Mondale responded, ?Senator Dole has richly earned his reputation as a hatchet man tonight.? Dole?s odd allegation?and Mondale?s pithy response?became the most remembered moment of the debate.

4. ?If Bush keeps it up, he's going to be the Joe Isuzu of American politics.??Both Vice President George H.W. Bush and Massachusetts Gov. Mike Dukakis managed to get in a few zingers during the 1988 presidential debate in Winston-Salem, N.C. Dukakis claimed Bush couldn?t be serious about bringing down the deficit, because the Republican wanted both more defense spending and lower taxes. ?If he keeps this up he's going to be the Joe Isuzu of American politics,? Dukakis said, referring to a '70s car salesman famous for his over-the-top TV ads. ?Is this the time to unleash our one-liner? That answer was about as clear as Boston Harbor,? Bush retorted. ?

5. ?I?m going to try to help you do that, Joe.? Dick Cheney didn?t miss a beat when then-Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman brought up Cheney?s private-sector career during the 2000 vice presidential debate at Kentucky?s Centre College. ?I'm pleased to see, Dick, from the newspapers that you're better off than you were eight years ago, too,? Lieberman said. ?I can tell you, Joe, the government had absolutely nothing to do with it,? Cheney responded, to laughter. Missing the chance to jab Cheney over his Halliburton connections, Lieberman said, ?I can see my wife and I think she's thinking, ?I wish he would go out into the private sector.' ? Cheney dryly remarked, ?I?m going to try to help you do that, Joe??a zinger that ended the exchange.

6. ?I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent?s youth and inexperience.? When President Reagan ran for reelection in 1984, he was already the oldest president in American history?a fact raised during a presidential debate on national-security issues. Reagan told Baltimore Sun reporter Hank Trewhitt, a panelist, that there was no doubt in his mind he had the capacity to be commander in chief. ?Not at all, Mr. Trewhitt, and I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent?s youth and inexperience.?

7. ?Who am I? Why am I here?? Ross Perot?s running mate in 1992, retired vice admiral James Stockdale, was a Vietnam war hero who joined Perot on the independent ticket essentially as a personal favor. At the 1992 vice presidential debate, Stockdale?s opening statement was almost painfully honest: ?Who am I? Why am I here?? he asked. ?I?m not a politician, everybody knows that.? The Medal of Honor recipient?s oddball opening line drew laughs, but it also brought front-and-center the question of what he was doing on the vice presidential ticket.?

8. ?Where?s the beef?? Presidential and vice presidential debates aren?t the only places where a candidate can work in a zinger: The 1984 Democratic debate will forever be remembered for one pop-culture reference, landed by former Vice President Walter Mondale. After Sen. Gary Hart wrapped up touting a long list of his new ideas, Mondale responded, ?When I hear your new ideas, I?m reminded of that ad: Where?s the beef?? Fresh in many minds at the time was fast-food chain Wendy?s series of commercials in which an elderly woman poses?that question when she is presented with a burger that?s all bun.

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College Degrees No Longer Required For Good Middle Class Jobs ...

By Jessica Stillman

It's a scary world out there for young people looking to start their careers, and this has led to plenty of college education panic. Don't have a degree, say a host of hyperventilating pundits and extremely anxious parents, and you'll almost certainly be consigned to low-paid wage slavery and a stunted life. Weep, weep.

And while the data certainly show a large and growing gap between the earnings of those with a four-year degree and those without, and no one would argue with your worthy high school guidance counselor's advice that it's generally a good idea to go to college, all this hand-wringing can have the side effect of suggesting ALL IS LOST if somehow getting a bachelor's degree failed to work out for you.

Not so, says a recent study from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce and Civic Enterprises. The research found that despite the obvious erosion of many traditional routes to middle-class earnings for non-graduates (nope, I wouldn't bet on that factory re-opening in town), there are still 29 million jobs in America that pay middle-class wages (defined here as between $35,000 and $75,000 annually) that don't require a bachelor's degree. Forty percent of those pay more than $50,000 a year. (For New Yorkers and inveterate high achievers, $50,000 might not sound like a lot, but it beats the U.S. median.)

While in the past, blue-collar gigs were the route to the middle class for non-graduates, this study reveals that most of today's jobs for non-grads are now in service sectors like healthcare or white-collar office jobs.

So how do you find your way to one of these reasonably decent jobs if you missed the boat on college? The research suggests getting one of these gigs still takes some effort, with the center suggesting five paths to this sort of steady employment:

Associate's degrees. Half of associate's degrees are related to career-oriented fields, such as nursing, business, and information technology.

Postsecondary certificates have eclipsed associate's and master's degrees as the second most common post-secondary award after the bachelor's degree-about 1 million are awarded each year.

Registered apprenticeships. Nine out of 10 apprentices are men and more than half of apprenticeships are in construction.

Industry-based certifications such as Microsoft, Cisco, and CompTIA certifications are test-based postsecondary credentials awarded by employers.

Employer-based training represents the largest pathway at $454 billion of spending.

Of course, while it's great to get some counterweight to the general cultural gloom hanging over those who fail to make it out of a four-year college program, the authors of the study don't think enough is being done to help those who need to find a non-college route to a good job.

"Compared to other advanced economies, the United States under-invests in sub-baccalaureate, career and technical education," said Anthony P. Carnevale, the Center's Director and the report's lead author.

What do you think? Can you get just as good of a job even if you don't go to college?

Jessica Stillman is a freelance writer based in London. She writes a daily column for Inc.com and has blogged for CBS MoneyWatch and GigaOM.

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Martin Freeman Joins Edgar Wright's 'The World's End'

Edgar Wright is bringing the whole gang back together in his final "Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy" film, "The World's End." An official press release has gone out announcing that production has started on the movie and offering up the full cast for the flick. In addition to Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, we've learned [...]

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That?s an enviable position these days, particularly if you?ve got the backing of Atlantic Media and a staff pulled together from places like The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Economist, and The New York Times. Looking out at the media landscape today, Quartz editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney and his team decided the path to success and a broad readership involved two things: Being free, and being readable on just about anything with a screen. </p> <p>In his letter to readers on launch day, Delaney wrote, ?What is the best way to build a global news organization in 2012? With your help, we?ll figure it out.? Delaney told me one of the ways to do that is through the power of the open web, not restricting access to content behind a paywall or being in an app store. This is something he has a little experience with, having previously worked as managing editor of the mostly paywalled WSJ.com.</p> <p>But if Quartz isn?t going to charge for its work and isn?t available in newsstands or app stores, how will they find their audience? I spoke with Delaney about the virtue of being mobile-friendly for business readers, how Quartz plans to use comments to engage readers, and how the site wants to innovate in advertising as well as editorial. Here?s a lightly edited transcript of the conversation.</p> <p><strong>Justin Ellis:</strong> One of the things you guys have talked about wanting to be essential, something your readers will want to check in on every day. How do you do that?</p> <strong>Kevin Delaney:</strong> We?re really focused on making Quartz an essential read. Our target is global business professionals ? so readers who are on the move, but also know they need to know what?s going on in the global economy. <p>For many of these people, there?s effectively one economy that stretches around the world and affects their businesses and their lives. So what we?re doing is providing them with the essential information they need to know at a digital rhythm and on any digital device they happen to have on hand.</p> <p>The way we become an essential read is through smart analysis of the key macro questions affecting the global business professional, using a digital platform that is available to them, whether they?re on their mobile phone, their iPad, their desktop.</p> <p><strong>Ellis:</strong> What if this global business professional speaks Chinese or Japanese? Are you guys going to be looking into translation?</p> <p><strong>Delaney:</strong> Our goal was to get out in English first, but we would love to expand to other languages. I would be surprised if we didn?t do that sometime in the future. We?re looking to reach a real international readership, and at the beginning it will be readers who are international but speak English. But our ambitions extend beyond that. </p> <p><strong>Ellis:</strong> What you think the voice of Quartz should be, in terms of the writing?</p> <blockquote class="rightpullquote" readability="7"><p>?Our content is made to share. That, I believe is the most effective distribution you have possible.?</p></blockquote> <strong>Delaney:</strong> It?s a really interesting question, and I think the answer to that will evolve over time. One of my colleagues here told me this morning her mother told her that what she liked about Quartz was that we respected our readers. I think that partly gets at the answer to your question. Which is to say we want to be as creative and smart as possible.We want to respect our readers, be analytical, and funny where possible. But we don?t need to be gratuitously snarky or flip. <p>I think the voice that we?re going for is one that is smart, journalistic, and internationally-minded, but at the same time accessible and creative.</p> <p><strong>Ellis:</strong> You aren?t on a print newsstand and you?re not in an app store. How are people going to find Quartz?</p> <strong>Delaney:</strong> We very consciously constructed Quartz so that it will thrive on the free and open web. I think it?s as great a time as ever to build a new journalistic product, a new media organization. And the reason is that if you make yourself open to the web. <p>We?re a free product; we don?t have a paywall; we do not have registration walls; we don?t actually have the wall of someone having to go into an app store to download us. Our content is made to share. That, I believe is the most effective distribution you have possible. So the imperative that creates for us is one that I?m excited about, which is to create good and interesting content.</p> <p>And we?ve structured it so that, if we succeed with that, this will be shared, and if someones shares it and their friends like it, they?ll share it as well. The other thing is that the site is architected to work on different devices, so you don?t have to install an app on different devices ? you can go and use the site on whatever you have at hand.</p> <strong>Ellis:</strong> It?s been just a couple of days, but some folks have had trouble with the UI of Quartz, and some are wondering if there are bugs that need to be fixed. Are there things you guys are still working out, or is this a new type of experience that readers will have to get used to? <p><strong>Delaney:</strong> We built Quartz and view the launch as a start of what we?re going to do. We optimized it for tablet, for iPhone, and then for desktop. When you?re building an HTML5 app, you can run into compatibility issues in supporting every single browser and device in the world. We?ve put it out so that it works well on our primary platforms, and we?ve released updates to the site that make it work better on additional browsers and platforms. Our technology approach is ambitious, but we?re also working very hard now that it?s out to make sure that everyone possible can experience our site in the fullest way possible.</p> <p><strong>Ellis:</strong> Any initial observations from your stats that you guys are seeing that are surprising? Are people looking at it primarily on their phones or on their tablets? What can you tell me?</p> <p><strong>Delaney:</strong> One thing I?ve been really encouraged by, just in the early days, is the geographic spread of our readership. I don?t know off-hand the numbers for our total traffic breakdown by country, but there was a moment [Tuesday] in our first full morning where I looked at Chartbeat, which we?re using for real-time analytics, and 40 percent of our traffic was coming from the US and the rest was spread other places in the world. A big chunk of it was from Europe, but there also was some traffic from Asia as well. I was really encouraged by that because I thought it demonstrated some success in being really open to the web from day one and having a global readership, which was really our goal with the project.</p> <strong>Ellis:</strong> One of the things folks have noticed is that at this point there?s no comments on stories. That?s something that?s a debate about in journalism circles. But we did notice Zach mentioned on Twitter that you guys are cooking something up for comments. Could you give me an idea what that is? <strong>Delaney:</strong> We felt that the current commenting systems on most websites weren?t especially satisfying. I know Nick Denton at Gawker and others share this view and are trying to get their heads around a solution to it. So we have designed a way for readers to effectively comment, but it?s a different interface. And we will be rolling that out sometime in the future. <p>We?re committed to commenting but believe that there?s an opportunity to change the form ? the user interface may be the best way to put it ? for commenting. And I think we have something innovative to do there that we?re continuing to build and we?ll roll out over time.</p> <p><strong>Ellis:</strong> Quartz already has an API. I?m wondering what opportunities you think that presents.</p> <strong>Delaney:</strong> There are two primary advantages of having an open API. The first is it actually makes your own development easier. So if you have an open API, your own developers can use it, play with it, and you can build things on it. The second advantage is you have your content out in the broader world and allow other people to do things with it you might not have time or have thought of. <p>A good example of how this has been done is with The New York Times API. One of my favorite applications of it is the mashup of the New York Times starred critics film reviews and the Netflix on-demand catalog. We don?t know what the specific applications could be for Quartz content that are similar to that, but our strong preference is to make that available from day one and see what happens.</p> <strong>Ellis:</strong> Something we?ve been talking about here is how fluid your obsessions will be. They sound like something that is meant to change from time to time. Will they change every month, two months, five minutes? How do you determine that? <blockquote class="leftpullquote" readability="7"><p>I think that there?s an imperative to rethink how advertising is handled, and I think sponsored content is an interesting approach to it.</p></blockquote> <strong>Delaney:</strong> The idea for obsessions stemmed from our observation that really good blogs and magazines have what we think of as defining obsessions, and these obsessions change over time. <p>We?ve gone out with a number of things our news staff is focused on and obsessed with. Our expectation is that they change with some frequency. We haven?t explicitly noted this to the reader, but we talk about having some major obsessions and some that are more minor. So I think there are some major obsessions that will probably be more consistent over time, although they could change as well.</p> <p>In terms of the time frame, we might obsessed about something, we haven?t quite gotten there yet. But we?re active in our news meetings talking about obsessions and what candidates for obsessions are. We have a list of obsessions we haven?t developed enough to go out with them from day one. But we have a high degree of confidence that we will essentially promote these to obsessions in our navigation and in terms of reporting focus pretty quickly. We see them as important macro-judgments about what is important to our readers.</p> <p><strong>Ellis:</strong> Your sponsored content didn?t seem very prominent in some places at launch, and in some places it looked like there was a banner ad on top, ?Sponsored by Chevron? or something like that. How does the placement of these play into whether they are clicked on or noticed? And are display ads going to be a big part of what you?re doing?</p> <strong>Delaney:</strong> We definitely wanted to innovate in terms of what we offer advertisers in the same way we wanted to innovate with our journalism and our product. So we have two forms of advertising. One is what the ad sales people call ?engage,? and that?s a display ad that fills the bulk of the content well when you encounter it. It?s similar to a full-page ad in a newspaper, or magazine, in terms of being big and in the reading space, but it looks like a glossy advertisement. In our case its been adapted so that you can play videos and can swipe and look at photos, so that it?s touchable when you?re on your phone or iPad, and responsive to the device you are using. <p>The other form of ads is sponsored content, and you encounter them in the list of headlines, and if you click on them you go into an article that is written and provided by a sponsor. No editorial staff ever has anything to do with that. We wanted to make it pretty clear that this was different from our editorial content. You mention that it looks like there is a banner ad. One of our decisions was there should be a sponsor logo there, and by having the sponsor logo on the content it would help make clear that this was coming from the sponsor. Our expectation is that the sponsors create quality content and they are incentivized to engage with the reader, and there are share tools and other things on the content that allow them to do that with the articles they write and the videos that they post. But no one is looking in any way to mislead the reader about what the difference is between sponsor content and Quartz? own editorial content.</p> <p><strong>Ellis:</strong> What are your thoughts about native advertising or content advertising? We?re seeing a lot more organizations that are doing it now and they try to be transparent in it. But I wonder, will people click on it?</p> <strong>Delaney:</strong> I think the older forms of advertising are relatively broken and the right rail ads on traditional websites are not great, for the most part, for readers or for advertisers. I think that there?s an imperative to rethink how advertising is handled, and I think sponsored content is an interesting approach to it. <p>It puts some onus on the advertiser to write things, or post videos, or do data visualizations, or whatever they do, that are compelling for readers to actually spend time with them and share them. In some ways, it makes the advertisers? challenge similar to the challenge that an editor has ? that the content be compelling. I think over time that?s probably good, that advertisers are thinking actively about the best ways to do stuff that interests readers. I think it?s still pretty early, in terms of how that?s done today. 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We jot things down during meetings, while walking the dog, and sometimes even in the middle of a sentence, any time an idea strikes. And so do students, office workers, and many others, leaving us all in need of a great app that put tools at our fingertips for capturing an idea before it disappears into the ether. Poof.</p> <p>Catch Notes for iPhone, which has come a long way since it first appeared in the Apple App Store, comes close to being one such all-purpose note-taking tool, but still needs a little fine tuning. The app excels at supporting collaboration, and also has unique features. Plus, it uses the full, longer screen size of the iPhone 5. A few problems, such as buggy audio memos and the inability to customize the colors of folders (or "spaces" as they're called in Catch) to your liking should be fixed. The color issue in particular is a shame because color can do wonders for your data.</p> <p>Evernote, which to be fair looks drab when side-by-side with Catch, remains my go-to note-syncing app and PCMag's Editors' Choice on the iPhone, because it works well, has all the core functionality you'll need, and integrates with a huge variety of other services, which is key. Catch has better and more interesting collaboration features, though.</p> <p><strong>Set Up and Sign In </strong><br />The Catch iPhone app is a very simple to set up. After downloading the free app and launching it, new users have three choices for registering an account: 1) sign into your Catch account or set one up with an email address and password, 2) log in using your Google ID, or 3) log in using your Facebook account.</p> <p>Catch starts you off with a sample note that contains information about how to create notes, organize them, and sync them. It's also nice to see this dummy note appear where one would otherwise face a dauntingly blank canvas.</p> <p><strong>Catch Notes' Design and Features</strong><br />If you've used Catch's iPad app, the look of the iPhone version will immediately strike you. Design remains crucial, in my opinion, because if you intend to use an app a lot, you have to like what you see. Catch for iPhone uses color and dynamic menus to not only provide utility, but also lure you to want to play with the app. To start a new note, you press a plus sign in the bottom center of the screen, which pops open a radial menu with options for adding a reminder, image, typed note, audio note, or checklist item.</p> <p>I like Catch's checklists better than Evernote's because Catch lets you have a checklist item as a note type, whereas you can only add checklists inside an Evernote note using paragraph formatting. In Catch for iPhone, your to-do tasks appear right on screen when you're looking at your list of notes. In Evernote, you have to open a note to see your to-do tasks.</p> <p>In testing, the audio memo feature was very buggy. I was able to record just fine. A microphone appeared on screen, and it seemed to record my voice, as it responded to changes in my voice's volume. But when I saved and closed the audio memo, it would not playback. The following day, I finally had some success, but I don't know why it didn't work initially (and repeatedly). I was testing on a new iPhone 5, running iOS 6, with a strong Wi-Fi connection.</p> <p>Catch for iPhone formerly did not have folders, relying only on tags for sorting, but it does now. Folders, also known as "spaces," let you group your notes much more effectively than tags alone. Each space has a name or title and a color, but you can't customize the colors, unfortunately. Whatever color Catch assigns, that's the one you get. I use color in all segments of my life to stay organized, and I really hate not being able to control which folders are assigned which colors.</p> <p>One additional feature is the ability to add geo-location information to your note, a great feature for frequent travelers who need to be able to look up notes based on where a meeting or business took place.</p> <p><strong>Price</strong><br />Just like Evernote, Catch apps are free, as is an account, but users can pay $4.99 per month or $44.99 per year to upgrade to a Pro account for a few extra perks. This costs the same as an Evernote Premium account ($45 per year).</p> <p>A free Catch account gives you five spaces for private or shared notebooks (or "spaces") and the ability to add 70MB per month of new content. A Pro account lets you have 50 spaces, 1GB of new content uploaded per month, and the ability to attach office documents to your notes.</p> <p><strong>Unique Features: Tagging and Collaboration</strong><br />Catch uses a unique tagging system for your notes. You create tags by typing a hashtag (#) before any word right in your note. The words then look as if they are hyperlinks, indicating that they're now tags. I can see how some users will find this concept simple because you never have to add tags as a secondary step. Tags are always at your fingertips while you're writing notes. The problem is you can't easily reference which tags you've used in the past. My problem is that this system allows for inconsistencies that don't occur when you can select tags from a pre-made list. For example, in Catch, I might write into one note the tag "#iPadApps" and in other places use the more general "#MobileApp" or "#MobileApps." As a highly organized person, seeing inconsistently written tags like these would drive me batty.</p> <p>If you like Catch's unique tagging system, you'll probably also like its search box, which lets you look for hashtags on notes, or filter notes by other criteria, like favorite notes marked with a star or those that you've shared with collaborators.</p> <p>Catch's collaborative take on notes really isn't like any other note-taking system I've seen, and in a good way. Basic collaboration takes the form of emailing notes to others, and that's nothing new. Every note in Catch has a comments thread at the bottom. I like that the user as well as the collaborators can discuss a note's content without anyone messing up the contents of the note itself. Imagine it in action in a business setting. Perhaps you're taking notes while traveling with colleagues or while at a conference. One person can make a note quickly while in a conference session and post it to her colleagues, and others read it, ask follow up questions, or simply add her two cents, all in the comments. Comments always stay with the note, too, so everything syncs to all your devices.</p> <p><strong>Catch All or Catch None?</strong><br />The Catch iPhone app is a good choice for note-takers who need collaboration features, although the app still needs some fine tuning. If you're a stickler for consistency, as I am, you might find the hashtag-as-tagging feature not to your taste. The inability to choose your own colors for folder or "spaces" also kind of baffles me.</p> <ziffshop id="34070" readability="10.7016949153"><p>Evernote may not be as pretty, but it's more reliable and integrates with a huge array of other services, making it PCMag's Editors' Choice for iPhone note-taking apps. If your notes tend to be more along the lines of to-do lists, try one of my favorite apps, Awesome Note (+ToDo) ($3.99), which doesn't have its own syncing features but can integrate with Evernote if you need syncing.</p> <p><em>More iPhone App Reviews:</em><br /><span>??? Lili (for iPhone and iPad)</span><br /><span>??? Catch Notes (for iPhone)</span><br /><span>??? SpellTower (for iPhone and iPad)</span><br /><span>??? Polaris Office (for iPhone)</span><br /><span>??? Star Walk 6.0 (for iPhone)</span><br /><span>?? more</span></p> </ziffshop><p>Source: <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ziffdavis/pcmag/~3/jxWLF_viCpw/0,2817,2382838,00.asp">http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ziffdavis/pcmag/~3/jxWLF_viCpw/0,2817,2382838,00.asp</a></p><p><a href="http://arlington-remodeling.com/2012/09/carpet-cleaners-in-princeton/">barista</a> <a href="http://topicreviewsblog.info/colleagues-like-these-learning-to-recognise-internet-partners/">university of kentucky</a> </p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/03882725154065943044' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/03882725154065943044' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>vyfnaisu</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://first-class-travel-blog.blogspot.com/2012/09/catch-notes-for-iphone.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://first-class-travel-blog.blogspot.com/2012/09/catch-notes-for-iphone.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2012-09-29T16:17:00-07:00'>4:17 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='http://first-class-travel-blog.blogspot.com/2012/09/catch-notes-for-iphone.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-378764094'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1909769923815278442&postID=8409929923898251037&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=1909769923815278442&postID=8409929923898251037&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=1909769923815278442&postID=8409929923898251037&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=1909769923815278442&postID=8409929923898251037&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to Twitter'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Twitter</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=1909769923815278442&postID=8409929923898251037&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=1909769923815278442&postID=8409929923898251037&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='1909769923815278442' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='5913714634093411133' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='5913714634093411133'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://first-class-travel-blog.blogspot.com/2012/09/warnings-follow-alcohol-enema-case-at.html'>Warnings follow alcohol enema case at University of Tennessee</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-5913714634093411133' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">ERIK SCHELZIG</span></span> <span class="divider">|</span> <span class="source-org vcard"><span class="org fn">Tbo.com</span></span> <br /><span class="article_info_stamps published"> Published: September 29, 2012 <span class="updated" title="2012-09-29T14:39:05.177724-05:00">Updated: September 29, 2012 - 2:39 PM</span> </span> </p> <p>KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ? Before an unruly Tennessee party ended with a student hospitalized for a dangerously high blood alcohol level, most people had probably never heard of alcohol enemas. </p><p>Thanks to the drunken exploits of a fraternity at the University of Tennessee, the bizarre way of getting drunk is giving parents, administrators and health care workers a new fear. </p><p>When Alexander "Xander" Broughton, 20, was delivered to the hospital after midnight on Sept. 22, his blood alcohol level was measured at 0.448 percent ? nearly six times the intoxication that defines drunken driving in the state. Injuries to his rectum led hospital officials to fear he had been sodomized. </p><p>Police documents show that when an officer interviewed a fellow fraternity member about what happened, the student said the injuries had been caused by an alcohol enema. </p><p>"It is believed that members of the fraternity were utilizing rubber tubing inserted into their rectums as a conduit for alcohol," according to a police report. </p><p>While Broughton told police he remembered participating in a drinking game with fellow members of the Pi Kappa Alpha chapter, he denied having an alcohol enema. Police concluded otherwise from evidence they found at the frat house, including boxes of Franzia Sunset Blush wine. </p><p>"He also had no recollection of losing control of his bowels and defecating on himself," according to a university police report that includes photos of the mess left behind in the fraternity house after the party. </p><p>Broughton did not respond to a cellphone message seeking comment on Friday. </p><p>The university responded with a swift investigation and a decision Friday to shutter the fraternity until at least 2015. The national Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity organization also accepted the withdrawal of the campus charter. </p><p>Alcohol enemas have been the punch lines of YouTube videos, a stunt in a "Jackass" movie and a song by the punk band NOFX called "Party Enema."</p><p> But Corey Slovis, chairman of department of emergency medicine and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said actually going through with the deed can have severe consequences. </p><p>"It's something that offers no advantages, while at the same time risking someone's life," he said. </p><p>The procedure bypasses the stomach, accelerating the absorption rate, Slovis said. Pouring the alcohol through a funnel can increase the amount of alcohol consumed because it's hard to gauge how much is going in. </p><p>"When you're dumping it into your rectum, often via a funnel, one or two ounces seems like such a minuscule amount," he said. Ingesting more can create unconsciousness quite quickly, he explained. </p><p>The effects have been fatal in at least one case. An autopsy performed after the death of a 58-year-old Texas man in 2004 showed he had been given an enema with enough sherry to have a blood alcohol level of 0.47 percent. Negligent homicide charges were later dropped against his wife, who said she gave him the enema. </p><p>Students walking across campus this week generally responded with sighs and eye rolls when asked about the allegations. </p><p>"It's like a big joke," said Erica Davis, a freshman from Hendersonville. "Because who does that?" </p><p>Gordon Ray, a senior from Morristown, said the details of the case caught him off guard, but not the fact that fraternity members would be overdoing it with alcohol. </p><p>"It is definitely over the top," said Ray. "But it doesn't surprise me, I don't guess." </p><p>The harm the news has done to the university's national reputation was on the mind of several students. </p><p>"If someone wants to be stupid, then they should do it where it won't affect anyone else," said Marlon Alessandra, freshman from Independence, Va. </p><p>James E. Lange, who coordinates alcohol and drug abuse prevention strategies at San Diego State University, said alcohol enemas aren't a common occurrence on campuses, though normal consumption still contributes to hundreds of student deaths annually. And many of those can be attributed to reckless attitudes about the consequences of heavy drinking, he said. </p><p>"It's not unusual to hear that students are drinking to get drunk," he said. </p><p>Lange said he hopes students don't draw the wrong lessons from the University of Tennessee incident. </p><p>"Students and people in general are pretty good at denying that they are at risk for whatever happened to someone else," he said. "So they can look at something like this and say `I'm OK because I would never do that.' </p><p>"However, they may be drinking heavily, or doing things like mixing alcohol with prescription meds that is putting them at serious risk," he said. </p><p>To Tennessee freshman Cody Privett of Sevierville, there's nothing appealing about the incident on his campus. </p><p>"It's stupid, it's an unfortunate situation," said Privett, of Sevierville. 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