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Digital Marketing People on the Move: January 2014 Roundup
A roundup of many of the new hires, promotions, and other moves in the digital marketing industry at the beginning of 2014.
A roundup of many of the new hires, promotions, and other moves in the digital marketing industry at the beginning of 2014.
The saying "as goes January, so goes the year" is thrown around a lot at the beginning of a new year. And if we're to believe the adage, a series of new promotions, hires, and other moves this month bodes well for the digital marketing industry in 2014.
Yahoo Chief Operating Officer Henrique De Castro Out
Yahoo Chief Operating Officer [COO] Henrique De Castro is leaving on January 16, according to the company's SEC document. Yahoo's statement says that De Castro will receive all severance and equity award benefits detailed in his contract, which are reported to be somewhere between $68 million and $96 million.
In 2012, Yahoo agreed to pay De Castro $62 million over four years to get him to leave Google, where he played an important role in building display advertising business. However, under De Castro's leadership at Yahoo, the company's ad business continued to languish.
It's unknown as of now where De Castro is going and who will take over as Yahoo's new COO.
Tom Arrix Joined Ampush From Facebook
Ampush appointed Tom Arrix to its board of advisors. Arrix will work with Ampush's existing advisors and specifically advise on client strategy, strategic partnerships, and market/product development.
In the past seven years, Arrix had been working for Facebook where he was in charge of developing marketing relationships with industry leaders, including Walmart, American Express, and JPMorgan Chase. Prior to Facebook, Arrix led advertising and mobile sales team at Univision Digital, targeting the U.S. Hispanic market. He also led the sales efforts for CBS Sportsline.
David Brandt, New Executive Vice President of Advertising Effectiveness Strategy at Nielsen
Nielsen appointed David Brandt executive vice president of advertising effectiveness strategy. With 35 years of experience in market research, Brandt will lead the development of Nielsen NeuroFocus, neuroscience-based copy testing solutions. He will also lead the team to advance Nielsen's end-to-end advertising effectiveness capabilities within Nielsen Ad Solutions. Brandt will be based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
"If you look at the capabilities Nielsen has created and acquired over the past decade, it's clear that no other company can match the breadth of tools it has to measure, evaluate, and optimize advertising investments," Brandt tells ClickZ. "This is a tremendous opportunity to push our understanding of how advertising works and how to best measure it well ahead of where we are now. I'm thrilled to be a part of that effort."
Before he joined Nielsen, Brandt led innovations in the use of neuroscience techniques and socialized research at Ipsos Open Thinking Exchange (OTX). Previously, he worked as chief innovation officer at OTX, leading the development of its MediaCEP testing system. Brandt also held leadership positions at Ipsos ASI, an advertising research solutions provider. At Ipsos ASI, Brandt led the development and implementation of its Next*TV pre-testing system. He also served as executive vice president of Global Clients, working with many of the world's largest advertisers.
Gary Nafus Joined Kenshoo From Oracle
Kenshoo recently appointed Gary Nafus as managing director of the Americas. In his new role, Nafus will oversee expansion, strategy, and client delivery in Kenshoo's key markets, including the United States and Canada, as well as Mexico and Brazil.
Nafus joined Kenshoo in March 2013 as vice president of sales and interim managing director, Asia Pacific. Prior to Kenshoo, he served as vice president of sales at Oracle Corporation in North America. Previously, he worked for PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards as a regional sales director.
Mauricio Aguayo Leads Digital Solutions at Click 3X
Click 3X recently named Mauricio Aguayo as director of digital strategy. With seven years of experience in digital media and content marketing, Aguayo will spearhead digital solutions for Click 3X's clients.
"Click 3X has a talented team that's always exploring new technologies and strategies in order to create groundbreaking and effective work," Mauricio Aguayo tells ClickZ. "I'm excited to get started at such a cutting-edge company."
Previously, Mauricio worked for digital agency ROKKAN, as well as social marketing agency M80. He is also the co-founder of a small nonprofit organization that aims to provide children better access to health care in developing countries. Mauricio holds a B.A. from New York University and a Master of Public Health Management from Columbia University.
Sky Holden and Matt Barash Joined AdColony
AdColony recently named Sky Holden as senior vice president of advertising sales and Matt Barash as vice president of business development.
With 14 years of experience, Holden will lead AdColony's national brand sales team. Previously, Holden worked at Velocity Made Good, a provider of outsourced premedia services. He also held important roles at several digital companies, including 33Across, MySpace, iMeem (acquired by MySpace), Real Networks, and Tickle.
In his role, Barash will be responsible for growing AdColony's premium publisher and media company partnerships across the mobile space. Before he joined AdColony, Barash served as head of business development at SessionM. Previously, he worked at Forbes as vice president of advertising & audience monetization. Barash also held key roles at Fox Interactive Media (Fox Audience Network), Traffic Marketplace, 24/7 Real Media, Discovery Communications, ESPN/ABC Sports, and Conde Nast.
Kyla Jacobs Named New Head of Business Development at TBWAChiatDay New York
TBWAChiatDay New York appointed Kyla Jacobs director of business development. In her role, Jacobs will bring more business opportunities to TBWA's New York office.
Before she joined TBWAChiatDay New York, Jacobs worked for Crispin Porter + Bogusky London (CP+B) as director of business development in Europe. At CP+B, she led the team to win European pitches for Coke Zero, Diesel, and Turkish Airlines and other accounts. Previously, Jacobs worked at Ogilvy, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Sydney-based WHYBINTBWA office.
In addition, Jacobs was a finalist in the "Women of Tomorrow" competition hosted by the IPA and Campaign. She was also a regular speaker at industry events, including European Advertising Week 2013.
Amanda Levy, Suzanne Michaels, and Lisa Penelton Joined Critical Mass
After a recent announcement of two new global executives, Critical Mass further added three female veterans to its executive leadership: Amanda Levy as general manager, Suzanne Michaels as executive creative director, and Lisa Penelton as vice president of marketing science.
Levy has been at Critical Mass for seven years. Previously, she worked for OMD West and Dell, where she led online marketing.
With 20 years of experience, Michaels will be in charge of the creative departments in Chicago and Los Angeles, driving new thinking and creative excellence across all clients. She will join Critical Mass' executive team and global creative council. Michaels will report to Levy and recently appointed chief creative officer Conor Brady. Prior to this appointment, Michaels was leading creative at DigitasLBi.
In her role, Penelton will oversee data science and marketing analytics at Critical Mass. Previosuly, she worked at digital agency Razorfish where she was group director of consumer insights, based in Chicago. Prior to that, Penelton built the analytics practice at DraftFCB and worked on the client side at United Way of America.

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We last discussed how to manage recordsets with Mach-II. Now it's (finally) time to discuss how to work with individual records using Beans and Data Access Objects (DAOs).
Object Overview
The Bean Object
A bean encapulates related data into a single "record". The data can come from a single table row or from multiple sources.
The Data Access Object
Generally speaking, a DAO abstracts interactions with a data source. In working with a Bean Object, it handles Create, Read, Update and Delete functions.
The Listener Object
A Listener connects the Mach-II framework to the application's Model.
Required Reading
If you're not familiar with these objects, I suggest you read the following posts before continuing:
- Object Oriented Coldfusion : 6 : The Bean Object
- Object Oriented Coldfusion : 7.1 : A Basic Data Access Object (DAO)
- Object Oriented Coldfusion : 7.2 : Basic DAO Example
- Mach-II Primer : 5 : Mediating events with Listeners
The Devil is in the Details
Even the grandest project depends on the success of the smallest components. - Le Corbusier
In version 3 of mach-ii.xml, we call the event showCompanies to get a list of Companies in our database.
You can see that we're notifying the Listener CompanyListener, calling its method getCompanyList and creating the event argument qCompanies populated by its result.
The CompanyListener calls the CompanyGateway to get and return the recordset.
Finally, the page-view named companyList will render the HTML table of records.
Now we need to drill down to the details of just one Company. The procedural version of this application links to company_detail.cfm for this information. We need to create an event called showCompanyDetail so that Mach-II can retrieve and render this information.
Procedural link:
Mach-II link:
Reading a record: showCompanyDetail
New event-handler
Other than the pageTitle, there are two differences between showCompanyDetail and showCompanies.
- While we're using the same Listener, we're calling a different method and returning a different event arguments.
- We're using the page-view companyDetail to render the company detail HTML.
Updated CompanyListener.cfc
1. Company bean
First, getCompanyDetail creates an instance of the Company bean and populates it with the COMPANY_ID that was passed in through the querystring. Remember that all URL and FORM variables are automatically converted to event arguments by Mach-II.
In the sample code, this line says .init( arguments.event.getArg("COMPANY_ID") ) and should be updated.
2. The Data Access Object
Second, getCompanyDetail creates an instance of the CompanyDAO, injecting the DSN value through the init() method.
3. Then the magic happens
Third, the Company bean is passed BY REFERENCE to the read() method of CompanyDAO. Whatever happens inside the read() method affects the same instance of the Company bean that was created on the previous line. The DAO is not creating another instance of the company bean.
4. And data is returned
If read() is successful, the instance of the company bean is now populated with data from the datasource.
This returned value is then placed into the event-arg companyBean for the life of the event as defined in the event-handler.
The View
Now that we have a populated Company bean, we can output the company's detail in the page-view companyDetail.
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A calls B calls C calls . . .
It's a lot to absorb when you're new to the game. Hopefully the benefits of creating more files than we had in the Procedural version will make better sense after a few more posts.
You can see these changes in action by using the version 4 files.
- Rename the version 3 mach-ii.xml file to mach-ii.03.xml
- Rename mach-ii.04.xml to mach-ii.xml
- Reload the application and click the Companies link in the left-hand navigation.1http://localhost/mach-ii-primer/m2/index.cfm?event=showCompanies
Next up, we'll go over how to Create, Update and Delete records using Beans and DAOs.


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Family Development - A Caregiver's Guide
Why the Early Years Are So Important
While children's brains will continue to develop throughout their lives, the most active period of brain development begins during the last trimester of pregnancy and lasts until 18 months of age. During this period, how well a child's physical, social and emotional needs are met affects how the child's brain will grow and develop. Understanding how children grow and learn will help you know what to expect and what you can do to help your child develop all of his or her abilities.
The four main areas of child development are physical, social, emotional and cognitive.
Physical Development is the growth of the human body including: height, weight, muscles and the five senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell). Coordination of large and small muscle movements is also part of physical development.
Social Development is the ability to connect with others, understand rules and develop values, and cooperate as member of a family, peer group and society.
Emotional Development is the ability to understand and express feelings and control emotions.
Cognitive Development is the ability to learn and to use logic and reason to solve problems.
Development in each of the four areas is tightly connected. For example, learning to talk requires hearing (physical), the ability to understand different sounds (cognitive), the ability to pay attention (social) and the ability to interact with others (emotional). Failing to progress in one area affects the ability to progress in all other areas.
Development in each of these areas happens in stages and each child will develop at his or her own rate. Developmental guidelines simply show what a child of that age could do—if not right now, then soon. If your child was premature, keep in mind that babies born early usually need a bit more time to meet their milestones. Professionals like doctors, nurses, early learning providers and home visitors can help you track your child's development, identify possible concerns and make referrals for help when needed. Discovering and treating health issues or developmental delays early can help prevent more serious problems later in life.
A Word about Discipline and Safety
As children grow and develop, their needs for discipline and safety will change. Discipline, which means "to teach," is not something infants or toddlers can understand. They also do not understand danger. Babies are curious and will play with just about anything. The only way to discipline an infant is to make sure they are safe in their surroundings so they can explore and learn about the world. For example, if you do not want your baby to stick his finger in the electrical outlet, then you need to cover the outlet with safety caps. More examples of how to meet your child's needs for discipline and safety at each stage of development are included in the following pages of this booklet.
Childproofing alone will not keep your child safe.
Childproofing increases the amount of time it takes for your child to get into a dangerous situation, but it does not replace adult supervision.


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(From The Man Who Fell to Earth, 1976, dir. Nicolas Roeg.)
David Bowie represented a lot of things to me. He wrote some of the best songs of the last half-century, covering so many themes I wouldn't know where to begin, although I particularly like the songs related to outer space (either literally or metaphorically) and to the pressures of fame. He was an actor so weirdly gifted that he could play an alien (see GIFs above), a vampire (The Hunger) and Pontius Pilate (The Last Temptation of Christ) without anyone thinking twice about it. He was an artist who painted, sculpted and worked in different kinds of digital media. Whatever Bowie did, I always knew it would be worth my time.
It's hard for me to put every emotion I have about David Bowie's music into words. He recorded so much and I feel, at my young age, that I still know too little – about his career, about how to write a good piece of music criticism, about how to eulogize someone who means so much to you and passes away quite suddenly. So in some of the cases below, I won't say anything (or very little) except to quote a passage from the lyrics. I'm sure that David Bowie's own writing will ultimately do a better job at convincing you of his talent than I can. I picked sixteen musical selections – it's 2016, so that was the first number that came to me – but if I had not set that limit for myself, the list could have gone on ad infinitum.
1. "Space Oddity" (on album Space Oddity, 1969) – "Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do…" What do you do with a song about an interstellar journey made by a character named Major Tom? Not to mention a song that has a Stylophone solo (starting at the 2:42 mark)? It's amazing to me that this track successfully launched David Bowie's career, rather than remaining a weird one-hit-wonder novelty song from the psychedelic era.
2. "Changes" (on album Hunky Dory, 1971) – "Turn and face the strange…" The opening track of one of the most important albums of my teenage years, Hunky Dory. This song can, and has been, interpreted as Bowie's artistic manifesto.
3. "Oh! You Pretty Things" (on album Hunky Dory, 1971) (TV appearance on The Old Grey Whistle Test, 1972) – "You gotta make way for the Homo Superior…"
4. "Life on Mars?" (on album Hunky Dory, 1971) (music video from 1973) – "But the film is a saddening bore/For she's lived it ten times or more…" On Bowie's 69th birthday this past Friday, I was listening to this song most of all. I told whoever would listen to me that this was one of the greatest songs ever, no question. It is the high water mark of a career filled with numerous milestones, rule-breaking and boundary-pushing. Everyday human life is the most outrageous, unbelievable yet captivating spectacle out of all the entertainment forms in our world, and this song takes note of that truth quite eloquently. If you dare ask me to name the single best David Bowie song, this is the one I choose.
5. "Starman" (on album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, 1972) – "There's a starman waiting in the sky/He'd like to come and meet us/But he thinks he'd blow our minds…" Just last month I was in a theater at the Museum of Modern Art, watching The Martian in 3D, and I was pleased to hear "Starman" pop up in the movie. After many years of loving the song when heard through headphones, it had an even more exciting resonance in the theater.
6. "Rebel Rebel" (on album Diamond Dogs, 1974) – "You've got your mother in a whirl/She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl/Hey babe, your hair's alright/Hey babe, let's go out tonight…" One of the definitive examples of 70s glam rock, featuring an unforgettable guitar riff played by Bowie himself (as opposed to being recorded by any of the other musicians he often worked with, like Mick Ronson). A small anecdote: I once tried to convince a high school friend of mine to listen to "Rebel Rebel" and "Life on Mars?"; I don't think she ever bothered with the former and when she finally got around to listening to the latter (it took about a month before she made time for it), she said that "it was alright." (Swear to God.) Hey babe, your song's alright!
7. "Always Crashing in the Same Car" (on album Low, 1977) – "Every chance, every chance that I take/I take it on the road/Those kilometres and the red lights/I was always looking left and right…" I once titled an essay written in a college creative writing class after this song.
8. "'Heroes'" (on album "Heroes," 1977) – "Though nothing will drive them away/We can beat them, just for one day/We can be heroes, just for one day…" Another of Bowie's greatest songs. I think one of my primary associations with this song, even though it was years after I fell in love with it, was as the anthem for the UK athletes at the London Olympics in 2012.
And now, moving forward into the 1980s…
9. "Ashes to Ashes" (on album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), 1980) – "My mama said, 'To get things done/You'd better not mess with Major Tom…'" Bowie plunges into the MTV era in style, saying goodbye to some of his old ways in order to experiment with new musical methods. I associate this song with the British show of the same name, much as I do with "Life on Mars?" and its counterpart show.
10. "Under Pressure" (David Bowie & Queen) (1981 single; on Queen album Hot Space, 1982) – "'Cause love's such an old-fashioned word/And love dares you to care for/The people on the edge of the night/And love dares you to change our way of/Caring about ourselves…" A collaboration for the ages.
11. "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" (Cat People soundtrack, 1982) (used in scene from film Inglourious Basterds, 2009, dir. Quentin Tarantino) – "Don't you know my name/Well, you've been so long/And I've been putting out fire/With gasoline!" This Giorgio Moroder-produced, synthesizer-heavy pop-rock song was given new life when Tarantino used it in a significant scene in Inglourious Basterds. Mélanie Laurent's character, who was forced to flee the scene of her family's murder at the hands of Nazis, has relocated to Paris and, under her new alias, operates a movie theater in Paris. When a German soldier develops a crush on her, Laurent uses this new bond to her advantage and crafts a radical strategy for revenge: when her cinema is chosen as the venue for the red-carpet premiere of a Nazi propaganda film (with Hitler, Goebbels, and many other heads of the Third Reich in attendance), Laurent makes plans to blow her building to smithereens by setting hundreds of film cans' worth of celluloid on fire. Even though the use of the David Bowie scene, when Laurent puts on her makeup (or, more accurately, her war paint) to prepare for the big show, is anachronistic, the lyrics and the mood of the song make perfect sense in Tarantino's context.
12. "Let's Dance" (on album Let's Dance, 1983) – "Let's sway under the moonlight, the serious moonlight…" Isn't it terrific how Bowie could transform from persona to persona? I dig the suits from this era. Also, this song was a #1 hit in both the UK and the US, so that's pretty cool.
Speaking of "serious moonlight," here is my sole David Bowie shirt, and it is a treasured possession. Originally bought and worn by my aunt, this tee has gone through some rough times – it once was covered in white paint after I accidentally collided with a wet wall – but little mishaps couldn't ever keep a good shirt down. For a long time I have associated the article of clothing with good luck. Just two months ago, when I was getting ready to do a presentation in a graduate school class, I told two of my friends in that class that "everything is going to be OK because I'm wearing my lucky David Bowie shirt." And indeed that day was blessed with a terrific teaching experience.
13. "Modern Love" (on album Let's Dance, 1983) (used in scene from film Mauvais Sang, 1986, dir. Leos Carax) – "There's no sign of life It's just the power to charm I'm lying in the rain But I never wave bye-bye/But I try/I try…" The first Bowie song I can ever remember hearing, and I loved it immediately. In the clip from the French film Mauvais Sang, the "magic" of the radio gives Denis Lavant the opportunity to express his feelings for Juliette Binoche physically, turning his emotions into kinetic energy. When I saw the movie at the Film Forum in the summer of 2014, this scene was a standout because of how great it was to see Carax's images paired with the sounds of "Modern Love" pouring from the theater's speakers.
14. Guest appearance on British TV show "Extras" (2006) – "See his pug-nosed face/Pug, pug, pug, pug…" This ranks as one of my favorite television moments of the last decade. Ricky Gervais's character, Andy Millman, has a chance encounter with David Bowie at a London pub and it does not go as well as Andy would have liked. The results: comic gold.
15. "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" (on album The Next Day, 2013) – "Stars are never sleeping/Dead ones and the living…" From what I recall, The Next Day was an album that came out of nowhere. It was David Bowie's first since 2003, and after a decade I suppose most people thought he had retired. You can imagine how pleased I was that the songs were so good, particularly "Stars," in which Bowie contemplates the poisonous nature of celebrity and media saturation. Plus Tilda Swinton co-starred in the music video, which led to this great photo of the two of them.
16. "Lazarus" (on album Blackstar, 2016) – "This way or no way/You know I'll be free/Just like that bluebird/Now, ain't that just like me?" I watched this music video last Friday, part of my annual ritual of listening to my favorite David Bowie albums and songs on his birthday. Like most people, I didn't imagine that the video referred to Bowie's actual state of health; I thought it was a fascinating artistic statement but not a representation of real sickness. (I figured he looked older and more worn because everyone ages, right?) As a reviewer wrote on iTunes, after having listened to previews of Blackstar in November: "Bowie will be a synonym of eternal change in music, a continuous hunt of proposals and new ways in sound." I'm not entirely sure what "hunt of proposals" means, but I think the overall idea is the right one. He was defiant to the last, turning life into art and vice versa. And even when he was seriously ill, as we know now, he kept his off-kilter sense of humor. Vale, Starman.
I'll close with one of my favorite photos of David Bowie (from back in the day) and two recent pictures – among the last ever taken of Bowie, I think – from a promotional photoshoot for Blackstar (photos by Jimmy King, courtesy of this Daily Mail article).


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"In his 2016 State of the Union Address, President Obama called upon the nation to harness the spirit of American innovation by identifying new ways to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer."
– Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Michelle K. Lee
Cancer is undoubtedly a disease that touches all our lives. Ending cancer as we know it requires the formation of new alliances. As President Obama noted, getting this done isn't just going to take the best and brightest across the medical, research, and data communities — but millions of Americans owning a stake of it. By harnessing the power of patent data, and accelerating the process for protecting the intellectual property that lead to cancer immunotherapy breakthroughs, the USPTO is standing up and doing its part to help bring potentially life-saving treatments to patients, faster.
With data released through the USPTO Developer Hub, users are building rich visualizations of intellectual property data, an early indicator of meaningful innovation and research and development (R&D), and combining this data with other state or agency data, such as census and bureau of labor statistics; and/or economic, and financial data. These types of visualizations demonstrate the power of telling complex stories that lead to impactful insights and ask why the data matter. Similarly, we challenge you to create and illuminate new trend lines and interactive mappings of innovation with visualizations for all types of cancer treatments and diagnostics by combining our data with other unique data. Be sure to list the sources of your data sets (i.e. orange book data from FDA), tools and assumptions used to form your conclusion and visualizations. Imagine your data visualizations will be the foundation to empower the federal government—as well as the medical, research, and data communities—to make more precise funding and policy decisions based on the commercialization lifecycle of the most promising treatments, while maximizing U.S. competitiveness in cancer investments.
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- What new insights can be revealed by correlating R&D spending/funding to breakthrough technologies? How would you define or cluster the broad spectrum of cancer treatments, therapies and/or diagnostics?
- What would trace studies of commercially successful treatments from patent to product tell us? What data insights can be gleaned from understanding the time it takes bring patents to patients?
- What are the peaks and valleys in the landscape of cancer treatment technologies?
- If you were the Director of NIH or other agency, given what you have learned from this patent data and your research, how would you prioritize your cancer research budget? (FY2014 National Cancer Institute budget was $4.932 billion).
- Based on cluster mapping of cancer treatments, therapies and/or diagnostics, what policy would you put in place to promote certain technologies? For example, would you promote treatment to make cancer a livable disease verses curing?
- Is there any measurable relationship between patent data, clinical trial data and time to it takes for the technology to be in the hands of the patient. If so, how and what catalyst for innovation and policy changes would you advise the VPOTUS for the Cancer Moonshot.
The USPTO has released a curated data set consisting of 269,353 patent documents (published patent applications and granted patents) spanning the 1976 to 2016 period. This data and associated documentation explaining our methodology can be found on the USPTO Developer Hub.
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Solution: Dolcera – Visualisation for Cancer Moonshot Challenge
Description: Visualized how the genetics and epidemiology of cancer relate to levels of research funding, patenting, and clinical testing
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Description: Constructed and visualized networks of cancer-related patents and federal research grants based on NIH co-funding and the degree of linguistic similarity between patent documents.
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Description: Illustrated how the epidemiology of cancer mortality relates to patenting and funding timelines.
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Great to see those nice solutions. I didn't make the 5pm cut due to my network connection issue. But like to contribute and share a finding on the data set. There seems to be 109 duplicated entries with the following patent_or_publication_id: US 20090061461 A1 US 20090181090 A1 US 4329346 A US 4498485 A US 4518589 A US 4530901 A US 4533672 A US 4535183 A US 4541953 A US 4550159 A US 4556677 A US 4562204 A US 4643895 A US 4663306 A US 4732864 A US 4737453 A US 5194370 A US 5340719 A US 5359047 A US 5362720 A US 5510327 A US 5538869 A US 5599811 A US 5602166 A US 5605905 A US 5614381 A US 5614535 A US 5614628 A US 5616468 A US 5620886 A US 5627173 A US 5629166 A US 5629184 A US 5629293 A US 5633000 A US 5633016 A US 5635177 A US 5639621 A US 5639725 A US 5641673 A US 5641860 A US 5667981 A US 5797873 A US 5916596 A US 5920601 A US 5925671 A US 5925730 A US 5932694 A US 5935962 A US 5936097 A US 5958378 A US 5959125 A US 5965722 A US 6015938 A US 6017923 A US 6022860 A US 6025334 A US 6025340 A US 6087392 A US 6087441 A US 6096313 A US 6096520 A US 6103697 A US 6103713 A US 6106805 A US 6107305 A US 6169104 B1 US 6184422 B1 US 6194437 B1 US 6200960 B1 US 6214872 B1 US 6218375 B1 US 6218418 B1 US 6222012 B1 US 6232338 B1 US 6235525 B1 US 6297274 B1 US 6306827 B1 US 6306902 B1 US 6307051 B1 US 6307068 B1 US 6310247 B1 US 6316425 B1 US 6316462 B1 US 6326403 B1 US 6417188 B1 US 6423869 B1 US 6472521 B1 US 6479285 B1 US 6492116 B1 US 6559183 B1 US 6593326 B1 US 6593342 B1 US 6593344 B1 US 6613879 B1 US 6689787 B1 US 6689922 B1 US 6696446 B1 US 6716856 B1 US 6727062 B1 US 6767996 B1 US 6955877 B1 US 7201913 B1 US 7320993 B1 US 7683024 B2 US 8183280 B2 US 8314067 B1 US RE44512 E US RE46024 E
Show Replies [+]Sarim AkbarIt will be interesting to see what type of cancer treatment is most prevalent in the patent filing database. Whether it's radiation therapy, hormone therapy, chemotherapy, drugs, etc. That would tell us which treatment is getting the most funding from industry, government, or other sources. Then tying that in with what treatment type is most prevalent in clinical trials. If say, most clinical trials in 2005 focused on radiation therapy methods and then most patent applications filed in 2008 were related to radiation therapy methods, I think that can give a hint or show some sort of pattern of clinical trials to patent submission timeline.
ReplyMara KraguljI understood some of your terminology descriptions & am replying, "why not we all step outside &relax few wks at the beach , in the Sun! I believe that would cure a lot of what is medically bothering societies.", ! Just saying! Thoughts Please! Looking forward too!
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Seeing the Forest AND the Trees: An Introduction to the Patent Projection Graphing Prototype (PPGP)
Allocating Funding to Reduce Cancer Mortality
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At the 14th Annual AIDS Conference in Barcelona Spain ACT UP members rushed the stage and prevented US Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson from speaking. The protesters shouted slogans, blew whistles and in general made as much noise as they could as half the auditorium clapped in support. After the demonstration, ACT UP gave an impromptu press conference in which members complained about American unwillingness to provide more money to fight AIDS. One ACT UP activist from New York, speaking about the growing number of AIDS cases in the US and the rest of the world, said that "the US was responsible for their deaths". A Swedish conference participant spoke in support of the protesters, saying that the US government deserved the treatment. Even economist Jeffrey Sachs – a former advisor to the Kremlin on the Russian economy and now an advisor on development to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan – said that Thompson should have expected such a protest considering that government policy on AIDS was "a reflection of utter confusion within the United States government".
First off the American government is not responsible for AIDS. In a completely libertarian sense it isn't responsible for the treatment of its citizens who catch it either – let alone the rest of the world which doesn't pay American taxes and rewards American humanitarian relief with "Blackhawk Down". American society isn't completely libertarian just yet and so the government does support medical research on diseases such as AIDS, much . According to the protesters, "Norway contributes 25 times as much per citizen, Sweden seven times and Rwanda 10 times as much (as a percentage of gross domestic product) as the United States does". But such comparisons can be dubious, since Norway also spends much more per capita on salted fish, and doesn't shoulder a defense budget of half a trillion dollars. A more apt comparison would be to look at the funding compared to other diseases within the USA.
It should be noted that the money the US government spends on AIDS research doesn't just stay in the country. Most of the research that the government funds will make its way abroad through papers appearing in journals and presented at conferences.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, 31,000 men died of prostate cancer in 2000, and every year 2.3 million men are diagnosed with the disease. In contrast, 14,802 people died of AIDS in 1999 while only 45,000 were diagnosed with the disease that year. If we use the money figures for FY 2002 and the number of new diagnoses just mentioned we find that the NIH spends $157 on each new prostate cancer diagnosis versus $80,000 on each new AIDS diagnosis. Or let's put it another way. Divide the money by the deaths and the US government spends $243,210 trying (and failing) to prevent each AIDS death – while only spending $11,613 attempting to save the life of a man who dies from prostate cancer. Sources: CDC: Table 53. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) cases, according to age at diagnosis, sex, detailed race, and Hispanic origin: United States, selected years 1985-2000. HIV Fastfacts. Prostate Disease Fastfacts. Gary S. Becker of The Hoover Institute pointed out in an article appearing in the April 19, 1999 issue of Businessweek: "Research on AIDS has been much more generously funded by the federal government during the past decade than has research on breast and prostate cancer and other diseases that kill many more people."
One could in fact argue that the federal government is caving in to intimidation at the expense of research in diseases that affect more people yet lack the theatrical antics of a misguided yet trendy advocacy group. It's unfortunate given the fact that every man – straight or gay, monogamous or polyamorous will eventually face prostate cancer should he be lucky to live long enough. A man can avoid catching AIDS. He can't avoid prostate cancer.
There is no excuse for anyone in the modern world to have unprotected sex. The only new AIDS cases should be newborns of women infected with HIV and rape victims. The gay community has lived with HIV for 20 years; it's not the government's job to be in the business of cleaning up the mess that results when someone ignores public health warnings. And this goes for those who smoke cigarettes then sue the cigarette makers.
This is not an attack on being gay: far from it. It is a slap in the face of ACT UP to wake up. Gay advocates must recognize that with freedom brings responsibility, and that one cannot make a decent life while living in a porno movie. Lifestyle changes have to be made. If that means prizing monogamy over anonymous sex, and safe sex over hyper-sex than so be it.
The track record of the gay community has been poor on working to contain the spread of AIDS. After all it was the gay rights movement that fought the closure of bathhouses in the Castro during the early '80s – viewing any attempt at containing the epidemic in the as an infringement on the gay lifestyle.
ACT UP and other gay-rights groups should return to spreading the message about safe sex and monogamy. Such tactics were instrumental at halting the spread of the disease during the late 80's and early 90's. Screaming down government bureaucrats may seem clever, but it will do nothing for their obscenely over-funded cause.


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Hope you all enjoyed my new things. Have a great weekend! :)
6 comments:
- Silver Parrot said...
OMG...LOVING that dragonfly necklace. And the Delft Blue earrings - so yummy! Great stuff!
- June 25, 2010 at 7:56 PM
- Kirsten said...
All great Nancy! I especially love the seahorse..... And of course Marie Antoinette is a real hoot! Very clever and reflective of your wonderfully wicked sense of humor. I hope you are having a fabulous summer..... :)
- June 26, 2010 at 11:41 AM
- noricum said...
I'm normally not a fan of big and chunky, but I *love* your dragonfly necklace! (If only I had something to wear with it, and had a hope of it looking good on me! *sigh*)
I love your seahorse necklace too!
- June 27, 2010 at 3:54 PM
- Debbie said...
Love your ceramic designs! Saw your work in the latest Belle Armoire Jewelry; fabulous!
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- July 1, 2010 at 6:53 PM
- Rebecca said...
I love ALL of these...although I don't know if I could bring myself to wear headless M...! Love your work. ANd your bunnies!
- July 4, 2010 at 7:28 AM
- Tara P. said...
Oh, wow - I love the Delft Blue earrings! I'm such a huge fan of your beads - keep up the great work!
- July 25, 2010 at 2:02 AM


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Survivor South Pacific – Cochran Tried Everything To Stay In The Game
Interesting move by Cochran, throwing himself at the mercy of his tribe mates at the beginning of the episode, saying since he switched he would like to stick around for one more tribal council. Though playing the fake birthday was a nice touch.
It was going to be between him and Edna on who was to go. For a person like him who has lived and breathed Survivor, I thought he would have tried to make a move by forming a new alliance with Edna and Albert who are itching to make a move.
He should know more then anyone there are no honourable acts in Survivor particularly at the pointy end of the competition.
Thankfully before tribal council he did try and form a new alliance with Edna, Albert and Coach. Edna was easy as she knew she was next to go, and Albert's ego was bruised when he heard Rik was calling him Princess Albert. Coach was wondering whether to throw his hat in with the new alliance or stick with the old one. He did not want to be seen as treacherous.
Albert is doing everything to shore up jury votes, except do any work around camp. He won immunity and a massage and shower, but with these there is always a catch as he got to pick one other person to do it with him. He picked Coach, but then gave up his spot so Cochran could have one as well.
Tribal Council as always was interesting, with Brandon again revealing his inner nutjob.
Brandon said "I want to do wrong things, I am only human, but there is something in me that won't let me." Is he insane? Why is he still in the game? Clearly he will go final three as he has no hope of winning.
Brendan also revealed he would not be flipping alliances, probably because he could not get his head around it.
As Cochran said "Talking strategy with Brandon is like talking to you [Jeff Probst] about shirts that are not blue – he just does not comprehend it, it is not in his vocabulary."
Cochran was eliminated, clearly Coach who had said he would be doing anything to save him, decided he wasn't going to flip into a new alliance, and he was off to Redemption Island.
Ozzy who beat Dawn and Whitney in a balancing challenge, will face off against Cochran next week, and it will truly be a David versus Goliath battle. However I can't see Cochran winning, nor does Ozzy.
By the way if Rik wins this season he must get in the record books for the Survivor winner with the least amount of air time.
Here is the EW blog with Jeff Probst who answers questions about the episode.
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- 1 Izobel2 { 12.07.11 at 4:31 pm }
Nice recap RR. I was watching a bit of Music Max this morn and "Macho Man – Village People" was on. Rik is a dead ringer for the cowboy.
I was hoping Dawn would beat Ozzy. Hope Cochran beats Ozzy next week, but no I don't think he will.
And they'd want to blindside Coach soon or he'll do a Boston Rob and take the title out…
- 2 Georgie { 12.07.11 at 5:08 pm }
I think Brandon's nutter antics are a ruse to give the impression he isn't dangerous and so far it's been working for him.
I mean the only thing he hasn't done yet to help cement the 'insane' label in place is dribble.
He seems to be able to say and do what he wants, when he wants, without fear or favour and everyone just shakes their head and gives him a wide berth.
- 3 Anonymous { 12.07.11 at 5:20 pm }
I totally agree with Georgie about Brandon.
I can only help Cochrane kicks Ozzy out. I really don't want to see his smug face back in camp.
- 4 Chunks { 12.07.11 at 5:24 pm }
A dead-ringer for the Randy?! No WAY Izobel!
Cannot believe these silly people have not ganged up to get rid of Coach by now. Hard to see him losing at this stage, although I suppose if he takes Anna and Rik to the final three it's possible the jury may give it to one of them for flying to well under the radar.
Georgie I think the Brandon crazy is real as he plays it straight to the cameras.
- 5 Georgie { 12.07.11 at 5:46 pm }
Chunks I get what you mean about Brandon playing it straight to the camera but don't forget his pedigree.
- 6 Susan { 12.07.11 at 11:47 pm }
Man,I would be taking froot-loop Brandon to the end – what a goose!
Albert missed his opportunity as i think Coach will score more points from the jury for his gamesmanship (as Izobel mentioned) than any of the others – they have all just followed his lead – I really would like to see a few more game players in this series – they all just seem to be sitting back and waiting to hear what bloody Coach says – and that is why i am not a fan of the previous Survivors coming back – let us see new blood and new leaders and lots of blind sides!!!
Redemption kinda suks too – when they used to leave Tribal – that was it – now they get the second chance – that means Ozzie back in – unless a bloody miracle occurs and next week and Cochran wins …..
Meh – this sesaon isn't grabbing me as much …. although I'm still hopelessly addicted!
- 7 Trent { 12.08.11 at 8:21 am }
Thanks for the recap RR
– Susan i totally agree with everything you said, the moment they put Coach and Ozzy back in the game they were then the leaders and the rest of the tribe just followed them around like lost sheep. Sophie has been one of the worst… not one tiny bit of stradegising at all. No More ex players.. Coach has been given soo many oppurtunitys at the million. Its like the producers just wanted to hand him the cheque. This season has had very unlikeable characters, that take up too much airtime Cochrane, Brandon, Ozzy, Coach, Albert… and not unlikeable in a good way like Russell just damn unlikeable people. It will make me cringe at the reunion show when the silly audience will make out Cochrane is a rockstar when really he is a slimey idiot who backstabed his own tribe for a worse position in the game only to be voted out at the first oppurtunity. I think Christine or Dawn should have won.. Christine being the underdog defeating everyone at redemption, or Dawn for being the only likeable person this series who took her elimination fine.. even after coach and his cult treated her like dirt. Sorry for the rant.
- 8 Dazza { 12.08.11 at 11:05 am }
Cowboy Rick = Purple Kelly
- 9 Picnic { 12.08.11 at 2:00 pm }
I have a sneaking suspision that Cochrane will win – went they send out teasers like Ossie saying he will win, it becomes pride before a fall!
I wish they would all stop drinking the cordial and vote Coach out


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Earlier: Philly Fed Manufacturing Survey showed Slight Contraction in May
Earlier from the Philly Fed: May 2016 Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey
Firms responding to the Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey continued to report tenuous growth this month. The indicator for general activity was essentially unchanged in May and remained slightly negative. Other broad indicators also reflected general weakness in business conditions. The indicator for employment improved but remained negative. Manufacturers' forecasts of future activity tempered slightly from last month, overall, but continue to suggest confidence in future growth.This was below the consensus forecast of a reading of 3.0 for May.
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