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Tuesday, December 25, 2012
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?Trojan horse? cancer therapy | WTVR.com ? Richmond News ...
Posted on: 12:48 pm, December 23, 2012, by Alix Bryan, updated on: 01:01pm, December 23, 2012
Researchers in the UK said an experimental ?Trojan horse? cancer therapy ?completely eliminated? the disease in mice.
According to?BBC News, the team hid cancer killing viruses inside the immune system in order to sneak them into a tumor.
Once inside, tens of thousands of viruses were released to kill the cancerous cells,?according to a study in the journal Cancer Research.
The title of the study is: ?Macrophage Delivery of an Oncolytic Virus Abolishes Tumor Regrowth and Metastasis After Chemotherapy or Irradiation.?
While experts labeled the study as ?exciting,? human tests are still needed.
?There?s a problem with getting enough virus into the tumor,? Prof Claire Lewis from the University of Sheffield told the BBC.
Read more about the study from the BBC.
Source: http://wtvr.com/2012/12/23/study-trojan-horse-cancer-strategy-eliminates-disease-in-mice/
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Sunday, December 23, 2012
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Analysis: Stop-gap fix most likely outcome of "fiscal cliff" talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The "fiscal cliff" deadline is days away and the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama have left town for Christmas.
But even if they were still here, it wouldn't have mattered, according to Steny Hoyer, the second-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives. He says they were going nowhere to resolving the disagreement over how to fix the nation's fiscal problems.
Last month's dreams of a "grand bargain" of tax hikes and spending cuts seem long gone. They had been reduced to more modest bargains in mid-December, and as 2013 approaches, are on the verge of relegation to a "stop-gap measure," at best the sort of temporary fix that Congress undertook in 2011.
A stop-gap that puts everything off for a while but resolves nothing is now the most promising alternative, if there is to be one, to the across-the-board tax hikes and spending cuts described as a "fiscal cliff" because they threaten to send the U.S. economy plunging into another recession.
It is also the way fiscal showdowns have ended in Washington in recent years.
Such a fix, at best, would delay the spending cuts and tax hikes further into 2013 as well as work to address in a long-term way a government budget that has generated deficits exceeding $1 trillion in each of the last four years. Even worse, it would set up a huge fight in January and February over raising the U.S. debt ceiling, which controls the amount of money the federal government can borrow.
Dysfunction in Washington was specifically cited as one of the reasons rating agency Standard & Poor's cut the U.S. debt rating to AA-plus after a battle over the debt ceiling in 2011. That alone - not to mention going over the cliff - could lead to another rating cut.
At worst, the new year could start with a full-fledged jump off the 'cliff,' with an understanding, communicated to financial markets, that Congress and the White House would come back and try again for a solution.
Given the apparent deadlock, some congressional aides this week said that Washington needed to begin telegraphing to Wall Street that markets should not panic if a "fiscal cliff" deal is not struck in December.
The goal, one aide said on condition of anonymity, is to avoid starting 2013 with a steep stock market drop like the one the U.S. suffered in 2008, when the country's financial industry was falling apart and Congress was divided over what to do.
On Friday, Obama acknowledged that only small steps might be possible with so little time remaining.
Those, the Democratic president said, would consist of extending benefits for the long-term unemployed and keeping income tax rates low for 98 percent of Americans - meaning raising taxes on households with net incomes above $250,000 a year but not for those earning less.
He held out the possibility of something "comprehensive," as he put it, but it had a hollow ring at the close of a work week that saw House Speaker John Boehner step back from negotiations and pursue a partisan plan that even some of his fellow Republicans could not stomach.
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The steps that Obama outlined were immediately rejected by Republicans, who have given ground on their previous steadfast opposition to any tax hikes but are still demanding that the White House agree to more substantial spending cuts.
"The president has failed to offer any solution that passes the test of balance," declared Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck, minutes after the end of Obama's statement on Friday.
On Saturday, a spokesman for Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell was similarly dismissive, noting Obama's call had neither bipartisan support nor spending cuts to ride along with tax increases.
McConnell, on Friday, suggested bringing up a House-passed bill that extends current tax rates for all Americans, including the top earners, and then pushes for comprehensive tax reform next year that theoretically could raise new revenues to help cut deficits.
But Obama has promised repeatedly to veto any extension of the expiring Bush-era tax cuts that fail to hike rates for the wealthy.
And Democrats, who control the Senate, have dismissed the McConnell idea, arguing that Obama ran his successful 2012 re-election campaign on a promise of forcing the wealthy to bear more of the burden of deficit reduction.
Democratic aides in Congress think their own bill implementing Obama's $250,000 income threshold, which passed the 100-member Senate in July with 51 votes, could breeze through this month, or next year after the "fiscal cliff" is breached.
The prospect of a breach is being discussed far more seriously now, and not just as a bluff or to set up the other side for blame.
"I think we're going to go over the cliff," said Republican Representative Patrick Tiberi of Ohio. "I don't see something getting done."
In an MSNBC interview Friday, Hoyer, a 31-year veteran of Congress from Maryland, said it wouldn't matter if everyone was in Washington instead of on holiday.
"Frankly, we've been in town for four weeks and members haven`t been doing much," he said, calling it "one of the least productive times that I've been in Congress."
Even Obama speaks of "a mismatch" between how people are thinking about the looming tax hikes and spending cuts "outside of this town and how folks are operating here. And we've just got to get that aligned," he said in his statement.
ITG Investment Research Chief Economist Steve Blitz on Saturday said sliding the "fiscal cliff" negotiations into the new year was not a huge deal. "I think markets will pressure for a deal in January," he said.
The "pressure" could be in the form of a significant stock market drop, which would hit workers' retirement plans, threaten to deter consumer and business spending, and possibly rattle other countries' economies at a time when the global economy is far from robust.
(Additional reporting by Rachelle Younglai; Editing by Martin Howell and Paul Simao)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-stop-gap-fix-most-likely-outcome-fiscal-230241021--business.html
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Major Web Brands Struggle to Make Money - 24/7 Wall St.
Nielsen released it top Web?brands for 2012, and Comscore?its most visited sites list for November. The two lists overlap, almost completely, when their top 10 are lined up with one another. The most striking aspect of the two lists, when taken together, is the extent to which the companies on them?are not terribly good businesses in?most cases.
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), which tops both lists, does very well financially and has maintained rapid growth and strong earnings. But its place among the largest sites is unique. Search has become the most important utility of the Web, and Google controls two-thirds of the U.S. market.
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is in the second spot on the Nielsen site and fourth on Comscore?s list. Facebook has proven so far that the viability of its business as one that can produce large profits is extremely limited. It has been unable to turn its one billion users into a pool of people on which it can make money, and it continues to struggle to find a path to earnings growth. Its shares have paid the price for its troubles.
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is in second place on the Comscore?list and third on Nielsen?s. The press has had a field day covering Yahoo!?s efforts to turn itself around for years, as it struggles to make money in the online portal business, continues to post flat revenue growth and cuts thousands of people to maintain margins. So far, its plans for earnings improvement have not succeeded. Its share price indicates that Wall St. does not think it can change that.
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) properties MSN/Bing/Windows Live are in the fifth spot on the Nielsen list and third place on Comscore?s. Comscore?measures Microsoft sites differently than Nielsen?does because it rolls up Microsoft?s commercial sites with its portal and search. No matter how the audience is parsed, MSN and Bing have posted losses for Microsoft for years as the software giant tries to effectively compete with Google in the search business and AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) and Yahoo! in the portal segment.
AOL sits in sixth place on the Comscore measurement and seventh on Nielsen?s. The old portal has battled to grow and make money, even with the addition of traffic and premium content that come from?the Huffington Post.
There are not many industries in which almost all the leaders have struggled and continue to struggle to make money. The Internet, perhaps the greatest invention in the recent history of technology, has not been kind to the largest companies that rely on it for their successes.
Douglas A. McIntyre
Source: http://247wallst.com/2012/12/21/major-web-brands-struggle-to-make-money/
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
Stephen Sweeney, New Jersey Senator, On Gay Marriage, Reparative Therapy Proposals In His State
New Jersey Democratic Senate President Stephen Sweeney responded strongly to charges by openly gay Assemblyman Reed Gusciora that he's stalling on a veto override of a marriage equality bill in the New Jersey legislature, saying that he is ?truly offended? by the claim, and that he also disagrees with Gusciora?s proposal to bring marriage equality to the ballot in New Jersey after the wins in Maryland, Maine and Washington state. Sweeney also discussed a bill he is spearheading that would ban therapists in New Jersey from performing so-called ?reparative therapy? on minors, saying it?s about making children feel valued. (Listen to the full interview below)
?You have kids killing themselves because they think there is something is wrong with them,? Sweeney said while discussing the bill to ban therapies that claim to turn young people from gay to straight. A similar bill was signed into law in California this year, though in recent days a federal appeals court issued an emergency order putting the law, which was to take effect on Jan. 1, on hold until it hears and rules on a challenge to the law.
?The supporters of this bill are people who love their children and understand that you can?t make your children something they?re not born to be,? Sweeney said this week in an interview on my SiriusXM radio program. ?You?re born to be what you are. Religious organizations -- no one -- should be involved in this type of behavior. I have a child who is disabled. And I love my daughter as much as I love my son. Because my daughter?s different, it doesn?t make her less valued. Why some religious groups would make someone feel they?re less valued, less of a person, is really troubling to me.?
Sweeney wasn?t sure of GOP Gov. Chris Christie?s position on the bill. Christie had signed anti-bullying legislation in 2011, but vetoed a marriage equality bill earlier this year.
?Something like this, he wouldn?t express it until it?s time for him to act,? he said. ?When he vetoed marriage equality, that was a loud statement of indifference. I?m not sure where the governor will be on this.?
Regarding a veto override of the marriage bill, Sweeney said, ?I?m three votes short right now, but we?ve moved the bill early on. We think we?ve got a shot at overriding the governor because it?s a civil rights issue.?
But Sweeney is strongly opposed to bringing marriage equality to the ballot, as Christie had urged and as Gusciora recently proposed, introducing a bill in the legislature.
?Civil rights is not something that should voted on,? said Sweeney. "I wholehearted disagree with that approach. We?re not in a liberal state. We?re in a moderate state. In California they voted to make marriage equality illegal, in the most liberal state in the country. I understand [Gusciora?s] frustration. But I cannot in good conscience put this up for a ballot vote, see it go down, and then New Jersey is viewed as a conservative state. You know, New Jersey, back in 1915, voted against a woman?s right to vote. Now, people say, 'We won in the three states [Maryland, Maine and Washington].' And millions of dollars were spent. And they won. But they lost in 30 states before. I?m not willing to put something on the ballot and allow someone to choose civil rights.?
Gusciora had also called for a vote on the veto override now, even if it doesn?t pass, and charged that the Democratic leadership doesn't want to move for an override of Christie's veto now because Democrats want to wait in order use the issue of marriage equality against Republicans in the elections in the fall.
?I?m offended by the statement,? Sweeney responded. ?I am truly offended by his position and statement. The assemblyman has never spoken to me or reached out to me to ask what our strategy or plan is. This is not political. This is about civil rights. Who says we?re not going to vote after the election? Look, we wanted to give our Republican colleagues who are supportive the chance to get beyond the primaries, where they?ve been threatened, in primaries. You saw what happened in New York State, where people were primaried out of office. I?m not looking to lose people because of this issue. I?m not one to do that to my colleagues because I want to work with them to get this done. Unfortunately it?s the assemblyman who has not spoken to anyone on this issue. The difference is, I have been speaking to the leading groups on marriage equality.?
Listen to the full interview here:
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