Cancer Cure? Dichloroacetate! Once again, another “cancer cure” article was brought to my attention via a social network. In this article, the author mentions that cancer cure has been found but is not given its rightful attention because it is bad business for pharmaceutical companies. Whether this is true or not, it is worth reading and looking into once again as people’s lives are in the balance. Read it and do further research.

Here is the article (c/o hubpages.com):

Canadian researchers find a simple cure for cancer, but major pharmaceutical companies are not interested.

Researchers at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada have cured cancer last week, yet there is a little ripple in the news or in TV. It is a simple technique using very basic drug. The method employs dichloroacetate, which is currently used to treat metabolic disorders. So, there is no concern of side effects or about their long term effects.

This drug doesn’t require a patent, so anyone can employ it widely and cheaply compared to the costly cancer drugs produced by major pharmaceutical companies.

Canadian scientists tested this dichloroacetate (DCA) on human’s cells; it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells and left the healthy cells alone. It was tested on Rats inflicted with severe tumors; their cells shrank when they were fed with water supplemented with DCA. The drug is widely available and the technique is easy to use, why the major drug companies are not involved? Or the Media interested in this find?

In human bodies there is a natural cancer fighting human cell, the mitochondria, but they need to be triggered to be effective. Scientists used to think that these mitochondria cells were damaged and thus ineffective against cancer. So they used to focus on glycolysis, which is less effective in curing cancer and more wasteful. The drug manufacturers focused on this glycolysis method to fight cancer. This DCA on the other hand doesn’t rely on glycolysis instead on mitochondria; it triggers the mitochondria which in turn fights the cancer cells.

The side effect of this is it also reactivates a process called apoptosis. You see, mitochondria contain an all-too-important self-destruct button that can’t be pressed in cancer cells. Without it, tumors grow larger as cells refuse to be extinguished. Fully functioning mitochondria, thanks to DCA, can once again die.

With glycolysis turned off, the body produces less lactic acid, so the bad tissue around cancer cells doesn’t break down and seed new tumors.

Pharmaceutical companies are not investing in this research because DCA method cannot be patented, without a patent they can’t make money, like they are doing now with their AIDS Patent. Since the pharmaceutical companies won’t develop this, the article says other independent laboratories should start producing this drug and do more research to confirm all the above findings and produce drugs. All the groundwork can be done in collaboration with the Universities, who will be glad to assist in such research and can develop an effective drug for curing cancer.

You can access the original research for this cancer here.

This article wants to raise awareness for this study, hope some independent companies and small startup will pick up this idea and produce these drugs, because the big companies won’t touch it for a long time.

Cityville Cheats, Bot, Guide, Tips, Tactics, Strategy and Secrets. Cityville is the number 1 Facebook game today and has beaten its predecessor Farmville. It is the best game today because it was able to incorporate the best features of the best social games into 1 successful and addicting game Cityville. Given the upgrade, many are looking for cheats, bots, guides, tips, strategies and secrets to play Cityville. This is actually a good idea and is better than learning all the tricks of the game by yourself which tantamount to loss of productive time.

If you would like to really jump start your Cityville “career”, then check out Paul’s site as he reviews the #1 CityVille guide. If you do buy, then please stick to the strategy presented:

Ok now once you’ve got yourself a copy of the ebook above and became a member of the site, let us go through each item mentioned in the title. First up is Cheats. I am not a big fan of cheats, but here is 1 you could use in emergencies.

Cheat(s)
The cheat I use and recommend is creating more FB accounts. By doing so, you could add more “artificial” neighbors to your main city(in your main account). You could also send or gift yourself with necessary items for you to level up fast like Energy, Zoning Permits, etc… Don’t overdo this though as having many artificial neighbors will drain you out and render the game too strenuous for you to enjoy.

Bot
I am not a fan of bots. But if you want to really stream roll your opponents(neighbors) then you could probably use one. Here are the links to Cityville bots available online:

• http://www.cityvillebot.org
• http://www.cityvillebots.com/

Guide & Secrets
The guide and secrets are really all in the ebooks above. There is no need for me to mention it here as that would be redundant. However, you might want to check out the strategies section for help for intermediate to advanced players.

Strategy
Strategy is different from tactics. The two have often been confused to mean the same thing but they are not the same. Strategy pertains to the overall plan you are going to follow to achieve your goal while tactics pertain to techniques that you can employ to achieve various milestones in your overall strategy.

The best way to illustrate this is in the game of chess. The goal is to checkmate your opponent’s King. But what would be your strategy? Are you going to be aggressive and beat him by force? Or are you going to be defensive and beat him in the end game? White players tend to aggressive because they have momentum while Black players tend to be defensive for the opposite reason the White player does. That is strategy. Tactics on the other hand are the forks, pins, etc… you employ in the game.

Enough of chess and back to Cityville. So what strategy are you going to employ in the game? Before answering that question, what is your goal first? Are you playing just for the sake of fun? Then you don’t need any strategy at all! But if you are playing to beat your friends and neighbors and get to the highest level then you need a strategy.

Cityville is a more complicated game compared to other FB games and thus analysis of the game is much harder. Unlike the other games, Cityville has more limiting factors. And by that, I am referring to Coins, Energy and Goods. So we need to carefully balance each one to get the best out of it. Let us start.

Here is my goal => I want to beat my friends/neighbors by obtaining the highest level in the quickest time possible but at the same time have an attractive and big city with its borders maxed out.

Sounds intimidating but in reality that is what we all want. So what would be my strategy?

Level up as fast as possible by building the most profitable businesses and surrounding it with as much decorations as possible so that I get the most bang for my buck and energy. The game must be played according to the correct timing so as to play the game efficiently. Attractiveness comes last and will be dealt with when my Cityville “economy” is stable.

Let’s break that down by going into the basics of the game. You level up by gaining more XP(experience). XP can be obtained from rent/business/community collection and harvesting. Rent/Business/Community collection and harvesting require 1 Energy per action. You regenerate 1 Energy every 5 minutes. Unfortunately, you cannot buy time But you can sort of do so by using coins and cash. I won’t be talking about cash here as we want to play the game as “free” as possible thus we will stick to coins. If you did your homework and scoured the internet for guides blah blah blah, most of them will focus on buying/getting the best houses and business per coin/supply respectively. That is good for other games like Fishville but in Cityville that is not the case.

If you followed my logic above, the most important limiting factor or resource we have is Energy. Without Energy, we won’t be able to do anything. And if we don’t do anything then we don’t level up and thus won’t achieve our goal. Money/Coins are important but that is very easy to get. The same thing with Goods so I will give them less importance. Now, let us do some math.

As of this post, the maximum Energy limit is 30(assuming you are at least level 26). That means we get to fully refill our Energy bar every 150 minutes or 2.5 hours. Hence, we could play every 2.5 hours and build our city without much interference from our every day lives This also gives us a chance to get 2-3 Masterful bonuses which is a must if you want to level up and collect lots of money fast.

So, if you work 8 hours a day, you could play before you work, 3 times during your break time and after work. After work, you could devote more time to playing Cityville which means you don’t have to play every 2.5 hours. If you are “harvesting”  4 businesses which have their potential maxed out using decorations, you can harvest them every 20 minutes and get a lot of money in 1 hour’s worth of playing time! Using this strategy, I often collect 10k+ coins in just 1 hour, that is using the highest earning businesses available to me at my level.

Also, don’t use housing as a means of getting coins. Yes, you can get coins from them but regard them as extra bonuses. Housing should be treated only as a means to increase population. Hence you should get housing which occupies the least space with the most population. I am referring to the Colonial Chalet. It can fit in 13.34 population/people per grid which is the best in the game. It is quite expensive in the beginning at $10000 but if you harvest maxed out businesses as I did, then money should not be a problem.

Just to reiterate, housing is just for population. Never collect rent from houses to get money. That is a total waste of energy. To make money, use businesses and harvest them to the max using decorations. But not just any decorations though, use the best ones which give the highest multipliers. The only time to collect on houses is when you need bonus clicks to get to Masterful or when you are going to sleep, that is after collecting on businesses (use all your Energy before going to sleep!!!).

Since the max Energy is 30, we only need to have a total of 30 houses, businesses and crops combined. Thus, it would be a good and wise idea to build/plant houses/crops which can be harvested every 2.5 hours. Other houses are for population, other crops are for decoration and other businesses are just for show

We should also expand as fast as possible. More space means more clicks, more XP and more money! Thus it would be wise to always send Zoning Permits to your friends. The rule is, give and you shall receive. If you give a gift to your neighbor, they would likely gift back one to you.

So I guess that’s it. The strategy above would be able to help you to level up faster and make lots of money. It is not written in detail but if you have played Cityville for a while now you would understand what I am saying. If you need a complete beginners guide to help you through the game, then it would be best to get the 2 ebooks above.

Tips and Tactics

• Don’t close your Cityville app so that businesses use out their supply faster. I am not sure of this tip but it seems to me that it works. Faster supply usage means more money in your pocket. This is just a gut feel tip so use at your own discretion.
• Buy goods/supply from Charlieville using the train. I know it is expensive but we are talking about buying time here. Goods from Charlieville cost 4coins/good but without wasting precious time and Energy. If you have 3 businesses using a total of 300 goods and giving you 4500 coins gross profit, then your net profit would be 3300 coins in 15 minutes (assuming all 300 goods get used in that time span which is a good approximate)! That would be 13200 coins an hour
• Give and you shall receive. If you need +3 Energy, gift them out first to your friends/neighbors. This is a proven tactic which has survived the test of time.
• Use bonuses to your advantage…always. To get to the highest bonus(Masterful), you need 32 clicks. That can be done with 16 Energy. If you are fortunate and get extra items then you can do it in less than 16. Always find a way to get to Masterful as that would mean more coins/money for you. One way to get extra clicks without using energy is by using the Charlieville train. Doing so will give you 3 free clicks without using energy. I won’t post a bonus chart here as they are everywhere

If I have anymore to share, I will update this blog post for you guys.

How to Fix a C4Parana Hack. Believe it or not, this site was hacked twice last year. The first one was simply a matter of deleting my administrative login and hence I was not able to login. If this happened to you, you can recover your hacked wordpress login by following the steps I outlined in another blog post. That was last November 2010. But after a month (December), it got hacked again by a Turkish hacker it seems which I am going to call a C4Parana hack.

I don’t know what a C4Parana is but what the hack did was 1) redirect my homepage to “http://maresanat.nl/media/C4Parana/$1″, 2) messed up my WP permalinks settings and 3) hacked my WP login like in the previous hack.

As I said, this happened in December and it has been 2 months since then so I’ll try my best to remember the exact steps to fix this hack. There might be some extra details I did back then but rest assured the steps below would suffice for you to fix the C4Parana hack. Another note though, there might be variations of this hack so please check against the description of the hack above if we were hacked the same way. If not, then follow the instructions with a grain of salt.

Step by step instructions on how to fix a C4Parana hack:

1. Fix your .htaccess file. The redirect of the homepage is done by hacking the .htaccess file. Fix the file if you know how or simply delete it. We’ll create one (or WordPress will…) later. This fixes issue #1.
2. Recover your WP login. I already have a blog post on this. Please check => recover your hacked wordpress login. This fixes issue #3.
3. Fix your permalinks settings. Once you are able to login back into the WP dashboard, you should fix your permalinks settings. Just restore it to what you had before.

It’s really not that hard! Just follow the instructions above and you should be fine. You would do well if you keep in mind the following things as well:

• Always upgrade to the latest stable WP version. Doing so will reduce the security vulnerabilities that WP have.
• Make sure that your .htaccess file and wp-config.php file is not writable and accessible to the outside world. Only you (or any admin) should have access to these files.
• Backup your files and database regularly. If all else fails, you can simply restore your backup if you get hacked.

That’s it. If you have any more questions or suggestions, please comment below.

How to Migrate a WP Installation from One Server to Another via Cpanel. This post would serve as an announcement as well as a “How To”. I recently moved from one hosting service to another to consolidate a part of my domains in 1 of my hosting servers and to reduce costs. It’s never bad to save a bit even if it is just a few dollars .

For this tutorial, I am assuming you a know a thing or two about making backups(database and file) via CPanel and about FTP. If not, then I suggest you go learn them first, they are not that hard. If you are all set, then here is the step by step instructions to migrate a WordPress site from one server to another via CPanel:

1. Backup the database. Now, there are a number of ways to do this but I prefer to do it via PHPMyAdmin. Backup your database by logging into PHPMyAdmin and exporting the database into a .gz file. If you are unsure how to do this, follow the official WP how to backup your database instructions.
2. Backup your WP files. This can be done via the file manager. Select the root folder containing your site and click ‘compress’ from the clickable options above.
3. Create a new database on your destination server. To make things just a bit easier, you may opt to name the database the same as the database you just backed-up. This way, you don’t have to update much later in the wp-config.php file.
4. Import your backed-up database into the new database. Remember step #1? Well, just import the file(database backup) into the new database via PHPMyAdmin.
5. Add domain to Add-on domain list. Make sure to fix the folder structure as well.
6. Restore backed-up WP files. Restore the files via the file manager into the new folder just created in step #5.
7. Update wp-config.php in new server. Update the database name, username and password.
8. Update DNS of domain via registrar. Get the new DNS of your new destination server and update them via your current domain registrar.
9. Wait. Nameserver propagation usually takes a few days so just sit back and relax.

The steps outlined above involves some downtime since we would have to wait for the nameserver propagation to finish which usually takes several days. If downtime is an issue, you can modify the steps above by adding these steps after step 6:

1. Allow your old server to access the new database in the new server. You can allow this by going to Remote MySQL on the new server and adding the domain or IP address of your old server.
2. Change your wp-config.php in the old site to point to the database on the new site. So, instead of accessing stale data, your site can access update information while waiting for the nameserver propagation to finish. The only downside is this could be a bit slow sometimes.

So the these are the steps to migrate a WP installation from one server to another. If you have any questions, feel free to comment/ask below.

How to Recover Hacked WordPress Login. Believe it or not this site was hacked and was fixed just a few moments ago. I am not sure how long it was hacked but I was able to fix it after a few minutes. Here is what happened.

I logged in to the WP-ADMIN page to login but was not able to do so. My admin account was gone and when I tried to use the password recovery function, it says that there was no such username or email address! So how did I fix this? Easy.

Given that I have some technical background on WordPress installations and MySQL, I used this to my advantage by checking out the WP database to check if my user account still exists. Unsurprisingly, my user account/admin account no longer existed but was replaced by some mysterious login. Hence, what I did was just edit this mysterious account and replaced the information with my own details. After that, I used the WP password recovery to reset my password and then I took this opportunity to upgrade to the latest WP version with the hopes of better security.

If you are not able to follow the vague summary above, here is the step by step walk through for recovering your hacked WP account:

1. Enter your host CPANEL and click on phpMyAdmin.
2. Once inside phpMyAdmin, select your blog’s database on the left.
3. Browse the wp_users table.
4. Find the hacked row and edit it.
5. Modify the user_pass column by a) selecting MD5 from the Function drop-down box and b) entering a new password in the Value text box.
6. Click/Press Go/Save to save your changes.
7. Create a new tab in your browser and go to your blog’s WP-ADMIN page.
8. Use the password recovery functionality to reset your password.
9. OPTIONAL BUT RECOMMENDED. Once your password has been reset and you are able to login once again, upgrade your WP installation into the latest version.

That’s it! If you have the same problem as I did a few moments ago, then just follow the steps above to fix the problem. If you are a programmer or a web developer, you should not have any problems following the instructions. Otherwise, just leave a comment below and I will try to help you the best I can.

Why is Everyone Posting Colors on Facebook? Why? This is a question that has already been answered. But if you still do not know the answer, then the simple answer is … it turns out that it is their bra color of the day. Yes, some of our female friends have been posting colors to let the world know what the color of their bra is for the day.

So there you go guys, the simple answer to a simple question.