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There's a key piece of magic in the engineering of the Internet which you rely on every single day. It happens in the TCP protocol, one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet.
TCP is a way to transmit data that is reliable. By this I mean: if you send a message over a network using TCP, it will arrive, and it won't be garbled or corrupted.
We use TCP for many things like fetching web pages and sending email. The reliability of TCP is why every exciting email from embezzling East Africans arrives in letter-perfect condition. O joy.
By comparison, there is another method of transmitting data called IP which is unreliable. Nobody promises that your data will arrive, and it might get messed up before it arrives. If you send a bunch of messages with IP, don't be surprised if only half of them arrive, and some of those are in a different order than the order in which they were sent, and some of them have been replaced by alternate messages, perhaps containing pictures of adorable baby orangutans, or more likely just a lot of unreadable garbage that looks like the subject line of Taiwanese spam.
Here's the magic part: TCP is built on top of IP. In other words, TCP is obliged to somehow send data reliably using only an unreliable tool.
To illustrate why this is magic, consider the following morally equivalent, though somewhat ludicrous, scenario from the real world.
Imagine that we had a way of sending actors from Broadway to Hollywood that involved putting them in cars and driving them across the country. Some of these cars crashed, killing the poor actors. Sometimes the actors got drunk on the way and shaved their heads or got nasal tattoos, thus becoming too ugly to work in Hollywood, and frequently the actors arrived in a different order than they had set out, because they all took different routes. Now imagine a new service called Hollywood Express, which delivered actors to Hollywood, guaranteeing that they would (a) arrive (b) in order (c) in perfect condition. The magic part is that Hollywood Express doesn't have any method of delivering the actors, other than the unreliable method of putting them in cars and driving them across the country. Hollywood Express works by checking that each actor arrives in perfect condition, and, if he doesn't, calling up the home office and requesting that the actor's identical twin be sent instead. If the actors arrive in the wrong order Hollywood Express rearranges them. If a large UFO on its way to Area 51 crashes on the highway in Nevada, rendering it impassable, all the actors that went that way are rerouted via Arizona and Hollywood Express doesn't even tell the movie directors in California what happened. To them, it just looks like the actors are arriving a little bit more slowly than usual, and they never even hear about the UFO crash.
That is, approximately, the magic of TCP. It is what computer scientists like to call an abstraction: a simplification of something much more complicated that is going on under the covers. As it turns out, a lot of computer programming consists of building abstractions. What is a string library? It's a way to pretend that computers can manipulate strings just as easily as they can manipulate numbers. What is a file system? It's a way to pretend that a hard drive isn't really a bunch of spinning magnetic platters that can store bits at certain locations, but rather a hierarchical system of folders-within-folders containing individual files that in turn consist of one or more strings of bytes.
Back to TCP. Earlier for the sake of simplicity I told a little fib, and some of you have steam coming out of your ears by now because this fib is driving you crazy. I said that TCP guarantees that your message will arrive. It doesn't, actually. If your pet snake has chewed through the network cable leading to your computer, and no IP packets can get through, then TCP can't do anything about it and your message doesn't arrive. If you were curt with the system administrators in your company and they punished you by plugging you into an overloaded hub, only some of your IP packets will get through, and TCP will work, but everything will be really slow.
This is what I call a leaky abstraction. TCP attempts to provide a complete abstraction of an underlying unreliable network, but sometimes, the network leaks through the abstraction and you feel the things that the abstraction can't quite protect you from. This is but one example of what I've dubbed the Law of Leaky Abstractions:
|All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.
Abstractions fail. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. There's leakage. Things go wrong. It happens all over the place when you have abstractions. Here are some examples.
One reason the law of leaky abstractions is problematic is that it means that abstractions do not really simplify our lives as much as they were meant to. When I'm training someone to be a C++ programmer, it would be nice if I never had to teach them about char*'s and pointer arithmetic. It would be nice if I could go straight to STL strings. But one day they'll write the code "foo" + "bar", and truly bizarre things will happen, and then I'll have to stop and teach them all about char*'s anyway. Or one day they'll be trying to call a Windows API function that is documented as having an OUT LPTSTR argument and they won't be able to understand how to call it until they learn about char*'s, and pointers, and Unicode, and wchar_t's, and the TCHAR header files, and all that stuff that leaks up.
In teaching someone about COM programming, it would be nice if I could just teach them how to use the Visual Studio wizards and all the code generation features, but if anything goes wrong, they will not have the vaguest idea what happened or how to debug it and recover from it. I'm going to have to teach them all about IUnknown and CLSIDs and ProgIDS and ... oh, the humanity!
The law of leaky abstractions means that whenever somebody comes up with a wizzy new code-generation tool that is supposed to make us all ever-so-efficient, you hear a lot of people saying "learn how to do it manually first, then use the wizzy tool to save time." Code generation tools which pretend to abstract out something, like all abstractions, leak, and the only way to deal with the leaks competently is to learn about how the abstractions work and what they are abstracting. So the abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning.
And all this means that paradoxically, even as we have higher and higher level programming tools with better and better abstractions, becoming a proficient programmer is getting harder and harder.
During my first Microsoft internship, I wrote string libraries to run on the Macintosh. A typical assignment: write a version of strcat that returns a pointer to the end of the new string. A few lines of C code. Everything I did was right from K&R -- one thin book about the C programming language.
Today, to work on CityDesk, I need to know Visual Basic, COM, ATL, C++, InnoSetup, Internet Explorer internals, regular expressions, DOM, HTML, CSS, and XML. All high level tools compared to the old K&R stuff, but I still have to know the K&R stuff or I'm toast.
Ten years ago, we might have imagined that new programming paradigms would have made programming easier by now. Indeed, the abstractions we've created over the years do allow us to deal with new orders of complexity in software development that we didn't have to deal with ten or fifteen years ago, like GUI programming and network programming. And while these great tools, like modern OO forms-based languages, let us get a lot of work done incredibly quickly, suddenly one day we need to figure out a problem where the abstraction leaked, and it takes 2 weeks. And when you need to hire a programmer to do mostly VB programming, it's not good enough to hire a VB programmer, because they will get completely stuck in tar every time the VB abstraction leaks.
The Law of Leaky Abstractions is dragging us down.
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This week, a Merrill-ific dinner, because who doesn't love that? Her so-good-it's-silly Pasta Al Forno is rib-sticking, whole-body-warming food. Plus, it serves 8, so make the full batch and you'll have enough for dinner tonight and tomorrow night: always a bonus, but this week a must. Shaved brussels sprouts offer freshness and crunch, welcome alongside the creamy baked pasta.
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Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad with Red Onion, Lemon and Pecorino by merrill
Pasta Al Forno with Pumpkin and Pancetta by merrill
The pasta serves 8; the salad serves 4 -- so you'll have to serve the leftover pasta with another salad tomorrow night. Maybe this one, or this one.
3 cups brussels sprouts
One 3 to 4 pound cheese pumpkin or butternut squash
1/4 pound thick-sliced pancetta
1 pound conchiglie rigate (pasta shells)
2 cups heavy cream
Cheeses: fresh mozzarella, Pecorino Romano, fontina, gorgonzola, and a smidge of fresh ricotta (or use up what's in the cheese drawer)
Fresh thyme
We assume you have salt, black pepper, olive oil, an onion, a lemon, and a little honey. If not, you'll need those too!
1. Roast the squash -- it takes about an hour. But the good news is that it takes all of 30 seconds to prepare. For the first 20 minutes of roasting time, kick back with a cocktail, or read a book. Relax.
2. Start soaking your onion slices for the salad, because they need at least 15 to 20 minutes, and a little extra can't hurt. While you're at it, mix up the dressing too.
3. Boil the pasta; set it aside.
4. Scoop out the roasted squash, mix up that gloriously gooey, cheesy sauce, and pop the whole beautiful mess into the oven to finish.
5. Shave the sprouts, toss the salad and serve! Two dinners prepared in one go! Something to be thankful for, indeed.


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(Journalist Lauren Frayer is a frequent contributor to NPR. She files this report from Madrid.)
For decades, the Red Cross has asked Spaniards to donate money to starving children in the Third World. But with Europe's debt crisis, the needy are now right here at home.
The Spanish Red Cross today launched its first-ever fundraising campaign for Spaniards to donate directly to other Spaniards. The aid organization estimates that some 300,000 additional people in Spain are vulnerable to hunger because of the economic crisis.
With one in four Spaniards out of work, the country has Europe's highest jobless rate. More than half of 20-somethings are unemployed. Spain has entered its second recession in three years.
New TV ads debut across Spain today, in a Red Cross campaign entitled "Now More than Ever." One spot shows a worried father rationing an omelette made from a single egg into three portions, to feed himself and his two children. His refrigerator is empty. Then two Red Cross volunteers arrive and the music swells. The smiling family unpacks milk, cooking oil and pasta from donation parcels emblazoned with the Red Cross logo.
"More and more people than you imagine need help in our country," say words scrolling across the screen. The Red Cross already helps about 2 million people in Spain, but another 300,000 are now needy because of the economic crisis, it said.
The Spanish Red Cross, or Cruz Roja, hopes to raise about $39 million over the next two years, to assist victims of hunger in Spain. More than 80 percent of those who receive Red Cross aid live below the poverty line, with family incomes of less than $800 a month, the group said. More than 60 percent of them are unemployed.
Today's new fundraising campaign coincides with the group's annual collection day. Hundreds of Red Cross volunteers have fanned out along sidewalks in the Spanish capital and other cities.
(Lauren is due to have more on this story later today on All Things Considered. We'll add the audio from her report to the top of this post later.)
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And I'm Robert Siegel. Today, Standard & Poor's downgraded Spain's credit rating. S&P now values the country at a BBB-, the agency's lowest investment grade level. For a different indicator of how bad the economy is now, in that country, you could look at the appeals there for charitable giving. Spaniards have long donated to the Red Cross, for instance, to help starving children in other countries. But with Europe's debt crisis, there are more needy people at home. Lauren Frayer reports on the first Red Cross fund drive to ask Spaniards to help fellow Spaniards.
LAUREN FRAYER, BYLINE: Across Spain, there's a new TV ad showing a worried father with two young children. They're sharing an omelet made from a single egg. The fridge is empty.
FRAYER: Two Red Cross volunteers arrive, and the music swells. They hand over donation parcels, and the now-smiling children unpack milk, cooking oil and pasta.
FRAYER: More and more people than you imagine, need help in our country, a voice says. That's the Red Cross' new message to Spain. The economic crisis has left hundreds of thousands of Spaniards hungry. One in four here is out of work - the highest rate in Europe. More than half of 20-somethings are jobless. Red Cross spokesman Fernando Cuevas says the crisis is finally catching up with Spain's middle-class.
FERNANDO CUEVAS: (Through translator) We faced a huge number of pleas for help from people who until now, never had to rely on charities like us.
FRAYER: Cuevas says the Red Cross is juggling 15 percent more aid requests from Spaniards this year, an estimated 300,000 new mouths to feed - people like Carlos Prat, in line with about 200 other people outside a food bank, in downtown Madrid. The 28-year-old lost his job waiting tables a year ago. He sleeps on a friend's couch, and lives on charity handouts.
CARLOS PRAT: Here, the economy - it's really, really hard. We don't have jobs, all right? I speak little bit of five languages - and nothing. Nothing.
FRAYER: Thousands of Red Cross volunteers fanned out across Spain today, asking Spaniards to donate to their countrymen - for the first time. In the past, fundraising here focused on sending money to Africa's needy, for example.
JUAN SEMPRUN: Now, our situation is bad. So the ones that need help are us.
FRAYER: Juan Semprun was one of those approached by a Red Cross representative today, in the street. I asked him if he donates.
SEMPRUN: I used to. I quit all my donations like, a month ago because I'm broke.
FRAYER: His business went bust, and he's thinking of moving abroad. He says he's lost hope that the crisis will pass quickly. And while the tapas bars stayed full for the first couple years of recession, that is no longer the case, says economist Gayle Allard.
GAYLE ALLARD: You know, the first year we'd comment on, oh, they're still in the streets; they're still going out. Spaniards managed to have a good time through all of this. But now, you're starting to see, I think, things are - are biding.
FRAYER: The Red Cross is nevertheless hoping that Spaniards can contribute nearly $40 million, over the next two years.
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SEATTLE, Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (Nasdaq and MTA: CTIC) announced today that CTI will provide a live audio and slide webcast of its analyst and investor meeting to be held on January 23 in New York. Expert speakers will focus on advances in treatment using JAK inhibitors and existing challenges in treating myelofibrosis patients. Guest speakers include:
Ross L. Levine, M.D., Associate Member at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program and Leukemia Service, Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College
Srdan Verstovsek, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Leukemia Department, Division of Cancer Medicine, Chief, Section for Myeloproliferative Neoplasms, Leukemia Department, and Director, Clinical Research Center for MPNs, at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
CTI recently initiated a Phase 3 clinical trial, known as PERSIST-1, for pacritinib, CTI's investigational JAK2 inhibitor that is being evaluated for the treatment of patients with myelofibrosis.
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Time: 9:00 a.m. Eastern /6:00 a.m. Pacific /3:00 p.m. Central European time to 10:30 a.m. Eastern/7:30 a.m. Pacific/4:30 p.m. Central European time
Live webcast access: Go to www.celltherapeutics.com. The audio presentation with slides will be available approximately two hours after the end of the meeting.
About Pacritinib
Pacritinib is an oral, once-a-day, tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) with dual activity against JAK2 and FLT3. The JAK family of enzymes are a central component in signal transduction pathways, which are critical to normal blood cell growth and development as well as inflammatory cytokine expression and immune responses. Mutations in these kinases have been shown to be directly related to the development of a variety of blood related cancers including myeloproliferative neoplasms, leukemia and lymphoma. Pacritinib may offer an advantage over other JAK inhibitors through effective treatment of symptoms while having less treatment-emergent thrombocytopenia and anemia than has been seen in currently approved and in-development JAK inhibitors. Pacritinib has demonstrated encouraging results in Phase 1 and 2 studies for patients with myelofibrosis. Pacritinib has orphan drug designation in the U.S. and Europe.
About Cell Therapeutics, Inc.
Cell Therapeutics (Nasdaq and MTA: CTIC) is a biopharmaceutical company committed to the development and commercialization of an integrated portfolio of oncology products aimed at making cancer more treatable. CTI is headquartered in Seattle, WA. For additional information and to sign up for email alerts and get RSS feeds, please visit www.CellTherapeutics.com.
This press release includes forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties the outcome of which could materially and/or adversely affect actual future results and the market price of CTI's securities. Specifically, the risks and uncertainties that could affect the development of pacritinib include risks associated with preclinical and clinical developments in the biopharmaceutical industry in general, and with pacritinib in particular, including, without limitation, the potential failure of pacritinib to prove safe and effective for the treatment of patients with myelofibrosis, either alone or in combination regimens, as determined by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and/or the European Medicines Agency; that the PERSIST-1 clinical trial may not occur as planned; that pacritinib may not offer an advantage over other JAK inhibitors; that CTI may not be able to successfully implement its plans, strategies and objectives related to the development of pacritinib; CTI's ability to continue to raise capital as needed to fund its operations, competitive factors, technological developments, costs of developing, producing and selling CTI's product candidates; and the risk factors listed or described from time to time in CTI's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including, without limitation, CTI's most recent filings on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K. Except as may be required by law, CTI does not intend to update or alter its forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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Description and Background
Initially, my project was to take a LinkStation and outfit it so it can take night-time infrared still snapshots and even movie clips of whatever wanders by the animal feeders in our back yard. It morphed into something a bit more involved. Here's what it does:
- night-time & daylight snapshots and movies, triggered by motion detection
- daylight time-lapse movies of the feeding area
- records sounds at feeding area and backyard area
- optional selective sound detection/silence trimming
- webserver for Motion's control webif and minimal real-time-image webcam (LAN only)
- avahi (Bonjour) to advertise (to LAN) these two web services provided by Motion
- webserver for a gallery page (internet access for outside world)
- dyndns.org client for DNS to accomodate internet access of above item
- cron-based scheduling, rotation and cleanout of the image files
- optional USB wireless capability (so no ethernet cable is needed)
- optional weatherproof housing for components (it rains and snows out there)
In this form it could also be used for video/audio surveillance or keeping an eye/ear on whatever. The range with the basic IR-capable camera that is used is limited, so I'm working out how to improve that with some auxiliary lighting. Higher-performance IR/nightvision-capable cameras could offer a better experience, especially if this were implemented on a machine with a faster, more powerful processor.
What's with the name?
- First, Oskuro=oscuro= dark, in spanish. Yeah, "Oscuro" was the only word I could find that had any semantic connection with "dark" and also had either a "Kuro" or "Link" in it.
- Secondly, this project is not without inspiration from others: sylver had produced the SeKuroBox years back and I liked the catchy name and the great concept, but I wanted to take the idea another direction. I had grown up on a farm and hunted regularly, so I'm fascinated by animals (especially the wild ones). It is essentially an LS outfitted with a night-vision camera and motion detection software, a "Late-Night CritterCam" if you will.
- The daytime camera has an integrated USB microphone, so I decided to add in sound recording capability. That's the "Plus" part.
Why the LS2?
Of all the LS boxes that Buffalo built, the LS2 is perhaps the least endowed, most restricted. It has no FPU, and only one serial port (which is used by the microcontroller). Well, if this much can be done w/ this box, more could be done with other boxes. This project will work best on a NAS device that has enough CPU power to process both sound and video.
- LS2 (or any Linux box w/ USB support, FPU and stronger processor are better),
- up to 2 USB cameras (compatible w/ either the gspca or the uvc driver),
- one Logitech QuickCam for Notebooks (w/ integrated USB microphone),
- one ViMicro NightVision USB WebCam,
- optional USB wireless stick or use of a wireless ethernet bridge,
- optional motion activated lighting (this is a non-computer item),
- optional weatherproof box(s)/housing(s) for all items if outside,
- long enough ethernet cable and electrical extension cord (or optional other power source).
- basic foonas lsmipsel/LS2 image,
- gspca webcam module,
- Motion + dependencies,
- SoX for sound recording/detection and silence trimming (http://www.linuxplanet.org/blogs/?cat=813),
- various other webcam-ish apps & scripts/configurations.


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text: This outline to Dr. King's sermon "A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart" focuses on the premise that being a tough minded individual involves making critical decisions. The sermon emphasizes that those who possess a soft mind tend to be gullible and strictly follow the status quo. According to Dr. King, "We must come to the realization that life demands a tough mind."


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King in Exile
|King in Exile
Kendl and Carl Johnson try to talk Cesar Vialpando out of returning to Los Santos for revenge.
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|Angel Pine, Whetstone, San Andreas
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King in Exile is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, given to protagonist Carl Johnson by Varrios Los Aztecas leader Cesar Vialpando from a home in the trailer park in the town of Angel Pine in Whetstone, San Andreas.
Carl comes in a home, with Cesar and Kendl being there. They greet each other, with Cesar furious about what has happened in Los Santos. Cesar wants to go there to stop the drug dealing in his turf, but Carl and Kendl prevent him from doing so. While Carl tries to make Cesar relax, he reminds and explains to Carl that it is Big Smoke and the C.R.A.S.H. team behind this. Carl responds to Cesar that Big Smoke definitely did not do this, and it is all C.R.A.S.H.'s fault. Both Kendl and Cesar try to make Carl believe in this, but Carl decides to look out first, and tells the two to lay low.
Kendl Johnson: Hey Carl.
Carl Johnson: How you doin' sis?
Cesar Vialpando: This ain't over, man. I did this to take care of my woman. But now I'm gonna head straight back home, and I'm gonna cap me some fucking dope dealers!
Carl Johnson: Hey look, you go into the barrio with that big willy bullshit, and you gonna get shredded.
Kendl Johnson: And I ain't losing you over no macho bullshit!
(Cesar scoffs walking away)
Carl Johnson: Hey, relax, man. It's gonna get handled when it's time.
Cesar Vialpando: We already know who the fucking bad guys are, man, your stinking Grove Street brother Smoke, and those chota pigs Tenpenny and Pulaski! Smoke, he's a pusher, man.
Carl Johnson: No, no, not Smoke, he might mess with C.R.A.S.H., but he don't mess with no yay.
Kendl Johnson: Come on, CJ! How you think he got that new house, huh? Just let that Grove-for-life bullshit go and take a look around you.
Cesar Vialpando: Word on the street is twice a week, Smoke sends a car out to San Fierro, and the truck comes back full of white.
Carl Johnson: Shit. I gotta keep an eye on the highway to San Fierro. Maybe I'll see something. Just... Just lay low and I'll be back.
Post-mission phone call script
Carl Johnson: Hello?
Catalina: Where you been, asshole? Why don't you call, eh?
Carl Johnson: Well, I was just about to call you, but-
Catalina: LIAR! You've been hanging out with those stinking putas!
Carl Johnson: No! No, if you'd just let me-
Catalina: Silence! Get up here, we've got places to rob!
Carl Johnson: Look, I'm in the middle of some shit right-
There is no reward for this mission, but Catalina will call Carl, and after the call, the mission First Base is unlocked.
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But there's growing evidence there could be a vastly simpler solution - vitamin C.
Since the 1950s, the vitamin C-heart disease connection has been quietly bubbling away beneath the surface, but it could now be about to break through in an explosion of research. Indeed, this inexpensive vitamin appears to be central to the whole question of why we get heart disease - and then perhaps how to cure it.
The term 'heart disease' is a misnomer, as the problem is not so much the pumping organ itself, but the arteries that feed it. If these become narrowed, blood flow to the heart is restricted, making it malfunction. At best, it will cause pain (angina), at worst, a heart attack. The conventional medical view used to be that atherosclerosis (narrowing arteries) was an inevitable result of ageing, but that shoulder-shrugging attitude has now been replaced with finger-wagging. Today, coronary artery disease is considered to be almost wholly the fault of the sufferer's lifestyle - smoking, lack of exercise and, above all, a high fat diet.
The logic behind the 'fat causes atherosclerosis' theory is simple. Arteries become narrowed by deposits of cholesterol on their inner walls; fat contains cholesterol, ergo, fat causes atherosclerosis. The idea is so entrenched in the medical mind that the proposition is no longer a theory, but established fact.
But the theory is manifestly wrong.
Flawed fat findings
Ancel Keys is credited with first postulating the 'fat causes heart disease' thesis in the 1950s. In what is now referred to as the 'six countries study', he examined the fat intake of six countries - the populations of which led to a bias in his results - and allegedly demonstrated a clear correlation between mortality from coronary heart disease and fat consumption (J Mt Sinai Hosp NY, 1953; 20: 118-39).
In the later 'Seven Countries' study, Keys put the blame solely on saturated fats but, by then, his earlier conclusions had been firmly taken on board by government and embraced by industry, which could offer low-fat processed foods to prevent heart disease.
Industry has also ignored the evidence that saturated fats don't clog arteries (J Clin Epidemiol, 1998; 51: 443-60). In addition, the well-known Framingham study, which has followed a Massachusetts population for decades, has uncovered the precise reverse of the accepted theory: the greater the intake of saturated fat and cholesterol, the lower the blood cholesterol (Fallon S et al. Comments on the Report of the 2005 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. 27 September 2004).
Evidence from the animal kingdom is yet another reason to ditch the 'fat causes atherosclerosis' theory. Even though domestic animals eat a diet every bit as fat-laden as people, they don't get atherosclerosis - a fact well known to vets 50 years ago (Smith HA, Jones TC. Veterinary Pathology. Philadelphia: Lea &. Febiger, 1957).
Drs Rath and Pauling
It took 40 years for reason to emerge, when young unknown German doctor Matthias Rath joined forces with old, highly celebrated scientist Linus Pauling.
Rath was part of a group of researchers who had discovered that the major culprit in cholesterol was lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)], an especially 'sticky' molecule that incorporates itself into the collagen found in artery walls, thereby causing athero-sclerosis. Pauling and Rath's first breakthrough was to realise that atherosclerosis is not a disease, but possibly the body's way of repairing or bolstering weak or damaged arteries (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 1990; 87: 6204-7).


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Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is a major health problem worldwide with high morbidity & morality, unfortunately Sudan data is not published although generally health professionals complain that. The breast cancer is on the rise with high incidence, involment of younger age groups and aggressive tumors.
Breast cancer screening programs are well established in vast areas of developed countries & the rest of world but sadly we do not have an established national screening and program screening for:-
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We in AlMughtaribeen University want to lead the way in this field through guiding our community to teach them breast self examination as a means for early detection of breast cancer for better quality of life.


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Watch a wonderful video I´ve found:
Any idea on how to use this video? I thought of asking students to describe the scene to each other. Don´t you find it poetic?
October 30, 2007
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Creating online material with Windows MOVIE MAKER
This is a quiz I created for my basic students. Do you like music? Can you say the names of these singers or bands? Hope you like it.
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdUgTvkz0Wg
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This site had me baffled. It´s like virtually visiting a city and being able to choose where to go, go into certain shops, see what people were doing. It´s amazing. I never thought that would be possible. So far, there´s only one city , San Francisco, but there will be other american cities soon. Can you imagine once they start doing that with famous capitals in the world, and make it possible to visit famous landmarks without leaving your home? It´s really worth a visit.
http://www.blabberize.com/creation/playBlabber/418 click on the PINK button.
A great site where you can make talking pictures. This is my trial. I read it in Larry Ferlazzo´s blog that a French teacher had her students created a character to read their compositions. Isn´t it a great idea? Very cute!
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I´ve haven´t posted here for some time now. Well, let me tell you why. I´ve been involved in different projects and have been posting in class blogs. So now it´s the moment to share my work with you.
1st - The "Beautiful places in Brazil" Project: Students were invited to create powerpoint slides in which they had to describe a beautiful place in Brazil. They had to write in English and had to make a minimum of 4 slides. http://pi3blog.blogspot.com/
2nd - The Brazil - Portugal Project: Isabel Neves, a teacher in Portugal, invited me to have a joint blog where our Pre-Intermediate students could discuss common topics. At this point they are introducing each other in personal profiles. http://brazportblog.blogspot.com/
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Bryanna Clark Grogan's Vegan Feast Kitchen/ 21st Century Table: The kitchen journal of a vegan food writer.. I'm on Facebook and Twitter (see links in sidebar at right).
Monday, September 30, 2013
I love using beans-- not only is savory dishes, but in desserts and salad dressings, and anywhere else that they add texture, flavor, protein, fiber, creaminess, etc.. If the beans can stand in for eggs or fat or flour, that's even better.
So, the other day I finally got around to trying the basic flour-less chickpea chocolate chip cookies that are all over the internet. There are small variations in the recipe, but, basically, the mix is 1 1/4 cups drained cooked or canned chickpeas in a food processor with 1/2 cup + 2 T. natural peanut butter (or other nut or seed butter), 2 tsp. vanilla, 1/2 cup packed soft brown sugar (some people use 1/4 cup agave or maple syrup), 1 tsp. baking powder (some use less), and a pinch salt, processed until smooth and mixed with 1/2 cup chocolate chips.
We were impressed by the cookies, but thought the flavor was a little flat and they didn't spread out enough for my liking. So, today I started playing around with the recipe (can't help myself!) and here's what I came up with. It's still a simple recipe, but we like the flavor and texture better in this version.
Tips: Use natural peanut butter, not the sweetened, hydrogenated kind.
Make small cookies.
Let the cookies cool for several hours before serving (unless you like them a bit gooey!).
|Homemade soy milk with both cookie versions.
Use natural peanut butter, not the sweetened, hydrogenated kind.
Make small cookies.
Let the cookies cool for several hours before serving (unless you like them a bit gooey!).
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NOTE: you can make bars or squares instead of cookies with this batter, by spreading the batter out on ONE parchment-lined 13 x 10-inch baking pan (with rim, like a jelly-roll pan). Bake for 20 minutes and allow to cool thoroughly on a rack before cutting into bars or squares.
**You could also add homemade vegan Peanut Butter Baking Chunks, recipe at this post, instead of chocolate chips and/or nuts.**
6 comments:
- SpiceIsland Vegan said...
I didn't have time to make the original recipe of this flourless cookies last night. I am glad, I want to try your version instead.
- Tue Oct 01, 09:37:00 AM PDT
- SpiceIsland Vegan said...
I didn't have time to try the original recipe of this flourless cookie last night. I am glad, I want to try your version.
- Tue Oct 01, 09:38:00 AM PDT
Thank you again for this recipe Bryanna. I did go trawling the net but mostly found Omni versions. Yours is the first real vegan one that I found. These look scrumptious and as it is raining and blowing a gale outside, it might be biscuit baking time on Serendipity Farm :)
- Tue Oct 01, 12:20:00 PM PDT
- Jemma said...
Made these this afternoon - very delicious and forgiving of homemade peanut butter! Warm greetings from a reader in Beijing!
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- John Ocampos said...
I love sweets! but I was not able to enjoy eat since to be a Vegan. But I am so happy to find this recipe! I can now enjoy eating sweet foods which is gluten free! thank you.. I also follow one website which talks about vegan food and fitness, http://www.bodybyblasian.com/
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Impeachment of Federal Judges
Impeachment of Federal Judges
by David Barton
The Founders' intent for impeachment was to protect the fundamental principle of the consent of the governed. The Constitution carries no title but We the People, and impeachment removes from office those officials who ignore that standard. (Recall that the Constitution does not guarantee a federal judge his position for life, but only for the duration of good behavior. Art. III, Sec. 1)
For this reason impeachment was used whenever judges disregarded public interests, affronted the will of the people, or introduced arbitrary power by seizing the role of policy-maker. Previous generations used this tool far more frequently than today's generation; and because the grounds for impeachment were deliberately kept broad, articles of impeachment have described everything from drunkenness and profanity to judicial high-handedness and bribery as reasons for removal from the bench. (Sixty-one federal judges or Supreme Court Justices have been investigated for impeachment, of whom thirteen have been impeached and seven convicted.)
Today's judiciary, not having experienced any serious threat of impeachment as judges in earlier generations, repeatedly flaunts its contempt for the will of the people. It recently has overturned direct elections in Washington, New York, California, Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, etc., simply because it preferred a different outcome. This is not to suggest that the results of all citizen elections are final and infallible, for it is the duty of the Court to protect the Constitution. However, the above elections violated at most the judiciary's ideological leanings rather than any manifest provision of the Constitution (e.g., English as a State's official language, ending government assistance for illegal immigrants, enacting term-limits, prohibiting physician-assisted suicides).
Examples of Judicial Abuses
While most are aware of the 9th Circuit's recent decision that saying under God in the Pledge of Allegiance threatens our American form of government, there are numerous additional examples, some staggeringly unbelievable. For example, in Jane Doe v. Santa Fe, a federal judge ruled that graduation prayers must not include any mention of Jesus or other specific deities and that any student offering such a prayer would face immediate arrest and up to six months in jail. The judge threatened violators by saying they would wish they had died as a child once his court finished with them.
In a Texas county where conservatives narrowly won multiple seats in an election, a federal judge reversed that outcome by arbitrarily throwing out the 800 votes cast by U.S. military personnel, saying they had no right to vote in local elections.
A federal judge in Nashville reviews the verdict of any jury in Tennessee that awards the death penalty. This judge has openly declared his personal opposition to the death penalty and has set aside every jury decision on this issue, despite the Constitution's explicit language to the contrary. The judge even allows nine years to pass, on average, before overturning the jury's sentence, thus disregarding the Constitution's guarantee to a speedy trial.
After citizens in a statewide election voted down a proposed tax-increase in Missouri, a federal judge, in direct violation of Article I of the Constitution, unilaterally set aside the election results and instead decreed that the tax be levied in order to finance his own personal plan for education in the State. Interestingly, this judge's plan (which funded the Taj Majal of public education) proved to be a dismal failure - at the continuing economic expense of the entire State.
There are many other examples; today's judiciary is now so arrogant that the Supreme Court's own Justices have described it as a super board of education for every school district in the nation, as amateur psychologists on a psycho-journey, and as a national theology board.
The Supreme Court versus Congress
Even though the Constitution gave the lawmaking powers to the Congress, courts have become the predominant policy making body in the nation. In fact, on public tours of the Supreme Court, one often hears the ridiculous claim that this is the building from which all the laws in the land emanate. The Supreme Court, fully believing its own propaganda, regularly strikes down or rewrites the laws of Congress to conform to its own predilections and edicts.
For example, in 1993, Congress passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to correct an earlier Supreme Court decision that weakened a long-standing First Amendment protection for religious groups. That Congressional act reinstituted protection declaring that a government entity must not interfere with a religious body unless it had a compelling state interest for doing so. When a Catholic church in Boerne, Texas, sought to accommodate its burgeoning membership but was denied a building permit to expand its facilities, the church invoked relief under RFRA, claiming the city had no compelling state interest in denying the church expansion. The Court ruled otherwise, striking down Congress' attempt to protect religious bodies from government intrusion. While most decried this decision for weakening the rights of religious bodies, there was a far greater question at stake.
Congress invoked Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution in passing RFRA to protect religious freedoms from further governmental encroachment. Yet even though the Congress had acted on the power explicitly given it in the Constitution, the Court struck down the law, refusing to be corrected by Congress and warning that Congress should not attempt to correct a Court ruling. Significantly, Congress cited the Constitution as its authority for passing RFRA, but the Court did not cite the Constitution as its authority for striking RFRA down. The Court instead pointed to its own previous decisions, thus elevating its rulings higher than the Constitution itself. As it explained, Any suggestion that Congress has a substantive, non-remedial power under the Fourteenth Amendment is not supported by our case law. The Court then rebuked Congress, warning that its judicial edicts must be treated with the respect due them. In short, we the Court demand that you the Congress adhere to our opinions regardless of what the Constitution says.
Obviously, the Supreme Court considers both itself and its decisions supreme over Congress. However, the Constitution disagrees - it deliberately empowers Congress with greater power. For example, the Constitution gives Congress the authority to set the salaries for judges, determine the size of the Judiciary, establish the scope of the Judiciary's jurisdiction and the types of cases which come before it. Furthermore, judges cannot serve without the approval of Congress, and Congress may remove judges with whom it is dissatisfied. These are just some of the constitutional arms for Congress' powers of self-defense (Federalist 73, Alexander Hamilton).
The Constitution clearly places many of the operations of the Judiciary under the oversight of Congress - a power not granted reciprocally to the Judiciary. This is made clear in the Federalist Papers (described by James Madison as the most authentic exposition of the heart of the federal Constitution), which confirm that subjugating the Judiciary to Congress was deliberate and intentional. Federalist #51 declares:
The legislative authority necessarily predominates.
Federalist #78 then proclaims:
The Judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power.
Furthermore, Federalist #49 declares that Congress - not the Court - is the confidential guardians of [the people's] rights and liberties. Why? Because the Legislature - not the unelected judiciary - is closest to the people and most responsive to them. In fact, the Court's own history proves that it is not a proficient guardian of the people's rights. For example, after the Civil War, Congress passed civil rights laws forbidding segregation, but the Court struck down these laws and instead instituted separate but equal in Plessey v. Ferguson. (While the Court eventually ended this racial segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, that decision was merely the Court's reversal of its own segregation standard previously established in Plessey.)
Moreover, had it been up to the Court, slavery would have never ended: in 1857, the Court declared it unconstitutional for the other branches to end slavery or to free slaves. Fortunately, Congress ignored that decision by declaring freedom for slaves in 1862 and President Lincoln also ignored that decision by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. All substantive progress in civil rights after the Civil War was accomplished only after Congress used Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution to remove Reconstruction issues from the Court's reach. Indeed, history demonstrates that the Court is less than a faithful guardian of the people's rights, violating the people's liberties as often as it protects them. As Thomas Jefferson pointed out:
Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. . . . and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control.
Today, the Court claims that it is the only body capable of interpreting the Constitution - that Congress is incapable of determining constitutionality. However, the Founding Fathers vehemently disagreed. For example, James Madison declared:
[T]he meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by the Judicial authority.
Constitutional Convention delegate Luther Martin similarly attested:
A knowledge of mankind and of legislative affairs cannot be presumed to belong in a higher degree to the Judges than to the Legislature.
The Founders consistently opposed the Court being the final word on constitutionality. For example, Thomas Jefferson declared:
[T]o consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. . . . The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal.
He further explained that if the Court was left unchecked:
The Constitution . . . [would be] a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
Allowing the Court to enlarge its own sphere of power beyond what the Constitution authorizes, permitting the Court to usurp the powers of Congress, and tolerating the Courts' disregard of constitutional separation of powers moves America ever further from being a representative republic and ever closer toward the oligarchy against which Jefferson warned. The Court must be resisted in these attempts.
Impeachment: The Founders' Solution
As noted earlier, judges in previous generations who usurped powers from Congress or the people faced impeachment. But today's critics claim that the use of impeachment would either make the judiciary a political branch (as if it were not already a political branch) or that it would violate the independence of the judiciary. Yet, as Thomas Jefferson so accurately cautioned,
It should be remembered as an axiom of eternal truth in politics that whatever power . . . is independent is absolute also. . . . Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass.
No judge should ever be so independent that he is unaccountable to the Congress, and thereby the people. As Justice James Iredell (placed on the Court by President George Washington) so clearly explained:
Every government requires it [impeachment]. Every man ought to be amenable for his conduct.
Iredell further noted that some officials will behave themselves only under the very terror of punishment that impeachment provides. Recent events suggest he was right.
In 1996, six members of the Supreme Court voted to overturn the Colorado election forbidding special (rather than just equal) rights for homosexuals. Following that flagrant display of contempt for the will of Colorado voters, there was a national call for the impeachment of those six Justices. After this clamor for their removal, those same six Justices suddenly became ardent defenders of the people's elections and in a subsequent decision unexpectedly and unanimously chastised a lower court that had overturned a statewide election in Arizona. (Interestingly, Thomas Jefferson on multiple occasions called impeachment a scarecrow - something used to frighten predators - and the threat of impeachment certainly had that effect on the Supreme Court.)
Similarly, after a federal judge overturned a binding referendum by the voters of California (Proposition 209), national leaders called for the impeachment of that judge. Later, the 9th Circuit ordered the results of the election reinstated and criticized that judge for ignoring the will of the people. Yet, this same 9th Circuit Court had itself shortly before overturned at least three similar elections. Why the flip-flop? The scarecrow had been forcefully raised by Congress to make judges accountable for their decisions by returning to the original constitutional uses of impeachment.
It is true that impeachment is a cumbersome process, and achieving a conviction is difficult. However, on most occasions, just the threat of impeachment produces results. In fact, there are several examples of federal judges correcting their own decisions after hearing Congressional calls for their impeachment; and an actual impeachment sends an even more powerful message to all other wayward leaning judges.
Although Congress is ultimately responsible for the discipline of judges, far too many of our Congressmen (like far too many of our citizens) have no understanding of the proper use of impeachment. However, a wise political axiom declares that Congress sees the light when it feels the heat, and this is especially true on this issue. As citizens, we need to educate ourselves on the proper use of judicial impeachment, and then we need to educate our Representatives, reminding them of the need for judicial reform and alerting them to those judges showing a pattern of abuse. The time for encouraging judicial accountability is once again ripe. This is a golden opportunity for citizens to weigh in and make a difference.
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Mica's committee approved the measure (H.R. 690) by a voice vote.
Turning over the space just off the National Mall in Washington to the nearby gallery would allow the museum "to consolidate its multiple facilities, ensure that the necessary renovations for that building are funded by private donations and not taxpayer dollars, and maximize public use of this historic building," Mica said.
The move of some 700 FTC employees to create art exhibit space, he added, also would "strengthen the growing cultural vitality of this part of our nation's capital" while saving the gallery $137 million in renovation costs and $145 million in lease costs over 30 years.
Lawmakers did not dictate a site for FTC's new headquarters, but the bill and an accompanying resolution noted possible locations are Federal Building Number 8 in Southwest, 1800 F St. N.W., or any other Washington building GSA considers appropriate. The move would take place no later than the end of 2014.
On Wednesday, all five FTC commissioners came out against the plan. In a letter to the House panel, they said "a forced move of the FTC could impose additional costs on the American taxpayer from the need to replicate important functions of the FTC Building in a new building. As major examples, the FTC would have to build new courtrooms for conducting adjudications as well as replace its extensive information technology infrastructure, including infrastructure for tracking, investigating, and fighting online and offline fraud."
The commissioners warned of significant additional costs from the need for "finding new space for a federal agency that might be displaced by the FTC's move into a building that the other agency occupies or plans to occupy. And the taxpayers would still have to pay for the maintenance of the FTC Building," which the legislation proposes to rename National Gallery of Art-North.
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Here's the short version, as far as I can tell, and unless there are more details, it seems likely that this is going to get laughed out of court (hopefully with sanctions for filing an obviously bogus lawsuit). Basically, a guy (Theodore Schroeder) started a site you never heard of (called RendezVoo) in which people could "share their locations" (sounds like they should be suing FourSquare, not Pinterest). That site wasn't getting much traction, but they planned a version two, where people could "share opinions, views, items and tastes on a variety of subjects" like, well, pretty much any other site on the internet. This site included "boards" that people could post stuff too and also had "infinite scrolling" when an alpha was released in August of 2006.
Months later, Schroeder met Ben Cohen, an investor in startups in NYC, who apparently told them he didn't understand what they were trying to do with RendezVoo, but brainstormed up a totally unrelated and different concept, whereby startups could "launch" new products via a sort of wire service. Schroeder and his other partners (who continued to work day jobs) completely dumped their RendezVoo plans and worked out something new, called Skoopwire (originally Scoopwire, until they realized someone else had the domain). With this plan in hand, they signed up Cohen to be a partner, taking on the role of Chairman (and promising to put in a little bit of money). Over the course of a few months, not much appeared to happen, and after Cohen (quite reasonably) pointed out that it was silly for the other partners in the project to still be working day jobs rather than focusing on the project, it went dormant.
Months later, Cohen apparently met the founders of Pinterest and became their first investor. At the time, they were still figuring out what their product would be. This is where Schroeder and his lawyers take a massive logic leap in claiming that Cohen "stole" all of Schroeder's ideas and gave them to Pinterest's founders. This is based on... almost nothing of substance. The claims are basically that Pinterest has "infinite scrolling," that it has "boards" and that they used a "pink and purple color scheme to attract female users." Of course, none of that is even remotely "protectable." Those are basic ideas that are found all over the place.
Hell, a quick Google search shows that "infinite scroll" first showed up well over a year earlier, and at nearly the same exact time as Schroeder launched the new version of RendezVoo with infinite scroll, Microsoft's Live.com image search had the feature. In other words, "infinite scroll" -- especially for images -- was already popping up in a variety of places. It's ridiculous to think that Cohen -- who, again, insisted he didn't understand RendezVoo and told the team to build an entirely different product -- "stole" the idea and sat on it for a year and a half to give to some other entrepreneurs who somehow failed to see a ton of other sites using infinite scroll by that point. Similarly the idea of organizing a web page as a "board" was hardly new at this time, and let's not even bother discussing the idea of making a site "pink and purple."
Also, like pretty much every similar claim we've seen in the past, it involves someone completely overvaluing the idea and ignoring that it's the execution, not the idea, that matters in innovation. Pinterest isn't a success because of "boards" or "infinite scrolling" or "purple and pink" but because it built a great service that people like -- something Schroeder didn't do. Also, note that tons of Pinterest clones have popped up in the wake of Pinterest's success, but you don't see Pinterest suing, rather continuing to build out their product.
The whole thing seems like sour grapes from a failed entrepreneur because someone else succeeded with a totally different idea, and he saw a weak connection to use as the basis of a lawsuit.
Randomly, the AllThingsD article above notes one other oddity: Schroeder's lawyers insist that he's a "self-taught computer genius," but there aren't any records of him online. ATD's Liz Gannes couldn't find any trace of him on the web, which seems odd for someone who claims to be an internet entrepreneur and knowledgeable about what's new in social networking.


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My dissertation concerns the application of constraint-based reasoning to parametric engineering design (Murtagh 1991).1 It deals with the practical application of constraint networks, using automated reasoning to overcome some of the blind spots in conventional iterative design.
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