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In Martha's Baking Handbook the Swiss Meringue Buttercream calls for 4 eggs, same amount of butter and 3 sticks of butter. Has anyone tried either of these - which is the way to go?

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Toxic high poisons region Methamphetamine, cheap to make and easy to buy, destroys the lives of those it touches
Jonathan Martin, Mike Roarke and Angie Gaddy - Staff writers
Methamphetamine is everywhere.
Dealers peddling "poor man's cocaine" have police scrambling. Addicts fill jails and overwhelm treatment centers. Families are destroyed.
"It's a full-blown epidemic," said John Grasso, a deputy prosecutor in Spokane County. About 80 percent of his cases now involve meth.
Meth has surpassed crack cocaine and heroin as the Inland Northwest's drug of choice. High-quality meth is a white, crystal powder. Users eat, snort or smoke it or slam (inject) it into veins.
A high may last 12 hours. Addiction can last a lifetime.
Unlike cocaine, which is imported, at least half the local meth is cooked by amateur chemists using volatile ingredients from hardware and pharmacies.
Police discover meth labs in scattered homes, trailers, storage units,
Laundromats, cars and back yards. The labs are often filthy, dangerous places soaked with toxic chemicals and strewn with garbage and addicts' used needles.
Just six years ago, Idaho police busted only three labs statewide. Last year, 66 labs were found in Kootenai County alone. Nearly half the drug treatment in North Idaho goes for meth.
The number of Spokane County meth addicts treated in publicly funded clinics rose nearly 2,200 percent between 1993 and 1999, from 22 to 503. Waiting lists are weeks long and public funds dry up before many users can get help.
Addicts vent anger and paranoia. Burglary, robbery, domestic violence and other crimes are strongly linked to meth use, police say.
"Meth is so overtly dangerous. The violence added another element to it that we didn't see with other drugs," said Idaho State Police Capt. Wayne Longo.
And the drug exacts high social costs. Children are found in nearly half of Spokane's meth houses. After a bust, the kids are taken into protective custody and parents rarely get them back because they can't give up the drug.
Meth also scars the environment. Many labs have not been cleaned, leaving houses and apartments soaked with hazardous waste.
Idaho's oversight of meth lab cleanup is so lacking that renters and home buyers have no guarantee their next apartment or house is free of dangerous meth-making residue.
`Feel like a superperson'
Just one hit, and meth can take over a life.
It happened to Michelle, a 38-year-old from the Tri-Cities. She shunned alcohol and drugs until co-workers at Red Robin offered her a line of meth, she said.
You earn more tips, they said; it makes you faster and it feels great.
Michelle began logging double shifts and still had energy to scrub the floor behind her oven with a toothbrush late at night.
"You feel like a superperson," said Michelle, who asked that her last name not be used because she's pulling a drug-free life together. "The clarity. The euphoria. You feel so great, you don't see how your life is falling apart."
Hers did, in stages. Two drug rehab sessions followed: one in 1994, when her family intervened; another in 1998, after a drunken driving arrest.
Paranoia set in. She avoided public places.
Then last year, Michelle's 12-year-old son found a mirror, razor, straw and white powder in mom's sock drawer. Fresh from a DARE class, he asked, "Mom, are you a druggie?"
Michelle lost her job in November and had a miscarriage in January. A two-week binge on eight-balls of meth provoked a nervous breakdown. She tried suicide and entered a Tri-Cities mental ward.
She's now in a Spokane drug treatment clinic and hopes to reunite with her two boys later this year.
Edgy, angry users
Entering a meth user's world is as simple as slipping onto a bar stool, or a bench at Spokane's STA bus plaza.
Spotting a chronic user is alarmingly easy. They're edgy, angry, pale from lack of food and sleep, their arms and legs spotted with sores, teeth yellowed and splintering.
Counselors and users say addicts keep among their own. Meth cooks get into the business to feed their habit or their friends', selling a few ounces to keep money coming in.
Bartering is common. Police say Daniel Vail of Greenacres kept two thieves fueled with meth during a 1999 spree of burglaries. In exchange, Vail allegedly got stolen leaf blowers, weed eaters and a screwdriver set. He was arrested in February and charges are pending.
The average addict is white, at least 32 years old, and is as likely to be male as female. Many hold regular jobs, but the nucleus of the meth subculture is the poor, lured by the drug's low price and long, strong high.
Teens still prefer pot, but schools report a steady increase in meth use over the past two years. IV usage among teens, while rare, is growing.
A $25 hit of meth can give "spun monkeys" or "tweakers" -- junkies deep in addiction -- a high that keeps them awake for days.
Prolonged use can cause heart problems, kidney failure and permanent brain damage. Even two binges can scorch the pleasure center of the brain, causing lifelong depression. Thirty-year-old addicts look 60.
Counselors link meth to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Eastern State Hospital staff believe meth may be a reason for rising overcrowding.
The meth subculture is one of paranoia and weapons.
Neighbors complain about floodlights wired to motion detectors on the homes of meth addicts. Curtains are closed. Angry guard dogs are chained by the front door.
In July 1999, a woman opened fire on police from the roof of a Bonner County cabin. She was shot and killed. A man wired on drugs tried to flee by stealing a police car. Inside, police seized 50 gallons of meth-making chemicals and several pounds of the finished drug.
Pend Oreille County authorities in 1998 found a bomb-making factory and a gun tower decorated with lightning bolts and a swastika on property owned by meth makers.
Conspiracy theories abound among addicts.
"If someone buys a black car across the street, they're sure that the FBI is out to get them," said Sue Greenfelder, a Spokane chemical dependency counselor.
`There's so much out there'
Police struggle to keep pace with the epidemic.
Spokane city and county law enforcement agencies have started training officers to collect evidence from hazardous meth labs. They will no longer have to wait days for an overworked SWAT team to fly over from Olympia to bust a lab.
There were more arrests in Spokane County for meth during 1999 than for cocaine, crack and heroin combined. The trend is not slowing.
"There's so much meth out there," said Spokane Police Lt. Darrell Toombs. "The only thing that limits the number of arrests is manpower."
Meth is found through urine tests in nearly 20 percent of new Spokane County Jail inmates, more often than any hard drug, twice as often as heroin. Most meth-addled inmates are found with the drug in their pockets. They're arrested most often for burglary and robbery.
"In all the large-scale stolen property cases, meth has been at the center," said Det. Michael Ricketts of the Spokane County Sheriff's Office.
In Idaho, nine out of 10 drug cases handled by state police are meth-related. Officers rack up overtime on meth lab bust after bust, hoping to avoid being sickened by hazardous chemicals.
State police are adding officers in the five northern counties, but they concede they can't lock up everyone.
"We're not the answer to society's problems," Longo said. "Everybody has to take some ownership to it."
It's basic chemistry
Meth is easy to make - too easy, police say.
Recipes are found on the Internet and in the legendary underground Uncle Fester's cookbook.
Eighty bucks spent at a pharmacy and hardware store can buy ingredients for an ounce of meth worth up to $1,000.
Making meth is basic chemistry: plucking an oxygen-hydrogen group off and adding a hydrogen atom to ephedrine or pseudoephedrine - active ingredients in cold medications.
That's meth - a white powder more addictive than cocaine or heroin.
"This drug is a very jealous lover," Greenfelder said. "Think about leaving it, and it seems impossible."
Meth was carried north and east from California by biker gangs, truckers and migrant workers beginning in the late 1970s.
Police say half the meth used locally is imported, with Mexican gangs prominent in the trafficking.
Their labs are big - producing 10 pounds at a time. The meth is cut with vitamin B-12 to reduce purity and jack up profits, DEA officials say. Finished goods move through distribution networks originally built to carry cocaine.
Drug agents began to see "superlabs" in Oregon and Washington in 1998. Forty pounds of meth -- worth up to $400,000 -- had been manufactured at a site near Sunnyside, Wash., before it was raided in 1998, a State Patrol chemist said. That's a staggering volume for a drug sold in grams.
Cracking down on availability of meth-making chemicals has helped stanch the flow from superlabs, said Guy Hargreaves of the DEA meth monitoring project in Washington, D.C.
The other half of meth production - smaller operations known among users as "Beavis-and-Butt-head" cookers - more easily slip under police radar.
"It's a lot more difficult to fight small-time production," Hargreaves said.
A skilled small-time cook can produce drugs that are 85 percent pure. The drugs are often cooked and shared by a group of cohorts.
Nine manufacturing sites were discovered in Spokane County in 1998. Last year the count was 36; in just four months this year, it's 31. Statewide, the count has quadrupled since 1997.
North Idaho police raided 92 suspected meth labs last year - more than half the state's total in a five-county area with just 14 percent of Idaho's population.
In the woods and wheat fields
Social workers and police say meth's impact is worst in rural counties, where there are fewer resources to fight the epidemic. Prosecutors in Pend Oreille County said 17 of 18 criminal cases one week in April involved meth: dealing, manufacturing or stealing to buy more drugs.
Pend Oreille led Washington state in drug lab busts per 1,000 people in 1999, and is second this year, behind Ferry County.
"We've never had a rural epidemic," said Dr. Alex Stalcup of Concord, Calif., a national expert on meth.
In Shoshone County, where Idaho State Police busted 12 labs last year, the dockets are full of meth-related cases, Prosecutor John Cossel said. He and one deputy prosecutor handle those cases, and many others. There's no extra funding to help ease the burden.
"We're a poor county," Cossel said.
The wheat fields of the Palouse also are not beyond meth's reach.
Anhydrous ammonia -- a nitrogen-based fertilizer -- has become a key ingredient in meth-making. It's a popular target for thieves in wheat country.
Latah County Sheriff Jeff Crouch said small thefts of the fertilizer - three to five gallons - were reported two or three times each week last winter.
Burglars hit a chemical distribution plant, Wilbur-Ellis in Potlatch, so often that Crouch's deputies installed video cameras and started stakeouts. On March 22, deputies caught two Coeur d'Alene men with a scuba tank full of the fertilizer. They were armed with a sawed-off shotgun.
Victims and bystanders
As arrests pile up, so do the victims, many of them children.
Kids are found in nearly half of Spokane's busted meth labs, severely neglected, living in squalor, and their health in grave danger.
"There's a total lack of understanding (among addicts) of what can happen to their children when exposed to this," said Diana Cote-Smith, a supervisor with the Washington state child welfare department. "They lose the ability to interpret cause and effect."
Children's lungs are much more easily scarred than adults'. Social workers report severe bronchitis and lung problems in meth-lab children. Longer-term health effects are only now being researched.
Frustration is felt by neighbors as well. Harry and Elva Gloyn settled in Spirit Lake, Idaho, 17 years ago, after he fought off lung cancer. "We thought the air would be better for him up here," Elva said.
It was, until a meth lab moved in next door. Putrid fumes smelling like cat urine began wafting into Elva's bedroom, where she had been recuperating for months from knee surgery. "Oh, the headaches, terrible headaches," she said. Aspirin didn't help.
The fumes - and headaches - stopped when the neighbors went to jail. Only then did the Gloyns connect her pain to the smell.
"What's this stuff doing to me?" she said. "The public is so ignorant of this problem."
She's clean, but scared
Sara Griner understands the problem perfectly.
She began using meth at 15, and later cooked it. She quit a few times, but even after inpatient treatment, she couldn't stop using. Social workers took away her sons, 1 and 4, in September.
Now 22, Griner lives with a family in Cataldo, Idaho. She's been clean since December. She works a steady job, goes to church and sees her boys daily.
She wants to get her own place, but she's scared. The last time she lived on her own, a single thread tied her life together. It connected her friends, her hangouts and her habits.
It was everywhere. It was meth.
The world of methamphetamine speaks a language of its own. Here are some words and terms.
Using meth
Slamming: injecting meth. Produces the quickest high. Strong risk of disease from dirty needles.
Smoking: smoking crystalline meth, much like crack cocaine is smoked. Produces a fast high.
Snorting: inhaling meth, much like cocaine is snorted. The high is more gradual.
People who use meth
Tweaker, clucker, crankster, loker, sketchpad, skitzer, spinster, wigger.
Projer: a user who begins a lot of projects while high -- and often never finishes them.
Spun monkey: a user who has taken several successive hits of meth.
Crank queen, pass around, crank groupie: woman who sells herself to get meth.
Rec or spinner: recreational user.
High on meth
Jazzing, zipper, worked, woop chicken, twisted, spanked, pumped, pissed, ripped, lit, heated, gurped, gakked, "bob" (discombobulated), bachin.
A runner: a period of heavy meth usage. User may be continuously awake for several days.
The aftermath
Crash: the days after coming down off a runner. Users fall into a deep, almost comatose sleep.
Mattress drugs: depressants such as alcohol or marijuana, used when coming off a runner.
Making Meth
Biker or P2P method: the name for the first major method of illegally making meth, tied to outlaw motorcycle gangs. P2P refers to the chemistry of making meth, which was much more cumbersome and produced speed about half as potent as what is made today.
Nazi method: manufacturing meth with anhydrous ammonia and lithium batteries.
Red phosphorous method: relies on phosphorous from the striker plates from matchbooks or strikers for road flares and caustic chemicals such as lye and sulphuric acid.
The stuff
Amp, crank, crystal, white crunch, albino poo, bomb, brown goo, brown sugar, devil's dandruff, drano, gonzales (i.e. Speedy Gonzales), hippie crack, kryptonite, lost weekend, nazi dope, nose candy, peanut butter, redneck heroin, sparkle, talkie, dummy dust, tweak dust.
Smokable meth
Cristy, glass, hanyak, ice, L.A., quartz.
1919: Methamphetamine, a stimulant, is developed by a pharmacologist in Japan. The drug alleviates fatigue and produces feelings of alertness and well-being.
1930s: Doctors begin using meth in the United States to treat asthma and narcolepsy.
World War II: Methamphetamine is given to Allied bomber pilots to sustain them on long flights. The experiment fails because soldiers become irritable and can't channel their aggression. Meth reportedly is given to Japanese kamikaze pilots, and perhaps to Nazi troops during invasions of Poland and Russia.
1945-1950s: Post-war Japan experiences the first meth epidemic. It spreads to Guam, the U.S. Marshall Islands and to the U.S. West Coast.
1950s: Still marketed to treat obesity, narcolepsy and sinus inflammation, "pep pills" or "bennies" are sold for nonmedical purposes. Some truckers, homemakers, college students and athletes pop pills to stay awake or keep active.
1960s: Doctors in San Francisco drug clinics prescribe injections of meth to treat heroin addiction. Illegal abuse occurs in subcultures such as outlaw biker gangs, which cook and use the drug.
1970: Meth, or speed, is regulated in the Controlled Substances Act; a public education campaign is mounted.
1980s: Drug treatment counselors see increased abuse among gay men. Mexican drug manufacturers begin bringing meth north of the border.
Late 1980s: New ways to cook meth appear. Some new versions are four to six times stronger. Greatest use is seen in the Southwest and West.
1990s: Meth use begins and grows in the rural Midwest. Some migrant farm laborers working for drug dealers are suspected of bringing the drug into rural areas never hit by a drug epidemic before.
1996: Congress passes the Comprehensive Methamphetamine Control Act, which regulates mail order and chemical companies selling precursor chemicals. For example, people who buy large quantities of red phosphorous, iodine and hydrochloric gas must show they will use them for legitimate purposes. Law enforcement agents are allowed to track large mail order purchases of pseudoephedrine, another precursor chemical. Chemical supply companies are punished if they sell chemicals to people who make meth.
2000: In the Inland Northwest, and in much of the West, meth is the favored hard drug, surpassing crack, cocaine and heroin. It's still prescribed for some medical purposes.
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But that's not all Kuri has got for us: she's also spotted In God's Arms on Amazon.com. "So what?" you say. "One yaoi title. Who cares?" Ahh, but my friends-- In God Arms is the BL title licensed by Seven Seas in 2007 as the first title in Bee Line, their yaoi line which never came into fruition...perhaps until July 2009, when this volume is due out? Suffice it to say that my friends who used to run a yaoi blog and I have been after Seven Seas for ages to talk about what happened to this title, since it disappeared off of their site very quietly sometime back. Good to see it may still happen.
But wait, there's more! Yaoi Press' Yamila Abraham has sent out her upcoming annual wrap-up post to bloggers a bit early. She says that although the OEL BL publisher hasn't had any troubles this year, they're going to make sure to forestall any next year by putting out fewer releases with higher pagecounts, and they're also going to a higher print size to lower costs.
She offers a lot of really interesting talk about the state of anime conventions as affected by the economy, and also about things that are affecting all manga publishers in the US-- don't worry, I'll link to her post as soon as it's up so you can peruse it thoroughly –but she still notes that they'll be at as many or more cons in 2009.


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Pentagon restricts F-22 flights, safety a concern
Facing a mysterious safety problem with the Air Force's most-prized stealth fighter, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Tuesday ordered new flight restrictions on the F-22 and summoned help from Navy and NASA experts.
Air Force sends test pilots into cyberspace
The Air Force is sending its future test-pilots into cyberspace in recognition of the dangers cyberattacks can pose to the service's mission.
Welsh nominated for Air Force chief of staff
If confirmed, Welsh would succeed Gen. Norton Schwartz, who is retiring this summer. Welsh has flown more than than 3,400 hours. He completed multiple combat missions during Operation Desert Storm. And he's a 1976 graduate of the Air Force Academy.
General briefs committee on F-22 safety fixes
A top Air Force General outlined steps taken to make sure jet pilots don't black out. Two whistleblower pilots recently said the F-22 oxygen delivery system was faulty, causing a condition known as hypoxia.
Senate committee mulls F-35
The Senate Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Airland, which oversees issues related to the Army, Air Force and, Navy and Marine Corps tactical aviation programs, heard testimony this week on the F-35 Lightning II program.
Air Force whistleblowers to get protection
There will be no actions taken against two whistle-blower pilots who complained about problems with the F-22 fighter jet, including comments made during a recent "60 Minutes" television interview, the Air Force said Tuesday.
Air Force touts F-22 capabilities
Gen. Mike Hostage, who confirmed the F-22 has been deployed to Southwest Asia, touted the importance of the aircraft in future combat missions and said the highly publicized oxygen malfunctions has been addressed.
Air Force revamps online HR portal
The Air Force is re-branding its personnel services and human resources website. AFPERS will now be known as myPers and be modeled after the myPay model the Defense Department now uses.
Air Force hiring managers have 15 days to select civilian hires
Hiring managers at the Air Force have 15 days instead of 30 days to choose the best candidates to fill civilian vacancies.
Air Force Academy's cyber warriors take 2nd in national contest
Cyber warriors from the Air Force Academy's first dedicated cyber team swept through the country securing networks and taking names in April.
Air Force centralizes service functions in Texas
The Air Force is centralizing service functions in San Antonio, Texas.
Air Force offers early outs to 250 airmen
The deadline to apply is Monday for airmen eligible for the Temporary Early Retirement Authority.
Defense contractor settles complaint for $36.9M
Defense contractor ATK Launch Systems Inc. has agreed to pay $36.9 million in cash and services to settle a whistleblower's complaint alleging the Utah-based company sold the military dangerous and defective illumination flares, the U.S. Justice Department announced Monday.
Educating students about war
Veterans National Education Program Co-founders Andrea Hooper and Bob McMahon talk about the organization's vision and mission.
April 20, 2012(Encore presentation June 8, 2012)
Air Force 'appalled' by $1B IT system that produced few capabilities
The Air Force's comptroller poured $1 billion into a new enterprise resource planning system with virtually nothing to show for it after seven years. The service is restricting the ERP with details to come in the next few weeks.
Air Force's cyber commander calls for 'full-spectrum' defense of networks
Speaking at the National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colo., the Air Force's top cyber commander, Maj. Gen. Suzanne Vautrinot, stressed the importance of offense, defense and exploitation when forming cybersecurity strategy.
To avoid involuntary separations, Air Force to allow employees to fill buyout-created vacancies
As part of its third round of buyouts and early outs, the Air Force is allowing workers who may see their position go away be transferred to a buyout-created position.
Air Force pushes airmen to conserve energy
The Defense Department may be the single largest energy consumer on the planet, but it can be the greatest energy conserver, too. That's according to a new Air Force in a new video called "The Five Things Every Airman Should Know About Energy."
Air Force lifts suspension on Booz Allen's San Antonio office
The Air Force lifted a suspension on Booz Allen Hamilton's office in San Antonio, Texas, after Booz Allen took responsibility for the improper disclosure of sensitive information on a pending contract.
White House touts success of agency 'challenges'
Increasingly, agencies are using a tool at their disposal. Instead of issuing RFP's, they're issuing challenges. And according to a new report from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, agencies that have jumped on the challenge bandwagon have begun to "reap the rewards of well-designed prizes integrated into a broader innovation strategy."


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lostdecade commented on the diary post 1,224 Reasons To Pass New Gun Safety Bill by spocko.
Good point- the Thomas fiasco. This guy had the lowest ABA rating ever given to potential SCOTUS judges; he still got crammed down our throats by Biden, Danforth and the rest.
yeah, they are really listening to us.
lostdecade commented on the diary post 1,224 Reasons To Pass New Gun Safety Bill by spocko.
def. of malarkey: "Exaggerated or foolish talk, usually intended to deceive". While much of the talk/excuse making from the NRA and the RKBA crowd is exaggerated and foolish, not all of it is about deception. The claim regarding millions of guns is true; around 300 million guns now owned by our people. Any ban which may be [...]
lostdecade commented on the blog post The End Of Sarah Palin As We Never Wanted To Know Her
It would be sort of hilarious if Palin ended up trying to get her old job back; governor of Alaska. She'll no doubt devise a "clever" excuse at to why she quit the job in the first place.


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- 4043-byte 8086 Emulator — manages to implement most of the hardware in a 1980's era IBM-PC using a few hundred fewer bits than the total number of transistors used to implement the original 8086 CPU. Entry in the obfuscated C contest.
- Hacking the CES Scavenger Hunt — At which point—now you have your own iBeacon hardware—you can just go ahead and set the UUID, Major and Minor numbers of your beacon to each of the CES scavenger hunt beacon identities in turn, and then bring your beacon into range of your cell phone running which should be running the CES mobile app. Once you've shown the app all of the beacons, you'll have "finished" the scavenger hunt and can claim your prize. Of course doing that isn't legal. It's called fraud and will probably land you in serious trouble. iBeacons have great possibilities, but with great possibilities come easy hacks when they're misused.
- Filtering: Seven Principles — JP Rangaswami laying down some basic principles on which filters should be built. 1. Filters should be built such that they are selectable by subscriber, not publisher. I think the basic is: 0: Customers should be able to run their own filters across the information you're showing them.
- Tremor-Correcting Steadicam — brilliant use of technology. Sensors + microcontrollers + actuators = a genuinely better life. Beats figuring out better algorithms to pimp eyeballs to Brands You Love. (via BoingBoing)
"sensors" entries
Improve Mobile UX with iBeacons
Enable indoor location services with Bluetooth Low Energy alerts
In the last couple of months, iBeacon is making a lot of noise. iBeacons are small wireless sensors placed inside any physical space that transmit data to your phone using Bluetooth Low Energy (also known as Bluetooth 4.0 and Bluetooth Smart). Using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), iBeacon opens up new opportunities by creating a beacon around regions so your app can be alerted when users enter them. Apple quietly rolled out the iBeacons framework as part of iOS 7, but lots of iBeacon manufacturers (Estimote, Roximity Beacons, Adomalay, Kontact etc.) are already emerging. It is going to play an important role in several areas.
Four short links: 6 January 2014
Tiny Emulator, iBeacon iPwn, Filter Principles, and Steadicam
Four short links: 1 January 2014
3D Motion Tracking, Linux of Things, Techno Panics, and Great CS Papers
- Witrack — tracks the 3D motion of a user from the radio signals reflected off her body. It works even if the person is occluded from the WiTrack device or in a different room. WiTrack does not require the user to carry any wireless device, yet its accuracy exceeds current RF localization systems, which require the user to hold a transceiver. It transmits wireless signals whose power is 100 times smaller than Wi-Fi and 1000 times smaller than cellphone transmissions.
- A Linux Christmas — Linux drives pretty much all of Amazon's top-selling consumer electronics.
- Techno Panic Timeline — chart from Exposing the War on Fun showing the fears of technology from 1493 to the modern day.
- Best Paper Awards in CS Since 1996 (Jeff Huang) — fantastic resource for your holiday reading.
Four short links: 20 December 2013
History of the Future, Managing without Managers, Intellectual Ventures, and Quantified Cigarette
- A History of the Future in 100 Objects — is out! It's design fiction, describing the future of technology in faux Wired-like product writeups. Amazon already beating the timeline.
- Projects and Priorities Without Managers (Ryan Carson) — love what he's doing with Treehouse. Very Googley. The more I read about these low-touch systems, the more obviously important self-reporting is. It is vital that everyone posts daily updates on what they're working on or this whole idea will fall down.
- Intellectual Ventures Patent Collection — astonishing collection, ready to be sliced and diced in Cambia's Lens tool. See the accompanying blog post for charts, graphs, and explanation of where the data came from.
- Smokio Electronic Cigarette — the quantified cigarette (not yet announced) for measuring your (electronic) cigarette consumption and uploading the data (natch) to your smartphone. Soon your cigarette will have an IPv6 address, a bluetooth connection, and firmware to be pwned.
Wearable computing and automation
The Jawbone UP shows the promise available in all kinds of wearable sensors.
In a recent conversation, I described my phone as "everything that Compaq marketing promised the iPAQ was going to be." It was the first device I really carried around and used as an extension of my normal computing activities. Of course, everything I did on the iPAQ can be done much more easily on a smartphone these days, so my iPAQ sits in a closet, hoping that one day I might notice and run Linux on it.
In the decade and a half since the iPAQ hit the market, battery capacity has improved and power consumption has gone down for many types of computing devices. In the Wi-Fi arena, we've turned phones into sensors to track motion throughout public spaces, and, in essence, "outsourced" the sensor to individual customers.
Phones, however, are relatively large devices, and the I/O capabilities of the phone aren't needed in most sensor operations. A smartphone today can measure motion and acceleration, and even position through GPS. However, in many cases, display isn't needed on the sensor itself, and the data to be collected might need another type of sensor. Many inexpensive sensors are available today to measure temperature, humidity, or even air quality. By moving the I/O from the sensor itself onto a centralized device, the battery power can be devoted almost entirely to collecting data. Read more…
Software, hardware, everywhere
Software and hardware are moving together, and the combined result is a new medium.
An updated version of this essay was published in December 2014.
Real and virtual are crashing together. On one side is hardware that acts like software: IP-addressable, controllable with JavaScript APIs, able to be stitched into loosely-coupled systems—the mashups of a new era. On the other is software that's newly capable of dealing with the complex subtleties of the physical world—ingesting huge amounts of data, learning from it, and making decisions in real time.
The result is an entirely new medium that's just beginning to emerge. We can see it in Ars Electronica Futurelab's Spaxels, which use drones to render a three-dimensional pixel field; in Baxter, which layers emotive software onto an industrial robot so that anyone can operate it safely and efficiently; in OpenXC, which gives even hobbyist-level programmers access to the software in their cars; in SmartThings, which ties Web services to light switches.
The new medium is something broader than terms like "Internet of Things," "Industrial Internet," or "connected devices" suggest. It's an entirely new discipline that's being built by software developers, roboticists, manufacturers, hardware engineers, artists, and designers. Read more…
Ginger.io: Putting the Patient-Provider connection at the center
A tool for outreach to patients produces unexpected benefits
This posting was written by guest author Julia Bernstein of Ginger.io. Ginger.io's CEO Anmol Madan will be speaking on this topic at Strata Rx.
The traditional, office-based model for health care is episodic. The provider-patient relationship exists almost completely within the walls of the exam room, with little or no follow-up between visits. Data is primarily episodic as well, based on blood pressure reading done at a specific time or surveys administered there and then, with little collected out of the office. And even the existing data collection tools—paper diaries or clunky meters—are focused more on storing data that on connecting the patient and provider through that data in real time.
There is no way to get in touch when, for instance, a patient's blood sugar starts varying wildly or pain levels change. The provider often depends on the patient reaching out to them. And even when a provider does put into place an outreach protocol, it is usually very crude, based on a general approach to managing a population as opposed to an understanding of a patient. The end result is a system that, while doing its best within a difficult setting, is by default reactive instead of proactive.
The Role of Big Data in Personalizing the Healthcare Experience: Mobile
Sensors, games, and social networking all create change in health and fitness
This article was written with Ellen M. Martin and Tobi Skotnes. Dr. Feldman will deliver a webinar on this topic on September 18 and will speak about it at the Strata Rx conference.
Cheaper, faster, better technology is enabling nearly one in four people around the world to connect with each other anytime, anywhere, as online social networks have changed the way we live, work and play. In healthcare, the data generated by mobile phones and sensors can give us new information about ourselves, extend the reach of our healers and help to accelerate a societal shift towards greater personal engagement in healthcare.
Hot Swap Devices and Increase Arduino Interface Options with I2C
Don't be afraid of the bus
After a short period of time, beginners working with the Arduino development boards often find themselves wanting to work with a greater range of input or sensor devices—such as real-time clocks, temperature sensors, or digital potentiometers.
However each of these can often require connection by one of the two digital data buses, known as SPI and I2C. After searching around the Internet, inexperienced users may become confused about the bus type and how to send and receive data with them, then give up.
This is a shame as such interfaces are quite simple to use and can be easily understood with the right explanation. For example let's consider the I2C bus. It's a simple serial data link that allows a master device (such as the Arduino) to communicate with one or more slave devices (such as port expanders, temperature sensors, EEPROMs, real-time clocks, and more).
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Context Aware Programming
I'm increasingly realizing that many of my gripes about applications these days are triggered by their failure to understand my context in the way that they can and should. For example:
- Unruly apps on my Android phone, like gmail or twitter, update messages in the background as soon as I wake up my phone, slowing the phone to a crawl and making me wait to get to the app I really want. This is particularly irritating when I'm trying to place a phone call or write a text, but it can get in the way in the most surprising places. (It's not clear to me if this is the application writers' fault, or due to a fundamental flaw in the Android OS.)
- Accuweather for Android, otherwise a great app, lets you set up multiple locations, which seems like it would be very handy for frequent travelers, but it inexplicably defaults to whichever location you set up first, regardless of where you are. Not only does it ignore the location sensor in the phone, it doesn't even bother to remember the last location I chose.
- The WMATA app (Washington Metro transit app) I just downloaded lets you specify and save up to twelve bus stops for which it will report next bus arrival times. Why on earth doesn't it just detect what bus stop you are actually standing at?
- And it's not just mobile apps. Tweetdeck for Mac lets you schedule tweets for later in the day or on future dates, yet it defaults to the date that you last used the feature rather than today's date! How frustrating is it to set the time of the tweet for the afternoon, only to be told "Cannot schedule a tweet for the past", because you didn't manually update the date to today!
In each of these cases, programmers seemingly have failed to understand that devices have senses, and that consulting those senses is the first step in making the application more intelligent. It's as if a human, on awaking, blundered down to breakfast without opening his or her eyes!
By contrast, consider how some modern apps have used context awareness to create brilliant, transformative user experiences:
- Uber, recognizing both where you are and where the nearest driver is, gives you an estimated time of pickup, connects the two of you, and lets you track progress towards that pickup.
- Square Register notices anyone running Square Wallet entering the store, and pops up their name, face, and stored payment credentials on the register, creating a delightful in-store checkout experience.
- Apps like FourSquare and Yelp are like an augmentation that adds GPS as a human sixth sense, letting you find restaurants and other attractions nearby. Google Maps does all that and more. (Even Google Maps sometimes loses the plot, though. For example, yesterday afternoon, I was on my way to Mount Vernon. Despite the fact that I was in Virginia, a search unadorned with the state name gave me as a first result Mount Vernon WA, rather than Mount Vernon VA. I've never understood how an app that can, and does, suggest the correct street name nearby before I've finished typing the building number can sometimes go so wrong.)
- Google Now, while still a work in progress, does an ambitious job of intuiting things you might want to know about your environment. It understands your schedule, your location, the weather, the time, and things you have asked Google to remember on your behalf. It sometimes suggests things that you don't care about, but I'd far rather than than an idiot application that requires me to use keystrokes or screen taps to tell the app things that my phone already knows.
Just as the switch from the command line to the GUI required new UI skills and sensibilities, mobile and sensor-based programming creates new opportunities to innovate, to surprise and delight the user, or, in failing to use the new capabilities, the opportunity to create frustration and anger. The bar has been raised. Developers who fail to embrace context-aware programming will eventually be left behind.


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This product is like a thicker version of Cetaphil, but with essential oils added. If you are allergic to essential oils like lavender oil, I would avoid this product like the plague.
If, however, you have the $50-odd dollars (CDN) to spend on a full-size bottle, and you do not have allergies to essential oils, feel free to try this cleanser. It won't hurt your skin, but it won't really give you massive results. I feel that I've gotten the same results as when I've used Cetaphil. For me, this product cleans without stripping and leaves my skin soft... the same as the Cetaphil did. The main difference is the cost, and it is for this reason that I won't be purchasing again.
I thought this cleanser was nothing special when I got it as part of the calming kit from Dermalogicia. I used it and I like the consistency. I love the slight lavender smell and it doesn't burn my rosacea skin.
After three weeks I am still using it and enjoying it every morning and night. I really like it - even though I don't think it is as amazing as the other products from Dermalogica.
I've been a huge fan of Dermalogica for about 7 years now. Starting as a teenager, the Dermal Clay Cleanser solved all my breakout problems, and for about 3 years now the Special Cleansing gel have served me and my dry/sensitive/acne prone skin very very well. UNTIL about a few months ago when my skin started to become itchy and very dry. It became even worse and I had to put on moisturizer lots of times during the day because my skin was full of dry spots (I even use the intensive moisture balance). So when my bottle of Special Cleansing gel was empty I decided to try this Ultra Calming cleanser and the first days I felt so happy because my skin was silky smooth and not itchy and all my dry spots disappeared. BUT after about a week my cheeks, chin and forehead was covered in small bumps and my skin was really oily. Now I don't know what to do, and I feel like I'm dealing with my high school breakouts all over again... My skin have not looked like this for years. I'm so sad. I don't know, but I think this is GOODBYE DERMALOGICA.
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I live with this by my side! Prior to using Dermalogica I had incredibly painful red patches around my nose and mouth! My dermatologist advised I use products specifically for sensitive skin so I gave the ultracalming line a try! I would never ever try any other facial cleanser again after trying this, it's perfect! My face feels clean without feeling tight or dehydrated like with many cleansers and my rash has really calmed down and regularly isn't visible at all!
Have used cetaphil 2+ years but so glad I made the switch to this cleanser despite some awful reviews. Here's a short description of my skin (ignore if you want):
I have very sensitive skin which is prone to redness and enlarged/clogged pores on my nose, upper forehead (occasionally), and little irritated bumps on my jawline which aren't very noticeable (except the redness which they cause brings attention to them). My skin is dry combo so I have flaky patches but my t-zone can get very oily.
The cleanser doesn't irritate my skin AT ALL which is great. Cetaphil was nice but either left a film behind, or made my skin feel tight, but my skin feels soft after using dermalogica and not like I need to smack on some moisturizer asap or my skin is going to fall off. It has quite a strong scent which either smells very chemically or very herbal I can't really tell, but I'm assuming it's just a natural scent from the various extracts they used rather than a fragrance because of how unpleasant it is. The "natural" ingredients are probably irritating to very sensitive skin, but they don't really bother mine (only creams with those ingredients do). The product itself is sort of like a hybrid gel-cream, and you can apparently tissue it off, but I can't imagine that being a nice experience. I did notice two small pimples soon after starting to use it, but I found out it was because I stopped using my epiduo when I bought this. It's been a little over a month and I really like it so far :) might repurchase, but probably not because I'll probably want to try something new.
pros: no irritation, no tightness/film after cleansing, improves texture of skin over time
cons: PRICE $$$$$, fragrance, "natural" extracts
It saves my face with mild, sensitive ingredients.
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Nope, not a fan. The price was ridiculous for a cleanser that did not work. It was like putting a quarter sized glob on my face and thinking it was going to do something. I just didn't feel like it was actually cleaning my face. Save your money and use Cerave hydrating cleanser for 1/3 of the price. Both myself and my17 year old daughter are using it with great results.
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Recently I got a whole bunch of skincare samples allegedly being great for my dry, sensitive Rosacean skin. I also got a sample of this cleanser and after reading the ingredients list (which I always do prior to using any new product because of my sensitive Rosacean skin) I immediately tossed it. This so-called "ultra-calming" cleanser contains several potentially irritating & Rosacea-triggering fragrant plant extracts. Be careful if you have sensitive or Rosacean skin!
I do chemical peels in my treatment room at the spa where I work; and this cleaner is the only product I use to neutralize the chemical peels. I love this cleanser. It is also the first product I use when I treat rosacea and other reactive skin. It is a lifesaver. Why I stopped using it at night on my own skin remains a mystery. I love this stuff. The salon size is pricey, and at the end of the bottle the pump doesn't reach; but the contents in the package rock!!!
My search for the perfect cleanser ends here. I have normal to dry skin, mostly dry if I'm not careful with which products I use. I have experimented with many different products to find the correct cleanser, toner, exfoliant and moisturiser that suits my skin. I also don't believe all products need to be from the same skincare line. I found all my HG products EXCEPT a good cleanser. Finding the right balance of something that cleans your face but is not stripping is difficult. Gel cleansers usually clean very well but leave my skin VERY dry! Always need to follow with tons of moisturiser! Cream cleansers can leave residue or feel oily or just doesn't clean properly!
Enter this little baby! Its consistency is somewhere between a gel and cream. It feels silky smooth and glides on the skin. Feels very luxurious and is a treat to use. It does not lather but still is very spreadable and therefore a lot of product is not needed. It cleans very well and moisturises. Great for winter and summer. Not sure how this would remove makeup on its own because I use precleanse before hand to dissolve makeup and I'm very happy with that combination.
My only criticism is the packaging. The hard plastic makes it difficult to squeeze at times but the bigger bottle (more expensive) has a pump dispenser which I think is perfect. Smaller bottle should come with one too! Despite this, I will buy again!
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