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Spaghetti and meatballs is a recipe that one just doesn't associate with chicken. Red meats dominate this simple Italian dish, with their hearty flavor and moist, fatty texture. I'd never thought swapping in chicken meat could provide an agreeable alternative—until this week. As I found out, chicken is not only a wonderful alternative, but its lighter characteristics succeed at elevating a simple, rustic dish like spaghetti and meatballs into something a bit more refined.
But that isn't to say that chicken is without problems. By swapping in chicken, you sacrifice both flavor and texture. Chicken is vey mild compared to beef, and because it's more lean, chicken meatballs tends to be dry. Packing ground chicken into meatballs can also result in a pasty texture. I decided to tackle both of these problems (and give myself an excuse to eat a ton of meatballs) by mixing up a few batches of meatballs using a favorite beef meatball recipe and frying up some rounds of meatball tests.
Pack it with Panade
Don't ever hand me a burger with a panade (just tell me it's meatloaf and I'll be just fine). Panade is a mixture of bread and liquid (usually water, milk, or broth) that moistens meatloaf and meatballs, and keeps them from falling apart. Often, an egg is tossed in as well. This was an easy test, as the panade-less packed balls of chicken meat came out as expected: hard, dry and pasty. A panaded chicken meatball is a happy meatball—pleasantly soft and tender. And since the chicken is mild anyway, the panade really doesn't water down the flavor as it can do with beef.
Going for the Gelatin
Ever since we started sprinkling gelatin into meat dishes like stews at Cook's Illustrated, I pull out this kitchen trick whenever I can. Used sparingly, gelatin boosts the slick mouthfeel of collagen, a protein found in connective tissue. When slowly cooked, the collagen melts into a velvety texture. In chicken meatballs, a few teaspoons of melted gelatin stirred into the mix works to mimic the gelatin-y, lubricating texture that you get from the extra cartilage in red meats. Combined with the panade, the gelatin helps to shape up ground chicken into an incredibly tender and moist texture.
To Brown or Not to Brown
Whether on the stovetop or in the oven, I've always browned my meatballs before cooking them in sauce. Especially with chicken's milder flavor, I naturally assumed that the crispy browned caramelization would improve the flavor. After wrestling with a splattering batch of soft meatballs sticking to the skillet, I dropped the remaining raw meatballs into the bubbling tomato sauce. Surprisingly, the un-browned meatballs were even more tender and flavorful. Browning dries out the outer shell of the meatball, making it tough and unable to soak up adequate flavor from the sauce. Plus, unlike beef, which can become softer and more flavorful after a long cook in the sauce, chicken meatballs are best with a brief, gentle cook. For optimum texture, simmer gently just until cooked through (160°F).
When working with chicken, I often try to beat it into submission when substituting it into a dish normally associated with beef. I flavor the heck out of it with everything umami in an attempt to turn it into a mock red meat. This time I allowed the chicken to just hang out and be mellow. Fresh aromatic herbs of parsley and basil, along with a handful of Parmesan, are all that's needed here. For the sauce, a thick, all-day simmered pot would simply overwhelm the chicken. Instead, a quickly cooked sauce with chopped basil keeps the whole dish lighter and fresher. Chicken meatballs are a surprisingly delicious variation on the old classic.


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Linda Castor: Healing yourself the best way to overcome hurt
A friend of mine, who is going through a painful break-up, came over for dinner and much-needed consolation.
As he spoke about dating another woman, my immediate, knee-jerk response was that she could help him heal his broken heart. To that, my friend, in the most profound, joyful and even childlike way, responded, "No. I want to heal my own heart."
The way he said it nearly blew me over in my chair. In that moment, I was reminded that it is truly our own journey — our responsibility — to create peace within ourselves. And it is a conscious choice: Will we ultimately become our own best friend, or will we continue to neglect ourselves and live out our own worst nightmare?
If we learn to love ourselves fully, then we are less likely to judge, abandon or loathe ourselves. Best of all, we will be strong enough to stand up to anyone who attempts to treat us that way.
A partnership
We have been taught that we need someone else to heal our own heart, but that is only partially true. I do believe that we need each other, but movies and music send intensified messages that we must have someone else involved to reconcile our pain. Dialogues, such as "You complete me" or "I am nothing without you" suggest that another human alone will heal us.
As a marriage counselor, I find I am drawn to teaching two people how to love each other by receiving the best they can give in one another. And this is not necessarily a bad thing: People in trusting relationships can bring out the best and worst in each other. Pain is invited to come to the surface, yet the intimate process of healing is shared in a safe, therapeutic environment.
While it is our responsibility to do the work necessary to overcome hurts and wounds from our past, it becomes less of a task and more of a reward when we courageously view ourselves in the reflected mirror of a trusted friend or loved one. The caveat is that this person also could show us hurtful images. Because they are human, with their own issues, people will make mistakes. And that is where the "self" comes back into the picture.
Creative outlet
Like the ideal parent, you can console yourself and validate your experience. If you love yourself, you will do this. If you don't, then you will turn to food or other vices for comfort. Learn to retreat into your true self. Nurture and invigorate your spirit with a creative outlet that reflects your mirror, such as writing or singing. Doing this can replenish your soul after a loved one has unwittingly triggered a hurt inside of you.
Linda Castor, RN, LCPC, is a nurse and psychotherapist at Clocktower Therapy Center who treats eating disorders and other mental-health issues and teaches healthy living. She can be reached at www.LindaCastor.com.

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Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament of 23 October 2007 on the role of Eurojust and the European Judicial Network in the fight against organised crime and terrorism in the European Union [COM(2007) 644 final – Not published in the Official Journal].
Eurojust has strengthened law enforcement cooperation between Member States and achieved significant operational success. The transposition of Decision 2002/187/JHA is on balance a qualified success. To develop Eurojust more effectively, the powers of its members (known as national members) and those of the College, formed by the assembly of national members, need to be clarified and reinforced.
The Commission calls for an amendment to the Decision establishing Eurojust in order to enable the agency to develop its potential for cooperation and to establish itself as a vital player in the fight against organised crime and terrorism in Europe.
Granting wider powers to the national members
The statute and competences of each national member are defined by the Member State which appoints them. This situation leads to a lack of consistency between the powers of the different national members and makes it difficult at present to achieve fully effective cooperation. Furthermore, Member States do not confer real authority on them. Therefore, only a few national members may negotiate setting up joint investigation teams and use their law enforcement powers in their home country.
For greater stability and effectiveness, the Member States should take measures to spell out the powers of the national members and the college and define a shared base of minimum powers.
To increase Eurojust's operational capacity, Member States are called upon to send their information to Eurojust more quickly, and also to reinforce their national offices. They will also make use of the services of national experts.
Possible amendments to increase the powers of the national members
The Commission suggests the Decision by proposing that the national members can:
- accept and forward requests from national authorities and ensure that they are properly followed up;
- receive judgments from national authorities in cases of money laundering, organised crime, terrorism and human trafficking;
- forward this information to the national member of a Member State which is not informed but which is involved;
- be informed of the setting up of a Joint Investigation Team and suggest investigative measures;
- request further follow-up measures and additional investigations from the authority concerned;
- be informed about the organisation of a controlled delivery, an infiltration or an undercover investigation and have responsibility for monitoring it;
- be appointed for a term of at least three years;
- have deputies to ensure regular representation.
In the longer term, the Commission will examine how to reinforce the powers of the national members in the initiation of criminal cases prejudicial to the financial interests of the European Union (EU).
Granting wider powers to the college
The College has the same powers as the national members. Although the College rules on conflicts of jurisdiction and on competing arrest warrants, its decisions are not binding on the Member States. Its powers should be widened and its role as mediator in resolving conflicts between Member States strengthened. The latter in fact refer to the College only to obtain information on the steps to be taken where disagreements arise.
The Commission undertakes to consider the conditions on which the College will be able to:
- settle conflicts between Member States;
- launch inquiries in a Member State and propose prosecution;
- play a role in specific investigation measures;
- initiate criminal inquiries at European level.
Relations between Eurojust, the European Judicial Network and the liaison magistrates
The European Judicial Network (EJN) facilitates judicial cooperation between Member States, in particular through its Internet site on the systems of justice in Europe. However, cooperation between the network and Eurojust must be improved. The Commission hopes that each Eurojust member will become attached to a national correspondent who will be one of the European Judicial Network contact points. This correspondent would be part of the Eurojust member's team. S/he would be a relay for Eurojust's communication policy in their Member State and would forward the cases to be examined promptly to the national member.
In the future, Eurojust could themselves designate the liaison magistrates in countries outside the EU so as to facilitate judicial cooperation between the Member States and the countries concerned.
Stepping up cooperation with Europol
The links between Eurojust and Europol have constantly improved. The secure communications network has facilitated the exchange of information between them and access to Europol's analytical work files. Finally, the expert meetings on Joint Investigation Team have achieved high quality work.
However, cooperation between Eurojust and the Europol national liaison offices is still uneven. The links should be strengthened and exchanges of data with these offices should be improved.
Cooperation with the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), Frontex and non-EU countries
The fields of responsibility of Eurojust and OLAF are complementary. The Commission therefore proposes to establish a regular exchange of information between the two agencies in order to strengthen cooperation. It also emphasises the need to continue to appoint contact points and establish regular meetings between Eurojust and OLAF.
The protection of the EU's external borders is important in connection with illegal immigration and organised crime. The Commission encourages the signing of a cooperation agreement between Frontex and Eurojust.
Eurojust has signed agreements with third countries aimed at developing an exchange of personal data and information between judicial authorities. These agreements have led to sending of liaison officers to Eurojust. The agency now wishes to develop a veritable network of contact points.


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Sept. 19, 2013— -- Former infomercial king Kevin Trudeau was released from jail today after spending one night in federal custody in Chicago.
Appearing before U.S. District Court Judge Robert Gettleman Wednesday, Trudeau was found in contempt for violation of an asset freeze by transferring nearly $20,000 from an Australian account and for using a debit card tied to that account to buy things beyond the ordinary and necessary living expense he is permitted under a court order.
The specific expenditures from the Australian account that led to the contempt finding included $894 at a liquor store, $359 for two haircuts at Vidal Sassoon, $1,057 for meats ordered online and $920 on cigars. There was also an $18,642 transfer from the Australian account that was paid to a lawyer who worked on Trudeau's taxes, which happened without the judge's approval.
Trudeau told the judge Wednesday that he spent the money because he had no cash or credit cards and hadn't yet received his monthly allowance from the receiver, Robb Evans and Associates, a Los Angeles-based consulting firm that was appointed by the court in August to marshal assets and take control over Trudeau's businesses.
Trudeau and his attorneys argued Wednesday for more time to prove his cooperation, and offered to pay back any money spent on things the judge deemed inappropriate expenditures.
But Gettleman wasn't convinced and ordered Trudeau to report to the Metropolitan Correctional Center and to remain in federal custody.
But Trudeau, who appeared in court today wearing a short-sleeve orange jumpsuit, with slip-on orange sneakers, pleaded for the judge to believe him and pledged once again to be "100 percent" cooperative.
"I am penniless. I am homeless. I surrender. I am at your mercy," Trudeau told the court. "I will do anything you ask."
After hearing his pleas, Judge Gettleman said he is giving the controversial TV pitchman another week to somehow convince him that Trudeau is truthfully disclosing his assets, and granted Trudeau his freedom. Gettleman admonished him to cooperate fully or else he would be back in court "wearing the same color you are now."
Trudeau's next court appearance is scheduled for next week.
Trudeau had previously been found in contempt in July for failing to pay a $37.6 million sanction against him for deceptive marketing. Then, in August, Judge Gettleman sided with the Federal Trade Commission in granting a court-appointed receiver broad authority.
Trudeau met with the receiver and the FTC Wednesday night in the visiting area of the correctional center for a hastily scheduled interview that spanned about three hours. In reporting the results of that interview to the judge this morning, both the receiver and the FTC expressed concerns about Trudeau's vague recollections and sketchy memory.
The receiver, Kenton Johnson, the executive vice president of Robb Evans and Associates, told the court that he had "concerns about some of the content we received" from Trudeau. He said the pitchman had a "consistent failure of memory" and was unable in most cases to provide specific detail in answers to questions.
Although Johnson stopped short of saying Trudeau is being dishonest, he told the judge he found his lack of detail and memory "questionable and troubling."
The FTC lawyer, Jonathan Cohen, was less charitable. "We strongly disagree with how candid Mr. Trudeau was" in the interview, he said in court.
Some of Trudeau's responses, Cohen said, were "implausible or demonstrably incorrect statements."
Trudeau argued it was unrealistic to expect him to recall specific details of transactions that in some cases occurred years ago. He told the judge that at the time of the interview he was tired and "loopy," and hadn't eaten all day.
"There is no 37 million dollars. There's not 10. There's not 5. There's not even 1 million," Trudeau told the judge today in court.
The government, however, remains deeply skeptical.
Despite his pronouncements in court today, Trudeau is getting a monthly allowance of nearly $5,000 from the receivership, and he is still living in a 14,000-square-foot rented mansion in a tony suburb west of Chicago. The receiver stopped paying the rent on that home this month, and it is unclear whether Trudeau intends to, or has the means to remain there.
For the better part of the past 14 months, Trudeau has been locked in an acrimonious dispute with the FTC over the agency's allegations that he was concealing assets that should have been used to pay the sanction.
Wednesday's contempt finding was the fourth of Trudeau's career, which is also dotted with $2.5 million in prior settlements with the FTC for allegedly misleading claims for a host of products he pitched in infomercials. The 50-year-old Massachusetts native's record also includes two felony fraud convictions from the early 1990s, for which he spent nearly two years in federal prison.
The $37 million penalty at the root of this dispute was formally entered in 2010 when Judge Gettleman ruled Trudeau had made misleading claims in infomercials for his best-selling book, "The Weight Loss Cure 'They' Don't Want You to Know About."
The FTC's complaint in that case alleged Trudeau had bamboozled hundreds of thousands of consumers with claims that the diet - which calls for prolonged periods of extreme calorie restriction, off-label injections and high-colonic enemas - was "easy." The judge ordered Trudeau to compensate any consumer who bought the book after viewing one of the ads.
But Trudeau didn't pay. So last summer, the FTC petitioned the court to jail Trudeau, arguing that was the only hope of getting him to pony up. Trudeau countered that he would pay if he could, but it was impossible because he had no assets.
Over the course of the next several months, the FTC subpoenaed the records of dozens of banks, corporations, individuals and law firms to bolster its allegations that Trudeau was masking his control of multiple lucrative business ventures that funded a lavish lifestyle, replete with luxury automobiles and stately homes.
The FTC presented evidence that alleged Trudeau, who moved to Switzerland last fall, had embarked on a sophisticated asset-protection scheme that revolved around the creation of several vaguely-connected companies, trusts and overseas bank accounts nominally owned or directed by Trudeau's young Ukrainian wife, Nataliya Babenko.
Trudeau and Babenko were married in 2008. She was 22 and Trudeau was about to get hit with the $37 million judgment. The FTC argued that Babenko was a key figure in Trudeau's attempts to dodge the penalty.
Trudeau's attorneys consistently claimed that Babenko, who recently completed a year of graduate film studies at New York University, was a "successful businesswoman in her own right" and that the assets of companies she owned or directed could not be used to satisfy the judgment against Trudeau. The judge didn't buy that, and placed those companies and about a dozen others under the control of the receiver.
Babenko has since returned to her home in Kiev, Ukraine. Evidence presented today in court indicated that Trudeau allegedly directed associates to make a $380,000 mortgage payment on an apartment in Kiev for his wife and her mother.
Babenko's assets, which could also include overseas trust accounts, and tens of thousands of dollars in designer clothing, jewelry and furniture, may also be subject to forfeiture, to the extent that they were acquired with proceeds from those corporate coffers.
Among the companies covered by the judge's ruling is a multi-layered marketing foundation called the Global Information Network, known by the acronym GIN. It is billed as private wealth, health and success building club --boasting of thousands of members in more than 150 countries.
The club was conceived, Trudeau claims, by a secret council of 30 people -- including anonymous billionaires, royals, high-level members of secret societies -- and Kevin Trudeau. In Internet videos, Trudeau pitched GIN as a way for members, who pay $1,000 to join and $150 a month in dues, to acquire secret information heretofore available to only the elite.
The club's U.S. subsidiary, GIN USA, reported more than $60 million in gross revenue in the past three years, virtually all of which came from payments, purchases and upgrade fees from the club's own members. It is not clear how much, if any, of that money remains.
The receiver will have to determine whether GIN and its affiliated entities should be allowed to continuing to operate or should be shut down and have their assets liquidated. The receiver has already fired a number of GIN employees, and has barred Trudeau from speaking at any of the company's events, even if he spoke for free.


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Fingertip Microscope Can Peek Inside a Moving Animal
An inexpensive microscope about the size of a gumdrop could allow scientists to peer into the inner workings of living, moving animals much more easily. The device is small and light enough—it weighs less than two grams—to be mounted atop a rodent's head, where it can capture the activity of up to 200 individual brain cells as the animal explores its environment.
That's more cells than can be monitored using an expensive two-photon microscope, which doesn't allow the animal to move, says Mark Schnitzer, a neuroscientist at Stanford University and one of the device's creators. The microscope is designed to detect fluorescent light, which is often used in biological research to mark different cells.
Schnitzer, a TR35 honoree in 2003, says it's difficult to calculate the cost of building the microscope, but he says each component costs only a few dollars. Schnitzer and some of his collaborators have formed a startup to commercialize the device.
The research is part of a growing trend in microscopy to make smaller and smaller devices, which are useful for everything from new areas of research to detecting tuberculosis in developing countries. These diminutive new devices are made possible in large part by the rapidly falling cost and size of electronics components—a trend that has in turn been driven by the demand for consumer devices.
"The massive volume of the cell-phone market is driving costs down while not sacrificing performance," says Aydogan Ozcan, professor of electrical and biomedical engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. "Scientists are realizing that with cost-effective compact architecture, they can have components that a decade ago would cost thousands of dollars, if you could find them."
At the heart of the Stanford microscope is a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) sensor, like the kind found in cell-phone cameras. All of the components used are either mass-produced or capable of being mass-produced, making it easy to scale up production. The research was published on Sunday in the journal Nature Methods.
The development of the device was driven by researchers' desire to study how the brain directs movement, an endeavor that requires a microscope that can study brain cells while animals move and behave naturally. Schnitzer's team had previously developed a small, flexible microscope in which light was delivered to the brain via a fiber-optic cable. But this approach limits the animal's movement and captures activity in only a very small region of the brain. It's also expensive, with the optical and electronics components costing $25,000 to $50,000.
The new device has a larger field of view, and all the optical components are integrated into the housing that sits on the animal's head. "The advancement in being able to make a fluorescent scope this compact is really significant," says Daniel Fletcher, a bioengineer at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved in the research. "For the animal to be able to carry the whole microscope along with it opens a lot more possibilities in studying behavior."
Schnitzer says the microscope will have uses beyond brain imaging. A number of the microscopes can be put together and used to quickly count cells or screen lab animals, such as zebrafish, that are used in drug development.
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The Swiss academic publisher Frontiers, owned by the EPFL professor Henry Markram and his wife Kamila (plus some investors, including the publishing giant Holtzbrinck, owner of SpringerNature), is not at all prepared to accept being placed by the US librarian Jeffrey Beall on his list of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers. The Lausanne-based publishing house, represented by its Executive Editor Frederick Fenter, battles on many fronts to defend its respectability. As I report below, this includes a personal pre-Christmas visit to Beall at his university library in Denver, as well as some publisher-mediated attempts at ensuring editorial and peer review quality, which occasionally appear somewhat ham-fisted.
Frontiers has joined some respectable organizations like the Open Access societies OASPA and DOAJ, got self-enlisted as following editorial ethics guidelines with ICMJE, and finally became member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). It the latter case, the double function of the Frontiers journal manager Mirjam Curno as COPE council member and trustee might have been only coincidental with Frontiers joining COPE just after Fenter has sacked almost all of Frontiers medical chief editors for demanding editorial independency.
Beall was highly criticized by the academic community for his decision to place Frontiers on his list of predatory publishers. Many scientists stepped forward to defend Frontiers journals, where they act as editors and reviewers, like Daniël Lakens, psychology professor at Eindhoven University of Technology. Beall's possible scepticism towards Open Access (OA) publishing was used as argument to utterly disregard all his concerns about the predatory behaviour of some OA publishers and journals.
In the heat of dispute, Björn Brembs, neurobiology professor at the University of Regensburg and former Frontiers editor, described Beall and everyone who takes him seriously as "insane" on Twitter:
Frontiers however took a more reasonable and respectful approach. Shortly before Christmas 2015, Fenter wrote to Beall, asking for a meeting "at a location of your choice", in order to "discuss in further detail how Frontiers operates, and learn from you in turn how you analyse academic publishers." In follow-up emails, the meeting was set for December 14th 2015 at Beall's university library, while Fenter reassured him that Frontiers has "no intention of taking legal action". Just hours before the meeting, Fenter surprised Beall with an announcement that his colleague Curno will be joining the meeting as well. Beall was first given "a short presentation about Frontiers" and then had his "specific questions and concerns" addressed by Fenter and Curno. Later on, the two Frontiers executives had lots of time to evaluate their pitch after a huge snowstorm hit the airport and had them stuck in Denver for days. Unlike Ebenezer Scrooge, Beall remained unmoved by his pre-Christmas visitors, despite the charitable atmosphere of the yuletide season: Frontiers is still on his list of potential predatory publishers.
It is worth remembering that Curno is also trustee and board member of COPE. In this regards, Virginia Barbour, Chair of COPE, has written to me:
"We had no knowledge of this visit, nor would I expect to – this an internal issue for the publisher, as would be any other such meeting between a publisher and an outside individual or group".
In parallel, Frontiers was cleaning its house. After being criticised for negligent attitude to conflicts of interests (COI) and employing academically immature editors and reviewers, Frontiers so-called "editorial office", which is actually publisher's office, took sweeping actions. A postdoctoral scientist was sacked as reviewer for not having enough post-PhD years in academia. Natalie Matosin was re-installed after Lakens and other Frontiers editors expressed their protest over Twitter.
Next, Frontiers editorial office either decided to widen or completely misunderstood the concept of the conflict of interests (COI). Usually, COI is present when manuscript's authors on one side and its editors or reviewers on the other side are personally or professionally connected to each other. Personal relationships or professional competitions, collaborations or even collegial proximity can severely undermine the impartiality of peer review and editorial decisions. Exemplary for COI is a Frontiers in Medicine publication by the controversial Italian cancer researcher (and Frontiers editor) Alfredo Fusco, which was peer reviewed by his institutional colleague.
Frontiers now apparently decided that a COI is also constituted by an editor and a reviewer working in close proximity to each other, even if none of them has any relevant connection to manuscript's authors whatsoever.
An experienced Frontiers editor Guillaume Rousselet, senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Glasgow, was asked to revoke a reviewer, whom he assigned to a manuscript submission in Frontiers in Psychology, for being "affiliated with the same institution" as himself. Rousselet was told by Claire Martin, Journal Operations Specialist: "as per our review guidelines this constitutes what could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest". The email ended with a "QUICK FACT: Frontiers in Psychology ranks third in Impact Factor and is the leading gold OA journal in the field in volume".
After Rousselet refused to remove this reviewer, he was offered by a Journal Operations Assistant, Kirstin Sonne, that he can keep that reviewer if he provides a public statement: "The reviewer and handling Editor declared their shared affiliation, and the handling Editor states that the process nevertheless met the standards of a fair and objective review". Rousselet was further encouraged "to assign a third reviewer to the manuscript, in order to erase any doubt that the review did not meet the highest standards of impartiality and objectivity". He did no such thing, in fact, Rousselet instead resigned from his positions as Frontiers journals editor altogether.
I approached the journal's EiC, Axel Cleeremans and the responsible chief specialty editor, Philippe Schyns for a comment. Both of them were rather communicative over phone and email, but categorically declined to be quoted for this blog. Shyns however indicated to me on the phone that he also has resigned from his Frontiers editorial post.
The interference by Frontiers publisher's office in Rousselet's case is particularly striking given the fact that Frontiers handling editors occasionally function as reviewers of the same paper. This happens at Frontiers surprisingly often; apparently no-one there saw this contraption as a possible COI. Here as an example: a Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience original research article, (criticised on PubPeer as a re-use of published material), was reviewed by two referees, one of whom was its handling editor and journal's Editor-in-Chief (EiC), Misha Tsodyks, professor at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. It is literally mindboggling why Tsodyks had did not have any COI by acting simultaneously as editor and as reviewer, while supervising himself as EiC doing both tasks, but Rousselet and his institutional colleague did.
Shortly after that incident, Rousselet described to me at length his Frontiers experience as editor and reviewer:
"At the start, I really enjoyed the reviewing forum, which could give, at least in theory, authors, reviewers, and editors, a space to discuss research and reach consensus about a paper. […] In practice, it works in certain situations, and fails miserably in others.
As author & reviewer, my experience is very clear: editors do not engage in the forum to moderate the discussions. I do that as editor, but it is a painful process. You have to scroll through a growing webpage containing comments and replies, and replies to the replies. […]. This is a major complaint I have heard from other reviewers and authors: the forum can turn into a collection of fighting cages (one cage/tab per reviewer), in which certain authors try to wear down reviewers to submission (pressing the finalise review button) by submitting many small incremental updates to their papers. Instead of the 1 to 3 reviewing rounds you would get in other journals, certain authors would easily submit more than 5 different revisions. […] In some situations, authors are trying to avoid making painful changes, so everything is argued and revised versions with minimal changes are submitted. In other cases, authors are willing to make more drastic changes, but they require more help from the reviewers. So it goes back and forth many times. In this last situation, as editor I've had many reviewers leaving the forum, because although they think the paper would be publishable eventually, they realise it would take them too much time to bring it to a sufficient level of quality. […]
As editor, it is easy and tempting to do very little, because the forum is all geared up with decision buttons and pre-populated emails. So in practice, I think most editors just let reviewers and authors battle in the forum. Once two reviewers have finalised their reviews, the editor pretty much has to accept the paper. However, the system has some pernicious features: a paper cannot be accepted unless 2 reviewers have finalised their reviews. So if a reviewer is very late, or if as editor you think the paper should be published based on one review, you have to contact the publishing office to make that decision [apparently here, the publisher decides, not the chief editor! –LS]. Also, if reviewers leave the forum (which is how reviewers indicate the paper should be rejected), then the editor can keep inviting new reviewers until two finalise their reviews, and the paper can get published […].
I also heard from editors at other Frontiers journals that they have been explicitly encouraged by their EiC to be lenient, which aggravate the perception of inferior research quality in Frontiers journals. Once reviewers have accepted a paper, as editor I have little choice but to accept it too, even if I have important points yet to be addressed. There is no page in the forum for a discussion between the editor and the reviewers. The editor has to use the reviewers' tabs to make comments. These tabs are closed once the reviewers finalise their reviews".
It seems therefore, there is little quality control or editorial supervision happening at the Frontiers journals. Everything stands and falls with the integrity and dedication (or the lack of it) of the individual editors and reviewers. Dennis Eckmeier, neuroscientist at the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, has been Frontiers neuroscience reviewer for three years, and his experience with the reviewer discussion forum was:
"very positive. It is a quick and informal, but recorded, way of interaction. In many cases misunderstandings could be clarified through the forum that would not have been addressed in a traditional review system. These interactions also highlighted unclear parts of the manuscript, which was usually addressed by the authors".
Eckmeier cautioned though that many submitted manuscripts were of very low quality and gave examples for some cases:
"There were about 2-3 re-submissions, before both reviewers endorsed publication. In one case both reviewers agreed that for publication they needed to add more data. The data were provided and both reviewers endorsed publication. In one case both reviewers agreed that the work was not publishable. According to the message in the review forum, the authors retracted the submission".
As author with Frontiers, Eckmeier experienced a reviewer whose "review was basically useless" and who "endorsed publication already after I promised to revise the introduction". But he also reported that "the second reviewer and the editor were knowledgeable, constructive, and patient".
Maybe the best way for Frontiers to get removed from Beall's list would be to sack all incompetent and COI-disregarding editors and reviewers, instead of the dedicated ones who demanded editorial independence, quality control and ethical guidelines. It could also help, if Frontiers chief editors would properly supervise their own journals, instead of leaving this task with the publisher's junior managers. Many of these field outsiders simply lack relevant research field competence or even, with only with a bachelor degree, the sufficient academic credentials to perform such tasks. However, they are apparently quite busy with doing the jobs of EiC and other senior editors, on behalf of the publisher.
Rousselet and other researchers have been demanding from Frontiers a retraction of a certain article by a retired neuro-oncologist, Ivo P Janecka, titled Sensing risk, fearing uncertainty: systems science approach to change and described by many scientists as utterly nonsensical. As I reported, it was edited (and reviewed!) by a totally field-unrelated medical surgeon Tobias Alecio Mattei, who according to his own employment record, is not and never has been an active researcher, in any field. How he came to be associate editor at Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, is anyone's guess. Yet also here, the journal's EiC Tsodyks apparently chose not to interfere or even participate in the discussion. Instead, Rousselet was told by the Journal Operations Specialist, Martina Haller, that:
"The manuscript has undergone peer review as part of the Research Topic "Application of Nonlinear Analysis to the Study of Complex Systems in Neuroscience and Behavioral Research" and was approved by the Topic Editor, Dr Mattei. Our investigation did not identify plagiarism, reporting of unethical research, established misconduct, data manipulation, data fabrication or breach of third-party legal rights which would substantiate the need for retraction of this publication".
Good to know that at least the publisher's office thought the Janecka paper was scientifically sound, and the handling editor Mattei a fully qualified neuroscience researcher. Maybe Fenter and Curno should have discussed this Frontiers paper with Beall, to get some advice on their, as Fenter put it, "common goal: to hold academic publishing to the highest standards possible".
Update 24.01.2015; 19:30. The figures from the above mentioned paper by Ivo P. Janecka in Front. Comput. Neurosci., 31 March 2014, were later on apparently re-used in a later 2015 publication by same author. Details in my comment below –LS


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Sometimes the changes we can deduce are simple. In geology, not always so. If you visit Jack London Square, you shouldn't miss Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon:
The building and its floor are canted, and there's a step down as you enter. The tilt adds a certain funhouse spice to the smoke-dimmed fixtures and memorabilia. What happened here is that the bar was set on landfill, the kind of early landfill done by Oakland's first developers using harbor dredgings and other waste. Horse and hands and probably some steam powered the work, and little of that hard effort could be wasted on tamping the muck down to be worthy of the ages. So, imperfectly compacted, the "made land" settled for many years. At the same time, layer after layer of new material was laid around the tipsy little landmark, and now it's the sunken treasure we enjoy today.
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Negahban has also played roles on Fox's pulse-pounding television series "24" as well as USA Network's spy thriller "Covert Affairs." But this time, he knows that his audience reaches a little higher up the official lines of power, with President Barack Obama reportedly a fan of the show.
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CBS' new summer series Under the Dome kicked off Monday night with quite the bang after a dome mysteriously trapped the residents of quaint Chester's Mill within the town lines, cutting them off from the rest of the world. (And cutting a cow in half in the process. Gross.)
How will CBS' Under the Dome differ from Stephen King's novel?
Unfortunately for outsider Barbie (Mike Vogel), he's stuck in a town where he apparently just killed the husband of his potential new love interest Julia Shumway (Rachelle Lefevre). Disasters do bring people together, after all. Just look at Angie (Britt Robertson) and Junior (Alexander Koch), who have found a sick and twisted love in this tumultuous time. If trapping your former fling in a fallout shelter means love, then those kids are really going to make it!
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Baer's response: "That's the question that Linda (Natalie Martinez) and Duke ask in the first episode. It's a really good question. That's the basis of the show. Why us? What are we going to learn? Why were we chosen? Duke and Linda ask if we're being punished. Why is this happening? That's the crux of the whole series as we explore that."
2. Why did Barbie kill Peter Shumway? When we first meet Barbie, a former Army guy, he's burying Julia's husband Peter (R. Keith Harris) in the middle of the woods. He tries to hightail it out of town, but is caught under the dome, after which he bonds with Julia as they attempt to figure out what the dome is. Of course, when she invites him to stay at her house, he then discovers the truth about his victim. So, who is he working for?
Baer's response: "That's something that we'll touch upon throughout the first season. I think what's interesting is there are many mysteries apart from the dome. We have this opening each week with Rachelle Lefevre narrating it saying, 'The dome coming down is going to force the community to reveal secrets that they kept for a long time because being trapped together, secrets start to leak out.' The secrets that many of our characters harbor will come out because of the intense psychological stress that the dome puts on the community. What we love about the show is that it may seem like there's lots of reasons, but the reason might not be what you think."
3. Is Big Jim really evil? Big Jim Rennie, the local car salesman and town councilman, helps the town through the crisis, sending out a radio message that undoubtedly saves dozens of lives. But he also quickly jumps at the chance to grab some power. Plus: He's been shipping propane into Chester's Mill for some unknown reason. He even warns Duke not to ask too many questions. Otherwise, Jim will go public with the truth about Duke turning a blind eye to the deliveries. (Duke just wanted to keep the town from going bankrupt.) Baer promises answers about the propane, but for now, it seems Big Jim will follow in the footsteps of his novel counterpart.
Baer's response: "Big Jim truly loves Chester's Mill. He will do whatever he can to save his town. We think that makes him an interesting character because no one is purely evil or purely good. Barbie appears to have committed a crime! It's complex and we love that. Big Jim loves that town and because he's the only town councilman there, someone has to lead the town and deal with the many crises that are going to occur."
First Look: CBS tackles faith, fear and fascism in Under the Dome
4. Why not kill Angie in the premiere? Big Jim's son Junior is crazy unstable. After he sees his fling Angie talking to Barbie in the hospital parking lot, Junior threatens Barbie and takes Angie hostage in his father's fallout shelter. In the book, Angie dies pretty quickly after Junior attacks her and — spoiler alert — strangles her to death to quiet her down during a seizure. So, why did the producers decide to keep Angie alive and as a prisoner?
Baer's response: "We loved the character and there's much to explore. But no one is safe in Chester's Mill."
5. Is there a way to get out of the dome? Sure, the dome extends hundreds of feet up into the air, but is there a possibility that the Chester's Mill residents could dig their way out? Or maybe the Army could try setting off explosions to make a crack in the dome?
Baer's response: "'Why don't they just dig?!'" We'll respond to that in Episode 2. The upcoming early episodes will get into that. What are the parameters? What does it do? What are the rules? All of that we'll get into."
Mega Buzz: How will Under the Dome be different with Angie around?
6. Why are some kids reacting oddly to the dome? Both Angie's brother Joe (Colin Ford) and tourist Norrie (Mackenzie Lintz) seem to have seizures while saying, "Stars are falling in lines." Whuck?
Baer's response: "You're going to have to watch and see. I'm happy to say that we haven't goofed and not addressed these things."
7. Who will take charge in the town now? With Duke seemingly dead after his pacemaker exploded, it seems likely that Big Jim will jump at the chance to take over. But the mysterious Barbie could swoop in to save the day, similar to his role in the books.
Baer's response: "We'll see. Those are the two stars of our show."
8. What secret was Duke about to reveal? Just before Duke's pacemaker exploded from his chest, Duke said, "A little over a year ago, I was approached about..." Will we ever discover the secret Duke thinks could be involved with the dome?
Baer's response: "There are incidents from the book that we'll certainly visit. The book is like a format for the show in thatthere was a Chester's Mill, there was a dome and there was a Barbie, a Julia and a Big Jim and they're trapped. So that format that Stephen so brilliantly created is a foundation for the show, but we'll move beyond it."
What did you think of Under the Dome's series premiere? Will you be tuning in for more? Submit your questions in the comments section below for next week's edition of Going Under the Dome.
Under the Dome airs Mondays at 10/9c on CBS.
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9/11 cancer study won't settle debate over risks
The most comprehensive study of potential World Trade Center-related cancers raises more questions than it answers and won't end a debate over whether the attacks were really a cause.
The study suggests possible links with prostate, thyroid and a type of blood cancer among rescue and recovery workers exposed to toxic debris from the terrorist attacks. But there were few total cancers and even the study leaders say the results "should be interpreted with caution."
The study involved nearly 56,000 people enrolled in a registry set up to monitor health effects from those exposed to the aftermath of the trade center attacks. Most participants volunteered for enrollment, which could skew the results if people who already had symptoms were more likely to enroll than healthier people.
Cancers diagnosed through 2008 were included in the study, but that's just seven years after the 2001 attacks, and cancer often takes longer to develop. People diagnosed with cancer before the attacks were excluded from the study.
Cancer rates were compared with those in the general New York state population. But the researchers had no data on whether people in the study had risk factors for getting cancer, including a strong family history, or if they had existing cancer that wasn't detected until after the disaster. Participants are being monitored for health issues and may have gotten more cancer screening than other people, which also could skew the results.
The increased risks were seen only in rescue and recovery workers, who likely had more direct, sustained contact with potential cancer-causing substances in the dust, smoke and debris from the attacks. But cancers weren't more common in workers who had the most exposure — a finding that would seem to contradict the theory that contact was the cause.
The study comes just a few months after the federal government added dozens of types of cancer to a list of illnesses related to the trade center attacks that will be covered by a program to pay for health coverage.
The study results "won't settle the question because it's still too early," said Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City's health commissioner. "People are very, very interested in this topic and we thought it was important to get the data out that we have even though it is early."
Marijo Russell O'Grady, dean of students at Pace University's New York City campus, was at her office near the trade center during the attacks. She also lives nearby, and said she worries about how exposure to choking dust, ash and an "overwhelming burnt plastic smell" might affect her family, including her then 1 1/2 year-old son. They are all enrolled in the health registry.
Cancer is her greatest concern and it's "always present in the back of my mind," she said.
Researchers from the city's health department led the study, which was partly paid for by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. NIOSH spokesman Fred Blosser said the agency welcomes the results and that longer follow-up is needed to examine risks for cancers with that take a long time to develop.
The study appears in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.
Earlier research from the same registry linked the attacks with respiratory problems including asthma and symptoms of post-traumatic stress.
The new study involved a broader array of people, including firefighters and other emergency workers, along with residents and employees of workplaces near ground zero, Farley said.
In the new study, possible links were mainly seen with cancers diagnosed in 2007 and 2008 in rescue and recovery workers. These included 67 cases of prostate cancer, 13 thyroid cancer cases, and seven cases of multiple myeloma — all at rates higher than in the New York state population.
Donald Berry, a biostatistics professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, said the study has too many limitations to draw any definitive conclusions.
"There's no evidence that 9/11 caused any of these cancers," Berry said.
He pointed out that no increased risks were found for lung cancer — a cancer that might seem plausible after breathing lots of toxic dust and smoke.
JAMA: http://www.jama.com
World Trade Center health effects: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/wtc


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If you're in the tech industry, it never seems like there's any downtime. That was the case today all thanks to my friend Greg Ferro (@etherealmind). I was having breakfast when this suddenly scrolled up on my Twitter feed:
After I finished spitting out my coffee, I started searching for confirmation or indication to the contrary. Stephen Foskett (@SFoskett) provided it a few minutes later by finding the following link:
EDIT: As noted in the comments below, Brandon Bennett (@brandonrbennett) found a copy of the page in Google's Webcache. The company in the linked page says "Madras", but the rest of the info is all about Meraki. I'm thinking Madras is just a placeholder.
For the moment, I'm going to assume that this is a legitimate link that is really going to point to something soon. I'm not going to assume Cisco has a habit of creating "Cisco announces intent to acquire X Company" pages out of habit, like this famous Dana Carvey SNL video. In that case, the biggest question now becomes…
Why Meraki?
I'll admit, I was shaking my head for a bit on this one. Cisco doesn't buy companies because of hardware technology. They've got R&D labs that can replicate pretty much anything under the sun given enough time. Cisco instead usually purchases for innovative software platforms. They originally bought Airespace for the controller architecture and managment software that originally became WCS. The silicon isn't as important, since Cisco makes their own.
Meraki doesn't really make anything innovative from a hardware front. Their APs use reference architecture. Their switch and firewall offerings are also pretty standard fare with basic 10/100/1000 connectivity and are likely based on Broadcom reference designs as well. What exactly draws in a large buyer like Cisco? What is unique among all those products?
Cisco's Got Its Head In The Clouds
The single thing that is similar across the whole Meraki line is the software. I talked a bit about it in my Wireless Field Day 2 post on Meraki. Their single management platform allows them to manage switches, firewalls, and wireless in one single application. You can see all the critical information that your switches are pumping out and program them accordingly. The demo I saw at WFD2 was isolating a hungry user downloading too much data with a combination of user identification and pushing an ACL down to that user limiting their bandwidth for certain kinds of traffic without totally locking that person out of the network. That's the kind of thing that Cisco is looking for.
With the announcement of onePK, Cisco really wants to show off what they can do when they start plugging APIs into their switches and routers. But simply opening an API doesn't do anything. You've got to have some kind of software program to collect data from the API and then push instructions back down to it to accomplish a goal. And if you can decentralize that control to somewhere in the cloud, you've got a recipe for the marketing people to salivate over. For now, I thought that would be some kind of application borne out of the Cisco Prime family.
If the Meraki acquisition comes to fruition, Meraki's platform will likely be rebranded as a member of the Cisco Prime family and used for this purpose. It will likely be positioned initially towards the SMB and medium enterprise customers. In fact, I've got three or four use cases for this management software on Cisco hardware today with my customers. This would do a great job of replacing some of the terrible management platforms I've seen in the past, like Cisco Configuration Assisstant (CCA) and the unmentioned product Cisco was pitching as a hands-off way to manage sub 50-node networks. By allowing the Meraki management software to capture data from Cisco devices, you can have a proven portal to manage your switches and APs. Add in the ability to manage other SMB devices, such as a UC 500 or a small 800-series router and you've got a smooth package you can sell to your customers for a yearly fee. Ah ha! Recurring, cloud based income! That's just icing on the cake.
EDIT: 6:48 CST – Confirmed by a Cisco press release and as well by Techcrunch and CRN.
Tom's Take
Ruckus just had their IPO. It was time for a shake up in the upstart wireless market. Meraki was the target that most people had in mind. I'd been asked by several traditional networking vendors recently who I thought was going to be the next wireless company to be acquired, and every time my money landed on Meraki. They have a good software platform that helps them manage inexpensive devices. All their engineering goes into the software. By moving away from pure wireless products, they've raised their profile with their competitors. I never seriously expected Meraki to dethrone Cisco or Brocade with their switch offerings. Instead, I saw the Meraki switches and firewalls as an add-on offering to compliment their wireless deployments. You could have a whole small office running Meraki wireless, wired, and security deployments. Getting the ability to manage all those devices easily from one web-based application must have appealed to someone at Cisco M&A. I remember from my last visit to the Meraki offices that their name is an untranslatable word from Greek that means "to do something with intense passion." It also can mean "to have a place at the table." It does appear that Meraki found a place at a very big table indeed.


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Warner, Seth, 1743–84, hero of the American Revolution, b. Roxbury, Conn. One of the group who, under Ethan Allen, resisted the New York claim to the New Hampshire Grants (now Vermont), he was outlawed by New York authorities. He became a leader of the Green Mountain Boys, and in May, 1775, he gained his claim to fame by the capture of Crown Point from the British. He later took part in the expedition against Canada that failed at Quebec. He also participated in the fighting that took place after the abandonment of Ticonderoga and was defeated (1777) at Hubbardtown. He was with John Stark at Bennington (1777) and in other operations against General Burgoyne.
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The trick: Sawing the lady in half. A woman is placed in a narrow box. The box is then sliced in half. The two sections are separated and the woman is still able to move her toes. The halves are then put back together and the woman emerges unharmed.
How it's done: It's a little known medical fact that the human body is held together through a complex system of magnets. By placing a sheet of de-magnetized metal through the mid-section, the upper and lower body pop right apart without harm.
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How it's done: Magicians will frequently swallow a key and then, once behind the curtain, induce vomiting in order to retrieve it.
The clue: Listen carefully. Magicians frequently use their "magical words" to cover these regurgitations. Note this transcript from one of Houdini's appearances.*Curtain drops.* As I say the magic words: Alacamondo, Prestigitore, abraca-Herrrrrgh. Herrrrrrrrgh. Herrrrr-BLLLLAAARRRRRRRGH!! (pause) BLLLLLAARRRRRGH!! Uh, uh, uh BLLLLAAARRRRRRRGH! Omigod, omigod, that burns so ba-. BLLLLLLAAARRRRRRGH! Oh, my nose. Okay, find the key find the key, don't breathe in… Ugh… come on, it has to be in here… come onnnn… ugh, this is so disgusting. I think I'm gonna – BLLLLAAARRRRRGH. This is awful. There it is! Oh, sweet God, oh, thank the lord. *Curtain rises.* Ta-da! *
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How it's done: The key to this trick is simple preparation. The magician must sell his soul, via the dark arts, to one of any number of demons. Once this faustian bargain has been struck, the magician merely invokes his unholy power via a short incantation.
The clue: While shuffling, notice that the magician mutters quietly to himself. Shortly afterward, thick, black clouds of sulfur emerge from nowhere and the thundering laughter of evil echoes from the netherworld against a backdrop of the cacophonous lamentations of the damned. Then he picks your card. (Note: this is the only way to do this trick)
The trick: Pulling rabbits out of a hat. The magician presents an ordinary top hat, showing the audience that it is empty, and has a solid bottom. He then reaches in and removes a living rabbit.
How it's done: Like most creatures, air and water make up about 95% of rabbits' bodies. By carefully deflating and dehydrating a rabbit, it can be slipped in to the lining of any hat. The magician then need only pour a little water and some forced air into the hat and voila!
The clue: Notice magicians never get their heads wet before performing this trick. In the unlikely event that it does happen, you'll observe that the magician's hat suddenly gets very bulky and lumpy, and begins kicking and biting the magician's head.
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Game Design
This is a 2 player game where Player 1 Maker is created a code, and Player 2 is the Breaker. Play alternates between Player 1 and Player 2 alternating responsibility to Make or Break the Code. Any number of iterations of the game make a match, where the lowest total score (least number of attempts to guess the code) Wins.
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Skill Level : Easy, Moderate, or Difficult
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