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It's that time of the year again.
Our band is gearing up for our 4th RPMChallenge. That's where we make up and record an entire new album of original material in 28 days.
This is our 4th one, so we're excited as ever. But the pre-challenge to the challenge for us is coming up with a theme for the album. Something that can guide all the individual songwriters in the band and help us focus on a coherent whole.
As many of you know, our 3 prior RPM albums have been based on:
- Writing an album looking back to when we were kids which produced songs like My Cereal (which features friends, fans, and many other RPMers on the "Coco Chorus" )!
- Updating traditional Irish pub songs and cranking them to "11" which produced songs like Tell Me Ma which was featured on NPR's All Songs Considered Second Stage.
- Writing an album about work and technology which produced songs like Mason Rocket (Spy Extraordinaire).
Now the question becomes, what will we end up creating this year?
We're working on it!
Now, if you're a musician that follows us because of IndieGuide.com and our books The Indie Band Survival Guide, and/or The DIY Music Manual, then we strongly encourage you to sign up at RPMChallenge and give it a shot.
RPM is not a contest. There's no prizes. It's completely a motivational thing. 1000s of musicians worldwide signup. Many make it to the end. But the community is amazing throughout the process as everyone works to complete their album. It's a great reason to get the creative juices flowing, make an album of new material, and get some helpful feedback along the way by other musicians.
And honestly, what would you be doing in February anyways? It's a crappy month. The weather blows...at least it does here in Chicago.


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These leisurely voyages salute the day's end in style.
1. Celestial, New York City
The first time my stepdaughter saw the New York night skyline, she whispered in awe to her mother, "Mama, it doesn't look real!" Brushed with gold by the setting sun or outlined in majestic silhouette against a fading pink sky, the skyscraper forest of Manhattan can overwhelm even seen-it-all adults. The glass walls and ceiling of the cruise ship Celestial ensure that all guests get a good look. A jazz trio provides the soundtrack; 866/399-8439 or bateauxnewyork.com.
2. Wind and Wine Sail, Key West, Florida
Among Key West's tremendous variety of sunset sails―aboard tall ships, modern catamarans, powerboats, even glass-bottom boats―this one stands out for its selection of fine wines, beers, cheeses, crackers, fruit, vegetables, and chocolates. The intimate trips, limited to 23 passengers, take place on the 65-foot Danger's Prize, a re-creation of a traditional working sailboat; 305/304-7999 or dangercharters.com.
3. Alcatraz Night Tour, San Francisco, California
As day fades, the ferry departs Pier 33 headed for Alcatraz, in the middle of San Francisco Bay. Sunset supplies a suitably dramatic flourish for a fascinating tour of the brooding prison island. Visitors explore stacked rows of primitive-looking cells, then choose from several special programs on such topics as Al Capone's time here. The return leg aboard the ferry showcases stunning nighttime views of the San Francisco skyline and Golden Gate Bridge; 415/981-7625 or alcatrazcruises.com.
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Newspaper surveys perennially name this sleek, four-deck, 1,500-passenger ship "Hawaii's best sunset dinner cruise." It combines myriad experiences (at various prices) on a single vessel. The four dining options top out at a seven-course, French-style meal. Entertainment varies with the dinner selection and includes hula dancing, live jazz, and a Hawaiian-theme revue. The ship meets Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility standards; 800/334-6191 or paradisecruises.com.
5. Sunset Concert Cruises, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
On warm summer nights, the triple-deck Spirit of LaSalle heads out into the waters of Green Bay or, weather permitting, Lake Michigan, from the picturesque Door County Peninsula. As passengers eat their buffet dinners, they glide past lighthouses and islands. Then, on the second deck, a band begins to play―jazz, perhaps, or folk music―as the disappearing sun splashes brilliant oranges and reds across the sky; 920/854-2986 or concertcruises.com.
6. The Lobster Dinner Cruise, Cancun, Mexico
Romance figures prominently on this couples-oriented excursion, enthusiastically described on its Web site as "the secret route of passion." As sunset approaches, the Columbus, a 60-foot contemporary version of a Spanish galleon, eases through the calm waters of the Nichupté Lagoon, serving wine and cocktails, then lobster and steak. After nightfall comes dancing to saxophone music on the open-air deck. Passion does seem all but inevitable; 800/417-1736 (in Mexico, 01-800/727-5391) or thelobsterdinner.com.
7. Royal Argosy, Seattle, Washington
On its evening dinner cruises, the 180-foot Royal Argosy becomes a floating, white-tablecloth restaurant. While some cruise vessels prepare the food ashore, Royal Argosy chefs cook to order onboard, emphasizing Pacific Northwest ingredients. They know what they're doing; Argosy Cruises contracts the food service to Consolidated Restaurants, which runs such acclaimed Seattle establishments as Metropolitan Grill and Elliott's Oyster House; 800/642-7816 or argosycruises.com.
8. Dolphins, sunset, and fireworks, South Padre Island, Texas
Breakaway Cruises times its evening Dolphin Watch cruises for peak sunset viewing. On Friday evenings during the summer, passengers can also watch the weekly fireworks over Laguna Madre, the bay between the island and the mainland; 956/761-2212 or breakawaycruises.com.
9. Soul Diversion, San Diego, California
Wonderful weather makes San Diego a sailor's paradise year-round. Pacific Ocean sunsets add a gorgeous bonus. No more than six passengers at a time share this cozy Champagne cruise aboard a 38-foot oceangoing yacht. Skipper Ted Wirch III lets passengers either help with the sailing or just sit back, sip the bubbly, and enjoy the views; 800/659-0141 or classicsailingadventures.com.
10. Spirit of Harbour Town, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Everyone gets a window table and air-conditioning―no small amenity on humid Southern summer nights. (The heating kicks in when the weather turns chilly.) The well-regarded Hilton Head restaurant Two Eleven Park Wine Bar & Bistro supplies the buffet dinner. On Tuesdays from Memorial Day through Labor Day, the cruise detours to watch the weekly fireworks display at Shelter Cove; 843/373-9026 or vagabondcruise.com.
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Thought you were safe from osteoporosis because you're a guy? Think again. Osteoporosis is not just a women's disease. In fact, one in eight males will develop an osteoporosis-related fracture in his lifetime.
When you're young, your bone is constantly changing—old bone is removed and replaced by new bone. Osteoporosis occurs when new bone is not generated quickly enough to replace old bone, leading to decreased bone mass and a weakened skeleton. This weakening, in turn, leads to an increased susceptibility to fractures. While more women than men develop osteoporosis, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), it still poses a significant threat to millions of men in the U.S.
Why do fewer men than women develop the disease? Men have larger skeletons—meaning more overall bone mass—and don't undergo the same bone-loss-causing hormone changes that women deal with during menopause. Bone loss in men starts later and progresses more slowly. However, because men are living longer these days, osteoporosis has become an important public health issue.
While osteoporosis in women is generally age related, most men develop the disease for different reasons. Some of the risk factors that have been linked to osteoporosis in men include:
- Smoking, excessive alcohol use, low calcium intake, and inadequate physical exercise
- Chronic diseases that affect the kidneys, lungs, stomach, and intestines or alter hormone levels
- Regular use of certain medications, such as glucocorticoids
- Low levels of testosterone
A "silent disease," osteoporosis progresses without symptoms until a fracture occurs. Those fractures most often are in the hip, spine, and wrist and can be permanently disabling. Hip fractures, in particular, are dangerous, as men who sustain hip fractures are more likely than women to die from complications.
In men, all too often osteoporosis isn't diagnosed until a fracture occurs. If you have any of the lifestyle risk factors for developing the disease, or you experience a loss of height or change in posture, a fracture, or sudden back pain, tell your doctor. When detected before significant bone loss has occurred, osteoporosis can be treated with medication, improved nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle changes. If you think you may be at risk for osteoporosis, make an appointment with your Emory physician for a medical workup and bone mineral density test.
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'He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.' John 16:14
Suggested Further Reading: John 14:15–26
This is a most important principle to be held fast by all godly people, for the day may come when false prophets shall arise, and delude the people, and by this shall we be able to discover them; if they claim anything beyond what Christ has revealed, put them aside, for they are false prophets, wolves in sheep's clothing. The Spirit only teaches us that which Christ has taught beforehand either by himself or by the inspired apostles. 'He shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.' Just now we are in little danger from the excesses of fevered brains, for, as a rule, our sin is in being far too cold and dead to spiritual influences. I fear we are liable to another evil, and are apt to forget the person and work of the Comforter altogether. From many modern sermons would you know that there was a Holy Spirit? If it were not for the benediction or the doxology you might go in and out of many churches and meeting-houses by the year together, and scarcely know that there was such a person as that blessed, blessed giver of all good, the Holy Spirit. Sometimes we hear a little about his influences, as if the Holy Spirit were not as truly a person as even Jesus Christ himself, who in flesh and blood trod this earth.
Oh, dear friends, I fear the first danger, that of running wild with whimsies and fancies about inner lights and new revelations; but I equally dread this last, this going forth to work with the sword, forgetting that it is the sword of the Spirit, and only mighty as the Holy Spirit makes it mighty 'to the pulling down of strongholds.'
For meditation: The Holy Spirit is grieved when we do what we shouldn't (Ephesians 4:25–30). How grieved he must be when attributed with things which are nothing to do with him. The Holy Spirit is quenched when we fail to do what we should (1 Thessalonians 5:16–19). How quenched he must be when the truth of his real work is suppressed. Are you tempted to go to one extreme or the other?
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inBalance Wellness Center
At inBalance Wellness Center, we aim to provide spinal balance, neurological balance and nutritional balance. The chiropractic technique we us in the clinic is practiced by less than 300 chiropractors in the world. This highly specific and gentle technique called NUCCA focuses on correcting the misalignment of the top bone of the neck to promote optimum brain-to-body communication without any cracking, popping or twisting in as few adjustments as possible, providing the best spinal and human health. We also offer an advanced form of neurofeedback called Brain Wave Optimization which helps the brain to self-regulate and balance the brainwave patterns. This therapy has tremendous results with anxiety, stress, lack of focus, sleep issues, depression, memory problems, brain injury, learning disorders and much more. We promote nutritional wellness by addressing deficiencies in the required ingredients for balanced cell function and toxicities that drive cell function away from a balanced state. These imbalances are the main cause of health problems today. We provide supplements that address essential requirements for health. In order to maintain this balanced state, toxicities must be flushed out of the system. In this era of promises from "miracle" supplements, we offer scientific, ethical, and understandable nutritional products and information.
Too often we either live with health related problems thinking that it's just a part of life, or we mask the discomfort associated with the problem with medication. Wouldn't it be nice to find the cause of our health issues and fix the problem at the source? Our audience that we are targeting consists of anyone who has a health related problem and is looking for more than just relief. We also cater to those who may feel healthy, but want to make sure that they maintain healthy, balanced systems and peak performance. Some of the conditions that have shown great success with our methods are: Addictions (substance abuse), Anxiety, ADD/ADHD, Asthma, Back Pain, Cerebral palsy, Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Infection, Chronic Pain, Constipation, Depression, Diabetes, Digestive Problems, Dizziness/Vertigo, Fibromyalgia, Headaches, Heart Conditions, Herniated Discs, High Blood Pressure, Learning Disorders, Memory disorders, Migraines, Multiple Sclerosis, Numbness and Tingling in Limbs, Organ Dysfunction, Panic Attacks, Parkinson's, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Scoliosis, Seizures/Epilepsy, Sleeping Disorders, Smoking Cessation, Stiffness, Stress, Temporomandibular joint disorder, Tendonitis, Traumatic Brain Injury, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Whiplash Injuries
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Here's the other project I taught in Boston, MA. (To see the first one, check out yesterday's post).
This one was created by Debi...
- Stretch fabric onto hoop and tighten. Die-cut a piece of adhesive-backed paper from Elegant Flourishes. Peel back adhesive from Elegant Flourish and place on fabric. Mist lightly with distressing ink. Allow to dry. Remove Flourish.
- Stamp three sets of roses onto cardstock and trim around area so that there are three separate rose clusters.
- Stamp sentiment onto Frame with ink.
- Stamp tickets with ticket image using ink.
- Trim lace to fit tickets.
- Apply Dots Textured Impressions to Butterfly. Embellish with ink.
- Apply ink pad directly to female side of Textured Impressions. Insert paper, close folder and run through machine. Remove paper from folder.
- Adhere Floral Textured Impression to rectangular-shaped mat. Adhere to background.
- Adhere stamped flowers to Textured Impressions.
- Attach lace and tickets to Ornate Frame. Attach Frame to background.
- Put thread through buttons and attach to Butterfly. Adhere Butterfly to circle and circle to doily. Attach doily to tickets.
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Time to make voices heard on halibut bycatch
Something big is coming up, and I don't mean a halibut. After years of study and foot-dragging, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council is finally considering reducing the outrageous amount of halibut bycatch in the Gulf of Alaska.
What's halibut bycatch? It's what happens when a commercial trawler or long-liner tries to catch cod, pollock or some other species and, in the destructive, unsustainable process, the vessel catches halibut and other fish. Under current regulations, the trawl and long-line fleet can catch more than 5 million pounds of halibut bycatch, all of which must be thrown back, a rule meant to prevent them from profiting from bycatch. Many of these halibut are dead. Reduced to an acronym — "PSC," for prohibited species catch — they sink to the bottom, utterly wasted.
The NPFMC should've reduced halibut bycatch years ago. This bycatch is now affecting fishing opportunity and, more importantly, halibut productivity. A recent study found that 1 pound of halibut lost to bycatch equates to a loss of about 1.5 pounds of halibut in the halibut spawning biomass.
Let's put it another way: Trawlers, mainly targeting Pacific cod, are incidentally killing halibut, cutting into the number that you and I could be catching, whether we fish for halibut for sport, subsistence or commercially. What's worse, the trawlers are killing a great many halibut before the fish are mature enough to reproduce.
Most of us don't see many trawlers, but they're out there. Sometimes called draggers, they pull large nets through the water, either on the bottom or at mid-water depths. Some are small boats, operated by families out of Alaskan ports. Others are huge factory ships owned by foreign corporations and based in Seattle.
The current regulation that allows a bycatch of 5 million pounds of Gulf of Alaska halibut hasn't significantly changed since 1986 for trawl fisheries, where most of the halibut bycatch occurs. While that regulation remains unchanged, the portion of the halibut biomass available for harvest has declined by more than 50 percent in just the past 10 years. This decline has resulted in stricter regulations for fishermen and higher costs for everyone who eats halibut. In Southeast waters, it led to charter-boat anglers being able to harvest only one halibut less than 37 inches in length per day. Charter operators in Homer, Seward, Whittier and Valdez fear the same thing will happen here.
At its June 6-12 meeting in Kodiak, the NPFMC will be considering cutting the halibut bycatch by a range of 5 to 15 percent. Let's hope council members do the right thing and choose the 15 percent reduction. It's time they stopped talking and studying and took action.
What can you do to help?
Visit the Alaska Marine Conservation Council's Web page (www.akmarine.org), and sign onto their letter to the Council. Add a note, telling the Council to reduce the bycatch by 15 percent. Tell your friends to do the same. If you can, attend the NPFMC meeting in Kodiak. If you want to continue catching and eating halibut, here's your chance to prove it.


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Editor's note: The recipe and introductory text below are excerpted from Paula Wolfert's book The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen. Wolfert also shared some helpful cooking tips exclusively with Epicurious, which we've added at the bottom of the page.
Here's a fast bread for slow foods. Small as a pancake, these easy-to-make, grainy-textured griddle breads are similar to those sold on the streets of Casablanca and Tunis. No yeast is required. A combination of coarse semolina and fine pasta flour provides a butter-colored interior and blotchy black exterior.
Serve these breads as a hot hors d'oeuvre with North African herb or tomato jams or for breakfast brushed with butter or argan oil and honey.
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- Makes twelve 5-inch rounds
- 2 scant cups (14 ounces) pasta flour
- 1 cup (6 ounces) coarse semolina (see Tips, below, for mail order information)
- 1 stick plus two tablespoons (5 ounces) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 4 teaspoons sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 small onion, halved
- 1. In a mixing bowl, combine the pasta flour and semolina. Add the stick of melted butter and rub the mixture together with your hands until sandy. Mix in the sugar and salt. Mix 1/2 cup of water into the dough; it should be crumbly. Let stand a few minutes, then gradually add more water until you have a soft dough, about 1 cup in all.
- 2. Transfer to a food processor and pulse 30 times to blend. The texture should now be very soft and moist. Turn the dough out onto an unfloured work surface. Using lightly buttered hands, knead it until silky, 1 to 2 minutes. Cover the dough loosely and let rest for at least 30 minutes.
- 3. Preheat a cast-iron grill or a ridged pan over medium heat. Preheat the oven to 250°F. Lightly grease the cut side of the onion with melted butter or oil and quickly rub the heated pan. Cut the dough into 12 equal pieces. On a buttered or oiled baking sheet, press out one portion of the dough into a 5-inch round. Cover loosely with plastic and repeat to form the remaining flatbreads. Grill the breads, one at a time, until they are golden and speckled with black spots, turning once; it should take 4 minutes total. Serve the breads hot off the grill, or wrap in foil and keep them warm in the oven for up to 30 minutes.
- Paula Wolfert shares her tips with Epicurious:
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E-10, Photographer Throw High and Wide on Rays Spring Photos
If the recent Tampa Bay Rays Team Spring photos is any indication, I am starting to think the Tampa Bay Rays 2012 season is going to be more back to the basic, nothing flashy or disrupting to the status quo of the "Rays Way". Maybe I was anticipating a re-visit or renewal of the grandeur and glamor of the Rays 2010 Spring Team photos that took my breath away, and made you wanted to see more of them.
If the 2012 Team Spring photos are any indication, this season is going to be a bare bones, nose to the grindstone, no huge frills and spills kind of season…not that this is a bad thing, maybe I set my expectations too high this season. But then again, it is Spring and hope has to grow eternal and unbridled.
Sure the 41 photos recently uploaded to the Zimbio webpage by photographer Jonathan Ferrey had some unusual and classic poses within their compositions, but somehow a large glove-full of the Rays possible 2012 roster personnel missed their camera time with the Zimbio photog. At least we know Rays 3B Evan Longoria got a few extra shots. Maybe dating a Playmate does have some photo advantages, but a total of 13 individual photos? Longo is one of the cornerstones of this team's offensive and defensive foundations, but so many other cogs of the machine are missing, lost their possible chance in this annual Rays ritual of Spring.
Sure C Mark Thomas and OF Jeff Salazar who are both Rays Spring Training invitees got their respective mugs/poses on a photo, but missing were a huge slice of the Rays other core players like starter Wade Davis, Rays Bullpen members JP Howell, Brandon Gomes, Joel Peralta, Jake McGee, and newcomers Burke Badenhop and Josh Lueke. Is it even imaginable that each and every one of these players somehow missed the vocal call for photos? Am I the only one who feels it is purely insane that 2011 American League Rookie of the Year Jeremy Hellickson would have, could have somehow missed his 2012 photo chance, or was it a captive selection of players designated by the Zimbio photographer?
I have not even begun to scratch the surface of the possible MLB bolo report put out since the "Legend" Sam Fuld, infielders Jeff Keppinger, Ben Zobrist, and Eliot Johnson must have mis-placed their "memos" possibly on their photo chance. Even more disappointing is that Carlos Pena somehow missed the photo cut…Really?
Want another firm kick in the proverbial teeth, the only catcher featured in the photo shoot was Jose Molina, and that was only for 1 photo. Heck even Reid Brignac got more photos than Molina, and he is not guaranteed a starting slot. I know there is a growing army of female Rays followers who would love to see a recent photo of Robinson "Honey Nut" Chirinos or even Jose Lobaton, but they will have to drive to the Charlotte Sports Park and take their own this Spring.
Maybe I got used to the flash and glamor set forth by those 2010 photos that had every single member of the Rays squad, including the Coaching staff in some sort of pose or hitting posture with the added sun flare somewhere within the photo framing. Maybe I was expecting something grand, a statement by the Rays this season as they start their 15th season.
But there were some positives in this set of photos of the 2012 Rays. We got to actually see what top Rays prospect Hak-Ju Lee will look like in a Rays uniform. We already know Lee can dance, and his bat has some magic in it, but seeing him in the Rays whites definitely makes you eager and hoping for the Rays future shortstop to make some additional magic happen during his minor league season so we can see him in that uniform possibly in September.
Maybe I am nitpicking here a bit, but I have come to expect more, especially after that grand and fabulous 2009 Spring photo package. Heck, even Rays skipper Joe Maddon had a possible glamor shot in 2009 that to this day might be one of the best photos of the Rays newly extended Manager.
I possibly wanted something again to "pop" off the screen of my computer, wished for another set of dynamic photos taken that would get my blood pumping, the sweat beading around my cap and the Rays Republic making photo copies of the team photos for signatures in the future. Not sure if any of these Rays Spring photos will be seen on the sidelines before games in 2012. Certainly doubt it (shudder).


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The IRS, its glory days and its checkered past
WASHINGTON — For a time, the Internal Revenue Service inspired awe and admiration in Americans, not just trepidation and lame jokes about death and taxes.
Everyone loved the revenue agents when they put away Al Capone, the Chicago underworld's master of brutality and bribes, in a coup so spectacular it scared other gangsters straight.
In the year after, federal coffers swelled as delinquent taxpayers stepped forward to make good on their debts. Criminals came out of the woodwork to pay taxes on their ill-gotten gains. Authorities in what was then the Intelligence Unit of the Bureau of Internal Revenue nailed the slippery Public Enemy No. 1 when no one else could, scooped up New York City racketeers by the dozen and stood tall in the popular imagination as incorruptible, fearless stewards of the treasury and the law.
Fine, but that was the 1930s. What have they done for us lately?
Or to us?
The essential mission hasn't changed. The IRS still collects the money that goes back out to build roads, help look after people in their old age, fight menaces from Nazism to terrorism, and operate the vast levers of government. It still locks up a few thousand delinquents a year, among them drug kingpins who wouldn't be caught any other way.
But no one loves the IRS anymore, not for ages. It's our culture's king-sized pain that makes you do hard math, issues nonsensical directions, takes your money and gives it to politicians to waste even as they borrow unspeakable sums from China to waste even more.
On top of that overdrawn caricature, the agency now is saddled with its episode of tea party tumult, exposing IRS behavior that is memorably bumbling at best and criminal at worst.
"Taxes grow without rain." Proverb.
More than 97,000 people work for the IRS, more than double the workforce of that other deeply inquisitive and all-seeing institution, Google.
That includes 13,000 revenue agents and more than 1,500 lawyers, about as many attorneys as practice statewide in North Dakota. It's bigger than some Cabinet departments — Transportation for one. Employment has dropped by about 10,000 since 2010.
The perception of the "taxman" probably should give way to tax woman because more than six in 10 employees are female, a substantially higher share than in both the civil service and U.S. labor force at large.
The IRS is something of a hybrid in its relationship with political masters, not the "independent agency" claimed by President Barack Obama when he dissociated himself from its discriminatory audits of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status during the 2012 campaign.
It is partially independent, which is not at all like being a bit pregnant. On one hand, the president and his people at the White House are barred by law from pressing the IRS to start or stop a tax audit. This is to prevent the president from putting the heat on a political foe or going easy on a political friend, both tactics of the past.
The commissioner serves five-year terms, ensuring that leadership is out of synch with four-year election cycles. The commissioner and chief lawyer are the only political appointees and must be confirmed by the Senate.
But the commissioner reports to the treasury secretary through the department's deputy and can be fired at will by the president, which is not the case in more hands-off federal bodies. Indeed, the acting chief, Steven Miller, was ousted within days of the report coming to light showing the misbegotten actions of lower level employees; he was one of three senior officials to be sidelined in the continuing investigation.
"This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher." Nobel Prize physicist Albert Einstein on preparing his taxes.
The income tax was unloved from its inception.
Pushing for it in 1861 to help pay for the Civil War, Rep. Thaddeus Stevens declared, "It is unpleasant to send the tax gatherer to the door of the farmers, the mechanics, and the capitalists ... but these things must come or this government must soon be buried in its grave."
President Abraham Lincoln signed into law a 3 percent tax on income over $800, a sum few people made. A progressive income tax followed a year later in a law establishing an enforcement arm, the office of commissioner of internal revenue in the Treasury Department. The wealthiest Americans paid 5 percent.
Before the end of the 1800s, the income tax was repealed, revived and struck down as unconstitutional, only to return in 1913 with the enactment of a constitutional amendment.
The tax form of 100 years ago — three pages long, with another page of instructions — loosely resembles the short form of today, except for its provisions for deducting uninsured shipwrecks and its guidance to a still-agricultural nation about claiming income from the wool and hides of slaughtered animals.
The basic tax rate was 1 percent on personal income over $3,000, and there was a 6 percent surtax on astronomical incomes over $500,000.
Rates would not remain so benign for long. In 1918, the top rate soared to 77 percent to help pay for World War I. During World War II, compliance leaped forward when Congress introduced payroll withholding and quarterly tax payments.
"If you drive a car, I'll tax the street. If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat. If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat. If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet." The Beatles, "Taxman."
Back to biblical times, revenue collection was often contracted out to independent "tax farmers" so as to insulate authorities from the howls of an aggrieved population, Atlanta accountant Jay Starkman says in his history of taxes, "The Sex of a Hippopotamus," so named because it's about as hard to divine whether a hippo is male or female as it is to comprehend the tax code.
A certain distance remains. No president visited the IRS headquarters until John Kennedy did so in 1961, embracing the tax collector as the underpinning of a nation locked in Cold War competition, a space race and monumental obligations at home and abroad. "We are strongly behind you," Kennedy told the agency. "We expect the best from you."
It was a historic, morale-building visit to the put-upon agency but JFK's record with the IRS is not entirely noble. Although the bureau was reorganized in the 1950s to replace patronage appointments with career professionals (and to rename it the Internal Revenue Service), Kennedy's administration used it to try to cower critics on the right.
Later, President Richard Nixon's IRS manipulations against those on his "enemies list" rose to the level of an impeachable offense in the eyes of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
In the 1990s, the IRS went through another overhaul, this time to introduce more accountability, more recourse for the taxpayer and a customer-service ethic.
"Some people believe that the IRS slogan is, 'We're not happy until you're not happy,'" Starkman writes in his book. Yet it's probably more responsive to the consumer than the annoying help lines for digital gadgets. "Although IRS is the largest paper-shuffling organization in the world," he says, "when I call, I still get a live American person fairly quickly."
To IRS haters, the overhaul was not much more than public relations gloss, lipstick on a fanged pig.
But it made some changes that are consequential to this day. Among them, it established the Office of the Inspector General for Tax Administration, a more autonomous organization than existed before to scrutinize the behavior of the tax collectors.
That's the outfit that investigated and exposed the audits slanted against conservatives in the 2012 campaign. It's why the IRS is in such a pickle now.


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- Ron Weasley: "Hang on a moment! We've forgotten someone! The house-elves, they'll all be down in the kitchen, won't they?"
- Harry Potter: "You mean we ought to get them fighting?"
- Ron Weasley: "No, I mean we should tell them to get out. We don't want anymore Dobbies, do we? We can't order them to die for us–"
- — during the Battle of Hogwarts[src]
A veritable legion of house-elves are enlisted by Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. They work in the kitchens, preparing feasts for the entire school. They also move trunks and baggage to and from rooms, clean dormitories, and presumably other areas of the castle as well. They wear togas made of tea-towels bearing the Hogwarts crest.
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- —J. K. Rowling[src]
Helga Hufflepuff brought the House-elves to work in the Hogwarts kitchens as a way of ensuring they could work and not be abused.[1]
- "At least a hundred little elves were standing around the kitchen, bowing and curtseying as Dobby led Harry past them."
- —The house-elves in 1994 [src]
In 1994, Dobby, a house-elf, was hired by Albus Dumbledore to work in the kitchens for a Galleon a week. Another house-elf named Winky, took up work at Hogwarts as well, but during her time there she had turned into a heavy drinker. They soon became titled as Hogwarts house-elves although the other House Elves were disconcerted by them. In the same year, Hermione Granger set up the organistation S.P.E.W., she started coming to the kitchens in order to presude them to be set free. This did not earn her any popularity, as most believe that house-elves enjoy their work; indeed, even the house-elves did not like her campaigning. She started knitting hats and socks, which she left lying around Gryffindor Tower, hoping to free some unsuspecting elf who picked them up while cleaning the common room, so as to grant them freedom. The house-elves did not appreciate this gesture; on the contrary, they took it for insult and refused to clean the common room, with the exception of Dobby.[2]. They became angry with Hermione Granger as she made these attempts to free them.
- "Fight, fight for my master, the defender of the house-elves! Fight for brave Regulus! Fight!"
- —Kreacher leading the house-elves during the Battle of Hogwarts [src]
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May 1, 2012
Another Day at the Office (III) -- Pain Compliance
I say eighty percent of videos that purport to show brutality involve people under arrest who won't put their hands behinds behind their back. If you're under arrest and so ordered, you need to put your hands behind your back.
Here's the thing -- and I want you to try this at home or work with someone you love -- lie on your belly with your arms under you. Now have that someone try and force yours arms apart. Resist. Those arms won't budge. Now make it a threesome and have two people pulling. Those arms still won't budge.
It's incredibly hard to get a resisting person's arms out from under them. It's just the way the human body is built. So when that happens, police police use what is called (strangely un-euphemistically), "pain compliance." It's a fancy term for old-school putting on the hurt.
Pain compliance is done with pressure points or mace. In a pinch, you could strike somebody, but this is not how it's supposed to be done because it looks bad and you might break something.
Pain compliance is not self-defense. And it's not normal use of force in which the force is directed toward the goal. Pain compliance is supposed to hurt. And it keeps hurting we keep hurting until you decide it's in your best interests to follow lawful orders. And as soon as you comply, we'll stop putting on the hurt. Because you see those hands... how are we going to get those hands behind your back? We've already tried asking and forcing.
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Take your baton, stick it under their armpit (preferably dominant side) and push until the tip is about at the sternum, then step on the handle to flip them over. They will be on their back, laying on the baton with the arm you stuffed it under pinned by the baton and their own body weight, unable to use any weapon they were potentially hiding under there. Grab the free arm, reestablish control.
You are welcome.
Leverage. It's science and it doesn't look bad on video. Honestly, I think cops aren't taught enough hands-on techniques so the resort to "pain compliance" in an attempt to convince people to do what they want instead of just making them do what they want. It's ask, tell, make...and pain for the purpose of pain doesn't actually make anyone do anything
- May 1, 2012 at 2:55 PM
- PCM said...
Thank you. I fully agree that more hands-on techniques need to be taught and used. And flipping somebody over like you describe is fun and easy.
But why would you want to flip the person over when you need to cuff the guy behind his back? At least when he's on his belly he's not much of a threat. I don't want the guy on his back, kicking and punching. And if he's on his back, how do cuff him behind his back?
- May 1, 2012 at 3:08 PM
Well said Pete. For once I actually agree with you. I actually think these officers did a good job. At no time do you see them punching or kicking the suspect or even using any obscene language. They seem to hold their composure. Anyone can make comments on how to do things differently, but until you are put in the situation it is hard to do. I think these officers should get commended for a job well done.
- May 1, 2012 at 7:55 PM
- bacchys said...
I didn't see anything in the video at the link that I thought was objectionable. I suppose I'd have to see when/why the pepper spray was used. If it was like Tony Bologna of the NYPD spraying compliant women, then it and everything after it is excessive force, imo. I'm not going to take Threatt's word on it that he was trying to comply with the order to get back on the sidewalk, but he obviously disputes the original basis for their taking him into custody.
- May 1, 2012 at 11:23 PM
- James @ austin-car-accident-lawyer.com said...
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- May 4, 2012 at 3:02 PM
"Here's the thing -- and I want you to try this at home or work with someone you love -"
Try this: get in the same position. Have 5 or 6 cops in uniform with gear all pig pile on top of you. Have another officer immobilize you with a taser while the other 5 or 6 yell at you to stop resisting and put your hands behind your back as they hit and kick you.
If you can actually put your hands behind your back while 1) there is over half a ton of weight immobilizing you and 2) your muscles are being immobilized by a Taser - please post a video on YouTube proving that it is actually possible to comply with the seemingly impossible command of "stop resisting".
- May 5, 2012 at 5:30 PM
- PCM said...
And if you could post a video of that happening, I would take your side.
But if that hasn't happened to you, and you're referring to this video, shut the f*ck up.
- May 6, 2012 at 12:38 AM
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- May 10, 2012 at 9:20 AM
- TestyMctester said...
"And if he's on his back, how do cuff him behind his back?"
Try watching old COPS videos. They don't get the guy on the ground. What they do is ask politely but firmly that the person turn around and put their hands behind their back. If you treat people with respect they will usually do the same. If you treat them like a thug then they will panic.
- May 10, 2012 at 9:21 AM
- PCM said...
Of course you start that way. And it works 95% of time. But the question is what do you do when the guy doesn't return the respect and starts acting like a thug? You don't put a guy on the ground if you don't have to.
- May 10, 2012 at 12:19 PM
- PCM said...
(Also, I'm not talking about Kelly Thomas in this post.)
- May 10, 2012 at 6:07 PM
- DB said...
Interesting points all. I even accept the one from the critic as valid - although I have to ask why the hell you had to push it to that point in the first place. Even in uses of force that are found to be excessive - one can usually trace the originating causal factor to some bozo who thought it was a good idea to not comply.
As far as this video is concerned. First we are missing context - what happened before? The actual use of force is not out of line. However are there other methods to address this situation. Pepper spray in the eyes at that distance might cause some to pause - so it's something to think about. Slowing this situation down and applying a figure four leg lock might have been preferable. Once in the lock - he's not going anywhere and we can let him exhaust himself - or we can apply some very powerful pain compliance from this position without much fear of Officer injury. Regardless - the context is unknown so this is just some possible alternatives. We in policing need to start discussing public perception of our uses of force (justified or not). Quick, decisive and neutralizing is my moto - if it ends quick there's a lot less to bitch about.
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Yesterday, the ship and crew aiming to recover Europe's unmanned IXV spacecraft in November had a practice run off the coast of Tuscany, Italy.
They retrieved a prototype of the suborbital IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, the same model flown last year in a splashdown test off the east coast of Sardinia.
A crane dropped the two-tonne vehicle into the water for the crew to practise the tricky manoeuvres they will use when the real thing splashes down in the Pacific Ocean later this year. The rehearsal even allowed for an upside-down splashdown.
A crew from the Italian company NERI were operating the recovery ship Nos Aries while the prototype was carefully hoisted aboard and into its container. This model, its work done, will now be taken to ESA's Technical Centre in the Netherlands for display.
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Using XP-SP2, IE7, Outlook 2003 and the HTML format, there is a significant typing delay creating new e-mail messages, both using stationary and not. Using text or rich text, there is no lag. Also, IE7 in general seemed slower.
I have eliminated anti-spyware and ant-virus as a cause. Office Detect and Repair did not fix anything.
Resetting IE7 fixes the problem.
Control Panel>Internet Options>Advanced>Restore>Reset.
Caution: this resets the IE7 add-ins also, which must be investigated and re-enabled as necessary.
Open IE7>Tools>Manage Add-ons>Enable or Disable add-ons.
I have traced the issue down to SpyBot Immunization and Spyware Blaster Enabling Protection for Restricted Sites. Either one causes the problem. This is repeatable. The problem started around 1/20/07.
In addition, I have found that Sun Microsystems BHO (ssv.dll) slows IE7.
Disable SSV Helper class - (It's from Sun Microsystems) It's a BHO - ssv.dll
Close browser and then re-open.


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Welcome to F.I.E.L.D.- the First Ismaili Electronic Library and Database. Guests are not required to login during this beta-testing phase
March 19, 2006 Damascus, Syria:His Highness the Aga Khan meets with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to discuss development activities in the country and collaboration with the Aga Khan Development Network.
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1) Chris Sale, LHP, Grade A: I don't see how I can give him anything but a Grade A considering how his debut went. Starter or closer, either way he looks great to me.
2) Brent Morel, 3B, Grade B: Should be a solid regular, very good glove, bat will be enough, Joe Randa comps are common and accurate, in my view.
… 9) Andre Rienzo, RHP, Grade C+: This guy is a huge sleeper. You won't see him on many other lists, but he has good stuff and good numbers. From Brazil.
The rest at the link.


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The BPRD wants you - and they're willing to give away their entire history to get you. Dark Horse are offering the chance to "join" Hellboy's secret paranormal investigation division, and they're sweetening the deal with a one-day-only Twitter contest.
Fans of Mike Mignola's Hellboy and BPRD comics can now get even more weirdness by signing up for a newsletter that'll offer
insider access to exclusive cover art and interiors, extended previews, editorial commentary, creator signings, contests, discounts and more.
Those who sign up with also get invited to join a private BPRD Facebook page offering more exclusive content. But if you've never read any BPRD, you're in luck: For today only, Dark Horse is also running a Twitter contest to win the first eleven collections of the series; details can be found here.


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When there's only one chance to get it right, rely on the Tupelo Raycom team to deliver a world class product at any budget.
From concert experiences featuring Lil' Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Kid Rock, Mariah Carey, The Lumineers, Jewel, Ryan Bingham, Martina McBride, Matchbox Twenty, Jason Mraz, The Allman Brothers Band, and many more to red carpet specials leading up to the CMA and Daytime Emmy Awards…. Tupelo Raycom delivers the stars to screens big and small.
On the court and in the field, count on Tupelo Raycom to capture every angle of the game, bringing fans to the action with innovative camera angles, informative graphics and immersive audio.


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Each CHSAS student had the opportunity to scale and mix their own Eli's Cheesecake.
Over half of the cheesecakes baked at Eli's are decorated. Here our Job Shadow students decorate their own cakes.
Each cake was a work of art!
Our Job Shadow students were able to meet with a group of Eli's leaders from a cross section of areas. Here Boris Bajlovic explains what is involved in selling Eli's internationally.


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by Clark Groome
Since Bruce Graham made his playwriting debut with "Burkie" at the Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays in 1984, his work has been a regular part of the Philadelphia Theatre scene. Over the last 28 years I've seen 18 of his plays. They have all been unique, and all have a sense of humanity and humor that distinguish them from the works of other equally prolific playwrights.
Graham's latest, "The Outgoing Tide," is making its Philadelphia debut at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, where it will be through April 22. Its production here follows one in Chicago last season, where it garnered the Jefferson Award for Best New Play, the Windy City equivalent of our Barrymores or New York's Tonys.
PTC's superb production affirms the Jeffersons' wisdom. "The Outgoing Tide" is a tough and tender play about the pain a family experiences when its patriarch is facing the long road of oncoming dementia.
Gunner (Richard Poe) is both terrified of and determined to defeat the monster that is slowly destroying him. He figures out a way to do that so that his family — wife Peg (Robin Moseley) and son Jack (Anthony Lawton) — will be taken care of handsomely after he's gone. His scheme, which I won't reveal, troubles them. The two days we spend with them at Gunner and Peg's home on the Chesapeake Bay are revelatory, emotionally draining and exquisitely human.
Graham has always been good at creating characters who are believable. These three are among his most sympathetic and recognizable. As his three fine actors limn them, we see their varying emotions, their devotion and their fears. This remarkable play is receiving a stellar performance, magnificently directed, like so many of Graham's other plays, by James J. Christy.
David Gordon's set, Pamela Scofield's costumes, R. Lee Kennedy's lighting and Bart Fasbender's sound all add immensely to the play's effectiveness.
But it is Graham's characters and his adroit mixture of humor amid sadness that make "The Outgoing Tide" so special.
For tickets to Bruce Graham's "The Outgoing Tide," being presented by the Philadelphia Theatre Company and the Suzanne Roberts Theatre through April 22, call 215-985-0420 or visit www.philadelphiatheatrecompan.org


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Chinese Whispers is a multi-phase, site-specific community-storytelling project by artist Rene Yung about contemporary folk memories of the Chinese who helped build the Transcontinental Railroad and settlements of the American frontier. Taking place along the route of the Transcontinental Railroad from San Francisco, California to Ogden, Utah, where the railroad's western and eastern segments met, the project unfolds in a progressive series of storytelling events at selected sites where each community recounts stories passed down about the early Chinese settlers and sojourners in their area.
A 2009 pilot, Chinese Whispers: Sierra Stories was produced in Roseville, California, featuring stories from the Sierra Nevada foothills. A California Story Fund project of the California Humanities Council, the production resulted in a multimedia community storytelling event which is documented on a DVD by the same title.
A new production, Chinese Whispers: Golden Gate, is in progress in the San Francisco Bay Area. It will focus on San Francisco as the portal and transit point for the early Chinese pioneers on their way to the mines, railroads and frontier settlements, and will include a collaboration between Artistic and Project Director Rene Yung and sound artist Jeremiah Moore.
Each production is specific to the site, and is developed from an in-depth research process including interviews with local participants from a broad range of cultures in addition to the Chinese community. These interviews are interwoven into a script that connects the fragmentary stories of forgotten individuals with the larger historical context that they lived in, and casts light on parallel social issues in America today.
Participants from each production site, including both the original interviewees and proxy storytellers, come together for a public multimedia community storytelling event. The community storytelling format helps to make history come to life through authentic personal voices, and the gathering re-enacts the cumulative communal process that is at the heart of historical memory.
We are also developing an online mapping project, Chinese Whispers: Mapping the Traces. It will combine research data, locative media, and Chinese Whispers stories in an interactive website, to reframe the contributions of the early Chinese immigrants to the building of the West in a visually accessible way, and connect local histories to the national narrative.
Chinese Whispers connects contemporary viewpoints to historical memory, to foster greater stewardship of fast-fading local history, and to transform absence and ambiguity into positive community experiences that bridge time, place, and people.


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UPDATE 12DEC2011: Since FEB2011, most Macbook models should work out of the box, without patching the kernel. If you experience problems or suspect your machine is different somehow, please read on.
UPDATE 28APR2010: For the latest applesmc, see the applesmc-dkms package in the Mactel PPA: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MactelSupportTeam/PPA
If you have a Mac that is yet unsupported by applesmc, please reply to this post, gathering the information below.
* Determine your exact mac model
* Run the applesmc-test.sh script (found below in this post) to get a picture of the performance before the patchCode:sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name
(you may need to do 'chmod +x ./applesmc-test.sh' before it runs)Code:./applesmc-test.sh
* Run the scan-smc.sh script (found below in this post), and attach the output.
(you may need to do 'chmod +x ./scan-smc.sh' before it runs)Code:sudo ./scan-smc.sh > scan-smc-MODEL.txt
After some time, a reply with a new version of applesmc-dkms attached will appear. Then please run applesmc-test.sh again. Once satisfactory, the change will be incorporated in the Mactel PPA, and a patch sent upstream.
For more information, see http://bitmath.org/code/applesmc-dkms/


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Consensus Report
Review of the Draft Research and Restoration Plan for Artic-Yukon-Kuskokwim (Western Alaska) Salmon (2006)Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
Declines in the abundance of salmon in the Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim (AYK) region of western Alaska in the late 1990s and early 2000s created hardships for the people and communities who depend on this resource. Based on recommendations from a 2004 National Academies report, the AYK Sustainable Salmon Initiative (SSI) developed a research and restoration plan to help understand the reasons for this decline and to help support sustainable management in the region. This report reviews the draft plan, recommending some clarification, shortening, and other improvements, with a better focus on the relationship between the underlying intellectual model and the research questions, and a clearer discussion of local and traditional knowledge and capacity building.
Key Messages
- Although the research plan addresses the importance of local and traditional knowledge (LTK), it does not adequately integrate the concept throughout the document. The plan also does not adequately distinguish the concept of LTK from that of capacity building.
- As the draft plan recognizes, cataloging, assembling, and synthesizing existing data is an important early step that the program should take.
- Historical and current information about salmon abundance have not been adequately assessed for quality, availability, and scope.
- Many organizations are conducting research on related problems in the Alaska region. Not all these efforts are well coordinated.
- The administration of this, like any, scientific program is a significant undertaking and requires the full attention of a dedicated and qualified individual or individuals.
- The draft plan defines capacity building well, but it does not articulate how capacity building will either be incorporated into an RFP or as part of the program as a whole. It also does not address the educational components of capacity building
- The draft research and restoration plan is thoughtful and in many ways insightful. However, the committee judges that it is too long and that the connections between the principles, goals, and conceptual models described at the beginning of the report and the specific research questions identified as high priority at the end of it are not clear.
- The draft research plan barely mentions important management tools, such as biological escapement goals. Yet these tools depend on good scientific information and profoundly affect the sustainability of salmon in the region.
- The relationships between the AYK SSI's research and restoration plan and the research being undertaken by other organizations in Alaska are not clear.
- There is insufficient separation to avoid the appearance and reality of conflict of interest between the people who write the science plan and the RFPs and evaluate research proposals, and the investigators who submit research proposals.


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This is the Kiev, currently anchored in the Chinese port of Tianjin. Once she was the flagship of the mighty Soviet navy's Pacific fleet. Now she's available for business retreats, intimate getaways or simple relaxation.
That's because the Chinese have bought the aircraft carrier and transformed her into a floating luxury hotel.
The Kiev will stay permanently docked. Much as a Soviet-era sailor might resent the indignity, Kiev won't go back out to sea. She'll entertain guests and clients at anchor, a bizarre museum to a different country's naval power.
And also an allusion to Chinese naval ambitions. After all, Kiev isn't the only ship that the Chinese bought from former Soviet states. Its first aircraft carrier, rechristened Shi Lang the floating equivalent of a new used car, purchased from Ukraine. It's kind of a starter ship.
Similarly, while China is newly aggro in the western Pacific, it's no naval heavyweight. Its submarines are way too loud to threaten the U.S. Navy. On the other hand, its investment in tons and tons of missiles certainly do.
But that won't be an issue for the Kiev luxury hotel. Guests will relax with Western-style cuisine in ornate luxury suites, dreaming of Chinese seapower.
Photo: China Daily.
This post originally appeared on Wired's Danger Room. Wired.com has been expanding the hive mind with technology, science and geek culture news since 1995.


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Brain drain: Lethal amoebae take devastating toll
Reincarnation doesn't sound appealing to me. For example, it seems all the Hollywood stars were kings or some other fantastic legends in past lives. Why couldn't they have just been ho-hum people? However, if reincarnation does exist, in my past lives, I'd like to have been Cary Grant, and before that Abe Lincoln, and before that, Cleopatra! Is that asking too much?
Can you imagine coming back as an amoeba?
Do you remember looking at amoebae in life science classes? Under the microscope, amoebae look like blots of Slime! (that oochie-goochie green mess in a can that kids play with). Amoebae are protozoan parasites, but unlike other parasites, these don't need a host to survive and replicate.
N. fowleri is known as the "brain-eating amoebic." It was first described in Australia in 1965 and has since been diagnosed in a few people in FL, TX, CA, AK, and AZ. I read it was even a diagnosis made on season two of House, M.D. (I never watch medical shows because their medical information is as accurate as advice from television financial experts.)
N. fowleri lives in warm fresh water such as thermally polluted streams and rivers, man-made lakes and ponds, and hot springs. It enters our bodies via the nose. I never jump into fresh water without plugging my nose, because one theory is the pressure of water up the nose can let N. fowleri jet up to the brain.
In the Oscar-nominated movie 127 Hours, James Franco and two ladies jump into a water hole, and all I could think was, "Danger! N. fowleri!"
The incubation period is less than two weeks, and initially the sense of smell and taste can change. Then meningitis symptoms come on quickly: neck stiffness and pain, headache, fever, and nausea/vomiting. A lumbar puncture (a needle in the lower back into the sheath that surrounds the spinal cord) is done to examine the cerebral spinal fluid, and the results appear to be bacterial meningitis. Of course, it's not that, and it doesn't respond to antibiotics.
N. fowleri causes major destruction of the brain, leading to seizures, movement disorders, confusion, and coma. Death is inevitable within four to six days due to increased pressure inside the skull that smooshes the brain.
Though medicines haven't been shown to save lives, antifungals and antimicrobials are administered to try to kill this horrible amoeba. How do we know when it's N. fowleri? The amoeba is visible in the CSF under a microscope.
One of the most puzzling things about N. fowleri is that many healthy persons in endemic areas test positive for antibodies to this amoebia. That means they've been exposed to it but didn't get meningoencephalitis (meningitis and brain infection). Folks exposed to N. fowleri have a history of indulging in water sports in lakes, ponds, or inadequately chlorinated swimming pools.
Acanthamoeba is another amoeba– this one found in soil, dust, air conditioners, water, sewage, and contact lens fluid. The meningoencephalitis is slower to manifest than that of N. fowleri, but it's also ultimately fatal within two months when it infects the brain. It tends to affect folks with weak immune systems.
Now the eye is different matter. In 2007, Acanthamoeba eye infection was detected in 138 people who used a specific brand of contact lens cleaning solution. This led to three months of treatment to spare the eye from pain and blurry vision.
Amoebic infections are rare but horrendous. Perhaps what's happened is that's how nefarious people like Hitler and Attila the Hun have been reincarnated!
Dr. Hook cracks a joke or two, but he's a respected physician with an interesting website, http://drjohnhong.com/ Email him with your questions.


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Anna Kendrick Rocks Edgy Black J. Mendel Dress at 2014 Oscars [PHOTOS]
Quirky, lovably neurotic actress Anna Kendrick wore an edgy, black J. Mendel gown to the 2014 Oscars.
There were a few elements to Kendrick's dress, including the sprinkling of red, starburst-like appliques on the sheer stomach panel and that slit. That was an unexpected detail -- and one that we loved.
Black and neutrals were incredibly popular on this year's red carpet, and A. Kendrick was able to stand out thanks to the details of her gown.


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The man charged in a shooting and fiery crash on the Las Vegas Strip is to appear Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court for an extradition hearing.
Ammar Harris, 26, a self-described pimp, was arrested Thursday in Los Angeles, ending a weeklong manhunt that began after the Feb. 21 shooting and crash that killed three people and injured five others.
Authorities allege Harris was driving his black Range Rover SUV when he fired at least five shots into a Maserati sports car, killing Kenneth Wayne Cherry Jr., a rapper who called himself Kenny Clutch.
The two men had argued minutes earlier in a casino valet area, police said.
After Cherry was struck, the Maserati careened into a taxi that exploded in a spectacular fireball at Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo Road, one of the most famous neon-lit crossroads in Las Vegas.
The cab driver and his passenger were killed.
A passenger in the Maserati was shot in the arm, and four people in four other vehicles were hurt, none seriously, in the chain-reaction crashes. Three women were in the SUV with Harris.
The crash closed the Strip for about 15 hours while police investigated.
Two days later, police located the SUV parked at an apartment complex near the crash scene, triggering the multi-state search for Harris. Authorities obtained a warrant for his arrest on murder, attempted murder and shooting charges.
Armed with an arrest warrant for three murder counts, law officers arrested Harris at an apartment in Los Angeles' Studio City area, hours after police found the last of the women who were with him in the SUV.
Harris is a convicted felon in South Carolina who shows fists full of money on Internet posts and boasts of a high-rolling lifestyle with prostitutes in Miami and Las Vegas.


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The anticipated reconciliation between recently arrested Charlie Sheen and his estranged-by-court-order wife, Brooke Mueller, may cost the "Two and a Half Men" star big bucks.
The price tag, which insiders speaking to Radar Online estimated at $1 million, would come in the form of an amended prenuptial agreement — with some strings attached. For instance, the alleged deal would pay only if Sheen remains out of jail and Mueller stays married to him, at least for now.
Radar Online reported that friends close to Mueller believe what she really wants is a divorce, but she stands to gain little under the terms of the couple's current prenup. It's said an improved payout arrangement would give Mueller the motivation to make the marriage work long enough to wait out Sheen's legal woes.
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Stories that affect your life across the U.S. and around the world.
Uchitel's camp behind Woods rumors?
Embattled golf great Tiger Woods hasn't shown his face in public since allegations of multiple mistresses first broke, but for some reason, rumor-mill reports placing him by the side of ubiquitous other woman Rachel Uchitel persist.
Just this week, ET Online quoted a source who supposedly spotted Woods holding hands with Uchitel in front of 300 private partygoers in Palm Beach, Fla. Hardly seems likely for a man spending his holidays in hiding, but according to the New York Post, the real story here is the source behind all the stories.
"There are a lot of rumors being put out by Rachel's camp to make sure she is still linked to Tiger and to keep her in the limelight," the Post's own source revealed. "She's enjoying this and is milking it."
While the paper stated Uchitel even delivered a coy "no comment" when reporters asked if she'd seen Woods, her lawyer, Gloria Allred, has since delivered a far less teasing take on the question.
"Ms. Uchitel has had absolutely no contact with Tiger Woods for quite some time, and has not seen him or had any communication with him since she has been in Palm Beach," Allred stated.
Applegate: New cancer screening guidelines 'atrocious'
Early detection may have saved her life, so it's no surprise that Christina Applegate has strong feelings about new and controversial breast cancer screening guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
The updated guidelines — which recommend women only get routine mammograms between the ages of 50 and 74 and that they forgo self-examination altogether — make little sense to the actress, who underwent a double mastectomy at the age of 36.
"Don't even get me started," an exasperated Applegate told Parade. "Look, I just started to sweat. I get a little angry. I don't mind being outspoken about that. I think that is the most atrocious thing that I've ever heard. I was 36 years old when I had breast cancer, and you're going to have people wait until like they're 50 to get screened? It irks my whole body."
Despite her anger, the breast cancer survivor believes the guidelines will never actually be adopted in any official capacity.
"I'm telling you it's not going to happen," Applegate insisted. "We women will fight against that as much as we can."
Dish on the fly
The undisputed star of MTV's "Jersey Shore," Nicole "Snooki" Palazzo, recently shared some harsh words for outspoken opponents of the reality show. In an interview with Steppin' Out magazine, the 21-year-old blasted "haters" and those encouraging a "Shores" boycott due to negative Italian American stereotypes. "F--- you," Palazzo said bluntly. "If you don't want to watch, don't watch. Just shut the hell up." … She may not be a fan of the glossy gossip weeklies, but Beyoncé Knowles can't avoid them thanks to her mom, Tina Knowles. "My mother loves to read celeb magazines, especially the racy tabloids," the Grammy-winner confessed in a quote posted to Showbiz Spy. I can't believe it sometimes. She'll go to this magazine store in New York and buy 20 magazines while I'm standing next to her. I'm just praying nobody recognizes me while my mom is stacking up those magazines!"
Tabloid Tidbits is compiled by Ree Hines.