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Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has sent the IRS Czar, John Koshkinen a letter inquiring into the IRS Czar’s use of IRS hired guns to target a corporation. It seems the IRS just can’t seem to find enough goons among the 40,000 operatives now currently employed to shake down conservatives, tea party groups and Christians.
The going rate for goon work? $2.2 million, paying lawyers $1000 an hour. That’s almost as high a rate as Paris Hilton made for getting sprayed with cheeseburgers (that was her, right?). Nice work if you can sleep at night.
Hatch actually had the temerity to accuse the IRS Czar of…gasp…breaking the law. I know, the IRS doesn’t break the law, it MAKES the law, which is totally cool by the way (that was thrown in for the NSA dude looking over my shoulder right now).
In the letter, Hatch writes,
Despite……prohibitions….in May of last year the IRS hired (Quinn Emanuel) to assist in the income tax audit and investigation of a corporate taxpayer…This contract marks the first time, to the Committee’s knowledge, that the agency has hired a private contractor to take such an involved role in an examination.
The law firm bills itself as the world’s largest business litigation firm, famed for its ‘quirkiness.’ The lawyers wear sandals. That’s a nice image, isn’t it? I like to think that the IRS hired gun hounding my business is ‘chill.’ I want my IRS hitmen to be happy.
To be fair, the target here is Microsoft, but, as the saying goes, “First they came for Microsoft, then they came for……me.”
Also, to be fair, the IRS already changed the rule, so it’s cool. Remember, the IRS doesn’t ENFORCE the Law, it MAKES the law.
You see, this is just a test. If they can get away with using these sandal-wearing lawyers today, they will be able to hire more goons to target you tomorrow. I just hope these IRS hired guns keep wearing sandals.
What would you like to tell the IRS Czar about his hired guns? Be sure to comment below, and share and tweet if you don’t support the IRS Czar.

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With the debate on Shale Gas extraction gathering pace Addison have taken a lead in the process by agreeing to represent the local north west SMEs by sitting on the North West Energy Task Force.
The North West Energy Task Force is charged with understanding how the responsible extraction of natural gas from Lancashire’s shale can be used to create jobs, generate economic growth and boost local revenues.
The Task Force consists of 16 leading business professionals from a range of backgrounds all of whom stand to be affected in some way by the introduction of Shale extraction in the local area. We are delighted to confirm that Marcus Addison is one of these leading professionals and sits on the Task Force.
Recent events included a panel debate chaired by Mr Bill Beaumont at the Blackpool Winter Gardens in front of a 500 strong audience including business leaders and local residents. This included a presentation from the Minister of State for Energy at the time, Mr Michael Fallon MP.
The panel debate opened up some interesting dialogue and proved to be a successful event in promoting the issues and concerns further and acting as a platform to move forward.
The event, which was filmed by BBC Television, drew the attention of their local news channel who featured the event on its prime time evening show.

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Rail transport in Burkina Faso
There are 622 kilometres of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) metre gauge railway in Burkina Faso, which run from Kaya to the border with Côte d'Ivoire. As of June 2014, 'Sitarail' operates a passenger train three times a week along the route from Ouagadougou to Abidjan. Journey time is 43 to 48 hours.
The following towns of Burkina Faso are served by the country's railways:
- - - border
- Ouagadougou (national capital)
- Ziniaré (service suspended)
- Kaya terminus
- (for 3MTpa manganese - 2014)?
- Kaya (terminus)
- Dori (approx. 100 km of the extension from Kaya to Dori; visible on Google Earth dated 15/2/07)
- Tambao (manganese), near Niger/Mali borders
Pan African Minerals to develop the Tambao manganese project at a cost of up to $1 billion. The manganese mine is in the north of Burkina Faso, near the border with Niger and Mali, containing perhaps 100 million tonnes of the metal (used in steel production). "The Tamboa project is an integrated project with a mining component and an infrastructure component, notably through the roads, railway and the port", said Romanian billionaire Frank Timis. "The project will happen in the next three years and will require investment of nearly $1 billion".
Ghana and Ivory Coast sign a deal to develop a through rail link.
Ghana and Burkina Faso sign deal for link Link
- European Rail Timetable, Summer 2014 Edition.
- "Railway Gazette: Essential renewals must pave the way for ambitious expansion strategy". Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- "Railway Gazette: News in Brief". Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- "2008-01-01". Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- Times Atlas of the World 2007 p85
- RailwayAfrica July 2009, p9
- UNHCR Map shows extension to Tambao
- Burkina Faso gives green light for $1 bln manganese mine, Reuters
Media related to Rail transport in Burkina Faso at Wikimedia Commons

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text: Legacies 1×11 “We’re Gonna Need A Spotlight” Season 1 Episode 11 Preview – THE SALVATORE SCHOOL’S ANNUAL TALENT SHOW — When Alaric (Matthew Davis) decides to postpone the school’s annual talent show, Lizzie (Jenny Boyd) and Josie (Kaylee Bryant) are determined to make sure the show goes on. Meanwhile, tensions arise when the students face a creature that lowers their inhibitions. Lastly, Alaric decides to play hooky with Emma (guest star Karan David). Danielle Rose Russell, Aria Shahghasemi, Quincy Fouse and Peyton Alex Smith also star. Barbara Brown directed the episode written by Thomas Brandon & Penny Cox (#109). Original airdate 2/21/2019.

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EVALUATION OF A NOVEL UAV-BORNE TOPO-BATHYMETRIC LASER PROFILER
Keywords: Laser Bathymetry, UAV, Profiler, Shallow water mapping, Hydraulic roughness
Abstract. We present a novel topo-bathymetric laser profiler. The sensor system (RIEGL BathyCopter) comprises a laser range finder, an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver, a control unit, and digital cameras mounted on an octocopter UAV (RiCOPTER). The range finder operates on the time-of-flight measurement principle and utilizes very short laser pulses (<1 ns) in the green domain of the spectrum (λ=532 nm) for measuring distances to both the water surface and the river bottom. For assessing the precision and accuracy of the system an experiment was carried out in October 2015 at a pre-alpine river (Pielach in Lower Austria). A 200 m longitudinal section and 12 river cross sections were measured with the BathyCopter sensor system at a flight altitude of 15-20 m above ground level and a measurement rate of 4 kHz. The 3D laser profiler points were compared with independent, quasi-simultaneous data acquisitions using (i) the RIEGL VUX1-UAV lightweight topographic laser scanning system (bare earth, water surface) and (ii) terrestrial survey (river bed). Over bare earth the laser profiler heights have a std. dev. of 3 cm, the water surface height appears to be underestimated by 5 cm, and river bottom heights differ from the reference measurements by 10 cm with a std. dev. of 13 cm. When restricting the comparison to laser profiler bottom points and reference measurements with a lateral offset below 1 m, the values improve to 4 cm bias with a std. dev. of 6 cm. We report additionally on challenges in comparing UAV-borne to terrestrial profiles. Based on the accuracy and the small footprint (3.5 cm at the water surface) we concluded that the acquired 3D points can potentially serve as input data (river bed geometry, grain roughness) and validation data (water surface, water depth) for hydrodynamic-numerical models.

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Who were those 20 pilots again you lied about.How can anyone possibly talk about the recent mass murder in CT and not mention the fact that the fathers of both the Aurora shooter, and the Sandy Hook shooter were set to testify in the Senate about the LIBOR trillion dollar bank scandal.
Were these shootings a message to the fathers of the alleged shooters not to testify against men who control trillions of dollars?
And what you say is BS, But since you read it on the net like the 20 pilots I am sure you take it as gospel.
If you follow all the links back and forth on Twitter and in the blogosphere, you will run around in a nutty Internet circle and find the same hysterical article claiming that the Robert Holmes, father of James Holmes, and Peter Lanza, father of Adam Lanza, were knee-deep in the scandal and about to blow the whistle on something or other.
But there is nothing NOTHING to substantiate the sensational claims.
PROVE ME WRONG!


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Vitamin D purportedly protects against cognitive decline and dementia based on observational data using circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D). Little is known about vitamin D in the human brain and the association with dementia or neuropathology.
Decedents of the Rush Memory and Aging Project (n = 290) had vitamin D concentrations measured in four brain regions. Associations with cognitive and neuropathological outcomes were estimated using linear and logistic regression.
The main form of vitamin D in all brain regions measured was 25(OH)D3. Higher brain 25(OH)D3 concentrations were associated with a 25% to 33% lower odds of dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) at the last visit before death (all P ≤ .031). However, brain 25(OH)D concentrations were not associated with any post-mortem neuropathology outcome studied.
Higher brain 25(OH)D3 concentrations were associated with better cognitive function prior to death. Additional research is needed to clarify the specific mechanisms underlying this potentially protective relationship.

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Design of the Proportional Feeding System of Raw Mill
A raw mill’s production line is to grind the raw material mixed with limestone, clay and basalt of certain proportion; it decides the quality of the cement clinker. The production efficiency and quality can be promoted by precisely controlling the proportion of the three raw materials and feeding automatically. The system’s controller is S7-400, and the measurement is done by the rotor scale produced by SHENCK. The variable speed device (VSD) of the feeder was controlled by the flow through the PID controller to realize the precise proportion. Moreover, the proportion can be set and the feeding quantity, the producing process can be monitored by the position machine (Win CC), to achieve production automation.
Daoguo Yang, Tianlong Gu, Huaiying Zhou, Jianmin Zeng and Zhengyi Jiang
B. Y. Luo et al., "Design of the Proportional Feeding System of Raw Mill", Advanced Materials Research, Vols. 201-203, pp. 1586-1589, 2011


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Competition is something that we tend to think about in different contexts. But in garden design, it can be useful to think about competition too. Competition is a normal part of nature – and just like in a social context, it is something that can be beneficial or something which can hinder progress.
One of the important things we have to think about when designing a garden, or working on other ecological systems is how the elements within the system interact. There are of course many facets to that but one consideration is competition. Thinking about competition can help us understand which plants will be happy companions, and which may battle constantly for water, nutrients, sunshine and space.
Sometimes, competition is something to be avoided or reduced. In companion planting in a vegetable garden, for example, we often wish to plant carefully to avoid our crops having to compete too much.
However, competition can sometimes be something useful. In certain settings, planting densely and allowing the best suited and fittest to survive can be beneficial in creating a system which is as resilient as possible.
Competition can also play an important role in the evolution of an ecosystem. We may design systems with the intention that certain plants (pioneer trees are one example) will be outcompeted by a succession of other plants over time.
Sometimes, thinking about competition in this context can also help us see that while they often seem so ‘other’, plants are not always too different from ourselves. And help us understand how we can learn from nature for social systems, and also, perhaps, apply lessons from the social sphere in our gardens.

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Wednesday April 11, 2018
Fleet management and trucking business is a sector which has fierce competition. Do you know that tyre pressure monitoring system helps in vastly improve your fleet management duties?
Shrinking global economy along with lesser profit margins makes it even more difficult for companies to get a return on their investment.
Taking that into consideration companies do their best to cut extra costs and be more careful while managing their fleet.
The cost of day to day performance has to be reduced by companies if they are looking forward to a well managed fleet. Vehicle management is a crucial part in the daily functions.
A company might have a number of vehicles in their garage and they play a pivot role in transporting goods that the company produces.
Even for bringing in raw materials these vehicles are used in a daily basis. So cutting costs that are related to the fleet helps the company cut unnecessary expenditure.
A good tyre pressure monitoring system provides real time tyre pressure data. This ensures that your tyres and thus your vehicles are at optimum performance.
It is quite easy to install the tyre pressure management for your fleet. Thus it can be ensured that all tyre pressure is at optimum level.
The installations process is not a herculean task but is a very simple process. There are sensors in each wheel that generates a timely warning if the there is an abrupt change in the tyre pressure levels.
The driver will be alerted regarding the same in case there is a puncture or a quick loss of air. Even if there is a gradual loss over time this will be notified to the vehicle user.
When it comes to profit each drop is important. It might seem like a trivial matter but on a larger scale it contributes a lot to profit management.
Wrong air pressures contribute to spending a lot more fuel than it is needed.
It just requires a normal internet connection to get the tyre pressure information in real time using standard browsers. No software is needed as the data is stored and retrieved from the cloud.
You will be alerted every time the tyre pressure falls below a certain threshold. Real time data is at your fingertips.
An anti theft interface which is installed along with the tyre pressure monitor will come handy when someone tries to steel or meddle with the tyres.
Such information will be transmitted to the driver’s interface. This gives an extra level of safety for the fleet owners.
An optimum level of air pressure in your vehicles increases the life of your tyres. A tyre has an individual layer of fabric that has a frame of steel tightly bound to the tyre.
The tyre stretches beyond its permissible limits when the tyre is running on a relatively lower pressure.
As the material used to make tyre is mixture of fabric, steel, and rubber, the tyre can blow out if it is stretched for a longer period of time.
It leads to more rolling resistance if the tyre pressure is less than what is optimum.
The best part of this system is that it gives real time data. The information is given directly to the drivers. They have access to it at their fingertips.
It is also available on interfaces like smart phones too. Since the warning is given well in advance the drivers can effectively manage the situation.
A tyre pressure monitoring system contributes a lot towards cost cutting. Be it the fleet that transports goods and that which ferries passengers.
It is the same for large commercial vehicles, industrial operations or personal vehicles.
If you think rationally there will be increased fuel savings, reduced inefficiencies, and improved daily operations as a result of a good tyre management system.


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|Though my father and mother|
forsake me, the Lord will
receive me. (Psalm 27:10)
He's been dead thirty-six years and you would think that by now I'd be over any Daddy issues lingering about. Yet, it is at times like this, days before the celebration of Father's Day, that I get a bit nostalgic. Desiring to know if only in memory, what it felt like to be loved by a real father.
I've always wanted to be a Daddy's girl! You, know what I mean? I wanted to be the little girl in that iconic picture standing on top of her father's shoes as he holds her close for the first grown up dance of her life! Perhaps even putting on a solo dance performance to impress and please him. Leaping and twirling elegantly with little girl curls and swirls just for him!
I always wanted to be spoiled and made to feel special. Protected and cared for in a way that only a father can make you feel! And although I never experienced this from my biological father, I have this and much more from my heavenly Father! You see, even today, He writes precious letters to me in His Word and tells me such beautiful things:
For this is what the LORD Almighty says: After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you--for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye (Zechariah 2:8)
<>When I am fretful, discouraged and fearful that I've disappointed Him too greatly, I don't fear punishment as with an earthly Dad. I'm comforted by these words:
The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you:
in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing. (Zephaniah 3:17)
<>I may have felt abandoned by my biological father and spent countless hours wondering if he really cared anything about me at all, but I never doubt my true Father when He tells me:
See I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.
<>Earthly fathers sometimes make promises that they never keep. They are either too busy or too thoughtless to give you the love you desire, but not my Heavenly Father, who assures me:
I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness. (Jeremiah 31:3)
An African proverb goes like this: "When the music changes so does the dance!" The sweet music of a godly earthly father may have long stopped playing in your life but that doesn't mean that the dance is over:
Come with Me! Lift Your Hands to the Heavens!
Dance for Your HEAVENLY Father!
He is Worthy to Be Praised!!!
[This blog post is dedicated to women everywhere who may have had fathers
who neglected, abandoned, physically, or sexually abused them. You are precious
in the eyes of your heavenly Father and He is waiting to heal every wound!]
UNTIL NEXT TIME...
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block I embellished for Flora, I wanted to try a different idea for the wings on a dragonfly. In the past, I used strips of 4mm silk ribbon, this time I wanted to stitch them. I knew I wanted dragonflies on a specific section of the panel of my messenger bag, so I pulled it out to practice before adding one to Flora's block.
I also wanted to try using the straight and long stitch method (needle painting) to create a birdhouse.
|Messenger bag panel - bare|
|Messenger Bag panel - with topiary|
Winter/Christmas wall quilt, I believe the messenger bag will be my next Work In Progress (WIP) Wednesday project. In the meantime, perhaps I will find a few more ideas I hope to try out that will work on one of these panels!
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We compare two different definitions for the wavelet entropy associated to stochastic processes. The first one, the normalized total wavelet entropy (NTWS) family [S. Blanco, A. Figliola, R.Q. Quiroga, O.A. Rosso, E. Serrano, Time-frequency analysis of electroencephalogram series, III. Wavelet packets and information cost function, Phys. Rev. E 57 (1998) 932-940; O.A. Rosso, S. Blanco, J. Yordanova, V. Kolev, A. Figliola, M. Schürmann, E. Başar, Wavelet entropy: a new tool for analysis of short duration brain electrical signals, J. Neurosci. Method 105 (2001) 65-75] and a second introduced by Tavares and Lucena [Physica A 357(1) (2005) 71-78]. In order to understand their advantages and disadvantages, exact results obtained for fractional Gaussian noise (- 1 < α < 1) and fractional Brownian motion (1 < α < 3) are assessed. We find out that the NTWS family performs better as a characterization method for these stochastic processes.
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- Fractional Brownian motion
- Fractional Gaussian noise
- Wavelet analysis
- Wavelet entropy


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I’m done with making sprites for 2018 because I have very important things to do in life (yes I have a life.)
Sprite making is sure a fun hobby, but putting a lot of time on it is no different from being addicted.
I don’t want that to happen to me, I want a good future, I want to be an architect.
This might be one of the most selfish things I have said so please don’t get offended.
I don’t feel “original” anymore, it seems like after Zarkares was released, everybody is going really hard, hoping the devs would accept. It might be a good thing for you guys but I feel discouraged. I don’t enjoy making sprites anymore, It’s more of a gamble now. The past 3 years of sprite making were fun and I enjoyed it but It’s time to end. I want to do something more realistic.
Thank you Sarah and Xzyllin.


Co-hosted by the Flemish Ministry of Education and the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) on the 17-18 October 2016, this seminar brought together state of the art research with country experiences of effective modern education governance. Plenary and workshop discussions explored shared responsibility and stakeholder involvement, participatory governance, and accountability and professionalism. Main themes of the first day included strategies for strengthening and sustaining participatory governance, building accountability systems that work, with a focus on shared responsibility, and exploring how to achieve national goals in decentralised systems, with a specific look at the 'Governing Complex Education Study' Flemish case study. The second day focused on professionalism and governance, and what we can (and cannot) learn from other sectors. All presentations and background papers from the meeting can be found here.
Stecy Yghemonos took part in a panel discussion about cross-sectoral perspective on professionalism and governance, on behalf of Eurocarers. The panel also included Ms. Sarada Das, Deputy Secretary-General of the CPME Standing Committee of European Doctors (representing the medical profession) as well as Mr. Julian Lonbay, Senior Lecturer, Birmingham Law School (representing lawyers). The session aimed to explore professionalism in various sectors as a different departure for thinking about professionalism in education. The panel addressed potential implications of the conception of professionalism in their field and described how their associations aimed at ensuring adequate remuneration, professional development and high standards of job performance.
For more information about this event, please click here.


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Bioconjugated Quantum Dots in Rapid Detection of Water Microbial Load: An Emerging Technology
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Drinking water contaminated with pathogenic living forms is a major concern for human health in developing countries because it can lead to acute and sometimes life-threatening gastrointestinal diseases. There is thus a need to detect potentially harmful pathogens and identify them in the presence of several other nonpathogenic microbes, particularly in the urban water systems to prevent infection and disease.
Shiga toxin producing E. coli is one of the largest common pathogenic bacteria causing diarrhea. Salmonella typhimurium and Listeria monocytogenes are other microbes contaminating water. Immediate detection of these pathogens can help avoid infections.
Nanomaterials have unique physical, optical, and electrical properties which can be employed for detection of pathogens. Quantum dots (QDs) are one such class deployed for rapid detection of pathogenic bacteria in water samples. QDs are preferred over the fluorescent organic dyes, as they display intense and stable fluorescence for a longer period of time; are resistant towards photo-bleaching; and provide a highly sensitive and specific detection of pathogens.
Biosensors that help in rapid detection of pathogenic bacteria using fluorescent bioconjugated quantum dots (QDs) are reported. This chapter summarizes studies on use of QDs or QD-based biosensors for detection of waterborne pathogens and scope for future applications in the area.
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I’ve been entrusted with the task of making a dress for my friend Julie. Julie is tall, slender and not unlike Princess Aurora, so it’s only fitting that the dress I’m designing her is to have Princess Seams!
The princess line travels either from the shoulder, like in Aurora’s dress, or from the armhole as in Julie’s sleeveless bodice and it’s a curved seam that contours outwards towards the widest point of the bust then inwards to the narrowest part of the waist. Often, the line can continue below the waist to the dress hem, curving outward to accommodate the hips.
The technique for construction is the same whether the seam starts from the shoulder or the armhole, and is the same for the back as for the front. Having said that, the curve at the back is less radical that at the bust, so if this is your first go, I recommend that you get a little practice by doing the back first.
In this example, I’m using the front.
On the centre front: reinforce the curved part of the seam by stitching 2mm away from the seamline inside the seam allowance, starting at the top and ending just below the bust point. Clip the area at regular intervals.
Tip: Clipping means making single cuts into the seam allowance to enable the area to spread and curve outwards.
Tip: when clipping, watch the tip of your scissors carefully and ensure it doesn’t go too close to the stitch line. That way you’re less likely to cut the stitching.
With Side Front on top of Centre Front, match the bust points. With the clipped area spread outwards, pin the two sections together. Tack (red stitches). Turn so the centre front is on top, and stitch, sweeping your index finger in front of the presser foot to ensure the underside is smooth.
Tip: when stitching curved areas, keep your stitch short and your speed slow to get the line as exact as possible.
Finger-press (press seam open with your fingers) and notch out the Side Front seam allowance. It’s best the notch out in between the clippings of the opposite seam allowance.
Tip: Notching means making double cuts, taking out wedge-shaped pieces in a seam allowance that curves inward. This is to eliminate the excess fabric that would otherwise overlap or bunch upwards.
Close the seam and press it over a tailor’s ham. Do not press beyond the seamline into the body of the garment: this might create creases.
Tip: don’t trim Seam Allowances as this might make them too short to lie flat against the body of the garment.
Finishing Seam Allowances: in this example, the seam allowances are unfinished so that the finish doesn’t show through the fabric on the right side of the garment. Instead, the bodice is lined so that the raw edges are contained within and aren’t subject to much rubbing. The alternative is to finish off the seam allowances prior to seam construction.
I think that once you’re sewing Princess Seams, you’re quite on your way to turning from dressmaker to tailoress; that is, beginning to create garments with a permanent shape built into them!


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“A confrontation of monumental proportions is coming up,” said Orville Schell, a China specialist at the Asia Society. “Clearly, something will happen on Oct. 1.”
In 2012, Chinese President Xi Jinping promised that the Communist Party would deliver great successes in advance of two upcoming centennials, in 2021 and 2049. But no amount of nationalist posturing can change the fact that the fall of the CPC appears closer than at any time since the end of the Mao era, says Minxin Pei, a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College.
To be sure, the CPC will not go down without a fight. As its grip on power weakens, it will probably attempt to stoke nationalism among its supporters, while intensifying repression of its opponents, he writes for Project Syndicate:
But this strategy cannot save China’s one-party regime. While nationalism may boost support for the CPC in the short term, its energy will eventually dissipate, especially if the Party fails to deliver continued improvement in living standards. And a regime that is dependent on coercion and violence will pay dearly in the form of depressed economic activity, rising popular resistance, escalating security costs, and international isolation.
This is hardly the uplifting picture Xi will present to the Chinese people on October 1, adds Pei, a contributor to the NED’s Journal of Democracy. But no amount of nationalist posturing can change the fact that the unraveling of the CPC’s rule appears closer than at any time since the end of the Mao era.
For the past three months, Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests have shocked the world. In June, millions took to the streets to peacefully demonstrate against a controversial bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China to stand trial in courts controlled by the Chinese Communist party, The FT’s Sue Lin-Wong observes. But now, the movement has evolved to include a far broader array of demands including genuine, universal suffrage, she adds, citing five books that help explain the situation:
1. City of Protest by Antony Dapiran is an accessible, colourful book that traces Hong Kong’s history of dissent from the 1967 riots to the territory’s solidarity movement with students in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and the 2014 Umbrella Movement, which politicized an entire generation of Hong Kongers.
2. Written in the 1980s, Marvels of a Floating City by Xi Xi is a collection of short, fictional stories that encapsulate the mood of Hong Kong amid negotiations between the UK and China over the future of the city. Xi Xi, one of Hong Kong’s most famous writers, explores questions of identity, choice and the future through lyrical allegories and allusions to both Chinese and western culture.
3. Generation HK by Ben Bland. It is impossible to wrap your head around Hong Kong’s ongoing “water revolution” without understanding the city’s younger generation who see themselves as Hong Kongers, distinct from both their colonial British past and today’s China. …
4. Extraordinarily, the Chinese Communist party operates underground in the former British colony, governing the city through the chief executive Carrie Lam. Underground Front: the Chinese Communist party in Hong Kong by Christine Loh provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Communist Party in Hong Kong — which has hidden behind both a wholesale tea company and a news agency at various times in the past century, and doesn’t have a single, openly-declared member in the territory.
5. Asian Godfathers by Joe Studwell. No list of recommendations about the current discontent in Hong Kong would be complete without at least one book about the tycoons who control much of the business and politics of the territory….RTWT


A few days ago, satellite photos of the Engels air base appeared on the web. At this airfield near russian Saratov, several Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic bombers were photographed covered in car tires – the purpose of this odd "enhancement" was unknown and seemed unreasonable.
Mainly because it would be barely any effective as a means of physical protection against drone strikes, instead likely to help burn the aircraft down if fire were to break up. In any case, installing about a hundred tires onto a plane is a non-trivial and time-consuming task to do on a whim.
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The possible explanation was suggested by The Drive who received an insight from an unspecified "Ukrainian official" that sheds light on the matter. The official confirmed that the Neptun anti-ship missile of Ukrainian manufacture was re-made into a land attack weapon.
Once launched, this new version of Neptun arrives in a designated area and starts searching for a target. In the final stage of its flight, "the missile then employs an infrared imaging seeker to search for and lock onto a target based on a pre-loaded image."
That said, an aircraft has a different thermal signature when covered with tires. So if a Neptun approaches the target, it cannot match the new outlines of the bomber to any image in its memory bank and "aborts the attack."
Worth noting, the same technology is used in such other missiles as Storm Shadow, Naval Strike Missile, and SLAM-ER. On the other hand, Neptun was initially created as an anti-ship missile with a radar signature seeker, the one showcased in the video below.
It would be more logical to continue the works on the existing homing head to make it capable of acquiring targets stationed on the ground. Especially since the Ukrainian Navy already has a type of missile implementing this method of guidance, the AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile which is capable of land strikes in the Block II version.
In the meantime, altering the homing head altogether, like it was made in Neptun, is more complex than just replacing the guidance unit. There are also issues with balance adjustment, power supply, maybe with the homing head cooling system, making a new nose cone, etc. The most important though is the development of this kind of homing head or receiving it from abroad partners.
Ultimately, from the pragmatic perspective, additional guidance on the terminal stage is superfluous because in many cases DSMAC guidance would be enough, it's when a cruise missile is constantly scanning the surface beneath using optical, thermal imagery or radio waves and compares it to the GPS-bound reference in the memory.
DSMAC plus satellite and inertial guidance are enough for such weapons as Tomahawk to launch successful attacks on stationary targets. In the case of russian strategic bombers, we should count them in as "stationary" since they spend hours staying on the same spot. It would take much less than that for a Neptun missile to deploy and reach them from any hypothetical launch site.
Of course, if only it really managed to increase its attack range: Engels air base is located 650 km away from Ukraine's border, whereas the basic anti-ship variant of Neptun had a maximum range of 300 km (~185 miles).


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I really do like pork a lot! So I’m always looking for ways to use this flavour-filled meat in my recipes. This crunchy Asian salad with pork is made even more delicious by topped with a generous serving of pork whilst remaining light and trim. The recipe is a classic example of keeping pork on the menu when you’re eating a lower calorie diet.
By choosing a lean “heart smart” pork mince and then poaching the meat, this Asian salad with pork is a lot healthier and lighter. I have included a generous serving size of salad and meat, so there is no way anyone will be hungry after this dish.
Crunchiest Asian Salad With Pork
- 1 bunch cilantro (coriander) - chopped roughly
- 1 medium cucumber - Lebanese, sliced
- 1 medium green chilis (green chilli in British English) - chopped finely
- 250 grams bean sprouts
- 1 medium red onion - sliced thinly
- 700 grams ground pork (minced pork) - lean
- ½ cup lime juice
- 4 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons fish sauce
- 4 teaspoons sugar
- Prepare all the salad items and place them in a large mixing bowl.
- Toss the ingredients to combine.
- Divide the mixture among four large bento boxes.
- Place the pork in a saucepan with 2 cups of water.
- Use a fork to break up the meat before turning on the heat.
- Heat the pork and allow the meat to poach until completely cooked, stirring periodically.
- Drain the pork and reserve it for the top of the salad.
- Mix all the together the dressing ingredients together, reserve for serving.
- Top each of the 4 salad bento bowls with 1/4 of the poached pork.
- Divide the dressing into 4 small containers.
- Add the dressing upon serving.

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Boro skipper Roberts shortlisted for Football League Award
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STEVENAGE captain Mark Roberts is in the running for the PFA Player in the Community award 2013.
The central defender is on a three-strong shortlist for the accolade along with Huddersfield Town’s Alan Lee and Brighton & Hove Albion’s Inigo Calderon.
Stevenage’s head of community Alex Tunbridge, said: “We’re extremely proud that Mark has been shortlisted for this award, he is a credit to the football club and his day to day work and support of the community scheme and the club’s community work is due worthy recognition.
“He has played an instrumental part in inspiring a diverse range of people within the local community and the club wishes him the best of luck in winning the award.”
There are a total of eight award categories which also include accolades such as Family Club of the Year and Community Club of the Year.
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The shortlists were drawn up by a panel of judges earlier this month following a stringent assessment process.
Judges included influential members of media, sports industry figures and representatives of The Football League and its partners.
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- 6 Multiple cars involved in A1(M) collision
- 7 Council leader speaks out after terrifying harassment incident at her home
- 8 Man charged in connection with newsagent robbery
- 9 Hotel apologises after losing crucial CCTV
- 10 Mum's disability disco after son's left nowhere to go
The Football League Awards 2013 will take place on Sunday, March 24 at The Brewery, London.


From EpiscopalLife Online [boldface mine]:
Daily Accounts from the House of Bishops March 7-12 retreat meeting in in Navasota, Texas will be posted here.
Daily Account from the House of Bishops for Saturday, March 8
O'Donnell said the goal was not to reach reconciliation but to lead a reconciling life. She was not advocating for agreement, but for a transformation of attitude toward persons whose ideas may differ from your own.
- The Saturday, March 8 session started with Morning Prayer and small group Bible study.
- During the morning session, the bishops engaged in a lively program preparing for the Lambeth Conference through an exercise for developing and delivering messages, presented by Macky Alston of Auburn Media. Alston led the discussion on preparing for media interviews and the principles of giving voice to faith concerns in the media.
- The Eucharist was celebrated at 11:30 a.m.
- Following lunch, the Rev. Canon Brian Cox of the Diocese of Los Angeles and the Hon. Joanne O'Donnell of the Diocese of Los Angeles led a presentation on faith-based reconciliation.
Cox presented eight core values for religious and faith-based reconciliation: pluralism; inclusion; peacemaking; social justice; forgiveness; healing; sovereignty; and atonement.
This was followed by small group discussions on the question presented by Cox: How do my world view, core values and collective identity influence my perception of the conflict in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion?
Cox then led a discussion on Demolishing Walls of Hostility: the Principles of Inclusion. Part of reconciliation, he said, is for people to address the hostility that resides in their hearts. Hostility, he continued, can come from sources of gender, class, or tribalism. Cox cited racism and nationalism as examples of tribal hostilities. Cox referred to Gandhi and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in applying Jesus' principles of loving your enemy and transforming hate into love.
He talked about the current dynamics within the three Abrahamic faiths -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Cox noted that all three are facing the key issue of identity.
He charged the bishops to discuss the following question in small groups: To which groups do I feel hostility, and how have I given and received offense?
The 2008 Spring Retreat of the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church is being held from Friday, March 7 to Wednesday, March 12 at Camp Allen, in Texas.
- Following Sunday morning Eucharist, the next session of the House of Bishops will be the evening of Sunday, March 9.
Media briefers for Saturday, March 8, 2008:
The Rt. Rev. Stacy Sauls, Bishop of Lexington
The Rt. Rev. Geralyn Wolf, Bishop of Rhode Island
"Hostility, [Cox] continued, can come from sources of gender, class, or tribalism." Wow, how about hostility coming from the fact that some are twisting the Gospel of Christ for their own political and social ends? I'm sorry, but this "meeting" sounds like a total waste - althrough since this info is from EpiscopalLife, I guess we don't really know what's going on - may the Lord be moving in mysterious ways.
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Hummingbirds may enjoy eating SWD! An article in Good Produce, Berry Growers Sharing Great Ideas by Charlie O’Dell, published May 14, 2014, highlights "Unusual Way to Control SWD" one grower’s use of hummingbird feeders to attract these beautiful, pugnacious, and voracious birds. When feeding their young, hummingbirds will eat up to 2,000 small insects per day! "Robert Hays of Hays Berry Farms at Dumas, MS, installs 25 hummingbird feeders per acre in his six acres of blackberries and fills each with a plain, clear, sugar-water solution. He estimates there are more than 500 hummingbirds flying around his fields on picking days, some even landing briefly on pickers’ arms or hats. Between his beneficial insects and his hummingbirds, he has not had to spray."
The diet of an average hummingbird consists mostly of flower nectar and insects. Flower nectar provides sugar to support their high metabolic rate… even higher during flight due to their rapid wing flapping rates. The insects hummingbirds eat provide them with protein, amino acids, and necessary vitamins and minerals. The insects must be small enough to swallow whole during flight – watch out, SWD! Hummingbird prey includes (but is not limited to) small beetles, flies and fruit flies, gnats, mosquitoes, and spiders.
The nectar that hummingbirds drink from flowers is simply a sugar solution. This can be easily replicated for a hummingbird feeder. The most common solution is 1 part table sugar to 4 parts water. The sugar solution should be boiled after mixing to drive off chlorine and kill yeast and bacteria, then cooled. This can then be put in a feeder. Feeders should be red or have red trim, because red is the best color for attracting hummingbirds. The feeder should be regularly cleaned of insects and the sugar solution replaced. The higher the temperatures, the more frequently the nectar will have to be changed.
To follow up on this idea for controlling SWD, I reviewed information from The Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Their FAQ’s have a wealth of information on hummingbirds – all of which supported the idea that attracting these birds into your late summer berry plantings of fall raspberry, blackberry, elderberry, etc. could prove highly beneficial in controlling SWD.
Attracting hummingbirds to your area
In May, hang your hummingbird feeders. Use fairly small feeders at first, and change sugar water at least every couple of days in hot weather or if feeders are in direct sunlight, and every 2-4 days when it's cooler and feeders are shaded. Flowers in your garden, especially those with tubular red corollas, attract hummingbirds.
Q. What's the best recipe for hummingbird nectar?
The sugar content of natural flower nectar varies, and is roughly comparable to sugar water mixtures ranging from a quarter to a third cup of sugar per cup of water. During hot, dry weather, when hummingbirds risk dehydration, it's best to make your mixture no stronger than a quarter cup of sugar per cup of water. But during cold, rainy spells, making the mixture a bit stronger, up to about a third cup of sugar per cup of water, will not hurt your birds and may help them.
Q. Should I use red food coloring in hummingbird food?
There is absolutely no reason to add any red dyes to hummingbird sugar water. After all, natural flower nectar is clear, and hummingbird feeders have colorful parts that attract hummingbird regardless of the color of the sugar water.
Q. How do I keep ants out of my hummingbird feeder?
Many hummingbird feeders—especially the saucer variety—have a center "moat" separate from where the sugar water is placed. These feeders are easy to keep ants out of by filling that moat with water. The ants that do get down into it drown, but usually just don't even try. If you have another kind of feeder, make sure it's hanging by a simple rod rather than string, and coat a center spot all around, about an inch wide, with petroleum jelly. The ants won't cross that.
Q. Should I stop feeding birds in fall so they can start their migration?
Keeping your feeders up has no influence on whether a bird will start its journey south. A number of factors trigger the urge for birds to migrate, and the most significant one is day length. As days grow shorter in late summer, birds get restless and start to head south, taking advantage of abundant natural food, and feeders where available, to fuel their flight. Hummingbirds are no different from others and will migrate regardless of whether feeders are kept up. However, we encourage people to keep feeders up for several weeks after the last hummingbird leaves the area, just in case a straggler shows up in need of additional energy before completing the long journey south.
Q. How much do birds eat each day?
This varies depending on the caloric value of the food, the bird's activity levels, and the temperature of its environment. Hummingbirds can consume 100 percent of their body's weight in sugar water or nectar every day, in addition to as many as 2,000 tiny insects! Before migration, it's not unusual for a hummingbird to double its weight, adding a huge amount of fat to power the long journey.
Q. Why do hummingbirds fight so much?
Hummingbirds are aggressive for a good reason—they can't afford to share flowers during times when not many blossoms are available because they may have to wander a long way after nectar is depleted. This aggression is so deeply ingrained that they just can't figure out that feeders are different. Overall, you'll feed far more hummingbirds by setting out four tiny one-port feeders than one giant eight-port one. Spread them out and the birds won't have to see one another, arousing their territoriality. You'll get to watch them through more windows, and they'll be much happier, too. (25 feeders per acre)
Q. Why do I see fewer hummingbirds in midsummer?
Adult male hummingbirds aggressively defend their territory, and if your yard is within the territory of one, he may drive all other male hummingbirds away during the nesting season.
If you have a nesting female nearby, she will visit your feeder only periodically, spending most of her time incubating her eggs. After the eggs hatch, she usually concentrates her feeding at flowers that supply tiny insects as well as nectar—insects contain the protein that her nestlings need in order to grow. Once the young have fledged, she continues feeding them for several days until the fledglings have mastered getting their own food. At this time, she may bring them to your feeders to teach them how to take advantage of this easy food supply, too. This is also when males begin migrating, with adult females soon following. So many of the hummingbirds that suddenly appear are actually migrants from farther north, just passing through.
Q. Do hummingbirds migrate in flocks?
Hummingbirds migrate individually. When a late October straggler in the East is a Ruby-throated Hummingbird, it's usually an immature bird from further north whose mother got a late start with that nest. Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are strongly migratory, but their bodies need a high level of fat to fly long distances. As people bring in their feeders in fall and frosts kill nectar-bearing flowers, those hummingbirds remaining have to go long distances between feeders, so yours may remain for a week or two before its body is replenished enough to continue. Hummingbirds are surprisingly hardy as long as they can get enough food each day, and they need extra calories during cold spells. When it's cold, it's not a bad idea to up the concentration of sugar to 1/3 cup per cup of water to give it more calories, which they burn while shivering.
Tragically, some of these stragglers do end up dying, but your feeder really isn't keeping your hummingbird from migrating. Rather, your feeder is giving it its best chance to restore its body to continue on.
Q. There's a hummingbird at my feeder in the dead of winter. Will he be okay?
Hummingbirds are remarkably tolerant of cold weather, so it’s likely your bird will be fine if it can continue to find food. You can get an idea of where hummingbirds have been found in winter by looking at maps from eBird, like this one of Rufous Hummingbird.


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Most women can benefit from a breast lift at some point in their life. As you get older, your skin loses elasticity, and the constant pull of gravity takes its toll. Breastfeeding, rapid weight reduction, and even exercise can all contribute to sagging and drooping.
Regardless of what you may hear, no cream or special exercise will fully restore your breasts to their former splendor. A breast lift treatment can be one of the only ways to restore sagging skin, tissue shape, and firmness. Some women are hesitant to have surgery because they are concerned about unsightly scars. As a result, the Crescent technique is a perfect solution for those who want to conceal the surgery while enjoying the benefits.
Plastic surgeons refer to it as a “crescent breast lift” because the skin removed is in the shape of a crescent.
What is a crescent breast lift?
A crescent breast lift, also known as a crescent mastopexy, is a type of breast lift surgery that involves removing a crescent-shaped piece of tissue from above the areola. This technique is commonly used to correct minor sagging or ptosis of the breasts.
Crescent Lifts are ideal for women with minimal sagging and extra skin. Women who have breast augmentation usually also have a crescent breast lift.
Your plastic surgeon will create a crescent-shaped incision along the top part of your areola and remove the skin. If you’re having breast augmentation, the implants will be installed after that.
This technique adds volume and hardness to your nipple while lifting it to a more youthful position. You should have more symmetrical, non-drooping breasts after the lift.
Even shortly after surgery, the crescent lift scar will be barely visible. It will fade and become harder to see with time, even when you are naked. Your provider will raise and tighten your breasts through an incision along the upper section of the areola.
Crescent lift operations are popular among women who want augmentation as well as a lift.
Comparison with a traditional breast lift
A traditional breast lift (mastopexy) is a treatment that removes extra skin and tightens the surrounding tissue to address sagging. These changes, when combined, reshape the breast and give it a more even, appealing contouring.
Benefits of a crescent breast lift
The Crescent method increases the size and hardness of your nipple while raising it into a more youthful position. After the lift, you should have more symmetrical, non-drooping breasts, and the crescent lift scar will be scarcely visible even after surgery.
Some of the benefits involved in the Crescent Lift include the following:
- Minimal Scarring
- Improved shape and position
- Quick Recovery Time
The crescent breast lift procedure
There are several methods available to correct the size of the breasts, one of which is the crescent mastopexy. This procedure is the best option for removing the least amount of skin of all the techniques.
This is commonly used to alter nipple position after breast augmentation to improve symmetry. The crescent incision can be placed anywhere around the perimeter of the nipple complex, allowing the nipple to be moved in any direction. If you place an implant without doing this, asymmetry may increase, resulting in disappointing results.
You may need to do the following in preparation for your Crescent Lift Procedure:
- Obtain laboratory testing or a medical evaluation
- Take specific meds or make changes to your present medications
- Get baseline mammography before surgery and a follow-up mammogram to help detect any future changes in your breast tissue.
- Quit smoking
- Aspirin, anti-inflammatory medicines, and herbal supplements should be avoided because they can cause excessive bleeding.
Details of the procedure
To make sure each breast is in the same position, a temporary suture is used to measure the distance from the sternum to the top of the areola, which is used to measure and mark where the top of each areola should be.
The Crescent Breast Lift requires general or local anesthesia and is usually performed at an outpatient clinic or hospital.
Following surgery, dressings and bandages will be put on the incisions, and an elastic band or support bra should be worn to support healing and reduce swelling. In addition, a small tube may be inserted beneath the skin to drain any fluid that accumulates for a few days after surgery.
Patients can usually start no-impact lower-body workouts after one to two weeks. Patients can generally resume impact activities four weeks after surgery, and upper body exercises six weeks after surgery.
Your surgeon will give you detailed advice on how to care for your breasts to aid in healing and limit the risk of infection.
Who is a good candidate for the crescent breast lift?
Crescent Breast Lifts are conducted every day throughout the country, if not the world, and is considered highly safe and common. Having said that, there are a few requirements that a potential patient must achieve to be a candidate for surgery.
Here are the five common criteria needed to be a good candidate for the Crescent Breast Lift:
- Not happy with your breasts
- Good health
- Not smoking
- Skin has retained some elasticity
- Done having children
Pregnancy can seriously alter the shape and size of your breasts. If you decide to get pregnant again after your lift, your results may be compromised. It’s usually best to be done having children before deciding to move forward with mastopexy surgery.
Risks and complications of a crescent breast lift
In the list below, we detail the possible complications and risks that are involved with Crescent Lifts and other forms of breast lift techniques.
Fluid accumulation and bleeding or hematoma formation can occur after surgery.
As with any surgery and procedure that involves incisions and invasive techniques, infection is a possibility, even if it’s rare.
3. Changes in nipple sensation
Because of the incisions and adjustments that occur during most breast lifts and surgical procedures, there is always a chance of a reduction or change in nipple sensations.
4. Poor wound healing
As part of surgical procedures and other breast-lifting techniques, poor wound healing is one of the possible risks involved – even if it’s highly uncommon.
5. Unsatisfactory results
For any breast lift procedure, including the Crescent Lift, the chances of having an outcome you’re not satisfied with are one of the risks involved. Asymmetry, irregularities of breast contour and shape, and the possibility of needing corrective surgery are part of the risks associated with lifts.
However, when using a certified and trusted surgeon from a verified practice, the risks and complications are rare compared to the success stories.
Cost of the crescent breast lift
The average cost of a breast lift is between $3500 to $5000. This average cost is only part of the full cost. The full cost will depend on several factors, like anesthesia and operating room facilities.
Factors that determine the cost
Crescent Lift costs may depend on the following factors:
- Anesthesia cost
- Hospital or surgical facilities
- Medical tests
- Post-surgery clothing
- Prescriptions for medication
- Surgeon’s fee
As far as breast lift techniques, the Crescent Lift is a popular choice due to the minimally invasive techniques and the fact that no implants are usually inserted. After all, though – the choice and procedure are up to you and the desired outcome you seek.


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We teach solid skills in Waltz, East-Coast Swing, Foxtrot, Blues and other dance styles that connect you to your partner and to the music while you're both having fun. You learn as you play!
From September through May 2018-2019, Lilli Ann and Claire are teaching Waltz in all its variations. From Cross-step through Rotary Waltz and the Mazurka, you'll learn new moves while working on advanced technique and styling, all with the personal attention you always get from Dance for Joy!
Fall Classes start September 18th!
In our classes we cover great and creative, socially danceable moves as well as practical and fun technique for leads AND follows! These techniques translate to all your dancing and we have been really excited to see how participants in our classes from in the nine months from Fall to Spring have gained skill-sets only found in advanced dancers.
All participants must either know the Cross-step Waltz basic or have taken our Beginner Cross-step Waltz Intensive (August 24 & 25) and be dancing at an intermediate level in some other dance.
$60 per person per class
Wednesdays 8:30-9:45pm. Class begins promptly at 8:30.
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- Early Fall: Cross-step Waltz — Sept 18th–Oct 23rd
- Late Fall: Cross-step Waltz-Ready for Russia! — Oct 30th–Dec 11th (no class Nov 27th)
- Winter: Shadow Waltz — Jan 15th–Feb 19th
- Early Spring: Foxtrot for Waltzers — Mar 4th–Apr 8th
- Late Spring: TBD— Apr 23rd–May 27th
Shadow Waltz is side-by-side waltzing. Both partners face forward and a tiny foot fudge by the leads leads to magic! The shapes of these moves are interesting, visually beautiful, socially leadable and very flexible. We will teach entrances and exits from the shadow variations and add to your repertoire with moves and styling you can’t wait to take to the dance floor.
Be on time! Classes will start with a short 5min warmup for light strengthening and body flow.
Waltz taught by Waltz experts
Lilli Ann and Claire, a mother and daughter teaching team of over 10 years and have taught internationally.
Classes are limited to 12 students and are role balanced. Drop ins are possible with notice. All classes will include a videoed wrap up and personal attention when needed.
If you would like to be reminded, send us an email and we will let you know when sign ups are available, so you don’t miss a thing!


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Contract Bridge Game
"Contract Bridge" is a card game of intelligence in which players must play in teams or pairs. "Contract Bridge" is popular for its recognized by the International Olympic Committee and is nowadays a quality sport. "Contract Bridge" is as difficult as some board games: draughts, chess, etc. Today we want you to get acquainted with this game and play a real game for four players. How to play Contract Bridge cards we will describe now! Be very careful!
- Here is the online game Contract Bridge, you can play it for free right now.
- It has 60 player votes with an average rating of 3.83.
- The game's release date is August 2021.
- The game can be played on the following platforms: Web Browser (PC), Android / iOS (Mobile).

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Parents Furious Over Dirty Dancing Prom Video
A video of teens dancing sexy at a high school in Mobile, AL has caused quite a bit of controversy.
Parents are outraged. The district released a statement saying it doesn't condone the behavior. The principal says he's going to hold the students in the video accountable. What do you think?

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DENVER—The Colorado House has killed a bill that would have set the stage for a single-payer health care system.
State Rep. John Kefalas, D-Fort Collins, said Wednesday he asked his colleagues to kill the bill because he didn’t have the votes to pass it.
Kefalas said the bill was introduced to help an estimated 800,000 people in Colorado who have no health insurance, and thousands more who have insufficient health care coverage.
The bill would have established a health care authority with a 23-member board of directors to create a system in Colorado that would be the administrator and payer for health care services.
The initial costs, estimated at more than $1.4 million over the next two years, would have been paid with gifts, grants and donations.
Kefalas said he plans continue working for universal health care coverage and may try again to pass it next year.
“The progress (we) made demonstrated broad agreement about the need for meaningful health care reform that guarantees quality, affordable care for all Coloradans, and we will continue to move forward until universal coverage is a reality for Colorado,” Kefalas said.
He said more than a third of Coloradans delay or forego needed care because they cannot afford it, and an estimated 360 Coloradans are dying every year because they don’t have the health coverage they need.


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Today’s mortgages are amortized loans, meaning your monthly obligations include both principal and interest. Lenders use a sliding ratio that changes over the life span of the loan to determine the quantity of principal and interest in every payment. Every payment you make will help pay off your principal.
Advances in America weren’t always amortized loans. Before the Great Depression, the normal mortgage was an interest-only balloon loan using a sizable required down payment and short term. Loans payments only paid the interest on the amount you owed, with the loan balance due in full at the end of the loan term. Five-year loans were the norm, so the average homeowner confronted either paying the loan in full or refinancing the loan each five years. If they only made the minimum payment, they’d never own the house they were in, since they paid toward the original loan balance. Throughout the Great Depression, many banks have been skittish about extending credit, so a high number of homeowners weren’t able to refinance their loans and didn’t have the money to pay the balance in total. This resulted in a rash of foreclosures.
In the 1930’s, the federal government got involved in the mortgage sector so as to bolster the market. Among the outcomes of the intervention was that the amortized mortgage with longer loan terms and fixed interest rates for the life span of their loan. Homeowners no longer had to refinance every five years at the going market rate and, since the payments included both principal and interest, the loan was paid in total by the end. Lenders liked this because homeowners developed equity in the house as they paid down the balance of their loan. This left them less likely to foreclose, since foreclosure supposed they would lose that equity money. Homes also became a positive advantage source for most homeowners who raised their overall financial stability.
The contemporary mortgage comes with an amortization that is front-loaded for interest. Meaning that for the first half of the loan term, more money goes toward the interest portion of the loan than toward the main portion. For example, employing the amortization schedule on a $200,000 loan fixed at 5 percent for 30 years, $240.31 of this payment applies to the balance, and $833.33 applies toward interest. Only at 7 percent, the ratio hints even more toward curiosity, with $163.94 moving toward principal and $1,166.67 toward curiosity. Lenders want to make sure they earn their money if you choose to refinance or sell within the first couple of years–a scenario that has become quite common in today’s mobile society.
Lots of people choose to tackle this imbalance by paying the principal faster. One simple way to cut down your mortgage to a 15-year loan is to double up on payments. Make your routine payment and payment a second payment specifically earmarked in composing toward main for the amount shown as the main portion of your next payment. By way of example, send in your first regular payment in total and send another check for the main portion noted in your amortization schedule for payment number two. The next month, then send your routine payment in on a single check and write a second check for the main portion for payment number three, etc. You will significantly decrease the total amount of interest you pay on your loan and also reduce your loan term in half, while retaining the choice of the reduced minimum payment of a 30-year loan.
Lenders include an amortization schedule in each packet of loan closing documents. Additionally, you could always ask a copy of your schedule from the lender, though most lenders typically charge a fee for this. There are many sites online that can calculate your amortization schedule for you, which you may then print out and use as a reference. The identical schedule ratios are used throughout the industry.


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Many a times iPad users comes across the problem of Wi-Fi not being connected. Although iPad works well even without Wi-Fi in offline mode but we all like to have an internet connectivity to enjoy more of its features and stream online content.
It becomes very frustrating situation for iPad users when they are not able to connect to the home network. This could be due to various reason such as error in network setting or error in general settings of the iPad.
Sometimes the problems of connectivity could be due to router also which needs to be fixed so as to connect your iPad with the Wi-Fi. If you are not able to connect your iPad with your home Wi-Fi then this article will teach you different methods of connecting your iPad with the Wi-Fi and overcome your problem of not being able to use iPad in online mode.
Fix “iPad Not Connecting to Wifi” Problem
1) Reset network settings of your iPad
Many a times there is an error in network settings of your iPad which does not allow Wi-Fi to connect. This needs to be solved. In such cases you have to reset your network settings to factory defaults to remove such errors.
Follow below steps to reset your iPad network settings.
- Open settings
- Click on General settings
- Now click on reset your network settings.
- It will ask your passcode, enter it and confirm.
- Now you are iPad will reboot and reset your network settings.
After resetting is complete you have to enter the Wi-Fi password again to reconnect.
2) Turn off and then Switch on your Wifi
Sometimes you do minor technical error your iPad is not able to connect with Wi-Fi. So in those cases try turning your Wi-Fi off and then turn it on after sometime. Steps to be followed are:-
- Go to settings
- Check your Wi-Fi whether it is on or off. If it is turned on then turn it off
- Wait for few minutes and then turn it on again to reconnect.
This will help to overcome the minor technical problem which did not allow iPad to connect to Internet. Thus your iPad will connect to your Wi-Fi network.
3) Restart your iPad
Sometime refreshing your entire device can help the iPad to connect with Wifi Internet. So in order to refresh the entire system you need to reboot and restart your iPad. Thus follow below steps
- Hold your top button
- Slider will appear to power off your device
- Slide it towards the right to shut it down.
- Now after sometime again hold your top button to restart your iPad.
This will refresh your entire system and can help you to connect your iPad with your Wi-Fi.
4) Airplane mode
Another popular and simple method which could help you to connect your iPad with your Wi-Fi is the use of airplane mode. All you have to do is turn on your airplane mode and turn it off after few seconds. Although this method is less effective but however it has solve the network related problems in many cases.
- Go to settings
- See whether airplane mode is on or off
- Turn it on if it is off
- After sometime turn it off again.
5) Forget your current Wi-Fi network and reconnect
Sometimes connection between your iPad and WiFi is tempered due to software bug. Therefore to remove the suspect you need to forget your Wi-Fi network and rejoin it after putting its password again. Follow these steps to forget and rejoin your Wi-Fi network.
- Open settings.
- Click on Wi-Fi.
- No there will ‘i’ next to your Wi-Fi. This small ‘i’ means info, click on it.
- Now on top you will see forget the network click on that to forget it.
- Now your Wi-Fi network will be seen under the main list of available Wi-Fi nearby.
- Enter the password again to to reconnect it.
This another good method which will help you to connect your iPad with your wireless network.
7) Reboot your router
The problem is not always with the WiFi it could also be due to technical errors in your router. So in such cases it is router which is to be blamed for improper connectivity.
Therefore switch off your router and turn it on after sometime to remove the minor technical error. All you have to do is unplug it and plug it after sometime.
8) Update to latest version
Outdated iOS version bring many problems to your device and does not allow it to perform many of its features properly. Thus outdated iOS version can also be a reason for your iPad not be able to connect to Wi-Fi.
In such cases it is necessary to update your iOS with the latest version. To do that follow the below steps
- Open settings
- Go to general
- Click on software update and check whether an new update is available or not.
- If update is available then click on download and update to update your iPad with latest version of iOS
- Once the update is downloaded install it by clicking on install. Your device will then install it and reboot automatically.
If the problem of iPad not connecting to WiFi is caused due to outdated version of iOS then updating to the latest version may help you to overcome that.
Problem of iPad not connecting to WiFi is one which none of us will like to have. So if you are stuck in this problem then you can try above methods to make sure your iPad gets the connectivity back.
All the above methods are simple to apply. Even after applying all the above methods your iPad does not connect to Wi-Fi then it means there is some internal problem and make sure you repair it at nearby service centre. Hopefully various methods explained in this article will help you to come your problem of iPad not connecting to WiFi.


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Voynov was sentenced to 90 days in jail and three years probation earlier this month after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor count of corporal injury to a spouse. He was also ordered to attend a 52-week domestic violence course and complete eight hours of community service.
According to the Times, Voynov began serving his sentence on July 7 and was allowed by a judge to serve his time at a city jail of his choosing. The Times adds that Voynov's actual time served is expected to be 45 days or less as a result of “good behavior and other reductions.”
The Kings suspended Voynov in June after he suffered a non-hockey injury earlier this year. He had surgery in March to repair a torn Achilles tendon. Voynov was also suspended indefinitely by the NHL in October after his domestic violence arrest. Los Angeles' suspension means Voynov's salary will not count against the cap.
The 25-year-old was arraigned in December on a felony domestic violence charge and pleaded not guilty. He is accused of kicking and choking his wife during an incident at their home in October.
A police report obtained by the Times in February stated “Voynov pushed her to the ground approximately six to seven times with both hands, telling her that he wanted a divorce and to ‘Get out.’” Voynov's wife, Marta Varlamova, received eight stitches to close a cut over her eye, according to the report.
Voynov played all 82 games for the Kings in the 2013–14 season and played six games last season before he was arrested.
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My proposed solution is to make the user group spaces
into private spaces that users can only see if they
are members. Then the user joins one group, and only
that one user group shows up when he logs into the
Sounds like the way I''d do it as well.
1. Is this the best practice?
Not sure that anyone has tried to do specifically what you''re doing yet but it looks good to me.
2. If so, I''m assuming I should set up a Clearspace
group for each of these subspaces, where only members
of a group can see that group''s subspace. Correct?
3. How can I then allow users to self-register for
one or a small number of user group subspaces (i.e.
join the group associated with each user group)?
Should I add a field to the user profile that says
"Select the user group(s) that you would like to
join"? How do I write the logic to implement it?
That''s sounds about right. Maybe a combination of creating a theme and changing the homepage so that it doesn''t display all the spaces but instead just displays the spaces that the current user has chosen. To do this, I would override the create account account and the edit profile action, adding the ability to select one or more spaces on each of those forms and then maybe stick the resulting space ID''s into a user property.
If I do this, how do I make it clear that selecting
a user group in my profile adds me to a user group
space? This is in contrast to other fields in the
profile, for example "industry", that just reflect
demographic information about me (but don''t add me
to an industry space). Or should I present this
user group add/remove functionality somewhere else?
What do you recommend?
I''d create a multi-select box and ask the user to choose which spaces they want to participate in on both the create account form and the edit profile form (which would give them the ability to change the space(s) that they wanted to participate in at a later time).
We have a similar use case. Our users would like to choose space(s) that they would like to be part of at registration.
How did you resolve the issue?
Sorry for taking so long to respond.
We decided to take a different approach and are implementing "My Favorite Communities" -- we''re actually working with Jive professional services on it, so we''re hoping it will be rolled into a future product release. Anyway, registered users can create a list of their favorite communities and they can edit their favorites list, and they can also view the entire list of all communities. Guests can only view the entire list of communities.
This is better than what I proposed above, because we''re not changing Jive''s model of how communities work -- we''re just adding a favorites list. So it''s a lot easier to implement. And it''s also simpler for users and our community administrators to use and understand.
Hope this helps.


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Port Vale manager Jim Gannon is treating the return of Marc Richards like a new signing at the club.
Club captain Richards suffered a thigh injury during his side's 2-1 League Two victory over Burton Albion in January. However, the striker made his return to full training on Thursday, following almost six weeks on the sidelines.
The former Barnsley forward has been the Valiants' top-scorer this season, netting 14 goals in all competitions, and Gannon says his side have missed the striker's presence.
Speaking to the club's official website, Gannon said: "Marc trained with the first-team today. The lads gave him a bit of ribbing because he looked a bit rusty. But naturally, every day he trains and every hour that he is out there is going to build his confidence back up.
"He is feeling no ill affects of his injury, but we may need to think how we are going to involve him in the first team, and how much he is going to play, because we need to ease him in.
"With Marc being out for six weeks it would be a tall ask to put him straight in and play 90 minutes. But I know he is getting a little bit excited about being part of the squad very soon.
"His record speaks for itself and he is a real talismanic figure at the club. It is going to be great to have him back. It will not only be a huge boost for him, but also for the team and the fans to see him playing again."


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FTC Approves Application from HeidelbergCement AG and Italcementi S.p.A. to Divest Martinsburg, West Virginia Cement Facility and Related Assets
Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved an application from HeidelbergCement AG and Italcementi S.p.A. to sell the Essroc cement plant in Martinsburg, West Virginia, eight cement terminals in the mid-Atlantic, and related assets to Argos USA LLC, a subsidiary of Cementos Argos S.A.
The divestiture is required by the FTC’s August 2016 final order settling charges that the $4.2 billion merger of Heidelberg and Italcementi would likely harm competition in five regional markets for cement in the United States.
The Commission vote to approve the divestiture was 3-0. (FTC File No. 151 0200, Docket No. C-4579; the staff contact is Roberta Baruch, Bureau of Competition, 202-326-2861)
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