Local Tories in Dorset have gathered at an historical relic to denounce the sacking of Damian Green. A spokesperson for the group denied that their failure to be currently aroused had anything to do with the poor quality internet reception and called for Mr Green’s computers to be returned to their local campaign office for them to be utilised for ‘party purposes’.
When questioned about the allegations and the reasons for Mr Green’s dismissal the overall response was that the Tories have done and are doing much worse things than watching porn and lying and that Mr Green’s preponderance for masturbating within the Palace of Westminster was widgy given that the place was full of wan**rs.
If the protest does not succeed they are threatening to take their campaign further. At this point the group broke away as someone shouted that they had got a signal.
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The Countess by Lynsay Sands
Christiana is a young woman newly married to Dicky Fairgrave, a cruel, heartless man. He keeps her isolated from friends and family. When her sisters arrive for a visit, Christiana learns that their father has been gambling again, and the sisters must make a quick marriage to a rich man in order to save him. While they are discussing their dire situation, Dicky is found murdered in another part of the house.
Determined to attend that evening’s ball despite the sudden demise of Christiana’s husband, the sisters carry Dicky to his bedroom and surround him with ice to preserve his body. As Christiana circulates amongst society that evening in search of future husbands for her sisters, who walks in, much to her horror, but Dicky. But it is not actually the dead Dicky who has walked. Rather, it’s Dicky’s twin brother, Richard, whom unbeknownst to Christiana, Dicky murdered years ago in order to assume his identity, wealth, and status.
Richard Fairgrave has returned to America to avenge himself and confront his brother. When Richard encounters Christiana, his unexpected wife, he is both intrigued, but irritated at the discovery. As the night wears on, Christiana becomes accidentally drunk and he begins to realize she is enchanting. Intrigued, he knows he must win her heart and must find out who murdered his brother, and keep scandal away from her.
If you are looking for a humorous romantic story to disappear into, then this is the book for you. I found myself bursting out in laughter during many of the antics. The book definitely reminded me of an old Lucille Ball episode where the heroine’s life escalates quickly out of control, but somehow, she finds herself coming out unscathed and richer for it. The relationship between Christiana and Richard unfolds slowly, tantalizingly, with much love and laughter. There were plenty of plot twists to keep me engaged to the end. All in all, this is a fun read for those who want to sink into a good romance.

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Through multiple narrators, perspectives and first-person accounts, Four Sides of the Story explores iconic sports moments. This three-part series offers four unique angles on popular sports moments and topics.
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West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. It was inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. The story is set in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City in the mid 1950s, an ethnic, blue-collar neighborhood (in the early 1960s, much of the neighborhood was cleared in an urban renewal project for the Lincoln Center, which changed the neighborhood's character). The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. The members of the Sharks, from Puerto Rico, are taunted by the Jets, a white gang. The young protagonist, Tony, a former member of the Jets and best friend of the gang's leader, Riff, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks. The dark theme, sophisticated music, extended dance scenes, and focus on social problems marked a turning point in American musical theatre. Bernstein's score for the musical includes “Something's Coming”, “Maria”, “America”, “Somewhere”, “Tonight”, “Jet Song”, “I Feel Pretty”, “A Boy Like That”, “One Hand, One Heart”, “Gee, Officer Krupke”, and “Cool”. The original 1957 Broadway production, conceived, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins and produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold Prince, marked Sondheim's Broadway debut. It ran for 732 performances before going on tour. The production was nominated for six Tony Awards including Best Musical in 1957, but the award for Best Musical went to Meredith Willson's The Music Man. Robbins won the Tony Award for his choreography and Oliver Smith won for his scenic designs. The show had an even longer-running London production, a number of revivals and international productions. A 1961 musical film of the same name, directed by Robert Wise and Robbins, starred Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won ten, including George Chakiris for Supporting Actor, Rita Moreno for Supporting Actress, and Best Picture.
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In 2007, Arthur Laurents stated, “I've come up with a way of doing [West Side Story] that will make it absolutely contemporary without changing a word or a note.” He directed a pre-Broadway production of West Side Story at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. that ran from December 15, 2008 through January 17, 2009. The Broadway revival began previews at the Palace Theatre on February 23, 2009 and opened on March 19, 2009. The production wove Spanish lyrics and dialogue into the English libretto. The translations are by Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda. Laurents stated, “The musical theatre and cultural conventions of 1957 made it next to impossible for the characters to have authenticity. Every member of both gangs was always a potential killer even then. Now they actually will be. Only Tony and Maria try to live in a different world”. In August 2009, some of the lyrics for “A Boy Like That” (“Un Hombre Asi”) and “I Feel Pretty” (“Me Siento Hermosa”), which were previously sung in Spanish in the revival, were changed back to the original English. However, the Spanish lyrics sung by the Sharks in the “Tonight” (Quintet) remained in Spanish. The cast featured Matt Cavenaugh as Tony, Josefina Scaglione as Maria and Karen Olivo as Anita. Olivo won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress, while Scaglione was nominated for the award for Leading Actress. The cast recording won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. In July 2010, the producers reduced the size of the orchestra, replacing five musicians with an off-stage synthesizer. The production closed on January 2, 2011 after 748 performances and 27 previews. The revival sold 1,074,462 tickets on Broadway over the course of nearly two years.
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We know that if Israel laid down its arms it would be destroyed, while if Hamas would drop its arms, and the Palestinian Authority would stop the incitement, there would be peace in Israel.
By DOV LIPMANUpdated: MARCH 3, 2016 21:33
It is rare for a newspaper column to read as a “how to” manual. But in this case, I have no choice – frustration has reached an all-time high.We know that if Israel laid down its arms it would be destroyed, while if Hamas would drop its arms, and the Palestinian Authority would stop the incitement, there would be peace in Israel. We know that Israel is the only true democracy in the Middle East, and the only country in the region that provides equal rights for all people regardless of gender, race, religion or sexual orientation.And yet, despite this, data presented to me at a recent meeting with one of the top polling companies in the United States shows that we are failing to convey this reality.In the poll conducted just two weeks ago, only 39 percent of US college students said that they believe that Israel is a civilized, Western country; only 31% of them believe Israel is a democratic country; and as a result of not telling our story properly, a mere 28% of college students believe that the United States should side with Israel in the current conflict.This is an all-time low.But it gets worse: 21% believe that the US should side with the Palestinians! Furthermore, among a category of people labeled as “opinion elite” in the US, 38% believe that Israel is a racist country, 48% say that Israel is responsible for human rights abuses, and 45% believe Israel is practicing apartheid on Palestinian land.Only 67% of those “opinion elite” in the US believe that Israel wants peace with its neighbors. (In Canada that number drops to 43% and in the United Kingdom it’s 36%); 46% believe that Israeli “occupation” results in more terrorism in the US; and 19% believe that boycotts against Israel are justified.And finally, given all of the above, it is not surprising to learn that 17% of Jewish college students refuse to advocate for Israel.We have to face facts: current hasbara tactics are not working, and we must be mature and sophisticated enough to accept a new approach.That same pollster checked to see what makes people supportive of a country. So far we have been bombarding the world touting Israel’s groundbreaking technology. We have tried to win support by promoting the Start-up Nation with its drip irrigation, solar energy and cellular phone technology, and Waze.But that isn’t working, and the data make clear why: only 7% are drawn to support a country because it is “modern,” a mere 6% are impressed if a country is “innovative,” and a country which is “creative” means something special to just 4%.Clearly, our message to the world in our effort to fight delegitimization should not focus on Israeli technology and innovation.All of the polling data – and, frankly, common sense – indicate that our message cannot be “We are right, they are wrong,” or, “We are good and they are bad,” no matter how strongly we believe this to be the case.So, what do people want to hear about another country? Here again the data is clear: 60% are willing to support a country that “protects human rights,” 42% will rally behind a country that stands for “freedom,” 32% want to see that a country is democratic, and 30% want to know that a country promotes equality.We must learn from this and speak the language which can penetrate the hearts and minds of those who are not on our side, and who are prone to fall for the boycott approach.What is that specific language? The same pollster found that certain phrases and sentences must be used over and over again in our effort to gain support, or, at at the very least, to even the playing field: 1) We must stop talking about “anti-Semitism” and focus on “anti-Israel.”2) We must emphasize that we are “eager” for dialogue at all times.3) We must be clear that our struggle is with the Palestinian leadership and not with the Palestinian people.4) We must repeat that the issue is “human rights for everyone,” a “future without violence” in the region, and that we advocate “mutual respect.”Once we speak that language, according to the research, we can then focus on the following themes which resonate among those who are currently sympathetic to the Palestinian cause: 1) Accountability and corruption.Where did all the money go? Billions of dollars from the international community have been sent to the Hamas leadership in Gaza, money that they used to fund terrorist attacks against innocent civilians and to construct terrorist tunnels into Israel, instead of to build schools and hospitals.2) Hatred is not natural. It is taught.Palestinian children are being educated that killing Jews fulfills religious teachings; Palestinian children are taught to see violence against Israelis as heroic. (I must emphasize that the polling data indicate that we should focus on these specific aspects of Palestinian incitement, and not on schools and public squares being named after terrorists, or that Jews are called “barbaric monkeys” and “evil” in the Palestinian media.) 3) We must repeatedly quote the Hamas Charter, and specifically these lines: a) “The hour of judgment shall not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them.” b) “There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except by Jihad.” c) “Peace initiatives, so-called peaceful solutions and the international conferences to resolve the Palestinian problem are all contrary to the beliefs of the Islamic Resistance Movement.”Weaving this all together, our overall message should be clear: “For far too long, Palestinians have been trapped in a cycle of violence and despair. Their schools have been taught to teach violence.Their leaders have been quick to preach violence. We do not blame the people of Gaza for their feelings of grief, anger and desperation. We blame the Hamas leadership which sows the seeds of hate, and tells innocent civilians to live as human shields while hiding in tunnels paid for by the international community.”Two final effective and critical sentences: 1) “Children should be taught to live and love, not to die.”2) “Our rockets protect our children.Their children protect their rockets.”Finally, aside from this precise messaging about the overall conflict, we must confront the issue of boycotts head-on, using the following two points which the polls demonstrate have the greatest impact: 1) The BDS movement does not explicitly recognize Israel’s right to exist.2) The BDS movement encourages Iran’s terrorist surrogates such as Hamas and Hezbollah to continue to work toward the destruction of Israel.Once we make these points, the language that works best to combat suggestions of boycotts reads: 1) “Peace is paved with diplomacy and discussion, not isolation.”2) “We seek cooperation, not continued conflict.”3) “Solutions come from engagement, not silence.”4) “We need real solutions for a lasting peace, not more of the divisive rhetoric. Let’s work together to create understanding, respect and peace.”5) “Boycotts divide people, and that’s part of the problem – not a solution.”6) “Boycott, divestment and sanctions diminish the prospect for peace because they blame only one side. We need a meaningful commitment on both sides.”We are at war. The other side is efficient and stays on message, and we need to do the same. It is my hope that all those involved in Israel advocacy and public diplomacy will adhere to the messages which the polling data begs us to follow. If we do, I have no doubt that we will win the public diplomacy war and generate widespread support for our beloved Israel.The author served in the 19th Knesset with the Yesh Atid party. He is currently the director of the Department of Zionist Operations for the World Zionist Organization.
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Meteor impact to earth is always a popular topic to lots of movies. You may also have the same imagination to such scenery. You can create this scene with some images such as fire, and earth, then you can apply some lighting effect into.
To try different hair style, it may not be necessary to go to saloon. You can try different hair style using Photoshop. You can use this techniques to put on different hair color, hair style or clothes on your image. This tutorial will teach you how to dye your hair or make a new hair look properly and quickly.
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Milk and Honey Banana Bread is ultra moist and loaded with banana flavor! The milk ensures a tender crumb and the honey adds sweetness and depth of flavor! One of our all-time favorite banana bread recipes!
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We all have our favorite fallbacks. Maybe it’s a place you retreat when things get tough. Or a person you can call and count on no matter what. Or a pair of flats that takes you from home to meeting to date with confidence and grace.
Fallbacks are the backbone for getting through and getting on. And for me, my most frequented fallback in the baking world is banana bread.
It’s something special. I’m certain of it. It makes you feel at home, and sure, and able to relax. It’s sugary scent will seduce you into submission. It’s crusty lid and honey and milk interior will put you at ease, and talk you into eating just one more piece. For your own good, of course. Yes. This bread can do that!
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Milk and Honey Banana Bread
- 2 and 1/4 cups (270 grams) all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup (113 grams) unsalted butter melted
- 2 Tablespoons oil canola, vegetable, or melted coconut oil will work here
- 1/2 cup (106 grams) light brown sugar packed
- 1/4 cup (50 grams) granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs at room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup (57 grams) milk at room temperature
- 1/4 cup (85 grams) honey
- 1 and 1/2 cups (340 grams) mashed bananas very ripe
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees (F). Line a 9x5-inch loaf pan with parchment paper and spray well with nonstick baking spray. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, nutmeg, cinnamon, and salt; set aside.
- In a separate large bowl, whisk together the melted butter, oil, both sugars, eggs, vanilla extract, milk, honey, and mashed bananas, mixing until ingredients are fully incorporated.
- Add the dry mixture of ingredients to the wet mixture of ingredients and, using a rubber spatula, mix until just combined. Do not over mix or your bread will be dry!
- Scrape batter into prepared pan and smooth the top. Bake, in the center of the middle rack, for 50 minutes, or until richly golden brown, and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean, or with a just a few moist crumbs attached.
- Cool for at least 15 minutes in the pan before serving warm or transferring to a cooling rack.


Ujjain : Smart Fitness freak IPS officer Madhya Pradesh. However, the IPS officers have to take care of their fitness, but in many cases some some officers cant manage to do it. There are few officers in the police service who maintain their fitness. But here we are not talking about just fitness but smartness. He is not less than any hero.Madhya Pradesh, Ujjain Nagar, Superintendent of Police Sachin Atulkar who recently joined as SP ujjain nagar. Sachin Atulkar’s personality is not less than any hero. Wherever he goes, he becomes the center of attraction. he is seen as an icon in fitness police department. Sachin became an IPS officer at the age of 22. His father was in the forest department and his brother is in army.Atul cleared IPS in his first attempt, he has won many medals in sports and yoga.Whenever he posts his picture on social media people hit thousands of likes Recently, during the Mahakal Rally in Ujjain, more than 30 thousand likes have been received on his photographs. In spite of busy routine, Atul also manages time to exercise to keep himself fit.
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Studies about diet are still in the early stages and should yield some revealing results in the near future.
The conventional wisdom is that we will benefit in several ways by eating a healthy diet rich in vegetables, fruit, and whole grains, while limiting our intake of simple carbs and highly-processed, high-sodium prepared foods. Eating for optimal general health gives us a good foundation for times when we are sick or injured.
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Williams Controls Inc. on Thursday announced another profitable quarter after first-quarter sales increased nearly 10 percent.
The Portland-based company (NASDAQ: WMCO), which designs and manufactures electronic throttle control systems for the heavy truck, bus and off-road markets, reported earnings of $396,000, or 5 cents per share, on $11.7 million in sales for the quarter ended Dec. 31.
A year earlier, it reported a loss of $841,000, or 11 cents per share, on $10.7 million in sales.
The quarter included a $317,000, or 4 cents per share, non-cash charge related to the carrying value of marketable securities.
The company said sales have steadily improved over the past three quarters in all geographic regions and across all product lines. European sales to truck customers in the first quarter more than doubled from the fourth quarter, while sales in North America jumped 13 percent.
“We are optimistic that the worst of the economic downturn that plagued the industry last year appears to be behind us,” CEO Patrick Cavanagh said in a news release.
The company’s shares closed Thursday up 2.6 percent to $7.80. Shares have traded between $3.70 and $9.40 in the past 52 weeks.


ITW EAE – Camalot – Prodigy
The Camalot Prodigy dispenser is designed and built to deliver high-speed, extremely accurate dispensing. To enable 1.5g’s of acceleration, Camalot engineers resourced more than two decades of experience with linear motors and advanced motion control systems.
Easy to learn and use, ITW EAE’s Benchmark software is powerful yet intuitive, and offers enhanced functionality and features such as a flip chip calculator for underfill. It outputs accurate volume and weight details by allowing precise weight data to be entered into the program, reducing setup time and scrapped parts.
High-Speed and Extremely Accurate Dispensing
Advanced linear-drive architecture, combined with exceptional frame stability enables greater precision at higher speeds, resulting in consistently higher yields. The Camalot Prodigy boasts a +/- 35µ 3 Sigma dot placement accuracy at full speed.
Large Board Capability
Innovative board staging option can double or even triple the dispense area in the X direction, allowing product of >900mm to be processed.
Controlled Heating for a Repeatable Process
Contact and non-contact heating in several configurations including heated lift chucks ensures that dispense materials are at a controlled, constant temperature for repeatable, controllable material flow rates for underfill and encapsulation.
Plug and Play Architecture
Constantly changing needs in dispense processing require flexibility in system configuration. The Prodigy’s features are easily field upgraded, due to ‘plug and play’ compatibility and simplicity. They can be retrofitted in the field, including heat, pumps, weight scale, 2nd Z-axis, and even the conveyor system.
Independent Dual Head
Independent Dual Head configurability allows dispensing of different materials within one process. Both Z-axes are independently controlled, facilitating both high positional accuracy and fast axis movement.
Synchronous Dual Head Mode
Synchronous Dual Head Mode operates both pumps simultaneously and reduces dispense time by approximately 50%.
Automatic Vision Alignment
The Prodigy features automatic vision for both fiducial alignment and manual teaching of programs. Fiducial images are taught and saved to an onboard library; in addition, it works as an image recognition system so that any unique feature can be used for alignment. Camalot’s edge detection vision alignment is the fastest and most accurate positioning method available. A one-snap operation finds all four edges of die up to 25mm square, and automatically adjusts needle path for variations in X,Y, and theta placement, die width, and edge parallelism.
Pipeline Conveyor Mode
Pipeline conveyor mode allows parallel product transfer within the machine, reducing transfer time from input buffer or preheat to dispense station in as little as 2.5 seconds, down from a standard 5 – 6 seconds. For a process that currently has a 25 second cycle time, this provides an additional 10% in UPH!
Dynamic Dual Head (DDH)
The proprietary design of Dynamic Dual Head (DDH) provides the only fast and fully accurate solution for dual head simultaneous dispensing. The DDH option uses a unique and patented mini XY drive system on a second Z-Axis to correct “real-time” and allow synchronous dispensing of both pumps regardless of part to part rotation. This technique guarantees increased productivity whilst maintaining yields through unsurpassed accuracy.
IR Temperature Sensors
Patent pending, closed-loop monitoring of the PCB/substrate temperature ensures dispenser process stability and yield improvements for underfill applications.
NanoShot is the next generation of “jetting” technology. Offering high speed – Up to 600 Hz, and ultra-fine resolution, with dot sizes < 300 microns, this patent pending pump features state-of-the-art motion control technology, simple maintenance, quick changeover, and a low cost of ownership.
A vacuum-based cleaning station ensures cleanliness of needle/nozzle. A detector is used to verify needle straightness and presence, compatible with 12–32 gauge needles.
NuJet Jetting Pump
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Camalot offer 2 types of Auger pump both controlled with a precise servo drive system. The 635SD series are typically used for finer feature dots and lines of high viscosity material. The 680SD pumps delivers high flow rates and also incorporate a patented positive shutoff that eliminates dripping of lower viscosity materials. For highly abrasive materials both pump systems offer more wear resistant carbide auger screws.
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SmartStream is a unique patented non-contact dispense method designed and manufactured by Camalot. A controlled stream of material is dispensed using positive displacement with a piston, which does not contact seat or nozzle. SmartStream dispenses a column of material with each cycle instead of a single sphere.
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Consumption in Russia
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Economy grows at strongest pace this year in Q3
Annual GDP growth rose to a year-to-date high of 1.7% in the third quarter of 2019, according to a second estimate released by Rosstat on 12 December. The print was nearly double the second quarter’s 0.9% expansion and matched the preliminary figure.
A notable upturn in the all-important manufacturing sector (Q3: +2.5% year-on-year; Q2: +0.6% yoy) led the acceleration. Furthermore, activity in the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector jumped to 2.6% in Q3, up considerably from Q2’s 0.1% uptick amid a stronger harvest in the quarter. Meanwhile, retail and wholesale trade activities rebounded in the third quarter (Q3: +2.2% yoy; Q2: -0.6% yoy), hinting at stronger consumer demand and healthier private sector conditions.
On a less positive note, dynamics in the mining sector weakened in the third quarter (Q3: +2.0% yoy; Q2: +3.0% yoy). This, coupled with a softer increase in electricity, gas and steam, and air conditioning output (Q3: +2.0% yoy; Q2: +2.3% yoy), curbed the overall acceleration.
Looking ahead, growth is expected to strengthen next year, chiefly thanks to overdue fiscal stimulus and a more accommodative monetary policy environment, which are seen propping up domestic demand. That said, further delays to the government’s infrastructure investment program, uncertainty over U.S. sanctions ahead of 2020 elections, volatile commodity prices and ongoing trade wars remain major downside risks to the outlook.
Russia’s Central Bank sees the economy growing between 1.5% and 2.0% in 2020, and between 1.5% and 2.5% in 2021. Meanwhile, FocusEconomics Consensus Forecast panelists see GDP expanding 1.7% in 2020, which is unchanged from last month’s forecast, and 1.9% in 2021.
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Annual GDP growth rose to a year-to-date high of 1.7% in the third quarter of 2019, according to a second estimate released by Rosstat on 12 December.
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In November, consumer prices rose 0.3% over the previous month, up slightly from October’s 0.1% month-on-month uptick and marking the first increase in six months.
December 4, 2019
The IHS Markit Russia Services Business Activity Index came in at 55.6 in November, broadly unchanged from October’s one-year high of 55.8.
Russia: Sliding PMI points to sharpest contraction in manufacturing activity in over a decade in November
December 2, 2019
The manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) produced by IHS Markit fell to an over one-decade low of 45.6 in November, from 47.2 in October.
November 22, 2019
Merchandise exports totaled USD 35.0 billion in September, representing a 9.3% contraction from the USD 38.6 billion sum recorded in the same month of 2018.


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I could never love anyone as I love my sisters. (And Timothee Chalamet.)
Ever since Harry Potter wrapped up, Emma Watson’s taken a leaf out of Hermione’s book and continued to excel after leaving Hogwarts behind. With projects like Perks of Being a Wallflower and Beauty and the Beast under her belt, she’s now working on an adaptation of Little Women which sounds absolutely massive. It was a pipe dream that we’d ever see her onscreen with Saoirse Ronan and Timothee Chalamet, let alone being directed by Ladybird’s Greta Gerwig, but here we are. The film is currently underway and Emma Watson shared a sneaky snap from behind the scenes, which sent the internet into a tailspin.
Dressed in an adorable AF pair of suspenders and a black hat, she and five other members from the cast crowded into a polaroid for a sweet picture. Emma stayed true to her character and captioned it with a quote from Little Women, writing, ‘I could never love anyone as I love my sisters.’
Below that, she name-dropped all the characters everybody played in the books including Meg March (herself), Jo March (Saoirse Ronan, looking very bad ass with a pipe), Amy March (Florence Pugh), Beth March (Eliza Scanlen) and finally Laurie - or Theodore Laurence - played by Timothee Chalamet. Tucked between them was one of our favourite female directors, Greta Gerwig: a.k.a. the wonder woman behind Wonder Woman earlier this year.
TBH there’s no friendship group that could ever come close to touching Harry Potter’s scooby gang, but this crew of excellence certainly gives Ron, Hermione and Harry a run for their money. According to Paste Magazine, this is the first official cast photo. If it’s anything to go by, we’re excited for the film to come out already.
Emma Watson’s involvement with the film has been a topsy turvy one. Initially, Emma Stone was slated to play Meg March but was “unable to join the project because of promotional obligations” for her film The Favourite according to Variety. Funnily enough, Emma Watson ended up taking on her role; an ironic twist of events given that Emma Stone had actually ended up taking her spot in La La Land when she was tied up with Beauty and the Beast. We don’t doubt both women would have killed the roles, but we also low-key just want them to star in a film alongside one another after all this.
Little Women will be released next Christmas 2019, which is something that’ll keep us going after we bust open our presents this year. We honestly can’t wait.
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To have got thus far, and then, by his own action, topple himself down!
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Jose Torres passes the busy commercial intersection on his way to and from work most days.
The area on the Southwest Side has changed a lot since that night four years ago when fate brought him and his son there moments before a Chicago police officer fatally shot Laquan McDonald. But the violent images and explosive sounds of gunfire remain seared in their minds.
Torres and son Xavier said the infamous police dashboard camera video of the shooting that so roiled the city doesn’t compare with what they witnessed.
Over the weekend, after Officer Jason Van Dyke’s historic murder conviction, the father and son returned to 41st Street and Pulaski Road to talk to a Chicago Tribune reporter about their decision to fight against the false narrative weaved by police in the days following.
Despite witnessing the shooting of the 17-year-old McDonald in October 2014, the two had been shooed away from the scene by a police officer who hadn’t bothered to ask them what they saw.
Both took the witness stand last month at Van Dyke’s trial, playing subtle but significant roles as the only civilian eyewitnesses to testify about the shooting. Indeed, prosecutors picked the elder Torres to be their final witness, said special prosecutor Joseph McMahon, because “I wanted the jury to hear from a real person.”
“I wanted the jury to hear from someone (who) was like them, a citizen of Chicago (who) is concerned about the relationship between the police and the community,” McMahon told the Tribune in an interview over the weekend. “And I thought that was a powerful way to end it.”
[ MORE: Breaking down all 44 witnesses in the Van Dyke trial ]
Van Dyke’s conviction Friday on second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery — one for each bullet that riddled McDonald’s body — was the first for a Chicago police officer in half a century for an on-duty fatality. The landmark case was fraught with racial tension and social importance because it involved a white officer and black teen.
The jury was never told about Jose Torres’ refusal to stay silent about what happened that night after seeing television reports the next morning with a spokesman for the police union saying McDonald lunged at officers with a knife.
“I told my wife, ‘They’re lying,’” Torres said. “‘That didn’t happen.’”
[ MORE: Read all of the Tribune's coverage of the trial of Jason Van Dyke ]
Days later, the elder Torres contacted the city agency that then investigated police shootings. He and his son later spoke as well to the FBI and the city inspector general’s office and testified before two separate grand juries, one investigating Van Dyke and the other the alleged police cover-up that led to conspiracy charges against three additional officers.
Torres said some family members and friends warned him against getting involved, but he felt that justice was being subverted.
“It took me a few days to work up the strength, the nerve to call somebody and report it,” he said inside a Dunkin’ Donuts near the shooting scene that was mentioned often in trial testimony. “I couldn’t sleep. It was eating away at me and my conscience. It was killing me, and I thought if I stay quiet, then I’m part of the cover-up and I couldn’t live with myself.”
Torres, 46, said he was taking his son to a hospital for lingering flu-like symptoms just before 10 p.m. when he twice pulled over to let police cars — their lights flashing and sirens blaring — pass by in a northbound lane of Pulaski Road.
He continued driving north but pulled over a third time on the east side of the road just seconds later when he came upon the police activity. That’s when the two saw McDonald for the first time running from the area of a Burger King and onto a southbound lane of Pulaski.
Torres said he backed up his car, fearing he was too close as Van Dyke’s partner drove their police SUV south in the northbound lane to head off McDonald.
Jose and Xavier Torres testified that seated in their car just south of the Dunkin’ Donuts, they had an unobstructed view of McDonald as the teen with the unusual hop to his walk came up the street. They said McDonald was walking in a southwest angle on Pulaski away from police.
In the seconds before the shooting, McDonald had his hands to his sides, both said. The officers shouted at McDonald, who turned his head in their direction before gunfire erupted. As McDonald fell to the street, the two said they heard more gunshots fired than when the teen had been standing.
“Why the f are they still shooting him when he was on the ground?’” the elder Torres recalled on the witness stand asking out loud at that moment.
“As soon as I heard the gunshots, he fell,” he said in the interview. “And then there was a pause, and as soon as he just made a move, all of a sudden it seemed like it was never going to end. It was like pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop as he was on the ground, and they just kept shooting and shooting and shooting.”
Both said they heard so many gunshots that they mistakenly believed more than one officer had fired.
Xavier Torres, 26, said he saw McDonald move while on the pavement like “he was in pain.” Neither thought he was trying to get up as Van Dyke testified — in contrast to what the dashcam video showed.
Within minutes, a police officer motioned with his flashlight for the Torreses — and another motorist who arrived later and pulled in front of them — to drive off, they said.
As the father and son continued to the hospital, each said, they tried to give the benefit of the doubt to the police for what they had just seen. Neither noticed the knife in McDonald’s hand. They assumed police shot him because he had a gun and “did something really bad,” the younger Torres said.
Jose Torres said he grew angry the next morning after learning on TV that the police union alleged McDonald lunged at officers with a knife. He and his son talked about what to do next.
Xavier Torres, whose daughter was young, said he worried about her well-being if he and his father went public with what they saw.
“I always stand behind my dad. I always believe in his decisions,” he said. “He was clear that what happened was wrong and that we had to do our part in coming forward.
“We talked about it and worried about possible threats and things that could possibly happen,” the son continued. “But at the same time we’re already in it, and you just got to follow your heart and do the right thing, the way he taught me.”
The elder Torres said he walked away from his initial interview with the Independent Police Review Authority, the city agency that then investigated officer-involved shootings, concerned that authorities were more interested in protecting Van Dyke than uncovering the truth.
No one contacted him for months, Torres said, and he assumed the entire incident would be “swept under the rug.”
The next time anyone inquired about the shooting was when independent Chicago journalist Jamie Kalven knocked on his door.
Months later, the father and son found themselves meeting with the FBI and testifying before a secret grand jury.
The explosive dashcam video was released in November 2015 on the same day Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder.
[ The verdict, the protests, a family's relief: How the day of Officer Jason Van Dyke's conviction unfolded ]
When Xavier Torres took the stand at Van Dyke’s trial, he said he was caught by surprise when the officer’s lawyers peppered him with questions. His only previous experience had come in testimony before the grand jury, and witnesses there are not cross-examined.
His father watched his son’s testimony on television and was ready when he stepped into the witness box days later.
The elder Torres went toe to toe with an attorney for Van Dyke on whether he truly had an unobstructed view of the shooting. Torres did not back down.
McMahon, the special prosecutor, said he had expected the father and son to come off as credible witnesses.
“They brought a commitment from the public that this case mattered to more than just Laquan McDonald’s family,” McMahon told the Tribune. “... It affected the entire city, not just the African-American community. One of the things that Mr. Torres said to me when I interviewed him pretrial was that he would hope that somebody would stand up and speak up if that happened to his son. … That was something that really struck a chord.”
Jose Torres said that as the jury’s verdict was announced, he watched live on television like so many others around the Chicago area. He said he grew emotional listening as a court clerk read the guilty verdicts.
Torres pulled his granddaughter out of school early on the day of the verdict out of fear for her safety, but he said his family has not experienced any retaliation since he and his son testified.
Torres said he feels badly for the officer’s family. Van Dyke has a wife, two young daughters and elderly parents who are steadfast in their belief that he did his best in a difficult, dangerous job and note that he had never before fired his gun on duty before that night.
Still, Jose Torres said he believes strongly that the jury’s verdict was just.
“He needs to serve time for what he did, but I don’t think the rest of his life,” Torres said. “After the first shots, he should have just ended it. That’s where I don’t feel sorry for him because he chose to continue to shoot.”
Van Dyke, 40, who was taken into custody at Cook County Jail after his conviction, faces a minimum of six years in prison at sentencing. He soon will trade in his police star number for a state prison ID.
Jose Torres said he still frequently thinks of the shooting and becomes upset when people try to blame McDonald for what happened to him.
“No one deserves that,” he said. “I don’t care if he was innocent or not. Nobody deserves to be shot like that — 16 times on the street. ... I don’t care what anyone says. That shooting wasn’t justified.”
Chicago Tribune’s Stacy St. Clair and Megan Crepeau contributed.
[ Meet the jury: Inside the Jason Van Dyke courtroom ]
[ Jurors in Jason Van Dyke trial say officer’s claim of self-defense did not match video ]


Mars lost its magnetosphere 4 billion years ago, so the solar wind interacts directly with the Martian ionosphere, lowering the atmospheric density by stripping away atoms from the outer layer. Both Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Express have detected ionised atmospheric particles trailing off into space behind Mars, and this atmospheric loss will be studied by the upcoming MAVEN orbiter. Compared to Earth, the atmosphere of Mars is quite rarefied. Atmospheric pressure on the surface today ranges from a low of 30 Pa (0.030 kPa) on Olympus Mons to over 1,155 Pa (1.155 kPa) in Hellas Planitia, with a mean pressure at the surface level of 600 Pa (0.60 kPa). The highest atmospheric density on Mars is equal to the density found 35 km above the Earth’s surface. The resulting mean surface pressure is only 0.6% of that of the Earth (101.3 kPa). The scale height of the atmosphere is about 10.8 km, which is higher than Earth’s (6 km) because the surface gravity of Mars is only about 38% of Earth’s, an effect offset by both the lower temperature and 50% higher average molecular weight of the atmosphere of Mars. The atmosphere of Mars consists of about 95% carbon dioxide, 3% nitrogen, 1.6% argon and contains traces of oxygen and water. The atmosphere is quite dusty, containing particulates about 1.5 µm in diameter which give the Martian sky a tawny color when seen from the surface.


Origin of interchangeableOld French entrechangeable
The definition of interchangeable is able to be used in place of one another.
An example of interchangeable are the words dinner and supper.
Capable of being interchanged: interchangeable items of clothing; interchangeable automotive parts.
- in′ter·change′a·bil′i·ty in′ter·change′a·ble·ness
- Freely substitutable. May be swapped at will.
- Eli Whitney's development of interchangeable parts was a breakthrough for modern manufacturing. Prior to that each part had to be made custom.
- But it is possible that the terms at an early date were interchangeable, Canaan being geographical and Amorite ethnical.
- This cipher alphabet is called Albam, from the first interchangeable pairs.
- If an element be present in a compound otherwise than as an ion, it is not interchangeable, and cannot be recognized by the usual tests.
- Nor are the terms interchangeable now; for not all metropolitans are archbishops,' nor all archbishops metropolitans.
- In the level the eye-piece and object-glass are interchangeable, to facilitate adjustment for collimation.


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A new project for sharing media files might be as important for its philosophy as its features.more »
Could Mozilla’s announcement of the Boot to Gecko roadmap, along with the continued development of other web-based operating systems, make which Linux distro you’re running less important than the desktop environment?more »
Ask Klaus! Klaus Knopper answers your Linux questionsSep 21, 2012
Klaus Knopper is the creator of Knoppix and co-founder of LinuxTag expo. He currently works as a teacher, programmer, and consultant. If you have a configuration problem, or if you just want to learn more about how Linux works, send your questions to: email@example.com »
Kernel News Andre Hedrick: In MemoriamSep 21, 2012
Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.more »
Workspace: WordPress Plugins Three plugins for WordPressSep 21, 2012
The WordPress plugin repository contains many nifty plugins. We take a closer look at three in particular that can extend the functionality of your WordPress installation.more »
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If you need a tool to make minor modifications in OpenStreetMap, Potlatch 2 is a useful choice as a fast and easy-to-use editor.more »
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The World Wide Web Foundation has launched the Web Index – a new global study that “measures the impact of the Web on the world’s people and nations.”more »
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San Francisco-based chip company announces their first fully open source chip platform.
The whole distro gets rebuilt on glibc 2.3
Ubuntu Vendor tries to solve app packaging and distribution problem across distributions.
Founder of ownCloud launches the Nextcloud project.
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The new Torus distributed storage system is available under an open source license on GitHub
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Decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) are transforming medical research, bringing powerful benefits to study teams and patients alike. DCTs rely on user-friendly technologies, like smartphones, tablets and wearables, to enable patients to participate in clinical trials from the comfort of their own homes, rather than traveling to study sites. With advantages like faster and more targeted patient enrollment, better patient diversity, stronger patient engagement and retention, improved clinical safety, cleaner data and tremendous cost savings, it’s no wonder that there is excitement about this important innovation.
The good news is that decentralized clinical trials — also known as virtual, remote or digital clinical trials — can be adapted to best serve the patient population, condition or therapy you’re investigating. In fact, best practices suggest taking a case-by-case approach to implementing DCTs. While some DCTs are almost fully remote, the majority still employ a hybrid model, opting to implement only those digital components that make sense for a given study, whether that’s recruitment and screening, consent, data capture, patient monitoring, data analysis, or some combination of these. You don’t need to take an all-or-nothing approach.
Easing into DCTs
Even if your existing processes still work okay, they are likely being challenged in the current environment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Teams that don’t adapt will be left behind. That’s not to say you need to convert your long-established practices to a digital platform overnight. In many cases, clinical trial software is modular and scalable, so it can be tailored to be more of a hybrid approach based on your specific needs. (In fact, in 2020, only 30 percent of our clients that initiated DCTs used all the available modules together.) Most digital trial tools also address data privacy concerns, meeting both HIPAA and GDPR requirements, and are 21-CFR Part 11 compliant. And they bring a patient-centric focus to clinical trials. Starting with just one or two electronic tools can vastly streamline your work while you build your digital proficiency at a pace that feels comfortable. So what’s stopping you?
When you’re ready to begin transitioning to a digital platform, the first critical step will be to conceptualize your current workflows and how they may change with decentralization. Humans are naturally resistant to change, and if you can identify pain points early — and have strategies to overcome them — getting buy-in from your team will be substantially easier. It’s important to determine the one or two components that will bring the greatest value to your study with the least amount of disruption. Most commonly, these include:
- Digital & DCT Screening. Digital screening tools enable teams to reach a much broader and more clinically targeted patient population, so you can meet your enrollment goals faster. Patients like the convenience of being able to complete the electronic screening forms anywhere, using any device. And screenings can incorporate almost any kind of patient assessment, whether that includes imaging, bloodwork, telemetry, or patient questionnaires.
- TeleConsent. When patients use an eConsent product, they demonstrate improved knowledge transfer and engagement from the start. If questions arise, patients can seamlessly connect to a physician or other health care provider. What’s more, the consent can be completed either on site or remotely. Either way, it eliminates hours of administrative time so site staff can focus on research. When combined with multi-language support and wet-ink functionality, eConsent can be used in studies worldwide. The FDA issued guidance for using eConsent back in 2016, making it one of the easiest tools to adopt today.
- Televisits. Patients find that telemedicine helps recreate a supportive office experience without the hassles of travel, parking or sitting in a waiting room full of sick people. Video-based consultations enable patients to discuss any symptoms or concerns they may have with their health care provider in a fraction of the time that a site-based visit would take. At Medable, we’ve found that Televisits also improve patient adherence to protocol by as much as 15 percent.
- Electronic outcomes assessments. When it’s time for patients or staff to complete outcomes assessments, eCOA and ePRO solutions can get the job done swiftly and intuitively. They can capture outcomes in real time, whether performed on site or remotely, and provide clinical guidance in making decisions around adverse events, dosing and efficacy, and continued patient inclusion or exclusion. When combined with Televisits, eCOA and ePRO provide teams with exceptional insights. At Medable, patients report satisfaction with using ePRO at a rate exceeding 90 percent.
As the recognized leader in DCTs, Medable’s suite of products can help you move forward at a pace that meets your needs. So if you are curious to find out more or are ready to take the first step toward digitizing your study with clinical trial software, contact Medable for demos and custom solutions.

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Therapy animals offer comfort in a wide variety of difficult and stressful settings. Learn more about how to help someone with cancer by training your pet to be a therapy animal.
In this podcast, certified genetic counselor Tiffani DeMarco answers common questions about genetic counseling and explains what the future may hold for genetic testing.
In this podcast, Dr. Sumanta Pal gives an overview of research that will be shared at the 2017 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.
Exercise, Emotional Health, and Long-Term Care: Highlights from the 2017 Cancer Survivorship Symposium: Advancing Care and Research
In this podcast, Cancer.Net Editor in Chief Lidia Schapira discusses new research from the 2017 Cancer Survivorship Symposium. She talks about physical activity, psychological care for partners of people with cancer, and long-term care in survivors of thyroid cancer.
In this podcast, Dr. Michael E. Williams reports on the highlights from the 2016 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting.
In this podcast, Dr. Julie Gralow talks about some of the research highlights from the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
In this podcast, Dr. Howard Bailey talks about what HPV is, how HPV infection increases the risk of cancer, and why vaccination is important.


“Invicta FC 6: Cyborg vs. Coenen 2” will be held Saturday, July 13, at Ameristar Casino Hotel in Kansas City, Mo. The 13-fight card will be headlined with two championship bouts including Cris Cyborg taking on Marloes Coenen in the main event for Invicta’s inaugural 145-pound title, and reigning 115-pound champion Carla Esparza puts her title on the line against undefeated Ayaka Hamasaki in the co-main event.
Gina and Emily return tonight with an all new episode of ProWMMA Now! on the ProMMANow.com Radio Network. The ladies welcome Invicta FC star and undefeated professional Rose Namajunas. Rose has catapulted out to a fast 2-0 start as a professional and has done it in impressive fashion. In her last outing she was able to secure a submission win in only 12 seconds.
The all-women’s professional mixed martial arts promotion Invicta Fighting Championships returns with Invicta FC 6 on Saturday, July 13, at Ameristar Casino Hotel in Kansas City, Mo.
The card is headlined with a rematch between Marloes Coenen (21-5) and Cris Cyborg (11-1) for the inaugural Invicta FC featherweight title.
Here are several MMA from this week’s Indy link club you don’t want to miss. Invicta FC’s Jessamyn Duke talks about training with Ronda Rousey. We’ve got a preview of Shock’n’Awe 13. UFC heavyweight Gabriel Gonzaga, Invicta FC’s Rose Namajunas and WEC vet Chad George had plenty to say on Pro MMA Now Radio Sunday night. The main and co-main events saved UFC on Fuel TV 8. How much does Wanderlei Silva have left in the tank? Eddie Ng and Arnaud Lepont prepare for battle at ONE FC.


The estimation of energy efficiency for hybrid refrigeration system
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Applied Energy, 2013, vol. 101, issue C, 49-57
The concept of the air blast-cryogenic freezing method (ABCF) is based on an innovative hybrid refrigeration system with one common cooling space. The hybrid cooling system consists of a vapor compression refrigeration system and a cryogenic refrigeration system. The prototype experimental setup for this method on the laboratory scale is discussed. The application of the results of experimental investigations and the theoretical–empirical model makes it possible to calculate the cooling capacity as well as the final and primary energy use in the hybrid system. The energetic analysis has been carried out for the operating modes of the refrigerating systems for the required temperatures inside the cooling chamber of −5°C, −10°C and −15°C. For the estimation of the energy efficiency the coefficient of performance COP and the primary energy ratio PER for the hybrid refrigeration system are proposed. A comparison of these coefficients for the vapor compression refrigeration and the cryogenic refrigeration system has also been presented.
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The moniker Ghosting might not sound familiar, but you are probably aware of this alter ego’s alter ego; Andrei Eremin. The Grammy nominated producer and engineer has released a seriously ambitious debut in the form of an instrumental mixtape.
Even to those unfamiliar with Studio Ghibli, Ghosting’s debut mixtape is hypnotic, unexpected, glitchy and downright beautiful in all the right places.
It may have been an ambitious project, but Ghosting’s mesmerising, minimalist vibe is more than successful. For some people, ‘anime’ conjures up a weird kind of fetishism.
But to anyone acquainted with the enchanting, dreamlike world that Miyazaki created in films like Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle will appreciate the depth of Ghosting’s project in taking on these evocative, unique soundtracks.
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Eremin has already found international acclaim for his work on Hiatus Kaiyote’s sophomore album Choose Your Weapon, which went on to receive a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Performance in 2015.
Eremin also mastered Chet Faker’s debut EP Thinking In Textures, and is credited with co-production, alongside Ta-ku, on Wafia’s breakout single Heartburn. But this new project under the name Ghosting showcases his personal sonic palette, and brings a sharp, irresistible style from Eremin.
“The mixtape started as a lightbulb moment to sample Spirited Away, one of my all-time favourite films. I took out my keyboard on a whim, cut up the intro to the film and within 4 hours I’d finished the best track I’d ever made. It was a sign. From there the decision made itself – I had to sample every other Miyazaki film.”
The first cut, one summer「 spirited away 」, was released earlier this year as a prelude to the longer mixtape. Reminiscent of Boards Of Canada and even DJ Shadow’s Midnight In A Perfect World, the tracks have the warmth of a golden era in beatmakers.
The thematic melodies are familiar as Studio Ghibli motifs to those in the know, but Reimagining Miyazaki steers clear of simply being a tribute piece. For fans, the real success must lie in how Ghosting’s soundscapes are evocative of an eery dream world, entrancing and beautiful – just like Miyazaki’s work.
Moving from ambient to cinematic, dramatic and even groovy with a skipping beat; Ghosting reaches towards transcendent hip-hop at points.
Eremin became so invested in the project that he actually travelled to the small coastal town of Jiufen in Taiwan; the inspiration for Miyazaki’s iconic Spirited Away. Documenting the trip in a photo diary, Eremin will be releasing the visual accompaniment to the mixtape via his Instagram page.
The images also played into the artwork for both the single and mixtape releases. Any fans of Spirited Away will probably do a double-take as they check out the mixtape cover; the incredible, misty lights of the bath house are actually a reality. Spirits may or may not be included.


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With a tub full of honey as his Christmas gift, Pooh Bear couldn’t be more excited for the arrival of the fun holiday season! This holiday Winnie the Pooh is hand-crafted in stone resin and hand painted with Jim Shore’s signature rosemaling design.
The Disney Winnie the Pooh - Christmas Statue is made of stone resin and measures approximately 4.125-inches tall.
Intended for Adult collectors.

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Anele Mdoda is a South African professional Dj, Radio host and tv presenter.
Anele is from Eastern Cape province in a famous village of Umthatha. Currently she's 37 years old she'll be celebrating her 38 birthday on the 19th of May.
Is Thembisa Mdoda related to Anele Mdoda? Yes, Thembisa Mdoda and Anele Mdoda are related. They are sisters; Thembisa is the elder one. Thembisa was born on 16th November 1982 and at the time of writing this, she is thirty-nine years old.
Personally Anele have a young handsome boy Alakhe with her most famous relationship with Thandile but sadly the couple slipped up.
Israel Mokoe Zulu is a Mzansi actor, artist, dancer and poetry who's from Alexandra township located in Johannesburg province.
Without a doubt one of the most successful South African actor and also an legend.
His recently appearance on screen was on Gomora Mzansi Magic drama series as Donny the criminal.
Check out recently stunning photos of Anele Mdoda and Israel Mokoe together and Mzansi was left impressed.
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7 Small Dog Breeds for Tiny Canine Lovers
Do you love small dogs? Perhaps you live in an apartment, or don’t have a big car or you just really like the idea of a canine companion that you can tuck under your arm. There are many different small dog breeds. If you are looking for a fluffy friend to snuggle up beside you, or one with bags of energy who is always up for playing, then there are plenty to choose from.
We have listed 7 of the best small dog breeds. Each has their own traits and characters, but all of them are petite, easy to transport, don’t cost a fortune to feed and make great companions.
If you think of a small dog, you are likely to imagine a Chihuahua as, of course; they are the smallest of not just the toy dog breeds but the smallest of all the breeds. These little dogs originate from Mexico, come in various coat colours, and can be short or long-haired. Their height ranges from 15-20cm, and they weigh a tiny 1.5-2.5kg. Although made famous as a handbag accessory by Paris Hilton, they are not all delicate and have a desire to be carried. Some will love this way of life.
However, if you treat your little Chihuahua like a big dog, train her and encourage her to walk, then she can be just as up for fun and long walks as any other breed.
The Chihuahua is the the smallest of the toy dog breeds.
2. Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
The regal Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is an elegant dog from Northern Europe. Originally bred to keep laps warm and flush birds on a shoot, early versions of these dogs are depicted in paintings from as far back as the 16th century. Their name comes from their association with King Charles II, a breeder of toy spaniels, who was constantly surrounded by his little dogs at state meetings, on walks and even on his deathbed. Cavaliers have a wonderful temperament and are affectionate companion dogs who love to snuggle with their owners but having descended from working spaniels, they still need a nice amount of walking and mental stimulation.
The average weight for a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is 5.5kg-8kg, they have a luscious, silky coat which comes in 4 colours (Blenheim, black and tan, tricolour and ruby) making them one of the cutest small dog breeds.
Sadly these lovable little dogs are predisposed to heart disease; however, with regular vet checks and early diagnosis, this can be managed with medication.
Cavalier King Charles Spaniels were bred as lap dogs for the aristocracy.
3. Yorkshire Terrier
Although a Yorkshire Terrier is in the toy dog breed class, as its name states, he is all terrier. They are assertive and playful and will benefit from lots of mental stimulation and exercise. As a terrier, they can be stubborn, but with good training, can be friendly and sociable dogs.
Originally used for chasing rats from mills, they have been seen more as fashionable dogs in recent years and have been bred smaller to fit current trends.
Their weight ranges from around 2.5kg to 4.5kg. Their coats come in varying shades of browns, blues and blacks.
Commonly they are seen with a short coat, but a long coat is displayed on the show Yorkshire Terriers. Pet Yorkshire Terriers usually sport a short coat.
4. Toy Poodles
Toy Poodles are the smallest of all the Poodles weighing no more than 4.5kg. The Standard Poodle is the largest, followed by the miniature then the toy variety. The Standard Poodle is a working dog that was used for water retrieving. They became the dog of choice for the French nobility and are ranked the second most intelligent dog behind the Border Collie. The smaller versions of the Poodle were bred for those who admired their personalities, but wanted a smaller dog, therefore the Toy Poodle matches the Standard Poodles intelligence, enthusiasm and loyalty. They are great city dogs, will alert their owners of visitors and can be easy to train.
They can grow quite attached to their owners, so separation anxiety can sometimes be an issue. Poodles are thought to be hypoallergenic due to the fact that their coats shed much less than other breeds, so they are often the small dog breed of choice for those who are allergic to dogs.
With a name meaning “butterfly”, Papillons are instantly recognisable by their elegant erect ears with flowing fur that resembles butterfly wings. Another breed that was favoured by royalty, the Papillon is a happy, friendly and alert dog. Despite their pretty and delicate appearance, they are hardy and robust dogs who love joining their families on adventures. They do well in agility events due to their speed and intelligence. Their long coats do not need quite as much grooming as you might think, largely down to the lack of an undercoat.
Brushing every other day will help reduce the frequency of visits to the groomer and prevent knots in their coat, especially behind their ears. These beautiful little dogs who weigh around 4kg, love a cuddle as much as they do a gentle walk in the park. The Papillon is one of the most unique looking of the toy dog breeds.
6. Miniature Pinscher
Known as the “King of Toys” or referred to as a Min Pin, the Miniature Pinscher is an ancestor of the dachshund and Italian Greyhound, not the Doberman (despite his appearance). He has a short, smooth coat that requires little grooming.
Miniature Pinschers have a tendency to dig, bark and chase cats and wildlife, and can be more challenging than other breeds to train, but their enthusiasm, energy and desire to play mean these dogs are full of fun!
A unique trait of the Min Pin is their walk. They trot with high knees in a fashion referred to as a “Hackney gait” after the Hackney horse, which is an elegant show horse. Often thought of as a small Doberman, the Miniature Pinscher is an elegant looking small dog breed.
7. Border Terrier
If you are looking for a sturdy small terrier breed, with bags of personality then a Border Terrier should be on your list to consider. What these little brown dogs lack in size they make up for in personality. Known for their otter shaped heads, they belong to the terrier group and were used for driving foxes out of dens for the hunt. This instinct is still strong in the Border Terrier, they will chase almost anything that moves, so care has to be taken on off the lead walks.
Although bred as country dogs, these small dogs do well in towns and cities as long as they are exercised adequately.
They respond well to chasing balls and frisbees, just don’t expect them to bring it back to you, instead they encourage you to chase them for it! Stubborn but affectionate and always trying to please, a Border Terrier is a fabulous small dog breed. Border Terriers are small but hardy like a big dog.
Disclaimer: writer is a little biassed as has been a proud Border Terrier owner for 10 years.

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HOUSTON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- A U.S. sleep specialist advises that people should become well rested before the return to daylight saving time.
Dr. Aparajitha Verma of the Sleep Disorders Center at The Methodist Hospital in Houston says one way to do that is to start changing sleep habits days before the time change March 8.
"You can get up an hour earlier and go to sleep an hour earlier," Verma says in a statement. "You can also take a nap in the afternoon on Sunday if you need it, but not within a few hours of your regular bedtime. Napping too close to bedtime can disrupt nighttime sleep."
More than 70 million people have some kind of sleep problem, Verma says, and daylight saving time-disrupted sleep patterns can lead to more serious sleep problems that can cause serious health and lifestyle issues.
"As you're trying to get used to the time change, keep in mind that if you cannot fall asleep within 30 minutes of lying down, if you have excessive daytime sleepiness, or if you're still sleeping for seven or more hours and waking up tired, you may have a more serious sleeping disorder, and should consider a visit to a center accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine," Verma says.


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“The Mayor and the Midwife” by Edith Maxwell in Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016 (Down & Out Books)
“The Last Blue Glass” by B.K. Stevens in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
“Parallel Play” by Art Taylor in Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning (Wildside Press)
My physical setting is the town I live in—Amesbury, Massachusetts—but in the late 1880s. The time setting governs certain crime-solving techniques, of course. Fingerprinting and blood typing were not in use at the time. And it contributes to the characters acting in a manner consistent with the era—mostly. Rose Carroll is a bit of an outsider: she’s a Quaker, didn’t grow up in the town, and is a forthright independent businesswoman of 24. These mattered a lot more back then than they might in contemporary times. Her outsider status also makes her a good amateur sleuth, as does working as a midwife, where she goes places and hears secrets the detectives aren’t able to.


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A team of experts from TWI hosted a free one-day mooring chains workshop for Industrial Member companies to gain an insight into recent and current research on the topic of mooring chains.
The workshop, which took place earlier this year in Aberdeen, proved a great success, with delegates from some of the largest oil and gas companies in the world in attendance, ranging from operators and classification bodies to academics and regulators.
Proceedings were opened by David Galbraith, TWI’s oil and gas industry sector manager, who explained that the day’s key objective was to present current and future technological developments and facilitate discussions on the technical challenges faced by industry.
Operational experience with mooring chains was first on the agenda, with keynote presentations from Farshid Fardi and Francois Pelleter of Lloyd’s Register presenting their thoughts. Other highlights of the day included presentations from TWI’s experts on the development of ultrasonic techniques for in-situ inspection and monitoring, fatigue crack growth rates of mooring chain steels in seawater, finite element analyses of mooring chain links, fatigue performance of mooring chains in seawater, and methodologies for implementing structural health monitoring and in-service inspection of mooring chains.
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Even if Saturday Night Live ceased to be the nation’s comedic gold standard a long time ago, the show’s musical guests still use their performances to make statements and cement their reputations. Acclaimed Chicago emcee and singer Chance the Rapper did just that last weekend. His SNL performance marked the first time an independent artist has performed on the show.
For that history-making performance, Chance and frequent collaborators The Social Experiment performed jubilant versions of two newer songs, "Somewhere in Paradise," (joined fellow Chicagoan singer Jeremih) and "Sunday Candy." In the latter song, Chance referenced Jason Van Dyke, the ex-Chicago police officer who killed teenager Laquan McDonald: "I’ve been waiting all week, I’ve been waiting all night, Jason Van Dyke/Had to say something on Saturday, see you at church on Sunday."
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Yeah, CB was okay. Most of these major western ski areas, ummmm, seem very alike - Park City, T-Ride, CB, Breck. The base area, the condos, the restaurants, the yuppie shops and of course that phony-like brick courtyard and walkways - they all seem like Bertucci's. I have not skied at Jackson Hole in years but as someone in Ouray told me, "Jackson Hole is where the billionaires gout chased out by the multi-billionaires" which isn't for me. Nothing against billionaires - most of them earned it which had to be difficult and I think they are vilified too much - but they're different from me in many ways though I ain't exactly poor. I'm relaxed and happy getting off the exit on I-93 and driving up the 10 miles or so through the forest and arriving at the simple condo-less base area in the woods and patronizing those world class 5 star restaurants Buckets, T-Bars and the upper mountain Schwendi Hutte all where I was taken care of nicely by Ryan, April and Lizzie with New England hospitality.
Crested Butte's expert terrain was just about all closed due to low snow but the terrain looked pretty cool. Roughly 11" new fell the night before I skied there and ungroomed intermediate terrain skied nicely though I was hitting rocks and brush - it was like opening day at Mad River! I recommend checking out Irwin Guides for cat skiing and touring, though. I have not skied with them, but they have a very talented guiding staff - I did ski and take coursework with them - and I cringe while saying this, but the terrain north of town (Gothics) has been pretty much flying under the radar until a bit recently and it is the snowiest spot in Colorado.
Yeah, the ticket deals are nice for those that have to pay, LOL! I did though pay for 2 day tickets at Crested Butte, another one at Lake Louise and an uphill one at Mount Snow.
I have skied at Crested Butte. It's basically an intermediate mountain where they glommed on some upper bowls and "extreme" terrain. But the lift layout is awkward. In some ways it's like Breck/Copper/Keystone where they also added black diamond terrain but with issues such as awkward lifts, extreme altitude, limited vertical and a distinct lack of trees. IMHO, the best additions were at Keystone where they expanded horizontally and managed to create a balanced ski area.
CB is pleasant with nice scenery and an abundance of Texans. Certainly a reasonable place to ski at the right price.
Yes, I like Stevens Pass and A-Basin. My kind of ski areas.
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The chough is a member of the crow family. It was once so common in Cornwall that it was given the name ‘the Cornish chough’. Choughs lived on cliff-tops, where grass was kept short by the ponies that worked at tin and copper mines.
The chough became an important symbol of Cornwall. It appeared in the heraldic arms of several Cornish families including the Rashleighs, Trewinnards and Trebarthas. It also features on the arms of the Duchy of Cornwall, and on those of Cornwall Council, where it is seen holding the Duke of Cornwall’s coronet with one foot.
The once and future king
Choughs are also the subject of various legends. It is said that after his death, the spirit of King Arthur entered into the body of a chough. The bird’s red legs and beak are supposed the represent the blood shed by Arthur in his last battle. The return of the chough could be seen as the return of Arthur – “the once and future King” – who has come to lead the Cornish people again.
The chough returns
The decline of mining, changes in habitat and shooting all reduced the number of choughs in Cornwall. The last pair to nest in Cornwall died in the 1970s. However, in April 2001, after nearly thirty years, a pair of choughs was once again seen on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall. This pair nested and had chicks in 2002. These choughs and their descendents have remained in Cornwall ever since.
Did you know?
The choughs found in Cornwall in 2001 are believed to have come from Ireland – a fellow Celtic nation. In 2016, there were approximately 34 individual choughs resident in Cornwall, with around seven breeding pairs.
Was the return of the chough in 2001 really a good sign for Cornwall and Cornish people?
The Combined Universities in Cornwall project begins, bringing university level education to Cornwall for the first time.
The Cornish language is officially recognised by the UK government.
The hit television cartoon show The Simpsons features Lisa Simpson demanding ‘Freedom for Cornwall now’ in the Cornish language.
Some of Cornwall’s Members of Parliament swear their oaths in the Cornish language.
The Cornish mining landscape is granted World Heritage Site status by UNESCO.
The pasty is given protected status meaning only pasties made in Cornwall can be called Cornish pasties.
The Queen’s barge Gloriana flies the Cornish flag, together with those of the other nations of the UK, during the Golden Jubilee celebrations.
The number of school children in Cornwall identifying themselves as Cornish more than doubles from 23.7% in 2006 to 48% in 2014.
St Piran’s Oratory is uncovered and people can visit it for the first time in over 30 years. An estimated 5,000 people gather in Redruth to celebrate St Piran’s Day.
Cornish people are officially recognised as a national minority and included under the Framework Convention for the Projection of National Minorities.

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