Sing is directed Christophe Lourdelet and Garth Jennings, staring Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon and Scarlett Johanson and tells the story of a Koala named 'Buster Moon' who's theatre is struggling after many years usage, therefore decides to pump life back into his flagging business by running a singing competition.
Illumination Entertainment more often then not, create wonderfully fun flicks that are usually targeted at younger audiences as they seem to present more lighthearted and forgettable story lines like 'The Secret Life of Pets' or 'Despicable Me 2' have done in the past. However Sing is certainly a family friendly experience. The opening sets up the protagonist's back story however doesn't take too much of our time to explain the premise, we are briefly told all we need to know as the film then proceeds to excellently set up each character with a short burst of musical accompaniment. This quickly sets up the array of characters whilst maintaining the energetic buzz as the film opens. From there on, Sing is a highly enjoyable adventure throughout.
Wisely, the film chose to take no inspiration from it's works previous storylines and crafted a plot that's so simply sweet yet never feels like a rehash of recent animations. As many children's films mainly chose animals as their core characters, Sing may seem like something we have seen very recently such as Disney's 'Zootropolis' however it's ingenious use of animals with human characteristics, still feels refreshingly original. And that certainly is the film's main triumph, it could have easily over crowded itself with its abundance of characters. However it successfully shows us enough of each character allowing us to relate to them as we see their development throughout the film. Each character complimented one another nicely as they all had completely different personalities which helped the film branch off into more heartfelt moments as the story explores different people and their contrasting relationships, this of course works in favour of the film, adding more depth to the story. It also succeeds by retaining itself from the over usage of annoying characters; it still gives us them... but in short bursts. This could have easily ruined the entire movie but thankfully all loud mouth, irritating characters were shied away from this particular movie.
Whilst at times it can get a little overly silly by repeating the same gags and slipping in a few fart jokes for the little ones, on the whole Sing was incredibly humours and at times made the adults laugh even more than the children. Choked full of quick whited one liners and laugh out loud slapstick moments that reminisce over hollywood greats like 'Laurel and Hardy'. Mainly resulting in the accidental beat up of the hundred and something year old receptionist, the film's comedic timing was perfect. By now it is expected for animations like these to be visually impressive and with just a quick mention, the films graphics just as usual are wonderful.
A strong message that I felt was apparent in the film was the classic underdog story. Instead of superheroes as it's theme, Sing originally uses Music as it's main inspiration and shows us a group of ordinary animals who aren't your classic skinny, perfect looking singers. A chunky pig, an enormously shy elephant, a moody porcupine, a boyish young gorilla and an aspiring, charismatic koala is what truly makes the film heartwarmingly sentimental. The characters add so many layers to the plot helping it stand out as a film in the genre.
In the end, Sing is a heartwarmingly family friendly film that adds some more originality the genre, beautifully characterised and a fantastically put together soundtrack helped by the stunning voices throughout the film.


Chesterfield FC has today issued three Banning Orders, saying it will not tolerate disorder on match days, including pitch encroachment.
The three orders - one for 10 years and two for three-years each - follow incidents during the recent home fixtures against Solihull Moors and Ebbsfleet United.
A Banning Order means that any individual subject of such an Order will not be admitted into the stadium for any matchday or non-matchday event for the duration of the ban.
Anyone found guilty of breaking such a Banning Order will have it extended to a Lifetime Ban.
The club continues to work with the authorities in relation to the identification of other offenders and it is anticipated that further Banning Orders will be issued in due course.
Disorder on matchdays, including pitch encroachment, will not be tolerated by the club and the swift action we have taken shows how seriously we take such matters. Incidents such as the ones we have experienced could have serious repercussions for the club and we will not hesitate to take further action, if necessary.


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For a sample of 47 lower main-sequence stars, including the Sun, and eight evolved stars, the relative strength of the Ca II H and K emission cores has been measured daily over a nearly continuous interval during 1980 July through October at Mount Wilson. From these time series measurements of chromospheric emission, rotation rates have been inferred with quantitative estimates of both the reality and precision of the rotation periods. We find rotation rates easily for the main-sequence stars with strong emission or those later than about spectral type K0. With this technique, rotation rates can be measured precisely for the first time for equatorial velocities as slow as 1 km s-1 and independently of the aspect of the rotation axis. In a limited range of spectral type, a small sample of stars indicates that chromospheric emission decreases smoothly as a function of rotation period. No conclusion can be drawn on the question of the reality of a discontinuity in chromospheric emission as a function of time (the "Vaughan-Preston" gap for stars in the solar neighborhood).
In our sample of giant stars, the G2 III star HD 218658 shows a persistent fluctuation of 4.6 days, a period that is inconsistent with stellar rotation. The G0 III star HD 6903 is a previously unreported FK Comae-type star.
For a few main-sequence stars, measurements continued beyond 1980 October suggest the presence of active longitudes (if not individual active regions) persisting through the observing season 1981.


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Here's How CBD Can Dramatically Improve Your Sex Life
There's CBD in your deodorant, your serum, and your toothpaste. Your grandma's using it for her arthritis. Even IKEA put CBD in meatballs (ew, but OK). The "green boom" and legalization of cannabis across many states has resulted in the normalization of hemp-based supplements and with the mainstream embracing CBD. (Maybe you even have some in your medicine cabinet right now.)
Chances are, you've also seen an explosion of CBD topicals (lubricants, creams, gels, and suppositories) and ingestibles (capsules, gummies, and tinctures/oils) geared towards boosting your sex life and sexual wellness.
As it turns out, there are a number of applications cannabidiol can have in the bedroom, from managing your hormones to alleviating pain, and even to increase your libido (so… buckle up).
A disclaimer: After almost 100 years of everything cannabis-related being off-limits, there's not a ton of human research to back up CBD's medical claims. One reason? "CBD is still considered a Schedule 1 drug on the Controlled Substance Act and as such, researchers and scientists are prohibited in doing studies," says Bonni Goldstein, M.D., medical advisor to Weedmaps, a site that connects cannabis consumers, patients, retailers, doctors, and brands. So although anecdotal evidence has swelled like a tsunami (a survey from Remedy Review reported 68 percent of people said CBD improved their sex life), we're still (eagerly) waiting for clinical backup.
Ahead, a look at what we do know about CBD's ability to boost libido, enhance orgasm, foster intimacy, and more.
Pain, Be Gone
One of the best-known uses of CBD is as an analgesic — it's used to relieve pain. And this is a big deal for many women when it comes to sex. Dyspareunia (a blanket term for disorders leading to painful sex) is a barrier that keeps upwards of 40% of women from enjoying — or even experiencing — intimacy and experiencing pleasure, according to some estimates.
There are a number of ways topical CBD can help, explains Colleen Gerson, a functional medicine coach and herbalist at Foria, a CBD sexual wellness brand. Lubricants and suppositories can "enhance pleasure and libido by increasing blood flow, which increases lubrication and sensation, relaxing smooth muscle tissue, and easing tension," Gerson explains.
This probably comes down to CBD's well-known anti-inflammatory properties and ability to relax the muscles (less pain, inflammation, and tension would all contribute toward alleviating dyspareunia).
Citing six years of feedback from the Foria customer base, the anecdotal evidence for this use is astounding, Gerson says. (Seriously, read the reviews. Claims include it "saved my marriage".) What's more, in a 2019 survey conducted by Weedmaps of over 500 adults, 98 percent of those surveyed said CBD helped alleviate pain during sex.
Achieving Orgasm, Starring CBD
If the big O has been slightly out of reach (or less than satisfying), enter: cannabis. A 2019 review paper showed cannabis led to longer, more satisfying orgasms.
How? CBD can increase blood flow to tissues and improve nerve sensation, both of which can help make sex more pleasurable while intensifying an orgasm.
"There is anecdotal evidence to suggest that the direct application of CBD-infused lubricants to the genitalia increases blood flow to the area," explains Robert Flannery, Ph.D. of Dr. Robb Farms. "An increase of blood flow to female genitalia has shown to increase sexual arousal and the intensity of orgasms. Both very good things."
Less Stress, More Libido
When you're stressed or anxious, sex is probably the farthest thing on your mind. Science confirms this, too — studies have shown that the stress hormone cortisol can lower your libido.
"It has been widely studied and shown that anxiety — both general and specific to sexual performance — limits a woman's sexual arousal," Dr. Flannery says. One of the biggest ways CBD consumption can help a woman's sex life, especially for those suffering from sexual performance anxiety, is its ability to reduce anxiety (by triggering the serotonin receptor), he explains.
"By reducing cortisol and activating the PNS (parasympathetic nervous system), we're going to drop into a more restful, receptive, sensually supportive capacity of the body," adds Gerson. So if anxiety is getting in the way of your eh… extracurricular activities, consider CBD's anxiolytic benefits as a potential solution.
Of note: this may just apply to women. One study showed that cannabinoids could potentially lower a man's sex drive, though this particular study looked at marijuana (aka, all the cannabinoids, including THC), not just isolated CBD.
Balancing Estrogen Levels = Higher Drive
CBD could potentially help your body balance levels of estrogen, which — in theory — can increase sex drive. "The Endocannabinoid System (ECS) works overall to maintain homeostasis in the body, to regulate systems and organ function towards balance and harmony," said Gerson. "So CBD's relationship with our hormones and reproductive health is likely multifaceted, as ultimately a balanced body is fertile and vital (in it's reproductive years)." She called hemp an "ally to hormone balance."
This also comes down to how it (purportedly) helps the body deal with stress. In theory, if you manage bodily stress, your hormones will recalibrate as well. "While CBD can support some of the symptoms of hormone imbalance like pain, anxiety, or insomnia, it can also support via a key underlying root, stress," says Gerson.
And FYI, if you're open to it (and in a state where it's legal), you might want to try THC, too, which may have an even greater impact than CBD to turn up the heat, Gerson adds.
Emotional Intimacy, Initiated
There's another way CBD can improve your sex life: It can provide for a deeper emotional connection during intimacy.
Here's how: "CBD increases the serum concentration of an endocannabinoid neurotransmitter called anandamide, which is closely associated with oxytocin, known as the 'cuddle chemical,' 'hug hormone,' 'love hormone,' or 'moral molecule,'" Dr. Flannery explains. "Research has shown that an increase in anandamide during social contact, including a sexual experience, increases the pleasure of said contact."
"The etymology of the word 'anandamide' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'ananda,' which translates to 'joy, bliss, delight,'" he adds (sounds very kama sutra-esque). "This might give some insight as to what it can do."
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Rub' al Khali
James Borrell
A small solitary figure stood staring into the embers, his pale white dishdasha hanging loosely around him lending a ghostly appearance in the pre-dawn light. Slowly and melodically his voice carried across the dunes on the cool North wind, calling the others to prayer. The sun is still a dull glow beneath the horizon, and the fine sand that makes up this remarkable landscape remains cold to the touch. We are in the Rub' al Khali, the Empty Quarter, and never has a name seemed to so aptly describe a place.
I lay quietly in my sleeping bag on the dusty plains, nestled in amongst towering dunes, letting the Arabic versus drift over me. Mohammed, a local ranger, would rise each morning calling our Omani companions to prayer (and giving the occasional gentle kick to anyone sleeping heavily). I sat eating my porridge ration in silence as they knelt and bowed as one towards Mecca. I felt a very long way from home.
Growing up in Colchester, a nondescript town in North Essex, I hadn't envisaged a path through life that could result in waking to prayer call in a remote Southern corner of Oman. Essex was unremarkable, save perhaps for a slightly higher than average ignorance of the outside world. The safe and forgiving gentle green fields, persistently overcast grey skies and frequent rain were as far removed from the golden orange dunes of the Empty Quarter as I think it is possible to be. Sometime later I became a biologist with an interest in conservation. Oddly, and through blind chance, it is this that would lead me all the way from England to this barren and apparently lifeless corner of the earth as a scientist with the British Exploring Society.
The safe and forgiving gentle green fields, persistently overcast grey skies and frequent rain were as far removed from the golden orange dunes of the Empty Quarter as I think it is possible to be.
It is not the goal but the way there that matters. The harder the way, the more worthwhile the journey.
In early January of this year, minced pies and mulled wine still fresh in our minds (and the sudden heat confounding our senses) we had bounced along the newly tarmacked road heading North from the coastal city of Salalah, birth place of Sultan Qaboos. Dhofar, the Southernmost region of Oman, was in the 1970's consumed by a bitter guerrilla war, the coastal mountains and plains forming a battleground between rebels and government forces, incidentally backed by the British. Little sign of this unrest remains, aside from the occasionally discovered spent mortar shells, half buried in the hillside. Oman is now a comparative oasis of calm and composure in a region apparently prone to unrest.
We passed through Thumrait, once a vital part of the caravan trade route, and shortly after, turned off on to an inconspicuous track, snaking away into the distance. Great plumes of fine dust trailed the vehicles, rising up in the breeze and drifting to the East, covering everything in a blanket of dull orange sand. From here on it would meticulously find it's way into everything, including our food.
Small car sized dunes began to appear; slowly at first and often in the middle of the road, as if warning us to turn back. Relentlessly they make the laborious journey across the plains. Shimmering on the heat haze rose the minarets of Al Hashman, a small settlement surrounded by a low white wall and perched on the edge of the vast wilderness. We filled our containers with water and sat drinking sweet Omani tea, whilst trying to explain to our hosts the logic of continuing into the desert. They thought it seemed a silly idea (they were probably right) and of course it was dangerous and we were English they reasoned. Nevertheless, we heaped thanks upon them, said our Salaams and set off once more deeper into The Sands. From here, the dunes continue unbroken for at least five hundred miles in every direction engulfing the heart of the Arabian Peninsula, to Saudi and the UAE in the North and close to the Red Sea and Yemen in the West.
The dunes grew bigger now, running together in great impenetrable ranks and towering above us with vast smooth slopes and knife like ridges. We navigated the gravel plains that interspersed them, growing smaller the deeper we went. Geodes crumbled with a thud under the tyres. Mysteriously abundant in this small region of the desert, these geological oddities range in size from a small marble up to perhaps as large as a basketball and look somewhat like rounded petrified cauliflowers. How they form no one is really sure, but when broken, closer inspection reveals an inside densely packed with glistening crystals that range from pale green to a deep violet. Scattered so generously across the landscape, they were impossible to avoid.
As the day heats up, the sand becomes softer and very soon we became stuck. The desert teaches lessons quickly and without fuss, leaving us to dig our way out laboriously in the mid-day sun. A short time later we made base camp in a natural amphitheatre flanked by two large dunes, hastily erected a tarpaulin between vehicles and sought shelter from the oppressive heat. Over the coming days we would begin to acclimatise. This we told ourselves regularly, but it is a token notion when the mercury hits 40 and continues to rise. And so we were in the Empty Quarter, or simply The Sands as they are known in Arabia. Ahead of us and around us was nothing, silence prevailed here.
As a biologist, I had a somewhat barren impression of the desert, and it was to address this common misconception that we had come all this way. Under the cover of darkness as we slept out under a night sky brimming with stars, the desert would come alive. At dawn, to our surprise, the immaculately smooth sand would be crossed with the tell-tale signs of life just feet from where we had laid. Tracks and trails, seemingly at random, heading this way and that, away from curious eyes eking out an existence in this forbidding landscape.
Soon after arriving we set out in teams to explore the area. We had come equipped with camera traps, small portable cameras triggered by an infrared sensor, designed to remotely film passing animals. In a landscape so sparsely filled with prominent features – the dunes roll endlessly into a sea of sand – deciding where to place our traps was a considerable challenge. We learnt to distinguish one area from the next by the feint presence of greyish wisps of vegetation or the slightest indication of water under the surface. We found ancient and gnarled bushes clinging to existence in the hollows of dunes, and small brilliant green bushes left undisturbed and perhaps full of poisons. We built pitfall traps for insects and reptiles, laid small mammal boxes to catch Jerboa and Jird (all harmless I might add) and undertook all manner of experiments to document the life here.
We looked closely at a landscape we might have simply journeyed through, and in just a few short weeks saw the many faces of the desert. Far from this empty nothingness we woke to dew covered sleeping bags and mist shrouded dunes as moisture rolled in from the coast and shivered as night-time temperatures plummeted to freezing point. We whooped with joy after climbing laboriously up countless sandy peaks and marvelled at the deep resonating rumble emanating from within as we descended. We experienced the unpleasantness of a mild sand storm and grew accustomed to having grit in everything we ate or drank. Above all we cherished the simplicity of life here.
As our time drew to a close, we huddled around the bonnet of the vehicle in the cool of our final evening and loaded images from our camera traps. The team gathered in anticipation. A curious thing about camera traps is that you live in blissful ignorance of the life around you, until it comes time to leave and you retrieve your findings. In all honesty we had been ambitious and wildly unrealistic. We were a relatively inexperienced team, from a myriad of backgrounds, hoping to scratch the surface of this unimaginably vast place.
Surprisingly, as the grainy black and white video clips flickered into life, there was life right in front of our eyes. Whiskers sniffing at the lens, fur, teeth chewing curiously at the casing, and a Sand Fox scurries off into the distance (Vulpes ruppellii for nerds). Later we found another, and another, hares too, and signs of great spiny-tailed lizards called Dhubs. It's hard to over state our elation at simply finding anything at all. The desert is a desolate, silent place, beautiful in it's simplicity more than anything else. But if you can get beneath the skin of this vast wilderness, there is much more than meets the eye.
Occasionally, when you least expect it, the wildlife found us. I woke sleepily the following morning to an inquisitive camel peering back at me in the half-light, standing nonchalantly at the foot of my sleeping bag while his friends rummaged our belongings for food and water.
Reluctantly we loaded the vehicles and headed South to continue our fieldwork over the coming weeks in Dhofar's Coastal mountain range (Oman really is a surprising gem!). The desert slipped away behind us in a cloud of our own dust. Wilfred Thesiger wisely once said that no man leaves the desert unchanged, however slight. Now, pondering on that great barren wilderness, so desolate and harsh, I confess that those great sands have enchanted me, and I long to return.
Wilfred Thesiger wisely once said that no man leaves the desert unchanged, however slight. Now, pondering on that great barren wilderness, so desolate and harsh, I confess that those great sands have enchanted me, and I long to return.
James is a conservation biologist with a passion for fieldwork and a keen interest citizen science. He is currently undertaking a PhD in conservation genetics at Queen Mary, University of London.
James's main research interests are the effects of habitat fragmentation on the conservation of rare species. He is also a keen advocate of youth development through scientific expeditions. James can now be found working on a new conservation project in the Scottish Highlands.
Find out more via his website: http://www.jamesborrell.co.uk or follow James on
Twitter @James_Borrell
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Q: RAD 7.5 Web Service question I'm using Rational Application Developer to create some web services.  The problem I have is I follow the instructions laid out in a screen cast, however when I get to the part where I pick "JAX-WS" it complains that Websphere does not have an implementation for the webservice libraries as the chosen server is only a "stub".
Being new to developing for WAS, I was wondering what this means?  Is it that RAD does not ship with an actual implementation of WAS, but only stub libraries so your code can compile?  Is it that I need to install a full blown WAS server locally in order to test my webservice code?

A: Figured this out, had to go into IBM Installation Manager and pick the WAS 6.1 and Web Services feature.

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Just a quick post for people who are interested in Echo State Networks.
The past months I spent my time at DoBots to investigate Echo State Networks (ESNs) as part of my studies Cognitive Neuroscience. ESNs are a type of recurrent neural network that is easier to train than conventional recurrent neural networks. Those conventional networks require gradient-based learning algorithms, such as backpropagation through time (BPTT), and can have problems with convergence. In order to circumvent this problem, the recurrent connections are not trained at all in the ESN approach. Instead, the recurrent neural network is used as a reservoir of non-linear combinations of the input data, and this reservoir is used to train a simple perceptron output node with regression. The resulting network gives especially impressive results in timeseries prediction.
M. Lukosevicius and H. Jaeger. Reservoir computing approaches to recurrent neural network training. Computer Science Review, 3(3):127-149, 2009.
B. Schrauwen, D. Verstraeten, and J. Van Campenhout. An overview of reservoir computing: theory, applications and implementations. In proceedings of the 15th European Symposium on Arti cial Neural Networks. 2007.
I investigated classification with ESNs. Specifically, classification of environments and abstract context. This can be useful in a couple of situations. First, you may want to create a robot controller based on a recurrent neural network, but get stuck at the training procedure. As explained earlier, an ESN can solve this problem. Another possibility is to create a behavioral robot controller and use the output nodes of the ESN to inhibit or enhance specific behaviors, depending on the context. For example, you could use a small ESN to process battery status and light sensor information to create a sleeping pattern or simply to make a robot look for energy when the battery is almost empty. Unfortunately, I did not get around to implementing the ESNs in an actual robot for demonstration. Nevertheless, I adapted the basic ESN concept to deal with different timescales, by using a continuous times reservoir instead of a discrete reservoir. This system can solve some artificial but non-trivial abstract tasks. The main challenges for a robot implementation will be the use of continuous input signals instead of binary input and the timing of the input signals: in my system, the input is given every 15 timesteps and at the end of every such trial, the output is read. In a robot, this will probably not be so simple.
P. Ploger, A. Arghir, T. Gunther, and R. Hosseiny. Echo state networks for mobile robot modeling and control. RoboCup 2003: Robot Soccer World Cup VII, pages 157-168, 2004.
M. Salmen and P.G. Ploger. Echo state networks used for motor control. In Robotics and Automation, 2005. ICRA 2005. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on, pages 1953-1958. IEEE, 2005.
A.F. Krause, V. Durr, B. Blasing, and T. Schack. Evolutionary optimization of echo state networks: multiple motor pattern learning. 2010.
C. Hartland and N. Bredeche. Using echo state networks for robot navigation behavior acquisition. In Robotics and Biomimetics, 2007. ROBIO 2007. IEEE International Conference on, pages 201-206. IEEE, 2007.
T. Waegeman, E. Antonelo, F. Wyels, and B. Schrauwen. Modular reservoir computing networks for imitation learning of multiple robot behaviors. In Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA), 2009 IEEE International Symposium on, pages 27-32. IEEE, 2009.


Jean Le Rond d' Alembert came up with this betting system for bets which offer 50-50 or near 50-50 outcome, so is ideal for teh even money bets of roulette. The system was based around the theory of "nature seeking equilibrium". Therefore if one outcome begins to dominate the results then its more likely in the future that the other opposite outcome will dominate in the future.
So for the game of roulette if an even money bet such as red has come up a number of times then you should start betting on black. As for the actual betting, the principle is that you add a single bet unit when you lose and decrease your bet by a single bet unit when you win.
So an example of the D' Alembert system would be if you were just betting $1 units and lost, your next bet would be $2. If you lost again, your following bet would be $3. If on the next betting round you won, your next bet would decrease by one unit and therefore be a $2 bet.
The problem with the system and equilibrium is that any bets you place will be in such a small quantity in relation to the long term equilibrium, which is something that could take millions of bets and still not be exact equilibrium. Its quite feasible for you to have long losing streaks. So its likely you will have lot of small winning sessions but, when you lose its likely to be a big loss.
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Die Gauliga Mittelrhein 1937/38 war die fünfte Spielzeit der Gauliga Mittelrhein des Deutschen Fußball-Bundes. Da der Kölner CfR und der Kölner SC 1899 zum VfL Köln 1899 fusionierten, wurde die Gauliga in dieser Saison mit zehn Mannschaften in einer Gruppe im Rundenturnier ausgespielt. Ursprünglich setzte sich Alemannia Aachen durch und wurde Gaumeister. Der SV Beuel 06 legte jedoch Protest gegen eine Spielwertung ein und bekam am grünen Tisch zwei Punkte aus einem verlorenen Spiel zugesprochen, wodurch sie Mittelrheinmeister wurden. Für die Teilnahme an der deutschen Fußballmeisterschaft 1937/38 war es jedoch zu spät, bei dieser trat Aachen an. Die Aachener erreichten in einer Gruppe mit Hannover 96, dem 1. FC Nürnberg und dem FC Hanau 93 den dritten Platz, welcher nicht zum Weiterkommen ausreichte. Der Bonner FV 01 und der Kölner BC 01 stiegen ab, im Gegenzug stiegen SSV Troisdorf 05 und TuS Neuendorf aus den Bezirksligen auf.

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Feuchtwanger Studies
Edited By Paul Lerner and Frank Stern
This collection of essays is devoted to the Jewish themes that ran through Lion Feuchtwanger's life, works and worlds. Beginning with a selection of Feuchtwanger's unpublished writings, speeches, and interviews, the volume examines the author's approaches to Jewish history, Zionism, Judaism's relationship to early Christianity and to eastern religions, and Jewish identity through his works, above all his historical fiction. Essays also trace translations of his works into English and Russian, and the meaning of his writing for various communities of Jewish and non-Jewish readers in Britain, North America, and the Soviet Union. A final section frames the issues around Feuchtwanger and Jewishness more broadly by considering the condition of exile and expanding the focus to communities of émigré writers and political figures in North America and beyond.
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien, 2019. XII, 292 pp., 12 fig. b/w
Introduction (Paul Lerner and Frank Stern)
Part I Documents: Feuchtwanger on Judaism, Jewish History, and Jewish Identity
Part II Jewish Pasts, Jewish Futures
1 Lion Feuchtwanger's Jewish Historical Consciousness in America (Margrit Frölich)
2 Rethinking Jewishness in Dark Times: Feuchtwanger and Arnold Zweig on Judaism, Zionism, and History (Paul Lerner)
3 Frühes Christentum in Lion Feuchtwangers Josephus-Trilogie (Detlef Blasche)
4 Historical, Political, and Metaphysical Aspects of the East in Feuchtwanger's Der falsche Nero (Sebastian Musch)
5 Caught between Cultures: Lion Feuchtwanger's Flavius Josephus (Adrian Feuchtwanger)
Part III Feuchtwanger in Translation: The Literary Imagination Abroad
6 Jud Süß in English Translation (Ian Wallace)
7 The Soviet Jewish Scripture: Lion Feuchtwanger and the Soviet Jewish Bookshelf (Marat Grinberg)
8 Lion Feuchtwanger and the Question of Jewish Identity in Stalinist Russia (Anne Hartmann)
Part IV Feuchtwanger and Friends: Exile, Identity, and Religion
9 "Umwerthung aller Werthe"? Heinrich Mann, Das Zwanzigste Jahrhundert und das Judentum (Michaela Enderle-Ristori)
10 Listening in the Waiting Room: Feuchtwanger on the Acoustics of Exile (Sean Nye)
11 Aufbau: The Bridge between America and Europe during Lion Feuchtwanger's Years in Exile (Marje Schuetze-Coburn)
12 Anna Seghers and Judaism (Birgit Maier-Katkin)
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12 Anna Seghers and Judaism
During the Nazi years many previously emancipated and assimilated German Jews were forced into exile and had to consolidate their German identity with Jewish heritage. For the German Jewish exile writer Anna Seghers, this meant having to amalgamate her Jewish roots with active membership in the communist party. This essay argues that despite her communist convictions and the persistent Judeo-Christian chasm in German society, Seghers held fast to her Jewish roots. Drawing on her dissertation, the treatment of Jewish characters in selected works, and her involvement in the Heinrich Heine Club in Mexico, this article focuses on Seghers' literary and personal expressions during early adulthood and her years in exile. It demonstrates that Seghers retained Jewish identity while consolidating her position in Christian society and pursuing secular communist interests; she continued this trajectory in the face of political upheaval and racial injustice during the time when Nazis persecuted Jews and Communists. A continuous stream of traces and references to Judaism are visible throughout her life and show that she did not deny her Jewish identity, traditions, and themes.
German citizens of Jewish descent were a primary target of Hitler's government. Since Nazi racist policies were implemented slowly, many Jews did not immediately recognize the threat to their lives. Jean-Michael Palmer notes in Weimar in Exile that due to emancipation many German Jews did not see any reason to flee Germany during the first years...


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Lateral hire: Cormack joins Mills & Reeve
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Sarah Cormack, Mills & Reeve
National firm Mills & Reeve has welcomed new partner Sarah Cormack from Withers. Cormack, who will be based in the London office of Mills & Reeve, specialises in tax, trusts and estate planning for ultra-high net worth international individuals and their families. She has particular expertise in establishing and advising on the holding of assets in multiple jurisdictions, the establishment of private trust companies and tax and structuring for clients who are both resident and non-resident in the UK.
She has a keen interest in advising international families and family offices on tax and governance issues. She is also a regular speaker at conferences in the Channel Islands, the Caribbean as well as in the UK.
Chris Belcher, head of private client at Mills & Reeve, said: 'We have seen a real trend in international families investing in and taking advice in the UK given the UK's reputation as a centre of excellence. Sarah's appointment means that we are able to offer these clients advice on structuring their private affairs as well as the businesses in which they invest or the properties they are buying.'
Cormack commented: 'I am delighted to be joining Mills & Reeve at such an exciting time in the firm's development. The focus on expanding their international offering, combined with the specialist sector knowledge they offer to their clients gives me a great platform on which to help develop a strong international private client practice.'
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Enrique has a history of firsts—In 1998 he was the first person to be granted dual citizenship with Mexico, the first president of the San Diego County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Vice President in Major League Sports with the San Diego Padres bringing the first ever regular season games outside the US/Canada, the President and Founder of House of Mexico and President and Founder of Border Angels (saving migrant lives), an all volunteer group.
Enrique has been featured on NBC, CNN, CBS, BBC, NPR, Univision's Don Francisco Presenta, Televisa Nacional, Rocio en Telemundo and in countless other international media around the world. He frequently lectures and has more than held his own on shows with Bill O'Reilly and Lou Dobbs. Morones promotes the TRUTH about the migrant community.
As a founder of GENTE UNIDA (a human rights border coalition) in May of 2005, he has led the national effort against the vigilante Minutemen soundly shutting them down in California. He is recognized as one of the 100 most influential Latinos in the USA by HISPANIC BUSINESS MAGAZINE and his recognitions include being FRONTLINE HUMAN RIGHTS international awardee for his lifelong dedication to Human Rights,2009 National Human Rights Award, presented by Mexican President Felipe Caldron, 2010 California Spirit Award, presented , Gil Cedillo, and the Bishop Buddy Alumni award presented by "USD" University San Diego.


Dynocom's PATENTED DC-POD is a revolutionary Portable On-Vehicle Dynamometer that is vastly different from standard chassis roller dynamometers providing the main benefit of utmost in portability in a small package. The DC-POD bolts up to the vehicles wheel hub and eliminates the frictional drag forces due to tire to roll contact area and downward restraining force variations due to differences in ratchet strap hook ups common with many conventional roller dynamometers. Dynocom's DC-POD also differs from other competitor type units which typically use hydraulic brakes and pumps. Dynocom's DC-POD is the next generation portable on vehicle dynamometer providing outstanding performance, leading edge features, and maximum flexibility. The DC-POD has redefined yesterday's technology and has become the new technological standard in portable on vehicle dynamometers.


The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife is a continuing series of conferences, exhibitions, and publications whose purpose is to explore everyday life, work, and culture in New England's past. Founded on the premise that traditional lore and material folk culture are rapidly disappearing in New England, the series focuses attention on emerging areas of folk studies, regional and local history, cultural geography, historical archaeology, and vernacular and antiquarian studies. Conferences are held in June or July of each year with concurrent exhibitions at participating museums and art galleries. Dublin Seminar conferences are sponsored by Historic Deerfield.
Topics are announced at the conference of the preceding year. Selected and edited transcripts of papers presented at Dublin Seminar conferences are published each year as the Annual Proceedings. Catalogues of exhibitions accompanying Dublin Seminar conferences are published separately. Named after the town of Dublin, New Hampshire, where the series started in 1976, the conference has met at Deerfield, Massachusetts, since 1989; Historic Deerfield began its sponsorship after 2008.
The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife (founded 1976) is pleased to announce the subject of next year's conference, Entertainments at Taverns and Long Rooms in New England, 1700-1900, to be held in Deerfield, Massachusetts, June 21-23, 2019.
The Seminar is now accepting proposals for papers, presentations, and performances concerning all types of popular entertainments, including singing and small theatrical groups,street musicians, strolling magicians, and animal showmen, operating in New England taverns, long rooms, coffeehouses, exhibition rooms, assembly halls, barns, and open-air rotundas from 1700 through 1900. Performers to be considered will include magicians, slack-wire artists, rope flyers, tightrope walkers, pantomimists, electrical machine operators (and accompanying healers), demonstrators of automata and perpetual motion machines, puppeteers, sleight-of-hand artists, ventriloquists, peep-box entertainers, lantern showmen, card-players, trick riders, prize-fighters, fortune tellers, firework specialists, parachute jumpers, and hot-air or hydrogen balloonists. Also of interest are papers addressing gambling, vaudeville, and prostitution, as well as stationary exhibits such as waxwork museums and profile or physiognotrace machines, and community-based amateur entertainments. Preference will be given to analytical papers exploring subjects such as the cultural origin of these acts; the roles of ethnicity, race and class; their actual popularity; the involvement of children; patterns of advertising and self-naming; the influence of maritime presence and activities; as well as the larger role of competing professional English and French theater and singing troupes. Special consideration will be given to talks accompanied by demonstrations. Our primary focus is on New England, but papers dealing with New York State, adjacent areas of Canada, and the middle and southern colonies are also encouraged.
Entertainments in Taverns and Long Rooms in New England, 1700-1900, will be held in Deerfield, Massachusetts, June 21-23, 2019 and will consist of approximately seventeen lectures or presentations of twenty minutes each, with related tours and workshops. Selected papers will appear as the 2019 Annual Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar to be published about eighteen months after the conference.
To submit a paper proposal for this conference, please e-mail a one-page prospectus that cites sources and a one-page vita or biography by February 10, 2019.
To register for this year's seminar, please visit the event page.
Seminar Proceedings, exhibition catalogues, and occasional publications generated by conferences held from 1976 through 2007 are available for purchase through Historic Deerfield's Museum Gift Shop and Bookstore. View available publications.


The historic site of Olympia, along with that of Delphi, are the most celebrated sanctuaries of ancient Greece. Its name is synonymous with the country and is renowned as the birthplace of the Olympic Games. Less-known was ancient Olympia's position as a national shrine to the Greeks and as the custodian of many treasures of art and architecture. Today, visitors to the site can explore the ancient stadium, where athletes trained and competed in years gone by; visit the fascinating Olympic Games museum and admire the ornate sculptures and archaeological remains at the Temple of Zeus, reputed to be the oldest Doric building in the world.
Olympia is situated in the Elis valley, through which runs the River Alpheus, and is the gateway to a region of unspoiled natural beauty and unrivalled history. The Temples of Apollo Epikourios and Aprodite are within a short drive, as is the Chlemoutsi Castle. For nature lovers, there are river valleys, waterfalls and lagoons to discover and enjoy.


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Italian researchers unearth remains of master and slave at Pompeii
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A tourist at Pompeii in May. Photo: AFP
The remains of two victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago have been unearthed at a grand villa on the fringes of Pompeii, officials at the archaeological site said on Saturday.
"Two skeletons of individuals caught in the fury of the eruption have been found," officials at the Italian site near Naples said in a statement.
The researchers believe the figures are those of a young slave and a richer older man, around 40 and presumed to be his owner, based on the vestiges of clothing and their physical appearance.
The bodies of the two men, killed almost 2,000 years ago, are rported to be in an exceptionally well-preserved condition.
The ruined city of Pompeii was submerged in ash after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. It is now Italy's second-most visited tourist attraction after Rome's Colosseum, receiving nearly four million visits last year.
READ ALSO: 'Alley of balconies' uncovered at Pompeii in rare find
The massive site that spreads over 44-hectares (110-acres) is what remains of one of one the richest cities in the Roman empire.
Layers of ash buried many buildings and objects in a nearly pristine state, including curled-up corpses of victims.
After the latest human remains were uncovered, the bones were analysed and then plaster was poured in, a technique invented by Giuseppe Fiorelli in 1867.
This creates a plaster cast which shows the shapes of the bodies of the two victims, in the supine position where they fell.
The two skeletons were found during ongoing excavations at Civita Giuliana, around 700 metres northwest of Pompeii, at a villa overlooking the Bay of Naples where previously a stable and the remains of three harnessed horses had been found.
The two bodies were found in a side room of the "cryptoporticus" a corridor below the villa where the could have gone to seek shelter.
While excavations continue at the Pompeii site, tourism has stopped due to coronavirus measures.
Italian archaeologists uncover slave room at Pompeii in 'rare' find
New skeleton find could reveal more about Vesuvius eruption
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Germany returns Ancient Roman bust to Italy
Nero's palace reopens to the public in Rome
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Developers want to build a giant Ferris wheel next to Pompeii
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Cold and cough are not serious diseases, but if they are not treated properly they can just easily turn into those kinds of diseases. Therefore, it is a must to treat them on time with the most appropriate treatments. They are usually accompanied with dry cough which is very irritating and annoying making you feel worse and uncomfortable. Dry coughing can be so terrible so that you cannot concentrate on almost anything, and they affect other people as they become so annoying to them.
The coughs are irritating and tedious also during the day, and not to mention the fact that they worsen three times during night time. It is so troublesome that it won't leave you any good night sleep.
Because of all of these reasons, many people go directly to pharmacies and ask for help when these issues occur. They purchase the first available cough syrup that offers them temporarily relief.
Fortunately for all of you, today we shall present you with an effective homemade cough treatment. It is one of the best and so effective that you will be amazed by the outstanding results.
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Crawley v Posh: Match Preview
Posh travel to Crawley Town in Sky Bet League One action on Saturday (3pm).
Peterborough United go in search of their fifth win in the last seven games on Saturday when Darren Ferguson's men travel to Crawley Town in Sky Bet League One action (3pm).
Posh are currently third in the division's form table after an excellent run of recent results and can strengthen their play-off position with three points against the Reds on what is expected to be a very difficult playing surface.
Crawley have called a precautionary pitch inspection for 3pm on Friday, but remain confident the game will go ahead as planned on Saturday.
Posh have only one absentee in terms of injury with Kyle Vassell expected to face three weeks on the sidelines with a broken toe. Nathaniel Knight-Percival and Jack Payne are fit and available for selection.
Payne had a sore groin and missed the 1-0 win over Stevenage, but rest was the diagnosis and he is back in the squad.
Boss Ferguson, who watched Crawley in their 1-1 draw at Swindon during the week, said: 'Crawley are a good team. I watched them at Swindon and they played well. They are definitely in a false position in the league in my opinion and I am confident they will move away from the drop zone.
'They have a lot of games in hand and haven't had a home game for about five weeks, so I am sure the fans are looking forward to seeing them in action and it should be a good atmosphere.
'We go there in good form, the lads are in good spirits and I have a pretty full squad to choose from and believe me, there are a lot of players pushing for starts. Conor Washington and Jack Baldwin have both trained very well,' Ferguson said.
Crawley are skippered by former Posh midfielder Josh Simpson and also include another ex-Posh player in Sergio Torres in their ranks.
Posh had sold just under 300 tickets for the game in advance. It is not all-ticket for Posh fans, but there is slight price increase on the day. Fans have until 3pm on Friday to purchase in advance.


Thinking about my earliest Social Media memories, I remember one warm summer night in 1994 in Sweden. My good friend Zeljko ran the networks for the publishing house we both worked for, but then I've always liked geeks. He was a really clever guy from Croatia who I totally fancied. We used and developed the company-owned BBS which had existed since 1986 (cleverly called Com) for e-mails, groups, discussions. It had very early Instant Messaging facility, so if you were online simultaneously as another user, you could say hi without the need to send a mail.
It was all DOS based, and it did it's job. We had users around the world and we could see early the many of the advantages and also pitfalls in using technology for communication.
But back to that summer night… I was reading in my room and got bored, so went to the computer and logged on… and there was Zeljko, logged on one minute after me. I was shy… do I say hi and risk a late-night IM chat that could have led to something else? I didn't, I logged off… we remained friends, I married somebody else. A "hi" right then might have changed my life.
Silly story isn't it? But it goes to show how an interest in using technology to socialise and communicate has always impacted on things happening in my life, and increasingly so with every year that passed. I learned to be less shy about being myself online as well as offline. I've learned that it's ok to use any bit of technology to communicate, there's nothing to worry about, as long as you use common sense – but that's valid for anything you do in life.
Of course, online communication wasn't called Social Media then. It wasn't even called Instant Messaging yet – even ICQ, the first hugely successful IM tool, was a couple of years away. Being in a community of people who all used it helped, having community leaders who pushed it helped as well. I'm not really all that technical – I can get my head around basic programming but don't ask me about the juicy details of the networks.
Anke's BlogFrom looking at the history of online communication it's obvious that a new development, simply using twitter and blogging, is taking the advantages of all the previous innovations – we can use direct and instant messaging, but if our conversation might be interesting to others, we can now also make it public, accessible and searchable to thers, and new tools to pick up the conversations which are of interest for every area of life are being developed all the time.
Individuals and organizations, even though they haven't taken social media seriously so far, are now more than ever pushed by all the mainstream media coverage to use these new technologies. Larger companies are hiring PR firms, and right now that's a gamble. While many PR firms are making promises about their capability to deal creatively with social media strategies, the reality doesn't always hold up. Even in a specialised niche venture called Twitter Partners, which you'd think would have this side sorted, we can detect a certain lack of credentials.
So how can we contribute in this situation?
We are offering some crucial bits and pieces which might come in handy. The fact that there are many bad eggs and fake "Social Media Consultants" out there doesn't mean that there isn't a huge demand for sound advice and guidance – especially in the Third Sector, where we have many organisations working hard to create real value for the community, and who can increase their impact enormously by creatively using Social Media.
Web-based tools to vet the credibility of your (prospective) Social Media consultant – to help you ask the right questions, and pick the best possible match.
Social Media webinars in cooperation with the Salesforce.com Foundation.
Simple training modules on questions around Social Media tools for individuals and organisations.
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A Medalha Freyssinet () é um prêmio de engenharia construtiva em concreto da Fédération internationale du béton (fib) e sua organização predecessora fip. É nomeada em memória do pioneiro da construção de aço Eugène Freyssinet e é concedida a cada quatro anos.

Recipientes
1970 Nicolas Esquillan, Ulrich Finsterwalder, Riccardo Morandi
1974 Fritz Leonhardt, Tung-Yen Lin, Wiktor Michailow
1978 Paul Abeles,  Alexei Alexejewitsch Gwosdew, Franco Levi
1982 Max Birkenmaier, Ben C. Gerwick
1986 Shunji Inomata, Roger Lacroix
1990 Christian Menn, Jörg Schlaich
1994 Alexander Scordelis, Hans Wittfoht, René Walther
1998 Jan Moksnes, Jean Muller
2002 John E. Breen, Gert König
2006 Michel Virlogeux, Heinz Isler
2010 Nigel Priestley, Jiří Stráský
2014 Armando Rito, Joost Walraven
2018 Rudy Ricciotti (França), Jean-François Klein (Suíça), Giuseppe Mancini (Itália)

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Prêmios estabelecidos em 1970


The official video for Trouble and Drake's "Bring It Back" produced by Mike WiLL Made-It have been released.
Last week, Trouble and Mike WiLL Made-It released their anticipated Edgewood album featuring artists such as Drake, The Weeknd, Quavo, Fetty Wap, and more. One of the singles for the album was the Drake-assisted "Bring It Back" and today they have dropped off the official video for the banger.
You can watch the full video which features Trouble, Drake, as well Mike WiLL Made-It below and checkout Edgewood here.


Most of us would think of drones as something that ends up as a luxury purchase of sorts. It is not really necessary, but it is still nice to own one. After all, snapping a sweeping, panoramic shot of a particular area from the skies always evokes a majestic feeling in the viewer if it is done right. The free flying drones in the air have certainly made their mark in the world of consumer electronics, where the market has already matured. However, there is a new way to explore the world around us, and this can be done through underwater drones. Shenzhen QYSEA Technology Co., Ltd. happens to be a leading underwater drone provider and they have recently revealed the flagship FIFISH P3 underwater drone.
Just how does the FIFISH P3 perform the moment it dives into the water? Well, Shenzen QYSEA would like to claim that it carries an amazing performance, making each underwater exploration journey a special one whether you are going to snap photos or capture videos of the situation. Left in the capable hands of an expert, the results yielded will truly be outstanding on a professional level.
The FIFISH P3 is powered by an Ambarella chipset, accompanied by a 1-Inch SONY CMOS sensor and a 162 degree FOV ultra-wide angle lens. This kind of combination is potent enough to let the FIFISH P3 capture 4K HD footage as well as 20MP photos while underwater. Not only that, there are also 4,000 lumens LED lights that boast of 8 adjustable levels of brightness, virtually guaranteeing that the user is able to capture far more detail even in dark environments. The FIFISH P3 is also touted to deliver true-color imaging with stability and reliability no matter how poor the existing ocean conditions are.
Users can also watch whatever the FIFISH P3 is looking at in real-time through a corresponding app, all at the touch of a button where those stunning underwater moments will be broadcasted to a variety of social media platforms including Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, WeChat. Sounds like a dream purchase, doesn't it?


New Haven, Connecticut – November 5, 2007 – Woodbridge, LLC., a marketing-driven middle-market mergers and acquisitions firm, is pleased to announce the sale of its client, Automated Packaging, Inc. to Cloud Packaging Solutions LLC, a portfolio company of private equity firm Cameron Holdings Corp.
Automated Packaging, Inc., a Winder, Georgia-based contract manufacturer and packager of high-speed liquid filling applications, is a turnkey, one-stop resource for manufacturers, retailers and distributors. In addition, the company's staff chemists and R&D facilities help customers formulate new products.
Woodbridge brought Automated Packaging to market in early June of this year and distributed 128 books to interested buyers. Woodbridge's multi-channel marketing campaign for Automated Packaging reached over 3,500 prospective financial and strategic buyers.
"Woodbridge is keenly aware of the opportunities private equity add-on acquisitions offer and, in this instance, were pleased to present the ideal candidate to Cameron's Cloud Packaging Division," said Ernest Z. Bower, senior vice president of Woodbridge.


You might have heard about the 'Invite Only' Inbox by Gmail app for Android and iOS which is a replacement and probably the better Gmail app with more filters to sort out email. Inbox by Gmail app is the latest test by Google team which aims to make your Gmail account more better by organizing your emails in different categories like 'low priority', 'snoozed' and other categories depending on the emails you get – more on the categories later. The app also tries to prioritize the emails which are important and show them first instead of showing less-important and regular emails.
The first and foremost thing about Inbox by Gmail is its 'Invite only' usage which means you will need an invite from Google or by someone who already got the access to this app, in-order to use it on your phone. You will be able to download and install the app from Play Store or from App Store of iOS but, you won't be able to get a scope of it without an invite.
The app seems pretty good in functionality with the aim to provide better synchronization of emails in categories including 'done' which lets you mark an email as 'done' making the email read and moving it under done category – this might be useful for different tasks. You can also pin different emails to the home page to read them first as well as different bundles are also there which can automatically get emails of different types like purchases receipts.
Another feature of the Inbox by Gmail is the ability to pin different categories and to the home page where you will always get different emails which you have pinned making them visible once you open the app. You can always disable the pins section but, it makes it difficult to sort out the emails for the first time in pinned section.
The thing I noticed, which I wasn't hoping to work this way, is the automatic sorting which is sorting the emails wrong most of the time. For instance, the Google Plus notification from one of my Google Plus page was sorted under 'low priority' instead of 'social' which was a bit awkward for me since, Google Plus is market as a social network. I did find other Google Plus emails under social category but, the email from 'Inbox by Gmail' which included by invite was also sorted under this section.
Inbox by Gmail also offers bundling of emails under different section like travel, purchases, finance, social and many more. These section automatically sort the emails you get depending on their subject like my Amazon receipts were sorted under purchases while forums discussion emails could be found under 'forums'.
'Snoozed' in Inbox by Google lets you snooze an email which will show an email on the specified time making your email ring a new notification. This feature can be very useful and you can easily read important later by getting notifications for each of them. You can always swipe left to snooze a message and set custom snooze time.
The 'compose' button in the app is similar to the official Gmail app with Material Design from Android 5.0 Lollipop where you can press the red compose on bottom right corner to get different options like recent contacts and/or new email. Rest of process of Composing the email and sending is similar to the Gmail app.
The inbox by Gmail emails can also be accessed from your web browser if you want to access your emails from your PC but, you will need to have the Chrome browser to use it since, Internet Explorer and Firefox aren't supported by its website which might be the biggest drawback for me to use Inbox by Google – I am an Internet Explorer user and don't like to use Chrome on my PC. The interface of the Inbox by Gmail on the web is very much similar to the apps but, everything gets spanned depending on your screen resolution.
Well, these were the first impressions to the Inbox by Gmail app and it can have potential for daily Gmail users who want to get prioritized emails first instead of going through all their email. But, I being a occasional Gmail user, might not be using it as my primary Gmail mailbox due to it's lack of support on Internet Explorer since, half of the times, I use web browser to see new emails. Also, I would find it easy to go through all my email at one place instead of going through individual section. If Inbox by Gmail had multiple account support just like the official Gmail app from Android 5.0 then, it might become my primary mail box app.
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Once Special Envoy to Syria for the Arab League and the U.N., Lakhdar Brahimi left his post on May 14th of this year.
He went out with a bang, telling Amanpour he resigned in protesting f the world's refusal to act in Syria.
It was a move that echoed the resignation of Former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford in February.
"I was no longer in a position where I felt I could defend the American policy", said Ford just last week.
Another consequence of this ineffectual policy is what is known as blowback; a term used by spymasters to describe the unintended rebound of violence from one area to another. Peter Neumann, head of the International Center for the Study of Radicalization, told Amanpour Syria was "more significant than every other instance of foreign fighter mobilization since the Afghanistan war in the 1980s".
Brahimi's time in Syria has no doubt influenced his impassioned pleas for action as he saw first-hand how the Syrian government feigned ignorance of the brutality present in their own county.
While Special Envoy, he confronted the Syrian leader, Bashar Al-Assad, with a list of thousands of political prisoners and refused to believe he could be ignorant to the plight of his own people.
"Do you really believe that he doesn't know about these barrel bombs that are being dropped almost every day by his air force. The cannons, the tanks that are shelling the cities. It's impossible that he doesn't know."
The world has let down the brave Syrian people.
syrians who are protesting againest the govenment should stop there childes minds.and give hand support there country.


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Arsenal - Mind the Gap
arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Atletico Madrid, Bale, Bayern Munich, chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United, Modric, Olivier Giroud, podolski, Real Madrid, Ronaldo, Sagna, Sanogo, Spain
I really enjoyed both semi-finals in the Champions League this week, two fantastic performances from the Madrid teams. It's been fascinating to see the subtle shift away from possession passing this season, as both Barcelona and Guardiola's Bayern have been out thought and out fought by Atletico and Real respectively. Does this mean the end of tiki-taka? Probably not, but it has demonstrated that virtues such as strength, shape, determination, and power are equally important as movement and passing.
It also underlines the gap between the two Madrid teams and Arsenal. We have a lot of ground to cover to catch up and that assumes that the Spanish sides will stand still. Of course, Atletico will sell two or three players to balance their books and ultimately Diego Simeone will move on, probably to Italy, but they seem to have the knack of sourcing and attracting high quality players on a budget. Real are possibly the biggest club side in the world and their performance against the so called wunderkinds of Munich was fabulous, people wax lyrical about Ronaldo, but Modric demonstrated what a class act he is and fair play to Bale, it wouldn't have been a surprise to see the young Welshman choke at the Bernabeu, which he certainly hasn't.
Of course, Arsenal's immediate challenge is to compete with Manchester City and Chelsea, but it's a useful exercise to compare and contrast against the best in Europe, especially as our manager covets the European Champions League trophy above all others and it appears a racing certainty that he will be top man at Arsenal until 2016. The truth is that we are a country mile behind a team that we beat 1-0 in their own ground on the way to the final in 2006. For a simple reason, they have better footballers who seem to be far more motivated to win the biggest of games.
As its season ticket renewal time, expect our CEO to trumpet the depth of our transfer chest, but someone needs to unlock it and we need to start the process of buying the five or six players we need sooner rather than later. I think we need to emulate Manchester City, in one respect, they have an army of scouts and executives in play, which allows them to execute their transfer business quickly and early in the cycle. I'm always unsure whether Dick Law is a real person or just a composite name given to Arsenal's transfer department, but if he really exists, he needs to have a good summer. Its World Cup year, so buying the best players is that much more competitive.
I read this morning that we are being linked with (I hate that phrase), Lars Bender. The young German is a type of player that we need to attract, but our sharpest need is for a striker. Giroud does a job, Podolski – who I really rate, doesn't seem to have the confidence of the management team for whatever reason and Sanogo will get better, but is very raw. Therefore, we need at least one central striker with genuine pace. We will also need to replace the players that are leaving, that's a right back, centre half and goal keeper.
Irrespective of who we seek to sign, Arsenal also need to address the thorny issue of wages moving forward. Bacary Sagna will leave in the summer (and fair play to him, he's been great for Arsenal) and if he ends up with the northern lottery winners he will treble his wages. Why will Manchester United be able to attract top players without being in the Champions League? Because they pay their centre forward £300,000 a week and a 31 year old with dodgy knees £250,000.
I've been quite impressed with the way Arsenal have equipped themselves in the last three games, nine points, nine goals and only one conceded. As usual, we finish the season proficiently as we have to, to ensure Champions League qualification. However, at some point after, hopefully, Arsenal have won the FA Cup, the board need to sit down with the manager and his team and decide what the limit of this club's ambitions really are. Do Arsenal, with the best stadium in Europe's greatest city, really want to win the most prestigious European competition? I think they do, the question is, are they prepared to spend the cash necessary to do so.
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Arsenal win the FA Cup! Will it be 1930 or 1979?


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Local historian details former president's military training in RI
George HW Bush
Posted: Dec 5, 2018 / 12:15 AM CST / Updated: Dec 5, 2018 / 12:16 AM CST
CHARLESTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — In November 1943, the sky was humming above Charlestown, Rhode Island. The Navy built three new runways, and brought in dozens of Avenger planes in just one year.
The site had become a new training location to teach young pilots how to land an Avenger on an aircraft carrier. The youngest pilot, went by the name George H.W. Bush.
Bush would tell stories over the years of how he almost crashed on the shore of Charlestown several times while perfecting his craft.
"He did do some night flying, which scared the heck out of him, he said," World War II Rhode Island author and historian Brian Wallin said. "When you're up there in the dark, you can imagine what that's like."
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Wallin said Bush learned how to handle anything there.
"He was once on a training mission when the escape hatch blew off the back of his Avenger," he said. "It blew a hole in his tail."
After 6 months in Rhode Island, Bush was deployed to the Pacific.
September 2, 1944 Bush's plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire and he crashed in the ocean. He survived, the other two on board did not.
"One was a Providence native," Wallin said. "Jack Delaney. A radio man. For years afterward, Bush would say how much it bothered him so deeply that two men died and he didn't."
Bush would go on to earn a new title: President of the United States. His wife Barbara was always by his side, and their love story was documented by his letters to her.
"He was a very prolific letter writer," Wallin said.
Wallin has a copy of a particularly beautiful letter written at the Charlestown air field, by Bush to his then fiance, Barbara.
In the letter, Bush details how he is about to be deployed, but ends by telling his future wife how much he loves her.
"Bar, you have made my life full of everything I can even dream of," Wallin read from the letter. "My complete happiness should be my token of my love for you."
The place where Bush wrote that letter is now called Ninigret Park. The runways are still visible, but they're mostly crumbled asphalt in 2018.
One of the few signs left of the once busy air field, an American flag at the entrance, which was flying at half-staff Tuesday in honor of the former president.
Wallin went back to that letter as he glanced over it one more time.
"He had a way with words, didn't he?" Wallin said.
More George HW Bush Stories
Former staffers, friends attend President Bush's funeral service
by Steffi Lee / Dec 7, 2018
HOUSTON (KXAN) — Friends, family, and top leaders gathered for an intimate funeral service in President George H.W. Bush's Houston church. Shuttles transported them from Second Baptist Church to St. Martin's Episcopal Church early Thursday morning.
Lynn Hughes, who met Bush when he was 23 years old, viewed the 41st president as a mentor and a friend. He attended the private service with his wife. Bush's guidance was critical in shaping his future. He volunteered for all of Bush's campaigns.
WATCH LIVE: President George H.W. Bush heads to final resting place
by Staff / Dec 6, 2018
Schedule of Events (All time Eastern)
11:00a Funeral Service at St. Martin's Episcopal Church 12:15p Departure Ceremony at St. Martin's Episcopal Church 1:30p Departure Ceremony from Westfield Auto Facility Funeral Train 4:45p Arrival Ceremony at Texas A&M University 5:15p Arrival and Interment at the Presidential Library
FULL VIDEO: Nation bids goodbye to Bush with high praise, humor
by Associated Press / Dec 6, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation bid goodbye to George H.W. Bush with high praise, cannon salutes and gentle humor Wednesday, celebrating the life of the Texan who embraced a lifetime of service in Washington and was the last president to fight for the U.S. in wartime. Three former presidents looked on at Washington National Cathedral as a fourth - George W. Bush - eulogized his dad as "the brightest of a thousand points of light."
After three days of remembrance in the capital city, the Air Force plane with Bush's casket left for a final service in Houston and burial Thursday at his family plot on the presidential library grounds at Texas A&M University in College Station. His final resting place is alongside Barbara Bush, his wife of 73 years, and Robin Bush, the daughter who died of leukemia at age 3.


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import com.a21vianet.wallet.vport.library.BaseApplication;
import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.littlesparkle.growler.core.utility.PrefUtility;

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City of Fowler
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City of Fowler Voter Guide
3rd Congressional District
U.S. Representative Diane Mitsch Bush
4th Congressional District
U.S. Representative Ike McCorkle
Board of Education, 3rd Congressional District
Board of Education, 3rd Congressional District Mayling Simpson
State Senator Carlos López
State Representative Bri Buentello
District Attorney, 16th Judicial District Rodney Fouracre
Depending on where you live, you may have one of the below congressional districts on your ballot.
Diane Mitsch Bush
Diane Mitsch Bush, a former state representative, is now running for Congress. She is a retired sociology professor and previous Routt County commissioner who has lived in the Western Slope — a part of Colorado's sprawling 3rd Congressional District — for over 43 years. She previously ran for this seat in 2018, when she came closer to winning than any Democrat had in the three prior elections.
Colleagues from her other tenures have commended Mitsch Bush's extreme attention to detail, her pragmatism, and her willingness to work with all sides. She has shown an ability to lead calmly through disasters, including the Great Recession, wildfires, floods, drought, and the swine flu epidemic. While in the state legislature, Mitsch Bush was a leading advocate for family agriculture, sustainable water infrastructure, and small rural communities. She sponsored many critically important bills, including ones to protect the environment and hold polluters accountable, lower health care and health insurance costs, and increase funding for rural schools. Over 80% of her bills were co-prime sponsored with rural Republicans.
Mitsch Bush has said her family's early struggles with financial insecurity taught her the importance of helping others through public service. Her goal is to have an America that provides opportunities for all, not just the wealthy and well-connected. She intends to fight to make health care affordable for everyone, to protect the environment for generations to come, and to bring more good-paying jobs to rural communities.
Mitsch Bush is an experienced lawmaker and local leader who, if elected to Congress, will be ready on day one to get to work on policies that will benefit her district.
Running against her is Republican Lauren Boebert. Boebert is the owner of Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado — a restaurant known mainly for the fact that the wait staff openly carry guns on their person. Guns are one of the few things Boebert talks about regularly. She once drove across the state to go to a rally for Beto O'Rourke just to confront him about his gun safety position.
What voters really need to know, however, is that Boebert is a strong proponent of the QAnon conspiracy theory: the wild idea that Donald Trump is waging a secret war against Democrats and movie stars who are running an international child trafficking ring. She has been quoted as saying, "I hope that this is real. … It only means America is getting stronger and better, and people are returning to conservative values and that's what I'm for." She later added, "Everything that I have heard of this movement is only motivating and encouraging and bringing people together stronger ... it could be really great for our country."
Boebert hasn't explained more of her own positions beyond generic talking points, but it seems clear she is very far from being a progressive choice.
Read more about Diane Mitsch Bush
Endorsed By: AFSCME Council 18, AFT Colorado, Cobalt, Colorado AFL-CIO, Colorado Education Association (CEA), Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC) Action Fund, SEIU Colorado
Ike McCorkle
Ike McCorkle is challenging the Republican incumbent for Colorado's 4th Congressional District. The single father of three kids believes the people in the district deserve a representative who is dedicated to them, not the elite. In order to get Big Money out of politics, he supports a publicly funded, transparent system of campaign financing and wants to see the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling overturned to limit the influence of special interest groups that are buying much of our governmental leadership.
McCorkle is also an unabashed environmentalist who intends to fight for a Green New Deal not just to address the existential threat of climate change and rapidly transition energy production but to reinvest in rural America and create thousands of good-paying jobs in his district. Other policies he supports are ones that will expand equity and opportunity for everyone, including Medicare for All, tuition-free public college, reducing college debt by imposing a tax on Wall Street speculators, and a universal basic income system.
A retired Marine Corps officer and special operator who served for 18 years, six deployments, and four combat tours, McCorkle seeks to bring dignity and integrity to Congress and restore trust and confidence in government. He is a clear progressive choice who, if elected, plans to bring people with diverse backgrounds and beliefs together to build an American society where we lift each other up so that we all benefit together.
The incumbent he faces is U.S. Sen. Ken Buck, a former prosecutor and district attorney in Weld County who has been in Congress since 2014. His legal career has been marred by numerous ethical scandals, including compromising a case against Republican donors and declining to prosecute a sexual assault, instead blaming the victim. Since he has been in Congress, Buck has toed the party's extreme right-wing line. He is anti-choice, opposes reasonable gun safety legislation, and has said that being gay is a choice. Buck also voted in favor of the 2017 tax reform bill, which heavily favored the wealthy and corporations while increasing tax burdens on the middle class. With all this in mind, Buck must not remain in office.
Read more about Ike McCorkle
Endorsed By: Colorado AFL-CIO
Depending on where you live, you may have one of the below board of education races on your ballot.
Mayling Simpson
Mayling Simpson is a retired public and environmental health professional in Steamboat Springs. Simpson spent her career educating people on public health and helping set up health education in public schools across the world. Having been a teacher at both the high school and college levels, she has a lot of experience in and around education. Someone who knows directly how classrooms work is somebody who can really help on the state school board and is the progressive voter's best choice in this race.
Republican candidate Joyce Rankin is a former teacher and small-business owner. She supports using public taxpayer funds for private school education, taking much-needed funds away from public schools that really need the money. We recommend giving support instead to Simpson.
Mayling Simpson is a retired public and environmental health professional in Steamboat Springs. Simpson spent her career educating people on public health and helping set up health education in public schools across the world.
Endorsed By: AFSCME Council 18, AFT Colorado, Colorado Education Association (CEA)
Carlos López is someone who knows southern Colorado well. He was born and raised in Trinidad, started his college education at Trinidad State Junior College, and has served Trinidad on its city council. He knows what this community wants and needs. He's not interested in playing politics as he's more interested in the specifics about education funding in the state and the decrease in rural education funding. López is here to help out working folks in southern Colorado, and we recommend electing him to the state senate.
Cleave Simpson is on the Republican side of this race. He's a rancher and engineer from Alamosa, and his campaign statements cast a wide net of generalities, mostly on agriculture and land management and a call for rural and urban areas to "unite." But he hasn't made any other opinions on issues that affect daily life widely known. It's hard to support a one-note candidate.
Read more about Carlos López
Endorsed By: AFSCME Council 18, AFT Colorado, Colorado WINS, Conservation Colorado, One Colorado
Bri Buentello
Incumbent State Rep. Bri Buentello has represented District 47 since she was first elected in 2018. She is a special education, American government, and economics teacher and a mother who has brought strong bipartisan representation to Pueblo, Fremont, and Otero Counties.
Buentello currently serves as the vice chair of the House Education Committee and is a member of the Rural Affairs and Agriculture Committee. During her time in office, she has sponsored 12 bills in economic development, veterans affairs, education, and agriculture. In particular, her dedicated work in education has led to the creation of a farm-to-school pipeline, the growth of special education teachers and training, and the formation of an apprenticeship program for future educators.
In 2020, Buentello promises to continue fighting for small businesses, Medicaid, tax reductions for veterans, and keeping PERA solvent while protecting the promises made to employees. Buentello fights for increased access to water for farmers, rural broadband, and has demonstrated her effort to support and strengthen the working families of Colorado by adhering to "blue-collar values."
With Buentello's first legislative sessions demonstrating that she's an independent voice for Southern Colorado, we believe voters should give her another term in the Colorado House of Representatives.
Her opponent in this race is Republican Stephanie Luck, an educator and attorney in Penrose. She previously ran for Senate District 2 and lost to now-Sen. Dennis Hisey. Luck's only specific policy position is being anti-choice. Luck does not seem like the kind of person we need in office.
Endorsed By: AFSCME Council 18, AFT Colorado, Cobalt, COLOR Action Fund, Colorado AFL-CIO, Colorado Education Association (CEA), Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC) Action Fund, Colorado WINS, Conservation Colorado, One Colorado, Planned Parenthood Votes Colorado, SEIU Local 105
Rodney Fouracre
Democratic candidate Rodney Fouracre is a current deputy district attorney for District 16. Having served in this role since 1988, he will bring a wealth of experience to the DA position. He's a proven prosecutor who also has shown he's sensitive to the issues facing victims, such as the time he declined to prosecute a domestic violence victim for defending herself against her abusive spouse. This is exactly the kind of tested experience voters should want in their district attorney, and Fouracre is the clear recommended candidate.
Running on the Republican side is William Culver, an assistant district attorney also in District 16 — a position he has held since 2012. However, not much is publicly available about Culver's background, he seems to have done very little campaigning, and he hasn't publicized statements about his positions. We cannot recommend voting for Culver if he hasn't said what he wants to do.
Democratic candidate Rodney Fouracre is a current deputy district attorney for District 16. Having served in this role since 1988, he will bring a wealth of experience to the DA position.
Endorsed By: AFSCME Council 18


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Cambridge Golf is Pleased to Announce the Engagement of Mr. Justin Matser as an Advisor for the CBD Sector of the Company
on August 28, 2019 at 12:00 pm
ATLANTA, GA, Aug. 28, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE -- Viratech Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cambridge Golf (VIRA) is pleased to announce the engagement of Mr. Justin Matser as an advisor for the CBD sector of the company. Cambridge Golf along with Medori CBD has been working diligently in the research and development of new products to introduce into the billion dollar market of CBD and Hemp as it relates to health and wellness. With the help of Mr. Matser's extensive domain expertise, product knowledge, as well as his domestic and international resources, Viratech is confident this relationship will help accelerate time to market, provide key insight into industry trends, and lay the groundwork for long-term strategic initiatives. From 2007 to 2016 Mr. Matser served as principal and operator of a licensed medical cannabis farm in the Santa Cruz Mountains, California, where he worked in multiple capacities to ultimately wholesale to medical cannabis dispensaries. In 2017 he helped form a CBD company from the ground up that became very profitable in its first year of operation and is currently a leader in the CBD space.
Body Symphony Introduces its Founder, CEO & R&D Formulator, Dr. Max MacCloud
ATLANTA, GA, July 23, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE -- Viratech Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cambridge Golf (OTC Pinksheets: VIRA) is pleased to introduce Body Symphony Founder: Dr. Max MacCloud to oversee its activities as the Chief Medical & Science Officer, R&D Director, and Master Formulator. Dr. MacCloud has been involved in the Health, Fitness, and Nutrition field for over 40 years. Growing up as a 'husky' kid in New Jersey in the 1960s, his journey and commitment to helping others overcome their health challenges began when he was just 12 years old.
Medori CBD Introduces Founding Partners, Dr. Anthony Didato and Dr. Brian Pugh as Its Directors
ATLANTA, GA, July 02, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE -- Viratech Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cambridge Golf (OTC Pinksheets: VIRA) is pleased to introduce its Founding Partners: Dr. Anthony Didato, and Dr. Brian Pugh to oversee its activities as Directors of Medori CBD. Dr. Anthony Didato is a Co-Founder that split his college education at Clemson University and University of Georgia.
Viratech Names Transpacific Founder and Former White House Advisor Henry Manayan as Chief Executive Officer
RENO, Nev., May 30, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE -- Viratech Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cambridge Golf (OTC Pinksheets: VIRA) is pleased to announce the Company has approved the selection of former White House advisor, Mr. Henry Manayan, Esq., as Chief Executive Officer for the company effective June 1st, 2019. Mr. Manayan was appointed to a White House Advisory Group on Asian-Pacific Affairs by U.S. President Bill Clinton. Mr. Manayan served three terms as the Mayor of the City of Milpitas, in Silicon Valley, California, and was the first Asian-American ever elected to the position.
Cambridge Golf Completes Acquisition of Medori CBD
on March 7, 2019 at 2:38 pm
ATLANTA, GA, March 07, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE -- Viratech Corp. is pleased to announce the filing of financial statements as of September 30, 2018. This was due to the company, aside from entering the marketing phase of its products, had made two acquisitions during the first half of 2018, both of which will be discussed further in news releases. The company had to bring all accounting records to full GAAP compliancy and gained knowledge of these deficiencies in late 2018 when the holiday season had commenced.