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Dave Bautista relieved to be done with Drax
In a long interview with GQ magazine, actor Dave Bautista returned to his acting career, he who was acclaimed by director Rian Johnson, amazed by the acting talents of the former WWE wrestler. It must be said that in the recent Glass Onion, Dave Bautista surprises with his role against the grain, something that seems to suit anyone who would like us to take him seriously now in Hollywood. Among the strong revelations during this interview with GQ, we also have confirmation that the next Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is indeed the actor's last MCU film, visibly relieved to have finished with the character of Drax. If he measures the chance of having been chosen to embody one of the superheroes of the Marvel stable, he is also relieved to have finished with him, no doubt for the direction taken by Kevin Feige to make a clown, far from the bad-ass character that we know in comic books.
I'm so grateful to Drax. I love it. But it's a relief that it's over. It wasn't always pleasant. It was difficult to play this role. The makeup process was oppressive. And I just don't know if I want Drax to be my legacy – it's a silly performance, and I want to do more dramatic stuff.
This is not the first time that Dave Bautista has complained about the tone used for the character of Drax, and we remember the exchanges of tweets he had had in early 2021 with director James Gunn, where he explained that he wanted end the character. Obviously, if this sounds like certain death for Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy 3, it is not forbidden that James Gunn decided to retire the character rather than kill him. However, Dave Bautista remembers that by landing the role of Drax more than 10 years ago, Marvel had allowed him to propel his career to a level he had not even imagined… I
He remembers being in his car heading to the gym when he found out he got the job. "I had to stop because I was crying so hard"he says, before adding: "I turned around and walked into my house shaking to tell my wife I got the part, and we were both there going crazy."
With Guardians of the Galaxy 3, an era is coming to an end for this team of superheroes. Not only because James Gunn has gone to competition to redesign the future of DCU, but also because many actors want to be done with their character. It is therefore not impossible that other superheroes will no longer continue the adventure of the Guardians with this episode. Answer in May 2023.
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Aaron Schimberg
Aaron's Filmography
2018 . Drama . 1h 31m
Executive producer. A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.
Late Spring/Regrets For Our Youth
2009 . 5 m
Executive producer. Man is destroyed by nature, saved by nature. His nature, her nature, birds, trees, lakes.
Go Down Death
Executive producer. A cross-episodic melange of macabre folktales supposedly penned by folklorist Jonathan Mallory Sinus.
John's of 12th Street
2014 . Documentary . 1h 4m
Executive producer. JOHN'S OF 12TH STREET is a portrait of a century-old Italian-American restaurant in New York City, one of the last of its kind in a rapidly changing East Village. This observational documentary loosely follows the rhythm of the restaurant's day, which swings between boredom and frenzy as the old rooms empty and fill. No one who works at John's is actually Italian, but some have been here for 40 years, including two pairs of brothers and a father and son. JOHN'S OF 12TH STREET catalogues the overlooked details of working life and a vanishing facet of New York City.

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Epic Center on the market again
Wednesday, August 12 2015 12:31 PM
BY CARRIE RENGERS
The Epic Center, which is the tallest building in Kansas at 23 stories, is once again for sale.
The last time the 289,154-square-foot building at 301 N. Main St. sold was in 2013. IPC Wichita Properties sold it to current owner BACM 2005-3 Main Woodlawn LLC for almost $16 million. BACM has made more than $2 million in improvements, such as a new roof and HVAC upgrades.
The current county appraisal has the building, which Willard Garvey and his Builders Inc. built in 1986, listed at just over $16 million.
The Epic Center has about an 80 percent occupancy rate and is home to a number of lawyers, accountants and federal workers, including the FBI, Secret Service and U.S. Attorney's office.
The sellers have gone to the market without an asking price and plan to make a call for offers later this month. There will be guided tours of the building on the afternoon of Aug. 18.
Mike Garvey, who now runs his late grandfather's company, says Builders takes a look each time the Epic Center comes up for sale. It's not in an attempt to get it back in the family, though.
"I don't have any personal attachment to anything."
Willard Garvey built the Epic Center for $32 million, so wouldn't a purchase at half that be a bargain?
"He always liked a bargain," Mike Garvey says, laughing.
However, he says there's already a lot of office space available.
Though Garvey could be interested in the Epic Center, he says, "They want a lot of money for it."
Billionaire businessman Phil Ruffin says he found the same thing.
"We made a $10 million offer, and they rejected it," Ruffin says.
"That's what it's worth. I have to get a good return on my money."
Ruffin says he thinks the Epic Center brings about $1 million a year, and he says he'd need to make at least 10 or 12 percent.
"Lots of costs. Tenants move out. … Office buildings are hard, so you have to buy them at a decent price."
Ruffin owns a lot of office space, including the former Bank of America Center at Douglas and Broadway, which he recently renamed after himself, and the 750,000-square-footKensington Center in Tulsa.
"We have a lot of 'em," Ruffin says of offices. "We know how to operate (them)."
He'd still like the chance to own the Epic Center, too.
"My offer stands."
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More On: Trine Trine 2 Trine: Ultimate Collection Trine 4: The Nightmare King
If it was only the first three installments in the series, it would be the perfect way to get up to speed before the fourth installment hits the stores; but Trine: Ultimate Edition is set to include all four games in one bundle. Given that it will include that 4th game that is yet to be released and only coming this fall, expect the Ultimate Edition to eventually see a fall 2019 release as well, although pre-orders are open now.
Trine is a fantastic like 2.5D puzzle platformer that has you rotating between the roles and abilities of thief, knight, and wizard to overcome obstacles and push forward to the end. We gave the initial game an 8.5 and the first sequel an 8.9 as the game continued to evolve from strength to strength. Trine 4: The Nightmare King will bring the series back after a 4 year hiatus since the 3rd.


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The Belief Trap
The evolutionary explanation of religion gets stuck.
By Judith Shulevitz
On the face of it, there's no reason not to dissect religion with the same tools used to pick apart animal behavior. Why can't we ask how religion evolved? What's wrong with trying to figure out whether cleaving unto God enhanced our ancestors' chances of survival, or whether, on the contrary, religious belief occupied them like a parasite, sickening healthy minds with delusional notions?
And yet this approach to religion has long been perceived as a breach of intellectual protocol. Ever since the 18th century, when Immanuel Kant carved up the world between pure reason (science) and practical reason (morality), science has more or less kept to nature, while religion—the nonfundamentalist kind, anyway—has largely confined itself to ethics and the meaning of life. Raids by one party on the camp of the other have invariably ended in name-calling. "Reductionists! Imperialists!" the theologians cry whenever naturalists start making notes and drawing charts. "Relativists! Anti-rationalists!" the scientists retort upon encountering philosophers who wonder whether science is but one descriptive system among others and not the high road to truth.
In Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Daniel Dennett promises to break the impasse, or at least to map a course for research that would redraw the traditional boundaries between science and religion. Evolutionary theory, he says, can tell us why religion evolved and what it was meant to achieve, which means it can explain why the religious act the way they do. In an age of growing fanaticism, this seems a claim worth paying attention to. And Dennett seems the man to make good on it. A philosopher of mind—he has written acclaimed books on consciousness and evolutionary theory—Dennett knows how to argue about science and how to argue from within it. A militant atheist, he doesn't promise to keep an open mind about religion. But in theory, at least, his frankness adds value to his opinions.
As Dennett knows full well, the biggest challenge for anyone who wants to put religion under the microscope is figuring out what goes on the slide. What is religion, anyway? How can you tell it apart from ideology or philosophy? How do you distinguish religions, with their quirks and presuppositions, from nationalities or professions, with their quirks and presuppositions? How is being Catholic different from being American, or being a human rights worker?
These may seem like small quibbles, but they have big consequences. We'd be foolish to single out religion for evolutionary investigation if there is nothing about it that is unique. If religions are just cultures, if religious rituals are functionally indistinguishable from other irrational habits, if a religious idea, or meme, Dennett calls it, is just one more way of interpreting the world, then we ought to be asking much broader questions, such as, why do humans have a penchant for peculiar rituals? Trying to explain religion through evolutionary theory would be as frivolous as trying to understand skateboarding by means of physics.
Dennett's definition of religion, however, swats away all such complications with a satisfyingly commonsensical solution. Religions, he says, are "social systems whose participants avow belief in a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought." Only one part of this statement is actually meaningful. All discernable cultural groups are social systems, and all coherent social systems evince some system of authority—their participants seek approval from somebody or other. What sets religion apart, then, is that its participants avow belief in a supernatural agent or agents. In other words, they aver belief in a God or gods.
Saying that the religious express belief in a deity certainly seems like the obvious way to describe them. But Dennett's definition should give pause to anybody who has ever gone to church or synagogue without being sure why. How does Dennett account for all the people who practice religion without ascertaining whether or not they believe in God?
Dennett has foreseen the objection, which is why he makes "avow" the chief verb in his definition. People don't have to believe what they're saying when they utter prayers in order to be classified as religious. They just have to say the words. But Dennett can't rely on this trick alone, because if everybody avowed belief without meaning it, we'd be back where we started. Religion would be made up of no more than the usual inexplicable cultural activities, like declaiming poetry or shunning dog meat.
So, Dennett has to invent another concept: "belief in belief." He devotes an entire chapter to this troublingly attenuated notion. People who believe in belief, he says, believe that civilization needs myths to live by, so we mustn't examine religious ones too closely. Belief in belief is the compromise formation of those who can't bring themselves to evince a naive belief in a supernatural being but think religion is a useful construct that ought not to be toppled.
You'd have a hard time convincing a true believer that anything as second-order and instrumental as "belief in belief" constitutes belief. Dennett doesn't really think so, either. He sees it more as a falling away from belief, a latter-day apostasy that doesn't recognize itself as such. By the end of his chapter, having dismantled "belief in belief," Dennett excludes from his definition of religion all cosmologies that do not require one to acknowledge the literal truth of the proposition that God exists, or at least gods who are "effective agents in real time." Thus, for instance, he rules out deism, the view that God acts through natural laws, and incidentally Charles Darwin's credo for much of his later life. "If what you hold sacred is not any kind of Person you could pray to, or consider to be an appropriate recipient of gratitude (or anger, when a loved one is senselessly killed), you're an atheist in my book," writes Dennett. "If, for reasons of loyalty to tradition, diplomacy, or self-protective camouflage (very important today, especially for politicians), you want to deny what you are, that's your business, but don't kid yourself."
What kind of people don't kid themselves, according to Dennett? People who practice folk religions, not theological sophistry. Shamans, not priests, imams, or rabbis. Real religion, according to Dennett, makes you do real things with real consequences (sacrifice an ox to ensure rain, for example). Modern religions only make you do inconsequential things, such as profess the proper doctrine. It makes no difference to a Catholic's material well-being whether the wine he drinks during communion has turned into Jesus' blood or not (though it may make a big difference to him psychologically).
But the distinction between folk religions and their opposites also crumbles the minute you try to apply it. How can Dennett be sure that adherents to folk religions believe in a more concrete way than, say, Episcopalians? Natives might pay lip service, too. They might not really believe that sacrificing an ox willbring rain; they might do it merely because it is done, or because they don't know what else to do. With typical honesty, Dennett acknowledges the dilemma, quoting a prominent anthropologist who observed that he never knew, when asking informants about their religious practices, whether they told him what they thought they were supposed to say or what they really believed.
And so, in the end, Dennett gives up. When it comes to interpreting what people say about religion, he writes, "everybody is an outsider" (his italics), the natives and the anthropologists, the religious and the scientifically minded. Why? "Because religious avowals concern matters that are beyond observation, beyond meaningful test, so the only thing anybody can go on is religious behavior." He closes his chapter and moves on. He does not seem concerned that he has just admitted the impossibility of distinguishing religion from everything else. Nor does he worry that this admission undermines the ambition of his book, which is to explain the biological rationale for religion, not to propose a grand theory of culture.
Dennett is not the first writer to find himself going around in this particular circle. As soon as travelers began returning from far-off lands with reports of aboriginal religions, philosophers grasped that the anthropology of religion had a definitional problem on its hands. Could Buddhism, whose God is synonymous with reality, be classed with Christianity, whose God descends to earth in human form? What percentage of pre-modern forms of worship involved religion (praying to God or gods) and to what degree could they be construed as proto-science (trying to control the elements)? Were non-Western creeds crudely nonmetaphorical, or did the white men who wrote about them know too little about their informants not to wrench their statements out of context? Ludwig Wittgenstein once mocked J.G. Frazer, author of the classic Golden Bough, for "narrowness of spiritual life," because he turned the religions he anatomized into "stupidities" as arid as himself.
Faced with these dilemmas, philosophers concluded that there was only one way to tell religion from other apparent aberrations. Religion, they said, is what makes people feel religious. It puts them in touch with the Infinite or with what Freud called "the oceanic feeling." Defining religion as an experience, however, puts us back into the old Kantian world in which science goes here and religion goes there. An experiential definition of religion renders it impervious to empirical observation. You can never prove that someone feels religious, so you can never prove that something is a religion. The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard took this idea even further, saying that the nonreligious could never understand the truth of religion, because religious experience could be understood only subjectively, not objectively.
Why didn't Dennett try to wriggle out of the belief trap by basing his definition of religion on experience, as other philosophers have done? He couldn't, or wouldn't, because for him, consciousness is an illusion, and that position doesn't leave much room for subjectivity, either. Religion is another illusion; that's the spell he has come to break. You don't banish a chimera by granting that it is real. You have to explain it away by revealing a) its nature and b) its purpose. And if you're a hard-core evolutionist, as Dennett is, those can be only a) biological and b) survival. Whether the religious meme enhances our survival or its own—and what exactly it means to say that a nonbiological agent has the power to ensure its own survival—are two other enormous questions Dennett raises in this book. They deserve an essay of their own (and, sometime soon, will get it).


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THE FUNDING NEED
$750,000 for the Program on Migration within the Migration and Refugee Assistance account to ensure continued services to support family reunification efforts for human trafficking survivors in the United States throughout the year.
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The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) seeks to resolve the plight of persecuted and uprooted people around the world. PRM has the responsibility of administering U.S. refugee assistance and admittance programs, as well as formulating policies on relevant issues. PRM assists in U.S. Government efforts to "assist the world's most vulnerable migrants, such as victims of human trafficking."
Services for human trafficking survivors' family members sponsored by this program are unique in that they provide on-the-ground assistance for human trafficking survivors' families around the world and ensure that families can be reunited after years of separation. Overall IOM is receiving more requests for assistance from across the United States. Requests for assistance have steadily increased over five years. In 2011 IOM received only 139 requests; yet in 2014, IOM received 306 requests. This is a 120% increase in requests. Funding must keep pace with these requests; otherwise, IOM will face challenges meeting survivors' families' needs, such as in 2013 when IOM ran a wait list of over 149 family members, and trafficking victims were notified that there would be no support for family reunification. In addition, two victims wishing to voluntarily return to their countries of origin received return and reintegration assistance.
We request $750,000 for the Program on Migration, implemented through funding to the International Organization on Migration (IOM), within the Migration and Refugee Assistance account, to ensure continued services to support family reunification efforts for human trafficking survivors in the United States throughout the year.
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The Skinny: Noble and well-meaning, but also conspicuously lacking thrills. Midnight Eagle gets points for sincerity, not to mention its near-simultaneous theatrical release in Japan and North America. One would hope that this release strategy signals some sort of a paradigm shift for international distribution. Frankly, everyone should support this film wholeheartedly because of that. Too bad the movie isn't better.
At first glance, Midnight Eagle looks quite promising. A big-budget Japanese action-thriller, Midnight Eagle possesses well-defined characters and situations, and a ticking clock storyline that would do Tom Clancy proud. The film kicks off with photographer Yuji Nishizaki (Takao Osawa of Crying Out Love, In The Center of the World), who's camping in Japan's Northern Alps when he spies a shooting star. He takes a picture and sends it to his estranged son, but it turns out there's more going on than armchair astronomy. Nishizaki's friend, reporter Shinichiro Ochiai (Hiroshi Tamaki of Heavenly Forest) is working on a big story involving the disappearance of the "Midnight Eagle", a U.S. stealth bomber carrying an obviously dangerous nuclear payload. Apparently, a couple of "Northern Agents" (From Korea? China?) sabotaged it, resulting in a crash landing in the same Northern Alps, not to mention a few lives lost. The shooting star = crashing Midnight Eagle.
Determined to find the truth, Ochiai hightails it north to check it out for himself, bringing a reluctant Nishizaki with him. The backstory of Nishizaki's reluctance: once upon a time Nishizaki was a hotshot war photographer, but after witnessing too much death, he's become a burnt out shell of a man who neglected his ailing wife, who has since passed away, leaving their young son alone. Nishizaki's lousy mood is a sticking point between he and sister-in-law Keiko Arisawa (Yuko Takeuchi of Be With You), who apparently still hasn't forgiven him for choosing her sister over her. Coincidentally, Keiko is also a reporter, and is tracking one of the "Northern Agents" (Again, from North Korea? Or maybe North Dakota?) who may be in possession of the key to disarming the Midnight Eagle's payload.
Time's running out, however, as the Japanese Self Defense Forces are seemingly no match for a group of heavily-armed Northern Agents, who are adept at killing highly-trained soldiers but can't kill a couple of nosy journalists even when they have the drop on them. Ochiai and Nishizaki survive numerous ambushes from the white-garbed agents, only to rendezvous with Major Akihiko Saeki (A-Saku Yoshida), who informs them of the gravity of the situation. Basically, they better stop the bad guys or they'll blow up the Midnight Eagle's nuke, resulting in plenty of lost lives and an international incident that the Japanese government would like to avoid. Can one soldier, a morose photographer, and an excitable young reporter take on a squad of deadly terrorists and save all of Japan? And can Nishizaki conquer all his personal demons at exactly the same time?
Not to give too much away, but this is a commercial film designed for mass audiences, so of course all the above is possible, but not without some thick sentimentality or a few sacrifices. Midnight Eagle earns points for its nobility and do-gooder values, presenting its characters as flawed, but hugely decent individuals who understand the value of life. The problem is that nearly everyone in the film is incredibly nice, and anyone who could qualify as a foil is given zero screen time. There are evil terrorists, both in the snow and in the city, but the terrorists lack not only a national identity, but also an individual one. We never really meet the bad guys, making their threat an oddly absent one. The government is full of apologetic, very decent people, and tough decisions are made with maximum regret. Many scenes take place in the Prime Minister's War Room, and everyone is so perfectly mannered and quiet that it never seems like a national crisis is really taking place. Situations like this should inspire chaos, with bureaucrats and individuals butting heads over damage control and differing ideologies. The sky in Midnight Eagle is obviously a perfect blue, because none of that happens here. In the real world, such decency and humanity would be commendable, but in cinema, it's only a shade away from absolutely boring.
Ultimately, Midnight Eagle suffers because its situations are defined by a sketchy premise that isn't fleshed out into a fascinating, enthralling whole. Despite announcing its grand military thriller aims, the film doesn't provide much besides nominal thrills, and it doesn't convince of its supposed scale. Tense events occur, but not enough is done to demonstrate the gripping inevitability of it all. Could-be thrilling technological details are glossed over in exposition. Decoding the terrorist's code involves handing a chip to someone and waiting ten minutes, meaning instead of seeing the government hackers work their magic, we get to see people sit around and worry incessantly. Despite the ticking clock, there's time for people to soul-search in the snow, cry in the War Room, or even have long conversations while engaging in a firefight. The filmmakers put their focus on maudlin character development and noble emotions, but there are simply too many syrupy, illogical conceits to fully convince an average, much less a more seasoned moviegoer, of the film's credibility.


With the holiday upon us (at least for those in the States), I find myself thinking more and more about family. The last couple of years we've not had the big Thanksgiving meal. My husband's had to work so it's just been us. Last year my parents came up for the day and we did the Cracker Barrel thing which was good, but still not the same.
Growing up Thanksgiving was an all day event. We spent the early morning and lunch at my Papaw's house, then drove to my Granny's house for dinner. We'd spend the rest of the day there, then drive down to Birmingham and spend the weekend with my mom's cousin. Black Friday shopping consisted of an early Thanksgiving breakfast, followed by all-day shopping (more like window browsing) at the Galleria.
For this week's top ten topic ("Thanksgiving themed Freebie"), I wanted to list some of our Thanksgiving staples. These are things I've missed since living away, in no particular.
I'll never forget one year, we got there early and Papaw was still prepping the turkey in the sink. He had the syringe to inject the seasonings and it just would not go in. So he pulled it out and put it in another place in the turkey's leg. Next thing I saw was the seasoning squirting out back into Papaw's face! The funny part was his reaction. First thing he did was not wipe himself off, but look to see if anyone saw him. 😆 I laughed so hard!!!
My favorite part about Thanksgiving y'all is the food 😀 and I LOVE mashed potatoes! Doesn't matter which house I'm at, there's always mashed potatoes and they are so good!!!! It's no wonder I have to diet after all these meals.
Every year the WB (now the CW) would show all the Friends Thanksgiving episodes and every year I look forward to it! Now that the show is on Netflix though, I'll probably pull them up on there…no commercials! YAY!!!
As a kid, this was the only thing we did at my house on Thanksgiving morning was turn the TV on and watch the parade. Why? Because we were always heading out the door to someone else's house. I still like to watch the parade, but my son is just not interested in it. I think if we could actually be there he would love it, but seeing it on TV is just not his thing.
This is a newer tradition for me. My dad wasn't a big sports fan so I didn't have much exposure to it growing up. My husband on the other hand played football of 11 years (I'm probably way off on that number) and even played in college for a couple of years. SO I am now a football connoisseur. And undoubtably we will be watching a football game on Thanksgiving, even though it will not be one of our teams (TN Vols or Titans). This is what confounds me! Why watch if it isn't your team?!
Every year once I got old enough (you know so that I actually liked shopping) my mom and I would get up early and hit the sales. We'd get there when the doors opened. You know back when they opened at a reasonable 5 or 6 😉 and not midnight or 8p on Thanksgiving Day! We rarely bought anything and were always done by 9 or 10 and had a late breakfast. It was so much fun! This is one tradition I'm hoping to resume if we move home next year.
While not all of these are traditions in the traditional sense (see what I did there 😉 ), they are all important parts of the day to me. This year is going to be hard. Papaw passed away in September and I miss him so much already, even more so as the holidays approach and I know he won't be there. BUT we will still celebrate. We won't be able to go home again this year, but my parents are coming up for the weekend and I'm cooking dinner this year instead of buying. Should be interesting. What traditions do you look forward to every year?
I don't celebrate Thanksgiving, as I'm in the UK, I do love these family traditions though. I can relate to a few of them!
When we lived back home, our Thanksgiving meals lasted into the weekend 😀 My husband has a big family as well and we would get together and eat leftovers just about every night over the weekend or until the food was gone.
I agree it isn't Thanksgiving without the mashed potatoes 😀 I'm going to miss deep fried turkey. No one does it in our family anymore!
Hope you have a good Thanksgiving!
If you try the recipe let me know how you liked it. It's one of my favorites (the chocolate is SO good) 😉 Hope you have a great holiday!
Poundcake is a must! Chocolate is my favorite 🙂 Do you have a favorite flavor?
Wow, your Thanksgivings seem like a lot of fun! I can DEFINITELY get behind the "all the mashed potatoes you can eat" thing. I'm not a big turkey fan, so I am all about the mashed taters and pie! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Mashed potatoes and football are staples at our house!! I might have to start watching Friends though that's a good one to add!
Oh nice! Definitely liking the sound of these as well! I loved when Black Friday was actually on Friday. Those were good times! People who worked in retail would at least get to be with their families for Thanksgiving. Sadly my new job is requiring that I come in Black Friday. I thought I would be off, but I learned today, no dice. Sigh…my first Black Friday in years where I had to go to work.
Though I do do my Black Friday shopping online Thanksgiving day. Hopefully I will get my must needs then, and then just miss going to the bookstore early when they open. Sigh…feeling down about that more than anything.
Being British, I don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but it certainly seems like you have some great family traditions!


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Posted on May 15, 2019 by Joel Oleson
I'm excited to be speaking at the upcoming SharePoint Conference. Be sure to block out my session on your calendar! If you haven't time is running out! Register now for next week's SPC2019 in Las Vegas use OLESON for discount.
Microsoft Search in Real Life BRK102 Breakout: 60 Minute Microsoft Search Premier Ballroom 309 Thursday 5/23 | 8:30 – 9:30am Joel Oleson
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Microsoft Search is poised to change enterprise search by featuring search across Windows, Office, and SharePoint Online in addition to various other services. In this session, I'll dive into the vision, the features, and the reality. Search is a huge undertaking, but it is confusing to know where to invest to take advantage of the greatest of what Microsoft has built. Out of this session you'll know what has already shipped that you can go back to work to take advantage of in Microsoft Search. You'll also see examples of what is possible today.
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Microsoft Search is not just for links and search inquiries like bing, but also enhances your ability within a program such as in word where you can search for the tools like spelling and grammar checks in the task completion features. The task completion feature also assists by searching for tools relevant to the task you wish to complete such as rotating an image as you search for tools when selecting an image.
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Мрежниця ( Мрежніца) — річка в Хорватії, ліва і найбільша притока річки Корана (басейн Сави, відтак Дунаю та Чорного моря).

Довжина річки — 63 км, пересічний показник витрат води — 45 м³/c, площа басейну — 64 км².

Географія протікання

Мрежніца бере початок у горах Ліки трохи західніше від міста Слунь. У верхів'ї річковий потік гірський характер, у руслі — численні водоспади і пороги. Мрежниця майже завжди тече на північ паралельно Корані (на сході) і Добрій (на заході). Великих приток немає.

У пониззі річковий характер — спокійніший. За декілька кілометрів до гирла Мрежниця протікає повз місто Дуга Реса, нижче впадає в Корану на території міста Карловаця, сама Корана ще через 4 кілометри, також у межах Карловаця, впадає, в свою чергу, в Купу.

У Мрежниці чиста вода, багата на рибу, зокрема в ній водяться щуки та лососеві. Тому річка має популярність у любителів рибної ловлі та активного відпочинку.

Примітки

Див. також
 Мражниця (село в Україні)

Річки Хорватії
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Sweden's foreign aid may not have any long-term positive effects for developing countries, according to a comprehensive review of Swedish foreign development assistance.
The findings come from a report presented by Swedish government on Thursday which attempts for the first time to provide a thorough account of what Sweden's extensive foreign aid programmes have achieved.
"All in all, the Government considers that many of the development assistance initiatives taken have been very useful in relation to the set goals," said Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson in a statement.
"At the same time, the Communication shows the difficulties in describing the long-term effects of the activities receiving support via Swedish development assistance."
The 150-page report reveals that Sweden's foreign aid has an uneven track record and that "not all initiatives have been successful".
Among other things, the report finds that projects funded by Sweden have not been sufficiently focused on results and that monitoring efforts have neglected pay enough attention to how projects improve quality of life for the poor.
The report is part of an ongoing effort begun when the current centre-right government came to power in late 2006 to improve the management and assessment of foreign assistance programmes implemented by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).
"There are many good examples of development assistance initiatives that have made a difference to people's lives, but we still have a long way to go before we have development assistance that we can prove leads to long-term results," said Carlsson.
"We have done a lot to improve results-based management, but we will now increase our demands both on Sida and ourselves."
Specifically, the report urges Sida to strengthen its "performance culture" by establishing a uniform system for results-based management as well as focusing on expected and actual performance in the preparation and implementation of individual aid programmes.
In addition, the government wants Sida to exercise greater control over Swedish support to multilateral organizations and to seek the help of other donors in sharing the cost of evaluating aid projects' long-term impact.


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Immigration helps bump German birth rate to highest in decades
Number of babies born reached a 20-year high in 2016.
Germany's fertility rate of 1.59 lies just below the EU average: 1.60 | Immigration helps bump German birth rate to highest in decades
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The number of babies born in Germany reached a 20-year high in 2016, in part due to increased immigration and improved economic conditions, according to new figures released on Wednesday.
The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reported that 792,131 babies were born in 2016, representing a 7 percent increase from 2015, and reaching a similar level to that of 1996. Germany's fertility rate — the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime — also rose to 1.59, which was the highest level since 1973.
The report suggested increased immigration to the country — including the refugee crisis which brought 890,000 asylum seekers to Germany in 2015 alone — contributed to the baby boom. While the number of babies born to German citizens increased by 3 percent in 2016, the number born to non-German women jumped by 25 percent compared to 2015. Destatis noted that the "number of women from countries with a traditionally high birth rate" had risen during this time period.
About 23 percent (184,700) of all newborns were born to non-German women.
The report also attributed the increase to women between the ages of 30 and 37, who had fewer children when they were younger, now being more likely to have kids due to better economic conditions as well as family benefits.
Still, Germany's fertility rate of 1.59 lies just below the EU average: 1.60. Experts say this rate should be 2.1 children per woman to keep a population size stabilized.
For decades, the number of deaths in the country has outstripped the number of births each year, raising concerns that the population could shrink in the long term. Provisional Destatis figures reported last year showed that 911,000 people died in 2016, compared to more than 792,000 births.
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So. It is done…
Yes, the party's finally over; the Six Nations done and dusted for another year. Saturday's matches were a mixed bunch, yet most definitely not as dull as in previous rounds. This week's awards ceremony will be undergoing something of a reshuffle; rather than doing the matches in chronological order, losers first (as usual), I'm going to leave England-Wales until last. Anyone who saw, or even heard about, the match will probably be able to work out why.
But we must begin somewhere; IRELAND, to be precise, whose award for both this match and, arguably, their championship as a whole is the Another One Bites The Dust Award for Highest Attrition Rate. I talked in a previous post about Ireland's depressingly high injury rate against England, and there was more of the same today; promising young centre Luke Marshall and winger Keith Earls were off within 25 minutes, and no sooner had Earls' replacement Luke Fitzgerald entered the fray before he was limping off with a leg injury. With barely half an hour of the match played and all but one backs substitutes used, Ireland flanker Peter O'Mahoney was forced to spend the remainder of the match out on the wing, and given O'Mahoney's efforts at the breakdown in recent matches it was no wonder Ireland lost momentum without him in the thick of things. However, Ireland's injury rows were compounded by three yellow cards; firstly to Brian O'Driscoll after a stamp that really should have warranted red (although that would have been something of an ignominious end (if so it proves) to the international career of the greatest centre of all time), and later to Donnacha Ryan and Connor Murray. I felt rather sorry for them; trying to keep any form of structure through all that is nigh-on impossible.
ITALY also picked up a yellow card, this time to captain Sergio Parisse, but they were not hamstrung by injuries or errors in the same way of the Irish and took home not only the win but also the Maori Sidestep Award for Most Exciting Use of The Crash Ball. There were many impressive facets of Italy's game on Saturday; their handling was superb (Parisse producing another exquisite underhand flick in the same fashion of last week), Luciano Orquera once again ran the show and some of the running rugby put on display was quite superb to watch. However, what most had me entertained most of all was Italy's use of their forwards; whilst sending the big man through on a collision course with some poor defender is hardly a new strategy, rarely is it executed with quite the same excitement, speed and aggression that the Italians managed. No taking the ball standing still for them, no slowing down before the hit; every crash ball came at sprinting pace, and much credit is due to the Irish defence for their ability to counter the Italian efforts. All in all, a very entertaining match, a well-deserved win, and a fitting end to the career of 104-cap veteran prop Andrea Lo Cicero.
SCOTLAND's match against France was slightly less exciting, and a 9-9 half-time scoreline was rather more reflective of the game than similar results in the weekend's other two matches. However, things picked up (at least for the French) in the second half and Scotland were, eventually able to get a try- in doing so taking the …Is That Legal? Award for Most Dubious Try-Scoring Tactic. With 75 minutes on the clock and 14 points down, the Scots could be somewhat forgiven for a slightly frayed temper, but Sean Lamont's bit of very subtley-executed and rather impressive cheating was perhaps a shade too far to be really fair. Scotland had won a lineout near halfway and were putting the ball through the hands, Lamont running the dummy line- so far, so normal. What is less normal was Lamont's subsequent decision to 'accidentally' finish his dummy line by running straight into Gael Fickou, knocking the unsuspecting youngster to the ground and leaving a nice hole for centre partner Matt Scott to break through, before offloading to Tim Visser for the try. The French crowd at the time appeared to express their disapproval, but referee Nigel Owens apparently didn't see it and the try stood. If the scores had been closer at the time, I think the French would be somewhat angrier.
As for FRANCE themselves, coach Phillippe Saint-Andre could easily have won Best Half-Time Team Talk, such was the transformation in his team when they ran out for the second 40; but I think it is perhaps more reflective of their championship for Vincent Debaty to take the Swing And A Miss Award for Most Fluffed Opportunity. The move had started brightly enough, Debaty taking the ball on the run and using all of his considerable bulk to smash two desperate Scotsmen out of the way. The big prop rumbled off down the wing, and the try seemed fairly certain; Stuart Hogg remained as Scotland's last line of defence, and France's flying winger Vincent Clerc was jogging up on Debaty's outside just waiting to receive the winning pass. However, so apparently engrossed was Debaty with the prospect of only the lithe, skinny Hogg standing between him and the try line that he never even looked at Clerc, and arguably was totally unaware of his team-mate's existence. Rather than give the pass that would surely have made the five points a formality, Debaty went on his own, was (somehow) taken down by Hogg and France gave away the penalty at the resulting ruck. It was the perfect metaphor for France's tournament; plenty of promise, an opportunity ripe for the taking, but it all amounted to nothing.
However, by far the best match of the weekend, and arguably the championship, had taken place a couple of hours earlier, where ENGLAND, who had travelled over the Severn in search of a Grand Slam, were soundly thwacked by a rampant Welsh side. I could think of half a dozen awards England could have won; Most Passionate Singing of The Anthems, Worst Rucking, Worst Scrummaging, Biggest Pissing-Off Of A Referee, but in the end I couldn't look beyond the At Least You Didn't Give Up Award for Most Optimistic Way to End A Game. As the game entered it's final couple of minutes, England were well beaten; 27 points down, decidedly on the back foot and looking like they just wanted to leave all thoughts of rugby behind for a day or two. This is the time where you just wind down the clock, boot the ball out and walk off disgusted- but apparently nobody had told them out. When awarded a penalty just a few seconds from time, Danny Care (winner of the Least Necessary And Appropriate Chip Kick award ten minutes previously) decided to take the tap penalty and run for it, and his team joined in with gusto. For a minute, the England side managed to muster great energy and desire to play, showing a bit of much needed character. It might have ended with a dropped ball, but I will always take my hat off to a team prepared to have a go even when all else is lost. Or I might just be getting overly patriotic.
Also deserving of a whole host of awards were WALES; their rucking game was superb, man of the match Justin Tipuric matched only by his blindside flanker partner Sam Warburton, and even Dan Biggar managed to break free of his more customary 'meh, he's alright'-ness (my apologies if he ever ends up reading this; just not my type of player I guess) to operate the Welsh back line effectively and slot a cheeky drop-goal. However, the man I want to single out is tighthead prop Adam Jones, my pick for the MOTM award and worthy recipient of the Understated Lynchpin Award for Most Significant Contribution from a Single Player. Of the several areas where Wales controlled the game, the scrum was perhaps the most spectacular; England can't have won more than two all match and their front row was getting ripped to shreds. Every scrum, the procedure was the same; the experienced scrummaging master that is Adam Jones completely nullified Joe Marler, who should have had the advantage from loosehead, before driving between him and hooker Tom Youngs to split the English scrum and force the penalty. Penalties came for collapsing, missing binds, standing up and just about every other clause of Law 20, not only turning referee Steve Walsh in Wales' favour (I am not going to say he was biased as some others on the web have done, merely that Wales played him far better than the English) but setting England on the back foot for the rest of the game. Every time a scrum went down, we might as well have saved time by awarding Wales a penalty then and there, allowing England to build no attacking momentum. Combine that with the fact that Wales were competing properly in the rucks, slowing down ball in precisely the way that England weren't, and all the momentum went the way of the home side. After that, victory was not long in coming.
As an Englishman, I don't like admitting that Wales were the better side, and I certainly don't like losing both match, tournament, Grand Slam and (potentially, although I hope for the sake of victory that it doesn't happen) Lions places to them. But, as I said elsewhere before this weekend: "I'd be fine with Wales winning so long as they actually decided to play some damn rugby for a change". I will quite happily accept that as them "playing some damn rugby". Well played Wales. Well bloody played ye bastads.
Final Scores: Italy 22-15 Ireland
Wales 30-3 England
France 23-16 Scotland
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6N13: Rnd 3
…aaaand it's back, after two week's hiatus; the Six Nations has come among us once again. This weekend promised a wealth of interesting matchups and set the analysts' mouths watering, and we ended up with games of rugby as varied as one could desire. Once again, I present my alternative awards ceremony:
We begin with ITALY who, having come into the weekend hamstrung by the loss of inspirational captain Sergio Parisse to a five-week ban, hardly did themselves any favours in winning the The Analysts Didn't Spot This One Award for Biggest Repurcussions from Tiny Tactical Error. A lot was made during the week at coach Jacques Brunel's descision to drop the half-back pairing of Tobias Botes and Luciano Orquera, so influential in the victory over France, and replace them with Eduardo Gori and Kris Burton. Burton's inclusion was a particular surprise; during the first two games, Orquera had been injecting some much-needed vigour into the Italian back division, and plumping for Burton's more conservative kicking approach was rightly considered a dangerous choice. During the game itself, the commentators had endless fun laying into Burton, particularly after two failed drop-goal attempts, but I felt that Gori brought a fair share of problems with him as well; or one problem in particular. If one watched Gori's deliveries throughout the match, they were invariably aimed directly at Burton's shoulder, meaning that to catch the ball he had to be standing still. This cost him crucial seconds and forward momentum, both of which enabled onrushing defenders to get right up in his face, severely limiting his options. At least three times Burton was unable to pass and forced to make awkward runs to try and get around several burly Welshmen, and as a result Italy lost all attacking momentum. It was a tiny thing, not mentioned by any commentators, and arguably Burton wouldn't have been able to do much with ball put in front of him, where it should be, but I thought that it nonetheless had a huge impact.
On to WALES, to whom I was seriously tempted to re-award the Boredom award after a game which almost put me to sleep (seriously; the sofa was really comfortable), but who instead take home the Where Did That Come From? Award for Most Sudden Tries. The weather in Italy on Saturday did not lend itself to particularly flowing rugby, and with kicking fly halves on both sides tries were unlikely to ever come from building attacking momentum and phase play. Indeed, after a decidedly barren first half some observers (myself included) might have been surprised to learn that there were any tries coming at all. But come they did, albeit in the most abrupt fashion. Firstly, a shot-to-nothing chip kick from Mike Phillips bounced awkwardly, wrong-footing both Gori and Burton as they ran into one another attempting to gather and left the try line open for the onrushing Jonathan Davies to leap over. Then, 15 minutes later, Wales executed a set-move, Davies drawing Gonzalo Canale out of position to leave a hole open for Alex Cuthbert to rush through, again totally unopposed. On both occasions the try's execution was, all buildup and preparation included, less than five seconds from start to finish, and I hardly noticed either of them happening until about 10 seconds later.
Saturday's next match proved far more interesting, and FRANCE certainly acquitted themselves far better against England than in their previous two matches. However, the award they collect concerns scrum half Morgan Parra, who takes the dubious honour of the Leave That To The Footballers Award for Worst Diving. Throughout the game, England's fly half Owen Farrell was making a nuisance of himself among the French ranks, and appeared to have a particular problem with French fullback Yoann Huget. However, after around 18 minutes he decided to get in the way of Parra as the Frenchman tried to get to a ruck. Having seen a replay of the event, I am firmly of the opinion that Parra may have brushed his face against Farrell's back, which makes it all the more ridiculous that his immediate response was to fall to the floor clutching his face as if Farrell had punched him. I have a particular intolerance towards cowardly foul play such as that, and my ire was particularly irked when, after referee Craig Joubert had rightly ignored his plea for a penalty (or simply not noticed, which would be just as excusable given the innocuous nature of the offence), Parra immediately got up and joined onto the back of the next maul. I can only hope this doesn't become a habit; I do not like divers.
ENGLAND also take an individual award, with Manu Tuilagi taking the Fired Clay Toilet Award for Dominating The Physical Battle. After being left out of the starting XV for the Ireland match having been injured during the Scotland game, Tuilagi was recalled to his favoured outside centre position at the expense of Billy Twelvetrees. The reason for dropping a player of Twelvetrees' undoubted skill came in the form of a 6ft, 17 stone Frenchman called Mathieu Bastareaud (voted man most thankful for the existence of three vowels), who lined up to form a potent centre lineup alongside Clermont's quick and incisive Wesley Fofana, returned to his natural position at 12 after two games stuck out on the wing with nothing to do. Fofana proved his worth with a fantastic bit of individual skill, beating no less than five defenders, to go over for France's only try, but Tuilagi, the same height and weight of Bastareaud, had been brought in to nullify the Frenchman's physical presence and did so with aplomb. Not once did Bastareaud make a meaningful run at his opposite number, and on the three occasions (that I counted) that Tuilagi ran at him, he made good ground every time and positively bounced him off on at least one occasion. Put it this way; tries for Tuilagi: 1, tries for Bastareaud: 0. (although admittedly, Tuilagi's try was more luck than anything else).
Sunday's game was perhaps the most interesting of the three, and in it IRELAND took the Lighting Cigars With Twenties Award for Lease Efficient Use of Resources. After the game, all pundits were justifiably asking how the hell the Irish had managed to lose the game, and rightly so; the Irish controlled three-quarters of the game's possession and had over 70% territory, but spent most of it running somewhat unimaginatively straight at the Scottish defence; who, despite 16 missed tackles, somehow managed to hold firm. The Scots also conceded more penalties than their opponents (9 in the first 20 minutes alone), but somehow nearly all were conceded in Irish territory, out of range of Paddy Jackson's boot. It didn't help that, of the four kicks Jackson did get on goal, he only managed to execute one of them, which may make him something of a scapegoat for the Irish's general failure to transform control into points. The one exception to this rule was new cap at inside centre Luke Marshall, who made three fantastic breaks; but here, once again, Ireland's inability to finish the job came to the fore. Once, Marshall somewhat muddied his performance by throwing a bad pass out to Craig Gilroy, who was unable to hold onto it, and the other two times Keith Earls, in near-identical fashion, attempted a run for the corner alone rather than offering a pass to the unmarked Brian O'Driscoll- and was bundled into touch. A try did eventually come from Gilroy, but after 44 minutes of laboured effort, and it proved their last score. It was like watching the England side of two years ago.
Finally come SCOTLAND, who take home not only their first back-to-back victories in the same season of a Six Nations ever, but also the Laissez-Faire Award for Most Laid-Back Performance. Much like the French side during the first two weeks of the tournament, Scotland spent Sunday's match quite content to sit back and let Ireland do all the work, deciding that to actually create opportunities for themselves would be far too imaginative. However, unlike France, this was backed up by a solid defensive effort and well-executed kicking game, allowing Ireland to be kept at bay and for the Scots to luck the occasional scoring opportunity; and, after Greg Laidlaw's first two penalties put them within a sniff of Ireland, they casually flicked up a gear and began tentatively looking for more. Perhaps surprised by this sudden activity, Ireland duly infringed at the breakdown twice within Laidlaw's range, giving Scotland a four-point lead that proved especially crucial when it later forced Ireland to turn down a kickable opportunity (which would have still left them a point behind), and instead mount another assault on the Scottish line. But the Scots' defence held, and a valuable victory was theirs. Their next fixture against Wales will be…interesting.
Italy 9-26 Wales
England 23-13 France
Scotland 12-8 Ireland
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The probe will 'supplement' an ongoing European Commission investigation, the Federal Cartel Office said.
Germany's antitrust agency said it has begun an investigation of online retailer Amazon over complaints it is abusing its position to the detriment of sellers who use its "marketplace" platform.
The Federal Cartel Office, or Bundeskartellamt, said Amazon's "double role as the largest retailer and largest marketplace has the potential to hinder other sellers on its platform".
"Because of the many complaints we have received, we will examine whether Amazon is abusing its market position to the detriment of sellers active on its marketplace," said agency head Andreas Mundt.
The German investigation will "supplement" an ongoing European Commission investigation into Amazon's use of data to the possible disadvantage of marketplace sellers, with a focus strictly on terms of business and practices towards sellers on its German Amazon marketplace, the office said.
"However, we will co-operate fully with the Bundeskartellamt and continue working hard to support small and medium-sized businesses and help them grow," the company said.


Who is your Favorit Greek God oder Goddess?
a comment was made to the poll: What do Du think of Zeus and Hera being brother and sister?
a comment was made to the poll: do Du think that zeus loved his lovers?
a pop quiz question Wurde hinzugefügt: Who is Theseus's son?
a pop quiz question Wurde hinzugefügt: Who is not a son of Priam and Hecuba?


First off I need to apologize to my readers for the lack of content on my blog in the past year or so. I have been remiss and not very active. So starting now, I am refocused on my blog and plan to post a lot more from now on. Thank you for your understanding and patience.
So I have revamped the blog and gave it a new look, updated some stuff. Hope everyone likes the new look. It is a work in progress. Welcome to my blog 2.0!
So what to blog about? Well, I still love reading and doing reviews, so I plan to keep doing that. I also plan to do other things on here as well. Common interest things that catch my eye. I love Do It Yourself things so that will be on the list. Check out my Halloween project that I found on Tumbler.
This was a huge hit with the kids! They loved it. I also added some sound effects with a prop I had last year. It was howling sounds coming from behind the Hellgate. (my word for this cool effect) I had a great time doing this and it was so easy. A shipping crate, some hands from the dollar store, a red light for effect and a couple chains and a crow for good measure!
I am really excited about becoming more engaged and meeting more people. If anyone has any ideas that they would like to see feel free to leave comments.
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Toolland VL102 electric weed burner - weed destroyer. Simply and effectively control weeds.
This Toolland weed burner is delivered in two parts. The stem can be easily mounted on the weed burner with the aid of a quick coupling. The electric weed destroyer is equipped with two heat settings: 50 and 600 degrees. With the heat setting 600 degrees, weed can be controlled effectively and effectively. Thanks to the supplied burner head, it is possible to work accurately. The handle is provided with an eye, so that the weed burner can easily be hung during storage. Also equipped with an integrated storage container: an iron bracket that can be folded in and out. Are the activities stopped for coffee break, for example? Then the weed burner can be stored safely on the spacer, so that the hot burner head has no contact with the substrate. Good quality weed burner for easy control of weeds but also for weed seeds. This prevents new weeds.
- Power cable with plug: Yes, 200 cm.
- Burner head for creating BBQ: No.
- Burner head for burning paint oval: No.
For this the long burner head must be mounted on the weed burner. This burner head must be put into the coal. Because of the heat formation, the barbecue will be put into operation.
For this the round burner head (so-called cone spray nozzle) should be mounted on the electric weed burner. This is fairly easy by means of a rotational movement. Then the burner head should be kept only a few centimeters above the weeds. This only needs a few seconds. As a result, the weeds are heated, the cells burst and the weeds will die off. In the case of stubborn weeds, the procedure can be repeated. This will also deplete the root and die off. New weed seeds are also directly addressed and eliminated by this method. This prevents new weed growth!


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Население по переписи 2001 года составляло 47 человек. Почтовый индекс — 32160. Телефонный код — 3853. Код КОАТУУ — 6825882802.

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Michigan Resident Invents New Hunting Broadhead
Morpheus Broadhead
Posted by Travis Smola
The new Morpheus broadhead is designed for quicker, more ethical harvests.
Since the beginnings of hunting, people have been trying to create the better bowhunting broadhead. Michigan resident David Belanger believes he's done it with the announcement of his new Morpheus mechanical broadhead.
He says these new broadheads fly like a field point but open better wounds, making for more ethical bowhunting harvests. Here are all the details about the Morpheus.
David Belanger
Like most inventions, the Morpheus came about as a result of the designer's need. Belanger told me in an email that it was an unfortunate situation most bowhunters face at one point or another that started this quest.
"I came up with this particular model after I shot a deer one season and never found it," Belanger said. "It appeared to be a good arrow placement, but there was no snow on the ground and I lost the blood trail which was too thin to follow."
From this incident, he said he knew he could come up with a better way.
"This was very upsetting," he wrote to me. "I determined to remedy this by designing a broadhead that facilitated the outward flow of blood from the animal after impact. I call this 'exsanguination technology.'"
After six years of development and testing, the result is the Morpheus, a 125-grain, three-blade expandable broadhead with a 1.65-inch cutting diameter.
The Morpheus, named from Greek mythology, has an interesting concept. Unlike other archery broadheads, it isn't just expanding on impact with big game. Belanger says the Morpheus uses what he's dubbed as "flight stabilization technology." This is to give the broadheads field-point accuracy.
After the shot, the blades expand to help stabilize the flight right after the release. But an internal spring then closes the blades again before impact. Upon the hit, the blade design opens to its full size again, creating a conical wound channel.
Belanger's promotional materials say Morpheus' blade design is specifically tailored for deeper penetration of the target, and hopefully, more pass-throughs. However, if the arrow fails to make a clean pass-through, the broadhead is designed to fall out.
On a hit where the arrow doesn't get as much penetration, an internal spring forces the mechanical blades back to the closed position they were pre-shot. This makes it more likely the arrow will fall out and start blood flow.
That's that "exsanguination technology" at work again. Either way, the design is supposed to optimize blood trails and your chances of finding the animal. Belanger told me this season was the testing ground for the Morpheus. He's still waiting on data from surveys of field testers who have taken shots already. He said he knows at least one deer was successfully harvested.
He said preliminary impressions have been positive. "Overall, everyone is impressed with the grouping of the Morpheus," Belanger said. "It truly does fly just like the field tips provided in each package."
Target system and manufacturing
Not content in just trying to make a better broadhead, Belanger set off to make a better target for practice too. He settled upon a design that looks something like a sled where you are shooting at cardboard box targets. It's a setup designed specifically for use with mechanical broadheads.
The thinking here is you become more efficient by practicing with the broadheads you're going to be using in the field. This system, along with a two-blade broadhead in 100 grains will be available soon through their website.
Belanger is also determined to have some impact with the making of these broadheads. They were specifically designed to be assembled, inspected and shipped by disabled veterans from the comfort of their home.
"We will be working closely with several veteran organizations to facilitate the setup in homes of wounded veterans so that they can earn a living without having to find an ADA compliant job position outside the home," the Morpheus website says.
It's certainly an interesting design. You can learn more and purchase this new broadhead on the Morpheus website.
For more outdoor content from Travis Smola, be sure to follow him on Twitter and check out his Geocaching and Outdoors with Travis YouTube channels.
NEXT: HUNTING PANTS, AND WHY THEY SHOULDN'T BE AN AFTERTHOUGHT


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During the next decade, we will start to transition to the next era of computing and connected devices, which we will wear and will command using our voices, gesture and touch. As Radar has pointed out earlier we foresee several recognition techniques as interface (integration) between human and solutions.
Read more on strategic recognition technologies surfacing: Faceprint, Voiceprint, WiFi tracking, Gesture recognition and Personality recognition in this months issue of Thought leadership.


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FRIDAY 6 JANUARY – SATURDAY 19 MARCH 2017
Co-curated by Lou Stoppard and Adam Murray, North explores the way the region is depicted, constructed and celebrated in select photographs, artworks and fashion collections. The show brings together collective visions of the North, unpicking the tropes and themes that appear regularly in design and media and takes into account the rich cultural history of the region.
The exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery features work from some of fashion's most notable image-makers. Early photography by Jamie Hawkesworth and Alasdair McLellan, dating back to the first years of their careers, is shown alongside historic prints from Glen Luchford and Nick Knight. Original prints from Luchford's first ever shoot, a session with The Stone Roses for The Face in 1989, will be on display. Additionally, work by contemporary artists such as Turner Prize winners Mark Leckey and Jeremy Deller will be exhibited.
Fashion garments include a Raf Simons parka from the renowned A/W 2003 Control collection, which featured graphics from Peter Saville's archive and made headlines this year for its current value of $20,000. Work by respected but now defunct former label New Power Studio, one of the original recipients of Fashion East's MAN award, will be displayed alongside new work by rising talents such as Christopher Shannon and John Skelton. Iconic archive shoes by adidas, a staple of Northern style, will also be on show.
New collaborative work, such as a project by Hacienda designer Ben Kelly and American fashion designer Virgil Abloh, who is a long term fan of the sounds and graphics of 1980s Northern England, will also be on display.
Presented are candid interviews produced by SHOWstudio, talking with talents born and bred in the North, exploring the influence of the region on visual style. Subjects include Simon Foxton, Stephen Jones and Claire Barrow.
Featured artists are Alasdair McLellan, Glen Luchford, Corinne Day, David Sims, Jamie Hawkesworth, Jason Evans, Alice Hawkins, Mark Leckey, Jeremy Deller, Raf Simons, Gareth Pugh, Paul Smith, Virgil Abloh, New Power Studio, adidas, Elaine Constantine, Christopher Shannon, Maxwell Sterling, Simon Foxton, Ben Kelly, Stephen Jones, Nick Knight, Peter Saville, John Bulmer, Peter Mitchell, Nik Hartley, Claire Barrow, Humphrey Spender, Thom Murphy, Ewen Spencer, Brett Dee, Humphrey Jennings, Dave Turner, Rob Williams, David Ellison, Greg Leach, John Davies, John Stoddart, Martin Roberts, Michael Robinson, Michelle Sank, Paul O'Donnell, Stephen McCoy, Tom Wood.
The exhibition is kindly supported by adidas.
NoéMie Schwaller January 6, 2017 ART/DESIGN, FASHION


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La Polisportiva Stiassi Doves Srl, oggi Doves Bologna American Football, è una società di football americano italiana con sede nella città di Bologna.

Storia

Venne fondata nel 1982 da alcuni imprenditori e professionisti bolognesi, capitanati dalla famiglia Stiassi, proprietari dell'omonima azienda distributrice di prodotti cartari. Presidente e fondatore fu Giacomo Giovannetti, allora amministratore delegato della Stiassi SpA, mentre presidenti onorari furono, nell'ordine, Angelo Rodolfo Stiassi (deceduto nel 1985) e Paola Stiassi. Come simbolo della squadra fu scelta la colomba (dove in inglese), già nel "logo" storico della Stiassi (il fondatore Rodolfo Stiassi la volle associata alla scritta "pax in labore" in quanto simbolo dello Spirito Santo, a significare la benedizione sul lavoro), riveduta graficamente per la squadra da Fiorenzo Borghi, caricaturista del quotidiano cittadino Il Resto del Carlino.

Il primo anno di militanza nella massima serie italiana non porta grandi risultati in quanto i Doves riescono ad imporsi in una sola occasione. La guida per il campionato successivo è affidata a Jim Emery, il primo allenatore professionista in Italia, che in due anni, grazie anche al contributo di giocatori del calibro di Garry Pearson e Jerry Ghirardo, porta la squadra alla conquista del titolo italiano vincendo il Superbowl il 6 luglio 1985. Nel 1989, dopo alcune stagioni ai vertici delle classifiche, i Doves si fondono con l'altra società bolognese, gli Warriors.

Nel gennaio 2007 i giocatori di allora, indossando nuove vesti da dirigenti, decidono di rifondare la società iscrivendola alla neonata IFL, avendo come presidente Michele Bonfiglioli e come presidente onorario Giacomo Giovannetti; dallo stesso anno cambia la compagine dirigenziale, con Giacomo Giovannetti che torna a essere presidente. I Doves tornano ai vertici nel 2009, raggiungendo la semifinale europea in EFAF Cup, e il 19º posto nel ranking europeo su circa 600 formazioni del panorama continentale. Nel 2010, dopo essere stati esclusi dal campionato IFL e dopo diverse vicissitudini colmate con una transazione davanti all'Alta Corte del CONI, dove vengono riconosciute le ragioni della società, i Doves disputano provvisoriamente il campionato di Arena giungendo alle semifinali della propria conference.

Dopo due stagioni poco esaltanti nella massima serie e costretti a rinunciare al campionato 2013, la società viene rilevata da una cordata composta da sedici ex giocatori, tutti campioni italiani e molti anche campioni d'Europa con la nazionale, con l'obiettivo di dare continuità alla tradizione sportiva delle Colombe, ripartendo dal campionato Under-19.

Dettaglio stagioni

Tornei nazionali

Campionato

Serie A/Serie A1/IFL

Fonte: Enciclopedia del Football - A cura di Roberto Mezzetti

Nine League/Arena League/CIF9/Terza Divisione

Fonte: Enciclopedia del Football - A cura di Roberto Mezzetti

Tornei internazionali

European Football League (1986-2013)

Fonti: Enciclopedia del Football - A cura di Roberto Mezzetti

EFAF Cup

Fonti: Enciclopedia del Football - A cura di Roberto Mezzetti

EFAF Challenge Cup

Fonti: Enciclopedia del Football - A cura di Roberto Mezzetti

Palmarès
 1 Superbowl italiano: 1985
 1 Youth Bowl (Campioni d'Italia under 21): 1986

MVP
 Garry Pearson, MVP del V Superbowl italiano

Note

Voci correlate
 Federazione Italiana di American Football

Collegamenti esterni


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Although money isnt everything, everyone needs it to survive. Money is important since it will help you to build a home and provide food for your family. Therefore, your financial status will improve drastically if you happen to get a huge bonus, win a lottery or get some inheritance. However, it is good to think about your future and plan the money wisely. Therefore, you need the motivation to help you save this money since it can benefit you a lot. Much discipline is needed in order to achieve these goals. This article highlights secrets to motivate you in saving the money for future.
You should make a plan on how to manage the money for the future. It is advisable that you remain true to yourself. Check whether you have had bad spending habits which did not help you at all. You should not repeat your past bad spending habits. The money could be from a new inheritance or maybe the results of a lottery. The main goal here is not to randomly spend the newfound money but rather to benefit and enjoy it.
You should tackle your debts when you have the money. Scrutinize debts like mortgage, credit card, and also student loans. Check the interest rates for your current debts and figure out what you need to pay first. Pay the high-interest debts to avoid incurring more interest. If you are paying extremely little interest or no interest at all on some debts, then you may invest some money for a short term before tackling that debt.
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You should remember to keep some money for use during retirement. You may also increase your present contribution. This is to avoid losing the free money. You should also talk to an investing professional for best options in investing. Investing will guarantee financial stability in old age.
When you have this extra money, it is always good to treat yourself. If you have the unexpected inheritance, you should toast your benefactor and say thank you. Nonetheless, you should avoid going to spend the money inappropriately. Write down a financial plan and see if it is wise going for a vacation. Spend the money in a way that will not ruin your future financially.


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Q: assert celery task runs or not runs I am working on a django project as an
Intern, I am developing the project not coding it from start, I added a feature to
contact us section, the feature is about
sending support's answer to user who sent the contact message via email after the support answered the message in admin panel, I start celery task for sending email in post_save receiver function based on some conditions, I would like to unit test this feature, what is matter to
me is does celery receives task in some conditions or it doesn't I need something like this assertCeleryRecievesTask(task_name) or not, for now it is not important if the task itself works as expected just wanna know if the task starts or not, thanks for your help.

A: You can connect the celery signals.
https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/userguide/signals.html

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According to Maharishi Ayurveda, the eyes are one of the most important organs in the body. All five elements play a role in maintaining eye health. Earth (prithivi) governs the muscular part of the eye, fire (tejas) rules the blood vessels, air (vayu) governs the color, water (apu) dominates the white area, and space (akasha) controls the tear ducts and channels.
The eye is also governed by Alochaka Pitta, a subdosha of Pitta which becomes less balanced as we age. That's why it's important to care for your eyes throughout life.
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Faecal calprotectin testing
Objectives: To assess the clinical effectiveness of faecal calprotectin (FC) testing for distinguishing between organic gastrointestinal diseases (organic GID), such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and functional gastrointestinal disorders (functional GIDs).
Study design: Studies that assessed the accuracy of FC testing for differentiating between IBD or organic GID and functional GIDs were reviewed. Articles published in English during January 1998 – June 2018 that compared diagnostic FC testing in primary care and outpatient hospital settings with a reference test and employed the standard enzyme‐linked immunosorbent FC assay method with a cut‐off of 50 or 100 μg/g faeces were included. Study quality was assessed with QUADAS‐2, an evidence‐based quality assessment tool for diagnostic accuracy studies.
Data sources: MEDLINE and EMBASE; reference lists of screened articles.
Data synthesis: Eighteen relevant studies were identified. For distinguishing patients with organic GID (including IBD) from those with functional GIDs (16 studies), the estimated sensitivity of FC testing was 81% (95% CI, 74–86%), the specificity 81% (95% CI, 71–88%); area under the curve (AUC) was 0.87. For distinguishing IBD from functional GIDs (ten studies), sensitivity was 88% (95% CI, 80–93%), specificity 72% (95% CI, 59–82%), and AUC 0.89. Assuming a population prevalence of organic GID of 1%, the positive predictive value was 4.2%, the negative predictive value 100%. The difference in sensitivity and specificity between FC testing cut‐offs of 50 μg/g and 100 μg/g faeces was not statistically significant (P = 0.77).


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It's been a while since Microsoft announced Sway as its interactive presentation app which helps users create and share their web-based expressions and ideas straightaway using images, text, videos etc. Expanding their list of built-in sources the company today announced the integration of Bing Image Search to Sway making it even more aggregated and interactive.
This integration will help users with their content/image searches and also help them adding the search results to 'Sway' directly, without leaving the app. It will also help the users getting best relevant images (with Creative Commons Licenses) according to the previously add Sways.
You can now drag and drop any image from the Bing Image Search results right into your Sway without downloading it on your device. Just put right keyword in the search bar and Bing Image Search will bring you the best results along with the source URL. You can thus review the license terms before using the image further. These license terms and the image source are also visible to the viewers you have shared your Sway with.
The Bing integration not just helps you with image searches but also helps you in creating presentations but anticipating your requirements. According to your previously saved Sways and your content searches, 'Sway' will now suggest you the related Bing image searches which are accessible through just a single click or tap on your touch-enabled devices. It works on natural language basis and provides the relevant results as you add the words to your Sway.


In this section of the website, we maintain a visual record of those many meetings that we have been holding throughout the years.
Unfortunately, there is no photographic evidence of the very original exploratory meeting among Bruce, Eralp, Martin, Jesper at the British Club on 08/Jul/2004.
So, to kickoff the list is the inaugural Captains Conference of 30/Jan/2008.
• A meetingless inaugural season!
• Building on the legacy!
• . . . . . and, more to go!
Feel free to e-mail to me if you have more material that you would like to have posted or would like to voice your opinion on any of the above meetings.


You can have only one active call at any given time, which means that if you receive and accept a new incoming call, the existing call will be put on hold. During a call, the Call Waiting feature (if enabled) will use a beep to announce the second incoming call. Call Waiting can be enabled from the Call settings menu.
To accept an incoming call while already on an existing call, press the Accept button on your device. The existing call will be put on hold and you will start the new call.
To switch back to the original call, press Swap or tap on the desired call which will automatically put the other call on hold.
To switch to the new call, press Swap.


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